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Music Picks: Miley Cyrus, Phantogram, Marissa Nadler
LA Weekly February 20, 2014
Grammy-nominated rapper 2 Chainz helped to cement trap music's reign with Billboard Hot 100 hits including “No Lie and “I'm Different.” The College Park, Ga., native, formerly known as Tity Boi, was a member of DTP duo Playaz Circle before going solo and independently releasing a wealth of singles and mixtapes. In 2012, Def Jam released his debut studio effort, Based on a T.R.U. Story, which has since been certified Gold by the RIAA. His quick ascent to stardom has yielded features alongside some of hip-hop's biggest acts, including Kanye West and Drake, plus countless award nominations and a shoe deal with Adidas. His highly anticipated follow-up to B.O.A.T.S. II: Me Time, last year's sophomore LP, is scheduled to drop later this year. —Jacqueline Michael Whatley
ingMob
CENTER FOR THE ARTS, EAGLE ROCK
In the footsteps of polygenre polymath producer Daedelus comes ingMob, a Caltech Ph.D. student who even made his own monome. (If you've never heard of a monome, it's the digital musical instrument of the extremely near future, used to excellent effect by Daedelus at many a show.) After years of catch-as-catch-can composition, ingMob has just finished his debut album, Marrow. The LP is a DIY effort full of Brainfeeder-y natural atmosphere and breathy, indie-boy vocals — basically incarnating a good part of the zeitgeist of the right now — over songs quite possibly revealing relationships to the organic-chemistry research that occupies the artist's daily life. Fans of Baths and Animal Collective (before they hit the pop stratosphere) will discover plenty of potential here. With Non Projects' Anenon, whose own spacious sounds will offer a sympathetic counterpoint to ingMob. —Chris Ziegler
THE CHURCH ON YORK
Boston folk-pop chanteuse Marissa Nadler spins enchanting spells with little more than a soft acoustic backing, subtle sound effects and her delicately ethereal voice. “You said you need a wrecking ball to break the cement 'round the heart/A company of mad machines would take the walls, crumble them apart,” she coos on her 2012 album, The Sister. Her airy-eerie vocals glide coolly over the patient ticking of her acoustic guitar, slowly melting the concrete and filling the hollow space with a spectral glow that evokes the starkly intimate delivery of Mazzy Star's Hope Sandoval. “Your Heart Is a Twisted Vine” is similarly mesmerizing, with Nadler's romantic entreaties wrapped up engagingly in a cocoon of cottony guitars. She moves even deeper into the hushed shadows on her upcoming album, July. There's something curiously timeless and innocently childlike about the way her sweetly pure singing unlocks the door to such boundless pastoral reveries. —Falling James
HOUSE OF BLUES HOLLYWOOD
Alongside groups such as In Flames and At the Gates, Swedish death-metal greats Dark Tranquillity were among the pioneers of the '90s Gothenburg metal sound, which influenced American metalcore giants including Killswitch Engage. Around the turn of the millennium, their sound shifted gears from harsh, vocal-led death metal with melodic guitarwork to a sound that embraced more electronic elements and keyboards, which lent a more ethereal atmosphere to the music they were producing. Most bands that make such an evolution in their sound either disappear completely or abandon the elements of change after a backlash. Dark Tranquillity, however, have become the rare breed of band that has come full circle to a moment where all eras of their sound are excellently represented on albums such as 2012's Construct. —Jason Roche
At times, it's hard to tell where Miley Cyrus' public persona ends and where the real human being begins, but the singer takes some significant steps away from her cutesy Disney Channel image on her latest album, Bangerz. New strains of hip-hop are woven within anthemic pop structures, and guest appearances by Nelly, Ludacris and Big Sean, along with production by Pharrell Williams and will.i.am, increase her overall credibility. As with so many pop stars, most of her songs were factory-assembled and co-written by a horde of the usual suspects, but Cyrus' personality nonetheless shines through on relatively personal and vulnerable ballads such as “Wrecking Ball.” Despite the tempest in a teapot she stirred with her infamous plushie-twerking collisions at last year's MTV Video Music Awards, Cyrus is relatively down-to-earth, coming off as the only celebrity with an ounce of sincerity and genuine warmth at Ryan Seacrest's recent New Year's Eve horror show in Times Square. —Falling James
A sure sign of a band catching on with Angelenos is when it gets promoted to a bigger venue when it returns to town. But to get bumped up to a larger spot when it swings back on the same damn tour? It doesn't happen too often, yet this is the situation that New York duo Phantogram finds itself in. Originally slated to play the Wiltern, Sarah Barthel and Josh Carter will appear at the Palladium instead as they ride the wave of the greatest success so far of their blossoming career. Over the past two months, Phantogram have steadily released a slew of songs and music videos, wisely drumming up interest and playing the hype game like a piano, with the catchy “Fall in Love” from their sophomore effort, Voices, leading the way. One thing is for certain: When they hit the Palladium stage, a lot of feet will be stompin' and many arms will be swaying to Phantogram's anthemic indie pop. —Daniel Kohn
Sylvia Tyson, Cindy Cashdollar, Scarlet Rivera
McCABE'S GUITAR SHOP
Sylvia Tyson was half of the influential Canadian folk duo Ian & Sylvia with her then-husband, Ian Tyson. The pair is cherished for Ian's timeless, Alberta-centric folk ballad “Four Strong Winds,” which was covered by Bobby Bare, The Brothers Four and Neil Young but always sounded best when drenched in Ian & Sylvia's lovelorn harmonies. Sylvia is also a noteworthy songwriter, penning We Five's “You Were on My Mind” and kicking up her heels with Quartette and Great Speckled Bird. Her most ambitious project, however, was 2011's Joyner's Dream: The Kingsfold Suite, a string-laced, classically eloquent set of songs based on her own multigenerational novel about a larcenous family. Tyson's appearance here is rare enough, but she's part of a loaded bill with steel guitar/dobro mastermind Cindy Cashdollar (Asleep at the Wheel, Ryan Adams, Dave Alvin) and spirited violinist Scarlet Rivera, who, among many other things, sparked Bob Dylan's Desire and his Rolling Thunder Revue with her mournful consolations and intuitive weaving. —Falling James
EL REY THEATRE
Miho Hatori and Yuka Honda's wholly original and influential '90s albums Viva! La Woman and Stereo were mad meldings of hip-hop, jazzy funk, dancey electro-pop and world-music beatdowns. Altogether, it was a surreal pop hybrid with the emphasis on the fun and fantastic. That seductively non–genre-specific worldview is taken to brilliant extremes in the duo's brand-new Hotel Valentine, Cibo Matto's first album since 1999. Hotel is a soundtrack to a nonexistent movie, which tells a kind of love story among ghosts that wander the hallways of a hotel. It's mysterious, suggestive stuff, with both the whimsical raps/melodies uttered by pot-smoking poltergeists and other wondrous cornucopias of sound painted on with artful imagination. Wonderfully off-the-wall stuff. —John Payne
Lemon Sun
You may not know it but you have heard Lemon Sun. From commercial placements to appearances on many a bar and restaurant playlist, the L.A. band may have ducked out of the limelight but its impression lingers on. Composed of members of He's My Brother She's My Sister, Jenny O and Bleached, this indie-rock supergroup does a heavy amalgam of rock & roll, psychedelia and folk throughout its series of unique, feel-good hits. With a swagger reminiscent of Elvis and an attitude like Chuck Berry's, Lemon Sun have kept fans hanging on despite their absence, probably because we remember their buoyant rhythms, melodic hooks and magical vibe. Reuniting tonight for the first time since 2012, they are sure to pull out all the stops. Tap dancing? Maybe. Special guests? It's possible. You'll have to be there to find out. —Britt Witt
Sigmund Fudge
CAP STUDIOS
Bassist Ryan McGillicuddy, keyboardist Joe Bagg, guitarist Jamie Rosenn, and drummer Jason Harnell were among those who threatened to shift the balance of power in the L.A. jazz community, from established veterans to a new generation of upstarts. Now the young guns are new veterans fending off an insurgency of innovation by recent college graduates. McGillicuddy's solution was to flee to Seoul, where he became one of the best bassists in South Korea. He returns to L.A. for a brief reunion with his friends. Their band, Sigmund Fudge, was known for exploring sonorities not commonly found in jazz. In 2014, that's called jazz. In a brave new world of exploding sonic trends, these erstwhile iconoclasts who once stood at the frontier of a turning point continue to stay ahead of the curve. —Gary Fukushima
FIDLAR, Cherry Glazerr
THE ECHOPLEX
L.A. punk band FIDLAR kicked a hole in the side of L.A. when they first came out, and they left flaming tire tracks stretching to the horizon as they got bigger and bigger and famouser and famouser. And now the whole world can help FIDLAR buy cheap beer (so what? fuck you!) and roll around on the ground to the band's particularly energizing combination of Nervous Break down–era Black Flag and Punk House–era Screeching Weasel. These are punk riffs and velocity hammered into songs that seem to be written in those morning-after comedown hours when you start realizing how much fun can really hurt. With Cherry Glazerr, who deploy a new teenage take on a venerable L.A. sound born from the tiny stages at Al's Bar and Spaceland sometime in the pre-Internet era. —Chris Ziegler
“Which way to the infinite road that unwinds from within?” is the trippy musical question Dr. Dog raise on their latest album, B-Room. A jaunty piano and a faux-gospel chorus reply, “Follow the distant light,” as circus-y keyboards and a hint of snarling guitar cycle around in a swirling coda. The Pennsylvania band likes to build to a psychedelic Beatles crescendo in its shaggy Dog stories, although co–lead singers Scott McMicken and Toby Leaman at times sound as if they're singing through a gruffer, wearier Mott the Hoople haze. With its soul harmonies, “The Truth” could be a formal '60s retro-pop exercise, but the tune is so wonderfully arranged that it doesn't feel like a guilty pleasure. —Falling James
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Vehicle rollover accidents are the most deadly kind of wreck on the highways of Florida. Head injuries are very common in these crashes. The force of the impact to the roof of a car, truck, or SUV can cause serious brain damage to occupants.
The grim statistics for vehicle rollover accidents in Jacksonville and elsewhere are made clear on the Safercar.gov site maintained by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).
Our Jacksonville injury lawyers emphasize that rollover accidents have a higher death rate than other kinds of crashes, even head-on collisions. Of almost 9.1 million passenger car, SUV, van and pickup crashes every year, only 2.1 percent involved a rollover.
However, these wrecks account for nearly 35 percent of all deaths from passenger vehicle crashes. In 2010 alone, more than 7,600 people lost their lives in U.S. highway rollover crashes. A staggering 69 percent of these victims were not wearing seat belts. are horrified by these statistics. If you are hurt in a rollover accident, our Jacksonville car accident lawyers can help you recover for medical bills, lost wages, disability and pain.
Most Vehicle Rollover Accidents in Jacksonville Are Single Vehicle Incidents
As many as 85 percent of rollover accidents are single vehicle accidents, meaning no other vehicle is involved. However, a collision can cause a rollover accident, particularly when a vehicle veers off the highway.
The fact most rollover crashes are single vehicle accidents means a driver is usually to blame for a rollover crash that may harm the occupants of his or her vehicle.
Common Causes of Vehicle Rollover Accidents in Jacksonville
A driver fails to moderate his or her speed on a curve or a ramp;
Driver fatigue that causes a vehicle to veer off the highway;
Overcorrecting to avoid an obstacle or a threat cause by another motorist;
Drunk or drugged driving;
Distracted driving that causes a motorist to lose control;
A severe mechanical issue like a tire blow out;
A collision with another driver; and
High winds.
The Vehicles Most Likely to Be Involved in Rollover Accidents
Some vehicles are more likely to roll over than others. Back in 2002, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration published a report entitled The Characteristics of Fatal Rollover Crashes.
The NHTSA found the increasing popularity of SUVs and light trucks was leading to an increase in rollover deaths. Vehicles like SUVs are more prone to overturning.
The report noted that, in the the years since 1991, the number of passenger vehicle occupant deaths ranged from a low of 29,485 in 1992 to a high of 32,127 in 1999, an increase of about 9 percent. The report pointed to a 6 percent increase in deaths in rollover crashes over that period.
Passenger car occupant rollover deaths fell by 15 percent while occupant deaths in light truck rollover wrecks rose by 35 percent. The report concluded the increasing popularity of these vehicles suggests a rising number of light truck fatalities are replacing passenger car fatalities, particularly in rollover crashes.
In Consumer Reports ,trucks and SUVs dominated the list of the vehicles with the highest rollover risk.
Passengers Are Often Hurt in Vehicle Rollover Accidents in Jacksonville
On occasions, large numbers of passengers are injured in rollover accidents. In June 2017, more than a dozen people were transported to local hospitals, two with serious injuries, after a rollover crash on northbound Interstate 95 near the Duval and Nassau county line, reported Jacksonville.com.
The crash occurred on I-95 near Pecan Park Road when a Jeep Liberty carrying two adults and 11 children sustained a rear tire blow out, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
The driver lost control as the Jeep veered toward the right shoulder on the fifth most deadly interstate in the country and then overturned. One victim was ejected from the vehicle as it rolled into a ditch in Nassau County.
Children are often victims in rollover crashes. In some cases, passengers who sustain serious injuries may have grounds to make a claim for damages against a driver.
If you have been hurt in a rollover accident or lost a family member due to the fault of another driver, please call our Jacksonville car accident lawyers for a consultation at (904) 632-0077.
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by Geoffrey Meyer, PhD, James Pickering, PhD, Thad Wilson, PhD u.a.
To understand common renal diseases and their management, you have to review the basics.
Top medical lecturers from all over the world will get you good and ready for your exams!
Learn all about common renal anatomy and diseases, including:
Proximal and Distal Convoluted Tubule
Collecting Duct
Nephritic Syndrome
Kidney Disorders, e.g. RPGN, Goodpasrure Syndrome, and more
You will also be party to essential information centered on urinary system physiology. On top of that, this, pharmacological insights will teach you how to treat renal hypertension.
High-yield quiz questions and topic reviews will help you improving your skills.
Duration 19:42 h
Quiz questions 789
Class IV Antiarrhythmic Drugs (Calcium Channel Blockers)
Calcium channel blockers (CCBs) are a class of medications that inhibit voltage-dependent L-type calcium channels of cardiac and vascular smooth muscle cells. The inhibition of these channels produces vasodilation and myocardial depression. There are 2 major classes of CCBs: dihydropyridines and non-dihydropyridines, which differ in their selectivity for cardiac or vascular smooth muscle cells. Broadly, these agents are used to treat hypertension, angina, and tachyarrhythmias. Side effects are from vasodilation (headache, peripheral edema, reflex tachycardia) or a consequence of reduced myocardial contractility and nodal conduction velocity (bradycardia).
Diabetes insipidus (DI) is a condition in which the kidneys are unable to concentrate urine. There are 2 subforms of DI: central DI (CDI) and nephrogenic DI (NDI). In CDI, the amount of antidiuretic hormone (ADH) produced by the hypothalamus or released from the pituitary gland is decreased. In nephrogenic DI, the kidneys fail to respond to circulating ADH. Both conditions result in the kidneys being unable to concentrate urine, leading to polyuria, nocturia, and polydipsia. Central and NDI are differentiated based on measured ADH levels and response to a water deprivation test. Central DI is treated with desmopressin, while nephrogenic DI is treated with diuretics and dietary salt restriction.
Anatomy of the Collecting Duct System and Water Reabsorption
In this article, we will talk about the microscopic anatomy part of the kidney known as the collecting duct system. The collecting duct system consists of a series of tubules and ducts that connect the nephrons to a minor calyx or to the renal pelvis. This collecting duct system, as the name implies, is responsible for the reabsorption and excretion of different electrolytes and for fluid balance in our bodies “collecting”.
Potter's Syndrome — Causes and Prognosis
Potter syndrome, also known as the Potter sequence refers to the specific appearance of the baby due to oligohydramnios which is a decrease in amniotic fluid volume which causes deformities in the fetus while in the uterus. These deformities include flattened nasal bridge, epicanthal folds, low set ears and bowed legs. It also leads to pulmonary hypoplasia. The cause has decreased the production of amniotic fluid which is required to cushion the baby against the uterine walls.
Anatomy of the Distal Convoluted Tube and Bartter & Gitelman Syndrome
In this article, you will gain a perfect overview of the distal convoluted tubule, the portion of the nephron of the kidney extending from the loop of Henle up to the collecting duct system. Furthermore, you will learn about the pathophysiology and treatment of the autosomal recessive disorders called Gitelman syndrome and Bartter syndrome for the perfect medical exam preparation.
Unilateral Renal Agenesis (URA) — Diagnosis and Complications
Unilateral agenesis is defined as the complete absence of development of one kidney and ureter. The condition is usually silent and is usually detected on fetal ultrasound scan by the presence of empty renal fossa. The incidence of URA is relatively common and is due to genetic as well as maternal causes. Human renal development is initiated by the 5th week of gestation and renal agenesis occurs when the ureteric bud fails to form the ureter, the renal pelvis, and renal mesenchyme. URA is often associated with anomalies of the contralateral kidney and ureter as well.
Diabetic Glomerulopathy — Pathogenesis and Management
Diabetic glomerulopathy is the leading cause of chronic renal failure in adults. Long-standing type 1 or type 2 diabetes mellitus is associated with this microvascular complication, along with peripheral neuropathy and retinopathy. The pathology of diabetic glomerulopathy is distinguishable based on certain features, including the presence of pathognomonic Kimmelstiel-Wilson nodules, hence the term Kimmelstiel-Wilson disease. A diagnosis of diabetic glomerulopathy does not require a renal biopsy – rather, it is established based on the presence of significant proteinuria and a history of diabetes for >10 years or diabetic retinopathy. Students should be aware about this important complication of diabetes, including its pathology, pathophysiology, clinical course and management.
Renal Diagnostics — Renal Corpuscle, Changes in Glomerular Dynamics, and the Renin Angiotensin Aldosterone System
The kidneys are paired retroperitoneal organs that weigh about 150 grams each. Each kidney is lined by fibrous capsule for protection.
Tubulointerstitial Disease — Phases and Algorithm of Acute Kidney Injury
These are kidney diseases that involve structures outside the glomerulus. The causative agents incite a hypersensitivity reaction that leads to an inflammatory infiltrate seeding into the kidneys interstitium and irreversible features of fibrosis and sclerosis. This leads to the diseases presenting as an acute kidney injury that may end up as an end stage renal disease. Management is per the acute renal injury algorithms that advocate for identification of the inciting agent and its discontinuation alongside watching out for end stage renal disease and timely institution of renal replacement therapy.
Proximal Convoluted Tubule (PCT): Clinical Effects of Fanconi Syndrome and Hartnup Disease
Proximal tubule is divided into proximal convoluted tubule (PCT) and proximal straight tubule (PST). The proximal convoluted tubule is the convoluted portion of the nephron that extends between the Bowman’s capsule and the loop of Henle. Its main function is to reabsorb salt and water, organic solutes like sugar and amino acids, potassium, urea, and phosphate. It also secretes ammonium in the urine.
Membranoproliferative Glomerulonephritis (MPGN) — Prognosis and Treatment
Membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis (MPGN) is a type of immune mediated glomerular disease. The name is an indication of its pathology, with thickening of the basement membrane and proliferative changes. MPGN is categorized into three types: type I, type II (also called dense deposit disease) and type III. Students should be familiar with an overview of this condition, including its pathological features that set it apart from other glomerular disorders, as well as the diagnostic approach and management of MPGN.
The Urea Cycle (Ornithine Cycle) — Introduction and Urea Cycle Disorders
The daily protein turnover of a human being is approximately 300 g. Amino acids contain nitrogen atoms, which need to be eliminated by the body without developing too much toxic ammonia. Here, urea comes into play as an appropriate end product of protein degradation. The steps of synthesis in the urea cycle (also: ornithine cycle), which occurs in the liver, should be well understood. By the way, the urea cycle was first described in 1932 and is therefore the first described cyclic metabolic pathway.
Acute Renal Insult (ARI) — Symptoms and Treatment
Acute renal failure covers 5 % cases of emergency hospitalization. Acute renal failure is classified into prerenal, intrinsic or postrenal based on the etiology behind. Pre-renal acute renal failure is the most common type. The physician determines the etiology of acute renal failure through systematic approach involving blood tests, urine tests and abdominal ultrasonography. Treatment is focused on the supportive therapy based on fluid and electrolyte replacement to reduce the waste accumulation and sustain nutrition.
Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) — Pathophysiology and Diagnosis
Kidneys are central metabolic organs in our body. They regulate our water and electrolyte balance amongst other things, and are responsible for the removal of potentially toxic substances and medications. Shockingly, many of today’s widespread diseases can lead to damaged kidneys and an impairment of their function. Chronic renal failure is a systemic disease with massive effects on the whole organism. It is not always easy to understand all of the various facets of the disease. This article should make the mechanisms and processes easier to understand, and will explain them in more detail.
Interstitial Nephritis (Tubolainterstitial Nephritis) — Pathophysiology and Laboratory Investigations
Tubulointerstitial nephritis is an inflammatory condition affecting the tubules and interstitium, while sparing the glomerulus. Acute and chronic pyelonephritis, along with drug induced interstitial nephritis, is the predominant cause of tubulointerstitial nephritis. Urine examination shows characteristic eosinophiluria and WBC casts. The treatment involves the discontinuation of the offending drug, along with steroids, while treatment is mainly supportive in the chronic type. Progression to end-stage renal disease is seen in the majority of tubulointerstitial disorders.
Anti-hypertensive Medications — List of Drugs and Lines of Therapy
Hypertension is the rise in blood pressure beyond the defined set point (conventionally ≥ 140/90 mmHg). Hypertension is the known risk factor for a number of cardiovascular events like myocardial infarction, angina and heart failure, sudden cardiac death. The pharmacological therapy for hypertension is discussed in this section. The therapies have evolved over time and the current line of therapy offers tremendous response and decreases the morbidity and mortality associated with this condition. It should be noted that non-pharmacological therapy like exercise and healthy food habits also play an important part in controlling hypertension.
Class 2: Alpha and Beta Blockers – Antiarrhythmic Drugs
In this article, we will study the important pharmacological aspects of alpha and beta blockers such as classification, pharmacokinetics, mechanism of action, important actions on various organ systems, clinical uses and toxicity.
Ureter, Urethra, Urinary Bladder — The Urogenital System
The term urogenital system compromises the genital and urinary organs. Besides having different tasks, they have a common embryological origin and are often discussed in relation to each other in a clinical perspective. The following article focuses on the diverting urinary organs, therefore the part from the ureters to the urinary bladder up to the urethra is regarded. The physiology also attracts attention concerning the micturition process apart from the anatomic aspect.
Anatomy and Functions of the Kidneys and Kidney Stones
The kidney (Latin: Ren, Greek: Nephrós) is the urinary system’s main organ. In order to understand the microscopic structure of this organ, it is useful to comprehend well its function. And for this, one has to learn about the different cell types and their structure. The nephron is the kidney’s functional unit and shall be particularly discussed here. After studying this article, you will be able to explain its components. These are the renal corpuscles, renal tubules and the collecting duct system. You will now read a short overview of the functions of the human kidney.
Development of the Kidneys and the Efferent Urinary Tract (Weeks 3-6)
The development of the kidneys and the efferent urinary tract is complex and unalterably interconnected. It is an essential part of embryonic development and closely connected to sexual development. Malformations lead to severe consequences and are often not compatible with postnatal life. In medical studies this is one of the most important themes in embryology.
Renal Physiology — Renal Clearance, Tubular Transport and the RAAS
The kidney’s physiology is an extremely complex issue in medicine, which is therefore a popular topic in exams. Since the kidney fulfills many important functions in the body in addition to its function as an excretory organ, it can be referred to as a multifunctional organ. The physiology of the kidney derives from the circumstances of its anatomical structures, especially those of the nephrons.
Histology of the Kidney
Only a few organs are essential enough that the body owns two of their kind. The kidney, which filters metabolic products, toxins and drugs, is one of them. Modern medicine can replace it but the price dialysis patients have to pay is high. By contrast, the body is able to accomplish this complicated task within the smallest space. Every tissue of the kidney is specially structured depending on its task and the demanding function already manifests in its histology.
Hypertension (High Blood Pressure, HBP) — Classification and Clinical Signs
With a prevalence of approximately 50 %, arterial hypertension is a very common disease. Blood pressure is a risk factor of secondary diseases such as stroke, CHD and cardiac insufficiency. Social connections as well as a relationship between hypertension, body weight and age are apparent. Many individuals with hypertension are not treated at all or receive insufficient therapy and, in many cases, are not aware they have the disease.
Water and Sodium Balance and Their Associated Disorders
Sodium is one of the most important active osmotic solutes in the human body, which is maintained in constant amounts in extracellular and intracellular fluid compartments. Understanding the normal physiological basis of water and sodium balance, and the associated clinical implications of any change in this balance, are of clinical significance, as even small changes can result in emergency conditions. This will be discussed in detail in this article.
Kidney Stone (Nephrolithiasis) — Classification, Symptoms and Treatment
Nephrolithiasis is a clinical condition characterized by the presence of stones in the kidney. Calcium oxalate stones are the most common stones. Clinical presentation is with acute flank pain. Non-contrast CT is the investigation of choice in nephrolithiasis and can diagnose all types of stones. Management depends on the location and size of the stone. Smaller stones have a greater chance to pass spontaneously, while stones larger than 5 mm need surgical management with percutaneous nephrolithotomy, extracorporeal lithotripsy, or open surgery.
Urinalysis (Clinical Urine Tests) — Components and Results
Urinalysis is the test performed to analyze the physical, chemical and microscopic characteristics of urine. The information from this test might be used to diagnose or rule out diseases based on the findings. Urinalysis is most commonly used in identifying diseases of the urinary tract and diabetes. It includes macroscopic, microscopic/cytological and chemical analysis of the individual elements in urine.
Glomerulonephritis — Symptoms and Treatment
The kidney is the central filter organ of our body. More specifically, it is the small glomeruli that filter those substances from the blood that have to be excreted and thus produce the primary urine. Various factors may cause damages to the glomeruli, resulting in a malfunctioning filtration process. The type of malfunction can vary, and accordingly, so do its clinical manifestations. Differentiating these variable clinical presentations of glomerulonephritis is for many medical students a rather challenging task. The following article will help you to understand the difficult topic of glomerulonephritides
Types of Kidney Cysts (Renal Cysts) — Diagnosis and Treatment
A kidney cyst can arise in any part of the nephron and collecting ducts, and can be found incidentally on imaging tests, or can be part of a renal or systemic disease. Renal cystic diseases consist of a large spectrum of diseases that differ in regards to pathophysiology, prognosis and treatment and that can be usefully divided into hereditary, acquired and developmental conditions. Hereditary renal cystic diseases often lead to kidney failure and are commonly associated with extrarenal manifestations, whereas non-genetic cystic disorders are usually limited to the kidney and rarely result in kidney functional deterioration.
Types of Intravenous Fluids
Intravenous fluids are most commonly administered in acute and severe hypovolemic conditions. In the therapeutics, two classes of i.v. fluids are most commonly utilized: crystalloids and colloids; both have their own advantages and disadvantages. The effect of various clinical conditions on the volume of ICF and ECG can be best studied by Darrow-Yannet diagrams.
Heart Failure Pharmacology: Aldosterone Antagonist (Antimineralocorticoid, MCRA)
Aldosterone antagonist are diuretic drugs that used in treatment of congestive heart failure or hypertension and increase survival rate in cardiac patients. They act at by competitive antagonism of mineralcorticoid receptors on the distal convoluting tubules and the upper collecting duct of the nephrons. They reduce the edema and workload on heart. Spironolactone is an important and widely used aldosterone antagonist. Other drugs in this category are eplerenone and finerenone.
Loop Diuretics
Loop diuretics are one of the important classes of diuretics. Furosemide is the most commonly used loop diuretics. Other loop diuretics used are bumetanide, torasemide and ethacrynic acid. Loop diuretics are the most efficacious in causing diuresis in all the classes of diuretics. All the loop diuretics have the same mechanism of action, but different pharmacokinetic properties. They are used to treat/manage numerous diseases such as edema associated with CHF and liver cirrhosis. Diuretics most commonly cause electrolyte imbalance in the body on prolonged use.
Thiazide Diuretics
Thiazide diuretics are some of the most common diuretics currently in use. Their mechanism of action involves inhibition of the Na/Cl co-transporter channel in the proximal part of the distal convoluted tubule, leading to increased sodium and chloride secretion. Their effects on reducing peripheral vascular resistance further contribute to their antihypertensive properties, in addition to their ability in decreasing effective blood volume. Besides hypertension, they are indicated for the treatment of heart failure exacerbation, hypercalciuria and diabetes insipidus. Important side effects include hypokalemia, hypercalcemia, hyponatremia, hyperglycemia, hyperuricemia and hypomagnesemia.
Water Balance: Regulation of Fluid Balance
Fluid balance is a carefully regulated system with many mechanisms to monitor and modify the absorption and secretion of water. Water is in constant motion between compartments that make up the body. When the body senses a drop in the effective circulating volume it stimulates a response to restore blood pressure and retain fluids. When there is too much fluid the body increases secretion and excretion of the excess.
Regulation of ADH & Syndrome of Inappropriate ADH Secretion
Antidiuretic hormone or arginine vasopressin, is a peptide hormone released by the posterior pituitary in response to low plasma volume or increased plasma osmotic pressure. The hormone increases reabsorption of water at the kidney and increases systemic vascular resistance. When ADH is released in an unregulated fashion the circulating plasma becomes diluted, resulting in hyponatremia. This is called syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion.
Diuretics (Water Pills) — List of Drugs and Mechanism of Action
Diuretics promote the generation of a negative fluid balance in the body. Additionally, nearly all diuretics increase the excretion of sodium in the kidneys, so that water is linked osmotically and also excreted. The different diuretics affect different parts of the tubule system.
Antihypertensives: ACE-Inhibitors and Sartans
The arterial hypertonia can be reduced with general measures often. However, medicinal approaches are also advisable in order to reach target blood pressures, which are in an area, as normal as possible. The most commonly prescribed drug are ACE-inhibitors, as they are cheap in price, followed by sartans. Both substances affect the renin-angiotensine-aldosterone system (RAAS) and reduce the blood pressure by the thereby conveyed effects.
Alpha Blockers: Mechanism of Action and Uses for Hypertension
Along with the automation of daily activities and improvement in the availability of food in our society, comes the increasing incidence of persons having chronic lifestyle diseases. One of the most prevalent of these is hypertension. It is also important to emphasize that this ‘silent killer’ is becoming more popular among younger populations nowadays. Fortunately, organizations have come up with ways to tackle this problem, including a wide variety of pharmacologic management that would help lower and maintain blood pressure. One of which is the use of α-adrenergic blockers.
Postganglionic Sympathetic Nerve Terminal Blockers and Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors
Every day, more and more people are being diagnosed with hypertension. This increase in prevalence worldwide can be attributed to non-modifiable factors other than heredity, age and sex. Without the incorporation of a healthy lifestyle and the promotion of wellness, it would not be shocking for someone to be put at a higher risk for developing complications brought about by the ‘silent killer’. Fortunately, there are already a lot of programs and campaigns that promote lifestyle modifications present in our society. As for the people already stricken with the disorder, many treatment programs are also already available and are tailor made to fit any patient. In connection to this, many drugs are developed to alleviate patients from high blood pressure.
Vasodilators: Calcium Channel Blockers, Nitrodilators & More
Hypertension has consistently made its way to the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in recent years. Millions of deaths and disabilities are being documented worldwide because of its complications, such as cerebrovascular accidents and ischemia in various locations in the body. Despite its notorious nature, hypertension is preventable and controllable. This is made possible by making use of various pharmacologic managements that are available today. One of the most common medications used to control blood pressure is a direct vasodilator.
Renal Glucose Reabsorption: Glucose in the Urine & Disease Correlation
The kidney is a key player in glucose hemostasis by two mechanisms. It filters and reabsorbs glucose from the urine and it releases the sugar during times of fasting through gluconeogenesis. Here you will read everything about it.
Pulmonary Hypertension Medication: Outline of Pharmacological Therapy
In this article, we will be reviewing mainly about the advanced therapies which are available for pulmonary hypertension with the brief coverage of primary therapy. The advanced therapies are especially studied for IPAH.
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Your Educators of course Renal System
Geoffrey Meyer, PhD
Prof. Geoffrey Meyer works at the School of Anatomy, Physiology and Human Biology at the University of Western Australia.
He is the Coordinator for Histology on the Federative International Program for Anatomical Terminologies (FIPAT) of the International Federation of Associations of Anatomists (IFAA).
Professor Meyer is also the creator of “Meyer’s Histology” (http://histology-online.com) and, in collaboration with Professor John Campbell and Michael Hall, has provided an extensive collection of learning and teaching resources to deliver a histology course completely available online. Geoffrey Meyer’s research activities focus on developing innovative, computer-aided learning and teaching tools.
He has received a number of awards for his work, including the Australian University Teaching Award.
In 2006, and again in 2014, he received UWA Teaching Fellowships. Professor Meyer was also awarded a prestigious ALTC (Australian Learning and Teaching Council) Fellowship in 2009 and is currently the Project Leader on ALTC Project Grants.
James Pickering, PhD
Dr. James Pickering did his Ph.D. at the University of Leeds where he currently works as Associate Professor in Anatomy. He has made various publications on the human anatomy, such as "Access Anatomy: Abdomen", and is heavily involved in the delivery of anatomy teaching to medical, dental and intercalating students.
He regularly uses various modern learning tools to a great extent and was therefore rewarded as "The Most Innovative Teacher of the Year 2014" and "Learning Technologist of the Year 2014" by the Association of Learning Technologists. Additionally, he also received the "University of Leeds Teaching Award".
Amongst others, he currently researches contemporary methods of learning, e. g. the use of blended learning resources on student engagement and assessment, or the screencast as a method of consolidation as well as revision.
Thad Wilson, PhD
Thad E. Wilson is a Professor and Director of Education in the Department of Physiology at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine. He has been teaching medical students for more than 15 years at Colleges of Medicine in the USA: Philadelphia, PA (Drexel University); Athens, OH (Ohio University), Indianapolis, IN (Marian University), and now Lexington, KY (University of Kentucky). He has worked extensively developing and improving medical curriculums, as well as serving in leadership roles directing Medical Physiology and various organ system courses. Professor Thad Wilson has been awarded multiple institutional and national medical school teaching awards and previously was involved in both question writing and question reviewing for national board exams in the health sciences. Professor Thad Wilson has coauthored >85 peer-reviewed scientific and educational articles as well as a physiology textbook, Lippincott’s Illustrated Reviews: Physiology, which has been translated into seven languages, is in several electronic formats, and is currently in the 2nd edition.
Carlo Raj, MD
You probably know MD Edward Goljan and his Rapid Review Pathology Series. But do you know the "new" Goljan? His name is Carlo Raj and he is currently following his mentor's footsteps by presenting you pathology as you have never experienced before.
Carlo Raj has earned his MD at the Medical University of the Americas (MUA) and continued his medical career as international lecturer and author—both assisting MD Edward Goljan and later on his own. Today he is CEO of Indus Intellect, whose goal it is to spread medical knowledge across the globe.
Pravin Shukle, MD
Dr. Shukle is a board certified specialist in internal medicine. He runs one of the largest specialty practices in Ontario, Canada. His area of interest is the stroke and heart attack reduction in high risk patients.
He owns and runs a full functioning cardiac and diabetes suite that includes diagnostics, diet counseling, exercise counseling, and lifestyle support for patients with diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and arrhythmia. He is one of Canada’s most popular speakers. He performs over 150 special lectures across the nation each year with various audiences ranging from the general public, to nurses, to physicians, to medical specialists. His lectures are engaging, funny, and informative. In 2016, Dr. Shukle will be conducting a TED talk on using DNA as a memory storage medium.
Peter Ward, PhD
Peter J. Ward, Ph.D. has been teaching embryology, anatomy, histology, and neuroscience since 2005. He attended Carnegie Mellon University and later earned a Ph.D. in medical anatomy education from Purdue University. Dr. Ward enjoys finding ways to simplify the complex processes involved in human development and highlights the clinically-important aspects of embryology. Throughout these lectures, Dr. Ward shows how embryonic structures morph into the mature organs and other structures of the human body.
Mohammad Hajighasemi-Ossareh, MD, MBA
After graduating Summa Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology, Dr. Ossareh obtained his Doctorate of Medicine (M.D.) degree at the University of California, Irvine in 2016. Dr. Ossareh is currently completing his Neurology residency at the LAC+USC Medical Center in Los Angeles, California.
Throughout his years of academic and clinical training, Dr. Ossareh has created and continues to operate the original YouTube Channel for pre-med and medical students with over 60,000 subscribers and over 4 million views. Given Dr. Ossareh's years of experience in medical education, viewers will benefit from his practical knowledge base and obtain unique insights into the life of a medical student and receive priceless pearls of wisdom.
I love Dr Raj's passion and teaching skills!!
By Federico P. on 20. January 2021 for Distal Convoluted Tubule (DCT): Bartter and Gitelman Syndrome
I think that Dr Raj is simply amazing because he has the ability to make even the most intricated concepts clear and easy to understand!
Very good lecture.
By Marta R. on 12. January 2021 for Lines of Therapy – Drugs in Hypertension
Very good lecture, where guidelines for each condition are enhanced.
really enjoyed this one
By majdee M. on 22. December 2020 for Diseases of the Nephron
great lecture series thanks a loot, helped me to truly understand the things going on in the nephron plus some pharma and great pathology overview ,highly recommended
I love it - clear, concise.
By Irina S. on 17. December 2020 for Fluid and Electrolyte Balance
A lot of repetitions which make it perfect to memorize, normal speed of talking - not too fast, not too slow
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By majdee M. on 16. December 2020 for Glomerulonephritis
Couldn’t be done better thank you dr raj ,very helpful
Nice content!
By Luis G. on 07. December 2020 for Kidneys and Suprarenal Glands: Conclusion
It is concise and understandably summarises all the content. Thank you!
Good but could be better
By Ana Z. on 23. November 2020 for Renal Physiology
The lectures are very good, but the speaker is a little confusing sometimes despite trying to repeat himself and use sometimes a language that sounds too simplistic
I believe the direction (left to right and right to left) need to be reversed
By MOH S. on 23. November 2020 for Filtration Barrier
I believe the direction (left to right and right to left) needs to be reversed
By Liz J. Y. on 06. November 2020 for Extracellular Fluid (ECF) and Intracellular Fluid (ICF): Plasma Osmolality (POsm)
This guy is awesome!, clear and straight forward. I love the way he motivates me to just keep the important data and let go unnecessary details.
Nice lecture
By Ernest A. on 12. September 2020 for Fluid and Electrolyte Balance
Dr Raj is very wonderful! He made the most difficult topics to look simple and easy to understand. Nice lectures
ECF ICF
By Anna P. on 26. August 2020 for Extracellular Fluid (ECF) and Intracellular Fluid (ICF): Plasma Osmolality (POsm)
Best lecture. I like the video.I read the slide with this lecture that help me to understand the our lecture.
By Derya B. on 23. August 2020 for Extracellular Fluid (ECF) and Intracellular Fluid (ICF): Clinical Volume Dynamics
I find Dr .Raj to be energetic, fun and I appreciate him taking the time to teach us concepts and foundations as opposed to blindly memorizing facts. Enjoying his series thoroughly!
difficult to follow along
By Palak D. on 18. August 2020 for Nephron
Literally you can not follow along at all. No idea how to figure out where on the image he is verbally referring to
By Luis V. on 24. July 2020 for Glomerulonephritis
I loved the lecture, I learned things I didn’t know. Like it very much.
Nice course
By Caleb B. on 21. July 2020 for Renal Physiology
He is the best teacher I've ever had, thank you Thad Wilson for all. Definitely I recommend this course.
Clases de fisiología renal
By Martín P. on 21. July 2020 for Renal Physiology
Me gustan las imágenes que usan para explicar. Me gustaría que hubiera arrancado con compartimientos líquidos del cuerpo y luego el resto.
Excellent concepts and realisations of the nephron functioning and regulations
By Duleep K. on 05. July 2020 for Renal Physiology
Excellent clear concepts wisdom distilled.well explained to the point.
By 琮瀚 鄭. on 29. June 2020 for Renal Physiology
Great thanks to Professor Wilson. The notions in renal physiology were explained way better than anyone else?
Not clear
By Carlos A. on 29. June 2020 for Glomerulonephritis
The content is great, it's just hard to understand. Dr Raj knows a lot, but it's hard to understand everything. So it's like a Ferrari without wheels, you have the power, but it struggles getting you somewhere. It's not the ideal scenario with something like this, like pathology, and because of the amount of content in the program. Like I said, other than that, great.
pathophisiology
By Lucas F. on 27. June 2020 for (Nephrogenic) Diabetes Insipidus (DI)
It is great how Dr. Raj integrates pathophysiology with clinical correlations, including pharmacology and its mechanisms.
By Lucas F. on 19. June 2020 for Diseases of the Nephron
Dr. Raj is a very good teacher. He always finds a fast way to bring relevant review information, as well as clinical references.
Renal Physiology
By Rafael M. on 07. June 2020 for Renal Physiology
I really like deeper videos about renal physiology with a Little bit more information
By Amos N. on 30. May 2020 for Renal Diagnostics
The best lecturer I have ever met. What a gifted teacher. Words cannot explain. An asset to Lecturio family. Thank you teacher.
By Mahonri G. on 22. May 2020 for Uric Acid
Good presentation and good pronunciation for being foreign. Thanks for the difference between urea and uric acid.
I learnt the concepts well I wish there would be a parallel question bank for this physio alone.
By Ahmed A. on 13. May 2020 for Renal Physiology
I like it but because of COVID the exam was online and the paper was beyond difficult. Renal was part of the scope but very few renal questions so much so That, I can’t even remember doing any.
By Luis L. on 09. May 2020 for Renal Physiology
I think it summarizes the most important concepts one should one about renal physiology, giving good examples and also using graphics that help in understanding them better.
By Ravi G. on 06. May 2020 for Glomerulonephritis
Was good lecture .........but can you expand more on diagnosis and treatment
Very good explanations, more images and a pointer needed.
By Francisco Javier S. on 01. May 2020 for Glomerulonephritis
The explanations are very good and concise. Nonetheless, specially in these topics, we need to see more images, there are a lot of glomerular damage patterns even for the same disease (e.g. FSGN) and I do not think there were enough images to learn them. Also, a pointer is needed, Dr. Raj described numerous glomerular lesions and sometimes it was difficult to follow his descriptions as he didn’t have a pointer to help him locate those lesions. Even with these problems I really liked how Dr. Raj really emphasized the diseases patterns and reminded them almost in every video (E.g. SubEPIthelial in PSGN).
I love the lecture but...
By SEAN u. on 27. April 2020 for Extracellular Fluid (ECF) and Intracellular Fluid (ICF): Changes in ECF Volume
I LOVE the lecture but i'm having difficult time understanding it. I had to watch and stop and write to understand it.. maybe more diagrams? or break it down :)
Dr. Raj is hilarious!! Will keep you hooked.
By Fleming M. on 11. April 2020 for Glomerulonephritis
Dr. Raj Explains topic with finesse and maintains the balance with his quirky dialogues.
Don’t listen if you don’t want to think about it
By Mendy P. on 07. April 2020 for Urinalysis
Dig deep! These lectures make you think! Very deep content and worth the work of understanding them.
An example for online lectures
By Robert R. on 03. April 2020 for Alpha Agonists – Drugs in Hypertension
Very pleasant pace of lecture and clear explanation. Also love the quick and personal response on the questions on the forum. Really makes me feel like I am in the lecture hall itself.
By kelly h. on 03. April 2020 for Extracellular Fluid (ECF) and Intracellular Fluid (ICF): Changes in ECF Volume
not really engaging, hard to hear and understand. Didn't understand some of what he was saying
By 顥 懷. on 08. March 2020 for Glomerulonephritis
Organized and informative. Made me remember the key points easily. A pointer is needed to illustrate the graphics.
By jinxiu p. on 20. February 2020 for Glomerulonephritis
very clear, and easy to remember all the points, and it is very helpful to understand
dr raj
By John Christopher W. on 12. February 2020 for Renal Functional Anatomy
dr raj is really good at making the lectures interesing, fun and informative.
Short and Sweet.
By Ricardo N. on 11. February 2020 for Chemical Dipsticks: pH & Protein
This lecture is quick, has good examples and is straight to the point.
he is a great teacher!
By Jean Robert M. on 11. February 2020 for Renal Physiology
Dr Thad Wilson is a great physiology teacher i never understood renal physiology this much before! thanks Lecturio
Excellemt
By Ali O. on 04. February 2020 for Glomerulonephritis
Great presentation, complete and educational. Questions are very helpful. Thank you
excelent teacher
By Ricardo G. on 06. January 2020 for Creatinine Clearance – Clinical Application of Creatinine
Perfect , Well explained , excellent teacher , The best pathology course alv
Carlo Raj , The best one
By Ricardo G. on 05. January 2020 for Changes in Glomerular Dynamics 2
I wish he was on my Med school as my teacher , But Thanks god lecturio Exists and now he is our pathology teacher
Great lecture
By Leané v. on 05. January 2020 for Extracellular Fluid (ECF) and Intracellular Fluid (ICF): Clinical Volume Dynamics
Brilliant! Dr. Raj focuses on understanding and establishes foundation knowledge for you to build on. Extremely helpful.
High profesional lecture. Quit detailed and good explained.
By Sergey S. on 25. December 2019 for Renal Physiology
The video lectures helped me organize the information I already knew and filled the gaps in between. I appreciated how Dr. Wilson was concise and straight to the point with his lectures.
I understood the glomuruler disease like ever befor really thanks alot
By rania a. on 20. December 2019 for Glomerulonephritis
excillent lecture ,Teacher and presentation ,Just recommend to use pointer when Explain on dighram .
Needs more explanation
By Mauricio H. on 19. December 2019 for Diuretics – Drugs in Hypertension
Very complicated topic that it's not explain with enough clarity
By yassin e. on 10. December 2019 for Renal Physiology
The videos are fine, but it’s not enough to understand the material for the first time; it is just an adjunct to the lecture I guess.
detailed, good presentation
By Ahmed F. on 08. December 2019 for Urinalysis
thank you Dr. Raj very good series , you explained it well and repeated the information a lot to be memorized
By dfd f. on 05. December 2019 for Urothelium and Urethra
he he is too slow to explain.....difficulties in reading material ...........
Amazing lecture
By Alejandro V. on 28. November 2019 for Renal Physiology
Profesor Wilson makes hard physiological processes easy to understand and deduct.
By Rodrigo C. on 23. November 2019 for Chemical Dipsticks: pH & Protein
B12 is produced by bacteria. Almost all vegans know we have to consume it with supplements, I heard it a thousand times already. We don't need any animal products to have enough B12, stop spreading misconceptions. How about telling about how eating too much purine (daily meat) may causes gout? It's much more common.
By Ricardo G. on 17. November 2019 for Rapidly Progressive Glomerulonephritis (rpgn) & Subtypes
The best teacher , his sense of humor make the lectures more fun
By sari g. on 08. November 2019 for Renal Diagnostics
In the beginning I did not understand some of the topics, but after number of repetions I understood the subjects explained. Send questions in nephrology and other subjects. My feedback is positive even though at first it was not so.
Excellent pathology course
By Chanel S. on 08. November 2019 for Renal Diagnostics
The pathology course is so good, excellent explanation , to tell you the truth, I love it !! You have everything about Pathology USMLE under Lecturio to your success.
By Jessie G. on 02. November 2019 for Tubulointerstitial Diseases
The topics were explained clearly. Confusing topics/concepts were made less confusing. I actually enjoyed learning this subject.
Very helpful !
By Leona H. on 26. October 2019 for Diabetes Insipidus (DI): Etiology
As always I enjoy and learn so much from you Dr. Raj
By Mohab B. on 19. October 2019 for Renal Physiology
Enjoyable videoes that are so illustrative and well-explained. Thank you very much.
A good review
By Rodrigo C. on 17. October 2019 for Diuretics – Drugs in Hypertension
It's always useful to see a good review of hard subjects like this.
Passionate and clear, best nephron segment lecture ever.
By Haichuan H. on 12. October 2019 for Tubular Transport by Nephron Segment
Most lectures about nephron segment is kind of boring. But I really like Dr. Raj's passionate and clear explanation, and the way he sophisticated getting knowledge connected with clinical application. It's the best nephron segment lecture ever.
Excellent presentation! Thank you
By Prelyza T. on 08. October 2019 for Renal Pharmacology
Awesome lecture. It was so clear to listen to. Dr. Shukle has provided a great presentation that is easy to understand.
Key concepts in fluid/electrolytes regulation by ADH vs Alderstone well explained!
By Guyu L. on 03. October 2019 for Regulation of Fluid and Electrolyte Balance: Regulation Wheels
One of the most confusing concept is explained very clearly in a short video!!
By Javier B. on 17. September 2019 for Renal Pharmacology
pasto colombia. Gran resumen, los cuadros resumen facilita mucho recordar y el Quiz al final de cada tema me ayudaba a reforzar lo que aprendí
Great diagrams
By Lorcán Ó. on 17. September 2019 for Tubulointerstitial Pathology
Finally I understand the concept or the BUN/Cr ratio and the difference between prerenal and intrinsic
By Nguyễn Minh H. on 20. July 2019 for Glomerulonephritis
He explained many problem in glomerulonephritis very clearly. I 'll appreciate that.
By Admitere B. on 29. June 2019 for Rapidly Progressive Crescentic Glomerulonephritis
Doctor, you are great! I've been struggling with nephrology for some time, and after trying many sources and attending multiple classes, I can finally say I found something that really makes everything very clear. I'm having some really beautiful days studying now. Thank you!
Ugly way of explaining. Weird pronounciation.
By Ana G. on 22. June 2019 for Uric Acid
Ugly way of explaining. Weird pronounciation. Not so clear explanation.
Excelent explanation
By Ismael Francisco V. on 13. June 2019 for Glomerulonephritis
There was a profound description of physiopathology, with emphasis on the clinical elements that helped lead to diagnosis. There was a lack of precision regarding diagnostic cut-off values, treatment and follow-up.
By Roja s. on 06. June 2019 for Renin Angiotensin Aldosterone – Drugs in Hypertension
the doctor really simplified the whole thing...i'll find this much easier to remember
By Alfredo H. on 27. May 2019 for Pathophysiology of Renal Failure
This was hard for me to undersand and now I get it THANKS!!!
By Romina G. on 21. May 2019 for Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone-System
Love how he can make something difficult into an easy learning experience. Excellent clases, with funny quotes that make you smile.
By Alfredo H. on 19. May 2019 for Chronic Renal Failure
Excellent and understandable! Not confusing at all and goes straight to the point!
Short and precise
By Robson M. on 26. April 2019 for Tubulointerstitial Diseases
Lectures are short and precise,highlighting the most critical points
By ????? പ. on 12. April 2019 for Introduction to Renal Blood Flow
Succintly summarised with contstant references back to other relevant topics
Like It Very Much!
By Anwar A. on 09. April 2019 for Glomerulonephritis
The lecture is awesome, It really helped me understanding Glomerulonephritis. The lecturer is excellent, slides are excellent, repeating was crucial for this topic. I would recommend this to all medical students, who are struggling to understand Glomerulonephritis. Very Helpful.
Starling Forces
By Melanie G. on 08. April 2019 for Starling Forces
Very clear and thoroughly explained! You made a complex concept very simple. Thank you!
thank you so mush it was helpful
By gumaa a. on 07. April 2019 for Glomerulonephritis
thank you so mush it was helpful thank you so mush it was helpful
By gumaa a. on 07. April 2019 for Tubulointerstitial Diseases
great lectures
By Allan K. on 21. March 2019 for Diseases of the Nephron
I love the way Carlo teaches what may seem as complex concepts so simply. easy to understand and with such humor. I am enjoying this lecture series. Can listen to him all day. Thank you Carlo.
Difficult but useful course
By Mathew C. on 20. March 2019 for Renal Physiology
The content of this course was fairly comprehensive and Professor Wilson does a good job of explaining most of the content. The quiz questions are also useful though sometimes poorly worded. I really liked the last few lectures on the more clinical practicalities of the content we had just learned. The course is arranged in a way that makes it somewhat difficult to follow sometimes. I had to go away and make sure i was read up fairly well on the kidney before i could understand enough to watch through all the lectures and i feel a better introduction to the kidney and how its anatomy and physiology are arranged and interconnect would have been useful. I think a section regarding the interaction of pharmacology and renal physiology would also have been a nice touch. All in all, worthwhile once you can begin to understand it
Great lecturer!
By Amar B. on 10. March 2019 for Kidneys and Suprarenal Glands: Conclusion
Great series on the Kidneys! Informative, not too content heavy.
By Niamh D. on 02. March 2019 for Lines of Therapy – Drugs in Hypertension
I loved the questions attached with this lecture, very appropriate and I feel more confident in this area now.
i like it so much . thank you
By gumaa a. on 02. March 2019 for Urinalysis: Introduction
i like the lecture bcz its so organised and so useful thank you all
By Anne c. on 23. February 2019 for Glomerulonephritis
Dr. Raj is great! His presentations are interesting, to the point and you DO learn, even when somewhat tired. I enjoy and look forward to seeing these lectures.
Incredibly helpful!
By Kristianne Gaile L. on 18. February 2019 for Renal Physiology
Well explained :D
By Oddom M. on 22. January 2019 for Fluid and Electrolyte Balance
In my country ( Cambodia ), we don't have USMLE exam but this course helped me to be more understandable and more practical in my career.
superb lectures
By Dinesh K. on 18. January 2019 for Tubulointerstitial Diseases
u just made renal pathology easy for me loved the tables and algorithms u made thanks Dr.Carlo Raj
Nice material to pre-read for school lectures
By William J. on 06. December 2018 for Renal Physiology
Simple to follow, made staying with professors during lecture much easier!
By ABRAHAM I. on 04. December 2018 for Fluid and Electrolyte Balance
Thorough and patient presentation of an often problematic topic to a lot of students and practising physicians
overall it is was okay.
By Samantha R. on 29. November 2018 for Urothelium and Urethra
I chose this liking because it is like he is reading straight off of a board in front of him and sometimes it takes him too long to get to the point of the subject possibly because he is having problems reading the material in front of him.
By Neuer N. on 19. November 2018 for Diuretics – Drugs in Hypertension
Very knowledgeable and soothing voice. Helps with remembering things more efficiently
Great!!!!!!!!
By James A. on 08. November 2018 for Glomerulonephritis
Thank you Dr Raj!!!! finally understand this complicated topic. Dr Raj is the best.
By James A. on 07. November 2018 for Urinalysis
Dr Raj is definitely the best always make things appear so simple
Lack of pointers.
By Luís F. on 03. November 2018 for Nephron
The sir Geoffrey explains very well but i find it difficult to follow the explination on the histalogic image due to the lack of pointing out the structures i am not sure if i am looking at the right thing and i am always at doubt. Pls use pointers and thx for the attention.
Great lecture! but there is small mistake in the quiz at the end.
By katelin S. on 03. November 2018 for Kidneys: Segments and Blood Supply – Kidneys and Suprarenal Glands
The lecture is great, really informative, loved it. The quiz has one of the questions as, what structure is NOT located within the sinus and the answer is given as ureter when the answer should be the calyx. As the ureter passes through the hilum and out the sinus, but the calyx does not exit the kidney.
this claas helped me a lot
By Hugo R. on 20. October 2018 for Reabsorption in the Proximal Tubule
This class helped me a lot, thank you very much. I value his effort very much, he is a great teacher, many successes. Greetings from Peru
By Seth B. on 16. October 2018 for Chronic Renal Failure
Great, succinct, and well taught lecture. I did not find it confusing.
Certainly one of the best explanations one could get on this topic!
By Mariia R. on 13. October 2018 for Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone-System
Amazing! I really get the material, Dr. Raj! I love how you keep reinforcing the material during each lecture!
Amazing, talented, great teacher!!!
By Mariia R. on 08. October 2018 for Distal Convoluted Tubule (DCT): Antenatal Bartter Syndrome
Thank you so much, Dr. Raj for making me understand pathology concepts! You truly are an amazing teacher!!!
Thank you, It was great
By Zoraida F. on 27. September 2018 for Diuretics – Drugs in Hypertension
Great lecture. Absolutely the best for boards, Keep up the great work
pottes stars
By Metehan A. on 19. September 2018 for Potter's Syndrome
everything 4 boards are covered and the narrator really gives main road of the subject
Porque se encuentra clases explucativas.
By Neuer N. on 13. September 2018 for Diuretics – Drugs in Hypertension
Temarios muy importantes. Videos con explicasiones que ayuda mucho para aprender sobre el campi de la medicina.
Awesome lectures
By Omar J. on 08. September 2018 for Tubulointerstitial Diseases
Great lectures. I like how Dr. Raj integrates other renal pathologies into his teaching of renal failure, rather than treating renal failure as a completely separate entity.
Lecturio the best
By Jona T. on 30. August 2018 for Urinary System: Overview
It´s a great review!! It catched me since his first words, Now I´ll take the entire course.
Beautiful explanation
By Modibbo N. on 01. August 2018 for Diuretics – Drugs in Hypertension
One of the best Lecturers on lecturio hands down. Defined one of the best explanations I’ve gotten on this topic
By Rafael G. on 13. July 2018 for Liver, Gall Bladder, Pancreas and Spleen Development
excelent very clear and educational i love it a must, i would see it again
By Lisa H. on 21. June 2018 for Renin Angiotensin Aldosterone – Drugs in Hypertension
Simple way to understand the RAAS system and the meds associated with it.
Teacher needs to loosen up in front of the camera.
By Flora I. on 31. May 2018 for Renal Embryology
The instructor is so stiff with his speech pattern that it is difficult to follow what he is saying. He doesn't pause like he should at the end of sentencs and will begin new sentences with the word "and" even when the new sentence isn't a continuation to the sentence he just finished. This forces me to have to relisten to his information so that I can understand what he is saying--I value my time.
By Basma R. on 30. May 2018 for Renal Physiology
very good explanation, cleared my concepts. Great visual. thumbs up!
Good instructor
By Maryknoll P. on 29. May 2018 for Nephron
Pointer helps a lot with histology. The instructor was clear and concise.
He makes it look easy.
By Robert B. on 23. May 2018 for Urinalysis
As always, Dr. Raj’s lectures are clear, concise, and memorable. He has a unique, honed talent for explaining this material. I have been in school for a long time, and had many professors. I am not exaggerating when I say that Dr. Raj is the best medical lecturer ever formed.
Dr. Raj is the best.
By Robert B. on 17. May 2018 for Fluid and Electrolyte Balance
His fluid, conversational presentation style really makes it stick. I do not want my classmates to know about him.
Not my favorite lectures
By Raihan A. on 25. April 2018 for Tubulointerstitial Pathology
I don't like the use of acronyms when speaking because it is very distracting. Important content is all in the lecture which is a good thing, but I'd much rather use the pathoma videos for this topic.
Very happy with this course.
By Raihan A. on 21. April 2018 for Renal Pharmacology
Very helpful, succinct and easy to understand. Lecturer is excellent.
Glomerular diseases
By adrianmola2014@gmail B. on 17. April 2018 for Post-Streptococcal Glomerulonephritis
It was great because I achieved to understand in detail a very complex topics. Thanks
The instructor rocks!
By ana n. on 11. April 2018 for Renal Diagnostics
The instructor is knowledgeable and makes the lectures fun. I love him.
No pointer shown on images
By Ace K. on 08. April 2018 for Nephron
Pointless explaining structures if it's difficult following which structure on the histological slide is being described. Pointer needs to be used.
Detailed and good. Dr. Pickering is great.
By Berk B. on 08. April 2018 for Suprarenal Glands – Kidneys and Suprarenal Glands
Detailed, well thought out and well described. You won't regret listening to Dr. Pickering.
By Nicholas M. on 03. April 2018 for Diseases of the Nephron
Great lecture series. Very in depth and it ties physiology, pathology, and pharmacology all together
By Nicholas M. on 28. March 2018 for Renal Pathology
Dr. Raj is engaging, entertaining, and hits all the pertinent points of pathology. He presents things to make them understandable without feeling spoon-fed. Great professor and great lecture series.
Too fast, unfocused and not detailed enough
By Isaac V. on 26. March 2018 for Potter's Syndrome
The lecturer does a great job at keeping the presentation interesting, however he rushed over several points in the topics to the point in which he ignored some of the information present in his slides. Also, it feels out of place when he jumps to different topics that have little to nothing to do with the present lecture. Finally, the lecture feels SO rushed that he missed key aspects of the pathology of every desease he talked about, especially Potter Sequence and its etiologies.
By Lisa W. on 24. March 2018 for Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone-System
i like his fun attitude to teaching. It works for me!
So helpful
By Julia H. on 18. March 2018 for Renal Physiology
Great for helping understand renal physiology and putting it all together! Dr. Wilson is clear and explains the concepts well.
By Jasmine I. on 13. March 2018 for Urothelium and Urethra
he has a pleasant voice, good tempo in speaking , clear explanations
By Elnath B. on 04. March 2018 for Beta Blockers – Drugs in Hypertension
very good lecture, concise and high yield. very helpful for the boards
Loving this pathology course
By Okechukwu V. on 27. February 2018 for Diseases of the Nephron
This guy is indeed the new professor Goljan. I am speechless. So much material covered.
Liked but another lecture not opened so disliked
By Neuer N. on 22. February 2018 for Fluid and Electrolyte Balance
Liked but another lecture not opened yet so not liked
Amazing!!!! :-)
By Fabian K. on 21. February 2018 for Renal Physiology
I liked it very much!!! Thank you for your amazing job AGAIN!!! :-)
Physiology at Ease
By Mark A. on 21. February 2018 for Renal Physiology
Great lecturer who is very knowledgeable about the subject matter & pitch. Pace is also good but needs to work on pronunciation of certain words. keep up the good job.
By Sharon M. on 20. February 2018 for Chemical Dipsticks: pH & Protein
clear teaching and repetition, thanks. Learnt a lot. Clinically useful. thanks
By JEFF T. on 05. February 2018 for Diseases of the Nephron
He teaches just not to pass our boards, but to become greater physicians! Dr. Goljan should be proud, this man is God sent!
Super thorough
By Nimrah A. on 29. January 2018 for Renal Clearance Equations
Brief and to the point with the material. The visual was also quite helpful
Great course
By Katrine A. on 21. January 2018 for Fluid and Electrolyte Balance
Helped me a lot understanding this subject! Carlo Raj's videos har really good.
Just average
By sahil t. on 21. January 2018 for Renal Physiology
the teacher is not teaching that much elaborative but then also it is better than most of the time hope it will get better
Best of the best..
By Neuer N. on 20. January 2018 for Renal Patho-Embryology
Best lecture i have ever seen..concise with high yield topics.
By Silviu S. on 18. January 2018 for Renal Pharmacology
amazing, thanks to lecturio I can revise very fast and this will make ma a better doctor
Why there are no transcripts,it's better to understand
By Hongqian S. on 18. January 2018 for Renal Patho-Embryology
Good very good,I like the lectures.Good very good,I like the lectures. Good very good,I like the lectures.
Thad is a god
By Magnus-André M. on 08. January 2018 for Renal Physiology
He's very detailed and slow-paced. Making it very easily understandable. I've had physiology for a whole semester, and first after watching his videos, I've finally started to understand the whole picture of each system.
By SITI Nurliana Z. on 14. December 2017 for Diuretics – Drugs in Hypertension
very nice lecture and good tips. i should follow you earlier
By deja A. on 12. December 2017 for Types of IV Fluids (Intravenous Fluids): Saline: Clinical Terminology
This was a good course because the lecturer gave examples and explanations.
By Neuer N. on 12. December 2017 for Functions and Segments – Urinary System
Great way of teaching, I am Impressed by this and learnt it
Good content, bad speaker
By Andrei V. on 09. December 2017 for Creatinine Clearance – Clinical Application of Creatinine
The material is valuable because it's clear and concise, but dr. Raj has an annoying and hard to understand accent and weird manner of teaching.
Why these videos don't have subtitles?
By Carmen V. on 08. December 2017 for Introduction to Renal Blood Flow
I really like Dr. Raj lectures but, why these videos don't have subtitles?
This Renal Course absolutely need work
By John V. on 04. December 2017 for Renal Physiology
I thought this was the worst taught course Lecturio has to offer. I was left confused most of the time. Fortunately Ive used lecturio for other courses and was very satisfied so I will still recommend this program.
This lecture needs works
By John V. on 03. December 2017 for Integrated Control of Blood Volume: Overview
This lecture left me confused at exactly the interplay between these two systems. Perhaps its the diagram. I was lost after Decreased Osmolality. I think that is where this lecture goes down hill.
By Aws A. on 30. November 2017 for Fluid and Electrolyte Balance
Very informative and organized , keep the good work Thank you
Lecturio is a must, if you must excel in medical science without sweat!
By Olugbemiga J. on 27. November 2017 for Fluid and Electrolyte Balance
This is about the best lectures I have had all my life. I like it very much because the lectures are very explicit, The approach is fantastic. And the tutors are very experienced. They have a full grab of the subjects they teach. The team is like a conglomerate of experts from all fields of medical science. It has really helped in my studies in medical school. With Lecturio, there's no dull moment. It's actually a huge privilege for those of us studying Medicine and Surgery in Africa. I recommend Lecturio for everyone who want to excel in medical practice all over the world! Kudos to all the erudite tutors in the house! Hope to see more of you in Lecturio videos. You're all wonderful! From: APATA OLABANJI SYLVESTER COLLEGE OF MEDICINE UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS, LAGOS, NIGERIA. WEST AFRICA. (e-mail: olabanjiapata@yahoo.com)
Cocise, engaging, high learnability index
By Nnamno E. on 03. November 2017 for Algorithm of Acute Renal Injury
Lecturio is a solid and highly efficient learning Platform. Dr. Raj is a seasoned communicator, and has just the right balance of serious professional demeanor, clarity of speech and concepts, and good humor you want in a Teacher. This lecture, like the others I’ve watched so far, is excellent stuff!
Abdominal anatomy
By Masoh V. on 02. November 2017 for Kidneys and Suprarenal Glands: Conclusion
Good explanations, proper highlighting of important points, abundant compare, contrast and recall
I don´t understand exactly the difference between IFC and EFC concentration
By Gustavo S. on 29. October 2017 for Extracellular Fluid (ECF) and Intracellular Fluid (ICF): Plasma Osmolality (POsm)
I understand, but I think, the lesson needs drawings and diagrams, but is very well, thanks
What about urology?
By Kathryn S. on 28. October 2017 for Renal Physiology
Great course but would be great if you could extend it to urology soonest
Top quality teaching, top quality humour! Congratulations
By Ricardo V. on 23. October 2017 for Diabetes Insipidus (DI): Management
Congratulations once more, Dr. Raj. Learning is much funnier when lecturers have a good sense of humour. Explaining the management of Nephrogenic Diabetes Insipidus is not an easy task, but putting humour the middle of that is even harder. You succeeded very well in both tasks. I liked it specially when you said "go to the clinic, kickbutt and be hoisted by your collagues" after discussing the wise intersection of topics between pathology (bipolar disease, and its chronic lithium treatment) and pharmacology (amiloride). Ingenious!
By Tracey H. on 21. October 2017 for Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone-System
It would be nice if the material was presented in a less intense manner. It feels more like he is prepping football players for a big game. It is very distracting. Perhaps, if the lecture didn't feel so choppy it would be more enjoyable.
Excellent lectures
By AIKATERINI D. on 19. October 2017 for Diseases of the Nephron
Dr Raj is super cool!!!! I finally understood the concepts of transport and the respective pathologies!
GREAT lecture, clearly dissected topic
By Bjarni J. on 18. October 2017 for Questions and Case Studies – Drugs in Hypertension
I loved how you dissected the topic so clearly, making clear distinctions between the different classes of drugs, how they work, where they work, why we use them and who needs them. GREAT lecture.
By Eunbi C. on 29. September 2017 for Vasodilators – Drugs in Hypertension
Dr. Shukle is amazing. His lecture is so clear and "pin points" what we need to know. Thanks for your help !
Please Replace Dr. Carlo Raj
By Nichole C. on 23. September 2017 for Diseases of the Nephron
Please replace Dr. Raj. I feel like I am being preached to and not reached! I believe he knows the subject matter but his delivery is not nice.
By Lisa R. on 07. September 2017 for Renal Physiology
Dr Wilson is very good as a public speaker. He brings just the right amount of humor and he takes complicated topics and makes them easy to understand. I wish there were more practices questions to the quizes.
Great videos.. helped me understand this topic so well
By Tayssir Z. on 01. September 2017 for Fluid and Electrolyte Balance
It needs more clinical correlation with diseases in the IV fluids For example, when to use normal saline or when to use dextrose this will make our understanding better
By Xin L. on 31. August 2017 for Renal Physiology
The lectures are clear and concise. Highly recommended to all!
By Freddie N. on 28. August 2017 for Fluid and Electrolyte Balance
Explained easily and good diagrams. Good at pointing out key concepts.
By aibi y. on 16. August 2017 for Dehydration: Hypertonic Fluid Disorders
great great lecture!! thank you so much Dr. Raj :) one of the best lecture i have ever watched.. you made learning so much fun :)
Great stuff.
By Frederikke J. on 16. August 2017 for Renal Physiology
Great couse. Detailed, but made simple. I thought it was very useful and great that there were a bit more questions than what i've seen in some of the previous series i've been watching. I would definently recomend it to others. I study veterinarian medicin, so i would ofcourse have loved it if you also made courses for that, because i still have to study the species differences from my book after watching the series - but it is great that I can get the main principles from your lectures it truly does help a lot.
Good lecture
By Mohammed s. on 12. August 2017 for Tubulointerstitial Diseases
Hi I liked it because it's concise and clinically related.I think more pictures of patients gross and microscopic demonstrations will be of great benefit.Also, more emphasis to differentiate them from glomerual diseases is encaraged
Clear explanation
By RK N. on 09. August 2017 for Potter's Syndrome
Clear explanation given by sir. He explains everything very clearly. Love his lectures ????
Clinically relevant, well delivered.
By Liz M. on 30. July 2017 for Tubulointerstitial Diseases
I enjoyed this lecture because the physiology was linked into clinical practice giving it context. Good use of questions as well.
Totally killed the boredom associated with these topics
By Jashan J. on 18. July 2017 for Potter's Syndrome
What an amazing teacher, and just about right amount of information.
Excellent material on nephrolithiasis
By Kimberly M. on 13. July 2017 for Nephrolithiasis
I would definitely recommend this course. Very concise yet informative - Dr. Raj provides you with all the pertinent information.
By Daniel F. on 11. July 2017 for Urothelium and Urethra
chose this rating cause dr. meyer's the best. (get rid of the minimum word number requirement, and the 'headline' requirement, and you will likely get a lot more feedback)
Thrilled!
By Katarina B. on 09. July 2017 for Renal Physiology
Loved these lectures! They are all I've hoped for. Profesor Wilson explains everything so well and has helped me a lot so far.
By Jim T. on 04. July 2017 for Introduction to High Blood Pressure Medication – Drugs in Hypertension
very good.it is one of the best video of cardiology.
Very mixed reveiw.
By Jermey B. on 03. June 2017 for Changes in Body Fluid Compartment
Did good job explaining some of the expected changes, but a poor job at others and simply stated direction of arrow without explanation. Overall, a good lecture but definitely room for more detail to be discussed. Also, very surprised effects of acute blood loss/trauma was not covered.
One of the best!
By Mariana I. on 31. May 2017 for Glomerulonephritis
Great presentation, great explanations. At the end, finally, everything fits into their place! wonderful.
A little disappointed
By Jermey B. on 20. May 2017 for Renal Physiology
I felt it lacked detail of specific transporters, and no references to any diseases or drug MOAs. Not very detailed for medical review/test prep.
Goljan 2.0
By Carissa J. on 09. May 2017 for Tubulointerstitial Diseases
Dr Raj is outstanding, and these lectures are excellent. These are perfect for preparing for medical exams. Detailed, in depth, and concise, I am hugely impressed.
By Laurie C. on 15. April 2017 for Renal Diagnostics
I like use Dr. Raj lecture series as my adjunct professor to my course work. I am visual learner and I supplement my readings with as many free lectures available.
helpes to understand easily, i recommend it.
By Eda D. on 02. April 2017 for Regulation of GFR and RBF
very good explanations helped me to understand easily. Recommend watching it.
easy to focus and understand
By Eda D. on 02. April 2017 for Blood Supply and Control – Urinary System
I love this subject and the professor. Clean explanations and short videos helps me stay focused.
Grades much improved
By Amy A. on 02. April 2017 for Diseases of the Nephron
Going through this lecture in its entirety helped me improve in this subject. I stuck with the program, and it payed off.
Very detailed
By daisy g. on 25. March 2017 for Functions and Segments – Urinary System
I think if you're looking for a very detailed explanation of the system, I think this video is perfect and it goes at a very good pace too. I only needed an specific amount of information, so I ended up watching a video that was too specific for me to use.
How do we manage these patients?
By Hamed S. on 07. March 2017 for Cystic Diseases (Renal Cystic Pathology)
The talk was interesting but no clear explanation of how PKD gene causes cysts moreover no discussion over management of these patients
By Rese A. on 06. March 2017 for Regulation of GFR and RBF
Clear and concise, concepts were explained in enough detail and slowly enough to follow.
By Jacob S. on 05. March 2017 for Renin Angiotensin Aldosterone – Drugs in Hypertension
Dr. Shunkle provides a great explanation of the RAAS. The lecture follows nicely along with my book and studies.
By Asiya H. on 05. March 2017 for Changes in Body Fluid Compartment
Absolutely fantastic. Very well explained. I retained everything from this lecture.
By Clara H. on 26. February 2017 for (Nephrogenic) Diabetes Insipidus (DI)
Very informative, I am currently in nursing school and I don't even need to read my text book except for the section of nursing care. Carlo Raj is amazing at teaching my favorite instructor here in lecturio! thanks!
Five stars.
By Gonzalo A. on 15. February 2017 for Renal Physiology
The lecture is enough detailed so one does not fall behind compared to others who choose to read about this topic. The lecturer speaks slow and calm, and he is very articulate.
Slightly distracting
By Andrea B. on 02. February 2017 for Renal Physiology
The images and lecture format are very helpful, but I get very distracted every time this professor mis-speaks or stumbles on the lecture. I'm not sure why the lecture is posted with these errors since they can be confusing when you're learning the material for the first time.
GN review
By Tereza K. on 03. January 2017 for Glomerulonephritis
thank you for the lecture! I really like how you repeat multiple times the important key facts. Also the presentation with comparisons and simple key facts instead of too much material is really nice. The best thing, you actually made me think through the whole lecture compared to just passively listen.
physiology made simple
By Yaniv I. on 23. December 2016 for Renal Physiology
Excellent. The explanation is clear and concise and so are the graphics which with he explains. Wish I had this when i was taking physiology courses (in comparison to now that I am using it to review for the equivalency exam in Spain). USE IT.
What more can you ask?
By Vivian D. on 03. December 2016 for Renal Pathology
Dr. Raj transforms the Pathology course into medicine by integrating everything from Physio to Biochem. Literally, you feel like if you are in an actual clinical setting. Renal pathophysiology is delivered in a concise, serious but at the same time humorous way. At the end of the lecture I see Nephrology from a whole different perspective.
By Wedad G. on 02. December 2016 for Diuretics – Drugs in Hypertension
Very concise & straight to the point I am glad I stumbled into this creative site.
Incredibly clear
By Lilas H. on 02. December 2016 for Afferent and Efferent Arterioles
Incredibly clear, natural lecture style. Excellent companion to my textbook.
By Stephanie E. on 24. November 2016 for Antidiuretic Hormone (ADH) and Osmolality
Dr. Wilson explains complex concepts clearly and the slides are simple and not cluttered.
Excellent review of the Renal System
By Gabriel F. on 16. November 2016 for Renal Pathology
This video series has been excellent in preparing for my block exams. Not only does Dr. Raj go through the pathology, but he covers important concepts in physiology and integrates all this information in a very clear format.
Learn it.
By Rebecca M. on 28. October 2016 for Renal Pathology
Moves quickly and covers important points from several different angles.
By Terry T. on 26. October 2016 for Renal Pathology
I like how Dr. Raj actually link different diseases and explain the differential diagnoses. Thank you
By Hongtao L. on 05. October 2016 for Renal Physiology
It is very good, I like the power point slides and picture etc.
Renal pathology
By Ngandombe Mario L. on 29. September 2016 for Renal Pathology
I just like the way it is being delivered: smooth, flowing, clinically relevant and best of all with a great touch of humour! I just love it!
excellent course with hard job ....thx
By anas j. on 18. September 2016 for Renal Pathology
Actually it was hard job to do these lectures , good construction of slides and ideas orders ,with excellent knowledge of how confusing is born ....finally lecturer has presents lectures that in a way that sometimes need sense of humor , which is good ice breaker . i recommend more lectures regarding fluids management which was very informative and touch the clinical application .
A pleasant surprise :)
By Keirsten R. on 15. September 2016 for Renal Physiology
He really slows it down and simplifies a topic ive always had so much confusion about. Thanks Dr. Wilson!
Thank you for sharing. It is not only beneficial for our exams but you are creating great leaders of the future
By Moses M. on 01. September 2016 for Renal Pathology
Not only knowledgeable in the subject material but an eloquent speaker
By Adam M. on 21. July 2016 for Renal Pathology
these are great honestly can't start to describe how useful and easy to understand thank you!
Pathology - thank you!
By Grace G. on 20. June 2016 for Renal Pathology
Dr. Raj not only does Pathology, he ties the concepts of Pathology into Biochemistry and Physiology. After all, medicine is not about one system. In addition, Dr. Raj's knowledge and passion for the subject area keeps you attentive. I have learned so much, thank you!
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If you face allegations that you have violated an antitrust statute, immediate legal counsel should be sought. Violations of U.S. antitrust law are serious offenses carrying both civil and criminal penalties. Speaking with an attorney will inform you of your legal rights as well preserve any possible remedies you may have. If you believe another business violated the antitrust acts and harmed you or your company, you should speak to a business lawyer who can properly review your case.
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If it’s your first time planning a holiday in France, these are the country’s bucket-list-worthy attractions.
The French capital, the city of light and love, lives up to its reputation as one of the world’s most beautiful destinations. Everyone should visit Paris once in their lifetime to stroll by the Seine and marvel at the city’s myriad museums and monuments.
Medieval castles and wild, unspoiled coastlines await in Brittany. Culturally and historically this is one of the most fascinating regions of France to explore.
Europe’s highest peak, Mont Blanc, looms over the French Alps. Come during snow season to join the fun at winter playgrounds like Chamonix or in summer to float on alpine lakes and explore towns like Annecy.
The rich and famous have long flocked to the mythical Côte d'Azur, better known as the French Riviera, where sun and rosé are seemingly on tap all summer long.
Renowned just as much for its independent spirit as its incredible beaches, the island of Corsica is one of the most magical in the Med. Hike across its rocky interior or head for pristine, white-sand coves.
Top natural wonders in France
Walking and sightseeing holidays are wildly popular when it comes to appreciating France’s great outdoors.
You can kayak, climb and hike as you explore the Gorges du Verdon, Europe’s “Grand Canyon”, spectacularly carved from a limestone plateau in the Var over several million years.
Made famous by the Impressionists, the cliffs and rock formations at Etretat in Normandy make up France’s most striking stretch of coastline.
Pink flamingos migrate to the Camargue’s salt flats each year to mate and breed from April to September. Even amid 340 other bird species, they’re quite a sight.
The Dune du Pilat is perhaps France’s most surprising natural wonder. Soaring to heights of more than 100m, this enormous sand dune on the edge of the Bassin d’Arcachon is Europe’s tallest.
Provence’s lavender fields might not be completely natural, but they’re one of the defining images of France. See them in bloom from mid-June to August.
Traditional dishes to try in France
Appetite whetted? These are just a few of the dishes to try on a French break, no matter where in the country you’re visiting.
First things first: if you order a baguette in France, make it a tradition. The dough is proved for longer giving these loaves a crustier exterior and richer flavour.
Originally a peasant dish hailing from the Languedoc, cassoulet is France’s most warming winter stew. Recipes vary, but the base of the stew is usually white beans, sausage and duck confit.
Coq au vin isn’t just a Bugundian speciality; each region has its own twist. The Alsacian version, Coq au Riesling, is pleasingly light and creamy.
Brittany’s buckwheat galettes, savoury crêpes, are at their best when paired with simple flavours: fillings of cheese, ham and egg.
One of the few desserts routinely homemade in France is the tarte tatin, a caramelised upside-down apple tart.
Food and drink in France
Foodie pilgrimages alone can shape years of French holidays. Every region is fiercely proud of its local specialities.
Paris might be France’s political capital, but the city of Lyon is known as its gastronomic heart. This is where bouchons and brasseries first flourished and some of the country’s most famous chefs made their names.
If you’ve only got time to visit one wine region, make it Champagne. Not only are the ancient limestone caves (cellars) here some of the most fascinating to tour, the fizz you’ll taste is the country’s crème de la crème.
In France’s second city Marseille, it’s all about seafood. True bouillabaisse – a dish of two-parts comprising fish then soup, rather than the two mixed together – is an essential order.
Head to the mountainous region of Savoie for all manner of indulgent baked and grilled cheese dishes: think fondue, raclette and tartiflette.
Burgundy gave rise to many of France’s most famous recipes. If you’re short on time but want to go on a voyage of culinary discovery, come here for authentic escargots, gougères and – of course – boeuf bourguignon.
UNESCO World Heritage Sights in France
There are 44 UNESCO World Heritage Sights scattered across “L’Hexagone”. Wherever you start your holiday in France, you won’t be far from an ancient wonder.
The entire city centre of Avignon is protected on the UNESCO World Heritage List, although the Palais des Papes and the remains of the 12th-century bridge that gave rise to the song Sur le pont d'Avignon are the main attractions.
You’ll never forget your first view of Mont-Saint-Michel, the Gothic abbey crowning a rocky islet off the coast of Normandy. At high tide, water completely encircles its ramparts.
Strasbourg’s city centre is postcard-perfection, the Grande-Île (main island) encircled by canals and half-timbered houses.
Nowhere is France’s Roman heritage more in evidence than the Pont du Gard, an aqueduct and masterpiece of architecture and hydraulic engineering in Nîmes.
Fairytales come true in the Medieval city of Carcassonne. The fortifications here protected the Iberians, Visigoths, Saracens, Franks and Trencavels over the past thousand or so years.
History and culture in France
Whether you’re fascinated by the lives of European royalty or France’s monastic heritage, it’s easy to weave cultural and historical highlights into almost any French holiday.
At the Grotte Chauvet-Pont d’Arc in the Ardèche you can see some of the earliest cave drawings anywhere in the world. Dating to the Aurignacian period, these prehistoric artworks depict mammoth, bear and bison.
The fairytale turrets, manicured gardens and glassy moats of the Loire’s châteaux were once the homes of princesses, princes, queens and kings.
Thought to have been commissioned by Bishop Odo, the Bayeux Tapestry was sown in the 11th century to depict the 1066 conquest of England by William, Duke of Normandy.
Burgundy’s Vézelay abbey has been a place of pilgrimage since the Crusades, and its Romanesque 12th-century church is still a poignant landmark.
Palaces don’t come with much more pomp than Versailles to the southwest of Paris. As well as strutting the glittering Hall of Mirrors, make time to explore the grounds and Marie Antoinette’s private estate.
France family holidays
Camping holidays in France attract thousands each year, but there are plenty more ways to explore en famille than under canvas.
If you don’t fancy a holiday on the coast, but still want to be near spots for a dip, explore the Dordogne. Its rivers are among Europe’s cleanest – plus little ones will love the region’s water parks.
Boating or cycling along the sleepy Canal du Midi is one of the easiest ways to see France as a family. Along the way, kids can spot wildlife and fortresses while grown-ups sample local wines.
There’s nowhere better than the Alps for a first family ski holiday. Avoriaz is among the best resorts, with an excellent “Village des Enfants” including nursery slopes for first-time skiers and a mini park for budding snowboarders.
It’s hard to describe Puy du Fou in the Vendée: it’s part park, part theme park and part spectacle. Come to watch chariot races at the Gallo-Roman Stadium and the Richelieu Musketeers’ elaborate sword fights.
For all-out family fun, no destination can rival Disneyland Paris. Come for a week, or add a weekend of adventures with Minnie and Mickey onto a longer break.
France luxury holidays
The south is synonymous with luxury French holidays. Come July, Parisians and celebrities alike decamp to chic-chi seafront hotels or bucolic country escapes.
Cannes, famous for its associations with the film industry and its annual film festival, really knows how to roll out the red carpet. Don’t miss the city’s oldest quarter, Le Suquet, as well as the glitzy waterfront.
Strolling the palm-backed Promenade des Anglais in Nice is what summer dreams are made of. With its colourful Mediterranean architecture, rich culinary history and raft of fabulous five-star hotels, the city will quickly win you over.
For seaside seclusion, the village of St-Jean-Cap-Ferrat might be small but it has a big reputation. Mansions and marvellous beaches are dotted all around the surrounding peninsula.
Even more magical escapes await inland, where luxury holiday farmhouses in the Provencal countryside back olive groves and vineyards. There’s little reason to leave your private pool, other than to browse the local markets for gourmet treats.
You can’t consider a blow-out break to France without mentioning Paris, a city defined by glamour and indulgence.
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French holidays are particularly enjoyable in late spring, when temperatures can top 20°C and the countryside bursts into life. By June and July, the crowds start to build, although it’s still a good time to travel if you’re looking for sun, fun and plenty of summer atmosphere. For skiing, most resorts are open from December to April.
September is a great time to look for cheap holidays to France, whether you’re planning a city break or beach escape. “La rentrée” means restaurants reopen after their summer break, while the weather can still be absolutely glorious – particularly in the south.
France has numerous regional and international airports. Eurostar services from St Pancras to Gare du Nord can also connect you with high-speed TGV train routes across the country.
With both Atlantic and Mediterranean coastlines, France has more beaches than you could explore in a lifetime. The most popular include Corsica’s wild coves, Normandy’s smart seafronts, the French Riviera’s ritzy resorts and relaxed seaside towns such as La Rochelle.
France is one of Europe’s most family friendly destinations. You might come to fly and flop on a beach or start to fuel a little one’s lifetime passion for French food and culture.
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Macquarie Commodities and Global Markets and Nomura provide $US540 million term loan for Preem
London, 04 December 2019
Preem is the largest oil refining company in the Nordic region
Preem appointed Macquarie as coordinating mandated lead arranger
Macquarie and Nomura worked together to deliver the $US540 million facility
The majority of the term loan has been used to redeem existing notes
Today Macquarie Commodities and Global Markets (Macquarie) and Nomura, announced the closure of a $US540 million term loan facility with Corral Petroleum Sweden AB, a member of the Preem AB (Preem) group.
Preem is the largest oil refining company in the Nordic region, producing around 345,000 barrels per day. The company supplies gasoline, diesel, heating oil and renewable fuels to consumers across Europe. The company owns and operates two oil refineries in Göteborg and Lysekil in Sweden, which are among Europe’s most modern and environmentally efficient refineries
Preem is the largest producer of renewable fuels in Sweden after investing extensively in the production of hydrogen and renewable diesel (also known as hydrogenated vegetable oil or HVO), at its refinery in Göteborg. Preem is focussed on expanding this production capacity through further investments over the next decade to meet growth in demand associated with national and European environmental legislation. Preem will use the majority of the term loan to redeem existing bonds issued by its parent, Corral Petroleum Holdings.
Preem appointed Macquarie as coordinating mandated lead arranger, and Macquarie and Nomura worked together as mandated lead arrangers to deliver the facility. Macquarie is the leading bank active in commodity markets and provides financing and risk management services to a broad base of clients in the energy, metals and agricultural sectors.
Matthew Booth, Senior Managing Director in Macquarie’s Commodities and Global Markets Group said: “This is a landmark transaction for Preem, who have over the last few years made significant progress in creating more environmentally efficient refining facilities. We look forward to continuing to work closely with the company as it invests and continues to grow its clean fuels business.”
Luke Isherwood, Managing Director in Nomura’s Client Financing & Solutions Structured Finance team, said: “Preem’s complex term loan financing demonstrates the relevance that well-structured private credit has in today’s market for sophisticated underlying assets and companies. The collaboration between Preem, Nomura and Macquarie has set the groundwork for the future growth of the business and we look forward to remaining part of the story as Preem continues to develop its significant renewable projects.”
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Microsoft says Windows 10 will miss 2018 1bn install base target
MCV Staff 19th July 2016 Publishing
Last year, Microsoft said that it aimed to have Windows 10 on 1bn devices by 2018 – now the firm has tempered its expectations for the operating system.
In a statement to ZDNet, the firm said that Windows 10 was off to the ‘hottest start in history’, citing high levels of engagement. However, it will no longer hit its 1bn goal by 2018.
Windows 10 is off to the hottest start in history with over 350m monthly active devices, with record customer satisfaction and engagement,” said a Microsoft spokesperson.
We’re pleased with our progress to date, but due to the focusing of our phone hardware business, it will take longer than FY18 for us to reach our goal of 1 billion monthly active devices. In the year ahead, we are excited about usage growth coming from commercial deployments and new devices—and increasing customer delight with Windows."
Windows 10 launched in July 2015 and at the start of 2016, it had been installed on 200m devices.
The software has become core to Xbox’s games strategy, with the firm releasing a number of its previous console exclusives on the platform. This was part of its UWP programme, too.
Meanwhile, at E3 it announced the Play Anywhere scheme, which would let consumers buy a game once and be able to play it on both Xbox One and Windows 10.
Initially, this was to include all first-party games going forward but Microsoft has since revealed only games showed off on-stage at E3 2016 will be part of the scheme.
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Safe Listening Concert Set for Young Students In Nation’s Capital
By Mix Staff
More than 1,000 first- and second-graders from 14 schools in the Washington, D.C. metro area are expected to file into the George Washington University Lisner Auditorium on April 29 at 10:30 a.m. for the Listen to Your Buds concert. The concert is part of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association’s (ASHA) public education campaign of the same name, which aims to teach children safe listening habits at a young age.
The concert is presented by ASHA in collaboration with the Parents’ Choice Foundation and the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD). The official media sponsor is Kids Place Live, and the emcee for the event is Absolutely Mindy from SIRIUS XM’s Kids Place Live channel, SIRIUS and XM channel 116.
The Buds concert will kick off ASHA’s nationally recognized Better Hearing and Speech Month (BHSM) in May. BHSM raises awareness about communication disorders and promotes treatment that can improve the quality of life for those who experience problems with speaking, understanding or hearing.
This free concert has been promoted on a first-come, first-served basis. Lesson plans were disseminated through all local school systems, to help teachers introduce to their students the Buds’ health message of turning down the volume. This educational tool taught children how the ear works and how and why the ear becomes damaged by noise.
Parents’ Choice Foundation Gold Award–winning recording artist Billy Jonas will headline the concert. Nationally acclaimed for his highly interactive “funky folk music for the whole family,” Jonas will weave throughout his performance the main Buds campaign message of turning down the volume.
Listen to Your Buds features not only a concert series but also a national coalition of Parents’ Choice Foundation award–winning musicians who specialize in children’s music. All coalition members have taken the “Buds” pledge, which states they will share the Buds message about safe listening with kids everywhere.
Listentoyourbuds.org is an interactive bilingual Website with educational games for kids and resources for parents and teachers, all for the purpose of instilling in the very young healthy hearing listening habits.
“Even a mild hearing loss can affect a child’s social interaction, communication skills, behavior, emotional development, and academic performance,” says Anne Oyler, ASHA’s associate director of Audiology Professional Practices. “Telling kids to turn down the volume is common sense. We want to be safe, not sorry, especially when dealing with kids.”
Recent research from Johns Hopkins University and the European Union indicates that the prevalence of hearing loss in the United States is predicted to rise significantly due to the growing use of personal audio technology.
Recently, ASHA became the first organization to join NIDCD’s It’s A Noisy Planet: Protect Their Hearing campaign. NIDCD, in turn, is collaborating with ASHA’s Buds campaign and concert.
“When we talk about hearing protection, we often talk about the dangerous sounds and we forget to celebrate the good sounds,” says James F. Battey Jr., MD, Ph.D., director of NIDCD. “Concerts are a fun, innovative way to bring the hearing protection message to our youth while celebrating sounds that everyone loves to hear.”
Dr. Battey discusses noise-induced hearing loss among the young and what parents can do to protect their children’s hearing in ASHA’s latest podcast.
The entire Buds effort belongs to a broader ASHA public education campaign, America: Tuned In Today…But Tuned Out Tomorrow?, which promotes safe listening of personal audio technology and which is sponsored by Califone International, the Consumer Electronics Association, the rock group O.A.R, Tune A Fish Records, Unwired Technology LLC, and Wynit. The campaign delivers safe listening messages to all age groups through various means and the American Society of Association Executives has honored it for two straight years.
For more information, visit www.listentoyourbuds.org and www.asha.org.
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Celeste Barber's Instagram photos have earned her 3.3 million followers. Here's how she takes them.
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Kim Kardashian wearing thigh-high stockings and nude underwear, reclining on a massive mound of dirt. That was the image that made Celeste Barber internationally famous.
The Australian actor/writer/comedian has earned more than 3.3 million followers on Instagram for parodying absurd celebrity photographs. With people like Kim (or any of the Kardashian/Jenners, for that matter) clambering for cut-through, there there’s no shortage of fodder for the 35-year-old; Gwyneth Paltrow slathered in mud, a veiled Beyonce cradling her newborn twins. Hundreds of A-listers have had the Celeste Barber treatment.
But as she explained to Mia Freedman on Mamamia‘s No Filter podcast, the success of her photos isn’t in simply copying poses or outfits.
“I’ve got to add something to it,” she said. “I’m not mimicking or mocking, I’m parodying; I’m adding some humour to it.”
Sometimes that means thinking about subtext – taking aim at what the celebrity must have been thinking when they posted it. Other times it might mean replacing Miley Cyrus’ wind machine with a leaf-blower. For this rest, it’s down to the caption or just a good ol’ visual gag.
“When I saw that Beyonce one, for example, I thought, ‘Hold close what’s important… Bread and wine.'”
There’s no greater feeling than holding life’s most precious gifts. #celestechallengeaccepted #celestebarber #funny #beyonce
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The whole thing started in 2015 as a way to make her “very, very funny” sister laugh.
“She would just send something to me, seeing someone do a crazy yoga pose and be like, ‘Off you go’. Challenge accepted,” Barber said.
“I knew my mates would find it quite funny as well, and it just kind of went from there.”
These days, a parody post on her Instagram page will typically attract around 250,000 likes, and her videos around 2 million views. So how does she make them happen?
The material. How does she decide what’s worthy?
“I have in my phone a folder of photos I want to do. But that folder just gets bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger. So I don’t do most of them. If something comes up that’s very ‘of the now’, I have to try jump on it. So like, Beyonce holding her babies, or the pregnancy announcement.
“I’ve noticed that if I’m not keen to post it [straight away] it’s not worth posting. I have to really trust it… I have to be like, I get this, I know what I’m doing; send now or don’t.”
Celeste Barber tells Mia Freedman how she chooses which photos challenges to take on. (Post continues below.)
Who takes the photos?
Fans will likely know him as #hothusband, but he also goes by “Api. That’s his name, everyone. [He takes] most of them. Sometimes I have a friend that does it – Chloe – if he’s not around.”
Does she scout locations for each photo?
In short, sometimes. But… “If we’re at the beach, for example, I’ll say to Api, ‘While we’re here let’s get some shots done.’ And we’ll do that sort of stuff. And little things, like if I’m wearing a one-piece I’ll pack a bikini, so I can take some [more].”
The homes of friends and family prove useful, too. eg. her mother-in-law’s swimming pool.
When you fall in love then he reveals he’s got kids. #celestechallengeaccepted #celestebarber #funny
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Does she spend a fortune on costumes and props?
“It started out with the idea of a normal person doing weird celebrity-type things. So I really try to stay within that when it comes to props and stuff. I really try to go, ‘What would that look like if I put my flesh-coloured underwear on and did it?’ So I’ll go and get what[ever] I’ve got.
“I mean, that’s not to say that I haven’t gone out and bought pink fairy wings and a few tiaras and that silver suit that everyone loves. But I try to stick with what I’ve got.”
How does she cut through on Instagram?
“I’ve been told I need to post three times a week. But do you know what, Instagram Stories help me out with that. I’m so exhausted, there is so much shit to do.
“And I’m scared, too. This is another thing. I’ve got to strike while the iron’s hot because in two years time people are going to go, ‘Insta who?’ And there’ll be a new thing that everyone’s on to.”
For more, catch Mia’s full chat with Celeste Barber on the latest episode of No Filter.
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The Fab Forty, No. 24: Liberty lineman had ‘incredible off-season’
Akili Calhoun should be a difference-maker in trenches for reigning state champs
Liberty High School varsity football player Akili Calhoun is photographed at Liberty High School in Brentwood, Calif., on Monday, July 22, 2019. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group)
Liberty's Akili Calhoun (59) kneels as he watches the De La Salle celebrate winning the North Coast Section Open Division championship game at Dublin High School in Dublin, Calif., on Saturday, Dec. 1, 2018. De La Salle defeated Liberty 42-7. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group)
By Darren Sabedra | dsabedra@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News Group
PUBLISHED: August 1, 2019 at 7:00 a.m. | UPDATED: August 1, 2019 at 7:08 a.m.
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BRENTWOOD — It’s not surprising that Akili Calhoun’s recruiting rating on 247Sports has gone from three to four stars. Nor is it surprising that the Liberty lineman has six college offers, including Cal and four others in the Pac-12.
“We were talking about character, and he has the highest character on our team,” Liberty coach Ryan Partridge said. “That kid just wants to be at the field or wants to be in the weight room or wants to be doing something football-related because his goals are set in his mind.”
Liberty won a state championship last season with help from Calhoun, now listed at 6-foot-4 and 240 pounds, in the trenches. The big fella, who lines up as a defensive end and offensive tackle, should be better as a junior this fall.
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“From last season to this season, there has been a big change,” Calhoun said. “I’ve been working so much harder. I can feel it now. I feel bigger, faster, stronger. I gained 25 pounds in the off-season. I’ve made a big improvement in everything.”
“He’s just an animal on both sides of the ball,” added Liberty quarterback Jay Butterfield.
Given Liberty’s schedule — which includes Clayton Valley Charter, Monte Vista, Cardinal Newman and league rival Pittsburg — Calhoun’s presence on the lines will be much-needed.
“He’s such a good teammate,” Partridge said. “He was voted a battalion leader as a junior, great personality. He’s such a good kid. He’s staying humble. He got his first offer, and he said, ‘Coach, I don’t want this yet.’ I want to earn this. Just an incredible off-season.”
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Five-time James Beard Award-nominated chef Jose Mendin is responsible for Habitat, a Spanish-influenced restaurant in the former Beachcraft space at the 1 Hotel South Beach. The indoor/outdoor property is stunning, exuding a strikingly warm glow through rustic wooden decor and gold and copper accents. But the real treat is the patio, where you'll find a canopy of trees draped in dangling lights. Its centerpiece is a small vintage camper stocked with cafecitos and cocktails. Sip Habitat's popular tequila cocktail, the Fifth Element ($15), made with avocado, agave, and tropical fruit and rimmed with citrus sea salt. As night falls, enjoy an order of the Skuna Bay salmon coated in crunchy everything-bagel seasoning ($24), octopus a la planxa ($21), or patatas arrubravas drizzled in a light aioli ($13). Though the patio borders Collins Avenue, the mixture of fine food, tasty cocktails, and a beautiful setting wipes away the chaos of South Beach. Try Habitat from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily, 6 to 11 p.m. Sunday through Thursday, and 6 p.m. to midnight Friday and Saturday.
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Finding a quality bagel in Miami is tough. So 25-year-old entrepreneur Matteson Koche found a way to do it himself. He's the creator of El Bagel, a roving food truck stocked with hand-rolled New York-style dough. Each bagel is proofed overnight, boiled, and then baked, yielding a dark and crisp shell with a heavy sprinkling of poppy and sesame seeds. The center is remarkably soft. The whole thing tastes even better when loaded with a heap of cream cheese, a yolky egg, and a slice of American cheese. Some weekends, the truck pops up at local spots such as Boxelder on NW Second Avenue in Wynwood to sling bagels with schmear for $5 apiece.
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There are many reasons why you should visit Eating House on a weekend. Created by Chopped champion Giorgio Rapicavoli, the popular Coral Gables restaurant gives brunch a face-lift with the Wake-N-Bacon a munchies-themed menu filled with tater tots drizzled with Coca-Cola ketchup, candied applewood-smoked bacon with brown sugar and sea salt, and pumpkin-spice granola. But the star dish is Rapicavoli's Cap'n Crunch pancakes ($14). Covered in vanilla butter, condensed-milk syrup, and candied cereal, each doughy bite includes a loud crunch and a sweet finish. Wash it down with a guava mimosa, made with prosecco and pink guava juice ($10), or a yuzu cocktail with Florida grapefruit juice and vermouth ($12). Hours are 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. and 6 to 10 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday and 11:30 to 3 p.m. and 6 to 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday.
804 Ponce de Leon Blvd., Coral Gables, 33134
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There's a new baker in town. James Beard Award-winning Jim Lahey, best known for creating New York's Sullivan Street Bakery, has opened a production facility in Little Haiti. Through a partnership with Steven Perricone, owner of the long-standing Perricone's Marketplace & Café, Lahey has brought his no-knead method of mixing dough to a growing list of local restaurants and shops. Among the places serving his crunchy and fluffy baguettes and loaves are 27 Restaurant at the Freehand, Proper Sausages, Laurenzo's Italian Market, MC Kitchen, the Four Seasons, Le Zoo, River Oyster Bar, Joey's, Les Bahn Amis, and Café Roval. In early 2019, Lahey and Perricone will open a bake shop attached to the facility, which will sell a lineup of breads as well as sandwiches, salads, pastries, and pizza.
5550 NE Fourth Ave., Miami, 33137
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On the corner of NE 29th Street and Second Avenue in Edgewater, amid shiny new restaurants and selfie-taking tourists, stands the iconic Enriqueta's Sandwich Shop. The low-priced Cuban cafeteria serves authentic eats such as pan con bistec ($7) and medianoches ($7) from morning till night. For something more breakfast-centric, try the desayuno especial: two eggs, bacon or ham, Cuban toast, a cup of fresh-squeezed orange juice, and café con leche for $6.25. For something light and portable, go for the house-made smoothies and shakes. No matter what, don't leave without a sip of café con leche ($2). Hours are 6:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday and 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday.
186 NE 29th St., Miami, 33137
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This cozy neighborhood breakfast and lunch spot is just what Broward locals need. You'll probably miss seeing the friendly, rugged-good-looking chef and co-owner, Keith Freiman, who is happiest flipping his homemade buttermilk pancakes in the back. After years of working as pastry chef in fancy Florida restaurants, Freiman, along with co-owner Emilio Freire, took a chance and opened up shop in unpretentious Dania Beach, where he makes simple and delicious food. Customers are greeted by an eye-catching display of doughnuts in flavors such as blackberry blintz, tres leches, and Nutella mousse ($1.45 to $2.25 each, $10.25 per half-dozen, and $19.25 per dozen). But regulars come for the Dough Boy ($5), a delectable combo of salty and sweet made with a mini cheese egg omelet and bacon, sausage, or ham nestled inside one of Freiman's signature airy, slightly sweet doughnut breads. They're so good you'll want to order two, so why not give your meal a bit of a health boost by adding avocado for an additional 75 cents?
238 S. Federal Highway, Dania Beach, 33004
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The St. Regis is behind a brunch experience stocked with bottomless pink bubbly, unlimited trips to a buffet, and an unobstructed view of the Atlantic Ocean ($95 per adult and $45 per child). It's called Rosé Sunday Brunch. The resort's main waterfront dining room looks like the perfect spot for a bridal shower. Various shades of pink, from blush-colored tablecloths to coral-hued booze, dominate the space. Half of the area includes dining stations piled with sweet and savory items such as sea-salt-crusted fish, freshly shucked oysters, and a bakery section offering croissants filled with fruity jams. Then there's a large dessert table anchored by a five-foot-tall macaron display in the shape of the Eiffel Tower. Sparkly cake pops, key lime pie, chocolate mousse, and other sweets orbit the centerpiece of colorful meringue cookies. But what distinguishes the St. Regis' Sunday brunch from other experiences is its lengthy menu of bottomless rosé wines, champagnes, and the hotel's variation on the classic bloody mary and mimosa. For rosé alone, the menu includes nearly ten brands categorized by sparkling or flat. It's all served from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Sunday.
9703 Collins Ave., Bal Harbour, 33154
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Prime Fish Critics' Pick
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In Miami, brunch comes in many forms. There are reasonably priced experiences, indulgent buffets, and spirited parties with effervescent crowds. Myles Chefetz's Prime Fish in Miami Beach's South of Fifth neighborhood has struck the perfect balance. It has a full-service buffet serving both breakfast and lunch dishes, an entrée selection, and bottomless bubbly, all for $59. Standouts include the Egg Foo Yung, with rock shrimp, Chinese sausage, and shiitake; the Green Eggs & Ham, with Serrano ham, wilted spinach, and manchego cheese; and a warm popover stuffed with scrambled eggs, smoked salmon, scallions, and cream cheese. For an additional price, order from the raw bar, stocked with oysters, lobster, and caviar. Then there's dessert, from chocolate-Oreo squares and cranberry scones to homemade s'mores and chocolate and peanut butter bites. Wash it all down with mimosas, bellinis, prosecco, or house-made bloody marys. Try brunch from 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
100 Collins Ave., Miami Beach, 33139
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Pembroke Pines' Gold Marquess Fine Chinese Cuisine is behind 1-800-Lucky's dim sum stall, Yip. There, you'll find a selection of dim sum served in small bamboo steamer baskets. Dumplings are made from scratch every morning and filled with ingredients such as shrimp and pork, carrots, mushrooms, and savory soup. There are also steamed buns packed with roast pork or chicken, as well as crunchy spring rolls stuffed with bean noodles. Don't skip dessert: Yip serves crisp steamed buns filled with dulce de leche, and hand-rolled sesame balls loaded with red bean paste. It's best to select a few sweet and savory items to share with the table. Try it from noon to midnight Sunday through Wednesday and noon to 2 a.m. Thursday through Saturday.
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Whisk Gourmet Food & Catering Critics' Pick
This bright, airy spot near Sunset Drive in South Miami has everything you could want offered in a way that makes it seem as if it emerged from someone's kitchen. Much of this is due to the spot-on sensibilities of co-owner Brendan Connor, who skillfully imparts culinary touches only a tried-and-true chef would think up into dishes that conjure happy memories of youth. Order a large iced tea and some pimento cheese spread with corn chips ($6.95) and follow them up with filet mignon salad ($17.95), deploying a rich onion confit that marries green beans, mixed greens with balsamic vinaigrette, and a goat cheese fritter. That'll set you right for the rest of the day, or you can go for the open-faced chicken BLT ($14.95) and spend your afternoon in a delicious fog.
7382 SW 56th Ave., South Miami, 33143
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Next to Greynolds Park in North Miami Beach, find the charming coffee shop the Alchemist. Tucked inside a complex of unassuming houses on West Dixie Highway, the quiet retreat sits inside a barn-like structure, where the shop slings fresh-baked Belgian waffles and churns out 24-hour cold brew. Walking toward the entrance, you're greeted by a garden patio lined with trees and filled with intimate tables. Inside, a coffee bar is filled with laboratory-like flasks and beakers holding various teas and coffees. The baristas are called "coffee scientists." You'll spot the shop's syphon, a contraption used to brew coffee in-house. For the cold brew, beans are roasted onsite and cold-steeped for 24 hours. Then the coffee is mixed with brown sugar and sweetened condensed milk for a rich, creamy flavor. It's poured into a giant glass dispenser where it infuses further. Try one for yourself — a barista will hand-shake the brew inside a cocktail shaker and then pour it over fist-size ice cubes in a Mason jar. Order the café's signature menu item: an open-faced sandwich on Tuscan bread ($7.99). Choices range from savory to sweet, including turkey and Swiss, smoked salmon, melted Brie, caprese, and Nutella. Alchemist is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Thursday and until 6 p.m. Friday through Sunday.
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Kay Rico is a hip take on the Spanish phrase ¡Qué rico!, which translates to "How delicious!" And when you take one sip of the café con leche ($3.50) at Kay Rico, located at the Yellow Green Farmers Market in Hollywood, you're left proclaiming that phrase. At most places, the café con leche may be regarded as an inferior latte or a drip coffee upgrade. At Kay Rico, it's the highlight. The café con leche here is made with three kinds of bean — most recently from Honduras, Ethiopia, and Guatemala — that are hand-roasted weekly by the family-owned operation and then brewed to perfection each weekend (like the farmers' market where it's located, Kay Rico is open only Saturday and Sunday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.). The drink is finished with milk, sugar (optional), and a beautiful design.
1940 N. 30th Rd., Hollywood, 33021
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Michael is a forwarding-thinking strategist with broad experience in sales, engineering, and architecture of infrastructure and software in the data center and across the enterprise. Working as a customer in a large bank, the world’s largest tech companies, and also in tech startups and a world-class integrator has given him a unique skill set to connect with clients and provide thought leadership and creativity as technology and business change.
Michael’s global background and experience have allowed him to be exposed to the latest technology trends, large-scale enterprise architectures, and cloud-enabled services all in real-world designs and deployments.
As an entrepreneur, Michael has been a part of four distinct technology trends, Health Care Electronic Medical Records (EMR), 802.11 Wireless, Security, and Orchestration.
For EMR, he helped launch Encounter Assistant, a first of its kind practice management software providing comprehensive patient views and business data in the same toolset. In wireless, at Darwin Networks he used the 802.11 2.4 band as the last mile to connect businesses with Internet access. Michael’s experience with ADC includes Appcito used the growth of the public cloud to launch an elastic load-balancer (sold to A10). At Symantec and F5 he worked extensively with SSL, SSH, Malware Detection, Orchestration and Elastic cloud security.
Prior to joining AppViewX, Michael was a Senior Systems Engineer at Symantec covering Cloud Security. Michael’s past includes experience at Cisco as a Technical Solution Architect covering Application Centric Infrastructure. At Hewlett-Packard as a consultant on the Cisco Global competitive team, he designed and sold new DC concepts and at F5 Networks he contributed to one of the largest Cisco to F5 migrations JP Morgan and Chase as the Global Systems Engineer. Michael is also a past F5 Instructor.
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United States of America v. Edgardo Serrano
Case Number: 1:20-cr-00320
Judge: Fernando Rodriguez Jr.
Court: United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas (Cameron County)
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Edgardo Serrano, age 52, drove $1,758,465 in proceeds from the sale of illegal narcotics from Florida to the Rio Grande Valley.
The investigation revealed trucks would pick up cocaine from South Texas to be driven to Florida for illegal sale. Drivers like Serrano would then return to the Rio Grande Valley with the illegal drug proceeds for delivery into Mexico to drug cartel members.
Authorities discovered Serrano in Hidalgo County April 17 with drug money secreted in his semi-tractor-trailer.
Serrano agreed to forfeit the $1,758,465 as illegal money obtained from the sale of cocaine.
He faces up to 20 years in prison and a possible $500,000 fine.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement�s Homeland Security Investigations Drug Enforcement Administration and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives jointly conducted the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) investigation titled La Familia Tradicion. Assistant U.S. Attorney Karen Betancourt is prosecuting the case.
OCDETF is the largest anti-crime task force in the country. Its mission is to disrupt and dismantle the most significant drug trafficking and transnational criminal organizations that threaten the United States through prosecutor-led, intelligence-driven, multi-agency task forces that leverage the authorities and expertise of federal, state and local law enforcement.
Ct. 1: Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 5 kilograms or more of cocaine; 21 USC 846, 841(a)(1) and 841(b)(1)(A)
Ct. 2: Conspiracy to laundering of monetary instruments; 18 USC 1956(h)
Ct. 3: Laundering of monetary instruments; 18 USC 1956(a)(1)(b)(i) and 2
Outcome: 11/02/2020 27 Unopposed MOTION for Order of Forfeiture of $1,758,465.00 by USA as to Edgardo Serrano, filed. (Betancourt, Karen) (Entered: 11/02/2020)
11/02/2020 Minute Entry for proceedings held before Judge Fernando Rodriguez, Jr: Appearances: Karen F Betancourt, AUSA f/Govt; Eric Samuel Jarvis, f/Deft; (Court Reporter: Sheila Perales) (USPO: Gregoria Manrriquez) (Interpreter: Jennifer Ortiz) [Court time: 8:18-8:38]. RE-ARRAIGNMENT held on 11/2/2020 as to Edgardo Serrano (1). Defendant was sworn in. Defendant entered a PLEA OF GUILTY to COUNT THREE of the Indictment. WRITTEN PLEA AGREEMENT was filed. The Government tendered Preliminary Order of Forfeiture; Order was executed by the Court. PSI deadlines and Sentencing date were orally given to all parties. Terminated other settings and motions for Defendant. Sentencing set for 2/9/2021 at 08:30 AM in Courtroom 6 before Judge Fernando Rodriguez Jr. Defendant continued on bond under the same terms and conditions. (balvina, 1) (Entered: 11/02/2020)
11/02/2020 28 ORDER for Presentence Investigation and Disclosure & Sentencing Dates as to Edgardo Serrano. PSI Completion due by 12/21/2020 Objection to PSI due by 1/4/2021 Final PSI due by 1/19/2021 Sentencing set for 2/9/2021 at 08:30 AM in Courtroom 6 before Judge Fernando Rodriguez Jr ( Signed by Judge Fernando Rodriguez, Jr) Parties notified. (balvina, 1) (Entered: 11/02/2020)
11/02/2020 29 PLEA AGREEMENT as to Edgardo Serrano, filed. (dbenavides, 1) (Entered: 11/02/2020)
11/02/2020 30 Preliminary Order of Forfeiture as to Edgardo Serrano ( Signed by Judge Fernando Rodriguez, Jr) Parties notified. (dbenavides, 1) (Entered: 11/02/2020)
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This is an excerpt from Yahoo Finance's piece by Geoff Williams published on April 27, 2020 regarding the costs of adopting and caring for a new pet. Commentary from our ED, jme included, who suggests preventative care in regards to fleas, ticks and heart worm and pet insurance to avoid heartbreaking life and death situations or surrenders.
In these days of sheltering in place and lockdowns, a lot of families are getting pets, according to reports from animal rescue centers throughout the country.
That's a silver lining of the COVID-19 pandemic, but it's helpful to remember that adopting and owning a pet can cost some silver, too. Not that you should be discouraged from taking in a pet, but in the interest of knowing what you're getting yourself into, you might want to think about how adding a dog, cat, guinea pig, fish and so on will affect your bank account.
Because owning a pet will, one way or another, add another expense to your budget. And the more prepared you are for that, the better the experience.
Whatever you do, don't rush into this, urges Sandy Weaver, an American Kennel Club judge and a consultant who works with veterinarians to implement well-being programs and improve their and their staff's morale. She is based out of Marietta, Georgia.
"A pet isn't an impulse purchase," Weaver says. "It's worth taking time to research the dog or cat breed or mix that is a good fit for you and your family."
That can take time, she adds. "Responsible rescues and breeders don't keep a stock of animals on shelves, waiting for you to show up. Decide what you want, get everything you need for the new addition, and when the right fit shows up, you'll be prepared."
Typical Adoption Costs
Actual adoption expense. Unless you wind up finding a stray dog or cat, you're going to spend some money, maybe a couple hundred bucks or maybe a thousand or more if you're buying from a breeder.
"Adopting from a shelter is a perfect way to save money while saving (an animal's) life," says Claudine Sievert, a doctor of veterinary medicine in Manhattan, Kansas, and a veterinary consultant at CatPet.club, a cat enthusiasts website.
Initial veterinary costs. You may avoid some veterinary costs by finding your pet in a shelter, according to Sievert.
She says that generally you'll pay $50 to $150 for a cat or dog -- and because typically shelters and rescuers give pets medical treatment, you'll save money on a medical examination, which is typically $100 to $200, according to Sievert. You'll also likely dodge spending on spay or neuter surgery, which can be $50 to $300. Initial vaccinations are around $50 to $100, and microchipping is $50 to $100, she adds.
But, again, Sievert says you'll probably get all of that, without paying for it, when you pay an adoption fee at a shelter or rescue.
Initial supplies. Cats need litter boxes and cat litter. You'll probably want a scratching post or two, if you don't want your couch and walls to become claw magnets.
You'll also probably want a crate for your dog or a cat carrier, Weaver says.
"You'll also need feeding and water bowls, a collar and leash and a comb or brush," she says.
"Toys are good to have. Be sure they're sized appropriately for the pet you choose and are safe."
It's probably best, though, to skip getting a new dog a bed, says Jamie Thomas, executive director of Motley Zoo Animal Rescue in Redmond, Washington, which focuses on rescuing and fostering dogs and cats.
"They will very likely shred that thing the first night. Give them a towel or blanket. and then when you know they can be trusted, then reward them with the more expensive or nice bed that matches your décor," Thomas advises.
In any case, the adoption costs always go far beyond the actual animal, according to Matt Leighton, a web developer based out of Vancouver, British Columbia, who owns and runs Vivofish.com, a pet fish education website.
He says that if you wanted to set up a simple 20-gallon tank with a few small fish, you would probably spend between $100 to $350, including the fish and stand for the aquarium. That said, those initial costs will likely go up because you'll also want to buy fish food, a filter, some plants, water test kits, water treatment chemicals and decorations.
He feels it's well worth it -- "fish are great pets," he says -- but those early expenses are things any future aquarium owner should factor into the budget.
Ongoing Expenses
Once your pet is settled in and you have everything you need, your costs will go down, but you'll always have some ongoing maintenance costs that you'll want to add in to your monthly financial plan.
The time cost. Most people hopefully recognize and want to spend time walking their dog or playing with their cat. But you might not be prepared for how much time goes into, say, keeping a turtle alive; the water in the terrarium needs to be routinely cleaned. With a guinea pig, you'll be frequently changing its bedding (generally, it's absorbent paper that the guinea pig can burrow in, but also defecate and urinate in). Experts suggest changing the bedding, which isn't cheap, once or twice a week.
Food costs. For a dog, the bigger the animal, the more you'll probably spend. Many experts also advise to not get the cheapest brands you can find.
"Food is not an area to economize," Weaver warns. "The basic rule of thumb is the more you pay for food, the less you'll pay at the vet. Poor nutrition contributes to skin and coat problems at a minimum -- and major metabolic problems and a shortened lifespan at a maximum. Consider the amount you pay for food to be health insurance for your pet." Veterinarian visits. Thomas recommends budgeting $150 for most routine vet visits, "with approximately four visits per year for the first year of a dog's life. Two to three for a cat." She adds that senior dogs should go annually to the vet, "but probably more likely twice as they tend to have chronic conditions that require monitoring."
Do that, and you'll save money in the long run, according to Sievert.
"The average cost of an emergency vet visit is $1,000, and some of the complex emergency surgeries may cost up to $5,000," she says.
But taking your pet to the vet should help you avoid those costly visits.
Thomas recommends having $1,500 in the bank for vet emergencies, but if that's too far of a reach, she suggests getting pet health insurance.
"Each insurance company has different rates and deductibles, but we are extremely huge proponents for it, as many of the animals we see surrendered could still be in the family if they had gotten it before it was too late," she says.
Thomas adds: "Some insurance plans even cover crazy things like cataract surgery, MRIs and other far more complicated and unusual care which can really make a difference in your animal's life, especially as they age."
Ongoing medication. Thomas says that you should plan to buy medicine for flea treatment and heartworm prevention. "We'd suggest budgeting about $50 a month for that kind of preventative care," she says, adding that paying for medication is far cheaper than "dealing with a flea infestation or the cost of heartworm treatment."
Bottom line: Taking good care of a pet can be an expensive proposition, and, sure, they're worth it -- but you could find yourself regretting the decision if you haven't considered all of the costs. This isn't an exhaustive list, but if you're looking for a checklist of some of the expenses you may encounter as a pet parent, along with an estimate for what you might pay, here are some averages that can help:
One-Time Expenses
Adoption fee$50-$150 or more
Spay or neuter$50-$300 if not part of adoption fee
Initial vaccinations$50-$100
Dog or cat license$20
Microchipping$50
Home supplies such as crate, litter box, toys, fish tank, etc.$150-$350
Food- Varies based on animal type, size and food quality. Not less than $200 a year.
Veterinary appointments$600 for first year
Monthly medications for ticks, fleas, heartworms, etc.$50 per month
Kennels or pet sitters$20-$40 per day
End-of-life costs$200-$300
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Cable TV Reviews
"Wanted: More Christian Missions in Nigeria "
Content: -2 Discretion advised for adults.
STOLEN DAUGHTERS: KIDNAPPED BY BOKO HARAM is an HBO documentary about the 276 Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped April 15, 2014 by the Islamic terror group named Boko Haram, or “Western Education Is Forbidden.” Fifty-seven girls escaped with some awful stories to tell, while 103 were rescued during negotiations with the Nigerian government, but the other girls remain missing. The filmmakers were allowed to go into a protective facility to speak with the girls, but they weren’t allowed to ask about the trials they suffered in the jungle. However, some girls gave the filmmakers their diaries. The filmmakers also talk with some women who’ve escaped Boko Haram. After an extended time in the government facility, the government releases the girls to study at the American University of Nigeria.
STOLEN DAUGHTERS doesn’t make pronouncements about the Muslims and the Christians, but it’s clear from the movie’s interviews that the Christians are the counselors, the caretakers, the helpers, and of course a large part of the American University. STOLEN DAUGHTERS is a clear expose of the evils of Islam and the need for Christian missions and ministry.
(BBB, C, FR, VV, S, M):
Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements:
Very strong moral worldview with some Christian as well as some Islamic content;
Foul Language:
No foul language;
Violence:
Lots of descriptions of violence include mass rape, cutting off parts of people’s bodies, and execution of families by Islamic terrorists and death by HIV;
Descriptions of rape;
Nudity:
No nudity;
Alcohol Use:
No alcohol use;
Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse:
No smoking or drugs; and,
Miscellaneous Immorality:
Kidnapping of children and girls.
STOLEN DAUGHTERS: KIDNAPPED BY BOKO HARAM is an HBO documentary about the 276 Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped April 15, 2014 by the Islamic terror group named Boko Haram, or “Western Education Is Forbidden.”
In April 2014, the world was shocked when the Islamic terror group Boko Haram raided a school in the Nigerian town of Chibok and took about 276 girls into the jungle. Fifty-seven girls escaped with some awful stories to tell, while 103 were rescued during negotiations with the Nigerian government, but the other girls remain missing. However, the Chibok girls are merely a small number of the more than 100,000 forgotten women who’ve been kidnapped by Boko Haram. Boko Haram has also kidnapped young boys to turn them into terrorists and mothers and fathers to be their slaves.
After being rescued after three years, the Chibok girls were put under government protection and cut off from the world. The filmmakers were allowed to go into the protective facility to speak with the girls, but they weren’t allowed to ask about their trials and tribulations they suffered in the jungle. However, some of the girls gave the filmmakers their diaries about what happened in the jungle.
The filmmakers also talk with some of the other forgotten women who escaped Boko Haram. One of these women was pregnant and has a young boy, whom she names Mohammed, who dies from HIV. She has HIV too from her Boko Haram captor from whom she escaped. Two boys who escaped Boko Haram choose her as their surrogate mother, so they become an impoverished family one the streets of one of the most dangerous cities in Nigeria.
One girl in the government facility had her leg blown off in the government bombing of Boko Haram. Another girl only wants to see her mother, and everyone is afraid to tell her that her mother is dead. After an extended time in the government facility, the government allows relatives to see the girls. Then, the government eventually releases the girls to study at the American University of Nigeria, a private nonprofit college supported from the United States. They join the 57 girls who escaped at the American University of Nigeria.
Although STOLEN DAUGHTERS doesn’t make pronouncements about the Muslims and the Christians, it is clear from the movie’s interviews that the Christians have hope, that they are the counselors, the caretakers, the helpers, and of course a large part of the American University. Meanwhile, the Muslims are either terrorists like Boko Haram or survivors who are very fatalistic. Nigeria had one of the largest Christian populations, but the Muslims have been moving down from the north to conquer the country through violence and cruelty. The president of Nigeria recently was a Muslim who tacitly condoned some of the atrocities. For instance, one girl described that she knew one captive that 10 men raped who was all bloody and died in her own blood. She also said that anyone who helped the girls escape was tortured. One old man was slowly killed by cutting off his hand, then a day later his ears and then a day later his mouth until he finally died from loss of blood and shock.
STOLEN DAUGHTERS is a clear expose of the evils of Islam and the need for Christian missions and ministry.
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DEEPAK CHOPRA/OPRAH WINFREY 21-DAY MEDIATION CHALLENGE
By hshermanpr@gmail.com
Motivational Music & 21st Century Post-Production Technology Create A ‘Clear’ Inspirational Voice
NEW YORK: Author, teacher, physician, holistic health guru, Deepak Chopra is a trusted voice in alternative medicine. A long-time advocate of the physical and emotional advantages of mediation, Chopra developed a 21-Day program to help novice and accomplished mediators experience and master its life affirming benefits. A discussion with celebrated humanitarian and media icon, Oprah Winfrey led to a unique collaboration. Their latest offering, Oprah & Deepak 21-Day Mediation Challenge™: Miraculous Relationships offers an illuminating, eminently accessible program of concentrated contemplation. This past August, nearly 700,000 people participated in the online audio version of the challenge.
To produce this worthy addition to the meditation lexicon, the Chopra Center, engaged composer/recording artist Scott E. Moore and his production company WingTip, Inc. In addition to his musical talents, Moore is an accomplished writer/director who had previously worked with Chopra on several high-end wellness videos. The assignment was to compose, produce and record 120 minutes of original music to serve as the instrumental soundtracks for Chopra’s recorded mediation guides.
“My first creative decision after getting the job was to call guitarist/composer/producer/engineer, Rich Tozzoli in to collaborate with me on this challenging project,” Moore reveals. “I’ve worked with Rich for years on many creative projects in the music and film worlds, and I knew he was gifted with the inspiration and the technical ability to help me develop two hours of innovative music within our six-week production time-frame.”
Each of the 21 individual tracks features a two-minute introduction by Oprah Winfrey, followed by a three-minute inspirational/instructional message recorded by Deepak Chopra before transitioning into a harmonious 8 minute “sound-scape” composed by Moore and Tozzoli. The objective of their collaboration was to approximate a film score “without the images,” a soothing aural environment to stimulate the mediators imagination.
Recording in a variety of Locations, Moore and Tozzoli invited a diverse group of skilled musicians to perform on the tracks. Guest artists included Akua Dixon (playing a 100 year old Cello), David Ondrick (Tibetan Bowls and toning chants), Kristen Hevner-Wyatt (acoustic piano), Andy Munitz (Violin), Bruce MacPherson (vintage anologue synthesizers) and Laura Josephson (classical Flageolet flute, circa 1830) and Ray Levier (drums, percussion, bowed vibraphone). Moore and Tozzoli added their own performances on both vintage and contemporary 6 and 12 string guitars, classical guitars, keyboards and electronic sound design. The tracks also incorporate ‘natural sounds’ including ocean, streams, bird songs and even the 17-year cicadas.
In creating the music, Tozzoli used the Sonnox Reverb, EQ, Dynamics and Inflator Plug-ins. Applying the Just Reverb setting helped him to create custom ambiences in conjunction with Altiverb and Eventide Space. He found the Inflator particularly useful on the acoustic instruments, in enabling him to increase their presence in the mix. He employed the EQ Plug-in to cut extraneous low end out of the reverbs, ‘cleaning’ the mix so as not to interfere with Deepaks voice – which includes numerous low frequencies. The Sonnox Oxford Dynamics Plug-in aided him in taming occasional instrumental ‘peaks’ in a clean, non-invasive way.
“Our project was well underway when we received Deepak’s initial introductory recordings,” Moore recalls. “Having worked with him on a video project, and being familiar with his work and speech patterns, I was aware that he had a rich tone, but also has a pronounced sibilance in his voice. Rich Tozzoli who has extensive engineering credits and is one of the most technically proficient recording artist/composers I know, immediately proposed that we suggest using the Sonnox Oxford SuprEsser plug-in to minimize this issue.”
“The SuprEsser proved itself to be a highly-featured De-Esser with an intuitive graphic display and three distinct listening modes. The Chopra Center’s engineers, who were responsible for marrying Deepak’s narration to the music, were able to dramatically improve the quality of Deepak’s voiceover, from previous recordings. The SuprEsser’s Automatic Level Tracking, and full (20Hz-20KHz) spectrum operation made an invaluable contribution to the overall quality of this project,” Moore adds. “We are really proud of our work on this, and especially to be part of creating something beautiful that can have such a positive impact on people’s lives.”
The Oprah & Deepak 21-Day Mediation Challenge™: Miraculous Relationships is currently available on CD, in two forms: the original guided meditation challenge and the Music & Mantras version.
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Submitted by sheromf on Thu, 08/27/2020 - 07:24
Sri Lanka Telecom Group welcomes TRC’s progressive move to bring number portability. One of the first decisions taken by the new Board of SLT was to lobby for number portability in Sri Lanka. The SLT Group, being the fastest network connecting Sri Lanka’s deep rural to the world is excited with the new possibilities number portability brings. The SLT Group stands perfectly poised to offer its best-in-class plethora of communication solutions to a transformational nation on the cusp of unparalleled development. SLT believes, this technological convenience will support His Excellency the President’s ‘saubhagye dakma’ to take every enterprise to its next stage of development while introducing a new energy to a nation determined to build an export driven economy.
“We are the nation’s telecommunication service provider. Our mandate is to enable the country’s transformation. Sri Lanka Telecom and Mobitel is a brand of the people of Sri Lanka and we will serve every requirement necessary for personal, professional and national growth with absolute pride” expressed Mr. Rohan Fernando, the Group Chairman
“We are very excited to offer the number portability solution to our customers. We have invented a basket of solutions that can transform any local enterprise. We are determined to give our pre and post paid customer base unparalleled 5G speed, convenience and affordability” added Mr. Lalith Seneviratne, the Group CEO.
SLT applauds Mr. Oshada Senanayke ,DG and his team at TRC for their forward thinking and timely implementation plan of number portability.
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Too soon to tell if new virus as dangerous as SARS
by: LAURAN NEERGAARD and MARIA CHENG, Associated Press
FILE – In this Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2020, file photo, a staff member moves bio-waste containers past the entrance of the Wuhan Medical Treatment Center in Wuhan, China, where some people infected with a new virus are being treated. The new virus comes from a large family of coronaviruses, some causing nothing worse than a cold. Others named SARS and MERS have killed hundreds in separate outbreaks. (AP Photo/Dake Kang, File)
The new virus from China has the world on edge because it’s a close cousin to viruses that killed hundreds in separate outbreaks. While it’s too early to tell if this latest threat will prove as deadly, health authorities are drawing on lessons from that grim past.
WHAT’S THE LINK
The new virus comes from a large family of coronaviruses, some causing nothing worse than a cold. But in late 2002, a coronavirus named SARS erupted in southern China, causing a severe pneumonia that rapidly spread to other countries. It infected more than 8,000 people and killed 774 — and then it disappeared, thanks to public health measures.
In 2012, another coronavirus dubbed MERS began sickening people in Saudi Arabia. It’s still hanging around, causing small numbers of infections each year: The World Health Organization has counted nearly 2,500 cases of MERS in the Middle East and beyond, and more than 850 deaths.
So far, deaths from the new virus have been a small fraction of the roughly 1,300 confirmed infections, most of those cases in China.
WHERE DO THESE VIRUSES COME FROM?
SARS and MERS came from animals, and this newest virus almost certainly did, too. The first people infected visited or worked at a seafood market in the Chinese city of Wuhan.
SARS initially was traced to civet cats sold in a live animal market, but later scientists decided it probably originated in bats that infected the civets. People can catch MERS from infected camels, although again, bats likely first spread that coronavirus to camels.
That animal-to-human jump is a huge concern for all kinds of viruses. Every so often, new strains of bird flu make the jump from Asian live poultry markets to people, for example.
“These wildlife markets are a risk,” said Dr. Ian Lipkin of Columbia University, who assisted the WHO and China during the SARS outbreak and advises Saudi Arabia about MERS.
HOW SIMILAR ARE THEY?
Experts can’t yet tell whether the new virus called 2019-nCoV — it stands for “novel coronavirus” — is more like SARS or MERS.
Genetically, they’re all closely related but “they really are different viruses,” said Dr. Anthony Fauci, infectious diseases chief at the U.S. National Institutes of Health.
One indication of a virus’ danger is how easily it spreads from person to person.
Unlike SARS, “it looks like it doesn’t transmit through the air very easily and probably transmits through close contact,” said Dr. David Heymann, who headed WHO’s global response to SARS.
And while it’s too soon to be sure, Heymann said the new virus appears most dangerous to older adults who have other health problems. .
Complicating matters, if this new virus is fairly mild, it may be harder to stem the spread. That’s because people who aren’t sick enough to see a doctor and thus don’t learn they should be isolated could keep spreading it, noted Neil Ferguson of Imperial College London, who has consulted for WHO. Nor is there any way to know yet how often people become infected but show no obvious symptoms.
“We may see more mild cases as the surveillance intensifies,” WHO spokesman Tarik Jasarevic said Friday in Geneva. “So the issue is not so much really numbers that we know will go up.”
IT’S FLU SEASON IN THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE — HOW WILL PEOPLE KNOW THE DIFFERENCE?
Since symptoms are similar — fever, cough and in more severe cases shortness of breath or pneumonia — it’ll take a medical test to tell. There is one, but health authorities in China, the U.S. and elsewhere are working to make it more widely available.
Given that it is flu season in China, too, it’s “all the more impressive that they were able to recognize this outbreak quickly,” Dr. Brian Garibaldi of Johns Hopkins University said.
Precautions that hospitals often use for flu season and for other infectious diseases should help for this, too, Garibaldi added. For example, in many U.S. hospitals people are given masks if they arrive with a fever and cough during flu season. And a legacy of the 2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak — which also resulted in infected travelers — is that doctors and hospitals are supposed to ask about recent foreign trips.
HUNTING VACCINES
While there is no vaccine — or specific treatment — for SARS or MERS, Fauci said it is technically possible to create a vaccine against this new virus. NIH did develop a potential vaccine candidate for SARS. It proved safe in a small first-step study in people but never was tested further because by then, the outbreak was ending.
This time around, scientists have more of a head start. Just weeks after the first unusual pneumonias were reported, Chinese scientists mapped the genes of the viral suspect and shared them with world health authorities.
Now, NIH is among several groups working to create a vaccine for the new virus, using newer and faster technology than was available during SARS. Fauci hopes to begin first-step safety tests in about three months, but something ready for real-world use would take far longer.
by Jazzmyn Allen / Jan 20, 2021
(WUTR-TV) --- In December, the Pew Research Center put out a survey to see how people felt about getting the COVID-19 vaccine. 39% said they would probably or definitely not get it. Healthcare professionals from Slocum Dickson Medical Group received their first round of the Moderna vaccine over 2 weeks ago, and say their experiences have both gone well.
"I went and had it done at the St. Elizabeth's clinic. It was pretty quick. . . It was a pretty traditional vaccine. I received it, my arm was a little sore for a day or so." - Dr. Kenneth Visalli, Primary Care Physician, Slocum Dickson Medical Group
by Crystal Martinez / Jan 20, 2021
AMARILLO, Texas (KAMR/KCIT) — The City of Amarillo will be giving out the first rounds of the second doses of COVID-19 vaccinations.
According to Casie Stoughton, Amarillo's Director of Public Health, the city has given around 23,000 vaccines at the Amarillo Civic Center.
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Eight additional maquiladora workers likely died of COVID-19
Chihuahua state officials say they knew of the deaths, but not that the victims worked for U.S.-run plants
Posted: Jun 8, 2020 / 11:48 AM CDT / Updated: Jun 8, 2020 / 12:30 PM CDT
JUAREZ, Mexico (Border Report) — The COVID-19 pandemic has likely claimed the lives of 25 maquiladora workers so far — not the 17 that Chihuahua state authorities had been reporting.
Dr. Arturo Valenzuela Zorrilla, state health director in Juarez, said eight previously reported fatalities are now believed to be employees of U.S.-run plants. The state will reclassify them pending review.
“We knew they were dead, but not that they were maquila workers,” Valenzuela said.
COVID-19 killing many young maquiladora workers, study shows
The maquiladoras are under particular scrutiny because they employ thousands of people who work inside buildings. Around 300,000 Juarez residents work in these plants and the state is now requiring they be provided personal protective equipment and afforded adequate social distancing.
The coronavirus has killed 396 people in this Mexican state bordering Texas and New Mexico. A majority of the victims had underlying medical conditions such as diabetes, hypertension and obesity.
As of Monday morning, COVID-19 had claimed 322 lives in Juarez — where most of the state’s U.S.-run plants are located — and infected 1,526 people.
Most businesses in Chihuahua remain closed under Mexico’s COVID-19 “red light” designation. U.S.-run plants that manufacture car and airplane parts, however, were reclassified as “essential” businesses last month and are now back at work.
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Cowboys for Trump group now says sand wasn’t from monument
by: RUSSELL CONTRERAS, Associated Press
Posted: Dec 6, 2019 / 01:47 PM CST / Updated: Dec 6, 2019 / 04:24 PM CST
FILE – In this Feb. 8, 2019 photo file, shows the gypsum sand dunes at White Sands National Monument near Alamogordo, N.M. The New Mexico group Cowboys for Trump is facing criticism after a member bragged the group brought iconic gypsum sands from the White Sands National Monument to Washington for a Christmas Tree lighting ceremony on Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2019, in a possible violation of federal law. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan, File)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Iconic gypsum sand that the group Cowboys for Trump had said was from White Sands National Monument in New Mexico and was sent to Washington for the U.S. Capitol Tree lighting ceremony this week was actually gathered just outside the monument, one of the group’s co-founders said Friday.
The group had caused a political furor after announcing it sent the sand because it’s illegal to remove sand from the park — and Democrats claimed the group might have violated federal law.
But Otero County Commission Chairman and Cowboys for Trump co-founder Couy Griffin told The Associated Press the group collected its four “big plastic bins” of extremely fine, pure white sand from outside monument’s perimeter for delivery to Wednesday’s tree lighting ceremony after getting permission from the New Mexico Department of Transportation.
Cowboys for Trump members in social media posts and in videos had said that the “white sand was from White Sand National Monument.” Griffin repeated the claim in a Nov. 30 Facebook video but said in the interview Friday that his earlier statement was not accurate.
“It’s not like I drove onto the monument to collect sand. We got permission from the state Department of Transportation who collected to for us,” Griffin said.
New Mexico Department of Transportation spokeswoman Marisa Maez did not immediately return an email seeking comment.
Griffin said he also reached out to state Sen. William Burt, a Republican, for help in getting permission to take the sand. Wind and weather regularly blows the gypsum sands inside and outside the monument.
The transported sand was given as a gift to New Mexico’s congressional delegation so it could be “showcased” with the tree. The tree is a large blue spruce from the Carson National Forest in northern New Mexico.
Griffin said the group scrapped plans to leave the sand under the tree and instead invited attendees at Washington social events to take small bags it. The group also presented sand to all members of the Democratic U.S. Congressional delegation as a gesture of what it called bipartisanship and to promote New Mexico, Griffin said.
Removing natural resources from U.S. national parks units, including national monuments, is illegal without permission.
“Federal laws and policies prohibit the taking of sand and any resource from within the national monument,” White Sands National Monument tweeted from its official account after Griffin posted videos about the sand on social media. “The illegal taking of resources from within the national monument is a Class B misdemeanor punishable with a $5,000 fine or six months in jail.”
The monument cannot sell natural material found in White Sands National Monument or items made from the sand in its gift shop, White Sands National Monument Superintendent Marie Sauter told the Alamogordo Daily News.
After Cowboys for Trump posted videos about transporting the sand, the Democratic Party of New Mexico accused the group of violating federal law.
“Cowboys for Trump and Couy Griffin are prioritizing a publicity stunt over the well-being of one of New Mexico’s most incredible natural areas,” the state party spokeswoman Miranda van Dijk said in a statement. “By stealing from a National Monument, they’re disrespecting the law and damaging efforts to preserve White Sands for future generations of New Mexicans.
In an interview with Albuquerque-based KOB-TV in Washington on Wednesday after the tree was lit, Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham mentioned the sand while talking about ornaments and other tokens representing New Mexico. Lujan Grisham spokesman Tripp Stelnicki confirmed Friday that governor was given a gift of sand by the group.
“The governor would not have accepted the gift had she known or suspected it was taken improperly,” Stelnicki said. “She gets handed a lot of things.”
New Mexico’s Democratic state auditor is investigating an Otero County travel reimbursement with taxpayer money issued to Griffin in connection with Cowboys for Trump activities.
Griffin traveled to Washington in part to attend a Sept. 12 conference with representatives from western states. A travel voucher listed a meeting with President Donald Trump as the reason for the expense.
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Neighbors host vigil to honor democracy, unity ahead of Election Day
'We have more in common than what divides us'
Updated: 11:25 PM EDT Oct 30, 2020
Ross Ketschke
NBC5'S ROS HERE IN VERMONT - MORE THAN 220- THOUSAND EARLY BALLOTS HAVE BEEN SUBMITTED... A SIGN OF HOW PASSIONATE SO MANY ARE ABOUT THIS ELECTION. TONIGHT - A GROUP CAME TOGETHER IN ABOUT THIS ELECTION. TONIGHT - A GROUP CAME TOGETHER IN MONTPELIER TO COMMIT TO NOT LETTING THAT PASSION DIVIDE THEIR COMMUNITY <00;05;09;12 JOSEPH GAINZA, ORGANIZER "WE DON'T LOOK AND ASK PEOPLE WHAT THEIR POLITICAL AFFILIATION IS IF THEY'RE OFF THE ROAD. WE JUST GO AND HELP THEM > JUST DAYS AWAY FROM ELECTION DAY. <00;12;01;27 "WE'RE ASKING YOU TO RESPOND TO THE QUESTION, WHAT DOES DEMOCRACY MEAN TO ME?> A LOADED QUESTION FROM FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS ON THE STATE HOUSE LAWN... <00;08;53;13 JOSEPH GAINZA, ORGANIZER "DEMOCRACY SAYS THAT EVERY PERSON IS SIGNIFICANT. EVERYONE IS IMPORTANT."> IT'S THAT UNDERSTANDING OF áEVERYONEá THAT JOSEPH GAINZA IS HOPING TO SPARK IN OTHER AHEAD OF ELECTION DAY. HOSTING A VIGIL AS A REMINDER OF THE TIES THAT BIND PEOPLE TOGETHER... DESPITE THE POLITICS THAT AT TIMES FORCES THEM APART. <00;08;44;16 JOSEPH GAINZA, ORGANIZER "YES, WD DO DISAGREE BUT WE HAVE MORE IN COMMONTHAN WHAT DIVIDES US."> <00;03;15;14 CLEMENT DESPUALT, WATERBURY "WE'VE GOTTA GET ALONG IN THIS WORK BECAUSE THERE'S TOO MUCH GOING ON TO HAVE TO FIGHT."> IN NEARBY WATERBURY... CLEMENT DESPAILT IS ALSO HOPING THE TONE OF POLITICS CAN BE TAKEN DOWN NOTCH. HE'S PUTTING OUT SIGNS SUPPORTING PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP. AND WANTS OTHERS PARTAKE IN SOME DEMOCRACY OF THEIR OWN. <00;04;07;07 CLEMENT DESPUALT, WATERBURY "JUST GO VOTE! YOU AIN'T GOTTA VOTE FOR TRUMP. YOU AIN'T GOTTA VOTE FOR BIDEN. VOTE FOR YOUR TOWNS PEOPLE!> BOTH DESPAUKT AND GAINZA SAY THEY KNOW HOW IMPORTANT AND CONSEQUENTIAL EACH ELECTION CAN BE... BUT ALSO KNOW THAT WHEN THE DUST SETTLES AFTER ELECTION DAY... AND ONE CANDIDATE IS NAMED THE WINNER... VOTERS - STILL HAVE TO BE NEIGHBORS. <00;06;45;11 JOSEPH GAINZA, ORGANIZER WE SHOULD NEVER ALLOW THAT ANGER TO RIP APART COMMUNITIES,BREAK APART OUR DEMOCRACY, BREAK APART THIS WONDERFUL COUNTRY."> (áááLIVEááá) THEY'RE ASKING EVERYONE TO CARRY THIS EVERYONE TO CARRY THIS SENSE OF CIVIC DUTY
Neighbors met on the Vermont State House lawn on Friday for an event centered around politics but that had a different goal than any rally or honk-and-wave ahead of Election Day. The evening was billed as a vigil for democracy, intended as a celebration of free and fair elections and a reminder of each American's civic duty to vote. "Democracy says that every person is significant," said Joseph Gainza, who organized the vigil. Gainza said he hoped all who attended would walk away with a commitment to not allow political differences to divide communities. “We don’t look and ask people what their political affiliation is if they’re off the road," he said. "We just go and help them." Participants were asked to share what the idea of voting and democracy meant to them as individuals. Gainza said growing up through the civil rights movement, he treasures his own right to vote. All in attendance were asked to peacefully accept the results of next week's elections, regardless of the winners.
Neighbors met on the Vermont State House lawn on Friday for an event centered around politics but that had a different goal than any rally or honk-and-wave ahead of Election Day.
The evening was billed as a vigil for democracy, intended as a celebration of free and fair elections and a reminder of each American's civic duty to vote.
"Democracy says that every person is significant," said Joseph Gainza, who organized the vigil.
Gainza said he hoped all who attended would walk away with a commitment to not allow political differences to divide communities.
“We don’t look and ask people what their political affiliation is if they’re off the road," he said. "We just go and help them."
Participants were asked to share what the idea of voting and democracy meant to them as individuals.
Gainza said growing up through the civil rights movement, he treasures his own right to vote.
All in attendance were asked to peacefully accept the results of next week's elections, regardless of the winners.
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Nigel Farage named Briton of the Year
Lis65efk
I don't know, i was referring to the fact that i heard him say he had not said he would disadvantage disabled but you are saying he will. I asked where you got that from. Is it just what you think will happen?Ros12flahttps://www.netmums.com/coffeehouse/other-chat-514/politics-866/1224223-nigel-farage-named-briton-year-8.html#post12522501The very few things he has actually said do not bode well. So, what is that he will do to help and support the disabled then Rose? You must know to have your viewpoint. Of course he'd say he won't disadvantage them, but it would be good to hear how he's going to achieve that???LL
Ros12fla wrote:
I don't know, i was referring to the fact that i heard him say he had not said he would disadvantage disabled but you are saying he will. I asked where you got that from. Is it just what you think will happen?
The very few things he has actually said do not bode well.
So, what is that he will do to help and support the disabled then Rose? You must know to have your viewpoint. Of course he'd say he won't disadvantage them, but it would be good to hear how he's going to achieve that???LL
Ros12fla
There are options, but you have experienced one case out of many thousands. Sent from my KFTT using Netmums mobile appemma r(1047)https://www.netmums.com/coffeehouse/other-chat-514/politics-866/1224223-nigel-farage-named-briton-year-8.html#post12522193no, i have given one case as an example of a person unable to do one job who can do another.
emma r(1047) wrote:
There are options, but you have experienced one case out of many thousands.
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no, i have given one case as an example of a person unable to do one job who can do another.
fra92ynb
Nigel Farage is no more honest than any other politician sitting very comfortably in the House of Commons, oh and sitting very uncomfortably in European Parliament!! He is a laughing stock in Europe, maybe that's why he feels it's time to leave? The problem is we don't have a one party fits all We have the Tories, who support (not enhance) the economy and forget their human public voters They really are vile, when people who are struggling would rather commit suicide than live another Winter in this Country and they fail to even recognise this And we have Labour who support the public to the detriment of the economy The nanny state What we need is a party who recognise the failings of the others (that's the easy bit) and work out how best to blend the needs of the people with the economic reality of these times and make the very best of a not great era Yes there need to be cuts, but cuts to wastage and tax avoidance, not poor peoples only source of income I am sick to death of parties blaming each other for the mess, yes yes we know years ago the 'other' party made catastrophic errors which take years to mop up, but what we lack now are visionaries, passionate leadership, forward thinkers, innovation and ANYTHING other than bloody career politicians in it for their own gain and that includes Mr Farage No, he is not MY Briton of the year
Nigel Farage is no more honest than any other politician sitting very comfortably in the House of Commons, oh and sitting very uncomfortably in European Parliament!! He is a laughing stock in Europe, maybe that's why he feels it's time to leave?
The problem is we don't have a one party fits all
We have the Tories, who support (not enhance) the economy and forget their human public voters They really are vile, when people who are struggling would rather commit suicide than live another Winter in this Country and they fail to even recognise this
And we have Labour who support the public to the detriment of the economy The nanny state
What we need is a party who recognise the failings of the others (that's the easy bit) and work out how best to blend the needs of the people with the economic reality of these times and make the very best of a not great era
Yes there need to be cuts, but cuts to wastage and tax avoidance, not poor peoples only source of income
I am sick to death of parties blaming each other for the mess, yes yes we know years ago the 'other' party made catastrophic errors which take years to mop up, but what we lack now are visionaries, passionate leadership, forward thinkers, innovation and ANYTHING other than bloody career politicians in it for their own gain and that includes Mr Farage
No, he is not MY Briton of the year
The very few things he has actually said do not bode well. So, what is that he will do to help and support the disabled then Rose? You must know to have your viewpoint. Of course he'd say he won't disadvantage them, but it would be good to hear how he's going to achieve that???LLLisa C(1175)https://www.netmums.com/coffeehouse/other-chat-514/politics-866/1224223-nigel-farage-named-briton-year-8.html#post12522546I don't know Lisa, i was referring only to the fact you are spouting what you think he will do, when i have heard him say he will not.. that is all. I asked you where you had heard him say he would do these things and you keep asking me other things.. are you a politician in disguise?
So, what is that he will do to help and support the disabled then Rose? You must know to have your viewpoint.
I don't know Lisa, i was referring only to the fact you are spouting what you think he will do, when i have heard him say he will not.. that is all. I asked you where you had heard him say he would do these things and you keep asking me other things.. are you a politician in disguise?
no, i have given one case as an example of a person unable to do one job who can do another.Ros12flahttps://www.netmums.com/coffeehouse/other-chat-514/politics-866/1224223-nigel-farage-named-briton-year-9.html#post12522558you actually said there's many options for the disabled to work. That's one, not many.
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you actually said there's many options for the disabled to work. That's one, not many.
I don't know Lisa, i was referring only to the fact you are spouting what you think he will do, when i have heard him say he will not.. that is all. I asked you where you had heard him say he would do these things and you keep asking me other things.. are you a politician in disguise?Ros12flahttps://www.netmums.com/coffeehouse/other-chat-514/politics-866/1224223-nigel-farage-named-briton-year-9.html#post12522589Haven't said What he'll do, how can I, he hasn't announced any policies. All I can say is that the things he has said do not sound very promising. And of course he's ultra right wing. Of course I'm not a politician, I'm a concerned citizen, however, you seem very assured about a party with no policies.
Haven't said What he'll do, how can I, he hasn't announced any policies.
All I can say is that the things he has said do not sound very promising. And of course he's ultra right wing.
Of course I'm not a politician, I'm a concerned citizen, however, you seem very assured about a party with no policies.
Hazel F(19)
I know someone who has been sick from work, the NHS , for a number of physical ailments and in this absence has managed to earn money from sport and set up a business. It just goes to show there are many options for work for various disabilities.Ros12flahttps://www.netmums.com/coffeehouse/other-chat-514/politics-866/1224223-nigel-farage-named-briton-year-8.html#post12522172How the heck do you get from one person having been in paid employment for years anyway and then being paid a decent 'wage' when off longterm sick, and taking that time off to set up his own business to 'many options for work for various disabilities'?? My disabled relative neither has the money or the energy to start up and run his own business. He used to but cant anymore because of various factors. Does that mean he isnt trying hard enough to work? He doesnt have any money left at the end of the week to do anything with anyway as that stupid excuse for an assessor took away his disability money and he has to sign on now which costs him money to travel to, (the job center people agree it is wasting his time and money and their time, nobody is going to employ him) and which leaves him with less money to pay his bills with and to get food with nevermind set up a business.
I know someone who has been sick from work, the NHS , for a number of physical ailments and in this absence has managed to earn money from sport and set up a business. It just goes to show there are many options for work for various disabilities.
How the heck do you get from one person having been in paid employment for years anyway and then being paid a decent 'wage' when off longterm sick, and taking that time off to set up his own business to 'many options for work for various disabilities'??
My disabled relative neither has the money or the energy to start up and run his own business. He used to but cant anymore because of various factors. Does that mean he isnt trying hard enough to work? He doesnt have any money left at the end of the week to do anything with anyway as that stupid excuse for an assessor took away his disability money and he has to sign on now which costs him money to travel to, (the job center people agree it is wasting his time and money and their time, nobody is going to employ him) and which leaves him with less money to pay his bills with and to get food with nevermind set up a business.
Yes, everyone who can work, should, but that's not what's happening! The only way that will happen with the disabled is of employers and the government support them to do so, but that's not happening. Simply withdrawing benefits clear,y doesn't achieve it. I'd jump for joy if I thought my child would be enabled to work, but that's not what is happening now.Lisa C(1175)https://www.netmums.com/coffeehouse/other-chat-514/politics-866/1224223-nigel-farage-named-briton-year-8.html#post12522513It isn't just about people with a disability Lisa, there are people working part time hours when they could work more, and those not working at all when they could do more to remedy that by equipping themselves with skills or enabling their circumstances. I work in all types of environments and see a lot of what is done to facilitate the employment of lots of people, not just the disabled.
Yes, everyone who can work, should, but that's not what's happening! The only way that will happen with the disabled is of employers and the government support them to do so, but that's not happening. Simply withdrawing benefits clear,y doesn't achieve it. I'd jump for joy if I thought my child would be enabled to work, but that's not what is happening now.
It isn't just about people with a disability Lisa, there are people working part time hours when they could work more, and those not working at all when they could do more to remedy that by equipping themselves with skills or enabling their circumstances.
I work in all types of environments and see a lot of what is done to facilitate the employment of lots of people, not just the disabled.
How the heck do you get from one person having been in paid employment for years anyway and then being paid a decent 'wage' when off longterm sick, and taking that time off to set up his own business to 'many options for work for various disabilities'?? My disabled relative neither has the money or the energy to start up and run his own business. He used to but cant anymore because of various factors. Does that mean he isnt trying hard enough to work? He doesnt have any money left at the end of the week to do anything with anyway as that stupid excuse for an assessor took away his disability money and he has to sign on now which costs him money to travel to, (the job center people agree it is wasting his time and money and their time, nobody is going to employ him) and which leaves him with less money to pay his bills with and to get food with nevermind set up a business.Hazel F(19)https://www.netmums.com/coffeehouse/other-chat-514/politics-866/1224223-nigel-farage-named-briton-year-9.html#post12522628I am sorry to hear about your relative but some disabled people can do some things.
Hazel F(19) wrote:
I am sorry to hear about your relative but some disabled people can do some things.
Haven't said What he'll do, how can I, he hasn't announced any policies. All I can say is that the things he has said do not sound very promising. And of course he's ultra right wing. Of course I'm not a politician, I'm a concerned citizen, however, you seem very assured about a party with no policies.Lisa C(1175)https://www.netmums.com/coffeehouse/other-chat-514/politics-866/1224223-nigel-farage-named-briton-year-9.html#post12522618What has he said then that doesn't sound very promising to you? I am not assured about any party Lisa, i am merely discussing this particular issue.
What has he said then that doesn't sound very promising to you? I am not assured about any party Lisa, i am merely discussing this particular issue.
On the topic of the disabled working 45% of disabled people already work A minority of those workers received money from the Independent Living Fund, thus enabling them to work and employing others to enable them to work, this has been cut by the Tories not once but twice, it was reinstated the first time and is deeply unpopular - it is disabling, not enabling I believe most disabled people can work, but as a society you have to enable this, same as parents needing child care to work, but for a government to declare thousands fit to work and then pull the rug from under them is wrong Disability covers a multitude of ability issues, for the physically and mentally disabled, as any valid member of society it is not about whether they should work but their right to work in a capacity they are able to work in, and it is a governments duty to enable that to happen, not force people into an already over stretched work market place on an unequal footing Equality is about having the same opportunity, not the same of everything regardless of whether you need it or not
On the topic of the disabled working
45% of disabled people already work A minority of those workers received money from the Independent Living Fund, thus enabling them to work and employing others to enable them to work, this has been cut by the Tories not once but twice, it was reinstated the first time and is deeply unpopular - it is disabling, not enabling
I believe most disabled people can work, but as a society you have to enable this, same as parents needing child care to work, but for a government to declare thousands fit to work and then pull the rug from under them is wrong
Disability covers a multitude of ability issues, for the physically and mentally disabled, as any valid member of society it is not about whether they should work but their right to work in a capacity they are able to work in, and it is a governments duty to enable that to happen, not force people into an already over stretched work market place on an unequal footing
Equality is about having the same opportunity, not the same of everything regardless of whether you need it or not
I don't know, i was referring to the fact that i heard him say he had not said he would disadvantage disabled but you are saying he will. I asked where you got that from. Is it just what you think will happen?Ros12flahttps://www.netmums.com/coffeehouse/other-chat-514/politics-866/1224223-nigel-farage-named-briton-year-8.html#post12522501On Disability: UKIP’s 2010 manifesto included a call to move away from independent living and inclusive education, and for out-of-work disability benefits to be paid at the same rate as jobseeker’s allowance. UKIP initially backed (though later suspended) Geoffrey Clark, would be Kent counsellor who suggested that mothers carrying foetuses with Downs syndrome or spina bifida should be forced to have abortions to avoid the child being “a burden on the state as well as on the family” (The Guardian, 18 December, 2012). UKIP has recently appointed a disability spokesperson but has yet to reveal any policy changes. (this was last year) Other ukip prominent members have told women trade union reps to "stick to giving advice about nappies and breast feeding". LeFarge described the EP 'Pregnant Workers Directive' as "bad news" and was unhappy that he couldnt stop it going through! Another claimed that the 2nd world war was "engineered by the zionists" Another reckons OBahma is a closet Isalamist who he wouldnt sit next to on a bus if he was carrying a rucksack! Pick a quote any quote about homosexuality... there are a few. The level of intellect in prominent members of this party gives me no reason to trust them with a hamster never mind the country! To Quote Billy Connoly "Dont vote it only encourages them" The whole country needs a shake up but I wont hold my breath that any of them at present are capable of doing it properly.
On Disability: UKIP’s 2010 manifesto included a call to move away from independent living and inclusive education, and for out-of-work disability benefits to be paid at the same rate as jobseeker’s allowance. UKIP initially backed (though later suspended) Geoffrey Clark, would be Kent counsellor who suggested that mothers carrying foetuses with Downs syndrome or spina bifida should be forced to have abortions to avoid the child being “a burden on the state as well as on the family” (The Guardian, 18 December, 2012).
UKIP has recently appointed a disability spokesperson but has yet to reveal any policy changes. (this was last year)
Other ukip prominent members have told women trade union reps to "stick to giving advice about nappies and breast feeding".
LeFarge described the EP 'Pregnant Workers Directive' as "bad news" and was unhappy that he couldnt stop it going through!
Another claimed that the 2nd world war was "engineered by the zionists"
Another reckons OBahma is a closet Isalamist who he wouldnt sit next to on a bus if he was carrying a rucksack!
Pick a quote any quote about homosexuality... there are a few.
The level of intellect in prominent members of this party gives me no reason to trust them with a hamster never mind the country!
To Quote Billy Connoly "Dont vote it only encourages them"
The whole country needs a shake up but I wont hold my breath that any of them at present are capable of doing it properly.
I am sorry to hear about your relative but some disabled people can do some things.Ros12flahttps://www.netmums.com/coffeehouse/other-chat-514/politics-866/1224223-nigel-farage-named-briton-year-9.html#post12522676What an awful thing to say!! Every disabled person can do something, whether it is enough to be able to get by with no support is a very different thing.
What an awful thing to say!!
Every disabled person can do something, whether it is enough to be able to get by with no support is a very different thing.
On Disability: UKIP’s 2010 manifesto included a call to move away from independent living and inclusive education, and for out-of-work disability benefits to be paid at the same rate as jobseeker’s allowance. UKIP initially backed (though later suspended) Geoffrey Clark, would be Kent counsellor who suggested that mothers carrying foetuses with Downs syndrome or spina bifida should be forced to have abortions to avoid the child being “a burden on the state as well as on the family” (The Guardian, 18 December, 2012). UKIP has recently appointed a disability spokesperson but has yet to reveal any policy changes. (this was last year) Other ukip prominent members have told women trade union reps to "stick to giving advice about nappies and breast feeding". LeFarge described the EP 'Pregnant Workers Directive' as "bad news" and was unhappy that he couldnt stop it going through! Another claimed that the 2nd world war was "engineered by the zionists" Another reckons OBahma is a closet Isalamist who he wouldnt sit next to on a bus if he was carrying a rucksack! Pick a quote any quote about homosexuality... there are a few. The level of intellect in prominent members of this party gives me no reason to trust them with a hamster never mind the country! To Quote Billy Connoly "Dont vote it only encourages them" The whole country needs a shake up but I wont hold my breath that any of them at present are capable of doing it properly.Hazel F(19)https://www.netmums.com/coffeehouse/other-chat-514/politics-866/1224223-nigel-farage-named-briton-year-9.html#post12522902Is all of this from direct quotes or just newspaper tripe?
Is all of this from direct quotes or just newspaper tripe?
I am sorry to hear about your relative but some disabled people can do some things.Ros12flahttps://www.netmums.com/coffeehouse/other-chat-514/politics-866/1224223-nigel-farage-named-briton-year-9.html#post12522676Thank you, but your original statement suggested that there are many opportunities for all disabled people to go to work when there really arent. They are not all lead swingers, my relative worked all his life till he couldnt do it any longer, and what did he get? The rug pulled out from under him, his 80yr old mother giving him food as he cant afford to heat more than one room in his house and also buy the proper food he is supposed to eat for his condition! A lot of the people who were 'lost' during the assesment process are now looking at permanent 'unemployment' without the necessary disabled persons support system because they are no longer classed as 'disabled' because of some person who had no idea about their actual disability nor how it affects their daily life. The whole thing was a farce and targeted the vulnerable not the lead swingers. The money spent on paying Atos to botch up the assessments and then the appeals system (where despite evidence they still declined many peoples claims) could have been spent on targeting helping these people who wanted to work get into employment. Of course its not as simple as it seems, many smaller companies just cannot fork out thousands to change the workplace to enable disabled people to go to work. It may not seem fair but its simple economics. Some disabled people would need radical restructuring of the workplace, doors widened, lifts, toilets built, special equipment and not every employer would be able to do this all at once to be able to employ somebody no matter how much they would like to. Why dont the government offer subsidies and support so that companies can do this, so smaller family companies would be able to offer work in a less competative and more supportive environment? Local companies would be able to employ more of the local community with the right qualifications, not get in people from further afield, perhaps they just need a lift installed or something similar. There is no easy solution but nobody seems to be looking at solutions, just quick fixes. If we slash the number of 'disabled' people on the statistics then we can say they are now the 'undeserving poor' needing to get off their backsides and find a job! We can then sanction them for not trying hard enough to attend courses, job centre interviews, and not getting interviews from employers, course how they would get up the stairs to the interview isnt our problem!
Thank you, but your original statement suggested that there are many opportunities for all disabled people to go to work when there really arent. They are not all lead swingers, my relative worked all his life till he couldnt do it any longer, and what did he get? The rug pulled out from under him, his 80yr old mother giving him food as he cant afford to heat more than one room in his house and also buy the proper food he is supposed to eat for his condition!
A lot of the people who were 'lost' during the assesment process are now looking at permanent 'unemployment' without the necessary disabled persons support system because they are no longer classed as 'disabled' because of some person who had no idea about their actual disability nor how it affects their daily life.
The whole thing was a farce and targeted the vulnerable not the lead swingers. The money spent on paying Atos to botch up the assessments and then the appeals system (where despite evidence they still declined many peoples claims) could have been spent on targeting helping these people who wanted to work get into employment.
Of course its not as simple as it seems, many smaller companies just cannot fork out thousands to change the workplace to enable disabled people to go to work. It may not seem fair but its simple economics. Some disabled people would need radical restructuring of the workplace, doors widened, lifts, toilets built, special equipment and not every employer would be able to do this all at once to be able to employ somebody no matter how much they would like to.
Why dont the government offer subsidies and support so that companies can do this, so smaller family companies would be able to offer work in a less competative and more supportive environment? Local companies would be able to employ more of the local community with the right qualifications, not get in people from further afield, perhaps they just need a lift installed or something similar. There is no easy solution but nobody seems to be looking at solutions, just quick fixes. If we slash the number of 'disabled' people on the statistics then we can say they are now the 'undeserving poor' needing to get off their backsides and find a job! We can then sanction them for not trying hard enough to attend courses, job centre interviews, and not getting interviews from employers, course how they would get up the stairs to the interview isnt our problem!
Is all of this from direct quotes or just newspaper tripe?Ros12flahttps://www.netmums.com/coffeehouse/other-chat-514/politics-866/1224223-nigel-farage-named-briton-year-9.html#post12522932UKIP manifesto Rest are all interview quotes or 'tweets', statements or were written by the people named on websites etc for all the world to see or hear. Dont need to make up this stuff they are all spouting quite enough good old fashioned hate, intollerance, misogyny, bigotry etc for themselves.
Rest are all interview quotes or 'tweets', statements or were written by the people named on websites etc for all the world to see or hear. Dont need to make up this stuff they are all spouting quite enough good old fashioned hate, intollerance, misogyny, bigotry etc for themselves.
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The Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat is pleased to announce the release of a new 24-color Basquiat screenprint titled Flexible (1984/2016), published by Flatiron Editions. The edition of 85 will be available exclusively through Pace Prints starting on June 7, 2016 at 11:00am EDT.
Flexible, based on a panel painting created in Basquiat's Venice, California studio in 1984, portrays the griot--a storyteller, entertainer, and purveyor of oral history from West African culture. Referencing the artist's exploration of and struggle with the role of artist-as-everyman, his interest in imagery from earlier cultures, an affinity for historical and contemporary black figures and an x-ray view into internal organs, Flexible conveys an examination of identity. Basquiat's signature broad, aggressive brush strokes and flat areas of color both reveal and conceal previous layers of paint and imagery, framing one of the artist's most arresting and iconic figures.
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Laurie Penny on how protest is being outlawed
The message from the Alfie Meadows case is clear: if you protest, the police can do what they like to you.
By Laurie Penny
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Alfie Meadows still hasn't grown his hair back. When they rushed him into theatre for emergency brain surgery after his injury in a demonstration against the tripling of university fees, doctors shaved the 20-year-old's shoulder-length locks, the style that announces to the world "I am a philosophy student". Now the thatch is gone, exposing a hand-length scar across his skull, he looks much younger. Thin and shy with eyes that dart downwards, Meadows speaks rarely, and never about his legal case against the Metropolitan police officers who his lawyers claim nearly killed him. This week he goes on trial for violent disorder for his actions that day, a charge that could land him in jail.
The message being sent may as well have been printed on official police stationary and distributed outside the court: in protest situations, police are never in the wrong. Meadows is among the most high profile of dozens of protesters who have been tried for serious public order offences over the past eighteen months. As emergency measures against public assembly and popular protest are passed in time for the Olympics, any political direct action more energetic than standing silently with a few signs in designated areas is becoming functionally illegal in Britain.
The narrative of public dissent is being rewritten with astonishing speed. As police continue to crack heads with impunity, peaceful protesters are handed down harsh deterrent charges. Ten defendants in the Fortnum and Mason trial were recently given six-month suspended sentences for aggravated trespass, essentially for standing around in a grocery shop with some leaflets. I was there at the time, and the worst I saw was some slogans against corporate tax avoidance being carefully wrapped on printed ticker-tape around large stacks of Earl Grey tea. For those swept up in last year's riots, meanwhile, there hasn't been a crumb of mercy. As I write, teenagers are still in prison for creating Facebook events.
Whatever we think about how these young people behaved, we should have the decency to call them what they are: political prisoners. That this government has run out of ideas for enforcing austerity beyond frightening people into compliance may be of little comfort to those whose young lives and job prospects will be blighted by deterrent jail sentences.
As with music and angular haircuts, so with public order policing -- the Americans are at least a year behind us in keeping up with the latest trends. This week, during another brutal crackdown on Occupy Wall Street, skulls were stomped on, heads were cracked into windows and journalists were dragged or shoved away from the scene as anti-capitalist protesters attempted to peacefully reoccupy Zucotti Park, site of the original encampment that drew international attention last September.
From behind hastily-erected police barricades, I watched as a curly-haired girl in green appeared to begin having a seizure during her arrest, flopping about on the pavement with her hands cuffed and passing out more than once before police eventually allowed an ambulance behind the lines. As she was stretchered away, protesters standing near me speculated that the NYPD would have to put the girl -- later identified as 23-year-old Cecily McMillan -- on a felony charge to "get out of this one".
Sure enough, McMillan was released into custody the next day and charged with assaulting a police officer, a crime that could see her serving over a year in prison. I thought of Alfie Meadows, whose trial in London will send the same message to anyone thinking of joining the cultural backlash against austerity and kamikaze capitalism. If you protest, the police can do what they like to you. Any sort of public dissent can and will be met with force. You chose to protest, so you asked for it. Next time, make it easy on yourself -- sit down, shut up and stay at home.
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Digeo to Cut Pricing on Moxi HD DVR
By Todd Spangler 06 May 2007
With the introduction of its next HD digital-video recorder, Digeo will drop the box’s price to cable operators by one-third compared with previous devices.
CEO Mike Fidler declined to disclose pricing details but said Digeo is now bringing itself in line with pricing from other set-top-box providers. “Recognizing that the market is very competitive, we’re trying to make sure we offer a product that is appealing and drives the right economics,” he added.
The company’s Moxi user interface has won Emmy Awards, but Digeo has had difficulty landing deals with cable operators in the face of competition from Motorola and Scientific Atlanta. Digeo’s set-tops have been deployed to 400,000 subscribers with eight operators.
In January, Digeo announced plans to sell its “digital-media recorders” directly to consumers starting later this year.
The new Moxi HD DVR will begin shipping in the fourth quarter of 2007. Digeo said it will have a version of Moxi written for Cable Television Laboratories’ OpenCable Application Platform that could be ready as early as then.
The DVR will have 160 gigabytes of storage capacity, twice that of Digeo’s current models. Fidler said the company tested the box with up to 1 terabyte of external storage -- enough space for 1,000 hours of video. When it ships, the Moxi HD DVR will include an external Serial ATA (eSATA) port, he added.
Other new Moxi features include overall improved speed from optimizations Digeo made to the underlying software. The DVR will also provide Web-based scheduling, including the ability to identify whether a recording conflicts with an existing one and let the user know “in near real-time” over the Internet, president and chief operating officer Greg Gudorf said, adding, “It’s remote scheduling done right.”
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Potentially 730,000 private water wells affected by recent hurricanes in the Atlantic
As in 2017, many private water wells were flooded by hurricanes and their aftermath this year.
The 2018 Atlantic hurricane season, typically considered the period from June 1 through November 30, has been “above-average,” according to experts in mid-October. The season is the first on record to see six subtropical storms.
On September 5, Hurricane Florence became the first major hurricane of the season and wettest tropical cyclone recorded in North Carolina and South Carolina. Just more than one month later, Michael became the second major hurricane of the season on October 7, hitting the Florida Panhandle with significant rainfall, also reaching southern Georgia, and dumping more rain in the Carolina counties already affected by Florence. Michael was the strongest on record in the Florida Panhandle and later became the fourth-strongest landfalling hurricane in the contiguous Untied States in terms of wind speed.
Considering both hurricanes, potentially 730,000 or more private wells in North and South Carolina as well as Florida, Georgia, Alabama, and Virginia may have been affected by the effects of flooding, high water table connection to septic systems, flood debris damage, or related incidents, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s 1990 Household Water Supply Survey.
The following numbers of private wells (drilled and dug) were tabulated for counties with disaster designation or receiving 5 or more inches of rainfall during Florence and Michael:
North Carolina —351,936
South Carolina — 134,595
Georgia — 91,513
Florida — 69,673
Virginia — 50,685
Alabama — 32,787
Total — 731,189.
To derive these numbers of wells, state county maps of disaster designation were overlain with National Weather Service rainfall intensity maps to identify the counties and wells potentially affected, according to Chuck Job, NGWA regulatory affairs manager, who compiled this data. Additional adjacent counties may have had significant flooding from lesser rainfall amounts that also impacted wells.
The 1990 Household Water Supply Survey is the last one to track all counties.
“Areas potentially affected by high water tables from heavy rainfall can cause communication between septic systems and wells from saturated subsurface conditions that can be a significant health issue, similar to surface flooding with potential contaminants moving down wells and along well casings,” Job says.
Following a flood, disinfection and wellhead repair may be common needs among well owners. Well relocation and elevation may be other services offered. NGWA recommends water well system professionals be used to assess and service wells.
In addition, in areas of private wells with known flooding potential in the spring, summer, and fall of each year — such as low-lying coastal areas, and river and creek valleys — contractors can work with state and county agencies, and local media, to alert well owners to their services and inform them of actions they can take before and after flooding to protect their groundwater supply.
NGWA has a resource center on hurricanes and groundwater housed on its website for consumers, WellOwner.org. Included is information on how to protect well systems before and after the storm.
NGWA also has other resources contractors may find helpful in dealing with flooded water wells including the best suggested practice Residential Water Well Disinfection Following a Flood Event: Procedures for Water Well System Professionals and a Water Well Journal® article titled “Responding to Flooded Wells” at WellOwner.org/hurricane-resources.
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DIII/NASPA pilot offers online tool to combat alcohol abuse
By Kat Krtnick
The partnership between Division III and NASPA (Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education) has taken an important step forward with the development of an online resource to help reduce the consequences of alcohol use on college campuses and enhance student success through campus collaboration and integration.
The primary resource for campuses will be a web portal, with a supplemental training and implementation program. About two dozen Division III schools will use the portal this year as part of a pilot program developed by Division III and NASPA.
“The program will be adaptable and versatile, designed with the ultimate goal of expanding to other issues and institutions,” said Dan Dutcher, NCAA Division III vice president.
Based on the belief that any one action a campus takes is a piece of an overall puzzle, the web portal will feature:
A Personalized Feedback Intervention, which is an online instrument that provides immediate feedback to students about their alcohol and drug behavior and that of their peers. (This mechanism has been empirically shown to reduce alcohol use and alcohol-related consequences among college students.)
A self-study campus assessment tool, which will help institutions identify areas where improvements can be made.
A best-practices tool, which will deliver information from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism to help campuses activate and execute alcohol and drug curriculum and programs.
“Ultimately, the resource is designed to encourage campuses to create a comprehensive plan that reaches individual students, teams and the entire campus,” said Kevin Kruger, NASPA president. “It also ensures each plan focuses on four important elements: policies, enforcement, education and prevention/intervention programs.”
To help campuses establish the infrastructure necessary to use and sustain the web portal, a training and implementation program will be offered, as well as a promotional kit to help underscore the value of the web portal to a variety of campuses audiences, ranging from presidents and faculty to athletics and student affairs practitioners.
The Personalized Feedback Intervention will be piloted in 2012-13, and the remaining program elements will be piloted in 2013-14. The full program will launch for the fall of 2014.
Pilot program schools
Calvin College
Fairleigh Dickinson University, Florham
Newbury College
Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
State University of New York at Canton
University of Pittsburgh, Bradford
University of Redlands
Washington and Lee University
Whitworth College
Wilmington College (Ohio)
University of Wisconsin, La Crosse
Fairleigh Dickinson, Florham
University of Texas-Dallas
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Pharmacokinetics, biodistribution, and antitumor efficacy of a human glandular kallikrein 2 (hK2)-activated thapsigargin prodrug.
Janssen S., Rosen DM., Ricklis RM., Dionne CA., Lilja H., Christensen SB., Isaacs JT., Denmeade SR.
BACKGROUND: Prostate cancer cells secrete unique proteases such as prostate-specific antigen (PSA) and human glandular kallikrein 2 (hK2) that represent targets for the activation of prodrugs as systemic treatment of metastatic prostate cancer. Previously, a combinatorial peptide library was screened to identify a highly active peptide substrate for hK2. The peptide was coupled to an analog of the potent cytotoxin thapsigargin, L12ADT, to generate an hK2-activated prodrug that was efficiently hydrolyzed by purified hK2, stable to hydrolysis in human and mouse plasma in vitro and selectively toxic to hK2 producing prostate cancer cells in vitro. METHODS: In the current study, toxicology, pharmacokinetics, prodrug biodistribution, and antitumor efficacy studies were performed to evaluate the hK2-activated prodrug in vivo. RESULTS: The single intravenous maximally tolerated dose of prodrug was 6 mg/kg (i.e., 3.67 micromole/kg) which produced peak serum concentration of approximately 36 microM and had a half-life of approximately 40 min. In addition, over a 24 hr period <0.5% of free L12ADT analog was observed in plasma. The prodrug demonstrated significant antitumor effect in vivo while it was being administered, but prolonged intravenous administration was not possible due to local toxicity to tail veins. Subcutaneous administration of equimolar doses produced lower plasma AUC compared to intravenous dosing but equivalent intratumoral levels of prodrug following multiple doses. CONCLUSIONS: The hK2-activated prodrug was stable in vivo. The prodrug, however, was rapidly cleared and difficult to administer over prolonged dosing interval. Additional studies are underway to assess antitumor efficacy with prolonged administration of higher subcutaneous doses of prodrug. Second-generation hK2-activated thapsigargin prodrugs with increased half-lives and improved formulations are also under development.
Animals, Area Under Curve, Humans, Infusions, Intravenous, Male, Maximum Tolerated Dose, Mice, Mice, Inbred BALB C, Prodrugs, Prostatic Neoplasms, Thapsigargin, Tissue Kallikreins, Tumor Cells, Cultured
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Two women have drinks on the patio at an Earls restaurant, in Vancouver, on Tuesday, May 19, 2020. British Columbia began phase two of the reopening of its economy Tuesday, allowing certain businesses that were ordered closed due to COVID-19 to open their doors to customers if new health and safety regulations are followed. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
82% of all test-positive COVID-19 cases in B.C. have recovered
B.C. had 303 active cases as of Saturday, May 23
May. 23, 2020 1:10 p.m.
Ten British Columbians have tested positive for COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry announced Saturday (May 23).
A further two people have died from the virus, which has no cure or vaccine, bringing the total to 157 fatalities. Both were living in long-term care homes in the Fraser Health region.
As of Saturday, there were 303 active confirmed cases in the province. Thirty-nine people are in hospital, with eight in critical care.
The new cases include two recent outbreaks, both in the Fraser Valley, at the Mission Institution prison in Agassiz and the Nature’s Touch fruit processing plant in Abbotsford.
COVID-19: Province streamlines patio applications for B.C. restaurants, wineries, pubs
Meanwhile, 2,057 people have fully recovered, or 82 per cent of all test-positive cases.
As B.C. concludes its first week of loosening social contact restrictions, as part of Phase Two in its restart plan, Henry said the new outbreaks emphasize the need for British Columbians to think carefully and cautiously of their actions during this “transition” phase.
On Friday, the provincial health order banning events with more than 50 guests was amended to include the same cap on vehicles at outdoor drive-in events.
“I know that was a challenge for some people,” Henry said. “But really, this is the time where we need to be careful and even though 50 cars seems like a small amount and is a less risky environment, we know that if we get people together there will be several people in a vehicle; the chances of more contact, meaning the spread of this virus is real right now.”
Henry, who voiced joy at the fact she herself was able to visit a hair salon this week, said she was excited to see people socializing safely on restaurant patios during a walk in her neighbourhood.
“I think things are going mostly really well, it’s been a bit of a transition,” she said. “It’s a bit of an adjustment but I think we’re doing it in a slow and measured way and I’m very grateful for people taking that approach.
“This is what is going to keep us doing OK through these next few weeks.”
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COVID-19: B.C. puts cap on number of vehicles at outdoor drive-in events
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2004-05-26 Burbank High School Students Dominate National University Young Writers Contest
Los Angeles, Calif. – Students from Burbank High School dominated the Los Angeles area Young Writers Contest sponsored by National University, winning the fiction category and placing four finalists in the nonfiction and poetry categories.
Schools throughout Los Angeles County were solicited for entries. Approximately 70 submissions were received in March and were judged in April. Winners were announced at a reception on May 14. The contest theme was “What it means to be a Californian: Identity and Culture.” All submissions were required to be original and previously unpublished.
A prize of $150 and publication in National University’s literary magazine, The Gnu, was awarded to fiction winner Charles N. Lontoc of Burbank High School. Arby Tacub, Brandi DeChellis and Nalani Panis of Burbank High School were named finalists in the non-fiction category, and Robby Nadler of Burbank High School was named a finalist in the poetry category.
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How IoT Is Impacting the Data Center
Big data and real-time apps are causing IT teams to rethink where processing takes place.
By Joanie Wexler May 03, 2019
An energy company correlates data from hundreds of oil rig sensors to pinpoint lucrative drilling locations and improve process controls. A dairy supplier monitors the temperature of milk as it’s collected, shipped and stocked on store shelves to meet public health regulations. Social service agencies track the local homeless population to help those in need find shelter as a polar vortex approaches.
No matter what the application, there’s no denying that the Internet of Things (IoT) is changing the world around us—and generating mountains of data in the process. The sheer volume of that data, and the growing need to consume and analyze much of it in real time, is transforming the enterprise data center as we’ve known it for decades.
Distributed Processing and Analytics
Data center architectures are growing more distributed to accommodate the deluge of data that IoT has started generating. This distributed approach to “edge” computing is designed to satisfy the real-time processing requirements of new IoT applications out in the field, said Jean S. Bozman, vice president and principal analyst at Hurwitz & Associates in Palo Alto, Calif.
Many enterprises have already extended their data centers to the public cloud, in part, to process, analyze and store overflow volumes of IoT data. However, the cloud—like the on-premises data center—is ill-suited to IoT applications that need processing to occur very close to where data is generated to minimize latency, Bozman explained. By processing on-site, at the edge, the data can be analyzed where it is collected, making it possible to find patterns in the data more quickly and for businesses to take actions right away.
“Transporting data over large distances for processing incurs a delay that real-time applications can’t tolerate,” Bozman said. A better fit for highly distributed IoT devices and sensors is to support processing locally, at the edge locations, she said.
Rohit Goyal, principal product marketing manager of IoT and artificial intelligence at Nutanix, agrees. “Financial trading systems, augmented and virtual reality, drones, security cameras, healthcare monitors and industrial robots generate vast amounts of data that are most valuable at the moment they’re created,” he said.
A home healthcare patient’s heart monitor signaling distress that requires quick action — such as dispensing medication or sending an emergency medical team — is a good example.
In addition, local processing and analytics enable the IoT application to account for the “necessary location and situational awareness that lead to new services and business insights,” Goyal said.
Gaining an Edge
The edge can be an actual IoT device that generates data to be processed, such as a driverless car, an oil rig, or a utility meter. Or it can be a nearby computing device or a more elaborate micro data center. The key is that computation takes place locally and swiftly, with the ability to apply analytics, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to the data right there. This enables real-time actions and decision-making based on the freshest data possible.
Joe Skorupa, vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner, told IT Business Edge: “IoT threatens to generate massive amounts of input data from sources that are globally distributed. Transferring the entirety of that data to a single location for processing will not be technically and economically viable. Organizations will be forced to aggregate data in multiple distributed mini data centers where initial processing can occur.”
The mini data centers he references are self-contained, stand-alone rack-level systems with compute, storage and network resources. MarketsandMarkets forecasts that these satellite data centers will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 26% for the next few years to reach a $8.47 billion market by 2022.
Today, only about 10% of enterprise-generated IoT data is created and processed outside a traditional centralized data center or cloud in an edge location, according to Gartner press release What Edge Computing Means for Infrastructure and Operations Leaders, published in October 2018. But the researcher predicts that the figure will rise rapidly to reach 75% by 2022.
At those volumes, it will be essential to be able to preprocess and possibly filter data that’s not relevant to the application at the edge, with the help of machine learning or AI. Filtering IoT data before forwarding it on to a data center or cloud for further analytics or storage will help reduce the network cost of data transmission while also reducing the cost of processing and storing unnecessary data, noted Bozman.
The Role of the Cloud
The cloud plays an important role for IoT going forward, according to Mike Leone, senior analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group. “It’s better to unite edge data with the cloud to derive insights that aren't real-time,” he said. For example, he said, manufacturers might use the cloud for aggregating and correlating IoT data and workflows across many facilities.
“This could help them learn which sites are more productive, to benchmark them against each other to set standards or to conduct historic data analysis,” he explained.
Bozman and Leone agree that there’s no single, golden data center architecture for all businesses. And some data must be kept within the enterprise to protect it for reasons of privacy, fiduciary requirements and governmental compliance. Still, they said, it’s a given that processing will be divided up in some way between on-premises enterprise data centers—eventually hyperconverged and virtualized—the public cloud and the edge.
Striving for Management and Security Simplicity
The splintering of the data center architecture across premises, edge and public cloud locations means IT now needs the tools to manage these scattered pockets of processing. Having the right tools will ensure that the data makes its way into work flows to aid in decision-making and automated actions.
“Ideally, managing the distributed environment looks like a simple extension of your data center,” says Rajiv Mirani, CTO of cloud platforms at Nutanix.
“You manage it exactly as you would manage things inside your data center. You express intent of what you want done in a central way, and [the system] figures out how to distribute your intentions to the edge as needed.”
Simplicity is the key, Mirani indicated, and while such management systems aren’t available today, “we’re getting there,” he said.
That’s a good thing, because there are going to be piles of data to manage. According to IDC, IoT devices will generate about 90 zettabytes of data by 2025 out of an expected total 175 zettabytes, accounting for more than half of all the world’s data in six short years.
Businesses must also consider security strategies that address the additional risks that IoT endpoints create by opening up billions of new entry points into corporate networks and infrastructures, said Mirani. Centralizing security policies is best, he said—and the simpler they are, the more secure they will be.
“It’s important to be able to create centralized policies in a cookie cutter way, so that every time a new device is introduced you don’t have to secure it separately, which would introduce potential for error and make things less secure,” he said. With a centralized, standard approach to security, network firewall rules, key management and data encryption can be applied in the same way all the way from data center to the edge, he said.
Welcome to the Datasphere
Analyst firm IDC uses the term “datasphere” to refer to a whole spectrum of locations along which data might be generated, processed and analyzed in the years to come. That’s what the traditional data center is morphing into: a distributed set of data processing locations that matches workload demands to the “best” location for processing, analytics and filtering.
Once data centers, edge devices and the public cloud can be managed and secured seamlessly to work in harmony, the benefits of IoT can reach new heights, according to Satyam Vaghani, vice president and general manager of IoT and AI at Nutanix.
“A traffic light could double as a facial recognition node to help catch criminals,” he said. “Smart cities could end traffic jams and parking problems. Smart healthcare could make high-quality care more widely available and possibly more affordable.”
Whatever the IoT application, it means big changes for today’s data centers and for the way business gets done.
“Some businesses want to use IoT to track workflows and find process efficiencies,” said Nutanix’s Goyal. “Others want to automate aspects of their business to improve safety and uptime. But everyone wants to use IoT data not only to run their business, but to make the business run better.”
Joanie Wexler is a Chicago-based independent writer and editor who has spent more than 20 years writing about IT and computer networking technologies, their business potential and implementation considerations.
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Food additives and hyperactivity behaviour
It has been claimed , originally by Ben Feingold more than 30 years ago that artificial food colours and other food additives affect behaviour in children.
The principle effect of artificial food colours and other food additives is said to cause overactive, impulsive, and inattentive behaviour, i.e. hyperactivity. A pattern of behaviour that has substantial individual differences in the general population. Children who show this behaviour pattern to a large degree can be diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). A recent meta-analysis of double-blinded, placebo-controlled trials has shown a significant effect of artificial food colours and other food additives on the behaviour of children with ADHD. The possible benefit in a reduction in the level of hyperactivity of the general population by the removal of AFCA from the diet is less well established.
A community-based, double-blinded, placebo-controlled food challenge described in a paper in the Lancet tested whether the intake of artificial food colour and additives affected childhood behaviour.
In this trial 3-year-old and 8/9-year-old children were included in the study. The challenge drink contained sodium benzoate and one of two mixes (A or B) or a placebo mix.
Mix A included artificial food colouring, sunset yellow [E110], carmoisine [E122], tartrazine [E102], and ponceau 4R [E124 ] and sodium benzoate [E211].
Active mix B included artificial food colourings (sunset yellow, carmoisine, quinoline yellow [E110], and allura red AC E129j) and sodium benzoate.
The dosage for 3 year olds was equivalent to eating two 56 g bags of sweets a day, and for 8/9 years old dosage of A equivalent to 2 Bags of sweets and B 4 bags of sweets.
The main outcome measure was a global hyperactivity aggregate, based on aggregated z-scores of observed behaviours and ratings by teachers and parents, plus, for 8/9-year-old children, a computerised test of attention.
Mix A had a significant adverse effect compared with placebo in global hyperactivity aggregate for all 3-year-old children but not mix B versus placebo. 8/9-year-old children showed a significantly adverse effect when given mix A or mix B
The authors concluded that artificial colours or a sodium benzoate preservative (or both) in the diet result in increased hyperactivity in 3-year-old and 8/9-year-old children in the general population. There were significant individual differences in response to these compounds
It is important to note that sodium benzoate is an important food preservative whereas the other substances are cosmetic.
Eigenmann and Haenggeli 2007 Food colourings, preservatives and hyperactivity The Lancet vol 370, 1524-5
McCann et al (2007) Food additives and hyper active behaviour in 3 year old and 8/9 year old children in the community: a randomised double-blinded, placebo-controlled trial Lancet vol 370, 1560-67
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Legal Operations: The Key to Better Partnerships Between In-House Legal Departments and Outside Counsel
The prevalence and role of legal operations have both expanded exponentially in recent years. While in-house legal departments once operated almost exclusively as silos within corporations, today these departments are undergoing a significant transformation in the face of expectations that they help drive their organizations’ value.
Legal operations is at the center of this transition, helping in-house departments implement the right processes, activities and staffing expansion to help grow their companies through effectively providing legal services.
“Organizations like the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium or the Association of Corporate Counsel had only had a few hundred legal operations members five years ago. Today, they count thousands of members among their ranks,” said Christine Juhasz (C.J.), head of legal operations for Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance. “There’s no question that legal operations professionals are connecting more as a community and, as a result, growing their skills and driving the legal operations conversation in new directions.”
That sophistication is paying off. More and more these days, law firms are actively aligning with law department legal operations to become better partners with the companies they serve. This offers many opportunities to deepen relationships between legal and business professionals, including law firm marketing and business development professionals.
In an effort to explore and foster deeper relationships with corporate legal clients, the Legal Marketing Association invited a panel of legal operations leaders to speak at its annual conference on October 22 which included C.J., Catherine Alman MacDonagh, J.D., CEO and founder of Legal Lean Sigma Institute LLC; Kate Villanueva, partner at Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP; and Rhonda Oliver, account manager for Onit. The session, titled “How to Think Like a Legal Ops Professional,” shed light on how legal operations leaders think about engaging outside counsel.
“Legal marketers are challenged,” commented MacDonagh. “They’re the first to go through an RFP or tender papers carefully. They’re painfully aware that clients want factual information and data.”
An Innovative Approach for Stronger Partnerships
Legal operations plays a large role in helping corporate legal departments understand processes, metrics and more. Though the struggle for law firms has historically been that they serve many clients at once, each has its own processes and ways of looking at things. By collaborating with legal operations, these firms can now map out processes for a given client much more quickly and efficiently than they could in the past, making it easier to manage several clients at the same time.
C.J. collaborated with the Legal Lean Sigma Institute to introduce Lean and Six Sigma process efficiencies into outside counsel relationships. The learning and practice of Lean principles evolved into a pilot project and then a mutually successful long-term relationship with Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath. Part of the approach included a hybrid alternative fee arrangement that combined fixed fees and hourly components.
“Most law firms don’t even know that Lean Sigma is so valuable,” explained C.J. “We got in a room and memorialized processes. It was a long-term bet on Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath’s part, and it paid dividends for them. When the firm wants to discuss rates, there’s no debate. MassMutual saves more than 12% per matter each year under the arrangement, and the firm is locking in the business.”
As MacDonagh pointed out, “There’s increased pressure on corporate legal departments. They’re being measured and looking at net promoter scores internally. They need to be ever more efficient, and that trend will only continue. A collaborative approach to improving processes like this gives a law firm competitive advantages. If you’re a legal marketer or in business development, you’re uniquely positioned to help your firm emerge from this pandemic in an even better position. You should be approaching your clients with ideas like these and not waiting to be asked.”
The result of the Legal Lean Sigma approach was a powerful partnership between MassMutual and Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath that never would even have been attempted five years ago. It also earned MassMutual a 2019 ACC Value Champion award and serves as a model for firms looking to better partner with the in-house departments they serve.
Technology and Transformation
Technology has also been at the forefront of transformations like these. Systems such as platforms and enterprise legal management enable legal operations to capture, manage and report on valuable data.
“In the overall scheme of legal operations in achieving its objectives with less, technology has increasingly played a prominent role. Driving efficiencies and controlling costs in the legal department are being borne, to a significant degree, by well-chosen technology,” said Oliver.
Legal Operations Resources
Legal operations is critical to building solid partnerships with law firms in today’s legal market. Here are additional resources from the presenters for those who wish to learn more about legal operations management:
White paper: What is Legal Operations?
White Paper: Doing More with Less: How Technology is Optimizing Legal Operations
Legal Workout® and case studies from the Legal Lean Sigma Institute
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Home Web-development React Design Patterns and Best Practices
React Design Patterns and Best Practices
4.3 (6 reviews total)
By Michele Bertoli
Everything You Should Know About React
Declarative programming
React elements
Unlearning everything
Clean Up Your Code
The basics of functional programming
Create Truly Reusable Components
Creating classes
Prop types
Reusable components
Living style guides
Compose All the Things
Communication between components
Container and Presentational pattern
Higher-order Components
Recompose
Function as Child
Proper Data Fetching
Data fetching
React-refetch
Write Code for the Browser
Make Your Components Look Beautiful
CSS in JS
Inline styles
CSS Modules
Styled Components
Server-Side Rendering for Fun and Profit
Universal applications
Reasons to implement Server-Side Rendering
A basic example
A data fetching example
Improve the Performance of Your Applications
Reconciliation and keys
Common solutions
Tools and libraries
About Testing and Debugging
The benefits of testing
Painless JavaScript testing with Jest
Mocha is a flexible testing framework
JavaScript testing utilities for React
A real-world testing example
React tree Snapshot Testing
Code coverage tools
Common testing solutions
React Dev Tools
Error handling with React
Anti-Patterns to Be Avoided
Initializing the state using props
Mutating the state
Using indexes as a key
Spreading props on DOM elements
Contributing to React
Distributing your code
Publishing a npm package
Taking a complete journey through the most valuable design patterns in React, this book demonstrates how to apply design patterns and best practices in real-life situations, whether that's for new or already existing projects. It will help you to make your applications more flexible, perform better, and easier to maintain – giving your workflow a huge boost when it comes to speed without reducing quality.
We'll begin by understanding the internals of React before gradually moving on to writing clean and maintainable code. We'll build components that are reusable across the application, structure applications, and create forms that actually work.
Then we'll style React components and optimize them to make applications faster and more responsive. Finally, we'll write tests effectively and you'll learn how to contribute to React and its ecosystem.
By the end of the book, you'll be saved from a lot of trial and error and developmental headaches, and you will be on the road to becoming a React expert.
Download code from GitHub
Chapter 1. Everything You Should Know About React
Hello, readers!
This book assumes that you already know what React is and what problems it solves for you. You may have written a small/medium application with React and you want to improve your skills and answer all your open questions.
You should know that React is maintained by developers at Facebook and hundreds of contributors within the JavaScript community.
React is one of the most popular libraries for creating user interfaces and it is well-known to be fast, thanks to its smart way of touching the DOM.
It comes with JSX, a new syntax to write markup in JavaScript, which requires you to change your mind regarding the separation of concerns. It has many cool features, such as the server-side rendering that gives you the power to write Universal applications.
To follow this book, you will need to know how to use the terminal to install and run npm packages in your Node.js environment.
All the examples are written in ES2015, which you should be able to read and understand.
In this first chapter, we will go through some basics concepts which are important to master to use React effectively, but are non-trivial to figure out for beginners:
The difference between imperative and declarative programming
React components and their instances, and how React uses elements to control the UI flow
How React changes the way we build web applications, enforcing a different new concept of separation of concerns, and the reasons behind its unpopular design choice
Why people feel the JavaScript Fatigue and what you can do to avoid the most common errors developers make when approaching the React ecosystem
Reading the React documentation or blog posts about React, you have surely come across the term declarative.
In fact, one of the reasons why React is so powerful is because it enforces a declarative programming paradigm.
Consequently, to master React, it is important to understand what declarative programming means and what the main differences between imperative and declarative programming are.
The easiest way to approach the problem is to think about imperative programming as a way of describing how things work, and declarative programming as a way of describing what you want to achieve.
A real-life parallel in the imperative world would be entering a bar for a beer, and giving the following instructions to the bartender:
Take a glass from the shelf
Put the glass in front of the draft
Pull down the handle until the glass is full
Pass me the glass
In the declarative world, instead, you would just say: "Beer, please."
The declarative approach of asking for a beer assumes that the bartender knows how to serve one, and that is an important aspect of the way declarative programming works.
Let's move into a JavaScript example, writing a simple function that, given an array of uppercase strings, returns an array with the same strings in lowercase:
toLowerCase(['FOO', 'BAR']) // ['foo', 'bar']
An imperative function to solve the problem would be implemented as follows:
const toLowerCase = input => {
const output = []
for (let i = 0; i < input.length; i++) {
output.push(input[i].toLowerCase())
First of all, an empty array to contain the result gets created. Then, the function loops through all the elements of the input array and pushes the lowercase values into the empty array. Finally, the output array gets returned.
A declarative solution would be as follows:
const toLowerCase = input => input.map(
value => value.toLowerCase()
The items of the input array are passed to a map function, which returns a new array containing the lowercase values.
There are some important differences to note: the former example is less elegant and it requires more effort to be understood. The latter is terser and easier to read, which makes a huge difference in big code bases, where maintainability is crucial.
Another aspect worth mentioning is that in the declarative example, there is no need to use variables nor to keep their values updated during the execution. Declarative programming, in fact, tends to avoid creating and mutating a state.
As a final example, let's see what it means for React to be declarative.
The problem we will try to solve is a common task in web development: showing a map with a marker.
The JavaScript implementation (using the Google Maps SDK) is as follows:
const map = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById('map'), {
zoom: 4,
center: myLatLng,
const marker = new google.maps.Marker({
position: myLatLng,
title: 'Hello World!',
marker.setMap(map)
It is clearly imperative, because all the instructions needed to create the map, and create the marker and attach it to the map are described inside the code, one after the other.
A React component to show a map on a page would look like this instead:
<Gmaps zoom={4} center={myLatLng}>
<Marker position={myLatLng} Hello world! />
</Gmaps>
In declarative programming, developers only describe what they want to achieve and there's no need to list all the steps to make it work.
The fact that React offers a declarative approach makes it easy to use, and consequently, the resulting code is simple, which often leads to fewer bugs and more maintainability.
This book assumes that you are familiar with components and their instances, but there is another object you should know if you want to use React effectively: the Element.
Whenever you call createClass, extend Component, or simply declare a stateless function, you are creating a component. React manages all the instances of your components at runtime, and there can be more than one instance of the same component in memory at a given point in time.
As mentioned previously, React follows a declarative paradigm, and there's no need to tell it how to interact with the DOM; you just declare what you want to see on the screen and React does the job for you.
As you might have already experienced, most other UI libraries work in the opposite way: they leave the responsibility of keeping the interface updated to the developer, who has to manage the creation and destruction of the DOM elements manually.
To control the UI flow, React uses a particular type of object, called element, which describes what has to be shown on the screen. These immutable objects are much simpler compared to the components and their instances, and contain only the information that is strictly needed to represent the interface.
The following is an example of an element:
type: Title,
props: {
color: 'red',
children: 'Hello, Title!'
Elements have a type, which is the most important attribute, and some properties. There is also a special property, called children, which is optional and represents the direct descendant of the element.
The type is important because it tells React how to deal with the element itself. In fact, if the type is a string, the element represents a DOM node, while if the type is a function, the element is a component.
DOM elements and components can be nested with each other, to represent the render tree:
children: {
type: 'h1',
children: 'Hello, H1!'
When the type of the element is a function, React calls it, passing the props to get back the underlying elements. It keeps on performing the same operation recursively on the result until it gets a tree of DOM nodes, which React can render on the screen. This process is called reconciliation, and it is used by both React DOM and React Native to create the user interfaces of their respective platforms.
Using React for the first time usually requires an open mind because it brings a new way of designing web and mobile applications. In fact, React tries to innovate the way we build user interfaces following a path that breaks most of the well-known best practices.
In the last two decades, we learned that the separation of concerns is important, and we used to think about it in terms of separating the logic from the templates. Our goal has always been to write the JavaScript and the HTML in different files.
Various templating solutions have been created to help developers achieve this.
The problem is that most of the time, that kind of separation is just an illusion and the truth is that the JavaScript and the HTML are tightly coupled, no matter where they live.
Let's see an example of a template:
The preceding snippet is taken from the website of Mustache, one of the most popular templating systems.
The first row tells Mustache to loop through a collection of items. Inside the loop, there is some conditional logic to check if the #first and the #link properties exist, and depending on their values, a different piece of HTML is rendered. Variables are wrapped into curly braces.
If your application has only to display some variables, a templating library could represent a good solution, but when it comes to starting to work with complex data structures, things change.
In fact, templating systems and their Domain-Specific Language (DSL) offer a subset of features, and they try to provide the functionalities of a real programming language without reaching the same level of completeness.
As shown in the example, templates highly depend on the models they receive from the logic layer to display the information.
On the other hand, JavaScript interacts with the DOM elements rendered by the templates to update the UI, even if they are loaded from separate files.
The same problem applies to styles: they are defined in a different file, but they are referenced in the templates and the CSS selectors follow the structure of the markup, so it is almost impossible to change one without breaking the other, which is the definition of coupling.
That is why the classic separation of concerns ended up being more a separation of technologies, which is of course not a bad thing, but it does not solve any real problems.
React tries to move a step forward by putting the templates where they belong: next to the logic. The reason it does that is because React suggests you organize your applications by composing small bricks called components.
The framework should not tell you how to separate the concerns, because every application has its own, and only the developers should decide how to limit the boundaries of their apps.
The component-based approach drastically changes the way we write web applications, which is why the classic concept of separation of concerns is gradually being taken over by a much more modern structure.
The paradigm enforced by React is not new, and it was not invented by its creators, but React has contributed to making the concept mainstream and, most importantly, popularized it in such a way that is easier to understand for developers with different levels of expertise.
This is how the render method of a React component looks:
<button style={{ color: 'red' }} onClick={this.handleClick}>
We all agree that it looks a bit weird in the beginning, but it is just because we are not used to that kind of syntax.
As soon as we learn it and we realize how powerful it is, we understand its potential.
Using JavaScript for both logic and templating not only helps us separate our concerns in a better way, but it also gives us more power and more expressivity, which is what we need to build complex user interfaces.
That is why, even if the idea of mixing JavaScript and HTML sounds weird in the beginning, it is important to give React five minutes.
The best way to get started with a new technology is to try it in a small side project and see how it goes. In general, the right approach is to always be ready to unlearn everything and change your mindset if the long-term benefits are worth it.
There is another concept, which is pretty controversial and hard to accept, and which the engineers behind React are trying to push to the community: moving the styling logic inside the component, too.
The end goal is to encapsulate every single technology used to create our components and separate the concerns according to their domain and functionalities.
Here is an example of a style object taken from the React documentation:
var divStyle = {
color: 'white',
backgroundImage: 'url(' + imgUrl + ')',
WebkitTransition: 'all', // note the capital 'W' here
msTransition: 'all' // 'ms' is the only lowercase vendor prefix
ReactDOM.render(
<div style={divStyle}>Hello World!</div>,
mountNode
This set of solutions, where developers use JavaScript to write their styles, is known as #CSSinJS, and we will talk about it extensively in Chapter 7 , Make Your Components Look Beautiful.
There is a common opinion that React is a huge set of technologies and tools, and if you want to use it, you are forced to deal with package managers, transpilers, module bundlers, and an infinite list of different libraries.
This idea is so widespread and shared among people that it has been clearly defined, and has been given the name JavaScript Fatigue.
It is not hard to understand the reasons behind this. In fact, all the repositories and libraries in the React ecosystem are made using the shiny new technologies, the latest version of JavaScript, and the most advanced techniques and paradigms.
Moreover, there is a massive number of React boilerplates on GitHub, each one with tens of dependencies to offer solutions for any problems.
It is very easy to think that all these tools are required to start using React, but this is far from the truth.
Despite this common way of thinking, React is a pretty tiny library, and it can be used inside any page (or even inside a JSFiddle) in the same way everyone used to use jQuery or Backbone: just by including the script on the page before the closing body element.
To be fair, there are two scripts because React is split into two packages: react, which implements the core features of the library, and react-dom, which contains all the browser-related features. The reason behind that is because the core package is used to support different targets, such as React DOM in browsers and React Native on mobile devices.
Running a React application inside a single HTML page does not require any package manager or complex operation. You can just download the distribution bundle and host it yourself (or use unpkg.com), and you are ready to get started with React and its features in a few minutes.
Here are the URLs to be included in the HTML to start using React:
https://unpkg.com/react/dist/react.min.js
https://unpkg.com/react-dom/dist/react-dom.min.js
If we include the core React library only, we cannot use JSX because it is not a standard language supported by the browser; but, the whole point is to start with the bare minimum set of features and add more functionalities as soon as they are needed.
For a simple UI, we could just use createElement and, only when we start building something more complex, we can include a transpiler to enable JSX and convert it into JavaScript.
As soon as the app grows a bit more, we may need a router to handle different pages and views, and we can include that as well.
At some point, we may want to load data from some API endpoints, and if the application keeps growing, we will reach the point where we need some external dependencies to abstract complex operations. Only in that very moment, should we introduce a package manager.
Then the time will come to split our application into separate modules and organize our files in the right way. At that point, we should start thinking about using a module bundler.
Following this very simple approach, there's no fatigue.
Starting with a boilerplate that has one hundred dependencies and tens of npm packages of which we know nothing is the best way to get lost.
It is important to note that every programming-related job (and front end engineering in particular) requires continuous learning. It is the nature of the Web to evolve at a very fast pace and change according to the needs of both users and developers. This is the way our environment has worked since the beginning and what makes it very exciting.
As we gain experience working on the Web, we learn that we cannot master everything and we should find the right way to keep ourselves updated to avoid the fatigue. We become able to follow all the new trends without jumping into the new libraries for the sake of it, unless we have time for a side project.
It is astonishing how, in the JavaScript world, as soon as a specification is announced or drafted, someone in the community implements it as a transpiler plugin or a polyfill, letting everyone else play with it while the browser vendors agree and start supporting it.
This is something that makes JavaScript and the browser a completely different environment compared to any other language or platform.
The downside of it is that things change very quickly, but it is just a matter of finding the right balance between betting on new technologies versus staying safe.
In any case, Facebook developers care a lot about the DX (developer experience), and they listen carefully to the community. So, even if it is not true that to use React we are required to learn hundreds of different tools, they realized that people were feeling the fatigue and they released a CLI tool that makes it incredibly easy to scaffold and run a real React application.
The only requirement is to use a node.js/npm environment and install the CLI tool globally:
npm install -g create-react-app
When the executable is installed, we can use it to create our application passing a folder name:
create-react-app hello-world
Finally, we move into the folder of our application with cd hello-world and we just run:
Magically, our application is running with a single dependency, but with all the features needed to build a complete React application using the most advanced techniques. The following screenshot shows the default page of an application created with create-react-app:
We will use this tool throughout the book to run the examples for each chapter which are also available on GitHub at the following address:
https://github.com/MicheleBertoli/react-design-patterns-and-best-practices
In this first chapter, we have learned some basic concepts that are very important for following the rest of the book, and which are crucial to working with React daily.
We now know how to write declarative code and we have a clear understanding of the difference between the components we create and the elements React uses to display their instances on the screen.
We learned the reasons behind the choice of co-locating logic and templates together, and why that unpopular decision has been a big win for React.
We went through the reasons why it is common to feel fatigue in the JavaScript ecosystem, but we have also seen how to avoid those problems by following an iterative approach.
Finally, we have seen what the new create-react-app CLI is, and we are now ready to start writing some real code.
Michele Bertoli
Michele Bertoli is a frontend engineer with a passion for beautiful UIs. Born in Italy, he moved to London with his family to look for new and exciting job opportunities. He has a degree in Computer Science and loves clean and well-tested code. Currently, he is working with React.js, crafting modern JavaScript applications. He is a big fan of open-source and is always trying to learn something new.
The book is a bit dated, but overall informative.
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Very interesting books. Help my own learning.
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Build cross-platform applications of varying complexity for the web, mobile, and VR devices using React tooling
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React Material-UI Cookbook
Develop modern-day applications by implementing Material Design principles in React using Material-UI
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Mar 2019 534 pages
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Labour and the trade unions can unite people against a no-deal and push for a radically reformed, social Europe
The holding of the first referendum was the real boon to the far-right, and any outcome of the Article 50 process is one in which they gain ground.
Michael Rafferty
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and the party's chief whip Nick Brown walk through Portcullis House in Westminster, London, to Prime Minister Theresa May's office. January 30, 2019. Stefan Rousseau/Press Association. All rights reserved.
Theresa May seems to be quietly benefiting from a bizarre, instinctual deference from wearied senior journalists covering Brexit, the political equivalent of an endless wait at baggage reclaim. The source of this deference possibly arises from a repetitious familiarity with all six lines of the script, or the vicarious predictability of her statements both to parliament and to the media, in all their patrician, pedestrian emptiness.
Whatever the explanation, this cap-doffing is becoming increasingly difficult to explain to inquirers on the continent, who rightly point to the untenability of May’s position and are exasperated at the gall of someone who denies that she faces undeniable checkmate within three moves. Jeremy Corbyn has astutely manoeuvred Labour into a position where he can illuminate an alternative outcome, but is both constrained by this deference and overshadowed by others more convincingly articulating unworkable silver bullets such as a second referendum. But an opportunity presents itself right now for Corbyn to set out a radical but realistic agenda to remain and reform the European Union. Offering socialist policies as solutions to Europe’s growing problems, it could unite a pragmatic coalition of Leave and Remain voices and oust a zombie Conservative administration.
The outcome of last Tuesday’s parliamentary votes will be quickly forgotten in the coming weeks, not least because they are likely to be rehearsed soon in some scantily disguised variation, but primarily because they only negligibly alter the choices the government faces. One positive outcome, however, is that the chorus for a second referendum was confronted with some cold facts from Brussels on Wednesday.
A second referendum would require an Act of Parliament, which would take months, assuming there is a government that can successfully deliver it. There must be around a dozen competing combinations of questions, responses and voting methods in contention. The small issue of actually having a campaign seems to have eluded scrutiny – are the most ardent Remainers actually confident the odds would be in their favour? The first referendum would be remembered as a paragon of transparent, evidence-based debate and considered, critical analysis beside the reductive, shouty binary of the second. Regardless of how many questions or ballot papers, the entire campaign would be a straightforward, grotesque brawl with immigration as the one and only item of debate, conducted with all the patience and finesse of a Westminster far-right protestor aggressively “just having a chat” with passing journalists and MPs. The thought of another referendum is a frightening prospect for some of the UK’s most vulnerable people – refugees and migrant workers and their families – yet from the moral uplands of Westminster it is thoughtlessly promoted as the only way out of the mess. What would happen if Leave won, again?
The presumptions around extending Article 50 also seem to go unchecked. It is hard to envisage any circumstances in which the EU would permit an extension to allow for the full second referendum process. The scope for extension is so short as to be pointless – a few mere weeks before the European Parliament elections present legal obligations in the event of continued UK membership. And if Brussels managed to fudge some kind of extension, they will surely be keen to avoid offering flexible and convenient Article 50 packages to Viktor Orbán and the Italian Five Star Movement. To what end? Europe is fed up to the back teeth repeating that the (UK-manufactured) backstop and the rest of the Withdrawal Agreement will not be reopened.
While UK commentators and parliamentarians opine on the inevitability of extending Article 50, it is not hard to see why there is opposition to it in the EU27. It is, in the end, a “hair of the dog” strategy designed only to delay pain. The second referendum argument might carry weight among Scottish and Northern Irish remainers, but it is now time to set it aside given its irrelevance to the task at hand, at a time when the indisputable priority across the broad liberal and left spectrum in the UK is to remove the no-deal billionaires’ utopia as an option.
The disappointment of Tuesday’s amendment votes in Parliament is outweighed by the opportunity for Corbyn to emerge from meetings with the Prime Minister eliciting the unavoidable conclusion that she is content to redraw red lines while the UK sails into the social emergency of a no-deal Brexit.
If parliament is still willing to indulge this histrionic spectacle, then the waves of popular support that saw him (re-)elected to the leadership of the Labour Party need to resonate in the country once more to jolt parliament into the real world, and to oust a no-deal government. General Strikes are already making a comeback in 2019, from Kerala to Paris. Corbyn, Momentum and the trade unions should get ahead of the curve and call one in mid-February if no-deal is not categorically taken off the table. Such situations might make for more winnable votes of no-confidence in Her Majesty’s Government, and produce the General Election that the Labour Party have been calling for. Were that election to elevate Corbyn to No. 10, the stark, inherited choice would be to revoke Article 50 or crash out without a deal – an impatient EU is not going to substantially reopen negotiations on May’s deal at this stage.
Think of the political capital PM Corbyn would accrue from revoking Article 50 in this Hobson’s Choice scenario. The European Union is a changed place since David Cameron embarked on his failed “reform” initiative preceding the referendum. The refugee crisis of 2015 has been compounded by a crisis of neoliberalism in 2018, instigated by resistance to Emmanuel Macron’s deepening of privatisation, austerity and labour market liberalisation. In France, at least, the gilets jaunes are winning. The EU’s top brass had thought until recently that austerity measures had weathered the 2008 financial crisis, that the rise of the far right is only a temporary wobble in an otherwise sound political economy. They have still not been disabused of this notion and meanwhile the far-right profit from the low-wage, debt economy proliferating in post-industrial urban centres across Europe for two decades. Attempts to conflate the various strands of Europe’s crises into ‘populism’ demonstrate this denial of reality quite clearly.
The result is precisely what conservative and liberal national governments in France, Germany and elsewhere are now contending with. Neoliberalism has reached its limit and is undermining the foundations of the post-Cold War political settlement. The electoral and street-politics gains of the far-right have shaken one pillar of the Union – free movement. Now the whole building is shaking.
Far from being aloof, Corbyn has identified the priority for the UK correctly – to understand why people voted Leave and address that through investment, instead of accepting the immigration rhetoric peddled by the far-right. This is not achieved by flashy tinkering with policy or a rehearsal of the losing arguments of the first Remain campaign – it needs transformative economic heavy lifting in everything from welfare to the NHS, energy to public transport. People voted Leave in 2016 as much out of having nothing to lose as for half-baked prescriptions for restoring sovereignty through restricting free movement. These are lessons with relevance to several of the EU27.
The risks? Revoking Article 50 would be seen as illegitimate and embolden and anger the far-right. Well, the same goes for every other option, including a second referendum. The holding of the first referendum was the real boon to the far-right, and any outcome of the Article 50 process is one in which they gain ground through waves of reaction on the street, goaded by the Brexiteer elite. The conversation needs to quickly move to interrupting their stride—and in this regard Labour’s putative programme of social investment is robust, fresh and timely.
What should his gambit be? Here’s one idea: a new EU Treaty for a Social Europe to replace Lisbon, not only democratising the EU’s institutions, but rolling back austerity dressed as “fiscal discipline” and the straitjacket of privatisation and outsourcing in public procurement (removing the perceived barriers to renationalisation of industries and services). And rolling out a realignment of the State’s role in the economy towards social security and environmental protection, with more power to harness industry to innovate towards social ends and to address serious threats such as climate change.
If Corbyn was rebuffed or obstructed by Brussels in his efforts to negotiate a new Treaty with other left and social-democratic EU Council allies, Article 50 would be the threat, this time not because of some Etonian playground fisticuffs spilling into national politics – rather for jumping ship before the EU disintegrates under the weight of its own inertia in failing to reform its way out of its growing problems.
European neoliberal hegemony is entering a major crisis in 2019, and the resulting opportunities for major reform need to be seized on. Corbyn could lead that charge and deliver to the UK electorate what Brexit simply cannot.
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Eau Pear Tingle
Olfactive Group: Fruity Floral Aromatic
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"Eau Pear Tingle" is an olfactory breakthrough that was designed to be a multi-sensory experience for those that suffer with Anosmia (the inability to perceive odors). It is also a delightfully fresh and stimulating fragrance that is savored by connoisseurs of fine artisan aromatics.
Key Notes Include: Pear, Lime Blossom, Spearmint, Jasmine, White Musk, Pine and Sandalwood.
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"Eau Pear Tingle" is an olfactory breakthrough that was designed to be a multi-sensory experience for those that suffer with Anosmia (the inability to perceive odors). It is also a delightfully fresh and stimulating fragrance that is savored by connoisseurs of fine artisan aromatics.
“Eau Pear Tingle” made its official debut at the International Fragrance Association (IFRA) Fall Luncheon, where it was unveiled to industry insiders and billed as "the future of perfumery" by keynote speaker, Michelle Krell Kydd, award-winning writer for Perfumer and Flavorist Magazine and Glass Petal Smoke. Since it's debut, Eau Pear Tingle has won several 2011 Best Fragrance Awards and was an Official 2012 FiFi® Indie Award Nominee.
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Key Notes Include: Pear, Lime Blossom, Spearmint, Jasmine, White Musk, Pine and Sandalwood.
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Wheeling History Online
People of Wheeling
Wheeling Biographies
Wheeling Hall of Fame
Wheeling Spoken History Project
The Wheeling Memory Project
Memories In Hand
African American Wheeling
Pastors Resign From All African American Churches in Wheeling
Wheeling notes in the Baltimore Afro-American
Emancipation Day, 1909
Afro-American voters form Atkinson Club, 1888
Beech Bottom Race Riot, 1921
African American Militia Organized
Places of Wheeling
Transportation In Wheeling
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In 1929, 1930 and 1931 the Afro-American, of Baltimore, had a correspondent in Wheeling. Her notes are gathered here along with other items that appeared in the paper, particularly very detailed reports on a community beautification program sponsored by the Afro-American in the early 40s.
-from The Afro-American, Jan. 2, 1926, p. 5:
THEATRICAL SECTION
Drake and Walker
Wheeling, W. Va. -- Drake and Walker will put in the week playing two night here and the rest of the time in two night stands in Ohio. Henry Drake was unable to work eight days, obliging "Sambo" Reid and Sam Robinson to do the comedy for him. The comics made good and the show did a turnaway business. The company wishes all friends in and out of the profession the season's greetings.
-from The Afro-American, June 5, 1926. p. 16:
ALL WHEELING, W. VA. PASTORS RESIGNED
WHEELING, W.Va. -- (PNS) - Negro churchmen in this city are terribly perturbed over the unenviable reputations caused by the resignation of the pastors of all the Negro churches here within a few months.
The first change was at the Simpson M.E. Church from which Rev. C. E. Hodges was transferred, at his own request. He is now pastor of a very prominent church in Washington, D. C.
Next came the ultimatum and then the resignation of Rev. S. A. Davenport, after friction and disagreement with officers of Macedonia Baptist Church, the largest religious organization among Negroes in Wheeling.
In reference to these changes, public opinion was divided; some people charge officers of these churches with domineering and persecuting the ministers while others denied the charges and defended the churches. But the consensus of opinion was that both ministers were justified in seeking new fields.
The last and possibly the most sensational change comes when Rev. R. A. Adams, one of the most experienced and best qualified ministers the A.M.E. Church in Wheeling ever had, suddenly informed officers and members that he had decided to terminate his services as pastor of Wayman A.M.E. Church to become an evangelist.
-from The Afro-American, Jan. 28, 1928, p. 4
W. Va. Teachers Plan European Tour
WHEELING, W. Va. -- A travel tour of Europe this summer is being planned by a group of teachers from this state. They plan to visit France, Germany, England, Switzerland and Belgium, embarking from New York City, on the steam Lapland, June 23, and returning on the Pennland, August 5.
Forty-five days will cost $455. Information can be secured through H.S. Jones or Carter Wright, 324 Warwood avenue, Wheeling, W. Va.
-from The Afro-American, Nov. 30, 1929, p. 16
WHEELING, W. Va. -- Sunday closed the Subscription rally at Simpson M.E. Church. The total amount realized was $1,163.66. The unique feature of the rally was that there was no begging of the public. The members and friends of the church subscribed various amounts and paid their subscriptions. Fourteen persons paid $25; two persons paid $30; one paid $20; fifteen paid $10; two paid $7; three paid $5 and forty-one paid $5; eleven paid $15; and forty-two paid from $1 to $3.
The Woman's Home Missionary Society held its annual Thanksgiving service on Sunday night. A special program was rendered by the members with short addresses by Mrs. Susie C. Love and Deaconess Victoria Murray.
The Twentieth Century Club celebrated its first anniversary with a house party at the residence of Mrs. Romaine Albright, 1002 Chapline street. Forty-five persons were present. A large table decorated with roses and chrysanthemums was spread for the guests. This club raised for the church last year $86.00 So far this year, it has had the parsonage painted. Mrs. Julia Russell is president and Mrs. Gladyce Browne is secretary.
-from The Afro-American, July 19, 1930, p. 13
WHEELING, W. Va. -- James Webster and mother, Mrs. Laura Webster, of 1047 Eoff Street, were the house guests of Mrs. Ida Hughes, of Philadelphia, for the week-end.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Yates, of 45 13th Street were at home to a few friends Sunday night, honoring Hubbard J. Harris, of the New England Conservatory of Music. Covers were laid for eight.
The Blue Triangle Branch Y.W.C.A. Will be represented at the branch conference at West Virginia State College, July 16-24, by Miss E. Essie White, branch secretary; Mrs. Jessie Campbell, finance chairman; Mrs. Florence Gardner, house chairman, and two Girl Reserves - Margaret Wright and Ernestine Minor.
The party will motor from Wheeling to Institute, in a car donated by Robert Walker, of Bridgeport, Ohio.
Friday night, July 11th, a public mass meeting was held at Simpson M.E. Church, to protest against the inadequate school and recreational facilities provided for the Negro group. Two committees were formed - one to appear before the school board, composed of Revs. E. A. Love, J. W. Coger, A. J. Smoot and Messrs. John Harris, W. R. Reed and James E. Moore. The second committee is composed of Rev. J. H. Rainbow, Mmes. Fannie Turner, Lizzie Turner, Isa Settles and James Moe, appointed to appear before the city council to request improvements to the playgrounds.
The Rev. E. A. Love preached Sunday at the morning service, from the subject: "Vain Delusions," using the text, "Peace, peace, when there is no peace."
Mrs. W. J. Worthinton, of 1224 Baltimore Street, is better after an illness of two weeks.
Others on the sick list are: Al Robinson, 117 12th Street, and Mrs. Lennie Walker, 1167 High Street.
The Morgan College Institute Club held a chicken dinner at Simpson M.E. Church, Thursday and realized $22; Misses Karene Kennedy and Mamie Barton, managing.
-from The Afro-American, July 26, 1930, p. 13:
WHEELING, W.Va. -- Among the visitors at Simpson M.E. Church Sunday, July 20, were Mrs. Carrie Thompson and her little grandson, Jimmie Young; also her nephew, Donald Gardner, of Cleveland, Ohio, and E.O.R. Caffman, of Philadelphia, all members of Simpson and former residents of Wheeling.
The Rev. E. A. Love made two trips out of the city this past week, going to Pittsburgh Friday, and to Cleveland on Saturday.
A week of lawn fetes will be held on the lawn of Simpson M.E. Church beginning Monday, July 21.
The Twentieth Century Club of Simpson M.E. Church will have a supper in the dining hall of the church, July 31.
Mrs. Ada J. Stillyard, of 1111 Eoff Street, who is the supreme matron of the A.A.O.D. Of B., will leave the city next week to preside over the bi-annual convention, which will be held at Baltimore.
Masters Carroll, Vincent, Junior, and Miss Loretta Jones have gone to Moorefield, W.Va., to spend the remainder of the summer with their grandmother.
Among the students and teachers at summer schools are Miss Mildred Buckner, West Virginia State College, Institute, W.Va.; Miss Mabel Campbell, Oliver Shannon, Butler College, Indianapolis, Indiana; Mrs. Gertrude Dixon, Mrs. Adeline Rainbow, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Miss Laura Temple of Lennox Addition leaves Sunday for Bridgeport, Conn.
Mrs. Viola Anderson and Miss Georgie Barton are back with us after their visit in Tennessee.
The K. of P.'s will hold their thirty-eighth annual session of the grand lodge of West Virginia, and the thirtieth annual session of the grand court, Order of Calanthe of West Virginia at Wheeling, from August 5th to 8th. The committee is composed of Messrs. Earl Johnson, J. Todd, W.C.M. Harris, David Hawkins and Ellsworth Merrill.
A quartette, composed of Miss Virginia Yates, Miss Mary Jones, Robert Settles and Eugene Jones, all student of Lincoln High School, rendered several selections on the patriotic program Thursday evening at the camp grounds in Moundsville, W.Va. Miss Geraldine Yates acted as accompanist.
Among those attending at Moundsville, W. Va., the famous lecture, "The Flag," given by Dr. Tindley, of Philadelphia, were: Mrs. Charles H. Yates, Mrs. Cornelia Dickson and little Miss Jane Anna Dickson, Mrs. And Mrs. Earl C. Jones, Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Dalan, Mrs. Regina Pryor, Misses Mary McMechen, Ella Jones and Eva Jones, Mr. P.A. Jeffries.
-from The Afro-American, Aug. 23, 1930, p. 12
WHEELING, W.Va. -- Mrs. Hetty Mentz, Buffalo, New York, was the house guest this week of Mrs. Hatty Derry, 71 Seventeenth Street.
Dr. James White, of 1031 Chapline Street and Oliver Shannon, of 114 Twelfth Street, left the city Tuesday en route to White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., to spend the remainder of the summer.
The newly laid out horseshoe and croquet courts at Simpson M.E. Church are becoming a very popular recreational center for men who are busy during the day. Among those who take advantage of this progressive recreation center are: Earl C. Jones, Zell Kent, O. Payne, Clarence McGroom, J. H. Rainbow and the Rev. E. A. Love.
The students chosen to represent the Epworth League at Morgan College, Baltimore, were: Misses Karene Kennedy, Esther Norris, Zelline Kent, Mamie Barton, Anna Berry and Master Carroll Jones.
The official board of Wayman A.M.E. Church met and petitioned their pastor, the Rev. A.J. Smoot, to use his influence to assure his return to Wayman A.M.E. Church.
Those on the sick list this week are: Mrs. Thaddeus Turner, 1032 Eoff Street, Mrs. Carrie Culbert and Miss Williams, 1015 Eoff Street, P.C. Smith, 1138 Charles Street, Wilson Davis, 1926 Sixth Street.
-from The Afro-American, Sept. 13, 1930, p. 13
WHEELING, W.Va. -- Miss Adelaide Harriston, former assistant secretary of the Blue Triangle Branch Y.W.C.A. left the city Thursday to accept a position as teacher in Springville, N.C.
Miss Essie White, executive secretary of the Blue Triangle Branch Y.W.C.A., returned to the city after an extensive vacation.
Mrs. Eliza Lane, 1047 Morrow Street, and family are back in the city after visiting her home in Maysville, Ky., last week.
George McMechen, attorney of Baltimore, was the overnight guest of his sister, Miss Mary McMechen of 1045 Eoff Street.
Miss Maggie Payne, of Washington, D. C. will resume the duties at the Apex Beauty Shoppe, temporarily vacated by Miss Marjorie Moore, of 1117 Chapline Street.
Miss Moore received a broken arm at the fair grounds last week.
Nathaniel Richardson, of 127 Twelfth Street, met with a serious accident, which impaired the sign of his right eye.
Students going from Wheeling to colleges are as follows: Messrs. Charles Jones, Wilbur Miles, Ellis Ross, Chester Frances, Robert Settles; Misses Geraldine Newman, Amy Turner and Adelaide Jones, West Virginia Institute, Institute, W.Va. Messrs. Wilkes and Edgar Kinney, Morehouse, Atlanta, Ga. Clarence Campbell, Howard, Washington, D.C., and Miss Thelma Worrick, Ohio State, Athens, Ohio.
The teachers are back in the city and are busy making assignments. The following teachers are back in school: Profs. J. H. Rainbow, Theodore Chambers, Carter Wright, John Kinney and Oliver Shannon; Misses Winnie page, Lucille Smith, Bessie Grant, Cecil Miller, Mabel Campbell, Betty Perry, Ruth Banks, Ella Jones, Helen Green, Lelia Powell and Mae Hardy.
Miss Jennie Woods, of 1115 Charles Street, returned to the city last week, after spending two weeks' vacation at the home of the Rev. and Mrs. E. A. Moore, of Huntington.
Clarence Napper, of Columbus, Ohio, is the house guest this week of Oliver Shannon, of 114 Twelfth Street.
Dr. Harry McMechen, of Hannibal, Mo., is the house guest of Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Dolan, 1401 Eoff Street.
Mrs. Lucy Taylor, of 1024 Chapline Street, is spending her vacation at Ocean City, N.J.
John Kinney, formerly of Chapline Street, has moved to his new residence at 879 Lind Street.
Russell J. Minor, of 1213 Twelfth Street, is slowly recovering after several months of illness.
The Rev. E. A. Love preached Sunday morning from the text, "Thou shalt have no other Gods before Me."
Visitors at the morning service were Mrs. Ramon Williams, of Wellsburgh, W.Va.; Mrs. Edna Moody, of Clarksburg; Mrs. Clara Goins of Washington, Pa., and Miss Helen Newsome, of Morgantown, W. Va.
The Fortnightly Study Club rendered a religious educational program at the Sunday evening hour.
Special features of the program were an address on the subject, "The Aims of Religious Education," by the Rev. E. A. Love. Special music was rendered by the choir.
The most important feature was the presentation of the club's annual scholarship, which was awarded to Clarence Berto Smith, a graduate of Lincoln High School.
The Rev. and Mrs. E. A. Love and their niece Vivian Hansbury, were the house guests of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wood, of Washington, Pa.
Mrs. Clara Goins, of Washington, Pa., is spending a few days as the house guest of Mrs. Virginia Love.
-from The Afro-American, Sept. 20, 1930, p. 13:
WHEELING, W. Va. -- Miss Pronty Gardner of Cleveland, Ohio, is spending a few days with her aunt, Mrs. James E. Moe, of 108 N. York Street.
Miss Louise Clements, of this city, left the city Sunday, to take up nursing at Provident Hospital, Baltimore.
Mrs. Ada Stillyard, of 1111 Eoff Street, is visiting in Cleveland, Ohio, this week.
Horeston Davis, 11 17th Street, is attending the B.M.C. at Atlantic City.
The Rev. O.J. Smoot, pastor of Wayman A.M.E. Church, left the city Tuesday, to attend the A.M.E. annual conference.
The Waters Institute Trio, of Waren, Ark., led by their principal, Mr. Meachem, made an unexpected, but well appreciated visit to Lincoln High School last week.
One of the teachers of the Institute, Mrs. Mary Letlow, a graduate and former teacher of Lincoln High School, persuaded Mr. Meachem to visit our school. The trio rendered several excellent selections.
The Epworth League, of Simpson M.E. Church rendered a program at the evening services. Special features were the report of the delegates who attended Morgan College Institute at Baltimore. The following were delegates: Misses Korene Kennedy, Zeline Kent, Mami Barton, Anna Berry, Esther Norris and Mrs. Virginia Love; Mrs. Leona Brown and Carroll Jones.
Miss Virginia Love, a member of the graduating class at Morgan College, presented a banner to the league. The banner was won by the delegates who attended Morgan College.
The Rev. E. A. Love preached at the morning service from the subject, "Friendship with Jesus."
At 8:45 p.m., Sunday, the pastor, vesper choir and congregation of Simpson M.E. Church, paid their annual official visit to Wayman A.M.E. Church. The choir rendered several anthems.
The Blue Triangle Branch Y.W.C.A., 1035 Chapline Street, announces a membership drive.
The Zou Hastings Frazier Course opens October 23rd, with Madame Nell Hunter, soprano, and December 4th, Jame Miller, pianist. The third number will be named at a later date.
WHEELING, W.Va. -- A surprise party was given in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Mack Brown, of Washington, D. C., at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wilford Bowie, 197 East 13th Street. Guests present were: Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ross and Mr. and Mrs.Nathaniel Kent, Misses Cornelia Trent, Agnes Walker, Carry Lee, Julia Brown, Janie Wood, Mosell Scott, Gertrude Cheathem, Katherine Branch, Mary Wilson and Chas. Bouldin.
Miss Janey Woods, of 1115 Charles Street, was called on the 20th, to Washington, D.C., at the home of her brother, because of the illness of her niece.
Mr. and Mrs. John Cordeck and Miss Jennie Cordeck, of Washington, Pa., were the dinner guests of Mr. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Yates, Sunday.
The Lincoln High School Chorus rendered several selections at the emancipation celebration, Monday.
Mrs. Charles Yates and daughters Geraldine and Virginia, spent Friday in Washington, Pa., visiting friends.
The Lincoln High School football squad is in good shape to play Morgantown, Friday, September 23rd. Coach Chambers says, "If the people of Wheeling support the team, the boys will show some action this year."
-from The Afro-American, Oct. 4, 1930, p. 18
WHEELING, W.Va. -- The Fortnightly Study Club held its second meeting for the ensuing year at the home of Mrs. Oreitha Clinton, of Charles Street. The meeting was opened by singing the club song. An election of the officers was held with the following persons re-elected for another year.
President, Mrs. Elizabeth Turner; vice-president, Mrs. Lutie Coleman; secretary, Mrs. Oreitha Clinton; assistant secretary, Mrs. Carrie Verse; corresponding secretary, Mrs. Mamie Kent; chaplain, Mrs. Lucy Taylor; critic, Mrs. Fannie Turner.
The following new chairmen were appointed: Rose and Sunshine committee, Mrs. Susie Ross; program committee, Mrs. Mamie Richardson; telephone, Mrs. Carrie Verse; publicity, Mrs. Oreitha Clinton; decorating, Mrs. Lutie Coleman.
The Fortnightly Study Club will again present "Twelve Old Maids," a playlet given at Simpson M.E. Church, Thursday, October 9.
Mrs. Josephine Bingham brought back a wonderful report of the State Federated Convention, which was held at Winona, W.Va., July 22.
The club was very active during the past year. At Christmas baskets of fruit were given to a large number of shut-ins. Other charitable work such as baskets of groceries to the needy, flowers sent to the sick. A scholarship of $25 was given Berto Smith, a graduate of Lincoln High School. A health program was sponsored at the Y.W.C.A. During the Negro National Health Week. A playlet, "Twelve Old Maids," was given at the Macedonia Baptist Church.
The motto is, "Lifting As We Climb." The next meeting will be held with Mrs. Edna Gardner as hostess, October 16.
Miss Sarah Sampson, of Baltimore, is visiting her sister, Mrs. Bessie Hicks, of 115 12th Street.
Mrs. Cornelia Dickson, of 113 12th Street, is in charge of the sub-station for the Poro System.
Dr. and Mrs. William H. Frazier are the house guests of Dr. and Mrs. E. S. Kennedy, this week.
Miss Lucile Armstead of Indianapolis, Ind., was the house guest of Miss Maybell Campbell, last week.
Miss Dorothy Merritt is back in the city after a long absence.
The Rev. A. J. Smoot was reappointed as pastor to Wayman A.M.E. Church last week.
The Blue Triangle Branch Y.W.C.A. Announces its fall opening October 2.
The main features on the program will be echoes from summer conference, formulated plans for the fall activities, and a light luncheon served the the chairman of the Social Service Committee, Mrs. Mamie Kent. The girl reserves will assist in serving the luncheon.
Miss Bessie Grant, chairman of the branch, will preside over the meeting.
-from The Afro-American, Oct. 11, 1930, p. 13
WHEELING, W.Va. -- Mrs. Mary Golden and Mrs. Housten Davis were among those attending the North Ohio Annual Conference of the A.M.E. Church.
Oscar Frazier, of Denver, Col., was the week-end guest of William Payne of 1106 Eoff Street.
A baby girl weighing ten pounds was born to Mr. and Mrs. Frank King September 22.
Miss Zeline Kent is better, after a brief illness.
Others on the sick list are Eldes Johnson, 1008 Eoff Street, Harold Fouch, 2127 Main Street, and Harry Albright, Ohio Valley Hospital
The Woman's Bible and Literary Club gave a midwinter picnic at Simpson M.E. Church Friday evening. The officers are Miss Lizzie Turner, president; Mrs. Lizzie Edwards, secretary, and the Rev. E.A. Love, teacher.
Sunday was the annual Old Folks Day at Simpson M.E. Church. There were forty-two persons over the age of 65 present. Two members of the original congregation of Simpson Church were present, namely: Mrs. Helen Gordon, age 89, and Mrs. Jennie Jones, age 77.
Presentations were made by the Ladies Aid Society and by Mrs. Sadie Nickens.
WHEELING, W.Va. -- A group of young ladies met at the residence of Miss Cecil Miller, 110 Twelfth Street, last Tuesday to organize a bridge club. Those present were: Misses Betty Arrinton, Maybell Campbell, Winnie Page, Lucille Smith, Geraldine Yates, Helen Green, Mabel Young, Ruth Banks, Mrs. Minnie Turner, Mrs. Ruth Wright, and Mrs. Gertrude Dixon. Refreshments were served after playing several hands of bridge.
Dr. and Mrs. A. E. Kennedy, of Washington, D.C., are the house guests of Dr. and Mrs. E. S. Kennedy, 110 Twelfth St.
Mrs. Etha Wallace, of Charles Street is better after a brief illness.
Mrs. Daisy Hall, of 1117 Charles Street, left the city last week to attend the funeral of her brother, who was a resident of Rock Hill, S.C.
Mrs. Blanche Butler, of Durham, N.C., was the house guest last week of Mr. and Mrs. John Morgan, of 1138 Charles Street.
Y.W.C.A. NOTES
The Y.W.C.A. Had its fall opening October 3rd, which was a wonderful success. Miss Bessie Grant presided. A program was rendered and a luncheon was served.
Mrs. Nell Hunter will be heard in a song recital here Thursday, October 23rd. Mrs. Hunter will be presented by the Y.W.C.A. in the Zou Hastings Frazier Memorial Concert Series.
The Emancipation Day committee of the Odd Fellows entertained the Lincoln High School Glee Club at the Y.W.C.A. Thursday, October 9.
The Rev. and Mrs. J.S. Carroll, of Washington, D.C., and Mrs. Arabella Jackson, of New York City, were the overnight guests of Mr. And Mrs. Chas. H. Yates, Monday.
WHEELING, W.Va. -- The annual boys' day program was rendered Sunday at Simpson M. E. Church. A special feature on the program will be a quartet composed of Messrs. Henry Holly, Rainbow, Edwin Richardson, Herman Newman and Phillip Reed, assisted by Miss Lucille Smith, and with Eugene Jones at the piano.
Mrs. C. Albert, 1015 Eoff Street, is improving after a long illness.
Mr. and Mrs. James E. Moe had as their overnight guests, Thursday, the Rev. and Mr. J. S. Carroll of Washington, D. C., and Mrs. Arabella Jackson, of New York City, all of whom are returning home after attending the fiftieth golden anniversary of the W. H. M. S. in Cincinnati.
During the evening, Mr. and Mrs. Moe were "at home" to a group of friends, honoring the visitors. Among those attending were: the Rev. and Mrs. Carroll, Mrs. Jackson, Mrs. Gertrude Dickerson, Mrs. Fannie Turner, Mrs. Minnie Yates, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Yates, Mrs. Elizabeth Turner, the Rev. and Mrs. E. A. Love, Mrs. Ada Stillyard, Misses Geraldine and Virginia Yates, Jess Dickson and P. A. Jeffries. At a late hour a delicious repast was served.
Mrs. Minnie Yates entertained the Woman's Home Missionary Society at her home on Eoff Street, Monday evening. After the regular business meeting a delicious luncheon was served.
-from The Afro-American, Nov. 1, 1930, p.15
WHEELING, W. Va. -- Miss Zelline Kent of 1005 Eoff Street, is better after a long illness.
Harry Jones of Washington, D. C., is visiting his brother, Selby Jones, of 54 Eleventh Street for a few days.
Those on the sick list are: Miss Virginia Yates, 45 Thirteenth Street, Harry Albright, Ohio Valley Hospital, Miss Leona Brown 111 Eoff Street.
Sunday, October 26 was girls' day at Simpson M.E. Church. Special services were held both morning and evening. The speaker for the morning was Miss Mary Orr, dean of women at the Triadelphia High School. At the evening service two plays were given: one under the direction of Miss Geraldine A. Yates, and the other under Miss Virgie R. Love.
Miss Cecil Miller of 110 Twelfth Street, and Miss Bessie Grant of 1114 Eoff Street, motored to Rendville, Ohio, for the weekend.
The Lincoln High School grid team lost to the Beechhurst eleven at Morgantown, W. Va., Saturday.
The Lincoln High School Choral Club under the direction of Miss Ruth Banks, gave a "mock radio" exhibition at the chapel exercises Tuesday, October 23. The parts were excellently played by students of the high school
The Blue Triangle branch Y.W.C.A. Concert-goers of Wheeling and other surrounding towns were entertained Thursday evening, October 23 by Miss Nell Hunter, mezzo soprano. Mme. Hunter has just returned from two years of study in Europe and Vienna. This was the opening number of the 1930-31 Zou Hastings Frazier Memorial series for the Blue Triangle Y.W.C.A. Branch.
The second concert will take place Thursday, December 4, presenting James Miller of Pittsburgh, pianist. The final concert is scheduled for February or March, and will be given by the Howard University Glee Club of Washington, D. C.
A membership drive will be launched October 27, November 5 for a goal of one hundred new members. The drive will close with a membership tea the evening of November 5 with Mrs. Codelia A. Winn, national executive as principal speaker.
Vesper hour opened Sunday, October 26.
Sunday was girls' day at Simpson M.E. Church. At the morning service the Intermediate Girls Choir rendered the music. Little Miss Nancy Cochrane sang a solo. Miss Margaret Wright gave a paper on the subject, "The Modern Girl." The main address was delivered by Miss Mary Orr, a teacher in the Triadelphia High School, on the subject, "Life and Happiness."
At the evening service, the girls rendered a pageant entitled, "The Sword Bearer." A musical reading was given by Little Miss Ila Williams. Seven little girls led by Jane Anne Dickson pantomimed the song, "In the Garden." A very large audience was present at each service. These services were under the auspices of Mrs. Virginia R. Love, assisted by Miss Geraldine Yates. Miss Karene Kennedy presided at each service. At the Epworth League hour Master Isaac W. Jones was presented with a New Testament with Psalms for his splendid work on boys' day.
The Nellie E. Mason Ladies' Aid presented the trustees with twenty dollars at the morning service.
-from The Afro-American (Baltimore) Nov. 8, 1930
WHEELING, W. Va. -- Mrs. Russell Hicks, of Twelfth Street, was hostess Friday afternoon to a progressive whist party and luncheon. Those present were Mesdames Flossie Jackson, Dorothy Mason, Gertrude Hawkins, Oreitha Clinton, Anna Baldwin, Bernice Curtis, Glenna Magers and Belle Curtis.
A delightful luncheon was served. Mrs. Oreitha Clinton was winner of the first prize; the second prize went to Mrs. Bernice Curis, and the consolation prize to Mrs. Belle Curtis. Lovely Hallowe'en favors were presented to all the guests.
The Fortnightly Study Club met at the home of Mrs. Huston Davis of Seventeenth Street last Thursday evening. A large number of members were present. The usual business was transacted. The club is planning some big things in the near future. The amount realized from the play presented at Simpson Church was $25.00. Mrs. Stillayard was the guest of Mrs. Davis and was presented to the club. A delicious luncheon was served. Afterwards, the club adjourned to meet at the home of Mrs. Sadie Nickens, Morrow Street, November 13.
The "Sons and Daughters of Allen," a club organized from Wayman A.M.E. Church held a bake sale at the Blue Triangle Y.W.C.A. Branch, Saturday morning.
A group of ladies met at the home of Mrs. Gertrude Dickson and Miss Betty Arrington to elect officers for the newly organized bridge club. Officers elected were Miss Cecil Miller, president, and Miss Betty Arrington, secretary.
The Lincoln High football squad played the Dunbar Tigers Friday at the Wheeling Public School Stadium. The result was a score of Lincoln 0; Dunbar, 0.
Mrs. A. J. Stillyard will leave for New Jersey and Charlotte, N.C. For the winter.
Mrs. Bessie Barnett, of Grand Rapids, Mich., is visiting her sister Mrs. Fannie Turner, of the Island, 28 Vernon Street.
Mrs. Herbert Gray and Miss Gertrude Joiner, of Washington, Pa., were visiting here Tuesday and were the dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Yates.
Those on the sick list are: Mrs. C. Culbert, 1015 Eoff Street; Miss Virginia C. Yates, 45 Thirteenth Street; Mrs. Viola Alderson, 1044 Eoff Street, and Mrs. Dora Merritt, of McCulloh Street.
The Civics Club gave a Hallowe'en party Wednesday evening, October 29, at the Elks' Hall.
Mrs. A. E. Kennedy, of Washington, D. C., is visiting Dr. and Mrs. E. S. Kennedy, of 110 Twelfth Street, this week.
WHEELING, W. Va. -- Mrs. Ada Stillyard, of 111 Eoff Street, was given a party at her home last Friday by the Chamber No. 79. Those present were: Mrs. Cornelia Dickson, Mrs. Mollie Martin, Mrs. Elizabeth Turner, Mrs. Nellie Barber, Mrs. Elizabeth Thomas, Mrs. Frannie Turner, Mrs. Houston Davis, Mrs. Lucy Jackson, Mrs. Lavinia Harrie and Mrs. Carrie Verse.
A baby girl was born to Dr. and Mrs. W. A. Wright at the North Wheeling Hospital last Friday. Mother and daughter are doing fine.
Charles Yates, 45 Thirteenth Street, is ill. Mrs. C. Culbert is better after a long illness.
The Interracial Commission of Wheeling was re-organized Thursday afternoon at the Blue Triangle Branch Y.W.C.A. The following constitute the personnel: State Senator Wright Hughes, chairman; Mrs. Charles O'Brien, Miss Ann Cummins, Rev. George W. Maxwell and Mrs. R. V. Engstrom, corresponding secretary; J. E. Span, president of the Wheeling Traction Company; the Rev. E. A. Love, vice-chairman; Mrs. Regina Pryor and the Revs. A. J. Smooth, J. W. Coger and A. L. Campbell with John Harris. The commission immediately took under consideration better school facilities for Wheeling. The commission's program is as follows: Better recreational facilities for the Negro, swimming pool, etc.; better law enforcement; larger recognition for Negroes in civic affairs.
The Women's Bible Class of Simpson M.E. Church met at the residence of Mrs. Lizzie Turner, 114 Twelfth Street, Friday evening, and after a study of the ninth chapter of Acts, the hostess served refreshments. The Bible class sent two baskets of provisions to poor families. The Rev. E. A. Love is teacher of the class.
The senior class of Simpson M. E. Church School gave a baked ham summer at the church last Thursday from 4 to 7 o'clock. Fifty dinners were served. Carter Wright is teacher, and Mrs. Karene Kennedy is manager.
Thursday evening the Ladies' Aid Society of Simpson M. E. Church, of which Mrs. Lennie Walker is president, sponsored a cake baking contest. Seventeen cakes were entered, representing four states. They were Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. The first prize went to Mrs. Martha Smith, of Wheeling, West Va.; second prize went to Mrs. Jennie Grant, of Barnesville, Ohio. The remaining cakes were auctioned off. Mrs. V. K. Love managed the affair.
The Blue Triangle Branch Y.W.C.A. was favored again this week with visits from the following: Miss Martha Dennison, of Youngstown, Ohio, who has spent eleven years as general secretary of the Y.W.C.A. In India. She gave an interesting talk on her experience there. Mrs. E. A. McGhee, of Charleston, W. Va., and representative of the W.C.T.U., was present at the vesper hour and served as main speaker on the program.
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Kelly Miller High Wins
CLARKSBURG, W. Va. -- Kelly Miller football team defeated the Lincoln team of Wheeling, here, Thursday afternoon, to a score of 27-7. The game with Fairmont the past week has been protested by Coach Cardwell of Kelly Miller.
-from The Afro-American, November 29, 1930, p. 19
WHEELING, W.Va. -- The Elks' Rest on Chapline Street, Monday evening, November 17th, was the scene of the celebration of the Fortnightly Sudy Club. The hall was decorated with the club colors gold and blue.
Covers were laid for 100 guests. Eight clubs were represented. An interesting program followed the processional. The welcome address on behalf of the Fortnightly Club was delivered by the club president, Mrs. Elizabeth Turner. The club history was by Mrs. Josephine Bingham. Representatives of other clubs were: Mrs. Lucy Jackson, the Harmonica Club of Bellaire, Ohio; Miss Zelia Harding, Harmonica Club of Bellaire, Ohio; Mrs. Addie Gray, of the Afternoon Club of Bellaire, Ohio; Mrs.Johnson of the Ever Ready Club, of Martins Ferry, Ohio. Mrs. J. H. Rainbow of the Civic Club of Wheeling; the Rev. E. A. Love of the Bible Club; Mrs. E. A. McGhee of the Women's Improvement Club of Charleston. The evening was most enjoyably spent. Music followed the program.
Mrs. Leroy Clinton of Charles Street was hostess Wednesday afternoon to a progressive whist party and luncheon. Those present were: Mesdames Jessie Campbell, Lorena Brown, Sallie Shepherd, Dorothy Mason, Sadie Frances, Bernice Curtis, Misses Georgia Barton, Daisy Hall. Mrs. Lorena Brown was winner of the first prize; second prize went to Mrs. Bernice Brown, and consolation to Miss Georgia Barton.
The following persons were present at the surprise party given Thomas Brown, 111 Eoff Street, Saturday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Jackson, Mr. and Mrs. Dan Underwood, Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Clinton, Misses Hattie Johnson, Hazel Burks, Marjorie Moore, Daisy Hall, Mr. Clyde Williams. A delicious buffet luncheon was served. The evening was spent in cards and dancing.
The sick are, Charles Yates, 45 Thirteenth Street; W. J. Washington, of 1222 Baltimore Street, who is improving.
Dr. E. S. Kennedy is back in his office after a brief illness.
Simpson M. E. Church celebrated its sixty-fifth birthday Friday, November 21. Special features were a banquet and a program. The Rev. E. A. Love is the present pastor.
The Lincoln High School Athletic Association will present a pay entitled, "The High School Freshman," at Wheeling Auditorium, December 5.
Mrs. E. A. McGhee of Charleston, W.Va., spoke to the students of Lincoln school at the morning assembly last Tuesday.
A Thanksgiving program was rendered Sunday afternoon at the Blue Triangle Branch Y.W.C.A. The Harmony Singers, Mrs. Dora Clark, Misses Snowden, White and Mr. Harris took part.
-from The Afro-American, December 6, 1930, p. 12
WHEELING, W.Va. -- Misses Catherine McMechen and Adelaide Livingston, both of Baltimore, were the house guests of Mrs. Mary McMechen, of 1045 Eoff Street, for the Thanksgiving holidays.
The Lincoln High School Athletic Association will present a three-act comedy based on school activities, entitled "The High School Freshman," in the high school auditorium.
Miss Geraldine A. Yates motored to Washington, D.C., with Mr. And Mrs. J. T. Chambers to attend the Howard-Lincoln football game, Thanksgiving Day.
A special song service was given Sunday evening, November 23, by the Simpson M.E. Church choir, under the direction of Dr. M. A. Morrison; Mrs. V. R. Love, organist.
Charles H. Yates is slowly improving at his home on Thirteenth Street.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Johnson and Dr. and Mrs. L. C. Honest motored from Washington, Pa., Sunday to visit Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Yates.
The Idle A While Bridge Club met Tuesday at the residence of Miss Ella S. Jones of Twelfth Street. Misses Jones and Campbell were hostesses.
The following were present: Misses Cecil Miller, Ruth Banks, Helen Green, Lelia Powell, Lucille Smith, Winnie Page, Betty Arrington; Mesdames Ruth Wright, Lucille Chambers and Gertrude Dickerson.
Miss Cecelia Wheeler, the sister of Mrs. Ruth Wright, was the out-of-town guest. A very delightful evening was spent.
The Fortnightly Study Club met Wednesday evening, November 26, with Mrs. Mamie Kent as hostess. The following members were present: Mesdames Josephine Bingham, Lutie Coleman, Edna Gardner, Marie Patterson, Elizabeth Turner, Fannie Turner, Lemie Walker, Carrie Verse, Oreitha Clinton. An interesting round-table discussion followed the usual routine of business. Each member took part.
One of the topics discussed was "Way and Means of Our Club's Coming to the Rescue of Destitute Families." Another was "What Thanksgiving Mean to Me." An appetizing luncheon was served. The club adjourned to meet with Mrs. Patterson as hostess, December 11. The program will consist of favorite tried recipes. Each member is asked to kindly bring her favorite recipe.
The Rev. A.J. Smoot, the present pastor of Wayne A.M.E. Church is back again after a few days' absence.
-from The Afro-American, December 13, 1930, p. 12
WHEELING, W.Va. -- The second number of the Zou Hastings Frazier Memorial course of the Blue Triangle Y.W.C.A., was presented Thursday, December 4, bu James Miller, pianist, of Pittsburgh. Mr. Miller displayed complete mastery of piano. His audience was charmed. This young pianist was the first Negro to graduate from Carnegie Institute of Technology, as a concert artist. Upon graduation he was recommended by the faculty for a scholarship to Berlin. At the vesper program at the Blue Triangle Y.W.C.A., the Rev. L. D. Stevens, of Bridgeport, Ohio, was principal speaker, using as his subject, "No Policy that Robs One Young Woman to Enrich Another, Can Increase a Race's Well-being." Following the Reverend Stevens's address, Mrs. F. E. Gaither, deaconess of the Methodist Episcopal Church, came forward and spoke on, "The Importance of Being a Builder." Mrs. Dora Milligan served as hostess.
Miss E. Essie White, executive secretary of Blue Triangle Branch Y.W.C.A., address the Moundsville A.M.E. Church, Sunday, November 30, subject "The New Youth."
Charles Yates, 45 13th Street, is improving at his home after a brief illness.
Mrs. Charles Early is sick at her home, 132 12th Street.
The Idle-Awhile Bridge Club will meet at Mrs. J. T. Chambers' residence on Lind Street.
-from The Afro-American, Dec. 27, 1930, p. 13
WHEELING, W.Va. -- Teachers who left the city for the Christmas holidays are Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Chambers, Misses Cecil Miller, Betty Perry, Mae Hardy, Florence Smith, Lelia Powell, Mabel Young, Ruth Banks and Winnie Page.
The Lincoln High School basketball team will play their first game January 2nd. The game will be between the Lincoln High School and the alumni.
Irving Whyte, of New York City, was the house guest of Mrs. Mae Rice and Mrs. I. D. Heller of 11 Thirteenth Street.
The Sunday School room of the Simpson M.E. Church was the scene of a banquet given in honor of the Rev. A. J. Mitchell of Baltimore, Tuesday evening.
John Curtis suffered a broken arm from an accident. Mrs. Octavia Cockran is ill at her home in Bridgeport.
-from The Afro-American, Jan. 10, 1931, p. 14
WHEELING CLUB DOWNS SMOKY CITY QUINT, 33-19
WHEELING, W. Va. -- The Friendship Big Five of Wheeling defeated Bailey Big Five of Pittsburgh, Pa., 33-19.
The Friendship boys were slow starting and were trailing 1-6 after five minutes of play, then "Dixie" Kinney, Wheeling's big forward from Atlanta University, slipped in three successive double deckers to take the lead and they were never headed after that.
Kinney was the high scorer of the game, scoring __ field goals and two free throws.
The whole Friendship team played a good game. The big guns for Bailey were W. Harris and Pratt. They played a fine game too, but their team work was ragged in places.
The Friendship "5" is anxious to book with Holy Cross, Lion Tamers, and all other good teams. For games write to Launbural Spriggs; 1025 Chapline St., Wheeling, W. Va.
The summary and finals.
BAILEY, 19
FRIENDSHIP, 33
C.Harris 0 4 Tinker 0 0
W. Harris 2 0 Earley 0 0
P. Williams 1 Kinney 3 2
Pratt 2 0 Campbell 1 0
Moore 0 1 Shannon 4 3
Neville 0 1 Ross 0 0
Setan 1 0 Woods 1 1
WHEELING, W.Va. -- The Inter-Church Council of Religious Education will hold its first meeting of the year, Wednesday afternoon at 4 o'clock at the Y.W.C.A.
The council is composed of the four colored pastors of the following churches, the Rev. E. A. Loves, of Simpson M.E. Church; the Rev. Harden, of Mayman A.M.E. Church; the Rev. Lester of Friendship Baptist Church; the Rev. Gordon, the acting pastor of Macedonia Baptist Church.
There are two representatives together with the pastor from the churches also Principal J. H. Rainbow, of Lincoln High School, and all of the teachers are included in the council.
The present officers are: Chairman, Mrs. Oreitha Clinton; vice chairman, Mrs. J. H. Rainbow; secretary, Mrs. Gertrude Hawkins; assistant secretary, Mrs. Fannie Turner; treasurers, Mrs. Charles O'Brien and Miss Essie White. Advisors, Mrs. Charles O'Brien, Mrs. Mary Banks.
This council sponsors the mid-week Bible school. Plans are under way for the third Leadership Training School, which will be held March 1-6, inclusive. This Leadership Training School was founded here three years ago by Byrd Prillerman.
The Fortnightly Study Club met Thursday evening, January 8, at the tea room of Mrs. Martin Smith, Eleventh Street. Mrs. Mamie Richardson was hostess.
The following members were present: Mesdames Elizabeth Turner, Fannie Turner, Lethia Taylor, Lucy Taylor, Lutie Coleman, Josephine Bingham, Edna Gardner, Carrie Vrse, Lemie Walker, Susie Ross, Goldie Sellers, Mamie Kent, Oreitha Clinton.
An interesting program was rendered. Afterwards luncheon was served. The club is planning a charity ball.
Saturday, January 3rd, Mr. And Mrs. Charles Hill, of High Street, gave a surprise birthday party for their daughter, Addie, who was home for the holidays from Ironside School at Bordentown, N. J.
Among those present were: Misses Martha Woods, Ella Mathews, Katherine Moton, Nellie Gray, Geneva Washington, Esther Norris, Margie Settles, Nettie Terrance, Lois Barnes, Elinor Smith, of Bridgeport, Ohio.
Charles Yates is recovering at his home, 45 Thirteenth Street after a brief illness.
Carter Wright is better after a brief illness.
Mrs. Elsie Butler and sons, Joseph and Charles, of Pittsburgh, were the week-end guests of Mrs. And Mrs. Houston A. Davis, of 71 Seventeenth Street.
The Rev. Mr. Moorhead, of Barnesville, Ohio, who conducted a revival at Simpson M.E. Church last week, met with much success.
WHEELING, W. Va. -- The Howard University Glee Club of Washington, D. C., will appear in Wheeling, February 23, at the Carroll Club, 1300 Chapline Street, under the auspices of the Blue Triangle Branch Y.W.C.A. This is the 3rd and last number of the Zou Hastings Frazier Memorial series.
The vesper program at the Y.W.C.A was rendered by the high school girl reserves. Miss Rosetta Washington, president, presiding. Those taking part on the program were Misses Ella Mathews, Ernestine Minor, Merdia Richardson, Zelline Kent and Mrs. Bary Banks
Plans for the establishment of a recreational center for colored people of Wheeling were launched at a meeting of the Wheeling recreation commission held at the commission headquarters, Thursday, January 15. The council is being formed and will be composed of ten men and ten women of the community. Ernest T. Atwell, National Field Director Bureau of Colored Work, will be in the city during the week of February 1st, to aid in the set-up and plans for the program. This is the first endeavor in West Virginia to establish recreational activities for colored people. Wheeling is considered a pioneer in the state for work for the welfare of colored people, being the only city in the state having a colored branch of the Y.W.C.A.
-from The Afro-American, Feb. 7, 1931
WHEELING, W. Va. -- The Blue Triangle Branch of the Y.W.C.A. Will hold the ninth annual observance of Race Relations Sunday, February 8. The Rev. E. A. Love, pastor of Simpson M. E. Church, and Rev. C. H. Harden, pastor of Wayman A.M.E. Church, will deliver the addresses. Music will be furnished by the Lincoln School, Mrs. J. H. Rainbow presiding.
The committee of management will meet in a call meeting Tuesday, February 3, for election of officers for 1931, Miss Bessie V. Grant, chairman.
Former students and alumni of all schools and colleges are co-operating with the Blue Triangle Branch of the Y.W.C.A. In helping to make the program of the Howard University Glee Club a success. Robert Maceo Hamlin, D.D.S., is heading this student movement. Miss Geraldine Yates, A.B., of Howard University, class of 1930, secretary; Mrs. Orethia Clinton, publicity director.
Mrs. John Morgan, of 1138 Charles Street, suffered a sprained knee from a slip on the pavement Tuesday, but is rapidly improving.
Miss Annie Berry, 1002 Chapline Street, is improving after a brief illness.
Mrs. A. Lewis, of 1027 Morrow Street, is rapidly improving after a severe illness.
Ashby Jeffries, 1037 Eoff Street, is confined to the Ohio Valley Hospital to undergo an operation.
The Rev. C. H. Harden, pastor of Wayman A.M.E. Church, who has been on the sick list this week, was able to attend services Sunday.
A meeting of the Intercollegiate group of Wheeling and vicinity was held last Monday night at the Y.W.C.A. The following officers have been elected: Dr. Hamlin, chairman; Miss Geraldine Yates, secretary; Mrs. Clinton, corresponding secretary; Mr. J. E. Young, treasurer. Plans were made to assist the Y.W.C.A. In bringing the Howard University Glee Club here, February 23.
The sick list includes Mrs. Ellen Gordon, Miss Anna Berry, P. A. Jeffries and George Nickens.
The Nelle E. Maston Ladies' Aid of Simpson M.E. Church gave a bean soup and wiener supper at the church, Thursday evening from 5 to 7:30 o'clock.
The Simpson M.E. Church School had a party Friday evening, honoring the two classes winning the "airplane flight" contest for this year and the two winning classes of last year.
Mrs. Bessie Hicks and Miss Winnie Page were hostesses to the Idle-a-While Bridge Club Tuesday night, at the Hicks's home on Twelfth Street. The early evening hours were spent at the bridge tables and at the conclusion of the games, a dainty repast was served, with covers laid for the following:
Misses Mabel Campbell, Lelia Powell, Mabel Young, Geraldine Yates, Amanda Arrington, Lucille Smith; Mesdames Gertrude Dickson and Lucille Chambers.
Mr. and Mrs. James E. Moe entertained the Royal Ambassadors orchestra at their home on North York Street. The musicians appeared at the Virginia Theatre during their stay in the city.
Mr. and Mrs. Roderick Ray were the weekend guests of Mr. And Mrs. James E. Moe of 108 N. York Street.
Mr. and Mrs. James E. Moe had as their dinner guests Sunday, District Superintendent C.S. Briggs and the Rev. and Mrs. E. A. Love
-from The Afro-American, Feb. 28. 1931. p. 13
WHEELING, W.Va. -- Sunday was Women's Day at Simpson M. E. Church. At the morning service, the Rev. Mrs. J. W. Miller spoke on the subject, "Missionary Results in the Belgian Congo." Mrs. Miller and her husband were for five years missionaries in the Belgian Congo and they opened up territory never before entered by white missionaries. After the services she exhibited various articles of native handicraft. At the evening service two Biblical playlets entitled: "Love's Utmost," and "The Seeing Heart," were rendered, directed by Mrs. Viginia R. Love and Mrs. Ethel Jones. Total money raised was $263.06. Mrs. Eliza Bailey was the leading captain, reporting $54.00.
Miss Hassie Taylor, 1043 Eoff Street, entertained at dinner Sunday afternoon in honor of Mrs. Minnie Yates, who is leaving Wheeling to make her home in Pittsburgh. Guests present were: Mr. And Mrs. Richard Russell, Rev. and Mrs. E. A. Love, Miss Mercedes Poindexter, Mrs. Naomi Webster, Mrs. Sarah Underwood, the honored guest, Mrs. Minnie Yates, and the hostess, Miss Taylor. An automobile ride followed the dinner.
The Twentieth Century Club of Simpson M. E. Church held an election of officers at its last meeting and following were chosen: Mrs. Palma Jordan, president; Mrs. Naomi Webster, secretary; Mrs. Julia Russell, treasurer; Mrs. Virginia Love, chaplain. Mrs. Gladyce Browne entertained the club. A special tribute was paid to the out-going president, Mrs. Russell, who held the presidency for two and half years.
A Martha Washington tea was given at the Blue Triangle Branch Y.W.C.A. Sunday afternoon by the Women's Home Missionary Society of Simpson M. E. Church. A musical and literary program was rendered together with an address by Rev. E. A. Love on the subject "The Stuff Greatness is Made of." Mrs. Sarah Underwood was the chairman. Mrs. Arvelia Moe is president of the society.
Mrs. James E. Moe entertained at dinner Monday afternoon in honor of Mrs. Minnie Yates. Other guests present were the Rev. and Mrs. E. A. Love.
Lincoln School News
The annual Lincoln School literary and declamatory contest was held Friday, February 20, at Simpson M.E. Church. The first declamation was rendered by Mary Virginia Jones. Others on the grade program were: Anna Margaret Griffin, Ida Williams, Evelyn Washington, Catherine Morrison, Matha Settle, and Dorothy Brewer.
Dorothy Brewer was awarded the first prize and Ida Williams, second. The second division of the contest was rendered by the high school.
Miss Cornelia Williams was winner of the first prize; Miss Mary Jones, the second. Other high school contestants were: Miss Odessa McShan and Messrs. Henry H. Rainbow and James Cox.
The Oratorical contest was won by Eugene Jones; the other contestant was George Kennedy. Miss Louise Fields was winner of the first prize in the essay division.Miss G[...] Burris was second.
Miss Marjorie Settle[?] rendered a piano solo and Misses Virginia Yates and Esther Norris rendered vocal solos.
-from The Afro-American, March 14, 1931, p. 17
WHEELING, W.Va. -- The Ladies' Aid of Simpson M.E. Church held their last regular meeting of the conference year at the church Wednesday night. Dues collected amounted to $6.50. A picnic luncheon was served with the Rev. and Mrs. Love as the guests. Mrs. Lennie Walker is president; Mrs. Josephine Bingham, secretary.
The Young People's Clubs of Macedonia Baptist and Simpson M.E. Churches held a mid-winter carnival and skating contest, at the Elks' Hall, Thursday night. Miss Betty Perry and Mrs. Virginia R. Love managed the party.
The Third Leadership Training School, under the auspices of the Interchurch Council of Religious Education, closed Friday night at the Macedonia Baptist Church, after ten sessions. Four international courses were offered. Course 2, "The Principles of Teaching," taught by Miss Mary Off, teacher in the Triadelphia High School; Course 3, "The New Testament," taught by the Rev. M. W. Sprague, of the Wesley M.E. Church; Course 4, "The Old Testament," taught by the Rev. Roy McCuskey, of the Thompson M.E. Church; Course 5, taught by J.C. Truman, principal of the Power W.V. School. The Rev. E. A. Love was dean. Forty-one persons registered and thirty-seven received certificates of credit. This school is held annual, under the authority of the International Council of Religious Education, and in connection with the week-day religious education carried on in the public school, under authority of the local board of education.
Sunday was Mens' Day at Simpson M.E. Church. The Rev. M. W. Marbly, of Martins Ferry, Ohio, preached at the morning service, and a men's choir rendered music. At the evening service a pageant entitled, "Some Great Men of the Bible," was rendered. Fourteen characters from Abraham to John, the beloved disciple, were depicted. Gorgeous costumes were worn. The pageant was written by the Rev. E. A. Love, and directed by Dr. M.A. Morrison, the chorister of Simpson Church. James E. Moe was chairman for the day, and I. W. Jones, secretary. The total amount reported was $230.28, with James E. Moe, the high captain, reporting $750.25.
Charles Yates is home after a short stay in the hospital. Frank Robinson, of 112 Eoff Street, is better. Ashby Jeffries is still sick in the hospital.
The Mary Bethune Civic Club met at the residence of Mrs. Leona Brown, Tuesday, March 18. The Nightingale Art Dramatic Club of Pittsburgh will present "The Dust of the Earth" April 10th.
Lincoln High School will present its second annual concert at the Wheeling High School Auditorium, March 31.
Miss Louise Fuller, who represented Lincoln High School in the regional essay contest, held at Morgantown, was winner of first place.
Charles H. Yates is improving nicely after a lengthy illness.
A fine baby boy was born to Mr. And Mrs. Samuel Hicks, of 115 12th Street, last Sunday morning.
Miss Millie R. Buckner of Appeal, Md., arrived in the city Wednesday to attend the funeral of her father, David Buckner.
Mrs. Minnie Yates, formerly of this city now of Pittsburgh, spent a few hours here Friday afternoon.
Miss Ruth Rice, charming daughter of Mrs. May Rice, of 11 Alley 10, was hostess Wednesday evening, March 18th, when she entertained at a birthday party. The evening was spent in playing games and dancing. Spring flowers and pink and white colors were used in the attractive decorations. A large centerpiece of candies, flowers and candy was used on the table on which covers were laid for twelve. The guests included: Miss Lillian Barton, Master Calbert Barton, Master Huston Wise, Miss Ruth Ellen Murray, Miss Clara Murray, Miss Mary Liza and Carrie Dent, Master George Perry, Master Melvin Walker, Master Walter Ryan, Anna Thompson and Jass Rice.
The Idle-a-While Bridge Club met at the home of Mrs. Theodore Chambers, Tuesday evening. The pretty appointments were carried out in green and white suggestive of St. Patrick's Day. Those present were: Misses Geraldine Yates, Cecil Miller, Betty Arrington, Winnie Page, Lucille Smith, Mesdames Ruth Wright and Gertrude Dickson. First prize was won by Miss Geraldine Yates; consolation prize by Miss Betty Arrington.
Mrs. John H. Morgan, 1138 Charles Street, is improving after a brief illness.
Oliver Shannon is better after a brief illness.
The junior girl reserves of the Blue Triangle Branch Y.W.C.A. Held their candle lighting ceremonial at vesper hour, Sunday. Those present were Miss Jessie Exley, junior girls' secretary; Mrs. Ben Exley, chairman of the girl reserve department, and a member of the Board of Directors; Miss Mary Robert Allen, Industrial and Business Girl secretary. Junior girls present were: Lenora Burke, president of junior club; Sara and Dollie Meeks, Frances Beard and Bertha Congress. Adults present were Mesdames Nellie Barber, Fannie Turner, Dora Millikin, Frannie Lindsey, Rose Swinger, Mrs. Stevens from Bridgeport; Misses Cassel and Alberta White.
The House Committee of the Blue Triangle Branch Y.W.C.A. gave a Bake Sale, Saturday from 10 a.m. To 6 p.m. to purchase linens for the branch. The committee realized a profit of $28.00.
Those on the committee were: Mesdames Elizabeth Turner, India Kinney, Beulah Harris, Mary Winston, Marjorie Moore, Lelia Dolan, Lillian Hicks, Susie Jackson, Mamie Newman, Mary Kennedy, Eva Peters, Blanch Smith and Mary Banks.
The members of the Fortnightly Study Club featured a charity ball. Music was furnished by the famous Percy Lowry Orchestra, of Columbus, Ohio, March 12.
Refreshments were served in a beautiful decorated tea room, in the club colors of orange and blue. Tables, chairs and covers were donated by the Elks' Lodge, and the president.
The Boy Scouts of Troop No. 45 sponsored a dance Monday. Music was furnished by Edward's Collegians. They were the guests of Mrs. Oreitra Clinton, of 1127 Charles Street and Dr. R. M. Hamlin, of 1031 Chapline Street.
ACTORS HOLD ON IN CHICAGO NIGHT CLUBS
By ALLEN W. McMILLAN
CHICAGO - (ANP) --
Gladys Rodgers
Gladys Mike Rodgers, making her debut as a night club hostess and mistress of ceremonies, is also appearing nightly at the Golden Lily Cafe. Miss Rodgers is exceptionally conscientious in her work, and judging from her rapid progress, I am led to believe that her career is to be a most colorful one. Then, too, she greatly exemplifies the fact that one can come from Wheeling, W. Va., and make good in a big city.
On the evening which I review this young lady's work, she appeared adorned in a beautiful attire of formal pajamas made from imported white lace, green shoes, and green hanky. Her elegantly manicured nails were slightly tinted with a hue of red au natural.
Her clever performance was thus aided by a perfect background of a well-appointed oriental setting such as the Golden Lily offers, Francois Mosely's orchestra and an enthusiastic audience. Her rendition of "Lovers for Sale" also proved that Miss Rodgers does possess voice, and this fact is further substantiated by her successful broadcasting over station WJBS in New York.
[The Golden Lily was located at 309 East 55th Street at Garfield Blvd. in Chicago. Mosely or Moseley was a drummer from New Orleans]
-from The Afro-American, March 28, 1931, p. 9
[picture caption]
GLADYS MIKE RODGERS attractive wife of Garbage Rodgers, famous stage comedian. She is a skillful motorist and drives her sport limousine with ease. She has retired from the stage, but may be seen soon in talkies for Paramount Studio on Long Island.
Marshall 'Garbage Rodgers' died in December 1934. (Obit. Baltimore Afro-American, Dec. 15, 1934, p.8) The obituary states he married Gladys Mike in 1928.
-from The Afro-American, Aug. 1, 1931, p. 17
WHEELING, W.Va. -- The Boston Club is sponsoring a bridge and progressive whist party at the Pythian Building, Chapline Street, July 29. Expensive prizes were to awarded the winners.
Miss Lucia Suber, who has recently completed a course in beauty culture, of New York City, is the very attractive house guest of her cousin, Mrs. Oreitha Clinton, of Charles Street.
Those who attended the Sunday School Convention at Weirton were: Miss Henrietta Robinson, Benny Taylor, Mrs. Oreitha Clinton and the Rev. C. H. Harden.
Mrs. And Mrs. Tyler McDowell and daughter, Loraine, of Weirton, were the pleasant week-end guests of Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Clinton, of Charles Street. Mrs. McDowell is one of the teachers of that city.
Walker Harris, who has been confined to his home for a few days, is out again.
WHEELING, W.Va. -- Mrs. Anna Baldwin was hostess Wednesday evening August 24, at a formal party given at the home of Mrs. Dean Howard. The evening was spent playing bridge and dancing. Later, a delightful lunch was served.
The guests were: Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Humphrey, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Curtis, Mr. and Mrs. Dean Howard, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Curtis, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Bell, of Steubenville, Ohio; Mrs. Sallie Shepherd;
Mrs. Mary Thompson, Mrs. Lillie Moore, Mrs. Marie Quarles, Miss Edna Johns, Miss Cleo Abbet, Miss Feao Jackson, Mrs. Anna Baldwin;
Messrs. William Carpenter, Eugene Cox, Luther Adkins, Samuel Penn, Andrew Lane, Emmett Doak, Henry Godfrey, Thomas Odey, Byam Parks, Everette Walker, Floyd Taylor.
Win for Wheeling
WHEELING, W.Va. -- The Lincon High gridders defeated the Beechurst Bulldogs here last Friday bu a score of 7 to 0.
A long run by Moore and a pass from Smith to Captain Burke put the ball in scoring distance. Davis crossed the goal. J. B. Smith rushed the point after touchdown. This victory was the first for Lincoln since 1929 and the second defeat of the season for the Morgantowners by a one touchdown margin.
Fairmont (W.Va.) Hi Defeats Wheeling
FAIRMONT, W. Va. -- Jimmie Jackson returned a punt 85 yards as Dunbar High's title-hunting Tigers defeated the Lincoln High Panthers of Wheeling, 26 to 0.
Dunbar won the toss and elected to kick. Israel got off a long kick and the receiver was downed deep in Lincoln territory. Following thrusts at the line, Lincoln punted and the big Red and Black line of Wheeling was ripped to shreds as Dunbar advanced the ball to the eight yard line in three first downs where Darcus fumbled. The Tigers kept up the fight and registered four first downs with J. Jackson scoring. Darcus made the extra point.
The third score came as a result of a blocked punt by P. Bates and Mays recovering. Thomas Sydner, substitute fullback scored the point after touchdown. J. Jackson scored another touchdown in the second quarter to make the total 26. William Langston, right guard of the Lincoln team, suffered a compound fracture of a leg in the third quarter. Coach McGowan used his complete squad the remainder of the game.
-from The Afro-American, Oct. 12, 1935, p. 5
KDKA Radio Stars Heard in Recital
WHEELING, W.Va. -- A recital was given by the Four Dynamos of Rhythm, radio stars of KDKA at Wheeling High School auditorium, featuring Wheeling's popular tenor, Oswald Kinney.
These four generators of rhythm rendered several of their own compositions such as "Generating Rhythm," "Rhythm Stomp" and "So What, My Brother, So What?"
After the recital, a reception was given at the Pythian Temple, honoring the radio stars. Campbell's Red Hot Peppers, a Wheeling orchestra, furnished dance music.
-from The Afro-American, Nov. 14, 1936
WHEELING, W. Va. -- Playing before 1000 persons the Lincoln High School Panthers subdued the Kelly Miller Yellow Jackets, 29-0, here Friday at the Wheeling Stadium.
The Lincoln victory will go a long way in establishing them as State champions. Few games remain on the Lincoln schedule. If they remain undefeated, a Lincoln-Douglass (Huntington) post-season championship tilt is the prospect. Below are the records of Lincoln to date:
6 Fairmont 0
25 Weirton 0
13 Morgantown 0
26 Parkersburg 0
29 Clarksburg 0
-from The Afro-American, March 27, 1937
Fraternal Leader Dies in Wheeling
WHEELING, W.Va. -- William L. Jones, past grand master of West Virginia Odd Fellows and former president of the endowment fund, exalted ruler and trustee of the local Elks' lodge, died of pneumonia recently at his home, 113 Twelfth Street.
Services were conducted at his residence Wednesday evening by the Rev. E. L. Lofton. Private interment was Thursday morning. One daughter, Mrs. Natalie Jones Faithful; a grandson, Robert William Faithful; a brother, and a sister Miss Ella S. Jones, survive.
Charles Keyes Dies at Easton
EASTON, Pa.--Charles Keyes, 86, died after two weeks of illness, Thursday.
Funeral services were held, Monday, by the Rev. J. Winsmore Mason, pastor of Allen AME Church, Philadelphia, at Mr. Keyes's residence.
The deceased had resided here for fifty-five years. He was a native of Wheeling, W.Va., and for forty-seven years was employed by a drug company. He was a trustee of Union AME Church and active in the Masonic Order.
From his first marriage were born Mrs. Addie Keyes Jackson, of St. Paul, Minn., Mrs. Grace Keyes Lewis and William Keyes of this town, all of whom survive. Also surviving is his widow, Mrs. Fannie Keyes.
Tri-State Officials Meet in Wheeling
WHEELING, W.Va. -- The newly-formed Tri-State Officials' Association met in Wheeling, W. Va., at the call of J. T. Chambers.
Changes in this year's rules were discussed along with recent interpretations of some of the old rules.
Those present at the first meeting were Ellis Ross, James Woods, Oliver Shannon, Bennie Taylor, Wilkes Kinney, J. B. Smith, and J. T. Chambers.
Meetings Every Tuesday
Meetings will be held every Tuesday evening at the Lincoln High School.
The association is open to former athletes, coaches and others interested in officiating.
Athletic directors who need officials for games can secure the necessary information by writing to James T. Chambers, Lincoln High School, Wheeling, W. Va.
-from The Afro-American, January 14, 1939, p. 4
The White Neighbors Have "Georgiaitis"
Dear AFRO:
Arriving in Wheeling a few years ago, just thirty-five, I found myself among what I would call the best white people on earth; the exclusive people who lived out on the pike and who were so nice they seemed every day to bring gladness to my soul.
Individual white families, the hotels, and business houses used to employ colored help; the places of amusement were open to all, but all this is changed now. What is the cause of it all? Has our white neighbor moved away and a new people moved in his place? What is the reason for this drastic change?
W.C.M. HARRIS, Notary Public.
Wheeling, W. Va.
-from The Afro-American, May 6, 1941, p. 14
Clean Block Drive for Wheeling, W. Va.
Wheeling, W. Va. Launched its first Clean Block Drive, May 5. There were mass meetings, conferences, radio broadcasts and group meetings.
Miss Frances L. Murphy, director of Baltimore's seventh annual Clean Block campaign, attended the opening features and showed colored slides of blocks in Baltimore and Washington.
-from The Afro-American, June 21, 1941, p. 6
"My Son, My Son"
MRS. MARGARET BERRY, center, of Wheeling, W. Va., appears to be happy over having her famous son, Chu Berry, left, saxophone player of Cab Calloway's orchestra, visit his "Mom" when Cab's unit played Wheeling recently. Even the king of Hi-De-Ho seems gleeful over the whole thing. Mrs. Berry is advisor of the AFRO Clean Block Campaign.
1500 Enlisted in Clean-Up Drive in Five Cities
Whether in Raleigh, N.C., Wheeling, W. Va., Washington, Philadelphia or Baltimore, the Clean Blockers have started out on a real war on dirt and its twin, disease.
Work in Wheeling
Mrs. Mary Banks, clean block director in Wheeling makes the following report: 200 yards cleaned, seventy-five window boxes erected, houses painted, YWCA painted, fifty houses had doorways and window sills painted, 100 back yards cleaned, thirty-five front yards beautified.[ . . . ]
Children in Wheeling, West Virginia's 13th Street Clean Block Club shown still at work. They are not only keeping the block clean but are also working hard to raise money for next year's clean block drive.
The children sold papers, ice cream, ice cubes, etc. in order to buy hats, overalls and gloves to wear while at work pulling weeds, making rock gardens and repairing fences. This is a club of white children. Their advisor, Mrs. Ray Barnes, is the only colored resident of the block. This block took second prize in the 1941 campaign.
WHEELING, W.Va. -- Lincoln High School will play Bolling High of Lewisburg, here, Friday night.
Halloween may still be a night of witches and goblins to the Panthers of Lincoln High for they will meet a real "jinx team."
In the three intersectional clashes between these rivals, the boys from the south have been victorious by less than a point margin.
Wheeling will entertain her guests at a midnight skating party.
-from The Afro-American, Nov 15, 1941, p. 23
Lincoln High Breaks Bolling Team's Jinx
WHEELING, W.Va. -- After bowing to Bolling High of Lewisburg, W.Va., on three previous occasions since 1936, the Lincoln Panthers broke the spell with a hard fought 6-0 victory.
The only score of the game came in the first quarter when Killings, left end caught a short punt on the 30-yard line and raced across Bolling's goal line.
The final game of the season will be played at the Wheeling Stadium with Sumner High of Parkersburg.
-from The Afro-American, Feb. 28, 1942, p. 18
MRS. LILLIE KENNEDY
WHEELING, W. Va. -- Funeral services for Mrs. Lillie Kennedy were held recently at the Brown Funeral Chapel with the Rev. D. H. Hadwin, pastor of First Christian Church of Broadway Island officiating. Interment was in Stone Church Cemetery.
A native of Hickman County, Tenn., Mrs. Kennedy resided in Huntington before coming here twenty-three years ago. Survivors include:
Four sons, Bryant, Raleigh and Bruce of Wheeling, and Aaron of Erie, Pa.; three daughters, Mrs. Phoebe Gordon, of Martins Ferry, Ohio; Mrs. Karene Harold, Hickman County, and Mrs. Ruby Brown of this city; two brothers, Henry Bryant of Nashville and Eugene Bryant, Honolulu; and a sister, Mrs. Aquilla Gray of Nashville.
-from The Afro-American, July 4, 1942, p. 15
Wheeling NAACP Sponsoring Forums
WHEELING, W.Va. -- The local branch of the NAACP is sponsoring a series of open forums under the leadership of one of its charter members and president, Dr. M. A. Morrison. A leading dentist here, Dr. Morrison is a graduate of Howard University and was at one time national president of Apha Phi Alpha Fraternity.
-from The Afro-American, July 4, 1942, p. 6
Baltimore Leads Clean Blockers
Wheeling at Work
The Clean Blockers of Wheeling, W.Va., are forming block organizations. They have purchased victory emblems, flowers, and whitewash for back fences. Wheeling's new workers are:
CAPTAIN: Bettie Johnson, 1019 Chapline Street.HELPERS: Rufus Barton, Sadie Clark, Annie Campbell, J.L. White, Esther Singletary, Floyd Taylor, Laurence Coombs, Mildred Coombs, Sybl Coombs, Myrtle Parks, Margaret Lewis, Fred Nelson, Betty Wright, George Hughes, Donald Gardner, Bertha Legg; Mesdames L. Gaines, M.L. McElory, Etta Wright, and Lett.
-from The Baltimore Afro-American, July 7, 1942, p. 9
1500 Clean Blockers Busy Fighting Dirt and Disease
BALTIMORE-- With the distribution of small American flags for window boxes, registration blanks for signers, cards for windows and rules and regulations, the eighth annual Clean Block Campaign is now formally declared open, cities taking part including Philadelphia, Pa.; Wheeling, W. Va., and Raleigh, N.C.
Baltimore now has 1500 captains and workers in 80 city blocks at the job of defending their homes by keeping them free from dirt
No Color Line
Wheeling, W.Va., and Philadelphia report that both colored and white children are serving as captains and workers in the effort to make their cities cleaner and more beautiful.
-from The Afro-American, July 27, 1942, p. 6
398 Clean Blockers Sign Up; Wheeling in Lead
BALTIMORE - The AFRO-AMERICAN's eight annual Clean Block Campaign is really getting a fine start. Wheeling, W. Va. Is leading with a registration of 202, while Baltimore, Md., follows with 196.
The new members in Wheeling, W. Va. are.
CAPTAIN: Florence Moore, 931 W. Chapline Street.HELPERS: Mesdames florence Haynesworth, Leora Cyrus, Florence Coles, Lucy Lee, Willie May Moore, Lucille Saunders, Mary Williams, Nannie Gent, Juanita Roby, Eunice Blackman, Bertha Brown, Nell Martin, Bessie McDowall, Walker Harris; Henry Taylor, Theodore Waldrow, Edna Taylor, Kathryn Henderson, Robert Henderson, R.S. Logan, William Beakey, Martha Wilson, John Frank, James Hronis, Madolina Hronis, Emanuel Crampus, Gus Magoulas, John Zeographis, Nannie Coles, Cumberland Hawkins.
CAPTAIN: Launbural Spriggs, Charles Street.HELPERS: Mesdames John Jennings, Walker Hams, Grover Vire; Cora Oliver, Norma Campbell, Walker Harris, Martha Spriggs, Janie Campbell, John Morgan, Mary Morgan, Janie Woods, J. H. Rainbow, Philip Reid, Ida Ollison, Cornelia Cyrus, Ella Matthews, Grover Vire, Georgia Campbell, and Ella Minor.
CAPTAIN: Mildred Shelton, 22nd, 23rd and 24th Streets.HELPERS: Betty White, Lillie Woods, Margie Pritchard, Wilma Shelton, Emma Shelton, Catherine White, Delores Shelton, Mary Sinclair, Doldridge Harrison, Felton Harrison, Samuel Brim, Julia Collins, Lewis McClain, Victoria White, Ernestine Johnson, Gertrude Evans, Mattie Evans.
CAPTAIN: Dorothy Griffin, 25th and 26th Streets.HELPERS: Alfreda Pervall, Thelma Berry, Amanda Griffin, Lillie Stradwick, Lena Lester, Essie Allen, Charles Pervall, David Wallace, Beverly Pervall, William Allen, Eugene Stradwick, Barbara Allen, Henrietta Johnson, Betty Clay, Artie Green, Daniel Reid, and Tobia Mayes.
-from The Afro-American, August 1, 1942, p. 14
Makes Victory Report
Joan Finney, clean block worker of Wheleing, W. Va., sent in the following Victory Clean Block report, showing how much work Clean Blockers in her block have accomplished.
In this block, 30 Alley Street, 10 pairs of steps have been painted; 1 house painted; 10 houses have had woodwork painted; 10 houses with woodwork cleaned; 10 yards cleaned; 10 houses with flowers out in painted pots; 9 houses with flowers in window boxes; 3 alleys cleaned; 5 cellars cleaned; and 9 yards with flowers.
-from The Afro-American, Aug. 4, 1942, p. 8
Wheeling Ends Clean Block Drive
WHEELING, W.Va. -- The second AFRO-AMERICAN Clean Block Campaign makes the following Victory Report in closing.
These five blocks are reporting: 1000 Marrow Street, 1000 Eoff Street, 1000 Chapline Street, 30 Alley 8, 900 W. Chapline Street.
Victory Reports
As a result of the work done by the Clean Blockers, Wheeling is now a clean and more beautiful city. The workers have painted 11 pairs of steps; 61 pairs marble steps have been cleaned; 10 houses are painted; 19 houses have had woodwork painted; 48 houses have had woodwork cleaned; 22 houses have painted flower pots; 53 houses have flowers in window boxes; 3 alleys were cleaned; 6 cellars cleaned; and 36 yards have flowers in them.
Best Block
1000 Eoff Street received the highest award. During the campaign, a baby show and a street car fair were conducted. At the close a picnic was held with all workers in the campaign as guests. The Mayor of the city contributed $25 for the picnic fund.
Mrs. Mary Banks directed the campaign.
-from The Afro-American (Baltimore), Nov. 17, 1942
Xavier's Grid Captain Ex-Star at Wheeling
WHEELING, W. Va. -- Co-Captain Calbert Banton, 200-pound senior center of Xavier University's football team, is a graduate of Lincoln High School of Wheeling.
-from The Afro-American, June 12, 1943, p. 11
Wheeling Tops Clean Blockers in W. Virginia
WHEELING, W.Va. -- When the school bell rang on June 1, 276 clean blockers reported to serve in the third annual AFRO-AMERICAN Clean Block Campaign, with Mrs. Eileen Miller, director; Mrs. Martha Bruce, and Mrs. Minnie Clemans, assistants and Mrs. Mary Banks, chairman of publicity.
One hundred petunia plants, a gift from Mrs. Russell Bailey, were distributed to the children for window boxes.
Captains, officers and workers of the blocks follow:
CAPTAIN: GERTRUDE EVANS, 23rd and Main Streets:
HELPERS: Mary Sinclair, inspector; James Bass, martial marshal; Mrs. Pervall, president; Beverly Pervall, secretary; Percy Sinclair, Naomi Sinclair, Mildred Shelton, Delores Shelton, Floyd Nevels, Lillie Woods.
CAPTAIN: MARIAN NEWMAN, Eoff Street:
HELPERS: Barbara Cooper, Betty Patterson, Elizabeth Ladson, Beatrice Moyer, Marceline Brown, Dorothy Brown, Betty Brown, Bert Scott, Beatrice West, Mrs. Mannie Kent, Herman Newman, Lillian Hicks, Cecie Hick, Oscar Winters, Margaret Scott, Mrs. Mary Webster, Alphonso Scott, Mabel Cross, Mrs. Letha Taylor, Richard Russell, Flora Green, Martha Smith, Lillian Hunes, Martha Thomas, Mr. Alexander, Hary Alderson, Mamie Newman, Geraldine Newman.
CAPTAIN: JOAN FINNEY, Alley 9:
HELPERS: Ivan Law, martial marshal; Mary Finney, inspector; Gussie Holsley, president; Eleanor Holsley, James Preyer, Robert Preyer, Elva Law, James Knight, James Law, James Galloway, Charles Galloway, William Galloway.
CAPTAIN: NORA ABRAMS, Warwood, W. Va.:
HELPERS: Annie Bush, Violet Doss, Alma Coles, marshal; Ethen Hendricks, Fred Baker, Jean Coles, inspector; Jeanette Coles, secretary; Mrs. Minnie Clemans, adviser; Walter Doss, Ovell Bush.
CAPTAIN: NED JOHNSON, West Chapline Street:
HELPERS: Betty Taylor, Clara Taylor, inspector; Eva Johnson, Edna J. Taylor, inspector; Eunice Blackman, Billy Matthews, Bessie McDowell, Mrs. Bruce Saunders, adviser; Mrs. Charles E. Lee, J. H. Adams, Mary F. Saunders, marshal; Mrs. May Williams, president.
CAPTAIN; CLARENCE McBROOM, JR., Lind Street:
HELPERS: William R. Dennis, Emma Dennis, Henrietta A. Dennis, Gloria Dennis, Alfred Cooper, Geneva Cooper, Andrew Otey, Virginia Otey, Dorothy Ingram, John Tuzzolina, Clarence McBrown, Sr., Bessie McBroom, Carmen McBroom, Carroll McBroom, Bertha Law.
CAPTAIN: BARBARA ALLEN, 24th Street:
HELPERS: Ella Young, adviser; Henrietta Johnson, president; Annie Bush, secretary; Birdie Suggs, Alice Suggs, Hethy Jenkins, Marshal; Philip McCampbell, Dora Allen, inspector; Littlie Burnley, Thelma Berry.
CAPTAIN: JAMES ABRAMS, Morrow Street:
HELPERS: James Morton, Essie Morton. Mrs. DeCoursey, George Clayton, Lemmie Webb, Christine Clark, Georgetta Clark, Margaret Gentry, secretary; Dorothy Richardson, June Wallace, inspector; Edna Smith, Betty Anderson, Dorothy Tavage, president; Mrs Virginia Wesley, adviser; Mrs. Lillie Chapman, Rudolph Richardson, marshal; Daniel Richardson, inspector; Ruth Anderson, George Reed, ArnettaReed, Francis Gentry, Ernie Gentry.
CAPTAIN: BARBARA WRIGHT, Charles Street:
HELPERS: Georgianna Jordan, M. Jennings, Cora Oliver, Cornelia Cyrus, H. Fowkles, Martha Spriggs, Pauline Johnson, Walter Harris, Fannie Harris, William Coles, Marjorie Coles, Janie Wood, Allen Miller, Dorothy Jackson, Harold Miller, Dora Byrd, Gertrude Terrance.
CAPTAIN: JULIA COLLINS, Powers, W. Va.:
HELPERS: Dorothy White, Evelyn Whites, Letha White, Joan White, Carl White, Howard Washington, Jean Wright, Marvel Terrell, Harold Terrell, Mrs. Marjorie Pritchard.
CAPTAIN: CUTIE GREEN, Alley B:
HELPERS: William Green, marshal, Azie Green, president; Betty Clay, secretary; Louise Young, inspector; Mattie Jenkins, David Wallace, Lillie Burnley, adviser.
CAPTAIN: HELEN BANKS, 2600 black Market Street:
HELPERS: Mary Hampton, marshal; Birdie Suggs, inspector; Mrs. Mary Savage, president; Dorothy Griffin, secretary; Mrs. Maggie James, treasurer; Mrs. Frances Hencher, adviser; Mattie Johnson, R.T. Burl, Julia Reed, Lillie Stradwick, Virgie Burl, Lizzie Mahone, Ben Ransome, Hethy Jenkins, Will James, Odie Scarbori, Eller Suggs, Philip McConnell, Della Clifford, Lula King, W.R. Major, Pearl Scott, Sallie Stewart, Josie Hopson, Lena Lester.
CAPTAIN: FREDA POWELL, National Road:
HELPERS: Mrs. Maggie Powell, president; Chrystal Powell, marshall; Clara M. Powell, inspector.
CAPTAIN: DORA M. BISHOP, High Street:
HELPERS: Mrs. Lizzie Legion, Mr. and Mrs. John Harris, Mamie Cummins, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hill, Arthur King, William Miles, Mrs. L. Coleman, Mrs. Henry Nickson, Mrs. Halpin, Mrs. Peyton, Laverne Savage, Thelma Savage, Helen Savage, Freddie []yles, Harold Green, Chukky Green, Mrs. Lavage.
CAPTAIN: EILEEN MILLER, Alley 7:
HELPERS: Mrs. Eula Miller, Mrs. Sarah Monroe, Mr. and Mrs. McKinney, Mrs. Rabb, Mr. and Mrs. Scott, Elder Johnson.
CAPTAIN: BETTY PEAN JOHNSON, Chapline Street:
HELPERS: George Hughes, Fred Nelson, Sybl Coombs, Bobby Coombs, James Hill, marshal; Bobby Singletary, secretary. Will Powell, Wiley Davis, Mrs. Gwendolyn Lett, Dr. J.S. White, J.A. Kent, Irene Johnson, Edna Kelley, A.B. Thinn, Henry Wright, Mrs. Bessie Strickland, president; Mrs. Lucy Taylor, Mrs. Mary Taylor, Juanita Barton, inspector; Barbara Kent, Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell, Mrs. Marjorie Moore, John Kent.
-from The Afro-American, July 24, 1943, p.3
Orlando Robeson is Private at Huachuca
HUACHUCA, Ariz.--- Pvt. Orlando Roberson, former featured singer with Claude Hopkins's orchestra, and more recently of the night spots of New York, is stationed here with the 1922nd Service Command.
[ ... ]
Heads Baseball Team
First Lieut. James T. Chambers of Washington and Wheeling, W. Va., is assistant special service officer, and in charge of the Service Command baseball team, which has won 19 games without a loss. Lieut. Chambers attended Howard and Pittsburgh Universities and coached 17 years before entering the army and was a four-letter man during his college days.
-from The Afro-American, April 12, 1947, p. 18
Mrs. Banks Given Rites in Wheeling
Funeral rites were held Tuesday, at Grace Presbyterian Church, for Mrs. Mary M. Key Banks, former Baltimorean, who died at her home in Wheeling, Va., where she as resided for the past 30 years. Burial was in Arbutus Memorial Park.
Mrs. Banks, who once taught here, was affiliated with civic and religious circles in Wheeling.
She was the founder of the YWCA Blue Triangle Club, a teacher in the Midweek Bible School, a teacher in Macedonia Baptist Church Sunday school and organizer of the Banneker Recreation Association.
She is survived by her husband Dr. George A. Banks of Wheeling; a sister, Mrs. Katherine Key Shorts of Baltimore; a niece, Mrs. Katharine Burkett of Washington; and a nephew, Clifton Burkett, also of this city.
THAT TERM
Wheeling, W. Va. -- I should like to call your attention to Robert Merril, who sings for RCA on Sundays. I have written him and his sponsor, asking that they change the objectionable word "darkies" in his broadcasts.
This past Sunday he sang "Old Man River" and used the term again. Isn't there something the AFRO can do about this?
I admire the stand the AFRO takes concerning this matter of cleaning up the air and hope an apology will be forthcoming from both the artist and his sponsor. --ELLEN G. PARKS.
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Graham Hoppe
Graham Hoppe writes about culture and history with a focus on food and music. He is a graduate of the folklore program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Gone Dollywood is his first book. Raised in Indianapolis, Graham currently lives and works in Raleigh, North Carolina.
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Gone Dollywood
Dolly Parton’s Mountain Dream
By Graham Hoppe
Country music superstar Dolly Parton’s Dollywood is a 150-acre fantasyland that hosts three million people a year. What does it tell us about the modern South, and in turn what does that tell us about America as a whole? Hoppe blends tourism, public history, and personal reflection into an unforgettable interrogation of Southern American identity.
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Real-Time App Development Platform PubNub Snags $11M to Expand Sales and Marketing
Brief, API
By Amy Castor
PubNub wants to knock down the barriers to real-time app development. To further its goal, the company, which offers a real time app development platform through an API, closed $11 million in Series B funding last week.
If you are still not sure what a real time app is, think instant messaging, multiplayer games (where you need to see the other players' locations), document sharing and enterprise collaboration. All these apps involve two-way live communication and synchronization.
The problem is that companies who offer real times apps, like Skype or Google Docs, typically invest a lot of money into developing core infrastructures to support and deploy those apps across a global audience. Small businesses don't necessarily have the funds to do that.
That's where PubNub steps in. The San Francisco firm offers a cloud platform with all the ready-made building blocks (data push, presence, storage and playback, analytics and security) for real time app development along with a globally distributed network of 11 data centers. By removing the complexity and cost out from creating real-time apps, PubNub hopes it will allow more developers to take risks and try new concepts.
So far, the idea seems to be working. PubNub, which was founded in 2010, says it now streams three million messages per second to over 100 million devices each month. It has powered real-time apps for the Olympics, Eurocup, Super Bowl, Grammys and American Music Awards (AMAs) that sync millions of devices simultaneously for real time voting, sentiment analysis, second screen ad sync and more.
The founding round was led by Scale Venture Partners along with Relay Ventures and TiE Angels. As part of the investment, Andy Vitus from ScaleVPI will join PubNub's board of directors. PubNub says it plans to use the money to expand worldwide sales and marketing to increase demand for its product.
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Microsoft to permanently close all of its retail stores
Microsoft on Friday announced a strategic change in its retail operations. The sofware gigant will permanently close its 83 Microsoft Store retail locations. The company’s stores were temporarily shuttered in late March in response to the Covid-19 pandemic and the pandemic now provided a good opportunity to face that fact…[…]
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Businesses with Operations In New York Need to Know the SHIELD Act
The state of New York has a population of more than 19 million people, and businesses with operations in New York need to be aware of the SHIELD Act.
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The state of New York has a population of more than 19 million people, and businesses with operations in New York need to be aware of the SHIELD Act. The Stop Hacks And Improve Electronic Data Security (SHIELD) Act has one focus, and that’s to protect the residents of New York State and their information in electronic format.
Businesses have been subject to regulatory oversight for decades – that’s nothing new. Compliance is a daily necessity in business, but the SHIELD Act is unique because it applies to businesses that operate in New York with employees residing in New York or have customers or clients in New York.
What Is the SHIELD Act?
If you’re a business who operates in the state of New York, more specifically with employees or customers or clients residing in the state of New York, you are required to take steps with your technology to actively safeguard the personal information of these employees, customers or clients, in effort to prevent this data from being exposed. The population of the state of New York represents more than 15% of the United States, so exposure of this information has the potential to be crippling to all involved.
The significance of the SHIELD Act is how it redefines “exposure” when it comes to information. The distinction with the SHIELD Act is where previously the breach was considered to be the unauthorized acquisition of data where now it applies to unauthorized access. Even potential access to this information now requires the affected individuals to be notified and for credit reporting agencies to offer identity theft protection services to impacted consumers.
What Information Does the SHIELD Act Protect?
The sensitive data of private residents in New York state includes details like:
Social Security numbers
Driver’s license number
Credit and debit card numbers, with or without PIN codes
Financial account numbers or information
Account user names or email addresses – with or without passwords
It’s clearer now how exposure of this information of more than 19 million people could have a staggering effect, and why the SHIELD Act mandates minimum data security requirements for protecting this data.
The SHIELD Act applies to any person or business that accesses, stores, shares, or uses this information in a computerized format.
What Does Your Business Need to Do to Comply with the SHIELD Act?
Businesses under the SHIELD Act fall into one of two classifications:
You have less than 50 employees
Your annual revenue is less than $3 million in each of the past three fiscal years
Small businesses are required to take reasonable administrative technical and physical safeguards to protect your data in electronic format. What does “reasonable” mean? Reasonable safeguards are those measures considered appropriate for:
The size and operational complexity of the small business
The nature and scope of the business and industry
The sensitivity of the data used by the business
You have more than 50 employees
Your gross annual revenue is greater than $3 million
No matter which classification your business fits into, your business will need to take steps with technology security for your data:
Maintain secure IT systems and network
Limit those who can access your sensitive information
Training, training, training
Training staff on security procedures and best practices for data security is the most important step you can take, including using strong passwords, how often to update passwords, and how to recognize phishing attempts to gain access to these passwords.
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SSP wins US$75m food and beverage contract for Shenyang Taoxian International in China
Concessionaire SSP Asia Pacific has won a potential 10-year deal valued at approximately £48m (US$75m) for the operation of six food and beverage outlets at Shenyang Taoxian International Airport in China.
The new offerings will occupy approximately 14,000ft² of concession space and include international brands such as Japanese noodle restaurant Ajisen Ramen, Chinese-style fast-food chain Yon Ho, and Japanese beef and rice offering Yoshinoya. Local brands include Korean concept Happy Gimbaq, Chinese dumpling restaurant Da Qing Hua, and Hong Kong-style café Gang Zai. Almost half of the food concepts will be located in the domestic landside departure mezzanine, with the remainder located in the airside mezzanine precinct. The new units are scheduled to begin trading in 2016.
Chris Rayner, CEO of SSP Asia Pacific, said, “This important contract win will give us a strategic foothold in the rapidly growing northeastern part of China, where we will continue to target further expansion of our business.
“The new units will be a mix of international, national and local brands based on our consumer research findings and I am certain they will provide visitors to Shenyang International Airport with a great variety of food and beverage experiences. Today’s announcement demonstrates SSP’s ambition to grow both in large and medium sized airports, and further reinforces our market leading position in China.”
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SAN FRANCISCO'S SOFT STORY RETROFIT & ACCESSORY DWELLING UNIT PROGRAM
In the wake of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, San Francisco founded a study to mitigate the earthquake risks in the city. According to this study, after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake on or near the San Andreas Fault, up to 90 percent of the current soft story building stock in San Francisco will not be habitable. After retrofit, that number is expected to be below 10 percent.
A year after the mandatory soft story program was launched in 2013, the city rolled out accessory dwelling units (ADU) to allow building owners an option to recuperate the retrofit costs by adding new income units. Other than single-family residential zones, the ADU ordinance overrides existing zoning restrictions to add new units within the existing envelope. It additionally allows complete or partial waivers of the planning code requirements for parking, rear yard set back, dwelling unit exposure, and usable open space.
While the cost of retrofitting can be passed through to the tenants, the cost of new units is relatively lower compared to new construction because their usually smaller square footage and use of existing structures. As noted in the city's detailed ADU handbook, "ADUs can provide flexibility for families over generations, offsets the costs of homeownership, and/or provide a more affordable housing option for some households."
This combination of soft story and ADU program is the lowest-hanging fruit to tackle two criteria to become a more resilient city:
(1) preparedness in an earthquake event and
(2) a stronger housing stock by reclaiming underutilized spaces within existing buildings
A great equation for success is: Resiliency = Earthquake preparedness + Strong Housing Stock.
INVEST IN AN ARCHITECT
Since most building owners associate ADU with soft story retrofit, their first and only contact with a building design professional is often an engineer. They may assume the engineer can also draw up plans for the new units, thus saving on design fee. However, short-term savings does not equate to long-term value. Understand that one of the many great assets of an architect is his or her master planning skills. Since the ordinances require phasing of permits, a thoughtful strategy to ensure the retrofit work will eventually support future improvements is incredibly valuable.
As architects, we are trained to address multiple aspects of a site all at once - light, views, access, zoning, and economics. As we prepare conceptual plans that illustrate the potentials of your site, we continue to fine-tune a strategy that you or a future owner may wish to pursue.
Whether you are thinking about taking advantage of the city incentives to add a unit or not, architects provide a comprehensive roadmap for future improvements, such as decks, additions, and remodels, and ensure that the retrofit work will not limit those opportunities. Architects, in turn, can collaborate with professionals across the design community to provide a comprehensive approach to your design with a full team of experts, including landscape architects, interior designers, and lighting designers. Having a master plan backed by an understanding of cost and return makes sure that work done today will not preclude possibilities for the property in the future.
Planning an attractive new unit within the existing building envelope presents challenges that require creative thinking and knowledge of the building systems, codes, and how we inhabit spaces. A well-executed design is one where the new enhances the existing in the process. We communicate through drawings, models, and renderings so that the owners can visualize their new space and understand how it impacts the existing building as a whole. Building on the initial studies, architects - working side by side with an engineer - progressively add details and specifications to create a set of drawings ready for a builder to provide accurate estimates. This is a well-tested process for an architect, engineer, and builder to do their parts efficiently in order to provide maximum return for the development of your great investment - your building.
The way ADU permitting is set up, either a mandatory soft story or a voluntary seismic upgrade permit needs to be obtained first. Then, a separate permit for the new units can be submitted. You can consult with your design professional to guide you through the permitting process.
Your architect, working with the engineer, builder, and other design experts, can provide you with a team that is trained to work together with all the skills needed for a successful project. A collaborative starting point can creatively address both architectural and engineering needs. There is nothing more irksome than an out-of-place braced frame or walls blocking out light. In the end, it is the experience you feel in these living spaces and overall improvement to the longevity of the building that yields maximum return on your investment.
A close collaboration between an architect, an engineer, and other design professionals is critical to ensure success in a retrofit project. A comprehensive understanding of existing site condition, proposed space use, structural performance and efficiency, and cost-return analysis are strategies for adding value to your property.
When you work with Q-Architecture, you have a uniform team of architects and engineers to "see the whole picture".
Our solution is therefore more comprehensive and effective without sacrificing aesthetic and historic character of your building.
1. 100 Resilient Cities
2. "Since 2014, the City has adopted new programs that would allow an ADU beyond a parcel's density limits in certain conditions."
3. "In 2014, Mayor Lee pledged to construct 30,000 new and rehabilitated homes throughout the City by 2020, with half available to low, working and middle income San Franciscans." San Francisco is well on track towards those goals. "since announcing his Housing Plan in January 2014, over 9,500 units have been built or completely rehabilitated, with over 3,200 of those units permanently affordable to low and moderate income San Franciscans."
4. 2015 SF-ADU Handbook.
Michael Robbins, AIA, LEED AP, and Dawn Ma, PE, Assoc. AIA, are members of the Small Firms Committee of the American Institute of Architects, San Francisco Chapter. The committee provides a source for sharing knowledge among architects of small firms for mostly residential projects. Many of our members are actively working on retrofit/ADU projects. For more information, feel free to contact Michael at
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Note: This article appears in the San Francisco Architecture Small Firms, Great Projects, Publication. Please check out, "Designing Strong Structures To Replace Soft Story Stock" by Dawn Ma, PE, Assoc. AIA, and Michael Robbins, AIA, Leed AP, with contributions by Randy Collins, PE
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French Morning Media
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French Morning Media Uses PowerInbox to Add 15% New Revenue with Email Advertising
As the leading online media outlet for French expats and French speakers living in the United States, FrenchMorning.com is a fast-growing source for French news and travel information. In addition to six local editions for U.S. subscribers in New York, Washington, D.C., Miami, Texas, Los Angeles and San Francisco, it also operates local issues for Montreal and London.
Boasting over 500,000 unique visitors a month, its online readership has surged 25% over the last year. Its weekly newsletters reach over 120,000 subscribers, including 32,000 and 45,000 in New York and London respectively who receive a newsletter twice each week.
A New Revenue Opportunity
Looking to add a new source of revenue to its existing on-site banner ads, French Morning began investigating email advertising as a potential new income stream. But, they quickly ran into two technical issues. First, its existing ad server not only couldn’t accommodate email ads but it was also starting to become unreliable in delivering web banners. Second, adding email ads would be a manual and laborious process that the small staff of 10 simply didn’t have the resources to do.
To solve the problem, French Morning’s founder Emmanuel Saint-Martin began looking for other options. First, he switched the site’s web banners to Double-Click for Publishers (DF), now known as Google Ad Manager (GAM), which offered reliable, stable delivery of French Morning’s direct-sold inventory.
PowerInbox Delivers Simplicity, Convenience with GAM Integration
Next, an online search turned up PowerInbox’s email newsletter advertising solution—a way to deliver those online banners into the weekly newsletter sends. Thanks to PowerInbox’s direct integration with GAM—the only email ad server in the industry that offers this capability—the French Morning team could actually make email advertising work. With just a single line of code embedded into the email template, PowerInbox pulls creative directly from GAM into the newsletter automatically.
“PowerInbox offered a seamless GAM connection and it’s completely hands off,” Emmanuel said. “We set it up once and it now takes care of itself. Without it, there’s no way we’d have the time to add these banners into our newsletters manually.”
Email Advertising: A Valuable Commodity
With the help of PowerInbox, the email banner ads have become the most coveted engagement opportunities for French Morning’s advertisers and now generate about 15% of it’s total revenue.
“We also sell dedicated sponsored content, but the email banners have become the most prized relationship for our advertisers,” Emmanuel said. “We have a very high open rate, up to 35%, and a very highly engaged audience. Our advertisers are really looking for this niche audience of French expats, and our audience is looking for these niche products designed just for them. It’s a perfect match.”
Perhaps just as important, the reliability and performance of the PowerInbox solution has been outstanding. The French Morning team hasn’t experienced any technical issues at all, and when there have been questions, Emmanuel says the PowerInbox response has been extremely prompt.
“Working with the PowerInbox team is great. We really don’t have much contact with them because the system just works really well,” he said. “When I do have to email to ask about something, they’re always very, very quick to answer.”
PowerInbox Saves Time, Delivers Results
Thanks to the simple set-up and hands-off automated convenience, the PowerInbox platform saves French Morning’s small staff a tremendous amount of time.
“It easily saves us several hours a week that we’d be spending to insert these ads manually,” Emmanuel says. “And, the fact that the performance statistics are all in one place, in GAM, makes it easy to track ad performance. Plus, GAM is basically the standard for advertisers, so they trust that. “
“Overall, PowerInbox has been a great experience for us, and I definitely recommend it. It’s a very good solution and offers great value,” he continued. “Considering that our small staff doesn’t have a lot of in-house technical ability, PowerInbox makes our life so much easier.”
To learn more about PowerInbox’s AdServer for Email to monetize your email newsletter program, visit www.PowerInbox.com.
French Morning Media Group is the leading online media group for lovers of France. Two brands, French Morning and Maudits Français are dedicated to French speakers living or traveling outside France. One brand, Frenchly, is dedicated to Francophiles living all around the world.
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Lighthouse custodians in Moray could be ‘wiped out’ by potential £10,000 water bill
by David Mackay
Chairman Chris Tuke outside the Covesea Lighthouse. Pictures by Jason Hedges.
Custodians of a historic Moray lighthouse fear they may be “wiped out” by a massive water bill.
The Covesea Lighthouse Community Company – a charity – has until now received an exemption on paying the fee due to its not-for-profit objectives.
A review of legislation, however, means groups across the country that also run commercial ventures to remain afloat could be hit by new charges to avoid “unfair competition” with small businesses.
The Lossiemouth group no longer qualifies for the discount as it rents out the two former keepers’ cottages to generate enough income to care for the landmark, which dates from the 1840s.
Campaigners have calculated the annual bill could amount to as much as £10,000 – a figure they warn could make their projects unviable and force them to close the doors of the lighthouse, neighbouring RAF and Navy heritage centre and popular holiday cottages.
Scottish Water has encouraged the group to contact their provider to explore the different options that may be available to them.
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Covesea lighthouse.
Charity chairman Chris Tuke said: “We knew nothing about it until a letter came saying we had lost our exemption.
“It seems that because we take money from letting out cottages they think it would be unfair competition.
“We don’t think that’s the case because we actually charge a premium due to it being a unique site – we don’t undercut anyone in the town.
“All the income goes back into the running costs of the site. We think the bill will be about £10,000, maybe more – that would be us wiped out.”
The charity has been told to expect a bill from Scottish Water before the end of January.
It bought the Covesea lighthouse in 2013 before opening the A-listed landmark to the public for the first time in its history.
The light had been extinguished a year earlier having warned shipmasters of the rocky Skerries, which claimed 16 vessels during a storm in 1826, for 160 years.
The charity received a grant of £301,500 from the Scottish Land Fund to buy the tower from the Northern Lighthouse Board.
Concerns from the Lossiemouth group follow fears raised by Kinloss-based Morayvia, who estimate they could face an additional £20,000 annual charge due to the heritage centre running a gift shop.
Morayvia fears £20,000 water and sewerage charges ‘draining’ long term impact
Scottish Water explained charities and sports clubs that meet eligibility criteria are still able to avoid the annual charge – and encouraged the Covesea charity to discuss different alternatives with them.
A spokesman said: “The eligibility criteria exclude premises which are used for retail activities, including properties which are available for let as holiday accommodation.
“This criterion was set following public consultation when the current scheme was established in 2015, to ensure exemption does not enable, or appear to enable, unfair competition between charities and small businesses.”
A Scottish Government spokeswoman said: “The reviewed water charge exemption scheme was designed to ensure that it did not lead to unfair competition between charities and small businesses which provide similar services such as holiday accommodation.
“We understand that Business Stream, the charity’s water provider, is in contact with Covesea Lighthouse Community Company to offer advice on potential steps that might be taken to continue their eligibility under the scheme.”
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Minecraft title screen seed – You can now visit the panorama from Minecraft’s title screen
The seed was only recently discovered - here's where to find the Minecraft title seed
Looking for the Minecraft title seed? Although players have discovered many of the best seeds in Minecraft over the years, one that’s remained elusive is for the open-world game‘s title screen. Finally, a group of Minecraft researchers have solved the mystery.
The revelation was announced on Reddit, with an explanation of the process therein. The seed in question is for the panorama that can be seen on the title screen from versions 1.8 through 1.13.1, a stretch of seven years that lasted 2011 through 2018, and one of the most iconic images associated with the block-builder. “Everyone should be familiar with this world. It’s the one that always appeared on Minecraft’s main menu (title-screen), blurred and slowly rotating around,” Reddit user Tomlacko writes. “It first appeared in 2011 for Minecraft Beta 1.8 and stayed for many years, until it was only recently replaced in 1.13 and every version after that.”
To find it, the group used [email protected], an ongoing collaborative research project in which people’s idle computers are used to scan the many environs for specific landmarks. Within 24 hours, the seed for the title screen panorama was found by a [email protected] user. The location has since been verified, and the coordinates released.
How to find the Minecraft title seed
To find the seed, here’s the information you’ll need:
Version: Beta 1.7.3
Coordinates: X=61.48~, Y=75, Z=-68.73~
Seed: 2151901553968352745 or 8091867987493326313 (both work)
A video comparison showing that it’s the exact same spot as in Minecraft’s starting screen was put on YouTube, which you can see below:
This disparate crew aren’t the only researchers digging into Minecraft’s possibilities – scientists are using it to help teach kids about diabetes. With so many great projects, it’s no wonder Minecraft entered the Video Game Hall of Fame this year. We have more of the best Minecraft maps, if you’d like to do some adventuring of your own, and the best Minecraft skins, if you want to look your coolest while you’re at it.
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LiveJournal Counters Security Threat
The LiveJournal Web log service has been forced to change the way it hosts user accounts because of a browser-side security vulnerability, the company confirmed today. This vulnerability reportedly had been exploited by a hacking group in order to steal user information and allow the hackers to gain access to more than 900,000 LiveJournal accounts.
The changes were announced yesterday on the LiveJournal News Journal. "Recent changes to a popular browser have enabled malicious users to potentially gain control of your account," a company representative wrote. "As soon as we heard about it, we began implementing changes to protect your account." LiveJournal is owned by Six Apart, makers of the Movable Type blogging software.
A Six Apart spokeswoman would not confirm that accounts had actually been compromised, but on Friday The Washington Post quoted members of a hacker group known as Bantown who said they had taken over more than 900,000 LiveJournal accounts.
Significant Number
Six Apart said it has nearly 2 million active LiveJournal users, and more than 9 million registered accounts, so if the Bantown claims are true, a significant proportion of LiveJournal users have had their accounts compromised.
According to Six Apart spokeswoman Jane Anderson, further comment on the matter would only serve as publicity for Bantown. "Clearly we cherish the safety of our members, and we want to keep them updated and informed without helping hackers with what they're going to do," she said.
Six Apart is continuing to make security changes to the LiveJournal site and hopes to complete this process today, Anderson said, without elaborating on what further changes are being made.
"We'll post to our development journal with more in-depth details about these changes," the Thursday announcement stated.
According to the Post report, Bantown members were able to set up dummy LiveJournal accounts, which then took advantage of a flaw in the JavaScript Internet programming language to steal cookie information from users who visited the fake sites. Cookies are data files stored on computers that are used by Web sites to identify visitors. By obtaining this cookie information, the hackers were able to hijack the accounts, the Post reported.
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Dems came up short on Election Day. That’s bad news for climate change | Friday Morning Coffee
John L. Micek
Good Friday Morning, Fellow Seekers.
As they looked to finally flip the state Legislature this November, Pennsylvania Democrats had their hearts set on any number of policy goals — from a higher minimum wage and free college, to increased worker protections.
But as Democrats found themselves rebuffed at the ballot box in the Keystone State and in state Capitols across the country earlier this month, those long-sought policy goals became that much harder to achieve. And perhaps no reality is more vexing for progressives than the cold fact that action on climate change and the pivot away from fossil fuels, at least on the state level, is going to have to wait a while.
“We didn’t win everything we were hoping to,” Nick Abraham, state communications director at the League of Conservation Voters, a Washington, D.C.-based environmental advocacy group, told Stateline.org this week. “This issue has continued to be a wider and wider divide over the last few years between the parties.”
Rep. Daryl Metcalfe speaks at a pro-gun rally at the Pennsylvania Capitol. (Screen shot of Facebook video)
In Pennsylvania, Democrats had looked to expand energy efficiency standards and require electricity providers to obtain more of their power from renewable sources. But after failing to overcome GOP majorities in the Legislature, they’ll be left trying to salvage existing programs, Stateline reported.
“We’re trying to stop bad things instead of actively doing good things,” Rep. Greg Vitali, the ranking Democrat on the House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee, told Stateline, adding that he believes the political climate in Harrisburg will be “essentially the same,” with Republicans holding onto the state House and Senate.
“Can we sustain a governor’s veto? That’s the key thing, and that’s in question,” Vitali, of Delaware County, told Stateline. “It’s going to be very close in both chambers, and we did not help ourselves in this election.”
Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat, faced repeated challenges to his veto authority during this year’s legislative session. Wolf, who has not always pleased environmentalists, remains a bulwark against GOP mischief. In September, Wolf vetoed a bill that would have stripped his administration of the ability to regulate carbon emissions without legislative approval.
Environmental activists ran into a brick wall in Vitali’s committee during the legislative session set to end on Nov. 30. That has everything to do with the fact that the panel is chaired by state Rep. Daryl Metcalfe, R-Butler, a hardline conservative from suburban Pittsburgh, and a noted climate denier, who has brought fellow deniers before his committee over the last year.
Unofficial tallies compiled by the Dept. of State showed Metcalfe easily turning away a challenge by Democrat Dan Smith, 61-38 percent, putting him on course to spend two more years as a thorn in environmentalists’ side.
A Marcellus shale gas-drilling site along PA Route 87, Lycoming County. (Nicholas A. Tonelli | Flickr Commons)
Lawmakers in other 2020 swing states, such as North Carolina, are facing down similar frustrations in the face of similar GOP gains at the legislative level.
“I know what I’d love to do on climate,” said North Carolina state Rep. Pricey Harrison, a Democrat who serves as vice chair of the House Environment Committee, told Stateline. “But because I’m still in the minority, there’s very little I can do besides playing defense. We won’t be able to make progress on our zero-carbon [electricity goals] now.”
Republicans in North Carolina maintained control of the state’s General Assembly. Harrison told Stateline that she doesn’t expect to see GOP leaders make climate a priority.
Industry advocates, meanwhile, say this fall’s elections results show that voters are turned off by such ambitious programs as the Green New Deal, and are looking for incremental change.
“It’s clear Pennsylvania voters overwhelmingly support the clean, affordable, reliable energy that natural gas delivers,” the Pittsburgh-based Marcellus Shale Coalition, a powerful industry trade group said in a statement it released to Stateline. “We look forward to working with all elected officials on bipartisan energy solutions that Pennsylvania voters support to move us all forward.”
That means progressives and Democrats will have to look to President-elect Joe Biden, who often stepped on his own environmental message, for protection when he enters the White House, as expected, in January. Biden has pledged to return the United States to the Paris Climate Agreement and has committed to ending gas and oil leases on federal land.
“What you’re going to see now with a new Biden administration is instead of being a barrier to action, you’re going to see the federal agencies giving states a really big opportunity to make gains,” Abraham, of the League of Conservation Voters, told Stateline.
“Reentering the Paris climate accords, immediately going after public lands and not having new federal leasing [for fossil fuel extraction] on those lands, not having subsidies for the fossil fuel industry,” Abraham continued. “Those things are going to break down a lot of those barriers states have been bumping into for the last four years.”
Pennsylvania State Capitol Building. (Capital-Star photo by Cassie Miller.)
Our Stuff.
Lawmakers in the state House and Senate broke for the night on Thursday without voting on a budget framework that had emerged earlier in the day. But that doesn’t mean that there was a shortage of news.
Stephen Caruso broke the details of that spending framework, which relies on unspent federal stimulus money to to backfill employment costs for police, corrections officers, and Department of Health employees.
In the Senate, progressive Sens. Katie Muth and Maria Collett, of Montgomery County, won spots on the Senate Democrats’ leadership team for the new legislative session, displacing more moderate members of the caucus, Elizabeth Hardison reports.
Pennsylvania could have access to a COVID-19 vaccine within the next month. On Thursday, state health officials rolled out their distribution plan for the medication, Cassie Miller reports. The three-tiered plan calls for prioritizing EMS and other frontline workers before wider distribution begins.
That news came the day after officials in Allegheny County rolled out stay-at-home advisories and pleaded with residents not to travel over the Thanksgiving holidays, our partners at Pittsburgh City Paper report.
On Capitol Hill, seven members of Congress have tested positive for COVID-19 in the last week amid the broader nationwide surge, Capital-Star Washington Correspondent Laura Olson reports.
In Philadelphia, activists protested on behalf of a safe-injection site that’s now the subject of a federal court battle, our partners at the Philadelphia Gay News report.
On our Commentary Page this morning, two officials from a Pennsylvania cyber-charter school say the online institutions are more important than ever in the pandemic. And with COVID-19 deaths spiking, there’s also been a spike in end-of-planning, and young people increasingly want a seat at the table, a University of South Florida expert writes.
En la Estrella-Capital, Pa. la Corte Suprema se une a Filadelfia por la campaña de Trump en una disputa de conteo de votaciones. Y Pa. establece las restricciones de viaje de COVID antes de las vacaciones, sin garantía de ejecución.
Photo by Daria Sannikova from Pexels via Creative Commons.
Elsewhere.
Pennsylvania saw an increase in gambling revenue in October, but the state is facing a pandemic slowdown, the Inquirer reports.
Trump supporters are planning an ‘election integrity’ rally in Greensburg, Pa., on Saturday that could overlap with a Black Lives Matter rally scheduled for about the same time, the Tribune-Review reports.
A Commonwealth Court judge has sent a dispute over mail-in ballots in an Allegheny County state Senate race back to the county court, handing a win to Republicans, the Associated Press reports (via Cumberlink).
The Republican-controlled state House has approved an audit of the 2020 election, though it’s clear that Democrat Joe Biden has carried the state, the Morning Call reports. The vote was party-line, the newspaper notes.
Wilkes-Barre City Council has voted down city Mayor George Brown’s proposed $53.2 million budget, the Citizens-Voice reports. Brown warned that layoffs of city employees could result.
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Some Montgomery County residents have raised $10K to sue the county over its virtual school order, WHYY-FM reports.
President Donald Trump’s gains among Latino voters in North Philly are a reminder that this key voting bloc isn’t a ‘gimme’ for Democrats, WHYY-FM also reports.
GoErie explains how Joe Biden won Erie County.
Some progressive groups are pitching Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner for U.S. Attorney General, PoliticsPA reports.
Talking Points Memo explains how delays to the final stage of the U.S. Census could derail the Trump White House’s plan to rig it.
For whatever their word is worth, some Republican senators say they’ll vote to confirm Joe Biden’s cabinet, Politico reports.
What Goes On.
The Senate is in this morning. An 11 a.m. start time is likely. The House comes in at 12 p.m.
You Say It’s Your Birthday Dept.
Belated best wishes go out this morning to Angela Couloumbis, of Spotlight PA, Republican consultant Mike Barley, of Harrisburg, and CBS-21 reporter Donna Kirker Morgan, all of whom celebrated on Thursday.
Heavy Rotation.
Here’s some new music from British pop royalty. It’s ‘Really Love,’ with vocals by Craig David, and an appearance by rapper Tinie Tempeh. It’s just the sort of thing to get the weekend rolling.
Friday’s Gratuitous Soccer Link.
The Guardian excerpts from USWNT star Megan Rapinoe’s book where she talks about her decision to take a knee during the National Anthem. ‘White people were mad,’ she says. ‘Whew, were they mad.’
And now you’re up to date.
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A 3-decade veteran of the news business, John L. Micek is the Pennsylvania Capital-Star's Editor-in-Chief. An award-winning political reporter, Micek’s career has taken him from small town meetings and Chicago City Hall to Congress and the Pennsylvania Capitol. His weekly column on U.S. politics is syndicated to 800 newspapers nationwide by Cagle Syndicate. He also contributes commentary and analysis to broadcast outlets in the U.S., Canada and the U.K. Micek’s first novel, “Ordinary Angels,” was released in 2019 by Sunbury Press
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<h1>Dems came up short on Election Day. That’s bad news for climate change | Friday Morning Coffee</h1> <p class="byline">by John L. Micek, <a href="https://www.penncapital-star.com/">Pennsylvania Capital-Star</a> <br />November 20, 2020</p>
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Back-to-College Plans Hit Pandemic-Sized Roadblock
Group Works to Research Internship Pay and Inequities
Educators Ask New Legislature to Prioritize CO Public-School Funding
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Texas Teacher Shortage Linked to Low Wages, Oversized Classes
Reduced investments in public education are linked to low teacher pay, oversized classes, fewer school librarians, nurses and counselors, deferred building maintenance, and out-of-date textbooks. (Pxhere)
AUSTIN, Texas – Texas teachers earned more than 22 percent less in weekly wages than similar college graduates in 2018, after accounting for education, experience and other factors, according to a new Economic Policy Institute report.
Report co-author Sylvia Allegretto, an economist at the University of California, says that's a problem because more teachers are leaving the profession, and fewer college students are choosing a teaching career, in many cases because the pay isn't enough to cover their student loans.
"One of our highest ideals is to educate each and every kid regardless of means, and I think the teachers’ strikes that we saw last year and this year are bringing attention to that failure," Allegretto states.
Allegretto adds teacher shortages lead to class sizes that are too large, and lack of funding also means out-of-date textbooks, fewer school librarians, nurses and counselors, and deferred building maintenance.
The report's release comes as the Texas Senate Education Committee is set on Thursday to consider House Bill 3, a school finance measure.
Lawmakers consistently have pointed to tight budgets as the biggest challenge for fully funding public education.
Allegretto argues that the only thing standing in the way of the richest nation in the world having the best public school system in the world is political will.
She says when companies such as Amazon don't pay their fair share of taxes, and tax cuts are given to those who have taken in the largest share of wealth, state and local governments are put in a tough spot.
"And what the result is, that there's a price to pay,” she stresses. “And the price to pay is public schools, public infrastructure. That's what happens when you don't have the tax base, but there's no reason that we couldn't have the tax base."
Male teachers earn more than 30 percent less in weekly wages than similar college graduates, and predictably, fewer are entering a profession where three in four are women.
Allegretto points to numerous reports of boys having trouble in school, and says one known remedy, having more men in schools, is not currently an option.
Eric Galatas, Public News Service - TX
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Pure Storage Airi
Announcing AIRI: Industry’s First Integrated AI-Ready Infrastructure for Deploying Deep Learning at Scale
Built on Pure Storage FlashBlade and NVIDIA DGX-1, AIRI Makes AI-at-Scale Simple and Accessible for All Enterprises
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — March 27, 2018 — Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG), the all-flash storage platform that helps innovators build a better world with data, today announced the industry’s first comprehensive AI-Ready Infrastructure, AIRI, powered by NVIDIA. Architected by Pure Storage and NVIDIA, AIRI is purpose-built to enable data architects, scientists and business leaders to extend the power of the NVIDIA DGX-1 and operationalize AI-at- scale for every enterprise. With AIRI, cloud, enterprise and government organizations can accelerate time-to- insight and bring new, impactful innovations to humanity, faster.
AIRI enables organizations to turn data into innovation at an unprecedented pace. AI represents an opportunity for enterprises to innovate not only at a product level, but within day-to- day operations as they lead their industries through periods of tremendous change. According to Gartner, 80 percent of enterprises will deploy AI by 2020. AIRI provides a simple, yet powerful, architecture that empowers organizations with the data-centric infrastructure needed to harness the true power of AI.
“AI has fantastic potential for aiding humanity,” said Charles Giancarlo, CEO, Pure Storage. “It has the capacity to significantly improve the quality of all of our lives. Safer autonomous vehicles will save tens of thousands of lives and make us more efficient. AI-driven advances in life sciences have made preventative healthcare a current reality rather than a vague future possibility. AI will provide highly personalized experiences for the consumer, while keeping online communities safer. AIRI will accelerate AI research, enabling innovators to more rapidly make advances to create a better world with data.”
Engineered as a fully integrated software and hardware solution by Pure Storage and NVIDIA, AIRI shatters infrastructure complexities that hold organizations back from deploying AI-at-scale. AIRI is powered by Pure Storage FlashBlade™, the industry’s first storage platform architected for modern analytics and AI, and four NVIDIA DGX-1 supercomputers, delivering four petaFLOPS of performance with NVIDIA ® Tesla ® V100 GPUs. These systems are interconnected with Arista 100GbE switches, supporting GPUDirect RDMA for maximum distributed training performance. AIRI is supported by the NVIDIA GPU Cloud deep learning stack and Pure Storage AIRI Scaling Toolkit, enabling data scientists to jumpstart their AI initiatives in hours, not weeks or months.
“Businesses everywhere are scaling-up AI infrastructure to attack their most important challenges and opportunities,” said Jim McHugh, Vice President and General Manager of Deep Learning Systems at NVIDIA. “With AIRI, our customers get a validated approach that brings together industry-leading compute and high-performance storage with proven results.”
AIRI is the ultimate solution to empower data architects and scientists to deliver time-to- insight at scale. Every organization generates and stores troves of data. Now more than ever, innovators require additional insight from that information to make their businesses smarter.
“AI has evolved from hypothetical future technology to a business-critical strategic asset. There is increased adoption of AI across all verticals, driving new business models, sharper value propositions, more efficient processes, and personalized user experiences,” said Ritu Jyoti, Research Director, Infrastructure: Cognitive/AI and Big Data Analytics Workloads, IDC. “Innovative technologies from Pure Storage and NVIDIA have enabled the accelerated adoption of AI, and together they provide organizations with an optimized, easy-to- use and robust solution for any AI workload.”
Paige.AI is an organization focused on revolutionizing clinical diagnosis and treatment in oncology through the use of AI. Pathology is the cornerstone of most cancer diagnoses. Yet most pathologic diagnoses rely on manual, subjective processes developed more than a century ago. By leveraging the potential of AI, Paige.AI aims to transform the pathology and diagnostics industry from highly qualitative to a more rigorous, quantitative discipline.
“Data is the fuel driving the AI revolution. With access to one of the world’s largest tumor pathology archives, we needed the most advanced deep learning infrastructure available to quickly turn massive amounts of data into clinically-validated AI applications,” said Dr. Thomas Fuchs, Founder and Chief Science Officer, Paige.AI. “That’s when we turned to NVIDIA DGX-1 and Pure Storage FlashBlade. The powerful combination of DGX-1 and FlashBlade accelerates our mission to catalyze the medical industry with AI.” ElementAI, a platform for companies to build AI solutions and founded by Yoshua Bengio, one of the three pioneers in deep learning, sees AIRI as an accelerant for complex AI projects like the ones they’ve designed and delivered for organizations across every industry.
“AIRI represents an exciting breakthrough for AI adoption in the enterprise, shattering the barrier of infrastructure complexities and clearing the path to jumpstart any organization’s AI initiative,” said Jeremy Barnes, Chief Architect, ElementAI. “AIRI is built with the same core solutions ElementAI uses extensively both internally and with its customers -- the NVIDIA DGX-1 and Pure Storage FlashBlade. We are excited to work hand-in- hand with NVIDIA and Pure Storage to accelerate time-to- value for our clients and facilitate our mission of bringing AI to all enterprises.”
For organizations like Global Response, AI represents an opportunity to reinvent existing business models. With the help of Pure Storage and NVIDIA, Global Response has begun development on a state-of- the-art call center system that allows for the real-time transcription and analysis of customer support calls. This will allow for a superior customer experience and faster solutions -- both increasingly important as consumer expectations shift heavily toward personalized experience.
“We’ve reached an inflection point where integration of AI throughout our organization is critical to the ongoing success of our business,” said Stephen Shooster, Co-CEO, Global Response. “While we wanted to move quickly, infrastructure for AI was slowing us down because it is very complex to deploy. To truly operationalize AI at scale, we needed to build a simple foundation powerful enough to support the entire organization. AIRI is that foundation. All of the question marks and complexities associated with AI are solved, with a solution that integrates state-of-the-art software and hardware to enable our teams to get up and running in hours, not weeks or months.”
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The truth about Donald Trump’s willingness to let his hair go gray
Journalist Rhonda Garelick, in an article for New York Magazine, observes that there has been a major change in President Donald Trump's physical appearance in recent weeks: he has let his hair go naturally gray and is no longer coloring it. This change, Garelick argues, offers insight on what Trump is thinking politically — and it amounts to an "admission of electoral defeat."
In her article, humorously headlined "Trump Has Lost the Will to Be Blond," Garelick explains, "Yes, Donald Trump has stopped dying his hair," Garelick explains. "Earlier this month, the 45th president appeared at a press conference about the administration's vaccine-development efforts with an entirely silver mane — not an orange streak in sight. The news ricocheted through the press and social media. Thus far, the silver looks to be permanent. Trump seems done with dye."
Trump's hair was a topic of conversation long before he was elected president in 2016. Back in 2004 — during a "Weekend Update" segment on NBC's long-running "Saturday Night Live" — comedian Darryl Hammond, playing Trump, chastised Jimmy Fallon for having an inferior hairstyle and recommended he go to a hair stylist in Queens in order to make his hair more Trump-like. And Trump's hair, according to Garelick, reflects the outgoing president's arrogance, brashness and garishness.
Trump is still refusing to concede to President-elect Joe Biden and has vowed to keep fighting the election results in court. However, Trump said, this week, that he will voluntarily leave the White House on January 20, 2021 if the Electoral College confirms Biden's victory in December. And Garelick believes that Trump has admitted that he is a lame duck despite his claims that the election was stolen from him.
"There is a parallel between the hair and this admission of electoral defeat: Trump was letting truth creep back into both his hair and his words," Garelick writes. "The self-applied hair color faded away right along with the refusal to acknowledge Biden's win. Was it intentional? Will it continue? Clearly, not in any steady fashion — Trump continues to careen between conceding loss and claiming election fraud. But that hardly matters."
Garelick continues, "On Monday, the (Trump) Administration at last acknowledged Biden's transition. And this admission was augured by the abandonment of presidential hair coloring. This signals a sea change: Trump is loosening his grip, slowly letting go of the elaborate, theatrical pageant of his presidency."
Garelick points out that although Trump is hardly the only older male politician who colors his gray hair, others "do so discreetly" — for example, Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah.
"Now, though, (Trump's) hair is reverting to its natural color, more plainly speaking truth," Garelick writes. "Perhaps next, that pouf on top will deflate — or the orange makeup will disappear. Time will tell."
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RDA Sunshine Coast backs current Airport Expansion Project
Regional Development Australia Sunshine Coast (RDASC) is strongly backing the current Sunshine Coast Airport (SCA) Expansion Project due for completion by the end of 2020.
The SCA project will deliver a new 2450m X 45m runway – already under construction – and will enable direct flights to more destinations across Australia, Asia and the Western Pacific. It also expected to generate jobs and boost economic growth, tourism and local export businesses.
Sunshine Coast Council has forecast that the project will result in 2,230 new full-time direct and indirect jobs by 2040 and attract up to 2 million annual passengers to the region.
RDASC CEO Paul Fisher acknowledged that Airservices Australia had already conducted an extensive community consultation process over the proposed flight paths, as part of the environmental impact statement (EIS) process.
“RDASC unreservedly supports the Sunshine Coast Airport Expansion Project, which will directly boost the Sunshine Coast economy, create new jobs and attract investment in the region,” Mr Fisher said.
“RDASC supports the process of extended consultation and encourages business, interested parties and the community at large to contribute directly to the Airservices Australia feedback page at https://feedback.emsbk.com/asa.”
The current deadline for feedback is Tuesday, April 30 at 5pm AEST.
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Dear White People, Your Black Colleagues Aren't Ok
Story from Unbothered
Your Black Colleagues May Look Like They’re Okay — Chances Are They’re Not
Danielle Cadet
Photo: Dania Maxwell/Los Angeles Times/Getty Images.
Let’s cut to the chase. It’s been a tough few days...weeks...months.
For many people, working in the midst of a global pandemic has been difficult. For those of us fortunate enough to continue doing our jobs safely at home, we've had to somehow make ourselves look presentable for nonstop digital meetings, and had to learn how to be productive as the lines between our personal and professional lives continue to blur. We’ve run out of shows to stream, Instagram lives to watch, things to bake. We’re confused and scared, and we don’t know when any of this will be over.
But there’s a tale of two quarantines. Because while some Americans have been consumed by banana bread, others have had to navigate surviving a pandemic in a country they were never actually meant to live in.
Over the last few months, Black people have not only watched their friends and family members die at higher rates from the coronavirus, they have also watched people who look like them be gunned down while going for a jog, be murdered in their homes, threatened while bird watching in Central Park, and mercilessly choked on camera.
And every day, we have woken up and answered the emails and gotten on the Zoom calls. We’ve showed up with a smile, and put the pain and fear behind us. We’ve swallowed the rage while responding to our bosses, and offered the assistance and worked twice as hard for half as much — because that’s all we know how to do.
But here’s a newsflash for all the white people unaware of this fact: your Black colleagues may seem okay right now, but chances are they’re not.
The likelihood that your Black colleague lost a family member to COVID-19 is painfully high. The chances that your Black colleague was triggered by the viral video of Amy Cooper because a white woman used her race and privilege and weaponized it against him is incredibly likely. The possibility that your Black colleague is afraid to go for a run, or terrified when her husband leaves the house, or just simply enraged by the incessant lies this country keeps telling us about equal liberties is so high you’ll need a ladder to get it down.
And yet, she’s responded to your passive aggressive email, and he’s smiled through your condescending questioning. Or even just found the strength to peel themselves out of bed and simply show up. Every day, Black people take the personal trauma we all know to be true and tuck it away to protect white people who are ignorant to the fact that it’s nearly impossible to keep going when your grandma won’t survive coronavirus because she has serious pre-existing conditions. It's hard to be your best self at work when we watch white women feign terror on the phone with authorities that will arrive at the scene and kill the Black man she called the cops on. It’s even harder when you watch those cops kill that Black man on video, and sometimes the killers aren’t even cops.
But we show up for work anyway. And we contain our rage, tears, fear and sadness. We write to each other in group chats. We send each other articles that articulate our feelings. We post and repost and retweet on social media. But we don’t take our pain to work.
So while you navigate this pandemic which has ravaged our way of life — and prematurely taken the lives of so many no matter what race — acknowledge that burden is falling on your Black colleagues disproportionately. And know that they’ll never show it. They’ve learned to navigate their worlds too well for that. And although we were told the degrees and the jobs and the accomplishments would somehow protect us from being treated like second-class citizens; although we were made to believe that working hard and contributing to society would mean society would treat us like human beings, we’ve learned the painful truth — that’s a lie.
On behalf of your Black colleagues: we’re not okay. And you shouldn’t be either.
Black Trauma And Showing Up At Work
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written by Danielle Cadet
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Mexican markets poised for leftist win, but wary of landslide
By Miguel Gutierrez, Saqib Iqbal Ahmed
MEXICO CITY/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Mexican markets have rallied this month into a likely win by the leftist frontrunner in Mexico’s presidential election on Sunday, but local assets could sell-off if a landslide victory for his party forms a congressional majority.
Ahead of the July 1 vote, Mexico's peso MXN= firmed to its strongest since late May in early trading Friday before reversing direction and sinking around 1 percent. Stocks .MXX rose to their highest in more than eight weeks.
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, a fierce critic of the ruling elite, held a wide margin in final polls. He would become Mexico’s first left-leaning leader for decades if elected on Sunday.
Analysts said Lopez Obrador’s economic team has been out in force to mollify investor concerns about a possible stark departure from pro-market policies or fiscal discipline. So far, markets are betting on moderate polices in line with Peru’s Ollanta Humala or Brazil’s Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
“His discourse has moderated and his economic advisors have been seeking a vote of confidence,” said James Salazar, an analyst at CI Banco.
But bets in the options market suggest there could be big moves in the peso and stocks. One-month implied volatility MXNVOL=MXN1MO=, a gauge of expected near-term currency movement, has fallen from a spike earlier in June. But it remains at elevated levels seen back before the inauguration of U.S. President Donald Trump, who many worried could rip up the NAFTA free trade deal with Mexico and Canada his first day in office.
Karl Schamotta, a strategist at Cambridge Global Payments in Toronto, said the market had largely priced in a Lopez Obrador victory and was betting on moderate economic policies.
“There is an assumption that he is campaigning from the left and will govern further to the right,” he said.
Some analysts said the end of uncertainty could help the peso post modest gains after a victory by Lopez Obrador, or AMLO as he is known. They said the currency could rally sharply if there was a surprise victory by either of his opponents, Ricardo Anaya from the right-left coalition or the ruling party’s Jose Antonio Meade.
But they cautioned that the peso could tumble on fears of more radical policies if Lopez Obrador’s National Regeneration Movement (MORENA) party gains a majority in Congress.
“An AMLO outperformance could lead to a sell-off of Mexican assets,” said Nomura analyst Benito Berber.
Results of congressional races may not be clear early next week. But if Lopez Obrador wins more than 42 percent of the presidential vote, a MORENA majority looks much more likely, analysts said.
Schamotta said volatility levels suggest the peso could move between 3 percent and 5 percent, either way, if the election throws up an unexpected outcome, with a more muted move in the event of an expected Lopez Obrador victory.
Bets in the U.S. equity options market are slightly skewed toward potential losses in stocks, with more put options than calls in play, according to options analytics firm Trade Alert.
Open contracts on the $1.12 billion U.S.-listed iShares MSCI Mexico Capped ETF EWW.P imply a roughly 4 percent swing in the shares, in either direction, by July 6.
“Net-net looks like positioning of late has a bearish bias,” said Jim Strugger, derivatives strategist at MKM Partners in New York.
Reporting by Miguel Gutierrez in Mexico City and Saqib Iqbal Ahmed in New York. Writing by Michael O’Boyle; Editing by David Gregorio
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Cuba's achievements in anti-Covid vaccine stand out in the US
Washington, Nov 26 (Prensa Latina) The US magazine BioWorld today highlighted Cuba's achievements in the development of its second Sovereign 02 vaccine candidate against Covid-19, which is currently undergoing phase I of clinical trials.
According to the text published in recent hours, the Caribbean island has a lot of experience in formulating conjugate vaccines, a group to which this drug belongs.
'Evidence of this is the QUIMI-HIB injectable against Haemophilus Influenzae type B, which causes meningitis and pneumonia in the first years of life,' the text refers.
As Fabrizio Chiodo, research assistant professor at Italy's National Research Institute, explained to BioWorld, this is the second vaccine under development in the small country of just over 11 million inhabitants and it is 'extremely novel.'
Sovereign 02 consists of a subunit vaccine in which the virus antigen, the receptor-binding domain (RBD), is chemically bound to tetanus toxoid.
This means that the vaccine antigen is a copy molecule of that present in the virus and to obtain it, it is necessary to have the genetic information of this viral protein, and from a process of genetic engineering, it is programmed into a higher organism cell called CHO.
With these characteristics, Soberana 02 gives greater hope, for its safety for children, infants and the elderly population because it enhances the immune system, said Chiodo.
Phase I of clinical trials of the second vaccine candidate of the largest of the Antilles against Covid-19, began at the beginning of this month and a group of 40 volunteers between 19 and 59 years old has already been inoculated.
'This is not one stage after another, there is a lot of overlap, so things can go faster. There are ways to let all the control agencies know that the situation is very safe with Soberana 02,' the professor told BioWorld .
The Caribbean nation was the first in Latin America to register its own vaccine candidate against Covid-19 and currently has four projects for this purpose: Sovereign 01, 02; Mambisa and Abdala.
The president of the BioCubaFarma business group, Eduardo Martínez, recently highlighted the strategy outlined to have Cuban vaccines against Covid-19. 'It is going well and in 2021 the population of the country will be immunized against this virus,' he said.
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PokerStars Wants to Put Your Name on its Open Tournament
PokerStars is challenging players to win the right to have an online tournament named in their honour by final tabling the same event twice within a week.
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by Alan Graham
Last month, Lex “RaSZi” Veldhuis – a member of PokerStars Team Pro Online – was set the challenge of final tabling PokerStars´ daily $22.00 buy-in 6-Max PLO turbo event three times within a week. The reward for completing the challenge was to have the tournament renamed in his honour.
Incredibly, “RaSZi” reached the final table on Monday, Wednesday and Sunday, and the “Lex Veldhuis Open” was born. PokerStars then opened the challenge to every other player – saying that if anybody could emulate RaSZi´s achievements, the tournament would be renamed in their honour. Such was the response to the challenge, the average number of entries for the 6-Max PLO turbo increased by 73%.
“The Insert Name Here Open” NLHE Challenge
Now PokerStars is extending the challenge in order to give NL Hold´em players the same opportunity. The site´s new challenge revolves around the daily $11.00 buy-in $5,000 guaranteed NLHE tournament at 14:45pm (ET). Usually the tournament attracts around 500 players, so PokerStars has made the challenge a little easier than the one Lex Veldhuis had to complete.
The tournament has been renamed “The Open”, and any player who final tables the event twice within the same week (Monday to Sunday) will have the tournament named after them – at least until another player accomplishes the same feat, in which case the name of the tournament will be changed once again to “The Insert New Name Here Open”.
According to the PokerStars Blog, any player who accomplishes the feat of final tabling a 500 player tournament twice within a week deserves to have their name put in lights. Not only will that lucky player have infuriating bragging rights (“Hey, do you want to come play in my tournament on PokerStars tonight”), but they will also receive a significant boost to their bankrolls.
Meanwhile the WCOOP Picks up Speed
Another way to get infuriating bragging rights and a significant boost to your bankroll is to win an event in the PokerStars´ World Championships of Online Poker (WCOOP). The series started last Sunday and already more than $8.5 million has been paid out over the first dozen events – the biggest winner to date being “Perfect1232”, who chopped the Sunday Million Special Edition for $231,370.
The series motors on towards another big weekend of multi-million guarantees with a trio of knockout tournaments being featured over the next three days. Tonight´s feature event is a $400,000 guaranteed progressive knockout tournament. Tomorrow night, the guarantee goes up to $1,000,000 and, on Friday, the feature event is a 3-Max, progressive knockout turbo Zoom event – kind of like a Spin & Go on amphetamines!
Sunday is the day to hit the virtual felt at PokerStars – if your bankroll can stand it! The $215.00 buy-in Sunday Warm-Up has a $1 million guarantee and a deep payout structure. Ninety minutes later, the $102,000 buy-in 8-Max High Rollers gets underway and then, ninety minutes later, there is another $1.5 million guaranteed Special Edition of the Sunday Million (buy-in $700.00). Naturally, satellites are running for all three events.
What Else is Going On at PokerStars?
As usual, there are dozens of events and special promotions taking place at PokerStars. Among the eye-catching promotions of the moment, PokerStars is hosting “Spin & Go on Holiday” games – where, for a buy-in of just $0.50, you could win a $5,000 package to the holiday destination of your choice.
There is a new “Play Along” PokerStars app just been launched, which is not only fun to use, but could win you a seat in a weekly $500 freeroll. Plus there is the regular $600 [geolink href=”https://www.pokernewsreport.com/pokerstars”]PokerStars first deposit bonus[/geolink], which remains one of the easiest in the industry to clear, and which will give you plenty of free poker money to enter the daily “Open” tournaments and hopefully get the events renamed in your honour.
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FA Cup Sleeve Sponsorship Package Available - Dream Big!
Do you like to dream big? Back Dale in this season’s FA Cup by taking out a sleeve sponsorship!
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Dale have reached the fourth round of the competition in four of the last five seasons, progressing through to the fifth round in the last campaign, where SIX MILLION people watched our match against Tottenham Hotspur live on BBC1.
The replay at Wembley Stadium was also broadcast, live on BT Sport, with over 30,000 tickets sold for the match.
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LETTERS: August 31st Issue
The Messenger / August 31, 2017 / 0
RE: Our Music Editor There is a LOT of music he isn’t fond of and likes to describe in rude comments, which is why I don’t bother to read his columns. Rather than “Music Editor” perhaps he should be retitled “Only Specific Kinds of Music Editor.” Maureen Soar RE.:
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DON’T SHOOT THE MESSENGER: What’s In A Name?
Phil Busse / August 31, 2017 / 0
Last week, Southern Oregon University announced that the new athletic pavilion will be named after the DeBoer family—as in, the family that founded and owns Lithia Motors. In 1946, in the years before car culture really expanded throughout the United States, Walt DeBoer founded the company. They only sold 14
DON’T SHOOT THE MESSENGER: Veto Governor Brown’s Veto
For the past few years, the Holly Theater in Medford has been raising funds, with the looming promise to restore a grand theater back to glory—and then some. Early last week, that promise seemed to continue to inch towards reality, with a Walk of Fame style event recognizing their major
LETTERS: August 17th Issue
RE.: Weed Laws Vice laws are, in general, dumb, good for nobody, and strips liberty from people that are supposed to be “free.”. Demetri Stewart With Session as AG, I wish them the best of luck. He’s returning us to the 80s ‘Just Say No’ days. While it’s legal
DON’T SHOOT THE MESSENGER: What Can Cannabis Do For YOU?
Andrew Robison / August 3, 2017 / 0
Let’s start obvious. Tax money. Cannabis in Oregon is taxed on the absurdly heavy side (20 percent) and as other states legalize, it will be unsustainable. But hey, we’re trying to get our foot in the door and when we hear that 40 percent goes to the common school fund,
LETTERS: August 3rd Issue
The Messenger / August 3, 2017 / 0
RE.: An Elegy: Felsen’s Beginnings Were Narrowly Avoided Tragedy Great band! Found Andrew and Felsen through a friend in the East Bay several years ago and really dig his music. I mentioned to him how they remind me of Camper Van Beethoven and Cracker on certain songs, turns out he had
DON’T SHOOT THE MESSENGER: Horse Sense
Phil Busse / July 20, 2017 / 0
Horse Sense In the final race of the day on July 9 at Grants Pass Downs, the horse Storm on the River charged down the final stretch of the track and opened up several lengths of space for a come-from-behind win. It was an exciting race, but perhaps most curious,
LETTERS: July 20th Issue
The Messenger / July 20, 2017 / 0
RE: Climate Change About little are climate scientists more confident than that global warming is happening at an alarming rate and that human-induced emissions of climate pollution is responsible. This phenomenon poses an existential threat to humanity because climate projections suggest greenhouse gas emissions may dramatically compromise not only global natural
DON’T SHOOT THE MESSENGER: Who’s To Blame?
Phil Busse / July 6, 2017 / 1
Who’s To Blame? In last issue’s Publisher Note, we wrote about the recent con by which Southern Oregon University was scammed of $1.9 million when someone or persons apparently requested funds wired to a bank account as partial payment for construction of the school’s new gym. In the column, we
LETTERS July 6th Issue
The Messenger / July 6, 2017 / 0
RE.: Peter Courtney Is Peter Courtney, Senate President of the Oregon legislature, paying attention? Does he realize he represents all Oregonians in his leadership position? There is a subject about which I would like him to stop dilly-dallying around and assume leadership. We are aware that Oregon is lagging in
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Western Conference Veterans Podcast
Mike Gallagher
Updated On: May 8, 2020, 2:43 pm ET
A lot of valuable players in the Western Conference are going to be over 30 for next season. Jonas Nader and Mike Gallagher go over the early round options of James Harden, Russell Westbrook, Stephen Curry, LeBron James, Damian Lillard, Paul George and Jrue Holiday.
We'll also take a look at Hassan Whiteside's huge season, Robert Covington's defensive stats in Houston, Ricky Rubio's hot finish, Mike Conley's letdown in 2019-20, Chris Paul's valuable season, and the Spurs vets.
We'll also touch on Kevin Durant, John Wall, Kyrie Irving, Jonathan Isaac and a few other tangents in this edition.
Source URL: https://www.rotoworld.com/article/podcasts/western-conference-veterans-podcast
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#weareACR
Some Steering Committee members participated in a photo story (https://animoto.com/play/EecR11eCmRPeCyJWXw78wQ) to demo our collective pride in and love for ACR. We hope you'll submit your own "We Are ACR" photo, to be shared on the website. Send photos to secretary@rowalexandria.com.
2020 End-of-Season Update
This can't really be called an end-of-season message, because we didn't have a season, but it seems fitting to be reaching out to everyone at this time of year. 2020 certainly threw everyone off-kilter and scattered ACR members across the region (and further) in search of flat water and access to equipment. Continue reading here.
ACR is 30!
ACR is celebrating 30 years of rowing on the Potomac. Club member Alice Reid compiled the club's history. Check it out here!
ACR is in the news
Thanks Alexandria Gazette and US Rowing for the great articles about ACR!
Alexandria Community Rowing at 30
Crews From Across the Country Begin Racing at 2019 USRowing Masters National Championships
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Mars Turning Direct Or “Doing A Wigan”
17th April 2012 By Sally Kirkman 2 Comments
If you ever wanted to know what Mars turning direct looks like in real life, then take a look at what’s happening to Wigan Athletic Football Club.
They were recently in the relegation zone of the Barclays Premier League but last Wednesday, 11th April 2012, they beat Manchester United (1st in the league) 1-0 at home and last night, they beat Arsenal FC (3rd in the league) 2-1 away from home.
These are two matches that on paper they should have lost. The little guys v. the big guys. It’s not all over yet, but Wigan are now clear of the relegation zone in spectacular fashion.
The reason this came to my attention was due to an editorial article by Marion Ryan at Entrepreneur Soul, entitled “Doing A Wigan”, hence the title of this blog post. As you may know if you’re a regular blog reader of mine, not only people but countries, companies and organisations have birth charts.
I immediately jumped to it and found an astrology chart for Wigan Football Club. Wigan Athletic was formed in 1932 and they played their first match on 27 August 1932. I drew up a chart for a 3pm kick off and here it is:
The astrology is laugh-out-loud brilliant; the Sun is in Virgo, not a showy sign, but modest and focused on detail and precision. This is the small team but the Sun is next to Jupiter, the planet of vision, so here’s a small team with a big ambition. Look more closely and you see that the Sun is at 4 Virgo 03 and Jupiter is at 3 Virgo 32.
Mars, the planet of action and physical energy, has been in Virgo since November 2011. On 24th January 2012 it turned retrograde and it’s been on go slow until 14th April 2012, i.e. last Saturday when it turned direct. Mars turning direct suggests the power switched back on. Mars is the hero, the dragon slayer, David against Goliath. What degree in Virgo was Mars when it turned direct on Saturday? 3 Virgo 41, slap bang on Wigan’s Sun/Jupiter conjunction. They’ve come back to life in the nick of time.
Wigan have four more matches to play and as Mars picks up speed slowly at first, it’s still only at 8 Virgo on their last match of the season. Do I think they’ve done enough? Yes, I do and I love the astrological symbolism playing out here. In future, when clients ask me, “what does Mars turning direct mean?”, I’ll reply, it’s “doing a Wigan”.
[photo from flickr.com]
Filed Under: Sports Astrology Tagged With: Mars turns direct, Sun Virgo, Wigan Athletic football club
Thanks for your comment, Marion. Those premier clubs don’t know what they’re missing out on, do they… I do enjoy my sports predictions though, that’s for sure.
best, Sally
Marion Ryan says
It’s great to see how their success was all in the stars. Perhaps there’s a service here for you to offer all footie clubs!
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"Don Jon's" narrow, conservative view of sex
The movie offers a frank look at porn and porn addiction, but argues that only one kind of sexual behavior is OK
By Luke Winkie
October 3, 2013 3:15AM (UTC)
Julianne Moore and Joseph Gordon-Levitt in "Don Jon" (Daniel Mcfadden/Relativity Media)
"Don Jon" does a lot of things well. It tackles a heady, uncomfortable topic with a stroke of undeniable humor. It smears the lascivious, sexist corners of American culture while never getting too preachy. It’s perhaps the first mainstream movie to feature a heavy dose of pornography, going so far as to call out video-aggregator PornHub by name. And it’s also a charming, genuinely affecting love story, populated with memorable characters and honest flaws. Even if you, like me, aren’t particularly concerned with the ethics of the porn industry, it does force you to consider the persistent effects of heavy sexual content on someone who can’t ever look away. Jon likes his porn -- he likes it even better than sex -- and the movie is essentially about his slow realization that he may have things backward.
But therein lies the problem with "Don Jon." Jon finds the cure for his porn addiction through surprisingly conservative means. He meets an older woman (Esther, played by Julianne Moore) who takes him in as a sort of cross between a mother and a lover. It’s with Esther that Jon learns the “right way” to have sex. A very quiet, sensual, emotionally intimate sex scene serves as the climax (ha) of the film. It’s only after spending the night engaged in a very sincere sort of lovemaking that Jon understands exactly what he’s been missing.
That isn’t necessarily a problem. Jon spends the film having unfulfilling sex with a lot of disappointed women, and he certainly does need to rethink his philosophies about intimacy. Esther shows him what it’s like to have great sex, with both parties fully present, and this lesson is smartly set against the grabby, half-drunk hookups that have Jon crawling to his porn collection after the deed. But "Don Jon" doesn’t show us any other options.
For a film that’s very open-minded in its themes, it seems weirdly intolerant to imply that there are right ways and wrong ways to make love. "Don Jon’s" conclusion essentially says you can only truly enjoy sex if you’re treating it like a holy communion. There’s no aggression, or submission, or even a whisper of playfulness. We’re told to stare into each other’s eyes, take a deep breath, and have the kind of sex that won’t scare our parents. It’s presented as a revolution, Jon abandoning his cocksure selfishness and finally revealing his previous innocence and vulnerability, but it can’t help coming off as traditional, even regressive.
I’m not saying I’d rather have "Don Jon" end with a montage of Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Julianne Moore trying every position in the book, nor am I saying that I think the movie shames people with more unconventional tastes in intimacy. But I do think it’s strange that the film would end by giving us a definitive answer on something as complicated and various as sex.
While it makes sense that Jon’s story would conclude with him having a different kind of sex with a different kind of woman, the film remains fairly confident that its message applies to society at large. It blasts us with cheaply produced porn and skimpy, overtly sexualized commercials. It looks down on the grimy men and women who live and die through random weekend romances. Are those real issues? Sure, but "Don Jon" is adamant that the quiet, ruminative sex scene with Esther is the cure for all of those ills. Esther shows him the anointed, "correct" type of intimacy, and Jon's porn addiction immediately melts away. One kind of sex, one kind of attitude, to achieve one kind of purity. "Don Jon" tells us over and over that true pleasure comes when you lose yourself in someone, but its definition of “losing yourself” is discouragingly narrow.
Luke Winkie
Luke Winkie is a freelance writer and journalism/history student at the University of Texas. He currently contributes to Vice, Noisey, Paste and LA Weekly, and has a weird affinity for great generals, hypothetical technology and the 2006 Padres.
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According to Fox News, President Obama is financing a "museum of Muslim culture"
The report comes from a satirical news site
By Prachi Gupta
October 6, 2013 11:33PM (UTC)
Defending its perch atop of what Jon Stewart affectionately refers to as Bullsh-t Mountain, on Saturday Fox falsely reported that President Barack Obama is using his personal funds to construct a museum devoted to Muslim culture. MediaMatters caught the "Fox & Friends Saturday" segment, which criticized Democrats for the closure of the World War II Memorial that resulted from the (Republican-triggered) government shutdown. Co-host Anna Kooiman was appalled that the government would not fund the memorial, especially since "President Obama has offered to pay out of his own pocket for the museum of Muslim culture."
Via Snopes.com, MediaMatters notes that Kooiman's "information" comes from The National Report, a satirical Web site whose articles "are fiction, and presumably fake news," according to a former disclaimer.
Kooiman's full quote:
"The Republican National Committee is offering to pay for it to keep it open so that the veterans from Honor Flight are going to be able to go and see this because who did it honor? It honored them. It really doesn't seem fair, especially — and we're going to talk a little bit later in the show too about some things that are continuing to be funded. And President Obama has offered to pay out of his own pocket for the museum of Muslim culture out of his own pocket, yet it's the Republican National Committee who's paying for this."
Perhaps it is fitting that a fake news source gets news from a fake news source.
Prachi Gupta is an Assistant News Editor for Salon, focusing on pop culture. Follow her on Twitter at @prachigu or email her at pgupta@salon.com.
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Turning garbage into glass
Colorado engineers have found an alternative to mining the earth for materials to make glass
By Beth Buczynski
October 14, 2013 9:28PM (UTC)
(somchaiP via Shutterstock)
How much do you know about glass, other than that it’s a pain to clean up when it breaks? Glass is made from a combination of sand, flint, or other silica, thrown together with some fixed alkalies, and in some cases a metallic oxide. Glass is a marvelous substance. It’s the only material that can be recycled indefinitely without losing quality (unlike plastic).
Unfortunately, to make the massive amount of glass used (and not recycled) by our society, we’ve taken to mining the earth for the silica and other minerals needed. Engineers at Colorado School of Mines recently discovered there’s a way to harvest glass-making minerals without destroying the environment, however. They’re mining mountains of garbage instead.
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“The process uses organic waste (such as eggshells, rice and wheat husks, peanut shells and banana peels) that is rich in the primary minerals that make up the most common oxides used in the manufacture of windows, containers and specialty glass,” according to a School of Mines press release.
First, the waste is ground up in blenders and then allowed to dry. The garbage is “then pounded into fine white powder containing pure minerals, such as silica and oxides, that typically are mined using heavy diggers and toxic,” reports the Denver Post. After that, the harvested minerals are heated to 3,000 degrees, which melts the silica powder into a molten red substance that can be poured into molds, where it hardens into glass.
Not only could this creative process save glass manufacturers lots of money, thus encouraging the use of recyclable glass packaging over plastic, but it’s also an environmentally-conscious way to recast our vast food waste as a valuable resource.
“Organic waste can potentially provide at least some of the metal oxides required to produce glass and glass-ceramics products. Thus, glass manufacturing processes provide a uniquely suited potential route to recycle and reuse these organic wastes, producing useful glass products and reducing the influx of waste into landfills,” said Mines researcher Ivan Cornejo in a statement.
The U.S. government has already registered a provisional patent for the “garbage glass” on behalf of the researchers.
Beth Buczynski
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QSC Introduces the E Series Range of Passive Loudspeakers
Loudspeaker Series Takes Advantage of Advanced DSP When Used as Part of a Complete QSC System for Superior Performance
QSC is very pleased to introduce the new E Series range of passive loudspeakers, designed for sound reinforcement in entertainment applications, such as live performance, DJ and dance music, karaoke and stage monitoring and production. With their high-capacity continuous power ratings, the E Series loudspeakers will perform well with any quality, professional power amplifier. And when used as part of the complete E Series Entertainment System – with the company’s powerful PLD and GXD amplifiers and TouchMix Digital Mixers, the E Series takes advantage of advanced DSP settings in these latest generation products, for an even higher level of performance.
“QSC is dedicated to building products that help even an inexperienced user get professional results that would otherwise require a far more skilled operator.” Says Gerry Tschetter, Vice-President Professional Product Development. “We applied this same philosophy in creating the E Series. A system of E Series loudspeakers paired with a GXD or PLD Power Amplifier or a TouchMix Digital Compact Mixer offer much more than just a group of audio components. It’s a system which offers a complete QSC solution that will deliver superior professional sounding results.”
The new E Series line consists of four models incorporating QSC’s DMT™ (Directivity Matched Transition) which delivers uniform frequency response across the entire coverage area. The E10 features a 10-inch, die cast frame woofer with a 2.5-inch voice-coil housed in an enclosure that’s ideal as a stage monitor or in main PA deployment. The E12 is a trapezoidal, two-way loudspeaker using a 12-inch die cast aluminum woofer with a 3-inch voice-coil, and the 15mm, 11-ply enclosure provides enough volume to deliver solid low-frequency extension down to 60 Hz, making it an excellent choice for applications in which preclude the use of a subwoofer. The E15 is a trapezoidal, two-way loudspeaker using a 15-inch, 500W, die cast aluminum frame woofer with a 3-inch voice coil, intended for use when high-power and authoritative low-end are needed from a full-range loudspeaker.
The E18SW is a high-performance subwoofer with a single, high-powered, 18-inch, aluminum frame woofer, designed to produce crushing low-end for live performance with kick-drum and bass in the PA or for high-level, high-energy dance music. A threaded, M20 pole socket is provided with the E18SW for sub/satellite use with any of the E Series two-way models. For portable applications it includes attachment points for four optional casters.
All four models are constructed of rugged plywood and coated in black, textured paint. Heavy-duty grilles lined with foam provide protection for the woofers and a professional appearance. All three two-way models are equipped with an all metal, dual-angle, 35mm socket that allows the speaker to be mounted vertically on a pole or angled down by 10° to improve audience coverage and reduce rear wall reflections. Multiple mounting options using E Series Yoke or M8 eyebolts are supported. Input connections include dual NL4 as well as screw terminal receptacles.
Advanced E Series DSP settings for use as part of a complete QSC system are soon available for download at www.qsc.com, to support a variety of applications including live sound reinforcement (with and without subwoofers), stage monitoring, dance music and karaoke.
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Atlas Material Testing Technology Announces Alliance with SGS
Two global players in material testing come together to expand PV module durability certification.
Linsengericht, Germany, June, 13 2012. Atlas Material Testing Technology, a global leader in accelerated weathering instruments and weathering testing services has entered into an alliance with SGS, the world’s leading inspection, verification, testing and certification company, allowing for the expansion of the Atlas 25+ PV module durability test program.
From its inception in 2009, the Atlas 25+ test program has helped manufacturers determine the long-term durability of their photovoltaic modules. The Atlas 25+ program complements short-term IEC qualification tests with long-term durability and reliability assessment to support warranty and performance claims.
As a result of the Atlas-SGS collaboration, the standard Atlas 25+ exposure and testing protocol will be enhanced beginning July 2012 with the availability of two new versions of the program - a six-month streamlined “basic” program for those needing faster results, and an expanded 12-month “premium” offering that includes additional climate factors and performance measurements.
SGS will offer Atlas 25+ as both a stand-alone program and as an optional part of its larger “SGS - PV Performance Tested” scheme which includes options for corrosive gas (e.g. NH3), salt mist, fire, and potential-induced-degradation (PID) resistance among others. Modules passing these tests, including Atlas 25+, will be entitled to the SGS – PV Performance Tested marks.
SGS is accredited as a National Certification Body (NCB) and is one of five German CB testing laboratories (CBTL) within the IECEE certification scheme for photovoltaics. As such, SGS can issue internationally recognized CB testing certificates and CB testing reports.
Joern Brembach
Business Manager PV
Consumer Testing
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SGS is the world’s leading inspection, verification, testing and certification company. SGS is recognized as the global benchmark for quality and integrity. With more than 70,000 employees, SGS operates a network of over 1,350 offices and laboratories around the world.
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SGS Labs Approved as Notified Bodies Under New EU Toy Directive
SGS laboratories in France, UK, Germany and Netherlands have been approved as Notified Bodies under the new EU Toy Directive 2009/48/EC.
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NIS America announces its final physical PS Vita games
If you're a PS Vita collector, then you might want to be on the ball for NIS America's next run of titles, as the publisher has announced they will be the last physical releases that they will be shipping for Sony's dedicated handheld console.
The final three releases from NIS will be cutesy adventure Penny-Punching Princess, anime RPG The Lost Child, and retro-styled RPG The Longest Five Minutes. All three titles will be hitting North American shelves March 2019. So make sure you pick them up to plug the gaps in your Vita collection. European releases are currently "being looked at".
It's still not quite the end of the road for Sony's handheld, Atlus will be releasing the Persona Dancing titles on Vita come December, so there's still life in the old boy yet.
Penny-Punching Princess, The Lost Child, and The Longest Five Minutes launch March 19.
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Marilyn Manson has just added another cover song to his twisted menagerie. From the classic 1987 vampire flick The Lost Boys, ‘Cry Little Sister’ now has a frightening ‘MM’ twist!
The 1987 version was eerie on its own, but in Manson’s hands it’s downright frightening, especially when his voice rises to an echoing howl. The Manson cover is expected to appear in the upcoming X-Men spinoff film The New Mutants, which arrives next year. For those who’ve seen Manson in recent months, “Cry Little Sister” might sound familiar as it’s popped up on many of his set lists.
Jack Black and two-time Academy Award winner Cate Blanchett star in ‘The House with a Clock in Its Walls’, a magical adventure where 10-year-old Lewis goes to live with his uncle in a creaky old house!
Dat Ass Tho: Sketchy couple try to buy a can of Pepsi with a stolen credit card, cops arrive, girl sneaks away and tries to hide inside the convenience store roof and falls through!
https://www.shockmansion.com/2018/06/29/marilyn-manson-has-just-added-another-cover-song-to-his-twisted-menagerie-from-the-classic-1987-vampire-flick-the-lost-boys-cry-little-sister-now-has-a-frightening-mm-twist/
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wooden spaceships, expensive tissues, carrot resources, werewords
February 20, 2017webdeveloper News0 comment(s)
Splendor, Terra Mystica, Bunny Kingdom, Werewords, Codenames
Paul: My goodness! We start the news this week with the continuing success story of Vlaada Chvátil and Czech Games. Two new, licensed versions of Codenames have been announced, themed around Marvel and Disney. Surprised?
I can’t say I’m ever likely to buy or play either of them, nor that I’m at all invested in the worlds of either of these entertainment giants, but I do see this as a wonderful way to bring different kinds of licensed games to more players, particularly families, beyond another bloody Monopoly, as well as for Czech Games to earn more well-deserved cash. If someone tells me, in twenty years, that they got into board games through trying to interpret obscure clues about Frozen characters, I’m going to be okay with that.
Okay, hold on, there is also comic potential here. I’m sure there’s all sorts of hilarious clues you can give if you want people to guess both a talking candlestick and a singing elephant, or something slightly sassy you can say about Spider-Man, Victoria Hand and Captain America. Maybe? I don’t actually know anything about comics. Is Garfield DC or Marvel?
Quinns: OH MY GOD. Speaking of Codenames, This week we also heard from Bezier Games, who announced their latest Werewolf-inspired hidden role game, Werewords. Werewords is about both trying to deduce a particular word and also trying to avoid the nefarious influence of a traitor in your midst.
The Mayor player knows the word, answering guesses with responses like “Yes,” “No,” or “So close,” while a werewolf hidden within the group also tries to misdirect everyone and lead them away from the right answer. In a Resistance: Avalon-style fashion, there’s someone who knows who the werewolf is, and… hang on. This sounds almost identical to Deception: Murder in Hong Kong, but less dramatic and more accessible.
Paul: Surely the biggest question here is, why don’t werewolves want you guessing words? What’s going on there?
Quinns: No, the biggest question is whether a wereword is a person who turns into a word when there’s a full moon. Which sounds like something out of The Invisibles.
Paul: I’ve also been looking at the forthcoming Bunny Kingdom, from Magic and Netrunner creator Richard Garfield, and there’s a sentence I never in my life thought I would write. If you’ve ever wanted to use coloured bunnies to control a large area, this is exactly the game for you.
Through a combination of card drafting and careful bunny placement (oh Lord what am I saying), you stretch out your warrens, put your furry friends in cities and try to gain access to as many resources (such as carrots UGH) as you can. I’m increasingly enjoying both area control and card drafting as I slowly drift my way into old age and the twilight of my life, so this might well whet my appetite. It’s nothing if not wonderfully colourful and kind of cute.
Quinns: I’ve been increasingly enjoying bunnies in my advanced years.
Paul: You have?
Quinns: Yes. Although I’m not picky. I’ll take anything that’s small and soft.
Paul: Hmm. Like an expensive tissue?
Quinns: Yeah. Or just a plastic bag full of water.
Hey, you know how schools sometimes have a guinea pig that exists under the dubious parentage of “the school”? Do you think we could get a site bunny?
Paul: This is the same conversation that led to us hiring Matt and I’m NOT HAVING IT AGAIN
Quinns: Well then let’s have a conversation about Terra Mystica: Gaia Project, the newly-announced sequel to brain-busting, terraforming, mermaid-featuring Terra Mystica, which was one of our favourite games of 2013.
Gaia Project will re-imagine Terra Mystica as a battle between star-faring species (as opposed to the earthy neighbours of the original game), the board will be a load of modular hexes to allow for variable setups and you’ll now be able to develop your particular race along six different tracks.
Looking at the board, though, I can only image that this will be a very different game. The original Terra Mystica had acres and acres of land for people to dig up, moisten, burn and build upon, whereas here planets look few and far between.
Paul: Oh my goodness, what if they remove THE BOWLS? We’ll need to come up with a new joke. I’ll put our writers room on it immediately.
Are you excited? I must say, I’d love an excuse to return to Terra Mystica, it’s been ages since I played it.
Quinns: I’m torn! On the one hand, I’m always thrilled when designers refine a beloved game after its been subjected to public playtesting. On the other hand, a generic “space” setting sucks all the enthusiasm out of me like a hard vacuum. Doesn’t it seem like a less fitting home for all of Terra Mystica’s beautiful wooden components, too? Just because Saga has a cool wooden spaceship doesn’t mean you can get away with it, Jens Drögemüller!
Hmm. Dunno why I’m all about the comics references today..
I’ll tell you what’s getting a straight-up expansion though, Paul. Splendor!
Paul: Oh, the chip-snatching, tableau-building game that produces equal feelings of weight, tension and relaxation?
Quinns: A bit like being psychologically constipated, yes. Cities of Splendor will add four new additional ways to play, including power cards, player powers, things you put on other things and things you want but that you don’t want other people to get because they’re powerful.
BUT WAIT! Don’t forget that Splendor is going to have some competition this year in the form of Century: Spice Road, which is supposedly a slightly similar game. Which game will we end up recommending?! What an exciting job this is.
Finally, we move on to our reader gallery! If you’ve got a photo or piece of art you think would be a light-hearted addition to our news, please do send it in to [email protected]utupandsitdown.com
The above family photo came from SU&SD fan Tomer Perry, who writes…
I was going over pictures from winter break and found this picture. I’m sending these to you because I realized that I was wearing a SU&SD t-shirt as I was playing with my nieces and nephews: this was at the tail-end of a Hanukkah candle-lighting dinner (more like a feast), and my niece asked me to bring out that game we played the other day, One Deck Dungeon.
My other niece and nephews are too young for this game, but they were so excited, they all joined and each of them got a role. One rolled dice for one character, one for the other, and another chose which room we were going to each turn. The kids all got really into it, and were very excited to roll dice and beat monsters with a beautiful all-female cast of heroes. It was a grand experience, completely unplanned – I brought a host of kid- friendly games to the trip, but this was by far the best experience.
What a lovely day that looks like!
We also had this amazing (and FULL OF SPOILERS) piece of Pandemic Legacy wall art sent in by Georg Wolgast and Erika Miegel. Leigh and I were talking about framing our board but this puts us to shame.
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SU&SD’s Top 50 Games Ever, 2015! #40 to #31
cool villains, best feelings, vino tinto, pink men, good pubs, nutella
December 9, 2015SU&SD Special Features136 comment(s)
A Few Acres of Snow, Mascarade, Condottiere, Infinity, Forbidden Stars, Sheriff of Nottingham, Archipelago, Arctic Scavengers, El Grande, Cutthroat Caverns
Quinns: It looks like our Top 50 is maintaining its structural integrity, for now. At the first sign of trouble, it is of utmost importance that you all evacuate the website immediately.
I refuse to have any more dead on my hands.
#40: A FEW ACRES OF SNOW
Video review here, at 21:14.
Top Games of 2012 roundup here
Paul: I think, of all the games out there that feature deckbuilding, that gradual collection of cards that represent growing powers and resources and abilities, A Few Acres of Snow does it best. Yes, I might introduce people to the idea with a simpler game, but Acres is the showcase. There you are, fighting a war in North America, trying to gather troops and supplies, but as you gradually expand your command, everything under your control becomes… harder.
The more your army grows, the more cards you add to your deck. The bigger your deck, the harder it is for you to actually tug out the particular cards you need at the moment you need them. How are you going to win that siege if you can’t seem to get your cannon to the front? Where are your elite troops? Why haven’t they turned up yet? Is your fort actually going to hold out long enough for relief to arrive? Why am I asking so many questions. Quintin Smith is on the scene. Quinns, over to you.
Quinns: Like some hibernating mammal, from the very first instance we played A Few Acres of Snow, it made a home in my head and refused to leave.
You’d never guess it from the stoic Native American on the cover, the spartan manual or the odd Canadian names spilling out across its simple board, but this game is magic. Like the best war games, you’re not just fighting your opponent. It’s far more emotional than that. You’re sympathising with them. Yes, they’re the source of all your pain. But they’re also the only person who shares your suffering, of understanding your regret taking all that useless land around Fort Stanwix, because now it’s gumming up your logistics.
Take a look when we’re done, and you’ll see that all the wargames in our Top 50 give players something extra to battle with that isn’t your opponent. A whimsical system that makes you feel like you have something in common with your enemy, making the entire battle bittersweet. That might just be the secret, I think.
#39: MASCARADE
The Opener here
Paul: This game has taken quite a drop down the SU&SD charts, hasn’t it? My goodness, we’re capricious people (or the rest of you lot are, anyway), but I suppose that’s only because we’ve had such a strong year in board gaming. That’s not at all a criticism of Mascarade, either, which still manages to claim a place in this top 50 and still remains funny, exciting, baffling and diabolic in equal measure.
Quinns: Blame the arrival of not just one, but two stunning games in 2015 that fill the same space as Mascarade of “5-10 players having a very silly time”. But what could they be… ?
Matt: Mind you, the expansion is great – effectively offering fun new replacements for some of the less dynamic roles, and the opportunity to add some new elements to the game. Cards that add randomisation, accusations, or even one that when revealed instantly kills whoever flips it over creates a hidden role game that’s fairly malleable. The base game is still great, but perhaps lacks the variety needed to keep things fresh.
Paul: In terms of hidden roles and hidden information, I think it still kicks Coup’s arse. Its roles, particularly the peasants, are smarter and produce funnier outcomes. The constant switching of other people’s cards makes everything sillier. Yet, nevertheless, it still rewards players who display candour and bravado and smarts. I like the confusion. I like seeing you all confused. I want to see everyone confused. I want confusion to reign.
#38: CONDOTTIERE
Review here
Quinns: It’s the winter of 2010, and I’m in a pub in Hammersmith with some friends. We have warm drinks in front of us, a roaring fire behind us and Condottiere on the table. We’re laughing over well-thumbed cards and nudging tiny wooden cubes around the game’s crap fold-out map of Italy. But the game doesn’t overpower the moment- as we draw cards or consider our moves, there’s gentle chat. There’s friendship. There’s true happiness.
It’s one of my most enduring gaming memories. Before Paul and I had started Shut Up & Sit Down, back when my board game collection couldn’t fill a single shelf, I used to carry Condottiere everywhere. And you know what? This single, slim box was more than enough.
Nostalgia aside, I love Condottiere for many of the same reasons I love Skull and Welcome to the Dungeon. It’s a game of hubris and humans, where so much of the joy is in watching your friend stay in a dangerous round when they should have folded. While it’s a more complicated game, all of its rules are in service of drawing out this moment of tension. Of letting players threaten certain cards, or withdraw, or utterly change the game.
For all the card games SU&SD recommends, Condottiere offers the most cardplay. Its players will drop unexpected cards, or cover a card with another card, or pick one back up in a satisfying little dance. It’s a game that at once reminds you where “Take that!” style card games originated, and why they’re rubbish compared to this.
Paul: I remember that pub. It was at the end of my road. It was a good pub.
Quinns: It was a good pub.
Paul: And it was a simpler time, a time before our experience in those Italian wars jaded us forever. Now, we’re old, weary and cynical, men ruined by the harsh realities of life. Still, I could go for another game of Condottiere.
#37: INFINITY
Podcast discussion here
Quinns: In a controversial appearance, we’ve got Spanish-made sci-fi miniatures game Infinity in our top 50! If you’ve got a problem with that, blame the X-Wing Miniatures game for setting a precedent.
Matt: I’ve got a little pink robot man, and he’s brilliant. Did I mention that I had a little pink robot man? A good chunk of my interest in Infinity right now remains about painting my robots gold and pink, but it’s also clearly an excellent game. Anything that demands such an incredible amount of money and space is clearly a very silly game, but if you’re lucky enough to have the means to play it’s a hugely exciting way to spend a sunny afternoon. I smashed through a window! I jumped off a roof! I thought I’d move further than that in all honesty, and now I am almost definitely dead!
Quinns: Eric absolutely nailed his review for us, and not just because it spurred Matt, me and lots of our friends to start collecting Infinity. It’s just like he said- Infinity’s so much fun for the personality packed into every miniature, and it’s so villainously tense because it can and will kill off your favourite soldier, alien or animatronic cat in as much time as it takes to roll a D20.
Matt: That’s a great point! I love painting cool little figures and growing unreasonably attached to them, but Infinity puts a cap on it that stops you from losing all of your marbles. I spent hours as a teenager painting a single Warhammer goblin, then looked at the other 9 of them, and died.
The attachment I have to my Infinity posse wouldn’t be possible if the team wasn’t so small – you aren’t building an army, it’s a bloody STRIKE FORCE. I also can’t help but feel that the aesthetic crossover between this and Destiny has made 2015 the year that I hopelessly fell in love with sci-fi again. Money be damned, I want the cool spacemen.
Quinns: Absolutely. So, to summarise? Infinity is expensive, the rulebook is laughably complicated and building the scenery to play on requires some combination of time, money and imagination, depending on how many placeholder toilet rolls and DVD boxes you’re using.
But the reason it cracked our top 50 isn’t simply that Infinity’s worth the trouble, ultimately rewarding you with a ludicrous game of soldiers flinging smoke grenades and backflipping off of roofs. The creative side of it has hooked us all, too. Collaborating with my friends to build a snowy town has been one of my most rewarding gaming experiences of the year.
#36: FORBIDDEN STARS
Matt: I’d forgotten how much I like the setting of Warhammer 40k – it’s just a bunch of cool space bastards stuck in endless wars for tenuous reasons. Forbidden Stars perfectly captures the theme of endless obstinate violence, pitting up to four players against each other in a big universe that suddenly isn’t even nearly big enough. But expansion alone isn’t enough – each of the races specifically desire planets that other players own at the start of the game, and from that point onwards it’s just a giant bitty mess. But those bits! Oh my, so many gorgeous tiny ships and tanks and gorgeous artwork everywhere – it’s like sailing towards inevitable doom in a Nutella-smothered yacht.
Quinns: “Mess” is the perfect word. Chaos In the Old World gets all the hype, but every game of it I’ve played has ended with a clinical locker room discussion of what each player did wrong. It’s so obtuse! Meanwhile, Forbidden Stars plays like a pillow fight in a muddy field.
The game starts, and everybody immediately has to invade someone else’s home world. But there’s no time for grudges, because on turn 2 a shift in warp storms means youimmediately need to invade someone else. Then by turn 4 you’re punch-drunk and confused as to why all the planets you control are on the opposite side of the table but WHO CARES because you’ve got Titans and (BOOM) oh nope ok they got blown up.
Matt: The shifting warp-walls are superb! You spend a good ten minutes staring DEATH at the person opposite you on the table, battering each other with endless war rhetoric, and then suddenly the walls shift and war isn’t an option. So obviously, you start up another grand war with whoever happens to be closest, putting the previous beef on-hold indefinitely. It completely nails the 40k vibe of intergalactic blood-pressure problems, but it also takes away your ability to effectively play while harbouring a grudge, much like the nonchalance of Cosmic Encounter’s destiny deck that picks the person you’re attacking for you. Because fundamentally, it doesn’t matter – the only constant is WAR.
Quinns: Forbidden Stars offers all the silliness you want from a thematic game, with none of the weightlessness that the genre can edge towards. Every play is a gamble, but it’s a serious gamble, with you sliding your orks across the table like so many spiky poker chips. There’s lots at stake, all the time. All aboard the Nutella yacht!
#35: SHERIFF OF NOTTINGHAM
Opener here
Matt: My brother’s alternative name for this game has pretty much rewired my lexicon at this point. “What’s In Your Bag, You Bastard?” is a genuinely brilliant family game that thrives on the table for one simple reason – the distribution of power during the game is wholly fair. At the end someone’s won and someone’s lost horribly, but everyone got to be the Sheriff twice. Having loads of cheese is nice, but nothing compares to the distilled sense of power that comes from being given carte blanche to openly interrogate your friends and family. It’s possibly the perfect Christmas game, bringing out unexpected streaks of personality in a way that’s a raucous amount of fun. Watching quiet, passive relatives suddenly go full-Godfather is just an absolute joy.
Paul: Seriously, though, what is in that bag? Is it fun? Is it a lie? Is it just a bag of cocks? DON’T LAUGH, if you laugh I can tell that you’re lying.
I actually try to get people to play a third round of Sheriff, so we all get to be the boss three times and do just a bit more interrogation. The game is great because it’s actually a relatively short affair, but I always want just a little bit more. Just one more chance to lie or to catch a liar. To catch a thief. To catch a criminal.
It’s good to lie. It’s good to lie and get away with it. It’s also good to tell the truth and get the finger pointed at you. That’s perhaps the best thing, to ruin someone’s day simply by being completely honest.
Matt: Oh gosh that’s the best. I know what you mean about wanting more – and I suppose that’s not a bad way of avoiding the dreaded bit at the end where you have to stop the fun while everyone counts up to see who’s won. Pro hosting tip: The official app that helps work out the scoring is really good, and if you’re clever you can enter the majority of the info in the final round while people are still playing! Nobody likes a Charlie Calculator, Charlie. I for one welcome the day when board game boxes watch over us with sentient AI, informing the room of winners and cheaters with a booming voice that shudders the room. “THIS MAN HAS NO CHICKENS IN HIS BAG. THE PENALTY IS DEATH” and then the lasers start.
Quinns: If this were a list ranking feelings rather than games, I might have to push for #1 being “Sneaking a shitload of contraband past the Sheriff.”
It’s so perfect. The fact that the instant he refuses to open your bag, you have to open it up with the whole table watching and slip all those facedown cards under the “Contraband” area of your player mat? And then watch the Sheriff turn to the next player with their nerves completely broken? Perfect. PERFECT.
#34: ARCHIPELAGO
Video review here
Quinns’ Top Games of 2013 here
Let’s Play here
Quinns: At number 34, it’s Settlers of Catan re-imagined as a gritty drama!
Matt: I’m still waiting for Settlers of Catan re-imagined as Coronation Street, but Klaus Teuber isn’t answering my calls.
Paul: We’ve squeezed it in! We’ve squeezed Archipelago into a “best games” list and immediately I feel better. I feel like a weight has been lifted. I feel like the Ghost of Christmas Board Games has slapped its thick and rotund hands onto my back and given me a long, firm massage.
Archipelago is one of those games that is complex, but not complicated. I love the growing map, I love the jumping on resources, I love the gradual, growing populations and ever-changing market. But, you know what? For all these moving parts, Archipelago doesn’t become overwhelming. Everything makes sense. This is a design that avoids being obtuse and yet still has so much going on. For that alone, I feel it deserves respect. A long, knowing nod. A shake of the hand. A pat on the shoulder. Maybe a gentle hug. Maybe an intimate, meaningful date on a frosty winter’s evening, just you and me. You and me. What’re you doing next week, Archipelago?
Matt: I’ve only played it once, but this one stayed with me. The distrust, the passive-aggressive negotiations, the requirement that everyone works together whilst also having no interest of ever doing so – it’s a beautiful disaster just waiting to happen. I refused to let anyone sell goods on the international market under the paper-thin guise of protecting the locals, while quietly also making myself very, very rich. I don’t think I’ve ever played a game that’s left me feeling so thoroughly evil – but it was quite the experience.
Quinns: Yeah. Lots of games let you play the villain. Very few let you play a goody two-shoes, with everyone’s interests at heart. But Archipelago lets you do that! Its theme is so strong that just a little bit of roleplaying might have me handing out my resources.
Matt: Roleplaying is the right word, really – so much of the game revolves around rules that you won’t find anywhere in the manual. Trying to win while maintaining the PR that you’re mostly looking out for The Greater Good™ is delightfully fuzzy. So much of it comes down to smiles and spin and praying that the growing resentment around the table doesn’t mutate into anything that might cause you grief. But of course you can also just be genuinely nice, even if this concept remains alien to me. Last time we played I was an exotic fruit baron, while Paul just made a load of churches. Churches! Can you imagine? What a pious pom-pom that Paul chap is.
#33: ARCTIC SCAVENGERS
Video review hereRecon expansion review here
Quinns: How could we release our Top 50 games without a dedicated deck-building game? In case you’ve been sleeping under a copy of Twilight Imperium for the last six years, this is the esteemed genre, conceived by Dominion in 2008, where players each grow their own personal, unpredictable deck of cards for the duration of the game.
Let me tell you, this was a close-run thing. Dominion’s still good. Trains is even better. And Star Realms is as quick as sparkly as Trains is sedate and… train-y.
But it’s Arctic Scavengers’ wealth of ideas that makes it THE deck-building game for us. The central junkyard deck is a great idea. The contested resource you fight for at the end of each turn is a great idea. The buildings are a great idea, as are the tribal leaders, as are the gangs. Any one of these could power a deck-building game by itself. To have them all in one place feels like luxury.
If I’m honest, on any given night I’m more likely to want to play Trains. But I’m aware that most people aren’t like me, and didn’t spend their sixth birthday being driven around the motorways outside London, waiting for a glimpse of commuter trains. So Arctic Scavengers it is. Besides, the new box containing the base game, first AND second expansions is a fantastic value proposition.
#32: EL GRANDE
Quinns: Time for some Real Talk. Shut Up & Sit Down is the best job I’ve ever had, but I fantasise about leaving it. Because it’s a job where I have to play everything, I get exposed to games like El Grande (easily the most aptly-named game on this list) and then can’t give them the time they deserve.
This 1995 game of area control set in historical Spain can lay claim to every adjective SU&SD is fond of. It’s simple, silly, pacy, personal, tactical and tactile. On top of that, the new editions have lots of expansions right there in the box for your to try out, though I’ve never gotten to them. There are just such incredible possibilities for cunning in the base game. If there’s a problem with El Grande, it’s that you can sit planning your next move for whole minutes. If there’s a compliment to be paid to the game, it’s that nobody will mind.
Imagine it! One day I could just up and vanish, and retreat secretly to a sunny shore on the Mediterranean. I could eek out my days sat outside on a patio with a short glass of vino tinto, meeting people for El Grande twice a week. I could make money doing personal board game reviews for the locals!
Paul: You’d find a new board game within five minutes OR you’d open up a real-world version of that little El Grande castle and find that someone else had dropped in more cubes than you and already taken over that sunny shore, was already doing reviews for the locals. Who was it? It was Matt! Oh no!
Quinns: You’re not invited to this fantasy! Get out! OUT!
#31: CUTTHROAT CAVERNS
Quinns: I like cut throats and I cannot lie!
You other brothers can’t deny!
That when you got no shame and you’re in last place!
And a wereboar’s in your face!
You get… uh, treacherous.
It’s no secret that SU&SD favourite Cosmic Encounter will be placing somewhere on this list, with its incredible selling point of re-mixing itself and surprising you every time you play it. Two years on, what’s become clear since we published our Cutthroat Caverns review is how wildly different it can be, too.
I’ve enjoyed side-splitting sagas with its written adventures. I’ve had sharp, painful games where a table of competitive players obliterate one another and never even make it out of the dungeon. I’ve had games where relics and events create taxing puzzles. I’ve seen it become a gentle co-op game, where players end up not caring about winning. I’ve seen a single rivalry define a game, to the delight of everyone else. And I’ve seen my girlfriend cry with laughter after shoving me into an explosive gas bag because she didn’t realise it would outright kill me.
Cutthroat Caverns isn’t the most reliable game in our list. Your friends need a playful attitude going in, a touch of luck is required when drawing monsters for your dungeon, and the rules can be a little fiddly. Instead, Cutthroat Caverns is a true adventure. Not always easy, but unquestionably worth it.
Our top 50 continues tomorrow, as we plunge into the terrible twenties…
SU&SD’s Top 50 for 2015
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The Internet Is Loving Batman’s Entrance In Justice League’s Wonder Woman Promo Video
on 27th October 2017 at 5:47 pm
People have taken to Twitter to declare their admiration for Batman’s iconic entrance in Justice League’s recent Wonder Woman promo video.
Wonder Woman was the focal point of the recent Justice League promo video, which she should be, however, it seems as if Batman might have stolen the spotlight. Let me explain. There’s a brief clip of Batman doing what can only be described as the perfect superhero landing. Deadpool would be proud. He basically lands right in front of Wonder Woman. How rude. That said, Diana Prince is still able to look effortlessly cool, despite Batman’s obvious showboating. Check out Justice League’s promo video for yourselves below, courtesy of AT&T.
Fans across the globe have come out to praise the shot, which many people seem to be credited as Zack Snyder’s work. This is probably true. Say what you will about Snyder’s movies, one thing he knows how to do is direct a good-looking picture full of spectacular set pieces. This moment could definitely be seen as one of those standout moments. This is the kind of scene that’s designed to make your hairs stand on end, and it really does succeed. The Caped Crusader’s entrance in this instance is quintessentially Batman. We’ve seen him do it in Batman: The Animated Series, Rocksteady’s Arkham games and there was, of course, Michael Keaton’s iconic entrance as Batman which is hard to forget and has in many ways become the superhero’s signature move.
Check out some of the tweets below. People just can’t seem to hold it together when it comes to Batman, and hopefully, this might be a shot that Ben Affleck can look back on with pride.
Yes! What a entrance #batman #JusticeLeage pic.twitter.com/AfqGHrF5Js
— Adam Kreitzberg (@ajkberg) October 26, 2017
BEST. LIVE-ACTION. BATMAN. #JusticeLeague
Thank you @ZackSnyder @BenAffleck pic.twitter.com/Q7Z1yAyJn5
— Aaron Farrell (@LordTenebrous) October 26, 2017
That Batman pose though. #JusticeLeague pic.twitter.com/deGMLchWik
— ᴀᴅᴀᴍ ɪs ᴀʟʟ ɪɴ (@AdamofApokolips) October 26, 2017
I’ve literally never been so excited for a movie in my life. LOOK HOW BEAUTIFUL! #JusticeLeague #Batman #WonderWoman pic.twitter.com/hSErSnktpZ
— Matthew Peach (@paneachy) October 26, 2017
this is one badass superhero landing, my excitement for this movie is almost uncontrollable #JusticeLeague #Batman pic.twitter.com/5jy1ki7iwd
— jayyd22 (@halljason141) October 26, 2017
Me arriving to the cinema to see #JusticeLeague pic.twitter.com/v8w5YlOrzN
— DC Films Universe (@DCFUniverse) October 26, 2017
This particular Dark Knight-related moment seems to have people very excited to see Justice League, and yes, I’ll admit it, it’s a pretty cool entrance. Ben Affleck’s portrayal as Batman has arguably been one of the best. It’s just a shame that he hasn’t had a film that showcases that fact yet. Perhaps Justice League will be the movie Ben Affleck deserves. Fingers crossed.
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Justice League hits UK cinemas on November 17th. What do you make of Batman’s entrance in this promo video? Let us know in the comments below.
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Sail scene
Soundings Editors
Swans race off Newport
The Rolex Swan American Regatta wrapped up the last week of July in Newport, R.I., with 39 yachts participating in the biennial regatta.
In Class A, the Swan 601, Moneypenny, owned by Jim Swartz of Edgartown, Mass., sailed to a comfortable victory winning every race of the week except the last two.
“It was a great week. We had a great start and we’ve had some fantastic sailing,” said Swartz. “The crew has been fantastic; they just executed faultlessly all week.”
Victory in Class B remained in the balance until the final race, with Swan 44s Vixen and Crescendo dueling to the very end. John Wayt of Jamestown, R.I., had the momentum to string together four consecutive victories for his Vixen. After winning the first race of the day over Crescendo by 30 seconds, Vixen topped the leader board by a single point until Crescendo sailed to an easy victory and the class win well ahead of Vixen in the final race.
“Today was a day of very competitive sailing,” said Martin Jacobson of Greenwich, Conn., co-owner of Crescendo. “In the first race we finished second to Vixen, so we knew we had to really do well in the final race. We were able to sail to our plan, which is important, and we didn’t make any mistakes.”
In Class C, the nine-boat Swan 45 one-design division was a battle of New Yorkers. William Douglass and his Goombay Smash went into the day ahead of Massimo Ferragamo’s Bellicosa and managed to clinch the win despite Ferragamo’s win in the first race.
“Today we had a bit of trouble going upwind,” said Douglass. “I think we had the wrong jib up on the first race and Bellicosa sailed a fantastic race. They were really trying to put the pressure on us. All of a sudden we realized that they just cut our lead in half so we still had our work cut out.”
Joe Huber of Wynnewood, Pa., dominated the non-spinnaker division, Class D, from start to finish. His Swan 44, Reef Points, scored seven first places and discarded a fourth to win by 19 points over second-place Roland Bathory of Weston, Mass., and his Swan 53, Amanda.
New regatta series
covers the East Coast
Sailors have been talking about a series of world class racing events, both inshore and offshore, to bring sailors up the East Coast from Florida and the Caribbean to New England regattas and the Bermuda Race with great racing along the way.
The new US-IRC Gulf Stream Series invites the best yachts racing in the world to compete for two new trophies. The series will feature racing on the East Coast of America, Florida, Mid-Atlantic, New England, plus Bermuda and in the Caribbean. Racing will be scored under the IRC rating system either in specific classes, or dual-scored along with other systems.Organizers anticipate participation from an international IRC fleet and hope the new series will bring a return to the days of big series racing like the SORC, but offer sailors the choice between events best suited for their sailing programs.
The Onion Patch Series, including Newport-Bermuda, is required, as is one of the two medium-distance races — Fort Lauderdale to Key West or the Block Island Race. Two other events, Key West Race Week, St. Maarten Heineken Regatta, Acura Miami Race Week, International Rolex Regatta St. Thomas or the Annapolis Yacht Club Spring IRC regatta must be sailed at the owner’s choice to complete the series.
Racing will be by individual entry and by teams representing nations, yacht clubs, or other sailing associations for both the Gulf Stream Trophy and the Gulf Stream Team Trophy. All yachts entering the series must qualify for entry in the Newport-Bermuda Race, a Category 1 offshore race for monohull yachts as defined by their Notice of Race. Professional or amateur programs are welcome.
www.gulfstreamseries.com
Transpac turns 100
with some surprises
From the Barn Door to Bubala and B’Quest, this year’s Transpacific Yacht Race presented a wide span of sailing technology and talent in its 100 years.
Bubala, a Cal 40 sailed by six men ages 66 to 72 and B’Quest, Challenged America’s team of sailors with disabilities from San Diego, shared the stage with crewmembers of Morning Glory, Hasso Plattner’s maxZ86 that broke Roy Disney’s monohull race record.
Plattner’s crew collected the Barn Door trophy as the monohull with the fastest elapsed time: 6 days. 16 hours. 4 minutes. 11 seconds. and an average of 13.9 knots for the 2,225 nautical miles.
The audience saw videos of race highlights and tributes to Disney, who delivered his formal farewell to the event he promoted and helped to reshape in 15 races over 30 years.
“Did I say I was quitting?” he deadpanned in opening remarks. “This race is not about the big boats. It’s about the Cal 40s; it’s about B’Quest’s disabled sailors; it’s about Bubala and the old geezers. Keep doing this. I’ve brought all four of our kids up on it. Thank you, all of you.”
Later, with Morning Glory boat captain Peter Pendleton, Disney did the honors of updating the hands on the 18th century-style trophy clock he commissioned six years earlier to mark the current record.
Pendleton also received the Don Vaughn Trophy as the outstanding crewmember on the fastest boat, chosen by his crewmates. A total of 75 boats from eight countries on four continents started the Centennial Transpac.
Still, after all the traditional dockside welcome parties were exhausted and all the awards distributed, one remained more than 500 miles at sea. James and Ann Read of San Francisco, sailing their 42-foot boat, Camille, double-handed with their dog, Sweetie Pie, and eventually finished after 23 days. As the Reads have seen it wasn’t the windiest Transpac, but at the front it was by far the fastest with five boats — including Disney’s own maxZ86, Pyewacket — eclipsing his 1999 record, alongside the anomaly of a 68-year-old yawl, Odyssey, finishing just ahead of them with its six-day head start in the Aloha division.
Morning Glory blew away the race’s 24-hour distance record when it logged 393 miles on its first full day at sea, stretching the mark of 356 miles set by Philippe Kahn’s Pegasus 77 maxi sled on its second Barn Door romp in 2003. www.transpacificyc.org
12 Meters race
in Narragansett Bay
Another day of light winds preceded by heavy fog greeted the Oxbow 12 Metre Regatta Fleet sailing inside Narragansett Bay on the final day (July 31) of racing.
The Gran Prix Division was won by Edgar Cato’s Hissar (KZ-5) with 6 points, followed by Bill Koch’s Kiwi Magic (KZ-7) in second with 10 points. Third place went to USA (US-61) sailed by Jan Slee and Andy MacGowan, with newcomer Wright on White (BRA-1, formerly KZ-3) finishing fourth with 19 points.
In the Modern Division, Craig Millard’s Courageous (US-26) prevailed with 7 points; Jack Curtain’s Intrepid (US-22) finished second with 11 points; Ernest Jacquet’s Freedom took third with 16 points, followed closely Harry Grave’s Lionheart finishing fourth with 17 points.
Alain Hanover’s Columbia (US-16) took first-place honors in the Classic Division.
America’s Cup-winning tactician Gary Jobson, who sailed on Courageous for this regatta, said: “There is no better sailing than 12 Metre Racing in Newport. We had six America’s Cup winning yachts competing in Narragansett Bay; the owners and crews recognize the special significance of these events and it shows in their participation and care for these great yachts.”
The regatta was sponsored by Bill Koch’s The Oxbow Corporation, and organized by the Museum of Yachting.
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After a week of intense racing off Ventura, Calif., the husband-and-wife team of Enrique and Carla Figueroa, from Puerto Rico, has taken another Hobie 16 class North American title.
This is Enrique’s fifth North American title in the 16 class and Carla’s second. Enrique was also this year’s Hobie Tiger Class World Champion. He grew up in the Hobie class, winning his first championships in the smaller Hobie 14 and moving on to win his first Hobie 16 championship in 1984. Enrique attended his first Olympics in the Tornado class. He has continued in the Tornado and competed in the Tornado Europeans this summer.
Juan Maegli and Cristina Guirola, an outstanding pair of youth sailors from Guatemala, finished second. Armando Noriega and Rodrigo Achach, last year’s champions from Mexico, finished in third.
This year the American teams were left thinking that there must be a new tuning guide out there that hasn’t been translated from Spanish. The top Americans finished in eighth place.
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Stock Update (NYSE:RIG): Transocean LTD Provides Fleet Status Report
Corey Williams- February 11, 2016, 5:01 PM EDT
Transocean LTD (NYSE:RIG) issued a comprehensive Fleet Status Report which provides the current status of and contract information for the company’s entire fleet of offshore drilling rigs. The total value of new contracts added since the October 26, 2015, Fleet Status Report is approximately $500 million.
In February, the newbuild ultra-deepwater drillship Deepwater Thalassa commenced operations on its 10-year contract in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico at a dayrate of $519,000. The rig is designed to operate in water depths of up to 12,000 feet and drill wells to 40,000 feet. It features Transocean’s patented dual-activity drilling technology, industry-leading hoisting capacity, Transocean’s designed and patented Active Power Compensation hybrid system and a second blowout preventer (BOP). The drillship is upgradeable to accommodate a 20,000 psi BOP system.
The report includes the following:
GSF Rig 140 – awarded a one well contract offshore India at a dayrate of $158,000 ($18 million estimated backlog).
Jack Bates – customer exercised a 90 day option offshore Australia at a dayrate of $195,000 ($18 million estimated backlog).
M.G. Hulme, Jr. – awarded a one well contract in an undisclosed location at a dayrate of $163,000 ($16 million estimated backlog).
Sedco 702 – awarded a 45 day contract extension offshore Nigeria at a dayrate of $275,000 ($12 million estimated backlog).
Cajun Express – awarded 80 days offshore Ivory Coast; the dayrate is not disclosed.
Transocean Arctic – awarded three contracts with three separate customers in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea as follows:
one well contract at a dayrate of $179,000;
four well contract at a dayrate of $170,000; and
one well contract; the dayrate is not disclosed.
Estimated 2016 out-of-service time increased by a net 126 days due primarily to the reactivation of the Henry Goodrich. The rig is expected to commence its two year contract in Canada at a dayrate of $275,000 in the second quarter of 2016.
The Deepwater Navigator and GSF Grand Banks are classified as held for sale. (Original Source)
Shares of Transocean closed today at $8.61, down $0.17 or -1.94%. The stock’s 50-day moving average is $10.53 and its 200-day moving average is $13.29.
On the ratings front, Transocean has been the subject of a number of recent research reports. In a report issued on January 19, Deutsche Bank analyst Mike Urban maintained a Hold rating on RIG, with a price target of $12, which represents a potential upside of 39.4% from where the stock is currently trading. Separately, on January 5, KLR Group’s Darren Gacicia maintained a Buy rating on the stock and has a price target of $19.
According to TipRanks.com, which ranks over 7,500 financial analysts and bloggers to gauge the performance of their past recommendations, Mike Urban and Darren Gacicia have a total average return of -59.6% and -18.4% respectively. Urban has a success rate of 30.6% and is ranked #3569 out of 3569 analysts, while Gacicia has a success rate of 19.1% and is ranked #3438.
Transocean Ltd is an international provider of offshore contract drilling services for oil and gas wells. The Company has two operating segments; contract drilling services and drilling management services.
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by Moira Bird | Jul 20, 2017
We hear about collisions all the time. They’re on the news, the radio, and on the streets of our cities. Fatal accidents happen frequently… and our reactions are usually quite similar.
“The driver was going too fast.” “The driver should have been more careful.” “The driver didn’t look before pulling out.”, we converse casually.
While yes, it is often human error that leads to the deaths of pedestrians, cyclists and other drivers, the mindset must be altered.
A New Conversation
Vision Zero isn’t about changing as drivers. It is about changing as communities. In Vision Zero, the blame for road collisions is shifting away from the drivers. The overall concept is that human error will always exist, so communities must instead find ways to protect vulnerable parties on their streets, such as children, motorcyclists, and older adults. Vision Zero also wants to help those who have historically been seen as the threat, like distracted or aggressive drivers.
Canada’s Vision Zero goes as far as to invoke the Charter or Rights and Freedoms:
“Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of the person and the right not to be deprived thereof except in accordance with the principles of fundamental justice.”
This is a new way of viewing the problem, however the thought behind it is simple: make driver errors part of the equation. By assuming that humans will make mistakes, cities can make their streets safer. How, you may be asking?
Building Safer Streets
There are many cities around the world who have adopted Vision Zero, however Sweden may be the most advanced. For example, they have been constructing more roundabouts in place of signalized intersections in some location. Keeping in mind that Vision Zero aims at zero fatalities, this is an excellent solution. While a roundabout is more difficult for drivers to navigate, it forces cars to enter at a slower speed. The confusion does lead to more collisions, however the severity is decreased because drivers are made to slow down. Collisions at intersections are less frequent, but far more severe.
Initiatives do not have to be this complex or labour intensive, however. Cities can simply rethink the way that they design spaces. In the past, roads were engineered to get the highest volume of cars through at a time. Now, roads are shared with pedestrians and cyclists, but the designs have remained mostly unchanged.
By building with others in mind, like adding bike paths that are separated from the roadway by barriers or creating pedestrian overpasses, engineers can mitigate the risks for these groups and therefore reduce fatalities.
The Right Mentality
The mentality around Vision Zero can get lost as it moves from city to city. The perfect example of this is Mayor John Tory of Toronto in 2013 who announced a misleading “Vision Zero” initiative. He wanted to “reduce the number of people killed and seriously injured in traffic by 20 per cent within a decade”. This was met with displeasure, as it was not in the spirit of Vision Zero. His statement was later amended to a goal of zero fatalities.
The best statement about the conviction behind Vision Zero comes from Sweden’s webpage. They simply state “no loss of life is acceptable”. They’re right. We should see an accident and be horrified. We need to be bothered by every fatality. Then, we need to do something about it as a community.
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Divine Pomegranate
How a peculiar fruit captured hearts and imaginations across the world.
It wasn’t long ago that I ate a pomegranate and relished it for the first time. Not that it was the first time I had tried the fruit.
Before I was eight, my mother gave me a pomegranate sliced into halves to eat with a toothpick. She told me not to make a mess because the juice stains. So I sat for a long time, stabbing each ruby jewel — as if the only way to eat a pomegranate was painstakingly carefully. Mum was struggling to recall an ancient story about the goddess Persephone who was tricked by the cruel god Hades into eating pomegranate seeds and forced to live in the underworld for six months of the year, which explains why there are no fruits or flowers in winter.
I listened but the story failed to spark my curiosity. Like most children I approached any new food with suspicion. Foods I knew and enjoyed I took for granted, never asking where they came from or how they were made.
Why would you be curious about a pomegranate? It has a tough leathery pericarp with an antique hue. A spongy inner wall conceals a complex of white chambers, home to glassy clusters of well over a thousand crimson juicy arils.
As in all plant species, if you look closely enough you’ll find mesmerising complexity. Every one has a unique history encoded in its genetics. With genome sequencing we can know precisely where a plant originated and how it has evolved over millennia. But this pomegranate story isn’t about the actual plant, rather what it has meant to people.
In other times and places, the pomegranate captured many hearts and imaginations. Ancient poets praised the tree from fruit to flower; it was mythologised by pagans and sanctified by both church and state. The pomegranate has been a symbol of profoundly spiritual aspirations of the human race. Decoding the symbolism reveals more about the state of our belief systems than about the fruit. An important need has been satisfied by this tradition: our ancestors might have given cherished plants special meanings in order to describe their uses and make a personal claim to them. When scientific truth is absent, myth is king.
In the Greek myth of Persephone and Hades, the pomegranate is a metaphor for worldly temptations that bind one to the underworld. In non-western versions of Adam and Eve, the pomegranate appears as the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden — a metaphor for desire and sin.
These stories explained the dawn of human history and birth of the seasons. They conveyed major beliefs about good and evil, life and death. Today, they also reveal the disconnection between the stories we ascribe to fruits and their actual stories.
The taste of pomegranate is temptingly delicious. When you bite on the crisp clusters they burst with a sweet and tart flavour, quenching your thirst like ripe berries or wine. But would its wild ancestor have been so enticing to our taste buds?
Studies of plant genes describe the wild ancestors of fruits as mostly bitter or sour, or with tough or stringy textures, and sometimes they were downright poisonous. The wild pomegranate is no exception.
Fruit has undergone a long yet subtle journey of cultivation and selective breeding to achieve perfect forms and flavours. Hybridisation also plays a part, occurring randomly according to changes in climate and soil, for better or worse. These historical interventions ended up with the tasty varieties we enjoy, and elevated the importance of many fruits, lending them grander mythical status. In every case, the symbolism seems to take its own route, ignoring the fruit’s cultivated evolution.
From Judaism to Christianity, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism and Islam, the pomegranate symbolises fertility, resurrection, death, eternal life and love. Nowhere in the genetic story do we find a correlation with these human conditions. So why did our ancestors ascribe it these complex meanings?
The pomegranate originated in the Arabian Peninsula and was one of the earliest cultivated fruits — also a prominent ingredient in local cuisines. From ancient Egyptian tombs, the Hebrew Scriptures and Zoroastrian temples, the pomegranate was lavished with spiritual meanings. The Persian poet, Rumi, in the 13th century, gives the pomegranate the meaning of joy and love, the highest attainment of the human spirit:
A laughing pomegranate
brings the whole garden to life.
Keeping the company of the holy
makes you one of them
whether you are stone or marble,
you will become a jewel
when you reach a human being of heart.
For Zoroastrians, the pomegranate was a symbol of immortality and perfection in nature. In Iran, Esfandiyar eats pomegranate and becomes an invincible hero. An-shih liu was a favourite among classical Chinese poets for its uniquely beautiful red flower with healing virtues.
What is it about the pomegranate that captures so many poetical hearts? One clue might be found in the intersection between science and culture called medicine. From the 2nd century BC the pomegranate travelled the Silk Road and appeared simultaneously in ancient pharmacopoeia in India, China and Southern Europe. The pomegranate became a prized health commodity and all parts of the plant were traded for use in medicine.
Modern clinical trials confirm that pomegranate fruit is good for health and contains some important compounds.
Soft drinks companies were quick to exploit the correlation. POM Wonderful built a multimillion-dollar company on the statement “pomegranate juice is packed with antioxidants that keep your heart healthy.” The Food and Drug Administration later warned the company against misleading consumers and promoting the juice as a life-saving drug.
Despite losing the case in 2016 the company’s sales continued to increase annually, outperforming its nearest competitor by more than ten times. Behind their continued success is a lingering belief that drinking pomegranate juice will slow prostate cancer, shrink tumours, reduce cholesterol and rejuvenate an ageing heart. POM Wonderful’s zealously marketed statements have the hallmarks of mythology.
Pomegranate symbolism might be understood as a form of propaganda and advertising: a story that people want to believe that masks a less comfortable reality. Let’s look at a well-documented example.
In Tudor England it had long been customary to assign a motif of a wildflower or an important crop to a governed county. These botanical emblems were worn as “heraldic devices” for the purpose of propaganda. The Tudor rose was formed of two cultivars of wild dog rose (Rosa canina) and united the two most powerful factions in the court of Henry VIII.
The pomegranate makes a dramatic appearance when Catherine of Aragon from Spanish Granada married Henry VIII in 1509, the first of his six wives. Catherine claimed the pomegranate as her heraldic crest: a symbol, by then, of the indissolubility of marriage and fertility, associated as it was with the biblical Tree of Knowledge.
Her family had conquered the Kingdom of Granada during the 13th century, where pomegranate trees flourished in abundance (and still do), like oranges in Seville. The pomegranate had been at the centre of religious ritual and worship long before Catherine’s birth, making it a natural choice for her emblem.
At court the symbol was pervasive: Queen Catherine’s supporters wore a small pewter pomegranate badge; the fruit was also depicted in embroidery and the Tudor rose coat of arms was combined with depictions of the fruit. In an ironic twist, Henry VIII divorced Catherine on the grounds that she could not produce him a male heir, and in doing so he broke with the Catholic Church in order to marry his Protestant mistress Anne Boleyn.
The failure to unite the dynasties of Spain and England in the 14th century diminished the power of the pomegranate emblem with the dissolution of marriage and, subsequently, the Catholic order. By the end of the Tudor period in 1603 a spiritual connection had been forged, nonetheless. The greatest culmination of pomegranate symbolism was just on the horizon.
The new dawn came in the reign of Elizabeth I, Henry’s daughter, during an era of world exploration. As new trade routes opened up with previously unexplored territories, shipments of exotic plants and valuable goods came to England. For the first time it seemed tantalisingly possible to improve the quality of life for all. The pomegranate’s association with extravagance at court was over. Its symbolism would gain a new lease of life in the Puritan kitchen and herb gardens.
Puritanism was a socio-religious movement that sought to cleanse society and its institutions of the “corrupting influence of church and state”. A key feature was an egalitarian vision for a protestant utopia in the image of the Garden of Eden. Mass-produced pamphlets advised lining the streets with varieties of fruit and nut trees to alleviate food poverty. It followed that imported plant species from across the Atlantic Ocean became a big commercial enterprise. However, although they tried hard, the Puritans ultimately failed to cultivate the pomegranate along with other valued fruit trees. Religious thinking dominated all earthly pursuits: such failures were always taken as a sign of God’s abandonment.
Was it not because of the pomegranate that we are fated to endure winter? In the Greek myth which my mother tried to recall, Hades kidnapped Persephone and took her to his underworld kingdom.
By eating pomegranate seeds she was bound to him for eternity. Persephone’s mother, the corn goddess Demeter was distraught at the loss of her daughter. While she was unhappy, no crops or flowers grew and the soil was infertile. King of the gods, Zeus, decided something had to be done and worked out a compromise: Persephone would live with Hades for half the year and the other half with Demeter. And so Persephone’s return from the underworld each year is marked by the arrival of spring and regeneration.
Had England succeeded in recreating Eden with the pomegranate at its heart, the country might have achieved a level of agricultural self-sufficiency that would have changed the course of history. It would be another two centuries of increasing globalisation before trade caught up and enabled an abundance of fresh fruit and vegetables — including the pomegranate — all year round.
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Our CHD Heart Warrior Inspires Us to See the World Differently
Written by Lauren, Everly’s mom
Everly, who has a congenital heart defect (CHD), had three open-heart surgeries, two cardiac catheterizations, and one infection washout surgery before her first birthday. She will have many more surgeries in her lifetime, but right now, she's a happy, active two-year-old. She is growing and thriving!
Everly has a complicated diagnosis. She has an interrupted aortic arch, aortic stenosis, sub-aortic stenosis, hypoplastic bicuspid aortic valve, and a large posterior maligned VSD (ventricular septal defect).
Everly, and brother Jack, in the hospital
Have you ever heard the term "kintsurkuroi"? It's a Japanese word meaning to repair with gold. The Japanese mend broken pottery by using a gold liquid to put it back together. They believe the pottery is stronger and more beautiful because of its flaws. I like to think this is similar to the work Dr. Elzein and Dr. Ilbawi did on Everly's heart at Advocate Children's Hospital. She was born with a "flawed" heart; however, they have used "gold" to help make her stronger.
Despite the challenges, Everly lives her best life. She inspires us to see the world through a different lens. We focus on "getting to" versus "having to." We find joy in everyday moments. We are lucky. 25 percent of babies like Everly don't see their first birthday. 30 percent don't see their 18th birthday. Even less see their 30th birthday. We've seen far too many families say goodbye to their children as they get their angel's wings.
Everly is a fighter. She's feisty and spunky but has her sweet moments, too. Her big brother, Jack, calls her a sour patch kid -sweet mostly, but once in a while sour! Her dad calls her a busy bee -she flutters about but watch out for that stinger! Everly is FULL of personality - she has more personality than Matt, Jack, and I combined!
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Books + Comics // NOVEMBER 25, 2015
Master and Apprentice Strike in Obi-Wan & Anakin #1 – Exclusive Preview
The legendary duo in a previously untold adventure!
Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker went from best friends to bitter enemies — but there’s much we haven’t seen of their happier times. That’s about to change.
Marvel’s Obi-Wan & Anakin, a five-issue miniseries from Marvel by writer Charles Soule and artist Marco Checchetto, is coming January 2016. The series is set between The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones and finally pulls back the curtain on a previously unexplored era, when they were just Master and apprentice. In an in-depth interview with StarWars.com, Soule discussed his approach to the series and its iconic characters — and now you can get a first look at interior art below from issue #1 below.
Stay tuned to StarWars.com and Marvel.com for more on Obi-Wan & Anakin!
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Tube Power Amp Reviews
McIntosh MC 275 Commemorative power amplifier Page 2
At the time—I'm talking 1993—the boys from Binghamton told me that this amplifier was for old time's sake—a one-off, Corderman's tribute to the late Gow. McIntosh Lab's real business, I was told, was solid-state. The Commemorative was meant to recall the original, not necessarily improve on it.
But a funny thing happened on the way to the bank. The MC 275 sold out fast. When the limited edition was over—identified by the plaque—a non-limited edition followed. McIntosh began to take tubes seriously. Again.
The MC 2000 and MC 2102 followed, and the MC 275 was once again consigned to the broom closet. But, like Count Dracula, it refused to stay dead. Customers—especially in Asia—wanted it.
Was the MC 275 Commemorative a real MC 275? It was made in the same factory with the same tooling and it used the same circuit, etc. Point-to-point wiring was replaced by three circuit boards. The transformers were, more or less, the same as those used in the original MC 275. à la carte, the original MC 275 was last seen selling for $4000 plus $500 for the tubes. The new MC 275 sells for $3500, prix fixe.
Unlike the revived MC 275, the new MC 2000 and MC 2102 were totally new amplifiers with current McIntosh styling: backlit faceplates and blue meters. They were more powerful than the MC 275, using four KT88 output tubes per channel rather than two (6550s could be substituted). And they incorporated new things that McIntosh had learned over the years from making solid-state amps.
Still, there was this link to the past. All these tube amplifiers employed the McIntosh "unity-coupled circuit," which was covered by no fewer than "six US government issued patents," according to McIntosh back in the 1960s. The patents expired long ago, but McIntosh continues to have a lock on the circuit—because, in order to implement it, you must wind your output transformers in a certain way. McIntosh has that capability.
Tubes deliver power from a high output impedance. To lower that impedance—so that tubes can drive loudspeakers—you need an output transformer for each channel. (Yes, I know there are output-transformerless (OTL) amps, but they're a special case.) Such transformers are heavy and costly, giving tube amplifiers a price disadvantage vs solid-state. Moreover, the wiring of output transformers is something of an art that is shrouded in mystery. Watch an output transformer being wound and you'll know what I mean.
In order to implement Frank McIntosh's circuit, you have to wind the transformers the way they do in Binghamton. Not the usual two, but three transformer windings are needed: two primaries (one for the plates, another for the cathodes) and a secondary. The two primaries are spun bifilar—the two strands are wound together tightly for a close, turn-by-turn coupling. This is where the "unity-coupled output circuit" gets its name. The cathode winding provides near-instantaneous local feedback. This feedback is said to reduce distortion, especially at the frequency extremes—ie, top and bottom—leading to tight bass and open treble.
Heh-heh. "Feedback correctly applied," stated Larry Fish, McIntosh's vice president (retired) of product development.
Most tube amps draw power only from the plates of the output tubes. Frank McIntosh had a different idea. In the McIntosh circuit, half the power is taken from the plates and half from the cathodes, so that power is drawn from both sides of each output tube. More bang for the buck, as it were. Frank McIntosh was of Scottish ancestry, after all. Thrift!
Maybe more reliability, too. Mac tube amps have always been notoriously reliable. McIntosh makes no claim to this effect, but I've discussed the matter with Mac people from time to time. The McIntosh circuit, in its symmetry, may be easier on output tubes than conventional circuits.
The main advantage, according to McIntosh, is that you get high power with low distortion.
Meanwhile, now that they were taking tubes seriously again, Sidney Corderman and McIntosh continued to learn new things about them. Tube chimneys—little cups around the sockets of the output tubes designed to cool the tubes naturally by convection—are a Corderman innovation. These were introduced in the MC 2000 and MC 2102, and the latest MC 275 has them as well. I can't understand why other manufacturers haven't adopted this. [The idea is catching on. Hovland's Sapphire, reviewed by Michael Fremer in March 2002, had chimneys around its output tubes, as does the T+A V10 reviewed by Mikey in May 2004.—Ed.]
There were other changes for the new MC 275. Three circuit boards have been reduced to a single board on which all components, tube sockets, and power-supply parts are mounted.
Ron Cornelius: "Some people feel that the best design is a traditional point-to-point wiring, as we used in the original MC 275. But a properly designed single board yields a superior signal/noise ratio and eliminates a lot of wires which act as little antennas.
"The new design uses ceramic tube sockets with gold-plated pins. The new MC 275 also uses DC 12V for the input tube heaters, which improves signal/noise ratio. The original MC 175 was rated at 90dB S/N ratio. Modern custom poly-caps allow greater than 100dB S/N ratio."
The new MC 275 features a removable power cord. There is now an On/Off power switch, even if it's awkwardly located (nothing Mac could have done about that). Speaker connections are by a power strip, with taps for 4, 8, or 16 ohms. You may have to re-terminate your speaker cables accordingly.
The trannies have been beefed up—both the single power transformer and the two outputs. They're much bigger than before—so big, according to Ron, that they can scarcely fit inside the transformer cans. Yet the look of the original MC 275 has been preserved. The chassis is of easily maintained stainless steel. All tube sockets are now ceramic. When you use the balanced inputs, as I did for most of my listening, the gain-level controls don't operate.
Gosh, Sam, enough with this dancing around. How did it sound?
Mind-boggling. Stunning.
I ran the McIntosh MDA 1000 D/A converter straight into the MC 275, using the converter's gain control. Speakers were the Opera Callas and Quad ESL-988.
I heard all the dynamic quality, all that aliveness of the original—and the original revival—plus a level of transparency that brings the MC 275 definitively into the 21st century. I heard timbral accuracy. Delicacy. Definition. The amp performed as McIntosh claimed it does: It got out of the way. And it let me hear what the MDA 1000 was capable of. A brand-new 21st-century DAC into an amp that goes back more than 50 years, if you count from the development of the McIntosh circuit.
The MC 2000 was a limited edition, a onetime event to celebrate McIntosh's 50th anniversary. The MC 2102 continues in production, with more power than the latest MC 275; and, as I said, it matches the current styling of other McIntosh products. I'm not sure which is the better-sounding amp, the MC 2102 or this latest MC 275. I've gone back and forth. The MC 2102 is more powerful, and sounds it, too. It produces the sound of a big tube amp—dynamic, dimensional, holographic.
Yet this new version of the MC 275 just does something. To my ears, it rivals the sound of single-ended triodes. It's intimate, insightful, and alive. It has a SET-like touch with transients—so clearly and cleanly articulated, with no smearing at all.
What's more, for a tube amp, the top and bottom registers are handled particularly well. The treble doesn't seem rolled-off. The bass is firm and authoritative—punchy, if you will. But, yes, the MC 275 can run out of steam during difficult, dynamic passages compared to the MC 2102.
Ron Cornelius tells me that the MC 275's rating is still 75Wpc, although this latest version is said to kick out closer to 100Wpc. The output tubes are Russian, from Seratov or St. Petersburg, and checked out in Binghamton. You can substitute 6550 output tubes for KT88s, but you can't mix and match.
Maybe you won't want to buy a "new" McIntosh MC 275. Nonetheless, do take a look and give a listen. For the price, it's at least as good as anything else I've heard, and the nostalgia is thrown in as a bonus. It's McIntosh's lowest-priced (and lowest-powered) stereo amp. It's up there with their very best current products, both tubed and solid-state. And if you need more power, you can bridge two of them into mono by flipping a switch.
In other words, the MC 275 ain't no antique.
I snagged serial number 2.
McIntosh Laboratory
2 Chambers Street
Binghamton, NY 13903-2699
www.mcintoshlabs.com
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Newsline 3 August 2018
Each morning at around 7:45am the national broadcaster's flagship radio show engages in three minutes of blatant discrimination and religious privilege. BBC Radio 4's Today programme has been broadcasting Thought for the Day, an exclusively religious take on moral issues, since 1970. We've long campaigned for it to be reformed or scrapped.
Now a new poll has shown that just 18% of the public backs Thought for the Day in its current format. In response we've written to the BBC to call for change, and supporters including the philosopher AC Grayling are behind us. Based on the poll findings we've suggested turning it into an ethical current affairs slot.
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Public backs reform of Thought for the Day, poll finds
Fewer than one in five British people think BBC Radio 4's Thought for the Day should always feature religious content, a... Read More »
EHRC rebukes government over failure to act on caste discrimination
The Equality and Human Rights Commission has criticised the government's failure to legislate on caste discrimination.
NSS welcomes Ofsted head’s opposition to faith-based exemptions
The National Secular Society has welcomed the chief inspector of schools in England's expression of opposition to faith-based... Read More »
Anglicanism's 'purple circle' of bishops cannot be trusted over child abuse
NSS president Keith Porteous Wood reflects on the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse's hearings into the case of... Read More »
Universities must commit to free expression – and they should stop hiring religious chaplains
A chaplain should not have been sacked for criticising Pride off campus, says Chris Sloggett. But universities can strike... Read More »
Washington Metro can reject issue-related ads, US court rules
Washington, DC's Metro system can refuse to carry religious adverts on buses and trains, an appeal court in the US has ruled.
NSS writes elsewhere
Do Burqa Bans Do More Harm Than Good?
By Stephen Evans, NSS chief executive, for the Huffington Post
We need a strong civil society response to the oppression the burqa represents – but banning clothing is the wrong way to push back against it.
A high court judge has decided that a couple's Islamic marriage falls within the scope of English matrimonial law.
Ampleforth College, one of the country's top Catholic schools, faces possible closure if it does not improve standards including the safeguarding of pupils and the rigour of its checks on staff.
The Supreme Court has ruled that judges will no longer need to be consulted when doctors and relatives of patients in a vegetative state agree life-support treatment should end. A Christian charity has criticised the ruling. Meanwhile the Board of Deputies of British Jews has said it "will look at the judges' ruling in detail to understand its full implications".
Staff and parents will seek a judicial review of a decision to close down a Church of England school in Surrey after the local diocese refused to take it on. Earlier this year the NSS criticised the church's diocese of Guildford for refusing to allow Ripley C of E Primary School to join a secular multi-academy trust.
One of America's most prominent Catholic cardinals has resigned after an allegation was made that he sexually abused a teenage boy almost 50 years ago.
A US-based brewery has withdrawn a beer label carrying an image of the Hindu deity Ganesha from its website after complaints from a Hindu leader. We reported the fact the same leader had complained to an Italian brewery over an image of Ganesha last week.
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Prince Charles's words to the abusive bishop Peter Ball in 1997, referring to one of Ball's accusers, in a letter revealed by the IICSA inquiry
"Hatred has been given a mainstream legitimacy."
Nazia Erum, author, reflects on the situation for Muslims as Hindu nationalism grows in strength in India
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We have turned a blind eye to extremism against the British Ahmadi Muslim community
By Fiyaz Mughal, for the New Statesman
A web of extremism percolates outwards from Pakistan into communities in the UK.
It's perfectly safe – so why can't women take abortion pills at home?
By Claudia Craig, for the Guardian
Changes to the law have allowed women in Wales and Scotland to take the abortion pill at home. England should follow suit.
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This ultra-conservative institute has infiltrated the Polish state, on a relentless quest to ban abortion
By Lidia Kurasinska, for openDemocracy
Ordo luris is an extreme anti-choice group whose founders were 'inspired' by a Catholic fundamentalist network. How has it gained so much political power?
US attorney general Jeff Sessions announces a 'religious liberty' task force to combat “dangerous” secularism
By Tara Isabella Burton, for Vox
The US Justice Department's latest move is another nod to Christian nationalism by the Trump administration.
Our annual Bradlaugh Lecture on Hindu nationalism in Manchester, a talk on our former president Chapman Cohen in Leicester and London and a healthcare conference in Birmingham.
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T. Glauser
S. Berkovic
I. Scheffer
E. Perucca
S. Shinnar
Revised terminology and concepts for organization of seizures and epilepsies: Report of the ILAE Commission on Classification and Terminology, 2005–2009
A. Berg, S. Berkovic, +11 authors I. Scheffer
The International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) Commission on Classification and Terminology has revised concepts, terminology, and approaches for classifying seizures and forms of epilepsy.… Expand
Guidelines for the Evaluation and Management of Status Epilepticus
G. Brophy, Rodney Bell, +10 authors Neurocritical Care Society Status Epilepticus Guideline Writing Committee
Status epilepticus (SE) treatment strategies vary substantially from one institution to another due to the lack of data to support one treatment over another. To provide guidance for the acute… Expand
ILAE Treatment Guidelines: Evidence‐based Analysis of Antiepileptic Drug Efficacy and Effectiveness as Initial Monotherapy for Epileptic Seizures and Syndromes
T. Glauser, E. Ben-Menachem, +7 authors T. Tomson
Summary: Purpose: To assess which antiepileptic medications (AEDs) have the best evidence for long‐term efficacy or effectiveness as initial monotherapy for patients with newly diagnosed or… Expand
Antiepileptic drugs—best practice guidelines for therapeutic drug monitoring: A position paper by the subcommission on therapeutic drug monitoring, ILAE Commission on Therapeutic Strategies
P. Patsalos, D. Berry, +6 authors E. Perucca
Although no randomized studies have demonstrated a positive impact of therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) on clinical outcome in epilepsy, evidence from nonrandomized studies and everyday clinical… Expand
Rufinamide for generalized seizures associated with Lennox–Gastaut syndrome
T. Glauser, G. Kluger, R. Sachdeo, G. Krauss, C. Perdomo, S. Arroyo
Background: Lennox–Gastaut syndrome is a catastrophic pediatric epilepsy syndrome characterized by multiple types of treatment-resistant seizures and high rates of seizure-related injury. Current… Expand
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Updated ILAE evidence review of antiepileptic drug efficacy and effectiveness as initial monotherapy for epileptic seizures and syndromes
The purpose of this report was to update the 2006 International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) report and identify the level of evidence for long‐term efficacy or effectiveness for antiepileptic… Expand
Ethosuximide, valproic acid, and lamotrigine in childhood absence epilepsy.
T. Glauser, A. Cnaan, +6 authors P. Adamson
BACKGROUND Childhood absence epilepsy, the most common pediatric epilepsy syndrome, is usually treated with ethosuximide, valproic acid, or lamotrigine. The most efficacious and tolerable initial… Expand
Evidence-Based Guideline: Treatment of Convulsive Status Epilepticus in Children and Adults: Report of the Guideline Committee of the American Epilepsy Society
T. Glauser, S. Shinnar, +13 authors D. M. Treiman
Epilepsy currents
CONTEXT: The optimal pharmacologic treatment for early convulsive status epilepticus is unclear. OBJECTIVE: To analyze efficacy, tolerability and safety data for anticonvulsant treatment of children… Expand
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Brain magnetic resonance imaging abnormalities after the Norwood procedure using regional cerebral perfusion.
C. Dent, J. Spaeth, +6 authors C. D. Kurth
The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular…
OBJECTIVES Neurologic deficits are common after the Norwood procedure for hypoplastic left heart syndrome. Because of the association of deep hypothermic circulatory arrest with adverse neurologic… Expand
Double-blind placebo-controlled trial of adjunctive levetiracetam in pediatric partial seizures
T. Glauser, R. Ayala, +4 authors Z. Lu
Objective: To evaluate the efficacy and tolerability of levetiracetam (LEV) as adjunctive therapy in children (4 to 16 years) with treatment-resistant partial-onset seizures. Methods: This… Expand
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comScore Announces Video Rankings for November
Digital measurement company comScore has just released online video numbers for November, 2010, showing what's getting watched. In the U.S., 172 million viewers watched 5.2 billion videos that month alone. That averages to 884.6 minutes of viewing per person, or nearly 15 hours.
It's no surprise that Google, parent company to YouTube, was again ranked first. With its commanding lead, it will likely be the top video destination for many years to come. On Google sites, 145 million viewers saw just shy of 2.0 billion videos.
Google was followed by Yahoo sites, where 62 million viewers watched 241 million videos. Completing the top ten are Vevo, AOL, Viacom, Facebook, Microsoft sites, Fox Interactive Media, NBC Universal, and Turner Digital.
comScore also found that American viewed more than 5.4 billion online video ads that month. This time Hulu took the top spot, serving more 1.1 billion ads. That means its viewers averaged 42.4 videos per person, and they comprised 9.0 percent of the population.
The next highest, after a steep drop-off, was Tremor Media Video Network. It served 477 million ads and its viewers averaged 7.1 ads per person. Rounding out the advertising top ten were ADAP.TV, Microsoft sites, BrightRoll Video Network, NABBR.com, CBS Interactive, Google sites, AOL.com, and CWTV.com. Curiously, CWTV's viewer's saw the highest number of ads per person: 68.5.
The top video ad networks in terms of overall reach were ScanScout Network, BrightRoll Video Network, and Break Media, says comScore. Overall, 84.2 percent of the U.S. population watched some online video that month.
comScore Releases Video Rankings for January
YouTube clips and music videos pull in viewers, but premium content sells ads.
comScore Releases 2010 Digital Year in Review
Report looks at key trends in online video, online advertising, mobile, e-commerce, and more.
CES: Yahoo! Connected TV to Provide "Broadcast Interactivity"
Connected televisions, which can stream online content with no set-top box required, were one of the hot areas at this year's CES. In this video, a Yahoo! VP explains his company's new interactive features.
Video Ad Viewing Up 25% Since June, Says comScore
Online video ads now account for 15% of all ads viewed on the web, up from 12% earlier this year, according to the metrics firm
Hulu Shelves IPO
Instead, the video site looks to other ways to raise revenue, including new subscription plans.
Vevo Brings Music Videos to the iPhone with Free App
Besides showing videos to mobile users, the app offers sharing and geo-location features.
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Unite the Right
Identity Dixie Leaders Helped Plan Deadly Rally
Hatewatch Staff
Behind the shield of anonymity, members of a neo-Confederate hate group appeared to have emerged without consequences for their participation in a deadly Virginia rally. But that shield has vanished.
Virginia Judge Hands Down Life Sentence, Plus 419 Years, in Case of James Alex Fields Jr., Calls Attack An Act of 'Terror'
Brett Barrouquere
Judge Richard Moore imposed a sentence of 419 years plus life on James Alex Fields Jr., convicted of murder after the racist “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017.
After Judge’s Ruling, Charlottesville May Be Stuck With Statues of Confederate Generals Lee, Jackson
A judge has ruled that a civil rights-era law forbidding the removal of “war memorials” applies to Confederate statues that became flashpoints during a deadly Virginia gathering of white nationalists and neo-Nazis.
Two Members of Rise Above Movement Plead Guilty in Charlottesville 'Unite the Right' Rioting Case
The leader of the antisemitic and racist Rise Above Movement and a fellow member of the group pleaded guilty Friday to a federal charge of conspiracy to riot.
White Supremacist Chris Cantwell Takes Hiatus to Avoid 'Another Crying Nazi Moment'
Christopher Cantwell, a prolific white supremacist radio host, put his broadcasting work on hiatus, citing “serious personal problems” as the reason behind his decision in a post on his website.
James Alex Fields Jr., Who Killed Heather Heyer at 'Unite the Right,' Pleads Guilty to Federal Charges
The white supremacist sympathizer who plowed a car into a crowd and killed a woman after a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, pleaded guilty Wednesday afternoon to 29 federal hate crimes.
'White Helmet' Attacker in Deandre Harris Beating Identified as Alek Rhyne Hyer of Gainesville, Florida
Brett Barrouquere and Hatewatch Staff
The identity of a man wearing a white helmet seen in video of the beating of Deandre Harris after the racist “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, has been a mystery for nearly 18 months.
League of the South Member Tyler Davis Takes Plea for Beating Man After 'Unite the Right'
A member of the neo-Confederate group League of the South has taken a plea for his role in the beating of DeAndre Harris in the hours after the racist “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
This Lawsuit Hopes To Stop Identity Evropa's Founder From Hiding Behind Bankruptcy
A group of Charlottesville, Virginia, residents is asking a federal judge to block white nationalist and founder of Identity Evropa Nathan Damigo from protecting his assets by filing for bankruptcy.
Nathan Damigo, founder of white nationalist group Identity Evropa, files for bankruptcy protection
The founder of the white nationalist group Identity Evropa is seeking federal bankruptcy protection in what appears to be a pre-emptive move stemming from a lawsuit over “Unite the Right.”
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Born: September 23, 1988 (age 32)
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US Open preview: Draw, seeds, who is missing?
After a seven-and-a-half-month wait for the second Major of the year, Sports Mole takes a look at the upcoming US Open at Flushing Meadows.
Juan Martin Del Potro suffers career-threatening knee injury
The world number 12 was injured during his win over Dennis Shapovalov at Queen's Club.
Queen's Club reserves wild card for Andy Murray
The Scot continues to recover from hip surgery.
Result: Rafael Nadal reaches Wimbledon semi-finals with epic win over Juan Martin del Potro
Rafael Nadal reaches the Wimbledon semi-finals for the first time since 2011 thanks to an epic five-set victory over Juan Martin del Potro on Centre Court.
Result: Novak Djokovic overcomes Kei Nishikori in four sets to reach Wimbledon semis
Twelfth seed Novak Djokovic is into his first Wimbledon semi-final since 2015 thanks to a 6-3 3-6 6-2 6-2 victory over Kei Nishikori.
Result: Rafael Nadal cruises into Wimbledon quarter-finals
Two-time Wimbledon champion Rafael Nadal cruises into the quarter-finals at SW19 courtesy of a straight-sets victory over Jiri Vesely.
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Andy Murray given tough Wimbledon draw
Two-time champion Andy Murray is drawn to play Benoit Paire in the first round at Wimbledon.
Result: Rafael Nadal breezes into French Open final
Ten-time winner Rafael Nadal breezes into the French Open final with a comfortable victory over Juan Martin del Potro.
Result: Dominic Thiem sees off Marco Cecchinato to reach first French Open final
Dominic Thiem is through to the French Open final for the first time courtesy of a straight-sets win over Marco Cecchinato.
Result: Juan Martin del Potro books semi-final spot at French Open
Juan Martin del Potro sets up a semi-final showdown with Rafael Nadal at the French Open courtesy of a four-set victory over Marin Cilic.
Result: Rafael Nadal survives scare to reach semi-finals at French Open
Defending champion Rafael Nadal battles back from behind to beat Diego Schwartzman in four sets and reach the semi-finals of the French Open.
Rain delays Rafael Nadal's French Open quarter-final
Rain postpones the French Open quarter-final between Rafael Nadal and Diego Schwartzman with the Spaniard trailing 6-3 3-5.
Roger Federer to skip clay court season following Thanasi Kokkinakis loss
Roger Federer will skip the upcoming European clay court season, including the French Open, following his defeat to Thanasi Kokkonakis at the Miami Open.
Juan Martin del Potro: 'I couldn't imagine Indian Wells win'
Juan Martin del Potro says that he once found it difficult to imagine winning a Masters Series event after undergoing three wrist surgeries earlier in his career.
Result: Roger Federer overcomes Juan Martin Del Potro in Swiss Indoors final
Roger Federer clinches the eighth Swiss Indoors crown of his career - and his seventh title of 2017 - by beating Juan Martin del Potro over three sets in Basel.
Rafael Nadal to face Roger Federer in Shanghai Masters final
Roger Federer beats Juan Martin del Potro in three sets to book a place in the Shanghai Masters final, where he is to face Rafael Nadal for a fourth time this season.
Result: Roger Federer seals place in Shanghai Masters semi-finals
Roger Federer is through to the semi-finals of the Shanghai Masters after a hard-fought victory over Richard Gasquet.
Result: Rafael Nadal to face Kevin Anderson in US Open final
Rafael Nadal and Kevin Anderson will contest the US Open final after they claimed four-set victories on Friday.
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Result: Juan Martin del Potro stuns Roger Federer in US Open quarter-finals
Roger Federer misses out on a place in the US Open semi-finals after losing out in four sets to Juan Martin del Potro.
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Roger Federer insists that his quarter-final showdown with Juan Martin del Potro will not be a replica of their 2009 final at Flushing Meadows.
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World number one Andy Murray says that Juan Martin del Potro provided stiff opposition at the French Open.
Result: Andy Murray beats Juan Martin del Potro at French Open
World number one Andy Murray records a straight-sets win over Juan Martin del Potro to reach the fourth round of the French Open.
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Andy Murray and Kyle Edmund both progress through to the last 32 of the French Open with wins over Martin Klizan and Renzo Olivo respectively.
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World number two Novak Djokovic cruises into the final of the Italian Open with a straightforward 6-1 6-0 victory over Dominic Thiem.
Result: Novak Djokovic eases through to last four at Italian Open
Second seed Novak Djokovic overcomes Juan Martin del Potro in a rain-affected match in Rome to make it through to his eighth Italian Open semi-final.
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Dominic Thiem beats Rafael Nadal in the quarter-finals of the Italian Open to end the Spanish fourth seed's recent dominance on clay court.
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World number two Novak Djokovic beats Roberto Bautista Agut 6-4 6-4 in the last 16 of the Italian Open.
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British number two Kyle Edmund bows out of the Italian Open at the second-round stage after losing to Juan Martin del Potro.
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Novak Djokovic overcomes Juan Martin del Potro in three sets to reach the last-16 stage at Indian Wells.
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World number one Andy Murray avoids the majority of the sport's big names in the draw for the Indian Wells Masters.
Mar 8, 16:11
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British number three Kyle Edmund bows out of the Delray Beach Open at the quarter-final stage after losing in three sets to top seed Milos Raonic.
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Novak Djokovic sends out a message to his Australian Open rivals, claiming that he is feeling at the top of his game as he goes in search of a third title in a row.
ATP Rankings Points
1 Roger Federer 8,920
2 Rafael Nadal 8,770
3 Alexander Zverev 5,965
4 Juan Martin del Potro 5,080
5 Grigor Dimitrov 4,870
6 Marin Cilic 4,860
7 Dominic Thiem 3,835
8 Kevin Anderson 3,635
9 David Goffin 3,110
10 John Isner 3,070
11 Diego Schwartzman 2,435
12 Pablo Carreno Busta 2,145
13 Sam Querrey 2,130
14 Jack Sock 2,110
15 Fabio Fognini 2,030
16 Roberto Bautista Agut 2,030
17 Kyle Edmund 1,950
18 Lucas Pouille 1,870
19 Tomas Berdych 1,715
20 Hyeon Chung 1,685
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Zero-trust networks in Kubernetes, cloud-native applications
The complexity of corporate networks and the distributed applications in them have evolved, and the threat models and the methods leveraged to deepen infiltration have followed suit. Secure perimeters can only serve as a first-line defense to protect internal networks, not a comprehensive strategy for the protection of infrastructure and data. Robust security requires a combination of controls and strategies.
Zero-trust networking can serve as an important piece of the security puzzle by focusing on increasing the safety of internal application traffic. This model overturns the long-held tenet that all traffic inside a firewalled network is authentic with the opposite assumption: no network connections should be considered safe until they prove otherwise.
Traditionally, network administrators worked under the assumption that every entity, whether application, server, or piece of networking software or hardware, found in their internal networks belonged there and could be trusted. Some applications did not require authentication of client connections or relied on static, shared credentials, e.g. a password for a database. All applications had to handle any authentication or authorization schemes they needed, if they used any at all. Often, internal network connections, even those for sensitive services, did not use any encryption.
More than a few corporate networks still follow this pattern. However, a single bad actor that can be placed inside this lax environment, whether through a direct hack, a trojan horse applied accidentally by an authorized individual, or simply a hole in a network firewall, can wreak havoc by taking full advantage of this implicit network of trust. The possibilities may not be endless, but they are predictable. From sniffing of plaintext network packets to discovering application passwords to databases or other critical systems all the way to gaining control of network equipment, this scenario opens the door to unacceptable risks, including data exfiltration or loss.
Zero-trust forms the basis of a growing number of security-first production infrastructures. Instead of assuming every entity on a network can be trusted without verification, it assumes nothing can, not even the network infrastructure itself. The zero-trust framework does not offer a prescriptive implementation or specific set of technologies to use. Rather, it describes a set of principles and goals, leaving the specific technical details of implementation to each organization.
Zero-trust architectures
Zero-trust architectures generally follow these principles:
Security controls should apply equally to all entities, whether software or hardware, regardless of their network location.
Network connections should be authenticated at both ends, by the server and the client. Client authentication by the server is generally expected now, but clients should also verify that they have connected to a valid server. Connections should be reauthenticated and requests should be reauthorized as needed when they span more than a single transaction.
Authorization grants should follow the principle of least privilege, allowing only the bare minimum permissions required for a client’s workload.
All network connections and transactions should be subject to continuous monitoring for analysis.
Implementing Zero-trust model in Kubernetes
What would a zero-trust model look like in a Kubernetes cluster? While no single methodology for implementing zero-trust principles within a Kubernetes cluster exists, service meshes have emerged as a popular solution for many of the architecture’s goals.
Service meshes create a virtualized network layer to connect and control distributed application services. While most service mesh solutions initially did not focus on network security, but rather on facilitating and managing intelligent service discovery and request routing, the most popular open-source projects now offer features that fit in a zero-trust architecture. As many service meshes attempt to create an overlay that does not require modification of individual applications, they eliminate much of the burden of making significant changes to enable strict authentication and authorization controls.
Service meshes that support Kubernetes typically use decentralized, point-to-point routing by giving each individual cluster pod its own proxy instance. These proxies can manage client TLS certificates, which the proxy can use to prove its identity when making connections to other services or receiving connections from other clients. This use of TLS certificates to provide proof of identity on both the client and server sides is called mutual Transport Layer Security (mTLS). mTLS, besides performing connection authentication, also serves to encrypt the network connection. In addition to authentication and encryption over the wire, different service meshes support different authorization sources, ranging from static lists to integrations with third-party single sign-on or other services.
Service meshes do not provide a complete zero-trust solution for Kubernetes clusters, but they do offer a number of its core benefits. Even if you cannot achieve a perfect zero-trust architecture in your Kubernetes clusters, any incremental changes you make in that direction will help to protect your cluster and its workloads.
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Medical Malpractice Insurance for Physicians:...
Medical Malpractice Insurance for Physicians: Types, Costs & Considerations
By Editor Jan 12, 2016
Sometimes the least intriguing aspects of working in the healthcare field can be the most important.
Despite the fact that we all know the importance of medical malpractice insurance, many physicians and healthcare facility administrators consider coverage only to the extent of cost and damage payment caps. This short-sighted view (or incomplete understanding) of malpractice insurance policy options has the potential to destroy entire practices; as does inadequate management of a malpractice policy.
In its most basic terms, medical malpractice insurance simply implies the transfer of a provider's professional liability to a third party, generally an insurance company, through a contract. Like any insurance policy, it's a way to set up safeguards against the risk of damages — in this instance safeguarding a physician and/or a practice.
It's important to understand that signing a malpractice coverage agreement does not guarantee the security of a physician or practice. In the past, practices purchasing malpractice coverage on a claims-made basis with a pre-paid "tail" nonetheless failed because the carrier suffered financial difficulties and folded. Why? The carrier was a surplus lines carrier, rather than an admitted carrier, which prevents state guaranty funds from relieving a portion of any settlement. So, if a physician at this practice faces a claim for treatment provided while under contract with the troubled carrier, lawyers will seek damages from the entity with the deepest pockets — most likely the practice, rather than the physician.
Types of Malpractice Insurance
There are many different types of medical malpractice insurance providers — stock, mutual, reciprocal, risk retention group, risk purchasing group, surplus lines, self-insurance programs, and so on. But there are only a few types of malpractice coverage. By far, the most common types are:
Occurrence. This type of malpractice insurance provides coverage for any incident that occurs during the policy's term, regardless of when a claim is made. Occurrence policies are "long-tail" policies, which ensure coverage for the life of the patient and the physician. In other words, the policy's coverage remains in force even if the provider changes jobs or the company shuts down.
Claims Made. This insurance policy type provides coverage for claims that both occur and are reported to the insurer while the policy is in force. Thus, incidents that occur occurring during a policy period but which are reported after its expiration or discontinuation can expose a provider and facility to potentially significant damages, unless someone has also purchased "tail" coverage. Claims-made policies must be renewed annually; when the contract period ends, coverage can be continued by purchasing "tail" coverage.
These types of malpractice policies differ, as well, in their distribution of aggregate amounts set aside for claims settlements. For instance, on a claims-made form, the aggregate amount covers the term of the policy. But with occurrence policies, the full aggregate amount is made available each year, and the aggregate is not diminished over time.
Malpractice Insurance: Costs and Components
Claims-made policies also tend to cost less than occurrence policies, and therefore remain quite popular. Factors that affect how much a policy costs include:
Physician or provider specialty (costs vary based upon exposure to risk)
Type of coverage, occurrence or claims made
Limits of liability (aggregate amounts, deductibles and managed care requirements)
Location of practice (costs vary widely by state, county and city)
Loss history.
A medical malpractice insurance contract usually breaks down into a few basic components: Declarations include the policy number, name of the insured parties, coverage dates, liability limits, specialty classification, deductibles and the premium. The insuring clause states the intent of the coverage. Conditions specify the responsibilities of each party, the company and the insured, and list exclusions that can delete or reduce coverage.
In broad terms, the coverage provider promises to defend and indemnify on behalf of the insured, while the physician, practice or practitioner commits to report any claims, to cooperate with the company in the event of claims investigations and settlements, and to provide consent for a settlement. Common exclusions to malpractice contracts include incidents and issues unrelated to clinical care (such as general liability like auto and fire; contractual liability; criminal or sexual acts; and claims arising from services rendered outside covered dates and locations).
A malpractice coverage contract may also include endorsements placed at the request of the insured (or mandatory by company policy or state regulation). Coverage may further be restricted or broadened through riders, changes in terminology, and by the naming of additional providers to the coverage agreement.
When evaluating malpractice coverage, one must also be aware of "consent-to-settle" clauses. Each insurance company classifies itself as either a "consent-to-settle" company or a "pay-on-behalf" company. Consent-to-settle companies refuse to settle a case without the approval of physicians named in the lawsuit. Pay-on-behalf companies, however, do not require a physician's consent for the settlement of a claim, nor are they required to notify physicians in the case of a lawsuit. Some physicians and practitioners have applied for positions or licensure only to discover that they have several marks against them, of which they hadn't been made aware. More than merely a nasty surprise, such unexpected inaccuracies on an application cause significant delays in licensure proceedings — among other problems.
For new physicians and seasoned practitioners alike, understanding medical malpractice insurance is critical to success. And that holds even more true for locum tenens professionals. Join us on Thursday for a look at locum tenens-specific considerations for malpractice insurance.
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Adapted from an article originally published on NewPhysician.com.
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United States v Beltecno Inc & Subs (2009)
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United States v. Beltecno Inc. & Subs. (“Beltecno”), 104 AFTR 2d 2009-5929 (WD WA 2009)
Cabinet manufacturer Beltecno filed amended tax returns in 2005 and 2006, and claimed $12,117 in R&D tax credit for 2001, and $124,772 for 2002. Both were paid by the IRS, without it performing any investigations. The IRS also refunded Beltecno another $37,231, as it determined the company has miscalculated its uniform capitalization reserves for 2001, and was therefore owed this extra amount.
However, in 2007, the IRS audited the company, and found that the tax refunds issued to Beltecno were in error. So, it demanded a return of funds (totaling $174,120, plus interest). The reasoning was that Beltecno did not record its research expenses, and therefore there was no correlation between its projects and QREs.
The IRS sent Beltecno an explanation (Form 866-A) and requested the funds, but the company didn’t pay. In 2009, the IRS therefore took the company to court over this $174,120.
It’s allowed two years after making an erroneous refund to bring suit, and must establish:
that the refund was paid to the taxpayer (i.e. Beltecno),
what the amount was,
a timely recovery action, and
that Beltecno isn’t entitled the refund.
Here, the first two points were easily assessed. The payments were made to Beltecno in 2007, and the case was in 2009, so the two year window was also sufficient. Because the company failed to keep records of its R&D expenditure, the final requirement was also met.
Beltecno argued that the IRS’ claims should be dismissed because the IRS failed to provide sufficient evidence. The company argued that without evidence from the IRS, it’d have to undertake an expensive and time consuming discovery. It referred to Mahoney v U.S. and McLennan v U.S., where the United States was the defendant in both cases, and as such had to provide “concrete and positive evidence” as to why the taxpayer could/should not receive a tax refund. However, in this case the IRS is seeking to return funds, not refusing them in the first place. So, the ultimate burden of evidence is on the taxpayer (Beltecno).
COURT’S DECISION
The court referred to Ahmanson Foundation v. United States, where it found that the IRS only needs to prove its claim has substance and was made in good faith. It’s Beltecno’s burden to prove the amount it’s entitled to. Similarly, as seen in Tax & Accounting Software Corp v United States, the tax credits are a privilege granted by the government, and the taxpayer should maintain adequate records. The court was satisfied that the IRS’ Form 866-A proves that its claim has substance, and that it’s acting in good faith. The case was therefore not dismissed, and Beltecno was to return the funds.
Regardless of whether companies are claiming the tax year just ended, or filing amended returns, they should keep adequate documentation of the R&D projects and allocation of QREs. It’s their burden to provide evidence, should the IRS audit, deny claims, or request a return of funds.
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Football, ISL
“I Want To Go Game By Game, That Is Important”: Josep Gombau 0
Tanuj Birua October 24, 2018 8:03 am October 24, 2018
Despite an indifferent start to the ISL campaign, the Delhi Dynamos gaffer Josep Gombau admitted they were off colours and were the second best side in the match against Chennaiyin as he said, “I think the first half was very equal, we had a lot more of the ball. They sat back and tried to have transition moments from our mistakes. I think we did quite well in the first half. The second half was totally different”.
Photo by ISL
Gombau was also happy and satisfied with display of his team. When asked about the drop in intensity contrasting to a hectic schedule the Spaniard replied, “I think our team was very tired after three games in nine days. That is something very difficult to manage. From there we dropped physically and because of that we didn’t have a lot of chances, and they were in total control. Our goalkeeper had a very good game and because of him we could get the point. So, this is my view of the game.”
And in the end when asked about specific target points or cutoff points in his mind for place in playoff contradicting to John Gregory who set his sight toward 29 points landmark, Josep concluded, “I want to go game by game, that is important. Every game is important, and we try to win maximum points in every match. Today we didn’t deserve to win, but the other games we played, we had our chances and we deserved more than we got. But this is football and now we need to rest well tomorrow. We have two days to prepare for the next game in Mumbai (27th October) and we have to try to beat them”.
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TartanShamrock News
The Wallace family journal
Angus Ian Wallace
We have our fourth boy, Angus Ian Wallace, delivered in a hurry at St. John's Hospital in Livingston last night at 2140, some fifteen minutes after we arrived at the car park. For a few minutes it was touch and go as to whether he would be christened the Car Park Kid as Sharon looked like she wasn't going to make it from the car to the ward but a chair arrived and she was wheeled in, kneeling like Boadacea on a chariot. Things happened rather quickly and a large baby put in an appearance shortly afterwards.
We were debating his name at first but Angus was what we had decided beforehand and now that the shock of his quick arrival has worn off, Angus Ian Wallace is what we're sticking with. His name may have been debated but his size is not in question: 5040g or a whopping 11lbs 2.5 oz! His hair is dark, with perhaps an auburn tinge Sharon thought, as she went up to the post-natal ward just as dawn was breaking. He was quite a placid wee lad for the first couple of hours but he has been coughing a bit trying to bring up mucus since then. He doesn't really look like any of his brothers and has maybe missed out on the dimples but he seems to like sucking his fingers!
Here are some early photos of Angus. His brothers and Nana are very excited and can't wait to see him.
Posted by The Wallaces at 08:26
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John Constable, David Lucas
A Seabeach
John Constable 1776–1837
David Lucas 1802–1881
Various Subjects of Landscape, Characteristic of English Scenery (‘English Landscape’)
This catalogue entry discusses a group of works; details of the individual work are given at the end of the introductory text.
John Constable 1776-1837 and David Lucas 1802-1881
T03983 - T04063 'Various Subjects of Landscape, Characteristic of English Scenery' ('English Landscape') first published 1830-2
Eighty-one mezzotints with additional work in drypoint, some touched with black wash, comprising various states of all twenty-two subjects; various papers and sizes; each stamped 'O.H.B' (collector's mark of Osbert H. Barnard) on back
Purchased (Grant-in-Aid) 1985
Prov: ...; Osbert H. Barnard, sold Sotheby's 7 March 1985 (237, together with T04064-04103 below) £5017 bt Christopher Mendez for Tate Gallery (see individual entries for earlier provenance where known)
Exh: The 'English Landscape' Prints of John Constable & David Lucas, Tate Gallery, April-June 1986 (thirty-one of the prints shown: see individual entries, where this exhibition is abbreviated as 'Tate Gallery 1986')
Lit: Andrew Shirley, The Published Mezzotints of David Lucas after John Constable, R.A., Oxford 1930; R.B. Beckett (ed.), John Constable's Correspondence, IV, Ipswich 1966, pp.314-463; Osbert H. Barnard, 'Lucas-Constable: English Landscape, Revised List of States', Print Quarterly, vol.1, June 1984, pp.120-3; Graham Reynolds, The Later Paintings and Drawings of John Constable, New Haven and London 1984; David Hill, Constable's English Landscape Scenery, 1985; Leslie Parris, The 'English Landscape' Prints of John Constable & David Lucas, exh. cat., Tate Gallery 1986
From 1829 until his death Constable devoted considerable time, energy and money to the business of printmaking and publishing, activities that had concerned him hardly at all in earlier years. The principal outcome was a series of twenty-two mezzotints engraved under his close supervision by the young David Lucas and entitled Various Subjects of Landscape, Characteristic of English Scenery, from Pictures Painted by John Constable, R.A., generally known today simply as English Landscape. Based on a wide range of oil sketches and finished paintings (perhaps also one or two watercolours or drawings) which Constable had made at various periods of his life, the series was first issued in parts at irregular intervals between June 1830 and July 1832. A supplementary series was begun but not published in Constable's lifetime. Lucas also engraved several larger plates on his own initiative and, after Constable's death, some further small plates intended to supplement English Landscape.
In the English Landscape prints and the texts he wrote to accompany them Constable offered the public (which in the event took little notice) an epitome and justification of his life's work. There were two kinds of artist, he wrote: the imitator or eclectic who gains ready acceptance by retailing the familiar, and the innovator who adds to art 'qualities of Nature unknown to it before'. Because 'so few appreciate any deviation from a beaten track', the rise of an original artist 'must almost certainly be delayed', as, with good reason, Constable felt his own had been. But while justifying the stand he had taken in the past, Constable was moving off again in a new direction. If it was conceived as a retrospect, English Landscape rapidly became the vehicle for his latest thoughts and particularly for his notion that chiaroscuro was a vital principle of both nature and art, 'the medium by which the grand and varied aspects of Landscape are displayed, both in the fields and on canvass'. Working in the most chiaroscuratic of all print techniques, Constable could explore the interaction of black and white, and the relations of tones in between, to a degree that had not been possible in his painting. The works chosen for inclusion in the series were not so much reproduced as translated into a new language, a language which revealed aspects that had only been latent before. In David Lucas Constable was fortunate to find an engraver who could respond to his ideas and experiment with the medium to create both the dramatic contrasts and the unprecedented subtleties of tonal variation he demanded.
It is not possible to discuss the history and function of the prints here in any detail (some aspects not mentioned here are touched on in the catalogue of the 1986 Tate Gallery exhibition). A full study is still needed, not least of the surviving progress proofs, which are the key to understanding the process of translation referred to above. The basic materials for such a study already exist in the Constable-Lucas correspondence (published in Beckett IV 1966), Constable's introductory texts and the commentaries he wrote for some of the individual prints (reprinted in Shirley 1930) and the prints themselves, especially the progress proofs, many of them touched or inscribed, in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, the British Museum and other collections (though not yet the Tate Gallery). What follows here, as a brief introduction to the collection of prints (all but one of which are published states) acquired by the Gallery in 1985, is a summary of the publishing history of English Landscape and its sequels and a few notes on technique and other matters.
The original twenty-two subjects were first published in five parts between June 1830 and July 1832, with four prints to a part except the last, which contained six :
Part One, June 1830: 'Spring' (T03986), 'A Dell, Helmingham Park, Suffolk' (T04008), 'A Mill' (T04043), 'Weymouth Bay, Dorsetshire' (T04048)
Part Two, Jan. 1831: 'Noon' (T03993), 'A Seabeach' (T04021), 'Old Sarum' (first plate, T04033), 'Stoke by Neyland, Suffolk' (T04040); this part is sometimes said to have been issued in December 1830 because C.R. Leslie received a copy then but it was not generally available until the following month
Part Three, Sept. 1831: 'Summer Morning' (T04001), 'Summer Evening' (T04005), 'A Heath' (T04013), 'Mill Stream' (T04025)
Part Four, Nov. 1831: 'River Stour, Suffolk' (T03996), 'A Lock on the Stour, Suffolk' (T04029), 'A Summerland' (T04037), 'Summer, Afternoon - After a Shower' (T04052)
Part Five, July 1832: 'Frontispiece: East Bergholt, Suffolk' (T03983), 'Autumnal Sun Set' (T03990), 'Yarmouth, Norfolk' (T04018), 'The Glebe Farm' (T04055), 'Hadleigh Castle near the Nore' (T04058), 'Vignette: Hampstead Heath, Middlesex' (T04062)
In May 1833 Constable re-advertised the whole series, listing the prints in a different order. For convenience the sets issued at this time are usually referred to as the second edition. By now a new plate of 'Old Sarum' (T04035) had been substituted for the first and other plates had been reworked (see, for example, T04047).
By October 1832 Constable was planning an 'Appendix' of subjects which, for various reasons, had been excluded from the original series. Lucas continued work on these but the following year the two fell out over the division of the remaining stock of the original series and the question of payment for fresh work; further disagreements followed. When friendly relations were restored at the end of 1834, their collaboration centred on the large print of 'Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows' (Shirley 1930, no.39). Constable continued to entertain hopes for the 'Appendix' but died before more could be done.
The copyright, steel plates and huge stock (over seven thousand impressions) of English Landscape were offered for sale at Foster's on 12 May 1838 but were bought in, as were six unpublished plates 'intended to form a supplementary number, with a set of proofs shewing the state of the plates'. The latter were presumably the six plates lettered soon afterwards as having been published in 1838 by F.G. Moon 'for the Proprietors', i.e. Constable's children: 'A Mill near Brighton' (T04074), 'View on the River Stour' (T04075), 'Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows' (T04078), 'Opening of Waterloo Bridge' (T04080), 'View on the Orwell near Ipswich' (T04091) and 'Castle Acre Priory' (T04094). These subjects are represented in the Tate's collection only in later states, as published in 1855. No prospectus for, or press notice of, Moon's edition has been found and Lucas himself referred to three of the plates in 1846 as being 'exceeding rare' (Beckett IV 1966, pp.440-I). It seems likely that a project to publish the six was quickly got up after the May sale and fell through after the lettering of the plates but before many impressions had been taken. No doubt the curious mis-engraving of Constable's name as 'Dunstable' on the 'Opening of Waterloo Bridge' would have been corrected had the prints been fully editioned.
The original twenty-two prints made their next appearance as illustrations to Leslie's Memoirs of the Life of John Constable, Esq. RA., published by James Carpenter in 1843, Leslie having obtained 186 sets of the prints from the Constable family in exchange for thirty copies of the finished book. Impressions (which are often early ones) removed from Leslie's book can usually be distinguished by their paper size, the original sheets having been trimmed down to approximately 260 x 365 mm to match the page size of the volume. Stitch holes from the 1843 binding are also sometimes visible (as on T03985 and T04010) on one or other of the long sides of the paper (as distinct from the stab marks on the left-hand sides of sheets tied with ribbon for the original part issues). Some copies of the smaller, octavo edition of Leslie's book, published by Longman in 1845, included a poor reprint of one of the original English Landscape plates, the 'Vignette' (see T04063) and all copies had a re-engraved version of 'Spring' (for further details of Leslie's book and its illustrations, see Ian Fleming-Williams and Leslie Parris, The Discovery of Constable, 1984, pp.30-1).
In 1846 Lucas himself published a further collection of his mezzotints, advertised as 'Mr David Lucas's New Series of Engravings, illustrative of English Landscape, from the Pictures of John Constable, R.A.' (see Shirley 1930, pp.228-9 for the ? prospectus or title-page). This included two of Moon's 1838 series ('View on the Orwell near Ipswich' and 'Castle Acre Priory'), two more plates which had been begun under Constable's supervision ('Willy Lott's House' and 'Jaques and the Wounded Stag', represented at the Tate in later impressions, T04069 and T04090 respectively) and ten newly engraved subjects (see T04067-8, T04072-3, T04084, T04093, T04096-7, T04100, T04102). Leslie supervised the work, touched proofs and wrote a short introduction. Twelve of the prints are lettered as having been published in 1843, 1844 or 1845 but the other two were not finished until 1846 (see T04097 and T04102), which is taken here to be the year of publication of the whole set. It was certainly available by 8 September 1846, when Lucas sent a copy to George (?) Simms (Beckett IV 1966, p.440).
All but one of the prints included in the original 1830-2 series and the 1838 and 1846 collections were republished by H.G. Bohn in 1855 in a volume entitled English Landscape Scenery (T04064-04103). As a marked catalogue in the Constable family collection records, Henry Bohn had bid £55 (against a reserve of £100) in the 1838 studio sale for the two lots comprising the steel plates and stock of the original twenty-two prints and the plates of six additional subjects. It is not known when he finally obtained these plates from the family or the later ones owned by Lucas. The subject missing from Bohn's edition is the 'Vignette' (T04061-3). Having been reprinted for the 1845 edition of Leslie's biography, the plate was presumably now too worn to bear further printing. In fact, it had probably become unusable during the 1845 printing, since impressions could only be supplied in some copies of the book and even these are very unsatisfactory. Lucas reworked some of the other 1830-2 plates for Bohn but he could do little to disguise their now pitiful condition. Apart from the wear they had suffered in the original printings, the steel plates had not been properly stored after Constable's death: 'having lain in a cellar unattended to for years' they had 'become corroded and spoiled', according to a reviewer of the first edition of Leslie's biography (Athenaeum, 3 Feb. 1844, p.101). Some of the later plates were still in reasonable shape and one, 'Hampstead Heath' (T04076), was published for the first time in Bohn's volume.
Techniques and papers
Although usually described simply as mezzotints, Lucas's prints in the original English Landscape series incorporate various amounts of work in drypoint, depending on the subject and state. Drypoint was most often used for darkening small areas which had previously been scraped light, for making minor alterations to outlines and for adding such details as birds in the sky. Etching seems to have been employed very rarely. After Constable's death Lucas began to use etching and dry-point more widely and some of his plates were begun in these techniqiues with a mezzotint ground added later. In such cases he was working from light to dark instead, as in pure mezzotint, from dark to light. The illustrations in Shirley's catalogue of the early proofs of 'Cornfields near Brighton' (T04072 [cited incorrectly as T04064]) and 'Hampstead Heath' (T04076) make this change of method very plain (Shirley 1930, pls. XLIVA, LIA). The results can seem bland beside the rich chiaroscuro of the plates engraved under Constable's direction: it is instructive to compare the 'Hampstead Heath' just mentioned with the similar subject engraved for English Landscape, 'A Heath' (T04013).
The original twenty-two mezzotints were printed, the Constable-Lucas correspondence indicates, on India, French and English paper. No attempt has been made in the catalogue entries below to distinguish French and English papers, only India, laid and wove. Although Shirley said that 'in no case has a watermark been found' (1930, p.156), the collection catalogued here includes examples of at least three different marks, one of which is certainly and another possibly identifiable. These are noted in the relevant entries.
Discrepancies in image and plate size are found between different impressions of the same subject. These can be attributed in the main to variations in the rate of contraction of the paper on drying.
States and touched impressions
With one exception (T04061), all the prints catalogued here are published impressions. Osbert Barnard's account of the published states of English Landscape, the most accurate so far available, has generally been followed, while Shirley's numbering of states has been adopted for prints not included in Barnard's list, which is limited to the original twenty-two subjects. Barnard numbered the subjects in the same order as Frederick Wedmore in his Constable: Lucas: With a Descriptive Catalogue of the Prints ... (1904), giving each a 'W.' number. In the references below to Barnard's catalogue these numbers have been read as 'Barnard' numbers.
The order adopted for the original twenty-two prints is the same as Barnard's except that 'A Heath' has been placed after 'A Dell', in accordance with Constable's own arrangement of the prints in 1832. The prints published in Bohn's volume (T04064-04103) have been catalogued in the order in which they appear in the book.
Constable made numerous changes to the lettering of the plates after their first publication and these variations account for most of the states described. A few silent amendments have been made to Barnard's descriptions of the lettering. Alterations to the images were less frequently made once the plates had been published but there are one or two more of these than previous cataloguers have noticed, including the addition of a tiny figure to the second state of 'A Lock on the Stour, Suffolk' (T04030). There is generally no record of when minor changes were made to the plates and it is therefore rarely possible to ascribe dates to individual states after the first. An analysis of the states represented in sets presented by, or purchased from, Constable at an early date would help here.
Following general usage, the terms 'open letters', 'struck letters' and 'thick and thin' letters are employed here. Open letters are 'fine' if engraved in single thin lines (fig.1 [figs 1-3, each showing the letters 'ST', are not reproduced here]) or 'doubled at right' if there are two lines instead of one at the right of each letter. Struck letters are those which have had additional thin lines engraved within their bodies (fig.2). Thick and thin letters have some lines, generally on the right, thicker than others (fig.3). Other types of lettering are found on the 'Frontispiece' and 'Vignette'.
Touched impressions of the published states of prints engraved during Constable's lifetime are not uncommon and a number with touchings in black wash are included in this collection. Constable appears to have spent some time going through the stocks of English Landscape and making minor adjustments of tone or detail (adding more birds, for example) for his own benefit, long after he had marked proofs to instruct Lucas. Judging from a reference in a letter to Lucas (Beckett IV 1966, p.348), a solution of Indian ink may have been used for this purpose (white touches are also found, though not on the impressions in this collection).
The Barnard Collection
All the prints catalogued here came from the collection of Osbert Barnard, print dealer (of the firm Craddock and Barnard) and collector, who died in 1985 a few months after selling the prints at Sotheby's. The impressions of the original English Landscape subjects are those upon which he based his 'Revised List' of the states, first issued in typescript in 1970 and finally published in 1984. In an introductory note to the 1984 publication Barnard said that about 1952 he decided to begin collecting all the variant states he could find, with a view to producing a more accurate list than Shirley's, which was 'so incomplete and so full of errors as to be virtually useless'. Annotations on his mounts indicate the provenance of some impressions. Only three of the states described by Barnard were not represented in his own collection: 'River Stour, Suffolk', state II; 'Summer Morning', state IV; 'A Seabeach', state II.
T04024 A Seabeach
Mezzotint 142 x 220 (5 5/8 x 8 11/16) on laid paper 290 x 423 (11 7/16 x 16 11/16); plate-mark 189 x 252 (7 7/16 x 9 15/16); fragment of watermark, perhaps 'E & P' (see T03991)
Engraved inscriptions as on T04021 but title re-engraved in 'thick and thin' letters
Lit: as for T04021 but Barnard state IV
For the final state of the plate see T04101.
The Tate Gallery 1984-86: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions Including Supplement to Catalogue of Acquisitions 1982-84, Tate Gallery, London 1988, pp.23-6 and 38
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