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Toyota Revs Up Lineup with New 302-Horsepower RAV4 Prime
TOKYO, Nov 20, 2019 – (JCN Newswire) – The fifth-generation Toyota RAV4, on the market for barely a year, is going more places than it has ever gone before. The arrival of the first-ever RAV4 TRD Off-Road model was announced earlier this year, and today, at the Los Angeles Auto Show, Toyota debuts a new premium, fun-to-drive RAV4 performance model with an estimated 302-horsepower, advanced all-wheel drive, sport-tuned suspension and exclusive design features.
It just happens to also be the first-ever RAV4 plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV). And so, in addition to an ability to do 0-60 mph in a projected 5.8 seconds, which is the second quickest acceleration time in the Toyota lineup, it can drive an estimated 39 miles on battery alone on a single charge, which is the highest EV range of any PHEV SUV on the market. The RAV4 Prime also has a manufacturer-estimated 90 combined MPGe. Welcome to a new chapter of Toyota SUV performance.
The Toyota RAV4 Prime, a 2021 model that will arrive in summer 2020, breaks ground as the most powerful and quickest RAV4 ever while also being the most fuel-efficient.
The 2021 RAV4 Prime will be available in SE and XSE grades, both emphasizing athletic on-road performance and premium comfort and style. With its plug-in hybrid technology advancing, Toyota sees such vehicles as critical to an overall electrification strategy that will also include standard hybrids and battery electric vehicles (BEVs), along with fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) like the second-generation Mirai unveiled in October.
Think Faster
The Toyota RAV4 Prime builds on the RAV4 Hybrid, which is currently the most powerful and most fuel-efficient model in the line with sales up 72% over last year and currently the best-selling hybrid vehicle on the market. The RAV4 Prime amplifies both performance and efficiency, reflecting Toyota’s 20+ years of hybrid vehicle leadership.
With more powerful motor-generators, a newly developed high-capacity Lithium-Ion battery and a booster converter, the 2021 RAV4 Prime yields an 83-horsepower (hp) jump in total system output over the RAV4 Hybrid and has the most horsepower in its segment. The resulting boost in performance is striking: Toyota projects 0-60 mph acceleration in 5.8 seconds which is quicker than the RAV4 Hybrid (7.8 sec.) and in a league with luxury/performance SUVs that come nowhere near this Toyota’s remarkable fuel economy. And, notably, the RAV4 Prime uses regular-grade gasoline–just not much of it.
A comparison with an older RAV4 offers a vivid illustration of the march of technology. The 2006-2012 RAV4 offered an optional 269-hp, 3.5-liter gas V6 engine that reached 0-60 mph in 6.3-seconds, which is a half-second slower than the RAV4 Prime. And, that model’s 21 combined MPG fuel economy rating simply pales in comparison.
Sporty and Sportier
Toyota engineered the 2021 RAV4 Prime for the performance-oriented driver and is therefore offering it in the sporty SE and XSE grades. The SE grade is new for the fifth-generation RAV4 Prime, and the XSE is currently exclusive to the RAV4 Hybrid. The SE flaunts its sporty attitude with 18-in. painted and machined alloy wheels and an exclusive front grille design and front lower spoiler. Piano black exterior accents and a painted grille/diffuser complete the premium look.
The SE’s equipment is quite comprehensive, with standard heated front seats, 8-way power driver’s seat with lumbar adjustment, 7-in. Multi-Information Display, Blind Spot Monitor, a leather steering wheel and shift knob, power liftgate, and Audio with 8-in. touch-screen and Amazon Alexa, as well as Android Auto and Apple CarPlay compatibility. The available Weather & Moonroof Package lets in the sun, moon and stars while keeping the cold at bay with a heated steering wheel, heated rear outboard seats, and windshield wiper de-icer, while rain-sensing windshield wipers add to convenience.
As on the current RAV4 Hybrid XSE, the Prime version of this grade stands apart with a two-tone exterior paint scheme pairing a black roof with select colors, including the striking new-to-RAV4 Supersonic Red. Exclusive 19-in. alloy wheels, the largest ever offered on a hybrid RAV4, have a unique two-tone design. Vertical LED accent lights give the XSE a distinct look, while the optional Adaptive Front Lighting System (AFS) with headlamp auto-leveling partially aims the beams into turns as the driver steers.
Inside, XSE steps up the sport, luxury and tech with RAV4’s first-ever paddle shifters, along with moonroof, unique SofTex synthetic leather seat surfaces, wireless smartphone charging, ambient lighting, auto-dimming rearview mirror with integrated garage door opener and the largest multimedia screen in any RAV4 ever. The standard Audio Plus system comes with a 9-in. touch-screen and there is an available Premium Audio that includes Dynamic Navigation and JBL speaker system.
An available Premium Package pushes the RAV4 Prime XSE further with Premium Audio with Dynamic Navigation and JBL speakers, perforated and ventilated SofTex front seats, RAV4’s first head-up display, heated rear SofTex outboard seats, heated steering wheel, panoramic moonroof, digital rear-view mirror, memory driver’s seat, 4-way power passenger seat, 5-door SmartKey system, kick-type power rear liftgate, Bird’s Eye View Monitor and yes, more.
How Does It Do That?
Toyota hybrids have for years demonstrated high performance with low fuel consumption, and now the 2021 RAV4 Prime makes one of the strongest cases yet. The RAV4 Prime uses a differently tuned version of the RAV4 Hybrid’s 2.5-liter four-cylinder Atkinson-cycle gas engine. It produces the same 176 hp as in the hybrid, but with 168 lb.-ft. of peak torque at 2,800 rpm vs. the RAV4 Hybrid’s 163 lb.-ft. at 3,600-5,200 rpm.
That makes a useful difference in lower-speed performance, while using more powerful electric motor-generators really juice the RAV4 Prime’s responses. As in the RAV4 Hybrid, the gas engine and a motor generator work together to deliver dynamic performance, while both motor generators charge the battery.
The RAV4 Prime’s interior space isn’t compromised by the larger Lithium-Ion battery, as it is mounted under the floor. The mounting position also gives the RAV4 Prime a lower center of gravity and enhanced driving stability.
The RAV4 Prime’s enhanced heat pump HVAC system, based on Prius Prime’s and tailored to fit RAV4 Prime, contributes to an increasing EV range, as energy consumption for cabin temperature control can significantly decrease EV driving range.
Electrified Traction
The RAV4 Prime employs the same version of Electronic On-Demand All-Wheel Drive (AWD) as the RAV4 Hybrid. In both models, a separate rear-mounted electric motor powers the rear wheels when needed, including proactively on acceleration startup and also in reduced-traction conditions.
The AWD system also reduces understeer during cornering for enhanced steering stability. Off-pavement, AWD enhances hill-climbing performance. A driver-selectable Trail mode makes it possible to get unstuck by braking a spinning wheel and sending torque to the grounding wheel.
With available paddle shifters, the driver can “downshift” to increase the regenerative braking in steps, which fosters greater control when driving in hilly areas, for example.
As on the RAV4 Hybrid, the innovative Predictive Efficient Drive feature acts like an invisible “hyper-miler” co-driver. Using the available navigation system, Predictive Efficient Drive essentially reads the road and learns driver patterns to optimize hybrid battery charging and discharging operations based on driving conditions. The system accumulates data as the vehicle is driven and “remembers” road features such as hills and stoplights and adjusts the hybrid powertrain operation to maximize efficiency.
All Toyota RAV4 models come equipped with standard Toyota Safety Sense (TSS 2.0), which groups a long roster of active-safety technologies and capabilities
– Pre-Collision System with Pedestrian Detection (PCS w/PD)
– Full-Speed Range Dynamic Radar Cruise Control (DRCC)
– Lane Departure Alert with Steering Assist (LDA w/SA)
– Automatic High Beam (AHB)
– Lane Tracing Assist (LTA)
– Road Sign Assist (RSA)
The XSE Premium Package adds Rear Cross Traffic Braking (RCTB) and Front and Rear Parking Assist with Automated Braking (PA w/AB).
Starting with the 2020 model year, every Toyota Hybrid Battery Warranty is being increased from 8 years or 100,000 miles to 10 years from original date of first use, or 150,000 miles, whichever comes first.
About Toyota Motor Corporation
Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) is the global mobility company that introduced the Prius hybrid-electric car in 1997 and the first mass-produced fuel cell sedan, Mirai, in 2014. Headquartered in Toyota City, Japan, Toyota has been making cars since 1937. Today, Toyota proudly employs 370,000 employees in communities around the world. Together, they build around 10 million vehicles per year in 29 countries, from mainstream cars and premium vehicles to mini-vehicles and commercial trucks, and sell them in more than 170 countries under the brands Toyota, Lexus, Daihatsu and Hino. For more information, please visit www.toyota-global.com.
Public Affairs Division
Global Communications Department
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Big announcements from Apple – macOS 11 and ARM-based Macs
Apple held their virtual WWDC2020 overnight and there were a raft of announcements.
Two of the biggest however that will affect all Mac users were the announcement of macOS 11 and Apple are making their own ARM-based CPUs for Macs.
macOS 11 Big Sur is a huge one – this will be the first ARM-native version of macOS and represents the first time in 15 years that Apple have increased the major version number in their operating system. We have had Mac OS X version 10.0 all the way through to macOS 10.15, and now with the release of ARM, it’s getting bumped to 11.
Apple using their own custom ARM-based processors in Macs however is even bigger news. First there was the shift from Motorola M68k to PowerPC CPUs in the late 90s, then the change from Classic Mac OS to Mac OS X in the early 2000s and the change from PowerPC to Intel x86 CPUs in 2006. These have been some massive changes, and I’ve dealt with the fallout of each and every one of them. In every case, Apple have had backwards compatibility for a period of time, however there is always disruption during the transition period.
Like with the transition from PowerPC to Intel, with Rosetta adding a translation layer so that the new CPUs could execute code for the outgoing architecture, Apple have Rosetta 2 which will emulate Intel x86 code on ARM CPUs. My experiences with Rosetta back in 2006 was that the performance was adequate, but not stellar. Although Apple’s ARM CPUs will reportedly have higher performance than their Intel equivalents, there will always be a hit to performance running emulated code. I’m sure that this time around the hit will be minimal, as Apple will have likely built functionality into their CPUs to aid emulation performance.
Ars Technica have some good roundups of the announcements:
Apple’s Roadmap for moving from Intel to ARM.
macOS 11 Big Sur (which, you can see from the slug was originally assumed to be macOS 10.16)
tvOS, AirPods and other tech announcements.
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Table of Contents - MA000065
Professional Employees Award 2010
Part 1—Application and Operation
2. Commencement and transitional
4. Coverage
5. Access to the award and the National Employment Standards
6. The National Employment Standards and this award
7. Award flexibility
8. Facilitative provision
9. Consultation
Part 2—Types of Employment and Termination of Employment
11. Types of employment
12. Termination of employment
13. Redundancy
Part 3—Minimum Wages and Related Matters
14. Classifications
15. Minimum wages
16. Allowances
16A. Payment of wages
17. Superannuation
Part 4—Hours of Work and Related Matters
18. Ordinary hours of work and rostering
Part 5—Leave and Public Holidays
19. Annual leave
20. Personal/carer’s leave and compassionate leave
21. Community service leave
22. Public holidays
23. Leave to deal with Family and Domestic Violence
SCHEDULE A—TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS
SCHEDULE B—CLASSIFICATION STRUCTURE AND DEFINITIONS
SCHEDULE C—AGREEMENT TO TAKE ANNUAL LEAVE IN ADVANCE
SCHEDULE D—AGREEMENT TO CASH OUT ANNUAL LEAVE
This Fair Work Commission consolidated modern award incorporates all amendments up to and including 16 October 2018 (PR610093).
Clause(s) affected by the most recent variation(s):
16A—Payment of wages
Current review matter(s):AM2014/47;AM2014/190;AM2014/196;AM2014/197;AM2014/281;AM2014/300;AM2014/301;AM2015/1;AM2015/2;AM2015/6;AM2016/15;AM2016/8
[Varied by PR991573,PR546288,PR583057,PR609383, PR610093]
This award is the Professional Employees Award 2010.
[Varied by PR991573,PR542185]
2.1 This award commences on 1 January 2010.
2.2 The monetary obligations imposed on employers by this award may be absorbed into overaward payments. Nothing in this award requires an employer to maintain or increase any overaward payment.
2.3 This award contains transitional arrangements which specify when particular parts of the award come into effect. Some of the transitional arrangements are in clauses in the main part of the award. There are also transitional arrangements in Schedule A. The arrangements in Schedule A deal with:
●minimum wages and piecework rates
●casual or part-time loadings
●Saturday,Sunday,public holiday,evening or other penalties
●shift allowances/penalties.
[2.4 varied by PR542185 ppc 04Dec13]
2.4 Neither the making of this award nor the operation of any transitional arrangements is intended to result in a reduction in the take-home pay of employees covered by the award. On application by or on behalf of an employee who suffers a reduction in take-home pay as a result of the making of this award or the operation of any transitional arrangements,the Fair Work Commission may make any order it considers appropriate to remedy the situation.
2.5 The Fair Work Commission may review the transitional arrangements in this award and make a determination varying the award.
2.6 The Fair Work Commission may review the transitional arrangements:
(a) on its own initiative;or
(b) on application by an employer,employee,organisation or outworker entity covered by the modern award;or
(c) on application by an organisation that is entitled to represent the industrial interests of one or more employers or employees that are covered by the modern award;or
(d) in relation to outworker arrangements,on application by an organisation that is entitled to represent the industrial interests of one or more outworkers to whom the arrangements relate.
[Varied by PR991335,PR994537,PR997772,PR503697,PR546041]
3.1 In this award,unless the contrary intention appears:
Act means the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth)
[Definition of agreement-based transitional instrument inserted by PR994537 from 01Jan10]
agreement-based transitional instrument has the meaning in the Fair Work (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 2009 (Cth)
award-based transitional instrument has the meaning in the Fair Work (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 2009 (Cth)
carry includes transmit,switch or receive
communications includes any communication whether between persons and persons,things and things or persons and things,and whether in the form of:
(a) speech,music,or other sounds;
(b) data;
(c) text;
(d) visual images,whether or not animated;or
(e) signals,
in any other form or other combination of forms
core competency standards means the competency standards developed for a graduate’s relevant professional discipline. Progress by a graduate towards attaining core competency standards will be assessed by comparison with the specified performance criteria.
[Definition of default fund employee inserted by PR546041 ppc 01Jan14]
default fund employee means an employee who has no chosen fund within the meaning of the Superannuation Guarantee (Administration) Act 1992 (Cth)
[Definition of defined benefit member inserted by PR546041 ppc 01Jan14]
defined benefit member has the meaning given by the Superannuation Guarantee (Administration) Act 1992 (Cth)
diplomate means a Qualified scientist who has completed the requirements for the award of an institute of technology diploma qualifying a person in accordance with the Academic Schedule
[Definition of Division 2B State award inserted by PR503697 ppc 01Jan11]
Division 2B State award has the meaning in Schedule 3A of the Fair Work (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 2009 (Cth)
[Definition of Division 2B State employment agreement inserted by PR503697 ppc 01Jan11]
Division 2B State employment agreement has the meaning in Schedule 3A of the Fair Work (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 2009 (Cth)
[Definition of employee substituted by PR997772 from 01Jan10]
employee means national system employee within the meaning of the Act
[Definition of employer substituted by PR997772 from 01Jan10]
employer means national system employer within the meaning of the Act
enterprise award-based instrument has the meaning in the Fair Work (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 2009 (Cth)
[Definition of exempt public sector superannuation scheme inserted by PR546041 ppc 01Jan14]
exempt public sector superannuation scheme has the meaning given by the Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993 (Cth)
in-service training means the formal and/or informal work-related learning activities undertaken by a technology based graduate through opportunities provided by the employer,which contribute to professional development and efficiency. This includes supervised and unsupervised work experience to increase the breadth and/or depth of knowledge and the skills acquired by the graduate in specific areas of professional practice.
[Definition of MySuper product inserted by PR546041 ppc 01Jan14]
MySuper product has the meaning given by the Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993 (Cth)
NES means the National Employment Standards as contained in sections 59 to 131 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth)
[Definition of on-hire inserted by PR994537 from 01Jan10]
on-hire means the on-hire of an employee by their employer to a client,where such employee works under the general guidance and instruction of the client or a representative of the client
supervision means the oversight,direction,instruction,guidance and/or support provided to a graduate by the experienced professional responsible for ensuring the graduate is not placed in situations where required to function beyond their competence
[Definition of transitional minimum wage instrument inserted by PR994537 from 01Jan10]
transitional minimum wage instrument has the meaning in the Fair Work (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 2009 (Cth)
3.2 Engineering stream
Experienced engineer means a Professional engineer with the undermentioned qualifications engaged in any particular employment where the adequate discharge of any portion of the duties requires qualifications of the employee as (or at least equal to those of) a member of Engineers Australia. The qualifications are as follows:
(a) membership of Engineers Australia;or
(b) having graduated in a four or five year course at a university recognised by Engineers Australia,four years’experience on professional engineering duties since becoming a Qualified engineer;or
(c) not having so graduated,five years of such experience.
Graduate engineer means a person who is the holder of a university degree (four or five year course) recognised by Engineers Australia or is the holder of a degree,diploma or other testamur which:
(d) has been issued by a technical university,an institute of technology,a European technical high school (technische hochschule) or polytechnic or other similar educational establishment;and
(e) is recognised by Engineers Australia as attaining a standard similar to a university degree;and has been issued following:
(i) a course of not less than four years duration for a full-time course after a standard of secondary education not less than the standard of examination for matriculation to an Australian university;or
(ii) a part-time course of sufficient duration to obtain a similar standard as a four year full-time course after a similar standard of secondary education.
Professional engineer means a person qualified to carry out professional engineering duties as defined. The term Professional engineer will embrace and include Graduate engineer and Experienced engineer as defined in this clause.
professional engineering duties means duties carried out by a person in any particular employment,the adequate discharge of any portion of which duties requires qualifications of the employee as (or at least equal to those of) a graduate member of Engineers Australia
3.3 Information technology and telecommunications services stream
information technology industry means:
(a) the design and manufacture of computers and computer peripherals;
(b) the design and manufacture of telecommunications equipment;
(c) the design and manufacture of computer software;
(d) computer system installation,repair and maintenance;
(e) computer consultancy services;
(f) computer programming;
(g) system analysis services;
(h) the design,development and maintenance of online internet architecture and the facilitation of online content management;or
(i) activities which are incidental,ancillary or complementary to the activities set out in this definition.
Experienced information technology employee means a professional information technology employee with the undermentioned qualifications in any particular employment the adequate discharge of any portion of the duties of which employment requires:
(a) that they have graduated with a university degree,with a science or information technology major (three,four or five year course) and had four years’experience on professional information technology duties since graduating;or
(b) that they,not having so graduated,have sufficient qualifications and experience to be eligible for admission as a member of the Australian Computer Society plus a further four years’experience on professional information technology duties.
Graduate information technology employee means a person who:
(a) holds a university degree with a science or information technology major (three,four or five year course) accredited by the Australian Computer Society at professional level;or
(b) has sufficient qualifications and experience to be eligible for admission as a member of the Australian Computer Society.
professional information technology duties means duties carried out by a person in any particular employment the adequate discharge of any portion of which duties requires a person to:
(a) hold a university degree with a science or information technology major (three,four or five year course) accredited by the Australian Computer Society at professional level;or
(b) have sufficient qualifications and experience to be eligible for admission as a member of the Australian Computer Society.
Professional information technology employee means an adult person qualified to carry out professional information technology duties as defined. The term Professional information technology employee will embrace and include Graduate information technology employee and Experienced information technology employee as defined.
telecommunications service means a service for carrying communications by means of guided or unguided electromagnetic energy or both
telecommunications services industry means:
(a) the supply and/or installation and/or maintenance of telecommunications services;or
(b) the supply and/or installation and/or maintenance of value added telecommunications services;or
(c) incidental,ancillary or complementary to the supply and/or installation and/or maintenance of telecommunications services;or
(d) the installation and/or maintenance of telecommunications equipment and line.
3.4 Scientist Stream
Experienced scientist means a Professional scientist possessing the following qualifications and engaged in any particular employment,the adequate discharge of any portion of the duties of which,requires the possession of such qualifications.
The qualifications are:
(a) that they will have had further experience on professional scientific duties,after obtaining their degree or diploma,as follows:
(i) when a graduate (four or five year course) –four years’experience;
(ii) when a graduate (three year course) –five years’experience,or
(b) that they possess qualifications acceptable to:
(i) the Royal Australian Chemical Institute for admission to the grade of Associate member;or
(ii) the Australian Institute of Physics for admission to the grade of member;or
(iii) the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy for admission to the grade of Associate member;or
(iv) the Australian Institute of Food Science and Technology for admission to the grade of Associate member.
Professional scientist means a person qualified to carry out professional scientific duties as defined. The term Professional scientist will embrace and include Qualified scientist and Experienced scientist as defined.
professional scientific duties means duties carried out by a person in any particular employment,the adequate discharge of any portion of which duties requires academic qualifications of the employee as specified in the academic schedule below:
[Academic schedule inserted by PR994537 from 01Jan10]
(a) A degree in science from an Australian,New Zealand or United Kingdom university or from an Australian tertiary educational institution.
(b) Academic qualifications acceptable to the Royal Australian Chemical Institute for admission to the grade of corporate membership.
(c) Academic qualifications acceptable to The Australian Institute of Physics for admission to the grades of graduate membership or corporate membership.
(d) Academic qualifications in metallurgy,metallurgical engineering or technology acceptable to either the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy for admission to the grade of junior or corporate membership,or the Institution of Metallurgists (London) for admission to the grades of graduate or associate membership.
(e) Academic qualifications acceptable to the Australian Institute of Agricultural Science for admission to the grade of corporate membership.
(f) Academic qualifications acceptable to the Australian Institute of Food Science and Technology for admission to the grades of graduate or corporate membership.
(g) Academic qualifications acceptable to a pharmacy board or council within the Commonwealth of Australia provided that the award will not apply to pharmacists employed in a retail pharmacy shop.
[3.4(c) deleted by PR994537 from 01Jan10]
3.5 Qualified scientist means a Professional scientist other than an Experienced scientist as defined,that is,a person possessing academic qualifications as specified in the academic schedule
3.6 Quality auditing stream
quality auditing industry means that industry the participants in which provide advisory,auditing and assessment services to companies which are pursuing quality improvement programs (in compliance with the International Standards Organisations quality standards)
quality auditor/senior (lead) quality auditor means for the purposes of this award the classifications as outlined in Schedule B—Classification Structure and Definitions
Quality auditing means the duties carried out by a person in any particular employment within the quality auditing industry,the adequate discharge of any portion of which duties requires qualifications.
The educational qualifications and experiences are as follows:
(a) Auditors will have successfully completed a course of study,after completing secondary education,involving a minimum of 600 hours direct contact and leading to an award from a recognised body,college or university. Equivalent distance learning courses or corporate/professional membership of a recognised professional institution will also be recognised.
(b) In all cases,documentary evidence of the educational standard claimed will be required. Copies of degrees or certificates will be required as objective evidence to satisfy the educational requirement. Verification of the awards will be as follows:
(i) originals (which are to be returned after sighting by an officer of the auditor certification body);
(ii) photocopies which have been signed as verified by one of the applicant’s sponsors;or
(iii) a letter from the qualifying authority,e.g. university or college,confirming the award made.
(c) As an alternative,auditors may be considered for certification if they can demonstrate eight years full-time work experience and satisfy the auditor certification body they have achieved a satisfactory educational standard including communication oral and written skills necessary to conduct and/or manage audits.
Auditors will have a minimum of two years’relevant experience in the implementation and/or application of quality management systems which provides the practical knowledge necessary to effectively audit such systems. The quality management system experience required may be concurrent with work experience,but must have been achieved in the six years prior to initial certification.
Auditing experience requirement
(a) All levels of auditor will maintain an audit log in order to demonstrate that their auditing experience was gained under the prescribed conditions and within the required time frame.
(b) For all levels of auditor,only independent audits satisfy the auditing experience requirements. The auditor and the auditor’s organisation will have independent management and operating structure from the audited organisation. Examples of acceptable relationships are:
(i) a head office audit of a plant or division;
(ii) one division of plant auditing another division or plant;
(iii) a customer organisation auditing a supplier;
(iv) a third party certification audit;or
(v) a consultant contracted to provide an independent audit.
3.7 Where this award refers to a condition of employment provided for in the NES,the NES definition applies.
4.1 This award covers employers throughout Australia with respect to their employees performing professional engineering and professional scientific duties who are covered by the classifications in Schedule B—Classification Structure and Definitions of the award and those employees.
4.2 This award covers employers throughout Australia principally engaged in the information technology industry,the quality auditing industry or the telecommunications services industry and their employees who are covered by the classifications in Schedule B.
[4.3 varied by PR992791 from 22Jan10]
4.3 The award does not cover employees who are covered by the following awards:
(a) Airport Employees Award 2010;
(b) Black Coal Mining Industry Award 2010;
(c) Electrical Power Industry Award 2010;
(d) Port Authorities Award 2010;
(e) Rail Industry Award 2010;
(f) State Government Agencies Administration Award 2010;and
(g) Water Industry Award 2010.
4.4 The award does not cover employees of a local government covered by another award.
4.5 The award does not cover an employee excluded from award coverage by the Act.
4.6 The award does not cover employees who are covered by a modern enterprise award,or an enterprise instrument (within the meaning of the Fair Work (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 2009 (Cth)),or employers in relation to those employees.
[New 4.7,4.8 and 4.9 inserted by PR994537 from 01Jan10]
4.7 The award does not cover employees who are covered by a State reference public sector modern award,or a State reference public sector transitional award (within the meaning of the Fair Work (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 2009 (Cth)),or employers in relation to those employees.
4.8 This award covers any employer which supplies labour on an on-hire basis in the industries set out in clauses 4.1 and 4.2 in respect of on-hire employees in classifications covered by this award,and those on-hire employees,while engaged in the performance of work for a business in those industries. This subclause operates subject to the exclusions from coverage in this award.
4.9 This award covers any employer which supplies on-hire employees in classifications set out in Schedule B and those on-hire employees,if the employer is not covered by another modern award containing a classification which is more appropriate to the work performed by the employee. This subclause operates subject to the exclusions from coverage in this award.
[4.7 renumbered as 4.10 by PR994537 from 01Jan10]
4.10 Where an employer is covered by more than one award,an employee of that employer is covered by the award classification which is most appropriate to the work performed by the employee and to the environment in which the employee normally performs the work.
NOTE:Where there is no classification for a particular employee in this award it is possible that the employer and that employee are covered by an award with occupational coverage.
The employer must ensure that copies of this award and the NES are available to all employees to whom they apply either on a noticeboard which is conveniently located at or near the workplace or through electronic means,whichever makes them more accessible.
The NES and this award contain the minimum conditions of employment for employees covered by this award.
[Varied by PR542185]
7.1 Notwithstanding any other provision of this award,an employer and an individual employee may agree to vary the application of certain terms of this award to meet the genuine individual needs of the employer and the individual employee. The terms the employer and the individual employee may agree to vary the application of are those concerning:
(a) arrangements for when work is performed;
(b) overtime rates;
(c) penalty rates;
(d) allowances;and
(e) leave loading.
7.2 The employer and the individual employee must have genuinely made the agreement without coercion or duress. An agreement under this clause can only be entered into after the individual employee has commenced employment with the employer.
7.3 The agreement between the employer and the individual employee must:
(a) be confined to a variation in the application of one or more of the terms listed in clause 7.1;and
[7.3(b) varied by PR542185 ppc 04Dec13]
(b) result in the employee being better off overall at the time the agreement is made than the employee would have been if no individual flexibility agreement had been agreed to.
7.4 The agreement between the employer and the individual employee must also:
(a) be in writing,name the parties to the agreement and be signed by the employer and the individual employee and,if the employee is under 18 years of age,the employee’s parent or guardian;
(b) state each term of this award that the employer and the individual employee have agreed to vary;
(c) detail how the application of each term has been varied by agreement between the employer and the individual employee;
(d) detail how the agreement results in the individual employee being better off overall in relation to the individual employee’s terms and conditions of employment;and
(e) state the date the agreement commences to operate.
7.5 The employer must give the individual employee a copy of the agreement and keep the agreement as a time and wages record.
7.6 Except as provided in clause 7.4(a) the agreement must not require the approval or consent of a person other than the employer and the individual employee.
7.7 An employer seeking to enter into an agreement must provide a written proposal to the employee. Where the employee’s understanding of written English is limited the employer must take measures,including translation into an appropriate language,to ensure the employee understands the proposal.
7.8 The agreement may be terminated:
[7.8(a) varied by PR542185 ppc 04Dec13]
(a) by the employer or the individual employee giving 13 weeks’notice of termination,in writing,to the other party and the agreement ceasing to operate at the end of the notice period;or
(b) at any time,by written agreement between the employer and the individual employee.
[Note inserted by PR542185 ppc 04Dec13]
Note:If any of the requirements of s.144(4),which are reflected in the requirements of this clause,are not met then the agreement may be terminated by either the employee or the employer,giving written notice of not more than 28 days (see s.145 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth)).
[New 7.9 inserted by PR542185 ppc 04Dec13]
7.9 The notice provisions in clause 7.8(a) only apply to an agreement entered into from the first full pay period commencing on or after 4 December 2013. An agreement entered into before that date may be terminated in accordance with clause 7.8(a),subject to four weeks’notice of termination.
[7.9 renumbered as 7.10 by PR542185 ppc 04Dec13]
7.10 The right to make an agreement pursuant to this clause is in addition to,and is not intended to otherwise affect,any provision for an agreement between an employer and an individual employee contained in any other term of this award.
8.1 This award contains facilitative provisions which allow agreement between an employer and/or majority of employees on how the award provisions are to apply at the workplace or enterprise level.
8.2 The following lists the facilitative provisions and the level of agreement required:
Ordinary hours of duty work rostered,by individual agreement
22.2(a)
Public holidays,by majority agreement
22.2(b)
Public holidays,by individual agreement
8.3 Agreements made pursuant to clause 8.2 must be recorded in writing and be available to every affected employee on request.
8.4 Facilitative provisions are not to be used as a device to avoid award obligations nor should they result in unfairness to an employee or employees covered by this award.
[9—Consultation regarding major workplace change renamed and substituted by PR546288 ppc 01Jan14]
9.1 Consultation regarding major workplace change
(a) Employer to notify
(i) Where an employer has made a definite decision to introduce major changes in production,program,organisation,structure or technology that are likely to have significant effects on employees,the employer must notify the employees who may be affected by the proposed changes and their representatives,if any.
(ii) Significant effects include termination of employment;major changes in the composition,operation or size of the employer’s workforce or in the skills required;the elimination or diminution of job opportunities,promotion opportunities or job tenure;the alteration of hours of work;the need for retraining or transfer of employees to other work or locations;and the restructuring of jobs. Provided that where this award makes provision for alteration of any of these matters an alteration is deemed not to have significant effect.
(b) Employer to discuss change
(i) The employer must discuss with the employees affected and their representatives,if any,the introduction of the changes referred to in clause 9.1(a),the effects the changes are likely to have on employees and measures to avert or mitigate the adverse effects of such changes on employees and must give prompt consideration to matters raised by the employees and/or their representatives in relation to the changes.
(ii) The discussions must commence as early as practicable after a definite decision has been made by the employer to make the changes referred to in clause 9.1(a).
(iii) For the purposes of such discussion,the employer must provide in writing to the employees concerned and their representatives,if any,all relevant information about the changes including the nature of the changes proposed,the expected effects of the changes on employees and any other matters likely to affect employees provided that no employer is required to disclose confidential information the disclosure of which would be contrary to the employer’s interests.
9.2 Consultation about changes to rosters or hours of work
(a) Where an employer proposes to change an employee’s regular roster or ordinary hours of work,the employer must consult with the employee or employees affected and their representatives,if any,about the proposed change.
(b) The employer must:
(i) provide to the employee or employees affected and their representatives,if any,information about the proposed change (for example,information about the nature of the change to the employee’s regular roster or ordinary hours of work and when that change is proposed to commence);
(ii) invite the employee or employees affected and their representatives,if any,to give their views about the impact of the proposed change (including any impact in relation to their family or caring responsibilities);and
(iii) give consideration to any views about the impact of the proposed change that are given by the employee or employees concerned and/or their representatives.
(c) The requirement to consult under this clause does not apply where an employee has irregular,sporadic or unpredictable working hours.
(d) These provisions are to be read in conjunction with other award provisions concerning the scheduling of work and notice requirements.
10.1 In the event of a dispute about a matter under this award,or a dispute in relation to the NES,in the first instance the parties must attempt to resolve the matter at the workplace by discussions between the employee or employees concerned and the relevant supervisor. If such discussions do not resolve the dispute,the parties will endeavour to resolve the dispute in a timely manner by discussions between the employee or employees concerned and more senior levels of management as appropriate.
[10.2 varied by PR542185 ppc 04Dec13]
10.2 If a dispute about a matter arising under this award or a dispute in relation to the NES is unable to be resolved at the workplace,and all appropriate steps under clause 10.1 have been taken,a party to the dispute may refer the dispute to the Fair Work Commission.
10.3 The parties may agree on the process to be utilised by the Fair Work Commission including mediation,conciliation and consent arbitration.
10.4 Where the matter in dispute remains unresolved,the Fair Work Commission may exercise any method of dispute resolution permitted by the Act that it considers appropriate to ensure the settlement of the dispute.
10.5 An employer or employee may appoint another person,organisation or association to accompany and/or represent them for the purposes of this clause.
10.6 While the dispute resolution procedure is being conducted,work must continue in accordance with this award and the Act. Subject to applicable occupational health and safety legislation,an employee must not unreasonably fail to comply with a direction by the employer to perform work,whether at the same or another workplace,that is safe and appropriate for the employee to perform.
11.1 Contract of employment
Employment may be full-time,part-time or casual.
11.2 Full-time employment
Any person not specifically engaged as being a part-time or casual employee is for all purposes of this award a full-time employee unless otherwise specified.
11.3 Part-time employment
(a) An employee may be engaged for a specified number of ordinary hours each week being less than those hours prescribed in clause 18—Ordinary hours of work and rostering.
(b) Such an employee will be paid pro rata the appropriate annual rate for the classification prescribed in clause 15—Minimum wages and will receive other conditions under this award at the same pro rata rate.
(c) Any employee engaged on a full-time basis will not be converted to a part-time basis as set out in this clause without the employee’s written agreement.
11.4 Casual employment
(a) An employee may be engaged as a casual and must be paid an hourly rate calculated by converting the appropriate annual rate for the classification prescribed in clause 15 to an hourly rate and adding a loading of 25%.
(b) Such loading is paid to compensate such casual employees for lack of continuity in employment,paid leave,termination and other employment benefits of a full-time or part-time employee.
[11.4(c) inserted by PR700677 ppc 01Oct18]
(c) A casual employee must be engaged and paid for at least 2 consecutive hours of work on each occasion they are required to attend work.
11.5 Right to request casual conversion
[New 11.5 inserted by PR700602 ppc 01Oct18]
(a) A person engaged by a particular employer as a regular casual employee may request that their employment be converted to full-time or part-time employment.
(b) A regular casual employee is a casual employee who has in the preceding period of 12 months worked a pattern of hours on an ongoing basis which,without significant adjustment,the employee could continue to perform as a full-time employee or part-time employee under the provisions of this award.
(c) A regular casual employee who has worked equivalent full-time hours over the preceding period of 12 months’casual employment may request to have their employment converted to full-time employment.
(d) A regular casual employee who has worked less than equivalent full-time hours over the preceding period of 12 months’casual employment may request to have their employment converted to part-time employment consistent with the pattern of hours previously worked.
(e) Any request under this subclause must be in writing and provided to the employer.
(f) Where a regular casual employee seeks to convert to full-time or part-time employment,the employer may agree to or refuse the request,but the request may only be refused on reasonable grounds and after there has been consultation with the employee.
(g) Reasonable grounds for refusal include that:
(i) it would require a significant adjustment to the casual employee’s hours of work in order for the employee to be engaged as a full-time or part-time employee in accordance with the provisions of this award –that is,the casual employee is not truly a regular casual employee as defined in paragraph (b);
(ii) it is known or reasonably foreseeable that the regular casual employee’s position will cease to exist within the next 12 months;
(iii) it is known or reasonably foreseeable that the hours of work which the regular casual employee is required to perform will be significantly reduced in the next 12 months;or
(iv) it is known or reasonably foreseeable that there will be a significant change in the days and/or times at which the employee’s hours of work are required to be performed in the next 12 months which cannot be accommodated within the days and/or hours during which the employee is available to work.
(h) For any ground of refusal to be reasonable,it must be based on facts which are known or reasonably foreseeable.
(i) Where the employer refuses a regular casual employee’s request to convert,the employer must provide the casual employee with the employer’s reasons for refusal in writing within 21 days of the request being made. If the employee does not accept the employer’s refusal,this will constitute a dispute that will be dealt with under the dispute resolution procedure in clause 10. Under that procedure,the employee or the employer may refer the matter to the Fair Work Commission if the dispute cannot be resolved at the workplace level.
(j) Where it is agreed that a casual employee will have their employment converted to full-time or part-time employment as provided for in this clause,the employer and employee must discuss and record in writing:
(i) the form of employment to which the employee will convert –that is,full-time or part-time employment;and
(ii) if it is agreed that the employee will become a part-time employee,the employee’s hours of work fixed in accordance with clause 11.3.
(k) The conversion will take effect from the start of the next pay cycle following such agreement being reached unless otherwise agreed.
(l) Once a casual employee has converted to full-time or part-time employment,the employee may only revert to casual employment with the written agreement of the employer.
(m) A casual employee must not be engaged and re-engaged (which includes a refusal to re-engage),or have their hours reduced or varied,in order to avoid any right or obligation under this clause.
(n) Nothing in this clause obliges a regular casual employee to convert to full-time or part-time employment,nor permits an employer to require a regular casual employee to so convert.
(o) Nothing in this clause requires an employer to increase the hours of a regular casual employee seeking conversion to full-time or part-time employment.
(p) An employer must provide a casual employee,whether a regular casual employee or not,with a copy of the provisions of this subclause within the first 12 months of the employee’s first engagement to perform work. In respect of casual employees already employed as at 1 October 2018,an employer must provide such employees with a copy of the provisions of this subclause by 1 January 2019.
(q) A casual employee’s right to request to convert is not affected if the employer fails to comply with the notice requirements in paragraph (p).
11.6 Notification of conditions of employment
[11.5 renumbered as 11.6 by PR700602 ppc 01Oct18]
Employees engaged or employed by an employer covered by this award must be advised in writing by the employer of the conditions under which the employee is to be employed.
11.7 Notification of responsibility level
An employee must on appointment and/or upon request be informed by their employer of the responsibility level as described in Schedule B—Classification Structure and Definitions which the employer considers relevant to the employee’s employment having regard to the duties performed by the employee concerned.
11.8 Evidence of qualifications
(a) An employee who is employed under this award or who is an applicant for employment covered by this award,must if and when required to do so by the employer,produce to the employer written evidence that they possess or have acquired the qualifications of a Qualified engineer,Experienced engineer,Qualified scientist,Experienced scientist,Graduate information technology employee or Experienced information technology employee.
(b) Where an employee has failed to produce to the employer written evidence that they possess or have acquired the relevant qualifications and the employee subsequently claims to be entitled to payment at a rate prescribed by this award,it will be a defence to the employer if the employer establishes that during the said period the employer did not know and had no reason to believe that the employee had acquired the qualifications of a Qualified engineer,Experienced engineer,Qualified scientist,Experienced scientist,Graduate information technology employee or Experienced information technology employee.
11.9 Professional development
(a) It is understood and accepted that it is the responsibility of the employees to keep themselves informed of developments in their profession and to develop their professional knowledge and ability,and that it is appropriate for employees to be encouraged to undertake self-development programs.
(b) Where the employee and the employer agree that an activity be undertaken by the employee as a component of a structured training program,the employer will meet all costs associated with the training.
12.1 Notice of termination is provided for in the NES.
12.2 Instead of s.117(3)(a) of the Act,in order to terminate the employment of an employee the employer must give the employee one month’s notice.
12.3 Notice of termination by an employee
The notice of termination required to be given by an employee is the same as that required of an employer except that there is no requirement on the employee to give additional notice based on the age of the employee concerned. If an employee fails to give the required notice the employer may withhold from any monies due to the employee on termination under this award or the NES,an amount not exceeding the amount the employee would have been paid under this award in respect of the period of notice required by this clause less any period of notice actually given by the employee.
12.4 Job search entitlement
Where an employer has given notice of termination to an employee,an employee must be allowed up to one day’s time off without loss of pay for the purpose of seeking other employment. The time off is to be taken at times that are convenient to the employee after consultation with the employer.
[Varied by PR994537,PR503697,PR561478]
13.1 Redundancy pay is provided for in the NES.
13.2 Transfer to lower paid duties
Where an employee is transferred to lower paid duties by reason of redundancy,the same period of notice must be given as the employee would have been entitled to if the employment had been terminated and the employer may,at the employer’s option,make payment instead of an amount equal to the difference between the former ordinary time rate of pay and the ordinary time rate of pay for the number of weeks of notice still owing.
13.3 Employee leaving during notice period
An employee given notice of termination in circumstances of redundancy may terminate their employment during the period of notice. The employee is entitled to receive the benefits and payments they would have received under this clause had they remained in employment until the expiry of the notice,but is not entitled to payment instead of notice.
(a) An employee given notice of termination in circumstances of redundancy must be allowed up to one day’s time off without loss of pay during each week of notice for the purpose of seeking other employment.
(b) If the employee has been allowed paid leave for more than one day during the notice period for the purpose of seeking other employment,the employee must,at the request of the employer,produce proof of attendance at an interview or they will not be entitled to payment for the time absent. For this purpose a statutory declaration is sufficient.
(c) This entitlement applies instead of clause 12.4.
13.5 Transitional provisions –NAPSA employees
[13.5 varied by PR994537;renamed by PR503697;13.5 deleted by PR561478 ppc 05Mar15]
13.6 Transitional provisions –Division 2B State employees
[13.6 inserted by PR503697;13.6 deleted by PR561478 ppc 05Mar15]
The classification definitions in Schedule B—Classification Structure and Definitions will apply.
[15 varied by PR997943,PR509096,PR522927,PR536730,PR551653,PR566741,PR579835,PR592163,PR606390 ppc 01Jul18]
The minimum annual wages payable to full-time employees in the classifications defined in Schedule B—Classification Structure and Definitions are:
Annual wages
Level 1 Graduate professional
Pay point 1.1 (3 year degree)
Pay point 1.1 (4 or 5 year degree)
Pay point 1.2
Level 2 Experienced professional/quality auditor
Level 3 Professional/senior (lead) quality auditor
Level 4 Professional
To view the current monetary amounts of work-related allowances refer to the Allowances Sheet.
[Varied by PR994537,PR523048,PR536851,PR551774]
16.1 Travelling expenses and travelling time
An employee will be reimbursed all reasonable expenses (including accommodation,meals and out-of-pocket expenses directly related to their employment) incurred while travelling on their employer’s business. Reasonable compensation for excess travel time will be agreed upon.
16.2 Vehicle allowance
[16.2 varied by PR523048,PR536851,PR551774 ppc 01Jul14]
In cases where it is mutually agreed that an employee will be required to use their private vehicle on the employer’s business,the employee will be paid reasonable compensation,but in no case will the employee receive payment at a rate less than $0.78 per kilometre travelled.
16.3 Equipment and special clothing
Except where an employee elects to provide equipment and special clothing,the employer will provide free of cost,all such equipment and special clothing reasonably required for the adequate discharge of duties. Such equipment or clothing will remain the property of the employer.
16.4 Adjustment of expense related allowances
[16.4(a) substituted by PR994537 from 01Jan10]
(a) At the time of any adjustment to wages as a result of an annual wage review,each expense related allowance will be increased by the relevant adjustment factor. The relevant adjustment factor for this purpose is the percentage movement in the applicable index figure most recently published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics since the allowance was last adjusted.
(b) The applicable index figure is the index figure published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics for the Eight Capitals Consumer Price Index (Cat No. 6401.0),as follows:
Applicable Consumer Price Index figure
Vehicle allowance
Private motoring sub-group
[16A inserted by PR610093 ppc 01Nov18]
16A.1 Payment on termination of employment
(a) The employer must pay an employee no later than 7 days after the day on which the employee’s employment terminates:
(i) the employee’s wages under this award for any complete or incomplete pay period up to the end of the day of termination;and
(ii) all other amounts that are due to the employee under this award and the NES.
(b) The requirement to pay wages and other amounts under paragraph (a) is subject to further order of the Commission and the employer making deductions authorised by this award or the Act.
Note 1:Section 117(2) of the Act provides that an employer must not terminate an employee’s employment unless the employer has given the employee the required minimum period of notice or “has paid”to the employee payment instead of giving notice.
Note 2:Paragraph (b) allows the Commission to make an order delaying the requirement to make a payment under this clause. For example,the Commission could make an order delaying the requirement to pay redundancy pay if an employer makes an application under s.120 of the Act for the Commission to reduce the amount of redundancy pay an employee is entitled to under the NES.
Note 3:State and Territory long service leave laws or long service leave entitlements under s.113 of the Act,may require an employer to pay an employee for accrued long service leave on the day on which the employee’s employment terminates or shortly after.
17.1 Superannuation legislation
(a) Superannuation legislation,including the Superannuation Guarantee (Administration) Act 1992 (Cth),the Superannuation Guarantee Charge Act 1992 (Cth),the Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993 (Cth) and the Superannuation (Resolution of Complaints) Act 1993 (Cth),deals with the superannuation rights and obligations of employers and employees. Under superannuation legislation individual employees generally have the opportunity to choose their own superannuation fund. If an employee does not choose a superannuation fund,any superannuation fund nominated in the award covering the employee applies.
(b) The rights and obligations in these clauses supplement those in superannuation legislation.
17.2 Employer contributions
An employer must make such superannuation contributions to a superannuation fund for the benefit of an employee as will avoid the employer being required to pay the superannuation guarantee charge under superannuation legislation with respect to that employee.
17.3 Voluntary employee contributions
(a) Subject to the governing rules of the relevant superannuation fund,an employee may,in writing,authorise their employer to pay on behalf of the employee a specified amount from the post-taxation wages of the employee into the same superannuation fund as the employer makes the superannuation contributions provided for in clause 17.2.
(b) An employee may adjust the amount the employee has authorised their employer to pay from the wages of the employee from the first of the month following the giving of three months’written notice to their employer.
(c) The employer must pay the amount authorised under clauses 17.3(a) or (b) no later than 28 days after the end of the month in which the deduction authorised under clauses 17.3(a) or (b) was made.
17.4 Superannuation fund
[17.4 varied by PR994537 from 01Jan10]
Unless,to comply with superannuation legislation,the employer is required to make the superannuation contributions provided for in clause 17.2 to another superannuation fund that is chosen by the employee,the employer must make the superannuation contributions provided for in clause 17.2 and pay the amount authorised under clauses 17.3(a) or (b) to one of the following superannuation funds or its successor:
(a) AustralianSuper;
(b) Tasplan;
(c) Statewide Superannuation Trust;
[17.4(d) varied by PR546041 ppc 01Jan14]
(d) any superannuation fund to which the employer was making superannuation contributions for the benefit of its employees before 12 September 2008,provided the superannuation fund is an eligible choice fund and is a fund that offers a MySuper product or is an exempt public sector scheme;or
[17.4(e) inserted by PR546041 ppc 01Jan14]
(e) a superannuation fund or scheme which the employee is a defined benefit member of.
18.1 For the purpose of the NES,ordinary hours of work under this award are 38 per week. An employee who by agreement with their employer is working a regular cycle (including shorter or longer hours) must not have ordinary hours of duty which exceed an average of 38 hours per week over the cycle.
18.2 Employers will compensate for:
(a) time worked regularly in excess of ordinary hours of duty;
(b) time worked on call-backs;
(c) time spent standing by in readiness for a call-back;
(d) time spent carrying out professional engineering duties or professional scientific/information technology duties outside of the ordinary hours of duty over the telephone or via remote access arrangements;or
(e) time worked on afternoon,night or weekend shifts.
18.3 Compensation may include:
(a) granting special additional leave;
(b) granting special additional remuneration;
(c) taking this factor into account in the fixation of annual remuneration;or
(d) granting a special allowance or loading.
Provided that,where relevant,such compensation or remuneration will include consideration of the penalty rate or equivalent and the conditions as applicable from time to time to the majority of employees employed in a particular establishment in which the employee is employed.
18.4 The compensation and/or remuneration will be reviewed annually to ensure that it is set at an appropriate level having regard to the factors listed in this clause.
18.5 Transfers
Where an employee is transferred permanently from day work to shiftwork or from shiftwork to day work,such employee should receive at least one month’s notice. However,the employer and the employee may agree on a lesser period of notice.
19.1 Annual leave is provided for in the NES.
19.2 An employee must be paid a loading calculated at the rate of 17.5% of their base rate of pay,provided that:
(a) In no case will there be an entitlement to an amount in excess of the ABS average weekly earnings for all males (Australia) for the preceding September quarter of the year preceding the year in which the date of the accrual of the annual leave falls.
(b) Where an employee is in receipt of remuneration from their employer which is related to their annual leave loading and which is established as being of equivalent value to or greater value than the loading provided by this clause,no further entitlement will accrue. Where the benefit is of a lesser value than equivalent value then the employer must make up the benefit to that value.
19.3 Definition of shiftworker
[19.3 substituted by PR567245 ppc 27May15]
For the purpose of the additional week of annual leave provided for in the NES,a shiftworker is a seven day shiftworker who is regularly rostered to work on Sundays and public holidays.
19.4 Annual close-down
Where an employer closes down the enterprise,or a section or sections thereof,for the purposes of allowing annual leave to all or the majority of employees in the enterprise,section,or sections concerned,the same conditions which apply to the other employees of the enterprise,section or sections may also apply to employees covered by this award.
19.5 Annual leave in advance
[19.5 inserted by PR583057 ppc 29Jul16]
(a) An employer and employee may agree in writing to the employee taking a period of paid annual leave before the employee has accrued an entitlement to the leave.
(b) An agreement must:
(i) state the amount of leave to be taken in advance and the date on which leave is to commence;and
(ii) be signed by the employer and employee and,if the employee is under 18 years of age,by the employee’s parent or guardian.
Note:An example of the type of agreement required by clause 19.5 is set out at Schedule C. There is no requirement to use the form of agreement set out at Schedule C.
(c) The employer must keep a copy of any agreement under clause 19.5 as an employee record.
(d) If,on the termination of the employee’s employment,the employee has not accrued an entitlement to all of a period of paid annual leave already taken in accordance with an agreement under clause 19.5,the employer may deduct from any money due to the employee on termination an amount equal to the amount that was paid to the employee in respect of any part of the period of annual leave taken in advance to which an entitlement has not been accrued.
19.6 Cashing out of annual leave
(a) Paid annual leave must not be cashed out except in accordance with an agreement under clause 19.6.
(b) Each cashing out of a particular amount of paid annual leave must be the subject of a separate agreement under clause 19.6.
(c) An employer and an employee may agree in writing to the cashing out of a particular amount of accrued paid annual leave by the employee.
(d) An agreement under clause 19.6 must state:
(i) the amount of leave to be cashed out and the payment to be made to the employee for it;and
(ii) the date on which the payment is to be made.
(e) An agreement under clause 19.6 must be signed by the employer and employee and,if the employee is under 18 years of age,by the employee’s parent or guardian.
(f) The payment must not be less than the amount that would have been payable had the employee taken the leave at the time the payment is made.
(g) An agreement must not result in the employee’s remaining accrued entitlement to paid annual leave being less than 4 weeks.
(h) The maximum amount of accrued paid annual leave that may be cashed out in any period of 12 months is 2 weeks.
(i) The employer must keep a copy of any agreement under clause 19.6 as an employee record.
Note 1:Under section 344 of the Fair Work Act,an employer must not exert undue influence or undue pressure on an employee to make,or not make,an agreement under clause 19.6.
Note 2:Under section 345(1) of the Fair Work Act,a person must not knowingly or recklessly make a false or misleading representation about the workplace rights of another person under clause 19.6.
Note 3:An example of the type of agreement required by clause 19.6 is set out at Schedule D. There is no requirement to use the form of agreement set out at Schedule D.
19.7 Excessive leave accruals:general provision
Note:Clauses 19.7 to 19.9 contain provisions,additional to the National Employment Standards,about the taking of paid annual leave as a way of dealing with the accrual of excessive paid annual leave. See Part 2.2,Division 6 of the Fair Work Act.
(a) An employee has an excessive leave accrual if the employee has accrued more than 8 weeks’paid annual leave (or 10 weeks’paid annual leave for a shiftworker,as defined by clause 19.3).
(b) If an employee has an excessive leave accrual,the employer or the employee may seek to confer with the other and genuinely try to reach agreement on how to reduce or eliminate the excessive leave accrual.
(c) Clause 19.8 sets out how an employer may direct an employee who has an excessive leave accrual to take paid annual leave.
(d) Clause 19.9 sets out how an employee who has an excessive leave accrual may require an employer to grant paid annual leave requested by the employee.
19.8 Excessive leave accruals:direction by employer that leave be taken
(a) If an employer has genuinely tried to reach agreement with an employee under clause 19.7(b) but agreement is not reached (including because the employee refuses to confer),the employer may direct the employee in writing to take one or more periods of paid annual leave.
(b) However,a direction by the employer under paragraph (a):
(i) is of no effect if it would result at any time in the employee’s remaining accrued entitlement to paid annual leave being less than 6 weeks when any other paid annual leave arrangements (whether made under clause 19.7,19.8 or 19.9 or otherwise agreed by the employer and employee) are taken into account;and
(ii) must not require the employee to take any period of paid annual leave of less than one week;and
(iii) must not require the employee to take a period of paid annual leave beginning less than 8 weeks,or more than 12 months,after the direction is given;and
(iv) must not be inconsistent with any leave arrangement agreed by the employer and employee.
(c) The employee must take paid annual leave in accordance with a direction under paragraph (a) that is in effect.
(d) An employee to whom a direction has been given under paragraph (a) may request to take a period of paid annual leave as if the direction had not been given.
Note 1:Paid annual leave arising from a request mentioned in paragraph (d) may result in the direction ceasing to have effect. See clause 19.8(b)(i).
Note 2:Under section 88(2) of the Fair Work Act,the employer must not unreasonably refuse to agree to a request by the employee to take paid annual leave.
19.9 Excessive leave accruals:request by employee for leave
[19.9 inserted by PR583057;substituted by PR583057 ppc 29Jul17]
(a) If an employee has genuinely tried to reach agreement with an employer under clause 19.7(b) but agreement is not reached (including because the employer refuses to confer),the employee may give a written notice to the employer requesting to take one or more periods of paid annual leave.
(b) However,an employee may only give a notice to the employer under paragraph (a) if:
(i) the employee has had an excessive leave accrual for more than 6 months at the time of giving the notice;and
(ii) the employee has not been given a direction under clause 19.8(a) that,when any other paid annual leave arrangements (whether made under clause 19.7,19.8 or 19.9 or otherwise agreed by the employer and employee) are taken into account,would eliminate the employee’s excessive leave accrual.
(c) A notice given by an employee under paragraph (a) must not:
(i) if granted,result in the employee’s remaining accrued entitlement to paid annual leave being at any time less than 6 weeks when any other paid annual leave arrangements (whether made under clause 19.7,19.8 or 19.9 or otherwise agreed by the employer and employee) are taken into account;or
(ii) provide for the employee to take any period of paid annual leave of less than one week;or
(iii) provide for the employee to take a period of paid annual leave beginning less than 8 weeks,or more than 12 months,after the notice is given;or
(iv) be inconsistent with any leave arrangement agreed by the employer and employee.
(d) An employee is not entitled to request by a notice under paragraph (a) more than 4 weeks’paid annual leave (or 5 weeks’paid annual leave for a shiftworker,as defined by clause 19.3) in any period of 12 months.
(e) The employer must grant paid annual leave requested by a notice under paragraph (a).
Personal/carer’s leave and compassionate leave are provided for in the NES.
Community service leave is provided for in the NES.
22.1 Public holidays are provided for in the NES.
22.2 Substitution of public holidays by agreement at the enterprise
(a) Substitution of public holidays by majority agreement
[22.2(a) varied by PR994537 from 01Jan10]
An employer and its employees may agree to substitute another day for any of the prescribed days in this clause. For this purpose,the consent of the majority of the affected employees will constitute agreement.
(b) Substitution of public holidays by individual agreement
An employer and individual employee may agree to the employee taking another day as the public holiday instead of the day which is being observed as the public holiday in the enterprise or relevant section or sections of it.
[23 inserted by PR609383 ppc 01Aug18]
23.1 This clause applies to all employees,including casuals.
23.2 Definitions
(a) In this clause:
family and domestic violence means violent,threatening or other abusive behaviour by a family member of an employee that seeks to coerce or control the employee and that causes them harm or to be fearful.
family member means:
(i) a spouse,de facto partner,child,parent,grandparent,grandchild or sibling of the employee;or
(ii) a child,parent,grandparent,grandchild or sibling of a spouse or de facto partner of the employee;or
(iii) a person related to the employee according to Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander kinship rules.
(b) A reference to a spouse or de facto partner in the definition of family member in clause 23.2(a) includes a former spouse or de facto partner.
23.3 Entitlement to unpaid leave
An employee is entitled to 5 days’unpaid leave to deal with family and domestic violence,as follows:
(a) the leave is available in full at the start of each 12 month period of the employee’s employment;and
(b) the leave does not accumulate from year to year;and
(c) is available in full to part-time and casual employees.
Note:1. A period of leave to deal with family and domestic violence may be less than a day by agreement between the employee and the employer.
2. The employer and employee may agree that the employee may take more than 5 days’unpaid leave to deal with family and domestic violence.
23.4 Taking unpaid leave
An employee may take unpaid leave to deal with family and domestic violence if the employee:
(a) is experiencing family and domestic violence;and
(b) needs to do something to deal with the impact of the family and domestic violence and it is impractical for the employee to do that thing outside their ordinary hours of work.
Note:The reasons for which an employee may take leave include making arrangements for their safety or the safety of a family member (including relocation),attending urgent court hearings,or accessing police services.
23.5 Service and continuity
The time an employee is on unpaid leave to deal with family and domestic violence does not count as service but does not break the employee’s continuity of service.
23.6 Notice and evidence requirements
(a) Notice
An employee must give their employer notice of the taking of leave by the employee under clause 23. The notice:
(i) must be given to the employer as soon as practicable (which may be a time after the leave has started);and
(ii) must advise the employer of the period,or expected period,of the leave.
(b) Evidence
An employee who has given their employer notice of the taking of leave under clause 23 must,if required by the employer,give the employer evidence that would satisfy a reasonable person that the leave is taken for the purpose specified in clause 23.4.
Note:Depending on the circumstances such evidence may include a document issued by the police service,a court or a family violence support service,or a statutory declaration.
23.7 Confidentiality
(a) Employers must take steps to ensure information concerning any notice an employee has given,or evidence an employee has provided under clause 23.6 is treated confidentially,as far as it is reasonably practicable to do so.
(b) Nothing in clause 23 prevents an employer from disclosing information provided by an employee if the disclosure is required by an Australian law or is necessary to protect the life,health or safety of the employee or another person.
Note:Information concerning an employee’s experience of family and domestic violence is sensitive and if mishandled can have adverse consequences for the employee. Employers should consult with such employees regarding the handling of this information.
23.8 Compliance
An employee is not entitled to take leave under clause 23 unless the employee complies with clause 23.
A.1 General
A.1.1 The provisions of this schedule deal with minimum obligations only.
A.1.2 The provisions of this schedule are to be applied:
(a) when there is a difference,in money or percentage terms,between a provision in a relevant transitional minimum wage instrument (including the transitional default casual loading) or award-based transitional instrument on the one hand and an equivalent provision in this award on the other;
(b) when a loading or penalty in a relevant transitional minimum wage instrument or award-based transitional instrument has no equivalent provision in this award;
(c) when a loading or penalty in this award has no equivalent provision in a relevant transitional minimum wage instrument or award-based transitional instrument;or
(d) when there is a loading or penalty in this award but there is no relevant transitional minimum wage instrument or award-based transitional instrument.
A.2 Minimum wages –existing minimum wage lower
A.2.1 The following transitional arrangements apply to an employer which,immediately prior to 1 January 2010:
(a) was obliged,
(b) but for the operation of an agreement-based transitional instrument or an enterprise agreement would have been obliged,or
(c) if it had been an employer in the industry or of the occupations covered by this award would have been obliged
by a transitional minimum wage instrument and/or an award-based transitional instrument to pay a minimum wage lower than that in this award for any classification of employee.
A.2.2 In this clause minimum wage includes:
(a) a minimum wage for a junior employee,an employee to whom training arrangements apply and an employee with a disability;
(b) a piecework rate;and
(c) any applicable industry allowance.
A.2.3 Prior to the first full pay period on or after 1 July 2010 the employer must pay no less than the minimum wage in the relevant transitional minimum wage instrument and/or award-based transitional instrument for the classification concerned.
A.2.4 The difference between the minimum wage for the classification in this award and the minimum wage in clause A.2.3 is referred to as the transitional amount.
A.2.5 From the following dates the employer must pay no less than the minimum wage for the classification in this award minus the specified proportion of the transitional amount:
First full pay period on or after
A.2.6 The employer must apply any increase in minimum wages in this award resulting from an annual wage review.
A.2.7 These provisions cease to operate from the beginning of the first full pay period on or after 1 July 2014.
A.3 Minimum wages –existing minimum wage higher
by a transitional minimum wage instrument and/or an award-based transitional instrument to pay a minimum wage higher than that in this award for any classification of employee.
A.3.5 From the following dates the employer must pay no less than the minimum wage for the classification in this award plus the specified proportion of the transitional amount:
A.3.6 The employer must apply any increase in minimum wages in this award resulting from an annual wage review. If the transitional amount is equal to or less than any increase in minimum wages resulting from the 2010 annual wage review the transitional amount is to be set off against the increase and the other provisions of this clause will not apply.
A.4 Loadings and penalty rates
For the purposes of this schedule loading or penalty means a:
●casual or part-time loading;
●Saturday,Sunday,public holiday,evening or other penalty;
●shift allowance/penalty.
A.5 Loadings and penalty rates –existing loading or penalty rate lower
by the terms of a transitional minimum wage instrument or an award-based transitional instrument to pay a particular loading or penalty at a lower rate than the equivalent loading or penalty in this award for any classification of employee.
A.5.2 Prior to the first full pay period on or after 1 July 2010 the employer must pay no less than the loading or penalty in the relevant transitional minimum wage instrument or award-based transitional instrument for the classification concerned.
A.5.3 The difference between the loading or penalty in this award and the rate in clause A.5.2 is referred to as the transitional percentage.
A.5.4 From the following dates the employer must pay no less than the loading or penalty in this award minus the specified proportion of the transitional percentage:
A.6 Loadings and penalty rates –existing loading or penalty rate higher
by the terms of a transitional minimum wage instrument or an award-based transitional instrument to pay a particular loading or penalty at a higher rate than the equivalent loading or penalty in this award,or to pay a particular loading or penalty and there is no equivalent loading or penalty in this award,for any classification of employee.
A.6.2 Prior to the first full pay period on or after 1 July 2010 the employer must pay no less than the loading or penalty in the relevant transitional minimum wage instrument or award-based transitional instrument.
A.6.3 The difference between the loading or penalty in this award and the rate in clause A.6.2 is referred to as the transitional percentage. Where there is no equivalent loading or penalty in this award,the transitional percentage is the rate in A.6.2.
A.6.4 From the following dates the employer must pay no less than the loading or penalty in this award plus the specified proportion of the transitional percentage:
A.7 Loadings and penalty rates –no existing loading or penalty rate
A.7.1 The following transitional arrangements apply to an employer not covered by clause A.5 or A.6 in relation to a particular loading or penalty in this award.
A.7.2 Prior to the first full pay period on or after 1 July 2010 the employer need not pay the loading or penalty in this award.
A.7.3 From the following dates the employer must pay no less than the following percentage of the loading or penalty in this award:
A.8 Former Division 2B employers
[A.8 inserted by PR503697 ppc 01Jan11]
A.8.1 This clause applies to an employer which,immediately prior to 1 January 2011,was covered by a Division 2B State award.
A.8.2 All of the terms of a Division 2B State award applying to a Division 2B employer are continued in effect until the end of the full pay period commencing before 1 February 2011.
A.8.3 Subject to this clause,from the first full pay period commencing on or after 1 February 2011 a Division 2B employer must pay no less than the minimum wages,loadings and penalty rates which it would be required to pay under this Schedule if it had been a national system employer immediately prior to 1 January 2010.
A.8.4 Despite clause A.8.3,where a minimum wage,loading or penalty rate in a Division 2B State award immediately prior to 1 February 2011 was lower than the corresponding minimum wage,loading or penalty rate in this award,nothing in this Schedule requires a Division 2B employer to pay more than the minimum wage,loading or penalty rate in this award.
A.8.5 Despite clause A.8.3,where a minimum wage,loading or penalty rate in a Division 2B State award immediately prior to 1 February 2011 was higher than the corresponding minimum wage,loading or penalty rate in this award,nothing in this Schedule requires a Division 2B employer to pay less than the minimum wage,loading or penalty rate in this award.
A.8.6 In relation to a Division 2B employer this Schedule commences to operate from the beginning of the first full pay period on or after 1 January 2011 and ceases to operate from the beginning of the first full pay period on or after 1 July 2014.
For employment involving the performance of professional duties,the following classification definitions apply:
B.1 Professional responsibility levels
B.1.1 Level 1—Graduate professional engineer,Professional scientist and Information technology employee
(a) An employee at this level undertakes initial professional tasks of limited scope and complexity,such as minor phases of broader assignments,in office,plant,field or laboratory work.
(b) Under supervision from higher level Professional engineers,Professional scientists or Professional information technology employees as to method of approach and requirements,the employee performs normal professional work and exercises individual judgment and initiative in the application of principles,techniques and methods.
(c) In assisting more senior Professional engineers,Professional scientists or Professional information technology employees by carrying out tasks requiring accuracy and adherence to prescribed methods of professional engineering or professional scientific/information technology analysis,design or computation,the employee draws upon advanced techniques and methods learned during and after the undergraduate course.
(d) Training,development and experience using a variety of standard procedures,enable the employee to develop increasing professional judgment and apply it progressively to more difficult tasks at Level 2.
(e) Decisions are related to tasks performed,relying upon precedent or defined procedures for guidance. Recommendations are related to solution of problems in connection to the tasks performed.
(f) Work is reviewed by higher level Professional engineers,Professional scientists or Professional information technology employees for validity,adequacy,methods and procedures. With professional development and experience,work receives less review,and the employee progressively exercises more individual judgment until the level of competence at Level 2 is achieved.
(g) The employee may assign and check work of technical staff assigned to work on a common project.
B.1.2 Graduate professional—appointment and progression
(a) Pay Point 1.1
Means the pay point to which a graduate will be appointed where they possess and may be required to utilise a level of professional skill and knowledge based on either the completion of an accredited three or four year tertiary professional technology based qualification in Australia or equivalent.
(b) Pay Point 1.2
Means the pay point to which a graduate will be appointed or will progress from Pay Point 1.1 having been assessed as being competent at Pay Point 1.1,where the graduate possesses and may be required to utilise a level of professional skill and knowledge based on:
(i) Training and experience
In addition to the experience,skill and knowledge requirements for Pay Point 1.1 not more than one further year of practical professional experience,with supervision as appropriate,and the undertaking of in-service training,subject to its provision by the employer.
(ii) Core competency standards
The development of core competency standards in the practice setting/s undertaken since being assessed as competent at Pay Point 1.1 measured against the prescribed performance criteria.
(c) Pay Point 1.3
Means the pay point to which a graduate will be appointed or will progress from Pay Point 1.2 having been assessed as being competent at this Pay Point,where the graduate possesses and may be required to utilise a level of professional skill and knowledge based on:
In addition to the experience,skill and knowledge requirements for Pay Point 1.2,not more than one further year of practical professional experience,with supervision as appropriate,and the undertaking of in-service training,subject to its provision by the employer.
In addition to the core competency standards developed at Pay Point 1.2,the further development of core competency standards in the practice setting/s undertaken since being assessed as competent at Pay Point 1.2 measured against the prescribed performance criteria.
(d) Pay Point 1.4
B.1.3 Annual review
Subject to the requirements of each Pay Point,each graduate will progress on their annual anniversary date from one Pay Point to the next,having regard to the acquisition and utilisation of core competencies through experience in their practice setting/s over such period. Confirmation of the employee’s progression to the next Pay Point will be provided by the employer in writing.
B.1.4 Deferral
Progression from one Pay Point to the next may be deferred or refused by the employer. Such deferral or refusal of progression will not be unreasonably or arbitrarily imposed by the employer. Any decision to defer or refuse progression to the next pay point will be confirmed in writing.
B.1.5 Appeal and review
An employee may appeal a deferral,provided that where any such appeal results in a revocation of the employer’s decision,Pay Point progression will be deemed to operate and be payable from the employee’s anniversary date for such progression. An appeal or review,for the purpose of this clause,will be undertaken and resolved in accordance with clause 10—Dispute resolution of this award.
B.1.6 Accelerated advancement
Progression from one Pay Point to the next may be advanced by the employer to occur prior to the annual anniversary date provided that any such advancement is referable to the requirements for each Pay Point.
B.1.7 Level 2—Experienced professional
Following development,the Experienced professional plans and conducts professional work without detailed supervision but with guidance on unusual features and is usually engaged on more responsible assignments requiring substantial professional experience.
B.1.8 Quality auditor
A candidate has satisfied the criteria and has demonstrated the ability to perform all or any part of a quality management system audit,solo,or as a member of a team to ISO 10011 Part 2,AS 3911 Part 2,NZS 10011 Part 2.
B.1.9 Level 3—Professional
(a) An employee at this level performs duties requiring the application of mature professional knowledge. With scope for individual accomplishment and coordination of more difficult assignments,the employee deals with problems for which it is necessary to modify established guides and devise new approaches.
(b) The employee may make some original contribution or apply new professional approaches and techniques to the design or development of equipment or products.
(c) Recommendations may be reviewed for soundness of judgement but are usually regarded as technically accurate and feasible. The employee makes responsible decisions on matters assigned,including the establishment of professional standards and procedures. The employee consults,recommends and advises in specialty areas.
(d) Work is carried out within broad guidelines requiring conformity with overall objectives,relative priorities and necessary cooperation with other units. Informed professional guidance may be available.
(e) The employee outlines and assigns work,reviews it for technical accuracy and adequacy,and may plan,direct,coordinate and supervise the work of other professional and technical staff.
B.1.10 Senior (lead) auditor
A candidate has satisfied the criteria and has demonstrated the ability to manage an audit team and co-ordinate all aspects of a complete quality management system audit to ISO 10011 Part 2,AS 3911 Part 2,NZS 10011 Part 2.
B.1.11 Level 4—Professional
(a) An employee at this level performs professional work involving considerable independence in approach,demanding a considerable degree of originality,ingenuity and judgement,and knowledge of more than one field of,or expertise (for example,acts as their organisation's technical reference authority) in a particular field of professional engineering,professional scientific/information technology field or professional information technology field.
(b) An employee at this level:
(i) initiates or participates in short or long range planning and makes independent decisions on professional engineering or professional scientific/information technology policies and procedures within an overall program;
(ii) gives technical advice to management and operating departments;
(iii) may take detailed technical responsibility for product development and provision of specialised professional engineering or professional scientific/information technology systems,facilities and functions;
(iv) coordinates work programs;and
(v) directs or advises on the use of equipment and materials.
(c) An employee at this level makes responsible decisions not usually subject to technical review,decides courses of action necessary to expedite the successful accomplishment of assigned projects,and may make recommendations involving large sums or long range objectives.
(d) Duties are assigned only in terms of broad objectives,and are reviewed for policy,soundness of approach,accomplishment and general effectiveness.
(e) The employee supervises a group or groups including professionals and other staff,or exercises authority and technical control over a group of professional staff. In both instances,the employee is engaged in complex professional engineering or professional scientific/information technology applications.
[Sched C inserted by PR583057 ppc 29Jul16]
Link to PDF copy of Agreement to Take Annual Leave in Advance.
Name of employee:_____________________________________________
Name of employer:_____________________________________________
The employer and employee agree that the employee will take a period of paid annual leave before the employee has accrued an entitlement to the leave:
The amount of leave to be taken in advance is:____ hours/days
The leave in advance will commence on:___/___/20___
Signature of employee:________________________________________
Date signed:___/___/20___
Name of employer representative:________________________________________
Signature of employer representative:________________________________________
[If the employee is under 18 years of age - include:]
I agree that:
if,on termination of the employee’s employment,the employee has not accrued an entitlement to all of a period of paid annual leave already taken under this agreement,then the employer may deduct from any money due to the employee on termination an amount equal to the amount that was paid to the employee in respect of any part of the period of annual leave taken in advance to which an entitlement has not been accrued.
Name of parent/guardian:________________________________________
Signature of parent/guardian:________________________________________
[Sched D inserted by PR583057 ppc 29Jul16]
Link to PDF copy of Agreement to Cash Out Annual Leave.
The employer and employee agree to the employee cashing out a particular amount of the employee’s accrued paid annual leave:
The amount of leave to be cashed out is:____ hours/days
The payment to be made to the employee for the leave is:$_______ subject to deduction of income tax/after deduction of income tax (strike out where not applicable)
The payment will be made to the employee on:___/___/20___
Include if the employee is under 18 years of age:
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LED Video Wall Exhibits Marketing Agency’s Artistic Talents
Hogarth is a creative production company with offices worldwide. Founded in 2008, Hogarth has been pivotal in transforming the production landscape over the last 10 years. They are leaders in the field, producing advertising and marketing content for clients across all media and all languages. Their creative production expertise coupled with our powerful workflow and asset management technology deliver high-quality assets, control and savings for global brands.
In 2019, Hogarth completed a top to bottom renovation of its New York City offices. The project included a redesign of the street-level lobby to create a welcoming area where the agency could highlight its work in high-end visual effects and post-production.
Hogarth Worldwide Creative Director Ian St. George Freeman said the main idea behind the new lobby was to establish a space for demonstrating their prowess in creating artistic visual media. “That thinking drove our decision to pursue a video wall,” St. George Freeman said.
Hogarth procured a design bid for a 4x4 LCD video wall but feeling that the proposal lacked the impact they had envisioned, set out to obtain another option and engaged technology solutions provider Diversified.
“Hogarth wanted a solution that was more engaging and visually dynamic,” said Diversified Account Executive Rudy De La Uz. Upon Diversified’s recommendation, Hogarth visited Planar’s nearby New York City Showroom. “Overall, they were very impressed with the range of display technologies that are available,” De La Uz said. “We made our suggestions and worked with Hogarth’s team to formalize a video wall design.”
The engagement resulted in the integration of a nearly 18-foot-long, 8-foot-high Planar® TVF Series LED video wall with a 1.8mm pixel pitch (TVF1.8) in 9x7 configuration. The Planar TVF Series is a family of fine pitch LED video wall displays with a 16:9 aspect ratio that allows every pixel pitch to exactly achieve popular resolutions including Full HD and 4K. With a profile of less than three inches, the Planar TVF Series reduces the overall video wall footprint and is easier to integrate in more spaces compared to other LED video wall solutions.
Building block design streamlines installation
The creative, stackable design of the Planar TVF Series proved beneficial for helping Diversified meet an expedited installation schedule. “From an ingenuity standpoint, the product is fantastic,” De La Uz said. “Efficiency is very important to us as integrators and the way the Planar TVF Series cabinets come together helps make the installation process much simpler.”
Like building blocks, Planar TVF Series video walls are assembled with a single-step process to connect embedded power and signal connectors from cabinet to cabinet by stacking vertically, eliminating cabinet-to-cabinet cabling.
“There are no external jumpers or whips for cabling or power—it’s all done internally within the cabinet itself and because of that there are less failure points,” De La Uz said. “That was a huge advantage for being able to complete the installation on a tight timeframe.”
Digital canvas highlights artistic talents
Integrated in Hogarth’s new lobby entrance, the Planar TVF Series LED video wall is used to show a highlight reel of recent client work from offices around the globe, but a larger purpose involves treating the installation as a digital canvas for displaying custom, experimental and personal work created by Hogarth’s in-house artists. “In terms of content creation, the video wall allows us to showcase the talents of our people,” St. George Freeman said.
With a curtain glass wall built in front of the lobby space, the video wall is visible from the street, creating the sense of a gallery-like environment, according to St. George Freeman. “It’s really about expressing the pride that we have in our work to anyone who might visit or pass by.”
Hogarth involved its artists, animators, editors and compositors in the video wall selection and design process as they would be the ones producing digital content for the video wall.
“Universally, one of the recommendations that everyone gravitated toward was to avoid a standard format,” St. George Freeman said. “Our artists were excited about the prospect of working with an unusual or different-sized digital canvas. Planar was great to work with in this sense because they were so accommodating in allowing us to design the video wall to our own custom specs.”
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Terry OUT, Pedro & Baba STARTS: Chelsea vs Tottenham STRONGEST Possible Line-up
Match PreviewsNews
Chelsea will visit White Hart Lane stadium tomorrow to take on London rival Tottenham Hotspurs in the 14th game of the English Premier League this season.
Nothing but a win would be expected from the Stamford Bridge outfits, if they are to fight back to the top four position on the EPL log.
Chelsea currently sits on 15th position on the EPL table with 15 points behind league leader Manchester City.
Chelsea’s team skipper John Terry is a doubt for the game after suffering an ankle injury in the UEFA champions league match against Maccabi Tel Aviv during the midweek game and as a result, we expect Kurt Zouma to pair with Gary Cahill at the centre of defense.
Ghanaian left back Abdul Baba would be expected in the starting line-up after a superb performance during the midweek game.
Here is how we expect the Portuguese tactician Jose Mourinho to line-up his men against the Spurs with both Hazard and Costa given leading the attack line.
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Stand In Li-on: Thirsty pride of lions queue up for a drink
By Bunmi Adigun @Bunmi_Adigun
A PRIDE of thirsty lions formed an orderly queue at their local watering hole
The thirsty lions swiftly made their way to the watering hole
Ignoring a herd of impala, the pride swiftly made their way to the small pool of water, which was steadily evaporating under the hot African sun.
Only the lionesses and the cubs went for a drink of water
The extraordinary moment was snapped by South African and part-time photographer, Siobain Shead, at the famous Kruger National Park, South Africa.
Each member of the pride calmly lined up next to each other for a drink of water
She said: “I have been going to Kruger for many years and have seen large prides together yes, but not all drinking together in single file - this was a first.”
The pictures were taken at the famous Kruger National Park in South Africa
With the adult males no where to be seen the lionesses and cubs of the pride took their time to lap up water.
Taken during a drought, the images show the importance of waterholes, which act as a haven for wildlife in the region.
A drought is currently taking place in the area making waterholes vital for survival
Siobain said: “Sightings in Kruger are all about luck and timing, I don’t think they are ever predictable. Having said that, during times of drought one is more likely to see predators around the waterholes as the game does disperse more in the rainy season.”
Following the movements of the pride with her safari group the photographer was surprised to see the lions walking in single file during the hottest time of the day.
Photographer Siobain Shead, 52, took the pictures of the lion family while on safari
She said: “Whilst driving along our decided route we spotted a lion cub deep in the bush, within a few seconds the rest of the lions started appearing walking almost in single file. At first I found it puzzling that they were walking at midday as it was quite hot and the lions were panting, however, they seemed to have a destination in mind.”
The pride drank at the waterhole for around 25 minutes until they left to sleep in the shade
The waterhole is known locally as Ingwe, which translates to 'leopard in Zulu' and is a common hangout for animals in the area.
Known locally as Ingwe the waterhole is used by most of the animals in the area
Siobain said: “I know the area reasonably well and realised there was a watering point about one kilometre ahead so I just had a feeling that was where they were off to.
“The lions drank at the waterhole for about 20 to 25 minutes then they moved off further back under bushes to lay down and sleep in the shade, they spent a few hours sleeping and eventually moved off and out of sight.” She added.
Man Reunites With Cheetah After A Year Apart
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Kallimachos: The Alexandrian Library and the Origins of
By admin On January 6, 2008 In Reference
So these episodes of nutritional stress and infectious disease were seriously affecting their ability to survive." Since the mental framework of the historian influences his judgments about historical facts, the judgment that Barnes makes here about the historical outlook of the Fathers of the Church raises the question of what he thinks about the existence of the one true God. Indeed, the situation is so bad now that, says Tolstoy, the art which is most admired is that which is understood by no one.
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press; 1 edition (June 1, 2011)
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Social support and health among older adults – the Singapore Chinese Health Study
Jon Barrenetxea, Yi Yang, Kyriakos S. Markides, An Pan, Woon-Puay Koh, Qiushi Feng
Journal: Ageing & Society , First View
While having social support can contribute to better health, those in poor health may be limited in their capacity to receive social support. We studied the health factors associated with social support among community-dwelling older adults in Singapore. We used data from the third follow-up interviews (2014–2016) of 16,943 participants of the Singapore Chinese Health Study, a population-based cohort of older Singapore Chinese. Participants were interviewed at a mean age of 73 years (range 61–96 years) using the Duke Social Support Scale (DUSOCS). We first applied ordinary least squares regression to DUSOCS scores and found that those with instrumental limitations, poor self-rated health, cognitive impairment and depression had lower social support scores. We then applied latent class analysis to DUSOCS answer patterns and revealed four groups of older adults based on the source and amount of social support. Among them, compared to the ‘overall supported’ group (17%) with the highest social support scores and broad support from family members and non-family individuals, the ‘family restricted’ (50%) group had the lowest social support scores and only received support from children. Health factors associated with being ‘family restricted’ were instrumental limitations (odds ratio (OR) = 1.33, 95% confidence interval (CI) = 1.19–1.49), poor self-rated health (OR = 1.40, 95% CI = 1.28–1.53), cognitive impairment (OR = 1.19, 95% CI = 1.04–1.37) and depression (OR = 2.50, 95% CI = 2.22–2.82). We found that while older adults in poor health have lower social support scores, they were more likely to receive a lot of support from children. Our results showed that lower social support scores among Singaporean older adults in poor health may not indicate lack of social support, but rather that social support is restricted in scope and intensified around children. These results may apply to other Asian societies where family plays a central role in elder-care.
Effect of fulvic acid on barnyardgrass (Echinochloa crus-galli) seedling growth under flooding conditions
Shangfeng Zhou, Yi Tang, Lang Pan, Cong Wang, Yanan Guo, Haona Yang, Zuren Li, Lianyang Bai, Lifeng Wang
Journal: Weed Science / Accepted manuscript
Barnyardgrass [Echinochloa crus-galli (L.) P. Beauv.] is a problematic weed that grows in rice (Oryza sativa L.) fields. Over-applying herbicide caused environmental pollution and the emergence of resistant weeds, and integrated weed management method can reduce the dependence on herbicides. The growth of E. crus-galli and rice seedlings could be significantly inhibited by high concentrations of fulvic acid (FA, C14H12O8) under flooding conditions (HF, 0.80 g/L) (p < 0.05). In contrast, the growth of seedlings could be promoted by the application of very low-concentration FA (LF, 0.02 g/L). The activities of glutathione S-transferase (GSTs) and antioxidant enzymes, including total superoxide dismutase (T-SOD), peroxidase (POD), and catalase (CAT) in E. crus-galli seedlings were enhanced by LF treatment; while the POD activity was decreased, the GSTs, T-SOD, and CAT activities were not significantly changed by HF treatment. The metabolomic and transcriptomic analyses showed that FA regulated E. crus-galli seedling growth by affecting the synthesis of indole derivatives and flavonoid compounds. Compared with the blank control (CK, 0 g/L), the levels of four indole derivatives were up-regulated under HF treatment, and the indole derivatives mentioned above were slightly down-regulated under LF treatment. The flavonoids, including naringenin, naringenin chalcone, eriodictyol, kaempferol, and epigallocatechin, were down-regulated under HF treatment, and the growth of E. crus-galli was restrained. In contrast, the metabolism and transcription of flavonoids were not significantly changed under LF treatment. Under the addition of 0.80 g/L FA, the growth of newly sprouted E. crus-galli was obviously inhibited, and the growth of rice was significantly promoted after eight days of rice planting (p < 0.05). The application of FA, therefore, might be a potential integrated weed management method to control the damage caused by E. crus-galli in paddy fields.
Cortical excitability in temporal lobe epilepsy with bilateral tonic-clonic seizures
Lingli Hu, Houmin Yin, Linling Yang, Cong Chen, Chenmin He, Yi Chen, Junming Zhu, Yao Ding, Shuang Wang, Meiping Ding, Shan Wang
Journal: Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences / Accepted manuscript
Journal: British Journal of Political Science , First View
Selective amplification of the chirped attosecond pulses produced from relativistic electron mirrors
Fang Tan, Shao Yi Wang, Bo Zhang, Zhi Meng Zhang, Bin Zhu, Yu Chi Wu, Ming Hai Yu, Yue Yang, Gang Li, Tian Kui Zhang, Yong Hong Yan, Feng Lu, Wei Fan, Wei Ming Zhou, Yu Qiu Gu
Journal: Laser and Particle Beams / Volume 38 / Issue 4 / December 2020
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 December 2020, pp. 287-292
In this paper, the generation of relativistic electron mirrors (REMs) and the reflection of an ultra-short laser off this mirrors are discussed, applying two-dimensional particle-in-cell (2D-PIC) simulations. REMs with ultra-high acceleration and expanding velocity can be produced from a solid nanofoil illuminated normally by an ultra-intense femtosecond laser pulse with a sharp rising edge. Chirped attosecond pulse can be produced through the reflection of a counter-propagating probe laser off the accelerating REM. In the electron moving frame, the plasma frequency of the REM keeps decreasing due to its rapidly expanding. The laser frequency, on the contrary, keeps increasing due to the acceleration of REM and the relativistic Doppler shift from the lab frame to the electron moving frame. Within an ultra-short time interval, the two frequencies will be equal in the electron moving frame, which leads the resonance between laser and REM. The reflected radiation near this interval and the corresponding spectra will be amplified due to the resonance. Through adjusting the arriving time of the probe laser, certain part of the reflected field could be selectively amplified or depressed, leading to the selectively adjusting of the corresponding spectra.
Culturally adapted and lay-delivered cognitive behaviour therapy for older adults with depressive symptoms in rural China: a pilot trial
Jiaqi Yuan, Yi Yin, Xinfeng Tang, Tan Tang, Qinshu Lian, Xuemei Yang, Yun Xiao, Fahui Yang, Zhiyong Qu
Journal: Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy , First View
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 October 2020, pp. 1-5
Late-life depression issues in developing countries are challenging because of understaffing in mental health. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is effective for treating depression.
This pilot trial examined the adherence and effectiveness of an eight-session adapted CBT delivered by trained lay health workers for older adults with depressive symptoms living in rural areas of China, compared with the usual care.
Fifty with screen-positive depression were randomly assigned to the CBT arm or the care as usual (CAU) arm. The primary outcomes were the session completion of older adults and changes in depressive symptoms, assessed using the Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS).
The majority (19/24) of participants in the CBT arm completed all sessions. Mixed-effect linear regression showed that the CBT reduced more GDS scores over time compared with CAU.
Lay-delivered culturally adapted CBT is potentially effective for screen-positive late-life depression.
CFAP43-mediated intra-manchette transport is required for sperm head shaping and flagella formation
Yi Yu, Jiaxiong Wang, Liming Zhou, Haibo Li, Bo Zheng, Shenmin Yang
Journal: Zygote / Volume 29 / Issue 1 / February 2021
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 October 2020, pp. 75-81
Print publication: February 2021
Mutation in CFAP43 leads to severe asthenozoospermia and multiple morphological abnormalities of the sperm flagellum (MMAF) in both human and mouse. Previous studies have shown that disruption of intra-manchette transport (IMT) caused failure of flagellum assembly and sperm head shaping. In a previous study, therefore, we postulated that disruption of IMT may contribute to the failure of sperm flagellum formation and result in MMAF, however the mechanisms underlying these defects are still poorly understood. Cfap43-deficient mice were studied here to reveal the cellular mechanisms of abnormal sperm head morphology and MMAF. Depletion of Cfap43 led to abnormal spermiogenesis and caused MMAF, sperm head abnormality and oligozoospermia. Furthermore, both abnormal manchette and disorganized ectoplasmic specialization (ES) could be observed at the elongated spermatids in Cfap43-deficient mice. Therefore, our findings demonstrated that, in mice, CFAP43-mediated IMT is essential for sperm head shaping and sperm flagellum formation.
Molecular analysis of five rice blast resistant genes in landraces from Myanmar and Laos
Jiqiong Ma, Yiding Sun, Yi Yang, Cuifeng Tang, Xinxiang A, Minghui Xu
Journal: Plant Genetic Resources / Volume 18 / Issue 4 / August 2020
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2020, pp. 287-293
In order to understand rice blast resistance gene patterns in rice landraces from Myanmar and Laos, we analysed the Pita, Pib, Pikh, Pi9 and Pi5 genes in 80 landraces through the use of functional molecular markers and functional fragment sequencing. These landraces were separated into four haplotypes (H1–H4) based upon three mutations identified in the Pita sequence. All four haplotypes were detected among landraces from Myanmar, whereas only the H1 and H2 haplotypes were detected among landraces from Laos. We additionally grouped landraces carrying 0–4 resistance genes into 18 genotypes based upon their resistance-susceptibility patterns and found that 16 of these genotypes were detected among Myanmar landraces at relative frequencies ranging from 2.50–12.50%, while 10 were detected among landraces from Laos at relative frequencies of 2.50–42.50%. The ‘Pib( + ) pikh(−) pi9(−) pi5(−) pita(−)’ genotype was found to be dominant, accounting for 12.5 and 42.5% of landraces from Myanmar and Laos, respectively. The Pib, Pikh, Pi5 and Pita genes were detected in 52.50, 32.50, 37.50 and 30.00% of landraces from Myanmar respectively, whereas they were detected in 52.50, 12.50, 30.00 and 17.50% of landraces from Laos, respectively. The Pi9 gene was rarely detected among analysed landraces and was particularly rare in those from Laos. These findings suggest that rice landraces from Myanmar are more genetically diverse than those from Laos, with clear differences in blast resistance gene patterns between landraces from these two countries.
One-dimensional steady-state model for stimulated Raman and Brillouin backscatter processes in laser-irradiated plasmas
Zhe Yi Ge, Guo Bo Zhang, Yan Zhao Ke, Xiao Hu Yang, Fu Yuan Wu, Shi Jia Chen, Yan Yun Ma
Journal: Laser and Particle Beams / Volume 38 / Issue 3 / September 2020
Print publication: September 2020
A one-dimensional steady-state model for stimulated Raman backscatter (SRS) and stimulated Brillouin backscatter (SBS) processes in laser-irradiated plasmas is presented. Based on a novel “predictor-corrector” method, the model is capable to deal with broadband scattered light and inhomogeneous plasmas, exhibiting robustness and high efficiency. Influences of the electron density and temperature on the linear gains of both SRS and SBS are investigated, which indicates that the SRS gain is more sensitive to the electron density and temperature than that of the SBS. For the low-density case, the SBS dominates the scattering process, while the SRS exhibits much higher reflectivity in the high-density case. The nonlinear saturation mechanisms and competition between SRS and SBS are included in our model by a phenomenological method. The typical anti-correlation between SRS and SBS versus electron density is reproduced in the model. Calculations of the reflectivities are qualitatively in agreement with the typical results of experiments and simulations.
Effects of dietary carbohydrate sources on lipid metabolism and SUMOylation modification in the liver tissues of yellow catfish
Shui-Bo Yang, Tao Zhao, Li-Xiang Wu, Yi-Chuang Xu, Xiao-Ying Tan
Journal: British Journal of Nutrition / Volume 124 / Issue 12 / 28 December 2020
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 June 2020, pp. 1241-1250
Print publication: 28 December 2020
Dysregulation in hepatic lipid synthesis by excess dietary carbohydrate intake is often relevant with the occurrence of fatty liver; therefore, the thorough understanding of the regulation of lipid deposition and metabolism seems crucial to search for potential regulatory targets. In the present study, we examined TAG accumulation, lipid metabolism-related gene expression, the enzyme activities of lipogenesis-related enzymes, the protein levels of transcription factors or genes involving lipogenesis in the livers of yellow catfish fed five dietary carbohydrate sources, such as glucose, maize starch, sucrose, potato starch and dextrin, respectively. Generally speaking, compared with other carbohydrate sources, dietary glucose promoted TAG accumulation, up-regulated lipogenic enzyme activities and gene expressions, and down-regulated mRNA expression of genes involved in lipolysis and small ubiquitin-related modifier (SUMO) modification pathways. Further studies found that sterol regulatory element binding protein 1 (SREBP1), a key transcriptional factor relevant to lipogenic regulation, was modified by SUMO1. Mutational analyses found two important sites for SUMOylation modification (K254R and K264R) in SREBP1. Mutant SREBP lacking lysine 264 up-regulated the transactivation capacity on an SREBP-responsive promoter. Glucose reduced the SUMOylation level of SREBP1 and promoted the protein expression of SREBP1 and its target gene stearoyl-CoA desaturase 1 (SCD1), indicating that SUMOylation of SREBP1 mediated glucose-induced hepatic lipid metabolism. Our study elucidated the molecular mechanism of dietary glucose increasing hepatic lipid deposition and found that the SREBP-dependent transactivation was regulated by SUMO1 modification, which served as a new target for the transcriptional programmes governing lipid metabolism.
Household fuelwood consumption in western rural China: ethnic minority families versus Han Chinese families
Xiaojun Yang, Jun Li, Jintao Xu, Yuanyuan Yi
Journal: Environment and Development Economics / Volume 25 / Issue 5 / October 2020
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 June 2020, pp. 433-458
Print publication: October 2020
This paper examines ethnic differences in fuelwood consumption in rural households, using an original survey dataset from two western Chinese provinces with large ethnic minority populations. We use a Heckman two-stage selection model to explain the quantity of fuelwood consumed conditional on a decision to use fuelwood. We find that ethnic minority families are more likely than majority Han Chinese families to use fuelwood. We also find that a household's off-farm income has a stronger negative effect on the quantity of fuelwood consumed for the ethnic minority families than for the Han Chinese families. In addition, families owning a larger area of forestland are more likely to use fuelwood. Yet the quantity of fuelwood consumed, especially in ethnic minority families, does not increase with owned forestland. Finally, we find that coal, rather than electricity, is a substitute for fuelwood for residential cooking and heating.
Consumption of flavonoid-rich fruits and risk of CHD: a prospective cohort study
Yiyi Yang, Jia-Yi Dong, Renzhe Cui, Isao Muraki, Kazumasa Yamagishi, Norie Sawada, Hiroyasu Iso, Shoichiro Tsugane, for the Japan Public Health Center-based Prospective Study Group
Journal: British Journal of Nutrition / Volume 124 / Issue 9 / 14 November 2020
Print publication: 14 November 2020
Although the association between fruit consumption and CHD risk has been well studied, few studies have focused on flavonoid-rich fruits (FRF), in particular strawberries and grapes. We aimed to verify the association of total and specific FRF consumption with risk of CHD by a large prospective cohort study. A total of 87 177 men and women aged 44–75 years who were free of CVD and cancer at study baseline were eligible for the present analysis. FRF consumption was assessed using a FFQ. Cox proportional hazards regression models were used to estimate the hazard ratios (HR) of CHD in relation to FRF consumption with adjustment for potential risk factors and confounders. During a mean follow-up of 13·2 years, we identified 1156 incident CHD cases. After full adjustment for covariates including demographics, lifestyles and dietary factors, the HR were 0·93 (95 % CI 0·77, 1·11), 0·91 (95 % CI 0·75, 1·11), 0·84 (95 % CI 0·67, 1·04) and 0·78 (95 % CI 0·62, 0·99) for the second, third, fourth and fifth quintiles compared with the lowest quintile of FRF consumption. Regarding specific fruits, we observed a significant inverse association for citrus fruit consumption and a borderline inverse association for strawberry consumption, while no association was observed for apple/pear or grape consumption. Although the associations appeared to be stronger in women, they were not significantly modified by sex. Higher consumption of FRF, in particular, citrus fruits, may be associated with a lower risk of developing CHD.
The progression of an acceptable pulmonary stenosis immediately after total correction of tetralogy of Fallot
Yi-Seul Kim, Jinyoung Song, June Huh, I-Seok Kang, Ji-Hyuk Yang, Tae-Gook Jun
Journal: Cardiology in the Young / Volume 30 / Issue 6 / June 2020
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 May 2020, pp. 774-778
A certain degree of pulmonary stenosis after total correction of tetralogy of Fallot has been considered acceptable. But the long-term outcomes are not well understood. We observed the natural course of immediate pulmonary stenosis and investigated related factors for progression.
Fifty-two patients with acceptable pulmonary stenosis immediately after operation were enrolled. Acceptable pulmonary stenosis was defined as peak pressure gradient between 15 and 45 mmHg by Doppler echocardiography. Latent class linear mixed model was used to differentiate patients with progressed pulmonary stenosis, and the factors related to progression were analysed.
Pulmonary stenosis progressed in 14 patients (27%). Between the progression group and no progression group, there were no significant differences in operative age, sex, and the use of the transannular patch technique. However, immediate gradient was higher in the progression group (32.1 mmHg versus 25.7 mmHg, p = 0.009), and the cut-off value was 26.8 mmHg (sensitivity = 65.3%, specificity = 65.8%). Main stenosis at the sub-valve was observed more frequently in the progression group (85.7% versus 52.6%, p = 0.027). Despite no difference in the preoperative pulmonary valve z value, the last follow-up pulmonary valve z value was significantly lower in the progression group (−1.15 versus 0.35, p = 0.002).
Pulmonary stenosis immediately after tetralogy of Fallot total correction might progress in patients with immediate pulmonary stenosis higher than ≥26.8 mmHg and the main site was sub-valve area.
Numerical study of double-diffusive sedimentation in thermally stratified fluid
Chen-Yen Hung, Yang-Yao Niu, Yi-Ju Chou
Journal: Journal of Fluid Mechanics / Volume 893 / 25 June 2020
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 April 2020, A27
Print publication: 25 June 2020
We conduct Eulerian–Lagrangian simulations to study double-diffusive sedimentation in stratified flows. The results show the pattern of double-diffusive sedimentation and the transition to the pattern of Rayleigh–Taylor instability when the size of particles increases. In cases of double-diffusive sedimentation, our simulation results show little variation in the temperature-to-particle flux ratio among cases with various particle sizes and initial concentrations, which is consistent with previous theoretical derivations and experimental observations. The energy budget is analysed to show that the settling enhancement is a result of the thermal effect combined with shear dissipation and that the thermal contribution decreases as the size increases. Based on the balance of the energy budget, velocity scaling was derived for the quasi-steady state in the thermally controlled region, which can be used to characterize the plumes’ final velocity of double-diffusive sedimentation. Moreover, adopting some values from the simulation results yields a velocity criterion with which to distinguish different sedimentation patterns. Finally, we investigate changes in the particle-laden plumes below the region of the apparent temperature gradient at which secondary instabilities occur in the form of significant horizontal flow motion. We show that the resulting initial shift of the dominant modes can be approximated with the existing theoretical analysis of collective instabilities for salt fingers. A simple scaling argument for the change in the total cross-sectional area of particle-laden plumes is presented, which is then used to scale the resulting enhanced sedimentation.
Prevalence of depressive disorders in shanghai children aged 8∼12 years
J. Fan, H.-L. Gu, H.-L. Yang, W.-Y. Wang, J. Yi, Y.-S. Du
Journal: European Psychiatry / Volume 26 / Issue S2 / March 2011
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 April 2020, p. 623
The purpose of this study was to investigated the prevalence child depression in primary schools.
3685 students from Grade 3 to Grade 5 were selected from 7 primary schools of Pudong district in Shanghai by random and cluster sampling. The study design consisted of a screening stage in which the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale for Children(CES-DC) were used, and a clinical interview stage in which the K-SADS-present state version (K-SADS) and DSM-IV were used. The diagnoses of depressive disorder were made according the DSM-IV criteria.
The prevalence of children depression was 1.60% (95%CI = 1.19%∼2.00%). The prevalence rate of male(2.08%) was significant higher than that of female (1.09%)(X2=5.40, P = 0.02). The rate of depressive disorder increased with age from 0.57% (8 years old) to 2.47% (12 years old). The prevalence of depression was no significant difference between ages from 8 to 12 years old (X2 = 4.49, P = 0.34).
The prevalence rate of children depression in Shanghai is low. The prevalence of depression among boys is much higher than that of girls.It shows the prevalence of depression is no significant difference between ages from 8 to 12 years old.
Probing the relationship between BTBD9 and MEIS1 in C. elegans and mouse
Shangru Lyu, Atbin Doroodchi, Yi Sheng, Mark P. DeAndrade, Youfeng Yang, Yuning Liu, Michael A. Miller, Rui Xiao, Yuqing Li
Journal: Experimental Results / Volume 1 / 2020
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 March 2020, e8
Restless legs syndrome (RLS) is a neurological disorder characterized by an urge to move and uncomfortable sensations. Genetic studies have identified polymorphisms in up to 19 risk loci, including MEIS1 and BTBD9. Rodents deficient in either homolog show RLS-like phenotypes. However, whether MEIS1 and BTBD9 interact in vivo is unclear. Here, with C. elegans, we observed that the hyperactive egg-laying behavior caused by loss of BTBD9 homolog was counteracted by knockdown of MEIS1 homolog. This was further investigated in mutant mice with Btbd9, Meis1, or both knocked out. The double knockout mice showed an earlier onset of the motor deficit in a wheel running test but did not have increased sensitivity to heat stimuli as observed in single knock outs. Meis1 protein level was not influenced by Btbd9 deficiency, and Btbd9 transcription was not affected by Meis1 haploinsufficiency. Our results demonstrate that MEIS1 and BTBD9 do not regulate each other.
Shelter hospital mode: How do we prevent COVID-19 hospital-acquired infection?
Yong Yang, Hailian Wang, Kang Chen, Jun Zhou, Shaoping Deng, Yi Wang
Journal: Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology / Volume 41 / Issue 7 / July 2020
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 March 2020, pp. 872-873
Precise Stiffness and Elastic Deformations of Serial–Parallel Manipulators by Considering Inertial Wrench of Moving Links
Yi Lu, Zhuohong Dai, Yang Lu
Journal: Robotica / Volume 38 / Issue 12 / December 2020
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 January 2020, pp. 2204-2220
A general serial–parallel manipulator connected in series by two different parallel manipulators with linear active legs is constructed. Its precise stiffness and elastic deformations are studied systematically. Its unified precise stiffness and precise elastic deformation models are established by considering both the moving links inertial wrench and the dynamic active/constrained wrench. A 3SPR+3RPS-type serial–parallel manipulator is illustrated for solving its precise stiffness and precise elastic deformation. The derived formulae of the precise stiffness and the precise elastic deformations of the general serial–parallel manipulator are verified by the theoretical solutions of the 3SPR+3RPS serial–parallel manipulator.
Methylphenidate and the risk of burn injury among children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
Vincent Chin-Hung Chen, Yao-Hsu Yang, Ting Yu Kuo, Mong-Liang Lu, Wei-Ting Tseng, Tsai-Yu Hou, Jia-Ying Yeh, Charles Tzu-Chi Lee, Yi-Lung Chen, Min-Jing Lee, Michael E. Dewey, Michael Gossop
Journal: Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences / Volume 29 / 2020
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 July 2020, e146
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is associated with a higher risk of burn injury than in the normal population. Nevertheless, the influence of methylphenidate (MPH) on the risk of burn injury remains unclear. This retrospective cohort study analysed the effect of MPH on the risk of burn injury in children with ADHD.
Data were from Taiwan's National Health Insurance Research Database (NHIRD). The sample comprised individuals younger than 18 years with a diagnosis of ADHD (n = 90 634) in Taiwan's NHIRD between January 1996 and December 2013. We examined the cumulative effect of MPH on burn injury risk using Cox proportional hazards models. We conducted a sensitivity analysis for immortal time bias using a time-dependent Cox model and within-patient comparisons using the self-controlled case series model.
Children with ADHD taking MPH had a reduced risk of burn injury, with a cumulative duration of treatment dose-related effect, compared with those not taking MPH. Compared with children with ADHD not taking MPH, the adjusted hazard ratio for burn injury was 0.70 in children taking MPH for <90 days (95% confidence interval (CI) 0.64–0.77) and 0.43 in children taking MPH for ≥90 days (95% CI 0.40–0.47), with a 50.8% preventable fraction. The negative association of MPH was replicated in age-stratified analysis using time-dependent Cox regression and self-controlled case series models.
This study showed that MPH treatment was associated with a lower risk of burn injury in a cumulative duration of treatment dose-related effect manner.
The $1~\text{PW}/0.1~\text{Hz}$ laser beamline in SULF facility
Zongxin Zhang, Fenxiang Wu, Jiabing Hu, Xiaojun Yang, Jiayan Gui, Penghua Ji, Xingyan Liu, Cheng Wang, Yanqi Liu, Xiaoming Lu, Yi Xu, Yuxin Leng, Ruxin Li, Zhizhan Xu
Journal: High Power Laser Science and Engineering / Volume 8 / 2020
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 February 2020, e4
In this paper, we report the recent progress on the $1~\text{PW}/0.1~\text{Hz}$ laser beamline of Shanghai Superintense Ultrafast Laser Facility (SULF). The SULF-1 PW laser beamline is based on the double chirped pulse amplification (CPA) scheme, which can generate laser pulses of 50.8 J at 0.1 Hz after the final amplifier; the shot-to-shot energy fluctuation of the amplified pulse is as low as 1.2% (std). After compression, the pulse duration of 29.6 fs is achieved, which can support a maximal peak power of 1 PW. The contrast ratio at $-80~\text{ps}$ before main pulse is measured to be $2.5\times 10^{-11}$. The focused peak intensity is improved by optimizing the angular dispersion in the grating compressor. The maximal focused peak intensity can reach $2.7\times 10^{19}~\text{W}/\text{cm}^{2}$ even with an $f/26.5$ off-axis parabolic mirror. The horizontal and vertical angular pointing fluctuations in 1 h are measured to be 1.89 and $2.45~\unicode[STIX]{x03BC}\text{rad}$, respectively. The moderate repetition rate and the good stability are desirable characteristics for laser–matter interactions. The SULF-1 PW laser beamline is now in the phase of commissioning, and preliminary experiments of particle acceleration and secondary radiation under 300–400 TW/0.1 Hz laser condition have been implemented. The progress on the experiments and the daily stable operation of the laser demonstrate the availability of the SULF-1 PW beamline.
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Copenhagen - Midtjylland match overview, prediction&tips
The great teams are gonna meet at this game. The most expected match between two teams from the very top of the group (ranked 2 in the zone Promotion to Europa League (Qualification) and 1 in the zone Promotion to Champions League (Qualification)).
Copenhagen has not chance of relegated, has a small chance of qualify for ucl (8%), has a small chance of win league (8%).
Midtjylland has not chance of relegated, has a good chance of qualify for ucl (92%), has a good chance of win league (92%).
Copenhagen is in actual amazing shape (in the last 5 games wins - 3).
Recent matches Midtjylland is playing unpredictable (in the last 5 games wins - 2).
The chances to win of two teams are almost the same in this match.
Last 30 head-to-head matches Copenhagen won 12 matches, drawn 5 matches, lost 13 matches and goals 47-52.
Including matches at home between the teams Copenhagen won 9 matches, drawn 2 matches, lost 3 matches and goals 31-21.
Odense - Lyngby match overview, prediction&tips
Recent matches Odense is playing changeable (in the last 5 games wins - 3).
Lyngby is in cheap shape now (in the last 5 games wins - 0).
Lyngby could have advantage in physics - more days for rest in last days.
In this match Odense is a favorite.
Last 11 head-to-head matches Odense won 5 matches, drawn 3 matches, lost 3 matches and goals 25-15.
Including matches at home between the teams Odense won 4 matches, drawn 0 matches, lost 1 matches and goals 15-4.
Maardu Linnameeskond - Levadia U21 match overview, prediction&tips
No spectators.
One of the leader and one of the outsider will meet in this game (ranked 1 in the zone Promotion to Meistriliiga and 8 in the zone Esiliiga (Relegation)).
Maardu Linnameeskond in the last match got series victories and it is in a very good shape (in the last 5 games wins - 5).
Recent matches Levadia U21 is playing unstable (in the last 5 games wins - 2).
Maardu Linnameeskond could have advantage in physics - more days for rest in last days.
In this match Maardu Linnameeskond is the unquestionable favorite.
Our prediction for today's Maardu Linnameeskond to win the game is with odds 1.3.
Last 10 head-to-head matches Maardu Linnameeskond won 7 matches, drawn 1 matches, lost 2 matches and goals 32-17.
Including matches at home between the teams Maardu Linnameeskond won 1 matches, drawn 1 matches, lost 2 matches and goals 10-11.
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Beverly Naidus, M.F.A.
bnaidus@uw.edu
www.beverlynaidus.net
Emeritus Professor
Culture, Arts and Communication, division of School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences
M.F.A.
Intermedia Art
Nova Scotia College of Art & Design
Beverly Naidus, artist, author, community bridge maker, networker, storyteller, and facilitator of a pioneering interdisciplinary studio arts curriculum, has been creating interactive installations, digital projects, artist books and narrative works on paper for over four decades. Her work straddles the socially engaged margins of the art world, artful activism collaborations, and community-based art projects. Many of her most provocative installations evoked stories from visitors, so explicitly soliciting stories and images from the community became her part of her process. Much of her work deals with ecological and social issues that have adversely affected her and those around her. She is particularly engaged in how we are individually and collectively affected by racism, climate change and multiple forms of systemic oppression. She often works with others to develop strategies that might heal those challenges. Remediation and reconstructive visions are key concepts that guide her work. She has shared her work in city streets, in alternative spaces, university galleries and major museums. Her work has been written about in many books and journals and has developed an international audience. Significant writers who have discussed her work include Lucy R. Lippard, Suzi Gablik, Paul Von Blum and Lisa Bloom. She is the author of Arts for Change: Teaching Outside the Frame, numerous essays on socially engaged art and eco-art pedagogy (recent releases are Art as Social Action and and some recent pieces of speculative fiction. Her unique courses at UWT emerge from her own projects and include: Art in a Time of War, Cultural Identity and Art, Body Image and Art, Eco-art, Labor, Global Justice and Art and the Artist as Visionary and Dreamer. She has guest lectured and led workshops all over North America and in Europe. She facilitated and designed the permaculture design-inspired, eco-art project, Eden Reframed, on Vashon Island, WA, funded by the Royalty Research Foundation. \She has taught at several NYC museums, Carleton College, Cal State Long Beach, Hampshire College, Goddard College and the Institute for Social Ecology. After successful chapters in the artworlds of NYC and Los Angeles, she has made a home in the Pacific Northwest since 2003. Her most recent project, Extreme Makeover: Reimagining the Port of Tacoma Free of Fossil Fuels, is a collaboration between 350 Tacoma and Arts Bridging Communities (funded by UWT’s Strategic Initiative Fund). Her website is http://www.beverlynaidus.net
Recent interviews:
“Let’s Talk about the Weather,” Ep. 34 “Beverly Naidus: Superwoman Remediating Superfund Sites” https://www.ecoartsfoundation.org/post/beverly-naidus-superwoman-remedia..., 2019 and Carey, Brainard, Interview with Beverly Naidus on Yale Radio, April 2017 http://museumofnonvisibleart.com/interviews/beverly-naidus/
We Almost Didn’t Make It: A Creative Practice Inspired by the Work that Reconnects,” A Wild Love for the World: Joanna Macy and the Work of Our Time, edited by Stephanie Kaza, Shambala Press, 2020
“Graphic Responses to the NW Detention Center: Work by Art & Global Justice Students,” ART AS SOCIAL ACTION: An Introduction to the Principles & Practices of Teaching Social Practice Art, edited by Greg Sholette, Allworth Press, NY, NY 2018
“The ZAD Becomes Compost: LONG LIVE THE ZAD,” EcoartScotland: A Platform for Research and Practice,” www.ecoartscotland.net, 4/12/2018
“Holding On,” M/E/A/N/I/N/G: The Final Issue on A Year of Positive Thinking (edited by Mira Schor and Susan Bee), 2016, http://ayearofpositivethinking.com/page/3/
“So You Want to Be an Eco-Artist: Lessons in Grief and Gratitude,” Elemental: An Arts and Ecology Reader, edited by James Brady, England: Gaia Project, 2016
“Beverly Naidus,” Conversations with Artists Who Teach, edited by Raphael Vella, Malta: Sense Publishers, 2016
“Curtain Call: Portable Altars for Grief and Gratitude,” Dark Matter Women Witnessing, issue #3 on Extinction/Devotion, Lise Weil (ed.), 2015 http://www.darkmatterwomenwitnessing.com/issues/Dec2015/articles/Extinct...
Much of my work has focused on the challenges of living in the world today, from the struggle to heal racism and fear of difference to the damage of the environment caused by rampant consumerism. I also create art about dreams, nightmares and visions for the future. I work in many mediums (from drawing & painting to digital photography and audio installations), sometimes doing "contact improvisation" with scavenged materials. The content often determines the form. Much of my work is interactive, inviting the audience to share a story about a similar topic. I'm currently working on a series of mixed media works about the radioactivity coming from Fukushima and some projects focusing on climate change.
I teach art for social change and healing. My curriculum is adventurous, offering non-majors insights into and practical experience with the creative process of contemporary artists, while introducing them to a wide array of social problems from the ecological crisis to racism.
TARTS 200 introduces students to art as meditation, mapping, storytelling, intervention and synthesis.
TARTS 203, Body Image and Art introduces students to drawing (self-portraiture, contour, gesture and value drawing) and photo/text work. The students discuss issues related to body image and the fashion & diet industries. We do media literacy and draw a nude model who subverts the norm by talking about her own history with her body while the students are drawing her. Students also collaborate on a community based project that may involve installation, performance and interactivity.
TARTS 266 The Artist as Visionary and Dreamer introduces students to painting (water-based) and drawing, while students make art about their dreams and visions of the future. We read about the history of looking at dreams, and look at art inspired by dreams and nightmares.
TARTS 402 Eco-art: Art in Response to the Environmental Crisis exposes students to the Eco-art movement, and how artists create works to restore remediate damaged sites or heal "nature deficit disorder." After learning more about the ways the environmental crisis is affecting their lives, students create their own projects based on the elements air, energy, earth & water and create community collaborate project.
TARTS 404 Art in a Time of War introduces students to the topics of war & peace and art that addresses those issues. Students make their own art that focuses on their concerns and learn about non-violent conflict resolution and communication skills.
TARTS 405 Cultural Identity and Art - Students make work about their cultural heritage, fear of difference, racism and privilege and see the work of contemporary and historical artists who examine those issues.
TARTS 406 Labor, Globalization and Art offers students insights in the economic moment we are living, and how artists make work about their jobs, being in debt, class issues, globalization and more. Students make art work about how those topics interface with their lives.
Social Ecology Education and Demonstration School
Arts for Change
People of Color and their Allies Meditation Group
Ecstatic Dance Seattle
Eden Reframed: A Community and Ecological Art Project
Seattle People of Color Salon
Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life
Emeritus member of the VALISE Artist Collective
Academic Service
Reviewer for Verso and SUNY Press
Board of Social Ecology Education and Demonstration School
Advisory Board for the Backbone Campaign, Vashon
Moderator for Arts for Change Facebook discussion page
Member of the international Ecoart Network
Member of the Mayworks Committee for the WA State Labor Council
Royalty Research Foundation Grant (U of Washington) for Eden Reframed, (Eco-art Project) 2010
Finalist, Andy Warhol Foundation and Creative Capital’s Art Writers Grant Program, 2007
Founder’s Endowment Grant, UW Tacoma, 2005
Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist's Grant in Photography, 2001
CSULB Creative and Scholarly Awards (two), 1994 – to create CANARY NOTES
CSULB Affirmative Action Grant - for bookwork But You Don't Look American, 1993
CSULB Innovations-in-Teaching Grant, 1993
CSU Chancellor's Mini-Grant, 1991 – To fund video on REMOTE CONTROL
Public Art Proposal Commission for the Metro Blue Line Station at Pico & Flower, Downtown L.A., 1991; Outstanding Young Woman of the Year Award, 1989
California Lottery Funds, Calif. State University, Bakersfield, CA, 1988 – YOU’RE SO NEGATIVE
Professional Opportunities Program grant, CSULB, 1988 – to create video of THIS IS NOT A TEST
Dayton-Hudson Distinguished Visiting Artist, Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, 1985-86
Artist's Fellowship, Blue Mountain Center, Blue Mountain Lake, New York, Fall 1983
LINE grant to self-publish bookwork (Stick - It: Ra-decals for the Angry Consumer), 1982
Materials grant from the Committee for the Visual Arts, Artists' Space, New York City, 1979 for installation: Daily Reminder
Teaching fellowship, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, 1976-78
Scholarly Interests
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Korean Restaurant Makes NYT's Top 10 List
New York eatery Hanjan, run by Korean-American chef Hooni Kim, placed fifth on a list of the top 10 restaurants of 2013 in the Big Apple by the New York Times on Wednesday. Hanjan captivated New Yorkers' tastes with its traditional Korean sauces.
Kim, who also runs Danji, another popular Korean restaurant in the city, opened Hanjan near Korea Town in Manhattan last December. Danji became the first Korean restaurant around the world to receive a star rating by the prestigious Michelin Guide in 2011.
The New York Times wrote, "For traditional Korean food, the place to go is the far eastern reaches of Flushing, Queens. But for delicious modern interpretations of the cuisine, nothing comes close to Hooni Kim's two packed, casual pubs." It recommended Hanjan's specialty pajeon, or green-onion pancake fried with chives and seafood.
The 41-year-old chef is a lover of traditional Korean sauces like doenjang (soybean paste), soy sauce and gochujang (red pepper paste).
"If you use proper doenjang, which is made in the traditional way through aging and fermentation, food can taste great without any special sauce or cooking," he said.
Kim uses sauces that are made in a mountain village in Korea. In July, he invited 44 foreign gourmands to his restaurant to serve Korean dishes based strongly on the use of doenjang, gochujang and soy sauce.
As Hanjan became popular, celebrities like former U.S. President Bill Clinton's daughter Chelsea Clinton and her husband, as well as actresses Drew Barrymore and Natalie Portman visited the restaurant.
Sushi Nakazawa topped the daily paper's list, followed by seafood restaurant Carbone, American eatery Betony and Uncle Boons, which specializes in Thai cuisine.
Michelin to Publish Korea Travel Guide in 2011
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First Korean Restaurant Joins Prestigious 'Best in Asia' List
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Seoul Restaurants to Get Michelin Stars
Top Chefs Showcase Korean Cuisine in New York
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West Glacier / Lake McDonald
Logan Pass
North Fork / Polebridge
East Glacier / Two Medicine
Many Glacier / St. Mary
Waterton / Goat Haunt
Glacier Journal
The 35-mile stretch of sometimes jarring, sometimes dirt road that leads from Columbia Falls and tracks along the western edge of Glacier National Park should be driven with respect, but visitors who brave the journey to this remote corner of the park will not regret it.
Named for the North Fork of the Flathead River that borders the park, this is one of the least crowded and most remote sections of Glacier, and must be accessed by private vehicle.
Those who make the trek are rewarded with a living laboratory of fire ecology in recently burned areas, as well as peak-studded views of Bowman and Kintla lakes, a homesteading site, and the opportunity to see and hear rarefied wildlife like wolves.
A series of wildfires over the decades have etched the mountain-scape with a mix of forest growth, each drawing a unique complement of species, including rare bird species, like the Northern Three Toed and Black-backed woodpeckers.
Visitors accustomed to modern comforts should be warned that few services exist up the North Fork, and cell phones stop chirping as the pavement turns to wash-boarded dirt.
Self-reliant visitors will appreciate the dearth of amenities, as well as the thin crowds.
Allow a full day to drive to and from Kintla and Bowman Lakes, and be sure to kick around the historic homesteading outpost of Polebridge, where a vibrant mercantile, bakery and saloon are open for business.
TOP HIKES
1. Bowman Lake
This pristine lake six miles up a dirt road from Glacier Park’s Polebridge entrance station is about one mile wide and eight miles long, with a front-country campsite at its head and a backcountry campsite at its base.
A destination in its own right, multiple trails lead away from its shores and zigzag into the alpine country, but a simple stroll on a rolling trail along the northern lakeshore will be well worth the rewarding views.
2. Numa Ridge Lookout
This 5.6-mile one-way hike to an active fire lookout offers stunning views of Rainbow Peak, Square Peak and Mount Carter, as well as sprawling Bowman Lake nearly 3,000 vertical feet below.
Pack plenty of water and a snack for this sustained climb up switchbacks that will seem a little relentless until you top out at this gorgeous perch.
3. Quartz Lakes Loop
This 13-mile day hike (or overnight trip if you’ve procured a backcountry permit) is a tireless classic that will leave you tired – and hungry for more.
The trail for the Quartz Lakes begins at the foot of Bowman Lake and traces its south shore, climbing over Quartz Ridge at two locations.
The route is perfectly suited for a fine loop, which can be dispatched as one long day hike, or with a planned overnight at either Quartz Lake or Lower Quartz Lake.
The aptly named pair of crystalline lakes is nestled into a valley carpeted with wildflowers and peppered with birds and wildlife, and provides terrific fishing for the able angler.
No journey to the North Fork is complete without a stop at the legendary Polebridge Mercantile, a barn-red building where fresh-baked huckleberry bear claws, sticky buns and pocket sandwiches line the shelves alongside handy-dandy items you might have forgotten to pick up in town.
Built in 1914, the “Merc,” as it’s affectionately known, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and remains a classic piece of Montana history, but under new ownership in recent years it has adopted a host of eco-friendly ethics, evidenced by its newly expanded solar array.
Also new this year is a fruit and produce stand. To learn about the history of this region, and about ongoing conservation efforts, stroll along the nearby Transboundary Trail, located just north of the Merc and offering nine interpretive stops along the path.
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Plan Your Olympic Vacation Menu
How to Pack
Hiking Safety
Transit to Port Angeles
I can walk, bike, or bus to Port Angeles attractions!
Why Port Angeles
Guided activities
Walking to do
Biking to do
National Park by bus
Victoria by ferry
Port Angeles Things to Do With or Without a Car on the Olympic Peninsula
Why visit Port Angeles attractions?
Port Angeles is a national park and international gateway city, providing easy driving and arduous biking access to the Olympic Mountains, and receives less rain annually than nearby locations.
Port Angeles is the hub for Olympic National Park, provides ferry access to Victoria BC, and offers many choices in things to do, restaurants, and lodging.
Port Angeles offers nearby access to world-class outdoor activities in Olympic National Park. Paved road access to Hurricane Ridge starts on Race Street in Port Angeles and within 20 miles you can view Mount Olympus. Port Angeles receives 25.57 inches of rainfall annually while Seattle and Forks, Washington receive 38.09 and 118.83 inches respectively.
Learn more about transit options from Seattle to Port Angeles.
Return to Planning Your Olympic National Park Vacation
Port Angeles things to do: guided tours
Olympic National Park Tours with ExperienceOlympic out of Port Angeles, Washington 98362 pick you up at your downtown Port Angeles accommodation (within two miles) or you can arrange to have professional naturalist guide meet you if you prefer to drive. ExperienceOlympic offers hiking and wildlife-viewing tours from March to October as well as tidepooling during the spring and summer.
If hiking, wildlife-viewing, birding, tidepooling, or sightseeing is not your thing, then other Port Angeles guide services offer a diversity of Port Angeles things to do. You may choose to embark on a walking tour of Port Angeles or whale watching tour out of Port Angeles. Additionally, you may choose to hire a Port Angeles naturalist guide, alpine guide, backpacking guide, fishing guide, kayaking guide, or mountain biking guide.
The Port Angeles Visitor Center in front of the Landing Mall
The Port Angeles Visitor Center, at 121 E Railroad Ave, Port Angeles, WA 98362, provides maps and information about Olympic Peninsula things to do. You should be able to walk away with ideas for things to do near Port Angeles, maps of the Olympic Discovery Trail (including a paved trail for road biking), Olympic National Park map, and various transit schedules. For example, you could plan a Clallam Transit hiking adventure on Barnes Point (Lake Crescent) including Marymere Falls and Storm King or a Clallam Transit bike adventure on the Lake Crescent portion of the Olympic Discovery trail.
Lower Elwha Klallam Carnegie Museum in Port Angeles
A two block walk uphill on Lincoln Street takes you to the Carnegie Musuem, located at 207 S Lincoln St, Port Angeles, WA 98362. This redesigned Port Angeles attraction displays cultural and historical artifacts related to the history of the Lower Elwha Klallam People and other First Nations on the Olympic Peninsula. Make sure to check out the artifacts from Tse-whit-zen, one of the many Klallam village sites that lined the Port Angeles harbor before the Klallam people became homeless in their own homeland.
Feiro Marine Life Center and Olympic Coast Discovery Center
The Feiro Marine Life Center is a Port Angeles attraction located on the Port Angeles City Pier at 315 N Lincoln St Port Angeles, WA 98362. The Olympic Coast Discovery Center offers another thing to do in Port Angeles and is located on the 2nd floor of the nearby Landing Mall at 115 E Railroad Ave #301, Port Angeles, WA 98362. The Feiro Marine Life Center is a smaller version of the Port Townsend Marine Science Center and a mini version of the Seattle Aquarium. The Olympic Coast Discovery Center is run by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and is focused on providing information about things to do in the Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary. The Feiro Marine Life Center operates all year while the Discovery Center is mainly open during the summer peak season.
Bike to Hurricane Ridge
Once a year for the first half the day (until noon), the road to Hurricane Ridge is only open to those on bikes for Ride the Hurricane. The ride is scheduled at the beginning of August on a yearly basis and the Hurricane Ridge road is open only to bikes from 6 AM until noon. The bike ride to Hurricane Ridge is considered, "the best climb in Washington." If you are willing to share the road with vehicles, try this Port Angeles bike attraction during the summer on a clear sunny day at sunrise. From downtown Port Angeles, bike up Lincoln Street, take a left onto 5th Street, and a right onto Race Street. Continue straight on Race Street, veer right onto Hurricane Ridge Road and continue the next 18 miles (29 km) up to the Hurricane Ridge Visitor Center at 5,242 feet (1,598 m). If you are interested in a guided ecotour to the Olympic Mountains, check out ExperienceOlympic's Hurricane Ridge hiking and wildlife viewing tours.
Olympic Discovery Trail: east to the Dungeness Spit and Sequim
A great option for things to do in Port Angeles is to walk or ride a bike on the Olympic Discovery Trail along the Port Angeles harbor east towards Ennis and Morse Creeks. The most accessible portion of the Olympic Discovery trail from downtown Port Angeles is a mostly paved trail along the Port Angeles harbor that starts between the Port Angeles City Pier and the Red Lion Hotel, just east of the intersection of Lincoln Street and Railroad Avenue. It is not uncommon to watch river otters, harbor seals, and many Olympic Peninsula birds on the Port Angeles harbor portion of the Olympic Discovery trail.
You can continue east on the Olympic Discovery trail all the way to Sequim, Washington, on about 19 miles (31 km) one-way of trail. Clallam Transit Route 30 Commuter bus runs frequently between Port Angeles and Sequim, so you can easily ride a bike one direction and ride the bus back. However, bike racks can fill up, so catching the bus at the transit terminal where the route starts helps ensure you get space for your bike.
You can detour from the Olympic Discovery trail between Port Angeles and Sequim to explore the Dungeness Spit at 554 Voice of America Rd W, Sequim, WA 98382, the longest sand spit in the world and a wildlife refuge. There are campgrounds either directly on or near the Discovery Trail for a biking and camping combination, including a nice campground at Dungeness Spit.
Olympic Discovery Trail: west to the Ediz Hook, the sand spit that forms the Port Angeles harbor
If you are not planning to visit Dungeness Spit or First Beach from La Push, then Ediz Hook is a must-see with regard to Port Angeles attractions because it exposes you to marine wildlife, especially Harbor Seals. You can access Ediz Hook as a long walk from downtown Port Angeles towards the industrial west-side of the Port Angeles harbor or you can ride your bike. In order to reach Ediz Hook, you pass through an old paper mill, which was built around the same time as the historic Elwha Dams.
The walk or bike from downtown Port Angeles is 2 miles (3 km) one-way on a sidewalk/trail adjacent to Marine Drive. You can not reach the very end of Ediz Hook because of the Port Angeles Coast Guard Station so you can continue from the mill another 2 miles (3 km) one-way on the shoulder of Ediz Hook Road, which provides a beautiful view of the Olympic Mountains on a clear day.
Olympic Discovery Trail: west to the Elwha River and beyond
You can also connect with the Discovery Trail to the west of downtown Port Angeles, although it requires navigating some streets with cars. The trail is not well defined as it departs downtown, and parallels Marine Drive past the industrial shipyard. As you continue on Marine Drive past the boat marina, take a left up Hill Street, then continue to stay right until you get to Milwaukee Drive. The trail picks up where Milwaukee Drive ends, and continues separate from traffic for about 5 miles (8 km) one-way until meeting the Elwha River at Elwha River Road, a nice destination for a morning or afternoon ride.
Further west of Port Angeles, you can use a bike and bus combination, using Clallam Transit Route 14 toward Forks, to ride to the Sol Duc hot springs in the Sol Duc Valley on Sol Duc Road, or you may choose to bike Lake Crescent, which are both great options for Olympic National Park things to do.
Transit from Port Angeles (except on Sundays)
The number of Olympic Peninsula and Olympic National Park things to do without a car expands greatly if you use Clallam Transit Route 20 in Port Angeles, Clallam Transit Route 14 west towards Forks, and Clallam Transit Route 30 east towards Sequim.
Olympic National Park Visitor's Center and Port Angeles Fine Arts
Lake Crescent and Marymere Falls in Olympic National Park
Forks, Sol Duc, and Lake Crescent Portion of the Discovery Trail
La Push and Olympic National Park coastal beaches
Neah Bay and the Makah Museum
Clallam Transit buses originate at the Gateway Transit Center at 123 E Front Street Port Angeles, WA 98362. Bring small bills and quarters as drivers can not make change. Buses come equipped with a bike rack (most have space for 3 bikes).
IMPORTANT NOTE: Clallam Transit does NOT offer Sunday service (with the exception of the Strait Shot that services Seattle through the Bainbridge Island Ferry every day of the week), service on most nationally-recognized holidays, and there is reduced service on Saturdays.
Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, Webster Woods, and the Olympic National Park Visitor Center
The downtown Port Angeles Visitor Center can be confused with the Olympic National Park Visitor Center located uphill of the intersection of Race Street and Lauridsen Boulevard, at 3002 Mount Angeles Road, Port Angeles, WA 98362. Using the Clallam Transit Route 20 College bus, you will be directed to a stop that is only a few blocks from either destination. Be sure to describe to the Clallam Transit driver exactly where you want to go when you get on the bus and they can help you with the best stops for one or both locations.
The Peabody Creek trail provides a hiking trail and is adjacent to the Olympic National Park Visitor’s Center. Webster Woods provides a walking trail in order to observe outdoor art at the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center. The Fine Arts Center is a Port Angeles attraction located at 1203 E Lauridsen Blvd, Port Angeles, WA 98362. The Arts Center also has an indoor portion. You can walk from the Fine Arts Center to the Visitor's Center and the distance is .6 miles (1 km) one-way. At the end of your visit, you may choose to walk downhill to the Olympic Discovery Trail as accessed from Francis Street and then west to downtown Port Angeles.
Lake Crescent, Marymere Falls, Storm King, and Barnes Creek
The Clallam Transit Route 14 Forks bus originates from the Gateway Transit Center in downtown Port Angeles and has a stop at Barnes Point on Highway 101 on Lake Crescent, which is only a .5 hour drive one-way. When you depart from the bus, you will either be dropped off on Lake Crescent Road (at the 4-way stop sign take a right to the Marymere Falls trailhead) or a hiking trail near the Barnes Creek overpass (upstream on Barnes Creek leads to the Marymere Falls trail and downstream on Barnes Creek leads to the Lake Crescent Lodge).
You can also hike portions of Storm King or the Barnes Creek trail that are signed from the more popular Marymere Falls trail. The Marymere Falls Trail is about 1.5 mile (2.5 km) one-way, the Barnes Creek trail branches off for about 3 miles (5 km) one-way, and Storm King trail branches off and immediately starts uphill for about 4 miles (6 km) one-way and has an elevation change of 1700 ft (320 m).
The Lake Crescent Lodge is a popular Olympic National Park attraction located at 416 Lake Crescent Rd, Port Angeles, WA 98363. This Olympic National Park lodge often has a toasty fire on cool days, bathrooms, full bar and restaurant and is open from roughly May to New Years Day. Barnes Creek on Lake Crescent is the most accessible hiking destination when considering Olympic National Park things to do on foot.
Sol Duc, Forks and Twilight
If you take Clallam Transit Route 14 bus to Forks with a bike, you may disembark the bus at the road to Sol Duc on highway 101. On the north side of highway 101, where the bus would pull over for Sol Duc road if traveling west, you can alternatively access the Olympic Discovery Trail. If you head east, back down towards Lake Crescent, you have an amazing paved bike trail that uses the former Spruce Railroad line that hugs the north side of Lake Crescent and extends about 10 miles (16 km) one-way. If you head further west, you can access some of the newest stretches of the Discovery Trail, getting you closer and closer to Forks and eventually the famous wild coastal beaches of La Push.
The Sol Duc road is one of the most scenic of Olympic National Park roads because you remain inside the border of the park for almost the entire length. Huge old growth conifers abound as well as views of the beautiful Sol Duc river, and a number of pull-outs allow for safe areas to break and have a picnic. You can also continue on to Sol Duc falls which is only another 2 miles (3 sm) one-way up the Sol Duc Road and about a 1 mile (2 km) one-way walk from trailhead parking area. You may alternatively choose to park your bike at the hot springs resort and take the Lover's Lane trail to the Sol Duc Falls and back, which is about 3 miles (5 km) one-way.
If you instead look to the south side of highway 101 when the bus pull over for Sol Duc road, you can venture on an uphill bike ride to the Sol Duc resort that is 11 miles (18 km) one-way. Although the road is windy and often does not have a shoulder, the road also has a low speed limit.
La Push, First Beach, Second Beach, Third Beach, and Rialto Beach
When considering Oympic National Park things to do without a car, you don’t want to miss access to the wild Olympic coastline, famous for its huge old-growth beach logs, impressive headlands, and sea stacks teeming with marine life. When you take the Clallam Transit Route 14 Forks bus out of the Gateway Transit Center in Port Angeles to its conclusion in Forks, you can continue on to La Push, Washington. From the Forks Transit Center, you will transfer to the Quileute Community Shuttle. If you plan your buses appropriately and get an early start (5:50 AM for example), you may visit First and Second Beach as a day trip.
The Quileute River mouth, seen best from First Beach, is an excellent location to observe marine mammals like sea lions and Gray Whales as well as Bald Eagles. There is a nice paved trail from First Beach to the Second Beach trailhead (separate from the road), which is an excellent beach for tidepool exploration during a low tide. Once you reach the Second Beach trailhead, which is about 1 mile (2 km) one-way from the Oceanside Resort on a paved trail, the hike to Second Beach involves another 1 mile (2 km) one-way forested path.
You could also choose to spend a night in La Push at the Quileute Oceanside Resort at 330 Ocean Drive La Push, WA 98350, which is located directly on First Beach. Lonesome Creek Store is a small convenience store next door at 490 Ocean Dr La Push, WA 98350. If spending the night, you might want to consider bringing your own food as the cabins have full kitchens.
You can use the Quileute Community Shuttle to further access the Third Beach trailhead, which provides a longer hike of about 2 miles (3 km) one-way through coastal forest out to Third beach and continuous Olympic National Park coastal hiking trails that continue south. Rialto Beach is on the opposite side of the mouth of the Quileute River as First Beach.
If you bring a bike on the bus with you, you could depart at Three Rivers before you reach La Push and bike 5 miles (8 km) one-way on the shoulder of Mora Road. However, each beach is stunning and has huge beach logs, offshore islands, and a long stretch of beach for walking barefoot during fine weather.
Neah Bay, Makah Museum, Hobuck Beach, and Cape Flattery
When further considering Olympic Peninsula things to do by bike or on foot, an option that allows for outstanding native cultural education is a visit to Neah Bay, Washington. You again take Clallam Transit Route 14 Forks bus out of the Gateway Transit Center in Port Angeles.
However, you may or may not continue to the Forks Transit Center as a closer transfer point is in Sappho, Washington. Keep in mind there is just an outhouse, parking lot, and covered bench at the Sappho stop. You will transfer to the Clallam Transit Route 16 Clallam Bay bus at either Sappho or the Forks Transit Station. Due to the distance you will be traveling from Port Angeles and the sparse bus service, it is prudent to spend at least one night in Neah Bay at the Cape Resort at 1510 Bayview Ave, Neah Bay, WA 98357.
Neah Bay is similar to Port Angeles in that it is located in a harbor so you have to travel farther to Hobuck Beach in order to experience the famous wild Olympic coastline. However, there is more tourist infrastructure in Neah Bay when compared to La Push, Washington. The main attraction in Neah Bay that is within walking distance from the Cape Resort is the Makah Museum at 1880 Bayview Ave, Neah Bay, WA 98357, open daily from 10 AM to 5 PM. The Makah museum houses amazing artifacts from a landslide at Ozette, one of the five former Makah village sites, and is considered by some to be the Pompeii of North America. Makah Museum guided tours leave from the Makah Museum to Ozette, Hobuck Beach, and Cape Flattery.
When walking the shoreline and Neah Bay marina, it is not uncommon to observe numerous Bald Eagles as well as marine mammals like California Sea Lions and Gray Whales. Another popular activity out of Neah Bay includes fishing or pelagic birding charters. Neah Bay is home to outstanding bird diversity, especially during spring and fall bird migration, and is therefore a must see for Olympic Peninsula birds.
If you are open to a bus/bike combination, this would allow you access to Hobuck Beach, which is a 3 mile (5 km) one-way ride, and Cape Flattery, which is an 8 miles (13 km) one-way ride from Neah Bay. Although you are biking on the shoulder of roads, quite a few local people are also on bikes. Be prepared for variable weather, including rain, and bring a map because not all roads are well marked.
The Clallam Transit Route 30 Commuter bus that originates from the Gateway Transit Center in downtown Port Angeles, takes you to the Sequim Transit Center in downtown Sequim. To reach Port Townsend, you will continue on the Jefferson Transit Route 8 bus, which has much fewer daily runs. However, with an early start, you can still make this a day trip from Port Angeles.
The terminus for Jefferson Route 8 is at the Haines Park in Ride, which is not in downtown Port Townsend. However, the Port Townsend Visitor Center at 440 12th St, Port Townsend, WA 98368 is next door. The Rose Theatre at 235 Taylor St, Port Townsend, WA 98368 features excellent documentaries and independent films. With regards to things to do, Port Townsend boasts too many great restaurants, pubs, and shops to list here and they are located both downtown and uptown. You may choose to take the Port Townsend ferry as a foot passenger to Coopville on Whidbey Island (look for birds on the way, great alcids!) and then walk around Fort Casey State Park.
If you bring your passport with you on your travels (and, for international travelers, meet visa requirements), you may take a ferry to Victoria from downtown Port Angeles. The Blackball Ferry Terminal at 101 E Railroad Ave, Port Angeles, WA 98362, is across from the Gateway Transit Center. You may board the Coho Ferry as a foot passenger or with a bicycle.
The Blackball Ferry Terminal in Victoria is at 430 Belleville St, Victoria, BC V8V 1W9, Canada. Keep in mind that the ferry-ride is 1.5 hours one-way so visiting more distant locations on the Olympic Peninsula by Clallam Transit is a comparable journey time-wise. You can visit the Port Angeles Victoria Tourist Bureau for ideas of things to do and it is located next to the Port Angeles Visitor Center at 115 E Railroad Ave, Port Angeles, WA 98362.
The Royal BC Museum at 675 Belleville St, Victoria, BC V8W 9W2, Canada highlights natural and cultural history. Noon tea time is taken quite seriously in Victoria, with some tea rooms requesting that you make a reservation. You can get more information about things to do in Victoria at Tourism Victoria, which is nearby at 812 Wharf St, Victoria, BC V8W 1T3, Canada.
Lodging without Wheels: Downtown Port Angeles Lodging
Port Angeles Hotel Name(s) Downtown Address Information about Hotel Nearby Grocery Store(s) with Deli and Coffee Nearby Coffee Shop(s) Nearby Downtown Port Angeles Restaurant(s)
Red Lion Hotel 221 N Lincoln St, Port Angeles, WA 98362 on waterfront, some rooms have views, large hotel, space for conventions Safeway (uphill) or Country Aire Natural Foods Bada Bean NW or Easy Street Coffee and Teahouse Crabhouse (attached to Red Lion) or your choice of Thai, Crepes, or Bistro across the street
Port Angeles Inn and Quality Inn Uptown (hotels are adjacent) 101 and 111 E 2nd St, Port Angeles, WA 98362 both hotels are perched above downtown with a nearby pedestrian stairway or ramp access to downtown, both are small and quiet, some rooms have views Country Aire Natural Foods (downtown) or Safeway Bada Bean NW (downtown) or Bella Rosa Many nearby downtown options, especially if you can navigate the stairs
Meals without Wheels: Downtown Port Angeles Restaurants
The Strait Slice Pizza, 121 W 1st St, Port Angeles, WA 98362, Lunch and Dinner (Excellent!)
First Street Haven, 107 E 1st St, Port Angeles, WA 98362, Breakfast and Brunch, Baked Goods (Cinnamon Rolls!)
Spruce, 128 E Front St, Port Angeles, WA 98362, Dinner, Vegetarian Options and Locally-Sourced (Best Grilled Cheese!)
New Day Eatery, 102 W Front St, Port Angeles, WA 98362, Breakfast and Lunch, Gluten-Free, Vegan, and Vegetarian Options
Turnip the Beet, 130 E Front Street, Port Angeles, WA 98362, Lunch and Dinner, Locally-Sourced
Kokopeli Grill and Coyote BBQ Pub, 201 & 203 E Front St, Port Angeles, WA 98362, Lunch and Dinner, Seafood and Steakhouse
Bella Italia, 118 E 1st St, Port Angeles, WA 98362, Dinner, Italian Bistro
Michael's Seafood and Steakhouse, 117 E 1st St, Port Angeles, WA 98362, Dinner, Family-Friendly
Jasmine Bistro, 222 N Lincoln St, Port Angeles, WA 98362, Lunch and Dinner, Thai
Next Door Gastropub, 113 W 1st St, Port Angeles, WA 98362, Lunch and Dinner, Pub and Restaurant
La Belle Creperie, 222 N Lincoln St, Port Angeles, WA 98362, Breakfast and Lunch, French
DownRigger's Waterfront Restaurant, The Landing Mall, 115 E Railroad Ave, Port Angeles, WA 98362, Lunch and Dinner, Seafood
H2O Waterfront Bistro, 222 N Lincoln St, Port Angeles, WA 98362, Lunch and Dinner, Pub-Style Food
Dynasty Chinese, 136 E 1st St, Port Angeles, WA 98362, Lunch and Dinner, Chinese
Crabhouse Red Lion Hotel Port Angeles, 221 N Lincoln St, Port Angeles, WA 98362, All Meals, Seafood
Smugglers Landing Restaurant, The Landing Mall, 115 E Railroad Ave, Port Angeles, WA 98362, All Meals, Seafood
Port Angeles, Seattle, and Forks, Washington climate citation
Western Regional Climate Center (Accessed February 22, 2014).
Port Angeles Things to Do on the Olympic Peninsula
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USSDA captain, Lenius, commits to play at St. Louis University
7.14.14– FC Wisconsin Nationals is pleased to announce the first commitment for next year’s seniors with USSDA center midfielder Brady Lenius committing to St. Louis University. Brady is the first incoming senior who has committed to play at the next level.
“They are a top-level team,” said Lenius. “They have two players on the national team right now and they said their program has produced more professional players than any other in the country. I’ve always had a dream of playing professionally, so hopefully this will help.”
St Louis won the regular season championship last year for the Atlantic 10 finishing 7-0-2 in conference while placing eight players on All Conference Teams.
Lenius recently made the commitment to what was his top choice to play at the next level. “Brady is an incredibly hard working player, with a great attitude, great work rate and outstanding leadership. His level of play has improved tremendously over the past year. His soccer IQ has always been quite good but now he has sharpened his skills technically and has been forced to see and play the game faster. He has adjusted tremendously and his hard work has paid off. We are thrilled he has committed to his top choice and look forward to another superb year from him to help lead him into the 2015-2016 Billiken season” said USSDA Director Ben Shepherd.
Below is the most recent write from the Green Bay Press Gazette.
http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/story/news/local/door-county/sports/2014/07/12/soccer-player-commits-top-level-team/12561547/
Congratulations to Brady! Well deserved! Hard work pays off!
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Castellated House
This Elegant Period Property built around 1800 features Finely Carved Sandstone Castellations (means "having battlements"), but though it has several connections to war I doubt it has ever repelled boarders!
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FLUDHA'S HISTORY
Fludha was originally built around 1800. This fine stone "Mansion House" with its Castleations and wonderful view has a rich history dating right back to the 1600's!
The Stewartry Museum in Kirkcudbright holds on record a document entitled "The House That Forgot Its Name" To download this document in PDF format please click here it tells the story of how Fludha came into being and how it got its strange name.
Local Historian Mr Bruce Smith has spent a lot of time and effort researching Fludha's ancient and more modern history. His detailed document can be downloaded here.
Flowerdew or Fludha?
This is not intended to be a precise history, many books with various and differing accounts of events have been written on the subject of the early American Colonists. I have just tried to piece together snippets in order to chart the Origin of "Fludha".
Temperance Flowerdew
Temperance Flowerdew of Hethersett, Norfolk, England had to survive a hurricane at sea and eat rats for dinner, before arriving in Jamestown Virginia onboard the "Falcon" in August 1609 to become one of the very first womem to colonise America, she arrived just in time for the winter famine that followed. She lived through that harrowing winter, called the “Starving Time,” when over 80 percent of Jamestown’s residents died of sickness, disease, or starvation.
In 1613, Temperance married Captain George Yeardley. He became one of the wealthiest men in Virginia. The couple had three children: Elizabeth in 1615, Argoll in 1617, and Francis in 1620.
In 1616, George Yeardley was designated Deputy-Governor of Virginia. He negotiated an agreement with the Chickahominy Indians that secured food and brought peace to the colonists for two years. His term ended in 1617.
The couple traveled to England, where George was knighted at Newmarket in November 1618. Six days later he was commissioned Governor of Virginia. He was granted 300 acres of land to help defer the cost of maintaining himself as governor.
Temperance returned to Jamestown with her husband, Sir George Yeardley, Governor of Virginia. He also owned a private plantation of 1000 acres on the south side of the James River, which he named Flowerdew Hundred, in honor of his wife, Lady Yeardley. With a population of about thirty, the plantation was economically successful with thousands of pounds of tobacco produced along with corn, fish, and livestock.
Flowerdew Hundred
The plantation survived the Indian massacre of 1622 with only six deaths, remaining an active and fortified private plantation unlike many others in the area, such as the Citie of Henricus and Martin's Hundred, that were abandoned. The first windmill erected in English North America was built at Flowerdew Hundred by 1621, and was an English post mill.
In 1624, Abraham Piersey, Cape Merchant of the Virginia Company, purchased Flowerdew Hundred renaming it Piersey's Hundred. Piersey's Stone House was the first home with a permanent foundation in the colony. The 1624 Muster lists approximately sixty occupants at the settlement, including some of the first Africans in Virginia.
Flower de Hundred
The plantation changed hands and name over the next two centuries. Joshua Poythress aquired the land and property in 1725 . His grand daughter Susanna married David Maitland (of the Barcaple estate in Dumfries and Galloway Scotland) in Prince George, Virginia in 1788
Suposition
We can only speculate on the influences over the years, and the colonial accent, which altered the name Flowerdew to Fleur Dieu (result of French influence) Flourdieu, Flor de, Fleur de and finally, in Scotland to "Fludha".
How the name came back to Scotland
David Maitland and Susanna Poythress were married in Prince George, Virginia in 1788. Their 2nd daughter, "Elizabeth Agnes Maitland" (who became known as "Betsy") was only 5 or 6 years old when her mother Susanna died at 33 years old, probably after giving birth to her third daughter, "Susanna", in Petersburg. Another daughter "Mary Currie", had died in 1795. One can only speculate on when and why David Maitland brought his two surviving daughter’s home to Barcaple. His father had died in April 1792 and he inherited the estate.
Perhaps he had been back to Barcaple before his father died because a daughter "Penelope Maitland", was born to Margaret Manson, domestic servant at Barcaple, circa 1790. There is no record of her baptism but on her death certificate her father is "reputed" to be David Maitland of Barcaple, although it is not clear whether that would have been the father or the son. Did David the younger get Margaret Manson pregnant and leave for Virginia.
Another story/theory is that the illegitimate offspring of David Maitland posed such a threat to the very religous puritanical and powerful Poythress dynasty in America that a sum of £500 (Equiv to approx £75,000 in todays money) was despatched here for the benefit of Miss Betsy with the condition that she could never marry and thus would be unable to claim for any further American inheritance. It could have been this money that was used to buy and have Fludha built/converted into the fine castellated house we see today which still has several clues in its architecture to its Plantation ancestry!!
Local Marriage
After returning to Barcaple in Kirkudbrightshire, David married Grace Gordon of Cambleton, at Twynholm and in 1807 his only son Alexander was born. None of children married. David died in 1838 and Miss Betsy and her stepmother Grace Gordon, were listed as living at Fludha in the 1841 census. Miss Betsy sold Barcaple to one of her Maitland cousins in 1848 and continued to live here in her house on a hill facing south over a bend in the river which, no doubt remembering her American roots she had named Fludha, after the original home of her American grandparents, a house also situated on a hill facing south over a bend in the river.
Sadly Fludha was split into two apartments in the 1960 and lost some or all of its glamour
During 2006/7/8 Christine and Stephen Laycock strove to give Fludha back some of its original elegance whilst at the same time updating, remodelling and extending the property to convert it into the 5 Star residence / Guest House it is today
And so, a name that left England in 1620 and whch graced a plantation in Virginia for hundreds of years then came back to Scotland in the nineteenth century could once again be restored to a house that had forgottoen its name! But, to be honest, Fludha sounds much more intriguing - it really does have a rich history!
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As much as I wanted to leave my beloved franchise after the third installment, the fanboy in me wouldn't allow it .
With 2007 Pulitzer Prize award winning David Lindsay-Abaire all but on-board to be the script writer, I thought it was time to start the thread. There must be another fan or two on the Round Table that wants this to succeed, right?
So, is MJ altogether being dumped from 4 & 5?
http://www.comicbookmovie.com/spider-man_movies/spider-man_4/news/?a=5118&t=Dunst_Dumped_for_Spider-Man_4__5
Obviously, Spider-Man director Sam Raimi has sensed our fear and he wants to calm us all down the best way he can - by dumping Dunst. Now, if he develops Gwen Stacy, played by actress Bryce Dallas Howard, into Petey's love interest, he'll start to win us back.
I'm still disappointed by the Green Goblin's death in the franchise's inception, because it ruined the possibility of seeing the defining moment of Spiderman, the death of Gwen, on the big screen. But if they do indeed drop MJ, and start developing Gwen in any capacity, I'll be all for it. I don't know how they'd spin it, but Gwen is sure a favorite of mine.
May of 2011 is a ways off, but believing Sam is going to deliver with this keeps this particular fanboy's heart pumping.
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when Spiderman 3 came out Tobey and Dunst were all like "we don't want to make any more". So, why is Mr. Seasbiscuit signed onto this?
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Because he's a bad actor who can't get other work?
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Quote from: GregMcduck on November 04, 2008, 05:52:08 AM
he's not a bad actor, though. Unless he's gotten lazy, that I would believe
I am not really itching for this to happen.
After TDN,IM,and TIH this year kind of raised the bar for superhero movies to the point where I don't really enjoy the Spiderman movies any more.
The only one I can watch now is SM2 and I don't think there are any villains left alive that will be as good as Doc Ock and the Green Gobin.
They should have just sent them to a Shield prison somewhere that they could ecsape from.
I really wish Marvel would reboot Spiderman.
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What?! There are plenty of villains left to put in SM4!
Eh? Eh?
But yeah, they should stop at three. Don't think a reboot is a good idea at all, though.
Quote from: Chaos on November 04, 2008, 05:53:58 AM
Oh yeah, something in the ballpark of 50 million plus profit shares. Ka-ching.
Quote from: Doctor Who? on November 04, 2008, 06:23:52 PM
oot Spiderman.
I fail. I've yet to see TDN, IM, and TIH. When it comes to superheroes, my quota is met w/ Buffy and Spiderman.
Say wha?
It's much too early to reboot, and in Sam, I trust.
Sam isn't the problem (even though he kind of is). The problem is that it's not actually Marvel. They've done extremely well for themselves since taking the movies back in house. But they don't own the movie rights to Spiderman, so they can't do anything with it except slap their name on whatever the studio comes up with.
None of the Spiderman movies were good movies. Frankly, none of them were even good COMIC movies (which is measured on a different scale than regular movies).
Hulk was decent. Iron Man was really good. TDK, though not Marvel, was fucking incredible. These are the movies that have set the bar. No sequel to a crappily executed franchise is going to come anywhere CLOSE to the bar. But it's way too soon for a reboot (frankly I'm astonished that Hulk managed to be as good as it was, considering the previous abortion of a film). What Marvel needs to do is buy the rights back, drop the franchise entirely for 3-4 years, and then reboot it, and do it RIGHT. No more of this sniveling, whiney bullshit. And for the love of god, cast a starring female who can ACT.
I think Kraven would come off as gay in live action and it would be the most riffable thing ever,and they kind off gave doc ock the Lizard's background in SM2 so he's pretty much out.
I think they should do a reboot in five years and when they get to Vemon they shouldn't be afraid to go for an R rating so they can do him right.
Also NO CRYING!
Something tells me Pulitzer-winning and Spider-Man do not a happy couple make. There was always too much drama in the series. Being better written drama wouldn't have made it fit the movies more. It would just make them less like comic book movies.
Although this guy wrote Robots and the High Fidelity and Shrek musicals, so it's not like he doesn't know how to produce cheese.
Javier Bardem playing Kraven as an evil mix of The Crocodile Hunter/Dog the Bounty hunter would rule.
Quote from: Chaos on November 04, 2008, 08:18:33 PM
I think Spidey 2 is a great movie.
Spidey 2 is ass. I really don't see what's wrong with the first one, other than it leading to the sequels. At least the dude only cried when his uncle croaked.
RobtheBarbarian
Snarl!
Even though it's a belief that only brings me conflict, I agree. I couldn't stand Spidey 2.
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AL-ASHA, Saudi Arabia – A new rehabilitation and long-term care facility is in the works from Al Moosa Medical Group as a part of the group’s mission to expand their influence across the region in an effort to address a need for focused rehabilitation and long-term care hospitals.
The design of the roughly 645,834-square-foot facility was recently unveiled by Malek Al Moosa, the CEO of Al Moosa Medical Group.
The 24-bed unit will offer an efficient and functional treatment facility, serving as a rehabilitative and long-term care oasis in the region to provide rehabilitation programs for sports injuries, bone injuries for adults and children, spinal injuries, and neural and brain injuries.
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The college-admissions process is just around the corner — here’s how to navigate it amid the coronavirus
As COVID-19 disrupts schools and testing, ‘soft’ skills count more
By Howard Gold, MarketWatch
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Parents nationwide are suffering high anxiety about the coming school year. COVID-19 has caused many school districts to go exclusively remote. For students, parents, educators and political leaders, this has become one hot mess.
It’s even more complicated for rising high school seniors, now in the home stretch of the college-admissions process. This is usually when they polish off their personal statements, make one last push for first-semester grades, and squeeze in a couple more seatings for standardized tests, all to buff their college resumes to a high sheen.
COVID-19 has put the kibosh on all that. Like high schools, many colleges are going remote, so there go those final in-person college tours. Personal interviews with alumni will now be done remotely. The College Board (which administers the SAT) and the ACT are scheduling tests for the fall, but many colleges already have announced admissions will be test-optional this year. These include the entire Ivy League, Pomona, Rice, even Caltech and MIT. (See a list here .) Some schools such as Indiana University are becoming test-optional permanently. (We’ll devote a future column to testing.)
So, with a critical part of college-admissions criteria — and a part parents can control if they have the bucks to pour into test prep — up in the air, and applications for early admissions beginning in mid-October, what should families do to get a leg up in this very confusing year?
Grades are key
I reached out to Daniel Santos, chief executive officer of Prepory , a college and career consulting firm based in Davie, Florida, just north of Miami. Prepory serves an ethnically and economically diverse clientele in South Florida, as well as in the Northeast and California. The firm has a proprietary, week-by-week pre-college plan for students from the first day of high school through late in senior year.
But as the poet said, the best-laid plans of mice and men — well, this year, they’ve gone off the rails. So, Santos urges students to focus on several key things, such as maintaining good grades, which may be the only reliable quantitative indicator schools can rely on, so will weigh even more heavily this year.
First of all, he says, this year the college list is more important than ever, because families need to have a deeper knowledge of the schools to which the student is applying. “Right now, it’s really important to be informed on the school that your student is applying to specifically,” Santos told me. “Are they accepting the SAT [or] ACT? If students do not submit the ACT or SAT, are they required to submit additional essays?”
“Don’t be afraid of contacting the admissions counselors at the schools you’re applying to as a way of demonstrating [your] interest,” Santos said. “Send an email to the admissions counselor or call the admissions office to ask them any questions on how their application process has changed and how you as an applicant can better navigate it now.”
Second, work extra hard on essays and personal statements, because they’re going to count more. Students at competitive public and private high schools already may have done a rough draft of their personal statements, but everyone else should use the rest of the summer to put one together and then work closely with school counselors or outside consultants to make it really stand out.
“Students should be spending a lot of time preparing their personal statements, reviewing, editing, requesting feedback from their counselors, collaborating with other teachers to really make sure that they’re presenting the best version of themselves,” said Santos.
‘Brag sheet’
Third, work closely with high school teachers and college counselors whose recommendations and relationships with colleges may play an outsized role this year. “If possible, provide your teacher or your counselor with a ‘brag sheet’ to make sure that they’re writing as strong a letter of recommendation as they can,” he said.
Finally, in a year when the “soft” side of the admissions process matters more, “it looks like schools are really going to be relying on extracurricular involvement,” said Santos. “They’re really looking into that more deeply than they have in years past because they aren’t able to look at SAT and ACT scores.”
By 12th grade, it may be a bit late to suddenly run for class president or be elected captain of an athletic team that’s not playing a schedule. And since school itself may not happen, neither will many clubs or after-school activities.
That’s why Santos advises students to launch independent research to show deep knowledge of a topic that interests them or social-service projects that “demonstrate extracurricular involvement in a contribution to the community while still obviously adhering to social distancing guidelines,” he said.
COVID-19 has changed everything about college admissions. This year, essays matter, relationships matter, extracurriculars matter more than ever. And, more than ever, students and parents must deal with it on their own.
Howard R. Gold is a MarketWatch columnist. Follow him on Twitter @howardrgold. No-Nonsense College appears once a month.
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I suppose like many, my romance with sound started when I was a youngster. Not only was I interested in music, playing accordion and keyboards, but I was always active with high school musical ensembles. I also had an early mono ‘hi-fi’ and a little tape recorder. Anytime I found another speaker laying around I’d stick it in a shoebox and hot wire it into my hi-fi. My theory then was ‘more is better’…I’m pretty sure it all sound horrid as there were speakers strung out all over my bedroom. It was really quite amazing what you could do with a few cardboard boxes and some lamp cord. I could also be frequently found in my closet with the microphone taped to a music stand, trying to think of something interesting to say so I could discover how to record my voice.
When I was studying at Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, California, near the end of my studies there was a Motion Picture Unit. I quickly gravitated to the ‘sound booth’ and spent endless hours messing around and trying, not only to figure out how to make things work, but constantly sorting and cleaning trying to create a more efficient department.
When I returned to Minneapolis I found a job at KTCA, the Twin Cities first Educational Television station and the beginning of the American PBS system. Once again I found myself in the sound department ‘messing about’ with the gear. After I left KTCA I got a job with Empire Photosound in Minneapolis as a photographer. Empire Photosound did industrial motion pictures and also produced corporate presentations. They also had a Sound Department so guess where I could always be found? I ended up doing all of their Sound Design, long before that term had been invented. As it happened another recoding company left their gear in the Empire Photosound Studio. I couldn’t leave my hands off it and before anyone knew what was happening, I was running cables down the hall and up the stairs so I could record various Jazz musicians and Folk ensembles on their large shooting stage. Obviously a pattern was starting to emerge!
Ultimately I left Empire Photosound to work as the recording engineer for what was, as I remember, called Gaiety Recording. They had a great Ampex 351-2 in road cases plus a collection of vintage valve microphones that people would kill for today. Most of the work they did was recording High School Choirs and Bands for fund raising LP’s. I cut my baby teeth on location recording, I was young and strong and had an insatiable appetite for learning the craft.
When my time in Minneapolis had run it’s course I threw everything I owned in my car and headed back to California with the dream of observing a really Hollywood recording session. As it turned out I had an acquaintance who worked for United and Western Studios in Hollywood. I put my job application in. At that time they used a written test created by Bill Putnam. Apparently I had, mostly on my own, learned enough to have outranked many of the staff engineers working for the company at the time. They hired me and had me doing tape copies for a few weeks in Hollywood and then they shipped me off to San Francisco to their Coast Recording Studio facility, which was in an old Movie Theatre, upstairs of the first topless bar in the country. Oh…the stories I could tell of paddy wagons and arrests of buxom waitresses clutching table cloths to their ample bosoms. Apparently they had started a Business Man’s Luncheon featuring topless waitresses so there were more than a few surprise interruptions to our sessions. But I digress…this was also when the San Francisco music scene was starting to explode so I had the opportunity to work with the like of Bobby Freeman, The Beau Brummels, Sly Stone (then Sylvester Stuart, radio DJ), The Great Society (The Jefferson Airplane), The Tiki’s (Harpers Bizarre) as well of heaps and heaps of demos and singles, many of which I still have stashed on my library as lacquer acetates references.
To cut to the end of this story, as you have probably figured out I was, for the most, part self taught. I gobbled up any articles I could find about recording, examining any photographs of sessions I get my hands on in the greatest of detail, which developed a skill I have to this day. A couple of minutes in a studio and I can draw up the studio set-up including the microphones used and their placement to about 90% accuracy (I can’t count how many times I’ve done that and in most cases the engineer, producer and artist were never aware what I was up to). I had the great opportunity of learning by doing, but in those days it was so much easier than it is today. You had to work with one track while live mixing a final result directly to tape with, perhaps, a 12 input mixer at the most. I had to learn to mix, to control my levels and to know what a VU meter meant. In those early days at Coast Recorders, after the mix I headed directly in to the Mastering Room to cut a lacquer reference. If anything was wrong with the mix I discovered it pretty fast and frequently quite painfully. I didn’t have individual channel EQ and compressors were very limited. Virtually everything had to be patched in as outboard gear. It was, in retrospect, a amazing way to learn…start simple and grow along with the opportunities and the technology.
I really didn’t have any mentors, as such, but I had good ears and I listened closely to the work of great talents such as the legendary RCA classical engineer Lewis W. Layton and the ever amazing Al Schmidt. I tried to figure out what they were doing and experimented until I discovered my own ‘take’ on what I had heard them do. If you do that for long enough, work hard enough and have enough passion, in time as you hone your skills, you will develop your own ‘voice’ as a recording engineer.
It wasn’t long before I found myself caught up in a sea change of engineers. Up until that point music engineers were mostly from the broadcast industry. They were generally older, male, wore loud Hawaiian shirts, had pencil protectors in their bulging pockets and smoked cigars. All of a sudden there appeared a new bred of engineers who were the same age as the artists, traveled in the same social circles, shared their politics and social consciousness. We were brothers and sisters of the same tribe, a new order of the arts, as it were. I’m proud to say that I was amongst the first of that group. I was the ‘house hippy’ and youngest staff mixer ever for RCA in Hollywood before I went back to United and Western Studios. I had long hair, a beard, wore blue jeans, worked in moccasins and of course, smoked the evil weed.
It was the start of a new music, a new social order, a new type of artists and I had the great good fortune of having a front and centre ticket to the revolution. I also had the great privilege of playing a small, but important supporting role in the new musical drama. Those were amazing, heady and unforgettable days. It was a huge party, everyone was making money and we were all having a ball making music with our closest friends.
When did you first use the Ampex 351 Machine?
Somehow Ampex tape recorders have been part of my life from the very beginning of my professional sound career. Various forms of the 351 mono machines were in use when I started in Industrial Film Sound production in Minneapolis in the 1960’s. Later, as I moved into music, I was working with a organization that owned a Ampex 351-2 in portable cases that I dragged everywhere as we primarily did location recording. When it wasn’t on the road it lived on my living room floor hooked up to my home stereo. There was also a rather remarkable, perhaps entirely forgotten little Ampex that was actually quite lightweight and portable called the 600 series. I used a 601-2 extensively, even recording the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra conducted by Skitch Henderson with a pair of Sony C-37 Valve Microphones. It was a truly amazing sounding little machine.
As I continued through the early days of my career with Coast Recorders in San Francisco and eventually United and Western Recorders in Hollywood during the great Bill Putnam days…all we used were Ampex’s. Of course there was always the great Ampex 300 ½” 3 Track machine that launched multi-track recording. I still remember my first encounter with multi-track recording. I was working at Coast Recorders in San Francisco when Tommy ‘Snuff’ Garrett (a very successful LA record producer) booked a session for Gary Lewis (and the Playboys). He arrived with some backing tracks on three track 1/2” tape that he had recorded in LA and we were doing a vocal session. Two channels had the tracks from LA and one track was blank. Now I had seen the SelSync controls on the machine and knew what they were supposed to do, but I had never actually used them. Once we were set up Snuff asked me to punch in on the open track to record Gary’s vocal. I was terrified that I’d erase his pre-recorded tracks and flat-out refused to do the first punch (what a nit-wit he must have thought I was). I made him do it and watched in amazement as it worked. It was one of those seminal moments when your entire life changes in a heartbeat!
At United and Western Recorders we extensively used the 351-2 ¼” (Stereo) and 351-4 ½”(Four Track without any SelSync) machines, which I used when I did the live recording of the Bobby Darin Album “Dr. Doolittle” and Judy Collins “Wildflowers” in Western Recorders amazing Studio One. I also had a personal 351-2 in portable cases at my home, connected to my Koss Acoustech Model XI Electrostatic loudspeakers (which are still alive and still sound amazing) which I used for editing and quality control when I was Senior Mixer and Chief Engineer for Elektra Records.
What do you think makes it sound so special?
Valves and magnetic tape! Most of all, they are musical…I think that one word best sums up the sound of the 351 tape machine. The Ampex 351 was also the last of the great valve (tube) analogue tape recorders. After the Ampex 351 along came solid state machines from Ampex like the AG-440 and as others jumped on the band wagon, in America, we saw solid state machines from Studer, 3M, Stephens, MCI, Scully and more.
The newer solid state machines eventually replaced the valve Ampex machines because they were more reliable, easier to work on and align, and more stable. Circuit boards were also appearing on the newer Solid State machines, which made them more cost effective to operated for studios that were trying to make a living by keeping their overhead down. But those machines never sounded quite as musical as the great Ampex 351’s. Everything after that was a compromise and, on occasions, even a struggle to get sounding workable enough to call ‘musical’.
What is so important in having this model as a plug-in?
Many have tried to bridge the gap between Analogue and Digital, sometimes producing plug-ins that only seem to be able to make noise. Of course that ‘noise’ that many seem to embrace so fondly these days, was despised by those of us who used that technology on a daily basis.
What’s been missing was a plug-in that could contribute that somewhat magical musical quality attributed to analogue that was, ultimately, not only the sound of analogue magnetic tape, but also the sound of the valve (tube) electronics. The perfect piece of equipment to accomplish that was the Ampex 351 tape recorder.
Modelling all of the complex elements of the analogue magnetic valve recorded sound was complex and to be able to accurately and musically duplicate that sound, while at the same time providing all the control gained in the digital domain and still leaving some of the less desirable side effects (such as tape hiss and valve thermal noise and Wow) to be used or not, at the discretion of the artist is an amazing accomplishment!
What uses do you see for Kramer MPX plug-in?
Do you want to impart warmth, sweetness and clarity without any muddiness to your entire mix or just a element or two in your mix? Would you like to offset the harshness and clinical quality of Digital? Would you like a good and easy way to ‘knit’ your mix together? I think MPX answers those questions.
I guess that’s claiming a lot…and perhaps I’m bias by being a co-developer of MPX…but I also take great pride in having been a part of the development team for this particular product. It’s a plug-in I’ve been dreaming of for decades and I think Waves has finally accomplished what so many have tried to do and failed…and Waves have not only done it, they have done it in spades!
How will this plug-in change the way you work?
Since I always have that analogue sound print firmly in my memory I’m constantly doing everything I can to impart that musical quality to whatever I work on. In that regard MPX is going to make my life much easier. I frequently ‘hit the wall’ when I have to deal with Synthesizers or sampled instruments. Now I’ll have MPX at my disposal to take the digital edge of these sounds. Also using MPX across various sub-mixes of say, drums, percussion, vocals, keyboards, etc., will be of great value and, as an additional benefit provide significant processing efficiencies. Because each iteration of MPX can easily be tailored to provide a unique sonic ‘stamp’ appropriate for where and why I’m using it…MPX will quickly become invaluable.
I am also confident that many will finding use for MPX in Mastering or across the final bus of their mixes. Many of our Waves Beta Testing team, during their testing of MPX, have stated that, for them, they feel the sound of MPX is ‘game changing’.
What do you think makes the Kramer MPX so different from other Tape modelling Plug-ins?
Firstly it’s an Ampex and then it’s valves and from there on it’s the brilliance and technological leadership of Waves modelling techniques. I know there are other Ampex models in the pipeline from other companies, but I challenge them to equal what Waves has accomplished with MPX. Modelling all of what goes into the sound of this recording process is massively complicated and it seems, from the plugs that I currently own and those that I’ve heard so far, something has always been left out. This has been a classic case of ‘the devil is in the detail’ and that’s the part I think Waves has handled so masterfully with MPX.
Without wanting to sound immodest, I also think a company needs someone with a vivid ‘Aural Memory’ who is, not only, intimate with the original machine, but also able to communicate with the engineering team as the design process evolves.
In the course of my time working with Waves on the MPX I’ve discovered that really outstanding modelling is actually a hybrid of science, of art, perhaps a bit of luck and I’m now beginning to think there may even be some metaphysics in the mix as well.
What do you think is the key element in getting good tones from the MPX?
Upon initiation MPX is designed to provide the original Ampex sound I remember. For me that is, in and of itself, exactly what I need. All the defaults are my preferred settings with regard to Bias, Flux, Speed, Wow and Noise. This has also extended to the tape modelled (3M Scotch 207, 1 millimetre stock for a more intimate head wrap and thus a better high frequency performance) and the recording pre-emphasis curve used (NAB, the American standard for a classic American machine). Of course modelling allows you to have all the great sonics of an analogue tape machine and you can still turn all that valve thermal noise and tape hiss off (which is what I have always dream about being able to do, and now can) or if you prefer, wind the noise up. Also turning the noise up or down has no effect whatsoever on the core sound of the machine which is about Intermodulation Distortion, Harmonic Distortion, and that mysterious magnetic recording by-product called Saturation, which develops as you increase the drive level to the tape and provides another, rather unique form of compression (Rock and Rollers love this quality on drums).
And a word about meters. For those of you who are not familiar with American style VU (Volume Unit) meters I’ll like to share a few tips. I grew up in the analogue days I had to become expert at using a VU meter…it was everything to me…it was my lifeline. Firstly, 0 VU is there for a reason. The meters on MPX behave identically to the real machine which were very close to the classic Weston NU meters. 0 VU was defined by Ampex as 1% Total RMS Distortion (right out of the Ampex Manual). In the Digital World that’s actually quite a lot of distortion, but that was the analogue tape standard. So 0 VU was generally accepted as the maximum level you wanted to see on the meters. Between 0 VU and +3VU the meter scale is red, and that’s for a good reason…it’s dangerous territory and an area where you need to tread lightly.
And once you hit the ‘pin’ or ‘peg’ the meter, although it says +3, even if only for a moment, for all you know you could have gone to +1,000,000dB …because you have now gone off the scale of the meter. If you are going to go into the red it’s more acceptable, and less audible, with low frequency signals (kicks, bass, etc.), less desirable but occasionally workable for mid-frequencies (say vocals, guitars, etc.) and really risky for high-frequencies (cymbals, percussion, etc). Quick short excursions into the red or against the pin may be OK, but sustained activity in the red or on the pin is trouble.
For me, and depending on the musical genre’, I liked to see the meters ‘dance’ between say -7 to -5 and 0. For some pop music to sit between -3 and 0 is pretty normal. But don’t make the mistake of trying to ‘fill the meters up’…because that will have the same result with MPX as it would have had with the real hardware…it will add excessive amounts of distortion. Now distortion might be just what some will want and that’s OK, but a better way to get there would be to raise the Flux control or use the Link control and raise the Record Level (Link will keep you at unity gain when you adjust the Record Level).
Most importantly, use your ears! If you like what you hear, that’s great, and in the end those choices are your job. But if you want a super clean sound out of MPX you can drop the Record Level to -18 (again Link will automatically raise the Playback Level to +18) with no deterioration of the performance of MPX, and you will gain an additional 18db of dynamic range, or headroom. And don’t forget you also have a massive range of tape drive in the Flux control so the combination of the Flux control and the Record Level control (in Link) will give you a huge sonic range to play with…while all the time keeping the meters looking good!
Can you tell us a bit on the MPX modelling process with Waves?
When Waves started a hardware modelling project with Eddie Kramer, it was always their mutual intention to create a model of the original recording chain from Olympic Studios in London that Eddie used on his great recordings of Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones and Jimi Hendrix. The model of the Helios Console Channel was challenging, resulting in the Waves Kramer HLS Channel. Next was the modelling of the famous PYE compressor which was released as Waves Kramer PIE Compressor.
Missing from the ‘golden’ chain was the Ampex valve analogue tape machine that Eddie used for these recordings. Waves acquired what they believed was the right machine and set about modelling, knowing it would be difficult based on what was already on the market. As it turned out, the task was much more daunting than anticipated and Waves’ first attempt, the initial Kramer MPX, was withdrawn shortly after being introduced into testing. It turned out that this third piece of the Kramer Olympic chain was going to be the hardest.
Waves discovered (along with the guidance of some of their Beta team) that they were missing a number of things, each one extremely complicated by itself, and in total representing a huge challenge. Thanks to the guidance of Bob Ohlsson and myself, Waves were ultimately directed to the Ampex 350 Transport with Ampex 351 Valve electronics. With Bob’s help, one of these rare beasts was found in Florida owned by Eric Shilling. Eric kindly agreed to let Waves do some preliminary testing to ensure that this machine was producing the sound that both Bob and I felt Waves had missed in their first effort
With the modelling project still sounding reasonably workable, it turned out that the recording pre-emphasis curve, tape speed, tape emulsion, tape thickness, flux or level recorded on the tape, and the bias settings all greatly impacted the final result. So again Bob and I collaborated with Waves which resulted in endless discussions and tests to clarify the tape types and alignment techniques that were going to be considered for Wave’s modelling. Over time and with much experimentation, sample recordings were made that both Bob and I agreed had established a solid baseline from which to proceed. It would be these initial samples of the test recordings that would later be used for detailed comparison to ensure that each model was performing accurately.
Once again Eric Shilling came to the rescue and agreed to do the massive testing and modelling runs required to model the two primary tape speeds, a number of tape emulsions plus variations in flux and bias settings including various approaches to alignment techniques
With the modelling files in hand, Waves began the excessively complex task of creating models, not only of the variety of analogue tape recordings, but the variety of bias levels, flux levels (tape saturation) and speed settings. When Waves began evolving early stage Alpha plugs, they were painstaking submitted to subjective analysis by comparison to the original samples recorded on the original tape machine and then through feedback to the Waves development and engineering team, the models were honed. Because Waves felt they could best do their development using only one platform at a time, Waves chose to do their final development for the Macintosh, at which time Bob who primarily uses a PC, offered to take a back seat and I volunteered to take up the slack and became a more or less full-time a co-developer of MPX.
Why did you sell your Ampex 351 Tape Machine?
Dammed if I can remember! I’ve struggled to recall when and why I parted with my machine. I think I can remember still having it in the early 90’s. Perhaps it was theft, or perhaps, in the course of one of my many moves, I just decided that I was tired of lugging that machine around. The Ampex 351 was built like a tank and weighed a ton. That was fine in my early 20’s but by the time I got into my mid and later 30’s perhaps my ‘heavy old’ Ampex was just too much to cope with. They were also really hard to align (all the adjustments were inside on the top of the electronics surrounded by those really hot valves) and also being a valve machine they could be a bit temperamental. I also didn’t possess the technical skills to keep a machine like that in top condition.
That said, today I think I should have my head examined for getting rid of my Ampex. Even knowing how expensive valves are these days and how impossible it would be to find experienced technicians willing to work in the Bush in Tasmania to maintain it…I guess if I still had it I’d get immense pleasure from just polishing it and sitting and looking at it for hours and remembering ‘the days’. And perhaps if it worked good enough, I’d load it up a roll of tape and shuttle it around from time to time. I realize as I’m writing this that still I think of my Ampex 351 as a really dear, long lost friend.
Do you feel that back then, tape calibration was considered part of the engineer’s sound signature
Not really. There are so many different things that go into an engineers/mixers ‘sound signature’ that I always viewed whatever I recorded or mixed to as simply ‘media’. Media’s job was to be as transparent and truthful as possible so it would accurately represent the artists and my vision for the sound we wanted to achieve. Of course, even today, it’s almost impossible to achieve that idealized goal of ‘invisibility of media’, so whatever the decade of technology I was working in, I just picked the best tape available at the time, and if it wasn’t completely transparent (and of course nothing was), then I selected the stock that sounded appropriate for the artist and that was the most musical. Considering the large variety of tape I have used over the years, I still find that my work still sounds like my work no matter what the tape stock…and I think others who are familiar with my work would agree.
How did you use to set up your machine (bias, flux, what tapes did you use)?
At the start of my career I felt that I was a better engineer/mixer than technician so I always left the alignments to the technical engineering staff. I was petrified of messing up a good mix with a screwed up tape machine alignment. Once I learned how to do my own alignments I trusted a very few to do my alignments, doing the vast majority of my tape machine alignments myself.
Of course over time bias, flux and the choice of tape varied greatly as technology progressed. I started with Ampex 131 at Ampex zero (Ampex reference recording level) and Nominal (or normal bias). As time progressed we evolved better ways of adjusting the bias (the MPX has an option that is modelled on what many engineers preferred, which was an overbias at 15Khz of -3db) and a wide range of newer tapes arrived that supported higher flux levels. Over many decades I used a vast array of tape stocks. The list is much to long to publish here, but let’s just say, if anyone made it, I tried it and if I liked it and there was good supply, I used it. But with regard to bias and flux, I always chose the most conservative alignments. Those which resulting in the lowest saturation, that sound now treasured by so many…one must remember, was once considered a necessary evil associated with the media of the day. As I did most of my work at 30ips and used Dolby Noise Reduction when the project required it, I could, for most of my career, stay with Ampex Zero (185nWm/b) for maximum transparency and minimum print through and let the Dolby Noise Reduction handle the noise. That said, a very large percentage of my body of work is with acoustic music. Since it’s always the music that drives the process, including the technology, one needs to always stay open to change and new directions.
Of course I have used the newest tape formulations, such as GP9, extensively and I like them very much…but these tapes were not an option during my analogue ‘heydays’.
© 2013 John Haeny
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Vol. 161 No 1 (2020): Causalité /
Assessing trends in vaccine efficacy by pathogen genetic distance
David Benkeser Emory University
Michal Juraska Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Peter B. Gilbert Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and University of Washington
Preventive vaccines are an effective public health intervention for reducing the burden of infectious diseases, but have yet to be developed for several major infectious diseases. Vaccine sieve analysis studies whether and how the efficacy of a vaccine varies with the genetics of the infectious pathogen, which may help guide future vaccine development and deployment. A standard statistical approach to sieve analysis compares the effect of the vaccine to prevent infection and disease caused by pathogen types defined dichotomously as genetically near or far from a reference pathogen strain inside the vaccine construct. For example, near may be defined by amino acid identity at all amino acid positions considered in a multiple alignment and far defined by at least one amino acid difference. An alternative approach is to study the efficacy of the vaccine as a function of genetic distance from a pathogen to a reference vaccine strain where the distance cumulates over the set of amino acid positions. We propose a nonparametric method for estimating and testing the trend in the effect of a vaccine across genetic distance. We illustrate the operating characteristics of the estimator via simulation and apply the method to a recent preventive malaria vaccine efficacy trial.
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Entries with the tag: quinn hughes
‘Smaller’ Calder Odds
from Damien Cox of the Toronto Star,
Only three defencemen have won the Calder Trophy as the NHL’s rookie of the year in the past 20 years, and all three shared a certain profile.
Aaron Ekblad was six-foot-four, 215 pounds when he won five years ago. Tyler Myers was six-foot-eight, 220 pounds when he won in 2010. Seven years before that, St. Louis defenceman Barret Jackman was the winner. Jackman wasn’t a giant at six-feet, 200 pounds, but he was a physical, stay-at-home type who never scored more than four goals in an NHL season....
Two small, puck-moving defencemen, both products of the U.S. college system, are in a fierce battle for this year’s Calder. Neither Quinn Hughes of the Vancouver Canucks nor Cale Makar of the Colorado Avalanche reach the six-foot mark, and neither tips the scales at 200 pounds. You wouldn’t be wrong if you described either as skinny.
Both are swift-skating blue-liners, absolute wizards with the puck, and both would have trouble moving a medium-sized NHL forward from the crease area.
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Has Quinn Hughes Passed Cale Makar In the Race For The Calder Trophy?
from Ed Willes of the Vancouver Province,
Some mini-musings after a successful weekend for the Canucks:
The Calder Trophy race is far from decided but, from a Vancouver perspective at least, Quinn Hughes has pulled slightly ahead of Colorado’s Cale Makar.
Hughes now leads all rookie scorers with 39 points, two ahead of Makar; their fancy statistics are comparable and Hughes averages 53 seconds more ice time per game.
But the comparison comes down to something more elemental. Hughes is more important to the Canucks than Makar is to the Colorado Avalanche. He gives them a power play. He gives them an NHL-calibre blue-line. He’s been a driving force on the NHL’s most improved team.
Makar is a dazzling talent but the Avs would still be pretty good without him. Don’t see the Canucks in first place in their division without Hughes.
read on for more on the Canucks...
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“Quinn Hughes Is Special”
by Paul on 11/16/19 at 09:14 AM ET
from Iain MacIntyre of Sportsnet,
Quinn Hughes is special.
Not special in a “you’re-special-I’m-special-everyone’s-special” kind of way. He is literally unique in Vancouver Canucks history. At least we think so.
The Canucks are celebrating their 50th year in the National Hockey League and Hughes, a 20-year rookie, is the first young defenceman the franchise has possessed who has the speed, agility, instincts and sheer talent to be a game-changer on the blue line. He is also five-foot-10.
In five decades, the franchise has had a bunch of excellent defencemen, but none with the speed and dynamic skill set that Hughes is still developing. He is an early Calder Trophy candidate, perhaps the biggest challenger to Colorado Avalanche rookie defenceman Cale Makar....
So Quinn Hughes is special. But don’t just take our word for it. Listen to some of the Canucks’ top defencemen from the last five decades.
“He really controls the game when he’s moving,” Ed Jovanoski (1999-2006 Canucks) says. “That’s always a sign of a special player, when you can control the game with your legs and hockey IQ. It’s almost, as Hughes is going, the team’s going.”
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The Always Improving Quinn Hughes
from Ben Kuzma of the Vancouver Province,
For most NHL rookies, one game doesn’t make a season and five aren’t a gauge of future potential.
However, Quinn Hughes is not an ordinary rookie.
Even before the seventh selection in the 2018 draft dazzled in a memorable first outing with the Vancouver Canucks in a 3-2 shootout victory over the Los Angeles Kings on March 28, the diminutive defenceman was being compared to Brian Leetch, Phil Housley, Kris Letang and even the legendary Bobby Orr.
Part of it had to do with how the 5-10, 175-pound Hughes manipulates the opposition with quickness and thinking two plays ahead. Part of it is a rich family hockey lineage that includes his father, Jim, and brothers Jack and Luke.
Darren Dreger Talks With Quinn And Jack Hughes
Brothers Quinn and Jack Hughes stop by the Dreger Café in Kosice, Slovakia. Jack talks about his transition from the U18 tournament to the WHC and embracing the experience rather than vying for draft status. Quinn touches on his short NHL experience with the Canucks at the end of the regular season, watching his younger brother go down the same path he did, and much more.
Watch the 9 1/2 interview at TSN.
added 7:24pm, option to watch it below too...
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The Debut Of Quinn Hughes
On the night Alex Edler set the Vancouver Canucks’ all-time record for goals by a defenceman, you couldn’t help but wonder if new teammate Quinn Hughes will one day be the player who breaks it.
The 19-year-old did not score in his National Hockey League debut, which left the defenceman 94 goals behind Edler, who turns 33 next month and has played 810 games for the Canucks.
But Hughes dazzled with his speed going forward with the puck, made a lot of smart defensive plays and accurate passes, and will be remembered in his debut for one audacious setup.
Young Canucks cornerstones Elias Pettersson and Brock Boeser scored in their NHL debuts. Hughes, another foundational piece, merely had a world-class assist, embarrassing Los Angeles Kings’ veteran Trevor Lewis with a pass to himself off the back of the goal, then forcing a save from Jonathan Quick before Boeser scored on the rebound.
The crowd at Rogers Arena gasped in witness at Hughes’ move around Lewis late in the second period, then roared when Boeser popped in the goal. Of course, Canucks Nation has never been known for its measured restraint, either in good times or bad.
Below, watch Hughes in action.
Video- Afternoon Line - Quinn Hughes
"I want to push myself and I'm excited to see where I'm at." The 7th overall selection in the 2018 Entry Draft, Quinn Hughes, is set to make his @NHL debut. pic.twitter.com/mT6zPfUucF
— Vancouver Canucks (@Canucks) March 28, 2019
Quinn Hughes And The Vancouver Canucks
He will burn the first year of his entry-level contract when he plays his first game. And the left-shot blueliner can only play 10 games the remainder of this season so he doesn’t have to be protected for the Seattle expansion draft in 2021. If he exceeds 10 games, he would be a third-year player by 2021 and need to be included on the protected list.
That’s the boiler-plate stuff. What everyone is anxious to see is the on-ice stuff.
If the right-shot Chis Tanev returns after missing 11 games with an ankle injury, he would pair well with Hughes. So would Troy Stecher. And Travis Green said he’d play Hughes “as much as I can.”
Hughes had 33 points (5-28) in 30 games this season with the disappointing 13-18-7 Wolverines. His eye-popping array of puck-moving wizardry — especially mobility to avoid the first forechecker with elite edge work — will be a boon to the back end. So will his ability to run a plodding and predictable power play that has sunk to 29th overall.
“He can snap passes or change the angle on his shot to get them through, but I don’t want to put too much pressure on him,” added Benning. “It’s a big step. I told him come in, work hard, don’t be nervous and do the things you’re capable of doing and I expect him to do that.”
Quinn Hughes Signs A Three-Year ELC With The Vancouver Canucks
Vancouver, BC - Vancouver Canucks General Manager Jim Benning announced today that the club has signed defenceman Quinn Hughes to a three-year, entry-level contract.
"Quinn is an exceptional skater, strong on the puck and plays with creativity and vision," said Benning. "He was a leader on his team at the University of Michigan and has had success at the international level. We're excited for Quinn to join our team and continue to grow his game as a member of the Vancouver Canucks."
Hughes, 19, completed his second collegiate season with the University of Michigan Wolverines of the NCAA Big Ten Conference. He ranked first on the team in scoring with 33 points (5-28-33) in 32 games played this season, following up a rookie campaign of 29 points (5-24-29) in 37 games.
On the international stage, Hughes participated in the 2018 and 2019 IIHF World Junior Championships, helping Team USA to a silver medal in 2019 as an Assistant Captain.
The 5-10, 170-pound defenceman was drafted by Vancouver 7th overall in the 2018 NHL Entry Draft. Hughes will to travel to Vancouver on Tuesday.
Video- Quinn And Jack Hughes Today
Just over 2 minutes long.
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Dreaming Of The Hughes Brothers In Vancouver
from Mark Spector of Sportsnet,
While Quinn went seventh overall to the Canucks, Jack is, as we speak, the consensus No. 1 overall pick in 2019.
The Sedins, the best brothers tandem ever to play together in the NHL have retired. The Canucks are expected to finish within trading distance of the No. 1 spot in the draft.If lightning struck once, why not again?...
There is symmetry here, even if much of it exists in the dreamy world inhabited by Canucks fans. They had the Sedins, through Burke’s chicanery at the 1999 draft.
Why not the Hughes brothers as well?
The two combined for a game-winning goal late in a game against Canada early in this Showcase, with Jack setting up Quinn. They have rarely played on the same team in their lives, though there still exists some ‘Sedinery’ between them.
“I think there’s a connection there,” said Team USA coach Mike Hastings. “They both know that the other one is a pretty good player.”
Video- Quinn Hughes In Action
3 assists for the day.
My goodness.
Hughes dances and dishes to Norris to win it in OT with 2.5 seconds left.
Wowzers.#Canucks pic.twitter.com/bIhNlee9WK
— Ryan Biech (@ryanbiech) August 2, 2018
Ryan Biech has more highlights in his Twitter feed of today's game.
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Another Year Of College Hockey For Quinn Hughes
#Canucks GM Jim Benning’s statement on Quinn Hughes opting to return to @umichhockey next season. pic.twitter.com/V71mxuSgAw
— Vancouver Canucks (@Canucks) July 28, 2018
The Hughes Hockey Family
from Lisa Dillman of The Athletic,
On a recent morning in early July, uber NHL prospect Jack Hughes was on the ice at the Kings’ training facility, at an orientation camp hosted by CAA, the agency that currently advises the family. Weeks earlier, Jack’s older brother, Quinn Hughes, was taken seventh in the NHL draft by the Vancouver Canucks and the defenseman is mulling his future – whether to turn pro or return to the University of Michigan for his sophomore season.
The focus now shifts to Jack, the middle of three sons of Jim and Ellen Weinberg-Hughes, who is projected to go first in the 2019 NHL draft.
The camp in El Segundo was a chance to mix hockey with a bit of Hollywood before it becomes serious again with the World Junior Summer Showcase starting July 28 in Kamloops, British Columbia. Jack relished the chance to get some beach time and try his hand at volleyball on the sand.
“First of all, the weather in California is unreal,” Jack said in an interview with The Athletic. “The ocean, we don’t have that in Michigan or Toronto. Anytime you get the chance to come out here and learn new things, it’s really good. I love watching basketball, so I’d love to meet a guy like LeBron [James]. I love watching him.”
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Quinn Hughes A Great Fit For The Vancouver Canucks
Vancouver general manager Jim Benning, not typically prone to displays of ebullience, could barely contain his glee.
"I’m so happy and so excited for our fans that he was there because he’s a dynamic skater and can run a power play," Benning said. "With all the skilled forwards we have coming and our young goalies, this is really exciting. He’s such a skilled, exciting, dynamic player.
"He’s going to fit perfectly with the style of game we want to play because he can get back, get the puck and beat the first forechecker with speed. He can transition the puck up ice either by skating or making a good play. And he plays fast.
"Some luck came our way this year. We had a good day today."
The Canucks need a skilled, fast, offensive defenceman like the polar ice cap needs a cold spell. Vancouver’s last elite power-play quarterback was Paul Reinhart, who retired in 1990.
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The London Tea Company
Designed by Simmer | Country: United Kingdom
“Originally set up in 2003 by a doctor and his brother from a family of tea estate owners, The London Tea Company now supplies teas to numerous high-profile companies; multi-national supermarkets, hotels and restaurants.
Simmer was appointed to develop packaging design for a new range of teas targeted at the tourist market. Packaging within the category is currently extraordinarily dull and given that tourists come to London and the UK to have fun and be entertained – alongside the more serious side of our culture and history, Simmer decided to take a light-hearted and engaging approach to the designs.
The packaging tins and outer sleeve portray jovial London and UK characters cheekily each drinking a cuppa the finest tea and set into scenic city and country backgrounds. The range is being sold in Duty Free outlets and other tourist destinations across the UK.”
4 Responses to “The London Tea Company”
April 2nd, 2010 @ 3:39 am
The LONDON Tea Company? The characters don’t represent the cultural diversity of London today do they!
That said, these are really cool
April 5th, 2010 @ 8:56 pm
I agree with Emma – hailing from London myself – these look ‘gifty’ but culturally miss the mark – illustrations are OK – very GUESS WHO? Maybe could have been more individual looking but in a style?
April 6th, 2010 @ 3:18 am
These are so off-brand it’s untrue. Check out their core range on the link below…
http://londontea.co.uk/catalog/index.php?cPath=21
From a Londoner.
November 21st, 2012 @ 11:21 am
not bad quite a good way of doing tea packaging.am motivated by this to start a tea packaging company
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Copyright Ó 2006 by the Genetics Society of AmericaDOI: 10.1534/genetics.105.050336 Recently Evolved Genes Identified From Drosophila yakuba and D. erecta David J. Begun,1 Heather A. Lindfors, Melissa E. Thompson and Alisha K. Holloway Section of Evolution and Ecology, University of California, Davis, California 95616 Accepted for publication November 22, 2005 The fraction of the genome associated with male reproduction in Drosophila may be unusually dy- namic. For example, male reproduction-related genes show higher-than-average rates of protein diver-gence and gene expression evolution compared to most Drosophila genes. Drosophila male reproductionmay also be enriched for novel genetic functions. Our earlier work, based on accessory gland proteingenes (Acp’s) in D. simulans and D. melanogaster, suggested that the melanogaster subgroup Acp’s may be lostand/or gained on a relatively rapid timescale. Here we investigate this possibility more thoroughlythrough description of the accessory gland transcriptome in two melanogaster subgroup species, D. yakubaand D. erecta. A genomic analysis of previously unknown genes isolated from cDNA libraries of these speciesrevealed several cases of genes present in one or both species, yet absent from ingroup and outgroupspecies. We found no evidence that these novel genes are attributable primarily to duplication and di-vergence, which suggests the possibility that Acp’s or other genes coding for small proteins may originatefrom ancestrally noncoding DNA.
AN extensive literature documenting the unusually most proteins (Begun et al. 2000; Swanson et al. 2001; rapid evolution of reproductive traits in many taxa Holloway and Begun 2004; Kern et al. 2004; Mueller suggests that sexual selection may be a primary agent of et al. 2005; Wagstaff and Begun 2005a,b). Population evolution in natural animal populations (e.g., Eberhard genetic evidence for directional selection on Acp’s has 1985; Andersson 1994; Birkhead and Moller 1998).
been found in the melanogaster subgroup, the repleta group, Although most data bearing on evolution of reproduc- and the obscura group of Drosophila (Tsaur and Wu tive traits are morphological or behavioral in nature, 1997; Aguade´ 1999; Begun et al. 2000; Holloway and directional selection on reproductive function should Begun 2004; Kern et al. 2004; Wagstaff and Begun be manifest in patterns of genome evolution. For 2005a,b; Begun and Lindfors 2005), perhaps due to example, a genomic approach for identifying biological male–male, male–female, or fly–pathogen interactions.
functions that may be under directional selection is to As noted previously, genomic surveys of divergence of use sequence divergence in concert with gene annota- male reproduction-related genes have demonstrated tion to identify functions enriched for rapidly evolving that they evolve rapidly compared to most other protein proteins (e.g., Nielsen et al. 2005; Richards et al. 2005).
classes. Indeed, many testis-expressed Drosophila mela- Such analyses support the idea that proteins function- nogaster genes have no obvious homolog in D. pseudoob- ing in male reproduction in Drosophila, mice, and pri- scura (Richards et al. 2005), which is consistent with mates evolve unusually quickly (Zhang et al. 2004; Good either very rapid evolution or gene presence/absence and Nachman 2005; Nielsen et al. 2005; Richards et al.
variation (i.e., lineage-restricted genes). The notion that 2005). Such data do not prove that rapid evolution results genes coding for male reproductive functions may be from directional selection. However, the repeatability enriched for lineage-restricted genes in Drosophila is across taxa of the pattern of rapid protein evolution is supported by reports of recently evolved, novel genes that certainly consistent with this idea.
are expressed in Drosophila testes (Long and Langley Drosophila ACPs (seminal fluid proteins) have been 1993; Nurminsky et al. 1998; Betran and Long 2003).
the subject of several evolutionary and functional in- Although there has been little systematic investiga- vestigations. These proteins elicit manifold physiological tion regarding the question of whether reproductive and behavioral changes in females (reviewed in Chapman functions are characteristic of lineage-restricted genes, and Davies 2004) and play an important role in we previously reported that in Drosophila, an Acp in a sperm storage (Neubaum and Wolfner 1999; Tram and given species is sometimes absent from a related species Wolfner 1999). They evolve quite rapidly compared to (Begun and Lindfors 2005; Wagstaff and Begun2005a). For example, 6 of 13 D. melanogaster Acp’s in- vestigated were absent from D. pseudoobscura (Wagstaff Corresponding author: Section of Evolution and Ecology, University of and Begun 2005a). A subsequent analysis of additional D. melanogaster Acp’s vs. D. pseudoobscura yielded compa- purified [QIAGEN (Chatsworth, CA) QIAquick PCR purifica- rable results (Mueller et al. 2005). A subset of the D.
tion kit], incubated in Promega (Madison, WI) Taq poly- melanogaster Acp’s that are absent from D. pseudoobscura merase, and ligated into PCR4 TOPO vector (Invitrogen).
Ligations were transformed and plated, with the resulting have loss-of-function phenotypes or show evidence of colonies subjected to PCR using vector primers. Colony PCR directional selection in D. melanogaster/D. simulans, products were sequenced at the University of California at which suggests that invoking ‘‘functional redundancy’’ Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences and gene loss is overly simplistic. In fact, these analyses Genomics Facility. For D. yakuba, 415 clones were sequenced.
of D. melanogaster vs. D. pseudoobscura could not broach They yielded 360 high-quality sequences, which assembled(Lasergene) into 119 unique contigs. For D. erecta, 333 clones the issue of whether the lineage distribution of Acp’s were sequenced. They yielded 252 high-quality sequences and in these two species is explained by gene loss in D.
114 unique contigs. Unique D. yakuba and D. erecta accessory pseudoobscura, gene gain in D. melanogaster, or some com- gland ESTs can be found under GenBank accession nos.
bination. We also found putative cases of recent loss of The complexity of these libraries appears to be considerably greater than that estimated from random sequencing of a D.
2005). For example, D. melanogaster is missing an Acp that mojavensis accessory gland cDNA library (Wagstaff and was present in the common ancestor of D. melanogaster Begun 2005b; 26 transcripts from 139 random clones). This and D. simulans and that is present as a single-copy gene suggests that Drosophila species vary in the complexity of the in D. simulans, indicating that this gene was lost within accessory gland transcriptome, but more quantitative data would be required to address this issue.
Analysis of ESTs: Each unique EST was compared by BLAST did not find unambiguous evidence for gains of Acp’s in to predicted D. melanogaster genes and proteins. ESTs return- the melanogaster subgroup. Nevertheless, loss of Acp’s ing E-values ,1e-15 were considered to be candidate un- implies either that compensatory gains maintain mela- annotated homologous Acp’s or candidate Acp’s absent from nogaster subgroup seminal fluid protein-coding capacity the D. melanogaster genome. Each candidate was then com- or that the melanogaster subgroup is evolving toward a pared (BLASTn) to D. melanogaster chromosome arms to deter-mine if there was evidence for an unannotated D. melanogaster lower equilibrium number of Acp’s per genome.
gene corresponding to the D. yakuba or D. erecta EST. ESTs The gain and/or loss of Acp’s over time will result in that failed to show convincing BLAST hits to D. melanogaster the gradual functional divergence of seminal fluid func- were candidate lineage-restricted genes (although they could tion between Drosophila lineages, presumably under also be highly diverged orthologs). RACE was used to isolate the influence of natural selection. One possible mech- the entire transcript associated with each putative lineage-restricted gene. These genes were investigated in terms of anism for gene gain is duplication followed by functional splicing, predicted protein sequence, and whether they were divergence (Ohno 1970). However, computational anal- present as putative single-copy genes in D. yakuba or D. erecta on ysis of the D. melanogaster genome suggested that most the basis of BLAST or BLAT analyses to genome assemblies.
duplicated Acp’s are ancient (Holloway and Begun Finally, given that most ACPs have strongly predicted signal sequences (Swanson et al. 2001), which are required for secre- ueller et al. 2005), which does not support the tion, the predicted proteins were analyzed by SignalP to deter- idea that recent losses of the melanogaster subgroup Acp’s mine the likely presence/absence of a signal peptide (Bendtsen are entirely compensated for by recent duplication and et al. 2004). Candidate lineage-restricted genes were subjected divergence. The purpose of the work presented here to additional investigation, as described in the next section.
was to systematically investigate potential gains of Acp’s Search for orthologs based on syntenic alignments: Syn- in the melanogaster subgroup of Drosophila. This was tenic regions of variable size (generally several kilobases) accomplished by description of the accessory gland encompassing each candidate gene were isolated from the D.
yakuba or D. erecta genome assemblies (BLAT via the UCSC transcriptome in D. yakuba and D. erecta, followed by genome browser (Kent et al. 2002; http://genome.ucsc.edu) computational analysis of melanogaster group species ge- to D. yakuba (Release 1.0; Washington University Medical nome assemblies. We have assumed that D. yakuba and Genome Sequencing Center) or BLAST to D. erecta contigs D. erecta are sister species (Ko et al. 2003; Parsch 2003); (October 2004 assembly; sequencing by Agencourt) at http:// D. ananassae served as the outgroup.
rana.lbl.gov/drosophila/. These regions were then analyzedby BLAT to identify putative orthologous regions of the D.
melanogaster genome. This resulted in a putative orthologousregion from D. melanogaster, D. yakuba, and D. erecta for each candidate, along with the gene annotation derived from ourEST/RACE data and computational analysis for either D.
D. yakuba and D. erecta accessory gland cDNA libraries yakuba or D. erecta. Finally, we attempted to isolate a syntenic and ESTs: Accessory glands from 100 D. yakuba males (line region from D. ananassae ( July 2004 assembly; sequencing by Tai18E2) and 45 D. erecta males (line 14021-0224.0) were Agencourt) for each candidate. Generally, this was more dissected in RNA-Later (Ambion, Austin, TX). Total accessory difficult (and not always successful), probably because of gland RNA was isolated using the Ambion mirVana miRNA kit greater sequence divergence, and often required investigation and RNAsed (Ambion DNA-Free kit). RACE-ready cDNA was of larger genomic regions, occasionally up to 10–15 kb. Each synthesized from 2 mg of each prep [Invitrogen (San Diego) gene region identified from a D. yakuba or a D. erecta accessory GeneRacer kit; the SSIII module and oligo(dT) primer were gland EST was investigated in detail in the corresponding used for the RTstep]. The resulting cDNA was amplified (eight region of the other species. This entailed pairwise alignments cycles for D. erecta; five cycles for D. yakuba) using the Roche using the Martinez/Needleman-Wunsch algorithm as imple- Expand High Fidelity PCR System. Amplified libraries were mented in DNASTAR and/or multispecies alignments using ClustalW v. 1.82. In many cases, there was no DNA in other species corresponding to the gene of interest. In other cases,there was apparently a homologous sequence, but no obvious Summary of inferred phylogenetic distributions of genes conserved open reading frame (ORF). For the latter, we com- putationally investigated the genomic sequence in the homol- ogous region to determine protein-coding capacity and whetherany putative proteins showed sequence similarity or similar protein lengths relative to the candidate, or whether a pre- dicted protein had a predicted signal sequence. In a few cases, these investigations revealed evidence for highly diverged orthologous genes, likely Acp’s, which would have gone un- detected on the basis of the alignment of DNA sequences.
Population genetic analysis: Molecular population genetic data were collected for several D. yakuba- and/or D. erecta-specific genes. High-fidelity PCR was used to amplify Acp’s from multiple D. yakuba isofemale lines and a single D. teissieri isofemale line (provided by P. Andolfatto and M. Long, re- spectively). These PCR products were cloned and subjected to colony PCR. A single allele was isolated and sequenced fromeach line. Summary statistics and tests of neutral evolution were generated by use of DnaSP (Rozas et al. 2003). Sequence data for the population genetics analysis can be found under GenBank accession nos. DQ318145–319181.
Signal sequence potential of D. melanogaster intergenic and intronic sequences: Intergenic sequences (defined as sequen- SignalP probabilities and lengths are from D. yakuba for D.
ces between two adjacent genes, independent of a strand) and yakuba-derived genes and from D. erecta for D. erecta-derived genes.
introns were obtained from release 4.1 of the D. melanogastergenome. Introns were parsed to mask known exons embed-ded within them. RepeatMasker (S more detail below. None are associated with repetitive used to mask repetitive elements of intergenic and intronic sequences; all show male-specific expression as deter- sequences. A Perl script was used to identify single-exon ORFs mined by RT–PCR on templates generated from RNA in the remaining DNA. An ORF was defined as a continuous isolated from whole adult males or females. Syntenic sequence starting with an ATG that extends at least 40 codons alignments of these putative lineage-restricted genes and ends with the first termination codon. ORFs from bothstrands and all reading frames were included in the data and orthologous regions can be found in Supplemental set. SignalP version 3.0 was used to predict the presence or Data B at http://www.genetics.org/supplemental/; pu- absence of signal peptides, which are characteristic of secreted tative CDS regions are in boldface type with the excep- proteins (Bendtsen et al. 2004). SignalP employs two meth- tion of Gene144, for which the transcript is in boldface ods, a neural network method and a hidden Markov model, for type; introns are underlined. Table 1 summarizes inferred detecting signal sequences. We accepted that an ORF had asignal sequence if both the neural network and hidden phylogenetic distributions of putative lineage-restricted Markov model (posterior probability $ 0.95) predicted that genes and some physical properties of the gene/pro- tein, including the probability that the predicted aminoacid has a signal sequence, which is frequently found inAcp’s (Swanson et al. 2001). Table 2 presents the results of BLAST analysis of several D. yakuba accessory gland Many of our D. yakuba/D. erecta accessory gland ESTs ESTs corresponding to putative novel genes compared returned highly significant BLAST hits to annotated D.
to the genomes of D. yakuba (April 2004 assembly), D.
melanogaster genes or proteins. These were not consid- melanogaster (release 4.2.1), D. erecta (August 2005 assem- ered further. Several ESTs had highly significant BLAST bly), and D. ananassae (August 2005 assembly). Table 3 hits to unannotated D. melanogaster sequence (as well as provides summary statistics of D. yakuba polymorphism to D. yakuba and D. erecta genomic sequence). On the basis and divergence to D. teissieri for five genes.
of the conserved location and organization of an open Putative lineage-restricted genes identified from D.
reading frame and the presence of a strongly predicted yakuba accessory gland ESTs: Acp134 codes for a pre- signal sequence in either D. yakuba or D. erecta and D.
dicted protein of 35 residues. This gene is represented in melanogaster, we consider 20 genes to be candidates the D. yakuba testis ESTcollection (CV785591, CV785729, for previously unknown Acp’s that are shared among CV786139), probably as a result of low-level contami- melanogaster subgroup species [supplemental Data A nation of the testis dissection with accessory gland at http://www.genetics.org/supplemental/ presents the tissue. Acp134 returns no significant BLAST results vs.
putative D. melanogaster protein-coding sequence (CDS) D. melanogaster, D. erecta, or D. ananassae. The putative for each gene]. However, additional empirical work syntenic alignments for the D. yakuba Acp134 region with would be required to solidify their status as such.
D. melanogaster, D. erecta, and D. ananassae suggest that Accessory gland ESTs for which we failed to find there are no plausible orthologous protein-coding regions putative orthologs in other species are presented in in D. melanogaster, D. erecta, or D. ananassae that correspond putative syntenic alignment between D. yakuba and D.
ananassae is presented in supplemental data at http:// BLASTn results (default parameters) of D. yakuba ESTs from www.genetics.org/supplemental/. However, the quality putative orphans to the D. yakuba genome (two best hits), to other melanogaster subgroup species genomes (best hit), of this alignment leads us to consider the status of the and annotation of the corresponding microsyntenic Acp223 codes for a predicted protein of 116 residues.
It is located between the D. yakuba orthologs of Obp56f and Obp56e. Indeed, the organization of the three genes is similar, which together with their physical location,suggests that they are paralogous. D. erecta also has a copy of Acp233. D. yakuba Acp223 is more highly diverged from the D. yakuba Obp56e and Obp56f genes than these genes are from one another. A partial, homologous D.
melanogaster ORF appears to be present; however, it codes for a predicted protein of only 44 residues, which leaves it with questionable status in D. melanogaster (Supplemental Data B at http://www.genetics.org/ supplemental/). A syntenic alignment of the putative D. ananassae orthologous region with D. yakuba pro- vides no evidence for a D. ananassae copy of Acp223.
Acp224 codes for a predicted protein of 231 residues in D. yakuba and is located within an intron of CG31757.
An alignment of the orthologous region from D. erectareveals that the reading frame starting with the D. yakuba to D. yakuba Acp134. Moreover, a computational analysis of initiation codon codes for a predicted protein of 75 these orthologous regions also revealed no potential residues. However, the fact that the D. yakuba gene and genes that were plausible orthologs. These data strongly the putative D. erecta ortholog are extremely divergent in suggest that Acp134 is present only in D. yakuba.
terms of length and sequence casts some doubt on the Acp225 codes for a predicted protein of 121 residues.
status of the D. erecta gene. To address this uncertainty, The syntenic alignment strongly suggests that there is we used RACE on accessory gland cDNA to isolate the no ortholog of Acp225 in D. melanogaster or D. erecta. A ends of the D. erecta gene. The RACE results revealed small ORF (36 bp) in D. erecta in the region near the first that there is an apparently orthologous D. erecta tran- exon of D. yakuba Acp225 is clearly not orthologous. A script, which codes for two potential ORFs (89 codons D. yakuba/D. teissieri population genetics data for putative orphans n is the number of D. yakuba alleles sampled. For D. teissieri, n ¼ 1 for all loci. Genes are on chromosome arm 2R with the exception of Acp225, which is on 3R. Divergence estimates are Jukes–Cantor corrected.
and the aforementioned 75 codons) that share the same RACE), along with the absence of a genomic poly(A) reading frame (but different initiation codons). The sequence downstream of the transcript, suggests that it is shorter ORF has a more strongly predicted signal se- not the result of genomic contamination. We unsuccess- quence, which suggests that it is the more likely candi- fully attempted to amplify the homologous region by date. Acp224 is the only putative Acp from our study that RT–PCR using RNA isolated from whole D. melanogaster has a recognizable functional domain based on an NCBI males. This failure is consistent with the idea that this gene conserved domain search (Marchler-Bauer et al. 2003).
is not present in each of the melanogaster subgroup species.
The D. yakuba copy has three predicted Kazal-type serpin Acp157a codes for a 112-residue-long predicted pro- domains, while the D. erecta copy has one such predicted tein. An alignment of the D. yakuba Acp157a region to domain. Serpin domains have previously been observed orthologous regions of the D. erecta and D. melanogaster in Drosophila Acp’s (Swanson et al. 2001; Mueller et al.
genomes shows that D. erecta contains an ortholog, while 2004). Syntenic alignments of D. yakuba Acp224 region D. melanogaster does not. A similar alignment to the pu- vs. D. melanogaster and D. ananassae (Supplemental Data tative orthologous region of the D. ananassae assembly B at http://www.genetics.org/supplemental/) strongly strongly suggests that the gene is not in this species.
suggest that the gene is absent from these species. Thus, Thus, Acp157a is likely a D. yakuba/D. erecta-specific gene.
Acp224 is likely a very rapidly evolving D. yakuba/D.
D. yakuba, but not other species, harbors a nearby, recent duplication (4 kb 59) of Acp157a. However, this dupli- Acp158 codes for a predicted protein of 71 residues.
cation has no long open reading frame, suggesting that Syntenic alignments of orthologous regions in D. mela- it is a D. yakuba-specific pseudogene.
nogaster and D. erecta provide no evidence of an ortho- Putative lineage-restricted genes identified from D.
logous gene in these species. This gene is located within erecta accessory gland ESTs: Acp100 codes for a pre- an intron of Pkc53E. Another putative Acp, Acp133, which dicted protein of 190 residues. A potential highly di- is likely shared in D. melanogaster, D. yakuba, and D. erecta, verged D. yakuba ortholog is present. This D. yakuba gene is located 1.2 kb 59 of Acp158 in D. yakuba, also in a shares the putative D. erecta initiation codon, but with a Pkc53E intron. Acp133 and Acp158 code for proteins of predicted length of 263 residues, is significantly longer roughly equal length (62 and 71 residues, respectively) than the predicted D. erecta protein. Both species share a and both are composed of two small exons and one canonical polyadenlyation signal downstream of their small intron. These similarities, along with their physical putative stop codons. A syntenic alignment between D.
proximity, suggest the possibility that the two genes are erecta and D. melanogaster suggests that the gene is absent related by duplication. However, their predicted protein from the latter. We were unable to generate a convincing sequences are too highly diverged to provide strong syntenic alignment with D. ananassae.
evidence of homology. The data are consistent with the Gene 37 codes for a predicted protein of 80 residues.
idea that Acp158 is a highly diverged duplication of This protein does not have a predicted signal sequence, Acp133 that is present only in D. yakuba. This implies casting some doubt on its status as an Acp. Syntenic align- either that Acp158 is a recent duplication that has di- ments to D. yakuba, D. melanogaster, and D. ananassae sug- verged incredibly rapidly or that Acp158 is an old dupli- gest that this gene is D. erecta specific. We computationally cation that has been lost multiple times in the melanogaster discovered a second putative open reading frame (single subgroup. Alternatively, it is possible that these two genes exon, 210 residues) that is 39 of gene 37 and coded on the are not paralogous. The alignment of the D. yakuba opposite strand (the putative CDS is annotated by left- Acp158 region with the putative orthologous region of facing arrows in the supplemental data alignment at D. ananassae suggests that neither it nor Acp133 is pres- http://www.genetics.org/supplemental/). This second pu- ent in this species, although some uncertainty regarding tative gene, which contains a strongly predicted signal the alignment means that this conclusion should be sequence and a predicted fibrinogen domain, overlaps gene 37 (their putative 39-ends overlap). The best hit in Gene144 has a single exon. The protein-coding po- a BLASTp analysis of this second gene to D. melanogaster tential of this gene is unclear. Transcript data from our proteins is to CG30281 (6e-36, 40% identity). CG30281 original cDNA clone and RACE experiments suggest the is associated with the gene ontology terms ‘‘receptor possibility of three open reading frames, two of which binding’’ and ‘‘defense response.’’ It appears to be D.
start with methionine and code for predicted proteins of erecta specific. However, we were unable to generate a D.
14 residues and one of which starts with isoleucine and erecta RT–PCR product, which casts doubt on its status.
codes for a predicted protein of 39 residues (which is not Population genetics of lineage-restricted Acp’s: We predicted to have a signal sequence). None of the three collected polymorphism and divergence data from several open reading frames is conserved in D. melanogaster, D. yakuba/D. erecta-specific putative Acp’s to investigate although there is apparently orthologous genomic se- mechanisms of protein evolution between D. yakuba and quence. This is likely not an Acp, and may not be a protein- D. teissieri (Table 2). The data, pooled across genes, coding gene (e.g., Tupyet al. 2005). However, the fact that reject the null (neutral) model (Kimura 1983) in the we isolated this putative transcript twice (cDNA clone and direction of adaptive protein divergence (McDonald and Kreitman 1991); however, only one gene, Acp158, is sequence. Acp’s have several features that make this sug- individually significant. Removing the data from Acp158 gestion worth considering. First, they tend to have short yields a nonsignificant test on data from the remaining open reading frames, of which there are huge numbers genes (P ¼ 0.17). Thus, although the rates of protein in noncoding genomic sequence. Second, as secreted divergence reported here are high compared to most proteins, a signal sequence is the primary functional Drosophila genes (e.g., Begun 2002; Richards et al.
element. Although signal sequences tend to be hydro- 2005), there is no strong support for recent, recurrent phobic and a-helical (Doudna and Batey 2004), the directional selection on these genes overall.
amino acid sequences are not always highly conserved(Nielsen et al. 1997). Third, Acp’s frequently have noknown functional domains apart from their signal sequences (Swanson et al. 2001; Mueller et al. 2005; We discovered several genes, many of which are likely Wagstaff and Begun 2005b), which is consistent with Acp’s, that have a lineage-restricted distribution in the the potential for a large degree of functional and evo- melanogaster subgroup. Each lineage-restricted gene de- lutionary lability. Finally, seminal fluid function may be scribed here could be explained in two ways: (i) as a novel under stronger or more frequent directional selection gene gained in D. yakuba, D. erecta, or their common an- than many other biological functions, which may make cestor or (ii) as multiple losses of a gene. One’s intuition is it more likely for novel Acp’s to invade populations.
that gains of novel genetic functions are much less likely Unannotated portions of eukaryotic genomes (and, than losses. The problem with this formulation is that it indeed, random DNA sequences) contain many short raises the question, How many losses must one invoke (e.g., 30–100 residues) open reading frames. A fraction before entertaining the hypothesis of gene gain as equally of new mutations, most of which are likely deleterious (or more) parsimonious? Regardless of the conclusion (Hahn et al. 2003), may create promoters near such for any particular Acp, it seems unreasonable to repeat- ORFs, thereby driving their expression, even if at a low edly invoke multiple losses and disallow occasional gains, level. Moreover, the consensus, highly conserved animal as this would imply that ancestral seminal fluid function polyadenylation signal AATAAA (Zhao et al. 1999) is is being lost from Drosophila, which seems unlikely.
short, simple, and, therefore, common. Thus, at muta- Thus, we favor the interpretation that some of the tion-selection balance there is likely a large pool of small orphan genes described here are newly evolved.
open reading frames (many of which possess signal What are plausible mechanisms for the origin of novel sequences) that are a short mutational distance from del- Acp’s? One possibility is duplication and divergence eterious expression and translation. Occasionally, how- (Holloway and Begun 2004; Mueller et al. 2005). For ever, a ‘‘spuriously’’ expressed ORF coding for a small, example, Acp158, which appears to be present only in D.
secreted peptide could be recruited into a novel function yakuba, may be a highly diverged duplicate of Acp133, which is present in D. melanogaster, D. yakuba, and D.
To investigate the plausibility of this scenario, we car- erecta. However, most of our orphans cannot be explained ried out an analysis of the signal peptide-coding potential this way (Table 2), as BLASTresults support the idea that of the intergenic and intronic portions of the D. mela- they are unique. This is consistent with previous analyses nogaster reference sequence. We found that Repeat- of the D. melanogaster genome suggesting the presence Masked D. melanogaster intergenic sequence harbors of few recent Acp duplications (Holloway and Begun 174,779 open reading frames of $40 residues. Of these, 2004; Mueller et al. 2005). An alternative possibility is we conservatively estimate that 6071 (3.5%) have a that novel genetic functions can be co-opted from previ- strongly predicted signal sequence (SignalP, hidden ously noncoding sequence. Such phenomena have been Markov model P . 0.95 and positive neutral network pre- observed before. For example, the recently evolved D.
diction). The corresponding numbers for introns are melanogaster gene, Sdic, is partially derived from an intron 53,003 ORFs and 1963 strongly predicted signal sequen- of a cytoplasmic dynein gene (Nurminsky et al. 1998).
ces (3.7%). Although a small fraction of these ORFs In nototheneoid fishes, intronic sequence from an an- may be previously undescribed genes or exons, it seems cestral trypsinogen gene has been co-opted into protein- more likely that we should conclude that the coding coding function in a descendant antifreeze protein (Chen potential for novel, small, secreted peptides in Drosophila et al. 1997). Such examples support the plausibility of the noncoding DNA is impressively large. Recent reports recruitment of ancestral noncoding sequence into coding that a surprisingly high fraction of eukaryotic genomes function. For the genes described here, however, there is transcribed (Bertone et al. 2004; Stolc et al. 2004, is neither evidence for partial derivation from ancestral 2005) would favor the mutation-selection-recruitment protein-coding sequence nor evidence of association model for the origin of small peptides. Direct support for with transposable elements or other repetitive sequences.
this model could be best obtained through the discovery These observations raise the question of the plausi- of small, novel, polymorphic proteins in populations.
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The proximate and ultimate explanations for this pat- tern are unclear, although, in principle, the small size of of jingwei, a chimeric processed functional gene in Drosophila.
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Cup of Coffee: Devers and Baldwin homer on day of tight contests
7/4 Cup of Coffee: There was lots of drama across a full slate heading into the holiday, as the eight games played by the affiliates were all decided by two runs or fewer, with three heading to extras. Rafael Devers continued to try and homer his way out of the Eastern League and his fellow Dominican, Drive catcher Roldani Baldwin (pictured), also went deep. Strong performances on the mound from Edgar Olmos, Kyle Hart, and Andres Jimenez only resulted in one win for their respective teams.
Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders (NYY) 6, Pawtucket Red Sox 5
Edgar Olmos delivered a strong start, but the bullpen imploded in the ninth. Olmos went 7 2/3 innings, surrendering just one run on six hits while striking out three. Noe Ramirez was first out of the pen and gave up the first four runs in the ninth to let the RailRiders tie the game. Austin Maddox was tagged with the loss after he allowed the winning run with two out in the ninth. Brock Holt, who continues to work his way back from vertigo, paced the offense with a 2-for-4 performance that included a two-run home run in the fifth. Designated hitter Pablo Sandoval went 2 for 4 as well, while Jhonny Peralta, who started at third, went 0 for 4.
Hartford Yard Goats (COL) 8, Portland Sea Dogs 7
An eighth-inning rally fell short for the Sea Dogs, who languished behind some lackluster pitching. Travis Lakins allowed three runs, one earned, on three hits and four walks in just 2 2/3 innings before departing the game with an injury. Taylor Grover took the loss out of the bullpen, despite allowing just one run in 2 1/3 innings while striking out four. Cole Sturgeon had a day out of the leadoff spot, going 4 for 6 with a triple. Rafael Devers, meanwhile, launched his 18th home run of the campaign as part of a 2-for-5 evening that also included an intentional walk. Portland still managed to pound out 12 hits in the loss, and with the exception of Jeremy Barfield, each starter collected at least one hit.
Salem Red Sox 3, Wilmington Blue Rocks (KCR) 2 (12 inn.)
Salem prevailed in the 12th inning when a Jeremy Rivera base hit plated Jordan Betts. Josh Ockimey doubled and homered as part of a 2-for-6 effort. Starter Dedgar Jimenez turned in seven strong innings, allowing two runs on eight hits, striking out two against just one walk. He then turned the ball over to the trio of Trevor Kelley, Austin Glorius, and Stephen Nogosek, who combined for five scoreless innings to allow the comeback.
Lexington Legends (KCR) 6, Greenville Drive 4 (10 inn.)
Like Salem, Greenville went into extra frames, but the Drive fell short despite an 11-hit effort. Santiago Espinal led the offense, going 3 for 4 with a home run, double, walk, and two RBI. Roldani Baldwin also homered and doubled as the catcher raised his slugging percentage to an impressive .522 on the year. On the mound, Darwinzon Hernandez surrendered four runs on seven hits in 3 2/3 innings in his return from an ankle injury that kept him on the disabled list for three weeks. He struck out five and walked one. Kyle Hart piggybacked him and went the rest of the way in relief. He spun 5 1/3 shutout innings before Lexington finally reached him for a pair of runs in the 10th. Hart struck out seven and walked one.
Lowell Spinners 3, Vermont Lake Monsters (OAK) 1
Strong pitching led the Spinners to victory, as Dakota Smith allowed just one run on five hits in six innings. Smith struck out four without walking a batter, and now sports a 1.23 ERA through three starts in his second Lowell season. Garrett Benge, selected in the 13th round of last month's draft, went 2 for 3 and is hitting .346/.528/.423 through his first eight games as a professional. Samuel Miranda and Tanner Nishioka also notched a pair of hits each.
GCL Orioles 5, GCL Red Sox 3
The GCL affiliate’s ninth-inning rally came up short in a loss to the O’s. The offense was paced by the returning Cole Brannen, who had missed two games after being hit by a pitch in his pro debut on June 29. The second-round pick went 2 for 3 with a walk, scoring two of the team’s three runs. The rehabbing Bobby Dalbec went 0 for 3 with a walk, but did not strike out after doing so six times in the first two games of his rehab assignment after surgery to remove a broken hamate bone. Starting pitcher Rayniel Adames settled in after allowing the game’s leadoff batter to score on a triple and a sacrifice fly, getting through the rest of his three innings while scattering a hit-by-pitch and a walk, striking out three.
DSL Red Sox 1, DSL Marlins 0
DSL Marlins 6, DSL Red Sox 5 (10 inn., makeup of June 16 postponement)
The DSL Sox put in work, playing 17 innings in coming away with a doubleheader split. Andres Jimenez and Shair Lacrus combined for a seven-inning no-hitter in the opener, allowing just one batter to reach on a sixth-inning walk allowed by Lacrus. Jimenez was perfect for five innings, whiffing six, before Lacrus closed things out. The game’s lone run came in when second baseman Freiberg Marin drove in first baseman Fabian Andrade in the fifth.
In the back-end of the double-dip, the Sox kept the game alive to re-tie the game once in extras after a Marlins run in the eighth, but failed to do so again in the tenth, mustering only a couple runs after the Fish had scored three. The Sox’s seven hits were scattered across the lineup, with third baseman Jesus Chacon mustering the lineup’s lone extra-base hit with a double. Alexander Martinez, who singled and walked in the first game while playing center field, went 0 for 3 but scored a couple runs and drove in another as the designated hitter in game two.
Player of the Day: Andres Jimenez was making his first start after pitching his way into the DSL club's rotation with four great relief appearances, and responded with five perfect innings. He is now up to 13 scoreless innings on the year having allowed just three hits and one walk while striking out 12. The 18-year-old right-hander pitched mostly out of the bullpen in his 2016 debut, posting a 6.25 ERA amidst an uninspiring line, but he is having no issues in his second DSL stint, breaking out as an interesting player to follow in a year where penalties incurred by the organization have made the DSL squad made up entirely of returnees an uninspiring club to follow.
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Characters / Clairvoyance (WIP)
Name: Clairvoyance Mirror
Race: Unicorn
Age: Young Adult
Coat: Neutral Grey
Mane: Snow White
Eye: White
Cute Mark: Light purple crystal ball with rainbow mist
Hobbies: Painting, Napping
Abilities/Skills: Future Sight; Vital Vision
With a neutral grey coat and white mane, whether or not Clair stands out visually depends on where he is. Once he does have attention, though, his eyes are usually what catch others. If the way he walks isn't enough of an indication, the milky white orbs he has in his head reveal that you can see much more of him than he can see of anything. He's short, slight of build, and basically looks small in every sense of the word, and even the way he walks looks like it's practically designed to let him take up as little space as possible, his legs passing close to the center of his mass and crowding together when he stands still, always making him look a bit off-balance.
Clair is a calm, slow pony. He doesn't do much, and wouldn't even really leave his home without Clarity's urging, which is probably for the best given his talent and his lack of control over it. His default mood is content, and flapping him from it is somewhat difficult. He prefers to spend time with his sister, though not necessarily doing anything with her, just being with her. The only hobby he's ever really picked up is painting, though being blind his pictures are largely unimpressive. Most of his days are spent at home while she's working, then with her if she goes on an excursion away from the house or if she stays home. He gets plenty of sleep.
He's not anti-social, but his talent and lack of control keep him from really making any real connections with anypony. He doesn't really mind, but neither does he object when his sister brings him places with the express purpose of trying to get him to make friends.
Canterlot / And the Dead Take it (April Fools' Day Post)
The guards at the entrance gate of Canterlot Castle crossed their spears to block the grey Unicorn's way as he advanced on them. "Halt!" they exclaimed, clanking their spears to reinforce the idea that he shouldn't be crossing them. "What business have you in the castle?" He ignores them and keeps walking. "Answer!" they shout at him, the Unicorn guard calling up a wall of magic, which the advancing Unicorn calmly passes through. The guards gasp and lunge at him, attempting to restrain him. Somehow their attempt falls short and they fall to the ground. How could they miss such a slow moving pony?
"Secure the gate!!" they call through, trying again and failing to restrain the advancing Unicorn. Another pair of guards arrive as the portcullis closes behind them, brandishing their spears. The advancing Unicorn ignores them, too, and the four jump at him, somehow completely missing him entirely and colliding with each other in midair. They fall into a tangled heap on the ground, getting back up just in time to see him pass straight through the portcullis and be accosted again by the guards behind, with the same basic results. The alarm is sounded and more of the guard mustered, a full panic taking the castle and the seemingly unstoppable pony making his way through.
All their efforts are for naught, as he keeps advancing inexorably around or through every barrier in his way until he reaches the balcony from which the princesses customarily address their subjects. He clears his throat, the sound magnified throughout the city, and a great hush falls over it as they wait for whatever was coming. After a long moment of silence, he speaks in a low rumble.
"Please be quiet. I've been trying to sleep."
Canterlot / Re: Remembrance
Clair salutes into the sky as she leaves. "Be the hero they need. Na-nu na-nu."
(No worries. It was my fault.)
"Perhaps you shouldn't say anything. Perhaps you don't have anything to say," Clair replies. He hadn't made it very far before Insta caught up with him. "Or perhaps you've already said it. Many who lose a loved one feel they left things unsaid in life, then pour their hearts out at their graves, unaware that oftentimes the one to whom they direct their messages can indeed hear them." He stops in his tracks. "Of course, the dead commonly have the same problem. Many have words they wish they could speak, words left unsaid when alive, and have none to hear them but others who have already shared their fate and are similarly restricted from speech. Perhaps you should try listening first. 'Tis calming for them to be able to talk with the living. Usually the only one they have opportunity to vent to is me."
Clair sighs and his horn glows, the glow enveloping Insta's ears as well. "You're now able to hear her for a time. Go and speak with her, if you wish to," he says as he resumes his glacial pace down the path, "though I'd understand if you did not. Most of the living do not consider the dead to be the best of company."
Clair gradually turns back toward the main walkway from the branch. "And did you believe yourself to be intruding, Miss Insta?" Slow as molasses, he begins walking, his hoofsteps inaudible. A gust of wind sends a pile of leaves into the path in front of him. His horn glows and they part, leaving the cobbles clear once more. "If you had," he continues, speech a bit faster than his pace but not by much, "I would question your decision to stay as long as you had."
His ear twitches and he flicks his ears in the direction of the grave Insta had left her scarf at. "I think somepony is trying to get your attention. She sounds rather irate."
Clair's head moves left and right in a slow shake. "No, she hasn't been here in...some time. Visiting her is quite beyond me at this point." He slowly unfolds his legs and raises himself up onto his hooves, scooping up the rose with his magic and depositing it in a fold in his robe. "This isn't the proper place for a gift for her either, but it seems appropriate, this being the last spot she was before leaving." It takes an eternity for him to get it out in his glacial pace of speech, but he does finish the sentence eventually.
Clair gradually rolls back right-side up, moving a leaf out of the way before he does so. "The best sister a colt could ask for," he says after another long pause, setting a forehoof down at the edge of the grave.
Clair's ears flick when the approaching mare asks her question, then he stays still for a long moment, his mane and tail not even moving in the slight breeze. The rose rolls again, and his horn glows, steadying it and putting it back in its place, smoothing the grass to the sides to form a little groove which helps keep it in place.
"Perfectly alright," he intones slowly.
A stray leaf falls from a nearby tree, drifting gracefully in a gentle spiral until it passes Clair's head, his ear moving to make way for it. As it settles on the cold cobbled path he does as well, lowering from a sitting position to lie down, his chin settled on his forehooves bare inches from the edge of the grave. Another long moment passes before a slow, low rumble escapes his throat. "Happy birthday, Clarity."
His horn glows a dim white and from the sleeve of his robe emerges a black-stemmed yellow rose, which he places on the center of the grave. "I brought you a present. Your favorite." A gust of wind comes up and rolls the flower to the edge, and Clair rolls it back. "I'll put it with the rest later, but I knew you'd want to see it. You know I have trouble with colors."
Clair rolls over onto his back, his hooves curling up above him, mane falling from his face. "...I miss you."
Book of Ideas / Re: Death and the Dead: A Brief Guide (Headcanon)
*Placeholder post in case of additions*
Book of Ideas / Death and the Dead: A Brief Guide (Headcanon)
What happens to one's self when one dies? First, a summary of terms for the uninitiated.
Glossary (Non-alphabetized)
--Body
A Body is a physical form inhabited by a Spirit. It is the vessel by which a Being physically interacts with the world. A Body is near-ubiquitously biological in nature and there exist schools of thought that any structure not biological is not truly a Body.
--Spirit
A Spirit/psyche, commonly mistakenly called a soul, can be called truly the essence of a Being, the controlling force or the Being itself. A Body without a Spirit is inert, though not necessarily dead, and a Spirit not inhabiting a Body is largely impotent, unable to properly act on the world.
--Soul
A Soul is the term ascribed to the proper union between a Spirit and its Body. When separate, the Body and Spirit are powerless. When together, the whole is greater than the sum of their parts.
--Death
The breaking of a Soul by splitting the Spirit from the Body.
----Natural Death
The occurrence of a Soul splitting when the Spirit becomes too weak to inhabit the body or the Body becomes unable to host a Spirit. For purposes of this explanation, this includes even unnatural causes, as the result is largely the same. Going through Natural Death is very taxing on the Body or Spirit when the other fails to maintain the Soul.
----Artificial Death
The occurrence of a Soul splitting when the Spirit becomes separated from the Body when both are still viable.
--Coma
The state a Body is left in when it is still viable when the Spirit leaves it. Without a spirit, the Body will usually become unviable shortly.
--Revenance
The state a Spirit is left in when it is still viable when separated from its Body.
--Ascension
The term used to describe when a Spirit leaves the world. It's commonly believed that good, virtuous Spirits have a paradise awaiting them in Heaven while the evil, malicious ones have an eternity of torment awaiting them in Hell. The truth of it is completely unknown, though, as no Spirit has ever returned from Ascension.
--Possession
A Possession is what happens when a spirit inhabits a body it is not native to. This can happen for a myriad of reasons, the most common form being post-mortem.
--Corpomancy
Used by Necromancers and Vitamancers alike, Corpomancy is magic pertaining to the Body. It consists of magic that affects or detects the physical forms of Beings without affecting the Spirit.
--Phasmancy
Mainly the realm of Shamans and Mediums, Phasmancy is magic of the Spirit. Very few are able to use it and fewer still are able to understand it.
--Animancy
Likely the rarest and least understood form of Magic, Animancy is the intersectional magic of the Body, Spirit, and Soul. An Animancer is able to affect Bodies' bonds with Spirits and vice versa. Most master-level Unicorns are able to attain only a minimal grasp of Animancy over the course of their lives and there is no record of any true masters of the craft. In theory, a master Animancer would be able to attain immortality and facilitate true Resurrection, circumventing death altogether.
So, now that we have some common terms, we can begin the lesson.
In natural reproduction, at some point between conception and birth a Spirit is joined with a Body to form a new Soul. This Soul is what is recognized as being the Being which inhabits the body. However, as we all know, nobody lives forever. Eventually, the Body breaks down until it is no longer habitable by the Spirit. Oftentimes, the Spirit also weakens during its tenure in the body. At any point that either becomes too weak to maintain the union, Natural Death occurs. It's common knowledge what happens to the Body at this point. Less-commonly known is what becomes of the Spirit.
Death and the Fate of the Spirit
The biggest contributing factor to the immediate fate of the Spirit is the relative strength of it when it separates from the body. If Natural Death occurs when the Spirit becomes too weak, most of the time it will immediately Ascend, moving on to whatever lies after this world. Oftentimes the Spirit will also Ascend if the Body is the failing member of the Soul, as Natural Death is very taxing on the Spirit.
However, it's not entirely uncommon for a Natural Death to occur when the Spirit is more than strong enough to maintain itself even through the traumatic experience of separating from its Body. When this happens, the Spirit enters a state of Revenance, where it will remain in the world on something of a separate plane of existence from what most know. While in this state, the Spirit is fully able to observe the world but, with a few exceptions, unable to act upon it. Most Revenants use this time to reflect on their lives and attempt to prepare for Ascension.
When separated from their bodies through Natural Death, Spirits decay until they are no longer capable of staying in the world. In most cases, this decay is much faster after Death than before, with roughly 20 years of decay per year they spend as Revenants. When their strength is run out, they leave the world and move on to whatever is next.
Circumstances of Revenance
As stated, Revenance is the state that falls on a Spirit when the Soul is broken but it remains viable itself. However, what happens to a Spirit during its stage of Revenance is quite variable. Physical barriers mean very little to a Revenant, but not all can travel at will.
Sometimes the bond of a Spirit isn't completely broken from its Body. In cases like this, the Revenant is unable to stray too far from its Body. It's because of this possibility that graveyards are the most common gathering places for Spirits who have not yet Ascended.
At other times, a particularly strong emotional bond may exist between a Spirit and a loved one, perhaps a significant other or family member. In such cases, the Revenant may be bound to the other, forced to stay close to them throughout its Revenance. On the other end of the spectrum, a bond of malice or hate toward another can stop a Revenant from approaching too close to a certain Being, place, or object.
At other times, Spirits have been known to, after Death, inhabit objects. Sometimes completely random, but more commonly an object of significance to the Being or, in the cases of violent deaths, occasionally the object used to end their union with their Body.
In extremely rare cases, Spirits have entered another Body after Death. Results of this union are a form of Possession, though the extent of each Possession varies.
If not one of these kinds of Revenance, a Spirit is able to roam the world at will until they Ascend.
The most accomplished Animancers are able to start their cycle anew through reincarnation, though most of them are unable to retain their memories from previous lives.
Revenance and Actions After Death
Most Revenants are completely powerless to affect the world around them, but there are circumstances where a Revenant can have profound effects.
All Revenants have slight ability to influence feelings and emotions of those around them. This is most evident for Revenants near their anchor points if they have one. It's only enough to shift mood, though, never enough to change emotion completely.
If a Revenant is restrained to a certain area, around their body or loved one, they have limited ability to affect events and objects. The closer they are to their anchor point, the greater influence they have, though it's still usually severely limited. The most ability they have in most cases is to flap cloth, lift extremely light objects, or shift very light objects.
If a Revenant inhabits an object, they have a limited form of communication with any Being in direct physical or magical contact with their habitation. In some cases they can use actual words, other times they can only communicate with raw emotion. Some Revenants that inhabit objects also have greater power to move the object they inhabit, able to alter the course/momentum of a weapon or tool for example.
In the case of Possession, the amount of power the Revenant holds is highly variable. Some have only the power to observe through their host Body's senses. Others are able to communicate with their host or influence the functioning of their Body. The most powerful are even occasionally known to take partial or complete control of the body.
In all cases of Revenance, there are circumstances that can enhance their power and ability to act. The more Revenants in a location, the greater each one's power becomes. There is some magic that can empower them as well. However, the best known (though still not very known) contributing factor in Revenants' power levels is time. Nightmare Night's date isn't entirely coincidental, as it was placed on an annual date of importance. On Nightmare Night, all Revenants experience an increase in their ability to influence the world for unknown reasons. There are other times that affect their power, but Nightmare Night is the most important.
Interactions with Spirits
Most of the Living go about their business with no idea of the Spirits in the world around them. There is, however, magic that can be used to see and communicate with them. This is the realm of Mediums and Shamans through the use of Phasmancy. Medium is used to refer to any Being who can communicate with Revenants, and most are unable to do any more than that. Shamans, though, are able to empower and direct Revenants to do their bidding, oftentimes fueling their magic with the power of the Revenants themselves.
Any variety of Revenants' bonds are able to be molded or muted by trained Phasmancers. They can capture Spirits, put them into objects or other Bodies, feed off of their energy, exorcise them from possessed Bodies or cause one to possess a Body, or any number of other things. They can ward against them, empower them, or some of them can even force Ascension. However, most forms of Phasmancy are considered one of the blackest kinds of magic and frowned upon greatly.
Any Phasmancy that would put a Spirit into another body or remove one also requires there to be a Corpomancer present as well, though not always. Most Corpomancers who would do this are Necromancers, another quite reviled branch of magic. For this reason, Phasmancy is one of the most secretive and regulated schools of magic.
Animancers, however, are able to combine Corpomancy and Phasmancy to produce different power entirely. Though there are no records of any truly skilled practitioners of Animancy, theoretically a master Animancer would be able to manipulate life and death to a great degree, to the point where, if they chose, they could exist outside the cycle entirely, becoming immortal, or even enact True Resurrection, reforming Souls from their component parts of Body and Spirit. It's likely for the best that nobody has ever become truly skilled in it.
Canterlot / Remembrance
The air is especially chill this Autumn day, the wind more biting than usual despite the brightness of the sun. An early and stiff reminder of what the next season would bring, it's enough to keep some ponies inside and encourage others to wear at least one layer more than usual for extended outings. Not that most would need a reason to stay away from this place at most times. A cemetery isn't most ponies' idea of a place to go voluntarily anyway. Not that this stops all of them, of course. Even today there is the occasional mourner, bringing bouquets, individual flowers, or nothing but their tears to the final resting place of a loved one come and passed away. Today even the trees weep leaves for the ended lives they preside over, a more or less constant cascade of oranges, reds, yellows, and browns as the season progresses towards a time when the bark will be completely bare, lifeless husks until Spring comes to breathe green into the world again.
Clairvoyance takes no notice of any of it as he walks the cobbled walk along the aisles. The cold of the air matters to him naught on his ponderous trek to his destination, his hooves making no sound to mark his progress. A mourner, having delivered her burden already, nods to him as she passes him going the other way, a tear falling from her face to make a soft plip where it lands. He takes no note of it either, nor the contrast of her black garb versus the pristine whiteness of his robe. His pace is slow but constant as it draws him inexorably farther and farther from his house.
After the better part of an hour from when he began, he turns down the last turning in the last lot and walks down it to the very end. At the terminus of that walkway is a single headstone. It's possible that it was once elaborately carved and might have even been larger, but the years have worn it down, smoothing the stone until it looks rather unremarkable, the letters that once marred its surface indecipherable. The earth in front of the headstone is so long settled that if it wasn't for the grave marker there would be no way to tell it had ever been disturbed. It's in front of this grave that Clairvoyance turns, lays his rump down on the cold cobbles, and sits silently, motionless aside from the sway of his mane in the chill wind.
Characters / Groundskeeper Clairvoyance
Gender: Stallion
Age: Indeterminate
Smooth is the word that comes to mind when looking at Clairvoyance. Smooth. He sports a smooth slate-grey coat with smooth, unshorn fetlocks falling over his smooth hooves. Climb up from his hind hooves to his smooth flank and you'll see his cutie mark of a violet crystal ball shrouded in rainbow mist, the only color anywhere on his body. Above that, his tail is mid-length, a white mass that teardrops downward smoothly, and his mane is a matching white that smoothly cascades down, crowning his head and usually covering some of his smooth face. Under his mane, his eyes are a smooth white that betrays his blindness. A smooth horn sprouts from his forehead, its clockwise spiral long and - you guessed it - smooth.
He stands a hair shorter than the average fully grown stallion, but the smoothness of his features, which you're likely tired of hearing about, makes it difficult to pinpoint his age without asking. If you do ask, the voice he uses to reply is a smooth, deep, and soothing bass with the consistency of molten chocolate.
Not that you'll see most of him a majority of the time. At nearly all times, he clothes himself in a loose white robe or a thick white cloak, depending on who knows what.
There are two words that would most well describe Clairvoyance's personality. The first is patient, though most would likely use the word slow. Everything he does is done with a measured pace, from walking to talking. Doing things quickly never seems to occur to him, and being in a hurry is the furthest thing from his mind. Nothing fazes his constant but inchworm pace in whatever he does. This is not to say he is unable to move quickly, and he does indeed seem to get around without appearing to go slowly, but his natural inclination is to a tortoise pace.
The second would be quiet. His rich voice carries well, but isn't loud, and even his hooves almost seem hesitant to even make a sound when he walks. He tends toward silence when not directly spoken to and even in conversation he often abstains from responses to anything aside from direct inquiry. In word and mannerism, it's almost like he tries to make as little ripple in the world around him as possible.
Clairvoyance is the groundskeeper of Canterlot's Requiem Perpetua Cemetery, one of the nicer but more obscure graveyards. Nopony is exactly certain where he came from or when, but he's been there longer than the current owner and there is no record of when his employment commenced. He lives on the edge of the grounds in a small house likewise without public record of his occupancy.
He is seldom seen anywhere off of the grounds. He receives a monthly delivery of food and other necessities delivered to his door and has very little inclination to engage in any social events whatsoever. It's not known if he receives any invitations. The only time he's known to leave the cemetery is when something breaks and needs replaced.
As would be expected, his job often has him trimming hedges, mowing grass, and any number of other maintenance tasks on the grounds, where he spends a good portion of his time. He apparently does an immaculate job at it, too, every blade of grass cut to the same length and every bush shaped without a single leaf out of place approximately every day. This is despite his apparent blindness, which most would believe would keep him from optimally performing his duties.
When not working, Clairvoyance also spends a fair amount of time walking the paths in the cemetery. Often when he does, he can be heard talking, seemingly to himself. He does not mumble when he speaks, in fact speaking quite clearly, but if he speaks to anypony else at these times it's nopony that anypony else can see. To himself or not, this speaking is largely the extent of his social life as he rarely leaves and has few to no visitors.
Extra Details:
When standing still, Clairvoyance tends to place his hooves all close together beneath him, causing his back to arch and looking somewhat precariously balanced.
At times, his eyes seem to glow a dim white.
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XPRIZE Announces New Learning Initiative and Video Game Design Challenge That Invites Next Generation of Global Innovators to Take Control of Their Future
Foundation pledges thousands of dollars in competition prizes for entrants between the ages of 10 and 18 years old to build games that depict a better future for humanity
LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Today, XPRIZE — the world’s leader in designing and operating incentive competitions to solve humanity’s grand challenges — announced XPRIZE Connect, a new learning initiative that will democratize access to learning through technology, and allow a new generation of innovators to follow their interests and develop needed skills for the oncoming, fully digital world.
The first major XPRIZE Connect initiative will be the launch of Code Games: A Global Game-Making Challenge that invites young people ages 10 to 18 years old to design and/or develop a video game across the themes of Exploration, Environment, and Human Equity. Supported by Endless Network, which leverages philanthropic initiatives, partnerships, and educational games to make technology accessible, fun, and safe for all, and developed in collaboration with E-Line Media, entrants could win one of multiple $1,000 prizes when taking the challenge to design and develop an original game about any topic made with a variety of freely available creation tools as well as written game designs.
A global collection of partners have joined the Code Games mission to motivate the next generation to learn critical skills for the future, including the TGR Foundation, Games for Change, Global Game Jam, BuildBox, Internet of Elephants, LA County Alliance for Boys & Girls Clubs, Teach the World Foundation, University of Texas, Dallas, Dreams Uncorporated, Internews, and FilmAid.
Code Games is inspired by a roster of past and current global incentivized competitions from XPRIZE that have accelerated breakthroughs across the industries of private space travel, ocean health, global education, and more. Imagination is the first step in creating change, and Code Games provides competitors a chance to imagine the future they want to create.
“We live in a moment in time when we have a unique opportunity to re-imagine the future, and who better to do that than the ones with the most active imagination, our young generations,” said Anousheh Ansari, CEO of XPRIZE. “This new learning challenge will help us cultivate the vital skills of our next generation of innovators, those who will be the inventors and creators of the radical breakthroughs that will enable us to build the hopeful and abundant future we all want to live in.”
In addition to Code Games, XPRIZE Connect will provide year-round opportunities for learners to create and experience an equitable, sustainable, and positive future through challenges, resources, and experiences. XPRIZE Connect will also integrate Youth Challenges into each XPRIZE going forward, packaging the themes and missions into mediums better suited to reach the innovators of tomorrow.
“Most of the trends and critical questions about the future of learning have been accelerated by COVID-19,” said Emily Church, Executive Director of Education and Learning at XPRIZE. “We want young go-getters around the world to be inspired to learn about and shape new technologies that can help build a better future for us all.”
“Endless is proud to partner with the XPRIZE foundation to launch the Code Games challenge. Tech literacy is a tool for equalization and stepping stone towards a brighter future — and the Code Games competition is designed to inspire the next generation of talented creators to unlock their potential,” said Endless Network Founder Matt Dalio. “We can’t wait to see the competitors’ designs!”
Entrants can win a prize package featuring one of multiple $1,000 USD cash prizes when taking on the challenge to design and develop an original video game about any topic made with a variety of freely available creation tools as well as written game designs. Grand prizes of $2,000 USD will be awarded to the best games in the following topic areas: Equity, Exploration, and Environment. Entry is free and submissions of one of the following are due by October 14, 2020:
A playable game made using any tool provided that tool is consistent with the requirements of the guidelines.
A written video game design document that provides a clear description of the overall vision for the game, target audience, genre, core gameplay, timing/pacing of play experience, visual style, and (if applicable to the game) characters and storyline.
Following the submission deadline, a panel of independent judges consisting of video game experts and leaders in culture will identify the competitors whose submissions qualify to move forward to phase two, which will include a formal review and scoring process based off of the following criteria: Creative Vision, Engaging Gameplay, Balance, and Technical Execution.
Additional details about the competition can be found at codegameschallenge.org.
XPRIZE
XPRIZE designs and operates multi-million-dollar, global competitions to accelerate the development of technological breakthroughs that benefit humanity. Active competitions include the $10 Million ANA Avatar XPRIZE and the $5 Million IBM Watson AI XPRIZE, the $20 Million NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE, and the $10 Million Rainforest XPRIZE. For more information, visit xprize.org.
Founded in 2011, the Endless Network is an independent collection of companies and initiatives focused on improving technological literacy, expanding internet access, and promoting coding education. By leveraging philanthropic efforts, partnerships, and impact gaming, the Endless Network seeks to meet the technology needs of underserved and unconnected communities while making learning fun and safe for all. Learn more at www.endlessnetwork.com.
Caden Kinard, XPRIZE
caden.kinard@xprize.org
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Pigskin Physics
Give me an "F!"
Give me an "=!"
Give me an "M!"
Give me an "A!"
What’s that spell!?
Newton's Second Law!!
Force! Inertia! Momentum! Rah Rah Rah!
Alright, so chances of that particular cheer erupting at your Super Bowl party last night were probably pretty slim. But physics is everywhere and the big game is absolutely chock full of it. This article in Saturday's New York Times speculates what Isaac Newton might have to say if he were in the announcer's booth for the Super Bowl. A body in motion will remain in motion unless acted on by an outside force, like a defensive tackle. Believe it or not, a really hard football tackle, like the one by Fitzgerald and Breaston trying to stop Harrison in the second quarter, packs more of a punch than a space shuttle launch.
"The best hitters accelerate at the last instant. That final jolt of speed allows them to apply a bigger force to their victim," Professor Timothy Gay of the University of Nebraska in Saturday's article. Gay knows the physics of the gridiron well, having written The Physics of Football in 2004. The book is extensive, explaining everything from forces and trajectories of punts, to the effect of a soggy field on the ball. It even has an entire chapter devoted to "The Wave."
Last year we here at Physics Central hosted our own in-depth look at football physics. We held the first ever "Nano-Bowl," an online video contest where participants explained the physics of the game. You can see the winners, or take a look at all of the 27 entries we received. If you like what you see, we've got another contest looking for the best videos on the physics of toys.
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Band: MARE
Genres: F'n Heavy / Post-Rock / Post-Hardcore / Post-Metal / Hardcore / Doom / Ambient / Experimental / Choir Singing? I dunno...
Related artists: ?.
Years Active: 2004-2005 + reunion
Song: "They Sent You"
Album: "Mare"
Label(s): Hydra Head Records / Daymare Recordings / Translation Loss Records
This post's artist is from the September 2014 Mix. This is track #14.
You can download the September Mix#9 right here or get the new October Mix#10 here.
For fans of: Isis, Shahman, Shoto, Knut, Quiet Lakes, Mogwai, Radiohead, Boris, The End, Tool, Into The Moat, Between The Buried And Me, Dillinger Escape Plan, Mercy Ties, Warren Of Ohms, Buried Inside, Ken Mode, Pelican and Cannibal Corpse.
Okay, so apparently you can start a band, release a single EP on the massive Hydra Head Industries record label, tour with Pelican, Isis and Mono (among others) and then break up and be remembered forever as one of the most interesting and heavy bands in music. MARE did just that.
Hailing from Burlington, Ontario Canada MARE dropped a mere 4 (or 5, depending on how you look at it) songs on their only cd/12"EP but holy shit do they hit hard. Simply put, they are dark, doomy, massive, crushing and tormented tracks that mingle with other genres the way Dillinger Escape Plan did with their 'Irony is a Dead Scene' EP, but this is much slower and demonic with very fluid genre changeovers. The guitars wail to the point of sounding like the soundtrack to a murder scene or trudge along with extremely slow chugging riffs that bring on the doom, for sure, and then the next thing you know you are swaying along to some jazzy rock'n'roll.
The vocals are probably the most obvious and interesting part about MARE, although the instrumentals are very original and stimulating in their own right. The vocalist/guitarist shrieks like a bat, croons like an angel, bellows from the depths of his anus and can toss around some improvisational harmonized church/gospel singing.
So the self titled 'Mare' EP starts with "Anisette", which is fucking heavy as fuck. Anguished screams amidst dominate this very Pelican-sounding track.
"They Sent You" is the classic track with a beautiful clean vocal beginning that borders on a chant, which eventually leads to a pretty standard (by MARE standards, of course) and straightforward instrumental section that borders between heavy, uncomfortable and peaceful. Theeeeeeeeen there's the death riff at 4:14 MARE includes what I call the "murder riff", which would fit perfectly as a soundtrack to a death scene (probably an epic one). Seriously, how has this not been used in a movie or something? To close this craziness off, they quickly switch to and end on a jazz riff. That's a hell of a lot of moods in one track! I saw this song live when they went on tour with Pelican and Mono and they were the opening act but stole the show. The vocal harmonization at the beginning was even better than the heavier stuff and my wife and I were completely blown away.
"Tropics" is a slow, lulling lounge track with no heaviness in any way, save for that deep bass that seems to rattle the very fiber of the song.
"Palaces" sounds like a massive, oppressive, Lord Sauron inspired tower should sound like, complete with shrieking gargoyles and bellowing ogres. The middle section is really chill but don't expect the song to end on a soft note like that, as it disintegrates into noise just before 5 minutes and then crushes your life until just before the 7-minute mark.
"Untitled" is over 4 minutes of the vocal harmonization I was talking about earlier. Surprisingly, this really satisfies me. It's really soothing and quite beautiful. The song closes with a final monstrous gasp before fading into nothing. Hot damn.
So yeah, if you missed the boat a decade ago then it's time to get the fuck on.
2004 - Mare cd/12"EP
2005 - We Reach: The Music of the Melvins cover comp (contributed "Nightgoat")
(2012) MARE - Full Reunion live video
(2004) MARE - "They Sent You" (from 'Mare')
(2004) MARE - "Palaces" (from 'Mare')
(2004) MARE - "Anisette" (from 'Mare')
(2005) MARE - "Night Goat" (from 'Melvins cover album')
MARE mp3 ST download / additional links
Reunion Show
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Decorative Arts in Canada
A Canadian Cigar Box Sampler
October 1, 2008 July 23, 2015 Admin Account
Article by Sheldon Posen
n 1893, six men from Zorra Township in south-western Ontario, veterans of the region’s famed Highland Games, beat all comers at the Chicago World’s Fair and went home with the cup. In proud commemoration, the local Woodstock Cigar Manufacturing Company created a new brand, The Tug. They packed the cigars in boxes with a custom-designed, full colour, inner label. It shows a line of five brawny men in matching blue jerseys holding the end of a thick rope, with their white sweatered, red-tied captain standing behind them. At their feet are printed the men’s names, a picture of their silver trophy, and their title: Zorra Tug of War Team–Champions of America. If empty cigar boxes commonly store material things like fishing lures or children’s marbles, this one stores something abstract: individual identity, local boosterism, regional sport and ethnicity, contemporary costume and appearance, and national patriotism, circa 1897. More than a hundred years after its ephemeral contents went up in smoke, this cigar box stores a vivid and little known piece of Canadian history.
There are countless others that do the same. From the 1880s through the 1920s, cigars were the most popular form of tobacco consumed in the western world. Long distance distribution was slow and expensive, so like most goods, cigars were locally manufactured for local use. Canada had more than 1500 cigar factories from Fredericton to Lethbridge, Halifax to Victoria. Each made sometimes dozens of brands. By law, cigars had to be sold out of easy-to-tax boxes in the tobacco shops. The tobacconists displayed the boxes, side by side with their colourful inner lids open, in glass cases where they competed for customer attention like so many miniature billboards.
The manufacturers were under pressure to put eye-catching images on their boxes. They could buy generic labels from the U.S., but many preferred Canadian content and ordered labels from lithographers like Adam Beck and Burland of Montreal, Howell and Duncan in Hamilton, Southam and London Litho in London, and in Toronto, Grant, Harris, and most abundantly, the serial conglomerate Clark Litho; Barclay, Clark, & Co.; Rolph & Clark; and Rolph Clark Stone. Their labels might depict important news and issues of the day, political and show business celebrities, national symbols, puns and funny situations, ethnic stereotypes, beautiful women, sporting men, or scenes from everyday life across Canada. Small print runs were economical and turnaround was fast, so labels could be of relevance to Mr. Everysmoker.
Legally, the boxes were supposed to be destroyed when their contents had been sold. But they were just too useful in a pre-throwaway society. A good many wound up being kept to store things in. A hundred years later, surviving cigar boxes give us a picture of Canada when it was young. They show us something of what Canadians were thinking, what local and world events touched their lives, who was important to them, what their sense of humour might have been, and what it meant for them to be Canadians.
The Canadian Museum of Civilization in Gatineau,
Quebec, has perhaps the largest collection of old Canadian
cigar boxes in the world. Each tells a different story. Here
are four of them: one is about a big incident in a small
place; another about early Canadian symbols; one depicts
an industry that helped forge the nation; and one shows
that making fun of politicians is an old Canadian sport.
Jack Canuck
Within a few years of Confederation, Canadians were
developing an iconography of symbols to represent the
new Dominion to each other and abroad. Some of these
images—like the beaver and the maple leaf—were already
widely used and recognized. Others may have been
helped into the national consciousness through the medium
of cigar box labels.
One such label was designed by Rolph & Clark in
the late 1890s for cigar manufacturer F. Keil of Waterloo,
Ontario. It highlights two national symbols that had just
been introduced to Canadians: the Red Ensign flag, featuring
the composite arms of Canada’s provinces; and a
figure promoted in political newspaper cartoons as an
icon for the nation, Jack Canuck. Both appear on this 1922
version of the label, along with a giant log and maple
leaves, flanked by iconographic Canadian scenes: beavers
building a dam and farmers reaping wheat. Cigar labels
don’t come more symbol-packed than this.
A personal story from the curator: “I began systematically
collecting old Canadian cigar boxes for the Museum
when I acquired, in connection with general research
on Canadian tobacco history, a century-old box
called Jumbo, made by B.F. Honsinger of St. Thomas, Ontario.
On its label was a picture of Jumbo the Elephant,
star attraction of P.T. Barnum’s circus in the 1880s. It
made me curious: why Jumbo the Elephant on a cigar
box from a small town in southwestern Ontario?
A little digging revealed that Jumbo had been killed
in St. Thomas on September 15, 1885 while touring with
the circus. He had been taken by his trainer for an evening
walk with a baby elephant, Tom Thumb, by the
railroad tracks. Tom Thumb strayed onto the tracks just
as an unscheduled train approached. Jumbo protectively
placed himself between the train and Tom Thumb, and
was killed. It made news worldwide. Local cigar maker
B.F. Honsinger knew a marketing opportunity when he
saw one. He put Jumbo’s name and picture on a product
line. In the label artwork, he included a newspaper likeness
of Jumbo’s trainer, and an image of classical columns
in ruins—part of the Victorian iconography of death.
As a curator I realized that, just as this cigar box had
once been part of the news, today it was full of information
for Canadians who might never have heard of Jumbo
the Elephant or St. Thomas, Ontario, or known there was
a tragic connection between place and pachyderm. I began
looking for more such boxes.”
Intercolonial
Railways were very much on the minds of Canadians
during the decades following Confederation. Prodigious
feats of labour and engineering built iron roads from sea
to sea, as political leaders rose and fell with their railway
policies, western settlement by non-indigenous peoples
expanded, and economic scandals multiplied. The railway
craze reached fever pitch at the turn of the 20th century.
By 1914, no fewer than three systems girded the country.
The Intercolonial cigar box label began as a generic
lithograph, probably American, showing an old locomotive
complete with “Smoker” car. The Canadian cigar
manufacturer overprinted it with a title to depict the
very first Canadian railway. The Intercolonial was begun
in the 1850s to link the Maritimes to the Province of
Canada (present-day Ontario and Quebec). Its completion
was made a condition of Confederation. Sanford Fleming
was in charge of surveying and engineering. By 1876, the
Intercolonial ran 1,100 kilometres from Halifax to the St.
Lawrence and eventually connected to the rest of the
country via the Grand Trunk Railway. The Intercolonial
was vital to the development of Atlantic Canada, and
Canada itself would not have existed without its being
built. Never a commercial success, it was made part of the
Canadian National Railway in 1919.
Noisy Boys
If a politician’s picture in the newspaper caught the
customer’s eye, it might catch his eye in the cigar display
case—according to Canadian cigar manufacturers.
Thus there are several brands invoking contemporary
politicians—Laurier had two bearing his name and
very distinguished portrait; the fathers of Confederation
appear on the label of Confederation; and Prime Minister
J. S. D. Thompson’s entire cabinet is shown on a
box called The Cabinet.
But these were more or less serious depictions. Noisy
Boys is virtually a Canadian political cartoon on a cigar
box. It is based on the “Noisy Boys” or “Recess” label by
New York lithographer Heffron & Phelps (ca. 1880–1890).
Montreal cigar maker J. M. Fortier, who in fact made the
original, seems to have had the label customized for a
second line featuring cartoon likenesses of politicians of
the day, both Conservative and Liberal. From left to right
(omitting the “teacher”), they appear to be: Louis-François-
Georges Baby, Sir Edgar Dewdney, John Henry Pope,
Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, Edward Blake, Sir Mackenzie
Bowell, Sir John A. Macdonald, Sir Hector-Louis Langevin
and Sir Alexander Mackenzie.
These boxes and many more are part of an online
exhibit, Canada in a Box: Cigar Containers that Store Our Past
1883-1935 at the CMC website. On display are hundreds of
beautiful cigar box labels that worked to sell cigars; they
do a pretty good selling job on Canadian history too.
Sheldon Posen is Curator of Canadian Folklife at the Canadian
Museum of Civilization.
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Sexual Expression and its Subsequent Suppression: And So Disco Begins
black RADIO BECOMES BLACK DISCO
In the 1930’s and 1940’s of the United States, white broadcasters owned black radio, and white announcers stifled black music (Cooper, 159). Air time dedicated to black musicality featured gospel music because it contained “nothing offensive or potentially seditious” (Cooper, 159). By failing to hire black announcers, white broadcasters deprived black musicality of its cultural context as well as of “any power to affect America’s social status-quo” (Cooper, 159). Radio refused autonomy over the black community’s own musical history. The struggle for authentic space and expression driven by members of the black community
speak for yourself, be yourself, and create your own context and community, find a space that is your own, embrace your rights to be loud, open, and honest about your identity and your
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Yet, when the WDIA station of Memphis, Tennessee became the first “all black-formatted station featuring black on-air announcers,” black DJs began to thrive.
Spinning storied tracks that conversed with their audiences, black DJs demonstrated the talent, complexity, and necessity of black music. They became “community leaders” around the nation (Cooper, 159); along with black entrepreneurs, black DJs helped to engender a new culture of music: disco.
diverse disco cults
According to Carol Cooper, the author of “Disco Knights: Hidden Heroes of the New York Dance Music Underground,” the “1960s and 1970s were the golden decades for diversity in radio, and the 1970s and 1980s were years of tremendous progress and diversity in clubland” (160).
New York’s five boroughs were “particularly full of social and technological experimentation” (Cooper, 160). Black entrepreneurs began to transform college frat fundraisers and town rent parties into professional entertainment platforms.
The Manhattan clubs of Leviticus, Othello’s, Pegasus, and Down Under were birthed from the “art of throwing a party people would pay to attend” (Cooper, 160). And though these “black-oriented clubs” were strongly influenced by popular black radio, none of these clubs attracted the same audience (Cooper, 160). They were diverse.
Carol Cooper believes that “The biggest myth of late 1970s disco portrayed the disco audience as homogeneous in attitude and composition” (Cooper, 160). Disco has always been a “vast, multiethnic subculture” of music, whose various establishments served particular communities.
Disco “cults” fell along certain group categories such as gay discos, “new wave” discos, or “black mainstream discos” (Cooper, 161).
The Saint Dance Club is seen by many as the culmination of gay disco.
setting the stage for the saint
Bruce Mailman was an entrepreneur based in New York City, U.S.A. who was integral in providing sensual havens for the gay community during the 1970s and 1980s.
In the eras of the Sexual Revolution and of disco culture, Bruce Mailman endeavored to engineer an oasis of open desire and free expression in which gay men could engage.
To do this, Mailman first created the St. Marks Baths, a bathhouse described by author Jonathan McEwan as an “exciting place in which to enjoy the pleasures of the then unhindered sexual revolution” (36). Later, Bruce Mailman founded the Saint disco club, which, to many, came to represent the apotheosis of the disco era.
The unusually large size of the Saint’s memorial block attempts to communicate its extraordinary impact on New York’s gay history. The quilt’s size symbolizes both the magnificent breadth of the physical Saint as well as its metaphorical significance in history.
Stories of the Saint – Chapter 5: The Clubs
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Cooper, Carol. “Disco Knights: Hidden Heroes of the New York Dance Music Underground.” Social Text, no. 45 (1995): 159–65. https://doi.org/10.2307/466679.
Disco emerged out of a struggle for communication and representation.
In the 1930’s and 1940’s United States, “so-called” black radio was owned by white broadcasters, and black music was stifled by white announcers (Cooper, 159). Air time dedicated to black musicality featured gospel music because it contained “nothing offensive or potentially seditious” (Cooper, 159). White broadcasters intended to generate profit by attempting to appeal to black audiences, however such attempts were insulting and selfishly motivated by potential monetary gain. Broadcasters exploited black music by depriving it of its cultural context as well as of “any power to affect America’s social status-quo” (Cooper, 159) by failing to hire black announcers.
The first “all black-formatted station featuring black on-air announcers” was the WDIA station located in Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.A. (Cooper, 159). WDIA was the only station at the time that catered to black listeners, so the station was able to charge advertisers higher prices for air time. Soon, broadcaster chains around the nation began to adopt black-formatted radio stations for the sole purpose of achieving a bigger profit. White corporations realized that they could benefit from recruiting black on-air personalities, and so they did. Yet, black disc jockeys became like “community leaders” across the nation (Cooper, 159). Spinning storied tracks that conversed with their audiences, black DJs demonstrated the talent, complexity, and necessity of black music.
According to Carol Cooper, the author of this article, the “1960s and 1970s were the golden decades for diversity in radio, and the 1970s and 1980s were years of tremendous progress and diversity in clubland” (160). New York’s five boroughs were “particularly full of social and technological experimentation” (Cooper, 160). College frat fundraisers and town rent parties demanded a jock “with personality and great music” (Cooper, 160) Once black entrepreneurs advanced this festive design, charging people to attend those functions developed into a professional entertainment platform (160). Manhattan clubs such as Leviticus, Othello’s, Pegasus, and Down Under were birthed from the “art of throwing a party people would pay to attend” (160). Yet though these “black-oriented clubs” were strongly influenced by popular black radio, none of these clubs attracted the same audience (160). They were diverse.
DIVERSIty, retaliation, CULTS
Disco has always been a “vast, multiethnic subculture” of music, whose various establishments served particular groups. The Copacabana nightclub was “predominantly Latin,” whereas Disco 2000 attracted Italians; Steve Rubell, the co-owner of Studio 54 described his club as the “white, Hollywood version of Leviticus” (qtd. in Cooper, 160). Yet much of the music played at these various disco nightclubs was “uptempo R&B” (Cooper, 160).
However, when record promoters wanted to test “fresh sounds,” they used DJs to expose “different kinds of listeners simultaneously” to their potential hits (Cooper, 160). Personality jocks with a “fanatical following” could often determine “hit records” within a week based off of their crowds’ feedback (Cooper, 160). Jocks were influential, cultural sculptors whose experimentation and increased technological sophistication continuously encouraged jocks to “live up to the expectations of [the] crowd” (Cooper, 161). Loyal, regular patrons loved, respected, and trusted their jocks. The reliability of a regular crowd inspired a confident desire in male DJs to improve their “sound system, […] technique, and record collection” (Cooper, 161). Yet once city policy limited the number of venues that disc jockeys could perform at, competition for sets in popular clubs surged.
Out of the competition for listeners sprung disco “cults,” whose determinations fell along certain group categories such as gay discos, “new wave” discos, or “black mainstream discos” (Cooper, 161). The byproduct of politicized jock competition was a “segregation of the disco market by style and demographics;” rather than being “mere happenstance,” such dissociation of the musical market intentionally and “forcibly [changed] the way new music could be presented to the public” (Cooper, 161). Once DJs acquired a steady gig, they sometimes felt pressured to abstain from making any new sound waves. These DJs played “more proven hits and less risky long shots” in order to maintain their job. The musicality of the disc jockey was quickly becoming stifled by the “narrow formatting” being forced upon crowds. Thus, some DJs began to perform as guests during special event nights at various clubs. Without committing to any one steady gig, these jocks were able to continue mixing different types of music and playing to different types of audiences (Cooper, 161).
This “cultural give-and-take” especially thrived in the 1980s, when jocks moved between uptown and downtown gigs, rendering musical excursions upon their crowds through expressions of rock’n’roll, reggaeton, and R&B music (Cooper, 161). Carol Cooper believes that “The biggest myth of late 1970s disco portrayed the disco audience as homoegenous in attitude and composition,” which, to her, is an undeniable falsehood. (Cooper, 160). Music is multidimensional, multi-ethnic, and attractive in different ways to different audiences. In fact, there seemed to exist a “gulf” in musical interest at white and black gay clubs in the 1970s (Cooper, 162). There were also several musical distinctions between the more popular discotheques of the 1970s and 1980s, such as the Paradise Garage and the Saint.
The Paradise Garage blasted low-end frequency music, whereas the Saint often played high or mid-range frequencies. According to the Paradise Garage Wikipedia page, three songs made popular through the Garage are “Don’t Make Me Wait” by Peech Boys, “Do It To The Music” by Raw Silk, and “Heartbeat” by Taana Gardner.
“Don’t Make Me Wait” by Peech Boys:
“Heartbeat” by Taana Gardner:
“Do It To The Music” by Raw Silk:
Cooper cites Chaka Khan, the Emotions, and The Talking Heads, as famed performers of mid to high frequency music, which was traditionally played at The Saint. The following songs are “Ain’t Nobody” by Chaka Khan, “Stay Up Late” by Talking Heads, and “Don’t Ask My Neighbors” by The Emotions. They give a range of the artistry found at mid to high frequency music.
“Ain’t Nobody” by Chaka Khan
“Stay Up Late” by Talking Heads
“Don’t Ask My Neighbors” by The Emotions
The “densely arranged vocal records” of artists such as Chaka Khan, Talking Heads, and The Emotions were given “a clarity and a […] cerebral jolt unequaled anywhere else” at the Saint when they were articulated through a jock’s musical, technological, and storytelling style. (Cooper, 163). Popular clubs like the Saint, the Paradise Garage, and the Loft did not always play according to their brand though. In order to “pay tribute to their collective dedication to giving their respective patrons a unique musical experience,” these clubs sometimes played music that was usually identified with their so-called rivals (Cooper, 163). Such blatant branding still dictates the complexity of disco styles and genres, showing that the music from this era is not a uniform, indistinguishable mass of sound. Their homage to rival dance clubs additionally shows the aforementioned “cultural give-and-take” of the 80s (Cooper, 161).
female jocks
On page 162, Carol Cooper divulges to the reader that all the jocks she has been discussing, those who had to grapple with narrow formatting and excelled when exposed to a variety of audiences and music, are male.
However, there are two female disc jockeys that “deserve examination,” despite that fact that mainstream media does not consider them worthy of news coverage since they are “neither tragic nor dead” (Cooper, 161). These two black female jocks are Sharon White and Gail King, whose talents at musical instrumentation imbued their passion for the music scene.
Sharon White grew up drumming and specializes in various forms of percussion. Gail King was the lead guitarist of several jazz and funk bands as a teenager.
In college, both women became exposed to disc jockeying through their participation at college radio stations.
When Sharon White wrote to the famed radio disc jockey Allison Steele, the two women swiftly became friends. Steele had been an “idol” to Sharon White, and acted as her mentor as they got to know each other. Eventually, White “drifted into clubs,” hoping to satisfy the “child” in her that had “always wanted an audience” (qtd. in Cooper, 163). To White, “spinning at a club […] was a hundred times better” than doing radio because she could see “500 people reacting to [her] music,” whereas during her nighttime slots on the radio, only a call or two would inform her that anyone was listening (Cooper, 163). Along with her expertise on the drums, White “knew the music,” having grown up listening to and loving artists like the Faces, John Mayall, and Jimi Hendrix (Cooper, 163). She quickly became extremely influential in the music scene.
12 inch extended single records arrived in the mid-1970s, and they significantly improved the ability of deejays to compose a smooth set with seamless transitions. During this time, Sharon White was perfecting her craft at a lesbian club called the Sahara. There, White caught the interest of several club promoters and sound engineers of the industry alike. As a percussionist and former radio operative, Sharon White possessed a talent for detecting the “sonic nuances” of “densely orchestrated instrumentals and vocal tracks” that only a technical ear could perceive and manipulate to energize crowds (Cooper, 162). Read more about Sharon White here. More sophisticated technology and club sound systems simultaneously began to advance the skill sets of accomplished jocks.
Gail King and Sharon White were among the known accomplished jocks. In the 70s, both women were elected to become members of Billboard’s national deejay panel, which “determined the chart position for dance singles” (Cooper, 163). Whereas Sharon White often drafted playlists of songs fitting the “white gay market,” King’s playlist indicated “potential hits among the young black and Latin vanguard of Generation X” (Cooper, 163).
Gail King possessed further expertise in the field of music.
By 1977, King had immersed herself in roller disco, a subculture of disco that was popular among “dating-age” blacks and Hispanics. King formed a rollerskating performance group that toured local skating rinks for “fun and profit” (Cooper, 163). At the roller disco, Gail King was esteemed for her fantastic ability to play to skating and dancing crowds. It was well-known among observers that “it took a particular ear to choose the perfect records for skating” (Cooper, 164). Read more about roller disco here.
After her escapades with the rollerskating performance group, Gail King became the main disc jockey at an upscale black nightclub called the Red Parrot, where she became a powerful influence on mainstream music. As rap and R&B began to converge into the “newjack” movement, hip hop broke into the mainstream media and radio. In the 1980s, scratching deejays, skate-dancers, graffiti artists, and break dancers all pulled from the musical tastes of the previous decade as well as their own creativity to contribute this hip-hop revolution. The Red Parrot attracted an audience of sports, music, fashion, and film celebrities, to whom King mixed the diverse “idioms” of house, reggae, and rap. King’s mixes were often emulated on the local black radio. Because of her work at the Red Parrot, Gail King became a prominent figure in the club scene and music industry.
If King “broke” your record to an audience at the Red Parrot, then your song was likely to receive air time on local radio stations. King became as essential to pulling crowds as the Red Parrot itself, which the club began to resent. After a dispute with the Red Parrot over its decision to add strippers to the night’s entertainment, King retired from her post as a DJ there. During the day, King had been working at a local radio station as an audio-production engineer. The steady, dependable skill set of King’s day job expanded her resume; King favored it over the fickle nature of the club scene. Not even a year after King left the establishment, the Red Parrot fell into a mockery of professionalism of artistry, and eventually closed.
missing firsthand Documentation
On the last pages of her article, Carol Cooper informs the reader of crucial information regarding the documentation of disco history.
A lack of firsthand documentation from the people “most qualified” to tell the story of disco threatens to diminish the presence of the “rich social history of New York club life” (Cooper, 164). Some of the experts who were present in the disco era are unwilling to write about their experiences. Still, there are influential disc jockeys who “have died without passing on their personal memories of important records and party-moments” (Cooper, 164).
If future generations cannot access firsthand accounts of disco’s growth, transformation, and divergence into various cultural expressions, then “myths and rumors” will begin to dilute and destroy the truth (Cooper, 165). Cooper laments that writers purporting to be “authorities on cult clubs like the Paradise Garage never interviewed its visionary owner Michael Brody, or its principal deejay Larry Levan” (Cooper, 165). Other contributors to the “early club-underground-like the Loft’s David Mancuso-[…] are notoriously shy and dismissive of latecomers to the scene who think they can understand more than a decade of fanatical allegiance to nightlife by pumping a famous jock for a few hours of colorful anecdotes” (Cooper, 165). Firsthand experience of the disco generation cannot be “accurately conveyed through the abstract medium of dry print” (Cooper, 165). Direct experience is the only way one can understand disco clubs or feel the true impacts of disco music. Even recordings of the time period in the mediums of radio and video are insufficient. The “interactive immediacy of a dance club” is the superior way to disseminate music and meaning to the public (Cooper, 165).
a discussion of carol cooper’s article
Cooper’s article is scholarly, well-researched, and well-written. Her article has been published with an accredited university, Duke University, and was published in the journal Social Text.
However, one drawback to her article is that I cannot access Cooper’s list of references through this article alone.
Yet, Cooper’s credibility is strong. She informs the reader of critical details and historical timelines one may otherwise never have known.
Cooper describes the selfish motivations of white broadcasters as well as the media’s disregard for female jocks without citing direct evidence of either entity’s personal inspirations. Though she does not give explicit evidence supporting her assertions, any evidence she could use would be hard to consolidate into one article.
Cooper relies on our ingrained cultural knowledge of the history of race and gender in the United States of America to support her claims, causing readers to conceive of the ways cultural prejudice and cultural diversity also played a role in disco’s origins and disco’s life.
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Potential drug for treating chronic pain with few side effects
July.28.2017RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS
Okayama University Medical Research Updates （OU-MRU） 2017.07 Vol.42
For immediate release: 28 July 2017
Okayama University research: Potential drug for treating chronic pain with few side effects
(Okayama, 28 July) Researchers at Okayama University describe in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences the effect of clodronate on the regulation of adenosine triphosphate release and its potential as a drug for the treatment of chronic pain. The compound has few side effects and may also be effective for treating other medical conditions including diabetes.
Typical drugs for treating chronic pain — a condition estimated to affect 20 – 25% of the world’s population — often cause serious side effects such as stomach problems, kidney failure or addiction. Now, a team of researchers led by Yuri Kato and Takaaki Miyaji from Okayama University has identified a compound, clodronate, that inhibits the mechanism triggering chronic pain while having few side effects. Clodronate may therefore be used for future chronic pain drug development. Moreover, the researchers reckon it may also be effective for the treatment of other diseases such as diabetes and neurological disorders.
Acute pain is the result of sensory nerves responding to a (potentially) harmful stimulus, a biological process called nociception. However, inflammation or nerve injuries can trigger pathological nociception — a long-lasting sensation of pain due to the stimulated production of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) molecules that bind to so-called purinergic receptors causing pain responses. The ATP molecules participating in the purinergic signalling processes are carried by vesicular nucleotide transporter (VNUT) protein. Since it is known that suppression of VNUT function leads to an improvement of neuropathological conditions in mice, Moriyama and Miyaji and colleagues looked for a VNUT inhibitor with few side effects.
The researchers tested clodronate, a molecule belonging to the class of bisphosphonates, compounds used for treating osteoporosis. Clodronate does not contain nitrogen, a characteristic known to decrease therapeutic effect for osteoporosis and the number of side effects. Experiments on proteoliposomes showed that clodronate is a potent inhibitor of VNUT, whereas injections of clodronate in wild-type mice showed that it attenuated chronic neuropathic and inflammatory pain.
In medicine, pain lasting a long time — typically, 3 months or more — is called chronic, as opposed to acute pain. Chronic pain can be neuropathic, when the nervous system is damaged, or nociceptive, when inflammation causes nociceptors (pain sensors) to be triggered permanently.
Current drugs for the treatment of chronic pain, notably opioids like morphine, have various side effects, including stomach or kidney dysfunction, drug addiction, drowsiness and vomiting. Yuri Kato and Takaaki Miyaji and colleagues have now identified a potential non-opioid drug, clodronate, that suppresses chronic pain by inhibiting the release of adenosine triphosphate (ATP), a mechanism involved in chronic pain.
Purinergic signalling
In living organisms, purinergic signalling is a way of passing on signals outside cells. It involves purines, particular types of aromatic molecules containing nitrogen, and so-called purinergic receptors in cells. The purinergic signalling mechanism associated with chronic pain involves the purine adenosine triphosphate (ATP), a molecule playing an important role in biological energy transfer processes; ATP is carried by vesicular nucleotide transporter (VNUT) protein. The present study shows that clodronate inhibits VNUT, which in turn attenuates neuropathic and nociceptive pain. Since clodronate has few side effects and since it has already been clinically approved in many countries, it is a promising drug for the treatment of chronic pain.
Clodronate-evoked inhibition of vesicular ATP release is important for the treatment of chronic pain.
Yuri Kato, Miki Hiasa, Reiko Ichikawa, Nao Hasuzawa, Atsushi Kadowaki, Ken Iwatsuki, Kazuhiro Shima, Yasuo Endo, Yoshiro Kitahara, Tsuyoshi Inoue, Masatoshi Nomura, Hiroshi Omote, Yoshinori Moriyama & Takaaki Miyaji. Identification of a vesicular ATP release inhibitor for the treatment of neuropathic and inflammatory pain. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, August 1, vol.114, no.31, 2017. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1704847114.
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For the prophetic book, see Book of Hosea. For plant Hosea lobbii, see Hosea (plant).
See also Hoshea, who has the same name in Biblical Hebrew.
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An 18th-century Russian icon of the prophet Hosea (Iconostasis of Transfiguration Church, Kizhi monastery, Karelia, Russia).
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Hosea (/ˌhoʊˈziːə/ or /hoʊˈzeɪə/; Hebrew: הוֹשֵׁעַ</span>, Modern Hoshea, Tiberian Hôšēăʻ ; "Salvation"; Greek Ὠσηέ, Hōsēe) was the son of Beeri, a prophet in Israel in the 8th century BC and author of the book of prophecies bearing his name. He is one of the Twelve Prophets of the Jewish Hebrew Bible, also known as the Minor Prophets of the Christian Old Testament. Hosea is often seen as a "prophet of doom", but underneath his message of destruction is a promise of restoration. The Talmud (Pesachim 87a) claims that he was the greatest prophet of his generation. The period of Hosea's ministry extended to some sixty years and he was the only prophet of Israel who left any written prophecy.[1]
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The name "Hosea", meaning "salvation", or "He saves", or "He helps", seems to have been not uncommon, being derived from the auspicious verb from which we have the frequently recurring word "salvation". It may be a contraction of a larger form of which the divine name (Yahweh) or its abbreviation formed a part, so as to signify "Yahweh helps". According to Numbers 13:8, 13:16 that was the original name of Joshua son of Nun, until Moses gave him the longer name (compounded with the divine name) which he continued to bear (yehoshua`), "Yahweh is salvation".[2]
Although it is not expressly stated in the Book of Hosea, it is apparent from the level of detail and familiarity focused on northern geography, that Hosea conducted his prophetic ministries in the Northern Kingdom, of which he was a native.
Little is known about the life or social status of Hosea. According to the Book of Hosea, he married the prostitute Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim, at God's command.[3] In Hosea 5:8 ff., there is a reference to the wars which led to the capture of the kingdom by the Assyrians (ca. 734–732 BC). It is not certain if he had also experienced the destruction of Samaria, which is foreseen in Hosea 14:1.
Hosea's family life reflected the "adulterous" relationship which Israel had built with polytheistic gods. The relationship between Hosea and Gomer parallels the relationship between God and Israel. Even though Gomer runs away from Hosea and sleeps with another man, he loves her anyway and forgives her. Likewise, even though the people of Israel worshipped false gods, God continued to love them and did not abandon his covenant with them.
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The Prophet Hosea, by Duccio di Buoninsegna, in the Siena Cathedral (c. 1309-1311)
Similarly, his children's names made them like walking prophecies of the fall of the ruling dynasty and the severed covenant with God – much like the prophet Isaiah a generation later. The name of Hosea's daughter, Lo-ruhamah, which translates as "not pitied", is chosen by God as a sign of displeasure with the people of Israel for following false gods. (In Hosea 2:23 she is redeemed, shown mercy with the term Ruhamah.) The name of Hosea's son, Lo-ammi, which translates as "not my people", is chosen by the Lord as a sign of the Lord's displeasure with the people of Israel for following those false gods (see Hosea 1:8-9).
Christian thought
One of the early writing prophets, Hosea used his own experience as a symbolic representation of God and Israel: God the husband, Israel the wife. Hosea's wife left him to go with other men; Israel left the Lord to go with false gods. Hosea searched for his wife, found her and brought her back; God would not abandon Israel and brought them back even though they had forsaken him.
The book of Hosea was a severe warning to the northern kingdom against the growing idolatry being practiced there; the book was a dramatic call to repentance. Christians extend the analogy of Hosea to Christ and the church: Christ the husband, his church the bride. Christians see in this book a comparable call to the church not to forsake the Lord Jesus Christ. Christians also take the buying back of Gomer as the redemptive qualities of Jesus Christ's sacrifice on the cross.
Other preachers, like Charles Spurgeon, saw Hosea as a striking presentation of the mercy of God in his sermon on Hosea 1:7 titled The LORD's Own Salvation. “But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah, and will save them by the Lord their God, and will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen.” – Hosea 1:7 in his sermon NO. 2057, December 16TH, 1888.
Islamic literature
The Qur'an mentions only some prophets by name, but makes it clear that many were sent who are not mentioned.[4] Therefore, many Muslim scholars, both classical (Ibn Ishaq) and modern (Reza Aslan[5]), speak of Hosea as one of the true Hebrew prophets of Israel. The Book of Hosea has also been used in Qur'anic exegesis by Abdullah Yusuf Ali, especially in reference to Qur'anic verses which speak of the backsliding of Israel.[6]
He is commemorated with the other Minor prophets in the Calendar of saints of the Armenian Apostolic Church on July 31. He is commemorated on the Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar, with a feast day on October 17 (for those churches which follow the Julian Calendar, October 17 currently falls on October 30 of the modern Gregorian Calendar). He is also commemorated on the Sunday of the Holy Fathers (the Sunday before the Nativity of the Lord).
Tomb of Hosea
The tomb of Hosea is a structure located in the Jewish cemetery of Safed, believed to be the final resting place of Hosea.
^ "www.Bibler.org - Dictionary - Hosea". 2012-05-30.
^ Hosea 1:2-3
^ Qur'an 40:78
^ No god but God, Reza Aslan, pg. 64
^ Abdullah Yusuf Ali refers to Hosea 8:14 for his notes on Q. 5:60
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Title Trans-2-enoyl-CoA reductase limits Ca2+ accumulation in the endoplasmic reticulum by inhibiting SERCA2b Ca2+ pump
Description The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) contains various enzymes that metabolize fatty acids (FAs). How FA metabolic enzymes cooperate with other ER functions, such as calcium (Ca2+) accumulation and its regulated release to the cytosol, is elusive. Trans-2-enoyl-CoA reductase (TER) is a FA reductase present in the ER membrane, and catalyzes the last step of FA elongation cycle and sphingosine degradation pathway. Here we show that TER directly binds to an ER Ca2+ pump, sarco(endo)plasmic reticulum Ca2+-ATPase 2b (SERCA2b), and regulates its activity. Thapsigargin, a specific SERCA inhibitor, inhibits this binding. TER binds to SERCA2b through its conserved C-terminal region. TER overexpression suppresses SERCA2b ATPase activity in microsomal membranes. Depletion of TER increases the ER Ca2+ storage and accelerates SERCA2b-dependent Ca2+ uptake to the ER after ligand-induced Ca2+ release. These results demonstrate that TER is a negative regulator of SERCA2b, implying the direct linkage of FA metabolism and Ca2+ accumulation in the ER.
PrimarySubmitter Toshiaki Sakisaka
SpeciesList scientific name: Homo sapiens (Human); NCBI TaxID: 9606;
Instrument LCMS-IT-TOF
submitter keyword: fatty acid metabolism, endoplasmic reticulum, calcium, calcium ATPase, calcium transport, protein-protein interaction
Toshiaki Sakisaka
contact affiliation Division of Membrane Dynamics, Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, Kobe University School of Medicine
contact email sakisaka@med.kobe-u.ac.jp
contact affiliation Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine
Name: Trans-2-enoyl-CoA reductase limits Ca2+ accumulation in the endoplasmic reticulum by inhibiting SERCA2b Ca2+ pump
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Hundreds of thousands of infections are added to the country’s tally every single day, with the US adding more than three million new reported infections since the start of the month.
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It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. What's the coolest way to travel through time? Sign in to see videos available to you. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 25, 2020, I watch this movie on blu ray dvd I thought it was very good and I really enjoyed watching it, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 3, 2019, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 7, 2019, Top subscription boxes – right to your door, © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. Approved third parties also use these tools in connection with our display of ads. 'Fargo' Season 4 Episode 7 Recap: I'm a Fool to Do Your Dirty Work, 'Seduced's Creators Want Their Docuseries to Be a Warning, 'Seduced's Third Episode Is a Deep Dive into Keith Raniere's Most Deplorable Crimes, Keith Raniere, NXIVM Leader and 'The Vow' Subject, Gets 120 Years in Prison, Who is Peter on ‘Southern Charm’? Obviously a B rated movie title. This is the dogs dandys of a film. 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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 October 2019. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 14 August 2019. What Is Quiche? I love the cast, Craig Ferguson...hilarious!!!! So best not watched with the kids. 967, This story has been shared 750 times. Funny in places, much better than the seauel, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 August 2019, Didn't suck totally like the majority of US comedy films of the last....well forever. Video availability outside of United Kingdom varies. IMO I would say don't waste your time. 693, This story has been shared 679 times. 2: If you wanna use this this & get either withdrawal shakes OR diarrhea !!". 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Definitely not through a diner pantry. 1,843, This story has been shared 1,196 times. Looking to watch Hot Tub Time Machine? I could watch this again. All About the 'Everything's Fine' Comedian. Sorry, there was a problem saving your cookie preferences. Silly blokes flick, laugh out loud, stupidness, helps if you enjoyed the first one loads of hot chicks in 80s get up. 1,196, This story has been shared 967 times. That" bald guy" Rob Courdrey ( don't know how to spell that)lol, I love his rude, gross humor soooo much, John cusak annoys the piss out of me, so does his character so it's fitting. Hot Tub Time Machine 2010 16+ 1h 39m Comedies Fueled by energy drinks, vodka and nostalgia for their younger, wilder days, a group of aging best friends travels back in time to 1986. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. And again. Select the department you want to search in. This is one of my all time favorites 80's style movie! Hot Tub Time Machine (2010) Full Movie Online on FMovies . Reviewed in the United States on March 3, 2019. Find out where Hot Tub Time Machine is streaming, if Hot Tub Time Machine is on Netflix, and get news and updates, on Decider. Reviewed in the United States on October 13, 2018. Rentals include 30 days to start watching this video and 48 hours to finish once started. Outrageous laughs bubble up when four friends share a crazy night of drinking in a ski resort hot tub, only to wake up as their younger selves...with nasty hangovers in 1986. However, film better than expected. Reviewed in the United States on January 10, 2019. Meet Madison LeCroy’s One Night Stand, 'Southern Charm' Recap: Kathryn Dennis Reveals Hookups with Cast Members Past and Present. It also analyses reviews to verify trustworthiness. 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This is the biggest load of garbage I have ever seen. This is a quality parody and homage to the 80s and cheesy 80s movies. Available to watch on supported devices > Customer reviews. We use cookies and similar tools to enhance your shopping experience, to provide our services, understand how customers use our services so we can make improvements, and display ads. It borrows a little from many different iconic 80s movies from The Terminator to The Karate Kid to Red Dawn to Back to the Future and more. It starts with a poop scene, moves to a pee scene, moves to a teenage boy being degraded, then on to a vomit scene and it just gets worse from there. It's truly lower than the lowest common denominator. Refreshingly un PC, crude, rude and brilliant! 679. It does struggle in places with the typical friends abusing eachother and every character being some form of sterotype, Laugh out loud silliness for the lads, easy viewing, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 October 2018. 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Daily Domestic Gross Fri, Nov. 4 2016
Fri, Nov. 4 2016
1 Doctor Strange $32,585,335 -- 3,882 -- $8,394 $32,585,335 1 Disney
2 Trolls $12,373,296 -- 4,060 -- $3,048 $12,373,296 1 Fox / DreamWorks Animation
3 Hacksaw Ridge $5,340,939 -- 2,886 -- $1,851 $5,340,939 1 Lionsgate
4 Tyler Perry’s Boo! A Madea Halloween $2,169,727 211% 2,234 -65 $971 $59,359,782 3 Lionsgate
5 Inferno $1,868,155 106% 3,576 0 $522 $21,676,085 2 Sony / Columbia
6 The Accountant $1,757,543 118% 2,688 -714 $654 $66,665,737 4 Warner Bros.
7 Jack Reacher: Never Go Back $1,634,765 104% 3,079 -701 $531 $45,294,765 3 Paramount
8 Ouija: Origin of Evil $1,183,340 199% 2,380 -788 $497 $28,572,590 3 Universal
9 The Girl on the Train (2016) $830,215 91% 1,572 -1186 $528 $68,787,580 5 Universal
10 Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children $500,090 147% 1,710 -1087 $292 $81,734,479 6 Fox
11 Keeping Up with the Joneses $351,431 37% 1,064 -1958 $330 $12,566,667 3 Fox
12 Storks $204,573 104% 1,155 -746 $177 $69,172,077 7 Warner Bros.
Limited (100 — 999)
1 Ae Dil Hai Mushkil $244,711 127% 296 -6 $827 $3,081,276 2 FIP
2 Deepwater Horizon $220,879 43% 783 -1271 $282 $59,390,017 6 Lionsgate / Summit
3 Kevin Hart: What Now? $177,180 68% 453 -1203 $391 $22,727,660 4 Universal
4 Sully $156,856 91% 454 -401 $345 $122,917,075 9 Warner Bros.
5 The Magnificent Seven (2016) $133,114 30% 490 -840 $272 $91,919,143 7 Sony / Columbia
6 Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life $92,068 138% 485 -810 $190 $18,806,853 5 CBS Films / Lionsgate
7 The Birth of a Nation (2016) $70,695 58% 197 -207 $359 $15,382,886 5 Fox Searchlight
8 Denial $68,473 10% 218 -369 $314 $3,358,330 6 Bleeker Street
9 The Secret Life of Pets $65,110 339% 237 -8 $275 $366,601,880 18 Universal
10 Suicide Squad $62,830 172% 245 -87 $256 $324,838,246 14 Warner Bros.
11 Queen of Katwe $35,784 45% 172 -147 $208 $8,311,595 7 Disney
12 Finding Dory $35,460 170% 160 -23 $222 $485,766,886 21 Disney
13 I'm Not Ashamed $29,139 -26% 131 -385 $222 $1,869,018 3 Pure Flix
14 Desierto $28,802 86% 102 -66 $282 $1,726,089 4 STX Entertainment
15 Kubo and the Two Strings $26,650 170% 149 -27 $179 $47,681,171 12 Focus
16 Hell or High Water $25,677 289% 144 73 $178 $26,801,278 13 CBS Films / Lionsgate
17 Snowden $17,962 100% 115 28 $156 $21,433,589 8 Open Road
Platform (1 — 99)
1 Moonlight (2016) $379,127 349% 83 47 $4,568 $2,133,825 3 A24
2 Loving $55,002 -- 4 -- $13,751 $55,002 1 Focus
3 Pete's Dragon (2016) $27,592 384% 90 -44 $307 $75,487,709 13 Disney
4 American Pastoral $22,283 120% 70 19 $318 $359,148 3 Lionsgate
5 Luck-Key $12,881 42% 26 1 $495 $334,255 3 JBG Pictures
6 Don't Breathe $11,164 -29% 72 -359 $155 $88,979,612 11 Sony / TriStar
7 When the Bough Breaks $10,526 1080% 87 55 $121 $29,673,116 9 Sony / Screen Gems
8 Christine (2016) $10,100 152% 40 19 $253 $134,747 4 The Orchard
9 Masterminds (2016) $8,445 -20% 60 -155 $141 $17,338,314 6 Relativity Studios
10 Priceless (2016) $7,877 -39% 43 -138 $183 $1,441,816 4 Roadside Attractions
11 What Happened Last Night $4,530 -- 25 -- $181 $4,530 1 ET Pictures
12 Miss Hokusai $4,393 -31% 20 -43 $220 $205,966 4 GKIDS
13 Ghostbusters (2016) $4,344 65% 47 -44 $92 $128,329,456 17 Sony / Columbia
14 Spirit of the Game $3,981 173% 14 -2 $284 $206,733 5 Samuel Goldwyn / Purdie Distribution
15 American Honey $3,981 -32% 23 -27 $173 $620,929 6 A24
16 Greater $1,248 366% 5 -1 $250 $1,973,946 11 Hammond Entertainment
17 Oasis: Supersonic $804 -22% 2 -12 $402 $236,582 2 A24
18 Shin Godzilla $629 -- 4 -6 $157 $1,906,242 4 FUNimation Films
19 Voiceless $482 -56% 8 -12 $60 $417,611 5 ArtAffects Entertainment
20 Premam $146 462% 5 -3 $29 $824,463 5 Blue Sky Cinema
21 La Notte $17 -- 1 -- $17 $34,769 8 Rialto Pictures
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Broadway Musical Zee Tv Mauritius
"Bollywood Evolution" is India's first International Bollywood Broadway Musical where the actors are singing, acting and dancing live on stage.
It is a story depicting and celebrating 100 glorious years of Bollywood cinema. The musical extravaganza covers the era from Father of Bollywood i.e. Shri Dhundiraj Govind Phalke till era of todays Bollywood.
Amazon Opening Act Star Sports
A stadium opening act by 200 DANCERS with more then 500 PROPS and COSTUMES, performed on a freshly created track Produced by SSDC.
the act was Conceptualized ,Directed and Choreographed by SSDC FOR INDIAN SUPER LEAUGE (ISL) and was telecast live on Star Sports India
Star Parivaar Birmingham, UK
Star TV India approached SSDC for their International live Show in BIRMINGHAM. UK
SSDC produced and directed all Artist dance acts for the show with international dancers from team SSDC performing live with the Stars.It was a successful show and highly appreciated by Start Tv India and UK.
Star Parivaar London, UK
SPL was the first live show for the audience of UK which was performed at Wembley Arena, London.
SSDC gave a different approach to all artist Dance acts of star parivaar live show. the fans could see their favorite stars in new characters, dancing their heart out to give them a unforgettable experience.
SSDC Company Production Moksh - 3
Moksh -3 “ An endless journey “ the third home production of SSDC gave a platform for all professional and telented dancers to join the company and perform something that they have never done before.
A Artistic show with different Indian and international contemporary concepts put together into variety dance acts, to give a visual treat to the audience.
SSDC Company Production Moksh –2
Moksh – 2 “ Another step towards salvation “ was a live musical extravaganza for the audience.
A 2 hours show with high energy performances on various fusion of Indo-Western dance styles, performed by dedicated n versatile team of dancers and actors.
SSDC Company Production Moksh -1
Words of the maker…
It was in the year 2006 where my friends who have been the backbone of my success and also a part of our debut Dance show named Moksh “A dance for Liberation”
Moksh is a platform for me to express my creativity in the form of performing arts, with the best of dancers and actors who bring it alive on stage for the audience.
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710 Study San Rafael Neighborhood Posts
To consolidate, disseminate, and gather information concerning the 710 expansion into our San Rafael neighborhood and into our surrounding neighborhoods. If you have an item that you would like posted on this blog, please e-mail the item to Peggy Drouet at pdrouet@earthlink.net
Seattle Officials Not Warned About "Catastrophic Failure" Concerns for Bertha Rescue Pit
http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2015/01/12/seattle-officials-not-warned-about-catastrophic-failure-concerns-for-bertha-rescue-pit
By Sydney Brownstone, January 12, 2015
Why did the state quietly tell its contractor to stop digging Bertha's rescue pit in mid-December? Was it because engineers warned of imminent doom?
The Washington State Department of Transportation has not been straight with Seattle.
Last week, in a damning letter from Seattle's own Department of Transportation and Seattle Public Utilities, city officials called on the state to explain why Bertha's rescue pit engineers had apparently warned about "risk of a catastrophic failure" for the pit as early as December 11. (The same day that a growing crack in Pioneer Square caught everyone's attention.)
Ah, catastrophic failure. What more could a troubled project wish for?
This story of an alarming warning, strange editing, and even stranger communication appears to begin when Bertha's rescue pit engineers, a firm called Brierley Associates, quietly issued a draft report on the pit excavation that told the contractors to stop digging. Here’s why, according to the report: "If we continue the current 'repair as we go' method of excavation, we significantly increase the risk of a catastrophic failure."
The warning came on December 11, the same day people started freaking out about that crack in South King Street. Seattle Tunnel Partners, WSDOT’s contractor for the project, then posted the report to a document sharing site—it's unclear with whom the report was intended to be shared—on December 18. But when they did, the language in the report changed. Instead of the part about stopping excavation because it would risk catastrophic failure, the report read: "In summary, we believe that the untreated soil zones … will have a significant impact on the structural, geotechnical and hydraulic adequacy of the shaft structure."
Shifting language from "catastrophic failure" to "will have a significant impact on … geotechnical and hydraulic adequacy" is no small edit. In the first version of the report, the engineers said the excavation "shall not proceed." But by December 18, when the edited report was posted on the document sharing site, digging had been cleared to resume. So what the hell happened between December 11 and December 18 that would have made the engineers—or STP, or WSDOT—change their minds?
In the letter to the state, Seattle officials insisted on some answers. Like: What kind of catastrophic failure did the engineers mean? Was it the same catastrophic failure as whatever might happen to the "adequacy of the shaft structure"? Did the facts change? Or did the language change to cover up the facts?
The city agencies railed on WSDOT. "Brierley's directive to your contractor to stop all excavation," the letter read," is a very significant occurrence. When combined with the documented settling of the ground … we believe that an immediate dialogue between the State and City was not only warranted but necessary."
The state did not engage in an "immediate dialogue." In fact, four days after the date on the original report, WSDOT showed up at the Seattle City Council chambers and didn't mention it at all. The state did tell city council members that it had ordered the contractor to temporarily stop digging, and that excavation probably didn't cause those settlements in Pioneer Square we all heard about. (Dewatering may have—but no one was sure.)
Maybe the state didn't know about the report until December 18. Or, maybe it did.
But if excavation was going to possibly lead to catastrophe, there's another reason why we may not have seen the report yet: STP has not been digging lately.
The day after the city council meeting, December 16, the state gave STP permission to start digging for Bertha again. It said that STP had expected to begin that very night. But then last Friday, several weeks after December 16, WSDOT sent out an update saying that STP had "resumed excavating the access pit." When The Stranger asked WSDOT to clarify—STP had stopped digging again?
—WSDOT spokesperson Laura Newborn said that STP had not been excavating in "the past few weeks." A project update from December 22 shows that while WSDOT had given STP permission to dig, STP took a voluntary two-week break to stabilize the soil and remove piles of earth.
"We are planning to respond to the SDOT/SPU letter tomorrow," state transportation department spokesperson Lars Erickson wrote in an e-mail to The Stranger Sunday night. "Just to clarify, the viaduct and access pit are safe and not at risk of catastrophic failure due to excavation." (Brierley Associates, the engineers who drafted the original report, declined to respond and redirected my questions to STP instead.)
So, what does all this suggest?
- WSDOT either has been omitting information or was ignorant of the engineers' assessments when communicating with the city council.
- Something about that pit is, or was, really worrisome.
- The city is still very concerned about settlements.
- City agencies are standing up to the state.
- Today's 9:30 a.m. city council session with WSDOT is going to be interesting.
The city agencies ended their testy letter by asking WSDOT to create new plans to study the impacts of Bertha's rescue pit on the surrounding area and utilities. That means updated dewatering analysis and settlement predictions. The agencies also asked WSDOT to fork over earlier reports on dewatering, as well as all of STP’s raw survey data.
SPU also sent an additional letter to WSDOT to point out that part of a water main had settled beyond the state's maximum displacement criteria. The city’s lessened the flow in that direction in case something worse happens.
The Stranger reached out to all nine city council Members and Mayor Murray's office to see what they made of SDOT and SPU's letters. Only Council Member Sawant replied.
"Unfortunately, even without this new evidence, it has been clear that WSDOT has been vague and obfuscating in its responses," Council Member Kshama Sawant said in a statement. She added that back in 2007, the city council took a vote on what would replace the Alaskan Way Viaduct in case the deep-bore tunnel could not be completed. The resulting ordinance recommended a transit-and-surface-street alternative.
When asked what "catastrophic failure" might have meant in the context of SDOT and SPU's letter, Sawant added this: "I would like to ask WSDOT that very question before there is a danger that Pioneer Square sinks into Elliott Bay like Atlantis."
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MY TRIP TO DEALEY PLAZA: A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE ON THE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION.....NOW AND THEN
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(ABOVE) Dealey Plaza from behind the Zapruder pedestal
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The first thing we need to remember as to why the Kennedy assassination has continued to be a lie from the American government to “The People” is best answered by Marina Oswald, the ex wife of Lee Harvey Oswald (BELOW)
In her words: “THE DANGER OF THIS TRUTH NOT BEING KNOWN, WILL DESTROY THIS NATION ACTUALLY…. MAYBE YOU DON’T BELIEVE ME, BUT THAT’S A FACT!”
The first thing I noticed when visiting Dealey Plaza, now 52 years after President Kennedy’s murder, was that it is a place of Sadness. It has a dark spirit around it that no doubt remains since that dark day back on November 22nd, 1963. I initially wanted to just get pictures of historical landmarks to share on this website. But I had the sense that it was much more than just a historical landmark. It was the place where America was mortally wounded, just like the President, and has never recovered. It’s an open wound that has never healed. Why?
Because we have been lied to about what transpired there for over half a century. There is no closure because we as Americans have never been told the truth. There are still people who mill around the plaza every hour of every day trying to get closure in their minds about what really happened. The 6th floor museum which we toured gets more that 400,000 visitors a year.
Dealey Plaza is a dark, sad, disturbing place where the murder of our leader has had no closure for almost half a century. Once you have been there, you can almost feel Kennedy’s blood still crying out from the ground for the American people to do something about his murder…..not for his sake, but for ours.
I want to take you on a little journey to the historical places and events surrounding the death of President John F. Kennedy, today and contrast and compare what it looked like over 50 years ago. We have looked into this assassination extensively on this website. If you want to learn more, please look at our other articles as to the evidence for multiple shooters starting here: WHO MURDERED PRESIDENT KENNEDY AND WHY? Also check out: THE MEN BEHIND THE MURDER OF JFK: You will also want to know about how George Bush Sr., was involved: George Bush Sr., was involved in Kennedy’s murder.
(BELOW) I’m standing in exactly the same spot where the grassy knoll assassin stood, took aim and fired the fatal headshot to the President. One thing that came to mind while standing here is how easy of shot it would have been for an expert shooter. An elite shooter will make that shot 100 out of 100 times. It would be like shooting fish in a barrel.
(BELOW) Here you can see the assassin’s head from the Orville Nix film:
(BELOW) Here’s what it looks like standing across Elm street. The assassin was standing behind the stockade fence, just right of the lamp post.
Other knoll pics from different angles as it looks today. (BELOW), is the exact spot where the fatal head shot was fired:
Here is a still from the Moorman photo where you can see the knoll shooter:
(BELOW) Here’s a blowup of the assassin:
(BELOW) Here is a puff of smoke from the fatal shot, (circled at the top)....you can still see the Presidential limo going under the Stemmons freeway (circled at bottom): For more on who fired the shots from the knoll, read here: WHO FIRED THE FATAL SHOTS THAT KILLED PRESIDENT KENNEDY
Today: X marks the spot, roughly from where Mary Moorman was standing:
(BELOW) I am convinced that this is the man (James Files) who fired the fatal shot from the knoll. THE MAN WHO FIRED FROM THE GRASSY KNOLL
(BELOW) Now, here is the Dal Tex building as it looks today.
(Below) The Dal-Tex building from the 7th floor window of the Book Depository (Now the Dallas County administration building):
(BELOW) The first shot was fired from one of these windows:
The shots came from this man, Charles Nicoletti, who was a contract killer on the payroll of Mob boss Sam Giancana
Here’s the Dal Tex building as it was back in 1963 along with one of the possible shooting locations:
I infer that Nicoletti was there in the background, inside the window of a broom closet of a uranium mining company on the second floor of the Dal-Tex building which was controlled by the CIA at the time. (BELOW) There is alot of strange activity in that window during the time of the assassination, much of which look like two men, a “spotter” and an “assassin.” Which also begs the question: Why are there two people watching the motorcade from a broom closet in the first place?
(Below) Today: the corner of Houston and Elm from the 7th floor of TSBD.
The Pergola from Elm street:
The triple underpass:
The TSBD Today:
(BELOW) Here is the pedestal where Abraham Zapruder filmed the assassination:
Here he is filming the assassination:
(BELOW) Here I’m standing on the pedestal where Zapruder stood as he waited for the Presidential motorcade, taking a picture of Elm and Houston. As you can see, it looks alot farther away than when Abraham Zapruder took the exact same shot. The camera on zoom in 1963 should show more…MUCH MORE!! So, why does it look so different? Well, it’s because what we have been saying all along, the Zapruder film has been doctored (altered), to hide the fact that there were multiple shooters and Kennedy was hit from different directions. That said, also it was meant to hide the fact that the Limo came to a complete stop when the kill shots came. That is why Dealey Plaza looks so much bigger in the assassination films:
(BELOW) Zapruder filming Elm and Houston:
(BELOW) This looks to be a bootleg copy of the beginning “other” Zapruder film which has never been shown to the public where you can see the limo make the turn from Houston to Elm. Notice how it is framed completely different than the beginning of the Zapruder film seem by the general public. This looks more like what I saw when standing at the exact same location.
(BELOW) Here’s a picture I took which would be equivalent to Zapruder film, frame 312 just before the fatal shot:
Here is Zapruder film, frame 312. What you will notice is the bottom part of the image is blacked out, as compared to the image I took where you should see the bottom. I believe the government blacked that area out because it shows Connally reacting to multiple shots, and the “Single bullet theory” does not hold water if the public can see that..
(BELOW) Now, here’s what the Zapruder film should look like as I shot it from the EXACT same position as the limo exits Dealey plaza, it shows a large area, including what should be the top of the grassy knoll.:
(BELOW) BUT, here’s what it actually looks like from the doctored Z-film, It doesn’t show as much, right? It’s much closer with not much surrounding area, including the top of the knoll, right? Everything is “zoomed” in much more than the Zapruder Bell & Howell should do from that point. That’s because you are not supposed to know too much!
Here is the backyard to the house Oswald lived where the government took the phony pics of him holding the alleged murder weapon:
(BELOW) Here are the phony pics from Life magazine: For more on this: ABSOLUTE VISUAL PROOF THAT OSWALD WAS FRAMED. And, WHO WAS LEE HARVEY OSWALD? THESE PHOTOS PROVE HE DID NOT KILL KENNEDY!
(BELOW) Here is the movie theatre where Oswald was apprehended:
Here is the theatre on Nov. 22nd, 1963
Here is Oswald’s rooming house with an exact model replica of Kennedy’s limo parked in the driveway that is available for tours. By the way, the limo is much smaller and compact and closer to the ground than you would expect. It is maybe three and a half feet from the ground to the top of the door.
INSIDE THE 6th FLOOR MUSEUM:
Jack Ruby’s hat which he wore when he murdered Oswald: By the way Jack Ruby talked about who put him up to the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald: JACK RUBY ACTUALLY CONFESSED ABOUT HIS ROLE IN THE ASSASSINATION
(BELOW) Here is where we took pics of the ramp of the police station Ruby walked down to kill patsy Oswald on live TV which is now under construction: (Nice security in 1963 from the Dallas police, right?)
(BELOW) Jack Ruby killing the patsy Oswald:
Now, this is interesting. This is the “alleged” snipers nest. It’s glassed off so the public can’t look out that window. It is supposed to be exactly how it was found on the day of the assassination. I happen to agree. Because just like on the day of the murder, Oswald isn’t there.
This one takes the cake. This is the area where they found Oswald’s “alleged” rifle. The Dallas police first identified the rifle as a German Mauser. Then when that didn’t match the shells left behind, which were for an Italian Carbine, they had to change that later. Apparently, the person who planted the shell casings was not the same person who planted the rifle…DOH!!!!!
Here is the emergency room entrance at Parkland memorial where they took Kennedy and how it looks today:
And here is how it looked in 1963 after they brought the President in:
(BELOW) The actual emergency room, (INSIDE) where Kennedy was taken.
WHO MURDERED PRESIDENT KENNEDY AND WHY DOES IT MATTER TODAY?
Here’s what I came out of this whole thing with. First, it’s obvious that we haven’t been told the truth about what happened in Dealey Plaza more than a half century ago. It is obvious that America does not have closure on an event that shook our nation to the core. The perpetrators of this crime have never been brought to justice and never will be. When our nation can be run by a few of the power elite that can take over our country with a bullet from a rifle rather than WE THE PEOPLE deciding it from votes in a ballot box, then we as a nation don’t have a chance. Especially when most Americans don’t demand justice.
More reading on the Illuminati and why they had JFK murdered: THE ILLUMINATI AND JFK
Also look into JFK junior, who was also murdered by the power elite as he was ready to expose the conspiracy to murder his father:
JFK JUNIOR WAS MURDERED BY THE SAME FACTIONS THAT KILLED HIS FATHER
Who were the “THREE TRAMPS” and how were they involved in the assassination? WHO WERE THE THREE TRAMPS?
Our thoughts:
You can almost feel Kennedy’s blood still crying out from the ground for the American people to do something about his murder…..not for his sake, but for ours.__
By Joe Monoco
Here is something very interesting and to my knowledge, very few websites or books (if any) have published this. There were about 600 witnesses to the Presidents murder. Here is a list of 216 of these people and their statements as to where they thought the shots came from:
JFK WITNESSES TESTIMONY IN DEALEY PLAZA
EPH 5:11:DO NOT PARTICIPATE IN THE UNFRUITFUL DEEDS OF DARKNESS, BUT INSTEAD EXPOSE THEM;
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Once Upon a Time (dir. Walerian Borowczyk and Jan Lenica): an oddball pair trying to find their identity and place in an abstract world
Posted on September 6, 2013 by nausika
Walerian Borowczyk and Jan Lenica, “Once Upon a Time / Byl sobie raz” (1957)
An amusing little cartoon with a circus freak-show organ music soundtrack, “Once Upon a Time” traces the adventures of an egg shape with four sticks for legs in its attempt to find an identity and a partner. It finds a set of feathers and a bird’s-head silhouette and together the unlikely duo encounter various cut-outs and images, and find a temporary home among a collage of live-action film shots and a reproduction of Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa painting in an art gallery.
The animation style looks crude and childish but the execution is ingenious and cuts across notions of identity, function and narrative. Small children may not really understand what’s happening here: they will appreicate the egg shape drawing a line on the blank page so it can walk over the line but not understand why the set of feathers behaves rather erratically, at once accepting the egg thing’s friendship yet ever ready to abandon its friend. There’s sly humour and the duo of the egg shape and the set of feathers behave like a Laurel-and-Hardy or Abbott-and-Costello pair. There may be an absurdist message in the narrative of the twosome as they eventually find a home and become virtually invisible in it, however comfortable and well-defined their new surroundings are.
The use of collages prefigures Terry Gilliam’s use of cardboard cut-out figures and it’s possible this and similar creations by Borowczyk and Lenica strongly influenced the Monty Python man in his own animated work.
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Daniel F. Lim Causal Exclusion and Overdetermination
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Jaegwon Kim argues that if mental properties are irreducible with respect to physical properties, then mental properties are epiphenomenal. I believe that this conditional is false and argue that mental properties, along with their physical counterparts, may causally overdetermine their effects. Kim contends, however, that embracing causal overdetermination in the mental case should be resisted for at least three reasons: (1) it is implausible, (2) it makes mental properties causally dispensable, and (3) it violates the Causal Closure Principle. I believe, however, that each of these reasons can be defeated. Moreover, further reflection on (3), according to Kim’s implicit logic, may lend support to the claim that physical properties, and not mental properties, are in danger of losing their causal relevance.
Christoph Hanisch An Autonomy-Centered Defense of Democracy
According to Thomas Christiano, autonomy-centered arguments for democratic rights are not successful. These arguments fail to show that there is anything wrong with citizens who want to trade-off their political rights in exchange for more autonomy regarding their private affairs. The trade-off problem suggests that democratic participation is not necessary for leading a free life. My reply employs recent work in the republican tradition. The republican conception of freedom as non-domination supports the incommensurability of the public and the private aspects of autonomy. Christiano overlooks that trading-off the normative conditions of one’s public autonomy results in agents who are mere subjects to the dominating will of those citizens who retain their democratic rights. Since democratic decisions apply to all citizens, the privatized members end up being dominated, especially with respect to the collective determination of the very border separating the private from the public realm.
Eric LaRock Aristotle and Agent-Directed Neuroplasticity
I propose an Aristotelian approach to agent causation that is consistent with the hypothesis of strong emergence. This approach motivates a wider ontology than materialism by maintaining (1) that the agent is generated by the brain without being reducible to it on grounds of the unity of experience and (2) that the agent possesses (formal) causal power to affect (i.e., mold, sculpt, or organize) the brain on grounds of agent-directed neuroplasticity. These claims are motivated by recent evidence in neuroscience. The broader theoretical implication is that the agent is not an impotent by-product of the brain but rather something that makes an explanatory difference in virtue of the unity of experience and the capacity to affect the brain. Therefore, the agent cannot be eliminated on parsimonious grounds alone.
Philippe Gagnon An Improbable God Between Simplicity and Complexity: Thinking about Dawkins’s Challenge
Richard Dawkins has popularized an argument that he thinks sound for showing that there is almost certainly no God. It rests on the assumptions (1) that complex and statistically improbable things are more difficult to explain than those that are not and (2) that an explanatory mechanism must show how this complexity can be built up from simpler means. But what justifies claims about the designer’s own complexity? One comes to a different understanding of order and of simplicity when one considers the psychological counterpart of information. In assessing his treatment of biological organisms as either self-programmed machines or algorithms, I show how self-generated organized complexity does not fit well with our knowledge of abduction and of information theory as applied to genetics. I also review some philosophical proposals for explaining how the complexity of the world could be externally controlled if one wanted to uphold a traditional understanding of divine simplicity.
James Giles The Metaphysics of Awareness in the Philosophy of Laozi
This paper shows that a careful reading of Laozi’s The Way and Its Power enables one to come up with a metaphysics of awareness. This is done by rejecting those accounts that paint Laozi as a mystic or cosmologist and by arguing for the human-centeredness of his approach. It is shown that three central ideas in Laozi’s work can all be understood as referring to properties of awareness. These three ideas are the Way (Dao), return (gui gen, fa, fan), and non-action (wuwei). The “Way” refers to awareness itself, “return” refers to the way in which awareness oscillates between activity and stillness, and “non-action” refers to how awareness expresses itself in action. This interpretation fits with the Daoist project of articulating a way of living that brings human existence into harmonious relation to the world.
Kevin E. O’Reilly, O.P. The Significance of Worship in the Thought of Thomas Aquinas: Some Reflections
This article appeals to Thomas Aquinas in order to offer a construal of the nature of reason arguably preferable to that prominent in the Enlightenment. Thomas’s account neither espouses the notion that reason is devoid of any appetitive influence nor so conflates reason and will as to suggest that thinking becomes essentially a form of willing. His view does respect that the activity of willing is of fundamental import for the life of reason. Since the ultimate object of the will is union with God, it follows that the virtue that specifically promotes the attainment of this end—the virtue of religion—has particular import because it aims at rectifying the will and is the most excellent among the moral virtues. In brief, this virtue promotes the optimal intellectual and moral flourishing of individuals as well as the realization of justice in society.
Brian Johnson Belief and Truth: A Skeptic Reading of Plato. By Katja Maria Vogt
Joseph W. Koterski, S.J. Thomas Aquinas on the Passions: A Study of Summa Theologiae Ia2ae 22–48. By Robert Miner; and The Logic of Desire: Aquinas on Emotion. By Nicholas E. Lombardo, O.P.
10. International Philosophical Quarterly: Volume > 53 > Issue: 4
James Lehrberger, O.Cist. Lessons from Aquinas: A Resolution of the Problem of Faith and Reason. By Creighton Rosental
James M. Jacobs Can Animals Be Moral? By Mark Rowlands; and Animals and the Limits of Postmodernism. By Gary Steiner
Tina Baceski From Enlightenment to Receptivity: Rethinking our Values. By Michael Slote
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The Davidson County Republican Party caucuses and convention goat rodeo
I don't guess I had ever heard the term "goat rodeo" before, but today at the Davidson County Republican Party caucuses and convention, while a lengthy floor debate was going on with lots of points of order being made, someone said to me, "This is a real 'goat rodeo."' "Goat rodeo" is a term meaning a chaotic, unmanageable situation. That about describes the DCRP convention today.
The caucuses and convention took place today at the Maxwell House Hotel. In previous years the Party would have the caucuses on one Saturday and then the next Saturday, have the convention. This year, they had both on the same day. That, I think, was an improvement. Not many people want to give up two Saturdays in a row for the Party.
The caucuses are actually 35 separate meeting, one for each council district. At the district caucus meetings any bonafied Republican may attend and elect delegates to the convention. There is almost always more slots available than people attending so almost always anyone who attends can be elected as a delegate. I live n District 17 and we were authorized six delegates and there were only two people from District 17 who attended the caucus. All totaled there was only about 200 people who attended.
The caucuses convened at 9AM this morning and that went relatively smoothy. I assume most attendees had preregistered, so there were no long lines to check credentials. The caucus meetings were over by about 10AM. The convention did not convene until 12:30PM however so we had to kill two and half hours. I went off my diet for the big breakfast buffet and had a most enjoyable breakfast with three other people who were attending. We had meaningful discussions of weighty political issues.
When the convention convened, that is when the goat rodeo started. First of all, outgoing Chair Bob Ries made a speech, which I thought was alright but he took some people by surprise as that was not listed on the agenda. He laid out a list of proposed reforms for the Party and expressed his frustration with his tenure as chairman.
The next order of business was the calling of the roll to determine that a quorum existed to conduct business. Thirty percent of the districts have to be present to have a quorum. Always in the past, it was "districts" that had to be represented, but outgoing Chairman Bob Ries said it had to be precincts. He quoted from the state party bylaws and insisted that we had to call the roll of precincts. That would have taken a while and would have been chaotic. While there are 35 districts there is something like 168 or so precincts. I know in which district I live and where I vote, but not the precinct number. I am sure most people who attended have their voter id card with them, but calling the roll of precincts would have taken time. After some back and forth, Bob Ries relented and districts rolls were called instead of precincts. I could not hear the discussion of those without a microphone so I don't know what facts were presented to resolve this issue but it was resolved and we moved on. I think calling the roll of precincts would have been fine, but one would think everyone would be on the same page, and this would not be a last minute surprise.
After the roll call, the next item was to elect a county Party chair. There were three candidates whose names were placed in nomination: Jim Garrett, Connie Hunter and Tres Wittum. There were short nominating and campaign speeches by the three candidates and then the real chaos started.
There was a floor challenge to the candidacy of Tres Wittum. However, there was parliamentary maneuvering first as to how to make the challenge. Then, there was debate about how to deal with the challenge once the proper language was used to make the challenge. The credentials committee met outside the big room, in the hall, to deliberate. It took a while. The rules committee came back with a three-to-two vote for a ruling that said, his candidacy would be permitted but he did not meet the qualifications. WHAT? A lot of discussion ensued with points of order and raised voices.
There were conflicting information about why the committee ruled in this fashion and I am not convinced the committee ruled the right way. There was a motion made to stay the election until a determination by the State Party could be made that the committee had made a proper ruling. That motion was ruled out of order because, as it was explained, the State Party will rule the County Party acted improperly, if the county did act improperly, but only on an appeal, after the fact. The State Party will not rule prior to the County Party's action. Other motions and discussion occurred then the actions of the credentials committee was determined to be final and not subject to acceptance or rejection by the convention.
After that was settled then came the election of chairman. Jim Garrett got the most votes followed by Tres Wittum, but neither got a majority, so there had to be a run off election between these two candidates. While they were still counting ballots for the run off contest, I had to leave. My wife is an invalid and I can not go anywhere without a sitter for her. I had arranged through an agency to have a sitter until 2:30PM. I thought that would be plenty sufficient. It wasn't. I still do not know who was elected to leadership positions in the Party. I will update when that information is known.
The Davidson County Republican Party does not run like a "fine-tuned machine."
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north america / mexico | anarchist movement | press release Monday January 04, 2016 06:42 by Edward Saroyan - NYC Anarchist Bookfair Collective nycabf at riseup dot net
NYC ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR - 10th anniversary
What: 2016 Annual NYC Anarchist BookFair
Where: Judson Memorial Church, 55 Washington Square South, in Manhattan
When: Book Fair—Sat., April 16, 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Art Festival—Fri., April 15, 7 p.m. - 5 a.m.
Film Festival—Sat., April 16, 7 p.m. - 1 a.m.
N.Y.C. ANARCHIST BOOK FAIR
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[[bold] ]PRESS ADVISORY
Press Contact: Edward Saroyan, nycabf@riseup.net
New York City Anarchist Book Fair
to celebrate 10th anniversary, Sat., April 16, 2016
NEW YORK—In the decade since it debuted in 2007, the NYC Anarchist Book Fair has become a premier event for anarchists from across North America and around the world, and a New York institution. It's a gathering place for the anarchist community, a forum for activists, scholars, and creative artists, and an opportunity for the curious to learn about an anti-state, anti-capitalist political tradition that's still alive and thriving and challenging the established order.
Each year, the NYC Anarchist Book Fair hosts over 60 exhibitors including publishers, writers, designers, artists, musicians, and organizers. Past line-ups of panels, workshops, and other presentations have included such figures as journalist Chris Hedges; cartoonists Seth Tobocman, Peter Kuper, and Fly; photographer and Native American activist Lenny Foster; scholar/activists David Graeber, Silvia Federici, and Martha Ackelsberg; civil rights lawyer and radio host Heidi Boghosian; and former Black Panther and anarchist Ashanti Alston.
Judson Memorial Church, at the south end of Washington Square Park—the neighborhood that is one of the birthplaces of the anarchist movement in the US—has hosted the NYC Anarchist Book Fair nearly every year, and will do so again in 2016.
What: 2016 Annual NYC Anarchist Book Fair
When: Book Fair—Sat., April 16, 11am-6pm; Art Festival—Fri., April 15, 7pm-5am; Film Festival—Sat., April 16, 7p-1m
Once again, the NYC Anarchist Art Festival and the NYC Anarchist Film Festival in Honor of Brad Will, will be held in conjunction with the book fair. In addition, on Sun., April 17, the book fair organizing collective will host a city-wide follow-up gathering of anarchist activists. Location and other details of these additional events to follow, as well as details of book fair exhibitors, panels and workshops as they are confirmed.
For more information about the 2016 New York City Anarchist Book Fair, please email nycabf@riseup.net. Details including participating exhibitors and times of panels, workshops, and other events will be posted at http://anarchistbookfair.net.
Related Link: http://www.anarchistbookfair.net
Press Liaison, Harbinger of doom, assistant to the collector of tickets
by Edward Saroyan - NYC Anarchist Bookfair Colective Fri Feb 26, 2016 22:10 nycabf at riseup dot net
NYC Anarchist Book Fair Music Night
(date) Sunday, April 17th
(Time) 5:30 -10p m
(Location) Don Pedro
90 Manhattan Ave
The bands and musicians who will perform will be known shortly.
Sometimes in a large city such as New York, there exist some "community centers" staffed by well-meaning individuals who may allow rumors and other subjective information to be an obstacle to the free-exchange of ideas and this may work to the detriment of those who simply want to present
a cultural event to the public.
We work toward a better, more liberatory, revolutionary situation in the future.
Love to all.
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About Wildmusic-jazz.com...
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Four Bars Up Front From Dave...
I'm Dave Wild, owner/operator of this small snag in the World Wide Web, with a number of items of interest.
There's information about my CD, Wild Sides,
and the Temple Jazz Orchestra CD,
Light Up the Night - Temple Jazz Orchestra featuring Bill Watrous.
You can follow the links to pages on the music of John Coltrane, a towering figure in the jazz artform, including:
--Information about The John Coltrane Reference, a massive work of scholarship by Lewis Porter, Yasuhiro Fujioka, Chris DeVito, Wolf Schmaler and David Wild (your tour guide), first released in December '07 by Routledge and reissued as a paperback and eBook as of spring 2013.
--Updates to the reference, listing new finds and new issues and reissues.
--An abridged Coltrane Discography (perpetually under construction, of course, with a little more than eight years on line).
--Some details on recent Coltrane releases and other trivia, on the Coltrane News page.
--Some shared recollections of Coltrane in performance on the Coltrane FirstHand page.
There's also a page for saxophonist Ornette Coleman, rather limited so far, although it does have some details on recent appearances and reissues.
We also have pages about my brother Ken Wild, an exceptional bassist and long-time first-call member of the Los Angeles music scene; about the Temple Jazz Orchestra, a remarkable ensemble based in Temple TX; and about yours truly Dave Wild, author, pianist and friend to man and beast.
Music in these here parts is officially divided into "country" and "other", but the "other" includes some jazz--with performances by Dave Wild Trio, the S J Q (Swann Jazz Quartet), and the Temple Jazz Orchestra. We've included info on TJO's CDs with Bill Watrous, with Gordon Goodwin, and with originals by band members, among others. There's a page on my CD, Wild Sides --all these CDs are also listed at the Wildmusic Store. There's info about the Waco Jazz Orchestra. And there's a page with some performance listings for jazz in the central Texas area (including Dave, WJO, TJO, SJQ and a plethora of other friends, relatives and obscure acronyms). Finally, of course, we have the usual boring personal trivia.
The old Virtual Homestead has been open for nearly twenty years now, and like your favorite Interstate highway, it's perpetually under construction. We make minor repairs when there's time after the chores, tweaking the prose, fiddling with the pictures, and putting out fresh odds and ends from the grocery store. But no matter what we do, we never really seem to get the mess straightened up. We're not too fancy around these parts, but most visitors aren't into bells and whistles anyway (reeds and percussion, that's another story). So please, ignore the clutter--feel free to wander around the place (just keep the refrigerator door closed).
The guest book vanished in the last big move, but you can still send me email . This page was last updated on 1/20/16.
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BLACK FOR PALESTINE
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Congress Must Affirm the Right to Boycott for Palestinian Rights
In a time of right-wing attacks on human rights and marginalized populations, we call on members of Congress to protect the right to boycott, and to cease demonizing the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement for Palestinian rights.
We specifically call on the Congressional Black Caucus and the Congressional Progressive Caucus to honor the legacies they claim to represent - by vocally opposing anti-BDS legislation.
The CBC championed boycotts, divestment, and sanctions against the apartheid regime in South Africa at a time when the Reagan administration opposed these measures and promoted “constructive engagement.” Thirty years later, the CBC is being asked by the Trump administration to oppose these same measures against the apartheid regime in Israel. The CBC should not fall on the same side as Reagan and Trump.
There is nothing progressive about targeting a human rights movement for condemnation or governmental retaliation for exercising our constitutionally protected right to boycott - one of the most celebrated nonviolent tactics of protest. Black people from Montgomery to Johannesburg have all relied on boycotts to exert pressure on racist and unjust power structures. Palestinians absolutely have the right to do the same.
We are heartened to see the resolution affirming the right to boycott introduced this week by Reps. Ilhan Omar, John Lewis, and Rashida Tlaib. We need more politicians to support this measure.
So as progressive people and Black people, we make four specific calls to our representatives:
1) Co-sponsor and endorse H.Res 496 "Affirming that all Americans have the right to participate in boycotts in pursuit of civil and human rights at home and abroad, as protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution." (H.Res. 496)
2) Vote against both pieces of anti-boycott legislation: H. Res. 246 (Opposing the Global Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement targeting Israel) and H.R. 336 (Combating BDS Act of 2019)
3) Support the “Promoting Human Rights for Palestinian Children Living Under Israeli Military Occupation Act” (H.R. 2407) sponsored by Rep. Betty McCollum (D-MN)
4) Join the Congressional delegation to the West Bank for the purposes of seeing firsthand the conditions of Israel’s military occupation
Ultimately, we call on Congress to debate and enact policy that ends military aid to Israel and sanctions Israel until it complies with its human rights obligations under international law.
The issue of Palestinian rights, Israel’s occupation, human rights and other international law violations will not go away. Voting to condemn, censor, or punish this legitimate movement will not eliminate these issues. Congress can punt the ball to delay conversation for a while, but the ball will eventually return to your side of the field.
We are part of a growing movement that will ensure that debate and action on these topics reaches Congress one way or another. The only way to permanently remove this topic from Congress is to ensure full respect for human rights and international law.
Encourage your representatives to cosponsor the pro-boycott resolution here.
H.Res. 246 against the BDS movement just passed committee today. Write Nancy Pelosi here and tell her not to bring the bill to the House floor. Call the Speaker's office here: (202) 225-0100
Contact the CBC and CPC below:
Black.Caucus@mail.house.gov
CBC Chair: Rep. Karen Bass
CBC Vice Chairs
Rep. Joyce Beatty: (202) 225-4324
Rep. Brenda Lawrence: (202) 225-5802
CONGRESSIONAL PROGRESSIVE CAUCUS
Executive Director:
Michael.Darner@mail.house.gov
Rep. Mark Pocan: (202) 225-2906
Rep. Pramila Jayapal: (202) 225-3106
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Quarterly Stories: Summer 2015
This year I have read some stand-out collections, but for the most part I neglected to take notes from them:
Joy Williams’ Honored Guests, Kathleen Winter’s The Freedom in American Songs, Jessica Grant’s Making Light of Tragedy, Shawn Syms’ Nothing Looks Familiar, Elaine McCluskey’s Hello, Sweetheart, Julia Leggett’s Gone South and Other Ways to Disappear, Mark Anthony Jarman’s Knife Party at the Hotel Europa, Rhonda Douglas’ Welcome to the Circus, and some Alice Munro rereading (The View from Castle Rock and Too Much Happiness).
My notebook was at hand for Luis Alberto Urrea’s The Water Museum, however, and many passages caught my attention, but this one sums up the collection perfectly:
“Why, hell – he was deep into some kind of strange Italian western. There were patterns moving across the sky, high, where small scallops of cloud shimmered like mother-of-pearl. He felt a part of the great becoming, the revelation of the West.”
Little, Brown and Company, 2015
This is from “Taped to the Sky”, but this sense of a “great becoming”, this pattern of revelations, this strange depth of feeling – this sense infuses the collection as a whole. Some themes resurface throughout the collection and add to the cohesion.
Expanse
Sometimes this sense of expanse is a positive force, filled with promise, aloft. As in “The National City Reparation Society”: “I hven’t talked to you [Chango] in ten years,” Junior said. He sat on the tabletop and lay back and watched the undersides of gulls as they hung up there like kites.”
Other times, it is more an expanse of emptiness, as in “Mountains Without Number”: “Is a town dead when the old men die, or when the children leave?”
And, then, it can be something in between, as in “Mr. Mendoza’s Paintbrush”:
“The river seemed, at times, to be on a mad shopping spree, taking from the land anything it fancied. Mundane things such as trees, chckens, cows shot past regularly. But marvelous things floated there too: a DeSoto with its lights on, a wshing machine with a religious statue in it as though the saint were piloting a circular boat, a blond wig that looked like a giant squid, a mysterious star-shaped object barely visible under the surface.”
Which leads to another of the collection’s preoccupations, for here a flooded river can have a cow or a saint’s statue floating in it.
This is true in terms of story, at times, but discussing those instances would reveal spoilers. Suffice it to say that Luis Albeto Urrea also expresses this preoccupation in his desciptions of his characters’ world. (Only the first part actually reveals the sense of extremes in his prose, but I just love this buttons image from “Taped to the Sky”.)
“Barbed wire twinkled like spiderwebs and dew. The sky went all the way up and over and down. He’d never seen so much sky. It looked like the little sage bushes on the horizon were buttons holding it to the ground.”
And, in contrast, in “Mountains Without Number”, not barbed wire, but the softest thing: “Cool fog blanketed the face of the butte – the softest thing the valley had ever known.”
A similar sense of contrasting sensory details in evident in this passage from “Taped to the Sky”: “It was a good day. Ten miles ahead, on the port side of the highway, there was a buffalo herd Horses liked to look at. And beyond that, to the starboard, a llama ranch amused him when he passed it. And ostriches. It was like a free zoo all of a sudden. And he knew the Rockies would appear out of the blue haze to his right. Bright and vivid on the horizon, looming as he veered nearer, Growing taller.”
And sometimes it exists even in the details of characterization, as in this snippet from “Mr. Mendoza’s Paintbrush”: “To be macho, you must already know everything, know it so well that you’re already bored by the knowledge.”
Then, there is the collection’s focus on the Extraordinary.
But that is best discovered on its own terms. (You’ve caught a glimpse of it in the quotes above, I’m sure.)
Contents: Mountains Without Number; The Southside Raza Image Federation Corps of Discovery; The National City Reparation Society; Carnations; Taped to the Sky; Amapola,; Mr. Mendoza’s Paintbrush; The White Girl; Young Man Blues; Chametla; The Sous Chefs of Iogüa; Welcome to the Water Museum; Bid Farewell to Her Many Horses
For the past several months,I have been reading Gabrielle Roy‘s fiction. Her Street of Riches (1957) is a linked collection of stories too, with a tone similar to The Road Past Altamont. (Henry Binsse translated Street of Riches in 1967.)
This summer I have also enjoyed Gabrielle Roy’s Enchanted Summer, which is also soaked with her own memories. Its pieces are perfectly satisfying for an end-of-day read or an over-coffee-musing. Some of them are only a few pages long, others between six and twelve pages, and the collection begins and ends with the author and her sister travelling to a particular pond, where they have visited during many summers (some more enchanting than others).
Street of Riches has the same feel of familiarity, nostalgia dotted with wisdom discovered later in life. “’Without the past, what are we, Edouard?’ she asked. ‘Severed plants, half alive!'” Another quote from “The Gadabouts” also reveals this preoccupation: “Upon her face her memories were like birds in full flight.”
And as with so much of Canadian fiction, memory is intertwined with talk of time: “Was all this lost time? Then why is it that the time of futile questions, of minute problems probed to no effect, is the time that recurs and recurs to the soul as the time it has used the best?” (This quote is from “My Whooping Cough”.)
Another theme which is also at the heart of the author’s first novel, The Tin Flute, is the mother-daughter relationship. Maman in that novel is ambivalent about her role just as is the mother in “Petite Misère”: “Oh! Why did I ever have any children!”
Similiarly, in both novels, there is sympathy accorded to the mother’s character, even though being her daughter is not always easy. “I was about to answer when I realized that Maman’s anger, assuredly like many people’s, was no more than wearisome regret, the accumulation of many hurts in her heart.” (This is from “L’Italienne”.)
Just as in one of my favourite tales in Road Past Altamont, a journey is at the heart of one of these stories too (“To Prevent a Marriage”) and the experience gained while travelling is invaluable for the narrator too.
“’Are we in Saskatchewan?’ I asked Maman, and was about to feel pleased, because passing from one province to another seemed to me so great an adventure that it would certainly and completely transform Maman and me, perhaps make us happy.’
The simple matter of distance is often at lurking behind the characters’ experiences in Gabrielle Roy’s novels, even when an actual journey is not involved (consider the isolation of the family in Where Nests the Water Hen).
“A far journey to have come merely to behave, in the end, like everyone else – earn your living, try to make friends, learn our language, and then, in Wilhem’s case, love someone who was not for him. Do adventures often turn out so tritely? Obviously enough, though, in those days I did not think so.” (This quote is from “Wilhelm”.)
And, finally, here is one particularly bookish quote, which is my favourite in the collection:
“All around me were the books of my childhood, which here I had read and reread, in a dancing beam of dusty light, pouring down like a ray of sun from the gable window. And the happiness the books had given me I wished to repay. I had been the child who reads hidden from everyone, and now I wanted myself to be this beloved book, these living pages held in the hands of some nameless being, woman, child, companion, whom I would keep for myself a few hours. Is there any possession equal to this one? Is there a friendlier silence, a more perfect understanding?” (This is from “The Voice of the Pools”.)
Contents: The Two Negroes; Petite Misère; My Pink Hat; To Prevent a Marriage; A Bit of Yellow Ribbon; My Whooping Cough; The Titanic; The Gadabouts; The Well of Dunrea; Alicia; My Aunt Thérésina Veilleux; L’Italienne; Wilhelm; The Jewels; The Voice of the Pools; The Storm; By Day and by Night; To Earn My Living
Do you have some short stories in your stacks these days?
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Phi Brain Ep 02 - The plot thickens
Phi Brain has a two faced allure. On the one side, it has a ludicrously exaggerated plot which is comical and begs for sarcastic mocking. On the other side, it has interesting key events which drive the plot and are strategically placed to generate enough anticipation to keep me watching. This dual sided show is definitely an interesting autumn experience.
So heroic as he pulls that rope.
The show starts off by finishing off the previous plots story. Our hero solves the puzzle very heroically. He then faints, as he must because any new superpower would brain the body, and is carried back home by Nonoha. I laughed for many minutes at this. I understand equal opportunity and am a girl myself. Despite being a refined martial artist carrying a boy bigger (and probably heavier) than you for such a long distance across varying elevations while smiling and introspecting is ridiculous. I would have forgiven her if she had been cursing and swearing about how heavy Kaito was, but she was having feminine crush thoughts. Unforgivable. I get that she's a side character that shouldn't matter, but bashing the insignificant bits is half the fun of watching Phi Brain for me.
At least she knows how he ticks. He has ridiculously selective hearing.
We are then introduced to the frenemy. Ah, frenemies have such amusing dynamic. I have a feeling this series will be filled with frens; it's the natural result of teaming up people in competition. The first of the batch is Sakanoue Gammon, titled Galileo. I find it interesting that they are all named from scientific figureheads of various historic ages. It's like warring the names of scientific kings. How can you really compare them to determine who the smartest is? I know, I know, I'm over thinking it. There is nothing so deep about Phi Brain's titular hierarchy. Digressing, watching Gammon and Kaito is like watching Rho and Aaro play Little Big Planet. There is a lot of heated cursing and name-calling during the game followed by silent, instantaneous making up in the aftermath. Gammon and Kaito add a layer of we'll see whose better next time before parting ways.
Gammon leaves Kaito hanging... literally!
Kaito is then summoned by the principal of the school and offered the title of Einstien. He explains the underlying framework of the puzzle industry he wants to indoctrinate Kaito into. It's a most hilarious sales pitch with buzz words like Sage Puzzles, POG Givers (which I assumed stands for Puzzle of God - deep, yeah?), The Chosen Solver, The Divine Puzzle and intelligent "on the same platform as the Gods". If this wasn't enough, there is a tie in to the pyramids, ancient treasures and historic legacies. The basis of Phi Brain is the love child of The Da Vinci Code and YuGiOh. Kaito refuses to sell his soul to the devil and walks out of the principles office insulting him in morse code by playing on the word "baka" (Moron in Japanese).
I bet a stellar diet can be patented here. "Eat whatever you want and become smarter! He'll definitely love you then."
Our hero them proceeds to the cafeteria to recharge his batteries. At this point I begin to wonder why he is the only one who isn't in a uniform. Everyone else is wearing some variation of a uniform. I don't mind much since his Digimon-ish clothes make me nostalgic, but I am curious. I wonder if there is an explanation. While he battles it out with Gammon at the cafeteria counter - Puzzles use brain power; brain power requires energy; energy comes from food; therefore, whoever eats more thinks more - I reflect on the previous scene. While The Da Vinci Code was a page turning conspiracy theory and YuGiOh has devolved into infants play, the cliche backdrop did set the stage for the introduction of interesting people and places. Puzzles, while fundamentally challenging the brain in similar ways, take on different forms based on the originating culture. By taking about pyramids and a historic legacy, they have build a door which could lead to a diversity in the puzzles we see on the show. Considering the puzzles serve the superficial purpose of showmanship and in no way intellectually challenge the viewer, I feel that they'll keep hitting us with puzzles we haven't seen rather than recycling the same simple puzzles we see in newspapers and on iPhones.
A new take on "food fight"
Kaito is then summoned for a puzzle. Gammon swoops in a steals his console telling Kaito to stop interfering with his money-making if he's not serious about taking on a title. Kaito then looks at a puzzle the Gammon made for him and infers from the puzzle that Gammon must be a good guy because the puzzle he created had merit. Even though I sound like I'm mocking this logic, I'm not. People often wear exterior personalities to hide themselves from the world. This tendency is commonplace and Gammon is just an exaggerated play on this very human trait. After all, if Gammon was actually stupidly hot-headed he would not be able to create a challenging puzzle. I like this juxtaposition of emotional irrationality and hyper-rational intelligence in Gammon's personality. Then again, I have a soft spot for troubled characters. Their angst makes me want to hug them.
Kaito's realization of Gammon's god-guy-ness comes from a flashback. I enjoy the Phi Brain flashbacks; they have pretty lighting and are filled with corny lines. We once again see Kaito's puzzle teacher (that's what I think he is) who talks of puzzles as people. We also meet a childhood friend of Kaito's who studied under the same teacher. I am really curious about this past they've introduced. I will be slightly saddened if the puzzle teacher is a mere babysitter of sorts. I'll feel gypped out of an elaborate side plot because they decided to keep things remotely real. I also want to know why they appear to be hanging out near the Stone Henge. (I hope for globe-trotting adventures!)
After deciding to rescure Gammon, Kaito uses Nonoha's incredible memory to get to the puzzle location. The Giver (that position name is just so pornographic) is annoyed to see Gammon in Kaito's stead, but allows all three students to take on the puzzle. The puzzle in this episode is more familiar compared to last. It's a real like Rush Hour puzzle. I assume on an iPhone the difficulty level would clock in at about 10000, where the average app goes up to 30. They use a touchscreen apparatus (iPad in my head) to control the way the cars move. I have to say, while the puzzle itself may seem too simple for a puzzle game, I'm amazed at the complexity of engineering this Giver was willing to put into his Sage Puzzle. The complex back-end of the execution is reason enough to forgive the simple face. Of course, the Giver ruins his reputation by cheating and freezing the system so that the contestants die.
The foreplay before Orpheus helps
The goal of the puzzle is to move the red antique car out of the playing square. The time limit is ten minutes. The consequence of failure is being crushed by a bus. Although Gammon is quick to solve the Rush Hour puzzle, once their car is frozen right before the exit, he and Nonoha begin to rage-panic and start kicking doors and windows to no avail. They are locked in with a bus dangling over their heads waiting to fall on them in less than a minute and a half. Kaito takes control of the, uh, control and stares at it. He says things like "the puzzle wants to be solved" and "the puzzle is asking me to solve it". I giggle. And then he manages to solve the "unsolvable puzzle". As everyday as the Rush Hour puzzle seems, the way Kaito escapes death is interesting. I certainly didn't think of his solution. In fact, if I were in his position, I'd be rage-panicing and kicking doors. Or crying. It's Kaito's out of the box solutions that keep the show entertaining regardless of the interest factor of the puzzle itself. Kaito is hungry after this endeavour and decides to accept the title of Einstein because he's supposedly too broke for food. I think it's just an excuse because changing your mind and selling out are not manly enough for our hero. Food, on the other hand, super manly!
I know I'm going to like him just from the way he is introduced
The show ends with the principal firing the cheating Giver. I really wonder what the back story on the principal is. He's so suave and cool but he's also sleazy and business-minded. Although I mock the plot endlessly, I quite like the characters of Phi Brain. They make me want to know them more. The thickening of the plot happens with a glimpse at Kaito's childhood friend.
So deliciously evil!
/Envy
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PAN Asia Pacific holds media training for partners
Tuesday 7 October 2014
Date: 6 October 2014
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Keywords: Pesticides, media training, advocacy
PENANG, Malaysia – Recognizing media and communication, including the use of social media, as important components of advocacy work and campaigning, PAN Asia Pacific recently held a three-day training for its partner organizations in the region.
About 51 participants from 13 countries representing partner organizations of PAN Asia Pacific’s programs on Pesticides, Women in Agriculture, and Food Sovereignty and Ecological Agriculture as well as its staff joined the training on media and social media from 25-27 September held in Penang.
Media and communication, when done effectively, help in mobilizing people, in generating favorable public opinion and in influencing policy makers,” said Ms. Sarojeni Rengam, PAN Asia Pacific Executive Director, in her opening address to the participants.
Ms. Rengam added that PAN Asia Pacific has also been looking into the emergence of social media in recent years as an effective platform to reach out and engage the public. “We have yet to fully explore and maximize social media for our advocacy and campaigning. Thus, through this training, we hope to develop and build our capacity in using this relatively new tool in our work to eliminate the use of highly hazardous pesticides, promote the rights and welfare of rural women, and advance food sovereignty and ecological agriculture,” said Ms. Rengam.
The training was highlighted by inputs from mainstream media and social media practitioners and digital campaigners from the region and by practical workshops that encouraged participants to apply the concepts and skills they learned from the discussions. The workshops included sessions on organizing a press conference; handling a media interview; effective messaging; using Facebook and Twitter for advocacy; online campaigning using videos and images; and blogging. On the last day, the training culminated in the designing of actual media and communication plans by the PAN Asia Pacific partners.
“We hope that the training has been both productive and useful, and fun and enjoyable at the same time for our partners. We encourage them to hold similar trainings in their respective countries so as to continue the momentum we collectively initiated here towards better and more effective engagement with the media and the general public,” Ms. Rengam said. ###
Reference: Sarojeni Rengam, sarojeni.rengam@panap.net
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“Heel”ing Their Wounds: Yves Saint Laurent Moves On From Battle With Louboutin
October 21, 2012 In Blog, Design, Fashion, Trademark By Brooke Luxenburg
The dramatic saga between Louboutin and Yves Saint Laurent is coming to an end, it seems.
Since April 2011, the two fashion empires have fought over the right to sell shoes with red-colored soles. This past September, the New York Federal Court of Appeals came out with a ruling that was somewhat of a compromise. The Court determined that Louboutin was entitled to a trademark for the famous red sole, but that it could not stop Yves Saint Laurent and others from selling monochromatic red shoes, the very thing that provoked Louboutin to sue. Predictably, both parties declared victory after the ruling was announced. Although they seemed content in the ruling, there remained counterclaims by Yves Saint Laurent that threatened to drag the legal battle on.
Yves Saint Laurent has decided to move on and is now seeking to dismiss the suits it brought against Louboutin. Representation for the company has asked a federal judge to dismiss the claims, effectively ending the lawsuit Louboutin originally brought against Yves Saint Laurent. In the filing to the Court, Yves Saint Laurent expressed a desire to move forward from the ruling and refocus on creating designs. (Yves Saint Laurent also happened to mention in the filing that the Court definitely had rejected Louboutin’s claims, despite widespread interpretation that both parties partially won.) Yves Saint Laurent’s decision to walk away comments on the perception of the ruling itself.
The apparent conclusion of the suit allows for brief reflection over the case. What does dismissal of the counterclaims tell the public? Yves Saint Laurent’s desire for dismissal of the counterclaims leads to the inference that the company is either a) satisfied with the ruling, or b) unwilling to pursue further legal action. It is likely that both are the case in this matter.
Despite claims to the contrary, each of the parties has reason to be content. In a shortsighted way, Yves Saint Laurent won the right to produce and sell the monochromatic red shoes that sparked the initial controversy. The court justified Yves Saint Laurent’s production of the shoes, and simultaneously blessed continued production. Put simply, Yves Saint Laurent can continue to sell the shoes it so vehemently defended. But from a legal perspective, Yves Saint Laurent has drawn the short end of the stick (or heel?). Significantly, the Court upheld Louboutin’s trademark for red-soled shoes, consequently opening the color trademark door wider than it had been before (Qualitix v. Jacobson had already established that color could meet the legal standards for a trademark.) Louboutin is now able to legally prevent other high-end shoemakers from selling red-soled shoes with an upper in a contrasting color. The ruling increased the value of Louboutin’s already-expensive red-soled heels.
Although cases can certainly last for far longer in the abyss of the legal system, it is likely that both Louboutin and Yves Saint Laurent are exhausted. Or, at least, their lawyers are. The companies have spent the better part of a year championing their arguments in court and in the media. For better or for worse, the case garnered widespread attention and required large amounts of energy. It is not hard to understand why Yves Saint Laurent is so willing to walk away.
Yves Saint Laurent’s decision to seek dismissal for its counterclaims against Louboutin is not without significance. In fact, it provides a lens within which the Court of Appeals’ ruling can be seen. At the very least, Yves Saint Laurent is content with what it gained from the case, and certainly, is ready to strut away in its monochromatic red shoes.
Brooke Luxenburg
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By Lyanna, January 4, 2007 in Stories
Lyanna
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So, I thought this might be an interesting discussion to have among the story writers of EL. It's been discussed off-and-on a few times before in the last three years or so, but I don't think there was ever a specific thread for it. I was just interested in hearing what the new writers think about the cultures present in Seridia and Irilion, as well as the races. This isn't meant to be an "official" thread... just a "discussion and speculation, with arguments and questions" kind of thread.
I remember a couple of years back, when Roja was first discussing the race descriptions of the Orchans, she was linking them with the Native American Indian culture, with shamans and tribalistic beliefs. I think we added honour as one of their core values, after Saii's "History of the Lands" described them as such. I admit, I was thinking of and wanted to add in the honour-bound Japanese samurai/ninja clan culture to the Orchans as well. What do you guys think? What would a mix of Native American/Japanese samurai culture be like? And would that suit the Orchans?
And what about the other races/political entities?
When crafting the Tales of Irilion and the background politics, I was envisioning the Idal Empire as a parallel to the ancient Roman Empire (legions, prefectures, etc... as well as a whole bunch of Roman-sounding names). Did that come across well? And for the Draegoni, I was thinking of the (Asian) Indians as a base for their culture. A caste system based on the colour of their scales, highly spiritual and mystical, pacifistic by philosophy, etc. That's why the Sacred Caves of Bethel story sounded the way it did. Would that be an interesting culture to have for the Draegoni? What do you think?
And what about the elves, dwarves and gnomes? Dwarves have some traditional associations with either Celtic highlanders or Norse Viking cultures. Elves are sort of fixed as nature-loving archers (unless someone wants to dispute that?) What about the Gnomes, though? I don't think there's a set culture for gnomes yet. Anyone have thoughts on what sort of cultures might be interesting?
And all that is just based on races. Do you think there could be different cultures even among the same race, on different continents? (Eg. Compare English and French cultures to American and Canadian cultures... same root stock, but how different. Or Spain and the Latin American countries.) What kind of differences would you like to see?
Just to provoke some discussion. Anyone is welcome to give an opinion.
-Lyn-
EDIT: I wonder if I dare suggest an Arab culture somewhere?
Edited January 4, 2007 by Lyanna
Hi Lyanna
Developing cultural aspects of the races some more is good. The basis of all the races are already all outlined though. I suppose what could be needed are details, and even some more visual representations of their cultures in the maps, which i'm wanting to do so some more ideas for stuff can surely help.
chosenflea
The Gnomes seem to me to be sort of like the ancient chinese, always inventing things. I also have heard (I dont know if this is true) that they were also somewhat short. The main area where gnomes are from, also seems mysterious, unless I am forgetting something, just like China to the Europiens.
Hmm... that's an interesting idea. Gnomes based on Chinese culture, eh? Well, from what I remember of my fantasy, gnomes were usually inventive, small-framed, mercenary (i.e. money-minded), and well-travelled. I think the original concept was based off the Jews or gypsy cultures. But since the Chinese are considered "the Jews of the East" (ironic as that sounds), it's seems to suit quite well. Plus, they invented gunpowder first. Oriental gnomish architecture?
I think of gnomes in the classical sense...in fact their culture is pretty much made up already, as is all the races..at least I have them all in my mind and wrote down their race descriptions:
http://www.eternal-lands.com/page/races.php
Their architecture comes up in the buildings that have already been made. I suppose it's just some added details that are needed now. And I'm open to suggestions on that.
Acelon
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I could see gnomes being more related to the ancient chinese vs. Gypsies. I always pictured gypsies as the nomadic sort of people, and all our races seem to stay in one area. We do lack a nomadic sort-of race anyways
I wouldn't attribute something like "being a nomad" to an entire race, but to just a set of people in that race as is irl.
sora_barzahd
Location:Nowhere
From what I've seen, gnomes hate to be poked, they're fascinated with shiny things, which would contribute to their love of money, they have astronomical noses, and their ancient language consists of merping and meeping sounds.
gnomes don't have a love of money. They like to collect stuff and have a love for playing around with things/invention, but they are anything but greedy people.
Teshla
Location:Vilnius, Lithuania
No one talks about humans? How can it be?! I think humans should be discussed too. Because it's becoming too bothering to see humans as the ones that can do a bit of everything. As Roja wrote, they can build big cities and they use all they can take advantage of. So I imagine they have a high level of architecture, which leads to South/Central Europe or USA. I'm getting closer to Europe because it has bigger past. And it leads me to Middle ages! So I imagine Humans as very religious people. They kill a lot to spread their ideas of the one and only right life (crusades). Thats how I imagine Human race.
Note: Most of the post is explaining and you can read just last two senteces to get what I think of humans
Well there's no need to imagine what humans are like
I don't mean to be rude or anything, but somethings are just obvious and need no explainations.
peino
Apologies for reviving an older topic, but I just got my forum account, and this really interests me. So, I'd like to add a few notes. Sorry for the length, but I wanted to touch on all 6 races at once. Thanks for your patience.
All the races in EL seem to follow their European folkloric origins, except Draegoni and Orchans, which are modern inventions, though there are still traditional/IRL sources that can be used for them. So, starting with the official race descriptions and looking at traditional lore:
1) Humans are human. We know how they operate (I guess). Relating to the other races, Humans traditionally have a little distrust but also a fascination and willingness to learn and make friends. The Humans of EL belong to the medieval world, which covers all races and many religions, but generally prefers a strong social structure based on class and hierarchy. Humans will tend to be either "civilized" -- living in towns, following laws, belonging to official groups like army, government, or church -- or they'll be "barbarians" -- living in the wilderness, outside the law, forming tribes or bandit/mercenary gangs. Humans like order and structure and tend to impose it on anything that feels too wild or uncontrolled. Sometimes Humans will get into vicious fights, even wars, over what kind of order is best. In general, Humans are curious, adventurous, inventive, and ambitious.
2) Dwarves are small statured people intensely connected to the earth and its energies. They have magical/semi-magical abilities to find ores, mineral deposits and buried treasure. As a result, Dwarves are usually rich or getting rich. Dwarves are masters of manipulating the earth's resources, so they are master smiths and crafters. They have amazing physical strength and muscles as hard as rocks, but their attitudes can also be set in stone. They are often stubborn. They are proud of their heritage, and clan means everything to them. They are powerful warriors, preferring melee combat with a good solid axe or hammer in their hands. They enjoy drinking, feasting, fighting, and hard work for good pay. Their culture is solidly nordic/germanic, based on personal achievement, amplified by ale-fueled boasting (a cultural tradition).
3) Elves are connected to the spirits of nature. They are mostly tall, ethereal-looking people, but sometimes there are extreme variations in how they look -- in EL, this shows in their different skin colors. They see themselves as the stewards of the natural world. They protect the environment, and sometimes can be vindictive against someone they think treats the land badly. Elves have keen senses, especially sight and hearing. They can be judgmental and arrogant, but they can also be honorable, loyal, friendly, and fun-loving -- it kind of depends on their mood. In war, Elves are deadly archers and skilled swordsmen. I think, for EL, the Celtic culture is best for Elves, especially the Welsh Mabinogion tales. It has them living close to the land, involved with weather and the elements, keepers of secret lore/knowledge/history, and using magic in their daily lives, especially in the building of their towns and castles. Elfen social structure is based on aristocratic families.
4) Gnomes, in folklore, are a kind of urbanized pixie/elf/dwarf type character, small and light in stature, often wearing glasses or appearing very studious. They are the tailors, cobblers, tinkers, etc. -- semi-magical masters of all the basic (non-magic) skills and trades that humans also use. Gnomes are inventive and energetic, into science, technology, and education. Their cities are bustling little hubs of commerce. Usually, their only interest in warfare is the invention of new weapons, armors, castle defenses, etc. When they do go to war, they'll have all the newest, state of the art equipment. Their social structure is democratic, without a class system, maybe a meritocracy at most. They like life to be comfortable and easy -- small, round little homes with all modern conveniences, comfy clothes, etc. A good culture model might be the medieval trade guild system, or later 18th century trade associations, social clubs (like freemasons), and Protestant societies (like the Quakers) in Scandanavia, Britain and North America. I'm not sure, but I think Gnomes come from Scandanavian folklore.
5) Draegoni are associated with dragons, so their culture could be based on dragon lore. If we mix a little of Europe and Asia, we could say the Draegoni are wise. That would be their most outstanding attribute. They are philosophers, scientists, keepers of libraries and schools where highly advanced skills are taught. Legends say they are descended from dragon gods and that they have vast wealth and know where all the treasures of the world are hidden. Very tall, strong, exotic looking, Draegoni have magic in their very bones, even if they're not as into using magic as the Elves. They are pacifist in general, but maybe that's only because they do not care about what they see as the petty disputes of the other races. When they do go to war, they are strong, fierce and deadly. You do not want to make enemies of the Draegoni.
6) Orchans are kind of the ultimate "foreigners." People who come from a different land and a very, very different culture. The other races (the "mainstream") tell speculative tales about them (half human/half orc, etc). I see Orchans as the people who are native to the places the humans call "wilderness," which isn't wilderness to the Orchans at all. Since the Orchans come from the tropical islands (SRM and NRM), maybe the Pacific island cultures could be their model -- Hawaii, Samoa, etc. A big, strong, robust race of people who live in small clan-based villages supported by hunting and small farming, lead by warrior chieftans and shamanic religious leaders. Leadership is based on personal achievement, bravery, honor, and skills, with regular testing and trials to prove it. Warfare is a kind of sport to the Orchans, in which villages vie for social status against each other. Despite their warlike appearance, Orchans are generally friendly people who enjoy life's pleasures.
Roja, if you're most interested in images to add to enhance the cultures, here are some random ideas off the top of my head:
1) If Human culture is medieval-ish (except for all the parts that aren't ), religion and government are very important, so maybe there could be even more, and more elaborate, RP-style text messages upon entering public buildings. Maybe just mentioning the names of the rulers and locally revered gods more often.
Also, maybe bring some non-European details in -- for instance some Arabian style tents, weapons, lying about the desert of Bethel.
I think the rest are all pretty well done as they are. I always know if I'm in an Elf, Dwarf, Gnome, Draegoni, or Orchan town. At most I might add a few visual details, such as
-- Clocks in Gnomish towns. Clocks have a lot of engineering significance.
-- And more newspapers lying around. Gnomes strike me as newspaper readers.
-- Maybe some more shiny stuff in some Draegoni town interiors -- quartzes, ice sculptures -- to go with their sparkly scales and amazing hair colors. They're the most glamorous looking race in EL, but some of their houses are seriously rustic.
EDIT: Otherwise, I have to say, you've done an amazing job creating the Draia reality, Roja. The artwork and backgrounds of EL were among the top things that drew me to this game. Thanks for all your beautiful work!
Edited October 11, 2007 by peino
Enly
Location:A far green country, under a swift sunrise
Wow peino, you've got a good grasp on the races. have you been reading the official stories?
As a story writer, and reader I'd like to respond a little to what you said
This I quite agree with in most aspects, however, I don't know if I would defien the draegoni as pacifists. By no means am I suggesting they enjoy war and are always seeking it, but more they are those that go to war when need be, and no when it is time for peace. I always see them as being wiser in their wars than humans, not getting into conflicts over petty disputes, but neither do I see them as completely peacefull. I have always imagined them as a very proud race with ancient customs and knowledge I see them as veiwing themselves as slightly superior to others, be the race that lives the longest I think they would see themselves as wiser than all others. This is just a generalization, I don't veiw all draegonis as being so proud. But overall i think of them as a pridefull race, and pride always leads to trouble .
My apologies if I do not make sense... but that is bascially what i think of the draegonis
Odd... both things that jumped out at me related to draegonis
Anyway, I'd just like to mention that there are many things like this, there is even an throne made entirely out of crystal on a draegoni map. There are plenty of glamorous shiny things within the deep confines of those southern icy cities.
Another thing, you mentioned elves and their skill with archery and swords in combat, this tends to be the stereotypical definition of elves, And i rather disagree with it at times. I am currently thinking/wishingiwaswriting about an elvish character who has next to no skills in combat. You may have been saying that when they are warriors they are archers and swordsmen(woman ) not that all are warriors, but thats just my thinking on that subject. I also think that any elf could be perfectly capable of being able to weild and axe just as well as a sword. I tend to get annoyed with fantasy stereotypes of elves being far sighted archers and dwarves being grumpy ale loving axe weilders and other things like that and hope that EL can make some things slightly different about its fantasy races
Edited October 11, 2007 by Enly
Thanks! Actually, I've only made a dent in the official stories so far, but am working on it, and am eager to offer my own contributions as well. I'm a fairly dedicated amateur writer as well, though fantasy is a new genre for me. I specialize in horror, with a foundation in RL mythologies. Right now, I am working on a story about Peino, and if it comes out well, I will post it one of these days.
Actually, I totally agree with you. The pacificist reference comes directly from the official race description on the EL website. It struck me as odd, but since I'm so new, I felt it wasn't my place to contradict Radu and Roja. So I worked it in. However, I added that bit about indifference being the possible real reason for Draegoni possibly not joining in with the other races in their conflicts because I figured a race that sees itself as so far removed from (advanced beyond?) the others would have no interest in their "petty squabbles." You know, unless they felt insulted/threatened, or it was a matter of a personal alliance. But by all means, I think the Draegoni should have a complex, possibly competitive society (with all that pride floating about), so warfare and the status of warriors would play an important role.
Anyway, dragons are not seen as symbols of peace, but as symbols of strength, power, and vitality. I do question the description of the Draegoni as being "pacifist" or otherwise avoiding war.
It's funny what you say about the pride of the Draegoni and their status as the most long-lived and wisest, etc., as well as their pride (arrogance). Elves say the same things about themselves. Wouldn't it be funny if a cultural rivalry developed between Elves and Draegoni over such things? The Who's the Most Egotistical? Contest.
Yes, I know, but I want more!!! *bangs fist on desk* More!!! The public areas in the Draegoni cities are fine, but some of the houses and other interiors look too Human-style to my taste, and some are as rustic as Hobbit houses, if there were such a thing as a Hobbit. I just can't see the proud Draegoni being satisfied with patchwork quilts and little wooden stools. As it is, the Orchans decorate their houses more to their own culture than the Draegoni often do, as far as I've seen in my wanderings.
I was trying to describe the cultures in broad terms, covering all the major aspects of how they function in EL, so mention of fighting styles was necessary. I did not mean to imply that all members of any of the races do the same things or act the same way. All I meant was that archery and swords (and I meant the lighter blades, not the big heavy orcslayers) are Elf-style weapons, so if an Elf learns the martial arts within his/her own society, those are the weapons that would be traditionally taught. Notice that I also mentioned that Dwarves prefer axes and hammers and melee, but that is also a stereotype that does not apply to all Dwarves in Draia.
These specific stereotypical details about Elves and Dwarves come directly from the European folklore sources, and for that reason, I accept them as legitimate. That is the bottom line for me on all these fantasy character types -- the closer it is to the original folklore source, the better I like it. But in the original folklore, neither Dwarves nor Elves are primarily known as warriors. It's just that when they fight, these are their usually preferred type of weapons, because in the folklore those weapons were expressive of the nature of the beings.
I also talked about Gnomes and warfare, but in the original folklore sources about gnomes, they are not warlike at all, actively avoid conflict, and have no types of weapons associated with them. But I had to do something to account for all the heavily armed gnomes kicking butt all over Draia.
Thanks so much for your positive response. I'm an artist and (amateur) writer, and EL has really gotten me exciited about exploring new styles and making some new projects. *itchy, twitchy work fingers*
Oh, and by the way, killer Dragon Boat story -- kudos and congrats on that one to you. I've been thinking about illustrating it, but I've only got a handle on one image for one scene and I feel like it needs more (at least 3 images to cover the whole story). Don't know if I'll get anything in by the deadline, as I've got an upcoming art event to prepare for as well.
--Peino.
Thats awesome EL could really use some more decent writers, and don't be afraid to post it whether you think it comes out well or not, other peoples opinions and advise always make my writing better.
Roja rules the storylines but don't be afraid to present your own ideas there is not such thing as a bad idea, only one that roja dosn't like (which dosn't mean its bad )
I don't veiw draegonis as being to far removed from the other races, I do picture them as thinking themselves superior, but I also see them as thinking they are honor bound to assist when tragedy strikes draia as a whole.
Conflicts between races and kingdoms are something that definately need to be worked on. The draegoni's and elves views of each other would dictate how they behaved when the meet in a story. It would be interesting for them to have a sort of rivalry. However the draegoni live approx 1,000 years, and elves about 800 this makes these two races by far the longest living, and I think that would cause them to have a certain special relationship.
Well I can't speak for the map makers, but i don't think they often go back and change already made maps.
As one who as explored the depths of many draegoni cities and maps I think it works quite fine the way it is. I see the draegoni's as an odd mix of pride an honor. They're rather stuck up, but at the same time humble. They think they're better than you, but will welcome you kindly and are cordial. that is just my veiw of the draegoni
The gnomes: here is a nice little description roja gave me while I was working out Sarma's story:
As I mentioned they are much more care-free and less organized than humans would be. They are not the kind of people to have crime; although perhaps a petty theft every now and then-and most of the times an accidental one. So they live in peace with each other, although they can surely get into arguments, but it never escalated into violence. They're not warriors; although there can be an exception here or there(obviously the game world goes off on a separate tangent with many of these things).
They are very friendly and unbiased towards all races-even monsters if the monsters won't hurt them. So they also try to settle in peaceful places, away from monsters which they are not good at defending themselves against...however if they do have to defend themselves, they do it with contraptions and devices they engineer. Fighting is a last resort for them.
They are inventors, dabblers, artisans, craftsmen, pack-rats...that sort
I guess my description of them came out a bit more extreme than what I was actually thinking, so, yeah, I think I'm pretty much on the same page as you. None of my business, really, since I'm an Elf, and all.
Of course, due to the curse of deathlessness, all races are technically immortal, but I think the ancient traditions of their long lives would have a real effect on their cultures today, and maybe on how they deal with the deathlessness thing.
I'm of two minds about how to deal with that myself. In the in-character log Peino keeps (how I keep track of what I do in game), the deathlessness is real and affects the language Peino uses to talk about what happens around him, working as much of the game's real functions into as coherent an RP reality as I can.
On the other hand, I noticed that, aside from the Themes of Eternity, the stories I've read so far do not deal with the deathlessness issue at all. So I'm not sure whether to have it or not have it in the story I'm working on now.
It's Roja's own fault for saying, above, that she was interested in visual clues to cultures to include in the game. To be honest, I think the cultures are represented visually just fine. At most, I might add more text messages attached to buildings and signs that repeat elements of the EL backstory, like rulers' names, laws, gods, etc., just to remind people of the general backstory that exists, however vaguely. But it's not really necessary, I guess.
Ah, just what I was thinking. But it also goes back to my dilemma of how much to follow what happens in the game versus guiding a little what happens in the game. Right now, a lot of fighter players love to be gnomes. Ignore that, or work it in? I don't know.
Actually, the curse is being reworked into something else. The races do have average ages.
Cool. I'll wait and see then.
Game and stories must be some-what sepperated, afterall we can't go around explaining how everyone lives by walking only one speed
Besides, there are plenty of orchan and draegoni PKers as well. I think gnomes can just be gnomes for stories, and ignore the PK stuff. But you really should ask roja as that is just my opinion (and kinda how i've been writing)
kailomonkey
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This is interesting and I'm only part way through. I wanted to quickly pick up on the apparent pacifism of Draegoni compared to their pride which should cause perhaps more internal war. I say pick up, really I mean say something that is of no importance atall
Well Draegonis are very powerful and could cause eachother alot of damage if it came to a scrap. For this reason their great pride, when insulted, comes to a simple sizing up of strengths and cast. In this way, if a disagreement heads towards combat, it is resolved prematurely. This happens in nature to reduce needless damage to one another, and a race with such pride would definately favour maintaining a show of racial unity.
I believe its a 'fact' that the dreagoni went through a civil war, after which i would think their race would pull it together and not screw up again, being the smart chaps that they are.
Aphistolas
Fascinating thread people! I may as well add my own contributions (even if they are a bit belated... ):
- Humans. I see humans as the youngest and most versatile race in Eternal Lands. They can adapt to practically every environment, and can find ways to sustain themselves in virtually every situation. They are keen problem solvers and thinkers, and are frequently assisted by the Gnomes and Elves to craft great magical barriers and wards. Although they are not as physically strong or agile as the Orchans, and do not possess the strangely-powerful physiology of Draegoni, if prodded in the wrong area sufficiently they can frequently succumb to a feral-like state; which blocks out any emotions/feelings and makes rational thoughts virtually impossible. The best human-warriors are people who can tap into this mind-frame on command, and some are even trained how to. They are very broad politically, and frequently engage in debates with other races over world views. The majority of humankind live by a lesser version of the Elven 'good and evil' doctrine, they exile or trial whomever they consider evil, but some schisms do occur, and many groups with rival views do appear.
- Elves. Naturally elusive and charismatic, Elves are extremely charming, and can be masters of deceit if the situation calls for it. They, like humans, can survive against inhospitable environments, but have a much lower tolerance-threshold for extreme temperatures than their abundant counterparts. Most Elves prefer solitude, and peace, travelling in families or small clans at most. Despite this, they feel safe and secure when surrounded by others of their kin, hence why Tirnwood Vale is predominately populated by Elven families. They have evolved for living in the forest, but apparently not for hunting, as many Elves regard life as sacred and some even refuse to slaughter animals for their hides/meat (origins of the vegetarian/vegan ideologies). Their sight, hearing, and tactile senses are among some of the sharpest in the land; although their hearing is barely rivals Draegoni ears. They were apparently designed for agility, not brute strength, but Elves on average tend to be stronger than humans. Heightened senses make large battles an even bigger strain on an Elf's senses, thus they normally restrict themselves to archery/ranging work, or occasionally sabotage and pre-battle reconnaissance. They can be sanctimonious, as most Elves have a strict sense of 'right and wrong', and don't feel shy about expressing their beliefs to other races they consider evil. This makes them naturally untrusting of the Orchans and Draegoni, whom have been associated with evil deeds in the past.
- Dwarves. Strong, decisive and surly. The Dwarves are arguably the most resourceful race in the Lands. They can build great structures from virtually any substance, and don't have time for predators or rivalry. Despite their brash appearance, Dwarves usually have a large amount of focus and mental discipline, as the skills for shaping various items and structures normally prerequisite patience, steadfastness, and a steady hand. They can become dangerously skilled mages, but most don't decide to do so. A Dwarves biggest personality-weakness would be his/her pride. If challenged, a Dwarf would rarely refuse even the most outrageous task. Their stocky-frames are laden with muscle, making sword-wielding somewhat encumbersome, so most chose to wield axes, bows, maces, or other missile or force weapons. Dwarves can summon courage and valour from the depths of despair, and make great hero-icons in battle. They usually don't have much motivation to travel or participate in the front-line of wars, instead preferring to supply (sometimes both sides) with war-weapons, and fortify themselves into a secured and comfortable domain. Dwarves can hold a misdeed for many years, but view petty inter-clan squabbles as a pointless waste of valuable time. They will rarely refuse to sell stock to someone, and usually take a neutral position in many political affairs.
- Gnomes. Intelligent, wise, and relatively pacifistic. Gnomes are renowned for their seemingly inherent talent to create wonders (both magical and otherwise). They identify mostly with the Dwarves, but are drastically different personality-wise; Gnomes are shy, reserved, and their humour is intelligent and witty. They also tend to have less muscle than Dwarves, but are generally accepted as superior thinkers and creators. Gnomes try to stick amongst their kin as much as possible, as relations with outside-races are often difficult and usually lead to harsh consequences. They restrict themselves from the other races, choosing to live solely on a small island in Irilion. Although the basics were developed by humans, Gnomes have advanced significantly further in the fields of science and discovery than any other race. Their technology makes them envied by most races (except perhaps the Elves), and many try to acquire it for themselves. Despite this, most Gnome-knowledge is denied to outsiders. Perhaps more peculiar, Gnomes develop great war-machines but don't actually have a military of their own; so to speak. A small fleet of trade-ships make up the majority of their forces, and air patrols aren't uncommon, but a land-force is practically unheard of among Gnomes. Their build, more fragile than Dwarves, restricts them even further, and many choose not to participate in wars at all. No other races have attempted to seize the Gnomes' great technology, however, probably due to their many allies. Most powerful of which, the Irlion Empire, who will step in to defend the Gnomes if at all threatened. Bias is practically unheard of among the Gnomish people. They easily forget about grudges, and normally speak in a polite, educated, respectful tone. They, like the Dwarves, choose not to take sides, but will ally with one faction if the stability of Irlion is threatened.
- Orchan. Fierce, cunning and skilful. Orchans, of course, have a great love of battle. It is in their nature, and they have become very good at fighting. Orchans are few in number, but have developed several fighting techniques, and are hailed for their strength, speed and stamina; making them perfect assassins. Generally they only look out for themselves, but when mating/raising children, Orchans have a deep desire to protect their spouse/young. They will push themselves to the limit if threatened, and are many times stronger than even the Dwarves. Politics are practically non-existent, most Orchan tribes simply go under the guidance of an 'Alpha-male' or occasionally a ruling council. They often compete for resources (land, gold, livestock, etc.), and as such are usually left alone by other races. Orchans can take several heavy blows and still partake in a bloodbath. The majority of their lives steer around fighting, war, and death. Honour plays a large part in Orchan society, as dishonoured warriors are often exiled to die. They are not just mindless brutes, either. Some of the finest leaders were Orchan, as few are born with exceptional leadership skills. Orchans are multi-talented, and form their own unique armour and structures, but take an narcissistic view on other races. Family bonds don't mean much if someone is dishonoured. A male Orchan will gladly kill his dishonoured brother or sister if the price is right. They are fearfully truthful about war, inspire terror and dread in their enemies, and can cause pain and suffering in others like in the deepest, darkest of nightmares.
- Draegoni. Draegoni are a peculiar race. Their anatomy is drastically different from any others, (e.g. the addition of a third lung, making them excellent sprinters) which gives them a great advantage. Muscle is seemingly inherent, and most Draegoni are very physically active. Work that would be toil, even torture, for other races to complete would have a significantly less strain on Draegoni. Their scales also grant some armour, as they are very tough, and even valuable to mages. Depending on the colour of their scales, they are often restricted to one environment; for example, a blue-scaled Draegoni will feel at home in desolate regions such as Hulda, but will grow extremely weak when travelling in hot temperatures. They have created great fortresses and cities, but regard nature with the highest respect hence why Yeti still roam the corridors adjacent to the Dra'Syn. They usually have a somewhat arrogant nature, as most Draegoni regard other races as inferior. Senses are slightly more attuned than the humans, but hearing is the sharpest in the land. Despite their magical nature, Draegoni have more trouble mastering the energies that shape Draia than others, as the resonant energy their bodies draw is highly unstable, and a simple fire-conjuration can end up in a blazing inferno.
Edit: Right, that's enough for one night, off to bed now
Whew. More to come, but I've spent too much time on the single post just now
Edited April 16, 2008 by Aphistolas
After reading through this thread again, I was struck by another thought.
However the draegoni live approx 1,000 years, and elves about 800 this makes these two races by far the longest living, and I think that would cause them to have a certain special relationship.
What sort of impact (if any) do you think a long lifespan has on the cultural attitudes of the races? Do you think it'll lead to a (multi-)generation gap problem, especially if world events are moving at a relatively rapid pace? eg. Portland City was founded approximately 120 years ago, according to its NPC librarian (Drial)... that would be about 9% of a Draegoni's lifespan, or about 15% of an Elf's. The rough equivalent in human terms, assuming an average human lifespan of about 90 years, would be about 8-14 years. Basically, only the youngest generation of Elven / Draegoni children would have grown up with Portland existing as a continental power. Their parents, grandparents, and great-(^n) grandparents would not have. Would the older generations therefore ignore the relatively young political entities? Or do you think the present moment would be important enough for them to pay attention, regardless of how long they live?
Also, speaking of generations, what do you think is the average year difference between generations in the races? The average human generation is approximately 30 years currently in RL. But given the relative longer lifespan of nearly all the other races, should the period of fertility and childbearing age also be extended proportionately? The impact of these on family structure (and hence cultural attitudes towards life, death and children, as well as the relative influence of each race on world culture) is significant. Example: Human females are fertile from roughly ages 12-52, a period of 40 years, or about 50% of their maximum lifespan. If we assume a similar fertility proportion for the other races, that means Draegoni are fertile for approximately 500 years, and elves for approximately 400 years. This, by itself, could lead to a population explosion that far outstrips humanity unless something else counters it.
This solution could take one of many forms:
1) Long fertility period, but very low fertility rate. (i.e. chance of conception is very low among Draegoni and Elves)
2) Long fertility period, but equally long gestation period (i.e. Draegoni and Elven pregnancy lasts a very long time)
3) Short fertility period, similar to human development (i.e. Draegoni and Elven females fertile for less than 100 years, experience menopause relatively early in their lifespans)
4) Cultural pressure against reproduction (i.e. Draegoni or Elven families are mandated by law to only bear one child each. eg. China's one-child policy)
5) Different reproduction patterns (i.e. Draegoni and Elven females have a yearly cycle, instead of a monthly one. Or maybe they only become fertile for a few days every decade. Or maybe they only HAVE one egg. Or maybe all the young in a batch will fight each other until one emerges victorious as the strongest of the litter.)
After childbirth, of course, comes the issue of development and maturity. When would an Elf or Draegoni child be considered an adult? Do they follow in proportion to human development (i.e. first 10% is childhood, next 10% is teenage, next 10% is young adulthood, then 50% adult middle age, then 20% old age/retirement)? If they follow this pattern, then an Elf child would become a teenager at age 40, a young adult at age 80, a full adult at age 120, and an elder at age 600. Draegoni would become teens at age 100, young adults at age 200, full adults at age 300, and elders at age 800. That would place an Elf generation (time to reach full adulthood and start a family) at 120 years, and a Draegoni generation at 300 years.
The reason why this is important is fourfold:
1) It has an impact on the historical development of places. You can't have a city / town that "has given rise to generations of elves / draegoni" last for less than 100 years. The history of elven / draegoni towns and dwellings have to be scaled appropriately to their lifespan and development cycle.
2) It places certain age limits on the "adventurous" parts of a long-lived individual's lifespan. Assuming that Elven and Draegoni children are allowed to "go wild" during their youth, but are expected to settle down and raise a family by the time they reach middle age, that means most Elven and Draegoni adventurers would be teenagers and young adults. That gives Elven adventurers a career lifespan of about 80 years, and Draegoni adventurers a career lifespan of about two centuries.
3) It also places limitations on the "lost in history", or "nobody now living knows" excuse... while humans may have lost it, there will likely be Draegoni or Elves who remember. In other words, for a past event to have become legend or historical mystery, it must be set a LONG time back... more than the maximum lifespan of most Draegoni. At least 1000 years ago. Unless you can posit that the races don't talk to each other, so maybe all the shorter-lived races have forgotten, while the longer-lived races have not. Great potential for some monumental one-sided racial grudges there.
4) This has an impact on their relations with other shorter-lived races. If the vast majority of the Elves living in Tirnwood Vale knew Lord Luxin when he was a baby, and also know that they will outlive him, what impact does it have on their obedience and submission to him as Lord of White Stone? And, of course, it's not just Elves and Draegoni who have this problem. Gnomes and Dwarves share it to a lesser extent as well.
Thoughts, comments, suggestions?
EDIT: Apparently, according to Jerun, Grandmaster of Air in the TG magic school, the elder races come of age at age 64 (four x four x four). So, what does this hold for the maturity cycle of Elves and Draegoni?
Edited September 24, 2009 by Lyanna
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Looking back: Julie Lawson
Photo: Felicity Crawshaw
Some months have passed since the Into The Mountain performances and with this we have invited the amazing team of women who made it happen to share their reflections, thoughts and feelings after the event. From production to performing, guiding audiences and behind the scenes, all have taken something away from the collective experience of Into The Mountain into their daily lives and practices. Another choir member, Julie Lawson, shares her reflections:
“Being a part of Into the Mountain has been a real privilege. I love Nan Shepherd’s writing, so the opportunity to help animate her words was an honour. Coupled with Hanna’s beautiful score and Lucy’s patient direction, it felt like a homecoming to be singing with a group of like-minded women. These relationships developed further in our daily pilgrimages to the mountain, and every day brought new discoveries on a personal, physical and a deeper spiritual level. Simone created the increasingly rare opportunity to become immediate. We were fully present in nature and all her offerings and were physically involved and in tune (hopefully) with the rhythm of the landscape. I loved every moment of it; midges, pouring rain, squelching through hillsides, golden dancers, rustling in waterproofs, sniggering under tarps, all the joys that Glen Feshie in early summer provides. The legacy for me has been both a stimulus to move outwards spending more time on the hills in Scotland and swimming rivers, lochs and seas. It has also inspired a delicious long awaited return inwards to the studio to explore word and image to navigate our place in the landscape. I am so grateful to everyone who made this possible. Looking forward to Into The Ocean………”
Looking back: Caroline Reagh
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New Valentine’s Day Event Uncovered in Denver
Eight at Eight Hosts Be My Valentine Treasure Hunt for Singles
DENVER, Feb. 1 /PRNewswire/ — As the year’s most romantic holiday, Valentine’s Day is traditionally celebrated by couples with greeting cards, flowers, romantic dinners and more. This year, Denver’s largest population segment, professional single men and women, will be celebrating and treasuring February 14th a different way.
Today, Eight at Eight announced its Be My Valentine Treasure Hunt event for singles. On Monday, February 14, singles will follow clever clues to exciting downtown hotspots, and find treats, adventure and entertainment along the way. The first clue will be given at 6:00 pm at the Rattle Brain Theatre located at 1601 Arapahoe Street.
“The search for what to do on Valentine’s Day has now ended. This is the most unique singles event of the year. In 2005, Valentine’s Day is for singles, and those who join in this adventure will have fun and meet others along the way,” said Mindy Shwayder, membership director for Eight at Eight, Denver’s premiere dinner club for singles. “And if new to Denver, this event will offer a fun and unique introduction to the city’s bars and restaurants.”
Co-sponsored by The Denver Hunt, the valentine treasure hunt is scheduled to last approximately two hours and prizes will be awarded on a team and individual basis. The final stop of the hunt will lead participants to a happy hour, where teams can mingle and prizes will be given. Participants will uncover the happy hour location through the last clue.
The Eight at Eight Be My Valentine Treasure Hunt is open to the public. Cost for Eight at Eight members is $35, and non-members can participate for $45. To register, visit www.8at8.com/denver or call 303-369-3888. Registration is required and space is limited.
About Eight at Eight
Eight at Eight arranges dinner parties for eight singles who have similar backgrounds and share common interests. Interested singles, ages 21-45, fill out applications and profiles at www.8at8.com, pictures are mandatory. Interviews are conducted by phone and memberships are selective. Membership costs are $350 to $500 for five to eight dinners, not including food. Special events, like happy hours and tasting events, are also offered to members and non-members.
Founded in 1999, Eight at Eight is a nationwide company. For more information, visit www.8at8.com.
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Next Week in [Virtual] Tickets: Films sort of playing Boston 18 December 2020 - 24 December 2020
AMC Boston Common got all dressed up only to have the party cancelled:
For those keeping track, The Rescue was supposed to come out back for Lunar New Year in January, and is just now getting a global release, only to have theaters in Boston and Newton closed down as the city rolls back to an earlier phase. I suspect it will be there when things reopen in January, but it's darkly funny that Covid could have us missing out on that one twice. Makes for a potentially quiet weekend!
The Brattle Theatre opens (one of) the latest by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, with To the Ends of the Earth having him reteam with his Seventh Code star Atsuko Maeda, once again seeing them leave Japan, this time for Uzbekistan to follow a TV travel host who is as reserved off-screen as she is charismatic on the air. It joins the reissue of Kurosawa's =Bright Future in their streaming offerings, along with Ikarie XB-1, Markie in Milwaukee, Another Round, Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan, Mayor, Zappa, and City Hall.
The Coolidge Corner Theatre brings in quite a bit of "The World of Wong Kar-Wai" this weekend, with new restorations of As Tears Go By, Days of Being Wild, Chungking Express, Happy Together, and Fallen Angels, as well of an expansion of Eros segment "The Hand" (from 48 to 56 minutes), along with In the Mood for Love, which started last week.
Outside of WKW, they also add The Emoji Story to their offerings, a documentary which looks at how those symbols are standardized and implemented, including questions of diversity and inclusion. Those movies all join Assassins, Sing Me a Song, Another Round, 76 Days, Coded Bias, City Hall, and Martin Eden.
They also have a Goethe-Institut presentation this weekend, with Curveball playing through Sunday. It's about a German intelligence officer assigned to an Iraqi emigre who may have evidence that the country was producing anthrax, and how wanting suspicions confirmed distorts how one handles such situations.
With the Boston, Somerville, and Newton screens dark for the rest of the year and Revere closing after Sunday's shows, it is a quiet weekend. The big opening was supposed to be Monster Hunter, with Resident Evil director Paul W.S. Anderson and wife Milla Jovovich taking on another video game franchise, with the release date having been bumped up to grab giant screens, but now it's just at Watertown (including CWX). Fatale offers Michael Ealy as a married man caught in a bad situation after a one-night stand with a detective played by Hilary Swank; it's at Watertown, Revere.
Watertown also has Wonder Woman playing starting Saturday evening ahead of the sequel opening next weekend.
Cambridge hasn't closed theaters, so Landmark Theatres Kendall Square is open with the same slate as last week, though they are not listing any showtimes for Monday and Tuesday.
The Regent Theatre continues to stream Insert Coin and Jefferson Mays's one-man version of A Christmas Carol.
The Somerville Theatre remains closed but The Slutcracker streams a version cut together from last year's performances; The Capitol in Arlington has the concession stand and ice cream shop open.
Theater rentals are available at the Brattle, the Coolidge, the Capitol, The Lexington Venue, Kendall Square, the AMCs out in the suburbs, and the Majestic in Watertown for sure, and maybe Apple Fresh Pond (their site is confusing!) and the Belmont Studio (the rental page on their site is pre-lockdown). The Coolidge is showing slots available to reserve online through December 29th, and has added "Premium Programming", where you can not just bring your own disc, but also choose from In the Mood for Love, Sound of Metal, Wolfwalkers, and Fleabag, akin to how the multiplexes will let you show their lineups; the Brattle has open slots through 3 January. The independent theaters (including The West Newton Cinema) also have other fund-raising offers worth checking out.
To the Ends of the Earth and Curveball for sure, plus maybe some of the stuff I missed last weekend. Time to find out how much fun it is walking to Kendall in the snow!
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Cimmerian Week, part III: You're a brave girl, but danger is my trade!
The legend of Conan continues without Conan, but not without Schwazenegger, and what we get is a bog standard fantasy-actioner that does nothing very well and nothing very poorly. It is content, instead, to just exist.
Directed by Richard Fleischer
Written by Clive Exton and George MacDonald Fraser
With Brigitte Nielsen (Sonja), Arnold Schwarzenegger (Kalidor), Ernie Reyes Jr. (Prince Tam), Paul L. Smith (Falkon), and Sandahl Bergman (Queen Gedren)
It's mildly damning once you realize it: the single most interesting thing there is about Red Sonja, Dino De Laurentiis' third sojourn into the Hyborian Age, is the process of piecing together why it takes the exact form it does. Of course, the answer to that riddle is inevitably industrial, and maybe it's even a little dull itself.
Either way, the story goes something like this: by 1985, Conan the Barbarian and its less-than-ideal continuation, Conan the Destroyer, had made De Laurentiis a great deal of money; naturally, De Laurentiis wished to go on making a great deal of money. The original plan, of course—propounded by both Barbarian's director, John Milius, and by DDL himself—was a full-on trilogy, concluding in Conan the Conqueror. And why not? Recall that Arnold Schwarzenegger—the very embodiment of the Cimmerian who would one day be king—had been locked up early, having signed a three-picture contract with De Laurentiis' production company back when he still came cheap.
And that's when reality got in the way. De Laurentiis didn't wait for Milius after Barbarian, turning instead to the nearly-dead Richard Fleischer. Together, DDL and Fleischer guided the franchise into the petty juvenilia of Destroyer, which was received with rather less enthusiasm than its predecessor—fittingly enough, one supposes, considering that it was made with rather less enthusiasm, too. And, Schwarzenegger, whose star was exploding, was hardly going to be readily contained by any Italian schlockmeister, contract or not.
The result? A compromise of a film—a spin-off from nowhere. It sought to adapt the heroine of Howard's 1934 short story "The Shadow of the Vulture," Red Sonya, by way of Roy Thomas' comic creation, Red Sonja (with a "j"), while leaving that "Conan" fellow to languish in the legendarium.
And, theoretically, Red Sonja could've easily stood on its own; but that was surely not to be. Instead, we have the Red Sonja they actually made—the dissonant Conan the Barbarian remix. It possesses something close to the exact same damned plot, except not nearly as good; and De Laurentiis decided to employ the franchise's repertory players in a bunch of new (or "new") roles that, I can imagine, probably served only to badly confuse the film's intended audience of pubescent children. De Laurentiis' solution to his problems was to take the Conan out of Conan; and, to this end, he made a movie starring (or "starring") Schwarzenegger, but this time as the swordsman "Kalidor," in what amounts to a supporting role, all in order to accommodate the actor's increasingly-busy schedule.
Not to mention his increasing desire to act with his shirt on, for a change.
The plot, as noted, is Barbarian reheated, only without the themes (or the poetry); nevertheless, serviceable enough for a basic revenge-inflected barbarian romp. (But then, the very first hints of this pseudo-sequel's greatly-reduced ambitions are provided during its opening moments—a text crawl delivered in silence, possessed of absolutely none of the ancient authority evoked by Mako's introductions to the first two films.)
So: once again, we find ourselves in the time before time. Here we meet Sonja, a peasant girl targeted for seduction by the evil Queen Gedren; and when the young maiden refuses the queen's advances, Gedren has her home burned, her family executed, and Sonja herself raped by proxy, by her guards. But the young woman survives—and, stumbling into the forest, finds herself visited by a spectral vision, who grants her the power to carry out a mission of revenge. (And who is forgotten by this film's screenwriters, somewhere around the half-hour mark. Oops!)
Now possessed of strength, but not yet skill, Sonja goes off to train in the arts of murder with Asians; but in the meantime, the wicked Gedren is pursuing yet another vile scheme, this one in the name of world domination. She and her army strike the temple that houses a certain mystical talisman, killing its priestesses and stealing the enormous glowing emerald that contains the power of storms and earthquakes. But one priestess escapes Gedren's clutches, and before the arrow in her back can claim her life, makes her way across the country, befriends the barbarian noble warrior Conan Kalidor, and gets the word to her red-haired sister—and thus does Sonja find herself crossed by Gedren's endless depredations for a second time in her life, just in case a couple of dead parents and some vaginal tearing weren't already enough motivation for our heroine to act.
Well, the quest laid before her is certainly obvious enough now—but Sonja, who hates and distrusts men (because she was raped at the order of a woman—I guess?), dismisses Conan Kalidor, who now (and conveniently!) becomes a mostly-offscreen presence. She treks across the land herself, picking up an imperious child prince and his obsequious retainer with their own grudge against Gedren; eventually, Conan Kalidor rounds out her dungeon-raiding party, for he turns out to have been trailing her all along. In the end, it comes down to what it always does: an infiltration of Gedren's fortress, leading to a battle to save the world.
And you win precisely no points for guessing that Sonja falls in love with Conan Kalidor in the process.
It is surely not one whit more efficient than Conan the Barbarian; only much quicker and less mythopoeic, which takes a fair amount of the Hyborian soul out of it. On the plus side, this means that it's also much, much shorter—and that means that Sonja's brazenly episodic quality doesn't wind up quite as offensive as Destroyer's own vignettish construction. Better yet, the obnoxious comic relief that tended to overwhelm Destroyer is kept to a happy minimum here. Sonja's sidekicks are typically more cute than they are out-and-out annoying.
The problem with Sonja is what it lacks: certainly, Destroyer is in the main a bad movie, but a bad movie elevated by great scenes, especially its unforgettable ending; meanwhile, Sonja is just a watchable movie, that hardly ever rises above just okay, and it ends with more of a whimper than a bang—regardless of all the magical explosions that accompany it.
There are individual elements that work rather well, to be sure: for starters, it's reasonably bloody for a PG-13 flick; and when he's actually around to do it, Schwarzenegger proves that he's evolved sufficiently as a performer to act every last one of these also-rans right off the damned screen; and Ennio Morricone's score, while never wanting to be anything but a feature-length homage to Basil Poledouris, certainly works well enough, even if it doesn't have half the soul-stirring impact; and the great Danilo "Flash Gordon" Donati's combined production and costume design has several moments of real, bona fide glory, like the skull helmets on Gedren's soldiers, or the chamber of candles, or the awesome dragon skeleton which Sonja and her friends use as a bridge to cross into Gedren's Mordor-like kingdom of woe.
Even the Italianate 80s-fantasy-ness of Gedren's robotic "killing machine" has something to recommend it, despite the fact that the best Fleischer can actually do with such a well-crafted monster is to stage a very long and very confusing battle in a flooded cave, wherein Conan Kalidor thrashes about for about five minutes with an exceptionally-obvious prop. (Incidentally, I have decided not to dock Donati for covering Schwarzenegger's chest; for it does fit with his slightly-different character, even if a "slightly-different character" played by the same actor in the same universe is, literally, the last thing a fan of this franchise could possibly want.)
Clearly, Fleischer's direction is in no sense improved from Destroyer; indeed, if anything, the technical skill he employs is significantly worse. Thus Sonja often looks even cheaper than it is; and despite a fair number of exacting, well-balanced images, the abiding mode of Sonja's cinematography is only ever "uninspiring murk." The action scenes tend to be undone by the stuntpeople's outrageously-blatant insert shots; and, indeed, there is not one single minute of Sonja's runtime that can compare to the music-driven dance of destruction that defined the best scenes of Barbarian and Destroyer.
Last, and worst of all, Fleischer simply does not possess any of the insight that Milius must've had, when it came to directing an inexperienced would-be star: while Milius was able to finesse Schwarzenegger's performance into something compelling by reducing him to nothing more than a purely physical presence, Fleischer takes on his star, former model Brigette Nielsen, as if she already knew how to act, even though she rather plainly does not.
The outcome is a lead who does look the part—and credit De Laurentiis for this: between Sandahl Bergman, Grace Jones, and now Nielsen, his Hyborian Age is populated by some of the more plausible-looking warrior women you'll find on screen. Unfortunately, however, Nielsen never even has the chance to do what Schwarzenegger had done three years prior, which was use her body to sell the character, as opposed to her totally-undeveloped talent at reading actual words. It cannot be overemphasized how much better Bergman's Valeria was, back in Barbarian, and this smacks of a real missed opportunity—for Bergman actually turned down the leading role in Sonja, sending De Laurentiis scrambling to find another woman "amazonian" enough to play the part, whilst Bergman made herself comfortable in the role of this film's antagonist. (Now, of course, Bergman had her reasons, believing Sonja was too similar to Valeria. Yet this explanation seems a lot like willfully missing the point—of course Sonja is similar to Valeria, in the sense that they are practically identical, except for the palette-swapped hair and Sonja's tragic backstory. One suspects that Bergman simply conjured that the one-note villainy of Gedren would be more fun to play, and perhaps she was even right about that, for Bergman, alongside Schwarzenegger, turns in the closest thing Sonja has to a "good" performance.)
And this is still true even though Fleischer gives Gedren virtually nothing whatsoever interesting to do—except, that is, to be gleefully obsessed with her two favorite hobbies, black magic and violent lesbianism.
But then there is the weirdness sitting at the heart of the relationship between Sonja and Kalidor, which hardly any actor could redeem, though Nielsen and Schwarzenegger, bless them, do try. It starts with the vow she's taken (somewhere offscreen, naturally) to never be with a man—unless, of course, he can defeat her in combat. It already sounds a lot like how I presume a piece of erotic rape fiction would start, and it even progresses in pretty much exactly that direction for a while ("If you yield only to a conqueror, prepare to be conquered!"), until it just kind of peters out. And it's just so off-putting—even if the scene where Kalidor and Sonja duel themselves to sexless exhaustion is probably, taken on its merits, the most endearing moment of the whole film.
This is on top of the great hay Sonja makes of its heroine's martial prowess—honored more in the breach than in the observance. Consider: Sonja's very first real swordfight leads to her being disarmed about five seconds in, and while she does eventually win this contest, it surely suggests a reticence on the part of the writers and director about making her too competent; and this gets underlined, as Kalidor emerges from screen-left to rescue her, over, and over, and over. One might prefer one's warrior woman to crush her enemies, and hear the lamentations of their men; after all, that only seems fair.
Still, I'd be lying if I said it's a hard sit. Yes, Red Sonja is a boring B-movie with cheapness in its heart; but it also came from an era where such a thing didn't need to hide its true nature behind a $200 million budget and two and a half hours of runtime. It has its charms—minor ones, but charms nonetheless. Surely it's no crime that it's been practically forgotten; but neither does it do particular dishonor to a franchise that, after all, had taken its biggest step down in quality already.
Score: 5.01/10
Posted by Hunter Allen at 7:49 PM
Labels: 1985, 5.01/10, 80s badass cinema, Action, Adventure, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Brigitte Nielsen, Dino De Laurentiis, fantasy, Flash Gordon is the Greatest Movie of All Time, Richard Fleischer, sword and/or sandal
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Capillary Assembly of Silicon Nanowires Using the Removable Topographical Patterns
Hong, Juree;Lee, Seulah;Lee, Sanggeun;Seo, Jungmok;Lee, Taeyoon 509
https://doi.org/10.3740/MRSK.2014.24.10.509 PDF KSCI
We demonstrate a simple and effective method to accurately position silicon nanowires (Si NWs) at desirable locations using drop-casting of Si NW inks; this process is suitable for applications in nanoelectronics or nanophotonics. Si NWs were assembled into a lithographically patterned sacrificial photoresist (PR) template by means of capillary interactions at the solution interface. In this process, we varied the type of solvent of the SiNW-containing solution to investigate different assembly behaviors of Si NWs in different solvents. It was found that the assembly of Si NWs was strongly dependent on the surface energy of the solvents, which leads to different evaporation modes of the Si NW solution. After Si NW assembly, the PR template was cleanly removed by thermal decomposition or chemical dissolution and the Si NWs were transferred onto the underlying substrate, preserving its position without any damage. This method enables the precise control necessary to produce highly integrated NW assemblies on all length scales since assembly template is easily fabricated with top-down lithography and removed in a simple process after bottom-up drop-casting of NWs.
Effect of Nano Grain Growth on Coefficient of Thermal Expansion in Electroplated Fe-Ni Invar Alloy
Yim, Tai Hong;Choe, Byung Hak;Jeong, Hyo Tae 515
The aim of this paper is to consider the effect of annealing on the coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) of electroplated Invar Fe-Ni alloy. The CTE of the as-electroplated alloy is lower than those of alloys annealed at $400^{\circ}C$ and $800^{\circ}C$. XRD peaks become sharper as the as-electroplated alloy is annealed, which means the grain growth. The average grain sizes of as-electroplated and as-annealed alloys at $400^{\circ}C$ and $800^{\circ}C$ are 10 nm, 70 nm, and $2{\mu}m$, respectively, as determined by TEM and EBSD analyses. The CTE variation for the various grain sizes after annealing may come from the magnetostriction effect, which generates strain due to changes in the magnetization state of the alloys. The thermal expansion coefficient is considered to be affected by nano grain size in electroplated Fe-Ni Invar alloys. As grain size decreases, ferromagnetic forces might change to paramagnetic forces. The effect of lattice vibration damping of nano grain boundaries could lead to the decrease of CTE.
Effects of Cu and B on Effective Grain Size and Low-Temperature Toughness of Thermo-Mechanically Processed High-Strength Bainitic Steels
Lee, Seung-Yong;Hwang, Byoungchul 520
Effects of Cu and B on effective grain size and low-temperature toughness of thermo-mechanically processed high-strength bainitic steels were investigated in this study. The microstructure of the steel specimens was analyzed using optical, scanning, and transmission electron microscopy; their effective grain size was also characterized by electron back-scattered diffraction. To evaluate the strength and low-temperature toughness, tensile and Charpy impact tests were carried out. The specimens were composed of various low-temperature transformation products such as granular bainite (GB), degenerated upper bainite (DUB), lower bainite (LB), and lath marteniste (LM), dependent on the addition of Cu and B. The addition of Cu slightly increased the yield and tensile strength, but substantially deteriorated the low-temperature toughness because of the higher volume fraction of DUB with a large effective grain size. The specimen containing both Cu and B had the highest strength, but showed worse low-temperature toughness of higher ductile-brittle transition temperature (DBTT) and lower absorbed energy because it mostly consisted of LB and LM. In the B-added specimen, on the other hand, it was possible to obtain the best combination of high strength and good low-temperature toughness by decreasing the overall effective grain size via the appropriate formation of different low-temperature transformation products containing GB, DUB, and LB/LM.
Thermal Shock Resistance Property of TaC Added Ti(C,N)-Ni Cermets
Shin, Soon-Gi 526
Thermal shock resistance property has recently been considered to be one of the most important basic properties, in the same way that the transverse-rupture property is important for sintered hard materials such as ceramics, cemented carbides, and cermets. Attempts were made to evaluate the thermal shock resistance property of 10 vol% TaC added Ti(C,N)-Ni cermets using the infrared radiation heating method. The method uses a thin circular disk that is heated by infrared rays in the central area with a constant heat flux. The technique makes it possible to evaluate the thermal shock strength (Tss) and thermal shock fracture toughness (Tsf) directly from the electric powder charge and the time of fracture, despite the fact that Tss and Tsf consist of the thermal properties of the material tested. Tsf can be measured for a specimen with an edge notch, while Tss cannot be measured for specimens without such a notch. It was thought, however, that Tsf might depend on the radius of curvature of the edge notch. Using the Tsf data, Tss was calculated using a consideration of the stress concentration. The thermal shock resistance property of 10 vol% TaC added Ti(C,N)-Ni cermet increased with increases in the content of nitrogen and Ni. As a result, it was considered that Tss could be applied to an evaluation of the thermal shock resistance of cermets.
Highly Sensitive MEMS-Type Micro Sensor for Hydrogen Gas Detection by Modifying the Surface Morphology of Pd Catalytic Metal
Kim, Jung-Sik;Kim, Bum-Joon 532
In this study, highly sensitive hydrogen micro gas sensors of the multi-layer and micro-heater type were designed and fabricated using the micro electro mechanical system (MEMS) process and palladium catalytic metal. The dimensions of the fabricated hydrogen gas sensor were about $5mm{\times}4mm$ and the sensing layer of palladium metal was deposited in the middle of the device. The sensing palladium films were modified to be nano-honeycomb and nano-hemisphere structures using an anodic aluminum oxide (AAO) template and nano-sized polystyrene beads, respectively. The sensitivities (Rs), which are the ratio of the relative resistance were significantly improved and reached levels of 0.783% and 1.045 % with 2,000 ppm H2 at $70^{\circ}C$ for nano-honeycomb and nano-hemisphere structured Pd films, respectively, on the other hand, the sensitivity was 0.638% for the plain Pd thin film. The improvement of sensitivities for the nano-honeycomb and nano-hemisphere structured Pd films with respect to the plain Pd-thin film was thought to be due to the nanoporous surface topographies of AAO and nano-sized polystyrene beads.
Microstructure and Mechanical Properties on Solid Solution Heat Treatment of Al-6Si-2Cu Alloy for Lightweight Automotive
Hong, Seung-Pyo;Kim, Chung-Seok 538
Microstructural and mechanical characteristics of Al-6Si-2Cu alloy for lightweight automotive parts were investigated. The test specimens were prepared by gravity casting process. Solution heat treatments were applied to as-cast alloys to improve mechanical properties. The microstructure of the gravity casting specimen presents a typical dendrite structure, having a secondary dendrite arm spacing (SDAS) of $37{\mu}m$. In addition to the Al matrix, a large amount of coarsened eutectic Si, $Al_2Cu$ intermetallic phase, and Fe-rich phases were identified. After solution heat treatment, single-step solution heat treatments were found to considerably improve the spheroidization of the eutectic Si phase. Two-step solution treatments gave rise to a much improved spheroidization. The mechanical properties of the two-step solution heat treated alloy have been shown to lead to higher values of properties such as tensile strength and microhardness. Consequentially, the microstructural and mechanical characteristics of Al alloy have been successfully characterized and are available for use with other basic data for the development of lightweight automotive parts.
Optical and Electrical Properties of ZnO Hybrid Structure Grown on Glass Substrate by Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition
Kim, Dae-Sik;Kang, Byung Hoon;Lee, Chang-Min;Byun, Dongjin 543
A zinc oxide (ZnO) hybrid structure was successfully fabricated on a glass substrate by metal organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD). In-situ growth of a multi-dimensional ZnO hybrid structure was achieved by adjusting the growth temperature to determine the morphologies of either film or nanorods without any catalysts such as Au, Cu, Co, or Sn. The ZnO hybrid structure was composed of one-dimensional (1D) nanorods grown continuously on the two-dimensional (2D) ZnO film. The ZnO film of 2D mode was grown at a relatively low temperature, whereas the ZnO nanorods of 1D mode were grown at a higher temperature. The change of the morphologies of these materials led to improvements of the electrical and optical properties. The ZnO hybrid structure was characterized using various analytical tools. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) was used to determine the surface morphology of the nanorods, which had grown well on the thin film. The structural characteristics of the polycrystalline ZnO hybrid grown on amorphous glass substrate were investigated by X-ray diffraction (XRD). Hall-effect measurement and a four-point probe were used to characterize the electrical properties. The hybrid structure was shown to be very effective at improving the electrical and the optical properties, decreasing the sheet resistance and the reflectance, and increasing the transmittance via refractive index (RI) engineering. The ZnO hybrid structure grown by MOCVD is very promising for opto-electronic devices as Photoconductive UV Detectors, anti-reflection coatings (ARC), and transparent conductive oxides (TCO).
Effects of Tempering Treatment on Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Cu-Bearing High-Strength Steels
Lee, Sang-In;Hwang, Byoungchul 550
The present study deals with the effects of tempering treatment on the microstructure and mechanical properties of Cu-bearing high-strength steels. Three kinds of steel specimens with different levels of Cu content were fabricated by controlled rolling and accelerated cooling, ; some of these steel specimen were tempered at temperatures ranging from $350^{\circ}C$ to $650^{\circ}C$ for 30 min. Hardness, tensile, and Charpy impact tests were conducted in order to investigate the relationship of microstructure and mechanical properties. The hardness of the Cu-added specimens is much higher than that of Cu-free specimen, presumably due to the enhanced solid solution hardening and precipitation hardening, result from the formation of very-fine Cu precipitates. Tensile test results indicated that the yield strength increased and then slightly decreased, while the tensile strength gradually decreased with increasing tempering temperature. On the other hand, the energy absorbed at room and lower temperatures remarkably increased after tempering at $350^{\circ}C$; and after this, the energy absorbed then did not change much. Suitable tempering treatment remarkably improved both the strength and the impact toughness. In the 1.5 Cu steel specimen tempered at $550^{\circ}C$, the yield strength reached 1.2 GPa and the absorbed energy at $-20^{\circ}C$ showed a level above 200 J, which was the best combination of high strength and good toughness.
Effects of Surface Characteristics of TiO2 Nanotublar Composite on Photocatalytic Activity
Lee, Jong-Ho;Youn, Jeong-Il;Kim, Young-Jig;Oh, Han-Jun 556
To synthesize a high-performance photocatalyst, N doped $TiO_2$ nanotubes deposited with Ag nanoparticles were synthesized, and surface characteristics, electrochemical behaviors, and photocatalytic activity were investigated. The $TiO_2$ nanotubular photocatalyst was fabricated by anodization; the Ag nanoparticles on the $TiO_2$ nanotubes were synthesized by a reduction reaction in $AgNO_3$ solution under UV irradiation. The XPS results of the N doped $TiO_2$ nanotubes showed that the incorporated nitrogen ions were located in interstitial sites of the $TiO_2$ crystal structure. The N doped titania nanotubes exhibited a high dye degradation rate, which is effectively attributable to the increase of visible light absorption due to interstitial nitrogen ions in the crystalline $TiO_2$ structure. Moreover, the precipitated Ag particles on the titania nanotubes led to a decrease in the rate of electron-hole recombination; the photocurrent of this electrode was higher than that of the pure titania electrode. From electrochemical and dye degradation results, the photocurrent and photocatalytic efficiency were found to have been significantly affected by N doping and the deposition of Ag particles.
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Nitrogen-doped ZnO nanoparticle-carbon nanofiber composites were prepared using electrospinning. As the relative amounts of N-doped ZnO nanoparticles in the composites were controlled to levels of 3.4, 9.6, and 13.8 wt%, the morphological, structural, and chemical properties of the composites were characterized by means of field-emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). In particular, the carbon nanofiber composites containing 13.8 wt% N-doped ZnO nanoparticles exhibited superior catalytic properties, making them suitable for use as counter electrodes in dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). This result can be attributed to the enhanced surface roughness of the composites, which offers sites for $I_3{^-}$ ion reductions and the formation of Zn3N2 phases that facilitate electron transfer. Therefore, DSSCs fabricated with 13.8 wt% N-doped ZnO nanoparticle-carbon nanofiber composites showed high current density ($16.3mA/cm^2$), high fill factor (57.8%), and excellent power-conversion efficiency (6.69%); at the same time, these DSSCs displayed power-conversion efficiency almost identical to that of DSSCs fabricated with a pure Pt counter electrode (6.57%).
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Chuck Greenberg Bashes New York Yankee Fans: Why Are We All So Shocked?
by NY Sports Digest under MLB
By Shani Muschel
Do you call yourself a sports fan, especially a New York sports fan? Then unless you’ve been living under a large rock covered by a large building in Timbuktu, you’ve been hearing about Rangers’ owner Chuck Greenberg’s ‘outlandish’ criticism of Yankee fans this week.
Still haven’t got the memo?
Then let me break it down for you. In a guest spot on ESPN radio, Greenberg publicly called out Yankee fans, bashing them for their poor behavior this offseason.
“I thought Yankee fans, frankly, were awful,” Greenberg told ESPN. “They were either violent or apathetic, neither of which is good. So I thought Yankee fans were by far the worst of any I’ve seen in the postseason. I thought they were an embarrassment.”
Greenberg swiftly followed up his statement with a call to Hal Steinbrenner in which he apologized for his remarks (presumably at the behest of one Mr. Bud Selig). Because how dare someone take a swing at the holy Yankee establishment and get away with it.
I can’t help but feel like there is a lot of misplaced outrage over this whole ordeal. Let’s all make sure that we’re thinking logically here. Why the upheaval? Is anyone really surprised by these comments? The only real argument anyone can make is the fact that the comments were made by another team owner on the radio, and that was probably not the smartest thing to do. This can be looked at as slightly surprising and disappointing.
But can any Yankee fan or NY sports fan say that they honestly disagree with what was pointed out by Greenberg?
Let’s face it. The guy was spot on. I’ve been a Mets fan since about 2006, but I spent a large part of my life worshipping the Evil Empire (long story that involves my fanatic Mets fan husband, a panel of wise men also fanatic Mets fans. And the dissolution and swearing off of a particular fandom, not a story for right now).
I’ve gone to many a Yankee game, and while I personally have never witnessed or experienced any violent behavior, I have to say, I can’t really argue with either assessment, violence or apathy. When it comes down to it, the Yankee fan base is made up of three parts apathetic executive/rich guy and one part drunk frat-guy bleacher creature, with maybe a sprinkle of fathers and sons thrown in.
What do I mean by that? Let’s dissect the statement, shall we?
The whole lower bowl of Yankee Stadium is filled with men still in their business suits and ties, coming to the game straight from work, who got the tickets from their company and are either conducting a business meeting with clients in the seats or tapping furiously away at their Blackberry’s.
The Yankees are lucky if they get the faintest of “woos” from these guys. Most likely they have no clue what’s even going on in the game and are using it as a means to escape their wives and kids for another couple of hours. This is the definition of apathy, and the high ticket prices at Yankee stadium will only continue to draw this kind of “fan” to the exclusion of the real, true, hardworking middle class fans who are stuck sitting at home rooting for their team (if they are lucky enough to have a cable provider who actually carries FOX) because they have been priced out.
This is why the Yankees have apathetic fans. It is of their own greedy doing, and the reason why Greenberg’s comments stung so badly is because they know it’s true.
Now let’s examine the “violent” characterization.
Again, if we’re really being honest, can we truly disagree with him? Take recent events for example. Has any team ever had to outlaw certain fan cheers in their stadiums? Yes, actually, come to think of it, another team that plays right across the river, the New York Jets, whose fans equal supplanted Bleacher Creatures during baseball offseason/football season, had to do just that.
Come on, just admit it.
The Bleacher Creatures are awful human beings. They’re rude, obnoxious, elitist, mean and extremely disrespectful, and they truly are an embarrassment to an organization that values pride and class above all else. The Yankee organization has looked the other way for too long.
Maybe instead of all the misplaced outrage and empty apologies in response to Greenberg’s comments, the Yankees should be using this constructive criticism as an impetus to finally take a good look at what goes on in their stadium and work to make some changes to improve fan experience at their games, so that every paying patron, even (Heaven Forbid!) non-Yankee fans, can come away from the game with a good taste in their mouth instead of full of beer.
Clearly, this is not the first time Yankee fans, specifically the Bleacher Creatures, have been called out on their despicable behavior. The only distinction here is who actually did the calling out. And if it takes a public figure in Chuck Greenberg standing up to get the Yankee fans to finally clean up their act, I say good for you Mr. Greenberg, for having the you-know-what to stand up publicly and face off against the almighty Empire. It’s about time.
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China pledges $124 billion for new Silk Road as champion of globalization
China plans to import $2 trillion of products from countries participating in its Belt and Road initiative over the next five years, Commerce Minister Zhong Shan said.
Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged $124 billion on Sunday for his new Silk Road plan to forge a path of peace, inclusiveness and free trade, and called for the abandonment of old models based on rivalry and diplomatic power games.
Xi used a summit on the initiative, attended by leaders and top officials from around the world, to bolster China’s global leadership ambitions as U.S. President Donald Trump promotes “America First” and questions existing global free trade deals.
“We should build an open platform of cooperation and uphold and grow an open world economy,” Xi told the opening of the two-day gathering in Beijing.
China has touted what it formally calls the Belt and Road initiative as a new way to boost global development since Xi unveiled the plan in 2013, aiming to expand links between Asia, Africa, Europe and beyond underpinned by billions of dollars in infrastructure investment.
Xi said the world must create conditions that promote open development and encourage the building of systems of “fair, reasonable and transparent global trade and investment rules”.
Hours before the summit opened, North Korea launched another ballistic missile, further testing the patience of China, its chief ally. The United States had complained to China on Friday over the inclusion of a North Korean delegation at the event.
MASSIVE FUNDING BOOST
Xi pledged a major funding boost to the new Silk Road, including an extra 100 billion yuan ($14.50 billion) into the existing Silk Road Fund, 380 billion yuan in loans from two policy banks and 60 billion yuan in aid to developing countries and international bodies in countries along the new trade routes.
In addition, Xi said China would encourage financial institutions to expand their overseas yuan fund businesses to the tune of 300 billion yuan.
Xi did not give a time frame for the new loans, aid and funding pledged on Sunday.
Leaders from 29 countries attended the forum, as well as the heads of the United Nations, International Monetary Fund and World Bank.
Britain’s finance minister told the summit his country was a “natural partner” in the new Silk Road, while the prime minister of Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif, a close Chinese ally, praised China’s “vision and ingenuity”.
“Such a broad sweep and scale of interlocking economic partnerships and investments is unprecedented in history,” Sharif said.
White House adviser Matt Pottinger said the United States welcomed efforts by China to promote infrastructure connectivity as part of its Belt and Road initiative, and U.S. companies could offer top value services.
India refused to send an official delegation to Beijing, reflecting displeasure with China for developing a $57 billion trade corridor through Pakistan that also crosses the disputed territory of Kashmir.
“No country can accept a project that ignores its core concerns on sovereignty and territorial integrity,” said Indian foreign ministry spokesman Gopal Baglay, adding that there were concerns about host countries taking on “unsustainable debt.”
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But some Western diplomats have expressed unease about both the summit and the plan as a whole, seeing it as an attempt to promote Chinese influence globally. They are also concerned about transparency and access for foreign firms to the scheme. More
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Norm Kent Comments Disabled June 20th, 2017 Marijuana, News
Field Drug Tests Defective
This stunning YouTube Video prepared with the help of Dr. Bronner’s soaps is a legal basis for throwing out a commonly used field test by hundreds of police agencies across the country called NarcoPouch.
In fact, it was instrumental in dropping charges against a band member in Southern California who was wrongly prosecuted based on the false presumption that his liquid soap was GHB. The false positive in the street field test led to his arrest. The crime lab’s testing eventually exonerated the accused musician.
It appears that the testing equipment utilized to ascertain GHB, a controlled substance, also tests positive for ANY natural or organic soap, such as Dr. Bronner’s Hemp-Pure Castille soap, readily available at Whole Foods markets locally. Further testing subsequently revealed that the popular NarcoPouch unit also tests positive on many colognes and perfumes.
Like the Intoxilyzer machines that have fallen under scrupulous legal review, if you can successfully show in a pre-trial motion that field-testing equipment is inherently compromised, the arrest itself can fail. Last week, the UK Guardian reported that a popular street side test for marijuana has also been compromised.
Known as the Duquenois-Levine, or D-L Test, it is produced by various for-profit manufacturers, and the standards to create the product are not exactly supervised by health agencies or homeland security. Not to be sarcastic, but you have to persuade a court that these companies have their own best pecuniary interests at heart, not the public good. We need to get the courts to presume fallibility.
Many of us already remember what happened to Robin Rae Brown on March 20, 2009, in Weston, here in Broward County, Florida. She parked her pickup truck and went for a hike off the beaten path along a remote canal and into the woods to bird watch and commune with nature. “I saw a bobcat and an osprey,” she recalls. “I stopped once in a nice spot beneath a tree, sat down and gave prayers of thanksgiving to God.”
Robin had packed a clay bowl and a “smudge stick,” a stalk-like bundle of sage, sweet grass, and lavender that she had bought at an airport gift shop in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Under the tree, she lit the end of the smudge stick and nestled it inside the bowl. She waved the smoke up toward her heart and over her head and prayed.
Spiritual people from many cultures, including Native Americans, consider smoke to be sacred, and believe it can carry their prayers to the heavens. Law enforcement does not so abide. I learned that on Star Island in the 1980′s counseling members of the Ethiopian Coptic Church, whose daily rituals of religious marijuana use were not accepted by the DEA, who raided and arrested them, chasing them from Florida.
Robin Brown’s bird watch became a nightmare leading to an illegal arrest. When she returned to her pickup truck, a Broward deputy and a Florida Fish and Wildlife lieutenant confronted her. One spotted her incense and asked if he could see it. He took the bowl and incense, asking whether it was marijuana.
Robin told the police it was her ‘smudge.’ “Smells like marijuana to me,” said the deputy, who admitted he had never heard of a smudge stick. He then took the incense back to his car and conducted a D-L field test, which proved ‘positive for marijuana.’ She was eventually arrested.
Robin’s case has gained notoriety because she later learned that her incense had never been subjected to a confirmatory lab test. The Broward state attorney negligently filed a criminal charge without the subsequent testing, and was sued after the charges against her were dropped. Robin’s lawyers so far have not prevailed based on statutory immunity. Sadly, the state is immune from its carelessness, but innocent citizens go to jail because of it.
The test itself works fine. The problem is that, in addition to identifying marijuana or hashish, the D-L test frequently reads positive for tea, nutmeg, sage, and dozens of other chemicals—including ‘resorcinols,’ a family of over-the-counter medicines, which, includes Sucrets throat lozenges.
In a 2008 article for the Texas Tech Law Review, Frederic Whitehurst, Executive Director for the Forensic Justice Project and formerly with the FBI, concluded: “We are arresting vast numbers of citizens for possession of a substance that we cannot identify by utilizing the forensic protocol that is presently in use in most crime labs in the United States.”
As renowned drug expert author, John Kelley, has pointed out in Alternet articles, there are many flaws emerging with these tests. In fact, the problem of “false positives” in drug tests isn’t just limited to substances that appear to resemble marijuana or GHB. In Canada, the owners of a family-based chocolatier business were fingered as dangerous drug dealers by a Duquenois field test and found themselves in jail. Incarceration by Chocolate!
The test, as shown in the Bronner soap video, above, is a simple chemical color reagent test. To administer the test, you simply break a seal on a tiny micropipette of chemicals, and insert a particle of the suspected substance. If the chemicals turn purple or green or a particular color, this indicates the possibility of marijuana or maybe GHB. But ‘possibility’ is not automatically, ‘reliability.’
As scientific examiners unearth new drug testing techniques, the defense bar needs to maximize ways to bust them for their fallibility.
Don’t walk your clients to the plea counter. Plead their case instead with pre trial motions that require the state to authenticate the drug testing sources that provided the basis for the initial arrest. You may have the fruits of a poisonous tree. Suck it dry for everything it is worth.
Norm Kent
Originally published, August, 2012
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Yen Surrenders Yesterday's Gains, while Euro Struggles to Hold above $1.04
December 20, 2016 $EUR, $GBP, $JPY, $USD, Italy
The yen's incredible ride this year has been recapitulated in recent days. Consider that before last weekend; the US dollar reached a little above JPY118.40. At its extreme yesterday, the dollar fell to JPY116.55. Today it reached traded near JPY118.25 in the European morning, where it was encountering some offers.
The BOJ met and as widely expected it left policy on hold. Since September it is targeting the 10-year yield at zero, which in practical terms may mean +/- 10 bp. This appears to have reduced the number of bonds it is buying, and some see in this a tapering. In addition, Bloomberg estimates that about JPY40.5 trillion of bonds on its balance sheet will mature next year.
The BOJ will provide new forecasts next month, but the Cabinet did so today. It is projecting 1.5% GDP in 2017, up from 1.2% Nominal growth is put at 2.5% compared with 2.2% forecast in September. The budget will be JPY97.5 trillion, a small (0.8%) increase from the previous estimate. More spending is customarily provided in one or more supplemental budgets.
Japanese shares have begun weaker but reversed as the yen weakened. The Nikkei snapped a nine-day advance yesterday but closed 0.5% higher. At stake is a six-week advance. Financials and energy were the only sectors to close lower. In addition to Japan, Korean, Taiwanese, and Australian markets advanced, but it was not enough, and the MSCI Asia Pacific Index fell 0.5%.
Turkey, Germany, and Switzerland were hit by terrorist strikes yesterday. The political implications are seen strengthening the populist-nationalist and anti-immigration forces. European markets are resilient. The Dow Jones Stoxx 600 is up about 0.25% in late London morning turnover, thinned by the holiday. It has recorded a marginal new high since the very start of the year today, led by health care, financials, and energy.
The Italian bank drama continues. Bank shares are higher amid reports that the Cabinet has agreed to request as much as 20 bln euros authorization from parliament to provide precautionary public guarantees to Monte Paschi (and a couple of smaller banks). Monte Paschi's share offer expires tomorrow for retail investors and Thursday for institutional investors. It is seeking to raise five bln euros, though its market cap is around one tenth of that.
Unicredit, Italy's largest bank has indicated it will seek to raise around 15 bln euros early next year, which is roughly the size of its market cap. Earlier, Fortress, which has bought bad loan portfolios from Italian banks since 2000 (~22 bln euros) has expressed interest in part of UniCredit's non-performing loan portfolio.
There are two challenges for the new technocrat government led by Gentiloni, the fourth unelected prime minister. First, has to do with the size of assistance that Italian banks need. This is slightly easier than the second challenge, which is the form of the aid. Unlike earlier in the crisis, there are now rules in place to protect taxpayers (conditions on state aid). The various Italian governments have acted too slowly, and when they finally did act, it was too small: Too little too late. Italian bonds are underperforming Spain and Portugal today, though 0.55% rise in equities today is among the strongest equity markets today.
The euro recorded an outside down day yesterday. It stalled in front of $1.05, with a high near $1.0480. In late turnover, it slipped through $1.04. Today it has not been above $1.0420, and approached $1.0375 in late European morning dealings, holding just above last week's low near $1.0365. The intraday technicals warn of a risk back to the $1.0420-$1.0440 area.
Sterling, which traded like a ton of bricks yesterday, is not faring much better today. It briefly poked through $1.25 yesterday and finished the North American session a little below $1.24. Today its losses were extended to $1.2335, its lowest in nearly a month. It appears to be a function of broad-based dollar strength. It is only marginally weaker than the euro in recent days. The intraday technicals for sterling suggest a bounce is likely in early North American activity today, which features no US or Canadian data of note.
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The Helsinki School – The Nature of Being
Exhibition: 27 June – 5 September 2020
Participating Artists: Elina Brotherus, Ulla Jokisalo, Janne Lehtinen, Ville Lenkkeri, Anni Leppälä, Sanna Kannisto, Sandra Kantanen, Eeva Karhu, Riitta Päiväläinen, Jyrki Parantainen, Jorma Puranen, Jari Silomäki, Santeri Tuori
Venue: Lindenstr. 34 – 35, 10969 Berlin
Persons Projects | Helsinki School is proud to present our group exhibition The Helsinki School – The Nature of Being. This show will take place in both of our spaces Lindenstr. 34 and 35, and will be accompanied with our latest publication from the Helsinki School series volume 6 by Hatje Cantz.
This exhibition focuses on how these selected artists from the Helsinki School use their internal compass to intrinsically measure and guide their perspective in interpreting the landscape they live in. Historically, Nordic culture abides by the power generated by the changing of the four seasons. Each of these natural time periods either by its wrath or grace, notches its mark upon its passing, leaving a reminder in its wake of how fragile our human presence is within it.
Jari Silomäki – Framing the World.
Exhibition: 3 November 2017 – 10 February 2018
Opening: 24 November 2017, 6 – 9 pm
Gallery Taik Persons is proud to present Jari Silomäki's solo exhibition Framing the World. An Essay on the Organization of Experience.
For this project, Silomäki collected more than two-hundred personal stories written on online platforms from all over the world, from people completely unknown to him. He translated a selection of these stories into a series of photographs that are now on display in the exhibition. Together, they form a collective narrative, in which the personas behind the aliases begin to unfold.
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Lilly Hiatt + elaine palmer
Date: Wed 25 Apr
Venue: Cluny2
Nashville based, Americana singer-songwriter (the hard working) Lilly Hiatt was joined by her band of John Condit (acoustic guitar) and Robert Hudson (mandolin, percussion and electric guitar) on her eagerly awaited North East debut. Such is the reaction to her recent album, Trinity Lane and the quality of her songs she looks well set to become more familiar with followers that enjoy music with a kick.
Looking like hippy rock chick, Lilly was immediately into gear as she strummed her acoustic guitar alongside the band, and shared a little bit about her life and her time in the UK. It isn’t surprising she showed much grit in the style of her material as she spoke of hard times, journeys down less than lucrative roads and the mistakes she has taken.
It was my first gig at the new layout in Cluny 2, and the transformation makes a huge different. It now looks like a real cosy & comfortable music venue, & the sightlines much much better.
Lilly is the daughter of famed singer-songwriter John Hiatt, & has learned a solid use of the stage, and with her and the band keen to give the audience good value it was an evening when the clock meant very little to them.
Each song (& there were lots) were like another page in her adult life as she shared her emotions of the night David Bowie died, breakups and her relationship with her father. Like Lilly he hasn’t always found life easy, hence her song “Imposter”. While in “I Wanna Go Home” you had arguably her finest piece of the night. Written about a night in Denver when she got high, and missed a bunch of good things happening because she was so wasted Hiatt learnt her lesson.
Lilly Hiatt’s honesty was backed, superbly by Condit (a real tidy guitarist) and Hudson (wonderful at filling in the gaps) who, like her lived the songs and like on her intimate recent album, Trinity Lane ensured the music was tight and handmade. Watching her on stage, like with her father she too becomes so engrossed with the stories & tunes she writes, she feel every jolt and pieces of joy and the fact she’s on stage playing with people she can count on. Condit and Hudson aren’t just her band, but friends.
With time not an issue with Hiatt long after most acts would have wrapped up for the night she was performing a Pearl Jam favourite (solo) and doing a Rolling Stones cover, The Last Time. Both were excellent, as were many of her songs as she aired a healthy selection of tunes from her album.
I expect her to continue to improve, and through time learn to vary the tone of her work a little more.
Support came from Elaine Palmer, and with cello backing up her songs the audience were keen to show appreciation of the hard-working & excellent North Yorkshire singer-songwriter.
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Interviews Shot At Dawn
Shot At Dawn Don't Get Shot At Dawn with this Discussion
Norwegians Shot At Dawn will unleash their fourth addition to their catalog of releases an EP called "Legendary". The entire band got together to discuss this release and themselves as a band and what the future holds for the rest of this year!
1. Please tell us about the history of your band and its members.
Shot At Dawn started as Misery Conduct way back in 2005, and spent a year and a half using that name before changing to Shot At Dawn. We've been through quite a few members where the only constants have been guitarist Chris and bassist Espen. To be honest, we've lost count. Chris and Espen met up after Espen posted online looking for a band to play music close to Thrice, AFI, Jimmy Eat World and so on. In all honesty, he was tricked into this. It didn't matter, though, since Chris was wearing makeup and that justified the harder music.
Throughout the years, we've played quite a few cool shows with bigger international acts, mainly due to our energetic and highly entertaining live shows, but also because our blend of metal is quite rare in Norway. I'm not saying this to be cocky or anything, but people notice us. About five years ago, Aki joined Shot At Dawn as our drummer. He had just moved down to Oslo from the northern parts of Norway, replacing our previous drummer who wanted to keep playing underground shows.
Alex joined us a year ago on guitar, ending a six month spell where we had an incomplete lineup. Alex also plays in the djent band Kodeks, and he'll probably hate us for calling it a djent band. Haha.
Martin came in as an emergency replacement for our vocalist when we were flying out to Finland in February. He stepped in on a three-day notice and absolutely killed it, so we asked him if he wanted to bring his beard and long hair to our group photos. He said yes, and the rest is future. Get it?
2. What's the origin of the band's name?
“Shot At Dawn” comes from World War 1. Over 300 British soldiers couldn't cope with the war and did not want to fight anymore. They were blindfolded, usually tied to a pole and executed by firing squad for cowardice, mutiny, desertion or other breaches of discipline.
3. Where is the band based out of and what is your music scene like there? Are there any local bands you could recommend?
We are based in Oslo, Norway. Oslo has quite a few good local bands, and we're happy to recommend our friends in Stormbeist, Blodspor, Serenity Trace, Ampmandens Døtre, Timeworn and Sverm. That should be a varied list of bands from punk to br00tal metal.
4. How would you describe your style? Which bands influenced your music?
However cliche it sounds, we don't want to limit ourselves to a specific sub-genre. We all like different music and different bands, and everyone brings their own influence to the music we make.
To generalize our own music is hard, it's much easier for others to label it, but we see it as modern melodic metal influenced by thrash and hardcore. An older kind of metalcore, not that new stuff with tons of horrible auto tune. We've been influenced by bands like Killswitch Engage, Black Dahlia Murder, Pantera, Darkest Hour, Testament, As I Lay Dying (pre-crazy) and At The Gates.
5. What's your take on the "Legendary" EP as a whole?
We feel that we've taken a good step up with the EP compared to our older stuff. The songs are somewhat simpler in both structure and riffing, which in turn make them more catchy. We all like catchy music, so we're happy with the direction our music is heading in. It's a varied release with four songs that are quite different from one another, and we feel it's a strong release.
Grind, track 3, is actually the first song we ever made back in 2005, and we've redone it completely. It's massively improved from the original demo and the song released on our 2008 record "Sic Vic Pacum Para Bellum", and it shows our progress as instrumentalists without compromising the core of the song.
Under The Surface is our tribute to Norwegian pop singer and icon Marit Larsen. We've made her classic ballad a metal song. It might not be very familiar other places in the world, but once you hear the original, you get it.
6. What's your favorite song EP right now?
Espen: My favorite song is Grind. I absolutely love how energetic the start of that song makes me even now, ten years later. I'm also very fond of playing Under The Surface, I like the feel of that song.
Chris: 6: Grind has always been a favorite of mine, it's actually the first song Rob (our first guitarist) and I made for Shot At Dawn back in 05. We've reworked the song with better lyrics, leads, chorus and verses - in other words, only the arrangement is the same. Everything else is better. Same but better. If you want to know how it originally sounded, check out our first demo "Genesis: Part One" (under the name Misery Conduct). You probably won't find it. Unless you stumble over an obscure Russian pirate site or something. And I dig the title track because of the southern party-vibe and Pantera-ish riffage.
Martin: Dark Design is my favorite song on the record! Mainly because of the drive and the fact that I can visualize the story! The breakdown part also satisfies my guilty screamo/emo pleasure!
Alex: If I have to choose I think it's Dark Design. The strong commercial appeal of it hits straight home in my melodic metalcore-loving heart. Although Grind is a really close second, it's just got the full essence of what we're all about musically.
Aki: Dark Design is my favorite track. This is where I feel that our song writing started to feel right, and that had an effect on the rest of the EP. The track challenged me to make simple and melodic drums, and made me turn away the safe choices drum-wise. I'm really happy with what we did in the studio with this track.
7. What should people know about your band? Why should they be interested in it?
We don't take ourselves too serious, and we're not elitists like many metal fans and musicians are. Our shows are about energy and having a good time more than being brutal. So basically, if you are a fun-loving ADHD metalhead, you might like us.
8. What plans do you have for the future as a band?
The rest of 2015 will be about supporting the EP with concerts around Norway. In 2016 we'll try to bring Shot At Dawn on a tour of Europe in some form. We want to play as much as possible for as many people as possible. That's a nice plan, isn't it?
9. Where can we listen to your band and where can we buy your stuff?
Our music is available on all digital platforms as far as we know, Spotigy, Tidal, Amazon, iTunes and like a bunch more. We have a bandcamp with merch and music available on shotatdawn.bandcamp.com.
10. What is it you'd like a listener to remember the most when hearing your music for the first time?
This is a very good question. Hopefully that they think the music is good and want to listen to it again haha. And that they want to discover the dual guitars and harmonies. If people sing our songs in the shower, we've accomplished something great. Thanks a lot for your time and questions, we appreciate it.
12:05 PM Natalie
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There is an inspirational quote that I recently came across that sums up the best way to navigate today’s business world. “Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking”, says William B. Sprague. Taking the initiative and launching innovation reaps rich results. The re-engineering of CADD brand communication and the Flamingo ads are recent examples of these.
We have also released an interesting educational film `Snakes, Learn With Fun’ and the Kalaignar Kaapittu Thittam infomercials. The launch of Iyerkalyanam.com , epower detergent cake and Onam festivities at Indian Bank were other key highlights this quarter.
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Kalaignar Kaapittu Thittam Captivates Viewers
The recent infomercial featuring the Kalaignar Kaapittu Thittam (Kalaignar Insurance Scheme For Life Saving Treatments) was well-received. The scheme offers insurance for those below the poverty line, N&D had to communicate the features of the scheme clearly to the target.
Real life situations were used to illustrate the features and this worked successfully. The plight of a farmer who gets a heart attack and how this insurance scheme helps him was highlighted. This was followed by a
construction laborer who falls from a height, the plight of a poor woman with kidney problems and how both lives are saved by this scheme. It also focused on the process involved in securing treatment. It’s currently being aired across leading Tamil channels like Kalaignar TV, Sun TV and Vijay TV. Radio spots of the same are being aired on AIR and Tamil FM Channels like Suryan FM, Radio Mirchi and others.
Iyerkalyanam on a Flying Start!
The latest in the series of matrimonial portals from Alliance Interactive is www.iyerkalyanam.com This caters to the Iyer community and offers a wide range of profiles to choose from. The in-depth profiling and the wealth of articles on the unique aspects of the community has been appreciated.
The portal offers many interactive features for unparalleled user experience. The Detailed Profile and a Partner Search by attributes like Profile ID, age, marital status make it easy for users to filter profiles. N&D had been behind the entire conceptualizing, designing and execution of this web portal.
N&D Bags CADD
CADD Centre is a world class educational institution that trains students in CADD Designing and other creative careers. It boasts of over 260 well-equipped training centres and a presence in 13 countries.
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The latest offering from the house of Power Soaps is epower detergent cake. We had designed the label of this price point pack with cutting edge graphic icons. This has found great appeal among today’s consumers as it embodies the value of the detergent cake which has been manufactured with the latest technology and equipment.
Guerilla Marketing Triumphs!
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Onam Celebrations at Indian Bank
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Going Wild to Protect Snakes!
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Okay, so who is totally psyched to see Angelina Jolie play Maleficent, one of the most sinister villainesses of all time? I know I am. She is such a talented actress, and she has just a bit of an edge to her. I have a feeling that seeing Angie embrace the dark side will be nothing short of magical. In fact, I can't think of a single person more perfect for the role!
"Maleficent" explores the untold story of Disney’s most iconic villain from the classic “Sleeping Beauty" and the elements of her betrayal that ultimately turn her pure heart to stone. Driven by revenge and a fierce desire to protect the moors over which she presides, Maleficent cruelly places an irrevocable curse upon the human king’s newborn infant Aurora. As the child grows, Aurora is caught in the middle of the seething conflict between the forest kingdom she has grown to love and the human kingdom that holds her legacy. Maleficent realizes that Aurora may hold the key to peace in the land and is forced to take drastic actions that will change both worlds forever.
The film stars Angelina Jolie as Maleficent, Sharlto Copley, Elle Fanning, Sam Riley, Imelda Staunton, Juno Temple and Lesley Manville.
“Maleficent” is produced by Joe Roth and directed by Robert Stromberg, with AngelinaJolie, Don Hahn, Palak Patel, Matt Smith and Sarah Bradshaw serving as executive producers. Linda Woolverton wrote the screenplay. “Maleficent” opens in U.S. theaters on May 30, 2014.
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Takeda Announces Term Loan Credit Agreement and Amendment to Bridge Credit Agreement in Connection with Proposed Shire Acquisition
2018年06月08日 PM03:39
Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (TSE: 4502) (“Takeda”) announces that it has today entered into a term loan credit agreement for an aggregate principal amount of up to 7.5 billion USD with leading global financial institutions including J.P. Morgan Chase Bank N.A., Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, MUFG Bank, Ltd. and Mizuho Bank, Ltd. (the “Term Loan Credit Agreement”). The majority of the funding has been committed by Japanese institutions.
The proceeds from the Term Loan Credit Agreement, which was heavily subscribed and is the largest syndication in Asia to date, will be used to fund a portion of Takeda’s cash consideration for its recommended offer for Shire plc, while also reducing commitments under the bridge facility agreement entered in connection with the proposed acquisition on May 8, 2018 (the “Bridge Credit Agreement”). The transaction with Shire plc is subject to shareholder votes from Takeda and Shire plc shareholders.
“We are pleased to have secured the term loan facility with backing from leading global financial institutions, which enables us to successfully de-risk a substantial portion of our bridge facility as we continue to make progress toward completing our proposed acquisition of Shire,” said Costa Saroukos, chief financial officer of Takeda. “This agreement supports our intention to maintain our well-established dividend policy and investment grade rating following closing of the transaction. The heavy demand to participate in the agreement – exceeding our financing need of 7.5 billion USD – reflects a strong vote-of-confidence from these leading global financial institutions in Takeda and our strategy to continue generating value for our investors.”
In connection with entering into the Term Loan Credit Agreement, certain technical and conforming amendments have been made to the Bridge Credit Agreement. In accordance with Rule 26 of the City Code on Takeovers and Mergers (the “Code”), copies of the Term Loan Credit Agreement and the amended Bridge Credit Agreement have been published on Takeda’s website and are available to view at www.takeda.com/investors/offer-for-shire.
About Takeda Pharmaceutical Company
Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (TSE: 4502) is a global, research and development-driven pharmaceutical company committed to bringing better health and a brighter future to patients by translating science into life-changing medicines. Takeda focuses its R&D efforts on oncology, gastroenterology and neuroscience therapeutic areas plus vaccines. Takeda conducts R&D both internally and with partners to stay at the leading edge of innovation. Innovative products, especially in oncology and gastroenterology, as well as Takeda’s presence in emerging markets, are currently fueling the growth of Takeda. Approximately 30,000 Takeda employees are committed to improving quality of life for patients, working with Takeda’s partners in health care in more than 70 countries. For more information, visit https://www.takeda.com/newsroom/.
This announcement is not intended to, and does not, constitute, represent or form part of any offer, invitation or solicitation of an offer to purchase, otherwise acquire, subscribe for, sell or otherwise dispose of, any securities whether pursuant to this announcement or otherwise.
The distribution of this announcement in jurisdictions outside the United Kingdom or Japan may be restricted by law or regulation and therefore any person who comes into possession of this announcement should inform themselves about, and comply with, such restrictions. Any failure to comply with such restrictions may constitute a violation of the securities laws or regulations of any such relevant jurisdiction.
In accordance with Rule 26.1 of the Code, a copy of this announcement will be made available (subject to certain restrictions relating to persons resident in restricted jurisdictions) on Takeda’s website at www.takeda.com/investors/offer-for-shire by no later than 12 noon (London time) on 11 June 2018. The content of the website referred to in this announcement is not incorporated into and does not form part of this announcement.
Disclosure requirements of the Code
Under Rule 8.3(a) of the Code, any person who is interested in 1% or more of any class of relevant securities of an offeree company or of any securities exchange offeror (being any offeror other than an offeror in respect of which it has been announced that its offer is, or is likely to be, solely in cash) must make an Opening Position Disclosure following the commencement of the offer period and, if later, following the announcement in which any securities exchange offeror is first identified. An Opening Position Disclosure must contain details of the person’s interests and short positions in, and rights to subscribe for, any relevant securities of each of (i) the offeree company and (ii) any securities exchange offeror(s). An Opening Position Disclosure by a person to whom Rule 8.3(a) applies must be made by no later than 3.30 pm (London time) on the 10th business day following the commencement of the offer period and, if appropriate, by no later than 3.30 pm (London time) on the 10th business day following the announcement in which any securities exchange offeror is first identified. Relevant persons who deal in the relevant securities of the offeree company or of a securities exchange offeror prior to the deadline for making an Opening Position Disclosure must instead make a Dealing Disclosure.
Under Rule 8.3(b) of the Code, any person who is, or becomes, interested in 1% or more of any class of relevant securities of the offeree company or of any securities exchange offeror must make a Dealing Disclosure if the person deals in any relevant securities of the offeree company or of any securities exchange offeror. A Dealing Disclosure must contain details of the dealing concerned and of the person’s interests and short positions in, and rights to subscribe for, any relevant securities of each of (i) the offeree company and (ii) any securities exchange offeror(s), save to the extent that these details have previously been disclosed under Rule 8. A Dealing Disclosure by a person to whom Rule 8.3(b) applies must be made by no later than 3.30 pm (London time) on the business day following the date of the relevant dealing.
If two or more persons act together pursuant to an agreement or understanding, whether formal or informal, to acquire or control an interest in relevant securities of an offeree company or a securities exchange offeror, they will be deemed to be a single person for the purpose of Rule 8.3.
Opening Position Disclosures must also be made by the offeree company and by any offeror and Dealing Disclosures must also be made by the offeree company, by any offeror and by any persons acting in concert with any of them (see Rules 8.1, 8.2 and 8.4).
Details of the offeree and offeror companies in respect of whose relevant securities Opening Position Disclosures and Dealing Disclosures must be made can be found in the Disclosure Table on the Panel’s website at www.thetakeoverpanel.org.uk, including details of the number of relevant securities in issue, when the offer period commenced and when any offeror was first identified. You should contact the Panel’s Market Surveillance Unit on +44 (0)20 7638 0129 if you are in any doubt as to whether you are required to make an Opening Position Disclosure or a Dealing Disclosure.
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TimeLine: Credit Agreement in Connection with Proposed Shire, Takeda Announces Term Loan Credit Agreement
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In reality, the demand for CBD merchandise is rising so quickly that gross sales are expected to surpass $1 billion by 2020. In 2014, Gruber started the Marijuana Investigations for Neuroscientific Discovery, or MIND, program to look at the effects of medical cannabis, and up to now, she has discovered exactly the opposite in individuals who use cannabis as medication. Their cognitive function appears to enhance over time and preliminary proof means that, after initiation of medical-cannabis remedy, their mind exercise begins to normalize. Although Gruber is not certain what accounts for the contrasting results, she has a number of theories. Seeking a euphoric high, recreational customers often gravitate towards products higher in THC.
Summary CBD is a compound found in hashish that has been associated with many well being advantages. CBD-infused water is now out there, alongside an array of different CBD products, including oils, gummies, and capsules. From what I understand, CBD derived from the hemp plant does not have the unwanted side effects mentioned above, other than probably to assist scale back the amount of Coumadin/Warfarin needed – both way, a affected person on this drug needs to be monitored and frequently tested anyway with their physician. CBD derived from the marijuana plant (will contain THC) may have them, I have no idea, maybe that’s why you mention them.
State veterinary associates are making strides, as nicely, in addressing the sudden abundance of products and claims. The capacity to study CBD in research labs was highly compromised until very lately. For a few years, pharmaceutical firms that wanted to investigate cannabinoids have had to use synthetic versions. That’s as a result of, within the United States, Cannabis was formally outlawed for any use (medical included) with the passage of the Controlled Substances Act of 1970. Let’s talk about what is understood about CBD, what’s but unproven, and why I can’t make any recommendations to my clients, pro or con, about CBD products.
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The World Health Organisation recognises CBD as protected to take for humans. It is a non-addictive substance with very few risks and few opposed side-results. Hello, Braden. In today’s society unfortunately, our pets are likely to develop a few of the identical ailments as we people do.
hemp vodka cream may work higher collectively for some circumstances, especially when pain is an element. (Jacobson’s continued behind-the-scenes affect is evident here as nicely. Tilray created the formulation for Martinez’s trials.) If it helps, the cannabinoids may save lives not as a result of they remedy cancer — although others are learning that risk as properly — however as a result of they might assist women in completing in any other case intolerable courses of chemo. In 2011, as a final resort, Charlotte’s mom, Paige, gave her a CBD-rich extract, acquired from a local grower, through feeding tube. (Medical cannabis has been legal in Colorado since 2000.) The seizures almost entirely disappeared. Word of this success spread by way of the community of medical-marijuana professionals, and early in 2013, someone called on behalf of the CNN medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta.
CBD oil has entered the mainstream lately, bringing with it zealous advocates and dismissive sceptics. On the excessive road, Holland & Barrett were first to stock CBD oil in early 2018. You can buy it at Lloyds Pharmacy and Boots. If you need to strive CBD oil, you should talk about it together with your GP or pharmacist when you’re taking any treatment, in case of interactions, as it could possibly, for instance, increase ranges of sure other medicines in your blood by the identical mechanism that grapefruit juice does. There are over a hundred compounds in hashish.
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As these regions are critical to the pathophysiology of psychosis, the influence of CBD at these websites may underlie its therapeutic effects on psychotic signs. I’m a doctor who has handled sufferers with each hemp & hashish based CBD. CBD is usually used to handle anxiety, and for patients who suffer via the misery of insomnia, studies recommend that CBD could assist with both falling asleep and staying asleep.
For both folks and animals, medicine tends to development excessive-tech. One of the most promising new veterinary drug therapies, however, incorporates elements derived from cannabis, a plant that’s been in use by people for hundreds of years. This primer covers the fundamentals of veterinary cannabidiol (CBD) and displays what’s currently identified.
Some of these medicine might trigger severe unwanted side effects, together with suits of rage or sedation so extreme that, as one mom described it to me, “the light goes out” in a toddler’s eyes. Jacobson, who lives in Mill Valley, Calif., now works remotely for a Canadian-based mostly company that has also, she thinks, solved the standard downside. She’s vice chairman of regulatory-and-medical affairs for Tilray, which produces medical-grade cannabis merchandise and flowers and ships them wherever they’re federally authorized (and so to not the United States).
Researchers don’t understand how CBD tames seizures. Because the molecule comes from hashish, the early assumption was that CBD latches onto the same chemical receptors that THC connects to, one primarily in the mind and one mainly on immune cells.
Even as a wave of entrepreneurs has founded companies already price millions in what’s typically called “the inexperienced rush” — the explosion of hashish-related enterprise — many individuals of colour stay incarcerated for marijuana-associated crimes.
Hemp only accommodates CBD whereas marijuana incorporates CBD and maybe a hundred or so different chemicals with a variety of features, similar to THC, the molecule that makes people “high”.
Yes, Hemp-derived CBD has no THC and is less more likely to have unwanted effects but some folks claim that, for this actual reason, it has less efficacy.
Around the identical time, Figi, Stanley and Heather Jackson, one other mother whose epileptic son had benefited from CBD, based a nonprofit called Realm of Caring.
Testing and labeling rules differ by state, however many states that allow authorized hashish also require some type of testing to confirm that the THC and CBD ranges listed on the label are accurate.
The substance is also being trialled to see if it could help with anxiety and arthritis.
But, uh, what is it that CBD is supposed to do? hemp oil nhs visited a hashish dispensary in Boulder to seek out out what the hype was all about. After passing an ID examine, I was launched to a “budtender” who pointed me to a formidable array of CBD merchandise — tinctures, skin patches, drink powders, candies, salves, therapeutic massage oil, lotions, “horny time private intimacy oil” and even vaginal suppositories to treat menstrual cramps.
Some years in the past, Hurd found that THC might, as opponents of marijuana legalization have lengthy maintained, prompt heroin-looking for behavior in rodents, appearing as a proverbial “gateway drug.” But she additionally discovered that CBD reduced drug-seeking conduct, which led her to alter the focus of her work. Now she research how CBD might assist opioid addicts kick the behavior. Across the Atlantic, Geoffrey Guy, the founder of a company called GW Pharmaceuticals, had successfully introduced one cannabis-derived medication, called Sativex, to market in Britain and other European countries.
Obtaining sufficient quantities of pharmaceutical-grade CBD to conduct a properly-powered clinical trial is already troublesome. “It’s extremely costly,” says Leweke.
But Staci Gruber, associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, doesn’t think the two are essentially in battle. This might seem odd, given her work. She has discovered that recreational CBD Bakery customers, particularly those who begin using cannabis earlier in life, exhibit some cognitive difficulties and altered brain structure and performance.
The first thing you must know is that CBD is NOT marijuana. Rather, CBD — or cannabidiol — is one of the chemical compounds in a class called “cannabinoids,” which naturally occur in hashish plants.
CBD is a phytocannabinoid that comes from the Cannabis sativa plant, often from a form known as hemp. Cannabis has a pretty charged status so let me clarify one thing. If you are looking to get excessive CBD can’t assist you to. Some CBD oils could include traces of THC, the psychoactive element in hashish, however CBD oil categorically does not get you excessive.
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One household ended up dwelling with them for a 12 months. A community began to coalesce in Colorado Springs, made up of epileptic children and their households. There are different CBD Tinctures examples of a single drug being able to assist meliorate a wide range of conditions.
Topical CBD CBD-infused products are applied to the pores and skin to alleviate pain and reduce inflammation instantly where needed. Topical products embrace lotions, salves, patches, shampoos, suppositories, lip balms, tub salts, and personal lubricants. Ingested CBD Swallowing CBD oil allows it to cross via the digestive system and be metabolized by the liver, sending its energetic compounds throughout the physique over a number of hours. CBD oil is often ingested in drops, tinctures, and capsules, or added to foods and beverages, such as gummy candies and occasional. Recently, we switched from hemp CBD to hashish CBD; and I can’t see the difference.
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CBD oil was really helpful by my son who has arthritis and, for me, it really works. It’s so good to read an article that isn’t put out by a CBD sales site – I wish it might be correctly prescribed and controlled (I’m in the UK) in order to have confidence with purity and dosage. Also to my understanding it’s already now legally to develop industrial hemp in all 50 states from which the extra pure CBD merchandise are derived. I use this for my anxiousness and for my arthritis. The topical works great for my chronic neck ache.
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So far, messages of CBD’s purported health advantages come from people making an attempt to sell CBD products — not from scientists, says Margaret Haney, a neurobiologist who directs the Marijuana Research Laboratory at Columbia University. A gaping chasm separates the surging CBD market and the scientific proof backing it. While there are reasons CBD Oil Syringe to be enthusiastic about CBD, the science simply isn’t there yet, Haney says. Produced by the hashish plant, CBD is the straitlaced cousin of marijuana’s more famous element — the THC that delivers a mind-swirling high. CBD, or cannabidiol, has no such intoxicating results on the thoughts.
online head shop cbd and his colleagues used a test that simulates speaking in public to indicate that pretreatment with a single dose of CBD can scale back the related discomfort in individuals with social anxiety dysfunction eleven . A related effect has been observed in wholesome people in anxiety-inducing situations 12 , and several other researchers are exploring CBD as a way of soothing social stress in people with autism spectrum dysfunction.
This is necessary as a result of folks sometimes require large doses of the drug to expertise a scientific benefit — in many research, the doses used are as high as 1 gram or extra. This is as a result of CBD is poorly absorbed by the body, with most of each dose being excreted before it could take effect. “If you take it orally, the bioavailability is in the range of 4–6%, which is horrible,” says Devinsky.
As Business Matters notes, there may be at present “a substantial amount of confusion around CBD oil UK regulation”, with the overwhelming majority of cannabinoids listed as controlled substances beneath the Misuse of Drugs Act. According to the British Medical Journal (BMJ), high street products comprise roughly 25mg CBD, in comparison with the 150-1,500mg/day that customers are given in clinical trials, says ITV. Ultimately, says ITV News, there’s a giant distinction between CBD you might be given by a healthcare skilled, and the less regulated CBD oil you may get on the high road. One recent examine has additionally now linked CBD oil to wholesome weight loss.
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Last year, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine launched a virtually 500-page report on the well being results of hashish and cannabinoids. A committee of 16 experts from a variety of scientific and medical fields analyzed the out there proof — more than 10,000 scientific abstracts in all. Because so few studies examine the results of CBD by itself, the panel didn’t concern any findings about CBD particularly, however it did reach some conclusions about hashish and cannabinoids more usually. The researchers determined that there’s “conclusive or substantial evidence” supporting the usage of cannabis or cannabinoids for chronic ache in adults, multiple sclerosis-related spasticity (a kind of stiffness and muscle spasms), and chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting.
Concurrent use of THC does enhance the analgesic impact of CBD, but it additionally adds the “excessive” which some folks do not want as a aspect effect. CBD has been touted for a wide variety of well being points, however the strongest scientific evidence is for its effectiveness in treating some of the cruelest childhood epilepsy syndromes, corresponding to Dravet syndrome and Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (LGS), which generally don’t reply to antiseizure drugs. In numerous studies, CBD was capable of scale back the number of seizures, and in some instances it was able to stop them altogether.
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Report: Suspected Chinese Hackers Had Deep Access Inside Nortel for Nearly a Decade | SecurityWeek.Com
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Report: Suspected Chinese Hackers Had Deep Access Inside Nortel for Nearly a Decade
Reports of yet another significant incident of international corporate espionage surfaced this morning, with the Wall Street Journal reporting that for nearly a decade, hackers had widespread access to the corporate computer network of former telecom giant Nortel Networks Ltd.
According to the Wall Street Journal, using just seven passwords taken from Nortel executives, including that of their CEO, the hackers penetrated Nortel's systems at least as far back as 2000.
Brian Shields, who spent 19-year with the company and headed up an internal investigation, told the Journal that over the years the hackers—suspected to be from China-- downloaded technical papers, company R&D reports, business plans, employee emails and other documents.
The hackers also embedded malicious spyware so deeply on some systems that it took years to realize the extensiveness of the problem, according Shields and documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. They "had access to everything," Shields told the Journal. "They had plenty of time. All they had to do was figure out what they wanted."
The Journal quotes an internal report, saying that Nortel "did nothing from a security standpoint" to keep out the hackers, other than resetting the seven passwords.
Nortel, once North America's largest telephone equipment maker with over 32,00 employees, filed for bankruptcy in January 2009. The company's market cap was over $300 billion in 2000, making it one of the most valuable companies globally by market cap.
Commenting on the Nortel breach, Neil Roiter, research director at Corero Network Security, believes the incident is both disturbing and instructive. "Organizations need to ensure they have the proper tools at the perimeter and within their networks, and aggressive monitoring to detect outbound traffic and suspicious activity in the event of a breach," Roiter said. "The Aurora attacks, the RSA breach and others demonstrate that Fortune 500 companies and other large enterprises are under constant threat from nation states such as China seeking shortcuts to technological advances."
Read the full Story at the Wall Street Journal here.
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Alina in wonderland - Arkadij Khaet / Mickey Paatzsch
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ALINA IN WONDERLAND
ALINA IM WUNDERLAND
Germany, 2020., 34’ 30’’
21-year-old Alina is an intern on the set of the scripted reality show ‘Madly in Love’ and prepared for her first day in pleasant anticipation. But her motivation receives a damper when she witnesses the way has-been director Marc treats his team. Under his rule, abuse of power and sexism are everyday occurrences. When Marc resorts to physical and psychological violence against an actor, Alina takes a decision.
Arkadij Khaet and Mickey Paatzsch
The two 28-year-olds met eight years ago during studies of Film at the Media Academy in Cologne. They have been writing screenplays as well as directing together ever since. Their short films were presented at more than 150 film festivals all over the world and won numerous awards, among them the German Human Rights Award 2016 that honors movies which deal with human rights in an extraordinary way. Since their graduation in Cologne, Arkadij has taken up his studies in Direction of Motion Pictures at the film academy in Ludwigsburg, while Mickey has finished his master of philosophy at the University of Cologne.
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2010/2011 Bowl Predictions – Week 2
by The WarBlogler on December 24, 2010 in Football, Predictions
As I post this, there is still one more game to be played in Week 1, but I don’t plan on doing much blogling on Christmas Eve, so I’m getting my Week 2 predictions out of the way now. There are quite a bit, so take your time.
I did pretty well the first week, but most of the games were pretty predictable. We’ll see how things go now that the games are a little more competitive.
Bowl Season: 9-13
Regular Season: 86-27 (76.1%)
Overall: 95-40 (70.4%)
Little Caesers Pizza Bowl (7:30 p.m. ESPN)
Florida International vs. Toledo – If there ever was a match-up to show that we have too many bowls, this would be the one. Seriously? FIU and Toledo? This game wouldn’t beat out the Westminster Dog Show if they were the only two things on tv.
FIU might have a dozen fans travel to Detroit, so they will lose.
Toledo 38, Florida International 17
Florida International 34, Toledo 32 – FAILURE
AdvoCare V100 Independence Bowl (4 p.m. ESPN2)
Air Force vs. Georgia Tech – <insert comment about the triple option and lots of rushing yards>. Seriously though, there might be a combined 10 passes in this one.
Georgia Tech’s backup quarterback, who has been starting since Josh Nesbitt went down earlier this season, is the son of a guy who taught me some basketball skills when I was in middle school. Based on that fact alone, the Yellow Jackets will win handily.
Georgia Tech 34, Air Force 10
Air Force 14, Georgia Tech 7 – FAILURE
Champs Sports Bowl (5:30 p.m. ESPN)
West Virginia vs. North Carolina State – I have never been able to take North Carolina State very seriously in football. I don’t know why. I just never have. West Virginia has the better talent in the backfield, and will win the game. Yep, that’s about it.
West Virginia 24, North Carolina State 13
North Carolina State 23, West Virginia 7 – FAILURE
Insight Bowl (9 p.m. ESPN)
Missouri vs. Iowa – Let’s see… who had the least disappointing season? I guess Missouri. They did beat a top-ranked team, and Iowa didn’t beat much, other than a few guys who hadn’t paid for their last dime bag.
This seems like a big match-up, but it’s nothing more than a battle of early/mid-season over-hypes.
Missouri 21, Iowa 17
Iowa 27, Missouri 24 – FAILURE
Military Bowl presented by Northrop Grumman (1:30 p.m. ESPN)
East Carolina vs. Maryland – I really hope Friedgen phones this one in. You’re Maryland…realize that.
East Carolina 28, Maryland 14
Maryland 50, East Carolina 21 – FAILURE
Texas Bowl (5 p.m. ESPN)
Illinois vs. Baylor – Baylor’s decent, and Illinois is still coached by Ron Zook, right? Yes? Ok, Bears win.
Baylor 23, Illinois 20
Illinois 38, Baylor 14 – FAILURE
Valero Alamo Bowl (8:15 p.m. ESPN)
Oklahoma State vs. Arizona – Well, Arizona started off strong, but fizzled down the stretch with four straight losses. Oklahoma State lost to two top-10 teams, and that’s it. The Cowboys have the best receiver in the nation in Justin Blackmon, on top of having the better team. Wow, that actually sounded like analysis. Back to ‘Blogle-speak.
Arizona isn’t as good as Oklahoma State. It’s that simple.
Oklahoma State 38, Arizona 24
Oklahoma State 36, Arizona 10 – SUCCESS!
Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl (11 a.m. ESPN)
Army vs. SMU – Is it possible for Army to lose a game called the Armed Forces Bowl? Especially to a guy named June? Nah…
Army 20, SMU 17
Army 16, SMU 14 – SUCCESS!
New Era Pinstripe Bowl (2:20 p.m. ESPN)
Kansas State vs. Syracuse – Isn’t it fitting that a team from Manhattan and a team from Syracuse are playing in a bowl game at Yankee Stadium in New York? Oh wait…that’s Manhattan, Kansas.
The Orange are good compared to what they have been in recent years, but that’s not saying much. All I know of Kansas State is that they killed Kansas, but that’s not saying much either. I’ll go with the Wildcats.
Kansas State 24, Syracuse 14
Syracuse 36, Kansas State 34 – FAILURE
Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl (5:40 p.m. ESPN)
North Carolina vs. Tennessee – I ain’t gotta clue. Tennessee’s offense did show some signs of life at the end of the season, but that was against Kentucky and Vanderbilt. North Carolina didn’t look terrible in any of their five losses, I guess, but I just can’t get behind any football from the state of North Carolina, especially the newly over-hyped Tarheels.
I feel like Tennessee will win, but how pumped do you think they are to travel a few hours West to Nashville when they were just there a few weeks ago? All that really matters in most bowl games is which team shows up and is glad to be there.
I still can’t pick North Carolina.
Tennessee 34, North Carolina 28
North Carolina 30, Tennessee 27 – FAILURE
Bridgepoint Education Holiday Bowl (9 p.m. ESPN)
Nebraska vs. Washington – Congratulations Nebraska! You lose the Big 12 Championship Game by three points and get to go play the 6-6 (yet still 3rd in the Pac-10) Washington Huskies. You must be so happy! Happy to get out of the Big 12 next year that is.
Although there will be absolutely zero motivation for the Huskers in this one, I don’t see No-Nonsense Pelini allowing his team to just collect their swag and go through the motions.
I just realized this game is the Huskers and the Huskies. Mind blown.
Nebraska 31, Washington 7
Washington 19, Nebraska 7 – FAILURE
Meineke Car Care Bowl (11 a.m. ESPN)
South Florida vs. Clemson – Wow, Clemson is 6-6? South Florida isn’t much better at 7-5, but they did end the season with a nice win over Miami. Clemson ended the season with a bad loss to South Carolina, and just never seemed to do anything right after the early loss to Auburn. So sorry…
South Florida seems to be on the way up, while Clemson continues to be Clemson.
South Florida 20, Clemson 10
South Florida 20, Clemson 10 – SUCCESS!
Hyundai Sun Bowl (1 p.m. CBS)
Notre Dame vs. Miami – Tickets for this game sold out in like five minutes. Too bad that many people will have to watch a train wreck in person. Twenty years ago, this would have looked like a great game just based on the names, but too bad neither team is anything close to their former “legendary” selves.
I guess Notre Dame will win because they don’t have the whole coach swap thing going on.
Notre Dame 17, Miami 13
Notre Dame 33, Miami 17 – SUCCESS!
AutoZone Liberty Bowl (2:30 p.m. ESPN)
Georgia vs. UCF – Georgia, I like this. The Liberty Bowl. It looks good on you. Won’t you stay there? You can beat up on teams like UCF each year, earning a preseason ranking for the next season, only to have it vanish before your next Liberty Bowl invitation. Doesn’t that sound good? I think it does.
Georgia 38, UCF 14
UCF 10, Georgia 6 – FAILURE
Chik-fil-A Bowl (6:30 p.m. ESPN)
South Carolina vs. Florida State – This one all depends on if Florida State’s QB, Christian Ponder, actually plays. He was pulled before the start of the ACC Championship Game due to injury, and Virginia Tech beat up on the Seminoles pretty good. I believe the Hokies are only slightly better than South Carolina, so Florida State would probably suffer the same fate if Ponder can’t play.
If he does play, it doesn’t necessarily mean they would win easily. South Carolina played in the Georgia Dome a few weeks ago, and you know they would like to leave Atlanta with a little bit better feeling than last time.
I’m torn on this one, but regardless of Ponder’s status, I’ll go with the Gamecocks, giving Spurrier one more win over Florida State.
South Carolina 35, Florida State 31
Florida State 26, South Carolina 17 – FAILURE
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How Zulu radio dramas subverted apartheid’s grand design
In Johannesburg, during the Sophiatown era of the 1950s, gangsters would routinely order a writer or journalist like Can Themba or Bloke Modisane, to recite Shakespeare to them on street corners.
For a time, Shakespeare became part of the rhetoric of the streets. One of the favourite requests was for the revolutionary funeral oration by Mark Anthony, in Julius Caesar: “Friends, Romans, Countrymen…”
This may be because the writer and broadcaster King Edward Masinga had earlier translated and put on air Zulu language versions of Julius Caesar and many other Shakespeare plays. Cable radio, very popular in the hostels and in the townships of the Witwatersrand, was the main means of transmission for early programmes.
Masinga’s version of the famous oration at Caesar’s funeral that began, “Zihlobo, Bakwethu, maRomani …” is all that remains in the South African Broadcasting Corporation archives of this rich aural treasure of Shakespeare in isiZulu. Modisane, who wrote in exile for BBC radio drama, would later take the same speech and setting as the crisis moment of his superb play, The Quarter Million Boys.
These dramas were part of a bouquet offered to South Africa’s large population of isiZulu speakers during apartheid through a radio service that was designed for very different purposes. But the original design did not deter the producers of the programmes: they subverted the apartheid agenda and delivered riveting drama that from its first moments produced culturally rich and intriguing reflections of black life.
There is a cliché that lingers about African language radio in the apartheid era and after. Baldly stated, it is that during apartheid the South African Broadcasting Corporation had total control of the airwaves, and that the pliant African language stations which the broadcaster set up through Radio Bantu in 1960, dripped out only endless streams of propaganda to passive black listeners. Designed to control minds, and hold back the liberation struggle and the sounds of freedom coming from the north even before 1960, as it indeed was, it seemed the perfect tool of the master.
And yet. Something went wrong.
For sure, the apartheid state was producing an earlier version of today’s fake news. Radio announcers had little control over the public broadcaster’s standard news bulletins, although a few brave broadcasters tried. At times a reader would preface the newscast with, “These are not my words”, or recite, with a flourish, the praise poems of one of the former Zulu kings, before launching into the doctored news script of the day.
Thokozani Nene, one of the iconic figures of Radio Zulu and later Ukhozi FM did just that, until the order came that he was to desist.
The communal power of radio drama
Popular culture, largely in the form of Zulu radio drama, was one of the hidden weapons of sonic resistance that entranced and intrigued black radio listeners even before the inception of Radio Bantu.
Nearly six decades later, radio drama, usually in serial form, still has a strong following on Ukhozi FM, one of the descendant stations of Radio Bantu.
How did the dramas become so important? The sound waves carrying the Zulu dramas, which spread quickly as a genre to other African language stations, became a platform for an ambitious, versatile and talented group of men and women who were script writers, performers and producers, all working in isiZulu, and making serial dramas, as well as shorter stand-alone radio plays or musicals. These ran not weekly but daily from Monday to Friday, often twice, even three times a day. They flourished.
In 1986, the famous six-month long serial drama, Yiz’ Uvalo (In Spite of Fear), even had an episode played on Christmas Day.
The radio plays set themselves deep in listeners’ memories and traditions, and became a way to tap into emotions linked to the fascination, strain and pleasure of plots that circled, usually, around the family.
Themes of love, divided loyalties and ethical dilemmas played out in intricate detail. The 1974 serial Ubongilinda Mzikayifani (You Must Wait for me Mzikayifani) was written and produced by Bhekisisa Kunene in the cramped Radio Zulu studios in downtown Johannesburg. Family secrets, rival suitors and a young woman’s strength of character were mixed with a twist of the occult and sprinkled with the poetic language of courtship. The setting was rural, but there was the added attraction of an eloquent male lead who was also a famous football commentator on Radio Zulu.
A few years later, a very different serial drama followed a more adventurous young woman as she picked her way between the advice of female family members and the attractions of off-beat men and noisy taverns. Abangane Ababi (Bad Friends) was written by Abigail Zondi. Power in the domestic space and fidelity in a fast changing society were among the themes brilliantly explored through the 1990s and into the new millennium.
The classic double drama, Yiz’ Uvalo/ Umanqob’ Isibindi (In Spite of Fear/ The Victor is Courage) by M.V. Bhengu had a special power. Tense and full of eerie sonic features, it ran for six months from 1986 during the low-level civil war in KwaZulu-Natal. As warlords ruled some urban and peri-urban areas in Durban and the Natal Midlands, its focus on fear, desperation, family and the occult resonated with powerful public events which threatened to overturn people’s lives. A man, Sigidi, back in rural Ndwedwe after working in Johannesburg, finds it impossible to provide for his family and turns to the occult for help, with terrible consequences.
What was being made through this theatre of the air, broadcast to an urban and rural listening community including migrant hostel-dwellers, was a public intimacy that sustained daily life and fed the imagination. The dramas were a means of accessing the self in a turbulent and changing world.
Radio created role models
Listeners also modelled themselves on the radio personalities who had parts in the dramas, sometimes wrote them or produced them, and in some cases had their own programmes. They became cultural icons.
So King Edward Masinga, Guybon Mpanza, Thokozani Nene, Alexius Buthelezi, Winnie Mahlangu and Linda Ntuli, to name a few, each had a place over the decades on South Africa’s sonic stage.
Perhaps the broadcast voices produced a meta counter-voice to the dominant group. This was a resistant modernity, mediated by radio, producing worlds that were culturally dynamic and deeply invigorating. Looking back at it now, we can see it as part of an important black archive, not lost, but not entirely re-discovered.
Gunner is the author of Radio Soundings – South Africa and the Black Modern. Wits University Press (2019). The book is also published by The International African Institute and Cambridge University Press (2019).
This article was originally published by The Conversation.
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The Explorers Club – The Explorers Club + To Sing And Be Born Again
Since forming in Charleston, South Carolina in 2005 The Explorers Club have been busy illuminating the world with their delicious brand of sun-kissed pop. Releasing two albums on the same day may sound kooky but The Explorers Club and its covers counterpart To Sing And Be Born Again sit well together and showcase both sides of the bands talents.
The brainchild of one Jason Brewer, The Explorers Club have employed a revolving cast of musicians over the years which has given the band its unique edge. That vibe has continued on this self-titled album as evidenced by jaunty opener ‘Ruby’. The stark keys that its arrival have an air of an evil carnival enticing the listener in before it explodes in rays of effervescence. There’s a real cinematic to feel to tracks like ‘One Drop Of Rain’ and ‘Love So Fine’ and it’s no surprise the bands songs have been featured on The O.C. and Bored To Death.
The Explorers Club have produced a choral pop album of the highest quality with well-orchestrated songs like ‘Don’t Cry’ drawing favourable comparisons with Pet Sounds. In fact, if you imagine Herb Albert and Brian Wilson collaborating then you’d have something approaching the majesty of ‘It’s Me’. Unashamedly retro ‘Dawn’ flies in a crystalline sky before the pristine close vocal harmonies of ‘Dream World’ are powered forth by an insanely catchy back beat. Shades of both Shocking Blue and The Beach Boys permeate ‘Somewhere Else’ (if you could imagine such a pairing) while ‘Look To The Horizon’ is a suitably grandiose closer that’s tinged with tones of melancholy.
While it’s true The Explorers Club aren’t forging new ground they’re certainly not stagnating and this eponymous offering signposts a bright future.
To Sing And Be Born Again
The Explorers Club have always worn their influences proudly on their sleeves but, just in case there was any doubt, To Sing And Be Born Again places their roots centre stage.
Taking songs from 1965-68 this album opens with the Boyce/Hart standard ‘I Wonder What She’s Doing Tonite’ and only the tone deaf could fail to get caught up in its sheer joie de vivre. The sunshine pop of The Turtles ‘She’d Rather Be With Me’ is seemingly tailor made for The Explorers Club and they play it like they know it. But the band aren’t all light and there’s shade in the Paul Revere and the Raiders anti-drug rocker ‘Kicks’. Bob Dylan’s ‘Quinn The Esikmo (The Mighty Quinn)’ has been covered by a multitude of artists (most notably Manfred Mann) but I’d argue that this version is definitive.
To Sing And Be Born Again contains a nice mixture of hits and more obscure cuts with The Zombies ‘Maybe After He’s Gone’ being of the latter. Originally featured on The Zombies Odessey And Oracle album The Explorers Club have taken this quintessentially autumnal English song and added a twist of sunny Americana. Steven Page (formerly of Barenaked Ladies) adds his warm tones to ‘Can’t Find The Time’ while Jay Gonzales (Drive-By Truckers) brings to life ‘Didn’t Want To Have To Do It’. The sombre ‘This Guys In Love With You’ sets the stage for the grand finale and they don’t come much more grand than ‘The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore’.
Both being uplifting affairs The Explorers Club and To Sing And Be Born Again are like different sides of the same coin. Listeners will have a preference to the original or covers album but I recommend both are consumed in one sitting.
Reviewed by Peter Dennis
The Explorers Club and To Sing And Be Born Again are both released via Goldstar Recordings on 15 October 2020
One Drop Of Rain
Love So Fine
Say You Will
Dreamin’
Look To The Horizon
I Wonder What She’s Doing Tonite
She’d Rather Be With Me
Roses And Rainbows
Quinn The Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)
Maybe After He’s Gone
Can’t Find The Time
Didn’t Want To Have To Do It
This Guys In Love With You
The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore
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Fossil fuels ‘obvious losers’ in the energy transition
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Fossil fuels ‘obvious losers’ in the energy transition FacebookTwitterLinkedInEmailPrint分享Forbes:The super-rich will dedicate some $50 trillion to sustainable investments in coming years and blue chip Wall Street firms like Goldman Sachs GS and Carlyle Group are lining up to meet the demand. Utilities nationwide are pouring billions into solar and wind projects, in part to comply with their own creditors’ environmental demands. Corporations worldwide are cutting their carbon footprints and, in the background, bold-faced investors such as Norway’s $1 trillion pension fund and $7 trillion in assets BlackRock BLK are putting the screws on carbon-emitters. These are exciting times for the green movement.Boston-based hedge fund manager James Jampel, of $460 million in assets HITE Hedge Asset Management, has a simple way to play the green arms race. He’s betting against the entire carbon industry, which he believes is in chronic decline much like whip-and-buggy-makers at the dawn of the auto age, or Sears amid the rise of Amazon AMZN, and Eastman Kodak KODK when the electronic camera went mainstream. Basically, the writing’s on the wall for oilmen.When the OPEC’s price cartel was obliterated once more—this time by a March spat between Saudi Arabia and Russia at the absolute worst time—and oil fell to generational lows of $20 a barrel, HITE made a killing. Jampel’s $95 million HITE Carbon Offset Fund has gained 32% year-to-date, according to a source, while the S&P 500 index has fallen by about a quarter.“[L]et’s have the experts choose winners in the new green economy,” says Jampel, “It’s so much easier to bet against the obvious losers.”[Antoine Gara]More: A Different Kind Of Green Investing: Meet The Carbon Skeptic Hedge Fund That’s Up 32% In 2020 read more
Wintergreen Lift Passes Week 5
Week 4 is now over, which means here is week 5! For the next 4 weeks we will be giving away lift passes to Wintergreen Resort!Each week we will give away 2 weekday lift passes (valid Monday-Thursday) to one lucky individual, so 16 in total over 8 weeks.To sweeten the deal, we are also giving away a ColdAvenger Classic Fleece face mask (a $50 value) with the tickets!This contest is now over, but Week 6 is up and running!Rules and Regulations: Package must be redeemed within 1 year of winning date. Entries must be received by mail or through the www.blueridgeoutdoors.com contest sign-up page by 12:00 noon EST on February 8th, 2013. One entry per person. One winner per household. Sweepstakes open only to legal residents of the 48 contiguous United States and the District of Columbia, who are 18 years of age or older. Void wherever prohibited by law. Families and employees of Blue Ridge Outdoors Magazine and participating sponsors are not eligible. No liability is assumed for lost, late, incomplete, inaccurate, non-delivered or misdirected mail, or misdirected e-mail, garbled, mistranscribed, faulty or incomplete telephone transmissions, for technical hardware or software failures of any kind, lost or unavailable network connection, or failed, incomplete or delayed computer transmission or any human error which may occur in the receipt of processing of the entries in this Sweepstakes. By entering the sweepstakes, entrants agree that Blue Ridge Outdoors Magazine and Wintergreen Resort reserve the right to contact entrants multiple times with special information and offers. Blue Ridge Outdoors Magazine reserves the right, at their sole discretion, to disqualify any individual who tampers with the entry process and to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the Sweepstakes. Winners agree that Blue Ridge Outdoors Magazine and participating sponsors, their subsidiaries, affiliates, agents and promotion agencies shall not be liable for injuries or losses of any kind resulting from acceptance of or use of prizes. No substitutions or redemption of cash, or transfer of prize permitted. Any taxes associated with winning any of the prizes detailed below will be paid by the winner. Winners agree to allow sponsors to use their name and pictures for purposes of promotion. Sponsors reserve the right to substitute a prize of equal or greater value. All Federal, State and local laws and regulations apply. Selection of winner will be chosen at random at the Blue Ridge Outdoors office on or before March 1st, 6:00 PM EST 2013. Winners will be contacted by the information they provided in the contest sign-up field and have 7 days to claim their prize before another winner will be picked. Odds of winning will be determined by the total number of eligible entries received. read more
Guatemala and Mexico Strengthen Joint Efforts to Secure Border
Security patrols Mexican narco-trafficking organizations, which often form alliances with local criminal groups, operate along the countries’ shared border. The region is home to high levels of the illegal trafficking of people, drugs, and weapons, according to report La otra frontera con México ( The other border with Mexico) published by the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA), a civil organization that promotes human rights. The WOLA report points out that the U.S. government estimates that up to 80 percent of the cocaine smuggled into the United States passes through Guatemala – and most of it crosses over the land border with Mexico. The meeting’s goal was to exchange information about criminal enterprises that occur along the nearly 1,000-kilometer border the two countries share. The Military officials discussed the importance of joint operations to fight illicit activities, as well as how to deploy Troops to the region for operations, what informal steps they can take to fight crime along the border, and how to carry out regional aerial reconnaissance. A Guatemalan team comprised of an officer, a sailor, seven Marines, and a motorboat belonging to the Jungle Special Operations Brigade worked with the Mexican Navy to carry out a joint reconnaissance patrol on the Usumacinta River from March 31st-April 2nd. “We are analyzing the importance of joint operations and the results of operations conducted as part of the fight to combat the trafficking of people, contraband, drugs, and livestock that happens in the blind spots on the Mexican border with other countries,” Brig. Gen. Montiel told Diálogo. Based on the each nation’s successful counter-narcotics operations, Military officials “agreed to increase the number of river and ground patrols as well as the amount of information exchanged concerning crimes committed in both the Guatemalan and Mexican departments along the border.” Authorities from Guatemala and Mexico recently met to increase the amount of information they exchange regarding security matters along their shared border and to strengthen joint river operations to combat organized crime. “Unmonitored piers, navigable rivers, clandestine airstrips, and land and water passes are the areas most utilized by organized crime gangs for their illegal activities,” Brig. Gen. Montiel said. “Drug trafficking, the smuggling of illegal substances, and other types of illicit activity are the main challenges facing the two countries’ Armed Forces.” On April 6th, Guatemalan Infantry Brigadier Generals Hugo Soto Arias, Commandant of the Jungle Special Operations Brigade Las Cruces, and Erick Rolando Montiel Aldana, Commander of the 1st Infantry Brigade Petén Santa Elena, welcomed Mexican Generals David Moreno Gutiérrez, Commandant of the 33rd Military Zone in Campeche, and Lorenzo Cano Jiménez from the 38th Military Zone in Tabasco, to the grounds of the Sixth Infantry Brigade in Playa Grande. Joint operations By Dialogo May 05, 2016 “In the last three years, Guatemala and Mexico have conducted 309 joint patrols,” Brig. Gen. Montiel explained. “The river border patrols are a way of strengthening the existing ties of friendship and cooperation between the two countries and their Militaries.” The goal of the joint patrol, which covered an area of about 50 kilometers, was to generate a peaceful environment for residents by preventing and neutralizing crime, the Guatemalan Army stated in an April 7th press release. The joint patrols and personnel exchanges are part of the Memorandum of Understanding between Mexico and Guatemala from the High Level Security Group (GANSEG) that was signed on August 26th in Mexico City. The agreement allows for the execution of concrete and effective operations of cooperation and coordination that contribute to a more prosperous and secure border. The GANSEG works together in six subgroups to address the principal border threats facing Guatemala and Mexico by concentrating on intelligence, fighting organized crime and improving public and border security, among other topics. The Brigades also conduct patrols along Guatemala’s border with Honduras and El Salvador. read more
Adapting member outreach strategies for continued COVID-19 impacts
continue reading » No two credit union members will experience the economic impact of COVID-19 in exactly the same way. That’s why it’s so important for credit unions to adhere to the principles of segmentation and personalization when planning their approach to pandemic outreach.In addition to strategizing around individual members, credit unions must also think about the moment. As we travel through the various stages of COVID-19 (from reaction to recovery and, eventually, transformation), member needs will inevitably evolve. Two-way communication enriched by data insights will be critical for credit unions to provide the right outreach to the right members at the right time.Regardless of your credit union’s current level of analytics maturity, there are basic tenets of business intelligence you can tap into right now for relevant, meaningful assistance to members. Here are just a few ideas: ShareShareSharePrintMailGooglePinterestDiggRedditStumbleuponDeliciousBufferTumblr read more
Turkey charges 20 Saudis over Khashoggi murder
Turkey has charged 20 suspects including two former aides to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman over the 2018 murder of Riyadh critic Jamal Khashoggi, prosecutors said on Wednesday.Prosecutors accuse Saudi Arabia’s deputy intelligence chief Ahmed al-Assiri and the royal court’s media czar Saud al-Qahtani of leading the operation and giving orders to a Saudi hit team. Khashoggi, 59, a commentator who wrote for The Washington Post, was killed after he entered the Saudi consulate on October 2, 2018, to obtain paperwork for his wedding to Turkish fiancee Hatice Cengiz. Mutreb, Tubaigy and Balawi had been among 11 on trial in Riyadh, during which sources said many of those accused defended themselves by saying they were carrying out Assiri’s orders, describing him as the operation’s “ringleader”.The Turkish prosecutor said a trial in absentia would be opened against the 20 suspects but did not give a date.The prosecutor had already issued arrest warrants for the suspects, who are not in Turkey.Khashoggi, a Saudi insider-turned-critic, was strangled and his body cut into pieces by a 15-man Saudi squad inside the consulate, according to Turkish officials. His remains have never been found.The CIA, UN special envoy Agnes Callamard and Turkey have directly linked Crown Prince Mohammed to the killing, a charge the kingdom vehemently denies.Topics : Turkey carried out its own investigation into the murder after being unhappy with Saudi explanations.The Istanbul prosecutor’s office said in a statement that Assiri and Qahtani were charged with “instigating the deliberate and monstrous killing, causing torment”.Eighteen other suspects — including intelligence operative Maher Mutreb who frequently travelled with the crown prince on foreign tours, forensic expert Salah al-Tubaigy and Fahad al-Balawi, a member of the Saudi royal guard — were also charged with “deliberately and monstrously killing, causing torment”.They face life in jail if convicted. read more
Qatar confirms first virus death among World Cup workforce
Qatar has one of the highest per capita infection rates in the world with 3.3 percent of its 2.75 million population having tested positive.Most have since recovered with only 17,591 active cases reported in the latest official statistics alongside 104 deaths.”Sadly, on June 11, 2020, a 51-year-old specialist engineer employed by the contractor Conspel, tragically died after contracting COVID-19,” the Qatari organization responsible for organizing the 2022 tournament said in a statement.”He had worked on Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy projects since October 2019 and had no underlying health issues. We send our deepest condolences to his family and friends.” World Cup organizers in Qatar reported the first coronavirus death of a worker involved in construction of 2022 tournament venues on Thursday.A source close to the Qatari tournament organizers told AFP that 1,102 cases of COVID-19 had been confirmed among workers at tournament projects with 121 infections still active.First reported by the newly relaunched Doha News, a site popular among expatriates in Qatar, the victim was an engineer in his fifties who had no underlying medical conditions. Topics : His nationality was not disclosed.The Qatari organizers reported the first infections among its workforce on April 15 with five cases across three stadium projects.Work continues at 2022 sites but has slowed to allow virus containment measures including screening and social distancing to be observed with Qatari officials saying preparations are nevertheless more than 80 percent complete.Organizers have removed all high-risk workers from projects on full pay, undertake temperature checks on workers twice daily, and imposed distancing rules in dining halls and staff transport to limit the virus’ spread. Construction at infrastructure to stage the tournament continued through the crisis even as Qatar halted non-essential retail and mosques, parks and restaurants closed.Qatar has begun a cautious reopening program with socially distanced worship permitted in some Mosques and non-essential retail permitted.Cafes and restaurants are due to reopen subject to strict controls from July 1.The timings of the competition, due to be held in November and December of 2022, remain unchanged by the coronavirus pandemic which has already forced the postponement of the European football championships and the Tokyo Olympics. Both will now take place in 2021. read more
Dutch Dentists scheme opts for independence over insurance arrangement
SPT, the €1.8bn closed pension fund for dentists in the Netherlands, has ruled out transferring its assets to an insurer, instead preferring to remain as an independent entity. In the fund’s annual report for 2015, it argued that it still could serve its 3,125 participants and 3,920 pensioners through low provider costs and offering the option of indexation.Last year, the board decided to reject a quote of Aegon for insurance-based arrangements, as the offer was “not beneficial”, according to the scheme’s accountibility council (VO).The board, however, added that its wish to offer inflation compensation was a long-term goal, rather than something it was immediately able to act on. At April-end, the fund’s official policy funding level stood at 106.8%, after remaining around 108% over the course of last year.Under the rules of the new financial assessment framework (nFTK), partial indexation can only be offered once the policy funding level stands at 110% or above.SPT reported a positive result of 0.22% over last year, but added that it suffered losses on several hedging strategies, including its equity cover.As the value of its put options dropped as a consequence of rising equity markets, the pension fund had to accept a lower yield on stock.Combined with a loss on its currency hedge, the net result on equity was 3.4%, despite an actual return of more than 11%, an outperformance of 0.5 percentage points.SPT’s 21% equity portfolio has been fully and passively invested in global developed markets.It has fully hedged the risk on the six largest currencies, and lost on its cover as the main currencies appreciated relative to the euro.Meilof Snijder, the scheme’s temporary chairman, said the scheme lost 0.12% on its 77.1% fixed income holdings, which included a 9.8% stake in money market funds managed by BlackRock.This was caused by a 0.73% loss on its derivatives.The actual return of its fixed income holdings had been 0.61%, and, in particular, NN Investment Parters’ Fixed Income All Grade Fund outperforming its benchmark, according to the pension fund.At year-end, the dentists scheme was hedging the interest risks of 86% of its liabilities through government bonds and swaps.It said that, at this hedge level, a 2 percentage point rise in interest rates could cause its assets to drop by almost €350m.But as liabilities would also fall, its funding would remain “relatively stable”, SPT said, which has extended its contract with risk manager Cardano for developing and implementing its matching portfolio.Last year, SPT replaced NNIP for Lombard Odier as fiduciary manager and extended the mandate for custodian Kas Bank to include asset management reporting.The pension fund incurred 0.17% and 0.08% in asset management and transactions costs, respectively. It spent €236 per participant on pensions administration. read more
Fantastic Fiesolana bags Matron
McCreery, a former Gaelic footballer and now an emerging force on the training scene, said: “I’m overcome. What a horse and what a ride. I thought she wasn’t going to get there, but she did. Billy was as cool as a cucumber and never panicked. “Billy was brilliant on her. I said to him to miss the break today, as she had been breaking brilliantly, and he missed it lovely. They went a sensible pace and she got into a bit of trouble, but it probably came at the right time. Billy is a cool rider and I said to him I’d rather he was beat than come too early. “You dream of this, but realistically it’s a Group One with the likes of Tapestry in there. “The Niarchos family had the faith to send her back to me (after buying the daughter of Aussie Rules for 960,000 guineas). It was a huge compliment and I’m glad I could repay them. “I can’t believe it and it’s great for her and for me. Patrick Cooper said to Alan (Cooper) to keep her in training this season as she’d win a Group One but at the start of the year she had an infection and we didn’t know if we would get her back. “She’s still improving. She’s hard to get fit as she’s a big, solid type. She’ll go for the Prix de la Foret now, presumably.” Officially running under the banner of Flaxman Stables Ireland, the Niarchos silks were first past the post in the 2012 Matron through the David Wachman-trained Duntle, but she was to lose the race in the stewards’ room to Sir Henry Cecil’s Chachamaidee. Already a multiple Group scorer, and placed at the highest level in last month’s Prix Maurice de Gheest, she quickened up at just the right moment for Billy Lee Wee Jean was half a furlong away from causing an enormous surprise for the Mick Channon stable but first the 7-4 favourite and eventual runner-up Rizeena threw down a determined challenge before Fiesolana squeezed past Tapestry and on to glory by half a length. Fiesolana gave Curragh trainer Willie McCreery his biggest winner to date when scooting through a gap in the Coolmore Fastnet Rock Matron Stakes at Leopardstown. Press Association read more
Car Explodes in Royal Palm Neighborhood Blowing out Residents’ Windows
What was a car is now unrecognizable. https://t.co/JvSQ5Eg6rQ— WPEC CBS12 News (@CBS12) May 16, 2019 A Mercedes caught fire and exploded in the driveway after the driver, who was inside his home, hit the keyless entry button which ignited a welding tank inside the car and the entire car exploded.Windows in nearby homes were blown out. Fortunately no injuries were reported. Residents are still reeling from a huge explosion last night in a Royal Palm Beach neighborhood.
Cricket News Rohit Sharma Achieves Special Century In Rajkot Twenty20 Vs Bangladesh
For all the Latest Sports News News, Cricket News News, Download News Nation Android and iOS Mobile Apps. New Delhi: Rohit Sharma achieved a very special century during the Rajkot Twenty20 International between India and Bangladesh at the Saurashtra Cricket Association stadium on Thursday. When he won the toss and chose to field against Bangladesh, Rohit created history by breaking MS Dhoni’s record and becoming the first Indian player to play 100 Twenty20 Internationals. Overall, he is the second player after Pakistan’s Shoaib Malik to play over 100 T20Is, with Malik having played 111 matches for Pakistan in his career. This new milestone adds yet another feather to Rohit’s already record-breaking run in the format.Rohit is the leading six-hitter in Twenty20 Internationals, smashing 109 in 100 games. He is the only player to have hit four centuries in this format, having smashed 118 against Sri Lanka in Indore in 2017. During the Delhi match against Bangladesh, Rohit overtook Virat Kohli and became the leading run-getter in this format, surpassing Kohli’s tally of 2450 runs. The current India cricket team skipper is one of the select few to average over 30 and have a strike-rate close to 140.Following the Delhi loss, Rohit cited poor fielding and lack of judgement while going for the Decision Review System (DRS) calls which cost India the first T20 International against Bangladesh. Mushfiqur Rahim guided Bangladesh to their first ever T20 victory against India with an unbeaten 60 where a butter-fingered Krunal Pandya and an indecisive Rishabh Pant let the team down despite a par-score on a tricky Feroz Shah Kotla surface.”It was a defendable score, and we made mistakes on the field. The guys are a bit inexperienced, and they can learn from that, perhaps not make them the next time. The reviews (DRS) were a mistake from our side,” Rohit admitted during post-match presentation ceremony. However, Rohit gave credit to Bangladesh for winning it in a convincing manner. “Not to take credit away from Bangladesh. They put us under pressure right from the start when we were batting.”Also Read | Poor Fielding, Lack Of Judgement Cost India: Rohit After Shock Defeat Against BangladeshIt has been a remarkable journey for Rohit in Twenty20 Internationals ever since he made his debut for India during the 2007 World T20 in South Africa. His contributions in the series helped India win the 2007 World T20 for the first time and since then, he has gone from strength to strength. read more
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JAMESTOWN – One new case of COVID-19 was reported in Chautauqua County on Thursday afternoon, bringing the countywide total to 27 confirmed cases.Health Department officials say the case involves a woman in her late 60s and a total of five active cases remain in the county.Since yesterday, one person has recovered brining the recovery total to 19.So far, three people have died from complications of the virus. On Friday, county officials are scheduled to hold their weekly press conference update at 3 p.m. Viewers can watch the briefing streamed LIVE on WNYNewsNow.com/LIVE.In Cattaraugus County, the 28th person tested positive for COVID-19.Officials say the male resident resides in the southeastern part of the county and had no significant travel history, but was in close contact with a known positive case. Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window) read more
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American Sidney Gathrid stepped in to replace William Rugolo
July 5, 2018 /in News /by camilla
William RUGOLO (DEN) dislocated his shoulder yesterday and he was unable to sail. In true sportsmanship Sidney GATHRID (USA) stepped in to replace William as crewman on so that DENMARK team could continue the World Championship. William hands over the Denmark jersey to Sidney. thank you Sidney!
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Day 1 – YMRWC
Just finish the first day of Youth Match Racing World Championship.
After the opening ceremony took place yesterday in the streets of the village of Ledro finishing in Piazza Mülleheim where the authorities have welcomed the twelve teams from eleven different nations, only Italy has the right to be present with two crews.
Today has entered the heart of the event.
On time, the Regatta Committee, chaired by Giorgio Battinelli at 10.00 am, began the procedures.
Eleven flights ended, for a total of 44 matches; the Italian Ettore Botticini with Lorenzo Gennari and Simone Busonero is leading with seven victories and zero defeats, with 6 victories and 1 lose the Americans with Christopher Weis are now second and 3rd on the temporary podium the New Zealand crew of Nick Egnot-Johnson.
Hoping for the wind to assist like today, tomorrow the procedures will start at 10.00.
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SAILING INSTRUCTION
SI __ WORLDS
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Amendment 1 and 2 to Sailing Instruction
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2018 Youth Match Racing World Championships – Notice of Race released
April 10, 2018 /in News /by camilla
The sixth edition of the Youth Match Racing Worlds will be hosted on Lake Ledro in Trentino, Italy, from the 3 – 8 July 2018.
The Notice of Race (NoR) for the 2018 Youth Match Racing World Championships, which outlines entry requirements, sailing rules, course information and event formatting, has been released.
Click here for the Notice of Race.
The competition will feature eight J22 class boats and sailors competing will have to be under 23 years old on 31st December 2018.
Boy’s crew will have three sailors, including the skipper and mixed crews as well as Girl’s crew will be four, per boat.
This event consists of four stages; Stage 1 – A Full Round Robin organized, initially, in two semi round robins, Stage 2 – Semi Finals, Stage 3 – Petite Final and Stage 4 – Finals.
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2018 Youth Match Racing World Championship
September 14, 2017 /in News /by camilla
It’s now official that our application has been accepted and Associazione Vela Lago di Ledro is going to host the 2018 Youth Match Race Worlds Championship.
Thanks to all the volunteers of Ledro’s Valley, the partnerships and the sponsorship that make it possibile!
Dates will be announced soon!
Can’t wait to see you in Ledro again.
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Courtesy of the Historical Society of Battle Creek
"Reader, did you ever hear of the city of “Wapokisko,” in Michigan? Probably not. But this is the romantic metamorphose of Battle Creek."
In the final weeks of 1858, a committee was appointed in Battle Creek to hammer out a new city charter. Citizens felt the village had outgrown the old charter, and needed a new one to reflect the growing community. Soon, a new city charter was ready for approval, but there was one big point of contention: The committee members decided that the name of the city should change from “Battle Creek” to “Wapokisko”.
"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet" is a popular reference to William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet and the quote that aptly applies to the City of Battle Creek which was almost known as "Wapokisko" as well as a few other names that might leave you scratching your head. Truth be told, the smell of cereal wafting from the ovens of Kellogg's and Post would still smell just as sweet.
The Friday, December 31st, 1858 edition of the weekly Battle Creek Journal noted it in an article that was reprinted from the Grand Rapids Enquirer:
“Reader, did you ever hear of the city of “Wapokisko,” in Michigan? Probably not. But this is the romantic metamorphose of Battle Creek. The people of that village assembled together at seven o’clock in the evening of Monday, Dec. 113, 1858, and then and there deliberately adopted a City Charter, to be presented to the Legislature for action thereon. In addition, it was resolved, that the name of Battle Creek be changed to Wapokisko. Three cheers for the Wapokiskins. The following names, other than the successful, were proposed, viz: Battle Creek, Eureka, Calhoun City, and Waukisko.”
But it wasn’t a done deal. When it came time for a vote, the chairman couldn’t tell if the “yays” or “nays” were in the majority. After some parliamentary wrangling, it was decided that a formal vote of the citizenry would be held, on New Year’s Eve, 1858.
The next issue of the paper, Friday, January 7th, 1859, had the following headline:
"Battle Creek Not Dead Yet"
Shall Battle Creek be snubbed in our new city, or not? Polls opened at half-past six, P.M., at Peninsular Hall. There was a perfect rush to the ballot box, the Hall was literally crammed. Battle Creek was triumphant over all opposition. The name and the place may now be considered as inseparably associated, we suppose, for all time, and a majority of our citizens are evidently well suited with both.
467 ballots were cast.
Battle Creek, 315
Calhoun City, 93
Wapokisko, 50
Peninsular City, 6
Eureka, 3
The author had the following to say after the decision was made.
Now let our object be to make the City of Battle Creek distinguished as the city where shall be done good and unceasing battle for the right; where the cause of human liberty shall never want an ally; where bigotry shall never usurp the throne of reason; where prejudice shall never prevail against justice; where enlightened individual independence shall never denigrate into lawless license; where a health action in all the affairs that promise good to body and mind, shall never be stagnated by the adverse dogmas of fossilized fogy-ism; where the poor shall never be forgotten or oppressed; where the public good shall not be sacrificed to individual selfishness; where enterprise shall not overrun good conscience. Let it be the city where education shall enlighten, and reason lead; where unity and good order shall make strong where good morals shall make happy, and good taste make beautiful and the name of Battle Creek shall sound as pleasing to the ear as the music of a running brook.
Incidentally, "Wapokisko" was the Native American name for what is now the Battle Creek River, and is said to mean “River of Blood.”
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The Contract (2006)
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Attempting to recover from a recent family trauma by escaping into the woods for a peaceful hiking trip, an ex-lawman and his young son stumble across a dangerous contract killer.
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: Alarm.com, Biogen, Blue Apron, Cisco, Lowe's, Pandora, Waste Management and More
Last Updated: January 12, 2020 3:19 am
This week has been a wild ride, and stocks were looking for direction based on more inflationary concerns after the import prices were hotter than expected. The bull market is now just three weeks shy of being nine years old. No trend can last forever, but the one that keeps proving to be right is that investors have been rewarded handily buying the pullbacks. Now investors still have to decide how they want to be positioned for 2018 and beyond.
24/7 Wall St. reviews dozens of analyst research reports each day of the week to find new ideas for investors and traders alike. Some analyst reports and research reports cover stocks to buy. Other reports cover stocks to sell or to avoid.
Additional color and commentary has been added on most of the daily analyst reports. The consensus analyst price targets and other valuation metrics are from the Thomson Reuters sell-side research service.
These were the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and other research calls from Friday, February 16, 2018.
Acorda Therapeutics Inc. (NASDAQ: ACOR) was raised to Overweight from Neutral with a $37 price target (versus a $25.10 prior close) at Piper Jaffray.
Activision Blizzard Inc. (NASDAQ: ATVI) was reiterated as Buy and the price target was raised to $81 from $70 at Argus.
Aerie Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: AERI) was started as Buy with a $78 price target (versus a $53.65 close) at H.C. Wainwright.
Alarm.com Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: ALRM) was raised to Outperform from In-Line with a $45 price target (versus a $37.88 close) at Imperial Capital.
Amber Road Inc. (NYSE: AMBR) was downgraded to Hold from Buy with a $10 price target (versus a $9.74 close) at Canaccord Genuity.
Azul S.A. (NYSE: AZUL) was started as Buy at UBS.
Biogen Inc. (NASDAQ: BIIB) was downgraded to Hold from Buy at Argus, with the independent research firm citing a challenging outlook.
Blue Apron Holdings Inc. (NYSE: APRN) was raised to Neutral from Sell at Northcoast Securities. The stock closed down 4.6% at $3.31 on Thursday but was indicated up almost 4% at $3.43 on Friday morning.
Calithera Biosciences Inc. (NASDAQ: CALA) was raised to Buy from Neutral with a $14 price target (versus a $6.95 close) at Citigroup.
Canadian National Railway Co. (NYSE: CNI) was downgraded to Hold from Buy at Argus.
Chesapeake Lodging Trust (NYSE: CHSP) was reiterated as Buy with a fair value estimate of $32 (versus a $26.32 close) at Janney.
Cisco Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) was up after earnings and saw multiple analysts raise their target prices. Now Argus has reiterated its Buy rating and raised its target to $50.
ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP) was reiterated as Buy and the $65 target price (versus a $54.54 close) was maintained at Argus.
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HAI Heli-Expo 2019 stage is ready to welcome Airbus Helicopters mission-ready products
Airbus Helicopters is getting ready to showcase its products and services line at HAI Heli-Expo.
On static display at booth C305, show-goers will have a chance to visit the best-selling H145 and to discover its exciting new features, the H125 in a law enforcement configuration, and also to take a moment to experience the cabin display of the increasingly popular ACH145, equipped with an elegant Mercedes-Benz Style interior, part of the quality offerings across the Airbus Corporate Helicopters product range. The conceptual EMS mock-up of the H160 will also be making its U.S. debut for visitors to witness first-hand the exceptional work-space that the cabin provides for these critical, life-saving missions.
“This year’s Heli-Expo will focus on how we constantly strive to provide customers with products adapted to their missions, however varied those may be, and the right services to allow them to focus solely on performing those missions successfully,” said Bruno Even, CEO of Airbus Helicopters. “We will also demonstrate how Airbus is working to prepare the future of flight, displaying a scale mock-up of the Racer high-speed demonstrator on our booth and providing updates on our Urban Air Mobility strategy,” he added.
HCare, Airbus’ global customer support and service offer, will be at the heart of the booth with experts on hand to show how customers can improve the availability of their aircraft, optimize their costs, advance flight safety, and improve the asset value of aircraft. Daily service demonstrations, particularly of new digital services, will be performed on the Airbus booth.
Airbus will also be conducting flight demonstrations with an H135 in a U.S. Navy paint scheme, as the company is offering a partnership with the U.S. Navy to deliver the versatile H135 as the best-value training solution for its rotary-wing fleet replacement. The IFR -certified H135, a market leader in the twin engine category, is a proven and low-risk modern airframe that will allow the U.S. Navy to enhance its training curriculum. With a fleet of 1,300+ aircraft, and a proven operational availability rate greater than 90%, it is also one of the most dependable aircraft on the market.
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Florida Manatee Spotted with ‘Trump’ Etched Into Its Back
By Klinger Jan 12, 2021
A Florida resident spotted a manatee last weekend with "TRUMP" etched into its back. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service are conducting an investigation around Homosassa Springs and are looking for anyone with info. Thankfully the animal wasn't injured as the word was written in algae on it's back. At what point does this crap stop? Enough is enough, support your candidate but pump the brakes on such illegal behavior. It is illegal to harass, hunt, capture or kill any marine mammal, according to the FWC and can carry a penalty of a $50,000 fine and/or up to one year in federal prison for harassing a manatee.
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Here’s How LSU Fans Can Buy Tickets to Mizzou Game Saturday
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Just in case you were ready for a tiny break from the coronavirus pandemic and hurricane coverage, how 'bout some news about the LSU Tigers?
You no doubt know by now that the Tigers' game against Missouri this Saturday, October 10, has been moved from Baton Rouge to Columbia, Missouri. The Southeastern Conference announced the move on Wednesday, due to Hurricane Delta, but it will still be considered a home game for LSU. Missouri Director of Athletics Jim Sterk told KPLC “We have been working with the SEC and LSU since Monday when it became apparent that Hurricane Delta could disrupt this weekend’s game, and made it known that we would be glad to host the game if it would help out LSU and the Baton Rouge community."
If you were planning on (evacuating) going to the game to support the Tigers, then you'll be able to purchase tickets starting at 9:00 am on Friday, October 9. The Missouri Athletic Department is giving first choice to the Missouri donors and season ticket holders, and they have until Thursday, October 8 at 2:00 PM to reserve their tickets. After that, any remaining tickets will be available for the public to purchase tomorrow at 9:00 am.
Tickets and information can be found on the Mizzou ticket information website. Geaux Tigers!
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Houston appeals court won't let Ken Paxton criminal trial move to Collin County, for now
A Houston appeals court has pressed pause on a ruling that would have allowed Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to stand trial for felony securities fraud in his hometown of Collin County.
That Oct. 23 ruling came three years after the case was first sent to Harris County, with prosecutors arguing they could not get a fair trial prosecuting Paxton in a part of the state where he and his wife, state Sen. Angela Paxton, are deeply politically connected.
Paxton is accused of persuading investors to buy stock in a technology firm without disclosing he would be compensated for it. He has maintained his innocence and dismissed the charges as politically motivated.
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The 1st Court of Appeals in Houston has, for now, blocked the case from resuming in Collin County - likely further delaying the five-year-old case - as it considers the issues.
Paxton was indicted in 2015, but has yet to go to trial amid side battles like the venue dispute and an argument over how much the prosecutors should be paid.
Paxton once represented Collin County in the Legislature, and now his wife, state Sen. Angela Paxton, represents the region.
"Paxton thinks he won't face justice before a Harris County jury because two judges have told him he won't," said Brian Wice, one of the special prosecutors. "We believe the 1st Court of Appeals will tell him that's not how the law works."
Separate from the five-year-old securities fraud charges, Paxton has been in hot water this month after seven of his top aides accused him of serious crimes, including bribery. They allege he used the power of the attorney general's office to serve the interests of a political donor, Austin real estate investor Nate Paul.
Paxton has dismissed the allegations as "false" and the aides as "rogue employees." As of this week, all seven have either resigned, been placed on leave or fired. A spokesman for Paxton denied that firing two whistleblowers was retaliation.
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Sharecare Acquires Virtual Reality Company To Transform Patient Engagement and Medical Education
BioLucid’s Revolutionary Human Body Simulation Platform Positions Sharecare As Leader in Visual Health, Paves Way For Medical Record of the Future
ATLANTA/NEW YORK–September 29, 2016– Sharecare, the digital health company helping people manage all their health in one place, today announced at Advertising Week 2016 that it is acquiring BioLucid, the leading developer of virtual reality and immersive healthcare technology, including the YOU® VR experience available for HTC VIVE[1]. The acquisition and resulting launch of the Sharecare Reality Lab position Sharecare as the leader in visual health, empowering its users and their loved ones; healthcare providers and patients; educators and students; and pharmaceutical companies and their customers to better communicate and understand medical diagnoses, treatments and patient journeys.
Though virtual reality is being used in some niche areas of healthcare—and related hardware is increasingly user-friendly and affordable—the need to purchase additional equipment will continue to be a barrier to entry for many consumers. Therefore, in addition to making the YOU® VR experience available on other virtual reality platforms in the near future, Sharecare is leveraging BioLucid’s health content across its web and mobile applications so people can view–with or without a VR headset–immersive and accurate anatomical simulations of the human body, including disease states, and related treatments and therapies.
“Visual storytelling technologies–particularly virtual reality blended with 360-degree video–have boundless potential in healthcare and patient engagement, yet consumer-facing innovation in VR has been limited mostly to entertainment and gaming,” said Jeff Arnold, chairman and CEO of Sharecare. “By differentiating our platform with BioLucid’s immersive simulation of the human body, we can turn data into actionable, visual intelligence, and make a transformative impact on patient engagement, health literacy, medical education and therapy adherence.”
Sharecare will combine BioLucid’s real-time simulation of the human body with 360-degree video and augmented reality to help patients and providers better understand what each is experiencing by telling the story of patient journeys through scientifically accurate, deep visualizations of conditions, disease states and therapies. From first awareness of symptoms through all stages of treatment and follow-up, these interactive experiences will enable you to view the perspectives of the patient, caregiver or provider at each step in their healthcare journey, fostering empathy and understanding among all healthcare constituents.
Sharecare also is offering its partners–from educational institutions to medical device manufacturers and pharmaceutical companies, and providers–ways to maximize opportunities to obtain unprecedented visual context to discuss healthy physiology, disease and treatment. For example, an Ivy League institution has licensed the BioLucid platform and content so educators can teach students anatomy and physiology in a much more visual and experiential way. Pharmaceutical and medical device marketers can also license the platform and content to create their own custom materials, and sponsor existing information related to organs, treatments and therapies. Finally, for providers who license the platform and content for patient education, the potential is powerful, as more informed patients have better recoveries, reduced readmissions and improved satisfaction; and the visual nature of the platform transcends language barriers for non-English speaking patients.
“As a neurosurgeon, it’s not sufficient simply to tell a patient what’s happening inside their brain, or how a course of treatment will improve their health or even save their life; rather, in many cases, they need to see it to believe it–much less understand it,” said Sanjay Gupta, MD, a practicing neurosurgeon and CNN’s chief medical correspondent. “I’ve long been fascinated with technology’s ability to fuel human optimization, and patient education is an area in which we can greatly improve–that’s why I was immediately intrigued by what Sharecare can achieve with BioLucid’s interactive simulations. I’m looking forward to seeing how visual health can make a positive impact on episodic care, and potentially alter the course of a person’s health journey every day.”
As an extension of Sharecare’s vision to lead in visual health and put all your health in one place, the company is exploring how it can pave the way for the medical record of the future by enabling people to see what’s happening inside their own bodies. Today, even if a patient successfully obtains their medical record, they learn quickly that the two-dimensional stack of paper lacks context and is too clinical for the average patient to understand.
To counter that, as part of each user’s Sharecare profile, the newly formed Sharecare Reality Lab is prototyping a unique “living avatar” that dynamically changes as a person does. Whether it’s an improvement in RealAge, a migraine identified in an AskMD consultation, the seasonal allergies that prompted a telehealth visit, or frictionless data–like heart rate or stress level–captured by sensors and trackers on a smartphone, your avatar will be a comprehensive three-dimensional model of you, detailing how your actions and habits are impacting your health at a micro and macro level–and, in the future, could become your living, breathing medical record.
As part of the deal, BioLucid’s co-founders Jeff Hazelton, Lawrence Kiey and Dale Park are joining Sharecare, and will retain their office in Sarasota, Florida, under the name Sharecare Reality Lab. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
Sharecare is a health and wellness engagement solution providing people with personalized resources to help them live their healthiest lives. Nearly 41 million people have shared more than 6 billion data points about their health status and habits with Sharecare, which uses that information to create a comprehensive health profile allowing users to access all of their health resources in one place, and dynamically connect to the knowledge, evidence-based programs and health professionals they need.
[1] VIVE is a first-of-its-kind virtual reality platform developed by HTC and Valve for total immersion in virtual worlds. Designed from the ground up for room-scale VR and true-to-life interactions, VIVE delivers on the promise of VR with technology that’s game changing and content that’s best in class. VIVE has been recognized with over 65 awards and wide critical acclaim since its unveiling in 2015. For more information, please visit www.vive.com.
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News Update on the G.I. Joe Nano Metalfigs Diecast Figures (Price, Packaging Artwork & More)
A little while ago news broke about some upcoming G.I. Joe Nano Metalfigs Diecast Figures that Jada Toys is working on. Now we have additional details on the tiny metal Joe and Cobra figures, straight from a recent Jada Toys podcast which features a few members of the Jada team discussing G.I. Joe, in addition to other topics like Minecraft, Dungeons & Dragons, and more.
Although brief, the news bits on the Jada Joes reveals that there will be 6 characters to start (Snake Eyes, Storm Shadow, Duke, Cobra Commander, Destro and Baroness), while paying homage to the original ARAH (A Real American Hero) 3 3/4″ action figure line. The packaging will feature throwback styling in tribute to the original figures, with all 6 metal figures included in the 6-pack. The targeted price will be less than $10 retail, and we can expect these to release around the same time as the Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins movie.
Take a look at the first 6 Nano Metalfigs below (the coffee beans bring a bit of humour to the pics with a “Cup of Joe” theme, while showing the true scale of the figures in comparison to demonstrate how tiny they really are. For more info from the conversation, check out the podcast at the 11:15 mark.
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