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African Union - Sixth Region Diaspora Caucus/New York (SRDC/NY)
Pan-Africanism must be the goal
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K. Leba Ola-Niyi
Wednesday, May 23rd 2007
On Friday, many Africans at home and abroad will observe African Liberation Day. The theme is "Africa must be self-reliant: Forward to a United States of Africa."
In addition, we should celebrate the 50th anniversary of Ghana's independence. We should understand, pursue and achieve Dr. Kwame Nkrumah's vision for a united Africa.
After the national flag of red, green and gold with a black star rose at midnight, Nkrumah declared:
"We again re-dedicate ourselves in the struggle to emancipate other countries in Africa, for our independence is meaningless unless it is linked up with the total liberation of the African continent."
In "sub-Saharan" Africa, Ghana was the first African/black nation. That victory was a thrill and inspiration for all colonial peoples who were fighting for freedom.
As a result of the Pan-African meetings and national liberation movements, Africa today has 53 countries. However, most so-called independent states fell into the bottomless pit of neocolonialism. The establishment of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) in Ethiopia fell short of attaining a powerful, prosperous and united Africa.
Africa has an odious debt to international lenders and Western governments. For example, Africa Action stated: "The continent currently shoulders a $2000 billion debt burden, which drains $14
billion per year out of the national economies of Africa and into the pockets of wealthy bilateral and multilateral creditors.
The effects of this debt burden are devastating, undermining government spending on health and education and fueling poverty."
These Western lenders impose free-market economic conditions that keep Africa in a perpetual debt trap. Africa Action added: "Between 1970 and 2003, it is estimated that Africa received $540 billion in loans. African countries repaid $580 billion in principal and interest over those years, but as a result of accrued interest at the end of that time period, the continent still owe over $300 billion on the original loans."
Hence, Africa is still paying illegitimate and immoral debts to international finance capital.
The World Bank and IMF imposed Structural Adjustment Programs (SAPs) on cash-strapped regimes that borrow high-interest loans to solve economic and financial crisis or to achieve economic growth and development. These harsh economic measures are as follows: producing,
extracting, and exporting cash crops and/or raw mineral resources, respectively; ending food and agricultural subsidies; cutting social programs such as education, health care, and housing; having mass layoffs in the public sector; devaluating national currency to make imports expensive and exports cheaper; opening your economy and public sector for foreign trade and investment; and privatizing government-owned enterprises or authorities.
The wealth produced by labor and capital never trickles down to the workers, producers and the poor.
As a result of these neoliberal policies, we are seeing a small oasis of the rich surrounded by the vast desert of the poor.
Free markets economics and trade exacerbate inequality between Africa and the West. Unfettered free market policy has widen the gap between the rich and poor between and within countries. In 1998, the GNP per capita of the rich world was $25,000, while the per capita in Africa was a little over $600. Under free trade agreements, multinational corporations based in the West dominate the market share, sales and proportion for world production.
Unfair trade terms and plunging commodity export prices result in lower income for most African countries.
A united Africa is possible. We must build a worldwide Pan-African movement that organizes and educates African everywhere. We must know and defeat the enemies of African freedom and justice.
We need another wind of change that will end neocolonialism and economic imperialism in Africa.
We must achieve the century-old goal of Pan-Africanism or African unity. Nkrumah wrote:
"The optimum zone of development for the African people is the entire continent of Africa. Until there is an All-African Union Government pursuing socialist policies, and planning the economic development of Africa as a whole, the standard of living of the African masses will remain low, and they will continue to suffer from neocolonialist exploitation and the oppression of the indigenous bourgeoisie."
We urge the African Union to achieve African unity as defined by Kwame Nkrumah, Seku Ture, Patrice Lumumba and other great Pan-Africanists.
We must demand that Western governments and global lenders acknowledge the unjust nature of Africa's debt and to cancel all illegitimate debts without neoliberal economic conditions.
When we have achieved Pan-Africanism, this objective will fulfill "the aspirations of the Africans and people of African descent everywhere."
K. Leba Ola-Niyi, a member of the Pan-African Support Group, lives on St. Thomas.
http://www.virginislandsdailynews.com/index.pl/article_editorial?
FORWARD EVER, BACKWARDS NEVER!
AFRICA MUST UNITE AND AFRICANS MUST UNITE!
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Brahmana Sutta
Title: Brahmana Sutta: To Unnabha the Brahman
Summary: Ven. Ananda explains to Unnabha that the path of Dhamma is one with a definite goal – the abandoning of desire – which can only be attained by developing a strong desire to end desire.
SN 51.15
PTS: S v 271
CDB ii 1732
Brahmana Sutta: To Unnabha the Brahman
I have heard that on one occasion Ven. Ananda was staying in Kosambi, at Ghosita's Park. Then the Brahman Unnabha went to where Ven. Ananda was staying and on arrival greeted him courteously. After an exchange of friendly greetings & courtesies, he sat to one side. As he was sitting there, he said to Ven. Ananda: “Master Ananda, what is the aim of this holy life lived under Gotama the contemplative?”
“Brahman, the holy life is lived under the Blessed One with the aim of abandoning desire.”
“Is there a path, is there a practice, for the abandoning of that desire?”
“Yes, there is a path, there is a practice, for the abandoning of that desire.”
“What is the path, the practice, for the abandoning of that desire?”
“Brahman, there is the case where a monk develops the base of power endowed with concentration founded on desire & the fabrications of exertion. He develops the base of power endowed with concentration founded on persistence… concentration founded on intent… concentration founded on discrimination & the fabrications of exertion. This, Brahman, is the path, this is the practice for the abandoning of that desire.”
“If that's so, Master Ananda, then it's an endless path, and not one with an end, for it's impossible that one could abandon desire by means of desire.”
“In that case, brahman, let me question you on this matter. Answer as you see fit. What do you think: Didn't you first have desire, thinking, 'I'll go to the park,' and then when you reached the park, wasn't that particular desire allayed?”
“Didn't you first have persistence, thinking, 'I'll go to the park,' and then when you reached the park, wasn't that particular persistence allayed?”
“Didn't you first have the intent, thinking, 'I'll go to the park,' and then when you reached the park, wasn't that particular intent allayed?”
“Didn't you first have [an act of] discrimination, thinking, 'I'll go to the park,' and then when you reached the park, wasn't that particular act of discrimination allayed?”
“So it is with an arahant whose mental effluents are ended, who has reached fulfillment, done the task, laid down the burden, attained the true goal, totally destroyed the fetter of becoming, and who is released through right gnosis. Whatever desire he first had for the attainment of arahantship, on attaining arahantship that particular desire is allayed. Whatever persistence he first had for the attainment of arahantship, on attaining arahantship that particular persistence is allayed. Whatever intent he first had for the attainment of arahantship, on attaining arahantship that particular intent is allayed. Whatever discrimination he first had for the attainment of arahantship, on attaining arahantship that particular discrimination is allayed. So what do you think, brahman? Is this an endless path, or one with an end?”
“You're right, Master Ananda. This is a path with an end, and not an endless one. Magnificent, Master Ananda! Magnificent! Just as if he were to place upright what was overturned, to reveal what was hidden, to show the way to one who was lost, or to carry a lamp into the dark so that those with eyes could see forms, in the same way has Master Ananda — through many lines of reasoning — made the Dhamma clear. I go to Master Gotama for refuge, to the Dhamma, and to the Sangha of monks. May Master Ananda remember me as a lay follower who has gone for refuge, from this day forward, for life.”
How to cite this document (one suggested style): “Brahmana Sutta: To Unnabha the Brahman” (SN 51.15), translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu. Access to Insight, 2 July 2010, http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/sn51/sn51.015.than.html . Retrieved on 10 September 2012 (Offline Edition 2012.09.10.14), republished by Zugang zur Einsicht on http://www.zugangzureinsicht.org/html/tipitaka/sn/sn51/sn51.015.than_en.html retreived on: “date”
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"Jam is Thicker for Hebble
24th June 1960, Page 48
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Keywords : Brighouse, Bradford, Action, Associated Equipment Company, Ribble Motor Services, First West Yorkshire, First Calderdale & Huddersfield
• By D. R. MacGregor, B.Sc.(Econ.)
MOST managers of medium-sized bus companies look upon stage services as the backbone of their organization, with excursions, tours and privatehire work providing a little " jam " on the ordinary " bread-and-butter" income. In the case of Hebble 4 Motor Services, Ltd., however, the " jam " for coach [TO etlIRCROE 1
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resorts in the summer, Hebble run to all wellknown sporting events and inland beauty spots. A publicity brochure entitled "Out and About" is issued regularly. It contains full details of excursions, and wide use is made of local newspapers to advertise tours. It is considered that newspaper advertising often presents the best medium for informing the public of forthcoming trips.
Many tours have been linked to provide the popular "Five Ways in Five Days facilities. During the summer holiday period, five separate excursions to selected places are offered at a special combined rate. This is designed to cater for people who remain at home during holidays, but who still want to visit the coast and places of interest. Facilities include the provision of morning coffee, lunch and tea at good-class hotels.
Hebble pick up passengers in a wide area and this has been increased lately by the purchase of the excursions operated by Ripponden and District Motor Services, and the tours of Walton and Helliwell, Ltd., from Hebden Bridge, Mytholmroyd and Halifax.
The company's express routes fall into three groups. There are two services,
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night on the outward journeys, leaving Todmorden at 9:30 p.m. and arriving in Yarmouth at 8 a.m.
The second type of service is that linked with express routes of other operators. Through services between Bradford and Halifax to South Wales, Torquay and the West of England were recently authorized. Passengers must book through, travelling by Hebblc route X.3 to Rochdale, where they join the Devonian service of Yeiloway Motor Services, Ltd.
The service is essentially for Torquaybound passengers, but those for South Wales can connect at Cheltenham, and those travelling to the west with Royal Blue Services at Exeter. Other through facilities and connecting services are provided between Halifax and Burnley, where passengers link with the route of Ribble Motor Services, Ltd., to Morecambe and their X.5 service to Sou thport.
The remaining group comprises the most important express facilities—the Yorkshire-Blackpool joint services. Five operators provide them, linking all the major Yorkshire towns east of the Pennines with Blackpool, Lytham St. Armes and Fleetwood. These joint routes operate all the year, with greatly increased frequency during the summer.
The importance of this work, together with private-hire outings, is so great that Hebble have completely modernized the booking office in Fountain Street, Halifax. Fitted out in contemporary style, the office is doing much to attract potential customers. But no matter how good•publicity may be, it is the type of coach provided, together with the services of a helpful driver, that makes a satisfied passenger book again.
The coach fleet of 32 vehicles is composed of 13 Leyland Royal 'Tigers, six Comtner Avengers, six Bedford Vegas and seven A.E.C.s (two Regal Mark IV types and five Reliances). A wide selection of coachwork is fitted, including six bodies by Duple, eight by Plaxton, two by Whitson, four by BellhOuse-Hartwell, three by Associated Coachbuilders and six by Leyland.
Three of the Reliance chassis will be coming into service this year with the latest Harrington Cavalier bodies. Last year, two new A.E.C. Reliances with the latest Plaxton Panorama coachwork were placed in service.
Although great importance is put on coaching, the company also provide a network of important stage services. The two main routes are service 15, between Leeds and Burnley, and the 28 roUte between Leeds and Rochdale, Both arc worked by new A.E.C.-Willowbrook Reliances on a 60-minute frequency. Between Leeds and Halifax bath services follow 3 common route giving •a• 304 minute frequency. Journeys to Butnlel leave at 20 minutes, and those to Rochdale at 50 minutes past the hour. During the summer, the service between Halifax arid Rochdale is increased to 30-minute frequency.
Bradford is also linked with Halifax by two separate services with a 20-minute frequency, thus giving a ID-minute service between both towns by different routes. On Saturday afternoons there is a third route between Halifax and Bradford with a 30-minute frequency. In all, Hebble provide 16 stage services, of which four are run jointly with other operators.
Joint Working
The Yorkshire Woollen District Transport Co., Ltd., jointly work on the 38, 39 and 40 routes out of Cieckheaton to Windy Bank and Scholes, and to Halifax via Norwood Green. The other joint route is the 15-minute service between Bradford and Huddersfield which is shared with Bradford Corporation and the Huddersfield Joint Transport Committee.
These stage services are worked by a fleet of 55 red-and-cream Leyland and AEC vehicles, 26 of which are doubledeckers. The double-deckers are all postwar A.E.C. vehicles, 15 being Regal Mark HI models and II Regal Mark V vehicles.
The nine latest double-deckers to go into service have M.C.W. highbridge bodies and 9.6-litre engines for the Halifax-Bradford and HuddersfieldBradford routes. The remaining doubledeckers are of lowbridge design. The 29 single-deckers are Leylands—six P.S.2 types and 14 Royal Tiger models—and nine A.E.C. Reliances. The latest singledeckers are Reliances with Willowbrook bodies. Some are 43-seaters designed for either stage or express work.
The A.E.C. Reliance is proving a most economical vehicle, and over the difficult roads to Rochdale and Burnley the fuel consumption is gOod compared with other units in the fleet. Both these routes offer a severe test to the vehicles as much mileage is over moorland roads made difficult to negotiate during winter because of ice and snow.
Hilly Nature
Halifax is, of course, well known for its hilly nature, but the same problem presented by heavy gradients affects almost the entire stage-carriage system of the company. This places some strain on the engineering department.
The policy has therefore been to purchase vehicles with powerful engines but which at the same time provide economical fuel consumption. All new vehicles have come from A.E.C. or Leyland; the six Commers and six.Bedfords were acquired. as a result of take-overs.
Although the area covered by Hebble services is relatively compact, in the interests of economical operation vehicles are based either at Walnut Street, Halifax, or Park Lane, Bradford. The Halifax garage is the main depot which also houses the head-office staff and overhaul facilities.
Hebble, sandwiched between so many large operators, have consolidated their position in the Halifax area over many c12 years. The concern were ,formed in 1924 as Hebble Bus Services by Mr. Charles Holdsworth and his brother, the late Mr. Oliver Holdsvvorth. In 1929, services from Halifax were being provided to Leeds, Bradford, Bingley, Heptonstall, Burnley, Luddenden, Barkisland, Brighouse and Huddersfield.
As a result of purchase by the railways in that year, and the interests of the railway companies in the newly formed Halifax Joint Omnibus Committee, the company withdrew their services from Halifax to Huddersfield, Beptonstall, Barkisland, Luddenden and Brighouse. . In 1932, the British Electric Traction Co., Ltd., acquired their interest in the company. By then most stage services were well developed and did not allow for expansion. The excursion and privatehire fields alone were left open to Hebble, and they have certainly provided a needed service.
With booking offices in Halifax and Bradford, Hebble have shop windows for these services in two large centres. The potential traffic there is considerable and by good publicity the company have done much to capture the working men's outings to Harrogate. In direct contrast it is interesting to note that they also carry parties going as far afield as Venice.
Hebble publicity is well prepared and the timetable reflects a most progressive policy. It is a handy booklet with an attractive but simple cover showing one of the company's service vehicles. Each timetable page is clearly set out, and throughout the pages are illustrations of the company's luxury coaches and details advertising tours, express and privatehire facilities: The potential customer can actually see the type of coach he will traVel in when he goes to Blackpool, Scarborough or Yarmouth.
Because Hebble services are cornpressed into a small area, it is essential that connections with other services should be clearly indicated. At Burnley details are given of routes to Accrington and Blackburn, and at Bradford links are made to Ilkley and Harrogate, whilst at Leeds it is possible to travel to York, HUH; Sheffield and Whitby.
Essential Link
Although small by general standards, Hebble provide an essential link within the B.E.T. framework. They have good stage services and an expanding coaching fleet which regularly yields a good return on the money invested. Whether by accident or design, they are a stepping stone for future managerial appointment among larger B.E.T. concerns. Many of the existing B.E.T. managers have controlled Hebble at one time or another, and the company have been a good training ground for them.
Organisations: Huddersfield Joint Transport Committee, Halifax Joint Omnibus Committee
People: Charles Holdsworth, Oliver Holdsvvorth
Locations: Brighouse, Mytholmroyd, Exeter, Bingley, York, Barkisland, Leeds, Heptonstall, Sheffield, Luddenden, Burnley, Whitby, Rochdale, Halifax, South Wales, Venice, Huddersfield
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Seattle Art Museum and Clark Art Institute wager major works of art on Super Bowl XLIX
Puget Sound on the Pacific Coast, 1870 by Albert Bierstadt.
WILLIAMSTOWN, MASS.- Seattle Art Museum and New Englands Clark Art Institute are wagering temporary loans of major paintings based on the outcome of Super Bowl XLIX between the Seattle Seahawks and the New England Patriots. The masterpieces that have been anted up showcase the beautiful landscapes of the Northwest and the Northeast respectively.
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The majestic Puget Sound on the Pacific Coast from 1870 by Albert Bierstadt from SAMs American art collection is wagered by Kimerly Rorschach, SAMs Illsley Ball Nordstrom Director and CEO.
Winslow Homers masterpiece, West Point, Prout's Neck (1900), one of the greatest works in the Clarks noted Homer collection, is wagered by Michael Conforti, director of the Clark Art Institute.
The winning museum will receive a three-month loan of the prized artwork. All shipping and expenses will be paid by the losing museum.
I am sure that this beautiful Homer painting will be coming to Seattle after our Seahawks defeat the Patriots for another Super Bowl win. We are already making plans to host this incredible work of American art in our galleries so that the 12s can enjoy it, said Rorschach.
The way we see it, nobody loses with this wager, said Conforti. Albert Bierstadt was raised in New Bedford, Massachusetts, so we will be very happy to welcome the work of a native son back to New England following the Patriots win on game day. Having just opened our new building, weve got just the right spot to show this remarkable Bierstadt and know our visitors will love the chance to see it.
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Puget Sound on the Pacific Coast, 1870 by Albert Bierstadt
In 1870, Albert Bierstadt painted one of the most novel subjects of his career: Puget Sound on the Pacific Coast. This spectacular, eight-foot-wide view of Puget Sound resulted from newly reawakened interest in a region the artist had visited only briefly seven years before. This painting is more than just a landscape painting. It is also a historical work, a narrative of an ancient maritime people, and a rumination on the ages-old mountains, basaltic rocks, dense woods, glacial rivers, and surf-pounded shores that have given the Northwest its look and also shaped its culture.
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West Point, Prouts Neck, 1900 by Winslow Homer
Homer considered West Point, Prouts Neck one of his greatest seascapes, the culmination of his intense study of the coast of Maine where he spent his last years as an artist. Waves crash against massive rocks as bands of brilliant color stretch across the horizon, casting a rosy glow over the ocean. The picture is painted fifteen minutes after sunsetnot one minute before, wrote Homer, who went on to explain that recording such a fleeting moment took many days of careful observation. The brilliance of Homer's color and brushwork expresses brilliantly the power of nature.
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Andover Township CERT
Pictured is Sparta's Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) at a Newark symposium. (Photo provided).
ANDOVER TOWNSHIP - Residents are stepping up to volunteer their time after spotting recent articles stating that Andover Township is starting an emergency response team composed of residents.
The resolution that resulted in the Township starting a Community Emergency Response Team (CERT), was passed at the Feb. 7, 2019, Committee meeting.
Andover Township Mayor Dolores Blackburn said that resident Linda Grinthal brought the idea to Chief Eric Danielson, who also serves as the Andover Township Office of Emergency Management (OEM) Coordinator.
"The Chief then discussed it with the Township Administrator and myself, before bringing to the Committee," Mayor Blackburn said.
The Mayor and the Chief were glad to hear Grinthal's suggestion, and glad to see her, specifically, as the person who would move the endeavor forward, under the Chief's leadership.
"Linda brings years of experience in marketing, recruiting and management, plus her dedication and involvement in the County and Sparta CERT programs," the mayor said. "We are grateful for her willingness to volunteer to coordinate the establishment of an Andover CERT.
Grinthal has been serving as part of Sparta's CERT, since Andover Township did not have CERT, prior to now.
She's looking forward to getting started in her hometown, and so far the response has been great. But more volunteers are needed.
"I have submitted 12 completed applications to Chief Danielson and am awaiting over 20 more that are pending completion," Grinthal said. "There will be some groups banding together to join, such as The Tree of Health Center staff."
She's also contacted some local companies to see if they want to have a group of employees trained in disaster preparedness in Andover Township's first class.
"There will be a minimum of 15 in that class, hopefully many more," she said. "That is a good sized class."
It's estimated that training dates would be mid-April to early May.
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My Name Is Nobody (1973)
by Josh James | January 17th, 2011 | Western | 5 Comments
Two things go straight to a man’s heart, bullets and gold. -Leader of the Wild Bunch
The Unheralded Classic Cool Movie you should know about today is Mio nome è Nessuno, Il (1973), or by it’s USA title, My Name Is Nobody.
Don’t let the Italian fool ya, it’s in English and it’s good. One of the spaghetti westerns produced by Sergio Leone, but far more comic than most. (much of the film was also directed by Leone)
Think Charlie Chaplin Meets Unforgiven and you’ll get an idea.
It’s about an aging gun-fighting legend, Jack Beauregard (Henry Fonda), tired of fending off attempts on his life and sensing he’s nearing the end, who meets a young gunfighter who calls himself Nobody (Terence Hill) who idolizes him and wants to be the one who ends his career (they’ll say, Jack Beauregard . . . Nobody was faster).
Nobody cons Jack into doing the wildest battle ever, to cement his legend before Nobody takes him down.
Nobody: I see it clear as crystal. Jack Beauregard standing alone, facing the Wild Bunch. Just think of it. You’ll be written up in all the history books.
Jack Beauregard: You’ll be down on Earth reading them while I’m up there playing on a harp.
What makes the film My Name Is Nobody cool is the way it plays as a homage to western mythology while at the same time subtilely satirizing it. Most things don’t happen exactly the way you’d expect, and Nobody, while the fastest folks have ever seen, never approaches a gun fight as anything other than a fun goof.
One of the best, most amusing sequences has Nobody slapping a gunfighter before the man can pull his gun, then pulling the man’s gun for him. I searched for it on youtube and couldn’t find it, but anyone who’s seen the film is likely to remember that sequence.
And the film has one of my favorite tags of all time, having to do with a finger substituting for a gun. And even telling you that doesn’t spoil it.
There’s a lot of physical slapstick, but that doesn’t seem too contrived or silly, it plays witty and fun (I’d point to Richard Lester’s Three Musketeers, which had a very similar tone and physical approach) and there’s a real wit to the dialogue as well, as witnessed here:
Jack Beauregard: Folks that throw dirt on you aren’t always trying to hurt you, and folks that pull you out of a jam aren’t always trying to help you. But the main point is when you’re up to your nose in shit, keep your mouth shut.
Fonda is great in the role (and his last western, I should mention) and Hill is perfect, actually, this is the only part Hill seems to be really capable of playing well (he did another series of westerns called The Trinity series, which are fun but this is his best work) and he’s a very talented physical comedian.
In addition, Fonda’s role as a man growing too old to be who is he, and tired of it, is pitch-perfect.
I’m not sure if this film is available on DVD (I think in Germany, where Hill is a huge star) but if you can find it at your local cool video store (videos, remember them?) I highly recommend My Name Is Nobody.
Lots of other Italian westerns got much attention, but in my opinion this rambunctious, witty comedy-western about growing old (yes, that’s what I said) is as worthy as any of them.
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an update: Josh Olson pointed out that much of the film was also directed by Leone …
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January 18th, 2011at 5:04 PM(#)
Wow dude! This film looks amazing! I gotta to see this. Just curious, but do they have revivals theaters in NY, what kind of turn outs do they get?
We’re going to see Animal House w/ John Landis this week, and I’m interested if they do it like that out there?
Man, I’m telling you, this film is so much fun … Terence Hill did a couple of other big movies called MY NAME IS TRINITY (it had a sequel) that was popular, a slapstick comedy Western, but they weren’t nearly as good as this one, Fonda really anchors it.
Hill hasn’t done many American movies since (he did something called SUPER FUZZ with Ernest Borginine) but he’s awesome in this, truly.
And the score is great, too.
re the revivals, not sure, I know they have them in NYC, but honestly it’s something I never really did (especially now that I have kids) … I was one of those video store geeks who watched everything on TV … Blasafemy, I know …
February 21st, 2011at 4:44 AM(#)
This is a fun, fun movie! It’s Fonda turning in a typically great Fonda performance (and back to playing a “good guy”, following Leone’s ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST), and Terence Hill doing what Terence Hill does best.
I do like the TRINITY films (especially MY NAME IS TRINITY), but I’ll agree with you that NOBODY is the best Hill western I’ve seen (it’s also a movie I can watch with my sons, who also love it).
BTW, there’s a Terence Hill & Bud Spencer Fan Club group on Facebook, in case you’re interested: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/group.php?gid=2230126073
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“Our revolution had its origins in urban connections”?
On 4 July, the Boston Globe published an opinion piece by Harvard economist Edward L. Glaeser which proposed a novel understanding of the American Revolution: it was all about population density.
Democracies have a massive free-rider problem where all of us have a natural tendency to let someone else die for our liberty. Solving this free rider problem requires coordination and this is what urban density has done for millennia. Urban density connects citizens and enables them to meet and plan and talk. With enough talking, groups like the Sons of Liberty may even convince themselves that it is worth dying for a common cause. . . .
Our revolution had its origins in the urban connections between John Hancock, the two Adams cousins, and assorted other enemies of British colonial policy. Brought together by Boston, a merchant-prince could help finance riots led by a brewer. The lawyers could argue cases and the writers could push pamphlets. David Hackett Fischer’s account of Paul Revere taught us that this silversmith was not a lone rider, but part of a dense, urban network that collectively fought for independence.
The Revolutionary turmoil of the 1770s indeed began in Boston, the third-largest settlement in British North America. Such studies as Benjamin Carp’s Rebels Rising show the importance of Boston and cities to the south in political developments from the 1760s on.
I’ve even seen an interesting observation (in an essay published years ago by the Bostonian Society, as I recall) that in Massachusetts the pro-government leaders tended to have their businesses in Boston but lived out of town as much as they could (Thomas Hutchinson, Peter Oliver, Francis Bernard) while Patriot leaders included many men who had moved into Boston from other places (James Otis, Jr.; John Adams; Dr. Joseph Warren; William Molineux; Dr. Thomas Young). The implication was that working-class city-dwellers knew who was on their side.
However, it’s only natural for colonial resistance to Parliament’s new tariffs to arise mostly in the big ports; that’s where the imports arrived and the tariffs were collected. Furthermore, urban turmoil tends to be more visible in the historical record than rural turmoil because newspapers and government officials were concentrated in cities. We know about similar crowd actions in farm towns mostly through private letters, such as those of Christian Barnes of Marlborough.
Most important, in the final months leading up to war, people on both sides of the conflict wrote about how the rural parts of Massachusetts had become much more militant than Boston. The western counties closed their courts and intimidated their Council members into resigning well before the eastern. Gen. Thomas Gage basically lost all power outside of Boston (and a stripe of Marshfield) in September 1774, months before the fighting began.
Glaeser writes that Paul Revere “was not a lone rider, but part of a dense, urban network.” Aside from Revere and William Dawes, Jr., however, the riders on 18-19 April 1775 were a spread-out, rural network. So were all the town militia companies who risked “dying for a common cause.” Despite the fears of British officers, Bostonians never rose up against the army regiments in their town.
Undoubtedly there’s a lot to learn about how the Revolutionary political ideas formulated mostly in port towns spread into New England’s rural areas. But we have to remember that the white male farmers in those areas already governed themselves as democratically as any population in the world. There’s much more to this story than urbanites having the numbers to talk themselves into resistance.
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Do you know Taylor's "Western Massachusetts in the Revolution"?
http://books.google.com/books?id=ncZbHgAACAAJ&dq=%22western+massachusetts+in+the+revolutionνm=100
It's been quite a while since I read it, but I remember it as remarkably good (and sadly neglected). It shows how extraordinarily deep Revolutionary thinking ran in the smaller towns.
Yes, I recall reading that book while waiting for a circus to start a couple of years ago. There are also books about the Revolutionary War in Maine that make the same point: people didn’t have to live in Boston to be debating the political issues of the day.
I’ve also found some studies of Shays’ Rebellion to be interesting in this regard. The westernmost parts of Massachusetts continued on a “Revolutionary” footing—i.e., keeping the courts closed—through the war and even after it ended. The Regulation that became known as Shays’ was clearly linked in men’s minds to the same issues that brought on the war.
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Tennessee Vols Earn No. 2 Seed in NCAA Tournament, will Face Colgate
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Knoxville, TN – Hours after playing in the SEC Tournament Championship game, the Tennessee Vols learned its NCAA Tournament draw Sunday.
The Volunteers (29-5) earned a program-best No. 2 seed for the third time ever (also in 2006 and 2008) and will travel to Columbus, Ohio.
Tennessee’s first-round opponent in South Region action is 15th-seed Colgate on Friday. Two days later, the winner of that game will then face the winner of the first-round matchup between Cincinnati and Iowa.
Tennessee Vols to start NCAA Tournament run on Friday, March 22nd in Columbus, Ohio against Colgate. Tip off will be around 1:45pm CT and televised on CBS. (Christopher Hanewinckel-USA TODAY Sports)
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Tennessee Vols Fall in SEC Tournament Championship Game to Auburn, 84-64
Nashville, TN – The No. 8 Tennessee Vols couldn’t match No. 22 Auburn hot shooting, falling, 84-64, in the SEC Tournament Championship Game on Sunday at Bridgestone Arena.
The Vols (29-5) played one of their worst games of the season on the offensive end, turning the ball over 17 times that led to 21 points for Auburn. The Tigers (26-9) did what they do best and rained 3-pointers to keep the momentum in their favor, connecting on 15 long balls.
Tennessee’s offense went cold as ice in the first half, going on a seven-minute scoring drought and missing 10 consecutive shots. UT was up early on the Tigers with a 17-13 lead.
Tennessee Volunteers guard Jordan Bowden (23) makes a shot around Auburn Tigers forward Chuma Okeke (5) to end the first half in the SEC conference tournament championship game at Bridgestone Arena. (Christopher Hanewinckel-USA TODAY Sports)
#8 Tennessee vs. #22 Auburn in SEC Tournament Championship
#8 Tennessee Vols (29-4 | 15-3 SEC) vs. #22 Auburn Tigers (25-9 | 11-7 SEC)
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Nashville, TN – For the second year in a row, the No. 8 Tennessee Vols has advanced to the SEC Tournament Championship Game. The Vols will take on No. 22 Auburn at 12:00pm CT at Bridgestone Arena.
The game will be televised on ESPN and can also be viewed online through WatchESPN. Fans can listen live on their local Vol Network affiliate to hear Bob Kesling and Bert Bertelkamp describing the action.
Tennessee (29-4, 15-3 SEC) claimed the No. 3 seed in the tournament and earned a double bye.
Tennessee Vols Rally Late to Advance to SEC Championship with 82-78 Victory vs. No. 4 Kentucky
Nashville, TN – Facing an eight-point deficit with three minutes left, the No. 8 Tennessee Vols rallied in the final moments to down No. 4 Kentucky, 82-78, in the semifinals of the SEC Tournament at Bridgestone Arena.
For the second straight year, the Vols (29-4, 15-3 SEC) have advanced to the tournament championship game. The Big Orange will take on No. 22 Auburn in the final on Sunday at 12:00pm CT (ESPN).
Tennessee’s 29 wins stand as the second-most in program history. Only the 2007-08 Volunteers logged more victories (31).
Tennessee Volunteers forward Grant Williams (2) and Volunteers guard Admiral Schofield (5) celebrate after defeating the Kentucky Wildcats in the SEC conference tournament at Bridgestone Arena. (Christopher Hanewinckel-USA TODAY)
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#8 Tennessee vs. #4 Kentucky
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Nashville, TN – The No. 8 Tennessee Vols is set for a rematch of last year’s tournament championship, taking on No. 4 Kentucky in the semifinals of the SEC Tournament on Saturday, March 16th.
The game will tip at approximately 2:30pm CT and will be televised on ESPN and can also be viewed online through WatchESPN. Fans can listen live on their local Vol Network affiliate to hear Bob Kesling and Bert Bertelkamp describing the action.
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Tennessee Vols Defeat Mississippi State, 83-76, to Advance to SEC Tournament Semifinals
Nashville, TN – A second-half run vaulted the No. 5 Tennessee Vols to an 83-76 victory over Mississippi State in the quarterfinals of the SEC Tournament on Friday night at Bridgestone Arena.
All-SEC wing Admiral Schofield finished with a game-high 20 points on 9-of-12 shooting from the floor. Kyle Alexander posted a dominant performance, dropping 16 points on 8-of-11 shooting, nine rebounds, three steals and two blocks.
Grant Williams also chipped in 16 points in the game. Jordan Bone narrowly missed a double-double with 14 points and nine assists. Lamonte Turner was also effective at getting open shots for his teammates, dishing out eight assists to go with four steals. Jordan Bowden rounded out UT’s double-digit scorers with 10 points.
Tennessee Volunteers guard Admiral Schofield (5) and forward Grant Williams (2) celebrate after a win against the Mississippi State Bulldogs in the SEC conference tournament at Bridgestone Arena. (Christopher Hanewinckel-USA TODAY Sports)
#8 Tennessee vs. Mississippi State
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Nashville, TN – No. 8 Tennessee opens play in the SEC Tournament on Friday night in the quarterfinals against Mississippi State.
The game will tip at approximately 8:30pm CT and will be televised on SEC Network and can also be viewed online through WatchESPN. Fans can listen live on their local Vol Network affiliate to hear Bob Kesling and Bert Bertelkamp describing the action.
Tennessee (27-4, 15-3 SEC) claimed the No. 3 seed in the tournament and earned a double bye. The Vols are one of the favorites to win the championship and have the opportunity to earn a top seed in the NCAA Tournament.
Tennessee Vols Drop Regular-Season Finale at Auburn, 84-80
Auburn, AL – No. 5 Tennessee Vols dropped its regular-season finale Saturday against Auburn, 84-80, at Auburn Arena.
The Vols (27-4, 15-3 SEC) fought hard and tried to claw back into the game, but the Tigers (22-9, 11-7 SEC) had an answer every time. The key stat to the game was Tennessee’s 13 turnovers that led to 19 points for Auburn.
National Player of the Year candidate Grant Williams led all players with 25 points on 8-of-12 shooting to go along with nine rebounds, three assists and two blocks.
Tennessee Volunteers forward Grant Williams (2) drives against Auburn Tigers forward Anfernee McLemore (24) during the first half at Auburn Arena. (John Reed-USA TODAY Sports)
#5 Tennessee Vols at Auburn Tigers, Saturday
#5 Tennessee (27-3 | 15-2 SEC) vs. Auburn (21-9 | 10-7 SEC)
Saturday, March 9th, 2019 | 11:02am CT
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Auburn, AL – No. 5 Tennessee Vols will have a chance to repeat as SEC Champions on Saturday, as the Vols travel to take on Auburn in the regular-season finale.
The game will tip at 11:00am CT and will be televised on ESPN and can also be viewed online through WatchESPN. Fans can listen live on their local Vol Network affiliate to hear Bob Kesling and Bert Bertelkamp describing the action.
Tennessee (27-3, 15-2 SEC) has never won back-to-back conference titles in program history, and a win against the Tigers would clinch at least a share of the SEC Title.
Lady Vols Fall In SEC Quarterfinals, 83-68
Greenville, SC – The Lady Vols led by six after the first quarter but couldn’t hold on against a top-seeded Mississippi State team that shot 61.5 percent in the second half, falling in the quarterfinals of the SEC Tournament, 83-68, on Friday.
The sophomores led the way for Tennessee (19-12) with Evina Westbrook scoring 19 points while dishing out six assists, and Rennia Davis logging 16 points and eight rebounds. Senior Meme Jackson was also in double figures with 13 points on 5-of-9 shooting.
Tennessee Women’s Basketball unable to keep up with Mississippi State in 83-68 loss Friday in the SEC Tournament. (UT Athletics)
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The Distance Between Us
September 7, 2012 by Angela Carstensen
In her new memoir, Reyna Grande, author of Dancing with Butterflies and Across a Hundred Mountains, tells the story of illegally immigrating to the U.S. from Mexico, and the difficulties being apart for long periods of time caused her family. The Los Angeles Times calls it “the “Angela’s Ashes” of the modern Mexican immigrant experience,”and praises Grande for avoiding sentimentality.
You can read for yourself using Simon & Schuster’s Browse Inside feature.
Grande does a lot of public speaking, and her website includes a page about school visits.
GRANDE, Reyna. The Distance Between Us: A Memoir. 336p. photos. Atria. 2012. Tr $25. ISBN 978-1-4516-6177-4. LC 2012001634.
Adult/High School–When Grande was two years old, her father left her family in Mexico to go to “El Otro Lado,” the United States, where he could find work and send money back home. Two years later, El Otro Lado took her mother also; and the author, her sister Mago and her brother Carlos were sent to their grandmother, Abuela Evila. Her abuse and neglect, along with grinding poverty brought near starvation, deprivation, and little love to the children. With no electricity, no running water, no source of healthy food, they lived in Cinderella fashion while their grandmother took the money from their father and bestowed it on her cousin. When news reached them that their parents had a new baby, Grande was certain that they were forgotten. Soon their mother returned with news of her divorce and told them that their father had a new American wife. When their father briefly returned, they begged to go back with him. He grudgingly agreed and they traveled to Los Angeles with the help of a Coyote, enrolled in school and began new lives striving to become American citizens. It wasn’t easy but Grande stuck with it to become the first college graduate in her family. She never flinches in describing her surroundings and feelings, while her resilience and ability to empathize allow her to look back with a compassion that makes this story one that everyone should read.–Connie Williams, Petaluma High School, CA
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Winter Hitting Camp
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BASS’ HUGE DAY POWERS DRAGONS TO SWEEP
Hutchinson Community College
Barton Community College
Hutchinson Community College (4-0) 5 2 0 0 1 1 0 9 11 1
Barton Community College (0-4) 0 0 0 0 1 3 0 4 8 4
Hutchinson Community College (3-0) 0 0 0 1 4 1 0 6 9 1
2B: Raven Bass; Kameron Pope; Brynne Stockman
HR: Andreana Reynolds
2B: Kiara DeCrane
HR: Ashton Reynolds; Raven Bass 2
2B: Kat Frakes; Andreana Reynolds
HR: Emma Horsch
Sophomore pitcher D.J. Cannon wins her 20th career game in Hutchinson's 6-1 win in the first game of a doubleheader sweep Wednesday at Barton. (Photo courtesy Barton SID Todd Moore)
GREAT BEND – Sophomore Raven Bass hit two home runs and had five total hits on Wednesday as the Hutchinson Community College Softball team swept its second-straight doubleheader to start the 2018 season.
Bass hit two homers and sophomore Ashton Reynolds added a third to back D.J. Cannon's 20th career victory as Hutchinson defeated Barton 6-1 in the opener at Cougar Field. Bass added three more hits while Cannon, Brynne Stockman and Shelby Felvus each drove in two runs in the Blue Dragons' 9-4 win in the second game.
The Blue Dragons improve to 4-0 as they embark on a 10-game road swing over the next three weeks and won't return to Fun Valley until March 13. Barton falls to 0-4 to start the season.
GAME 1 RECAP
After falling behind 1-0 in the second inning, Hutch's power show started in the fourth. Leading off the fourth, Bass hit a line-drive homer well over the centerfield wall to tie the game.
The Blue Dragons took full control with a four-run fifth. After Bekah Roberts bunted for a one-out single, Reynolds hit her first home run of the season to give Hutch a 3-1 lead. With two out in the same inning, Kiara DeCrane doubled and Bass struck again for an opposite-field two-run home run to right for a 5-1 Dragon lead.
Reynolds added an RBI single in the sixth inning.
That was more than enough run support for Cannon, who earned her 20th career pitching victory as a Blue Dragon in moving to 2-0 for the season. Cannon gave up a second-inning solo home run to Emma Horsh, but no more. Cannon allowed four hits, walked four and hit a batter, but struck out a season-high nine in the victory. Cannon pitched most of the game with runners on base as Barton stranded nine runners in the game.
Bass led Hutch's nine-hit attack going 2 for 4 with three RBIs and two runs scored. Reynolds was 2 for 4 with three RBIs. Izzy Godinez was 2 for 4. With a first-inning single, she ran her consecutive hit streak to seven-straight at-bats to start the season. She was retired for the first time this season with a second-inning groundout.
DeCrane had Hutch's only other extra-base hit, a double in the fifth inning.
The Blue Dragons exploded for five runs in the first inning of Game 2. Cannon drove a two-run single up the middle to get the inning started. Stockman reached on an error that brought in a run and Felvus completed the inning with a two-run single.
The Dragons tacked on two unearned runs in the second and single runs in the fifth and sixth innings.
The Blue Dragons had 11 hits in Game 2 off three Barton pitchers.
Bass went 3 for 3 with a run scored. Kameron Pope went 2 for 4 with a double and two runs scored. Reynolds was also 2 for 4 with two runs scored and an RBI.
That was plenty of run support for sophomore pitcher Destiny Schulze, who worked her second-straight complete and improved to 2-0.
Schulze struck out a career-high seven batters and allowed eight hits and four earned runs, while walking five. She had her consecutive scoreless inning streak snapped at 9 1-3 innings when Barton played a single run in the fifth.
May 04, Final - 9 innings
4 Garden City Community College
4 Hutchinson Community College
12 vs Dodge City Community College
Apr 24, Final - 5 innings
0 at Northwest Kansas Technical College
Box Score | Recap
3 Tabor College JV
12 Hutchinson Community College
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Think tank boss hints at SECRET PLOT for EU EXPANSION after Brexit –’UK has been obstacle’
BREXIT will allow europhiles seeking to further integrate member states into the European Union to pursue their dream after the British "obstacle" leaves the bloc in March 2019, Insititute of Economic Affairs research director Richard Wellings claimed.
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Mr Wellings appeared to suggest Brexit will provide member states seeking further integration into the European Union to promote their ideas. The think tank research director said rumours suggesting EU leaders are seeking to keep Britain in the bloc are not “strictly true” because of the dissenting position the country has always held toward proposals for extending Brussels’ powers. Speaking to RT UK, Mr Wellings said: “I’m not sure it’s strictly true that everyone is saying the EU elite want Britain to stay because Britain, of course, has been a nuisance.
“It’s been an obstacle to this project of ever-closer union, building an EU Superstate.”
But despite hints suggesting member states are planning to use Brexit to realise their integrational plans, Mr Wellings also suggested the bloc will seek to secure a deal with Britain in order to protect ailing economies within the Eurozone from a no deal.
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He continued: “There would be teething problems with a no deal. The advantage is the UK Government could get on with removing the trade barriers with the rest of the world, which would mean cheaper products coming in from outside the EU and also getting rid of some of the expensive EU red tapes.
“The Eurozone economies are in deep trouble – Italy in recession, France with widespread social unrest and also in economic difficulties.PROMOTED STORY
Brexit news: Juncker has repeatedly expressed support for further integration across the bloc (Image: GETTY)
“So this kind of painful adjustment process, with UK consumers starting to buy cheaper goods from the rest of the world could be hugely damaging in the short term.”
German firms have revealed they are panicking over the “fatal” consequences if the UK breaks free from the EU without a deal, which could trigger a “massive crisis” across the continent, according to industry chiefs.
Joachim Lang, director-general of Federation of German Industry, said: “A chaotic Brexit is getting dangerously close.
“Businesses on both sides of the English Channel are hanging in the air. The priority must be to avoid a hard Brexit. British politics has to live up to this responsibility.
The German economy relies heavily on the British market, with the UK having a £21billion trade deficit with Germany, out of a total trade volume of £134billion in 2017.
In January the president of the European Central Bank (ECB) Mario Draghi said the eurozone economic data had been weaker than expected and the risks to growth had increased.
Mr Draghi admitted the Eurozone economy had performed weaker than expected and claimed uncertainty was to blame for the shortfall.
The ECB boss said: “Over the past few months, incoming information has continued to be weaker than expected on account of softer external demand and some country and sector-specific factors.
“The persistence of uncertainties, in particular, relating to geopolitical factors and the threat of protectionism is weighing on economic sentiment.”
Italy announced last week that it had plunged into recession which has sparked fears it could affect the rest of the eurozone markets.
Britain is set to leave the EU on March 29 as Article 50, the exit clause that enabled Brexit, expires two years after it was triggered.
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Botanising in Co. Derry
From left: Valerie, Dave, Maria, Sharon & John
Image: D. Rainey
At last year's BSBI Annual Summer Meeting, based at the University of Ulster's Coleraine campus, I had the pleasure of meeting a wide range of Northern Ireland's botanists: from stalwart County Recorders such as Robert Northridge and Dave Riley, who have given years of their life in the service of botany and botanists, to keen young ecologists such as Sharon Spratt; from passionate local conservationists like Donna Rainey to the delightful Valerie Macartney who joined the society in 2012 but hadn't attended a BSBI field meeting before.
Everybody got on so well and and had such a great time botanising together in the field, that they decided to stay in touch and meet up again whenever they could. And so it came to pass that... but I'll let Sharon take up the story at this point!
Drumnaph Nature Reserve, Co. Derry
with Carntogher Mountain in the background.
"On the morning of Saturday 13th August 2016, a small but enthusiastic group of botanists descended upon a lesser known spot of Ulster. Drumnaph Nature Reserve in the Sperrins, south Co. Derry was the location for the V.C H40 field meeting. This part of the country is steeped in Celtic lore, rural culture, natural beauty and Gaelic tongue.
"It is my pleasure to write a wee piece on this special place as it is a local haunt of mine. The diversity of habitats within it are reminiscent of a traditional Irish farmed landscape and the hard work that has gone into ensuring its conservation is admirable.
Botanists filling in their recording cards.
"The botanical party included: John Faulkner (BSBI President and County Recorder for Armagh), Dave Riley (V.C H40 recorder), Maria Long (BSBI Irish Officer), Donna Rainey, Kevin Johnston, Valerie Macartney and myself, Sharon Spratt.
"We were met by the lovely Kelley Hann in the newly created visitor carpark just off the Halfgayne Road in the townland of Carntogher. Kelley moved to the farm a few years ago along with her husband Glenn White and their two children, in order to take care of the reserve. Kelley kindly spent some time informing us all about this unique community owned nature reserve and its recent history.
Conservation graziers are used, to maintain
species-rich habitats on the reserve.
Image: S. Spratt
"The site originally contained an area of ancient woodland on the western side which belongs to the Woodland Trust (approximately 80 acres). A significant piece of former farmland adjacent to the ancient woodland was purchased by Carntogher Community Association in 2012 with Heritage Lottery Funding.
"The site is approximately 130 acres and contains a mosaic of semi-natural habitats ranging from ancient woodland to species-rich wet grassland to lowland hay meadow vegetation and fen vegetation. There is a 10 year conservation management plan in place for the nature reserve which includes extensive conservation grazing practices (see image above left) alongside ancient woodland management techniques.
Sharon tweeted this photo with the caption:
"When ye don't even get past the spoil heap
in the corner of the 1st meadow,
ye know yer on a @BSBIbotany meeting"
"This management plan can be viewed on the reserve’s dedicated website here, where there is more information of interest to be found for this unique site.
"Let’s start with the carpark because that is where all the best BSBI botanists begin! Here I should mention the presence of a rather handsome looking dry stone wall built by local volunteers.
"Amongst many others, Polygonum aviculare sensu stricto (Knotgrass) and P. arenastrum (Equal-leaved knotgrass) were identified and later confirmed by John Faulkner. Moving into the first field and finding it difficult to lure everyone past the spoil heap in the corner, it became obvious that the whole site could not be covered in one day. Cue the cunning plans forming in one's head to ensure a return visit to this bountiful site in the future!
Foggage field on the reserve
"The first field we explored was a lowland hay meadow habitat type, which by this stage, had gone to seed. Here, Glenn told us about the term "foggage" which is where a grassland meadow is left uncut and ungrazed and is then grazed in late summer after the grasses have flowered. This is also known as “standing hay”.
"Here amongst the common hay meadow suspects of Rhinanthus minor (Yellow rattle), Cynosurus cristatus (Crested dog’s tail) and Centaurea nigra (Common knapweed) for example, was an abundance of the Eyebright, Euphrasia arctica (borealis).
"Great times and great weather!"
"We had a cosy, dry, wind-proof and chairs-provided lunch in the recently converted outbuilding on the farm used for various activities including a Wild Gym.
"Following this, we moved into the wetland site proper of the reserve to explore some of the late summer species of these habitats.
"This area was quite species-rich, with lots of plants to keep us busy. In particular, Mentha arvensis (Corn mint), got us talking and checking our ID books.
Botanists exploring the flora of Loch Bran
"The star species of this plant hunt came from the Cyperaceae family.
"Most of these were found on the bog habitats of Loch Bran.
"Three sedge species in particular elicited excitement amongst the group given that they have sharply contrasting distributions across Ireland but were all found in this one site:
Carex diandra (Lesser tussock sedge), is characteristic of wet fens, primarily in the centre of Ireland but extending into the north. It is noticeably more widespread in Ireland than in GB.
Carex limosa (Bog sedge), occurs largely in bog pools in the west but with scattered occurrences further east.
John Faulkner & Dave Riley discuss
differences between Goat and Grey Willow.
Finally, Carex pallescens (Pale sedge), has a very pronounced northern distribution, being almost confined to Ulster with a few scattered occurrences elsewhere.
"We had a brilliant day – the company was great, so were the plants and it was a very interesting site. Thanks again to all who participated - can't wait to do it again!"
Many thanks to Sharon for this account of a great day's botanising with lovely people - and for telling us about Drumnaph Nature Reserve and how it's managed for wildlife. What an interesting site!
BSBI Plant Referee on the case, Part II
Giant Horsetail - in close-up
Image: M. Allen
Last month, we reported on what happened when Martin found an unusual Horsetail and, as a BSBI member, was able to contact the BSBI's expert referee for Horsetails. Now here's the second part of Martin's story:
"Thanks to Pat, the BSBI’s expert referee, I now know that what I found was an unusual form of Giant Horsetail.
When Pat searched the shelves of the Natural History Museum Herbarium (which has one of the most important collections of ferns and other seed-free vascular plants in the world) there was not one there with secondary branching.
Giant Horsetail - in abundance!
However, recently Pat found one in the field with “most stems having a solitary secondary branch per stem somewhere near around two thirds up and it was on many of the stems” and so had to change his notes from ‘never’ to ‘rarely branches’.
Pat then told me: “Early this year or last I was sent a specimen that had enormous numbers of secondary branches but right along the branches unlike your ones which seemed to be concentrated around the middle close to the stem … Therefore, I have only seen three in recent years with this condition but it may just be that I never looked before. I always do now.”
Close-up showing secondary
branching on Field Horsetail
So, I’m very pleased to have been able to add to the sum of knowledge about our UK flora – hopefully the UK Floras we use in the field will be updated in time with a change of ‘never’ to ‘rarely’ – though I’m still rather bewildered that I never noticed it before in over ten years of visiting that wood, which considering the vast patches that are present next to the path seems to be quite a tricky feat!
Following on from this I started to notice secondary branching in another Horsetail I saw whilst out surveying. I sent a couple of specimens to Pat because I thought they were Field Horsetail (Equisetum arvense), but again was confused as my field Flora says it is only simply branched.
Pat writes “I regularly find secondary branching on larger plants of E. arvense with green stems but also a lot on the larger stemmed plants where the internodes are turning or are mostly white.” And that “this is a reasonably common affair in large colonies of E. arvense.”
Secondary branching
on Field Horsetail
It seems to be reasonably common near me too as I noted at least eight different sites locally over the last few months – it made me wonder how many of us note the secondary branching and assume it is Wood Horsetail (often given as the only UK Horsetail with secondary branching): A useful reminder to look closely at other features too before making an identification".
Many thanks to Martin for these useful notes about Horsetails and a timely reminder of how incredibly helpful and approachable BSBI's expert plant referees are! I hope Martin's comments encourage fellow members, whatever their skill level, to use the referee service more frequently.
Faith's Plant Families Workshops: botanical training opportunities in Scotland
Dan & botanists at the workshop in Glencoe
Image courtesy of F. Anstey
Last February, we reported on the training programme which Faith Anstey and her team had planned for the year ahead - a series of workshops focusing on plant families. As the 2016 botanical season draws to a close, Faith has been in touch again with this short report on how those workshops went and plans for 2017:
"We held three one-day Plant Families Workshops in 2016 – our fourth year of operation – at Glencoe, Stirling and Dundee, in association with Plantlife.
"There were 55 participants in total, all of whom expressed their enthusiasm and gratitude for the opportunity to learn more about plant ID.
Robin (on right) & botanists
at the workshop in Stirling
"They were mainly young adults working, studying or volunteering in plant-related activities; their aims to increase their skills and enhance their prospects they considered to have been well met. Fifteen leaders and tutors volunteered their time and expertise to provide this. Although we aimed to break even, we ended up with a small financial surplus.
"For spring 2017 we plan two Plant Families Workshops, in Glasgow and Ayrshire – precise dates and venues yet to be arranged. These will follow the current successful format, including free copies of the Pocket Guide to Wildflower Families, which has this year been a popular seller to a wider market.
Ian & botanists at the workshop in Glencoe
"After much demand for a follow-up course, we have decided to run a workshop on grass identification for beginners in Edinburgh in 2017. This will be targeted at people who have done the Plant Families course (or are at an equivalent level) but up to now may have believed identifying grasses to be horrendously difficult and only for experts.
"By concentrating on the commonest species of neutral grassland, we hope to enable them to recognise and if necessary record these with confidence, paving the way for tackling the less familiar ones at a later stage".
Many congratulations to Faith on establishing such a very successful annual programme of training workshops. You will be able to book for them nearer the time via the Scotland page on the BSBI website, and don't forget that on our Training page we also have a list of short botany courses run by other providers from across Britain and Ireland.
Diary of a Young Darwin Scholar: Days 4 & 5
After three very enjoyable but botany-lite days as a Young Darwin Scholar, George Garnett finally gets his teeth into some plants and spends time in the field with ace botany tutor Mark Duffell.
Over to George for the final instalment of his diary:
Tuesday 23rd August 2016:
Young Darwins learning from the experts
Image courtesy of G. Garnett
"This was a day of identifying things so I was in my element! A moth trap had been set up on Sunday. We emptied it on Monday, keeping the moths in the fridge. Tuesday morning was spent identifying all the moths that we’d caught using picture guides and keys. This data is then used to study the annual flight times of these species at Preston Montford. These data can be useful in studying population trends in the species and provide an insight into how climate change is influencing the moths’ flight times.
After listening to two interesting talks, one on biological recording and the other on the FSC’s publications department; we prepared to do a Bioblitz of the centre. Present were experts in the fields of Bees/Wasps, Dragonflies/Damselflies, soil invertebrates and of course, plants!
Centaurium erythraea
Image: G. Garnett
The day was split into a morning and afternoon session. We were given the opportunity to choose what we wanted to study in each session.
I decided to spend the morning session Bioblitzing Bees and Wasps with Ian Cheeseborough. I really enjoyed this. I’ll admit to knowing very little about anything in the natural world other than plants (and I’ve still got a lot to learn in botany), so it was nice to learn a bit about such an important group of insects.
Highlights were the numerous beautiful Ruby-Tailed Wasps, as well as other parasitic wasps and the fascinating solitary bee species. In many ways identification requires many of the same skills used in botany, so it was interesting to draw parallels.
Overall, I’m glad I chose this session. It’s sometimes nice to know the identity of the bee or wasp sitting on the plant you’re looking at!
The gall Livia junci
The afternoon session was the one I’d been waiting for however: Botany with Mark Duffell! The first half was spent using Stace to identify Juncus species, a group of plants I know very little about. We found Juncus articulatus, J. effusus and J. inflexus, all growing alongside each other in a damp patch of turf near a pond margin.
Continuing our walk around the pond, we came across Lycopus europaeus and Epilobium hirsutum. We then stumbled across another patch of rushes, all of which we’d already seen, except J. acutiflorus which we duly keyed out. We soon reached a sandy, and in places, sparsely vegetated area on the pond margin where we found yet another rush, the diminutive J. bufonius.
This small area also produced two exciting records. Firstly, I spotted a small pink flower in the turf. This turned out to be Centaurium erythraea, the first official record of this species at Preston Montford since 1963! There were around 3 flowering plants, and one rosette that will most likely flower next year.
Juncus bufonius
Near to this, Mark spotted an unusual looking rush inflorescence which he informed me was a gall made by Livia junci. This is an invertebrate but it was the first ever record of this species at Preston Montford. No mean feat considering Preston Montford is one of the most recorded locations in Shropshire!
This had to be my favourite day of the course. The Preston Montford campus is really biodiverse and it was a privilege to learn out in the field from people so knowledgeable. Just like the rest of the week, the weather was also fantastic! Thanks to Ian and Mark for sharing their knowledge.
To end the day we had dinner with the Darwin Scholars who come from all over the world and work in conservation. It was fascinating to hear about conservation in countries so different from my own. We then walked around campus with students from Vision England which was a nice end to the evening.
Wednesday 24th August 2016:
As on Monday day, this was a half day. We entered records from our Bioblitz of Preston Montford into iRecord and discussed career plans. Then at lunchtime it was sadly time to say our goodbyes.
I had a great time on the course; I learned absolutely loads and met some really great people. I’m sure that I will continue to gain from the scholarship and am really grateful to the FSC and the sponsors of the scheme (including BSBI) for giving me this opportunity. Thanks also to Angela Munn and Cathy Preston for organising and tutoring the course.
If you are interested in the natural world and are aged between 16 and 17, I really hope you consider applying for the scholarship, I can’t recommend it highly enough".
Catch up with George at the BSBI Exhibition Meeting in November, when he will be presenting an exhibit about his botanical exploits this year. And many thanks to him for sharing his Diary of a Young Darwin Scholar.
Diary of a Young Darwin Scholar: Day 3
Following a break for yesterday's coverage of BSBI at the launch of the State of Nature report, we now return to George Garnett's Diary of a Young Darwin Scholar. This is an FSC scheme which is supported by BSBI and aims to help young naturalists - the next generation of 'Darwins'.
George happy to be proved wrong!
Image: Sorrel Lyall
We left George on his second evening at FSC Preston Montford, having failed to see a badger and with little faith in the Longworth traps he and fellow scholars set before they went to bed. Over to George for Day 3:
Monday 22nd August 2016
"The next morning we went to check our traps. I’ll admit, I was wrong to be pessimistic! We found loads of small mammals: 5 bank voles and a wood mouse. In my trap was a bank vole as can be seen in the plastic bag in the picture.
I was pleased to have caught something so I was happy to be proved wrong!
The main activity of the day however, was canoeing down a section of the River Severn. We were in Canadian canoes which were rafted together in pairs. In the morning, we just paddled downstream pointing out anything of interest.
George's catch: a bank vole,
just before it was released again
We saw Herons, Mute Swans, Sanderlings, Banded and Beautiful Demoiselles, a Kingfisher, numerous Willow species (Crack, White, Grey) and lots and lots of Himalayan Balsam!
The most exciting find had to have come from our boat though, an otter.
Running with the theme of animals I have missed, all I managed to see was the ripple it left behind after diving back under the surface of the water. It was some consolation that half of our boat and the other two boats had also missed it.
After lunch, we were given a net and tray to carry out freshwater sampling and determine water quality using the invertebrate species composition.
Unfortunately we did not find a single invertebrate, instead catching small fry fish. In hindsight, our lack of success may have been because we were not sampling in gravelly areas where many of the freshwater invertebrates live.
The view from the canoe
Image: Fiona Boyle
The second activity required that each boat design a method of sampling Himalayan Balsam populations on the riverbanks from a canoe.
In this we were more successful and did end up with data that could potentially be useful, with a little refinement to the method.
I won’t go into detail of the method here however, as I want to keep this blog post relatively brief!
This was a really lovely day out and again, it was nice to appreciate Shropshire’s natural beauty and continue learning more and more from my fellow scholars.
Birds at Venus Pool NR
The rest of the afternoon was spent on dry land back at the centre where we enjoyed a talk from two ecological consultants on how to forge a path on this career.
It was eye opening and although not a path I currently intend to take, it’s always good to keep an open mind.
After dinner we visited the Venus Pool Nature Reserve, owned and managed by the Shropshire Ornithological Society.
Evening at Venus Pool NR
My knowledge on birds is embarrassingly poor so I was grateful to the birders in the group who could name the species we encountered for me. Among these were Green Sandpipers, Lapwings, Little Egrets and Greenshanks.
We were even fortunate enough to hear, and then see, Barn Owls in the arable fields on the reserve".
Good to hear that, after so many near-misses, George had a few decent sightings at last but that's the trouble with animals - they fly/run/wriggle away before you can get a good look. Plants on the other hand sit still very obligingly until you've got the ID book out and applied your handlens!
In tomorrow's final instalment, George gets to do some botany at last, and with an expert tutor - tune in tomorrow for what George describes as his "favourite day of the course!"
BSBI at the State of Nature 2016 launch
The audience at the State of Nature launch 2016
On a sweltering hot day, the Royal Society in central London wouldn't usually be a botanist's destination of choice. But that's exactly where I and Kevin Walker, BSBI Head of Science, headed for yesterday, to join representatives from our 53 partner organisations at the launch of the 2016 State of Nature report.
Sir David Attenborough opened the proceedings, as he had at the launch of the first State of Nature report in 2013, to which BSBI also contributed, with Kevin Walker a co-author on both reports as well as papers like this one.
After a few words summarising the report and thanking Secretary of State Andrea Leadsom MP for attending the event, Sir David handed over to Dr Trevor Dines, Plantlife's Botanical Specialist and a longstanding BSBI member.
Sir David, Trevor and the Secretary of State
Trevor's talk was a tour de force, starting with Matt Damon on Mars and the affirmation #iamabotanist, and taking us through the changing fortunes of the wildflowers on the family farm where he grew up.
He closed with images of three plants whose names were recently removed from the Junior Oxford Dictionary and invited the audience to guess their identity.
All present were able to name Bluebell, Buttercup and conker and so could legitimately say #iamabotanist - but will the next generation find it as easy to recognise these common plants?
Kevin congratulates Trevor
on a great talk
You can read Trevor's talk in full here.
BSBI's data and analysis have already helped reveal the plight of once common plants such as Harebell, Ragged-robin and Wild Strawberry, which are now assessed (under internationally-recognised criteria) as Near Threatened in England. So the pleasure of seeing those distinctive blue flowers nodding in the breeze, or parting foliage to reveal jewel-like fruits, has already become a less common occurrence for children in England.
The State of Nature report challenges us to think about whether we are happy with this state of affairs and if not, how we propose to turn things around.
Andrea Leadsom then took took the podium and there is good coverage of her comments here, here and here, including a commitment to "truly ambitious plans for the environment" and a forthcoming "25 year plan for nature" as well as using new technology in innovative ways. You can read the full speech here.
The panel - click on the image to enlarge it
The Secretary of State also confirmed "we must have good data" on which to base policy, which of course is where BSBI comes in, with our database of 31 million plant records, collected by thousands of our volunteer members, augmented by insightful analysis of these data by our Science Team.
As the State of Nature report flags up, more than 7.5 million volunteer hours go into monitoring the UK's nature every year. That grand total includes the contribution of BSBI botanists!
A panel discussion followed, looking at ways forward, with contributions from the farming and business communities alongside wildlife campaigners such as Iolo Williams, whose passionate defence of the natural world and criticism of recent government policy and reduction of funding in this area drew loud applause.
BSBI members always like to read a range of views and then make up their own minds on any issue, so you may want to look at these comments from the Countryside Alliance alongside this personal opinion from Miles King.
Everybody wanted to talk to Kevin!
My personal opinion is that we should be applauding those farmers who are taking action to support wildlife on their land and working together to find innovative and cost-effective ways to help and support those who are not yet doing so. Farmers a generation ago rose heroically to the challenge of providing us with more and cheaper food. I'm optimistic that, with the right support and encouragement, the current generation of farmers will feel able to throw themselves just as enthusiastically and effectively into managing the land for biodiversity AND for food production.
But that's just one opinion and BSBI's role, as always, will be the provision of hard data showing which plants grow where and how this is changing over time, alongside objective analysis, supplied by our Science Team, on which policy decisions can be based.
Kevin exchanges ideas with Martin Harper, RSPB
The launch closed with an opportunity for networking and Kevin Walker was in great demand as always, chatting to colleagues from agencies and NGOs such as Plantlife and RSPB, whose Director of Conservation Martin Harper was kind enough to comment on how much he likes the BSBI Twitter feed, especially #wildflowerhour
You can see the State of Nature infographic here on the BSBI website and click here to download the full report from the RSPB website. To find out how BSBI can help you make a contribution to the essential data on which our policy-makers rely, please click here and here.
Apologies to BSBI botanist George Garnett that the serialisation of his 'Diary of a Young Darwin Scholar' was interrupted by State of Nature coverage. But as a passionate teenage wildlife enthusiast, I think he'd be the first to agree that the State of Nature report is very important and so we needed to cover it on these pages. The next instalment from George will be posted here tomorrow.
I'll close with the logos of the partner organisations who contributed to the State of Nature report. BSBI is proud to be amongst their number. Can you spot our logo?
George talking about Asplenium hybrids,
BSBI Exhibition Meeting 2015
Natural History Museum, London
Image: T. Swainbank
Regular News & Views readers will be well aware of botanist George Garnett, one of our younger members, from his talk at last year's BSBI Annual Exhibition Meeting, his exhibit the previous year, or his participation in the New Year Plant Hunt.
This year, George was selected for a Young Darwin Scholarship, under a scheme set up by the Field Studies Council (FSC) in 2012 and supported this year, as in previous years, by BSBI (and several other charities).
George kept a diary of his first week as a Young Darwin Scholar and here we present the first instalment. Over to George:
Ryan, George (centre) & Reuben,
Image: K. Garnett
"Every year, 15 nature enthusiasts aged between 16 and 17 are awarded scholarships to support and encourage their interest.
"The Young Darwin Scholars (YDS) attend an introductory field course at FSC’s Preston Montford centre in Shropshire. The aim of this course is to allow the year’s Young Darwin Scholars to meet each other, and to develop knowledge. In future years, the YDS receive bursaries for further FSC courses and there are also reunions which allow the Young Darwin Scholars to meet again, and to meet Scholars from other years.
"I was fortunate enough to be selected for the Young Darwin Scholarship this year and so here is a short overview of the experience.
The course started at lunchtime on the first day. This day was mainly about getting to know each other and the course leaders; as well as settling into the accommodation in the lovely Preston Montford house. Our first task was an Open Air Laboratories (OPAL) earthworm survey in an area of the campus designated as an allotment. We searched for mature earthworms in a 20 x 20 x 10 cm pit and upon finding them, we identified them. Except, my group didn’t find any. Oh well, we were united in our disappointment.
Our next stop was a visit to the garden of the man who has inspired us all, and from whom the course takes its name: Charles Darwin. Darwin was a resident of Shrewsbury, where his large house and expansive grounds are open to the public. We were told the history of the estate and how it influenced the young Darwin in his ideas that would later go on to shape scientific thinking so profoundly. The grounds were also a haven for wildlife and we were allowed time to explore and find animals or plants that we could then show each other.
Sunday 21st August 2016
Exploring Snailbeach lead mine
This was our first full day, after a good breakfast we drove to the Snailbeach lead mine. Here we were given the chance to explore the visitor centre and were given a short history of the mine. Then we were lucky enough to enter the mine itself. Here we walked through the claustrophobic tunnels, learning about the extraction of ores such as Galena and attempting to spot what hadn’t been mined out in the heyday of the mine before it became unproductive in 1955.
This was a really interesting morning. It was great to learn a bit about the mine’s history and the geology of the area. Thanks to the Shropshire Mines Trust for showing us around and telling us about the Snailbeach Mine.
After exploring the mine, we had the chance to study the flora and fauna of a lead spoil outside the mine. There was nothing particularly rare plant wise, mainly; Tussilago farfara, Polypodium interjectum, Campanula rotundifolia and some very unhealthy looking Fraxinus excelsior seedlings! I did see Mycelis muralis for the first time here though. Clearly the spoil heap had a relatively high pH, perhaps due to the calcite extracted from the mine.
Mycelis muralis
Botany tutor Mark Duffell had this to say about the flora of Snailbeach:
“Snailbeach is an odd site, there is an area of sown grassland below the mine that has lots of very weird species, partly because it has been sown (20 years ago?) with a seed mix that contains native species but the wrong subspecies (hence the common roadside verge sown Lotus corniculatus ssp. sativus and Onobyrnchis viciifolia), weirdest of all is a first county record of an unusual subspecies of Bladder Campion Silene vulgaris.”
Unfortunately I didn’t see this area of grassland but it’s definitely one for next time I visit the area!
The afternoon was spent walking Stiperstones, the second highest hill in Shropshire. We spent around four hours admiring the quartzite formations and vast areas of heather, although there was some debate as to whether this heather should truly be there, which of course led to the question; are there any truly wild areas left in Britain? That debate is beyond the realms of this blog post however. The heathland also provided masses of bilberries which were a highlight of the walk for many!
Of particular interest was the ancient Holly grove, one of the oldest in Europe. It was protected for so long due to its use as a supply of winter fodder for the livestock that were farmed on the hills. It is amazing to think what the gnarled, stunted trees have seen in the centuries that they have stood there.
The Shropshire countryside
This walk was a great opportunity to appreciate the beauty of Shropshire, a county I’d previously only travelled through, and hearing everyone’s different opinions on various conservation issues was enlightening.
Old holly and hawthorn at the end of Day 2
That evening, back at the Preston Montford centre, we learnt how to set Longworth small mammal traps and each of us placed one in an area of hedge on the edge of a nearby field. I was full of doubt as I had used Longworth traps before with a group and had been exceedingly unsuccessful.
The final activity of the day was badger watching at a nearby sett. I had never seen a badger (they don’t live on Guernsey, where I’m based!) and so the thought of seeing one was an exciting prospect. We sat for a good hour or so on the slope overlooking the sett. Two people in the group by chance had picked the perfect spot and spent the hour watching badgers. The rest of us couldn’t see a thing and couldn’t move for fear of disturbing the animals! I’ll have to wait a little longer until I can say I’ve seen a badger".
We'll leave George there and return tomorrow for Day 3 - having missed out on the badger, and the mature earthworms, will his Longworth traps yield anything interesting? And will he get to see any interesting plants - they are after all his main passion! Find out tomorrow in the second instalment of George Garnett's Diary of a Young Darwin Scholar.
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The Lord spoke to Jeremiah after Jehoiakim had burned the scroll containing what Jeremiah had spoken and Baruch had written down. 1
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Coming from Düsseldorf on the A44 or from Cologne on the A4 drive to the Autobahnkreuz Aachen [motorway intersection Aachen]. From the intersection change to the direction Aachen-Nord, Antwerpen, Heerlen (note the signposts). Leave the motorway at the second exit Aachen-Laurensberg, -Richterich, Herzogenrath and drive in the direction of Aachen (Zentrum, RWTH, Westbahnhof) [Aachen (Center, RWTH, Western Railway Station)]. After about one kilometer take the first slip road at the right to the Toledoring in direction of the Uniklinik [Clinic] (note the signposts). Leave the dual carriageway at the second exit behind the tunnel RWTH-Hörn, Halifaxstraße (do not take the exit RWTH-Melaten, RWTH-Hörn). Now you are in the Halifaxstraße. Turn left at the third crossing into the Mies-van-der-Rohe-Straße. After 100 metres at the left you find the drive to the car park of the computer science building.
By train & public transport
Starting from the central station there is no direct bus connection to the computer science building.
By foot through the Bahnhofstraße (opposite the main gate of the central station) down to the Theaterstraße. There you take the bus number 33 (direction Uniklinik or Vaals) as far as the bus stop Halifaxstraße (driving time about 20 minutes).
When you leave the main station, cross the big street in front of the station, and get one of the busses with direction to Bushof. Get of at the inner city bus stop Elisenbrunnen (diagonally opposite the theatre) or the central bus station (Bushof). The bus numbers 12, 22, 23, 75 (direction Hörn Physikzentrum) and 33 (direction Uniklinik or Vaals) drive to the bus stop Halifaxstraße (driving time about 20 minutes).
Bus schedules are available here, the bus numbers 12/22/23 and 33 go every 15 minutes during working hours.
Alternatively, you can go to the station Aachen-West instead of the main station of Aachen. At the exit of the station, go right and follow the street "Seffenter Weg". After 200 metres, turn left into Mies-van-der-Rohe-Straße. After 500 metres, you will reach the computer science building, which is nearly on top of the hill.
The premises of the Lehrstuhl für Informatik 5 are in the second floor of the extension wing E2 (entrance Mies-van-der-Rohe-Straße).
For travelling to Aachen you can choose one of these airports (ordered by distance to Aachen):
Maastricht-Aachen (in The Netherlands)
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Brussels (in Belgium)
The closest airports are Maastricht or Moenchengladbach but they do not have many international flights. The airports Duesseldorf and Cologne are about 1:30 hours away by train. Brussels is two hours by train.
The best way to get to Aachen from any airport (or from the Netherlands, Belgium or other cities in Germany) is by train. Train schedules, also for international trains from Belgium, France or the Netherlands, are available here.
Our chair is marked on this map (2nd floor of the building at the marker). An older static map is also available.
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India: risk assessment
May 2019 BB BBB BB BBB BB BB
Shreyans Bhaskar (lead analyst); Anwita Basu (analyst). Published 17 May 2019, 2100 GMT.
These ratings are restated from the Ratings Report indicated above, which was produced outside the European Union, and therefore are not issued by The Economist Intelligence Unit credit rating agency, which is registered in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1060/2009 of 16 September 2009, on credit rating agencies, as amended. This report and the ratings, therefore, are not issued pursuant to such Regulation and do not fall within its scope.
The Economist Intelligence Unit does not expect the government to consolidate its fiscal position in 2019-20. However, improved economic fundamentals in the assessment period will support the score in this category.
The currency risk rating remains at BBB. The rupee remains vulnerable to volatile portfolio flows, owing to the country's large financing requirement. Conversely, the vast foreign-exchange reserves of the Reserve Bank of India (the central bank) provide it with sufficient liquidity to intervene in case of sudden volatility in the currency markets.
Banking sector risk remains BB-rated. High levels of bad debt remain a key risk factor for the banking sector in India. The regulatory environment remains lax, in an attempt to drive credit-fuelled economic growth.
The political risk rating stays at BBB. The 2019 general elections resulted in a single-party majority for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). This will underpin a strong score for political stability in 2019-20.
Economic structure risk retains its BB rating. A large stock of public debt and low levels of income per head continue to depress the score. Risks are further aggravated by concerns about the quality of official economic data.
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Curatorial Statement
Funk, God, Jazz, and Medicine: Black Radical Brooklyn launches from the site of Weeksville, a free and intentional community established in 1838 by Black citizens just eleven years after emancipation in New York. Black investors and abolitionists, including founder James Weeks, grew this intentional community to more than 500 households. This vibrant neighborhood—which included schools, churches, newspapers, and activist organizations such as the African Civilization Society—was subsumed over time by the growing city of Brooklyn. In 1968, three historic houses were “rediscovered” by prop plane thanks to a team that included artist and activist Joan Maynard. As Weeksville Heritage Center’s first Executive Director, Maynard led critical archeological digs and a community-based movement for preservation and landmarking.
This month-long exhibition draws inspiration from Weeksville’s incredible story of achieving self-determination through creating and preserving an intentional community of refuge and Black power. It also acknowledges the continued legacy of individuals, institutions, and movements that have sustained Weeksville’s core values in the contested landscape of Crown Heights and Bedford-Stuyvesant, from the nineteenth century until today.
In 2012, Rashida Bumbray and Nato Thompson began discussing a project that would explore African-American life and geographic space, and specifically the intersections of race and space in the contemporary reality of contested landscapes within our changing cities. The initial intention was to consider what cultural signposts exist as markers of Black resistance and protest to the terrorism and trauma of gentrification, stop-and-frisk, and police brutality. This led us to Weeksville, and its 150 years of creating space for humanity, dignity, and refuge in the midst of the violence of white supremacy. When we began conversations with Weeksville Heritage Center—and its then-programming and education team Elissa Blount Moorehead, Jennifer Scott, Rylee Eterginoso, and Shawn Peters—they urged taking a more deeply nuanced approach, drawn from the perspective of their own institutional positionality. The conversation moved to the development of a lens informed by self-determination and willful success, as an alternative to a narrative informed solely by struggle. With this lens intact, we began looking both back in time and into the future, inviting artists to respond to these intersections of the historical and contemporary by using existing local assets as their inspiration and directive.
For this exhibition, the curators have invited four artists to engage the history of Weeksville in intense collaboration with four community-based organizations to create site-specific artworks on the theme “self-determination.” These partnerships pair four artists with four community partners whose commitment to self-determination embodies their long-standing historical and cultural relevance to this neighborhood. Xenobia Bailey has been working for 20 weeks with Boys & Girls High School students to produce “funk-tional” handmade furniture from recycled materials for Century 21: Bed-Stuy Rhapsody in Design: A Reconstruction Urban Remix in the Aesthetic of Funk, designed in the African-American aesthetic of Funk and installed inside one of Weeksville’s historic Hunterfly Road Homes. Bradford Young has partnered with Bethel Tabernacle AME Church to create Bynum Cutler, a film on refuge and diaspora installed inside the historic church sanctuary at P.S.83 that honors the church’s elders–the “Living Legends”–while revealing tensions between collective forgetting and changing cityscapes. Otabenga Jones & Associates, together with the Central Brooklyn Jazz Consortium, has turned the back of a 1959 pink Cadillac into OJBK FM, a community radio station that investigates connections between jazz, hip-hop, self-determination, and the history of “the East,” (1969-1985), a legendary Bed-Stuy educational, political and cultural hub. Simone Leigh has brought Brooklyn-based health and wellness practitioners to the historic Stuyvesant Mansion, creating the temporary Free People’s Medical Clinic to explore the beauty, dignity and power of Black nurses and doctors whose work is often hidden from view. Connecting all four sites is the Weeksville historical audio guide, which illuminates histories that might otherwise be invisible within the current local landscape, while allowing the artists to narrate their artworks.
These projects—which touch upon issues of community and individual enterprise, migration and memory, the radical tenets of music, and self-reliance in healthcare—hope to do so with a keen awareness of the complex relationships, histories, and economies embedded in this neighborhood. This neighborhood, with its intense history, is both a counterpoint to, and a mirror of the contested landscapes where Black people have sewn seeds, built homes, created legacies and institutions while struggling globally for sustainability.
-Nato Thompson, Rashida Bumbray, Rylee Eterginoso
Funk: Xenobia Bailey
God: Bradford Young
Jazz: Otabenga Jones & Assocs.
Medicine: Simone Leigh
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We wanted to share our story because we have a passionate desire to educate and empower other people about destructive cults. There are friends, family members out there who may feel helpless about their own situations. They have witnessed the changes in their loved ones firsthand and it breaks their hearts. I can now see more clearly what my own family and friends have gone through. We feel that it is essential for education on cults to be spread, for the awareness to grow in leaps and bounds. Right now, there is such a taboo around the word cult and there are some basic misconceptions about what goes on with mind control. One of the things that we really want to re-emphasize is that this could happen to anyone.
One of our other goals right now is to expose Michael Guen as a cult leader and prevent him from manipulating and abusing other people. He is set to have a big “coming out” with his business One Effort Living and we’ll be right beside him providing the information that the public needs to make educated choices. Over the past few months, I have been cycling through so many emotions, ranging from anger to sadness to complete relief. After all the feelings clear away, what is left in me is an activist. And Karl feels the same way too. I am using my anger in a productive way, not to just damage someone’s reputation but to bring to light something that is morally legally wrong.
Lastly, we hope to overcome the taboos surrounding this shameful topic. No one thinks that it could happen to them or their family members. No one wants to believe that there are evil people out there who are taking advantage of other people ruthlessly and without remorse. We read about corruption in the government and in big corporations and it is a fact that we have unintentionally elected psychopaths into the system. Or else they have found their ways into positions of power. I believe that this is happening way more often than we give it credit.
Furthermore, we have also learned about one-on-one cults, which is basically abusive and manipulative relationships. We can understand now why abused women have a difficult time leaving the ones who hurt them. “But they love me,” they try to reason. This is not true. A psychopath does not know how to truly love. He or she is incapable of it. I know this for a fact, as I began to compare the “love” of Michael Guen with that of Karl, my friends and family. I have more empathy for people who stay in abusive relationships and I can now understand why it is so difficult to leave.
This subject matter is taboo because of the lack of education and basic knowledge. Not all cults completely isolate their members or make them do extreme things like commit mass suicide. In fact, I was a functioning member of society who held a full-time job. No one could tell that I was giving tons of money to the cult leader because I kept it secret. But many people still don’t know what destructive cults are about. Even the professional therapist that we saw for couples counseling had no clue what to do with the situation. He observed our fighting style and tried to help us with our communication skills. Despite the fact that he believed I was in the cult, he did not even make and effort to touch the issue.
One of our friends who was a retired psychologist also did not have an understanding of how cults and mind control works. She thought that Karl should give me more freedom, that I should somehow find my own way. Our friend thought that Karl was being the controlling one. The problem was that I didn’t even know that I was enslaved. I didn’t even know that I needed saving! How was I ever going to find my way? And I thought that I was making my own choices. I would have never admitted to being manipulated by another person, not in a million years.
Our goal to educate and empower individuals feels like a new calling. It is ironic that all this time I have been questioning my abilities and what I really want to do with my life, especially throughout my time in the cult. We want to consult individuals, reach out to concerned family and friends, and help them remove that feeling of helplessness when they realize that their loved are in cults. We are also interested in helping cult members rebuild their lives and heal from their experiences. There is hope. Steve Hassan, one of the foremost cult recover experts, said that if he was able to get out of a cult, than anyone can. We feel the same way.
I don’t see that the last ten years of my life to be completely wasted. In fact, I feel as though it was an inadvertent gift because now I have all this knowledge to teach and share other people. I am incredibly grateful to Karl, my family and friends for supporting me through all this. I have been given a second chance on life.
— Ruth & Karl —
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Privacy Policy Overview
What Categories of Information We May Process
How We Collect or Create Information
Purposes for Which We May Process Your Information
Cookies, Similar Technologies and Online Behavioral Advertising
What is the Lawful Basis for Processing Personal Information
What Information We Disclose to Third Parties
International Transfers of Information
Data Minimization
What Can I Do to Control My Information?
How this Privacy Policy May Change
Summary – Policy Overview
This Policy explains how we may Process your information. This Policy may be amended or updated from time to time, so please check it regularly for updates.
, LLC, with its affiliates and its subsidiaries (collectively, “”, “us”, “our” or “we”), owns, operates, or provides access to, several interactive websites, mobile and connected applications, and other online interactive features and services, including, but not limited to, emails, newsletters, chat areas, forums, communities, sweepstakes and contests (collectively “Services”). This Privacy Policy applies to all information collected about you by , regardless of how it is collected or stored, and describes, among other things, the types of information collected about you when you interact with the Services, how your information may be used, when your information may be disclosed, how you can control the use and disclosure of your information, and how your information is protected.
Except as otherwise noted in this Privacy Policy, is a data controller (as that term is used under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”)), which means that we decide how and why the information you provide to us is processed. Contact details are provided in Section 17 below. This Policy may be amended or updated from time to time to reflect changes in our practices with respect to the Processing of your information, or changes in applicable law. We encourage you to read this Policy carefully, and to regularly check this page to review any changes we might make.
This Privacy Policy covers information collected through the following websites
Summary – Categories of Information We May Process
We may Process: your personal details (e.g., your name); demographic data (e.g., your age); your contact details (e.g., your address); records of your consents; purchase details; details of your employer (where relevant); information about your interactions with our content or advertising; and any views or opinions you provide to us.
We may also Process information about you from your use of our Services (e.g., the type of device you are using, the internet service provider, etc.), including your interactions with content and advertising on the Services.
“Personal Information” means information that is about any individual, or from which any individual is directly or indirectly identifiable.
“Process”, “Processing” or “Processed” means anything that is done with any Personal Information, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organization, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction.
We may Process the following categories of Personal Information about you:
Personal details: your name; username or log in details; password; areas or topics of interest; and photograph (if you or another user posts a photo on the Service).
Demographic information: gender; age/date of birth; nationality; salutation; job title, company information, education, work experience and other professional information; and language preferences.
Contact details: postal address; telephone and/or mobile number; email address; and your public social media handles or profile(s).
Consent records: records of any consents you may have given, together with the date and time, means of consent and any related information (e.g., the subject matter of the consent).
Location information: location data that describes the precise geographic location of your device (“Precise Location Data”).
Purchase and payment details: records of purchases and prices; invoice records; payment records; billing address; payment method; cardholder or accountholder name; payment amount; and payment date.
Employer details: where you interact with us in your capacity as an employee, the contact information of your employer (including name, address, telephone number and email address) to the extent relevant.
Views and opinions: any views and opinions that you or other users choose to send to us, or publicly post about us on social media platforms or in the Services, including on forums.
We also collect other kinds of information from you or other sources, which we refer to as “Other Information” in this Policy, which may include but is not limited to:
Information about your use of the Services, such as usage data and statistical information, which may be aggregated.
Browsing history including the websites or other services you visited before and after interacting with the Services.
Searches for and interactions with e-commerce opportunities, such as merchants and offers contained in the Services.
Non-precise information about the approximate physical location (for example, at the city or zip code level) of a user’s computer or device derived from the IP address of such computer or device (“GeoIP Data”).
Device identification (“ID”), which is a distinctive number associated with a smartphone or similar handheld device, but is different than a hardware serial number.
Advertising ID, which is a unique, user-resettable identification number for advertising associated with a device (e.g., iOS uses the Identifier for Advertising (or “IDFA”) and Android uses Google Advertising ID).
Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, which is a unique string of numbers automatically assigned to your device whenever you access the Internet.
Internet connection means, such as internet service provider (“ISP”), mobile operator, WiFi connection, service set identifier (“SSID”), International Mobile Subscriber Identity (“IMSI”) and International Mobile Equipment Identity (“IMEI”).
Information collected through the use of cookies, eTags, Javascript, pixel tags, device ID tracking, anonymous identifiers and other technologies, including information collected using such methods and technologies about (i) your visits to, and interaction and engagement with, the Services, content and ads on third party websites, applications, platforms and other media channels (“Channels”), and (ii) your interaction with emails including the content and ads therein (collectively, “Online Data”).
Device type, settings and software used.
Log files, which may include IP addresses, browser type, ISP referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamps and/or clickstream data, including any clicks on customized links.
Web Beacons, which are electronic files that allow a website to count users who have visited that page or to access certain cookies.
Pixel Tags, also known as clear GIFs, beacons, spotlight tags or web bugs, which are a method for passing information from the user’s computer to a third party website.
Local Shared Objects, such as Flash cookies, and Local Storage, such as HTML5.
Mobile analytics to understand the functionality of our mobile applications and software on your phone.
Under certain circumstances and depending on applicable law, some of this Other Information may constitute Personal Information. Personal Information together with Other Information is hereinafter referred to as “User Information”.
Summary – Sensitive Personal Information
We do not seek to collect or otherwise Process your Sensitive Personal Information. Where we need to Process your Sensitive Personal Information for a legitimate purpose, we do so in accordance with applicable law. The Services are not intended for use by children.
We do not collect or otherwise Process Personal Information about race or ethnicity, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, physical or mental health, sexual life, any actual or alleged criminal offences or penalties, or any other information that may be deemed to be sensitive under GDPR (collectively, “Sensitive Personal Information”) in the ordinary course of our business. Where it becomes necessary to Process Sensitive Personal Information under GDPR, we would rely on one of the following legal bases:
Compliance with applicable law: We may Process your Sensitive Personal Information where the Processing is required or permitted by applicable law;
Detection and prevention of crime: We may Process your Sensitive Personal Information where the Processing is necessary for the detection or prevention of crime (including the prevention of fraud);
Establishment, exercise or defense of legal rights: We may Process your Sensitive Personal Information where the Processing is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal rights; or
Consent: We may Process your Sensitive Personal Information where we have, in accordance with applicable law, obtained your prior, express consent prior to Processing your Sensitive Personal Information.
The Services are not intended for use by children, especially those under 13. No one under the age of 13 should provide any Personal Information or use our public discussion areas, forums or chats. Minors under the age of 18 are not permitted to make purchases through the Services or obtaining coupons or codes from the Services to purchase goods or services on third party websites. If, notwithstanding these prohibitions, your children disclose information about themselves in our public discussion areas, consequences may occur that are not intended for children (for example, they may receive unsolicited messages from other parties). If it is discovered that we have collected Personal Information from someone under 13, we will delete that information immediately.
Summary – Collection and Creation of Information
We may collect or obtain User Information about you: directly from you (e.g., where you contact us); in the course of our relationship with you (e.g., if you make a purchase); when you make your Personal Information public (e.g., if you make a public post about us on social media); when you download, install, or use any of our Services; when you visit our Services; when you register to use any part of the Services; or when you interact with any third party content or advertising on the Services. We may also receive User Information about you from third parties (e.g., social network sites). We may also create User Information about you, such as records of your interactions with us. is not responsible for Personal Information you volunteer about yourself in public areas of the Services. This Policy does not cover the practices of third parties who may provide information about you to .
Collection of User Information: We may collect User Information about you from the following sources:
Data you provide: We may obtain your Personal Information when you provide it to us across our Services (e.g., where you sign up for emails, newsletters, bulletins, webinars or white papers; register for site membership or create a profile or account on any part of the Services; enter a sweepstakes, contest, competition or prize draw; receive promotional information by SMS text message; participate in surveys; perform search queries through the Services; contact us via email, telephone or by any other means; purchase a subscription, software license or product; or when you provide us with your business card, etc.).
Relationship data: We may collect or obtain your Personal Information in the ordinary course of our relationship with you (e.g., if you purchase a service from us).
Data you make public: We may collect or obtain your Personal Information that you clearly choose to make public, including via social media (e.g., we may collect information from your social media profile(s) if you make a public post about us) or through our chats, forums or communities on the Services.
Service data: We may collect or obtain your Personal Information when you visit, download, use or register to use any part of our Service.
Content and advertising information: If you choose to interact with any third party content or advertising on the Services or Channels, we may receive User Information about you from the relevant third party.
Third party information: We may collect or obtain your Personal Information from third parties who provide it to us. This may include offline channels such as through telephone or direct mail efforts; from customers, vendors, suppliers, third parties, commercially available or publicly-available sources (e.g., data brokers, data aggregators, public databases, etc.); third party affiliate network operators; referral sources; social network sites or services (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.). If you use a third party connection or log-in (e.g., Facebook Connect, Twitter, or Google+) to access the Services, create a membership or profile on any part of the Services, access our content or forward our content to another person, platform or service, we may also receive your username or email address for those third party services or other information available about you or collected from you on those services.
Please note that is not responsible for the information you volunteer about yourself in the discussions in certain public areas of the Services, such as forums, blogs, wikis, chat rooms, private messages, message boards or other publicly accessible interaction, or information that you choose to make public in your member profile or other areas of the Services that allow users to upload or post content. We discourage users from posting such Personal Information in this fashion. You can change your publicly available information at any time via your profile page. To request removal of your Personal Information from these areas, please see Section 17 in this Privacy Policy for further details. In some cases, we may not be able to remove your Personal Information, in which case we will let you know we are unable to do so and why.
This Privacy Policy does not cover the practices of third parties, including those that may disclose information to .
Creation of User Information. We may also create User Information about you, such as records of your interactions with us and details of your purchase history, for internal administrative purposes and analysis. We may also combine data you have provided to us with data obtained from third parties such as social networks and other data collection entities.
Summary – Purposes for Which We May Process Your Information
We may Process User Information for the following purposes: providing the Services to you; communicating with you; providing advertising to you on the Services and Channels; analyzing engagement with our audience; observing user engagement and purchase activity across the Service and Channels; offering business-to-business lead generation services; marketing our services and offerings to current and prospective customers; managing our IT systems; financial management; conducting surveys; ensuring the security of our systems; conducting investigations where necessary; compliance with applicable law; and improving our Services.
The purposes for which we may Process User Information, subject to applicable law, include:
Provision of the Services to You: providing the Services to you from or its partners including (i) offering of contests, as well as chat areas, forums and communities, (ii) posting of your personal testimonial alongside other endorsements, (iii) display of your personal reviews of products or services, (iv) allowing you to search for other website members using information you may already know about that member such as username, full name or gamer profile and identify users matching that criteria, (v) management of your account, and (vi) customer support and relationship management.
Offering and Improving the Services: operating and managing the Services for you; providing personalized content to you; communicating and interacting with you via the Services; identifying issues with the Services and planning improvements to or creating new Services; and notifying you of changes to any of our Services.
Surveys: engaging with you for the purposes of obtaining your views on our Services.
Communications: communicating with you via any means (including via email, telephone, text message, social media, post or in person) regarding news items and other information in which you may be interested, subject to ensuring that such communications are provided to you in compliance with applicable law; maintaining and updating your contact information where appropriate; and obtaining your prior, opt-in consent where required. We may provide direct marketing to you as set out in Section 6 below.
Advertising: providing advertising based on your interests and interactions with the Services and Channels, including using User Information to serve you advertisements on the Services and Channels, as well as licensing segments of User Information to third parties. For further information, please see Section 7 below.
Audience Engagement: identification and development of audience engagement, advertising and promotional strategies on various platforms and channels, both within the Service and on Channels.
User Engagement and Purchases: tracking purchase traffic and activity across the Service and on Channels, including review of your browsing history (if available); provision of analytics and measurement of cost of traffic against money being made.
Commerce Offerings: using cookies to track your browsing history and the amount of money spent at a particular third party merchant’s site to offer coupons and other offers that are relevant to your shopping experience; offering of coupons via SMS messages if a mobile phone number is provided.
Lead Generation: business-to-business lead generation in the provision of leads to customers to improve customer’s target marketing campaigns and services through different strategies. This includes generating leads through phone calls and email newsletter marketing to drive you to content, such as white papers and webinars, offered by B2B, emedia and Salesify, whereupon your contact information will be shared with our customer.
B2BSignals Offering: providing a software product that offers customers to filter through a database of contacts by revenue, employee size, functional roles and more, that allows customers to find the right business-to-business leads to improve their marketing campaigns and services.
Marketing to Customers: We may market to current and prospective customers and their employees who have indicated an interest in doing business with, or have previously conducted business with, in order to further generate and promote our business. Such efforts include sending marketing emails or conducting phone calls to drive the purchase of advertising, Speedtest and Online Data licensing, lead generation and other business services offered by .
IT Administration: administration of ’ information technology systems; network and device administration; network and device security; implementing data security and information systems policies; compliance audits in relation to internal policies; identification and mitigation of fraudulent activity; and compliance with legal requirements.
Security: electronic security measures (including monitoring of login records and access details) to help mitigate the risk of and provide the ability to identify and rectify a security incident.
Financial Management: general business and financial management purposes, including: economic, financial and administrative management; planning and reporting; personnel development; sales; accounting; finance; corporate audit; and compliance with legal requirements
Investigations: detecting, investigating and preventing breaches of policy, and criminal offences, in accordance with applicable law.
Legal Proceedings: establishing, exercising and defending legal rights.
Legal Compliance: Subject to applicable law, we reserve the right to release information concerning any user of Services when we have grounds to believe that the user is in violation of our Terms of Use or other published guidelines or has engaged in (or we have grounds to believe is engaging in) any illegal activity, and to release information in response to court and governmental orders, other requests from government entities, civil subpoenas, discovery requests and otherwise as required by law or regulatory obligations. We also may release information about users when we believe in good faith that such release is in the interest of protecting the rights, property, safety or security of , any of our users or the public, or to respond to an emergency.
Summary – Direct Marketing
We may Process your User Information to contact you with information regarding services that may be of interest to you. You may unsubscribe for free or opt out of SMS messages at any time.
We may Process your User Information to contact you via email, telephone, direct mail, SMS or other methods of communication to provide you with information regarding the Services that may be of interest to you. We may send information to you regarding the Services, upcoming promotions and other information that may be of interest to you, using the contact details that you have provided to us and always in compliance with applicable law.
You may unsubscribe from our newsletter lists at any time by following the unsubscribe instructions included in every email we send. We will not send you any emails from a list you have selected to be unsubscribed from, but we may continue to contact you to the extent necessary for the purposes of any other Services you have requested or for additional emails you have signed up for. You may opt out of any telephone marketing by contacting us at the contact details set out in Section 17 below. You may opt out of SMS messages by texting STOP to the received SMS. You can also text HELP for assistance, or contact Customer Service. You will not be charged by us for receiving or sending SMS messages, however, we make no representations, warranties or guarantees that a particular wireless service program will enable you to participate in an SMS program.
Summary – Cookies, Similar Technologies and Online Behavioral Advertising
We may Process your User Information by placing or reading Cookies and similar technologies on the Services and Channels. For more information, please see our Cookie Policy. Certain tracking technologies enable us to assign a unique identifier to you, and relate information about your use of the Services to Other Information about you, including your User Information for the purposes of learning more about you so we can provide you with relevant content and advertising. We and our partners also use these technologies to analyze trends; administer the Services; collect and store information such as user settings, anonymous browser identifiers and video viewing history; supplement to our server logs and other methods of traffic and response measurement; track users’ location and movements around the Services; gather demographic information about our user base; and to improve our understanding of traffic on the Services, visitor behavior, and responses to promotional campaigns.
and/or certain third parties may collect information about you for online behavioral advertising purposes in order for you to receive relevant interest-based advertising on the Services and on other websites, platforms and media channels. We use Online Data as well as other User Information to send you online behavioral ads. Online Data is aggregated with the Other Information and data we collect and/or similar data collected by partners to create groups of users and certain general-interest categories or segments that we have inferred. We use this information to get a more accurate picture of audience interests in order to serve ads we believe are more relevant to your interests.
and its partners may use cookies and other tracking technologies to analyze trends, administer Services, track users’ movements around the Services and on third party sites, devices and applications, and to gather demographic information about our user base. You can control the use of cookies at the individual browser level, but if you choose to disable cookies, it may limit your use of certain features or functions on the Services. To manage Flash cookies, please click here. Please see our Cookie Policy for more information, including a more in-depth explanation of what cookies are, the different types of cookies used on the Services, and how to change or delete them.
Tracking technologies on the Services may be deployed by and/or by our service providers or partners. Certain tracking technologies enable us to assign a unique identifier to you, and relate information about your use of the Services to other information about you, including your User Information. We may match information collected from you through different means or at different times and use such information along with offline and online information obtained from other sources (including from third parties), including, but not limited to, demographic information and updated contact information, for the purposes of learning more about you so we can provide you with relevant content and advertising.
When you receive email messages or newsletters from us, we may use web beacons, customized links, clear GIFs or similar technologies to determine whether the email has been opened and which links you click in order to provide you with more focused email communications or other information, and/or to aggregate that information with other data we collect to use for some or all of the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy.
We and our partners (including but not limited to e-commerce partners, affiliates, and analytics providers) also may use technologies such as pixel tags, e-tags, IP addresses, Local Shared Objects, Local Storage, Flash cookies and HTML5 to analyze trends; administer the Services; collect and store information such as user settings, anonymous browser identifiers and video viewing history; supplement our server logs and other methods of traffic and response measurement; track users’ location and movements around the Services; gather demographic information about our user base; and to improve our understanding of traffic on the Services, visitor behavior, and responses to promotional campaigns. We may receive reports based on the use of these technologies by these third party companies on an individual and aggregated basis. For example, we may connect information about your IP address to known corporate or User Information and use the associated information related to aggregate content preferences to assist in our efforts to market services to you or the originating corporation(s). Various browsers may offer their own management tools for removing Local Storage. To manage Flash Local Shared Objects please click here.
We may use mobile analytics software to collect data and to better understand the functionality of our mobile software, devices and applications on your phone and other devices. This software may record information such as how often you use the application, the events that occur within the application, aggregated usage, performance data, and where the application was downloaded from. We may link this information to User Information.
and/or certain third parties may collect information about you for online behavioral advertising (“OBA”) purposes in order for you to receive relevant interest-based advertising on the Services and on other websites, platforms and media channels. OBA is also referred to as interest-based advertising.
displays ads on both the Services and on the Channels. We may use Online Data as well as other User Information to send you OBA. For example, if you read an article about a particular subject on the Services, we may use cookies from a vendor to later serve you an advertisement for a particular product or service related to the viewed article. These third party vendors may connect information about pages you visit on the Services with information about pages you visit on other Channels and show you advertising based on this combined information. These advertisements may appear when you are visiting a different section of the Services or on another Channel. Likewise, third party vendors may serve you advertisements when you visit the Services based on your interaction with the Services and other Channels.
The specific providers we use for OBA are subject to change. For a list of some of the applicable providers, click here. For information about how to opt out of tracking methods for these entities and others, click here. For more details about OBA and opting out, see Section 15 below.
Online Data is aggregated with the Other Information and data we collect as described in this Privacy Policy and/or similar data collected by partners to create groups of users and certain general-interest categories or segments that we have inferred based on (a) demographic or interest data and GeoIP Data, (b) the pages you view and links you click when viewing an email or using the Services and those of our partners, and/or (c) the search terms you enter when using certain search services. We use this information to get a more accurate picture of audience interests in order to serve ads we believe are more relevant to your interests. We store page views, clicks and search terms used for ad personalization targeting separately from your Personal Information.
Summary – Lawful Basis for Processing User Information
We may Process your User Information where: you have given your consent; the Processing is necessary for a contract between you and us; the Processing is required by applicable law; the Processing is necessary to protect the vital interests of any individual; or where we have a valid legitimate interest in the Processing.
In Processing your User Information in connection with the purposes set out in this Policy, we may rely on one or more of the following legal bases, depending on the circumstances:
Consent: We may Process your User Information where we have obtained your prior, express consent to the Processing (this legal basis is only used in relation to Processing that is entirely voluntary – it is not used for Processing that is necessary or obligatory in any way);
Contractual necessity: We may Process your User Information where the Processing is necessary in connection with any contract that you may enter into with us;
Compliance with applicable law: We may Process your User Information where the Processing is required by applicable law;
Vital interests: We may Process your User Information where the Processing is necessary to protect the vital interests of any individual; or
Legitimate interests: We may Process your User Information where we have a legitimate interest in carrying out the Processing for the purpose of managing, operating or promoting our business, and that legitimate interest is not overridden by your interests, fundamental rights, or freedoms.
Summary – Disclosure of User Information to Third Parties
We may disclose your User Information to: legal and regulatory authorities; our external advisors; parties who Process User Information on our behalf (“Processors”); any party as necessary in connection with legal proceedings; any party as necessary for investigating, detecting or preventing criminal offences; any purchaser of our business; and any third party providers of advertising, plugins or content used on the Services.
We may disclose your User Information to other entities within the Company group, for legitimate business purposes (including operating the Services, and providing services to you), in accordance with applicable law. In addition, we may disclose your User Information to:
legal and regulatory authorities, upon request, or for the purposes of reporting any actual or suspected breach of applicable law or regulation;
outside professional advisors (such as accountants, auditors, or lawyers), subject to binding contractual obligations of confidentiality;
third party Processors (such as analytic providers; data centers; etc.), located anywhere in the world, subject to the requirements noted below in this Section 9;
any relevant party, law enforcement agency or court, to the extent necessary for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal rights;
any relevant party for the purposes of prevention, investigation, detection or prosecution of criminal offences or the execution of criminal penalties, including safeguarding against and the prevention of threats to public security;
any relevant third party acquirer(s), in the event that we sell or transfer all or any relevant portion of our business or assets (including in the event of a reorganization, dissolution or liquidation);
any relevant third party provider, where our Services use third party advertising, plugins or content. If you choose to interact with any such advertising, plugins or content, information about your activities on the Services and Channels to provide you targeted advertising based upon your interests may be shared with the relevant third party provider. If you click or tap on or otherwise interact with an advertisement, the advertiser may assume that you meet its target criteria;
any sponsors of contests, competitions, sweepstakes and prize draws, or white papers, webcasts or other downloads, the registration data for such events is to be used by us as part of User Information, and may be shared with the sponsor and others, subject to this Policy and the sponsor’s privacy policy. We may also share your information with third party vendors involved in the administration of such events. For contests, competitions, sweepstakes and prize draws, please read the official rules or terms and conditions carefully before you submit your information; and
to third parties whose practices are not covered by this Privacy Policy (e.g., third party providers of goods and services, marketing and advertising companies and agencies, content publishers and retailers).
For some of our Services, we may make some information, such as the name of our users, their mailing address, phone number, email address—and in certain circumstances their employer’s name, company size and other industry data—available on a rental or other basis (e.g., sale) to third party providers of goods and services, for example, when such information is provided in connection with webcasts, white papers or other sponsored downloads.
When you use a co-branded service (a service operated with a partner of ), or register or otherwise provide information on a co-branded site, you grant us permission to pass the collected information back to that partner, which may include third party service providers whose services are embedded into and/or appear within the Services;
With respect to surveys, in the event that responses are publicly disclosed, users will be notified at the time they take the survey. Otherwise we will disclose only aggregate information regarding its users’ responses in surveys to other participants in the survey. Where surveys allow users to submit written comments, and where advises users of the possibility of such disclosure at the time they take the survey, reserves the right to disclose any information provided by users, provided that no User Information identifying a specific user is disclosed.
and some of our advertisers may use third party advertising service companies to serve advertisements, for OBA or otherwise, and perform related services when you interact with the Services. Often, these third party advertising companies employ cookies and other technologies to measure the effectiveness of website, app and email advertisements and to create a record of interaction with our content that they use in conjunction with their advertising which appears on other sites or applications, or for reporting website traffic, app use, statistics, advertisement data and/or other activities on the Services. We also engage third party providers to assist with the segmentation of this data.
We may also sell or transfer Online Data to certain third parties such as advertisers who will use this data to serve ads that they believe are relevant to your interests, and who agree to maintain the confidentiality of this information. Some of these third parties may combine the Online Data with their own data about you to form a more detailed picture.
We may engage third party providers to assist with the collection, storage and segmentation of Online Data and the providers are required to maintain the confidentiality of this information. These third party providers may collect User Information from our Services for their own purposes, including but not limited to monitoring fraud around the web.
We may also engage third parties for the purpose of recognizing our users and delivering interest-based content and advertisements to them. We may share your User Information with our partners such as your name, postal address, email, or other identifier. Our partners may also: (i) collect information directly from your device, such as your IP address, device ID, advertising ID, and information about your browser or operating system; (ii) combine User Information about you received from with information about you from other sites or services; and (iii) place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser.
If we engage a third-party Processor to Process your User Information, the Processor will be subject to binding contractual obligations to: (i) only Process the User Information in accordance with our prior written instructions; and (ii) use measures to protect the confidentiality and security of the User Information; together with any additional requirements under applicable law.
The Services contain links to other sites or partners whose information practices may be different from ours. You should consult the privacy policy of these third parties to learn how your privacy is protected.
Summary – International Transfers of Information
We may transfer your Personal Information to recipients in other countries. participates in the E.U.-U.S. Privacy Shield, the Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield and the APEC Cross Border Privacy Rules System. Where we transfer User Information from the European Economic Area (“EEA”) to a recipient outside the EEA that is not in an adequate jurisdiction, we do so on the basis of standard contractual clauses.
Because of the international nature of our business, we may need to transfer your User Information within the group of companies, and to third parties as noted in Section 9 above, in connection with the purposes set out in this Policy. For this reason, we may transfer your User Information to other countries that may have different laws and data protection compliance requirements to those that apply in the country in which you are located.
participate in and have certified its compliance with the E.U.-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework and the Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework. is committed to subjecting all Personal Information received from European Union (E.U.) member countries and Switzerland, in reliance on the Privacy Shield Framework, to the Framework’s applicable principles. To learn more about the Privacy Shield Framework, please visit the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Privacy Shield List. is responsible for the processing of Personal Information it receives under the Privacy Shield Framework and subsequent transfers to a third party acting as an agent on its behalf. complies with the Privacy Shield principles for all onward transfers of Personal Information from the E.U. and Switzerland, including the onward transfer liability provisions. With respect to Personal Information received or transferred pursuant to the Privacy Shield Framework, is subject to the regulatory enforcement powers of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. In certain situations, may be required to disclose Personal Information in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements. If you are a European individual with a privacy related complaint, concern or question about ’ privacy practices, please contact us by writing to [email protected] (must include “Privacy Policy” in the subject line) and we will respond within a reasonable time after receiving your request. Under certain conditions, more fully described on the Privacy Shield website, European individuals may invoke binding arbitration when other dispute resolution procedures have been exhausted.
Where we transfer your Personal Information from the EEA to recipients located outside the EEA who are not in a jurisdiction that has been formally designated by the European Commission as providing an adequate level of protection for Personal Information, we do so on the basis of standard contractual clauses. You may request a copy of the relevant standard contractual clauses using the contact details provided in Section 17 below.
Please note that when you transfer any Personal Information directly to a Company entity established outside the EEA, we are not responsible for that transfer of your Personal Information. We will nevertheless Process your Personal Information, from the point at which we receive the data, in accordance with the provisions of this Privacy Policy.
privacy practices described in this Privacy Policy comply with the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (“APEC”) Cross Border Privacy Rules System. To learn more about this program, please click here.
Please note that we may use data collected by a third party operator/licensee of localized versions or editions of Services.
Summary – Data Security
We implement appropriate technical and organizational security measures to protect your User Information. Please ensure that any Personal Information that you send to us is sent securely.
We have implemented appropriate technical and organizational security measures designed to protect your User Information against accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure, unauthorized access, and other unlawful or unauthorized forms of Processing, in accordance with applicable law. In certain instances we may use Secure Sockets Layer encryption and/or transfer certain User Information in a non-human readable format to provide protection. However, we cannot guarantee there will not be a breach, and we are not responsible for any breach of security or for the actions of any third parties.
Because the internet is an open system, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will implement reasonable measures to protect your information, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to us using the internet. Any such transmission is at your own risk and you are responsible for ensuring that any Personal Information that you send to us are sent securely.
Summary – Data Accuracy
We take every reasonable step to ensure that your User Information is kept accurate and up-to-date and are erased or rectified if we become aware of inaccuracies.
We take every reasonable step to ensure that your User Information that we Process is accurate and, where necessary, kept up to date, and any of your User Information that we Process that you inform us is inaccurate (having regard to the purposes for which they are Processed) is erased or rectified.
Summary – Data Minimization
We take every reasonable step to limit the volume of your User Information that we Process to what is necessary.
We take every reasonable step to ensure that your User Information that we Process is limited to the User Information reasonably necessary in connection with the purposes set out in this Policy or as required to provide you services or access to the Services.
Summary – Data Retention
We take every reasonable step to ensure that your User Information is only retained for as long as they are needed. Online Data related to OBA is kept by for not more than 180 days after which it will expire, subject to certain conditions.
We take every reasonable step to ensure that your User Information is only Processed for the minimum period necessary for the purposes set out in this Policy. The criteria for determining the duration for which we will keep your User Information are as follows: we will retain copies of your User Information in a form that permits identification only for as long as is necessary in connection with the purposes set out in this Policy, unless applicable law requires a longer retention period. Unless there is a specific legal requirement for us to keep the information, we plan to retain it for no longer than is necessary to fulfill a legitimate business need.
Except as may be set forth in this Privacy Policy, Online Data related to OBA is retained by for not more than 180 days after which it shall expire. However, the 180 day period may commence again if the same user subsequently visits or interacts with an ad, email, the Services or a Channel.
Summary – What Can I Do to Control My Information?
You can directly take steps to change your preferences for newsletters and online behavioral advertising as outlined in this section.
If you are an EU resident, you may have certain rights including: the right not to provide your Personal Information to us; the right of access to your Personal Information; the right to request rectification of inaccuracies; the right to request the erasure, or restriction of Processing, of your Personal Information; the right to object to the Processing of your Personal Information; the right to have your Personal Information transferred to another controller; the right to withdraw consent; and the right to lodge complaints with supervisory authorities. We may require proof of or need to verify your identity before we can give effect to these rights.
You may directly take steps to change your preferences as follows:
Your Newsletter and Email Subscriptions. You can opt out or unsubscribe to a newsletter or other email list at any time by following the instructions at the end of the newsletters or emails you receive. Please allow five to ten business days for changes to take effect. On some Services, member service-related communications are an integral part of such Services to which you subscribe and you may continue to receive emails as part of that particular portion of the Services unless you cancel your account, even if you opt out of the newsletters or email list. If you have provided more than one email address to us, you may continue to be contacted unless you request to unsubscribe each email address you have provided.
Push Notifications. We send you push notifications from time-to-time in order to update you about any events or promotions that we may be running. If you no longer wish to receive these types of communications, you may turn them off at the device level. To ensure you receive proper notifications, we will need to collect certain information about your device such as operating system and user identification information.
OBA. is a member of the Digital Advertising Alliance (“DAA”) in the U.S., E.U. and Canada and uses third party assurance platforms to comply with the DAA principles. strives to adhere to the self-regulatory organization principles for the DAA (US), the DAAC (Canada) and the EDAA (EU). Online ads on the Services using Online Data are delivered with the DAA Ad Marker Icon , which helps users understand how their data is being used and provides choices for users who want more control. This icon is also on each of our web pages and applications where Online Data is collected that will be used for OBA purposes.
The DAA Ad Marker Icon provides information (and links to other information) on online behavioral ads, who is collecting and using your Online Data, how you can opt out and more. If you would prefer that we not collect Online Data that may be used to help determine which advertisements to serve you, opt out by clicking this icon , which can be found on most of our webpages and mobile applications.
European Union and Switzerland residents should visit the European DAA by clicking here.
Canadian residents should visit the DAA of Canada by clicking here.
U.S. residents and residents of all other countries or territories not listed above can click here for the DAA site to learn more about the use of cookies, your opt-out choices, and more.
Cookies and Pixel Tags. You may stop or restrict cookies and pixel tags on your computer or purge cookies from your browser by adjusting your web browser preferences. However, if you “turn off,” purge, or disable cookies or pixel tags, although you may still use the Services, you may not be able to use all of the features, functions, or services available on the Services.
Location Based Services. You may opt-out of having your Precise Location Data collected by at any time by editing the appropriate setting on your mobile device (which is usually located in the Settings area of your device).
California Residents. In accordance with the California Online Privacy Protection Act, we may collect Personal Information about your online activities when you use the Services. While we give our users many avenues to opt out of providing Personal Information, we do not respond to Web browsers’ “do not track” signals. California’s “Shine the Light” law, Civil Code Section 1798.83, permits our users who are California residents to periodically request and obtain certain information about any Personal Information disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes. If you are a California resident and wish to make such a request or if you wish for us to refrain from gathering your Personal Information, please submit your request in writing to the contact details set out in Section 17 below.
EU Residents. GDPR provides certain rights for EU residents. You may decline to share certain information with us, in which case we may not be able to provide some of the features and functionality of the Services. These rights include, in accordance with applicable law, the right to object to or request the restriction of processing of your information, and to request access to, rectification, erasure and portability of your own information. Where we process your information on the basis of your consent, you have the right to withdraw that consent (noting that such withdrawal does not affect the lawfulness of any Processing performed prior to the date on which we receive notice of such withdrawal, and does not prevent the Processing of your Personal Information in reliance upon any other available legal bases). Requests should be submitted by contacting us (using the contact instructions in Section 17 below). If you are an EU resident and have any unresolved privacy concern that we have not addressed satisfactorily after contacting us, you have the right to contact the appropriate EU Supervisory Authority and lodge a complaint.
Summary – Terms of Use
For all other Services, the Terms of Use will govern.
For more information concerning your use of all other Services, please visit the Terms of Use. The Terms of Use is incorporated by reference into this Privacy Policy.
We recommend that you review our Terms of Use regularly, in order to review any changes we might make from time to time.
Summary – Contact Details
You may contact us at the addresses set out below or by emailing [email protected]
If you are an EU resident, you may contact our Data Protection Officer at [email protected]
If you have any comments, questions or concerns about any of the information in this Policy, or any other issues relating to the Processing of User Information carried out by us, or on our behalf, please contact:
Our Data Protection Officer may be contacted at [email protected]
If you have an unresolved concern regarding your privacy or our use of data that we have not addressed satisfactorily, please contact our U.S.-based third party dispute resolution provider (free of charge) by clicking here.
We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time, and all changes will be effective at the time we post them. If we believe there is a significant change to this Privacy Policy or our data collection and use practices, we will indicate on our websites that our Privacy Policy has changed prior to the change becoming effective. The then-posted version of the Privacy Policy supersedes all prior versions. Your continued access to or use of any of the Services shall be deemed your acceptance of the Privacy Policy.
We urge you to come back to this web page and review this Privacy Policy regularly so that you remain aware of the terms and conditions that apply to you.
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Natomas Real Estate
Communities within Natomas
Natomas is a community located in the northwestern area of Sacramento, with easy access to Interstate 80, Interstate 5, Highway 99, and downtown Sacramento, making it a great location for professionals who commute. Natomas is last area of Sacramento that has not been fully developed and saw major growth in the 1990s and 2000s.
Sleep Train Arena, which hosts more than 200 entertainment and sports events annually, is located in Natomas, as is the Sacramento International Airport. The area offers many convenient amenities including shopping, restaurants, weekly farmer’s markets and entertainment for all ages.
Natomas is home to two exemplary school districts. The Natomas Unified School District was named one of the most diverse school districts in a New York Times study. For a more personalized experience, private schools in the area are highly sought after. Higher education institutions in the area include California State University Sacramento, as well as a University of Phoenix campus in Natomas.
Natomas’s Department of Parks and Recreation offers an array of programs, services and facilities for residents. In addition to the 43 parks sprinkled through the area, there are two major parks in Natomas featuring playground structures, ball fields, dog parks, a water park and an amphitheater. Other amenities include a community center, library, rose garden and light rail station.
The Natomas Basin Habitat Conservation Plan acquires and manages land in the area for the benefit of the 22 “special status” species that are protected in the area.
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Mayfield (Las Cruces, NM) previews home
Coach: Michael Bradley
League: 6A District 3 (moving from 5A District 3)
Playoff Division Rank: #2
SENIOR D1 PROSPECT
Kavika Johnson 6'2" 200 Senior QB
2013 Final Power Rating: 43
2013 National Rank: #581
2013 State Rank: #2
D1 Talent (Back/Lost) Rating Adjustment: +1.4
Dynasty National Rank: #164
Dynasty Record: 117-24 (39-5 in league)
2013 Overall Record: 11-2
2013 Wins: #170 Las Cruces (28-20), #822 Cleveland [V. Sue] (Rio Rancho) (34-33), #2079 Rio Rancho (45-24), #2202 El Dorado (El Paso, TX) (17-14), #2636 Eldorado (Albuquerque) (27-19), #2779 Manzano (Albuquerque) (14-6), #3055 Franklin (El Paso, TX) (44-42), #3858 Carlsbad (43-29), #7314 Onate (Las Cruces) (33-10), #7979 Gadsden (Anthony) (49-14), #9593 Alamogordo (59-21)
2013 Losses: #170 Las Cruces (27-26), #3969 Volcano Vista (Albuquerque) (34-14)
Recent State Championships: 2010 (5A), 2007 (5A), 2006 (5A), 2005 (AAAAA)
Recent League Championships: 2013 (5A District 3), 2011 (5A District 3), 2009 (tied for 1st; 5A District 3), 2007 (5A District 3), 2006 (5A District 3), 2005 (AAAAA District 3), 2003 (AAAAA District 3)
Streak List: 8/30/14 Hobbs (55-35)
2014 Schedule: 8/30 Hobbs, 9/5 at Franklin (El Paso, TX), 9/12 at Carlsbad, 9/26 at Eldorado (Albuquerque), 10/4 at Manzano (Albuquerque), 10/10 at Onate (Las Cruces), 10/24 at Deming, 10/25 at Alamogordo, 10/30 at Gadsden (Anthony), 11/7 at Las Cruces
Highest-Rated 2014 Regular Season Opponents: Las Cruces (48.9), Eldorado (Albuquerque) (28.6), Franklin (El Paso, TX) (22.5)
Lowest-Rated 2014 Regular Season Opponents: Alamogordo (-0.1), Onate (Las Cruces) (2.6), Deming (6.8)
2014 Regular Season Schedule Strength State Rank: #8
2014 Undefeated Regular Season Probability: 16%
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Random Reads: Weird War Tales Two-fer
Check it out, Groove-ophiles! Back in the Groovy Age, when you stood before that sensational spinner-rack, you never knew what wonders might await you. Take, for instance, Weird War Tales #40 (May 1975). WWT was always a cool mag with a mix of war, horror, mystery, horror, and sometimes even sci-fi that always gave you your quarter's worth of cool. Ish 40 was one of those surprise issues where you got not one, but two sci-fi oriented war fables--and that was plenty cool enuff to make me plunk down my twenty-five cents. But dig it: one of the sci-fi stories was by Len Wein and Howard Chaykin (inked by Bill Draut), "The Day After Doomsday!" Only two pages, but hey, it was c-o-o-l! When ya made it to the final story of the ish, veterans George Kashdan and Ric Estrada laid a trippy WWII/sci-fi/horror trifecta 'pon us--you know the kind that makes ya go, "Hmm!!" with "The Soldier from Space"! Check 'em out, baby!
Labels: 1970s comic books, 1970s comicbooks, bill draut, DC Comics, george kashdan, howard chaykin, len wein, random reads, ric estrada, sci fi comics, war comics, weird war tales
Didn't read many war comics, but I think Weird War Tales was my favorite, precisely because of stories like these. That second one in particular is a real kick (and a bit sobering).
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Chris Pratt meets the Avengers
Cottonwood RPG :: Other Stuff :: Non Game Stuff
by Father Dugal on Mon Jul 06, 2015 9:59 pm
Remember that crazy fan fiction story I said I'd write about Chris Pratt and the Avengers? Well, the madness has come home to roost...
When last we left our heroes...
Captain America and Ironman were transporting Loki, a dangerous megalomaniac with glowing black hair, to a maximum security prison facility. On route, their helicopter encountered a thunderstorm. From out of the lightning, a strange being landed on the copter and made off with the fugitive to a nearby convenient island. Ironman and Cap, none the worse for the wear, both gave chase in pursuit of a potential new enemy...
"Jarvis, give me a tactical," Iroman said as he sailed through the night air, approaching mach-one.
"Certainly, sir. Captain America has already made landfall on the island below. Currently, he is in front of the intruder blocking his way to the target."
"Good," said Ironman. "If anything changes, let me know."
"Of course, sir," said Jarvis. "Landing procedures shall commence in approximately 3.72 milliseconds. And sir, it's your move."
Tony Stark looked at his monitor and noted a neon pawn appear on his tactical display.
"Ah," said Ironman. "What was your last move?"
"I shall bring it up for you, sir," said Jarvis. A chess board appeared on the display.
"Ah, you played Bf5," said Stark. "Still playing for the center I see."
"Of course, sir," said Jarvis. "When one controls the center in chess, they control the outcome."
"Don't tell that to the people who swear by the Modern or Indian openings," said Ironman. "That philosophy is built on playing from the corners to discourage beginning play in the center."
"That is true," said Jarvis, "but the idea of starting a game from a position other than moving the king and queen pawns is still in the infancy of stages. Since the bulk of games played over the centuries rely on center play, I will utilize my moves from the vaster database rather than the smaller recent one."
"That's defeatist talk," said Stark. "Even with tech that puts you mountains above Deep Blue, you still choose the safe path. If you want to shake up a world of thought, you need to be on the forefront of it, shaking up the sticks in the mud."
"It may be that I don't share your view of changing the world, sir. Remember I am only an A.I. The algorithms I mimic can be no greater than what the programs dictate."
"Correct as usual," said Ironman. "Maybe when all this is done, I'll have to do some tweaking with the code to see if I can't get a little more elastic thinking out of you.
And sir, we've arrived," said Jarvis. The Ironman suit slammed into the ground at full blast, creating a small crater in ground around delicate green ferns.
“Good,” said Ironman. “Keep the tactical up just in case we get any other visitors from the clouds tonight. But keep the game up. I might get bored.”
“Certainly,” Jarvis said.
Ironman rose from the ground as the three supermen sized each other up, walking about in their Mexican circle of death.
It was Cap who spoke first. "We don’t want a fight. We only want the prisoner. He needs to pay for the crimes he's committed."
"No," shouted the bearded stranger as he beat his chest like an alpha ape. "The prisoner thou transportest is Loki, mine half brother. He shall not go with the likes of thee, blue stranger. Verily shall my adopted brother pay for acts most foul and heinous in the vaulted feast hall of Odin All-Father. There shall his fate be decided. Not here in the blighted lands of Midgard."
"Swell," said Ironman crossing his arms. "Our ride's been hijacked by a renaissance fair worker. Say, Erik the Viking, why don't you put that plastic hammer down and we'll all settle for broke."
"Enough, jesting fool," shouted the bearded stranger. "I did not travel from the high courts of Asgard only to be mocked by a silver-tongued knight. I shall take my leave of you both with my brother. That is the word of Thor."
"Yeah, well fun as this Shakespeare revival was, I think there are two critics who object to the whole performance," said Ironman bringing his glowing palms to bear on bearded Thor.
"Guys. Gents. We don't need to be fighting like this," said Cap raising his arms diplomatically. "Thor if you come with us back to base, I'm sure we can find a way to satisfy both parties."
"Blue man, do you dare attempt a parlay with an Asgardian immortal? Were you but ants or the buzzing of flies, I would swat and crush you with the wave of mighty Moljner if you do not give me my quarry. I shall have my way."
"Some one call for an exterminator?" said Ironman. The glowing repulsor lasers glowed white, ready unleash arc energy. "Here are the flyswatters,"
"No wait," called Cap. No one listened.
"No wait," called another voice. Everyone listened that time.
The three heroes watched as a man on a motorcycle broke through the clearing. The bike came crashing through the brush and ground to a screeching halt. The man, a dashing figure in designer pants, a rugged blue shirt and small leather vest swung one leg around the back of the bike and slid off in smooth fashion.
The rugged man approached the three heroes, but he didn’t walk like a normal man. He spread his legs like a sumo wrestler and spread his arms. Each step was slow and deliberate.
The heroes were confused.
“Uh, sir?” said Cap. “You’re going to have to clear this area. It’s not safe for civilians.”
“Oh I wouldn’t know about that,” said Ironman. “He could do his kung fu crab walk while we rough up the woods a bit.”
“Ah, I knewest thine intentions,” said Thor. “Thou wishest a battle to decide the fates. So be it.”
“Wait. Wait. Wait,” said the rugged man. “Just calm down and follow my hands.”
“Who are you anyway?” Ironman said. “My tactical didn’t pick you up. This island should be deserted.”
“The name’s Pratt. I’m here to stop you from hurting yourselves; and I will reveal your true destiny. You guys shouldn’t be fighting.”
“Does anyone believe this?” said Ironman smirking through his grim faceplate. “How are you going to do that, Alan Quartermain?”
“You mean you guys don’t remember me? Time’s passed, sure, but I didn’t think you would forget.”
Pratt paused in thought for a moment. “Let me try something. Ironman, I’ll start with you.”
Pratt did his slow deliberate walk toward Ironman the nonbeliever. His eyes never moved from their glowing targets.
“Come on,” said Pratt. “Remember.”
“Ah, sir I think I should warn you,”
“Not now, Jarvis,” interrupted Ironman.
“Yes, but sir you should know that your vital signs are behaving erratically. This man can’t be causing it.”
“No, it’s just a tick. I’m fine, really.”
“Sir, your heartbeat is slowing to a rhythm suggestive of a hypnotic state. Your alpha waves are increasing.”
“Sorry, what did you say Jarvis?”
“I said...no it appears you are in a completely inert state. I doubt saying or doing anything could help you at this point. I shall have to fly you to safety.”
“Jarvis, I can hear you in there,” said Pratt. “And I can’t allow you to go. Override code Alpha-Tango-Foxtrot-Hogan-Potts-Schwarma.”
“Emergency protocols deactivated. Returning to normal power. By your command, Mr. Pratt.”
“Thank-you Jarvis,” said Pratt. He turned to the Asgardian. “Now, it’s your turn, Norseman.”
“Surely thou jestest better than the metal man,” sneered Thor. “A noble born of Asgardian royalty does not submit to a mere mortal.”
“Maybe, but I’ll give it a try,” said Pratt as he started his slow walk to the place where the thunder god stood.
“Thine efforts are wasted Pratt,” said Thor.
“Shh. Shh,” Pratt whispered. “Don’t move.”
He drew ever nearer to Thor. He walked until he came they nearly came face to face.
“There’s so much self-importance. So much id,” said Pratt. “But just like an onion, we’re peeling away the layers to the center.”
“I...I...I” muttered Thor.
“Don’t talk,” whispered Pratt. “Only remember. Who am I?”
There was silence.
“Who am I?” he repeated again.
The thunder god tensed his immense muscles and relaxed, dropping his hammer to the ground. Tears welled up in his eyes as he started to sob.
“Ma...ma...mommy,” said Thor over and over again.
“There, there,” said Pratt. He patted the massive miles gloriosis on golden locks that shimmered in the dead of night.
“Right, you’ve done your tricks on those two, but it won’t work on me,” said Cap. “You don’t look like you’re over thirty years old. I’m over 80. There’s no way you could know me or my past.”
“I know you, Stephen,” said Pratt. “You and I go way back. You just need to remember it. That’s all.”
He started his advance on Cap.
“I’m sorry. I don’t...”
“Think back, Steve,” said Pratt pointing a finger to head and by default his rugged waves of hair. “Think to before the super soldier experiment. Back before the war. At the theater.”
“I don’t know what you’re talking about,” said Cap.
“The old theater in Brooklyn,” said Pratt. “You and Bucky were at that theater. You were watching news reels of the war effort. There was a heckler. You tried to put him in his place verbally. In the alley by the theater, he put you in your place physically. But someone came to help you.”
“I know what you’re talking about,” said Cap. “It was Bucky. He beat that hooligan and sent him packing.”
“No,” said Pratt. “That’s where you’re wrong. Think back to that event. Think back. Think hard.” As Pratt approached, he made “surf’s up” signs with his hands and waved them about, chanting softly.
“I remember what happened. Bucky saved me and helped me up. I brushed myself off and we wandered away chuckling. That’s all.”
“Who was there with you in that alley?” said Pratt drawing ever nearer with his hypnotic advance. “Who was there with you?”
“It was Bucky,” said Cap. “It was Buck...it was Bu,” Cap’s inner eye focused as his thoughts took him to that long forgotten day. Beaten to a sound pulp. Brought up a trash can lid for defense. It did no good. Back in the garbage. Then an image, someone took hold of the bully and struck him to the pavement with a single blow. The bully fled. The blurred image reached his hand down and pulled him up from the stinking refuse. He came into focus.
“It wasn’t Bucky?” said Cap coming back to the present. “It wasn’t Bucky. It was you.”
“That’s right,” said Pratt. “I was with you. I was with you all from the beginning. It didn’t matter the time or the place. It was imprinting.”
“Yes, we all know it,” the three heroes said with one voice.
Pratt jumped on his motorbike and put on his helmet.
“What do we do now?” asked Ironman.
“Now...we ride,” said Pratt looking over his shoulder. “The park needs our help. We have to save it from the greatest evil the world has ever known. That evil is Imperius Rex and his newfound ally Namor, the Submariner.’”
“Imperius Rex and Namor together,” said Cap. “Then don’t have a moment to lose.”
Chris Pratt revved his bike to life; it spit up dirt and sped off into the forest. Ironman, Captain America, and Thor flew and sprinted to his side. The party of unstoppable justice left the clearing. Undeterred, the group slipped past trees and wound rushing round the undergrowth to save the free world yet again.
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Location : Salt Lake City
Re: Chris Pratt meets the Avengers
by Casey on Mon Jul 13, 2015 12:04 am
In part two I expect a detailed description of Chris Pratt's shirtless and oiled chest.
Location : No place for a hero
In part two, he will be finishing his work by meeting up with the rest of the Avenger's team. I think he might get Black Widow to recognize him by doing the dance involving the oil and removed shirt. So, there you are. Request granted.
That Black Widow. She really has been with just about everyone in the MCU.
by Casey on Mon Jul 13, 2015 10:30 pm
The Son of Dior wrote: That Black Widow. She really has been with just about everyone in the MCU.
Got pictures?
by Father Dugal on Wed Jul 15, 2015 10:15 pm
Black Widow and Tony Stark
Black Widow and Captain America
Black Widow and Rogue
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Black Widow and Hawkeye
Black Widow and Daredevil
Black Widow and Spiderman
Black Widow with another random girl
Black Widow and Deadpool
Black Widow and Ultron
Black Widow and Wolverine
Black Widow and Amora the Enchantress...wait that's just fan art. I suppose that's doesn't really count.
The Enchantress, eh? That Enchantress. She's been with just about everyone in the MCU.
by Casey on Thu Jul 16, 2015 11:21 pm
Oh my. Ask and you shall receive. Sorry for derailing your creative writing thread.
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Highlands and Islands Labour MSP Rhoda Grant has raised with the First Minister why the air ambulance was not initially called when a Caithness mother went into labour at 30 weeks with twins.
At First Minister's Questions today, Mrs Grant told Nicola Sturgeon the woman had bravely shared her experience of giving birth under the current maternity provisions in Caithness.
After going to Caithness General Hospital, the mother was informed that she would have to go to Inverness by road ambulance, over a 100 miles away and two and half hour drive.
Mrs Grant told the First Minister: "Half way into that journey they had to stop at a community hospital at Golspie when the first twin was born breech.
"The air ambulance was then tasked but because it would take two hours to arrive the first twin would be sent by road to Inverness.
"The helicopter could not land, another air ambulance was tasked but this would take too long therefore a second ambulance resumed the journey to Inverness where the second twin was born.
"Thankfully after prolonged stay in hospital all are now doing well.
"However, it begs the question why was the air ambulance or emergency retrieval team not tasked initially airlifting the mum from Caithness.
“Will the First Minister investigate this and will she make sure that the air ambulance treats situations like this as a priority?"
Nicola Sturgeon promised to investigate and conveyed her good wishes to the family. She said she could not answer immediately as to why the air ambulance was not initially tasked, and did not have information in the chamber, and but she asked the Health Secretary, Jeane Freeman, to look into this.
Posting from a Caithness mum on Caithness Health Action Team's Facebook site
Caithness Health Action Team - CHAT
14 February at 21:30 ·
A Mums recent story -
What's it going to take for NHS Highland to change things? Where is this going to end?
While at my work in November 2018 my waters broke and I started labour. I never expected labour as I was only 30 weeks pregnant with my twins. A few hours later we made our way through to Caithness General Hospital. I was taken good care of by the midwives in Wick while they decided on what to do next.
I was in Wick for a couple of hours and was informed I would have to go to Inverness by ambulance. I was put in the ambulance with two midwives. The ambulance crew took an incubator as well. There was no panic and everyone seemed very calm. My partner followed in the car.
We made our way to Inverness. Contractions came stronger and closer so the midwife checked me to which they weren't concerned. About 10/15mins later I had an urge to push. We stopped outside Golspie for the midwives to do a second check. It was decided we must stop at Golspie hospital. The midwives informed my partner and we made our way into Golspie.
Minutes later we arrived and I was wheeled into a very small room with a number of staff inside. Shortly after arrival about 10.30pm twin 1 was born breech. He was being looked after by doctors and nurses very soon after birth.
Thankfully twin 2 was in no rush to appear.
A TV with a video link to Inverness was wheeled into the room with a number of staff on the screen. They used this link to consult with Inverness to decide on what to do next.
I was informed a helicopter was being sent out but wouldn't be arriving till sometime later. So they sent up two nurses and a doctor by police car from Inverness to look after twin one.
We were told that a helicopter was coming but then it couldn’t land due to frost on the propellers so it had to go back down the line. They would have been able to send another helicopter but this would have been many hours later.
There was a lot of confusion, questions and lack of decisions being made on what was the best option going forward. It was eventually decided we should make our way to Inverness by ambulance.
About 2am we left for Inverness by convoy, 2 ambulances, one with me and two midwives and other with twin one and two nurses, a police car and two other cars with Drs and my partner.
When we arrived in Inverness to our surprise the Inverness midwives took over and the Wick midwives involvement was finished.
I was induced and twin 2 was born head down. He was taken to SCBU along with his brother.
We spent 6 weeks in Inverness until the twins grew strong enough. I was provided with accommodation for the full 6 weeks.
We now have many appointments in Raigmore due to no-one being able to do checks up here. Why is this?
I am expected to drive two newborns to Inverness for an appointment lasting a couple of minutes.
We all have nothing but the greatest of praise for all staff involved but often think what if something went wrong while on the A9 or even in Golspie hospital.
All parties involved did the best they could with the situation. They made us feel very comfortable and safe in their hands.
My delivery should never have happened the way it did. It could had gone so wrong.
We would like to know,
Why weren’t we flown to Inverness?
Why could specialists not come up to Wick?
Why are Wick and Golspie staff expected to work like that?
Golspie wasn’t prepared for such an emergency but they did what they could and they did amazing. This shouldn’t be the case.
We know of another birth which took place in Golspie in 2017 and wonder if anything has been learned or changed from that.
We dread to think what could have happened if the road was closed by an accident or bad weather.
There is an investigation into our incident but we are unsure if the results will be made public.
With respect to the new hospital at Aviemore Dr Boyd Peters said "We have been on this journey since 2012 and the land purchase is a significant step towards securing much needed modern healthcare facilities for the population of Badenoch and Strathspey" After seven years it finally reaches the planning stage so that must mean yet another two or even three years until its on the ground and working. In Caithness redesign of health services has been going on and on for several years and recently we have the early stages of a "hub" idea being promoted.
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The backbones of our digital lives, the ISPs and Telecom operators, have never been secure. Their “closed garden” security model has always been a fallacy and the reality on the ground paints a much bleaker picture. Why are they constantly getting hacked, and sometimes discovering it many years later or not at all?
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Philippe Langlois is an entrepreneur and leading security researcher, expert in the domain of telecom and network security. He has founded internationally recognized security companies (Qualys, WaveSecurity, INTRINsec, P1 Security) as well as led technical, development and research teams (Solsoft, TSTF). He founded Qualys and led the world-leading vulnerability assessment service. He founded a pioneering network security company Intrinsec in 1995 in France. His first business, Worldnet, France’s first public Internet service provider, was founded in 1993. Philippe was also lead designer for Payline, one of the first e-commerce payment gateways.
He has written and translated security books, including some of the earliest references in the field of computer security, and has been giving speeches on network security since 1995 (Interop, BlackHat, HITB, Hack.lu). Previously a professor at Ecole de Guerre Economique and various universities in France (Amiens, Marne La Vallée) and internationally (FUSR-U, EERCI). He is a FUSR-U (Free University for Security Research) collaborator and founding member. Philippe provides industry associations (GSM Association Security Group, several national organizations) and governmental officials with Critical Infrastructure advisory conferences in Telecom and Network security.
Now, Philippe is providing with P1 Security the first Core Network Telecom Signaling security scanner & auditor which help telecom companies, operators and government analyze where and how their critical telecom network infrastructure can be attacked. He can be reached through his website at: http://www.p1security.com
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The brilliant partnership of Madlib and Freddie Gibbs recently dropped off Bandana, a strong contender for album of the year thus far. Today, Gibbs stopped by Hot 97 to check in with Peter Rosenberg, who consistently showed his support throughout a trying time. The impact of Bandana is certainly not lost on Gibbs, who wrote the majority of the project while facing ten years in prison over a false accusation. “Just to be here with you dawg,” says Gibbs. “I know three years where I was at.” He proceeds to thank Rosenberg for supporting him during a tough time, getting visibly emotional as he speaks.
“I know what I did to make this project,” he says. “There was a lot of bad nights. A lot of rough nights. A lot of things that I didn’t want to see.” Tears begin to flow. “Things I still deal with mentally. This album was a form of therapy. It was therapeutic. I said a lot of things on this record that maybe I wouldn’t have said if I wasn’t facing ten years in prison. This album is my baby. It got me back to my babies. It got me back to being who I’m supposed to be.”
“I wrote eighty percent of this when I was in the cell,” says Gibbs. “Jail, it is what it is. I’m a man. If I would have went to jail for some drug shit or whatever, it is what it is. I can take that on the chin and do it. But I couldn’t sit in there for no shit like that. That’s what was really breaking me. To come out of that, just sitting with you bro, I don’t take a second, a day, a minute, none of that for granted.”
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Afterward, Rosenberg pulls out an additional surprise, bringing the elusive Madlib into the fold for a rare radio interview. Upon his arrival, the bromance becomes evident, as MadGibbs share an epic embrace. “I just do the music,” says Madlib, revealing hasn’t done a radio interview in ten-plus years. “My favorite rapper, dead or alive,” says Madlib, on his rhyming partner. “I knew his stuff, when he was on the XXL cover, I knew all his stuff.” These days, however, Madlib is far less concerned with what’s happening in the culture. “When I’m out in the club I hear what’s going on,” he shrugs.
Rosenberg remarks that Bandana carried on the legacy once sparked by JayLib, Madlib’s partnership with J. Dilla. “Yes sir,” agrees the producer. “I’m very proud of this album. I cleared all the samples for once!” Luckily, Bandana is but one of many chapters. “There’s gon’ be volumes of this,” confirms Gibbs. “This ain’t gon’ ever stop.”
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Cows or cars: Which one has the biggest impact on climate change?
Mira Okshevsky
AgricultureLivestockAnimalsMammalsWeather & ClimateGreenhouse GasesClimate ChangeBiogeochemical CyclesCarbon CycleStarting Points
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Above: Imgage © Firmafotografen, iStockphoto
Our planet is about one full degree warmer than it was in 1880. This might not sound like a lot. However, at a global scale, a small temperature change can have a big impact. Among other things, it causes sea levels to rise, oceans to become more acidic, and Arctic ice to melt.
Over the last couple of centuries, the planet has become warmer because of greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere. Greenhouse gases trap heat, just like in a greenhouse. But what are these gases, and how are they being released?
Did you know? Greenhouse gases are often measured in parts per million (ppm). For example, for every million gas molecules in the atmosphere, about 400 of them are currently carbon dioxide. So 400 parts per million!
Which gases influence climate change the most?
The most famous greenhouse gas is probably carbon dioxide (CO2). You often hear about it on the news. CO2 is a colourless, odourless gas released when fossil fuels, like the gas in your car, are burned. Burning the carbon-loaded molecules in fossil fuels is a big deal because it moves carbon stored under the ground into the atmosphere—where it would not otherwise be found!
For most of the past million years, the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere has fluctuated between 172 and 300 parts per million (ppm). But since the Industrial Revolution began in the late 1700s, the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere has rapidly risen to around 400 ppm. No wonder we hear so much about it! But did you know that CO2 only makes up between nine and 26 per cent of all the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere?
After CO2, the next most abundant greenhouse gas is methane (CH4). Methane does not survive as long in the atmosphere as CO2, but it is 20 times better at trapping heat. In 2010, more than 60 per cent of global methane emissions came from human activities. These activities include dumping garbage in landfills, drilling for oil and natural gas, and animal agriculture.
This last source one is a big one. A 2006 report by a UN agency found that 37 per cent of global methane emissions came from animal agriculture. That’s right—this powerful greenhouse gas is being produced by cows!
Ruminants: Animals that make methane
Cows are a kind of animal called a ruminant. Ruminants have four stomachs. The first stomach is called the rumen. This is where tough-to-digest food is stored so it can be regurgitated and chewed again and again to help break it down.
Bacteria that live in the rumen contribute to the process of digesting the food though enteric fermentation. That’s a process where carbon-containing material like grass gets broken down without oxygen. And it’s the biggest source of methane emissions on Canadian farms.
A cow digests its food very slowly. Because of this, about six per cent of its ingested energy gets lost as methane.
Did you know? Meat production requires 10 to 20 times more energy per edible tonne than grain production.
Can we make cows produce less methane?
The idea of cutting back on eating meat is a tough pill for many people to swallow. On average, each Canadian eats 62 kilograms of red meat and poultry every year! Clearly, we like our meat. So would it be possible to reduce the amount of methane cows produce instead? Scientists are giving it a go.
What cows eat has a big effect on how much methane they produce. Digesting certain types of food (like hay and grass) produces more methane than digesting other foods (like corn). Scientists are also studying the bacteria living in the rumens of cows. Researchers hope to understand how these bacteria can be persuaded to produce less methane.
Did you know? Methane is not only released by cows through farts, but also through burps.
Does cattle farming produce more greenhouse gas than burning fossil fuels for transportation?
In 2013, greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture made up 10 per cent of total emissions in Canada. Taken together, oil, gas, and transportation currently make up almost half.
But there are places in the world that do a lot more cattle farming than Canada. We share our home planet with 1.4 billion cows. And each of these animals produces 250 to 500 litres of methane every day!
The UN study mentioned earlier found that 18 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions to can be linked to animal agriculture. That’s more than all cars, trains, ships, and planes combined! In fact, if you took all greenhouse gases and converted them to the same unit of measure—something called a CO2 equivalent—you would find that cattle farming produces more greenhouse gas than transportation.
So using your car less may not be the most important thing you can do to help mitigate climate change. Many experts now believe that eating less meat would actually have a bigger impact.
About climate change and greenhouse gases:
Climate Change (2015)
CurioCity by Let’s Talk Science
The Top Ten Greenhouse Gases (2009)
S. Fox, Popular Science
World Temperatures
M. Carlowicz, NASA Earth Observatory
About methane, cows and agriculture:
Methane Emissions (2016)
US Environmental Protection Agency
Greenhouse Gases (2015)
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Methane (2014)
Cow Farts Have ‘Larger Greenhouse Gas Impact’ Than Previously Thought; Methane Pushes Climate Change (2013)
P. Ross, International Business Times
Mira has a Master of Science in Marine Microbiology and a PhD in Nanoscience. She is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at McGill University, where she studies how bacteria stick together is communities called biofilms. In her free time, Mira enjoys exploring the coves and beaches of her home province of Newfoundland.
This article is part of the Spotlight on Energy Featured Topic
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Food Chains, Food Choices and the Environment (Article – 2014)
The Carbon Problem: From Fossil Fuels to Greenhouse Gases (Article – 2013)
Cow Dung as an Energy Source (Article – 2013)
Vehicle Emissions Primer (Backgrounder – 2014)
An Introduction to Biofuels (Backgrounder – 2013)
Burp Power! (From BBC) (Video – 1:55 min.)
What is the Greenhouse Effect? (Video – 2:03 min.)
The Environmental Impact of Wasted Food (Video – 3:15 min.)
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Dominion Stage is proud to present its 66th season!
Dominion Stage’s 66th Season of Shows!
Come and enjoy a season full of new shows, new venues, new directors and a new fourth production added to our season lineup!
Carrie the musical – Oct.-Nov., 2015 – Gunston Theatre 2
Music by Michael Gore, Lyrics by Dean Pitchford
Book by Lawrence D. Cohen, Based on the novel by Stephen King
Directed by Matthew Randall
Carrie White is a misfit. At school, she’s an outcast who’s bullied by the popular crowd, and virtually invisible to everyone else. At home, she’s at the mercy of her loving but cruelly over-protective mother. But Carrie’s just discovered she’s got a special power, and if pushed too far, she’s not afraid to use it… Based on Stephen King’s bestselling novel, the musical of Carrie hasn’t been seen since its legendary 1988 Broadway production. Now, the show’s original authors have joined with director Stafford Arima (Altar Boyz) and MCC Theater for a newly reworked and fully re-imagined vision of this gripping tale. Set today, in the small town of Chamberlain, Maine, Carrie features a book by Lawrence D. Cohen (screenwriter of the classic film), music by Academy Award winner Michael Gore (Fame, Terms of Endearment, and lyrics by Academy Award winner Dean Pitchford (Fame, Footloose).
Auditions-July 27 & 28, 2015 – Details Coming Soon!
The History Boys – January, 2016 – Gunston Theatre 1
By Alan Bennett
Directed by Haley Murphy
An unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form (senior) boys in a British boarding school are, as such boys will be, in pursuit of sex, sport, and a place at a good university – generally in that order. In all their efforts, they are helped and hindered, enlightened and bemused, by a maverick English teacher who seeks to broaden their horizons in sometimes undefined ways, and by a young history teacher who questions the methods, as well as the aim, of their schooling. In The History Boys, Alan Bennett raises – with gentle wit and pitch-perfect command of character – not only universal questions about the nature of history and how it is taught but also questions about the purpose of education today. Following a sold out run in London, The History Boys premiered on Broadway in April 2006 taking the Tony Award as Best Play of the Season.
Auditions-October 19-20, 2015 – Details Coming Soon!
The Boys in the Band – April, 2016 – Gunston Theatre 2
By Mart Crowley
Directed by Rosemary Hartman
In his upper eastside Manhattan apartment, Michael is throwing a birthday party for Harold, a self-awoved “32 year-old, pock-marked, Jew fairy”, complete with surprise gift: “Cowboy” a street hustler. As the evening wears on, fueled by drugs and alcohol, bitter, unresolved resentments among the guests come to light when a game of “Truth” goes terribly wrong. This seminal work of the Off Broadway movement premiered in 1968 and was a long-running hit onstage, later filmed with the original cast. In 2010, the play made a triumphant return to New York City in a highly praised production produced by Drama Desk and Obie Award winning Transport Group.
Auditions-January 19-20, 2016 – Details Coming Soon!
Snakebit – June, 2016 – Theatre on the Run
By David Marshall Grant
Directed by Sara Joy Lebowitz
A study of modern friendship when put to the test, the play centers on Jonathan and his wife, Jenifer, while they visit their oldest friend, Michael, at his home in Los Angeles. Jonathan, an actor, is in L.A. auditioning for a film—his first big break at stardom—and he’s dragged Jenifer with him for support. Jenifer is distant because their daughter was left at home with a relative, and she’s become ill. Michael is distracted as his boyfriend has left him, and one of the children he counsels was beaten and put in a hospital where he cannot see her. At first the focus is on the universal questions we all face at one point or another, specifically self-doubt, and our selfish need for support. With the arrival of a guest, the play becomes deeper and forces us to see how ugly we can be when we look only at ourselves when we really should remember to look at others—especially those we love.
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The evolution of common law
Nicola Gennaioli, Andrei Shleifer
Journal of Political Economy. 2007. Vol. 115. No. 1. P. 43-68.
Экономика » Институциональная экономика » Право и экономика
We present a model of lawmaking by appellate courts in which judges influenced by policy preferences can distinguish precedents at some cost. We find a cost and a benefit of diversity of judicial views. Policy-motivated judges distort the law away from efficiency, but diversity of judicial views also fosters legal evolution and increases the law's precision. We call our central finding the Cardozo theorem: even when judges are motivated by personal agendas, legal evolution is, on average, beneficial because it washes out judicial biases and renders the law more precise. Our paper provides a theoretical foundation for the evolutionary adaptability of common law.
http://www.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/shleifer/files/Evolution_JPE_final.pdf
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Simeon Djankov, Edward Ludwig Glaeser, Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, Andrei Shleifer
The New Comparative Economics
Journal of Comparative Economics. 2003. Vol. 31. No. 4. P. 595-619.
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Tort Law and Economics
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Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, Andrei Shleifer
What works in securities laws?
Journal of Finance. 2006. Vol. 61. No. 1. P. 1-32 .
Alan Schwartz, Joel Watson
The Law and Economics of Costly Contracting
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Tony Blair appeals for the world’s children to be taught respect for all religions. But should they not be taught to respect the more general right of others to free expression and association?
October 15, 2014 9:44 am , Admin
Under the auspices of his Faith Foundation Tony Blair has appealed for the children of the world to be taught in school respect for all religions. This appeal is questionable in many ways. An objective treatment of all religions would reveal their negative features which in many cases attracts valid criticism. For instance, why do so many denominations exclude women from their priesthoods and justify the patriarchal dominance men over women? There is a danger that encouraging respect will lead to an ignoring of the negative features of religions and a lack of objectivity in education on the issue. Indeed in the work of the Tony Blair Foundation there is only one form of one religious denomination that comes in for regular criticism.
Respect for the right of people to hold different beliefs and associate on the basis of them should be a value taught in all schools – but this should not be focused exclusively on faith. By focusing on religious differences is not Tony Blair contributing to an excessive focus upon, and privileging of, this one sphere of human activity? Pleas for tolerance should be much wider than those just based on religion. To be fair there are sections of his latest article that refer to the need to foster understanding across barriers of religion ‘and belief’ but the dominant focus is on religious difference.
Tony Blair outlines his views at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-29553001
Posted in: General update , Tagged: faith, patriarchy. education, priests, religion, religious education, Tony Blair Foundation
Scottish Government religious subsidy of the week – 7 –£36,000 pa to the Scottish Council of Jewish Communities
May 12, 2014 9:02 am , Admin
The Scottish Government gives £36,000 per annum to the Scottish Council of Jewish Communities (SCJC).
Judged by the website of SCJC (http://www.scojec.org/) the Scottish Jewish community appears to be prosperous and cohesive and perfectly capable of looking after its affairs and interests. It has good contacts with governmental organisations.
In 2012 SCJC reported an annual income of £111,000 to the Scottish Charities regulator. As a charity SCJC can benefit from tax relief on income and gains, rates relief and gift aid. Is additional direct Scottish Government subsidy merited?
The Jewish population of Scotland declined to just under 6,000 people according to the 2011 Scottish census.
Posted in: General update , Tagged: Alex Salmond, faith, Jews, scottish government, secularism, subsidy
Need for equal gender opportunities in the Scottish Parliament’s weekly ‘Time for Reflection’
May 10, 2014 3:12 pm , Admin
Former MSP for Dunfermline, Bill Walker, pictured right, with Rev Martin Scott and Mrs Scott at the Scottish Parliament prior to Rev Scott’s contribution to Time for Reflection at the Scottish Parliament 28 January 2014. Source http://www.billwalkerdunfermline.com
The weekly four minute ‘Time for Reflection’ (TFR) in the Scottish Parliament is meant to reflect the diversity of religion and belief in Scotland by having contributions from a wide range of different denominations and philosophies roughly in accordance with their population support. Unfortunately, as ESS Honorary President, Professor Norman Bonney, recently argued in the Scottish Parliament, this approach to equal opportunities in religion has worked at cross purposes with the Parliament’s commitment to equal gender opportunities.
Prof Steve Bruce and Dr Marta Trzebiatowska (Aberdeen University) have demonstrated that women are significantly more religious than men (‘Why are women more religious than men? Oxford University Press 2012). Yet only 30 per cent of contributions to TFR are from women.
This disparity highlights the fact that most religious denominations, despite having a majority of women members, tend to be dominated by men. Some well known denominations even exclude women from their priesthood. The Scottish Government now has a target of 40 per cent for women on its cabinet and on public boards. Perhaps the Scottish Parliament, which falls short by this standard in TFR, should aim higher with a target of 50 or 60 per cent female contributors to remedy female disadvantage in many sects.
And should the Scottish Parliament consider disallowing participation in TFR by denominations that exclude women from their priesthood in order to demonstrate a strong commitment to equal opportunities for women? Otherwise it looks as though it is conniving with, or accepting of, the grosser gender inequalities to be found in some denominations.
Posted in: General update , Tagged: equal opportunities, faith, gender discrimination, religion, scottish parliament, Time for Reflection
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Kiss Me Kate, lighthearted play within a play - By Michelle Libby
There’s only one week left to see the hilarious, touching story of Kiss Me Kate on stage at the Windham Performing Arts Center at Windham High School. The talented cast shows their range with this play within a play about a leading man who is reunited with his ex-wife. They are cast opposite one another in a play “The Taming of the Shrew.” The scenes bounce back and forth between on and off stage in the fun musical that takes place in Baltimore. “Throw a number of cases of mistaken identity, some gangsters, and additional romantic entanglements into the mix and you get Kiss Me Kate!” according to the playbill.
With so many story lines going on, the play is rather long, but entertaining nonetheless with its toe tapping songs and cute romantic story.
Ellie Joseph is outstanding as Lilli/Kate, the ex-wife/diva, who is not willing to settle for traditional wifely roles. She belts out songs like “I Hate Men” and “I Am Ashamed That Women Are So Simple.”
Will Wheaton made the roll of Fred/Petruchio his own, staying in character even when he wasn’t in the spotlight. He made the audience root for him and we hoped that eventually he would win the girl in the end. (SPOILER: He does.)
Other stand outs were Celine Baker in the role of Lois singing “Always True To You In My Fashion.” Hanna Griffin also did a great job leading the ensemble in “Too Darn Hot”. And the comedic timing of Hannah Brackett and Caleb MacDonald with their gangster accents was spot on, keeping the audience laughing though out the show.
The hair, make up and costumes were perfect for the time period and the actors that had to change costumes between the Shakespearean play and the modern day did so effortlessly and in character. This was not a one costume per person performance. The costumer was Weslie Evans and the assistant was Pat Hutchinson.
The show was directed by Rob Juergens with the music director Richard Nickerson and choreographer Vanessa Beyland.
With three more shows this Friday and Saturday at 7 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m., don’t miss a chance for a fun evening out. For reservations, call 207-893-1742 or email fallmusical@gmail.com. However, reservations are not required.
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Shakhtar hope to once again upset the apple-cart against Manchester City
Futbolgrad 0 October 21, 2018 8:43 pm
Shakhtar vs Manchester City – Tuesday, October 23, 20:00BST/21:00CEST –OSK Metalist, Kharkiv, Ukraine
Shakhtar vs Manchester City will take place at the Metalist Stadium in Kharkiv. (Photo by Genya Savilov/EuroFootball/Getty Images)
The Ukrainian champions have drawn their first two games and are third in the section, one place and one point behind City, who got off the mark with a late winner last time out.
The Ukrainian club’s first two games both finished 2-2, Shakhtar twice coming from behind to draw with Hoffenheim on matchday one – the latter’s UEFA Champions League debut – before letting slip a two-goal lead at Lyon last time out.
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Sizable -230 away favourites, on paper Manchester City, should, therefore, not have much trouble taking the full three from Shakhtar Donetsk in their next UCL match so if you bet online, check these guys out as they have trustable reviews on what the different betting sites have to offer for you. City have won four straight across all competitions by a combined score of 12-1, quickly erasing the memory of the 2-1 upset loss at the hands of Lyon in their Champions League opener.
Shakhtar are certainly not the same team that advanced to the knockout stage last year, largely due to the departure of Brazilian national Fred. They needed an 81st-minute equalizer to pull out a 2-2 home draw against Hoffenheim in their last UCL game, getting outshot 19-13 by a team that sits 13th in the Bundesliga.
Shakhtar head coach Paulo Fonseca, however, has been able to re-invest much of the funds that the club earned from Fred’s sale to Manchester United. The club signed Brazilians Maycon (Corinthians), Fernando (Palmeiras), Marquinhos Cipriano (FC São Paulo) and Júnior Moraes (Dynamo Kyiv).
Maycon, Fernando and Marquinhos Cipriano are now considered the new generation of Brazilians that would like to use the Ukrainian Premier League and the Champions League as a jumping off spot to a bigger club in Western Europe. Fonseca is now charged in developing these players and slowly integrating them into the starting eleven.
That integration may have to be quicker than expected, however. Although the club is dominating the UPL Shakhtar lost key forward Taison on matchday 11. Without their star winger, Shakhtar beat Desna Chernihiv on Friday to keep their stranglehold over the league.
It will be a different story against City, however. The Sky Blues are top of the table in England – even on points with Chelsea and Liverpool. Under pressure after a slow start against Olympique Lyon and a last-minute win against Hoffenheim Pep Guardiola’s team need a statement game in the Champions League. That statement game is very much going to be on the line on Tuesday when they face Shakhtar on Tuesday.
Shakhtar vs Manchester City – Players to look out for:
Marlos #11 – Shakhtar Donetsk
With Taison out the pressure will be on Marlos to produce. The Brazilian-born Ukrainian national team winger has scored six goals and one assist in the first 11 Ukrainian Premier League games. The 30-year-old has very much grown into a leader at a side that is currently undergoing a bit of a rebuild.
Marlos, here surrounded by a sea of City players, was the man of the match in last season’s encounter. (GENYA SAVILOV/AFP/Getty Images)
Sergio Agüero #10 – Manchester City
It was a difficult relationship between head coach Pep Guardiola and Sergio Agüero during the first season. But at some point last year the two clicked as the Argentine striker started to buy into Guardiola’s system. As a result, Agüero is now an invaluable piece in the City squad as the striker leads the team in scoring with five goals in the first eight games.
Sergio Aguero of Manchester City celebrates scoring during the Premier League match between Manchester City and Brighton & Hove Albion at Etihad Stadium on September 29, 2018 in Manchester, United Kingdom. (Photo by Laurence Griffiths/Getty Images)
Shakhtar vs Manchester City – Match Stats
The teams were paired together for the first time in the 2017/18 group stage when home sides held the upper hand.
City were 2-0 winners in Manchester on matchday two, Kevin De Bruyne and Raheem Sterling scoring at the start and end of the second half to secure the points.
The Donetsk club have lost only one of their last 15 home matches in Europe (W11 D3). They have not kept a clean sheet, however, in any of the last six.
The Ukrainian side have got out of their group in three of their last five participations.
Shakhtar are unbeaten at home to English visitors (W5 D2); the Pitmen’s record against Premier League clubs, home and away, is W5 D3 L6.
City have won two of their last four European away games, losing the other two.
City have won only two of their last seven European matches, home and away – losing the other five.
City’s record in Ukraine is W1 L2, the victory a 3-1 success at Dynamo Kyiv in the 2015/16 UEFA Champions League round of 16.
Futbolgrad Network Prediction: Shakhtar vs Manchester City – 1-2
Shakhtar vs Manchester City – Lineups
Shakhtar Donetsk:
Pyatov – Ismaily, Rakitskyi, Khocholava, Butko – Stepanenko, Maycon – Bolbat, Kovalenko, Marlos – Júnior Moraes
Head Coach: Paulo Fonseca
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Ederson – Mendy, Laporte, Kompany, Stones – Fernandinho – Sané, Silva, de Bruyne, Mahrez – Agüero
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• Information about his Art
• Paintings of the American Indian World
• Sketches of the American Indian World
• Sketches of the Oriental World
• Art of the Islamic World
• Paintings of the Eternal Feminine
• Online Archive about Schuon’s Artwork
• French Books with Schuon’s Artwork
Information about his Art
“On the Paintings of Frithjof Schuon”
Adapted from Michael Pollack’s “Introduction” to Images of Primordial and Mystic Beauty (Abodes, 1992)
Frithjof Schuon is not a painter who is interested in metaphysics; he is a metaphysician who from time to time produces a painting. This distinction is essential because his fundamental vocation is the perennial wisdom as it is expressed in his written works, whereas his art appears rather as an expression of the aesthetic, psychological or moral dimension of the Philosophia Perennis. In other words, Schuon is interested not only in metaphysical principles, but also—by way of consequence—in their cosmic and human radiation; which means, not that he sets out to represent a particular archetype or to utilize a specific symbolism in a painting—which in fact he does not—but simply that his spiritual insight, or let us say his contemplative mind, spontaneously manifests itself in his artistic productions.
The main subjects of Schuon's art are, on the one hand, the Plains Indian world, and on the other hand the mystery of cosmic and human femininity; Goethe's "Eternal Feminine" (das Ewig-Weibliche) or the Hindu Shakti. His choice of this first subject has its roots in his affinity with the fascinating world of Red Indian heroism and mysticism; the choice of the second subject of his art—sacred femininity—has its roots in metaphysics and cosmology; one could also say, in a more relative sense, in Schuon's affinity with Hinduism.
It is essential to understand that Schuon is never interested in originality and innovation; he is fascinated by the subject matter alone, its origin being what he observed among the Indians or an inner vision of spiritual realities. As for style, Schuon applies the general rules of traditional pictorial art, the first principle being that a painting must take into account the flatness and immobility of the surface; it should not represent three-dimensional space nor a too accidental and hence fragmentary movement. Schuon likes to repeat his subjects, a tendency that derives from his interest or fascination with them; it would be missing the point to reproach the painter for this kind of "monotony," since it is a characteristic of all traditional art to repeat certain central motifs—it does this in order to unfold their full potentialities.
In this collection [i.e. Images of Primordial and Mystic Beauty] are images of the White Buffalo Cow Woman who brought the Sacred Pipe to the Lakota Indians; we may add that the headdresses she wears in some of Schuon's paintings, or other details, have a symbolic import and do not mean that the heavenly person actually appeared in that way.
When the question was broached of publishing a comprehensive collection of Schuon's paintings, he at first was rather reluctant because he was concerned that such a publication might detract from the image of his intellectual and spiritual identity; for, let us repeat, the main accent of his message is spiritual and not artistic. However, because Schuon's art also contains in its way a spiritual message—since his doctrinal message finds a spiritually transparent expression in his art—he granted permission. The result was the 1993 publication of Images of Primordial and Mystic Beauty.
Let us repeat that the fundamental meaning of Schuon's artistic message is the presence of the sacred in every beauty. As Schuon writes: "What I seek to express in my paintings—and indeed I cannot express anything other—is the Sacred combined with Beauty. Thus, spiritual attitudes and virtues of soul. And the vibration that emanates from the paintings must lead inward." As Plato taught:
"Beauty is the splendor of Truth."
Paintings of the American Indian World 19 pieces of artwork
Click on any painting for larger size & slide show
The Feathered Sun
Apparition of the Buffalo Calf Maiden
Sketches of the American Indian World 8 pieces of artwork
American Indian Sketch - 1
Portrait of Tecumseh
Sketches of the Oriental World 8 pieces of artwork
Sketch of Two Mandarins - 1
Sketch titled "Milarepa" (the Buddhist sage of Tibet)
Art of the Islamic World 6 pieces of artwork
Sketch of a disciple of Shaykh al-‘Alawî
Paintings of the Eternal Feminine 8 pieces of artwork
Study of Virgin with Child - 1
Virgin with Child - center panel
Online Archive about Schuon’s Artwork Holdings: 6 Articles
Barbara Perry first wrote “Frithjof Schuon: Metaphysician and Artist” for the catalog of an exhibition of Schuon’s paintings entitled “Scenes of Plains Indian Life” at the Taylor Museum on Colorado Springs, CO. The exhibit ran from January 24, 1981 through March 8, 1981. In 1990 the article was revised to appear as the “Foreword” to The Feathered Sun (World Wisdom) and then subsequently revised in 2006 as the “Introduction” to Art from the Sacred to the Profane: East and West (World Wisdom).
"Frithjof Schuon: Metaphysician and Artist" by Barbara Perry The Feathered Sun: Plains Indians in Art and Philosophy Multiple
This is the text from the catalog that accompanied an exhibit of Frithjof Schuon's artwork titled “Scenes of Plains Indian Life” at the Taylor Museum in Colorado Springs, CO. The exhibit ran from January 24, 1981 through March 8, 1981. This text, written by Barbara Perry, was later revised to appear as the “Foreword” to Schuon's book The Feathered Sun and subsequently revised in 2006 as the “Introduction” to an illustrated collection of Schuon's writings on art titled Art from the Sacred to the Profane: East and West.
"Frithjof Schuon: Scenes of Plains Indian Life" by Barbara Perry catalog from exhibit of Schuon's art, Taylor Museum in Colorado Springs, early 1981 Multiple
Frithjof Schuon was also a noted artist whose paintings and sketches reflected his concern with the spiritual vocation of man, Beauty, virtue, and the reality of creation as a mirror of God. This chapter (number 18) from Michael Oren Fitzgerald's book Frithjof Schuon: Messenger of the Perennial Philosophy covers how Schuon was led to create his works of art, his choice of subjects, and his sense of aesthetics, and includes some reproductions of his sketches and paintnings.
"An Artistic Dimension" by Michael Fitzgerald Frithjof Schuon: Messenger of the Perennial Philosophy - Chapter 18 Multiple
Taken from Michael Pollack's "Introduction" to Schuon's book of paintings, Images of Primordial and Mystic Beauty, this piece provides the reader with important insights into Schuon's methods and subjects as seen in his paintings.
"On the Paintings of Frithjof Schuon" by Michael Pollack Images of Primordial and Mystic Beauty: Paintings by Frithjof Schuon Multiple
"The Foreword to 'Art from the Sacred to the Profane" by Keith Critchlow Art from the Sacred to the Profane: East and West, ed. Catherine Schuon (2007) Multiple
"The Preface to 'Art from the Sacred to the Profane' " by Catherine Schuon Art from the Sacred to the Profane: East and West, ed. Catherine Schuon (2007) Multiple
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Feathered Sun, The : Plains Indians in Art and Philosophy
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Content Insider #613 – Just Knowin
By Miles Weston
“My thoughts and memories are unique only to me, and I carry a sense of my own destiny. Each of those things are just a small part of it. I collect information to use in my own way.” – Major Motoko Kusanagi, “Ghost in the Shell,” produced by Kodansha, Bandai Visual and Manga Entertainment, 1995
Recently, we had lunch with Andy Cochrane to talk about a series of sessions at being planned for Fall’s FMS (Flash Memory Summit) on the state of VR, immersive and holographic film work (they’re going to be exciting, informative; trust us).
Our discussion drifted to the speed of technology change taking place in the M&E industry.
Cochrane – who’s a great Indie content maker – jumped in and said, “Yeah, isn’t it exciting!”
Okay, we’re not sure why filmmakers seem relish uncertainty, but they always seem to be up to the challenge.
Our biggest issue with the newest hot techie topic is the name … artificial intelligence.
Sterile – AI usage will grow in almost every segment of people’s lives, but it will augment and assist people not be an artificial representation if folks and technology are to maximize the benefits.
It’s so … artificial.
We were delighted when Ginni Rometty, IBM’s president/CEO, keynoted at CES describing AI as more of an augmented or assisted technology rather than artificial … assist people’s intelligence, not replace it.
She also warned it had to be released into the world slowly after a lot of thinking and testing because you can’t put it back in the bottle once it’s out there.
Think back on 2001: A Space Odyssey, AI: Artificial Intelligence and the other forecast-of-the-future films.
Think about how many far out, historical films have been a roadmap to tomorrow.
But still, Cochrane said many of the ways AI could used in filmmaking would be tremendously useful.
“You have to understand that a lot of a filmmaker’s work is tedious and time-consuming,” Cochrane noted, “especially in the pre-production phases – script breakdowns, storyboards, shot list generation, schedule optimization and budgets. Once we streamline these activities, we can focus on the creative work.
“Those mundane, routine tasks can be streamlined and probably done more accurately by ‘trained’ systems,” he said. “That frees up filmmakers to focus on developing films/shows that are more interesting, more involved.
Think of it,” he commented, “We could then create projects that are more engaging, immersive for the viewer; and, more importantly, we can have a greater assurance they will be profitable.”
He really does make AI does sound mystical, magical.
Or, as futurist Arthur Clarke deciphered the idea in his third Clarke’s Law – “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
The development and use of GANs (generative adversarial networks) or networks vs. networks is one application that reinforced Ms. Rometty’s concern about rushing AI applications to market.
Researchers around the globe have used GANs to train AI algorithms.
For example, Nvidia researchers used GANs as a “style-based generator” to create hyper-realistic images.
Who’s Real – Advanced technology such as GANs enables people to create and distribute fake photos and videos of people and activities that are extremely difficult to discern from real individuals or events.
Since then, GANs and the style-based generators have been used to produce fake political videos, create/distribute extremely embarrassing/compromising content that looks so real it is difficult to explain or dispute.
Fortunately, Cochrane only associates with people who have integrity. “It’s better to hang out with people better than you, he said. “Surround yourself with people who are better than you and you’ll drift in that direction.
“It’s a question of ethics and professionalism,” Cochrane continued. “Filmmakers I know well and work with really just want to create a film that will transport people to another part of the world, educate and entertain them. We’re using the best tools, people and techniques to deliver a great product to viewers.
“When it’s a wrap, the hard work begins;” he added, “getting it sold and seen.”
In today’s crowded theatrical, appointment TV and OTT marketplace it’s an even trickier, more dangerous task.
Custom Viewing – Filmmakers working with AI-enabled solutions can produce content that can satisfy their creative goals as well as individual viewers.
In many ways, AI is enhancing filmmakers’ creativity, not squelching it.
For example, investors have shown a lot of interest in Scriptbook which claims that its algorithm is three times better at predicting box office success than human readers.
The company has spent a lot of time/effort analyzing scripts of completed successful and not-so- successful films and projects to say, “See it works. The analysis shows that you wasted a ton of money on those three projects that bombed; or yep, our system ‘validated’ that this was going to be good, great, dynamite!”
We do know we didn’t see the buyers at Sundance sit through any of the screenings with systems on their laps doing a bunch of number crunching before they wrote checks.
Massive Data – With the assistance of big data, analytics and AI filmmakers can see how they can tailor their productions to produce the results they are working to achieve with their audience.
They looked at the team involved in the project, flipped through the storyline, studied the pre-event buzz, checked the audience response during the 10-day Park City event and did deals.
Not that AI won’t be involved in content projects at the beginning, because the industry has accumulated a lot of data.
Movie data includes box office revenues, production costs, and audience demographics as well as director, screenplay writer, cinematographer, and other detailed project information.
So, we can expect intelligent systems to find their way into the industry to dramatically transform how – and if – stories are told … and sold.
Legendary Entertainment and several competitors have put their AI tools to work to develop movie, show and series trailers to optimize audience interest.
Qloo has been busy with their AI solutions developing viewer and audience profiles to target marketing efforts and activities to create measurable positive results.
Products/services like Qloo are also being used to identify viewer preferences, likes and dislikes so content developers/distributors can determine which projects get funded when they don’t want to rely on their experience and … gut.
Fortunately, most film festival entries don’t get produced by committee or AI but by folks who believe in the story that they develop.
Pay Day – Based on a lot of historical viewer/production data, content services were able to go to this year’s Sundance Film Festival with a very good idea of the types of films and episodic series that would appeal to their audiences and then negotiate accordingly.
Studios, networks and streamers invested quickly and heavily because they had a pretty good idea how to use subscriber/viewer data to attract the right audience.
All of the major streaming services – Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, YouTube, TenCent – have an overabundance of viewership data to determine which content will do well; and, more importantly, how to tailor their trailers and social media efforts to attract viewers and encourage them to tell others about the projects to subscribe.
Streaming Knowledge – Today’s streaming services send content directly to a specific IP address, so they have more data on what is viewed, how long it is viewed and on what screen. This enables them to make intelligent recommendations on what you might want to view and even when you might want to watch it.
The OTT services base their content projects, purchases and airings based on the content people have watched, when they watched it, on the screen used and more individualized data to customize how the video content is pitched to you.
“Some people view this data capture and mining as a bad thing,” Allan McLennan, head of PADEM Media Group, a leader in OTT as well as a pioneer in AI, VR and iTV commented.
“These services constantly run A/B tests, analyze when people hit play/pause, when they stop watching a title, add something to their watchlist and analyze other data to optimize an individual’s enjoyment,” he noted. “The data and analysis allow them to more accurately personalize the service for the viewers.
“As their use of AI solutions becomes more sophisticated and common, it will enable producers and programmers to identify what new projects should be developed and even to some degree the viewership/engagement that will enjoy their production before it begins,” he added.
Changing Mind – AI can help humans in many ways, including recommending content and activity that will be satisfying to them or at least less harmful to them. After making the recommendations, it’s up to you to choose the right content, action.
“The technology doesn’t control or mold what people want to watch” McLennan emphasized. “And it certainly doesn’t control whether good or bad video stories will be made. That is still a very personal, human activity.”
Cochrane and McLennan agree that most of the “noise” we see today regarding AI is headline-grabbing stuff – widespread job elimination and control/manipulation of what people think, feel, do.
Cochrane feels that the technology will enable filmmakers to streamline note taking and project management as well as helping to create projects that people can connect with and react to more quickly.
“Filmmaking is–and will continue to be–a very personal endeavor,” Cochrane emphasized, “and the new tools will make it faster, easier and probably more profitable to get viewers to connect with that story, that message.”
“AI has a lot of potential for every segment of the M&E industry,” McLennan said, “from concept and delivery to engagement.”
“One of the most important is streamling and improving communications throughout the creative/production process,” he added. “In fact, as simple as it may seem, one that could extend off of AI/metadata intelligence, and I’m sure is on the horizon, is one that could help all of us manage all of our editing processes, even our email. We all know how much of an assistance that would be.”
AI holds a lot of potential for the M&E industry and should be viewed as an opportunity to improve the personalized experience rather than a threat to content creators. People tend to be limited by what they know today, not what we imagine might be true tomorrow.
As Major Mokoto Kusangagi said, “If a technological feat is possible, man will do it. Almost as if it’s wired into the core of our being.”
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Accueil » Lexique stratigraphique » Province de Churchill » Suite de Baudan – en
Baudan Suite
Stratigraphic label: [narc]ban
Map symbol: nAban
First published: 19 April 2018
Translation of original French
Informal subdivision(s)
Numbering does not necessarily reflect the stratigraphic position.
nAban1 Porphyroclastic monzogranite
nAban1a Porphyroclastic farsundite
Author: Verpaelst et al., 2000
Age: Neoarchean
Reference section:
Type area: Koroc River area (NTS sheet 24I)
Geological province: Churchill Province
Geological subdivision: Core Zone
Lithology: Porphyroclastic monzogranite
Type: Lithodemic
Rank: Suite
Status: Formal
Use: Active
Related unit(s)
Thickness and Distribution
Stratigraphic Relationship(s)
The term Baudan Complex was first used by Verpaelst et al. (2000) to define a unit of granitic gneiss and granitic intrusions. This unit name was not subsequently used by Simard et al. (2013), Lafrance et al. (2014, 2015, 2016) and Charette et al. (2016), who preferred to distinguish regional gneiss zones from late intrusions. The grey gneiss of tonalitic to granitic composition were then assigned to the Ungava Complex. However, in the synthesis of the southeastern Churchill Subprovince (SECP), different lithotectonic blocks were identified and it appears that the gneiss observed east of the Moonbase Shear Zone (MSZ) are distinct from those identified in the Kuujjuaq and Ungava Bay area west of the Rivière George Shear Zone (RGSZ). The Kangiqsualujjuaq Complex has been redefined to consolidate all of the grey, tonalitic to granitic gneiss located between the MSZ in the west and the Blumath Deformation Corridor (BDC) in the east. The Kangiqsualujjuaq Complex thus includes some of the outcrops previously assigned to the Baudan Complex, those of grey granitic gneiss, but excludes the later intrusive rocks, which were assigned to the Qarliik Suite (Mathieu et al., 2018) and the porphyroclastic monzogranite outcrops, which now represent the Baudan Suite as defined by Mathieu et al. (2018).
The Baudan Suite comprises only one unit of porphyroclastic monzogranite (nAban1) associated with positive aeromagnetic anomalies.
Baudan Suite 1 (nAban1): Porphyroclastic Monzogranite
Unit nAban1 is predominantly composed of monzogranite but also has a small proportion of quartz monzonite and syenogranite. Monzogranite is strongly foliated (and/or lineated) and locally takes on the appearance of an augen gneiss. The rock is coarse grained, medium pink, black and white speckled, but the minerals form fine-grained recrystallized monomineralic clusters, particularly on the grain edges. It is magnetic and characterized by the presence of 25 to 55% pink microcline porphyroclasts 0.5 to 3 cm long, most often recrystallized and lenticular in shape. Quartz tends to align in thin discontinuous bands or lenses. It shows a strong undulatory extinction and its edges are commonly indented. Mafic minerals (15%) form lenticular clusters and laminaes that mould felsic mineral clusters. Hornblende and biotite occur in similar proportions. Microcline is often perthitic and rimmed with myrmekites. Accessory minerals are numerous and commonly coarse grained. The main ones are allanite, epidote, magnetite, sphene, apatite, muscovite, zircon and chlorite.
Baudan Suite 1a (nAban1a): Porphyroclastic Farsundite
Locally, porphyroclastic monzogranite contains orthopyroxene and has been assigned to subunit nAban1a. The structural and mineralogical characteristics are similar to those of unit nAban1 with the exception of the presence of hypersthene and lower proportions of biotite. Hypersthene is variable uralitized (hornblende rim) and serpentinized. The rock also takes on a green or brown sugar colour characteristic of orthopyroxene rocks.
The Baudan Suite covers an area of approximately 500 km2 in the Koroc River area. It forms intrusions that are several kilometres wide, followed over several kilometres and oriented along a general NW-SE axis.
An Archean age of approximately 2623 Ma was obtained from a sample described as a gneissic porphyritic monzogranite in the Koroc River area (Verpaelst et al., 2000).
Isotopic System Mineral Crystallization Age (Ma) (+) (-) Reference(s)
U-Pb Zircon 2622.5 8.2 8.2 David et al., 2009
The Baudan Suite is part of the ancient rocks of the Core Zone. Relationships with other Archean rocks were not observed in the field. It is cut by granitic intrusions of the Qarliik Suite (pPqik).
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2013-03-06: 18 guns stolen from police station
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18 guns stolen from police station
Johannesburg - Around 18 firearms have been stolen from a police station at KwaMhlanga in Mpumalanga, it was reported on Wednesday.
The weapons were mostly evidence pieces being kept under lock and key, Beeld reported.
The theft was discovered on Monday when the police's logistics division held an inspection at the station and found that more than 12 pistols, assorted revolvers and even an R-5 rifle had been taken from the evidence room.
Colonel Leonard Hlathi told the newspaper the theft was being investigated.
According to Beeld, there have been previous, similar thefts in the province.
In February 2010, during an internal audit at the former riot unit in Hazyview, the authorities discovered the theft of part of a large arsenal including at least 32 R-5 rifles, thirty 12-gauge shotguns, a number of Z88 pistols and 48 000 bullets.
In 2012, a trunk full of weapons linked to various crimes was stolen from the Mhluzi police station in Middelburg.
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Re: 2013-03-06: 18 guns stolen from police station
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Wild Wild west..... It just never seems to stop, the police can't even guard their stations, so sad. Now we have too many guns on wrong hands. # trigger happy society we live in
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Chicago Thugs Attempt Robbery at Senior Citizens Club in Indiana, 65-Year-Old Shoots Back
February 16, 2014 by Guns 'n' Freedom
When Chicago thugs tried to rob an Indiana senior citizens social club they might have forgotten the fact that Indiana residents actually carry guns and have been allowed to do so for some time.
Two gun-toting crooks thought the club would be easy pickins when they came in with guns blazing. But when a 65-year-old pulled out his own gun and started fighting back, they realized they picked the wrong place to rob.
After the 65-year-old man was shot twice he fired back and struck the shooter, who then decided to hide in the closet until the police arrived.
GARY, Ind. (ABC) –– Gary police are investigating a shooting Wednesday night at a social club for senior citizens.
Five people, including the suspected gunman, were shot at the Safe and Sound Social Club in Gary, Indiana. Officers responded to the members-only club Wednesday around 11:30 p.m. in the 2200 block of Broadway in Gary.
Police say the suspected gunman is a 23-year-old from Chicago. They believe his motive was to rob people at the senior citizens club.
The shooting victims are all men between the ages of 43-76. Witnesses told police that a gunman entered the club and ordered people to drop to the ground. Shots were fired and police say at one point, one of the patrons inside shot the gunman.
…”They had hoods on like this, you couldn’t see their face,” said witness Jessie Sturgis.
Sturgis says one gunman took off while the other pointed a gun at him and three other club patrons. Sturgis says he escaped through the front door. As he called the police from outside the club, he said he heard several shots from inside. Some of the club patrons hid in a utility closet.
E.C. Robinson, 65, a Gary resident, was shot but managed to defend himself and others with his own gun.
“He shot him twice, that is when E.C. started shooting back,” said one witness.
The suspect hid in the bathroom after he was shot until police came and took him into custody.
Sturgis said he hopes the shooting will send a message to the younger people who want to cause trouble from Chicago.
“We’re in Indiana, they [are] from Illinois, they don’t know people got permits to carry guns, so bang bang, that is what happened,” Sturgis said.
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Governor Satya Pal Malik is Articulating a Righteous and Nationalist Narrative for J&K
| Jaibans Singh - Editor (Defence & Strategic Affairs - IOP) - 30 Oct 2018
Col. Jaibans Singh
Shri Satya Pal Malik, Governor of Jammu and Kashmir has recently given a couple of interviews to multiple media outlets in which he has articulated the situation in the state. It is quite heartening to see the honest, candid, direct and forthright manner in which he is addressing the many challenges that the state is facing. The deep insight that he has gained is appreciable, especially so in view of the short period of time that he has held the gubernatorial appointment.
The most significant point that the Governor is making engagement of the youth in the trouble-torn Kashmir Valley. He holds the conviction, like many other intellectuals and analysts including this columnist, that the youth are being indoctrinated and misled at the behest of inimical foreign forces. He is emphatic about the relevance of the younger generation in the scheme of things and the need to involve them in the affairs of the state. He speaks of giving a boost to sports including the construction of a world class cricket stadium in Kashmir and creation of an IPL team for the state. His government also proposes to institute liaison officers to assist students studying in other state of the country and ensure that their problems are addressed.
The Governor is equally categorical in denouncing illegal and anti-national activities like stone pelting, disruption of normal life and unmitigated violence that some sections of the youth are indulging in. He said that such activities, especially stone pelting, will be punished under law without any recourse to amnesty. He fully supports the views expressed by the Indian Army Chief, General Bipin Rawat, on the subject and said that the forces have been given a free hand in the conduct of counter-terrorist operations in the state.
An Indian Army soldier has recently been killed in an incident of stone pelting and in this context the Army Chief reiterated his demand that stone-pelters be termed as Over Ground Workers (OGW’s). "I again say that stone pelters should be treated like OGWs. The deceased (soldier who died due to stone pelting) was just guarding the convoy of soldiers who were given the task of building roads and bridges. Every time the army keeps quite and bears the pain but this time we have filed an FIR against the stone pelters. A strict action should be taken against them," said General Rawat.
It becomes pertinent here to quote a Face Book message by a retired Army Officer, General G.D. Bakshi, in which he has accused the Governor of interference in operational matters of the security forces. “Today stone palters are killing our soldiers with impunity because in the new Governors dispensation the Army is not being allowed to fire back,” he said in his Face Book Post. The provocative statement made by Bakshi is contrary to what the Governor has stated on the subject. Such observations made without the required degree of responsibility can have far reaching negative consequences. It would be advisable for the Governor’s office to contact the retired General Officer and ask him the source of his information and contest the same legally.
The Governor has admitted to a spike in the stone-pelting activity as also recruitment of locals into the fold of terrorism. He has blamed Pakistan for engineering this dissension due to pressure being faced in the wake of the receding trend of terrorism and violence. He has expressed the resolve of the government to do everything possible to soothe feelings and hinted on the use of advertisements for the purpose.
Responding to a query on opening avenues of dialogue with Pakistan and other so-called “stakeholders” in Kashmir Governor Malik, very rightly, endorsed the amenability of the Union Government for internal dialogue within the frame work of the Constitution. He called upon the Hurriyat to remove the “backpack” of Pakistan to enter into the dialogue process. Dismissing any talks with Pakistan he said that the country is not a stakeholder in Kashmir and as such need not be engaged. He added that the younger generation of Kashmir has no faith in Pakistan; it is, instead, looking for a larger and independent Muslim Caliphate. Such a political dispensation is not in the realm of reality and hence the need to educate the youngsters about the futility of the cause.
The Governor admitted to corrupt practices being rampant in the state and also gave some examples. These examples have been picked up by the media as central topics in its sensationalist coverage! It is a well known fact that corruption in Jammu and Kashmir has been institutionalised since many decades. The media’s selective interest in this particular aspect while ignoring the larger issues amounts to “missing the woods for the trees.” The Governor having expressed such strong views on the subject will, undoubtedly, go in for a crackdown for which indications are already visible. This is as far as the issue needs to be stretched.
The interview by Governor Satya Pal Malik has elicited a rabid trolling reaction on Face Book and other social media outlets. It is well known that such trolling is done by an army of propagandists that Pakistan has hired for the purpose. The more the trolling the better since it indicates a sense of despair among the enemies of the state in foreign lands.
It becomes evident from the interview that Governor Malik is firmly in control of the situation and has no doubts whatsoever about what is required to be done in execution of his sensitive mandate. His articulation is logical and righteous while being nationalist. He is ready to take all steps required to get the people out of the shadow of the gun and usher an era of peace and prosperity. In so doing, however, he is unwilling to allow criminal and anti-national activities that jeopardise law and order and national sovereignty. His is a just and honourable approach which should be responded to in a positive manner. Enough blood has been spilled in Kashmir for no purpose; any opportunity to bring closure to the cycle of violence should be grabbed.
(Jaibans Singh is a reputed analyst, columnist and author)
Disclaimer: The opinions expressed within this article are the personal opinions of the author. The facts and opinions appearing in the article do not reflect the views of Indian Observer Post and Indian Observer Post does not assume any responsibility or liability for the same.
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Step closer to west arming Ukraine
Dr Jonathan Eyal from the British Royal United Service Institute, in a well-reasoned recent piece of analysis, forecasts:
"..sooner rather than later, the US and its allies will start supplying weapons to the Ukrainian military. This will not be because anyone believes that Ukraine can defeat Russia; instead, there is the belief that, if the costs of Russia’s involvement in Ukraine start to rise, Moscow may be deterred from attempting to do the same elsewhere.....the aim will be to embroil Russia in a prolonged confrontation which it cannot sustain, and from which it cannot easily extricate itself."
The US Congress has now officially urged President Obama "to quickly approve additional efforts to support Ukraine’s efforts to defend its sovereign territory, including through the transfer of lethal, defensive weapons systems to the Ukrainian military."
Importantly, the Congressmen proposed: "We should not wait until Russian troops and their separatist proxies take Mariupol or Kharkiv before we act to bolster the Ukrainian government’s ability to deter and defend against further aggression."
Dr Eyal, in the conclusion to his article, predicts: "What we are likely to see is the advent of two proxy wars in Europe: one played out in Ukraine largely at the West’s initiation, and one played out with both NATO and the EU, largely at Russia’s instigation. In the long term, the Russians are likely to lose both confrontations, as they have lost all previous ones, and for the same reason: they cannot match military with economic power. In the short term, however, the proxy confrontations will condemn Europe to years of serious tensions."
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Malibu High (Irvin Berwick, 1979)
Strange shifts in tone and bizarre music cues are just two of the many things that perplexed, and, of course, aroused me as I sat in uncomfortable awe of Malibu High, playful teen comedy by day, gritty film noir by night Actually, there's very little clowning around going on during the day, as everything about this film is slightly off somehow. The day scenes, the nights scenes, there's definitely something shady going on here. My first thought was that director Irv Berwick was totally incompetent as a filmmaker, and that he had no idea what he was doing. However, after the shapely lead actress decided to don a barely-there mini-skirt in order to seduce her history teacher, I slowly began to realize that this film isn't the slightest bit interested in witty dialogue, production values, or even second-rate camera angles. What the producers who made this are interested in is exploiting their sleazy premise to the fullest extent of the law. And in that regard, I have to commend Irv and his diligent crew. They may have not been allowed to show any pubic hair or that wonderful space that separates most people's hindquarters in two, but they made sure the protagonist's unique breasts where exposed at all times. Now, whether the comedy was intentional or unintentional, it's hard to say; the fact that the camera seems to get knocked over twice during the disco scene has me believing it's the former. Either way, the film is extremely funny is places. For example, the use of that goofy electronic music that accompanies the SCTV logo on Second City Television to punctuate each scene was awkwardly brilliant, and the way Tammy Taylor managed to refer to her primary romantic rival as "piece of shit" four separate times in the span of ten seconds had me grinning like someone who had just heard a feisty young woman say "shit" a lot.
I'll admit, these examples aren't exactly evidence that the film is funny on purpose, but there's no denying their inspired stupidity.
The film's plot is a real potboiler. However, since I don't know what "potboiler" means, I'm gonna shift gears and say that the plot is a sordid heap just waiting for me to add my eyes to the pile.
High school senior Kim Bentley (Jill Lansing) is sick of being a cast aside by feather-haired assholes in bell-bottoms (she won't fuck them), fed up with failing grades (she's as dumb as, oh, let's say, a box of dirt), and is tired of being driven around by her best friend (she's got no bread for her own wheels).
One night, while getting high on a friend's couch, Kim suddenly decides that she's gonna start utilizing her dust-covered vagina to get ahead in life.
Gaining instant employment from a low-level pimp named Tony (Alex Mann), the newfangled harlot immediately finds herself engaging in unaffectionate sexual intercourse in a van at a construction site for forty percent of profits (the line-up I saw to poke her pussy was at least six guys deep). This paltry sum irks Kim (after all, she's the one being probed by schlong after schlong of strange uncircumcised dick, not Tony), so she dumps him and joins up with a high-level pimp named Lance (Garth Howard). The extra money she earns is great, only problem is that Lance wants Kim to kill people.
Yeah, that's right, she's not just a prostitute, she's also an assassin on the side. And to think, all she originally wanted to do was to make Kevin (Stuart Taylor), her ex-boyfriend, jealous, piss off his current girlfriend, Annette (Tammy Taylor), and graduate high school.
When she's not busy killing kinky whoremongers with icepicks and shooting pimps in parking garages, Kim is luring her history (John Grant) and physics (Ken Layton) teachers to High Point, where she exchanges outdoor sex for indoor straight A's.
In charge of fleshing out this shapely sociopath is the plainspoken Jill Lansing. The fact that Malibu High was the only movie she ever appeared in gives her performance an added sense of urgency. In that, she's got a careers worth of debasement to fit into just one movie. Does she manage to pull it off? Yes and no. The director doesn't know how to shoot a sex scene (too much heavy petting, not enough humping).
This lack of talent behind the camera severely hampers Jill's diligent horizontal efforts; as all we end up seeing most of the time is the sweat glistening on the hairy backs of the guys not thrusting toward her (like I said, not enough humping).
On the other hand, Jill is one of the most unscrupulous femme fatales ever sully the silver screen and shines bright during her many seduction scenes. Oh, sure, she doesn't take off her panties, but she is topless for such an insane amount of time, that I've memorized the distinct patterns on her first-class nipples. Seriously, she does everything except pump gas and suppress the middle class without a top on. And her all over the place tan lines were exquisite.
If what I've typed so far about this marvelous movie hasn't got you interested in seeing it, then at least fast forward to the final scene. I mean, the foot chase on the beach (the one set to the funky strains of the theme from The People's Court) needs to be seen by film fans of every stripe.
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Cliff January 6, 2009 at 4:09 PM
Wow...impressive.
Sounds even more sleazy then Death Race 2000. I thought killing old people was bad...this sounds even sleazier.
Yum-Yum January 7, 2009 at 6:53 AM
Yeah, you should check it out. Exploitation at its finest.
totallyqueer81 March 19, 2009 at 2:30 AM
I saw this last month, I loved every minute of its sleaziness. The sleazier it got the happier I was. ^_^
RiteanDan February 15, 2013 at 9:30 PM
Is there any place that sells the Malibu High (1979) merchandise? I can't seem to find a site anywhere. I'd live to get a t-shirt of the (misleading!), Poster Artwork of this Classick Film!
Yum-Yum February 15, 2013 at 9:37 PM
Malibu High merchandise?!? Now there's a sensible idea. I would to able to walk into a store one day and pick myself up a Malibu High pencil case.
Tommy Ross May 22, 2013 at 1:08 PM
saw this last night for first time, LOVED IT! Classic 70's stuff, Jill Lansing was majorly hot, this is a must-watch if you like 70's drive-in sleeze, thanks for the great review and pics!
Yum-Yum May 22, 2013 at 7:30 PM
Malibu High is hands down my fave flick out of all the trashy sleaze on those sensibly-priced Drive-In Cult Classics collections.
Bradley Gittings January 25, 2018 at 2:16 AM
Malibu High (1979) is now available on HD Blu-ray. It was released by Vinegar Syndrome a few months back and now available on Amazon.
Link: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B06ZYXZ2MY/ref=ox_sc_act_image_3?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1
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Inspired by Wimbledon? Fabulous Tennis Hotels
The start of Wimbledon this month is sure to see many tune in to see fellow Brit Andy Murray try to retain his coveted 2013 Championship title after becoming the first British man to win the tournament in 77 years. The Wimbledon Championship, held annually at the All England Club in London since 1877, is the world’s oldest tennis tournament and widely considered the most prestigious. It is one of four Grand Slam tennis events, along with the Australian, French and US Open, and is the only Major still played on grass, the game’s original surface.
The tournament is a highlight in the British sporting calendar. Every year the nation embraces the Wimbledon spirit, whether it’s queuing for hours to get a ticket for ‘Henman Hill’, eating strawberries and cream or dusting off rackets and hitting some balls in the park. Whether it’s a week’s private tuition, the chance to go head to head in tournaments, or to simply enjoy a few friendly games in the sun, venture further than a local tennis club this summer and book a holiday inspired by its tennis.
Sani Beach Club, Halkidiki, Greece
The new sports complex near to the Sani Beach Hotel features six floodlit clay courts and qualified tennis instructors who offer professional coaching for groups and individuals, as well as organising guest tournaments and equipment hire. There is the option to buy partner courses or family packages and for children there is a teen programme and a kids camp.
The five star Sani Beach Club. The price starts from £1,579 per family of three. The offer includes a complimentary upgrade to full board, an exclusive free child place and seven nights in a Garden View Bungalow, based on a departure date of 20 October 2014. Price includes return flights from London Gatwick with Easyjet, airport lounge access and private resort transfers.
Sheraton Algarve Hotel, Albufeira, Portugal
The Sheraton Algarve Hotel is home to the Pine Cliffs Tennis Academy which features five floodlit courts located in beautifully landscaped grounds of the hotel. The Academy is run by a team of qualified tennis professionals who can arrange matches for solo players as well as clinics for guests of all ages and skill levels. All players are offered a free consultation on the right equipment for their style of play and stringing services are available.
Sovereign is offering a saving of up to £483 on a holiday for two to the five star Sheraton Algarve Hotel. The price starts from £999 per person for seven B&B in a Deluxe Room, based on July 9th departures, and includes a complimentary bottle of sparkling wine and chocolate coated strawberries and an exclusive 20% accommodation discount, return flights from Manchester with Monarch, airport lounge access and private resort transfers.
InterContinental Aphrodite Hills Resort, Paphos, Cyprus
The InterContinental Aphrodite Hills Resort is home to the Annabel Croft Tennis Academy, which has nine floodlit tennis courts and offers a range of private coaching and group lessons to suit adults and juniors of all levels. The pro shop stocks the latest equipment and apparel from sponsors Nike and Wilson and there is a 24 hour re-stringing service
Sovereign is offering a saving of up to £1,276 on a family holiday to the InterContinental Aphrodite Hills Resort. The price starts from £3,845 per family of four and includes an exclusive free child place, a complimentary upgrade to half board, a second child stays free offer (3-17 years), UK airport lounge access, private resort transfers and seven nights in a Junior Suite. Based on 26 August 2014 departure, the price includes return flights from London Gatwick with Thomas Cook
Hotel Jardin Tecina, La Gomera
This five star luxury hotel features four floodlit tennis courts which can be reserved for guests by the hour. The hotel also offers professional tennis courses for adults and children for those who fancy working on their serve. Sovereign is offering a saving of over £330 and a complimentary upgrade to half board on a holiday for two to the five star Hotel Jardin Tecina. The price starts from just £895 per person for seven nights, based on a departure date of 14 September 2014 and includes ferry transfers from Tenerife, return flights from Birmingham with Thomson, airport lounge access and private resort transfers.
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Anti Pyretic Activity Of Aristolochia Bracteata
V Rajamanickam, A Rajasekaran, M Jesupillai, S Darlin quine, R Sabitha
antipyretic, aristolochia bracteata, brewer’s yeast
V Rajamanickam, A Rajasekaran, M Jesupillai, S Darlin quine, R Sabitha. Anti Pyretic Activity Of Aristolochia Bracteata. The Internet Journal of Alternative Medicine. 2008 Volume 8 Number 1.
Pet ether and acetone extracts of the plant Aristolochia Bracteata were prepared using Soxlet extraction. phytochemical analysis of Aristolochia Bracteata showed the presence of alkaloids, carbohydrates, flavones, triterpenoids and phytosterols in the crude extracts. In the present study, Pet.ether and acetone extracts of Aristolochia Bracteata was investigated for their anti pyretic activity. Injection of 20 ml/kg (s.c) of 20% aqueous suspension of Brewer’s yeast suspension produced pyrexia in rats. Extracts at 250 mg/kg exhibited significant anti pyretic activity. Aspirin (300mg/kg) was included as standard. Pet. Ether extracts was found to be more effective than acetone extract.
Aristolochia bracteata Linn. (Aaduthinnapalai – Tamil; Worm killer - English; Gadaparku – Telugu; Bhringi- Hindi), is a shrub distributed through out India. It belongs to the family Aristolochiaceae. In the indigenous system of medicine, the plant was used for the treatment of skin diseases, inflammation and purgative1,2. Root extract was reported to have anti bacterial activity 3 and also Toxicity of Aristolochia bracteata was reported 4.The present study was aimed to evaluate antipyretic efficacy of Acetone and Pet.ether extract of Aristolochia bracteata.
Plant collection and authentication
The plant material was collected in the Tirunelveli district, Tamilnadu, India. It was authenticated by Dr.V.Chelladurai, Govt. Research officer, Botany C.C.R.A.S. Govt. of India, (Retired), Tirunelveli. A voucher specimen has been kept in our laboratory for future reference
Preparation of extract
Aristolochia bracteata was collected dried under shade, coarsely powdered and passed through sieve no.22 to get particle of uniform size. Then extracted exhaustively with Pet. Ether and Acetone using Soxhlet apparatus5 . The solvent was removed under reduced pressure to obtain a solid mass. It was then preserved in a desiccators until further use.
Male Wister Albino rats (100-150gm) were procured form animal house of our institute, maintained under room temperature (20±10C) and relative humidity 55±10Cwith 12 h light / dark cycle. The animals were provided with standard pellet diet (M/s Hindustan Lever Ltd, Mumbai, India.) with free access to water adlibidum. The present study was approved by institutional animal ethics committee (Approval no. 509/02/C/CPCSEA).
Antipyretic activity
The antipyretic activity of Pet.etheric and Acetone extracts were screened by using yeast-induced hyperpyrexia method6,7. The selected animals were divided into four groups, each having six animals. They were maintained at constant temperature of 24-25° for 24 h before pyrexia was induced by subcutaneous injection of 1 ml of 15% brewer’s yeast suspension in saline solution10. After 18 h of yeast injection, the extracts at a dose of 250 mg/kg were administered orally to each group as a suspension in tween 80. Paracetamol i.p. (200 mg/kg) was used as standard for comparison of antipyretic activity, and all control animals received tween 80. Rectal temperatures were noted at 60 min intervals.
Values are reported as Mean ± S.E.M, n= 6, *P<0.05 (Compared to control) were considered significant
The statistical analysis were carried out by student ‘t’ test, P> 0.05 was considered significant. All the values are reported as Mean±SEM.
Result and discussion
The phytochemical analysis showed the presence of steroids, carbohydrates, flavanoids and saponins.
Both Pet. Ether and acetone extracts of Aristalochia bracteata at 250 mg/kg exhibited significant P<0.05 antipyretic activity. The activity was comparable to the standard drug aspirin (300 mg/kg). Pet. Ether extract was found to be more potent than acetone extract. The present study provided scientific evidence for anti pyretic efficacy of Aristalochia bracteata. Isolation of phytoconstituent responsible for the antipyretic activity of Aristalochia bracteata was under study.
1. Wealth of India, Raw Materials Vol. IA, CSIR, New Delhi, 1982, 88.
2. Negi, P.S., Anantharamakrishnan, C. and Jayaprakasha, G.K., J. Med. Food. 2003, 6, 401.
3. Dirdiri, N.I., Brakat, S.E., and Adam, S.E., Vet. Hum. Toxicol., 1987, 29, 133.5. Bergman T.J et al, Tetrahedron lett, 1977,2625-2626.
4. Harborne JB., Phytochemical methods., 3rd Edn., Chapman and Hall, London, 1988, p 91.
5. Pal, P.C. and Nandy, A., Indian Drugs, 1999, 36, 106.
6. Brownlee, G., J. Pharm. Pharmacol., 1937, 10, 609.
V Rajamanickam, MPharm
Dept. of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Arulmigu Kalasalingam College of Pharmacy, Krishnankoil-626 190. Tamilnadu, India.
A Rajasekaran, M.Pharm, Ph.D.
K.M.C.H College of Pharmacy, Coimbatore. Tamilnadu, India
M Jesupillai
Dept. of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Arulmigu Kalasalingam College of Pharmacy, Krishnankoil-626 190 Tamilnadu, India
S. Darlin quine
Govt.Arts.College, C.Muttlur,Chidambaram Tamilnadu, India
R. Sabitha
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The New Research Ethic: Will Oversight Requirements Sink Forensic Research?
Philip J. Candilis, Rasim Arikan, Sheila B. Noone and Jacob C. Holzer
Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online September 2005, 33 (3) 361-367;
Philip J. Candilis
Rasim Arikan
Sheila B. Noone
Jacob C. Holzer
The conduct of research with human participants is facing increased scrutiny from government, media, and academic sources. Research oversight is consequently increasing dramatically as education and accreditation movements gain momentum. Institutional review boards themselves are undergoing significant changes in organization and accountability, implementing new tools to monitor investigator compliance. This article describes the causes of recent calls for increased scrutiny, the resultant trends in research oversight, and the general lack of preparation for increased costs in the public sector. These are costs that will be felt acutely in the forensic setting as diminishing state budgets affect hospitals, universities, and correctional institutions.
Increasing criticism of the research enterprise in the United States has created strong pressure to improve oversight and review. Government agencies, citizen advocacy groups, media, and researchers alike, are exerting pressure that has significant implications for biomedical investigations involving human subjects. This is especially true of forensic research that is conducted with participants who may need greater protection by virtue of their vulnerability as prisoners or chronic care patients. Federal regulations already require increased consent and monitoring procedures for research with vulnerable populations, including prisoners. A review of recent scandals and trends in the research review system and their costs will clarify the future influences on research already conducted under a higher degree of vigilance.
Recent Problems in Research Oversight
In 1996, the U.S. General Accounting Office reported that heavy workloads and a lack of resources were undermining research review by institutional review boards (IRBs).1 In 1998, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Inspector General described disturbing trends in commercialization of IRBs, increased IRB-shopping by researchers seeking speedy approval, and an increase in private review boards not operating under standard scrutiny.2 The recent work of the U.S. government’s Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments (ACHRE) identified incomplete explanations of risk and benefit in government-conducted research and serious ethics-related concerns in a significant number of protocols.3,4
In acknowledging a vast array of concerns, the Department of Health and Human Services in 2001 commissioned the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to conduct a “comprehensive assessment of the national system for protection from research risks.” The results of this assessment are included in the IOM’s landmark report: “Responsible Research: A Systems Approach to Protecting Research Participants.”5 Contemporaneously, prominent ethicists began to call for a move from “compliance to conscience,” requiring a broader sensitivity to the vulnerabilities of research subjects and more than mere compliance with research regulations.6,7
Responding to specific negative outcomes at certain centers, the federal government suspended research at over 12 centers nationwide, and published severe criticisms of their review procedures.8,9 Now concern has spread to international AIDS research conducted by U.S. researchers under lower local standards of consent and review.
More intensive oversight of human research had also arisen from public and media responses to serious adverse events.10,11 Following the death of Ellen Roche, a healthy volunteer in a Johns Hopkins University protocol, Maryland’s governor signed legislation to grant greater public access to IRB minutes, making the decision-making process more “transparent.”12 The tragic death of teenager Jesse Gelsinger in a recombinant DNA protocol at the University of Pennsylvania had already led to Congressional hearings and the first lawsuit ever against a research ethicist.13,14
In April 2002, the U.S. Senate heard testimony espousing a national Human Research Subjects Protection Act. The proposal included provisions for increased public scrutiny of research decisions, including scrutiny of specific protocols and methods.15
New Standards for Research Oversight
Under this new level of scrutiny, numerous institutions are undertaking systematic review of oversight practices and offering new standards for the ethical conduct of research. From the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to the Institute of Medicine, scholars and leaders in the field are making a change in the manner in which research is conducted. The standard of presumed ethical conduct among investigators, a bulwark of research ethics for decades, may no longer apply. Focused heavily on new levels of accreditation and monitoring, a new ethic of scrutiny is overtaking human experimentation.
The Office of Human Research Protection (OHRP) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services oversees federally funded research within the United States. With its recently doubled staff, OHRP has taken the role of federal oversight to a new level. In announcing a new quality improvement program, the OHRP notes its move from a “reactive, compliance-focused system of oversight and sanctions” to one that is “not only proactive, but interactive, and emphasizes prevention of harm.”16
The OHRP proposes an initially voluntary program of quality assurance, quality improvement, and, ultimately, continuous quality improvement (CQI). Quality assurance takes the form of an institution’s self-assessment of research protections, guided by OHRP’s Division of Assurances and Quality Improvement. A self-assessment tool developed by the division gauges compliance with federal regulations.
This survey tool contains detailed questions regarding workload and staffing resources, the number of reviews conducted during meetings, and even the length of meetings themselves. It asks whether IRBs have their own budgets, conduct their own internal audits, and document the amount and frequency of training. It asks whether IRBs solicit written status reports from investigators during continuing review. The DHHS is not merely concerned with the time spent reviewing each protocol, but on adequate resources for staff, reviewers, and monitoring. It offers a systematic process for oversight that goes well beyond the model in place at most research institutions.
Following self-assessment, institutions are asked to interact with OHRP by written correspondence, teleconference, videoconference, or on-site consultation. Subsequent quality improvement emphasizes those mechanisms that best improve research protections. Best practices, effective procedures, and tools are to be posted by OHRP as a model for other institutions. Moreover, OHRP offers to broker networking relationships between responding institutions.
CQI then takes effect at institutions volunteering for this program, guided by the previous process of quality assurance and improvement. In a hint at its hopes for the future scope of this model, OHRP anticipates 60 such consultations per month from the 7600 institutions holding research compliance contracts with the federal government.
Several distinct efforts are under way nationally to promote formal accreditation of human research protection programs, one through the federal government’s Veterans Administration. The 150 VA hospitals conducting human research are now contracted with the independent, nonprofit National Committee on Quality Assurance (NCQA) to apply new standards for human subject protections. Organized into six domains, this self-described “systematic and comprehensive program” surveys institutional responsibilities, IRB structure and operation, consideration of risks and benefits, subject recruitment and selection, privacy and confidentiality, and informed consent.17
Prominent in NCQA’s model is the creation of an institution-wide Human Research Protection Program (HRPP). This network of individuals and committees takes collective responsibility for the workings of research at the institution. It includes institutional officials, research and development committees, IRBs, IRB staff, investigators, research staff, research pharmacists, and the like. An accreditation survey tests the existence and comprehensiveness of policies and outcomes at each level.
The accreditation survey assesses the institution’s own evaluation of HRPP effectiveness and its conduct of evaluation and improvement programs, including measuring, assessing, and improving compliance with HRPP policies. The process also evaluates monitoring of investigator performance, according to standards such as internal and external audits or other monitoring reports that generally lie outside current IRB practices.
Like OHRP, NCQA’s accreditation survey asks whether IRBs are provided sufficient resources. Specifically, it asks whether budgeting takes into account the volume of reviews and feedback from IRB members and staff, emphasizing the lack of influence perceived among those who currently conduct the nation’s research review.
The organization Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research (PRIMR) provides some of the field’s most widely attended educational conferences in research ethics. It trains hundreds of researchers and research administrators annually. An advocate of improved research standards for investigators and IRBs, PRIMR published its own standards for IRB accreditation.18 Its support for development of Human Research Protection Programs is in line with the NCQA and underscores the move toward a more comprehensive institutional responsibility for research conduct.
PRIMR’s accreditation program, also voluntary, is in two phases: development of “objective, outcome-oriented performance standards” to serve as formal measurement criteria and on-site visitation. PRIMR, too, endorses formal accreditation of IRBs by use of universal standards.
Among the standards PRIMR proposes is that research organizations must match the number of IRBs to the volume (and type) of research conducted. This responds directly to the concern, well established in the literature, that research review requires more time than overworked IRBs can afford. Moreover, in another appeal to standardization, PRIMR urges “additional thought and consideration” to the need for greater uniformity at institutions with more than one IRB.
Support for quality improvement is reflected in a standard calling for “regularly assessing outcomes and improving performance” of the entire Human Research Protection Program. This move toward comprehensive assessment of research oversight includes solicitation of views of research subjects as well as views of the communities that supply them. In even stronger language PRIMR asserts that each research institution “must” (as opposed to “should”) propose its own evaluative assessments “of all aspects of the HRPP.”18
Nor does PRIMR shrink from the need for more resources to finance appropriate oversight, particularly in the new age of accreditation and monitoring. Sufficient resources, staff, equipment, and technology must follow an institution’s determination of what is adequate. The input of IRB members and staff is a specific requirement, just as in NCQA’s survey.
In another standard heeding the call for greater communication with supporting communities, PRIMR requires “evidence” of communication with representatives of the “geographic and/or subject communities” that provide research subjects. Familiarity with the community’s values has been a theme for many in university communities who have been surprised to discover the kind of research conducted in their own backyards. In this context, PRIMR specifically mentions research involving Native Americans, a topic of some sensitivity in the U.S. research community.
The IOM subsequently weighed in on research oversight as well. With a directive from the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services to improve “the structure and function of human research review programs” (Ref. 19, p 1) the IOM reviewed standards proposed by both PRIMR and NCQA. It endorsed the latter.
First, the IOM supports the use of a broader system for overseeing conduct of human research. It endorses formation of Human Research Participant Protection Programs (HRPPPs), similar to NCQA’s HRPP. The IOM is supportive of NCQA’s quality improvement program and its explicit assessment of compliance with federal regulations.19
The IOM’s performance assessment arm of the HRPPP is comprehensive; it encompasses monitoring of research, provision of education, and conduct of quality improvement. New elements include formation of ombudsman programs, and self-assessment of oversight programs, outcomes, and support. In this way, IOM mirrors NCQA’s requirements by offering an entirely new tier of communication between IRBs and the research they review.19
The IOM would like NCQA’s program to go further, however. Especially in the review of investigators, the IOM calls for more than the usual documentation of informed consent and protocol review. CQI mechanisms are strongly recommended. In a further broadening of scope, the IOM asserts the need for assessing research sponsors themselves and supports involvement of research participants in setting performance standards.19
Moreover, the IOM calls for collection of baseline data on the current research review system and the piloting of accreditation programs following its model. They assert that formal study of the current and future state of research oversight requires federal investigation by both the General Accounting Office and the Department of Health and Human Services Inspector General.19 In this view, the systematic overhaul of research oversight will not proceed by half measures. It will require broad-based funding, endorsement, and support.
The newly developed Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs (AAHRPP) takes a similar view. Founded by seven eminent institutions (including the Association of American Medical Colleges, the Association of American Universities, the National Health Council, and PRIMR), this body supports a three-pronged accreditation process that includes self-assessment by institutions, on-site evaluation, and review by an appointed council. Standards are based on PRIMR’s approach and are intended to conform to the IOM’s recommendations. Institutions contact AAHRPP for accreditation, pay a fee, and remain current by maintaining the association’s standards. Evidence of AAHRPP’s increasing importance in research oversight is its recent receipt of a three-year grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), announced in a September 30, 2003, press release.20 Primary among its goals is the assessment of the role of accreditation in improving human subject protections.
Response of Psychiatric Organizations
This change in the conduct of American research has not been lost on the nation’s psychiatric organizations. The American Psychiatric Association, for example, named a task force on research ethics in 2000. Advised by IOM members Paul Appelbaum and Richard Bonnie, the task force is considerably influenced by the IOM’s approach. Now completing its work, the task force has been acutely aware of its mandate to assure research participants are sufficiently protected by appropriate oversight and monitoring. It is deriving recommendations from first principles (i.e., respect for persons, beneficence, and justice) and identifying critical elements of oversight that must be in place to protect psychiatric research participants.
The American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (AAPL) has also addressed the advancing tide of improved research oversight. In the process of revising its ethics guidelines AAPL considered an ethics guideline specifically for the conduct of forensic research. Preliminary drafts contained wording supportive of applying the regulations governing federally funded research to all research, whether federally funded or not, and urged familiarity with the monitoring and accreditation movements. The application of the federal protections of vulnerable populations (namely, prisoners, children, and others) to non-federally funded research is an important step in standardizing oversight guidelines. Moreover, it is hoped that the monitoring and accreditation vocabulary will enter discussions of forensic research oversight as well.
The themes in this movement toward a more stringent research ethic can be categorized as follows:
A broadening of institutional responsibility for research conduct, exemplified by formation of Human Research Participant Protection Programs (the HRPPPs);
Formal accreditation of research review committees and HRPPPs;
Standardization of research review with standards based in continuous quality improvement;
Monitoring over the course of research, not simply at annual review or after adverse events; and
Commitment of greater resources to research oversight.
Funding the New Oversight Movement
It is the commitment of greater resources that will be most problematic for forensic and other public sector research. As noted earlier, this is research that already requires greater procedural protections because of the vulnerability of the populations (e.g., in correctional, chronic care, and state hospital settings). Although the costs of research oversight have rarely been studied in the professional literature, there is no lack of consensus that costs are high. The University of Texas, San Antonio, conducted the earliest study of IRB costs in 1979.21 Drawn from internal funds, costs of their medical school IRB was estimated at $100,000 per year, a significant expenditure for a high-volume IRB at the time. With the increased complexity of protocols and regulations since then, however, it is not possible to translate these costs into modern dollars.
The next study of this kind was conducted in 2003 within the Veterans Administration (VA).22 Using current “benchmark standards” for administering a single high-volume IRB, the VA allowed for a full-time professional staff to administer 300 to 350 protocols per year, a standard described but not explicitly justified by prior analysis.23 According to this standard, a high-volume IRB would require eight committee support staff, a full-time administrator, a full-time administrative assistant, and a database analyst. With a chair and nine committee members, weekly meetings would draw portions of salary ranging from 0.05 full-time equivalent (FTE) for a committee member to 0.5 FTE for its chair. The estimated institutional cost in this model is over $1.2 million per year.
These analysts observed that high-volume IRBs are more efficient than IRBs conducting less frequent reviews, with costs per protocol significantly higher among low-volume IRBs. With many small IRBs located at hospitals that draw IRB support from patient care funds, serious limitations on research oversight may result at financially strapped state institutions.
Even more troubling is the observation that these IRB estimates do nothing to predict the cost of a full oversight system’s (e.g., an HRPPP) quality management, training, and administrative missions. Commentators such as the National Bioethics Advisory Commission have already begun to call for portions of grant funds to be reserved for oversight.24 Indeed the federal government, in response to the movement to enhance research protections, published a Request for Applications (RFA) in 2002 to provide institutional support for improved oversight (e.g., RFAs OD-02-003, OD-03-007). Others have begun to call for study of IRB deliberations themselves, to assure that new procedures and costs will provide real improvements in the conduct of research.25
There remains little literature on current costs, however, and so there is even less preparation for the increases that are anticipated. At our own institution (the University of Massachusetts Medical School), the annual costs of maintaining oversight of human subjects protection are greater than $400,000. Included in this budget are salaries, travel, meetings, and memberships for three full-time staff (IRB Manager, IRB Coordinator, and Administrative Assistant) and a small portion of salary support for the IRB Chair. Less visible costs of human subject protection arise from two other layers of responsibility: an estimated 75 percent effort of the director of the office (who facilitates education, training, and development of an internal inspection program for quality improvement) and 80 percent effort of a regulatory specialist (who assists investigators with regulatory documents and assists the director in study inspections). Beyond these obvious costs are those that are currently incalculable: the research reviews by conflict of interest and Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)/privacy officials and the institution’s legal department.
Within the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health, there is no budget line item for research review, with direct costs of operating the institutional IRB, including partial salaries for a director and support staff, mailing, parking, and copying fees estimated to be less than $100,000 a year (Altaffer F, Co-Chair, Massachusetts Department of Mental Health Central Office IRB, personal communication, October 2004). For an IRB reviewing 10 percent of the VA’s number of protocols (30–40 per year), this is proportionately less than the benchmark standard ($1.2 million for the VA IRB/$120,000 in adjusted dollars for the Department of Mental Health). There is no separate budget for indirect costs of executive managerial staff, office, or conference room overhead. Nor is there reimbursement for the time of volunteer IRB members to travel and prepare for meetings. Area monitoring committees that volunteer to oversee ongoing research also have no budget.
The Massachusetts Department of Corrections similarly has no separate budget item for research review and oversight (Kohl R, Director of Research and Planning, Massachusetts Department of Corrections, personal communication, October 2004). Review is part of the work of the Director of Research and Planning, who reviews proposals, interacts with prison superintendents, and determines not only the appropriateness of the research but its feasibility within the correctional setting. There are no projections for the cost increases that will arise from accreditation and increased oversight.
It is possible that the advent of the HIPAA, which affects research as well as clinical care, provides an indication of where greater costs will arise. Although numbers are scarce in this area as well, institutions incur significant costs from new data protection and transfer technologies, new practices and policies, and new staff training requirements.26 Some have already observed significant (and costly) changes in IRB practices under HIPAA, including increased revisions and less expedited review.27 Research on costs prior to these studies has been appropriately characterized as of limited quality and low statistical power.28
A specific proposal from our institution suggests the scope of technology that may be necessary to absorb the anticipated changes. An electronic submission tool for IRB proposals is proposed for simplifying and auditing increases in research oversight. The proposed tool includes tracking of IRB decision-making as well as oversight mechanisms, but would require an initial investment of $100,000. The human and technical support requirements would ultimately be far greater. Nor does this speak to the education, long-term training, and equipment needed to link investigators to an established computer network.
The broader data from the public sector underscores the lack of preparation for new oversight standards. Information from the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law—emphasized by Paul Appelbaum29 in his American Psychiatric Association (APA) presidential nomination address—shows the following trends: the closure of more state hospitals in the early 1990s than in the 20 years before; 30 percent greater mental health spending in 1955 than presently; and an overall decrease in state mental health expenditures resulting in the provision of less than 2 percent of mental health dollars.30 With psychiatric beds most vulnerable in the case of mergers and acquisitions, many hospitals have reported the intent to cut their complement of psychiatric beds.31
This short-sighted view of mental health needs provides little encouragement for the research enterprise, especially given the oversight movements now gaining momentum.
As mental health budgets are cut and professional staffing is decreased, research oversight conducted by these institutions and their research reviewers will suffer. Public sector research oversight will not be able to keep up with the important new standards. With even a $100,000 annual drain on an institution’s research budget, greater oversight costs would mean significantly less support available for major grants (and hence less competitive proposals), less health services research (as on the interaction of police or judges with persons with mental illness), and fewer training slots for forensic professionals, many of whom conduct research as part of their education. At our own Center for Mental Health Services Research, for example, a $100,000 diversion to research oversight would supplant one faculty member and a research associate (Lidz CW, Director, Center for Mental Health Services Research, Department of Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical School, personal communication, February 2005).
If research in correctional settings or state hospitals is to continue, it will have to overcome not only the crisis of confidence created by research scandals and public scrutiny but a crisis of finances as well. In the current social and economic climate the promise of improved treatments, diagnoses, and risk assessments could experience a dramatic setback. Mental health in the public sector is already overburdened and underfunded, with recent economic downturns resulting in dramatic restrictions in basic services.
It is therefore unlikely that forensic research will attain the standards being set by the new research ethic. The prevailing view of mental health in general and research in particular will exert considerable negative influence on forensic research—research that already requires greater protections. Incapacity to maintain high standards of research protection will consequently deter and impede new knowledge.
It will take the combined efforts of standard-bearers at governmental and professional organizations (e.g., DHHS, NCQA, PRIMR, IOM, AAHRPP, APA, AAPL) to make this danger clear. The APA, during 2002 and 2003, had already established “defunding” as a focus of its advocacy. In the APA’s view and that of many others, more resources are critical to the understanding of mental illness, particularly among those most refractory to treatment. It is these vulnerable persons who are found increasingly in forensic settings. To withhold necessary funds from this effort ignores the many calls to improve the research that advances the field. Inability to keep up with the new oversight standards ultimately will fail important societal obligations to research subjects, the most vulnerable and deserving contributors to mental health science.
Since this article went to press, Sugarman et al. have published a letter surveying the 2002 costs of U.S. medical school IRBs. They estimate a median cost of $750,000 per year.32
The work of Dr. Candilis is supported by a National Institutes of Health (NIH) career development award in research ethics mentored by Paul Appelbaum and Charles Lidz (K01MH01851).
The views expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect those of the NIH.
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Culture / The Japanese Sword Column
Seikado Bunko Art Museum Exhibition: Perfect Guide to the Japanese Sword
Paul Martin February 16, 2017 5:52 pm Leave your thoughts
The Seikado Bunko Art Museum is holding a special exhibition aimed at introducing Japanese swords to beginners by utilizing 30 wonderful blades from their collection of 120 swords that originally belonged to Baron Yanosuke Iwasaki and his son Koyata (the founder of the museum). Yanosuke was the younger brother of the Tosa samurai and founder of the Mitsubishi group, Yataro Iwasaki. The director of the museum, Motoaki Kono, in his introduction to the exhibition describes the Japanese sword as “the epitome of grace, beauty and simplicity. That is the very reason it is a symbol of Japanese culture.” The museum also provides much detailed information on swords in the form of handouts, including leaflets in English with descriptions of some of the blades on display.
The exhibition is broken into several easy to understand sections. The first case illustrates the difference between a tachi: a long sword worn suspended from the hip with the cutting edge facing downwards, and a katana: a long sword word thrust through the sash with the cutting edge uppermost. The next section is a display of the museum’s most prestigious swords, a National Treasure and several other blades that have been designated as Important Cultural Properties. The following showcase displays five blades that illustrate the five main traditions of sword manufacture (known as the Goka-den) of the pre-Edo period. This showcase continues with examples of blades made by famous smiths of the Edo period (1603-1868). The final main case in the gallery has swords that were owned by famous warriors. There are other smaller cases in the gallery displaying koshirae (mountings) and matching sets of decorative fittings.
There are also some wonderful displays of samurai-related art. In the entrance to the gallery is a colorful folding screen (displayed flat) by Matsumoto Fuko (1840-1923) with scenes of samurai warriors looking out to sea from Hakata Bay, watching the invading Mongol fleet being destroyed by a typhoon that was labeled the “divine wind” (kamikaze). In the main gallery is the Shinzei (Fujiwara no Michinori) chapter of a 13th century picture scroll (Important Cultural Property) of the Heiji Rebellion of 1159-60, when the forces of Minamoto no Yoshitomo fought against the Taira clan led by Taira no Kiyomori over Imperial succession.
National Treasure Sword by Kanenaga
The centerpiece of the exhibition, pictured at the top, is a 13th century tachi by the master smith Kanenaga of Yamato province (Nara prefecture). With the establishment of the Yamato court in about 400 BCE, the ancient capital of Japan was first situated in Asuka, moving to Nara in 710, before moving to Kyoto in 794 where it remained until the Meiji restoration in 1868.
Many of Japan’s earliest swordsmith schools arose close to the seat of government during these periods. Additionally, the rise in power of the many land-owning temples in Nara during the Kamakura period led to many smiths being employed to provide arms for warrior monks to defend the temples and their wealth. There are five main groups of swordsmiths in the Yamato region that rose to prominence during this era. These were the Senjuin, Taima, Tegai, Shikkake and Hosho groups.
The maker of the National Treasure tachi on display in the exhibition was made by the first generation Kanenaga who was the founder of the Yamato Tegai school. It is thought that he was active during the mid and late Kamakura period and is said to have lived and worked in front of the Tengai gate of Todaiji in Nara.
This tachi is shinogi-zukuri (ridgeline) in construction, with an iori-mune (peaked spine) and a chu-kissaki (medium sized point section). Although it is suriage (shortened), the blade retains a deep curvature. The hada (grain pattern in the steel) is a flowing itame (wood-grain type pattern), with profuse martensitic crystals visible in the body of the blade. The hamon (pattern of the hardened edge) is a shallow notare-gunome (gently undulating, mixed with semi-circular shapes), with crystalline activities such as uchi-no-ke (crescent shapes), ko-ashi (short legs), yo (leaves), and kinsuji (golden lines). The boshi (hamon in the point section) is notare undulating with some hakikake (feathering, like brush strokes), and has a small circular shape at the furthest point before ending with a short turn back. The suriage-nakago has taka-no-ha (bird feather type pattern) yasurime (filemarks), four mekugi-ana (peg holes), and is finished in kurijiri (chestnut shaped). The mei (maker’s signature) is inscribed close to the nakago-jiri with the two-character signature of Kanenaga.
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Seikado Bunko Art Museum
2-23-1 Okamoto, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo 157-0076.
Tel: 03-5777-8600 (Hello Dial)
Homepage: http://www.seikado.or.jp
Exhibition: Perfect Guide to Japanese Sword
Jan 21 (Sat), 2017 through to March 20 (Mon, National Holiday), 2017.
Museum opens 10:00 am to 4:30 pm (last entry 4 pm). Closed Mondays (except for March 20).
Entry fee 1000 JPY
Students and groups of over 20 people 700 JPY per person. (Repeater discounts also available).
Middle school students and below: Free.
There are also scheduled events and talks (the purchase of a museum ticket is required to attend and guests will be seated on a first-come, first-served basis. Due to space restrictions, the museum can only accept 120 attendees per event):
Feb 19 (Sun): Talks by Yoshikawa Eiichi and Exhibition curator Yamada Masaki (in Japanese).
Talk 1: From 10:30 am
Talk 2: From 1:15 pm
March 4 (Sat), 10 am to 4 pm: Demonstrations by sword craftsmen:
Scabbard Maker (saya-shi):
Swordsmith: (clay application demonstration)
Paul Martin is a former British Museum curator, and a secretary of the Nihonto Bunka Shinko Kyokai (NBSK). He is also an appointed Bunka Meister (Master of Culture: Japanese Swords) by the Japonisme Shinko Kai (Honganji)
Paul Martin is a former British Museum curator, and a Hyogiin (Trustee) for the Nihonto Bunka Shinko Kyokai (NBSK). He is also an appointed Bunka Meister (Master of Culture: Japanese Swords) by the Japonisme Shinko Kai (Honganji).
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Supreme Court Screwup
"If there was one decision I would overrule, it would be Citizens United. I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be. So that's No. 1 on my list."
Note: This blog was published as "Repeal Citizens United" and then the title was changed to "Supreme Court Screwup" to reflect how the law was passed in January 2010.
US campaign-spending laws prohibited organizations from financing election campaigns in the past. In 2007, the conservative lobbying group Citizens United filed a complaint in District Court about the constitutionality of campaign-funding restrictions. That gave the case its bizarre name.
In reviewing the petition, the Supreme Court decided that rather than focus on specific instances on a case-by-case basis, it must consider the broader issue of political speech as it relates to the First Amendment which guarantees freedom of speech.
In January 2010, the US Supreme Court ruled 5-to-4 to allow corporations and unions to fund political campaigns. The 4 dissenters held that this would corrupt democracy. The winning 5 votes said that the government could not regulate political speech by limiting election funding. (1)
The downside of the new law is that the definition of organizations as individuals protected by the First Amendment created a loophole: Unions and small groups of wealthy donors can exercise too much influence on elections and maintain that influence after candidates take office. This ruling has reshaped the way elections are conducted. We have already witnessed the takeover of American politics by special interests.
Supreme Court Opinions
Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy’s majority opinion invited a shareholder solution, “through the procedures of corporate democracy”. In his ivory tower, he was naïve and mistaken; shareholders have very little power over the corporate executives who control donations. They certainly don’t control ultra rich donors.
Justice John Paul Stevens served in the Supreme Court for nearly thirty-five years. Before he retired in June 2010, one of his last acts was to read aloud a summary of his scathing dissent of he Citizens United decision. He stated repeatedly that corporations “are not themselves the ‘We the People’ by whom and for whom our Constitution was established.” To read the decision aloud was noteworthy; justices only do so for cases they believe have special merit. Justice Stevens correctly understood then that Citizens United was wrong. (2)
In an interview with the New Republic, 81-year-old Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said that the Court’s ruling she would most like to overrule was Citizens United because “it strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.” (3)
PACs and Super PACs
Previously, Political Action Committees (PACs) were organized to raise and spend money to elect and defeat candidates. Money came from voluntary contributions and most PACs represented business, labor or ideological interests.
Technically known as independent expenditure-only committees, Super PACs may raise unlimited sums of money from corporations, unions, and individuals, and then spend unlimited sums to overtly advocate for or against political candidates.
Unlike traditional PACs, Super PACs are prohibited from donating money directly to political candidates, and their spending must not be coordinated with that of the candidates they benefit. The result has been a deluge of cash poured into Super PACs that are only nominally independent from the candidates they support.
Super Pac spending, known as "dark money," never has to be publicly disclosed. Of the well over $1 billion spent in federal elections by Super PACs since 2010, nearly 60% of the money came from just 195 individuals and their spouses.
After the new law was passed, political spending skyrocketed. The 2010 elections saw a record-breaking $489 million spent by outside groups – 450% increase over 2006.
Super PACs emerged as a major influence in 2012 US politics. Conservative groups, including a Super PAC led by Karl Rove and another group backed by the Koch brothers, spent more than a billion dollars trying to take down Barack Obama. (4)
The total price tag for the 2014 election was nearly $4 billion, the most expensive midterm election in history. It set the stage for the 2016 presidential contest that could approach double-digit billions in spending. (5)
A New York Times analysis of the 2016 presidential campaigns shows that 156 families are responsible for more than half the money raised. As of April 27, 2016, 2,265 groups organized as Super PACs have reported total receipts of over $700 million and total independent expenditures of over $300 million in the 2016 cycle. (6) The Sunlight Foundation reported that, “1% of the 1% controls 28% of the political discourse in America.”
According to an analysis by U.S. PIRG Education Fund, 83.7% of higher fundraising candidates have won their congressional primaries so far in the 2016 election cycle. Candidates who lack the backing of mega-donors or vast personal wealth cannot keep up with their big money rivals.
What goes on in Washington is more about moneymaking than lawmaking. The fundamental purpose of government is being lost in the quest for power and money. Nothing is sacred under this system – political donations are extorted from every industry. In the law’s current condition, the line is blurry between the exercise of constitutional rights and criminal behavior.
In his new book, Extortion: How Politicians Extract Your Money, Buy Votes, and Line Their Own Pockets, Peter Schweizer, argues that politicians have developed a new set of legislative tactics designed to extort from wealthy businesses and compel donors into forking over huge amounts of cash that is often funneled into pockets of friends and families. Schweizer’s book delivers hard, documented facts. (7)
President Obama was an early critic of the Citizens United ruling, calling it a "threat to democracy" and a "victory for Wall Street and Big Business." He criticized the ruling in his 2010 State of the Union address, saying that it would allow "special interests – including foreign companies – to spend without limit in our elections."
With Republican-backed Super PACs eclipsing them in fund-raising, Democrats felt they were left with no other option than also to utilize Super PACs. The 2012 presidential campaigns clearly illustrated that all the candidates pushed the limits of campaign finance regulations. (8)
Both Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders say that opposing Citizens United should be a litmus test for the next Supreme Court justice, and both support a constitutional amendment to overturn it.
Small Donors Dominate
The cost of securing future donations is much lower for candidates relying on a base of small donors. Sending out email appeals is almost free. As the campaign drags on, candidates with databases full of confirmed, donating supporters, can bring in money from those donors over and over again. Internet commercials incur only the costs to post on websites, which is much cheaper than TV advertising. Supporters can share messages through social media. (9)
As the current election process proceeds, the advantage probably goes to the candidates with a large base of small donors. Bernie Sanders has shunned Super PACs, raising money from individual, small donors – the well publicized, “$27 average contribution”. Bernie has shown that candidates without deep-pocketed supporters can still compete on a relatively even field.
A new Citizen Super PAC is striving to empower Americans by providing the first crowdsourcing platform where voters can select and financially back specific ads for the candidates, and the issues they support. Their stated aim is to enable every citizen to have as much political influence as the 1%, without a personal fortune and an army of lawyers. A worthy aim, but it remains to be seen whether they will have major impact.
Amending the U.S. Constitution is a clear, permanent solution to curbing the undue influence of money on our democracy. A constitutional amendment would overturn the flawed Supreme Court decision and restore the right to protect the government from being captured by private, wealthy interests. Most of the American electorate truly wants government of the people, by the people, and for the people.
President Obama has indicated his support for a constitutional amendment to repeal Citizens United. Presidential hopefuls Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sander, and more than 200 former and current members of Congress have also declared their support.
The American public has begun to realize that billionaires can buy elections. Polls show there is wide discontent about the perceived influence of big money in US politics and the growing gulf between the countries’ very rich and very poor. (10)
There are signs of a pushback. Voters across party lines overwhelmingly support a constitutional amendment to overturn the decision and curb the influence of money in politics.
A national grassroots movement is developing. More than 5 million people have already signed petitions in support of a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United. You too can join the millions of Americans who've told their lawmakers to amend the Constitution and overturn Citizens United! (11)
Citizens United is wrong. It must be repealed by a constitutional amendment.
Let’s Engage
Please provide your own feedback, comments and suggestions. Share our discussion by responding to these questions directly via the blog. If you prefer, send me an email and I’ll insert your comments.
What is your view of Citizens United? Are you for, against, or haven’t really thought about it?
Are you Republican, Democrat or Independent? Does that affect your opinion?
Can you provide any arguments in support of Citizens United?
Who is your preferred candidate in the 2016 Presidential Election? Can you summarize your reasons?
Have you signed up to repeal Citizens United? Will you? If not, why not?
Please add your own comments and suggestions.
Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission: http://goo.gl/EVlbSg
Citizens United Attacks From Justice Stevens: http://goo.gl/euhYas
Ruth Bader Ginsburg - Citizens United Is the Worst Ruling: http://goo.gl/5fsq7B
Citizens United Has Changed the Political Game? http://goo.gl/SVEZBZ
2012 Election Will Be Costliest Yet: http://goo.gl/UcUo1M
Elections 2014: The Most Expensive Midterms Ever: http://goo.gl/xOz7DP
Book - Extortion: How Politicians Extract Your Money: http://goo.gl/SA3ttq
Which Presidential Candidates Are Winning Money Race: http://goo.gl/0S5Ai2
Campaign Donation Limits Are Irrelevant: http://goo.gl/s6c05f
U.S. billionaires may not be able to buy the 2016 election: http://goo.gl/eBwMnO
Signup to overturn Citizens United: https://goo.gl/IJFH4Y
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Jim Pinto
Carlsbad, CA.
Jake Brodsky April 29, 2016 at 6:49 AM
The effort of trying to limit campaign contributions is like trying to squeeze a balloon. It pops up somewhere else.
I am not fond of the idea that organizations should be able to fund political candidates. That goes for unions, for PACs, for non-profits, for companies, or for any association, for any reason.
Instead, I would prefer to see ONLY individual citizens contribute. They should be able to do so openly for as much money as they care to contribute.
I prefer transparency of who is contributing to what. What we have now is the worst of all worlds, where money flows in, issues get raised, and nobody knows who is pulling the strings.
Can billionaires "buy" elections? Maybe. Can we stop them? No. It is easier and more beneficial to know who is pulling the strings than to try and keep their money from entering the race. I would rather know who gave what than to have to deal with dark money sources.
Jim Pinto April 29, 2016 at 1:50 PM
It's a "systemic" part of Capitalism and Democracy together. When the Capitalists (Big Money) can openly buy elections, it becomes very harmful. The Supreme Court has admitted the error (at least, some of them, the others not openly) but cannot initiate a fix themselves.
Jake Brodsky May 2, 2016 at 5:04 AM
Be careful what you ask for Jim. If you regulate the money too tightly, the advertising will start radiating from all sorts of weird sources, particularly sources we can't do anything about (other countries).
To some extent, it already is. Most front running candidates are dogged by rumors that they take money from foreign sources.
I would prefer to see where the money comes from rather than try to regulate how much someone can spend.
In that respect, I don't think Citizens United was wrong. It's just that they did not (nor could they) follow through to the next element of a responsible discussion: Identity.
The notion that someone can hide behind opinions using well endowed small groups of undisclosed donors should scare everyone.
You want civility in politics? Stand up for who you are, put your money where your mouth is, and be ready to express an answer for your critics. That goes for the wealthy, the poor, and everyone in between. Money is the lubricant for effecting policy. It always has been and I do not see how it can be regulated effectively while still being even handed.
Ken Crater April 29, 2016 at 1:43 PM
It is seeming like we now have one political party, the Plutocrats, with two brands for maximum market penetration. I prefer smoking the Democratic brand myself, but I still worry about its long-term health affects.
Ken:
Yes, and Citizens United helped the Plutocrats! Now, after the fact, they are sorry they did it. At least, some of them openly confess.
Ken Crater April 30, 2016 at 7:08 AM
Absolutely. Sometimes, they jump the shark, and people begin to notice. Citizens United was one such overreach which, combined with other factors, led to the ascent of Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump (I'm not equating the two, just noting a common stimulus). When Plutocracy becomes Kleptocracy, people start becoming upset with their overlords, and Citizens United seems well-constructed to support an expansion of the money-grab. More political influence, leading to ineffectual government and weakened regulation... profit! Until it all collapses -- but that will happen in a different fiscal quarter, so no problem :-).
Allen Grayson April 30, 2016 at 9:41 AM
1. What is your view of Citizens United? Are you for, against
Against.
2. Are you Republican, Democrat or Independent?
Independent.
3. Can you provide any arguments in support of Citizens United?
4. Who is your preferred candidate in the 2016 Presidential Election?
5. Have you signed up to repeal Citizens United? Will you?
6. Please add your own comments and suggestions.
The Supreme Court's United Citizens decision I think will rank equal
to the Dread Scott decision and their confirmation of the internment
of the Japanese/Americans in WW II.
I also think there are too many males, Free Market extremists and ultra
conservatives on the SC. The SC court is not Supreme because they are
infallible but only because there is no court higher than them.
Perry Marshall April 30, 2016 at 10:00 AM
I've not researched Citizens United per se. But as a marketer and author of a bestseller about the 80/20 principle in business, I can absolutely say that these new rules allow SuperPacs etc allow the 0.1% to wield huge power over the 99.9% and are TOTALLY contrary to the spirit of democracy. This is legalized corruption and even more so in a media saturated age. This law needs to change ASAP.
Steve Copp April 30, 2016 at 11:45 AM
Jim: By way of your commentary you are lobbying to suppress individuals' right to support a candidate through direct contributions or through a super PAC. I believe you could do more good for America if you focused on motivating all those legally eligible to vote to study the real issues, become fully informed voters, and then encourage them to go out to actually vote their conscience.
Jim Pinto April 30, 2016 at 11:48 AM
Steve: You are right! We all need to study the real issues and become fully informed. And we ALL need to vote.
DGR April 30, 2016 at 12:11 PM
Lots of attacks here on big business ... none whatsoever on Big Unions or Big Government ... infinitely greater threats to freedom and democracy imho
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Jim Pinto April 30, 2016 at 12:42 PM
DGR: You are absolutely right! I'll (edit) and put in comments about Unions also corrupting elections through Citizens United legitimized financing. Thanks for pointing this out!
DGR: I reviewed the blog and found at least one more place where I included Unions and big money political contributors. Thanks!
Gary L Wilkinson May 1, 2016 at 2:07 PM
This is one of those 'cat is out of the bag'. Just like its hard to convince someone that no one is going to take their guns....but someone convinces them that the "gun seizures" are coming...so they buy more guns. Maybe they will need the money for something else someday, like college for their kids or their families will convince them not to have so many in the house. Same goes for Citizen's United, what will change it is not lawsuits or legislation, but that political spending by large groups is just not a good use of corporate funds. So, they can be convinced by shareholder concerns and I think more immediately, by the great success of campaigns like Bernie Sanders who is receiving so much through small donations online. My two cents. Thank you.
Reese Horton May 2, 2016 at 7:22 AM
1. What is your view of Citizens United? Are you for, against?
I'm not sure what Citizens United is. If corporations are treated like citizens in the respect of being able to donate to political campaigns, why isn't their overseas income taxed as I understand ordinary citizens are taxed?
I'm probably more a Libertarian. I don't think that affects my opinion.
Preferred candidate? None of the above. Tongue in cheek: Since I'm so unhappy with the choices I think we are going to get, I am personally running for President and would like your vote. I promise you no one could be any worse President than I. Maybe in this manner I can prod someone with the skill and energy to run for the job and we can stop circling the drain and begin taking our country back.
My platform - Call ALL our troops home, furlough them! Get the Generals together and figure out if any of them know HOW to win a war or a battle - Fire about half of them. I think more are incompetent, but we need to keep some good ones.
Term limits for the House and Senate - limited to 8 years. No pensions or Secret Service protection for any of them after they serve. They go home and resume their working careers. If a past President feels he needs Secret Service protection, okay.
Interest rates taken to 5% immediately, which hopefully, would encourage businessmen to make good investments and forego dumb ones. At 5% there would be more saving and more investment in business, creating jobs and wealth.
We begin to pay the National Debt - except in time of war, we don't spend more than we take in in taxes. Tax businesses 10% on profits (it would be better only tax the profits when they are paid out as dividends at ordinary income rates), but that isn't going to happen. I've read some other really good ideas, like do away with the home mortgage interest deduction, but I can't remember them.
I would support legislation to get business out of government and as much as possible to get government out of the way of business!
Papa Jimbo May 5, 2016 at 2:12 PM
I am not alarmed by this decision. We have seen that money doesn't buy elections in several well known cases, the most recent being Mr Trump who spent little and Jeb Bush who spent a ton of money. A few years back, Carly Fiorino and Meg Whitman ran for Senator and Governor of California. Each spent millions, Whitman almost $100 million..and lost. In my own State of CT, Mcmanus of World Wide Wrestling fame outspent 10 to 1 for the governorship and lost.
Are you Republican, Democrat or Independent? Independent.
Does that affect your opinion? Perhaps. Quien sabe? Does it matter?
Tongue in cheek: It helps prove that money can't buy elections? It helps separate fools from their money so that entrepreneurs can manufacture, signs and shirts and buttons for the losing candidates.
Who is your preferred candidate in the 2016 Presidential Election? Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump.
Can you summarize your reasons?
Both have flown out of the glass jar. Out of the cultural and political box! I prefer Sanders because he focuses on the poor and others lost in the political discourse. Trump seems wild and disrespectful, but if he is elected, he too will cast a different light on how we are governed. Both scare the Sh-- out of the oligarchs at Goldman Sachs, the NYT, Big Oil, Big Pharma. That said, the US of A is a monster ship with lots of safeguards. Even if one or the other got a mandate and both houses of Congress, they would have many blocks in their way...federal courts, state governors and legislatures, the Federal Reserve and scores of other independent agencies. And the very people who elected them.
One scary point: The Supreme Court may be turned Right or Left in the next four years. That will strengthen or weaken the Conservative or Progressive agenda for many years. The gods will decide in November.
Have you signed up to repeal Citizens United? No
Will you? Maybe
If not, why not? Time is not of the essence.
Every presidential election is a snapshot of the national mood at a moment in time. This primary season has revealed the anger and desperation of the disenfranchised, the poor and working class in an unparalleled way. It reveals tears in the social fabric, that, if not remedied, could result in an uprising in our beloved country. I hope our 'leaders" get this and begin to allocate financial resources in a more equitable fashion. I am hopeful. Thanks. Papa Jimbo
Stan Lieberman May 16, 2016 at 9:58 PM
Passing more laws to determine who can give money to candidates in what amounts will not solve this problem. Anyone that believes in less regulation and more freedom could not go along with more regulation in this area. The solution is quite simple and follows from the concept of separation of Church and State.
We have separation of Church and State to prevent the government from passing laws controlling what one believes in and how one practices his or her religion. Without that, we would be similar to Iran and other Middle Eastern countries.
In the same way, we should have separation of Economics and State. Thus no individual - president, senator, etc. - would have the power to regulate how you make your money or spend your money (unless of course, one is using fraud and force).
With this separation, no matter how much you give a candidate, the candidate would have no power to help your business in any way.
Our country has never had this separation of Economics and State and thus we pile regulation upon regulation where most of the later regulations are necessary to solve problems caused by the earlier regulations.
Our country was created based upon the Declaration on Independence. It is a shame we did not follow it.
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Hematite, also spelled as haematite, is the mineral form of iron(III) oxide (Fe 2 O 3), one of several iron oxides. C. They may aid you to access the energy of the planet and may aid those who wish to heal the earth. Best Substitute of Neelam Blue Sapphire Gemstone Best Substitute of Neelam Blue Sapphire Gemsto. The secret to improving luck is about perspective, self-belief and erring on the side of optimism. If you’re wondering how amethyst can improve your health, then please read on! What Is Amethyst Gemstone? MOLDAVITE AND PETALITE CRYSTAL HEALING PENDANT Dendritic Agate Merlinite Healing Stone Amulet in Sterling Silver. This ancient stone (described as a chunk of moldavite with glowing striations) had been preserved in a lamasery that Roerich visited This gem provides benefits similar to tourmaline, such as far-infrared radiation and negative ion emission. 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Psychic Healing Moldavite pendants with silver bail from 15 USD/pc: Fine grade Moldavites setted in silver 925 in range of 20 - 300 USD The stone is beautiful , energetic , and Stone Identification, the Metaphysical, Supernatural, & Paranormal Properties of Gemstones, Minerals, & Metals This will help you to identify the gemstones and Spirit Stones you are working with! It outlines the different attributes of metaphysical properties, energies, & powers each gemstone, mineral, or metal possesses. There is a moldavite museum, Muzeum Vltavínů, in Český Krumlov, Czech Moldavite is a mystical stone with intense frequency & high vibration. htmlMoldavite is a tektite, and a stone of intense frequency and high vibration. On this week’s unboxing, Natalie is joined by Bill, Co-Founder of JTV & Moldavite expert, to help unbox Moldavite and explain why he loves Jade meaning is based in an ability to gather tranquil wisdom while discarding negativity and seeing one's true self. This is a rare stone and is found along the banks of the river Moldau"moldavite stone" Cancel. Moldavite truly is the stone of transformation, merging the Above and the Below as One. Moldavite is a form of Tektite that carries extra terrestrial origin, and was formed when a giant meteorite stuck The 7 Chakras are also connected to the seven layers of the aura: the Etheric, Emotional, Mental, Astral, the Etheric Template, Celestial and Ketheric Template of layers the aura. Sodalite is a very good stone to use for business because it promotes friendship and camaraderie. Amethyst is a healing stone for placing in your home or workplace. CrystalAge. Home. BlOOD STONE, , Bloodstone (also called heliotrope) is green with distinctive red spots that resemble blood, giving this stone its name. and. Meteorite is the collective name given to the debris of asteroids and comets from outerspace. Safed Pukhraj prices and benefits. 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The meanings of color indigo and how it relates to spiritual healing and Chakra balancing in order to re-align the chakras, and heal from the inside out. Human translations with examples: பாறை, சைன், peridot, கல் மலர், கற்காலம், ammikkal, karkandu, ammikallu, மரகதக்கல். I was very surprise but also smitten when an Ayurvedic doctor when he visited me,took my hands and started to read my hand!!!He give me few stone to connect with the planets which was on my Zodiac at that time. A bulls-eye style stone, for example, plays the role of the Hematite, also spelled as haematite, is the mineral form of iron(III) The English name of the stone is derived from Middle French: Hématite Pierre, Moldavite has also been referred as “The Philosopher’s Stone”, the key to turning focused thoughts into reality, and for transmuting ordinary elements into gold. It can aid with insomnia caused by an over active mind and help to overcome criticalness and selfishness. Moldavite is a tektite, and a stone of intense frequency and high vibration. Although the differences in colors can be explained by the stone's mineral compositions, some believe that tourmaline meaning and uses of the different colors can vary from hue to hue. Search. rawsynergy. HINDI NAME--RED AND BLACK OBSIDIAN ATALPASHAN. The Misrepresentation of Crystals Part 4 – Lightning Strike Quartz, Monatomic Andara Crystals and Sentient PLASMA Crystals™ Tanzanite Properties and Meaning. 5 on no scale and its utter brilliance. The customer service was excellent, engaging, and very friendly. stone are used to help Moldavite has also been referred as “The Philosopher’s Stone”, the key to turning focused thoughts into reality, and for transmuting ordinary elements into gold. November 20 2018 . Labradorite is a stone of transformation and change. Just pay shipping. Dark Amber When combined with other golden toned crystals, it is a powerful stone to manifest an increase in money. 95 $ 84 95 + $5. This powerful stone has an extremely high vibration and helps to accelerate spiritual growth, as well as increase access to inner guidance. Moldavite is a form of Certified South Sea Pearl Golden Pearl South Sea Pearl in Hindi South Sea Moti Read more This article is about Arkadia's exclusive Activated Moldavite™. Attraction "" Moldavite" is a tektite. Handmade sterling silver jewelry showcasing natural healing crystals and semiprecious gemstones. The meaning of moonstone is closely tied to the moon. By Victoria Dawson Hoff. Discover (and save!) your own Pins on Pinterest. Extract from Shungite Protection, Healing, and Detoxification. . Read meaning & uses. Achondrites or Pallasite Meteorite is composed of a lattice of nickel-iron with pockets of yellow-green Olivine crystals throughout the meteorite and contains a high proportion of silicate material. Just like the moon influences the earth and its inhabitants so does the moonstone. Known as Holy Grail stone aids rapid transformation & amazing Healing Crystals India: One (1) Fine Moldavite Tektite 925 Silver Pendant From Czech Healing Crystals India 10 Carat Moldavite Stones from Czech Republic. Different names have been given to jade based on jade stone's ability to cure ailments of the bladder or kidneys. An easy method is to run it under water while holding the intention of clearing the stone. The meaning of moonstone is closely tied to the moon. Yoga Clothing, Healing Jewelry, and Unique Spiritual Fair Trade gifts! Free shipping on all USA orders!Tourmaline (/ ˈ t ʊər m ə l ɪ n /, - / iː n / TOOR-mə-lin, -leen) is a crystalline boron silicate mineral compounded with elements such as aluminium, iron, magnesium, sodium, lithium, or potassium. $84. If your piece looses a stone, please send us the piece and the stone. The energy bonds with the element of water, making it more readily available for the body to make use of. Stone Chakra Bracelet 8mm - Charm R 150. HEALING: This stone is associated with the Thymus Gland. It helps to balance the chakras and transmutes negative energy. *Colored Stone* is a trade term used in the gem and jewelery trade for any gemstone species other than diamond. MOLDAVITE DUOZI TETANIUM DUOZI PINK Howlite is a calming stone helping to relieve rage by absorbing your anger or that directed toward you from others. Moldavite Value. 1948. These natural green crystals are powerful aids to create transformation and are thought to be the stone known as "The Holy Grail Stone. Moldavite is a gem material born about 15 million years ago when a pair of asteroids struck Europe. It's name is said to be taken from the Sanskrit word "upala" which means "precious stone". Email. This stone harmonizes the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual levels. Contextual translation of "pavalam stone" into Tamil. " "A true Romanian gypsy woman from Can we just talk about how amazing her jewelry is? Now that’s how you layer necklaces!" Rich Green Genuine Moldavite Tektite Stone | Arkadian Collection. Diamond is another powerful stone for money. The Best Combination to Use with Moldavite Moldavite works really well with other stones, specifically stones and …Moldavite is a highly sought-after healing stone which is admired for its unique texture, soothing bottle green color and fine durability. We stock over 2,000 products and our site provides extensive information on minerals, stone types, charka and much more! Based in the United Kingdom. Last Updated on February 22, 2017. Facilitates a sense of self security and courage. In the market, Moldavite can be found in different quality grades broadly referred to as museum grade, medium grade and regular grade gems. This stone may be used Moldavite stone for wealth, health amp prosperity, desire, spritual healing, dr shalini: This video and mp3 song of Moldavite stone for wealth, health amp prosperity, desire, spritual healing, dr shalini is published by Recipe With Dr Shalini on 04 Aug 2014. Finally, an additional stone of significance in Islam is known as dur-e-Najaf الدر الإلكترونية النجف. Watch along as Natalie and Bill explain the different features & characteristics of Moldavite, and the history of Venus of Willendorf. It is one kind of tektite. A revolution in your life . Although the differences in colors can be explained by the stone's mineral compositions, some believe that tourmaline meaning and uses of the different colors can vary from hue to hue. moldavite stone in hindi Buy Certified Lapis Lazuli Gemstone in Wholesale Prices. Each book purchased comes with a complimentary Namaste Bookshop Moldavite stone for wealth, health amp prosperity, desire, spritual healing, dr shalini: This video and mp3 song of Moldavite stone for wealth, health amp prosperity, desire, spritual healing, dr shalini is published by Recipe With Dr Shalini on 04 Aug 2014. It The five important Islamic gemstones include the following: Carnelian Cabochon. In ancient times it was thought to be a mystical stone that could bring good luck and fulfillment of wishes. Is Moldavite Stone or is Moldavite Crystal? February 2, 2013 February 2, 2013 by Glenis. Moldavite is a form of Tektite that carries extra terrestrial origin, and was formed when a giant meteorite stuck the earth. Overcoming jealousy and possessiveness, it promotes letting go of old love and opening to new. 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HINDI NAME--MOLDAVITE KALPMANI Legend: In legend, it is believed Moldavite was the green stone in the Holy Grail and has the power to quicken ones spiritual evolution. Lapis lazuli/Lajward is one of the rarest semi precious stone in the world of gem. About Opal Stone Benefits: Brings Luck, Understanding and Health The opal is a unique gemstone that is not crystalline, but is rather made up of hardened silica gel. Moldavite is an olive-green or dull greenish vitreous substance possibly formed by a meteorite impact. The Rock Store is a Toronto-based crystal healing centre specializing in crystals, books and other products and services that support personal growth. Can help one in the study of holistic arts, often used for grounding, connects the ethereal and physical bodies and aligns the energy flow between them. The lower part of a Cat’s Eye is not polished, but only ground, so one can see the roughness of the stone there. Wild. Moldavite is quite popular in metaphysical circles and is well-known as a stone of spiritual awakening and an accelerant of personal evolution. John Cancalosi / Getty Images Cleanses the aura and auric field; can be used as a protective stone to bring peace and hope:Stone Type: Hessonite. A list of Precious and Semi Precious Gemstones and their Treatments . Amethyst geodes and crystals help purify the atmosphere and create clarity and protection. Numerology. 00 (1 new offer)MOLDAVITE GEMSTONE. Two dark green rectangular tourmaline stones and one oval tourmaline stone. More Manufacturers and Suppliers of Gemstone in Haridwar. 3. Print. It is an amorphous stone meaning that its structure contains no regular geometric pattern. By Regina Martino. The name “garnet” comes from the Latin word “Garanatus,” meaning “seedlike,” in reference to a pomegranate. 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These natural green crystals are powerful aids to create transformation and are thought to …Moldavite is a stone of the heart, reaching into the deepest inner self and bringing to the surface that which one most needs to recognize, honor, integrate or release. On a physical level, it is best to use Tanzanite as an elixir . Moldavite Power Pendulums. This reference makes sense as small garnets look like the bright red seeds you find inside in a pomegranate. Last Modified On: Jun 27, 2018 @ 8:53 am About Emerald Gemstone (Panna Stone)? Emerald Gemstone is termed as beryl stone. It is mostly preferred by the ladies because of its charming colour. Cordless Phones Something many people are less aware of is that often we have a very harmful source of radiation in Thunder Egg is a stone for self nurturing and inner joy. Let's check the stories and the power of Chrysoberyl Cat's Eye. moldable synonyms, moldable pronunciation, moldable translation, English dictionary definition of moldable. 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Astrological Benefits of Hessonite Gemstone Hessonite is one of the Navratna and in Hindi is also known as Gomed derived from a Sanskrit word Gomedhikam. LIBRA. Aqiq (العقيق) sometimes spelled aqeeq) is believed to refer to the gemstone carnelian العقيق. Blue Gemstones - Most people shopping for a colored stone are looking for something blue. You can get them at a much lower rate at Whole Foods. Definitions of Moldavite, synonyms, antonyms, derivatives of Moldavite, analogical dictionary of Moldavite (English) Arabic Bulgarian Chinese Croatian Czech Danish Dutch English Estonian Finnish French German Greek Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Icelandic Indonesian Italian Japanese Korean Latvian Lithuanian Malagasy Norwegian It is sometimes Gypsies speak a language (Romany) that is related to Hindi and are believed to. The name “garnet” comes from the Latin word “Garanatus,” meaning “seedlike,” in reference to a pomegranate. Please convo us with questions or concerns. Top Ten Benefits of Peridot Gemstone| Peridot Metaphysical Properties . Log in. The numerical value of moldavite in Chaldean Numerology is: 8. The five important Islamic gemstones include the following: Carnelian Cabochon. MOLDAVITE DUOZI TETANIUM Home » Crystal Gem Tree Real-life wish-fulfilling tree is a common sight in many Asian countries (such as Hong Kong or China). Moldavite gives most people a real ‘buzz’ and often they will turn bright red and and immediately start perspiring. To activate your chakra stones and crystals, use your intention and imagination to visualize energy. Meaning of Bismuth - Bismuth said to relieve emotional and spiritual isolation, facilitating a state of oneness, connectedness and serenity. " Rich Green Genuine Moldavite Tektite Stone | Arkadian Collection. As a green stone it is most active with the heart chakra, but the power of this stone can act on and open all chakras and enhance any spiritual pursuit. crystalsandjewelry. It is clear or milky in colour but also available in green, blue, pink, lavender and yellow colour also. What are semi-precious stones? A semi-precious stone is also known as a gem or gemstone (also a jewel, a gem, a precious stone), which is a portion of mineral, which, in refined and cut form, is used to create jewelry or other embellishments. I bought a yoga sutra translated by Gregor Maehle. founded. Unboxing an Extraterrestrial Stone! UFO. Zircon teaches you consistency, it is known as a stone of virtue, traditionally it was a test for celibacy. Rarer than Diamonds but is not classified as a Gem therefore it fails to get the same kudos and material value. MyRockhound. com/moldavite. How to Improve Your Luck. astrology and gemstones VEDIC REFERS TO THE OLDEST WRITTEN WORKS & PHILOSOPHY IN EXISTENCE, SANSKRIT TEXTS DATED AT OVER 3000BC. Moldavite (Czech: Vltavín) is a forest green, olive green or blue greenish vitreous silica projectile rock formed by a meteorite impact in southern Germany (Nördlinger Ries Crater) that occurred about 15 million years ago. Crystal Meaning: A crystal of clear personal expression, promoting commitment to ones true natures by clearing negative thoughts relating to behaviours. The many colors of spinel: a suite of African spinels in purple, blue and pink, a top red Myanmar gem, an African lavender stone, a pink specimen from Russia, a “padparadscha” colored African piece, and an opaque black stone. It is a rock, composed of most important mineral lazurite. It's called the moldavite. Rare 19thC Antique 1 1/2ct Czech Moldavite Ancient Israel King Solomon Egypt Gem. Pyrite Meaning & Healing Properties To harness the powerful and protective vibes of Pyrite, give your self-confidence a boost when you use this warrior stone in a prosperity or aspiration healing layout. Academia. The pink color of tourmalines from many localities is the result of prolonged natural irradiation. The Peridot stone is a precious stone. The alexandrite stone is a valuable gemstone since it is very rare. 72 shipping. Sodalite is a very good stone to use for business because it promotes friendship and camaraderie. facebook. Aids in recovery of trauma and allows one to move on from the past with optimism and enthusiasm. The Best Combination to Use with Moldavite Moldavite works really well with other stones, specifically stones and crystals of the quartz variety. Morganite Gemstone Information. Morganite is the light pink to violet-pink variety of beryl. 99 This listing is for ONE genuine Moldavite from Czech Republic, and will be chosen at random. BlOOD STONE, , Bloodstone (also called heliotrope) is green with distinctive red spots that resemble blood, giving this stone its name. in. astrology and gemstones VEDIC REFERS TO THE OLDEST WRITTEN WORKS & PHILOSOPHY IN EXISTENCE, SANSKRIT TEXTS DATED AT OVER 3000BC. By Rodika Tchi. Diamond is the hardest mineral in the earth's crust and has a colorless crystal structure. Amber Stone Meaning and Properties. Stone Chakra Bracelet 8mm OM Hindi 27cm Ganesha_Green R 224. Hi Eva, We have not personally worked that much with Moldavite, so I don’t know if we’d be the best people to speak to that! Black tourmaline is a great stone The semi-precious stone tourmaline grows in a number of colors, ranging from black to blue to pink. com/rawsynergy Moldavite is a highly sought-after healing stone which is admired for its unique texture, soothing bottle green color and fine durability. 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Nex-Tech Wireless Central KS A.O.M.: Kaden Meitler
Kaden Meitler captured four state titles in Wichita for Smith Center. (photo: Molly Kuplen)
By: Sports in Kansas - Chet Kuplen
The Nex-Tech Wireless Athlete of the Month from Central Kansas selected by Sports in Kansas for their performance over the month of May is Smith Center senior athlete Kaden Meitler.
Meitler had quite the senior year at the state outdoor track and field meet in Wichita, capturing four gold medals for the Redmen in 2A. Meitler won the 110 hurdles, 300 hurdles, pole vault and 4 x400 relay. Meitler was a repeat state champion in the pole vault after capturing it as a junior in 2016. Pole vault seemed to be his signature event as he took no less than second in every single meet at it over the last two seasons. His career PRs are as follows Pole Vault (14'3"), 110HH (15.18), 300H (40.06). The 4x400 relay team which consisted of Logan Zabel, Meitler, David Hileman, and Jesse Staples ran a 3:27.30 to capture the 2A 4x400 title on the last event of the evening on Saturday.
Nex-Tech WIreless would like to congratulate Kaden on an oustanding senior season and career at Smith Center High School.
Sports in Kansas and Nex-Tech Wireless are in partnership over the 2016-2017 school year to release a Central Kansas and Western Kansas Athlete of the Month, two separate monthly honors. Schools west of Russell, Kansas (including Russell) in the Nex-Tech Wireless footprint (click to see) qualify to be nominated for the Western Kansas Athlete of the Month and schools East of Great Bend (including Great Bend) qualify to be the Central Kansas Athlete of the Month (click to see). You can nominate an athlete over the last seven days of the month by emailing chetkuplen@kansas-sports.com, please provide stats.
Nex-Tech Wireless is a proud supporter of Sports in Kansas, visit them online at www.nex-techwireless.com.
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Audition information for Gilgamesh: The Shine-y, Hero-y, Boss-y King
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Auditions for our 2019 Fall production of Gilgamesh: The Shine-y, Hero-y, Boss-y King will be by appointment only. There will not be an open audition date at this time. Please see below for more information, including roles available and cast requirements.
Production: Gilgamesh: The Shine-y, Hero-y, Boss-y King
This is an original commissioned play based on the epic of Gilgamesh.
Audition Date, Time & Location
Please email Stage Manager at stagemanager@lightboxforyouth.org to schedule an audition date and time on Wednesday, July 17 and Thursday July 18 from 5 to 8 p.m.
Auditions will be held at LightBox Theatre Company’s rehearsal facility at Calvary Church, 700 E. Monte Vista Ave., Turlock
Actors auditioning should be versatile in comedic and dramatic technique. Actors who have never worked with LightBox before should prepare a 2-minute monologue or poem, 32 bars of a song, and be ready to cold-read from the script. Please choose child-appropriate materials for your audition. If you are unsure of what to prepare, please feel free to email the Stage Manager for suggestions.
Cast Requirements
All actors must be available to perform during the week on Tuesday, Oct. 1 and Wednesday, Oct. 2 for our school performances.
Actors should be at least 16 years of age.
Actors from diverse backgrounds are highly encouraged to audition.
A $300 honorarium will be offered after the run of the show
Principle roles will need to be available to rehearse 3-4 hours, 3-4 times/week, and the full week of tech rehearsal
Rehearsals begin in early August and typically are scheduled 3-4 days a week (M-F) from 6-9:30 pm.
Please fill out the Audition Form (download PDF file) and bring it with you when you audition
1 – Male – Gilgamesh (king and demigod), Townsperson 1
Actor should have a youthful and “kingly/godly” presence
2 – Female – Gashan (scribe to Gilgamesh), Ishtar (goddess), Townsperson 2
Actor can be of any age, should have sophistication and “godly” presence
3 – Male – Shabra (chair of the Uruk City Council), Enkidu (a wild man with a heart), Townsperson 3
Actor can be of any age, should range in portraying civility and uncivil behavior in the varying roles
4 – Female – Nirgal (Wisest woman in Uruk), Shamhat (the matchmaker of Uruk), Utuda (Village girl of marrying age), Humbaba (A monster guardian of the forest)
Actor must have enough range to convincingly play a “monster” and an adolescent girl as this role demands many varying character traits, also puppetry experience is a bonus
Performance Dates and Times:
Friday, Sept. 27 @ 7 p.m.
Saturday, Sept. 28 @ 2 p.m. and 7 p.m.
Sunday, Sept. 29 @ 2 p.m.
Tuesday, Oct. 1 @ 9 a.m.* 10:30 am* and 12:30 pm*
Wednesday, Oct. 2 @ 9 a.m.* 10:30 am* and 12:30 pm*
Friday, Oct. 4 @ 7 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 5 @ 2 p.m. and 7 p.m.
Sunday, Oct. 6 @ 2 p.m.
(*-school performances)
Performance Location: Carnegie Arts Center, 250 N. Broadway, Turlock
Email stagemanager@lightboxforyouth.org or call the director at (209) 417-6643 if you have any questions.
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Our fiscal policy : excerpts from a speech delivered by Wendell L. Willkie at the New York Times meeting, New York Times Hall, New York, February 2, 1944
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@corbridgefest has an epic lineup this year..get #tickets!
CORBRIDGE FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES HUGE HEADLINERS FOR 2017!
CAST, CRAIG CHARLES, FROM THE JAM, THE SELECTER,
LUCY SPRAGGAN,
KESTON COBBLERS,
EXTRA CURRICULAR,
and THE HAPPY CATS
......are just some of the bands coming to Tynedale Park, Corbridge on Friday 7th and Saturday 8th July thus summer. Corbridge Festival, the increasingly popular family-friendly music festival, returns for its’ seventh year with a spectacular musical line-up that somehow manages to top all previous years! As usual, the musical delights cover most genres, ranging from brit pop to punk rock/mod, funk/soul to 2 tone/ska, and from folk to a smattering of offerings that just can’t be pidgeon-holed.
Friday With a jammed packed year in the making, the funk and soul train keeps movin’ along - making a stop at Corbridge on Friday 7th July and we’re delighted to be able to announce that Corbridge 2017 has bagged CRAIG CHARLES and his Funk & Soul Club to kick Corbridge 2017 off on Friday evening. The legendary actor, host and broadcaster is one of UK’s most beloved Funk and Soul DJ’s. From Robot Wars to Red Dwarf,10 years of broadcasting BBC 6 Music’s primetime Saturday night show, have established Craig as a genuine Funk & Soul icon. Live every Saturday night with an assortment of classic gems and emerging artists, Craig has garnered global support as one of the UK’s foremost Funk and Soul commentators, DJ’s and promoters of new music.
Limited space in the marquee for Friday evening means that there is a limited number of Weekend (ie, Friday & Saturday) tickets (there are no Friday-only tickets) and they will sell out fast! so be sure to grab a Friday & Saturday ticket as soon as possible if you want to hop on the groovy train with Craig!
Saturday: What treats this year brings with Britpop legends CAST headlining. Formed in 1992 in Liverpool by frontman John Power and bassist Peter Wilkinson. CAST bring a back catalogue of hits that goes on and on. Hits such as ‘Alright’, ‘Fine Time’, ‘Walkaway’ and ‘Flying’. The timing for Cast to come to Corbridge is perfect too as they have just released a brand new track ‘Paper Chains’ from their forthcoming album ‘Kicking up the Dust’. The single is available to download now and the album is due to be released in the Spring.
Next up - From the Jam featuring former Jam bassist Bruce Foxton, legendary vocalist & guitarist Russell Hastings and drummer Mike Randon, and they’re coming to Corbridge to celebrate the 40th anniversary of The Jam’s debut album ‘In The City’. The band will be performing a selection of songs from the album as well The Jam’s greatest hits like ‘Going Underground’ and ‘a Town called Malice’. Bruce Foxton says "I can't believe it's 40 years since we were first signed to Polydor. It's a testament to the strength of the songs and of course the fans that we are able to continue touring with the intensity that we do!” The Jam exploded onto the punk scene in 1977 delivering their ferocious mission statement - debut single ‘In The City’ – and in 1978 released their third album ‘All Mod Cons’. The Jam became the sound of The British youth and one of the greatest and biggest selling bands in British history.
Also performing at Corbridge this year is The Selecter a 2 tone ska revival band from Coventry formed in mid-1979, and famous for hits such as ‘On My Radio’ and ‘Three Minute Hero’. Led by iconic front woman Pauline Black and co-fronted by original member Arthur ‘Gaps’ Hendrickson they bring with them an incredibly talented band of musicians,. While the anarchic passion that fuelled Selecter gigs during the 2 Tone era is still there, if anything, Pauline & Gaps are more driven than ever! Their confidence is sky-high and they’re also writing the best songs of their career, which is saying something given the enduring popularity of “Three Minute Hero”, “Missing Words” and “On My Radio”. Their latest album, Subculture, was mixed by UK dub-master Prince Fatty and released to critical acclaim in 2015.
Another recognisable name coming to Corbridge is Lucy Spraggan. Lucy, famous for hits such as ‘Last Night’ and ‘Tea and Toast’, may not have taken the traditional singer-songwriter route, but after three Top 40 albums and several sell-out tours, it’s clear to see she has developed a truly loyal fan base. Since she appeared on the X Factor in 2012, Lucy’s audition video has been viewed 35 million times on YouTube. She was also the most Googled musician of 2012 and after she came off the show she immediately signed to Columbia Records. Her debut album Join the Club was a top-ten success and Lucy has enjoyed sell-out tours since then. She recently released her fourth studio album ‘I Hope You Don’t Mind Me Writing’, which entered at #12 in the official UK Album Charts.
Over the last few years, Keston Cobblers Club have been steadily building a name for themselves and winning over an army of loyal fans. They’ve played some of the UK’s biggest festivals, including Glastonbury, Bestival, Cambridge Folk Festival, Wilderness and Green Man; they’ve sold out their own headline tours, been play listed by 6Music and Amazing Radio and have been invited to perform live on BBC Radio by the likes of Dermot O’Leary, Steve Lamacq and Bob Harris. Their last album ‘Wildfire’, won them huge praise from MOJO Magazine, The Guardian, The Independent, Songlines, fRoots and Clash. Burberry asked the band to perform at their Menswear SS2106 event to a VIP audience and after a triumphant UK tour including sell-out dates at London’s Lexington and Scala, the band were invited to open for Bellowhead on their farewell tour. As fans will know, the Cobblers’ music isn’t just uplifting, often a full-on celebration! Their live shows are displays of genuine warmth and dazzling musicianship. With brand new music on the way, the band continues to delight audiences across the country.
More than the music: Although the music is at the centre of things, Corbridge Festival is about much more than just the music; it’s the wonderfully friendly atmosphere of Corbridge that wins new friends year on year. The compact nature of the venue ensures that everything is close; no long walks between stages and parking near to the campsite, which is on the same site as the music arena. Parking is free and 2 nights camping is available. For full details of artists, tickets and everything else please see www.corbridgefestival.co.uk and join them on Facebook at www.facebook.com/corbridgefestival Tickets are on sale now from www.corbridge-festival.co.uk/tickets, currently priced at:
£43- Adult Weekend,
£35 - Adult Saturday only,
£25 Concession Weekend,
£20 Concession Saturday only.
Under 12’s FREE.
Friday and Saturday night camping is available at extra cost (see the website for prices)
Corbridge Festival is proud to support Josie’s Dragonfly Trust in 2017! Corbridge Festival will take place at Tynedale Park, Corbridge, Northumberland NE45 5AY
Website − http://www.corbridge-festival.co.uk/
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Twitter @corbridgefest
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The #WESTWALLSARTISTS launch their #exhibition in #Carlisle Tonight #preview
‘A New Conversation’
West Walls Artists exhibition
Opening 6 pm Friday 10th February 2017
Closing 5 pm Saturday 25th February
Mon - Fri 10.30-4.30
Sundays 12-4:00
The Old Fire Station, Carlisle.
no admission fee
West Walls Artists are Cumbria’s longest established artist’s studio group.
Last year they celebrated our first 21 years with an exciting contemporary
art exhibition in Carlisle’s Old Fire Station Arts Centre. Braving Storm
Desmond hundreds of guests came to the opening night. The next day
Carlisle was hit by the devastating floods and the exhibition was
marooned.
Now West Walls reopen to start a new conversation about contemporary art in
Carlisle and the region
Information • An opportunity to see a survey of two decades of art in Carlisle
• Cumbria’s longest established artists’ studio group... that means artists
collaborating to provide affordable studio space.
• Over 20 years the group has had many members and this exhibition will showcase
NEW artwork by 45 present and past associates.
• Members and associates work in many disciplines ranging from painting
sculpture and print; to film, video, installation and performance art.
• The group has run highly acclaimed public art events in Carlisle and Trafalgar
Square.
• West Walls are expanding their associate member scheme
• Many of our members are graduates or staff of the University of Cumbria’s Fine
Art Department, and the show is partly funded by the University of Cumbria,
and Independent Businesses.
Update on Facebook Event today: "The art works are making their way into the space little by little. Only 24 hours to go now til the opening of exhibition A New Conversation. Photos show some works as taster including Paul Taylor's A History of West Walls - a large format digital print, Kevin Phillips pen and ink works and superb sculptural work by Mark Gibbs. Come along Friday night from 6pm... Including music and bar."
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Customer Demand Surges With the Availability of Native Mobile App Service
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SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- (Marketwired) -- 04/30/13 -- New Relic Inc., the SaaS-based application management provider, today announced the company exceeded its growth targets for Q1 2013. In Q1, New Relic recorded 130 percent in revenue growth compared to the same quarter one year earlier, and ended the quarter with more than 40,000 active customer accounts. Customer growth was reported at 134 percent year over year, with a record 1,300 new direct paying customers including a 65 percent increase among enterprise customers. Overall, the company is performing at top speed and broadening its reach in all of its markets, either directly or through partnerships with more than 70 cloud computing and hosting relationships.
Late in the quarter, customer demand surged when the company announced the availability of New Relic for Mobile Apps. Within a month of general availability, there are now more than 1,000 iOS and Android mobile applications with 11 million end users being monitored by New Relic in production and enterprise environments. Among the new customers for the native mobile app service are Dark Horse Comics, Mirego and Wanelo.
For first quarter 2013, New Relic:
New customers included Comcast, General Electric Company, Urban Outfitters, Saks Fifth Avenue, Hibu Global Limited, Pearson Technology and Churchill Downs, the home of the Kentucky Derby
Secured a new round of venture capital funding of $80 million and announced its plans for an initial public offering
Tripled the company's office footprint with the headquarters move to four full floors at 188 Spear St., San Francisco, and two full floors at 111 SW 5th Avenue, Portland, the engineering team's headquarters
Grew the team by more than 40 people, bringing the total employee headcount to more than 230
Announced the general availability of a real-time solution for the monitoring of native mobile applications, a first of its kind in the industry
New Relic announced a new partnership program with the "Who's Who" of mobile app platform providers Adobe® PhoneGap Build, Appcelerator, Parse and Stackmob
New Relic also extended its mobile app service to existing platform and infrastructure partners such as CloudBees, Joyent, Rackspace® Hosting and Windows Azure Mobile Services
Released its very own mobile app for the iPhone, enabling customers to monitor their apps on the go
Won the Marketo Revenue Performance Excellence Award in the Innovative Integration category
Recognized as a SIIA Software CODiE Award finalist
Currently, New Relic:
App Instances Monitored: 1,328,843
Daily metrics captured: Over 100 billion metrics each day
Active customer accounts: 40,000+
Supporting Quote:
"Our focus is on the opportunity ahead, where software and apps are driving the world's economy. Enterprises are building their latest business initiatives on the web and mobile. New, personalized interactions now available through mobile and web interfaces are inspiring entrepreneurs to build new businesses. Q1 was about New Relic setting the stage for bigger things to come. This year, you'll see us continue to provide new and innovative ways to evaluate the success of apps, which is the underlying foundation for the success of your business."
- Lew Cirne, founder and CEO, New Relic
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Home » Actress » Sophie Skelton Age, Boyfriend, Parents
Sophie Skelton Age, Boyfriend, Parents
Date: 30 Apr, 2019
Sophie Skelton had been a ballet dancer who acted in the theatres from a very young age. She started her career onscreen after an agent spotted her during her play. From then onwards, she has been in the process of rising in the field of show-biz through her versatile role-plays.
Sophie is known for her appearances in The Dumping Ground (2013), Waterloo Road (2013), So Awkward (2015), and The Girl with the Mark (2016).
Her most appreciated role of all is Brianna Randall Fraser in the time travel TV series, Outlander. She entered the series by the end of the second season as the daughter of the main leads.
Apart from TV series, Sophie has also played extraordinary roles in the movies, Another Mother’s Son and Day of the Dead: Bloodline.
There is no doubt on the fact that Sophie has garnered a considerable amount of property and net worth from all her works.
Sophie Skelton Age, Birthday & Parents
Born in Cheshire, England, Sophie Alexandra Skelton celebrates her birthday on 7 March every year. The British actress who stands at the height of 5 feet 7 inches (1.73 meters), ages 25.
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She was born to the toy inventor parents, Simon Skelton and Ruth Skelton and was raised alongside her two sibling brothers, Sam and Roger Skelton who are elder to her.
When it comes to her education, Sophie holds A-Levels degree in Biology, Chemistry, Literature, and Maths. However, later, she escaped University to pursue her career in acting.
Talking about her hobbies, Sophie is very much into dancing and puzzles. In an interview, she told that her love for puzzles is something she was born with. To add to this, she revealed her parents’ love story about how they met in the course of creating children's’ games.
Dating Boyfriend Or Married?
Sophie was rumored to be dating Scottish actor and Outlander co-star, Richard Rankin in the late 2016 and early 2017. The couple was speculated to have come close in the course of their shoot for the TV series.
However, none of the two have ever spoken about being girlfriend and boyfriend of each other.
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The audience has also loved Sophie's pair with her onscreen father played by Sam Heughen. Their fans are excited to see the pair end up as a real-life couple.
Sophie Skelton spends quality time with her on-screen father, Sam Heughan on 20 April 2019 (Photo: Sophie Skelton's Instagram)
Additionally, in most of the cases, Sophie has tried to conceal her relationships. However, her fans are hopeful about the fact that Sophie will inform them before she gets married.
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School Effectiveness
Office Of The Deputy For School Effectiveness
Educator Certification and Program Approval
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Interscholastic Athletics (MPSSAA)
Juvenile Services Education Program
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Maryland Summer Meals Site Search Summer Food Programs For Kids
Join us for a Summer Meals Twitter Chat on June 18 at 2:00 PM along with @NoKidHungryMD. Find out about FREE Summer Meals for youth in your area! @MSDEnutrition #SummerMealsMD
Families can find summer meals sites @ http://mdsummermeals.org , text FOOD or COMIDA to 877-877 or call 211.
School & Community Nutrition Programs
What is the Summer Food Service Program?
The Summer Food Service Program (SFSP) is a federally-funded, state-administered program to assist public and private nonprofit organizations in serving free, nutritious meals to children and teens during the summer months.
Why is the Program important?
More than 400,000 Maryland children are eligible for free or reduced-price school meals, but they may not have access to nutritious meals during the summer when schools are closed. The SFSP provides healthful meals and plays a vital role in reducing childhood hunger when schools are not in session.
The SFSP provides reimbursement to organizations for meals and snacks served to children in areas where at least 50 percent of the children qualify for free or reduced-price meals under the National School Lunch Program or when 50 percent of the children enrolled in a program qualify for free or reduced-price meals. Most organizations may be reimbursed for up to two meals or snacks per child per day. Camps, migrant programs, and some other sites may be reimbursed for up to three meals per child each day. Meals and snacks must meet federal meal pattern requirements.
The Program is available to children and teens age 18 and under as well as individuals 19 years of age and over who have a mental or physical disability and participate during the school year in a public or private non-profit school program.
The Summer Food Service Program is administered on a Federal level by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Service. USDA and MSDE are equal opportunity providers.
Email: scnp@marylandpublicschools.org
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Home Articles Sunday Sports Victories
Sunday Sports Victories
written by Kevin Rebultan November 25, 2018
Today calls for another celebration of Filipino physique, strength, and spirit.
HISTORYMAKER. Meggie Ochoa makes her mark in Philippine sports history as the country’s first Jiu-Jitsu world champion, after prevailing in the women’s seniors 49-kilogram division of the 2018 Jujutsu World Championship held in Sweden on Sunday, November 25.
Her victory also makes her the first ever Asian to clinch a gold medal in the prestigious tourney.
The 28-year-old Ochoa now has four international gold medals, also winning the championship in the Jiujitsu World Tour in London early this year.
BACK AT IT AGAIN. After a scoreless draw in their final group stage match against Indonesia on the same day, Sunday, the Azkals (Philippine National Football Team) secured their place in the semifinals of the 2018 AFF Suzuki Cup.
The Azkals finished second in Group B at eight points, next to two-time champion Thailand. They will be facing Vietnam next, the top team of Group A, in the two-legged semifinal series to begin on December 2.
The Azkals missed out a semifinal berth in 2016. This is their fourth semifinal appearance in five tournaments.
Graphics by Roc Verdera.
— Michael Martinez Reflects on Conquering the World Figure Skating Stage
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HomeGood Food Stories
20 Years: Breakfast Eggstacies
By McDonald's on October 7, 2016 Good Food Stories
In the year 1972, Herb Peterson, a guy who ran a McDonald’s restaurant in Santa Barbara invited Ray Kroc to come and have a look at something.
When Kroc met Peterson, the latter presented him with a breakfast sandwich – hot egg, combined with cheese, Canadian bacon and English muffins. Kroc, who had lunch already, took a bite and didn’t stop till he had two sandwiches.
“He didn’t want me to reject it out of hand, which I might have done, because it was a crazy idea—a breakfast sandwich. It consisted of an egg that had been formed in a Teflon circle, with the yolk broken, and was dressed with a slice of cheese and a slice of grilled Canadian bacon. This was served open-faced on a toasted and buttered English muffin. I boggled a bit at the presentation. But then I tasted it, and I was sold,” Kroc said.
That was the day McDonald’s most popular breakfast item was invented. In fact, breakfast at McDonald’s happened in the year 1976, four years after the EggMcMuffin’s tasting session.
While experimenting with egg sandwiches for a breakfast dish, Peterson found out that poached eggs were too runny. He came up with the idea of the cluster of rings in which eggs could be given the shape of the muffins.
With steamed eggs and less sodium, Egg McMuffin is a healthy breakfast sandwich option. In many countries, the sandwich is served all day owing to popularity of eggs for all meals and not just breakfast.
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Ballot Security Problems Found in Chicago
Posted on 07/27/2011 by Cal SkinnerJuly 26, 2011
A press release from Defend the Vote:
EXPLOSIVE REPORT – 2011 Chicago Elections – 59% Ballot Boxes Unsealed
Will My Vote Count in 2012? Explosive report on the security of Chicago elections.
Chicago Illinois, July 22, 2011: “Vote early and vote often” is the infamous phrase attributed to Chicago elections going back to the days of William Hale Thompson, mayor of Chicago from 1915 to 1923 and again from 1927 to 1931.
“Will my vote count?”
That is the question teams of pollwatchers set out to answer during the first ever citizen-run security assessment of the Chicago Board of Election’s processes and procedures.
On April 5th, 2011 – Election Day for the municipal runoff elections – 239 precincts were evaluated according to the CBE’s security procedures.
215 of these (90%) failed in at least one of 11 security procedures, and most of them failed in more than one area.
Incredibly, 139 (59%) did not secure the ballot box to the ballot scanning device!
On Thursday, July 28th (5-7pm) at the Chicago Union League Club, we will release this explosive report!
The report outlines severe lapses in security around the seals that protect memory devices on election equipment.
Besides Election Day procedures, we will discuss how the Chicago Board employs non-citizens to run some early voting sites in Chicago.
In addition, the CBE is non-compliant in Federal I-9 regulations for identifying the legal status of workers operating polling places for early voting.
Hundreds of 1-9’s of these employees do not identify their legal right to work.
Why are these forms not filled out correctly? If the CBE cannot get the simple I-9 forms filled out, how effective are they in maintaining secure elections?
A graphic from a March 1980 Illinois Issues story about Operation LEAP. A link to it is included in the story. Copyright Illinois Issues. Reprinted with permission from Illinois Issues. Dennis Fraden's "Election judges LEAP to clean up Chicago vote fraud," photo published by The University of Illinois at Springfield, IL 62794-9243.
The results of this audit of Chicago elections has inspired Defend the Vote, along with various Tea Party groups, to work with voters across Illinois to launch the first citizen-driven security assessment of voting processes across the State’s 110 election districts.
We frequently do not get to ask “if” our vote was tampered with.
How can we assess vulnerabilities when there is no data collected by election officials?
Security procedures for elections remain largely unavailable to the public.
Defend the Vote and the groups joining us aim to change that before the 2012 November election.
On Primary Day in March 2012, thousands of voters across Illinois will conduct a statewide security audit of election processes and procedures at their polling place.
While a portion of the audit will look at Election Day procedures, the entire process of elections in Illinois will be assessed, including
early voting,
absentee voting,
nursing home voting,
warehouse storage, and
inventory and shipping procedures.
Security measures around the machines and their memory devices will be reviewed and documented as part of a system-wide vulnerability assessment.
For too long, voters in Illinois have uttered the phrase we are infamous for “vote early and vote often.”
In 2012 voters across the state of Illinois will step up to hold their local election authorities accountable for holding honest and transparent elections.
Join us on July 28th to learn more!
Contact: Defend the Vote – Empowering Citizens to Protect Elections
847-382-1100 Sharon@defendthevote.com
Back in at least the 1970’s and 1980’s there was an organization called Operation LEAP. The “LEAP” stood for “Legal Elections in All Precincts.” The late Tom Roeser was its president in 1980.
I can testify to ballot problems in 1974’s Regional Transportation Authority referendum. Paper ballots were used. The victory margin of its supporters was under 13,000.
State Rep. Don Totten (R-Schaumburg) and his organization color coded the election results of every Chicago precinct. I still remember one that went 100% for the RTA referendum. About 80 “Yes” votes, no “No” votes and about 60 spoiled ballots. The rest of the ward was voting about 60% in favor of RTA.
My guess is that someone put “identifying marks” on the 60 “No” votes and the Democratic Party judges declared them “spoiled ballots.”
Vote fraud is more sophisticated now and oversight is definitely needed.
It was funded by good government business types, who apparently lost interest after Richard Daley was elected Mayor.
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HU dedicates new Ag School on Thursday
Posted: Friday, October 23, 2015
Huntington University hosted a dedication ceremony Thursday for its Haupert Institute for Agricultural Studies. During an interview with Inside INdiana Business, when the program was unveiled last year, President Sherilyn Emberton said a tremendous need exists to supply Indiana’s ag sector with highly-educated talent.
The first handful of students have already been admitted to the program and nearly a dozen incoming freshman have also signed up. Institute Director Raymie Porter says she anticipates a “snowball of new students in the future.”
The event included addresses from Indiana State Department of Agriculture Director Ted McKinney and Warsaw-based Lake City Bank senior vice president Joe Kessie.
A reception at the Dowden Science Hall followed the 4:30 p.m. dedication and was open to the public. The Huntington program follows a tradition of schools in the state offering agricultural programs, including Purdue University, Vincennes University and Ivy Tech Community College.
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Home > Shop > Beauty (Skin Care, Anti-Aging) > Sjal
Sjal, a true cosmeceutical skin care line, incorporates ancient eastern medicine with western bio-technology and nano minerals for bio-osmotic energy to create a luxurious, yet simple skincare regimen. Each essential product is made from over 45 hand selected, globally sourced, and pharmaceutical grade ingredients. Infused with eastern precious minerals at optimal concentrations and nano-gold, platinum, silver, and gems stones for bio-osmotic energy, this eco-conscious skin care line meets the European standards for active levels, ingredient quality, and product efficacy. Its regimen eliminates the need for multiple products for a simple routine that works to repair and protect the skin from environmental damage, pollution, and aging. The Sjal skin care lines only uses the best ingredients and steers clear from petroleum jelly, mineral oil, silicone, alcohol, caffeine, temporary lifts, and fillers to allow your skin to breathe.
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in brief: gym accused of kicking out a Muslim woman for wearing a headscarf
Matilda Mornane
A Muslim woman claims that gym chain, Planet Fitness asked her to leave for wearing a headscarf in the gym, which apparently did not fit their dress code policy.
The incident involves New Mexico resident Tarainia McDaniel, originally occurring in 2011, and detailed in a new lawsuit, according to the Albuquerque Journal.
‘McDaniel alleges in a lawsuit filed by her attorney, Rachel Higgins, that she explained the requirements of her religion but was told only that she could wear a baseball cap.’
An employee said the dress code was sometimes waived but that it couldn’t be in her case because the head covering was red, according to the complaint.
An attorney for the gym chain, Erika Anderson, told the Journal that Plant Fitness ‘didn’t know the head covering was for religious purposes.’
A spokesperson reached out to the paper saying, ‘while it cannot comment on the pending litigation… the company policy accommodates head coverings worn for religious purposes.’
The news comes less than a week after one of Planet Fitness’ locations made headlines for telling a woman to cover up for looking ‘too intimidating.’
It’s clear that there’s some confusion at Planet Fitness amongst their employees, on what the appropriate dress code is for their facilities. One can only hope there isn’t more unreported instances of prejudice like these ones going on, and that Planet Fitness can teach their employees a consistent dress code to enforce.
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Marr Johnny
Call The Comet
Label: New Voodoo Records
To get into the right mindset to record his forthcoming solo album 'Call the Comet', Johnny Marr (The Smiths) and his band spent nine months holed up in a dark studio above an old factory in his hometown of Manchester, England filled with projectors and TV screens. The dizzying kaleidoscope of projections reflected the many ideas bouncing around Marr's head while he penned lyrics for the album, which largely takes place in an "alternative society" set in the "not-too-distant future" far removed from Donald Trump and Brexit.
Marr Johnny: Call The Comet
Desperate Journalist: In Search Of The Miraculous
My Brightest Diamond: Bring Me The Workhorse
Elcka: Rubbernecking
Lipinski Alex: Alex
Mansun: Six
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RIP, Ross Perot.
Ross Perot was… unconventional. But I liked him, personally. My condolences and prayers for his family and loved ones.
Ross Perot, self-made billionaire, patriot and philanthropist, dies at 89 https://t.co/n6epT7M3gi
— Dallas Morning News (@dallasnews) July 9, 2019
Written by Moe_Lane in: Not-politics | Tags: ross perot
bensdad00 says:
It’s… Odd that no one has compared our current executive to Perot. Historically the parallels are close and if HRP had followed the progressive gameplan of challenging a sitting president for the nomination ala Teddy Roos or RFK it’s possible he knocks Bush off and beats Clinton….and that’s a hell of a spot for alternate history right there.
acat says:
That .. depends .. on what Perot’s motivation was .. but yeah, it’s a spot where alt-history could take off.
Interesting guy. Didn’t much like him at the time, in part because, being in IT, I heard about how Perot Systems operated .. but still, interesting guy.
My sympathy to his family.
If I didn’t have to keep bringing him up (by demonstrating that the “unprecedented” Tea Party and early Trump supporters were same fricking people supporting Perot, for the same fricking reasons) I’d have mostly forgotten about him.
Which is a shame.
Before he sabotaged himself by suddwnly dropping out (and then re-entering just as abruptly, shouting a harebrained conspiracy theory that recent events actually make seem plausible), he was on track to win a number of states outright.
At the time, I breathed a sigh of relief and felt we’d dodged a bullet.
Now, I’m not nearly so certain.
Would the Bush family and fellowtravellers have kept so strong a hold on the Republican Party if the embarrassment of the Buchanan insurgency had been followed by such a widespread rejection? Wouldn’t that humiliation have been better for the Republican Party, and the Republic in general? What about the people Perot mobilized? Wouldn’t it have been better to have them empowered than enervated?
He was an interesting character. RIP.
jeboyle says:
nicklevi86: I was lucky enough to miss this process in school, I guess. Didn’t even realize it was a thing. ....
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Prior Year Minutes/Agendas
South West in Bloom
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News from the Council Chamber – June 2019
The new “Gateways” to the village have been installed. Councillors noted that they do seem to encourage drivers to slow down more than standard speed indicators alone. We all hope that these, together with the mobile speed indicators will reduce speeding in and through the village.
The Council has decided to use the Canadian Solar Grant to resurface the Springfield Road Car Park but is also examining the feasibility of including Village Defibrillators, churchyard enhancements, a drinking fountain and swift boxes within its existing works. In parallel, the Council is investigating whether the various sports/fitness initiatives proposed might qualify for alternative funding from SSDC. Whilst circumstances currently preclude taking forward the Revive and Heritage proposals, enhancement of the Weigh-bridge area remains a future aspiration. Other proposals will not be taken forward however the Council wishes to thank all those who submitted proposals.
South West in Bloom judging takes place in the village on Tuesday 9th July. There will be a final “spruce-up” litter-pick in the village on SATURDAY 6th JULY. Please come and help if you have some time free. Tools and rubbish bags will be supplied. Please check the MP PC website for location and time (milborneport.org.uk/parish-council)
Notice of Public Rights and publication of Annual Governance & Accountability return (AGAR)
Any person interested has the right to inspect and make copies of the accounting records for the financial year to which the audit relates and all books, deeds, bills, vouchers, receipts and other documents to those records must be made available for inspection by any person interested. For the year ended 31 March 2019, these documents will be available on reasonable notice by application to the Parish Clerk (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).
This period of exercise of public rights will commence on Monday 17th June and continue to Friday 26th July 2019
News from the Council Chamber – May 2019
There was a good turn-out among residents to vote for a new Parish council on May 2nd, with 5780 votes cast. Electors could vote for the thirteen people they wished to represent them on the Parish council.
The new Parish councillors are:
Richard Douglas – Chair, Austin Fletcher – vice Chair
Deborah Barsby, Tom Campbell, Tim Carty, Karen Gough, Josh Howes, Clive Laughton
Philip Lock, Lucy MacArthur, Elaine Stewart, Robert Tizzard, Ted Watts
The new Parish council met for the first time at the Annual meeting held on 14th May. Richard Douglas was voted in as Chair, and Austin Fletcher as vice-Chair. The new Council wishes to thank those members of the previous Council no longer in office for their efforts on behalf of the village. Topics which may be of particular interest are:
The new Parish councillors resolved to look at the Canadian Solar Grant applications made originally prior to making a final decision on the use of the funds for the most benefit to the village.
Austin Fletcher is leading an initiative to seek Plastic-free Accreditation for the village.
A group of residents has formed to support the Council in the development of a Neighbourhood Plan. This is a lengthy process which culminates in a local referendum to endorse the plan.
Currently, the Council Offices are being manned on a skeleton basis by volunteers and the normal opening times cannot be fully supported. Please bear with us. The next meeting of the full council will be held on Tuesday 4th June.
News from the Council Chamber – April 2019
Council meeting delayed because of Election
The next full council meeting will be delayed one week and will now take place on May 14th. This is to allow time to complete the protocols following the election on 2nd May. There are 19 candidates nominated for the 13 Parish Councillor places. A good turnout for these elections is hoped for. The nominations for council can be seen here.
This public meeting will be held on Tuesday 9th April at 7pm at the town hall to hear from the council and other groups about activities in the past year. All welcome and drinks/nibbles will be available from 6:30pm
Litter Pick
A litter pick, organised by the council will take place next week Saturday 13th April starting at 10am at the East Street car park. If you want to join this, please e-mail the chairman, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
As previously reported, The Parish Council has entered the village for this competition. Please look out for posters which will appear and let you know how you can help and get involved.
Use of Canadian Solar Grant funding
Councillors voted on the various projects which had been put forward, however, they agreed to defer the final decision until next month so that the new council could show commitment to any projects supported and to consider other aspects not reflected in the simple voting criteria.
News from the Council Chamber – March 2019
Our regular round up of items of interest that the Parish Council thought worth bringing to the attention of residents. This of course in addition to the formal minutes, the draft of which will be posted shortly.
Parish Council Elections
Parish Councillors serve for a four year term. This year, a new term of office will start with the elections on May 2nd. By the time you read this, you will have had a couple of leaflets about what it means to be a councillor. Please consider whether you would like to serve. More information is on the Milborne Port community website and the South Somerset District Council website.
The Parish Council will be holding its annual Parish Meeting on April 9th. This is not a council meeting but a public meeting where residents can listen and contribute to the council’s work over the year and that of other community groups in the village. The meeting starts at 7pm but there will be drinks and nibbles available from 6:30pm.
Utilisation of Canadian Solar Funds
Unfortunately, because of other matters that the council is dealing with that indirectly impact several of the suggestions, the Parish Council decided that it would be fairer to defer the decision process until the April meeting.
South West in Bloom (SWIB)
Council agreed to enter this year’s South West in Bloom; a competition which has seen the village gain prizes in the last few years. The Parish Council would like to hear from anyone who would like to help with this, continuing to generate pride in our village.
Plastic Free Community and Litter Pick
Members of the Parish Council continue to work towards this goal of being accredited as a plastic free community, and a motion will be put before council in April. As part of this (and SWIB), there will be a litter pick on 13th April starting at 10am at the East Street car park. All welcome and equipment/bags will be provided.
News from the Council Chamber – February 2019
Parish Council Elections 2019
News from the Council Chamber – January 2019
WCAG implemented on Parish Council Website
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Wat's Goin' On?
The Militant returned to the heated environs of the San Fernando Valley on Sunday afternoon as he got to visit the Wat Thai Buddhist temple weekend food court in North Hollywood, which was rumored to be closing (as outlined in his previous entry in this here blog). After a 45-minute transit adventure (more below), the Militant worked up both a hunger and thirst to consume mass quantities at his destination.
The Militant didn't even have to walk far after alighting the bus when he arrived on the grounds of the temple. He expected crazy-go-nuts level crowds but it looked like a normal Sunday, albeit the Militant arrived at around 2 p.m. Though the Militant had been to Wat Thai before to volunteer for a cultural event in 2004, he was not able to sample the food court per se.
If it were not for the dry Valley heat (and substitute it for something far more humid), this would have felt just like Asia. The crowd was predominantly Thai but also attracted a few Angelenos of different ethnicities, including white tatooed hipsters, blacks, Latinos, South Asians and Filipinos (who, were it not for their conversations in Tagalog, would have easily blended in with the Thais).
At the token booth, the Militant plopped down $13 worth of food tokens and delighted himself on mint leaf chicken with fried egg over rice, a beef and a chicken satay and fried banana. But the sheer East Valley heat alone caused the Militant to quench his thirst with a Thai shave ice desert (yes, the Militant was gonna write up Part 3 of his Ethnic Iced Dessert Quest series, but not enough data this time around...), fresh coconut juice (in a coconut core) and a Thai iced coffee. Actually, make that $12.50 worth of food as he was left with a round yellow plastic souvenir when all was said and done.
The Militant did spot a sign at the food token booth (pictured right) regarding a petition to save the food court as a good percentage of the proceeds of the token sales do go to benefit the temple, the spiritual and cultural center for some 500,000 Thais in Southern California. The Militant happily obliged to lend his real name, address and signature to the petition and asked the woman canvassing signatures more details. He asked her who exactly was shutting the food court down, but all she said was "The neighborhood is threatening to get the City to shut us down." The petition, which according to temple staff, needed 3,000 signatures, would be submitted to "Our local L.A. City councilmember" (though not mentioned by name, that meant 2nd District Councilwoman Wendy Greuel).
According to one of the Militant's reputable operatives in the Thai community, there have been three things going on in regard to both the foodcourt and the temple itself. First, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health has recently made their annual inspection and will shut down the food court due to its findings. But the Militant's operative said such closures are normally only temporary - unless there have been gross and extreme health code violations, establishments shut down by the LACDPH almost always re-open in a matter of weeks.
The second issue was general complaints from the neighborhood regarding noise, traffic and loitering, which is interesting since Van Noord Ave., the residential cul-de-sac directly behind the temple, is home to not only temple members, but most of the temple's monks. The Militant's operative said that Wat Thai has worked hard to address the complaints of the neighborhood, which has included satellite parking and shuttle service at a nearby medical center for major festivals. The Militant wonders if the temple has been bullied in this matter as neighborhoods themselves have no authority to shut down something like the food court, only agencies like the Los Angeles Police Department, LACDPH or the Los Angeles City Department of Building and Safety.
The third issue was not directly related to the food court, but did make P.R. matters much worse for the temple, obviously attributed to bad timing. The Militant's operative also mentioned that the LAPD is currently investigating allegations by children at the temple of sexual abuse directed at a male volunteer (none of the temple's monks were named), who is a married undocumented immigrant (and could thusly face deportation regardless of whether the charges stand or not). Investigators have confiscated the temple's computers and other records, according to the Militant's operative.
The Militant's Journey
Although Wat Thai was over 10 miles from his Not Really Eastside compound, he still decided to arrive Militant-style and opted to Go (M) with a 15-minute subway ride via the Red Line and a 30-minute bus ride via Metro Local line 152. North Hollywood had changed quite a bit since the last time he was there, most notably with the completion of the Noho Commons retail center across the street from the subway station, which includes the requisite corporate coffee shop (the Los Angeles-based Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf this time, not that ubiquitous Seattle one), a Coldstone and a HOWS supermarket, which was a curious new sight for the obviously non-Valley resident Militant. It turns out, HOWS is basically a Handspring-esque incarnation of the old Hughes supermakets, which was acquired by Ralphs in the 1990s and eventually assimilated into the Borg (resistance is futile). In fact, "HOWS" is actually an acronym made up of the last names of former Hughes Family Market executives (putting to rest the gripe from transplants complaining why yet another California supermarket chain failed include an apostrophe in its name). The North Hollywood (M) station was even adorned with HOWS market ads (pictured left).
The ride on the 152 was a circuitous 8.5-mile ride through the East Valley, going up Vineland towards Sun Valley and heading due west on Roscoe to the northern border of North Hollywood. Obviously the line could have been more direct, but cuts in transit operating budgets force bus lines, especially those in the Valley, to exist as Frankenstein-like routes, patched together from segments of discontinued lines to still continue to serve their ridership in some fashion. The East Valley resembles a less-dense, dustier and scorching version of Pico-Union, peppered with taco stands and auto repair shops (in fact the entire eastern end of Roscoe is comprised exclusively of auto mechanic/body/parts/scrap businesses), albeit with the Verdugo Mountains replacing the Downtown Los Angeles skyline as the backdrop.
Yes the journey took 45 minutes, but a car trip could never yield this sort of observation, and the irate neighbors of Wat Tai couldn't blame this Militant for being a nuisance to their 'hood.
Commandeered by Militant Angeleno @ 1:25 AM
Labels: Ethnix, Food, Metro, Metro Rail, North Hollywood, San Fernando Valley, Sun Valley
Valleypinoy said...
There's a How's near my house, and I had no idea that it is affiliated with Hughes. Thanks for the research, Militant.
Speaking of old grocery stores, I just passed by a Lucky store on my way to get some Vietnamese sandwiches in Alhambra. I think it was on Valley Blvd. I thought they were bought out by Vons or something.
I wonder if there's an Alpha Beta somewhere.
Militant Angeleno said...
valleypinoy:
Lucky was bought out in 1999 by Albertson's (which originated in Idaho and whose corporate parent is based in Minnesota). The Lucky you saw probably was one that didn't get acquired and is run independently.
Assuming you don't live near NoHo, the HOWS near your house is probably the first one.
Mahom said...
As a parent of children attending the temple school, I suppose I should take Wat Thai's side in this, but I find myself sympathizing strongly with the neighbors.
The Food Court has gotten way out of hand and the weekend crowds simply overran the adjacent neighborhood and showed very little regard for the people living there (if I lived there, I'd be extremely unhappy about the temple). The monks are good and well-meaning people but have shown very little sensitivity or forethought. They have been way too passive in letting things deteriorate to this point.
There may be a positive side to this -- it could force Wat Thai to reexamine its original mission (which is religious, linguistic and cultural, and which has nothing to do with being a foodie Mecca). The Food Court largess may be history, but perhaps this will require L.A. Thais to return to self-reliance in support of the temple's original mssion.
mahom: Thank you for your interesting take! The Militant welcomes different points of view -- as long as they come from people who are directly connected to the issues, as you are.
RE: Lucky
Supervalu, which now owns Albertson's and says it still owns the rights to the Lucky trademark, has suddenly started coverting a handful of stores to the Lucky name (perhaps to preserve the trademark) -- including the one in Alhambra...
Check out more info here.
(http://franklinavenue.blogspot.com/2006/09/stephanie-edwards-send-in-your-resume.html)
Mark George said...
I used to visit Wat Thai regularly when I lived in L.A. Now I'm living in Thailand and see that they run things the same way at the temples here. They are big community centers with all manner of noisy activities. In Thailand the neighbors don't seem to mind. It's normal for them. In America it certainly is considered an intolerable nuisance by the neighbors.
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In this issue of Township Watch, we are introducing an "index" that will take you immediately to the section to the article that might interest you. Just click on any of the links immediately below.
Committee of the Whole - Thursday, March 14th, 2019
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Short Term Accommodation Uses
At the February 2019 Committee of the Whole meeting staff were directed to provide background on this item to the Committee. An in-depth report including all previous reports on the subject was provided for committee members - Short Term Rentals
Some committee members voiced concerns that the By-Law Enforcement Officer for the Township does not work weekends. CAO, Steve McDonald explained to the Committee that what the Township does regarding by-law enforcement is no different than surrounding municipalities. Mr. McDonald further stated that a report focusing on by-law enforcement was being brought forward in April.
This item was for information only and no resolution was read.
Ed. Note: As the Muskoka Ratepayers' had a member sitting on the steering committee, when this item was placed on the agenda a letter was written to Committee members voicing concern that recommendations put in place by the last Council had not been implemented and should be prior to opening the topic up again. Our letter can be read here - MRA Letter to Council
Engineering Analysis Muskoka Road 118 West Port Carling
Mark Misko, Director of Engineering and Transportation at the District of Muskoka spoke to the Committee regarding re-aligning Muskoka Road 118 West in Port Carling from the Indian River Bridge to Wallis Mill Lane. In February 2017 the Township requested that the District conduct an engineering analysis of the roadway. The District hired a consultant that looked at site lines, on site parking and pedestrian traffic. It was determined that there were issues with the road and pedestrian traffic on weekends, with cars backing out of angled parking spots and no formal crosswalk in the area. Several options were presented regarding the intersection Muskoka Road 118 West at Armstrong Point Road including a round-a-bout, re-aligning the road and a formal entrance to Armstrong Point Road. In January 2019 District staff met with the Port Carling Downtown Enhancement working group to ensure they were aware of potential changes.
Mr. Misko's recommendation to the Township was that the centre line on Muskoka Road 118 West remain the same with angled parking being removed from the east side of the road and replaced with parallel parking. He also recommended that a formal entrance be installed for Armstrong Point Road and dedicated crosswalks be installed in the vicinity of James Bartleman Park and outside the Bank of Nova Scotia.
Committee discussed the proposal raising concerns and various comments such as:
that it is not a traffic flow problem, but a parking problem,
large trucks coming around the corner at the Bank of Nova Scotia need to cross the yellow line in order to keep their passenger side tires off the sidewalk,
perhaps parking could be removed completely from the east side of the road and the road
re-aligned,
remove the angle parking on the west side of the road and replace it with parallel parking,
were store owners contacted regarding these potential changes,
how many accidents have occurred at the bend in the road over the last 10 years, and
drop the speed limit to 30 km per hour.
Following the committee discussion Mr. Misko said that the District could review the location of the centre line on the curve in the road. No resolution was read.
Agatha Farmer's article "Traffic, parking, pedestrians are a dangerous mix on 118 in Port Carling" can be read here - Article
Ed Note: The Muskoka Ratepayers' sincerely hope that if two crosswalks are installed in such close proximity to each other that their use is regulated. Otherwise vehicle traffic through Port Carling could become even more paralyzed than it already is during the summer months. Also, perhaps the crosswalks could be for seasonal use, similar to the traffic light at Bruce Wilson Drive.:
Board Chair, Phillip Matthews and Chief Executive Officer, Natalie Bubela from Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare (MAHC) spoke to the Committee about:
what happens at MAHC,
their commitment to quality,
their financial position,
their current needs of $49 million dollars, $9 million in equipment/technology and $40 million in infrastructure,
use of donor funds,
investment care,
their strategic plan including capital planning, ministry capital planning process,
the future model and services and infrastructure approach including locations of hospital expansion or builds, and
design guideline.
Their full power point presentation can be seen here - Healthcare
Ed Note: The Muskoka Ratepayers' are pleased to see that the South Muskoka Memorial Hospital will remain in Bracebridge.:
Thomas Palloway, Managing Director of Headlite Canada approached the Committee for support in requesting the closure of Lock Street on August 24th, 2019. Mr. Palloway is hosting a family friendly Muskoka Jazz Festival on James Bartleman Island from 12 noon until 11 pm featuring multi JUNO award winner Molly Johnson and seven other artists including local jazz guitarist Jack Nickalls.
Mr. Palloway explained that he will be completing an aggressive advertising campaign throughout southern Ontario, as well as the northern portion of New York State. The full presentation to Committee can be seen here - Music
Ed Note: The Muskoka Ratepayers' were very encouraged to hear Mr. Palloway say that he will only be using local businesses for the food concessions.
As reported in the February Township Watch, Mayor Harding proposed a change in committee structure that would replace the Committee of the Whole with a Planning Committee and Finance/ General Services Committee. This item was not passed with the Action Items from the Committee of the Whole meeting held on February 14th, 2019, as there was a request to re-discuss it.
Presenters and some committee members had concerns regarding the new system. Their concerns included:
voters expect their councillors to represent them on all issues,
not delegating Committee of Adjustment matters to staff,
that there be a six-month trial period of the new structure,
all Council members should be at the planning meetings,
having 10 members on committees is not more onerous than six on each,
Those in support of the structure change were supportive as:
councillors are elected to do more than just sit on one committee,
the Township had let issues “slide” and is not dealing with “everything” they should be,
the new structure provides councillors with “more tools” to become more involved,
that those with concerns about an application will be given five minutes to delegate at Committee, 30 days to contact Councillors and then an additional two minutes when the application goes to Council, and
there will be more engagement between the community and Council.
A resolution to delegate Committee of Adjustment matters to staff was read and defeated.
A second resolution to amend the committee structure, revise the meeting schedule, update the Township's procedural by-laws and related policies and post notices for citizens to sit on the advisory committees was read and carried in a recorded vote of 9 to 1.
Ed Note: Although not included in the second resolution, Mayor Harding did state that if necessary, the new committee structure could be re-evaluated in six months.
Ed Note: The Township will soon start to advertise for citizens to sit on the following advisory committees: Economic Development and Grants, Heritage and Attainable Housing, and Parks and Trails. They will be advertising on their website, social media and in the local papers.
Council voted to hire Suzanne Craig as the new Integrity Commissioner for the Township of Muskoka Lakes for a term of up to four years, with provisions for an extension. This term will commence at the end of the current Integrity Commissioners agreement with the Township. Ms. Craig was appointed Integrity Commissioner for the District last month. Although no longer practising law, Ms. Craig brings with her extensive knowledge including knowledge of the Municipal Conflict of Interest. Act.
As reported in the October Township Watch - Township Watch - October 2018 - Catherine Naismith and Robert Allsopp applied to the Township to have their property located at 2509 Windermere Road, formerly known as the Windermere Post Office and General Store, designated under the Ontario Heritage Act. The necessary notices were issued, and no objections were received. Council unanimously voted to designate the property. The designation will be registered on the title of the property.
The Muskoka Ratepayers' attends the District Council and many committee meetings via webcast. Unfortunately, the system at the District was not functioning and the Council meeting could not be broadcast. If we become aware of any important information from the meeting, we will circulate it to you independently.
It is the Muskoka Ratepayers' practice to simply report on what has occurred at Township and District meetings. We are making a rare change in that policy to include the following information.
Premier Ford is looking for input on your regional government. In case you wish to have a voice on how your regional government is working, we are including a link ( Newspaper Article ) to a MuskokaRegion.com article, and a link to the online survey at - Online Survey - Upper tier is Muskoka District.
Please note, the deadline to complete the survey is April 23rd, 2019.
Do you have any interest in taking part in the Township's
Community Clean-Up Campaign on April 27th
Details can be found here - Cleanup
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The Burgess Boys
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Elizabeth Strout, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 2009 for her book of connected short stories Olive Kitteridge, has written an engrossing, strictly realistic, tightly plotted novel replete with family secrets, long-held grudges, and crises of faith and politics. Set in Olive Kitteridge’s home town of Shirley Falls, Maine, the new novel features a diverse cast of meticulously drawn characters who grow and change. The various braided stories in the book resolve with a sense of the past accepted and the future embraced.
In short, it’s everything a doctrinaire Modernist critic might be tempted to dismiss out of hand.
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What gives you the authority to decide that it will be this rather than that? No authority, the classic novelist will reply, but simply the requirements of realism, the requirements of my plot. But do these things have to do with anything other than ensuring your novel is saleable? That of course is a very reasonable requirement, but let us then simply relegate it to the world of consumerism, of fitted kitchens and package holidays.
His point is that the artificial tidiness and contrivance of conventional literary novels create an organized dream where “well-made” stories reach satisfactory conclusions and console us with a sense of ultimate meaning. But the universe is essentially meaningless, and any fiction which disguises this fact trivializes itself and accomplishes little beyond mere escapism. Life as people really live it moment by moment can only be described and honored by capturing the ongoing rush of consciousness. The attempt to grasp the unknowable, to sing aloud the intricate harmonies playing silently inside your head, is the true purpose of art.
So how does a writer working long after Virginia Woolf and Alain Robbe-Grillet, a writer of best-selling fiction in 2013, reconcile the demands of story-telling with this higher calling, this need to reveal that which stories, by their very nature, conceal? For Elizabeth Strout, it involves animating the machinery of her plot with moments of pure consciousness from the interior lives of her characters. It’s an uneasy compromise, and it certainly does not address the modernist need to “write against” and comment on the artificial constructions of the novel form. But it works. It lifts her book above the middle-brow pack, and lets the reader take away something surprising and ineffable, beyond the homely satisfactions of a tale well told.
The tale begins when Zachary, the 17-year-old son of Susan Burgess, shocks the town of Shirley Falls, Maine, by rolling a frozen (but thawing) pig’s head down the center aisle of the local mosque. The mosque is the central place of worship for the town’s Somali immigrants and Zachary’s bizarre hate crime casts an unflattering light, not unlike the harsh fluorescent lights in the local department store changing rooms, on the racism and xenophobia of this small northern village.
Both of Susan’s brothers, Bob and Jim, had fled the State of Maine years before to make their careers in New York City. They are both lawyers, Jim considerably more successful than Bob, but Zachary’s arrest brings them, however reluctantly, home.
The abiding narrative between the titular Burgess boys had begun decades before with a moment of horror that left the family splintered and scarred forever. All three children were left in a car by their father one evening and somehow Bob crawled into the front seat and released the emergency brake. The car rolled downhill, hit their father and killed him. Throughout his childhood Bob carried the guilt of that moment like a backpack bulging with textbooks, and the burden continues to deform him, well into middle age.
As for Jim, he was always the star of the family, football player, class president and eventually nationally prominent defense lawyer, most famous for getting beloved country music star Wall Packer acquitted in a notorious murder trial.
Jim is less successful in his attempts to intervene on Zachary’s behalf. He slights the governor after a rousing speech, and ineptly bullies the prosecutor. Similar errors of judgment contaminate both his personal life and his career. The two overlap disastrously when an affair with one of the paralegals in his office leads to a threatened sexual harassment law suit. Jim gets fired and divorced, humiliated in every way. He winds up using the last of his connections to secure a low-paying teaching job at an upstate college for rich slackers.
Lies have defined his life from the beginning. It turns out that it was in fact Jim who released the emergency brake and killed their father. Even at eight years old he was cunning enough to scramble into the back seat and position Bob up front, behind the wheel, so that his hapless baby brother would take the blame.
This revelation causes a tectonic shift in Bob Burgess’s life. The quake reduces all his assumptions to rubble. The hero and sovereign of his life becomes at a stroke nemesis and grifter, villain and fool, too awful to love, too sad and puny to hate. As for Bob himself, the curse he’s lived with all his life has lifted; he’s free. The liberation extends beyond his immediate family. His first wife Pam, who left him because they couldn’t have children, loses her hold over him as well: “Pam was gone for him. Gone with Jim somehow. The two of them seemed to have fallen into the pocket where the self knows to put dark unpleasant things …”
Pam is a complex interesting character and one of her private moments touches on the struggling modernism of this conventionally structured novel:
So she lay awake at night and at times there was a curious peacefulness to this, the darkness warm as though the deep violet duvet held its color unseen, wrapping around Pam some soothing aspect of her youth, as her mind wandered over a life that felt puzzlingly long; she experienced a quiet surprise that so many lifetimes could be fit into one. She couldn’t name them so much as feel them, the soccer field of her high school in autumn, her first boyfriend’s thin torso, the innocence unbelievable to her now, and the sexual innocence in some ways being the smallest part of innocence, there was no way to name the slender, true piercing hopes of a young girl in a rural Massachusetts town – then Orono, and the campus and Shirley Falls, and Bob, and Bob, the first infidelity … and then her new marriage and her boys. Her boys. Nothing is what you imagine. Her mind hovered above this simple and alarming thought. The variables were too great, the particularities too distinct, life a flood of translations from the shadow-edged yearnings of the heart to the immutable aspects of the physical world – this violet duvet and her lightly snoring husband.
Finally she arrives at the ultimate modernist conclusion: “Nothing could be told and be accurate.” Elizabeth Strout allows her character this thought, but the only way to ratify its fatalism would be to fall silent and this she refuses to do. She has a story to tell. The story of Bob’s liberation and his budding romance with the local Unitarian minister; the story of Susan Burgess’s struggles as a single mother, dealing with her son’s crime and his flight to Sweden to hide out with his expatriate father, his ultimate return home. And it’s the story of another expatriate, a Somali named Abdikarim Ahmed, separated from his own son, whose compassion for a troubled boy rescues Zachary both from the anger of the Somali community and the machinery of American justice.
Strout shows tremendous compassion for the Somali community and a sharp awareness of the discomfort of the locals as their community is knocked sideways from the comfort of its historically homogenous world into the era of diversity. Susan’s trip to New York City, which she finds almost as alienating as another country, gives her a faint sense of the overwhelming exile the Somali’s endure. But she can’t grasp, and probably wouldn’t want fully understand, the horror from which her new neighbors have fled. Strout allows us a glimpse of that nightmare, through the moments we spend with Abdikarim:
He should have left Mogadishu earlier. He should have put the two worlds of his mind into one. Siad Barre had fled the city and when the resistance group split in two, Abdikarim’s own mind seemed to split in two. When the mind occupies two worlds it cannot see. One world of his mind had said: Abdikarim, send your wife and young daughters away – and he had done that. The other world of his mind had said: I will stay and keep my shop open, with my son.
His son, dark-eyed, looking at his father, terrified and behind him in the street, and the walls becoming upside down, dust and smoke and the boy falling, as though his arms had been pulled one way, he legs another – To shoot was bad enough to last his lifetime and the next, but not bad enough for the depraved men-boys, who had burst through the door, the splintered shelves and tables, who swung their large, American-made guns. For some reason – no reason – one had stayed behind and smashed the end of his gun onto Baashi repeatedly, while Abdikarim crawled to him. In the dream he never reached him.
Ironically, it’s this loss, this raw view of authentic savagery that gives Abdikarim his compassion for Zachary and helps heal his adopted town.
As to Zachary, his motives are never really made clear. The central figure, the instigator of the story, remains a mystery. He mother is at a loss; so are his uncles. It’s doubtful whether even Zachary fully comprehends the impulse that drove him to bowl that pig’s head into a mosque during Ramadan. The feral distrust of the different had something to do with it. Susan expresses it this way: “They don’t want to be here. They’re waiting to go home. They don’t want to become part of our country. They’re just kind of sitting here, but meanwhile they think our way of life is trashy and glitzy and crummy. It hurts my feelings, honestly.”
So Zachary absorbs his mother’s baffled hostility, he feels separate and alienated, judged and invaded, angry and diminished. But at times he insists that it was just a prank, a random moment of perverse mischief, badly timed, horrifically inappropriate, drastically misinterpreted. None of the explanations add up to a coherent motivation, and that may be Strout’s point, the secret kernel of modernist non-meaning at the heart of the book that helps sustain all its tangled narratives.
As Josipovici remarks, discussing mainstream English novelists like Anthony Powell and Iris Murdoch,
They do what they set out to do perfectly and adequately: they help tell a story and create a world and characters to inhabit that world that do not flout the laws of probability. We never doubt what they are telling us … such narratives are easy to read. They are also illustrative in Bacon’s sense: they tell a story, they have no life of their own … the smooth chain of sentences gives us a sense of security, of comfort even, precisely because it denies the openness, the ‘trembling’ of life itself; the very confidence of the narrative gives the lie to our own sense of things being confused, dark, impossible to grasp fully.
And that, finally, is what Elizabeth Strout delivers in this fine novel: the openness, the trembling, of life itself. That she does this in a solid, deftly plotted piece of classical story-telling makes her accomplishment all the greater – and more mysterious.
—Steven Axelrod
Steven Axelrod holds an MFA in writing from Vermont College of the Fine Arts and remains a member of the WGA despite a long absence from Hollywood. In addition to Numéro Cinq, his work has appeared at Salon.com and various magazines with ‘pulp’ in the title, including PulpModern and BigPulp. A father of two, he lives on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, where he paints houses and writes, often at the same time, much to the annoyance of his customers.
2013, NC Magazine, Reviews, Vol. IV, No. 5, May 2013
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What I'm Hearing on APPR
I'm hearing that it's highly unlikely the Cuomo/ Heavy Hearts plan could be in effect 2015/ 2016, for a number of reasons. One is that the deadline for agreements, even without a delay, is late November. There will have to be systems in place before that, and they will likely be whatever districts have now. So prepare for another year of MOSL and MOTP.
If there are "hardship" delays, and both Tisch and Cuomo now appear on board, said delays could possibly put off this nonsense for yet another year. Of course all this is contingent upon whatever NYSED and the Regents do, but Carmen Fariña does not appear to be in favor of all this nonsense, and supports the delay. Will the state allow hardships all over? That's a more difficult question.
But a crap system will indeed be a hardship on any and all systems that enact it.
It appears likely that the new system in NYC, with its unfunded mandates, would entail having supervisors wander the city observing teachers in other schools. They would be the outside observers, working under the assumption they would be objective and everyone else was crooked. Would outside supervisors contact the supervisors in the schools they were visiting? Would they be influenced by what said supervisors say?
Of course they wouldn't, because the new system assumes them to be corrupt only within their own schools. They would never call another school to hear that teacher A is wonderful and teacher B sucks, and they would never act on such info. After all, who wants to please people in other schools so those same people deliver desired results in their own schools? And how would supervisors ever conceive of such a thing?
My students and I have lost four days of instruction due to cumbersome and poorly written state tests, and next week we will lose three more. In our case these tests serve not only to decide how quickly your humble correspondent is fired, but also the levels at which students are placed next year. The fabulous system for doing that entails teachers in my school scoring the actual test, because of course we have nothing else to do. However, though the tests are scored, we cannot actually use them for placement, because then follows the rigging of the scores by NY State.
Although we have little time to grade, the geniuses in Albany will need months to actually get back to us on what the scores mean. Therefore, my school, like all the schools in NY, will program kids for next year and need to alter said programs based on whatever NYS tells us the scores mean.
We're lucky to have a visionary like Andrew Cuomo to let us know that however badly the system sucks now, he has a way to make it worse.
Posted by NYC Educator at 4:00 AM View Comments
Labels: Andrew Cuomo, Andrew Cuomo's Heavy Hearts Club Band, APPR, Carmen Fariña, Merryl Tisch, NYSESLAT
Here's Your Big Chance
Now, from time to time in this space, I may kid the UFT President a little. He seems to think, in the wake of the budget agreement and its preposterous statewide evaluation plan, that we've won a battle against Governor Cuomo. Given that, I shudder to think what it will look like when we lose one.
In addition, his caucus, with absolute power over union decisions, has a record that's abysmal at best. It's supported mayoral control, school closings, charter schools, co-locations, the Absent Teacher Reserve, Common Core, junk science evaluations, substandard contracts, and a whole lot of things I could perhaps remember if I gave it another five minutes. But it's not all bad. There's a chance to do something here.
Now that Merryl Tisch has insisted we delay the awful evaluation system, the one for which Michael Mulgrew thanked the Heavy Hearts club, there is a whole extra year to renegotiate it, including a budget vote. This might be a good time to let the heavy hearts know that union leadership will not support a nonsensical and hurtful evaluation scheme after all, and that communities have got the right to rate their own teachers in their own way, even if it means they may spend a few millions less on Pearson's Pineapples.
It might be a good time for the folks at 52 Broadway to show how smart they are, rather than simply waiting for Mulgrew to report it to the DA. I am unpersuaded by the argument that, since a teacher rated ineffective on test scores could be rated developing overall, tests don't count for 50%. First of all, it is ludicrous to say that a teacher rated effective or highly effective via observation is developing overall. What exactly is that teacher supposed to develop? Test prep skills?
Furthermore, the system the "matrix" is replacing was the best thing since sliced bread according to UFT, which took pains to slam brilliant activist principal Carol Burris in the process. Since UFT contended that the old system was the bestest thing ever, and since UFT contends that the new system is the bestest thing ever, since getting 22 components of Danielson instead of 7 was a victory, since getting 8 instead of 22 was a victory, since getting the UFT transfer plan (which I used) was a victory, and since losing it and creating ATRs instead was a victory, since everything that happens is a victory no matter what, it's tough to take them seriously.
I teach beginners. They know little or no English, and will score poorly on standardized Common Core tests. It takes maybe 3 years to acquire a language, maybe 5 to 7 to acquire the academic language on which they'll be tested, and this varies wildly by individual. What with independent evaluators who know nothing about my kids and ridiculous test scores, I figured I had two good years before Cuomo fired me. With the delay I figure I have three.
I'm in a position where being fired will not cause me to live in a tree or eat cat food. I worry about many of my colleagues, about my students, and about my own kid, any or all of whom could wish to follow in my footsteps and become a teacher.
While I think teaching is one of the most important and rewarding careers there is, I can't in good conscience ask anyone to pursue a career in "gotcha." Leadership owes it to us, and more so to those who follow us, to vigorously pursue something better. Cute though they may be, hashtags aren't gonna cut it this time.
Labels: Andrew Cuomo, Andrew Cuomo's Heavy Hearts Club Band, Carol Burris, UFT leadership
NYSESLAT Test in Review. Part One
I spent last week giving oral exams to ESL students. Each year, our students have to take an exam called the NYSESLAT. This year, it's different from what it was in the past, and evidently aligned to the Common Core. The Common Core, you see, is akin to the Ten Commandments, is the best thing since sliced bread, and renders all that came before it obsolete. We have finally achieved perfection on earth, never to be improved upon until something replaces it, which could happen any moment, but will almost certainly happen next year (like every other).
The speaking test leans heavily on non-fiction, and doesn't delve into any of that touchy-feely personalization stuff. After all, David Coleman, largely regarded as the architect of Common Core, was famously quoted saying no one gives a crap how you feel. Ironically, I actually don't give a crap how David Coleman feels, so to an extent, he's correct. On the other hand, my students, who've been sitting one period waiting to take the test, and the next with a sub, are probably feeling less than inspired, and getting considerably less instruction as a result of this test.
There are some flaws with the oral part of the test. The largest flaw, in my opinion, is the patently idiotic decision to test Common Core rather than English. As I ask the questions for the two-hundredth time, I ask myself what would happen if I were to give this test, say, to ninth grade students who were born here. If this were a perfect English test, all the native speakers would establish themselves as such and receive a perfect score. I don't think that would happen.
Not everyone is logical, and not everyone is a good reader. These traits are important, but they're far from the first thing newcomers need to be taught. For one thing, if newcomers already carry these traits, they need not be taught them at all. For another, if they don't, they need to acquire basic conversation and usage before such things can even be considered.
Another issue is the rubric, in which differences between levels are vague, sketchy, and insufficiently differentiated. I'm not an expert, but I could do better than that.
Things I find fundamental, like native-level usage, are of little or no importance. It's like we're raising a generation of drones to answer tedious questions on topics people may or may not care about, and presenting the topics in such a way as to preclude any kind of inspiration. Though we demand detail and precision from kids, the test writers often provide us with neither. There is a passage that uses a fairly fundamental word incorrectly. We are told to reword questions in ways that fundamentally change their meaning, and judge the revised question by the same rubric.
I can't tell you what the tests are about, and I can't give you the precise language in question, as The Testing Company will probably have me fired and sued for a gazillion dollars, but I can tell you the things they test are not on my bedside reading list. This is what you call a "secure" test. I'm not allowed to reproduce or distribute it. Nonetheless, it takes days to administer.
Naturally, no kid remembers what is on the test, and no kid tells any other kid about it. Kids would never do that, because kids never try to do better on tests by any means necessary. Therefore no student comes into the test expecting to hear a certain question. No kid comes in prepared to discuss things they would otherwise be unprepared to discuss. I have never seen kid cheat on a placement test and end up in classes for which they are unprepared, and no kid would ever sit back a few days and wait to find out what's on a test before taking it.
And that's just a few of the reasons why I have absolute faith in companies that don't know me, don't know my school, don't know my kids, and basically don't know anything to issue assessments. They aren't prejudiced in favor of the kids like I am. I want the kids to succeed, while they don't give a golly gosh darn. I want the kids in classes that help them learn English, while they want them grouped according to how Common Corey they are.
Thank goodness the geniuses at the NY State Board of Regents study Common Core instead of language acquisition. Where would we be if mere teachers assessed students instead of well-compensated strangers from Albany?
Labels: Common Core, common sense, NYSESLAT
On Using Dreamers to Further the Nightmare of Ed. "Reform"
Teachers have left the profession in droves thanks to the current state of ed. "reform." New recruits are relatively sparse these days. Some ed. "reformers" have found a sure-fire solution! It promises to further eat at the heart of unionism. Teach for America seeks to hire inexperienced illegal immigrants with deferred action status for "two year stints," provided they can show work permits, social security numbers and a minimum college GPA of 2.5. These people are said to be "extremely resourceful and creative."
The T.F.A., itself, is intensely "resourceful and creative." This "solution" promises to swell the rapidly dwindling ranks of T.F.A. Last year, T.F.A. had trouble approaching its recruitment mark, falling short by 25%. Declines were due in part to increased opportunities elsewhere, the polarizing nature of ed. "reform," itself, and mounting teacher dissatisfaction.
According to one poll, teacher job satisfaction in 2008 stood at 62%. In four years' time, it fell to 39%. Perhaps, you've experienced it first hand. It has been happening across the country. Have you seen any one of a number of videos with exasperated teachers explaining in utter disgust the reasons behind their resignations? And how many more leave without a word to anyone except their colleagues and closest friends? So much for the meddling of self-anointed ed. "reformers," motivated by primarily economic and political interests, in academia!
If your heroes are robber barons, what a great way to take the teaching profession out of the realm of the middle class. What a great way to use Dreamers who fall under the 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals with an opportunity to replace career teachers who will soon be deemed ineffective thanks to ineffective laws. Not since the early age of U.S. industrialism have we seen such an "extremely resourceful and creative" way to pit one set of workers against another while simultaneously undermining a formerly unionized workforce! Goodbye, job protections! Goodbye, Middle Class!
Posted by Arwen E. at 4:00 AM View Comments
Merryl Wants an Extension
No, not on her mansion. Merry Tisch doesn't want to put Governor Cuomo's draconian evaluation system into effect next November, and prefers to wait until September 2016. While Cuomo's minions are spitting out objections, the delay could be a great thing. For one thing, there will be yet another budget vote, and Cuomo could conceivably be even more unpopular then than he is now.
Personally, I don't think Merryl Tisch gives a golly gosh darn about the quality of education, or whether or not teachers are fired for no reason. Otherwise, she would lean toward positions that weren't insane. This not being the case, it begs the question--why is Merryl asking for more time? Could it be, as she says, that she needs more time to develop a system that works? Well, if she really wanted a system that worked, why would she have hitched her string of pearls to a junk science plan at all?
One of Merryl's most recent inanities entailed exempting high performing districts from the junk science plan. This may have worked to her benefit, as some of the largest opt-out voices come from such districts. Perhaps Merryl wanted to shut down some of these voices. This idea was not well-received, what with it being blatantly discriminatory and all, and inconvenient for Governor Andy to explain.
But think about what will happen in Scarsdale when Ms. Friendly, the best teacher on God's green earth, is fired because her 98% students slipped down to 97, and she therefore displayed negative value. What if not only that happened, but the independent evaluator took exception to the cut of her jib, and jabbed her jib with an ineffective rating? What happens when the beloved special education teacher is fired because his students have learning disabilities that impeded their tests? Was it his fault the independent evaluator doesn't know a special ed. class from a very special episode of Punky Brewster?
Some people might object when Governor Andy starts firing teachers for no reason. It could get even more inconvenient than those darn opt-outs. After all, programs like this one have failed spectacularly all over the country, and some are rolling back the misplaced reforminess. New York is swimming against the tide full speed ahead, and it could be a bumpy ride. It's one thing if someone like me gets fired for the offense of repeatedly teaching kids who don't speak English. It's another when people start not only noticing the blithering incompetence and ignorance of Merryl and her gang of corporate test enthusiasts, but also rising up in great numbers against them. And then there's her impending re-election, or not, come next April.
With the huge increases in opt-out, it's pretty clear NY State is waking up. I certainly hope this hurtful and destructive program is put off. That would give us a chance to actively lobby for something that makes sense, or at least more sense than the current fire union teachers program.
I don't care if Merryl is motivated by the right reasons, the wrong reasons, no reason at all, or the voices in her head. Delay is the next best thing to killing this awful bill, and I for one am willing to give the sleazeballs of the Heavy Hearts Club and opportunity to redeem their vile and worthless souls.
Labels: Andrew Cuomo, Andrew Cuomo's Heavy Hearts Club Band, Merryl Tisch
Merryl Draws a Line in the Sand
Merryl Tisch, who maybe taught in a religious school sometime, or something, is more or less in charge of education for our state. This is particularly true since Reformy John King got promoted and is now spreading reforminess for the whole country. Ms. Tisch supports Common Core wholeheartedly, and toured the state with Reformy John to pretend to listen to public school parents and teachers. Of course, she didn't, because they are special interests.
Tisch opposes opt-out, because tests are part of life. It doesn't matter whether the tests cover what kids learned, and it doesn't matter if neither teachers nor students know what's on the tests. It doesn't matter that teachers are sworn to secrecy about the contents of the tests and risk their jobs if they breathe a word to anyone. It doesn't matter that the tests are never returned to the students and they never find out what they get wrong or learn how they can get it right. It doesn't matter that they set cut scores after the tests are returned to produce whatever results they damn please.
However, when the feds talk about taking money away from NY State, Tisch gets serious.
“I would say to everyone who wants to punish the school districts: hold them to standards, set high expectations, hold them accountable, but punishing them? Really, are you kidding me?” said Board of Regents Chancellor Meryl Tisch.
How dare the feds threaten to deny us money? It's one thing to fire teachers, one thing to test kids to death, but money is money.
— Fake Merryl Tisch (@FakeMerrylTisch) April 22, 2015
While Tisch may know little or nothing about public education, she certainly knows about money. For one thing, she's got a whole lot of it. She's been around money all her life. When there's no money to hire help for the Regents, she hired some, and as they aren't state employees they aren't subject to all those nasty regulations about ethics and stuff. And why should they be? They're only making decisions for millions of public school children, and Tisch wouldn't place her own kids in a public school on a bet. Just not done in her circles. Our circles are the ones on standardized tests for our kids, not hers or Andrew Cuomo's or John King's.
Of course, Merryl Tisch may appear to be standing up for our kids in defending funds. That is likely her motivation for opposing financial disincentives. Tisch has seen the passion that fuels public school parents who stand up for their children, and may well be wary of further invoking or intensifying their already considerable wrath. If she is behind blocking funding to our kids, there are likely torches and pitchforks headed for her castle. If, on the other hand, she makes Arne Duncan the villain, she can not only pass the buck but also feign outrage. It's a reformy win-win.
It's unfortunate that our ostensible representative, the one none of us got to vote for or against, values appearances so much and public education so little. How did we get into a situation where people who know little or nothing about what we do have so much influence? How is it that we don't voice opposition to elected officials until after they're elected? How is it that we don't oppose anti-teacher, anti-public education bills until after we thank people for passing them?
Sometimes I think Merryl Tisch is exactly what we deserve. Please tell me I'm wrong.
Labels: Andrew Cuomo, Andrew Cuomo's Heavy Hearts Club Band, Merryl Tisch, opt-out
Update from Punchy Mike
Hi folks, It’s me, UFT President “Punchy” Mike Mulgrew, and and usual you'll drag my Common Core from my cold dead arms! Guess what? I have a new message. A committee in the Senate passed some encouraging legislation to reform NCLB. Ain’t that great? Sure, it hasn’t passed the Senate, and it hasn’t passed the Congress, and it hasn’t gone through any sort of conciliatory processes, and it hasn’t been vetoed by the President we supported with your COPE money, Barack Obama. But If all of those things happen, except the veto, and it still looks anything like the way it does today, NY State won’t be required by law to pass bills like the one they just did.
Of course, even if all that stuff happens and the bill passes as written, it won't mean NY will have to repeal any of the law they've already passed, or that Cuomo's reformy pals will stop giving him money to push this stuff, but I'm Punchy Mike, not Gloomy Gus, so let's not dwell on stuff like that.
As long as we're not dwelling on stuff, will you please stop reminding me that I said that we had stopped Governor Cuomo dead in his tracks, and I thanked the legislators for passing that bill. In fact, I’d like you to just not remember that, and pretend it didn’t happen. Because now, I’ve taken your COPE dollars, and made a commercial critical of Governor Cuomo. So that should prove once and for all which side I’m on.
Now the blogs, which I don’t read and about which I know absolutely nothing, will no doubt say things like we blocked Zephyr Teachout’s nomination in the Working Families Party, and even suggest we threatened to withhold funding and perhaps end the party altogether. Now let me be clear. While I have no idea what the hell is in these blogs, I have to characterize them as purveyors of myth. Now I say that to be nice, because I’m just a regular blue collar construction guy with no impulse control whatsoever, and I don’t want to call them a bunch of lowlife stinking liars. That would be not nice.
You see, in my position, a guy has to be careful, I mean, you send out an email to tens of thousands of people thanking the legislature for their hard work in passing a blatantly anti-teacher bill, and saying that we have won, and all of a sudden people jump to the conclusion you support the bill. Well, it meant nothing of the kind. All it meant was what it said, and I have to tell you I’m just a little bit miffed at those dirtbag bloggers, who I never read, coming to conclusions that just because I said that stuff it was what I really meant? I mean, who can really see into a man’s soul? Isn’t there a deeper meaning? I don’t know, because I’m just a regular blue collar guy.
That's why I'm really sick of those damn bloggers, who I never read, coming to conclusions that just because I don’t call opponents to resolutions that I don’t follow Robert’s Rules or democracy. Some even suggest voting is rigged. So now I’m very careful, because I can get into trouble. You see, that means I’m evolving. So don’t believe them when they say I support bills simply because I praise them and thank people for passing them. I’m evolving.
So maybe I wrote the thing saying we had beaten back Governor Cuomo and thanking the legislature for voting for the anti-teacher bill, and maybe I said our hard work had paid off, but that is like, so two weeks ago. Today I’m spending your money to make an ad attacking the governor, and that’s where you should be focused.
Remember, when those bloggers, who I never read, say things like we should’ve attacked Governor Cuomo during the WFP nomination procedure, during the Democratic primary, or during the general election, they’re full of crap, or rather purveyors of myth. Stop looking backward, and start looking forward.
In summary, remember, committee passes bill, good, current commercial, good, punchy prose from Punchy Mike, good, past does not exist except as modified by us, good, pro-Heavy Hearts email in memory hole, good, a thousand points of light, good, and God bless the United Federation of Teachers.
Labels: Micheal Mulgrew, UFT democracy, UFT leadership, UFT Unity, UFT Unity loyalty oath
Beth Dimino Talks Teacher Evaluation and More
I don't know who your favorite union president is, but mine is Beth Dimino of Port Jefferson Station Teachers Association. She has boundless energy and is close to the heart of the Long Island opt-out movement, they one that makes Merryl Tisch quake in her string of pearls. In the interview below, Beth talks about the Heavy Hearts Club agreement the assembly made to target and fire teachers.
My faith in humanity and education is affirmed when I talk to people like Beth. I hope yours is too. Pour yourself a drink and hear tomorrow's message today.
Labels: Andrew Cuomo, Andrew Cuomo's Heavy Hearts Club Band, APPR, Beth Dimino, NYC Educator Interviews, NYSUT, teacher evaluation, UFT
Standardized Testing Your Way to Equality
Standardized testing is the Civil Rights issue of our time. How do I know? I heard it from Kati Haycock, president of the Education Trust and Wade Henderson, chief executive of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. Henderson conveniently lobbies for tests as he sits on the board of trustees for the Educational Testing Service with a 2013 annual salary of close to $90,000. There is clearly no conflict of interest here because as he states his work at ETS has provided a "useful grounding in understanding the science of psychonometrics [sic]." Since there's no such thing as "psychonometrics," one would naturally guess he is grounded in either psychometrics or psychoticmetrics.
According to the logic of this new civil-rights rhetoric, we need to measure kids every year so as not to deny them equal access to education. Who cares about all the test prep? Who cares about losses in those things that are not tested like music, arts and science? Who cares about the inherent biases of the tests? If our minorities are failing at higher rates, we need to know.
Of course, we already know they are failing at higher rates through NAEP scores. But, the only way to guarantee equality is through more expensive and frequent testing. Pearson and ETS will tell you as much. It gives us cause to fire their teachers and close their schools. It's off to one of Eva's schools, employing non-unionized workers and focusing narrowly on test prep as it banishes those who cannot make the grade. Segregation was yesterday's problem. Opting out is today's problem!
Wasn't this the dream of Martin Luther King, Jr.? Wasn't he the one who said, "I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together" and take standardized tests?
Let us imagine a formula by which Civil Rights plus Annual Testing equals Freedom. Let us imagine a world where the lack of decent jobs, decent pay and adequate housing really stemmed from bad teaching. And, Unions are completely unnecessary. If anything, they protect the grossly ineffective teachers, the ones who work almost exclusively with poor kids, immigrants, special-needs children and any others who have trouble with standardized tests.
No Longer the Reality
The New Reality
The Civil Rights Movement of fifty years ago can serve as a reminder to us of the uphill struggle ahead.
The business is unfinished. You can sit side by side in schools, but if you can't take your annual standardized tests that, in itself, is a measure of how far you have to go!
And while you're busy reflecting on the glory of this new twist and turn in the U.S. Civil Rights movement, if you have time, take a moment to reflect on the Louisiana Literacy Test (1964).
If minority students hadn't been stuck with such bad teachers, they could have aced those exams and proven they had the skills prerequisite to voting! If you can complete the test in ten minutes, try a Common-Core aligned test. As you practice away, never forget that you are following in the footsteps of freedom! You are following in the footsteps of equality! Too bad it's such a long and stupid test to freedom...or failure!
Absurd Assertions from UFT-Unity Apologist
Peter Goodman has a pretty cool gig as unofficial UFT Unity blogger and often broadcasts the rationales for various and sundry counterproductive decisions by leadership. He wrote pieces in Edwize defending the 2005 contract, and like every good UFT Unity Caucus member, supports all their decisions. His most recent blog, cited by Randi Weingarten on Twitter, concerns the Heavy Hearts Club Agreement to rate us largely on state test scores. I will not link to his blog.
Goodman wrote maybe a thousand words and they seem to move here and there. He's got a roundabout approach to writing. His primary point, which he takes some time at reaching, appears to be that there is marginally less chance you will be rated ineffective under the matrix than the percentage plan. This is an absurd contention.
For one thing, UFT insisted there was little chance anyone would be rated ineffective under the current system. Leo Casey wrote various posts on Edwize attacking Carol Burris and showing charts that suggested people would have to get very low scores on exams for that to happen. More importantly, a very small percentage of people were rated ineffective. While of course this is no consolation whatsoever to those who were, now possibly facing job loss, this is a fact Mulgrew regularly brings up at the DA to ridicule those of us who've opposed the junk science system from its inception.
More to the point, the new system was expressly designed for the purpose of firing more teachers. Cuomo's right out there in public, saying he wants to break the "public school monopoly," you know, the school system it's ostensibly his job to champion and run. If indeed Mulgrew is half as clever as he claims to be, if indeed he planned this system so as to result in few poor ratings for teachers, this plan has backfired, and quite spectacularly.
The new law, passed by our so-called allies in the Assembly, grants little flexibility to districts and strongly ties our jobs, our tenure, and our fate to state test results that will have little to do with what happens in our classrooms. For this, Mulgrew thanked the legislature. Any teacher who's actually read this is unlikely to do the same.
Someone has to stick his hand in the freshly produced elephant dung and try to pull out a prize. I'm grateful that it's Peter Goodman and not me. I have no reason whatsoever to believe this new system will help a single teacher or student, and am very much persuaded it will result in dissuading thoughtful teachers from entering the profession. It will cause deserving, potentially great teachers to not only be denied tenure, but also be dismissed.
If you don't think the do-or-die test scores will be an incentive for administrators, fearful for their own jobs, to issue negative observation and performance reports, I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.
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Labels: Peter Goodman, UFT Delegate Assembly, UFT leadership, UFT Unity, UFT Unity loyalty oath
A Tough Sell for Punchy Mike
NYSUT analysis that follows was sent to me via an email list I'm on. I'll preface it with UFT President Michael Mulgrew's commentary on the new legislation from Andrew Cuomo's Heavy Hearts Club Band:
And now all of our hard work is paying dividends. The governor's Draconian agenda has, in large part, been turned back. We want to thank the Assembly and the Senate for standing up for our schools and school communities.
Read it for yourself and let me know whether you agree. It might look long, but you need to know everything.
NYSUT Preliminary Analysis of S.2006-B/A.3006-B
Effective date – the new APPR will apply in the 2015-16 school year.
Student Performance and Teacher Performance Measures:
-will dramatically increase the weight of state standardized testing, increase use of tests developed or approved by SED or outside vendors in the evaluation system, and increase use of state growth models in evaluations.
-Teachers will not receive a score but instead will be rated using a matrix approach, with two subcomponents – student performance and teacher observations.
-if you receive an ineffective rating in the student performance side of the matrix, you cannot achieve an effective rating overall; the most you can attain is a developing rating.
-if the district and union choose an optional second assessment detailed below, and you receive an ineffective rating on student performance, you cannot receive anything but an ineffective rating overall, a disincentive to choose the optional second assessment.
-For tested teachers, the student performance subcomponent will be:
(1) use of a state growth score
(2) an optional second state-provided growth score on a state-created or administered test or a growth score based on a state-designed supplemental assessment, calculated using a state-provided or approved growth model. The use of the optional student performance subcomponent is subject to collective bargaining, but is limited to the choices in (2) above.
-For non-tested teachers, the student performance subcomponent will be:
(1) a student learning objective consistent with a goal-setting process determined or developed by the commissioner, that results in a student growth score
(2) an optional second state-provided growth score on a state-created or administered test or a growth score based on a state-designed supplemental assessment, calculated using a state-provided or approved growth model. As with the tested teachers, whether to use the optional second measure is subject to collective bargaining.
The state-designed supplemental assessment, that can be used in the optional second student performance subcomponent is defined “as a selection of state tests or assessments developed or designed by the state education department, or that the state education department purchased or acquired from (i) another state; (ii) an institution of higher education; or (iii) a commercial or not-for-profit entity, provided that such entity must be objective and may not have a conflict of interest or appearance of a conflict of interest; such definition may include tests or assessments that have been previously designed or acquired by local districts, but only if the state education department significantly modifies growth targets or scoring bands for such tests or assessments or otherwise adapts the test or assessment to the state education department's requirements.”
This language essentially eliminates any truly locally developed tests or assessments, or other locally developed tools, from the evaluation system.
-Scoring bands and scoring ranges will be set by the commissioner, through regulation.
Prohibited Items:
The legislation expressly prohibits measures of student achievement that are not test-based, such as evidence of student development and performance derived from lesson plans, other artifacts of teacher practice, and student portfolios, use of an instrument for parent or student feedback, use of professional goal-setting as evidence of teacher or principal effectiveness, or any district or regionally-developed assessment that has not been approved by the department.
Independent Evaluators:
The legislation mandates the use of so-called “independent” evaluators, which could result in someone with limited or no knowledge of a teacher, or the school, determining the fate of a teacher or school. Observations will be conducted by both the school building principal, and an outside evaluator, which could either be
- a trained evaluator from another building within the district,
- a trained evaluator from another district,
- or a trained evaluator with no affiliation with any school district.
Collective Bargaining:
-significantly reduces the role of collective bargaining. Student performance measures (formerly the local 20 percent) and observations were previously developed locally, through collective bargaining, to ensure the appropriate measure of student achievement and teacher performance at the district or building level. This is almost entirely eliminated, with SED having new powers to develop evaluation assessments and expanded use of growth scores, set student performance targets and goals, and drastically changes locally developed assessments to a new growth model.
-prohibits use of non-test based measures from being used in the student performance subcomponent, and non-observation measures being used in the teacher evaluation subcomponent.
Collective bargaining was retained in two areas:
- whether to use a second student performance measure (optional subcomponent),
- and in the event that the second measure is used, which measure to use.
However, the universe of measures that can be used is limited to state tests or previously selected local measures that the Commissioner modifies. The implementation of the greatly limited teacher observation measures can be bargained.
Ineffective Teachers:
Where practicable, a student cannot be taught by two ineffective teachers in a row. If a school district deems it impracticable to comply, the district must seek a waiver from the department from this requirement. This waiver process will be determined by regulation.
State Aid and APPR Plan Approval:
-requires school districts to receive approval for a new APPR plan that complies with the new statute by November 15, 2015, in order to receive their scheduled 2015-16 school aid increase or any increase in state aid thereafter. There was a previously enacted statute to ensure that the most recent approved APPR plans would remain in effect until a new plan is approved by SED. However, this new legislation eliminates these protections and districts will not receive their 2015-16 increase in school aid over their 2014-15 aid levels unless the district has a new APPR plan approved by SED by November 15, 2015.
Existing Collective Bargaining Agreements:
-provides that all collective bargaining agreements entered into after April 1, 2015, must comply with the new APPR law, unless the agreement relates to the 2014-15 school year. The law states that it does not abrogate any conflicting provisions in collective bargaining agreements in effect on April 1, 2015, but that upon expiration and entry into a successor agreement, new agreements must comply with the new law.
However, as noted above, for a school district to receive its school aid increase, an APPR plan compliant with the new APPR law must be agreed to by November 15, 2015. Thus, the school aid linkage virtually eliminates any collective bargaining protection.
Regents and Commissioner Authority:
While many of the new APPR procedures are outlined in statute, the Commissioner and Regents, through regulation adoption, will set scoring bands within subcomponents, and targets for SLOs.
Regulations and guidelines must be adopted no later than June 30, 2015 by the Regents to implement this new APPR system, “after consulting with experts and practitioners in the fields of education, economics and psychometrics and taking into consideration the parameters set forth in the letter from the Chancellor of the Board of Regents and acting commissioner dated December 31, 2014, to the New York State Director of State Operations.” This letter detailed a support for an APPR system with 40 percent of a teacher’s score tied to the state exams.
The commissioner must also establish a process for public comment for the new regulations, and is mandated to consult, in writing, with the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Education, currently Arne Duncan.
TENURE/PROBATION
-mandates four-year probationary periods for new teachers hired after July 1, 2015, with the requirement that a teacher attain an effective evaluation rating for at least three of the four years. Further, if a teacher achieves ineffective in their fourth year, they cannot achieve tenure.
A board can agree to extend probation by one year for teachers who have not achieved three effectives or who are ineffective in their last probation year.
For teachers who have achieved tenure in another district and have not been dismissed from the other district, they will remain in probationary status for three years, so long as the teacher did not receive an ineffective in their last year at the prior school.
-a school board will now have the “unfettered” right to terminate a probationary teacher for any constitutionally permissible reason, including performance based reasons, during probation without regard to the teachers APPR rating.
DUE PROCESS/3020-a
-mandates that two consecutive ineffective ratings on APPR will be prima facie evidence of incompetence, rebutted only by clear and convincing evidence.
-a new 3020-b process is outlined, “Streamlined removal procedures for teachers rated ineffective,” which will apply to teachers and principals who receive two or more consecutive annual ineffective ratings.
-mandates that school boards bring 3020-a charges for three consecutive ineffective ratings, with fraud or mistake the only defense available. There is no discretion for a board to not bring charges for three consecutive ineffective ratings.
-A teacher convicted of a violent felony against a child pursuant to penal law section 70.02, when the intended victim was a child, will have their certification revoked.
-3020-a proceedings, brought after July 1, 2015, will be before a single hearing officer. There is no carve-out for Part 83 proceedings.
-For 3020-a proceedings where charges of misconduct constituting physical or sexual abuse of a student are brought, the hearing shall be conducted before and by a single hearing officer in an expedited hearing, which must commence within seven days after the pre-hearing conference and must be completed within sixty days after the pre-hearing conference.
-For 3020-a proceedings, a child witness, under fourteen years of age, may be permitted to testify through the use of live, two-way closed-circuit television, as explained in section 65.00 of the criminal procedure law. The hearing officer must provide the employee with an opportunity to be heard, and determine by clear and convincing evidence that such child witness would suffer serious mental or emotional harm which would substantially impair such child's ability to communicate if required to testify at the hearing without the use of live, two-way closed-circuit television. The hearing officer must also find that the use of such live, two-way closed-circuit television will diminish the likelihood or extent of such harm.
-For all 3020-a cases, hearing officers must further give “serious consideration to the penalty recommended by the employing board,” and if the hearing officer rejects the recommended penalty, the rejection must be outlined in a written determination based on the record.
RECEIVERSHIP
-adds a new section, section 211-f, to the education law regarding the takeover and restructuring of failing schools by external receivers. It allows the Commissioner, under given circumstances, to place a school into receivership where a receiver will manage and operate the school, subject to annual review by the Commissioner, until such time as the school has improved sufficiently.
-allows for the state takeover in schools;
-27 “priority” schools that have been struggling for more than 10 years would have only one year to dramatically turnaround,
-other “priority” schools would have two years to turn around, until an outside receiver is appointed to control the school.
-New priority schools in 2016-17 are automatically eligible for receivership.
Failing Schools:
After being identified as a “failing school” or “persistently failing school” for a certain period of time, a district may be subject to a performance review by SED which may result in the Commissioner placing the school into receivership.
A “failing school” generally is one in the “lowest achieving 5 percent” of schools under the state’s “accountability system” for at least three consecutive years or identified as a “priority school” for such period.
A “persistently failing school” generally is one in the “lowest achieving public schools in the state” for 10 consecutive school years. There are two ways of being found to be a “persistently failing school,” each with its own look back. Such “persistently failing schools” either have been “priority schools” during that period starting in 2012-13 school year or a “school requiring academic progress year 5, 6 or 7 or a “school in restructuring” for each applicable year from the 2006-07 school year to the 2011-12 school year. Special act schools are excluded.
Path to Receivership:
The path to receivership differs slightly for “persistently failing schools” and “failing schools.”
For schools identified as “persistently failing,” the local district shall continue to operate the school for an additional year provided that there is an approved intervention model or comprehensive education plan in place. The superintendent in this case shall have all the powers of a receiver. At the end of the year SED will conduct a performance review to determine whether the designation of persistently failing should be removed, the school should remain under control of the superintendent, or the school should be placed into receivership. But if the district makes “demonstrable improvement” it shall remain under district operation for another year, subject to annual review, with the same three possible outcomes, one of which being placed in receivership.
For schools identified as “failing schools,” the local district shall continue to operate the school for an additional two years provided there is an approved intervention model or comprehensive education place in place. The superintendent in this case shall have all the powers of a receiver. At the end of the two-year period SED will conduct a performance review to determine whether the designation of persistently failing should be removed, the school should remain under control of the superintendent, or the school should be placed into receivership. But if the district makes “demonstrable improvement” it shall remain under district operation for another year, subject to annual review, with the same three possible outcomes, one of which being placed in receivership.
The district must notify parents that a school may be placed into receivership and hold a public meeting or hearing for the purpose of discussing the performance of the school and the construct of receivership.
A “community engagement team” will be established by the district upon designation as failing or persistently failing. This must include community stakeholders such as principal, parents, teachers, staff, and students. The team will develop recommendations and solicit public engagement. The team will present its recommendations “periodically” to the school’s leadership and the receiver.
Appointment of a Receiver:
Upon determination by the Commissioner that the school will be placed in receivership, the school district shall appoint an independent receiver, subject to approval of the Commissioner.
The receiver will manage and operate all aspects of the school and develop and implement a school intervention plan, considering recommendations of a community engagement team.
The receiver may be a non-profit, another school district, or an individual.
The receiver will have the power to supersede any decision, policy or regulation of the district that conflicts with the school intervention plan.
The receiver will have authority to review proposed school district budgets and modify them to conform to the school intervention plan.
The receiver will contract with the Commissioner and be paid by SED, unless there is an open administrative staffing line at the district and the receiver will be taking on the responsibilities of that position, in which case the receiver will be paid by the district.
School Intervention Plan:
The receiver will create a school intervention plan. Before developing plan, the receive shall “consult with” local stakeholders including the board of education, the superintendent, the principal, teachers assigned to the school and their collective bargaining representation, administrators assigned to the school and their collective bargaining representative, parents, social service and mental health agencies, students as appropriate, career and workforce development programs as appropriate, pre-k programs as appropriate, representatives of local higher ed as appropriate and the “school takeover team.”
In creating the plan, the receiver shall consider the recommendations of the “community enragement team,” include provisions intended to maximize the rapid academic achievement of students at the school, ensure the plan addresses school leadership and capacity, school leader practices and decisions, curriculum development and support, teacher practices and decisions, student social and emotional developmental health, and family and community engagement. The receiver shall base the plan on the findings of any recent diagnostic review or assessment and student outcome data including, student achievement growth data based on state measures, other measures of student achievements, student promotion and graduation rates, achievement and growth data for subgroups, and long-term and short-term suspension rates.
The receiver must include the following in the plan: measures to address social service, health and mental health needs of students in the school and their families in order to help students arrive and remain at school ready to learn, provided that this may include mental health and substance abuse screening; measures to improve or expand access to child welfare services and, as appropriate, services in the school community to promote a safe and secure learning environment; measures to provide greater access to career and technical education and workforce development services provided to students in the school and their families, in order to provide students and families with meaningful employment skills and opportunities; measures to address achievement gaps for English language learners, students with disabilities and economically disadvantaged students; measures to address school climate and positive behavior support, including mentoring and other youth development programs; and a budget for the school intervention plan.
The plan must include measurable annual goals with respect to student attendance, student discipline including short-term and long-term suspension, student safety, student promotion and graduation and drop-out rates, student achievement and growth on state measures, progress in areas of academic underperformance, progress among subgroups, reduction of achievement gaps, development of college and career readiness, parent and family engagement, building a culture of academic success among students, building a culture of student support and success among faculty and staff, using developmentally appropriate child assessments from Pre-K to 3, and measures of student learning.
The receiver “shall” convert schools to “community schools” to provide expanded health, mental health and other services to the students.
In addition, the receiver “may” expand, alter or replace the curriculum and program offerings, including
(i) the implementation of research-based early literacy programs, early interventions for struggling readers and the teaching of advanced placement courses or other rigorous nationally or internationally recognized courses, if the school does not already have such programs or courses;
(ii) (ii) replace teachers and administrators, including school leadership who are not appropriately certified or licensed;
(iii) (iii) increase salaries of current or prospective teachers and administrators to attract and retain high-performing teachers and administrators;
(iv) (iv) establish steps to improve hiring, induction, teacher evaluation, professional development, teacher advancement, school culture and organizational structure;
(v) (v) reallocate the uses of the existing budget of the school;
(vi) (vi) expand the school day or school year or both of the school;
(vii) (vii) for a school that offers the first grade, add pre-kindergarten and full-day kindergarten classes, if the school does not already have such classes;
(viii) (viii) in accordance with paragraphs (b) and (c) of this subdivision, to abolish the positions of all members of the teaching and administrative and supervisory staff assigned to the failing or persistently failing school and terminate the employment of any building principal assigned to such a school, and require such staff members to reapply for their positions in the school if they so choose;
(ix) (ix) include a provision of a job-embedded professional development for teachers at the school, with an emphasis on strategies that involve teacher input and feedback;
(x) (x) establish a plan for professional development for administrators at the school, with an emphasis on strategies that develop leadership skills and use the principles of distributive leadership;
(xi) and/or (xi) order the conversion of a school in receivership that has been designated as failing or persistently failing pursuant to this section into a charter school.
-Upon designation of a school as failing or persistently failing, tenure and seniority rights are modified. Two ineffectives at any time in the teacher’s career defeats seniority rights of that teacher. The teacher with the lowest APPR rating is laid off first. Seniority is only used to break ties.
The receiver “may” abolish all teacher positions and require them to re-apply. The receiver shall define new positions for the school aligned with the school intervention plan.
For hiring teachers, the receiver shall convene a staffing committee including the receiver, two appointees of the receiver and two appointees selected by the school staff or their collective bargaining unit. The staffing committee will determine whether former school staff reapplying for positions are qualified for the new positions. The receiver shall have full discretion regarding hiring decisions but must fill at least 50 percent of the new positions with the most senior former staff whom the committee deems qualified.
Remaining vacancies filled by receiver in consultation with staffing committee. Anyone not rehired placed on a PEL*. Teachers rehired maintain prior status.
*(Editor’s note: This is a Preferred Employment List for Layoff. It does not apply to New York City where State Law 2588 describes layoff by citywide seniority in licence only.)
In order to maximize the rapid achievement of students, the receiver “may request” that the collective bargaining unit representing teachers negotiate a receivership agreement modifying the applicable collective bargaining agreements. Bargaining is to conclude in 30 days with ratification within 10 days.
Any unresolved issues will be resolved by the Commissioner within 5 days. For failing but not persistently failing schools, there is an option for a AAA conciliator prior to the Commissioner.
Within 6 months of the receiver’s appointment, a final school intervention plan must be submitted to the Commissioner for approval.
The plan shall be for a period of not more than three years. During that time any additional components or goals must be approved by the commissioner.
The receiver shall make quarterly progress reports.
The Commissioner will evaluate each school with a receiver annually.
If the school is not meeting its goals, the Commissioner may modify the plan.
Upon the expiration of a plan, the commissioner shall evaluate the school and determine either to renew the plan, appoint a new receiver, or take the school off the failing school list.
TEACHER REGISTRATION
Beginning with the 2016-17 school year, all holders of a professional teaching certificate, or Level III Teaching Assistant certificate will now be required to complete 100 hours of continuing education and leader education every five years. These certificate holders will also be required to register with SED every five years to prove they have met these requirements. A teacher may not practice unless these requirements are fulfilled. In addition, all certificate holders will be required to register with SED every five years even though the new continuing education provisions only apply to holders of professional teaching certificates or Level III Teaching Assistant certificates.
The allowable activities which qualify for these 100 hours are determined by SED and the department is directed to “issue rigorous standards for courses, programs, and activities.” Districts may collectively bargain more hours if they so choose. The activities are supposed to “promote the professionalization of teaching and be closely aligned to district goals for student performance.”
The current regulatory requirements for holders of the professional certificate must complete 175 hours of professional development and holders of the Level III Teaching Assistant certificate must complete 75 hours every five years in order to maintain certification. These requirements are replaced by this new 100 hour requirement.
Labels: Andrew Cuomo, Andrew Cuomo's Heavy Hearts Club Band, Micheal Mulgrew, NYSUT
1984 Redux--UFT Unity Caucus
My nephew found out I had never read 1984, and gave it to me for my birthday. I started to read it just this week. I had it with me at Wednesday night's UFT Delegate Assembly, and finished it the next morning. I am simply gobstruck by the parallels in our union structure and Orwell's dystopian vision.
Ignorance Is Strength
That resonates on many levels. First of all, look at the masses of us who don't even vote in union elections, over 80% in fact. Most of us have no voice in the union at all, and don't even think it's worth the time to write an X on a ballot. Those of us who do know how rigged the winner-take-all election is, how so many positions are "at large," and how high school teachers, in particular, have been prevented from selecting their own VP, simply because they once dared to choose one that wasn't Unity.
Then there is the rewriting of history, which takes place on a regular basis. Just the other night at the DA, Mulgrew was saying the new Cuomo APPR was better than the current system because "student achievement," AKA junk science, can trump principal judgment. Oddly, I heard the same thing at a citywide HS CL meeting, from a DR who was indignant that I dared question VAM. Conversely, Mulgrew says principal judgment can trump test scores, but forgets to mention that outside observers will now be a factor.
The rewriting of history is regular and predictable at the DA. I remember the UFT transfer plan, which got me out of a school in which I was punished for not throwing kids out of class. Mulgrew says Open Market is better because more transfers occur, but clearly doesn't consult with ATR teachers, for whom he's procured second tier due process and the right to be fired for missing two interviews.
Year one of APPR, the one where John King designed it for us, we won a great victory by getting all 22 components of Danielson. Bloomberg wanted only 7 but we held firm. Year two we won another great victory by winning 8. Whatever they do is a victory, and every year the new system is wonderful. Even next year's atrocity is a great victory.
Of course, Mulgrew is not a teacher and has not been one for years. He doesn't know the anxiety that faces those of us who actually do the work. He can stand there and say only this many people got poor ratings, but he doesn't actually have to face the people looking at job loss.
We are the proles, the proletariat. We are not members of the party, and have no access to the perks and privileges they have. At the lowest level, it means they ostensibly represent us in NYSUT and AFT. They do this, of course, by voting precisely as told and sign an oath to do exactly that. Anyone violating party rules is expelled, and has been ever since its inception, when Shanker bounced people for opposing the Vietnam War.
Some in the party get extra privileges, like jobs doing this or that, and then there is the mysterious Inner Party, where the actual decisions are made. Who actually makes the decisions in the party? Who knows? Mulgrew? Has he got the imagination to do that? And if he's so smart, why is he constantly telling the DA how smart his decisions are? Is it Weingarten? Honestly I have no idea. I just know that most of us have no voice whatsoever, and that's precisely why there is so much cynicism and apathy in the ranks.
There's no actual torture, but all the NYSUT delegates had sandwiches and things from their NYSUT meeting taking place at some other part of the building not open to us unconnected chapter leaders. I suppose that might be an incentive for some to join the Party. I once had a Unity chapter leader to whom sandwiches were very important. Me, I just got creeped out and ran to Chipotle's down the block.
They don't have actual Thought Police watching us proles who haven't signed the oath, and their arguments can't weather a whole lot of public scrutiny. Still, they've got their 80% of disconnected, disinterested teachers and their power looks assured no matter how we suffer at the bottom.
Related: Mr. A. Talk also finds the antics of Unity Orwellian.
Labels: rigged UFT elections, UFT Contract, UFT Delegate Assembly, UFT democracy, UFT leadership, UFT Unity, UFT Unity loyalty oath
DA Report--Mulgrew Warns Against Opt-Out
Michael Mulgrew—says we have a lot to do today. Wants to discuss work union has to do and how we’ve done it. Says we’ve always been passionate, tough, and that intelligence in strategies have caused us to grow. Also wants to talk about tests. Seems disorganized.
Speaks of how he resisted working for union, was too important for him. Was intrigued by offer of going to Albany and discussing NCLB. Mulgrew calls himself a ferocious reader. Said the good thing about NCLB was that it disaggregates students by different categories. Said it was good that it talked about how children were achieving, and how it focused on achievement gap. Said results would become yearly testing, would punish teachers of the neediest, and that he anticipated this problem.
Mulgrew said he recognized that ESEA money would be deprived from schools who didn’t follow programs. He says he anticipated school closings. Said it would discourage teachers of high needs kids and that he argued a lot about it because that’s what he does. He walks around and argues with people. He was told GW wouldn’t be reelected and lost faith in politics.
Mulgrew speaks of Obama’s new plan to avert all schools failing under NCLB, offered waivers. Race to the Top. Said GOP and Dems all said NCLB was awful but other side prevented reason.
Mulgrew speaks of groups that want to privatize and destroy union, groups that don’t want public ed. to work. Mentions bad rollout of CCSS. Says he predicted issues with CCSS. Says not hard to figure out when you see this and you are an educator. Calls Bloomberg a liar. Says he stood up and called him that when people told him not to.
Speaks of rest of state, with eval. before ours, having large capacities of bad ratings. Says they had formulas that placed their members at risk. Says he was warned not to use 100 point system, but he couldn’t prevent it because pols likened it to student tests.
Says we did what was best year one, making sure people would not be harmed, had lowest % of bad ratings in state. Says state ed. dept. didn’t look good when all the kids failed test, so state simply adjusted dial ,made for better teacher ratings. Says we are going through an evolution in education that will not stop this year. Says we believe tests are not to be used for stakes. Says if UFT’s Frank Carruci were governor, we would still have test eval. because of federal funding.
Says NYC receives largest title 1 funding in US. Says first and foremost issue was federal law, that we cannot stop any of this until we change it. Acknowledges Obama and Duncan made it worse. Says we may be able to change law because pols of both parties worry about elections, having gotten nothing done. Says ESEA may be where that happens. Randi took the lead and they worked with people, including Lamar Alexander.
Says as they are negotiating with DC, they have Cuomo deciding despite bad rollout, massive frustration wants to increase use of tests, and that’s why we call him “Governor Genius.” Says Cuomo is getting just desserts, all of this will be blamed on him.
However, standardized tests are the only thing recognized by feds, and if we don’t give them we will forfeit title 1, 2, and 3 funding. UFT got wording bipartisan agreement in Senate that feds will no longer mandate testing to be used in eval. in US. Mulgrew gets applause. Also got agreement there will be no mandate to close or turn them to charter schools. Says agreement says testing will be used only for measurement purposes, will require standards but won’t care which standards.
Says ESL students will get three years before they are required to be tested in English, instead of one. Says nothing about this being a one-house bill.
Says we wait for things to move in our direction, that bill is being fast-tracked. Says NY US Senators are on board and that in may be passed in May. This will be when we work on Congress. Says important that people who hate us didn’t know about this during construction, and that we always have to be smart about the work that we do. Asks that people thank Randi.
This is the game-changer, he says. Mary Poppins would have to give test if governor.
Recalls three major battles with Bloomberg trying to lay off teachers. Says we fought him back each and every time, including 400 million dollar cut, in which Christine Quinn was our partner. Says ESEA funding for us is 900 million and if we lost it, it would be catastrophic.
Calls our fight with Cuomo successful in that his approval rating is down. Says we first had to get people on our side. Recalls Bloomberg’s precipitous drop in approval rating and says that’s why Klein was fired. Says he did us great favor with Cathie Black. Was great victory for UFT in that we did nothing.
Says we had our strategies, worked hard, that approval rating is key. Mulgrew says individual merit pay is not there, but that it may be negotiated. Says that was always a right, but will not happen while he is leader. Says charters were pushed out of budget. Says tax credits pushed out.
We made funding a major issue, and from outside it looks like we won, but state has continued with funding inequality. Says we got 20% more per kid but rich districts got 50% more per kid, and that this has worsened inequality. Says he told clergy this may result in legal action. We have largest % of needy kids and ed. should be based on need.
Says we halted Cuomo’s receivership plan for scores of schools. Says “out of time” schools have one year to show progress, others have two years. Says legislature should not determined proper growth, and that they have pushed this to NYSED and Regents. Says we know the law, and no matter what NYSED does, must be approved by Regents. We have worked two years to shift Regents to board of educators. We are now comfortable to push things to SED with Regents oversight. Says they will not be dictated to by SED.
On teacher eval, gov wanted 50% test scores, we wanted removal of 100 point test scores. Says he wanted to remove anomalies. When some areas were effective and others were not. Says he pushed everything to SED to avoid legislature, and now former teachers will do it. Says this will require a lot of work with Regents, including public meetings.
Says Cuomo’s ed. rating rivals Bloomberg’s, says we achieved our goal of public support, that opt-out is a public choice. Says feds clearly have authority to remove ESEA funding from districts that don’t have 95% participation rate, that there is no waver. Says we receive a lot of ESEA funding and that we have business smarts. Parents should opt out, we need better tests, not Pearson, teachers should design tests, he says. Says ratings depend on SED and their magic dial. As result we have no idea how much kids are achieving. No one knows what, if anything tests mean.
Says after these tests we still need to assess kids to know where they are, and that we are therefore moving toward federal regulation. We want state to be in control, he says, and to work toward what we know. Says it is tough because there is so much anger. Says he is not tester, but project based learning teacher.
Refers to Cuomo saying kids fail and teachers didn’t that it was nonsense. Says Cuomo asked what industry evaluates itself, and Mulgrew says every industry. Says Cuomo thought admin was unfairly biased toward us.
Says we will negotiate with SED, that there is a lot of leeway despite what people say. Says everyone said everyone would be rated poorly, and that didn’t happen, but that we must be ready for change because there will be multiple changes. Says SED may or may not mitigate, but that there are no percentages, that we have to get used to evolution of education and teacher eval. Says we have lowest number of poorly rated teachers and that people said here the world was ending.
Says we understand a teacher is 10% of what a child achieves, and we are at war with those who ignore other 90%. Says he doesn’t know if he should go to the matrix, the box. Makes joke about e-i-e-i-o. Is hilarious.
Speaks of school in which teachers rated poorly, but were rated high on student test scores. Ridicules good old days when principal completely controlled eval, and says with box student achievement can trump principal’s judgment. Says it’s not 50-50 because high grades take precedence over low ones. Shows box. Looks like Sudoko.
Says there is less possibility of poor rating, and that student achievement can trump principal judgment, and principal judgment can trump bad achievement. Says we are starting to understand it. Says many letters. I-I becomes popular.
Says 80% NYC teachers were effective in testing before a single observation. Says we are not gaming system. Says if he talks about it too much that people will say we are gaming system.
Says purpose of eval. is growth, development and support, but people focus too much on these things. Says eval. system should be constructive professional practice and that he did enough on the box. Says test scores could only be negative, but now they can save people.
Oddly, I’ve been in UFT meetings where reps said the same of the last system, the one Mulgrew says this improves on.
Says he’s sorry he did all of this, but that everyone should have this info. Says we are most important local in country, but that we have more on our shoulders than any other, that we will win or lose the fight for public ed. Says if renewal schools improve, we win the war. Says if we don’t win, it’s all up for grabs. Says we have to do our business smart, again. Says our predecessors were always three steps ahead.
Says what happened in last few days will help us to beat up governor, but none of it matters if we don’t move our school system. Says ESEA funding is important, and that people don’t want mayor and teachers working together, that we are their biggest fear because we may succeed.
Says 73 schools want to enter PROSE program, in addition to 62 there. Says this will be significant, thanks people who contributed. Thanks those who worked on renewal schools. Thanks teachers who proctored NYSESLAT with no help for SED on new exam they didn’t know.
Says we need to make sure we are smart, that we always need to be smart. Says we have more battles. Asks us to focus on moving our profession to a better place and that NYC will show how educators move things the right way.
Says May brings 3% raise. Gets applause.
Leroy Barr—please fill out teacher surveys. Encourages support, participation in rally for $15 minimum wage. Says CL elections should be in May, that it’s easier. Anyone in school first Monday can run and nominate, including ATRS. Next DA May 20th.
Questions—what about CFE? Mulgrew says if it’s up to him, he will go to court. Says CFE establishes formula based on need. Says we will vote on whether to go to court.
Charters are not backfilling. What are we doing to tell people? Mulgrew happy NYT reported on Moskowitz. Says all that info is given to press constantly. Battle on charters is now, he says, and getting it pushed out of budget was victory. Says need language would have fined charters. Says we have a charter division and that there are unionized charters. Says if we have to pay for their space why do they have 14 kids in room while we have 28 or whatever? Says Eva must have been disappointed.
NYSESLAT, CL says training gave much info, but no exemplars or practice test. What can we do to help kids? Mulgrew—it was joint training because they would be ashamed if we held it alone. There is no practice test because they are unprepared. Says educators would know better. We are moving on getting that done, he says. Our ESL population is exploding. Says there is special teacher training program. Will produce 30 teachers but we need 3,000. Says problems are ELLs and space.
Eval—says there was grace period where things didn’t count, and wonders will there be one on new one? Mulgrew says we have had two, will have third next year, not good educational policy. Says we need flexibility. Makes wisecrack about how what he says will be out on a blog and probably is already. Speaks of possibility of peer eval, says it is in law.
Resolution—Evelyn de Jesus—that Regents hold public hearings on teacher eval.—placed on this month’s agenda overwhelmingly. Motion it be moved to number two. Passed.
Resolution 1—Janella Hinds rises to speak in favor of proper use of assessments, system all students need, that uses variety of assessments, that are fair, developmentally appropriate. This is UFT testing res. Jonathan Halabi offers amendment about multiple measures, moves phrase “to evaluate teachers and gauge success of schools” be stricken. Says student tests should not rate teachers or schools.
Other amendment—change “standardized” assessments to “state-mandated” assessments.Says word “standardized” enables Pearson, and that said tests are discriminatory. Says tests trick kids by using language they’ve never seen before. Says diagnostic tests must be built by teachers and used meaningfully. Says immediate feedback is crucial.
Marjorie Stamberg—against all educational principles to use test for students to evaluate teachers, says we should come out against CCSS, Mulgrew stops her.
Mulgrew says he gets in trouble for this and must therefore ask whether anyone will speak against amendments.
Motion to table—second—motion not tabled.
Francesca Gomes—raises opposition to resolution, as it validates standardized testing. Says if people are in fear of us, why are we asking for tiny insufficient changes, that they won’t protect good teachers against bad admin. Says standardized testing will always be a bad system, and that we should not validate tests. Says NAACP Prez in Seattle opposes them and says that opt out movement is important. Supports opt-out, Mulgrew rules her out of order.
Mulgrew says now that there has been speaker against, time to call the motion.
Amendment to remove “standardized” passes.
Amendment to change multiple measures passes.
Amended resolution carries.
Motion to extend 5 minutes. Passes. Mulgrew says we only have 2 left.
Reso for public hearings Passes.
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Labels: Micheal Mulgrew, UFT, UFT Delegate Assembly
The Paper of Record Talks Opt-out
I was pretty amazed to read this piece in the Times. Based on the testimony of very few people who attended the massive anti Cuomo demonstration a few weeks back, they zapped out an article. Apparently, two sets of parents oppose testing but are not opting out their own kids. On this basis, the Times saw fit to propel an entire article. As someone who finds it absurd when Chalkbeat NY writes up 100 signatures E4E collected to support more work for less pay, or whatever Gates told them to support this week, I find the Times article outlandish beyond belief. For one thing, they didn't even bother to cover the demonstration in question. It's unbelievable that they muster they audacity to criticize opt-out based on a rally they didn't even deem worthy of mention. And opt-out is alive and well despite what papers would like us to believe.
On the heels of the Grey Lady is the Daily News, which also failed to cover the anti-Cuomo rally. The News believes, evidently, that opt-out is some sinister machination of the teacher union, and that it's not really to help public school parents. Apparently, we seduced public school parents with our evil ways. Pictured is Karen Magee, who kind of went rogue with opt out. Here in NYC, the real power in NYSUT has refused to consider not one, but two opt-out resolutions, and didn't even bother to offer up their own watered down nonsense, the one that supported "multiple measures" (read junk science) to evaluate teachers. According to DN, these tests are the only objective way to rate teachers. Yet the American Statistical Association says teachers only affect test grades by a factor of 1-14%, and that rating teachers this way may have adverse effects on students. Campbell's Law says pretty much the same.
Errol Louis underlines the DN editorial message, saying that teachers don't want to be rated, we don't care, we're unreasonable, and so on and so forth. Louis says nothing about the relative validity of the tests or lack thereof. There is no mention of how cut scores are set to prove whatever point the people in power wish to make this week. But the most incredible line, in my view, in his message is this one:
Parents who object to any type of high-stakes testing, especially now that New York has adopted the challenging Common Core standards, should realize that high-stakes testing is, for better or worse, the norm in our complex modern society. Universities base admissions decisions on SAT and ACT scores; graduate schools do the same with LSATs, GREs, MCATs and more.
The assumption that everything is fine because everyone's doing it is a poor one, to say the least. In fact, studies indicate that teacher grades are a better indicator of student success than SAT scores. Truth be told, I was a terrible high school student but a very good test taker. I woke up in college, but it took me a little while. I know students who are the opposite--I would vouch for them, write them beautiful recommendation letters, and help them any way I can. Kids I know, though, lack fluency in English, and are years away from fluency in standardized tests.
All of these pieces give a message that the opt-out movement is negative, a tool of the union, or at best hypocritical. I'd argue the opposite. I have seen parents speak with incredible passion about this, even as Mike Mulgrew offers to punch you in the face if you lay a hand on his precious Common Core. I have seen parents outraged that their children are faced with developmentally inappropriate tasks, and outraged that reading material their kids loved was prohibited in classrooms in favor of non-fiction books on The History of Cement, or whatever.
My own daughter took a standardized test in kindergarten, and had I been pre-warned, I'd have opted her out for sure. The results, which I received by mail, showed she excelled in reading but had no skills whatsoever in English. How could that be? I happened to know she did not know how to read, and I was happy to let her learn with her peers in first grade. I asked the teacher, who told me her pattern was common. Day one was the reading test. Day three was the English test, by which time all the kids were sick of taking tests.
I'm sorry, but Michael Mulgrew is the President of the UFT, and he thinks the agreement Cuomo rammed down the open throats of our state legislature is excellent, thank you very much. He told us in an email that I've yet to make heads or tails of. And even if, by some chance, the UFT passes its crappy watered down opt-out resolution tomorrow, it will be too late to have any effect.
We are behind the times, going the wrong way, and almost supporting the papers that hate us and everything we stand for. It's a sad state of affairs. The Times has the worst education coverage in the city, and the quality of that article almost proclaims they're proud of it. I wish the News editorial board and Errol Louis were right, and that we were doing something.
But Karen Magee does not speak for Michael Mulgrew, and if he tires of her in 2017 she'll be gone in a New York UFT minute. That's a fact, Jack. And whatever the papers say about opt out, it is alive and growing.
Does "Success" in Testing Lose Something in Translation?
From the way education is being rewritten by reformers today, you would think success in life equates with scores on high-stakes tests concocted for political ends by people who probably would have failed these tests, themselves, in grade school. You would think we are all suddenly failing in life. You would think students, teachers, parents (see the thoughts of Duncan and Rhee here) and their schools are all to blame, not the "reformers" themselves.
But what if these tests themselves were failures? Some have been shown to be flawed. What if success on these tests didn't translate into success in life? What if our children are guinea pigs of a failed experiment to which so many of the reformers refuse to subject their own children? The Success Academy kids do well on State tests, but when they take the Citywide test for elite high schools, not one single kid can pass. It's a classic case of studying for the wrong test. "Success" is lost in translation.
Tests don't measure how the brains of a kid work. They don't measure a teacher's skill. They merely measure how well a student prepped or was prepped on a specific body of information--which largely seems to fail to translate outside of its own narrow scope. It's time to evaluate the self-proclaimed testing "gods" for what they're really worth. They are false idols. If you think there's something lost in translation, you're right!
Oh, that Merryl and Her Zany Antics
Sure, she's arrogant, and sure, she walks around spouting inanities. Sure she makes empty threats of the sort every teacher would avoid. She doesn't like it when her BFFs are dismissed as Regents, and now wishes to bring them back as consultants. This reality thing is not for her, though she wants to impose harsh and unreasonable testing on us and our children. Of course, she's utterly unqualified for her job, and has not the slightest idea what ours entails.
Sure, she has no curiosity, and accepts boilerplate reforminess without question. She has no hesitation in making pronouncements about how standardized testing is necessary for high-needs kids, and she isn't bothered by the utter lack of evidence in that assertion. She babbles about how national testing will be necessary if too many kids opt out. She offers to exempt wealthy districts from the state's odious programs because they already get high test scores.
So it's tempting to dismiss Merryl Tisch as the preposterous figure she clearly is, and a number of my friends and acquaintances are already doing so. But we ought to take her seriously. After all, despite no evidence that any of her preferred programs would work, she's got them enshrined into law, with the help of Governor Andrew Cuomo, who shoved them through the Heavy Hearted Assembly without a whole lot of resistance. Note he did this despite his personal popularity being in the toilet.
So, OK, we can say how ridiculous she is, but the public message ought to be more on the lines of why her policies are hurtful. After all, we have all witnessed the results of NYSUT's juvenile "clueless Cuomo" campaign, and we will all have to live with the aftermath for at least one miserable year. Apparently the whole name-calling thing did not resonate with anyone but already pissed off teachers. And we know well that Cuomo is not clueless, but rather cunning, unscrupulous, self-serving, self-important, and self-promoting.
We can't say whether Tisch is clueless. Certainly what she says is idiotic. But the important thing for us is to fight her policies and educate the public. I've seen some great commercials coming from New Jersey, commercials that reach out to parents and show the damage of test now, test tomorrow, and test all the time policies. Maybe we should reach out and send messages like those rather than the "It's just not fair" messages I've seen from UFT.
Maybe we should be telling parents about the consequences of a rating system that pretty much rules out evaluating anything but high stakes crap produced by incompetent and secretive Pearson. The whole "more than a score" theme rings really true now that we know a child's teacher cannot get a good rating if the test scores indicate otherwise. Will this lead to massive test prep in lieu of actual education? Will it lead to outrageous cheating? Will we see teachers frogmarched to prison as we just did in Atlanta?
Does anyone besides me wonder how Wall St. profiteers who tanked the economy are still walking around while a few Atlanta teachers are about to spend decades in prison? Does anyone wonder why not even the people who placed massive pressure on the teachers, the sort of pressure we'll soon be feeling in NY, have never been inside a courtroom? How is it, for example, that Michelle Rhee is selling fertilizer instead of making license plates?
We can joke amongst ourselves. But we need a serious and coherent message for the public. Too bad our union leadership is stuck in an echo chamber hearing some endless loop on solutions-based unionism. Because as far as I can tell, this policy provides neither solutions nor unionism.
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LVMH Prize Finalist - Kozaburo
This piece is part of an ongoing series spotlighting the finalists for LVMH’s Young Fashion Designer Prize for 2017. The award, which includes a substantial amount of money, plus a year’s guidance and resources from the fashion and luxury juggernaut, is given each year to a standout designer under the age of 40. One recipient is chosen from among the finalists by a jury of fashion’s topmost designers and executives, with past winners include Shayne Oliver of Hood By Air and Simon Porte Jacquemus.
Visit office online for more interviews with the finalists, to be posted regularly leading up to the jury’s decision on Friday, June 16th.
Interview by Christopher Schreck
Edited by Marc Palatucci
Photos by Annie Powers
Styling by Alison Marie Isbell
Hair by Blake Erik @ Statement Artists
Models: Alex Barna @ Re:Quest, Conrad Bischoff, Jules Markiewicz, Mike Kushnir @ Red
Raised in ‘90s Tokyo and trained in London and New York, where he is currently based, Kozaburo Akasaka has gained fast and growing attention for his namesake line of men’s garments, which offset entropic cuts and inventive material treatments with intricate tailoring and a deceptively precise finish. Drawing heavily on the music and streetwear he discovered in adolescence, Kozaburo’s designs are a tangle of narratives, each piece a story composite, yet personal.
Focused even amidst the excitement of his nomination, Kozaburo spoke to us from back in Tokyo, where he was busy overseeing production of his new collection, to be premiered in Paris and New York later this year.
What were you doing when you heard you’d been selected as a finalist?
I was having brunch with my wife, actually. I was very happy when I got the call, of course, but I also was very moved. There’s a lot of difficulty that comes with being an emerging designer in a new country—not just building your brand, but simply living in the US as a foreigner. My wife and family have been very supportive throughout my career, so it’s a nice validation to have this happen after so much effort.
As part of the nomination process, you’ve had to explain your work to panels of experts. Was this an intimidating prospect, given the stakes?
It’s definitely good practice, as this is a commercial necessity for any designer—and of course, my techniques are often complicated, so it was an interesting challenge to explain things in only a sentence or two. It was also nice to see how these influential people responded to the work. But really, the reason I make garments is because I can’t express my vision in any other format. This is the medium I’ve chosen to tell my own story, so I feel that the visual presentation always comes first.
Your pieces are still generally made by hand, one at a time.
Yes. There are some helpers who assist me from time to time, but I typically work on my own, with my hands.
Is this your preferred approach, or has it been more of a practical necessity?
Both. I love the physical process of creating, it’s something I want to keep as central to my practice. But it also reflects my business, which—at least so far—is of a small structure and works with small orders. It’s made sense to do it all on my own. But as things progress and the workload increases, it’s something that will have to be addressed.
Given the intricacy of your techniques, I imagine it’d be as great a challenge teaching them to assistants as it’s been explaining them to panelists.
It wouldn’t be easy, but then, if I can do it, anybody can. [laughs] Because the methods are so hands-on, there would inevitably be slight differences in my results compared to others’—but I like that, because my work is really about celebrating the individual, embracing differences and recognizing the uniqueness of each character. So I think that process would be in keeping with my vision for the brand.
How has this emphasis on individuality translated into casting? Is there a prototypical Kozaburo model, or do your leanings change with each collection?
Generally, I like each model to be different—no specifics for skin color, hair length, or body type. I want to combine individual looks that together create a harmony. Seeing how they carry themselves, you just get a sense that some people fit, that they look great in the clothes and match the vibe of the brand. It’s really more about attitude.
Between Central Saint Martins and Parsons, you spent some time as an assistant at Thom Browne. What was that experience like? Have you retained any lessons from your time there?
For me, the biggest lesson was simple but crucial: You must be true to yourself. In that sense, Thom showed me by his example. As a designer, I really respect how he’s been able to extend his vision yet retain a signature style. Of course, we shared a certain dedication to technique, but more than anything, I was impressed by how he built his brand as an individual. By the time I became interested in his work, around 2007, he had been a guest designer for Milan Fashion Week, where he had a show of forty models wearing the same suit on the runway. To me, that was very punk. It wasn’t only about the clothing, it was about the statement being made. So that was the main impact he had on me—his attitude. I try to carry that same approach today in everything I do.
You’ve said elsewhere that “the timeless design of classic men’s apparel is at the core of [your] aesthetic.” I wonder which elements, material or otherwise, might lend themselves to “timelessness?” In your own designs, has this meant retaining specific cuts, proportions, palettes? Or is it something less tangible?
I think my vision is an honest one. I want my garments to be relevant over a timeline. I look at the past hundred years, imagine the next hundred, and then try to make clothes that I could see people wearing at any point along the way. Part of that is producing items that people have been wearing for a long time and will likely continue to wear: jackets, jeans, shirts. I’m not inventing any new garment categories, I’m just using classic formats and showing differences in the construction and detail. I want my clothes to feel somehow both vintage and current, and to take on new qualities over time as well.
What about your use of recycled materials? Given what you’ve said, one might read that practice as a literal means of extending a narrative—or then again, it could simply be a matter of aesthetic preference, even of finance.
When I’m creating a new collection, I might not know how much of a certain textile to buy, what to have fabricated. Oftentimes, recycled material has simply been more accessible and affordable. At the same time, I do like the notion of the material carrying a unique history, even before I use it. From the beginning, my clothes already have a little bit of age to them, a bit of character—and then, of course, as people wear them, they take on additional character as well. In Japanese, there’s a term called mottainai, which essentially means “waste nothing.” That’s part of how I was raised, “Finish your meal,” and so on. So the notion of “sustainability,” which is such a big word in fashion right now, is already quite natural to me. It’s about using what’s available, recognizing a “soul” in each item, and creating new narratives.
In Japanese, there’s a term called mottainai, which essentially means “waste nothing.” That’s part of how I was raised. So the notion of “sustainability,” which is such a big word in fashion right now, is already quite natural to me.
In creating your designs, are you generally inspired more by concept or craft? Do you sketch and then execute? Or do you discover new directions by manipulating materials?
I’ve never been one to make a hundred sketches of something—it’s more about letting the process happen. So let’s say I start with fabric manipulation, but then maybe I realize I’d like to use a certain seam, for which a more durable material may be better. So then I start thinking about what else I can do with that new material. How can I shape it? Is it better as outerwear? From there, the initial idea can change quickly and repeatedly. So really it’s a fluid process, where everything’s developing at once.
Your runway and lookbook presentations have been increasingly collaborative efforts, reflecting the input of stylists, photographers, set designers and musicians. How have these “outside” elements changed the way you saw your own garments?
It’s just a different perspective. Collaborating with outside talents has brought a new way of understanding the work, which I’ve quite enjoyed. Their worlds are quite different from mine—and, as a result, they often see something different in my work than I do. So it’s been quite interesting, incorporating their vision into my own. The result becomes something new, and I’m learning to enjoy that process.
Looking ahead to June, how are you preparing for the final jury presentation? Are you rehearsing your speech, going through practice runs with models?
To be honest, I’m not preparing any specific presentation or speech, because I feel like this whole process has been my preparation. As honored as I am by this opportunity, I still have to continue building my brand. I’m very busy now creating my new collection, doing samples, working on production, talking to the showroom and working on PR. In a way, I feel that doing this work is the best practice I can do.
If you win the Prize, how might you use the money? Are there specific goals it would help you achieve?
The first thing would be to organize a big supper and invite all of my friends and collaborators, almost like a “thank you.” After that, I’d simply invest in my brand. As more stores begin carrying your work, you start thinking ahead towards production and realize how much money is involved. This will always be true, of course, but the Prize would be extremely helpful in taking the next steps.
What kind of insight or guidance would you hope to gain from the mentorships?
I’m not sure yet! LVMH is such a big company with so many experienced people, and I’m sure all of their stories would be useful. I think I could learn a lot of valuable things about business and branding, allocation of budgets. The nice thing about this experience is that it forced me to really look at what I’m doing and how I can get to where I want to go. I’m pushing as much as I can, but I’m still trying to keep it all centered, keep my vision clear and find new opportunities. My priority is my vision, being true to myself while moving ahead. That’s my mindset at the moment.
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Jonno, 8:38 PM:
Hi! I’m interested in how collaboration is an inherently vulnerable process (one might argue) and how we work within that tricky and fragile space when it comes down to the crunch. if you agree with this) you don’t have to agree) how do you generally try to overcome or work around fear/discomfort/the unknown when it occurs during the process of collaboration?
And perhaps to be more specific: Many of us are multidisciplinary - do you feel like fashion/style/aesthetic collaboration is significantly different to you than other practices. For me it is and uses a different part of my brain but I often can’t put that into words.
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Styling by Verity Mackey
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Niamh, 8:40 PM
I guess for me there is another element to collaboration which feeds into the fear and vulnerability and that is a sort of power dynamic, you often are collaborating with people you may not know that well, or at least that well in a work way, so i find the scary thing is like letting everyone's voice come through but also not letting yourself be shut out? If that makes sense? You have to be constantly tuning the balance of ideas/ input & voices
Verity, 8:41 PM
Yes I agree N! It's that balance, Niamh- when you see people photographing and styling your work do you feel that that’s a collab with you?
Niamh, 8:42 PM The "photoshoot" is a super super rewarding collaboration for me if a stylist is involved, because I feel like "my work here is done" I literally hand the things over and trust they will be reinterpreted by the photog/ model/ stylist in a new and exciting way. However if its my shoot i find that really really really hard because I have such a specific vision in mind and I'm like, I'm paying so even though I do want the photographer and models input, I can be more precious and annoying about it. Also sometimes you see your work taken into a context/ worn in a way that you HATE and it can be hard to let go!!
Michaela, 8:44 PM it's definitely a vulnerable space to be in.. to be raw and open with other artists/creators while also being sensitive to their identities. Definitely flexibility and a willingness to dance together and finding a collective rhyme, our collective beat to create to. I think that's where the magic happens. When all those energies merge and we become one beast.
Niamh, 8:44 PM totally
Verity, 8:45 PM I imagine that to be really hard Niamh... seeing your baby through someone else's eyes
Michaela, 8:45 PM Yeah totally.. if the visions don't gel at least
Verity 8:46 PM I think there's so much magic in a good collaboration. Even a bad one sometimes! I come from a film/tv background where people are very department based. You learn to be VERY hands off of other people’s roles, and really focus on your job. I actually love this division personally and that’s why I think it's important to collaboration with people I trust. So i can go- hands off- they got this.
Niamh, 8:47 PM It can be!! But on the other side then sometimes someone will take something you meant for one part of the body and create something so new and exquisite and exciting and that is worth it, like when you are shocked by your own work that is amazing. Like that tying thing you did in this shoot with the lingerie dress and that pink leopard print undies (you may not have known they were undies) but I adored that it looked so beautiful
Michaela, 8.48 PM Yes experimenting and repurposing is so beautiful. Actually this leads into a question I want to ask. I’ve noticed some beautiful parallels between themes in Verity’s styling and Niahm’s designs. Did you feel your practices married each other in our process? And how would you describe the personal themes you play with?
Niamh, 8:49 PM Truth be told I have been an admirer of Verity's work for a long time, I am always drawn to film people so I don't know if it was the sense of story in all your styling or what but I think the sense of "characters" speaks to me? Like Verity sort of uses clothing to build identities in picture (imo) and I feel like I try and make clothing that have little stories or personalities as well? Which I see in your work too, like layers of references and hidden stories and meanings and ideas built on top of eachother layered up
Verity 8:52 PM Yeah! I can see that.. every garment feels very full. I feel super connected and inspired in the truest meaning of the word by Niahm. When M and I went to her studio I came back BUZZING and sewed for a weekend straight because i was like- my thoughts make sense!!! haha
Michaela, 8:55 PM The parallels I see is rebellion, this punk kind of approach to both your practices, this kind of focus of youth but maybe in different ways - niamh is focused on this teen spirit vibe and verity is into this infantile kind of spin to fashion... I don't know they kind of gel is this great way.
Jonno, 8:56 PM I think there’s definitely a cheekiness to it, both of you are actively reappropriating the language of high fashion and making it into something utilitarian and endeavouring to push the conversation forward. It’s refreshing in Sydney where every second student designer wants to be the next Ellery/Dion Lee etc
Verity 8:56 PM I also was sooo excited for Mykki to model Ramp Tramp TS. I have been frustrated for YEARS about 'sample sizes' and how limited they make photoshoots. Most subjects I've wanted to style sit outside of a size 8. I had a friend come over the night before the shoot and I could have cried being able to say "hey- try this on" knowing it would fit them and make them feel love.
Michaela, 8:58 PM Yesss i was sooo excited to see incredible garments on MY body!! finally... BIG BODIES ARE HOT TOO... fashion needs to make space for different bodies.. I'm bored.
BIG BODIES ARE HOT TOO... fashion needs to make space for different bodies.. I'm bored.
Niamh, 9:00 PM Every time I get in front of the camera I freeze up, so I greatly admire your ability to model Miki, what about modelling holds allure for you? How does it make you feel?
Michaela, 9:01 PM Honestly.. I think when fashion is good, it's iconic so shouldn't it be on iconic bodies? and who can say what an iconic body looks like? they come in all shapes, sizes, ages, colours, genders, heights, abilities etc. I really enjoy modelling because fuck I want those garments on me and I want to play! I think the only reason I’m enjoying living is to play! And it's just one of the ways I can play and create when it's not making art or putting on queer events. I also think my body deserves space.. It holds massive power.. being a fat body and also being a non- binary trans body. I think beautiful imagery is LOUD and I want my body to be LOUD and I want people to ask questions. Because right now, people just assume stuff around gender when they see my body or how I present. Also just being bigger is a political or controversial statement - I get a kick out of that.
During the creative process, what type of bodies did you envision Ramp Tramp Tramp Stamp adorning and how did that initial vision embody the themes across your work?
Niamh, 9:10 PM It is stereotypical to say but my process is very personal and will always start with just whatever is going on in my life at that time, on ALL levels, what people are posting on instagram, what Kim Kardashian is up to, am I fighting with my boyf? what song am I listening to? What nice or not nice things have people said to me recently?
So I guess that with this collection (Super Lust Fuck, Where Love Blooms) it was very much this swirl of just coming out of a massive massive period of heart break which tore me to shreds, and also of a fascination with my friends and the sydney queer community who HEAVILY nurtured me through that heartbreak and also moving into a new sharehouse with a range of different people and kind of trying to get back in touch with my sexuality after feeling kind of hideous for a second. And so that all amalgamated into this brainstorm of different references and also there was a side to it was missing the time just before I had my heart smashed when I was in LA, dreaming about skater boys with all my pals and just having like the most perfect Californian summer. we were all just full on hard core Ramp Tramps which is where the name comes from. Also in a way kind of telling my LA pals like thank you for that summer i will always be a ramp tramp lol
In terms of the bodies, I always always make a rule to myself that the clothing has to fit me so that is the starting point but also I wanted the pieces to have a really wide range of size flexibility for a huge range of bodies. I am always totally in awe of the way my friends and I like don't go shopping and find things that "fit" us, we go op shopping and you sort of have to make the clothing fit, so that was a central idea, like it will fit different people in different ways. I always think there is a beauty in one person being drowned in a shirt and then another person it gapes at the buttons and reveals sexy cleavage moments. Yes and again that also feeds back into the gender stuff, like both size and gender because, for example, in one piece I take a size 6 pair of mass produced jeans which we are told can only be worn by a certain body and then it's like well no *both. You don't get to dictate who these are for clothing can't possibly have a gender! its inanimate!
Michaela, 9:23 PM Yes totally.. I think the individual dictates the gender of the clothing- but then again my perception of what's femme and masc is maybe a bit different to the cisbinary norm idea around all of that when i'm at my most 'feminine', I can feel really masc and vice versa! I was moving quite fluidly through my own internal gender expressions throughout the during of the shoot it was really nice and I feel like ramp tramp really allows for that.
Verity, 9:26 PM Jonno, I want to know how you see a photoshoot in your head vs the reality of it. Do you have expectations of what the photos will be before the shoot... did this one match those thoughts if so? I love watching Jonno work, they are like a quiet panther and doing it all in those 70's flares w a apple booty!
Michaela, 9:26 PM How do you go about capturing the complexities and nuances of queer/trans identities in your work while injecting your own stylistic identity?
Jonno, 9:32 PM Miki, I think my main takeaway from years of shooting is that everyone has a different way of communicating their identity/story/narrative and it’s my job as the photographer to tap into that in some respect. I think i might be more hands off than some photographers and ultimately I want to be helping someone come to their own conclusions about the images we’re trying to make. I feel like a lot of people struggle to self- actualise because our world is so restrictive and claustrophobic so photoshoots can be an interesting way to work that out together, in a really tactile way, even if it;s only for a short time. There are certain visual motifs that I’ve become drawn to but I can never really name them explicitly when people ask! I think it’s nice when people tell me my work is recognisable in some way for that reason.
Jonno, 9:37 PM And Verity, usually I have a vague idea of how I’d like a photo shoot to look - will pull together a moodboard and think about the kind of place/time we’ll be shooting - and then leave the rest to chance. I think spontaneity is really beautiful and I’m often optimistic that the chemistry between the people involved will lead to something unique, and I think planning too much risks losing the magic that comes from being in that intimate creative space with other people. You want to make sure it’s an active conversation and it’s not all pre-planned, otherwise I think a lot of the beauty of the whole thing is easily lost!
Michaela, 9:39 PM
That’s a beautiful answer, J and I definitely agree - there’s so much untapped magic in the spontaneous moment and the adrenalin of bouncing off each other.
Niamh, 9:42 PM OK one more question for Verity, when you are starting to think about styling something, how does that process start? is it with a piece of clothing? or a model or something more vague? What is that process?
Michaela, 9:45 PM I'm just gonna pop on in here and say while you're typing away about your process, Verity.. is that you also have a process during shooting too... you take in the texture and feel of your environment and continue evolving the styling in the moment too i feel which i love and relate to.
Verity, 9:45 PM Thank you! I really enjoy the process of thinking about clothes in different contexts. For me the skate park shoot was a must, as I loved how it represented the brand’s origins, but also the way it subverts the masculitity of skate park culture and then (kick) flips it on it’s head again, as M identifies as Non-binary. I have a brain that has been fed on imagery. My mama was a really beautiful photographer and i spent my childhood modeling/ photo assisting all kinds of her shoots. I think this was really influential as it meant I was ALWAYS surrounded by ideas, concepts and theories and such a wide range of images, from fashion to photojournalism. I have always been a hoarder so I love finding where these things fit and often in strange ways it becomes cathartic - the bear was my mama's who died last year - and I was missing her so much that week. And then some how it ends up in M’s arms. Styling is kinda like a motion for me.. like moving and finding the clues and then finding the homes for the clues.
Niamh, 9:52 PM That is so special and it is so nice that it can have that effect on you, i think that if creative process can let you work through and sort of store feelings that's the most important thing.
Michaela, 10:00 PM I feel we all really embody the word eternateen in our practices and how we move in the world
Verity, 10:01 PM what does eternateen mean?
Michaela, 10:01 PM its a mesh of eternity and teen, a teen for eternity- and its such a queer concept!! To be ageless… The term was coined by Ambrose Pearson Ilett
Verity, 10:02 PM because of the idea of transitions and in between spaces?
Michaela, 10:03 PM yes that and the rejection of the norm. the human timeline.. queers seem to surpass that and play by their own rules around age, expectation, life choices and that reflects in our art
Niamh, 10:04 PM Totally and again it goes back to that very queer idea of rejecting fit, like how things should fit certain genders, certain sizes and again i think it is in that teen time that people are first able to play with fit and in a lot of ways their queerness because clothes do not really fit teens properly ever, none are really designed for them, much like with queer bodies or fat bodies!!
Verity, 10:05 PM <3333333333333333333 haha i love that it's true
Michaela, 10.05 PM This chat room is full of eternateens!
Verity, 10.05 PM Cheers to that.
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After releasing their debut track ‘This Is It’ back in April of this year Rascalton, a dark and brooding garage punk band from Glasgow, give us another taste of their immense talents. The 4 piece have built a core fan base in their native Scotland with sold out headline shows at Glasgow’s famous King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut and Edinburgh’s Sneaky Pete’s as well as heading out on tour in September and October.
New track ‘Alone’ is taken from the bands Lust // Alone AA side 7” which is being released via Glasgow indie label Public, with Baby Strange’s Johnny Madden and 7 West Studios Chris Marshall behind the production desk, we get a look into the raw emotion and power that Rascalton have at their disposal.
The screeching guitar sizzling under the belly of the chorus accompanies a powerful and raw voice that makes you understand the pain of loneliness and longing. The lyrics forge the story of heartbreak as frontman Jack Wyles sings “Spend our nights in the lost and found/Only place she felt at home/Thinks that all these random objects/Understand her being alone”, its a heartfelt message masquerading as a pumped up garage rock song.
The vocal’s are the key to Rascalton, providing a cocksure tone with every note while bringing a sense of desperation and sorrow that the lyrics are trying to portray. An encompassing melody and an infatuating rhythm section ‘Alone’ provides us with a glimpse into the Rascalton future.
With only one single under their belts the confidence oozing out of their latest effort would make you think they were seasoned veterans, accompany that with frantic and chaotic live shows then Scotland have themselves a new jewel to add to the crown.
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Good evening. Here’s the latest.
1. The Federal Reserve downgraded its outlook for the U.S. economy, and forecasting data it released suggested little appetite for raising interest rates — at all — in 2019.
Wall Street couldn’t be happier over the new patience.
Jerome Powell, the Fed chairman, discussed expectations of growth “at a solid pace” for the coming year, but slower than last year’s. The central bank is tracking slowdowns in household spending and business fixed investment.
The expectation gap between the Fed (2.1 percent growth for the year) and the White House (3.2 percent) has never been greater.
2. Commuting by airboat, two-hour detours, houses on islands.
The Nebraska floods wiped out infrastructure, making a devastating week that much harder for farmers and commuters. The damage promises to be an expensive and long-term challenge.
“It’s like a dream and you’re going to wake up and it’s going to be all O.K. But it’s not,” one man said. Above, road damage from severe flooding in North Bend, Neb.
And our South African bureau chief has been reporting from the worst-hit area of Cyclone Idai in Mozambique. We’ll update the briefing online with his story when we publish. Meanwhile, we’ve mapped the cyclone’s path of destruction through southern Africa and collected images to help you grasp the scale of the disaster.
3. “I didn’t get a thank you.”
President Trump has renewed his attacks on Senator John McCain, who died last year of brain cancer. At a rally in Ohio, above, Mr. Trump complained that Mr. McCain had not invited him to the funeral and that the McCain family had not expressed gratitude to him for giving the senator “the funeral he wanted.”
Mr. Trump blamed Mr. McCain for the Iraq war, and added a note of personal distaste: “I have to be honest, I’ve never liked him much. Hasn’t been for me. I really probably never will.”
Earlier in the day, President Trump said the last ISIS territory in Syria would be “gone by tonight,” despite reports of continued fighting.
4. Newly reviewed audio from the cockpit recorder on the Lion Air flight in October paints a chilling scene, one that is under renewed scrutiny with the crash of a second nearly brand-new 737 Max 8 flight this month. It has also raised questions about pilot training. Above, a simulator in Indonesia.
As the nose of the doomed flight repeatedly bucked downward, one of the pilots flipped through the pages of a technical manual to try to figure out what was happening. Then his co-pilot began to pray.
“I think he knew it was unrecoverable,” said an Indonesian transportation official who heard and described the audio.
5. Hundreds of mourners from around the world arrived in Christchurch, New Zealand, in time for the first funerals since Friday’s mass shootings at two mosques.
They massed on a hilltop of dirt cut open with row after row of graves. For relatives of the dead, the prolonged waiting period for coroners to identify and return victims’ bodies frustrated traditional Islamic rituals, which prioritize immediate burials and a joyful departure.
Coroners have been working overtime to identify and return the bodies of the 50 dead. As of Tuesday, 21 had been identified.
6. In news from Europe:
E.U. officials agreed to a short extension for Brexit — but only if British lawmakers approved Prime Minister Theresa May’s withdrawal plan, which Parliament has soundly rejected twice. Above, Mrs. May in Parliament today.
The E.U.’s move, which comes little more than a week before the March 29 deadline for Britain to leave the bloc, appears calculated to pressure lawmakers into supporting Mrs. May’s painstakingly negotiated plan. In the unlikely event that lawmakers do endorse it, they would still need the extension to pass supporting legislation.
Separately, European authorities fined Google $1.7 billion for violating antitrust rules in the online advertising market. The punitive action is the region’s third against the tech company since 2017.
7. One in seven American women experience depression during or after pregnancy. The first drug approved for postpartum depression offers hope.
It’s a quick-acting medication given by infusion that can begin to lift the darkness within 48 hours. But it’s expensive — averaging $34,000 per patient — and requires a 60-hour stay in a medical center. A pill made with a similar molecule is showing promise in clinical trials. Stephanie Hathaway, above, volunteered for the clinical trial.
We have a guide to what to look for and how to get help for maternal depression.
8. Who should own photos of slaves? A woman is suing Harvard for images of people from the 1850s who she says were her ancestors.
The images of Renty and Delia were taken as part of a Harvard-commissioned study that argued that black people were an inferior race. The daguerreotypes are stored in a museum on campus, but Tamara Lanier, 54, says the images are part of her personal family history, not collectible artifacts or for use as promotional material, above.
Separately, the American Museum of Natural History in New York City placed a correction to a diorama in full view of visitors, inviting them to “reconsider this scene” of an imagined 17th-century meeting between Dutch settlers and the Lenape Indians.
9. There’s one N.C.A.A. team that just can’t win: the referees.
As the college men’s basketball tournament begins, referees will most likely be accused of incompetence, and others will be blamed for game outcomes or blown calls. Above, Illinois Coach Brad Underwood during a loss to Penn State this season.
We took a look at how officiating the game has changed over the years, and why referees are “under the highest amount of scrutiny” ever, as one longtime official put it.
From the basketball court to the baseball field: Our columnist looks at the $430 million deal Mike Trout signed with the Los Angeles Angels for 12 seasons. He writes that the center fielder waited for the other guys to get their megadeals and then quietly outdid them all, just as he does on the field.
10. Finally, a look back at Rosie the Riveter’s English cousins.
During World War II, the Women’s Timber Corps, known as “lumberjills,” were responsible for harvesting timber for telegraph poles, rails for D-Day splashdowns and the pit props that bulwarked vital British coal mines. We went back into the archives to highlight this little-known yet vital unit.
A Times account in 1944 assured readers: “It has been found more often than not that the girl whose previous knowledge of tree life was often limited to the telegraph post can swing an axe just as efficiently as a farmer’s daughter.”
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Home Artist News Marina V is our October Spotlight Artist!
Marina V is our October Spotlight Artist!
Our WorldArts Spotlight Artist of the Month is Marina V! Check out our exclusive Q&A with Marina to hear about opening for Taylor Dayne, how she got her start in music, and more!
1) How did first get started in music?
I was singing before I started talking, according to my mom. And for as long as I can remember, I have been writing songs, at first in my head, and then later on the piano and guitar. My grandmother had a piano at her place and I recall we wrote a song together when I was 4. Then I went to a school of classical music in Moscow, but I was always afraid to share my songs (I had many song by then) with anyone. My very first public performance of my own songs was when I was already in college (Illinois College in Jacksonville, IL), and I ended up winning the first prize at my University’s talent show, I remember being blown away by that. But, most importantly, I remember people (other students) coming up to me saying how much my song moved them, and I clearly remember one girl she said she even cried. Never before I even for a second thought about my music affecting others in any way, so this was a pivotal moment in my live. That’s when I realized I wanted to have a career in music.
2) What are some of the films your songs have been in?
I’ve had my music in many films, some smaller, some bigger budget films. End credits of Frankenstein Theory, end credits song for City 40, which just came out on Netflix. I wrote the theme song for “Truth about Kerry” and “Space Command”, among others. I have also had songs in many TV shows and in a PEPSI ad.
3) What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever gotten?
To be yourself and to be true to yourself.
4) If you could go on tour with any artist (past or present) who would it be?
Paul McCartney (I’m a huge Beatles fan). My dream 🙂
5) What’s your ‘go-to’ karaoke song
I have never done karaoke!!!
6) WorldArts is all about giving tools and opportunities to artists. What advice would you give to aspiring musicians?
The advice I was given (be yourself) and also to work hard and always be nice to people.
7) If you could change anything about the music industry, what would it be?
For younger generation to see more value in music, because in the current culture music is virtually free and more and more people expect it to be free (or almost free). Think of youtube, Spotify, etc. Music is very beautiful and special, almost magical, it makes our lives better. Artist creating the music should get paid a lot more than $0.006 per stream on Spotify, for example.
8) What is the best way you’ve found to market yourselves as artists?
Performing live. It builds such strong connection between artist and audience, people remember shows for a long time, if not forever. I feel this way both as an artist and as a fan of music.
9) Back in August you opened for Taylor Dayne, what was that experience like?
It was wonderful. Great crowd and vibe, and Taylor Dayne herself was super sweet and lovely. What a voice!
10) What next on the horizon for you?
I’m always working in the studio and always recording new songs for our 2 Songs A Month Club ( www.patreon.com/MarinaV ). I also have a few dinner/concert events at my house and some touring coming up (I LOVE performing live). All info is at www.MarinaV.com
Check out her WorldArts profile here. Be sure to like her FB page and follow her on Twitter @marinav. Thanks to Marina for her time!
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By Mrs. Mecomber on January 13th, 2010
A Peek Inside the Samuel Kirkland Home at Hamilton College
We adore Reverend Samuel Kirkland. We are history buffs, and there are a few people in history that we hold dear to our hearts for their tireless efforts, their virtue, their great accomplishments. Samuel Kirkland is one of these men. He is the man who founded the Oneida Hamilton College, in Clinton, NY– now known as Hamilton College.
Samuel Kirkland was born in Connecticut in 1741, but moved to the wilderness in New York State when his heart was burdened by the need to reach out to the Iroquois Indians with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. He moved in with the Oneida Nation, and became like a brother to them. He led the famous Oneida Chief, the Great Skenandoah, to Christ. It was Skenandoah who later encouraged the Oneidas to side with the Americans during the Revolutionary War (the Oneida Nation was the only nation of the Iroquois to do so).
The Oneidas expressed to Reverend Kirkland their desire to become educated. Kirkland began a small school for the young males amongst the Oneidas and amongst the white settlers in the wilds of Central New York. It was called the “Oneida-Hamilton Academy,” named in part for Kirkland’s good friend and benefactor, Alexander Hamilton. Their friend, Baron von Steuben, who lived in nearby Remsen, NY, laid the cornerstone of the first building at the college.
The Reverend Kirkland built this tiny house in 1794 on the Hamilton College campus. Imagine the president and founder of a school living in such a modest and humble home! That is one of the many reasons we love Rev, Kirkland: he was one of the people, and didn’t exalt himself over them.
This is the history we revel in. These were great men, men like us but who had vision for our country and who persevered through hardship to see it through.
The house is lovely– small and simple but just very pretty. And there is a surprisingly amount of good clear light in the home, without any electric lighting at all.
This is Rev. Kirkland’s desk chair, the chair in which he wrote his journals (that have been published).
We have visited Samuel Kirkland’s grave, close to where this house is. And we have visited Baron von Steuben’s home and gravesite a few times, as well. You can click the links to read more about our adventures at Hamilton College and the history behind it.
Hamilton College Cemetery, Clinton, NY
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Steuben Memorial Site, Remsen, NY
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The Oneida Stone and Things Worth Knowing About Oneida County
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The Other Alice says:
Oh, yes, we do love Rev. Kirkland! 🙂 How cool to see that chair!! Appears to be a little plaque on it… wonder what it says?
Hercules Mulligan says:
Great post! I love the photos. I sure would like to visit this site sometime. 🙂
Chuck George says:
Your snippets and photos of the Samuel Kirkland home and his role in Oriskany Valley history are great!! You do enjoy bringing your surroundings alive and sharing them with the world.
I found the Rev Kirkland through Nathan Hart and Catherine O’Bail on the last page of “Genesee Fever” (Carl Carmer, Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., 1941). If you haven’t read it, you should. Mr Kirkland appears a place or two earlier in the book pursuing his missionary goal of getting a fair shake for the Iroquois.
The book is fiction but all characters in it, except for the two mentioned and two others, existed and are portrayed pretty much as they are known to have been…, with a few flourishes here and there. It’s a great read.
It centers on Bath, NY, but ranges from Squawkie Hill (Mt Morris) and Geneseo to Sodus to Painted Post. It started in Philadelphia and ended in the Rev Kirkland’s living room.
I hope to visit next summer.
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Run / Walk for Relief�Burma 2007
Gig Harbor, Washington State, USA
For a million villagers in Burma, running is not a choice.
Purpose: Increase awareness about the situation in Burma and raise funds to support the relief efforts in Burma.
Time: 8:00 a.m. to 8:45 a.m. Race Day Registration and Packet Pick-Up for Pre-Registered Participants (pick up t-shirts and race numbers in the Narthex)
9:00 a.m. Race starts
10:00 a.m. Kid�s Dash (for children 5 and under)
Award ceremony will immediately follow for the top three male and female finishers overall. Separate awards will be given to the top three finishers in each age group. Note: overall finishers will not receive age group awards.
Age groups: 6-10, 11-14, 15-18, 19-29, 30-39, 40-49, 50-59, 60-69, 70-79, 80+
Distance: 5K (3.1 miles) and Kid�s Dash (small route in parking lot of church)
Location: Chapel Hill Presbyterian Church, 7700 Skansie Ave. NW, Gig Harbor
Registration: Complete registration form and return to Chapel Hill Church by April 13, 2007 to guarantee your t-shirt order. Participants registering after this date may not receive a shirt and/or may not get the size ordered. Runners can also seek sponsor donations using the Individual Sponsorship Form.
Mail to: Chapel Hill Church, Attn: Missions Office, P.O. Box 829, Gig Harbor, WA 98335
Further Info: Tamara Brathovde at 253-851-7779 x311 or tbrathovde@chapelhillpc.org
Websites: www.prayforburma.org
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2019 in Crypto is Year of the DEX: NEO’s Nash to Launch, Main Competitor of Binance?
The launch date of the much-anticipated decentralised exchange being built on NEO, Nash, was announced by platform co-founder, Fabio C. Canesin during the Sunday afternoon session at Neo DevCon 2019.
Canesin and the rest of the team working on Nash are hoping to provide an application that gives users all the convenience of centralised banking or exchange applications, without many of the immense security risks that traditionally plague them. Prior to the beta launch, Nash developers are calling on the NEO community to troubleshoot the software for them.
Nash Beta Launch Date Scheduled for March 31
During a presentation titled “Distributing Finance for Everyone”, Nash and City of Zion co-founder, Fabio Canesin, revealed the launch date for the Nash decentralised exchange platform as March 31, 2019. The news was greeted by rapturous applause from the NEO DevCon crowd.
The Nash exchange seeks to address the problem of centralised exchanges in crypto. The platform aims to be more than simply a decentralised exchange, however. Canesin describes it as a “financial platform” for future digital economies.
Nash is a rebrand of the earlier project Neon Exchange (NEX). It will, however, still use the same token in its operation, which also goes by the NEX ticker.
Much of the 15-minute presentation was focused on the user experience of the Nash platform. The developers behind it have aimed to create the same convenient user experience that you would find at a centralised exchange, with none of the “honey-pot” risk highlighted by incidents like the recent QuadrigaCX debacle and countless exchange hacks over the years.
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Pre-release screenshot of the Nash DEX running.
As part of the launch, Nash is calling on “passionate users” to iron out any kinks and provide feedback on development so far. In addition, the platform has a referral program that it is rolling out. To help promote it, there is a giveaway running, offering 30 prizes of a share of $100,000 in BTC and 46,000 NEX tokens.
Pre-register your Nash account by participating in our referral program and you could win up to $100,000 in Bitcoin! You can find a sign-up code by searching for our hashtag #TrustYourselves https://t.co/yUNpyor2RS
— Nash (@nashsocial) February 17, 2019
To stand the best chance of as smooth a launch as possible, Canesin stated that the Nash platform was going after “every licence” going. This is consistent with the overall approach of NEO to constantly strive for regulatory compliance. Canesin proudly announced to the Seattle crowd that Nash would be supporting US users right from its launch date at the end of next month.
As well as providing a seamless user experience, Nash has aimed to make its decentralised crypto exchange platform as developer-friendly as possible too. The project was founded by five of the founders of the largest NEO developer community, City of Zion. Steered by a team of active developers, Nash’s appreciation of the developer community was explicitly stated by Canesin:
“Nash loves developers!”
Nash is not the only project going after the decentralised exchange market. The main competition it will face at this early stage will surely come from Binance. The centralised exchange giant announced its own DEX last year.
Paving the Way for Crypto Adoption with Slicker UIs.
From two days of presentations, interviews, and informal chats with the NEO developer community, one of the standout impressions was just how elegant cryptocurrency applications are starting to look. Currently, the average user interface, even on the most popular Bitcoin or Ethereum interfaces, is often daunting for the lay person. This is, of course, detrimental to widespread adoption.
Nash has evidently worked hard to create a platform that bares little resemblance to a typical decentralised cryptocurrency application. The minimalist, modern software design is more reminiscent of a modern banking application or exchange – such as those provided by Square or Coinbase. Nash was just one of many projects espousing the need for developers to provide the seamless user experiences required to see widespread adoption of digital assets at NEO DevCon 2019. Hopefully, this trend is consistent with the developer communities surrounding other blockchain platforms.
Related Reading: Will Decentralized Crypto Exchange of Binance Change the Landscape of Digital Asset Trading?
Featured image from NEO DevCon Photographers.
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Masuda July 17, 2018
Optical structure
An optical structure is presented. The optical structure includes a substrate including a cavity on a first surface of the substrate. The optical structure further includes an optical component on the substrate, the optical component including a second surface opposed to the first surface of the substrate. The optical structure also includes an adhesive in a gap between the first surface of the substrate and the second surface of the optical component affixing the optical component to the substrate, wherein at least one of the first surface of the substrate and the second surface of the optical component includes a predetermined portion arranged around the cavity, wherein the predetermined portion prevents the adhesive from infiltrating.
Masuda; Koji (Kawasaki, JP)
International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY)
Family ID: 62837245
Current CPC Class: G02B 6/4239 (20130101); G02B 6/4245 (20130101); G02B 6/12004 (20130101); G02B 6/4214 (20130101); G02B 2006/12104 (20130101); G02B 2006/12102 (20130101); G02B 2006/12121 (20130101); G02B 6/4246 (20130101)
Current International Class: G02B 6/12 (20060101); G02B 6/42 (20060101)
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Primary Examiner: Kim; Ellen
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C. Alexanian; Vazken
1. An optical structure, comprising: a substrate including a cavity on a first surface of the substrate; an optical component on the substrate, the optical component including a second surface opposed to the first surface of the substrate; and an adhesive in a gap between the first surface of the substrate and the second surface of the optical component affixing the optical component to the substrate, wherein at least one of the first surface of the substrate and the second surface of the optical component includes a predetermined portion arranged around the cavity, wherein the predetermined portion prevents the adhesive from infiltrating the cavity.
2. The optical structure of claim 1, wherein the predetermined portion is a hydrophobic surface.
3. The optical structure of claim 1, wherein the predetermined portion includes a fluoride hydrophobic coating.
4. The optical structure of claim 1, wherein both of the first surface of the substrate and the second surface of the optical component include the predetermined portion.
5. The optical structure of claim 1, wherein the substrate includes a waveguide core and the cavity intersects the waveguide core, and an interface between the waveguide core and the cavity reflects a light passing through the waveguide core.
6. The optical structure of claim 5, wherein the cavity is filled with a gas, and the light is reflected at the interface by total internal reflection.
7. The optical structure of claim 5, wherein a plurality of waveguide cores are arranged substantially in parallel with each other, the optical component includes a plurality of lenses, and each of the plurality of lenses is aligned with a corresponding one of the plurality of waveguide cores.
8. The optical structure of claim 7, wherein the light traveling between one of the plurality of lenses and the corresponding one of the plurality of waveguide cores traverses the gap, and the adhesive fills a light path of the light included in the gap.
9. The optical structure of claim 7, wherein the predetermined portion is located apart from a light path of the light traveling between one of the plurality of lenses and the corresponding one of the plurality of waveguide cores.
10. The optical structure of claim 1, wherein the adhesive fills at least a part of the gap surrounding the predetermined portion.
11. The optical structure of claim 1, wherein the adhesive infiltrates into the gap due to capillary effect, and the predetermined portion prevents the adhesive from flowing into the cavity.
12. An optical multi-chip module, comprising: a substrate including a waveguide core and a cavity, the waveguide core allowing a light to pass therethrough, the cavity being located on a first surface of the substrate to intersect the waveguide core, the cavity being filled with a gas; an optical component on the substrate, the optical component including a second surface opposed to the first surface of the substrate; and an adhesive in a gap between the substrate and the optical component due to capillary effect affixing the optical component to the substrate, wherein an interface between the waveguide core and the cavity reflects the light by total internal reflection, and at least one of the first surface of the substrate and the second surface of the optical component includes a predetermined portion around the cavity, wherein the predetermined portion prevents the adhesive from infiltrating the cavity.
13. A method for fabricating an optical structure, the method comprising: forming a substrate with a cavity on a first surface of the substrate; forming an optical component with a second surface; providing a predetermined portion on at least one of the first surface of the substrate and the second surface of the optical component; mounting the optical component on the substrate, the second surface of the optical component being opposed to the first surface of the substrate; applying an adhesive between the substrate and the optical component so that the adhesive infiltrates into a gap between the substrate and the optical component; preventing the adhesive from flowing into the cavity with the predetermined portion; and affixing the optical component to the substrate with the adhesive.
14. The optical structure of claim 1, wherein the predetermined portion is located in the gap between the first surface of the substrate and the second surface of the optical component.
15. The optical structure of claim 1, wherein the predetermined portion is a groove around the cavity.
16. The optical structure of claim 1, wherein the predetermined portion is an altered surface in at least one of the first surface of the substrate and the second surface of the optical component.
17. The optical structure of claim 1, wherein the predetermined portion reduces capillary action in the gap around the cavity.
The present invention generally relates to optical transmission, and more particularly to an optical structure.
Currently, new optical structures are needed.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, an optical structure is provided. The optical structure includes a substrate including a cavity on a first surface of the substrate. The optical structure further includes an optical component on the substrate, the optical component including a second surface opposed to the first surface of the substrate. The optical structure also includes an adhesive in a gap between the first surface of the substrate and the second surface of the optical component affixing the optical component to the substrate, wherein at least one of the first surface of the substrate and the second surface of the optical component includes a predetermined portion arranged around the cavity, wherein the predetermined portion prevents the adhesive from infiltrating.
According to another embodiment of the present invention, an optical multi-chip module is provided. The multi-chip module includes a substrate including a waveguide core and a cavity, the waveguide core allowing a light to pass therethrough, the cavity being located on a first surface of the substrate to intersect the waveguide core, the cavity being filled with a gas. The multi-chip module further includes an optical component on the substrate, the optical component including a second surface opposed to the first surface of the substrate. The multi-chip module also includes an adhesive in a gap between the substrate and the optical component due to capillary effect affixing the optical component to the substrate, wherein an interface between the waveguide core and the cavity reflects the light by total internal reflection, and at least one of the first surface of the substrate and the second surface of the optical component includes a predetermined portion around the cavity.
According to yet another embodiment of the present invention, a method for fabricating an optical structure is provided. The method includes forming a substrate with a cavity on a first surface of the substrate. The method further includes forming an optical component with a second surface. The method also includes providing a predetermined portion on at least one of the first surface of the substrate and the second surface of the optical component. The method further includes mounting the optical component on the substrate and the second surface of the optical component being opposed to the first surface of the substrate. The method also includes applying an adhesive between the substrate and the optical component so that the adhesive infiltrates into a gap between the substrate and the optical component. The method further includes preventing the adhesive from flowing into the cavity with the predetermined portion. The method also includes affixing the optical component to the substrate with the adhesive.
FIG. 1 depicts a top view of an optical communication system according to embodiments of the present invention;
FIG. 2 depicts a side view of the MCM according to embodiments of the present invention;
FIG. 3A depicts a schematic cross-sectional view taken along the line IIIA-IIIA in FIG. 2;
FIG. 3B depicts a top view of the substrate side component according to embodiments of the present invention;
FIG. 3C depicts a top view of the opening according to embodiments of the present invention;
FIG. 3D depicts a schematic cross-sectional view taken along the line IIID-IIID in FIG. 3B;
FIGS. 4A and 4B depict a flow of the adhesive around the mirror cavities in a comparative example;
FIG. 5A depicts a bottom view of the substrate side component according to embodiments of the present invention;
FIG. 5B depicts a side view of an area around the mirror cavities according to the first embodiment;
FIG. 5C depicts a cross-sectional view taken along the line VC-VC in FIG. 5B;
FIG. 6 depicts a bottom view of the substrate side component according to embodiments of the present invention;
FIG. 7A depicts a configuration for simulation of fluid dynamics of the adhesive;
FIG. 7B depicts a simulation result of the flow of the adhesive in a direction parallel to the waveguide cores without the grooves according to a comparative example;
FIG. 7C depicts a simulation result of the flow of the adhesive in a direction perpendicular to the waveguide cores without the grooves according to the comparative example;
FIG. 7D depicts a simulation result of the flow of the adhesive in a direction parallel to the waveguide cores with the grooves according to embodiments of the present invention;
FIG. 7E depicts a simulation result of the flow of the adhesive in a direction perpendicular to the waveguide cores with the grooves according to embodiments of the present invention;
FIGS. 8A and 8B depict a bottom view of the substrate side component according to some embodiments of the present invention;
FIGS. 8C, 8D and 8E depict a side view of an area around the mirror cavities according to the embodiments of the present invention;
FIGS. 9A, 9B, 9C, 9D, 9E and 9F depict a cross-sectional view of the groove according to some embodiments of the present invention;
FIG. 10A depicts a side view of an area around hydrophobic areas according to some embodiments of the present invention;
FIG. 10B depicts a cross-sectional view taken along the line XB-XB in FIG. 10A;
FIG. 11A depicts a top view of the waveguide layer according to some embodiments of the present invention;
FIG. 11B depicts a bottom view of the substrate side component according to some embodiments of the present invention;
FIGS. 12A and 12B depict a top view and a side view, respectively, of the waveguide layer at the first step of the fabrication process according to some embodiments of the present invention.
FIGS. 13A and 13B depict a top view and a side view, respectively, of the waveguide layer at the second step of the fabrication process;
FIGS. 14A and 14B depict a top view and a side view, respectively, of the waveguide layer at the third step of the fabrication process;
FIGS. 15A and 15B depict a top view and a side view, respectively, of the waveguide layer at the fourth step of the fabrication process;
FIGS. 16A and 16B depict a top view and a side view, respectively, of the waveguide layer at the fifth step of the fabrication process;
FIGS. 17A, 17B and 17C depict a top view, a side view, and a wide range top view, respectively, of the waveguide layer at the sixth step of the fabrication process;
FIGS. 18A, 18B and 18C depict a top view, a side view, and a wide range top view, respectively, of the waveguide layer at the seventh step of the fabrication process;
FIGS. 19A, 19B and 19C depict a top view, a side view, and a wide range top view, respectively, of the waveguide layer at the eighth step of the fabrication process;
FIG. 20A depicts a configuration for simulation of fluid dynamics of the adhesive;
FIG. 20B depicts a simulation result of the flow of the adhesive in a direction parallel to the waveguide cores without the hydrophobic areas according to a comparative example;
FIG. 20C depicts a simulation result of the flow of the adhesive in a direction parallel to the waveguide cores with the hydrophobic areas according to the second embodiment;
FIG. 21A depicts a top view of the waveguide layer according to the first modification of the second embodiment;
FIG. 21B depicts a bottom view of the substrate side component according to the first modification of the second embodiment;
FIG. 21C depicts a bottom view of the substrate side component according to the second modification of the second embodiment;
FIGS. 22A, 22B, 22C, 22D and 22E depict a side view of the mirror cavities according to the third, the forth, the fifth, the sixth and the seventh modification of the second embodiment, respectively; and
FIGS. 23A and 23B depict a side view of the mirror cavities according to the eighth and the ninth modification of the second embodiment
Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the attached drawings.
It is to be noted that the present invention is not limited to these exemplary embodiments to be given below and can be implemented with various modifications within the scope of the present invention. In addition, the drawings used herein are for purposes of illustration, and may not show actual dimensions.
Referring to FIG. 1, there is shown a top view of an optical communication system 1 according to some embodiments of the present invention. As shown in the figure, the optical communication system 1 can include two multi-chip modules (MCMs) 5. A multi-chip module (MCM) 5 can include a main substrate 10, a central processing unit (CPU) 11, a vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) chip array 12, a laser diode driver (LDD) chip 13, a photodiode (PD) chip array 14, a trans-impedance amplifiers (TIA) chip 15, waveguide layers 161 and 162, and a fiber connector 17. Further, as shown in the figure, the optical communication system 1 can include fiber cables 181 and 182 each having several (e.g., 12 or 24) fiber cable cores.
The waveguide layer 161 can include multiple waveguide cores WG whose number matches the number of cores of the fiber cable 181 or 182. The VCSEL chip array 12 can include multiple VCSEL devices whose number matches the number of fiber cores (not shown) of the waveguide layer 161. The waveguide layer 162 can include multiple waveguide cores WG whose number matches the number of fiber cores (not shown) of the fiber cable 181 or 182. The PD chip array 14 can include multiple PD devices whose number matches the number of cores of the waveguide layer 162. The MCM 5 is an example of an optical multi-chip module.
Referring to FIG. 2, there is shown a side view of the MCM 5 according to the first embodiment. As shown in the figure, the waveguide layer 161 can be formed on the surface of the main substrate 10. The waveguide layer 161 can include the waveguide cores WG and a cladding layer 160. The waveguide layer 161 can be formed as a polymer waveguide.
The waveguide layer 161 can be provided with multiple mirror cavities 165. The mirror cavities 165 are provided at one end of the waveguide cores WG (left side in FIG. 2) and opposed to the VCSEL chip array 12. Each mirror cavity 165 is provided on each waveguide core WG. In other words, the number of the mirror cavities 165 matches the number of the waveguide cores WG.
The waveguide layer 161 can also be provided with multiple mirror cavities (mirror ablation holes) 167. The mirror cavities 167 are provided at the other end of the waveguide cores WG (right side in FIG. 2) and opposed to the fiber connector 17. Each mirror cavity 167 is provided on each waveguide core WG. In other words, the number of the mirror cavities 167 matches the number of the waveguide cores WG. The mirror cavity 167 is an example of a cavity.
The mirror cavities 165 and 167 can be inclined at an angle of 45.degree. to form reflective surfaces (mirrors M), on boundaries (interfaces) between the waveguide cores WG and the mirror cavities 165 or the mirror cavities 167. In an embodiment, the boundaries can be provided without a metal coating, and the mirror cavities 165 and 167 can be filled with air (atmosphere). This configuration enables the mirrors M to reflect the light by total internal reflection (TIR). More specifically, the mirrors M of the mirror cavities 165 reflect the light from the VCSEL chip array 12 to the waveguide cores WG by total internal reflection. The mirrors M of the mirror cavities 167 reflect the light from the waveguide cores WG to the fiber connector 17 by total internal reflection.
Note that in an embodiment, the mirrors M of the mirror cavities 167 are provided in staggered positions in the waveguide cores WG to form two rows (refer to FIG. 3B.)
The fiber connector 17 can include a fiber side component 180 and a substrate side component 190. The fiber side component 180 connected to the fiber cables 181 and 182 can be mounted on the substrate side component 190. The substrate side component 190 can be directly mounted on the waveguide layer 161 to receive the fiber side component 180.
The substrate side component 190 is glued onto the waveguide layer 161 using an underfilling material, i.e. an adhesive 210. The adhesive 210 can be a photocurable material, such as ultraviolet (UV) curing resin or a thermal curing material.
Next, an explanation is given about the general method for fixing the fiber connector 17 to the waveguide layer 161 in the first embodiment with reference to FIG. 2. Note that the mirror cavities 165 and 167 are assumed to have been provided on the surface of the waveguide layer 161 with conventional techniques, such as laser processing or dicing.
The substrate side component 190 of the fiber connector 17 is first mounted on the waveguide layer 161. The adhesive 210 in a fluidized state is applied around the substrate side component 190. The adhesive 210 distributes through a gap GP (refer to FIG. 3A) between the bottom surface of the substrate side component 190 and the top surface of the waveguide layer 161 due to capillary effect.
Curing light is then directed towards the gap GP from above to cure the adhesive 210. This enables to fix the substrate side component 190 to the waveguide layer 161. The fiber side component 180 to which the fiber cables 181 and 182 has been connected is mounted on the substrate side component 190.
FIG. 3A depicts a schematic cross-sectional view taken along the line IIIA-IIIA in FIG. 2. FIG. 3B depicts a top view of the substrate side component 190 according to some embodiments of the present invention. FIG. 3C depicts a top view of the opening OP according to embodiments of the present invention. FIG. 3D depicts a schematic cross-sectional view taken along the line IIID-IIID in FIG. 3B.
As shown in FIGS. 3A and 3B, the substrate side component 190 can have a generally rectangular parallelepiped shape. The substrate side component 190 can include a substrate side microlens array 191, first support portions 194, and second support portions 195. In this embodiment, the substrate side component 190 can be configured as a single piece.
The microlens array 191 can be provided on the top surface of the substrate side component 190. The microlens array 191 can include multiple microlenses 193. The microlens array 191 is arranged in two rows corresponding to the rows of the mirrors M of the mirror cavities 167. The microlens 193 is an example of lens.
The substrate side component 190 can be positioned on the waveguide layer 161 so that each microlens 193 is aligned with the corresponding mirror M provided on each waveguide core WG (refer to FIG. 3C). Note that the fiber side component 180 can also include a fiber side microlens array (not shown). Each microlens 193 of the substrate side component 190 is aligned with each fiber side microlens. This configuration allows the light reflected at the mirror M to pass the microlens 193 of the substrate side component 190 and the corresponding microlens of the fiber side component 180.
The first support portions 194 are protruded portions on the top surface of the substrate side component 190. The first support portions 194 can be provided on both sides in the longitudinal direction of the substrate side component 190. The first support portions 194 support the fiber side component 180. In this embodiment, the microlens array 191 is provided between the first support portions 194.
The second support portions 195 are protruded portions on the bottom surface of the substrate side component 190. The second support portions 195 can be provided on both sides in the longitudinal direction of the substrate side component 190. The second support portions 195 can be mounted on the waveguide layer 161. Note that an area between the second support portions 195 is hereinafter called a central area 196. The height of the second support portions 195 is set to form the gap GP through which the adhesive 210 distributes due to capillary effect.
The bottom surface of the substrate side component 190, more specifically the central area 196, is opposed to the area of the upper surface of the waveguide layer 161 in which the mirror cavities 167 are provided. In other words, the substrate side component 190 can cover the mirror cavities 167.
As mentioned above, the substrate side component 190 can be fixed using the adhesive 210. As shown in FIG. 3D, the gap GP between the bottom surface of the substrate side component 190 and the top surface of the waveguide layer 161 can be filled with the adhesive 210. The adhesive 210 in the gap GP may be required to provide sufficient mechanical stability (mechanical support) between the substrate side component 190 and the waveguide layer 161.
The substrate side component 190 is an example of an optical component or an example of a second component. The bottom surface of the substrate side component 190 is an example of a second surface of the optical component. The waveguide layer 161 is an example of a substrate or an example of a first component. The top surface of the waveguide layer 161 is an example of a first surface of the substrate. The adhesive 210 is an example of a fluid.
The adhesive 210 also acts as an index-matching substance to reduce reflection loss at the gap GP. More specifically, the light coming from the mirror M to the microlens 193 passes the gap GP. Filling the gap GP with the adhesive 210 enables to reduce difference in refractive index between the adhesive 210 in the gap GP and the substrate side component 190 or the waveguide layer 161, compared with the gap GP filled with air. Filling the gap GP with the adhesive 210 also enables to eliminate an air boundary in the gap GP.
As previously mentioned, the adhesive 210 in a fluidized state distributes through the gap GP due to capillary effect. Controlling a flow of the adhesive 210 may influence a yield in the manufacturing process, i.e. the lens assembling process, of the optical communication system 1 (refer to FIG. 1).
Referring to FIGS. 4A and 4B, there is shown a flow of the adhesive 210 around the mirror cavities 167 in a comparative example. As shown in FIG. 4A, the fluidized adhesive 210 can distribute through the gap GP. The distributing adhesive 210 can flow into the mirror cavities 167, as shown in FIG. 4B. Such flow of the adhesive 210 into the mirror cavities 167 can decline the reflectivity at the mirror M. In other cases, the adhesive 210 may not completely fill the gap GP. Such insufficient filling of the adhesive 210 may decline the transmittance of the gap GP.
To prevent a low yield, a sidefill process may be applicable to apply the adhesive 210, instead of this comparative example. However, this configuration may reduce the mechanical strength between the substrate side component 190 and the waveguide layer 161, or may introduce reflection loss at the gap GP (at air interfaces.)
FIG. 5A depicts a bottom view of the substrate side component 190 according to the first embodiment. FIG. 5B depicts a side view of an area around the mirror cavities 167 according to the first embodiment. FIG. 5C depicts a cross-sectional view taken along the line VC-VC in FIG. 5B.
As shown in FIG. 5A, the substrate side component 190 can include grooves 197. The grooves 197 can be provided on the bottom surface of the substrate side component 190 in the central area 196. The grooves 197 are arranged in two rows corresponding to the rows of the microlens array 191, in other words, corresponding to the rows of the mirror cavities 167. The groove 197 is an example of a recess.
Note that the groove 197 is an example of a recess on the bottom surface of the substrate side component 190. The groove 197 enlarges the height (size) of the gap GP. In other words, the gap size increases abruptly in the groove 197. In the embodiment, the cross-sectional shape of the groove 197 is rectangular (refer to FIG. 5B).
As shown in FIG. 5B, each of the grooves 197 can be opposed to an opening OP of the mirror cavities 167. Also, as shown in FIG. 5C, each of the grooves 197 can cover the opening OP of the mirror cavities 167 in a top view.
Next, an explanation is given about the dimension of the groove 197 in this embodiment with reference to FIGS. 5B and 5C.
In the following explanation, the direction along the axis of the waveguide core WG is hereinafter called an axial direction. The direction perpendicular to the axis of the waveguide core WG is hereinafter called a width direction. The edges of the groove 197 in the axial direction are hereinafter called a first groove edge SE1 (left side in FIG. 5B) and a second groove edge SE2 (right side in FIG. 5B), respectively. The edges of each mirror cavity 167 in the axial direction are hereinafter called a first cavity edge OE1 (left side in FIG. 5B) and a second cavity edge OE2 (right side in FIG. 5B). The center of the opening OP is hereinafter called a center CP. Note that each mirror cavity 167 and the top surface of the microlens array 191 make an acute angle at the first cavity edge OE1, and make an obtuse angle at the second cavity edge OE2.
In the embodiment, the length L1 of the groove 197 in the axial direction can be longer than the length L2 of the opening OP in the axial direction. The length L2 can be 10 um to 100 um (micrometer), preferably 25 um to 75 um, more preferably 45 um to 55 um. The length L1 can be 10 um to 100 um, preferably 30 um to 80 um, more preferably 60 um to 70 um. In the embodiment, each of the grooves 197 can cover the opening OP to some extent (e.g. 10%), or fully cover the opening OP (e.g. more than 110%).
In the axial direction, the first groove edge SE1 can be on the farther side from the center CP than the first cavity edge OE1. The second groove edge SE2 can be on the farther side from the center CP than the second cavity edge OE2.
Here, as shown in FIG. 5B, the light reflected at the mirror M is directed towards the microlens 193 while expanding the beam outline BO. In the embodiment, to prevent the light from passing the grooves 197, the first groove edge SE1 is on the outside of the beam outline BO. In other words, the grooves 197 are provided on a position separated from the beam outline BO. The beam outline BO is an example of a light path.
With the following dimensions, there is an approximately 10 um (micro meter) margin to offset the first groove edge SE1 towards the beam outline BO from the first cavity edge OE1. In other words, the length L3 between the first cavity edge OE1 and the beam outline BO on a plane including the bottom surface of the central area 196 is approximately 10 um. The detailed dimensions are as follows: the diameter of the waveguide core WG is 25 um; the diameter of the microlens 193 is 250 um; the spread angle A1 of the light reflected at the mirror M is 12 degrees; the thickness D1 of the cladding layer 160 above the waveguide cores WG is 15 um; and the thickness D2 of the adhesive 210 is 10 um.
Here, the substrate side component 190 can be integrally formed by injection molding. In this case, the grooves 197 can be provided on the substrate side component 190 in the injection mold process. In other words, the grooves 197 can be readily imprinted by injection molding. This reduces an additional cost for fabrication of the grooves 197. However, the methods for forming the substrate side component 190 and the grooves 197 are not limited to this. For example, the substrate side component 190 with the grooves 197 can be formed by a 3D printer. Alternatively, the grooves 197 can be formed on the substrate side component 190 after forming the substrate side component 190. For example, the grooves 197 can be formed by laser processing or dicing.
In an embodiment, an improved control of capillary flow of the adhesive 210 can lead to a higher yield in the assembling process (lens assembling process) of the optical communication system 1. Note that the adhesive 210 in the gap GP, i.e. underfilling adhesive can provide better mechanical strength than sidefilling.
FIG. 6 depicts a bottom view of the substrate side component 190 according to the first modification of the first embodiment. As shown in FIG. 6, the substrate side component 190 can be provided with multiple dispersed grooves 197. Each groove 197 may have a generally square shape in a plane view. Each groove 197 can be provided on a position corresponding to each microlens 193. The grooves 197 can be opposed to the corresponding mirror cavities 167 to prevent (suppress) the entrance of the adhesive 210 into the mirror cavities 167. In other words, the grooves 197 can prevent the adhesive 210 from reaching the mirror M.
FIG. 7A depicts a configuration for simulation of fluid dynamics of the adhesive 210. FIG. 7B depicts a simulation result of the flow of the adhesive 210 in a direction parallel to the waveguide cores WG without the grooves 197 according to a comparative example. FIG. 7C depicts a simulation result of the flow of the adhesive 210 in a direction perpendicular to the waveguide cores WG without the grooves 197 according to the comparative example. FIG. 7D depicts a simulation result of the flow of the adhesive 210 in a direction parallel to the waveguide cores WG with the grooves 197 according to the first modification of the first embodiment. FIG. 7E depicts a simulation result of the flow of the adhesive 210 in a direction perpendicular to the waveguide cores WG with the grooves 197 according to the first modification of the first embodiment.
An explanation is given about the simulation of fluid dynamics of the adhesive 210 around the grooves 197. Each groove 197 has a square shape (refer to FIG. 6). The simulation of fluid dynamics is conducted in a two dimensional flow.
As shown in FIG. 7A, the general configuration for the simulation includes the substrate side component 190 and the waveguide layer 161 provided with the mirror cavities 167. The substrate side component 190 and the waveguide layer 161 are provided in the atmosphere. In the initial state, the adhesive 210 in a fluidized state is enclosed in fields on both sides of the substrate side component 190, and then to start to flow from the enclosed fields.
The properties of the adhesive 210 in a fluidized state are as follows: the density is 10.sup.3 kg/m.sup.3; the viscosity is 0.1 Pas (the kinetic viscosity is 10.sup.-4 m.sup.2/s); the surface tension is 0.03 N/m. As to the surface properties, the contact angle is 24 degrees. The depth of the groove 197 of FIGS. 7D and 7E is 30 um (micro meter).
As shown in FIGS. 7B and 7C, the simulation results without the grooves 197 indicate that the adhesive 210 may flow into the mirror cavities 167 (refer to arrows A1 and A2). In other words, the adhesive 210 will eventually (for example, in more than 5 seconds) fall into the mirror cavities 167. On the other hand, as shown in FIGS. 7D and 7E, the simulation results with the grooves 197 indicate that the adhesive 210 does not flow into the mirror cavities 167. According to this simulation, providing the grooves 197 on the substrate side component 190 may prevent the adhesive 210 from flowing into the mirror cavities 167.
FIGS. 8A and 8B depict a bottom view of the substrate side component 190 according to the second and the third modification of the first embodiment. FIGS. 8C, 8D and 8E depict a side view of an area around the mirror cavities 167 according to the third, the forth, and the fifth modification of the first embodiment, respectively.
As shown in FIG. 8A, the grooves 197 can extend over the entire length in the longitudinal direction of the substrate side component 190. In the modification, the substrate side component 190 is provided without the second support portions 195 (refer to FIG. 3A), so that the grooves 197 may be linearly extended on the bottom surface of the substrate side component 190.
As shown in FIGS. 8B and 8C, the groove 197 can be formed with a wider width to cover the all area provided with the microlenses 193. In the modification, the groove 197 extends across the beam outline BO. More specifically, as shown in FIG. 8C, the first groove edge SE1 and the second groove edge SE2 may be arranged opposite to each other across the beam outline BO. Although the light beam traverses the air-material interfaces twice, causing reflection loss in this configuration, a part of the volume of the gap GP is filled with the adhesive 210, providing better mechanical stability than side filling.
As shown in FIG. 8D, in addition to the grooves 197, waveguide grooves 168 can be provided on the top surface of the waveguide layer 161. The waveguide grooves 168 can be opposed to the grooves 197. The waveguide grooves 168 and the grooves 197 can enlarge the height of the gap GP to prevent the adhesive 210 from flowing into the mirror cavities 167.
The above mentioned configurations may also be applicable to any optical component (optoelectronic chip), such as a vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) chip, a photodiode (PD) chip, a lens array component. For example, as shown in FIG. 8E, a VCSEL chip 290 including an active area 293 can be directly mounted on the waveguide layer 161. The VCSEL chip 290 can be provided with the grooves 197 on the bottom surface of the VCSEL chip 290. The grooves 197 can prevent the adhesive 210 from flowing into the mirror cavities 167. Note that the above mentioned configurations can also be applicable to any component. For example, a first component can be provided with a cavity on a first surface of the first component. A second component can be on the first component with a recess on the bottom surface of the second component. The recess can prevent the fluid from flowing into the cavity.
FIGS. 9A, 9B, 9C, 9D, 9E and 9F depict a cross-sectional view of the groove 197 according to other modifications of the first embodiment. The cross-sectional shape of the groove 197 may not be limited to the rectangular shape as shown in FIG. 5C as long as the groove enlarges the height of the gap GP.
As shown in FIGS. 9A and 9B, the cross-sectional shape of the groove 197 can be a trapezoid shape. In the modification shown in FIG. 9A, the length L1 of the groove 197 in the axial direction increases gradually from the bottom of the groove 197 to the opening of the groove 197. In the modification shown in FIG. 9B, the length L1 of the groove 197 in the axial direction decreases gradually from the bottom of the groove 197 to the opening of the groove 197.
As shown in FIG. 9C, the cross-sectional shape of the groove 197 can be a curved shape. As shown in FIG. 9D, the cross-sectional shape of the groove 197 can be a generally rectangular shape with round corners. As shown in FIG. 9E, the cross-sectional shape of the groove 197 can be a V-shape. As shown in FIG. 9F, the groove 197 can be provided with an uneven bottom.
FIG. 10A depicts a side view of an area around hydrophobic areas 267 and 367 according to the second embodiment. FIG. 10B depicts a cross-sectional view taken along the line XB-XB in FIG. 10A. FIG. 11A depicts a top view of the waveguide layer 161 according to the second embodiment. FIG. 11B depicts a bottom view of the substrate side component 190 according to the second embodiment.
As shown in FIGS. 10A and 10B, the substrate side component 190 and the waveguide layer 161 can include hydrophobic areas 267 and 367, respectively. The hydrophobic area 267 can be provided on the bottom surface of the substrate side component 190 in the central area 196. The hydrophobic area 367 can be provided on the top surface of the waveguide layer 161 around the opening OP of each mirror cavity 167. In the embodiment, the hydrophobic areas 267 and 367 can have a corresponding shape and are opposed to each other.
The hydrophobic areas 267 and 367 are examples of a predetermined portion arranged around the cavity. The hydrophobic areas 267 and 367 are an example of a treated surface having a poor wettability to a liquid adhesive than other areas surrounding the treated surface.
As shown in FIG. 11A, the hydrophobic area 367 of the waveguide layer 161 can include main areas 368 and band areas 369. Each of the main areas 368 can have a generally square shape with its middle part cut off as the opening OP. In other words, each of the main areas 368 surrounds the opening OP of each mirror cavity 167. The band areas 369 can extend along the width direction between the edges of the substrate side component 190. In other words, the band areas 369 can extend across the main areas 368 to connect them.
As shown in FIG. 11B, the hydrophobic area 267 of the substrate side component 190 can include main areas 268 and band areas 269. Each of the main areas 268 can have a generally square shape. Note that the main area 268 is provided without its middle part cut off as the opening OP. Each of the main areas 268 can be opposed to the opening OP of each mirror cavity 167. As shown in FIG. 11B, the main areas 268 on the substrate side component 190 can cover the opening OP of the mirror cavities 167 in a top view. The band areas 269 can extend along the width direction between the edges of the substrate side component 190. In other words, the band areas 269 can extend across the main areas 268 to connect them.
Next, an explanation is given about the dimension of the hydrophobic areas 267 and 367 in the second embodiment with reference to FIGS. 10A and 10B. In the following explanation, the edges of the hydrophobic areas 267 and 367 (main areas 268 and 368) in the axial direction are hereinafter called a first hydrophobic area edge PE1 and a second hydrophobic area edge PE2, respectively.
In an embodiment, the length L11 of the main areas 268 and 368 in the axial direction can be longer than the length L12 of the opening OP or the length L14 of the band area 369 in the axial direction.
The length L12 can be 10 um to 100 um (micrometer), preferably 25 um to 75 um, more preferably 45 um to 55 um. The length L11 can be 10 um to 100 um, preferably 30 um to 80 um, more preferably 60 um to 70 um. In the embodiment, each of the main areas 268 and 368 can cover the opening OP to some extent (e.g. 10%), or fully cover the opening OP (e.g. more than 110%).
In the axial direction, the first hydrophobic area edge PE1 can be on the farther side from the center CP than the first cavity edge OE1. The second hydrophobic area edge PE2 can be on the farther side from the center CP than the second cavity edge OE2.
Here, as shown in FIG. 10A, the light reflected at the mirror M is directed towards the microlens 193 while expanding the beam outline BO. In the embodiment, to prevent the light from passing the hydrophobic areas 267 and 367, the first hydrophobic area edge PE1 is on the outside of the beam outline BO. In other words, the hydrophobic areas 267 and 367 are provided on a position separated from the beam outline BO.
Here, there is an approximately 10 um (micro meter) margin to offset the first hydrophobic area edge PE1 towards the beam outline BO. In other words, the length L13 between the first cavity edge OE1 and the beam outline BO on a plane including the bottom surface of the central area 196 is approximately 10 um. The dimensions of this configuration are the same as the above mentioned configuration shown in FIG. 5B.
The hydrophobic areas 267 and 367 are an example of selected areas to which a hydrophobic surface treatment is applied. The hydrophobic areas 267 and 367 may be provided just around the opening OP so that the adhesive 210 fills in the entire volume in which the light traverses.
In an embodiment, a contact angle of the hydrophobic areas 267 and 367 can be larger than that of an area surrounding the hydrophobic area 267 on the bottom surface of the substrate side component 190 or an area surrounding the hydrophobic area 367 on the top surface of the waveguide layer 161. In one example, the contact angle of the hydrophobic areas 267 and 367 may be 83 degrees and the contact angle of the surrounding area may be 7 degrees. In this example, the hydrophobic areas 267 and 367 are a fluoride hydrophobic coating and the adhesive 210 is UV curing resin having viscosity of 0.022 Pas.
However, the configuration of the hydrophobic areas 267 and 367 is not limited to this. The hydrophobic areas 267 and 367 may have a nano-structure. The nano-structure may be formed with plasma treatment, nanoimprint lithography, or ion-implantation process. For example, the nano-structure may include nanometer-sized pins which are aligned perpendicular to the surface of the substrate side component 190 or the waveguide layer 161. Alternatively, the hydrophobic areas 267 and 367 may be a heat curing adhesive.
In an embodiment, an improved control of capillary flow of the adhesive 210 can lead to a higher yield in the assembling process (lens assembling process) of the optical communication system 1. When the adhesive 210 infiltrates the gap GP in the assembling process, the band areas 369 can guide an air in the gap GP towards the outside of the gap GP in the width direction. This can prevent the pressured (heated) air in the gap GP from causing the poor bonding between the substrate side component 190 and the waveguide layer 161.
Next, an explanation is given about the fabrication process of the waveguide layer 161 and the substrate side component 190 according to the second embodiment.
Referring to FIGS. 12A and 12B, there are shown a top view and a side view, respectively, of the waveguide layer 161 at the first step of the fabrication process according to the second embodiment. At this step, the waveguide layer 161 can be prepared with conventional techniques. Note that the mirror cavities 167 have not been provided on the surface of the waveguide layer 161.
Referring to FIGS. 13A and 13B, there are shown a top view and a side view, respectively, of the waveguide layer 161 at the second step of the fabrication process. At this step, pattern masks PM are formed on the top surface of the waveguide layer 161. The pattern masks PM are disposed with an exposure area EA left between the pattern masks PM. The exposure area EA defines a shape of the hydrophobic area 367. Note that use of the pattern masks PM enables a precise selection of areas of the waveguide layer 161 to be treated.
Referring to FIGS. 14A and 14B, there are shown a top view and a side view, respectively, of the waveguide layer 161 at the third step of the fabrication process. At this step, hydrophobic surface treatment is applied (splayed) over the entire surface of the waveguide layer 161. In other words, the hydrophobic area 367 can be formed on the exposure area EA and the pattern masks PM.
Referring to FIGS. 15A and 15B, there are shown a top view and a side view, respectively, of the waveguide layer 161 at the fourth step of the fabrication process. At this step, the pattern masks PM are removed to leave the hydrophobic area 367 on the waveguide layer 161.
Referring to FIGS. 16A and 16B, there are shown a top view and a side view, respectively, of the waveguide layer 161 at the fifth step of the fabrication process. At this step, the mirror cavities 167 are formed by laser processing.
Referring to FIGS. 17A, 17B and 17C, there are shown a top view, a side view, and a wide range top view, respectively, of the waveguide layer 161 at the sixth step of the fabrication process. In the figures, pedestals are not shown. Note that the hydrophobic area 267 is assumed to have been provided on the bottom surface of the substrate side component 190 using the pattern masks PM for example. At this step, the substrate side component 190 is mounted on the waveguide layer 161. The gap GP is formed between the bottom surface of the substrate side component 190 and the top surface of the waveguide layer 161.
Referring to FIGS. 18A, 18B and 18C, there are shown a top view, a side view, and a wide range top view, respectively, of the waveguide layer 161 at the seventh step of the fabrication process. At this step, the adhesive 210 is applied to sides of the substrate side component 190. In the shown example, the adhesive 210 is applied on two points arranged opposite to each other across the substrate side component 190.
Referring to FIGS. 19A, 19B and 19C, there are shown a top view, a side view, and a wide range top view, respectively, of the waveguide layer 161 at the eighth step of the fabrication process. At this step, the adhesive 210 distributes through the gap GP due to capillary effect. The adhesive 210 is then cured by UV radiation so that the substrate side component 190 is fixed to the waveguide layer 161.
FIG. 20A depicts a configuration for simulation of fluid dynamics of the adhesive 210. FIG. 20B depicts a simulation result of the flow of the adhesive 210 in a direction parallel to the waveguide cores WG without the hydrophobic areas 267 and 367 according to a comparative example. FIG. 20C depicts a simulation result of the flow of the adhesive 210 in a direction parallel to the waveguide cores WG with the hydrophobic areas 267 and 367 according to the second embodiment.
An explanation is given about the simulation of fluid dynamics of the adhesive 210 around the hydrophobic areas 267 and 367. The simulation of fluid dynamics is conducted in a two dimensional flow.
As shown in FIG. 20A, the general configuration for the simulation includes the substrate side component 190 and the waveguide layer 161 provided with the mirror cavities 167. The substrate side component 190 and the waveguide layer 161 are provided in the atmosphere. In the initial state, the adhesive 210 in a fluidized state is enclosed in fields on both sides of the substrate side component 190, and then start to flow from the enclosed fields.
The properties of the adhesive 210 in a fluidized state are as follows: the density is 10.sup.3 kg/m.sup.3; the viscosity is 0.1 Pas (the kinetic viscosity is 10.sup.-4 m.sup.2/s); the surface tension is 0.03 N/m. As to the surface properties, the contact angle of a treated surface (the hydrophobic areas 267 and 367) is 80 degrees, and an untreated surface (the bottom surface of the waveguide layer 161 except the hydrophobic area 267, and the top surface of the waveguide layer 161 except the hydrophobic area 367) is 7 degrees. The first hydrophobic area edge PE1 is on a position separated by 10 um (micro meter) from the opening OP. The second hydrophobic area edge PE2 is on a position separated by 20 um (micro meter) from the opening OP.
As shown in FIG. 20B, the simulation results without the hydrophobic areas 267 and 367 indicate that the adhesive 210 may flow into the mirror cavities 167 (refer to an arrow A3). In other words, the adhesive 210 will eventually (for example, in more than 5 seconds) fall into the mirror cavities 167. On the other hand, as shown in FIG. 20C, the simulation results with the hydrophobic areas 267 and 367 indicate that the adhesive 210 does not flow into the mirror cavities 167. According to this simulation, providing the hydrophobic areas 267 and 367 can prevent the adhesive 210 from flowing into the mirror cavities 167.
FIG. 21A depicts a top view of the waveguide layer 161 according to the first modification of the second embodiment. FIG. 21B depicts a bottom view of the substrate side component 190 according to the first modification of the second embodiment. FIG. 21C depicts a bottom view of the substrate side component 190 according to the second modification of the second embodiment.
The hydrophobic areas 267 and 367 can be provided without the band areas 269 and 369. As shown in FIGS. 21A and 21B, the hydrophobic areas 267 and 367 can be provided with dispersed main areas 268 and 368, respectively.
The hydrophobic areas 267 and 367 can have any shape. As shown in FIG. 21C, the hydrophobic area 367 can be provided with main areas 368 having a round shape.
FIGS. 22A, 22B, 22C, 22D, and 22E depict a side view of the mirror cavities 167 according to the third, the forth, the fifth, the sixth and the seventh modification of the second embodiment, respectively.
One of the hydrophobic areas 267 and 367 can be omitted as long as the other one of the hydrophobic areas 267 and 367 prevents the adhesive 210 from flowing into the mirror cavities 167. For example, as shown in FIG. 22A, the substrate side component 190 can include the hydrophobic area 267, but the waveguide layer 161 can be without the hydrophobic area 367.
As shown in FIG. 22B, the hydrophobic areas 267 and 367 can be provided on the area enclosing both the opening OP of each mirror cavity 167 and the beam outline BO. Although the light beam traverses the air-material interfaces twice, causing reflection loss in this configuration, a part (most) of the volume of the gap GP is filled with the adhesive 210 providing better mechanical stability than side filling.
As shown in FIG. 22C, the hydrophobic areas 267 and 367 can surround the opening OP in a position separated from the beam outline BO. The distance from the second hydrophobic area edge PE2 to the opening OP is longer than the distance from the first hydrophobic area edge PE1 to the opening OP. The wide area of the hydrophobic areas 267 and 367 on the second hydrophobic area edge PE2 side can surely prevent the adhesive 210 from infiltrating into the opening OP from the second hydrophobic area edge PE2 side.
As shown in FIG. 22D, the hydrophobic areas 267 and 367 can be provided around the opening OP of each mirror cavity 167 and the beam outline BO. In other words, the hydrophobic areas 267 and 367 can be provided along edges of the substrate side component 190. This configuration may prevent the light from passing the hydrophobic areas 267 and 367.
The above mentioned configurations may also be applicable to any optical components (optoelectronic chip), such as a VCSEL chip, a PD chip, a lens array component. For example, as shown in FIG. 22E, the VCSEL chip 290 including an active area 293 can be directly mounted on the waveguide layer 161. The VCSEL chip 290 can be provided with the hydrophobic area 267 on the bottom surface of the VCSEL chip 290. The hydrophobic areas 267 and 367 may prevent the adhesive 210 from flowing into the mirror cavities 167.
FIGS. 23A and 23B depict a side view of the mirror cavities 167 according to the eighth and the ninth modification of the second embodiment. As shown in FIG. 23A, a combination of the hydrophobic area 367 on the waveguide layer 161 and the grooves 197 on the substrate side component 190 can be provided to prevent the adhesive 210 from flowing into the mirror cavities 167. Further, as shown in FIG. 23B, protrusions 199 can be provided on the substrate side component 190 (or the waveguide layer 161) to prevent the adhesive 210 from flowing into the mirror cavities 167.
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Liang; Feng ; et al. March 29, 2018
Method, Apparatus, and System for Disaster Recovery of IMS
A method, apparatus, and system for disaster recovery of an Internet Protocol (IP) Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), where the method includes triggering a redundant Call Session Control Function (CSCF), obtaining, by the redundant CSCF, user backup data of registered IMS Private User Identities (IMPIs) that are associated with IMPUs and user service configuration data of IMS Public User Identities (IMPUs) in an IMS subscription from a network storage entity of a user; and recovering, by the redundant CSCF, a corresponding service according to the obtained user backup data of the registered IMPIs and user service configuration data of the IMPUs in the IMS subscription. Hence, the one-IMPU multi-IMPI, one-IMPI multi-IMPU, or multi-IMPI multi-IMPU service can be recovered, and this enables the user to have better service continuity experiences.
Inventors: Liang; Feng; (Shenzhen, CN) ; Shen; Linfei; (Shenzhen, CN) ; Shi; Shufeng; (Xi'an, CN)
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
15463483 Mar 20, 2017 9883380
13350654 Jan 13, 2012 9661028
12580643 Oct 16, 2009 8228787
PCT/CN2008/072583 Sep 28, 2008
Current CPC Class: H04W 8/30 20130101; H04L 67/306 20130101
International Class: H04W 8/30 20060101 H04W008/30
Sep 28, 2007 CN 200710030717.0
Oct 26, 2007 CN 200710167738.7
1. A method for disaster recovery, comprising: sending, by a network storage entity, information of registered Internet Protocol (IP) Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) Private User Identities (IMPIs) that are associated with an IMS Public User Identity (IMPU) in an IMS subscription to a Call Session Control Function (CSCF); obtaining, by the CSCF, the information of registered IMPIs that are associated with the IMPU; requesting, by the CSCF, user service configuration data of the IMPU and user backup data of IMPIs associated with the IMPU from the network storage entity when at least one IMPI received from the network storage entity is not registered in the CSCF; receiving, by the network storage entity, a request for the user service configuration data of the IMPU and the user backup data of IMPIs associated with the IMPU from the S-CSCF; sending, by the network storage entity, the user service configuration data of the IMPU and the user backup data of the IMPIs associated with the IMPU to the CSCF; and receiving, by the CSCF, the user service configuration data of the IMPU and the user backup data of the IMPIs associated with the IMPU in a response from the network storage entity, wherein the user service configuration data of the IMPU and the user backup data of the IMPIs associated with the IMPU is used by the CSCF for recovering a corresponding service.
2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the information of the registered IMPIs is carried in a new parameter of an extended Server Assignment Answer (SAA) message transmitted by the network storage device.
3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the CSCF is triggered in a service registration process.
4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the CSCF comprises a newly selected CSCF that serves the user when an original CSCF that serves the user fails.
5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the CSCF comprises a newly selected CSCF that serves the user when an original CSCF that serves the user restarts.
6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the user backup data comprises: an address of a Proxy CSCF (P-CSCF); a contact address of a user equipment (UE); and registration state subscription data of the UE during UE registration, and wherein the method further comprises sending, by the CSCF, a NOTIFY message to all registered UEs according to the contact address and the registration state subscription data of the UE to notify the UE to register with a network.
7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the user backup data comprises: an address of a Proxy CSCF (P-CSCF); a contact address of a user equipment (UE); and registration state subscription data of the UE during UE registration, and wherein the method further comprises sending, by the CSCF, a NOTIFY message to a certain related registered UEs according to the contact address and the registration state subscription data of the UE to notify the UE to register with a network.
8. An apparatus for disaster recovery, comprising: a receiver configured to receive information of registered Internet Protocol (IP) Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) Private User Identities (IMPIs) that are associated with an IMS Public User Identity (IMPU) in an IMS subscription from a network storage entity; and a processor coupled to the receiver and configured to: obtain the information of registered IMPIs that are associated with the IMPU; and request user service configuration data of the IMPU and user backup data of IMPIs associated with the IMPU from the network storage entity when at least one IMPI received from the network storage entity is not registered in a Call Session Control Function (CSCF), wherein the receiver is further configured to receive the user service configuration data of the IMPU and the user backup data of the IMPIs associated with the IMPU from the network storage entity, and wherein the user service configuration data of the IMPU and the user backup data of the IMPIs associated with the IMPU is used by the CSCF for recovering a corresponding service.
9. The apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the information of the registered IMPIs is carried in a new parameter of an extended Server Assignment Answer (SAA) message received from the network storage device.
10. The apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the CSCF is triggered in a service registration process.
11. The apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the CSCF comprises a newly selected CSCF that serves the user when an original CSCF that serves the user fails.
12. The apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the CSCF comprises a newly selected CSCF that serves the user when an original CSCF that serves the user restarts.
13. The apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the user backup data comprises: an address of a Proxy CSCF (P-CSCF); a contact address of a user equipment (UE); and registration state subscription data of the UE during UE registration, and wherein the processor is further configured to send a NOTIFY message to all registered UEs according to the contact address and the registration state subscription data of the UE to notify the UE to register with a network.
14. The apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the user backup data comprises: an address of a Proxy CSCF (P-CSCF); a contact address of a user equipment (UE); and registration state subscription data of the UE during UE registration, and wherein the processor is further configured to send a NOTIFY message to a certain related registered UEs according to the contact address and the registration state subscription data of the UE to notify the UE to register with a network.
[0001] This application is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 15/463,483 filed on Mar. 20, 2017, which is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 13/350,654 filed on Jan. 13, 2012, now U.S. Pat. No. 9,661,028. The U.S. patent application Ser. No. 13/350,654 is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 12/580,643 filed on Oct. 16, 2009, now U.S. Pat. No. 8,228,787, which is a continuation of International Patent Application No. PCT/CN2008/072583 filed on Sep. 28, 2008. The International Patent Application claims priority to Chinese Patent Application No. 200710167738.7 filed on Oct. 26, 2007 and Chinese Patent Application No. 200710030717.0 filed on Sep. 28, 2007. All of the afore-mentioned patent applications are hereby incorporated by reference in their entireties.
[0002] The present disclosure relates to Internet Protocol (IP) Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) network technologies, and in particular, to a method, apparatus, and system for disaster recovery of an IMS.
[0003] An IMS introduces an idea of separating control from bearer into an IP-based communication network. The IMS is a core in service processing of the communication network. High reliability of the IMS is the basis of high reliability of the entire communication network.
[0004] To improve reliability of the IMS, the network disaster recovery capability must be improved. An IMS network includes multiple network entities, between which there is a strong association. The network disaster recovery capability means that when a network device fails, the failure of the network device has the least impact on the entire IMS network and on users.
[0005] In some other approaches, after registering with an IMS network successfully, a user equipment (UE) starts a registration timer immediately according to a negotiated registration period, and re-registration of the UE is triggered when the registration timer expires. If a Serving Call Session Control Function (S-CSCF) that provides services for the user fails, a new S-CSCF may be assigned to the user through a mechanism of re-registration triggered by a registration timer.
[0006] According to the foregoing descriptions, when the S-CSCF that provides services for the user fails, the network service of the UE can be recovered after the registration timer of the user triggers re-registration and an S-CSCF is re-selected. That is, the service interruption duration of the UE depends on the registration period of the UE. The longer the registration period is, the longer the service interruption duration will be. To meet the reliability requirements of a telecom network, the registration period should be as short as possible. But if the registration period is set to a too small value, re-registration will occur frequently. With regard to the network, frequent re-registration increases the processing load of the network, and especially, frequent re-registration occupies valuable air-interface resources of a radio access network (RAN). With regard to the UE, frequent re-registration consumes the limited energy of the UE and shortens the standby time of the UE.
[0007] A solution to the foregoing problems is available in the other approaches. That is, during registration, the S-CSCF backs up the registration-related user data, such as the IMS Private User Identity (IMPI) information, IMS Public User Identity (IMPU) information, registered Contact address, and path information, to a Home Subscriber Server (HSS). When the S-CSCF fails and a UE uses the network, an Interrogating CSCF (I-CSCF) may select another S-CSCF to provide session services for the UE, and the new S-CSCF may obtain the user backup data of the IMPU that uses services so as to recover related services of the UE, thus implementing disaster recovery of the S-CSCF.
[0008] Currently, user identifiers (IDs) used in an IMS network mainly include an IMPI and an IMPU that are saved in an HSS in subscription mode. When a user performs a related service operation, the related entities in the network such as an I-CSCF, an S-CSCF, and an Application Server (AS) obtain the subscription data of the user through a user ID. In the IMS, the relation between user IDs and the relation between user IDs and subscription data are complex. As shown in FIG. 1, one IMS subscription includes all subscription information that may be transmitted by one UE on a Cx interface. One IMS subscription may include multiple IMPIs, but one IMPI belongs to only one IMS subscription, one IMPI may include multiple IMPUs, and one IMPU may be shared by multiple IMPIs. That is, the IMS subscription is in a one-to-many relation with the IMPI, and the IMPI is in a many-to-many relation with the IMPU. Therefore, the service logics such as one-IMPI multi-IMPU, one-IMPU multi-IMPI, and multi-IMPI multi-IMPU can be implemented flexibly.
[0009] When implementing the disclosure, the inventor finds at least the following problem in the foregoing technical solution to IMS disaster recovery. In the other approaches, no detailed recovery solution is worked out against the complex user data model in the IMS. Therefore, when adopting the foregoing technical solution, the one-IMPU multi-IMPI and multi-IMPI multi-IMPU services of users may be lost, thus reducing service continuity experiences of the users. For example, when the user data model shown in FIG. 2 is taken as an example, processing of the IMS disaster recovery solution in the other approaches is as follows.
[0010] Assuming that all IMPI and IMPU instances in the IMS subscription shown in FIG. 2 are registered on an S-CSCF1. If the S-CSCF1 fails and if a UE (IMPI1 and IMPU3) associated with the service performs periodic re-registration, a registration request is forwarded to an S-CSCF2 according to the foregoing technical solution. The S-CSCF2 registers the IMPI1 and IMPU3 successfully through a standard registration process and recovers user backup data of the IMPI1 and IMPU3 to the S-CSCF2. In addition, an HSS changes the server name saved for the IMS subscription from S-CSCF1 to S-CSCF2, and then may send a Registration Termination Answer (RTA) message to the original S-CSCF (S-CSCF1) to notify that a UE migration process is optional and that even if the RTA message is sent, the sending fails because of the failure of the original S-CSCF. Up to now, the disaster recovery process caused by UE (IMPI1 and IMPU3) registration is complete. If the IMPU3 is called: after receiving a call request, an I-CSCF searches the HSS for an S-CSCF (S-SCCF2) that serves the IMPU3 (in fact, the IMS subscription), the S-CSCF2 is in the normal state, and therefore, the I-CSCF does not add a disaster recovery flag to the call request, but routes the request to the S-CSCF2 directly, after receiving the request, the S-CSCF2 determines that the IMPU3 has a registered terminal IMPI1 locally, and that the call request does not contain a disaster recovery flag, so the S-CSCF2 does not perform disaster recovery, but analyzes whether to send the call request to the IMPI1, as a result, the one-IMPU multi-IMPI service (IMPI1 and IMPI2) of the IMPU3 is lost.
[0011] Embodiments of the disclosure provide a method, apparatus, and system for disaster recovery of an IMS to prevent the one-IMPU multi-IMPI, one-IMPI multi-IMPU, or multi-IMPI multi-IMPU service that is associated with a complex user data model in the IMS from being lost during disaster recovery.
[0012] A method for disaster recovery includes triggering a redundant CSCF, obtaining, by the redundant CSCF, user backup data of registered IMPIs that are associated with IMPUs and user service configuration data of the IMPUs in an IMS subscription from a network storage entity of a user, and recovering, by the redundant CSCF, a corresponding service according to the user backup data of the registered IMPIs and the user service configuration data of the IMPUs in the IMS subscription.
[0013] A method for backing up disaster recovery data includes starting, by a CSCF, disaster recovery data backup, and judging whether to back up registration subscription data, and backing up the registration subscription data if a judgment result is to back up registration subscription data.
[0014] A CSCF includes a start processing unit adapted to start disaster recovery data backup, and a judgment processing unit adapted to judge whether to back up registration subscription data after the start processing unit starts disaster recovery data backup, and back up the registration subscription data if a judgment result is to back up registration subscription data.
[0015] A CSCF includes a disaster recovery data obtaining unit adapted to obtain user backup data of registered IMPIs that are associated with IMPUs and user service configuration data of the IMPUs in an IMS subscription from a network storage entity of a user after a service triggers disaster discovery, and a disaster recovery processing unit adapted to recover a corresponding service according to the user backup data of the registered IMPIs and the user service configuration data of the IMPUs in the IMS subscription that are obtained by the disaster recovery data obtaining unit.
[0016] A network storage entity includes a user data storing unit adapted to store user service configuration data, user backup data for recovering user services, and information of a CSCF where a user is registered, and a disaster recovery data transmitting unit adapted to transmit the user backup data to a CSCF. The network storage entity further includes a message encapsulating unit adapted to encapsulate a response that carries information of registered IMPIs or IMPUs, and a message sending unit, adapted to send the response that carries the information of registered IMPIs or IMPUs to a CSCF.
[0017] A network storage entity includes a user data storing unit adapted to store user service configuration data, user backup data for recovering user services, and information of a CSCF where a user is registered, and a disaster recovery processing unit. The disaster recovery processing unit includes a judging unit adapted to judge whether to perform disaster recovery for a CSCF, and a data transmitting unit adapted to transmit user backup data of registered IMPIs that are associated with the user and user service configuration data of the IMPUs in an IMS subscription to a redundant CSCF by interacting with the redundant CSCF once or many times if a judgment result of the judging unit is to perform disaster recovery for the CSCF.
[0018] An IMS includes a CSCF and a network storage entity. The network storage entity includes a user data storing unit adapted to store user service configuration data, user backup data for recovering user services, and information of a CSCF where a user is registered.
[0019] The network storage entity further includes a disaster recovery processing unit. The disaster recovery processing unit includes a judging unit adapted to judge whether to perform disaster recovery for a CSCF, and a data transmitting unit adapted to transmit user backup data of registered IMPIs that are associated with the user and user service configuration data of the IMPUs in an IMS subscription to a redundant CSCF by interacting with the redundant CSCF once or many times if a judgment result of the judging unit is to perform disaster recovery for a CSCF.
[0020] An IMS includes a CSCF and a network storage entity. The network storage entity includes a user data storing unit adapted to store user service configuration data, user backup data for recovering user services, and information of a CSCF where a user is registered, and a disaster recovery data transmitting unit adapted to transmit the user backup data to a CSCF.
[0021] The network storage entity further includes a message encapsulating unit adapted to encapsulate a response that carries information of registered IMPIs or IMPUs, and a message sending unit adapted to send the response that carries the information of registered IMPIs or IMPUs to a CSCF.
[0022] The CSCF includes a disaster recovery data obtaining unit adapted to obtain user backup data of registered IMPIs that are associated with IMPUs and user service configuration data of the IMPUs in an IMS subscription from a network storage entity of the user according to the information of registered IMPIs or IMPUs that is carried in the response returned by the network storage entity after a service triggers disaster recovery, and a disaster recovery processing unit adapted to recover a corresponding service of the user according to the user backup data of the registered IMPIs and the user service configuration data of the IMPUs in the IMS subscription that are obtained by the disaster recovery data obtaining unit.
[0023] In the foregoing solution, after a CSCF fails or is restarted, the user backup data of the registered IMPIs that are associated with the user and the user service configuration data of the IMPUs may be recovered by one-time service triggering of the user. User service configuration data of other registered IMPUs and user backup data of the IMPIs of the user not covered in this service triggering are recovered in time. Thus, the one-IMPU multi-IMPI, one-IMPI multi-IMPU, or multi-IMPI multi-IMPU service can be recovered, and this enables the user to have better service continuity experiences.
[0024] FIG. 1 shows a user data model;
[0025] FIG. 2 is a flowchart of a method for backing up disaster recovery data according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;
[0026] FIG. 3 is a flowchart in which a network notifies a UE of registration for recovering a service through the backup registration subscription data according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;
[0027] FIG. 4 shows a data model of an extended Server Assignment Answer (SAA) or Push Profile Request (PPR) message according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;
[0028] FIG. 5 is a main flowchart of a method for disaster recovery according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;
[0029] FIG. 6 is a flowchart of a method for disaster recovery according to a first embodiment of the present disclosure;
[0030] FIG. 7 is a flowchart of a method for disaster recovery according to a second embodiment of the present disclosure;
[0031] FIG. 8 is a flowchart of a method for disaster recovery according to a third embodiment of the present disclosure;
[0032] FIG. 9 is a flowchart of a method for disaster recovery according to a fourth embodiment of the present disclosure;
[0033] FIG. 10 is a flowchart of a method for disaster recovery according to a fifth embodiment of the present disclosure;
[0034] FIG. 11 is a flowchart of a method for disaster recovery according to a sixth embodiment of the present disclosure;
[0035] FIG. 12 is a flowchart of a method for disaster recovery according to a seventh embodiment of the present disclosure;
[0036] FIG. 13 is a flowchart of a method for disaster recovery according to an eighth embodiment of the present disclosure;
[0037] FIG. 14 is a flowchart of a method for disaster recovery according to a ninth embodiment of the present disclosure;
[0038] FIG. 15 is a flowchart of a method for disaster recovery according to a tenth embodiment of the present disclosure;
[0039] FIG. 16 is a flowchart of a method for disaster recovery according to an eleventh embodiment of the present disclosure;
[0040] FIG. 17 shows a network structure of an IMS about disaster recovery according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;
[0041] FIG. 18 shows a structure of a disaster recovery processing unit according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;
[0042] FIG. 19 shows a structure of a judging unit according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;
[0043] FIG. 20 shows a structure of a judging unit shown in FIG. 19 according to another embodiment of the present disclosure;
[0044] FIG. 21 shows a structure of a judging unit shown in FIG. 19 according to still another embodiment of the present disclosure;
[0045] FIG. 22 shows another network structure of an IMS about disaster recovery according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;
[0046] FIG. 23 shows a structure of a disaster recovery data obtaining unit according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;
[0047] FIG. 24 shows a structure of a disaster recovery data obtaining unit according to another embodiment of the present disclosure;
[0048] FIG. 25 shows a structure of a disaster recovery data obtaining unit according to still another embodiment of the disclosure; and
[0049] FIG. 26 shows a structure of a CSCF according to an embodiment of the disclosure.
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[0050] User data required by disaster discovery must be backed up in advance. Multiple user data backup modes may be adopted. For example, when a UE is registered normally, an S-CSCF that provides services for the user sends the user backup data to a network storage entity such as an HSS through an extended Attribute-Value-Pair (AVP): User-Backup-Data in a registration Server Assignment Request (SAR). The network storage entity may store the user backup data, for example, may store the user backup data using the index of an IMPI. Only one piece of backup data needs to be stored for each IMPI.
[0051] In the foregoing process of implementing user data backup, the S-CSCF may back up data associated with user registration, including but not limited to a contact address and path information. In addition, the S-CSCF may back up the registration state subscription data of the UE, including but not limited to Call-ID, From, To, command sequence (Cseq), and Record-Route information.
[0052] The following describes a specific user data backup method required for disaster recovery provided in embodiments of the disclosure with reference to the accompanying drawings. In a disaster recovery data backup method provided in an embodiment of the disclosure shown in FIG. 2, an S-CSCF backs up the user backup data to a network storage entity HSS through a Cx interface message at appropriate time. The specific backup process includes the following steps.
[0053] Steps 1-3: An S-CSCF processes a registration request of a UE received through a proxy CSCF (P-CSCF) and an I-CSCF and accepts the registration request of the UE eventually.
[0054] Steps 4-6: The S-CSCF checks whether the key registration data of the UE changes.
[0055] (A): If the UE has not created registration information locally, registration information is created through this registration.
[0056] (B): If the UE has created registration information locally, but key registration data changes, for example, if either the registered Path information or the registered Contact information changes, or both the registered Path information and the registered Contact information change, the S-CSCF needs to back up the key registration data (Path information and Contact information) to the HSS through an SAR message (REGISTRATION or RE.sub.13 REGISTRATION). In addition, if key registration subscription data (Call-ID, From, To, Cseq, and Record-Route information) is available, it also needs to be backed up.
[0057] If data is not backed up to the HSS in step 4, steps 5 and 6 may be omitted.
[0058] If the HSS stores the backup data of the registered UE and the SAR message (REGISTRATION or RE.sub.13 REGISTRATION) does not carry backup data, the HSS may check whether the S-CSCF that originates a request is the same as the previously stored name of an S-CSCF. If not, the HSS may select to delete the stored backup data. This case may occur when the failed original S-CSCF has the capability of sending backup data but the new S-CSCF does not have such capability.
[0059] Steps 7 and 8: The S-CSCF returns a 200 OK message to the UE.
[0060] In addition, the key registration subscription data may be backed up during registration subscription. The specific process is as follows.
[0061] Steps 9-12: The S-CSCF receives a registration subscription request from the UE and accepts the registration subscription request, and then returns a subscription success message to the UE.
[0062] Steps 13-15: The S-CSCF checks whether the key registration subscription data of the UE changes.
[0063] (A): If the UE has not created subscription information locally, registration subscription information is created through this registration subscription.
[0064] (B): If the UE has created registration subscription information locally, but the key registration subscription data changes, for example, if one or more pieces of the registration subscription information such as Call-ID, From, To, and Record-Route information change, the S-CSCF backs up the foregoing key registration subscription data to the HSS through an SAR message (REGISTRATION, RE.sub.13 REGISTRATION, or other newly extended service assignment type value). In addition, the S-CSCF may back up the key registration data to the HSS. In the request, the S-CSCF may set "User-Data-Already-Available" to "USER.sub.13 DATA.sub.13 ALREADY.sub.13 AVAILABLE" to prevent the service configuration data from being sent again.
[0065] After the disaster recovery data is backed up, the new S-CSCF may notify the UE of re-registration by recovering the backup subscription data to recover all services of a specific UE when the original S-CSCF fails or is restarted. Thus, the one-IMPU multi-IMPI, one-IMPI multi-IMPU, or multi-IMPI multi-IMPU service can be recovered, and this enables the user to have better service continuity experiences. For example, a process of recovering UE services according to an embodiment of the present disclosure shown in FIG. 3 includes the following steps.
[0066] Step 1: After disaster recovery is triggered, an S-CSCF obtains user backup data from an HSS.
[0067] Step 2: The S-CSCF analyzes the registration subscription data contained in the user backup data. According to the registration subscription data, the S-CSCF sends a NOTIFY message to a UE to notify the UE of immediate registration.
[0068] Step 3: The UE returns a 200 OK message.
[0069] Step 4: According to the network indication, the UE originates registration immediately to recover network services.
[0070] In the foregoing process, when the network notifies the UE of registration through the NOTIFY message, in a given period of time, the S-CSCF may perform network deregistration for the UE, including deregistration of the related data in the HSS if the UE does not originate registration to the network.
[0071] It should be noted that when the S-CSCF requests the HSS to recover the service configuration data and backup data of an IMPU, the HSS may return the backup data of multiple IMPIs because one IMPU may be associated with multiple IMPIs. The backup data may be transmitted via a new AVP Associated-Back-Info in an extended SAA or PPR message. For example, by adding a new AVP named "Associated-Registered-Identities" to the SAA message, the HSS returns the information of all registered IMPIs that are associated with the IMPU, alternatively, by adding a flag bit to the original AVP: Associated-Identities, the HSS returns the information of the registered IMPIs that are associated with the IMPU.
[0072] During actual implementation, the Associated-Back-Info may adopt a composite AVP structure. The composite AVP structure is as follows: [0073] Associated-Back-Info::=<AVP header: TBD> [0074] {User-Name} [0075] *{User-B ackup-Data}
[0076] The foregoing AVP structure includes two AVPs, User-Name and User-Backup-Data. User-Name carries IMPI information, and User-Backup-Data carries the backup data of the IMPI carried in User-Name. When one IMPU is associated with multiple IMPIs, the HSS may return a message carrying multiple Associated-Back-Info AVPs.
[0077] In an embodiment, Associated-Back-Info may be defined as an AVP containing text information. The data model is shown in FIG. 4. Each Associated-Back-Info instance includes one to n User-Back-Info instances. Each User-Back-Info instance includes one UserName instance and at least one User-Backup-Data instance. Each User-Backup-Data instance includes the backup data of the IMPI carried in UserName, at least the Path and Contact information associated with IMPI registration.
[0078] The method for disaster recovery is hereinafter described in detail with reference to exemplary embodiments and accompanying drawings.
[0079] As shown in FIG. 5, which is a main flowchart of a method for disaster recovery in an embodiment of the disclosure, the specific process of disaster recovery includes the following steps.
[0080] Step S101: A redundant CSCF such as an S-CSCF is triggered. During actual implementation, when data is unavailable after the CSCF that provides services for a user fails or is restarted, disaster recovery may be triggered in each service process. For example, the redundant CSCF is triggered when the user originates a call or registration through a UE, or the redundant CSCF is triggered when the user terminates a call or when an AS originates a call in place of the UE. In addition, the redundant CSCF may be triggered in the short message service process or subscription service process.
[0081] Step S102: The redundant CSCF obtains user backup data of registered IMPIs that are associated with user IMPUs and user service configuration data of the IMPUs in an IMS subscription from a network storage entity of the user, such as an HSS. In this embodiment, during data recovery of a newly selected S-CSCF or successfully restarted S-CSCF, not only the service configuration data of the IMPUs and the user backup data of the IMPIs that are associated with this call or registration, but also the user backup data of all registered IMPIs that are associated with the user and the user service configuration data of the IMPUs in the IMS subscription are recovered.
[0082] Step S103: The redundant CSCF recovers a corresponding service of the user according to the obtained user backup data of registered IMPIs and user service configuration data of the IMPUs in the IMS subscription.
[0083] The following describes a method for disaster recovery with reference to embodiments in various application scenarios.
[0084] FIG. 6 is a flowchart of a method for disaster recovery according to a first embodiment of the disclosure.
[0085] In the first embodiment, an HSS judges whether all user data in an IMS subscription is completely recovered to a new S-CSCF (S-CSCF2, namely, redundant CSCF). If not, the HSS sends a PPR message to the new S-CSCF to push the user backup data and the user service configuration data to the new S-CSCF. The specific application scenario where a service triggers disaster recovery is as follows. A user service origination process (such as a call service origination process) or a user service registration process triggers disaster recovery when the original S-CSCF (S-CSCF1) where a UE is registered fails. The UE may perform re-registration if the original S-CSCF of the UE is unavailable during the call origination process.
[0086] As shown in FIG. 6, the UE is registered (from step 1. REGISTER to step 17. 200 OK). The specific registration process is the same as the IMS standard process.
[0087] Step L2: According to the standard process, the HSS may send a Registration Termination Request (RTR) message to the original S-CSCF (S-CSCF1) of the UE after changing ServerName according to a Multimedia-Authentication-Request (MAR) message. In the first embodiment, after the HSS sends the RTR (i.e., SERVER.sub.13 CHANGE) message to other associated registered UEs that are affected, the HSS does not change the registration state of the UE if the original S-CSCF (S-CSCF1) of the UE does not respond, and if the HSS knows that the original S-CSCF (S-CSCF1) of the UE fails through a failure detection mechanism, the HSS does not need to send the RTR message and does not need to change the UE registration state.
[0088] In the first embodiment, when the S-CSCF1 fails (for example, the S-CSCF1 does not respond to the RTR message or the S-CSCF1 failure is detected through the failure detection mechanism), the HSS sends a PPR message (step 18. PPR) to the S-CSCF2 so as to recover the user data in an IMS subscription. Compared with the standard PPR message, the sent PPR message contains an additional AVP:User-Backup-Data, which is used to carry user backup data and instruct the S-CSCF2 to perform disaster recovery for the user information in the PPR message.
[0089] Generally, one PPR message carries only one user profile, which is encapsulated into one AVP:User-Data, that is, one PPR message carries only one User-Data. The HSS needs to send a PPR message carrying user backup data to different implicit registration sets when multiple IMPUs registered by one IMPI are in different implicit registration sets.
[0090] To decrease message traffic on a Cx interface, an embodiment of the disclosure provides another optional extension mode to reduce repeated transmission of backup data. That is, in a PPR message, multiple AVPs named User-Data can be carried, and each User-Data contains the user service configuration data (service profile) of all IMPUs in one implicit registration set. Thus, the user backup data of one IMPI and service profiles of all the registered IMPUs associated with the IMPI can be recovered by exchanging a PPR message once. The user service configuration data determines the type of a user application service.
[0091] After receiving the PPR message, the S-CSCF2 stores the user backup data and the user service configuration data carried in the PPR message, and returns a Push Profile Answer (PPA) message (i.e., step 19. PPA) to the HSS. The S-CSCF2 performs recovery operations for the user according to the user backup data and the user service configuration data carried in the PPR message, for example, the S-CSCF2 sends a NOTIFY message to the UE to trigger immediate re-registration (i.e., step 20. recovery processing), alternatively, when a service request associated with the user is available, the S-CSCF2 judges the type of the user application service according to the user service configuration data and performs service recovery according to the user backup data.
[0092] If other registered IMPUs or IMPIs that are affected in the HSS need to be recovered, repeat steps 18-20 until the data of all registered IMPUs and IMPIs is recovered (i.e., step 21. PPR to step 23. recovery process).
[0093] It should be noted that a specific application scenario where a service triggers disaster recovery is as follows. The recovery process caused by the call origination of a non-migrated user on the S-CSCF results in UE re-registration when the original S-CSCF where a UE is registered is restarted. The process of recovering a user service through registration is similar to that in the first embodiment.
[0094] FIG. 7 is a flowchart of a method for disaster recovery according to a second embodiment of the disclosure.
[0095] In the second embodiment, an HSS judges whether all user backup data in an IMS subscription is completely recovered to a new S-CSCF. If not, the HSS sends a PPR message to the new S-CSCF to push the user backup data and the user service configuration data to the new S-CSCF. The specific application scenario where a service triggers disaster recovery is as follows. The original S-CSCF where a UE is registered fails or is restarted, and call termination by the UE or call origination by an AS in place of the UE triggers disaster recovery.
[0096] As shown in FIG. 7, the specific process of disaster recovery includes the following steps.
[0097] Steps 1-5: After receiving a service termination request from a UE or a service origination request from an AS in place of the UE (i.e an INVITE message), an I-CSCF sends a query message to an HSS to obtain the current S-CSCF. If the current S-CSCF fails, the I-CSCF interacts with the HSS to select another S-CSCF, and then forwards the service request with a disaster recovery flag to the new S-CSCF, if the current S-CSCF indicated by the HSS is restarted successfully after it fails, the I-CSCF forwards the service request to the successfully restarted S-CSCF.
[0098] The S-CSCF (redundant S-CSCF) that receives the service request determines that disaster recovery needs to be performed according to the disaster recovery flag in the received service request. Alternatively, the service request may not carry a disaster recovery flag, and when the redundant S-CSCF finds that the UE is not registered locally, the redundant S-CSCF sends an SAR (UNREGISTERED.sub.13 USER) message to the HSS. After receiving the message, the HSS finds that the UE is in the non-UNREGISTERED state, and then returns an SAA (DIAMETER.sub.13 ERROR.sub.13 IN.sub.13 ASSIGNMENT.sub.13 TYPE) message. The redundant S-CSCF may perform disaster recovery after receiving the SAA (DIAMETER.sub.13 ERROR.sub.13 IN.sub.13 ASSIGNMENT.sub.13 TYPE) message.
[0099] Steps 6-7: The HSS can determine that the redundant S-CSCF needs to recover user data according to the RESTORE request originated by the redundant S-CSCF in step 3, and then send a PPR message to recover user data (which is similar to steps 18 and 19 in the first embodiment (i.e., FIG. 6)).
[0100] When the AS originates a call in place of the UE, the call may reach the S-CSCF without passing through the I-CSCF, and disaster recovery may be performed in two cases.
[0101] Case (1): If the S-CSCF obtained from the HSS cannot be contacted, the AS may route a session to the I-CSCF for subsequent routing. The disaster recovery process is the same as above.
[0102] Case (2): If the S-CSCF obtained from the HSS can be contacted, but the S-CSCF is restarted, user data may be lost. The S-CSCF determines that user data needs to be recovered from the HSS according to the logic of a restart scenario. For other processing steps (i.e., steps 8 and 9), see steps 6 and 7.
[0103] FIG. 8 is a flowchart of a method for disaster recovery according to a third embodiment of the disclosure.
[0104] In the third embodiment, an S-CSCF determines that disaster recovery needs to be performed. The mode of originating a user data request to an HSS for several times may be adopted to recover the user data in an IMS subscription, and the index of the originated request is an IMPI. A specific application scenario where a service triggers disaster recovery is as follows. The original S-CSCF (i.e., S-CSCF1) where a UE is registered fails, and call origination by the UE or registration of the UE triggers disaster recovery, if the original S-CSCF is unavailable when the UE originates a call, the UE performs re-registration.
[0106] Steps 1-6: A UE is registered in a process of switching from S-CSCF1 to S-CSCF2 (redundant S-CSCF).
[0107] Step L1: This step is the same as step L2 in the first embodiment. If an HSS does not detect that the S-CSCF1 fails, the HSS sends an RTR message, if the HSS does not receive an RTA message, the HSS does not change the registration state of the UE.
[0108] Steps 7-9: The UE originates a registration request, an I-CSCF sends a registration request to the S-CSCF2 by exchanging a User-Authorization-Request (UAR) or User-Authorization-Answer (UAA) message with the HSS, and the S-CSCF2 sends an SAR message to the HSS after authenticating the UE.
[0109] Step 10: The HSS sends an SAA message to the S-CSCF2, carrying the information of all registered IMPIs in an IMS subscription in addition to Associated-Identities (all IMPIs in the IMS subscription). In the third embodiment, the information of the registered IMPIs can be returned by adding AVP:Associated-Registered-Identities or adding a flag bit to the original AVP: Associated-Identities.
[0110] Steps 11-12: The S-CSCF returns a 200 OK message to the UE after receiving the SAA message.
[0111] Step 13: After obtaining the list of registered IMPIs, the S-CSCF2 checks the local registered UEs in the IMS subscription. If the registered UEs indicated in the registered IMPI user information that is provided by the HSS are not registered in the S-CSCF2, the S-CSCF2 may send a Service Restore Request (SRR) or SAR message carrying disaster recovery indication information to the HSS. The SRR or SAR message carries one IMPI that is not registered in the list of registered IMPIs so as to request the HSS to recover the user backup data of the IMPI.
[0112] Step 14: After receiving the request for recovering the user data of the unregistered IMPI in the list of registered IMPIs, the HSS returns a response carrying the user backup data of the IMPI and the user service configuration data of the IMPU associated with the IMPI.
[0113] In the third embodiment, a service request acknowledgement (SRA) or SAA message can be extended so that it may carry multiple User-Data AVPs, thus returning the user service configuration data of the IMPUs that are associated with one IMPI but belong to different implicit registration sets.
[0114] After the S-CSCF receives the response, the S-CSCF performs recovery operations according to the backup data in the response.
[0115] Steps 15-16: If the list of registered IMPIs returned in step 10 contains multiple IMPIs, the recovery operations in steps 13 and 14 can be performed for each IMPI.
[0116] FIG. 9 is a flowchart of a method for disaster recovery according to a fourth embodiment of the disclosure.
[0117] In the fourth embodiment, an S-CSCF determines that disaster recovery needs to be performed. The mode of originating a user data request to an HSS for several times may be adopted to recover the user data in an IMS subscription, and the index of the originated request is an IMPI. A specific application scenario where a service triggers disaster recovery is as follows. The S-CSCF is restarted, and call origination by a UE or registration of the UE triggers disaster recovery, if the S-CSCF is restarted and the user data of the caller is unavailable when the UE originates a call, the UE performs re-registration.
[0119] Steps 1-11: A UE originates a registration request after an S-CSCF is successfully restarted, an I-CSCF sends a registration request to the restarted S-CSCF by exchanging a UAR or UAA message with an HSS, and the S-CSCF sends an SAR message to the HSS after authenticating the UE.
[0120] Steps 12-18: These steps are the same as steps 10-16 in the third embodiment (i.e., FIG. 8). The restarted S-CSCF can completely recover all user data in an IMS subscription.
[0121] FIG. 10 is a flowchart of a method for disaster recovery according to a fifth embodiment of the disclosure.
[0122] In the fifth embodiment, an S-CSCF determines that disaster recovery needs to be performed. The mode of originating a user data request to an HSS for several times may be adopted to recover the user data in an IMS subscription, and the index of the originated request is an IMPI. A specific application scenario where a service triggers disaster recovery is as follows. The S-CSCF fails or is restarted, and call termination by the UE or call origination by an AS in place of the UE through an I-CSCF triggers disaster recovery.
[0123] As shown in FIG. 10, the specific process of disaster recovery includes the following steps.
[0124] Steps 1-3: After receiving a service termination request from a UE or a service origination request from an AS in place of the UE (i.e., an INVITE message), an I-CSCF sends a query message to an HSS to obtain the current S-CSCF. If the current S-CSCF fails, the I-CSCF interacts with the HSS to select another S-CSCF, and then forwards the service request with a disaster recovery flag to the new S-CSCF, if the current S-CSCF indicated by the HSS is restarted successfully after it fails, the I-CSCF forwards the service request to the successfully restarted S-CSCF.
[0125] The S-CSCF that receives the service request determines that disaster recovery needs to be performed according to the disaster recovery flag in the received service request. Alternatively, the service request may not carry a disaster recovery flag, and when the S-CSCF finds that the UE is not registered locally, the S-CSCF sends an SAR (UNREGISTERED_USER) message to the HSS. After receiving the message, the HSS finds that the UE is in the non-UNREGISTERED state, and then returns an SAA (DIAMETER.sub.13 ERROR.sub.13 IN.sub.13 ASSIGNMENT.sub.13 TYPE) message. The S-CSCF may perform disaster recovery after receiving the SAA (DIAMETER.sub.13 ERROR.sub.13 IN.sub.13 ASSIGNMENT.sub.13 TYPE) message.
[0126] Step 4: In the disaster recovery response from the HSS, in addition to the service profile of the IMPU or the service profiles of all IMPUs in the implicit registration set of the IMPU, and the user backup data of IMPIs, the information of the registered IMPIs in an IMS subscription needs to be returned. In the fifth embodiment, for example, AVP:Associated-Registered-Identities may be added to the recovery response to carry the information of the registered IMPIs.
[0127] Steps 6-9: The steps are the same as steps 13-16 (recovery processing) in the third embodiment (i.e., FIG. 8).
[0129] Case (1): If the S-CSCF obtained from the HSS cannot be contacted, the AS may route a session to the I-CSCF for subsequent routing. The subsequent disaster recovery process is the same as above.
[0130] Case (2): If the S-CSCF obtained from the HSS can be contacted, but the S-CSCF is restarted, user data may be lost. The S-CSCF determines that user data needs to be recovered from the HSS according to the logic of a restart scenario.
[0131] In addition, a disaster recovery request can be originated with the index of an IMPU, according to the method for disaster recovery according to a sixth embodiment of the disclosure shown in FIG. 11.
[0132] In the sixth embodiment, an S-CSCF determines that disaster recovery needs to be performed. The mode of originating a disaster recovery user data request to an HSS for several times may be adopted to recover the user data in an IMS subscription, and the index of the originated request is an IMPU. The sixth embodiment may be applicable to various service triggering processes, such as a calling or called service triggering process originated by a UE or a calling recovery triggering process originated by an AS in place of the UE. The service triggering processes are not described in detail. Only the method for completely recovering IMS subscription data is described.
[0133] As shown in FIG. 11, the process of completely recovering IMS subscription data includes the following steps.
[0134] Step 1: A redundant S-CSCF sends an SRR or SAR message to an HSS.
[0135] Step 2: The HSS returns an SRA or SAA message, carrying the backup data of all registered IMPIs that are directly associated with the IMPU carried in the SRR or SAR message, through the AVP:User-Data, the HSS returns the user service configuration data of all IMPUs in the UE or implicit registration set of the IMPU. In addition, the HSS returns the list of other registered IMPUs in an IMS subscription.
[0136] Step 3: The S-CSCF recovers the user data carried in the SRA or SAA message. After obtaining the list of registered IMPUs, the S-CSCF recovers the complete data of the IMPUs one by one through Server-Assignment-Type in the extended SAR message, for example, the S-CSCF adds a new operation type (RESTORE_ONE) to the SAR message so as to request the HSS to recover the complete data of the IMPUs one by one.
[0137] Step 4: After receiving the SAR message of the RESTORE_ONE type, the HSS returns the backup data (User-Backup-Data) of all registered IMPIs that are directly associated with the IMPU carried in the SAR message. Through the User-Data AVP, the HSS returns the user profile of the UE of the IMPU or the UE in the implicit registration set of the IMPU. The S-CSCF recovers user data according to the data.
[0138] If the IMPU list returned in step 2 contains multiple IMPUs, the recovery operations in steps 3 and 4 are performed for each IMPU.
[0139] FIG. 12 is a flowchart of a method for disaster recovery according to a seventh embodiment of the disclosure.
[0140] The seventh embodiment is different from the foregoing embodiments. In this embodiment, the S-CSCF recovers all user backup data in an IMS subscription through one-time disaster recovery. The seventh embodiment may be applicable to various service triggering processes. The service triggering processes are not described in detail.
[0141] As shown in FIG. 12, the process of recovering all user backup data in an IMS subscription through one-time disaster recovery may be implemented through the following steps.
[0142] Step 1: An S-CSCF sends an SRR or SAR message to an HSS.
[0143] Step 2: The HSS queries for the registration instances of all IMPIs and IMPUs in an IMS subscription of the IMPU carried in the SRR or SAR message, and then returns all user backup data and user service configuration data in the registration instances to the S-CSCF through an SRA or SAA message.
[0144] In this embodiment, the SRA or SAA message needs to be extended to support multiple AVPs with the name of User-Data. The contents encapsulated in each User-Data comply with the specified standard, and the contents include Private Identity, IMPUs in the related implicit registration set, and service profiles of these IMPUs.
[0145] FIG. 13 is a flowchart of a method for disaster recovery according to an eighth embodiment of the disclosure.
[0146] The eighth embodiment is different from the first to sixth embodiments. In the eighth embodiment, the S-CSCF recovers all data in an IMS subscription through one-time disaster recovery, and the HSS recovers all user backup data in an IMS subscription through a PPR or PPA message. The eighth embodiment may be applicable to various service triggering processes. The service triggering processes are not described in detail.
[0148] Step 1: An S-CSCF interacts with an HSS through an MAR or MAA, SRR or SRA, or SAR or SAA message.
[0149] Step 2: The HSS may change ServerName by exchanging an MAR or MAA message and determine that the original S-CSCF fails (for example, no response is returned when an RTR message is sent). Then, the HSS sends all user backup data and user service configuration data in an IMS subscription of the affected IMPU to a redundant S-CSCF through a PPR message.
[0150] Alternatively, the HSS may know that the current scenario is a disaster recovery scenario by exchanging an SRR or SRA or SAR or SAA message. Then, the HSS sends all user backup data and user service configuration data in the IMS subscription of the affected IMPU to the redundant S-CSCF through a PPR message.
[0151] The S-CSCF returns PPA message.
[0152] It should be noted that in the foregoing implementation process, the PPR message needs to be extended to support multiple AVPs with the name of User-Data. The contents encapsulated in each User-Data comply with the specified standard, and the contents include Private Identity, related IMPUs in the implicit registration set, and service profiles of these IMPUs.
[0153] Therefore, in the first to eighth embodiments, when the method for recovering the user backup data and user service data in an IMS subscription once is adopted, user service configuration data of other registered IMPUs and user backup data of IMPIs of the user not covered in this service triggering are recovered in time. Thus, the one-IMPU multi-IMPI, one-IMPI multi-IMPU, or multi-IMPI multi-IMPU service can be recovered, and this enables the user to have better service continuity experiences.
[0154] FIG. 14 is a flowchart of a method for disaster recovery according to a ninth embodiment of the disclosure.
[0155] In the ninth embodiment, an S-CSCF determines that disaster recovery needs to be performed. The service data of one IMPU, service data of IMPUs in the implicit registration set of the IMPU, and backup data of all registered IMPIs that are associated with the IMPU are recovered once. A specific application scenario where a service triggers disaster recovery is as follows. The S-CSCF fails, and call origination by a UE or registration of the UE triggers disaster recovery, if the original S-CSCF is unavailable when the UE originates a call, the UE performs re-registration.
[0157] Steps 1-6: A UE is registered in a process of switching from the S-CSCF1 to a new S-CSCF (S-CSCF2).
[0158] Step L1: This step is the same as step L2 in the first embodiment. If an HSS does not detect that the original S-CSCF (S-CSCF1) where the UE is registered fails, the HSS sends an RTR message to the original S-CSCF of the UE, if the HSS does not receive an RTA message, the HSS does not change the registration state of the UE.
[0159] Steps 7-9: The UE originates a registration request, an I-CSCF sends a registration request to the S-CSCF2 by exchanging a UAR or UAA message with the HSS, and the S-CSCF2 originates an SAR message to the HSS after authenticating the UE.
[0160] Step 10: The HSS returns an SAA message to the S-CSCF2, carrying the information of the registered IMPIs that are directly associated with the IMPU carried in the SAR message. If no registered IMPIs are associated with the IMPU except the IMPIs carried in the SAR message, the HSS does not need to return the information of the registered IMPIs. In the ninth embodiment, the information of the registered IMPIs that are associated with the IMPU can be returned by adding an AVP:Associated-Registered-Identities or adding a flag bit to the original AVP: As sociated-Identities.
[0161] If the HSS does not return the information of the registered IMPIs that are associated with the IMPU, step 13 and the subsequent are not required.
[0162] Step 13: After obtaining the list of registered IMPIs, the S-CSCF2 checks the registered IMPIs that are associated with the IMPU locally. If the registered IMPIs provided by the HSS are not registered in the S-CSCF2, the S-CSCF2 may send an SRR or SAR message carrying disaster recovery indication information to the HSS. The SRR or SAR message carries the IMPU of the registration request so as to request the HSS to recover the user backup data of the IMPU. The service configuration data of the IMPU may also be requested. If the user service configuration data (service profile) is already returned in the SAA message, User-Data-Already-Available in the request may be set to "USER.sub.13 DATA.sub.13 ALREADY.sub.13 AVAILABLE" so that the HSS does not send the service profile again, but the user backup data is still sent.
[0163] Step 14: After receiving the request for recovering the user data of the IMPU, the HSS returns the user backup data of the IMPU or the user backup data of all IMPIs in the implicit registration set of the IMPU and the service profile of the IMPU or the service profiles of all IMPUs in the implicit registration set of the IMPU. If the S-CSCF sets User-Data-Already-Available to "USER.sub.13 DATA.sub.13 ALREADY.sub.13 AVAILABLE", the HSS may not return the service profile.
[0164] After receiving the response, the S-CSCF2 performs recovery operations according to the backup data in the response.
[0165] FIG. 15 is a flowchart of a method for disaster recovery according to a tenth embodiment of the disclosure.
[0166] In the tenth embodiment, an S-CSCF determines that disaster recovery needs to be performed. The service data of one IMPU, service data of IMPUs in the implicit registration set of the IMPU, and backup data of all registered IMPIs that are associated with the IMPU are recovered once. A specific application scenario where a service triggers disaster recovery is as follows. The S-CSCF is restarted, and call origination by a UE or registration of the UE triggers disaster recovery, if the S-CSCF is restarted and the user data of the caller is unavailable when the UE originates a call, the UE performs re-registration.
[0168] Steps 1-11: A UE originates a registration request after an S-CSCF is successfully restarted, an I-CSCF sends a registration request to the restarted S-CSCF by exchanging a UAR or UAA message with an HSS, and the S-CSCF originates an SAR message to the HSS after authenticating the UE.
[0169] Steps 12-16: These steps are the same as steps 10-14 in the ninth embodiment (i.e., FIG. 14). The restarted S-CSCF can completely recover all registration data and service data of an IMPU and of IMPUs in the implicit registration set of the IMPU in one operation.
[0170] FIG. 16 is a flowchart of a method for disaster recovery according to an eleventh embodiment of the disclosure.
[0171] In the eleventh embodiment, an S-CSCF determines that disaster recovery needs to be performed. The service data of one IMPU, service data of IMPUs in the implicit registration set of the IMPU, and registration data of all registered IMPIs that are associated with the IMPU are recovered once. A specific application scenario where a service triggers disaster recovery is as follows. The S-CSCF fails or is restarted, and call termination by a UE or call origination by an AS in place of the UE through an I-CSCF triggers disaster recovery.
[0173] Steps 1-3: An I-CSCF receives a service termination request from a UE or a service origination request from an AS in place of the UE (i.e., an INVITE message), and then originates a query message to an HSS to obtain the current S-CSCF. If the current S-CSCF fails, the I-CSCF interacts with the HSS to select another S-CSCF, and then forwards the service request with a disaster recovery flag to the new S-CSCF, if the current S-CSCF indicated by the HSS is restarted successfully after it fails, the I-CSCF forwards the service request to the successfully restarted S-CSCF.
[0174] The S-CSCF that receives the service request determines that disaster recovery needs to be performed according to the disaster recovery flag in the received service request. Alternatively, the service request may not carry a disaster recovery flag, and when the S-CSCF finds that the UE is not registered locally, the S-CSCF originates an SAR (UNREGISTERED.sub.13 USER) request to the HSS. After receiving the request, the HSS finds that the UE is in the REGISTERED state, and then returns an SAA (DIAMETER.sub.13 ERROR.sub.13 IN.sub.13 ASSIGNMENT.sub.13 TYPE) message. The S-CSCF may perform disaster recovery after receiving the SAA (DIAMETER.sub.13 ERROR.sub.13 IN.sub.13 ASSIGNMENT.sub.13 TYPE) message.
[0175] Step 4: In the SAA message, the HSS returns the service profile of the IMPU or the service profiles of all IMPUs in the implicit registration set of the IMPU and the user backup data of all IMPIs associated with the IMPU or the user backup data of all IMPIs in the implicit registration set of the IMPU. The HSS may return an SAA message carrying the service profile of the IMPU or the service profiles of all IMPUs in the implicit registration set of the IMPU and the user backup data of all IMPIs associated with the IMPU or the user backup data of all IMPIs associated with all IMPUs in the implicit registration set of the IMPU as well as DIAMETER.sub.13 ERROR.sub.13 IN.sub.13 ASSIGNMENT.sub.13 TYPE described in step 3 to the S-CSCF.
[0176] After receiving the response, the S-CSCF performs recovery operations according to the backup data in the response.
[0179] Case (2): If the S-CSCF obtained from the HSS can be contacted, but the S-CSCF is restarted, user data may be lost. The S-CSCF determines that user data needs to be recovered from the HSS according to the logic of a restart scenario. For other processing steps, see step 3 and subsequent steps.
[0180] Therefore, in the ninth to eleventh embodiments, the user backup data and user service data that are associated with the affected IMPU are recovered completely in each service triggering operation. The complete user service data and user backup data can be obtained in each service triggering operation, and the one-IMPU multi-IMPI, one-IMPI multi-IMPU, or multi-IMPI multi-IMPU service can also be recovered. Thus, the user has better service continuity experiences.
[0181] To implement the foregoing processing methods provided in embodiments of the disclosure, the existing network system and device functions need to be extended accordingly.
[0182] FIG. 17 shows a network structure of an IMS about disaster recovery according to an embodiment of the disclosure.
[0183] In this embodiment, an IMS includes a CSCF 1, such as an S-CSCF, and a network storage entity 2, such as an HSS. The network storage entity 2 includes a user data storing unit 21 and a disaster recovery processing unit 22.
[0184] The user data storing unit 21 is adapted to store user service configuration data, user backup data for recovering user services, and information of a CSCF where a user is registered.
[0185] The disaster recovery processing unit 22 is adapted to perform disaster recovery. A specific structure of the disaster recovery processing unit 22 is shown in FIG. 18. The disaster recovery processing unit 22 includes a judging unit 221 and a data transmitting unit 222.
[0186] The judging unit 221 is adapted to judge whether to perform disaster recover for a CSCF. During specific implementation, the judging unit 221 may adopt various structures. For example, one specific structure of the judging unit 221 shown in FIG. 19 includes a parsing unit 2211a, adapted to parse an SAR message carrying a recovery indication that is sent by a CSCF so as to determine whether the SAR message carries recovery indication information, and a determining unit 2212a, according to the parsing result of the parsing unit 2211a, adapted to determine that disaster discovery needs to be performed for a CSCF if the SAR message carries recovery indication information.
[0187] In addition, another specific structure of the judging unit 221 shown in FIG. 20 includes a detecting unit 2211b adapted to detect whether a CSCF where a user is registered changes and whether a network storage entity of the user receives an RTA message returned by the CSCF after sending an RTR message to the original CSCF where the user is registered, and a determining unit 2212b adapted to determine that disaster recovery needs to be performed for the CSCF if the detection result of the detecting unit 2211b shows that the CSCF where the user is registered changes and that the network storage entity of the user does not receive the RTA message returned by the CSCF.
[0188] In addition, another specific structure of the judging unit 221 shown in FIG. 21 includes a detecting unit 2211c adapted to detect whether a CSCF where a user is registered changes and whether the original CSCF where the user is registered fails, and a determining unit 2212c adapted to determine that disaster recovery needs to be performed for the CSCF if the detection result of the detecting unit 2211c shows that the CSCF where the user is registered changes and that the original CSCF where the user is registered fails.
[0189] The data transmitting unit 222 is adapted to transmit the user backup data of the registered IMPIs that are associated with the user and the user service configuration data of the IMPUs in an IMS subscription to a redundant CSCF by interacting with the redundant CSCF once or many times if the judgment result of the judging unit 221 is yes.
[0190] FIG. 22 shows another network structure of an IMS about disaster recovery in an embodiment of the disclosure.
[0191] In this embodiment, an IMS includes a CSCF 1, such as an S-CSCF, and a network storage entity 2, such as an HSS. The CSCF 1 includes a disaster recovery data obtaining unit 11 and a disaster recovery processing unit 12.
[0192] The disaster recovery data obtaining unit 11 is adapted to obtain the user backup data of the registered IMPIs that are associated with user IMPUs and the user service configuration data of the IMPUs in an IMS subscription from a network storage entity of the user according to the information of registered IMPIs or IMPUs that is carried in a response returned by the network storage entity after a service triggers disaster recovery.
[0193] The disaster recovery processing unit 12 is adapted to recover the corresponding service according to the user backup data of the registered IMPIs and the user service configuration data of the IMPUs in the IMS subscription that are obtained by the disaster recovery data obtaining unit 11.
[0194] In one specific structure of the disaster recovery data obtaining unit 11 of the disclosure shown in FIG. 23, the disaster recovery data obtaining unit 11 may include a parsing unit 111a adapted to parse the information of the registered IMPIs that are associated with user IMPUs in an IMS subscription transmitted from an HSS of the user, a judging unit 112a adapted to determine an IMPI to be recovered according to the received information of registered IMPIs, a requesting unit 113a adapted to request the user backup data of the IMPI and the user service configuration data of the IMPU associated with the IMPI determined by the judging unit 112a from the HSS of the user, and a receiving unit 114a adapted to receive the user backup data of the IMPI and the user service configuration data of the IMPU associated with the IMPI carried in the response returned by the HSS of the user.
[0195] In addition, in another specific structure of the disaster recovery data obtaining unit 11 of the disclosure shown in FIG. 24, the disaster recovery data obtaining unit 11 may include a parsing unit 111b adapted to parse the information of the registered IMPUs that are associated with user IMPUs in an IMS subscription transmitted from an HSS of the user, a judging unit 112b adapted to determine an IMPU to be recovered according to the received information of registered IMPUs, a requesting unit 113b adapted to request the user backup data of the registered IMPI that is directly associated with the IMPU determined by the judging unit 112b and the user service configuration data of the IMPU associated with the IMPI from the HSS of the user, and a receiving unit 114b adapted to receive the user backup data of the registered IMPI that is directly associated with the IMPU and the user service configuration data of the IMPU carried in the response returned by the HSS of the user.
[0196] In another specific structure of the disaster recovery data obtaining unit 11 of the disclosure shown in FIG. 25, the disaster recovery data obtaining unit 11 may include a parsing unit 111c adapted to parse the information of the registered IMPIs that are associated with user IMPUs in an IMS subscription transmitted by a network storage entity of the user, a judging unit 112c adapted to determine an IMPU to be recovered according to the received information of registered IMPIs, a requesting unit 113c adapted to request the user backup data of the registered IMPI that is directly associated with the IMPU to be recovered, which is determined by the judging unit 112c, and the user service configuration data of the IMPU from the network storage entity of the user, and a receiving unit 114c adapted to receive the user backup data of the registered IMPI that is directly associated with the IMPU and the user service configuration data of the IMPU carried in the response returned by the network storage entity of the user.
[0197] The network storage entity 2 includes a user data storing unit 21 adapted to store user service configuration data, user backup data for recovering user services, and information of a CSCF where a user is registered, and a disaster recovery data transmitting unit 22 adapted to transmit the user backup data for disaster recovery to a CSCF.
[0198] In addition, the network storage entity 2 further includes a message encapsulating unit 23 adapted to encapsulate a response carrying the information of registered IMPIs or IMPUs, where the response may be any message such as an SAA message, which carries the information of registered IMPIs or IMPUs through an AVP:Associated-Registered-Identities of the SAA message or by adding a flag bit to the AVP:Associated-Identities of the SAA message, and a message sending unit 24 adapted to send the response that carries the information of registered IMPIs or IMPUs to a CSCF.
[0199] As shown in FIG. 26, a CSCF about disaster recovery data backup may include the following functional units in a network structure of an IMS about disaster recovery in an embodiment of the disclosure, a start processing unit 13 adapted to start disaster recovery data backup, which may start disaster recovery data backup after user registration subscription is complete during specific implementation, and a judgment processing unit 14 adapted to judge whether to back up registration subscription data after the start processing unit 13 starts disaster recovery data backup, and back up the registration subscription data if the judgment result is to back up registration subscription data.
[0200] Although the disclosure has been described through several exemplary embodiments, the disclosure is not limited to such embodiments. It is apparent that those skilled in the art can make various modifications and variations to the disclosure without departing from the spirit and scope of the disclosure. The disclosure is intended to cover the modifications and variations provided that they fall in the scope of protection defined by the following claims or their equivalents.
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LG Optimus 4X HD (LG P880) Review: LG’s Comeback Phone
LG, Reviews October 15, 2012 0 Tassavur
Along with Motorola, LG is another player in the Android line up which has been sliding down the ranks since the last year. With a not so impressive phone portfolio, plagued with poor software and low build quality LG has been pushed out of the top four spot recently. LG’s latest flagship the Optimus 4X HD looks promising.
We decided to find out if LG is finally ready to play in the big league and challenge Samsung. Even before we begin with the review, we were disappointed with the fact that though LG was the first to unveil a quad core device they still only managed to launch it way after the HTC One X and the Samsung SIII did.
4.7 inch IPS Display
8MP Full HD camera with LED flash
16GB ROM expandable up to 32Gb with external microSD
Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich)
Nvidia Tegra 3 1.5GHz processor
Here is a quick unboxing video of the LG Optimus 4X HD:
Build & Design:
The LG Optimus 4X HD comes across as a sleek and compactly designed handset which interestingly appealed to a lot of people at first look. Personally we didn’t find it to be a drool worthy device but still it can hold its own.
It seems to be crafted all geometrically with a minimalistic design approach. It has an all plastic body with a stripe textured design on the back which doesn’t feel cheap. It’s sleek and comfortable to hold with good grip.
The front of the device is occupied by the huge 4.7 inch IPS display with the proximity sensor and the front facing 1.3MP camera on either sides of the call speaker on the top. Right below the screen you have three capacitive touch buttons which are visible only when they light up.
You have a prism patterned design on both the sides with the volume toggle keys on the right and the left blank.
You have the micro-USB / MHL port on the bottom along with the mic.
The top of the device holds the 3.5mm audio jack and the power button.
While the back of the device houses the 8MP camera with LED Flash and the speaker placed right at the bottom on the back.
The 4.7 inch True HD IPS display of the LG Optimus 4X HD is similar to what they use on their Smart TV’s. The screen is bright and vivid enough to be legible under direct sunlight, though you are faced with glare from the screen at certain angles. It offers deep blacks and good contrast ratios which translate into an enjoyable viewing experience on the device.
Something looked amiss with the display until we realized that there is small distance between the front screen and the display which is considerable enough to make a difference in the viewing experience. It’s not a deal breaker at all.
Overall the display is one of the best out there, though just a little behind the HTC One X’s Super IPS LCD2 & Samsung Galaxy SIII’s Super AMOLED. Something you would not notice unless you keep these screens next to each other.
The LG Optimus 4X HD is packed with the latest ammunition and on par with any other flagship device currently in the market. In fact, it even has an under clocked fifth core at 500MHz which functions only when the device is used for executing simple tasks.
The device also boasts of 1GB of RAM, 16GB (12 GB user available) internal memory which can be expanded additionally by 32GB with the help of an external micro SD card. Connectivity options include Bluetooth 4.0, NFC and micro USB / MHL.
The Optimus 4X HD runs on Ice Cream Sandwich with LG’s 3.0 skin on it, which is ably supported by the Nvidia Tegra 3 quad core processor clocked at 1.5GHz.
That brings us to LG’s UI 3.0 skin which covers ICS on the Optimus 4X HD. This latest UI from LG is pretty similar to the stock ICS and unobtrusive and simple at the same time. It seems to have come a long way from the earlier clunky software skins that LG had developed. It offers a great number of innovative features and customizations which enhance the user experience.
The Lock Screen is an example which unlocks anywhere on the screen and allows you to open other short cut apps as well. Added functionality apps like SmartShare with DLNA and SmartWorld (LG’s app store) are a bonus.
The full HD 8MP camera on the Optimus 4X HD is a decent shooter but lags far behind when compared to direct competitors like the HTC One X and the Samsung Galaxy SIII.
Camera Sample
Talking of images, though they seem to have good color reproduction and detail in them the result is not that great in the auto focus mode with most of the images looking slightly out of focus.
The lack of a dedicated camera shutter key makes things more difficult. The results are decent in all lighting conditions.
The 1080p videos captured with the LG Optimus 4X HD show good clarity and detail with great audio quality to go with it. Though, the color reproduction might not be up to the mark at times.
The camera has a good UI which gives you a quick and easy access to all the necessary camera features. We believe that LG can greatly improve the camera performance with a software update.
Here is a quick camera sample shot using the full HD 8MP camera on the LG Optimus 4x HD:
With a 2150 mAh battery under the hood, the LG Optimus does more than expected as the battery lasts you a full day with moderate usage. Power users are recommended to carry a charger. We did not notice any power drainage issues on the device. And the device is right up there with the best (read HTC & Samsung) when it comes to battery performance.
Here is a quick video review of the LG Optimus 4X HD:
The LG Optimus 4X HD is easily the best LG device we have seen till date and quite closer to competition than ever. LG has also priced the device quite aggressively with the device now being made available in the market at Rs. 30,000.
We hope that LG fixes the camera issue with a software update soon, and then it would truly be a serious competition to the SIII and the One X. Though for now it has arrived in the big league.
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We all know that taxpayers were very, very generous to the owners of Major League sports teams in Cleveland. It has cost Cuyahoga County taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars since the 1990s.
What we don’t realize is that the subsidization continues for hundreds of ball games in Progressive Field and Quicken Loan Arena each year. The subsidization also suggests that city taxpayers in their neighborhoods are being deprived of services as the wealthy sports team owners are provided with the safety force protection.
Just how much service is being shifted from neighborhoods where people live to provide protection for downtown sporting events can be seen by the listing of fire and police protection provided for four dates in May as listed below.
What we don’t really understand is that the city subsidizes the team owners – billionaire families as the Dolans and Lerners – on an ongoing basis.
I asked the city to provide me with information about the servicing of Progressive Field and Quicken Loan Arena during a short period in May at the time that the Cleveland Cavaliers were in the playoffs. Four dates only.
The dates were May 2, May 10, May 12 and May 16.
The city provided at four dates at Progressive Field and four dates at Quicken Loan Arena 661.5 hours of police time at a cost of $22,950 at Progressive and 94 hours of fire service at a cost of $4,720. (One game at Progressive was a rainout but services were still provided).
You will notice that nearly all the firefighters were on overtime. Thirty of the 94 police officers assigned were on overtime.
The city noted in its information that the $4,720 at Quicken Loan is billed to the Cavs. No mention of billing for police services likely results from an agreement signed with Dick Jacobs, then owner of the Indians, by former Mayor Michael White to provide a large contingent – my memory says 35 officers – for every game when more than 35,000 in attend. Council then passed legislation to back up White’s letter of commitment.
The breakdown of figures is listed below.
What the city’s servicing of police and fire protection for the two facilities doesn’t tell you is where these services are being shifted from to provide safety for the fans.
Well, it doesn’t take a genius to understand the services are being shifted from neighborhoods of Cleveland, many of which are now under siege by criminal behavior.
It’s another example of shifting crucial and diminishing assets from the poorest to the richest of our society.
The figures suggest that the city assesses the services provided by police and fire personnel at about $35 per hour.
That, in itself, seems a very low assessment, particularly because many of these city employees are working overtime and, possibly more important, are using city vehicles and equipment, including on occasion what is described as “apparatus” for fireworks provided at Progressive Field. I’d have to assume that it means the city provided fire trucks with, each time, 8 firemen and charged the Indians owners, the Dolan family, nothing for the service.
DIVISION OF FIRE AT QUICKEN, PROGRESSIVE FACILITIES:
Date Facility Personnel Time Cost
May 2 Quicken Loan Arena 2 firemen 4 hours OT $248
May 2 Progressive Field 2 firemen 4 hours OT $248
May 2 Progressive Field 8 on 2 apparatus 1 hour no charge
May 10 Quicken Loan Arena 2 firemen OT 4.5 hours $279
May 10 Progressive Field 2 firemen OT 4 hours $248
May 10 Progressive Field 2 firemen OH 4 hours $248
May 10 Progressive Field 8 on 2 apparatus 1 hour no charge
May 12 Quicken Loan Arena 2 firemen OT 4 hours $248
Total Cost (repayable to city, city says) $4,720
Total Personnel 42 with 26 on overtime
CLEVELAND DIVISION OF POLICE AT QUICKEN & PROGRESSIVE FACILITIES
May 2 - 17 members on regular time - 6 hours
7 members on overtime Estimated Cost: $5,000
May 10- 15 members on regular time - 7.5 hours
10 members on overtime Estimated Cost: $6,250
May 12 – 16 members on regular time 8 hours
May 16 16 members on regular time 6.5 hours
4 members on overtime Estimate Cost: $4,500
Number of Hours worked: 742.5 Total Cost: $22,950
Total Cost of Both: $27,670.
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Roldo keeps prying around the edges
Submitted by Susan Miller on Wed, 06/25/2008 - 17:49.
One day, Roldo's prying might (just might) rip the top off this can of worms.
Reading this, I have to wonder if someone at the PD is not salty that they did not ask for those numbers and publish this story. And then I have to ask, why didn't they, haven't they? Is the PD asleep at the wheel? Roldo's not. Thanks Roldo.
I would suspect that some neighbors might be pretty salty the next time there is a some sordid violation of the law in their neighborhood while so much of the "force" is with the sports teams. These billionaires sure know how to get blood from a stone. What's in your wallet? Not, much...
Safety Forces priorities
Today, I saw Cleveland's safety forces on their down time. First, I saw Engine 4 at Lincoln Park entertaining a group of day camp kids with a tour of the fire engine, and then later--probably the same station--at Dave's Supermarket, stocking up for dinner.
I ran into a former colleague, bilingual Spanish-English, MBA, Lincoln-West High School graduate, city resident, professional in the medical community--and we both said the same thing..."How nice to actually see the safety forces in our community."
We don't see them very often on our streets, at our stores, at our libraries--because, for the most part they don't live with us or interact with us. They hole up in their stations and, in the case of the station by my house, don't even bother to sweep the street in front of their building or tend to the landscaping.
When I do talk to the "guys," they mostly complain about living in the city and they complain that they don't want someone bothering them at their homes, or worse, knowing where they live.
Gil and I said the same thing, again. "Why should it be so hard to live in the city that pays your paycheck?" We saw a diverse group of strong, healthy (and might I say--mighty attractive) guys at Dave's supermarket. "What are you guys afraid of? Me?"
If it's just the money, perhaps, we should vote on their performance much like the library has to face approval for local support. Then, would you take your downtime to play basketball with some of the kids in Brooklyn Centre? (the station has a court inside the station/Metro docs have a court behind the towers).
Would you show them how to play guitar and banjo? (My station has a firefighter who plays the Kent Folk Festival). I see you guys and you have the time to share these skills with our kids.
*Speaking of overtime--Thank you Roldo--as a public/union employee I work out my schedule so that I never have to accept overtime. I consider it the most blatant theft of public funding. Unscrupulous employees know how to milk the OT cow and it's a crime.
Campbell called the police and fire personnel on their abuse of the sick time/OT scam. Unions only undermine public support when they allow these scams to continue. Unions should lead the charge to eliminate the need for overtime in the work place. SEIU has come up with a time-sharing/short term assignment strategy that offers a smaller compensation than overtime to cover staff shortages, but administrators have dragged their feet on implementation.
Administrators/Managers are salaried and should shoulder the coverage of services offered above/beyond/outside traditional work hours, but they don't--it's obviously not a sound for-profit fiscal policy to keep providing OT to union workers, but no one calls them on it.
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Pennsylvania Electric Companys
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Pennsylvania Travel Brochures
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Case Search Pennsylvania
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Pennsylvania Amish Quilts
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Map Of Pennsylvania State Counties
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Pennsylvania Welfare Coalition
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Inheritance Tax Pennsylvania
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Pennsylvania Traffic Signal
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Mineralogical Society Of Pennsylvania
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Love, Simon is a much-needed gay rom-com
Max WellsMarch 29, 20184 min readAdd comment
Nick Robinson stars as Simon in Love, Simon. (Photo via 20th Century Fox)
BY MAX WELLS
When I was little, every piece of media I saw was geared toward straight people. Disney movies were about a helpless woman finding Prince Charming, the songs I heard were about a man and a woman falling in love, and advertisements were just riddled with heterosexual sex appeal.
I was about 12 when I knew I was gay, and as an avid reader I was desperate to find stories that I could relate to. Here’s the thing – representation matters. Fiction is integral in how we view and process reality. It’s exactly propaganda is used in wars: what you see influences how you think and act. Especially at a young age, children perceive what they see and read to be true. Which is why as a young boy, I thought my feelings were unnatural and weird. I didn’t see myself anywhere. I tried so damn hard to be straight, but eventually came to terms with who I am. How? By using the small fragments of representation I did uncover.
Let me explain: I was constantly picked on in school for being too feminine, and I could tell that boys in my class were also influenced by misogynistic and heteronormative media. However, when I read books like The Hunger Games and Divergent, both featuring extremely powerful female protagonists, I felt some representation. Yes, the main characters are female, but I related to them due to my femininity being such a threat to the outside world. Reading about these kick-ass women inspired me to come out and be who I am. Without that representation, I don’t know where I would be today.
Enter the gay rom-com, Love, Simon. Love, Simon is such a necessary movie. It’s a truly groundbreaking film. Not because of the story or the acting. Not because it’s well made. Because of it’s innocence. Love, Simon (based on the novel Simon vs the Homosapiens Agenda by Becky Abertalli) is a comedic, heart felt film about gay teenager Simon Spier (Nick Robinson) who is struggling to come out of the closet. Simon has a great group of friends, a great relationship with his family, and an average high school routine. He begins an anonymous online relationship with another gay boy at his school. The film centres around Simon trying to identify his mystery Prince Charming and trying to be open about his sexuality.
Love, Simon, Call Me By Your Name, and Moonlight are just some of the most recent popular films in gay cinema. (Photo via 20th Century Fox/A24/Sony Pictures Classics/Ringer illustration)
As the film ended and the lights came on, I thought to myself: Imagine if I had seen this movie when I was 12? When I was younger, there was obviously some gay representation in film. Similar to literature though, it was generally for a more mature audience. Not only that, but the stories were always about gay characters having to hide who they were and never had happily-ever-afters. I remember seeing Brokeback Mountain, and thinking it was the most depressing thing ever. I thought, If that’s what being gay is like, I don’t want any part of it. I wanted to see a boy my age, in school, being gay, and getting his happily ever after. Yes, it might be cheery and fluffy but think about it this way: straight people have movies like A Cinderella Story and Grease which are light-hearted romance films. Love, Simon is the sugar-coated gay romance the LGBT community deserves.
Why does every gay story need to be about struggling with your sexuality? Why can’t gay romances ever end happily? Well now they can. Love, Simon shows young LGBT teens that things can end well. That you can have a happy life where your sexuality does not define you. In the film, Simon is bullied one time about his sexuality, and even so, a teacher steps in, handles the situation and says that judging someone based on their sexuality is not tolerated. When Simon comes out as gay, his friends and family offer him unwavering support.
Young LGBT teens can finally see themselves on the screen and feel represented. The story isn’t dramatic and depressing, it’s light and comedic. It’s exactly what the LGBT community needed and finally has. I’m so grateful for this film and can’t wait for young teens struggling with their identity to see that they aren’t alone.
Love, Simon is now in theatres.
Max Wells
Entertainment based Journalist at Sheridan College. You can view my articles on https://wellsmax.wixsite.com/articles and connect with me on LinkedIn.
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Episode 77- Pornography, Purity, and Sex Trafficking
Posted by James Forbis | Apr 12, 2017 | Equipping You in Grace, Featured | 0 |
Welcome to the seventy-seventh episode of Equipping You in Grace. On today’s episode, James Forbis interviews Dave Jenkins on pornography, purity, and sex trafficking.
How the Lord brought Dave out of the sin of pornography.
Pastoral issues that come up when dealing with people addicted to pornography.
How to minister to someone struggling with an addiction to pornography.
How complementarians should think and talk about porn as it relates to biblical manhood and womahood.
How the sex trafficking and sex slavery market is tied into the porn industry.
Some key players who are committed to stopping the spread of porn.
Dave’s experience with gospel wakefulness.
Biblical manhood and womanhood and it’s relationship to pornography and sex trafficking.
What the Bible says about pornography and purity.
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Dave Jenkins is the Executive Director of Servants of Grace Ministries, the Executive Editor of Theology for Life Magazine, and the Co-Host of the Equipping You in Grace podcast. He and his wife, Sarah, are members of Ustick Baptist Church in Boise, Idaho, where they serve in a variety of ministries. He received his MAR and M.Div. through Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary. He is currently a Masters of Arts in Biblical Counseling student at the Masters University.
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Shahid Kapoor promotes Chance Pe Dance on DPL Finale
Shahid Kapoor, Rani Mukherjee
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Shahid Kapoor at the 10th anniversary of PETA Awards
Bollywood actor Shahid Kapoor signing the board at the 10th anniversary of PETA Awards (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) in Mumbai.
Star shower at PETA's anniversary
While Shahid Kapoor gets the PETA Asia Sexiest Vegetarian Award, a bevy of B-town celebs gather to be honoured with humanitarian awards at PETA's 10th anniversary bash. The gala will also have recorded video appearances by former Baywatch actress Pamela Anderson and rocker Bryan Adams.
As celebs gather at the Trident Hotel at Bandra kurla Complex, in Mumbai, we caught up with some of them who have supported the humble cause.
"My contribution towards PETA should have been much more than what I have done. I feel honoured for being recognized by such an amazing
organization. I am extremely honored to receiving the humanitarian award," says Bollywood actress Eesha Koppikar.
Talking about her lovee for animals, Celine Jaitly, who appeared in a PETA ad in 2009 for saving elephants from captivity says, "Animals are my first love, getting PETA's award motivates me to do more work for animals. They can't speak for themselves and yet their love is so unconditional. I am glad I could make a difference."
Raveena Tandon Thadani, who's equally excited about being honoured says, "Animals need us to speak for them. Let's stop the cruely and let us make a difference."
John Abraham, who campaigned for independence for caged birds in a popular ad campaign for PETA and is also hosting the event, remained unavailable for comment.
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Music Review Chance Pe Dance' music makes you shake a leg Rating:** 1/2
Chance Pe Dance' music makes you shake a leg (IANS Music Review)
By Ruchika Kher
Film: "Chance Pe Dance"; Music Director: Adnan Sami; Lyricists: Kumaar, Irshad Kamil, Irfan Siddique and Amitabh Bhattacharya; Singers: Sukhwinder Singh, Tulsi Kumar, Javed Ali, Vishal Dadlani, Soham Chakrabarthy, Shreya Ghosal, Kunal Ganjawala, Master Saleem, Neeraj Sridhar, Amit Kumar and Shaan; Rating:** 1/2
Put on your dancing shoes and get ready to shake a leg with the music of Shahid Kapoor-Genelia D'Souza-starrer "Chance Pe Dance". The soundtrack has been composed by Adnan Sami and it boasts of fast-paced, high-on-energy dance numbers.
The album contains seven originals and two remix versions.
It opens with "Pe pe pepein" that starts with typical wedding music in the background. A Western song with rap by Hard Kaur and vocals by Master Saleem and Neeraj Sridhar, "Pe pe pepein" has a strong Punjabi flavour. It's a fast-paced song and slowly grows on you.
The song also has a remix version that adds more beats and makes it a perfect dance number.
Next is "Pump it up" with Vishal Dadlani behind the mike. The song has a punch and starts with a bang. It's a full-on dance number with a mix of dhol and electronic guitaring.
This track too has a remix version which is faster and includes more orchestration.
Up next is a slow love ballad "Pal mein hi", which is beautifully crooned by Soham Chakrabarthy and Shreya Ghoshal. The song brings in a tranquillising effect. It's a sweet and pleasing romantic number that touches a chord with the listener.
Then we have another fast track in the guise of "One more dance". The song sung by Kunal Ganjawala is not that impressive. The song has a techno feel and is meant for the dance floor; it, however, fails to create an impact and falls flat.
It is followed by "Yaba Daba Yahoo". Sung by Kunal Ganjawala, it takes the dance flavour of the album further. A fun number, it has a heavy dose of English lyrics.
"Rishta hai mera", sung by Shaan and Tulsi Kumar, changes the mood of the album. It's a soft, smooth song. An inspirational number, "Rishta hai mera" is a melodious composition and generates interest.
Finally there is "Just do it". High on electronic arrangements, the song has been crooned by Amit Kumar and director Ken Ghosh has composed it. It has influences of hip hop and is a dance number yet gain.
On the whole, if you want to dance away to glory, then "Chance Pe Dance" is the album you are looking for.
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I don't get affected by rumours and gossips about my love life Shahid Kapoor
By Joginder Tuteja, December 18, 2009 - 11:32 IST
Shahid Kapoor isn't resting. He has already seen two of his films releasing in 2009 (Kaminey, Dil Bole Hadippa), is currently shooting for Parmeet Sethi's film with Anushka Sharma, and is busy promoting Chance Pe Dance which arrives in January next year.
Meanwhile, even as names of his past, present and perhaps future girlfriends continue to emerge at a break neck speed, he prays if a Vivah organized by his parents would finally settle all rumours, speculations, gossips, grapevine and idle talk once for and all.
Joginder Tuteja gets into a conversation with Shahid who has been super busy shooting for his films but is still managing to keep a close tab on the promotion of Chance Pe Dance as well as reactions to his newest on-screen partner Genelia D'Souza.
Akshay-Katrina 'jodi' is the hottest today while Saif and Kareena too are building a good brand around themselves. In such times, it is seems quite good to see a fresh pairing with you and Genelia coming together for the first time in Chance Pe Dance.
We had a hearty laugh because it was the camera that eventually had captured my 8 packs
I agree. Ever since the First Look of the film came out, I have got so many messages and calls congratulating me about this new pairing. Yes, there is a certain freshness that has certainly come in due to both of us coming together. Since the film boasts of a young subject, it was imperative that Genelia and I look compatible with each other. We really had a lot of fun doing Chance Pe Dance together and with the promos and songs clicking with the audiences, I am now excited to see how they react to the entire film. Genelia has done really great work in the film and what strikes me most is that she is a heroine who can also act! I am sure we will do a lot of more movies together.
For these abs, I am not going to stop eating what I want or take added strain
After Shah Rukh Khan and Aamir Khan, you too seem to have developed a fascination for this entire 6 pack, 8 pack abs affair?
(Laughs) Believe me; even I was surprised when I developed 8 pack abs. I was just trying to get in shape and was working out for that. However, it was during the shooting of a song for Chance Pe Dance when director Ken (Ghosh) just smiled and waved at me. He called me near the monitor and asked me to have a look at it. We had a hearty laugh because it was the camera that eventually had captured my 8 packs.
Come on, it's hard to believe. You developed an 8 pack and it's the camera which told you first about it?
I swear that was indeed the case. See, I was working out to be fit and not to get into any competition with anybody. I wasn't sitting and counting my abs. But yes, when Ken pointed this out, I did feel good about it, more so because this hadn't been planned. However, let me also clear that I am not going to live for maintaining this physique. Fit rehna important hai but for these abs, I am not going to stop eating what I want or take added strain.
Meanwhile, you seem to have developed quite a playboy image for yourself during last couple of years. It seems like you are having an affair with every leading lady that you interact with during the making of your films. Vidya Balan (Kismat Konnection), Priyanka Chopra (Kaminey) and now Anushka Sharma (yet untitled Yash Raj film) - it is indeed one enviable list. Really Shahid, what's happening?
(Laughs) Really yaar, my mummy-daddy should just find a nice girl for me and marry me off Vivah style. I guess it would be best if I go through an arranged marriage. At least talks around my so-called affairs would come to a stop. I mean ever since I went single two years back, there have been these constant talks around my relationships with fellow co-stars.
It is amusing when media breaks the news to me that I am seeing a girl. Can it be funnier than that?
Isn't it annoying for you?
Annoying would be too harsh a word. But yes, I am really aghast about the entire thing - not because of the entire pairing up thing but the fact that at least I should know if I am really going around with someone. It is amusing when media breaks the news to me that I am seeing a girl. Can it be funnier than that?
Does it lead to an uncomfortable situation between you and the girl in question?
I make sure that it doesn't turn out to be the case. I don't get affected by rumours and gossips and neither do I want my co-star to be. I am living my life the way I want to and I am not going to stop that just because someone out there wishes to talk or write about it by giving it a spicy connotation.
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Shahid Kapoor uncut Exclusive Interview
think of myself as a general store, where everything is available. You’ll get anything you want. Shahid Kapoor gets candid.
How do you feel when you look into the mirror these days?
I’m shooting for a new film now, so the look and the hair is different. Those six and eight pack abs were for Kaminey and Chance Pe Dance.
Do girls ask you to take off your shirt?
(Laughs) It has happened a couple of times. I look down or look away because it’s embarrassing... but I won’t deny that I like it. In Chance Pe Dance, Ken (director Ken Ghosh) and I had to create some shock value. That was the eight-pack. It got me a lot of ‘Whoas!’ Girls seem to like me a little more now.
Are we talking about any girl in particular here?
Sorry, I’m not going there.
Does having an eight-pack make you feel more like a man?
I won’t be politically correct and say it doesn’t really matter. Yes, it’s a great feeling.
Was six-pack Shah Rukh Khan the role model or eight-pack Aamir Khan?
Honestly, it was neither since I had not planned on either a six or an eight pack. Kaminey needed a raw, rough look, while Chance Pe Dance an aesthetic, chiselled body. For a year, I worked out with my trainer keeping both requirements in mind. It was Ken who, after looking into the monitor, pointed out that I had an eight-pack. It took me by surprise, but when others agreed, I realised he was right. You could say it happened by chance.
What was the biggest challenge getting there?
Getting the last four packs. It’s easy developing your upper abs but losing fat in the lower half happens only last. Also, it’s more difficult when you are a vegetarian.
Did the abs help you as a dancer or add to your performance as an actor?
They were for purely for visual effect and aesthetic appeal. I didn’t build them to prove a point to anyone. For me, the greatest actors in the world are Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Dilipsaab (Kumar) and Amitji (Amitabh Bachchan) who have a body of work rather than a body to show.
Your dad, Pankaj Kapur, has also relied more on performance than physical appearance. What was his reaction to the macho image?
Dad understands that in this new space the look is as much a part of the job. He reacted with a wry smile and an “achche lag rahe ho beta.”
How is your look different now?
In Parmeet’s film I’m playing a regular 22-year-old, so I didn’t need a bulky body. Parmeet saw me at a show earlier this year and was worried. We were going to start shooting in 45 days and he wanted a boy next-door. He got it. Personally, having an eight-pack is a high but professionally, I cannot be obsessed with it. I’m an actor not a body builder. Still, it must be heartbreaking to lose it just when you got it? I’m a fitness freak now, I can get it back in three months.
How do you feel when you look at your old films now?
I’m not going to run away from an Ishk Vishk or a Vivah. I don’t mind going back to a love story. I think of myself as a general store, where everything is available. You’ll get anything you want.
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Shahid Kapoor plays Santa to Ahmad Khan's sons
By Subhash K. Jha
Mumbai, Nov 10 (IANS) Choreographer-turned-director Ahmad Khan says he can't thank his friend Shahid Kapoor enough for fulfilling a long-cherished dream of his children.
"I had been promising my two sons Azaan and Subhan a trip to Disneyland for months. Earlier, when we shot in the US for Yash Raj Films' 'Bachna Ae Haseeno', I kept hoping there would be time. But I couldn't manage to get away. But this time Shahid made sure it happened," Khan, who is back from the US after shooting for a song with his best friend Shahid, told IANS.
Shahid not only ensured that Ahmad wrapped up his work as quickly as possible, he made all the arrangements for his friend, his wife Saira and two sons to take off for Disneyland.
"And why not?" said Khan defensively. "Shahid and I are childhood friends. Before my mother held my sons, Shahid took them in his arms. So it's perfectly natural for him to look out for me and my family.
"Out of the one month I spent in the US only 12 days were devoted to shooting the song. It wasn't even a dance song. It was a concept number showing the hero and his friends splurging and bingeing all over the US.
"We shot at casinos and at various pleasure and tourist spots in Philadelphia, Orlando, New York, New Jersey and Chicago," said Khan who choreographed Shahid in the recently hit song "Dhan te nan" from "Kaminey".
Shahid is also featuring in Khan's directorial debut "Pathshala". The first time director says that the actor's role is similar to Aamir Khan's in "Taare Zameen Par".
"In a two-hour long film, Shahid is there for an hour� he's there for 55 minutes. His role is like Aamir Khan's in 'Taare Zameen Par'. He comes in mid-way and yes, he's the teacher. Both Shahid and I have decided to focus on the kids in the marketing rather than on Shahid."
Shahid Kapoor Priyanka Chopar bag Teacher Achievement awards
Actors Priyanka Chopra and Shahid Kapoor bagged the Teacher Achievement Awards while noted lyricist Gulzar was bestowed the lifetime achievement honour at a function in Mumbai. Priyanka, who bagged the award in the entertainment category at an event on Saturday night, dedicated the award to her mother. "I am thankful to the jury. Whenever I get a prize, I think this would not have been possible without the constant support of my parents," she said. Shahid was conferred the Teacher's People Magazine Achiever award. "I feel special. It's really a big achievement when such an eminent set of jury has decided to give me the award," Shahid told IANS. Filmmaker-poet Gulzar was modest when given the Lifetime Achievement of the Year award. "I don't know what I have done so special. It's you, the people, (who) make me realise that I have made some contribution to the Indian film industry. I am thankful for that," he said. Leading advertising photographer Iqbal K. Mohammad got the award in the communication-photography category and Saina Nehwal, the first Indian to win World Junior Badminton Championship was given the achievement award in sports. "We are hopeful that each edition of the Teacher's Achievement Awards shall inspire and encourage people from all walks of life to strive for accomplishment, that not just add to individual glory but also propel societal growth and well-being," said Matt Shattock, president and CEO, Beam Global Spirit & Wine Inc.
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Off The Chain A review of Tarantino's latest film, Django: Unchained.
January 25, 2013 September 16, 2015 9 minute readby remythequill
In as few words as possible Django Unchained is full of gun-slinging cowboys, swear words, and a lot of dead people. Like, a lot.
The film’s plot is pretty simple; the trailer sums it all up nicely: Django, a slave, is freed by a bounty hunter who promises him his freedom in exchange for help tracking down some wanted men, after which Django will be allowed to find and rescue his wife who has been sold to a greasy Southern plantation owner, Calvin Candie.
Seriously, I do not think Django Unchained is more complex than that despite the maelstrom of controversy that has surrounded the film since its release. It is, after all, a Quentin Tarantino film. He is not known for mentally or emotionally challenging his viewers with Shawshank Redemption-like films which question morality, justice, or exemplify the courage and triumph of the human spirit. He is definitely not known for directing coming-of-age stories like Dead Poets’ Society. And, no, his entire filmography does not contain any film I would present to a visiting alien as a prime example of the creative insight possessed by the human race. For that I would go to other directors. Tarantino makes the have-gun-will-shoot-after-a-long-speech variety found in Pulp Fiction; winding scenes of loquacious dialogue which culminate in five-point-palm-exploding-heart techniques in the Kill Bill series, baseball bats to the head in Inglorious Basterds, or car crashes that decapitate a group of girls in Death Proof.
He makes the films that become pop culture. He makes films for t-shirts. It is what we know him for. It is what we love him for.
Django Unchained is no exception.
It is a mixture of saddle-up, shoot-em-up cowboy Western action sequences you will see in classic Wild West tales like Tombstone. There is an overarching revenge plot fuelled by a damsel-in-distress love story. All of it takes place in the antebellum US South. A counterfactual rendition of slavery provides the platform for Tarantino to visually shock the audience with the gruesome violence which has become his calling card. Female slaves are horsewhipped; black men are hunted, chased down and mauled by dogs. The few that are not are forced to fight to the death like prize cocks while their white masters drink brandy and smoke cigars, and, throughout, the word nigger is used like a punctuation mark.
It is vintage Tarantino: he starts shooting his film eight hundred cuss words away from the normal limits of social and cultural propriety.
And he does it well; Django is an entertaining film. It is riddled with pockets of humour and tweet worthy dialogue; it has some amazing camera work—Tarantino does not skimp on the wide framing and slow close-ups he uses to build tension and repulse the audience when the guts start flying around—and the costume and production design lets your eyes float effortlessly from scene to scene. It is visually rich, at times gluttonously so. But it works well in Django.
The sound editing is crisp and the soundtrack is impressive too. From the long title sequence set to Luis Bacalov’s “Django” tune, to Rick Ross’ thumping “100 Coffins”, and Anthony Hamilton and Elayna Bonyton’s haunting “Freedom”, Django Unchained is an eclectic sampling of country tunes, Spanish ditties, heavy hip-hop beats, and funk melodies that does not bore.
At two hours and forty-five minutes Django is a long time to be sitting in a cinema, especially if you are unfamiliar with Tarantino’s slow build-ups and, at times, self-congratulatory scriptwriting. But if you are a Tarantino connoisseur Django is—forgive me—off the chain.
Jamie Foxx portrays the film’s namesake, Django Freeman. Foxx’s performance as the grizzly, slick-talking, sharpshooting former slave is tense, angry, and menacing. Django’s character is cool in ways that have cinemas clapping at each turn of wit or every bullet he sends lacing across the screen. I have never been a Foxx fan but he wins me over as Django. Django should go one to become as iconic as the Bible-quoting Jules Winfield from Pulp Fiction. Everything he says is amusing, everything he is dripping with panache. Foxx’s performance expertly hovers between the cocky foulmouthed routine he used in his stand-up routines and the wrathful anger of the black avenger. From head to toe Django is one of the coolest black characters I have seen on a cinema screen despite the fact that his past remains a mystery and Tarantino devotes little or no time to character development. Django is one-dimensional, and even though there are moments where you can catch glimpses of the man behind the smoking pistols he is cold and smooth throughout.
Christopher Waltz is the verbose German dentist-turned-bounty-hunter, Dr King Schultz, who frees Django and promises to help him rescue his wife, Broomhilda, played by the bite-the-back-of-your-hand beautiful Kerry Washington. Waltz’s performance is solid, even if it seems like an extension of the cold but disturbingly amiable Jew hunter he played in Inglorious Basterds. Waltz’s garrulous performance has already won him the Golden Globe for best supporting actor.
Not much can be said about Washington in this film, though. Tarantino did not give her much to do in this macho tale other than being exquisitely pretty and in need of a saviour—she does that well. Forget feminism in this film. Women are there to serve and provide brainless conversation.
Leonardo DiCaprio is horribly captivating as Calvin Candie, a cruel slave owner with the vocabulary of an accomplished thespian and evil charm capable of driving anyone to Stockholm syndrome. DiCaprio’s Southern dandy persona is a long way from the brooding characters he is known to play when Oscar season is around the corner, but he is effortlessly greasy, and he uses the intense hawk-like gaze he perfected in The Aviator to icy and unnerving success in Django. His performance is enough to make you hate anyone with a Southern twang.
The most memorable performance of the film is provided by Samuel L. Jackson who takes black-on-black crime to new heights as Stephen, Candie’s chief “house slave.” He looms over the other slaves but cowers to Candie’s demands. On occasion he trades banter as though the two are equal, but Jackson’s stooped and wrinkled performance is able to show the subservience bred (or beaten) into him from years of bondage. Like Django, Stephen has no back story; he is thrust upon the audience with no character development at all. While Django’s slave past is given via flashbacks (but only the violent ones) nothing is said about Stephen. Tarantino merely uses him as fodder for the revenge plot. It is a shame because Stephen was Tarantino’s best bet of showing how cruel slavery was. If he was really hell-bent on making a film that shamed slavery to its very core he would have spent more time fleshing out Stephen’s character. But he does not. And it is the ease with which Tarantino glides over character development which convinces me he had no intention of making a historical film at all. He just wanted the action.
As a simple transaction, Django Unchained is worth your money. If you can suspend your sensitivities for two hours you will enjoy it. But if you are going to enter the cinema on the witch hunt for a tale which explores slavery in the US in great emotional detail you are watching the wrong film. This is a Tarantino. It is by that guy who makes up Bible verses for Jules to quote right before he puts six ringers in Brett.
While the aesthetic and cinematic excellence of Django Unchained is largely unchallenged, the viewing experience is. US audiences do not find it easy to watch Django, and with good reason too; slavery is part of US history and it is a particularly thorny topic to address in even the most skilfully crafted films. The same goes with the random spraying of the word nigger every two or three seconds. Granted that few people find it easy to watch racial dramas (I have watched The Help once and never again), US audiences are especially sensitive about them. They pussyfoot around slavery and the use of the “n-word.” If it is used in Amistad, or Glory then it is okay. If it is used in hip-hop music by black people or in all the episodes of The Boondocks, well, that is just black people being black people, right? Django really set the cat amongst the pigeons, though. Everyone was calling everyone else a nigger. And that did not sit well with US audiences. It is no surprise, then, that most of Django’s critics crucified the film for its shoddy portrayal of slavery and the careless way the n-word is bandied about.
Most of the criticisms are misplaced though. Django has nothing to do with slavery. It does not explain its roots or its motivations. It does not delve into the practices, the broken families, the exploitation, the political resistance, the alienation, and the means black people had to resort to in order to survive. It does not explain Stephen. It sure as heck does not explain Django. It merely focuses on the violence and the pejorative n-word. And it does that because it is all Tarantino needed to fuel Django. Just as he did in Inglorious Basterds, he took exactly what he needed from history in order to create his action flick. Nothing more.
Although I think some US audiences took it a bit far with Django’s criticisms, I do understand their ire. It is the same frustration South Africans feel when an Apartheid film ignores something central to black suffering. It is the same anger I feel whenever I have to watch some ignorant documentary or film about Rwanda. African-Americans are touched by having their history exploited or falsely portrayed in the same way that black Africans are pissed off whenever the accents are overdone (Leo in Blood Diamond), when the politics are muddied (The First Grader, anyone?), and our cultures are homogenised in films. If Django had substituted nigger with kaffir South African audiences might have walked out of the cinema. It all comes down to context, really. I enjoyed Django Unchained because slavery is something that happened there, not here. Not in my immediate past. I would feel quite differently, though, if it focused on a theme much closer to home.
For what I would call a standard Tarantino film—guns, gore, and dialogue– Django Unchained managed to tick off quite a few people. Most of the criticisms are valid, even if they are misplaced. For the most part, though, Django is just another film to add to your must-watch list if you are into violent capers which involve sly humour and genre subversion.
Author’s note: Have a look at the following interesting Django Unchained reviews:
Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino’s crap masterpiece published in The New Yorker, which I think is the best summation of the film, the director, the cast, and the impact of the film.
Surviving Django, published on Buzzfeed, which is about an African-American’s experience watching Django Unchained in a small US town, largely populated by whites.
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St George success recognised in NSW parliament
On Friday, Ms Eleni Petinos MP, Member for Miranda, presented a private members statement to the NSW State Legislative Assembly congratulating our club on its recent success and highlighting the strength of our people and culture.
Ms Eleni Petinos MP presenting awards at the 2015 St George Rowing Club Presentation Night.
Sincere thanks to Ms Petinos for her wonderful words and support for our club and the sport of rowing!
The full script from Hansard is below.
Ms ELENI PETINOS (Miranda) [5.36 p.m.]: Today I congratulate the St George Rowing Club on its recent success in winning the New South Wales Rowing Association Premiership Shield for the second time. The shield is awarded to the club that scores the highest number of points in a variety of racing categories. But do not be fooled by the club being named after St George; its boatshed is located in Como, within the beautiful Miranda electorate. The St. George Rowing Club was formed in 1957 to cater to the rowing fraternity and help with the expense associated with the sport. It was initially formed with 24 members, but that quickly grew to more than 200 members by 1962 when the boating was moved from a modest tin shed to the single-storey clubhouse on the banks of the Cooks River. Increasing siltation of the Cooks River and public works in the area has led to the rowing activities being transferred to Scylla Bay at Como, where the club currently trains.
The St George Rowing club, a not-for-profit organisation, operates for the benefit of its members. In its 58 years since formation it has produced three Olympians. The club, although small, has consistently outperformed its rivals. This year the club, for the sixth consecutive year, has finished in the top three New South Wales rowing clubs in the premiership points score. This remarkable achievement is even more impressive because the club has had only 60 to 70 competitive rowers each season, whilst some rival clubs have had more than 200 competitive rowers. In response to this, the club has been investing in growing its rowing presence. It has introduced a learn-to-row program to reach out to those members of the public who are interested in attaining recreational rowing skills.
On 19 June 2015 I had the pleasure of attending the club’s presentation night. Some of the outstanding individual achievements that I acknowledge include: Oarsman of the Year, Steve Harrison; Oarswoman of the Year, Krys Macready; Clubman of the Year, Mark Featherstone; and Pararower of the Year, Steve Knott. It appeared unanimous on the night that the highlight of the 2015 season was the unprecedented success of the Mens A Grade Eight, which featured four father and son combinations in the Edward Trickett New South Wales Grade Championships. The silver medal winning crew included Airton Ramos senior, Airton Ramos junior, Steve Harrison, Nick Harrison, James Chuter, Glenn Chuter, Ben Crooks and Lewis Crooks.
This is the first time that a father-son combination has won a medal in an Australian Championship eight race. I extend my deep congratulations to those gentlemen and I hope this is a trend that continues throughout all clubs. Bringing a family dynamic to sport must be commended and applauded because it engages an ever wider range of members in the activities of the organisations. Overall, this season the St George rowers achieved 184 firsts, 180 seconds and 123 thirds, which is astounding given that the club operated with only 65 competitors this year. The club is expecting to grow and there is no doubt that the successful culture it is building will propel its status to being one of Sydney’s major clubs and will continue to enrich my electorate.
Finally, I mention the dedicated office bearers and take this opportunity to thank president Stephen Irons; vice-president Helen Anderson; secretary Danika Wright; captain Steven Anderson; vice-captain Allan Pollock; committee members Nick Nesevski, Brendan Henwood and Anthony McKinlay; and general manager Tony Lycakis for their tireless work in ensuring the ongoing success of the club. I wish all of the competitors, members and volunteers every success in their future competitions and commend them for their achievements and efforts to date.
Read the original Hansard here:
http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/Prod/parlment/hansart.nsf/V3Key/LA20150625074?open&refNavID=HA8_1
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Day 216: Rocky
August 4, 2015 Ruel
Adrian and Rocky
(This is part of my ongoing series on my quest to watch all 100 of AFI’s Greatest American Films of All Time)
57. Rocky
Rocky is back on Netflix, so I watched it before bed last night. The movie holds up well after nearly 40(!) years, mainly because Sylvester Stallone was born to play Rocky. The slurred speech peppered with “yo’s,” the physicality of the training montages, the surprising amount of emotion in his scenes with Adrian: even with a few of the hammier bits, it’s still a terrific performance and Stallone carries the film.
I’ll save the movie’s inherent racism discussion for others. There’s a reason why the film still resonates with movie fans: everybody loves the underdog. Rocky is the classic underdog making his way through the streets of Philadelphia (admit it, you’re hearing the theme song now).
Whether he’s collecting money at the shipyard or running through the open-air market, the film captures the grittiness of the city, much like The French Connection did with New York. I loved the little scene where Rocky and Gazzo meet at Pat’s King of Steaks; I’ve been there and, yes, there is a plaque at the exact spot where the scene was filmed.
One thing that always bugs me, though, is the final showdown with Apollo (kudos to Carl Weathers; he absolutely steals every scene that he’s in). It’s hilarious that both boxers show up in the ring without their gloves on, only to have them magically appear right before they fight. A bonehead mistake, no doubt.
Still, I loved the ending because by then it’s not about who wins or loses, it’s about Rocky’s love for Adrian. Corny? Yes. And the movie also seems slower than I recalled, but Rocky is such a likable galoot that it’s easy to look past the film’s foibles.
My rating: 4 out of 5 stars.
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