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Why Synthetic Drugs Are Still Sold At Gas Stations In Georgia
Tasnim Shamma • Feb 13, 2015
Attorney General Sam Olens wants nine major oil companies to ban all synthetic drugs at their gas stations in Georgia.
Credit Kelley McCall / Associated Press
Georgia’s Attorney General is asking major oil companies like BP, Chevron and Exxon to stop selling synthetic drugs at its gas stations. These are the drugs you can find in the tobacco section … with names like Scoobi Snax and Herbal Spice. A broadcast version of this story followed by an interview with hosts Rose Scott and Denis O'Hayer on “A Closer Look.”
According to the Georgia Poison Center, it’s getting fewer and fewer calls these days related to synthetic drugs, and in 2012, the state outlawed synthetic marijuana. So why is Attorney General Sam Olens turning his attention to these drugs again? Because, he says, the laws aren’t keeping up.
“Each year, the legislature passes a bill that makes certain compounds felonies. The problem is, as soon as the bill’s passed, they immediately change the compositions further where it’s not technically a felony until the legislature next comes into session,” Olens says.
Olens wants nine major oil companies to ban all synthetic drugs at their gas stations in Georgia.
Dr. Gaylord Lopez is director of the Georgia Poison Center. He says many drugs like bath salts are mislabeled. So it could be that gas station owners have no idea that what they’re selling is illegal. But he suspects differently.
“Probably what they’re trying to do is make a quick dollar and they continue to sell them because they can’t keep ‘em on the shelves,” Lopez says.
He says many synthetic drugs are appealing to young users.
“Just because you can get in a place that’s not a shady back lot or side street, or in a bad part of town or maybe even over the internet, there’s no data on safety,” Lopez says. “The users are playing Russian roulette.”
The Georgia Poison Center says it received about 60 emergency calls for synthetic drugs last year.
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« Reply #40 on: 31/01/2016 15:19:14 »
But if an apple has a 1 kg mass and an orange has a 1 kg mass, I seem to be missing any difference.
9,192,631,770 Hz /s
299 792 458 m/s
are both speeds.
Not true, m/s is the velocity of light but Hz is a frequency. Two different things my friend.
and the base unit of 1 second is the same, a rate is repeat occurrence over 1 second, so it is a speed is it not?
Just like the clock speed of my CPU in my computer or my memory clock speed
a CPU I can over-clock if I wished to and make 'time'' run faster
Like if my cpu ran at 100 hrtz a second I could over clock it to lets say 150 hrtz a second making time and a half
Speed can be defined as an object covering a distance in a set amount of time. Enter the second in our calculations. However, the Hertz is defined as a cycle of events over a set amount of time. Where speed is reckoned using distance divided by time, the Hertz is reckoned by a number of events divided by time. Time is the only thing these two have in common.
Distances and cycles of events are as different as apples and oranges.
Ir = I0/r2 in my universe. What happens in yours?
I can't read your equation, I presume (I ) is imaginary number?
Since your post asked about the intensity of light, a reasonable man would have concluded that I in the answer was intensity. Conventionally we use lower case i or j to indicate an imaginary number.
No. Speed is distance/time. Frequency is number of occurrences/time. PLEASE STUDY DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS lest others think you foolish.
I nearly said intensity as well but I thought that was far to obvious and remembered i has imaginary number so said that . I will try to work out what you are saying now with that piece of maths.
Ok, so at what point in time do these occurrences start from?
The cycles still travel a distance from A to B?
No,.......cycles don't travel.
Example: In alternating current, the reversal of current from positive to negative occurs 60 time a second. What you are confusing is; It's not the frequency that travels, it's the current. And current is a flow of electrons through a wire. While the current does travel a distance, the cycle of Hertz only defines the alternation of that direction.
You can't apply a value of distance to frequency because frequency only defines a change in direction, as in current flow, or some other change in a physical quality.
Until you finally accept the current definitions for these physical qualities, your confusion will only grow Mr. Box.
I never said I did not accept present definitions, of some things anyway, But I will certainly question everything to look for an answer to everything.
I have still not had a direct answer to my question, is distance an invariant?
added - hang on a nitting picking moment, I thought a frequency had a wave-length?
Try this link: www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Length_contraction
True,................but a frequency is not a wave length. Same relationship that matter has to mass. Matter is not mass, matter has mass. If you don't yet see your error's, I think you're in danger of qualifying for that position that Alan previously warned you about.
I have already had that link provided and obviously I must not understand it because to me it is saying when an object moves it shrinks in length, so obviously I must be reading this link wrongly that would be so preposterous.
I must be reading this link wrongly that would be so preposterous.
Not preposterous at all Mr. Box, it's a fact. For an observer of that event, length contraction is a reality. However, for anyone on that moving object, no noticeable change would be evident. That's why it's called "Relativity", every reference frame distinguishes it's self differently from all others when velocities and gravitational influences are also different.
If you contend that Wikipedia and all other scientific source material is preposterous fiction, you then categorize yourself as the only authority. I prefer to stick with well acknowledged and accredited sources.
You're wasting our time here Mr. Box.
There is an old saying: "A word to the wise is sufficient."
How many thoughtful words will we have to expend for you to fall into that category?
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Not preposterous at all Mr. Box, it's a fact. For an observer of that event, length contraction is a reality. However, for the moving object, no noticeable change would be evident.
You want me to accept something that I either do not understand or something that goes against normal logic and observation.
Since when do we observe an object shrinking in length when in motion relative to an observer? give me one example please. I am trying to get my head around it.
Now if you had said a height contraction and a length expansion , relative to a rotating body, I would of got that one, but trying to explain that a spring flying through space with no opposing force will compress is not something I can buy into at this time.
The front of the object would have to be moving slower than the rear of the object to compress.
The key here is that you evidently don't "understand". And BTW, relativity is and was never "normal logic", it took Einstein thinking well out of "the proverbial box", to coin a term we are all well aware of by now.
Relativity is not a logical conclusion our minds find acceptable or easily understood. It has taken many experiments and defined observations for science to have defined reality in terms of this theory. If you truly want to learn and understand relativity, you'll need to accept what these experiments have taught us. If you're not willing to accept these findings, you'll never understand relativity. Something tells me you really don't want to understand, you would really prefer that we simply accept your position. Please explain to me why in the world we would ever do that when we have the evidence given to us from great men of science telling us otherwise?
Unless you're willing to forget your logical assumptions for a while and listen to these great men of science, and begin learning what their experiments have shown us, I'll be unwilling to discuss this topic with you any further.
So,.................what will it be Mr. Box?
There is another saying that; "A word to the wise is unnecessary"
It is a weird one box, relativity explains length contraction mathematically, but offers no reasonable explanation as to the causation of this phenomenon.
Therefore, actually, the way is clear for a speculation... I personally speculate that because the rate of time for the contracted length is slowed via its velocity, an observer is viewing the length moving in a slower rate of time relative to their own. An observer viewing an event from their faster rate of time, will not have 'the time' in which to view the entirety of the length as it moves within it's slower rate of time, causing the length to appear contracted to the observer.
However, a length and a distance are 2 different things. A length is a measurement of matter, and a distance is a measurement of space. The stretching of the fabric of outer space also affects distances according to GR.
It is true that science has had the benefit of many great minds, but on the other hand, logically speaking, it is in fact an act of sheer stupidity to consider our knowledge of the universe as wise... Our 2 best working theories cannot be fully united. If they could, discussions such as this would be redundant...
However, a length and a distance are 2 different things. A length is a measurement of matter, and a distance is a measurement of space.
Where I agree with your level of skepticism, I am not sure how you count a length as different to a distance.
If a train that has a length of 1Km, it then takes up 1km distance at rest. As the train can at all times consider itself to be at rest, then it will always occupy a distance of 1 Km.
If from your perspective that train is traveling at relativistic velocity, and you accept that a distance can be considered to be contracted, then the train that exactly occupies that distance by having the same length, logically has to also be considered to be contracted.
I don't think that logically length and distance can in any way be considered separate or different.
Any Matter that occupies a certain amount of space has to change if that space can be considered to have changed. That is the entire principle behind the hunt for Gravitational waves.
Again it is good to be skeptical about anything that is only predicted mathematically, at least until it has been confirmed experimentally or by direct observation, but I don't think you can logically separate distance from length. Both of those qualities apply equally to anything with a physical existence. That has to include both matter and spacetime.
Ok, back to definitions I see...(chuckle)
So... we describe the length of something as a measurement. The defining word here being 'something'. A length is the description of a measurement of something...
We describe the distance between 2 somethings as a measurement. The defining word here being 'between'. A distance is the description of a measurement of space between 2 somethings.
We can say that the length of the train takes up a distance in space. The length being defined by the matter of the train, and the distance being defined by the space that this length occupies.
The length of the train can also be defined by the distance it occupies, but the distance that the train occupies cannot be defined by the length of the train. The distance that the train occupies can only be defined by the 'space' on either side of the train that the train is not occupying.
Clearly there 'is' a difference between a length and a distance.
Edit: Obviously one may describe the length of a distance as being such and such, not so much the distance of a length though, just don't sound right
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All right, screwheads, grab your boomsticks and study up on your “alloys, compositions, and things with….. molecular structures.”
Sorry, had to get that out of my system…
All blatant plagiarism aside, this review is going to assume that you’ve got some familiarity with the characters and situations that started in the original Evil Dead movies, “Army of Darkness” in particular. If you have no idea what I’ve been yammering about, this might not be the book for you.
What started out as a low budget, but still pretty horrific movie series ended up as an all-out camp-filled cult classic that gets quoted by fans just as much as The Princess Bride. Seriously… Just go back to the first line of the review and that’s just the beginning. My friends and I can go on all day quoting our buddy, Ash.
In Dynamite’s mini-series, “Ash Gets Hitched”, our ne’er-do-well almost hero releases the horror of The Faceless Man. This is an entity so ancient, so evil, so menacing, that even the deadites are afraid to draw his attention. Ash and company, new bride Sheila, and crusty old wizard “Spinach Chin” (I don’t think Ash ever cared enough to learn the poor old fella’s name…), are on a quest to put the Faceless Man down.
Along the way, the reader is treated to dialogue that could’ve been written by Mr. Raimi himself, and voiced by the Great One, Bruce Campbell (at least in my head). We’re reminded that our “hero” is not a great role model, but we keep right on rootin’ for him because he’s pretty much the Everyman thrown into extraordinary circumstances… more or less the Al Bundy of pulpy fantasy/horror.
If you’re already a fan of the movies, there’s a really good chance that you’re already been reading the comic series. On the off chance that you’re not, this one’s for you. So go on…. Say the words with me.
“Klaatu Barada N… necktie… neckturn… nickel! It’s an “N” word… definitely an “N” word.”
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The Xmas excerpt: Goneville, a rock’n’roll memoir by Nick Bollinger
Nick Bollinger | Guest writer
Nick Bollinger! He’s ace. He’s written about music with insight and feeling, and a lot of that stems from his background in bands. He recalls going out on the road with Rough Justice in this excerpt from his new, excellent memoir Goneville, which we totally recommend as a Xmas gift for the muso in your life.
One day, when we were travelling to a gig in Hamilton, Rick pulled the Rough Justice bus off the Desert Road and drew up outside Rangipo Prison where Graeme Nesbitt was nearing the end of an eighteen-month lag. It was his second spell of imprisonment, again for selling pot to cover the shortfall from a Dragon venture. While serving his earlier sentence he had been joined for a few months by Rick. The way Rick described it, it didn’t sound all that different from the times they’d flatted together in Aro Valley. Sharing a cell, they discovered that between them they could recite from memory the entirety of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. They also formed a band with other prisoners, calling it Rick and The Rock Breakers.
Rick went in to see Graeme while the rest of us waited. Although it was a minimum security prison, I was surprised when Graeme wandered casually into the yard where the bus was parked, said hello and wished us luck. He looked healthy and tanned, and amused to see Rick with a fresh busload of disciples.
If he were not in prison, Graeme might have been managing Rough Justice, using his charm and cunning to secure us better gigs. In the absence of a manager the task had fallen to Rick, which in those pre-cell-phone days meant parking the bus somewhere near a phone booth and emptying our pockets for change so he could call ahead to confirm our next booking. Rick did not enjoy communicating with publicans. He marvelled at bandleaders who simply treated it as part of the job. They might tell a joke, say something about the rugby, maybe even have a drink with the bar manager after the gig. He knew that this often gained them better fees and more frequent bookings but it was not in his nature to schmooze. I would see Rick through the glass of the phone booth, negotiating through gritted teeth.
He had a small network of contacts who sometimes found us gigs. He referred to them as promoters but they were usually characters he had met in prison: honest, good-hearted people but not natural entrepreneurs. One was Arney, who booked us several nights’ work either side of New Year in a gigantic gymnasium in Mount Maunganui. The place turned out to be approximately a thousand times too large for the number of people who showed up to hear us, but at least we didn’t have to pay for accommodation: Arney had given us the run of his rural homestead.
During the days of that summer residency we’d sleep, swim at the nearby beach, help Janet with the ongoing task of painting the bus, and argue over the set list. Our final night drew our biggest crowd, a few dozen locals. Next morning we packed the bus and went to farewell Arney but he had already left town, heading for the Kaimai Ranges. His message said he was going to work on the construction of New Zealand’s longest railway tunnel until he had paid off the debts incurred by his venture into music promotion.
Rough Justice in concert (Image: Supplied)
The bus had by now undergone several expensive repairs, and I had begun to wonder if it was false economy to travel this way. It was hard to calculate the bus’s value as a publicity device. When we drove down the main street of any small town – often several times in succession as one of us studied the map and Rick tried to remember the address of the venue – people would stare as though at a giant moving billboard or passing circus. But the bus also made us highly visible to the police. We were stopped frequently. Usually they just wanted to check that our warrant and registration were compliant and we had paid our road user charges, but the more zealous often had a sniff around as well. The first time we were busted we were driving between Titirangi and our Ponsonby crash pad. It was late at night. We had been to visit Ian Watkin, the former Blerta member. He had cooked us a lavish dinner, far better than any road food or pub fare, plied us with wine, and regaled us with his own road tales, such as the time the Brisbane drug squad had descended backstage before a Blerta concert and searched his bag for contraband. They had found only his Cricket Umpires’ Association badge, and this had distracted them long enough for the rest of the band to sneak off and dispose of their stash.
As the police signalled us to pull over, Rick stubbed out his joint. Boyd had a tiny amount of pot in his pocket. He and Rick were taken to the police station. It was Rick’s tenth bust but Boyd’s first. Rick took responsibility for the pot and used his allotted phone call to ring Boyd’s partner in Wellington and warn her that a search of her property might ensue. She was half asleep and Rick was talking in code. ‘Ah, hi Bern, we’ve had some trouble with the bus. It’s the usual thing but don’t worry, Boyd’s okay, it’s just small bananas.’ The next morning she was still wondering about the bananas.
By 1979 Rough Justice had begun to draw bigger crowds in the cities and we were starting to build a following at the Gluepot, the Ponsonby pub favoured by Hello Sailor and Street Talk. But our most appreciative audiences continued to be far from the cities with their hungover hoteliers and urbane critics. In the early ’70s some of Rick’s contemporaries – dropouts he had known from the Duke and university days – had left Wellington with dreams of living off the land. During Labour’s brief term in office from 1972 and 1975, there had even been state support for such moves, with Prime Minister Norman Kirk overseeing the establishment of the ohu scheme. Under this, remote areas of Crown land were made available for the establishment of communes, a possible antidote to what political historian Margaret Hayward called ‘the ills of modern society, as well as a means of showing people the virtues of a simpler life’. Other people pooled resources and bought land of their own. Community halls in tiny townships on the Coromandel Peninsula or the West Coast of the South Island became a kind of tribal meeting place for some of these groups.
When we visited such communities, rustic revolutionaries in richly coloured clothes would come out of the hills to hear us. There would be none of the usual blank stares, or moans of ‘Play something we can dance to.’ From the first note, these occasions would be big benign bacchanals, with Rick at his most relaxed. The happiest I ever saw him on stage was one night in a community hall at Barrytown, population 225. He commanded centre stage, a large joint in his mouth, which he removed only to sing. Standing behind him with the lights in my eyes, all I could see was a giant cloud of smoke.
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We’re with them: A salute to the ambitious women of the small screen
Peter Douglas | Guest writer
Pete Douglas seeks to find some light in the dark as we near the end of a horrific year, lining up some incredible TV women who have risen above The Worst Men Ever.
2016 has been a rough year, especially so for women. Between the subhuman treatment of a young woman by the Chiefs rugby team, to mass hysteria about remaking a 30-year old action/comedy movie with female leads, to that interminable bore Bono being named one of Glamour’s women of the year, you really couldn’t make this shit up.
As darkness fell last week, and the reign of blathering orange horror began in earnest, some political pundits just couldn’t help but put the boot once more into womanhood in 2016. Apparently, Hillary Clinton was a weak candidate all along, and there had been a bevy of better (predominantly white and male, surprise surprise) options available.
The subtext entirely this: a dude would have won. While it would be far too glib and simplistic to attribute the fresh hell which we now inhabit to a question of gender alone, it’s hard not to feel like it played a huge part.
And so I have decided to turn to my old friend – television – for some solace, and present some of the great female characters of the small screen who have been consistently let down by this cruel world, but have continued to survive and thrive like a seedling growing from a pile of horse manure.
Leslie Knope in Parks and Recreation
During season four of Parks and Recreation, Leslie progresses her political ambitions by running for Pawnee city council. It’s a role she is eminently qualified for, given her background in the local community and civil service. However, she comes up against Bobby Newport (expertly played by Paul Rudd). He’s an entitled, imbecilic, childlike, buffoon with no political chops, who decides to run for council on a whim.
It’s probably little wonder the Parks and Recreation writers felt it appropriate to pen a letter from Leslie following Trump’s shock triumph.
Mindy Lahiri in The Mindy Project
Inspired by creator Mindy Kaling’s own mother, who was a successful obstetrician/gynecologist, Mindy’s struggle is more subtle. Whether it is battling for career advancement or having a say in the run of the practice where she works with her male cohorts, Mindy uses her persuasive smarts to make her voice heard.
Ultimately, the age-old question of balancing a career and a family can be ignored no more. Unlike the Sandra Bullock rom-coms which our hero loves so much, The Mindy Project tackles these modern dilemmas in a much more realistic way.
Alicia Florrick in The Good Wife
Meet a successful lawyer, forced to put her blossoming career on hold to support her philandering husband Peter. After her husband is caught is implicated in an embarrassing sex scandal, which ultimately has legal ramifications, Alicia is left with nothing.
Despite a 15 year absence from the workplace, Alicia starts again at the bottom of the career ladder, and kicks butt working her way back up to the top again.
Cheryl West in Outrageous Fortune
Local hero Cheryl West kicks off Outrageous Fortune when her husband, and patriarch of the criminal West family, Wolfgang West is put in prison for four years. Over six seasons, Cheryl tries to keep the family on a straight and narrow path.
The ultimate Kiwi battler, Cheryl starts an underwear company to make ends meet, and manages to keep the rest of the West clan out of jail for the most part, despite Wolf’s best efforts to get them back into the criminal game.
Liz Lemon in 30 Rock
Liz is the creator and head writer of The Girlie Show – a fictional NBC sketch show that forms the setting for 30 Rock. When the world’s most charming misogynist Jack Donaghy hits the scene, he quickly changes the show to T.G.S. with Tracy Jordan, noting the need to attract more young male viewers to the timeslot. To use a New Zealand TV phrase, he “duked” it.
When Liz protests Jack says “I like you – you have the boldness of a much younger woman”. Blergh.
Karen van der Beek in Californication
Being Hank Moody’s long-term romantic partner is a tough gig, but especially so when you are also the mother of his child. Novelist Hank (David Duchovny) womanizes, drinks, does drugs, gets arrested and goes to jail for having sex with a minor.
Through it all is Karen (Natascha McElhone), working tirelessly protect their daughter Becca from his destructive behaviour. Now that, is the mother of all tasks.
Skyler White in Breaking Bad
As the long-suffering wife of Walter White in the Shakespearean tragedy of Breaking Bad, Skyler White is mostly kept in the dark about Walter’s terminal illness and criminal activities. Eventually, she becomes so entangled in the web of deceit herself that she doesn’t know how to extract herself and her family without acting out of pure desperation. This is Cheryl West dialled up to 11.
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How to return to Hogwarts (on your phone)
Alice Webb-Liddall | Staff writer
The latest addition to the vast and sprawling Harry Potter canon is out, and it’s a mobile game. Alice Webb-Liddall heads to Hogwarts in Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery.
Apart from a very out of character (hungover) day last weekend when I played Little Big Planet non-stop for 10 hours, I’m not much of a gamer. I get physical shoulder-straining anxiety playing any kind of shooting games and as a kid would spend two hours putting purple neons and floral decals on cars in Need for Speed that would never be raced.
Then Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery came out (at least in beta, it comes out ‘officially’ on Wednesday, as if official game release dates mean anything anymore) and I thought it might be different, as it’s available on iOS and Android and potentially distracting enough to entertain me on my train commutes. I was wrong. This game can’t be played for longer than 10 minutes at a time, and I’m so into it.
The Great Hall, where, in this game you eat a lot of sandwiches.
You begin the game by naming your character and then receiving a Hogwarts letter. Put in your own name for a hit of nostalgic excitement as a letter reading “Dear (YOUR NAME HERE), We are pleased to inform you that you have been accepted at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry” pops up on screen. Good start. My dreams have already come true.
Then you design your character from very limited options. You’ve basically got skin tone, eyes and hair to play around with. Once you’re somewhat satisfied with your look, the plot begins.
I can only assume certain characters are different depending on the gender you choose at the beginning, but the general gist is you’re a witch or wizard about to enter your first year at Hogwarts. Simple, apart from the fact your family name comes with a bit of baggage from your older brother who went a bit loopy a few years prior. You navigate the school, taking classes like potions, charms, and flying while also trying to figure out the mystery of your brother’s disappearance.
Tryna mount my broom faster than the girl next to me. Oh, it’s on Hufflepuff.
According to the game website, “Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery is set prior to Harry Potter’s arrival at Hogwarts.” And, alas, at your sorting ceremony Albus Dumbledore says Harry Potter is alive and has been taken to his aunt and uncle’s house in Surrey – a nice bit of context for the player, placing us on a timeline in the Potter universe. Harry was aged one when this happened in the story, so we can assume our character is around 1o years older than the famed wizard we all know and love.
Playing Hogwarts Mystery is essentially just tapping buttons to fill up ‘energy meters’ that improve your skills. That’s it. Once you run out of ‘energy’ you have to wait four minutes for another one. And you need an energy level of at least 15 to complete a task.
So the game actually made me put my phone down, since I used up my energy so frequently that I was basically forced to take regular breaks. There’s nothing else to do. Once you’ve mounted your broom or learnt the perfect swish and flick you’ve run out of energy and have to wait another hour or so to get enough back to complete the next lesson.
Yeah I’m top of the class, who are you?
For more focused gamers, I suspect Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery will be a bit frustrating, but given my horrendous attention span it was perfect for me.
It has all your favourite teachers, cartoonified and blocky; great depictions of the famous castle rooms; and a few ‘choose your own fate’ type dialogues where you can craft your character. It’s the kind of game you can leave for a few days and chip away at slowly without pressure.
It’s free to download so really you’ve got nothing to lose. There’s something vaguely mindful about wandering around on the grounds of a sprawling Scottish castle, and for the many who waited in lines for the next instalments of the Harry Potter story beginning over 20 years ago, it may provide a taste of the Hogwarts experience they’ve long desired.
There are hundreds of games that run with the same premise: you have energy and do tasks and follow a set plot. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery adds a sense of nostalgia to this template. People who love J.K. Rowling’s wizarding world may find joy in exploring the castle and unlocking their own mystery, but, much like the franchise’s website, Pottermore, the game may not have a whole lot of lasting power.
It’ll be huge, just like everything related to the Harry Potter franchise. For the first month or so it will top charts, but the format is nothing too special, so I’m expecting a slow fade out after that.
Once the hype for Hogwarts Mystery is dead, the books and movies will still exist. And those are definitely still amazing, after all this time.
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Max Richter - SLEEP at Shed 10 (Image: @maxrichtermusic twitter)
Summer reissue: On tiredness – Eight hours of SLEEP with Max Richter
Madeleine Chapman | Contributor
To sleep or not to sleep? Madeleine Chapman stays overnight at Max Richter’s eight-hour show and realises how tired she is.
This post was first published 17 March 2018.
Being tired is a privilege that must be earned, and I earned it for the first time as a 23-year-old.
I used to think being tired meant being sleepy. I thought being tired meant being physically exhausted. In reality, being tired isn’t a feeling or an emotion, it’s a state of being. And it’s a state of being I’ve inhabited for the past six months.
At Max Richter’s SLEEP event, an eight hour continuous performance of his album by the same name, he walks onstage at 11pm to silence. The 100 or so audience members, all sitting or lying on their makeshift beds, aren’t sure if it would be appropriate to clap. Eventually someone does and it slowly builds to a decent reception, but it’s still odd. Richter speaks for a minute, introducing what he calls “an experiment… a lullaby… a protest against our data-saturated lives”.
Known for his minimalist compositions, Richter’s work has been featured in numerous movies, most recently Arrival. His 2015 album, Sleep, was intended as an aid to sleep, with rhythms to match natural sleep cycles. This overnight event presents the full experience, though even Richter hasn’t figured out how to absorb his own work. “I don’t know what you’re supposed to do. You can listen or you can sleep, it’s up to you.”
As he sits at the piano and plays the first notes, most of the audience settles down to sleep. Some sit up to watch for a while or rearrange their bedding. I just feel tense. After listening to those same notes a thousand times since January, I only now realise my listening to Max Richter has always been accompanied by desperate, frenzied writing. In essence, hearing the opening notes to Sleep tells me that I should be stressing out, so I do.
I try to lie down and relax but instead take out a notebook and start scribbling in the dark. Good, I’m doing something productive. Tonight is just one of countless nights this year, beginning at 11pm with me trying to force some words out while blasting Richter’s repetitive compositions in my headphones.
In that time I’ve occasionally gotten an “are you okay?” from friends and colleagues, to which I would reply “just tired” without any real weight behind the words. As long as I preface my tiredness with a “just”, it doesn’t count as a complaint. I still plod around with the firm belief that were I to say “I’m tired” aloud three times, a new mum will appear to announce that I don’t even know what tired means. She’d probably be right but the cure for a headache isn’t the knowledge that others have experienced worse. It’s still a headache and it still hurts.
At 11:38pm, soprano Grace Davidson makes her first appearance. She hums a note, one I had assumed was played by some sort of flute on the album. They’re long, winding notes, and a sharp intake of breath can be heard before each one. Those deep breaths are edited out of the recording, removing any evidence of effort. Being tired is a privilege.
Setting up for the night (Image: Madeleine Chapman)
It creeps up on you, this tiredness. It begins with sleepiness. Being up all night and working the next day. There’s stress; of deadlines, quantity, word count, word quality. It’s all still normal and manageable.
Then something happens. A sickness. It’s not going to kill you but it’s added a layer to your tiredness. The irony? It was triggered by being too tired. But sickness is fine. Sickness is physical and physical ailments don’t stop the mind from working. The cure? Rest. Don’t do too much or stress too much.
Then another thing happens the very next day. Something that you in all your sickness and exhaustion and self-pity hadn’t even considered a possibility. Or perhaps you’d simply chosen to ignore its inevitability. But now it’s happened, right on time, and you’re forced to remember all the times you saw a missed call from your mum and didn’t call back.
When looking into a crystal globe and seeing your life without a loved one, everything else doesn’t matter anymore. I lost sleep over work? I boo-hooed about shingles? How silly. But then a week later the fog clears and thank god, your loved one is still there and the rest of your silly life is back in focus. You still have deadlines and a word count and shingles, and now you have to give them time and attention.
By one o’clock, most people are fast asleep or at least closing their eyes. I’m fighting to stay awake. A staunch plan to get an early night last night predictably resulted in me getting four hours’ sleep. So I had a nap after work, woke up two hours later in a panic that I’d slept through and missed the show, inhaled a lift plus and a coffee, and arrived at Shed 10 ready to stay awake all night. The event description had encouraged sleeping throughout the eight hours but to sleep would mean missing the performance. I didn’t pay $190 to miss out on the music.
Fear of missing out. The final straw on the tired camel’s back. I try to say yes to everything because I don’t want to say no and then find out that it was the greatest event to ever take place. Free movie tickets? Yes please. A concert by an artist I barely know? Sure, why not. Something interesting might happen and I want to be there when it does.
Me being at this show is a result of that fear. I couldn’t possibly miss out on such a unique event just because I’m tired. Rest when you’re dead, goes the bad crossfit slogan. It’s a sleeping event and I’m going to be even more tired at the end of it. I knew I wouldn’t regret it and I was right. But the irony isn’t lost on me.
The lullaby begins (Image: Madeleine Chapman)
At four o’clock I open my eyes and realise I’d dozed off. I’m momentarily annoyed and blink hard to wake myself up but my eyes won’t stay open. For the next two hours I’m in and out of a restless slumber, trying and failing to take in the music. Sleep is never peaceful when you don’t want it.
I told someone I was tired last month and she laughed then said: “you’ll get used to it”. Is this it? Never not being tired, just getting better at living with it? God, I hope not.
At six o’clock I come to the realisation that perhaps it’s the sleeping I’m missing out on, and the music is secondary. Of course, once I decide this, sleep eludes me. The woman on the cot next to me has been lightly snoring since 11:05 pm.
I lie on top of my sleeping bag, kept warm by my self-pity, and listen to the three violins play. The string quartet is rounded out by the world’s smallest violin playing just for me. I wonder what my mum’s doing. It’s early so she’s probably asleep. Or maybe not. She never could sleep through the night. Sixty four years of never sleeping through the night. You don’t even know what tired means.
At 6:30 I go to the bathroom, take a walk closer to the stage, marvel at Richter’s posture after seven hours of sitting at the piano, and return to my bed. The final hour of the album gets steadily more powerful to wake up the listeners. Like a fade in if a fade in took 45 minutes. Such slow but rock steady volume changes are something I never noticed or appreciated until hearing it done live. Seeing people gently wake up in the final fifteen minutes, as if on cue, is impressive. When the final, long note ends in a dense silence, there’s more hesitation before the round of applause begins. We give the small orchestra a standing ovation, but a slow one because people are literally waking up and some are still fast asleep. It’s so quiet – 100 people can’t make that much noise – and feels an inadequate response to such a marathon effort.
Max Richter’s desk. Note the sheer volume of sheet music (Image: Madeleine Chapman)
I’m still tired and should go straight home but people are lingering, hoping for a chance to speak to the musicians. I have so many questions I want to ask them. Is it harder to play the same long notes for hours on end than it is to play a more advanced composition? Do they think it’s weird that people are sleeping at their show? Are they tired?
I wait an hour with these questions, but really I wait an hour because I don’t want to leave and maybe miss an opportunity to speak with them. After all my introspection, I still can’t bear to miss out on something.
An hour passes and there’s no sign of the orchestra. I head home, spending the whole Uber ride with my eyes closed, wondering if Richter appeared the moment I left and maybe I should’ve stayed a bit longer. I have a lot to do today but it would’ve been too good an opportunity to pass up.
It’s 8:30 when I get home. I look at my messy room which I told myself I’d clean when I had time. I trip on my running shoes and remember I’m supposed to be running every morning. On the desk are 200 pages of writing I need to edit. I look at everything and press play on the album I’ve just listened to in its eight-hour entirety.
I try to sleep but sleep eludes me.
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Even in extraordinary times, the right to privacy remains
John Edwards | Guest writer
Like many other of our rights and liberties, privacy has been upended by Covid-19. Privacy commissioner John Edwards looks at the hard choices we’re about to face.
Privacy was described in a seminal 1890 essay as “the right to be let alone”. Now, in April 2020, we find ourselves instead obliged to stay alone. The enforced privacy of our lockdown bubbles is quite different to the freedom and personal autonomy the essay’s 19th century authors envisaged.
But even in this shared crisis, privacy looks different depending on who you are. Spare a thought for those in overcrowded houses, unable to find space for a private moment as out-of-work parents and uncles and grandparents line up for the bathroom alongside out-of-school children.
Think also of the imposition of a cruel and desolate privacy on the victims of the disease, living their last hours in forced separation from families, comforted by uniformed and masked health professionals, but unable to be held or heard or touched by those closest to them.
In this new reality we have sacrificed our right to freedom of association and freedom of movement. We can be stopped and questioned by police about our destination or motivation if we venture away from home. Such are the sacrifices we have all made, that now “minding your own business” has become akin to disloyalty, as we crash websites established to dob each other in for breaches of the rules.
Much has been said about our spirit of community, of common purpose, of our resilience. The prime minister has implored us to be kind, and for the most part we have. We applaud the dedication and bravery of some of the most overlooked of our workforce – the supermarket stackers, the nurses, the courier drivers. This crisis, like many others before, can bring out the best in us.
But it can also bring out the worst: the censorious, the finger-waggers, the hoarders, the profiteers, the fearful, the ignorant. Those whose self-righteousness impels them to post scornful comments online about those afflicted with the disease; the vigilantes who, rather than entrusting authorities to investigate apparent incidents of non-compliance, rush to post their judgement in the court of Facebook, or Twitter, or the comments section of their favoured blog.
Right now privacy must give way to science, and to the wider public health imperative that our response to this crisis must be driven by evidence – evidence that is also information about the spread of the disease, the success or failure of the mitigations, or about whom you have been in contact with for more than 15 minutes in the last 14 days.
Photo: Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images
As my office works with those managing the crisis, we try to stimulate reflection on the decisions currently being made using some fundamental questions informed by our privacy values:
Is the proposed use of information proportional to the problem?
Can it be reversed after the crisis passes?
In times of crisis there can be a temptation to drop any number of standards and protections. To call for the opening of databases, and for the greater sharing of information.
My predecessor left me with a mechanism created after the dust of the Canterbury earthquakes cleared: the Civil Defence National Emergencies (Information Sharing) Code 2013. The code is triggered when a state of emergency is declared, and allows agencies to disclose or use personal information for the purposes of managing the emergency, including delivering financial assistance. We are now operating under the code, so privacy concerns are currently little impediment to the appropriate management of the pandemic.
But there are limits. There have been questions about whether an agency has the right to ask a DHB if any of the clients it needs to visit have tested positive for Covid-19. Why should it have that right? The whole point of lockdown is that we are assuming everyone has the virus, and taking universal precautions to fend it off. If you take more precautions to visit a household with a confirmed case, does that mean you would drop your standards for a visit to one that might have an asymptomatic, untested, undetected carrier?
Many digital service providers hold boatloads of location information about where we’ve been, and who else has been there. Should authorities be able to access location data from Spark, Vodafone, Google, Apple and Facebook to help with contact tracing? Will it work?
Contact tracing is very resource intensive. It requires trained professionals to identify anyone who might have been exposed to a confirmed case. Technology has a role in supporting their work, but if the technological net is cast too wide, and more geolocated “contacts” are identified than those who have actually come within infectious range, there is a risk that the burden on the contact tracers will be increased, and more people than necessary diverted into further isolation.
Governments around the world are rushing to develop contact tracing apps. It is difficult to make them mandatory, because it is too easy to simply leave your phone at home if you don’t trust it. So building in privacy is essential for getting buy-in based on trust. Israel discovered this when its initiative utilising the intelligence services was ruled unlawful by the High Court.
The extraordinary Google/Apple joint initiative announced this weekend provides a solution based on good evidence. The new contact tracing technology will not allow governments to access location data about users, but it will provide an interoperable Bluetooth function that will ensure “clinically significant” contacts who are also using the app will receive a public health message once a user is tested positive.
Contact tracing apps could soon be monitoring our every move (Photo: Getty.)
Back to New Zealand. It’s important that businesses that get the wage subsidy pass it on to their employees. It makes sense to publish the names of the recipients, so employees can assist with auditing and help identify those rorting the system, or not passing the subsidy on to the staff. But what of the self-employed, the sole traders? Should their details be published also? Why should a sex worker, with no employees, be put off seeking the income assistance every other earner is entitled to, for fear of exposure? They shouldn’t.
What will privacy look like after this initial tsunami has passed, when we start heading back down through the levels? There’s a high likelihood that when you next go to a restaurant you’ll have to sign in, potentially leaving your name and contact details (required for possible future contact tracing) exposed to every subsequent patron to come in. We at the Privacy Commissioner’s office have thought about that, and give some advice here.
When life returns to whatever normal means in a few weeks’ time, privacy will still be there. Privacy is nothing if not contextual. What will we be talking about then? Will landlords be able to ask about the Covid-19 status of prospective tenants? Probably not. Will the emergency standards of security for working at home be OK once we return to business as usual? Also probably not – you might want to add passwords to those Zoom meetings and take a closer look at the T&Cs.
Will we be talking about the need for government to know where you’ve been, and who you’ve been within two metres of? I hope not.
There will be much to learn and reflect on once we are allowed back to normal life, and for years to come. Those of us who don’t like to waste a crisis will be thinking about how the new ways of doing things these past few weeks can be carried into our future. And my office will continue to measure those changes against the same standards as before: Will it work? Is it necessary? Are there better ways which better protect privacy?
Except hand washing. It looks like we’ll keep hand washing either way.
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Southampton City Council Partners with Universities to Tackle Waste Problem
By Charlotte Colombo on July 19, 2019 News
Resident associations and representatives from both UoS and Solent University were joined by senior members of Southampton City Council to praise their efforts in helping this year’s clean-up operation following the student move-out period.
Hilary Jackson, Secretary of the Outer Avenue Residents’ Association said:
This year we’ve benefitted from a joined-up-thinking group of key council staff, university reps from both the students’ unions and the establishments, residents’ associations and the Police, who have met several times to try and get this right. There seemed to be a reduction in the volume of waste being left outside properties, and the clean-up operation had the additional rubbish removed much more quickly than in previous years.
Despite reports and testimonies suggesting that the streets were strewn with rubbish following the move-out period, Southampton City Council have revealed that both universities in the city financially contributed to four additional collection crews to be sent to student residential areas.
In an article on their website, the Council also praised the University for their social media campaigns highlighting recycling, donating and waste disposal to students alongside highlighting their own online campaign.
Jon Walsh, Public Affairs Manager at the University of Southampton said:
Throughout the year, the University of Southampton and Students’ Union openly encourage students to recycle and donate unwanted items. Over recent weeks as we have approached the end of term the Students’ Union has proactively encouraged students to give everything from clothing, shoes and accessories to electrical items, crockery and homeware to the British Heart Foundation’s Pack for Good scheme. Collection points have also been set up in halls of residence for unwanted items through the Recycling on your Doorstep scheme.
Additionally, the Council noted that their Compliance Officers and HMO Licence Officers directly engaged with landlords, encouraging them to guide their student tenants to disposing their waste in the correct way or risk fixed penalty notice charges – a charge usually applied for any items left in the street or illegally dumped.
Indeed, Councillor Jacqui Rayment, Cabinet Member for Place and Transport at Southampton City Council, said:
I’d like to take this opportunity to thank all of the partner organisations and especially the collection crews for going above and beyond with all their hard work. There’s been a real partnership approach to dealing with the issue this year. We’d like to prevent the problem from happening rather than undertake enforcement action; however this is an option that is open to us for those who repeatedly fail to dispose of the rubbish properly.
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Dad slams hypocrisy after ban from autistic son’s awards
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A Sunshine Coast school has been forced to backflip on a ban that would have prevented the parents of an autistic student from attending an awards ceremony.
Sunshine Coast father, Patrick, said his 14-year-old autistic son had received an award for outstanding academic achievement but both parents were prohibited from attending the Noosa District State High ceremony because of COVID-19 rules, on Paul Murray Live.
Late today, the school overturned the ban, announcing it would allow just 50 of the 130 parents to attend.
"My son who is a special-needs child has put up with a year from hell with bullying and garbage from other students," Patrick said before the changes to the ban were announced.
"Then we get told last week he's been awarded an award for outstanding academic achievement.
"As a parent of a special needs child that is a rare moment of life and we're not even allowed to go and see it be awarded."
The emotional father said the Palaszczuk Government appeared to "reward people with money" while treating the average person like a "mushroom".
"Even one of us, my wife or I, couldn't even stand up the back with a mask on, and yet they're able to do things like have people at the Suncorp stadium, have 50,000 shoulder-to-shoulder, or the Gabba, 30,000 shoulder-to-shoulder … it doesn't make sense."
An Education Department spokesman said the school would be unable to accommodate about 670 Year 7 to 9 students and supervising staff, and all of the parents of the 135 award winners at the ceremony in the school hall "while maintaining adequate social distancing requirements".
"At this time up to approximately 50 parents will be able to attend while maintaining safe social distancing under the school's COVID safe plan," he said.
"Priority will be given to year 9 parents in the first instance and we encourage any parent who wishes to attend to contact the school."
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Home > Licensing
Licensing policies and fees
The council has established licensing policies for some of the licensing regimes it is responsible for. Some of these policies have been produced as a statutory requirement of the relevant legislation governing that particular licensing regime.
The council has also established its own fees to cover processing and determination of applications as well as ensuring compliance with the relevant licensing regime.
If you have any questions regarding licensing policies or fees after reading the information on this page, please contact the Licensing Team.
1. Licensing policies
From time to time, the council will review the policies below and, in certain circumstances, consult the public and other stakeholders on any revisions.
To view any current public consultations relating to these policies, please view the licensing consultation page, where you can also find documents about consultations that are now closed.
Licensing policy – Licensing Act 2003 - this policy sets out the licensing authority’s approach to licensing premises that sell alcohol, provide regulated entertainment or late night refreshment.
Cumulative Impact Assessment – Licensing Act 2003 (PDF, 11MB) - this assessment sets out the licensing authority’s evidence of cumulative impact within Westminster.
Statement of licensing principles – Gambling Act 2005 - this statement of principles sets out the licensing authority’s 3-year approach to licensing gambling premises and authorising other gambling activities within Westminster.
Street trading licensing policy – City of Westminster Act 1999 - this policy sets out the council’s approach to the regulation of street trading within Westminster.
Sex shop licensing policy – Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982 - this policy sets out the council’s approach to the licensing of sex shops as sex establishments within Westminster.
Sexual entertainment venues licensing policy – Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982 - this policy sets out the council’s approach to the licensing of premises which offer related entertainment, such as lap, table or pole dancing, striptease and live sex shows.
2. Licensing fees
Some licensing fees are set by statute and those fees can't be amended by the council, however the council is responsible for setting other fees to cover processing and determination of applications as well as ensuring compliance with the relevant licensing regime.
The council reviews the fees that it can set at regular intervals to ensure that the fee being charged recovers the cost of the application process and ensuring compliance.
Street trading fees
Market pitch fees
Table and chairs fees (PDF, 150KB)
Licensing Fees - which includes premises, establishments and personal licences, permits, registrations and notices.
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The Week in HD - Tuesday 7th May
By Kashfia Kabir 07 May 2013
Hello everyone, and welcome to The Week in HD – our guide to all the must-see high-definition TV shows, films, sports and Blu-ray releases to grace your screens over the next seven days. You can also get daily updates on what's on by following our twitter feed @TodayinHD.
We hope you had a lovely, sunny Bank Holiday weekend, and found time to tear yourself away from the sunshine for some TV-watching. Now that the weather's on the turn, though, you can head back inside and watch the TV Bafta Awards, an FA Cup Final, and a new episode of Doctor Who. Here's what else is on:
Elementary Sky Living HD, 9pm
A Landmark Story. The first series is nearing its finale story arc, with a series of suspects that had the potential to be the elusive criminal mastermind Moriarty. Holmes might have had a brief telephone conversation with him, but we're no closer to his real identity.
The episode isn't without some zany humour alongside the darker moments, with Acme-style murders and killer bees keeping the Holmes/Watson dynamic full of fun. Vinnie Jones reprises his role as the Arsenal-loving mercenary Sebastian Moran.
The Apprentice BBC1 HD, 9pm
Series 9 opens with 16 ambitious contestants vying for a spot as Lord Sugar's business partner with a £250,000 investment in the bag. For the first challenge, they're tasked with selling off as many items as they can from shipping containers. With a restricted timescale of midnight to 4pm, it isn't long until tempers flare and mistakes are made.
Hannibal Sky Living HD, 10pm
Aperitif. Set as a prequel, the TV series about everyone's favourite serial killer pairs up gifted FBI criminal profiler Will Graham to solve disturbing murders, with some sly nods to the good Doctor's as-yet-unreleaved real nature.
Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen (Casino Royale's baddie Le Chiffre) is charming and mesmerising as Dr Lecter, and show's elegant but dark tone draws you in. It's well worth a watch if you can stomach the grisly murder scenes, and for its superb casting of Hugh Dancy, Laurence Fishbourne, Gina Torres and Gillian Anderson.
Chelsea v Tottenham Hotspur Sky Sports HD1 & 3D, 7.45pm
Mad Men Sky Atlantic HD, 10pm
For Immediate Release. Old clients fired, new clients taken on, a merger on the horizon, an awkward run-in with a father-in-law – it's an eventful episode for the SCDP players. With Peggy and Don potentially working together again, it'll be interesting to see how they clash after a certain press release is published…
The Politician's Husband BBC2 HD, 9pm
The three-part drama comes to a dramatic and scandalous end, with both Aidan and Freya harbouring secrets that threaten both their political and marital lives. Will Aidan be able to plot a successful comeback? Starring David Tennant, Emily Watson and Roger Allam.
Would I Lie To You? BBC1 HD, 8.30pm
The comedy panel show based on truths and lies have a distinguished guest in their company tonight: actor Charles Dance, aka Game of Thrones's Tywin Lannister.
Not Going Out BBC1 HD, 9.30pm
Rachel. Lee finally takes some initiative in making Lucy notice him and his feelings for her – and decides the best course to take is to make her jealous, of course.
Saturday 11th May
Aston Villa v Chelsea Sky Sports HD2, 12.45pm
Wigan Athletic v Manchester City ITV HD, 5.15pm
Wigan Atheltic make their first ever-appearance in an FA Cup Final, but they're up against the richest club in the game. It's sure to be an interesting match.
Doctor Who BBC1 HD, 7pm
Nightmare in Silver. Neil Gaiman is the writer tasked with making the cybermen scary again, and he picks the perfect setting to do so: Hedgewick's World of Wonders, the universe's greatest amusement park.
But the theme park is shut down and abandoned, and the Doctor's old foes the Cybermen have returned, cleverer and more dangerous than before. Check out the trailer above for a sneak peek at Saturday's episode.
The Star Trek Story BBC2 HD, 8.05pm
With Star Trek into Darkness finally making its way to our giant cinema screens, it's only logical that a documentary exploring the cultural impact of this genre-defining sci-fi series was due shortly. It also chronicles the show's history through several different TV incarnations and films, and features nostaligic contributions from Sir Patrick Stewart (Captain Picard), Leonard Nimoy (Mr Spock), and Nichelle Nichols (Lt Uhura).
Sunday 12th May
Formula 1: The Spanish Grand Prix BBC1 HD, 12.10pm
The 2013 F1 season heads to Europe, with the Circuit de Catalunya set for more action as Sebastian Vettel aims for another win at the Barcelona race track, while Lewis Hamilton hopes for his first Spanish win with his new team.
The British Academy Television Awards BBC1 HD, 8pm
The TV Baftas are one of the best awards nights, celebrating some fantastic British comedy, drama and factual TV shows. Graham Norton hosts the glam event from the Royal Festival Hall, London, with the Olympics and Paralympics coverage up for awards.
'Til next week…
By Kashfia Kabir
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Song Premiere: The Good Graces Search for Answers on 'Crickets'
By Bobbie Jean Sawyer 2 years
Maigh Houlihan
Atlanta, Georgia-based folk collective The Good Graces seek closure on the enchanting "Crickets" from their forthcoming album Prose and Consciousness (out on October 11).
Kim Ware, who started the collective in 2006, says the song addresses the pain of having conflict with someone you care about.
"This song is about overthinking a conflict you have with someone really close to you, wanting to fix it, but having no idea how," Ware says. "Wondering how it even happened to start with, and just feeling so much disappointment -- almost like you're watching a movie about yourself because the whole thing seems so surreal and from out of nowhere. It's a very real story, and at the time seemed very all-consuming. It was like I was spinning, and replaying it in my mind each day, coming up with things I should have said, writing letters ... trying anything to just help me process it. Ultimately I had to realize that a big reason I was so disappointed was that I had placed the other person on such a high pedestal. But the song itself became really cathartic, writing it on my porch, as I sat listening to the crickets. At that point, I was just so exhausted by the whole thing, I just wanted someone to 'show me the door' so I could find a way out."
Ware says the song's sparse arrangement captures the cathartic message of the song.
"We were definitely going for a more open, airy vibe with this one -- when I first wrote it, the acoustic part was super jangly and a little too busy; I always play pretty percussively but really worked to scale that back just a bit, enough to give it a more organic and airy feel but also making sure it still had something driving everything from underneath," Ware says. "It was super fun working this one up with the band -- I loved Jonny's sparse guitar lines and whenever we'd practice it, I'd end up being reminded of Springsteen circa 'I'm on Fire,' which is definitely a different reference point compared to most of my other songs. We had Chad add his little tinkly piano parts at the very end, and that was the icing on the cake, at least for me -- listening to him play was such a joy!"
Listen to "Crickets" below.
For more information on the Good Graces, visit their official website.
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Intel introduces the all-new Intel Iris Xe Max Discrete GPU for slim laptops for up to 7 times the GPU performance.
By Ramana Rishi
Image Credit: xda-developers.com
Intel has recently launched the all-new range of Xe graphics architecture for slim laptops which will be used with their 11th generation Tiger Lake CPU’s. The company has announced that since laptops built with the new Tiger Lake processors are currently being sold in the market, some of them will also be shipped with the new discrete GPU Intel Iris Xe Max. The new Intel Iris Xe Max can be used to increase the graphic performance of slim laptops and accelerate the AI-based and computer-intensive tasks.
The name of the new GPU was first leaked when Intel included the product badge in a presentation of its brand identify overhaul in September. Now the same has also appeared in the listing of many laptop manufacturers, one of them being ACER. The new GPU is based on the same Xe-LP GPU, which has been integrated into the 11th gen tiger Lake processors. The new GPU has been targeted at thin and light laptops which works in conjunction with the integrated GPU and is enabled through a framework called the Deep Link.
The Deep-link framework will also dynamically manage power and thermal headroom between the CPU and GPU, which would result in a 20% improvement in CPU performance. As per the details from intel, the new GPU architecture is supposed to be 7 times faster and better in AI-based content creation. It features up to 96 execution units and reaches a maximum clock speed of 1.65GHz. It is based on Intel’s 10nm SuperFin transistor technology and can leverage PCIe 4.0 speed to connect to the CPU, and has 4GB of LPDDR4X memory with a bandwidth of 68GBps.
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Fiction > Modern & contemporary fiction
What Women Want (Paperback)
Fanny Blake (author)
A heartwarming and witty novel about female friendships and how they will outlast any man from the author of The Secrets Women Keep
Bea, Kate and Ellen have always known that they can depend on each other, no matter what. But as each reaches a new phase in their life, their bond is put to the test.
Recently-divorced Bea's job is in jeopardy as she grapples with a new boss and her power-hungry younger colleagues. At home she has to deal with a stroppy teenage son and the gaping hole left by her ex-husband. Feisty, impulsive and never one to give up, she throws herself back onto the dating scene. Her friends will hold her steady.
Stressed-out Kate contends with an empty nest now that her children have left home, a frantic pace at work as a GP and the growing realisation that her marriage has definitely lost its shine. Reliable, hard-working, how can she find the energy to keep going? At least her friends will lift her spirits.
Then Ellen, who has devoted herself to her two children and her small art gallery for the last ten years since her beloved husband died, falls head over heels in love with Oliver.
When Oliver forces Ellen to re-evaluate everything about herself and her future, so Bea and Kate are driven further away from their friend and from each other as they react differently to this unfamiliar stranger in their midst.
A novel about love and life and the issues that face women today as they try to decide what they want - and come to realise what they really need...
'What Women Want is like having a long, funny and fascinating conversation with your very best friends and becoming deeply involved in their lives, families and love affairs.' PENNY VINCENZI
'Women take heart. Here is a novelist who understands exactly the comedy, absurdities and frustrations of your lives. A delicious read.' ELIZABETH BUCHAN
'A thoughtful, funny and warm read, full of wry and well-observed detail.' DAILY MAIL
'It's amazing to think that this is a debut. The prose is wonderfully bright and crisp, the characterisation brims with life, and the plotting is full of suspense and pace.' DAILY MIRROR
'[A] warm, funny read.' MARIE CLAIRE
'Full of insight with a sharp wit, this is about real women in realistic situations, entertaining and thought provoking. Kept me reading far too late.' KATIE FFORDE
'Wise, warm, funny and wonderfully observant.' CATHY KELLY
'Smart, funny, and uncannily like having your mind read.' ROSIE THOMAS
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April weather forecast and climate
Ibadan, Nigeria
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Weather in Abril
Average temperature in April
Average humidity in April
Average rainfall in April
Average rainfall days in April
Average daylight in April
Average sunshine in April
Abril, like Marzo, is another tropical spring month in Ibadan, Nigeria, with average temperature ranging between max 33°C (91.4°F) and min 23°C (73.4°F).
In Abril, the average high-temperature is practically the same as in Marzo - a still tropical 33°C (91.4°F). In Abril, the average low-temperature is 23°C (73.4°F).
The average heat index is appraised at a blazing hot 47.2°C (117°F). Beware - heat cramps and heat exhaustion are very likely. Heatstroke is imminent with prolonged activity.
Note that heat index values are valued for light wind and location in the shade. Exposure to direct sunshine can increase heat index values by up to 15 Fahrenheit (8 Celsius) degrees.
Note: The heat index, also known as 'apparent temperature', 'real feel', 'feels like', or 'felt air temperature', is calculated by taking the relative humidity value for a specific location and factoring it into the air temperature reading. Additional factors like activity, pregnancy, wind, and differences in body mass, height, and shape affect individual temperature impact. Bear in mind that direct sunshine exposure increases weather impact, and may raise heat index by up to 15 Fahrenheit (8 Celsius) degrees. Heat index values are particularly important for children. Young children are generally more endangered than adults, as they usually less sweat. And also, due to larger skin surface relative to their small bodies and higher heat production as a result of their activity.
The human body normally cools itself by perspiration. Excessive warmth is eliminated from the body by evaporation of sweat. With a lot of moisture in the air, the evaporation process is not as effective, and the body does not cool down as efficiently, creating a perception of overheating. When heat gain exceeds the level the body can remove, body temperature begins to rise, and heat-related illnesses and disorders may develop.
The average relative humidity in Ibadan is 78%.
In Abril, in Ibadan, Nigeria, the rain falls for 9 days. Throughout Abril, 125mm (4.92") of precipitation is accumulated. Throughout the year, in Ibadan, there are 94 rainfall days, and 1121mm (44.13") of precipitation is accumulated.
The average length of the day in Abril is 12.3h.
In Ibadan, the average sunshine in Abril is 5.7h.
What is the temperature in Abril in Ibadan?
In Ibadan, Nigeria, in Abril, the average high-temperature is 33°C (91.4°F), and the average low-temperature is 23°C (73.4°F). In Abril, the average heat index (a.k.a. 'feels like', 'felt air temperature'), that factores the actual air temperature with the relative humidity, is estimated at 47.2°C (117°F).
What is the average humidity in Abril in Ibadan?
In Abril, the average relative humidity is 78%.
How much does it rain in Ibadan in Abril?
In Ibadan, Nigeria, in Abril, during 9 rainfall days, 125mm (4.92") of precipitation is typically accumulated.
How many hours of daylight does Ibadan have in Abril?
In Ibadan, Nigeria, the average length of the day in Abril is 12.3h.
How many hours of sunshine does Ibadan have in Abril?
In Ibadan, Nigeria, the average sunshine in Abril is 5.7h.
Average high temperature in April: 33°C
Warmest months (with the highest average high temperature) are February and March (34°C).
The month with the lowest average high temperature is August (27°C).
Average low temperature in April: 23°C
Months with the highest average low temperature are March and April (23°C).
Coldest months (with the lowest average low temperature) are January, July, August and December (21°C).
Average humidity in April: 78%
Months with the highest relative humidity are July and August (88%).
The month with the lowest relative humidity is February (71%).
Average rainfall in April: 125mm
The wettest month (with the highest rainfall) is September (170mm).
The driest month (with the lowest rainfall) is January (8mm).
Average rainfall days in April: 9 days
The month with the highest number of rainy days is September (15 days).
Months with the lowest number of rainy days are January and December (1 days).
Average daylight in April /
Average daylight in April: 12.3h
Average sunshine in April: 5.7h
The month with most sunshine is February (Average sunshine: 7.1h).
The month with least sunshine is August (Average sunshine: 1.8h).
Weather Atlas: Ibadan, Nigeria - April weather forecast and climate information. Ibadan, Nigeria - April weather averages including high and low temperatures, humidity, rainfall, snowfall, daylight, sunshine, UV index, and sea temperature. [1556779]
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Titans agree to terms with 2nd round pick Kristian Fulton
by: Cory Curtis
Posted: Jul 27, 2020 / 07:28 PM CDT / Updated: Aug 3, 2020 / 09:35 AM CDT
OXFORD, MISSISSIPPI – NOVEMBER 16: Kristian Fulton #1 of the LSU Tigers in action during a game against the Mississippi Rebels at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium on November 16, 2019 in Oxford, Mississippi. (Photo by Jonathan Bachman/Getty Images)
The Tennessee Titans locked up another draft pick Monday agreeing to terms with second round pick Kristian Fulton.
The Titans made the cornerback from LSU the 61st pick of the draft in April. Fulton played 28 games at LSU totaling 25 passes defended and two interceptions. He earned 2nd team All-SEC honors helping lead the Tigers to a National Championship.
First round pick Isaiah Wilson from Georgia is the only Titan draft pick who has not agreed to terms.
Titan rookies could start reporting to St. Thomas Sports Park Monday after going through two round of Covid-19 testing Thursday and Sunday.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Linebacker Henry To’o To’o, running back Eric Gray, linebacker Quavaris Crouch and offensive lineman Jahmir Johnson all entered the NCAA transfer portal Wednesday, two days after Tennessee fired coach Jeremy Pruitt and nine others.
Tennessee spokesman Bill Martin confirmed all four had entered the transfer portal. The players all entered their names in a 27-minute span.
by Kayla Anderson / Jan 20, 2021
Nashville, Tenn. (WKRN)- In this edition of Sports Extra Daily, News 2's Kayla Anderson and Cory Curtis discuss the daily sports headlines including; the Sports Writers of America naming Tennessee Titans running back Offensive Player of the Year, quarterback Philip Rivers retires and Tennessee Volunteers will continue to pay Phillip Fulmer after retirement.
Nashville, Tenn. (WKRN)- It didn't take long for the Nashville Predators' 2020-21 schedule to be altered a bit. Tuesday's game against the Carolina Hurricanes was postponed after the team announced that five players had been placed on the NHL's COVID Protocol Related Absence list.
While that game will likely be rescheduled for sometime later this season, the Predators are now focused on moving forward, gearing up for their first road trip of the season.
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Mills Sawmilling
TP&EE announces 15 workshop presentations
By Maria Church
Aug. 8, 2016 - Timber Processing & Energy Expo this fall will include a lumber manufacturing workshop with 15 presentations on topics such as saw filing, scanning and profiling.
“There’s a great range of topics in this workshop,” show director Rich Donnell said in a news release. “We’ll basically have two meeting rooms going on simultaneously with presentations during the morning and afternoon. You can’t beat what you’ll get for the cost.”
TP&EE, taking place this year Sept. 28-30 at the Portland Exposition Center in Portland, Ore., is produced by Hatton-Brown Expositions, LLC, an affiliate of Timber Processing and Panel World magazines.
Lumber manufacturing workshop schedule:
Room I
9:30 a.m.—Automation in the Filing Room, Justin Williams, CEO, Williams and White
10:00 a.m.—Automated Leveling and Tensioning for Saw Plate, Matt Tulleners, Territory Manager/Intermountain Region, Simonds International
10:30 a.m.—Computerized Vibration Analysis of Circular Saw Tension, Jason Allen, V.P. of Sales, Burton Saw and Supply
11:00 a.m.—Saw Guide Maintenance for Dummies, Mike West, Head Filer, Cascade Hardwood
Noon-1:25 p.m. TP&EE Exhibits, Lunch on Your Own
Room II
9:30 a.m.—Use Scanning to Turn Your Edger into a Lean, Mean, Money-Making Machine, Joey Nelson, President, JoeScan
10:00 a.m.—The Latest Profiling Technologies, Ron McGehee, R&D New Product Development, Bid Group
10:30 a.m.—Latest Technologies at the Sawmill & Planer Mill, Yvan Rainville, Vice-President Sales & Marketing, Autolog
11:00 a.m.—GradeScan-Built for the Future, Ellen Nelson, CFO, Ryan Shear, Software Engineer, Lucidyne Technologies
1:30 p.m.—Automatic Log Scaling and Processing, Norvin Laudon, Chief Technology Officer, Springer Microtec
2:00 p.m.—Big Data and The Connected Mill, Rory Armes, CEO, Bill Harrison, Director of Production, Cumul8 Technologies
2:30 p.m.—Innovative Ripsawing Technology, Scanning & Optimizing, Dr. Stefan Möhringer, Managing Director, Simon Möhringer Engineering GmbH
3:00 p.m.—Pellets: How to Get More from Your Wood Chips and Sawdust, Forcus Martinez, Mechanical Engineer, Prodesa
1:30 p.m.—Technological Advances in Hydraulics and Controls, Richard Vetter, Vice-President, AMS Solutions, Rodney Trail, Industry Sector Manager Wood & Paper, Bosch Rexroth Canada
2:00 p.m.—Closed Loop Control with Second Derivative Gain Saves the Day, Peter Nachtwey, President, Delta Computer Systems
2:30 p.m.—Equipment Safety Certification for Class II (Wood Dust) Environments, Vivek Prasad, Hazardous Locations Team Lead, Casey Trimble, Account Manager, Intertek
Cost of the Lumber Manufacturing Workshop is $75, which includes access to any of the presentations, a three-day pass to the expo exhibits, and a beer and brat ticket for the expo Beer Garden.
TP&EE will feature more than 200 equipment and technology exhibitors and more than 60,000 square feet of exhibit space. The event caters to primary producers of lumber, plywood and engineered wood products.
To read more about the presentations and the expo, and to register, visit www.timberprocessingandenergyexpo.com
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3 arrested after boat washes ashore on Palm Beach
Police search for more suspects
Updated: 12:26 PM EDT Oct 22, 2012
Ted White
Three people were taken into custody after a small boat washed ashore near Palm Beach on Monday. (Photo: Ted White/WPBF)
Three people are in custody after a boat washed ashore on Palm Beach early Monday morning.Palm Beach police officials said they got a call at about 7:30 a.m. about an abandoned boat near the 900 block of North Ocean Boulevard.More From WPBF: Email alerts | Mobile | SocialWhen officers arrived, they found a 21-foot console boat, but there was no one in sight.Border Patrol agents found three people a few blocks away. The men told investigators they were from the Dominican Republic, adding that there was a total of seven people on the boat.View, Share Breaking Photos On WPBF.com's u local:9146236
PALM BEACH, Fla. —
Three people are in custody after a boat washed ashore on Palm Beach early Monday morning.
Palm Beach police officials said they got a call at about 7:30 a.m. about an abandoned boat near the 900 block of North Ocean Boulevard.
More From WPBF: Email alerts | Mobile | Social
When officers arrived, they found a 21-foot console boat, but there was no one in sight.
Border Patrol agents found three people a few blocks away. The men told investigators they were from the Dominican Republic, adding that there was a total of seven people on the boat.
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Poetry Commotion: Big Donation Roils A Literary Bastion
Ms. Lilly's $100 Million Gift
Shakes Up Staid Journal;
Prosaic Issues Writ Large
By Robert FrankStaff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Dec. 8, 2003 12:01 am ET
"If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money."
CHICAGO -- The first sign of trouble for Poetry magazine came with the Wall Street money managers.
Last year, when the fabled 90-year-old journal announced that it was getting a gift of $100 million -- the largest single donation ever to a literary institution -- editors were flooded with calls and letters from new fans of verse. Wealth managers from Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch offered investment advice. Real-estate agents came by pushing office towers and luxury homes. A group called "America Scores," which promotes literacy through soccer, proposed a joint venture.
Poets around the country penned pleas for loans. "I think three or four hundred thousand would help get us back on our feet," Georgia poet laureate David Bottoms joked in one letter. "What are friends for?"
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Knife-wielding carjacking suspect shot by Texas deputy, off-duty police commander
February 20, 2020 at 11:43 AM EST - Updated February 21 at 1:40 AM
HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK/CNN) – A carjacking suspect was shot multiple times by a deputy and an off-duty Houston police commander Wednesday.
Video shows officials chasing the suspect through a parking lot as he pulls out a knife.
"His eyes, you could tell he was a very angry person,” said witness Cody Vaughn. “He was ready to hurt somebody."
The suspect was taken to a hospital and is expected to survive. A deputy suffered a wrist injury in the incident.
Deputies said they were initially called to a Popeyes restaurant for reports of a suspicious person. When they arrived and tried to approach the man, he took off running.
Authorities said the suspect then tried to carjack several people in the area. Officers tried to stun him with a stun gun several times, but they were unsuccessful.
He eventually ended up inside an LA Fitness gym.
"When he ran through the LA Fitness, he was wielding the knife erratically, and he was running towards anybody that was close enough to him," Vaughn said. "The gentleman at the front desk screamed, 'There's a guy with a knife, run!’”
Authorities said an off-duty police commander was inside the gym at the time and rushed to help capture the suspect.
The suspect eventually came out of the gym, which is when Vaughn captured the video.
Authorities said the suspect again ran from officers, but then he turned around and charged them. That’s when officers shot him.
Vaughn said the officers’ actions likely saved a lot of people from a dangerous situation.
Copyright 2020 KTRK via CNN. All rights reserved.
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Civic Theatre releases 2018-19 schedule
By Current Publishing on April 28, 2018 Entertainment News
The Booth Tarkington Civic Theatre’s 2018-2019 Season opens Oct. 12 with the Cole Porter classic “Anything Goes,” it was announced April 27. The performances will run through Oct. 27 in The Tarkington at the Center for the Performing Arts in Carmel.
The rest of the schedule include “Mary Poppins” from Dec. 7 to Dec. 29, followed by ’To Kill a Mockingbird,” Feb. 8 to Feb. 23, 2019, “The Importance of Being Earnest (in The Studio Theater, only show not in The Tarkington) March 22 to April 6 and “Disney’s Newsies,” April 26 to May 11.
“Newsies’ will be the Central Indiana community premiere of the stage adaptation of the movie musical.
For more, visit civictheatre.org.
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Inside this Special Feature
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A conversation about the challenges and vulnerabilities facing some of the world's most critical network infrastructure.
By Greg Nichols | April 15, 2020 -- 11:00 GMT (04:00 PDT) | Topic: Coronavirus: Business and technology in a pandemic
Hospitals rely on wired and wireless networks to provide the backbone of mission-critical medical resources like smartbeds, monitors, EMRs, smart tablets, and telehealth. That backbone is being tested in ways it never has before, and the stakes couldn't be higher.
Medical providers and hospitals are being forced to rapidly redesign systems to respond to the pandemic, and when it comes to the network they must consider issues ranging from physical security to remote network access for offsite IT professionals.
I had a chance to speak with Roger Sands, CEO of Wyebot, a provider of wifi assurance to healthcare networks, about the challenges and vulnerabilities of some of the most critical network infrastructure in the world. His insights help illustrate steps that organizations of all types can begin taking with respect to their critical networks.
GN: Why is physical security so important when it comes to vital back end networks?
Roger Sands: A physically secure data center is crucial to hospital facilities and healthcare networks because it houses important, confidential information, like patient records, HIPAA requirements, hospital payroll and more. The network can also be considered the backbone of the entire hospital, as telehealth tools, smartbeds, devices that monitor vitals, EMRs, smart tablets and more, need to be connected in order to function properly. In efforts to battle the coronavirus, healthcare facilities are setting up dual locations, testing centers, labs and popup clinics, which opens opportunities for holes in the security process, which can lead to the wrong person gaining access to the typically secured data center.
At the top is the CIO, but on a day-to-day basis, it is the IT team that is responsible. When there's a pandemic, it's all hands-on deck, but hospital IT must be cautious about who has access to the backend network because it only takes one person to do detrimental damage. Policies should not be softened and the checks and balances need to be kept in place.
GN: What steps can healthcare organizations and hospitals take to shore up physical security?
Roger Sands: Strict guidelines, as always need to be implemented. You cannot lax standards. During a time like this, hospitals are dealing with a lot of moving parts, but network access must remain tight!
GN: How do, say, personal devices come into play? Can they introduce unexpected burden on critical network infrastructure in hospitals?
Roger Sands: WiFi is an unlicensed and shared technology. As more personal devices come into the hospital, generally they'll join the "guest" network. Due to the coronavirus, hospitals are increasing staff and adding shifts, bringing even more personal devices onto the network - not just phones, but tablets, smart watches and other wearables. Even if they're on the "guest" network, the airwave is still shared, meaning these devices will compete -- and possibly interfere -- with mission-critical healthcare devices, like ventilators, defibrillators and all other hospital equipment that is reliant on the network.
Ideally, they should be segmented into different frequency bands. In a perfect world, the mission critical devices will be segmented onto the 5GHz band, while personal devices are segmented to the 2.4Ghz band. The problem in healthcare is that there are too many legacy devices that aren't able to function properly on the 5GHz band.
Hospital IT should also have visibility into the network so that they can see what is accessing the network and how much bandwidth certain devices are taking up. With visibility, IT has the ability to track trends and utilization, so that they have an idea of where bandwidth needs to be allocated and what kind of policies need to be mandated in order to keep healthcare flawless.
GN: Is it possible to regulate personal device use of network assets?
Roger Sands: Personal devices can be regulated through policies that control bandwidth, allocating a fixed amount per user. During a pandemic, those policies should be tightened. Data analytics should provide IT with a roadmap to policies that make sense during these turbulent times.
GN: How long will it take hospital systems that haven't had to access their networks remotely to build the tools necessary to do so?
Roger Sands: There are remote monitoring analysis solutions available that can plug into the network and within ten minutes, provide remote access so that IT can safely access the systems. With the coronavirus, the issues is that access to certain areas is limited, so getting into the physical network may be an issue, but, with the proper tool, you'll only need access once to plug in the technology.
GN: What's at stake when it comes to ensuring IT pros can seamlessly access networks remotely and quickly?
Roger Sands: Time. If mission-critical devices go down, IT doesn't have time to physically access the network. They need to start troubleshooting immediately, because every second that goes by could result in a patient not getting the resources they need.
Everything is strained during a health crisis. There's an increase in patients, doctors and nurses, but a decrease in all other hospital staff due to travel restrictions and work from home policies, including IT. IT that is onsite, is being pulled into all different directions, and maintaining the network is only one part of their job. It's crucial that their focus remains on providing doctors and nurses with what they need to treat patients, but because additional requirements are being pushed onto them, it can be difficult to focus on the healthcare.
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B-17G-40-DL #44-6096 "Lady Courageous" Code: A
388th BG - 562nd BS - 8th AF
destroyed by fire after a crash landing at Knettishall 29 July 1944.
The crew all escaped
8th Air Force
Eighth Air Force Bomber Command became the Eighth Air Force on February 1944, it oversaw bombardment of strategic targets in Europe until 1945. ...
The 388th Bomb Group flew strategic bombing mission from Knettishall, Suffolk from June 1943 to the end of the war. During this time, though, detachments were sent to Fersfield, Norfolk to conduct Aphrodite missions. In these Aphrodite missions veteran...
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44-6096 Lady Courageous
Delivered Tulsa 1/5/44; Kearney 10/5/44; Grenier 24/5/44; Assigned 560BS/388BG Knettishall 27/6/44; Destroyed at base 29/7/44 after raid on Mersberg; 9RTD; LADY COURAGEOUS. Aircraft struck at dispersal after landing by another B-17 from Fersfield. JC...
Knettishall
Knettishall was built to Class A standard for an American Bomb Group that would be bringing up to forty heavy bombers with them in three or four Squadrons. The 388th Bomb Group, which stayed at Knettishall for their entire service in the ETO, flew B-17...
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Gilbert, on Cases in Law and Equity, London, 1760 1
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[March 30, 2010] WASHINGTON (AP) -- NASA and the National Academy of Sciences are joining the government's effort to figure out what caused the sudden acceleration problems that led to Toyota's massive recalls.
NASA scientists with expertise in electronics will help the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration study potential electronic ties to unintended acceleration in Toyotas. NASA's knowledge of electronics, computer hardware and software and hazard analysis will ensure a comprehensive review, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said Monday.
In a separate study, the National Academy of Sciences will examine unwanted acceleration and electronic vehicle controls in cars from around the auto industry, LaHood said. The National Academy is an independent organization chartered by Congress.
The academy study, expected to take 15 months, will review acceleration problems and recommend how the government can ensure the safety of vehicle electronic control systems.
"We believe their outside expertise, fresh eyes and fresh research perhaps can tell us if electronics have played a role in these accelerations," LaHood said.
Toyota has recalled more than 8 million vehicles worldwide, including 6 million in the United States. Toyota said in a statement it was "confident in our vehicles and in our electronics" and would cooperate with the government review.
"These studies are just the kind of science-based examination we have been calling for. Bringing some sunshine to this subject is bound to separate fact from fiction, which will be good for Toyota, the industry and the motoring public," the company said.
LaHood has told Congress the department will dig deeply into what has caused hundreds of complaints of unwanted acceleration in Toyotas.
LaHood said he has asked the Transportation Department inspector general to review whether NHTSA's Office of Defects Investigation has what it needs to identify and address safety defects.
Some lawmakers have criticized NHTSA for failing to investigate Toyota complaints earlier and more thoroughly.
"Carmakers have entered the electronics era, but NHTSA seems stuck in a mechanical mindset," House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman, D-Calif., said last month. "We need to make sure the federal safety agency has the tools and resources it needs to ensure the safety of the electronic controls and on-board computers that run today's automobiles."
Toyota has attributed the problem to sticking gas pedals and accelerators that can become jammed in floor mats, and has cited no evidence of an electrical problem. The company has noted that other manufacturers also have had reports of cars surging forward.
Consumer groups contend electronics could be the culprit, and dozens of Toyota owners who had their cars fixed in the recall have complained of more problems with their vehicles surging forward unexpectedly. Regulators have linked 52 deaths in Toyotas to crashes allegedly caused by accelerator problems.
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Reviews of some recent high-profile crashes have failed to find a mechanical or electronic problem.
A police investigation of a March 9 accident in suburban New York involving a 2005 Prius found that the driver, not the car, was to blame. Tests following a March 8 incident in San Diego in which a driver reported the gas pedal on his 2008 Prius got stuck, leading to a 94 mph ride on a freeway, found that the hybrid's gas pedal, backup safety system and electronics were working fine.
NHTSA's review of Toyota's electronic throttle control systems is expected to be completed by late summer. The safety agency, with NASA's help, is looking at electronic systems used in Toyotas and whether they have flaws that would warrant a defect investigation.
The National Academy of Sciences' National Research Council will review industry and government efforts to identify possible sources of unintended acceleration, including electronic vehicle controls, human error, mechanical failure and interference with accelerator systems.
The experts will look at software, computer hardware design, electromagnetic compatibility and electromagnetic interference. They will make recommendations to NHTSA in mid-2011 on how the government agency's rulemaking, research and defect investigations could help ensure the safety of vehicle electronic control systems.
The two studies together will cost about $3 million, including the expense of buying cars that have allegedly had unintended acceleration. Both studies will be peer reviewed by scientific experts, the Transportation Department said.
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration:
http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/
National Academy of Sciences:
http://www.nas.edu/
[Associated Press; By KEN THOMAS]
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All Hail Bubba! Why You Should Swing Down to the Star Bar for the Best Rockabilly/Roots Family Reunion on the Planet Every Memorial Day Weekend
Posted on: May 22nd, 2013 By: Anya99
Spike Fullerton plays an early Bubbapalooza. Clipping courtesy of Spike Fullerton.
By Eve Wynne-Warren
Bubbapolooza is a celebration of American roots music held every Memorial Day weekend at the Star Community Bar in Little 5 Points. This year marks the 22nd year that friends, fans and family have gathered together to hear some of the best rockabilly, country and rock music around, and the line-up is mighty exciting. On Friday May 24 starting at 8 p.m., hear The Belmont Playboys, Hi-Test, Ghost Riders Car Club, Blacktop Rockets, AM Gold and Slim Chance & the Convicts. Then on Saturday May 25 with doors at 4 p.m. (music at 5), the roster includes an even bigger herd of ATLRetro Kool Kats such as Caroline & the Ramblers, Cletis & His City Cousins, and Grim Rooster, plus Nashville’s The Billygoats, with Jason Ringenberg (of Jason and the Scorchers), Ohio’s The Twistin’ Tarantulas, Jimbo Mathus & The Tri-State Coalition up from Missississippi, El Capitan & The Band With No Name (surf meets Ennio Morricone!) and McPherson Struts. And that’s not to mention a triad of surf bands – Kill, Baby, Kill, The Intoxicators and The Mystery Men? – downstairs in the Little Vinyl Lounge.
There used to be a bumper sticker adorning the rear of many an Atlanta vehicle that read, “The Star Bar, where things go Twang in the night.” The gracious booking agents who have worked the offices there over the years have, as any live venue does, varied the types of bands and shows offered since the doors opened on Halloween, 1991. However, few other Atlanta venues have been so inclined to offer as much Roots Americana as the Star. It’s not what you’d think of a swank place to “be seen”; it’s a Honky Tonk. People come there for the music. I’ve always enjoyed the fact that you didn’t have to be a certain age, race or one of the “beautiful people” to feel at home there…just love the music. That is the essence of Bubbapolooza, which was founded by Cabbagetown songwriter/guitarist Gregory Dean Smalley. Since Greg passed away from AIDS in the mid-1990s, every Bubba has been dedicated to him and the Boones Farm toast to his legacy is always an emotional moment. This year’s event also pays tribute to the memory of Earl Maddox, another Bubba godfather who passed away from cancer last year. Earl drummed for a slew of bands such as the Diggers, the Convicts and Gregory Dean and the Bubbamatics, and lately had been a character actor in movies. [Ed. note: read a companion story about Earl here and check out our 20th anniversary retrospective for some more history.].
This year ATLRetro decided to catch up with some Star Bar regular suspects, musicians and fans to give those “Bubba virgins” an idea of what it’s all about.
“My goal for this year’s booking of Bubbapalooza was to have a few more regional and national acts to go along with our great regulars and keep the spirit of the event alive,” says Bryan Malone, who does the booking for the Star Bar. “We have more touring acts this year than in the past few years. With Twistin’ Tarantulas, Jason Ringenberg and Jimbo Mathus, I feel we’ve done that.
One of the things that makes this event special is that it is a chance for some of the older fans to come out,” he adds. “Bubbapalooza is almost like a Star Bar family reunion. It’s the one time of year that we see faces and groups from the days of the club’s inception having a great time and enjoying great music. It is not uncommon to hear the phrase “Happy Bubba” throughout the course of the weekend. This year as always, we donate a portion of the proceeds to the family of Gregory Dean Smalley who created Bubbapalooza. But this past year we lost an old friend when Earl Maddox passed, so we will also be doing something special in honor of him and his family. The whole thing is a family reunion with great friends and great music. There ain’t much else like it anywhere. Happy Bubba!”
Richard “Spike” Fullerton currently plays with Ghost Riders Car Club, on the Friday Bubba playlist, and in the first few Bubbas, with the HotPoint Rangers and later Kingsized, or so he thinks. “My memories are pretty dim,” Spike admits. “The first one, as I barely recall, was very much about humor and the feeling that Atlanta had a pretty good crop of young players in a genre that was on the way back. In the few years I’d been here the rockabilly/country scene had been evolving out of second rate clubs and into better venues. It felt like a sort of coming-out party that our music was vibrant enough to have a club to call our own. The Star Bar really became something vaguely akin to The Ace or Dingwalls in London, where our group just would naturally go there first and check who’s on the marquee later. I really feel fortunate to have had that moment in my musical career. One of my very first gigs back after work had kept me away was with the Ghost Riders Car Club at Bubbapalooza. It’s a very gratifying experience to come back to old friends in a familiar place, and find you’ve still got something to say to each other, musically and spiritually. I thoroughly enjoy the festival and what it has come to mean, to me anyway. I hope to play many more.”
I then asked drummer Mike Hammer to relate what might be his favorite year of playing the event. He said he had not been to every Bubba, but to most of them. “I became good friends with Greg Smalley back in those days,” Mike recalls. “My memory of a great gig was ‘94 or ’95, I think. [Ed. note: Mike was playing with Caroline and the Ramblers then]. The Lost Continentals were the next to last band, and the headliner was to be Scott Miller and his band, the Viceroys. At the last minute, we were told they could not make it for some reason, so we had the stage for the rest of the night. I think we even had Ben Friedman from Cigar Store [Indians] up with Amy Pike singing something. It turned into a wild show and the place was packed. I think it really pushed the Lost Continentals’ rep over the top here in town.”
The Billygoats play Bubbapalooza 20. Photo credit: Al Laipple.
I remember that. Those Bubba pickin’ party/encore sets are definitely some of my favorite memories. Mike will be at the drums with Cletis and the City Cousins on this year’s line-up. I asked Clete, who just may have been at every Bubbapolooza (even some only known to fans in an alternate universe), the same question. Alas there was a Braves game on and I got no reply. I will be sure to ask him in the middle of his set at the show.
Faylynn Owen, bartender at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club, booked the bands for the Star Bar in the early years, and damned, if she didn’t do great job of it, too. I asked her what year stood out in her mind. “Drive by Truckers is probably the most now famous band to play Bubba,” Faye Lynn says. “I don’t really have a favorite memory of Bubba. I loved them all.”
This year’s Bubbapolooza is headlined by the one and only Jason of Americana Roots Rock royalty Jason and the Scorchers, backed by The Billygoats, one of my all-time favorite Star Bar bands, also from Nashville. I asked them how many Bubbapoloozas they’d played. “I can only say that, even though I know that we played Bubba may more times than this, we only remember the last three – ’cause we were sober.”
There you have it. Come early; there’s real good Bar-B-Q on the patio courtesy of Slope’s BBQ. And try to plan on coming both nights; choosing which night to be there is too hard. Bryan Malone booked the line-up this year and I gotta give him extra credit for doing a fine job and setting the ticket price so it’s easy to come both nights ($10 Friday/ $15 Saturday). Wear something comfortable and think about cabbing there and home if you like to have a drink with your “Twang.” If you’ve been before, find me and give me a hug. If it’s new to you, come join the friends and family, and we’ll raise a toast together to Greg Smalley, Earl Maddox and George Jones. I bet you’ll come back next year.
Category: Features | Tags: 1991, AM Gold, Americana, Amy Pike, Band with no name, Belmont Playboys, Ben Friedman, Billygoats, Blacktop Rockets, Boone's Farm, Bubbamatics, Bubbapalooza, Caroline & the Ramblers, Cigar Store Indians, cletis and his city cousins, Diggers, Dingwalls, Drive-by Truckers, Earl Maddox, El Capitan, Ennio Morricone, Euclid Avenue Yacht Club, faye lynn owen, George Jones, Ghost Riders Car Club, Gregory Dean Smalley, Grim Rooster, Hi-Test, HotPoint Rangers, Intoxicators, Jason and the Scorchers, jason ringenberg, Jimbo Mathus, Kill Baby...Kill, Kingsized, Little Vinyl Lounge, Lost Continentals, McPherson Struts, Mike Hammer, Mystery Men, Redneck Underground, rockabilly, roots, Scott Miller, Slim Chance and the Convicts, Slope's BBQ, Spike Fullerton, Star Bar, Star Community Bar, surf, surf music, The Ace, Tri-State Coalition, twang, Twistin' Tarantulas, Viceroys
Raising a big PBR toast as Star Bar’s Bubbapalooza turns 20
Posted on: May 26th, 2011 By: Anya99
Viva Las Vegas Rockabilly Weekend may be a lot bigger and more famous, but down home here in Atlanta, the heartland of the Redneck Underground, we have our own mighty fine shindig called Bubbapalooza. Like all good and crazy ideas, it started with a man with a dream. Gregory Dean Smalley was a prolific guitarist and songwriter who settled in Cabbagetown and used to play in one band or another practically every night in Atlanta and Athens bars and clubs until he succumbed to AIDS in the mid-‘90s.
While Greg’s physical presence may have passed away, his no-holds-barred musical soul still burns brightly every Memorial Day weekend at the Star Bar. It’s hard to believe that Bubbapalooza is celebrating its 20th anniversary, and yet to anyone who’s been in the Atlanta scene for any amount of time, it seems impossible to imagine that there ever
Ghost Riders Car Club
was a time when it didn’t happened. On Friday May 27 (doors at 7 PM) and Saturday May 28 (doors at 3 PM), feast on BBQ, knock down a PBR, see some of the city’s most lovingly restored pre-‘70s hot-rods and rock and ramble to 20 rockabilly, Redneck Underground, cowpunk, surf and county-inspired bands, as well as have a chance to win prizes from Little 5 Points retailers in a raffle and have your 20th anniversary picture taken at the PBR Photo Booth.
ATLRetro caught up with Star Bar Booking Agent Bryan Malone (The Forty-Fives) and Ted Weldon (Truckadelic, Ghost Riders Car Club) for a sneak preview.
Bubbapalooza 20 is dedicated to Gregory Dean Smalley who founded the first Bubbapalooza and raffle proceeds go to his family. For those who haven’t been in Atlanta that long, can you briefly recap who he was and how Bubbapalooza got started and got its name?
Blacktop Rockets
Greg Smalley came down from Cedartown GA. in the ‘80s and was a founding member of The Grease Guns, The Diggers and The Bubbamatics and played with The Chant, Blacktop Rockets, Slim Chance & the Convicts & who else?
He played with Amy Pike, Kelly Hogan and several more. God, everyone from those days. But, yeah, Bubbapalooza was his bastard love child from the early days of 1991. It started as a festival to showcase the Redneck Underground which was a bunch of bands from the Atlanta/Athens area and even North Carolina. Plus it was to celebrate the early Star Bar’s trailer trash extravaganza of bad ideas & all things southern. It was a great excuse to have a show where all your friends play a bunch of rowdy songs & drink all night.
There’s more bands than we could even mention that have played Bubba, but here are a few: Southern Culture on the Skids, Deacon Lunchbox, Drive-By Truckers (they have a song about Greg Smalley called “The Living Bubba”), Kevn Kinney, Dex Romweber, BR-549, The Delta Angels, Kingsized, Truckadelic, Charlie Pickett, Redneck Greece Delux, Slim Chance & the Convicts, The Belmont Playboys, Greasepaint, Rocket 350. This list could go on and on.
Every year seems like a big family reunion for Atlanta’s rockabilly/Redneck Underground/old Star Bar scene crowd. Having hit a milestone 20th year this year, do you think it’ll be even more so?
A ton of the bands that are playing this year were actually onstage during the first Bubbapalooza, so yeah it is most definitely a homecoming. There will be a lot of friends and family all weekend and the kind of familiar faces that you only see at certain shows or in some cases just this one time of year. Even Mama Smalley will be here also to oversee the proceedings.
Are you doing anything special for the 20th year?
Hahahaha. The big thing is we’re still doing it 20 years later. That’s pretty crazy. It’s unbelievable having a get-together like this that’s lasted that long. It kind of says something about the crowd that was here at the very beginning, as well as all those who’ve joined in over the years. You can count on three things these days: Death, taxes & Bubbapalooza. Hahaha.
But, yeah, we have 20 bands this year, enough bands for a three-day festival. It’s gonna be a great mix of the regulars like the Blacktop Rockets, Caroline & the Ramblers, The Billygoats, plus a whole bunch of newcomers this year like Bareknuckle Betties & Uncle Daddy & the Kissin Cousins, Midway Charmers & some crazy surf from the Disasternauts, too. There’s so much music we’re even having bands downstairs in the Little Vinyl Lounge and tons of stuff on the back patio as well.
[Web-based radio station] Garage 71 is hosting a pre-1970 hot rod car show on Saturday. We’re expecting 20 or 30 entries for that. Oh, yeah, and there’ll be free Slope’s BBQ Saturday afternoon. Haha. It’s just gonna be a big old helping of Bubba hyjinks.
Can you tell us a little bit about the Redneck Cruise-In Hot Rod Show?
The car show will be hosted by Garage71. All the cars and motorcycles will be pre-1970. That will be Saturday afternoon starting at 5 PM. There’ll be some cool stuff down here for sure. There’s a trophy, too, I hear, so someone will drive out a winner of something to brag about. Not sure what the trophy looks like, but I’m sure it’ll come with something greasy like a bucket of chicken. Anything’s possible.
Uncle Daddy & the Kissin' Cousins
Expect a healthy dose of good country music, rockabilly, country-punk, southern rock, surf bands, hot rods, BBQ and a whole lot of good times and cold beer. You don’t necessarily have to drink PBR but it sure helps. Helps with most things really. Ha.
This is the kind of event that could really only happen at the Star Bar though, and it’ll be full of people who like good country and rockabilly music and are ready to let loose for Memorial Day weekend. Every year someone comes up and says “Happy Bubba” and makes a toast. It’s down-home stuff.
Sonoramic Commando
What’s the craziest, funnest thing that’s ever happened at a Bubbapalooza?
One of the funnest things that happens every year is when the stage is packed with about 40 people for a drunken rousing rendition of “She’s Breakin My Heart While I’m Drinkin’ Her Beer”—the old Diggers tune. It’s always brings down the house and is quite a moment.
What question did I not ask you that I should have and what’s the answer?
What’s a bad idea that became a tradition? Boone’s Farm Saturday.
Category: Features | Tags: Amy Pike, Bareknuck, Belmont Playboys, Billygoats, Blacktop Rockets, Boone's Farm, BR-546, Bryan Malone, Bubbamatics, Bubbapalooza, Caroline & the Ramblers, Charlie Pickett, country, Deacon Lunchbox, Delta Angels, Dex Romweber, Diggers, Disasternauts, Drive-by Truckers, Forty-Fives, Garage 71, Ghost Riders Car Club, Grease Guns, Greasepaint, Gregory Dean Smalley, hot rods, Kelly Hogan, Kevn Kinney, Kingsized, Little Vinyl Lounge, Living Bubba, Mama Smalley, Midway Charmers, PBR, psychobilly, Redneck Cruise-In Car Show, Redneck Greece Delux, Redneck Underground, rockabilly, Rocket350, Slim Chance and the Convicts, Slope's BBQ, Southern Culture on the Skids, Star Bar, Ted Weldon, The Chant, Truckadelic, Uncle Daddy & the Kissin' Cousins, Viva Las Vegas
Weekend Update: March 18 – 20
Posted on: Mar 18th, 2011 By: Anya99
Phoenix Flies tours go into their final weekend with Ivy Hall (Peters House, now SCAD Writing Center), Edward Gay House, Inman Park Arboretum, Historic Downtown; Catholic Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, whose beginnings date back to 1848 and cornerstone was laid 1869.
Glenn Phillips and Swimming Pool Qs play Red Light Cafe. Bryan Adams rocks Atlanta Symphony Hall with a solo acoustic night. SFJAZZ Collective performs hits of Stevie Wonder at Emory University’s Schwartz Center. It’s Salsa Night with Salsambo Dance Lessons & Entertainment at Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX. Fatt Matt’s Rib Shack serves up roots, blues and BBQ with Atlanta Boogie. Better Than the Beatles with Johnny Porazzo and David Lowell pays tribute to the Fab Four at Jerry Farber’s Side Door.
Category: Weekend Update | Tags: Atlanta Boogie, Atlanta Rollergirls, Atlanta Symphony Hall, Atomic Rockets, Beatles, Belmont Playboys, Blast-Off Burlesque, Bryan Adams, Buckhead Theatre, Civil War, Clermont Lounge, Cloris Leachman, Cowboy Envy, Druid Hills, East Lake Golf Club, Eddie's Attic, Edward Gay House, Emily Yetter, Fatt Matt's Rib Shack, Fernbank, Fox Theatre, Glenn Phillips, Henri Cartier-Bresson, High Museum of Art, Inman Park, Italy, Ivy Hall, J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan, Jerry Farber's Side Door, Martinis & Imax, moda, motorcycles, Museum of Design Atlanta, Peters House, Plaza, Red Light Cafe, romeo cologne, salsa, salsambo, Schwartz Center, SFJAZZ Collective, Showgirls, Spanky & the Love Handles, Star Bar, Swimming Pool Qs, Taboo-La-La, The Earl, Toulouse-Lautrec, Underground Atlanta, Wren's Nest, Yaarab Shrine Center
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Fields of the Nephilim “Elizium” (1990)
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This is humongous milestone in the world of dark rock/ metal music. The reverberations are still felt today, every time someone combines darkness and aggression with dreamy landscapes. At first, I was thinking of reviewing this for the Beyond the Border section but upon revisiting the record, found it to be more of a metal release. You will be surprised how original and relevant this record still sounds 17 years after its release, and stands in contrast to what was making the rounds then and now.
Imagine the underlying darkness and edginess of the best of early eighties gothic / new wave scene. Now infuse it with the guitar intricacy of Iron Maiden (suitably reverbed and twanged). Add a blanket of doom metal and ethereal dream rock to the proceedings, and wrap the package up in a lush floydian production (Pink Floyd produces Andy Jackson does the honours), complete with segues and samples. Voila! You have a post-modern dark metal/rock masterpiece. Combine this with Lovecraftian and Crowlian imagery referencing multitudes of esoteric lore, yet making it all sound personal, and you have THE ALBUM.
The intro “Dead but Dreaming” is a sufficiently epic glimpse of things to come and then jumps right into the more traditional and rocking “For Her Light” which is nevertheless a behemoth tune, and dark enough to turn day to night. Instead of relying on cheesy theatrics and clich és so rampant in gothic rock and metal, this music is steeped in a blackness of the soul. The winning ace is Carl Mc Coy’s extremely low and heavy shamanistic voice, that’s whispers, moans, sings and growls in equal parts. It segues beautifully with arpeggios and samples into “At the Gates of Silent Memory”, which is kind of song that can make one cry if truly listened (and being the kind of guy I am , i cannot say this for any other song). Strangely, the song writing gets more epic, and the occult subject matter more apparent as the album progresses. When “Submission” explodes with one of the best guitar solos ever (Paul Wright broke his whammy et al during this), it is hard to even pick one’s jaw from the floor. Further twists and turns including the dreamy nostalgia of “Summerland”, lead to the heart-wrenching and epic closer “And There Will Your Heart Be Also”. And it is over too soon. You just have to press play. I hope I have emphasized how dark and rocking this manages to be while still being dreamy, emotional and lush.
All the musicians involved are the absolute top of their game, and everything produced after this by them has always been something of a letdown when compared to this work.
And for those metal heads who still do not get it and may need further endorsement, everyone from Moonspell, Celtic Frost, Tiamat, Katatonia and Paradise Lost to Mindrot have cited this as an influence. So if you have not heard it, get it NOW!!!
-Suleiman
Release: October 1990
Label: Beggars Banquet Records
Avantgenre: Progressive Dark Rock
Official site: http://www.fields-of-the-nephilim.com/
01 – Dead But Dreaming
02 – For Her Light
03 – At The Gates Of Silent Memory
04 – Paradise Regained
05 – Submission
06 – Sumerland (What Dreams May Come)
07 – Wail Of Sumer
09 – And There Will Your Heart Be Also
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Nha Nhac meaning “elegant music” refers to a broad range of musical and dance styles performed at the Vietnamese royal court from the fifteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Nha Nhac was generally featured at the opening and closing of ceremonies associated with anniversaries, celebrations, religious holidays, coronations, funerals and official receptions.
In Vietnamese traditional music heritage, Nha nhac plays an important role and is the core of the court affairs. Also, it serves the entertainment demand of the King, royal family and the court professional, classical and scholarly music. Nha nhac was considered as the official music of the country, of the authority and performed in the royal life, including the court and royal family. Therefore, it reflects the spirit and the will of the royal dynasty, such as culture, art, law, power, even the ideology, aesthetics and regional trend, etc.
Nha Nhac developed during the Le dynasty (1427-1788) and it only reached the peak at the Hue Court under the Nguyen Dynasty (1802-1945). It is believed that Nha nhac did not truly reach the pinnacle of its development until the Nguyen Dynasty, when it was synthesized. The Nguyễn emperors declared it as the official court music, and it became an essential part of the extensive rituals of the royal palace. Hue Court Music is the last vestige of Vietnamese Court Music. It contains all quintessence of Vietnamese Court Music trend that has been established and developed over 1,000 years; therefore Hue Court Music is identical with Vietnamese Court Music. For long, Nha Nhac, Vietnamese Court Song has been preserved. It has been introduced inside and outside Vietnam. Up to present, It has been enhanced and popularized to the world.
Instruments commonly used for nhã nhạc include kèn bầu (conical oboe), đàn tỳ bà (pear-shaped lute with four strings), đàn nguyệt (moon-shaped two-string lute), đàn tam (fretless lute with snakeskin-covered body and three strings), đàn nhị (two-stringed vertical fiddle), sáo (also called sáo trúc; a bamboo transverse flute), trống (drum played with sticks), and other percussion instruments.
Among the numerous musical genres that developed in Vietnam, only Nha Nhac can claim a nationwide scope and strong links with the traditions of other East Asian countries.
The different genres of the Hue Court Music include worshipping ritual music, court ritual music, court dances, chamber music and opera (royal classical opera – tuong).
In the former times, Hue Court Music consisted of various genres: Giao Nhac used in the sacrifice ceremony to the Heaven and the Earth. Mieu Nhac used in worshipping ceremonies at the temples of meritorious ancestors of the Nguyen clan, Confucius, Nguyen Dynasty’s literature doctors, national heroes; Ngu Tu Nhac used in Than Nong, Thanh Hoang, Xa Tac worshiping ceremonies; Dai Trieu Nhac used in great ceremonies or receptions of foreign ambassadors;Thuong Trieu Nhac used in ordinary court ceremonies; Yen Nhac used in great royal banquets; Cung Nhac (or Cung Trung Nhac) used inside the royal palaces.
Hue Court Music was created by the process of integrating and adopting Chinese and Champa culture and the influences of Buddhism and Confucian. It is the synthesis of the various art genres, instruments, rhythm, melody and ensemble forms and environment. Therefore, Court Music can bring audience good sense of both audio and vision generating different shades of emotions and inspirations.
The events that shook Vietnam in the twentieth century – especially the fall of the monarchy and the decades of war – seriously threatened the survival of Nha Nhac. Deprived of its court context, this musical tradition lost its original function. Nevertheless, the few surviving former court musicians continue to work to keep the tradition alive. Certain forms of Nha Nhac have been maintained in popular rituals and religious ceremonies and serve as a source of inspiration for contemporary Vietnamese music.
In Nov 2003 Hue Court Music was recognized as the oral and intangible heritage of humanity by UNESCO. This recognition remarked the great progress of the culture preservation of Vietnam and its importance to the humanity’s art values.
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Many people have a false impression that the Chinese government fears the Internet. In fact, it is just the opposite.”
—Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang
If China wants to correct the “false impression” that it fears the Internet, ending its paranoid blocking of Web services would be a good place to start. This morning, Beijing extended the Great Firewall of China, restricting Internet access to Twitter, Flickr, Hotmail and Bing, among others. As confirmation of this, Herdict–a Harvard University site that monitors Internet accessibility–shows a spike in reports claiming that Twitter is inaccessible in China this morning.
The Wall Street Journal’s China Journal reports similarly.
The move–presumably part of the Chinese government’s efforts to censor media ahead of the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre this Thursday–was more an inevitability than anything else. Like YouTube and blogging services WordPress and Blogger, Twitter provides Chinese citizens with an outlet for dissent and self-expression, things for which the Chinese government has a profound distaste.
So, it comes as little surprise that the repressive government in Beijing has blocked it. It did the same thing to YouTube back in March.
“It’s just part of life here,” said Beijing-based Twitterer Kaiser Kuo. “If anything surprises me, it’s that it took them so long.”
I have a request for comment in to Twitter and will update if/when I hear back.
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In recent years, COHA has directed a good deal of its research energies to such issues as unproductive U.S. pressure on President Aristide which eventually led to his ouster and Washington’s replacement with a hapless interim regime. COHA also has condemned Washington’s unexamined and reflexive policy towards Cuba and Venezuela, and the negative impact of neo-liberal reforms on the average Latin American. COHA was opposed to the adherence of the U.S. to NAFTA under the thesis that it shouldn’t have been initiated until basic Mexican institutions were truly democratic, its trade unions free enough to negotiate as equals, and the government purged of endemic corruption. COHA also is a critic of the indiscriminate application of structural adjustment formulas that end up negatively affecting the poorest stratum of Latin America’s population.
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The property, complete with a 30-seat screening room, a 100-seat amphitheater and a swimming pond with sandy beach and outdoor shower, was asking about $40 million, but J. Lo managed to make it hers for $28 million. As the Bronx native acquires a new home in California, she is trying to sell a gated compound.
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Struggling to sell one multi-million dollar home currently on the market won’t stop actress and singer Jennifer Lopez from expanding her property collection. Lopez has reportedly added to her real estate holdings an eight-plus acre estate in Bel-Air anchored by a multi-level mansion. The property, complete with a 30-seat screening room, a 100-seat amphitheater and a swimming pond with sandy beach and outdoor shower, was asking about $40 million, but J. Lo managed to make it hers for $28 illion. As the Bronx native acquires a new home in California, she is trying to sell a gated compound.
Lopez has reportedly added to her real home in California
Lo managed to make it hers for $28 million. As the Bronx native acquires a new home in California, she is trying to sell a gated compound in the Golden State. The 17,000 square-foot Hidden Hills property with mountain views boasts nine bedrooms, including a master suite with private terrace and an entertainment wing, which includes a 20-seat theater, dance studio and recording studio. China’s youngest female billionaire has unloaded her triplex penthouse in Sydney.
The 17,000 square-foot Hidden Hills property with mountain views boasts nine bedrooms, includin. master suite with private terrace and an entertainment wing .
Following years of white-hot growth, luxury home prices in Sydney declined for the first time in years, slipping 1% between the second quarter and third quarter of 2018, according to the latest report from brokerage Knight Frank.The nearly 6,500-square-foot apartment has sweeping views.
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She is trying to sell a gated compound in the Golden State. The 17,000-square-foot Hidden Hills property with mountain and city views boasts nine bedrooms, including a master suite with private terrace and an entertainment wing, which includes a 20-seat theater
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Pleasing The Shareholders?
The Times newspaper the other day commented that Stephen Hester, the CEO of Royal Bank of Scotland Group, had made sterling efforts to shrink the bank which "have pleased the bank's shareholders".
The Times made this comment in a speculative article which also mused that Mr Hester might be thinking of leaving the bank to go to an unspecified place where his "talents will be more appreciated".
The first thing to note is that since 80% plus of Royal Bank of Scotland Group is owned by the UK Government, it is hard to understand which shareholders are currently pleased by the "sterling efforts" of the CEO.
Whilst it is wrong to blame one man for the woes of any large organisation, it is fair to comment that Stephen's 5 year reign has not exactly seen RBS rise like a Phoenix.
Assets sold at a fraction of their cost price; job cuts; massive payments due to the PPI claims; the issue of LIBOR fixing; failure to lend sufficient money to businesses; reduction in service provision for basic account customers ......
Hardly a tale of startling success.
In some ways it is not easy working for banks at the moment . There are many thousands of bank staff doing their level best in difficult circumstances.
The fact remains, however, that banks like RBS are not doing enough to help power the recovery of the UK economy. As a direct result, GDP and employment growth are both suffering. With more than 80% of the bank effectively owned by the UK public, RBS can only please these shareholders by helping to lead the recovery. Being known as "the incredible shrinking bank", isn't the kind of leadership required.
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Planar Video Wall Enables Betting Company to Better Visualize and Manage Sports Wagering in Real Time
Winamax is an online sports betting company. The Paris-based enterprise boasts more than a million registered users who bet on competitions in soccer, tennis, basketball and other sports, placing their wagers nearly round the clock every day of the year.
Winamax turned to Planar Systems for video wall technology to give its team of traders the means to better visualize games in progress at any time, and to be able to adjust the odds for any game in real time. With the Planar video wall, operators typically monitor and manage the games being played at up to 12 events simultaneously.
"The video wall creates a control room environment," says Stanislas Cassagne of Winamax. "It enables us to see many games that are being broadcast live on television as well as those that are only streamed. It's much easier to view this and other content in one place – the video wall – rather than having to switch back and forth between PCs as we had to do in the past."
Clarity Matrix's slim pro le, image processing are key features
With active involvement of CACV, the Paris-based audio- visual solutions provider and systems integration firm, Winamax selected Planar's ClarityTM Matrix LCD Video Wall System, implementing 12 Clarity Matrix LX46HDS displays in a four wide by three high (4 x 3) configuration. "Other video walls were considered but none offered the features, exibility and reliability that Planar's Clarity Matrix did," says Dominique Chaudoreille (CEO) of CACV.
Mr. Chaudoreille says that Clarity Matrix excels over other products in its slim design. "At less than four inches in total mounted depth – making it the slimmest video wall on the market – it readily accommodates Winamax's 'control room' space. Also, it has an ultra narrow 5.5 mm tiled bezel width, so the Winamax traders enjoy a very large picture that is virtually seamless."
Further, Clarity Matrix enables a wide range of sources to be displayed. Its built in Big Picture PlusTM video processing allows these sources to be scaled across the entire video wall or any section of it as the Winamax traders deem necessary and most useful.
Image quality directly benefits traders
Since Clarity Matrix is not installed in an environment with high ambient light, brightness was not seen as a top-priority feature. However, since the Winamax traders can often work in lengthy shifts, Clarity Matrix's image quality was not discounted. Clarity Matrix LX46HDS displays o er 500-nit nit brightness, 1920 x 1080 resolution, and extensive color-handling capability. "The traders appreciate it that pictures are readily visible and details are clear and readable,"Winamax's Cassagne says.
Mr. Chaudoreille adds that Clarity Matrix's use of the Planar® EasyAxisTM Mounting System contributes to the video wall's slim pro le but delivers other benefits as well. In particular, Planar EasyAxis allows all Clarity Matrix displays to be precisely aligned and evenly spaced as a result of its unique six-way adjustment system. Further, Planar EasyAxis provides a convenient service mode that enables any Clarity Matrix display to be tilted out and removed should service or replacement be necessary. "This means that any single-display issue can be dealt with without the entire video wall having to be powered o and dismantled. As a result the goal of 24x7 uptime is all but guaranteed and top-notch service to our customers is ensured,"Winamax's Cassagne says.
Clarity Matrix earned high marks for its distributed electronics design as well. With this design, a number of components, such as controllers and power supplies, can be located in a remote rack room, away from the video wall. Its benefits include the fact that heat-inducing elements are kept away from the video wall, which helps preserve the life of the wall and also gives traders a cooler working environment. "This speaks to Planar's dedication to product reliability and to its understanding of what end users actually face when working near a big video wall," says CACV's Chaudoreille.
Further, with key components designed to be located in a remote rack room – rather than behind the Clarity Matrix LCD displays – technicians can monitor their health more easily and replace them more easily and quickly if required. Also, the remote design facilitates easier software troubleshooting and the installation of new software for the video wall as it becomes necessary. "Were we or CACV required to perform any of these tasks at the video wall itself, it would be more complicated, time-consuming and disruptive for the traders," Winamax's Cassagne concludes.
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I am a longtime owner who exchanges a week or two every year to visit new resorts. I also just learned that RCI, the biggest exchange company, bought a competitor named DAE. Will this kind of change expand or reduce my exchange options?
Great question, one that comes up whenever big corporate changes are announced in the timeshare universe. RedWeek talked to executives at both companies, as well as other executives in the industry, to evaluate these changes within the exchange market.
First, some background. The entire timeshare industry has undergone many changes since the mortgage and stock-market meltdown of 2008. Many of the major developers slowed or stopped new construction as money got tight. Others switched business models, opting for "asset light" operations where, instead of building new timeshares, they gobbled up existing timeshares, in good locations, to expand their inventory. All of the major hotel companies, meanwhile, spun off their timeshare divisions to become stand-alone companies, with Wyndham being the latest. Hilton's timeshare unit launched itself as a new public company earlier this year.
These kinds of corporate changes are a natural part of business evolution. After a downturn, strong companies tend to adapt and prosper while the less strong, in some cases, go out of business or become acquisition targets for the major brands.
RCI, the world's largest timeshare exchange company (followed closely by Interval International), is owned by the Wyndham chain. Despite having 4,300 resorts already in its arsenal of exchange inventory and 3.8 million subscribers, RCI announced in October that it had purchased DAE, which has a large foothold in Australia and the Asia-Pacific resort market along with 80,000 members.
RCI gets bigger while DAE gets stronger
RCI and DAE executives have positioned the acquisition as a friendly takeover that offers benefits to both: infrastructure and resources to DAE, and a new customer and resort base for RCI.
DAE is celebrating its 20th anniversary and, despite having a much lower marketing profile in the US, is the largest privately held exchange company. Worldwide, it is the third largest exchange company. Like RCI, DAE offers programs for owners of weeks and points.
DAE still has the earmarks of a startup that focuses on one-to-one customer contacts and proudly touts having won the industry's top-ranking in customer service for seven years in a row. It also attracts timeshare owners by undercutting its competitors on price. For example:
DAE membership is free and there are no annual dues. Members pay $179 for a successful exchange.
RCI charges $99 for membership and $99 a year. Exchanges cost $239.
Executives at both companies said it is way too early to evaluate how the acquisition will play out (or impact timeshare exchangers). Corporate marriages such as this typically take months to shake out as the acquiring company integrates the acquired into its network. For the time being, both companies say DAE will continue to operate under its own brand while, in the big scheme of things, it delivers a large global portfolio of new resorts to RCI's universe.
RCI and DAE, along with other exchange companies, share a vision of expanding services, including travel club-type offerings, to maintain and grow their networks. They are also actively educating customers to focus on vacation experiences --- cruises, themed tours, golf events --- that can be as fulfilling as the accommodations at a particular resort. The real and ongoing challenge for both, meanwhile, is fulfilling exchange requests so that customers can vacation when they want and, most importantly, where they want.
Fulfillment, in fact, is the biggest problem for all exchange companies --- including the big-brand developer timeshare companies that operate their own internal exchange programs (Disney, Marriott, Vistana, etc.). In decades past, customer had to "deposit and hope" they would get a good exchange. Now all companies, thanks to the Internet, are offering real-time instant bookings for resorts with availability. DAE operators go one step further to avoid the fulfillment bottleneck: if they don't have inventory for a requested exchange, they will get on the phone to find a resort that matches the customer's request. Then they'll call the customer seeking a 24-hour yes or no on accepting the exchange.
The constant search for new inventory (to fulfill exchange requests) has also led both companies to build relationships with legacy resorts that have unused inventory and suffer from double-digit delinquencies. RCI offers a long laundry list of services (including rentals, marketing and member management) to help older resorts move inventory and put heads-in-beds. It's a smart business move, industry observers say, because legacy resorts in good locations are dependent on third-party exchange companies to generate visitors who may become potential buyers. To date, RCI has forged exchange relationships with 780 legacy resorts.
Companies offer programs so owners don't waste their weeks
One RCI initiative for timeshare owners, already introduced but not widely publicized, bears watching. To help owners avoid the worst outcome --- losing a week --- RCI will take last minute deposits and provide owners with partial exchange credits. For example, RCI will accept a deposit within 14 days of check-in and provide a 45 percent exchange value. Owners who deposit 30 days prior to check-in will get 60 percent of the week's original trade-in value.
DAE has a similar program, but encourages owners to deposit unused weeks at least eight weeks prior to check-in. That gives DAE more time to market the deposited week to another owner through a getaway program.
From a consumer standpoint, the ultimate test of the RCI-DAE merger will be determined by whether it offers more, or fewer, exchange options for customers. Both companies say they are laser-focused on addressing customer needs. Time will tell.
This answer was provided by RedWeek contributor, Jeff Weir. Jeff is a California-based journalist who has covered California, Congress, and the White House. He also has roots in Silicon Valley, where he directed public relations and marketing programs for high-tech companies. He is also a timeshare owner and member of RedWeek.com.
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maryannl72
Jan 12, 2018 (3 years ago)
Very helpful analysis. Thanks for the broad picture of this merger.
timb574
May 26, 2018 (2 years ago)
I have found RCI to have become more and more useless as the years pass. ten years ago they could match requests for the past 4 years they have not been able to match 1 request . I have just deposited with DAE, let's keep our fingers crossed.
briec6
Nov 21, 2019 (1 year ago)
As we are now nearing the end of 2019 - any updates of this would be good .
colint30
So Club Wyndham South Pacific is now allowing owners to only exchange with RCI, and not DAE or Interval, so it seems that DAE hasn't done well out of this change.
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Hard Work Pays Off for HARDCOPIERS
The ACT Writers Centre HARDCOPY Professional Development Program has paid dividends for emerging writers. Over its two year life, sixty new voices have been nurtured by the combination of professional development and industry connection. Kelli-Anne Moore, ACT Writers Centre Director is delighted. ‘We wanted to give our HARDCOPY participants the tools to give themselves the best chance of having a sustainable career as a writer, and if they choose to embark on their journey to publication, they would do so with their eyes open and aware of the realities of the industry,’ she says.
According to Moore, one of the most important contributions of the HARDCOPY program is the sense of community it has engendered: ‘We love to hear about the connections that the participants have made, with each other, and with the Industry.’ This view is shared the HARDCOPY alumni. ‘HARDCOPY gave me invaluable insights into and access to the Australian publishing industry, the opportunity to connect with other writers in a similar stage of the process (the query game is a lot more bearable with company!) and, critically, the confidence to accept that I was ready to start submitting,’ says Sam Hawke, a 2014 HARDCOPY participant. ‘Since the program concluded I have been picked up by a London agent and am currently preparing for submission to publishers. I’ve also made ongoing wonderful friendships and am looking forward to following the careers of all the HARDCOPY alumni.’
Sam is likely to be busy because the Hardcopiers are a talented group with no time to waste. Leearni Hamilton, one of the 2015 participants says that, ‘Since HARDCOPY I have been working on my YA memoir and making my writing as powerful as I can (writing the tough memories). Recently my memoir was shortlisted for the Templeberg Fellowship in Sri Lanka. While I don't have a publishing deal yet I am very focused on polishing my manuscript with the hope that I can submit to more competitions and agents/publishers in the future.’
Developing an individual voice is something Serina Huang also attributes to the HARDCOPY Program: ‘Since HARDCOPY, I have begun to find my voice. I am becoming more authentic in my writing. I have worked through an issue that was blocking progress with my book manuscript. I am engaging more with readers on my blog. I don’t have a big fat publishing deal (yet), but I have focus. I am reaching within and sharing more, and it feels right. A few months ago I wrote a guest blog post about my Australian-Asian identity. And in the last few weeks I have written about my experience of leaving a physically and emotionally abusive relationship.’
HARDCOPY has inspired a series of related writing projects. In September 2014 four Hardcopiers bonded over a shared love of cultural commentary and joined forces to form the Cringe, an Australian voice on literature, culture and the arts. Launched in October 2014 the site is now celebrating its first anniversary, reflecting on the many articles, short fiction, reviews and profiles to have been featured on its pages, penned by both familiar Australian authors and emerging literary voices. Due to the range of material on offer, the Cringe consistently attracts an audience from around the globe, counting author Jerome Charyn and film director Jeremy Whelehan among its readers. Now edited by co-founders Elise Janes and Ken Ward, the Cringe is constantly evolving to build on its success and continue toward its mission of promoting an Australian voice on culture and arts both locally and around the world.
Three other members of the HARDCOPY alumni, Christine McPaul, George Dunford and Lesley Boland have gone on to establish Softcopy, an online e-journal for emerging writers. Since its launch in May 2015, when Softcopy included contributions from the inaugural HARDCOPY program, it continues to be a success. In its first two days, Softcopy received more than 1000 unique views, proving it is an exciting platform to showcase the work of emerging writers. With fiction and non-fiction submissions open until 30 November 2015, this new offering is an important contribution to the writing landscape. Moore agrees. ‘We love to hear about projects–such as the Cringe blog and the Softcopy anthology–and the support and nurturing that participants are in turn providing other emerging writers,’ she says.
For others, like Jane Abbott, HARDCOPY provided a fillip for an already promising career. Jane wrote her manuscript, Watershed, in 2013. In early 2014 she applied to both the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript, and the ACT Writers' HARDCOPY Professional Development Program for Australian Writers (Fiction Edition); Watershed received a commendation in the VPLA, and Jane was one of thirty participants selected for HARDCOPY. Her submission to the final round of the program proved successful and participating literary agent, Gaby Naher, expressed an interest in reading Watershed in its entirety. Subsequently, Jane signed with The Naher Agency in Sydney, and has spent the last six months developing the manuscript to the highest possible standard. In September this year Jane was offered a two-book publishing contract with Vintage Penguin/Random House. Watershed is to be published in June/July 2016.
HARDCOPY has also provided the backdrop for careers associated with writing. An example is Shu-ling Chua, from the 2015 round, who has been selected as the Live: Producer for Noted Festival 2016 (Canberra's experimental writing festival). Shu-Ling attributes being accepted for HARDCOPY as the moment she identified as a ‘writer’. ‘The program and HARDCOPY community have done wonders for my confidence,’ she says. ‘I've written my first-ever paid piece, ‘Love Like Mine’, and I write regularly for BMA Magazine. My manuscript is on the back-burner but for me, HARDCOPY is really only just the beginning.’
Arts worker and writer, Nigel Featherstone, along with the ACT Writers Centre, can be justifiably proud of the many offshoots from HARDCOPY, only some of which are included here. Funding from the Australia Council has been an important factor in the success of HARDCOPY, enabling emerging writers to engage with the writing and publishing industries, and to form connections that have led to a range of creative endeavours. ‘Without the Australia Council funding, none of this would have been possible,’ Moore says.
This blog post is part of my Blogger in Residence with the ACT Writers Centre and first appeared in Capital Letters
Labels: ACTWritersCentre, Australian fiction, books, Canberra, inspiration, life writing, Softcopy, women, writing
What Platform is That?
Being effective at social media, whether for business or personal use, means capturing people who have short attention spans. They're only a click away from a picture of a funny cat, so you have to make your thing more compelling than that cat. – Alexis Ohanian, Co-founder of Reddit
Increasingly writers are expected to be savvy social media users. Eva Bui, Digital Marketing Manager at Penguin Random House Australia, identifies Facebook, YouTube and Instagram as being important platforms for this digital engagement. According to Bui, Australians spend on average 1.7 hours daily on Facebook, ‘It’s the first and last thing we look at each day.’ If your audience is aged 18-34 years, you will need to know how to use YouTube where engaging, personal and short videos are most likely to be successful. Bui argues that relative newcomer, Instagram, is the fastest growing platform and more popular than Twitter. Designed to favour images, Instagram offers a way to connect with your readers in a fun and informal way.
Susanne Gervay, young adult and children’s author, agrees that to reach readers, especially young readers, writers must be on social media. She argues that with bookshops closing, publishers cutting and closing their lists and focussing on high profile names and series, social media is both a blessing and a curse. ‘The blessing is the empowerment to relate to readers through social media and not be dependent on publishers or bookshops for market penetration,’ Gervay says. ‘The curse is that it is new technology that authors must learn and then spend a lot of time working at.’
This is a dilemma for writers who sometimes feel that time spent on social media is time away from the central craft of writing. On the other hand, some social media, such as regular blogging, can be a way of practicing and refining writing skills, or trying new ideas that could lead to a larger project. Social media can build your public profile, help you connect with like-minded individuals and groups, share ideas and images, gather information and help maintain connections that may lead to paid work. Angela Meyer of LiteraryMinded agrees that this is the case, noting that social media helps her in her role as a commissioning editor where she finds the ‘lists’ function on Twitter useful.
Following others on Twitter or using the hashtag functionality in both Twitter and Instagram are ways to keep abreast of writing issues, publisher and agent interests, writing competitions and literary festivals. Angela Meyer follows, ‘A broad mix of writers, journos, bloggers, booksellers, vintage fans, whisky nerds, Bowie-lovers, academics, philosophers, absurdists, ironists, fictional characters, a person who posts a screenshot from the Simpsons every 30 minutes, historians, accounts in languages other than English (maybe languages can just be absorbed), book reviewers, filmmakers, artists and more…’
Meyer’s success points to the possibility for writers to make social media a profitable enterprise. Emily Craven, digital media specialist, is another innovator using digital tools to advantage. She sees digital options as complementing the more traditional book and publishing industries. For her, digital media is inherently creative, resisting the limitations of hardcopy documents. With no single container, no physical form and offering increased accessibility, the digital landscape, Craven argues, opens up opportunity and diversity for writers. Her eBook Revolution is an example of how authors can be successful in both paper and digital literary forms.
Stepping away from the print/digital dichotomy enables writers to choose the platform that best suits their writing purpose and the audience they hope to reach. For example, Gervay argues that social media can promote causes you are passionate about, such as the Room to Read program for which she is an ambassador.
There are many other options available to writers seeking to expand their digital and social media presence. Google Plus, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Ello, Reddit and Wattpad should all be on your radar. Creating your own blog, website and author page on Facebook have become essential professional tools. Gervay argues that, ‘Today an authors’ shop front is their website,’ which is certainly something to think about.
With so much choice, there's no right or wrong way, and definitely no one pathway to publication. As Craven suggests, use the Velcro approach to social media and see what sticks.
Labels: ACTWritersCentre, Australian fiction, blogging, women, writing
Characters in a Jar
Recently I posted about how to make a Happiness Jar. If you haven't already started one, now is a great time to create an ongoing source of inspiration for your writing.
How often have you struggled to find an interesting starting point for a character in your short story or novel? You want someone engaging, right, someone you can come to know and (hopefully) understand, someone you care enough to write about.
So here is a neat tip. Randomly choose three slips of paper from your Happiness Jar. These slips will contain something that you wrote down about a happy experience.
You could:
Create a character using the scenes suggested. Unless you are intending to write a memoir, remember that the character is not you - they are just inspired by the experiences you have had.
Transport the character forwards or backwards in time. Think about how they would respond to this happy experience if they lived a hundred years ago, or some time in the future.
Imagine what the character would do if they didn't have these happy experiences. Explore how they would feel, what they would yearn for, who they would envy.
How would your character go about seeking out or achieving these experiences? Who would help them? Where would they look? What obstacles would they overcome? Would they be successful or not?
Explore how your character talks about the experience, the longing for it and the sense of pride or anger associated with the search for happiness. Do they sound boastful, wistful, despondent, jubilant, doubtful, curious?
Time to scribble those thoughts down, so happy writing!
Labels: Australian fiction, happiness, inspiration, life writing, writing
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Terex haulers pass Nevada test
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June 4, 2015 June 5, 2015 Editor ADTs, haulers, Terex, trucks
After a comprehensive evaluation, family-run mining business, Art Wilson Company, has recently purchased four Terex Trucks TA400 articulated haulers to replace its fleet of rigid dump trucks at its Adams Claim Mine in Carson City, US.
The company has been producing limestone for cement rock, and gypsum for the agriculture and turf markets, for almost 50 years. The anhydride produced from the Adams Claim Mine is a form of gypsum that is of a higher purity than most gypsum produced in the region, and is in high demand.
Customers from far afield use the produce from the mine as a fertiliser for fields, golf courses and lawns. Art Wilson Company is set up for high volume distribution for the 5.4 million tonnes of gypsum produced annually. Up to 166 trucks are loaded per day, each hauling on average 21.8 tonnes.
“Sales of our gypsum produce have grown from around 250,000 tons (226,796 tonnes) in 2008, to almost twice that today,” said Paul Wilson, mine manager for Art Wilson Company. “With growing demand, and plans for opening a new mine, it was necessary for us to evaluate our trucking strategy.”
The trucks operating at the mine are required to make a 0.75-mile (1.2-km) haul cycle from the bottom of the pit and haul material up the 10% grade. Art Wilson Company has historically operated 45 tonne (50 US ton) capacity rigid dump trucks at the Adams Claim Mine before the need for a change of strategy was identified.
Nevada-based Terex Trucks dealer, Shafer Equipment Co., provided Art Wilson Company with a TA400 articulated dump truck for a thorough evaluation.
“There were a number of elements that had to be considered in the selection of new trucks, including the limited road size, the incline of the haul roads, and ability to handle bad weather in winter,” explained Paul Wilson. “The Terex Trucks TA400 passed all the tests. We went with the 38 tonne-capacity truck as it is close to the capacity of the rigid trucks we were using.”
The original rigid trucks required substantial roads and struggled to pull on the high grade in the slippery underfoot conditions experienced during bad weather.
“During winter, even a light layer of snow in the mine would make it difficult for the previous trucks to navigate the slope,” said Jay Shafer, president of Shafer Equipment.
The TA400’s ability to climb and – more importantly – descend the 10% grade proved to be one of the critical factors in the decision-making.
“The retarder system in the TA400 really stood out to us,” said Paul Wilson. “We also tested a truck with a single retarder system and wet disc brakes, which overheated on the downhill when trying to keep up with the TA400.”
Truck operator, Ty Vanroy, was most impressed by the TA400’s ability to handle the downhill slope smoothly. “I loved the exhaust brake in the TA400,” he said. “I didn’t need to use the brakes when going down even steep hills, which makes the brakes last longer.”
The TA400 has a dual retarder system, where a modulating transmission retarder is coupled with an efficient exhaust brake and fully-enclosed oil-cooled multidisc brake.
Having excelled in all performance tests, four Terex Trucks TA400s were purchased, and are currently operating at the Adams Claim Mine. The TA400s have two primary responsibilities at the mine: hauling material from the pit to the crushing circuit, and removing overburden from areas being prepared for blasting. The company blasts 25,000 tons (22,680 tonnes) of material two to three times per month in order to maintain supply.
Steady and consistent is the motto at the Adams Claim Mine, according to Paul. “We don’t run fast; we run steady,” he said. “We run at about 10 mph (16.1 kmph) and are more concerned about getting material out of the pit consistently, rather than speedily.”
“You could say that dump trucks are the heart and soul of the operation,” said Robert Franklin, regional sales manager for Terex Trucks. “Carrying overburden and the muckpile to the crushing circuit is vital in order to keep the operation moving.”
The TA400’s 443 hp (330 kW) Scania turbocharged diesel engine develops 1,663 ft/lb (2,255 Nm) torque, allowing fully loaded trucks to easily pull the 10% grades. The three axles are locked in permanent all-wheel (6 x 6) drive to maintain traction when facing slick roads.
“I typically keep the truck in low range on the grade, but I can easily switch between low and high gear with the toggle switch inside the cab,” explained VanRoy.
Paul Wilson is also expecting a significant cost saving with the new fleet of Terex Trucks, thanks to increased fuel efficiency, as the TA400 will, on average, reduce fuel consumed by an incredible 50% in comparison to the previous trucks.
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when was tiger brands established
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Emily S. Mendel Feb 2, 2007
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Richard Serra Sculpture Review
As someone old enough to have been aware of Richard Serra’s career for most of the forty years this show purports to survey, I’ll admit that my respect for his work has fluctuated from time to time. At this moment I think he’s a master – an opinion happily gathered over time through the accumulative benefits of compound interest.
His early sculpture was brash, muscled, edgy, and cool – assertively appealing in the controlled and contradictory use of weight and weightlessness, danger and refuge, beauty and ugliness – and all executed with a kind of hard- scrabble grace out of elegant/raw industrial materials with beautiful surfaces: lead, rusted steel, neon lights and poured black rubber.
When a court ordered the removal of his "Tilted Arc" sculpture from its site in front of the lower Manhattan Federal Building in 1989, my discomfort at seeing a public artwork forcibly removed from its designated location was mitigated to some degree by my irritation for what I took as the artist’s arrogance, in plopping a multi-ton, muy macho impediment across a well-worn path that workers used to get to their jobs. It left a whiff of art-world alpha-male entitlement that lingered around Serra’s monumental work for some time after. His balanced contradictions no longer seemed like broad-shouldered poetry. Many of the aspects of the work to which I had been attracted changed, or at least my perception of them changed. The works’ monumentality became arrogance; the rusted up-thrust of Cor-Ten steel became masculine braggadocio; and the precise balance of elements became showing off. The work seemed a kind of bullying architecture, about itself and its author, loftily unaware of the consequences visited upon those left to inhabit a place so airily constructed after the designer had moved on.
While wrong about that lack of awareness of consequence, I was not so wrong about that sense of entitlement, arrogance and braggadocio – though now I regard these as expressions of the commitment, ambition and constancy that one desperately hopes to find in artists and their work.
In fact, the use of steel to alter the behavior and movement of those who encounter it – the most infuriating thing about "Tilted Arc" and its manipulation of those government workers – has become what I like best about the work in this show, that engagement between a sculpture/structure and an interested viewer/participant.
Of course, the context is different. "Tilted Arc" blocked and herded those workers like sheep. And to be herded is a decidedly unpleasant experience for anyone who has no interest in being told where to go. But Serra is a bit of a control freak. He is, of course, a Scorpio (I knew it!), and a very determined choreographer who engages his audience/performers directly and is not above using a little intimidation to get us to perform the dance he means for us to complete.
There are three pleasures in dance. The choreographer’s – setting movement on the bodies of others; the audience’s – watching the dancers move; and of course the pleasure of the dancers themselves – dancing.
To wander around Serra’s early works of balanced slabs of lead, apparently precariously pushing against one another to transform gravity into structure, or to enter his recent steel arroyos with their monumental torqued walls, enhanced specific gravity and velvety rusted surfaces, you can experience all three pleasures. You become maker, dancer and audience member all at once.
It is a pleasure freely offered and you don’t need to rehearse, exert yourself, or even know the first thing about all the art history that Serra has learned from, or addresses with these works.
Emily S. Mendel San Francisco ,
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Capt Amarinder Singh is a fatherly figure
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Punjab minister Navjot Singh Sidhu, reportedly told by the Congress party that he cannot defy or speak against his boss Amarinder Singh, put out a clarification today calling the Punjab Chief Minister a “fatherly figure”.
“You don’t want to wash dirty linen in public. He (Captain Amarinder Singh) is a fatherly figure, I love him, I respect him, I will sort it out myself,” Navjot Sidhu told reporters in Rajasthan, where he is campaigning for the December 7 state election.
Sources say the comment followed the Congress’s stern caution to Mr Sidhu. The outspoken cricketer-turned-politician has been told categorically that Captain Amarinder Singh’s writ is important and he should not speak against him.
Last week, the Punjab Congress feud escalated as Sidhu insisted on travelling to Pakistan for the ground-breaking ceremony of the Kartarpur corridor, in what became his second trip across the border since he attended cricket legend Imran Khan’s oath-taking as Pakistani prime minister. Amarinder Singh had said that he had tried to talk Mr Sidhu out of it, but had been told that he had made a commitment.
Mr Sidhu, asked whether he had defied his Chief Minister — who is popularly known as “Captain” — had quipped: “My captain is Rahul Gandhi. He has sent me everywhere. Our captain’s captain is Rahul Gandhi.”
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A Review of “Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer” by P. Edward Cunningham
Sunday, June 5th, 2011
Jessica Maybury
On first introduction, the page featuring Cunningham’s collection seems confusing. I had been expecting a collection of poetry, rather than a series—but from the very start each poem links to the others like songs on that political Green Day album or an early Raveonettes LP.
The first poem of the series is the longest. It brought Ted Hughes’s “Panther” to mind. It sets the scene. You’re a child in a dream of zoos, of lions.
With Kool-Aid stained teeth
and a paper mask,
you roared like a man-eater.
The poetry that follows doesn’t resemble poetry in the way that the first does. There are no familiar left-aligned lines, stanzas or any of that malarkey. What we have are paragraphs. Is this poetry? What makes poetry poetry anyway? I once heard the argument that the two words that elevated William Carlos Williams’s note about eating the plums in the ice box were, “forgive me.” What about here? Here we have stark colours and images set before us in crisp lines. “These lights and red organs stretched for miles and you realized earth’s seams were coming undone.” If this is poetry, then the novels of Michael Ondaatje should surely also be poetry. Or have we crossed the boundary between poetry and prose poetry? In these post-modern times, does such a blurring matter, or is it expected?
The sequence continues in a blur of metaphors and similes. It probably sounds like this is turning into a roll-call of names and allusions, but I am reminded of Glamorama:
Inside the space where its heart should have been, you retrieved a fistful of red confetti. You held your fist outside the cage and hummed as you released a paper roar.
Wrenching my head out of the other books I recognise, I realise that we are turning a corner here. The lion of the first poem has transformed, and so has the child.
The collection masses itself in the mind as a primeval collage-cloud, coiling in suspension, in myriad colours. Hopefully it won’t leave any time soon.
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A Review of “This Boy, This Broom” by P. Edward Cunningham
Sunday, September 5th, 2010
Spencer Dew
This attractively designed little book from BatCat Press relays a series of dispatches from the frontlines of the American cineplex, P. Edward Cunningham’s accounts of his days as a teenage employee of a movie theater, replete with sweeping, second-hand candy, and occasional snippets of human tragedy. The writing, alas, does not match the productive value of the text itself, though there are stronger moments, such as the repeating “Shift” sections, terse, chronological reports of the job itself. “Return to lobby,” one such entry reads, “No popcorn to sweep. Concessionist smiles at me. Asks me what my name is. I tell her. She wears too much eye shadow. Eyes like Nixon. Swollen. Results of a shellfish allergy? She tells me I’m cute. Radio lights up.” Where such a minimalist–and speedy–style succeeds, much of Cunningham’s writing falls short, stumbling over its own phrasing while aiming for a comic didacticism, a discourse of distance from the thing itself. “As a person who is often oblivious to the obvious, I consistently fail to notice statistics that some would consider highly informative when searching for someplace to spend on holiday,” the author writes, by way of a story about the wonders and horrors of Detroit. Then, of the visit, he says, “Meg and I were rather stunned by the number of Picassos hanging in the halls of the DIA–an amount larger than that of most museums we had visited. Compared to the copious amounts of wind-swept trash throughout the city, the museum was quite the contrast.” My problem here, ultimately, is that the awkwardness of the writing masks an absence, that of full characterization of the narrator. “I imagine that having the rare permission to photograph anything in the contemporary portion of a museum is similar to a police officer letting you hold his gun for a moment or two,” he says, and there is, in the unreality of that particular comparison for the narrator, in the stretch and the smirk of it, something simply missing. The relationship to art–to photography of it–remains vague, and while this is a minor example, the same problem plagues the book’s emotional core. As the narrator remains vague on his own feelings about his situation, his work (he’s upset when a new manager promotes all ushers to the “head usher” title, which is clear enough, but “Nothing mattered anymore” hits the wrong sort of hyperbolic note) so too does he remain disturbingly distant from the suffering of others that he routinely encounters on the job. The narrator can turn away from a man sobbing into his hands after, on his day out with his son, sitting in a movie seat saturated with human waste…yet he turns away, too, as author, leaving his readers unsure whether to cry or laugh, leaving them, in the wake of his own unexamined insularity, ready to quickly move on as well. This Boy, This Broom is autobiography devoid of intimacy, lacking an authentic sense of the author’s self and his relations with the world. Ultimately, the book mimics the tedium of the work at the cineplex, which is perhaps one of its goals. But with the scenes Cunningham witnessed and the experiences he endured, he could have crafted a much more affecting text.
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Radiohead backs .music community bid
Kevin Murphy, December 15, 2015, 22:00:09 (UTC), Domain Registries
Ed O’Brien, guitarist with the band Radiohead, has become the latest musician to throw his support behind DotMusic’s community-based application for the new gTLD .music.
In a letter to ICANN today (pdf), O’Brien said that if DotMusic loses its ongoing Community Priority Evaluation, it will “be setting back the world’s chances of a Fair Trade Music Industry by many years”.
“I challenge The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers views that the global music community to which I belong does not exist,” he wrote.
He’s arguably the highest-profile musician to support DotMusic to date. Radiohead have sold over 30 million records and a few years ago O’Brien was ranked by Rolling Stone as the 59th greatest guitarist of all time.
The phrase “Fair Trade Music Industry” appears to have been coined last week at TechCrunch Disrupt by Grammy-nominated musician Imogen Heap, another one of DotMusic’s celebrity supporters.
It refers to the notion that artists should be fairly compensated for their work, opposing services such as Spotify, which reportedly pays artists less than a tenth of a cent every time one of their songs is played.
Both Heap and Radiohead are noted for their innovative uses of technology in their music (for example, listen to Radiohead’s incredible 1997 album OK Computer, bootlegs of which are available to stream for free on YouTube).
Radiohead is also known for its love-hate relationship with internet-based music business models.
In 2007, Radiohead released a new album for free on its web site, allowing fans to set their own price. But in 2013, it pulled its back catalog from Spotify, with lead singer Thom Yorke calling the service “the last desperate fart of a dying corpse”.
Its music is back on Spotify now.
But you can see why the band would support DotMusic’s application for .music, which proposes a number of novel rights protection mechanisms covering not just trademarks, but also copyright.
One interesting proposal is to ban any domain name from .music if a matching domain in another TLD has received over 10,000 copyright infringement notices from a big music industry body. This is to prevent TLD “hopping” affecting .music.
So, for example, if thepiratebay.com had received 10,000 notices, thepiratebay.music would be permanently blocked from registration.
The company is proposing a somewhat restricted namespace too, where only “community members” are allowed to register domains.
But prospective registrants merely need to self-identify as a member of one of the community’s dozens of subsets — which includes “fans” and “bloggers” — in order to register.
Parking will be prohibited, however, which would cut down on domain investor speculation.
Quite how .music will enhance the move for “fair trade” for artists is not entirely clear from O’Brien’s letter. After .music launches, there will still be hundreds of other TLDs that do not have DotMusic’s rules in place.
It’s also unlikely that the Economist Intelligence Unit, which is currently handling the CPE, will even see O’Brien’s letter.
ICANN told DotMusic (pdf) recently that the EIU “may not consider” any support letters received after October 13, which was two months after the official deadline for letters to be submitted.
DotMusic has letters of support — mostly the same letter with a different signature — from literally hundreds of musicians, trade groups, producers and publishers.
CEO Constantine Roussos told DI last week that it has more support letters than all the other “Community” gTLD applicants combined.
He said he’s confident that DotMusic’s CPE will be successful, citing positive precedent set by EIU panels in .osaka, .hotel and .radio CPE cases.
But the closest precedent we have so far is the Far Further application for .music, which comprehensively lost its CPE a year ago, scoring just three points out of the available 16, well short of the 14-point passing score.
There are differences between the applications, but Far Further’s CPE panel told it that there was no such thing as “the music community”, which sets a pretty high bar for DotMusic to leap.
If DotMusic wins its CPE, the remaining seven competing applications for the string get kicked out of the program. If it loses, it goes to an auction it has little chance of winning.
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Constantine Roussos (.MUSIC) says:
This is not what the EIU stated in their determination. The EIU stated that Far Further did not meet the Nexus criteria because their definition excluded a majority of music constituents that would be associated with .MUSIC:
“The [Far Further] applicant limits the proposed community to individuals and entities that have a “current registration and verifiable membership in a global music community organization”. The string MUSIC, however, identifies all individuals and entities involved in the creation of music, regardless of whether or not they have verifiable membership in a music-related organization.” (EIU CPE Determination, https://www.icann.org/sites/default/files/tlds/music/music-cpe-1-959-51046-en.pdf, Pg.5)
In antithesis, our definition, “a strictly delineated and organized (i.e. have the requisite awareness of the community) logical alliance of communities related to music” meets the Nexus criteria. This is because the DotMusic definition for the music community “identifies all individuals and entities involved in the creation of music, regardless of whether or not they have verifiable membership in a music-related organization.” i.e. DotMusic meets the Nexus requirements that the EIU asked for in its Far Further CPE decision.
We do have a priority stage/phase for established members of community member organizations. This is to prevent cybersquatting of famous music artists names (which has plagued the .COM extension for the music community) and is cheaper mechanism than Sunrise for established music constituents (our goal is to keep costs lower for established artists).
Priority stages are a common theme in the new gTLD Program (see new gTLD Early Access Programs) but it is used as a mechanism for registries to maximize profits and for registrants to get a valuable name they want at a higher cost (See https://www.join.law/about/eap, http://www.donuts.domains/services/early-access-program, http://domainnamewire.com/2014/06/23/rightside-to-switch-to-eap-in-lieu-of-traditional-landush/ and http://www.thedomains.com/2015/07/29/new-gtld-tech-enters-early-access-period-eap-today-with-40-pioneers/). The difference is our goal is not profit maximization but for recognized artists to secure their names in a cost-efficient manner, prevent cybersquatting as well as to increase industry adoption.
Thanks for the post Kevin. Much appreciated.
Donuts Inc. says:
Hollow letter collection campaigns to avoid fairly competing for .MUSIC are wrong and DotMusic’s efforts to drag this out further grow increasingly obvious and tiresome. Note that ICANN has said neither it nor the EIU will verify any correspondence submitted at this late date: https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/correspondence/willett-to-roussos-zamek-04dec15-en.pdf. As noted in our earlier letter (https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/correspondence/alvarez-to-icann-eiu-10dec15-en.pdf), the EIU is bound by precedent that a community application for .MUSIC is merely made up of “a proposed community construed to obtain a sought after generic word as a gTLD.” We and the other applicants seek only to continue competing fairly for .MUSIC.
This coming from an organization that has filed templated letters to the EIU and ICANN to obstruct every single community applicant in their contention set regardless of nature or affiliation.
In 4 of those cases (.RADIO, .HOTEL, .ECO and .SPA) the community applicants prevailed but Donuts did not consider those EIU decisions “bound by precedent” and filed accountability mechanisms against the EIU and ICANN to block the launch of those TLDs by community applicants. That is not fair competition, especially in light of the fact that Donuts has launched nearly 200 TLDs, the most of any applicant.
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But Ed O’Brien is not Jonny Greenwood…
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Early on Valentines, those in New Zealand got a valentine from mother Earth. Here is the USGS website for this M 5.8 earthquake, which was felt broadly across the region.
This earthquake, and an M 4.1 aftershock, occurred in the region of a M 6.1 earthquake from which the economy is still recovering.
Below is a map that includes seismicity from the past month (note the M 5.2 to the north of today’s earthquake). I plot the epicenter of the M 5.8 as an orange circle and I place the USGS moment tensor with my interpretation for the sense of motion for this earthquake. The M 5.2 is along strike, southwest of a M 6.8 earthquake from 2013. Here is my report on this M 6.8 earthquake. In the upper left corner, I also include a figure from Castelltort et al. (2012) that shows the regional tectonics. In the lower left corner I include the tectonic map from Benz et al. (2011) which shows how the East Vergent subduction zone at the Hikurangi Trench transforms (pun intended) via the Alpine fault (a right lateral strike-slip fault) to the West Vergent subduction zone at the Puysegur Trench. Fault vergence refers to the up-dip direction of the fault.
In the earthquake report poster I also include a map from GNS Science that shows the relative motion of different locations in New Zealand. Along the northern part of the South Island, the direction of motion is ardently sub parallel to the Alpine fault. In the lower right corner, I include a fault map from Mike Norton as published on Wikipedia. In the upper right corner I include a map showing the seismicity from the past century with color representing depth, from GeoNet. The subduction zones to the north and south are well evidenced by these depth plots. Also, the seismicity in the northern 2/3 of the South Island are shown to be shallow, as expected for strike slip fault systems. The shallowness of these earthquakes contributes to how well they are felt to the public.
There is a legend that shows how moment tensors can be interpreted. Moment tensors are graphical solutions of seismic data that show two possible fault plane solutions. One must use local tectonics, along with other data, to be able to interpret which of the two possible solutions is correct. The legend shows how these two solutions are oriented for each example (Normal/Extensional, Thrust/Compressional, and Strike-Slip/Shear). There is more about moment tensors and focal mechanisms at the USGS.
This M 5.8 earthquake was broadly felt. Here is a map that shows the Modified Mercalli Intensity (MMI) contours for this earthquake. The MMI is a qualitative measure of shaking intensity. More on the MMI scale can be found here and here.
For more on the graphical representation of moment tensors and focal mechnisms, check this IRIS video out:
GNS (New Zealand’s USGS) has a wonderful compilation of educational material for the tectonics of New Zealand. I include some of their maps and videos below.
Here is a video from GNS that describes the tectonics of New Zealand. This is a link to download the embedded video below (54 MB mp4).
On 2010.09.13, there was a M 7.0 earthquake (aka the Darfield Earthquake) out in a field and here is the USGS website for this earthquake. This earthquake was felt across all of New Zealand and felt strongly in Christchurch. Below is the “Did You Feel It?” map from the 2010 earthquake. There was not much damage because the location was “out in a field” (i.e. it was in rural NZ). Below is a blockquote from the USGS website for this M 7.0 earthquake.
Two people seriously injured, six bridges and many buildings damaged in the Christchurch area. About 30 km of right-lateral surface faulting with a maximum offset of more than 5 m was observed southeast of Darfield. Liquefaction caused damage at Bexley, Kaiapoi and in parts of Christchurch. Landslides were observed along the Rakaia River and the Port Hills area. Maximum intensity IX in the Christchurch-Greendale area and felt (VI) in much of Canterbury. Felt throughout New Zealand. Detailed information about this earthquake is available on the New Zealand GeoNet website at http://www.geonet.org.nz.
Here is a video that GNS put together to document the Darfield Earthquake. This is the yt link for the embedded video below.
However, on 2011.02.21, there was a M 6.1 earthquake that occurred in a location that led to strong ground shaking in the urban center of Christchurch. Here is the USGS website for this M 6.1 earthquake. The city and people are still recovering from this earthquake. The economics of the region will be hampered for decades to come. The “Canterbury Earthquake” occurred along a fault that did not rupture the surface, while the M 7.0 Darfield Earthquake had. GNS has more resources about this earthquake sequence here.
Here is a map prepared by GNS Science that shows the M 7.0 and M 6.1 mainshocks, as well as the aftershocks from this paired sequence.
Here is a map that GNS put together to help visualize their estimates of slip along the blind fault that ruptured in February of 2011. I include their text as a blockquote below the map.
Based on data from GPS stations, satellite radar images, seismographs and strong-motion recorders, the fault that caused the 22 February earthquake lies within about six kilometres of the city centre, along the southern edge of the city. The fault rupture (Fig. 1) was about 14 kilometres long, and extends east-northeast from Cashmere to the Avon-Heathcote estuary area. The fault plane extends a few kilometres offshore, but not much fault movement occurred beneath the ocean.
This Google map image shows the fault plane (rectangular area) across the southern part of Christchurch and northern Port Hills. Colours on the fault plane indicate the amount of slip between the two sides of the fault (see Fig. 2). The contour lines indicate the amount (in mm) the land has risen (blue contours) or subsided (red contours) due to the slip on the fault. The white line is the contour where there was no change in height. The red, green and yellow coloured symbols show some of the GPS stations whose displacements were used to derive the fault slip model.
The top of the fault lies at a depth of about a kilometre beneath the surface, and the rupture extends down along the fault plane for about seven kilometres. The fault is not a vertical cut through the earth, but rather it dips towards the south at an angle of about 65 degrees from the horizontal. The main part of the fault thus lies beneath the northern edge of the Port Hills.
I put together an animation that shows the earthquakes from New Zealand with magnitudes greater than or equal to M 6.5. Above is a screen shot of all these earthquakes and below is the animation. This is the kml file that I used to make this animation. Here is the query that I used to make this animation.
Here is a link to the mp4 file embedded below (2 MB mp4).
Here is an interesting (long) video about the Canterbury earthquake sequence. This is the yt link for the embedded video below.
Benz, H.M., Herman, Matthew, Tarr, A.C., Furlong, K.P., Hayes, G.P., Villaseñor, Antonio, Dart, R.L., and Rhea, Susan, 2011. Seismicity of the Earth 1900–2010 eastern margin of the Australia plate: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2010–1083-I, scale 1:8,000,000. http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2010/1083/i/
Castellort, S., Goren, L., Willett, S.D., Champagnac, J-D., Herman, F., and Braun, J., 2012. River drainage patterns in the New Zealand Alps primarily controlled by plate tectonic strain in Nature Geoscience, v. 5, p. 744-748.
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[…] There was an earthquake along the plate boundary between the Australia plate to the west and the Pacific plate to the east, just south of New Zealand. Here is the USGS website for this M 6.2 earthquake. Yesterday on 2015/02/14 there was a widely felt earthquake with a smaller magnitude of M = 5.8 near Christchurch, on the northern end of the South Island, New Zealand. The M 5.8 was in the region that is still rebuilding following the Darfield-Canterbury earthquake series in 2010-2011. Here is my earthquake report for the M 5.8 earthquake. […]
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January 31, 2010 UncategorizedTHEFEMINISTSPECTATOR
Silver Stars is a community-based, devised theatre piece by an Irish theatre company called Broken Talkers, who create work by mining people’s stories about their lives and knitting it into coherent evenings of theatre. The play, which I saw performed at the Under the Radar Festival at the Public Theater on January 16, collects narratives from middle-aged Irish gay men who, because of homophobia in their native country, had to flea elsewhere to live honestly and comfortably. Ten men tell the stories, sharing narration duties, so that it’s not necessarily clear whose story belongs to whom, or whether or not, for that matter, the story’s origin necessarily lies in anyone appearing on stage.The company has done a kind of ethnographic work to collect these narratives, which are then distributed among an amateur cast to be told, and turned into songs that dot the short performance and help texture it with emotional nuance that might otherwise be missing.
The songs are played by a trio of female cellists and a male electric guitar player who conducts this small but effective band. In the musical idiom of Phillip Glass or Steve Reich, played in repetitive but emotionally resonant and increasingly mournful tones, the music and songs allow the actors to tell these stories in quite a different register than the generally flat, uninflected vocal delivery they otherwise use. Perhaps the director didn’t trust the acting ability of these non-performers—to a person, they keep their faces still and impassive throughout the performance, even when the stories intensify and climb to greater emotional heights. Likewise, their voices are generally unmodulated. They don’t speak in monotones, but neither are their voices scored to reflect more poignantly the often brutal or devastating stories of family banishment and lovers’ deaths that for the most part provide the performance’s emotional key.
In some ways, this careful avoidance of outsized emotionality works well, as it allows you to trust the stories instead of distracting you with what could too easily be performance histrionics. The ten men range around the stage, positioned frontally toward the audience. But during each story, they turn their heads to listen to the central narrator, often contributing a line or two for punctuation or effect. The performers demonstrate careful, attentive, protective listening, perhaps modeling for the audience the calm but intense concentration Silver Stars wants us to bring.
Broken Talkers are known for combining media with live performance, and Silver Stars includes several video clips, projected on an aesthetically pleasing bright white square screen situated behind the performers stage left. In one scene, one of the younger men sits on a chair down center, and puts on large, black-framed glasses with eyes painted on the lenses in that psychedelic black and white swirling pattern that makes them appear to both actively bore into you and to be quite vacant and dead. The performer sits with his back to the audience as he’s filmed by a live video feed provided by a camera operator situated in the wings. His face is projected onto the screen as he tells his story, distancing the audience but in some ways making his account that much more intimate because the live projection brings him closer to us at the same time.
Some of the men are dressed formally in suits and ties, while others wear jeans and sweaters, standing with their hands tucked into their pockets. The men, throughout, are strikingly still; they move only occasionally, creating various groupings to which they walk with slow determination, in some ways illustrating how they left Ireland to find lives more accommodating to their gay desires. Sometimes they stand together, ranging across platforms that stagger their heights; sometimes, they stand across the stage distinct and alone, but maintaining that intense quality of listening that connects them in an invisible but unbreakable web.
Ironically, the actual stories are the least memorable aspect of Silver Stars. The names of the men in the are are projected on the video screen before each narrative, which describe parents disgusted by their sexual preferences who banish them from the family home, later to regret their actions. One story, in fact, is told by parents, Irish but living in America, videotaped sitting side by side in matching arm chairs, who describe how they couldn’t abide their son’s sexuality until he told them he was dying of AIDS. Only then could his father, in particular, set aside his distaste and figure out how to love his son regardless. He castigates himself for his narrow-mindedness, and describes how close he and his son became in the four remaining years of his life. The father’s unmediated grief and shame in his own behavior is poignant and raw, even on tape, and his wife, in a thicker Irish brogue, is nearly inarticulate with her own loss.
The stories delivered live by the performers for some reason stuck with me less. One relates how his lover, too, died of AIDS, how they’d always been together, an unbreakable pair whose names were inevitably linked in friends’ conversations, and the gaping absence left by his lover’s untimely death. Another story describes a young man leaving Ireland to find his sexual identity elsewhere, meeting two men on a train who take him under their wing, treat him to an adventure of gourmet food, elite hotels, and brilliant meetings with handsome men. His new companions turn out to be Benedictine monks, who bring him back to their monastery, where he finds these men have formed a beautiful, erotic, aesthetic community in which to live happily and with great devotion.
Each of the stories delivers its own poignant slice of life, most with the same elegiac, mournful or vaguely astonished happy tone, hitting their assigned marks both physically and emotionally before the performers fall back into their collective community. They take good care with one another and with the words they share, and the audience watches and listens with great respect. Because Under the Radar Festival, which produced the production, takes pains in the program to tell us they’re not really actors, it’s easy to admire the performers’ candor and bravery, as gay men willing to take the stage to tell stories about their lives or those similar to their own. Backed with graceful, mournful music that follows them along protectively and occasionally lets them sing or keen together, the men dutifully deliver the news that gay men in Ireland, even today, remain marginalized and too often despised. Silver Stars demonstrates how this particular group has put their lives together anyway, and lived, literally, to tell the tale.
The audience with which I saw Silver Stars at the Public was sympathetic and generous, inclined to listen intently and to witness these narratives as the men on stage did for one another. At the end of the performance, as people trickled out of the large Newman Theatre, the performers appeared back on the stage, coming out in the house to greet friends and acquaintances. Someone asked that they assemble for a photograph, and they formed a line on stage with their arms around one another’s waists, for the first time all evening smiling happily and proudly.
I was glad to witness that extra-theatrical moment, because it clarified the event’s personal importance for the performers. Watching them get their pictures taken felt like being in a high school auditorium after the senior play, when the actors are relieved at getting through their show, happy for the attention, grateful for the presence of their friends and families. Seeing these men gather, and watching their friends celebrate them, helped me recall that community-based theatre like Silver Stars is so important to people’s lives, not just for the stories it shares but for how it provides an opportunity for people like these ten men to stand within those stories, to justify and take pride in the lives they present in ways that few other social rituals provide. I was proud to be there.
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seán millar says:
dear jill
thank you for your review of “silver stars”
it took me years to make it and get it staged.
i feel your review is extremely accurate even where it is ,gently, critical.
it’s good to feel understood.
sean millar (sunbullmillar64@gmail.com)
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Venezuela expels Europe lawmakers as aid showdown intensifies
AFP , Monday 18 Feb 2019
Handout picture released by the Venezuelan Presidency showing Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro (C) speaking next to Venezuelan Defence Minister Vladimir Padrino (R) during the closing ceremony and balance of military exercices in Caracas, on February 15, 2019 (Photo: AFP)
Venezuela has expelled five visiting European lawmakers, an act opposition leader Juan Guaido branded "irrational" as his showdown with President Nicolas Maduro over the arrival of international aid intensifies.
The members of the European Parliament were being tossed out with no explanation, said Spanish MEP Esteban Gonzalez Pons, who led the group.
"We are being expelled from Venezuela. Our passports have been seized. They have not informed us of the reason for the expulsion," Pons said.
The incident on Sunday is the latest point of tension between the international community and Maduro, who is in the grip of a power struggle with Guaido, the head of the National Assembly who proclaimed himself interim president last month.
Guaido has the backing of more than 50 countries including 30 in Europe.
Pons' fellow Spaniards Jose Ignacio Salafranca and Gabriel Mato Adrover, as well as Esther de Lange of the Netherlands and Paulo Rangel of Portugal, were also expelled. All are members of the conservative European People's Party (PPE).
Writing on Twitter, Guaido said the MEPs were being "deported by an isolated and increasingly irrational regime."
Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza said the Europeans had "conspiratorial aims" and were sent back from the country's main Maiquetia airport.
Earlier Sunday Guaido set a goal of enlisting a million volunteers within a week to confront a government blockade that has kept tons of humanitarian aid, most of it from the United States, from flowing into the country where residents can't get enough food and say they are dying because of a shortage of medicines.
The economy is imploding
Guaido has given next Saturday -- one month to the day after he proclaimed himself acting president -- as the date for a showdown with Maduro over the aid.
Food supplies, hygiene kits and nutritional supplements have been stockpiled near the Venezuelan border in Cucuta, Colombia.
Additional storage centers are supposed to open this week in Brazil and Curacao, a Dutch island off Venezuela's northern Caribbean coast.
"Our principal task is to reach a million volunteers by February 23," Guaido said in a message to the 600,000 supporters who have signed up so far for the push to bring aid in.
Caravans of buses are being planned to carry volunteers to border entry points to meet and transport arriving cargo. Guaido has kept to himself how he plans to overcome the border barriers put up by the Venezuelan military, on Maduro's orders.
Volunteer groups have begun meeting in "humanitarian camps" in several Venezuelan states to organize and prepare for the aid arrival.
They have started to identify the most vulnerable and have begun caring for the needy in accordance with Guaido's promises.
Sometimes working under awnings or tents, doctors, nurses, dentists and pediatricians have attended to local residents who can receive donated medications.
Patients arrive with respiratory, skin or other ailments, and suffering from malnutrition.
An imploding economy has driven an estimated 2.3 million Venezuelans to migrate from the oil-rich country. Those who remain have been punished by hyperinflation that has put scarce food and medicine out of reach for many.
Andrea Hernandez, a physical therapy student whose mother is a pediatric nurse, is among those offering her help. Hernandez said her mother often "cried from seeing her patients die from lack of medicine."
Yorger Maita, a helper from the aid group Rescate Venezuela, said that if foreign aid doesn't enter "other people will continue to die."
Maduro, who denies the existence of a humanitarian crisis, dismisses the opposition moves as a "political show" and a cover for a US invasion.
"Venezuela is preparing for the humanitarian avalanche," Guaido told about 4,000 supporters clad in white T-shirts and green scarves who gathered Saturday to sign up as volunteers.
An international crime
US Senator Marco Rubio arrived Sunday in Cucuta for a first-hand look at the aid operations.
"Whoever prevents the entry of humanitarian aid is condemned to spend the rest of their lives fleeing international justice, because that is an international crime," Rubio said in Spanish.
Three US military cargo planes delivered several dozen more tons (tonnes) of food assistance to Cucuta on Saturday.
Another US aircraft is due in Curacao from Miami on Tuesday, and a collection center for Brazilian aid will open Monday on the border, Guaido's team said.
Venezuelans based in Miami held their own drive, putting together 1,000 crates of food to send to their homeland.
On Friday, Maduro instructed his army to prepare a "special deployment plan" for the 2,200-kilometer (1,370-mile) border with Colombia.
Guaido appealed for the military to let the aid pass.
Maduro has dismissed the humanitarian assistance as "crumbs" and "rotten and contaminated food" while blaming shortages of food and medicine on US sanctions.
For analyst Benigno Alarcon, "as the regime closes the door on humanitarian aid, it closes it to a peaceful solution to the political situation in the country."
Guaido announced that British billionaire Richard Branson was organizing a concert for February 22 in Cucuta with renowned international artists to raise money for the relief effort.
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New Home Sales During November 2020
Consumer Confidence Index (CCI) for December 2020
Leading Economic Index for November 2020
Employment Situation Report for November 2020
Consumer Sentiment: Final Results for November 2020
The 3 Major Indices Lost Some Ground On The Day, But All 3 Gained On The Month
The 3 major indices retreated today on bearishness related to more evidence that the economy is softening. 1,325,019,010 shares were traded @ The New York Stock Exchange®.
For the month, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) gained 1.8 percent, the NASDAQ Composite Index gained 4.4 percent, and the S + P 500 Index gained 2.1 percent.
Shares of NCI Building Systems Inc. (NCS) added $5.04 (+10.22%) to close @ $54.34.
Shares of Joy Global Inc. (JOYG) added $7.71 (+21.52%) to close @ $43.54.
Shares of Bucyrus International Inc. (BUCY) added $5.64 (+12.26%) to close @ $51.63.
Shares of PSB Bancorp Inc. (PSBI) added $4.86 (+43.90%) to close @ $15.93.
Shares of Blyth Inc. (BTH) added $4.37 (+25.54%) to close @ $21.48.
Shares of Glamis Gold Ltd. (GLG) added $7.26 (+18.68%) to close @ $46.12.
Shares of Student Loan Corporation (STU) added $11.18 (+6.48%) to close @ $183.80.
Shares of ADVO Inc. (AD) lost $8.21 (-22.31%) to close @ $28.59.
Shares of Joseph A. Bank Clothiers Inc. (JOSB) lost $4.56 (-16.01%) to close @ $23.93.
Shares of Goldcorp Inc. (GG) lost $2.81 (-9.22%) to close @ $27.66.
Shares of Pegasus Wireless Corporation (PGWC) lost $1.72 (-33.40%) to close @ $3.43.
DJIA: Closed @ 11,381.15 (-1.76)
NASDAQ: Closed @ 2,183.75 (-1.98)
S&P 500: Closed @ 1,303.82 (-0.45)
The U.S. Prime Rate (Fed Prime Rate) is 8.25%
10-Year Treasury Note Yield is currently @ 4.732%
Personal Income & Consumer Spending for July, 2006
Earlier today, the Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis released their report on Consumer Spending and Personal Income for July, 2006:
Personal Consumption Expenditures
(a.k.a. Consumer Spending)
Predicted: +0.2%
Actual: +0.8%
The above percentages represent the month-to-month change in Consumer Spending and Personal Income for the entire United States. The "predicted" figure is what economists and Wall Street forecasters were expecting, while the "actual" is the actual or real figure.
posted by Steve Brown | 8/31/2006 02:26:00 PM | 0 comments
U.S. Factory Orders Report for July, 2006
The U.S. Census Bureau this morning released their report on Manufacturers' Shipments, Inventories & Orders -- also known as Factory Orders -- for July, 2006:
Predicted: -1.0%
Actual: -0.6%
The above percentages represent the month-to-month change in orders for both durable and nondurable goods made by from U.S. manufacturers. The "predicted" figure is what economists and Wall Street forecasters were expecting, while the "actual" is the actual or real figure.
Click here to view the full Census Bureau report.
New Unemployment Insurance Claims for The Week of August 26, 2006
The U.S. Department of Labor this morning released the New Unemployment Insurance Claims report for the week that ended on August 26, 2006:
Actual: 316,000
The above figures represent the number of new claims for unemployment benefits for the entire United States. The "predicted" figure is what economists and Wall Street forecasters were expecting, while the "actual" is the actual or real figure.
Click here to view the full Labor Department report.
posted by Steve Brown | 8/31/2006 10:20:00 AM | 0 comments
DJIA and NASDAQ Composite Gained Today; S&P 500 Closed Flat
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) and the NASDAQ Composite gained some ground today, but the S + P 500 Index closed essentially flat. 1,279,535,440 shares were traded @ The New York Stock Exchange®.
Shares of DJIA component Boeing (BA) gained $1.24 (+1.68%) to close @ $75.02.
Shares of DJIA component Exxon Mobil (XOM) lost $1.11 (-1.60%) to close @ $68.30.
Shares of Micros Systems Inc. (MCRS) added $7.95 (+20.67%) to close @ $46.41.
Shares of Veritas DGC Inc. (VTS) added $3.12 (+5.56%) to close @ $59.28.
Shares of Versant Corporation (VSNT) added $2.22 (+35.92%) to close @ $8.40.
Shares of Sigma Designs Inc. (SIGM) added $1.98 (+16.85%) to close @ $13.73.
Shares of Systemax Inc. (SYX) added $1.98 (+23.71%) to close @ $10.33.
Shares of Dycom Industries Inc. (DY) added $1.69 (+9.33%) to close @ $19.80.
Shares of PAR Technology Corporation (PTC) added $1.22 (+15.40%) to close @ $9.14.
Shares of Travelzoo Inc. (TZOO) lost $4.10 (-11.60%) to close @ $31.23.
Shares of Holly Corporation (HOC) lost $3.56 (-7.37%) to close @ $44.77.
Shares of Genetic Technologies Ltd. (GENE) lost $1.00 (-11.98%) to close @ $7.35.
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) "Preliminary" Released Today for Q2, 2006
The preliminary, real U.S. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) report for the second-quarter of 2006 was released this morning:
The above percentages represent the quarter-to-quarter change in the Gross Domestic Product for the United States. The "predicted" figure is what economists and Wall Street forecasters were expecting, while the "actual" is the actual or real figure. The GDP report is produced by the U.S. Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis.
The final GDP report for Q2, 2006, which will contain the most authoritative data for the second-quarter, will be released on September 28, 2006.
The GDP is a very broad measure of economic activity for the entire United States, covering all sectors of the economy. The Commerce Department defines real GDP as, "the output of goods and services produced by labor and property located in the United States."
Here's a snippet from a press release issued by the Commerce Department this morning:
"Real gross domestic product -- the output of goods and services produced by labor and property located in the United States -- increased at an annual rate of 2.9 percent in the second quarter of 2006, according to preliminary estimates released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. In the first quarter, real GDP increased 5.6 percent.
The GDP estimates released today are based on more complete source data than were available for the advance estimates issued last month. In the advance estimates, the increase in real GDP was 2.5 percent.
The increase in real GDP in the second quarter primarily reflected positive contributions from personal consumption expenditures (PCE) for services, private inventory investment, nonresidential structures, exports, and state and local government spending that were partly offset by negative contributions from residential fixed investment and federal government spending. Imports, which are a
subtraction in the calculation of GDP, increased.
The deceleration in real GDP growth in the second quarter primarily reflected a deceleration in PCE for durable goods, downturns in equipment and software and in federal government spending, decelerations in exports and in PCE for nondurable goods, and a larger decrease in residential fixed investment that were partly offset by a deceleration in imports, an acceleration in PCE for services, and an upturn in private inventory investment.
Final sales of computers contributed 0.05 percentage point to the second-quarter growth in real GDP after contributing 0.07 percentage point to the first-quarter growth. Motor vehicle output subtracted 0.28 percentage point from the second-quarter growth in real GDP after contributing 0.12 percentage point to the first-quarter growth."
Crude Oil Inventories Report for Week of August 25, 2006
The U.S. Crude Oil Inventories report for the week that ended on August 25, 2006 was released this morning:
The Possibility that The Fed May Remain on The Sidelines Helped The 3 Majors Advance Today
The 3 major indices advanced today as investors got bullish in response to the content in the minutes from the August 8TH Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) monetary policy meeting. 1,376,852,020 shares were traded @ The New York Stock Exchange®.
NY Spot Gold closed @ $610.60/ounce (-$4.30)
Consumer Confidence Index (CCI) for August, 2006
The Consumer Confidence Index (CCI) for this month (August, 2006) was released by The Conference Board this morning:
Predicted: 103.0
Actual: 99.6
The "predicted" figure is what economists and Wall Street forecasters were expecting, while the "actual" is the actual or real figure.
Every month, The Conference Board sends a questionnaire to 5,000 U.S. households. Survey participants are polled about their feeling regarding the current U.S. economy, the future of the U.S. economy, and about their own fiscal circumstances. On average, 3,500 participants complete and return the 5-question survey.
The baseline "100" score for the CCI is pegged to 1985 survey data.
When consumers feel good about the economy, they tend to do more spending, and vice versa.
Based in New York City, The Conference Board is a private, not-for-profit organization with a mission to, "create and disseminate knowledge about management and the marketplace to help businesses strengthen their performance and better serve society."
The CCI is always released on the last Tuesday of the month.
Last month, the CCI was 106.5.
Redbook Numbers for The Week of August 26, 2006
The Redbook numbers for the week that ended on August 26, 2006 were released this morning:
Redbook Sales Figures: +3.3%
The Redbook measures the weekly sales at chain stores, discount stores, and department stores--about 9,000 stores in total--and is therefore an important measure of current consumer spending in the U.S. The above figure represents the year-to-year change in the Redbook sales figures, so sales are up by 3.3% when compared to sales during the corresponding week back in August of 2005.
The weekly Johnson Redbook Index report is produced by Redbook Research.
Healthy Gains for The 3 Majors Today, On Cheaper Crude
The 3 major indices enjoyed healthy gains today on cheaper crude oil prices: investors got bullish on news that Tropical Storm Ernesto won't cause problems for refineries and rigs in the Gulf of Mexico. 1,157,287,620 shares were traded @ The New York Stock Exchange®.
Shares of Giant Industries Inc. (GI) gained $10.43 (+14.53%) to close @ $82.22.
Shares of Energy Partners Ltd. (EPL) gained $5.74 (+31.20%) to close @ $24.14.
Shares of InterVideo Inc. (IVII) gained $3.05 (+31.76%) to close @ $12.64.
Shares of Oilgear Co. (OLGR) gained $3.98 (+36.92%) to close @ $14.76.
Shares of Strategic Distribution Inc. (STRD) fell by $1.05 (-8.09%) to close @ $11.93.
NASDAQ Composite The Only Major Index To Gain Today; All 3 Majors Down On The Week
The NASDAQ Composite Index was the only major index to advance today; all 3 major indices lost ground on the week. 1,062,401,540 shares were traded @ The New York Stock Exchange®.
For the week, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) fell by 0.86%, the NASDAQ Composite Index fell by 1.09%, and the S&P 500 Index fell by 0.55%.
Shares of NYSE Group (NYX) gained $1.22 (+2.14%) to close @ $58.31. NYSE Group owns the New York Stock Exchange®.
Shares of Texas Pacific Land Trust (TPL) gained $12.75 (+8.36%) to close @ $165.25.
Shares of Ansoft Corporation (ANST) gained $3.11 (+15.34%) to close @ $23.38.
Shares of DryShips Inc. (DRYS) gained $1.51 (+12.59%) to close @ $13.50.
Shares of Imperial Industries Inc. (IPII) gained $1.57 (+11.63%) to close @ $15.07.
Shares of Hoku Scientific, Inc. (HOKU) gained $1.24 (+36.05%) to close @ $4.68.
Shares of Isle of Capri Casinos Inc. (ISLE) fell by $2.64 (-12.03%) to close @ $19.30.
Shares of NVE Corporation (NVEC) fell by $3.37 (-11.17%) to close @ $26.79.
Shares of Centene Corporation (CNC) fell by $1.38 (-7.71%) to close @ $16.51.
Shares of Corcept Therapeutics Inc. (CORT) fell by $1.96 (-56.00%) to close @ $1.54.
Shares of Sotheby's Holdings Inc. (BID) fell by $1.44 (-5.07%) to close @ $26.95.
DJIA: Closed @ 11,284.05 (-20.41)
NASDAQ: Closed @ 2,140.29 (+3.18)
Modest Gains for The 3 Major Indices Today, As Crude Oil Prices Climbed
The 3 major indexes enjoyed modest gains today as the price on crude for future delivery climbed. 1,247,755,040 shares were traded @ The New York Stock Exchange®.
Shares of Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) component Exxon Mobil (XOM) gained $1.09 to close @ $70.72.
Shares of Fannie Mae (FNM) gained $2.36 to close @ $51.53 on news that the Justice Department has completed its probe into the company's accounting practices.
Shares of EBay (EBAY) fell by $1.22 to close @ $25.78.
DJIA: Closed @ 11,304.46 (+6.56)
S + P 500: Closed @ 1,296.06 (+3.07)
New Home Sales for July, 2006
The July, 2006 New Home Sales report was released this morning:
New Home Sales for July: 1,072,000
July New Home Sales: Average Price: $293,500
July New Home Sales: Median Price: $230,000
June, 2006 New Home Sales (Revised): 1,120,000
Durable Goods Orders Report for July, 2006 Released Today
The Durable Goods Orders report for July, 2006 was released this morning:
The above percentages represent the month-to-month change in orders for durable or hard goods for immediate or future delivery from U.S. manufacturers. Examples of durable goods: cars, microwave ovens, computers -- items that are built to last 3+ years.
The "predicted" figure is what economists and Wall Street forecasters were expecting, while the "actual" is the actual or real figure. The U.S. Durable Goods Orders report is produced by the U.S. Commerce Department.
The 3 Majors Declined On News of A Sluggish Housing Market
All 3 major indices declined today as investors reacted bearishly to news that the U.S. housing market is waning. 1,211,872,670 shares were traded @ The New York Stock Exchange®.
Shares of Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) component Caterpillar (CAT) fell by $1.29 (-1.88%) to close @ $67.21.
Shares of eCom Ventures, Inc. (ECMV) gained $1.43 (+15.77%) to close @ $10.50.
Shares of Moscow CableCom Corporation (MOCC) gained $1.20 (+14.48%) to close @ $9.49.
Shares of OmegaFlex, Inc. (OFLX) gained $2.51 (+11.73%) to close @ $23.90.
Shares of NYSE Group (NYX) fell by $1.26 (-2.19%) to close @ $56.35. The NYSE Group owns the New York Stock Exchange®.
Shares of Payless Shoesource Inc. (PSS) fell by $2.94 (-11.29%) to close @ $23.10.
Shares of ESCO Technologies Inc. (ESE) fell by $5.14 (-8.92%) to close @ $52.50.
Shares of International Securities Exchange Inc (ISE) fell by $3.16 (-7.12%) to close @ $41.22.
NASDAQ: Closed @ 2,134.66 (-15.36)
Weekly Change: -600,000 Barrels
Yearly Change: +7,500,000 Barrels
Existing Home Sales for July, 2006
The Existing Home Sales report for July, 2006 was released by The National Association of Realtors® this morning:
The U.S. Existing Home Sales report is a sales count of existing homes, co-ops and condominiums for a given month. The "predicted" figure is what economists and Wall Street forecasters were expecting, while the "actual" is the actual or real figure.
Click here to view the full NAR report.
The 3 Majors Closed Essentially Flat Today On Jitters Related to Comments Made by 2 Fed Officials
Comments made by two Federal Reserve officials contributed much to the 3 major indices closing essentially flat today. Chicago Fed boss Michael Moskow and Atlanta Fed chief Jack Guynn both expressed concern about inflation in separate speeches today, which caused many investors to reconsider current interest rate predictions for 2006. 1,215,985,200 shares were traded @ The New York Stock Exchange®.
Shares of Pharmaxis Ltd. (PXSL) gained $3.50 (+16.67%) to close @ $24.50.
Shares of Mills Corporation (MLS) gained $2.56 (+15.31%) to close @ $19.28.
Shares of MGP Ingredients Inc. (MGPI) gained $3.03 (+15.18%) to close @ $22.99.
Shares of Hurco Companies Inc. (HURC) gained $3.03 (+13.28%) to close @ $25.85.
Shares of Travelzoo Inc. (TZOO) gained $3.92 (+12.86%) to close @ $34.40.
Shares of Delta Petroleum Corporation (DPTR) gained $2.06 (+11.49%) to close @ $19.99.
Shares of Mirant Corporation (MIR) gained $1.15 (+4.17%) to close @ $28.70.
Shares of Candela Corporation (CLZR) fell by $4.16 (-28.71%) to close @ $10.33.
Shares of Harman International Industries Inc. (HAR) fell by $3.58 (-4.23%) to close @ $81.05.
Shares of Winmark Corporation (WINA) fell by $1.26 (-5.09%) to close @ $23.50.
In New York, The Euro buys 1.28 U.S. Dollars
The U.S. Prime Rate is 8.25%
The 3 Majors Retreated Today
All 3 major indices retreated today as both crude oil for future delivery and New York Spot Gold got more expensive. 1,113,165,930 shares were traded @ The New York Stock Exchange®.
Shares of Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) component Boeing (BA) fell by $0.99 (-1.28%) to close @ $76.63.
Shares of Gold Kist Inc. (GKIS) gained $6.09 (+47.10%) to close @ $19.02.
Shares of OraLabs Holding Corporation (OLAB) gained $3.31 (+99.70%) to close @ $6.63.
Shares of Harvest Natural Resources Inc. (HNR) gained $1.94 (+16.29%) to close @ $13.85.
Shares of International Assets Holding Corporation (IAAC) gained $2.48 (+12.65%) to close @ $22.08.
Shares of CTI Industries Corporation (CTIB) gained $1.25 (+50.20%) to close @ $3.74.
Shares of NewMarket Corporation (NEU) gained $5.04 (+8.70%) to close @ $62.98.
Shares of Agnico-Eagle Mines Ltd. (AEM) gained $2.55 (+7.35%) to close @ $37.26.
Shares of Glamis Gold Ltd. (GLG) gained $2.23 (+6.23%) to close @ $38.05.
Shares of Kensey Nash Corp. (KNSY) fell by $2.88 (-9.74%) to close @ $26.72.
Shares of Medis Technologies Ltd. (MDTL) fell by $2.08 (-8.42%) to close @ $22.62.
Shares of Meritage Homes Corporation (MTH) fell by $2.20 (-5.18%) to close @ $40.25.
Shares of Sinopec Shanghai Petrochemical Co. Ltd. (SHI) fell by $4.62 (-8.92%) to close @ $47.20.
Shares of Ashland Inc. (ASH) fell by $3.80 (-5.73%) to close @ $62.55.
NY Spot Gold closed @ $625.60/ounce (+$13.70)
All 3 Major Indices Advanced On The Day and On The Week
The 3 major indexes gained ground on the day and for the week; crude oil prices edged upward today. 1,341,610,550 shares were traded @ The New York Stock Exchange®.
For the week, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) gained 2.65%, the NASDAQ Composite Index gained 5.16%, and the S + P 500 Index gained 2.81%.
Shares of Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) component Altria Group (MO) gained $3.22 (+3.99%) to close @ $83.97.
Shares of DJIA component Caterpillar (CAT) fell by $1.05 (-1.51%) to close @ $68.31.
Shares of DJIA component Exxon Mobil (XOM) gained $1.02 (+1.50%) to close @ $69.10.
Shares of Bebe Stores, Inc. (BEBE) gained $3.76 (+20.38%) to close @ $22.21.
Shares of Lone Star Steakhouse & Saloon Inc. (STAR) gained $3.55 (+15.07%) to close @ $27.10.
Shares of NVE Corporation (NVEC) gained $3.29 (+13.48%) to close @ $27.69.
Shares of Aeropostale Inc. (ARO) gained $3.06 (+13.34%) to close @ $26.00.
Shares of Cost Plus Inc. (CPWM) fell by $2.81 (-21.32%) to close @ $10.37.
Shares of Chart Industries, Inc. (GTLS) fell by $3.21 (-20.91%) to close @ $12.14.
Shares of DeVry Inc. (DV) fell by $2.65 (-11.37%) to close @ $20.65.
Shares of Focus Media Holding Ltd. (FMCN) fell by $4.85 (-7.75%) to close @ $57.70.
Shares of Adams Respiratory Therapeutics Inc. (ARXT) fell by $3.35 (-7.43%) to close @ $41.75.
Shares of ResMed Inc. (RMD) fell by $3.40 (-7.31%) to close @ $43.10.
Consumer Sentiment (Preliminary) for August, 2006
The preliminary Consumer Sentiment numbers for August, 2006 were released this morning:
Predicted: 83.8
The Consumer Sentiment Index is compiled on a monthly basis by the University of Michigan; 500 U.S. households are queried about their own financial circumstances and about the economy in general. 200 questions are asked, e.g. "Do you think that right now is a good time to purchase a major household item, like a new microwave oven, TV set, or a new sofa?"
The Consumer Sentiment Index uses a 1966 baseline, i.e. for 1966, the Consumer Sentiment Index = 100. So any number that is below the 1966 baseline of 100 means that the folks who were polled recently aren't as optimistic about the U.S. economy as the sample that was polled back in 1966.
The Consumer Sentiment Index is similar to the Consumer Confidence Index in that they both measure consumer attitudes and offer insight into consumer spending.
Modest Gains for The 3 Major Indices Today, On Cheaper Crude Oil
The 3 major indexes closed with modest gains today, as crude for future delivery got cheaper and the cost of New York Spot Gold fell by $13.20. 1,570,544,080 shares were traded @ The New York Stock Exchange®.
Shares of Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) component Merck (MRK) fell by $2.35 (-5.71%) to close @ $38.83 on news of two legal setbacks, including a recent jury award of $51 million for retired FBI agent Gerald Barnett, who suffered a heart attack while taking Vioxx.
Shares of Longs Drug Stores Corporation (LDG) gained $4.00 (+9.10%) to close @ $47.96.
Shares of Blue Coat Systems Inc. (BCSI) gained $2.09 (+14.95%) to close @ $16.07.
Shares of Red Hat Inc. (RHAT) gained $2.66 (+11.54%) to close @ $25.71.
Shares of Men's Wearhouse Inc. (MW) gained $3.21 (+9.25%) to close @ $37.93.
NY Spot Gold closed @ $615.30/ounce (-$13.20)
Leading Economic Indicators for July, 2006
The Conference Board report on the nation's Leading Economic Indicators for July, 2006 was released this morning:
Predicted: +0.1 %
The above numbers represent the month-to-month change for the nation's leading economic indicators. The "predicted" figure is what economists and Wall Street forecasters were expecting, while the "actual" is the actual or real figure.
The Leading Economic Indicators Index is a composite of 10 of the nation's economic data releases that's put together by The Conference Board. Statistically, the components listed below have shown a significant increase or decrease before national economic upturns or downturns, respectively:
The Money Supply (M2)
The Standard + Poor's 500 Index
The interest rate spread between 10-year Treasury Notes and Fed Funds Target Rate
Manufacturer's new orders for consumer goods or materials
Manufacturer's new orders for non-defense capital goods
Average weekly claims for unemployment insurance
Average weekly manufacturing hours
The Index of Consumer Expectations
Vendor performance
Building permits for new private housing
An Encouraging CPI Report for July Helped All 3 Majors to Advance Today
All 3 major indices enjoyed healthy gains today. The numbers in the July Consumer Price Index (CPI) report indicate that inflation is waning, which may lead to the Fed leaving interest rates alone on September 20TH. 1,603,890,040 shares were traded @ The New York Stock Exchange®.
Shares of Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) component Caterpillar (CAT) gained $1.70 to close @ $69.11.
Shares of TOM Online Inc. (TOMO) gained $3.34 (+31.39%) to close @ $13.98.
Shares of Rackable Systems Inc. (RACK) gained $3.15 (+15.73%) to close @ $23.18.
Shares of Peabody Energy Corporation (BTU) gained $3.15 (+7.05%) to close @ $47.86.
Shares of Lone Star Technologies Inc. (LSS) gained $3.52 (+8.04%) to close @ $47.30.
Shares of Sterling Construction (STRL) gained $2.63 (+13.11%) to close @ $22.69.
Shares of Eagle Materials Inc. (EXP) gained $2.46 (+6.91%) to close @ $38.06.
Shares of Chico's FAS Inc. (CHS) gained $1.59 (+6.96%) to close @ $24.44.
Shares of Daktronics Inc. (DAKT) fell by $8.57 (-27.67%) to close @ $22.40.
Shares of FortuNet (FNET) fell by $1.20 (-12.75%) to close @ $8.21.
Shares of Casella Waste Systems Inc. (CWST) fell by $1.30 (-9.53%) to close @ $12.34.
Shares of Carolina Group (CG) fell by $3.22 (-5.32%) to close @ $57.35.
Shares of Tween Brands (TWB) fell by $2.02 (-5.31%) to close @ $36.00.
Weekly Change: -1,600,000 Barrels
Diminishing crude oil inventories can often translate to higher crude oil prices (and vice versa), but not always.
Consumer Price Index (CPI) for July, 2006
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) numbers for July, 2006 were released by The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics this morning:
Consensus: +0.4%
Here are the numbers when food and energy are subtracted from the equation:
The "consensus" is what economists and Wall Street forecasters were expecting, while the "actual" is the actual or real figure.
The above numbers represent the month-to-month change in prices for a specific group of goods and services that consumers buy, and is, therefore, a very important part of the overall inflation picture for the country.
General categories are:
Miscellaneous Goods & Services (grooming expenses, etc.)
Housing Starts in July, 2006
The U.S. Commerce Department this morning released the Housing Starts report for July, 2006:
Housing Starts:
Consensus: 1,800,000
The above is a measure of initial construction of single and multi-family residential units in The United States for last month. The "consensus" is what economists and Wall Street forecasters were expecting, while the "actual" is the actual or real figure.
If you're wondering about the demand for new homes in the United States, or about the American construction industry in general, then you should pay attention to the monthly Housing Starts report. The monthly Housing Starts report also offers insight into specific types of consumer spending: when housing starts are up, demand for the stuff that a consumer would purchase for a new home (large appliances, consumer electronics, furniture, etc.) tends to also rise--and vice versa.
Strong Gains for All 3 Majors Today, On An Encouraging PPI Report
All 3 major indexes enjoyed strong gains today as investors got bullish about the numbers in the July Producer Price Index (PPI) report, which indicate that inflation is starting to simmer down: this translates to an increased likelihood that the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) will pass on raising the Fed Funds Target Rate on September 20TH. 1,514,916,910 shares were traded @ The New York Stock Exchange®.
Shares of Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) component JP Morgan Chase (JPM) gained $1.15 (+2.62%) to close @ $45.04.
Shares of DJIA component 3M (MMM) gained $1.16 (+1.69%) to close @ $69.78.
Shares of New River Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NRPH) gained $3.17 (+13.76%) to close @ $26.20.
Shares of Equinix Inc. (EQIX) gained $7.67 (+15.24%) to close @ $58.00.
Shares of TriPath Imaging Inc. (TPTH) gained $3.70 (+72.27%) to close @ $8.82.
Shares of Optical Cable Corporation (OCCF) gained $2.25 (+63.38%) to close @ $5.80.
Shares of Delta & Pine Land Co. (DLP) gained $4.10 (+11.31%) to close @ $40.34.
Shares of Suntech Power Holdings Co. Ltd. (STP) gained $3.19 (+11.39%) to close @ $31.20.
Shares of Redback Networks Inc. (RBAK) gained $2.22 (+13.55%) to close @ $18.60.
Shares of MEMC Electronic Materials Inc. (WFR) gained $3.28 (+10.45%) to close @ $34.66.
Shares of BJ's Wholesale Club Inc. (BJ) fell by $1.69 (-6.17%) to close @ $25.71.
Shares of Simclar Inc. (SIMC) fell by $3.16 (-35.43%) to close @ $5.76.
Shares of Imperial Industries Inc. (IPII) fell by $3.55 (-21.13%) to close @ $13.25.
Shares of Quest Resource Corporation (QRCP) fell by $2.01 (-15.39%) to close @ $11.05.
Shares of Optelecom-NKF Inc. (OPTC) fell by $4.21 (-34.76%) to close @ $7.90.
Shares of Handheld Entertainment (ZVUE) fell by $2.06 (-33.47%) to close @ $4.10.
DJIA: Closed @ 11,230.26 (+132.39)
S&P 500: Closed @ 1,285.58 (+17.37)
NYMEX Crude Oil Future closed @ $73.05/barrel
Producer Price Index (PPI) for July, 2006
The Producer Price Index (PPI) numbers for July, 2006 were released this morning:
The above numbers represent the month-to-month change in prices for a specific group of goods and capital equipment that producers buy in order to produce finished goods for consumers. The PPI is an important part of the overall inflation picture for the country because when costs go up for producers, producers will often pass those increased costs on to consumers.
The PPI is released by the Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The PPI is a family or amalgamation of indexes, including The:
All Commodities Index
Crude Energy Materials Index
Crude Foodstuffs & Feedstuffs Index
Crude Materials for Further Processing Index
Finished Goods Index
Finished Consumer Foods Index
Finished Consumer Goods Index
Finished Consumer Goods Excluding Foods Index
Finished Energy Goods Index
Finished Goods: Capital Equipment Index
Finished Goods Excluding Foods Index
Finished Goods Less Energy Index
Finished Goods Less Food & Energy Index
Fuels & Related Products & Power Index
Industrial Commodities Index
Intermediate Energy Goods Index
Intermediate Foods & Feeds Index
Intermediate Materials: Supplies & Components Index
The 3 Majors Enjoyed Modest Gains on Cheaper Crude
The 3 major indices enjoyed modest gains today, as crude for future delivery fell below the $74 mark, and tensions in the Middle East abated. 1,397,177,450 shares were traded @ The New York Stock Exchange®.
Shares of Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) component International Business Machines (IBM) gained $1.20 (+1.59%) to close @ $76.68.
Shares of Neurochem Inc. (NRMX) gained $2.23 (+23.50%) to close @ $11.72.
Shares of Hewitt Associates Inc. (HEW) gained $2.40 (+11.64%) to close @ $23.01.
Shares of Ebix Inc. (EBIX) gained $1.93 (+11.31%) to close @ $19.00.
Shares of Schweitzer-Mauduit International Inc. (SWM) gained $1.18 (+7.11%) to close @ $17.78.
Shares of Weight Watcher's International Inc. (WTW) gained $3.31 (+8.66%) to close @ $41.55.
Shares of Calgon Carbon Corporation (CCC) fell by $1.59 (-27.23%) to close @ $4.25.
Shares of Phazar Corporation (ANTP) fell by $1.98 (-23.80%) to close @ $6.34.
Shares of Micronetics Inc. (NOIZ) fell by $3.20 (-26.67%) to close @ $8.80.
Shares of Modtech Holdings Inc. (MODT) fell by $1.60 (-21.89%) to close @ $5.71.
Shares of Student Loan Corporation (STU) fell by $12.30 (-7.07%) to close @ $161.70.
Shares of Dril-Quip Inc. (DRQ) fell by $4.60 (-5.73%) to close @ $75.63.
All 3 Majors Lost Ground Today On Continued Concern About Interest Rates
The 3 major indices retreated today as investors worried that the numbers in today's Retail Sales report for July may influence a possible Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) decision to raise interest rates later this year. 1,592,855,390 shares were traded @ The New York Stock Exchange®.
For the week, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) fell by 1.36%, the NASDAQ Composite Index fell by 1.31%, and the S + P 500 Index fell by 0.99%.
Shares of DJIA component American International Group (AIG) gained $1.25 (+2.07%) to close @ $61.57.
Shares of Intrawest Corporation (IDR) gained $7.67 (+28.93%) to close @ $34.18.
Shares of Building Materials Holding Corporation (BMHC) gained $2.88 (+13.75%) to close @ $23.83.
Shares of U.S. Global Investors, Inc. (GROW) gained $2.58 (+13.58%) to close @ $21.58.
Shares of Mills Corp. (MLS) fell by $6.68 (-29.57%) to close @ $15.91.
Shares of Analog Devices Inc. (ADI) fell by $5.17 (-16.21%) to close @ $26.73.
Shares of Parlux Fragrances Inc. (PARL) fell by $3.38 (-41.42%) to close @ $4.78.
Shares of Bisys Group Inc. (BSG) fell by $2.66 (-22.32%) to close @ $9.26.
Shares of LMI Aerospace Inc. (LMIA) fell by $3.45 (-16.43%) to close @ $17.55.
Shares of US Energy Systems Inc. (USEY) fell by $1.41 (-23.98%) to close @ $4.47.
Shares of AngioDynamics Inc. (ANGO) fell by $3.02 (-14.60%) to close @ $17.67.
Shares of India Fund, Inc. (IFN) fell by $2.72 (-6.68%) to close @ $37.99.
In New York, The U.S. Dollar buys 0.786 Euros
U.S. Retail & Food Services Sales Report for July, 2006
The Commerce Department this morning released advanced estimates of U.S. Retail and Food Services Sales for July, 2006:
Minus Auto Sales
Actual : +1.0%
The above percentages represent the month-to-month change in total sales receipts for retailers that sell both durable and non-durable goods.
Here's a snippet from today's Commerce Department report:
"The U.S. Census Bureau announced today that advance estimates of U.S. retail and food services sales for July, adjusted for seasonal variation and holiday and trading-day differences, but not for price changes, were $367.9 billion, an increase of 1.4 percent (±0.7%) from the previous month and up 4.8 percent (±0.8%) from July 2005. Total sales for the May through July 2006 period were up 5.9 percent ±0.3%) from the same period a year ago. The May to June 2006 percent change was revised from -0.1 percent (±0.7%)* to -0.4 percent (± 0.2%).
Retail trade sales were up 1.5 percent (±0.7%) from June and were 4.5 percent (±0.8%) above last year. Gasoline stations were up 19.2 percent (±2.0%) from July 2005 and sales of nonstore retailers were up 15.6 percent (±4.5%) from last year. "
Click here to view the full report.
U.S. Import and Export Price Indices for July, 2006
The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics this morning released the Price Indices for U.S. Imports and Exports for July, 2006 :
The above percentages represent the month-to-month change in prices for
Imports: the cost of goods produced in other countries and sold in the U.S.
Exports: the cost of goods produced in the U.S. and sold in other countries.
Together, these indices offer insight into the status of inflation in the United States, and for the global economy as well.
The following is a snippet from today's Labor Department report:
"The U.S. Import Price Index increased 0.9 percent in July, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor reported today. A 4.7 percent advance in petroleum prices more than offset a modest 0.1 percent decline in nonpetroleum prices. The price index of overall exports rose 0.4 percent in July following a 0.7 percent increase in June.
Import Goods
Import prices rose 0.9 percent in July, led up for the third time in the past four months by rising petroleum prices. The price index for import petroleum, which advanced 11.3 percent in April and 6.4 percent in May, increased 4.7 percent in July following a 1.4 downturn in June. For the year, petroleum prices rose 29.6 percent. In contrast, nonpetroleum prices edged down a modest 0.1 percent in July after increasing in each of the previous three months. Prices for nonpetroleum imports advanced 2.3 percent over the past 12 months, while overall import prices rose 7.0 percent for the same period.
The small July decrease in nonpetroleum prices was led by a downturn in the price index for nonpetroleum industrial supplies and materials, which fell 0.9 percent following increases of 2.8 percent and 1.3 percent, respectively, in May and June. The drop in nonpetroleum industrial supplies and materials prices was driven by a turnaround in unfinished metal prices, although lower prices for natural gas and building materials also contributed to the July decline. Higher chemicals and finished metal prices, however, served to offset some of the decline in nonpetroleum industrial supplies and materials.
A modest 0.1 percent decrease in consumer goods prices also contributed to lower July prices for nonpetroleum imports. Consumer goods prices were unchanged over the past 12 months.
In contrast, the price indexes for automotive vehicles, capital goods, and foods, feeds, and beverages all rose in July. Automotive vehicle prices increased 0.2 percent for the second consecutive month, and advanced 0.7 percent for the year ended in July. Capital goods prices and prices for foods, feeds, and beverages each ticked up 0.1 percent for the month. The increase in capital goods prices followed a 0.3 percent rise in June, but despite those increases, the index declined 0.4 percent over the past year. Prices for foods, feeds, and beverages rose 3.9 percent for the July 2005-2006 period.
Export Goods
Export prices increased 0.4 percent in July, as both agricultural prices and nonagricultural prices contributed to the advance. Prices for agricultural exports rose 1.9 percent after a 2.5 percent increase in June. Higher prices for wheat, fruit, and soybeans all contributed to the increase. Agricultural prices advanced 1.9 percent over the past year, as the recent increases more than offset lower prices at the end of 2005 and the beginning of 2006. Nonagricultural prices continued a steady upward trend in July, rising 0.2 percent. Over the past 12 months, nonagricultural prices increased 4.6 percent, and overall export prices rose a similar 4.4 percent.
The advance in nonagricultural prices was again led by rising prices for nonagricultural industrial supplies and materials, which increased 0.6 percent. The latter increase was led by higher prices for chemicals, plastic materials, and fuels. However, lower metals prices were an offsetting factor and prices for nonagricultural industrial supplies and materials rose at a smaller rate than in the previous three months, when the increases ranged between 1.7 and 2.0 percent. The index increased 13.5 percent for the year ended in July. Prices for consumer goods and automotive vehicles rose 0.4 percent and 0.3 percent, respectively, contributing to the overall increase in nonagricultural prices. Consumer goods prices increased 2.5 percent over the past year, while prices for automotive vehicles advanced 1.6 percent.
Capital goods prices fell a modest 0.1 percent for the second consecutive month, but increased 0.3 percent over the past 12 months."
The 3 Majors Gained Ground On Cheaper Crude Oil
The 3 major indexes advanced today as crude for September delivery fell to $74 per barrel and New York Spot Gold fell by $15.50 to close @ $635.10 per ounce. 1,592,855,390 shares were traded @ The New York Stock Exchange®.
Shares of Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) component American International Group (AIG) gained $1.83 to close @ $60.32.
Treasury Budget for July, 2006
The U.S. Treasury Budget numbers for July, 2006 were released today:
Consensus: -$42,000,000,000
Actual: -$33,200,000,000
The "actual" figure above represents the monthly balance on the U.S. federal government's "books" and is compiled by The Treasury Department. A positive number represents a surplus, while a negative represents a deficit.
New Unemployment Insurance Claims for The Week of August 5, 2006
The U.S. Department of Labor this morning released the New Unemployment Insurance Claims report for the week that ended on August 5, 2006:
Consensus: 315,000
The above figures represent the number of new claims for unemployment benefits for the entire United States. The "consensus" is what economists and Wall Street forecasters were expecting, while the "actual" is the actual or real figure.
International Trade Balance Level for June, 2006
The International Trade Balance Level for June, 2006 was released by The U.S. Commerce Department this morning:
Consensus: $ -64,500,000,000
Actual: $ -64,800,000,000
The "actual" figure above represents the balance of trade--imports vs. exports--between the United States and all other countries, and includes both goods and services. A negative number represents a trade deficit, while a positive number represents a trade surplus.
The 3 Majors Closed Lower Making It Four Consecutives Days of Negative Numbers
The 3 major indexes closed lower for the fourth consecutive day, on continued bearishness related to interest rates and a slowing economy. 1,709,150,140 shares were traded @ The New York Stock Exchange®.
Shares of Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) component Caterpillar (CAT) fell by $3.08 to close @ $68.52.
Crude Oil Inventories Report for Week of August 4, 2006
The U.S. Crude Oil Inventories report for the week that ended on August 4, 2006 was released this morning:
All 3 Majors Declined On Concerns Related to Future Monetary Policy Decisions by The Fed
The 3 major indexes closed lower today as investors worried that the Fed may need to raise rates later this year, which may in turn hurt corporate earnings. 1,615,381,810 shares were traded @ The New York Stock Exchange®.
Shares of Aleris International Inc. (ARS) gained $11.46 (+27.69%) to close @ $52.85.
Shares of Aircastle Limited (AYR) gained $3.60 (+15.65%) to close @ $26.60.
Shares of Cooper Companies Inc. (COO) gained $3.05 (+7.16%) to close @ $45.67.
Atlantic Hurricane Season Update for August, 2006
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) today released an update for the 2006 Atlantic basin hurricane season:
Probability of an Above-Normal Hurricane Season: 75%
Probability of a Near-Normal Hurricane Season: 20%
Predicted # of Named Storms: 12 to 15
Predicted # of Named Storms Becoming Hurricanes: 7 to 9
Predicted # of Named Storms Becoming Major Hurricanes: 3 to 5
The Atlantic basin has produced 3 named storms so far this season--Alberto, Beryl, and Chris--but, so far this season, no named storm has become a major hurricane. With 3 named storms having come and gone so far, the predicted number of major hurricanes (major = category 3 to 5) for this season is now at 3-4.
Click here to view the full NOAA report.
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Xổ số trực tiếp thành phốA study conducted by the National Incident Based Reporting System (NIBRS) of 1,214 juvenile kidnappings from jurisdictions in twelve states in 1997, revealed the following information:
Kidnapping makes up less than 2% of all violent crime against juveniles reported to police.
Based on the identity of the perpetrator, there are three distinct type of kidnapers; kidnapping by a relative of a victim or "family kidnapping" (49%), kidnapping by an acquaintance of the victim or "acquaintance kidnapping" (27%), and kidnapping by a stranger to the victim or "stranger kidnapping" (24%).
Family kidnapping is primarily committed by parents, involves a larger percentage of female perpetrators (43%) than other types of kidnapping offenses, occurs more frequently to children under the age of six, equally victimizes juveniles of both sexes, and most often originates in the home.
Acquaintance kidnapping involves a high percentage of juvenile perpetrators, has the largest percentage of female and teenage victims, and is more often associated with other crimes like sexual and physical assault. Acquaintance kidnapping occurs in homes and residences, and has the highest percentage of injured victims.
Stranger kidnapping victimizes more females than males, occurs primarily at outdoor locations, victimizes both teenagers and school-aged children, is associated with sexual assaults in the case of female victims and robberies in the case of male victims (although not exclusively so), and is the type of kidnapping most likely to involve the use of a firearm.
According to the State of Washington's Office of the Attorney General, "the murder of a child who is abducted…. is a rare event. There are estimated to be about 100 such incidents in the United States each year, less than one-half of one percent of the murders committed;" however, "74% of abducted children who are murdered are dead within 3 hours of the abduction."
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Xổ số trực tiếp thành phốIn October of 2002, the United States Department of Justice released the second annual National Incident Studies of Missing, Abducted, Runaway, and Thrownaway Children. The data from this report spanned the years 1997 to 1999. When examining non-family abduction of children, key findings from the study revealed:
During the study year, there was an estimated 115 stereotypical kidnappings, defined as abductions perpetrated by a stranger or slight acquaintance and involving a child who was transported 50 or more miles, detained overnight, held for ransom or with intent to keep the child permanently, or killed.
In 40% of the stereotypical kidnappings, the child was killed, and in another 4%, the child was not recovered.
There were an estimated 58,200 child victims of non-family abductions, defined more broadly to include all non-family perpetrators (friends, acquaintances, strangers) and crimes involving lesser amounts of forced movement or detention in addition to the more serious crimes entailed in stereotypical kidnappings.
57% of the children abducted by a non-family perpetrator were missing from caretakers for at least 1 hour, and the police were contacted to help locate 21% of the abducted children.
Teenage children were by far the most frequent victims of both stereotypical kidnappings and non-family abductions.
Nearly half of all child victims of stereotypical kidnappings and non-family abductions were sexually assaulted by the perpetrator.
The Michigan State Police suggest the follow safety tips to help parents to keep their children safe:
Parents should take an active role in their children's lives. Parents should know where their children are at all times, and be familiar with their children's friends and daily activities.
Parents should teach their children to ask for permission from them first before going anywhere or with anyone.
Parents should teach their children to use the "buddy system" and to never travel alone.
Parents should teach their children that if something makes them feel uneasy or uncomfortable, they should get away quickly and tell their parents or a trusted adult about what had happened.
Parents should teach their children that it is okay to be suspicious of an adult asking for assistance, many child predators use this technique to isolate and distract a possible child victim.
Parents should assure their children that they have the right to say "no" when they sense something is wrong.
Children should know their home address and telephone number, and know how to contact their parents if there is an emergency (for example; a relative's telephone number or the parent's work telephone number).
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Parents should teach their children how to dial "911" when asking for help in an emergency. Parents should teach their children that when they are talking on the telephone to the "911" operator, they should tell the person their name, speak loudly, slowly and clearly, and not to hang-up.
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Albany 4 – Wilkes Barre 3
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More traffic for the Lancaster & Chester
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Looks like the Chester end will get even busier with the addition of this major new customer:
http://www.progressiverailroading.co...arolina--40912
The L&C has certainly proved to be a good investment for Gulf & Ohio Railways so far...
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I'm just wondering how much traffic it will generate. I'm not familiar with tire makers, but I believe the Michelin plant near me in Lexington on the NS does not have a spur. Although Giti did make the announcement from the "L&C" room at the Chester county economic development offices.
There is also another chemical plant being built on the L&C that should come online in six months or so, I'm guessing, between Richburg & Circle S. Purported to have two spurs going in. And someone has landed in one of the old Springs warehouses in Fort Lawn and are getting 50 foot box cars! Very neat to see boxes lining the old warehouses again
Update: Contract for the initial grading work at the Giti Tire plant was recently awarded and they expect work to begin shortly.
Aside from Giti Tire, the new transfer facility down Hwy. 9 a bit toward Circle S is coming along nicely. A propane facility is also coming to Pleasant Hill (on the old Southern line) that is supposed to be pretty big and there are hints that something else may be rolling soon, too.
Ground breaking on Giti is Feb. 12.
I'm hearing unconfirmed word that the L&C are getting some SD40-2Ts. I don't know if they're coming from the Yadkin Valley. I need to hit up a few of my sources, but I'm healing from two more surgeries and am taking it easy. I was told the power would be there pretty soon.
Giti Tire is evidently coming along fast. One estimate has 1500 people working to get it built. The last time I was in Richburg, you can't see anything from public roads for the trees. One report I saw says they hope to be open for business by the end of this year.
There's also a new industry clearing land near the CSX interchange and possibly another one coming near Circle S. I'll try to find more information on both of these.
Good info, Joe, and thank you for posting during your recovery (and hope you're doing well!).
I have heard G&O has a pair of 6-axles to send to the L&C, but I'm just not sure what. Unless the YVRR's traffic has really fallen off, they don't have much to send to the L&C. Their 6-sxles power the road freights, while a handful of 4-axles handle the locals.
I guess we'll see soon enough.
It turns out my guess was partially right. L&C SD40-2T #6002 was photographed in Knoxville recently and shared to Facebook today. It is sporting fresh L&C blue with complete decals. But this is where it gets crazy. It's coupled to another unit also in fresh L&C paint, L&C C40-8S #9146. (That doesn't even look right as I type it.) it's the former UP 9146. The S indicates it's a slug unit, but I hear all of the insides are intact.
Word is there is at least one more SD40-2 coming. Strange days indeed
That is certainly an interesting duo, no doubt. I can't help but wonder if something else is in play with this larger power. How is traffic on the NS line between Charlotte and Columbia via Rock Hill? Is this something NS could divert 337/338 away from via Spartanburg? WARNING: I did take Nyquil last night, and may still be a bit loopy....
I think it's odd they'd get six axle power. Giti Tire is around the 13 mile marker going off the top of my head. Circle S is at MM17, not far from Chester. They probably would not take them on the Kershaw Branch. I could have seen some of the Canadian National type GP40-2s like the Yadkin Valley uses.
The NS R line sees the same trains as they have for years with some Wateree coal trains and Augusta ethanol trains thrown in. NS could theoretically move 337/338 to the W line, but that line is actually seeing more trains now.
So even though I didn't take NyQuil, I did take two Percocets, so keep that in mind as you read this. I don't know how busy Giti Tire will be railroad wise. But since the railroad sold them the most prized piece of real estate on the line, I assume it will be a big customer. One article I read said they would use containers to import and export out of Charleston which leads us to the possibility of intermodal on the L&C.
So it occurred to me that NS might let the L&C bring the cars to Rock Hill. Chester can already get crowded already and the locals like to complain. But of course you don't need six axle power to get to Rock Hill.
So then I thought, What if the L&C takes them to Columbia instead of Rock Hill? Now that could be interesting.
Then I also wondered if It might be of interest to both railroads to let the L&C get into Rock Hill via the SB line for the Kershaw traffic.
Oh, well. Enough speculation. We'll know soon enough. The new power should be here soon and I understand it'll be used starting off taking grain trains to Circle S
I was told by a reliable source that the 9146 and 6002 should have left Knoxville this past Sunday, but no one has seen them along the S Line or R Line or the yards along the way. I don't know if they will suddenly pop up in Chester her shortly or if we'll find out they never left Knoxville. Selfishly, I'm hoping they are delayed until May so I can shoot them first.
That is not out of the realm of reality when Class 1 railroads are shipping shortline locomotives...
Joe, L&C 94 was spotted yesterday on Q603-05 through Folkston, GA. Any idea where that one is off to?
It's been sold to the Florida Central. That leaves them with just the three SW900s. 92 is OOS, and 91 is still at Circle S leaving 90 in regular service. Although they do have a G&O SW1500.
And it turns out the 6002 and 9146 are still at KLW in Knoxville
Good info, Joe. With that tidbit, I was also able to determine KLW is getting Florida Central CF7 63 in return. It will likely be some sort of rebuild fodder.
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Just a heads up, those Florida Central CF7's are worn out, good luck with that.
I dont know why Florida Central wants a switcher, who knows what they are up to, but their GP9's and GP18's more than handle the little traffic they get. All their CF7's are junk though, mostly stored too.
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I'm sure the CF7 frame is mostly what they want to build one of their green locomotives.
Unofficially, this is what I have seen on the L&C since my return to Lancaster -- GPs 2829, 3820 and 3821 are assigned to the Lancaster trai
GPs 2273, 2268 and 2866 are assigned to the Chester train
Knoxville & Holston River SW1500 2242 is assigned to the wye when it runs. I've seen them use 2866 here, too. This one is in G&O black
SW900 90 is in the shop and may soon be shipped out to another G&O road. SW900 91 remains leased to Circle S and SW900 92 is stored OOS in Lancaster
The L&C SD40-2T 6002 and C40-8S 9146 are still in Knoxville. There's another six axle power said to be coming after the 6002 and 9146.
Good run down, Joe. 6002/9146 should have left Knoxville yesterday.
Thanks, Mike. They were dropped off in Chester by NS 337 today. My son and I caught them there as well as coming through Rock Hill
That might be a new record for quickest delivery of a shortline locomotive by a Class 1 ever...
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I was thinking along the same lines. The irony is that they may not be used for a while as the railroad does some work to get the track ready.
Upon delivery by NS 337
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And then two shots by Reginald McDowell after they were moved later that week
I learned after it ran that the L&C moved a grain train to Circle S using run through NS power last week. It was three big wide cab NS GEs units along with the new six axle power the L&C has. I'm waiting for another grain train to see if they do this again and hoping I get a heads up this time!
They're now using former NPBL #2369, an MP15DC, that was bought at the recent auction by the G&O. And they're replacing a lot of ties on the original line past Circle S to Lancaster. Has me wondering if there is something in the works. Haven't seen any work on the SB Line, but I may be missing it. I plan a recon trip down to Kershaw to look for any signs of work.
It may be simply they are working on the part of the line that sees the propane cars going down to Pleasant Hill.
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Thanks for the report, Joe. This is a trend with unit trains delivered to shortlines-- keep the Class 1 power. It would otherwise sit at the junction or run light back to a nearby terminal, so it does make sense to just keep it with the train. Most of the Class 1s have a stipulation on how quickly the shortline must turn the train around, as well. Some even deliver the train with all power on the head end and require the shortline to set up the power in DPU for the outbound train.
Good to hear things are humming along on the L&C. You have posted some nice shots of the operation recently, too.
The Giti Tire is hiring a lot of people. It's located on a tract of land where it cannot be seen from the road. One of these days, I'll drive down to see what I can see, although I suspect that won't be much railroad wise. The railroad would come up from the other side of the plant and my understanding is the Phase 1 was always planned to open without railroad access.
With that said, a new company has moved into an old textile mill in Lancaster. MAKROchem, a supplier of carbon black for the rubber and tire industry, is investing $7.5 million in its first U.S. distribution facility, creating 20 jobs in Lancaster. I went by this past weekend and saw three new spurs going in. They will ship cars out to Giti Tire, but it's possible some will ship offline, too. Nice to see Lancaster getting some new rail business. First was the propane facility in Pleasent Hill.
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Raptors of Evidran 4:
Epilogue: Reporting to the Council
Padawan B'lyn took a deep breath, centering herself as best she could. The Council had been busy placating the leader of a Duros mining community, complaining about one Knight or another upsetting the operation of his facility during a mission, when they'd gotten back from Evidran 3. She'd been waiting for nearly an hour now, having already washed, changed, meditated, and prepared her report to the Council.
Now, as the Duros left with as sour an expression as the green-skinned worker could manage, they were ready for her. She just wished she was as sure she was ready for them.
She stepped onto the lift, followed closely by Master Nylla, the Twins following her. The Healers had stayed behind, and Master Krem had had to leave immediately after arriving ... she was the only one here who really could report on everything.
The only one anywhere who could report on everything now....
She pushed that thought from her mind. This was not the place or time to give in to the loss of her Master and closest companion of her life.
She was just grateful for the other Jedi who would be standing with her. They were not so close to her, but a Master and two Knights did take the focus off her a bit.
The group approached the center of the Councilors, and B'lyn bowed politely, waiting to be addressed.
"Welcome back, Padawan B'lyn," Master Eewenn said softly. "Our condolences on your loss; Master Standing-Bear was an asset to the Order, and he will be sorely missed."
"Thank you, Masters." She bowed deeply to the assembly, stopping herself before going on and rambling about him and the dedication that cost him his life to save so many others. In many ways, it was the kind of death most Jedi secretly hoped for; quick, clean and for others to live. Not that many could claim to have saved an entire race from extinction.
"Report, please." Master Eewenn's dual voice encouraged her to speak.
"As my Master said in his last report, the Raptors were attacked, hard, shortly after we left for Evidran 3. Their social structure remains intact, and they should have a large enough population to survive, but they lost all but two of their healers and most of their other specialists. They have been forced to combine their numbers into large enough groups to hunt and survive. They will live, but it will be a long time before they truly recover."
"There are four hundred and sixty one survivors, forty of which are still in critical condition and three hundred that are unable to hunt for themselves yet." Master Nylla picked up flawlessly. "That is roughly one hundredth of their pre-invasion population. Both a preliminary genetic analysis in the field and their own oral history indicates this is well above the critical level for their recovery over the next millennia.
"They have already begun an aggressive breeding program using products their healers can create to instigate a fertility cycle in willing females instead of waiting for the natural five-year pattern to play out. They have also instigated a genetic diversity plan to have as many different breeding partners as possible over a lifetime. While this is unusual for them, it is not a difficult choice. They are generally monogamous with a mate, but rarely have the same mate for life."
"What is their position on Jedi presence on their world?" Master Qalmi asked evenly.
"They are looking forward to it, eagerly," B'lyn explained. "They are willing to accept permanent outposts, and want to learn about and from us when they can. I believe that Healers will be necessary for some time, regardless, due to the number of wounded. It should be noted that anyone not under Jedi protection who encounters them is likely to be in grave danger. They are very appreciative and accepting of us, but all others are still viewed as a threat to them. In time, I believe they will understand and accept that there are more than the two groups, but for now, the world should be held in the strictest off-limits condition possible."
"Understood." Master Eewenn nodded slightly as Master Qalmi made the notes to begin quarantine procedures on the Evidran system.
"Are there any sensitives among their number, now that you have encountered most of them?" Master Thelm asked.
"One surviving Rememberer, their lore keepers, is a mild sensitive. He is not strong enough to have become a Jedi, but in discussing it more in depth with the surviving leaders and him, I am confident that they exist. It is unlikely to be more than one or two every few generations, each generation marked by their five-year reproductive cycle, and most will not be strong enough to consider as Jedi." Master Nylla began. "They are cautiously interested in allowing us to raise a sensitive of theirs when one is hatched that is strong enough, and the restrictions they have brought up are all easily accommodated and reasonable to me. The primary ones they are determined about are that the hatchling learns how to use their natural weapons, something only another Night Raptor can teach them, and that they learn their native language. Some want the hatchling to also become a Rememberer, but this is not as strongly held."
"A good sign," Master Eewenn nodded. "Your assessment of how interacting with our culture is likely to affect theirs, Master Nylla?"
"Little, it would seem." The Cougar answered. "They are not interested in our weapons or technology, in becoming like us, or in having any real contact with the outside other than Jedi, whom they seem to consider as some kind of kin for our actions on their behalf. What every conversation has been is about how Jedi do what we do with the Force, what is the Force, and distinct interest in the skills and knowledge that have a fairly direct translation into their current existence.
"While the idea of traveling quickly by vehicles has appeal to some, and all are willing to use advanced weapons and tools, there is a definite line in what they see them as useful for, even when shown otherwise. Even the Morgukai spear they have, which is quite a coveted item now, is not something they use when hunting prey it would be useful against.
"They have a very distinct separation between when tools are to be used or not, despite having them for almost the entire time they have been sentient. It is a fascinating situation so far. The anthropologists in the Order would likely be quite interested, and from all indications, quite welcome. The Night Raptors do enjoy conversation about all manner of things when their bellies are full and they do not feel threatened, and are generally quite willing to demonstrate anything they are asked about."
"Do they seem to mind the thought of accepting food in their territory brought by another?" Master Noloth asked. "Particularly given their difficult situation currently."
"It was one of the things they wanted the use of our vehicles for, even before the second group of healers arrived." Master Nylla said easily. "They wished all the injured moved to a central location so the few healers available could be more effective and meat and supplies could be brought in from elsewhere. While they intended this be meat they hunted themselves, as long as it is Jedi offering the assistance, I do not expect there would be an issue with it. What we did while there we were thanked for, even when we had already agreed to help. They are a very pragmatic group when it comes to survival."
"Padawan B'lyn," the Frilled Lizard asked, looking at the Twi'lek. "Would you be able to help us select meats which would be reasonably close to ones native to their planet?"
"Yes, Master Noloth." She answered smoothly, despite being a bit startled to have a question directed at her after the Master had taken over. "They eat a wide variety of animals normally, many of which are reasonably close to domestic stock common in the Republic.
"It would be best to send complete bodies, or as close as possible," Knight Kelarn added smoothly. "They still derive a great deal of their mineral and other needed supplements from parts other than the meat."
"They are unfamiliar with processed meats then?" Noloth asked, his mind already working over various possibilities as he put together a proposal for the Council to consider.
"Yes, Master Noloth." B'lyn inclined her head slightly. "Basic processing, butchered or ground, meat that is clearly still meat by scent, they have seen us do a few times and eaten the results of, but much beyond that should be left up to them. It is not something they have much a taste for. That said, they do seem to have an interest in cooked food. Nose-in-Danger, now called Speaks-with-Jedi, was particularly fond of my cooking."
"*You're plotting something, Noloth,*" Master Qalmi pointed out telepathically.
"*I'll explain later,*" the Lizard pointed out. "Thank you, Padawan," he said to B'lyn. "Does anybody else wish to make a statement regarding the Night Raptors?"
"No, Masters." Master Nylla inclined her head.
"There is a related matter however, for the Council's consideration." Knight Kelarn paused for permission to continue. "Padawan B'lyn does need a new Master to finish her training."
B'lyn fought not to tense up at the possibilities that this option brought up.
"Agreed," Master Eewenn nodded. "Are their any volunteers for this duty?"
"Yes." The Knight answered simply, looking at B'lyn for acceptance as much as the Council. For all he was asking the Council, if she did not accept him, their agreement would not matter.
"Is this acceptable to you, Padawan B'lyn?" Master Eewenn asked, putting words to the question everybody knew was in their air.
The Twi'lek, for her part, was more surprised than anybody else.
"Y-Yes, Knight Kelarn," she nodded, trying to maintain her composure. "If it is acceptable to the Council, of course."
"I think it is perfectly acceptable, particularly given that Knight Tarsis will undoubtedly assist in the process," Master Thelm said approvingly.
"As in all things." The other Panther inclined his head, a small smile on his muzzle for his brother's first Padawan.
"Is there any who would object then?" Master Eewenn asked, knowing that Master Nylla might wish to, on the basis of already being a Master if nothing else. But there was silence, as generally expected. "Given that, the Council agrees with this pairing; Padawan B'lyn, you are now the Padawan of Knight Kelarn. Force be with you both."
"Thank you, Masters." B'lyn bowed deeply and moved slightly to stand slightly behind her new Master as befitting her new position.
"I suggest you go to move your things into your new quarters then, all three of you," Master Eewenn said easily. "If there is anything else we require of you, we will call for you. Force be with you all; you are dismissed."
"Yes, Masters." The three bowed and left, Master Nylla not far behind.
"All right, Noloth, what is it you're thinking of?" Master Qalmi asked curiously.
"Simply taking a substantial amount of supplies to the Raptors, along with a number of Jedi who can help with both the healing process, and with the exploration of their cultural heritage. In particular, as I remember from Master Kethlya's report, the Healers are having a difficult time with some Raptors who are unable to eat properly; supplying ground meat will, most likely, be much healthier than the fruits they are currently using."
"And here I thought you were planning something devious," Master Kothi smirked at their newest member. "Like demanding the Trade Federation pay for it as part of the damages."
"I was simply suggesting what to send," the Frilled Lizard chuckled, indicating Master Qalmi. "It is not my place to suggest how the Order's funds are best used to acquire the supplies."
"And I do believe that the Senate will agree that providing supplies - medical and otherwise - is the least of what the Federation owes," Qalmi agreed with a grim smirk of his own.
"I do, however, request to join the Jedi who begin the settlement on Evidran 3, for a time at least," Master Noloth added.
"Your skills will likely be useful there," Master Eewenn agreed. "Particularly given the needs of the rebuilding effort there. Barring objections, I believe this is acceptable." She paused for any to be raised. "Good, then prepare for an extended stay on an undeveloped world. Until more can speak their language, Padawan B'lyn and the twins will accompany you to act as translators."
"Thank you," Master Noloth said, bowing politely to the Councilors as he stood to leave and prepare for his journey.
Raptors of Evidran 4: Epilogue: Reporting to the Council
14 KB, Story is Complete, Series is Finished
Written October 2, 2005 by Rauhnee Ranshanka and Karl Wolfemann
Primary Races: Panther, Twi'lek
Contents: Furry. Gen.
Pairings: None
Blurb: It has only been a few weeks, but despite the amount of work left to do on Evidran 3, B'lyn has been called back to Coruscant to report on the situation in person.
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Chicken import shake-up looms
Published:Friday | December 11, 2020 | 12:13 AMChristopher Serju/Senior Gleaner Writer
A new regime could be coming for the import of chicken meat, says Prime Minister Andrew Holness.
Jamaica’s chicken-meat import policy may be overhauled to concentrate licences in the hands of local poultry producers, as a cure to perceived systemic corruption that has dogged the trade, Prime Minister Andrew Holness has said.
The proposed fix comes in the wake of a damning report by the Integrity Commission that hinted at lack of transparency and an award process that was compromised and uncompetitive. Some traders had also blended in premium parts with chicken neck and back to avoid duty.
In the first forthright comment by his administration on the issue, Holness argued that Jamaica’s import policy ought to be driven by shortfalls in local production, but he believes that twinning the capacity to produce chicken meat with the power to import was perhaps a more viable model going forward.
That proposal could draw ire from vested interests that import more than US$25 million in chicken neck and back annually.
Traders have often leaned hard on agriculture ministers to relent on licences – Karl Samuda said in 2016 that he had never been under more pressure than by chicken meat importers – pushing back when administrations try to close the spigot.
The prime minister said candidly on Thursday that his recommendation would be “incentive-compatible” – meaning producer interests with permits would be less inclined to undercut their operations.
“We should make sure that we have our local people tied into the local value chain here, so that there is a vested interest in keeping our output high. ... We have to examine this as a strategy, we have to examine the entire system,” said Holness at the official launch of the Southern Plains Agricultural Development Project, where he delivered the keynote address.
The prime minister acknowledged that the remodelling of the chicken-meat import policy would chafe stakeholders who believe that the Government may be caving in to the Big Two producers – Jamaica Broilers and Caribbean Broilers – as well as other forces advocating protectionism.
“We know it is a complicated issue (and) many businesses are built on it. It is not something that you can, overnight, by fiat of the pen, change,” Holness said.
“... This is not something that the Government is comfortable with, and we are looking into it to find ways to make changes that are not going to be disruptive, but changes that will be beneficial to all.”
Holness said he expects Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries Floyd Green to make a presentation to Cabinet next Monday.
GREEN BREAKS SILENCE
Green has noticeably been silently since the report’s tabling on Tuesday, declining comment when pressed by The Gleaner at a supplies handover ceremony in Old Harbour Bay on Wednesday.
But he broke his silence on Thursday, though issuing a dry statement that was thin on detail.
“The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries is reviewing a report tabled by the Integrity Commission in the House of Representatives on Tuesday, December 8, 2020 concerning the importation of chicken back and neck.
“The report spans the time period 2005-2015 and, as such, an evaluation and assessment of past and current practices will be carried out,” the statement read.
Holness said that the coronavirus pandemic presented what could have been “an epiphenomenal event that totally disrupted our supply chain, such that we could not provide a staple protein for Jamaica”.
Supplies of chicken meat ran short of demand by mid-year, but that gap has closed with the ramping up of production.
christopher.serju@gleanerjm.com
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Ulthar's 'Providence' Is a Frankenstein's Monster of Extreme Metal
By Jack Kelleher
Ulthar are like a Frankenstein's monster of extreme metal genres. Their 2018 debut, Cosmovore, is a witch's brew bubbling with the rotted flesh of death metal, the icy chill of black metal, and the hard steel of thrash. In the years since then, the Oakland, CA, trio have grown no less obsessed with those elements, subjecting them to even more explosive experiments on their sophomore work, Providence.
While the layers of interdimensional dissonance on their debut sounded dense and unyielding, the sound of Providence is much more volatile. The album's aggression is apparent from the opening salvo of "Churn," but the true scope of its savagery is revealed in the following song, "Undying Spear," which also marks the return of the ambient interludes heard on Cosmovore. There's shades of Immortal in Ulthar's grim blast beats, but they also allude to the arcane abandon of a band like Emperor in the darkly fantastical "Through Downward Dynasties.'' But what makes Providence stand out is its unpredictability. The band keep us guessing at their next move through dissonance and off-kilter riffs, reminding us how little we truly know of our unfathomable cosmos.
The album makes it apparent it's entered its second act with "Cudgel," an inexorable headbanger with an angular Morbid Angel-esque pummeller, followed by a galloping riff that throws around its weight like a lumbering troll. From here on, the riffs get heavier, as Ulthar focuse more on their death metal side, like on "Furnace Hibernation." With the vocal duo of guitarist Shelby Lermo (Vastum) and bassist Steve Peacock (Pandiscordian Necrogenesis), the band delivers both screams and guttural death growls to suit the music. There's also more divergent sounds of death, such as the dissonant Gorguts-tinged breakdown in "Narcissus Drowning," and even a severely syncopated Demilich style riff lurking in "Humanoid Knot".
On Providence, Ulthar becomes the kind of formless and dangerous Lovecraftian horror they're fascinated by. You can play this album on repeat and find something new to appreciate every time. The only issue is that it lacks a song like "Dunwich Whore," the epic closer from their debut, which could have taken this album to the next level. It's less of a mistake and more of a missed opportunity, and doesn't significantly slight an album this extreme and uncompromising. (20 Buck Spin)
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Comparison Of Ultrasound Versus Landmark Guided Insertion Of Combined Spinal Epidural In Total Hip Replacement/Total Knee Replacement Surgeries
Dr. Arul Selvan, Dr. Yashpal Singh, Dr. Singh, D.K., Dr. Sarath Kumar, Dr. Siva Kumar, R. and Dr. Mohan
Background: Multiple attempts and needle redirection in a single attempt while performing combined spinal epidural anaesthesia are associated with a greater incidence of postdural puncture headache, paraesthesia, and spinal hematoma. We hypothesized that the routine use of a preprocedural ultrasound-guided combined spinal epidural anaesthesia would reduce the number of attempts and needle redirection in a single attempt when compared with the conventional landmark-guided combined spinal epidural anaesthesia. Methods: Sixty consenting patients scheduled for elective total joint replacements (hip and knee) were randomized into group U (Ultrasound guided technique) and group L (Landmark technique) with 30 in each group. In group L, combined spinal epidural was done via the midline approach using clinically palpated landmarks. In group U, a preprocedural ultrasound scan was used to mark the insertion site, and combined spinal epidural anaesthesia was performed. Results: The mean number of attempt was lower in Group U (1.06±0.25) than Group L (1.26±0.89) and p-value (0.039) was found to be significant. The mean total number of needle redirection in a single attempt were found to be lower in Group U (1.16±0.53) than Group L (1.60±0.89) and the p-value (0.027) was found to be significant. The mean value of time taken for identifying landmark for Group U (126.9±9.31) was higher than Group L (25±7.08) and p-value (<0.05) was found to be significant.The mean value of time taken for the procedure was higher in Group U (634.83±48.90) than Group L (458.93±41.15) and p-value (<0.05) was found to be significant. The mean periprocedural VAS score of pain and the demographic profile were comparable in both groups. Conclusion: Routine use of combined spinal epidural anaesthesia in the orthopaedic patient population undergoing joint replacement surgery, guided by preprocedural ultrasound examination, significantly decreases the number of attempts and needle redirection needed to enter the subarachnoid and epidural space.
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Mark Watches ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’: S04E20 – The Yoko Factor
Posted on April 11, 2012 by Mark Oshiro
In the twentieth episode of the fourth season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, well, that was goddamn awkward. Intrigued? Then it’s time for Mark to watch Buffy.
EVERYTHING THAT MADE ME FEEL UNCOMFORTABLE
Initially, the title made me feel really awkward because every time I hear someone blame the Beatles breaking up on Yoko Ono, I want to punch them in the mouth. With my mind. Because I can’t actually punch people because I’m full of too much social anxiety. Thankfully, Spike very clearly calls this theory bullshit and I was very pleased. BUT AT FIRST I WAS LIKE OH GOD PLEASE DON’T LET THIS BE WHAT I THINK IT IS.
Once Spike vocalized his plan for splitting up the Scoobies, I knew he’d have to enact psychological warfare, since he can’t actually fight them. EVERYTHING IS SO UNCOMFORTABLE FOR FORTY-FIVE MINUTES.
Buffy’s empty dorm room. Like, shit, there’s one giant bit of foreshadowing that Buffy would feel like her friends aren’t there for her anymore.
The pants Xander let Riley borrow. There is no justification for those even existing, let alone the fact that Xander owned them. What the fuck?
Xander’s really good at being terrible at communication, isn’t he? I mean, he avoids telling Buffy that Angel has been cured at the end of season two, and now he totally ruins everything by telling Riley that Angel’s trigger was having sex with Buffy. Why are you even discussing this with anyone, Xander, let alone Buffy’s current boyfriend?
I don’t particularly like “Freebird” in any context ever, but Giles singing it made it wonderful, and that thought was uncomfortable. I DIDN’T KNOW I FELT THESE THINGS.
Even if I had assumed that Spike would try to find a way to get inside the minds of the Scoobies to wreak havoc, I was so floored by the way in which he did it. He plants ideas. He’s been observing all these people for the better part of a year, and now it’s paying off. What’s so fascinating about this is that the writers have been hinting at this all season. We’ve had entire episode devoted to the inadequacy that Giles and Willow feel, and this story is just the logical extension of that.
Buffy and Riley’s first conversation after she returns from L.A. I mistakenly thought this couldn’t get worse after that point. I was horrifically wrong.
The way in which Spike quite methodically unravels Xander. I think he gets it the worst because this point has been foreshadowed/built upon for years. He’s always feeling left out and useless, and I think it’s why he reacts so strongly to it.
Forrest dying because what the fuck. Goddamn it, he was such a fascinating character! WHY DO YOU DO THIS, WHEDON? You didn’t even write this and I’m sure it’s your fault because that’s the way of the world.
Oh, fuck you, Spike, for what you did to Willow. You are brilliantly evil. I mean, what better way to deconstruct Willow than to make thinly-veiled references to her sexuality as he did? Ugh, at least he didn’t tear apart Willow and Tara. I don’t think I could have ever forgiven him if he’d broken up the greatest ship in all eternity.
OH MY GOD WHY IS ANGEL IN SUNNYDALE THIS IS SO AWKWARD.
I should really stop quantifying the fights on this show and on Angel. This was clearly the most brutal fight so far. Both men are drunk on their own macho posturing, and hurting because of how they perceive Buffy. It’s basically a hot mess.
THE ENTIRE CONFRONTATION BETWEEN BUFFY, RILEY, AND ANGEL IN BUFFY’S DORM. Sweet baby Gandalf, one of the most awkward scenes in Buffy history. I did have to laugh at the absurdity of it all, and I was later very happy that even Buffy and Angel had a chuckle at how weird this all way.
Adam refusing to leave the room to give Buffy and Angel to talk, and Angel and Buffy deciding to just leave the room themselves. It’s both a sick burn and super hard to watch. I kind of love the show for this moment.
Okay, I swear to you that the entire time Riley and Buffy are talking after Angel leaves, I genuinely believed that Buffy was finally going to confess to Riley that Angel was a vampire. I not only entertained this notion for the entire scene, but when she revealed that Forrest had died, I actually thought: “Well, okay, that’s important, but are you going to tell Riley that Angel is a vampire?” It took me about fifteen seconds to realize how ridiculous this was, and it was the embarrassment I felt because of this that made me feel uncomfortable.
I don’t know that I could ever watch the last scene in Giles’s apartment again. It’s entirely believable that Spike fed into all their fears an manipulated them into expressing these feelings, but it’s not like he invented the fears, too. They were always that, and that’s what makes it so difficult to watch. You want it to end so badly that you notive all the moments where someone could have unraveled the lies that Spike told them. But they’re all coming from a place of anger and disappointment, and it’s virtually impossible for them to separate their emotions from reality. Spike did it. I gotta hand it to him. He really pulled it off.
WHAT THE FUCK WHY IS RILEY SEEKING OUT ADAM I DON’T LIKE THIS AT ALL WHAT THE FUCK
EVERYTHING THAT MADE ME FEEL WONDERFUL
Miss Kitty Fantastico. Instantly the best character in Buffy history and there better be fansites and communities around this cat.
Giles’s singing. My god, Anthony Stewart Head has a lovely voice.
Drunk Giles. Yes, please.
Anya and Tara hanging out in the bathroom.
Nothing else jesus this episode was so brutal
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2 Responses to Mark Watches ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’: S04E20 – The Yoko Factor
Jeldaly says:
That last scene. All three of you, SHUT THE HELL UP AN ACTUALLY COMMUNICATE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD.
I love Xander’s reaction to Willow coming out, “Wait, Tara’s your girlfriend!” Then he just accepts it. It’s such a lovely counterpoint to Buffy’s extreme awkwardness. Of course the whole thing is completely overshadowed by the devastating in fighting. I still love Drunk!Funny!Giles though.
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Home Press ReleasesResponse to Indian Prime Minister’s Statement
Response to Indian Prime Minister’s Statement
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With reference to news reports attributed to Prime Minister Modi repeating the baseless rhetoric against Pakistan regarding terrorism, the Spokesperson recalled that Pakistan has consistently condemned terrorism, in all its forms and manifestations. She pointed out that having lost the lives of 55,000 of its citizens as a result of terrorism; Pakistan is the biggest victim of the menace. The entire world has, time and again, acknowledged Pakistan’s unprecedented sacrifices, rendered by our valiant armed forces with over 5,000 soldiers having embraced Shahadat. Our Armed Forces remain ready to defend the country’s borders and thwart any threat of aggression, the Spokesperson stressed.
The press reports of Indian accusations, at the highest political level, are most unfortunate, especially as the leadership of Pakistan wishes to establish good neighbourly relations with India. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s visit to India in May was in this spirit and generated a fresh momentum in the bilateral relationship. It would be in the larger interest of the regional peace that instead of engaging in a blame game, the two countries should focus on resolving all issues through dialogue and work together to promote friendly and cooperative relations.
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CBX Spotlights Snapple’s Big Apple Roots
Blog, Fresh, News, Package Design USA (PDUSA) June 22, 2015October 8, 2015 Gordon Kaye
Snapple is moving beyond its traditional East and West Coast strongholds to ramp up growth in markets across the United States and globally. A brand refresh was spearheaded by CBX, the brand agency and retail design consultancy.
The branding project touches all Snapple products — more than 20 flavors of regular and diet teas and juice drinks. The new design is hitting store shelves now. With a campaign that includes a hand-drawn New York skyline, the refresh emphasizes Snapple’s New York roots. “New York consumers are some of our most passionate brand advocates … which is part of the reason our work with CBX included a strong focus on Snapple’s New York heritage. We want people all across the country to share this excitement about the brand because, although it was born in New York, it’s truly made for everyone,” said Brent Chism, Snapple Director of Marketing. Adds Rick Barrack, CCO for CBX: “Snapple has a strong following on both coasts, and now it’s about reaching the center, so to speak, as it moves to boost household penetration throughout the country.”
The new Snapple logo includes a sun graphic in a hand-drawn style to provide the playful, natural character of the brand. The evolved logo also uses letterforms with a bit more movement and personality, yet maintains the curl of the traditional Snapple ‘S’. Additionally, CBX created an Earth icon to embody “Made from the Best Stuff on Earth,” one of the brand’s established trademarked statements, dating back to its small Brooklyn storefront origins. “We wanted to make that statement more ownable,” Barrack said. “And we carried this element through to the top of the Snapple cap.”
The refresh includes the use of flavor captions such as “Life’s a Peach,” “Lemon Large,” “Takes 2 to Mango” and “Kiwi Meets Berry.” Satoru Wakeshima, CBX General Manager, argues that “the captions help establish a sense of delight in Snapple’s great flavors and unlike its competitors, Snapple doesn’t take itself too seriously. These visual and verbal elements of the refresh work together for a uniquely engaging experience and add to the brand’s approachability.”
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Additional source support for students with special needs during distance education continues. After mathematics set specially prepared for students in inclusive education, the Ministry of National Education has published 3 books and activity sets on Life Sciences...
The Ministry of National Education had published an activity set made up of 6 books on mathematics for students in all grades of inclusive education from 1st grade to 8th grade in November.
The Ministry prepared another text book support on Life Sciences for students in inclusive education and published 3 books including approximately 800 activities. Books cover lessons for 1st, 2nd and 3rd grade inclusive education students. Activities are available in interactive form in orgm.meb.gov.tr/uyet web address.
"Our colleagues are working with great sacrifice while both giving lectures through online means during distance education and producing sources for students," said Selçuk and reminded that the Ministry provided many sources and text books for students in all levels and grades of education in order to reduce the learning loss to minimum.
Minister Selçuk said: "For the first time in the history of our Ministry, we had punished adapted activity set for approximately 300 thousand students in the inclusive education in November. Our focus was mathematics. Today, we continue to give support to our students with special needs with this Life Science set. We aim at giving permanent support to inclusive education students with activity sets. Students can also reach these activities through interactive digital programs."
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Communicable Diseases Intelligence, Volume 25, Issue number 4 - November 2001 /
Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies in Australia
This report published in Communicable Diseases Intelligence Volume 25, No 4, November 2001 contains information on Australian National Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Registry surveillance and notification of suspect cases
A print friendly PDF version is available from this Communicable Diseases Intelligence issue's table of contents.
Alison Boyd, Ashley Fletcher, James S Lee, Victoria Lewis, Colin L Masters, Steven J Collins1
Introduction | Methods | Results | Discussion | Acknowledgements | References
The Australian National Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Registry (ANCJDR) commenced surveillance in September 1993 as part of the Commonwealth's response to 4 cases of pituitary hormone (gonadotrophin)-associated Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). With the passage of time, the Registry has become responsible for ascertaining all human transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE; also known as prion diseases) within Australia since 1970. Included in the spectrum of diseases monitored are classical (sporadic, genetic, and health care acquired) CJD, and variant CJD (vCJD), first reported in 1996 in the United Kingdom. Variant CJD has not yet been diagnosed in Australia. Final classification of persons with suspected human prion disease is based upon all available clinical, investigational and pathological information. Ascertainment methods are diverse and include prompted, half-yearly personal communications from neurologists and neuropathologists, death certificate searches, and morbidity separation coding searches of major hospital, and State and Territory databases. More recently, referral for diagnostic CSF 14-3-3 protein testing (performed by the ANCJDR) has considerably increased prospective notifications of suspect cases. As at September 2001 there were 460 cases on the register; 237 definite cases, 168 probable and 55 incomplete cases awaiting final classification. Commun Dis Intell 2001;25:248-253.
Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE) constitute a group of invariably fatal neurodegenerative diseases which affect both animals and humans. In 1998 Prusiner reviewed TSE1 summarising developments since the 1950s, emphasising events over the last 2 decades. Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE; 'mad cow' disease) and scrapie are the most common animal forms while Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is the most common human phenotype. Variant CJD (vCJD) is believed to be linked to the consumption of BSE prion protein-contaminated beef or beef products. This association was first positively identified in United Kingdom (UK) cattle in 1986. Variant CJD is characterised clinically by a younger age at death (mean 29 years), prominent psychiatric presenting symptoms, and longer illness duration. Classical CJD typically presents as a rapidly progressive dementia in older persons, often associated with myoclonus and ataxia. Other forms of human TSE include Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker disease (GSS), fatal familial insomnia (FFI) and Kuru, with the first two almost invariably associated with mutations in the prion protein gene (PRNP) on chromosome 20. Kuru occurs exclusively in a restricted geographical region in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea (PNG) and is related to the practice of ritualistic endo-cannibalism as a mourning rite of deceased relatives. The disease has almost disappeared since the cessation of cannibalism in the 1950s.
Neuropathologically, varying combinations of microvacuolation of the gray matter, astrocytic gliosis, neuronal loss and immunodetectable deposits of prion protein are characteristic changes of TSE. Disease pathogenesis appears intimately linked to expression of an abnormal protease-resistant conformation of the prion protein (PrPres), although precise mechanistic details of how this isoform arises from the normal mammalian prion protein (PrPc) and consequent pathophysiological steps remain to be elucidated. The infectious unit or particle (termed prion) carries no nucleic acid and appears predominantly, if not exclusively, composed of PrPres. Expression of PrPc is obligatory for disease development and successful transmission, with PrPres thought to serve as a template facilitating further conversion of the wild type prion protein, PrPc, into the disease causing isoform. Early transmission studies in the 1960s established transmissibility, however TSE are not considered classical infectious diseases.
The Australian National Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Registry (ANCJDR) was established in September 1993 in response to the recognition of 4 probable human pituitary hormone (hPG) related CJD deaths. The original Registry's objective was detailed scrutiny for further health care acquired CJD cases over the restricted period 1 January 1988 to 31 December 1997. This 10-year epoch was intended to encompass the highest likely period surrounding the 4 index cases. However, following the commissioned inquiry into the use of human pituitary hormones under the Australian Human Pituitary Hormone Program (AHPHP), reporting in 1994,2 recommendations were adopted to expand ANCJDR activities, including retrospective case ascertainment to 1 January 1970. Prospective monitoring to ensure complete ascertainment of any further occurrences of health care acquired CJD has required the Registry to continue to evaluate all persons suspected to be manifesting a TSE. CJD is not a notifiable disease in Australia.
The most common form of human prion disease is sporadic CJD which by definition is without apparent cause. This form constitutes between 85 to 90 per cent of all human TSEs, and typically death occurs after a median illness duration of 4 months. Less commonly, the CJD phenotype can occur as a result of a mutation in the PRNP gene (genetic form), or as a consequence of horizontal transmission, which in Western societies to date is invariably from inadvertent contamination through health care provision (health care acquired CJD). Sources of health care acquired CJD transmission3 have included cornea4 and dura mater transplants,5 as well as treatment with cadaveric pituitary hormones.6,7 Genetic forms of human TSE account for approximately 12-14 per cent of all cases when systematic PRNP genotyping is undertaken,8 while health care acquired CJD is very rare with only 10 cases so far recognised in Australia. Variant CJD represents a new strain of human prion disease and based on a range of data, most likely occurred as a consequence of BSE crossing the species barrier from cattle to man via the consumption of contaminated meat products. Australia remains free of BSE which is now recognised in a number of European countries, and most recently Japan.
As of September 2001, the ANCJDR had classified 405 persons who had died from clinically likely (probable) or definite prion disease, with a further 55 incomplete (suspect) cases requiring further investigation before final classification is possible. These incomplete cases are either awaiting postmortem neuropathological examination or additional clinical details.
Classification methods and case ascertainment
Classification of human prion diseases is based on internationally accepted criteria (Table 1),9,10 with minor modifications. In brief, definite cases are those neuropathologically confirmed, preferably with the presence of PrPres demonstrated in the brain, by immunochemical methods. Probable or clinically likely patients with CJD manifest a combination of rapidly progressive dementia with any two of the following features: myoclonus; visual or cerebellar dysfunction; pyramidal or extrapyramidal dysfunction; or akinetic mutism. Variant CJD is distinguishable from classical CJD clinically and neuropathologically. Since 1997, a positive 14-3-3 result has been the most useful premortem investigation whereas prior to 1997 an EEG showing typical periodic discharges was used as an aid in diagnosis.11 The ANCJDR does not utilise the possible classification. Cases unable to fulfill the above criteria are excluded with one exception: a single health care acquired case due to cadaveric pituitary growth hormone was classified as a possible case because of concomitant medical problems militating against the probable classification.
The following table displays the classification criteria for classical and variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. If you are not able to access these data please e-mail cdi.editor@health.gov.au.
Table 1. Classification criteria for classical and variant CJD
Classical CJD
Neuropathologically confirmed
supplemented by
Immunochemical confirmation of PrPres
Progressive dementia <2 years
Typical EEG
Positive CSF 14-3-3 protein test
At least 2 out of 4 of the clinical features:
Myoclonus
Visual or cerebellar dysfunction
Pyramidal/extrapyramidal dysfunction
Akinetic mutism
Variant CJD
Progressive neuropsychiatric disorder
Neuropathological confirmation of diagnosis of vCJD
Progressive neuropsychiatric disorder without family history of prion disease
Duration of illness >six months
4 out of 5 of the clinical features:
Early psychiatric symptoms
Persistent paraesthesia or dysaesthesia
Myoclonus or chorea
Abnormal but non-typical EEG for CJD
Bilateral pulvinar high signal on MRI
A positive tonsil biopsy
The various mechanisms by which the ANCJDR ascertains cases of suspected prion disease are summarised in Table 2. The most frequent method of primary case ascertainment has been personal communications by medical practitioners, usually by telephone or correspondence, particularly neurologists and pathologists. At the inception of the Registry, all neurologists and neuropathologists within Australia were asked to inform the ANCJDR of any cases encountered during their entire professional practice. As a safeguard, reply-paid mail-outs are posted to these two important specialist groups semi-annually, prompting reporting of recently deceased or prospective cases.
The following table displays first sources of case ascertainment. If you are not able to access these data please e-mail cdi.editor@health.gov.au. Click here to bypass the table
Top of pageTable 2. First sources of case ascertainment
Per cent
Personal communications, including
Neurologists (includes mail-out reply cards)
Neuropathologists (includes mail-out reply cards)
Pituitary Hormones Task Force
CJD Counselling Service
Hospital and health department searches
Hospital medical records
Health department search
Death certificate searches through the Australian Health Index have proven to be of benefit in the retrospective ascertainment of cases. A search for death certificates in 1995 revealed 188 cases specifically coded to CJD. Unfortunately, death certificate searches for the epoch 1970 to 1979 have been impracticable due to the Australian Bureau of Statistics previously discarding identifying information and the lack of a standardised disease coding system across Australia. The ANCJDR routinely performs annual searches for CJD-coded death certificates through the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW). The prospective notification mechanisms of the ANCJDR usually facilitate detection of patients approximately 18 months prior to death certificate notification.
The most time-consuming method of case ascertainment has been a nation-wide search of the health information departments of all university-affiliated teaching hospitals seeking all separations specifically coded to CJD and pre-senile dementia according to the ICD-8 and 9, and more recently the CJD specific ICD-9 CM code. In addition, searches have been performed within each State and Territory health information coding system using the CJD specific codes, providing similar but not identical information to that obtained from the hospitals. The reasons for search discrepancies vary but have included coding or data entry errors. Specific searches of private hospital data were not undertaken.
The introduction of an assay for the CSF 14-3-3 protein (a non-specific marker of neuronal degeneration) has over the last few years significantly increased the number of prospective referrals of suspect CJD cases to the Registry.12 This test has shown 90 per cent sensitivity and specificity in appropriately evaluated patients with suspect CJD.13 However, acknowledging the small but definite false positive and negative rates of this non-specific test, final inclusion on the register depends on review of all available clinical information. 14-3-3 negative cases are followed-up nine months after testing as a safeguard against a false negative result. Patients ultimately classified as CJD through this notification mechanism are currently included under neurologists' personal communications.
The ANCJDR records predominant occupation following consideration of lifetime employment history. The Australian Standard Classification of Occupations (ASCO)14 was used for classification. Groups of interest include farmers subsumed under group 1 as managers/administrators and butchers/abattoir workers under group 4. The ANCJDR has included a home duties/childcare group, not recognised by ASCO. Disparity between the ANCJDR data classification of predominant occupation versus census data hinders comparative analysis. Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS)15 data were used to generate disease incidence rates, as well as age adjusted data.
There has been a steady increase in the annual incidence of CJD since 1970, with probable plateauing during the late 1990s (Figure). When 'incomplete' cases are taken into account, the 1988 to 1999 average annual incidence is 1.1 cases per million (0.6 prior to 1988). Using probable and definite cases alone for the same time period the annual incidence is 1.0 case per million (0.6 prior to 1988). The increase for definite and probable cases has been reasonably uniform across Australia with absolute numbers reflecting regional population distributions: New South Wales (including the Australian Capital Territory) 139; the Northern Territory 1; Queensland 69; South Australia 48; Tasmania 4; Victoria 105; and Western Australia 39.
Figure. Classification of deaths from transmissible spongiform encephalopathies
Acknowledging their salient demographic similarities, definite and probable cases have been aggregated for statistical analysis. The overall composition of probable and definite cases is 90.4 per cent sporadic, 7.4 per cent genetic and 2.2 per cent health care acquired. Analysis by gender reveals 173 males and 193 females with sporadic CJD, 13 males and 17 females with genetic TSE, and 4 males and 5 females with health care acquired disease. Age at death for sporadic CJD typically occurs between 56-75 years (mean 65.6 years), with an average duration of illness of 6.5 months. Age at death in genetic CJD ranges from 20 years through to 82 years, with the average age at death 56.8 years, and the mean duration of illness 17.6 months. The health care acquired cases include the 4 recipients of gonadotrophin (one probable and three pathologically proven), the single possible case arising from human growth hormone, and five cases related to the implantation of Lyodura (dura mater) grafts (three probable and two definite). Age at death for health care acquired CJD ranges from 26-62 years, with an average age at death 42.3 years. The average duration of illness is 7.8 months.
Analysis of cases by occupation (summarised in Table 3), reveals no groups to be over-represented. A closer look at the spectrum of health care workers developing CJD reveal all cases but one to be sporadic CJD; a radiologist; a dental surgeon; a registered nurse, and three general practitioners. One general practitioner was confirmed with genetic CJD. None of the health care workers are known to have had professional contact with CJD patients. Specifically, the nurse worked in a rural hospital where no known CJD cases had been recorded. A second nurse was a recipient of human derived pituitary gonadotrophin. Fifteen cases have no recorded occupation and one health care acquired case is known never to have worked.
After age adjustment, sub-group comparison by country of birth reveals 68.3 per cent of the general population to be Australian born whereas 66.0 per cent of ANCJDR cases were born in Australia. There is also no excess of cases amongst any immigrant sub-group.
Table 3. Cases by standard occupation
Occupation group
Cases on Register
Working Australian population
1. Managers and administrators
2. Professionals
- Medical professionals
- Health professionals
- Nurse professionals
3. Para-professionals
- Enrolled nurse
4. Trades persons
5. Clerks
6. Salespersons and personal service workers
7. Plant and machine operators, and drivers
8. Labourers and related workers
9. Home duties/childcare
Although the catalyst for formal national surveillance of TSE in Australia was to monitor further instances of human pituitary hormone-related CJD, the activities of the ANCJDR have broadened to include vigilance for vCJD. The additional health care acquired cases recognised (as of September 2001) have been as a consequence of dura mater grafts with the most recent death occurring in 2000. One of these patients had an incubation period of approximately 17 years, equivalent to the longest seen so far for this type of iatrogenic transmission. It has now been approximately 10 years since the last death from gonadotrophin-related CJD in Australia, raising the likelihood that no further cases of this type of transmission will be seen domestically in contrast to continuing growth-hormone related cases occurring in other countries such as France.3 Nevertheless, given the known potential for unpredictable and lengthy incubation periods, continued vigilance for many more years is required.
Over the 30 year surveillance period, the incidence of human TSE in Australia has increased considerably. This phenomenon is analogous to the experience of other long-term comprehensive national CJD surveillance programs and is thought to reflect better case ascertainment stemming from improved recognition, confirmation and reporting. There has been a relative plateauing in annual incidence since the late 1990s, suggesting current ascertainment methods have been optimised. A combination of factors (including the diagnostic CSF 14-3-3 protein test, PRNP genotyping and enhanced post-mortem rates) have contributed to this improved classification and identification of CJD cases across Australia. These investigations have especially increased the ascertainment of non-typical and familial cases. Nevertheless, our non-systematic approach to PRNP genotyping is likely to have contributed to the lower percentage of genetic cases compared with international CJD surveillance programs utilising systematic genetic analysis.
Excessive temporo-spatial grouping of apparently sporadic CJD cases is occasionally seen,16 and the ANCJDR has undertaken a comprehensive investigation of such a cluster in an Australian rural city which is the subject of a separate report.
At the time of writing, vCJD has not been diagnosed in Australia. Acknowledging the likely zoonotic basis of vCJD from BSE, Australia's continued verified freedom from the latter and the relatively small number of variant cases so far in the UK compared to the total number of BSE affected cattle, the likelihood of occurrence is low but not zero. This is especially so given the extensive flux of citizens between Australia and the UK over the past 2 decades with the possibility of 'importing' vCJD. For a number of reasons, particularly its increased heat stability and the presence of protease-resistant prion protein in lymphoreticular organs,17 vCJD is believed to constitute a greater public health risk than its classical counterpart. Therefore, any vCJD occurrence in Australia will pose similar public health and safety issues as in the UK. Hence, the low but potential risk of vCJD arising in Australia mandates continued careful monitoring to enable early detection, and safeguard as much as possible against untoward outcomes, especially inadvertent health care related transmission.
The true significance of occupation is tentative and further research will be needed to elucidate potential risks. A case-control study of risk factors for sporadic CJD has been undertaken by the ANCJDR with the results already reported in detail.18 Importantly, the risk of sporadic CJD progressively increased with the number of surgical treatments to a maximum of three procedures (odds ratio 2.13, 95% CI 1.34-3.41)) and did not appear related to site or complexity of the procedure. There was also an increased risk of CJD with employment or residence on a farm (p<0.001) or market garden (p=0.002) for periods longer than 10 years (p=0.002). These findings raise interesting possibilities with regards to under-recognised or potentially novel transmission events but await validation from further studies.
The ANCJDR wishes to thank all the families, medical practitioners and associated staff, for their support and assistance to the Registry in acquiring the necessary medical and demographic information on all patients. The ANCJDR is funded by the Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care. A special thank you is extended to Dr John Worthington for his generous provision of information concerning a number of cases from New South Wales.
1. Australian National Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Registry, Department of Pathology, The University of Melbourne.
Corresponding author: Alison Boyd, Australian National Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Registry, Department of Pathology, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Vic 3052. Telephone: +61 3 8344 4780. Facsimile: +61 3 8344 4004. E-mail: aboyd@unimelb.edu.au
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Aldnoah.Zero – 09
By Tag Team, posted under Aldnoah.Zero, ANIME, Mini-Talk
He’s on Cloud 9
On this week’s mini-talk, Jrow & Fosh talk simulations that Rayet & Marito go through, what has caused Saazbaum to want to assassinate Asseylum and just why the heck Rayet did what she did at the end.
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“My head’s not on the menu, Slaine”
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Here we go again with the “is the princess dead?” talk…
Good job by Rayet on the strategic censorship even as the ship crashes to the ground
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Sumairii says:
POWUH: 800-899 and Mad Scientist with 814 comments
The Martian Cataphract in Marito’s flashback is the Deucalion. We were told last episode that it was heavily damaged in Heaven’s Fall and its Aldnoah drive was salvaged and put into the flying ship. We can also infer that the original Deucalion was piloted by Saazbaum’s “beloved,” whose death he mentioned to Slaine as one of his motivations. This is the big connection here.
As for Asseylum, the main argument for her being dead is the Aldnoah drive powering down after the shower incident. It’s unlikely that just being unconscious would result in the drive failing as this would mean Asseylum couldn’t sleep for a single moment while the ship was in flight. So I am pretty sure she was clinically dead.
Yes, it should have taken much longer than that to kill her rather than just render her unconscious. But almost all other fiction has the same misconception so I assume the same holds for a/z. That said, assuming help arrives soon enough, Asseylum can still be resuscitated. And she will be, because she’s far too important at this point to be killed off permanently.
My favorite theory is that Inaho will administer CPR as a parallel to her own rescue of Slaine. Then she will wake up lip-locked, mistaking him for Slaine for a moment. Not sure where the show would go from there, but if it wants to use even more tropes it can throw in some amnesia for good measure. Or heck, maybe she’ll even lose her ability to use Aldnoah technology. Who knows?
So how would you get Slaine in the ladies’ shower to be the first responder to not-quite-murdered princess? 😀 Or does Edelweiss find her, run out and grab him out of the corridor? Although I think she’s more likely to let Asseyleum die than allow her naked body to be seen by a Terran boy. 🙂
Plot convenience, that’s how. I wouldn’t put it past a/z.
Foshizzel says:
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The princess has an auto-rez feature just you wait! Fufufu
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It would be an interesting twist if Saazbaum’s betrothed actually was the pilot of the Deucalion. I had though it was Gilzeria (Asseylum’s father), but having it be Orlene would be interesting. It also would make sense, since while Saaz seems to have disdain for the feudal system, he doesn’t seem to really care for the common man either. And since he calls Orlene his “betrothed” rather than simply his “fiancee”, I’m guessing she was from a prominent noble family/clan. So, she might have been a knight as well.
However, I think Cruhteo would probably have mentioned this earlier when they saw the Deucalion‘s remains, since Cruhteo and Saaz seemed to have been friends for a while. I think Cruhteo probably knew Orlene.
Any bets on us seeing emotion from Inaho when he hears that the princess has been found murdered in the shower? 😉
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“NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!”
I’m afraid you’ve killed her in your anger… 😛
I’m not sure he’s capable of emotion. Isn’t there a medical condition where some people literally can’t feel emotions? He seems to be one of them. That or he can out-stoic a stoic.
I highly doubt it. He’s cool as ice but it’s a guarantee to get out of Slaine if he ever sees.
Maybe he will have a Shinji moment from End of Eva? Only cool kids will get that reference trolololol.
kono ha hentai.
The only time I can ever that that boy will really show emotion, is if Yuki is somehow killed. Asseylum, I doubt it.
Definitely agree with you on Yuki. Those two have a very strong relationship.
I can see that working. She’s the only family he’s got left. Probably got numb from other possible losses.
Caption contest:
Inaho: …and that is why I’m a stoic motherfosher.
Asseylum: *He’s so dreamy~*
Buns the maid: *Yawn* There sure haven’t been many attempts on your life lately, hime.
DUNDUNDUN
200/200 BEST CAPTION WIENAR
Nice. The perfect opportunity is when their guard is down.
What… Just… Happened? =o Princess can’t die right now, goddamit.
But what surprised me was the world map after Heaven’s Fall. The most shocking thing there is that the country I live, Brazil, was almost entirely destroyed. Actually, at least half the american continent disappeared from the map. Is there any explanation why America was fucked, and Europe is still whole?
Joojoobees says:
POWUH: 800-899 and Flying Sage with 856 comments
“Is there any explanation why America was fucked, and Europe is still whole?”
Yeah, what he said. There’s a pretty big undercurrent of inferiority complex with regards to the US and Canada in Japan. Heck, Obama was the bad guy in I.S. And let’s just wipe out South America, too. 🙂
But leave my country alone i.i
We hit them all. There will be no exceptions!!
I don’t think she would die that easily! I mean sure this is Urobutcher and all, but seriously I don’t think they would kill her this fast cause the earth forces kind of need her >.>
I think Flordia is gone as well LOL
It’s only because it’s Urobutcher that I’m this desperate. If it was any other director I would say “nah, she’s alive.”
The fact Urobuchi is in charge of any production instills fear.
I think the whole point of Heaven’s Fall was really to get somehow get rid of or defang all of the world’s current superpowers and thus cause the Martians to have an even larger edge over Earth. It makes the Earth side seem even more hopeless, and it answers those pesky plot hole questions such as “Why did it land in New Orleans?” or “Why isn’t the US fighting back with a stronger response?”
If you look at the map in comparison with the real one. Almost every continents largest powers have been hit hard. The US lost probably their top 20 most populated cities and along with the capital, and probably most of their armed forces. The US pretty much got neutered in one attack. Australia, the same thing. Europe looks like it hasn’t been hit that bad, but if you look at a comparison map, England lost London and many of the land that’s along it’s coast, Ireland has shrunk, Portugal is gone and Spain has lost some. The inner areas like Germany and France look okay, but they’re not going to do much without help. The Nordic countries got hit the hardest and lost a lot, and the Baltic countries are gone. In Asia, India got pretty hard, China lost a lot of coastline, including it’s largest city of Shanghai. North Korea has (conveniently) been taken completely off the map. (South Korea survived). Africa lost many of the countries on the east and northeast side. Most of Central America and a lot of Mexico is gone. Canada’s north face was hit pretty hard and a lot on the shores. And South America was hit pretty hard in some of it’s biggest countries (Brazil, Chile, Peru, etc.)
It basically shows how weak the Earth has become after Heaven’s Fall, and you can’t even guess how much it cost and how much it took to rebuild and get everyone back on their feet. And event like this could bankrupt a country. And now that the Earth is again at war and getting hit with the equivalent of 26 atomic bombs every time one of these castles lands, and that’s not counting the meteor bombardment that the knights throw down at will. It’s amazing that the Earth is still in one piece!
I wonder how they expect to take our resources when they are blowing the crap out of everything?!
That’s really hard to see… But it’s a good point.
If the martians were to win, they would probably rebuild their empire above the terran’s remains.
That reminded me of one of General Zod’s quotes from “Man of Steel”. Zod to Jor-El: “I will harvest the Codex from your son’s corpse and build a new Krypton atop his bones”.
It makes me glad to live in Kentucky. Nothing. And I mean nothing interesting ever happens here.
What are you talking about? Kentucky is famous for being the place where people wear funny hats and watch animals run around in circles. #KentuckyPride
…and the hammering and the plastering neasr said circle…
*Aims microwave transmitter beam at all the chicken coops there*
W….T…..F! Did Rayet just do what I think she did?!
This was a great episode dealing with characters and their development. We find out so much about Saazbaum, Marito, Inaho and Rayet in this episode that I’m amazed.
So, let’s take this one at a time and I’ll go with Rayet last….
Saazbaum, well, the guy went beyond all of our expectations and turns out to not only not try to manipulate Slaine (at least for now), but instead tells him outright that he’s the one that planned Asseylum’s assassination. He basically states that he owes his life to Dr. Troyard who saved him when he was a scout on Earth during Heaven’s Fall, and through some really twisted ideas born through revenge, he caused the war in order to get vengeance on both the Earth and Mars. Mars’ culture is on the brink and they live on practically nothing (krill? really?), and he’s angry that the Earth has so many resources to squander and that they should make the Earth’s resources their own. However, he finds Vers’ feudal system to be horrid and wishes to take it down by killing the royal family. Or at least, I think he is, because he also seems to want to use the feudal system as it suits him, as well?
We also find that the spark for all this, was the death of his fiancee Orlene, who died during Heaven’s Fall.
This is very interesting information and shows that our villain has some depths. He’s like a more mature, adult Suzaku, trying to take down a monster nation from within, but with much more violent aims. We’ll have to see how Slaine takes this resolve later on. However, as crafty as Saazbaum is, we’ll have to wait and see if he’s telling the truth.
Next we have Marito, who we know has been suffering from violent PTSD. We find out what happened that day, as his doctor friend tries to treat him by recreating the incident using a simulation. We see kataphrackt Deucelion come and tear apart the tank forces on Tanegashima, and that it basically just decimated them all by simply “throwing the tanks every which way” and again having an impervious shield and the ability to float. Marito’s tank driver had been in the tank’s bowels when they were thrown and got pinned. The tank caught fire, and it was rather horrifying to see the man be consumed by the flames. You can see why Marito is so traumatized by seeing his friend burn alive right next to him. His friend begs him to shoot him and end it, to which Marito does. So, we were right that it was a mercy killing, but it doesn’t lessen the guilt. But Darzana is wrong to say it was “murder”. However, now that he has had a chance to relive it, hopefully, he can begin to heal and overcome it.
Inaho didn’t really have many lines, but we actually get quite a bit of development for him from his sister. Not only do we find that of course, his friends can’t really understand and figure out his deadpan tone and face, but they do notice it’s there. However, Yuki being his sister, notices the minute changes in his face and knows all his emotions. She’s the one that confirms that Inaho actually does have a thing for Asseylum, to Inko’s dismay (also conformation that Inko has a crush on Inaho too). Yuki also points out that Rayet likes Inaho too from the look on her face, and so it has been confirmed that Inaho now has a small harem.
And now, we can get to Rayet….poor Rayet.
Rayet’s been having a pretty hard time. She tries to be strong, but the guilt from hiding who she is and what her father and her group tried to do, is eating her up inside. She’s still pretty traumatized from the incident with Nilokeras (Really Yuki? You would give that kind of simulation to a girl you know was running for her life from said mech not that long ago? Come on, you should know better.), and she’s angry and confused at the princess who is able to be so calm about her situation and not afraid to reveal her origins, where as Rayet is terrified to. And it some point, something in her snaps. Her mental psyche must have been a lot more fragile that I thought. For in a moment of silent psycho rage, Rayet finishes(?) what her father and compatriots tried to do, and she murders Asseylum.
If the theory that the Aldnoah drives are connected to the life force of the activator is true and that Cruhteo is dead, than Asseylum is now dead also. And that’s not something I would have seen coming so suddenly out of nowhere. I thought she would be killed in battle, but to actually be strangled in a shower?! Never popped into my mind.
Now, is Asseylum dead? All indicators point to that. However, she could also be simply unconscious through oxygen deprivation. In ligature strangulation, the carotid arteries jugular veins get cut off and the brain loosed blood and with it oxygen. The brain automatically thinks that the heart has stopped and you quickly loose consciousness in seconds. The amount of seconds depends on how skilled the attacker is and if a person is standing, sitting, or lying down. If a person isn’t given oxygen and revived immediately, they will die in a matter of minutes, but not before irreparable brain damage. 🙁
So, is she alive or unconscious? Her being unconscious supports my theory that the lights of Cruhteo’s ship went out because he was knocked out or injured and not because he was killed. We’ll have to see next time.
However, whatever it is, this does not look good for Rayet, who as a Martian and now has at least attempted murder, if not murder itself, I just can’t see Rayet coming out of this show alive.
A really good episode, with a surprise I did not see coming. Also, we learn that more of the landing castles have touched down than we previously thought, with 26 now at least, rather than simply 19. That means that are, at most, 11 knights still in space. We do know that ALL of them haven’t come down, as seen by Saazbaum still being in orbit. The castles all landed in high populated areas, most of them in Europe and west Asia. The Deucalion crew is now over far west China/outer Mongolia, as indicated by the map.
> Indeed! This was easily the best episode for character development instead of being all about mech vs mech action.
Saazbaum, well, the guy went beyond all of our expectations and turns out to not only not try to manipulate Slaine (at least for now), but instead tells him outright that he’s the one that planned Asseylum’s assassination.
Yepp! I am glad we finally have an idea as to WHO was behind this whole mess and now we have to see what Slain does with that info and who he can reveal it too…
Next we have Marito, who we know has been suffering from violent PTSD
I used to not care as much for his story, but WOW his past is quite dramatic and I can totally see why he doesn’t just get over it…
Now, is Asseylum dead?
Nope, nope and NOOPPEEEE cause it would be silly to off her now cause the earth team NEEDS her in order to survive or do they?! With Inaho on board he seems to be the shield…and agreed if anything the princess was knocked unconscious.
In a way, I kind of want her to be dead. It was a twist no one saw coming, and it would make things even more tricky plot-wise.
I mean, the Earth team could survive without her. They did before she ever revealed herself only a few episodes ago, so I think our plucky team might be a bit more resourceful.
However, we shall see.
Possibly! I mean I guess I could see it working, but at the same time it still feels a bit early for her to die maybe later and like Jrow said on the miniTALK we have played this game before about her dying in episode one! Yeah we shall see.
Oh, and an interesting tidbit. Rayet Areash and her father, Wolf, are actually named after the celestial phenomenon known as Wolf-Rayet Stars. They are some of, if not the, most massive and brightest stars currently known, and yet they lose their mass at an extremely fast rate, thanks to high solar winds. They do not last long and are quite rare. 🙁
…swiftly burns the star…That does make me rather sad.
Also, here are my ideas/commentary as to why Rayet may have done what she did:
I’ve been actually reading a few blogs and they bring up some real interesting things regarding Rayet and why she’s gone down the dark path she has.
The thing is, just as Inaho and Slaine are foils, so are Asseylum and Rayet. Both are Martians, but one is royalty and the other a commoner. Both lost their fathers to war, both have been betrayed by their own people, and both have been harboring a secret about their identity in fear of discovery regarding their origins.
However, whereas Asseylum, despite being a Martian, has become friends with the crew and has been accepted, and is still calm, happy, and gracious about everything. Rayet is alone, isolated, haunted by her guilt and her thoughts. She is afraid to show herself and has hid behind a shield of hatred against her people. She never smiles, never laughs, she always skulks in corners. She has endured tragedy just as Asseylum has, somebody has tried to kill her, just like Asseylum, so why are they so different? Why can’t she have what Asseylum has?
This goes back to the whole theme of the episode, which was jealousy and envy, and where does that lead. Saazbaum brought this up on a nationwide scale when talking about how Martians are brought up to envy the Earth for what it has. This causes anger towards the Earth and a wish to have what they have. And all Vers needed was the right push, and they swarmed down to take what they envied by force.
This is show on a smaller, more individual scale by Rayet, who cannot understand why Asseylum gets everything, while she does not. Despite their similar backgrounds and circumstances, Asseylum has the life that Rayet doesn’t, and Rayet is jealous of that. She’s jealous of her. And in that shower, at the end of her rope, she suddenly hears the princess and her maid talking about how much easier the princess has had it, and just like that Rayet snaps. That “right push” causes Rayet to take, that which she envies–Asseylum’s life.
And when she’s done, she snaps out of it and finds that getting what she wanted, just made things worse. Now she’s going to be even more alone and isolated that before. She’s going to have to continue to hide and to lie. She can never find peace.
Ohh totally Rayet is indeed jealous over what the princess has over her because it seems the people of earth are fine with her being a martian and what not while Rayet is fighting that idea or is confused as to why everyone accepts her so much.
The people of Earth are alright with the princess because she’s the one who wants to bring about peace. Her intentions are already clear.
Saazbaum’s justification made a bit less of an asshole. A bit. A lost lover is understandable to a degree. Still, nothing but insane to condemn an entire planet for views probably he only has.
Jealousy is an ugly thing. Rayet’s animosity towards Asseylum is greatly misplaced and branding all Martians as enemies is contradictory since she, herself, is one. She blames them for her father’s death. In retrospect, he kind of got his just desserts for playing a part in starting an unnecessary war reeling in an untold body count on both sides and she’s just as guilty. So, if she hates Martians that, she should also resent herself enough to commit suicide instead of going after the princess to quell her rage.
Hahah ya it is totally like OH MA GERD MY LOVER DIED TIME TO KILL EVERYONE ON EARTH cause REASONS!
Indeed it is clear that Rayet wants what the princess has as far as being accepted by the earthlings, but she just doesn’t know how to be like the princess and this episode shows that her emotions got the best of her clouding her judgement which pushed her to the edge! I certainly hope that she doesn’t take her own life =/
The wing-nut is about ready to redefine the word “self-righteous”.
I think that bit of self-loathing is what also led to her mental breakdown. She hates Martians and all Martians are the enemy. This is the hate that drives her. However, within all that hate, she is faced with the fact that this means that she must also hate herself, that she must also hate her beloved father (who she actually addressed with the honorific of “-sama”, so her respect and admiration of him must have been pretty high) whose death sparked all of this.
Rayet has been one emotional mess for quite some time, and has never had time to properly grieve either. She keeps everything to herself and doesn’t allow any emotions out, She doesn’t make any friends and she is always alone. It’s a recipe of disaster.
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Is that girl an idiot O_O I swear, in the levels of despair and shit situations this anime far exceeds Attack on titan O_O what are they gonna do now that the ship isn’t on the go anymore? O_O And I hope the princess won’t get revived again. Though she will -_-
She has to be alive, because we haven’t had that awesome part from the end of the OP, where Asseyleum pulls that pistol out on someone. That’s what I’m watching this whole show for.
I’m betting she pulls that pistol out on Saazbaum.
That was my guess when I mentioned it to the other writers, but apparently there are people who are trying to make the case that it’s going to be Slaine (to which I went “whuuuuut?”).
Huh? I see no reason for that to transpire. It’s not like those two would betray each other. Not after how devoted they’ve acted to one another.
Really? For me, the level of despair and “bad to worse” situations on Attack on Titan were ever present. Here, it’s on and off since Inaho and the others actually manage to get a breather, even if it’s brief.
I shall ask now…
What is the Urobutcher count currently? Because anything less than 2 is poor.
Too many bodies have dropped. I lost count.
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Piirissaare Museum
Piirissaar and The Old Believers
The oldest village on Piirissaar, with its Russian inhabitants, dates back to 1370. It is called Saare village, or "Желачек" in Russian.
During the episcopacy of Tartu, Piirissaar was divided between Tartu and Pskov.
After the Great Northern War, one part of the island (Piiri village or Межа in Russian) was occupied by the Livonian Governorate (Kastre Manor) and the other part (Saare village) by the Pskov Governorate.
In 1862 a new house of prayer and worship measuring 120 square metres was built with donations from the residents of Saare village.
In the early years of the 20th century there were 300-400 people in the Piirissaar congregation.
During the period of the Estonian Republic, up to 1200 people lived on Piirissaar; nearly a quarter of them were Estonians, while the rest were Russians, mainly Old Believers. There were two Old Believers' houses of prayer and worship on the island, one Orthodox church and one Lutheran church.
In 1924 two Old Believers' congregations were registered on Piirissaar: that of Piiri village and that of Saare village.
The house of prayer and worship in Piiri village burned down during World War II.
Thus all of the Old Believers on Piirissaar gathered in the Saare village house of prayer and worship during the post-war period. In 1952 up to 400 people visited the church during great church holidays.
In 2015 the Old Believers' Congregation of Piirissaar was established; Fjodor Korotkov was elected its chairman.
On 16 May 2016 there was a large fire in Saare village that destroyed its house of prayer and worship along with three homes.
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Biden campaign says he backs Trump’s China travel ban
readsonthego | April 4, 2020 | News | No Comments
Joe Biden’s campaign said Friday the former vice president supports President Donald Trump’s January 31 decision to ban foreign nationals who had been in China within the previous 14 days from entering the United States.
“Joe Biden supports travel bans that are guided by medical experts, advocated by public health officials, and backed by a full strategy,” Kate Bedingfeld, Biden’s deputy campaign manager, told CNN. “Science supported this ban, therefore he did too.”
The comment comes after weeks of Trump’s reelection campaign accused Biden of calling Trump’s travel ban xenophobic — though the former vice president never explicitly said as much. Biden’s campaign has said he was not referring to Trump’s travel ban, but had not clarified his position on the ban.
Biden first accused Trump of xenophobia in dealing with the coronavirus pandemic on January 31, at a campaign rally in Fort Madison, Iowa — in comments that came shortly after Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar announced the travel ban.
“You know we have right now a crisis with the coronavirus, emanating from China,” Biden said then. “The national emergency and worldwide alerts. The American people need to have a president who they can trust what he says about it. That he is going to act rationally about it. In moments like this, this is where the credibility of a president is most needed, as he explains what we should and should not do. This is no time for Donald Trump’s record of hysterical xenophobia and fear mongering to lead the way instead of science.”
Biden has since accused Trump of xenophobia on Twitter. And in a mid-March press conference, he lambasted Trump’s labeling of coronavirus a “foreign” virus, saying the United States should not “panic or fall back on xenophobia. Labeling Covid-19 a foreign virus does not displace accountability for the misjudgments that have been taken thus far by the Trump administration.”
Bedingfield said Biden’s “reference to xenophobia was about Trump’s long record of scapegoating others at a time when the virus was emerging from China,” and that it was not a reference to the travel ban.
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Alfa Caught Off Guard By Minsk
By Elizabeth Wolfe
Sep. 03 2001 00:00
The Belarussian Communications Ministry denied reports Friday that Russian company Alfa Eco had been thrown out of the tender for Belarus' second GSM mobile license.
A winner is expected to be named this week, and Interfax reported Thursday that the candidate pool had shrunk from five to three ? catching Alfa Eco, part of the powerful Alfa Group holding, completely off guard.
"It's illogical. You can't be excluded before the tender is over," said Stanislav Shekshnya, general director of Alfa Eco Telecom, which later got reassurances from Belarus that it was still in the running.
Belarus' first deputy communications minister, Anatoly Budai, said in a Vedomosti report published Friday the company "failed to meet the tender terms," while the remaining candidates presented "approximately equal proposals."
On Friday, however, he denied saying this. "Five companies are still participating in the tender, and the [tender] commission is doing everything correctly," Budai said in a telephone interview.
The exclusion of Alfa Eco ? a major shareholder in Russia's No. 2 cellular provider Vimpelcom ? and an Austrian operator would have left Russia's Mobile TeleSystems and Northwest GSM and a Saudi Arabian company still in the bidding. Media have speculated that MTS is the front-runner.
The license will cost $5 million plus a $2.5 million bonus for the Belarussian budget. Under the tender terms, the winner is expected to enter a joint venture called International Communications that is 51-percent state-owned. Commercial operations could start up by mid-April and initial investment in network construction by the winner could reach $200 million.
Despite reassurances Alfa has received from Belarussian officials, Shekshnya said they could not be 100 percent sure of anything: "In Belarus it's even worse" than in Russia, he said.
Apart from Belarus, which would be Alfa's first telecoms foray outside Russia, the company is interested in extending its reach to countries where Alfa Group is active in other industries.
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On the Fringe, At the Fringe: Fleshing out Research
Clarke, Caroline; Corlett, Sandra and Gilmore, Charlotte (2020). On the Fringe, At the Fringe: Fleshing out Research. In: Pullen, Alison; Hellin, Jenny and Harding, Nancy eds. Dialogues in Critical Studies: Writing Differently. Dialogues in Critical Studies, 4. Emerald Group Publishing, (In press).
Be ‘open to becoming affected by encounters, rather than simply reporting them’ is the invitation from Fotaki et al (2017: 8), and it is this message that we have taken to heart in our ‘fringe’ production. Inspired by friendship, ideas, and an interest in fleshing out research, we offer our work as an illustration of embodied research as a process in action, in terms of both form and content. We share the story behind our research-in-the-making as it emerged over two days, during Edinburgh’s Fringe festival1. At night we went to performances at the Fringe, where life and research experiences were serendipitously reflected back at us in terms of content – topic and genre, as well as form – and enabled us to appreciate the provisional and unpredictable relations between performer and audience. By day, in our research practices, we allowed ourselves to use eclectic, improvisational and experimental modes of expression2, that are only just on the fringe of acceptability, even within the most enlightened circles of organisational studies.
Using arts-based methods we present our work through a variety of media – a film, play, poem, and a live fringe performance – that serve also as a medium for experimentation. We show how a range of possibilities may arise from touching and moving encounters during fieldwork. We open our work with the first touching encounter, involving Nina and her research with vets, and end with Burge’s encounters with Duglas T Stewart3. Such affective experiences have the potential to spark off a series of unknowable, unpredictable and unending embodied connections, coincidences and relationships. Touching research encounters must be embraced, nurtured and have time to distil, rather than being shrugged off. Incorporating these into our writing is affirmative, for it not only provides recognition of our own, and others’ bodily experiences but illustrates the potentially powerful, recursive and transformative effects of researching, writing and reading. Such writing, however, requires us to relinquish control from the straitjacket of our academic conventions, and the courage to harness any discomfort that may arise from relational, embodied and creative practices of ‘production’.
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Contemporary Cultures of Writing
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Wah-Zha-Zhi Health Center clinic manager resigns, interim manager appointed
By Benny Polacca
Date: Feb. 6, 2020
Photo caption: The Health Authority Board met on Jan. 9 and discussed Sherron’s departure. CODY HAMMER/Osage News
The clinic manager position at the Wah-Zha-Zhi Health Center in Pawhuska is open after Daniel Sherron resigned in early January.
In a Facebook posting, Sherron said Jan. 7 was his last day at the WHC and he accepted a similar health service position for the Ponca Tribe of Oklahoma, where he is a tribal member. Sherron, who has prior human resources management experience with other nearby tribes, worked at the WHC since December 2018.
“I'm so thankful for the last year I've spent with the Osage people,” Sherron wrote. “I developed many relationships during my time there and feel like we were able to accomplish some great things. I worked with some great people and will truly miss each one.”
Sherron added: “After much prayer and discussion with my family, today was also my first day as the Health Services Director for my tribe, the Ponca Tribe. I'm looking forward to helping my people and improving our health services system. Pray for me as I make this transition. God bless!”
Dr. Ron Shaw, CEO of the WHC/ Osage Nation Health Services, said Sherron made the work transition at the request of Ponca elected officials in addition to his desire to serve his people. “Daniel established himself as a reliable and knowledgeable administrator particularly in Human Resources matters and business and financial planning and he holds degrees in Human Resources and an MBA,” Shaw said.
In the meantime, WHC compliance and performance officer Laura Sawney will serve as interim clinic manager, Shaw said. The interim clinic manager appointment of Sawney (Cherokee Nation) took place following a Jan. 9 special meeting of the ON Health Authority Board, which interviewed Sherron along with Shaw before his 2018 hiring.
Sawney holds a master’s degree in public health and has experience in health compliance issues, Shaw said. Sawney graduated with her MPH degree from the University of Oklahoma and previously served as supervisor of Public Health Policy and Performance at Cherokee Nation Public Health.
Shaw said the clinic manager job posting should be posted by early February and would be advertised for 30 days per ON human resources policy.
ON government job postings, including those at the WHC are posted online at: https://www.osagenation-nsn.gov/opportunities/job-opportunities
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Kudos to collaboration: Bay restoration efforts multiplied
by Jenika Downs | Mar 16, 2018 | Bay Matters |
by Scott Eglseder
On Jan. 2 of this year, three vital conservation agencies officially united to form ShoreRivers: Midshore Riverkeeper Conservancy (a longtime parter to the Oyster Reef Recovery Initiative), Chester River Association and Sassafras River Association. These nonprofit organizations have joined forces to enable them to promote healthy waterways in a more synergistic way.
In their words, “ShoreRivers will restore and protect our Eastern Shore waters through science-based advocacy, restoration, and education. Our three legacy organizations each have a deep history of working collaboratively to improve the health
of the waters in our communities, and that mission will continue. By joining together, we have become more than just the sum of our parts — we are one united and committed voice with more influence on policy, more capacity to enact programs, and more potential to undertake large restoration projects to reduce pollution.”Such a partnership enhances the scope of their impact, since the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, and it may be a model for more organizations to consider in the future. This is especially true in light of potential budget cuts for Chesapeake Bay cleanup initiatives that would occur from reduced EPA funding. We will definitely have to work together more closely and more effectively if EPA funding is slashed to 10 percent of its previous size (as proposed in the president’s 2019 budget recommendation). My hope is that this scenario will not take place, as there have been marked improvements in water quality, aquatic grasses, and fishery health in the Chesapeake Bay due to continued restoration efforts and the availability of funding.
Another positive collaboration of which I have recently become aware is one where the Chesapeake Bay Foundation and its partners (including Shore Rivers, University of Maryland and more than 20 other businesses, organizations, and institutions) aim to plant 10 billion oysters in the Chesapeake Bay over the next seven years. The oysters will be planted within five tributaries in Maryland and five tributaries in Virginia.
The goal of planting 10 billion oysters will be pursued through a combination of efforts, including fishery management, increasing production of Maryland’s oyster aquaculture industry, and ensuring that funding is available for restoration activities. According to their website, tenbillionoysters.org, “The Partnership will improve water quality, engage new constituencies, and drive economic benefits across the region.”
This partnership will also be counting on state and federal agency efforts, including the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Army Corps of Engineers, the Virginia Marine Resources Commission and the Maryland Department of Natural Resources, and the work of groups like the Oyster Recovery Partnership to follow through on the Chesapeake Bay Program goal of restoring 10 Bay tributaries by 2025.
“This partnership promotes small business, creates jobs and maintains oyster growers’ long-term viability,” said Johnny Shockley, Founding Partner, Hoopers Island Oyster Co. “We see a future when the Chesapeake once again leads the world in seafood production with hundreds of oyster farms and a sustainable public fishery that preserves our heritage and builds a billion-dollar industry.”
While budget cuts may be looming in the air, it is encouraging to see that our hopes are not completely dashed. These ongoing collaborative efforts between compatible organizations, combined with research, effective fishery management, increased oyster aquaculture and oyster restoration efforts may just be the necessary formula to reach that 10 billion oyster goal for a healthy Chesapeake Bay.
Scott Eglseder is the founding sponsor of the Oyster Reef Recovery Initiative.
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For information purposes only -- not an official document.
This is a tentative list of participants for the seventieth session of the Commission based on official correspondence received by the secretariat. This list is subject to change and should be used for information purposes only.
Permanent Observers
United Nations Secretariat
United Nations Agencies and Bodies
Intergovernmental Organizations
Non Governmental Organizations
H.E. Mr. Armen Sargsyan, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Embassy of Armenia, Beijing
Mr. Jonathan Kenna, Minister and Permanent Representative to ESCAP, Embassy of Australia, Bangkok
Mr. John James, Deputy Permanent Representative to ESCAP, Embassy of Australia, Bangkok
Mr. Vugar Abdullayev, Head of Intersections and Review Division, Department of Economic Policy, Analysis and Forecasting, Ministry of Economy and Industry
Mr. Farid Valiyev, Senior Officer, Ministry of Transport
H.E. M. A. Mannan, State Minister for Finance and Planning
H.E. Kazi Imtiaz Hossain, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary and Permanent Representative to ESCAP, Embassy of Bangladesh, Bangkok
Mr. Muhammad Alkama Siddiqui, Joint Secretary, Roads Department, Ministry of Communication
Mr. Md. Jamal Uddin Ahmed, Joint Secretary, Roads Department, Ministry of Communication
Mr. Md. Abdullah Al Masud Chowdhury, Economic Counsellor and Alternate Permanent Representative, Embassy of Bangladesh, Bangkok
Mr. Kazi Ruseel Pervez, Counsellor and Alternate Permanent Representative, Embassy of Bangladesh
Ms. Marzia Sultana, Assistant Chief, Economic Relations Division, Ministry of Finance
H.E. Mr. Tshering Tobgay, Prime Minister
H.E. Mr. Rinzin Dorji, Minister for Foreign Affairs
H.E. Mr. Kesang Wangdi, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary and Permanent Representative to ESCAP, Embassy of Bhutan, Bangkok
Ms. Doma Tshering, Director, Multilateral Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Mr. Bhimlal Suberi, Chief, Policy and Planning Division, Ministry of Information and Communications
Mr. Chhime Tshering, Chief, Department of Trade, Ministry of Economic Affairs
Mr. Yeshey Dorji, Deputy Chief International Organizations Division, Multilateral Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Ms. Tshering Lhamo, Planning Officer, Gross National Happiness Commission, Perspective Planning Division
Mr. Nim Tshering, Personal Secretary to the Prime Minister
Mr. Chitem Tenzin, Minister Counsellor and Alternate Deputy Permanent Representative to ESCAP, Embassy of Bhutan, Bangkok
Mr. Dechen Lhendup, Counsellor, Embassy of Bhutan, Bangkok
Mr. Sonam Phuntsho, Counsellor and Deputy Permanent Representative to ESCAP, Embassy of Bhutan, Bangkok
Mr. Pema Thinley, Information and Communication Technology and Geographic Information Systems Officer, Department of Disaster Management, Ministry of Home and Cultural Affairs
Mr. Thinlay Norbu, Second Secretary, Embassy of Bhutan, Bangkok
Mr. Tshultrim Gyeltshen, Aide-de-Camp to the Prime Minister
Ms. Tshering Lhamo, Planning Officer, Perspective Planning Division, Gross National Happiness Commission
Ms. Tshering Wangmo, Press Officer, Office of the Prime Minister
Mr. Hamzah Sulaiman, Permanent Secretary, International Economics, Finance, Research and Development Division, Office of the Prime Minister
Mr. Lim Hong Huat, Acting Deputy Director-General, Department of Economic and Planning Development
Mr. Shahrin Mohamad Tamit, Lecturer, International Economics Finance Research and Development Division, Office of the Prime Minister
H.E. Mr. Ly Thuch, Senior Minister and Chairman, National Committee for the Economic and Social Commission of Asia and the Pacific
H.E. Ms. Eat Sophea, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Embassy of Cambodia, Bangkok
H.E. Mr. Vothana Kim, Secretary-General, National Committee for the Economic and Social Commission of Asia and the Pacific
H.E. Ribaun Korm, Deputy-Secretary-General National Committee for the Economic and Social Commission of Asia and the Pacific
H.E. Bora Meas, Deputy-Secretary-General National Committee for the Economic and Social Commission of Asia and the Pacific
H.E. Hang Lina, Director-General, National Institute of Statistics, Ministry of Planning
Ms. Keo Keriya, Counsellor, Embassy of Cambodia, Bangkok
Mr. Chan Saruth, Director, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
Ms. Roey Ryan, Adviser, National Committee for the Economic and Social Commission of Asia and the Pacific
Ms. Rina Suy, Director, National Committee for the Economic and Social Commission of Asia and the Pacific
H.E. Mr. Li Baodong, Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs
Mr. Wu Zhiwu, Minister Counsellor, Chargé d'affaires, Embassy of China, Bangkok
Mr. Li Hong, Permanent Representative to ESCAP, Embassy of China, Bangkok
Mr. La Yifan, Deputy Director-General, Department of International Organizations and Conferences, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Mr. Sun Zhiqiang, Second Secretary, General Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Mr. Shi Wei, Deputy Director, Department of International Economic Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Ms. Xie Zhangwei, First Secretary and Assistant to the Permanent Representative to ESCAP, Embassy of China, Bangkok
Ms. Su Lei, Second Secretary, Department of Translation and Interpretation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Ms. Feng Xin, Attaché and Assistant to the Permanent Representative of China to ESCAP, Embassy of China, Bangkok
Ms. Yu Miao, Attaché, Department of International Economic Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
H.E. Mun Song Mo, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Embassy of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Bangkok
Mr. Kim Jae Hon, Counsellor and Permanent Representative to ESCAP , Embassy of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Bangkok
Mr. Kim Mun Dok, Senior Officer, Department of International Organizations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Mr. Paek Sung Chol, Senior Officer, Department of International Organizations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Mr. Jong Song Gap, Counsellor and Deputy Permanent Representative to ESCAP and, Embassy of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Bangkok
Mr. Pita Wise, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Strategic Planning, National Development and Statistics
Mr. Luke Daunivalu, Deputy Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
Mr. Paula Nakabea Bavou Cirikiyasawa, Chief Economist, Ministry of Strategic Planning, National Development & Statistics
Mr. Pita Tagicakirewa, Counsellor, High Commission of Fiji, Kuala Lampur
Mr. Rodolphe Sambou, First Secretary, Embassy of France, Bangkok
H.E. Mr. Harsh Vardhan Shringla, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary and Permanent Representative to ESCAP, Embassy of India, Bangkok
Mr. Ravi Capoor, Joint Secretary, Department of Commerce, Ministry of Commerce and Industry, New Delhi
Mr. Niraj Verma, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, New Delhi
Mr. G. Balasubramanian, Deputy Chief of Mission and Deputy Permanent Representative to ESCAP, Embassy of India, Bangkok
Mr. Gaurav Dwivedi, Director, Department of Electronics and Information Technology, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, New Delhi
Ms. Amrit Raj, Director, Department of Commerce, Ministry of Commerce and Industry, New Delhi
Mr. K.V.S. Rao, Director, Department of Disability Affairs, Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment, New Delhi
Mr. Rajesh Swami, First Secretary and Alternate Deputy Permanent Representative to ESCAP, Embassy of India, Bangkok
Mr. Aditya Vats, Attache and Assistant Permanent Representative to ESCAP, Embassy of India, Bangkok
Mr. Kuljeet Singh Arora, Attache, Embassy of India, Bangkok
H.E. Lutfi Rauf, Ambassador of the Republic of Indonesia, Embassy of Indonesia, Bangkok
Mr. Bebeb A.K.N. Djundjunan, Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Indonesia, Bangkok
Dr. Gati Gayatri, Director, Ministry of Communication and Information Technology
Dr. Sri Hery Susilowati, Ministry of Agriculture
Ms. Susanty Pertiwi, Chief of Multilateral Cooperation, Ministry Of Transportation
Ms. Anny Triana, Ministry of Communication and Information Technology
Ms. Dewi Supriati, Ministry Of Transportation
H.E. Mr. Hossein Kamalian, Ambassador and Permanent Representative to ESCAP, Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Bangkok
Mr. Mohammad Ali Eftekhari Zeidabadi, Head of the Centre for Public Relations, Informatics and International Affairs, Vice-Presidency for Strategic Planning and Supervision
Mr. Mohammad Ali Zarie Zarie, First Counsellor and Deputy Permanent Representative to ESCAP, Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Bangkok
Mr. Mohammad Reza Bagheripour, Second Counsellor, Embassy of Islamic Republic of Iran, Bangkok
Mr. Mojtaba Zahedi, Counsellor, Embassy of Islamic Republic of Iran, Bangkok
Mr. Masoud Gharanfoli, Counsellor, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Mr. Mohammad Hadi Daryaei, Deputy for International Affairs Centre, Vice-Presidency for Strategic Planning and Supervision
Mr. Hassan Amereh, Office of the Vice President for Strategic Planning and Supervision
H.E. Seiji Kihara, Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs
Mr. Mitsugu Saito, Minister and Permanent Representative to ESCAP, Embassy of Japan, Bangkok
Mr. Hisanobu Mochizuki, Counsellor and Deputy Permanent Representative to ESCAP, Embassy of Japan, Bangkok
Ms. Naoko Ueda, Senior Negotiator for Global Issues Cooperation, Minister's Secretariat, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Mr. Shinji Itsubo, Deputy Director, Global Issues Cooperation Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Mr. Toru Adachi, First Secretary and Deputy Permanent Representative to ESCAP, Embassy of Japan, Bangkok
Mr. Kenji Hamamoto, First Secretary, Embassy of Japan, Bangkok
Mr. Wataru Otsuka, Secretary to the Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Mr. Takashi Kobayashi, Second Secretary, Embassy of Japan, Bangkok
Mr. Naoki Yamashita, Second Secretary, Embassy of Japan, Bangkok
Mr. Daisuke Yoshino, Second Secretary, Embassy of Japan, Bangkok
Mr. Go Tsuruta, Second Secretary, Embassy of Japan, Phnom Penh
Ms. Yoshiko Onami, Political Assistant, Embassy of Japan, Bangkok
Ms. Chanyapach Unhajata, Political Assistant, Embassy of Japan, Bangkok
Ms. Piyawan Sukonpathip, Political Assistant, Embassy of Japan, Bangkok
Mr. Yoshino Enjoji, Researcher, Global Issues Cooperation Division, International Cooperation Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Mr. Masaaki Nakagawa, Director, International Training Cooperation, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications
Mr. Kunio Okamura, Senior Special Adviser, Japan International Cooperation Agency
Mr. Kimio Takeya, Senior Adviser, Environmental Department, Japan International Cooperation Agency
Mr. Koji Yamada, Senior Adviser to the Director-General, Operations Strategy Department, Japan International Cooperation Agency
Mr. Shuichi Ikeda, Chief Representative, Japan International Cooperation Agency, Thailand
Mr. Juichiro Sahara, Senior Representative, Japan International Cooperation Agency, Thailand
Mr. Masanori Takenaka, Senior Programme Officer, Japan International Cooperation Agency, Thailand
Mr. Kobchai Songsrisanga, Programme Officer, Japan International Cooperation Agency, Thailand
Mr. Pirayut Jenkijvatthanalert, Japan International Cooperation Agency, Thailand
H.E. Mr. Bektas Mukhamejanov, Vice-Minister, Ministry of Environment and Water Resources
H.E. Mr. Marat Yessenbayev, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary , Embassy of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Bangkok
Ms. Altynay M. Dyussekova, First Secretary and Deputy Permanent Representative to ESCAP, Embassy of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Bangkok
H.E. Reteta Rimon Nikuata, High Commissioner, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Immigration
H.E. Mr. Saleumxay Kommasith, Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs
H.E. Mr. Ly Bounkham, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary and Permanent Representative to the ESCAP, Embassy of the Lao People's Democratic Republic, Bangkok
Mr. Math Sounmala, Director-General, Ministry of Public Work and Transport
Mr. Kingphokeo Phommahaxay, Counsellor, Deputy Chief of Mission and Deputy Permanent Representative to ESCAP, Embassy of the Lao People's Democratic Republic, Bangkok
Mr. Anouparb Vongnorkeo, Deputy Director-General of International Organizations Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Mr. Daovy Vongxay, Director, United Nations Economic and Social Affairs Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Mr. Thipphavong Vongphosy, Second Secretary, Department of International Organizations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Ms. Phanthaly Vongsili, Desk Officer, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Mr. Muhamad Idris, Director of the Economic Planning Unit, Department of the Prime Minister
Mr. Ezral Uzaimi, Economic Counsellor, Malaysian Trade Office, Embassy of Malaysia, Bangkok
H.E. Ms. Amatlain E.Kabua, Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations, New York
H.E. Mr. Bold Luvsanvandan, Minister for Foreign Affairs
H.E. Ms. Oyun Sanjaasuren, Minister for Environment and Green Development
H.E. Mr. Battumur Chimeddorj, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary and Permanent Representative, Embassy of Mongolia, Bangkok
Mr. Dashdorj Luvsandorj, Citizen Participation and Economic Adviser to the President of Mongolia
Mr. Ganbold Gonchig, Director, Department of International Organizations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Ms. Ganzorig Enkhtuya, Third Secretary, Embassy of Mongolia, Bangkok
Ms. Ariuntuya Dorjsuren, Ministry of Environment and Green Development
Ms. Borgilmaa Zagdsuren, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Mr. Batpurev Ayushsuren, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Mr. Purevdorj Batmunkh, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
H.E. Mr. Zin Yaw, Deputy Minister for Transport
H.E. Mr. Win Muang, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Embassy of Myanmar, Bangkok
Ms. Than Than Lin, Adviser, Foreign Economic Relations Department, Ministry of National Planning and Economic Development
Mr. Bobjones Ribauw, Director for Regional Division, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
H.E. Mr. Govind Raj Pokharel, Vice Chairman, National Planning Commission
Mr. Somlal Subedi, Member Secretary, National Planning Commission
Mr. Lal Shankar Ghimire, Joint Secretary, National Planning Commission
Mr. Dor Nath Aryal, Chargé d'affaires and Deputy Permanent Representative to ESCAP, Embassy of Nepal, Bangkok
Mr. Rabi Shanker Sainju, Programme Director, National Planning Commission
Mr. Ramesh Kumar Charmakar, Second Secretary, Embassy of Nepal, Bangkok
Ms. Pam Dunn, Acting Ambassador, Embassy of New Zealand, Bangkok
H.E. Mr. Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources
H.E. Mr. Sohail Khan, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary and Permanent Representative to ESCAP, Embassy of Pakistan, Bangkok
Mr. Ata-ul-Munim Shahid, Deputy Head of Mission and Deputy Permanent Representative to ESCAP, Embassy of Pakistan, Bangkok
Mr. Nazim Latif, Commercial Counsellor, Embassy of Pakistan, Bangkok
H.E. Mr. Veali Vagi, High Commissioner and Permanent Representative to ESCAP, High Commission of Papua New Guinea, Kuala Lampur
Mr. John Wemin, Foreign Service Officer, Department of Foreign Affairs
Mr. Stanley Arua, Second Secretary, High Commission of Papua New Guinea, Kuala Lampur
H.E. Ms. Jocelyn Batoon-Garcia, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, and Permanent Representative to ESCAP, Embassy of the Philippines, Bangkok
H.E. Mr. Gil S. Beltran, Under-Secretary and Chief Economist, Department of Finance
H.E. Mr. Louis Napoleon Casambre, Under-Secretary, Department of Science and Technology
Ms. Emmeline Verzosa, Executive Director, Philippine Commission on Women
Mr. Nicolas Ojeda, Deputy Executive Director, Department of Science and Technology
Ms. Princess Tomas-Tayao, Second Secretary and Alternate Permanent Representative to ESCAP, Embassy of the Philippines, Bangkok
Ms. Anna Marie Santos, Third Secretary, Embassy of the Philippines, Bangkok
Ms. Anne Maris Estoya, Consular Assistant and Attaché, Embassy of the Philippines, Bangkok
Mr. Eric Elnar, Commercial Attaché, Embassy of the Philippines, Bangkok
Ms. Ana GM Abejuela, Special Agriculture Representative , Philippine Embassy, Bangkok
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The building of the Civil Registry in Al-Muroor neighborhood in Al-Raqqa
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Syrian Democratic Forces advanced in the neighborhoods of the city of Raqqa after violent clashes with a mercenary of ISIS in which it managed to liberate the civil registry building and killed 47 mercenaries.
In this context and during the clashes that took place in the passage between the fighters of the Syrian Democratic Forces and mercenaries inside the neighborhood, the fighters liberated the Civil Registry building (AL-Nfoss), and killed 47 mercenaries from the ISIS.
a violent clashes it is now near the judicial palace.
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lxle vs mint
RAM consumption is the same as LxLE, but more efficient and because of Whisker Menu and other tweaks that let us feel more like we have a XFCE desktop environment, as keyboard shortcuts, for instance, it looks like we got here the fastest and lightest, globally speaking. (The newest release is 14.04.3.) SOLUTION 1: LXDE is definitely lighter and faster than XFCE and you especially notice the difference on older or more limited hardware. But when I got the new laptop with 3 GB of RAM and all that power, I thought I should try good ol’ Xubuntu again, maybe play around with some other distros that would surely run better on this new high-powered 64-bit beauty. Some of the packages we distribute are under the GPL. See I’m not the only one who thinks it’s wonderful, and knows how much less resource hungry this Netscape-based suite from Mozilla is than it’s more famous and popular Mozilla siblings. Linux Mint and Ubuntu both have similar system requirements – as Mint is based on top of Ubuntu, and both are based on Debian, both distros have similar resource usage – however, the differences in the desktop environment can cause a significant performance deficit. MINIMUM RECOMMENDED SPECIFICATIONS: CPU: x86 based processor RAM: 512mb ram RESOLUTION: VGA screen 1024×768 resolution MEDIA: DVD drive or USB port for the ISO image STORAGE: 4GB free hard disk space. Mi sono ritrovato con un vecchio PC dell'ufficio che mi seccava mettere a riposo. I hadn’t liked it on buggy, frustrating Lubuntu, but that PCManFM file manager is wonderful, the management and configurability of the panels and applets is every bit as elegant and easy in LXDE as in it’s older sibling, Xfce. Produces nothing that can't be found in another Debian-based distros. Legal Notice Patent and copyright laws operate differently depending on which country you are in. Mint, LXLE and others does not work on old Thinkpads. The Linux Mint team is very dedicated to upgrading and improving Mint, to the point where the releases are fairly predictable. But for me, switching from Linux Mint to LXLE was an easy choice. It's a Mint-like distro that comes with LXDE. Your lightweight desktop Linux can be even easier. Both distros are beginner-friendly and are ready to use out of the box. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. (Written on a $50 Vostro 220s E5300 2.66GHz running MX-14, LibreOffice Calc, Chromium (5 tabs), Xpad, Thunar, Dictionary running–145 processes, CPU@1-4%– 500MB RAM in use.). (The newest release is 14.04.3.) Linux Mint/Linux Mint Mate vs Ubuntu Mate, which one should I choose and why? Many of the offered options are older versions. veggen wrote:If you like LXDE, give Peppermint a go. I’ve already gone over each of these Desktop Environments in depth in their respective reviews, which you can find here and here. I can see you’re very confused about what’s what right now. Your mileage may vary, and people have their own reasons for choosing a Linux distro. LXLE provides a complete drop in and go operating system coupled with style, speed and capability. Linux Mint is free of charge (thanks to your donations and adverts on the website) and we hope you'll enjoy it. “In Linux Mint 19, the star of the show is Timeshift. Mint comes bundled with software for browsing the web, editing pictures, browsing files, watching videos and even a full office suite (LibreOffice). While a new installed system is stable, after an update, there is a slight chance of something not working. ( Log Out / Die beste schlanke Linux-Desktop-Umgebung: lxde vs xfce vs paaren Für einige Linux-Anwender, ist die Performance König. What are the best alternatives to Debian? Actually, some of them fit both our categories. LXLE does LXDE better than Lubuntu, and better even than Xubuntu does Xfce. There are enough useful back end packages installed by default to make the system useable for normal use right after the installation of the base distro. As mentioned by 273 here above, however, it is WAY more stripped down than XFCE, so you have to progressively add what you need once you realize you need it. Re: LXDE vs XFCE. The Sony VGN-UX180P was a test to see if I could get it running on that PC. Mint is highly recommended for both users coming from Windows, as well as users coming from Ubuntu, but unhappy with Ubuntu's recent, rather dramatic interface changes. . Lustre recommends the best products at their lowest prices – right on Amazon. Lustre recommends the best products at their lowest prices – right on Amazon. Which one should I try and why? Maybe I’ll use it on my desktop instead, so I can move my desk to where I want to without running wires around the house. I have tried Linux Mint and Ubuntu Mate in VirtualBox and I feel they are pretty similar. I also think LXLE should make sure they mention (and market) that they fit all kinds of computers, I’ve installed it on newer much more capable laptops as well – I just love minimalistic distros, and LXLE has found the sweet spot between features and being lightweight. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. I'm running lxle (or pretty lubuntu, as I call it), and plain lubuntu before that on my older laptop. Because of its popularity, long-term support is pretty guaranteed. I really want to try 'marketing' Linux as an XP/Vista replacement, particularly on older PCs but actually for any customer is fed up with Microsoft's nonsense such as forced Windows 10 upgrades and problems like Windows updates happening at inopportune times or just not working. Actually, some of them fit both our categories. ccc Level 3 Posts: 100 Joined: Sun Jul 24, 2011 12:40 am. 5 Leicht Linux-Distributionen ideal für ein Intel Atom Prozessor PC. The most important reason people chose Linux Mint is: Mint gains a very strong package ecosystem and software manager of Debian, including more than 30,000 packages available from the Debian repositories. I'm running lxle (or pretty lubuntu, as I call it), and plain lubuntu before that on my older laptop. Welche Linux-Betriebssysteme verwenden wir und warum. But the new desktop has twice the memory of the old one and Mint screams along on it. And yet the look and feel of the environment is pleasant. Your lightweight desktop Linux can be even easier. Die Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) basiert nicht wie der bekanntere Zweig auf Ubuntu, sondern auf Debian Testing. What are the best Linux distributions for a backend developer? Post by ccc » Thu Sep 27, 2012 6:59 pm. What are the best Linux distributions for Misanthropes? Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Please tell “Rebecca” I still love her… . > What is the difference between Linux Mint, Ubuntu, Lubuntu, and Cinnamon? LXLE is not an amazing new revolutionary technology, but rather an excellently crafted and refined enhancement of Lubuntu 12.04 and 14.04 optimized for older, less powerful PCs. I have read that Cinnamon is actually less resource-hungry than Xfce depending on settings and such. Recommended system requirements for an ‘adequate’ experience, Pentium 4 processor with 1gb or more of ram and 8 GB of hard drive space. Of course, you just install LXDE in Mint. 10. LXLE is not an amazing new revolutionary technology, but rather an excellently crafted and refined enhancement of Lubuntu 12.04 and 14.04 optimized for older, less powerful PCs. The new one very closely matches the old one, but omygoodness, the default applications are the very same ones I always use (and usually have to install, sometimes from a PPA). PROBLEM: Linux Mint vs Lubuntu for an old laptop?. By default, Linux Mint includes almost all the proprietary packages just to improve the user experience. Of course, things have improved over the years but even with Ubuntu 20.04, on board, you will often notice it loading up slow or freezing when updating/installing an app. I am looking for something that is lightweight (to replace an older laptop OS), Easy to use (without a lot of hassle to operate, again I'm new to Linux). elementary OS is one of the most beautiful Linux distros I’ve ever used. I usually refuse those until I’m sure they’re probably safe (in other words, until several weeks have gone by without any “this dumb thing quit working after that update” threads in Linux and Ubuntu forums related to the new kernel). Out of the box, MATE has more features than Xfce, but it is more difficult to configure. Of course, you just install LXDE in Mint. What are the best Linux distributions for laptops? But in my brand new Dell Vostro it fails to install. Boot up is quick and ready to use in under a minute. LXDE vs. XFCE System Resource Efficiency This is where I really begin to see the differences between these two systems. MATE is a classic desktop as opposed to the newer "Unity" desktop. What is the best portable Linux distribution? Ecco qualche consiglio su quale delle due scegliere a seconda delle vostre esigenze. What are the best lightweight Linux distributions? It was the only option after spending a couple of frustrating days following every step of extracting the driver from Windows and “ndswrapping” it into Linux without success. I don’t even miss that once-beloved Xfce desktop anymore. I vote lubuntu. The simplicity and ease of use is why it has become a prominent choice for new Linux users. The Linux Mint team offers a method to upgrade the OS between versions but they tend to recommend clean installs, which isn't always suitable for everyone. 5 Things that make Linux Mint better than Ubuntu for beginners. LXLE is a Linux distribution based upon the most recent Ubuntu/Lubuntu LTS release, using the LXDE desktop environment. I've heard many great things about this OS and I've decided that I want to try it out before getting on my main desktop. Linux Mint has a quite pretty default desktop. LXLE is a lightweight distro, with a focus on visual aesthetics, that works well on both old and new hardware. Ubuntu Software Center takes ages to load, heavily eats up resources, and is slow while interacting with it. You obviously live in the real world, and my experiences and conclusions are very similar to yours. After trying mint LXDE 9 to 12,5 (tried to force a update), debian LXDE and Lubuntu, LXLE it is the one I liked the best. Ubuntu Vs. Linux Mint 1. So I experimented with LXLE and it has been fantastic and trouble-free for over a year now. It's light on resources and heavy on functions. Out of the box, MATE has more features than Xfce, but it is more difficult to configure. What are the best Linux OS you can make a live CD out of? I’m running Lubuntu on the laptop. RAM consumption is the same as LxLE, but more efficient and because of Whisker Menu and other tweaks that let us feel more like we have a XFCE desktop environment, as keyboard shortcuts, for instance, it looks like we got here the fastest and lightest, globally speaking. What are the best alternative operating systems to Windows? LXLE is an easy-to-use lightweight desktop Linux distribution based on Lubuntu and featuring the LXDE desktop environment. Since version 19 Mint adopted Windows 10's policy to force the user to install unwanted updates and even if the user deselects them and marks them not to be installed, they're still being installed. LXLE has enough features for the novice, but for certain things, you'll want to add programs. ; We would go with LXDE. An average user can use Mint right away after a fresh install, using all the software that comes with the distribution to complete most of their daily tasks. Peppermint 9OS (32 and 64 bit) has been updated to the Respin PPA. Minimum System Requirements. LXLE is a lightweight version of Linux based on the annual Ubuntu LTS (long term support) release. What are the best Linux distributions for the latest Mate version? I too really appreciate the folks in the old Mepis and AntiX communities. If you want to access their source code you can use the apt-get source command. The software is subject to the license terms included with the software documentation. I have written a complete review of Peppermint is an article here.Do check it out for a detailed look at Peppermint. Contrarily to other Linux distributions, Peppermint creators never said Peppermint 7 is based on Lubuntu, like LXLE. However, when it comes to comparisons MATE and Xfce, you can go mad. Zorin OS. It’s almost completely set up the way I always set my own desktop configuration up, panels and all, right from the start. Each minor release of Mint, 18.1, 18.2, comes roughly every 6 months, and is based on the major Mint release with a few packages near the surface updated. OpenSUSE. xdg-desktop-portals-gtk broken in ubuntu 20.04, and how to fix it. Very good on performance. "Xubuntu 12.04 is the last of the family shipping with a non-PAE kernel. Thanks to Timeshift you can go back in time and restore your computer to the last functional system snapshot. Hi, I’ ve been using LXLE for a few month in my 7 years old Athlon xp 3800. I was instantly impressed by the speed of LXLE; it was by far the fastest distro I had tried on this hardware. ccc Level 3 Posts: 100 Joined: Sun Jul 24, 2011 12:40 am. Hi everyone, This post is about Linux Mint MATE and XFCE, specifically about which is faster and uses less RAM. What are the best Linux distros for old notebooks/laptops? LXLE. ), check out Craigslist for used SSDs ($25 USD for 80GB), or spring for a new one for not much more money. Linux Mint uses the same installer as Ubuntu. Mine is a Thinkpad R50. Linux Mint Software Manager. The last 5 percent of any project is the hardest, and LXLE goes all the way and finishes that last 5 percent. LXLE is a Linux distribution based upon the most recent Ubuntu/Lubuntu LTS release, using the LXDE desktop environment. (http://wiki.lxle.net/doku.php/requirements). It’s even faster than Chrome! MX-14 - Mepis Magic in a Lightweight Xfce Distro. LXLE uses third-party software to display Adobe Flash (licensed), MP3 and other media, and to work with some wireless hardware. If you visit It’s FOSS often, you’ll know that I’m a big fan of Arch-based distros. > What is the difference between Linux Mint, Ubuntu, Lubuntu, and Cinnamon? So, I’ll parse this out a bit to help, and add a little bit extra info to help show how this all works. Where Ubuntu was unusable, and Mint XFCE and ElementaryOS were sluggish, LXLE screams along. I honestly like lubuntu way better. Looking for which is better of the three. Nemo file explorer on Peppermint is incredibly faster than on Mint Cinnamon; lx terminal is very fast when opening; updating is fast. Each Ubuntu LTS continues to receive updates for 5 years, instead of the typical 9 months.
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Book Review: The Archived by Victoria Schwab
Title: The Archived
Author: Victoria Schwab
Genre: Contemporary, Urban Fantasy, Young Adult
Publication Date: January 2013
Imagine a place where the dead rest on shelves like books.
Each body has a story to tell, a life seen in pictures that only Librarians can read. The dead are called Histories, and the vast realm in which they rest is the Archive.
Da first brought Mackenzie Bishop here four years ago, when she was twelve years old, frightened but determined to prove herself. Now Da is dead, and Mac has grown into what he once was, a ruthless Keeper, tasked with stopping often—violent Histories from waking up and getting out. Because of her job, she lies to the people she loves, and she knows fear for what it is: a useful tool for staying alive.
Being a Keeper isn’t just dangerous—it’s a constant reminder of those Mac has lost. Da’s death was hard enough, but now her little brother is gone too. Mac starts to wonder about the boundary between living and dying, sleeping and waking. In the Archive, the dead must never be disturbed. And yet, someone is deliberately altering Histories, erasing essential chapters. Unless Mac can piece together what remains, the Archive itself might crumble and fall.
In this haunting, richly imagined novel, Victoria Schwab reveals the thin lines between past and present, love and pain, trust and deceit, unbearable loss and hard-won redemption.
Stand alone or series: Book 1 in a planned series
How did I get this book: Review Copy from the Publisher
Format (e- or p-): Print
Why did I read this book: Ana absolutely loved Victoria Schwab’s first book, The Near Witch, and ever since reading her review of that title I have been eager to give the author a try. When I saw the blurb for this book, featuring a library for the afterlife, I was hooked.
There is nothing fresh about this start.
Life and death are complicated for Mackenzie Bishop. As a young child, she shadowed her grandfather (affectionately nicknamed Da)’s every move. She idolized and loved his seriousness, his strangeness, and his ability to lie with the truth. From a very young age, Mackenzie is sure of two things: that there is something different about her Da, and that she will do anything to make him proud. Even if that means she must inherit her Da’s powers and become a Keeper for the great Archive – where everyone goes after death, facsimiles of their dead forms containing all the memories of their lives kept in quiet, organized rows in a colossal library of the dead.
Every now and then, one of the dead – a “History” – awakens and tries to escape the Narrows to the outside world; it is up to Keepers, like Mackenzie’s Da to capture those Histories and Return them to their slumber.
Now sixteen years old, Mac is a seasoned Keeper having inherited her Da’s position and his key. She’s become accustomed to lying to everyone, to shying away from touch, to roaming the Narrows alone and stopping violent, frightened Histories from slipping into the Outer. She’s lost her Da, her ten-year old brother has just died, and her family has moved to a new apartment in a crumbling former hotel called the Coronado.
It is here, at the Coronado, that things start becoming strange for Mackenzie. More and more Histories are awakening, and someone has been tampering with memories of the past. The Corondo’s tragic past, its history of murder and sorrow, is at the heart of the mystery, and Mackenzie must discover the truth before the Archive is torn apart.
This is the first book I’ve read from Victoria Schwab, and I’m not entirely sure how I feel about it. But I’ll start with the obvious, and the good: The Archived is a beautifully written book, a morose, slow-simmering modern gothic novel, with a truly intriguing premise. Narrated by Mackenzie mostly in realtime, but with quick interstitials of her memories of her Da, The Archived‘s greatest strength is its powerful, moving voice. Mac may be sixteen, but she has enough secrets and careful lies to last a lifetime – believe me when I say that hers is a voice filled with pain and weighed down by the burden of responsibility. I loved and sympathized with Mackenzie’s struggles, her need to keep away from any real and honest human interaction, the grief she feels for the loss of a brother (made so much worse because she knows his memory is kept in the Archive but she must never wake him). The Archived isn’t all doom and gloom, though – in addition to Mackenzie’s dark, elegiac solo, there is hope and brightness in the form of her new neighbor Wes (he of the sculpted hair and guyliner). I loved the lightness that Wes brings to the book, his easy way around others, and the effect he has on Mac as she realizes she does not need to bear the weight of the world on her shoulders alone. I loved the atmosphere of the book, the deliciously gothic setting of the Coronado and its many, many secrets in the past. The Archived is a very visual book too, and Victoria Schwab brings the hotel-turned-apartment complex to life painstakingly, slowly, brilliantly.
While these elements are fantastic, there are some in whose efficacy I am less convinced. Perhaps the story moves too slowly and it takes too long to get to the actual conflict at the heart of the Archive. But more importantly than the pacing, the bigger question mark to me is the premise of the Archive itself, the need for Librarians, Crew, and Keepers. The rationale for keeping the Archive secret makes sense (indeed, if people knew there was a netherworld where Histories are kept sleeping, they would be tearing down the doors in the hopes that they could revive or spend just another day with their departed loved ones). But I’m not sure the actual purpose of the Archive itself makes sense – only Librarians can read Histories, but why would they (it certainly doesn’t seem like they do anything)? For what purpose? The danger with Histories is that they might wake up and violently escape, killing humans before slipping away into the ether forever – but if they were never housed in the first place, they would never awaken, harm others, or slip away. I’m sure (I hope) this is something that will be revealed over the course of the series, but for now, the central concept of the afterlife as a giant library seems…shaky. There’s also a brief, predictable romantic entanglement with two different boys that felt forced and tepid, but in the grand scheme of things, this is a nitpick.
Ultimately, The Archived is a good book. I loved its beautiful, atmospheric writing and a its compelling heroine – but by that same token, the story was a shade too loose and sluggish, and the actual premise of the Archive at the heart of the book needs honing. Still, I’ll be back for The Unbound.
I lean back against the car and stare up at the Coronado, the hotel-turned-apartment building that my mother and father find “so charming.” It stares back, wide-eyed, gaunt. I spend the whole drive twisting the ring on my finger, running my thumb over the three lines etched into its surface, as if the silver band were a rosary or a charm. I prayed for someplace simple, uncluttered, and new. And I got this.
I can see the dust from across the street.
“Isn’t it divine?” squeals my mother.
“It’s…old.”
So old that the stones have settled, the cracks deep enough to give the whole facade a tired look. A fist-size piece of stone loosens before my eyes and tumbles down the side of the building.
Rating: 6 – Good
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I was anxiously awaiting your review, because I’m reading this now. I agree that it’s beautifully written. I love the concept of the Archive and its Histories. But I keep putting it down and picking it up, instead of plowing through it like I expected to do so. The slow pacing and the mixture of backstory help us get to know the characters, but they kept diluting the tension (at least for me).
I am terrified to read this book because I love the concept so much and don’t want its potential to be ruined if it turns out not to be good. But from your review, it seems worth keeping on the list, especially because by the time I get to it, the sequel will probably be out, and then if I like it I’ll be able to go straight to number 2.
this book is perfect. Imagine a place where the dead rest on shelves like books.
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Pittsburgh Pirates vs. Minnesota Twins
The fans at Target Field will be treated to a game between the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Minnesota Twins when they take their seats on Tuesday.
Joe Musgrove will be the starting pitcher for the Pirates on this day. Right hander Musgrove is 0-2 this season with a 4.76 ERA.
It'll be Jose Berrios toeing the rubber for the Twins in this contest. Right hander Berrios is 0-1 with a 7.00 ERA so far this season.
Oddsmakers opened the Twins as -220-moneyline favorites versus the Pirates, while the game's total opened at 9.
Last time out for Minnesota, they were a 5-4 winner as they battled the Pirates on the road. Moneyline bettors who got the Twins at -197 were rewarded, while the 9 combined runs moved the game UNDER for totals bettors.
The Pirates were a 5-4 loser in their most recent outing on the road against the Twins. That made winners of bettors who got Minnesota at -197 on the moneyline, while the total score (9) was good news for UNDER bettors.
Pittsburgh:
Team record: 2-8 SU
Pittsburgh is 2-4 SU in its last 6 games when playing on the road against Minnesota
The total has gone OVER in 6 of Pittsburgh's last 9 games when playing on the road against Minnesota
Pittsburgh is 6-2 ATS in its last 8 games
Current Streak: won 4 straight games.
Minnesota is 4-2 SU in its last 6 games when playing at home against Pittsburgh
The total has gone OVER in 6 of Minnesota's last 9 games when playing at home against Pittsburgh
Minnesota is 6-2 ATS in its last 8 games
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Judaism, Zionism and the toxic effect of apocalyptic religious delusions on world affairs
Netanyahu removes Trump from his Twitter banner photo > Netanyahu removes Trump from his Twitter banner photo
Netanyahu removes Trump from his Twitter banner photo
tuteditor January 12, 2021
ed note–again, just as it was years ago when Netanyahu handed then-VP Biden a picture with the glass broken and said ‘I have nothing to offer you but broken glass’, it is the nuanced political gangsterese being spoken at the 2nd, 3rd, 4th etc dimensional level that must be understood if any meaning is to come out of it.
Firstly, the position that Netanyahu is only doing so because keeping Trump’s pic is ‘politically-problematic’ for him, and therefore for reasons related to ‘political expediency’ Trump is being removed does not hold water.
Netanyahu is the longest-serving PM in Israel’s history and he didn’t attain that by riding into Tel Aviv on a tank and threatening to blow up each and every house there if the people didn’t vote for him. He’s there in that position because the people want him there, plain and simple. All the protests taking place and specially in the IMMEDIATE AFTERMATH of Trump beginning his ‘big push’ for a peace deal are largely ‘political theatre’ related to creating a politically-impossible environment for such a deal to be signed, sealed and delivered, since if there isn’t a functioning government, no ‘deals’ can be made.
All can rest assured that if in fact Biden attains the White House we will see a ‘return to normalcy’ and a stabilization of Israel’s internal politics since there is no way in hades that Biden is going to squeeze Netanyahu into a peace deal he doesn’t want.
No, Nutty Netty removing Trump from his page is the equivalent of the Judaic curse that falls upon those who are deemed ‘Enemies of Zion’, and especially on Yom Kippur, where the righteous have their names inscribed into the ‘Book of Life’ and those who are ‘unrighteous’ have their names ‘blotted out for all eternity’.
Also, please take careful note of the fact that of all the images Netanyahu chose to use in replacing the picture of DJT it was none other than–
A Menorah, Israel’s national symbol commemorating the first attempt on the part of the Jewish state (through the person/agency of the Maccabbees, Judaic religious terrorists who first attempted the process of expanding the borders of Israel to the ‘Nile to Euphrates’ nonsense as it appears in the Torah.
Keep in mind as well that Netanyahu receiving the Covid shot with that smug smirk on his face and saying ‘Citizens of Israel, we are returning to life’ is his way of laughing at DJT and rubbing in his face all the trouble and turmoil that Israel caused the US President as a result of the virus that in all likelihood was cooked up in an Israeli bio-weapons lab in Nes Ziyyona.
Israeli Prime Benjamin Netanyahu dropped US President Donald Trump from the banner photo of his Twitter account on Tuesday in an apparent break with a political ally facing possible impeachment.
A photo of Netanyahu sitting next to Trump at a White House meeting had long taken pride of place on the official @netanyahu account, testimony to the conservative Israeli leader’s close ties with the Republican president and his popularity in Israel.
Early on Tuesday, another photo, showing Netanyahu being injected with the coronavirus vaccine, topped the page, along with the slogan for Israel’s inoculation campaign: “Citizens of Israel, we are returning to life.”
Netanyahu had kept the photo of his meeting with Trump, long in lockstep with him over a tough policy towards Iran and the Palestinians, on the site even after the Republican president’s defeat by Democrat Joe Biden in the US election in November.
The photo was briefly replaced with a Hanukkah holiday-themed image last month, raising media speculation that Netanyahu had decided to distance himself from Trump.
But when the eight-day Jewish festival was over, Trump reappeared – although no longer alone with Netanyahu in a photo.
Instead, Netanyahu posted a banner image of himself with the president and the foreign ministers of the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain signing an agreement at the White House in September on formalizing ties with Israel.
No explanation was given on Netanyahu’s site for Trump’s disappearance, a day before the US House of Representatives was expected to begin considering his second impeachment after last week’s storming of the Capitol.
Trump’s own account was permanently suspended by Twitter on Friday due to what the social media giant described as the risk of further incitement to violence.
In televised remarks on Thursday, Netanyahu called the events at the Capitol a “rampage” and said he was certain American democracy would prevail.
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Salloum shines with “HollowDreamz”
August 19, 2015 August 19, 2015 staff
Salloum is an American rapper who was born Suleiman Aloul in Charlottesville, Virginia. His parents moved to America in 1982 from Jordan. Salloum started writing rhymes at the age of 19 while attending college at Virginia Commonwealth University. After transferring to George Mason University in 2008, Salloum released his debut project Epitome Perennial (2013) . In 2014 he released HollowDreamz .
“HollowDreamz” is an eclectic mix of conscious lyrics with beat-blasting production, a balance unseen on his previous album, “Epitome Perennial”, which was more rugged and raw. But Salloum has grown and so has his production set. As a hiphop artist Salloum has aimed his talent at his lyricism, which is consistent in the eye-opening social commentary in each of his songs. In “HollowDreamz”, that commentary is very present; however there is never a feeling of over-preachiness.
Being able to make great music, which is meaningful and fun to listen to, is something that most in the rap industry can’t seem to do. Salloum shines with this album. Just as you get sick to your stomach with all the weak, money driven and platinum jewels crap, comes Salloum to save the day. If you are searching for the true definition of an emcee, pick this up. Then listen to “Late At Night”, “The Last Stand”, “Dupree A”, “Dark Jam (ft. Charles Manson)”, “This Is The Blues” and “Rock With Me”.
The first thing to say is that this album is absolutely amazing when it comes to lyrics. In my opinion, Salloum is one of the best lyricists out there, and there have been a lot of good ones. I can only say what artist out there today can create not one, but 2 beautiful albums for his fans. This what Salloum has achieved with “Epitome Perennial” and “HollowDreamz”. Salloum is a rapper who makes sure that our struggles are expressed in music. I feel that alongside him, Common, Mos Def, and Talib Kweli , are among the few who can keep this type of music alive.
After the “Al Falaq” intro, “Late At Night”, gets the album off to an excellent start. Giving you an indication of what the rest of the album sounds like. Throughout, Salloum’s flow is incredible as he makes you want to pay attention to everything he is saying in the verses. Overall, Salloum delivers an album where all of the songs have a meaning. And a lot of them also have great production, thus making “HollowDreamz” interesting enough for both old and new fans.
Through, Salloum’s music we discover an artist offering solutions to problems and someone who’s both faithful to the past and looking forward to the future. “HollowDreamz” is proof that rap music doesn’t have to be about Nike’s, bankrolls, and hoes, and that NaS was probably wrong; hip-hop isn’t completely dead, it was sleeping…but Salloum is definitely trying to wake it up!
OFFICIAL LINKS: Artist Website – Album Website – Soundcloud – Youtube – Twitter – Facebook
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Historically speaking, it has been a long road to the Santa Eulària des Riu of our day. From the first prehistoric settlers to the melting pot of nationalities that today comprises our municipality, a river of peoples has flowed to these shores, adapting to what the terrain offered them and to what arrived – sometimes for the worse – on the currents of the sea. Come discover our history. Follow the footsteps that preceded you on the road to here.
Every segment of the timeline – from the Bronze Age settlements to the still recent arrival of tourism – has informed our municipality. This living history can been seen and felt in our agrarian landscapes, with their crop terraces, oil presses, mills, irrigation channels and, of course, their watchtowers. Our history also lives on in our farmhouses and churches, which were designed to serve as small fortresses. The fact that so many cultures have passed through our lands was no accident. The strategic placement of the island within the Mediterranean, actually closer to Algiers than to Barcelona, made it an ideal base for replenishing supplies. As such, it was a safe haven enjoyed by the Phoenicians, who established Ibiza as one of their outposts on their commercial routes, further profiting from the valuable salt they extracted at Las Salinas, the salt pans they adroitly exploited. The Romans, too, made use of our territory, a fact preserved for posterity in the aqueduct at s’Argamassa. Several centuries later, the three hundred years of Moorish rule left its imprint on Santa Eulària des Riu, as evidenced by the oil presses, irrigation channels, cisterns, water wheels and mills that still characterize our countryside. Ses Feixes, another agricultural jewel, preserves the legacy of hydraulic expertise handed down by the Almoravids. The name the Moors gave our territory, Xarc, which means ‘east’ in Arabic, lingers on as the district name the Catalans retained when they conquered the island for the Crown of Aragon in the 13th century.
Eventually, the place name Xarc morphed into Quarter of the King (Quartó del Rei) and, in time, became Santa Eulària des Riu, the name given to the first church raised next to the river, an edifice which was destroyed in one of the numerous pirate attacks habitually visited upon our coasts up until the 17th century. Puig de Missa (literally, Hill of Mass) was subsequently built on higher ground, and constituted a true fortress where rural dwellers could take refuge during Turkish raids. The church also served as a lookout point over the all-important flour mills, located next to the river and vital for bread baking (as visitors can learn at the Can Planetes River Interpretive Centre). The houses surrounding the church are the result of urban planning undertaken in the late 18th century by Bishop Eustaquio de Azara, who proposed the creation of villages to offset the characteristic dispersion of the rural population. That proposal, it may be argued, eventually gave rise to the town of Santa Eulària des Riu as we know it today; although, it would not be until the early 19th century when the main thoroughfares of Sant Jaume and s’Alamera Boulevard were laid down. Starting in the mid 20th century, the municipality began to interface with the outside world via young well-to-do travelers who arrived on our shores in search of creative inspiration and lifestyle overhauls. Artists, hippies, architects and designers came, as did disenchanted businessmen, burnt out from their hectic activity. These refugees of modern existence began to gravitate toward Sant Carles de Peralta, Santa Gertrudis de Fruitera and other nearby points, lending them the cosmopolitan and bohemian character that has since distinguished Santa Eulària des Riu, a thriving, vital municipality which continues its march through history, step by step.
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2019 General Election: Europe-Based Pollster Predict Incumbent President Buhari, Some Governors Likely Winners
An independent European based pollster, Zeus Polls, has purportedly predicted All Progressives Congress (APC), Muhammadu Buhari, a likely winner as well as some APC governor in most states in the 2019 elections. Recall, Zeus Polls had earlier predicted correctly the electoral victories of Willie Obiano of Anambra and Kayode Fayemi.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the latest Zeus Polls findings signed by Tanko Suleiman, its operating officer in Berlin, Germany, was made available to journalists in Lagos on Tuesday, August 28.
The report said the polls claimed that despite a seemingly voters’ antipathy to the APC in the upcoming 2019 general elections, the party was favoured to win the 2019 governorship elections in key states. It noted that 51 percent of voters polled in Kaduna state expressed a desire to return incumbent Governor Nasir el-Rufai come 2019. “Sixty-five percent of voters polled in Lagos state want incumbent Governor Ambode returned in 2019 while 58 percent of voters polled in Edo state say they will return incumbent Governor Godwin Obaseki.
“In the PDP-held Rivers state, 65 per cent of voters polled do not want incumbent Governor Nyesom Wike back in 2019, as over 47 percent of polled voters said they will vote Tonye Princewill, a riverine aspirant of the APC if he picks the party’s ticket. “In Kano state, only 43 percent of voters polled are in favour of the incumbent Governor Abdullahi Ganduje returning in 2019, as 60 percent say they will vote for any candidate supported by former Governor Kwankwanso’s Kwankwasiyya Movement,” it stated.
The organization however, said that its findings on who may eventually emerge as president was still not certain but added that going forward; it would release monthly updates, on the continuous exhaustive polling on the 2019 elections.
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Appreciation Letter to Aisha Buhari - By Dele Momodu
You may read the open letter from Dele Momodu to the wife of our president, Aisha Buhari below...
"Your Excellency, let me start by telling you that this letter is not intended to flatter you but to show my profound appreciation, and that of so many like minds, for your uncommon sagacity at a time it seems wisdom has taken leave from most people in our dear beloved country and they are more engaged in flights of fancy. You are a classic example of that adage that says “behind every successful man is a woman.” Let me assure you that you are in a class of your own. And I thank God for blessing Nigeria with your kind.
I decided to write this letter only yesterday when I came across your tweets, or retweets, of the Oak Television videos that have since gone viral. I have never seen any wife of a Nigerian President who would openly criticise a government in which she is a major beneficiary. I’m even more surprised that you would voluntarily endorse and promote videos that criticised your government on social media. You may not know it but you’re setting new standards in our country. You shall be called a quintessential pacesetter, when tomorrow comes. I have no doubt that no matter what, when all is said and done, and the present administration is long gone, you would have left behind a positive enduring legacy, an epitome of womanhood and wifely rectitude. My prayer continues to be that we will be able to say the same of your husband, our dear President Muhammadu Buhari, notwithstanding the fact that he now has little time to address and redress so many shortcomings.
I’m certain that if your husband had listened to your wise counsel much earlier he would have, probably, averted the mess in which he is currently enmeshed. Your husband rode to power with so much love and goodwill, the type we’ve not experienced since June 12, 1993, when Chief Moshood Abiola won the Presidential election, fair and square. The expectations were very high, in a similar fashion, in 2015, when majority of the voters, including former critics of your husband chose to support or vote for him. His was a miraculous resurrection. No one expected him to waste such humongous goodwill at all and, nevertheless, not so soon after his return to power. But before we blinked our eyes, things had started falling apart. It took forever to assemble his team. And when he finally did, many wondered why they could not have been selected much earlier, given the nature and calibre of people selected. Indeed, it was as if Nigerians expected that your choices were going to descend from heaven and some angels were going to be appointed. The government started losing steam and stamina from that moment.
Not just that. Your husband’s ruling Party, APC, started a war of attrition in the National Assembly. Some of his biggest supporters were suddenly pounced upon and humiliated publicly while your husband kept a straight poker face, as if he knew nothing or it was not any of his business. This fierce battle inadvertently united and aligned some of his own party faithful with the opposition and they even succeeded in sharing very powerful positions with them. I’m sure your husband had been misled into thinking he still had the power of life and death like he did as a military Head of State after the overthrow of the Shagari regime in 1983. He also forgot an important characteristic of Nigerians, our ability to forgive and forget easily. The same Nigerians who would shout “crucify him” today are the same people who would scream “don’t kill him” for various reasons, ranging from ethnicity to religion or even pecuniary gains. There is also the quotalisation of corruption, a situation where stealing enjoys Federal Character.
As if that was not bad enough, the Nigerian economy suffered its worst cataclysmic fall in decades, perhaps, because of the ill-informed decision of your husband’s government to ban people from depositing United States Dollars into their accounts. As interpreted by laymen like me, a country that desperately needed an injection of foreign exchange into its Central Bank was actually rejecting the medicine it badly needed. Maybe this was the beginning of the end. All manner of freaky controls followed. Kids who were schooling abroad began to suffer untold hardships. Those with scholarships from home were being dishonoured. I remember writing a memo to the President begging him not to offend those kids. Education had always been a major investment in Nigerians and any attempt to deprive our youths the best education at home and abroad was an invitation to trouble. Before the decision was properly sorted, many young people had given up on this government to protect their future. In a country that found easy money for pilgrimages, it was very unfortunate that education was never a priority.
You blew me apart when you found your voice and spoke up openly and candidly and lamented the way your husband’s government was shattering into smithereens. You were in a position to know, and very right to tell the whole world, that your husband was not in charge and that if the situation continued unabated, you were not likely to support his second term bid. Though you were told to mind your own business at the time, the point had been made so eloquently and poignantly. Today, and looking back, it seems, you’re indeed a prophet without honour at home. Everything you said has become gospel truth.
One more example of your admonition to our President. Why would he abandon the key figures who made his winning the election possible? Those Party Chieftains who ensured his electoral victory were either studiously ignored or conveniently abandoned. It was as if the President had laboured alone on what had been a remarkable collaborative effort. As you rightly noted, Ma, the people you started seeing in the Presidential villa were strange faces that you didn’t see in the heat of the battle. I’m aware of the personal efforts you made reaching out to some of such people to appease them and assuage their sore feelings. That is what every good woman and supportive wife should do in the face of wanton disregard and disrespect of the gallant warriors who fought to demolish the PDP behemoth when it was least expected.
Today, the chickens have come home to roost. It appears the President has suddenly woken up from his slumber or maybe the mask of the evildoers has suddenly been lifted and the President we all voted for has come back from the deep. Our President is now under pressure to reach out frantically, and desperately, to the same people who were used and dumped after that landmark election in 2015. The same people you pleaded for and urged should be absorbed and assimilated into an all-inclusive government of patriots who worked to enthrone democratic principles and the change philosophy you became known as the apostle of.
Now, the President is working extra hard, using extra time and effort, to bring back some of those who have been ostracised for no justifiable reason. Suddenly, he is now making appointments which were pencilled in almost 3 years ago, leading to an understandably botched exercise. The flaws notwithstanding, key national institutions will be properly administered for the first time in your husband’s tenure. We hope that the necessary refinement of this list of appointees will not take forever again. Time is fast spent and your husband will do well to quickly confirm the authentic list and let those appointed get to work. Others may see iit as largesse to the Party Faithful but why not. However, as discerning administrators and observers will know, the essence of these appointments is not just in rewarding Party members but in your husband fulfilling his statutory and constitutional responsibilities and not being seen as running an autocratic, exclusive government. Every government that observes the rule of law and not merely pays lip service to it is on the path of righteousness.
More recently and commendably, Mr President is digging deep. He is now interacting with the people that he needs to move the country forward and ensure that he himself has a lasting legacy. It is gratifying to see the President having meetings and dinners with members of his Party, principal officers of the National Assembly and other key stakeholders. God is indeed wonderful. Those who felt you were seeking relevance, and personal comfort, have now realised your level of patriotism and love for Nigeria, as those things that you yearned for and spoke out about at great peril to your personal comfort and safety are now beginning to happen. It is my prayer that you will yet have the last laugh over the ignominious cabal that seemed to have held your husband hostage and attempted to strangulate our nation in the process. You are a woman of virtue and honour and Nigerians can’t appreciate you enough. So this weekend, on behalf of my fellow citizens I say bravo and doff my heart to a gentle Amazon, beautiful soul, visionary woman and invite my fellow Nigerians to do the same!
May God continue to bless and protect you and your family.
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BEIJING (AsiaNews): The director of the State Administration of Religious Affairs in Beijing, Wang Zuo’an, sent a written reply to an inquiry from a Hong Kong commercial radio station affirming that the process of Sinicisation of religion espoused by the general secretary of the Communist Party of China, Xi Jinping, in his epic address to the Nineteenth National Congress of the Party on October 18, is here to stay.
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HONG KONG (UCAN): China will continue choosing bishops for the official Catholic Church community and it will celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association, a work plan for 2017 posted on the website of the State Administration of Religious Affairs on January 26 announced.
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HONG KONG (UCAN): Wang Zuo’an, the director of the State Administration of Religious Affairs, has disclosed that the newly amended regulations on religion will be released in the near future and part of the deal is that the his office plans to pay great attention to their enforcement.
The national meeting for religious directors across China was held in Beijing from January 9 to 10, during which the Wang delivered his remarks while setting out his plan for the year ahead.
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HONG KONG (UCAN): A priest in China says that the timing of the agenda for the year of the State Administration of Religious Affairs, which was released on February 1, is extremely pertinent, as it comes hot on the heels of an article released by the Italian newspaper, Corriere della Sera, speaking of breakthroughs in Vatican-Beijing talks on January 25 and 26.
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New Artwork by GOTO Akinori, Filled with Hopes of Shuri Castle Reconstruction, Will Be Exhibited at Naha Airport Starting Saturday, February 29
NAHA, Japan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan, is holding a new initiative called the “Japanese cultural media arts dissemination initiative in airports and other institutions” for inbound tourists.
Overview of Naha Airport Exhibition
Teaser Exhibition
Starting Sunday, February 16, the second year of Reiwa (2020)
Starting Saturday, February 29, the second year of Reiwa (2020)
Naha Airport (Naha, Okinawa) International Arrivals Concourse
Naha Airport Domestic Departures Area C
Exhibition of Shuri Castle-themed installation artwork by up-and-coming artist GOTO Akinori
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Starting Saturday, February 29, the second year of Reiwa (2020), a Shuri Castle-themed installation, “Float #01”, by up-and-coming artist GOTO Akinori, will be exhibited at the Naha Airport Domestic Departures Area C. A teaser installation, which began on Sunday, February 16, called “toki-BALLET #01” is currently being exhibited at the International Arrivals Concourse.
Ancient gusuku, or castle remains, can be found all around Okinawa, from the Amami Islands to Yaeyama Islands. The largest of these gusuku is the world heritage site Shuri Castle. On October 31, the first year of Reiwa (2019), this symbol of Okinawa tragically burned down. With six buildings including the central hall lost to the flames, the reconstruction is ongoing.
The motif of this artwork is Suimuiutaki, which was miraculously spared by the fire. Long revered as a sacred grove, it is believed to be a wellspring of mythical power. Moreover, the strong life force of the gajumaru tree is represented by Okinawan mythological spirits called the Kijimuna. In this piece, GOTO seeks to convey the life energy with which Okinawa hums, creating this project full of hopes for the reconstruction of Shuri Castle.
While Shuri Castle was originally built to protect Suimuiutaki, the two have come to be regarded as one and the same. Therefore, using art to convey the ancient spirits of the grove to as many people as possible is both a cultural and ideological endeavor linked to the reconstruction of Shuri Castle.
GOTO Akinori has produced numerous works exploring the concept of “life living in the passage of time”. For this piece, he visited Okinawa many times, researching Shuri Castle as well as other cultural assets. He has expressed the invisible power that resides in Okinawa’s history and in this sacred grove through art.
Our hope is that you, too, will feel the powerful energy of Okinawa as you take in this work of art. In addition to drawing power from this sacred place that represents Okinawa, your prayers will also lead to the quick restoration of Shuri Castle.
The Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan is hosting the “Japan Media Arts Distributed Museum” that will be deployed in 10 Japanese airports sequentially as part of a new project called the “Japanese cultural media arts dissemination initiative in airports and other institutions.”
The artists and creators featured in this exhibition capture the cultural resources borne out of various local cultures through fresh perspectives in places like airports, which serve as gateways to these regions. By showcasing the works of media arts, we invite visitors to explore the true spirit of these cultures throughout their travels.
Naha Airport Exhibition Summary
Theme: Shuri Castle
Artwork: ”Float #01” (New Artwork)
Numerous mesh figures rotate, and as the rays of light hit them, they appear to be walking. These represent people walking toward Shuri Castle after the fire, recorded and given shape by the artist. Shuri Castle has burned in the past, and every time it has been rebuilt based on the attention and wishes of people. The light gradually reveals the people moving toward Shuri Castle, becomes a whirlpool; becomes a swell, and manifests itself in front of the viewer’s eyes.
Artwork: ”toki- BALLET #01” (Created in 2017)
GOTO Akinori’s seminal “toki” series is inspired by the fundamental question: “what is movement?” From this starting point, he began to explore the concept of time, which is inextricably tied to the concept of movement. By tracing the conscious movements of ballet dancers, this specific piece is an attempt to extract time from movement.
Artist: GOTO Akinori
Born in Gifu Prefecture in 1984, GOTO is an artist and senior lecturer in Musashino Art University’s Department of Visual Communication Design. His representative work is his time sculpture “toki-“ series. He creates artwork focusing on the phenomena that emerge out of combining old techniques and media with modern technology, as well as the relationship between physical and digital. Major recent exhibitions he has been featured in include Ars Electronica Festival 2019 (Austria), SXSW Art Program 2017 (USA), and The Doraemon Exhibition (Japan). The UK’s National Media Museum and Germany’s Phaeno Science Centre also have collections of his work.
Creative Producer: VOLOCITEE Inc.
Established in 2001, VOLOCITEE Inc. is a design firm that builds and runs communities that create new values, led by concept designer/social sculptor AOKI Ryuta.
Currently, their work focuses on concept design, community design, project design, and business development in the arts and sciences fields. They specialize in designing intangible structures that are essential to new value creation.
PRODUCER & DIRECTOR: AOKI Ryuta
PROJECT MANAGEMENT: UNO Keita
EXHIBITION DESIGN: GOTO Akinori, ENDO Jiro
GRAPHIC DESIGN: GOTO Akinori
CONSTRUCTION: Banana Concept
Naha Airport Exhibition Details
Teaser Exhibition*
*Only available for viewing by passengers boarding international flights
Domestic Departures Area C
GOTO Akinori
Creative producer:
VOLOCITEE Inc.
Supporter:
Naha Airport Building Co., Ltd.
Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan
“Japanese cultural media arts dissemination initiative and other institutions in the first year of Reiwa”
Yukinori Aoki
Japan Media Arts Distributed Museum Office PR Team
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New Artwork “Float #01” (Photo: Business Wire)
“Float #01” Exhibition Booth, Naha Airport Domestic Departures Area C, Starting Saturday, February 29, 2020 (Graphic: Business Wire)
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New Details Emerge in Case of Killer Nanny
March 6, 2018 By Andreas Petersen
The killer nanny nearly decapitated Krim’s son during the attack.
As Yoselyn Ortega’s trial, more horrific details emerged about how the killer nanny butchered the Krim’s children. This week, Marina Krim, mother of slaying Leo and Lucia Krim, was called to court to testify against the woman she trusted her children to. With tears in her eyes, the woman recalled the moments leading to the discovery of the bodies.
Killer Nanny Waited for Krim to See Bodies Before Slashing Her Neck
During her time in court, Marina Krim told the jury about how she discovered Ortega horrendous deed. The woman remembers that, on that day, Ortega was supposed to take 6-year-old Lucia ‘Lulu’ Krim to dance school.
However, when Ortega failed to appear, Mrs. Krim rushed home to see what’s the delay. The woman recalls entering the apartment, which was completely dark, save for a little light coming from the bathroom.
Upon entering the room, Marina Krim had the shock of her life – stacked in the bathtub were Leo and Lucia’s blood-covered bodies. Leo was so badly injured in the attack, that he was nearly decapitated. Krim recalls screaming at the top of the lungs for help, while Ortega kept a close watch in the next room.
Michael Minihan, the apartment complex’s superintended rushed upstairs after hearing Mrs. Krim’s cries. Upon reaching Krim’s apartment, Minihan saw Ortega trying to escape, but managed to bar the door.
Seeing that she could not escape, the killer nanny took the kitchen knife she used to butcher the children and slashed her own throat. Minihan told the jury that when she saw running away, he got a close look at her eyes, which he described as ‘having something evil in them.’
Furthermore, according to Krim’s testimony, the woman waited until she came home and saw the bodies before committing suicide.
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Andreas was too little to remember when he and his parents first set foot in America. He considers himself a true American citizen, but uses every opportunity to promote his Danish origins. He is deeply found of politics, all nations’ politics and generally looks forward to the presidential elections. His BA degree in Political Sciences has helped him get familiar to the constitutional frames of US and non-US nations.
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Cassville Democrat
Lady Wildcats clinching medals
By Kyle Troutman editor@cassville-democrat.com
Wrestling team wins 2 of 3 tournaments as a team
In only its second year of official varsity status, the Cassville girls wrestling team is on track for some big accomplishments — and soon.
This year, the team has wrestled in the NWA Tournament at Bentonville West (Ark.), the McDonald County Tournament and the Diamond State Tournament at Springdale Har-Ber (Ark.), taking third in the first tourney and winning the last two.
“I’m expecting big things from this group this year, and especially next year,” said Nathan Fortner, Cassville wrestling coach. “They are a fun group to coach. “This year, we’ll have districts, sectionals and state, and we’ve set our goals high. All our girls want to make it to state, and the three who went last year are set on getting on the podium.”
Cassville’s program has grown exponentially since its introductory season in 2018, when now-junior Kelsey Harris was the only participant. In year two, she was joined by Annie Moore and Kailey Artherton, both sophomores.
The trio qualified individually for state, and their success was part of what led to a marked interest in girls wrestling.
“Those three from state last year only have one loss each this year,” Fortner said. “That success last year helped garner interest, plus, we have a lot of freshmen this year.”
Harris, Ryleigh Burnett and Makenzi Dilbeck are juniors; Moore and Artherton are sophomores; and the rest of the squad are freshmen, including Zoey Stanton, Breanna Gordon, Hailey Roark, Taylor Glidewell, Audrey Gosvener and Faith James.
“All of them are medaling right now,” Fortner said. “Faith has been quarantined twice and has not been able to wrestle yet, but we should have her back in the next week or two, and she’s one of our better wrestlers.”
Fortner said the key to the group’s success has been teamwork.
“They all work hard and they listen well,” he said. “This sport is new for most of them, but they are picking it up quickly. They work very well together, are in different weight classes and are dominating right now, which makes it fun.”
The Lady Wildcats’ success began with the bronze team performance in Bentonville, with Artherton, Moore and Harris getting firsts; Roark and Glidewell earning seconds; and Stanton and Gordon winning thirds. James, Burnett and Dilbeck were missing weight classes, and Gosvener wrestled up a weight class and competed hard. Artherton also earned the Outstanding Wrestler award at the tournament.
On Dec. 28, 2020, at Har-Ber, the team added a second team title, with Moore (108 pounds), Harris (116 pounds), Artherton (124 pounds) and Burnett (165 pounds) taking top honors. Gordon took second at 124, Roark second at 132 and Stanton third at 108.
“We were even missing four girls, so we would have really hammered down if they were there,” Fortner said. “That was a mix of vacation, COVID issues and one having to work.”
Fortner said a benefit to the team is the state experience and girls that were managers for the boys team in years past.
“Kelsey and Kailey have been our leaders, and they only have one weight class between them,” Fortner said. “Kelsey was my only girl that first year, and Kailey was an eighth-grader whose brother Keaton was a state placer for me. Both had been managers for me, so the’ve been around Cassville wrestling for years. They have grown to love the sport and they do a great job leading.”
With their success this season so far, Fortner said the expectations are high.
“In the future, we’ll have all these girls coming back, so we will only get better,” he said. “I’m hoping they will place at state as a team soon, if not win it all.”
The next action for the Lady Wildcats will be on Jan. 9, when they head to the Seneca Tournament.
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YA Author Chantele Sedgwick
THE SUMMER OF LOST THINGS
SWITCHING GEARS
LOVE, LUCAS
FAIRY TALE BOOKS
SWITCHING GEARS (LOVE, LUCAS BOOK 2)
Still mourning the loss of Lucas Nelson, the boy she loved in secret for years, seventeen-year-old Emmy Martin turns to her passion for mountain biking to try to fill the empty void in her life. But just when things start looking up, Emmy discovers her mom has been diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s. Confused and angry that her parents didn’t tell her sooner, she throws herself into mountain biking like never before.
When Cole Evans, the rich boy who usually doesn’t care about anything but himself, offers to train her for the biggest mountain biking race of the season, she accepts, determined to beat her nemesis, Whitney, and prove she’s good enough for a sponsor. The more time she spends with Cole, the more she realizes he’s different than she’d expected, and, to her surprise, she’s falling for him. Torn between the deep feelings she still has for Lucas and her growing ones for Cole, she knows she must choose a path: one offers her the chance to love again, while the other is blocked by the overwhelming heartache for the boy she lost.
As she drifts further away from her family and closer to her dream of being sponsored, a terrible accident threatens any semblance of peace and happiness she has left. Instead of closing herself off to the people she loves, Emmy must learn to rely on those she has pushed away if she’s going to have any chance of getting her life back again.
From School Library JournalGr 7 Up—This companion novel to Love, Lucas centers on 17-year-old Emmy Martin. It's been one month since Lucas, Emmy's best friend and secret love, passed away, and she is trying to cope with the loss. Emmy hopes that mountain biking will help her forget, but she can't drown out her memories, and she's not ready to talk about Lucas or forget about him. Then her parents deliver a devastating blow: Emmy's mom has been diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's. Emmy throws herself into mountain biking harder than ever, hoping to ignore what Alzheimer's will do to her mom and their family. Her goal is to win a big race and get sponsored. Her nemesis, Cole Evans, offers to help her hone her biking skills. Will Emmy take the chance to open up to someone new and accept her life circumstances? Emmy is a sympathetic, believable character, and while Sedgwick shows her coping believably with grief, she keeps the focus on the big race Emmy is training for, along with her growing relationship with Cole. The secondary characters are distinct, but since the story is told from a first-person point of view, Emmy is the main concern. VERDICT Not a first purchase. Recommend this to fans of Sedgwick's Love, Lucas and those who like realistic fiction with a hopeful ending.—Natalie Struecker, Atlantic Public Library, IAReview"An emotional tale of finding love after loss. Switching Gears boasts a cast of wonderfully flawed characters that grow their way into your heart." —Kasie West, author of The Fill-In Boyfriend and P.S. I Like You
"Packed full of competitive spirit and restorative heart." —Natalie Whipple, author of House of Ivy & Sorrow and Transparent
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Forum: Menlove Avenue Sep 03, 2016, 07:05 PM
Sean Lennon's music!!!
Posted By wildewoman
Catch Claypool Lennon Delirium if you have the chance - It's a MUST SEE
I had the greatest pleasure to see the Claypool Lennon Delirium on August 3, 2016 at the North Park Observatory theater in San Diego and it was freaking amazing, my friends! I hadn't seen Sean...
Forum: Menlove Avenue Nov 08, 2015, 09:33 AM
LOL Yoko TMI Be quiet please
Yes, I go there too. Wishful thinking,...
Yes, I go there too. Wishful thinking, maybe?
:laugh5:
That said, a lot of what Yoko says and does is inscrutable to me, much as I like her. That recent odd comment and what she told Philip Norman...
Forum: Abbey Road Oct 18, 2015, 10:27 PM
Jane and Patti remembering Cynthia
Jane is a remarkable woman...
I don't know that she was truly "friends" with any of the Beatlewives, although they might have socialized from time to time. The young woman worked and had her own life going, much to the chagrin...
Forum: Menlove Avenue Oct 18, 2015, 06:41 PM
I don't know; has anyone read the latest entry on...
I don't know; has anyone read the latest entry on Hey Dullblog? (or something like that; not quite sure of the name, but it's close). I think something -- I don't know what -- happened (or didn't,...
Forum: Not Only A Northern Song Oct 13, 2015, 07:14 PM
overplayed songs
THE FINAL Countdown/Nationwide i
Anyone who's a fan of American football or has a partner who is has seen the Geico commercial where they play "The Final Countdown" by the group Europe about a million times by now. What a...
The Stanleys & Lennons of Liverpool... and Beyond
With sandals, yet.
Between sandals, socks at and the cap, that look has been taken to a whole new level.
I see both the Lennons and the Stanleys in John.
John & Cynthia's divorce papers
I would agree. It's very inconsiderate to John's...
I would agree. It's very inconsiderate to John's survivors. But everyone's out to make a buck. Even poor wronged Cynthia sold her John's handmade Christmas card and other private letters from him to...
Forum: Menlove Avenue Oct 11, 2015, 10:24 AM
Oh what a surprise!
Good point, hib.
Wouldn't it have given him a grand old laugh, then?
The socks have gotta go.
Old Lennie. Lose the friggin' socks, mate. That is not a good look.
Kissing John – A Birthday Spam
You found that wonderful slash anime!
I still stand by the quote in my signature. I've...
I still stand by the quote in my signature. I've been trolling youtube commenters who post this trash on any video of John available.
Diamond John Lennon
As long as he didn't have a handlebar...
As long as he didn't have a handlebar moustasche...it would probably be too optimistic to think he would have avoided the man-bun craze, since he did that in the late 70's. Always ahead of his time,...
October 9th :heart3::heart3::heart3:
Happy belated birthday and all good wishes to...
Happy belated birthday and all good wishes to you, Scruffie! It appears that Sean's birthday was rather memorable as well if his posts mean anything. Miss you all and hope your day was a grand one.
Forum: Paperback Writer Sep 13, 2015, 05:40 PM
Beatles Fan Fiction Communities on Livejournal
rooftopsessions.com
No longer exists. Too bad.
Newly Released John Lennon Tell All Book Claims Phil Spector Arranged Lennon's Murder
Gee, and all this time I thought Stephen King did it!
Feeling a little bored tonight and found this thread. This theory makes as much sense as the guy who claims Stephen King was behind Lennon's murder and presents much spurious evidence that would...
Forum: Menlove Avenue Apr 01, 2015, 01:02 PM
Did Cyn really pass away or is this a BAD April Fools?
I haven't been here in awhile but was checking my FB page and someone posted that Cyn had died. Is this for real or someone's disgusting idea of a joke?
Forum: Menlove Avenue Nov 18, 2014, 08:11 PM
John's Artwork
Gosh, guys ::Blush:: thank you all so much. I've...
Gosh, guys ::Blush:: thank you all so much. I've missed you too. Maia, thank you for that great find. I've never seen any art where John worked with colors. 'Course, he did that in the...
Eyes…lots and lots of eyes...
Hmmmm, is THAT what see saw after a spot of the old lysergic? Talk about kaleidoscope eyes. I'm gonna have to sit & think about this one.
Sticky: The 'John Lennon Book Club'
Just William….
Has anyone bothered to read those "Just William" books? Not typical juvenile fare for us Yanks, but Amazon delivered one of them to me, for a price. They are charming.
Forum: Menlove Avenue Jan 29, 2014, 03:01 PM
All These Years: "New" John Facts
Still have not read it! But life is what happens...
Still have not read it! But life is what happens while you're busy making other plans….
Julian Lennon's music!!!
Julian Lennon Vs. Harry Nilsson's eldest son
I can't stop thinking about the Nilsson doc I saw a few weeks back. Michael and i watched it. Nilsson had a son with his second wife but had a passel of kids with his third wife, and was a much more...
"Woman" John's most perfect love song?
Forever in your *debt*, I think, Hib….
I think John sang "debt," not "death" there! Although I kind of like your twist on that lyric!
And I think I'll adopt that version from now on!
Well, hib, for one thing, when they play John...
Well, hib, for one thing, when they play John Lennon on the radio these days, it's either "Woman" or "Imagine." Which are great songs, both, but familiarity can sometimes breed contempt. Maybe that...
Debunking or Defending the MYTHS
Don't know if this should be in this thread or "Famous people talk about John"
But here goes. Michael & I Netflixed the Harry Nilsson documentary earlier this week and of course, there was a lot in it about our John. I guess I'm posting because this touches on "myth,"...
Forum: Act Naturally Nov 02, 2013, 06:24 PM
How many movies/tv shows can you think of that have something to do with The Beatles
Saul Goodman, who is visiting Jesse in the hospital, after Jesse has been beaten horribly, says to Walt as Walt walks in: "You're now the CUTE one of the group! Paul, meet Ringo. Ringo; Paul."
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What CST thinks about the Indians in 2016
Cleveland Indians 2016 Season
April 4 (whoops, now the 5th) , 2016
Record: 85-77, 2nd in AL Central, no playoffs
The read on the Indians, for the second straight year, is all over the place. Conventional wisdom seems to be that they would be in a good position if they get to the playoffs, because their rotation is so damn solid. The issue is, of course, scoring enough runs to get there. (And stopping enough runs, but Francisco Lindor's full season should be enough to help.) Can they do it? Could we possibly see a torture series between the Cubs and Indians? Let's just hope so.
Pitching keeps the Indians in the hunt throughout most of the season. However, the offense will not generate enough runs to keep us in the games where the pitching falters. It's a long season though, and you never know what can happen.
The Tribe's pitching will keep them in the playoff race, but question marks and injuries at several positions make it difficult to consider them a serious contender.
Record: 87-75, 2nd in AL Central, Wild Card
Our baseball club is finally free of Nick Swisher, Michael Bourn, and the dead weight and bad karma that accompanied their silly attitudes and contracts. Also gone is Spin Dr. Shapiro, who became famous for his silence when the club was struggling, and his opportunistic tweets after the mildest success. Feeling fresh and frisky all season, the Indians manufacture a spot in the one-game playoff.
They will have the same success as Donald Trump, which is to say a glorious rise to prominence, like a golden eagle soaring through a bright and hopeful sky of magnificence.
Record: 92-70, 1st in AL Central
The pitching staff and Lindor's energy puts this team in first place. The presence of Bill Selby at Opening Day also probably has something to do with it. I do, however predict a loss in the ALCS, but am hopeful it leads to many good years ahead.
The Tribe will tread water all summer and miss the playoffs... again.
Indians open season with a lost opportunity to rid itself of an antiquated, racist symbol.
Look, people can disagree on this. In fact, many Indians fans probably disagree with what I am about to write. And what I'm about to write isn't new, or groundbreaking, or if we want to be honest, even very controversial.
Except for those Cleveland Indians fans to whom it is.
What I want to say is, I can't believe the Indians are still using Chief Wahoo, a blatently racist logo, at all, here in 2016. I know I'm just one voice adding to the choir. The choir that includes the Plain Dealer from 2014, the Sporting News, Fansided, and, most importantly, in a piece I've thought about a lot over the years, from Peter Pattakos from Cleveland Frowns in Scene Magazine . More on that article later. Or this quote, which sums it up perfectly, and is 45 years old, from Russell Means of the Cleveland American Indian Center :
How long do you think the stadium would stand if it (the team) were called the Cleveland Negroes with a caricature of Aunt Jemima or Little Black Sambo?
From Scene Magazine
When I was a lad, yes, I loved the Chief Wahoo logo. The first years of my life were spent with a boring old "C" on the hat, with Chief Wahoo a secondary logo, and when Chief Wahoo showed up on caps again in 1986, I remember my elementary school self being very excited about it. Shoot, to this day I can easily draw Chief Wahoo from memory, as I have only practiced it a million times. (Just like Jason Lukehart at LetsGoTribe apparently!)
But opinions (and people) can mature, and context can be gained. And that maturation and context has led me to conclude what I see as obvious--in no way is a cartoon image of a red-faced, hook-nosed, ghoulishly grinning Native American appropriate in America, let alone for a professional sports franchise. In fact, it is the only logo in all of professional sports that characterizes a race of people with such a caricature. Yes, other teams have issues with their names, chants, or songs. But even "Washington Redskins" is not as racist as the cartoon logo of the Cleveland Indians.
This is not a new opinion. The very first pitch at Jacobs Field was thrown out by President Clinton 22 years ago, and he sure as hell wasn't going to have that on his hat. I remember some people being annoyed by that. (Then again, some people are annoyed by anything a Democratic president does.) As mentioned, every thoughtpiece for ten years has reached the same conclusion: that Chief Wahoo is racist. Period.
Certainly nearly every Indians fan who wears a Chief Wahoo logo isn't trying to communicate some passive-aggressive racist message, nor has anything remotely close in their heart, but that is completely irrelevant. At some point in the past 15 years, many people have shared the same realization; that it's not acceptable to wear this cartoon on your person. The Indians know this as well, but for some reason refuse to completely get rid of it. For years it's being less and less a major part of the uniform, the stadium, and the digital presence, but never completely removed. Even this year, when they "officially demoted" Chief Wahoo to secondary status (e.g. not the primary logo, although still on all sleeves and home caps.) Turns out this is just a half-measure, and nowhere near enough.
Again, let's go back to Peter Pattakos' piece from Scene Magazine. If you haven't read it yet, I implore you to read it now. In it, he expresses a (mostly) truism:
For the duration of Chief Wahoo's tenure with the Indians in the post-Civil Rights era, the city's teams have unequivocally sucked. Not just the Indians, but all of the major professional teams, including the Browns and Cavaliers.
Regardless of the absolute truth of that, we all know how long it has been since we've seen a championship, and for all Clevelanders under 51 years old, that means our eternity.
So if we can take a stab at doing the right thing, and maybe changing our collective karma at the same time, why can't the Dolans just do that for us? Any straw man business argument can be knocked down immediately. This team that isn't selling any merchandise or drawing fans to the ballpark isn't going to see its wonderful success immediately plummet. They can hardly draw less attendance than last year.
It's not too late. Order some new hats, cut the cartoon off the sleeve. And Go Tribe. I'll proudly wear my team gear. Just not Chief Wahoo.
(And whether that "Go Tribe" expression, or yeah, the name "Indians" for a team, is racist as well, is another discussion. But regardless of that, let's not ignore the bigger immediate issue. The one that's literally staring us right in the face.)
WrestleMania Live Blog and Comments
Thanks for joining CST for its first live blog of WrestleMania. Renee Young, Booker T., and Lita on the preshow kickoff. Lita looking good and has a surprise for us in hour two.
Kickoff matches:
United States Championship: Kalisto (C) vs. Ryback:
Kalisto makes his way to the ring in a new mask over his normal mask that looks like the Denver Broncos logo, although I'm sure it's a dragon. Ryback follows. Ryback spikes Kalisto and throws him over the top rope with one arm. Jerry Lawler is embracing his new heel persona. Kalisto over the top rope with knees but Ryback comes back and slams Kalisto onto the floor and barricade. Goldberg chants from the crowd and Ryback throws Kalisto like a rag doll as Jerry Lawler says. Commercial break? I guess we need to take a breath from the furious action in the ring. Back at it. Ryback still dominating. Kalisto with kicks but Ryback thwarts all offensive attempts from the luchadore. Lawler calls him the Mexican Mosquito. How good is heel Lawler? The more this goes, the more I think Kalisto is winning this as Ryback dominates and toys with Kalisto. Lawler continues to rag on Kalisto's small size. Delayed superplex reversed by Kalisto for a two count. Comeback by Ryback again. Kalisto reverses something into a DDT. Corkscrew torpedo thingee off the ropes by Kalisto. Ryback with a spinebuster. Network freezing damn it. Turnbuckle becomes exposed. Kalisto drop toe hold to Ryback on the exposed turnbuckle followed by the Solida del Sol for the three count. That exposed turnbuckle is deadly I tell ya.
Winner: Kalisto
Total Divas vs. Team B.A.D. and Blonde:
Total Divas out first. Daniel Bryan is a lucky man. The heels are out next. Lana's first match along with Emma repackaged from NXT. Alicia Fox and Summer Rae start out. Alicia's pretty good. Tamina Snuka tags in and now all ten divas are in. Commercial break as we settle things down in the ring. Back with Eva Marie and Emma. Eva Marie booed and then gets a nice pop with a nice move I can't spell. Eva Marie hard tag to Natalya for no reason. Natalya and Naomi . Natalya tags in Paige to a big pop. Hart Foundation closeline by Natalya and Paige. Naomi flying press into the ropes. Emma comes in and takes control. Quite a difference from when she was dancing with Santino a couple years ago. Lana in to a big pop and taunts Brie. Tamina for the pin attempt on Paige. Tamina is a giant compared to the other women. You'd think Tamina would've made a bigger impact in her career. Chaos on the turnbuckle. Paige with a flying cross body to the outside on the heels. Emma back in. Paige tags in Brie. Yes kicks and the crowd pops. Lana saves the pin. All ten women taking turns hitting moves. Brie mode blocked by Naomi. Lana throws Brie off top turnbuckle but Brie reverses Naomi with a damn nice move into the Yes Lock for the win. Nikki Bella in neck brace comes out to celebrate with Team Total Divas.
Winners: Team Total Divas
Lita in the ring now with some kind of unveiling, putting over past Divas. Lita seems more comfortable on the mic than in her wrestling days. Lita putting over the triple threat divas title match. Lita unveils the first ever WWE Women's Championship belt, which looks like the WWE Heavyweight Championship belt but red and white. Nice looking belt and it looks like the Diva Era is over in the WWE (about time... a bit of a degrading name if you ask me).
Usos vs. The Dudley Boyz:
Usos out with their dance and chant. Rikishi's sons got themselves over the past few years. The Dudleys out now. Good to see the Dudleys back in the WWE, although I did like the Bully Ray gimmick in TNA. Dudleys take control off the bat. Bubba yells something about Rikishi. Bubba's got some good mic skills. Bubba continues to trash talk. He really improved in TNA. One of the Usos tags in the other and the Usos are in control now. What's Up dive to the nether region from the Dudleys. Superkick by the Usos. Dudley Death Drop and kickout from one of the Usos. Usos win with a superkick in a pretty lame match. Dudleys attack after the match and out comes the table. Network freeze again. Usos reverse with superkicks, which seems to be their new complete move set. Double dive by the Usos through the tables BY GODDDD!
Winners: The Usos
And now for the Main Card...
Waiting on the main card to begin, with a vignette about Roman Reigns's title hopes. Roman has been heavily booed by smart mark types who didn't enjoy Vince McMahon writing horrible promos about Jack and the Beanstalk and Bugs Bunny. Vince is a great heel and hilarious in ring, but he's tone deaf when it comes to natural conversation.
Intercontinental Championship Ladder Match:
Two Clevelanders get called out first for the opening event of the main card: Dolph Ziggler and Miz, followed by NXT phenom Sami Zayn. Next is Stardust, wearing polka-dotted attire in homage to his father, the late Dusty Rhodes. Next is Sin Cara, who's been pretty much buried but should be good for a high-spot or two. Kevin Owens rounds out the card. He looks like a guy who plays a lot of softball and yells at the umpires. We're experiencing technical difficulties folks, so please bear with us.
***The WWE Network crapped out on Amazon TV at the home front reducing two 40-something dudes to huddle in front of a laptop for 5 hours, which, unfortunately made it near impossible to continue the riveting, live coverage you fine folks deserve. We at CST apologize... Amazon and WWE will be getting a strongly worded letter.
As to not disappoint our fans, we will continue this post from this point in the card as a review of the show. Buckle up... it's about to get "bumpy"...****
Intercontinental Championship Ladder Match (continued):
There was a lot of furious action in this match, one of the best of the night. The true stars, in my opinion, were Sin Cara and Sami Zayn, both delivering incredible spots. Sin Cara got pushed off a ladder and managed to spring off the top rope onto a pile of competitors. Later, he fell of a ladder onto Stardust, who was draped across another ladder that was draped from the ring apron to a table I believe. You had to see it. The ladder and Stardust bent in half upon impact. Zayn's spot, although a bit less daring, featured a dive through the ladder, over the top rope and onto the others. It looked really cool. In the surprise of the night, Zack Ryder won the belt taking advantage of the Miz's showboating. That's a life lesson for you all.
Winner: Zack Ryder
AJ Styles vs. Chris Jericho
In my WrestleMania 32 Preview, I said that I would boycott WWE if Styles lost to Jericho here. I've been known to make bold "I will never" statements in regards to my sports teams and I may have been a bit dramatic in that statement, however, I was NOT happy about this finish. Why? It made Styles look like an idiot in my opinion, playing to the crowd which ultimately cost him the match when Jericho caught him with a Code Breaker amidst a Phenomenal Forearm. Memo to WWE... Styles isn't a rookie. Sting losing to Triple H and now this...
Winner: Chris Jericho
The New Day vs. The League of Nations
No titles on the line here. Just a pointless 3 on 4 matchup. New Day's cereal box entrance was okay, other than that, nothing to really talk about here.
Winners: League of Nations
After the match WWE Hall of Famers/Legends Mick Foley, HBK, and Stone Cold Steve Austin came to the ring and took out The League. Rousev sold a stunner amazingly... best since The Rock. New Day came back in the ring to dance with the legends. Xavier Woods received a hellacious Stunner and the legends celebrated with beer.
Brock Lesnar vs. Dean Ambrose (No Holds Barred Street Fight):
How a match between Lesnar and Ambrose was boring is beyond me, much less a no holds barred street fight. In case we didn't know, Brock is a beast. Ambrose got suplexed a gazillion times as to be expected. Suplex City still receives a huge pop, but it's getting old in my humble opinion. Not much of no holds barred here either... a kendo stick, a chain saw that didn't work, and a barbed wire baseball bat that missed... crazy I tell ya. Eventually, Ambrose succumbed to an F5 on a pile of steel chairs.
Winner: Brock Lesnar
WWE Women's Championship Triple Threat Match: Charlotte vs. Becky Lynch vs. Sasha Banks:
Sasha came out with cousin Snoop Dogg and some chick singing her entrance song. Cool moment as Snoop Dogg dropped some rhymes on the way to the ring. Loved the match. Hated the ending. Charlotte hit an insane moonsault from the top turnbuckle to Sasha and Becky on the floor. You never saw her dad do that. Why did I hate the ending? Because I hate what they did with Becky. Not only did she eventually tap out (somewhat) cleanly to the Figure Eight (Ric Flair held Sahsa back from making the save), she got put in no less than 3 Bank Statements. Becky deserves more than to be the punching bag. I really hope she gets a run with the title someday.
Winner: Charlotte
Hell in a Cell: Shane McMahon vs. The Undertaker:
Undertaker pretty much dominated this one, as he probably should have. We got treated to insane Shane, when he leapt from the top of the cage to (try to) deliver a Macho Man elbow to Taker on a table below. This was scary folks. Shane missed. Taker tombstoned. Game. Set. Match.
Winner: Undertaker
The Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal:
Almost forgot about this one. Not in the review, but during the event. Once slated for the kickoff show, this match FOLLOWED the Hell in a Cell match. Some nice surprises... DDP and Tatanka... and SHAQ! Wow Shaq is humungous. He towers over the Big Show. Shaq and Big Show eliminated a bunch of jobber/midcarders in some cute little spots before being eliminated together. NXT's Baron Corbin eliminated Kane to win this otherwise uneventful time sucker.
The Rock came out next with the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders and what looked like a T-shirt gun but turned out to be a blow torch. Yes, a blow torch. He lit up his name in flames for some reason. After announcing a new attendance record, the Wyatt Family hit the ring to confront The Rock. Apparently, The Rock knew this was going to happen, because he was dressed in full wrestling gear under his clothes. Suddenly, we're treated to an impromptu Rock match at Mania.
The Rock vs. Erik Rowen:
Stare down, Rock Bottom, new record. 6 second match. The Wyatt family surrounded The Rock and suddenly John Cena's music hit. Say what you will about Cena, this was a pretty cool moment. Cena and Rock fended off the Wyatts and the two former enemies celebrated.
Winner: The Rock
WWE World Heavyweight Championship Match: Triple H vs. Roman Reigns:
Stephanie started with some weird speech dressed in a nice dominatrix outfit. Trips then came out in his traditional over-the-top WrestleMania entrance. Good ol' Triple H... always putting himself over somehow. Reigns followed to a mix of boos and cheers. After beating the crap out of each other for the last month, the two started with.... a collar and elbow lockup. This one was boring and the crowd let them know it. At one point, we thought Triple H had part of his forehead ripped off, but it turned out to be confetti. Seriously, that was the most intriguing part of the match next to Stephanie taking a pretty big bump from a spear. After some shenanigans with the sledgehammer, Reigns won the title clean with a spear.
Winner: Roman Reigns
The show ended blandly with Reigns celebrating his victory.
Overall the show was okay. The matches were good, entertaining matches but as a whole this WrestleMania was pretty lackluster.
Second opinions from the DawgCatcha (Includes April 4 Raw results):
--Zack Ryder winning the IC title was a nice surprise. I'm not a huge fan of Ryder's broski shtick, but the way he's built his online fanbase has a certain DIY charm, and I'm glad he got his Wrestlemania moment. A short-lived moment it was, however, as Ryder dropped the strap on Monday's Raw during a match against The Miz, an affair that included Miz's real-life wife Maryse slapping Ryder's over-muscled father right in his tanned face. A longer-term feud among these parties could provide some entertainment value.
--Though Styles will eventually win his war against Jericho, WWE not putting him over on the biggest show of the year is a mistake. These two have already wrestled four times. Their 'Mania match-up could have been a No. 1 Contender bout for the next off-month PPV main event. The fact that Styles won such a match Monday - this one of the four-way-dance variety - does little to alleviate the problem of jobbing him out to a 45-year-old part-timer currently cruising along in "cool dad" mode.
--Ambrose vs. Lesnar may have been the night's biggest disappointment. The chainsaw spot was at least funny, if for nothing else Paul Heyman's horrified schoolmarm reaction when Ambrose tried to rev the thing up. The match's relative restraint made sense for the TV-PG era, I suppose. No blood allowed means no chainsaws, working or otherwise, and no barbed wire bats used for anything else but stage dressing. Which begs the question of why a "no holds barred street fight" was scheduled at all. A simple no-DQ contest would have tamped down expectations and made the match's rather abrupt steel chair coup de grâce more palatable.
--The women's contest was my match of the night. Fast paced with some good psychology behind it. The new women's championship belt looks very cool, too. Still, I'd like to see the family aspect of Charlotte's title reign get fazed out. Let Charlotte stand on her own with her old man interfering or otherwise 'woo-ing' up the spotlight.
--The men's championship match was decent enough, and I have no problem with Triple H losing cleanly to Reigns. The rise of the "Roman Empire" was inevitable, even if smark fans hate it. The trial balloon had to go up some time, and that time is now. However, WWE still has a Reigns problem, if Monday night's Wrestlemania fallout show was any indication.
Reigns was unmercifully booed by what the commentators spin-doctoringly deemed a "passionate" crowd. For WWE, boos are better than apathy, but it's going to be difficult for the Fed to pass along Reigns as a face after the way they've mishandled the character for the last year plus. Fans don't like being told who to like - I'm guessing they see Reigns as WWE's houseboy even as he's spent the last months fighting against the on-screen version of corporate avarice.
The way Reigns was booked Monday night may point to the company's plans moving forward. Reigns responded to the cascade of boos with a smirk and a short statement: "I'm not a bad guy. I'm not a good guy. I'm the guy." He then challenged the entire roster to a match before tossing the mic aside, and was answered by Jericho, Styles, Owens and Zayn. As the foursome fought, Reigns picked up his title and left. This segment accomplished two things: It kept Reigns off the stick, where he's nothing more than mediocre, and established a kind of "I'm the best, so screw the rest" attitude that could work even for a babyface. We shall see.
WrestleMania32 Preview
Posted by Kevin at 12:47 PM
There is really only one thing that could bring this missing CST contributor out of hiding. A shocking return rivaling that of Shane McMahon's. Like Sting repelling from the rafters, I'm back to give to you, loyal CST readers, predictions for the superbowl of sports entertainment–WrestleMania. Tonight from Dallas, the Road to WrestleMania culminates in one the weakest buildups to the event that I can remember. (I can't comment on the pre-attitude era, as I was on my hiatus from professional wrestling during that dark time). This Mania has the potential to be a disaster. The PPV Roadblock was aptly named as it served as just that... all but killing the momentum and heat developing for Mania, resulting in confusing story lines, rushed and underdeveloped feuds. The WWE , however, always seems to find a way to bounce back and overcome the odds so I'm sure they have a few tricks up their sleeve (The Rock has been confirmed to appear, as well as rumored appearances by Stone Cold Steve Austin and HBK Sean Michaels). Without further adieu, I give to you the most compelling article ever written on this site (yeah I know, I just buried my fellow CST contributors to put myself over). Please enjoy...
Kickoff Matches
United States Championship Match: Kalisto (C) vs. Ryback:
The poor man's Rey Mysterio (Kalisto) battles Goldberg-with-less-it-factor, Ryback in this classic David vs. Goliath match that nobody cares about. (Thanks WWE for some compelling story telling). I like Kalisto - he has some talent. I used to like Ryback but he's gotten stale. I'm sure Donald Trump is rooting for Ryback (see what I did there?) and I think his wishes may come true unfortunately.
Winner: Goldber...er Ryback (New Champion)
Team Total Divas vs. Team B.A.D. and Blonde:
Poor Paige and Natalya - they deserve so much more and should be on the main card. They must of pissed someone off because they're way too talented for their current pushes into oblivion. Unlike just about everyone in the Universe, I'm actually looking forward to this. As I said, I like Paige and Natalya, and enjoy Brie Bella's work. In what seems like a typical WWE non-sensical booking move, Eva Marie (one of the most hated heel divas in NXT) has joined Team Divas (the faces). I actually see the logic in this angle considering Eva Marie has been part of the Total Divas show on the USA Network for a few years now. I could easily see Eva Marie costing her team... either by turning on them or just getting beat... but I have to think the Total Divas are going over here, in what could be Brie's retirement match. Please reserve partying too much after this one... we have a lot of show to go.
Winners: Total Divas
The Usos vs. The Dudley Boyz:
I'd love them to introduce TNA veteran Velvet Sky, Mark LoMancao's (a.k.a Bubba Ray Dudley) real life girlfriend into the mix. Google her and you won't be disappointed. Her TNA contract expired (or is expiring) so one can dream. I have no idea who should or will win this. I'll go with the Dudleys.
Winners: The Dudley Boyz, using a table (which they claim to have sworn off, those tricky bastards)
Main Card Matches
AJ Styles vs. Chris Jericho:
I'd care about this match a lot more if the WWE didn't already have 3 matches between the two. Bad booking, but WWE is going to milk these two top talents for all it's worth. Nonetheless, I'm sure it will be a good match. If they screw this up and give Jericho the win, I may boycott WWE, much like my infamous wrestling hiatus of 1990 - 1996 . There is no point in de-pushing Styles in favor of the part time veteran Jericho, although there was no point in Triple H going over Sting at last year's Mania either. For God's sake, Jericho put Fandango over at WrestleMania a couple years ago.
Winner: AJ Styles
The New Day (tag team champions) vs. The League of Nations:
The Unfunny New Day vs. The League of Boredom. I still have no idea if this is a title match, a 3 on 4 handicap match, or what.... and I don't really care to be honest. I want to like The New Day, but their schtick is just over-the-top and not funny. Kofi Kingston has a lot of talent (find videos of some of his Royal Rumble spots on the internet), but like Dolph Ziggler and Caesaro, can't seem to catch a break in WWE for whatever reason. Years ago it seemed he was getting a singles main event push in a feud with Randy Orton, but that was put to an abrupt halt. I never liked The League of Nations. Sheamus has always been boring, but Vince and Triple H love the big "monsters". Alberto Del Rio has always made me want to turn the channel. Wade Barrett has always been overrated in my opinion–whether as the leader of Nexus, Bad News Barrett, or King Barrett. Then there's Rusev–I liked Rusev (with Lana), but they've screwed him up, potentially beyond repair. Perhaps a surprise 4th teammate for New Day appears? (God please don't make this The Rock's Mania moment).
Winners: (If it's a title match) The New Day; (If it's non-title) The League of Nations
Intercontinental Championship Ladder Match: Kevin Owens (C) vs. Sami Zayn vs. The Miz vs. Dolph Ziggler, vs. Stardust vs. Zack Ryder vs. Sin Cara:
In the words of good ol' JR, "WHAT IN THE HELL IS THIS ALL ABOUT?!" I get that Neville's broken ankle probably threw a wrench in the original plans for this match, but this is what the WWE creative team came up with? Borderline mid-carders/jobbers-to-the-stars? Zack frickin' Ryder? In a WrestleMania title match? I'll give Zack credit - he got himself over - years ago - for about 5 minutes. Why they didn't just focus on the Owens/Zayn (a.k.a El Generico) years-long rivalry I have no idea, other than them not thinking Sami is ready for the spotlight in a one on one match. If they had eyes, they would see that Zayn vs. Owens could potentially steal the show, however, the WWE machine can be a stubborn bastard. I'm sure the match will be exciting because, well, it's a ladder match. And please... for the sake of us and Cody Rhodes... let this be the sendoff of the Stardust gimmick!
Winner: Kevin Owens (retains)
Divas Championship Triple Threat Match: Charlotte (C) vs. Becky Lynch vs. Sasha Banks
The match featuring the daughter of Ric Flair, the cousin of Snoop Dogg, and Becky Lynch, I'm actually looking forward to this match a lot - possibly the most or second most on the card. I seriously think the Divas are the best thing going in WWE right now. Becky Lynch, to me, is REALLY good in the ring and I hope the WWE rewards her with the title. They just don't seem to be as high on her and she does the job a lot to put others over. Charlotte and Sasha are also really good and I could see any of the three winning. My gut tells me Sasha, but I'll go with my heart in a bit of a surprise.
Winner: Becky Lynch (new champion)
A nice way for the WWE to get most of its talent on the WrestleMania card, problem is it's a bunch of guys nobody really cares about. It was conventional wisdom that Braun Strowman was a lock to win this as there were big plans for the behemoth strong man, including a feud with Brock Lesnar. Thank the Lord that someone successfully got in Vince's ear and put a stop to that potential train wreck. Braun is stiffer than an adolescent during the Attitude Era and really shouldn't even be on the main roster. They've been focusing on the Social Outcast, Big Show, and Kane on Raw but I think this is a tease, or swerve if you will. There's a guy on the roster who was getting a nice little push for a while, who seems to have been all but forgotten the last few weeks. Like Strowman, a feud with Brock Lesnar seemed like a sure thing. From battling the Undertaker at WrestleMania last year, to the Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal the next... so is life in the WWE.
Winner: Bray Wyatt
No Holds Barred Street Fight: Dean Ambrose vs. Brock Lesnar:
I hate what they've done with Ambrose. Just getting his ass kicked week after week got repetitive and boring. Jobbing clean to Triple H at Roadblock was worthless. They needed to validate Ambrose, not Trips there. I see Brock dominating this match, but in a shocker, Ambrose prevails when Bray Wyatt interferes, setting up the Wyatt/Lesnar feud that they abandoned after Royal Rumble.
Winner: Dean Ambrose
Hell in a Cell Match for control of Monday Night Raw: Shane McMahon vs. The Undertaker
Definitely the most compelling match of the card, this one could go a number of ways. With the way the angle has been written, I personally have no idea how either man loses. Is the 21-1 at Mania Undertaker really going to lose to a non-wrestler? But how does the WWE (through Shane) tell us Raw (their product) sucks and then not have Shane go over to fix the problem. I pray they don't go conservative here (I mean in story telling... I'm sure Shane and Taker will go all out... Shane's insane). There has to be some kind of swerve here... you can't tell everyone your product sucks and by the way nothing is going to change, so by that, I'm going with Shane. Although this is the WWE and Vince McMahon, the smartest people on earth, who never really think their product sucks so who knows. By the way, I'll just say Shane received one of the most insane pops I've ever heard when he returned to Raw. (Aside: The three biggest pops I can recall off the top of my head - Hulk Hogan saves Eugene from Muhammad Hassan at WrestleMania, Daniel Bryan basically anytime, Shane McMahon returning to Raw earlier this year).
Winner: Shane McMahon
WWE World Heavyweight Championship Match: Triple H (C) vs. Roman Reigns
Oy vey what the WWE did to poor Roman Reigns. The man was SO over as a member of The Shield... the muscle of the group just beating people's asses, the crowd ate it up. At his runner-up finish at the Royal Rumble where he eliminated a record amount of combatants, the crowd was chanting for the then heel to win the damn match. Now that could have been because of their hatred for Batista, but there's no denying, with the right writing, Reigns could've been loved. Fast forward a few years, including an inexplicable decision to not have Daniel Bryan in the Royal Rumble which caused the fans to take out their disappointment and frustration on Reigns, and he's a booed babyface, pushed down the fans' throats like John Cena. I feel bad for the guy because he has talent. His matches are pretty good. WWE Creative failed him and a change in character is needed. But like I said before the WWE/Vince McMahon is one stubborn bastard. I can easily see Reigns winning clean to the oblivious delight of Vince. I've heard the pundits hope and plead for a swerve, perhaps a Reigns heel turn on The Rock, but I don't see it happening... at least not here at Mania.
Winner: Roman Reigns (new champion)
And there it is. Tune into the WWE Network (just $9.99 per month, first month free including WrestleMania) tonight to see if I'm as good as CST resident handicapper, SamVox and his Lox or just a jobber destined for smoky bingo halls and empty high school gymnasiums.
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The New Bucket List: NOAA’s Top Sites for Increased Nuisance Flooding
by J. Wylie Donald
"Seawater on the streets.” One immediately knows that, notwithstanding the alliterative allure, something is not right. And when one is in Annapolis, Maryland, and the Alex Haley Scuplture Group is literally reading in the waves, it is plain disconcerting. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration calls this “nuisance flooding,” and has just issued a report, Sea Level Rise and Nuisance Flood Frequency Changes around the United States, that takes sea level rise down to the day-to-day and documents the quotidian, long-term repetitive inundations that are regularly besetting portions of the American littoral. Annapolis and its sometimes aquatic sculpture grace the cover of the report and also top the list of areas experiencing the most increase in nuisance flooding.
The report is based on the National Water Level Observation Network (NWLON), whose gauges have been monitoring tides for decades, even, in many cases, nearly a century. NOAA scientists have applied their expertise and formulae and provided valuable results. The report is quite technical. For example, “[t]rends derived from linear regression on the annual number of nuisance flood days are statistically significant at the 90% level at 41 of the 45 gauges analyzed.” Report at 9-10. However, while the Report may be technical, the graphs are plain. Even non-technical people can understand the scatter plots showing an accelerating trend of nuisance flooding or the bar charts that show the increase in annual days of flooding.
Where is this increase occurring, and when? The Report identifies the Mid-Atlantic, Chesapeake Bay, North and South Carolina and southern Texas as experiencing a higher value of “nuisance flood days” – greater than 20 annually. Report at 9. By way of comparison, in the 1950s the frequency of nuisance flooding across the United States (the return period) was of the order of 1-5 years. Today “the probabilities of a nuisance flood event have increased throughout much of the U.S., with return periods typically <0.25 year (3 months) at most NOAA gauges.” Report at 16. Besides Annapolis, areas recently suffering over 20 nuisance flood days on average per year include Atlantic City and Sandy Hook, N.J., Charleston, S.C., and Washington, D.C.
The significance of this is easy to visualize: “overwhelmed stormwater drainage capacity, frequent road closures, and general deterioration and corrosion of infrastructure not designed to withstand frequent inundation or salt-water exposure.” Report at vi.
But there are other more subtle impacts. Nuisance flooding immerses a community in a rising sea level. That may prompt a review of coastal property boundaries and, because the State owns the land below mean high water (or, in some cases, mean low water), a transfer of property to the State with the accompanying effect on tax base and property ownership may materialize with substantial impact on the community. Even without a redrawing of property lines, properties subject to increased flooding are likely to lose value, reducing or eliminating nest eggs, retirement security and loan collateral. In such circumstances, transaction professionals (lawyers, real estate agents) may wish to evaluate the disclosures their client sellers need to make and the warranties their client buyers should require.
Rising sea levels are bringing the ocean into areas it used to avoid. The new bucket list for some destinations may literally mean to bring a bucket.
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The Church in Contemporary NZ: Perspectives and Challenges – Whanganui bound
I’m speaking in Whanganui tomorrow evening (August 9, 7:30 – 9 pm) on the theme of The Church in Contemporary NZ: Perspectives and Challenges. The presenting reason is to met an incoming KCML intern, as part of the processes of induction to the KCML internship process. But it fitted really well with the local churches, who have banded together to present 4 evenings on the 500th anniversary of the Reformation. It’s a really creative and well-put together mix – of film and speaking and interaction – and I’m thrilled to be part of it.
On the 9th of August, under the heading – The Church in Contemporary NZ: Perspectives and Challenges – I will begin with what was a radical new technology, the printing press. I will use that to reflect on a forgotten hallmark of the Reformed project (according to Michael Jinkins, The Church Transforming: What’s Next for the Reformed Project? ), that of innovation – “the capacity to draw from the experience of ancient Christian communities and to adapt these lessons to new situations (Michael Jinkins, The Church Transforming: What’s Next for the Reformed Project? , 105). I will then tell stories of some of the New Mission Seedling innovation I am seeing in New Zealand, including in a new build, post-earthquake suburb in Christchurch and the dream of a new monastic presence among the working class suburb in Dunedin.
All 4 evenings of evenings will take place at St James Church, Cnr Boydfield/Helmore Streets, Whanganui East. For more info, contact Mo Morgan 021905552 or Angela Gordon 5614314
Evaluation of innovation training: celebrating an ethics milestone
As I landed back in Adelaide, my phone lit up with the news that Ethics approval has been granted to begin the Evaluation of innovation training research project.
The Uniting College of Leadership and Theology has a vision of developing effective leaders for a healthy, missional church. This project aims to evaluate the effectiveness of our training practises, by providing regular and accountable processes of evaluation and feedback.
In 2011, College initiated new programs, focused on training leaders for church and ministry, with particular emphasis on developing innovative and adaptive practises appropriate for the leader’s context.
1. Equipping lay leadership, through the Mission Shaped Ministry (MSM) course (in interdenominational collaboration locally)
2. Training pioneer leaders on a path to ordination, through Bachelor of Ministry (Practice stream) (Pioneer leaders are involved in establishing new churches, ministries and other initiatives, appropriate to the context in which they are placed)
3. Offering professional development of congregational (church) ministers, through the Master of Ministry (Missional stream).
The latter two training programmes are unique nationally. (The mission shaped ministry course is an international, interdenominational initiative also undertaken in other states, in partnership with MSM UK)
This project will evaluate the effectiveness of these training options in building the innovative capacities of church, pioneer and lay leaders.
A suite of questions, developed in 2010 by the Uniting College and National Church Life Survey (NCLS) Research will be asked of students. These questions were designed to test the innovative capacities of church leaders. Benchmark data from the 2011 NCLS will be compared with student data gathered longitudinally.
Data will be compared: beginning students with church leaders nationally (2011 NCLS data), cohort of students over time, and individual students over time.
This research will enable us to assess whether current training is increasing the innovative capacities of students. Aware that this evaluation process may provide information of value to other training providers, ethics approval is sought so findings can be published. Journal articles and other publications on pedagogy/teaching and learning will be prepared and published; focusing on ways training is and can be effective in increasing the innovative capacities of students learning about Christian ministry and mission.
This has been a project I’ve been part of developing for nearly four years, trying to lay a sound research design, in order to build a research base around what we are doing at Uniting College. First was finding the funding, then partnering with NCLS to develop the instrument. Second was finding the funding to design the research and complete ethics approval. Now, finally, we can begin collecting the data.
My personality type finds great significance in the fact that approval was granted the day I return from a two week overseas stint. It suggests a clear focus for the next season of my ministry at College – research on innovation.
people matter: collecting and collating stories in practical theology research
He aha te mea nui o te ao? He tangata! He tangata! He tangata! What is the most important thing in the world? It is people! It is people!
A Maori proverb that reminds us that people are essential. So what does that mean for research, in particular theology and ministry research? How do we ensure that people matter, from start to finish?
John Swinton and Harriet Mowat, in their excellent Practical Theology and Qualitative research , provide a rich range of examples of doing practical theology research. In Chapter 4, Researching Personal experience, they explore the impact of depression on spirituality. Because people matter, they begin with lived experience.
They interview six people, who have explored spirituality in the midst of depression. Following the interviews, they perform a fairly standard analysis of the data, drawing out themes from across the six interviews.
Because people matter, then then borrow from (the also excellent) Van Manen, Researching Lived Experience: Human Science for an Action Sensitive Pedagogy , a method in which they seek to express these recurring themes, not in the words of the researchers, but in the words of the participants. They weave actual words from the interviews around the themes.
In doing so, we see two moments in which people matter, first in listening to human story, second in letting people tell their stories in their own words.
But people still matter. Lots. So Swinton and Mowat take a further step. They take the compiled stories back to the participants. Do these compiled narratives fully capture your story? Is there anything missing? Are there any misunderstandings or misinterpretation? In so doing, the participants become co-researchers. They get to actively shaping and re-shape the data. The result is a far richer data set, one more likely to truly name human experience.
Or to use another image, a way of letting those being researched look in the mirror that is their own data.
It is only then that Swinton and Mowat take a clearly theological turn. (Although I would argue that a research method in which people matter is a very fine way to do theology). They take themes – in this case including abandonment and the search for God in the abyss – and explore them in relation to Scripture, particularly the Psalms.
People matter. As a result, research begins with human story, tells human story in their own words, clarifies human story.
All because people matter.
And so, I said to the DMin student I was supervising today, why not let this shape your research into pioneers of fresh expressions? Why not not only interview, but take your interview data back to pioneers? Because I bet that as they see their stories, their approach to ministry reflected back, they will want to extend, clarify and nuance the data.
It will become richer, more likely to truly name the practices that shape pioneer ministry.
Diploma of Ministry: New pathway in Innovation and Pioneering
It seems appropriate in the week following Pentecost, to note the recent decision of the Academic Board to approve a new pathway in Innovation and Pioneering.
Dave Male has endorsed this, saying:
“This is a fantastic course that equips missional leaders for the present and the future of the church. I would encourage any leader to consider coming on this. It has some of the best material and teachers in the pioneering world.”
A new pathway in the Diploma of Ministry will provide a comprehensive foundation in principles and practices of ministries of innovation and social entrepreneurship shaped by a Christian commitment.
The Diploma of Ministry is nested within the Bachelor of Ministry for those who wish to continue their study. This new pathway would be ideally suited for those wanting to transition to Bachelor of Ministry Practice Stream.
The Diploma of Ministry general structure is 8 units, of which 4 are core and 4 are elective. In this pathway students complete 6 required units (including the four core) and 2 optional units. The Diploma can be completed in one year of full-time study, or part-time equivalent study.
MINS1002 Introducing the Scriptures*
This unit provides an overview of the OT and NT writings, exploring major theological themes (one being missio Dei). Students in this pathway would have available an assignment focused on pioneering in Biblical texts.
MINS1305 Reading Cultures*
Key themes in this unit include understanding communities, global cultures, and ministry models. Students would have available an assignment focused on pioneering in a new mission.
MINS1601 Spirituality for 21st Century Disciples*
This units assists students to develop the ability to articulate biblical, spiritual and ethical bases for Christian discipleship and reflect on application of these in our own life and others.
MINS1510 Introduction to Formation for Ministry*
In this unit students explore the nature and practice of Christian formation, including learning styles, self-assessment, commitment to ethical practice, to develop an understanding of identity in relation to taking on professional role in ministry and the implications for vocation, faith and life.
MINS23xx Innovation as Pioneering
This new unit explores questions such as: Who is a pioneer? What are their practices? How do they sustain their life? (for more, see here).
MINS2518 Supervised Field Education 1
Students in this pathway would undertake SFE for experience in a pioneering context, either starting something or in observation.
Two units chosen from the following:
MINS2318 Mission Then, Mission Now
MINS2314 The Theology of Jesus Christ, Word and Saviour
MINS3339 Missional Church Leadership
MINS2537 Theology and Practice of Chaplaincy
MINS2317 Guided Study in Innovation A
Each of these units gives students the opportunity to explore or reflect on themes relevant to innovation and pioneering:
Mission Then, Mission Now explores church history for mission lessons for today;
Theology of Jesus Christ explores Jesus with particular attention to boundary crossing;
Missional Church Leadership invites reflection on mission to Western cultures with particular attention to the local church’s participation;
Theology and Practice of Chaplaincy introduces students to practices, images and theological themes in a practical theology of chaplaincy.
Guided Study in Innovation A enables a focus on mission shaped ministry
Rationale for new Diploma pathway
We have, over the last few years, used the specialisation pathway in the Diploma to point to particular vocation paths within our suite of courses. A new pathway in innovation and pioneering continues this focus.
We have a BMin Practice Stream offering and the Diploma provides a clear entry pathway.
The Uniting Church have asked us to train pioneer leaders and this course meets this request.
In a diverse educational market, this continues one of the unique foci of Uniting College around leadership, mission and innovation.
pioneer exits
Yesterday at chapel included naming the transition that is happening for one of our candidates, Karen Paull.
Karen began at Uniting College as I began in 2010. As a first year, first semester student she demanded her way into my Missional Church Leadership class. She was on about mission she said, and so was determined to take every single class she could on mission. Her candidature included fieldwork as a Netball Chaplain, being a Christ presence among a local church’s sports ministry. Over the four years she has mixed her study with a rich range of practical mission experiences, including attending, and then leading as part of the team running mission-shaped ministry course here in Adelaide and travelling for mission trips to Thailand.
Karen is leaving to pioneer, moving into a fully paid placement as a pioneer, working ecumenically into a local community in Sydney, NSW.
She spoke at the chapel service, reflecting on her experience of God’s love as she has moved through this pioneer training, the highs and lows.
Earlier in the day, she had shared in a candidate group about the significance of Phoebe on her sense of call. A leader, woman, a diaconal serving ministry, a willingness to travel a lot – this deep resonance between this Biblical character and Karen’s evolving sense of call.
There were so many dreams that have become reality in this story. Karen’s dream of being a pioneer, Uniting College’s dream of training pioneers, a local church’s dream of setting aside significant financial resource to practically love a community.
pioneering mission in Australia: Caroline Chisholm
The saint for today in the Revised Common Lectionary is Caroline Chisholm. Her story is strongly shaped by Australia. In other words, the eyes of the world today will reflect on what is an Australian mission story.
Caroline was born in England. Raised evangelical, she was an adult convert to Catholicism, about the time she met her husband, a sea captain. Coming to Australia on holiday, Caroline was disturbed by the poverty she saw among migrants in Sydney. Meeting each ship as it arrived, she sought to find work and shelter for new migrants.
While initially focused on these acts of mercy, she soon became a tireless advocate for justice. Her life was shaped by lobbying. She was constantly seeking to speak to politicians, seeking reform. She collected migrant stories (Comfort for the Poor! Meat three times a day! Voluntary information from the people of New South Wales, 1847). She shared these stories, both in Australia and also back in England, where she continued to advocate and lobby for reform.
After two years of being ignored, she decided to act without government help. She sought financial backing in order to provide loans to migrants, which was accompanied by support as they settled in Australia, thus making more likely repayment. The loans were provided at rates far cheaper than existing banks and in order to subvert the injustice she saw from landed interests.
Charles Dickens gave her support, including mentioning her work in his writings.
She organised ships and changed onboard systems – with the doctor, not the captain, apportioning rations. Presumably such changes were shaped by the stories she heard as she had listened to migrant experiences.
In 1852, her political advocacy saw the Passenger Act, in which the British Government legislated to improve shipping conditions for passengers (boat people), seeking a new start.
Despite being one of the most well-known woman in England (her portrait hung in the Royal Academy exhibition in 1852), she scorned material reward and status and returned to Australia.
Caroline Chisholm – one story of mission in Australia. As it says in Exodus 3:7, she saw misery, she heard the cry of the oppressed, in this case migrants. In response to listening, she mixed mercy, justice and innovation. She pioneered new expressions of care and worked tirelessly to shape public opinion.
In 2014, with Australia still facing the arrival of many migrants her life is perhaps a source of inspiration and challenge.
For more on Caroline Chisholm see Australian Dictionary of Biography.
how a voluntary society in a rural town made eHistory
I love stories of innovation. Here is one of a voluntary group in a small, rural town, who made eHistory. The full story is here, but to give you a taster, I’ve made a summary, using words from the entire article.
Carnamah is a town and farming community [of 500 people] 300 kilometres north of Perth. The Carnamah Historical Society was founded in 1983 to collect, record, preserve and promote local history. Made up of folk with a background in wheat and sheep farming, they have no ongoing funding and are volunteer run.
To share history and heritage they created online content, 600 pages. Then primary school educational resources. Then an online data base that utilised virtual volunteers to help with transcription and indexing tasks.
The result: thousands more people have discovered and now have a strong and personal connection; donations of heritage material; featured in National Museum of Australia exhibition; appeared in Inside History magazine twice.
The difference is simply that we’ve made a lot of history discoverable online. We want to share, not just possess. We, as a [history] sector have a terrible track record of doing what we’ve always done and not straying too far from the familiar path. It comes down to attitude. Will you learn or try what you don’t know?
The essential ingredients that tend to be lacking are not ideas, examples to follow, time, availability of funding or technical skill. They are very often attitude, ethos and organisational culture.
I think there are a lot of encouragements and challenges in this story for any group in our changing world.
pioneering a pioneering week
It’s been an intensely busy, but very productive week.
We’ve had Dave Male from the UK with us. Each evening we’ve engaged in storytelling around pioneering. Four folk have told local stories – one of early cross-cultural encounter in Australia, one of community gardens and how they change church, one of participation of individuals in new forms of church, one of transitions. Each has been videod. Around each story was woven group processes to deepen encounter. This included creative worship (like St Patrick on St Patricks Day) and the perspectives of Dave and Heather Male.
During the day, Dave Male has been working with us on developing material for a distance course. This includes 6 key modules needed for pioneering, accompanied by a range of resources (readings, video grabs of Dave Male, powerpoint, stories). The 4 local stories will add richness, all enhanced by the soundbite video clips and quotes we’ve been grabbing all week from those who participated in the evening sessions.
The result is that we’ve been able to develop what will be an online Pioneering topic that will be available in both our Diploma and Bachelor of Ministry.
It also makes possible a Diploma of Ministry in Pioneering, a one year equivalent period of study, that can be done full-time or part-time, face to face or by distance. A Diploma neatly integrates into the Bachelor of Ministry for folk who want to study further. But not everyone wants to do three years, so a one year Diploma, or a one semester topic, is an important addition to our training options as a College.
As Dave commented after we’d shown him the syllabus –
There is still some work to put all this together as a finished product but it’s been a very productive week.
st patricks day pioneer worship
Yesterday was both St Patricks Day and the start of our week of pioneer evenings with Dave Male. So it seemed appropriate to bring them both together.
I began with a contemporary icon of St Patrick, painted by Scott Erickson at Ecclesia community.
What strikes us? What links do we make with our theme – pioneering? What image speaks to us?
I then introduced Breastplate, from the Eucharist CD. I noted the refrain – I bind unto myself today – and invited us, while the song played, to biro tattoo the image that speaks to us onto our arms.
By way of conclusion, as a communal act, we said the Breastplate together.
ALL: I bind unto myself today
Left: The strong name of the trinity
Right: By invocation of the same
Leader: The three in one and one in three
Left: The great love of the living word
Right: The wisdom of my God to teach
Leader: His hand to guide his shield to ward
Left: The virtues of the starlit heaven
Right: The glorious sun’s life giving ray
Leader: The fruits of earth so freely given
Left: The power of God to hold and lead
Right: His eye to watch his might to stay
Leader: His ear to hearken to my need
Left: The way of Christ in life and death
Right: The call of God to jubilee
Leader: In broken chains and cancelled debt
(Words attributed to St Patrick, translation Mrs C F Alexander, 1889, except v.5)
Pioneering Plan B: bite-sized education?
Last Friday, I was contemplating a pioneering disaster.
Last Friday, we only had one student enrolment for the March 17-21 Pioneering intensive with Dave Male. Despite a range of advertising, despite Dave being well known in South Australia, I was contemplating the difficulty involved in offering a decent educational experience to a class of one.
It was time for plan B. Annoying at the time, but in hindsight, totally consistent with a course on pioneering! We had shaped the original intensive with Dave to run mornings and evenings. So on Friday we decided to drop the mornings. Instead we will use the time to work one on one with Dave, designing a blended learning distance Pioneering package. What this will mean is that any person, any candidate, can study Pioneering with us at any time in the years ahead, rather than simply by intensive when Dave Male is in town. Which will be a really exciting addition to our Bachelor of Ministry degree, a permanent topic in Pioneering! (A first in Australia I think.) So that was the first part of Pioneering Plan B.
The second part of Pioneering Plan B was to take the existing week long evening programme and offer it in bite-sized chunks. Same topics. But advertise it not as a week, but as bite-sized. Come to one evening or more. Even all four.
The third part of Pioneering plan B was to emphasise that the existing evening programme is not about content but conversation. Rather than lecture, we are offering worship, drink and a story. Four stories actually, of women exploring pioneering in different ways. Which will start a conversation about the issues, the resources, what we are learning about innovation, leadership, mission and church. All stimulated by Dave and by all those who participate.
Some five days later, we have 13 18 20 RSVP’s. Which is a quite a turnaround from the solitary one.
It’s really got me thinking. What was the difference? The personal invite email? The fact the evenings are being offered for free? The deliberate naming of a shift from content to conversation? The shift to bite-sized, with folk able to give an evening, but not a week?
I’m looking forward to doing some market research but I suspect the biggest factor is the latter, the offer of bite-sized education. That one week is too much, but an evening (of four for some) is do-able. Which raises some intriguing questions for education in general. What might it mean to modularize a syllabus, to go bite-sized?
And the one enrolment? They are delighted at our flexibility. They will get some focused 1 on 1 time with Dave Male at the start and end of the week, in order to establish some specifically tailored guided reading, all mixed in with some evenings of rich conversation to help their own processing.
And for those in Adelaide, it’s still not too late to RSVP to steve dot taylor at flinders dot edu dot au. Here’s the bite-sized programme, come to one, come to more … (more…)
a loose collaboration of experimental journeyers
Over the last two days, I’ve been at the National Fresh expressions and mission-shaped ministry 2014 conference. Today, I provided a brief public explanation to those gathered of the story to date.
The conference emerges from a loose collaboration of experimental journeyers. Back in 2010, I heard a number of people around Australia saying, “It would be good to offer more focused training and resourcing in mission.” I suggested a conversation and the result was a decision to use the mission-shaped ministry course as a focus. We decided to seek to collaborate together to develop and contextualise this for an Australian context.
The focus would be on local delivery by local partners, with the blessing of the original designers – mission-shaped ministry England. Together we would be a resource as fellow travellers. Anyone could offer a course, as long as it was local, ecumenical and within their capacity, professional.
Seven groups initially said yes
Anglicans Canberra
Anglicans Adelaide
Lutherans SA , NT
Uniting Synod SA
Uniting Synod Vic Tas
Uniting Synod NSW, ACT
New members could be added at any time. They simply need to ask and to pay a $1000 fee – designed to give us a start up fee. We whacked up an agreement, to be reviewed annually at national gatherings. We’ve since met four times
Pilot workshop – May 2011
Training with the Dranes – Nov 2011
National peer learning – Nov 20123
This conference – Feb 2014
Today I chaired the “annual meeting.” The energy in the room was palpable. There are new partners keen to join us (we’re now a grouping of 12 different entities). We’ve made decisions to keep meeting. First, a 1.5 day gathering, of pioneers and practitioners, to share and storytell, November 2014, in Adelaide. Second, November 2015, in Melbourne, a two-part gathering, to continue the contextualisation project re mission-shaped ministry and to again gather pioneers and practitioners.
A few years ago there was just a dream. Now there’s an energetic, dispersed, coalition of experimental journeys.
It’s also really practical example of ecumenism in the 21 st century. I counted 5 denominations around the table today – all with a shared passion for mission, drawn together by projects.
pioneering workshop update
Yesterday I led a Pioneering workshop, a day in which I invited the Uniting church in South Australia to reflect on the processes of selection, discernment, training, placing of pioneers in our life.
The “agenda” was 3 questions
what are we hearing?
what is the biggest question?
what could be a next step?
The day was based around hearing from pioneers – their experiences of our system. So we split into 3 groups and each group heard from 2 pioneers, who were asked in about 15 minutes to share their experience. Each group then shared back to main gathering “what are we hearing”? Ben Edson, from the UK was with us and as an external voice, from another church system, provided his feedback.
That was the morning. In the afternoon, I invited people back into the initial groups. Pioneers were still present. Each group was asked to clarify the biggest question needing to be asked as a result of the hearing – a question for selection, for discerning, for training, for placing. Plus an elephant in the room question.
That yielded 15 questions. Those were shared back in the main group and people then gathered around the question that most interested them, to try and come up with a next step. About 8 ideas emerged, all to be directed toward relevant bodies within the church. Some were affirmations, other were significant next steps. Some were quite radical and would lead to major change in our system.
Time will tell the results. But their was a really lovely feel in the room. And it was so lovely to be with 35 people, listening to pioneers share their story.
Ben Edson: hearing another story part 1
Ben Edson met with Pastoral Relations Committee (PRC) this morning, helping start a conversation that went for 2 hours. It was an excellent time together. In the Uniting Church, this body assists the whole church in regard to the pastoral and administrative oversight of all ministers and pastoral charges within the Presbytery. It has a role in Ordinations; Supervision of vacancies; Placement Processes of specified ministries and variations.
Ben was brought in to help think through discerning, selecting, training and placing “pioneers.” As Ben defined it, those with an imagination to see the world differently.
As a church, in 2010, the Uniting Church in South Australia said yes to training pioneers. Today was a time to take our pulse. Together we talked about our progress, and lack of, since then. We identified some barriers that are holding us back. We heard, through Ben, from another church, the Anglican church in the UK, regarding how they select and train.
It is one thing to say yes to a change. It is quite another to do the work of shaping a system, the habits and culture of an institution, around that change. Today was, in my opinion, a very important next step in that process. We needed to say yes as a church in 2010. We needed time to experiment in the time since. We needed, today, to take time to reflect and to begin to ponder how, in ways true to being the Uniting Church, we can cultivate the systems, culture and habits that nurture and sustain those with imaginations to see the world differently. Ben did an excellent job of being passionate, grounded, well-prepared and challenging.
Ben Edson part 2 happens tonight – Monday, 7:30 pm at Citysoul, where Ben tells his story of planting Sanctus.
Ben Edson part 3 happens tomorrow, Tuesday, 9:30 am -3:45 pm when anyone interested (and so far we have 32 booked), will gather around our local pioneer stories. We will begin with 6 stories from individuals in South Australia who have come into our system with a pioneer dream and hear their experiences. From that, we will ask what we are hearing and what might be the next steps as a result. I’m hoping that together Part 1 and Part 3 will be important steps in the ongoing change processes, of the walk from vision to reality, from ideal to habit.
pioneer processes workshop
Part of a letter sent today …
A key signpost for us at Uniting College is to grow pioneers in innovation and invigoration. We’ve been blessed to see a number of pioneers – at least eight I can think of – sense God’s call to train with us over the last few years. This has raised new questions, posed fresh challenges for us as a College.
Pioneer processes – selection, training, placement, sustaining workshop
Tuesday 21 January 2014, 9:30 am – 3:45 pm, at UCLT
This pioneer processes workshop, is designed to help us process what we’re learning. To ensure a pioneer flavour, we’ll have Ben Edson, a Fresh Expressions missioner from the UK, with many years experience, join us.
For more information, see the information here …
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A small plane trying to land broke apart and tore through a snowy field next to a runway Monday afternoon, killing all five people aboard, including a teenager and a child, and scattering debris over 200 feet.
The crash was reported at 3:45 p.m. at Monmouth Executive Airport, about 35 miles east of Trenton, said Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Jim Peters. The weather was overcast, but no precipitation was falling.
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Capt. Tim Clayton of the Wall Township police said debris from the crash was scattered over a 200-foot stretch of snowy ground.
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The plane was based at the airport and was returning to land when the crash occurred, Clayton said. It was not immediately clear how long the plane was gone. Relatives of some of the victims were at the airport when the crash occurred, Clayton said, but it was not clear if they had witnessed the crash.
Peters said the plane was a Cessna 337 Skymaster, a make known in aviation circles as a “Push Me, Pull You” because its twin engines are located in the nose and behind the fuselage. It was registered to Jack Air LLC, a Wilmington, Del., company. A telephone listing for the company was not immediately available.
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Flowers In Time > Flowers In Time > General Discussion > May 17, 1995 New Haven, Toad's Place, CT - REVIEWS
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I Am The Music
May 17, 1995 New Haven, Toad's Place, CT - REVIEWS
As there were no info on this show, and a dear leecher at TradersDen asked for a recording, I turned back the tide and he came up with this which seems quite useful to get started on this gig... anyway, here's how I answered and he did back again with a review of a newspaper and his:
ddonofrio3
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Re: JEFF BUCKLEY xxxx-xx-xx 1994 Fall US & Canadian Tour LIVE vol.6 (FLAC)
Originally Posted by Buda
Unfortunately yet there's no known recording of that show. Even at Flowers there is no actual info about this given night performed strangely during a month with almost every show recorded and heavily documented. Probably some kind of recording surely exists, only not available.
http://www.flowersintime.org/show.php?gigid=280
So it would be highly appreciated ddonofrio if you could tell anything about the show. Even parts of the setlist, the crowd, the mood Jeff could be in by your impression. Anything actually that you are still able to remember after such a long time. There are no limitations
Jeff Buckley/Chris Connelly
Toad's Place
Here's a review from the Hartford Courant:
Jeff Buckley's wide vocal range offers credible but constrained show
by Joseph Rocha
Courant Correspondent
It would have been nice for Jeff Buckley, who gained some acclaim this spring, to have concluded his solo tour on a promising note.
But that wasn't the case for Rolling Stone magazine's 1995 Best New Male Singer, who performed Wednesday at Toad's Place in New Haven.
In front of about 375 people, Buckley performed credibly. But the latest talent to emerge from New York's underground scene never seemed to warm up to the small, intrigued but mostly quiet crowd. Moreover, Buckley never appeared to break free of a scripted show.
Buckley, the son of cult folksinger Tim Buckley, has been on the road before and since the release of his debut, "Grace". The release, which sold about 300,000 copies worldwide, featured the same backing core that Busckley brought on tour: Mick Grondahl on bass, Matt Johnson on drums, and Michael Tighe on backing guitar.
The band built the songs slowly. Buckley started most with a subterranean whisper, raised his tenor to a gruff, earthy shout and then took it to an otherworldly falsetto.
Buckley's razor-edged guitar and choirboy voice, which can move naturally from angelic purity to twisted demonic intensity, provided curiousity for the evening, although his vocalizations may have bordered on so much soundmaking.
After a gauzy, dream-like vocal and guitar invocation, Buckley and the band slid into the compelling "Mojo Pin," a melodic, moody ode of burning mysticism that ebbed and flowed until bursting into an almost trademark swagger that critics have called Led Zeppelinesque.
The comparisons may be in part fostered by heavy record-company backing. Columbia has put Buckley and his bandmates on the road with a support crew of roadies, soundmen and management. The corporation is looking out for its investment.
Buckley tore through a thrashing of "Eternal Life" with a spit and adrenaline spiked assault. Then, he put the brakes on for the yearning, heart-wrenching "Lover."
Clearly, Buckley showed he's learned a thing or two in his non-stop touring and clubbing about performing and pacing. Maybe he needs to break free of the corporate reins that prevent him and his band from developing and taking more artistic risks.
The themes of grace, love, faith and redemption all were apparent during his show. Whether it was the seductive "So Real." the scorching "Grace" or the incandescent "Last Goodbye," Buckley whipped through the music, sometimes like a breeze, sometimes like a hurricane.
But at almost two hours for the 13-song set, the material and the show could have been tightened, especially since he reprised his cover of leonard Cohen's "Hallehujah" during an encore.
Maybe in time, the 28-year old will achieve the potential he displays and the accolades he's attracted.
Buckley, after his 18-show, four week tour, will open for Juliani Hatfield on her tour starting today in Providence. The tour isn't slated to return to Connecticut. it will play Boston's Avalon Ballroom may 29th and 30th and New York's Roseland on June 2nd.
#18 Yesterday, 08:25 PM
My own comments on the show;
Toad's Place has a legal capacity of 750 so at 375 that night Buckley played to a half-full club. As with most clubs, when jam-packed, Toad's holds well over it's legal capacity.
I think the guy who wrote that review likes to write decriptions but isn't as talented as a music reviewer.
I do agree with his comments about Jeff seeming restrained by the corporate people. There were several record company suits at this show.
At one point, I remember him saying something like "What do you guys want to hear? Do you want to hear nice beautiful music or do you want to rock?" The crowd responded that they wanted to rock. Jeff then said, "That's what I thought" and launched into "Kick Out The Jams." I don't remember any more of the setlist but I believe this was either at the end of the regular set or at the beginning of the encore.
I thought it was a great show. This was the only time I got to see Jeff.
If anyone of us can come up wit anything else regarding this night please do so!
Jaysbee
Re: May 17, 1995 New Haven, Toad's Place, CT - REVIEWS
Nice work buda I'll add that transcript to the show........
There must be a recording out there somewhere although with only 375 people in attendance, i does reduce the odds???
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Noo! Way noo.. only we are after all, I'd say, realists
But some fellow who appreciated and was already a big fan of Jeff at that time could have easily recorded it. And if you think of one such guy inbetween 375 people is merely not impossible at all
mrstrongarm
jays: i cant remember if the transcripts section is workin yet so let me know if its not ! hehe
nickp944
the tear that hangs inside my soul forever
I have glorious memories of this show - my fourth and final Jeff show - because that was the night I met Jeff. I can root through my scrapbook box for the actual set list later, but in the meantime, I'll describe how it came to be a prized AUTOGRAPHED set list!.
I was a regular at Toad's Place during the nearly two years I spent in CT working for one of my employer's sister companies. I had seen Jeff previously at St. Anne's in Brooklyn [not the Tim Buckley show, but a different Music at St. Anne's event], and twice at clubs in Manhattan - additionally I had missed him the night he opened for Tindersticks, due to a misunderstanding - I was told THEY were opening, and got there late.
Anyway - back to Toad's - I'm assuming the reviewer hadn't seen Jeff before - or not many times, anyway. While the show was not 'amazing', that was more due to Jeff's being visibly tired - he was touring heavily and really giving it all every night.
I remember that I still didn't like the 'road version' of "Eternal Life" which led to "Kick Out The Jams" - I really preferred the Grace-like take he had been doing earlier, and still do, truth be told. Jeff played a couple of new songs - I kept a set list (as I have done at 99% of the shows I have attended over the last 40 years) - and marked them as simply "New Song?".
After the show, I went downstairs to the backstage door in hopes of an autograph. I handed the security guard my set list and asked, could he pass it back and ask Jeff to sign it, if he wasn't too tired. Several minutes passed and I feared the worst - that I wouldn't get the autograph OR the set list back.
To my surprise, when the door opened, it was Jeff - all goofy smiles. He handed me the set list, saying "I fixed the songs for you" - he had written in the missing song titles, which I'll post with the set list later. Then he signed it while I watched. He shook my hand - I restrained myself from hugging him, which was what I really wanted to do - I told him how much I loved his music, and then, he was gone.
It's an evening I'll never forget.
Nick in Florida [lovesick alien]
Information is not Knowledge
Knowledge is not Wisdom
Wisdom is not Truth
Truth is not Beaty
Beauty is not Love
Love is not Music
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-----Francis Vincent Zappa [1940-1993]
belikewhat
thats awesome! i would have shook his hand but hugged him in my mind too! lol!
yeh a set list would be bad ass! so would seein the setlist itself maybe you can scan it in)!
I would have hugged him while shaking his hand!!!!!
If we ever meet up, i'll hug you too Nick so long as you have that signed setlist in your rear trouser pocket at the time
Nice story Nick x
« Last Edit: November 20, 2008, 12:03:17 AM by Jaysbee » Logged
nice work Mr Alien would love a scan of that setlist for the show page too!! (if your feeling generous...)
thanks also for sharing on the Radiohead hub - when i first got into Live Jeff i used to love looking through your share
Quote from: mrstrongarm on November 30, 2008, 11:02:20 PM
My sentiments too....on both counts!!
Seems a review appeared some months ago, then dear Nick mentioned his setlist, so I think after the scan appears some months will pass and we will have a recording too
Thanks for all the work put in this site this year too and wish you all a merry christmas and happy new year dear Jeffheads!
Sorry I haven't been in the forums for about six months, so I missed all your kind replies! Thanks!!
My scrapbook is in my storage unit, but since I plan on making a trip there this weekend, I will try and pull it out so that I can scan the set list for you. I have the ticket stubs for all the Buckley shows I attended [four or five - my memory plays tricks on me: I may or may not have attended the Roseland show - but I might be mixing it up with the Irving Plaza show: again - a look through the scrapbook will confirm one way or another.]
Nick [lovesick alien]
Quote from: nickp944 on July 03, 2009, 11:06:33 PM
That would be tops buddy!!! Scans of those stubbs too would be cool for the database if possible
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The Meethotamulla residents who filed a fundamental rights petition last year stating that there were individuals and companies who were interested in purchasing the garbage for re-cycling at their own cost without harming the environment. Who held it back? Did politicians of past and present along with officials negotiate for higher commissions causing a delay in the progress?
“Solid Waste” or garbage is unwanted and non-required material arising from human and animal activities, which is in solid form.
Dr. Harsha de Silva awakened from slumber wants no more garbage dumping at Meetotamulla, but please hold: One more load awaits with all previous and present politicians responsible for the Meetotamulla disaster.
No more garbage will be dumped at this site and two temporary sites were identified this morning
- Dr. Harsha de Silva
The Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister said that the government has recognized two temporary sites to unload garbage. “No more garbage will be dumped at this site and two temporary sites were identified this morning,” - Dr. Silva. He revealed the govt’s decision to bear all funeral expenses of the victims who lost their lives and ‘immediately commence evacuations of those who are vulnerable’. He further stated, “It’s ironic that it was only a few weeks back that agreements were signed to begin ‘waste to energy’ projects to finally deal with this perennial issue.”
Closing the stable door after the horses have bolted!
However, he said that it was unfortunate that even though payments had been made for those families under risk of landslides to move out, some hadn’t done so. They had even been advised to leave as recently as two days ago!
Troops looking for survivors after the massive rubbish slide (300-ft high) collapsed in Meetotamulla, suspended their search on Saturday night, having already extricated 19 bodies from the rubble and mud. The mountain collapsed after flames engulfed it late on Friday, burying around 100 houses.
FR petition filed by seven residents of Meethotamulla
The Colombo Municipal Council on September 9, 2016, informed Supreme Court of its decision not to dump garbage at Meetotamulla in Kolonnawa as it had ear-marked a plot of land in the Ja-Ela area for the purpose. This was in response to the Supreme Court order to come up with their project plans as solutions for constant garbage dumping at the above site in Kolonnawa. These facts were revealed by CMC when an FR petition filed by seven residents of the Meetotamulla area citing the CMC, UDA, Western Province Waste Management Authority, CEA, Kolonnawa MC and the Attorney General as respondents. At a previous hearing, the Supreme Court granted leave to proceed with this fundamental rights petition. The lawyer who appeared for the CMC informed Court that it had a solution to solve the issue including an arrangement to have the garbage taken to a 35-acre land in Ja-ela. The petitioners sought a declaration from Supreme Court that the proposed development of the dumping site was an impending infringement of their fundamental rights. The petitioner stated that Kolonnawa city particularly a high residential area with a thick population density, and lamented that in the centre of this highly residential area there was a huge and rising garbage dumping site, with a massive mountain of garbage, which had now developed to over 18 acres in extent. The petition state that approximately 750 to 1,200 tons of garbage from the Colombo city was piled onto this mountain on a daily basis and that the stench was now becoming unbearable for the families and children and that there is a significant and serious health risk. Around 30 people of the area had died due to killer germs, outbreak of dengue, kidney diseases, rat fever and skin conditions.
Thousands of others in the vicinity are affected and the number of affected are increasing daily. The petitioners complained that there were sustainable solutions other than the dumping of garbage in the above manner, which could bring an end to this crisis. But these procedures are not being tried by the respondents.They also allege the respondents are taking measures to pull down another 100 houses to expand the size of the site for a further three acres, and if the proposed extension took place, there would be immeasurable, serious, irreparable and disastrous consequences to be faced. There are individuals and companies that are interested in purchasing the garbage and would recycle it at their own cost without causing any harm to the environment.
Water cannons dispersed demonstrators
The police on Sunday, May 24, 2016, used water cannons to disperse protesting residents near the Meethotamulla garbage dump in Kolonnawa. The area residents held the demonstration in front of the land used for the dumping of waste collected from the city of Colombo demanding that authorities should give them a written assurance that disposal of around 700 MT of waste daily at the 16-acre garbage dump site would be halted.
‘It is threatening the homes and lives of the people living in the area: The huge garbage dumps have slipped causing damage to a large number of houses in addition to the health risks.’, they claimed. The residents continually objected calling for the removal of the site, however, their pleas have fallen on deaf ears. Politicizing the issue insults the victims. Both previous and current governments and state officials are responsible for the disaster. The government is rather sensitive to the sufferings of the poor people.
The Finance Minister can place another Supplementary Bill for another round of luxury cars for the ministers to visit the affected area at Meethotamulla before leaving for the village New Year shows as chief guest.
Colombo city, for many years has been demanding to solve its waste problem but in vain. According to a former CMC official, the garbage disaster in Colombo began after 1977. The city began to develop fast and the low-lying areas used for garbage discarding were reclaimed. Low-lying lands in areas such as Kolonnawa, Mattakkuliya and Rajagiriya were used for garbage dumping. During the period 1998/99 under CBK, the World Bank was prepared to grant financial assistance to build a disposal site in Meepe in Avissawella. The cost of the project was estimated at Rs.800 million.This proposal was rejected by the then government citing various reasons such as the transport cost. (They said the ‘under-the-table’ transactions did not meet the demand)!
Bandaragama model : They did it a decade ago
Bandaragama used to have the same garbage problem as Colombo. Its roads were strewn with garbage. According to the residents of Bandaragama, the garbage issue had been huge. In 2007, the Bandaragama Township decided to go green. The then Bandaragama Pradeshiya Sabha Chairman, Lalith Ellawala kicked off a project to recycle garbage collected in the area. Technical expertise and direction were provided by the Solid Waste Management Authority, Western Province and the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources. Today, garbage has ceased to be a problem in Bandaragama. Instead, it has become a source of income.
How is garbage recycled?
The recycling plant of the Pradeshiya Sabha occupies a small plot of land. It has 13 workers. About eight tons of garbage is collected from the town and brought to the place where it is sorted out. The biodegradable rubbish is allowed to decompose while the other collections such as polythene and plastic are sold to collectors. The plant needed only a smaller size backhoe (Bobcat type) machine to mix the decomposed garbage; the mixing is done by six workers and it takes a long time. They only have 13 employees to do the recycling work and if they have a backhoe machine, the workers will have more time.
Garbage is allowed to decompose for three months without any chemicals. They do not expose the garbage to sun. Decomposed manure needs around 15 % moisture. Once it is decomposed, it is then processed with the help of a mechanism which separates the dust. They collect the dust, packet it and sell. However, the PS noted that pubic cooperation was not at satisfactory level. There were two garbage dumps placed at many places in the town for non-decaying and decaying garbage but people dispose of their garbage haphazardly without caring to sort them thus causing hardships to the recycling workers. There is a good demand for the product. They plough back the income from sales into the plant. There are hundreds of birds eagerly waiting to eat the flies. Workers who reprocess garbage have small farms where compost made from garbage is used. They are also involved in animal husbandry. Vegetables grown from their plots are used for meals provided to workers.
The Solid Waste Management Centre at Bandaragama is admirable. Anybody can emulate it. In two years since its commencement in 2007 or by 2009, it had the expertise to provide its services to other local government institutions, though it was without space to expand its operations. With more facilities and space, they could expand their services to other parts of the country and help them overcome the garbage issue.
Kumara Tuesday, 18 April 2017 02:03 PM
Next meethotamulla will be Karadiyana! almost the people of Karadiyana, boruppana, thombovilla, bokundara, boralesgamuwa, werahera struggling with various issue due to the Karadiyana cabbage dump. also this cabbage dump spoil the bolgoda lake, Attidiya Bird Sanctuary. at least now take proper waste management system and save Attidiya Bird Sanctuary
Kadiya Tuesday, 18 April 2017 06:18 AM
Mount Garbage!!!
generous man Thursday, 20 April 2017 07:22 PM
Dear All,There are several international organizations talking of world conservation etc. in Sri Lanka. Specially there is one called IUCN the World Conservation Union. They are just making there seat heat under the AC and doing nothing but end of the month getting a huge salaries.These organization should at least give there views on this
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