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Hawkettes to play Valley for trip to state tournament
July 10, 2018 by Dan Holm
Ankeny’s Paige Jacobsen throws a pitch during the first game of a doubleheader at Valley on July 2. The Hawkettes will return to Valley on Tuesday to play the Tigers in a Class 5A regional final. (Photo by Dan Holm)
When the Class 5A regional softball pairings were released, Ankeny appeared to have earned a No. 1 seed in Region 2.
That all changed on July 2, when Valley swept a doubleheader against the Hawkettes to capture the CIML Central Conference title. The Tigers then rose to fifth in the final Class 5A rankings, while Ankeny dropped to ninth.
That means the Hawkettes (28-12) will have to travel to Valley (30-9) on Tuesday for the regional final, beginning at 7 p.m.
“They changed the rules this year, and they decided last week to make Valley the higher seed. They went by the final rankings,” said Ankeny coach Dave Bingham. “I guess it was in a memo, but we are ok with it.”
The two squads split four games this season–with the home team winning every game. Ankeny swept a doubleheader on June 13 by scores of 5-2 and 6-4.
Eight days ago, Valley dominated the rematch on its home field, posting 12-5 and 14-8 victories.
“It will take our best effort to beat Valley; that means limiting our errors and hitting the ball,” said Ankeny senior Kennedy Thomas. “We are two evenly-matched teams so it will be a good game.”
Thomas is batting .468 and leads the Hawkettes with 15 home runs and 68 RBIs. She has hit three homers against Valley, including a grand slam off Claire Stalzer in the first game of last week’s doubleheader.
Thomas slugged her fourth grand slam of the season on Saturday as Ankeny rolled to a 12-0 victory over Council Bluffs Jefferson in four innings in a regional semifinal.
“I guess you better walk her with the bases loaded,” Bingham joked.
Jasmine Rumley added a pair of solo homers, giving her 10 roundtrippers on the season. She is now batting .474, while teammate Peyton Daugherty leads the Hawkettes with a .548 average.
Thomas (7-2) also hurled a no-hitter against Council Bluffs Jefferson. She did not face Valley this season, but could get the start on Tuesday.
Paige Jacobsen (12-8) and Shelbie Chambers (4-1) are among the other pitching options for Bingham. They both defeated the Tigers in the first twinbill.
“We’re going to have a little more competition to see who pitches,” Bingham said. “We’ll see how that comes out.”
Stalzer boasts a 16-5 mark with a 1.55 ERA for the Tigers. The lefthander went 1-1 against Ankeny this season, allowing five runs in both games.
Sophomore Alex Honnold paces the Valley offense with a .592 average. Teammate Jasmine Spann has hit eight home runs.
The Tigers have won seven straight games and 19 of their last 21.
“I think the game could go any way. It could be high-scoring and it could be tight,” Bingham said. “When you play a team that many times and then you play them again in the regionals, it usually is a tight game. (Valley coach) Tom Bakey’s had the best program in the last two decades. It’s just amazing what they’ve been able to accomplish, and we know they’ll be prepared.
“We’ve scouted the heck out of each other, and the only difference was that they went after us to make sure that they took home a championship and we went into it to try to scout, so I think we have an advantage because we didn’t show them everything that we have at this point,” he added.
Filed Under: Hawks, Softball Tagged With: Dave Bingham, Featured, Jasmine Rumley, Kennedy Thomas, Peyton Daugherty
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Like any medicine, the hormones used in hormone replacement therapy (HRT) can cause side effects.
Any side effects usually improve over time, so it's a good idea to persevere with treatment for at least 3 months if possible.
Speak to a GP if you have severe side effects or they continue for longer than 3 months.
Side effects of oestrogen
The main side effects of taking oestrogen include:
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These side effects will often pass after a few weeks. To ease side effects, try:
taking your oestrogen dose with food, which may help feelings of sickness and indigestion
eating a low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet, which may reduce breast tenderness
doing regular exercise and stretching, to help leg cramps
If side effects persist, your GP may recommend switching to a different way of taking oestrogen (for example, changing from a tablet to a patch), changing the medicine you're taking, or lowering your dose.
Side effects of progestogen
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tummy (abdominal) pain
As with side effects of oestrogen, these will usually pass after a few weeks.
If they persist, a GP may recommend switching to a different way of taking progestogen, changing the medicine you're taking, or lowering your dose.
Weight gain and HRT
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Exercising regularly and eating a healthy diet should help you to lose any unwanted weight.
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Atomic Show #098 – Chris Nelder, Co-Author of Profit from the Peak
Chris Nelder, who co-wrote Profit from the Peak with Brian Hicks, is worried about energy supplies. He favors conservation, population control, wind, solar and geothermal. He is pessimistic about nuclear.
I was recently offered the opportunity to read a review copy of Profit from the Peak by Brian Hicks and Chris Nelder. The book, despite its attention grabbing title, is really a thoughtful work that digs deeply into the challenges that the world faces in the near future in providing the plentiful energy that has made the modern economy possible.
The authors and I agree on many of the symptoms of trouble and even on the diagnosis that the people on the earth are running headlong off of a cliff if they do not take action to change direction. When it comes to the prescription for the cure, however, we have a rather substantial difference in perspective.
Chris Nelder agreed to come on the show and discuss his book, his analysis of the energy situation and his prescription.
Chris is a former software engineer and technical writer who developed a deep interest in energy topics. I am a former nuclear submarine engineer officer who also has developed a deep and wide interest in energy topics.
I think you will enjoy the discussion.
Filed Under: Atomic politics, Podcast Tagged With: geothermal, NuClear, Peak Oil, population, solar, wind
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Home/Middle East/Iran detains scores accused of corruption amid spiralling rial devaluation
Iran detains scores accused of corruption amid spiralling rial devaluation
By Deputy Chief EditorAugust 13, 2018
The rial's value has collapsed since April, with Tehran struggling to control the impact of the foreign exchange black market in the country (Reuters)
Iran's judiciary said on Sunday that 67 people have been arrested in recent weeks as part of a corruption crackdown approved by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
More than 100 government employees have also been barred from leaving the country, spokesman Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejeie said, according to the judiciary-linked Mizan news agency.
"Our enemy America has decided to put pressure on people and it intends to put our economy under pressure, but to no avail," Ejeie said.
"There are individuals who try to use this opportunity and hoard basic goods and increase pressure on people by hoarding and smuggling."
On Saturday, Khamenei approved a request from the head of the judiciary, Sadegh Larijani, to set up special revolutionary courts to try people for economic crimes, after the latter said that "the current special economic conditions are considered an economic war".
"The goal is that the punishment of convicts of economic corruption be carried out urgently and justly," Khamenei wrote in a response published on his website.
Increased pressure from the United States, including its withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear deal and reimposed sanctions, has exacerbated long-standing public anger over mismanagement and corruption in the economy.
A disastrous attempt to fix the falling value of the rial in April added to the anger after the government revealed that politically connected importers were hoarding the cheap dollars or selling them on the black market.
Earlier this month, the head of the central bank was sacked and his deputy in charge of foreign exchange arrested.
Corruption is deeply entrenched in Iran, where an opaque business environment provides huge opportunities for embezzlement and market manipulation.
With protests and strikes taking on a political edge in many places, pressure has mounted from all sides to take more concerted action against corruption.
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Avon County Rowing Club is located at the Saltford Rowing Centre, just off the A4 half-way between Bath and Bristol. We row on the River Avon, where we have four kilometres of quiet water, including a straight of 1,250 metres. We share our site with Bristol University Boat Club, Monkton Combe School Boat Club, Canoe Avon and the Bristol Empire Dragon Boat club.
We are a medium sized family rowing club with members from 12 years old upwards – some of our members are now in their 70s! We cater for all levels of experience from beginners up to National Champions and attend many races throughout the year that are suitable for all ages and experience levels.
The club was formed in 1973, following a merger of the former Avon and Bristol clubs. This ended a tradition of friendly rivalry, stretching back to the previous century, between oarsmen training in the colours of a succession of clubs based at Saltford. The recent redevelopment of the site has resulted in superb facilities including much improved boat storage, a small gym and large clubroom with stunning views over the river.
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Animal Welfare Institute and Farm Sanctuary Sue USDA to Disclose Slaughterhouse Records
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Raleigh, NC—Twenty-nine state legislators, including 17 representing North Carolina, submitted a joint statement yesterday condemning a US Fish and Wildlife Service proposal that would decimate the population of red wolves in a designated recovery area...
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The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) takes exception to comments included in recent media reports characterizing hybrid whales as neither important nor protected under law. Although “Whale 22”—the whale killed last week by Icelandic whaling company...
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New Senate Bill Undercuts Endangered Species Act
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UNESCO Ignores Vaquita's Imminent Extinction, Delays 'In Danger' Designation
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XL Insurance Launches 'Adulterated Ingredient Product Recall' Coverage
New York, New York - June 29, 2010
NEW YORK, June 29, 2010 - XL Insurance, the global insurance operations of XL Capital Ltd. , today announced the launch of its coverage enhancement for adulterated ingredient product recalls.The product enhancement covers the recall of an insured's product caused by an ingredient that is subject to a recall notice even if there is no evidence that the insured's product itself would cause injury. For coverage to be triggered traditional Product Contamination policies require the insured to prove that their own product is contaminated and would cause injury. Consequently a company caught up in a nationwide recall of products caused by an adulterated ingredient may find its own products are not deemed "contaminated" under traditional coverage. This extension offered to policyholders in the US and Canada extends standard coverage to include the recall of the insured's products caused by an adulterated ingredient.Ed Mitchell, Global Product Recall Manager for XL Insurance, said: "Nationwide recalls caused by adulterated ingredients in the supply chain are an escalating phenomenon due to the heightened focus on food safety by North American regulators. Last year, for instance, saw the biggest recall in US history when hundreds of products were recalled due to the inclusion of contaminated peanuts supplied by Peanut Corporation of America. Many companies found they were either uninsured or that their policies didn't apply when they recalled their product with contaminated ingredients."Our solution has been designed specifically to address the actual nature of this type of loss and plugs an important gap in the coverage provided by traditional policies."Coverage in the US and Canada is provided via Lloyd's syndicate #1209, managed by XL London Market Ltd.About XL Insurance"XL Insurance" is the global brand used by member insurers of the XL Capital group of companies. More information about XL Insurance and its products is available at www.xlinsurance.com
Christine Weirsky Communication Director, North America
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Home Local People headed to JAIL for what happen in Clico Guyana, But not...
People headed to JAIL for what happen in Clico Guyana, But not Bahamas
<<< CLICO (Bahamas) was proud to announce its full sponsorship of COLOURS Junkanoo Group, which officially became known as CLICO COLOURS. This partnership was formalized in 2007 at a signing ceremony between CLICO’s Director/ Chief Marketing Officer, Ian Garcia, CLICO’s Regional director, Finance & Investments, Ms. Karen Gardier and Christian Justilien, Leader of CLICO COLOURS.
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Thurs. April 9, 2009: The report of the probe into the financial status of CLICO (Guyana) insurance firm is due out next week and any evidence of possible fraud or insider trading will lead to prosecution, a government spokesman has maintained.
Commissioner of Insurance and judicial manager, Maria van Beek, is set to submit her report to the High Court on the findings of the probe which began after the court on February 25 granted a judicial management order over CLICO Guyana.
Van Beek last month noted that as Judicial Manager, she is expected to report back to the court with her recommendation regarding the future of the company. The financial investigation, she said, `is not a quick process, nor an easy one.`
She said an important up-to-date assessment of the company’s financial status is underway with the help of the Nizam Ali and Company accounting firm and its actuary, Prescience Insurance Consultants and Actuaries based in Toronto, Canada.
`While these investigations are being conducted it is important that I seek to operate the company in a manner that will maintain its viability and maximize its ability to meet its obligations to policyholders and creditors,` she said.
She signalled two that other options are available to winding up the company but said this will depend on the current investigation of the financial state of the firm.
The CLICO debacle began on January 30 when the Government of Trinidad and Tobago, through its Central Bank, was forced to bail out four of the subsidiaries of the CL Financial Group. On February 24, Bahamian Prime Minister, Hubert Ingraham, who is also the Minister of Finance, was granted a winding up order over the operations of CLICO Bahamas.
Immediately following the actions of the Bahamian authorities, the Government of Guyana, through the Commissioner of Insurance, was granted a judicial management order over CLICO Guyana by the courts on February 25.
On March 2, the Supervisor of Insurance in Belize, Alma Gomez obtained a judicial management order on the operation of CLICO Belize, and on March 6, the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority, ordered CLICO Cayman to cease issuing new policies with investment components and refrain from accepting new premiums on existing policies with investment features.
Some analysts feel the conclusions of any investigation will put significant blame squarely on the shoulders of the management of CLICO Guyana.
WHERE IS THE BAHAMIAN PEOPLE MONEY? — Ian Garcia (seen here), Chief Marketing Officer at Clico Trinidad. He was one of the former operators at Clico Bahamas. Garcia is one of the faces of Clico (Bahamas) who ordered the packing up of thousands of CLICO’s CLIENT files to be shipped out of the Nassau office in 2007. Bahamas Press can confirm that the entire filing room was cleaned out at the head office. Then Garcia left the Bahamas. Garcia is seen here at a CLICO’s Christmas staff party in Trinidad in December 2008 giving an address. Boy the world is full of trickey men!
In this photo: Ian Garcia
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Dibbles Apr 10, 2009 at 1:09 am
Would the junkanoo group still be called CLICO COLOURS? Time will tell,only time will COLOURS tell.Good luck with the name change or there would be two COLOURS again.
Wisdom Apr 9, 2009 at 6:10 pm
Today look like everybody is out looking for fish to fry. But if I was a CLICO client, this “Ian Garcia” would be my catch of the day for this year Good Friday “fry-out.”
BP truly these CLICO owners have MASTER the art of DECEPTION. But it appears as if Bahamians can only identify DECEPTION, if you put it in the form of “PEAS AN RICE.”
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Deception is a false reality imposed on a true reality. It is a fragile and complex weaving of truth, half truths’, lies and lies of omission. To successfully deceive another or several people, one must be skilled in the art of deception. To create a deception worthy of belief one must be able to create plausible details that help create the illusion of truth. It is the details that people listen to and remember and the one deceiving is obligated to remember these detail in order to avoid having the lie exposed. The problem with remembering the lies we tell is that all people are basically good and we tend to forget the bad things we’ve done. In order to successfully perpetuate deception, the liar must be willing to live that lie when necessary. This becomes the tangled web we weave, especially when first we practice to deceive
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The Ghana Revenue Authority has encouraged taxpayers to continue to file their tax returns online and make payments through the banks.
The Authority appealed to all taxpayers to fulfill their tax obligations to meet government’s needs in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
Reverend Ammishaddai Owusu-Amoah, GRA Commissioner-General told the Ghana News Agency in an interview in Accra.
“We will not relent in our efforts to deliver on our mandates. We will do all we can to ensure that the needed revenue is generated to meet government’s agenda as we all put our shoulders to the wheel to fight the pandemic,” he said.
He said the Authority would soon launch a digital platform that would allow taxpayers to access their Tax Identification Number from the comfort of their homes for easy business transactions.
He said the Authority supported President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s interventions to lessen the impact of the coronavirus on individuals and businesses.
According to the Commissioner-General, all efforts would be made to facilitate payment of taxes during the COVID-19, but would not allow deliberate non-payment of taxes.
“We acknowledge the hard times in which we are as a nation and the world as a whole. We sympathize sincerely with those who have lost their jobs or sources of income.
“We also pray that as a nation, we will continue to support President Akufo-Addo and the government to ensure that the nation comes out of the situation quickly”, he said.
He entreated employees, corporate and other institutions who continue to make various incomes, sales and provide services to file and pay their taxes for government to get the needed revenue in the difficult times.
The Commissioner-General said the Authority was working with the Ministry of Finance for modalities in terms of the year’s revenue target.
This, he explained was necessary because the COVID-19 was likely to affect the country’s revenue target and was optimistic that the intended measures would ensure a win-win situation for government and taxpayers.
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“Civil Rights” Leaders, Politic365 bloggers, CBC Members Get Paid, the Public Gets Played on Network Neutrality.
Bruce A. Dixon, BAR managing editor
Is there any part of the black political class that isn't for sale, or hasn't been already been leased by Comcast, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile, AT&T or Time-Warner? While the old school politicos at least try to hide the hands of their paymasters, the young guns pretend being a shill is almost an honest living. It's not.
A lot of people with loud voices get their public policy notions from the same places they get their condo payments. As a principle this is neither complicated nor controviersial. Every sixth grader understands it, and every Supreme Court law clerk.
Some corporate mouthpieces however, have brand identities to look after, as designated representatives of oppressed minorities, or elected Democrats and their hangers-on, whose careers depend on passing themselves off as standing for the little people. For them, obscuring, hiding or simply downplaying the importance, even the identities of their corporate benefactors can be pretty important.
Back in April, Black Agenda Report revealed that
“...the NAACP, National Action Network, the National Urban League, the Hispanic Technology and Telecommunications Partnership, League of United Latin American Citizens, Minority Media and Telecommunications Council, and Rainbow PUSH all object to a proposed Federal Communications Commission rule that would force them, whenever they weigh in on matters before the FCC, disclose who they're getting money from.”
...All of them... have in recent years backed state and federal legislation that keeps cities and towns from regulating cable networks or laying their own cable. They've all endorsed laws that bar cities and towns from spinning up their own broadband services which might compete with those of their donors or provide services to poor communities, to schools, libraries and small businesses in their communities that their donors do not. Every one of them opposes network neutrality and backs the digital redlining of black, brown and poor communities. Every one of these so-called civil rights organizations in recent years has backed the privatization or outright giveaway to their wealthy donors vast amounts of the electromagnetic spectrum which could and should have been set aside for community broadcasters and the public good. And of course, these corrupt “civil rights organizations” have unreservedly backed each and every proposed broadcaster and telecom merger, from AT&T's failed attempt to buy T-Mobile to the Comcast-NBC deal and they're lining up right now to back Comcast's current attempt to buy Time Warner cable as well.”
As reprehensible as all this is, the efforts on the part of these dinosaur “civil rights” organizations to conceal their ties to donors at least speaks to their shamefaced awareness that there is or ought to be a standard of decency and moral accountability, even though it's a standard they'd prefer to evade. Sadly, the empowered and amoral generation of black wannabe fixers, stooges and operatives that came after them have no such standards.
Not two weeks ago in a David Pakman interview, Kristal High, the editor of Politic365 not only outed herself and Politic365 as well as corporate mouthpieces, she affected a tone of mild outrage at the notion that Politic365's “incubation” in the bowels of the Minority Media Telecommunications Council, a notorious telecom shill operation and her own consultant agreement with a firm that did PR for telecoms were in any way related to the one-sided opinion pieces Politic365 carries on telecom mergers, cable regulation and network neutrality. At Black Agenda Report we know a little something about carrying one-sided opinion pieces. The difference is that ours are our own and those of our authors, not something a soulless corporation is paying us to say.
The interviewer pointedly asked High why, if her opinions were indeed her own and not those of her corporate sponsors, she didn't express them for free.
Kristal High was seconded by Lauren Victoria Burke, also of Politic365 who in an open letter to journalist Lee Fang and our friend Yvette Carnell tried to pretend that getting funded by the telecoms makes her and the crew at Politic365 experts worth consulting before anybody writes anything serious about the public good and network neutrality, and that fingering them as corporate stooges might actually be libel or defamation.
This was almost bankrupt as the tone-deaf TV One interview forrmer CBC staffer and current corporate lobbyist Angela Rye did with North Carolina's G.K. Butterfield and disgraced former Maryland congressman Al Wynn in response to reports that the CBC, at the urging of their former staffers turned lobbyists, were leveraging their brand as tribunes of the oppressed to represent corporate banksters, military contractors, telecoms, private schools, payday loan operations and other interests. It couldn't be a real story, they said, because they're the black experts at all this, and nobody had talked to them.
In the real world, corporate operatives like Burke,Ghatt and High and Rye are experts at two things. The first is getting paid, and the second is reliably representing the interests of those who pay them against those of the people. No doubt, they're looking forward to long and lucrative careers.
Bruce A. Dixon is managing editor at Black Agenda Report and a state committee member of the GA Green Party. He can be reached via this site's contact page, or at bruce.dixon(at)blackagendareport.com.
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Synthesis, Characterization, and Biological Studies of Novel Organoantimony(V) Cyanoximates
Kevin Anthony Pinks, Missouri State UniversityFollow
Master of Science in Chemistry
Nikolay Gerasimchuk
cyanoximes, organoantimony(V), antimicrobial, antifungal, antibiotic-resistance, X-ray single crystal analysis
Inorganic Chemistry | Microbiology
The requirement of new antimicrobial treatments has become an urgent field recently. Multi-drug resistant (MDR) bacteria are now resistant to common antibiotics. To antagonize such bacteria 8 novel organoantimony(V) cyanoximates were synthesized to be characterized and submitted for biological activity studies. Eight organoantimony(V) cyanoximates were characterized by elemental analysis, thermal analysis, IR-, 13C{1H} NMR, some with UV-visible spectroscopy, and single crystal X-ray analysis. Antimicrobial Disk studies indicated Sb(Ph)4(ACO) and Sb(Ph)4(ECO) had significant antimicrobial effect against all three strains: two gram-negative a) Escherichia coli strain S17 and b) Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain PAO1, alongside a single gram-positive Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strain NRS70. Sb(Ph)4(TCO) and Sb(Ph)4(TDCO) had significant effects against gram- positive Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strain NRS70, but essentially no antimicrobial activity for gram-negative strains used. Antimicrobial broth dilution MIC assays were completed against the same strains as antimicrobial disk studies but changed the compounds tested. Using Sb(Ph)4(MCO) as the only Sb(V) cyanoximate along with free cyanoximes H(MCO), H(ECO), and Na[H(ACO)2]. Results indicated free cyanoximes have no antimicrobial effect as the DMSO solvent used in these assays contributed to the inhibition factor to the MIC of the cell cultures. Antifungal disk assays concluded that Sb(Ph)4(ECO) was effective against Cryptococcus neoformans and Candida albicans. Sb(Ph)4(TCO) followed in antifungal activity against both strains. Sb(Ph)4(ACO) and Sb(Ph)4(TDCO) were only effective at inhibition of Cryptococcus neoformans. Antifungal MIC assays were conducted and concluded that the free cyanoximes had zero effect on antifungal activity against both fungi. Sb(Ph)4(MCO) had shown MIC levels ranging from 10 - 50 μg/mL.
© Kevin Anthony Pinks
Pinks, Kevin Anthony, "Synthesis, Characterization, and Biological Studies of Novel Organoantimony(V) Cyanoximates" (2020). MSU Graduate Theses. 3552.
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Albany Law Journal, Volumen16
even if there was a defect in this respect. The question the absence of the preliminary petition required by of subscribing for the stock and issuing the bonds for a the statute. The court said that the act was intended road from the mouth of Kansas river to the south to sustain and not to defeat the will of the people. boundary of the State was submitted to the electors This principle would have justified its application in of Johnson county Notice was given for the time relief of the defect before it, if there was such defect, required by the statute, and a full and fair vote was and its consideration might well have altered the retaken, so far as we are informed. The approval of the sult. Both of these decisions were made after the electors by their vote, at a meeting called for that pur- bonds in this suit had been issued and the interest pose, is the object of the statute. Defects, irregulari upon them regularly paid for a considerable time. The ties, or informalities, which do not affect the result of road had been built as promised, the county of Johnthe vote, do not affect its validity. The defect we are son and its people enjoyed the anticipated benefits, considering (if it is a defect) does not go to the ques and we are of the opinion that we are not bound to tion of jurisdiction, and does not impair the validity follow a decision which releases them from all the corof the bonds.
responding obligations. Gelpcke v. Dubuque, 1 Wall. The case of Lewis v. Commissioners of Bourbon Co., 175, 1865; Bulls v. Muscatine, 9 id. 671, 1871; Super12 Kan. 186, is cited on this point. In that case four visors v. Olcott, 16 id. 678, 1872. questions were passed upon by the Supreme Court of Another question was also involved. It is a part of Kansas. First. Was the presentation of a petition, the case that on the 1st day of January, 1869, the railsigned by one-fourth of the qualified voters, a condi- road company executed to Nathaniel Thayer, F. W. tion precedent to the valid action of the commission- Palfrey and George W. Weld, the plaintiffs in this ers? Second. Did the failure to name the corpora-, suit, a deed of trust conveying a large quantity of tion in the propositions submitted to the electors avoid lands, and transferring, among other things, its subthe whole proceedings? Third. A majority of the scriptions from towns and counties, including that votes of the electors having been cast against the now in suit, to secure the payment of five millions of proposition to issue bonds, was the county board au dollars of its bonds to be issued by the said company, thorized to issue them? Fourth. Did the subsequent as therein particularly described; that before the submission, and the proceedings thereon, confer the coupons now sued upon had become payable, the railauthority to issue the bonds?
road company had issued five millions of its negotiaThe court held that the first objection was cured by ble bonds, which are now outstanding and unpaid to the act of 1868. The second and the third objeotions the full amount thereof. The court says: The queswere held to be fatal, and that the case was not re | tiou then arises whether notice to one of the trustees lieved by the proceedings referred to in the fourth ob in this deed of trust is notice to the holders of the jection.
mortgage bonds in such manner that in a suit by the The court did in its language hold that the objection trustees to enforce payment of the town bonds the raised in the present case, to wit, that the name of the character of a bona fide holder without notice is lost. corporation was not inserted in the proposition for the 1 In Curtis and others v. Leavitt, 15 N. Y. 194, the court popular vote, was fatal. Had this been the only or an say: “If Graham, one of the trustees, was chargeable, indispensable part of the decision we should have as direotor of the company, with knowledge that there been called upon to inquire whether the decision was | had been no previous resolution, notice to him was one of that class of State decisions upon its own stat not notice to his cestui que trust. He did not stand to ute that was binding upon us. The other question, them in the relation of an agent. He was selected however, existing and decided in the Bourbon county and appointed as a trustee by the company, not by the case, was in its nature so exclusive, and so controlling, cestui que trust. His powers and duties were prethat any thing said, or professed to be decided be scribed by the company, not by the bondholders. yond it, does not require much consideration. The There were at the time of the execution of the trust court held that in the exercise of its general jurisdic deeds no bondholders, no cestui que trust. It is a neotion it had the power to inquire into the number of essary attribute of an agency that it should be created votes actually cast for and against the proposed issue | by the principal. * * * In this case, as the relation of bonds, and upon making such inquiry it found and of principal and agent did not exist between the bonddetermined that, in fact, a majority of the votes cast holders and Graham, notice to him, or knowledge by were against the proposition. Upon this point all the him, that there was no previous resolution was not decisions of this court, and, so far as we know of, all constructive notice to the bondholders." other courts, concur. If a majority of the electors And again, on the page following, it is said: “The cast their votes against the proposition to issue bonds, trustees are not to be regarded as the agents of the the entire foundation of the proceedings is gone. There purchasers of the bonds and mortgages assigned to is an absolute want of jurisdiction to proceed farther them. No consideration proceeds from them. They in the matter, and an attempt to do so is void, as are were mere assignees of those securities, coupled with all proceedings or issues based upon it. With this no interest, in trust to hold them as security for the elemental failure existing in the Bourbon county case, payment of all the mortgage bonds that should thereother and farther decisions tending to the same result after be sold or negotiated by the company. * * * are not to be regarded as authority.
Whoever purchased the mortgage bonds became purThe Gulf Railroad v. Com'rs of Miami County, 12 chasers of the bonds and mortgages so assigned as seKan. 234, is based upon the Bourbon case above re- curity for their payment, or of an equitable right to ferred to, and follows it without examination or dis- | hold them as such security." cussion. It does not refer to the curative act of Feb We think this is sound dootrine, and that it estabruary 25, 1868, which was held in the Bourbon county lishes the proposition that notice to Thayer did not case not to be applicable to an election where a major-operate to destroy the bona fide holding of the bondity of votes was cast against the proposition, but holders under the deed of trust in which he was named which act it was held did relieve against the defeot of ' as one of the trustees.
from proving that he was not actually in NOTES OF RECENT DECISIONS.
session at the service of the writ of ejectment, in Bailment: right of pledgee to use animal pledged.-A order to relieve himself from liability for mesne person to whom a horse is pledged in security of a debt | profits. Sup. Ct., Pennsylvania, May 7, 1877. Miller may use the horse but he must pay for the value of its | v. Henry. services (citing American authorities). Sheriff Court, Negotiable instrument, what is not: note including Renfrewshire, Scotland. Kirkwood v. Brown (Scot. attorney's fee for suit.-Defendants, the maker and L. Mag.).
payee of an instrument in which the maker waived Cloud on title: deed from wife to husband.—Where "any and all exceptions under and by virtue of any the wife, in 1866, made a deed of her real estate execution, exemption, homestead or stay laws of the directly to her husband, held, that the same was State of Missouri, or that of any other State," and absolutely void at law, and, therefore, it will not be in which he promised also “to pay a reasonable enforced in equity. Where a deed is made by a wife attorney's fee for the bringing of suit in collection directly to her husband, but there is nothing upon its of this note, if suit thereon be brought o
or collection face to show the relation between them, such a deed, thereof be enforced after the same shall become though void, is a cloud upon title, as evidence aliunde due," were sued as maker and indorser, respectiveis necessary to establish its invalidity. Sup. Ct., ly. Held, (1) affirming Bank v. Gay, 63 Mo. 33, that Illinois, June 22, 1877. Brooks v. Kearns (Chic. L. it was not a negotiable promissory note; (2) that News).
the defendants were not jointly liable; (3) that the Eminent domain: condemnation of land for railroad assignor could only be held liable in an action U8€8: payment a condition precedent: injunction: | against him upon his implied undertaking to pay uairer.—Where land has been condemned for railroad after due diligence used by the assignee in the purposes, commissioners appointed, damages assessed, | institution and prosecution of suit against the etc., the right of the land-owner to payment for his maker for the recovery of the money due, or property as a constitutional condition precedent to the in the event of insolvency or non-residence of the transfer of the title to the land taken, exists in all its maker, so that suit would be unavailing or could original vigor. Where the corporation is insolvent and not be instituted. Sup. Ct., Missouri, April, 1877. the damages are not paid, it is the right and duty of Samstag v. Conley (Cent. L. J.). the trial court.to issue an injunction restraining the Prescription : line fence.- The plaintiff is the owner corporation from operating its cars over the land until in fee of certain lands, and he has held open, actual, the owner shall have been paid the assessed dama- | continued and uninterrupted possession of the lands ges, and there is no vested right in the corpora- | to a certain fence beeween himself and the defendant tion, and no doctrine of public policy or conveni (which fence was not on the section line between ence which can absolve a court of equity from this them) for more than twenty years next preceding duty. Courts of equity, in such cases, will indulge in the commencement of this suit, and during this time no presumption that the land owner has waived or a fixed and permanent division fence has been kept postponed his right to insist on payment of the dama up and continued unchanged there. Held, that the ges, and will insist on, at least, as conclusive evidence plaintiff was entitled to the ownership and possession of alleged waiver as is required in cases of vendor's of the said land up to the fence, in virtue of his lien, the condemnation and seizure of the land being adverse possession, wherever the original line may a statutory proceeding in invitum. Sup. Ct., Mis have been between them. Sup. Ct., Iowa, April, 1877. souri, April, 1877. Evans v. Missouri, I. & N. R. R. Co. | Meyer v. Weigman. (Cent. L. J.).
Promissory note : accommodation indorser: where Fraud: when sale fraudulent: knowledge of vendee. fraud alleged, holder of accommodation paper taken as Where goods were sold and the vendor at the time was collateral security not a purchaser for value.- The indebted, and his creditors attached the property on holder of accommodation paper, pledged to him as the ground of a fraudulent sale to defeat the vendor's collateral security for an antecedent debt, is not a creditors, held, it is sufficient if the purchaser of the purchaser for value, and a note in his hands may be goods knew of the fraudulent intent of the seller or impeached for fraud in its making and procurehad notice of such facts as would have put a man of ment. Sup. Ct., Pennsylvania, Feb. 6, 1877. Cumordinary prudence upon inquiry, which, being made mings v. Boyd (W. N. Cas.). with ordinary diligence, would have discovered the Removal of cause: jurisdiction.- The defendant fraudulent purpose or intent of the seller. Sup. fled its application and bond for the removal of the Ct., Iowa, April, 1877. Jones y. Hetherington. cause from the State to the Federal court. After
Judgment: holder of subsequent lien on land affected approving the bond, the State court permitted the by, may show amount due on.- A judgment was plaintiff to enter a nonsuit. Held, that after the entered on a bond in the penal sum of $8,000, con filing of the proper application and bond the State ditioned for the payment of "all moneys borrowed court could proceed no further in the cause, and from the said, The Ashland Banking Company, or that any attempt in that direction was coram non which may from time to time be borrowed from judice; and that, consequently, the nonsuit was the same, lawful money as aforesaid, at or upon the improperly granted. Sup. Ct., Missouri, April, days and times when the same shall fall due". Held, 1877. Berry v. Chic., R. I. & P. R. R. Co. (Cent. that the holder of a subsequent mortgage should be L. J.). allowed to show the real amount due, for which the | Rent: crops reserved in a lease: when rent due: tenbond entered up was security. Sup. Ct., Pennsyl ant's ownership in crop undivided.— The share of the vania, May 7, 1877. Price's Appeal.
crops reserved by the lease to the land-owner is Mesne profits : evidence: estoppel.- A defendant in an to be regarded as rent. The owner of the land action of mesne profits, against whom judgment in acquired no property in the part of the crop reserved the ejectment has been entered, is not precluded for rent until it was set apart to him by the tenants; the ownership of the tenants continued till week, commonly called Sunday." The subject of that time. The rent in such case is not paid till which it treats is a single one, and that is the preventhe part of the crop is set apart by the tenant for tion of public dramatic entertainments in the city of the landlord, and is not payable until this can be New York on Sunday. Held, that the act is not oodone. Sup. Ct., Iowa, April, 1877. Townsend v. noxious to the requirement of the constitution, artiIsertberger.
cle 3, section 16, that “no * * * local bill which Railroad aid bonds: Nlinois statute : bonds void in may be passed by the legislature shall embrace more hands of innocent holders for value.-- The act of March than one subject, and that shall be expressed in the 7, 1867, authorizing certain towns and cities to appro title." Judgment below affirmed. Neuendorf v. priate money in aid of railroads, confers no authority Duryea. Opinion by Folger, J. Church, C. J., dison such towus and cities to issue bonds or borrow sented. money with which to pay such donations. Nor 1 2. Act mentioned does not infringe on right of wordoes the subsequent act of February 26, 1869, confer ship.-Nor does the act infringe upon the
resuch authority. The act of March 24, 1869, has a served by the constitution in article 1, section 3: prospective operation, and cannot be insisted upon as “The free exercise and enjoyment of religious prolegalizing bonds already issued under the previous acts fession and worship without discrimination or prefermentioned. Such donations or appropriations were ence * * * in this State to all mankind," etc. Ib. to be paid by a tax which it was the duty of the 3. Lindenmuller v. People, 33 Barb. 548, approved corporate authorities to levy and collect. Where our and followed. Ib. mode of payment of municipal indebtedness is fixed [Decided May 22, 1877.] by statute, by implication, it excludes all others.
EVIDENCE. Held, also, that the bonds in question, having been Of pecuniary condition, when inadmissible.-In an issued without authority of law, are void in whoso- action involving a loan, evidence was offered showing ever hands they may be. Sup. Ct., Illinois, June that at various times, some three years previous to the 22. 1877. Town of Middleport v. Treasurer of Iroquois time of making the alleged loan, plaintiff had made County (Chio. L. News).
declarations that he was without means of his own Slander: words imputing crime: how understood : evi amounting to as much as the loan. It was shown, dence: malice: rumor: damages : mental anxiety.-- however, that he did at the time the loan was claimed Where slanderous words, imputing a crime, are. to have been made have money enough in his possesspoken, they are to be considered in an actionable sion to make it. Held, reversing the decision of sense, unless the evidence tends to show that, from the court below, that a rejection of the evidence was the circumstances of the speaking, or from facts proper. Nicholson v. Waful. Opinion by Folger, J. known to the hearer, they were not calculated to [Decided June 19, 1877. Reported below, 6 Hun, 655.] impress him with the fact that a crime was charged.
MORTGAGE. Proof of the speaking of slanderous words at times
1. Right of holder to contract with reference to.-The not charged in the petition is admissible for the
holder of a bond and a mortgage on real estate may purpose of showing malice. In such action it is not
make an executory agreement with the maker thereof competent for plaintiff to prove that because of the
and a third person for an extension of the time of speaking of the slanderous words there was a rumor
payment, for a decrease of the sum to be paid, and in the neighborhood in reference to the charge. It
for a different mode of payment, but it must be a lawis not competent in an action of slander to prove
ful agreement, founded upon a new and good considthat the plaintiff has been troubled, and suffered
eration. When such agreement is made it takes the mental anxiety, because of the speaking of the
place of the bond and mortgage, or is incorporated words. Sup. Ct., Iowa, April, 1877. Prime v. East
with them pro tanto. Judgment below affirmed. Clapp wood.
v. Hawley. Opinion by Folger, J.
2. When mortgage not enforceable.- Where time was COURT OF APPEALS ABSTRACT.
not of the essence of a contract under which the bond
and mortgage was given, and the contract has been in BOUNDARIES.
part performed by the defendant and plaintiff has reFixed monuments control courses : when boundary is
ceived his portion of the avails of such part performmonument.-The rule is well settled that a convey
ance, and plaintiff has not insisted upon performance, ance is to be construed in reference to its visible loca
and there has not been a specified time agreed upon or tion calls as marked or appearing upon the land in
named by either party at or before which there should preference to quantity, course or distance, and any
be a full performance or an omission to make it a departicular may be rejected if inconsistent with other
fault; held, that neither the bond normortgage parts of the description and sufficient remains to lo
could be enforced. Ib. cate the land intended to be conveyed. A boundary
[Decided May 22, 1877.] line referred to in a deed as the “Johnson” boundary,
PARTIES. held to be in the nature of a monument, and parol
In action in nature of creditor's bill : judgment debtor evidence competent to show where this boundary was. Judgment below affirmed. Robinson v. Kime. Opin
necessary.-In the case of a creditor's bill to reach a ion by Andrews, J.
chose in action the judgment debtor is a necessary
party; and this is especially true when the property [Decided June 12, 1877.]
sought to be reached is claimed to be held in trust, CONSTITUTIONAL LAW.
and when the judgment debtor is the representative of 1. Laws 1860, chap. 501, forbidding dramatic repre an estate interested in such property. Judgment besentations in New York city on Sunday, valid.-The low affirmed. Miller, receiver, v. Hall. Opinion by title to Laws of 1860, chapter 501, is “An act to pre- Miller, J. serve the publio peace and order on the first day of the 1 [Decided Jnne 22, 1877.]
TRIAL.
in which the purchase price is to be paid in installWhen case sustained by uncontradicted evidence must ments which are called payments of rent. The court be submitted to jury.-The general rule is that where a say: It was decided by this court, in Green v. Van disinterested witness, who is in no way discredited, tes Buskirk, 5 Wall. 307; 7 id. 139, that the liability of tifies to a fact within his own knowledge, which is not property to be sold under legal process, issuing from of itself improbable or in conflict with other evidence, the courts of the State where it is situated, must be tbe witness, is to be believed and the fact is to be taken determined by the law there, rather than that of the as legally established, so that it cannot be disregarded jurisdiction where the owner lives. These decisions by court or jury. But in this case, which was an ac rest on the ground that every State has the right to tion by a real estate broker for money alleged to be regulate the transfer of property within its limits, and due upon a contract made by him with defendant's that whoever sends property to it impliedly submits testator to pay him for services in procuring the sale to the regulations concerning its transfer in force of real estate, the only witness was plaintiff's son, there, although a different rule of transfer prevails in who was a clerk in his office, and whose compensation the jurisdiction where he resides. He has no absolute was in part dependent upon the receipt by his father right to have the transfer of property, lawful in that of commissions for the sale of property, and this wit- jurisdiction, respected in the courts of the State where ness testified to a single conversation in which the it is located, and it is only on a principle of comity testator agreed to pay plaintiff more than twice the
na plaintiff more than twice the that it is ever allowed. But this principle yields when usnal fee for procuring the sale of the property. Held,
the laws and policy of the latter conflict with the that the case should be submitted to the jury. Judg
former. ment below reversed. Kavanagh v. Wilson, executor.
The policy of the law in Illinois will not permit the Opinion by Earl, J.
owner of personal property to sell it, either absolutely [Decided June 12, 1877.]
or conditionally, and still continue in possession of it.
As possession is one of the strongest evidences of title USURY.
to this class of property, it is not allowable to sep1. Contract fair on face does not raise presumption
arate the possession from the title except in the manner of: burden of proof.- Where a commission merchant
pointed out by statute. To suffer real ownership to be contracted with a dealer in produce for the loan or
in one person and the ostensible ownership in another, advance to such dealer of money at the legal rate of
without notice to the world, the courts of Illinois say, interest to enable the dealer to purchase or carry his
give a false credit to the latter, and in this way works merchandise, and also for an agreed commission to
an injury to third persons. Accordingly, the real undertake the care, management and sale of the com
owner of personal property creating an interest in anmodity, such contract being in a proper and usual
other, to whom it is delivered, if desirous of preservform, held, affirming judgment below, that such
ing a lien on it, must comply with the requirements contract did not of itself establish usury, and it was
of the chattel-mortgage act. R. S. Illinois, 1874, chap. upon the party seeking to impeach it upon that ground
95, p. 711-12. This act requires that the instrument to prove that it was usurious. Matthews v. Coe. Opin
of conveyance, {if it have the effect to preserve a ion by Allen, J.
mortgage, or a lien on the property, it must be re2. Practice: general objection to report of referee.
corded, whether the party to it be a resident or nonWhere there is no evidence to support the finding of a
resident of the State. If this be not done there is no referee, an exception to the report presents a question
validity to the instrument, so far as third persons are of law reviewable on appeal. Ib.
concerned. [Decided June 22, 1877.]
Secret liens, which treat the vendor of personal propWASTE.
erty who has sold it and delivered possession of it to Felling of timber by tenant: where right of action ac
the purchaser, as the owner until the payment of the crues.-The felling of timber trees by a tenant for the
purchase-money, cannot be maintained in Illinois. purpose of sale to the injury of the reversioner is
They are held to be constructively fraudulent as to waste, and an action lies by the reversioner imme
creditors, and the property, so far as their rights are diately to recover the damages to the freehold, and it
concerned, is considered as belonging to the purchaser is no defense to the action that the tenant acted in
holding the possession. McCormick v. Hadden, 37 III. good faith or under a claim of right, or that he was in
370; Ketchum v. Watson, 24 id. 591. Nor is the transpossession, claiming title in fee to the land upon which
action changed by the agreement assuming the form the waste was committed. The reversioner is not
of a lease. Courts will always look to the purpose to debarred from bis remedy for waste because the pro
be attained by the contract rather than the name ceeding may involve the determination of a disputed
given to it by the parties, in order to determine its title. Judgment below affirmed. Robinson v. Kime.
real character. If that purpose be to give the vendor Opinion by Andrews, J.
a lien on the property until payment in full of the [Decided June 12, 1877.)
purchase-money, it is liable to be defeated by cred
itors of the purchaser who is in possession of it. This SECRET LIENS ON PERSONAL PROPERTY.
was held in Murch v. Wright, 46 IJl. 488. In that case SALE OR RETURN UNDER FORM
the purchaser took from the seller a piano at the price OF LEASE.
of $700. He paid $50 down, which was called rent for THE case of Hervey et al., plaintiffs in error, v, Rhode the first month, and was to pay $50 each month as rent 1 Island Locomotive Works, decided by the Supreme until the whole amount was paid, when he was to own Court of the United States at the term just concluded, the piano. The court say, “tbat it was a mere subpasses upon a question arising under a form of con- terfuge to call this transaction a lease," and held that tract of sale or return, which is at the present time it was a conditional sale, with the right of rescission very common. The article is in fact sold, but a writ on the part of the vendor, in case the purchaser should ten contract is executed which is in the form of a lease 1 fail in payment of his installments - a contract legal and valid as between the parties, but made with the tinued inaction as amounts to gross negligence in the risk on the part of the vendor of losing his lien, in party prosecuting, when such inaction is to the precase the property should be levied upon by the cred- | judice of innocent persons. A mortgage was executed itors of the purchaser while in possession of the lat in 1837, upon which bill of foreclosure was filed in ter. The case at bar is like this case in all essential 1840, deoree taken and order for sale issued in 1842. particulars.
Save continuances, no further action was had in the The engine Smyser is the only subject of contro case until 1868. In the meantime, the mortgagor, versy in this suit, and that was sold on condition that who had remained in open and notorious possession, each and all of the installments should be regularly had sold portions of the premises to innocent purpaid, with a right of rescission on the part of the chasers, without actual notice of the pending suit. vendor in case of default in any of the specified pay Such purchasers, and those under whom they claimed, ments.
had remained in actual possession more than twentyIt is true the instrument of conveyance purports to one years, when the plaintiff in the foreclosure suit, in be a lease and the sums stipulated to be paid are for 1869, caused to be issued another order of sale. Held, rent, but this form was used to cover the real trans that the failure to take any action in the cause from action, as much so as was the rent of the piano in 1842 to 1868, unexplained, was such negligence as preMurch v. Wright, supra. There the price of the piano vented an enforcement of the decree against actual was to be paid for in thirteen months, and here the purchasers, without actual notice. Fox v. Reeder. value of the engine, $12,093.96, was to be paid in one
NEGLIGENCE. year. It was evidently not the intention of the par
1. Who entitled to recover for death from, under statute: ties that this sum should be paid as rent for the use next of kin: husband and wife.- In an action by the of the engine for one year. If so, why agree to sell
personal representative under the statute of 1851 (S. & and convey the full title on the payment of the last
C. 1139, 1140), to recover damages for causing by wronginstallment? In both cases the price of the property
ful act and neglect the death of a woman, who died inwas agreed upon, to be paid for in short installments,
testate, leaving a husband, but no children, or their and no words employed by the parties can have the
legal representatives, held, (1) the surviving huseffect of changing the true nature of the contracts.
band is, within the meaning of said act, the next of In the case at bar the agreement contemplated that kin, and as such entitled to the fruits of any judgthe engine should be removed to the State of Illinois
ment obtained in the action. (2) While the proceeds and used by Conant & Co. in the prosecution of their
of a judgment recovered in an action under this statbusiness as contractors of a railroad. It was accord
ute are directed to be distributed to the beneficiaries ingly taken there and put to the use for which it was
of the judgment in the proportions provided by law purchased, but while in the possession of Conant &
in relation to the distribution of personal estates left Co., who exercised complete ownership over it, it was
| by persons dying intestate, the money realized is not seized and sold, in the local courts of Illinois, as their
to be treated as part of the general estate of the inproperty. These proceedings were valid in the jurisdic
testate. The personal representative in whose name tion where they took place, and must be respected by
the action is brought is a trustee of the fuud, and the Federal tribunals.
must distribute the proceeds of the judgment to those The Rhode Island Locomotive Works took the risk
to whom the general personal estate would descend of losing their lien in case the property should be
according to the course of the statute of descents and levied on by the creditors of Conant & Co. while in the
distribution. Steel, adm'r, v. Kurts. possession of the latter, and they cannot complain, as
2. Amount of damages limited to compensation for the laws of Illinois pointed out a way to them to pre
actual loss.- (3) The amount of damages (within the serve and perfect it.
limit of the statute) are to be ascertained by the jury
from the proofs in the case, and are to be a fair and RECENT AMERICAN DECISIONS.
just compensation to the widow or next of kin, with
reference to the pecuniary injury resulting to the SUPREME COURT COMMISSION OF OHIO.* beueficiary from such death. (4) In such action, the
jury, in assessing the damages, are limited to giving CONTRIBUTORY NEGLIGENCE.
pecuniary compensation for injuries resulting to the When question of fact for jury: erroneous charge. beneficiaries in the action on account of the death of In an action for an injury occasioned by negligence,
the deceased. No damages can be given on account when the case is such as necessarily devolves careful of the bereavement, mental suffering, or as a solace on ness on the plaintiff, and the proof given by him dis
account of such death. Ib. closes a case which fairly puts in question the due ex
NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENT. ercise of care on his part, the jury, in the determina
Alteration of note : what is: effect of.- Changing the tion of the question of contributory negligence, should
rate of interest in a note from six to seven per cent is be left free to consider all the evidence in the case. A
a material alteration. Such alteration, when made by charge of the court in such case, so given to the jury
the principal with the consent of the holder and that they may reasonably regard it as confining them,
owner, but without the consent of the surety, disupon the question of contributory negligence, to the
charges the surety, though such alteration was made evidence given only on the part of the defendant,
without fraudulent intent. Harsh v. Klepper. is misleading, and, therefore, erroneous. Weaver v. Gary.
SUPREME COURT OF RHODE ISLAND, OCTOBER LIS PENDENS.
TERM, 1876. Benefit of, lost by laches.-The benefit of the rule relating to lis pendens may be lost by such long-con
CHATTEL MORTGAGE.
1. Upon after-acquired property : title of mortgagee. • From advance sheets of 28 Ohio State Reports. --At law in Rhode Island a mortgage of personal
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Boruto: Naruto Next Generations Set 3 Coming to Blu-ray and DVD!
John F. Trent
Boruto: Naruto Next Generations Set 3 will be coming to Blu-ray and DVD in October.
Both the Blu-ray and DVD options will each contain 13 episodes following the adventures of Naruto’s rebellious son Boruto. Set 3 includes Episodes 27-39 of the series.
Here’s the official description from Viz Media:
“Ninjas gone wild! After causing a ruckus in the Village Hidden in the Mist, Boruto and crew come home to find out they may have stirred up a hornet’s nest. Then it’s time for some serious thinking—will they become regular citizens or continue on the path of the shinobi? It’s up to Kakashi to offer some much-needed advice in a style typical of the sixth Hokage!”
The Blu-ray will feature exclusive interviews with the English voice cast. It will also include storyboards, digital art galleries and clean opening and ending segments.
The Blu-ray and DVD arrives on October 8th. It will retailer for $44.98 and will be available through Target, Amazon, and RightStuf.
Viz Media also announced a number of new manga and art collections coming in October.
The World of RWBY
The World of RWBY by Daniel Wallace also arrives on October 8th.
Here’s the official description:
“The definitive companion to the hit animated series, THE WORLD OF RWBY is the ultimate celebration of a pop-culture phenomenon. Go behind the scenes with exclusive commentary from Rooster Teeth and explore the show’s creation through in-depth interviews with the writers, animators and voice artists. With comprehensive analysis of key characters and iconic episodes, and showcasing stunning visuals from the series, this is the must-have book for RWBY fans around the world.”
It will retail for $39.99.
The Drifting Classroom: Perfect Edition
The Drifting Classroom: Perfect Edition by Kazuo Umezz will arrive on October 15th.
“In the aftermath of a massive earthquake, a Japanese elementary school is transported into a hostile world where the students and teachers are besieged by terrifying creatures and beset by madness. The new PERFECT EDITIONS present the science fiction horror classic in a hardcover omnibus format with completely new translations, content, and revised story elements.”
An Incurable Case of Love
Last but not least is An Incurable Case of Love by Maki Enjoji. This book is Rated ‘M’ for mature readers and will arrive on October 1st.
After witnessing a handsome and charming young doctor save a stranger’s life five years ago, Nanase Sakura trained to become a nurse. But when she meets the doctor again and they start working together, she finds Kairi Tendo to be nothing like the man she imagined him to be!
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The Shia Against ISIS: From Karbala 680 to Iraq 2015
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By Roukhsar Nissaraly, a graduate student in human rights
The recent bloody attacks by extremist groups on innocent civilians in Ankara, Brussels, and Lahore have provoked outrage across the globe. In an effort to understand the ideology of one such group, ISIS, it is perhaps fitting to look back five months to the 1335th annual Shia commemoration of Ashura, as a reminder that the victims of ISIS’ politics of terror are often Muslims themselves.
On October 24th, 2015, defying bullets, bombs, and hostile glares from ISIS and its supporters, Iraqi Shias marched to the holy city of Karbala for the commemoration of the martyrdom of Hussain ibn Ali, the grandson of Prophet Muhammad, and the son of Ali ibn Abi Talib, whom the Shias follow as their first Imam and caliph. This ritual is widely observed in the Shia world, and marks a primordial facet of the sect’s identity: every year on the 10th of Muharram, also known as the day of Ashura, believers clad in black march to mourn the martyrdom of Hussain as the saint who stood up for social justice, and sacrificed his entire family for the sake of humanity in the battle of Karbala.
In 680AD, Umayyad caliph Yazid ibn Mu’awiyah rose to power through corruption and violence, and demanded Hussain’s allegiance. Being a man of justice and truth, Hussain refused to give in to Yazid’s threats and rose against this religious, political, and social oppression. As he stated himself:
“I am not rising against Yazid as an insolent or an arrogant person, or as a mischief-monger, or tyrant. I have risen against Yazid as I seek to reform the Ummah (Islamic nation) of my grandfather. I wish to bid the good and forbid the evil.”
Hussain then left Medina, the city of Prophet Muhammad, for the barren and scalding desert of Karbala. Along with his 72 loyal companions, including his friends and family members, he was left thirsty for three days under the burning sun, and brutally murdered by Yazid’s army of at least 30,000 men. Hussain and his men fell as martyrs, refusing battle until the very last moment.
The historical event of Karbala is not only remembered for its ferocity as a battle; rather, it has set the stage for countless human rights narratives that not only empower the Shia community, but also resonate with human beings around the world. Hussain and his family were denied water for three days. That same resource has become a weapon for ISIS to force resisting villages to give in to its rule. Hussain and his family were cruelly massacred for the values and beliefs they held. Today, ISIS is ruthlessly killing Shias and labeling them as apostates and heretics. Hussain’s women and children were looted, taken as war prisoners, and paraded through the streets of Kufa and Damascus. As of today, ISIS loots villages, and owns a flourishing slave market in which women and girls from religious minorities in Iraq are sold.
The teachings at Karbala have become faith’s weapon against injustice, and the revolutionary symbol of Hussain is the banner that Iraqi Shias are holding against ISIS today. Seen as infidels by the extremist group, the Shias are targeted for the perceived crime of being followers of Ali ibn Abi Talib and his progeny. According to a report by Human Rights Watch, ISIS has destroyed seven places of worship in June 2014, and frequently executes Shias, including through mass killings in the city of Tikrit. In July 2015, a car bomb killed 120 people in the town of Khan Bani Saad, where the population is mainly Shia. The accounts confirm that the group engages in selective killing, separating Sunnis from Shias after checking their identity cards, and does not make any kind of distinction between men, women and children, let alone combatants and civilians.
The Shrine of Imam Hussain
ISIS’ treatment of the Shia population is at odds with not only the principles of international law, but Islamic tradition as well. The right to religious freedom, in private and in community, is enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It is emphasized in Article 18 of the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, granting individuals the right to manifest their beliefs in practice, such as through rituals and processions. Additionally, the Islamic doctrine, which ISIS claims to follow scrupulously, protects religious minorities and defends their right to practice as conscience dictates. The Qur’an, which is the final word of God for all Muslims, summarizes the notion of religious freedom in one verse, among others: “let there be no compulsion in religion” (Qur’an 2:256). With its oppression of Shias and other religious groups in Iraq, ISIS undoubtedly violates human rights principles that are arguably too fundamental to be challenged by cultural relativism.
In the wake of this escalating persecution, Shia religious leaders have drawn strength from the symbol of Hussain. Ayatollah Sistani, the foremost religious voice for Iraqi Shias, issued a strong statement in which he reminded the Shia resistance fighters of their obligations to uphold justice. Echoing the words of Hussain, he advised in his statement to, “strive to act in the same righteous manner as the Prophet and his progeny (…) let your righteous actions, your just conduct, and your sound admonition serve as an example for them. Do not resort to oppression.” Lebanon’s Shia leaders have often used similar rhetoric when speaking to the masses, urging Shias to continue resisting for the same values Hussain held – justice and freedom.
Hussain’s actions on the plains of Karbala 1335 years ago, and his unflinching determination to stand up for righteousness, serve as timeless examples for Shia believers fuelling the resistance movement to stand up against ISIS’ human rights violations in an ethical way. Although not all Shia militias have respected this condition, the core of the defense movement is nevertheless anchored to the notion of a just revolution, a standard set by the battle of Karbala.
In 2014, a supporter of ISIS tweeted, “Shiites, prepare yourselves for our bombs. Ashura is here and Karbala is not far anymore.” From Karbala 680 to Iraq 2015, the dynamics of horror today remain the same.
Roukhsar Nissaraly is currently a graduate student in human rights at Columbia University. Her research interests include Shiism, the rights of religious minorities, and the interplay between Islam and human rights.
Categories : Middle East
Bravo Roukhsar! Proud of you. Keep going 😉
Roukhsar Nissaraly says:
Thank you so much for your sweet and supportive comment! I greatly appreciate it 🙂
Mohamad says:
A sound and high level piece of work, Congratulation!
I have a comment about the appropriateness of using word ”militia” in paragraph 8, because most of the Shiaa resistance groups are very well organised, armed and trained. They even have a board to whom they report.
Finally, I will be very happy to read a blog about human rights in Bahrain in the near future.
Thank you so much for your encouraging comment, Mohamad! It means a lot to me. While I used the term “militia” for its general definition, your point is relevant and valid. I will definitely keep it in mind for any future writing. A post regarding human rights in Bahrain would be extremely interesting, and I hope we get the opportunity to read one very soon! 🙂
Thanks to the author for this great work. I really like the analysis and facts!
Waiting for the next 🙂
I believe that the highest compliment you can pay an author is to say that you appreciated their work. Thank you so much! 🙂
Sadeka says:
Un grand bravo à toi pour cette article! Continue dans cette voie!! Très fière de toi! 🙂
Merci beaucoup ma chère amie pour ce commentaire qui me fait chaud au coeur! Je t’embrasse fort et t’envoie toute mon amitié. À très vite j’espère! 🙂
Congratulations Rusqsar! Wishing for the next!
Thank you so much for your comment! I truly appreciate your enthusiasm and encouragement! 🙂
S B says:
Great piece of work Roukhsar. So proud of you! You truly are an inspiration to all of us back home!
Your thoughtful and heartwarming comment made my day. My prayers and love go to all of you back home. You are all dear and close to my heart. See you soon! R
yahdi siradj says:
indeed this insight is so important to us on this isis. Thank you very much
Thank you for your comment! 🙂 I am glad you find the article informative!
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Flagship vs. Pirate ship
Marianne Combs May 2, 2011, 12:28 PM May 2, 2011
One of the most rousing toasts given Saturday night at the Southern Theater’s annual fundraiser came from Patrick Scully, of Patrick’s Cabaret.
Scully elicited quite a few laughs when he mentioned the new Cowles Center for Dance, now under construction, and how it has advertised itself as the Twin Cities’ “flagship for dance.”
“That’s funny,” he mused, “I thought we already had a flagship for dance in the Southern.”
(As the Southern’s dance curator Laurie Van Wieren stated in her toast, since 1980 the Southern stage has been home to more dance than any other venue in the Twin Cities.)
“But then I realized,” continued Scully, “that they’re talking about a different kind of ship.”
Scully said if the Cowles Center is indeed a flagship for dance, then the best analogy for the Southern would be a “pirate ship.”
Scully, who got his start performing at the Southern, and who’s queer-themed work has often been considered controversial, gives the theater credit for helping him find his voice.
“If we don’t have a Southern for future misfits like me to find their voices, we will be less. Because it’s those voices we most need in this world.”
And so Scully raised his bottle and toasted “to the pirate ship.”
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UMW Alum Dodges a Bullet
Tierney McAffee
One morning last January, UMW alumnus Drew Bambrick woke up to find three masked men in his bedroom.
Bambrick, who lives alone in a house in the Village of Idlewild, thought that the intruders were just his friends playing a trick on him, but the nine millimeter handgun pointed at his head proved otherwise.
“I was really in shock. It was one of those disbelief kinds of things,” Bambrick said. “Like, ‘I can’t believe this is actually happening.”
Bambrick later found out from police officials that this was the first time in five years that someone had been robbed at gunpoint in Fredericksburg.
After they were sure Bambrick was awake, the trio repeatedly warned Bambrick that the gun was real. They also asked if Bambrick wanted them to shoot a hole in the floor to prove that it was loaded.
Bambrick declined.
After tying Bambrick’s hands and legs together with a telephone charger cable, the men proceeded to search his house.
Bambrick said that the robbers told him they broke into his home because they heard there was a large quantity of drugs kept there. When they couldn’t find any, they took Bamrick’s car keys, watch, money and breathalyzer instead.
Bambrick estimates that the youngest man was about 18-years-old, while the oldest was around 26. Even though the men were armed, Bambrick said that he was not afraid of them.
“You could tell by the way they acted that they weren’t going to do anything,” Bambrick said. “They were just three young guys who looked like they could have been my friends. I know kids who look and talk just like them.”
For the next 20 minutes, Bambrick sat on his bed while one of the men watched him. Bambrick said that the man even let him look at the gun after he asked politely.
“That part was so weird,” Bambrick said. “When it was happening, I was like this is going to be the craziest story later.”
When the other robbers returned, they made Bambrick lie down on the bed while they covered him with a blanket.
“That was the worst part about the whole thing,” Bambrick said. “I didn’t like the blanket because I couldn’t see what was going on.”
After the men left, Bambrick was able to cut his ties and call the police. He then found his cell phone, which the robbers agreed to leave behind, under a pile of clothes in his closet.
Bambrick said that about four or five detectives and ten police officers responded to his call. The police found little evidence and were unable to catch the robbers.
“On principle, it bothers me that they didn’t get caught,” Bambrick said.
Bambrick, whose parents own the Idlewild home, said no one else was in the house during the robbery, but his friend, alum Jaclyn Gebbia, had left just an hour before.
“My biggest concern was Jaclyn,” Bambrick said. “I was really grateful that she wasn’t there for it. When I think about it, it was the best-case scenario for a robbery. A million different things could have been worse.”
Although Bambrick said he wasn’t traumatized by the incident, he is now more careful about locking the doors to his home.
“If it happened to me again, people would just call me an idiot,” he said.
Bambrick said that the worst blow came a week after the robbery took place.
“The bastards took all my liquor,” Bambrick said. “I wanted to sit down and have a glass of gin and I realized it was all gone. Isn’t that a kick in the nuts? Who does that?”
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Whatever was said and done in the Georgia locker room at halftime yesterday, Mark Richt needs to gather that all together, crumple it into a little ball, douse it with gasoline, set it on fire and bury the ashes at sea. Boy, what a letdown.
My question from watching that game isn’t whether Georgia had to play perfectly to beat an excellent LSU team – Georgia, after all, was winning 10-0 mid-second quarter despite two brutal whiffs on touchdown passes by King and Mitchell – but whether Georgia’s best effort of the year would have been enough to pull off the upset.
We’ll never know, of course, but that halftime lead, the only one which LSU has faced the entire season, suggests it would have at least been a close call. That it never came to that in the end I think boiled down to three key spots in the game:
Georgia’s second series of the second quarter. I don’t know if was the result of the Dawgs’ worst field position of the game up to that point, lack of faith in the receivers after numerous drops, a desire to shorten the first half or complete faith in what Grantham’s defense was doing, but Bobo’s play selection was a disaster. Two Crowell runs that were easily stuffed for little gain and a slow developing pass play which resulted in a huge sack put Georgia back at its own three for a punt. Up until then, Bobo had been aggressive, calling for passes on first down frequently; if he didn’t have Chavis back on his heels, he at least had him guessing. The only first down Georgia gained over the rest of the first half was via a personal foul penalty and the Dawgs wouldn’t get their next one until the waning moments of the third quarter with the game already out of hand.
Touchdown, Tyrann Mathieu. This, of course, was Georgia’s immediate reward for Bobo’s play calls. Given its special teams struggles over the season, punting to Mathieu with Butler standing on the end line was a risky proposition to begin with, but with the way the Dawgs’ defense was playing, ignoring the lower risk strategy of a kick towards the sidelines was unnecessary. It was Russian roulette and the gun went off in Georgia’s face. It didn’t cost Georgia the lead, but you could sense the energy and confidence sliding back to LSU’s side of the stadium in the aftermath.
The Murray fumble. Statistically speaking, Aaron Murray is going to enjoy a better career at Georgia than David Greene, but Greene is still my gold standard for Georgia quarterbacks of the Richt era simply because he learned early on about playing within himself and not trying to do too much. That’s a lesson Murray hasn’t learned yet (to be fair, it’s one that Shockley and Stafford struggled with, too). You can’t help but love his competitiveness but that desire to make something happen when everyone around him isn’t gets him in trouble,and such was the case on the opening series of the second half. Not only was it a huge momentum shift at the worst possible time, but it also served to throw the defense’s mindset, which had been rock solid in the first half, completely out of sync. Ten minutes later, the game was over.
I’m not in the mood to bore you with my usual series of bullet points. Instead, I’ll leave you with some of my feelings walking out of the Dome.
It’s been a good year for Georgia football. Richt has righted the ship. This team proved in the first half that it deserved to be in the SECCG. And the loss, while certainly disappointing, can serve to be a platform for better days.
There are plenty of lessons to be learned. Some are pretty obvious: the running game needs shoring up with better (and more reliable) personnel, depth is a high priority on the offensive line and special teams personnel also needs upgrading (huge difference in speed between LSU’s coverage teams and Georgia’s). That’s all fixable with continued success on the recruiting front. And strength and conditioning, while improved, still has a ways to go.
But the biggest challenge that lies ahead is about attitude. This team learned how to compete again. Now it needs to learn how to finish. It’s good enough to take off a play or two and still whip Georgia Tech. And it can survive losing its cool against an improving Vanderbilt team. But not giving your best 100% of the time against a beast like LSU… well, that gets you beat by 32 points. If Georgia’s players and coaches want to return the program to the élite status it enjoyed a few years ago, that’s the biggest thing they need to absorb from yesterday’s loss.
If I’m Greg McGarity, that’s the discussion I’m having with my head football coach in the upcoming weeks. After mentioning how much I enjoyed watching the defense’s play in the first half, of course.
197 responses to “Semi-tough: Observations from the goal line”
UGAfoo
The hardest part for me to stomach was how it seemed like we just laid down and quit. Maybe that was a result of losing faith in the offense after CMB seemed to go conservative in the second quarter combined with a reenergized LSU team.
After a spectacular first half, the defense was a let down in the second half as well. Even after Murray fumble I thought we would be able to stuff them for a FG.
I knew we had to play a perfect game. The fumble, two INTs, dropped passes, and horrific punt coverage put an end to our SECC hopes.
CTG doesn’t get paid enough.
BTW, Senator you were 100% correct about VT. My apologies.
I don’t think the defense quit so much as completely lost its focus. You can’t get away with that against a team as good as LSU.
And seemed to tire out. I saw limping, hands on hips and slow motion movements of an exhausted group. S&C could be better but I think the fatal flaw in the entire game was our lack of quality depth across the board. They simply wore us down.
This, of course. More than play calling which did not meet our standards (Although I have never understood exactly what those are…plays that work are good calls, plays that don’t, whatever the reason are bad calls.)
LSU played at least 10 or 12 defensive linemen during the game. We played five.
But, of course, Mike Bobo should be fired because of our lack of depth on the defensive line.
Ah Scorpio you have stumbled upon the quintessential standard for criticizing an offensive coordinator: if a play works it is a good call, if it does not work it is a bad call. Go over and read the in-game posts at dawgsports sometimes it is hilarious in how much it verifies that view point. If we throw a deep pass on first down and it works, it goes something like this: “Yesssssssssssss! Go Tavarres Go!”; “Touchdown baaaaaaabbbbbbyyyyyy!” no one says, “boy what a bad call, but I’ll take the TD”. If it does not work its more like this…”First and bomb, great call Bobo, chump.”; “Why not try and establish a ground game there so we don’t have second and long” blah, blah, blah.
Why did UGA lose the SEC Championship Game? To paraphrase Bill Clinton: “It’s the refs stupid.” When LSU needed help the refs gave it to ’em. That and not enough depth, none at RB.
The offense had regressed back to the point of leaving the D out to dry which had been kept to a minimum since the second game. That and LSU is relentless and deep.
LSU’s relentlessness comes from the depth. One team could stand up to its offense not moving the ball for half the game and the other could not. And that’s why Alabama and LSU are better than everyone else in the country.
gatorhater27
Geez, I thought oversigning didn’t give a competitive advantage. Strange that the two biggest oversigners are the top 2 teams in the country.
No one ever said it didn’t give an advantage. Insider trading gives an advantage and like oversigning it is wrong.
Insider trading is illegal. Oversigning is not.
Noonan
Bingo. Imagine an NFL team with 10 more guys on the roster than their opponent. They would dominate also. Unfortunately “oversigning” is not agaist the rules.
No but it is ethically wrong. I should’ve been more clear.
Which brings it around to the point: If oversigning is legal and you don’t do it then you are at a disadvantage against teams that do (read: LSU and Bama).
Not to confuse the issue or anything, but I thought Ole Miss was the most egregious oversigner in the league…which puts a different perspective on the argument for damn sure.
And we aren’t deep. Crowell wasn’t. healthy. Behind him, we have two backs under 180lbs. And the better of those two couldn’t play in the second half.
Our starting five offensive linemen had to go against a group of defensive linemen that were kept fresh throughout the game by substitution.
We need more linemen, more running backs, and more special teams athletes.
H-Town Dawg
That’s what it’s all about. Recruiting, recruiting, recruiting!
Tyronn Mathieu was recruited, but not offered, by Bama and Tennessee. When he wasn’t LSU picked him up as an afterthought. There is more luck involved in recruiting than anyone wants to recognize.
As an outsider, I agree with you–the U.Ga. defense seemed to lose its focus and its confidence. LSU’s entire team seemed to sharpen its focus and confidence. I think the Dogs played hard and didn’t quit.
Red Blackman
I agree, for the most part.
Now, for the truth as I see it……
You can place Georgia’s offensive woes on attrition and poor coaching from a former assistant. I am sorry but Carlton Thomas, Richard Samuel and Brandon Harton are not SEC caliber tailbacks. The dismissal of Meshaun Ealey and Dontavious Jackson coupled with the ignorance of Caleb King put Georgia in a huge hole from a depth standpoint.
The offensive line coaching and talent evaluation under Stacy Searles was a complete joke. We have been reduced to four guards and a center for an offensive line. I’m pretty sure that given the time, Will Friend will return the Georgia offensive line into an elite pro style offensive line.
All in all I am pleased with the progress this year. We need some depth at running back and OT. As it stands right now, we have no elite offensive tackles on the roster. For the style of offense we run, that is a huge problem. Thank you, Stacy Searles.
As for the defense, all I can say is ….Wow. Nice game fellas.
It’s great to be a Georgia Bulldog.
Yea. Thanks Red. And thanks go to Bluto who put up more material than possible to follow and comment on Fri..
Not sour grapes, but LS Lieux held like they were in love with our receivers after the ball was in the air while the refs stared at and did not call it. Did anyone notice that IGA receivers only looked questioning toward the refs using their hands, but no hanky-snatching drivel mimicry. That affected our O as much as dropped passes. Jus’ sayin’.
They still will be fun to watch in the bowl. It will be interesting to watch the recruiting and follow the summer prep after the Spring Game. Go Dawgs! and thanks for picking it up last summer. Knowing we are better than our record, the insertion of Rome and Drew next year and the buildup to next season will capture our interest and , I imagine , will make for good blog-cheering and discussion.
G Marmalard
No sour grapes but . . . Does anybody else feel like bama and lsu have about 25% more players than the rest of us. Is this the fruit of oversigning? And if so why don’t we get on board ? Seriously. Do u think guys prima dona when they know there are 3 more just as good and somebody has to go? I feel like ga got beat by a roster yesterday. Not scheme not execution by lsu, just a huge army of athletes with endless reinforcements.
Take away the extra players and we still get beat…that’s a good team. But we handle discipline differently, recruiting differently, graduation rates differently, etc. They do it their way to win. We do it our way because it’s right. When the standards aren’t the same, don’t expect fair and equal outcomes.
Please don’t go all GT on us and start making excuses.
Do you think that Richt wouldn’t dismiss a player engaged in a parking lot stomping/beating? He dismissed Mettenberger for playing grab-ass before Murray had established himself as the starter.
I disagree. We have over 100 guys on the roster, same as most other teams. We’ve got to build depth and strength.
Look at Mike Gilliard. The only reason he got to start and play early on was because of injuries. Turns out he was pretty good. We’ve got other guys like him on the sidelines. We just need to continue to evaluate them and develop them. We’ll get there.
Right on, AusDawg85.
Oversigning is the elephant in the room regarding quality depth, imo. I still don’t want UGA to go down that path by exploiting recruits and players, but the NCAA/SEC offices need to curtail this practice by setting standards that must be adhered to. I recommend allowing everyone to oversign by 2-3 to allow for attrition AND allow them to keep those extra signees of they are able to keep everyone eligible. This isn’t a whine, but we may have the same number of players with a uni, but we are way below the “real” scholly numbers, and we were in August/September.
The game was won by LSU last night for two reasons: 1) OL could not block well enough even if we had every running back on hand for the last two years and, 2) our ST coverage and blocking is totally unacceptable. Everyone can stretch and try to blame Bobo for a paly call here or there (what team couldn’t after the fact), but the coaches did not lose this game. UGA had a chance, we squandered it. Even this close to a emotional game where we went from the mountain top to the pits, I still like the direction we are heading.
Attaboy, Mac! Let’s hold the fan line in keeping with what we ask of our team.
As usual, spot on Senator. I’m too dazed as well to dwell on deep analysis at this point. Scratching my head about CMB’s decisions and lack of depth in key positions were fatal flaws in both games at the Dome.
It’s been a very good season…better than most expected, and showed promise for the future. But I hope both the AD and HC are truly able to see the situation for what it is, and commit to further improvement. To sit back now and just recruit “5 stars” thinking that’s all that is missing would be tragic.
baltimore dawg
so you do blame bobo. . . .
ChicagoDawg
The way the team prepares and shows up for the bowl game will show how much things have been turned around. Showing up each day for practice with a sense of urgency and playing the game with passion will truly demonstrate that things are back on track. I believe (hope) they are, but the next month will be a critical time for both the staff and the future of this particular set of returning players.
Rusdawg
They need to approach the bowl game as if it was a season opener. This will be the opening salvo of the 2012 season. We’re done with 2011. Everything from today forward is about 2012.
No. Please don’t treat it like the season opener.
The Original Cynical in Athens
3 plays in the game:
1. The blocks in the back on the punt return. Yes, it was stupid to punt the ball right to the guy, but if the refs do their job, we go into the half up at least 10-0.
2. The Murray fumble. You summed it up perfectly, Senator. All Murray has to do is not f*ck it up. A punt was a win in that game. And then he f*cked it up by trying to be a hero again.
3. The horse collar on Cornelius Washington. Pretty much summed up the 2nd half. We finally made a great play to stop them and it ends up being one of their better offensive plays of the night.
I still have no idea what happened. Strangest game I have ever seen. Only thing I can compare it to is that ’96 or ’97 UK basketball team with Mercer, Delk, Walker, etc, when you were playing even with them for 8 minutes and look up and your suddenly down by 10 without them or you really doing anything of note.
The result of the game was why i had been hoping all year that Scu would have to be the recipient of that beatdown last night. Everything good that happened throughout the season must now be called into question. Murray once again pissed his pants in an important game. The dropsies came out for the first time this season. Bobo rolled over and freaked out as soon as the going got tough. This team would have been a lot better off not playing in this game, beating up on some mediocre Big 10 team in a bowl game and going into next year riding high. Now, all of the warts that had been hidden for 10 weeks are fully exposed again and we have to wonder if they will somehow gain the mental fortitude to overcome them next year?
Yeah, trying to run up-field on a closing pocket to pick up big first down on a critical second half opening drive is “f*ck(ing) it up by trying to be a hero” and the 14pts of dropped passes, along with other drops, were sign that he “once again pissed his pants in an important game.” Great analysis.
Gary Danielson made one decent point all night. At one point when Murray took off he yelled, “just slide.” The kid just needs to learn that with a defense as good as UGA’s, a punt it not a bad thing.
As soon as we lost the field position battle, we lost the game. LSU completed 5 passes. They had two drives of over 36 yards, both of which were late in the game. Murray has to learn to understand the concept of time and place within the framework of the game being played. Last night was a battle of attrition, and failed to grasp the importance of field position.
Agreed, but if he slides there < 2yds shy of the sticks then people in the stands and on the boards are talking about a lack of heart and unwillingness to lay it on the line in an SECCG. Trying to "be a hero" would be throwing into triple coverage or be Fran Tarkenton and scrambling 30yds deep only to get sacked. Murray, with his mistakes yesterday, was NOT the problem and he hardly "pissed his pants" or "fucked it up."
Agree, Murray did not piss his pants. That’s just silly and more than a little unfair to a kid who always leaves it all on the field.
You and the Mayor are the same person or at least friends.
No. I disclaim any and all responsibility. I also do not think Murray did anything but try his guts out.
“Trying to be a hero” suggests a level of ego to Murray that I don’t think is a fair characterization. To me, the kid’s been a consummate team player. He just tried to do too much there. You hope he learns from it.
Murray did what he was supposed to – he tried to get the first down. He just fumbled. That doesn’t mean he shouldn’t try to run the ball occasionally, it means he should try to fumble less.
How the hell do you “try to fumble less”? Shit happens from a cognitive sense of not trying? You were correct to begin with, “He just fumbled.” End of story.
Zdawg
Is there a ‘Best of Les Miles halftime speeches’ available? Might be a good stocking stuffer for coach. Just sayin’…
At the end of the game he said that he had no halftime speech. They just reminded everyone to do what they always do; – play hard and win.
Get a running game that you can count on and the rest will take care of itself. Once their d-line took away the run in the second quarter it was over and nothing grantham, richt or bobo could say or do was going to change the outcome. I just hope that IC gets it together mentally and physically and that he and Marshall can carry the load in 2012. If so we’ll be playing in this game next year.
Good and succintly analytic post, Derek. No need for us to nitpick players or coaches.
Depth, depth, depth. I understand the attitude part you reference, but that game was about quality, ready to play depth. If I’m McGarity I asking Richt how they plan to better manage the number of players on the team. I’m all for the feel good story of walkons being awarded scholarships, and that will continue as players do stupid things to get shown the door, but it’s clear to me that the roster is too thin and has too many kids that should be playing FCS instead of SEC football. Part of that is the coaches had to play with what was dealt by poor evaluation, coaching and behavior, but Richt has to find a way to bring balance in numbers back to the squad.
+1. When guys don’t have it like it or not CMR has to show ’em the door. They are taking up a scholarship and a spot on the 85 list that should go to someone else. Roster management. That is the bottom line.
Duuuh. What do you think he did this year?
I think he awarded a bunch of schollys to kids that are probably great students, do more than what is asked and weren’t good enough physically to be offered SEC scholarships.
I support Richt, but he and McGarity need to get a strategy together to eliminate the inability to fill a full roster with true scholarship players and not walk-ons that were awarded scholarships because the staff failed to get a full complement of players. It won’t eliminate the King’s and Ealey’s from fucking the numbers, but you can’t sign 20 when you need 25.
I also understand how productive the 2011 recruiting class has been and the staff did a good job putting it together. I’ll also note that it’s sad that they felt the need to call it a “Dream Team”. Richt is coaching in a state where every year could bring a “Dream Team” like haul. What made it highlighted was that Richt certainly didn’t have any “Dream Team” classes the previous three years and his rep in recruits homes have been hurt by the product on the field and his job status. Recruiting and roster management are huge if you intend to compete in this conference and our guy has to get better at it.
The ATH
Maybe that’s a negative, but maybe not. The last time we really “finished strong” after avoiding the sec champ was ’07. That team wasnt very hungry coming in number one.
I agree. If the coaches can use the whipping we took yesterday as a teachable moment throughout the offseason, we’re better off going 11-3 than 11-2, because now they know just how high the bar for a MNC is, and that the 10-game streak was nice, but there’s still more work to be done.
Good thought, (the other one). You realize those initials spell “too” as in “me too”, don’t you?
Andy Coleman
Senator, you’re right on about that series being the pivotal point in the game. That series was followed by 3 more just like it, even into the 3rd quarter. Bobo stalled, and the crap hit the fan.
If you think I’m pinning the loss on Bobo, you’re overstating my point.
I know you’re not on the new OC train like I have been for the past four years, I’m just amazed that you admit how crucial it was when we nutted up on that series.
Do you recognize that there may be a direct correlation between play calling changing all of the sudden during a game, and Murray going all bankers mid game?
Both Bobo and Murray were dealing with an offensive line physically challenged all night, running backs who had trouble hitting the holes faster than LSU’s linebackers closed them and receivers who couldn’t hold on to passes to save their lives.
I really doubt Murray was thinking to himself on that third down play, “I gotta do something here… Bobo’s playcalling is killing us.” He was just a kid in a pressure situation trying to make a play to help his team. It blew up. Hopefully he’ll learn from his mistake. That’s all I recognize.
I bet Murray wondered why he was handing it off up the gut on 1st and 2nd down for the 4th possession in a row, only to have Crowell/Thomas run into a wall. There are ways to neutralize D-lines, and off tackle dives and draws on 1st and 2nd down are not them.
“There are ways to neutralize D-lines”? How closely were you watching the game? It wasn’t just LSU’s d-line that was an issue. Those linebackers were obscenely fast closing down the gaps. It was clear that Georgia’s running backs weren’t prepared for that. Although to be fair, until you play against them, I’m not sure how you could be prepared.
Ok, let me change my post to “neutralize fronts”. Either way, same point. Please understand that I think LSU was a better team than the Dawgs. But, I don’t want that to be the case in a few years. I want what is best for this team, and in my (I’m a virtual nobody, but a loyal alum/fan none-the-less) opinion, Bobo ain’t it! Bobo makes top dollar, and we have proven (Grantham) that top dollar can get you a whole lot more if you pick wisely.
Bobo does not in fact make “top dollar” by OC standards (I think his salary was somewhere in the $200-250,000 range). Regardless of that fact there was nothing Bobo could do last night, the line couldn’t block after the first few series, our RB’s didn’t hit what small holes were there before they closed, and nobody was getting open against those DB’s. In order to “neutralize” aggresive defenses one would normally run screens and draws, in the case of last night the two bubble screens we ran (and a swing pass to Carlton Thomas) lost yardage, while the draws were losing yardage after the D linemen were shedding their blocks and gobbling up our guys behind the line of scrimmage. Bobo was calling the game safe in order to prevent the “big mistake” which would let LSU back in the game and unfortunately that happened anyway. There was really no other option to turn to, they were squatting on our short routes with safety help over the top. We lost to one of the best defenses in recent memory, with all the youth we have on our offense there is no shame in that.
The receivers sure looked open to me before the play calling took a dive. Some of you are failing to realize that the crap hit the fan AFTER our play calling changed drastically.
P.S. Bobo will make almost $400,000 this year after bonuses. That ranks him in the top 10% of OC’s in the nation. Go look it up if you don’t believe me.
Maybe you should try and walk on if you think that you could hit those receivers last night. They may have looked “open” but they weren’t, that is what zone coverage looks like. I saw a front 7 for LSU whipping our OLine and zone coverage to take away the outs and slants with safety help over the top.
I was a walk on on the UGA baseball team back in 1998, then I got my hand amputated in a wreck. I’m not nearly as accurate with the one that’s left.
According to this:
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/football/2010-coaches-contracts-database.htm
He was around 40th out of 907 for 2010, but he got a decent raise this year and about 5-10 that were above him got head coaching jobs.
That’s all assistants mind you, not just OC’s. I’m sure the Senator knows a better database to look that up. I’ve got a crying 6 month old, so I gotta get off this thing! Peace out Dawg fans!
“Peace out” yourself, Andy. You have serious flaws in your reasoning and your anti-Bobo rant. We put that crap to bed on here or perhaps you haven’t kept up very well. Your criticisms are over the top and you ignore the arguments that settled that in most fans minds a couple of months ago. Since you chose to ignore the good analytical input on here that righted the fan’s minds concerning Bobo, we should just ignore you. Everything you say in “MM QBing” can be said about any and all O coaches in D-1 ball and every college out there. Go fly your specious kite where someone who gives a damn might listen.
How’s the weight loss coming? It might get better if you dump your load of shit somewhere else.
Agree 100% about the first series of the second half. No way we should have started with dive plays. That set the wrong tone, and the Murray’s fumble really hurt.
OKDawg
I think the series in the second quarter where the game shifted and backed UGA up for the punt coincided with 1. LSU realizing we had no running game and turning up the heat on Murray and 2. Our offensive line (with no depth for rotation) beginning to spring leaks. Throw in what you mentioned, Senator, re: drops by our receivers and our defense playing lights out, and I don’t skewer Bobo for playing it more conservative at that point (backed up on our end of the field). Kicking to Mathieu with a short field was the more critical tactical error in my opinion.
Two series prior to the second quarter series bobo supposedly screwed up on:
1st-10, LSU44 3:19 C. Thomas rushed to the right for 1 yard gain
2nd-9, LSU43 3:12 C. Thomas rushed up the middle for 16 yard gain
Last first down prior to bobo supposedly screwing up:
1st-10, UGA39 12:10 A. Murray sacked by K. Adams
Clearly running it on the next series was dumb.
Bobo wasn’t willing to give up on play action. That meant he had to call some runs to try to keep Chavis and the LSU defense honest.
Bobo wasnt going to give up on play action because he wanted Murray to be alive for his junior year.
Bobo wasn’t giving up on play action because he typically runs it 20+ times per game. To the point that rushes start to smile!
*rushers
LSU had little success running the ball in the first half. They had to keep trying it to keep our D honest. Then their longest run is finally one straght up the gut. To not keep trying to develop the ground game would be stupid for both teams. Murray would have been killed. Bobo called a good game. Very similar to the one called by the Tigers. Bobo will be the QB coach & the OC for the next few years. Nobody with any real input wants to change that. Give it a break, people.
+infinity
For those who settle for mediocrity. And, I’m a semi Richtophile as Sports & Grits would say. I just feel sorry for his inability to fire people. It’s his best and worst trait I suppose.
I actually strongly disagree with you here.
I hope you don’t think I’m being unreasonable, but I don’t think LSU “had to keep trying it to keep our D honest.” LSU had to keep running the ball because that’s all they could do. They didn’t have another option. I think the deep passes they attempted were an effort “to keep our D honest.” They ran it over and over and over because they had no other choice. They found ways to make that work and once they found what was working they kept doing it.
They threw those deep passes so that we couldn’t just load up the box and sell out to stop the run the whole game. But they only threw 13 passes the entire game. They ran it because that’s what they do and that’s what they’re built to do. Murray wasn’t getting killed when we ran for like 34 yards in the first half and carved up LSU’s secondary passing the ball on short routes. Did Bobo call a similar game to the LSU OC? No, he didn’t. They found out they were having limited success running up the middle and tried running it outside. When that worked, they kept on doing it. We were having success on short passing routes and started running it up the middle into a loaded box. When that didn’t work, we continued to do it. We wasted downs and then threw Aaron to the wolves on 3rd and long. That was bad play-calling. After the first quarter, we shut down what was working (like in the Auburn game last year) and stopped being aggressive. From then on, we never gave ourselves a chance.
Adam, amen brother.
Red Blackman gets the whole picture. It all starts on the offensive line. The current interior line is not a good run blocking squad. They seem slow of the line and do not get their pads down. That being said, there is not one RB on the squad who can hit a gap and break out. Not one. Now the line can push with Samuel and Malcome. The most important player in the game is the Frosh RB for LSU, Hilliard. He is a load with speed. Yo i could tell the Dawgs D wanted nothing to do with him. I’m puzzled how over the past 3-5 years CMR has not learned what a former Auburn coach told hime one time. To win big in the SEC you had better have a solid, consistent running game. Running teams are just more physical and disciplined in a big game.
I’m back where I was last season. Think the Dawgs need a QB/RB position coach. Murray has played a lot, I mean alot of snaps, but his progression, technique, and maturity is not where it should be, and I’m not sure he can get it there. For me there is even an off field differnece between him and Mason. Mason seems to be more mature and understand the game better. Plus I think he a better passer and could manage a game better than Murray.
Will Friend and Coach T have their work cut out for them for the bowl and the off-season. Let’s see how this line can improve by bowl time. I’d recruit linemen hard along with some SEC caliber RB [hint, Lattimore, Richardson, Hilliard].
To watch that game and think our real problem is at qb is to be a total idiot. Sorry to be rude, but that is just stupid. You don’t understand football; quit trying.
See my post below Mark only does what Bobby Bowden taught him, he is still after 11 years looking for his Warwick Dunn. We recruit midgets at running back not for a change of pace but for our running backs. None of our RB’s would be on Alabama or LSU’s 3 deep and that includes IC. We are not a power team Alabama and LSU are power teams. We are a multiple offense that if everything goes well can be effective but we are not going to line up and power the ball against good defenses period.
Yeah that is why Bama recruited IC so hard last year, so he could sit on the bench….
Just Chuck
Lots of guys look like world beaters in high school and many work out in college but some don’t. Jasper Sanks is probably our best example. We need a running back who doesn’t get put on his ass trying to pass block and, for sure, one who can keep his mouth shut and not cost us penalty yardage when it looks like we might be getting something started on offense.
You are totally right about OL problems. We have a mediocre, albeit enormous OL, that has no depth at all.
I am not sure why you’re thinkin Mason is better than Murray. Murray set the season record for TD’s after losing the best receiver ever to play for GA to the NFL, without a decent RB, and throwing to a bunch of freshman, all whille running for his life most of the season. Mason has thrown a couple of balls in mop up duty. I’ve said this before about QB’s and Richt. He’s coached 2 Heisman winners and the winningest QB in the history of college FB (until McCoy broke his record for wins). I am betting Mason is not better than Murray. And that’s why Mason is not starting and may transfer after this season.
Mason seems to be more mature and understand the game better. Plus I think he a better passer and could manage a game better than Murray.
Based on what, pray tell? Garbage time performances?
Herschel Blogger
he must look mature when they cut to shots of him standing near Richt.
to be pissed at Aaron after that game, and this season as a whole, is just wrong.
Brian Dawg
I am not pissed at Aaron, but before you anoint him, at least be honest and say that he lost a fumble and threw two picks. That’s three times HE gave the ball back to LSU. Don’t pin the whole loss on our line or our RBs.
But you’re ready to anoint Mason?
An awful lot of quarterbacks threw INTs against that LSU team. With time in the pocket, Murray is among the best.
We won’t since there is plenty of blame to go sround on this non-NFL team we have fielded this year. If you think that our O linemen are great(and I love all that they have tried to accomplish this season) take a look at the film in the last of the 3rd/beginning of the 4th when we were sending Malcolm up the middle . The left guard was blocking, Jones and Zander had started a push next to him, when #22 LSU came under and flipped a 300+ lb player backwards and off the line then dove left to help stop the play. What should have been a big hole got plugged by an undersize player blocking correctly by getting under the UGA lineman’s pads.
Yeah, we were tired, but it was an incorrect block on our part, no fault of others in the backfield nor the rest of the line where the play was going.
Stop the fault-finding on individual players for individual plays because, point is, there is plentyof nitpicking fault-finding to go around. And there is plenty of good fight as well. Don’t start this dumb rant that was picked apart and put to bed before. The players have owned up before and said they didn’t perform the plays as Bobo had taught and called. It is just ignorant to call this bullshit up again and watch recruits say that they hear it and go elsewhere. What in four hells are you trying to accomplish?
The fact of the matter is the Dawgs dropped 2 sure TD passes that coupled with the White TD and the “no way in hell” that should have been a punt return TD (a block in the back coupled with tossing the ball away before the goal line) would have made it 21-0 at halftime and a completely different game all together. After all the screw ups the Dawgs got down on themselves and the defensive letdowns began.
dawgfan17
This. Who knows what happens after that but if we simply catch the passes that hit us in the hands the game is totally different. If the defense lost any focus it was because they watched as good a half of defense that anyone can play go to waste to dropped passes. If we go up 21 the defense fights and claws all the way to the end. Not sure if we win but I really love our chances at that point.
Here’s hoping OSU is in the title game over Bama just to piss of the Paul Finebaum nutbags.
We were who we thought we were. I wrote on a blog “dawgsports” I think that I saw this game as another SCU type game. We gave it away. The drops, the fumble, the special teams play, etc same as the SCU game. Richt, God love him, only knows what Bobby Bowden taught him and Bobby never had to worry about anything but kickers. FSU’s walk-ons were fast enough for the ACC. Until he changes his hard head about Special Teams we had better score a lot of points to make up for them.
LSU was who they have been the whole year. They have no offense until their depth wears you out. They have 4 count them 4 SEC RB’s that could start for us or anybody else except for the other power Alabama. The D played there a$$es off but could not withstand the fresh legs in the second half. As long as UF and UGA don’t over sign we are screwed, it just remains to be seen if Steve can over sign enough to control the East. UA and LSU have the West and the SECCG locked up for the foreseeable future.
I just hope that there are some good OL guys that want to play ASAP but OL is the one position that takes time to build and I don’t see
us going the JUCO route on it.
“We gave it away”? You must be joking. That was *nothing* like the SC game. Yesterday’s game was like the cliche movie scene in which a 5’2″ 100lb. loser punches the schoolyard bully in the face, maybe draws a drop of blood, and then proceeds to get pummeled mercilessly. We gave nothing away. Nothing.
Huh?! Two dropped passes in the end zone and three turnovers isn’t giving anything away?!
Wow, they had 235 yards, 95 of which came on ONE drive, yet end up with 42 points and you don’t see the parallel? The turnovers and STs blunders changed that game from a possible “last drive” game…and that is before we dropped all the passes (including the two for TDs.) We didn’t dominate the WHOLE game like we did SC, but we gave them the short fields and cheap scores.
+1. Was it 28 points off turnovers and long punt returns? I lost count.
Play calling. Called 85 plays to their 45+. They get 42 points…21 in one quarter. We get 10 off 85 snaps. That is just damn puzzling. And Bobo had said they wanted to run more plays this season. Well, he sure got that against LSU, but it did not help the scoreboard. Bobo is the most unproductive OC in the D1 football. Never put anyone in motion to get them to the edge, create space, slow the rush, gas the LSU D line and LBs to the outside.
LSU is good, but when you only get 237 yards of offense, 45+ snaps,have less than quarter of time than UGA, no first downs thru 2 quarters, and only 10 yards of rushing…how good are these guys? Not good enough for me to say they are the best yet. More so when UGA could have had 21 points and that lead going into the 2nd half. Have that with a running game and the SECCG belongs to the Dawgs. Plus, I’m amazed how many missed honey boys fumble through the end zone. I told my grandson he did not score because the ball did not cross the line. Now why did it take so long for the coaches, TV, announcers, and every freaking body else not to see that.
Frankly, I’m for moving the game out of Atlanta and the Dome. Shame a faciltiy is as bad as this hosts a SEC championship game. Metor Atlanta does not deserve to host the game anymore. Move the game back into the conference, not an ACC site. I’d been for playing it in Baton Rouge or the home field of the highest rank team of the divison champs. CMR has better success outside the Dome.
Let’s see we were 2 drops from quadrupling bama’s output over four quarters and OT in one quarter and you blame bobo’s play calling and …. The building???? WTF!?!
Let’s move the SECCG to Jacksonville!
or at least rotate it between the Dome and Jacksonville! Oh, the sheer logic of it all!
WTF is wrong with the Dome? WTF is wrong with metro Atlanta? Whatever dude. Why would you give the best team even more of an advantage?
Your lack of logic is shocking.
Is it just me or does it seem that all of a sudden the “2-personality fans” are showing up again? It’s like their negative presonalities don’t want to understand what has already been resolved and now they chip in as if they have been laying in wait.
Loved the defense in the first half, what a bunch of warriors! We lost, but I like the direction the team is going in and I hope McGarity somehow lets the recruits know that Richt will still be here for years to come. Gotta get this next class signed, the Dream Team has already made an impact, need to get another stellar class.
Call me crazy but we may look back on this season and this game as exactly what our program needed when we needed it. The season to make the program and fans believe again and the game as a reality check as to what we still need to do to go from good to elite. Does it suck to watch one of arguably the best college teams ever just come back and embarass you? yes. But it does not diminsh the path we took to get here. This team has the ingredients to be great again and I am doubtful they will lay an egg in the bowl game or “quit”. Starting 0-2 then relling off 10 straight shows moxie, talent, and most of all fight and resolve regardless of how your schedule is perceived. There’s work to be done for sure but to state this year was an abberation is an insult to a team full of damn good dawgs.
+1 This is why I will never get the reasoning that is wishing uSC was playing in the SECCG instead of UGA.
Good for you, Charlotte. Spot on.
S.E. Dawg
I think it’s going to be hard to finish as you say while other schools oversign and we do not. When a school as LSU has quality depth three and four deep, that makes it tough. We don’t have that and it shows and makes it difficult to compete on their level. I know, beating a dead horse but it is what it is.
^True dat!
I saw a really young team yesterday. My biggest disappointment is that the score wasn’t as indicative of the effort that I thought our guys put up. We really were playing four offensive guards yesterday, and we have to do something about consistency in our RB position. If we can do that we definitely have a bright season ahead next year.
Funny, I saw an incomplete team yesterday. Guards playing tackle, lack of RBs, and not enough depth on the O-line and D-line.
Krautdawg
Honestly, I´m VERY happy we played this game. For one, we dominated the best team in the country for 30 minutes. The coaches had a winning game plan. We couldn´t execute it for 60 minutes against a team with a 6-deep of 1st-rounders at every position, but did you see that defense? And those open receivers? There´s plenty to build on there.
More importantly, our young team was able experience elite competition. Nothing increases focus and motivation like getting your whatchamacallit handed to you. This game, and the reality check it provided, will be bugging our players and coaches throughout the off-season. To me, that´s a good thing.
And I´ll say it again: it´s great to be a Georgia Bulldog! Auf geht´s Bulldoggen!
I understand Mason gets mop-up play. But his performance in the fourth quarter was good. I think he sees the field better, gets the ball out quicker, and is as accurate. We know Murray was second string to Mettenburge before his off field issues. But I can not put any reliance on an OC decision making and judgment based on his play selection in the first few series in the 3rd quarter. That was an embarrassment. If you do not think so, then consult the 18 rankings in the polls. Bobo and McClendon are some of the most tenured coaches on staff. Granted the O numbers improved, but when you look at Murray’s performance against Carolina, Boise, LSU, Kentucky…well, I am all in with Ben Dukes.
But let’s discuss the play book. When LSU went man up on the WR and TE well, that sealed Bobo. They could not get downfield and the line could not hold their DL and LB out. They killed the timing on pass plays. That is why they started to the shorter routes. Now do you not think going in [game plan] you expect that from Chavis. Georgia’s receivers go get the ball, b ut LSU out played them for most of them. But Murray has had 2 full seasons to develop. How many will it take him? Because under the current scheme and coaching it will not go forward. Murray had numbers against Auburn and Tech. Hell Alabama passed at will on Auburn. And anybody can throw on Tech. Those games were not accomplishments. The running game. heck most of us have gave up on that….none for 3 seaons. Martinez was an issue on D and it took CMR 3 years to get around to that change but only after pressure. No, the LSU game was a game not only to win but to show recruits you have an OC and RB coach to move up your
play. Did not happen. Wait on Friend to see what another year produces, .
We know Murray was second string to Mettenburge before his off field issues.
No. We don’t know any such thing. G-day play doesn’t mean shit. And Richt said that Murray was his number one all along.
Jeebus, Will, you put more weight on meaningless playing time than anyone else who comments here.
I usually think that your posts are scattershot, but that you make a lot of good points. But your fixation on Murray in this comment thread is absurd. When was Murray second string to Mett? I don’t recall ever seeing any indication of that in the offseason, regular season or G-day game. I’m sorry, but if Mason was better than Murray, he would be starting. There has never been a time in Richt’s tenure when he consistently started the less capable of two quarterbacks. But, as always, the guy on the bench looks better (even if the starter is likely to be All-SEC, apparently).
Will, before last season started, I had that argument with Hale and it amounted to “stop the posturing for Murray to start and let good ole competition decide it with Mett”. Unfortunately, Mett did himself in and noone influenced the outcome except Mett. That is long gone water under the bridge. Whether one is better on the playing field than the other will probably be measured next year when Mett is the QB for LSU.
Not to say that Murray is a darn good QB is disingenuous at this point. Add a great heart, Bulldog courage , leadership and a quality person and we have our Dawg of Dawgs who can take a lick and keep on…. . He has shown resolve when we needed it, great skill when throwing to Freshmen in their first year of SEC play and attitude galore. So is he a few ticks shy of perfection and did we propose that he would stack even higher his Soph year? Yeah. You seem to forget last year when he ran down the sideline and dove in the endzone and fearlessly endured the dizzying hits in the Auburn and other games. Give me this indestructable man all last year, this year and for the future. He will work on the things you feel leaves him shy of perfection and the Second Coming (and he already is half qualified there by birth). Patience with him has been well earned. Let’s try to line up with him and go after “their” ass. That’s the least he deserves.
No one wants to be the super QB that can and will lead us to a NC than Murray. To compare with other QBs-in-waiting is folly. We don’t know if they could take the licks or fail entirely where he has already proven himself. We need to quit worrying whether QB#2 or #3 will not wait patiently for their perceived chance. If they do or don’t wait has nothing to do with Murray and his abilities. As I remember he came in as a 5-star vs Mason as a 3-star. Hell, we have another 4 or 5-star waiting in the wings (LeMay). Do you wish to put Mason above him? Mason will do what he has to do for his future and whatever he chooses, I have no argument. But to compare him with Murray at this point is a no-brainer and I sure hope Mason stays to duke it out next year.
“Hell, Alabama passed at will on Auburn.” A flea-flicker and a misdirection TE throwback are trick and constraint plays. By definition, they´re the opposite of passing “at will.” The same applies to 3- to 5-yard TE out routes and RB screens.
I don’t recall but did LSU have any self-inflicted wounds yesterday?
I really don’t recall anything. Maybe a personal foul?
It’s hard to beat the best team in the country when you throw a pick 6, fumble on the 20, can’t run the ball and can’t cover a punt (albeit against an amazing return guy).
We fell to 0-2 when turnovers and poor special teams coverage hand the other team 4 TDs or more.
Hard fought game and UGA gave their best shot. The miscues and drops have got to be frustrating, though.
Unrelated, though, what is the whole story behind Grantham’s lip thing at the second half? Tracy said hip had a bloody lip but the shots of him looked like he was wearing Lady Gaga lipstick in the second half….wtf
I noticed that too. But I had the sound turned (as usual) so I don’t know what was said.
cousin eddie
Hard to blame the coaches or the players they got wore out by a deeper team So did a few other teams this year). The game plan to start was pefection but as the game wore on it played into LSUs hands and with the depth they have due to oversigning and lack of attrition. I know I have been critical of IC but was glad to see him give it a go with a bum ankle. The oline played hard to begin with but that Dline has given everyone fits all year.
Give Grantham’s agent a call and do what it takes to keep him happy.
Bobo ‘s future should be decided by someone that knows more about football than me. Sometimes he looks good and sometimes, well not so much.
Ga Girl in DC
At the top of my Christmas list for UGA is an OC who is the offensive equivalent to Todd Grantham. I think Richt’s loyal-to-a-fault history makes it unlikely that I’ll get my wish, but I can still dream.
That is a shameful post if you are a Dawg fan. Your separation on quality is based on what?Backing the general line of the bullshiters?
Ga Girl, just to fill you in…if you dislike Bobo, you cannot be a Dawg fan. It’s a rule. Balls said so. It’s all bullshit too, even if you’ve posted valid arguments. Wait, never mind, nothing is valid if it doesn’t concur with Balls’ own opinion. He’ll just curse at you and call you names on his computer. You know, the way grown-ups debate.
UGA was beaten by a better team. That is the game in a nutshell. LSU did not expect the passing attack but they caught on and dropped their safeties back. They have probably the best D backfield in college football and lots of depth on D, so Bobo saw fewer hats in the box and tried to get the running game going. When you can’t run the ball and you are in the shadow of your own goalpost and all those ballhawks back there are licking their chops and waiting for you to throw you are in trouble. To me UGa’s biggest areas to improve are special teams, Rbs and O line. Then depth on the D line. LBs and DBs seem set.
Bobo did not drop the balls throw to him,he did what any person with good sense would do. He went to another rout when at least two maybe three touchdowns were left on the ground with drop problem. The game plan had nothing wrong with it. The youth and nerve problems and etc will have to wait. The bigger problem we have now is driving from the back seat and gripes with every breath. We need to appreciate this years efforts instead of crying all the time. It gets old and hurts the program.
DCityDawg
A few simple thoughts.
1- Coaches should have never punted to Tyrone. Kick it out of bounds. There’s 14 points we gave away.
2- Murray’s meltdowns continue, missed several wide open receivers (I counted 10), and threw in 2 intereceptions and a fumble. This is getting old, and I am tired of watching a great team unravel because of Murray’s boneheaded plays and decision and inaccurate throws.
You have no idea what you are talking about. Is this a planned invasion from Dawg Vent? The blog, not you Dawg Vent.
Wow really 10 WIDE OPEN receivers…..dude there haven’t been 10 wide open receivers against LSU all YEAR, much less last night.
Bobo had no back up plan in case Crowell couldn’t go.
Like Branden Smith. Or Malcome.
Terrible preparation.
Did you miss the first quarter?
We should have either gone with Malcome or Smith at running back, the whole game, maybe both. It was our only shot. We were not prepared. Thomas and Crowell did nothing. Had to have a better plan than that. Bobo’s plan seemed to be pass every play, Chavis adjusted to that after the first quarter, and we nevber scored again. Did you watch the 2nd-4th quarters? Who made better adjustments? Wasn’t Bobo. It’s not who has the best first half. It’s who makes the best adjustments and who has the best game plan and backup game plan. Along with Murray’s inability to execute passes to wide open receivers, and punting the ball all game to a Heisman candidate, we deserved to lose.
I smell a troll.
Did Bobo? Why did he call two completely different games?
Senator, gotta squabble with you on point #3.
You know what Murray’s fumble reminded me of? Greene’s fumble in Baton Rouge on 9/20/03. Greene was outstanding, but also fallible.
They beat us, but we beat us, too.
1. No reason why a program like Georgia shouldn’t have more depth on the o-line, year in and year out – sorry, I just don’t get it. We’re acting like it’s a fact of nature or the result of a lottery or something that we don’t have more o-linemen ready to go.
2. I don’t know how much you pin on the o-line and depth, but the fact is that Murray gave it away three times yesterday. A lot of players may not look ready for prime time, but you put them on the field and they make it happen. I am a huge A. Murray fan, I really am, but I think it’s time to let Mason take every third or fourth series.
3. I’m not a Bobo hater, but after the creative, inventive first quarter, we went back to throw the bomb and run the draw what seemed like every single play. I’m not sure we tried to throw a 10 or 15 yard pass in the 2nd quarter. Maybe he dialed them up and they were covered, but I was heartsick every time I saw #1 in the game as the lone back in in the backfield. I do not understand not bringing in Tree and Figgins to lead the way in a power I running game at that point.
Here’s the deal – we keep saying “Once we found out we couldn’t run on them” or “after our o-line got gassed” – to let Bobo off the hook, as though these are surprises. The whole point of having an OC is so he can evaluate where our team’s strengths can be stressed and our weaknesses can be minimized vs our opponent. It may be that there was no way to beat LSU yesterday, but handing Crowell the ball so he could stand in the backfield waiting to get hit (rinse, repeat, x 50) is not really dialing it up, is it? I have given Bobo credit for calling a great game in the first quarter, but he kept doing the same thing over and over in the 2nd quarter, with predictable results. In fairness, we dropped a lot of passes, but you have to keep working.
4. Not sure I’ve seen anyone mention this, but I believe our D really fell apart when LSU started running the option. I thought that was as big a factor as the stupid punt returns. We had no answer for that.
How many times did Bobo say in a post game interview “Well we took our foot off the gas because the defense was playing so great.”
What a lazy piece of shit.
The defense giving 110% doesn’t mean the offense can give 20%.
Not only is that a stupid plan, but it is a level of laziness and complacency that rots the whole team.
Mike Bobo is a cancer. He absolutely must go.
Im right there with you Muck. Its so disheartening when intelligent fans like Senator take up for a guy like Bobo that won’t go balls out like Grantham.
Who’s a “balls out” OC in your mind?
Spurrier & Sean Payton come to mind immediately. Spurrier goes with what he’s dealt better than them all. He even knows when its the RIGHT time to go conservative. Of course no one is perfect. Id have to do some major research to find who fits the mold that UGA could coral.
Andy, if Richt can hire either one of them, I’ll be the first one to cheer him on.
Since you’re on record as wanting Bobo gone, how ’bout giving me a realistic replacement of somebody who’s “balls on”.
You’ve called me out. How long do I have to research? I love so many spread guys, but it scares me to go all spread in the SEC. I love our current scheme of pro set base with spread undertones. I’ll put up a post on my blog this week of my wife, work, and the youngin’s don’t get in the way. They always come first!
I hear you on having a life. 😉
Richt’s not gonna go spread. And to be honest with you, I’m not convinced you can win the current version of the SEC running the spread unless you’ve got a freak at QB. There are way too many dominant defensive teams.
Holgerson’s offense threw for 460+ on LSU. 533 yards of offense.
West Virginia has a bad defense and they lost by 26.
But… that included 4 turnovers to none.
WVU punted, LSU scored. WVU gets a good 3rd and long conversion, but fumbles and LSU gets the ball. WVU forces them to punt. WVU gets a good drive going and throws a pick and LSU scores. Then WVU drives down and scores down 13-7. Looking good and LSU hits a deep pass (one of their few all year) and goes up 20-7. Then a pick returned to the 1 and it’s soon 27-7 LSU. WVU’s Offense makes some good adjustments and comes out and scores twice. Now it’s 27-21. About to be a game… 99 KO return for a TD. 34-21 WVU gets the ball and a TO on downs early in the 4th on 4th and 3. LSU gets the ball back and scores 40-21. WVU driving… fumbles and LSU goes down and scores again. 47-21.
Actually kind of similar to our game except that WVU continued to have success. Killed themselves on offensive mistakes and ST errors. But Holgerson’s offense was moving the ball on LSU. without stupid turnovers, they likely would’ve kept on scoring. we had our stupid turnovers… but we had long since given up on scoring.
i think there are other offenses that would be plenty successful in the SEC.
If they ever reduce the SEC regular season to one game, you have a valid point.
I just think that people don’t know at this point. I wonder what a school like Florida/Bama/LSU/Georgia would do with a good DC, a good recruiting coordinator and Mike Leach. The SEC schools have the best players and best position coaches/coordinators. But the quirky offensive guys haven’t often been given a fair shake in the SEC. Al Borges and Tony Franklin are NOT Dana Holgerson or Mike Leach IMO (as far as talent, innovation, etc.) They’re not even Kevin Sumlin.
Just like the argument that the Air Raid (and similar offenses) could never succeed in the NFL… I really wonder. Maybe if they were given a few years and some serious talent, they could. West Virginia is going to keep getting better, but they won’t be in the position to consistently compete with the SEC elite because it’s WVU. They won’t have the players. They won’t have the defensive staff. If Florida runs Muschamp out on a rail in 3 years and they hire Holgerson and a competent defensive staff, who knows what will happen? Those guys have never been in that position because the general thinking has always been “it won’t work.” People said that about Urban’s system. Maybe Urban had to have Mullen and Tebow to make things work. Maybe he’s going to OSU because Braxton Miller is there and he’ll leave in 3 years when Braxton finishes up.
I see your point about the one game thing, but… I’m not sure that means that those other systems *couldn’t* be successful. We’ve only ever even seen those systems played by lesser teams against the SEC elite in games like the WVU/LSU game this year or in BCS games. If Leach were going to a big school (and maybe he will be in a few years), maybe we’d have a better idea. The highest I can remember these guys being is at Kentucky (Mumme/Leach), or Leach being the OC at Oklahoma in Stoops’s first year. Have they gone and failed somewhere else at a big time school?
Did people think Spurrier’s offensive philosophy wouldn’t work when he went to Florida? I’m not old enough to know, honestly. Did people say that SEC defenses were too physical and too good for his offense to succeed throwing the ball all over the place? That’s an honest question, not a rhetorical or sarcastic one.
But, even with all that… I’m not saying we have to switch schemes. I’m actually not even on the side that Bobo is terrible at his job. I just think that there’s a pretty good chance that we could hire someone better and that UGA should have the best coordinators we can possibly. The defensive staff seems to be much better at their jobs than the offensive staff is currently. And I don’t see how we can justify that. Again, I’m not blaming Bobo entirely or anything. I just think that we could do better.
Do you honestly think that if Richt went after a new OC the same way he went after a new DC (and staff) that we wouldn’t improve on offense?
I also think that Chad Morris coming from Tulsa to Clemson had a huge impact on their success this season. They made a change and it made a big difference.
Adam’s right. CMR should go after an NFL coach to be OC. You said above that you want a name and here it is–Bill Musgrave, QB coach of the Falcons.
No longer. I think he’s reunited with Matt Schaub as the Texans’ OC.
Musgrave is the OC of the struggling Minnesota Vikings.
Though it is his first year and he has a rookie QB, so it’s hard to say much about him.
But I wasn’t sure if you meant that as mocking me or not, Mayor. I know I may be rambling to some degree, but I’m trying to be pretty reasonable.
If Bobo is as inept as you say and he clearly needs to go, it would seem as though you could readily produce any number of better candidates. Candidates who are not active NFL head coaches that have won a Super Bowl or an active SEC head coach who has won a MNC.
Yes, and I hear you on being called out with no good reply. “Fix it before you break it ” might be a good motto for you Andy.
Richt should be able to land either one of those guys. Also, if Grantham lands another gig this off-season, let’s hire Bill Belichick as our new DC.
I will not be happy unless we hire Vince Lombardi as our QB coach.
I apologize to all I have offended by not having good replies like the two above (Chicago Dawg and Spence).
If we don’t get Ditka I am not making my Hartman fund contribution. I just won’t stand for sub standard coaching. Maybe Joe Gibbs is available…..
Turner Gill and Mike Sherman, should they not get HC offers, would be proven guys-I think you go after a guy with a resume if you pull the plug on Bobo
Here’s the best I’ve got for now: http://theugablog.blogspot.com/2011/12/curious-case-of-bobo.html
Andy, with all due respect, the kind of guy you want for OC isn’t the kind of guy Richt would hire.
I refuse to believe that, though it may very well be true, because I love Richt so damned much.
That’s McGarity’s job to find.
It isn’t my job to find an awesome OC.
I didn’t have to know the perfect replacement back when I knew Martinez needed to be fired. I was on this very blog saying it for years while defenders said it was fine. Its no different now with Bobo than it was then with Martinez.
The worst counter argument of all is “if he’s so bad, who do we replace him with.”
How the heck is that my job to know? I have my own job and life. I watch the Bulldogs and I watch maybe 15 or 20 other college games a year. I don’t watch 200. That’s McGarity and his staff’s job.
So let me get this straight…..you KNOW beyond a shadow of a doubt that Bobo sucks. I mean his awful and an affront to football loving people everywhere, but yet you can’t name one guy to replace him. If you can’t name one replacement on what are you basing the criteria for which you use to judge Bobo’s performance?
I’ll hang up and listen….
If he’s anything like most of us, his family and job get in the way of memorizing potential OC candidates names. Most of my spare football reading and watching time is given to all things Dawgs. I do watch hundreds of high school, college, and NFL games each year, but shockingly I don’t know but a handful of OC’s by name. Most of them would be impossible to get, so give me a day or two to write piece on potential candidates. Then you can call me names all you want! Like Neal Boortz always says, “if I had a dollar for every time I heard ‘you’re an idiot’…..”
My point is that both of you (hmmmm….maybe it’s just you posting under two names) seem to have this raging hatred for Bobo but you offer no alternative. You can’t even say why type of offensive philosophy you would replace him with. If you can offer a viable and realistic (realistic being the key word) but I am betting you can’t. Look I was all over Bobo the past two seasons for his playcalling and inability to adjust to what the defense was giving him, this year starting with the S.Carolina game he has turned the corner. I think that every game since (to include last night) has had a solid offensive game plan. The execution has been lacking in some areas but the plan has been solid. When you have a patch work Offensive line and zero depth at the RB position it kind of limits what you can call and where on the field you can call it. There are going to be some head scratching calls but there are for every OC in every game. There were a few in the Falcons game today and I don’t hear anyone calling for him to be fired. Statistics are the only way to compare Bobo’s performance to everyone else’s and based on that I would say he is doing a good job. Before you or someone else trots out the “he pads his stats against the crappy teams” I am using only SEC numbers and guess what…..all the OC’s pad their stats against crappy teams. Why the hell do you think Tebow played into the 4th quarter in blowouts? Stat padding to win the Heisman.
Newsflash: Bobo is just as responsible for execution as he is for the gameplan.
* He’s responsible for our shitty Oline.
* He’s responsible for our shitty run game.
* He’s responsible for our joke tailback situation over the last 5 years.
* He’s responsible for our offense choking and giving away craploads of turnovers and TAINTS (Touchdown After INTerception) in big games.
==> He is responsible for every single aspect and facet of our offense.
Why is it somehow necessary for me to know the replacement in order to be aware that Bobo is doing a shit job?
Our offense sucks. We pad our stats against sucky teams. We disappear in big games. That’s what I see right in front of me as I watch our team.
I don’t live and breathe college football. I don’t want 200 games a year and scout new OC talent from other teams. That’s Greg McGarity and CMR’s job.
Your family doesn’t seem to get in the way of the time spent blathering on blogs and watching hundreds of highschool, college, and NFL games.
Sure they do, otherwise it’d be 1000’s.
How in the hell is it my job to find a replacement?
I can’t cook, but I know if the food in front of me tastes like shit.
I’m sorry but I’m not the AD. Its not my job to find a good OC. But as a fan and a donor I can sure as hell tell when our OC sucks ass.
/apology for profanity
Bad analogy. You’re not a cook here, you’re a food critic. And how are we supposed to judge your ability to assess Bobo’s value without the context of knowing whom you believe is a competent OC?
I’m curious where you got that quote from. This is the only thing I could find:
“We pretty much called everything we had on our sheet,” offensive coordinator Mike Bobo said.
Not saying you didn’t hear it, but that’s a pretty different sentiment from what else he said.
Let me translate that for you: “I called all the situational plays that were listed on my predictable call sheet, after I went conservative because Grantham’s D was playing lights out.”
So you’re saying that’s what Muckbeast heard, rather than what Bobo said?
I was just being a smart A.
Let’s stay on this. It is one thing to have an opinion, but if someone is attributing quotes that are made up just to support that opinion that is a real issue for the credibility of the blog for you Senator. I may have made some different calls during the game,, perhaps used different personnel packages, but I saw nothing that indicated the offense backed off. And if Bobo said something that dumb in a game we never led confortably, then maybe he does need to go…I just don’t believe it in the context it was quoted. Our problem was lack of OL blocking, period, and it has been for years.
Senator, I was paraphrasing what he’s said in like 10 different interviews throughout the season.
Ah now the omnicient Muckbeast can read minds too.
I argue with muckbeast on here quite often (though sometimes it’s all internalized and I resist the temptation to actually post about it), but Bobo has said in post-game interviews that he slowed down the offense because the defense was playing so well and he didn’t want to risk us making a mistake on offense.
That has, many times, explicitly been his plan this year.
I do see how “don’t screw this up for the defense” is different from “stop scoring and hope the defense wins it” in theory. But in practice… they sure do look a lot alike.
Just a quick hypothetical: if the offense were scoring quite a bit, and the defense (as I said hypothetically) could choose between playing hard and trying to keep the other team from scoring or just let them burn 5 minutes and kick a FG every time they had the ball… would it be ok for them to just let the other team kick those field goals? Or would we still want them to try to force turnovers and get stops? If the defense’s goal was to simply limit mistakes and not do something that could cost us the game ASSUMING the offense continued to play lights out, would we be happy with the defense?
The offense has relied on the defense to help us win close games by not letting the other team score a single point in the second half while the offense has been useless for long stretches. How is that fair? That kind of game turns into a blowout win for teams who produce on both sides of the ball.
Read minds?
Bobo is the one who said it. I’m sorry that I don’t have the exact quote, but everyone here who has been following the season knows what I am talking about.
He’s given that same excuse after countless games when he shut off the offense in the 2nd or 3rd quarter like a lazy assclown.
Junkyard Dawg '00
Just like you know that your gay a$$ hovercard is shit, but you fail to replace it? In all due respect Muckbeast, you and Andy’s argument about this is as compelling as a two year old child’s attempt to speak on the subject. You both can’t name a single coordinator that you’d rather have, you both ignore the stats that prove Bobo is one of the better OC’s in the conference (which is an NFL talent rich defensive conference), and Bobo is a disciple of coach Richt and, as such, runs the offense under the philosophy of Richt. So, honestly, just enjoy the turnaround this year for what it was and send in your donation and ticket money next month and if you don’t contribute any money then maybe it wouldn’t hurt you two to shut up and let the big boys handle it.
I dont typically argue using stats because of instances like throwing 5TDs in a quarter against New Mexico State. There is a place for them in some instances. I could give you 10 names off of the top of my head Id rather have as OC, but I would rather research and give readers real candidates, not pipe dreams. I told you the two best in the game in my opinion, Spurrier and Payton. Now, if you really want to hear my legitimate candidates, Ill put them on UGABlog.com within the week.
BanjoEarl
When Malcome averaged over 7 yards a carry, and the other guys were at about 1 or 2 yards per carry, why didn’t we try that earlier in the game?
Did you see who was on the field when Malcome did most of his damage?
Yeah. LSU defensive players.
Even LSU has a 3rd string (and walkons) and honestly at the end of a blowout like that why would you not have them out there.
C’mon, Mayor, you can do better than that.
The comments about how UGA has not recruited depth at OL are simply wrong. Yes, we lack depth there, however it is not because we have not signed big uglies.
2007 – We signed 8 offensive linemen (they would be seniors if they redshirted). Bean, Boling, Ben Harden, Scott Haverkamp, Chris LIttle, Tanner Strickland, Sturdivant, and Vince Vance (JUCO).
2008 – 4 OL signed. Cordy, AJ Harmon, Ben Jones, and Jonathen Owens.
2009 – 4 OL. Chris Burnette, Kwame Geathers, Dallas Lee and Austin Long
2010 – 3 OL – Brent Benedict, Gates, Kolton Houston
2011 – 6 OL. Watts Dantzler, Zach DeBell, Hunter Long, Nathan Theus, Xavier Ward
That’s a total of 25. In that time, LSU signed 4, 6, 4, 2, and 4 for a total of 20. UGA signed 25% more OL in the past five years than LSU.
Bama signed 2, 3, 7, 3 and 4 in those years (19).
The thinness of UGA’s offensive line is not because of lack of recruiting numbers. Perhaps it is talent evaluation, development, bad luck, or some combination thereof. It is NOT because of over signing.
Hopefully those that signed last year will be ready to play significantly next year along with John Theus.
Got to figure out how to win like LSU.
In 2nd half we should have:
1- made this a field position battle
2- run the ball and punt it high
3- rely on defense
4- rely on special teams
5- not turn the ball over
And Santa Claus with his reindeer making up the rest of this wish list.
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Deciphering the role of natural variation in age-related protein homeostasis
Matt Kaeberlein1
BMC Biology volume 11, Article number: 102 (2013) Cite this article
Understanding the genetic basis of age-related diseases is a critical step toward developing therapies that promote healthy aging. Numerous genes have been identified that modulate lifespan, but the influence of natural variation in aging has not been well studied. A new report utilizing a transgenic protein aggregation model in Caenorhabditis elegans has provided important tools and insights into the relationship between natural genetic variation, protein aggregation, and age-related pathology.
See research article: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7007/11/100
Age is the single greatest risk factor for a majority of the major causes of death and disability in developed countries [1]. As populations in these nations continue to achieve greater life expectancies, the increase in prevalence of age-associated diseases presents a particularly challenging problem. One important class of age-associated diseases, including Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases, can be attributed to a failure to maintain protein homeostasis resulting in the accumulation of toxic proteins over time. Identifying the genetic factors that modulate why this happens in the context of an aging organism and, equally importantly, why it does not happen the same way in every individual, is essential for developing therapies that can delay or prevent these disorders. In this issue of BMC Biology, Gidalevitz et al. [2] characterize a series of genetically dissimilar transgenic C. elegans strains designed to assess the contribution of natural genetic variation to age-associated protein aggregation and toxicity. In the process they discovered that not only does natural genetic variation dramatically influence the propensity of proteins to aggregate, but that aggregation and toxicity are not strongly correlated.
C. elegans has been utilized extensively as a model system to study human diseases of proteotoxicity, a term used to refer to the detrimental effects of misfolded or aggregated proteins on cells. Human proteotoxic diseases include prion disorders, motor neuron disease, and various amyloidoses, as well as Alzheimer’s, Huntington’s and Parkinson’s diseases. In addition to the powerful genetic tools available to C. elegans researchers, several features make C. elegans a particularly useful model in this regard. These include the relative ease of making transgenic lines, the fact that adult C. elegans are primarily post-mitotic (with the exception of the germ line), and that an adult lifespan is two to three weeks for animals maintained in the lab. These features make it possible to express an aggregation-prone or toxic peptide of choice transgenically, either broadly or in a cell-type restricted manner, and, if fused to a fluorescent reporter such as GFP (green fluorescent protein) or YFP (yellow fluorescent protein), watch the formation of protein aggregates as the animals get older. Precisely this approach has been taken with several human disease-related peptides, including beta amyloid, tau, TDP-43, and alpha synuclein [3]. Although each toxic peptide has its own unique features and kinetics of toxicity, there are striking similarities between these different transgenic lines, including common genetic modifiers and clear age-associated pathology. In a majority of cases, toxic peptides have been expressed either neuronally or in body wall muscle cells, with body wall muscle expression yielding a robust age-associated paralysis phenotype, while neuronal expression tends to yield more subtle age-associated changes in movement or behavior, with accompanying cell loss in some cases.
Among the most utilized of these strains are a series of transgenic lines expressing polyglutamine peptides of varying length fused to YFP that were generated by the Morimoto lab [4, 5]. Polyglutamine expansions within different proteins underlie several human diseases, including Huntington’s, spinobulbar muscular atrophy, dentatorubral-pallidoluysian atrophy and several spinocerebellar ataxias. As in the human diseases, the polyglutamine-YFP peptides show age-dependent aggregation, with the rapidity of aggregation and cytotoxicity correlating strongly with the length of the polyglutamine repeat. Although it remains unclear how well these C. elegans strains recapitulate other major aspects of human polyglutamine diseases, there is no question that they have been, and continue to be, useful tools for understanding the genetic and molecular mechanisms of proteotoxicity.
One of the primary discoveries to come from studies of transgenic polyglutamine toxicity, as well as the other proteotoxicity models, in C. elegans is that the same genetic and environmental features that modulate aging also modulate resistance to proteotoxic stress. This makes intuitive sense, since proteotoxic diseases are generally age-associated; however, it also strongly supports the hypothesis that loss of protein homeostasis may be a contributing causal factor for aging, particularly in post-mitotic cells and tissues. Consistent with this idea, studies have shown that three of the best-studied longevity pathways in C. elegans, the insulin-like signaling pathway [6], dietary restriction [7], and the hypoxic response pathway [8], all similarly modulate resistance to polyglutamine toxicity. Several additional important observations have also come from these and similar studies.
The first of these important observations is that aggregation does not necessarily reflect toxicity, at least for muscle cells. At least two lines of evidence support this idea. First, when polyglutamine is expressed in body wall muscle cells, dietary restriction extends lifespan and dramatically suppresses toxicity (defined here by onset of age-associated paralysis), without reducing the number or distribution of large polyglutamine aggregates [7]. Second, reduced signaling through the insulin signaling pathway appears to suppress proteotoxicity by two distinct mechanisms: heat shock factor one (HSF-1) promotes disaggregation of toxic intermediates while the FOXO transcription factor DAF-16 promotes the formation of large molecular weight aggregates, which are apparently no longer toxic [9].
A second important observation is that exogenous proteotoxicity can affect healthspan without affecting lifespan. Expression of a 40-glutamine-repeat peptide fused to YFP in body wall muscle cells causes nearly all animals to become paralyzed by around 2 weeks of adulthood without significantly affecting adult lifespan [7].
And a third important observation is that protein homeostasis declines during normal aging. Even in animals that do not express a toxic transgenic peptide, there is now substantial evidence that misfolded and aggregated proteins accumulate with age [10]. This has led to the hypothesis that a disease-causing aggregation-prone mutant protein can serve as a ‘seed’ to initiate a toxic cascade of protein misfolding and aggregation that amplifies the underlying age-associated increase in proteotoxic stress.
Despite these insights into the role of protein homeostasis in disease, one missing link has been connecting natural variation to protein homeostasis and aging. The vast majority of genetic studies in this area have been performed using RNA interference knockdown or mutations (often gene deletions) derived from chemical mutagenesis. Gidalevitz et al. [2] have taken the first step in addressing this limitation by crossing the aforementioned muscle-specific 40 polyglutamine-YFP peptide into three genetically dissimilar wild C. elegans strains and then creating a series of recombinant inbred lines. Just in the process of creating these lines, the authors noted that genetic background strongly influences the phenotypic response (degree and rate of paralysis) to expression of the toxic peptide, as well as which subsets of muscle cells are most likely to form aggregates. In addition, they provided further confirmation that the formation of large aggregates does not always correlate strongly with toxicity, and that this relationship is likely influenced by the underlying genetic background.
Going forward, these new transgenic tools will help define the role of natural genetic variation in protein homeostasis and aging. It will be of particular interest to see which new genes are implicated in this process and whether they fall into the established pathways or define new and previously unsuspected mechanisms. It will also be of interest to determine whether the same genes modulate age-related diseases in mammals. Ultimately, as we learn more about how and why protein homeostasis breaks down during aging it should be possible to slow, or perhaps even prevent, that breakdown.
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Brignull HR, Morley JF, Morimoto RI: The stress of misfolded proteins: C. elegans models for neurodegenerative disease and aging. Adv Exp Med Biol. 2007, 594: 167-189. 10.1007/978-0-387-39975-1_15.
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Steinkraus KA, Smith ED, Davis C, Carr D, Pendergrass WR, Sutphin GL, Kennedy BK, Kaeberlein M: Dietary restriction suppresses proteotoxicity and enhances longevity by an hsf-1-dependent mechanism in Caenorhabditis elegans. Aging Cell. 2008, 7: 394-404. 10.1111/j.1474-9726.2008.00385.x.
Mehta R, Steinkraus KA, Sutphin GL, Ramos FJ, Shamieh LS, Huh A, Davis C, Chandler-Brown D, Kaeberlein M: Proteasomal regulation of the hypoxic response modulates aging in C. elegans. Science. 2009, 324: 1196-1198. 10.1126/science.1173507.
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Department of Pathology, University of Washington, 1959 NE Pacific Street, D-514, Seattle, WA, 98195-7470, USA
Matt Kaeberlein
Correspondence to Matt Kaeberlein.
This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
Kaeberlein, M. Deciphering the role of natural variation in age-related protein homeostasis. BMC Biol 11, 102 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1186/1741-7007-11-102
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Presdient Clinton a hypocrite? What a shocker!
yme March 10, 2003, 8:32pm #1
This is quoted from an article from september of 2002 by Usatoday
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2002-09-27-clinton-iraq_x.htm
**“He’s got a very dangerous (weapons) program. We need to eliminate it,” Clinton said on ABC’s Good Morning America.
Interviewed from Africa where he is on tour, the former president said, “I think we ought to go to the United Nations. I think we ought to get a tough resolution which basically says we’ll take Saddam Hussein up on his commitment to free and unfettered inspections.”
“If he doesn’t comply,” Clinton said, a U.N. resolution should make clear that the international community “is authorized to use force.” **
**“Let’s don’t relax our efforts. Let’s intensify our efforts,” the former president said. “They (al-Qaeda terrorists) still have plans to target Americans within the United states and elsewhere and I think we should all support the administration and whatever has to be done to eradicate this network.” **
Really president Clinton, we should “…intensify our efforts”???
And this fucker has the nerve to tell 60 minutes and the rest of the world to not go to war.
ElvisL1ves March 10, 2003, 8:42pm #2
“Intensify our efforts” refers to al-Qaeda, who, despite what Bush may try to convince you of, is not Saddam Hussein. Clinton is asking Bush to keep the priorities in proper order.
Clear now?
Let’s not forget about the time Clinton bombed Iraq when Al-Qaeda wasn’t even involved.
Munch March 10, 2003, 9:09pm #4
I could have sworn when Clinton bombed Iraq he didn’t send over a 1/4 million troops over to do it.
But I could be completely wrong on that.
wring March 10, 2003, 9:27pm #5
I’m getting confused, maybe a clarification is in order and you seem like just the person to give it.
are we supposed to hate Clinton 'cause he ignored Al -Q and Saddam or 'cause he bombed Iraq and ordered deployment of troops?
I just wanna be, ya know, accurate and consistent on why we’re supposed to hate him.
CRorex March 10, 2003, 9:31pm #6
Since the gulf war the US and allied planes enforcing the No fly zones have been bombing targets in Iraq almost non stop.
So that’s kinda a moot point.
Clinton is bringing up a rather important issue of international law and the UN. Namely both the UN and international law don’t mean a whole heck of a lot.
There is no mechanism that exists for the UN to enforce any resolution it passes. It largely depends on the memberstates to agree that enforcing the resolution is in it’s best interests. If the US does go attack Iraq by itself and we get ‘condemned’ by the UN for our actions what exactly will the rest of the UN do?
They can’t kick us out of the UN, we’re gaurenteed a seat by treaty. They can’t impose trade sanctions the world economy would suffer, they sure as heck won’t invade.
Basically by going in without UN support means the US, one of the largest/most powerful nations in the world doesn’t believe the UN can function. Which is counter productive, considering the idea of having a strong, independent regulatory UN would benifit the entire world.
Look at what happened with the League of Nations.
Binarydrone March 10, 2003, 9:32pm #7
News flash to Schmucko Conservative Republican Shit-eating Grinning Toads: Your party is now in the White house, and in control of congress (and boy aren’t things going swell now :rolleyes: ). We get it. The only thing that you are doing by continuing to rub it in is to alienate more than half of your countrymen.
Bile aside, all of the continued Clinton bashing is really mystifying to me. Are you guys not going to be happy until we have a one party dictatorship or what? I mean I realize that there has been some pretty well deserved criticism of the Democrats for being sore looser, but there is such a thing as graceful winners, and to be honest I am not seeing that from the other side of the isle.
light_strand March 10, 2003, 9:35pm #8
When did he tell 60 minutes not to go to war? The 60 minutes segment yesterday was on taxes.
Munch March 10, 2003, 10:59pm #9
light strand, the entire point of the 60 Minutes Point/Counterpoint is to bring up various issues that are associated with, related to, or are affected by the impending war. Last night’s episode was on taxes, vis a vis the Gulf situation.
light_strand March 10, 2003, 11:04pm #10
I’m aware of that, but I never heard Clinton unequivocally state that we shouldn’t go to war. He said that we shouldn’t be cutting taxes in war time.
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Intensive Archaeological Survey of the Sublett Farm and Santa Elena Canyon Overlook Burn Blocks, Big Bend National Park, Brewster County, Texas
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The Center for Big Bend Studies, Sul Ross State University, conducted an intensive archaeological survey in September 2007 of the proposed Lone Mountain Bike Trail corridor in Big Bend National Park, Brewster County, Texas. The project was conducted to satisfy federal requirements relative to Executive Order 11593 of 1971 and Sections 106 and 110 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966. A total of nine sites were evaluated during the project: five new sites and four that had been previously recorded. Five of the sites contain only prehistoric components, two sites contain only historic components, and two sites contain both. Features documented consisted of rock circles, rock alignments, rock groupings, cairns, a boulder cluster, hearths, fire cracked rock concentrations, a dam, a water diversion berm, and a stock tank. Recommendations call for the trail to be re-routed around BIBE-1045 and BIBE-2087 and that extra caution be exercised at BIBE-2089 to minimize potential impacts. In addition, it is recommended that BIBE-596 be updated and that remaining high-probability areas be surveyed on Lone Mountain. Seven artifacts were collected during this investigation which will be permanently housed at Big Bend National Park.
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The Vanderbilt Vaccine Research Program was formed in 2001 to conduct clinical and translational research in vaccines, vaccine preventable diseases, and pediatric infectious diseases. Led since 2014 by Dr. Buddy Creech, Associate Professor of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, the mission of the VVRP is to reduce the burden of infectious diseases worldwide through the discovery, evaluation, and delivery of effective and safe vaccines and therapeutics.
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Le Chef (Comme un chef)
Posted on April 13, 2014 by carlosdev
In France, chef = cool.
(2012) Comedy (Cohen Media Group) Jean Reno, Michael Youn, Raphaelle Agogue, Julien Boisselier, Salome Stevenin, Serge Lariviere, Issa Doumbia, Bun-hay Mean, Pierre Vernier, Santiago Segura, Genevieve Casile, Andre Penvern, Rebecca Miquel, James Gerard, Henri Payet, Franck de la Personne, Celine Caussimon, Jeanne Ferron. Directed by Daniel Cohen
Sacre Cordon Bleu!! If there is one thing the French love more than….well, love, it’s cuisine. Those Michelin stars are a really big deal in France.
Just ask Alexandre Lagarde (Reno). He has parlayed his three star status into a lucrative career with several restaurants, a television show and a frozen food line to his name. However, life isn’t rosy for him; he’s lost his fire and inspiration. His restaurants are owned by a corporate mogul whose snarky son Stanislas (Boisselier) would like nothing more than to see Alexandre, whom he considers old-fashioned and out-dated, retired to the Gulag of the French countryside and his golden boy Cyril Boss (Gerard), a devotee of molecular gastronomy, installed in the flagship restaurant Cargo Lagarde. Alexandre of course is livid about this; how humiliating it would be to be forced out of the restaurant that he built and bears his name.
The guidebook reviewers will soon be checking out Alexandre’s spring menu and both Stanislas and Cyril are confident that the more modern-thinking guidebook critics will strip Alexandre of at least one of his stars which would contractually allow Stanislas to fire Alexandre from his own restaurant. The great chef’s troubles are also extending to his home life; his daughter Amandine (Stevenin) is getting ready to deliver her thesis on Russian literature, a subject Alexandre cares about as much about as he cares about the spring menu at McDonald’s. Things are tense with Amandine who resents her father for caring more about his restaurant than he does about her.
Jacky Bonnot (Youn) doesn’t have any Michelin stars yet but he is sure he deserves at least a few. He’s got tremendous talent and a flair for vegetables; they whisper to him. Unfortunately, he’s insufferably mule-headed and arrogant, never a good combination in the kitchen, and is fired from job after job. This exasperates his pregnant girlfriend Beatrice (Agogue) who moves back in with her parents who encourage her to get back together with Jacky because he’s such a good chef. Realizing that she’s serious, he gets whatever job he can, in this case painting the exterior of an old folks home.
Through a fairly serendipitous set of circumstances, Jacky catches the eye of Alexandre who gives him an unpaid internship at Cargo Lagarde. Jacky’s talents get him the position Alexandre’s right hand in the kitchen and his prickly personality and stubborn refusal to compromise earn him the enmity of the other chefs. Jacky at last has his shot but is it on a sinking ship? And will Jacky torpedo his own chances at achieving his dreams?
It’s hard to find comedies like this these days as it seems that most Hollywood comedies rely on star comedians (i.e. Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Melissa McCarthy), all-out raunch, going big on outrage or just throwing as many jokes at the screen as possible and seeing what sticks. Le Chef tells its story honestly and while the plot may not be anything extraordinary it is told well and manages to make us laugh along the way at fairly regular intervals.
Reno is intensely likable even when his character is being a bit of a jerk. Reno is one of the most versatile actors in the world, being equally comfortable in action films, dramas and comedies and adept in all three. His presence is welcome in any film whether it’s made in Hollywood or France and he’s one of those actors that will motivate me to go see whatever movie he’s in even if it is in a supporting role.
Youn is a well-known comedian in France and while I’m not personally familiar with his work, I’m told that his performance here is fairly typical for him. His Jacky has a fine dining soul in a fast food world and therein much of the comedy of the movie’s first third arises. Jacky is a prickly bastard but you still end up rooting for him despite his arrogance and stubbornness. Hey, nobody’s perfect, right?
The film utilizes some really clever moments nicely and while it occasionally descends into low comedy unnecessarily by the film’s end I was more than satisfied. Comedies are difficult to pull off properly and rarely make the kind of splash at festivals that dramas do but this was one of the better narrative features at this year’s festival and a welcome relief from the angst of the dramatic features.
REASONS TO GO: Reno is incredibly likable. Funny where it needs to be. Will give you a hankering for French food.
REASONS TO STAY: Descends into silliness occasionally.
FAMILY VALUES: Some foul language.
TRIVIAL PURSUIT: The film debuted at the 2012 Berlin Film Festival.
CRITICAL MASS: As of 4/13/14: Rotten Tomatoes: 75% positive reviews. Metacritic: no score yet.
COMPARISON SHOPPING: Ratatouille
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There Is More to College Success Than Test Scores and Lesson Plans: Carnegie’s Focus on “Productive Persistence”
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Why do some college students persist while others don’t? David Levin asked this question about the alumni of the Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP)—a network of urban charter schools. Instead of focusing on students’ test scores or college professors’ instructional styles, he found something different. Students who were successful “were the ones who were able to recover from a bad grade and resolve to better next time. …” That is, they weren’t just the ones who were “naturally smart.” Levin, who is co-founder of KIPP, and his ideas were the focus of a recent New York Times Sunday Magazine article, “The Character Test: Why our kids’ success—and happiness—may depend less on perfect performance than on learning how to deal with failure.” Optimism, persistence and social intelligence, according to the article, are the habits and mindsets that “seemed indispensable” to enable students who were from families without a lot of family resources to graduate from college. These characteristics help students navigate the transition from high school to college by helping them to bounce back from the new challenges that inevitably come up in college.
What are the characteristics that help students succeed and how can we promote them? Many psychologists have contributed to this question. Carnegie uses the term “productive persistence” to summarize these good ideas and to apply them to our initiative to improve student success in developmental mathematics in community colleges.
We do this because the work of social and developmental psychologists has convinced us that improved curricula and instruction are not sufficient to dramatically improve college-level math completion rates. Many students work hard in developmental math classes—studying long hours, nights and weekends—yet do so using ineffective strategies. Other students simply withdraw effort soon after the course begins. To help more students successfully complete the Carnegie initiated math pathways, we want them to both persist in their studying and attendance (tenacity) and to do so efficiently and effectively (good strategies). Productive persistence is core to our work.
We recognize that in addition to pedagogical improvements, student motivation, engagement and skills must also be attended to. Students placed in developmental math often come to the classroom with what our colleague from UCLA, Carnegie Senior Fellow Jim Stigler, calls “math scar tissue”—or the residue of years of failure in mathematics courses. Such past failures can ossify and produce in students a belief that their mathematical ability is fixed and not improvable, thereby undermining their motivation following setbacks or failures. Students may also have crippling math anxiety that results in worsening cycles of procrastination and low performance, or they may lack basic study skills for successfully completing their work. Moreover, because many community colleges are heterogeneous commuter campuses, students may feel only a weak sense of connection to their peers, to faculty, or to their institution. In the absence of these ties, motivation to attend and persist may suffer.
We believe that these mindsets, skills and social relationships can prevent student success. We also believe that when efforts are made to improve them, then the impact of otherwise effective curricula can be made manifest. In effect, we aim to do what our Senior Fellow Uri Triesman calls “reclaiming students’ mathematical lives.” We are committed to understanding the social and psychological drivers of developmental math student success and using our improvement processes to design and deliver effective interventions to address them.
In a recent Gates-funded white paper on “Academic Tenacity” by Carol Dweck, Geoffrey Cohen, and Gregory Walton of Stanford University, successful motivation is described as:
Students are engaged in learning, view effort positively, and are able and willing to forego immediate pleasures for the sake of schoolwork. For example, they seek challenging tasks that will help them learn new things, rather than tasks well within their comfort zone where they do not have to work hard or risk failure. Next, difficulty (confusion, setbacks, failures) does not derail them. They see a setback as an opportunity for learning or a problem to be solved rather than as a humiliation, a condemnation of their ability, a symbol of future failures, or a confirmation of their identity as a non-student. This is true at the level of a given task and at the level of their studies in general–they know how to remain engaged over the long haul and how to deploy new strategies for moving forward effectively.
Keeping these factors in mind, Carnegie’s new math pathways include specific activities, support systems, and pedagogical approaches designed to encourage and build these skills and mindsets in order to increase a student’s self-efficacy, motivation, persistence, and ability to navigate college.
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How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet
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But moreover, Yahoo needed to leverage this thing that it had just bought. Yahoo wanted to make sure that every one of its registered users could instantly use Flickr without having to register for it separately. It wanted Flickr to work seamlessly with Yahoo Mail. It wanted its services to sing together in harmony, rather than in cacophonous isolation. The first step in that is to create a unified login. That’s great for Yahoo, but it didn’t do anything for Flickr, and it certainly didn’t do anything for Flickr’s (extremely vocal) users.
via How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet.
Gizmodo article on how Yahoo first bought Flickr then proceeded to let it erode. As the old cliche sez’, The road to hell is paved with good intentions. For me personally I didn’t really mind the issue others had with the Yahoo login. I was allowed to use the Flickr login for a long time after they were taken over. But I still had to create a Yahoo account even if I never used it for anything other than accessing Flickr. Once I realized this was the case, i dearly wished Google had bought them as I WAS already using GMail and other Google services like it.
Most recently there’s been a lot of congratulations spread around following the release of a new Flickr uploader. I always had to purchase an add-on to my Apple iPhoto in order to streamline the cataloging, annotating, and arranging of picture sets. Doing the uploads one at a time through the Web interface was not on, I needed bulk uploads, but I refused to export picture sets out of iPhoto just to get them into Flickr. So an aftermarket arose for people like me invested heavily into iPhoto. And these add-on programs worked great, but they would go out of date or be incompatible with newer versions of iPhoto. So you would have to go back and drop another $10 USD on a newer version of your own iPhoto/Flickr exporter.
And by this time Facebook had so taken over the social networking aspects of picture sharing, no one could see the point of a single medium service (just picture sharing). When Facebook allowed you to converse, play games, and poke your friends, why would you log out and open Flickr to just manage your photos. The level of integration and friction was too high for the bulk of Internet users. So Facebook had gain the mindshare, reduced the friction and made everything seamless and just work the way everyone thought it should. And it is hard to come back from a defeat like that with the millions of sign ups that Facebook was enjoying. Yahoo should have had an app for that early on and let people share their Flickr sets with people using similar access controls and levels of security.
I would have found Flickr a lot more useful if it had been well bridged into the Facebook universe during the critical time period of 2008-2010. For me that would have been just the time period when things were really chaotically ramping up in terms of total new Facebook account creations. The addition of an insanely great Flickr App for Facebook could have made a big difference with helping grow the community awareness and possibly garner a few new Flickr accounts along the way. However, agendas are always so much more blinders in the way that they close you off to the environment in which you operate. Flickr and Yahoo’s merger and the agenda of ‘integration’ more or less was the single most important thing going on during the giant Facebook ramp-up. And so it goes, Yahoo stumbles more than once and takes a perfectly good Web 2.0 app and lets it slowly erode Friendster and MySpace before it. So long Flickr it’s been good to know yuh.
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Bitcoin regulations in India- a study
By CBN on November 7, 2020 E-Headlines
India was not a pro-crypto nation. But nowadays, the trend is changing. Reports suggest that approximately 5 million people are using cryptocurrency in India. But it is only three percent of the global digital currency market.
In 2018, the Reserve Bank of India issued a ban on all virtual currency dealings. The earlier stance of RBI was that it would not intervene in matters of digital currency. So, this action was seen as extreme by economists. In 2020, the Supreme Court ruled that the ban on virtual currency is illegal.
What RBI says
In 2013, the central bank had warned users about the security concerns related to Bitcoins.As the value of bitcoin is highly volatile and the transactions are anonymous, RBI had issued a statement that these features of bitcoin are against money laundering regulations. Data security issues and issues relating to the monetary policy make Reserve Bank worried about bitcoins. RBI expressed concern about bitcoin trade. In 2018, a circular was released by RBI, stating that it had banned all financial institutions from virtual currency dealings. In Supreme Court, RBI arguments that virtual currencies are spreading like a contagious disease.So, to prevent this, people should avoid virtual currency dealings through websites like epodcastnetwork.com
What is the verdict of the Supreme Court
SC said that to issue a ban, it should pass the test of proportionality. To pass the proportionality test, it should satisfy Article 19(1)(g). This article states thatCitizens of India have the right to follow any profession or continueany trade or business. Supreme Court ruled that the ban makes a direct impact on fundamental rights.So, the ban should be lifted.
How to fix the loopholes
Central Bank should rethink about their policies surrounding Bitcoins. RBI should introduce new regulations by keeping technological advancements in mind.
It is important to renew our regulatory frameworks because everyday new technological innovations are introducing in every field.
The government of India is planning to introduce a ban on bitcoin trading. Government is ready to encourage blockchain technology but is not ready to accept virtual currency trading.After the SC verdict, a 450% increase is seen in the Indian bitcoin trading market. As per various reports, 883% growth was reported in the first quarter of this financial year.
Trade Regulation
India’s decision is important because many Asian countries are planning to regulate virtual currency trades. China is planning to launch its own virtual currency. The technology behind bitcoin, blockchain technology, can be used in managing land documents and in pharmaceutical supply. This proposal is given by Niti Aayog, but they are against the bitcoin trade. From websites like the 1G profit system, we get detailed information about other trade regulations.
Ban will affect millions of people who are trading in digital currency. Instead of a full-fledged ban, India should think about a new regulatory framework. This is the opinion of famous economists.
Happenings in short
2013 | Initial stages of cryptocurrency; some exchanges were open.
2014 | 13 large exchanges opened. Twenty small exchanges are also in the opening stage.
July 2017 | Recommendation by the government to control cryptocurrency due to its usage for money laundering and terrorism purposes.
Dec 2017 | The value of bitcoinsaw a great spike of $20,000.
Feb 2018 | Finance Minister Arun Jaitley says that Bitcoins are illegal.
April 2018 | RBI bans financial institutions from using virtual currencies.
July 2018 | P2P exchanges were opened.
Oct 2018 | First virtual currency ATM was launched by Unocoin in India.It’s founder, Sathvik, was arrested.
2019 | Government committee recommends jail term and fines.
2020 | Supreme Court lifts the ban.
Lifting the ban on virtual currency
Lifting the ban on digital currency have a greater role in the usage of blockchain technology for other purposes.
Uses of blockchain technology
It is the technology behind bitcoin.
It helps in the verification of P2P bitcoin transactions.
It stores every transaction in an electronic ledger.
It detects fraud in transactions.
It is an important feature of the new Industrial Revolution.
It can make $3.1 trillion by 2030.
An active bitcoin market will help to strengthen India’s economic sector. So, in this phase of new technological innovation, it is very important to make new regulatory frameworks that also includes cryptocurrencies.
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Speakers from the pan-African institutions said they will continue to work with member States, partners and stakeholders in their efforts to influence, strengthen and enable the transition to climate-resilient development in Africa
The 7th Conference on Climate Change and Development in Africa (CCDA – VII) opened in Nairobi Wednesday with the African Union Commission (AUC), the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the African Development Bank (AfDB) pledging to continue working together to make Africa’s development sustainable, inclusive and climate-resilient.
Speakers from the pan-African institutions said they will continue to work with member States, partners and stakeholders in their efforts to influence, strengthen and enable the transition to climate-resilient development in Africa through responsive policies, plans and programmes focusing on building transformed economies and healthy ecosystems on the continent.
Mr. James Murombedzi, Officer in Charge of the Economic Commission for Africa’s African Climate Policy Center (ACPC), said the urgency to achieve a low carbon climate-resilient economy was even greater now following the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) report.
The report warns that there is only a dozen years for global warming to be kept to a maximum of 1.5C beyond which even half a degree would significantly worsen the risks of drought, floods, extreme heat and poverty for millions across the globe.
But it is not all doom and gloom, he said, as the report concludes that ‘anthropogenic emissions up to the present are unlikely to cause further warming of more than 0.5°C over the next two to three decades or on a century time scale’.
“This means that there is a chance for a stable climate system which will allow for sustainable development but only if we do manage to halt emissions in the projected time frame,” said Mr. Murombedzi.
“The world is therefore faced with two challenges. The first to halt emissions and to have an organized transition to a carbon neutral future in the shortest time possible. And the second to restructure our economies to ensure sustainable development without further emissions.”
He said it has been demonstrated that in addressing these challenges, there were opportunities to be harnessed.
For his part, James Kinyangi of the AfDB and the ClimDev Fund, said the Bank’s Climate Action Change Plan for the period 2016-2020 was ambitious. It explores modalities for achieving adaptation, the adequacy and effectiveness of climate finance, capacity building and technology transfer – building skills so African economies can realize their full potential for adaptation in high technology sectors.
Under this plan, the Bank, which hosts the ClimDev Africa Special Fund, will nearly triple its annual climate financing to reach $5 billion a year by 2020.
Mr. Kinyangu reiterated the Bank’s commitment to continue to work with African countries and its partners to deepen partnerships and investments that help address the impacts of climate change.
For her part, the representative of the AUC’s Rural Economy and Agriculture Commissioner, Ms. Olushola Olayide, said that the AUC was working with its partners to enhance the application of climate information services for building resilience on the continent.
“The main aim is to strengthen the knowledge framework and foster partnerships between government institutions, the private sector, civil society and vulnerable communities for climate informed decisions,” she said.
Mr. Mithika Mwenda, Secretary General of the PanAfrican Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA), said civil society organizations were seeking collaboration with governments on the continent and stood ready to offer support as Africa seeks homegrown ways to mitigate the effects of climate change.
He warned that the rise of ‘the inward-looking nationalist right-wing movement and climate deniers’ in the West was a signal of hardening positions in potential inaction by those largely responsible for the world’s climate problems.
“Our leaders who hold the key for the effective implementation of the Paris Agreement should remain candidly focused and resist attempts to scatter the unified African voice to deny Africa a strong bargain in the design of the Paris rulebook,” said Mr. Mwenda.
About 700 participants, including researchers, policy makers, parliamentarians, government officials, representatives of multilateral development banks, intergovernmental agencies, development partners, academia, private sector, civil society, the youth, women and the media, are attending the conference under the theme; “Policies and actions for effective implementation of the Paris Agreement for resilient economies in Africa.”
The CCDA is an initiative of the ClimDev-Africa initiative, a tripartite programme of the AUC, the AfDB and ECA. It was conceived as a physical dialogue place to promote interaction between science and policy on issues related to the climate change-development nexus.
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Four Nursing Homes Fined
By Kate Farrish | November 29, 2013
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Four Connecticut nursing homes have been fined more than $1,000 each in connection with incidents involving residents who sustained dramatic weight loss, dehydration, cuts and broken bones.
Maefair Health Care Center of Trumbull was fined $1,300 and was cited in connection with a case involving a resident with dementia who fell to the floor from a wheelchair on July 27. The resident received four stitches for a facial cut and was hospitalized for a possible cervical fracture, an Oct. 10 citation from the state Department of Public Health said.
The home was cited for not following its care plan, which required that the resident only be seated in an upright position during lunch and dinner, records show. An official from Maefair could not be reached for comment.
Kindred Transitional Care and Rehabilitation of Windsor was cited Oct. 9 for incidents involving three residents, including one case on Nov. 30, 2012 in which a resident who refused to wear an alarm was found wandering on the main road outside the nursing home.
State records said that when the person refused to wear the alarm the home should have updated its records and put additional interventions in place to keep the resident from leaving the home.
In another case, a resident with diabetes lost 15 pounds – dropping to 102 pounds – in two months, records from July 18 show. The home’s records did not reflect whether the resident had been weighed each week, and a dietician’s notes did not mention the weight loss, DPH records show.
In the third incident, a resident with congestive heart failure was taken to a hospital on June 30 with dehydration and acute renal failure, records show. State records said the nursing home should have been monitoring the resident’s fluid intake to prevent dehydration, but that its records failed to show whether the fluids had been monitored from June 10 to June 30. The nursing home was fined $1,160.
Tracy Haddad, Kindred’s executive director, released the following statement: “Resident care and safety is our number one concern. We take seriously every issue brought to our attention by the state. We have filed a plan of correction with the state and look forward to having the state approve our plan” once the home is inspected again.
On Oct. 25, Amberwoods of Farmington was fined $1,020 and was cited for an Aug. 31 incident in which a resident with multiple sclerosis fell from a mechanical lift to the floor, breaking two ribs, DPH records show. Two nursing aides had lifted the resident with a mechanical lift when part of it became unhooked and the resident fell two to three feet, records show. Records show the lift had a loose hook and a small tear. The aides were retrained in safe lift procedures and one aide was disciplined for not following the facility’s lift policy. An official at Amberwoods could not be reached for comment.
The Jewish Home for the Elderly of Fairfield County, Inc. was fined $1,020 and was cited for a June 10 incident in which a resident with dementia fell out of a wheelchair when his or her legs were dangling out of the chair, records show. The resident was hospitalized with a facial cut and hip and back pain. DPH records said that X-rays showed the resident had severe compression fractures of two vertebrae. Records said the staff members were required to make sure the leg rests were in place when the resident was being moved. Larry Condon, the home’s vice president and administrator, declined comment.
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Five Connecticut nursing homes have been fined for violations that jeopardized residents’ safety. The state Department of Public Health (DPH) fined Amberwoods of Farmington $9,060 following an incident in which a resident threatened to slit another resident’s throat with a butter knife.
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Dad saves baby born on lounge floor by tying umbilical cord with shoelace
Marie Claire Dorking
November 7, 2019, 6:29 a.m.
A quick-thinking dad saved his wife and newborn after delivering the baby on the living room floor then using a shoelace to tie the umbilical cord.
Going into labour unexpectedly early is something many pregnant women fear and that’s exactly what happened to Vicki Sparrow, 28, who started to feel contractions when she was around 36 weeks pregnant.
After experiencing some complications with her pregnancy, she had been booked in for a c-section in hospital due to a suspected placenta infection.
But 12 days before she was due to have the operation, her baby Kayden decided to make an early appearance, on the family’s living room floor.
Dad Dan saved his wife and newborn after clamping the cord with his shoelace [Photo: SWNS]
Having phoned 999, a call handler warned the dad-to-be that he needed to act quickly to deliver the baby safely.
While waiting for paramedics Vicki’s waters broke and Dan was forced to act as a make-shift midwife.
Kayden’s cord was wrapped twice around his neck and doctors suspected Vicki’s placenta was infected, so they were both in danger.
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But, thanks to his quick-thinking in using a lace from his work trainers to tie off the placenta, both Vicki and Kayden were fine.
Having been told by doctors that Kayden wouldn’t survive a natural birth in hospital as it would be too traumatic for him to go through, when Dan realised the baby was going to be born at home he started to panic.
“Then when I realised it was all down to me I was absolutely terrified,” the a building and landscape company owner, from Pontypridd, South Wales explained.
“When Vicki's waters broke he just shot out.
“She was just silent and I was scared I would see my son die in my arms.
“The operator was telling me to grab anything I could cut the umbilical cord with.
“That's when I caught sight of my work shoes in the hallway.”
Dad Dan was praised by doctors for his quick actions [Photo: SWNS]
Having grabbed the shoe and removed the lace, Dan tied it around the cord making sure he it was tight enough.
“He cried for a few seconds but then he was quiet.
“He was still breathing but I was so scared.
“I didn't want to see him die in my arms and for it to be something I did or didn't do.”
Vicki and Dan found out they were expecting their second baby last October, but at their 20 week scan the couple were told their baby was too small and would need to be monitored with weekly scans and regular doppler monitoring.
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Vicki said: “He was a twin but unfortunately his twin didn’t make it. The doctors ran some tests but they weren’t entirely sure what the problem was. Only that he wasn’t developing.
“They said his lungs wouldn’t have developed properly so would have trouble breathing.”
The mum-to-be was booked in for a planned c-section at 38 weeks, due to doctors fears over a natural labour.
But Kayden had other ideas - and 12 days early Vicki woke up in the middle of the night with shooting stomach pains which she mistook for Braxton hicks.
She says she doesn’t remember much about the birth.
“I just went into shock,” she explains.
“This just wasn't meant to be happening.”
Baby Kayden is now four months old and doing well [Photo: SWNS]
Having called for help once Vicki’s waters broke, a call handler talked the dad through the birth and 45 minutes later their baby was born safely.
The paramedics arrived 17 minutes later and the family were rushed to Cardiff University hospital where hospital staff praised the dad for his actions.
Having spent two-and-a-half weeks in the neonatal unit, Kayden is now four-and-a-half months old and doctors say he is growing at a “healthy rate.”
Dan said: “When we tell people they always say just how special it is.
“At the time you don’t think it, you’re just in survival mode. ‘I’m just glad he’s defied the odds and he’s here now and doing great.”
Vicki, a former hairdresser added: “For Kayden to defy the odds and for Dan to step up and save the day was one of the happiest days of my life.”
Guidance around cord-cutting is varied, but it has long been believed delaying cutting the cord can increase birth complications, especially if there is risk of infection.
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UK firms face sharpest downturn since Brexit vote
Sajid Shaikh
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November 22, 2019, 6:13 a.m.
Staring down the barrel: Britain's prime minister Boris Johnson looks at doors of washing machines at Ebac electrical appliances in Newton Aycliffe, on 20 November. Photo: Frank Augstein/Reuters
Brexit uncertainty continues to plague UK companies as private sector output hit its lowest level since the Brexit vote, according to new figures.
The flash UK PMI data, a preliminary report before the final data is released next week, showed that output decreased for two of the past three months, recording its sharpest drop since July 2016.
The IHS Markit/CIPS Flash UK composite output index data comes in wake of modest falls reported in manufacturing and service sector output. The headline figure hit 48.5 in November, down from 49.6 in October. Anything below 50 is considered a contraction.
The flash PMI is based on approximately 85% of usual monthly replies.
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Chris Williamson, chief business economist at IHS Markit, said: "With an upcoming general election adding to Brexit-related uncertainty about the outlook, it's no surprise to see UK businesses reporting falling output and orders in November. The decline signalled by the flash PMI follows stagnation in October and adds to what has been the survey's worst spell since the recession of 2008-9.”
He said the weak survey data puts the economy on course for a 0.2% drop in GDP in the fourth quarter and also “pushes the PMI further into territory that would normally be associated with the Bank of England adding more stimulus to the economy.”
The flash index report found service providers continued to link weaker demand to delayed decision-making in response to domestic political uncertainty, especially among large corporates. Some survey respondents also commented on more subdued consumer spending patterns in November. As a result, new business volumes dropped for the third month running, partly reflecting the sharpest fall in sales to overseas clients since the start of 2019, the report said.
Meanwhile, the latest rise in operating expenses was the weakest since August 2016. Service providers noted that lower non-staff costs had helped to alleviate some of the pressure from rising salary payments at their businesses in November.
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Howard Archer, chief economic adviser to the EY ITEM Club, said: “The new flash purchasing managers’ survey for the UK manufacturing and services sectors disappointingly marked its debut with weak news on the economy. Indeed, it showed overall manufacturing and services contracting at the fastest rate for 40 months in November, having been flat in October.”
Duncan Brock, group director at the Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply (CIPS), said: “With the longest stretch of weak numbers for a decade, the headline figure is a sad sight to behold. Over the past few months we have seen manufacturing companies oscillate between stock building and unravelling and in November, the sharpest drop in stocks of purchases since June 2018 showed inventory levels being unpicked again as another Brexit deadline passed. Manufacturing output has dropped every month since June.
"With a general election added to the Brexit mix of general uncertainty and delayed decision-making, it would be a brave commentator who would suggest the possibility of any Christmas cheer as we head into the last month of the year."
The pound was down by nearly 0.20% against the US dollar for the day, at $1.28.
Image: Yahoo Finance UK
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Woman’s encounter with a cashier leaves people utterly baffled: 'I’m not sure this has ever happened before’
Kelsey Weekman
When people take to the internet to recall their encounters with others, it’s rarely good — but thankfully this woman is here to brighten your day.
User e.squared shared her surprisingly uplifting conversation with a cashier in a video she posted to TikTok.
“This man checked my ID because I was buying beer and says ‘Emily, that’s a really pretty name,'” she explained in the video.
She said he then told her that he had been wondering “where all the single ladies have gone.”
E.squared explained that she became a bit irritated at this question, but waited for his response.
“The next words out of your mouth had better be silence,” she said. “But the next words out of his mouth are, ‘But now I get it. They’re all just busy chasing you.'”
E.squared dubbed the line the “greatest non-pickup line” she has ever heard — a “Shyamalan twist.”
She explained that she was impressed by how he paid her a compliment, acknowledged her sexuality and how she likely would not be interested in him, but still implied that it didn’t matter and he wanted to compliment her anyway — all in one fell swoop.
E.squared said in her caption that she was “conditioned to expect a very different ending to these stories” and commenters agreed.
“Do we send him a collective thank you card? What’s the process here? I’m not sure this has ever happened before,” one said.
“I had my eye roll locked in and ready to go. what am I supposed to do with it now?” another wrote.
“I was already tired for you as soon as the story started, but then I was like, OH. Okay, yes. We stan. Progress,” a third remarked.
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Sanctuary United Church of Christ begins its 2020 Faith and Film series, which explores the places where pop culture meets faith. Attendees watch a current film, followed by a discussion led by Chad and Anna Kidd about themes of morality, faith, and humanity. In this month’s film, a Chinese family discovers their grandmother has only a short while left to live, and decides to keep her in the dark, battling with the ethical decisions they’re forced to confront.
Note: While Sanctuary’s license provides inexpensive access to a wide range of current and big-studio films, the church is limited in its ability to market the film title outside of its own network. Please call 781-395-3360 or e-mail office@sanctuaryucc.org for the title of this month’s film.
Space is limited. For reservations visit the Faith and Film web page. Bring your own beer, wine or soda.
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What Every Contracting Professional Needs to Know about GAO
Tom Reid
Issues of appropriation law, or, synonymously, federal fiscal law, often seem distant and too esoteric for the average contract specialist. This somewhat willful ignorance is unfortunate and some agencies have begun to impose minimal training requirements on the entire contract team to include GS-1102s and those holding COR delegations.
In some cases, it’s been extended to those who only hold very limited P-card responsibilities. If you touch federal funds, regardless of amount, it’s important that you understand the high responsibility that goes with that privilege.
The framers vested Congress with the power of the purse. Specifically the Constitution says that “[n]o Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law.”
James Madison explained that the framers did so for two primary reasons. The first ensured that the government remained directly accountable to the will of the people. He stated. “power over the purse may, in fact, be regarded as the most complete and effectual weapon with which any constitution can arm the immediate representatives of the people, for obtaining a redress of every grievance, and for carrying into effect every just and salutary measure.”
Second, the power of the purse gives Congress a significant “check” within the system of “checks and balances” defined throughout the Constitution. Congressional power in this area places a limitation on the power of the other branches, thereby allowing it to reduce “all the overgrown prerogatives of the other branches of government.”
Affirmative Actions on Funding
Each appropriation requires the affirmative action of Congress, allowing no implication or inference about the available funding. Congress has further affirmed this power by enacting implementing statutes that include the annual appropriation acts, authorization acts, permanent law, and procedural processes.
Organic Legislation
Even organic legislation that creates offices in other branches can have significant implementation ramifications. Interestingly, Congress has authorized the creation of an office with specific functions and then failed to provide its funding, effectively terminating the office’s function.
We saw this for several years with the Cost Accounting Standards Board. It was subsequently re-funded and resumed its functions.
What About GAO?
All of this is background for the real purpose of this post. What is the role and purpose of GAO?
Congress created the General Accounting Office in 1921. In 2004 it changed the name to the Government Accountability Office. It is an arm of Congress and has no direct authority or control over the executive agencies.
GAO is assigned certain oversight activities, but does not have the ability to enforce its opinions and decisions on the executive branch agencies. Congress created GAO “because it believed that it ‘needed an officer, responsible to it alone, to check upon the application of public funds in accordance with appropriations.’”
The Budget and Accounting Act vested GAO with the authority to “investigate, at the seat of government or elsewhere, all matters relating to the receipt, disbursement, and application of public funds . . . .” In addition, this Act transferred from the Comptroller of the Treasury to the Comptroller General the authority to issue legal decisions to executive branch officials concerning the use and availability of public money.
GAO’s expertise with regard to fiscal matters is widely understood and respected throughout the government. Article III courts frequently cite to GAO’s legal decisions and the “Red Book” (considered the fiscal law “bible”) is frequently consulted in court decisions involving appropriations law. Even the Supreme Court has cited GAO’s “Red Book” in support of its positions on appropriations law matters.
The “Red Book” is a seven volume publication that addresses an extremely broad range of fiscal matters. You could learn a great deal by reading it, but seven volumes would take a bit of time. It is still an outstanding reference, as is the DOD Jag School Fiscal Law Deskbook. CCS has read it, and the desk book, and stays current on the many appropriation law decisions issued by GAO. You can always call on us for training or expertise in this arena.
GAO Authority
The only authority GAO has over the activities of the other branches is the tried and true method we all used with our siblings. If they did not obey our every command, we would strongly threaten with the “I’m telling!” defense.
That is exactly what GAO does. It reports to Congress and identifies those instances when it believes some aspect of the funding rules has been ignored or forgotten.
Congress will respond through investigations, and occasionally cutting the funding of an offending office or agency. GAO becomes the policeman and Congress becomes judge and jury.
Executive/Legislative Conflicts
There have recently been a number of instances when the Executive and Legislative branches have expressed different opinions on a particular matter. The Office of Management and Budget is somewhat of a GAO counterpart in the executive branch. The disagreements continue and further action from Congress is expected.
Fiscal Law Fundamentals
Until then, never forget that every dollar you spend must have been originally appropriated by Congress. When doing so Congress always limits the funds by time, amount, and purpose. Exceeding any of those (in fact merely authorizing things that will exceed those limits) is a violation of the Anti-Deficiency Act.
Seven volumes of material and an extensive desk book of material cannot be covered in a single blog post. Hopefully this one sets the stage for more in-depth commentary on this important part of the contracting function – obtaining certified funds and properly obligating them in accordance with their time, purpose, and amount limitations.
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Chanelle Albert & The Easy Company
Juste pour rire #2 *17 décembre 2013 - É.s.p. Northern S.S., Sturgeon Falls, Ontario
Photo #1 Come To The Cabaret a high school musical *December 12 & 13, 2013 É.s.p. Northern S.S., Sturgeon Falls, Ontario
*November 23, 2013 - Ottawa, Canada
Chanelle's Godin *November 21, 2013 – Verner, Ontario
Chanelle's Godin *August 27, 2013 – Verner, Ontario
*August 20, 2013 - Verner, Ontario
*29 juin 2013 - Sturgeon Falls, Ontario
TOROS production of Les Misérables *August 8 to 12, 2012 Capitol Centre, North Bay, Ontario
"Lovely Ladies" in the TOROS production of Les Misérables. (Photo courtesy MARIA CALABRESE, The North Bay Nugget)
Chanelle in the lead role of "Cosette" in the Theatre Outreach on Stage (TOROS) production of Les Misérables. The sold out musical was held at the Capitol Center (1000 seat capacity) in North Bay, Ontario, which ran from August 8 to 12, 2012. (Photo courtesy MARYANN JONES)
"Marius" played by Brad Delarosbel and "Cosette" performed by Chanelle in the TOROS production of Les Misérables. (Photo courtesy MARIA CALABRESE, The North Bay Nugget)
The ghost of "Fantine", played by Josee Sovinsky, visits a dying "Jean Valjean" performed by Josh Pride and her daughter, "Cosette", played by Chanelle, during a dress rehearsal of Les Miserables by TOROS at the Capitol Centre in North Bay, Ontario, August 2012. (Photo courtesy MARIA CALABRESE, The North Bay Nugget)
"Do You Here the People Sing?" in the TOROS production of Les Misérables. *August 2012 – Capitol Centre, North Bay, Ontario (Photo courtesy MARYANN JONES)
"Epilogue" The Company in the TOROS production of Les Misérables. *August 2012 – Capitol Centre, North Bay, Ontario (Photo courtesy MARYANN JONES)
The Company in the TOROS production of Les Misérables. *August 2012 Capitol Centre, North Bay (Photo courtesy MARYANN JONES)
Chanelle had a nice long chat with her father and the future Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau. *May 31, 2012 Best Western Hotel, North Bay, Ontario
Jeux FESFO *20 mai 2012 - Centre Communautaire du Ouest-Nipissing, Sturgeon Falls, Ontario
Photo #1 L'écho d'un peuple *25 avril 2012 – Capitol Centre, North Bay
Veille du jour de l'an 2012 *31 décembre 2011 - Verner, Ontario
Juste pour rire #1 Chanelle (13 ans) *22 décembre 2011 É.s.p. Northern S.S., Sturgeon Falls, Ontario
U2 360 Tour 2011 - Photo #1 *July 9, 2011 – Hippodrome de Montréal, Montréal, Canada
NipiStar finale 16 juin 2011 - Parc Goulard, Sturgeon Falls, Ontario
*January 2010 - Copper Cliff, Ontario
The Little Rock Star *Christmas 2008 - Verner, Ontario
Chanelle (11 yrs old) with her dad. *August 2, 2008 - Lake Nipissing, Ontario
Chanelle (10 yrs old) with her sister Amélie and their music teacher Denis Sinclair. *June 22, 2007 - Club Calumet, Sturgeon Falls, Ontario
Chanelle (7 yrs old) sang "My Heart Will Go" (love theme from Titanic) at her aunt Michelle's wedding on July 27, 2004 in Verner, Ontario.
Chanelle's first live performance at the age of 4. She sang "Les marionnetes" by Christophe at her grandparents Cécile et Georges Albert 50th wedding anniversary on August 4, 2001, north of Elliot Lake, Ontario.
Chanelle (14 mois) qui danse à la musique de Carmen Campagne après son premier concert! *3 mai 1998 Verner, Ontario
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An Interactive Approach to Solving Correspondence Problems
by Stefanie Jegelka, Ashish Kapoor, Eric Horvitz - INT J COMPUT VIS , 2013
"... Finding correspondences among objects in different images is a critical problem in computer vision. Even good correspondence procedures can fail, however, when faced with deformations, occlusions, and differences in lighting and zoom levels across images. We present a methodology for augmenting cor ..."
Finding correspondences among objects in different images is a critical problem in computer vision. Even good correspondence procedures can fail, however, when faced with deformations, occlusions, and differences in lighting and zoom levels across images. We present a methodology for augmenting
A New Method for Solving Hard Satisfiability Problems
by Bart Selman, Hector Levesque, David Mitchell - AAAI , 1992
"... We introduce a greedy local search procedure called GSAT for solving propositional satisfiability problems. Our experiments show that this procedure can be used to solve hard, randomly generated problems that are an order of magnitude larger than those that can be handled by more traditional approac ..."
approaches such as the Davis-Putnam procedure or resolution. We also show that GSAT can solve structured satisfiability problems quickly. In particular, we solve encodings of graph coloring problems, N-queens, and Boolean induction. General application strategies and limitations of the approach are also
Solving multiclass learning problems via error-correcting output codes
by Thomas G. Dietterich, Ghulum Bakiri - JOURNAL OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH , 1995
"... Multiclass learning problems involve nding a de nition for an unknown function f(x) whose range is a discrete set containing k>2values (i.e., k \classes"). The de nition is acquired by studying collections of training examples of the form hx i;f(x i)i. Existing approaches to multiclass l ..."
Multiclass learning problems involve nding a de nition for an unknown function f(x) whose range is a discrete set containing k>2values (i.e., k \classes"). The de nition is acquired by studying collections of training examples of the form hx i;f(x i)i. Existing approaches to multiclass
Reducing Multiclass to Binary: A Unifying Approach for Margin Classifiers
by Erin L. Allwein, Robert E. Schapire, Yoram Singer - JOURNAL OF MACHINE LEARNING RESEARCH , 2000
"... We present a unifying framework for studying the solution of multiclass categorization problems by reducing them to multiple binary problems that are then solved using a margin-based binary learning algorithm. The proposed framework unifies some of the most popular approaches in which each class ..."
We present a unifying framework for studying the solution of multiclass categorization problems by reducing them to multiple binary problems that are then solved using a margin-based binary learning algorithm. The proposed framework unifies some of the most popular approaches in which each class
The link-prediction problem for social networks
by David Liben-nowell, Jon Kleinberg - J. AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY , 2007
"... Given a snapshot of a social network, can we infer which new interactions among its members are likely to occur in the near future? We formalize this question as the link-prediction problem, and we develop approaches to link prediction based on measures for analyzing the “proximity” of nodes in a ne ..."
Given a snapshot of a social network, can we infer which new interactions among its members are likely to occur in the near future? We formalize this question as the link-prediction problem, and we develop approaches to link prediction based on measures for analyzing the “proximity” of nodes in a
The Vocabulary Problem in Human-System Communication
by G. W. Furnas, T. K. Landauer, L. M. Gomez, S. T. Dumais - COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM , 1987
"... In almost all computer applications, users must enter correct words for the desired objects or actions. For success without extensive training, or in first-tries for new targets, the system must recognize terms that will be chosen spontaneously. We studied spontaneous word choice for objects in five ..."
in five application-related domains, and found the variability to be surprisingly large. In every case two people favored the same term with probability <0.20. Simulations show how this fundamental property of language limits the success of various design methodologies for vocabulary-driven interaction
The hierarchy problem and new dimensions at a millimeter
by Savas Dimopoulos, Gia Dvali, et al. , 2008
"... We propose a new framework for solving the hierarchy problem which does not rely on either supersymmetry or technicolor. In this framework, the gravitational and gauge interactions become united at the weak scale, which we take as the only fundamental short distance scale in nature. The observed wea ..."
We propose a new framework for solving the hierarchy problem which does not rely on either supersymmetry or technicolor. In this framework, the gravitational and gauge interactions become united at the weak scale, which we take as the only fundamental short distance scale in nature. The observed
A Language Modeling Approach to Information Retrieval
by Jay M. Ponte, W. Bruce Croft , 1998
"... Models of document indexing and document retrieval have been extensively studied. The integration of these two classes of models has been the goal of several researchers but it is a very difficult problem. We argue that much of the reason for this is the lack of an adequate indexing model. This sugg ..."
. This suggests that perhaps a better indexing model would help solve the problem. However, we feel that making unwarranted parametric assumptions will not lead to better retrieval performance. Furthermore, making prior assumptions about the similarity of documents is not warranted either. Instead, we propose
Shape Matching and Object Recognition Using Shape Contexts
by Serge Belongie, Jitendra Malik, Jan Puzicha - IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence , 2001
"... We present a novel approach to measuring similarity between shapes and exploit it for object recognition. In our framework, the measurement of similarity is preceded by (1) solv- ing for correspondences between points on the two shapes, (2) using the correspondences to estimate an aligning transform ..."
We present a novel approach to measuring similarity between shapes and exploit it for object recognition. In our framework, the measurement of similarity is preceded by (1) solv- ing for correspondences between points on the two shapes, (2) using the correspondences to estimate an aligning
A Signal Processing Approach To Fair Surface Design
by Gabriel Taubin , 1995
"... In this paper we describe a new tool for interactive free-form fair surface design. By generalizing classical discrete Fourier analysis to two-dimensional discrete surface signals -- functions defined on polyhedral surfaces of arbitrary topology --, we reduce the problem of surface smoothing, or fai ..."
In this paper we describe a new tool for interactive free-form fair surface design. By generalizing classical discrete Fourier analysis to two-dimensional discrete surface signals -- functions defined on polyhedral surfaces of arbitrary topology --, we reduce the problem of surface smoothing
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CIVIL ENGINEERING 365
ALL ABOUT CIVIL ENGINEERING
Don’t ignore genetic data from minority populations
ByAUTHOR
Geneticists have known for more than a decade that their focus on people with European ancestry exacerbates health disparities1. A 2018 analysis of studies looking for genetic variants associated with disease found that under-representation persists: 78% of study participants were of European ancestry, compared to 10% of Asian ancestry and 2% of African ancestry. Other ancestries each represented less than 1% of the total2. Several projects, such as H3Africa3, are starting to increase participation of under-represented groups, both among participants and among researchers. Large biobanks assembled in Europe and North America, combining biological samples with health-related data, also set sampling targets to increase diversity4–6.
But even when data from minority groups are available, many researchers discard them7. Although there can be valid reasons to restrict analyses to a particular population, discarding such data by default is ethically problematic: it worsens under-representation and negates participants’ efforts to contribute to research.
Funding agencies have taken steps to improve the diversity of participants who are recruited for studies — notably, this has led to better representation of women in clinical trials since the 1990s. But agencies have less control over researchers’ decisions of what to analyse. Scientists are pulled towards statistical convenience and publishing incentives, which can both conflict with the collective goal of greater equity.
Here we suggest that an approach used in health care can help researchers to make analysis decisions that are ethically as well as scientifically sound.
Ruled out
Why exclude?
Lost opportunity
Grounds for inclusion
Four criteria
To estimate how often minority data are excluded, we examined publications that used data from either the UK Biobank (UKB; which contains material from 502,655 individuals) or the US Health and Retirement Study (HRS; 12,454 individuals). Both biobanks support genome-wide association studies (GWAS). These scan data from thousands of participants to find genetic variants associated with disease.
To compare the criteria researchers used to include or exclude data types across studies, we distinguished between participants from majority (MAJ) and minority (MIN) groups in the United States and the United Kingdom. We used MAJ regardless of whether a study focused on self-declared ethnicity, such as ‘white’, or on the location of an individual’s ancestors, such as ‘European ancestry’. We used MIN to refer to all other individuals, including those of mixed ancestry or ethnicity. This coarse labelling helps to describe how data were used in statistical analyses, and does not imply that either group is uniform. We counted MIN data as ‘included’ if any analysis reported linking traits or diseases to genotypes in the relevant samples.
First, we reviewed 21 articles from the GWAS catalogue (www.ebi.ac.uk/gwas) that contained the keywords ‘UK biobank’ (see Supplementary information). Twenty restricted their analysis to only MAJ individuals in the UKB database (two of these also analysed data from a broader range of ancestries in other databases). We also queried online repositories and randomly sampled another 20 GWAS that used UKB data. Only one used MIN data. Finally, we reviewed 17 GWAS listed on the HRS online publications list. Here, only six studies limited analysis to MAJ populations, perhaps because the proportion of MIN participants in the US biobank (24%) was higher than in the UK one (5%).
Overall, 45 of 58 studies in our sample excluded MIN data. If we weight representation by the number of times data from an individual were actually analysed, MIN representation in the UKB falls to 0.06% (see ‘Left out’; details are in Supplementary information). This problematic situation will surprise few genetics researchers6,7.
Source: Analysis by C. Ben-Eghan et al.
Both the UKB and the HRS made efforts to represent their national populations. However, including individuals from minority groups in data cohorts but not in analyses can be seen as de facto tokenism. Unused data do not help under-represented groups.
Of the 45 studies that excluded data, 31 gave no reason. The remaining 14 studies provided 15 explanations for exclusion.
The most common explanation was fear of confounding (11/15). If a genetic variant happens to be more common in an ancestry group, and that group happens to have a higher rate of a particular trait, there will be a correlation between having the variant and having the trait. An example is childhood asthma, which is influenced by both genetic and environmental factors. Researchers might confuse the correlation as evidence that this variant causes childhood asthma. Although statistical methods to avoid confounding exist, they are not foolproof, and confounding is a legitimate concern7.
It is not necessary to exclude data to reduce the risk of confounding. Data from different groups can simply be analysed separately. However, because samples from minority populations are so much smaller, they have less statistical power and are therefore less likely to reveal new genetic associations.
This lack of power was the second-most-cited reason for exclusion (3/15). An underpowered study can be seen as a waste of time because it might not yield statistically significant results. Because finding a genetic association can be enough to garner a publication, adding analysis of other populations comes at a cost. It takes time, makes the manuscript more complicated, gives reviewers one more thing to criticize, and so could delay publication.
Just one study explicitly mentioned following methods from past publications as grounds for exclusion (1/15), but we suspect that this is common. There are good reasons to follow precedent: using standard analytical pipelines reduces development cost and the need for extensive validation and explanation.
Together, these three reasons drive researchers to discard data from MIN populations.
By omitting data, scientists squander an opportunity to build useful knowledge about minority populations. If researchers perform GWAS on populations of European ancestry, they can often use previously published results in the form of summary statistics to strengthen their findings. Because summary statistics present little privacy risk to participants, they can usually be downloaded freely in just a few minutes. Doing the same comparison with MIN population data that have not been previously reported requires accessing individual-level information. This involves obtaining institutional ethics approval, requesting data access from the cohort, plus cleaning and processing data — all before finally performing GWAS. This can take months. If MIN data are not analysed alongside MAJ data, they might never be used.
When done as part of the primary study, by contrast, MIN analyses add little cost and can be informative (see ‘Grounds for inclusion’).
As part of a study on asthma, we performed a genome-wide association study for eosinophil cell counts. (Eosinophils are a subset of white blood cells and are often elevated in individuals with asthma.) We did three separate analyses. One was of the majority (MAJ) population; two were of the minority (MIN) populations defined using the UK Biobank self-reported ethnicity categories (participants who identified as Black or Black British, and those who identified as Asian, Asian British or Chinese).
The MAJ analyses identified 432 genetic loci (1,510 independent genetic variants). The two MIN analyses independently identified 3 loci (at genome-wide significance, P ≤ 5 × 108), all of which were identified in the MAJ analysis. The MIN analysis enabled validation of more than one-quarter of the identified variants in the MAJ population at nominal significance (P = 0.05). It also showed overall consistent results across ethnicities, except for one variant that showed nominal significance, but opposite effects in Asian, Asian British and Chinese populations, relative to the MAJ analysis. Without further evidence, this variant should probably not be used to predict genetic risk outside Europe. (See Supplementary information for details.)
These analyses took 10 hours of computing time as well as some forethought. This is insignificant compared with the cost of accessing the data. Evidence of association for the millions of variants we tested can now be compared across populations and can be made available for meta-analyses. Such data are particularly important for studying minority populations, when samples in individual cohorts might lack statistical power.
Analysing MIN data is important for equity and discovery. But how should we weigh that against the immediate, individual burden of statistical analysis and delayed publication? General rules that apply to all studies are hard to define, but there is an approach that should help.
Over the past two decades, governments and ethicists have leant on a framework called accountability for reasonableness (A4R) to help allocate scarce resources in health care, such as new or expensive treatments. A4R recognizes that individuals in a pluralistic, democratic society give different weight to different considerations, and so might never agree on broad principles. Instead, A4R focuses on the decision-making process itself, and sets out criteria that encourage fairness and legitimacy8. In short, reasons for decisions should be transparent and relevant. Adherence to these criteria should be enforced and measured in a way that adapts to new information.
The A4R criteria suggest small changes in analysis and publication conventions that would improve fairness and accountability.
Transparency. In their publications, researchers should state reasons for excluding participant data. More generally, they should explain design and analysis choices that have the potential to worsen inequalities.
Relevance. The stated reasons for exclusion should explain how the decision sought to best serve society, given the real-world constraints of research. Reasons such as fear of confounding, limited power and precedent might not meet this requirement if they can be circumvented by a particular analysis method (using stratified or meta-analysis, for instance). Barring more compelling reasons, we recommend that researchers compute association statistics for MIN populations and report them as part of the primary study.
Enforcement. We propose that journals mandate that submitted manuscripts justify any exclusion of participant data in analyses. Forms should ask reviewers whether relevant reasons were provided.
The goal is not to turn reviewers into moral arbiters. Rather, they should simply assess whether the reasons provided are relevant to the analyses under review. This modest requirement would encourage analyses to be more inclusive, foster broader discussion about legitimate grounds for exclusion and clarify expectations for authors.
Importantly, reviewers should not require results of analyses of MIN and MAJ populations to be consistent. Discrepancies should be discussed, but forcing researchers to explain all observations would prevent useful results from being shared.
Revisions. How researchers assess transparency and relevance should change with society and methodology. Our recommendations that data from MIN populations be analysed by default might become moot if sufficient data become available in cohorts that focus on under-represented groups9. The field might also move to a model in which specialized teams analyse MIN data across multiple phenotypes (see, for example, https://pan.ukbb.broadinstitute.org). This would change both the costs and benefits of performing subsequent analyses of MIN data. It could reduce the impetus for analysis by individual studies while providing tools that reduce the analysis burden and risk of confounding for subsequent researchers.
Statistical analyses that are more inclusive cannot overcome fundamental inequities in representation among study participants, let alone solve the broader issues of equity and data sovereignty10. But they are a step in the right direction. By acknowledging the tension between ethical and practical considerations, researchers in genetics and other fields can hold themselves accountable for making scientific advances more efficient and more fair.
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Where are They Now? – John and Carol Vruwink
Jenni Hodges
John ’58 and Carol Dulmes Vruwink ’60 graduated from Central with degrees in art and biology. John returned in 1965 and taught art for 37 years. Carol also joined Central’s faculty, teaching accounting for 23 years.
After retiring, John and Carol lived on an acreage between Pella and Knoxville for 10 years. While there, they volunteered at Neal Smith Wildlife Refuge and developed an art gallery at Second Reformed Church. Carol also served as treasurer for Habitat for Humanity of Marion County. In 2010, the Vruwinks moved to North Carolina to be closer to family.
What do you miss most about Central?
Carol: Long-term friendships — and the students. I loved the diversity of my department — gender, ethnicity and areas of study. My best memories as a student were A Cappella Choir and band tours, and early morning birding expeditions. As a faculty member, the highlight was moving into Weller Center after many years of planning.
John: I miss having access to the art department — especially the glass studio — and comradery with faculty and students. I loved the small classes. As a student, serving on CAB was a favorite memory.
What are you doing now?
We serve on the Liturgical Arts Committee at First Presbyterian Church in Asheville. We’ve developed an art gallery and are involved with several ministries with our homeless neighbors, including Saturday Sanctuary, a ministry that provides a safe, warm place on Saturday afternoons with hearty food during the winter months. Carol rings handbells with the Blue Ridge Ringers (just completed our spring series of seven concerts during May) and volunteers with Habitat for Humanity. John rents studio time at Asheville Glass for flame working and is still active with his horses. We enjoy the beauty of nature and art in the Asheville area and Blue Ridge Mountains — and we enjoy activities with our kids and grandkids.
Do you miss anything about Iowa and Pella?
We miss Second Reformed Church, Jaarsma’s Bakery, Christmas Candlelight Concerts, long-time friends. The weather? Not so much!
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Escitalopram (Lexapro®) In Patients With Major Depression With Atypical Features
The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : February 8, 2008
Last Update Posted : May 31, 2013
Forest Laboratories
Aims of Study:
The aims of this study are 1) to examine the clinical utility of escitalopram in patients with major depression with atypical features; 2) to evaluate the tolerability of escitalopram in major depression with atypical features.
Study hypothesis and objectives. This study is proposed as an open-label study to gather pilot data to examine whether escitalopram has clinical utility in the treatment of major depression with atypical features. Because of the exploratory nature of the design, no specific study hypotheses can be generated regarding efficacy of the drug. Our primary hypothesis is that the effect size of escitalopram in atypical depression will be similar to the effect size of escitalopram in major depression, its FDA approved indication.
Atypical Depression Drug: Escitalopram Phase 3
Based on treatment outcome, longitudinal course, biologic and physiologic data, and family histories (Rabkin et al., 1996), the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV) (American Psychiatric Association, 1994) added atypical features as a parenthetical modifier of major depression and dysthymia. Several recent reports suggest that DSM-IV criteria for depression with atypical features identify a group distinguishable by a cluster of symptoms, age of onset and course of illness. The symptom constellation consists of depressed mood, along with hyperphagia, weight gain, increased fatigue and rejection sensitivity. Some authors have distinguished two subtypes of atypical depression. One subtype has an early onset (i.e., before age 20 years) and a chronic course (i.e., no spontaneous well-being since onset greater than 2 months) (early/chronic atypical) are no more likely to benefit from tricyclic antidepressant than from placebo (Stewart et al., 2002), but do respond to a monoamine oxidase inhibitor, and do not have increased left hemisphere perceptual processing (Stewart et al., 2003). In contrast, the other subtype reports either later onset or a less chronic course of illness (late/nonchronic atypical) respond robustly to tricyclic antidepressant (Stewart et al., 2002), and show evidence of increased left hemispheric processing (Stewart et al., 2003).
The role of the newer medications in the treatment of depressed patients with atypical features remains to be elucidated. One study compared outcome between phenelzine and fluoxetine, reporting no difference, but risk of a type II error was large (Pande et al. 1996). A second study limited to depressed patients with atypical features compared fluoxetine, imipramine, and placebo, finding both drugs effective for about half the patients and both superior to placebo, but not different from each other (McGrath et al. 2000). A 12-week study comparing moclobemide and sertraline in the treatment of outpatients with atypical depression found both drugs to produce comparable improvement (Sogaard et al, 1999). Falkai (1999) asserts the efficacy of mirtazapine for depression with atypical features without any data, and Rye et al. (1998) reported on a single case of apparently late onset atypical depression responding to bupropion. A placebo controlled study failed to show any benefit for mianserin for atypical depression (McGrath et al, 1985). Finally, an unmarketed drug, gepirone, has been demonstrated to be effective for depression with atypical features but no comparison was made with other antidepressant medications (McGrath et al., 1994).
Escitalopram has been approved for the treatment of major depression and Generalized Anxiety Disorder. However whether escitalopram improved atypical depressive symptoms has not been investigated.
Actual Enrollment : 15 participants
Masking: Single (Outcomes Assessor)
Official Title: A Pilot Study -- An Open-Label, Rater-blinded, Flexible-dose, 8-week Trial of Escitalopram (Lexapro®) In Patients With Major Depression With Atypical Features.
Study Start Date : October 2005
Actual Primary Completion Date : May 2007
Actual Study Completion Date : May 2007
MedlinePlus Genetics related topics: Depression
Drug Information available for: Citalopram hydrobromide Citalopram Escitalopram Escitalopram oxalate
Experimental: A
Drug: Escitalopram
Escitalopram will be started at 10 mg per day and augmented weekly in 10 mg per day increments, the maximum dose being 20 mg per day. The dose will be titrated upward or downward based on clinical response and tolerability.
Other Name: Escitalopram (Lexapro)
changes in HAM-D-29 scores from baseline to end of treatment. [ Time Frame: 8 weeks ]
changes in 8-atypical items on the HAM-D-29, SDS and ESQ from baseline to end of treatment. Response will be defined as 50% or greater reduction in HAM-D-29 scores from baseline to end of treatment. [ Time Frame: 8 weeks ]
Ages Eligible for Study: 18 Years to 65 Years (Adult, Older Adult)
age 18 to 65 years,
DSM-IV episode of Major Depression non-psychotic with atypical features.
≥19 score on the 29-item HAM-D,
ability to give informed consent, if patients are of child-bearing potential
A minimum 2-week washout from existing psychotropics (5 weeks for fluoxetine).
bipolar depression,
Any Axis I psychotic disorder
currently suicidal or suicide risk,
history of substance abuse in the previous 12 months,
history of hypersensitivity to escitalopram, or citalopram
serious or unstable medical disorders,
starting or terminating psychotherapy during the previous 12 weeks,
ECT treatment in the previous 3 months,
pregnancy or planning pregnancy.
Dept Psychiatry, Duke University Medical Center
Principal Investigator: Aswin A Patkar, M.D. Duke University
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
Pae CU, Masand PS, Peindl K, Mannelli P, Han C, Marks DM, Patkar AA. An open-label, rater-blinded, flexible-dose, 8-week trial of escitalopram in patients with major depressive disorder with atypical features. Prim Care Companion J Clin Psychiatry. 2008;10(3):205-10.
Responsible Party: Duke University
Other Study ID Numbers: 7842
IRB#7842
First Posted: February 8, 2008 Key Record Dates
Last Update Posted: May 31, 2013
Keywords provided by Duke University:
Atypical Depression
Behavioral Symptoms
Dexetimide
Serotonin Uptake Inhibitors
Serotonin Agents
Antidepressive Agents, Second-Generation
Antiparkinson Agents
Anti-Dyskinesia Agents
Parasympatholytics
Autonomic Agents
Muscarinic Antagonists
Cholinergic Antagonists
Cholinergic Agents
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Caitlin Gilman and Tanya Chadha
Article Type: Case Report | First Published: October 12, 2018
The patient is an 8-year-old Caucasian male with no significant past medical history referred to the emergency department by his pediatrician for possible appendicitis. The day prior to presentation, his mother noted decreased energy and appetite. He went to sleep soon after arriving home from school and woke up twice overnight with non-bloody, non-bilious emesis. He began complaining of right-sided back and abdominal pain in the morning and was brought to his pediatrician, where he was immediat...
The Role of Probiotics in Critically Ill Adult Patients with Pneumonia
Julie Kalabalik and Ayse Elif Ozdener
Article Type: Review Article | First Published: October 12, 2018
There is increased interest in the role of the gastrointestinal (GI) or gut microbiome and its role in prevention and treatment of disease. The gut microbiome alone consists of approximately 400 strains of bacteria, fungi, and parasites. Anaerobes are the predominant type of microorganism in the GI tract with Firmicutes and Bacteroidetes being the dominant phyla. The gut microbiome is involved in metabolism, host protection, and immune function. It plays an important role in metabolism of nondig...
Things to Keep in Mind in High Flow Therapy: As Usual the Devil is in the Detail
Salvador Diaz-Lobato, Jose Manuel Carratala Perales, Jose miguel Alonso Inigo, Sagrario Mayoralas Alises, Barbara Segovia, Noelia Escalier, Maria Ines Mattioli, Ana Jaureguizar and Diurbis Velasco
High-flow nasal cannula oxygen therapy (HFNC) has revolutionized the treatment of patients with respiratory failure in different settings. Several mechanisms of action explain us why HFNC has become a first line therapy for these patients. Some authors have referred to the adverse effects that can occur when we use HFNC and its limitations. However, there are numerous aspects that we should consider when prescribing this treatment and that are not documented in the literature to date. In a Task ...
Caring Critically Ill Patients in the General Wards in Tanzania: Experience of Nurses and Physicians
Lilian T Mselle and Halima Msengi
Article Type: Research Article | First Published: October 12, 2018
Studies in Tanzania have reported that many hospitals in the country have no intensive care unit (ICU) where critically ill patients could be managed thus critically ill patients are cared for with other non-critical patients. The aim of this study is to describe nurses and physicians' experience of caring critically ill patients in the general wards at the Regional hospital. A descriptive qualitative design was used. Purposeful sampling method was used to enroll 10 nurses and 5 physicians worki...
Early Protocolized Bedside Ultrasound in Shock: Renal Function Improvements and Other Lessons Learned
Talayeh Rezayat, Igor Barjaktarevic, Ian Mecham, Lisa Yee, Ramy Salah, Lisa Zhu, Kereat Grewal, Jody Anderson, Nicholas J Jackson, David Elashoff and Elizabeth Turner
Rapid assessment and treatment of the critically ill in shock is crucial to survival. The RUSH (Rapid Ultrasound in Shock and Hypotension) exam uses Ultrasound (US) to determine the etiology of undifferentiated shock, but data to demonstrate impact of focused US on clinical outcomes is sparse. This study aimed to assess the clinical impact of early incorporation of the RUSH US exam in the care of patients with new onset shock on a population level....
To Determine Blood Lactate Levels in Patients with Sepsis Admitted to a Respiratory Intensive Care Unit and to Correlate with their Hospital Outcomes
Amit K Asati, Rajnish Gupta and D Behera
Article Type: Original Article | First Published: September 28, 2018
Sepsis is one of major causes of mortality in non-cardiac ICU patients. The screening of the patients for sepsis needs a careful evaluation of criteria and confirmation of infection. SIRS criteria for identification of patients with sepsis is not alone sufficient. Lactate has been shown to be a very important severity marker in sepsis cases and has been found to be more useful for predicting the outcome of sepsis than common severity scores such as the Age and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) ...
Severe Venlafaxine Intoxication with Refractory Pulseless Electrical Activity Cardiac Arrest Successfully Treated with Intravenous Lipid Emulsion
John Blixt, Shazia Raheem and Stephen Bujarski
Article Type: Case Report | First Published: September 22, 2018
Venlafaxine, a serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor (SNRI) antidepressant, has been associated with severe cardiotoxicity in massive overdoses. Treatment is usually supportive. Over the past decade, intravenous lipid emulsion has been gaining interest in the treatment of intoxications with lipophilic substances. We report a case of refractory pulseless electrical activity cardiac arrest following a massive overdose of venlafaxine successfully treated with intravenous lipid emulsion infusi...
Penile Fracture: Report of Eight Cases and Review of Literatures Reported in China
Xuelu Zhou and Shangjun Zhou
In 113 publications 984 cases (including our eight cases) were retrieved. An annual incidence in China has been estimated between 0.002/million and 0.2/million male populations. The commonest causes were coitus and masturbation. Clinical features were the classical triad of "cracking" sound, immediate detumescence and pain. Swelling, ecchymosis and deformity were present in the majority of patients. Diagnosis was made mainly on clinical grounds; ultrasonography can be very helpful in equivocal c...
Modeling Quality Improvement Strategies to Reduce Treatment Delays for Severe Sepsis at a Tertiary Care Hospital in India
Srihari Cattamanchi, Lucas C Carlson, Felicity Gonzalez and Anbrasi Edward
Extensive evidence from high-income countries has demonstrated the value of quality improvement (QI) methods yet reports of their use in LMICs are markedly limited. We aim to explore how QI can be implemented in the setting of an LMIC to remove barriers to timely antibiotic therapy for severe sepsis....
Sphingomonas Paucimobilis Bacteremia in a Hemodialysis Patient and Literature Review
Sevtap Gursoy, Kadriye Kart Yasar, N Didem Sari, Nuray Kuvat and Savas Ozturk
Sphingomonas paucimobilis is an aerobic, non-fermentative gram-negative motile bacterium that may be an unusual infectious agent for immunocompromised host. Intravascular instrumentations are commonly applied in the hemodialysis patients. These procedures have an increased risk for infection with unusual, rare and opportunistic pathogens....
Effects of the Miyakejima Volcano Eruption on Public Health
Mikio Shiozawa, Alan Kawarai Lefor, Naohiro Sata, Yoshikazu Yasuda and Hideo Nagai
Article Type: Original Research Article | First Published: August 06, 2018
In June 2000, the Miyakejima volcano suddenly erupted, forcing evacuation of all inhabitants. We undertook this study to evaluate the effects on the health of inhabitants after their returning to the island 4 years after the eruption. We examined 269 inhabitants, who visited the Miyakejima Central Clinic, and specifically discussed symptoms related to exposure and anxiety related to the disaster....
Clinical Characteristics and Predictors of Recurrence and Surgical Management of Pneumothorax
Chihiro Nakano, Toru Yamagishi, Norio Kodaka, Kayo Watanabe, Kumiko Kishimoto, Takeshi Oshio, Kumiko Niitsuma, Nagashige Shimada and Hiroto Matsuse
Article Type: Original Article | First Published: July 30, 2018
Most cases of pneumothorax comprise primary spontaneous pneumothorax (PSP), which usually occurs in young, tall men and results from rupture of subpleural blebs or bullae. Secondary spontaneous pneumothorax (SSP), on the other hand, is associated with an underlying lung disease, such as emphysema or asthma; acute or chronic infections; lung cancer; and congenital disease, including cystic fibrosis, catamenial pneumothorax, and lymphangioleiomyomatosis....
Found the Needle in the Haystack! The Case of a Fishbone Causing Vasovagal Syncopes and Abdominal Pain: A Case Report
Daniel Sermoneta, Francesco Favi, Carlo Salvadori, Marco Coniglio and Francesco Saverio Mari
Foreign body ingestion is a very common reason for access to the Emergency Department and in most cases, it doesn't cause symptoms; in case of fishbones, intestinal perforation is rare but possible. In this report, besides the typical picture of bowel perforation, we found atypical symptoms due to the specific location. ...
Clinical Profile and Outcomes of Elderly Patients in an Asian Intensive Care Unit: A Retrospective Observational Study
Shahla Siddiqui and Robin Choo
Over the last decade an increasing number of elderly patients are being admitted to the Intensive care units across the World. With a rapidly ageing population Asian countries face a tremendous burden of care for these patients. Family expectations have also increased with more demanding aggressive life support even in the older patients. Patients are generally getting less frail as they age and with the improvement in technology and advancements in medical science the outcomes of these patients...
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For Immediate Release May 15, 1993
WASHINGTON, May 15/U.S. Newswire/ -- Following is a statement by President Clinton on the Los Angeles mayor's race.
"On June 8, Los Angeles voters will select the first new Mayor in two decades -- a Mayor who must reinvigorate the economy and ensure the safety of all communities. I endorse Michael Woo because I believe he is the best person to meet these challenges.
As a councilman, Mike Woo has put people first, consistently fighting for the middle class against the special interests, appealing to our hopes not our fears. He created innovative programs to finance small business, reformed the city's ethics laws, and developed a model community service program. He has fought to get criminals and their guns off the streets.
Early last year, Mike Woo stood with me to support an agenda of change to help working families, rebuild our cities, and bring people together. Mike Woo has dedicated his life to creating jobs in Southern California and making government work for all people. The people of Los Angeles can trust Mike Woo to work long and hard to get the job done for them.
As mayor, Mike Woo will be my partner to reinvigorate the Southern California economy, put more police on the streets, and inspire the many different communities that comprise Los Angeles to pull together again. I look forward to working with him for change."
/U.S. Newswire 202-347-2770/
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Gotthard Base Tunnel: the project of the century wins the 2018 European Railway Award
Gotthard Base Tunnel: the project of the century wins the 2018 European Railway Award.
Press release, 20.02.2018
This evening, Peter Jedelhauser (SBB) and Renzo Simoni (former CEO of AlpTransit Gotthard AG) were in Brussels to collect the 2018 European Railway Award on behalf of everyone involved in building the Gotthard Base Tunnel (GBT) and putting it into operation. Regarded as the highest accolade in the European rail industry, this prize is awarded by the Community of European Railways (CER) and the Association of the European Rail Industry (UNIFE).
This year, the jury for the award has chosen to honour the longest railway tunnel in the world: situated at the very heart of the continent, the Gotthard Base Tunnel (GBT) provides a quicker and more reliable means of connecting people and freight on Europe’s most important freight traffic route – the Rhine-Alpine Corridor. SBB Project Manager Peter Jedelhauser and the former CEO of AlpTransit Gotthard AG (ATG), Renzo Simoni, accepted the award on behalf of the entire workforce involved in the GBT project of the century.
The jury’s decision was based on a number of factors, including the great significance of the tunnel in terms of transport policy for transalpine freight services in Europe. The jury praised Peter Jedelhauser and Renzo Simoni for their instrumental roles in building the GBT and putting it into operation.
CER Executive Director Libor Lochman gave his assessment: «In Switzerland there is clear public support and political commitment to shifting the transport of freight from road to rail. The GBT is part of this plan and it is hugely valuable to the people of Europe.» Philippe Citroën, Director General of UNIFE, added his own views: «The longest railway tunnel in the world is not just an outstanding example of European engineering prowess. By overcoming geographical and infrastructural obstacles, the tunnel demonstrates how rail traffic can play a crucial role in ensuring an efficient and environmentally sustainable economy in Europe.»
At the award ceremony, Renzo Simono explained the vital importance of the GBT in terms of transport policy on the Rhine-Alpine Corridor. He particularly highlighted the fact that it is “the first transalpine flat route for freight traffic”, pointing out that its highest point is only 550 metres above sea level.
Aside from all the technical superlatives, there was one thing Peter Jedelhauser was keen to stress in his acceptance speech: “The Gotthard Base Tunnel project has shown once again that, in spite of all the technological and organisational advances, ultimately it is the people who are the key to success.” With this in mind, he took the opportunity to thank all those involved.
The European Railway Award has been presented every year since 2007. The Community of European Railways (CER) and the Association of the European Rail Industry (UNIFE) award this prize in recognition of outstanding economic and environmentally sustainable developments in rail transport. Previous winners include former EU Transport Commissioner Karel van Miert (2007) and ex-Prime Minister of Spain Felipe Gonzalez (2010). Switzerland claimed the award in 2009, when it was won by former Federal Councillor Moritz Leuenberger, and again in 2013 when it went to the erstwhile CEO of SBB, Benedikt Weibel. The prize money amounts to EUR 10 000. This year’s victors are donating all their winnings to charitable institutions: the Stiftung Personalfonds SBB and the ARGO foundation for integrating people with disabilities in Grisons.
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Peter Jedelhauser.
An ETH Zurich graduate in civil engineering, Peter Jedelhauser worked on global projects for companies such as Elektrowatt and Alstom Hydro before joining SBB in 2004. In 2011 he took charge of the cross-divisional “Gotthard north-south axis” project organisation, which took over the Gotthard Base Tunnel from AlpTransit AG and put it into operation (the tunnel was officially put into service on 11 December 2016). Since autumn 2016 he has been managing SBB’s “Léman 2030” programme organisation. Aged 58, Peter Jedelhauser is married and has four children.
Renzo Simoni.
Renzo Simoni, who has a doctorate in civil engineering and spatial planning from ETH Zurich, was Chairman of the Executive Board of AlpTransit Gotthard AG from April 2007 to June 2017. Under his leadership, the Gotthard Base Tunnel was fully excavated, equipped, tested and handed over to the operator, SBB. The Ceneri Base Tunnel was also completely excavated during this time. The 56-year-old from Grisons is married and has two children.
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A startup of Ex-muslims
Last updated on February 11th, 2020
So you used to think that the book is literally the word of god, then you found out it isn't.
But you didn't dwell on that, yet deep down you know, if it weren't for the internet you will be deep in delusions, and let's admit that is part of why you love technology.....
The 2 biggest issues for a startup are recruiting and culture, a startup that has a mission like "offer Ex-Muslims a home & a ticket out" will make for a very strong culture, and it will make for one hell of a drive for everyone.
Also, companies are not built on a single product, just imagine Apple with a mission that has the word "computers" in it, and a mission that drives people no matter what the problem or the product is the best mission you can ask for.
What is your best advice for first time entrepreneurs?
Where to find software developers for early startup, with reasonable rates?
How much should a simple app cost (to develop)?
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Glare | The M Machine
March 7, 2017 Damon StoneBlind, Glare, Luisa Gerstein, Talking Machine, The M Machine, Walking Underwater Leave a comment
It’s a direction that wants to break a couple of cultural staples–the drop and electronic vibe–and replace it with something meaningful. But it tries so hard that it completely loses the experience. The M Machine are minimizing their own contribution within their own debut album. Glare comes off as a dull, 45-minute, rock interrogation in the form of simplistic synth, uninspired lyrics, and clumsy use of ‘awe.’ The San Francisco-based duo devote a few tracks strictly to production; and even then, they’re no longer than 2 and a half minutes, and act like interludes whose sole purpose is to support the recordings containing vocals that surround them.
“Blind” is a stark contrast from the rest of the 12-track LP; in that it’s actually bright, airy, and has some resemblance of happiness. It even introduces the love angle quite nicely. It’s also the only song sung by a woman. Luisa Gerstein breaks through after some beautifully psychotic ambiance introduces a peppy beat alongside her quirky vocals. Even the tension building synth doesn’t scare her off. She continues to wishfully declare, “Hope you’re happy now” My guess would be a no.
“Talking Machine” is dark electro with an intriguing Thomas Edison sample thrown in the middle. It represents their idea of fusion–reaching out and pulling in guitar riffs and Pink Floyd fancies, while concurrently establishing a bass haven. It’s not a bad song. But it doesn’t really know what it wants. The sample doesn’t necessarily make any sense in theory and placement. It’s just a mash-up of different points in music history.
“Walking Underwater” is more of the previous but with a firmer direction. It actually spells out the duo’s disdain for love by describing their genuine confusion on the topic. There is still room for experimentation. But if sticking with music that only complements vocals, in other words, if pop music is their future, then this is a fine start.
The Metropolis EP’s had focus and story without musical composition oversight. Glare has nothing remotely substantial to say about anything in particular. It’s a sort-of love album that lends a hand in the form of a human arm with robotic enhancements. And the duo might be aware from their choice of Edison sample: “My voice is the clearest, smoothest and most natural of any talking machine.” That’s just it. You’ve gone so “natural” that the machine part no longer exists. It’s better to own it and find what feels “natural” inside that magnificent, limitless contraption. Otherwise you’re left mimicking an electronic version of The Police, with leftover residue from Depeche Mode. EH.
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News from Chester County High School
By: Riley Haltom
COVID-19 has changed several things in our school routine. Changes in dress code, lunch and breakfast procedures as well as facilities have been made to accommodate coronavirus guidelines in Chester County High School. However, the changes have not only been felt during school hours. Fans might notice that the Friday night lights sound quite different. Our Marching Eagles have been unable to play during the games. The absence of pep music during the game can certainly be felt in the energy of the crowd. Sadly, the social distancing guidelines mean there is simply not enough room for the band and their instruments to be in the stands with the fans. The Marching Eagles have been a big part of Friday nights in Chester County for years.
I asked a couple of the student leaders in the band how they felt about the restrictions placed on them. Drum Major Solomon Smith had this to say about the lack of pep band this year.
“I really miss it and feel like half the fun of being in Marching Band has been ripped away from me.”
I then asked Smith about having no halftime show this year.
“I am very upset and frustrated that we can no longer do our full halftime marching show that I had been rehearsing for all summer.”
I also spoke to Percussion Captain Robby Novak. He had this to say about the halftime show.
“I was upset mainly because it gives us, the crowd and the football team something to look forward to.”
Novak also had this to say about the lack of pep band this year.
“I feel like pep band is needed because when we’re losing it would be nice to have some positive energy.”
The change was certainly felt on Friday night, while the Eagles played their game against Jackson Christian. It was oddly quiet at certain spots, such as timeouts, where the band would usually be playing some pep music.
On Friday, the Chester County Eagles suffered a 70-34 loss against Jackson Christian. However, there were some good takeaways. The offense moved well on several occasions and running back Ellis Patterson had a good game. On Wednesday of last week, Mia Hurst, a star for the girls’ basketball team, committed to the University of Tennessee at Martin. Volleyball beat McNairy in five sets to start district play.
Coming up at CCHS, senior night for both football and soccer is coming up. This Friday, the Eagles take on the Hawks of Southside in football. Thursday, Girl’s Soccer will have a matchup against South Gibson. Fans are encouraged to come to both and show support for the class of 2021!
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Top Tech Trends Debate 2020 Recap | Churchill Club
28 Sep 2020 15:20 | Toby Norgate (Administrator)
The 2020 Top Tech Trends Debate brought scintillating debate to our audience of over 120 fellow curious minds. Taking part online via Zoom, this year we had panellists dial in from the UK and audience members from all over the country.
This year’s panel gave us an intriguing window into what life could be like in 3-5 years, each pitching their vision for the next big thing in emerging tech. But ultimately, it was Anushka Wijendra’s trend on edge computing that took out the crown for this year’s top tech trend.
The panel presented their arguments for the tech trends set to make and explosive impact in the next 3 to 5 years:
Precision and food health
Green ammonia
Diversifying technology
FinDevOps.
With panellists:
Anushka Wijendra – Chief Operating Officer at MessageMedia
Sarah Nolet – Founder and CEO of AgThentic
Charlie Day – investor, entrepreneur and researcher
Gala Comacho – Head of Analytics at Neighbourlytics
Simon Wardley – Advisor at Leading Edge Forum.
Anushka Wijendra: Edge computing
Winner Anushka pointed out that it’s predicted the world will have over 50 billion connected devices in the next decade. That’s a huge jump from the approximate 4 billion we currently have. The problem is, cloud computing doesn’t have the capability to process mass amounts of data on a large scale. The longer the distance, the slower the speed and the greater the lag.
Enter the edge. Anushka believes edge computing, meaning computing that’s done closer or nearer to the source of data, is on the cusp of something big. More computing will be done locally before data is transferred to the cloud for AI and machine learning purposes. Edge computing will allow us to engage with tech in real-time without any lag.
As we enter into a world with autonomous cars and smart cities, slow tech solutions can cost lives. This is where the edge will come to the fore and become the dominant force in computing.
Sarah Nolet: Precision food and health
Taking out equal second place, Sarah Nolet believes there’s a revolution of personalisation coming that will impact our health, what we eat, our plants and the climate.
She contends that soon we’ll be able to understand how our trillions of microorganisms will impact on our health in real-time, unlocking a whole economy of personalised health and nutrition.
Feeling stressed and tired? Look no further than your daily dose of personalised vitamins, tailored to your gut health. Feeling ill? Your doctor will be able to prescribe specific meds and food tailored to your microbiome.
Sarah believes this will also have a massive impact on plants and animals too. We’ll be able to tailor soil to our climate and engineer out the emissions caused by livestock for a greener planet. ‘You are what you eat’ will take on a whole new meaning.
Charlie Day: Green ammonia and the hydrogen economy
Our other second place runner up, Charlie Day explained there’s a new industrial chemical on the block, and that’s ammonia. Hydrogen is critical in creating cleaner energy sources, but it takes up a lot of space and needs to be cooled at 250 degrees sub zero to be stored.
Charlie contends we need to find a way to use and store hydrogen that isn’t hydrogen itself. This is where ammonia comes in. Ammonia is a carrier of hydrogen, and when liquified it has 50 percent more hydrogen volume than hydrogen.
Looking at the feasibility of this trend, Charlie argues that green ammonia plants will be operational by 2025. Some countries already have the infrastructure ready to distribute it.
Charlie asserts that green ammonia won’t just revolutionise our energy system, but will revolutionise Australian politics within the next two election cycles.
Gala Comacho: Diversifying technology
The face of modern technology isn’t in innovation, but in the uprooting of stereotypes of the people within it. That’s what Gala Comacho advocates as the next biggest trend in emerging technology.
As we diversify the people creating technology, this has a real impact on the technology we create. As we diversify the people creating technology, this has a real impact on the technology we produce. Gala contends that as we pump diverse and inclusive resources into the tech pipeline, the industry is making space for use of technology that wasn’t possible before.
Using examples of domestic and sexual violence SMS chatbot service Hello Cass, and IVF imaging AI tool, Life Whisperer, Gala believes that diversification allows us to solve real-world problems. It’s the sound of getting diverse voices heard that Gala believes will take the tech world by storm in the next 3-5 years.
Simon Wardley: FinDevOps
Simon Wardley thinks the biggest changes in history are caused not by the exciting, but by the boring. Nuts and bolts are what kicked off industrialisation. With that in mind, Simon believes a new set of practices within money and code, is on its way. This will change our investment strategy, finances and the way we operate. Welcome to the serverless world.
Serverless architecture means less time and money spent on managing the server, and more resources attributed to what you’re actually trying to create.
Simon uses the example of iRobot, utilising Amazon’s serverless architecture. Rather than having to manage high volumes of traffic through the iRobot app, going serverless allows iRobot developers to focus on running a backend platform.
He believes dev ops through the cloud is becoming redundant, and serverless is the new order.
Keen for more interesting, innovation and thought-provoking conversations like those from our Top Tech Trends Debate? Check out the coming events on our website and mingle with other like-minded individuals who share a passion for emerging tech.
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Question: What Country Is A Republic Government?
Why is India called a republic?
What is mean of democratic?
What country is a republic?
What countries have a republic government system?
What is an example of Republic?
What does democracy mean?
What are the 4 types of government?
In which country there are two president?
What type of government is the US?
What’s the difference between a democracy and a republic?
Why is Republic a good form of government?
Is a republic a form of democracy?
What is another word for Republic?
Which country has the best government?
What type of democracy is USA?
What’s better democratic or republic?
Is the US a democracy or a republic?
What is a republic form of government?
What is the exact meaning of Republic?
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What type of government do we have in America?
Since India is a country in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, which has an elected or nominated president.
Thus it is called republic..
English Language Learners Definition of democratic : based on a form of government in which the people choose leaders by voting : of or relating to democracy. : of or relating to one of the two major political parties in the U.S. : relating to the idea that all people should be treated equally.
Germany is another example of a republic, although it structured slightly different from the United States. Germany’s government is considered to be a federal, democratic, constitutional republic.
Federal Republic ExamplesArgentine Republic.Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.Bosnia and Herzegovina.Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal.Federal Republic of Germany.Federal Republic of Nigeria.Federal Republic of Somalia.More items…
A republic is a king-less form of government that has no monarchy and no hereditary aristocracy. … For example, the United States is a republic and India is a republic, but North Korea and Cuba are also called republics.
The word ‘democracy’ has its origins in the Greek language. It combines two shorter words: ‘demos’ meaning whole citizen living within a particular city-state and ‘kratos’ meaning power or rule. … A belief in shared power: based on a suspicion of concentrated power (whether by individuals, groups or governments).
The four types of government are oligarchy, aristocracy, monarchy, and democracy.
Under the Venezuelan Constitution, the President of Venezuela is the head of state and head of government of Venezuela.
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The major difference between a democracy and a republic is that a republic is a form of government whereas a democracy is an ideology that helps shape how a government is run. Put another way: a republic is the system of government that allows a country to be democratic!
A republic allows greater freedom and prosperity. Economic pursuit benefits the entire nation and people are able to live well. When government serves the interests of the entire country, we say it is serving the common welfare. There is wider participation in the political process.
A democratic republic is a form of government operating on principles adopted from a republic and a democracy. Rather than being a cross between two entirely separate systems, democratic republics may function on principles shared by both republics and democracies.
In this page you can discover 16 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for republic, like: representative-government, democracy, nation, government, state, government by popular sovereignty, constitutional government, self-government, commonwealth, democratic state and repulic.
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The United States is a representative democracy. This means that our government is elected by citizens.
In a pure democracy, the voting majority has almost limitless power over the minority. The United States, like most modern nations, is neither a pure republic nor a pure democracy….Key Takeaways: Republic vs. Democracy.Pure DemocracyRepublicRuled ByThe majority.Laws made by elected representatives of the people.4 more rows•Nov 2, 2020
While often categorized as a democracy, the United States is more accurately defined as a constitutional federal republic.
Republic, form of government in which a state is ruled by representatives of the citizen body. Modern republics are founded on the idea that sovereignty rests with the people, though who is included and excluded from the category of the people has varied across history.
A republic (Latin: res publica, meaning “public affair”) is a form of government in which the country is considered a “public matter”, not the private concern or property of the rulers. … It has become the opposing form of government to a monarchy and therefore has no monarch as head of state.
In a republic, a constitution or charter of rights protects certain inalienable rights that cannot be taken away by the government, even if it has been elected by a majority of voters. In a “pure democracy,” the majority is not restrained in this way and can impose its will on the minority.
The Constitution establishes a federal democratic republic form of government. That is, we have an indivisible union of 50 sovereign States. It is a democracy because people govern themselves. It is representative because people choose elected officials by free and secret ballot.
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Gutsy Dallas restaurant group joins 'plastic straws suck' campaign
Mar 8, 2018, 4:00 pm
There's a national campaign rising against these. Photo courtesy of Futuroverde.org
There's been a groundswell across the country against the use of plastic straws and now a high-profile Plano restaurant has joined the campaign. Whiskey Cake, the New American restaurant in Plano that's part of the Frontburner restaurant group, has initiated a new program saying no to straws.
"As a part of our operational philosophy and being the first green restaurant in Plano, we are supporting the movement to reduce straw waste," says a company spokesman. "Millions of plastic straws are used each day in the United States. We want to do our part in reducing straw pollution so we're saying no to straws."
Straws have become the most egregious example of the problem of disposable plastic, which is filling the world's oceans and trashing its beaches. It's an issue in Dallas as well, where mountains of plastic refuse wash up on the shores of White Rock Lake every time there's a big storm.
Plastic lasts forever, hurts wildlife, and is showing up in our food supply, when fish mistake the plastic for food and eat it, and humans then eat the fish. You're eating plastic.
Some plastic is deemed necessary, such as the material used to build cars. But single-use plastic items such as cups, bottles, and especially straws have become the object of boycotts and in some cases, local laws.
In recent months, a number of cities have enacted plastic straw bans, from Naples, Florida, to Seattle whose city-wide ban begins in July, to Malibu, where a ban on straws will begin in June as part of a program eliminating all single-use plastic items.
Whiskey Cake joins Snappy Salads, the Dallas-based salad chain, which has made sustainability a foundation of its business plan. Snappy's to-go packaging is made from compostable materials, and the only straws it offers are paper.
Dream Cafe stopped using plastic straws more than a year ago. Owner Mary O'Brien says that she set up a table to educate her customers on the pitfalls of plastic, then switched to compostable straws wrapped in paper. She's also seen an overall decrease in customer demand for straws.
At Ross & Hall, the neighborhood spot that opened in 2017, the owners recently inaugurated a program in which they'll deliver water and straws only upon customer request, rather than automatically.
Restaurants in the Headington family such as CBD Provisions, Americano, and Sassetta, offer straws only with cocktails or beverages, but not for water unless on request.
V-Eats, the vegan restaurant at Trinity Groves, uses paper straws only, and only in response to customer request. The policy has drawn praise from customers, some of whom bring in their own metal straws.
Whiskey Cake's announcement of its program is generating some of the same entitled whining that accompanied Dallas' 2014 attempt to ban plastic bags, but the restaurant has handled it gracefully. "We understand the many view points of our patrons, but the environmental impact in both pollution and impact to food chain needs our support and attention," it says.
Besides, they're not banishing straws entirely: For the crybabies who insist on having their straw for their drinky, Whiskey Cake is providing a compostable alternative.
In addition to reducing straw waste, Whiskey Cake also offers electric car charging stations, produces solar energy with a roof full of solar panels, repurposes cardboard as coasters, reuses and refills table candles made from recycled wine bottles, and recycles glass and cardboard materials daily.
They anticipate that the program will extend to other restaurants under the Frontburner umbrella, which include Mexican Sugar, Ida Claire, and The Keeper.
"We aren't seeking any publicity, but are rather educating our loyal patrons on an operational change and allowing them to voice any concerns so that we can address them," the restaurant says. "We take a ton of steps as a business to reduce our carbon footprint and be a lighter imprint on the community and we don't think that should be a secret. The more we talk about it, the more we can effect change for the better."
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TOP HIKING ROUTES AROUND THE WORLD
Hiking season is upon us. Read along to discover 10 of the best and most awe-inspiring footpath hiking routes of the world, varying in length, altitude, difficulty, and scenery. In random order of ranking.
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Appalachian Trail, U.S.
The Appalachian National Scenic Trail, also known as the Appalachian Trail, is a marked hiking trail in the Eastern U.S. The trail is 3,500 km (2,200 miles) long and is popularly known as the longest hiking-only footpath in the world. The Appalachian Trail Conservancy announced that annually more than 2 million people take a hike on part of the trail. The trail, in its entirety, stretching from Springer Mountain in Georgia to Mount Katahdin in Maine. The length of the trail means that is it suitable for both those planning for a longer trip and those who want to hike a small part of the path.
Mount Toubkal, Morocco
Toubkal is a mountain peak in southwestern Morocco, located in the Toubkal National park. It is located 63 km south of Marrakesh. At 4,167 it is the highest peak in the Atlas Mountains. In other words, this is by no means a hike suited for the uninitiated. Toubkal is especially popular with trekkers and ski-mountaineers. Since 2018, guides are required for all undertakings on this route.
Great Wall of China, Badaling Section
Badaling is the site of the most visited section of the Great Wall of China. It sits approximately 80 km northwest of Beijing city, within the Beijing municipality. The highest point of Badaling is Beibalou, approximately 1,015 meters above sea level. This tourist hotspot can be an intense hike filled with other hikers and tourists. However, the truly breathtaking view makes it all worth it. [caption id="attachment_119773" align="aligncenter" width="696"] Trolltunga, Norway[/caption]
Trolltunga, Norway
This is one of the most amazing cliffs in Norway – and that is no mere feat, as the country is world-renowned for its incredibly scenic landscape. The highest point is situated about 1100 meters above sea level, hovering some 700 meters above Lake Ringedalsvatnet. Trolltunga (Norwegian for ‘’the troll’s tongue’’) is a very challenging route. The trail goes through high mountain terrain and the weather may change quickly.
Inca Trail, Machu Picchu, Peru
This is an experience of a lifetime. The route was built by the Incas some 500 years ago and the hike starts in Peru’s city of Cuzco at a spot called Kilometer 82. The standard Inca Trail takes four to five days to walk. For hikers short on time there is a version of the trail that can be done in 1 day, which begins at the spot of Kilometer 104 of the Machu Picchu Trail. To avoid and prevent altitude sickness and to be at the forefront of security, we recommend using a reputable guide company to assist you on the trip.
Maira Valley, Italy
In the southwest of Piedmont lies the Maira Valley. The valley takes its name from the river Maira, a right-hand tributary of the Po which flows through the valley. The valley offers some amazing hiking tours and tracks with beautiful frescoes in secluded areas. Ancient transport and trade routes crisscross the valley, and centuries of old yet intact stone arched bridges make up parts of the routes. Visit Wandern-Piemonte for more information on Maria Valley. [caption id="attachment_119776" align="aligncenter" width="690"] Tongariro, New Zealand[/caption]
Tongariro Alpine Crossing, New Zealand
Popularly known as one of the most exciting one-day hikes in New Zealand, the Tongariro Alpine Crossing is New Zealand’s oldest national park. The volcanic terrain molds well into the green scenery. The Tongariro Alpine Crossing is rich in both cultural identity and beautiful natural scenery.
GR20, France
This Corsica hiking route takes 15 days to complete. It was created in 1972 and links Calenzana, in the Balagne, with Conca, north of Port Vecchio. It was described as the outdoor writer Paddy Dillon as ‘’one of the top trails in the world’’. The trail in its entirety is 180 km long with an elevation of 12,000m. The trail consists of two parts: the northern part between Calenzana and Vizzavona and the southern part between Vizzavona and Conca. [caption id="attachment_119779" align="aligncenter" width="695"] Everest Base Camp, Nepal[/caption]
Everest Base Camp, Nepal
The Everest Base Camp footpath on the south side of the Himalayas is one of the most popular and demanding trekking routes in the world. With a summit height of 5,545m at Kala Pattar and amazingly scenic landscape, it is no wonder why this hiking route is as popular as it is. Amateurs and professionals alike aim to proudly proclaim that they’ve stood at the base of the world’s highest mountain. Beware of tourists and crowds gathering during the prime trekking season.
Overland Track, Australia
The Overland Track is an Australian bushwalking track is an 80km, five to six-day route, with the official track running for 65 kilometers. The route traverses between Cradle Mountain and Lake St Clair (Australia’s deepest natural freshwater lake) and more than nine thousand people walk it each year. The walk can be done independently, with six main public huts maintained by the Tasmania Parks and Wildfire and give private huts for commercial groups only. No matter which route you choose to go on, it will require safe walking boots, a waterproof coat, and durable socks. It is imperative that you are in good shape and have the right equipment.
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Distribution map of Betula spp. (2006, FISE, C-SMFAv0-3-2)
This dataset series shows the distribution map (raster format: geotiff) of Betula spp. (whole genus Betula, i.e. all observed species in that genus). The distribution map is...
Distribution map of Pinus pinea (2006, FISE, C-SMFAv0-3-2)
This dataset series shows the distribution map (raster format: geotiff) of Pinus pinea. The distribution map is provided for Europe (EU28 plus part of other countries within the...
Distribution map of Pinus cembra (2006, FISE, C-SMFAv0-3-2)
This dataset series shows the distribution map (raster format: geotiff) of Pinus cembra. The distribution map is provided for Europe (EU28 plus part of other countries within...
Distribution map of Abies alba (2006, FISE, C-SMFAv0-3-2)
This dataset series shows the distribution map (raster format: geotiff) of Abies alba. The distribution map is provided for Europe (EU28 plus part of other countries within the...
Distribution map of Tilia spp. (2006, FISE, C-SMFAv0-3-2)
This dataset series shows the distribution map (raster format: geotiff) of Tilia spp. (whole genus Tilia, i.e. all observed species in that genus). The distribution map is...
Distribution map of Pseudotsuga menziesii (2006, FISE, C-SMFAv0-3-2)
This dataset series shows the distribution map (raster format: geotiff) of Pseudotsuga menziesii. The distribution map is provided for Europe (EU28 plus part of other countries...
Distribution map of Pinus halepensis (2006, FISE, C-SMFAv0-3-2)
This dataset series shows the distribution map (raster format: geotiff) of Pinus halepensis. The distribution map is provided for Europe (EU28 plus part of other countries...
Distribution map of Castanea sativa (2006, FISE, C-SMFAv0-3-2)
This dataset series shows the distribution map (raster format: geotiff) of Castanea sativa. The distribution map is provided for Europe (EU28 plus part of other countries within...
Distribution map of Quercus pubescens (2006, FISE, C-SMFAv0-3-2)
This dataset series shows the distribution map (raster format: geotiff) of Quercus pubescens. The distribution map is provided for Europe (EU28 plus part of other countries...
Distribution map of Fraxinus ornus (2006, FISE, C-SMFAv0-3-2)
This dataset series shows the distribution map (raster format: geotiff) of Fraxinus ornus. The distribution map is provided for Europe (EU28 plus part of other countries within...
Distribution map of Pinus nigra (2006, FISE, C-SMFAv0-3-2)
This dataset series shows the distribution map (raster format: geotiff) of Pinus nigra. The distribution map is provided for Europe (EU28 plus part of other countries within the...
Distribution map of Robinia pseudoacacia (2006, FISE, C-SMFAv0-3-2)
This dataset series shows the distribution map (raster format: geotiff) of Robinia pseudoacacia. The distribution map is provided for Europe (EU28 plus part of other countries...
Distribution map of Quercus ilex (2006, FISE, C-SMFAv0-3-2)
This dataset series shows the distribution map (raster format: geotiff) of Quercus ilex. The distribution map is provided for Europe (EU28 plus part of other countries within...
Distribution map of Quercus robur (2006, FISE, C-SMFAv0-3-2)
This dataset series shows the distribution map (raster format: geotiff) of Quercus robur. The distribution map is provided for Europe (EU28 plus part of other countries within...
Distribution map of Prunus avium (2006, FISE, C-SMFAv0-3-2)
This dataset series shows the distribution map (raster format: geotiff) of Prunus avium. The distribution map is provided for Europe (EU28 plus part of other countries within...
Distribution map of Abies spp. (2006, FISE, C-SMFAv0-3-2)
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Distribution map of Pinus pinaster (2006, FISE, C-SMFAv0-3-2)
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EU Kosova court issues guilty verdict in first war crimes case
March 5, 2009 CounterVortex
A court under the European Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo (EULEX) reached its first verdict March 3, sentencing Kosovar Albanian Gani Gashi to 17 years in jail for murder, attempted murder, and grievous bodily harm. A three-judge panel, composed of two EULEX judges and a judge from Kosova, found Gashi guilty of crimes committed during the Kosova-Serbian conflict in 1998-1999. The EULEX court is charged with aiding the restoration of the rule of law in Kosova. EULEX prosecutor Theo Jacobssaid: “This trial shows that EULEX is serious about investigating and prosecuting war crimes cases whenever they took place, as long as we have enough evidence for a successful prosecution to proceed.”
The court has had a difficult beginning since the EULEX formally began operations in December. On March 3, the trial of two Serbian defendants was derailed by hundreds of Serbian protesters and postponed indefinitely. Kosova seceded from Serbia in February 2008, and its new constitution went into effect in June. Kosova’s Declaration of Independence from Serbia was met with support from the EU, the US, and from many other countries. Serbia formally condemned the secession, citing its illegality under UN Security Council Resolution 1244 (1999). (Jurist, March 4)
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“QSeer on Steroids”: A New, More Powerful Version Debuts
in Coupons In The News — September 21, 2016
Is it possible to condemn QSeer, while clandestinely benefiting from it at the same time? Many critics in the coupon industry have denounced the coupon-decoding app, accusing it of enabling coupon fraud. Yet some of those very critics have quietly, begrudgingly, downloaded the app in order to check how their own company’s coupons will scan at the store.
Now, the makers of QSeer want those users to come out of the shadows. They’ve introduced a new, separate version of the app that’s designed for the coupon industry, to help them avoid the very coupon errors that some QSeer users exploit.
CHEQR is now available on the App Store, exclusively for iPads. It’s a long-promised “professional” version of QSeer, that the app’s creators have promised ever since launching QSeer back in 2013. “It took a little longer than we planned, but we’re extremely happy with the finished product,” QSeer co-founder Katherine Cary told Coupons in the News.
Like QSeer itself, CHEQR scans a coupon’s bar code, and tells you how the coupon will scan at the store. If there are errors in the bar code that cause the coupon to scan in a way that doesn’t match the wording printed on the coupon, both apps will point it out. QSeer will tell you how the coupon can be used, and CHEQR will tell you how it can be fixed.
Critics, however, have said what QSeer really does is teach people how to misuse coupons, by revealing what products the coupons will “work” on. A coupon may be intended for a specific product, but successfully scan on a wide range of products that are not mentioned in the coupon’s wording.
It’s no wonder, then, that coupon abusers and members of online “glitch groups” have embraced QSeer as their tool of choice.
But Cary and her husband Brad have always insisted that misuse was not their intent when they created QSeer. And CHEQR, which is designed to help coupon issuers avoid the bar code errors that allow for coupon misuse, is meant to serve as proof of their good intentions.
DataBars, the longer bar codes that have now replaced the old UPC bar codes on coupons, contain much more information. The idea is to code them in such a way that they can only be redeemed precisely as described on the coupon itself.
But it doesn’t always work that way. “The DataBar concept is powerful, offering the possibility of automating the entire redemption process and virtually eliminating misredemption,” Cary said. Instead, mistakes are made in creating the complex bar codes. A lot of mistakes, according to Cary. “The problem that we face is that most DataBar issuers think that they do an excellent job, or they trust the people who create their DataBars.”
But some 70% of those DataBars, the Carys claim, contain errors that either “allow for the coupon to be redeemed in a manner other than the manufacturer’s intent as per the English words, or cause the coupon to be falsely rejected at point of sale when the consumer had met the stated terms.”
So CHEQR is designed to help coupon issuers determine what those errors are – and figure out how to fix them.
Similar to QSeer, CHEQR allows users to scan a coupon DataBar in order to see how the coupon will be read by a checkout scanner. Unlike QSeer, CHEQR then provides a full list of potential issues that may cause the coupon to be improperly redeemed, or incorrectly rejected. It’s designed to be used when a coupon is in the planning stages, before the coupon issuers go ahead and print them. “This product is not intended to replace their current processes,” Cary said. “CHEQR simply gives them a way to independently verify a DataBar, preferably before dropping an erroneous coupon in 20 million homes.”
An expanded version, CHEQR PRO, adds a DataBar creation tool. You just input the terms of the coupon you’re creating, to generate an accurate DataBar that can be imprinted on the coupon.
It’s like QSeer on steroids. So is it something that should be freely available on the App Store? If some couponers are using QSeer to misuse coupons, wouldn’t they be able to use CHEQR PRO to generate their own bar codes and create their very own counterfeit coupons?
And the critics thought QSeer was dangerous.
But Cary contends that the chances of CHEQR PRO being used by would-be coupon counterfeiters are slim. “There are already free or cheap tools available on the internet to create DataBars,” she said. Those tools can help to create crude counterfeits, but CHEQR PRO has a broader range of capabilities, which “would not be of concern to the average counterfeiter.”
And at $249 for CHEQR, and $449 for CHEQR PRO, the price tags may not be appealing to the average counterfeiter, either.
But it’s money well spent for those who issue coupons, Cary believes. Especially those who have a tendency to mess them up.
When it comes to creating accurate DataBars, “a few manufacturers do an excellent job,” Cary said. “SC Johnson leads the world with nearly 100% accuracy, whereas General Mills is the polar opposite with an average of more than one error per coupon.” In a spot check of one recent SmartSource insert, Cary said QSeer and CHEQR found that General Mills issued “8 coupons with a total of 19 major errors. I am confident that CHEQR could save them easily $10 million annually in misredemption costs!”
The Carys hope CHEQR helps to win over the critics who’ve questioned QSeer. And if it’s widely adopted, CHEQR could ultimately eliminate the need for QSeer altogether. If the Carys have their way, coupon DataBars will reflect exactly what’s written on the coupon – 100% of the time. Then there would be no need for a QSeer app that tells you how a coupon can “really” be used, rightly or wrongly. All along, after all, the Carys say their real goal and ultimate hope was to help fix the problems that QSeer exposes.
So could this mean QSeer will eventually become obsolete? If so, then the critics may get their wish.
But only after the Carys get theirs.
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Ball tampering scandal leaves Australia with serious questions to answer
Posted on March 30, 2018 May 14, 2018 by Edward Jones
The reputation of Australia’s cricket team is in tatters in the wake of the ball tampering scandal that has rocked a nation.
The position of Steve Smith as Australian captain had become untenable in the days following the revelation that his side had deliberately cheated by using sandpaper to change the condition of the ball.
Smith and David Warner, the captain and vice-captain have been handed 12 month bans and Cameron Bancroft a nine moth ban.
There will be those that struggle to understand the seriousness of the offence – after all ball tampering is only a level 2 offence and Smith was given a perfunctory one match ban for the misdemeanour by the ICC.
Yet the moral indignation has meant that this ban was never going to be enough for an Australian public baying for blood.
It is impossible to underestimate the importance of sport in the Australian national psyche.
In many ways it defines them as a nation punching way above its weight on the global stage.
When that position is tarnished by one man’s actions this damages the whole country.
Even the Prime Minister of the Australia, Malcolm Turnbull, went on television to denounce the actions of the team.
What’s clear is that the bans will not signal the end of this sorry saga.
Cricket Australia’s statements leave more questions than answers. Was the coach Darren Lehman really unaware of what was going on?
Smith spoke of how the leadership group knew about the incident, but now the official line is that only he, Warner and Bancroft were privy to the ball tampering.
Just a year ago the leadership group was acknowledged to have five members, so either that group has shrunk considerably over the past year or more people were in on this than Cricket Australia would have us believe.
It beggars belief that Warner, a senior player implicated as the ringleader in this scandal, sat in the dressing room and gave a young player with only a handful of caps to his name instructions to deliberately cheat in a test match.
Smith was aware of what was going on but stayed silent. Did he actively encourage the affair or lack the courage to take his vice-captain to one side and tell him what he was doing was wrong?
Whatever the case, Smith’s name will forever be tarnished through its association with this scandal.
“The whole affair stinks of rank hypocrisy within the Australian ranks.The ‘holier than thou’ attitude of the side has rubbed plenty of people up the wrong way and now they could be forgiven for thinking the birds have come home to roost.”
Just a few months ago he was riding high – scoring runs for fun on the way to a thumping 4-0 Ashes win over England and cementing his position as the best batsman in the world.
Now he faces an uncertain future. At 28 he is still young enough to come back and forge a successful second chapter of his career.
But everywhere he goes he will be followed by whispers and furtive glances, forever known as the captain who brought shame on an entire nation.
For Warner this may well be the end of the road for him as an international cricketer.
Few men have consistently spurned so many second chances as him. From punching Joe Root in a bar to abusing a mentally ill Jonathan Trott in a press conference, his rap sheet is a damming one.
The image of him as a reformed character, the ‘Reverend’ as he was affectionately known in the dressing room, now seems laughable.
For far too long a culture of aggressive macho behaviour has prevailed in the Australian dressing room, where playing hard has been conflated with an aggressive win at all costs mentality
Steve Smith and David Warner (Credit NDTV)
Cameron Bancroft used sandpaper to try and rough up the ball (Credit: Deccan Chronicle)
Will coach Darren Lehman get the boot? (Credit: NDTV Sport)
The four men at the centre of the ball tampering controversy – Captain Steve Smith (Left) and vice-captain David Warner (middle) have both been banned. Cameron Bancroft (Top right) was the man chosen to rough up the ball with sandpaper and has all been banned. It is looking highly likely that coach Darren Lehman (Bottom right) will also be sacked.
They have become a side easy to admire but hard to love even for its own fans.
Their ugly side has never been shy to rear its head through a combination of sledging, inflammatory celebrations, and a pugnacious attitude.
The whole affair stinks of rank hypocrisy within the Australian ranks.
The ‘holier than thou’ attitude of the side has rubbed plenty of people up the wrong way and now they could be forgiven for thinking the birds have come home to roost.
Few could hold too much sympathy when the Australians complained of being abused by the South African crowds when their own coach had previously encouraged Australian crowds to send Stuart Broad home in tears.
It was not hard to imagine Broad was doing his very best to hold back a smile when interviewed about the ball tampering affair this week.
The whole affair leaves a stain on the game of cricket, not just in Australia but across the globe.
It is time for all of cricket to seriously reassess its behaviour and the impression it gives to young fans.
Let us hope that this episode will prove a wakeup call for the macho mentality in international cricket and at least some good may come out of this sorry affair.
Feature image credit: Rediff.
Tags: Australia, Ball Tampering, Cricket, David Warner, ICC, Malcolm Turnbull, Steve SmithCategories: Cricket
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Nancy for a new age
Orange Crate Art's ongoing coverage of the Nancy comic strip -- from the acclaimed Fantagraphics book on how to read Nancy to the recent changeover of the daily strips to artist Olivia Jaimes -- convinced me to start reading the strip. (See all his Nancy posts on his Pinboard page.)
I read this week's strips and also like what he praises: its dryness, its cleverness, its hipness to what a kid and an audience would know about the current world. Tom the Dancing Bug's sarcastic awareness of comics tropes seems an influence, also.
OCA also alerted me to the AVClub article on the controversy surrounding the changeover to Jaimes from the former daily artist Guy Gilchrist, who is still doing the Sunday strip. Fans tend to the conservative, so it's understandable that those who knew what to expect from a daily Nancy strip now don't know what they're going to get. But that's what I find exciting.
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Cyfuture Data Center Facility ready for business
Go4Hosting a Cyfuture Group hosting company will launch its data centre(s) in November 2010 at NOIDA (Delhi NCR) and at Jaipur in January 2010 providing up to 200 racks/10,000 sq ft when completed investing close to Rs. 10 crore in first phase.
The facility will have dual feeds and its own HV supply and substation. High energy efficiency UPS systems would provide uninterruptible power. The facility will have VESDA systems, providing smoke, fire detection and fire suppression systems. Full racks will have up to dual 6 Amps as standard.
Anuj Bairathi, CEO of Cyfuture group commented, "We're extremely excited about building the business colocation facility. It will provide Managed Services and high-specification colocation services with great connectivity options, but without the high pricing". Educating us on data center he further added that Datacenter used the industry leading technology framework that is specially built for managed services with the highest level of security and instant fallback mechanism to offer highest SLAs.
The company is targeting majorly in Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore from these twin facilities.
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Phishing attacks have been around for a long time in IT. Designed to steal your credentials or trick you into installing malicious software, they have persisted in the IT world precisely because they have been so devastatingly simple and effective. Today, a more modern and more effective version of the same attack is commonly used.
A typical phishing attack involves an attacker sending out a malicious email to hundreds of thousands, if not millions of users. The attacker’s email is designed to look like it comes from a bank, financial service, or even the tax office. Often aiming to trick you into logging in to a fake online service, a phishing attack captures the login details you enter so an attacker may use them to enter the genuine service later.
By sending out tens of thousands of emails at a time, attackers can guarantee that even if only one half of one percent of people fall for it, there is a lot of profit to be made by draining accounts. Spear phishing is a more modern, more sophisticated, and far more dangerous form of the attack. It’s typically targeted at businesses and their staff.
A Convincing, Dangerous Attack
While a traditional phishing attack throws out a broad net in the hope of capturing as many credentials as possible, spear phishing is targeted and precise. The attack is aimed towards convincing a single business, department, or individual that a fraudulent email or website is genuine.
The attacker focuses on building a relationship and establishing trust with the target. By building trust and convincing the target that they are who they are pretending to be, the user is more likely to open attachments, follow links, or provide sensitive details.
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The key to stopping a spear phishing attack is education. Learning attack techniques, and how to protect against them is the single biggest thing you can do to enhance business security.
Whenever you deal with a vendor in a business transaction, you should always consider important questions before proceeding. Are you expecting this email? Is the vendor attempting to rush you into a quick decision or transaction? Have you checked all the details are correct and as you expected? Sometimes a simple query to the vendor can protect you against worst-case scenarios.
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Philosophers On Coates’s “Between the World and Me”
. August 18, 2015 at 9:12 am 12
This installment of the Daily Nous Philosophers On series was organized by Janice Dowell (Syracuse).
by Janice Dowell
In the midst of growing media coverage of police brutality and racial injustice in the United States, as well as increased attention to matters of race in the philosophical mainstream, the arrival of writer and journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates’s new book, Between the World and Me, can only be described as “An Event”—and deservedly so. As Melvin Rogers, professor of African American Studies and Political Science at U.C.L.A, put it recently in the Atlantic, “Between the World and Me is an exquisite book, overflowing with insights about the embodied state of blackness and the logic of white supremacy. Coates’ prose is capable of challenging our understanding of the United States even as it captures our hearts”.
In honor of this event, as well as to deepen our understanding of this important book, Daily Nous has invited two philosophers, Christopher Lebron (Yale University) and Myisha Cherry (University of Illinois-Chicago), and one political scientist, Neil Roberts (Williams College), to share their insights and reactions to the book.
Black Fathers, Black Sons, & the Problem of Evil
by Christopher Lebron (@lebron_chris)
New York City isn’t usually prone to natural disasters such as major hurricanes. But there are exceptions. The most startling one is 2012’s Hurricane Sandy which brought the city that never sleeps to a complete standstill. I remember another hurricane when I was a young boy, before my teenage years. The name eludes me, but it doesn’t really matter. Rather, the thing I can’t forget is the preparatory mode into which my father launched. I learned from my father during that storm that living in a high-rise you place strong masking tape in X patterns on all the windows and you leave them all just a bit open to equalize the air pressure and prevent the windows from being blown out when strong winds hit. Well, that’s what we did and all we could do. The storm would come and we would just have to see whether our preparations would withstand the inevitable onslaught.
Some people tend to think racism is like that: a historical force that blows its mean winds upon our today, leaving us to either be pelted by the mortally dangerous debris it dusts up lest we raise our umbrella or daily newspaper to shield our vulnerable souls and bodies from its malevolent forces. Let’s think about this kind of description of racial inequality and let’s think hard. Does it make sense?
We can begin from one of the trendy and overused, but nevertheless true description of race: a social construct. The term is self-defining. We, you, I, the next door neighbors, Debby at the water cooler, Archibald at the Williamsburg blacksmithing station in 1888, the founders, the colonists, Christopher Columbus all created and maintain race. I, you, them, we are responsible. Sometimes the grandness of this creation, the energy with which it acts upon us, and the magnitude of the responsibilities it generates can convince some of us to perceive and experience the horrors racism produces as the result of history’s celestial forces. Natural disasters that bear down on us leaving us only to react with hope of making it through the storm. This seems to be Coates’s view and it strikes me as confused – the action that the vagaries of human agency entail are morally and political distinct from those entailed by powers by which we are merely buffeted and that are beyond our control entirely.
Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between The World And Me is an elegant, lyrical, and insightful work of witness bearing. Coates invites us to observe his black life from the tough streets of Baltimore to his early and financially insecure days as a NYC writer right up to when he became the personality he is today. His book ultimately asks the reader, what kind of country is America that it can make a reasonable person like me live in perpetual fear for my life, and, urgently, for my son’s simply because I am black? Between The World And Me is a sincere reckoning with the deep hope for a better future alongside a biting cynicism whether that future can be obtained. There can be good reasons for cynicism. But there can be bad reasons and it is here that Coates’s reckoning makes me uneasy.
Coates seems fond of utilizing the metaphor of a natural disaster when describing the horrors that result from our history of white supremacy. At some points he seems to attribute the viewpoint to whites. At other times it’s less clear. For example: “[My mother] knew the galaxy itself could kill me, that all of me could be shattered and all of her legacy could be spilled on the curb like bum wine. And no one would be brought to account for this destruction, because my death would not be the fault of any human but the fault of some unfortunate immutable fact of ‘race,’ imposed upon an innocent country by the inscrutable judgment of invisible gods. The earthquake cannot be subpoenaed. The typhoon will not be under indictment.” (82) What makes this and similar passages troubling is that the naturalizing language is used without qualification; meanwhile, despite Coates’s many justified and spot-on complaints about our racial wickedness, he never calls it that – an evil. Without locating racism consistently and squarely as the result of human depravity and our collective resistance to social justice, passages like the following to his son read nihilistically: “I am sorry that I cannot make it okay. I am sorry that I cannot save you – but not that sorry. Part of me thinks that your very vulnerability brings you closer to the meaning of life, just as for others, the quest to believe oneself white divides them from it.” (107) There are those who will want to say that Coates is pressing for a humanistic view of flourishing that depends on one recognizing the stakes of existing through suffering. This view is deeply confused, even if it is Coates’s. The meaning of Samori’s life ought to be discovered in the manner that he ultimately finds a good fit with his vices and virtues, not as something pre-determined – as naturalized – and quite beyond his agency. To suggest this, despite the complaints and hand-wringing, gives up half the fight before one steps foot in the ring and no people ever effected social change without planting both feet on the field of contestation.
Thinking back to my own father and the hurricane, we made it through. Living in NYC, we didn’t live particularly concerned about such storms. But we knew they always come back whether we wanted them to or not. Though inconvenienced, we could not protest for doing so would be like blaming water for being wet. White Americans possess no such qualities from preventing me or anyone else from naming their racial predilections and insensitivities what they are when they are in play: unnaturally evil.
The Conscious Gospel and its Short-Comings
by Myisha Cherry (@myishacherry)
In the black community of the 1980’s and 1990’s, we had a term to refer to folks who understood the social structure, were in touch with black history, and who knew the truth and were not blinded by the lies of white supremacy. We called them “conscious.” We had our conscious rappers (i.e. Sista Soulja, KRS-One, and Public Enemy), our conscious artists (usually spoken word poets), and the conscious religious folks (i.e. The Nation of Islam and Five Percenters). Whenever these conscious folks rapped, spoke, or taught, you heard “da truth” as well as their love for creating awareness and for imparting knowledge to the people they loved.
That conscious spirit is still alive today in 2015 through the music of artists like Kendrick Lamar and through the phrase “stay woke” — which means to stay informed and aware despite the B.S. that may attempt to convince you otherwise. That conscious spirit is also present in Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me.
Coates’ text is heavy in consciousness. It is something he inherited. In Section I, he describes how his parents were always encouraging him to be politically conscious; something he describes as “much as a series of actions as a state of being, a constant questioning, questioning as ritual, questioning as exploration rather than the search for certainty.” His conscious spirit during college was clear by his own recognition that “I was made for the library, not the classroom.” In Between the World and Me, Coates attempts to impart this consciousness to his son and to us, the reader. He achieves in speaking the truth.
In section II, Coates breaks down the Civil War and slavery with the aptitude of a historian and the social relevance of a sociologist noting, “This lie of the Civil War is the lie of innocence.” With words like “‘Good Intentions’ is a hall pass through history, a sleeping pill that ensures the Dream,” and “Black life is cheap, but in America black bodies are a natural resource of incomparable value,” Coates is like a conscious spoken word artist whose words make you want to shake your head and snap your fingers in agreement.
Coates makes a conscious call to us. He urges, “You must struggle to remember this past in all its nuance, error and humanity”, “Do not accept the lie. Do not drink the Poison” and “What I wanted for you was to grow into consciousness. I resolved to hide nothing from you.” This consciousness was important to his survival and perhaps it will aid in our own. He notes, “I did not perish in the agony of not knowing.” In describing the joy of study and struggle, Coates writes:
“The changes have awarded me a rapture that comes only when you can no longer be lied to, when you have rejected the Dream… the changes have taught me how to best exploit that singular gift of study, to question what I see, then to question what I see after that, because the questions matter as much, perhaps more than, the answers.”
Here Coates is following the Socratic tradition of self-examination and critical interrogation of the world. When we live the philosophical life, we become concerned with the questions as much as we are with the answers. I think the consciousness Coates preaches throughout the text is important, but I wonder if it’s enough.
Between the World and Me is a message of consciousness directed to his son as he approaches adolescence and to us as we rise to moral and civic maturity. This consciousness is the answer to surviving the struggle and a design for how to live in a black body. As a philosopher and critical citizen, I love interrogation and awareness but I find something insufficient in Coates’ overall message. I blame Malcolm X.
Although Malcolm X preached about how important consciousness was, that consciousness ushered in economic development, moral perfection, and physical health. Knowledge has both intrinsic and extrinsic value. Knowledge is not a library of facts that only makes us smile at night and makes the oppressor terrified. No! It doesn’t work that way. Consciousness is the foundation to a radical liberation, not the beginning and the end of it.
Fear is a recurring word used throughout the text. Coates admits he has it and may have imparted it to his son. But what is consciousness if what we know only makes us afraid and powerless?
Just when I think Coates will take us beyond the intrinsic value of consciousness and into the realm of black power, he describes power as a “deep knowledge of how fragile everything… really is.” For Coates, black power is “more gorgeous than any voting rights bill… it’s a kind of understanding that illuminates all the galaxies.” Black power is beautiful but it cannot be restricted to only consciousness nor can this consciousness replace the action and other ingredients that we need for true liberation. Awareness of our fear, vulnerability, and fragility is important but it alone is not preventing black people from getting shot by the police, disproportionately incarcerated, or from being caught up in a constant cycle of poverty.
Between the World and Me is an enlightening analysis that leaves us knowing and understanding more than we knew before, but it is an insufficient guide for how we can navigate a world that has become a police state, where the killing of black bodies is excusable, and where fear is commonplace.
Consciousness makes us aware of the fact that we need more than itself to help us survive and thrive in the struggle.
Coates, the Black Body, Freedom
by Neil Roberts (@neildsroberts)
how do I live free in this black body?
If there is no struggle there is no progress.
Curse me till I’m dead
Church me with your fake prophesizing that I’mma be just another slave in my head
Institutionalized manipulation and lies
Reciprocation of freedom only live in your eyes
You hate me don’t you?
Between the World and Me (henceforth Between) by Ta-Nehisi Coates is an arresting read. Its prose is pithy, poetic, and at times heart wrenching. Consider the following passage with its cadences of Beloved, whose author blurbed the jacket cover:
“Black people love their children with a kind of obsession. You are all we have, and you come to us endangered. I think we would like to kill you ourselves before seeing you killed by the streets that America made. That is a philosophy of the disembodied” (82).
Between is a nearly one hundred fifty-page letter to Coates’s fifteen-year old son Samori, named after a resister to French colonialism. “The Struggle is in your name, Samori” (68). The word struggle recurs throughout the oeuvre of Coates as his 2008 memoir The Beautiful Struggle attests. Between has three parts and contains an overall book epigraph by Richard Wright along with subsequent epigraphs to the respective parts by Sonia Sanchez, Amiri Baraka, and James Baldwin.
Coates employs an epistolary style of writing that, while comparable to an extent with Baldwin’s letter to his nephew in The Fire Next Time, evokes more concretely Cicero’s letter to his son in On Duties on transgenerational challenges and responsibilities and Sylvia Wynter’s “No Humans Involved,” an open letter on the quotidian dehumanization of black life written in the wake of the Rodney King riots. Between’s title mirrors that of Wright’s poem on lynching extracted as the text’s signature epigraph. Wright published “Between the World and Me” in 1935 in the journal Partisan Review and included it subsequently in the 1957 collection White Man Listen! Coates’s letter vividly captures what Rastafari assert is the fine line between fear, an inhibitor to change, and dread, the existential state of confrontation with life’s actualities that nevertheless furnishes the possibility for radical transformation in the human condition.
Persistent debates on Toni Morrison’s likening of Coates to Baldwin obscure focus on the central dilemma Coates wrestles with: how can blacks, whose bodies and being are the subject of violence, hate, matrices of bad faith, and orders of unfreedom, ever truly be free? Kendrick Lamar’s 2015 “The Blacker the Berry,” articulation of hood politics, and To Pimp a Butterfly album cover aesthetics featuring several shirtless black fathers and sons posing in front of the White House probe this question. So too does Frantz Fanon, who closes Black Skin, White Masks (1952) with a prayer: “Oh my [black] body, always make me a man who questions!” Moreover, the contemporary significance of the query for body politics, freedom’s meaning, and the #BlackLivesMatter movement is manifold. For Coates, conveying to Samori his own journey from West Baltimore to Howard University, Chicago, New York City, Paris, the world of journalism, and back to Maryland and DC serves as the bulwark for deciphering the dread of black male disembodiment and the evanescent status of freedom.
There are two prominent streams of thinking about freedom in Western thought: negative and positive. Negative theories (freedom as non-interference and non-domination) conceive of freedom as the absence of a condition encroaching upon an agent. Positive theories (generality, plurality, autonomy) underscore collective action, participation, and self-mastery. Both streams contend that unfreedom and freedom are static, fixed conditions and that their streams are unrelated. We must reject this view.
I have argued recently that marronage (flight)—the perpetual act of escape from states of enslavement—more accurately defines freedom. Flight involves the physical, psychological, metaphysical, and social-structural. Marronage occurs on micro- and macro- levels encompassing the fleeting flight of individuals, bounded maroon communities of fugitives, and mass revolution enacted through the agency of a sovereign entity or a bottom-up upheaval of a people. Applying the flight heuristic to Between, we can read the letter and accompanying pictures as a genealogy of Coates’s own marronage. The discussion of Howard University, or The Mecca as Coates dubs it, “the crossroads of the black diaspora” (40), provides evidence. The marronage framework also highlights forms of marronage Coates prematurely dismisses as untenable.
The Mecca Coates describes is a type of maroon community. Coates differentiates the formal institution of Howard from learning transpiring outside classrooms. He writes of his flight from Baltimore to The Mecca and meeting an array of black people; some reared by black nationalists, others attending a majority-black school for the first time. We learn Coates’s father, a former Black Panther local captain, once was a Howard research librarian. We see a picture of Coates in a dorm room reading a classic Pan-Africanist text. We read about Coates meeting Samori’s mother. We read Coates repeating love for his son. We read Coates’s rationalization for departing Howard. We also read of plunder and loss, the latter centered on Coates’s friend from Howard: Prince Jones.
Current state-citizen tensions surrounding police killings of unarmed black youth and the failure to hold officers responsible for unlawful actions has roots in centuries of sanctioned violence against black bodies. Coates remarks, “In America, it is traditional to destroy the black body—it is heritage” (103). His searing recitation of Prince Jones’s death bolsters the claim. In Baltimore, Ferguson, and across the US, white police officers habitually are implicated and often exonerated in cases of racial violence against young blacks. The unaccountable officer who shot Jones was black. Whites are not the only emissaries of white supremacy. Sociopolitical structures enshrine the tradition of killing black bodies by persons spanning the color line.
Justifiable rage, however, leads Coates to provincialize the scope of freedom for black Americans. Coates implores his son in the final paragraph “to struggle” yet be wary of “the Dreamers” and their narrow conception of progress (151). He professes atheism, viewing no afterlife and future solution to a world suffuse with white supremacy. His concentration on negative freedom (i.e. how non-interference in and non-domination of black lives by police and agents of state might materialize) occludes attentiveness to the interrelated positive valences of flight: political imagination, restructuring of the sociopolitical order, agents’ psychological conditions, and refashioned modes of constitutionalism necessary for alternative world-building where the Prince Joneses and Sandra Blands shall not be killed with impunity.
Let us harken back to the fugitive-turned-ex-slave Frederick Douglass, raised not far from Coates, same state, different era. Geographically, that state is the territory Maryland. Psychodynamically, that state is wrapped inside a black body grappling with its American unfreedom. As with his predecessor Douglass, Coates takes seriously the psychodynamics of black disembodiment. Douglass, like Coates, utilized journalism and autobiography to establish positions. Like Coates, he changed writing styles over time. He also admitted his imperfections (for Coates, this occurs on Twitter).
Douglass asserted in 1857, “The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims, have been born of earnest struggle.” His idea of perpetual struggle cultivated marronage individually and set the terms for mass transformation when it was considered irrational and untenable.
How to live free in a black body may be a quandary but not a paradox. Black women and men can and must live free in their bodies. Douglass concurred. Let us, dare I say, hope Coates does too.
Discussion welcome.
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The Real Enemy Is Within
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If you are not dedicated to the destruction of empire and the dismantling of American militarism, then you cannot count yourself as a member of the left. It is not a side issue. It is the issue. It is why I refuse to give a pass in this presidential election campaign to Bernie Sanders, who refuses to confront the war industry or the crimes of empire, including U.S. support for the slow genocide carried out by Israel against the Palestinians. There will be no genuine democratic, social, economic or political reform until we destroy our permanent war machine.
Militarists and war profiteers are our greatest enemy. They use fear, bolstered by racism, as a tool in their efforts to abolish civil liberties, crush dissent and ultimately extinguish democracy. To produce weapons and finance military expansion, they ruin the domestic economy by diverting resources, scientific and technical expertise and a disproportionate share of government funds. They use the military to carry out futile, decades-long wars to enrich corporations such as Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, Raytheon and Northrop Grumman. War is a business. And when the generals retire, guess where they go to work? Profits swell. War never stops. Whole sections of the earth live in terror. And our nation is disemboweled and left to live under what the political philosopher Sheldon Wolin calls "inverted totalitarianism." Libertarians seem to get this. It is time the left woke up.
"Bourgeois society faces a dilemma," socialist Rosa Luxemburg writes, "either a transition to Socialism, or a return to barbarism ... we face the choice: either the victory of imperialism and the decline of all culture, as in ancient Romeannihilation, devastation, degeneration, a yawning graveyard; or the victory of Socialismthe victory of the international working class consciously assaulting imperialism and its method: war. This is the dilemma of world history, either-or; the die will be cast by the class-conscious proletariat."
The U.S. military and its array of civilian contractors operate as enforcers and hired killers across the globe for corporations, many of which pay no taxes. Young men and women, many unable to find work, are the cannon fodder. The U.S. military has served as the handmaiden of capitalism since it committed genocide against Native Americans, carried out on behalf of land speculators, mineral companies, timber merchants and the railroads. The military replicated this indiscriminate slaughter at the end of the 19th century in our imperial expansion in Cuba and elsewhere in the Caribbean, in Central America and especially in the Philippines. Military muscle exists to permit global corporations to expand markets and plunder oil, minerals and other natural resources while keeping subjugated populations impoverished by corrupt and brutal puppet regimes. The masters of war are the scum of the earth.
It was the war profiteers and the military, as Seymour Melman has pointed out, that conspired after World War II to keep the country in a state of total war, deforming the economy to continue to produce massive amounts of weapons and armaments in peacetime. The permanent war economy is sustained through fearmongeringabout communists during the Cold War and about Islamic jihadists today. Such fearmongering is used not only to justify crippling military expenditures but to crush internal dissent. The corporatists and the military, which have successfully carried out what John Ralston Saul calls a "coup d'état in slow motion," have used their political and economic clout to dismantle programs and policies put in place under the New Deal. Brian Waddell writes of this process:
The requirements of total war ... revived corporate political leverage, allowing corporate executives inside and outside the state extensive influence over wartime mobilization policies. ... Assertive corporate executives and military officials formed a very effective wartime alliance that not only blocked any augmentation of the New Dealer authority but also organized a powerful alternative to the New Deal. International activism displaced and supplanted New Deal domestic activism. Thus was the stage finally set for a vastly extended and much more powerful informal U.S. empire outside its own hemisphere.
The war machine is not, and almost never has been, a force for liberty or democracy. It does not make us safe. It does not make the world safe. And its immense economic and political power internally, including its management of the security and surveillance state and its huge defense contracts, has turned it into the most dangerous institution in America.
Military expenditures bleed the federal budgetofficiallyof $598.49 billion a year, or 53.71 percent of all spending. This does not, however, include veterans' benefits at $65.32 billion a year or hidden costs in other budgets that see the military and the war profiteers take as much as $1.6 trillion a year out of the pockets of taxpayers. The working and middle class fund the endless wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen and a host of other countries while suffering crippling "austerity" programs, massive debt peonage, collapsing infrastructures, chronic underemployment and unemployment and mounting internal repression. The war industry, feeding off the carcass of the state, grows fat and powerful with profits. This is not unique. It is how all empires are hollowed out from the inside. As we are impoverished and stripped of our rights, the tools used to maintain control on the outer reaches of empiredrones, militarized police, indiscriminate violence, a loss of civil liberties, and security and surveillanceare used on us. We have devolved, because of the poison of empire, into a Third World nation with nukes. We are ruled by an omnipotent, corporate oligarchy and their Pretorian Guard. The political class, Republican and Democrat, dances to the tune played by these oligarchs and militarists and mouths the words they want it to say.
C. Wright Mills in "The Power Elite" warns of a military machine that not only holds the political and economic life of the nation hostage but also has the ability to form public opinion. The Pentagon spends $4.7 billion a year and has some 27,000 employees who work on recruitment, advertising, psychological operations and public relations, according to a 2009 report by The Associated Press. But millions of dollars more for propaganda are hidden within classified budgets. The Pentagon places its commentators and pundits on the airwaves, produces "news" stories for the press, has ubiquitous advertising, runs junkets for Wall Street capitalists and elected officials and manages how Hollywood and television portray war and the military. Mills writes:
… n all of pluralist America, there is no interestthere is no possible combination of intereststhat has anywhere near the time, the money, the manpower, to present a point of view on the issues involved that can effectively compete with the views presented day in and day out by the warlords and by those whom they employ.
This means, for one thing, that there is no free and wider debate of military policy or of policies of military relevance. But that, of course, is in line with the professional soldier's training for command and obedience, and with his ethos, which is certainly not that of a debating society in which decisions are put to a vote. It is also in line with the tendency in a mass society for manipulation to replace explicitly debated authority, as well as the fact of total war in which the distinction between soldier and civilian is obliterated. The military manipulation of civilian opinion and the military invasion of the civilian mind are now important ways in which the power of the warlords is steadily exerted.
The extent of the military publicity, and the absence of opposition to it, also means that it is not merely this proposal or that point of view that is being pushed. In the absence of contrasting views, the very highest form of propaganda warfare can be fought: the propaganda for a definition of reality within which only certain limited viewpoints are possible. What is being promulgated and reinforced is the military metaphysicsthe cast of mind that defines international reality as basically military. The publicists of the military ascendency need not really work to indoctrinate with this metaphysics those who count: they have already accepted it.
The naked greed and violence that define empire, understood by writers such as Joseph Conrad, Eduardo Galeano and Arundhati Roy, is masked within empire behind the cant of patriotism and nationalism, which sanctify self-exaltation and racism. Imperial war is transformed through the magic of propaganda into glorious spectacle. Galeano once wrote that "each time a new war is disclosed in the name of the fight of the good against evil, those who are killed are all poor. It's always the same story repeating once and again and again."
The hypermasculinity of the military, celebrated by Hollywood and the media, is seductive to an underclass trapped in menial, dead-end jobs. Empires feed like vultures on these pools of frustrated surplus labor. They manipulate their feelings of powerlessness. This is why capitalists create pools of surplus labor. Those who are desperate to secure a place in society are easy fodder for the military and ready candidates for underpaid jobs without benefits or job security. Our corporate, neofeudal society is by design.
The sons and daughters of the elites rarely serve in the military. The military, even at the service academies such as West Point, attracts those who have been cast aside by neoliberalism. Often, before joining the military, they lack a clearly defined identity or sense of purpose. They are terrified of being pushed permanently into the underclass. They are especially susceptible to indoctrination. The military teaches soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines not to think, not to challenge assumptions and structures, but to obey and to be "tough" and "strong." This hypermasculine culture glorifies the state and state violence. It renders all human beings outside the sacred national circle as objects to control or exploit. It creates a binary world of good and evil. It sanctifies violence, especially male violence. It is why rape is endemic in the military. It is why pornography and violence against women are so pervasive in the culture. Tenderness, nurturing and empathy, along with intellectual inquiry and artistic expression, are banished. The weak and the vulnerable deserve to be cast aside. Our enemies deserve to be killed. It is the culture of death. And we drink deep from this dark elixir.
W.E.B. Du Bois warns that empire was the primary tool used to break the working class in Europe and later in the United States. As workers organized and fought for rights and fair wages, the masters of empire started to shift production to countries more easily controlled, countries inhabited by "darker peoples." This is a shift that is largely complete.
"Here, are no labor unions or votes or questioning onlookers or inconvenient consciences," Du Bois writes. "These men may be used down to the very bone, and shot and maimed in punitive' expeditions when they revolt. In these dark lands industrial development' may repeat in exaggerated form every horror of the industrial horror of Europe, from slavery and rape to disease and maiming, with one test of successdividends."
Du Bois also knew that the costs of maintaining empire were offset by the profits. "What do nations care about the cost of war, if by spending a few hundred millions in steel and gunpowder they can gain a thousand millions in diamonds and cocoa?" he asks.
The reality of empire is nearly impossible to see from the heart of empire. Those who speak its truth are banished from the airwaves. They are condemned as traitors or "anti-American." The cries of empire's victims are rarely heard. The crimes that empire commits are rendered invisible. The greed of the war makers, along with the corruption and dishonesty of the political, judicial, academic and media courtiers who serve empire, is blocked from public view. The image of empire is scripted like a Walt Disney movie. This mythical narrative is disseminated in films, on television, by the press, in churches, in universities and by the state. It is a lie. But it is a lie that works. And it works because it is what we want. It appeals to our fantasies about ourselves: that we are a virtuous people, that God has blessed us above others, that we have the highest form of civilization, that we have been anointed to police the world and make it safe, that we are the most powerful and righteous nation on earth, that we are always assured of victory, that we have a right to kill in the name of nationalist valuesvalues determined by our naked self-interest and that we conveniently define as universal.
Noam Chomsky, more than perhaps any other American intellectual, has laid bare the latent forces of totalitarianism in our midst and warned us against the contagion of empire. He says:
Those with deep totalitarian commitments identify the state with the society, its people, and its culture. Therefore those who criticized the policies of the Kremlin under Stalin were condemned as "anti-Soviet" or "hating Russia." For their counterparts in the West, those who criticize the policies of the U.S. government are "anti-American" and "hate America"; those are the standard terms used by intellectual opinion, including left-liberal segments, so deeply committed to their totalitarian instincts that they cannot even recognize them, let alone understand their disgraceful history, tracing to the origins of recorded history in interesting ways. For the totalitarian, "patriotism" means support for the state and its policies, perhaps with twitters of protest on grounds that they might fail or cost us too much. For those whose instincts are democratic rather than totalitarian, "patriotism" means commitment to the welfare and improvement of the society, its people, its culture. That's a natural sentiment and one that can be quite positive. It's one all serious activists share, I presume; otherwise why take the trouble to do what we do? But the kind of "patriotism" fostered by totalitarian societies and military dictatorships, and internalized as second nature by much of intellectual opinion in more free societies, is one of the worst maladies of human history, and will probably do us all in before too long.
There can be no rational debate about empire with many desperate Americans who have ingested this as their creed. The distortion of neoliberalism has left them little else. Here lies the virus of fascism, wrapped in the American flag, held aloft by the Christian cross and buttressed by white supremacy. It is a potent and dangerous force within the body politic. And it is growing. The real enemy is within.
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
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Knife crime increases again, police figures show
Knife crime in England and Wales has increased again, according to the latest figures from police forces.
In the 12 months to the end of June 2019, knife crime offences rose by 7%, reaching a record high.
But the picture on knife crime is mixed – with a fall in the number of homicides related to knife crime.
The data, from the Office for National Statistics, also found a 11% rise in the number of recorded robberies, while fraud offences went up by 15%.
According to the ONS, which published its latest figures on Thursday, the number of offences involving a knife or sharp instrument increased from just over 41,000 in the year to June 2018 to just over 44,000 in the last 12 months.
The knife crime figures do not include Greater Manchester Police, which records data differently.
It marks a new record level since 2011, the year that knife crime statistics started to be gathered in a unified way.
But the ONS added: “The number of homicides where a knife or sharp instrument was involved decreased by 14%.
“This decrease was mainly driven by falls in London.
“There is a mixed picture in the total number of offences involving knifes or sharp instruments across different police force areas, with the Metropolitan Police recording little change in the last year.”
The total number of homicides recorded by the police also fell by 5% in the last year, from 719 to 681 offences.
Meanwhile, a separate Crime Survey for England and Wales, which includes offences that are not reported to police, indicated a continuing rise in fraud.
The survey’s latest estimates show a 15% increase in fraud offences, driven by a 17% rise in “bank and credit account fraud”.
It said there were 3,863,000 fraud offences in the year to June.
Almost 2.7m of those were bank and credit account fraud offences, up from 2.3m the previous year.
But the survey, which measures people’s experience of crime, found fewer than one in six incidents of fraud were reported by the victim to the police or Action Fraud.
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A Fenton Reaction In The Recirculated Biosolids Line Of An Anaerobic Digestion System
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Anaerobic digestion is a biological treatment method and a mature technology to recover energy in the form of methane (CH4) from, for example, waste sludge. Due to the positive connection between pre-treatment and improved performance results, several biological, mechanical, thermal, chemical, thermochemical, and physicochemical methods have been applied to enhance the anaerobic digestion of various wastewater streams. In this work, the fenton reaction is used to achieve this purpose. Two continuously stirred anaerobic digesters (CSADs), with an effective volume of 45 L each, were built and were operated in parallel at mesophilic conditions (32°C ± 1) during an operating period of 280 days. The only difference between the two digesters was hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) addition after day 180 to the recirculation line for one of them. Anaerobic settlers were built similar to the CSADs except that mixing and heating were omitted, and these anaerobic settlers were operated at room temperature (25°C ± 1). Each of these two anaerobic settlers was placed in series with one CSAD. The pilot-scale CSADs were operated similarly to a full-scale system at the Ithaca Area Wastewater Treatment Plant (IAWWTP). To mimic the conditions of the reactors at the wastewater treatment facility, the anaerobic digestion systems were maintained at mesophilic conditions (32°C) and were fed real, thickened, and combined primary, waste activated sludge, and tertiary sludge. The results indicated that H2O2 addition did not enhance the biogas production even though an increase in soluble chemical oxygen demand was observed. Total chemical oxygen removal S efficiencies were 63.75±2.9% and 62.1±3.2% for experimental and control CSADs, achieving a methane yield of 0.280 L CH4.g-1 and 0.279 L CH4.g-1, respectively. Large, but identical, variations in biogas production during the operating period were observed for in both systems. Such large variations could have been responsible for a false claim of H2O2 enhanced biogas production in a non-controlled study. S
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As COVID-19 Resurges, Florida Election Officials Preach Flexibility
By Doug Chapin July 1, 2020
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Florida local officials are preaching flexibility as they contemplate elections in August and November even as the coronavirus surges again in their state and elsewhere nationwide. The News Service of Florida has more:
Face shields, temperature checks and disposable pens are just some of the safeguards Florida officials plan to employ to combat COVID-19, as they brace for elections in August and November.
Collectively, Florida’s 67 county supervisors of elections have decades of experience responding to disasters. They’ve combatted hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, wildfires and even the historic Bush v. Gore meltdown in 2000.
But the coronavirus pandemic presents a calamity of a different kind, posing an unknown threat that’s forcing elections officials to plan for a continuum of possibilities.
“It’s extremely challenging,” Leon County Supervisor of Elections Mark Earley, who’s worked in the elections industry for more than three decades, told The News Service of Florida.
Elections officials had what Earley called a “dry run” during the presidential primary elections as the novel coronavirus, which causes the respiratory disease known as COVID-19, quickly spread through the state in March.
Preparation is key again given the re-emergence of the virus in recent weeks:
The number of COVID-19 cases has skyrocketed in Florida over the past few weeks, prompting state and local officials to halt or slow down reopening measures that had been aimed at reviving the economy. Even as COVID-19 cases spike, public health officials predict a second wave this fall could be equally or more virulent.
Elections supervisors are taking measures to avoid problems that erupted during the March primaries, when they were faced with cancellations of early-voting and Election Day polling sites, last-minute poll-worker absences and scanty supplies of hand sanitizer and other disinfectant agents.
They’re buying no-contact thermometers to check poll workers’ temperatures. They’re planning to set up curbside tents so voters can drop off mail-in ballots without getting out of their cars. They’re sending out information cards to let voters know if polling sites have changed.
And they’re reducing the number of “touch points” for voters and poll workers, all in an attempt to curb the spread of the highly contagious disease, which was linked to more than 3,600 deaths in Florida as of Tuesday.
Hillsborough County Supervisor of Elections Craig Latimer will rely on face shields and Plexiglas barriers to separate poll workers and voters. Latimer’s also enlisted one of his county’s busiest Election Day locations for use during the two-week early voting period. He’s combining some voting sites, due to a loss of 21 Election Day precincts — a little less than 9 percent — of available locations, all because of COVID-19.
A key feature of the planning for now is a commitment to flexibility:
“The one thing about the supervisors is flexibility,” Latimer, president of the Florida Supervisors of Elections association, said in a phone interview. “Living in Florida, one of the things we always had to prepare for is hurricanes and work around that. And, son of a gun, they come right in the middle of our primary election and they could come in our general, too. So I think it’s just a matter of contingencies.”
The biggest concern right now, however, “is the community at large,” Latimer said.
“We’re seeing these huge spikes in COVID-19 cases. This is dangerous, and people need to heed the warnings out there. We’re being very strict in our office and if you’re an employee you’re getting your temperature taken and you’re wearing a mask. We’re really trying to deal with this right now,” he added.
This flexibility includes precautions to protect voters and limit exposure:
Voters throughout the state will encounter a variety of protective measures if they decide to cast ballots in person during the Aug. 18 primary elections and Nov. 3 general election.
For example, while Latimer will test the temperatures of poll workers, he won’t require voters to subject to thermometer screens. Neither will Broward County Supervisor of Elections Pete Antonacci, who was appointed by former Gov. Rick Scott two years ago to head the state’s second-largest elections office.
“I’m not conditioning anybody’s constitutional right,” Antonacci told the News Service, adding that thermometers and face masks will be available for voters, if they want them.
But Earley said some Leon County polling sites might require temperature checks on Election Day.
“If that’s what a polling site requires, we cannot force them to change that. We do have the option of moving voters out of that site to a new location. So that is a decision point we are trying to weigh as we make our final plans for the upcoming elections,” he said.
To minimize contact during in-person voting, Antonacci said voters no longer will have to hand their driver’s licenses to poll workers before obtaining their ballots.
“We’ve ditched all that, and we have a handheld device that can read your DL,” he said.
He’s also providing single-use, plastic-encased pens for voters to sign in and to fill out their ballots.
“Every facility will have lots of hand sanitizers, lots of alcohol, lots of hand wipes. We’re just going to stock them up,” Antonacci added.
Like Antonacci and other supervisors, Earley is stocking up on disinfecting supplies, and he’s giving each polling site an extra $200 to cover deep-cleaning expenses after the elections.
Local officials also expect to see vote-by-mail requests spike:
Some supervisors expect to see requests for mail-in ballots double.
“We have nonpartisan support for vote-by-mail in this state. It’s an approved method. It’s a state method. Even the president used it,” Latimer said.
Earley called mail-in voting an “insurance policy” for voters, amid the uncertainty caused by COVID-19.
“This is such a dynamic and changing situation,” he said. “We’re trying to have flexible plans … and it might turn out that it’s not a big deal in August. But then, this fall could make what we’ve gone through this past spring look like child’s play.”
For voters who do show up, election officials are asking them to be prepared to be patient:
The supervisors warned that Floridians who show up in person to cast ballots — especially on Election Day — need to be patient.
“It’s going to be a slower process. We are going to be social distancing. We do have the privacy booths spread out a little bit. We’re reducing the touch points for our poll workers. We’re going to be wiping things down,” Latimer said.
In Broward County, which has been notorious for submitting election results long after the polls close at 7 p.m., people “have to have reasonable expectations about the results on election night,” Antonacci said.
“For my part, I’m going to break my neck to beat Miami and West Palm,” he quipped, pointing to Broward’s southern and northern neighbors. “Competition is good. And it’s the one measuring stick regular people understand.”
Needless to say, the resurgence of COVID-19 in many states, including Florida, is a worrisome development. Kudos to the local officials in Florida for recognizing the challenge and doing everything they can to protect voters and preserve access to the ballot despite these very troubling times. Stay tuned …
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News Release 14-Oct-2020
The Lancet: Herd immunity approaches to COVID-19 control are a 'dangerous fallacy', say authors of open letter
A group of 80 researchers warn that a so-called herd immunity approach to managing COVID-19 by allowing immunity to develop in low-risk populations while protecting the most vulnerable is "a dangerous fallacy unsupported by the scientific evidence".
Faced with a second wave of COVID-19, and more than a million recorded deaths worldwide, the authors present their view of the scientific consensus on our understanding of COVID-19, and the strategies that need to be put in place to protect our societies and economies.
The open letter, referred to by its authors as the John Snow Memorandum, is published today by The Lancet. It is signed by 80 international researchers (as of publication) with expertise spanning public health, epidemiology, medicine, paediatrics, sociology, virology, infectious disease, health systems, psychology, psychiatry, health policy, and mathematical modelling [1]. The letter will also be launched during the 16th World Congress on Public Health programme 2020.
They state: "It is critical to act decisively and urgently. Effective measures that suppress and control transmission need to be implemented widely, and they must be supported by financial and social programmes that encourage community responses and address the inequities that have been amplified by the pandemic."
"Continuing restrictions will probably be required in the short term, to reduce transmission and fix ineffective pandemic response systems, in order to prevent future lockdowns. The purpose of these restrictions is to effectively suppress SARS-CoV-2 infections to low levels that allow rapid detection of localised outbreaks and rapid response through efficient and comprehensive find, test, trace, isolate, and support systems so life can return to near-normal without the need for generalised restrictions. Protecting our economies is inextricably tied to controlling COVID-19. We must protect our workforce and avoid long-term uncertainty."
The authors acknowledge that ongoing restrictions have understandably led to widespread demoralisation and diminishing trust among the public, and that in the face of a second wave of infection there is renewed interest in so-called natural herd immunity approaches (allowing a large uncontrolled outbreak in the low-risk population while protecting the vulnerable, which some argue could lead to the development of infection-acquired population immunity in the low-risk population, which will eventually protect the vulnerable). They say any pandemic management strategy relying upon immunity from natural infections for COVID-19 is flawed.
They explain that uncontrolled transmission in younger people risks significant ill-health and death across the whole population - with real-world evidence from many countries showing that it is not possible to restrict uncontrolled outbreaks to certain sections of society, and it being practically impossible and highly unethical to isolate large swathes of the population. Instead, they say that special efforts to protect the most vulnerable are essential, but must go hand-in-hand with multi-pronged population-level strategies.
They also state that there is no evidence for lasting protective immunity to SARS-CoV-2 after natural infection, and warn that this waning immunity as a result of natural infection would not end the COVID-19 pandemic but instead result in repeated waves of transmission over several years. They say that this could place vulnerable populations at risk for the indefinite future, as natural infection-based herd immunity strategies would result in recurrent epidemics, as seen with many infectious diseases before mass vaccination. Instead, the authors call for suppression of the virus until the population can be vaccinated.
The authors also warn that natural infection-based herd immunity approaches risk impacting the workforce as a whole and overwhelming the ability of healthcare systems to provide acute and routine care. They note that we still do not understand who might suffer from 'long COVID', and that herd immunity approaches place an unacceptable burden on healthcare workers, many of whom have died from COVID-19 or experienced trauma as a result of having to practise disaster medicine.
The letter concludes: "The evidence is very clear: controlling community spread of COVID-19 is the best way to protect our societies and economies until safe and effective vaccines and therapeutics arrive within the coming months. We cannot afford distractions that undermine an effective response; it is essential that we act urgently based on the evidence."
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China to carry out more military drills in flashpoint waters
By Reuters/Ben Blanchard  October 27, 2016 | 09:04 am GMT+7
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It ordered all other ships to stay away.
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China will carry out military drills all day on Thursday in the South China Sea, which Vietnam calls the East Sea, said Chinese maritime safety administration on Wednesday, ordering all other shipping to stay away.
China routinely holds drills in the disputed waterway, and the latest exercises come less than a week after a U.S. navy destroyer sailed near the Paracel Islands, prompting a warning from Chinese warships to leave the area.
The maritime administration gave coordinates for an area south of the Chinese island province of Hainan and northwest of the Paracel Islands, which are also claimed by Vietnam and Taiwan, but controlled by China.
The brief statement gave no other details, apart from prohibiting other ships from entering the area.
China's Defense Ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
China has a runway on Woody Island, its largest presence on the Paracels, and has placed surface-to-air missiles there, according to U.S. officials.
Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam all have rival claims in the South China Sea, but Beijing's is the largest. It argues it can do what it wants on the islands it claims as they have been Chinese since ancient times.
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> US Navy to continue S.China Sea patrols despite Duterte: analysts
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2020 Year in Review: eBird, Macaulay Library, BirdCast, Merlin, and Birds of the World
By Team eBird December 22, 2020
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2020 was a record-setting year for eBird, Merlin, the Macaulay Library, Birds of the World, and BirdCast, delivering a new era of scientific and conservation applications, innovative new birding tools, and much more. This year more than any other our community grew in exciting new ways. Millions of bird enthusiasts visited our websites and nearly 800,000 have contributed sightings—be it close to home, on the way to work, or at parks, ponds, and fields.
There’s no doubt this was a challenging year. More people turned to birds than ever before to find comfort, hope, and a sense of connection with others. To all who joined us for the first time in 2020, welcome. You make a difference, from inspiring the millions who come to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology to learn, to sharing your bird observations with the tens of thousands of people who use them for research, conservation, and education each year. We appreciate and thank our eBird Supporters who help support eBird and the Cornell Lab by making a monthly contribution.
Whether you’re new to birds or have been with us since the beginning, you’re part of a global birding community that makes all of this possible. Thank you. Here’s what we will remember in 2020, from:
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Predicted relative abundance of Pied Cuckoos animated to show movements between India and Africa. Relative abundance is depicted as a color gradient from yellow (low abundance) to dark purple (high abundance) for each week of the year. Areas of light gray indicate species absence (or very rare occurrence). Areas of dark gray indicate areas in which predictions could not be made due to lack of data.
2020 featured two exciting updates to eBird Status and Trends, which now provides state-of-the-art visualizations of movement, distribution, and abundance for 807 species worldwide, including 82 species modeled outside of the Americas for the first time—all thanks to your eBird checklists. Explore eBird Status and Trends.
This year also brought the launch of Birds of the World, the world’s largest, most comprehensive encyclopedia of birds featuring 10,721 species accounts and 249 family accounts. In addition to providing a limitless exploration of avian diversity, Birds of the World aggregates 800 million eBird observations and features hundreds of thousands of Macaulay Library assets in a way that provides remarkable insights into the lives of birds.
BirdCast researchers released 4 new peer-reviewed publications this year. BirdCast research and advocacy also informed a new Lights Out Texas conservation effort to reduce light pollution during critical migration periods, garnering an endorsement of the endeavour from former First Lady Laura Bush, and the proclamation of Lights Out Nights in Dallas from Sept. 29-Oct 10 by Mayor Eric Johnson: 13 major buildings in Dallas turned off their lights for some part of the Fall 2020 migration period.
Audio recordings uploaded to the Macaulay Library powered new and innovative research, from tracking White-throated Sparrows as they change their tune to detecting interesting regional differences in the songs of Chipping Sparrows. Here’s a roundup of featured research from the 2020 North American Ornithological Conference powered by audio recordings from the community.
Researchers published 54 scientific papers this year using media assets from the Macaulay Library, bringing the total number of peer-reviewed publications using Macaulay Library assets to more than 1,400.
Researchers published 93 peer-reviewed publications this year incorporating eBird data. eBird powered multiple scientific discoveries including: large urban green spaces support more species; protected areas preserve global biodiversity; and species differ in their resilience to extreme weather events.
eBird data were used by collaborators to develop national and regional reports, including India’s first-ever comprehensive assessment of India’s birds, the State of the Birds, which used 10 million eBird sightings.
eBird data downloads are updated monthly and continue to be a free resource that is accessible via the Data Download page. More than 2,500 people downloaded raw eBird data for analysis and more than 7,500,000 people visited the eBird website in 2020.
New tools, features, and resources
Redesigned, mobile-friendly versions of eBird pages including My eBird, Sightings Lists, and Explore Regions and Hotspots allow you to easily browse eBird activity on the go. The redesigned My Checklists lets you filter your checklists by region, date, and even shared status. Stay tuned for more updates to long-standing eBird pages in 2021!
eBird Mobile was used to collect more than 8.1 million eBird checklists in 2020. Exciting mobile developments this year included new eBird Mobile Explore tools (Explore Hotspots and Explore Species), and redesigned “eBird Mobile 2.0” data entry to make it even easier to use the app offline.
The Macaulay Library published the brand new Cornell Guide to Bird Sounds: United States and Canada featuring recordings from the eBird community for 900 species. In 2021 Merlin Bird ID will incorporate this new resource, a major upgrade in the songs and calls included in US and Canada packs.
Merlin Bird ID now covers more than 7,500 species, with new packs for South America, Southern Africa, Central Asia, New Zealand and Taiwan, for a total of 2,920 new species available in packs. You can now save the birds you’ve identified with Merlin, or add them to a running eBird checklist, with the tap of a button. Watch for expanding coverage with new bird packs for Africa and Southeast Asia, and exciting new features to help you identify the birds you hear.
Merlin Bird ID also collaborated with Swarovski Optik to release the Swarovski Optik dG, a monocular/camera that is powered by Merlin Photo ID to help users identify the birds they are seeing.
New BirdCast features include updated migration forecast maps and migration live maps, as well as pioneering migration alerts, a new tool which allows anyone in the lower 48 US states to quickly determine whether birds are passing overhead near their city during migration—whether you’re a birder or a part of the Lights Out Texas conservation effort.
One of Birds of the World’s latest features is the Taxonomy Explorer, which allows users to filter species by major region, location, and conservation status and provides a slick way to explore the taxonomy of all 10,721 species.
The new Taxonomy Explorer provides regional filtering and visual navigation for all 10,721 Birds of the World species accounts.
Behind the scenes: we released Quick Review—a more efficient, mobile-friendly way for volunteer eBird reviewers to address records and improve email communication with the eBird community. The Macaulay Library started going to the cloud to improve media viewing experience for our worldwide audience.
Our development team also completed a more-than year long migration of our entire database to a new platform. With this work complete, we can now focus on building new Trip Reports to summarize your bird observations.
A one-stop-shop for all your eBird, Merlin, and Macaulay Library questions came to life this year in our new joint Help Center, featuring 54 support pages in 4 languages (English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish). Team members from 8 projects collaborate to answer more than 4,250 help requests a month!
Three new Breeding Bird Atlas eBird portals were launched this year: the Israel Breeding Bird Atlas (in collaboration with the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel), the Maryland-DC Breeding Bird Atlas 3 (in collaboration with the Maryland Ornithological Society), and the New York Breeding Bird Atlas III (in collaboration in with 7 conservation, birding, and research groups working in NY), bringing the total number of eBird Atlases to 7!
Exciting new partnerships were developed with the Rwanda Development Board (eBird Rwanda), Aves Uruguay (eBird Uruguay), and collaboration continued with eBird’s 45 regional portals and the hundreds of groups that bring eBird to you around the world.
Thanks to the efforts of our volunteer translators, we support 13 languages throughout eBird.org and 34 languages in eBird Mobile. We also support bird common names in 78 languages and regional dialects. See a full list of our Bird Common Names here. In 2020, Merlin Packs were added in French, German, Russian, and 2 versions of Chinese bringing the total number of languages available in Merlin to 9.
The Internet Bird Collection (IBC)— joined forces with the Macaulay Library. The IBC community shared 241,123 new photos of 10,014 species and 16,191 audio recordings of 6,197 species including photos of 150 species and audio recordings for more than 450 species that were previously missing from the Macaulay Library.
A partnership with the Internet Bird Collection added more than 240,000 new photos to the Macaulay Library, including images of rarely seen species like this Tuamotu Sandpiper © Josep del Hoyo / Macaulay Library.
Thanks to the generosity of Carl Zeiss Sports Optics, we were able to award more than 15 eBirders free binoculars in 2020. We are excited to continue our eBirder of the Month awards in 2021 to thank the eBird community for your bird observations.
As a collaborative event between Global Birding, Birdlife International, Swarovski Optik, and eBird, October’s first ever Global Bird Weekend set a new record for the most bird species seen in a single day and weekend—thanks to your checklists.
eBird partners with the Cornell Lab’s Bird Academy to offer you exciting educational resources in thanks for your eBirding. More than 100 eBirders won access to free Bird Academy courses this year, including two new courses: The Joy of Birdwatching and Bird Photography with Melissa Groo. The brand new Wonderful World of Owls will be included in our 2021 lineup— so keep eBirding!
Birds of the World engaged hundreds of ornithologists around the world to contribute data, facts, and findings to our species accounts. We also developed a broad array of partnerships with worldwide ornithological societies – from Argentina to the Caribbean, and from India to the Middle East, and beyond. These partners work alongside our editorial team, providing regional expertise that maintains a high level of accuracy and relevancy in Birds of the World species accounts.
BirdCast continued to partner with Houston Audubon, the Dallas Zoo, and the Perot Museum of Nature and Science in working on the Lights Out Texas conservation initiative; exciting new partnerships established this year include relationships with the Texas Conservation Alliance and Texan by Nature. In collaboration with the Perot Museum and Texas Conservation Alliance, BirdCast helped establish the first large-scale bird collision monitoring project in Texas.
Image courtesy Mei Ling Liu.
Growth in participation
More than 915 million bird sightings have now been entered into eBird. This includes more than 169 million observations submitted this year; with 26,929,000 sightings from May 2020 alone. This is more than 36,100 bird observations every hour in May, 24 hours a day—all month. eBird’s contributions make up more than 43% of the biodiversity data in the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF).
The sixth Global Big Day and third October Big Day set new world records for birding. On 9 May 2020, 50,000 birders submitted 120,000 checklists from 175 countries— more checklists and birders on a single day than ever before! On 17 October 2020 the global birding community did it again: 32,000 birders reported 7,100 species and set a new world record for most species collectively reported in one day. Mark your calendar for the next Global Big Day: 8 May 2021.
There are now 1,970 volunteer reviewers overseeing eBird data quality in 253 countries, territories, or dependencies. These volunteers reviewed more than 4.2 million records in 2020. Thank you for your hard work!
eBird growth in 2020
More than 2 million people used Merlin Bird ID in 2020, and it was installed on 1.4 million new devices. Merlin added the ability to save identifications made to the app directly to a users life list, and since August 843,000 identifications have been saved by 96,000 users.
BirdCast registered 1.5 million views in 2020, more than doubling last year’s total, and more than 3 times as many users.
The number of Birds of the World subscribers from all corners of the world skyrocketed, demonstrating a need for this type of deep, comprehensive content on birds. Through our new International Contributor Scholarship program, we are also committed to those who cannot pay but need access. At the time of this writing, the program provides free access to more than 100 students and researchers.
The community of recordists and photographers who archive their media in the Macaulay Library continues to grow by leaps and bounds.
In 2020, 11,148 recordists contributed more than 275,000 recordings of 7,897 species
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B44 (New York City bus)
This article is about the Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation streetcar line and the bus service that succeeded it. For the IRT Subway line in Brooklyn, see IRT Nostrand Avenue Line. For additional information on the current bus service, see List of bus routes in Brooklyn.
The B44 is a public transit line in Brooklyn, New York City, running mostly along Nostrand Avenue, as well as northbound on Rogers Avenue or New York Avenue and Bedford Avenue (as part of a one-way pair), between Sheepshead Bay and Williamsburg. Originally a streetcar line, it is now the B44 bus route, operated by the New York City Transit Authority.
Nostrand Avenue Line
The B44 debuts as a Select Bus Service route on Nostrand and Church Avenues in 2013.
MTA Regional Bus Operations
Flatbush Depot
B44:
Orion VII Next Generation
New Flyer XD40 Xcelsior
B44 SBS:
Nova Bus LFS articulated
B44 SBS: Select Bus Service
Began service
1870 (trolley line)
1951 (bus service)
1995 (Limited-Stop service)
2013 (B44 SBS)
Williamsburg Bridge Plaza Bus Terminal (full route)
Williamsburg – Flushing Avenue (daytime local terminus; short runs)
Nostrand Avenue, Bedford Avenue / Rogers Avenue or New York Avenue (southbound only)
Sheepshead Bay:
Avenue U and Nostrand Avenue (short runs)
Emmons Avenue and Nostrand Avenue (late night terminus)[note 1]
Knapp Street and Emmons Avenue (full route)
9.3 miles (15.0 km)[1]
Operates
24 hours (B44 Local)[note 1][note 2][2][3]
Annual patronage
11,137,237 (2017)[4]
B44 B44 SBS
Williamsburg Bridge Plaza B44 B44
Taylor Street
Hewes Street
Williamsburg – Flushing Avenue B44
Local stops
Myrtle Avenue
Willoughby Avenue
DeKalb Avenue
Kosciuszko Street
Lafayette Avenue
Greene Avenue
Gates Avenue
Putnam Avenue
Hancock Street
Fulton Street / Bedford Avenue
Fulton Street / Nostrand Avenue
Verona Place
Sterling Place
St. Johns Place
Eastern Parkway
Carroll Street
Montgomery Street
Empire Boulevard
Lefferts–East New York Avenues
Maple–Midwood Streets
Rutland Road–Fenimore Street
Hawthorne–Winthrop Streets
Clarkson Avenue
Lenox Road
Linden Boulevard
Church Avenue
Snyder Avenue
Tilden Avenue
Beverly Road
Clarendon Road
Newkirk Avenue
Foster Avenue
Farragut Road / New York Avenue
Northbound local
Farragut Road / Nostrand Avenue
Glenwood Road
Northbound SBS
Flatbush Avenue–Avenue H
Avenue I
Avenue K
Avenue L
Avenue M
Avenue N
Kings Highway
Marine Parkway
Avenue P
Quentin Road
Gerritsen Avenue
Avenue R
Avenue S
Avenue T
Avenue U
Avenue V
Avenue W
Avenue X B44
Avenue Y
Avenue Z
Voorhies Avenue
Shore Parkway North
Shore Parkway South
Emmons Avenue B44
Brown Street
Coyle Street
Brigham Street
Sheepshead Bay – Knapp Street B44 B44
SBS & Local stops
SBS terminal
Part-time local terminal
Connecting services
← B43
← Bx41 SBS (by borough)
← Bx41 SBS (by route number) {{{system_nav}}} B45 →
B46 SBS →
Q44 SBS →
1 Route description and service
1.1 Select Bus Service stops
2.1 Streetcar line
2.2 Local and limited bus service
2.3 Select Bus Service
Route description and serviceEdit
An Avenue U-bound B44 local bus.
The B44 starts at the Williamsburg Plaza Bus Terminal in Williamsburg. It then turns onto Robeling Street and turns south onto Bedford Avenue (northbound) or Lee Avenue (southbound), making only two stops to Flushing Avenue. At Flushing Avenue, Lee Avenue becomes Nostrand Avenue and continues down Nostrand and Bedford Avenues to Fulton Street.
At Fulton Street, southbound buses remain on Nostrand Avenue while northbound buses take two routes: the local route shifts to New York Avenue, while Select Bus Service buses remain on Bedford Avenue, which becomes Rogers Avenue at Dean Street (this route is parallel to the B49). Once it leaves Fulton Street, the B44 Local, SBS and B49 travel down their streets through the neighborhoods of Crown Heights and Flatbush, parallel to the IRT Nostrand Avenue Line south of Eastern Parkway, until Foster Avenue, where the B49 heads west along Foster Avenue to head to Ocean Avenue. At Farragut Rd, the northbound B44 Local shifts back to Nostrand Avenue, as two way traffic resumes.
At Flatbush Avenue, the northbound B44 SBS runs along Flatbush Avenue to Nostrand Avenue to meet up with the B44 Local at the Flatbush Avenue–Brooklyn College subway station. Then the line continues down Nostrand in Midwood to Avenue U, where it meets up with the B36. At this point, now in Sheepshead Bay, the B36 and B44 continue down Nostrand Avenue to Avenue Z, where the B36 heads west along Avenue Z to Coney Island. The B44, meanwhile continues down Nostrand Avenue and turns east along Shore Pkwy (southbound) or Emmons Avenue (northbound), where it meets the B4 bus route and continues to Knapp Street. Buses layover on Shore Parkway and re-enter service on Knapp Street.
During daytime hours, the B44 Local operates between Sheepshead Bay and Flushing Avenue, with some buses starting at Avenue U. SBS buses operate between Knapp Street and Williamsburg and provide all daytime B44 service north of Flushing Avenue. Additional SBS buses operate between Avenue U and Flushing Avenue. During late nights, when the SBS isn't running, the B44 operates the full route, but terminates at Emmons Avenue and Nostrand Avenue.
Prior to SBS implementation in 2013, there was local service to Williamsburg Bridge Plaza and the local terminated at Avenue U. South of that point, the Limited made all stops in Sheepshead Bay and Williamsburg. While there is B36 service providing local service south of Avenue U after the conversion, the B44 in Williamsburg now operates like a limited stop equivalent, but with no daytime local service in that section. For the first few months, the SBS ran two overlapping services: from Flushing Avenue to Knapp Street, and from Williamsburg to Avenue U. This was changed in May 2014, with the Flushing Avenue trips terminating at Avenue U and Williamsburg buses going to Knapp Street, providing a direct ride along the full route without changing buses.
The B44 bus route acts as a subway feeder connecting passengers from several subway routes that intersect the B44, as well as connecting neighborhood destinations such as Brooklyn College, NYC Health + Hospitals/Kings County, and the Nostrand Avenue Retail corridor.[5]
The B44 is the third highest ridership bus in Brooklyn, and the sixth highest in all of New York City. The bus, for a portion of its route, parallels the IRT Nostrand Avenue Line (2 and 5 trains), and the majority of the B44 route allows for 300,000 people who live within 0.25 miles (0.40 km) of the service to have north–south connectivity. The B44 Select Bus Service is the first bus route in Brooklyn to use articulated buses.[5]
Select Bus Service stopsEdit
Street traveled
Knapp Street
Emmons Avenue
Southbound terminus,
northbound station NYC Bus: B4
Northbound NYC Bus: B4
Shore Parkway
Southbound NYC Bus: B4
Avenue X
Bidirectional NYC Bus: B36
NYC Bus: B3, B36
NYC Bus: B7, B82 local, B82 SBS
NYC Bus: B9
Avenue H
(Flatbush Avenue)
MTA Bus: B103, Q35
NYC Bus: B6, B11, B41
NYC Subway: 2 5 trains at Flatbush Avenue–Brooklyn College
Northbound traffic uses Rogers Avenue, southbound traffic uses Nostrand Avenue
Avenue D / Newkirk Avenue[B44 1]
Bidirectional NYC Bus: B8
NYC Subway: 2 5 trains at Newkirk Avenue (on Nostrand Avenue only)
NYC Bus: B35
NYC Subway: 2 5 trains at Church Avenue (on Nostrand Avenue only)
NYC Subway: 2 5 trains at Winthrop Street (on Nostrand Avenue only)
NYC Subway: 2 5 trains at Sterling Street (on Nostrand Avenue only)
St. John's Place
NYC Subway: 2 3 4 5 trains at Nostrand Avenue (on Nostrand Avenue only)
Northbound buses continue from Rogers Avenue to Bedford Avenue
Bidirectional NYC Bus: B25, B49 (from Bedford Avenue only)
NYC Subway: A C trains at Nostrand Avenue (on Nostrand Avenue only)
LIRR: Nostrand Avenue (from Nostrand Avenue only)
Gates Ave
Northbound NYC Bus: B38
NYC Subway: G train at Bedford–Nostrand Avenues
Flushing Avenue
Bidirectional NYC Bus: B48, B57
Southbound traffic continues from Lee Avenue to Nostrand Avenue
Hewes Street[B44 2]
Bidirectional traffic resumes on Roebling Street
Williamsburg Bridge Plaza
Broadway / Havemeyer Street
Northbound terminus,
southbound station NYC Bus: B24, B32, B39, B46, B60, B62, Q54, Q59
NYC Subway: J M Z trains at Marcy Avenue
^ Newkirk Avenue and Avenue D stops added to the plan in 2010.
^ Hewes Street stop added in September 2011.
A map showing the B44 SBS (in light blue) with rail connections.
Streetcar lineEdit
The northern terminal of the bus route, and the former terminal of the streetcar line, the Williamsburg Bridge Plaza Bus Terminal.
The Williamsburgh and Flatbush Railroad was chartered in 1868,[6] and opened in 1870 from the Broadway Ferry in Williamsburg south over the Brooklyn City Rail Road's Greenpoint Line on Kent Avenue and Classon Avenue, east on its Flushing Avenue Line on Flushing Avenue, and south on Nostrand Avenue to Flatbush. The charter allowed them to use Lee Avenue instead from Williamsburg, but residents along that street opposed its use.[7] Tracks were however placed in Lee Avenue in early 1873,[8] and opened soon after, running from the Broadway Ferry east over the Broadway Railroad's Broadway Line on Broadway and south on Driggs Avenue and Lee Avenue.[citation needed]
An extension from Empire Boulevard south to the Flatbush Avenue Line opened on July 15, 1895, after some delay, and the Holy Cross Cemetery Line was moved to a branch of the line along Tilden Avenue.[9][10][11] The line eventually reached Avenue U in Sheepshead Bay.[12]
Effective 5 am, December 5, 1948, the line was cut back from Essex Street on the Manhattan side of the Williamsburg Bridge to the Williamsburg Bridge Plaza in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Service across the bridge was replaced with a transfer to the new B39 bus route.[13][14][15]
Local and limited bus serviceEdit
Buses were substituted for streetcars on April 1, 1951;[12] the B44 bus now continues south past Avenue U into Sheepshead Bay, some B44 buses now go as far as Emmons Avenue and Knapp Street near the foot of Sheepshead Bay.[16][17]
Limited-stop service was added on September 10, 1995.[18]
Select Bus ServiceEdit
See also: Select Bus Service § B44
Final design work for the B44 SBS began in fall 2011, and construction south of Atlantic Avenue occurred between spring and fall 2013, including the repaving of the street, the installation of bus lanes, the construction of bus bulbs and neckdowns, and bus lane signs.[5] The construction of the designated bus lanes for the service required the removal of the surface line's rails, which had been previously paved over.[17]
Effective November 17, 2013, the B44 Limited service was converted to Select Bus Service (SBS), joining other SBS routes in New York City: the M15 and M34 in Manhattan and the Bx12 and Bx41 in the Bronx. This is the first SBS route in Brooklyn, and it is the fifth and final Phase I SBS route to be implemented.[5] The service continues to operate between Williamsburg Bridge Plaza (also known as Washington Plaza) and Sheepshead Bay. Southbound SBS service operates on Nostrand Avenue and northbound on Rogers Avenue, north of Flatbush Avenue. Local B44 service continues on Nostrand Avenue and New York Avenue.[16][17][19] The B44 and the B44 Select Bus Service are based out of Flatbush Bus Depot near Marine Park and Kings Plaza, as is the B49 bus route.
Bus stops were consolidated, with several of the lesser used stops, on the northern and southern portions of the route changed from Limited to local. Off-board fare collection was installed, significantly reducing the amount of time it takes for buses to spend at bus stops. Bus lanes were implemented on 9.6 miles along both directions of the route, covering over half of the route. Northbound buses were rerouted from New York Avenue to Rogers Avenue, a corridor already served by the B49. This allowed for the length of the northbound route to be decreased, and it benefited the northbound route by putting it on a wider street with multiple traffic lanes. B44 local service was kept on New York Avenue to continue serving passengers along that street. As a result of this, riders on both Rogers Avenue and New York Avenue now have direct service to destinations north of Fulton St. 62-foot-long, 3-door buses were put into service on the route, replacing the 40-foot-long, 2-door buses that previously served the B44 Limited. The B44 local continued to use the 40-foot-long buses. Bus bulbs with new bus shelters and greenery were also installed. Bus bulbs were installed, allowing for more room for people to wait, allowing for the installation of bus shelters and greenery, and allowing bus to pull straight in and out of stations without pulling over. Resulting form the installation of bus bulbs or neckdowns, which shorten the crossing distances, traffic injuries along the corridor were reduced by 37%.[5]
Two stops were added to the B44 SBS, at Gates Avenue and Avenue L, because of strong public feedback, and B44 local service was increased after the implementation of the B44 SBS. Real time information screens are being added to bus stops along the route.[5]
As a result of the conversion to SBS, travel times decreased between 15-31% compared to the B44 Limited. In addition, ridership along the B44 SBS increased 10% from 2014 to 2015, going against the 1% decline in overall Brooklyn ridership during the same time frame.[5]
After years of requests by Councilman Chaim Deutsch and local residents, a stop was added at Avenue R on September 2, 2018, shortening the 1 mile (1.6 km)-long distance between the Kings Highway and Avenue U stops, while providing transfer to the B2 and B31 buses. New York City Transit and the Department of Transportation had refused to add the stop, claiming that it was unnecessary, and that the local stop could not fit articulated buses.[20] A protest had been held on April 30, 2015 by seniors and local officials to put pressure on the MTA.[21]
^ a b Overnight, no service operates to Knapp Street
^ B44 SBS does not operate overnight
^ "Nostrand Avenue-Rogers Avenue Select Bus Service". nyc.gov. New York City Department of Transportation. Retrieved January 19, 2016.
^ MTA Regional Bus Operations. "B44 bus schedule" (PDF).
^ MTA Regional Bus Operations. "B44 SBS bus schedule" (PDF).
^ "Facts and Figures". mta.info. 2011-08-28. Retrieved 2016-01-19.
^ a b c d e f g "+selectbusservice B44 SBS on Nostrand Avenue Progress Report" (PDF). www.nyc.gov. New York City Department of Transportation, New York City Transit. June 2016. Retrieved July 7, 2016.
^ Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Proposed Communication, August 19, 1870, page 4
^ Brooklyn Daily Eagle, A Railroad for Lee Avenue, August 5, 1872, page 2
^ Brooklyn Daily Eagle, City Hall Notes, May 24, 1873, page 4
^ Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Nostrand Avenue Railroad, October 9, 1894, page 1
^ Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Suburban News, June 26, 1895, page 4
^ Brooklyn Daily Eagle, To Flatbush for Two Fares, July 15, 1895, page 4
^ a b "Buses Replacing Nostrand Ave. Trolleys; Horsecars Opened Flatbush Line in 1882". The New York Times. March 31, 1951. Retrieved 2 July 2015.
^ The New York Times, Bridge Cars of '04 Yielding to Buses, December 2, 1948, business section, page 58
^ The New York Times, Buses Take Over Williamsburg Run, December 6, 1948, page 18
^ New York Board of Transportation, Report for the Three and One-half Years Ending June 30, 1949
^ a b NYCDOT (June 19, 2012). "Nostrand Avenue / Rogers Avenue Select Bus Service" (PDF). nyc.gov. NYCDOT. Retrieved 1 November 2013. p.14 Williamsburg Bridge Plaza Construction
^ a b c "Nostrand Ave. Trolley Makes Way for MTA New York City Transit Select Bus Service". mta.info. Metropolitan Transportation Authority. October 10, 2013. Retrieved 2 July 2015.
^ "AT-A-GLANCE BUS SERVICE CHANGES". Daily News (New York). September 17, 1995. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
^ http://web.mta.info/mta/planning/sbs/nostrand.html
^ Duggan, Kevin (September 5, 2018). "No more schlep: New B44 select bus stop at Nostrand and Ave. R coming soon". Brooklyn Daily. Retrieved September 6, 2018.
^ Ogle, Vanessa (May 4, 2015). "Stop or schlep: Seniors demand new B44 bus stop". Brooklyn Daily. Retrieved September 6, 2018.
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Irvingite | Article about Irvingite by The Free Dictionary
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Catholic Apostolic Church,
religious community originating in England c.1831 and extending later to Germany and the United States (1848). It was founded under the influence of Edward IrvingIrving, Edward,
1792–1834, Scottish preacher, under whose influence the Catholic Apostolic Church was founded; its members have sometimes been called Irvingites. He was tutor to Jane Welsh, later the wife of Thomas Carlyle, and became the friend of Carlyle.
..... Click the link for more information. ; its members are sometimes called Irvingites. Because of their prophetic gifts, 12 apostles (including Henry DrummondDrummond, Henry,
1786–1860, English banker, known particularly as one of the founders of the Catholic Apostolic Church. Beginning in 1826, he gathered annually for five years, at his home in Surrey, a group of laity and clergy to examine the prophecies in the Scriptures.
..... Click the link for more information. ) were in 1835 set aside as officers. They were expected to survive until the Second Coming of Jesus, but the last of them died in 1901. When the apostles began to die, a schism took place in Germany over the appointing of successors. This led to the formation (1863) of the New Apostolic Church, the formal name of the present-day organization. An angel, or bishop, presides over each congregation; he is assisted by pastors, teachers, and others. Symbolism and mystery of worship characterize the elaborate liturgy, which has borrowed much from the Roman Catholic Church, including devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary. Much emphasis is given to the Second Coming of Jesus. The membership is about 8 million worldwide (1994).
<a href="https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Irvingite">Catholic Apostolic Church</a>
Drummond, Henry
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Vampire Research Society
Drawing on a wide variety of sources, from the prose of Coleridge and Ruskin to records of the Irvingites and histories of the British and Foreign Bible Society, Zemka examines the relations between claims of cultural authority and a constellation of religious issues, including the authority and proper interpretation of Scripture; the nature and role of Christ as man/God; the intersection of Christianity with gender ideology; and the problems of subjectivity and sinfulness for cultural authority and religious epistemology.
Sue Zemka, Victorian Testaments: The Bible, Christology, and Literary Authority in Early-Nineteenth-Century British Culture
An index of British Nonconformity in Betjemans writings would include General Baptists, Strict and Particular Baptists, Seventh Day Baptists, Wesleyan Methodists, Primitive Methodists, Bible Christians, Plymouth Brethren, Moravians, Lutherans, Independents and Congregationalists, Presbyterians and Unitarians, Quakers, Christian Scientists, Swedenborgians, Sandemanians and Glasites, the Peculiar People, Countess of Huntingdonites, Fifth Monarchists, Covenanters, Millenarians, Muggletonians, Agapemonites, Irvingites, Bryanites, and nondenominationals, as well as those "low church" Anglican parishes that are borderline dissenting--evangelical, reformed, and Calvinistic.
Strange deliberations: John Betjeman and protestant nonconformity
He begins with the Church Fathers and then looks at the flourishing of millenarianism in AD 1000, the Black Death, millenarian sects during the Civil Wars, the Irvingites. American movements, Joanna Southcott, the seventh Earl of Shaftesbury, modern utopianism, freakish movements such as David Koresh and millenarianism as a feature of modern church life, especially in America's Protestant denominations.
Approaching the Apocalypse
For those interested, there were also more than 1,000 Sweden-borgians and 251 Irvingites. Furthermore, the moderator of the mother of all General Assemblies--the one that constituted The Presbyterian Church in Canada in 1875--was Rev.
Still worshipping after all these years: the Presbytery of Quebec / Presbytere du Quebec
A Widow for One Year won't disappoint Irvingites who count on this mix.
A Widow for One Year
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LGBT Aging Readiness Scan New Hampshire
LGBT older adults are less likely than their heterosexual peers to reach out to providers, senior centers, meal programs, and other entitlement programs because they fear sexual orientation- or gender-based discrimination and harassment. This report includes recommendations for agencies who want to put out the welcome mat for LGBT older adults.
The NH State Plan on Aging
The State Plan on Aging (SPOA) was developed through a ten month planning process, coordinated by the NH Bureau of Elderly and Adult Services (BEAS) of the Department of Health and Human Services, and managed by a diverse planning committee of more than 30 leaders from across NH’s aging service delivery networks.
NH Healthy Aging Data Report
The Healthy Aging Data Report will help advocates and leaders across the state understand more about the health of older people in NH. The report includes 244 Community Profiles — one for every city and town in New Hampshire, plus neighborhoods in Nashua and Manchester.
Home- and Community-Based Care Service Delivery Limited by Workforce Challenges (Issue Brief)
New Hampshire Choices for Independence (CFI) Medicaid Waiver services provide home- and community-based services to individuals who are chronically ill or have a disability and prefer to stay in their homes or communities but might otherwise need the level of care only provided in nursing homes, which typically result in more expensive treatment. The NH Fiscal Policy Institute research identified that increases to Medicaid rates could contribute to sustaining and expanding this vital workforce.
Home- and Community-Based Care Service Delivery Limited by Workforce Challenges (Fact Sheet)
Developing a Foundation for Integrated Care Coordination
The Center on Aging and Community Living at UNH, in conjunction with other subject matter experts from the NH Alliance for Healthy Aging (NH AHA), engaged in conversations about care coordination between 2016-2017 that formed the framework for this brief. Published in 2018, the document describes care coordination efforts in three major systems of care: medical, community social service, and informal support.
Opportunities Ahead -- NH AHA Advocacy Priorities 2018 - 2023
Educating the community and advocating for policy change are critical to creating age-friendly communities. That is why the NH Alliance for Healthy Aging (AHA) set long-term advocacy priorities to ensure that we all can look forward to aging in the Granite State in a way that utilizes our skills and talents while meeting our needs and managing our resources effectively.
Call to Care NH: A Discussion Guide
Call to Care NH is a co-production of NH PBS and the Endowment for Health. This 30-minute program explores the challenges presented as more of us are living longer and the demand for people who provide care is growing faster than the supply.
A Funding Scan for Age-Friendly Initiatives in New Hampshire
This scan was conducted by researchers at the University of New Hampshire Center on Aging and Community Living. It provides information on the numerous funding opportunities that could support New Hampshire’s Collective Impact aging initiative in its work to create age-friendly communities.
Cross-Border Conversations on Caregiving
To begin to address the challenges faced by informal family caregivers in northern New England, the Tri-State Learning Collaborative on Aging (TSLCA) hosted three cross-border conversations on caregiving.
Collaborating to Create Elder Friendly Communities in New Hampshire
The UNH Center on Aging and Community Living published an environmental scan (commissioned by the Endowment for Health) that informs the work of the Alliance for Healthy Aging. The report is a research-based environmental scan focused on six areas of elder health needed to support the creation of elder friendly communities.
Shared Vision for Elder Health
VISION: We envision communities where New Hampshire’s culture, policies and services support our elders and their families, providing a wide range of choices that advance health, independence and dignity.
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Jeff Sessions Goes After the Wrong Gang
by baynardwoods December 20, 2017
Jefferson Beauregard Sessions came to Baltimore on the day that Democrat Doug Jones took the attorney general’s former Senate seat in a special-election victory over accused pedophile and hardcore theocrat Roy Moore. Much of the country felt relief that Alabama did not elect a man who had been banned from an Alabama shopping mall back in the ’80s to the U.S. Senate.
Still, more than 60 percent of white people in Alabama did vote for Moore, again proving that if you are racist enough, in some parts of America almost nothing else matters.
Trump tried to cast Moore’s defeat as a personal vindication; he had endorsed Luther Strange during the primary. But Sessions must have been more uncomfortable than normal—and not only because he was in a majority-black city.
When asked if he had voted, Sessions flashed his elfin grin and said he had, but he would respect the “sanctity” of the secret ballot. Steve Bannon, who brought Sessions into the Trump orbit, had used all his Breitbart-ian propaganda for Moore and gotten stomped. So now he was recalibrating.
“Judge Moore has never been, really, an economics guy,” Bannon told Newsweek following Moore’s defeat, and wished for a candidate like Sessions, where “immigration and trade would’ve been at the top of the agenda.”
In Baltimore, Sessions followed the Bannon script and stirred up fear of immigrants and minorities. He was talking about the Salvadoran gang MS-13 and immigration, going back to his own most deeply-held convictions of the danger of immigration.
“Over the last two years, this city in particular has experienced violence like we haven’t seen in nearly a quarter of a century,” the attorney general said. “Baltimore has a higher murder rate and a higher violent crime rate than Chicago with less than a quarter of the population, if you can believe it.”
Someone in the Department of Justice must have thought Baltimore would be the perfect venue for this message, but there is virtually no MS-13 presence. And Sessions did not mention that eight members of an elite police task force here have been indicted by the feds for racketeering and a series of other crimes—robbing civilians, planting drugs, stealing drugs and having them sold in Philadelphia by a local cop. A detective, Sean Suiter, was murdered on Nov. 15, and it later came out that he was scheduled to testify against those officers the very next day.
Not exactly a good place for your law-and-order speech. The “strong and motivated policing” he called for was what allowed the Gun Trace Task Force to be out of control in the first place. To make it worse, Baltimore’s police commissioner asked the FBI to take over the case more than a week earlier and never got an answer. But when Sessions was asked about the FBI taking over the case by a local reporter, Sessions seemed largely unaware of the case and spoke in platitudes about cooperation.
Sessions partially blamed immigrants for Baltimore’s crime, but he also wanted to blame those who protested the death of Freddie Gray in 2015. “Bad things start happening and you can trace the surge in violence in this city to the riots and some of the reactions that occurred afterwards,” he said.
Baltimore was a bad spot for Sessions because it also reminds people that he had to recuse himself from the Russia investigation for lying under oath. That investigation is now handled by Rod Rosenstein, who used to be the U.S. attorney in Baltimore and is now Sessions’ No. 2 at the DOJ. Rosenstein was to testify about the investigation before the House the next day.
“I’m appropriately exercising my oversight responsibilities. So I can assure you that the special counsel is conducting himself consistently with our understanding about the scope of his investigation,” Rosenstein said.
The far right is enraged because it thinks Mueller and his team are politically biased, and is demanding that Rosenstein fire Mueller. Last month, Republicans said firing Mueller was the only way to prevent a coup. Text messages between two FBI agents, one of whom was on Mueller’s team, have given fuel to that fire. The texts between Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, it turns out, were released to a “select group” of reporters, who came to the DOJ offices to see them on Dec. 12—before members of Congress got them. Strzok said the Republican Party ought to “pull their head out of their ass,” and called Trump an idiot. Strzok was fired for this. But the far right is capitalizing on it. A Bannon-affiliated Super PAC is buying ads in local cable markets calling on Mueller to be fired. Right-wing pundits are calling for a purge in the FBI.
This is dangerous, for sure. But it’s crazy to act like our law enforcement offices all around this country aren’t politicized. It’s just that they’re usually right-leaning. At the same moment Sessions was speaking, the first six of 193 people who will ultimately face trial as a result of four broken windows on Inauguration Day were sitting in a courtroom being prosecuted by his DOJ. Testimony showed they had a clear political bias against anarchists and for Trump. But the same armchair #Resistance that has ignored the trampling of the rights of citizens and journalists in this case is getting ready for a mobilization if Mueller is fired. The danger is that it will be willing to embrace the kind of tough-on-crime mass incarceration policies of a Sessions DOJ if it helps save Mueller, whom it sees as the last hope.
As Sessions slithered away, looking simultaneously delighted and nervous, like a school boy at a strip club, his red cheeks glowing beneath his white hair, it was clear, once again, that we are in hell.
Baynard Woods is a reporter for the Real News Network. Email baynard@therealnews.com; @baynardwoods on Twitter. Check out the Democracy in Crisis podcast at flagpole.com.
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Home streaming my games in 4K
I have two 4K TVs at home, one in the bedroom and one in my living room. Both have consoles attached. One has a PS4 Pro and one has a Nintendo Switch and both are great.
However, I also have a gaming PC in my office, which is quite powerful compared to any home console Mine is equipped with a RTX 2080 TI GPU, and a 9900K processor, so it can play pretty much any new game at 4K with a solid 60 fps on high settings.
For any cross platform AAA game, my PC is going to provide a signficantly better experience than the consoles. It can do 4K without upscaling techniques like checkerboard rendering. Also, thanks to a NVMe M.2 SSD, it loads games and levels significantly faster than any home console.
PC Gaming is a little more janky than console gaming, as there can be things to mess with like device drivers, but given the chance I always prefer it. Having said that, I also work from home, and sometimes I want to get out of my office and play games on the couch instead of an office chair.
I briefly considered building a second gaming PC to attach to one of my TVs, but that’s a considerable cost just for the ability to game on my couch or bed. Instead, I decided to try out streaming from my home PC to my other TVs.
I buy most of my PC games on Steam, and it has a product called Steam Link which allows you to stream games from your PC to other devices.
Apple TV 4K: Setup
I already owned an Apple TV 4K, which as of tvOS 13 allows you to pair game controllers and supports the Steam Link app. Installing the Steam Link app is quite easy as it’s available in the App Store, but I did have a little more trouble getting my Xbox One controller to work. tvOS found it and I was quickly able to navigate the menus, but the Steam Link app insited on being taught the buttons on the controller. In theory that should have been easy and simply involved pressing each button one at a time, but several of the buttons would quit out of the Steam Link app and back to the home screen! Fortunately I found a workaround and was up and running. Afer that, Steam launched quickly and my games worked perfectly.
Apple TV 4K: Performance
The Apple TV initially showed a lot of promise. My games were up and running in seconds in 4K and as I moved the camera around they sure felt like they were running at 60 frames per second.
Unfortunately, as I started to actually play the games, I got the feeling that something was wrong. I was playing Prey, a first person shooter, and the reticule just felt off. It was so subtle that I was wondering if I was making it up or if it was something I was really experiencing. I lowered the resolution to 1440p and it felt much better and playable.
I tried another game, Resident Evil 2, which is a 3rd person shooter, and felt similar problems aiming at zombies.
To help debug, I was very happy to see that Steam Link has an option to display a visual overlay with lots of extra information. While playing Resident Evil 2 in 4K, it reported that it was playing at 60 frames per second, with 1.5ms of input latency and 80ms of display latency.
At 60 frames per second, there should be one frame rendered to screen every 16ms or so. The display latency being 80ms meant I was about 5 frames behind which is not ideal, but the way steam split off display and input latency implied to me that it prioritized my input over the display. 1.5ms delay is such a small number that it was hard to believe I was noticing anything at all, as it should have been receving my input quite frequently.
Improving my Network: The Overhead of MoCA
At this point I decided to see if there was any way I could lower those numbers. Like most people, I have a wireless network, but I have hard wired several points. My Apple TV and computer were connected via Gb Ethernet, which is quite fast.
However, something came to mind about my setup: My TVs were near Coax outlets and had no ethernet jacks. To wire them, I’d set up MoCA adapters.
This meant that for my PC to reach my Apple TV, it had to go from my PC to a Gb switch, then to my router, then into a MoCA adapter in the closet, then through my Coax cables, out into another MoCA adapter, finally to a switch and then into the Apple TV.
That’s quite a lot of steps! As a test, I pinged my NAS near my router that did not need to go through the MoCA adapters and received a response time of <1ms. Pinging my Apple TV was taking around 3-4ms for the round trip, which lines up with the 1.5ms that Steam was reporting. It seems that performing the conversion from ethernet into Coax and back took about 1.5ms each way!
Now I should report for most networks, that’s a perfectly acceptable ping. However, I wanted my streaming experience to be better, so I thought of ways I might remove them.
I’ve not had a cable subscription for over a decade, so I wondered how challenging it would be to replace my Coax outlets with ethernet jacks. To do this, I unscrewed the face plates for the Coax outlets, and disconnected the cables from the plates. I then went into my closet where they connect to a splitter and pulled slightly. Surprisingly, they moved!
I bought a box of bulk Cat5e, and duct taped one end of the bulk cable to the Coax cable, then pulled from the other side. I got a little worried at one point when it jammed, but I pulled harder and it jogged loose and came through. The next part was more challenging for me: I had to attach jacks to each cable. This task is quite challenging as each twisted pair in the ethernet cable has to be weaved into an impossibly small area before you punch it down, but it was even harder for me because I’m colourblind. I ended up getting a somewhat crappy app on my phone that I could point at a cable and it would give me a rough idea what colour it was.
After hours of frustration that involved rebuilding and testing the cables over and over, things worked perfectly. I powered everything on, and Steam was reporting less than 1ms of input delay, and my display latency had dropped to 65ms.
Another thing I wondered was whether the switches were adding latency. I experimented with 1 switch instead of 2 and even a direct connection and noticed no measuable difference. Any overhead added by a switch did not seem to matter in my experiments.
Apple TV: Gigabit Performance
I did immediately notice an improvement with the better input and display latency. Things were now much more playable than before. However, I’d already made some progress at improving those numbers and I wasn’t out of ideas! The display latency was still quite high, and I couldn’t help but think the AppleTV was not the ideal device for doing this.
To test my theory, I connected my laptop to the same network port. My laptop does not have ethernet, so I had to use a USB-C ethernet adapter. When I started up Steam I had better results! Input latency was the same but the display latency dropped from 65ms to 55ms. This was surprising indeed because I have always heard that USB ethernet cards are quite bad. I decided to investigate alternatives to the Apple TV.
nVidia Shield TV Pro: Setup
On paper, the nVidia Shield TV Pro is not much better than an AppleTV. Both have 3GB of RAM, and in this CPU benchmark I found the AppleTV processor seems superior. Still, I decided to give it a go.
The setup was quite good. It’s an Android TV device and I find the overall UX not as polished as tvOS, but definitely not unpleasant. It paired with my Xbox One controller right away and the Steam Link app had no issue using it without the annoying button configuration I had to do on the Apple TV.
Without any changes to the base configuration, I was streaming at 4K with sub-1ms input latency and 45ms display latency - the best results I’d seen to date.
I was able to improve things even further after experimenting with the settings. I’d turned on HEVC streaming because on the AppleTV I noticed a minor improvement. However, on the shield I found that by disabling HEVC, my display latency dropped into the 35-40ms range.
With these numbers, not only were all my games playable at 40k@60, but I couldn’t notice any lag whatsoever. I’d found my perfect setup. Since then I’ve put in over a dozen hours of streaming various kinds of games and it works like a dream.
Update Nov 26, 2020: I’ve since found that Moonlight Game Streaming works better than Steam’s streaming, and has the benefit of being able to stream games that come from other stores than Steam.
I now recommend running nVidia’s streaming with Moonlight as a client. It can do 4k@60Hz for any game with no noticeable lag.
The best setup for in-home 4K, 60fps game streaming is a gigabit wired ethernet with an nVidia Shield TV
Do whatever you can to minimize the ping time between your PC and streaming device
Use nVidia’s streaming to Moonlight.
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The Real-time Web in REST Services at IMVU
December 27, 2014 posted by engineering Category: Mechanical Engineering
By Jon Watte, VP Technology @ IMVU
IMVU has built a rich, graph-shaped REST (REpresentational State Transfer) API (Application Programming Interface) to our data. This data includes a full social network, as well as e-commerce, virtual currencies, and the biggest 3D user generated content catalog in the world. This post discusses how IMVU addresses two of the bigger draw-backs of REST-based service architectures for real-time interactive content: Cache Invalidation (where users want to know about new data as soon as it becomes available,) and Request Chattiness (where request latency kills your performance.)
Cache Invalidation
REST principles like cacheability and hypertext-based documents work great for exposing data to a variety of clients (desktop, web, and mobile,) but runs into trouble when it meets the expectation of real-time interaction. For example, when a user changes their Motto in their profile, they would like for the world to see the new Motto right away — yet, much of the scalability wins of REST principles rely on caching, and the web does not have a good invalidation model. Here is an illustration of the problem:
At 10:03 am, Bob logs in and the client application fetches the profile information about his friend Alice. This data potentially gets cached at several different layers:
in application caches at the server end, such as Varnish or Squid
in content delivery network caches at the network edge, such as Akamai or Cloudfront
in the user’s own browser (every web browser has a local cache)
Let’s say that our service marks the data as cacheable for one hour.
At 10:04 am, Alice updates her Motto to say “there’s no business like show business.”
At 10:05 am, Alice sends a message to Bob asking “how do you like my motto?”
At 10:06 am, Bob looks at Alice’s profile, but because he has a stale version in cache, he sees the old version. Confusion (and, if this were a TV show, hilarity) ensues.
HTTP provides two options to solve this problem. One is to not do caching at all, which certainly “solves” the problem, but then also removes all benefits of a caching architecture. The other is to add the “must-validate” option to the cache control headers of the delivered data. This tells any client that, while it might want to store the data locally, it has to check back with the server to see whether the data has changed or not before re-using it. In the case that data has not changed, this saves on bytes transferred — the data doesn’t need to be sent twice — but it still requires the client to make a request to the server before presenting the data.
In modern web architectures, while saving throughput is nice, the real application performance killer is latency, which means that even the “zero bytes” response of checking in with the server introduces an unacceptable cost in end-user responsiveness. Cache validation and/or E-tags might sound like a big win, but for a piece of data like a “motto,” the overhead in HTTP headers (several kilobytes) dwarfs the savings of 30 bytes of payload — the client might as well just re-get the resource for approximately the same cost.
Another option that’s used in some public APIs is to version all the data, and when data is updated, update the version, which means that the data now has a new URL. A client asking for the latest version of the data would then not get a cached version. Because of HATEOAS (Hypertext As The Engine Of Application State) we would be able to discover the new URL for “Alice’s Profile Information,” and thus read the updated data. Unfortunately, there is no good way to discover that the new version is there — the client running on Bob’s machine would have to walk the tree of data from the start to get back to Alice’s new profile link, which is even more round-trip requests and makes the latency even worse.
A third option is to use REST transfer for the bulk data, but use some other, out-of-band (from the point of view of the HTTP protocol) mechanism to send changes to interested clients. Examples of this approach include the Meteor web framework, and the MQTT based push approach taken by Facebook Mobile Messenger. Meteor doesn’t really scale past a few hundred online users, and has an up-to-10-seconds-delay once it’s put across multiple hosts. Even with multiple hosts and “oplog tailing,” it ends up using a lot of CPU on each server, which means that a large write volume ends up with unacceptably low performance, and a scalability ceiling determined by overall write load, that doesn’t shard. At any time, IMVU has hundreds of thousands of concurrent users, which is a volume Meteor doesn’t support.
As for the MQTT-based mobile data push, Facebook isn’t currently making their solution available on the open market, and hadn’t even begun talking about it when we started our own work. Small components of that solution (such as MQTT middleware) are available for clients that can use direct TCP connections, and could be a building block for a solution to the problem.
The good news is that we at IMVU already have a highly scalable, multi-cast architecture, in the form of IMQ (the IMVU Message Queue.) This queue allows us to send lightweight messages to all connected users in real-time (typical latencies are less than 10 milliseconds plus one-way network delay.) Thus, if we can know what kinds of things that a user is currently interested in seeing, and we can know whether those things change, we can let the user know that the data changed and needs to be re-fetched.
The initial version of IMQ used Google Protocol Buffers on top of a persistent TCP connection for communications. This works great for desktop applications, and may work for some mobile applications as long as the device is persistently connected, but it does not work well for web browsers with no raw TCP connection ability, or intermittently connected mobile devices. To solve for these use cases, we added the ability to connect to IMQ using the websockets protocol, and additionally to fall back to an occasionally polled mail-drop pick-up model over HTTP for the worst-case connectivity situations. Note that this is still much more efficient than polling individual services for updated data — IMQ will buffer all the things that received change notifications across our service stack, and deliver them in a single HTTP response back to the client, when the client manages to make a HTTP request.
To make sure that the data for an endpoint is not stale when it is re-fetched by the client, we then mark the output of real-time updated REST services as non-cacheable by the intermediate caching layers. We have to do this, because we cannot tell the intermediate actors (especially, the browser cache) about the cache invalidation — even though we have JavaScript code running in the browser, and it knows about the invalidation of a particular URL, it cannot tell the browser cache that the data at the end of that URL is now updated.
Instead, we keep a local cache inside the web page. This cache maps URL to JSON payload, and our wrapper on top of XMLHttpRequest will first check this cache, and deliver the data if it’s there. When we receive an invalidation request over IMQ, we mark it stale (although we may still deliver it, for example for offline browsing purposes.)
Request Chattiness (Latency)
Our document-like object model looks like a connected graph with URL links as the edges, and JSON documents as the nodes. When receiving a particular set of data (such as the set of links that comprises my friends list) it is very likely that I will immediately turn around and ask for the data that’s pointed to by those links. If the browser and server both support the SPDY protocol, we could pre-stuff the right answers into the SPDY connection, in anticipation of the client requests. However, not all our clients have this support, and not even popular server-side tools like Nginx or Apache HTTPd support pre-caching, so instead we accomplish the same thing in our REST response envelope.
Instead of responding with just a single JSON document, we respond with a look-up table of URLs to JSON documents, including all the information we believe the client will want, based on the original request. This is entirely optional — the server doesn’t have to add any extra information; the client doesn’t have to pay attention to the extra data; but servers and clients that are in cahoots and pay attention will end up delivering a user experience with more than 30x fewer server round-trips! On internet connections where latency matters more than individual byte counts, this is a huge win. On very narrow-band connections (like 2G cell phones or dial-up modems,) the client can provide a header that tells the server to never send any data more than what’s immediately requested.
Because the server knows all the data it has sent (including the speculatively pre-loaded, or “denormalized” data,) the server can now make arrangements for the client to receive real-time updates through IMQ when the data backing those documents changes. Thus, when a friend comes online, or when a new catalog item from a creator I’m interested in is released, or when I purchase more credits, the server sends an invalidation message on the appropriate topic through the message queue, and any client that is interested in this topic will receive it, and update its local cache appropriately.
This, in turn, ties into a reactive UI model. The authority of the data, within the application, lives in the in-process JSON cache, and the IMQ invalidation events are received by this cache. The cache can then know whether any piece of UI is currently displaying this data; if so, it issues a request to the server to fetch it, and once received, it updates the UI. If not, then it can just mark the element as stale, and re-fetch it if it’s later requested by some piece of UI or other application code.
The end-to-end flow is then:
Bob loads Alice’s profile information
Specific elements on the screen are tied to the information such as “name” or “motto”
Bob’s client creates a subscription to updates to Alice’s information
Alice changes her motto
The back-end generates a message saying “Alice’s information changed” to everyone who is subscribed (which includes Bob)
Bob’s client receives the invalidation message
Bob’s client re-requests Alice’s profile information
The underlying data model for Alice’s profile information on Bob’s display page changes
The reactive UI updates the appropriate fields on the screen, so Bob sees the new data
All of these pieces means re-thinking a number of building blocks of the standard web stack, which means more work for our foundational libraries. In return, we get a more reactive web application, where anything you see on the screen is always up to date, and changes respond quickly, both through the user interface, and through the back-end, with minimal per-request overhead.
This might seem complex, but it ends up working really well, and with the proper attention to library design for back- and front-end development, building a reactive application like this is no harder than building an old-style, slow polling (or manually refreshed) application.
It would be great if SPDY (and, future, HTTP2) could support pre-stuffing responses in the real world. It would also be great if the browser DOM had an interface to the local cache, so that the application could tell the browser about a particular URL being invalidated. However, the solution we’ve built up achieves the same benefits, using existing protocols, which goes to show the fantastic flexibility and resilience inherent in the protocols and systems that make up the web!
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BY SCHISM RENT ASUNDER — snippet 113
by Eric Flint | Jun 23, 2008 | Snippets | 23 comments
BY SCHISM RENT ASUNDER – snippet 113:
Mahrys withdrew with his normal quiet efficiency, and Dragoner settled his professional diplomat's expression into place as he found himself alone with his visitor.
Rolf Khailee was a tallish man, with the light complexion and fair hair which was common in the Republic but which still seemed odd to Dragoner's Charisian eyes. He was of middle years, with a strong nose which suggested — correctly, in his case, as it happened — that he was related to the powerful Stohnar Clan. In fact, he was Lord Protector Greyghor's fourth cousin . . . and his name was not "Rolf Khailee." It was Avrahm Hywstyn — Lord Avrahm Hwystyn — and he was a mid-level official in the Republic's Foreign Ministry. Precisely what he did there was something of a mystery to most people, although his relationship with the lord protector undoubtedly suggested several interesting possibilities.
Sir Rayjhis Dragoner didn't need any "suggestions," however. He was one of the relatively small number of people who knew that Lord Avrahm was his powerful cousin's finger on the pulse of the Republic's relations with the realms which were most important to it. And he was also the conduit through which the Republic's ruler sometimes passed particularly sensitive messages or bits of information to someone else's ambassador. Of course, no one, not even — or especially — Lord Protector Greyghor was going to admit anything of the sort, and so Hwystyn's alternative persona as Master Rolf Khailee. Dragoner knew perfectly well that the masquerade never fooled anyone, but that wasn't really the point. It provided a degree of official separation. It was certainly no more farfetched than the pretense that the Knights of the Temple Lands weren't also the Council of Vicars, at any rate, and no one was likely to press the Lord Protector of Siddarmark too hard on any diplomatic fictions he chose to maintain.
Besides, the real reason Avrahm uses Khailee is to underscore the fact that whatever he's about to tell me is important . . . and that he was never here.
"This is an unexpected pleasure, 'Master Khailee,'" he said calmly. "May I offer you some refreshment?"
"That's very kind of you, Ambassador," his guest said. "Unfortunately, I'm rather pressed for time this afternoon. Perhaps some other day."
"Of course," Dragoner murmured, and gestured courteously at the comfortable chair facing his desk. He waited until "Khailee" had seated himself, then settled back into his own chair. "May I ask what brings you here this afternoon?" he asked politely.
"As a matter of fact," the Siddarmarkian said, "a rather remarkable message crossed my desk this morning. A message from Chancellor Trynair to Lord Frahnklyn."
Dragoner managed to keep his face only politely attentive, despite the quiver of shock which went through him. Lord Frahnklyn Wallyce was the Republic's Chancellor, Earl Gray Harbor's equivalent here in Siddarmark. The fact that "Khailee" was here instead of an official messenger from the Chancellor's office sounded all sorts of warning bells. And the fact that "Khailee" was here about a message between Wallyce and the Chancellor of the Council of Vicars was the next best thing to terrifying.
The hell with the "next best thing," Rayjhis, he told himself. It damned well is terrifying, and you know it!
"Indeed?" he said, as calmly as he could.
"Indeed." His guest sat very straight, his eyes intent. "It was transmitted by semaphore for the Lord Protector's urgent attention. Unfortunately, the Lord Protector is out of the city this afternoon. He won't be returning until quite late this evening."
"I hadn't heard that," Dragoner said, listening very carefully to what "Khailee" wasn't saying, as well as what he was.
"Chancellor Trynair requested that his message be presented to the Lord Protector as quickly as possible, and with the utmost confidentiality. Unfortunately, that leaves us with something of a problem. Since we're not entirely certain where the Lord Protector is at this particular moment — we know his schedule, but we can't be certain he's managed to keep it — we can hardly send a copy of it racing about, trying to find him. So, in order to comply with the Chancellor's request for confidentiality and security, we've transmitted the message to Protector's Palace to await his return and sent messengers looking for him to tell him that it's arrived."
"That sounds commendably thorough," Dragoner said.
"Thank you. However, that's also what brings me here today — as one of those messengers, as it were. It just happens that the Lord Protector had mentioned he might be dropping by your embassy on his way home. Obviously, his schedule isn't exactly written in stone, so I can't be certain he actually will be visiting you. If you should happen to see him, however, would you pass on a message for me?"
"I'd be delighted to be of service in any way I could," Dragoner assured him.
"I appreciate that, Ambassador." The Siddarmarkian's mouth smiled, but his eyes never did. "Would you please tell him we've received a directive from the Chancellor, transmitted on behalf of the Grand Inquisitor. Obviously, I can't go into the details of such a confidential communique, but if you could also inform him that we require his authorization for the harbor master, director of customs, and the port admiral to enforce the Grand Inquisitor's directive. And –" he looked directly into Dragoner's eyes "– we also need his instructions as to where and how he would that like us to house the crews and officers of the merchant ships involved in the enforcement of that directive until the Church is able to make her own arrangements for them."
Dragoner's stomach muscles clenched into a constricted knot. He knew his expression was giving away entirely too much, but his professional diplomat's reflexes had deserted him for the moment.
"Of course," he heard himself say.
"Thank you." "Master Khailee" pushed back his chair and stood. "Well, Ambassador, as always, it's been a pleasure. However, I'm afraid I must go. There are several other places I need to leave messages for the Lord Protector, just in case he should happen by. And I'm afraid it's rather urgent. We really need his decision on these matters no later than dawn tomorrow."
"I understand." Dragoner rose and escorted his guest to the door. "I hope you find him in time, and if I should happen to see him, I'll certainly pass on your message."
"In that case, Ambassador, I'll bid you good day," the Siddarmarkian said. He bobbed his head in a courteous little bow, then he stepped through the door and it closed behind him.
Dragoner gazed at the closed door for several taut seconds, then shook himself. He knew — or, at least, he was reasonably certain he knew — why Lord Protector Greyghor had seen to it that he received "Khailee's" warning, despite the very real risk he and his cousin had both run. And, as the Charisian Ambassador, there was no doubt in Dragoner's mind about precisely what he ought to do with that warning. But even as he thought that, the son of the Church within him recoiled from the thought of deliberately sabotaging a direct order from the Grand Inquisitor speaking for the Council of Vicars.
But he isn't speaking for the entire Council, Dragoner told himself almost despairingly. He's speaking for the Group of Four, and God only knows what their final objective is now! Yet, even if that's true, it doesn't magically absolve me of my responsibility to honor the expressed will and decrees of Mother Church. But, if I do, if I don't act on this information, then . . . .
He leaned forward, pressing his forehead against the door's cool wood while conscience fought with duty and conviction warred with unwilling recognition. And then, finally, he drew a deep breath, straightened his spine, and opened the door. Young Mahrys was waiting, and Dragoner smiled at him.
"Find me some messengers, Zheryld," he said. "People you can trust to keep their mouths shut afterward."
"Yes, Sir. Ah, what message will they have to carry?" Mahrys asked, and Dragoner's smile turned into something entirely too much like a rictus.
"Let's just say that any Charisian vessel here in Siddar is about to discover she has urgent business somewhere else. Anywhere else, if you take my meaning."
Despite himself, Mahrys' eyes widened. Then the color seemed to drain out of his face, and he swallowed hard.
"Yes, Sir," he said, after a long, tense moment. "As a matter of fact, I think I know just the men we need."
Alistair on June 23, 2008 at 1:14 AM
kari on June 23, 2008 at 1:19 AM
So, one of our questions has been answered at last. I like the struggle that Dragoner went through as he chose between loyalties.
Tarl on June 23, 2008 at 1:23 AM
I think this gives us a good read on how Siddarmark feels about the conflict…
Indeed, Charis’ own ambassador seemed to feel rather more ambiguity than Siddarmark’s rulers.
Peter on June 23, 2008 at 1:44 AM
I don’t find it at all surprising that the Protector would do this, in such an elegantly deniable fashion, too. I liked the struggle that Dragoner went through, but it’s not really one between Church and State; it’s between his wish that the Church be what she ought to be, and his unwilling recognition that she won’t be, at least while the corrupt leadership has control. I bet there are a _lot_ of people on Safehold that will be making this ame choice very soon.
PS – Hi Tarl.
Jon on June 23, 2008 at 2:56 AM
Well, at least we know that Siddarmark has chosen a side, and even if it takes awhile, we know that charis has a mainland ally with which to strike at the GoF in the future ^^
Jerry on June 23, 2008 at 3:02 AM
Nice contrast to the previous two chapters….
I was looking at the map to see how far the ships had to go and noticed a typo. The text in snippet 112 states “And as one of the premier ports of West Haven, Siddar was…” and yet Siddar and Siddarmark Republic are clearly in East Haven.
After the ships leave, what will be the fate of the Charisians who live and work in Siddar? I can’t see them being handed over to the church, but some will likely be “taken” by the inquisition who will not distinguish loyalists from non-loyalists.
laclongquan on June 23, 2008 at 7:10 AM
Siddarmark has NOT chosen a side, yet. This action is just to show that they didnt want to burn all the bridge behind while waiting to build ships. Obeying Church’s directives in this situation set dangerous precedents but disobeying is not… timingly, perhaps. So they punted. or walked the batter. whatever.
In the long term, I expect Siddarmark will turn against the Church. The underground forces drive those decisions are the same that drove Spain to actively meddle in Rome’s affair after all: you meddle with them or you will be meddled with.
scott on June 23, 2008 at 7:13 AM
Thanks for your comment (#4), paul; I’d failed to grasp the full meaning of the word “recognition” in the description of Dragoners struggle between duty and conviction and your comment spotlit its true meaning nicely.
Paul Howard on June 23, 2008 at 7:34 AM
As for the Charisians who live and work in Siddar, since I suspect that the “orders” were to capture Charisian Ships & Crews then the Lord Protector’s troops won’t bother them. [Wink]
As for the Inquisition taking them later, it might be a case where the Lord Protector people might say “Charisians living here? Nope, if they’re living here, they’re *Not* Charisians”.
JNees on June 23, 2008 at 7:46 AM
Political buzz words like “plausible deniability” and collateral damage jump to mind. Frm the reaction of the staff, this is not unexpected, but when the excrement encounters the ventalation blade, things can look different.
It seems we are to be treated to a litany of occasions where the result could have been much worse for the Charisian merchants. I would expect a few where the result is exactly what Clyntyn would have wished. In any event, in very short order all Charisian ships will be privateers, smugglers, pirates, or all three.
Michael on June 23, 2008 at 9:31 AM
“And – he looked directly into Dragoner’s eyes “– we also need his instructions as to where and how he would that like us to house the crews and officers of the merchant ships involved in the enforcement of that directive until the Church is able to make her own arrangements for them.”
…”to where and how he would that like us to house”
Should probably be…”to where and how he would like us to house…”
Paul Howard on June 23, 2008 at 10:07 AM
I wonder if the Charisian Privateers would offer a special deal to ports/rulers who allowed smuggling into their ports. [Wink]
By the way JNees, I doubt that the Gof4 would call Charisian Ships both “Privateers” and “Pirates”. Privateers were ‘licensed’ to prey on Merchant Shipping of their Nation’s foes and were normally treated differently than Pirates. The Gof4 would want them treated as Pirates not Privateers.
karidrgn on June 23, 2008 at 10:27 AM
Actually I think any Charisians captured from now on will be considered ‘heretics’ or blasphemers by those who follow Clyntahn. In that case being considered a pirate would be a blessing. Relatively quick death rather than torture for the sake of redeming your soul. Death by hanging rather than burning at the stake. I know that Langhorne brought back a lot of old cruel ways – does anyone remember if that form of execution was restored?
Aaron Van Dessel on June 23, 2008 at 11:01 AM
unknown.
I think that Siddarmark basically has a chosen a side. The Church won’t look at this and say, “I bet its just conicidence that they all got away from the group of people that we’ve been worried about attacking us for a couple of centuries.”
Of course, they really can’t do anything about it
Chuck S. on June 23, 2008 at 11:47 AM
This also will increase the pressure on the Go4 within the Assembly of Vicars. No church leader will sleep sounder knowing the Go4 is actively pursuing a course that could alienate Siddarmark, effectively courting resistance, if not rebellion, on a second, more dangerous, front when they are have shown such poor judgment predicting the outcomes of actions on the first one.
So what do Caleb, Charlyn and Merlin do if the Go4 is ousted and Mother Church announces a major housecleaning of corrupt officials while still pursuing the heretics of Charis? I don’t know if DW will go in that direction, but a palace revolt within the church would be a likely outcome in the real world. A lot of Middle Ages Popes had short “periods of service” (is a Pope referred to as “reining”?) and the job of Pope has the same retirement plan as Maximum Leader.
karidrgn on June 23, 2008 at 6:11 PM
From my understanding the politics between the Pope and European rulers was a lot more complicated then what has been setup here. The church on Safehold is a LOT more powerful. A few times a Pope was elected that wasn’t favorable to one king or other and was ‘replaced’. I believe that France even managed to get the Pope to ‘relocate’ to France. There were also couple of ‘anti’ Popes where an election was declared null and void and a rival Pope ‘elected’.
Mike on June 23, 2008 at 7:19 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Schism
Aaron Van Dessel on June 23, 2008 at 10:52 PM
Unless the inqusistioners power is removed, I doubt that people will rise up too quickly. at least not for a while
The churches real power is at the hearts and mind level not the inqusition
In the honourverse the Saint Just was unable to hold power for long by just using terror
The same is true here on earth as well fear alone cannot work it needs other things as well such as faith etc.
Once people begin doubting the councils good heart… as a few mainlanders already are then it becomes a big issue
In a sense what is happening in to Safe Hold is millions of people are undergoing a change in religion which as this ambassador showed can be a very painful and deeply personal process.
If a person grew up in a very devout home here in the “real world” but came into ideas that brought that faith into doubt and those doubts into conflict both internal and in the family it becomes a very personal and difficult thing.
And this is precisely what is happening on a huge scale on Safehold of course as DW is showing faith is not being abandoned on safe hold merely set free from a web of lies.
Some however will never give up the lies and this is where the fun will really be not Just battles between armys but between townships familys a religious civil war
rafe on June 24, 2008 at 10:00 AM
ahhh ..just love the deception and spin … meaning the way in which Rolf Khailee informed the ambassador of the Church’s plans ..beautifully planned and laid out …. at last some real tactical ingenuity and political drama …
Can anyone think of anything messier than a religious civil war? With an earlier statement that families and friendships were beginning to be strained and split apart even amoung Charisians living in Siddarmark that’s what’s it’s shaping up to be.
I don’t think that Siddarmark will become an ally of Charis anytime soon. It’s citizens may be too divided to take sides, although we have a good idea where the leadership stands. I wonder, FDR doing what he can to support Charis until his people decide?
Or Lincoln trying to keep the union from splitting apart? Or a bit of both?
Greg on June 25, 2008 at 1:19 AM
“– we also need his instructions as to where and how he would that like us to house the crews and officers of the merchant ships involved in the enforcement of that directive until the Church is able to make her own arrangements for them.”
At first, I thought that last part was gratuitous. But it’s not. It’s there way of saying that only “the crews and officers of the merchant ships” are at risk.
RobertHuntingdon on June 25, 2008 at 9:36 AM
Well, Greg, it could also be that they are the only people at risk so far…
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Mission Of Honor – Snippet 13
by Drak Bibliophile | Mar 12, 2010 | Snippets, WeberSnippet | 22 comments
Given that balance, and how much Manticoran and Grayson blood had been shed side by side in the Alliance’s battles, Matthews was prepared to forgive the Star Kingdom for High Ridge’s existence. Not all Graysons were, however. Even many of those who remained fierce supporters of Lady Harrington separated her in their own minds from the Star Kingdom. She was one of theirs — a Grayson in her own right, by adoption and shed blood — which insulated her from their anger at the High Ridge Government’s stupidity, avarice, and arrogance. And the fact that she and High Ridge had been bitter political enemies only made that insulation easier for them.
“I’m serious, Wesley.” Benjamin waved one hand, as if for emphasis. “Oh, Forchein’s always been a social and religious conservative — not as reactionary as some, thank God, but bad enough — but I’m pretty sure it was the combination of High Ridge’s foreign policy and Haven’s resumption of open hostilities that tipped his support. And, unfortunately, he’s not the only one that’s true of.”
“May I ask how bad it actually is, Your Grace?” Matthews inquired, his eyes narrower.
It wasn’t the sort of question he usually would have asked, given the Grayson tradition of separation between the military and politics. Senior officers weren’t supposed to factor politics into their military thinking. Which, of course, was another of those fine theories which consistently came to grief amid the shoals of reality. There was a difference, however, between being aware of the political realities which affected the ability of his Navy to formulate sound strategy or discharge its responsibilities to defend the Protectorate of Grayson and of becoming involved in the formulation of political policy.
“To be honest, I’m not really certain,” Benjamin admitted. “Floyd is taking some cautious political soundings, and I expect we’ll have a pretty good idea within the next week or so of who else might be inclined in Forchein’s direction.”
Matthews nodded. Floyd Kellerman, Steadholder Magruder, had become Benjamin’s chancellor following Henry Prestwick’s well-earned retirement. He’d been Prestwick’s understudy for the last two years of the old chancellor’s tenure, and the Magruders had been Mayhew allies literally for centuries. Lord Magruder hadn’t yet developed the intricate web of personal alliances Prestwick had possessed, but he’d already demonstrated formidable abilities as both an administrator and a shrewd politician.
“Having said that, however,” the protector continued, “I’m already pretty confident about where the problem is going to come from . . . and what our problem children — however many of them there turn out to be — are going to want.” He shook his head. “Some of them wouldn’t have supported us sticking with Manticore against Haven this time around if the Protector’s Own hadn’t already been involved at Sidemore. Their position is that High Ridge had already violated Manticore’s treaty obligations to us by conducting independent negotiations with Haven, which amounted to a unilateral abrogation of the Alliance. And while we do have a mutual defense treaty outside the formal framework of the overall Alliance, one whose terms obligate us to come to one another’s support in the event of any attack by an outside party, the Star Kingdom’s critics have pointed out that the Republic of Haven did not, in fact, attack Grayson in Operation Thunderbolt despite our involvement in defending Manticoran territory. The implication being that since High Ridge chose to violate Manticore’s solemn treaty obligations to us — along with every other party to the Alliance — there’s no reason we should feel legally or morally bound to honor our treaty obligations to them if doing so isn’t in the Protectorate’s best interests.
“And — surprise, surprise! — the way the Manticorans’ expansion into the Talbott Sector’s brought them into direct collision with the Solarian League has only made the people who are pissed off with Manticore even less happy. And to be honest, I can’t really blame anyone for being nervous about finding themselves on the wrong end of the confrontation with the League, especially after the way High Ridge squandered so much of the Star Kingdom’s investment in loyalty.
“Of course, none of our vessels have actually been involved in operations anywhere near Talbott, but we do have personnel serving on Manticoran warships which have been. For that matter, over thirty of our people were killed when that idiot Byng blew up the destroyers they were serving in. Which gives the people who worry about what may happen between the League and the Manticorans — and, by extension, with us — two legitimate pieces of ammunition. The Sollies may view the participation of our personnel, even aboard someone else’s ships, in military operations against the League as meaning we’ve already decided to back Manticore, and I don’t think it would be totally unfair to argue that the people we’ve already lost were lost in someone else’s fight. Mind you, I think it should be obvious to anyone with any sort of realistic appreciation for how Frontier Security and the League operate that standing up to the Sollies should be every independent ‘neobarb’ star system’s fight. Not everyone’s going to agree with me about that, unfortunately, and those who don’t will be airing their concerns shortly. Which brings me back to my original question for you. How satisfied are you with the system’s security?”
“In the short term, completely, Your Grace.” Matthews’ response was as firm as it was instant. “Whatever High Ridge and Janacek might have done, ever since Willie Alexander took over as Prime Minister, especially with Hamish as his First Lord of Admiralty, our channels of communication have been completely opened again. Our R&D people are working directly with theirs, and they’ve provided us with everything we needed to put Apollo into production here at Yeltsin’s Star. For that matter, they’ve delivered over eight thousand of the system-defense variant Apollo pods. And they’ve also handed our intelligence people complete copies of the computer files Countess Gold Peak captured from Byng at New Tuscany, along with specimens of Solly missiles, energy weapons, software systems — the works. For that matter, if we want it, they’re more than willing to let us have one of the actual battlecruisers the Countess brought back from New Tuscany so we can examine it personally. So far, we haven’t taken them up on that. Our people in Admiral Hemphill’s shop are already seeing everything, and, frankly, the Manties are probably better at that sort of thing than we are here at home, anyway.
“Based on what we’ve seen out of the Havenites, I’m confident we could successfully defend this star system against everything the Republic has left. And based on our evaluation of the captured Solarian material, my best estimate is that while the Sollies probably could take us in the end, they’d need upwards of a thousand ships-of-the-wall to do it. And that’s a worst-case estimate, Your Grace. I suspect a more realistic estimate would push their force requirements upward significantly.” He shook his head. “Given all their other commitments, the amount of their wall of battle that’s tucked away in mothballs, and the fact that they’d pretty much have to go through Manticore before they got to us at all, I’m not worried about any known short-term threat.”
He paused for a moment, as if to let the protector fully absorb his own confidence, then drew a deep breath.
“In the long term, of course, the Solarian League could pose a very serious threat to the Protectorate. I agree with the Manties’ estimate that it would take years for the SLN to get comparable technology into production and deployed. I think some of the individual system-defense forces could probably shave some time off of how long it’s going to take the SLN in particular, and the League in general, to overcome the sheer inertia of their entrenched bureaucracies, but as far as I’m aware, none of those SDFs are in anything like the Star Kingdom’s — I mean the Star Empire’s — league. For that matter, I don’t think any of them could come close to matching our combat power for quite a lengthy period. But in the end, assuming the League has the stomach to pay the price in both human and economic terms, there’s not much doubt that, barring direct divine intervention, the Sollies could absorb anything we and the Manticorans combined could hand out and still steamroller us in the end.”
Benjamin puffed his lips, his eyes worried, and rotated his chair some more. It was very quiet in the office — quiet enough for Matthews to hear the creaking of the old-fashioned swivel chair — and the high admiral found himself looking out the window again, at the throngs of children.
I’d really like for someone to grow up on this planet without having to worry about wars and lunatics, he thought sadly, almost wistfully. I’ve done my best to keep them safe, but that’s not the same thing.
“I wish I could say I was surprised by anything you’ve just said,” Benjamin said at last, pulling Matthews’ eyes back to him. “Unfortunately, it’s about what I expected to hear, and I don’t doubt Mueller and Friends, as you call them, have reached about the same conclusions. They already think of us as ‘Manticoran lackeys’ who put Manticore’s interests ahead of Grayson’s. That’s going to dispose them to take the least optimistic possible view, shall we say, of our long-term strategic position. Nor do I doubt that they’re going to be perfectly ready to share their thoughts on the subject with their fellow steadholders.”
“Your Grace, I could –”
“No, you couldn’t, Wesley,” Benjamin interrupted. The high admiral looked at him, and the protector smiled tartly. “I’m sure, High Admiral Matthews, that you would never suggest to the Lord Protector that it might be possible for you to prevaricate or even mislead the Conclave of Steadholders if you were called to testify before them.”
Joseph on March 12, 2010 at 1:14 AM
A thousand ships-of-the-wall? And that’s going to be revised upwards? Jeeze, I knew that Solly hardware sucked compared to the Manticorans and Graysons, but… whew. That’s not a fleet action, that’s a shooting gallery.
I don’t even want to think about what those kind of loss figures would do to Solly morale… Oh. Wait. Retract that. Who would bet that there’d be a few mutinies aboard those ships on the way out to the Haven Sector?
Thirdbase on March 12, 2010 at 1:42 AM
Currently the Sollie ships can’t even get close to Manticoran ships, and as soon as Grayson gets some Apollo equipped ships and running they will be untouchable also. The only way the Sollies can win, is by sending more ships than Manticore or Grayson can kill before they get to the planets. The same thing is true for the Andermani, and Havenites, but to a lesser extent. Although I imagine that the Andermani will be building Apollo ships soon also.
I wonder if it would be considered barratry instead of mutiny. There may be some instances well before any of those ships were to head for Haven, like maybe while they were watching all the ships in front of them blowing up, well before they could do anything in response.
“That’s not a fleet action, that’s a shooting gallery.” The Great Manticoran Turkey Shoot?
saul on March 12, 2010 at 1:56 AM
Assuming OB does damage to the planet, the Manties will presumably massively build up their system defenses.
A question for the experts.
Now that they have high quality FTL comms. Why have battle stations with large crews? Why not just have some of those personal on the planet, remotely operating the systems? Sure, they will still need crews on the forts, but why put the highly skilled people in harms way. The manties are short of personnel. Having skilled people who don’t need to be trained in ship skills, ie zero-g etc, would both speed the training. It would also allow for personel who would otherwise be unsuitable for shipboard operation. ie all those folks who don’t have the right personality type to be stuck on a ship/fort could still be trained/hired to run apollo systems.
You would get faster trained, cheaper to hire, more skilled operators for your system defense.
Technically, the Eridani Edict should probably prohibit planet based defenses? but it might not bother, as they would have been useless in the past.
Daryl on March 12, 2010 at 5:48 AM
@3 good point saul. My guess is that military organisations are conservative in nature; as while winning is important, not losing is even more so thus change comes slowly. If the Mesan Oyster Bay attack is successful then rebuilding capability should be along the lines you are suggesting as less space capable people would be needed.
wyrm on March 12, 2010 at 9:40 AM
We now have the Alliance estimate of their military capability against the SL. 8000 Apollo pods (plus any Apollo-capable ships in the Grayson home fleet, would require over 1000 League SDs to defeat them.
And since we can assume that the Manticore system has even more pods by this time this conversation occurs, and the Lynx Terminus has also been equipped with sufficient pods to handle any plausible Sollie force, I predict Rajampet’s blood pressure will achieve record heights in the near future. Now we discover whether Beowulf/Mesa biotechnology has eliminated the cause of strokes.
Ian Darley on March 12, 2010 at 11:27 AM
@1 Sollie morale would be determined by the Sollies Ministry of Information(?). They would hear whatever the Sollie leadership decided to tell them. After all, who would listen to a bunch of neo-barb talking heads claiming that the most powerful navy in the universe was smashed by a bunch of monkeys still ruled by a Queen? As long as the Sollie leadership can control the information stream they will be able to maintain their grip. Once the Maya system breaks off and ex-Sollie talking heads start sending reports into the rest of the union all bets are off.
@3 Key reason not to move your trained personnel of your defense satellites is electronic warfare. Do you really want to protect XX,000 trained personnel and risk losing the planet? If your opponent comes up with a jamming system that locks you out of your defense systems you have lost the battle before it ever began. Look at what Mantie tech has done to Haven book after book. Then look ahead at what the Alignment is about to do to the Manties, Sollies, etc. Personally, the thought of the Alignment in control of the orbitals over my planet is not pleasant. Even Haven with Cordelia Ransom at the helm would be better than that.
Great website. I love reading everyones posts. It makes the books even better when they finally come out.
4th Dimension on March 12, 2010 at 12:40 PM
@3 The problem with your scenario is that while FTL is mightily fast, it’s not instantaneous. The information is modulated onto space-time fluctuations, who have a finite speed. Also while they can control entire flights of missiles, bandwidth necessary for control of entire stations + their missiles would be gigantic.
And on top of it is the possibility that the enemy will develop some sort of electronic warfare suite that can combat grav-pulse networks.
Jeremy DuCharme on March 12, 2010 at 12:46 PM
@6 Scuttlebutt outraces even Measan hyperdrives. No matter what Sollie MiniTruth puts out spacers are gonna notice if increasing numbers of Wallers gets sent out to the “Manticorian Pacification” and don’t come back.
Or assuming the train wreck of Mike vs. the Battle Fleet task force happens (look like it) covering up losing 70 of the Wall to less than a quarter of their number in battlecruisers is gonna be hard.
AFAICT before OB changes the strategic calculus (I am assuming here it manages to go off) Grayson, Manti, and likely Andi thinking is that the threat is not current or mothballed Sollie Wallers. It is that the Sollies are not slouches in basic science, they just lacked the incentive and real world combat feed back to keep the edge sharp. The fear is the Leauge would hold together, and use its scientific and industrial muscle to build a new and up to date fleet large enough to smother them all. The true threat is not the current SLN, but what the SLN could build into if given the proper incentive, ie getting its butt kicked hard and often.
John Roth on March 12, 2010 at 3:36 PM
@3 Saul
@6, @7
I think Saul is on to something. Let’s consider what we know about the system defense version of Apollo. IIRC, they are quadruple drive missiles in the general Apollo mold. I think they’re designed to be emplaced kind of like minefields, possibly with robotic control elements. They’re probably just sitting there in orbit, at minimal power so they’re not putting wear on components, waiting for targeting information.
And where is the controller? Who knows? It might be on a ship, it might be planetside. Or there might be multiple control points possible. Remember that the grav pulse com propagates at 64 x light speed.
Also remember that the control missile is a lot more intelligent than anything anyone has seen in a missile before. I suspect that the Apollo system defense tech has a few more surprises in store.
@8 Jeremy DuCharme
Yep, that’s what they’re afraid of. It’s the sleeping gorilla problem: how can you make sure that the League can’t get its military, scientific and manufacturing act together after they realize that they have to mobilize. And something else to chew over: I think that the Detwillers and the Strategy Board have been considering the same question – for several centuries.
Thirdbase on March 12, 2010 at 6:16 PM
John Roth,
The thing is that 20 years ago, the Sollie Fleet was the most powerful military in the Universe. It’s only in the past 20 years that the Manticoran Alliance and Haven have become so far ahead of the Sollies technologically.
Speaking of technology, I wonder if the Mesan Streak and Spider drives use Sidewalls and Wedges. It would be funny if those Energy Torpedoes that Honor used way back when were the Achilles Heel of the Mesan ships.
Ian Darley on March 12, 2010 at 7:16 PM
@8 True enough, rumor is frequently FTL. However, add in Sollie person-on-the-street arrogance, general dis-interest in anything outside Sollie space, and a gov’t telling them “everything is fine, the fleet is just out on maneuvers” and the Sollie gov’t can maintain control… for a while…
I don’t think it is viable for long but the Sollies are also expecting a “short victorious war” so what could possibly go wrong?
Jeremy DuCharme on March 12, 2010 at 7:40 PM
John, my suspicion (I do NOT have a full copy) is that the “Strategy Board” needed to build up a credible threat to the Sollies to justify taking over. Gotta have someone to pin the Reichstag fire on after all.
Since Mesa was trying to hinder Manticore all the way back to Saganami AFAICT, I don’t think they were gonna be the original ‘villain’ to the Sollies. Up till the Manticorain Alliance kicked Haven in the balls I suspect the PRH was supposed to be the unwitting ‘dragon’ in their plans. The external threat to distract from their internal take over.
But the threat can’t be too good, thus once they are built up enough to justify the takeover, and bloody Solarian noses a few times, OB comes along and cuts them off at the knees. JUST in time for their people to ‘take over from the incompetents’ and ride to victory.
Or at least that’s my wild speculation, being current only through SftS.
George Phillies on March 12, 2010 at 11:44 PM
The spider drive generates artificial gravity fields to function. Clearly, its natural antithesis, carefully planted back in book one of the series, is *THE GRAV LANCE* (8^))
John Roth on March 13, 2010 at 12:54 AM
@10 Thirdbase
The current versions of the Spider drive ships do not have wedges and sidewalls. Whether or not the Leonard Detweiller spider drive superdreadnaughts will or not is something I don’t know. A large part of the spider drive ships’ effectiveness is that they don’t have these things, therefore there’s nothing to give away to sensor systems that are tuned to spot sidewalls and wedges.
@12 Jeremy DuCharme
I think you’re giving them too much credit. The whole thing with the 30 Spider drive ships is that they may be planning a coordinated attack to take out multiple planets’ space industry at one shot. Clearly they’re building cadre for the Leonard Detweiller class SDs, but I have no idea how many of them they’re making.
I don’t remember anything in Torch that bears on that question, and I’ve only read the first 7 chapters of this — the ones that are available in the Webscriptions site. They don’t say anything, either.
I’m still going to go with my basic scenario: they’re weakening the Solarian League with corruption, they’re going to take out the space industry of the X most threatening single planets in one sweep at the beginning of Operation Prometheus using the Spider drive ships. Then the Mesan Alignment Navy is going to take over, lead by Mannerheim and possibly other planets that may be in the Alignment.
I don’t think they give a flying whatever for the opinion of their genetic inferiors.
@13 George Phillies
Over the years, David has been very consistent in saying that he wished he’d never invented the grav lance. Without sidewalls, that first generation of Spider drive ships is toast if anyone points a beam hotter than a cigarette lighter at them. And they know it.
RobertHuntingdon on March 13, 2010 at 8:46 PM
Somebody please strangle George for bringing up the tech with the forbidden name.
But yeah JR I think you might be right. I wouldn’t be surprised if the energy torpedo really was quite effective against the spider-drive ships. Then again, that’s still a very short-range weapon compared to Apollo missiles. Unless the Manties could figure out some way to turn an Apollo missile into a launcher for a torpedo. Hmm. That could be interesting.
robert on March 14, 2010 at 12:33 AM
@3 and @9 Saul is missing the fact that you cannot just fight a war of defense, at home, and expect to win. You MUST take the war to the enemy and for that you need the trained personnel to man the ships heading into battle far from home.
@10 and @13 Spoiler territory, no?
No idea if it is a spoiler or not, I’ve not bought the eARC, I was just pondering.
While the energy torpedo is a close range weapon, it is also fast firing. Building a LAC with energy torpedoes in place of the graser might worth while. Replacing them in a regular ship wouldn’t work, because then that ship would lose combat effectiveness against other normal ships.
I suppose having your big bad SD destroyed by a couple of LACs would be embarrassing though.
saul on March 14, 2010 at 1:46 PM
@16 Actually, thats part of my point. After all, if you cut down on Fort crews, you can put those people on Ships instead. Maybe the bottleneck for crews is personality types, eg those who can handle being stuck on a ship/fort.
Someone else brought up the point (baen bar discussion) that with ftl, you could have some forts remotely controlling other forts, at least in non-high alert situations. That way, forts could be staffed with 1-2 shifts rather than the normal 3 shifts.
@18 Saul
I don’t think there are all that many people in the forts. As far as I’m aware, the only forts are by the wormholes, which means that there are at most eight groups. That’s not a whole lot compared to the number of people required to man the ships.
The bottleneck for crews is training time, and also the proportion of the population that’s willing to serve in the Navy.
Vince on March 14, 2010 at 3:38 PM
Just got a new email from Amazon.com with updated shipping time for Mission of Honor (order was originally placed with 2 day shipping):
Hello from Amazon.com.
We have received new release date information related to the order you placed on [date] (Order# xxx-xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxx). The item(s) listed below will actually ship sooner than we originally expected based on the new release date:
David Weber “Mission of Honor (Honor Harrington Series)”
Previous estimated arrival date: July 15 2010
New estimated arrival date: June 24 2010
The rest of the email is Amazon’s standard information. I guess Toni got through to Amazon.com
4th Dimension on March 14, 2010 at 4:37 PM
Energy torpedoes vs spider drive
I don’t know how spider works, only the info I now read in comments that spider doesn’t generate wedge by default. But what’s stopping them from equipping such ships with bubble sidewalls like on forts?
Also as far as I know e-torpedo is a ball of plasma. That sounds like something that would need lot of energy, and might not be compatible with Manticorian fission engine LACs
@21 4th Dimension
Storm from the Shadows, ch 51 has the actual attack run that starts Oyster Bay, and some stuff on the Shark class Spider drive ships.
I don’t know of any reason why you couldn’t have both drive systems in the same ship, only that the current generation of Spider drive ships don’t. Possibly the Leonard Detweiller class SDs will have them.
The wedge, sidewalls and, I believe, the wormhole transit mechanism are actually part of the same engineering package, so it wouldn’t be possible to use any variety of sidewall without the whole package being available, at least in principle.
To reiterate: the effectiveness of the current Spider drive ships is because they don’t have the wedge, sidewalls, etc. It’s these things that make them detectable.
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Located just 11 miles southwest of Brackettville, the majority of this ranch is high fenced an offers a unique blend of highly productive fields, rangeland and native brush which will impress any livestock producer or sportsman. 2 irrigation wells are permitted for a total of 2,940 acre feet of water annually and service 2 irrigation pivots with the capability to irrigate over 530 acres currently. Water troughs and earthen tanks are strategically placed throughout the property to insure efficient water availability to wildlife and domestic livestock. Wildlife species include White-tailed Deer, Quail, Turkey and Dove.
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B-B Ranch
$2,628,450 • 1,947 acres
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Contact for Price • 490 acres
490 ± Acres Turnkey hunting destination with hunting camp that sleeps 6-8 Three Edwards wells Year-round supplemental feeding program High-fenced on back side with low-fencing on sides and front Whitetail bucks scoring between 140” and 160” Dove flyaway zone with hundreds of dove spotted in season Elevations over 1,300-feet in some areas Outstanding brush recognized by Texas Parks and Wildlife
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Everything You Need to Know About Creatine
If someone came up and told you about an ‘amazing’ new supplement that can do everything from increase your strength to make you smarter, what would you do?
Call them a liar and walk away, right?
And to be completely honest, I would probably think the same.
Unless, of course, they were talking about creatine.
What is creatine?
Creatine is a natural substance made by your body from amino acids.
Most of the creatine you have in your body is stored in your muscle cells. It is then broken down for energy during physical activity. Considering this, creatine supplements simply increase your creatine stores, enhancing your exercise performance in the process.
It is for this reason that creatine has become one of the most used supplements on the planet.
The benefits of creatine for athletic performance
It is important to note that we predominantly use creatine to fuel exercise that is short in duration, and of a super high intensity. Think of something like a 100 meter sprint – 10 seconds of maximum effort, almost entirely supplied by creatine.
With this in mind, supplementing with creatine has been shown to cause significant improvements in muscle strength and power (Branch, 2003).
This has obvious implications for those who complete in any events that involve explosive efforts such as track and field, and any team sports.
Interestingly, because creatine allows you to lift more weight (and often for more repetitions) in the gym, it has also been shown to cause significant improvements in muscle growth (Olsen, 2006).
This makes it essential for anyone competing in a sport where lean muscle offers benefit (which is pretty much every sport ion the planet…).
Finally, creatine has even been shown to improve endurance performance.
In sports that require sustained high intensity efforts (think middle distance running, rowing, swimming, and cycling), supplementing with creatine has been shown to improve performance significantly (Chwalbiñska-Moneta, 2003).
So, I guess you could say that if you compete or train in any capacity, you should be taking creatine.
Creatine and neurological benefits
As difficult as it may be to believe, recent research has shown that creatine also offers some key benefits that sit beyond athletic performance.
And it all happens in the brain.
Supplementing with creatine has been shown to help fight against age-related cognitive decline and dementia, prevent the onset of depression and anxiety, and even increase mental acuity and cognitive capabilities (McMorris, 2007; Kondo, 2011; Avgerinos, 2018).
In short, it makes you smarter.
In my opinion, this truly makes it one of the most effective supplements on the planet.
When is the best time to take creatine?
When it comes to taking creatine, it is important to note that there is not really a ‘best time’ per se.
See, the goal of creatine supplementation is to increase your natural stores above normal levels for a prolonged period. As a result, most people recommend a two-phase supplementation protocol. This is made up of a ‘loading phase’ and a ‘maintenance phase’ (Burford, 2007).
The loading phase revolves around taking about 20 grams of creatine per day for 5 to 7 days. During this phase, the dose should be spread out evenly into 3 or 4 smaller doses. This is taken evenly throughout the day.
Then, in the maintenance phase, creatine doses should be kept at 3 to 5 grams per day for anywhere between 6 and 12 weeks. After this period it is often recommended that you take 1-2 weeks off, before starting the entire protocol again.
Research has shown this to be one of the most effective ways of supplementing with creatine.
With this dosing schedule, the time of day is much less important than simply making sure you take it every single day.
What foods contain creatine?
With all this talk of creatine supplements, I should note that creatine can also be found naturally occurring in many foods.
Meat like beef, pork and fish are all excellent sources of creatine (remember, creatine is found in muscle tissue). Both eggs and dairy contain moderates amounts.
While creatine can be found in food, it is typically only obtained in small amounts. In fact, most people will only obtain between 1 and 2 grams of creatine per day from their normal diet. This is pale in comparison to what can be obtained through supplementation.
Vegetarians and creatine
Taking a quick look at the foods mentioned in the above section, it is highly likely that you may have noticed something.
Yep, they all come from animal sources.
This naturally means that vegetarians have a very difficult time obtaining adequate creatine from their diet. Over time, this can even impact their creatine sores in a negative manner (Blancquaert, 2018).
This also means those who follow a vegan or vegetarian diet may have issues improving performance and maintaining cognitive function when compared to those who are happy to eat meat (Rogerson, 2017).
I would consider creatine an essential supplement for vegans and vegetarians, irrespective of whether they perform a sport or not.
Related Article: 6 Vegan Athlete Meal Plan Ideas to Boost Performance
Should I use creatine supplements?
Given the vast amount of research demonstrating numerous creatine benefits, I am a firm believer that most people should take a creatine supplement.
This becomes even more important for those who train regularly, intend to compete in any athletic endeavour, or follow a vegetarian diet. Moreover, given the effects of creatine on brain health and function, it should also be considered by older individuals looking to maintain quality of life.
So yes, I guess you should supplement with creatine.
Is Creatine Safe?
If you have any worries about creatine, I want to ensure you that it is extremely safe.
Some side effects during the ‘loading phase’ have been reported (including stomach pain and cramping). However; they tend to subside after a day or two. Moreover, they often come from taking too much creatine at once, rather than separating your doses evenly throughout the day.
I should note that creatine also causes water retention within the muscle tissue when you first start supplementation. Therefore; don’t worry if you start to get a little heavier after a day or two, because it is just water (and it will be gone in no time).
Take Home Message
Creatine truly is one of the most effective supplements in the world. It has the ability to improve sport performance, increase muscle growth, and enhance brain function.
Branch, J. David. “Effect of creatine supplementation on body composition and performance: a meta-analysis.” International journal of sport nutrition and exercise metabolism 13.2 (2003): 198-226.
Olsen, Steen, et al. “Creatine supplementation augments the increase in satellite cell and myonuclei number in human skeletal muscle induced by strength training.” The Journal of physiology 573.2 (2006): 525-534.
Chwalbiñska-Moneta, Jolanta. “Effect of creatine supplementation on aerobic performance and anaerobic capacity in elite rowers in the course of endurance training.” International journal of sport nutrition and exercise metabolism 13.2 (2003): 173-183.
McMorris, Terry, et al. “Creatine supplementation and cognitive performance in elderly individuals.” Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition 14.5 (2007): 517-528.
Avgerinos, Konstantinos I., et al. “Effects of creatine supplementation on cognitive function of healthy individuals: A systematic review of randomized controlled trials.” Experimental gerontology 108 (2018): 166-173.
Kondo, Douglas G., et al. “Open-label adjunctive creatine for female adolescents with SSRI-resistant major depressive disorder: a 31-phosphorus magnetic resonance spectroscopy study.” Journal of affective disorders 135.1-3 (2011): 354-361.
Buford, Thomas W., et al. “International Society of Sports Nutrition position stand: creatine supplementation and exercise.” Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition 4.1 (2007): 6.
Blancquaert, Laura, et al. “Changing to a vegetarian diet reduces the body creatine pool in omnivorous women, but appears not to affect carnitine and carnosine homeostasis: a randomised trial.” British Journal of Nutrition 119.7 (2018): 759-770.
Rogerson, David. “Vegan diets: practical advice for athletes and exercisers.” Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition 14.1 (2017): 36.
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Gauteng Tourism Authority Reignites Sector Confidence Following First Engagement on Recovery & COVID-19 Measures
Gallivant AfricaJune 20, 2020No comment
In what attendees have hailed as the first step towards reaffirming solidarity and the gradual and eventual reopening of the tourism sector, Gauteng Tourism Authority (GTA) launched its first webinar in a four-part series of targeted engagements. Guests and attendees of the live interactive event included Provincial Destination Marketing Executives, Gauteng’s Signature Attractions and Product Owners, Tour Operators as well as a plethora of other key role players.
Occupying the stage was the sharing of information, current challenges and success stories with a view to create models of a post-COVID19 tourism sector. The overriding tone of the province’s sector was one of solidarity both from the top tier tourism trade and owners to the smaller township members of the sector. All were united in affirming that Gauteng will rise again, albeit under different and uncertain circumstances in a bid to gain its growth under the COVID19 pandemic. “We have to adapt to the new normal even as it is unknown at the moment”, said Acting CEO for GTA, Fezile Ngqobe. “What we do know is that as a sector, we are all in this together”.
Participants agreed that the safety and protocols needed for the safe reopening are important, and that profits should not be the only concern for the sector as these are not mutually exclusive choices. The reopening of restaurants, casinos and hotels have also spelled confidence in the recovery process, a factor seen as a starting point to stem the tide of businesses folding. Double-digit growth forecasts undertaken in the first quarter of the year have fallen flat alongside the rapid closure of borders and travel restrictions. “These restrictions now mean more local tourism will be needed to supplement the loss of revenues from international tourists”, said CEO at Constitution Hill – one of Gauteng’s most important heritage sites.
Some 120 economies now have some sort of restriction in place, ranging from outright bans to selective geographical tourism, effectively raising the need for local travel to even higher importance. The transition under COVID19 to a digital world to create and satisfy experiences has become a major drive for many operators like Constitution Hill, Liliesleaf Farm and other entities who are now embracing the role that technology, through virtual tours and information sharing can play. “We are repackaging our strategy for visitors to include more digital offerings as we will have to limit physical numbers as social distancing may well be with us into 2022 to manage infections brought about by large groups of people, adds Mark Hands who is the CEO of Emerald Resorts.
The embracing of the new normal has also meant more innovative ways are being sought to enhance the visitor experience and support businesses. Liliesleaf Farm, a veritable source of the liberation struggle information and the historical value of the Farm provided valuable insights into the effects of COVID19 on their business model, noting that down-scaling has become a part of their new way of doing business. Founder and CEO of the heritage site honoring the South African liberation movement, Nicholas Wolpe, shared that “There now have over 1400 hours of archive material that we will be taking online and through virtual tours and information banks that can be accessed off site”.
Altogether, the participants agreed that the rise in tourism must be managed through a careful risk adjusted strategy and recovery measures that show innovation and care for the visitor. The new normal is all about creativity as well as ensuring the sustainability of the sector under the pandemic. As low volumes are an expected feature of the new normal, this could place further stress on operators and owners to stay afloat. The GTA has also assured the sector of its continued support and solidarity, citing its model as supporting an industry that is driven by business and communities to ensure labour absorption.
If you missed out on the webinar you can watch or listen in on the full recording on the below links:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cw8vqCFFJt4&feature=youtu.be
Podcast: https://shows.acast.com/gauteng-tourism-sector-engagement-sessions/episodes/gauteng-tourism-authority-webinar-discussion-covid-19-impact
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Civilization V versions
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I want to purchase a Hard copy of Civilization V. I would like this to contain the Manual and the flowchart that shows technological advances. When you try and look into this those items are rarely mentioned. They are not even mentioned in the Contents for the Collectors Edition. I know they exist because I have seen them on a demo on youtube. Also I believe the basic version is missing some Features/Civilizations. Does anyone know which version I need to buy to get a full version and to get all the literature that I mentioned please?
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SheldonSheldon
The Digital Deluxe edition is the only one to contain the Babylonians (as best as I know). – Raven Dreamer Nov 24 '10 at 15:07
Thank you for that. Kind of ironic that is, since it was there that gave birth to "civilization". Any idea on the editions containing the literature I require? – Sheldon Nov 24 '10 at 17:18
Multiple editions of Civlization 5 have been released.
Some as retail boxed versions, others as digital downloads.
The premium editions contain bonuses which range from:
metalic figurines
extra civilizations
posters / misc. memorabilia
Many retail stores provided different or unique perks included in the list above, so it is difficult to give a full list. Also it is not possible to buy a supreme version with all the perks listed above.
Note that There is no hard copy manual released with any versions of Civlization 5, further more there are no hard copies of the technology tree.
See this link: http://www.civilization5.com/#/community/feature_socialresponsibility
We’ve made the formerly 200+ page printed manual an improved interactive PDF. This PDF manual allows you to click on screenshots to see them clearer than thumbnails, navigate much easier with clickable links, and most importantly, look forward to manual updates as we make changes to the game. But don’t take my word for it; I have a sample of the manual for you to check out: Click here to see the sample. Included in the retail copies is a small quick-start manual to get you up and running as quickly as possible.
The last sentence references a small pamphlet included in retail copies, but not the full manual.
What you may have seen on youtube was the Collectors edition artwork book
This is not the manual, but a picture book containing artwork related to the game. As far as I know, this edition was only produced as a once only batch when the game was released and it is quite difficult to find copies for sale.
AkuseteAkusete
There is a hard copy of the tech tree included in physical copies of the game, I know this because I've got one - it came on a large folded-up poster in my physical-copy (the "basic" version). – DMA57361 Nov 25 '10 at 10:24
Yes there is DMA and it wasn't the collectors edition that I saw. The edition I saw had no miniatures. It had both CDs, game and soundtrack. It had the Tech Tree and both the Artwork book and the manual. Both softback. – Sheldon Nov 25 '10 at 14:00
@Sheldon: Do you have a link so we can see it too? I have never seen any copy such as the one you describe and I reviewed all the available copies for sale when the game came out. – Akusete Nov 25 '10 at 22:49
There's no features different between the versions, but some had extra scenarios/maps/civs to play. Some of these extras can be bought as DLC for other versions, if desired - the Babylonian civilisation and some of the bonus maps are available by this method.
I believe no version of the game comes with a hard-copy manual - it's all PDF - but any physical-copy version of the game does comes with a large poster that has the tech-tree flow chart as well as information on the civics and units (and other bits? I haven't got mine to hand to check).
DMA57361DMA57361
I got this one: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B003ELORWE
It came with the poster, but the manual is just a PDF on the disk.
Tommy HerbertTommy Herbert
Thank you for that Info. Didn't know that version had the poster. But I also know that that version is missing the Babylonian Civilisation, so as well as the manual it isn't the Edition I am looking for. – Sheldon Nov 24 '10 at 18:15
If you're just looking for a way to get the DLC content, steam is currently selling all of the pre-order bonus map packs as a single bundle.
Here's the link: http://store.steampowered.com/sub/6820
For what it's worth, the Babylonian civ is also available through steam (for 5$).
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User lubed PC with butter, because pressing a button didn't work
Welcome again to On-Call, The Register's Friday foray into a mailbag stuffed full of readers' recollections of being asked to fix things that should never have broken. This week, meet “Bill” who can't forget the time, about a decade ago, when someone from the marketing department “couldn't figure out how to eject a floppy disk …
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Friday 10th March 2017 08:14 GMT Simulacra75
Several years ago I had to travel to our French office to try and fix a mail DB that had gone titsup. After fixing the problem the manager there claimed IT had corrupted the DB on purpose so that we'd look like "knights in shining armour" when we came in and fixed it. Complete and utter Twunt.
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Friday 10th March 2017 08:31 GMT Anonymous Coward
The "trump" gene again - it springs up everywhere.
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Friday 10th March 2017 10:35 GMT DropBear
"The "trump" gene again"
There are utterly incompetent primitives whos only notable skill is an exceedingly keen instinct of self-preservation. As they are idiots they _will_ make howler-level mistakes, and the only way they know how to avoid getting blamed for them accordingly is yelling louder than the other guy - the best defence being an offence and all that. The truly delusional ones might even actually believe it's all the other guy's fault.
Friday 10th March 2017 11:13 GMT Doctor Syntax
"The truly delusional ones might even actually believe it's all the other guy's fault."
The original article involved marketing. Truly delusional fits the bill.
Friday 10th March 2017 22:31 GMT Someone Else
@AC
Including those who downvoted you....
It beggars belief how such people think that their attitudes to their colleagues in IT are consequence-free. Reputations stick, word gets round...
I'm not in IT, I'm an engineer and I depend entirely on my organisation's IT department doing their job, and I make sure to thank them and not overrule them when their generally sensible and understandable policies make something I want slightly awkward. Sure, I could do their job, but I'm not, so what happens needs to be more their decision than mine. And lo, a harmonious relationship bears fruit. It's also tremendously aided by occasionally opening their office door, throwing in a large bar of high quality chocolate, and quickly shutting the door again. When the howls, thumps and bumps have died down, voila; an IT department that's as keen as mustard.
And, being a normal human being, I know full well what level of cooperation I'd get if I went round bad mouthing them.
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Yes there are procedures, yes there are SLA's etc prioritising jobs, but then IT will always respond to bribery and flattery.
Friday 10th March 2017 10:02 GMT Halfmad
There's a balance to be had with IT, I'm sure those who have worked in IT departments know this, there are always bad eggs (like every department).
If the organisation hero-worships IT then it'll never work properly, the bad eggs will do next to nothing and consider themselves above the rules that apply to other stuff. If the organisation treats IT like sh!t, they'll only have poor staff and a high turn over of decent workers.
Personally I think IT should always be treated like any core service department, it's given the funds it needs but oversight is fairly strict, importantly that oversight should be by someone who understands how IT functions e.g. a Director who has worked in IT hands on. You'd never have a finance director who'd never worked in payroll or accounting after all.
Friday 10th March 2017 14:19 GMT Prst. V.Jeltz
" You'd never have a finance director who'd never worked in payroll"
How do you explain a "Cabinet Reshuffle" then?
That seems to be a procedure designed to *make sure* the guy at the top has no experience in the field
Saturday 11th March 2017 15:26 GMT Wensleydale Cheese
That's politics, where the aim is to maintain the leader's advantage over the others.
ahhhh but you're missing the fact that any halfwit who owns a computer at home think themselves qualified to comment on IT. Most of our users are boffins, I don't go in to their labs and tell them how to do their science, I know a bit about it as my degree and masters are science based but funny enough I don't know more than they do!
Friday 10th March 2017 14:33 GMT a_yank_lurker
@Halfmad
"Personally I think IT should always be treated like any core service department" - spot on. IT is one of the core functions in any organization as they could not function without it.
Friday 10th March 2017 15:29 GMT DubyaG
@Halfmad, I have worked in many organizations where IT reported to HR or Finance. You are correct, they end up being twits.
Saturday 11th March 2017 09:05 GMT macjules
Hero worship your IT
I find that it helps to remind the company that IT is not all about "have you tried restarting the machine?". Every so often I make sure that a specially selected individual, usually chosen for his/her attitude towards IT, gets a copy of their Chrome browsing history sent to to both to their manager and to themselves with a warning that company computers remain the property of the company at all times and must only be used for company business ... which does not include youporn.com or similar.
Suffice to say I do not do this to accounts, HR or corporate governance.
Saturday 11th March 2017 10:05 GMT Kiwi
Re: Hero worship your IT
Why not? Are they somehow above the others? Are their visits to porn sites somehow less risky to your machines than the others? Are they somehow better people because they are at the top, whereas the lower workers who are putting in much more hours - the people who do the real work for the business - are somehow lower?
Wouldn't be because they're the ones who can hurt you would it?
Sunday 12th March 2017 20:59 GMT Doctor Syntax
"Every so often I make sure that [an]individual... gets a copy of their Chrome browsing history sent to to both to their manager and to themselves"
At some point there's a risk that you'll be taken aside and have it pointed out to you that poking around in staff's computers without authorisation is a breach of security. This conversation is likely to take place somewhere between your desk and the pavement.
If the organisation hero-worships IT then it'll never work properly, the bad eggs will do next to nothing and consider themselves above the rules that apply to other stuff.
IME that's pretty much mutually-exclusive. Either the "bad eggs" are quickly located and disposed of, or the whole department comes under suspicion and derision, and only when that which is rotten is removed will things improve.
Of course, sometimes (ok, often) the "bad eggs" are management or higher...
Friday 10th March 2017 11:16 GMT phuzz
In my last job, the accounts department used to make sure that I was included whenever they brought in home made cakes etc. Consequently, they were near the top of my priorities, just after the MD. (It didn't hurt that they were the ones responsible for getting my wages into my bank account.)
Bribe your IT staff folks :)
Sunday 12th March 2017 01:50 GMT quxinot
It's amazing the results you get, not just with IT but any department, when you start with "Cash, flowers, alcohol, or chocolate?" :)
Wednesday 22nd March 2017 16:04 GMT jcitron
I used to find a good number of discount cards and snacks on my desk all the time at my last job before I retired. :-)
Then of course there's what I call the "Office Bitch". The one that does absolutely nothing but browse social media all day then complains that their PC is infected with a virus, and then goes as far as blaming IT for not fixing it because they're same ones who are also too busy to be around when their PC needs fixing.
you my man are a top fella. Please come and work where I work! IT departments are one of those departments that you really, really, REALLY don't want to feck off. I never need any of our users to do anything for me, but 99% of them rely on us for loads of things. The ones who always want everything done right now go to the top of our sh1t list and any job they need doing takes at least twice as long for us to do! My old dad was a stone mason and he had what he called the "Tradesmen's test" If you had worked for a customer who was the biggest twat going, ask yourself this. If you were out of work, your kids were starving, your house is going to be taken back by the bank and they phoned up saying they had a job, would you take it!? Its these kinds of arseholes that try and make our life's hell, but we always get our own back and never forget.
Friday 10th March 2017 14:45 GMT Elf
If it were but simply rue,
All the users were just like you,
IT folk generally tend to be hardwired to be helpful (even if only by accident because we playing with something). Give the front line an excuse (ballistic chocolate is a good one) and they'll move mountains for just a wee Ack of their effort.
The Other Side ™:
This brother did not have things properly in hand. There is a Zero Percent chance that I'd allow another department raid *my* budget because Their User poured *butter* in a damn machine. She would have been Frog Marched to the company parking lot ("car park" for my UK friends) with her box of personals in tow. I'd have looked at what my Bullet Stopper (Help Desk) minion showed me (butter in nice boxen) and I'd have personally stripped her company credentials, asked (told) Facilities to drop her access card, and had a meeting with her Department Head (marketing was it? So, it would have been ugly-ER on this intervention) and HR WHEREBY IT WOULD BE EXPLAINED that the user in question isn't qualified to be employed, period, no debate, and no she cannot have access to company resources of a digital nature because look at what she did to hardware: Explination to include business continuity while someone is playing with matches and a few hundred feet of RDX.
From IT I've had to restructure other departments, against their will, because of twots like this user.
1. User goes, not a debate or discussion as my deportment simply won't let her log in to anything, ever, period.
2. Who in your department interviewed this ass and hired them? We having words as well starting with "How the hell did you think this person was qualified... nay, company in any form? It's that person's fault were all getting both barreks today.
3. Department Head... and you hired This fool? You also think I'm paying for this? (Any department head would know who I am, Director Of IT if I'm corporate, and be aware of my Zero Tolerance For Blatant Stupidity policy)
4. And to Hr, you signed off on this crap, you get to fix it... next task is the Exit Interview!
Go Team! Rah-Rah! Get the hell to work fixing this.
5. Return to IT, take my team for pizza and beer to soothe their PTSD over a user putting $diety-forsaken BUTTER in a machine Of Any Sort, and their inevitable bummed-ness over a nice PC being separated from its preferred warranty status.
6. Return to IT to enshrine box to mock the user and serve as a warning to others.
That is Precisely how I'd play it. Distilled down to this simple fact:
If you microwave butter in a cup and pour that into a computer, you Are Not Qualified to work with computers (the Excel thing is just sprinkles on that cup cake).
Friday 10th March 2017 23:15 GMT Dr. Ellen
The March Hare strikes again.
But it was the best butter!
Wednesday 15th March 2017 12:52 GMT Alan Brown
If pour butter into a computer, you Are Not Qualified to work with them
And the fact that the user is both still employed at the company AND slagging off the IT department is grounds for naming and shaming both.
Friday 10th March 2017 15:02 GMT Antron Argaiv
Also an engineer. I'm lucky to work in a small consulting company. The IT "crowd" numbers three, plus a (female) supervisor, who also isn't averse to grabbing a cable or a keyboard and running off to keep a user happy. I know them all by name, and they get a little something from me every Christmas..
If you keep on the good side of IT, it's laughter when you screw up something and need their help, instead of tears :-)
...and you might just get first crack at some surplus gear, as well...
Friday 10th March 2017 15:33 GMT Anonymous IV
Re: Same here
> ... a (female) supervisor, who also isn't averse to grabbing a cable or a keyboard and running off to keep a user happy...
Am I alone in thinking that this might be extremely dubious?
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Friday 10th March 2017 18:08 GMT VanguardG
Pretty much, yeah. If its just walking over with replacement parts, I'd rather see a supervisor willing to do that from time to time instead of just delegating everything. Rest of staff can concentrate on the other problems instead of being stuck with making sure the keyboard is placed "just so" and dealing with "this keyboard isn't the same size as the old one. Don't you have one a little bigger?". Or discovering the computer cable routes underneath a fully-loaded file cabinet, behind 2 tables, and wraps around the leg of the desk 22 times. Then the supervisor well knows the pain her staff deals with.
Saturday 11th March 2017 00:32 GMT John Brown (no body)
"Am I alone in thinking that this might be extremely dubious?"
Looks like the International Womens Day crowd didn't see the funny side of the accidental connotations.
Friday 10th March 2017 15:05 GMT OwenMc64
In a previous job I travelled a lot to customer sites, & I made sure to get on with "Systems, Security & Secretaries" - duty-free chocolate smoothed many a trip.
And then there was the time Security had to escort me from a customer site - it sort of spoiled the effect when I was on first-name terms with the guy who turned up :-D
Friday 10th March 2017 20:43 GMT Steve Hersey
Always be nice to the IT folks.
I've done IT support as a many-hats activity from time to time, and I know how that world feels on the inside. So for many years I've made it a practice to ALWAYS establish a friendly, supportive relationship with the IT and facilities people. (Not that it's a *good* idea to make enemies anywhere, for that matter.) And always admit your mistakes to IT, especially the bonehead ones.
Aside from making everyone's life easier, this approach yields immense benefits when you really, really need some help from IT or the facilities crew. What goes around, comes around, and when it comes around with a replacement hard drive and a friendly greeting, you'll be glad.
Monday 13th March 2017 15:16 GMT Glenturret Single Malt
Re: Always be nice to the IT folks.
In a chemistry laboratory, the equivalents, I found were the Stores and the glassblowing service.
Monday 13th March 2017 11:01 GMT 2460 Something
I think you may have misunderstood your relationship with them. Launching projectiles at the IT team seems a tad unfair, the howls, thumps and bumps were probably the poor sod who took the brunt of your attack. They were probably "keen as mustard" as they were scared if they didn't keep you happy you would launch other dangerous projectiles their way. High quality chocolate bars have nasty sharp corners!
Friday 10th March 2017 08:41 GMT Evil Auditor
It's not unheard of. In one of my former lives, at a large bank, the on-call personnel used to be paid extra per time for each incident during nights and weekends. Some of them got sports cars, extended their house, built swimming pools... Until the on-call compensation scheme was changed.
From the moment those guys got paid extra just for being on-call but didn't get any additional compensation for solving problems, the number of incidents dropped dramatically.
Friday 10th March 2017 10:31 GMT Jedit
"... the number of incidents dropped dramatically."
Reported incidents, or resolved incidents? It doesn't make a difference from the point of view of that IT department being chancers, but there's quite a difference between slacking off because your performance bonus got cut and actively faking incidents for profit.
Re: "... the number of incidents dropped dramatically."
Jedit, the number of incidents that occurred out of hours dropped.
It was neither that they slacked off nor about actively faking incidents. What happened was, that they maintained the system at a certain level of instability where at one point an incident would occur, such as a predictable batch job abort (there was no proof of actively causing incidents though). After the incentives changed, they built more robust procedures and programs and also improved their monitoring system to get early warnings for predictable incidents.
Must have been a fun time though before. They got the huge extra pay and the praise ("the IT wizards saved the Bank. Again!")
@Evil auditor
There's an alternative scenario that could bring about the same outcome. If the out-of-hours incentives were dropped there'd out-of-hours reports might get ignored until normal hours. The users would then learn to wait before reporting the issue.
The correct incentive structure, of course, is one that primarily measures and rewards fire prevention rather than fire fighting.
" If the out-of-hours incentives were dropped there'd out-of-hours reports might get ignored until normal hours."
This is exactly what happened when the hardware maintenance contract on a bunch of systems got reduced to normal working hours only.
The reporting of problems likely to require the presence of a hardware engineer was simply delayed until the next 'in contracted hours' window.
I get paid when ever i get called out, I also get paid for each call, and paid for being on call. The number of incidents probably decreased not because they were made up but due to various other reasons, first being there is less incentive to make sure things are running ok and there are no possible problems before you leave for home. Also when there are smaller things that really could wait until the morning if you are paid to fix it, you go, if you are not paid, you just wait until the morning.
I try not to have to go in when called as i live 40 minutes from where I work (no remote access to the production systems), usually it occurs in the middle of the night and i still have to go in the next day. But if its a few hours before i have to get up, and i know i will not get back to sleep or its pointless trying i will go in, get the pay for fixing it and then start the days work and go home early.
Monday 13th March 2017 07:01 GMT Mpeler
Time for the BOFH
Or even the PFY.....
British or French hospitality?
An American tourist is visiting London. As he walks, he feels the urge to pee. He searches and searches, but does not find a toilet. Ever more desperate, he enters a tiny street, looks for a narrow and darker place, beside a tall wall and starts to unzip his pants. Suddenly from behind somebody taps his shoulder. He turns around and sees a policeman there.
"Sorry sir," says the policeman, "it is forbidden to urinate in public places."
The American apologizes, tells him that he had no luck in finding a toilet and just couldn't hold on anymore.
"Follow me, I will help you," says the policeman. He guides the tourist towards a gate in the wall and shows him the way inside. The tourist is amazed, as he sees himself in a gorgeous garden, full of flowers, arrangements, bushes and trees. The policeman leads him to one of the trees and says, "You can pee here without any problem."
The American does the job, and after he finishes, asks the policeman, "Tell me, is this what is called British hospitality?"
"No," answers the Policeman, "we call this the French Embassy!"
(gets me waterproof coat)...
Friday 10th March 2017 08:31 GMT Rich 11
Sounds all too familiar
and still complains about “the time a little shit in IT broke her top of the range PC, and blames me for her perpetual mistrust of techies.”
Pass the cattleprod.
The last time this happened to me the twat made the mistake of turning up at a retirement do a few weeks later. "I'll just have the one pint," we overheard him say, "Because I'm driving." He did make the pint last, long enough for us to spike it with three vodkas and to get someone to tell him before he left. That cost him a £40 taxi fare home.
Friday 10th March 2017 08:50 GMT Little Mouse
Re: Sounds all too familiar
"and still complains about “the time a little shit in IT broke her top of the range PC, and blames me for her perpetual mistrust of techies.”
Telling users head-on that they caused a problem through their own idiocy rarely ends well. And their moaning will always hold more sway with their own colleagues than anything you might come up with.
So smile - be nice as pie to their face - fix the problem with a gullible look on your face - maybe even give them a plausible get out of jail free excuse to tell their colleagues so they don't feel like they've been made to look like a fool ("hmm - greasy residue - you see that sometimes...")
Then pop the hard plain truth in writing to whoever matters afterwards.
Friday 10th March 2017 11:58 GMT Dan 10
A real BOFH would have simply tipped off the Police...
Friday 10th March 2017 12:53 GMT not.known@this.address
Which is all very well as long as said retiree doesn't hit anyone or anything on the way home whilst under the impression he is fit to drive...
Poster did say they tipped the twit off *before* he drove home so he took a pricey taxi ride.
And if the guy had thought they were joking? Or had been so far gone that he'd only been registering that he'd "only had one" and would thus normally be OK to drive?
People who spike drinks are among the lowest scum on earth, and get a nice long time behind bars. At least there should be some sort of "attempted manslaughter" if not attempted murder charge when they're spiking drink of someone who is intending to drive.
I write this as one of the far-too-many who've lost loved ones because of idiots abusing alcohol. People have died as a result of scum spiking drinks, and the offenders should be locked up appropriately.
</rant>
Friday 10th March 2017 14:34 GMT Michael H.F. Wilkinson
"A real BOFH would have simply tipped off the Police..."
Or used a high-power, fast-working laxative instead of vodka
...and removed a valve stem from their car, so they *couldn't* drive home.
"and to get someone to tell him before he left. "
You're kind.
Some people would have told the police to be waiting instead.
I use excel to put my list of DVDs in.
Should I be using something else? mysql?
Friday 10th March 2017 09:50 GMT m0rt
Friday 10th March 2017 10:29 GMT Horridbloke
No, Deluxe Paint.
I prefer Barrow & Fall. The colours are so unusual (plus it cost more so it must be better).
Friday 10th March 2017 11:26 GMT Adrian Jones
I drew an application in Microsoft Paint once...
Ahh, the Chuck Norris School of Programming.
You WILL work....
"Deluxe Paint."
Doesn't it make a mess of the DVD?
Friday 10th March 2017 20:48 GMT Down not across
Nah. He said Deluxe, not Dulux.
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Friday 10th March 2017 14:04 GMT MakingBacon
"No, Deluxe Paint."
Damn you and your uber l33t tools!
Saturday 11th March 2017 00:06 GMT PNGuinn
No, Dulux paint.
FIFU
Thanks, it's the one with the sugar soap and white spirit in the pockets.
Sunday 12th March 2017 09:02 GMT BongoJoe
I read that as Dulux Paint.
Friday 10th March 2017 10:29 GMT Aitor 1
I am a user of libreoffice, and was a user of openoffice. I am still a user of Microsoft Office.
The quality difference is huge, sadly.. and I DO contribute with money to libreoffice.
Re: Libreoffice
"I am a user of libreoffice, and was a user of openoffice. I am still a user of Microsoft Office.
The quality difference is huge, sadly.. and I DO contribute with money to libreoffice."
Maybe. But if you ever have to deal with telephone numbers in a spreadsheet, you can be rest assured Excel will make your life a living hell...
Friday 10th March 2017 14:12 GMT Stevie
Re: Living hell
Only if you don't know how spreadsheets actually work, and know the difference between what's stored and what's displayed.
Living hell. For god's sake get a grip old boy, there are Americans watching.
"Only if you don't know how spreadsheets actually work, and know the difference between what's stored and what's displayed.
Living hell. For god's sake get a grip old boy, there are Americans watching."
Yes. You would think it was that simple, wouldn't you? And indeed, assuming that I must be ignorant of how spreadsheets work because something this simple MUST be down to user error. Obviously Excel users area a class above LibreOffice users because LO never caused a fuss with my ignorance.
Re: Living hell 4 m0rt
Don't use MS office products unless forced to, only OpenOffice on the Stevielaptop, but that bit of political autocorrection notwithstanding, if you can't make phone numbers appear as phone numbers in any spreadsheet program with consumate ease you should just give it up.
Saturday 11th March 2017 10:36 GMT m0rt
This upsets people I see.
I suggest you never go into testing as 'works on my machine' is a banned term around here.
As is sending a spreadsheet, correctly formatted, from Open/Libre office to a client, who then opens it in excel and complains the hell about the way they can't use the numbers. This is after copying and pasting the numbers to compound the issue.
But hey. I should get a grip because, well you know, Excel is just a simple spreadsheet program, right?
"Maybe. But if you ever have to deal with telephone numbers in a spreadsheet, you can be rest assured Excel will make your life a living hell..."
Also, try dealing with a list of Mac addresses that someone set up in Excel.
Bookmakers' fractional odds cause me no end of merry grief.
"I use excel to put my list of DVDs in.
Should I be using something else? mysql?"
I always use notepad because I'm a l33t user and so hardcore!
Friday 10th March 2017 10:25 GMT Adrian 4
DVDs come in cases with writing on the side. Often, this makes a reference to the content. So merely by putting the DVDs next to another on a shelf, you get a self-maintaining list of them.
Friday 10th March 2017 11:37 GMT agurney
"DVDs come in cases with writing on the side. Often, this makes a reference to the content. So merely by putting the DVDs next to another on a shelf, you get a self-maintaining list of them."
I tried that, but reordering by title or artist or genre proved to be a bit too time consuming.
I now just use random access
Friday 10th March 2017 14:03 GMT Simon Harris
I use the shelf DVD management system too...
however there's an ever increasing local cache pile next to the DVD player.
WHAT? You mean you didn't buy a new copy every time you changed your mind? Don't you know that's illegal and that funds terrorists!!!!111!11!1!!111!!!111!!! and is the ultimate in piracy? Do you know that artists are missing out on whole dollars and will only be able to buy two Maserati's for each of their five mansions because you ripped them off?
For shame. I hope the RIAA sues you for at least 100 gazillion dollars for your illegal piracy!!!!!
"So merely by putting the DVDs next to another on a shelf, you get a self-maintaining list of them."
I'm currently trying to organise my nearly 2,000 DVD's - so that similar ones are on the same shelf. Now - does "The Rocky Horror Show" go in fantasy, sci-fi, horror, or musicals?
Then again "Flash Gordon" is definitely for the children's section - but also could go in the sci-fi group. On the other hand "Flesh Gordon".....
I'll settle for an Excel-style spreadsheet with multiple category tags and an indicator to a physical shelf. With that I can put it on a tablet and check a DVD title in the charity shop - before mistakenly adding it to my collection for the second or more times.
2,000 DVD's without any compression (assuming DVD=4.7GB) = 9400GB max
Buy a 10TB NAS storage unit, rip the DVDs to it, the file the DVDs in the loft.
Friday 10th March 2017 17:51 GMT fandom
"Buy a 10TB NAS storage unit, rip the DVDs to it, the file the DVDs in the loft."
Why bother? It's not like he will have the time to watch them.
Tuesday 14th March 2017 18:03 GMT Queasy Rider
not like he will have the time to watch them.
Had a thousand dvd collection backed up on the largest hard drives I could buy at the time. Breathed a sigh of relief when hurricanes cost me the originals. Was not quite so pleased when the backups died without warning, but then realized that I never watched the backups so I ceased the practice of backing up (dvd's, not everything) saving me plenty of money not buying any more Seagates.
I used to have the same problem, but with only 400 disks or so.
My solution was to create a database in the cloud with full info, and queryable by title, multiple categories, actors, etc.
Then, you remove all the DVD case inserts, and put in plain white ones with the disk # on the spine.
Collectorz.com. If the newer product is like the one I had a few years ago and neglected to copy over to my new machine before erasing the drives...it does a lot of the work for you. Key in the title, it goes to the Internet (if you let it, of course) and retrieves the cast and crew data, runtime, release year, and in many case, images of the front and back of the DVD case. Serious collectors (in the old version) could use a scanner to read the barcodes directly, so you didn't have to type in each title. If you have 2000 plus, that could get tedious.
Friday 10th March 2017 20:42 GMT Frumious Bandersnatch
"use a scanner to read the barcodes directly"
Or just use cddb. It does require scanning the CD's table of contents (number and length of tracks) so it needs mounting each disk (slower than a barcode read), but I suppose you're going to be ripping them anyway at some point.
Monday 13th March 2017 18:54 GMT Roopee
Re "I suppose you're going to be ripping them anyway at some point"
With 2000 DVDs, why would you suppose that? Commercial DVDs average about 6GB each and would take a long time to rip to a streamable format, and it's not as if DVD players are in any danger of becoming obsolete.
Incidentally I can recommend DVD Profiler instead of Excel, it's cross-platform, networkable, cloudable, reads the barcodes and has a large following. It even has a lending library system built-in so you don't forget who you've lent what to. The Windows version has at least one glaring bug, but nothing new there!
Sunday 12th March 2017 07:58 GMT Esme
@AC - Rocky Horror - musical - no debate (Tip - just because someone is, or claims to be, an alien in a tale does not automatically make it SF. Indeed, most stuff that Hollywood, TV and the theatre call SF is actually either Space Opera or pure Fantasy). Flash Gordon - Space Opera - also no debate, whether you're talking about tehoriginals I recall from childhood at the cinema, the film with Brian Blessed as a winged man, or the TV series with the irritating wee robot for comic relief, and also fantasy in teh case of the former two.
What? No, I don't need a glass of water, thank you, the shuddering will stop in a few minutes, it's just my OCD over genre categorisations giving me the twitches.. :-}
The writer-standard is, if you can tell your story by taking known technology and extrapolating it to a reasonable degree, you're writing Science Fiction. If you are inventing new ways around the known laws of physics, its fantasy. There is, really, very little real science fiction...and much of what is out there is just an Earth tale being told with the characters on some other non-Earth planet, maybe with weapons using magnetic fields to accelerate projectiles instead of a chemical explosion, and advanced forms of body armor. But...essentially stuff we humans could pick up and understand without any problem should one suddenly appear in the garden.
Friday 10th March 2017 14:04 GMT elhvb
notepad, feh. VI FTW
Emacs?
Friday 10th March 2017 16:30 GMT GrumpenKraut
> Emacs?
M-x dvd-collection-org-mode
I wouldn't be surprised if that actually exists.
l33t user
Hardcore?
REAL l33t users use EMACS.
Saturday 11th March 2017 10:00 GMT Solmyr ibn Wali Barad
Re: l33t user
Under DOS the l33t way was
copy con: c:\config.sys
No typos, please!
pbltpblt - real hardcore users do EVERYTHING from the command line.
I use application programs, however... :-}
Saturday 11th March 2017 00:39 GMT John 110
Notepad++ surely?
Only if you're the OCD type. Then you should use GCstar.
The right answer is obviously LaTeX. Make sure to use absolute positions by using
so you have full control over the layout.
Friday 10th March 2017 12:45 GMT GlenP
Not DVDs
In my case it's my book list.
Yes, I could probably develop something but a multi-sheet workbook in Excel with one sheet per author or subject matter and varying data structures works for me. It's also easily portable as it sits in the cloud and can be opened on any device, typically the mobile when I'm browsing the second hand and charity bookshops.
Friday 10th March 2017 16:27 GMT JLV
Hottie - Ooooh, James, sweetie, wonderful evening. Put on some Barry White and join me in the jacuzzi with a glass of that fine champagne.
James - Hang on, I need to start up my Excel spreadsheet.
Friday 10th March 2017 20:14 GMT Mark 85
Take a few days and using C++ and/or any other language of choice and write a special database. Extra points for some assembly language tossed into the mix. You're here at El Reg so it shouldn't be hard.
Oh.. and store it in the cloud so the CIA can give you a restore if your hard drive crashes.
Ah yes indeed.
I work with "VIPs" in gubment circles and let me assure you that they are never, ever, ever at fault no matter what stupidity they commit. Regardless of whether its user error or lack of technical awareness (as they never, ever, ever see the need to engage with training), it's always the IT that is faulty, even when they are found trying to use a mouse upside down...
"You should have better designed mice! These are clearly not fit for purpose! Why is IT so crap?!"
Re: Ah yes indeed.
VIPs in gubment circles often treat IT supporrt as if they are waiters and waittresses. I think they should tip them for on-service with a smile.
Friday 10th March 2017 09:06 GMT WonkoTheSane
"VIPs in gubment circles often treat IT supporrt as if they are waiters and waittresses. I think they should tip them for on-service with a smile."
You mean they're permitted to view classified documents whilst illuminating them with their phone cameras?
"You mean they're permitted to view classified documents whilst illuminating them with their phone cameras?"
At [redacted] Air Force Base, I was an IT contractor. Didn't seem to occur to some of the military staff that maybe they shouldn't leave classified documents on their desk while the foreign national with no clearance was upgrading their web browser. Yes, the Technical Sergeant sometimes with me did have Top Secret clearance, but......
In fact, on the team, we even joked about the black briefcase I brought to and from work, but was never seen opening....[contained my lunch]
Saturday 11th March 2017 01:23 GMT Anonymous Coward
Oh dear. If posession/ownership of a briefcase wasn't enough, you only carried it to transport your lunch? No wonder us IT folk get called geeks! :-(
Sadly I once worked for a company where I had overall responsibility for an enterprise software product. A client installation was to be carried out at a rather pleasant exotic location so the CEO decided that he would do the install "to impress the client". Unfortunately his knowledge of the product was about as good as that of, I imagine, most CEOs. He had also not troubled to understand a few things about localisation.
The result was that after several days he came back and ranted at me that the product was "not fit for purpose," and proceeded to undermine me. So I did the only thing possible, which was to become a contractor, wait until there was an all hands to the pump crisis coinciding with the end of a contract period, and not renew my contract. It took a year, but revenge is a dish best served cold.
Friday 10th March 2017 13:23 GMT Tuesday Is Soylent Green Day
Conversely, I work for a gov agency and our IT department is truly hopeless. The length of time for requests to get attended to can be measured in weeks and not a single computer in our organisation (and there are at least 400 of them) is configured correctly. The worst was out graphic designer's machine. They were supposed to upgrade Windows to 64-bit version so the whole 8 gigs of RAM could be used and 64-bit Photoshop could be installed. Requested, begged, demanded but nothing. The machine, a quad core i7 should have run well but it was a performance dog because of misconfigurations. If something in my dept needs IT attention I do it myself because its faster and I know it will be done right.
Not disparaging those IT folk who go above and beyond. I have utmost respect for them. Just saying that my particular one is as useful as the mammaries on a bull.
The NHS have standardised pay throughout. That means that you can't pay good IT staff extra to make them stay, so they keep getting lured away by the bright lights. I assum gov agencies are the same...
Lured away by the bright lights, or driven away by the poor stress:payrate ratio?
I've worked in some truly shitty jobs* but with great people, so the mess and what you were dealing with didn't really get to you, even when payrates weren't great. And I've worked short-term in a couple of jobs where the office politics were not ever going to be worth the money. I've seen places with quite decent paypackets, but the business quickly fails because of high staff-turnover.
*One of my first jobs was helping out on a local farm after school. Some of it truly was disgusting and quite shitty in a very literal sense, but the other staff were great and some real bonuses as well - truly fresh milk that was in the cow only seconds ago (though I preferred it from the vat after it'd been chilled, especially on a summer's day) and meat so fresh that it'd been running around the paddock that day. Probably why I can't stand the floor sweepings that is "premium" supermarket meat.
Icon - something like that might've been useful when cleaning out the pig pens.. Now that is a shitty job!
Saturday 11th March 2017 05:33 GMT Simon Harris
How about a mouse with a self-righting mechanism based on Robot Wars?
If it also includes a miniature circular saw and randomly removes ministers' fingers, so much the better.
context of the word "lubed" I have not encountered before...
and I saw I marketing department try to get away with much the same thing I a firm I worked for where a great deal of "foreign matter" was found inside a PC.
Saved by an IT director that was equally robust with the description of the matter, and how IT did not have the budget to possess it...
Friday 10th March 2017 09:40 GMT Arthur the cat
For some reason I'm reminded of a French film critic's review of Last Tango in Paris:
C'est magnifique mais ce n'est pas le beurre
Upvoted, thought exactly the same when I read the headline.
Not a use they promote in the Lurpak or Anchor adverts.
"Not a use they promote in the Lurpak or Anchor adverts."
A Clover butter family TV advert from 1989 used the "Roll Me Over In The Clover" song - only slightly modified.
IIRC We used to sing that at the Boy Scout campfires back in the 1950/60s.
Here are the words for anyone who doesn't know them. This version is close to the one I learned - there have been many variations from subtle to explicit.
>Not a use they promote in the Lurpak or Anchor adverts.
An advertising slogan that never made it........
Butt her with Butter.
I regret to say I first read the headline as "Uber lubes PC..." and I'd better say no more as it might be libellous.
Friday 10th March 2017 09:46 GMT wolfetone
Well, we could've forgiven her for that faux pas if it weren't for the fact she thought/thinks Excel is an appropriate tool to design with and that she's just a general jackass.
To Bill, my glass of lager is raised to you good sir.
To the idiot you had to deal with: Get Fucked.
Friday 10th March 2017 14:01 GMT ridley
Well it is obviously the tool of choice to some artists.
http://www.spoon-tamago.com/2013/05/28/tatsuo-horiuchi-excel-spreadsheet-artist/
I could easily imagine Hockney arting in Excel.
Sunday 12th March 2017 17:46 GMT John Brown (no body)
"I could easily imagine Hockney arting in Excel."
That might be an improvement over finger-painting on an iPad.
Sunday 12th March 2017 19:18 GMT wolfetone
Yeah but he wouldn't be as good as Andy Warhol using the paint bucket tool on an Amiga.
Friday 10th March 2017 10:12 GMT herman
I can understand that one can use Excel for marketing glossies. For organizing text into columns and keeping it aligned with a graph or two, it works much better than doing the same with MS Word. However, using Mac Numbers is much better. Using Mac Pages for this is hopeless, since graphics keep jumping around no matter how hard you try to lock them in place.
Friday 10th March 2017 11:03 GMT Anonymous South African Coward
Agreed. For some things Excel is better than Word.
It all depends on what kind of document you want to create.
Friday 10th March 2017 13:36 GMT Yet Another Anonymous coward
re: Excel is perfect for graphics
Just make a sheet 1024 cells wide by 768 high, go full screen
and then set the background colour of each cell to make the picture you want
Friday 10th March 2017 16:37 GMT MiguelC
Re: re: Excel is perfect for graphics
Some long long time ago as I was bored on my job I did a BMP to Excel and a JPG pixel to Excel cell mapper just for fun
And, best of all, it wasn't completely pointless, as I got to know the innards of JPG compression.
Sunday 12th March 2017 15:41 GMT Robert Carnegie
Re: BMP to Excel
Ooh. Can I have?
Since Excel stopped including a data-to maps tool, I craved a map consisting of a thousand Excel cells linked to the geographically correct data, and colour coded according to cell value - that's fairly versatile, so e.g. you could represent Glasgow with a Glasgow-shaped area of cells that would all be coloured magenta by setting an appropriate input number (it's a while since I programmed my Spectrum but I think magenta may have been 3). But I didn't actually make it, because that seemed quite tedious.
Friday 10th March 2017 14:08 GMT ElReg!comments!Pierre
Nah, the like of scribus or reportlab are for financial calculation and the occasional graph. MSPaint is for database administration, and I generally find Firefox is pretty good at molecular structure modelling...
I blame the existence of such "contortionists" on the stubborn insistence of every office suite ever that layout in any way, shape or form is Not Their Concern (insert imaginary middle finger here).
Friday 10th March 2017 12:25 GMT Flocke Kroes
The last time I used MS Word ...
... the layout changed depending on the selected printer driver.
For the last decade or so I have been using reportlab. Bye bye WYS is POM dependent.
"since graphics keep jumping around no matter how hard you try to lock them in place."
Bring back Aldus Pagemaker!!!
Friday 10th March 2017 10:20 GMT 's water music
Butter lube?
I would suspect that the story about a stuck disk was simply a face saving ruse to cover up the real story
Re: Butter lube?
That little intro makes me nervous of following your link....
Stef trying to have his way with a stick of butter? (who can catch the reference?)
Friday 10th March 2017 11:32 GMT oddie
reference...
the old days of userfriendly? that takes me back...
Friday 10th March 2017 12:08 GMT Chris King
User Friendly.
Mine's the one with the copy of "Evil Geniuses for Dummies" in the pocket.
Friday 10th March 2017 17:23 GMT Shadow Systems
@ASAC, re: reference.
As stated by the other commenters ahead of me, that's UserFriendly.
*Waves*
Yes it's me.
I was wondering if someone else would comment..
Found UF a couple of weeks back, don't recall seeing it before..Think it was in relation to an El Reg comment though might've been when I was looking for something in relation to something I was posting. Much thanks to whoever inspired me to find it.
(PS is the author on El Reg? Couple of posters make me wonder, and that at least one UF cartoon refers to El Reg...)
Friday 10th March 2017 11:20 GMT Allonymous Coward
"Designing marketing materials"
OK, I think I see the problem here.
Friday 10th March 2017 11:20 GMT bombastic bob
Acahol in the Caculator, to kill the stench of tom cat piss
Some years back, my mother worked at a major manufacturer of electronic calculators, when such things were a new 'thing'. OK this is secondhand, but the gist: A customer apparently had a tom cat piss all over his 'Caculator', and he couldn't get the smell out. So he basically dumped a bottle of 'Acahol' all over it. Apparently this caused it to malfunction, so he took it apart and tried to dry it off [possibly with a hair dryer]. He wrote a letter to the company asking advice for getting his 'Caculator' to work again. I guess that's understandable, since they were as expensive as smart phones back then.
The letter was subsequently copied and circulated. Interoffice humor. Who knew?
[And in this day and age, it might inspire another youtube video by Craig Turner]
Friday 10th March 2017 11:32 GMT SotarrTheWizard
Back in the mid-1990s. . . .
. . .I had the misfortune of working at the Pentagon's Helldesk for the Air Force.
And I actually got a "cupholder" call: a 3-star (fighter pilot, of course) had called in to report that his "cupholder" had cracked.
Yep. He was using the CD-ROM tray for his coffee cup.
I get there, diagnose the problem ("What, you can't glue it back together ?? How about replacing the tray ?"), call it in to order a new CD drive. Mind you, at the time, a CD Drive was a several hundred dollar piece of gear. And I mark it down as Customer Misuse of Equipment, which meant he PERSONALLY got the bill for parts and labor, about 400 bucks.
General blows a gasket, demands I retract the report. General ALSO had signed a waiver for training on the box, accepting, under his signature, personal liability to all damage to the computer beyond normal wear and tear. Never got to the end of the matter, as I left for a better job shortly thereafter. . .
Re: Back in the mid-1990s. . . .
The "cupholder" issue is one of the very few where I have sympathy for the end user. It really is quite difficult for normal people - i.e. those outside the industry - to know what a computer should or should not be able to do. It's like the stories of people using the insulating pads over the fluorinert tanks on early Crays as seats, because they look like cushions.
iPhones are famously designed to be usable by the nontechnical, and don't have removable storage. I liked Sony phones but I can see that fiddling with the SIM tray and ensuring that the cap seals are properly engaged after replacing the micro-SD card is not something that the general public will want to engage with. This is why one of my relatives, who works in IT, buys Galaxy Notes (but not the catching fire one) but supplies their other half, a lawyer, with an iPhone.
In this case, I would want to to bill the misused CD to the training department, for failure to teach the general what the bits of a computer did. The same with the example in TFA. No issue of new equipment without training on features should be a rule.
And an Air Force should know this, after all they don't normally hand a pilot a new aircraft and say "there you are, apparently it's all intuitive."
Friday 10th March 2017 13:28 GMT David Nash
Does it not have the standard "Compact Disc" logo on it? Back in the 90s, that was everywhere.
Does it not have the standard "Compact Disc" logo on it?
Yes, it does, but, to save money, they stopped doing it in ink, and now, it's just raised plastic, same color as the body of the tray. So when working on a strange machine, you need to shine a light on the drive, at just the right angle, to see if it's a CD, CDRW, DVD, DVD+/-/R or Bluray...and it's almost never the kind you need.
Something from Douglas Adams springs to mind. Black writing on black background and so on...
(IOW, many CD/DVD trays have the logos just molded into the plastic rather than painted/silkscreened on)
"In this case, I would want to to bill the misused CD to the training department, for failure to teach the general what the bits of a computer did."
On the whole I agree with you but maybe you missed the fact that the general had signed a waiver.
It's difficult if not impossible to deal with idiocy that's risen to the higher levels of an organisation. After all these are the people who should be exercising wisdom and laying down rules for the rest of the organisation. The first step of this should be understanding why those rules are needed and why they apply to themselves* as much as everyone else.
*It's doubly important that they follow their own rules. They need to set an example.
"The first step of this should be understanding why those rules are needed and why they apply to themselves* as much as everyone else."
I agree with your post - fair comment on mine - except for one thing. It is the job of people at the top of the organisation to know when to break the rules, or to introduce new ones. That's what they are paid for. As a one time technical director, it was part of my job to assess the risk of doing something outside the system and decide whether or not to go ahead. Otherwise, what do you need senior management for?
But that assumes you are equipped to know what the rules are and why they exist. Under what circumstances would you enter a clean room (or tell someone else to) without full kit? Would you go ahead with a potentially very profitable contract which involves untried new technology? Would you buy a new machine from untried vendor A who can deliver in 3 months or vendor B who is fully certified but will take a year? Will you break the pay scale to retain a scientist who may be on the verge of a breakthrough but may not?
"It's difficult if not impossible to deal with idiocy that's risen to the higher levels of an organisation."
The Peter Principle. "People rise to their level of incompetence".
Then sometimes they get promoted further to get them out of the way. At a certain magic level they merely enter the pool that circulates round businesses. In each case they leave with a golden handshake - only to be immediately snapped up by another company where they introduce their pet business fad that has failed so many times before.
Friday 10th March 2017 14:11 GMT /dev/null
I thought the padding on Cray-1s and X-MPs was there because the technicians working on the rat's nest of wiring inside the chassis had to kneel on them?
It's like the stories of people using the insulating pads over the fluorinert tanks on early Crays as seats, because they look like cushions.
I was in high school when Crays were a thing, and never seen one personally, but yes, I always assumed that was seating.
I never could figure out why though you'd want people to sit on your multimillion dollar supercomputer.
Monday 13th March 2017 18:21 GMT swm
"It's like the stories of people using the insulating pads over the fluorinert tanks on early Crays as seats, because they look like cushions."
I recall that Crays actually specified "seats 12".
Friday 10th March 2017 14:31 GMT Robert Carnegie
Re: It's got a CD player
If the user doesn't know that it's for CDs or CD-ROMs then he probably doesn't need it to work as a disc player. So you could just tape the thing back together, add in a drip catching mat. Upgrade the device to a working CD drive if it's actually needed. And don't let the guy use anyone else's computer.
Or: call it a "music player", which it is. Then leave the unlucky user to face the music.
And why do they have a CD player or cup holder in a fighter plane anyway? Well - I suppose you really don't want your drink to spill in there. A sippy cup may be best.
"Cup holders"
Great fun when the machine reboots, tray retracts and coffee goes into free-fall...
abuse Excel especially creatively
The most staggering abuse I ever witnessed was using it for just running text. Sentences spilled over several cells, the next cell started just when the previous looked full on the individual display.
No points for creativity, though.
Re: abuse Excel especially creatively
In Samsung they use Excel for code diffs... link
Which explains a lot.
> ...Excel for code diffs...
O.M.F.G. This is fucked on so many levels.
Brain bleach -------->
Saturday 11th March 2017 06:52 GMT Inventor of the Marmite Laser
Back in the late '80s I was working at a place which had embraced IT in the form of an Alphamicro mainframe with a bunch of dumb terminals (big diskpacks stuff - all of 30meg a time).
One of the sales guys was regularly producing ALL his stuff using the spreadsheet tool:letters, quotes, the lot. Was most surprised when I showed him the text editor.
Friday 10th March 2017 12:53 GMT Binky Hetherington
...so that she could continue designing marketing materials in Excel
I remember a new starter who was of the same mind. I wonder if it was the same woman? No matter how hard I tried to persuade her to use something more relevant, she persisted in creating working instructions in Excel because "it was the best tool for the job". There are some women that I quickly lose the urge to argue with and she was definitely one of them.
The company has long since closed, but I suspect that out there somewhere is a USB external drive with several hundred working instructions documents on it which are a) really difficult to navigate and b) several times larger than they really should be...
Lube isn't going to help if it's floppy. I thought everyone knew that?
Friday 10th March 2017 15:30 GMT Dwarf
The article says about an eject button, these only came on the 3.5 drives, hence the disk was a stiffie.
In this case, clearly the user was inexperienced and didn't know the required amount of force or technique to get it in and out of the slot properly.
The 5.25 drives had flaps covering the slot but later ones used knobs to lock the slot closed. Luckily neither suffered with the head-slap problem that was common on their former 8 inch counterparts. This fact alone made it difficult to use them in quiet office environments.
Friday 10th March 2017 20:46 GMT Hey Nonny Nonny Mouse
Umm, no, there were definitely 5.25" drives that had pushbutton eject, one of the plasma display Compaq portables had one for instance.
Wednesday 30th August 2017 05:17 GMT jcitron
That's right I still have an antique with those drives.
My Visual V1083, aka Commuter Computer, has those push-button floppy drives. It's been sometimes since I repaired those systems, like 32 years, so I can't remember the manufacturer. I think they were Teac floppy drives, but I might be confusing them with the ones in the Visual V1050 CP/M Plus machines which were built a bit earlier.
When I worked on a helpdesk, it used to be a regular thing for users in India to report problems to us via email. Any screenshots were attached to the email.
As an embedded image.
In an Excel spreadsheet.
Friday 10th March 2017 13:21 GMT Andytug
Sounds like they were trying to avoid email scanning?
Image attachments blocked, so embed in Excel file to get it through?
Monday 13th March 2017 16:18 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Sounds like they were trying to avoid email scanning?
Nope. This was internal mail with no restrictions.
It was just their way of doing it. Haven't got a clue why.
Seen it loads of times
Excel is a kind of universal container. You can paste screenshots, text, even columns of numbers!
Re: Seen it loads of times
"even columns of numbers!"
That's crazy, who'd ever want to do that?
Because, who knows what Paris would try to paste into Excel ------->
Friday 10th March 2017 13:36 GMT wollo
Firstly, Larry in IT saved my arse this week, persisting through a long, poor quality phone call to fix a remote login issue,. All hail Larry.
Secondly, I've been in tech comms a long time, rising to consulting writer and info architect. I use Excel all the time for documentation. We write using XML and methodologies such as topic-based authoring for content reuse and re-purposing. I have not found a better tool for doing the initial architecture design and for creating topic lists and outlines. Best of all, under the covers the content is all tagged in XML so I can export and filter it for import to other XML authoring tools.
I also export content from other sources (even code dumps) to sort and organize in Excel - such as all the error message strings.
And, yes, Ive done entire documents in excel because it can handle dynamic content that works on virtually any windows box - I don't have to worry whether the user has that tool.
Friday 10th March 2017 14:04 GMT albegadeep
I'm an Excel abuser
Definitely, hands-down. Though as much in the drug sense as in using it in unintended ways. Right now I have a macro-based timer running. I once wrote a sudoku-solving spreadsheet - without macros. (Tricky, that. Hint: use iterative calculation and circular references.) Also a Mastermind clone, with variants from the original 4-wide, 6-color to 40-wide, 20-color, also macro-free.
In more mundane usage, I keep a running list of all my current and previous (complex) tasks, complete with job numbers and current status. Coworkers are always amazed when I can pull up a job number from 5 years ago, on a project I didn't even remember doing, in less than 30 seconds.
Re: I'm an Excel abuser
At a previous job one of my coworkers was teaching himself advanced excel. He created a monsterously huge spreadsheet with cells barely large enough to see, then did some macro/math wizardry to make all the cells change colours at random. Not the whole sheet a single colour mind, but each individual cell it's own colour. It was a squirrely rainbow mind bending acid trip & he routed it to display on the general office displays normaly reserved for network maps.
It was a blast watching my coworkers stare like a bunch of trippin' hippies at the wall during their lunch breaks.
It surprised nobody when he got transfered to Accounting because he could make excel sit up, beg, & dance at his whim. =-J
Friday 10th March 2017 18:01 GMT Herby
"...sudoku-solving spreadsheet..."
This I want to see. It ought to be VERY interesting. I wonder if it works in LibreOffice Calc as well.
"I wonder if it works in LibreOffice Calc as well."
Seems like it did. It just used basic worksheet functions. (I use LO at home, Microsloth at work.) It used blocks of data - one line of 9 columns per sudoku cell - to essentially do the "dot method", where a 0 is "not possible", 1 is "possible", and 2 is "this is the right value". One block checked for a 2 (known value) in that cell, setting the rest to zeros. Another checked to see if it was the only 1 left for that cell. Repeat for row, column, and 3x3 grid. Results of the last check were part of the input for the first one (circular reference, illegal unless running in iterative calculation mode). You entered the starting conditions into a standard-looking sudoku grid, which was used as the other possible input to the first check, and read the results from another standard-looking grid which monitored the last check. The hardest part was writing a reset function - change the N in one cell to a Y, and watch it reinitialize itself.
Sunday 12th March 2017 22:09 GMT Anonymous Coward
A long time ago I used the tax lookup table capability in Lotus to assign refrigeration units based on the load. Anonymous cuz I'm not proud of it.
Friday 10th March 2017 15:55 GMT DerekCurrie
The Classic Personality Clash + The LUSER Effect
There are certain computer users who cannot help but inflict chaos upon themselves. They download trash and crash software onto their computers for unreasonable reasons. They must be protected from themselves as if they were children, naive of the big bad world.
But then there is the classic, historic personality clash that I was taught to describe as the natural repulsion between the Productive personality and the Relater personality. This is very much the collision in companies between R&D and IT versus Marketing. It's the reason that Marketing-As-Management (as I call it) is one of the best ways to destroy a company.
Productive personalities find the Relater personalities to be strange and annoying. But they tolerate them as best they can, rarely holding a grudge. However, the Relater personality considers the unrelating Productive personality to be something along the lines of an abomination. Relaters not only hold a grudge, they are the masters of undermining and destroying Productive personalities. I think of Relaters as something akin to psychopathic murderers of the Productive psyche. They destroy what is not them. And they call themselves 'people persons'. *ironic*laugh*
If one thinks about this situation, there are countless examples throughout our personal lives as well as this history of mankind. If you'd like to study an excellent modern example of how this personality clash can take down a company, study the tale of the decline and fall of Eastman Kodak. I was there to watch. (O_o)
[BTW: I learned about this personality clash as part of what was called 'Beyond Gold' training. The concept has now evolved into 'Platinum Rule' training: "Treat others the way they want to be treated." The hard work is figuring out what that way would be. It can be mind bending.]
Friday 10th March 2017 15:59 GMT Naselus
Excel art done right
Before we laugh at Excel artists, consider the stuff this dude produces via Excel. They're hardly photoshop, but you can get pretty cool results if you know what you're doing.
Not sure if this means we should also be less hasty in our condemnation of buttered floppy disks.
Re: Excel art done right
@Naselus - thank you so much for bringing Tatsuo Horiuchi's work to my attention, I love it! Irrespective of how it was created, he's a good artist, but to think he created such beauty with a piece of software I swear at nearly every working day - that makes my heart sing.
Oh, and I foudn Libre Office renders his pictures perfectly welll, even on my rather old desktop PC.
Friday 10th March 2017 16:02 GMT TWB
Another Excel abuser
Years ago when I used to train broadcast engineers in analogue TV, I needed a way to show how RGB gets changed to YUV - loses or gains levels and then gets changed back again to RGB in TVs - I could not afford signal generators, coders, processing and waveform monitors, but excel was great as a way to show multiple waveforms and with slider controls I could vary levels.
Friday 10th March 2017 18:22 GMT Palpy
Re: Another Excel abuser, me too...
Not nearly as clever as you, TWB, but way back in the day I had a spreadsheet that graphed complex squiggles based on a set of random variables and various math functions. Oh, the happy hours minutes seconds I spent clicking just to see the pattern jump.
Pretty soon, though, the squiggle-formulas migrated to POV-ray. Back in the days when computers were fun.
Oh, wait, they still are.
Friday 10th March 2017 17:12 GMT FlamingDeath
Bill Hicks suggestion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tvp97SMZc6M
I might have been tempted to replace the drive but send the original machine back with a small piece of meat dropped into the casing.
Friday 10th March 2017 20:24 GMT beeza
Saudi fun
About 15 years ago I worked in Saudi Arabia for their Air Force at a training facility. One of the staff rocked up with some dodgy pirate software CD he wanted to use but his CD ROM drive wouldn't open. We eventually forced the draw out and removed the 3 1/2 inch disk (that must have taken some serious force to jam in there), replaced the drive and returned the machine. He was back the next day in a bit of a hump carrying the "still broken" computer except this time it rattled...case off...oh yes...he'd slid a couple of CDs over the top of the drive and into the box.
I think a Saudi colleague finally showed him how to infect his machine with viruses from the CD ROM in the end.
Laura...
Once upon a time in a former life I had the delight of dealing with a particular sub species of people who I won't name so, for the purposes of this tale (which is related to another that has been published here) I shall call them Those Workers At That Site, or, for brevity, Twats.
There were high points, I won't deny it but some people just aren't intelligent enough to deserve shoes for fear of hurting themselves when allowed out of the house, let alone a computer.
One particular young lady, let's call her Laura (because that was her name), was particularly 'IT Phobic' and regularly called me with odd problems like her monitor crackling and going off when she put her handbag on the cable for instance.
Laura called me one day, with a request that I investigate her computer as it had 'crashed' and displayed an error message.
Apparently it had bluescreened, she'd turned it off and on again and it was all working just fine now but she wanted to know if I could prevent it happening again so I asked what applications she had open when it crashed (dunno, the usual stuff), if it'd displayed anything when it restarted (Dell apparently) and the clincher, 'Do you know what the error message said or did you write it down?'
To which I got the immortal anwer 'Dunno, some computery shit so I just switched it off and back on'.
Friday 10th March 2017 22:43 GMT Chris Dugan
Word's broken...
I once had a user phone me up complaining that her Word was not working properly and kept on displaying rubbish on her screen.
As this was back before we had any sort of remote access to users pc's so a desk visit was in order and a short walk to think over the possibilities.
I arrived, borrowed the mouse, found a Word document on the network drive and opened it with no problems.
Then I asked the user to show me exactly what she was doing: she went to the file menu, chose open and selected the Word document she wanted to edit which then opened displaying all of the internal document formatting and the plain text of the document..... all in Acrobat Reader! :D
I then spent about 30 minutes training her in how to use Explorer/My Computer icon to find and open files in the correct program and what the file type filter was for in the Open dialogue box. Quite how she had worked for about 5 years in the office using computers without a similar issue cropping up was beyond me.
When I left the place last year, she had still barely improved her computer skills and still insisted on following along "monkey see, monkey do" style without giving a thought as to what and why she was doing something :)
Another anecdote from the same user was that she created a letter template in Excel and had terrible trouble with the layout changing each time she updated the text in the letter, the crazy thing was that she used Excel rather than Word because she had no idea how to use tables in Word and didn't want to ask anyone in her department for fear of being seen as IT illiterate... as she said she was IT trained during her interview. Quite how she managed to retain her job I have no idea; she must have had something over the company or just managed to retain a very low profile.
It still makes me chuckle even now 10 years on from that initial incident and the company still hires people of similar IT skill calibre today :)
How to upset the Marketing department
Just refer to them wherever and whenever you can as the colouring-in department.
Works even better if email signatures are generated from AD!
Saturday 11th March 2017 10:16 GMT Gobhicks
Excel abuse?
Excel is useful for all sorts of things other than its intended purposes. Don't knock a user for finding a tool that works for them.
Re: Excel abuse?
"Excel is useful for all sorts of things other than its intended purposes. Don't knock a user for finding a tool that works for them."
Depends. I can put a screw into wood with a hammer, but if there's a screwdriver handy I'd be an idiot not to use it. Choose the best tool available and learn to use it, not the only one you happen to know about. If all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.
"Excel is useful for all sorts of things other than its intended purposes."
Sort of. But it the task it's bent to can rapidly grow to a point where it doesn't really work. Your single table database may be fine. Try to add what should be a second table and you have to denormalise it. The point where a real RDBMS would be the better tool is reached quite quickly.
OTOH I still haven't found a better tool than LibreOffice Calc for sorting out genealogical data, even if I keep threatening to write one myself.
Saturday 11th March 2017 12:12 GMT Snapper
Excel can be used to calculate things?
A few days ago I was at a client's site early and got chatting to one of the guys there, and I told a couple of 'in the early days' tales. He liked the one where I told a young lady to highlight the text on the screen.
*THOK*
Yellow highlighter applied to screen!
Then I told him I once saw another young lady type a column of numbers into Excel, then reach across her desk to grab a calculator, tap the numbers in and then type the total into the spreadsheet.
At this point he stared past me at yet another young lady who was standing behind me and who usually sat next to him. Her face was bright red.........
Re: Excel can be used to calculate things?
All entirely credible from my own experience, but guys can be just as dim too., like not knowing how to convert from .xls to .csv, or how to sum a column of number, or even how to change the date format in a column of dates. Also, not realising that in an application with a really long list of choice in a drop-down box that if you typed the first 2-3 characters it would be selected (he was scrolling down to the desired one every time), not realising the difference between an application installed on the PC and one they accessed via a browser, the classic cup-holder stuff, ignorance of what the other mouse button does, power-cycling PCs rather than shutting them down nicely back when power-cycling was a Not Good thing to do. And guys are less likely to listen properly to what you;re telling them, in my experience, and more likely to be overconfident in their abailities.
BUT - the big question is this - why, by all that's holy, are companies NOT ensuring that staff (including Directors) have basic IT literacy skills before letting them loose on IT equipment? Hmmn? Bear in mind, when you consider this, that for most of my working life men have bene far more common in the boardroom than women, so who's been making the bad decisions with regard to IT, eh? (And, yes, I've come across some women that are just as bad, but plenty of blokes are IT numbskulls too!)
I have a lot of sympathy with users that don't understand IT well or at all, provided they're willing to learn, and it's my experience that the majority are quite happy to learn, provided the instruction is in small does and clearly relevant to them getting their job done, or experiencing less hassle in future. The dangerous ones are the ones that won't listen, the more so the higher up the chain they are, because they will not only suffer stupid problems themselves, they will be the cause of stupid problems for others by not understaning that basic IT literacy is a productivity issue, and lack thereof costs companies millions.
"BUT - the big question is this - why, by all that's holy, are companies NOT ensuring that staff (including Directors) have basic IT literacy skills before letting them loose on IT equipment? Hmmn?"
Incorrect assumptions on the part of HR and line managers.
1) Young people "know all about computers" and learned how to use them at school.
2) Older people working in an office already know because they must have got training at their last job.
"The dangerous ones are the ones that won't listen, the more so the higher up the chain they are"
The higher up the chain they are the more they're paid than you. And because they're paid more they must know better than you. Life is much simpler when you take this approach.
Monday 13th March 2017 11:25 GMT gryphon
Technical ignorance is fine, willful ignorance and an unwillingness to learn for the next time is not fine.
Monday 13th March 2017 12:57 GMT Hey Nonny Nonny Mouse
Yes. That.
MD of a company once told me he didn't want to pay for his staff to learn to use computers, the computers should work the way he wanted them to.
That's the same company MD who was persuaded by two people on staff that their job was to be on facebook managing the company social media presence.
Quite how they did that from their personal accounts while posting pictures of holidays, children and tennis club escaped me but I'm sure he felt he got value for money.
Monday 13th March 2017 12:40 GMT ChrisBedford
It's hard to believe that a clear-cut case of user vandalism as described could not be unequivocally proved to have been exactly that - (a) the drive was full of butter and (b) it worked when the button was pressed properly - so if that's all there was to it, the techie in question should have been able to prove his innocence beyond any shadow of reasonable doubt. If not, I have to question either the truthfulness of the story or the competence of the techie - sure, I know there are dumb-ass companies that will allow (or attempt to allow) marketing drones to get away with s#!t like that, but, seriously now...
Monday 13th March 2017 16:52 GMT Howard Winter
Notepad?
Notepad++?
VI?
Amateurs - EDLIN for the win!
Monday 13th March 2017 16:58 GMT GrapeBunch
Both Sides Then
I was on the other side of this fun once. Cast your minds back to the pre-internet days of monochrome displays. I bought an application which was written in 16-colors, but I ran it on a four shades of green monitor. Up to then, and afterwards, every 16-color pay-for or free or shareware app I had encountered, rendered OK on a 4-shade of monochrome monitor. Except this one. He had managed to burn-in (no user color settings) two display colors that mapped to the same shade, meaning that much of the information was illegible, encrypted if you like. I pointed this out to the author. He didn't fix the app, but he did diss one of his customers on a discussion group. This was pre-internet, so it might have been Leisure Linc. Something like: "You think you have stupid customers. I got one who complained about the colors of my app, but it turned out he was trying to run it in monochrome. What an idiot !" Endearing, to the hilt.
This is one of the best I've read yet and must pass this article on to some tech friends. :-)
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If there was a big winner in this year’s Golden Fork Awards, it was Houdini’s Escape Gastropub in Appleton. The 4-year-old restaurant was voted Best Overall, dethroning Carmella’s Italian Bistro which had received the accolade every year since 2010.
Houdini’s also picked up Forks for Best Ambiance, Best Salad, Best Waitstaff, Best Happy Hour and Best Appetizer.
“All around the area, restaurants are stepping up their game, it’s not just us,” says Interim General Manager Justin Stilp. “Our style of food is up and coming. We were one of the first gastropubs in the area, so we set the pace.”
Regarding its Best Overall win, Stilp says the entire Houdini’s team contributes to its success.
“From managers to dishwashers to hostesses, everyone plays such an important role in making a restaurant great, no one can be overlooked in that,” he says.
Overlooked they weren’t. Diners voted Houdini’s Best Waitstaff, a coveted award each year. Head Server Preston Ferrell says when it comes to service, customization is key.
“We as servers are people readers,” he says. “We make sure that we tailor the experience to each table and that the guests get the most out of their visit. I always see new faces, but every night of the week I have a regular I know by name. It’s about creating connections.”
In addition to service, Houdini’s scored points for its atmosphere, winning the Golden Fork for Best Ambiance. Stilp says the restaurant’s open kitchen, which was renovated and expanded in 2015, allows guests to experience something new with dinner.
“You can see the flames raising up as the chefs make pasta and see the chefs communicating,” he says. “A lot of people don’t see that side of a kitchen. It’s a show.”
If you’re looking to sample Houdini’s award-winning dishes, Stilp recommends the roasted beet salad or grilled Caesar, two of the best-selling salads on the menu. For appetizers, you can’t go wrong with the popular tuna crunch – seared Ahi tuna dredged in a sweet crunch cereal topped with sesame soy glaze.
Bacon Jam Burger at Houdini’s
Make sure to consider the ever-changing menu of daily specials and features, recommends Stilp, as this is often the testing phase for items that may be added to the menu in the future. Chefs are given plenty of creative license, so here you’ll find some of the most interesting dishes prepared with seasonal ingredients.
“A lot of times with features, we won’t modify them because our chefs take the time to put in that love and each ingredient is a factor to that. Don’t be afraid to try goat cheese and potato chips on a burger,” Stilp says.
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“We’re grazing them right now, trying to fatten them up,” Jacobson says. “We are constantly trying to raise the bar – the quality of service, quality of the product, the atmosphere, all of it.” —ACW
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The Baronsmead VCTs are raising up to £40 million in relation to the 2020/21 tax year together with an over-allotment facility to raise up to a further £35 million in aggregate. Both are tax efficient listed companies which aim to achieve long-term investment returns for private investors.
Blackfinch Adapt AIM Portfolios
Blackfinch has created the Adapt AIM Portfolios to offer a swift and simple solution to the challenge of IHT. Assets become up to 100% exempt from IHT after a two-year qualifying period. The service allows you to stay in control of the invested capital while also offering the potential for returns. Our discretionary services can help you mitigate Inheritance Tax (IHT), without missing out on the market. We focus on capital preservation, growth and tax efficiency, while targeting returns through highly diversified portfolios. Advantages of AIM investment include ISA eligibility, while flexible structures ensure control. Our partnership with Chelverton ensures high diversification.
Boundary Capital Impact Life Fund
The Impact Life EIS Fund represents an opportunity to invest into highgrowth, high-impact private technology companies that enrich people’s lives. The Fund will benefit from a diversified, unique portfolio, EIS tax reliefs, and an experienced management team with a proven track record. Boundary has developed a proprietary methodology for measuring 'life impact' and in particular "Equivalent Lives Impacted" measures of "ELI" which is calculated and projected throughout the investment period as well as a generational period, i.e. a 25 year timeframe.
Calculus Capital VCT
The Calculus VCT seeks to make investments in VCT qualifying companies with the following characteristics: Established businesses Capable and experienced management teams Diverse range of sectors 0.5% early bird discount for applications processed by 31st January 2021.
Committed Capital EIS Growth Fund
Committed Capital Growth EIS invests in high growth technology companies with proprietary technology, for which there is high demand. The UK technology market is broad and fast-moving. Committed Capital identifies attractive high growth market segments prior to selecting investee companies. Sectors currently invested in include Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Education Technology (EdTech), Security, Internet of Things (IoT), Financial Services (FinTech) and Electric Vehicles.
Deepbridge Innovation SEIS
The Deepbridge Innovation SEIS offers investors an opportunity to secure potentially attractive returns by investing in a diversified portfolio of seed-stage innovation companies. The Deepbridge Innovation SEIS will invest in a diversified portfolio of a minimum of five investee companies, each of which will focus upon the development and/or application of technological innovation to address an identifiable market demand or consumer need.
Deepbridge Life Sciences SEIS
The Deepbridge Life Sciences SEIS is an opportunity to secure potentially attractive returns by investing in a diversified portfolio of early-stage life science companies, whilst taking advantage of the considerable income tax, capital gains tax, and inheritance tax benefits available under the Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme.
Downing ONE VCT
A generalist VCT giving you the opportunity to invest in over 90 companies from software & services to education. This VCT has an existing track record from income-generating, ventures and quoted companies.
Foresight Williams Technology VCT
The Foresight Williams Technology Share class is a share class in the Foresight Solar & Technology VCT (formerly Foresight Solar & Infrastructure VCT) and was originally launched in December 2019. It is a collaboration between the Foresight Group, a leading independent infrastructure and private equity investment manager, and Williams Advanced Engineering (WAE), a technology and engineering services business originally spun out of the Williams Formula 1 business. The Offer provides investors with the opportunity to invest in a portfolio of early-stage companies with high growth potential, developing innovative and occasionally transformational technologies across a range of industry sectors. Existing Foresight shareholders can benefit from a 0.5% discount on the initial fee.
GrowthInvest Portfolio Service
A discretionary EIS & SEIS investment management service leveraging the experience and expertise of our investment team to select a diversified portfolio of the most promising companies that have passed through the GrowthInvest due diligence process. It is noted that both GrowthInvest and Sapphire Capital Partners LLP have a material interest in this fund.
SEIS EIS
Haatch Ventures Enterprise Investment Fund
Founded by Scott Weavers-Wright and Fred Soneya in September 2013 as an angel co-investment joint venture under the “Haatch Angel” brand, Haatch is an early stage investment business backing the pioneers of the digital revolution. The Haatch Angel core focus has been within the SaaS and retail technology verticals. However, with the launch of Haatch Ventures the investment focus has expanded to cover B2B SaaS, Pro-Consumer, On-Demand, Gig Economy and Digital Consumer. Haatch was founded on the back of the start-up program at Kiddicare. Kiddicare.com, founded by Scott Weavers-Wright and sold to Morrisons in 2011 for £70m cash, hand-selected retail technology start-ups to provide first-of-their-kind customer experiences, creating a platform which led to 10+ start-up acquisitions. Haatch Ventures enable investors to benefit from our knowledge & experience of investing in disruptive UK technology whilst taking advantage of significant tax reliefs under the SEIS & EIS scheme.
Hargreave Hale AIM VCT
Hargreave Hale AIM VCT is an established Venture Capital Trust that aims to generate capital gains and income from its portfolio and to make distributions to Shareholders from capital or income whilst maintaining its status as a Venture Capital Trust. Although the Company’s Qualifying Investments are primarily in companies that are listed on AIM, it also has investments in private companies. As of 7th January 2021 the Company has received valid applications in excess of £19m so intend to utilise the £10m Over-Allotment Facility.
Innvotec Female Ventures EIS Fund
The sole focus of the fund is generating attractive returns for investors by investing in companies that provide a positive, measurable, social and environmental impact. The target investee companies will all be women founded or women co-founded businesses. The number of female entrepreneurs is growing steadily across the world, contributing to household incomes and growth of national economies. However, women face disproportionately more financial, time, human, physical and social constraints that limit their ability to start businesses or grow them. Innvotec, through its research has identified significant indicators which show that investing in female founded or co-founded businesses will generate attractive returns. The Fund's aim is not to impose restrictions on founders by targetting business sectors. Innvotec is seeking to support talented entrepreneurs with sound propositions whatever the nature of their business.
Innvotec Technology Fund
The sole focus of the Fund is generating above average returns for Investors by investing in companies each providing a positive, measurable social and environmental impact alongside generating a meaningful financial return for investors. The investment focus will remain broadly sector-agnostic, but, as with most capital appreciation Funds, there will be an inevitable bias towards Technology and its application. Specifically, the hybrid nature of the Fund will allow, not only investment in start-up and very early stage businesses (the SEIS portion), but also enable follow-on investment in more developed companies (the EIS portion). Some of which may have benefited from funding from the prior INNVOTEC-managed (S)EIS Funds – whilst equally supporting those emerging businesses that may have received prior support from elsewhere.
Mariana Growth EIS Fund
The Mariana Growth EIS Fund offers investors the opportunity to invest in a portfolio of EIS qualifying companies across multiple sectors; favouring companies with a disruptive business model or cuttingedge technologies that will allow them to challenge the incumbents within their sectors.
Mercia EIS Fund
The Mercia EIS Fund aims to triple invested capital within five to seven years, including tax reliefs, by investing in a well-diversified, early-stage, multi-sector technology fund. In order to achieve this, they expect one third of companies to fail, and one third to achieve over 3x. The Mercia EIS Fund's investments are focused on the under-served geographical regions of the UK, investing in sectors in which they have deep expertise.
Mobeus VCTs
Information regarding the 2020/2021 Offers will be available shortly.
Nova Cofoundery SEIS & EIS Fund
Now for the first time, as a private investor, you can invest in the Nova Cofoundery SEIS and EIS Fund (the Fund). In doing so you are investing alongside Nova in our Cofoundery portfolio. Along with benefiting from the many years of operating experience accumulated by the Nova team you are also benefiting from, in our view, a very attractive category of tax relief available to UK investors. The next targetted close for the Nova Cofoundery fund is June 5th 2020.
Octopus AIM VCTs
Octopus manages two AIM VCTs. Each offers a tax-efficient way to invest in diverse portfolios of emerging and established companies judged to have strong growth potential. Octopus AIM VCT was launched in 1997 and Octopus AIM VCT 2 in 2005. Both VCTs have been making investments alongside each other, in proportion to the size of each VCT, since 2010. Each benefits from holding a broad spectrum of VCT-qualifying UK smaller companies. Although new investments remain small enough to qualify for VCT funding, the established nature of the Octopus AIM VCTs means that they feature a large number of maturing AIM-listed businesses. This means investors can instantly benefit from owning established portfolios of around 80 AIM-listed companies, many of which Octopus believe will continue to deliver sales growth and generate profits. Up to £20 million of New Shares are being made available under the Offers, with an over-allotment facility for up to a further £10 million of New Shares. The maximum New Shares that may be issued by Octopus AIM and Octopus AIM 2 is £18 million of Shares and £12 million of Shares respectively The New Shares are payable by an applicant in full upon application.
Octopus Titan VCT
Octopus Titan VCT is the largest VCT in the market, with over £900 million of funds under management and a diverse portfolio of around 80 companies. Titan has a proud history of backing some of the UK’s most successful entrepreneurs, having made early investments in Zoopla Property Group, Secret Escapes and graze.com, among many others, and continues to provide backing to promising companies with the potential to become household names.
Oxford Technology EIS Fund - 'The Development Fund'
Oxford Technology has been investing in technology start-ups since 1983. The Oxford Technology EIS Fund will aim to provide each investor a diversified portfolio of 5 - 10 EIS Investments in high risk, but high potential early-stage technology companies near Oxford.
Pembroke VCT
Pembroke VCT plc is a venture capital trust that provides investors with access to a private equity style investment strategy with significant tax benefits. As part of the Oakley Capital group of companies, we are committed to helping management teams realise their vision, utilising our extensive network and experience. From start-ups to more mature businesses we invest in founders and management teams we have confidence in, across industries we believe have exciting growth prospects. In turn these entrepreneurs often seek the financial advice and operational and strategic expertise that our team can provide. We only invest in companies where we can add value over and above simply providing capital, and where we are confident our resources and experience can be most instrumental in their growth. We are hands-on investors, providing a supportive framework and access to unparalleled talent across our Board, Management Team and Advisers.
ProVen VCTs
Each Company is seeking to raise up to £20 million through the Offer, with an over allotment facility of up to a further £10 million for each Company. The Offer is targeting returns which are greater than those available from investing in a portfolio of quoted companies, through each Company’s established strategy of investing in a portfolio of carefully selected small and medium sized private companies with the potential for rapid growth. Investors in the Offer will gain immediate access to an established portfolio of 48 companies in the case of ProVen VCT and 49 companies in the case of PGI VCT.
Puma Alpha VCT
Puma Alpha VCT plc, the 14th VCT from Puma Investments, is a generalist VCT that targets investment into a portfolio of established, revenue-generating companies. New investors will be buying into a portfolio of established VCT-qualifying companies with strong management teams in sectors providing structural support for growth. The VCT will be managed by the Manager's private equity team and the Manager has 22-year track record of investing in SMEs in the UK. Across it's VCT and EIS products, the Manager raised over £318 million and invested into more than 50 qualifying companies with 25 full exits since 2005. The next allotment deadline is 1st April 2021.
Stellar Growth Portfolio Service
Stellar Growth is a discretionary managed portfolio service, designed to offer full relief from inheritance tax after two years with capital growth. Stellar Growth provides access to a wide choice of business activities that offer both security and diversification as well as qualifying for Business Relief. Stellar Growth offers access to seven trading areas and your capital will be spread across a blend of these.
Symvan Technology EIS Fund
The Symvan Technology EIS Fund has been established to enable investors to invest in technology companies with high growth potential. Symvan Capital Limited considers that companies in the technology sector that have high growth potential and which also qualify for EIS tax reliefs which fit with the Fund’s focused investment criteria have the potential to offer investors an attractive return. For investment in the 2019/2020 tax year, applications must be approved and funds cleared by Tuesday 31st March.
The SideBySide EIS Venture Fund
The SidebySide EIS Venture Fund has been formed to invest in, and actively guide a select number of companies as they transition from scale-up to large scale commercialisation. The Fund invests in fast-growing technology-enabled businesses with £1-10million in revenue. These more established companies will usually be at least several years old and typically have over 30 employees. The fund looks for companies where there is evidence of a strong customer acceptance of the product and service offered, and where the fund believes they can add substantively to the knowledge and experience of the management team as the company grows. The fund will accept applications for deployment in this tax year up to 1 April 2021.
Triple Point VCT 2011
The Offer will give investors the opportunity to subscribe for Venture Shares into the newly established Venture Fund, a new share class established within TP11, giving exposure to a portfolio of early stage companies with the potential for significant long term tax free capital growth and long term tax free income. Triple Point has been investing in and supporting early stage businesses for close to 15 years. The Venture Fund builds on Triple Point’s long track record with a distinctive approach to early stage investing.
Vala EIS Portfolio
The Vala EIS Portfolio provides investors with the opportunity to participate in shares of 6-10 small companies with big plans for growth, hand-picked by an experienced group of entrepreneurial investors. The Fund will invest across a range of sectors, including technology, engineering, fintech, media & entertainment, lifestyle brands and food & beverage. The companies will have received Advanced Assurance for the Enterprise Investment Scheme and Vala commits its own capital alongside investors in each tranche of fundraising. The next investment close for Vala's portfolio will take place on 2nd April 2021 for deployment in 2020/21 tax year
Vala Sustainable Growth EIS Fund
The Vala Sustainable Growth EIS aims to invest in companies that have the potential to grow rapidly, create significant value for investors, and make a positive contribution to the world’s sustainability challenges. The goal is to invest in companies that are aiming to make a meaningful difference to one of the major sustainability issues facing our economy, society and environment. Success for these companies will be defined by three equally important measures: their sustainability impact, their growth and development, and the value they build for investors. Each investment will go into a diverse portfolio of 6-10 companies
Velocity EIS Technology Fund
The dynamics of the technology market have been transformed over the past decade. The advent of the digital economy has given innovative start-ups the ability to disrupt the way well-established industries operate, with the potential to rapidly undermine entrenched businesses and quickly achieve remarkable valuations. It is a time of opportunity for innovative companies with the products and ideas to challenge the way traditional businesses operate. Velocity Capital Advisors aims to exploit this opportunity, appraising potential investments not just for the traditional business qualities of strong management, robust operations and risk management, but also for dynamic attributes that flourish in the digital economy and technology environment, namely: innovation, scalability, agility and speed to market. will present to the Investment Manager opportunities to invest in start–up and early stage businesses that exhibit these characteristics.
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Humor > Videos > Jesse Ventura Needs a Nap
Jesse Ventura Needs a Nap
By MikeG on December 2nd, 2009
Jesse Ventura: Famed wrestler, governor, and pink boa enthusiast stormed off of the Opie and Anthony radio program this morning after Lil’ Jim Norton gave him a good ol’ fashioned tongue lashing. Mr. Ventura, who played “White Lightning” in Major League II and actually ran the state of Minnesota for a while, was there promoting his new show “Conspiracy Theory” which will be airing on TruTV and will mostly discuss the uses of thermite paint throughout history. Jesse took his ball and went home after accusing Norton of “putting words in his mouth” and then stared longingly into his eyes as he left. In case you weren’t aware, Opie & Anthony are NSFW:
Afterward, Mr Ventura was on his way to Philadelphia to attempt to steal the Liberty Bell a second time after being thwarted the first time by Dana Carvey in “The Master of Disguise.”
[HT] Foundry Music
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With the change of a new administration, learn about Presidential appointed and other positions within the Federal Government in the new 2016 United States Government Policy and Supporting Positions, or the “Plum Book” now available from the U.S. Government Bookstore.
What is the Plum Book? Known officially as the “United States Government Policy and Supporting Positions,” the Plum Book is published alternately by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs or by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, who handled this year’s version. The 2016 edition lists over 9,000 civil service leadership and support positions (filled and vacant) in the Legislative and Executive branches of the Federal Government that may be subject to noncompetitive appointments.
History of the “Plum Book”
The Plum Book was first published in 1952, when the Dwight D. Eisenhower Administration was voted into office after 20 years of Democratic administrations– first under President Franklin D. Roosevelt and then under President Harry S. Truman.
Image: Out-going President Truman meets with incoming President Eisenhower to discuss the transition. (Is that a draft copy of the first Plum Book that Truman is handing to Eisenhower? 😉
With a touch of humor, someone at the original publishers decided the book should have a purple or plum-colored cover to reflect that it contained the “plum” political appointee jobs, and the tradition has stuck ever since for the printed version.
What Type of Positions are Listed in the Plum Book?
The United States Government Policy and Supporting Positions 2016 (Plum Book) includes both politically appointed and Career Civil Service positions, agency heads and their immediate subordinates, policy executives and advisers, and the aides who report to these political appointee officials. These encompass:
Executive Schedule and salary-equivalent positions paid at the rates established for Levels I through V of the Executive Schedule.
Senior Executive Service “General” positions (i.e., those positions which may be filled by a career, non-career, or limited appointment)
Senior Foreign Service positions
Schedule C positions excepted from the competitive service by the President, or by the Director, Office of Personnel Management, because of the confidential or policy-determining nature of the position duties
Other confidential or policy-determining positions at the GS-14 and above level excepted from the competitive civil service by law because of the confidential or policy-determining nature of the position duties
The duties of such positions may involve advocacy of Administration policies and programs, and the incumbents usually have a close and confidential working relationship with the agency head or other key officials.
To Fill or Not to Fill , that is the Question
Interestingly, the book lists ALL such political appointment positions, whether there is someone currently in the job or it was vacant as of June 30, 2016. If the job was occupied by a career Federal employee appointee, the phrase “Career Incumbent” is shown without a name; otherwise, the name of the political appointee is listed.
And positions such as boards, committees or commissions that require “member” positions by political party affiliation are listed with the name of the incumbent along with a (D) for Democrat, (R) for Republican or (I) for Independent.
Type of Appointment and Salaries
Listings are labeled with letter codes that denote the type of appointment under which the position is categorized:
Appointment Code What It Stands For
CA Career Appointment
EA Limited Emergency Appointment
NA Non-career Appointment
PA Presidential Appointment without Senate Confirmation
PAS Presidential Appointment with Senate Confirmation
SC Schedule C Excepted Appointment
TA Limited Term Appointment
XS Appointment Excepted by Statute
However, several categories of jobs can be filled by more than one type of appointment, e.g., SES positions listed in this publication may be filled by using career Federal employees or various outside appointments. On these, no ‘‘Type of Appointment’’ is shown for such positions when they are vacant.
Image: List of “noncompetitive” political appointment positions at GSA. Source: 2012 Plum Book. (CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE)
Finally, information is included on the various base salary scales for each pay plan and level or grade, along with the percent above that base for different locality pay areas.
So if you are still hunting for that perfect holiday gift, it might be time to “pick a plum” or two—a 2016 Plum Book, that is—one to give, and one to keep for yourself!
How can I obtain a copy of United States Government Policy and Supporting Positions 2016 (Plum Book)?
Shop Online Anytime: You can buy eBooks or print publications —with FREE Standard Shipping worldwide— from the U.S. Government Online Bookstore at http://bookstore.gpo.gov.
Click here to purchase the United States Government Policy and Supporting Positions 2016 (Plum Book)
Click here to browse our Plum Book collection
Click here to browse our U.S. Government Manual collection
About the author: Adapted by Trudy Hawkins, Senior Marketing and Promotions Specialist in GPO’s Publication & Information Sales Division in Washington, DC, from an original post by Michele Bartram, former Government Book Talk Editor in support of the U.S. Government Online Bookstore (http://bookstore.gpo.gov).
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Home Food & Drink Confectionery Mondelēz International removes 10 billion calories from UK market by bringing 100% of Cadbury bars sold in multipacks under 200 calories
Mondelēz International removes 10 billion calories from UK market by bringing 100% of Cadbury bars sold in multipacks under 200 calories
Jul 20, 2020 Confectionery
Company introduces a 200 calorie cap on Cadbury’s multipack range
Mondelēz International is continuing its strong track record of offering more portion control options for consumers by voluntarily committing to bring all its Cadbury chocolate bars sold as part of a multipack under 200 calories by the end of 2021. The move will see 10 billion calories removed from the UK market every year*.
It is part of Mondelēz International’s ongoing commitment to help tackle obesity and builds upon the company’s pledge to bring all its Cadbury chocolate and wider biscuit products typically bought by parents for children under 100 calories by the end of 2020. The much loved Cadbury bars, Fudge, Curly Wurly and Chomp, as well as Barny sponge bears and Cadbury Mini Fingers and Cadbury Animals are now all under 100 calories.
Louise Stigant, UK Managing Director at Mondelēz International, commented: “Our products have been delighting consumers for hundreds of years and we feel a strong sense of duty to preserve what makes them so special. We also recognise we must play our part in tackling obesity and are committed to doing so without compromising on consumer choice. That is why we have been focusing on the areas we know will make the greatest impact and have been backed up by consumer research and nutritional science.
A focus on portion control is recognised as one of the most effective ways of helping people balance their calorie intake[1]. As a result of this move and bringing all our products typically bought by parents for children under 100 calories we are removing more than 12 billion calories from the UK market annually, illustrating that targeted action from business can make a huge difference.”
The company has proactively provided portion control options for many years, having voluntarily introduced a 250 calorie cap on all single-serve chocolate bars in 2014 and launched a 98 calorie Cadbury Dairy Milk bar.
Mondelēz International has invested heavily in innovation to offer consumers more choices. In 2019, the company launched Cadbury Dairy Milk with 30% less sugar, the most significant innovation in the brand’s history. The bar sits alongside the standard bar. The company also launched Maynards Bassetts Wine Gums with 30% less sugar and reduced salt and saturated fat in products such as Ritz DairyLea and Oreos.
As well as providing clear front of pack labelling to help consumers make informed choices at the point of purchase, the company strives to empower people with practical tips and tools on how to snack more mindfully and in moderation. In 2018, Mondelēz re-launched Betreatwise in the UK to bring to life its commitment to mindful snacking. By joining forces with other leading confectionery companies in the UK Mondelēz aims to remind people that confectionery is a treat, designed to be enjoyed as part of a balanced diet and active lifestyle. During lockdown, Betreatwise helped parents by teaming up with an independent dietitian to offer families simple tips on treating in moderation.
A re-designed Betreatwise logo features across Cadbury packaging and is being rolled out across all Cadbury’s advertising. The logo has been redesigned to be more prominent on pack and act as a visual prompt to remind people to treat in moderation. The logo is also intended to drive people to www.betreatwise.net where they can find practical tips and advice on how treats can be enjoyed as part of a balanced lifestyle and diet.
A Mondelez spokesperson said “ The list price for these products will not be changing at this time, but of course retail pricing remains at the retailer’s sole discretion”
[1] McKinsey Global Institute (2014) Overcoming Obesity: An initial economic analysis
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The five pillars of Global Fleet Champions
About Global Fleet Champions
About Brake
Global Fleet Champions
A not-for-profit campaign to prevent crashes and reduce pollution caused by vehicles used for work purposes
Global Fleet Champions Awards
Enter an award
UK Fleet Champions Awards
Book a place
Australasian Fleet Champions Awards
The Global Fleet Champions campaign is overseen by a standards committee comprising individuals with extensive experience in fleet safety management, either commercially as fleet operators or suppliers, or through academic or NGO work.
Mary Williams OBE
Chief Executive — Brake, the road safety charity
Global Fleet Champions is a campaign that anyone can join to stop deaths and injuries that are caused by vehicles being operated for work purposes. These deaths can be prevented through government action, through good policy that controls the management of organisations operating such vehicles on our roads, and by those organisations taking responsibility for safety and saying that they will put safety first. Safety is good business, it saves money as well as lives.
Director — NIOSH Center for Motor Vehicle Safety
Proactive management of work-related road risk should not be limited to high-income countries and large corporations. Indeed, the need to manage this significant risk is greater in low- and middle-income countries and smaller businesses that operate in regions where a strong road safety culture and regulatory environment are still developing. I applaud Brake for its commitment to sharing research-based best practices globally, and I look forward to working with the Standards Committee for Global Fleet Champions.
Emma MacLennan
Director — EASST (Eastern Alliance for Safe and Sustainable Transport)
Low and middle-income countries often have the poorest quality and most dangerous fleets – including public transport fleets, public service fleets and private commercial fleets. However where good fleet management is practised, it has been shown to have a strong impact on fleet safety, reducing the number and financial cost of collisions as well as the number of deaths and injuries. The Standards Committee will work to promote good fleet practice around the globe, including in countries currently facing some of the greatest challenges.
Robert Isler
Associate Professor — University of Waikato
Evidence-based fleet risk management plans change from ‘nice to have’ to ‘must have’ when responsible board directors ensure that they will never been known as being negligent when it comes to the safety of their employees. I am pleased to help contribute to the Standards committee defining and setting robust standards for fleet safety processes.
Rose van Steijn
Program Manager — Fleet Forum
Inclusion of road traffic crashes in the Sustainable Development Goals demonstrates that the global community recognizes the huge impact collisions have on people, businesses and the environment. Improving fleet safety through the use of standards and by applying best practices will support reducing risks in a systematic way.
Glen Ridgway
Divisional Director — Jacobs
Put simply ‘driving kills’. Driving is the riskiest task that we ask most of our employees to do and as such we have a moral and legal need to help reduce, manage or mitigate that risk. More than that though, at Jacobs we pride ourselves on our culture of caring and we encourage our people to take the safety lessons we learn at work and share them with family, friends and their wider community. By creating an environment at work where we have safe drivers, driving safe vehicles safely, we are having a positive effect on road safety for many more people. Something I am immensely proud to be part of.
Barry Watson
Adjunct Professor — Queensland University of Technology
Enhancing the safety of those who drive for work purposes needs to be a critical component of our global road safety efforts. Besides representing a significant share of those road users killed and seriously injured each year, there is a well-established suite of effective countermeasures to target the group. Moreover, enhancing the safety of work-related drivers will have positive flow-on effects for other road users, their families and the broader community.
Caroline Barber
CEO — Transaid
Road safety is a global public health crisis. A disproportionate burden falls in Africa, where Transaid has a long history working on fleet safety. We are delighted to support this important initiative.
Tracey Fuller
UK Head of CSR — BNP Paribas and Arval UK
Every year too many lives are lost on the world’s roads and many more are changed unimaginably forever. Companies cannot continue to neglect the safety of their drivers and other road users. Fleet operators must take ownership and responsibility for implementing and managing robust fleet safety processes for their drivers.
Mark Bromhall
Group Road Safety Manager — Royal Mail
Having spent many years handling insurance claims and dealing with the consequences of serious Road Traffic Collisions, I am passionate about reducing the suffering caused on our roads. Being a global fleet champion gives me the opportunity to influence standards and approaches beyond Royal Mail and help make the roads safer for everybody.
Andrew Drewary
Road Safety & Collision Analyst Consultant — Road Safety Smart
Fleet operators are being stretched more and more as they try to meet society’s insatiable demand of wanting everything now. This means operators are under pressure to meet demand or lose customers. Unfortunately, the effect of this is that more demand is put on fleet drivers to make deliveries as quickly as possible, which automatically creates more risk, not just for the drivers but for every other road user. Therefore, it is vitally important that fleet operators implement robust fleet safety processes and manage driver risk and not risky drivers. Failure to do so will only result in catastrophic or fatal consequences for all concerned.
Camilla Fowler
Principal Risk Management Consultant — TRL
Driving is a high risk activity and probably one of the highest risks that employees encounter at work. Increasingly, organisations are putting measures in place to mitigate the risks associated with workplace transport but driving on public roads remains a relatively unmanaged ‘at work’ risk. The development of standards will highlight these risks and provide employers with the necessary guidance to implement measures to ensure risks are reduced as low as reasonably practicable.
John Hix
Director — FORS (Fleet Operators Recognition Scheme)
Active management of fleet safety and work related road risk means saving lives both in the workplace and of other road users. Safe operations are efficient ones, meaning the business reduces down-time, improves fuel efficiency and can re-invest in its drivers, vehicles and equipment. Safety and fleet performance therefore go hand in hand to the benefit of everybody involved.
Lisa Dorn
Associate Professor of Driver Behaviour — Cranfield University
Most fleet drivers make safe decisions when driving for work but research and fleet-based companies consistently report that a relatively small percentage of commercial drivers make up a significant percentage of the overall fleet crash risk. Fleet safety is a growing global problem and it is for this reason that I’m delighted to join the committee to help fleet companies develop safe management practices and behaviour-based safety interventions.
Director — Fleet Safety Management
It is well known that work-related drivers have a significantly higher risk of being involved in a collision compared to other drivers, even after their typically higher mileage exposure has been taken into account. As such, anything that employers can do to manage the safety of these drivers, the journeys they make and the vehicles they use, will have a significant impact on the safety of all road users. The role of the committee to champion good practice and to set standards will help all organisations who have an appetite to manage fleet safety, and help make the roads safer. As such I’m delighted to be involved in this initiative.
Jim Golby
Director of Research and Customer Experience — Applied Driving Techniques
The safety and wellbeing of employees driving at work on company business is an ever-growing global issue. I have seen first-hand the significant human, financial and operational benefits which can be successfully achieved through effective work-related road risk (WRRR) management. It is for this reason that I’m delighted to be joining Brake’s new Global Fleet Champions Standards Committee to help support responsible organisations by sharing best practice and helping them to develop and implement robust and safer WRRR management practices across their own organisations around the world.
Nikki Skegg
National Manager SHEQ — Freight Transport Association
With the continual increase of vehicle use for work globally, the need to manage road risk and implement safe working practices is increasingly important; I am excited to be part of an initiative which aims to lead by example, sharing information and best practice and the intention of making roads safer for all users, everywhere.
Colin Snape
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In a world of ever increasing demand on the Road Haulage Sector, operators and drivers are experiencing stress levels never before seen with the added issue of Congestion, causing further delays it is imperative we have safe systems of work and driver health programmes.
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Fleet Risk Director — DRiiVE consulting LTD
Keeping people safe on the roads has been my passions for over 15 years now. Having worked with many large commercial fleets, I understand the responsibility that we have to minimise the risk to everyone else who shares the space.
I am a huge advocate of Brake and am proud to have worked closely with them for many years. The unnecessary pain and loss caused by road death and serious injury, simply must be stopped and I am very excited to being a part of the Standards Committee for Global Fleet Champions and working collaboratively towards this aim.
Jim Noble
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eDriving’s approach provides clients with behavioural insights and actionable intelligence to build a total view of driver risk to help ensure all drivers return home safely to their loved ones and communities at the end of each day. We look forward to contributing and sharing our approach with the Global Fleet Champions Standards Committee…..safe driving!
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Illinois 1st State to Provide Medicaid Regardless of Immigration Status
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Mario A. Godoy
On July 1, Illinois will become the first state to provide Medicaid-like care for senior citizens regardless of their immigration status. Governor J.B. Pritzker has committed to approve next year’s budget that was passed by the Illinois General Assembly and included Medicaid services for qualified undocumented seniors that go into effect on July 1 when the 2021 budget year begins. The bill was organized by the Healthy Illinois Campaign, a coalition of over 70 organizations and covers all low-income Illinois residents aged 65 and older, with household incomes of up to 100% FPL ($12,760 for an individual) regardless of their immigration status.
The bill was passed during the fight against the continued spread of COVID-19 and while Illinois is trying to mitigate the negative economic effects including to health care providers. In deciding to provide critical health coverage to low-income uninsured seniors regardless of their immigration status, the bill’s sponsor presented:
• it’s three times cheaper to cover undocumented seniors than it is to not cover them and pay for emergency health care at hospitals
• it will lower Illinois’s uninsured rate
• it will reduce health care providers’ uncompensated care
Illinois State Representative Delia Ramirez (D-4), House bill sponsor and chief champion of Healthy Illinois For All bill, said:
“Healthcare access is a fundamental right that should be guaranteed to all regardless of immigration status. This pandemic has shown the ways public health binds us all together and that denying healthcare to some hurts us all. I am proud that we have taken this important first step to care for our most vulnerable and will continue to work towards universal healthcare for all.“
As an intending immigrant, it’s important to know that USCIS does consider some Medicaid benefits (with some exceptions) as part of the public charge. If you are an immigrant and intending to take Medicaid please call our firm for a consultation.
The experienced immigration attorneys at Godoy Law Office are dedicated to supporting the rights of immigrants across Illinois. Contact Godoy Law Office today at 855-554-6369 to answer your questions about immigration, help you file an immigration application and guide you through every step of the immigration process.
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Two Weddings and a Funeral (두 번의 결혼식과 한 번의 장례식) – ★★★☆☆
July 29, 2012 February 1, 2015 — Leave a Comment
Two Weddings and a Funeral (두 번의 결혼식과 한 번의 장례식)
While narrative conventions of heterosexual relationships enjoy an almost absurd level of repetition, homosexual couples are still very much a rarity in world cinema. This is especially so in Korea, where homosexuality has only in recent times considered to even be in existence. In a culture predicated on the importance of marriage, the traditional family unit, and the continuation of bloodlines, Korea has – as with other countries – struggled to accept gay culture within itself.
This is precisely the situation tackled by first time director Kim Jo Kwang-su (김조광수) who, upon discovering the extreme lack of ‘queer’ movies in the Korean film industry, resolved to redress the balance. With Two Weddings and a Funeral (두 번의 결혼식과 한 번의 장례식) the director explores the complexity of being gay in contemporary Korea, as a gay man and lesbian woman marry to offset suspicion. The film is an interesting amalgamation of camp comedy and social issues although never manages to perfect the cohesion between the two, resulting in an enjoyably quirky yet underdeveloped romantic-comedy.
In a lovely ceremony, Min-su (Kim Dong-yoon (김동윤) and Hyo-jin (Ryu Hyeon-kyeong (류현경) are married in front of their dearest loved ones, all of whom are blissfully happy that the couple can now enjoy wedded life and the happiness that follows. Yet unbeknownst to them both Min-su and Hyo-jin are homosexual, performing the sham marriage to halt nagging parents and to help adopt an abandoned baby. While Hyo-jin’s lesbian lover Seo-yeong (Jeong Ae-yeon (정애연) lives next door, Min-su’s new boyfriend Seok (Song Yong-jin (송용진) moves into the marital home. As family members, friends and colleagues become evermore curious about Min-su and Hyo-jin’s relationship, their ruse becomes increasingly problematic with the tension threatening to destroy everything they have worked so hard to conceal.
Min-su and Hyo-jin keep up pretences to make their lives more comfortable
From the outset Two Weddings and a Funeral is a jovial affair, as Min-su explains with the use of graphics and diagrams his frustrations at being a gay Korean man, which is wonderfully juxtaposed with the sham wedding ceremony in which only a select few know the truth beneath the huge smiles. Once things settle however the film struggles to find direction, introducing Min-su’s gay friends who act as comic relief, and a troupe performance in which he is due to feature, as the only impetus for the troubled young man. It is only with the inception of Korean-American Seok that Two Weddings and a Funeral begins to take flight, exploring his and Min-su’s burgeoning relationship that must be hidden from prying eyes, which director Kim Jo Kwang-su poignantly conveys as simultaneously saddening, frightening, exciting and romantic in equal measure. Their relationship is wonderfully charming, featuring kissing and other amorous scenes that contain far greater passion than most heterosexual scenes of a similar nature, while both protagonists also experience their own different forms of prejudice and pressure to conform. Themes of traditional marriage are also humorously undermined through the unscheduled visitations of Min-su’s mother, as Hyo-jin must not only pretend to understand her husband implicitly but also adhere to the stereotypical role of the dutiful wife. As such gender politics as well as sexuality are interrogated in a thought-provoking (albeit farcical) manner.
Yet Two Weddings and a Funeral never quite knows what film it wants to be, and as such the balance between comical gay life and socio-cultural examination do not coalesce well. Min-su has, other than to stop his nagging parents, no real reason to marry and his plans are rather immature while Hyo-jin needs the marriage to help adopt an abandoned child. The decision to focus on Min-su and his gay friends results in the shocking underutilization of Hyo-jin’s incredibly important narrative arc, as the potential to show homosexuals as loving parents is wasted. Hyo-jin and lesbian lover Seo-yeong feature very little throughout the film despite their relevance, with the extensive time devoted to Min-su’s gay pals somewhat of a mystery as aside from comic relief they offer precious little else. Additionally these friends are generally woeful as they are essentially infantile stereotypical ‘queens’ rather than fully formed characters, with the overacting at times cringeworthy as they ‘perform’ gayness in a silly and irreverent manner. This is acutely ironic as the writers go to great lengths in attempting to dispel myths surrounding homosexuality yet they – and the male actors – seem unaware of what being gay truly is, aligning it with overt-feminization and transvestitism throughout the narrative on several occasions. The most prominent character in this regard is Tina (Park Jeong-pyo (박정표) who is a genuine irritation, yet during more intimate scenes where over-indulgences and ‘performing’ homosexuality are cast aside the protagonist is highly likable and conveys the potential of a route not followed. As the title suggests there are three events that take place and while the first wedding is the catalyst for the film, the funeral is predictable and the second marriage fantastical. The funeral could have spurred an incredible social drama with the married couple yet instead with limited running time remaining, the writers clearly wrote themselves into a corner and the ending, despite being jovial and in keeping with the opening, feels tacked on for the sake of brevity.
Min-su and new boyfriend Seok enjoy a date away from prying eyes
As the central couple of Two Weddings and a Funeral, Min-su and Seok – played by Kim Dong-yoon and Song Yong-jin respectively – are a delight. Neither one portrays homosexuality as a ‘performance’ and as such their sexuality and their relationship are conveyed as natural and organic. Song Yong-jin is by far the best actor in the film as he inhabits a fraught individuality, playful and innocent whilst on dates yet poignant and emotive when relaying his past. Kim Dong-yoon is much more stoic than his co-star making him less likable initially, yet he seems to loosen as time passes and his emotional scenes are competent.
The supporting cast of gay men provide occasional moments of comedy, yet are generally frustrating with their ‘performances’ of homosexuality as extremely-feminized men. As such the artifice of their acting and roles shine through and hampers the narrative, which would not be so problematic if they actually contributed to Min-su and Seok’s journey in any way. Unfortunately, aside from – ironically – creating a stage performance, they do not and their inclusion tends to detract from the main arc.
It is difficult to comment on Ryoo Hyeon-kyeong and Jeong Ae-yeon who, as long-term lesbian lovers Hyo-jin and Seo-young, are pushed to the fringes in order to focus on Min-su. While on screen both actresses are competent and convey their predicament with sincerity.
The gay community enjoys a lavish finale
Two Weddings and a Funeral is an interesting take on homosexuality in contemporary Korea, with a compelling central couple (who convey more romance and passion than a lot of heterosexual counterparts) and a mixture of comical sequences and socio-cultural examinations. However the disparate features never quite manage to converge as a unified whole, with a supporting cast that offers precious little while other more intriguing arcs are brushed aside. As such Two Weddings and a Funeral is generally light-hearted fare that, while enjoyable, never fulfills its potential.
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Release 14.2.20 — US instance
A new look for Aconex
On 6 September 2014, Aconex (US instance) will be updated to release 14.2.20. This release includes all of the changes from releases 14.2, 14.2.1, 14.2.2 and 14.2.20.
Below is an overview of the changes. Download the release notes to get the full details.
We’ve updated the look and feel of the user interface
As part of the Aconex brand refresh, we’ve updated the look and feel of the Aconex web application.
Now you’ll be able to see what you’re looking for with less effort, thanks to the simpler, clearer color scheme, better readability, and cleaner layout.
Find out more about why we made these changes.
Mail has a new look
We’ve made mail easier and faster to use with simpler and clearer View Mail and Compose Mail pages.
All the features are still there, but some have changed a little. Be sure to download the release notes to get the full details.
Users can still add mail recipients by clicking the To or Cc links, or searching for them by typing their name in the To and Cc fields. The Address Book button has been removed.
Mail attributes can be found towards the bottom of the sent mail view.
Users may also see a new Details section, containing extra, project and mail-specific fields that are controlled via Mail Forms.
These improvements and others are described in greater detail in our 14.2.20 Release Notes. Download them below.
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