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The Milch Studies: John from Cincinnati - “I Don’t Know, Butchie Instead”
The official description of John from Cincinnati reads: “In Imperial Beach, California, the dysfunctional Yost family intersects with two new arrivals to the community: a dim-but-wealthy surfing enthusiast and (a) man spurned by the Yosts years ago.”
It sounds simple enough, doesn’t it? A family drama set against the backdrop of the professional surfboarding scene, introducing viewers to the characters from the perspective of two outsiders -- one they grow to love, one they already hate. If you’re a TV exec convinced that young people want a sexier Six Feet Under meets X-Games at the Beach, and this guy all the critics love is going to be running the series, of course you’re going to pick this up.
As discussed last time, that’s not what they got. And with the philosophical basis of the show covered, we’ll turn now to the actual narrative of the series. The cast of John is massive, and integral to the ethos of the show is the idea that everyone is connected. Listing every character would take forever, but breaking them down into teams might make this more manageable.
The Yost Clan
Early promotional images of the series (in fact, the promo still used for its Amazon Prime listing) featured a middle-aged surfer levitating a few inches off the ground. This is Mitch Yost (Bruce Greenwood), the patriarch of the Yost family. A renowned professional surfer in the early 1970s, his career was killed by a knee injury. Mitch’s wife is Cissy Yost (Rebecca De Mornay), once viewed as the hottest babe on the beach, and currently the proprietor of a surf store in the Imperial Beach community.
Their son is Butchie Yost (Brian Van Holt), a character we’re introduced to as a heroin addict living in a derelict hotel. Years earlier, Butchie continued the legacy of his father and entered the world of pro surfing, where he “changed the game” and became world famous (how one “changes the game” of surfing, or the specific skills Butchie had on the board, is never revealed.) Fame didn’t agree with Butchie, and the Yost family blames Butchie’s manager/agent/Stinkweed founder Linc Stark for Butchie’s drug addiction.
During the height of his fame, Butchie secretly fathered a child with porn actress/call girl Tina Blake (Chandra West). Blake, dealing with her own issues and unwilling to raise a son with a drug addict, left her infant baby on Mitch and Cissy’s doorstep and hasn’t returned to town since. Butchie & Tina’s son is now a fourteen-year-old surfer, who’s already experimenting with drugs, and maybe has more going on with his life, but to be honest, he’s such a poorly drawn character it’s hard to care too much about this Shaun Yost (portrayed by real-life teen surfer Greyson Fletcher.)
As the series opens, Butchie has come into money and just purchased an obscene amount of heroin, Linc Stark is looking to sign young Shaun to a contract, Cissy and Mitch disagree over whether they should allow Linc back into their lives, and after an encounter with the mysterious John Monad, Mitch discovers that he can occasionally levitate off the ground. More drama ensues when Shaun, against his grandfather/adoptive father’s wishes, participates in a surfing competition and breaks his neck in an accident.
Yost Clan Hangers-On
Surrounding the Yost family are surf shop employee/Butchie’s high school girlfriend Kai (played by another pro surfer, Keala Kennelly), a retired cop named Bill Jacks (Ed O'Neill), whose late wife took a liking to Butchie when he was a kid helping her with her groceries, Dr. Michael Smith (Garret Dillahunt), the doctor who treats Shaun after he breaks his neck and finds his life in crisis after experiencing a miracle, and Dwayne (Matthew Maher), an obsessive Yost fan who runs their family website and is receiving strange messages via this John Monad. Hanging around Dwayne at the cybercafé is Jerri (Paula Malcomson), who’s mainly here to ridicule the “hairlip” and give another Deadwood alumnus something to do for a few episodes.
The Stinkweed Operation
The pilot opens with Linc Stark (Luke Perry) spying on Mitch Yost, who manages to still surf (just not professionally) in spite of his injury. They have a brief discussion that indicates there’s a history there, and popping into the scene is John Monad, who instructs Linc to “get in the game” and Mitch to “get back in the game.” Linc’s attempts to sign Mitch’s grandson to a contract are fruitless, so he instructs his secret employee/aspiring documentary filmmaker, Cass (Emily Rose) to seduce Mitch, hoping to keep an eye on the Yost patriarch, if not outright sway his decision.
(One way Milch was possibly thumbing his nose at HBO was his refusal to depict any of his actors nude, even the ones cast because of their obvious physical beauty. So while sex is an element of some plots, the show itself cuts away from almost all lovemaking, depriving HBO of any of that trademark nudity.)
After Linc witnesses firsthand the miracle of Shaun’s healed neck, and Cissy Yost is on the cusp of allowing Shaun to sign with Stinkweed, he’s faced with a dilemma. He feels an obligation to spread the gospel, so to speak, about the miracle but realizes this will turn off at least half of their potential demographic. This, very possibly, was a metacommentary on Milch’s part, acknowledging that much of HBO’s audience probably doesn’t care so much about an examination of man’s relationship with God, but he’s doing it anyway.
Initially, Linc appears merely to be an agent or manager, but a few episodes in, we learn he’s actually the owner of Stinkweed, the surf gear company that made millions during the heyday of Butchie Yost’s fame, back when he was their celeb spokesman. His second-in-command/best friend is Jake Ferris (Mark-Paul Gosselaar), who takes advantage of Linc’s existential crisis and convinces the board to fire Linc. Jake Ferris seems to have been a character created on the fly, however, introduced as a conman midway through the season, then actively participating in Linc’s selfless reinvention of Stinkweed during the closing episodes.
The Hotel Crew
Once we’ve reached the cast of the Snug Harbor hotel, we’re officially at the point of Too Many Characters. Initially, the episodes treat this group as the Greek chorus, commenting on the dramas surrounding the Yost family and occasionally showing bits of personality. Within a few episodes, however, there seems to be some effort to make Snug Harbor the focal point for John’s new ministry, the misfits at the hotel the unlikely disciples of this new message.
Introduced as a derelict hotel, Ramon Gaviota (Luis Guzmán) sticks around as manager because lawyer/surfing fanatic Meyer Dickstein (Willie Garson) has arranged for Butchie Yost to live as its sole occupant, even as Butchie’s destroying his life with drugs. Meanwhile, a figure from Butchie’s childhood, Barry Cunningham (Matt Winston) has a vision that grants him the winning numbers for the Mega Millions, purchasing the hotel with his lottery winnings. Barry was sexually assaulted in a room at the Snug Harbor at the age of ten, and two years later, was given a concussion by Butchie when he was bullying the effeminate boy with a broom handle. Barry’s had epilepsy ever since, his seizures granting him prophetic visions. (Milch’s comments seem to indicate he’s open to the theory people with seizures have a direct line to God others lack. The character of Barry Cunningham is given the most Deadwood-esque monologues during the series, for what that’s worth.)
Barry purchases the hotel with the plans of demolishing the place, hoping to eradicate the site of his childhood trauma, the harrowing incident he’s carried throughout life. After encountering John, however, Barry instead decides to face his past abuse, renovate the hotel, and go into business with Ramon and Dickstein.
A psychological block nearly prevented me from mentioning the two latest residents of the hotel, “The Hawaiians” -- two buffoonish drug dealers who clearly aren’t native Hawaiians. The story justification is that druglord Steady Freddie Lopez (Dayton Callie) has left his operation in Hawaii to personally beat up Butchie, who’s furious Freddie ordered his lackey Palaka (Paul Ben-Victor) to sell him a “burn bag” (fake drugs.) Freddie did this because he knew Butchie would O.D. and die if he bought that much heroin, yet he’s still willing to catch a flight and personally beat Butchie when he leaves Freddie a nasty voicemail.
There’s some talk of Bill Jacks overlooking Freddie’s life as a criminal and finding a new friend, and Palaka is allegedly here as comedic relief, but these characters often seem useless. Just look at them -- they’re two “tough guys” the Fonz might have to deal with outside the Friday night sock-hop. Dayton Callie is a fine actor, but this is possibly the worst role he was ever given. The guy already looks like he’s drawing Social Security here -- we’re supposed to buy him as some menacing bonebreaker?
Finally, on the periphery of the hotel cast is Vietnam Joe (Jim Beaver), a vet still carrying mental scars from the war, who somehow knows that Butchie stays at the hotel and delivers John to his front door.
Milch clearly had plans for these players, the idea being all are social outcasts who will serve as improbable apostles of John, but nearly every scene with these characters feels like a distraction from the real story. If the focus of the series was only on Butchie, or Mitch and Cissy, maybe there would be room for these guys, but we’re already expected to care about the entire Yost family, their friends, their store, and the business operation they feel burned them in the past. It’s just too much.
Banned from the Actors’ Studio
The cast of John can be broken into three categories: Those cast for acting ability, those cast for their looks, and those cast for their surfing ability. Overwhelmingly, those cast for their looks can’t act, and those cast for their surfing ability are even worse. To be fair, some grow noticeably as actors over the course of ten episodes, and at least one of the weakest players here went on to headline her own series. That doesn’t excuse the painful first impression they’re making in the early episodes of this series, though. Milch’s dialogue isn’t easy for even a marginally skilled actor, so tossing these byzantine sentences and quirky monologues at novices didn’t do the players or audience any favors.
There are some fine performances, it’s just that the better actors tend to exude the East Coast, and aren’t convincing at all as Southern California natives. Ed O’Neill is playing the same New York cop we saw on Big Apple, yet he’s inexplicably an LAPD retiree. And Bruce Greenwood is compelling in every scene he appears in, yet never once comes across as the native-born California surfing god he’s intended to be.
As for Rebecca DeMornay, there’s no way anyone could buy that as a West Coast accent…and, lordy, are her screaming scenes hard to take, even though I do admire her commitment in depicting just how nasty real-life fights can be. And considering how many of the minor roles on the series went to Deadwood alumni, it’s very possible there are more Southern accents present than Southern California ones. Garret Dillahunt is a fantastic actor, but I can’t possibly buy him as a native Californian. Mark-Paul Gosselaar, meanwhile, is credible as someone involved with pro surfing, and handles his first actual dose of Milch dialogue well, but only has a small part in three episodes.
The best actor to meld SoCal with Milch Speak is Brian Van Holt as Butchie. This guy I can buy as a beach bum, but also damaged and secretly smart enough to talk like a Milch character. I don’t even know what he’s done since this show, but he deserved a ton of work after this role, and I’d love to see him in another Milch series.
Did Any of This Come Together?
John from Cincinnati is hindered by some weak performances, an overly ambitious narrative, and a lack of authenticity in its core premise. It’s one thing to take pro surfing as your starting place and use it as a way to discuss man, art, and God. An argument can be made that surfing is itself an art, complicated by the issues always surrounding commerce and fame once you turn pro. You can even claim that facing the waves is one way to connect with God. All fine, but bringing 9-11 into this was always a stretch, and it’s obvious when watching these episodes that Milch really couldn’t care less about the nuances of the sport or surfing lifestyle. While NYPD Blue and Deadwood benefited from Milch’s research into the world of his characters, the domain of the Yost family feels intensely shallow.
The series is also attempting to reaffirm a theme at the center of Deadwood, the paradoxical idea that we all exist as individuals but also as members of a community. The final episodes try to present the case that the Yost family has been disconnected from the community of Imperial Beach, focused instead on allowing their personal wounds to fester, a problem resolved when the town comes together to search for the missing Shaun. The concept feels as if it comes out of nowhere, and requires us to forget the Yosts own a surf shop in the middle of the community. If the store had been established as derelict, the empty storefront serving as a symbol of the Yosts’ abandonment of their community, the idea wouldn’t feel so arbitrary.
Another element the show communicates very poorly is the idea of aspiring filmmaker Cass following John’s guidance, documenting the vibrant life of Imperial Beach even though she doesn’t know what exactly she’s filming. Somehow, this footage of open air markets and Mexican wrestlers is going to provide an anecdote to America’s lost direction, post 9-11. In retrospect, it’s slightly more obvious Cass’ footage is capturing the hubbub and excitement of the community allegedly abandoned by the Yosts, but this doesn’t serve as much of a payoff after episode after episode of the character aimlessly searching for inspiration.
When the show does connect, however, it leaves a noticeable impact. Butchie and Kai’s healed friendship, Bill Jacks finding the strength to climb the steps and visit his late wife’s deathbed for the first time, Dr. Smith choosing to quit his job in order to spare the Yosts the legal complications surrounding their miracle, Barry entering the room that’s scarred him since the age of ten, and the way the childlike John ingratiates himself with the cast of damaged souls can’t be dismissed. Additionally, the theological issues raised are compelling, if you’re willing to look past the opaque delivery of the ideas. Certainly the strangest show Milch has ever produced, John from Cincinnati isn’t for everyone, but patient viewers will likely be rewarded.
John’s voiceover in the final episode details where the show would’ve gone in a hypothetical second season. There seems to be an idea that the three female characters who slept with members of the Yost family during these episodes are now all pregnant, with Kai somehow having a special role as a mother.
The father John consistently refers to is clearly intended to be God, yet the series finale throws two curveballs at the viewer. Linc learns from John that he also has a grandfather, which puts a wrinkle in the show’s theology, and we actually meet John’s father -- who turns out to be a used car salesman played by Peter Jason, Deadwood’s Con Stapleton. Maybe there was some payoff intended for Season Two here, but the scene just comes across as gibberish today.
The opening credits of the series, Joe Strummer’s "Johnny Appleseed" plays into one of the themes of John, the idea of Butchie’s life being destroyed by the machine surrounding his fame. (“If you’re out there getting the honey, then you don’t go killing all the bees.”)
I’m not sympathetic to the idea of anyone but Butchie being responsible for his addiction, by the way.
Butchie has money in the opening episode because he’s recently received his settlement from the city, a payout for falling asleep under a street sweeper. That’s such an oddly specific bit of backstory, it’s always amused me.
Every character on the show refers to Shaun as thirteen, but he declares himself fourteen in a conversation with Bill. Maybe the idea is that the Yosts are so dysfunctional they can’t even keep track of his age, but for all their faults, Mitch and Cissy do seem to be attentive adoptive parents of Shaun.
This bugged me when originally watching the episodes, and my position hasn’t changed. Miracles begin happening to characters in the show even before they come into contact with John, like when Shaun (who has yet to meet John) touches Bill’s parrot and somehow brings it back to life. This needlessly confuses the rules of the series.
A wiki exists for the show, if you’re looking for more annotations for this material: http://jfc.wikia.com/wiki/John_From_Cincinnati
Harley Quinn makes a cameo in the series, as a drawing on Shaun’s surfboard.
If you’re familiar with the condition known as opioid-induced constipation, you’ll notice a subtle clue that Butchie’s cured of heroin as soon as he meets John. And, yeah, I feel gross discussing this.
In the series finale, Butchie refers to himself as Tina Blake’s ex-husband, which doesn’t seem to fit with the idea of Shaun being their secret lovechild. If it’s public knowledge this famous surfer was married to a porn actress, and he has a son born during the time they were married, there’s no way the identity of Shaun’s mother is a secret.
Over half of Luke Perry’s lines sound looped throughout the series’ run. No clue what the story behind that is.
The behind-the-scenes footage of Milch explaining John’s sermon at the hotel reveals some plotlines that were excised from the show, like Ramon sneaking in “kids with hairlips” across the border into the US for medical aid and housing them in his hotel, and Dr. Smith renting out a medical clinic to treat them.
If the series did turn out to be a big hit, how would’ve Milch handled the actual, uneventful day of 9-11-14?
Next Time: I gave up on Luck after two episodes. Should I try again?
Posted by G. Kendall at 6:30 PM
Labels: Deadwood, John from Cincinnati, The Milch Studies, TV
wwk5d January 30, 2018 at 1:06 PM
"I don’t even know what he’s done since this show, but he deserved a ton of work after this role"
Cougar Town!
G. Kendall January 31, 2018 at 9:03 PM
Never seen it, even though I know that show's been on for seventeen years or something.
wwk5d February 1, 2018 at 12:44 AM
It's actually a pretty decent show, despite the title. It ended a couple of years ago.
angmc43@hotmail.com February 1, 2018 at 4:10 AM
Any comment about Luke Perry's performance?
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All Fabulous
What is the HPV virus and what are the symptoms of cervical cancer?
By Alana Moorhead and Natalie Keegan
27 Jun 2019, 9:12
Updated: 27 Jun 2019, 13:33
HPV can affect about half of sexually active people and lead to cervical cancer.
The sexually transmitted virus is the most widespread worldwide, according to Jo's Trust.org - but what else do we know about it?
The human papillomavirus (HPV) is a very common sexually transmitted disease which affects at least half of people who are sexually activeCredit: Getty Images
What is the HPV virus?
The human papillomavirus (HPV) is a very common sexually transmitted infection which affects at least half of people who are sexually active.
The STI is the most widespread worldwide and four out of five of the population will contract some form of the virus at least once in their life.
In most cases, the body's immune system will fight off the virus and there won't be any need for extra tests, in fact, some people may not even know they contracted it at all.
The HPV infection affects the skin and mucosa (any moist membrane, such as the lining of the mouth and throat, the cervix and the anus).
And different types impact different parts of the body, causing lesions e.g. HPV types 1 and 2 cause verrucas on the feet.
Out of the 100 identified types of HPV, around 40 of them affect the genital areas of men and women, and of these roughly 20 are associated with the development of cancer.
It's recommended that all women under 26 years old have a HPV vaccineCredit: Getty Images
Dentists have warned that dating apps such as Tinder are putting more people at risk of catching HPV passed on by oral sex.
The British Dental Association said: “Data used to model sexual behaviour are out of date, and factors such as the recent introduction of dating apps may have led to significant changes in behaviour over the last few years, which have not been taken into account.”
Can I get vaccinated against the HPV virus?
The Gardasil vaccine protects against HPV-16 and HPV-18, which combined are responsible for around 70 per cent of cervical cancers.
The vaccine can also protect against HPV-6 and HPV- 11, the two types of strains that cause most causes of genital warts.
Up until recently it was only girls aged 12 and 13 who were offered the HPV vaccine as part of the NHS childhood vaccination programme.
However, it has recently been announced that boys of the same age will routinely be offered the vaccination, starting in the school year 2019-2020.
If you have missed the vaccine at that age and you're under the age of 18, you can have the vaccine free on the NHS, but they will need three doses of the jab as it's not as effective in older girls.
The Centres for Disease Control and Prevention recommend that all women ages 26 and younger received the vaccine and it's not just women - men under 21-years-old should too.
Vaccination against the virus that causes almost all cervical cancer is having a major impact on stopping infections and should significantly reduce cases of the disease within a decade, researchers said on June 26, 2019.
Presenting results of an international analysis covering 60 million people in high-income countries, scientists from Britain and Canada said they found "strong evidence" that vaccination against the human papillomavirus (HPV) works "to prevent cervical cancer in real-world settings".
Stacey revealed she’d contracted HPV from a former boyfriendCredit: ITV
Should children be vaccinated against the virus?
While children currently get their first dosage of the vaccine in year eight, leading doctors have now argued that primary school children should also be vaccinated.
Doctors have warned that both girls and boys should have the HPV jab aged 11 or younger to prevent oral and cervical cancer.
This is because the HPV vaccination needs to be given to young people before they become sexually active.
However, the vaccine has been subject to controversy since it was first introduced in schools as some critics say that it encourages young people to be sexually promiscuous.
What are the symptoms of the HPV virus?
According to Jo's Trust.org, the majority of infected individuals will have no obvious signs or symptoms, so it is difficult to tell whether someone is infected.
However, as the HPV virus lives in mucous membranes and genital warts show up, that's a good indication of HPV infection.
According to webmd.com, genital warts take on many different appearances, they can be raised, flat, pink, or flesh-coloured and can be a single wart or multiple.
Genital warts can take weeks or even months to show up after sexual contact and partner may not even know they have the HPV infection.
The only way be sure an individual hasn't been exposed to HPV is through abstinence, which is fairly unlikely for people, however the risks can be reduced if you avoid casual sex with multiple partners.
Symptoms of HPV can be silent but as the virus lives in mucous membranes and genital warts show up, that’s a strong sign of infectionCredit: Getty Images
What celebrities have had HPV?
Jeff Brazier has admitted Jade Goody’s life could have been saved if she had been given the HPV vaccine as a teenager.
The tragic Big Brother star passed away in 2009 from cervical cancer when she was just 27.
During an appearance on Loose Women, Jeff opened up about how Jade’s cancer was linked to HPV (human papillomavirus).
When asked if the vaccine would have saved Jade, Jeff replied: “It would have altered the course, almost definitely.”
Jeff was speaking about the difficult subject as he continues to raise awareness of the links between HPV and male cancers.
The link between male cancers and HPV is not well known and that’s what Jeff is trying to change.
Jeff Brazier has said Jade Goody’s life could have been saved if she had been given the HPV vaccineCredit: ITV
Jeff admitted he’d spoken to his and Jade’s eldest son Bobby about the vaccine.
Previously, Melinda Messenger sparked debate when she revealed she won't be giving her 13-year-old daughter the HPV vaccine.
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Conquering Territories in the Digital Age: CIMA’s Wrestler of the Year Case
Posted by Case Lowe | Dec 20, 2018 | Columns
CIMA has always been ahead of the curve. He was the first one to give Jack Evans and Matt Sydal international exposure, he saw talent in acts like PAC and Ricochet far before the rest of the world did, and in a strange turn of events, CIMA saw wrestling’s changing landscape and decided to jump promotions. As we gear towards the start of 2019, the cool thing to do seems to be signing a contract with a new promotion. Money and opportunities are being thrown at wrestlers, all so a promotion can claim the wrestler as theirs. CIMA has done the opposite. He split from the promotion that he quite literally built from the ground up, began bouncing around from promotion to promotion, and has ended the year with more buzz than he entered the year with. CIMA, backed by an army of disciples, has quietly shifted the tide in Japanese wrestling.
CIMA entered 2018 fresh off of a 13-month Open the Twin Gate Championship reign with Dragon Kid. To most Western fans, that reign of dominance, which included victories over ten different teams, was looked at as possibly CIMA’s last great run of his career. The Ultimo Dragon trainee entered the year at age 40, and for the past decade has been put on the sidelines with numerous serious injuries. It looked like CIMA was finally entering a post-prime run that he had been able to fend off for so long.
His booking at the beginning of the year indicated such. He was placed in an embarrassing comedy tag at Dragon Gate’s January Korakuen and felt lost in the wilderness of Dragon Gate’s midcard. In fact, his first match of note this year didn’t take place in Dragon Gate, despite featuring both himself and another then-Dragon Gate superstar, Shingo Takagi.
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On the Oriental Wrestling Entertainment debut show, Takagi teamed with Zachary Wentz and Dezmond Xavier, both of whom CIMA had recently plucked out of the midwest indie scene to tour Dragon Gate, to take on CIMA, Gao Jingjia, & Wulijimuren, who both came from the OWE dojo that CIMA took over in November 2017.
While this match will finish on no one’s top 10 lists at the end of the year, it is a key match in CIMA’s 2018 journey. This was the first time that OWE trainees had been exposed to the masses, and it became very apparent that CIMA had his hands on a new generation of talent and his mind on a new style of wrestling.
We are not here to fawn over the athleticism of the OWE kids, though I assure you that an article will be written about it one day. It should be added that the next thing CIMA did of note was also away from Dragon Gate, as he took his talents to Tijuana for a lucha dream match with Rey Horus, Extreme Tiger, the Lucha Bros, and Rey Mysterio Jr.
Full match here.
Both of these matches had a certain novelty to them, but are by no means Earth-shattering, mind-numbing, MOTY-type matches. They are fun novelty matches, the former due to the inexperience of some of the people in the ring, and the latter due to the worldly experience of some of the people in the ring.
CIMA would return to Dragon Gate at the end of February to take part in Kotoka’s final tour before he retired due to injury. He was on the losing side of Kotoka’s retirement match and then spent the rest of the month wasting away in multi-man tags before jetting off to Singapore for one match when he teamed with Shun Skywalker.
Then, silence.
April 2018 marked the first time since January 2009 that CIMA went a month without wrestling. He was absent from Dragon Gate cards. He was nowhere to be seen, even on obscure foreign indie shows. CIMA was gone.
CIMA bid a farewell to the promotion that he helped build from the ground up on May 4. It took eight minutes for CIMA and the aforementioned Gao Jingjia to defeat T-Hawk and Scorpio X2, who was showcasing his talents to the world for the first time ever. This match felt out of place; a showcase match in the middle of a go-home show for one of the company’s biggest shows of the year that featured three men not on the pay-per view that took place two days later (Jingjia, X2, and CIMA). While CIMA wasn’t even involved in the most buzzworthy spot of this match, it is an important match in CIMA’s 2018 journey. This match, more so than any other match in his career, marked a changing of the guard for CIMA. This change was represented by more than just a change in facepaint and a swap in color palettes, this was a cosmic shift in the world of Japanese wrestling that helped pave the road for CIMA’s path of destruction.
CIMA vs. Jun Tonsho от RealHero на Rutube.
It was announced on May 6 that CIMA was leaving Dragon Gate to focus his efforts on OWE full-time and that he’d be taking El Lindaman, T-Hawk, and Takehiro Yamamura with him. CIMA and T-Hawk would sail off to China for an exhibition match in OWE, then stop in Australia for two brief bouts, before returning to Japan in early June.
CIMA, T-Hawk, El Lindaman, Dezmond Xavier, Zachary Wentz, and a handful of OWE trainees joined together to form the Strong Hearts unit. We saw them plant their flag right as they were exiting Dragon Gate, and seemingly out of nowhere, they began their next quest in Wrestle-1 under CIMA’s guidance.
His first match in the promotion was a jaw-dropping display of brutality. Five stars for fun, if there was ever such a scale. He squashed W-1 homegrown upstart Jun Tonsho in under two minutes. This was the modern equivalent of Koko Ware vs. The Patriot. A dominating display of power and aggression, and in the case of CIMA vs. Tonsho, it immediately changed the direction of the promotion.
His in-ring performance peaked the next month when his new unit invaded Korakuen Hall in a battle against Jun Tonsho, Kaz Hayashi, Masayuki Kono, & Shuji Kondo in an eight-man elimination match on July 18th. CIMA was targeted directly by both Kondo and Tonsho. Tonsho wanted to erase the near-15 second squash that CIMA had bestowed upon him a month prior, while Kondo wanted to add fuel to a near-15 year beef between the two. In fact, it was the first time Kondo and CIMA had shared a ring since December 2004.
CIMA was the first eliminated in this match. Tonsho dropkicked CIMA off the apron, which not only redeemed Tonsho’s embarrassing performance from June, but helped Tonsho become a star in the making to the Wrestle-1 crowd.
Despite CIMA’s early elimination, his fingerprints were all over this match. This felt like a CIMA match, similar to the way that NJPW stalwarts Tomohiro Ishii or Hiroshi Tanahashi have developed their own style of match. CIMA has been working big-time multi-man matches for 20 years, and this was one of his masterpieces. He not only gave his opponents big spots to shine in like the aforementioned Tonsho spot, but he did a masterful job of setting up his own teammates to shine. Gao Jinga, T-Hawk, and El Lindaman came out of this match looking better than when they came in.
CIMA and Tonsho would once again front teams in August. CIMA’s crew would stay the same, while this team Tonsho was aided by Andy Wu, Masayuki Kono, & Takanori Ito. Strong Hearts proved to be a stronger this time, as Lindaman was able to plant and pin Tonsho with a Tiger Suplex this time around.
The month of September signaled world domination for CIMA and his Strong Hearts gang. CIMA would return to The Crash, this time alongside T-Hawk, to defeat Sobernaro and Volador Jr. A week later, CIMA returned to his old stomping grounds in Pro Wrestling Guerrilla in an attempt to reclaim the Battle of Los Angeles crown that he once held.
CIMA’s weekend didn’t generate the same amount of buzz that it did for others, perhaps due to his Night One match against Jody Fleisch that was a disappointment, but I put that on Fleisch considering the rest of CIMA’s output this year. He and Joey Janela put together a respectable bout on Night Three. That match will end up on no year-end spreadsheets, but it is a resume builder for CIMA’s singles matches. CIMA did his damage on the second night of the tournament, alongside his Strong Hearts companions Zachary Wentz & Dezmond Xavier.
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Much like the Blood Generation vs. Do FIXER six-man from Ring of Honor’s initial Supercard of Honor, CIMA put together a six-man that stood out from the pack in what was already a marvelous weekend of wrestling. In what can be dubbed as another CIMA-vision match, his trio and the Mexablood team of Bandido, Flamita, and Rey Horus put on what felt like a futuristic six-man match. There was a lot of high-flying, dives, and lucha-inspired offense on BOLA weekend, but none of it was done as crisp, as quick, or as beautifully as what these six men were able to accomplish with this tag match.
CIMA would end his month debuting in Fight Club Pro and Ireland’s OTT promotion, but not before heading back to Japan to once again plant his flag in a promotion. This time it was Dramatic Dream Team, the promotion that has been neck-and-neck with Dragon Gate for the coveted #2 spot in Japan for nearly a decade.
To say that CIMA ascended to the top of the card in DDT would be a falsehood. He showed up and immediately felt like the main event. His second match in DDT was the semi-main event of DDT’s annual Peter Pan show in Sumo Hall. Positioned as a drawing match with DDT’s generational ace, Konosuke Takeshita, CIMA took a building that had been unfriendly to Dragon Gate in the past and tore the house down in a classic against Takeshita. This ticks off the “singles epic” that CIMA needed on his WOTY checklist. The Takeshita match was an excellent display of CIMA thriving under the spotlight and nailing it as the center of attention.
CIMA has spent the last quarter of the year bouncing around Japan, claiming the KO-D Six-Man Tag Titles in DDT with Duan Yingnan and El Lindaman, dominating J-STAGE and K-Dojo, and torturing Jun Tonsho into Strong Hearts recruitment in Wrestle-1, only to kick him out and replace him with Seiki Yoshioka. Truly evil stuff.
CIMA’s case is not for Wrestling Observer Newsletter Most Outstanding Wrestler. His case is for the site’s Wrestler of the Year, an award named after Ric Flair and Lou Thesz, two men who dominated territory after territory by drawing at the gate, delivering in the ring, and simply standing out from the rest of their contemporaries. CIMA used the digital age to his advantage. He split from Dragon Gate, who for Western fans, has been harbored behind a frustrating paywall, and split for a new venture with Twitch streaming capabilities, then found himself in the accessible Wrestle-1 and DDT promotions, before ravaging through the most buzzworthy indies of the year. PWG, OTT, and Fight Club Pro have hosted the biggest names in wrestling this year. CIMA, time and time again, rose above the pack.
CIMA’s influence at the gate has been noticeable in the promotions that he’s popped up in like Wrestle-1 and DDT, but his effect on attendance has been most noticeable at the promotion he split from. Dragon Gate, for one of the first times ever, has struggled to put butts in seats. Their smashing success at Korakuen Hall came to an end, the house shows were noticeably down, and their biggest show of the year at Kobe World Hall was the lowest reported attendance in years. CIMA has not only disproved the myth that Dragon Gate draws on the brand name and not the talent, but he has proven that he was the draw as he’s helped Wrestle-1, a company who has always struggled to gain viewers, pull in some of their biggest and hottest crowds ever.
CIMA hasn’t had as many great matches as a WALTER or Will Ospreay this year, but CIMA has held up his end of the bargain in-ring this year, even without really having a great match until the middle of May. By my count, he’s had seven matches at **** or better. That destroys the total of anyone on WWE’s main roster, blows out a big name like Cody, and is right on par with someone like All Japan’s ace, Kento Miyahara. CIMA has also done this while wrestling just over 50 matches this year, and half of those were during his time on Dragon Gate’s death row.
Simply put, there isn’t an area of pro wrestling where CIMA hasn’t excelled this year. Labeling him as a wildcard is unfair, because, in reality, he’s a traveling ace. He doesn’t just show up to places to act as a special attraction; he shows up, plants his proverbial Strong Hearts flag in the ground, and dominates. 2018 saw CIMA get his swagger back. He’s one of the greatest wrestlers of all-time, a deserving WON Hall of Famer, and 2018 was his best year yet.
CIMA, before any of his contemporaries, has figured out how to conquer territories in the digital age and that is why he should be your 2018 Wrestler of the Year.
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movie review Jan. 24, 2014
Ebiri on Stranger by the Lake: A Cold, Cruel, Beguiling Mystery
By Bilge Ebiri
Photo: Strand Releasing
I probably shouldn’t even tell you that Stranger by the Lake is a thriller, since so much of this beguiling film’s beauty is in how it sneaks up on you, the way genre elements quietly insinuate their way into the story. Set entirely at a lakeside hot spot for cruising gay men, Alain Guiraudie’s film starts off like an odd romance, maybe even a mild comedy, before turning into a mystery and finally becoming … briefly, tantalizingly, something else.
The film follows Franck (Pierre Deladonchamps), a young man about whom we know practically nothing other than the fact that he spends many a summer day lounging naked around a placid, sheltered beach where men casually follow each other into the nearby woods for some anonymous (and, as presented onscreen, explicit) sex. At first, the film centers around Franck’s conversations with Henri (Patrick D’Assumcao), an older man getting over a breakup, who sits apart from the rest of the beach’s regulars and seems to have had it with the whole love and sex thing. Guiraudie isn’t much for context — it takes a few minutes into their first conversation before we even realize that Franck and Henri don’t know each other — but he has the confidence to lead us along the garden path without letting us know exactly where we’re going. The two men chat, Franck goes off in pursuit of a potential encounter, then he returns and they chat some more. Occasionally, Franck goes for a swim.
This could all probably get very tedious very quickly, but to go with the naturalism of his actors, Guiraudie has an offhand, painterly style that captures these men at rest in ways that are elegant without ever feeling composed. The director rarely comes in close to the characters, opting instead to regard them in full or wide shots: This not only makes their bodies ever-present, but also creates a strange aura of unknowability. The film is observant, yet, despite all that nudity and sex, rarely intimate. If you think about it, so, too, are these men, looking for sex but rarely seeking an actual connection. “You stay together till dusk, without knowing each other’s names, or exchanging phone numbers?” a bewildered outsider asks of Franck at one point.
Actually, Guiraudie does strike a note of intimacy when Franck becomes more involved with Michel (Christophe Paou), a mustachioed hunk whom he’d been scoping out. The sex between them gradually becomes more affectionate, even passionate, as Franck falls harder and harder. (Stranger by the Lake doesn’t try to titillate, but it’s also not dry or grim in its presentation of sex.)
The director’s subtle, unassuming style forces us to sharpen your eyes and ears — a good thing, because as we notice little things, the film’s tone becomes increasingly ominous. As Franck pulls away in his car every night, seemingly the last person to leave the beach, there’s a red car sitting parked there, its inhabitant nowhere to be seen. Such details accumulate, and suddenly, we’re watching a much different film.
That said, as a thriller, Stranger by the Lake isn’t exactly pulse-pounding. You sense that there’s more going on here than just the basics of plot; if the film had been made in the nineties, we’d all be saying it was an allegory for AIDS. In truth, Guiraudie seems more interested in what lies on the other side of the mystery. Can the anonymous idyll of this beach end in anything but emptiness and despair? If these men don’t get too close for fear of getting hurt, the director suggests that there might be good reason for that — and the film gains both suspense and poignancy as it leaves its sun-dappled world behind and plunges us into night. The mystery may be resolved, but the suspense and uncertainty remain. And so, Guiraudie ends his film on a cold, almost cruel note of existential solitude that just might, if you let it, break your heart.
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Andritz Acquires U.S. Bricmont Inc.
Published: March 30, 2012; 09:48 · (Vindobona)
The Austrian technology Group Andritz has acquired Bricmont Inc. from Inductotherm Group. Bricmont is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, and includes certain assets in China and India.
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The acquired company has about 85 employees and generates annual sales of approximately € 30m. It was agreed not to disclose the purchase price.
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It Just Got Easier to See a Cool Historical Maps Collection
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Screenshot of the new viewer for USGS historical topo maps.
It just got way, way easier to search and browse the US Geological Survey’s collection of historical topographic maps, thanks to a new online map viewer. These maps—more than 178,000 of them—date back to 1880, and they cover the entire country. Best of all, they’re free to download for anyone who wants to, say, check out the contours of the Grand Canyon or study the urbanization of the San Francisco Bay Area (see below).
Hunting for historical topo maps on the USGS site used to be confusing and annoying. It involved a lot of clicking on what you hoped was the right thing, squinting at the tiny preview maps, and twiddling your thumbs while the enormous full-sized version downloaded. And then starting over when it turned out to be the wrong thing.
It was even frustrating for USGS employees who needed to access the maps for their work, says Chris Garrity, a geographic information scientist at USGS. Garrity was one of those people, and a few years ago he decided to do something about it.
He first spent some time analyzing traffic to the old site to get a better handle on how people were using it. “We basically had two sets of users,” he said. “People just looking for maps of their home town, and people who knew exactly what they wanted—this place, at this time, at this scale.” He designed the new viewer to make life easier for both groups.
Now, browsing and searching for maps is much more intuitive. You can type or zoom in on a particular place, limit your search to maps of a particular scale or from a particular range of dates. You can download them in a variety of formats, from JPGs (fine for printing out a nice map to put on your wall), to KMZ files (to import into Google Earth), to GeoTIFFs (for the power users who wants to import maps into GIS software). There’s even a YouTube tutorial that teaches you some handy tricks (pro tip: hold the shift key and drag the mouse to highlight an area to zoom in on).
Garrity hopes to create a similar interface for the agency’s stash of geologic maps by the end of the year and to eventually include the most up-to-date topo maps. For now you can download files or buy prints of those newer topos from the USGS online store using the old interface. Be patient.
Palo Alto, 1899. Just left of center (click for a larger version), note the sparse development around Stanford University, which was founded in 1885, and the nearby town of Mayfield, which is now part of Palo Alto.
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Tea party favorite topples Lugar, Indiana's 6-term senator
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By Paige Winfield Cunningham - The Washington Times - Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Tea-party-backed candidate Richard Mourdock defeated longtime Sen. Richard G. Lugar of Indiana in Tuesday’s GOP primary, ending the career of one of the chamber’s two senior Republicans and giving Democrats a better chance at capturing the seat in November.
The race was widely seen as a key test of tea party anger against incumbents two years after that same sentiment disrupted a number of Republican races and powered insurgent candidates to wins across the country.
Already, a challenger in Utah said the race is a model for his bid to unseat Sen. Orrin G. Hatch, another veteran senator under fire for his record of trying to work with Democrats in the Senate.
Democrats saw Mr. Lugar’s defeat as an unexpected opportunity. Polls show their candidate, Rep. Joe Donnelly, would have lost to Mr. Lugar, but is running neck-and-neck with Mr. Mourdock.
Mr. Mourdock assured supporters that he’s ready to take on Mr. Donnelly and said he was grateful to hear earlier that evening from Sen. John Cornyn, Texas Republican and chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, that the national party is committed to his race.
“Mr. Donnelly has been close to Mr. Obama for the last several years,” he told his supporters Tuesday night. “We’re going to make that clear, and it’s not going to be accepted by the voters of Indiana.”
The race was called soon after polls closed at 7 p.m., underscoring the ease of Mr. Mourdock’s victory over Mr. Lugar, who entered the Senate in 1977. In early returns, Mr. Mourdock led 60 percent to 40 percent.
Mr. Lugar’s desperation showed over the past week when he resorted to pleading for voters of all stripes — even Democrats — to support him in the state’s open primary.
“I’m appealing to all of the people of Indiana — I emphasize all — to ask for a Republican ballot today and to vote for me,” Mr. Lugar told CNN’s “Starting Point” as polls opened Tuesday.
After Tuesday’s results became clear, President Obama issued a statement on the career of his former Senate colleague.
“Sen. Lugar comes from a tradition of strong, bipartisan leadership on national security that helped us prevail in the Cold War and sustain American leadership ever since,” Mr. Obama said. “He has served his constituents and his country well, and I wish him all the best in his future endeavors.”
Dark clouds had been gathering over Mr. Lugar for months after tea party groups made the elder statesman, a moderate Republican, their chief congressional target this year.
The GOP primary quickly turned into a nationally scrutinized showdown as the Club for Growth and other Mourdock supporters poured some $3 million into ads lambasting Mr. Lugar for voting for the automakers bailout and tax hikes over his six terms, while groups supporting Mr. Lugar spent half that.
Mr. Mourdock pounded his core message that the 80-year-old senator had turned into a Washington insider, slamming him for living away from Indiana for years, highlighting Mr. Lugar’s congenial relationship with Mr. Obama and criticizing the senator for voting to confirm Mr. Obama’s liberal Supreme Court nominees.
Suddenly, Mr. Lugar found himself struggling to defend things he once touted as accomplishments; among them, working with Democrats on foreign policy and earning the title of one of the two longest-serving Republicans in the Senate. Mr. Lugar and Mr. Hatch were both first elected in 1976.
The Lugar campaign knew it was in trouble last week when a final poll showed him trailing Mr. Mourdock by a full 10 points, more than undoing the slim lead he had held for the past few months.
Meanwhile, Mr. Mourdock, 60, solidified his status as a tea party darling in recent weeks, pocketing endorsements from former Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and sticking to his core message that Mr. Lugar had been in Washington too long.
“Honestly, as I look at our nation’s capital, I feel more frustrated with Republicans than Democrats,” he told voters at a Lincoln Day dinner on Sunday. But “bipartisanship has taken us to the brink of bankruptcy. It is not bipartisanship we need; it is principle.”
Other tea party-backed candidates are striving to overthrow establishment Republicans in Texas and in Utah, where former state Sen. Dan Liljenquist forced Mr. Hatch into a primary in June. In 2010 in Utah, three-term Republican Sen. Robert F. Bennett was defeated by a GOP challenger, Mike Lee, who went onto hold the seat for the GOP.
Mr. Lugar hadn’t faced a primary challenger since joining the Senate in 1976, and it showed. He appeared rusty on the campaign trail as he struggled to convince voters that his experience with foreign policy and his ability to work across the aisle were strengths, not weaknesses.
Some analysts said he failed to take Mr. Mourdock seriously soon enough after the Tea Party Express announced last year that it would heavily back the second-term treasurer, giving him an strong initial boost.
Others said he could have done a better job of explaining issues before Mr. Mourdock had a chance to exploit them — such as a question of whether Mr. Lugar could even vote in Indiana, which was eventually resolved when election officials agreed he could register using the address of a family farm.
“It would have been better to just swallow hard on some things, whether it was residency or defending the votes for [Sonia] Sotomayor and [Elena] Kagan,” said Ed Feigenbaum, editor of several political newsletters in the state, referring to President Obama’s Supreme Court nominees. “And explaining, ‘Yeah, maybe it would have looked better if I had had a residency in the state, but I do have the family farm, no big deal.’ “
Mr. Lugar did tout his coveted endorsement from popular Gov. Mitch Daniels, a fellow Republican, airing several television ads with the governor praising his experience and reputation as a statesman. But even Mr. Daniels refused to denounce Mr. Mourdock, calling him a “thoroughly credible person who is a friend and ally of mine” last week.
The GOP presidential candidates were also on the ballot for Indiana voters, with 64 percent voting for Mitt Romney and 15 percent backing Ron Paul at press time.
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Republic CEO: 'Recycling is a product our customers want to buy'
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Q2 Earnings
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YoY Change 3.9%▲
Adjusted EBITDA $690M
Recycling markets are still in a slump, but Republic Services CEO Don Slager said that "growth in the solid waste business is more than offsetting the headwind" and remained upbeat about turning this increasingly small portion of the company's revenue around during the second quarter earnings call.
This follows comments from Slager during the first quarter call about how the market disruption could be an opportunity, with even more specificity on how Republic is broaching the topic with customers. Republic has already seen success raising processing rates for open market commercial customers and third-party MRF tonnage, but said municipal contracts will take more time.
Municipal Recycling:
Of the company's 1,100 municipal customers, Slager said 10% have agreed to "incremental" price increases. Another 60% are "reviewing and approving price adjustments or considering implementing the new pricing structure by the next contract cycle."
While the average five-year contract length and "political aspect" of decision-making could slow discussions, Republic is heartened by early signs. "The good news is individuals, consumers want to recycle, staff wants to recycle and certainly city councils and mayors don't want to give up recycling," said Slager, while noting that "We certainly have a handful of customers who kind of scoffed at it. We'll have to reassess whether we like that partnership or not."
Republic is trying to frame a doubling or triple in rates down to "the lowest denominator" by showing how this is still less than the average person pays for their Internet service or a "cup of designer coffee." Otherwise "when you aggregate that spend to 10,000 residents, then the decision maker gets nervous ... because it becomes a big dollar amount."
With Republic's average commodity prices — excluding glass and organics — down 42% YoY, the company is also looking for ways to optimize its sorting technology and access different markets. According to Slager, roughly 60% of material now stays domestic and "we're virtually sending nothing to China."
A sustained demand for packaging feedstock around the world has helped Republic "move paper pretty easily to other markets" — a rosier version of the story Republic is telling in Seattle or other areas — and is seen as a sign that a new system will emerge from this Chinese catalyst.
Exactly what that new system will cost, and how soon those increases should kick in, is an evolving question. Not every local government may have the flexibility to change terms mid-contract for budgetary reasons. Though for many of them, recycling is also a critical service that needs to continue due to disposal constraints or broader environmental targets. For Republic and its shareholders, recycling is a "product" that some people are willing to pay more for to "feel good about doing something for the environment."
Figuring out just how much responsibility service providers have to keep U.S. recycling systems functional, especially in areas without clear state or local requirements, is an increasingly complex discussion that will play out for years to come. For Republic and other large competitors, the math is clear.
"We're only going to invest in recycling where the returns are warranted and where the construct of the contract is fair and reasonable and equitable," said Slager.
As has been the case for multiple quarters now, Republic continues to report positive signs in just about every other area of business.
Republic spent $56 million on tuck-in acquisitions during Q2, plus $42 million in July, bringing its M&A spend to $123 million so far. The company expects to hit $200 million for 2018, and continue spending $100-150 million "for several years at least."
The company has now converted $590 million, or about 25% of its CPI-based contracts, to "a waste-related index or a fixed-rate increase of 3% or greater for the annual price adjustment."
$328 million was spent on dividends and share repurchases, and Republic's board approved a 9% increase in the quarterly dividend. This marks the ninth consecutive year the dividend was increased.
Looking Ahead:
Labor pressures are an ongoing conversation in the industry, but Republic claims to have a lower turnover rate than anyone else. Both the time required to fill open positions and turnover rate for technicians were down YoY. Though Slager did say Republic is raising wages and "rethinking some of our pay plans" in certain markets.
Slager said he hopes to eventually get pricing to a 3% yield in the future and is aspirational that $700 million worth of contracts could eventually be converted to the CPI model. "We're not talking about light speed here. But when you factor in a very nice steady diet of 1% to 2% volume, price in excess of inflation, the model sings a very nice song and we're going to continue to build on a great cash flow."
Republic reaffirmed its full-year EPS guidance of $3.05-3.10 and adjusted free cash flow of $1.09-1.114 billion. The company expects to come in at the low end of those ranges if commodity prices remain at July levels.
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Purdue Receives $12M Federal Grant To Develop Cybersecurity Apprenticeship Program
By Samantha Horton • Jul 2, 2019
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U.S. Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta visited Purdue University Tuesday to announce the school’s Polytechnic Institute has been awarded a $12 million grant to ramp up its cybersecurity apprenticeship program.
During his visit, Acosta talked with students, faculty and cybersecurity business leaders on how the grant might meet the growing industry’s needs. A 2017 report from Cybersecurity Ventures projects the cybersecurity field will post between 1.5 million to 3.5 million job openings from now to 2021.
Acosta says after looking at other countries’ apprenticeship programs, he thinks the U.S. needs more collaboration.
“This partnership between the federal government, educational institutions and business is the best approach to providing education and in-demand skills simultaneously,” says Acosta.
Polytechnic Institute Dean Gary Bertoline says the program plans to work with cybersecurity businesses to streamline the transition for graduates into a job in the field.
“Believe it or not, most companies actually spend a long time training new graduates and we need to close that gap a little bit,” says Bertoline.
Purdue is one of 23 private-public apprenticeship programs to be awarded some of the $183.8 million in federal funding for the initiative. Additional funding for the program will come from some of those private corporations looking to add jobs.
CLARIFICATION: A previous version of this story named expert projections for the cybersecurity field. We have updated the story to include the report and group those projections come from.
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State Kicks Off New School Cybersecurity Initiative
By Jeanie Lindsay • May 7, 2018
Cybersecurity in schools is the focus of a new initiative from the Indiana Department of Education, and it includes thousands of dollars in funding for some schools.
The initiative aims to get schools on the same page, and more prepared, in terms of cybersecurity. Schools can apply for matching grants of up to $25,000 to build up their cybersecurity systems, and improve 24-hour system monitoring.
The department’s chief technology officer John Keller says it’s crucial, since more schools are offering more tech to students.
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By Bill Hendrick
April 16, 2009 -- A team of South Dakota scientists has invented a new super-paint strong enough to kill superbugs that infect hospital patients and kill thousands of people annually, says a new report.
The paint, which is designed to decorate and disinfect homes, businesses, and health care settings, kills disease-causing bacteria, mold, fungi, and viruses, according to research published in the American Chemical Society’s journal, Applied Materials & Interfaces.
University of South Dakota researchers Yuyu Sun, PhD, and Zhengbing Cao, PhD, say the paint is the most powerful to date and shows promise as a killer of antibiotic-resistant microbes that infect hospital surfaces and cause about 88,000 deaths in the U.S. every year.
The researchers say the paint provides “potent antimicrobial activities” against dangerous bugs, including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, which has become a major problem in health care settings and the community.
“When any building or furnishing is damp for more than 48 hours, mold may grow,” the scientists write in the article. “Water damage due to roof or plumbing leakage, floods, and poor drainage of rainwater runoff or landscape irrigation can significantly promote mold growth.”
Mold, in addition to causing physical damage to building materials, also can sensitize and produce allergic responses in some individuals. Mold exposure, the scientists write, also can cause serious fungal infections.
“Another increasingly important application of antimicrobial paints is to help control the wide spreading of health care-associated infections (HAIs) and community-acquired infections,” they write. “HAIs, which are increasingly associated with multi-drug resistant pathogens, including methicillin-resistant Staphyloccus aureus (MRSA) and vancomycin-resistant enterococcus cause an estimated 88,000 deaths and $4.5 billion in excess healthcare costs in the United States.”
The new paint won’t completely eliminate transmission of such infections, they say, but has the potential to significantly reduce it.
According to the researchers, antimicrobial paints in stores now provide protection against only a narrow range of disease-causing microorganisms.
The new paint stays potent for extended periods and can be recharged with a simple chlorination process, the authors write in their report.
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Pulmonary hypertension, essentially high blood pressure that exists in the blood vessels in the lungs, usually affects young women -- causing progressively more difficulty breathing.
In many instances, the cause is not known and is called primary pulmonary hypertension. Researchers have never been able to discover the exact reason behind the stiffening blood vessels associated with this illness, which is more commonly known as PPH.
In other cases, the stiffening can be due to some other medical problem, such as scleroderma. Researchers also don't know the exact cause of this problem, but people with scleroderma get tightening of their skin as well as their internal organs.
Currently, the only available treatment for pulmonary hypertension is getting hooked up to an IV to have a medicine called Flolan delivered directly into your vein. This requires you to have some kind of permanent access to your veins implanted under the skin.
But now, researchers have found that a medicine called bosentan, which can be taken by mouth, can improve breathing in those with pulmonary hypertension. Bosentan works in a similar way to Flolan by relaxing the blood vessels in the lung, thus lowering the pressure and allowing more oxygen to get into the bloodstream and to the rest of the body.
The study is published in the Oct. 6 issue of the medical journal The Lancet.
Looking at 32 people either with PPH or pulmonary hypertension due to scleroderma, study author Richard N. Channick, MD, and colleagues found that after taking bosentan for 12 weeks, these participants in the study had significant improvement in how far they could walk while those taking placebo continued to worsen.
Neither the researchers nor the patients knew if the patients were receiving bosentan or placebo. This is done in medical research so that people's perceptions of how they should be doing don't interfere with the findings of the study.
In addition, those taking bosentan had improvement in their heart function, which is also affected in people with pulmonary hypertension, and had overall improvement in their ability to function throughout the day compared to those taking placebo.
Channick and colleagues report that their findings are very promising for the treatment of this often-fatal medical problem but more research must done in the area to confirm the effectiveness and safety of bosentan before the drug can be approved for use. Channick is with the division of pulmonary and critical care medicine at the University of California San Diego, Calif.
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If there's one thing that almost every guy is an expert at, it's masturbation. After years of extensive, hands-on experience, you think you know everything there is to know. But according to the experts, maybe you don't. Here are some that may surprise you.
1. Masturbation doesn't have the health benefits that sex does.
"It appears that not all orgasms are created equally," says Tobias S. Köhler, MD, MPH, an associate professor at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine in Springfield.
Study after study shows that intercourse has all sorts of benefits for men -- for your blood pressure, heart and prostate health, pain, and more. You'd think that masturbation would, too. But it doesn't.
Why would it make a difference whether you ejaculate during sex or on your own? No one's sure. But your body seems to respond differently. Even the makeup of semen is different if you masturbate instead of having sex.
Still, does it really matter? Have you honestly been masturbating all these years only because you wanted to boost your prostate health? Didn't think so. But one study, Harvard’s Health Professional Followup, showed that Masturbation may help lower risk of prostate cancer.
2. Masturbation is not risk-free.
Sure, it's low-risk. It's the safest form of sex possible. No one ever caught an STD from himself or made himself pregnant. But like other low-risk activities (chewing, walking), it still has some risks.
Frequent or rough masturbation can cause minor skin irritation. Forcefully bending an erect penis can rupture the chambers that fill with blood, a rare but gruesome condition called penile fracture.
Köhler has seen guys with it after vigorous masturbation. "Afterward, the penis looks like an eggplant," he says. "It's purple and swollen." Most men need surgery to repair it.
3. There's no "normal" amount of masturbation.
Guys can get hung up on whether they masturbate too much. But it's not how many times you masturbate in a week (or day) that really matters, says Logan Levkoff, PhD, a sexologist and sex educator. It's how it fits into your life.
If you masturbate many times a day and have a healthy, satisfying life, good for you. But if you masturbate many times a day and you're missing work or giving up on sex with your partner because of it, consider seeing a sex therapist.
Even then, there's nothing specific about masturbation that's the problem. Compulsive masturbation is like any behavior that disrupts your life -- whether it's compulsively playing poker or checking your social media every other minute.
4. Masturbating doesn't reflect on your relationship.
Levkoff says the most damaging myth about male masturbation is that it's a sign something is wrong in your relationship.
The fact is that most guys masturbate. They masturbate if they're single, in a bad relationship, or in a great relationship. It's just something they do that has nothing to do with their partners.
Masturbation isn't only about sex, Levkoff says. For many, it's a routine way of relieving stress, clearing your head before work, or going to sleep.
5. Masturbation is almost certainly good for your sex life.
Masturbation can help your sex life, since it's how guys learn what they like during sex. "I think women would be more satisfied sexually in their relationships if they masturbated as much as men do," Levkoff says.
Are there exceptions? Some guys do get so hooked on a certain amount of pressure during masturbation or the stimulation of porn that they can't perform with a partner, says Ian Kerner, PhD, a sex therapist and author of She Comes First.
Still, Kerner says those guys are the exception. "For the vast majority of men, masturbation is a healthy thing," he says. "I'm usually more concerned about a guy who's stopped masturbating -- which can be a sign of anxiety or health problems -- than a guy who's doing it regularly."
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Fund manager view: Look beyond consumer staples as valuations hit 20-year high
Written by: Colin McQueen
Sanlam’s Colin McQueen says that investors today are paying a pretty full price for what they love at present, however he argues there are some wide discounts on offer for companies out of favour.
The spread of valuations across the market is very wide at the moment. Back in February, the spread of valuations was almost as wide as what we witnessed during the technology bubble. When you find this sort of phenomenon, typically it suggests investors need to pay a lot more attention to valuations.
For example, the forward price/rate ratio of the consumer staples sector is at a 20-year high. Free cash flow yields for most consumer staples, such as Nestle, are trading in the range of 4-5%. While this is not catastrophically low, it is very low by historical standards.
However, if you cast the net wider and look at companies such as Microsoft, Oracle or some of the healthcare services names – there are free cash flow yields in the region of 6-7% or more.
Unlike many other strategies in this space, which hold significant positions in the consumer staples area, the largest exposure in our fund is healthcare. The implementation of Obamacare has opened up a lot of opportunities, but as for Hillary and her position on healthcare, what we have found over many years watching this space is that it is often very difficult for any President to get any major changes through the US Congress and Senate – despite it being a hot topic for candidates to mention.
US political views are incredibly polarised right now, which means it is difficult to enact any meaningful change one way or the other when these people come together. We believe the rhetoric is much louder than what the reality will be.
More and more healthcare services have been outsourced by both Democrat and Republican administrations over recent years and we see no reason why this trend will not continue. Healthcare is a great demographics story, but it imposes a cost on society to deliver it. Our positions in this space are quite evenly split between pharmaceutical and biotech names, medical device companies and services businesses. While you could argue pharma companies are often held up by politicians as increasing costs associated with healthcare, services companies are part of the solution in keeping costs down – so we like to have a spread of names in our portfolio.
One company we are bullish on right now is Medtronic, which is seeing its top-line growing at about 5-6% per year. Its penetration into emerging markets is at an early stage – accounting for about 15% of its business, but this is growing at 15-20% a year. People seek out better healthcare as their wealth increases and these markets are far less penetrated for healthcare than for companies offering shampoo, for example. We see a strong growth path for the company and a free cash flow yield of about 6%.
Outside of healthcare, we continue to have high conviction in the prospects for Oracle – which is managing the migration of customers from license-based revenue to higher margin Software as a Service (SaaS) revenue. Oracle is a stable company with a wide economic moat and strong free cash flow. It is currently being priced for zero to low growth. Even if Oracle’s economic moat is slowly being eroded, the stock is too cheap. The market is underestimating stickiness of the customer base and the extent to which Oracle has expanded its product portfolio to encompass new technologies, new platforms, and the way it is managing its transition to the Cloud. While in an earlier stage of its transition, we believe Oracle can see a similar shift in market perceptions as Microsoft.
Colin McQueen is the manager of the Sanlam FOUR Stable Global Equity fund
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WWE Cruiserweight Champion Neville vs. Enzo Amore
The Realest Guy in the Room has the opportunity to prove he is the new face of the Cruiserweight division when he challenges Neville for the WWE Cruiserweight Championship at WWE No Mercy.
The two Superstars have been on a collision course ever since Enzo Amore made his WWE 205 Live debut, moments after The King of the Cruiserweights retained the title against Akira Tozawa in a SummerSlam rematch. Despite losing the Cruiserweight Championship to Tozawa the week before The Biggest Event of the Summer, Neville has vanquished every challenger that has stepped forward to take his throne. However, The Certified G has certainly made a splash since changing divisions, and he’s poised to prove that Neville is S-A-W-F-T.
Since his debut in the Cruiserweight division, Enzo has claimed victory against Noam Dar in singles competition, and he has teamed up with Cedric Alexander and Gran Metalik on two occasions against Dar, Tony Nese and Drew Gulak. In those two Six-Man Tag Team Matches, The Certified G managed to pick up victories using rather questionable tactics. Following their second victory on Raw, WWE Cruiserweight Champion Neville – hungry for a challenger – informed Enzo, Alexander and Metalik they would face Nese and The Brian Kendrick in a Fatal 5-Way Elimination Match to determine who would challenge The King of the Cruiserweights at WWE No Mercy.
The Realest Guy in the Room defied the odds and earned the opportunity to challenge Neville for the coveted Cruiserweight Title, despite once again resorting to questionable tactics to stave off elimination and claim the victory. However, The Certified G now faces his greatest challenge to date: Claiming the throne from the WWE Cruiserweight Champion.
Will Enzo Amore silence all the haters and change the course of WWE 205 Live by claiming the WWE Cruiserweight Championship, or will he be the next challenger to bow down to The King of the Cruiserweights? Find out at WWE No Mercy tonight at 8 ET/5 PT, streaming live on WWE Network.
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Fund-Raising By U.S. Venture Capital Funds Fell 55% in 2009: We Have the Boston, San Diego, and Seattle Details, Too
It’s probably not much consolation for the entrepreneurs who tried to raise venture funding last year, but U.S. venture capital firms raised much less money from their institutional investors in 2009 than they have in recent years.
New figures from Dow Jones LP Source show that fund-raising by venture firms in 2009 fell almost 55 percent compared to 2008, with 120 funds raising slightly more than $13 billion nationwide. In 2008, 204 VC firms raised a total of $28.7 billion from pension funds, university endowments, insurance companies, wealthy individuals, and other investors. It hasn’t been that slow for VCs since 2003, according to Dow Jones.
The drop in VC fund-raising reflected a broader decline across the U.S. private equity spectrum, with buyout firms, funds-of-funds, and mezzanine firms all showing precipitous drops last year. Altogether, Dow Jones says 331 U.S. funds raised a total of $95.8 billion in 2009—down a staggering 68 percent from the $299.9 billion that 508 funds raised in 2008.
It was the first time in six years that private equity firms raised less than $100 billion. Bear in mind, though, that fund-raising by venture firms in 2008 was approaching a record pace until the fourth quarter, when the collapse of Lehman Brothers precipitated a plunge in PE fund-raising.
The only category showing an increase in fund-raising was the secondary firms that specialize in paying bargain-basement prices to take over the companies that conventional VCs are forced to throw overboard. Here’s a breakdown of fund-raising by firms in Xconomy’s cities, as well as nationwide totals for each of the five PE fund categories:
—The Boston region showed the strongest activity by far, with 34 PE funds raising almost $10.4 billion in 2009, according to the Dow Jones figures. More than … Next Page »
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James C. Roberts III says:
Interesting numbers put in context. Other factors raise some questions:
1. Is the trend suggested by these numbers a realization of the predictions last year that half the VC/PE funds would disappear because there was too much money chasing too few deals?
2. How does this compare with VC/PE raises in other countries or regions, especially the EU and China?
3. Whither greentech/cleantech VC investment?
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Lowcountry school supply drive aiming to help teachers who spend their own money on classroom materials
Riley Miller
(WJCL) - As we inch closer to August, area teachers are already preparing to go back to the classroom."Back to lesson planning," says Bridgette Frazier, 8th grade teacher at Hilton Head Island Middle School.And for those teachers, back to school can be an expensive time of year.“Teachers spend on average anywhere 100 to 1,000 dollars on their own supplies for students, for themselves, to create a wonderful classroom environment for their students," says Kim Hall, Executive Director of Bluffton Self Help.That’s a reality Frazier knows all too well."When you really believe in growing your students and having them achieve as much as they can, you understand that them not having materials isn’t worth the argument or making them feel bad, because you have no idea what a kid is going through," Frazier says.She says the district does provide a supplement for teachers, but when you’re buying supplies and incentives for entire classrooms, it only goes so far.“Even if we have to go and spend our own money, we do that because at the end of the day, you know, they are our kids," Frazier says.Bluffton Self Help is hoping to help alleviate that stress for teachers by hosting a Teacher Supply Drive.You can help by donating things like pencils, notebooks, index cards, calculators and more.The supplies will be kept in a teacher supply closet so teachers can get them as needed throughout the entire school year.It’s an effort teachers, like Frazier, say make all the difference when it comes to educating and empowering our future.“A little relief like that and that show of support goes a long way," Frazier says. You can take supplies to Bluffton Self Help on Sheridan Park Circle now through July 31st, and volunteers will be there to help unload your car.
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(WJCL) - As we inch closer to August, area teachers are already preparing to go back to the classroom.
"Back to lesson planning," says Bridgette Frazier, 8th grade teacher at Hilton Head Island Middle School.
And for those teachers, back to school can be an expensive time of year.
“Teachers spend on average anywhere 100 to 1,000 dollars on their own supplies for students, for themselves, to create a wonderful classroom environment for their students," says Kim Hall, Executive Director of Bluffton Self Help.
That’s a reality Frazier knows all too well.
"When you really believe in growing your students and having them achieve as much as they can, you understand that them not having materials isn’t worth the argument or making them feel bad, because you have no idea what a kid is going through," Frazier says.
She says the district does provide a supplement for teachers, but when you’re buying supplies and incentives for entire classrooms, it only goes so far.
“Even if we have to go and spend our own money, we do that because at the end of the day, you know, they are our kids," Frazier says.
Bluffton Self Help is hoping to help alleviate that stress for teachers by hosting a Teacher Supply Drive.
You can help by donating things like pencils, notebooks, index cards, calculators and more.
The supplies will be kept in a teacher supply closet so teachers can get them as needed throughout the entire school year.
It’s an effort teachers, like Frazier, say make all the difference when it comes to educating and empowering our future.
“A little relief like that and that show of support goes a long way," Frazier says.
You can take supplies to Bluffton Self Help on Sheridan Park Circle now through July 31st, and volunteers will be there to help unload your car.
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Purdue broadcaster working March Madness during cancer battle
by: Charlie Clifford
Posted: Mar 27, 2019 / 02:36 AM CDT / Updated: Mar 27, 2019 / 02:36 AM CDT
HARTFORD, Conn. (WISH) – Larry Clisby made it.
Six months ago, the voice of Purdue men’s basketball for nearly four decades, declared himself a dead man walking. At the age of 71, two grim diagnoses arrived last spring.
Clisby found out he had brain cancer and stage four lung cancer.
“When my finance and I found out I had metastasized brain cancer, we cried a little bit at first,” Clisby said. “The first thing I said was, ‘We don’t have a lot of choices here.'”
Clisby channeled his old Army mindset.
When asked to describe that mindset, Clisby said: “There was Canada, jail or the Army back in the day. So, as you may expect, this broadcasting lifer showed up to the fight.”
Boilers Head Coach Matt Painter, the man Clisby sits next to on the team bus and refers to as the “gregarious young fella” showed up too. Painter put $10,000 toward medical costs. And Painter then helped deliver something priceless: Purdue basketball in March.
“Well, I am glad to see it,“ Clisby said. “When this all began in June, heck, I didn’t know if I was going to make it to September. But, I did. Just in the last month I started feeling that I am okay. I walk kind of slow and stuff, but even those are getting better.“
Purdue. Painter. Carsen and Cliz. There is magic on that bus heading to Louisville for the Sweet 16.
“It has been quite a journey for me,“ Clisby added. “It has been difficult, but I have had a lot of help. The whole Purdue team, managers, coaches, and administrators have been incredibly helpful to me.“
Purdue faces Tennessee Thursday night. Clisby will have the radio call across the Purdue Sports Network.
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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WFXR) -- There was a sea of blue and orange outside of John Paul Jones arena, waiting for the new NCAA National Champions. Anyone in the city of Charlottesville could hear the screams from the crowd a mile away, and for the University of Virginia men's basketball team and head coach Tony Bennett, this win was for the community.
"This has been remarkable it is an amazing story from last year and even before but this community has kind of raised our guys and what they represent and to be able to bring them joy is as good as it gets," said Bennett.
UVA fans still celebrating historic win
by Brooke Williams / Apr 10, 2019
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WFXR) -- UVA fans welcomed home the men's basketball team with cheers in celebration of their national championship win. Throughout town, there was excitement in the air.
“I jumped up with joy and tears in my eyes," said Tearle Sims, a lifelong UVA fan.
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Number of Fentanyl deaths climbing in Middle Tennessee
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by: Andy Cordan
Posted: Mar 20, 2019 / 09:48 PM CDT / Updated: Mar 21, 2019 / 04:28 PM CDT
Fentanyl deaths are becoming more widespread.
According to the Metro Health Department, the number of deaths associated with Fentanyl has skyrocketed 190-percent from 60 deaths in 2016 to 174 deaths in 2018. And there are already 15 deaths attributed to Fentanyl in the first three months of 2019.
Brian Todd at the Metro Public Health Department says though many people died from a combination of drugs, Fentanyl is the common denominator.
“All of these involved Fentanyl, but many involved multiple drugs, so the cause of death was often acute combined drug toxicity.”
While 190-percent is an astronomical increase, Cheatham County saw a spike in Fentanyl deaths, too.
According to EMS director Danny Schaeffer, in 2016, two people died from Fentanyl-related deaths. In 2018, 10 people died. That’s a 400-percent increase.
“Alarming stats. And nothing to be proud of for sure.”
Schaeffer says a 17-year-old girl was found Tuesday, overdosed on an injectable opioid. First responders revived the teen with Narcan. He says the young girl could easily have died
“We’ve had three confirmed deaths this year off of Fentanyl.”
While three people have died so far this year, Schaeffer says they are awaiting toxicology results on other overdose deaths that could change the number of Fentanyl-related deaths.
“If a patient still has a needle stuck in their arm, chances are it is Fentanyl because we know how deadly it is,” said Schaeffer.
Fentanyl deaths dipped in 2017, going from two deaths in 2016 to zero deaths in 2017, according to Schaeffer.
“In 16, starting to see the OD deaths and it probably scared some folks, so in 2017, we had some ODs, we didn’t have as many deaths.”
Schaeffer also credits first responders carrying and using Narcan, which quickly and effectively counteracts the effects of an opioid-related overdose.
The 2017 numbers only lasted a year. Schaeffer says Fentanyl deaths jumped from zero in 2017 to 10 deaths in 2018, an increase of more than 900-percent.
“We continue to respond to the overdose calls and support programs for people who are addicts of prescription medications and street drugs. Yes. these numbers are actual people and it’s hard for us to keep going to people’s families and telling them their loved ones are dead because they overdosed.”
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Nashville detective treated for drug exposure following traffic stop
by Josh Breslow, Maura Sirianni / Jun 18, 2019
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — A woman has been charged after a Metro police detective was exposed to drugs during a traffic stop Monday in Nippers Corner.
Carly Pollock, 29, was booked into the Metro jail on a charge of assault on an officer causing serious injury.
Gallatin reports 2 more fatal overdoses in growing crisis across Tennessee
by Andy Cordan / Jun 17, 2019
After more than 20 people died in Middle Tennessee from what's believed to be a bad batch of dope, the state medical examiner is issuing a warning to alert the public.
No community is immune -- that includes Gallatin, where authorities are proactively investigating overdoses.
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Workers' Edge
Browse better with these three essential freebies (plus one valuable cheapie)
A friend bought a new notebook last week and asked what programs he needed to make it safe for the Internet. Here are the four programs I wouldn't browse without -- three are free (or donationware) for home use, and one is well worth its low price.
As a bonus, I've got a handy-dandy link for opting out of the annoying Tynt "service" that adds a site reference whenever you copy and paste text from a web page into a document.
Web of Trust (WOT): The add-on is available for Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari, and Opera. It puts an icon in your toolbar and to the right of all links in search results that indicates at a glance how safe the site is based on ratings by the WOT community: Safe (a green circle), caution (yellow), unsafe (red), and unknown (question mark). The icon also appears in the browser toolbar to indicate the safety of the site you're currently on. Select the icon to open the WOT rating window. In the window you can rate the site for trustworthiness and suitability for children.
I've gotten so accustomed to WOT ratings that I hesitate to browse without them. Of course, they're not fool-proof -- they're based on the aggregate of thousands of user ratings. But I'm amazed by the number of legitimate-looking links that have earned a red "unsafe" warning. Better safe than sorry.
NoScript (Firefox only): Videos and other animated content on the web are powered by scripts that the browser executes when the page opens. The script may be Java, JavaScript, Flash, Silverlight, or some other type of code. Malware often needs scripting to deliver its payloads. With NoScript, you enable scripting selectively. You can place sites on your safe-for-scripts list, or allow an individual script to run only when you click it. Many big-name sites are on the allow list by default, including PayPal, Google, Gmail, YouTube, and Microsoft.
Whenever the browser encounters a script element on a site not on your allow list, the script is paused and the NoScript icon appears in its place. To run the script, click the icon or anywhere in the script area.
You can tag a site as untrusted in NoScript by hovering over the icon and choosing Untrusted > Mark [site's name] as Untrusted. To enable all scripts on the current page, choose either the "Allow" or "temporarily allow" option" on the drop-down menu from the toolbar, or click the Options button in the NoScript bar that appears at the bottom of the page and make your selection.
Add the site to your allow list by choosing Options, entering the site address, and clicking OK. You can enable specific scripts on a page by opening the NoScript menu, hovering over Blocked Objects, and choosing the item in the pop-up window that appears.
After years of using NoScript, I either add sites to the allow list or play scripts on pages selectively. The only time I use the NoScript menu is to find out which sites are being blocked from running a script on the current page -- you might be surprised by the number of third parties attempting to load their content on the page, much of which is intended to collect information about you and your web activities.
AdBlock Plus: Like WOT, this browser extension works with IE, Firefox, Google, Safari, and Opera, but in addition it can be used to block ads on Android devices. Despite its name, AdBlock Plus's default settings allow what the developers Wladimir Palant and Till Faida call "acceptable ads." These ads meet certain criteria for unobtrusiveness, placement (they don't block page content, for example), and affiliate referrer IDs for links (only to the labeled destination page, for example).
You can block all ads, including those on the "acceptable" list, via the AdBlock Plus options dialog. Instructions for opting out vary by browser and are provided on the AdBlock Plus site.
To disable ad blocking on the current page in Firefox, choose the AdBlock Plus icon in the browser toolbar and select one of the three "disable" options: the entire site, the current page only, or everywhere. Like NoScript, I've used AdBlock Plus for years and rarely change the extension's default settings. (In fact, NoScript and AdBlock Plus pair very nicely to protect you from malware embedded in ads and other page elements.)
Whenever I hear someone complain about a site overloaded with ads, I'm thankful all over again for AdBlock Plus. However, I understand that the program has generated some confusion for its policy to block some but not all ads -- particularly considering the ambiguity of the extension's name. A February 3, 2015, article on the UK site Business Insider -- by Lara O'Reilly, of all people -- cites a report in the Financial Times (subscription required) from two days earlier that Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Taboola (a popular sponsored-content service) pay up to 30 percent of the revenue from the ads that would have been blocked to AdBlock Plus's developer, the German firm Eyeo.
An Eyeo spokesperson wouldn't confirm the amount of revenue the company receives, but the person pointed out that the acceptable-ads program has been in place since 2011. Eyeo claims it has always been transparent about being paid for allowing acceptable ads, but it receives payment only from a handful of big-name services. All other sites can apply to have their ads placed on the acceptable list for free, so long as the ads meet Eyeo's criteria.
Eyeo provides a valuable service via a "free" browser add-on, although the company accepts donations. The fact that the for-profit company gets paid by certain big advertisers to unblock their safe, unobtrusive ads doesn't bother me one bit.
Sandboxie: If you use WOT, NoScript, and AdBlock Plus when you browse, you can consider yourself pretty safe. But not as safe as you'd be if you were using this utility, which loads your browser and all other active programs in a protected environment on your computer -- a sandbox. While the programs are running in the sandbox, they are isolated from the rest of your system, so no malware can reach any of your settings. When you close the sandbox, there's no record on your PC of anything that happened during the sandbox session: No data is saved (or deleted), and no settings are changed.
As the Tech Support Alert site explains, Sandboxie is perhaps the best way to lock down you machine. The article refers to the free version of Sandboxie, but the Sandboxie site states that the home version costs $35, or $21 for a one-year subscription, for a single machine. A three-computer lifetime license costs $50, and a five-system lifetime license is priced at $75.
When Sandboxie is running in Windows, a yellow kite-shaped icon appears in the system tray. Click the icon to open the Sandboxie Control window. Right-click the icon and choose DefaultBox or another sandbox to see options for opening a browser, email, an Explorer window, or other program. You can also empty the sandbox, explore its contents, terminate a program, or recover a sandbox.
Sandboxie lets you create shortcuts that open programs in a sandbox automatically. As with NoScript and AdBlock Plus, Sandboxie is loaded with options, few of which I've ever used or needed. The Tech Support Alert article goes into great detail on the program's many features.
Bonus tip: Opt out of copy-and-paste detritus. When I'm in research mode, I frequently copy material from web pages -- usually text -- and then paste it into a Word document or other file. Many sites use a service called Tynt to append a short "Read more:" notice with the source name and/or a link back to the page the material appears on.
In a February 8, 2015, article on Mother Jones, Ben Dreyfuss describes the steps to take in your browser to disable this feature one site at a time. In an update, Dreyfuss provides a link to the page where you can opt out of the Tynt service once and for all. (Note that you'll still have to go through the disable-Tynt process for each browser one time.)
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Privacy Weeklies
Privacy Tips
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The Weeklies >
Excuse me while I duck and cover, March 1, 2018
We're running out of words, February 7, 2018
Help fight information pollution, January 31, 2018
Privacy infographic-palooza, January 24, 2018
Another great reason to celebrate the life of Martin Luther King Jr., January 17, 2018
Bye-bye, Fourth Amendment: Spy agencies feed tips to law enforcement, January 10, 2018
Bring virtue to the internet by keeping trackers at bay, January 3, 2018
Could artificial intelligence give the tech industry a heart and save us from capitalism run amok? December 21, 2017
Your email use is being tracked, and not just by marketers and spammers, December 13, 2017
Time to let others do the talking, December 6, 2017
Our front-row seat for the crashing and burning of the internet, November 29, 2017
Your location location location means money money money for trackers, November 16, 2017
YouTube: Unsafe for all ages, November 8, 2017
Birthday wishes, November 2, 2017
That Weekly when everything was pretty good, or at least not so bad, October 25, 2017
Addiction by design: Don't let tech products run your life, October 19, 2017
Essential internet privacy tips, 2017 edition
Unreported news story: 'Algorithmic takeover' of journalism, September 27, 2017
The door slams shut on the open internet, September 22, 2017
The best response to the Equifax breach: Don't deal with Equifax, September 13, 2017
In business and government, the bullies are calling the shots, September 6, 2017
There's no stopping tech giants' surveillance for profit, August 30, 2017
How to deter 'fingerprint' trackers from identifying your computers and devices, August 23, 2017
That was the week that was, 2017 revival, August 16, 2017
Find the internet security level that's right for your needs, August 9, 2017
Internet Media 101: The bigger the lie, the greater the profit, August 3, 2017
Cyber-crimestoppers: How individuals and companies help nab internet crooks, July 26, 2017
A free press: The antidote to authoritarianism, July 19, 2017
A novel concept: Let consumers decide which personal data to share with trackers, July 12, 2017
We're in the midst of the third American Civil War, and democracy is losing, July 5, 2017
Keep online trackers at bay without breaking a sweat, June 28, 2017
Pleas for civility meet with... incivility, but that's okay, June 21, 2017
The price we pay for unbridled digital surveillance, June 14, 2017
Privacy protections may form the basis of antitrust actions against internet giants, June 7, 2017
Privacy tips for the most vulnerable: Children and seniors, May 31, 2017
Applying Fourth Amendment search protections to data in the cloud, May 24, 2017
Just when you thought you couldn't be tracked any closer..., May 17, 2017
Facebook addiction turns users into marketing guinea pigs, May 10, 2017
America: A tale of two countries, May 3, 2017
The internet: Destroyer of truth, justice, and the American Way, April 26, 2017
The death and ultimate rebirth of the public internet, April 19, 2017
An internet dinosaur spits in extinction's eye, April 12, 2017
Trust Busters 2.0: Dismantling modern monopolies, April 5, 2017
Simple, free ways to lock down your private data, March 29, 2017
Let big data benefit consumers, not marketers, March 22, 2017t
Gig economy changes what it means to be an 'employee,' March 8, 2017
Privacy: There's just no percentage in it, March 1, 2017
Practical security preparations for the worst-case scenario, December 13, 2016
The Rough Beast's lies indicate his intentions - Just like the Nazis, December 6, 2016
Government phone searches: Return of the 'general warrant', November 29, 2016
Before the deluge: Spend your attention wisely, November 23, 2016
You can't hide from facial-recognition systems - Or can you? November 16, 2016
The 'consumer boycott' of web advertising is gaining momentum, November 8, 2016
Encryption: It's not just for banking anymore, November 1, 2016
A call to action: Stop the surveillance - by web services, apps, October 25, 2016
Web ad networks are malware authors' best friends, October 18, 2016
Privacy is becoming fashionable - Yippee! October 11, 2016
How do we bridge the growing media and political divides? October 4, 2016
Safety essentials: 10-step security revisited, 11 years later
Simple ways to limit the private information you surrender on the web, September 20, 2016
Top 10 reasons why people hate listicles - and yes, this is a joke headline, September 13, 2016
Why internet voting is a terrible idea, September 6, 2016
No consent needed for ISPs to scan email and create ad-targeting profiles of non-customers, August 30, 2016
The web is broken - Guess who's trying to fix it? August 23, 2016
Supreme Court throws 'fruit of the poisonous tree' doctrine under the bus, August 16, 2016
Dragging the online trackers - kicking and screaming - into the light of day, August 9, 2016
Silly questions: Who 'owns' video captured by police? And is Facebook really 'privacy-enhancing'? August 2, 2016
It's official: No expectation of privacy on the internet, June 28, 2016
How to wrest control of our government away from corporations, June 21, 2016
The fight against privacy smashers continues, June 14, 2016
Publishers are losing the battle against their ad-blocking visitors - so what's next? May 31, 2016
Tech companies resist government attempts to broaden definition of 'personal information', May 25, 2016
Privacy threats on parade, May 17, 2016
Government goes dark as private lives are exposed, May 10, 2016
The great online-advertising swindle, May 3, 2016
Modern news media: Too big not to fail? April 26, 2016
Internet Confidential: How to establish a privacy right on the public Internet, April 20, 2016
The new browser wars: Thou shalt not block our ads and trackers, April 13, 2016
FCC to regulate ISP data collection, but Google, Facebook off the hook, April 6, 2016
Five questions, no answers, March 29, 2016
How to fix the Internet: Ratchet down the anonymity, lose the ads, March 23, 2016
How we lose ourselves in private data collection, March 15, 2016
People tracking is about to get even creepier, March 8, 2016
Silicon Valley's long-standing connections to the U.S. government, March 2, 2016
2016: The first social-media election, March 2, 2016
How to build the future of work, February 24, 2016
Why it's a bad idea to trust private companies with the job of protecting our rights, February 16, 2016
Your Internet life is an open book: The dark side of online-ad profiling, February 9, 2016
Why don't Americans care as much about their privacy as Europeans do? February 2, 2016
New fronts open in the battle against privacy-invading online ads, January 26, 2016
Fifteen ways to stay safe on the Internet, January 19, 2016
Prepare for the inevitable theft of your personal information, January 13, 2016
'Hey, gang, let's put on a government!', January 5, 2016
The appropriate response to living in a surveillance state: Ignore it, December 22, 2015 >
Legal shorts for December 22, 2015
Separating the bitcoin hype from the blockchain substance, December 17, 2015 >
Shorts for December 17, 2015: Trump's legal ineptitude, and eight ways the world is getting better
Re-reinterpreting our constitutional right to bear arms, December 10, 2015
How open data can help save the world, December 2, 2015
Consumers may be ready to pay for an ad-free, tracking-free Internet, November 18, 2015
Fair use stages a comeback: New protections against copyright abuse, November 10, 2015
Welcome to the Age of 'Existential Despair', November 10, 2015
Get ready for the Attention Economy, November 4, 2015
O'Jitterys Catch a Movie, October 27, 2015 >
Tech shorts, October 27, 2015
Do we have a right to know what they know about us?, October 20, 2015
Facial recognition ushers in the Age of Surveillance, October 13, 2015 >
Tech Short, October 13, 2015: ID by face + social profile
Legal Short, October 13, 2015: GOP mega-donor sues Mother Jones, loses, sort of
Fantasy sports gambling finally gets scrutinized, October 6, 2015 >
Tech shorts, October 6, 2015
Google, Android, ads, and a tech titan's revenge, September 29, 2015 >
Legal shorts, September 29, 2015
How to fix problems caused by Apple's flaky iTunes updates, September 23, 2015 >
Tech shorts, September 22, 2015
Campaign 2016: Where's the love? September 15, 2015 >
Three simple ways to improve your privacy, September 8, 2015
Use your free Google Voice number to make and receive phone calls, September 1, 2015
Reclaiming our government starts with universal Internet access, August 25, 2015
Upon further review, times three, August 4, 2015 >
Shorts for August 4, 2015
Coming soon: A more trustworthy form of encryption, July 28, 2015 >
Tech shorts, July 28, 2015
Protect yourself while browsing by enabling click to play, July 21, 2015 >
Tech short, July 21, 2015: Computers now tie emotions to facial expressions
The connection between poverty, hunger, and obesity, July 14, 2015 >
Shorts for July 14, 2015
A long-overdue turning of the political tide, July 7, 2015
Obamacare: A misstep in the right direction, July 7, 2015
Everyday Windows 10 users become beta testers for the Enterprise Edition, June 30, 2015 >
Tech shorts, June 30, 2015
Obamacare decision imposes limits on executive power, June 30, 2015
It's time to get serious about prosecuting Internet threats, June 23, 2015
Worst. Supreme. Court. Ever. June 16, 2015 >
Five indications that we are currently between regimes, June 9, 2015
The five-minute Facebook security checkup, June 2, 2015 >
Legal shorts, June 2, 2015
When ads attack: Web ad networks battle the blockers, May 26, 2015
Flying the furious skies: How to stay sane on a commercial flight, May 19, 2015 >
Tech shorts, May 19, 2015
Online shopping tips: Put differential pricing to work for you, May 12, 2015 >
Legal shorts, May 12, 2015
We're sitting on a big-data gold mine, May 5, 2015 >
Legal shorts, May 5, 2015
The case against web encryption, Title II designation for ISPs, April 28, 2015 >
Tech shorts, April 28, 2015
Legal shorts, April 28, 2015
More examples of judges clueless about technology... and one that gets it, April 21, 2015 >
Should all web traffic be encrypted? April 14, 2015 >
Anonymous Internet Map, April 14, 2015
More reasons why you need to block web ads, April 7, 2015 >
Tech shorts: April 7, 2015
Legal shorts: April 7, 2015
Web 3.0 returns control of personal information to users, March 31, 2015
Passwords are about to get some much-needed assistance -- from your body, March 24, 2015
An unexpected visit from the Karma Police, March 17, 2015
Three views of the future that are certain to curl your hair, March 10, 2015
Privacy, Inc.: Welcome to the personal-information marketplace, March 3, 2015
The tricks of the malware trade: Don't take the bait! February 24, 2015
How to ruin your life in 140 characters or fewer, February 17, 2015
Browse better with these three essential freebies (plus one valuable cheapie), February 10, 2015 >
Tech shorts: February 10, 2015
What's the best way to fix the broken U.S. political system? February 3, 2015
Why you should care about your loss of privacy, January 27, 2015
The battle against data thieves heats up, January 20, 2015
How to combat hate and harassment on the Internet, January 13, 2015
Beat ransomware by saving your files to the cloud, January 6, 2015
'The Interview' and 'I Can't Breathe': Connecting the dots, December 29, 2014
Cyberwar? Fuhgeddabouddit! There are plenty more serious threats to fret over, December 16, 2014
Five fantastic Web freebies, December 9, 2014
How Google, Facebook, and Twitter make billions by offering 'free' services, December 2, 2014
Telephone tech-support scams are on the rise, November 24, 2014
Trading privacy for the public good, November 18, 2014
Tor breach shows there's no such thing as Internet anonymity, November 11, 2014 >
Hackers owned Home Depot's networks for five months, November 11, 2014
Another call for a nationwide breach-notification law, November 11, 2014
Comcast battles Netflix, and everybody loses, November 4, 2014
Sexting has become part of growing up (gulp!), October 28, 2014
Quick, simple fixes for everyday tech glitches, October 21, 2014
Battle of the behemoths: Facebook ad network takes on Google, October 14, 2014
Instant access to all your recent files, October 6, 2014
iPhone's new Medical ID feature could save your life, September 29, 2014
Now you can really lock your phone, September 22, 2014
Facebook auto-play videos eat up mobile data allotments, September 15, 2014
Three free browser add-ons protect against cyber-crime, September 9, 2014
Manslaughter conviction expunged after worker dies in baling machine, August 25, 2014 >
Google patent infringement: The proof's in the Post-its?, August 25, 2014
Control which iPhone apps are allowed to stay 'active' when they're off, August 25, 2014
Weekly What? August 25, 2014 >
No more 'Like' gates to view content, get rewards, August 25, 2014
FTC goes after a company that lost customer data, company cries 'Foul!', August 25, 2014
A mobile phone company releases customer data -- and it's a good thing, August 25, 2014
Clickless approvals don't qualify as 'reasonable notice' for terms of service, August 25, 2014
Baby steps closer to authentication that doesn't rely on passwords, August 25, 2014
Most data breaches are the result of weak or stolen credentials, August 18, 2014
The best government money -- lots and lots of money -- can buy, August 11, 2014
The best browser you're probably not using, August 4, 2014
It all depends on who's doing the surveilling -- and why, July 28, 2014
Be careful what you comment -- it might get you sued, July 19, 2014
Never pay for software again (almost) Plus: The pros and cons of cloud computing, July 14, 2014
Mind that download! Free phone apps deliver malware, July 7, 2014
The end is near for passwords (not really), February 24, 2016
Facebook's latest shenanigans, July 1, 2014
Privacy Weeklies >
Fair use stages a comeback: New protections against copyright abuse, November 10, 2015 >
Worst. Supreme. Court. Ever. June 16, 2015
More examples of judges clueless about technology... and one that gets it, April 21, 2015
Legal shorts, March 31, 2015
Legal shorts: March 24, 2015
Legal shorts: February 24, 2015
What would George Washington think of his country now? February 16, 2015 >
Lobbyists thrive by building relationships with lawmakers, February 17, 2015
On the fast track to American fascism, February 17, 2015
The one Senator who's speaking truth to power, February 17, 2015
Fight terrorism by fighting its source: Corruption, February 17, 2015
Anonymous users: Your ISP may ID you on demand -- and not even tell you, February 17, 2015
Deregulating the legal profession: Only a matter of time, October 6, 2014
Internet companies' transparency reports indicate trademark abuse is on the rise, September 25, 2014
Have 'money addicts' taken over our political system?, August 11, 2014 >
Part 2: Money and political power, August 11, 2014
Part 3: A contrived distinction between 'venal' and 'systematic' corruption, August 11, 2014
Part 4: Fear of political corruption trumps government economic regulation, August 11, 2014
Part 5: Investment-oriented political contributions boost the bottom line, August 11, 2014
Part 6: Case study: Corporate political corruption, 19th-century style, August 11, 2014
Corporate ownership of the U.S. political process, August 11, 2014 >
Part 2: Party perpetuation trumps service to the constituency, August 11, 2014
Part 3: Party loyalty trumps independent thought, August 11, 2014
Part 4: The roots of corporate 'personhood,' August 11, 2014
Part 5: Is political corruption actually on the rise? Who knows?, August 11, 2014
Supreme Court: You can patent software, but only if it's 'transformative,' June 21, 2014
Privacy Manifesto
Privacy Tips >
Privacy infographic-palooza, January 24, 2018 >
Data Collection on Consumers infographic
How Companies Identify People
PayPal Data Sharing
Data Collection Guidelines for Businesses
What Does It Mean to Be a Success?
How do we bridge the growing media and political divides? October 4, 2016 >
Pew Center Research chart: Political bias of news organizations
How to find a reliable network speed test, May 2, 2014
Tech Short for October 13, 2015: ID by face + social profile
Google, Android, ads, and a tech titan's revenge, September 29, 2015
The five-minute Facebook security checkup, June 2, 2015
We're sitting on a big-data gold mine, May 5, 2015
Never pay for software again (almost), July 14, 2014 >
Best free alternatives to top-selling software, July 11, 2011
The pros and cons of cloud computing, July 14, 2014 >
Three approaches to free encrypted online storage, June 23, 2009
Future-proof your data archive, December 30, 2010
Ten simple, common-sense security tips, October 9, 2012
Browser security settings you gotta change, June 24, 2014 >
Beef up Chrome's security, June 24, 2014
Batten down the hatches in Firefox, June 24, 2014
Enable Internet Explorer's privacy and security features, June 24, 2014
Online advertising dangers, June 10, 2014 >
U.S. Senate: Self-regulation of online ad networks isn't working, June 10, 2014
Free browser extensions give ads the boot, June 10, 2014
Claim a property interest in your personal information, June 10, 2014
A micropayment alternative to privacy-sucking ads, June 10, 2014
Great people make great sites, May 30, 2014
Three free privacy add-ons for Firefox and Chrome, May 20, 2014 >
Three essential security add-ons for Firefox, Chrome, and IE, May 7, 2013 >
How to improve security in Firefox, Chrome, and IE, May 6, 2013
Disable third-party cookies in IE, Firefox, and Google Chrome, March 14, 2011 >
Add 'do not track' to Firefox, IE, Google Chrome, December 7, 2010
Five great Firefox privacy add-ons, July 14, 2010
Remove metadata from Office files, PDFs, and images, May 16, 2014
Make folders private in Windows 8.1, May 9, 2014 >
Enable Vista's hidden administrator, and password-protect its XP equivalent, February 13, 2008
How to secure your PC in 10 easy steps, November 15, 2011 >
Amazon Cloud Drive and Box.net go toe-to-toe, April 5, 2011
Free VPN service helps keep public Wi-Fi safe, February 14, 2011
How to prevent identity theft, September 13, 2011
Free utility finds unwanted programs uninstallers miss, February 24, 2014
Malware authors target Android phones, May 13, 2014
Secure your Facebook account in six easy steps, September 23, 2013
How to find the positive in negative comments, April 30, 2014
The 'I hate passwords' guide, April 29, 2014
Protect your device from malicious ads, April 10, 2014
Five ways to save a Web page, September 26, 2011
Five essential Windows 8.1 time-saving tweaks, February 3, 2014
Best free sites for learning how to write code, December 12, 2013
Software Intellectual Property Protections, August 16, 2014 >
Introduction: It's a Software World
1. Trademark >
a. Registration
b. Trademark requirements
c. Lanham Act: 15 U.S.C. §§ 1051-1053 and 15 U.S.C. § 1125(a) (a.k.a. § 43(a)) >
1. Distinguish from patent protection
2. Distinguish from copyright protection
3. Trademark-infringement elements >
A. Confusion
B. Designation of origin
C. Famous and distinctive
d. Infringement criteria
2. Trade Secrets >
a. Uniform Trade Secrets Act
b. Software protected by trade secrets
c. Limitations on trade-secret protections >
1. Secret and valuable
2. Described with particularity
3. Software trade secrets and patents: Conflicting or complementary?
3. Copyright >
a. History of software copyright statute
b. Assembling the pieces of the software-copyright jigsaw puzzle >
1. Two types of source code: Declaring and implementing
2. Originality requirement
3. Merger doctrine
4. Abstraction-filtration-comparison test
5. Short phrases
6. Scenes a faire doctrine
7. Structure, sequence, and organization of the Java APIs
8. Interoperability as it relates to copyrightability
10. Copyright protections vs. patent protections for software
4. Patent >
a. U.S. Constitution Article 1 § 8 >
1. In terms of patent law, software is special
2. Software innovations are clearly patentable
b. 35 U.S. Code § 101 >
1. Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank International: Procedural history
2. Test for patentability of abstract ideas: Implicit exception to exclusion
c. 35 U.S. Code § 102 - Conditions for patentability; novelty, prior art >
1. Section 102(a)'s "known or used" determination (prior art)
2. Section 102(b)'s "on sale" and "disclosure" determinations
3. Section 102(g)'s "abandoned, suppressed, or concealed" determination
d. 35 U.S. Code § 103 Conditions for patentability: non-obvious subject matter
e. 35 U.S. Code § 112: Specification >
1. Claim construction
2. Doctrine of equivalents and rule of prosecution history estoppel
Reclaim your personal information
Five tips for protecting cloud data from internal threats
What does the future hold for DBAs?
Busted: 10 Big Data Myths Exploded
Is the cloud ready for speech APIs?
From machine learning to super clouds: Competing visions of cloud 2.0
Two great reasons for making your cloud data location aware
The most common cloud migration mistakes
How to prepare for the next cloud outage
The new shadow IT: Custom applications in the cloud
Drawbacks of running containers on bare-metal servers
How to reduce latency in public clouds
Mastering the art of container management
Hybrid Clouds: Here to stay, or stop-gaps to enterprise cloud?
How zero-trust security makes VMs more efficient
Ultimate virtualization: The end of infrastructure
21 best orchestration tools for MSPs
Cloud governance: The key to effectively scaling your cloud
Update or rewrite? A cloud-application perspective
New views into cloud application performance
Multicloud vs. hybrid cloud
The Stories So Far....
O'Jitterys Catch a Movie, October 27, 2015
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Woman uses shovel to kill cobra slithering on her patio
In this Monday, June 24, 2019 photo provided by Kathy Kehoe, a 4 to 5-foot-long snake slithers on the patio of her apartment in Fairless Hills, Pa. Kehoe used a shovel to kill the cobra. Her apartment complex is the same one where officials removed 20 venomous snakes from another apartment in March. Officials aren’t sure if the cobra had escaped from that unit. (Kathy Kehoe via AP)
FAIRLESS HILLS, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania woman used a shovel to kill a cobra she saw slithering on the patio of her apartment.
Kathy Kehoe said the squawking of some blue jays outside her unit caught her attention Monday. When she looked outside, she saw a 4 to 5-foot-long serpent.
The 73-year-old Kehoe says she noticed the lateral spot commonly found on cobras, grabbed a shovel and nudged its tail. When it rose and spread its hood, she realized it was a cobra. That’s when she decided to kill it.
“I knew what I was doing was dangerous, I’m not a fool,” she said in a phone interview on Tuesday. “I just acted. I thought of the kids and other people in this community and I said ‘I can’t let this thing get away.'”
Her apartment complex in Fairless Hills, about 30 miles northeast of Philadelphia, is the same one where officials removed 20 venomous snakes from another apartment in March. Officials aren’t sure if the cobra had escaped from that unit.
Wildlife officials say people who spot snakes should call police and let experts handle the situation.
This story has been corrected to show snake was killed in Fairless Hills, not in Falls, Pennsylvania.
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Sanctuary Island Novel #5
by Lily Everett
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Available in: Paperback, e-Book
The best journeys take us home….
When Tessa Alexander came to Sanctuary Island, she left behind a marriage to a man who didn’t love her the way she loved him. When she finally found the strength to set them both free, she discovered friendship and self-acceptance in her adopted hometown. Now she’s settled into a quiet life on her own—never expecting to see her husband again.
Johnny spent almost two years deep undercover, unable to let his wife into his cold, dangerous world. He’s shaken to the core when he comes home to find her gone. It’s painfully clear that Tessa is no longer the timid young woman he married—she’s become a force of nature, a brave and determined beauty. Johnny can’t let her go without a fight so he sets out to seduce his own wife. But will passion alone be enough to convince Tessa that her new life should include a second chance at happiness with a man who must learn to believe in love?
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Lily’s alter ego is Louisa Edwards. Under that name, she is the author of the Recipe for Love series, sexy contemporary romances with hot chef heroes set in the high-stakes, fast-paced world of professional restaurants.
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Small businesses still confused over ISP offerings: ACA
Small businesses are still facing significant challenges when it comes to choosing their Internet provider, according to the Australian Communications Authority (ACA).The Australian Communications Authority (ACA) released findings of a recent survey today which found that the small businesses are struggling to choose from the myriad service offerings on the market.
By ZDNet Editors | October 5, 2004 -- 02:24 GMT (19:24 PDT) | Topic: Telcos
Small businesses are still facing significant challenges when it comes to choosing their Internet provider, according to the Australian Communications Authority (ACA).
The Australian Communications Authority (ACA) released findings of a recent survey today which found that the small businesses are struggling to choose from the myriad service offerings on the market.
The ACA spoke to more than 500 small businesses throughout the first half of 2004, and found that they were overwhelmed by the volume and choice of information they faced when choosing an ISP.
"The research found that the number one problem for the small business sector was evaluating different offers from ISPs," said ACA acting chairman, Bob Horton.
Small businesses remain mystified about choosing an Internet service despite the ACA's release of guidelines in June 2002 intended to improve the way that ISPs present their pricing and product information to consumers.
The guideline aimed to standardise the way that ISPs included information such as pricing and billing, and technical support and security in their marketing material.
The ACA today said it would take steps to encourage more ISPs to adhere to the guideline.
"The ACA is also working with ISPs, encouraging them to become signatories to the guideline. Those ISPs that have signed up already are listed on the ACA website, with the products and services they provide," Horton said.
Horton added that the ACA would consult with the ISP industry and small business representatives to come up with a range of measures to "better inform small business of the information and assistance available to them".
Other issues raised by small businesses in the research included spam, broadband availability, slow download rates on dial-up Internet services and connection drop-outs.
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課程 1（共 6 門，数据结构与算法 專項課程）
A good algorithm usually comes together with a set of good data structures that allow the algorithm to manipulate the data efficiently. In this course, we consider the common data structures that are used in various computational problems. You will learn how these data structures are implemented in different programming languages and will practice implementing them in our programming assignments. This will help you to understand what is going on inside a particular built-in implementation of a data structure and what to expect from it. You will also learn typical use cases for these data structures. A few examples of questions that we are going to cover in this class are the following: 1. What is a good strategy of resizing a dynamic array? 2. How priority queues are implemented in C++, Java, and Python? 3. How to implement a hash table so that the amortized running time of all operations is O(1) on average? 4. What are good strategies to keep a binary tree balanced? You will also learn how services like Dropbox manage to upload some large files instantly and to save a lot of storage space!
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Amazing course.\n\nInteresting exercises help with learning and understanding of internal mechanisms basic data structures, how some of them work, the pros and cons of each.\n\nThanks!
Perfect course for learning more about fundamental data structures, except for presentations on few difficult topics like splay trees, where explanations can be made more elaborate!
Priority Queues and Disjoint Sets
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Trees for Disjoint Sets7:54
Union by Rank9:41
Path Compression6:07
Analysis (Optional)18:17
Daniel M Kane
Neil Rhodes
Our goal in this video is to show that if we use both path compression and
union by rank heuristics then the average running time of a single operation
is upper bounded by big O of log star of N.
Before going into the details of the proof,
let's realize a few important facts.
First of all, know that since we are now using path compression,
it is no longer the case that the rank of
node i is equal to height of the tree rooted at vertex i.
However, it is still true that the rank is an upper bound.
On the corresponding height.
Let me illustrate this with a toy example.
So, I assume that we have a tree like this.
So, this is root say vertex 5.
Here we have vertex 2 and
we have node 3, node say 6.
Assume that currently rank of this node is 2 say 0, this is 1 and this also 0.
We now recall find of 6.
This will re-attach 6 to the current root of this tree.
So what we get is the following,
5, 3, 1.
And also 6 now stays here, all right?
So we see that the height of these three is equal to 1.
However the rank of the root is still equal to 2.
Recall that find doesn't use and doesn't change any rank values.
Also for this node 3, it's height.
The height of the tree rooted at element 3 is equal to 0,
however the rank is equal to 1.
Well, intuitively it is clear path compression can only decrease the height.
So for this reason, rank is no longer equal
to the height of the corresponding tree however the height is at most the length.
Another important thing is the following.
It is still true that for any root node i of rank k.
The corresponding sub 3 contains at least 2 to the k elements.
And this can be seen by realizing that the past compression does not affect
any root nodes.
I mean, if we have a root node whose height is k,
then no matter how many times and for which nodes in these sub tree
we call find with path compression, all this nodes are still in
this subtree rooted at this nodes exactly because this node is a root.
So any node from this subtree cannot be attached
to some other vertex and some other subtree.
This node is still, so once again if we have a node who is still a root and
whose rank is k, then the corresponding subtree contains at least 2 to
the k elements, 2 to the k nodes.
On this slide we discuss a few more important properties.
The first one of them says that we have,
in our forest, at most n divided by 2 to the k nodes of rank k.
Well, recall that if we create a new node of rank k
then it was created by merging two nodes of rank k-1.
So we know that currently this node is a root.
we know that the correspondence subtree contains at least 2 to the k nodes.
If we have another another node of rank k.
Then it also contains at least 2 to the k nodes.
Which means that if we have too many such nodes.
I mean, too many nodes of rank k.
By saying too many, I mean that its number is greater than n divided by 2 to the k.
Then overall, we have more than n element.
Which is a contradiction, right?
The second property is that, when we go up,
the rank strictly increases.
Well, this was clear if we do not use past compression.
I mean, if rank is equal to the height of the corresponding subtree,
then this is completely clear.
Let me recall that if we have for example a tree
of height two, then the height of this tree is two.
The height of this subtree is one.
The height of this subtree is zero.
Let's say this is element 5.
This is 4.
Now we have passed compression,
so we need to check what happens when we compress some paths.
If we call Find(5), for example, then we'll be reattached to the current root.
But it will still be 2.
That the rank of the parent.
So let me fix this.
This is node 8.
The rank of the parent is strictly
greater than the rank of a child.
The last property is, says that when a node
becomes an internal node it will be an internal node forever, right.
It will not have a chance to become a root and this is just because
the find operation doesn't change any roots in our forest.
While union operation takes two roots and
makes one of them a child of the other one.
So it takes two roots and leaves only one root.
So once again when a vertex becomes an internal vertex,
a non root vertex, it will be a non root vertex forever.
We now start to estimate the running time of M operations.
First of all note that the union operation
boils down to T(all calls to FInd) operation.
And also to some constant operations.
Namely, when we have two roots that were found by two calls to.
To find that operation,
we need to hank one of them below other one which is a constant operation.
We just need to change one parent.
And also possibly we need to change the rank value.
So for this reason when estimating the total running time we will just assume
that we have m calls to find operation.
Paths node that each Find operation traverses some
pass from a note to find the root of the corresponding tree.
So we traverse some number of edges.
So the total run in time of all the defind operations,
of all the calls to defind operation is just the total number of edges traversed.
So this is what is written here, we just need to count the number
of edges from parent a node i through it's paring j,
at traverse you know these codes.
For technical reasons we will split this number into three terms.
In the first term we will account all the edges that
lead from a vertex to the node to the root of the corresponding tree.
So the first term includes all the edges that lead from
a node to another node, which is the root in this case.
The second term include all the remaining edges where we go from i to j.
Such as there log* of rank of
a is strictly smaller than log* of rank of j, okay?
And their remaining term accounts for everything else,
namely for all the edges where we go from i to j such that j is not the root.
And that log*(rank[i]) = log*(rank[j])).
We're going to show separately for each of these terms that it
is upper bounded by big 0 of m multiplied by log star of m.
Let me show this on a small example as usual.
Assumes that we have such a path that we're going to traverse.
A path from the node at the bottom to the root of the corresponding tree.
So the numbers shown here indicate the ranks of the corresponding nodes.
Then these two nodes, these two edges will be accounted in the first term.
Just because these two nodes lead from a node to the root this thread just lead
from a node to the root of the corresponding tree.
Well, this edge for example will be accounted in the last
term because the rank of this node is 17 and
the rank of this node is 21.
And log star of this numbers are equal.
At the same time, here we have 14 the rank 14, and here we have rank 17.
And the log star of these two numbers are different.
For this reason this hatch will be accounted in the second term, okay?
So on the next sequence of slides,
we are going to estimate separately each of these three terms.
And for each of them, we are going to show that it is at most big O of m
multiplied by log* of m.
The first term is easy to estimate.
Recall that in this term we account for all the edges traversed by find operation.
Where we go from node i to its parent j such that j is the root.
Clearly for each call to find the operation
there are at most two side edges, right?
Which means that we have an upper bound big O of m.
In the second term, we need to estimate that a long number of edges traversed
it during all m calls to the find operation.
Such that we go from node i to its parent j such that j is not the root and
also log star of rank of i is strictly less than log star of rank of j.
We're going to prove here that it is upper bounded by big O of
m multiplied by log star of n.
And this is just because, when we go up from some node to
the root of the corresponding tree, the rank always increases.
However, the rank of the root is at most log n, which means that during one call
to find procedure the lock star of rank can only increase log star of n times.
This is just because we've had an upper bound for the rank of the root.
It is upper bounded by log m which means that there
are only log star of m different possibilities for
log star of rank of folds and nodes on this.
Which means, that these can only increase, at most, log star of m times.
And we have at most, m calls to find the operations.
Which gives us, an upper bound m, to get, m multiplied by log star of m.
Now it remains to estimate the last term.
Where we account for
all the address traversed during m calls to the find operations.
Where we go from node i to node j through its parent j such that j is not the root,
first of all.
And then the rank, the log star of rank of i is equal to log star of n of j.
What we're going to show is that the total number of side edges
is upper bounded by big O of m multiplied by log star of m.
Note that this is even better than what we need.
What we need is a recap upper bound which is m log star of n.
Recall that we know that m is greater than m just because m is the total number
of operations, while n is the number of calls to make said operations.
To estimate the required term, consider a particular node i and assume for
completeness that it's rank lies in an interval from k plus one to two to the k.
Recall that this was the form of interval
through which the lock star function is fixed.
Now let's compute the total number of nodes whose rank lies in section interval.
So we know that the total number of nodes whose rank
is equal to k plus one is at most n divided by two, to the k plus one.
So total number of nodes was ranked equal to k plus two is at most n divided by two,
to k plus two.
And so on, so the total number of nodes whose rank lies in this
interval is at most n divided by two to the k.
Okay. The next stop equation is that each time
when we call Find of i, it is adopted by a new parent and since it is new.
So, at this point we know that if we have a node i and its parent j is not the root.
Yes, this is essential.
Which means that when we go up we find another root when we cofind a Find of i.
And at this point we will reattach node i to this new root.
And this new root has strictly larger rank.
And this in turn means that after most 2 to the k calls to find of i.
Find(i) will be adopted by a new parent
whose rank, for sure, does not lie in this interval.
Just because the rank of this interval is at most 2 to the k.
So if we increase the rank of the parent of i,
at least 2 to the k times, it will be greater than 2 to the k for sure.
We now have everything to conclude this proof.
To conclude estimating the required term.
Recall that we are estimating the total number of address traversed
during n calls to client.
Where we go from a node i to its parent j,
such that log star of rank of a is equal to log star of rank of j.
So we have just proved that there are at most n divided by 2 to the k nodes
whose rank lies in the interval from k plus 1 to 2 to the k.
We then explained why Any such node whose rank lies in such an interval,
contributes, at most, 2 to the k to the term that we are currently estimating.
This means that just all the nodes from, whose rank lies in such an interval.
Contributes, at most big O of N to this term, right?
Now it remains to note that the total number of different intervals
is at most log star of n.
Which means that the total contribution of all such nodes i to the estimated
term is at most big O of n Multiplied by log star of n.
We now conclude the whole lesson.
So in this lesson we considered it an implementation of the joins of
data structure where each set is represented by a tree.
And for this reason we have a forest of trees.
The ID of each set is just the root of the corresponding tree.
We then consider it to heuristics.
The first one is called Union by rank.
It says that when merging two trees, it makes sense to attach
a shorter one to the root of a taller one, okay?
This helps to keep trees in our forest shallow.
And for this we keep the rank of each subtree rooted
at a particular node in a separate array called rank.
We then discussed another heuristic which is called Path compression.
The idea is the following.
When we traversed a path from a node to the root of the corresponding tree,
we may want to reattach all the nodes found on this path directly to the root.
Because this potentially will save us time for further find operations, right.
We then proved that the resulting implementation turns out
to be extremely efficient,
namely the amortized running time of each operation is big O of log star of n.
And log star of n is an extremely slowly growing function.
In particular, log* n is at most five for all practical values of n.
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Review: Romeo and Juliet – Queensland Theatre Company at Playhouse QPAC
This is a big, elemental production. It is austere and physical, stripped back to the essentials. There is no blood, little adornment, no shoes even. The focus is on the actor’s body – its material and vocal expressiveness in service of the text. In so many ways it reminded me of Poor Theatre’s stripping back to the fundamentals of performance in, as Grotowski attempted to describe it, a ‘… discarding of masks, the revealing of the real substance: a totality of physical and mental reactions.’
Director Jennifer Flowers has produced a Romeo and Juliet that will appeal to those who like their Shakespeare and their acting unvarnished and quick. Certainly, this production is all of that. Playing time is under 2 and a half hours with no interval.
The cast of twelve (8 men and 4 women) inhabit a world that is indeterminate; their unadorned costumes are of another time and place although in setting – elemental stone and water – designer Bill Haycock (with lighting by David Walters) has beautifully referenced the coldness of a classical citadel rather than the usual richness and warmth of Verona’s Renaissance city. It fits the rest of the production and provides a new viewing of a play whose story is so well known in our culture that even those who have never experienced it on page, stage or screen feel that they ‘know’ it. Ms Flowers’ production is a bold revisioning, and one that may take people by surprise. That’s no bad thing at all. Continue reading Review: Romeo and Juliet – Queensland Theatre Company at Playhouse QPAC
Posted on 27 April, 2012 5 May, 2014 Author Kate FoyCategories ReviewsTags Andrea Moor, Bill Haycock, Caroline Kennison, David Walters, Jennifer Flowers, Melanie Zanetti, Nick Skubij, Norman Doyle, Phil Slade, Queensland Theatre Company, reviews, Romeo and Juliet, Ross Balbuziente, Simon Burvill-Holmes, Steven Grives, Steven Tandy, Thomas Larkin, Tim Dashwood, Veronica Neave4 Comments on Review: Romeo and Juliet – Queensland Theatre Company at Playhouse QPAC
Review: As You Like It – La Boite Theatre Company at The Roundhouse
Main Image: Bryan Probets (Touchstone) | Images: Al Caeiro
David Berthold is quickly setting up a tradition for La Boite: opening a season with a Shakespeare, directed by the Artistic Director himself. As You Like It was preceded by Hamlet (2010) and Julius Caesar (2011), in which Berthold proved he could bend the material to his will, creating sexy and contemporary productions. Make no mistake, As You Like It has a completely different feel, and is a more cohesive production than its La Boite forefathers. Indeed, it feels as though Berthold is infinitely more comfortable in the comedy of Shakespeare, and the result is superb production.
Helen Howard - Rosalind
As You Like It centres mainly around the love quest of Rosalind (Helen Howard), the daughter of a Duke who has been usurped. Rosalind is banished from the new Duke’s court and takes her cousin Celia (Helen Cassidy) and the court’s jester (Bryan Probets) with her. In order to escape persecution Rosalind disguises herself as a man, and leads her band of exiles through the Forest of Arden in an attempt to find her exiled father (Kate Wilson). But the real spice of the plot lies in Orlando (Thomas Larkin) who is forced to flee the court when he is rejected by his older brother Oliver (Luke Cadden) and then upsets the fascist usurper Duke (Hayden Spencer) by challenging and defeating his wrestler, Charles (Thomas Carney). But before he flees, Orlando and Rosalind fall in love, only to be reunited once again in the Forest of Arden, but with Rosalind in a man’s disguise. Commence Shakespearean gender-bending comedy.
The show is stolen, in my opinion, by an absolutely spell-binding design. Renee Mulder’s costumes and set are absolutely breath-taking.
This is theatre design at its very best, peppered with all sorts of tricks and surprises that the audience never see coming … it’s a spectacular achievement.
Mulder’s work is accompanied by sublime music and sound from Guy Webster, and incredibly clever lighting from David Walters. Together, the trio create a forest of Arden that is warm and inviting. The evocation of a campfire makes the potentially cold La Boite theatre feel small and intimate. The gypsy aesthetic of the the exiled Duke and his kingdom has the appeal of a charming, cleaner Woodford Folk Festival. It’s a spectacular achievement. Continue reading Review: As You Like It – La Boite Theatre Company at The Roundhouse
Posted on 26 February, 2012 5 March, 2012 Author David BurtonCategories ReviewsTags 2012, Alec Snow, As You Like It, Bryan Probets, David Berthold, David Walters, Guy Webster, Hayden Spencer, Helen Cassidy, Helen Howard, Justin Palazzo-Orr, Kate Wilson, Kathryn Marquet, La Boite Theatre Company, Luke Cadden, Renée Mulder, Shakespeare, Thomas Carney, Thomas Larkin, Trevor Stuart1 Comment on Review: As You Like It – La Boite Theatre Company at The Roundhouse
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501(C) (3) Non-Profit
Annual Allocation
AEF Job Obening
School Renovations
Computers in Armenia Program
School Supplies Program
(818) 242-4154 aef@aefweb.org
AEF 2017 YEAR IN REVIEW
Zara Malkhasyan
Dear AEF Members and Supporters:
Happy 2018! We want to start the New Year by summarizing our 2017 accomplishments for you.
AEF completed its 67th year, during which more than $400,000 was allocated to various educational projects. This, of course, could not have been possible without the generous support of individuals like you.
We started 2017 with AEF’s very first Oratorical contest between the five Southern California Armenian high schools. The committee, chaired by Ruby Baghdassarian, was comprised of young energetic members and was a great success. Prizes were awarded to the winners of both Armenian language competition (Holy Martyrs Ferrahian School) and English language competition (AGBU Vatche and Tamar Manoukian High School.) read more…
Representatives of Five Armenian High Schools Participating in AEF’s Oratorical Contes
A new venture for AEF was collaboration with Teach for Armenia (TFA).TFA trains young teachers and supports them during their teaching term in village schools.AEF donated $20,000 to TFA, which will fund scholarships for teachers studying for their master’s degree in education.
AEF Executive Director, Armine Haroyan and Teach for Armenia Larisa Hovannisian Signing the Collaboration Agreement.
In 2017, AEF also funded the construction of a new Kindergarten building in the City of Vayk.
AEF members participated in the official opening of the Vayk Kindergarten Opening Ceremony.
Vayk Kindergarten Opening Celebration
Additionally, through contributions of our sponsors, renovations were made in the Lorut village school and an art classroom was added to the Ujan village school. Since its original renovation in 1999, AEF continues to annually support the Verin Artashat School in the form of scholarships, books, maintenance and improvements through the generous and continuous donations of its benefactor.
Ujan Village School
The number of students sponsored by AEF for full four-year tuition in Armenia and Artsakh increased to 206 students by the end of 2017, which is an increase of 21% compared to the prior year.
Our students continue to contribute to their community through volunteer service which is a required criterion for receiving and continuing to receive AEF scholarships. During the year they plan and participate in numerous volunteer programs. read more…
Students visited soldiers and brought them books and sweets.
Of the 86 AEF sponsored students who graduated in the last two years, 73% are employed and 20% are continuing their studies. They all currently live in Armenia. Other scholarships in Armenia and Artsakh include AEF’s continued financial assistance to 23 Syrian Armenian students studying in Armenia, as well as, scholarships to Computer Science students in Artsakh State University. In order to assist students find employment after graduation, AEF organizes seminars, workshops and discussion groups in Armenia by inviting professionals in a number of fields to help students with career information, potential internships, and mentorship. This includes seminars by Information Integration Group Armenia (internet technology), Ernst & Young Armenia (financial services), Adventist Health Glendale (doctors volunteering at Noyemberyan-medicine) and Branding Yourself (preparing resumes by AEF members Alice Petrossian and Mimi Zarookian).
Recognizing the importance of the IT sector in the economic growth of Armenia and Artsakh, AEF funded an “Armath Lab” in the Darbas Village school (which was renovated by AEF in 2014) where students will learn programming, coding and will be introduced to robotics. The students will also participate in IT competitions and camps where they will meet students from other Armenia and Artsakh Armath Labs. This will prepare the students for a path in the IT sector.
Armath Lab in Darbas School
AEF continued its program of collecting and sending school supplies to village schools in Armenia, Artsakh and Javakhk.
Our annual AEF Endowment scholarships to students in Anjar, Antelias, and the United States was again successful. Also, AEF continued making allocations to Jemaran and Sophia Hagopian Schools in Lebanon, and CASPS.
AEF raised $147,000 at its 2017 fall fundraiser dinner in September. The event was hosted by Mr. & Mrs. Al Cabraloff at their residence in Pasadena. read more… Mr. Neshan Peroomian, a long time board member and the chair of Armenia village school renovation program, was honored during this event. To date, AEF has renovated nearly 200 village schools in Armenia, Artsakh and Javakhk.
AEF held a social event for its members in April 2017, where they enjoyed a wine and cheese reception and a private screening of the movie The Promise.
In October, AEF held its annual Armenia and Artsakh scholarship receptions in Armenia, with over 300 attendees. Scholarship Alumni, AEF members and directors, community leaders, as well as current scholarship recipients participated in the event. read more…
AEF Scholarship Reception
In 2017, two endowment funds were also added. First, the Caroline Tufenkian Fund was established to fund the tuition for two Art History students, studying in Armenia.
The second fund, the Hacop Baghdassarian Scholarship Fund, was established in memory of AEF’s longtime board member and benefactor which will provide scholarships for students in Artsakh.
In November, elections were held for five AEF board member seats, as well as officers. The two new board members elected were Serop Beylerian and Rafik Khatchaturian. We would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to Mr. Neshan Peroomian, and Mrs. Aida Yeghiazarian, our two retiring Board members, for their years of service on the AEF Board.
We are preparing for a successful and fruitful 2018 for the AEF programs. We extend our sincere appreciation for your continued support of AEF and look forward to seeing you at our events in the coming year.
Armenian Educational Foundation’s Scholarship Program Still a Success
AEF Headquarters
Email: aef@aefweb.org
Address: 600 W. Broadway, Suite 130, Glendale, CA 91204
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Email: aefscholarships@gmail.com
Address: 19 Sayat Nova Avenue, Ani Plaza Hotel, business floor, 2nd room
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From the Hans Christian Andersen biography "The Life of Hans Christian Andersen. Day By Day", written by DPhil Johan de Mylius:
1865 66 67 68 69 Index Search Subject index 1870 71 72 73 74 1875
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Reads aloud at the Students' Association.
Release of Lykke-Peer (Lucky Peter) . Receives a total of 1,000 rdl. from this work, paid in 1871.
Anniversary celebration to mark what would have been Thorvaldsen's 100th birthday:
"In so many aspects of life I felt akin to Thorvaldsen, our poor background, our fight and the great recognition we receive from the world"
(the diary, same day).
Reads aloud from Tales and Stories for 130 ladies at Nathalie Zahle's Institute.
In the next fews days, HCA's attention is taken up by the fact that Caroline David has left her children and gone to Rome
"to take care of Brandes the writer, who is very ill and for whom she has a very kind heart"
(the diary, 5th).
Reads aloud for the youngest pupils at Nathalie Zahle's school.
Release of H.C. Andersens nye Eventyr og Historier. Med Illustrationer efter Originaltegninger af Lorenz Frølich. Første Bind. (Hans Christian Andersen's New Tales and Stories. Illustrated with Original Drawings by Lorenz Frølich. Volume One.) . The two following volumes are released in 1871 and 1874. This collected edition of three volumes, illustrated by Frølich, is a continuation of the edition from 1862-63, consisting of two volumes illustrated by Vilhelm Pedersen. These five volumes in total make up the complete edition in HCA's own life-time of his fairy-tales and stories. From the volume released on this day, HCA earns 1,200 rdl., paid in 1871.
Spends Christmas Eve alone, after having had dinner at the Henriques'.
Spends New Years Eve alone, after having had dinner at the Collins'.
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Home Tech News In first move since Amazon acquisition, Ring launches Neighbors app to help users fight crime
In first move since Amazon acquisition, Ring launches Neighbors app to help users fight crime
Ring, the smart-home security company that was acquired by Amazon a month ago, is harnessing the power of its users to fight crime with the launch of a new Neighbors app. It’s the first announcement from the company since its deal with the Seattle-based tech giant.
Ring hopes the free app will help catch package thieves and stop burglaries, perhaps even with the sharing of footage captured through its signature video doorbell. Alerts posted by users in specific geographic areas will provide a real-time crime-fighting tool, the company said Tuesday.
The Neighbors network was previously available in the main Ring app, and already has millions of users.
App users can see posts uploaded by neighbors, the Ring team and local law enforcement via an interactive map. If a neighbor notices suspicious activity in their area, they can post their own text, photo or video and alert the community.
“At Ring, we come to work every day with the mission of reducing crime in neighborhoods,” Jamie Siminoff, chief inventor and founder of Ring, said in a news release. “Over the past few years we have learned that, when neighbors, the Ring team and law enforcement all work together, we can create safer communities. Neighbors is meant to facilitate real-time communication between these groups, while maintaining neighbor privacy first and foremost. By bringing security to every neighbor with the free Neighbors app, communities can stay on top of crime and safety alerts as they happen.”
Amazon completed its acquisition of the Santa Monica, Calif.-based Ring on April 12. While Reuters put the price of the deal at $1 billion when news first broke in February, neither company confirmed the acquisition price. Ring continues to operate independently from Amazon.
Neighbors by Ring is available for iOS and Android.
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Buildings Advisory Committee, High-Performance
Authority: KRS 56.777
Chair: The representative of the Finance cabinet shall serve as Chair.
Description: The High Performance Buildings Advisory Committee is charged with establishing the criteria for the high-performance building standards and the benchmarks by which the high-performance building standards will be measured. The Committee will be researching cost-effective, energy-saving, recycled and renewable energy sources, and other “going green” methods of construction for state and local high-performance buildings design, construction, maintenance and operation.
Composition: The Committee shall consist of15 members - A representative of the Finance Cabinet, designated by the Secretary; A representative of the Commerce Cabinet, designated by the Secretary; A representative of the Department of Education, designated by the Commissioner; A representative of the Council on Postsecondary Education, designated by the president; A representative of the Governor's Office of Energy Policy, designated by the executive director; Representatives appointed by the Governor from each of the following - the design and construction industry involved in public works contracting; The KY Chapter of the US Green Building Council; The UK College of Design; The KY Forest Industries Association; The KY Society of the American Institute of Architects; The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers; The Home Builders Association of KY; the Associated General Contractors of KY; the West KY Construction Association; and the KY Manufactured Housing Institute.
Meeting Schedule: The committee shall meet at least monthly or as convened by the chairperson.
702 Capital Avenue, Room 383
Website: http://finance.ky.gov/HPBAC.htm
Annis, Philip C. 8/27/2015 8/22/2016 Member; Plantmix Asphalt Industry of KY rep Fayette
Black, Christopher J. 11/7/2014 8/22/2016 Member; West KY Construction Assoc. rep McCracken
Luhan, Gregory A. 11/7/2014 8/22/2016 Member; UK College of Design rep Fayette
Moneypenny, Jeffrey S. 1/26/2012 8/22/2018 Member; KY Chapter of the US Green Building Council rep Jefferson
Redmond, Sherry 11/2/2017 8/22/2018 Member
Edward, David Andrew 10/25/2018 8/22/2020 Member, representing the Kentucky Chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council Oldham
Vanhook, Randy Edward 10/25/2018 8/22/2020 Member, representing the Associated General Contractors of Kentucky Pulaski
Redmon, Sherry Diann 10/25/0218 8/22/2020 Member, representing the Kentucky manufactured Housing Institute Russell
Jacobs, Michael William 10/25/2018 8/22/2020 Member, representing design and construction industry involved in public works contracting Fayette
Kersey, Cheryl Creech 10/25/2018 8/22/2020 Member, representing KY Society for the American Institute of Architects Jefferson
Tyler, Christopher Robert 10/25/2018 8/22/2020 Member, representing American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers Fayette
Begley, William Tate 10/25/2018 8/22/2020 Member; representing the Kentucky Forest Industry Association Leslie
Messick, Robert Finley 10/25/2018 8/22/2020 Member, representing the KY Ready Mixed Concrete Association Franklin
Akers, Brandon 9/2/2008 Member; Assoc. General Contractors of KY rep Floyd
Akers, Brandon 1/26/2012 Member; Assoc. General Contractors of KY rep Floyd
Akers, Brandon 10/10/2012 Member; Assoc. General Contractors of KY rep Floyd
Akers, Brandon 11/7/2014 8/22/2016 Member; Assoc. General Contractors of KY rep Floyd
Bauer, Robert 9/2/2008 Member; Kentucky Forest Industries Assoc. rep Franklin
Bauer, Robert 1/26/2012 Member; Kentucky Forest Industries Assoc. rep Franklin
Bauer, Robert 10/10/2012 Member; Kentucky Forest Industries Assoc. rep Franklin
Bauer, Robert 11/7/2014 8/22/2016 Member; Kentucky Forest Industries Assoc. rep Franklin
Black, Christopher J. 9/2/2008 Member; West KY Construction Assoc. rep McCracken
Black, Christopher J. 1/26/2012 Member; West KY Construction Assoc. rep McCracken
Black, Christopher J. 10/10/2012 Member; West KY Construction Assoc. rep McCracken
Jacobs, Michael 1/26/2012 Member; Design and construction industry involved in public works contracting rep Fayette
Jacobs, Michael 10/10/2012 Member; Design and construction industry involved in public works contracting rep Fayette
Jacobs, Michael 11/7/2014 8/22/2016 Member; Design and construction industry involved in public works contracting rep Fayette
Kersey, Cheryl Creech 1/26/2012 Member; KY Society for the American Institute of Architects rep Jefferson
Kersey, Cheryl Creech 10/10/2012 Member; KY Society for the American Institute of Architects rep Jefferson
Kersey, Cheryl Creech 11/7/2014 8/22/2018 Member; KY Society for the American Institute of Architects rep Jefferson
Luhan, Gregory A. 7/31/2013 Member; UK College of Design rep Fayette
Messick, Robert Finley 8/27/2015 8/22/2022 Member; KY Ready Mixed Concrete Assoc. rep Franklin
Moneypenny, Jeffrey S. 10/10/2012 Member; KY Chapter of the US Green Building Council rep Jefferson
Moneypenny, Jeffrey S. 11/7/2014 8/22/2016 Member; KY Chapter of the US Green Building Council rep Jefferson
Tyler, Chris 9/2/2008 Member; American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers rep Fayette
Tyler, Chris 1/26/2012 Member; American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers rep Fayette
Tyler, Chris 10/10/2012 Member; American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers rep Fayette
Tyler, Chris 11/7/2014 8/22/2018 Member; American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers rep Fayette
Whittaker, Betty C. 1/26/2012 Member; KY manufactured Housing Institute rep Franklin
Whittaker, Betty C. 10/10/2012 Member; KY manufactured Housing Institute rep Franklin
Whittaker, Betty C. 11/7/2014 8/22/2016 Member; KY manufactured Housing Institute rep Franklin
Edward, David Andrew 11/2/2017 8/22/2018 Member
Vanhook, Randy Edward 11/2/2017 8/22/2018
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I would like to welcome you to Audenshaw School's Website. I hope that you enjoy visiting it and by doing so will gain a clearer idea of all that goes on within the school whether this is academic achievements, our wide range of extra-curricular activities on offer or our relationships with the wider local and global communities. I strongly believe that it is vital to celebrate the successes of our school and have designed the website to highlight these key areas. The school has always and will always place huge emphasis on academic achievement. We have a long and proud tradition of academic success and are proud of our standing within the community and also what our students go on to achieve after they leave the school. I hope that our traditional yet forward thinking ethos has been reflected in the stories and images on the pages of our website.
Jeanette Saw, Headteacher
Feb 8 2019 by Chris Rose
PE Dept:The Audenshaw School PE Department were recognised for their incredible 2018/19 Season
PE Dept
Feb 8 2019 by Ady Sutherland
Rugby:>The Audenshaw U14 Rugby Team completed what has been an incredible season at the Kirkham Grammar School 7s Competition!
Rugby,U14's, Kirkham Grammar
Rugby:The year 11 rugby team ended the season on an emphatic high winning the Lancashire Vase final against a strong St. Edward's side
Rugby,Lancashire Year 11
Jan 31 2019 by Chris Rose
Rugby:The U15 Rugby Team were crowned Lancashire Vase Champions with a 17-14 victory over Standish High School from Wigan
Rugby,U15's, Lancashire Vase
Jan 29, 2019 by Chris Rose
Rugby:Audenshaw Rugby product, Patrick Anglin made his senior debut for Warrington Wolves on Saturday against Rochdale Hornets RLFC
Rugby,Patrick Anglin
Athletics The 12th annual Audenshaw School Primary Cluster Indoor Athletics Competition took place on Thursday January 10th
Sharks Swimming
INDOOR ATHLETICS, Russell Scott
Nov 12, 2018 by Chris Rose
Rugby The U14 Team are through to the semi finals of the Lancashire Schools Cup following a courageous win!
RUGBY, U14's, Merchant Taylor
Nov 6, 2018 by Chris Rose
Rugby Five members of the Audenshaw U14 and U15 Rugby teams have been selected for professional club, Sale Sharks.
RUGBY, Sale sharks U14/U15's
Football Aldwyn Primary School were crowned Champions at the 12th annual Audenshaw Primary Cluster Football Competition
Football, PRIMARY CLUSTER
Oct 4, 2018 by Chris Rose
Rugby: The U14 Rugby Team have enjoyed an exceptional week in which they took on and defeated two of the best school teams in the north!
Rugby, U14's
Sept 17, 2018 by Chris Rose
Rugby: The U14 Rugby Team made it two wins from their opening three on Saturday with a hard fought victory over Rishworth School
Rugby: The U14 Rugby Team began their account for 2018/19 with a 54-7 victory over Lancashire neighbours, Bolton School1
Jun 27, 2018 by Chris Rose
Rugby: Former Audenshaw student, Richard Ward has become the latest of our rugby products to achieve international honours
Rugby, Richard Ward
June 15, 2018 by Chris Rose
Cricket: The Audenshaw U15's secure their place in the Quarter Finals of the Lancashire Schools Cup
Cricket, U15's, Lancashire cup
Jun 14, 2018 by Kathryn Taylor
Chemistry: Audenshaw Chemistry team take 1st prize in Salter Competition at Manchester University
Chemistry, Salter Prize
Jun 6, 2018 by Chris Rose
Swimming: Sharks' Bennett & Campbell Make Both English & British National Championship Finals
Audenshaw Sharks; Swimming
May 16, 2018 by Chris Rose
Cricket: The Audenshaw U15's secure their place in the third round of the Lancashire Schools Cup
May 6, 2018 by Chris Rose
Swimming:The Audenshaw Sharks were well represented at the North West Regional Championships
Sharks, Swimming
Cricket:The U15 Cricket team enjoyed a superb victory in the Lancashire Schools Cup on Monday
Apr 24, 2018 by Chris Rose
Rugby Tour:Audenshaw School Rugby embarked upon their fifth international tour over Easter
Rugby, Spain
KS3 Phys. Ed.
The Audenshaw School Physical Education Department has a strong ethos of participation and success in a disciplined and supportive environment. This is achieved through the hard work of its staff in both curricular and extra-curricular time, fully supporting the school’s values and vision. High standards are expected and maintained, a broad curriculum and an extensive extra-curricular programme ensures that success and achievement is possible for all students as is excellence for all those capable. The aim is for all students' experiences of PE and sport at Audenshaw school to be positive and lead to continued involvement of habitually active adults.
Year 7 - Curriculum Information
Students follow a broad range of activities in half-term blocks. They have 4 lessons in each 2 week timetable rotation. 2 P.E. lessons and 2 Games lessons taught in mixed ability form groups.
Activities include:-
PE – Gymnastics, Cross Country, Orienteering, Lacrosse, Fitness training, Athletics.
Games – Rugby, Football, Hockey, Basketball, Cricket, Softball.
Click here for Year 7 Lesson Programme
In year 8, students follow a very similar programme to year 7 but they attend these lessons as a half year group and are placed into ability sets. This allows targeted work including advanced skills and tactics for the most able as well as skill development and leadership for all students.
Click here for Year 8 ALD Forms Lesson Programme Click here for Year 8 WYNS Forms Lesson Programme
In year 9, students follow a modified P.E. programme in ability sets with longer units and fewer activities to maximise progress in the final year of key stage 3.
Activities are:
Rugby, Football, Weight Training, Badminton, Table tennis, Athletics, Cricket.
Key Stage 3 - How parents/carers can support their child
Help students to organise the correct kit for each lesson.
Encourage students to participate in as many lessons as possible and to bring kit to take some part in a lesson even if they are a little unwell or injured.
Encourage students to participate in extra-curricular sports' activities.
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www.youthsporttrust.org
www.teachpe.org
External links are carefully selected, however Audenshaw School is not responsible for the content of external websites.
GCE RESULTS DAY will be taking place on
Thursday 15th August 09:00am – 12:00pm
GCSE RESULTS DAY will be taking place on
Thursday 22nd August 10:00am – 12:00pm
Collection of results will be taking place in the Dining Hall,
please make your way there via the main Dining Hall doors.
If students are unable to collect your results in person,
please contact the Exams Office to make alternative
arrangements via our exams email address:
exams@audenshawschool.org.uk
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Touched By The Sun, Oddball Asteroid Crumbles Before Our Very Eyes
Posted on March 6, 2014 March 6, 2014 / astrobob / /
he NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope photographed the break-up of P/2013 R3 from Oct. 29, 2013 to Jan. 14, 2014. Although fragile comet nuclei have been seen to fall apart as they approach the Sun, nothing like this breakup, which occurred in the asteroid belt, has ever been observed before. Click to enlarge. Credit: NASA/ESA/D. Jewitt (UCLA)
The Hubble Space Telescope has photographed a never-seen-before breakup of an asteroid. Named P/2013 R3 (Catalina-PanSTARRS), it was discovered last September 15 by the Catalina and Pan-STARRS sky surveys as a faint, slightly fuzzy object. Two weeks later, the giant Keck Telescope in Hawaii took a closer look and saw not one but three separate pieces cruising along convoy-style in a dust cloud of their own making.
Animation showing the break up of P/2013 R3
By December it had crumbled into ten pieces, the four largest of which measure about 650 feet (200 meters) across or nearly two football fields apiece. The Hubble data show the fragments are drifting apart at the leisurely rate of just under 1 mile per hour (1.5 km/hr) or about the speed of someone walking while texting.
“This is a really bizarre thing to observe — we’ve never seen anything like it before,” says co-author Jessica Agarwal of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Germany. “The break-up could have many different causes, but the Hubble observations are detailed enough that we can actually pinpoint the process responsible.”
P/2013 R3 on Oct. 22, 2013 looked very much like a comet. The individual pieces that comprise the shattered asteroid are too small to resolve in this photo. The fresh dust exposed as the asteroid fell apart shows as a faint tail. Credit: Damian Peach
Astronomers have ruled out a collision, which would have happened suddenly and sent pieces flying apart at much great speeds. Shattering from the pressure of vaporizing ices in its interior also seems unlikely given the asteroid’s distance of 298 million miles (480 million km) from the sun – believed too cold for any ice it might possess to suddenly turn to vapor and pry the body apart. Besides, if it did contain ice, P/2013 R3 wouldn’t be considered an asteroid anymore but a main belt comet, an asteroid-like object between Mars and Jupiter that occasionally flares up as a comet.
So what could be responsible for perpetrating killing off an asteroid? Scientists suspect it was YORP up to his old tricks. YORP or the Yarkovsky-O‘Keefe-Radzievskii-Paddack effect requires only the light touch of sunshine to get rolling.
This illustration shows one possible explanation for the disintegration of asteroid P/2013 R3. Sunlight absorbed unequally across the asteroid’s surface can spin up its rotation and cause it to fall apart. More details on how this happens below. Credit: NASA, ESA, D. Jewitt (UCLA), and A. Feild (STScI)
Sunlight absorbed by P/2013 R3 is re-emitted as heat. Assuming the asteroid is irregular in shape – and most are because they’re so small – some areas get hotter and give off more heat than others. The imbalance causes a torque on the asteroid, increasing its spin rate.
Hubble Space Telescope close up of P/2013 R3 breaking up as seen on Nov. 15, 2013. Although fragile comet nuclei have been observed to fall apart as they approach the sun, this is the first time an asteroid has been seen to do so. Click to enlarge. Credit: NASA/ESA/D. Jewitt (UCLA)
Many asteroids are “rubble piles” of individual objects held together by gravity rather than solid rocks. Collisions with other asteroids over the 4.5 billion year lifetime of the solar system have shattered and pulverized their interiors. Primed to fall apart, the spin-up from YORP causes the asteroid to come apart at the seams. Pieces that were loosely-bound can drift away due to centrifugal forces; fresh dust exposed creates an enveloping comet-like cloud of debris. Pretty darn cool.
Yorping the day away. Illustration showing how sunlight absorbed unevenly by an asteroid’s surface creates torque that can increase its spin rate. Illustration: Bob King
We’ve seen one other instance of an asteroid breaking to pieces when Hubble photographed the aftermath of a head-on collision between the peculiar comet-like asteroid P/2010 A2 and a smaller asteroid in January 2010. But this is the first time ever we’ve watched an asteroid fall apart of its own accord.
“This indicates that the Sun may play a large role in disintegrating these small Solar System bodies, by putting pressure on them via sunlight,” said Agarwal.
Much of P/2013’s debris, weighing in at around 200,000 tons, will spiral its way into into the sun, but a portion could one day light up Earth’s skies as a lovely meteor shower. Amazing isn’t it how nature shares its incredible stories when we pay attention.
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Or, it’s an extraterrestrial self-replicating probe scooping up raw materials in order to self replicate! No, but it’s probably YORP.
Never know … 🙂
Edward O'Reilly
It looks like poor P/2013 R3 pulled an ‘Ison’,Bob! lol
Edward,
Yes, very similar but done oh-so-gently.
BCstargazer
More discoveries will take place now that technology improves.
Too bad we can’t get additional observations from the instruments on-board Odyssey and analysis by HAL. 🙂
Astrobob, I cannot accept the official explanation and I hope you will indulge me a little. Now this is the third unprecidented event we’ve seen in the asteroid belt in so many months. First, the six-tailed asteroid, then water vapor (or more likely ozone [O3]) around Ceres, and now this – another asteroid behaving more like a comet. I don’t know if we’ll get anymore photos, but my prediction is that every visible fragment of this asteroid will desintigrate into dust and small pieces just like, say, Ison did when it went around the sun. In fact, we already see this taking place in the photos provided. I’m not sure how you feel about the electric universe theory, particulary The Electric Comet Full documentary (I know it is hotly contested) but my contention is that something is heavily ionizing objects in the asteroid belt, drawing solar flares from the sun to them, and then picking away at them through electrical arcing on the surfaces until they form single or multiple tails. had to post it
Brave man. You’re welcome to your opinion about the EC idea, but unfortunately there’s no evidence to support this happening. The clouds of material that leave the sun, while composed of ionized electrons and protons, are in sum total neutral. The flares themselves do not travel – they propel the high speed clouds into space.
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Big Cactus Country Radio and Alison Hebert “News from Nashville” – Country RDV Craponne 2014!
Aug.06, 2014
The last weekend, Team News Nashville made its appearance at the 27th edition of the Country Rendez-Vous Festival Craponne on Arzon in Haute Loire. Despite a slightly capricious weather, we enjoyed the stunning live performances of the 15 groups present at the event which came off without a hook.
Thanks to the highly professional audio, video, lighting from the Country Rendez-Vous Festival organization team. Like every year, and for 17 years, Johnny Da Piedade, the host of the Big Cactus Country was on the scene, and always faithful to the his appointment prsenting all the artists of this mega event! I suggest to you a list of our favorite artists closest to our heart. Roving Seats opened the festivities. This excellent French group consisting of talented artists found its leader Manuel Julvez on guitar and vocals. The charismatic Geoffrey Chaurand was on guitar and harmonica along with Ange Amadei. As expected, the group Blue Highway Bluegrass captivated the public.
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In the same spirit, but in a more traditional style, the oldest European Bluegrass group, who opened the first edition of the Festival Country RDV 26 years ago: Red Wine group from Italy which also had a huge success! Setting fire to the Craponne scene was American Southern rock band Skinny Molly, whose lead singer, Mike Estes is a former member of the legendary band Lynyrd Skynyrd.
Jerry Kilgore
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The Whiskey Sisters duo was also a big hit at the Country Rendez Vous with their vibrant country style rock! The last day of the festival was opened by the Acoustic Fivewith pop rock hits and even a Country disco version tainted with Bluegrass. The Texas House Of Martha And The Twang also attracted fans of the genres Honky Tonk and Traditional Country.
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Then it came time to applaud the great headlining the festival in 2014 with the very talented and friendly Darryl Worley. Darryl gave us a great show in all respects with his beautiful voice, in sunny Craponne giving you goosebumps! Darryl had two encores without restraint from the public. A huge success!
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Sarah Savoy, raging accordion musicians in the presence of Darryl Worley, the Roving Seats, Texas Martha, and the mega star Darryl Worley noteably joined by daughter Sarah on washboard created a crazy atmosphere prevailing throughout the music from Louisiana. A visibly happy audience remained numerous until the last note! The 28th edition of the festival for 2015 will be, as usual, the last weekend of the month of July. Rendez Vous!
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Pink Pillows in Berlin!
Mainstream hotels in Berlin reach out to LGBT travelers.
A number of Berlin hotels have joined forces and named themselves the Pink Pillow Berlin Collection. Their operating charter contains the following:
All guests are treated with the same courtesy, dignity and respect – regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation or sexual identity, citizenship, religion, disability or age.
All hotels are committed to contributing actively in the community and to being a supporting member in a network/project/association in the Berlin LGBT scene.
The hotels will create a work environment of respect and tolerance towards all members of staff.
The hotels offer target-group packages specifically for the LGBT scene.
It remains to be seen whether these hotels live up to their charter, or whether they are just being lured by the ‘Pink Euro’. A full list of the participating hotels can be found at Pink Pillow Berlin.
Pink Choice would be interested to hear from travelers who have stayed in any of these hotels, so please make sure you leave a review after your trip to Berlin.
Tags: Gay Berlin, Gay Friendly Hotels Berlin, gay hotel reviews, Gay hotels Berlin, Pink Pillow Hotel Collection Berlin
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New York’s First Gay Hotel Opens for Business
The eagerly anticipated Out NYC Urban Resort opened its doors to guests on March 1, 2012.
This straight-friendly urban resort is poised to become a travel and entertainment destination for New Yorkers and visitors alike. The complex, situated on 42nd Street between 10th and 11th Avenues, encompasses a 105-room boutique hotel, the 14,000 square foot XL Nightclub, Cabaret & Lounge by John Blair, Beto Sutter, and FV Events, a late-night restaurant called Kitchin, three courtyards, a business/conference center, function space, and a wellness center.
The first phase of the project was completed on January 26, 2012 with the opening of XL Nightclub, Cabaret & Lounge. XL Nightclub, Cabaret & Lounge is the newest project by noted gay nightlife impresarios John Blair and Beto Sutter, and the wunderkind party promoters Brandon Voss and Tony Fornabaio of FV Events. Blair and Sutter, famous for the legendary Saturday night party at The Roxy, helped create this new venue from the ground up. Open seven nights a week, XL Nightclub, Cabaret & Lounge is the first nightly gay dance club to open in New York City in 15 years. The space features an LED wall, two dance floors, and a full stage.
The boutique hotel features 105 rooms with an upscale, chic décor and a starting rate of approximately $250. The hotel’s restaurant, Kitchin is operated by the team behind the already-successful Hell’s Kitchen favorite, Eatery Restaurant. It offers the same style of upscale comfort food for which Eatery Restaurant is known. THE OUT NYC will host various types of function space to accommodate everything from intimate private dinners to large events and weddings. The building is centered on three courtyards and a 5,000 square foot wellness center, creating an oasis from the city just outside its doors.
“This is an idea whose time has come. What makes THE OUT NYC a desirable hotel is the comfort level and tailored amenities for both the gay and straight communities,” said Ian Reisner, Managing Partner, Parkview Developers. “THE OUT NYC will become a ‘can’t-miss’ for gay tourists as well as the epicenter of gay life for LGBT New Yorkers. With New York’s recent legislation, we look forward not only to hosting countless gay couples, but marrying them as well.”
Pink Choice would like to congratulate the Out NYC on its recent opening, and looks forward to receiving reviews from its guests.
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Pink Choice announces the 2012 gay and lesbian hotel awards
Pink Choice has today announced its 2012 Pink Choice Awards, naming 23 gay and lesbian hotels worldwide as the year’s winners.
Throughout 2011, thousands of accommodation reviews were submitted to Pink Choice by its 10,000 members. As a result, this year sees the largest ever number of award winners, based on guests’ submitted reviews and ratings. Many previous winners have again made the list, and are joined for the first time by the Benchmark Inn in Provincetown, recently under new ownership, Frog Meadow B&B and Massage Oasis for Men in Newfane, Vermont, the Inn at Stone Mills in Little Falls, New York and the Worthington Guesthouse in Fort Lauderdale, whose sister property, the Alcazar Resort, made last year’s award list and which is again a recipient.
In addition to the award winners, Pink Choice now recommends nearly 200 properties in 20 countries worldwide. As in previous years the site grew steadily in 2011, and so, more than ever, Pink Choice truly reflects the opinions of global gay and lesbian travelers. With the site including more than 2,500 properties in 800 destinations spanning 66 countries, gay and lesbian travelers can today enjoy a wealth of accommodation choices.
2011 also demonstrated that while many of the well known LGBT destinations continue to attract large crowds, increasing numbers of gay and lesbian travelers are setting their sites further afield. This is in part due to a greater global acceptance of the gay and lesbian travelers, and the increasing trend of mainstream hotels to compete for their business. We hope that in 2012 our members will not only tell us about their good experiences, but will also let us know when any hotel falls short of its marketing promise. That way we can continue to help our members make the right accommodation choices.
Pink Choice congratulates the 2012 award winners, and all the other recommended properties.
And the winners are:
Aerie House & Beach Club, Provincetown, MA
Alcazar Resort, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Benchmark Inn, Provincetown, MA
Carpe Diem Guesthouse & Spa, Provincetown, MA
Christopher’s by the Bay, Provincetown, MA
Frog Meadow B&B and Massage Oasis for Men, Newfane, VT
Gabriel’s at the Ashbrooke Inn, Provincetown, MA
Grand View Inn, Provincetown, MA
Inn at Cook St, Provincetown, MA
Liberty Suites, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Lighthouse Inn B & B, Rehoboth Beach, DE
Moose Meadow Lodge, Waterbury, VT
Newnham Suncatcher Inn, Saugatuck, MI
Pineapple Point, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Pride Lodge, Blackpool, UK
Revere Guesthouse, Provincetown, MA
Snug Cottage, Provincetown, MA
The Highlands Inn, Bethlehem, NH
The Inn at Stone Mill, Little Falls, NY
The Worthington Guesthouse, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Two Village Square, Ogunquit, ME
White Porch Inn, Provincetown, MA
White Wind Inn, Provincetown, MA
For more information about the Pink Choice Awards and for a complete list of recommended properties visit the awards page on Pink Choice.
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Re: Luxury camp inside Walls of Jerusalem WHA with heli acce
by bushwalker zane » Mon 11 Feb, 2019 7:19 am
I also received that email. I will be working on the 26th I wish I could go, the more numbers to meetings like this the better.
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by bogholesbuckethats » Wed 13 Feb, 2019 12:50 pm
Investors in Wild Drake Pty Ltd.
wild drake asic search.pdf
That looks like a pad.
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by myrtlegirl » Sun 17 Feb, 2019 12:32 pm
bogholesbuckethats wrote: Investors in Wild Drake Pty Ltd.
Thanks for that BHBH.
So these are the ASIC listed investors in Wild Drake, which has 460,000 shares (share value not known):
- Daniel Hackett has 63.1% of the shares, which are non-beneficially held (i.e. he holds the shares for the benefit of someone else).
- Anne Florence Downie has 8.7% of the shares, beneficially held. A Google search throws up this name in association with long-held family farm properties in the Central highlands.
- Neville John and Dorothy Mary Topfer hold 14.1% of the shares, also non-beneficial. Mr Topfer's name comes up as being a lawyer for several decades. Ms Topfer may be an author.
- Nicholas Lindsay and Victoria Sandra D'Antoine hold 14.1%, of the shares, also non-beneficial. Mr D'Antoine may be a grazier and charity donor.
It's quite interesting that over 90% of the shares are held by 'front-men'.
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by bogholesbuckethats » Thu 21 Feb, 2019 9:12 am
Halls Island rezoned after tourism proposal received
EMILY BAKER, State Political Reporter, Mercury
A PROPOSAL for a luxury standing camp on an island within the Wilderness World Heritage Area partly led to that area being rezoned to allow for development, new documents reveal.
Emails released to the Mercury under Right to Information laws show the Tasmanian Government rezoned Halls Island in the Walls of Jerusalem National Park from “wilderness” to “self-reliant recreation” in 2016 specifically because it had received a proposal for the helicopter-accessed tourism development on the Lake Malbena site.
Emails sent in late 2016 show the Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment told its federal counterparts it had changed the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area management plan “to allow for development proposals submitted through ... [the State Government’s expressions of interest] process”.
All eco-tourism proposals that benefited from the TWWHA boundary changes — except for Halls Island — were redacted in the documents given to the Mercury. The State Government on Wednesday did not answer where else within the TWWHA had been rezoned.
An email sent last year from a DPIPWE staff member to employees within the department’s media team said the agency believed it was not appropriate to class Halls Island as wilderness because of a longstanding lease on the site and the presence of an existing historic hut.
“In addition, as the proposal had passed through the first stage of the [expressions of interest] process ... this was sufficient for the concept to be regarded as something that should be allowed for under the planning settings of the new TWWHA plan, noting that it would need to undergo an assessment,” the email said.
An artist’s impression of one of the huts in the proposed Lake Malbena eco-tourism standing camp. Picture: CUMULUS STUDIO
The Halls Island proposal was ultimately approved by the Federal Environment Department last year against the advice of national heritage and Aboriginal advisory bodies partly because the area was zoned “self-reliant recreation” rather than “wilderness”.
Halls Island proponent Daniel Hackett said the emails suggested the rezoning had received the tick of approval from then-federal Environment Minister Josh Frydenberg and was therefore “correct and appropriate”.
“To paraphrase Bob Brown, ‘wilderness and huts is a non-sequitur’; it is a contradiction to have wilderness, an existing hut, landscape modification and a long history of use occurring in the same location,” Mr Hackett said on Wednesday.
Halls Island development proponents Simone and Daniel Hackett.
“The minor boundary modification obviously addressed this and recognised Halls Island for what it is.”
But Tasmanian Labor senator Anne Urquhart labelled the “circular process [of approval] ... comical”.
“The Commonwealth Government must urgently have a fresh look at the project and examine if actions are permissible within the wilderness zone,” Senator Urquart said.
The Wilderness Society, which is challenging the Federal Government’s process of approving the development next month in the Federal Court, called on Premier, Parks, Tourism and Heritage Minister Will Hodgman to pause assessments under way through the Liberals’ expressions of interest process until the TWWHA tourism master plan was complete.
The contract for that document was awarded in late December last year.
Wilderness Society acting state campaign manager Tom Allen said: “These emails confirm that the Government secretly changed the rules for managing World Heritage wilderness and that private commercial developments for vested interests are driving planning decisions, instead of the protection of natural and cultural heritage values.”
Tasmanian Greens Senator Nick McKim accused the Liberals of “putting profit over environment”.
“This is an outrageous abuse of the responsibility that governments have to look after one of the most precious wilderness areas in the world,” Senator McKim said.
by johnrs » Thu 21 Feb, 2019 11:52 am
So Folks
Who are the mysterious backers?
and who did the high level lobbying of government?
And what will this all be worth to those backers when its onsold?
Some pretty fancy financial footwork here,
exempting some land then privatising the value created by the surrounding world heritage area
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by Paul » Thu 21 Feb, 2019 12:34 pm
I know of a grazier in the Epping Forest area who has been heavily involved with Government previously !!!!!!
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by Son of a Beach » Thu 21 Feb, 2019 3:12 pm
johnrs wrote: So Folks
Who has a reputation or history of:
Manipulating the Tasmanian government into changing policies to suit their purposes
Inexplicable secret back-room deals with the Tasmanian government to get exclusive rights
Providing exclusive holiday/accommodation services in Tasmania for exceedingly wealthy people
Halls Island - information, links, photo gallery, media coverage
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by Paul » Thu 21 Feb, 2019 9:10 pm
It could be someone who has commercial developments and is also on the Tourism Council !!!!!
by bogholesbuckethats » Thu 21 Feb, 2019 9:30 pm
Big tick for wilderness island camp plans on Lake Malbena
EMILY BAKER, State Political Editor, Mercury
THE Central Highlands Council looks set to approve a luxury standing camp development proposed for World Heritage-listed wilderness in the Walls of Jerusalem National Park.
Documents released ahead of next week’s vote on the Lake Malbena development show council contract planner Jacqui Tyson has recommended conditional approval of Wild Drake’s proposed helicopter-accessed standing camp because it substantially complied with the area’s planning scheme.
That was largely because it was allowed under the broader Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area management plan. That plan, the Mercury revealed on Thursday, was amended by the State Government in 2016 — specifically to allow for the Lake Malbena proposal.
The documents show the Central Highlands Council received 1346 representations on the proposed development, which would have four huts erected on Halls Island on Lake Malbena, and up to 240 helicopter flights scheduled into the Walls of Jerusalem each year.
Only two of the submissions were in support of the proposal.
A suggested approval condition was that the proposed helicopter landing site on the mainland near Halls Island be used only in association with the standing camp.
“Helicopters and the helicopter landing site must not be used for any other purpose and must altogether cease if the visitor accommodation use ends,” the agenda said.
As well, Ms Tyson recommended that the proponents would have to rehabilitate the site as necessary were the venture to end.
The bulk of objections to the proposal were assessed as outside the council’s remit.
“The majority of concerns raised in the very high number of representations … focus on whether or not the proposal should happen at all in the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area,” the agenda said.
“This is a decision made by the Parks and Wildlife Service and the State Government as landowner.”
The proposal has received the go-ahead from the state and federal governments, but the Wilderness Society is challenging the federal Environment Department’s process of approval in the Federal Court next month.
The Central Highlands Council document said the development would not be able to proceed until that appeal was determined. The council’s special meeting will be held Tuesday in Bothwell.
by johnrs » Fri 22 Feb, 2019 4:15 pm
This is getting worse now.
There are indications that ther council process is a sham
See Greg Fench's comments from the Fly Life forums
Greg French replied: Why can't wilderness just be sacred... LAKE MALBENA!
The planner has had a maximum of 4 days since the close of submissions to consider the Malbena DA. Does anyone seriously believe that 1346 submissions (1344 against the proposal) can even be read in that time, let alone considered? The planner has stated that most of the submissions were outside the ‘remit’ of the DA process, but I can tell you categorically that many referred specifically to shortcomings in the DA itself. None of these shortcomings has been acknowledged.
To put the overwhelming nature of response to the Malbena DA in context, it has been widely reported that the Royal Commission into banking received just 10,000 responses across all of Australia. I’ve spent a lot of time in wilderness management, and as far as I can tell the Malbena response is unprecedented for an ‘insignificant development’ in a ‘rarely visited’ corner of wilderness. This is because everyone knows that it is really the beginning of the end of our national park system. The precedents mean that the minister alone is now free to rezone and privatise whatever part of the WHA he likes without consultation with anyone at all.
The bulk of the CHC decision says that the DA has been approved because it was already approved in the PWS’s RAA process. That was also the rationale in the EPBC process. It’s so circular as to be comical. Why ask for new submissions at all? Especially if you are not going to table the main objections and publically address them? The council has a legal (not just moral) obligation to consider all submissions, but apparently due process is an old fashioned concept.
This, then, is how democracy is destroyed in the era of Trump. The state government and the proponent are complicit and need to be held to account.
The battle is far from over, however. The council has to vote, and we only have to win over one or two votes to sway things in the favour of due process. I urge everyone to phone all the councillors individually – this really can make a difference! (All the councillors’ phone numbers are on the Central Highlands Council website.)
Remember too that the special meeting of council which decides the fate of the DA will be held at Bothwell on Tuesday 26 February (next week). It’s a public meeting and respondents to the DA have been invited to talk (under strict conditions). It needs to be treated as a rally – be there. Again numbers will count, both to influence wavering councillors and also to impress upon state and federal politicians that this issue matters. (There is a federal election looming, and if the Liberals win it’s open slather for development right across the Western Lakes.)
If the council approves the DA, there is a right of appeal. This is the form explaining the process:
www.rmpat.tas.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_ ... l-LUPA.pdf
The appeal will cost money – a nominal application fee plus representation (lawyer) costs. But if one person lodges an appeal, others can add their voices to it. There are lots of grounds for appeal, and we would probably win.
I simply don’t have the means to pay for an appeal myself, so I’m imploring someone else to put their hand up. Any takers?
Maybe crowdsourcing??
Anyone with any expericence with this??
by tastrax » Fri 22 Feb, 2019 6:20 pm
I am assuming this is the link to appeals documents
https://bit.ly/2EmrxXK
Maybe the Environmental Defenders Office may be able to assist - http://www.edotas.org.au
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by myrtlegirl » Sat 23 Feb, 2019 5:04 pm
I am going to the Central Highlands Council meeting on Tues 26th Feb, and I have 2 spots in my car, leaving from Hobart about 8.45am on the day. PM me for my phone number if you'd like a lift.
by johnrs » Sat 23 Feb, 2019 9:37 pm
Just sickening
Here is a link to the private certifiers approval for Mr Hackets development in the Walls of Jerusalem
The process represents theft of a public assett using the tools of government
The assessors report is in the agenda to the coming council meeting,
it's long
Here is the link http://centralhighlands.tas.gov.au/wp-c ... y-2019.pdf
This is going to lead to a lot of strife
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by Jennyrun » Sun 24 Feb, 2019 7:52 pm
What is the easiest (shortest) way into Lake Malbena with a 2wd vehicle as access?
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by Son of a Beach » Mon 25 Feb, 2019 12:16 pm
I won't be able to make the CHC meeting (working). I skimmed through their assessment report and read a few bits and pieces until I literally started to feel sick. I didn't sleep much that night!
It appears from the report that the approval is a done deal already. Anywhere where an objector has disagreed with the proponents view of things, the report merely states that it complies. Ie, they have assumed that the proponent is correct and justified, and that the objector is incorrect and ignorant. ...or perhaps they simply couldn't be bothered doing any real assessment.
Off the top of my head, two such instances in the report were:
1. Where the plan says that buildings must not be constructed on ridge tops, the developer doesn't mention ridge tops, but says that they buildings will not be visible. However, the location IS actually on the ridge along the middle of the island. Several people pointed this out in their objections - ie, this is CLEARLY against the planning code, but the report simply states that it complies with the code.
2. The other instance under the stormwater part of the code (6.7 from memory) the developer says that they will re-use stormwater, therefore it doesn't need to do anything to manage stormwater. One of my objections was that it is not physically possible for the developer to store and use all of the rain that would fall on the roofs of their proposed buildings, the vast majority of it (at least for 8 months of the year) would overflow their rainwater tanks and therefore be unmanaged stormater. The report ignored this and simply stated that the proposal complies with section 6.7 for stormwater. Again, this is clearly in breach of the code, and yet has been assessed as complying with the code.
So surely this is either incompetence or corruption.
They are clearly ignoring objections and stating that the proposal complies in at least these two cases, and probably many more. I couldn't read much more than that because it was becoming too stressful for me.
If anybody who is speaking at the CHC meeting can look into raising these points and other points where the objections have been effectively ignored, I'd be grateful.
The proponents should be made to address all of the objections to breaches of the planning code.
Oh, and at the end of the assessment where one of the only two items in favour of the development said that it complied with "UNESCO approved" management plan. Wow! So wrong on SO many levels! It is clearly in breach of the plan that UNESO approved. But that plan has been obsoleted by the government and been replaced with another plan that had no consultation and has NOT been endorsed by UNESCO. In fact, UNESCO were quite vocal about it being woefully inadequate!
by dee_legg » Mon 25 Feb, 2019 12:52 pm
I felt the same SOOB. Peaceful protest anyone?
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by Paul » Mon 25 Feb, 2019 1:20 pm
Yes, peaceful protest for sure
by Jennyrun » Mon 25 Feb, 2019 3:48 pm
The planning code says no clearing of native vegetation, yet the developer says they will clear native vegetation at both the standing camp and helipad!!!
Separately, am I right in saying that the proposed helipad site is not part of the lease? Hence still public land? Hence still a place to pitch a tent or two or three.
by tastrax » Mon 25 Feb, 2019 5:10 pm
Jennyrun wrote: The planning code says no clearing of native vegetation, yet the developer says they will clear native vegetation at both the standing camp and helipad!!!
Absolutely a great place to pitch a tent or three!
by Rabid K9 » Mon 25 Feb, 2019 10:25 pm
johnrs wrote: Just sickening
Are Tas Police going to be acting as the Hacketts own private security on this as well?
Seems like over other 'public' service is being offered to them.
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by Lophophaps » Tue 26 Feb, 2019 7:31 am
I have advised CHC that if approval is given I will be lodging a formal complaint with the Ombudsman. The complaint was drafted about two weeks ago and is ready to send as soon as approval is given. My main point is that the DA is illegal. It would greatly assist if I could add a few more points, like taking such a short time to read all the submissions (many pro formas), not addressing issues like land clearing and water disposal, and others. I'm happy to include such points in my compliant, or you can DIY.
If you have any points to include please send me a PM with brief details. There will be no attribution. I'm not near a computer much for the next week but will attempt to send the complaint out this week. I'll send copies of the complaint to anyone that asks for this in a PM.
One other issue. Somewhere above I think I read that there were going to be wildlife cameras on Halls Island. This seems to me to be a cover for security cameras. Ask if permission is needed and who is doing the wildlife study. This is not a DA issue, seems to be PAWS.
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by Son of a Beach » Tue 26 Feb, 2019 10:52 am
Rabid K9 wrote:
It's worth noting the timing of the government re-drafting a new version of their anti-protest laws that were previously canned due to being unconstitutional. I can't help but think that they are being done specifically for projects like this right now, rather than for forestry this time.
Lophophaps wrote: Somewhere above I think I read that there were going to be wildlife cameras on Halls Island. This seems to me to be a cover for security cameras. Ask if permission is needed and who is doing the wildlife study. This is not a DA issue, seems to be PAWS.
In responding to requests for permission to visit Halls Island, Mr Hackett informs people that the island is closed to all visitors for now, and that there are cameras there to capture data for fauna studies. I suspect that the mention of the cameras is to scare people off. Whether the cameras actually exist or not, I don't know. I have my doubts as to whether they are there at all.
by bogholesbuckethats » Tue 26 Feb, 2019 1:41 pm
Council have opposed the DA 6-3
by Thornbill » Tue 26 Feb, 2019 2:14 pm
bogholesbuckethats wrote: Council have opposed the DA 6-3
Good lord! Don't tell me proper scrutiny and process has been applied? The Libs, both State and Feds, won't like that
How would a cubist paint a flounder?
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by Lophophaps » Tue 26 Feb, 2019 2:18 pm
Nice result. I strongly suspect that the non-pro forma submissions carried the day. Daniel will have to find another place, away from the WHA. King Island or the Simpson Desert appeal.
by potato » Tue 26 Feb, 2019 2:20 pm
This is great news. Yes I agree the non-pro forma submissions would have done most of the heavy lifting.
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by Paul » Tue 26 Feb, 2019 2:34 pm
What next ? Does Daniel and his accomplicess have the right of appeal to the Planning Tribuneral ? ( spelling ? )
I would like to know if he has that right to appeal the Council decision.
by doogs » Tue 26 Feb, 2019 2:45 pm
Great news. Well done to the council for seeing sense and understanding the impacts this proposal would have had
From The Mercury:
Central Highlands Council hosts special meeting to vote on Wild Drake’s controversial Lake Malbena proposal
UPDATED: SIX of nine Central Highlands councillors — including Mayor Loueen Triffitt — have rejected a proposal for a helicopter-accessed standing camp in the Wilderness World Heritage Area.
Cr Triffitt, Cr Anita Campbell, Cr Robert Cassidy, Cr Tony Bailey, Cr Julie Honner and Cr Anthony Archer this afternoon voted against approving the development application for the Halls Island proposal.
Those councillors, who voted against the advice of their planner, received hearty applause from attendees of the public meeting.
Many said they were concerned that it did not fit with the Parks and Wildlife Service’s standing camp policy.
Cr Cassidy said he had been “vomiting with anxiety” ahead of voting on the development application.
Many councillors said they were furious that the decision had been left with them after state and federal governments and departments had failed to do their “due diligence”.
EARLIER: The Central Highlands Council mayor says the proposal for a helicopter-accessed luxury camp in the Walls of Jerusalem National Park has been one of the most stressful issues her council has ever confronted.
Loueen Triffitt spoke this morning ahead of a special council meeting at Bothwell Town Hall to vote on Wild Drake’s controversial Lake Malbena proposal.
More than 1340 people objected to the proposal and about 100 attended this morning’s council meeting.
All who spoke ahead of the council vote — which will take place this afternoon — were against the development.
Most objected because of the 240 helicopter flights that would chopper in tourists staying at the proposed camp.
The proposed helipad site for the Lake Malbena development.
Many were concerned about stormwater and bushfire management.
All who argued the proposal went against the values of the Wilderness World Heritage Area.
The council’s planner, Jacqui Tyson, has recommended the proposal be approved, because it has already been through the Parks and Wildlife Service’s Reserve Activity Assessment process.
Cr Triffitt’s daughter, Angela, spoke against the proposal partly because of a lack of consultation with the Tasmanian Aboriginal people.
Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre chief executive Heather Sculthorpe and Aboriginal Heritage Council chairman Rodney Dillon also spoke against the proposal.
Mr Dillon said the state’s Aboriginals had been ignored in the process “ but this is not the first time this has happened — it has happened for 200 years”.
“This site is an ancient site and once lost we will never have it back,” Mr Dillon said.
“There wouldn’t be an Aboriginal person in Tasmania who would agree with this proposal.”
The Hackett family recently released the first artist’s impression of their proposed Lake Malbena eco-tourism standing camp. Picture: CUMULUS STUDIO
The Lake Malbena proposal involves four huts built on Halls Island. It has been approved by the state and federal governments largely because it fits within the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area management plan.
The State Government changed the plan specifically to allow for the development.
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Paul wrote: What next ? Does Daniel and his accomplicess have the right of appeal to the Planning Tribuneral ? ( spelling ? )
Yes he has the right to appeal and that is what we are expecting to happen.
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Melody Thomas Scott Celebrates 35 Years Young at “The Young and the Restless”
NaVell Lee / February 26, 2014
For 35 years, Melody Thomas Scott has graced our television screens as Nikki Reed Newman on the #1 daytime soap, “The Young and the Restless.” The character of Nikki has been a staple for so long that you cannot imagine the town of Genoa City without her. No one is perfect, and she did have her troubled beginnings, but Nikki was able to overcome the obstacles she had to face.
At the age of 8, Thomas Scott was first seen in the Alfred Hitchcock movie, “Marnie,” where she played the young version of the title character. From there, she would have roles in television and film before taking over the role of Nikki Reed in 1979 from Erica Hope. Right at the start, Nikki was already getting in loads of trouble, and we fans couldn’t get enough of her.
From rivalries to relationships, cult membership to stripper haven, Nikki proved to be pure glamour, even if she was a lush at times. After killing her father, she was led to the arms of former bad boy Paul Williams, where the two had sex and she caught a venereal disease. The two even joined a cult, but she would soon leave that world and enter the world of exotic dancing. During her days as a stripper, a man would soon catch Nikki’s eye. That man was Christian Miller…or better known to many as Victor Newman, a powerful businessman who built his company from the ground up with no help but his own. Victor had an attraction to Nikki, and felt he could mold her into being the beautiful woman she is, inside and out.
Many fans wanted Victor and Nikki to get together. The two finally married in 1984, but the marriage was not smooth sailing. Victor was pining for another, and Nikki wanted to save her marriage, even if it forced her to lie about actually dying. I can’t hate you, girl. You did what you needed to in order to keep your lover. All in a day’s work in Genoa City.
A few years later, Nikki would come to fall in love and marry Jack Abbott. Even though they were together, Victor and Nikki could never stay out of each other’s orbit. During her marriage to Jack, Nikki began slowly drinking out of the bottle, and all I could say was, “Drink more, girl.” Melody has always been at the top of her game, but during that storyline in 1990-1992, she really brought it home. Drunk Nikki was one of my all-time favorite stories for Nik.
Remember the scenes where Jack and Victor fought in the office at Newman Enterprises? Well, Niks was pregnant, and she and Victor argued, which led her to falling down the steps at the Newman Ranch, and ended up miscarrying. Jack overheard Victoria and Nikki talking, which led Jack right into Victor’s office for a brutal confrontation. Poor girl could never catch a break.
After Jack and Nikki separated, along came a girl from the wrong side of the tracks herself. Sharon Collins blew into town and fell for Nikki’s youngest son, Nick. Boy, did Sharon rub Nikki the wrong way, and that rivalry continues to this day. Nikki definitely has had her share of rivalries. Mainly, it was between Sharon, Jill Foster, and Diane Jenkins. Her one true friend was Katherine Chancellor. If anything, I have always wondered how much did Nikki, and Kay for that matter, wanted to really be mother and daughter.
Diane Jenkins was definitely that thorn in Nikki’s side that just wouldn’t go away…until Nikki clubbed her over the head with a rock, anyway. When my poor Nikki was shot by Joshua Landers’ crazy wife, Veronica, Victor married Nikki on her deathbed. Of course, the marriage was illegal as he was still married to Diane. Diane and Nikki would always come to blows over Victor. Let me correct this…Nikki will come to blows with ANY WOMAN over Victor. She even snapped at Cricket after Victor was shot. I know Brad Carlton was not here for that.
Speaking of Brad, that man was the prime reason Nikki and Victor split yet again. It seems Nikki was having an affair with Bradley, and Victor would move back into the penthouse. Diane wanted Victor back, and what better way to do that than by having Victor’s child. OK…as crazy as that story was, it was entertaining to watch these women (Ashley, Diane and Nikki) want Victor’s sperm. I mean…they wanted his sperm! Who can say that and not laugh? I am writing this and chuckling. The catfight scenes with Diane and Nikki were superb! I think I was cracking up even more that the catfight went into the next day’s episode, and it was nighttime. How did they fight for so long with no one checking on them in the Jabot boardroom?
As a huge Victor and Nikki stan, I was excited to see them get married again in September 2002 in a lavish ceremony at the Colonnade Room. Gorgeous! A shame a lot of pitfalls came in the way of their marriage this go-around. For one, Sharon comes back to town, Nikki working with Bobby Marsino, and the Jabot/Newman war. You can understand why Nikki likes to down that hard liquor.
David Chow…yea, we won’t mention that.
How about when Nikki started hitting the bottle again? The Deacon/Nikki affair? Nikki’s almost marriage to Paul? I will always love to see Nikki take that drink, and have her go downhill again, but man! When she found out Deacon played her and worked with Meggie (never thought I would hear that name again), I know she was ready to raise some mad hell!
And now…we have Nikki dealing with her past…a son that was believed to be gone only to be in Genoa City. The former cult leader is back and wreaking havoc once again. What’s a girl to do? I’m sure that after 35 years, Nikki has learned a few tricks.
Melody Thomas Scott/Photo Credit: CBS
Fans cannot say that Melody Thomas Scott doesn’t have a vocal outpouring of support. When it appeared that the actress was no longer with the show, petitions came zooming across the Internet to save her job. I was devastated that she was gone, and couldn’t imagine seeing her off “Y&R.” How can you get rid of someone who has been at this job for so long and has been frontburner so many years? It struck me when I saw her name and picture off the opening credits while she was gone. I was celebrating when it was announced that Melody was back and better than ever at “Y&R.” What felt like several months felt like several years of a hiatus.
We have so many memories of Nikki Reed that I probably did not even get to, or even remember. However, I am sure many can fill in the gaps. For now, I want to say that what an honor it is to celebrate 35 years of love, heartache, and fun for Melody Thomas Scott. Happy Anniversary and here is to many more years in Genoa City.
All the best, Mel!
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Stephen Muirhead meets neither, as he explores waves, tiles and percolation theory
by Stephen Muirhead. Published on 14 March 2019.
While catching up on past issues of Chalkdust over the Christmas break, I was intrigued to see that issue 07 featured an article on Chladni figures (On the cover: Chladni figures of a square drum by James Cann), followed in issue 08 by an article on Truchet tiles (Too good to be Truchet by Colin Beveridge). This coincidence fascinated me because, although not the focus of the articles, there is a remarkable conjecture that links these two apparently unrelated objects, via the mathematics of percolation theory.
Chladni figures and random waves
Chladni figures created by standing waves on a square plate.
As explained in issue 07, Chladni figures are the complex nodal patterns created by the zero-set of standing waves, illustrated most famously by Ernst Chladni in his 18th-century experiments with sand sprinkled on a vibrating plate.
Chladni figures are of interest in many different domains of mathematics and science (for example, in quantum mechanics, oceanography, astrophysics etc). One problem faced in applications is that, as the frequency of the standing waves gets larger, the Chladni figures get more and more intricate and chaotic. A useful approximation is to consider randomised versions of standard waves, but this still raises the question of how to understand and describe the zero-set of these random waves (which we can think of as random Chladni figures).
A high frequency Chladni pattern and a contour plot of the associated standing wave.
Random Truchet tilings
The two kinds (up to rotation) of square Truchet tiles and the three kinds (up to rotation) of hexagonal Truchet tiles.
As introduced in issue 08, Truchet tiles are a set of polygonal tiles, which can be square, hexagonal, or some other shape, coloured black and white such that the corners are alternating in colour. These tiles can be arranged in various ways to create complex and beautiful tilings, and were first described in the 18th-century by French polymath and priest Father Sébastian Truchet.
In issue 08, the combinatorics of these tiles were considered, but it turns out that they are a useful tool with which to understand Chladni figures. In fact, there is an amazing conjecture, due to the physicists Bogomolny and Schmit in 2002, that says that random Chladni figures look identical, on large scales, to the patterns created by a random tiling of square Truchet tiles. To form this tiling, we start with a square lattice (or grid) and assign to each vertex a small disk coloured black or white in an alternating pattern.
The square lattice with alternating coloured disks and the two kinds of square Truchet tiles that are compatible with each face of the lattice.
Notice that, for each face of the square lattice, there are two possible square Truchet tiles that can be placed whose colours are compatible with the disks. Choosing these two possibilities independently at random with equal probability (which has the appealing property of retaining black/white symmetry), we have created a random Truchet tiling of the entire plane. The Bogomolny–Schmit conjecture says that the statistical properties of the interfaces of the tiling (ie the curves that separate the black and white regions) match, on large scales, the statistical properties of the curves created by random Chladni figures. To be concrete, examples of such large-scale statistical properties are the crossing probabilities, that is, the probability that a curve crosses a large rectangle from left-to-right.
Comparison of large random Truchet tiling and large Chladni pattern.
Where does this conjecture come from? The reasoning is actually quite simple. We first observe that the local maxima of standing waves are all positive, and the local minima are all negative (mathematically, this is a consequence of the standing waves being solutions to the Helmholtz equation). Then we suppose that a random standing wave has roughly as many local maxima as local minima and that these are arranged in a square lattice, with saddle points between every pair of maxima/minima. Finally, we assume that the saddle points take positive or negative values independently with equal probability; using the sign of the saddle points to connect up neighbouring maxima/minima, and identifying `$+$’ with black and `$-$’ with white, this yields a model for random Chladni figures that is equivalent to the random Truchet tiling.
A grid of maxima/minima/saddles, and replacement rules to form the random Truchet tiling.
So does this conjecture help us understand Chladni figures? Doesn’t it just tell us that one complicated object—a typical high-frequency Chladni figure—is well-approximated by another complicated object—a random Truchet tiling? Well yes, but this is actually an immense improvement, because in fact random Truchet tilings are just a thinly-disguised version of a well-understood object in probability theory—critical percolation.
Truchet tilings as a model for percolation
Percolation is the mathematical study of porous media, like sandstone or Swiss cheese. There are many models of percolation, but perhaps the simplest is to start with an infinite periodic lattice, such as the square or hexagonal lattice, and colour every edge of the lattice black or white independently with respective probabilities $p$ and $1-p$ for some fixed $p \in [0,1]$ (this model is called bond or edge percolation; one could alternatively colour every face black or white, which is called face percolation, or every vertex black or white, which is called site percolation). One then considers the subgraph formed by the black edges, which is a simple model for an inhomogeneous porous medium.
Bond percolation on the square lattice.
There are two crucial facts about percolation. The first is that, for essentially any model of percolation, there is a critical probability $p_c$ such that if $p < p_c$ then the black edges form only finite clusters (ie finite connected subgraphs), whereas if $p > p_c$ then there is a black cluster that is infinite. In other words, there is a phase transition in the global connectivity of the model, from a graph that is composed of finite clusters, to a graph that is globally connected (although it will also contain some small disjoint clusters).
The second fact is that, whereas certain local features of percolation depend heavily on the particular percolation model being considered, many of the large-scale properties of the model are universal, that is, they behave in essentially the same way in the three regimes $p < p_c$, $p=p_c$ and $p>p_c$ for every percolation model. Examples of local or non-universal properties include the value of $p_c$ itself, and also the number of black clusters contained in a given large region, whereas examples of universal properties include the crossing probabilities mentioned earlier. Understanding the universal properties of percolation is an active area of research, especially in the critical regime $p=p_c$, and two Fields medals have been recently awarded for progress in this area (Wendelin Werner in 2006 and Stanislav Smirnov in 2010).
Bond percolation on the square lattice in the sub-critical ($p < p_c$), critical ($p = p_c$) and super-critical ($p > p_c$) regimes. For this model $p_c = 1/2$.
Let’s make the link to random Truchet tilings. As we indicated, the random Truchet tiling is just a disguised version of bond percolation on the square lattice with parameter $p=1/2$. To see why, start with the percolation model, rotate the lattice by 45°, draw a red vertex in the centre of every face, and then replace the black and white edges with the corresponding Truchet tile so that the models coincide.
Bond percolation on the square lattice, a rotated version, and the replacement rules that create the corresponding Truchet tiling.
So which percolation regime does the random Truchet tiling correspond to? It turns out that the critical probability for bond percolation on the square lattice is precisely $p_c = 1/2$ (this can be understood, in terms of the Truchet tiling, as a consequence of the black/white symmetry), so the random Truchet tiling should behave on large scales like critical percolation. Hence if the Bogomolny–Schmit conjecture is true, random Chladni figures also behave, on large scales, exactly like critical percolation. Since the properties of critical percolation are well-understood, this gives us a way to analyse, and make predictions about, the more complicated random Chladni figures.
So is the Bogomolny–Schmit conjecture true?
There are a few aspects of the reasoning of Bogomolny–Schmit that are hard to swallow. In particular, the argument relied on the assumption that the local maxima/minima of a random standing wave are arranged in a square grid, which is simply not true. So it is natural to be sceptical.
While there hasn’t been much (to be fair, barely any!) mathematical progress on proving or disproving the conjecture, numerical studies (by Belyaev, Kerata, Nastasescu and others) have shed some light on the situation. What they show is that, for the non-universal features of critical percolation, the conjecture is wrong. This is unsurprising, since non-universal features should, by definition, depend on the specifics of the model (such as the choice of the square lattice over the hexagonal lattice), and as we just said, there are reasons to believe these specifics are not wholly accurate.
On the other hand, numerical studies have confirmed that the universal properties of critical percolation do match exactly the equivalent properties for random Chladni figures. This is remarkable, and it remains a genuine mystery why it is true.
A percolation model with hexagonal Truchet tiles
In issue 08, different shapes of Truchet tiles were discussed, and we can easily generalise our random Truchet tiling to other shapes. Let’s consider the case of hexagonal tiles. Starting with a hexagonal lattice, we again assign to each vertex a small disk alternating black and white. There are now five choices of Truchet tiles that we can place in each hexagonal face that are compatible with the disks.
A hexagonal lattice, and the five tiles that are compatible with each face.
What probability should we assign to each choice of tile to get a sensible model for a random tiling? Well, since three of the five tiles are rotationally equivalent, it would be natural to assign them an equal probability $p$. To get a critical percolation model we also want to impose black/white symmetry, so the remaining two tiles should have equal probability $q=(1-3p)/2$. Since each of these probabilities depends on a single parameter $p \in [0,1]$, this defines a one-parameter family of percolation models, all of which will be critical.
Depiction of a large-scale random hexagonal tiling and a key to indicate which value of $p$ in the one-parameter family of models is being depicted.
In his seminal work in 2006, Smirnov considered the critical percolation model in which the faces of a hexagonal lattice are coloured black and white with equal probability; by exploiting the symmetries of the hexagonal lattice, he was able to establish rigorously, for the first time, many of the conjectured properties of critical percolation. Notice that this model is really just a degenerate case of the hexagonal Truchet tilings we constructed above, corresponding to the case $p=0$, and hence $q=1/2$ (to see this, simply remove the black/white circle segments from the Truchet tiles, which doesn’t affect the connectivity of the model). A few years later Chayes and Lei studied exactly the one-parameter family of critical hexagonal Truchet tilings defined above, and showed that they could also be studied with Smirnov’s techniques. It is a surprising fact that, 13 years after Smirnov’s work, these are (as far as I know) still the only critical percolation models which have been rigorously studied in detail. In other words, hexagonal Truchet tilings seem to possess a special structure that is unique among the (enormous!) class of critical percolation models.
Smirnov considered the percolation model using the faces of the hexagonal lattice rather than hexagonal Truchet tiles. In this model, the conjectured properties of critical percolation have been established.
So did Truchet ever meet Chladni?
Let’s conclude by indulging in some idle speculation. Sébastian Truchet died in 1729, 27 years before the birth of Ernst Chladni in 1756, so they never had the opportunity to meet. However, as it turns out, Chladni was not the first scientist to investigate nodal patterns of standing waves—this was done half a century earlier by English scientist Robert Hooke. So did Truchet ever meet Hooke? Given their standing in the scientific communities of Paris and London (in 1700, Truchet and Hooke were simultaneously members of the Académie des sciences and the Royal Society respectively), it is quite possible that they did.
Stephen Muirhead
Stephen is a lecturer in mathematics at Queen Mary University of London. Like any mathematician, he is always delighted to find unexpected connections between mathematical objects.
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Unveiled recently, Kongsberg Maritime’s new HUGIN SUPERIOR AUV (Autonomous Underwater Vehicle) System introduces significantly enhanced data, positioning and endurance capabilities that together will stimulate a positive step-change in Subsea Survey operations for Commercial, Government, and Naval Users. Leveraging and improving on the power of the already de facto industry standard HUGIN technology platform, and its experience as a trailblazer in Maritime Autonomy since it pioneered Dynamic Positioning in the Seventies, Kongsberg Maritime has created a game-changing new AUV Generation that places data quality, its reliable and cost-effective collection front and centre.
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‘High Life’ Review: Robert Pattinson & Claire Denis’ Sci-Fi Subversion Is Strange, Sublime and Surprisingly Horny
Few storytellers exist between the lines like Claire Denis. The French filmmaker thrives in the grimy, grey areas of the human experience that make such fertile breeding ground for genre cinema, complex characters, and taboo — a subject at the heart of her English-language debut, the subversive sci-fi drama High Life. Set on a spacecraft where former death row inmates volunteer for a suicide mission straight into a black hole, the film slips through time as they fly through space.
The non-linear narrative centers on Monte (Robert Pattinson), who we first meet patching up the side of a space ship, trying to calm the crying baby screaming in the ship below through his intercom. The sole survivor of the original mission, Monte now careens toward the black hole, his inevitable end, with his daughter Willow. From there, High Life unfolds like an elegant, erratic puzzle, slipping through Monte’s memories to reveal the who, what, and how of what brought us here, all while courting the unknowable cosmic expanse waiting at the end of the journey.
Image via A24
Pattinson pulled off one of Hollywood’s great career reinventions over the last decade, launching off the platform and popularity he built in the Twilight series and using that momentum to pursue riskier material. As a result, he’s one of the most compelling, least vain character actors of his generation. Pattinson continually hunts down projects with filmmakers that inspire him and High Life marks yet another fantastic, challenging performance for the actor, who skulks through the space ship with the knotted physicality of a too-old tree, fits of mental anguish peeking through his stoic, monklike calm. One particular reaction shot near the end of the film demands that Pattinson cover an astounding range of emotions in a single look, and the actor carries it with grace, landing an absolute wallop of a moment.
He’s surrounded by a supporting cast of equally impressive players; foremost among them Juliette Binoche in a powerhouse performance as Dr. Dibs, the onboard medical doctor who wields an inordinate power over the bodies of her fellow prisoners by way of fertility experiment. She’s also a woman with her own reprehensible history of crimes, whose obsession with reproduction makes for one of the film’s most poetic perversions. Mia Goth, André Benjamin, Lars Eidinger, Ewan Mitchell, Agata Buzek, Claire Tran, and Gloria Obianyo also co-star as fellow death row astronauts, each with their own violent, desperate predictions.
High Life is a sci-fi movie insofar as the plot hinges on scientific endeavors, but Denis isn’t particularly interested in space, (though she does take pains to respect the science itself,) except for the extent to which the endless void becomes another form of imprisonment. She’s more interested in biology and the organic matter that makes a human a human. Monte and his fellow shipmates aren’t just prisoners headed to all but certain doom, they’re also lab rats, subject to experiments on human fertility during space travel — something that proves incredibly challenging due to radiation. We know it’s going to pay off somehow; after all, Monte ends up with Willow but the details of the against-the-odds conception are, of course, disturbing and provocative.
Monte’s circumstances are impossible to fathom and his relationships are similarly difficult to read, tangling with taboos — sexual, physiological, spiritual, the whole gamut — in a way few films have the courage or delicate touch to explore. Not that Denis is always delicate (as anyone who’s seen Bastards or Trouble Every Day will tell you). There’s a lot more sexual transgression, violent repercussion, and, well… semen… in this meditative sci-fi film than you might be expecting. See also: something called the “Fuck Box”. But High Life‘s provocations aren’t aimless, they’re part of what makes the film such a searching
Pattinson has been open about how he pursued a project with Denis, who once thought he was too young for the role, and his persistence paid off. The pair make for spectacular creative collaborators, delivering a singular film that sinks deeper into your psyche with each passing frame. There’s nothing easy about High Life, from the subject matter to the film’s most brutal moments of body horror and psychological terrors, to the ultimately unanswerable questions.
It’s challenging and unrelenting material that’s bound to leave some filmgoers cold, but offers a unique and rewarding experience for audiences willing to lean into the weirdness and challenge themselves to think beyond the confines of a traditional character arc. Plus, High Life is one of those blessed films that get better with a second watch, the gift that keeps giving. On first watch, High Life is a gorgeously shot, salacious sci-fi puzzler that dares you to keep up and pick up the threads as they unspool. The second time around, High Life is a profound, grief-stricken experience, and knowing how the pieces of Monte’s story stitch together makes every moment more sublime, more haunting.
High Life casually slips through time, the past and present stitched together through Monte’s psyche — his years on the ship with Willow (toddler and teenager), his time with Dr. Dibs and their fellow prisoners, his childhood trauma on earth, High Life overlaps them all, making the middle the beginning and leaving the ending a mystery. Once again, Denis thrives between the lines; between hope and despair, on the intersection of countless genres, with characters that wholly reject moral binaries. Through it all, High Life tangles up horniness and desperation into an existential nightmare, where we are all blood, and semen, and mother’s milk — nothing but bodies floating through space towards the unknowable and unavoidable, desperate for another warm body to cling to.
Rating: A
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Tag: donald trump was trying to lose the election
Donald Trump has probably not had sex in at least 72 days. After all, he’s constantly flanked by Secret Service and will get busted if he smuggles a 19 year-old Russian model into Mar-A-Lago. At his age, he may not be into actual sex anymore, but I’m sure it kills him that he can no longer defile and humiliate young girls like he used to. Because of this, and a mountain of other clues suggesting that Donnie never wanted the job of President, I think he will resign.
While observing the outrageous things he has said and done, I have been saying for at least a year that either A) Donald Trump was purposely trying to lose the election or B) He suffers from Frontotemporal Dementia (is crazy). Here are a few reasons why I think he wanted to destroy his chances (and thereby take himself off the hook to serve Vladimir Putin’s interests) to win the election:
He retweeted and liked tweets by white supremacists and KKK members
He called Mexican immigrants rapists
He mocked a disabled man
He mocked a Vietnam POW, John McCain, for getting captured
He called a sitting U.S. Senator “Pocahontas”
He said “there was blood coming out of her – wherever” about Megyn Kelly
He mocked Carly Fiorina for her appearance
He mocked Heidi Cruz for her appearance
He accused Ted Cruz’s father of killing John F. Kennedy
He said he wanted to punch protesters in the face
He asked Russia to hack his opponent’s emails
He threatened that his supporters would riot if the Republican Convention was contested
He threatened to jail his opponent if he won the election
He said that a judge had no credibility because he was Mexican
Alas, to everyone’s surprise, he won anyway (with the help of a Russian disinformation campaign).
I believe it is still true that he does not want the job, even after winning the Presidency. Did you see how fucking scared he looked after he won?
I think that the day after the election, Donald knew that his presidency would not last because of the evidence against him for colluding with the Russians and laundering their money through his campaign. He has continued to act in a self-destructive way that makes no sense, and I believe it’s because he knows it’s just a matter of time before it all comes crashing down. I bet he is trying to make as much money as possible for himself and his family before the release of banking records that show transfers of Russian money, or transcripts of his team making deals with the Russians, or a tape of him getting peed on in the Moscow Ritz-Carlton. My evidence?
He resisted using Air Force One, saying his own plane was better
He tried to install his own security staff instead of Secret Service
He goes to Mar-A-Lago or Trump Tower almost every weekend
He filled his cabinet with Generals (setting up the conditions for a coup)
He appointed a friend of Putin to Secretary of State
He accused a previous President of the United States of a felony, in writing
He gave up on repealing Obamacare after 17 days
He continues to watch 6 hours of television per day minimum
He continually tells lies
He is committing obstruction of justice with Rep. Devin Nunes
Reports are emerging (per Claude Taylor and Paul Brandus) that Trump is weighing options that include resigning
In the words of Donald Trump, many people are saying that his gigantic ego will prevent him from resigning. However, it won’t prevent him from lying about a fake heart attack or stroke after cutting a deal with Pence for a presidential pardon. Besides, the idiots who say that Donald Trump will never resign are the same idiots who don’t believe there is overwhelming evidence of collusion with the Russians and laundering their money through his campaign.
Whether that evidence comes out in total is really up to Donald. If he resigns, he might be able to prevent some of it from getting released. And the sooner he resigns, the sooner he will get to see some naked Russian boobies.
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Bitmain Poised to Appoint Tech Chief as New CEO, Says Report
Cryptocurrency mining giant Bitmain may be about to appoint an existing executive to lead the firm as its new CEO.
A South China Morning Post report citing people with “knowledge of the matter” said Thursday that the “potential successor” of the firm’s current co-CEOs Jihan Wu and Micree Zhan is Haichao Wang, currently Bitmain’s director of product engineering.
Wang has already taken over some of the leadership duties, while Wu and Zhan are expected to remain as chairmen and have the “final call” in the firm’s bigger decisions, according to the report.
Back in November, it was reported that Wu had been ousted from the board of BitMain Technologies Holding Company, the entity currently seeking to go public on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEX).
A Bitmain representative, however, at the time denied the board change, responding to a CoinDesk inquiry, stating: “There have been no board departures and co-founder Jihan Wu will continue to lead the company as co-chair, together with co-chief executive officer, Micree Zhan.”
Bitmain is still awaiting the Hong Kong Stock Exchange’s (HKEX) approval for its initial public offering (IPO) application, filed in September of last year. The HKEX is apparently reluctant to green light the bid, however. Last month, a person involved in the talks told CoinDesk that the exchange is “very hesitant to actually approve these bitcoin mining companies because the industry is so volatile.”
The mining giant is also undergoing a series of business changes, including layoffs. Last month, more than 50 percent of Bitmain’s entire staff was reportedly asked to leave. A Bitmain employee at the time confirmed the layoffs to CoinDesk, but said that “it’s hard to calculate a precise percentage at this stage.”
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Workhouse Drawings Collection
Abstract: The Workhouse Drawings collection contains a representative sample of drawings, plans, and documents drawn from the Irish Architectural Archive's Workhouse Collection. The Workhouse Collection (reference 85/138) in the Irish Architectural Archive includes surviving drawings for workhouses built in Ireland to provide relief for the poor. Built between 1839 and 1847, the workhouses were designed in a Tudor domestic idiom by architect George Wilkinson. Occasionally drawings are accompanied by other documents including the standard printed specification or, more rarely, items of correspondence. Many are in extremely poor condition and their extreme fragility precludes public access. This online collection provides access to drawings and documents relating to the Mallow, Castleblayney, Lismore, and Gorey workhouses. The drawings for Mallow Workhouse may be considered a representative set of the surviving drawings for the Tudor style workhouses built by Wilkinson. The majority of the drawings were produced mechanically (engraved and printed). The inclusion of drawings from Castleblayney, Lismore, and Gorey, in addition to those of Mallow, ensures that this online collection includes samples of each printed drawing.
O'Riordan, Colum [Collection registrar]
Wilkinson, George, 1814-1890 [Architect]
Ireland. Poor Law Commissioners [Contributor]
Map visualisation
Dynamic map showing the locations of workhouses in Ireland. Includes information on the current status of the building or if the building no longer exists. Links to the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage record for the building are included where available.
Link to full screen visualisation: https://n2t.net/ark:/87925/h19021tf
Mallow Union Workhouse : elevations
Mallow Union Workhouse : ground plan
Mallow Union Workhouse : one pair plan
Mallow Union Workhouse : two pair plan
Mallow Union Workhouse : plan of drains
Mallow Union Workhouse : section on line A.B on ground plan
Mallow Union Workhouse : section on line C.D on ground plan
Mallow Union Workhouse : sections on line E.F and line L.M on ground plan
Mallow Union Workhouse : sections on line G.H and line I.K on ground plan
Mallow Union Workhouse : drawing for partition across Dining Hall
Mallow Union Workhouse : drawing for Board Room chimney piece
Mallow Union Workhouse Ireland : drawing for entrance door to front entrance building
Mallow Union Workhouse Ireland : drawing (A) for entrance door to master house
Mallow Union Workhouse Ireland : drawing for doors with ventilators over to cells of idiot wards
Mallow Union Workhouse : drawing for windows no. 1
Mallow Union Workhouse Ireland : drawing for windows no. 2
Mallow Union Workhouse Ireland : detail for dormer window
Mallow Union Workhouse Ireland : drawing for windows marked B on plan
Mallow Union Workhouse Ireland : drawing for 6ft square ventilators over staircases in wings of main building
Mallow Union Workhouse Ireland : drawing for Ventilators &c., over stairs &c. &c. 4 feet square (on plan)
Mallow Union Workhouse Ireland : pattern for gable boards to wings of the main building
Mallow Union Workhouse Ireland : patterns for gable boards for entrance block
Mallow Union Workhouse Ireland : pattern of gable boards for infirmary building
Mallow Union Workhouse Ireland : drawing shewing the manner of constructing the vaults and cesspools for privies
Mallow Union Workhouse Ireland : drawing for cast iron ventilators
Union Workhouses Ireland : drawing for construction of washing trays
Specification of works required to be performed in the erection of the Union Workhouse
Castleblaney Union Workhouse : section on line C.D. on ground plan
Castleblaney Union Workhouse : section on line G-H on ground plan
Castleblaney Union Workhouse : section on line I.K on ground plan
Castleblaney Union Workhouse : drawing for vane to be constructed on roof over stone turrets of staircases
Circular relating to the frosts
Circular relating to the windows for the new workhouses, Ireland
Circular relating to the opening lights of the windows of the workhouses
Circular relating to external doors
Particulars of the fittings to be provided for the Castleblaney Union Workhouse
Castleblaney Union Workhouse : list of the several locks, hinges, and window fastenings, forwarded to the above workhouse
Interior view of part of a workhouse building shewing the construction & arrangement of the sleeping platform, bedsteads
Gorey Union Workhouse : details for brickwork &c to doors and windows entrance front
Fifth annual report of the Poor Law Commissioners
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Resource description
Original version
Date created: 1839 – 1842
Biographical/historical information
A system of workhouses to provide relief for the poor was established in England and Wales by the Poor Law Act of 1834. Although a Royal Commission found that such a system of indoor relief was unsuited to Irish conditions, the Government of the day, relying on the investigations of the Poor Law Commissioner George Nicholls, opted to replicate the workhouse system in Ireland. The 1838 Act for the More Effectual Relief of the Destitute Poor in Ireland (1 & 2 Vict., Cap. 56) provided for the division of the country into Poor Law Unions, each managed by a Board of Guardians, and the construction of a workhouse in each Union.
Whereas different architects had been able to compete for workhouse commissions in England and Wales, it was decided that in Ireland the task of building all the new workhouses should be given to a single architect. In January 1839 the 25-year-old George Wilkinson, who had designed a number of English and Welsh workhouses, was appointed. The awarding of such an enormous commission to an English architect caused much resentment amongst the native architectural fraternity, but Wilkinson, assisted by one full-time assistant and a clerk, applied himself efficiently to his task. Designed in a Tudor domestic idiom, with picturesque gabled entrance buildings, 130 workhouses had been completed by 1847.
A second phase of construction was undertaken during the Famine. Fever hospitals were added to existing workhouses from circa 1847 onwards, and between 1849 and 1853 a further thirty workhouses were built. These were plainer buildings with a different layout. The analysis of drawings under the Drawings heading is concerned only with the standard Tudor-style workhouses of the first phase.
The Fifth Annual Report of the Poor Law Commissioners, May 1839, included details of "the measures which [the Commissioners] have adopted for introducing into Ireland the provision of the Act of last session, for the more effectual Relief of the Destitute Poor in Ireland". An abridged version of the Report containing just the contents relating to Ireland was published in booklet form also in 1839.
The Appendices which accompanied the Report in both its full and abridged manifestations contained 'Documents Issues by the Board Under the Irish Poor relief Act', with Section 9 consisting of 'Papers as to the Providing of Workhouses in Ireland' and Section 10 consisting of 'Plans, &c., of Workhouses for Ireland, to contain from 400 to 800 paupers'. Two ground plans were included, one for a 400 to 500 person workhouse and one for an 800 person workhouse. Each plan was accompanied by a 'Bird’s Eye View Shewing the General Arrangement' for the building. These drawings constitutes templates for the Tudor-style first wave of Wilkinson’s workhouses from which the constructed buildings did not significantly deviate. An important feature of the design was its flexibility; "the pans [were] so arranged as to allow of [an] addition being made without either interfering with the part already executed, or occasioning any sacrifice of the previous outlay".
The documents in Section 9 of the Appendices included detailed "particulars of the… Drawings" in which Wilkinson explained the various areas of the workhouse, the materials to be used, the ventilation system, and the procedures to be following in moving from site selection to construction. He noted that once a site has been identified and "surveyed by the Architect", "the plans are immediately prepared". The local availability and cost of building materials were to be ascertained. A set of working drawings and a specification were then to be lodged with the clerk of the particular Board of Guardians for inspection by local contractors who might tender for the job. Procedures for the tendering process were stipulated in the Appendix, as were the forms of contract which the successful bidder would enter with the Commissioners, one for a complete workhouse and one for partial constriction. Under the full contract, the contractor undertook to build for an agreed fee within an agreed timeframe "a workhouse and buildings, according to the specification… and agreeable to the several plans, sections and elevations, as set forth or shown on the several drawings". Construction was to proceed "under the immediate superintendence and inspection of a clerk of works, appointed with strict regard to his qualifications"; this clerk was to report regularly to the Poor Law Commissioners or their architect.
It is clear from the procedures described above that Wilkinson would have had to issue a considerable number of drawings – elevations, plans, sections and details – for each building in the workhouse programme. The Workhouse Collection (85/138) in the Irish Architectural Archive includes surviving drawings for eighty-one workhouses, all located in the twenty-six counties of the Republic of Ireland. (Presumably the Northern Ireland drawing were handed over to the relevant authorities post partition.) For some buildings twenty or more drawings remain, for others only one or two. Occasionally drawings are accompanied by other documents including the standard printed specification or, more rarely, items of correspondence. Many are in extremely poor condition due to the fact that the room in which they were stored flooded at some point . Their extreme fragility precludes public access.
Drawings: While individual plans, sections and elevations, were produced by hand for each workhouse, the fundamentally uniform nature of the Tudor-style buildings which constitute the majority of Wilkinson’s first 130 workhouses allowed part of the drawing production process to be mechanised. A number of drawings for common elements were printed, some using the then relatively new zincography process, a cheaper alternative to lithography.
Plans: Though broadly similar in size – Appendix Section 9 of the 1839 Poor Law Commissioners Report contained a chart setting out the dimensions of the plots requires for each size of workhouse – each site was different and so individual plans for each workhouse were produced. The plans follow the standard pattern delineated in the 1839 Report, varying only depending on the size of accommodation to be provided. Plans can deviate from each other in the sizes of the yards or location of drains etc. rather than in the dimensions or disposal of the main building blocks. Ground, first and second floor plans, roof structure plans and roof plans were issued, usually on three sheets. Site and drainage plans might also be provided. Colour washes could be used on plans – grey for walls, pink for drains, cisterns etc, and yellow for timber.
Elevations: As with plans, elevations, though standardised, were individual produced for each workhouse, or rather hand-produced copies were issued pin-pricked from a standard template. Generally only one sheet was issued showing the front elevations of the entrance and main blocks. Elevation drawings were uncoloured.
Sections: Sections were also standard, and some hand-drawing sheets were issued, usually pin-pricked copies from templates. However, a large number of section drawings were also printed. Four or more section sheets could be issued for each workhouse, consisting of separate sections for various part of the building – the entrance block, the centre and wings of the main block, the infirmary, the dining hall/chapel and the laundry. Coloured washes could be used on sections – blue-grey for stone and metal, and yellow for timber. Printed sections included section though end wing of main block (generally on line on plan given as AB), section through central section of main block (CD), at least two varieties of which were issued, one including a dormer window and one without, and sections on one sheet through entrance block (EF) and infirmary (LM). Hand-drawing sections included sections through dining hall/chapel (GH) and laundry (IK); these could be issued together on a single sheet or on two separate sheets.
Details: Some detail drawings were hand drawn, again pin-pricked copies from standard templates. These could include the chimney piece in the board room and partitions in the dining hall.
Printed Drawings: Printed drawings were commonly headed in block capitals 'Union Workhouse Ireland', with the name of the specific workhouse written in above. They were almost all 'signed' in block capitals Geo: Wilkinson Archt. A number were also dated. Many of the surviving examples have manuscript additions such as instructions or additional measurements. Aside from the sections noted above, printed drawings include: Interior perspective main block. Drawings for doors including the entrance block door, the door to the master’s house (central section the main block), and door to 'idiots cell'. Drawings for ventilation towers or 'turrets' over the stairs of the main block, and for smaller 'ventilators'. Drawings for windows including the various sized windows in the front and back of the entrance and main blocks, and for the dormer windows in the main block. Drawings for the privies and cesspits. Drawing for sliding iron wall vents. Drawing for the washing trays in the laundry. Drawing for bedsteads. Drawing for fire grates.
The drawings for Mallow Workhouse may be considered a representative set of the surviving drawings for the Tudor style workhouses built by Wilkinson from 1839 to 1847. Mallow was constructed to accommodated 700 people at a cost of £6,090 with an additional £1,160 for fittings. It opened in August 1842. Twenty-six drawings survive for the building, as well as the printed specification and one item of correspondence.
Ownership/custodial history
The drawings are the property of the Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government, and were transferred to the Irish Architectural Archive in 1985 on extended loan.
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Architectural drawings linked data (gmgpc)
Workhouses--Ireland
Almshouses--Ireland
Almshouses--Designs and plans
Workhouses--Designs and plans
https://doi.org/10.7925/drs1.ucdlib_260452
Irish Architectural Archive . 0085/138
Suggested credit
"Workhouse Drawings Collection," held by Irish Architectural Archive. © Public domain. Digital content by University College Dublin, published by UCD Library, University College Dublin <http://digital.ucd.ie/view/ucdlib:260452>
Irish Famine Research Project
Cited/referenced by
[1] Irish Architectural Archive. Workhouse Drawings Collection Finding Aid. Dublin, Ireland : Irish Architectural Archive – http://iarc.cloudapp.net/Details/archive/110081205
[2] Dictionary of Irish Architects. Wilkinson, George (Dictionary of Irish Architects entry). Dublin, Ireland : Irish Architectural Archive2019 – https://www.dia.ie/architects/view/4918/Wilkinson-George
Record source
Descriptions created by staff of UCD Library, University College Dublin based on information provided by the Irish Architectural Archive. — Metadata creation date: 2017-03-24
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Hacker News Hiding News About Apple
Hacker News pretends to be a social news site where the users decide which news stories reach the front page with their votes. This is a lie.
Today, Apple had its quarterly earnings call. This is interesting news, and there were a bunch of articles about it. What did I find on the Hacker News front page about it? Nothing. So I clicked through and found Apple's press release at story #95:
You can see the amount of votes, and the age, of the other stories near Apple's earnings. Apple's story was heavily penalized so that far fewer people would see it. Hacker News moderators have the attitude that penalizing stories isn't censorship, and is not that big a deal, even though it makes a large difference in what links most readers see. (Most people only ever see the top 30 stories.)
For a comparison, at the same time, here is the #10 story which had fewer up votes than Apple's earnings report, while also being older. The Apple story should have easily been in the top 10, not #95 (and if it had been on the front page longer, it'd have gotten a lot more up votes). Meanwhile all the other articles about Apple's earnings were blocked from the site (or penalized out of the top 120 that I checked).
I don't think most Hacker News readers have any idea how much the stories they see are controlled behind the scenes, rather than controlled by user voting.
(Yes, I'm aware this could have been done by a behind the scenes algorithm, rather than personally done by a human moderator. The human moderators are not shy about doing this kind of thing, but they do also have algorithms which do unexpected things such as penalize stories with a lot of discussion in comments (the rationale is to reduce debate/argument, in hopes of raising quality). And Hacker News uses flags as stealth down votes with extra weight.)
Elliot Temple on July 21, 2015
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Truck Crashes
Tim Dollar
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Tim Becker
Tom Hershewe
J.J. Burns
Jill Kanatzar
Rachel Stahle
Insurance Bad Faith and Catastrophic Injury
Dallas County, TX $ 39 Million Verdict
VASQUEZ/PERALES FAMILY VS SARAH GREGORY AND NEW PRIME TRUCKING
The Vasquez/Perales family of El Paso, Texas, was awarded over $22 Vasquez/Perales vs. Sarah Gregory and New Prime Truckingmillion by a Dallas County jury for two deaths and multiple injuries that were the result of collisions involving a passenger vehicle and tractor-trailers that occurred on I-40 in the early hours of Nov. 23, 2013.
Tim Dollar and JJ Burns of Dollar, Burns & Becker, LC tried the case on behalf of the Vasquez/Perales family with the assistance of their local counsel, Mike Bassett.
The Vasquez/Perales family retained Dollar, Burns & Becker—Kansas City attorneys specializing in bad faith and truck crashes—to bring suit against several parties involved in the fatal collisions, including the driver of one of the tractor-trailers, Sarah Gregory; and the trucking company that put her out on the road, New Prime, Inc.
After receiving some training at New Prime’s, Inc.’s driver training school, Sarah Gregory was driving in hazardous weather conditions without a certified instructor on her first over-the-road trip when she saw brake lights approximately one-half-mile ahead. Gregory applied her brakes on ice, lost control of the vehicle and came to rest blocking the two eastbound lanes of I-40. She and her co-worker, another entry-level driver, left the vehicle without activating emergency flashers, road flares or reflective triangles. The trailer in the roadway caused several vehicles to crash, perform last-second emergency maneuvers, and block all available escape routes for other approaching motorists. The Vasquez/Perales family, with six people in their Chevy van, was forced to collide with the New Prime trailer. Shortly thereafter, another approaching tractor-trailer crashed into the back of the Chevy van. The crash resulted in the deaths of Belinda Vasquez and Hector Perales, and caused significant injuries to several other family members.
The case went to trial in the County Court of Law No. 5 in Dallas County and lasted four weeks. In addition to the damages awarded to the Vasquez/Perales family, the jury also awarded approximately $17 million to the family of Bhupinder Deol, a truck driver who was killed in the collisions after he had pulled over on the shoulder.
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WWSS
That's: What would Socrates say? Would he say--I mean to ask--that anyone could ever get convicted under 18 U. S. C. §§1512(b)(2)(A) and (B)?
Let me explain, since here's a point of contact, not without interest, between accounting ethics and ancient philosophy.
Background: Enron's auditor, as you know, was Arthur Andersen. On Oct. 20, 2001, when it became clear that Enron was in trouble and was going to be investigated by the SEC, Andersen's management initiated a company-wide effort to destroy all working papers, memos, internal communications, etc. relating to Enron (except those needed for current audit work). This involved in some cases hiring dumptrucks to haul documents to shredding facilities. The management issued their order in the form: let's be sure to apply our firm's document retention policy to all Enron documents. But this was disingenuous, because the firm's policy was not to destroy documents related to a client if an investigation was judged likely. (See note 1 below.) The firm continued to destroy documents until Andersen was served with a subpoena for Enron related documents on Nov. 9-- twenty days later.
Because of this cover-up, Andersen was indicted and convicted of obstruction of justice. It lost its license to practice before the SEC and therefore went out of business (or effectively so: Andersen still exists as a very small firm).
However, on May 31, 2005, the US Supreme Court (see the decision here) threw out the conviction and ordered a retrial, on the grounds that the judge's instruction to the jury was faulty.
The statute under which Andersen was convicted (18 U. S. C. §§1512) declares as criminal:
(b) Whoever knowingly uses intimidation, threatens, or corruptly persuades another person, or attempts to do so, or engages in misleading conduct toward another person, with intent to—
(1) influence, delay, or prevent the testimony of any person in an official proceeding;
(2) cause or induce any person to—
(A) withhold testimony, or withhold a record, document, or other object, from an official proceeding;
(B) alter, destroy, mutilate, or conceal an object with intent to impair the object’s integrity or availability for use in an official proceeding [my emphasis]...
Everything hinged on whether "knowingly" qualifies "corruptly persuades" or, rather, only the words that immediately follow it, viz. "uses intimidation, threatens". The prosecutors argued for the latter, which the District Court accepted, and therefore the Court instructed the jury that, to find Andersen guilty, it was necessary only to determine that Andersen intended to "subvert, undermine, or impede" governmental factfinding; also that, "even if [petitioner] honestly and sincerely believed that its conduct was lawful, you may find [petitioner] guilty."
The Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision written by Justice Rhenquist, disagreed. In its view, "knowingly" qualifies "corruptly persuades", so that a consciousness of wrongdoing is required for a conviction under the statute. Here is the relevant paragraph:
The parties have not pointed us to another interpretation of "knowingly ... corruptly" to guide us here.In any event, the natural meaning of these terms provides a clear answer. See Bailey v. United States, 516 U. S. 137, 144-145 (1995). "[K]nowledge" and "knowingly" are normally associated with awareness, understanding, or consciousness. See Black's Law Dictionary 888 (8th ed. 2004) (hereinafter Black's); Webster's Third New International Dictionary 1252-1253 (1993) (hereinafter Webster's 3d); American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language 725 (1981) (hereinafter Am. Hert.). "Corrupt" and "corruptly" are normally associated with wrongful, immoral, depraved, or evil. See Black's 371; Webster's 3d 512; Am. Hert. 299-300. Joining these meanings together here makes sense both linguistically and in the statutory scheme. Only persons conscious of wrongdoing can be said to "knowingly ... corruptly persuad[e]." And limiting criminality to persuaders conscious of their wrongdoing sensibly allows §1512(b) to reach only those with the level of "culpability ... we usually require in order to impose criminal liability." United States v. Aguilar, 515 U. S., at 602; see also Liparota v. United States, supra, at 426.
This is of course what makes me wonder, WWSS? Has the Supreme Court erected a standard for criminality which could not possibly be satisfied, because no one willingly does what he regards as evil?
Note 1. Here is the U.S. Supreme Court's summary of Andersen's document rentention policy: "The firm's policy called for a single central engagement file, which "should contain only that information which is relevant to supporting our work." App. JA-45. The policy stated that, "in cases of threatened litigation, ... no related information will be destroyed." Id., at JA-44. It also separately provided that, if petitioner is "advised of litigation or subpoenas regarding a particular engagement, the related information should not be destroyed. See Policy Statement No. 780--Notification of Litigation." Id., at JA-65 (emphasis deleted). Policy Statement No. 780 set forth "notification" procedures for whenever "professional practice litigation against [petitioner] or any of its personnel has been commenced, has been threatened or is judged likely to occur, or when governmental or professional investigations that may involve [petitioner] or any of its personnel have been commenced or are judged likely." Id., at JA-29 to JA-30."
What Makes an Action 'Mixed'?
What's the difference, if any, between these two cases?
1. A captain wants to sail to Piraeus. A strong wind blows his ship --there's nothing he can do about it--toward Aegina instead. So he capitulates and steers the ship safely into the port of Aegina.
2. A captain wants to bring his cargo safely to Piraeus. A violent storm arises which will sink the ship unless --there's nothing he can do about it--he has the ship's valuable cargo thrown into the sea. So he does that and saves the ship.
In both cases, there is something that will happen, no matter what the captain does: in case 1, the ship will go toward Aegina; in case 2, the cargo will end up at the bottom of the sea. In both cases, too, the captain acts to make that inevitable result happen faster. And yet--or so Flannery wished to claim--Aristotle classifies or would classify the two cases differently. Case 2 is a 'mixed action'; case 1 is merely 'forced'.
Are the cases significantly different? If so, how?
I hope to post tomorrow on some points raised by Kevin Flannery's BACAP paper. (Have I really not posted since Sunday? Blame it on the flu.)
But for tonight:
You can always count on a talk on action theory to raise interesting cases. Here's one that Flannery proposed in discussion.
There is a man who for a long time has hated his identical twin. One weekend they are both being hosted by a friend in an old manor house by the sea. The place is dark and unfamiliar to them. The one twin decides that this is the occasion for him finally to carry out a plan, long contemplated, of murdering his brother. He wakes in the middle of the night, gets a loaded gun, and goes out in the dim light to find his brother. He walks down a hall, turns the corner, and sees his brother. He fires the gun and strikes his brother in the chest -- or so it seemed. In fact, he had seen his own reflection in a body-length mirror and fired a bullet into the mirror. However, his twin was standing on the other side of the mirror, is struck by the bullet, and dies. Now did the man murder his twin?
Yes: intending to kill his brother, he acted in such a way that caused the death of his brother, but this is just to murder him.
No: although he intended to kill his brother, what he did was to shoot at a mirror; it only happened that his brother was standing behind the mirror. Thus, although what he did results in the death of his brother, he does not murder his brother.
To shore up the 'no' side: Imagine that the twin is not standing directly behind the mirror but is asleep in his bed on the floor below; the bullet, after passing through the mirror, ricochets off a steam pipe, is deflected downward through the floor, and strikes the brother sleeping on the floor below. Would you still want to say that the twin murdered his brother?
BACAP Lecture October 27
I'm very pleased to announce this year's BACAP lecture at Clark University:
Kevin Flannery
Dean, Faculty of Philosophy
Gregorian University (Rome)
Force and Compulsion in Aristotle's Ethics
commentator:
Thornton Lockwood
Thursday, October 27, 7:30 pm, Lurie Conference Room
Higgins University Center, Clark University
Professor Flannery will lead a seminar on relevant texts in NE and EE from 3-5 pm in the Seminar Room of Beck Philosophy House, Clark University (corner of Loudon and Woodland Streets).
For more information, please contact: Professor Michael Pakaluk, mpakaluk@clarku.edu
But the Refutation Wasn't Refuted
I suppose my hints revealed what I think about the matter.
Plato would reasonably suppose that we judge that something is shameful (ignoble, aischron) for a reason and that--along the lines of the Euthyphro--the reason why we so judge it could not be our being pained when we judge it so. Thus any pain we take when judging something aischron, or pleasure we feel when judging something kalon, could not be that on account of which we judge it to be so.
Plato would also reasonably suppose that a judgment that something is aischron implies a repulsion from the thing so judged; also, that there are two possible grounds for our being repulsed from something, that it is painful or bad, just as there are two possible grounds for our being drawn to something, that it is pleasant or good.
Thus, in the argument:
1. A's wronging B is more shameful than B's being wronged by A.
2. What is shameful is so on account of its being painful or bad.
3. What is more shameful is so on account of its being more painful or worse.
4. A's wronging B is not more painful than B's being wronged by A.
5. Thus, A's wronging B is worse than B's being wronged by A.
6. Thus, generally, it is worse to do wrong than to suffer it.
Premises 2. and 3. simply give, plausibly, the general grounds on which someone might judge something to be shameful or more shameful, and premise 4 points out that the basis for this judgment cannot be the pain present in the action/passion, since this predominates in the passion, not the action.
The argument, then, is not invalid; and (as a reader observed) it would irrelevant, for the argument, that Polus is drawn to accept 2. and 3. on bad grounds.
On the other hand, Plato shows considerable artfulness in having Socrates lead Polus to accept 2. and 3. in the way that he does. It is typical in a Platonic dialogue that an argument have points of vulnerability, which are defended against later in the dialogue (the Phaedo being a star example of this). What are the objections that might be raised against the argument as I have construed it?
(1) That our judgments that actions are shameful or noble simply have no basis; they lack a ground. There is nothing on account of which we judge actions to be shameful or noble.
(2) That there is nothing in an action or passion to which we could be drawn or attracted, except the pleasure or pain that they involve.
Yet these are precisely the objections that Callicles raises, and which Socrates aims to refute in his refutations of Callicles. Callicles effectively urges (1), when he maintains that the judgment that it is more shameful to wrong than to suffer wrong is 'by convention'; and he puts forward (2) insofar as he argues that 'good' amounts to no more than 'pleasant', and 'bad' to 'painful'.
Polus the character is drawn to Callicles yet also capable of being swayed by Socrates. It is therefore artful of Plato to have Polus accept premises 2. and 3. on grounds which still suggest some allegiance to Callicles.
Yet for all that the argument is not invalid by equivocation, as Vlastos argued.
The Challenge Reiterated
Since I'll be traveling the next couple of days, I have no confidence I'll be able to post. Yet I do not wish to reveal yet my thoughts on the Polus refutation. So let me restate the challenge.
The central part of the Gorgias, Socrates' refutation of Polus, is one of the most attractive passages in the Platonic corpus and indeed in all of philosophy. It clearly expresses Plato's confidence in the ultimate coincidence of goodness and reasonability.
I speculated that this passage had played an important role in drawing many of us, and many readers of Dissoi Blogoi, to the field of 'ancient philosophy'; and, indeed, a blog reader has already commented, saying that this was in fact true in his or her case.
There are two 'refutations of Polus'. In the first, Socrates gets Polus to agree that it is always worse to do wrong than to suffer it; in the second, that it is always better, if someone has done wrong, that he be punished justly than go unpunished. It is the first refutation that we are concerned with here.
It is widely thought or suspected--perhaps Vlastos' 1967 article is the reason--that that first refutation is flawed. Vlastos in fact says that it is a fallacy. He calls it a 'hollow' argument: the refutation, he says, is ad hominem; it is a victory over the man or character, Polus, not over the view that he holds.
If Vlastos is right, then that passage we all love and admire amounts to a fraud. Furthermore, we as it were commit a fraud against our students, if we continue to present it as though it really does vindicate a high ethical ideal. If Vlastos is right, we definitely ought not hold out that passage as providing a good reason for anyone's devoting himself to ancient philosophy (at least, as being reliable or true).
So we really should have a reply to Vlastos. My question to blog readers was: Do you have a reply? What do you say about Vlastos' criticism?
And my suggestion was that there was a good reply. The refutation is not invalid, I maintain. However, as I said, I do not wish quite yet to say why I think this. Instead, I'll give some reasons why I think as I do. And in the next day or so, perhaps as late as Sunday, I'll tell you my whole view.
The two ideas I think are crucial for responding to Vlastos:
1. Socrates might reasonably have presumed that the only two grounds for someone's being drawn to something are that it is in some way pleasant or good; he might reasonably have presumed that the only two grounds for someone's being repulsed by something are that it is in some way painful or bad. Good, pleasant; bad, pain--these exhaust the grounds for attraction and repulsion, respectively.
2. The reasons why someone might be led to assent to a premise in an argument need not be the best reasons for assenting to that premise. Considerations that make a premise seem plausible may be therefore be ad hominem, without the argument's being ad hominem.
Did Vlastos Refute the Refutation of Polus?
I do think there is a good response to Vlastos' objection. Here I'll explain the objection more fully. In a later post I'll give what I regard as a sufficient reply.
Recall again the argument (Gorgias 474c-475c). Consider a case where A wrongs B:
Vlastos objects that, because 'painful' is a relative term (painful to whom?), 2. contains a hidden qualification. The qualification that should be supplied is clear from the sorts of examples Socrates uses to gain Polus' assent to 2. What Socrates insists upon, and what Polus acknowledges, is that noble things (kala) are pleasant when seen, heard, or contemplated, and that shameful or ignoble things (aischra) are painful when seen, heard, or contemplated. The premise should therefore read:
2'. What is shameful is so on account of its being painful to those who see, hear or contemplate it, or bad.
And 3. should accordingly read:
3'. What is more shameful is so on account of its being more painful to those who see, hear or contemplate it, or bad.
But then 4. becomes
4'. A's wronging B is not more painful to those who see, hear, or contemplate it than B's being wronged by A.
But then that is not evidently true and may even be false: plausibly, the doing of a wrong is more painful to contemplate than the receiving of it. (After all, that's why we judge it to be more shameful!) And thus the refutation fails.
If....[2'] had been the agreed upon definition, the question Socrates would have had to ask would be, 'Which is the more painful to see or hear or contemplate?' hence 'Which is the more painful for those who observe or contemplate the two events?' To that question the answer is, at best, indeterminate. Polus might have argued with some plausibility that most of us would find the former more painful than the latter and, on that ground, that it is "uglier", just as he had maintained at the start: except in rare, abnormally soft-hearted, souls he might have urged, resentment is more easily aroused than pity, more strongly felt and more disturbing to the one who feels it; hence most people would be more pained at the sight or thought of prospering villainy than that of suffering innocence (458).
Vlastos goes on to call the refutation of Polus a 'hollow' victory (459). "Plato himself misjudged the facts which he depicted" (459). (The article is "Was Polus Refuted?", American Journal of Philology, 88:4, 1967, 454-460.)
I found this way of introducing Socrates' daimonion, well, weird:
The Socrates depicted in Plato's dialogues spoke of a daimonion signal that came to him. That word daimonion is an adjective meaning "daimôn-ish" -- divine, or maybe what the English of earlier centuries called "weird."
Anyway the sign came as some kind of voice and Socrates claimed to have heard it since childhood. It was apotreptic rather than protreptic, never commanding Socrates to act some way but only making sure he heard the discouraging word whenever he chanced to embark on a harmful action (Apology 31d).
Xenophon's Socrates heard a somewhat different voice, one that did not hesitate to endorse one action over another. Plato consistently presents an inhibiting divine agent.
I don't mean that 'the English of earlier centuries' must mean, in the context, the English who lived before Plato. I mean, rather, that 'weird', derived from Wyrd, the Norse personification of Fate, is not at all like Socrates' daimonion. Moreover, why introduce the term, misleadingly, as if it functions primarily as an adjective (a weird 'sign' or 'voice')? Doesn't to daimonion in Plato typically mean not 'that which is divine' but rather 'that divine agent' (as the author can't help but say, in the last sentence quoted). But see the full review here.
Coming to Know
How will you look for it, Socrates, when you do not know at all what it is? How will you aim to search for something you do not know at all? If you should meet with it, how will you know that this is the thing that you did not know?
I know what you want to say, Meno. Do you realize what a debater's argument you are bringing up, that a man cannot search either for what he knows or for what he does not know? He cannot search for what he knows--since he knows it, there is no need to search--nor for what he does not know, for he does not know what to look for. (Meno 80d-e)
Now, compare:
Do you realize what a debater's argument you are bringing up, that a thing cannot come from either what exists or what does not exist. It cannot come from what exists--since that exists already, there is no need for it to come into being--nor from what does not exist, since there is no reason it should come from that rather than anything else.
The arguments are isomorphic. Plato solves the first with the theory of recollection of forms: no knowledge truly comes to exist, since it always was; it is merely recollected. Does he solve the second, Parmenides' problem, in a similar way? (Can't we say so? Are you sure the Timaeus cannot be understood in that way?)
Philopaleotheologians
I had missed this review by David Sedley of the first volumes of Rhizai, a new journal in ancient philosophy and science, which contains the following fascinating remark:
This blossoming of specialist periodicals has, it can scarcely be disputed, enabled the subject to advance by leaps and bounds. Ancient philosophy is a discipline which brings into fruitful partnership the skills of the classical philologist, the philosopher, the intellectual historian, the palaeographer, the historian of science, the theologian, and the literary critic -- skills typically spread across a number of university departments. Scholars' readiness to communicate with and learn from each other across these traditional divides is one of the subject's great strengths, but it does require the choice of an appropriate forum, ideally one located outside the territory of the individual component disciplines.
I had never seen theology included in a list of the skills relevant to ancient philosophy, and yet that seems right.
Was Polus Refuted?
Together we ought to be able to answer this. I'll give the argument, and what I believe are the two most serious objections. You say whether there are other serious objections outstanding and also whether, in your view, the objections are insurmountable.
The argument (Gorgias 474c-475c). Consider a case where A wrongs B:
Two objections:
(1) (Vlastos) Socrates equivocates on 'painful'. For the term is implicitly relative: something is always painful to someone. So make these relatives explicit: in 2., 'painful' means 'painful to an observer''; but in 4. 'painful' must mean 'painful to the agent or sufferer'. So the argument is invalid. Yet, if we were to keep the meaning of the term the same, then either 2. or 4. becomes false.
(2) Put this difficulty aside, still, the argument establishes only that, as regards a wrongdoing of a certain sort (theft, murder, assault), it is always worse to be on the perpetrating end than on the receiving end. The argument does not establish the stronger conclusion, that perpetrating any sort of wrongdoing is worse than being the recipient of any sort of wrongdoing, e.g. that it is worse to tell a slight lie than to be murdered. And yet Socrates needs this stronger conclusion.
Virtue and Excellence
Three entries from the Online Etymology Dictionary:
c.1408, from L. excellere "to rise, surpass, be eminent," from ex- "out from" + -cellere "rise high, tower," related to celsus "high, lofty, great," from PIE base *kel-/*kol- "to rise, be elevated" (see hill).
c.1340 (implied in excellently), from O.Fr. excellent, from L. excellentem (nom. excellens), prp. of excellere (see excel). First record of excellency "high rank" is c.1200; as a title of honor it dates from c.1325.
c.1225, "moral life and conduct, moral excellence," vertu, from Anglo-Fr. and O.Fr. vertu, from L. virtutem (nom. virtus) "moral strength, manliness, valor, excellence, worth," from vir "man" (see virile). Phrase by virtue of (c.1230) preserves alternate M.E. sense of "efficacy." Wyclif Bible has virtue where K.J.V. uses power. The (c.1320) were divided into the natural (justice, prudence, temperance, fortitude) and the theological (hope, faith, charity). To seven cardinal virtuesmake a virtue of a necessity (c.1374) translates L. facere de necessitate virtutem. [Jerome]
These raise the questions:
1. Is 'virtue' (as traditionally) or 'excellence' (as thought now) the better rendering of the Greek, arete?
2. Does the attribution of excellence to someone carry with it a comparison with others, viz. that he or she rises above others?
Forms of Knowledge
Some difficulties with the Rickless interpretation.
Rickless rests his interpretation on the observation that, in some places (e.g. Meno 87c-88d and Rep. 505b), when Socrates makes a claim of the form 'X is knowledge', what he means is that 'X is a form of knowledge'. The phrase 'form of' gets elided. (That is why Rickless in his paper refers to his own interpretation as the 'Elision Interpretation.' ) Rickless suggests that the phrase is similarly elided in the Protagoras, and that whenever Plato is maintaining, explicitly or implicitly, that some virtue is knowledge, what he means, more precisely, is that that virtue is a form of knowledge. The virtues are then united as different species of knowledge.
But some difficulties:
1. Admit that, in the Protagoras, what Socrates is maintaining is that each virtue is a 'form of' knowledge. But this leaves the problem of the dialogue largely untouched. Are the names of the various virtues names of the same form of knowledge, or does each name a different form? One cannot answer this question simply by insisting that there is an 'elision'. Something else besides this observation must be doing the work of the interpretation for Rickless.
2. Indeed Rickless maintains that, in the dialogue, Socrates treats 'courage', 'temperance', 'justice', and 'piety' as each naming a distinct species of knowledge, whereas he treats 'wisdom' or 'knowledge' as if it were the name of the genus (or these four species put together). 'Socrates himself never explicitly includes wisdom among the parts of the virtue' , Rickless says on p. 360, and he cites Protagoras 361d. But that passage seems irrelevant (a typo?), and Rickless is simply wrong about the dialogue: at 330b and 349b, wisdom is indeed included in lists of parts of virtue. Socrates does not give it special treatment, as if it were the genus. Rickless also cites Aristotle in support of his interpretation, quoting NE 1144b28-30, "Socrates, then, thought the virtues were forms of reason, for he thought they were, all of them, forms of knowledge", and EE 1216b4-6, "[Socrates] used to inquire what is justice, what bravery and each of the parts of virtue; and his conduct was reasonable, for he thought all the virtues to be kinds of knowledge". But, besides the fact that this is rather indirect evidence for the interpretation of the Protagoras, the translations here are misleading, since what Aristotle says is that Socrates thought of the virtues as 'knowledges' (epistemai). Presumably, 'wisdom' would similarly be 'a knowledge'.
3. Yet Socrates' procedure in the Protagoras is not consistent with his regarding the virtues as species of the virtue of knowledge. For instance, Socrates claims that piety is just and justice is pious. But species terms cannot be used in this way. (We cannot say "A horse is human," and "A human is equine," simply because horses and human beings are animals). (By the way, Socrates' willingness to identify justice and piety in the Protagoras is not consistent with his approach at the end of the Euthyphro, which shows the hazard of relying on the doctrine implicit in other dialogues to interpret the Protagoras.) Also, at the end of the dialogue, temperance and courage are implicitly presented as the same thing, not as different species: each is knowledge of pleasures and pains.
No, October is the Cruelest Month!
Because it never rains for ten straight days in April, nullifying the leaf viewing season.
Retrieved from Cyberspace
Found on a list discussion:
>There's a blog called "Dissoi Blogoi"? There are what, maybe 2000
> people who would get that joke?
Yes, and those are the 2000 I want for my readers--and also those who would eventually discover it.
Unity of the Virtues in the Protagoras
I've been reading "Socrates' Moral Intellectualism", to which the author, Sam Rickless, was kind enough to refer me in a comment. Published in the Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 78 (1998) 355-367, one can obtain it through the Blackwell Enquiry service if one's library is a subscriber.
According to Rickless, Socrates in the Protagoras maintains that courage, temperance, justice, and piety are all forms of knowledge (or 'wisdom'). These virtues are related as are various coordinate species of the same genus. Each is the same as wisdom, in the sense that each is a species of wisdom. So too each is the same as any other, in the sense that each is the same sort of thing as any other. As for wisdom, it consists of these species of knowledge all taken together.
This interpretation, Rickless maintains, is different from the two common interpretations which hold the field. Penner takes Socrates to be maintaining that 'courage', 'temperance', 'justice', and 'piety' are four different names for the same sort of knowledge, which is simply equivalent to virtue. Vlastos takes claims such as 'piety is justice' to be asserting biconditionals involving instances of the virtues: 'An act is pious just in case it is just'.
I may raise some difficulties in Rickless' view in a subsequent post. For now, I want to draw attention to a consequence of this view, which then leads to an interesting question.
The consequence is that Socrates does not end up endorsing any alternative he presents at the start of the dialogue. As you recall, Socrates gives Protagoras three ways of resolving the difficulty that 'virtue is a single thing' and yet we have different words for various virtues:
1. The different words all name the same thing.
2. Each word indicates a part of virtue, and the parts of virtue are either:
(a) similar to one another, as the parts of gold, or
(b) different from one another in their function and power, as the parts of the face.
Socrates clearly takes himself to be refuting 2(b). But on Rickless' interpretation, Socrates ends up endorsing neither 1. nor 2(a). The relationship of species to genus is not quite like any of these forms of composition (which are indeed more appropriate to corporeal things).
This might look like a disability of the interpretation. And yet, one thinks that the relationship of species of knowledge to genus would precisely be the sort of thing that would perplex Plato.
Hence the question. After reading Rickless' paper, I found myself wondering whether that curious passage in the Categories (11a20ff) is a record of a dispute in the Academy concerned precisely with these sorts of problems of classification. Read 'justice' and 'piety' for 'grammar' and 'music', and then wouldn't one have the Protagoras problem?
...the genera are spoken of in relation to something, but none of the particular cases is. For knowledge, a genus, is called just what it is, of something else (it is called knowledge of something); but none of the particular cases is called just what it is, of something else. For example, grammar is not called grammar of something nor music music of something. If at all it is in virtue of the genus that these too are spoken of in relation to something: grammar is called knowledge of something (not grammar of something) and music knowledge of something (not music of something). Thus the particular cases are not relatives. But it is with the particular cases that we are said to be qualified, for it is these which we possess (it is because we have some particular knowledge that we are called knowledgeable).
And take that last line to be Aristotle's insistence, against Plato, that the way the words are used with respect to particulars should be decisive for ethics, where particulars count.
Philosophical Calisthenics
Roderick Firth once told me that the other Roderick had the practice of reading from Aquinas' Summa Theologiae every morning for ten minutes, 'to put himself in the right frame of mind for doing serious philosophy'. I later had the occasion to meet Chisholm, at a dinner in honor of him, and I asked him whether this story was true. He confirmed that it was, and that his practice was as described.
Sir William Hamilton and other biographers of Thomas Reid report that Reid, when he retired from the University of Glasgow and was able finally to write out his lectures (providing further hope for all of us!), used to begin his day working through problems in calculus, to get his mind ready for philosophy.
So here is my lighthearted question to readers of Dissoi Blogoi. Do you know of other philosophers who disciplined themselves with such 'philosophical calisthenics'? How did they do so? What sorts of subjects and materials could work for this, and why? Would the rigorous analysis of a poem serve as well as the rigorous translation of a text from Aristotle? Does mathematics have a favored position, and, if so, are all branches of mathematics equally serviceable? (Is geometry better than calculus? Axiomatics better than more informal approaches? What about logic or set theory?) Why must something other than philosophy as we usually do it be used as preparation for philosophy? (Or was Chisholm's goal to write like Aquinas, if possible?)
Protagoras 333b-c
Here's a question on the Protagoras.
Protagoras begins the dialogue holding that the five parts of virtue (temperance (T), courage (C), justice (J), wisdom (W), piety (P)) are separable from one another. To be sure, he says this only explicitly of the pairs, C/J andJ/W (329e), but presumably he thinks this is true of all five virtues.
But near the end of the dialogue, after the interlude of the dialogue, when the argument is resumed, Protagoras takes a different view. Now he holds that only courage is separable:
What I am saying, Socrates, is that all these are parts of virtue, and that while four of them are reasonably close to each other, courage is completely different from all the rest. The proof that what I am saying is true is that you will find many people who are extremely unjust, impious, intemperate, and ignorant, and yet exceptionally courageous (349d).
This suggests that Protagoras is meant to have been persuaded by the intervening arguments that J=P=W=T.
So here is my question, or problem. Socrates argues at 329c-331c that J=P (nearly so), and he argues at 332a-333b that W=T. But the identity of all four is nowhere established.
Or is it? There is of course the passage 333b-c (which begins with the conclusion about W=T):
[Socrates:] Wouldn't that make wisdom and temperance one thing? And a little while ago it looked like justice and piety were nearly the same thing. Come on, Protagoras, we can't quit now, not before we've tied up these loose ends. So, does someone who acts unjustly seem temperate to you in that he acts unjustly?
But at this point Protagoras shows himself wanting to quit, so Socrates moves on to another line of thought, "Let's start all over again, then, with this question..." (333d).
However, are we meant to supply the argument hinted at here, and to suppose that Protagoras, too, sees how it would unfold? What would the argument be? It would rely on premises already set down:
1. Someone who acts unjustly is not temperate in that he acts unjustly.
2. Thus, someone who acts unjustly acts intemperately.
3. When something is done F-ly (F being a virtue or vice), it is done through the agency of F.
4. Thus, someone who acts unjustly does so through the agency of intemperance.
5. Yet someone who acts unjustly does so through the agency of injustice.
6. What is done in an opposite way is done through the agency of opposites.
7. Thus, intemperance is the opposite of justice.
8. Moreover, intemperance is the opposite of temperance.
9. But each thing has one opposite.
10. Thus, justice is temperance.
This 'ties up the loose ends'. Because J=P; and W=K; and J=T; it follows that J=P=W=T. Only C is left out, to be dealt with in a different way, later.
Well, this seems correct. (Taylor in his commentary says that the argument breaks off before Socrates can establish J=T. But it seems better to say that this relatively trivial extension of arguments already made was meant to be obvious.) But then, another question arises: why is it necessary that courage be dealt with in a different way? Why couldn't arguments like the one above, like those at the beginning of the dialogue, suffice for courage as well?
Curd's Way
Here is where I stand, at least. I have presumed in my thought and teaching that what Curd calls the 'Standard Account' of presocratic philosophy is correct. I was persuaded of this originally not only through my own study of the 'arguments' of the presocratics, but also (it must be confessed) because of Barnes' effective writing. But now, for reasons given, I think that this view is not correct. The Standard Account is a good story but, it seems, not a true story. I then naturally ask myself: Is there some alternative view that I should adopt?
Curd's alternative account is ingenious. It is better, I think, than the Standard Account. And yet it too, I believe, has serious deficiencies. Curd draws attention to most of these and tries to respond to them. But I think some of her responses are unconvincing. And then the difficulties she does not address are perhaps even more serious.
What is her view? Remember the inconsistent triad:
1. Parmenides is influential;
2. Parmenides uses philosophical logic to argue that only a single, unchanging, perfect being exists;
3. Those who come after Parmenides do not employ philosophical logic and hold that reality is plural, changing, and imperfect.
As I said, Curd rejects 2. She builds on the arguments of Mourelatos and maintains that Parmenides, in the nature and method of his philosophy, is continuous with the Ionian cosmologists who come before. She also says that Parmenides never asserted and never meant to assert that only one thing exists.
As to the nature and method of philosophy: Parmenides, she says, is not concerned with whether we can refer to or think about non-existence. ( This is a matter of philosophical logic). Rather, Parmenides holds that true assertions have to be revelatory of the nature of a thing. (This is a matter of 'philosophical cosmology', as it were.) To do so, an assertion needs to say what a thing is, not what it is not.
As to the conclusions Parmenides wished to draw from these conditions: Statements that attribute composition, internal change, internal variation, potentiality, variation in time, coming into existence, or going out of existence, are not revelatory of what you are talking about. So nothing about which we can make genuine statements about the world can be like this. We can make such statements only about a substance which is eternal, unchanging, homogeneous, and completely actual. But there is no reason why there cannot be many such substances.
Empedocles, Anaxagoras, and the Atomists are all influenced, then, by Parmenides, in the sense that they engage in cosmology while accepting Parmenides' constraints and conclusions. All of these thinkers postulate basic substances which are eternal, unchanging, homogeneous, and completely actual. They reject the reality of anything besides these substances. They reject any change except in the external relations of these substances to one another.
Eleatic Answer: 1
I realize now that my concerns about the commonly accepted story of presocratic philosophy have led me to share Patricia Curd's view of its shortcomings, although I don't think I can accept her own alternative story.
Here is the problem. There is a 'Standard Account' (as Curd calls it) of the history of presocratic philosophy, which in outline is embraced by the most common texts and books on the subject in English: Barnes' two volume treatment; his popular and concise Penguin volume; KRS; Guthrie; McKirahan; and Hussey. This account is heavily influenced by Owen's "Eleatic Questions".
But the Standard Account is incoherent, because it puts forward an inconsistent triad:
1. Parmenides was influential.
2. Parmenides used arguments in philosophical logic to conclude that reality is single, unchanging, and perfect.
3. Parmenides' successors did not engage in philosophical logic and held that reality is plural, changing, and imperfect.
As Curd remarks:
On this standard account, the later Presocratics, such as the Pluralists and the Atomists, failing to see the futility of engaging in cosmological inquiry, try to answer Parmenides by agreeing that coming-to-be and passing-away are not real. Nevertheless, they still attempt to give rational accounts of the changing sensible world, insisting that a plurality of unchanging things underlie and explain that world. Moreover, these later Presocratics give no attention to problems of reference and meaning, offering no evidence that they recognized these issues as Parmenides' concerns. So either they must have badly misunderstood Parmenides, or else their answers were quite feeble (Legacy of Parmenides, paperback version, p. 12).
On the standard interpretation we must either attribute serious misunderstandings of Parmenides to later thinkers or claim that they felt free to ignore his arguments while accepting certain of his assumptions about what-is (13).
There seem to be only two ways out: either (i) deny that Parmenides was (in any non-superficial sense) influential for later presocratics, or (ii) hold that he did importantly influence them, but that his arguments and conclusions were not as the Standard View maintains.
Curd defends (ii). Parmenides, she says, did not assert 'numerical monism', that only one thing really exists. He wanted only to insist upon 'predicational monism' (as she calls it), viz. that whatever exists has to be (in a suitably strong sense) one. It is consistent with 'predicational monism', she asserts, that many sorts of things exist, and that these, although changeless in themselves, change relative to one another.
I rather favor (i), in a qualified form. I do so, briefly, because it seems to me that predicational monism, by a very quick route (one that Parmenides could not have but seen), implies numerical monism; also, because we can allow that Parmenides' influence was limited and 'negative'--in the sense that he points to a (relatively circumscribed) deficiency in the earlier tradition-- rather than being extensive and positive. (Compare the influence of Hume on Reid, versus his influence on Kant.) But this is for later posts.
A Fifth Cardinal Virtue?
Wisdom, temperance, courage, justice, and piety--are these five names for the same thing, or is there underlying each of these names a unique thing, a thing with its own power or function, each one unlike any of the other?
sofi/a kai\ swfrosu/nh kai\ a)ndrei/a kai\ dikaiosu/nh kai\ o(sio/thj, po/teron tau=ta, pe/nte o)/nta o)no/mata, e)pi\ e(ni\ pra/gmati/ e)stin, h)\ e(ka/stw| tw=n o)noma/twn tou/twn u(po/keitai/ tij i)/dioj ou)si/a kai\ pra=gma e)/xon e(autou= du/namin e(/kaston, ou)k o)\n oi(=on to\ e(/teron au)tw=n to\ e(/teron;
It's the question asked by Socrates of Protagoras (349b), of course. What strikes me as especially interesting, however, is the addition of 'piety' to Plato's usual list of four chief virtues.
Why is this interesting? In the Protagoras, Plato is clearly testing the idea that all virtues are forms of 'wisdom' or 'knowledge' (332a-333b), and that all are forms of justice (329d-332a). One might even take the hedonic calculus at the dialogue's end to be expressing the view that all virtuous action is a matter of appropriately discounting present pains ('courage') or pleasures ('temperance'). So, then, is Plato's view, similarly, that all the virtues are forms of piety? That would seem to be the view of the dialogue: it seems presumed, for instance, in the way Socrates refers to piety at 330e.
But, then, is this Plato's view, also, outside of the Protagoras, and, if so, what are the implications of this for his understanding of virtue? I've done no careful study. I would simply note that one finds evidence in the Crito that he construes other virtues as forms of piety. There Socrates explains that standing firm at one's post in battle, even if this means giving up one's life, is a high expression of piety towards one's country:
You must persuade your country or obey its orders, and endure in silence whatever it instructs you to endure, whether blows or bonds, and if it leads you into war to be killed, you must obey. To do so is right, and one must not give way or retreat or leave one's post, but both in war and in courts and everywhere else, one must obey the commands of one's city and country, or persuade it as to the nature of justice (51b, and cp. Phaedo 62b, Apology 28d).
Of course remaining at one's post, even to the point of death, was the paradigm of courage.
What would the implications of this be? Roughly, it would follow that it is misguided to construe virtue, for Plato, as an expression of autonomous human reason (as Vlastos does, in "Socratic Piety", in fact). Piety is the relationship of undischargable debt, and therefore obedience, to superior authorities, such as parents, ancestors, the city, and the gods, who have bestowed upon us the highest goods (life, sustenance, education). Xenophon reports that Socrates viewed human life as under the providential care of the gods; in the Phaedo, Socrates explains that he was attracted to Anaxagoras precisely because he was hoping to find corroboration for the idea that a divine power orders everything to the best end; Plato in Laws 10 regards recognition of the beneficial superintendence of the gods as the indispensable basis for an orderly and virtuous society.
But virtue cannot be the autonomous exercise of human reason, if a fundamental moral attitude, or the most fundamental attitude, is a willingness to subordinate oneself to the authority of a higher intelligence.
When X is Published, Is it Published That It Is Published?
Are there publication notices for new entries in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy?
I'm not aware that there are. But if the public is not aware that something made available to it is available, is that piece really published?
Once and a while, though, I learn of an entry through insider information, as with Mary Louise Gill's very recent, and excellent, article on "Method and Metaphysics in Plato's Sophist and Statesman" . . .
. . . published October 6, 2005.
Eleatic Question: 5.1
A follow up point on De Int 16b19-25.
In that passage, the parenthetical remark seems especially difficult to explain, viz. "nor if you say simply 'that which is'" (ou)d ' e)a\n to\ o)\n ei)/ph|j au)to\ kaq' e(auto\ yilo/n). Ackrill's suggestion is clearly inadequate:
The logical point involved seems to be quite different from the main point of the passage, though naturally connected with it. Roughly: someone might suggest that if 'is' does not make a statement because it does not say what is, then surely 'what is' ('that which is') does make a statement--surely 'what is' does say what is. Aristotle is, of course, right to reject this suggestion, but the reason has nothing to do with the verb 'to be' in particular; no substantival expression can state that something is the case.
But this construal is implausible in the context. Aristotle begins the passage by pointing out that verbs just on their own function as do substantivals. He insists that even 'is' (this would be the best contender for a counterexample) is not an exception. It would hardly then be to the point for someone to bring forward, now, a substantival expression (to\ o)\n) used just on its own. Clearly such an expression will function as a name; it could do nothing to show that verbs used in isolation function other than as names.
Yet the parenthetical remark does make sense, if we take the passage as an implicit criticism of Parmenides--with Aristotle presuming that 'that which is' (to\ o)\n) is naturally taken as the subject of Parmenides' 'is'.
The criticism goes as follows. Parmenides gives as his two ways, 'is' and 'is not'. But these are, so far, simply names, not premises or claims. We take Parmenides to be saying something, only because we supply a subject, 'that which is'. To see this, consider that 'is' no more says something about the world than 'that which is' on its own. And yet (understand) if we were to combine the two expressions, 'That which is, is', we would have a tautology which leads to no interesting conclusions beyond itself.
Two Questions on the Crito
These questions arose in discussion with students yesterday. I wasn't quite sure how to answer them. What is your view?
Socrates tells Crito that the crucial principle for deciding whether he should escape from prison, is 'Do not harm'. However, Socrates will indeed harm others, whether he escapes from prison or not: if he escapes, he harms the Laws (grant this); but if he remains and is executed, he harms his family and friends. Thus, it must be the case that Socrates' decision to remain relies upon some additional principle. What is that principle?
Socrates maintains in the Apology that 'the many' do not have expertise about virtue and will likely corrupt rather than improve young persons. In the Crito he again says that the views of 'the many' count for little. But Athens was a democracy, and the laws of the city were therefore expressions of the views of 'the many'. Why, then, is it so important, in Socrates' eyes, to heed the laws? Why should the (uninformed, inexpert) views of 'the many' take on such great weight, simply because they are promulgated as law?
Thinking?--Not!
Do we have in the following, I wonder, an intended criticism of Parmenides?
When uttered just by itself a verb is a name and signifies something--the speaker arrests his thought and the hearer pauses--but it does not yet signify whether it is or not. For not even 'to be' or 'not to be' is a sign of the actual thing (nor if you say simply 'that which is'); for by itself it is nothing, but it additionally signifies some combination, which cannot be thought of without the components.
Au)ta\ me\n ou)=n kaq' e(auta\ lego/mena ta\ r(h/mata o)no/mata/ e)sti kai\ shmai/nei ti—i(/sthsi ga\r o( le/gwn th\n dia/noian, kai\ a)kou/saj h)re/mhsen—a)ll' ei) e)/stin h)\ mh/, ou)/pw shmai/nei: ou)de\ ga\r to\ ei)=nai h)\ mh\ ei)=nai shmei=o/n e)sti tou= pra/gmatoj, ou)d ' e)a\n to\ o)\n ei)/ph|j au)to\ kaq' e(auto\ yilo/n. au)to\ me\n ga\r ou)de/n e)sti, prosshmai/nei de\ su/nqesi/n tina, h(\n a)/neu tw=n sugkeime/nwn ou)k e)/sti noh=sai.
The translation is Ackrill's, and of course it is De Int 16b19-25. Ackrill remarks: "Though Aristotle uses the infinitives 'to be' and 'not to be', these must--if the sentence is to have any relevance to what went before--be taken as stand-ins for indicative forms, 'is', 'is not', 'was', &c." So Aristotle's claim is that 'is' (esti) as much as 'is not' (ouk esti) fails, on its own, to express a thought.
The argument, as against Parmenides, is presumably this. Distinguish thinking from thinking of something: the latter involves a judgment. A verb on its own involves thinking merely and fails to express a judgement. It might appear to do more, only because it arrests thought. Not even the verb 'exists' is an exception. That word, like any other verb, looks to be completed, having significance about something only in combination with something else. (And now here is an old objection against monism.) You succeed in thinking ofwhat exists, then, only by combining 'exists' with another word, in which case there would be at least four things, not one, which exist (the two words, and the two things signified by those words).
Parmenides believes that he has isolated the only 'way' that is thinkable, the way of 'is' (esti). But simply saying 'is', although this is to think, is not to think of something: in fact, it is to think of nothing! Yet say something more, and your claim of monism is self-defeating. Even an assertion of absolute unity would require two words!
(On prosshmai/nei, Ackrill compares 20a13: "So 'every' and 'no' additionally signify nothing other than that the affirmation or negation is about the name taken universally." Ackrill comments: "He does not, of course, mean that 'every' has some straightforward significance and also serves to quantify the subject, but that what its presence adds to a sentence is quantification.")
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Eleatic Question: 5
A question about atomism.
It's usually held that the atomists accepted Parmenides' view, that generation and destruction are impossible, but that they denied (in a sense) Parmenides' claim that nothing cannot exist, by positing the void, which, they claimed, is not nothing.
The void was meant to explain why, at one time, there can exist a plurality of objects: the void (not nothing) separates existing atoms one from another.
Fine; allow this. But then, why, on this view, should an atomist continue to insist that generation and destruction are impossible? Parmenides argues that generation is impossible because existence cannot be preceded by non-existence; and that destruction is impossible, because existence cannot be followed by non-existence. Why could not an atomist say: in a case of generation, existence is preceded, not by non-existence, but by 'void'; similarly, in a case of destruction, existence is followed, not by nothing, but by void? Diachronically, atoms begin to exist and cease existing, separated by 'void', just as, synchronically, void keeps different atoms separate. If void can separate being from being at the same time, why not being from being at different times?
If someone were to say: "But it would be inexplicable why existence should follow, if previously there were void, or why void should follow, if previously there were existence", one could retort: "But there is no more reason for the thing to exist than the no-thing. In just the same way, it is 'inexplicable' why, at one and the same time, existence should have void next to it, or void should have existence next to it. The random position of atoms across space mirrors the random coming into existence and disappearance of atoms across time."
Suppose someone wrote a history of Greek mathematics that went like this:
The discovery, by Pythagoreans, of the incommensurability of the hypotenuse of a right triangle with unit sides, had tremendous consequences for the development of mathematical thought. All subsequent mathematicians had to take this result into account. Some simply denied it boldly, insisting that there was "no more reason that a side should be incommensurable than commensurable". Others agreed that, indeed, a right triangle with unit sides had an incommensurable hypotenuse, but they denied that any other triangle did. Still others said that, although incommensurability affected triangles, it was irrelevant to squares (this, even though squares are built out of triangles).
Fairly absurd, isn't it? Yet that's the kind of absurdity we are satisfied with in telling the history or philosophy. Compare:
Parmenides presented what seemed an irrefutable argument that reality is one, continuous, indivisible, unchanging, and perfect. So powerful were his arguments, that all subsequent philosophers regarded themselves as obliged to answer them. The Atomists, for instance, simply denied that it was impossible for nothing to exist: they called nothingness the 'void' and said that there was no more reason for something to exist than nothing. Anaxagoras, although he agreed with Parmenides that nothing could come into existence or perish, nonetheless rejected Parmenides' claim that only one thing exists: he said that there were two fundamental things--Mind and the infinite mixture--and he held, furthermore, that the infinite mixture was not only plural but also infinitely divisible. Empedocles, for his part, simply asserted that four things existed, and that an inexhaustible variety of other things could genuinely come into existence by a kind of mixture of the four elements, caused by a strange force he called 'love'.
Parmenides concludes not-A1, not-A2, not-A3, and not-A4, all on the same grounds. It hardly makes sense to say that someone who, in the face of this, simply asserts A1, is 'replying to Parmenides', no matter what that philosopher does with A2-A4.
Sure, someone might hold that it's obviously false that change doesn't happen (or even that it's obviously false that we can't think of nothing), in just the same way as someone might 'refute' the Dichotomy by simply walking away. But why suppose that anyone, in connection with Parmenides' view, might do this piecemeal? If someone takes Parmenides to be clearly wrong as regards plurality or motion, why ever should we regard such a person to be seriously grappling with Parmenides as regards generation and destruction?
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Dr. Ken Leistner Workout
This tape was made for the enjoyment of the Leistner children and friends of the family, with a special "Thank You" to Steve Baldwin, Pat Casey, and Sean Kelleher for their insistence that it be made.
I believe Mr. Leistner was around 160 lbs.
Not sure of his age in this workout, around 52.
Prepare to be humbled.
And very inspired.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ht1ft5ub-wM
Overhead Press - 253 x 4
Full Oly Squat - 407 x 22
Stiff Legged Dead on a Box (full lower with round back) - 347 x 14
Log Clean (from Hang) & Push Press - 216 x 3
Shrug (strapped) - 347 x 13
Nautilus Pullover (slow eccentric) - 160 x 9
Farmer's Walk Bar Shrugs - 119 x 11
Strict Barbell Curl - 154 x 4 plus 2 with a wee swing
And . . . putting all the plates back where they belong.
Right crazy stuff! One after the other.
Getting Started on a Strength Program - Bill Starr
Taken from This Issue (September 1996)
Note: This is the second installment of Bill Starr's Only the Strong Shall Survive series he wrote for IronMan magazine. The first installment is here:
https://ditillo2.blogspot.com/2019/04/building-solid-foundation-bill-starr.html
The very first step in getting started on a strength program is to have a well-organized plan. Sit down and take some time to lay out your routine so that you know exactly what you're going to do for the next few weeks. You don't have to plot out the exact weights you'll use, for it may take a few workouts before you know your upper limits, but you should write down the lifts you want to do, along with the sets and reps for each.
Most people like to sets aside a few months during the winter or summer for pure strength work, leaving the spring and fall for more specialized training. By cycling their training in this way, they stay motivated and can move up their top-end weights more effectively. Others, however, enjoy strength training and do it for longer periods, often switching to a different routine for only a few months each year.
In any event, a strength cycle should last at least six weeks. Longer is even better, but any less than six weeks won't be nearly as productive.
A strength program should be geared to increasing your strength and also your size. You accomplish this by focusing on the larger muscle groups - the shoulder girdle, back and legs. The smaller muscles, such as the biceps, triceps and calves, will take a backseat to their larger brothers for a time. They'll get some attention but not nearly on the same scale as what the larger groups get. Force the big bodyparts to grow and the smaller ones will follow.
For anyone who's starting out on a strength cycle for the first time - or who's just getting back after an extended layoff - I recommend a three-days-per-week routine. I fully understand that the split routine is very much in vogue, but it's not the best system for building a solid strength base. You can switch over to a split routine after each strength cycle. For now you work all the major muscle groups at each session. Then you can spend some time exercising the smaller muscle groups or some area that needs special attention.
Three days a week works nicely for a great many people simply because it's easier to get to a gym three times a week than it is to make four trips. It also gives you adequate rest between workouts, which is critical to making progress.
Strength training is concentrated training. You attack the larger groups, add some auxiliary work for the smaller muscles, then leave the gym. In too many programs the trainee lingers in the facility doing set after set of a specific exercise - usually one that's rather fun to do like curls or pushdowns. As a result, gains come more slowly because the extra work taps into the energy supply. More is not always better when it comes to strength work, especially in the earlier stages.
For the first couple of weeks the three-days-per-week routine might be rather demanding, since you're working all the major groups each time. The body will adapt quickly, however, and then begin to thrive on the big muscle movements.
Select Exercises That Are Productive
Note that I didn't say select exercises that are fun. That's because there are some exercises you must include in a strength program that really aren't fun at all. In fact, they're downright ugly at times. Squats, deadlifts and good mornings aren't usually placed in the fun category, especially when they involve serious weights. I happen to believe that if you enjoy every exercise there's something missing in your routine. I realize that this is completely against the philosophy of most experts, but hitting a weak spot with a difficult movement isn't going to be enjoyable, at least not at first. If an exercise is productive, though, it suddenly becomes much more palatable.
The emphasis on getting stronger is aimed at making progress, not just having a great time in the gym. The enjoyment factor comes directly from the gains you make, and believe me, that's sufficient. I understand that it would be terrific to be able to build a program around flat-bench presses, inclines, curls and maybe a few token sets of squats and pulls and accomplish significant gains in size and strength, but, unfortunately, it just doesn't work that way
The main reason that so many trainees in those high-priced, machine-loaded la-di-da gyms across the country remain so embarrassingly weak is that they just don't want to do the hard work or the difficult exercises. The problem is, merely showing up in the right outfit and going through a routine a cheerleader could do without breaking a sweat isn't going to bring you the desired results. In order to get stronger, you have to exert yourself and do some exercises that make your eyes cross.
One of the main criteria in the selection of your exercises should be your weak point - or in the case of most trainees your weak points. That's not always an easy thing to do, since no one really likes to do exercises in which he or she is particularly weak. That's especially true when people train with friends. It's a great deal more satisfying to work on those lifts in which you're at least semi-strong. In order to achieve a higher level of strength, you have to suck up your ego and lean on the weaker movements.
The exercises selected must be serious ones, not token movements performed on machines. If, for example, you have trouble picking up a full bag of groceries, you need to start doing deadlifts and good mornings and not be content with merely doing lat pulls by the hour.
If this is your first pure strength cycle or you're about to start back after a layoff, your program should revolve around free weights, not machines. The reasoning is basic. Free weights involve your tendons and ligaments much more than machines. The attachments are the sources of pure strength. You'll use machines in the overall program but strictly for the auxiliary work.
Emphasize the Three Major Muscle Groups
In order to become stronger, you have to do a primary, core exercise for each of the three major muscle groups: the shoulder girdle (or upper body), back, and legs. In the beginning the more basic the core exercise, the better. Full-range movements are also better than partial movements.
As you grow stronger and discover some specific weaker areas in those major groups, you can turn your attention to bringing them up to standard. For example, after doing squats for three weeks and steadily moving up the top-end weight, you notice for the first time that your knees have a tendency to turn inward when you use heavy weights. This is an indication that your adductors are lagging in strength, so you must spend time building up that group. Working on the adductor machine or doing wide-stance squats will remedy the problem. Recognizing and remedying your weaknesses will speed the rate at which you are able to gain strength, as well as saving you from some major injury-based setbacks later on.
There are quite a few productive exercises to choose from, which provides greater variety in any program. Some people even prefer to plan two separate programs, doing one during one week and the other the following week. This is particularly useful after you establish a solid base.
For the shoulder girdle the best core exercises are bench presses, incline presses, dips and overhead presses. Because they require different ranges of motion, you must include them all in your strength program. Of all the areas of the body the shoulders are actually the most vulnerable to injury. Why? Because the joints are relatively smaller than those of the hips and legs and cannot tolerate the amount of work those potentially stronger joints can.
There are many productive strength exercises for the back, including deadlifts, bent-over rows, stiff legged deadlifts, good mornings, clean high pulls and shrugs. The back is the most neglected bodypart for most trainees. This occurs partially because back exercises are really demanding, but it’s also due to the fact that the back is seldom seen. Out of sight, out of mind, out of strength.
Yet the back is typically the fastest of all bodyparts to respond to strength training. That’s because it’s so potentially powerful that once those large, overlapping muscle groups are sufficiently stimulated, they grow rapidly. In many cases the back muscle have never really been challenged, so they lie dormant, waiting for the right stimulus.
When organizing your program, keep in mind that the back is fashioned in three separate parts: upper, middle and lower. There are, of course, several groups that overlap, such as the traps and lats, but for the sake developing your program, the concept of three separate training areas works nicely. Shrugs and high pulls hit the upper back, pulls hit the upper back, bent-over rows and deadlifts hit the middle, and good mornings and stiff-legged deadlifts hit the lower back.
You only need one core exercise for legs - full squats. I know there are other leg exercises, but none can really match the productivity of full squats. Later on, if you want to add some variety to your leg routine, you can include lunges or even leg presses, but initially you want to stay with full squats - not partial squats. The full movement activates so many more muscle groups - especially in the hips, glutes and legs - that you should do only the full movement from the very beginning.
Auxiliary Exercises
After you complete the three core exercises in a workout, you can spend additional time working the small groups. Again, you should give attention to the weakest groups, not just those that are showiest.
The auxiliary exercises will take a backseat to the primary movements until you establish a solid strength foundation. Then you can include more auxiliary work in the program. It's a mistake, however, to do too much auxiliary work in the early stages. The few extra sets may seem harmless, but they are in fact detrimental to your progress. You should use higher reps and adhere to the 40-rep rule. This translates to two sets of 20, three sets of 15 and so on. Don't do any auxiliary movements for fewer than 12 reps in the beginning. Later on this is permissible.
Sets and Reps for the Core Exercises
The sets and reps formula for increasing strength was established many years ago, and it's still quite valid. Four to six sets of six reps gets the job done nicely. I use the mean and stay with five sets of five. That makes the math so much easier. For a few of the primary exercises, however, especially those targeting the lower back, I find that slightly higher reps are better. Good mornings and stiff-legged deadlifts are more productive when you do them for eight to 10 reps. This gives you a higher workload but without undue stress. The same idea holds true for any exercise in which you're particularly weak.
Form is the cornerstone of any strength program. You should never let yourself get sloppy in any exercise just to elevate more weight. Resorting to rebounding the bar off your chest or excessive bridging while bench-pressing or letting your back round too much in the deadlift will eventually deter progress. The exercises are only effective when done correctly. There are, of course, variations in individual technique, and it's acceptable to alter the form to some degree, but you must take care to learn proper technique from the beginning.
I have listed two basic programs to get you started. You may decide to stay with one of them for a month or so, then switch over to the other, or you might decide to do both, alternating them every other week. It's most important to be consistent and not miss a session, as consistency is really the key to making gains. If you're forced to miss a workout, make it up the next day.
In any event, warm up before training and stretch thoroughly after each session. Do an abdominal exercise like situps or crunches before lifting and end the workout wit another one, like leg raises.
Next time I'll discuss how to develop the program further and explain more strength training principles.
Sample Beginning Routine A
Monday (heavy day):
Squats (to limit) - 5 x 5
Deadlifts (to limit) - 5 x 5
Bench Presses (to limit) -5 x 5
Incline dumbbell presses - 2 x 20
Calf raises - 3 x 30
Wednesday (light day):
Squats (50 pounds less than Monday) - 5 x 5
Good Mornings - 4 x 8
Incline Presses - 5 x 5
Straight arm pullovers - 2 x 20
Curls - 2 x 20
Friday (medium day):
Bench presses - 4 x 8, 2 x 2
Shrugs - 5 x 5
Overhead presses - 5 x 5
Chins - 4 x failure
Sample Beginning Routine B
Bent-over rows (to limit) - 5 x 5
Bench presses (to limit) - 5 x 5
Stiff-legged deadlifts - 4 x 8
Overhead presses - 3 x 5, 2 x 3
Dips - 4 x failure
When you can do 20 reps, start adding weight and
drop the reps back to eight.
Squats - 3 x 5, 2 x 3 (10 pounds more than Monday on last set)
Clean-grip high pulls - 5 x 5
Incline presses - 5 x 5, backoff set - 1 x 8
Close-grip bench presses - 3 x 12
Eight Sets of Eight - Tom Venuto (2002)
Note: I'm going to include a short article by Steve Holman on his opinion and uses of Gironda's 8 x 8 method.
It will follow this article by
Tom Venuto:
http://www.burnthefatblog.com/
EIGHT SETS OF EIGHT:
Vince Gironda's Radical Muscle-Building System
by Tom Venuto (2002)
When Joe Weider brought Arnold to America, the first thing Weider did was to send the over-bulked Austrian to Vince's Gym in Studio City, California, to whip him into top shape. Legend has it that when Arnold walked in the door, he introduced himself to owner Vince Gironda by saying, "I am Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mr, Universe." The inimitable Vince replied, "You look like a fat fuck to me."
Yes, Gironda had way with words. He was also known for his mercurial temper and complete intolerance of anyone who refused to follow his rules. The list of reasons for expulsion from his gym included such offenses as laziness, back-squatting, bench pressing, taking steroids, mentioning the word jogging and asking for advice and not following it.
Personal foibles aside, Vince Gironda may have been the greatest bodybuilding trainer who ever lived. He was brilliant - decades ahead of his time - and some of his ideas about training and nutrition were controversial, of not downright bizarre. But no matter how peculiar his methods seemed, the results spoke for themselves.
In his heyday Vince was credited with turning out more Mr. America and Mr. Universe champions that any trainer in history - and that record may still stand. Two of Vince's most famous pupils were Larry Scott, the first Mr. Olympia . . .
and Mohamed Makkawy, twice runner-up at the Olympia (behind Samir Bannout in 1983 and Lee Haney in '84) . . .
Vince himself achieved an amazing level of muscularity and definition long before being shredded was in vogue. It's speculated that the reason he never won a major physique title was because he was too ripped for his day and age.
Trainer of the Stars
Before he closed his doors after nearly 50 years in business, Vince's Gym was the number one destination for Hollywood stars who had to get in shape in a hurry. Movie execs sent their flabby leading men and women to Vince so he could work his magic on them. Although it was located conveniently on Ventura Boulevard near several movie studios, Armand Tanny once said, "If Vince had his place on a Tibetan mountaintop instead of near the major motion picture studios, his followers would make the pilgrimage."
Vince had the ability to get movie stars in shape so fast, it was almost uncanny - not in months but in weeks or even days. Cher, Erik Estrada, Clint Eastwood, Denzel Washington, Michael Landon, Kurt Russell, Burt Reynolds, Carl Weathers and Tommy Chong were just a few of the names on his star-studded client roster.
Vince was one of my first influences in bodybuilding. When I was a teenager just starting out, I saved every one of his articles from the mags.
Check this out -
http://ironguru.com/
I purchased all of Vince's mail order courses and studied every word as if my life depended on it. I experimented extensively with his techniques and came to the conclusion that Vince possessed esoteric knowledge about the art of bodybuilding that few others will ever have.
Vince's Most Powerful Training System
Gironda was known for his unusual training methods. His unique exercises included the bench press to the neck, the sternum chinup (touching the chest to the bar), drag curls, and sissy squats with what he called a burlesque bump. His training systems included 15 sets of 4 . . .
I'm tellin' ya, check out this site for an incredible amount of Vince info:
http://ironguru.com/vince-girondas-15-x-4-routine/
3 sets of 12 (go on, check 'em all out), 6 sets of 6, 10 sets of 10, and four exercises in a giant set - one for each "side" of the muscle . . .
http://ironguru.com/product/a-muscle-has-four-sides/
Of all Vince's techniques the 8 sets of 8 program was his favorite for advanced bodybuilders. "I have a definite preference for the 8 by 8 system of sets and reps," he wrote. "I come back to this high-intensity honest workout more often than any other for maximizing muscle fiber growth in the quickest possible time for the advanced bodybuilder."
Eight sets of eight might be the most effective set-and-rep combination ever developed for rapidly building muscle fiber size while simultaneously shedding bodyfat. Vince called it an "honest workout" because of the pure muscle fiber size that can be achieved on it. "Keep to 8 x 8, and your muscle fibers will plump out, giving you a solid mass of muscle density as a result," he promised.
8 sets of 8 is so effective that, a a 20-year old novice competitive bodybuilder I was able to gain 17 pounds of muscle drug free - contest weight from one show to the next - in less than nine months using this system. To this day I still use it whenever I need a shock program to bring up a lagging bodypart.
Vince warned that this combination is not for beginners: "You have to build up to the stage where you can benefit from this extremely advanced form of training. I doubt if anyone with less than two years of consistent training experience could benefit from it."
8 sets of 8 is a fast-tempo, high-volume, size-building workout. It's not designed for strength development - it is purely for bodybuilding or cosmetic improvements. 8 sets of 8 will also help you get leaner, as the short rest intervals stress the cardiovascular system to the point where calories are rapidly burned, the metabolism is stimulated, hormones are stirred up, and fat is melted away.
Here's one of the ways it can be worked:
You select three or four exercises per muscle group and perform 8 sets of 8 on each exercise. Yes, that's up to 32 sets per bodypart! You work two or three muscle groups per session, rest only 15-30 seconds between sets and complete each workout in approximately 45 minutes - never more than 60.
Although the apparent excessive volume might seem reminiscent of the Steve Michalik, John Defendis intensity-or-insanity style of training, it's not the same thing. There are no two-to-three hour marathon workouts. You complete each session in less than an hour. The reason the high set count doesn't constitute over-training is that you don't exceed the time at which a negative effect on recovery and anabolic hormones sets in. You simply overload the muscles by condensing more training into less time. You also don't take all those sets to failure, as you'll see in a moment.
Many people are under the impression that the only way to make a muscle larger is to increase the amount of weight you use. That's not true. Overload is an absolute requirement for building muscle, but the overload can come in more ways than one.
Progressively adding weight may be one of the best ways to provide an overload, but it's not the only way. Vince was all in favor of adding weight to the bar, provided you maintained good form, but he believed that performing more work in less time was a better method of overload for the bodybuilder.
The Iron Guru's advice: "To acquire larger muscles you must increase the intensity of work done within a given time. That means minimal rest between sets. Push yourself. I feel workouts should be timed, and you should constantly strive to shorten the time it takes to get through your routine. That's another form of progressive resistance and it's more important than increasing your poundages. The overload principle explains why sprinters have bigger muscles than distance runners. Although it's more work to run a mile than it is to run 100 yards, the sprinter is doing more work per second. Consequently, his muscles will become larger."
8 Sets of 8 vs. Conventional Training
The most popular method of training for advanced bodybuilders is to choose between 2 and 4 exercises per muscle group and do 3 or 4 sets of 6-12 reps on each exercise. The rest intervals range from 60 seconds to 4 minutes, depending on the goal. So why bother with such an outrageous program as 8 sets of 8?
The answer is because honest, high-volume, fast-tempo training will be a complete shock to your body, especially in the beginning, when you're unaccustomed to it. An advanced bodybuilder will adapt to any training program within a matter of months and often within weeks. Once adaptation occurs, you must seek out new types of stress to coax your muscles into continued growth. Although Vince didn't advocate over-training in any way, shape or form, he did advocate using muscle confusion for stimulating gains, even if that meant temporarily over-training. 8 sets of 8 is simply an unusual and effective method of overload and muscle confusion.
Obviously, the program is not intended for year-round use. It's a shock routine you can use for brief periods to kick-start a new growth spurt. After completing a cycle of 8 sets of 8 you can go back to more conventional methods.
How long should you use 8 sets of 8?
As long as it keeps working.
Another advantage to 8 sets of 8 is that it can be used to work around an injury. Heavy training with 5- to 6-rep maxes is impossible when you're babying a strain, pull, of soft tissue injury, but you can do 8 sets of 8 because you get such an honest workout with a fraction of your usual weight on the bar.
8 sets of 8 is a fantastic method for pre-contest definition training, because doing 50-70 sets in less than an hour is decidedly aerobic. You can easily count each weight training session as a cardio workout. Fast metabolism types may not even need any other aerobic work.
How Much Rest Between Sets?
Vince advocated "a very businesslike approach toward tempo." He said that using the 8 sets of 8 format is not enough to ensure muscle gains. What's more important is the speed with which you get through the program. "Minimum rest between sets is a must," said the master. When Gironda was training Mohamed Makkawy for the Olympia, he had him conditioned to the point of doing 8 sets in as short a time as 5 minutes or less.
Your goal is to reduce your rest intervals to 30 seconds or less, ultimately cutting them down to just 15-20 seconds between sets. Once your conditioning adjusts to the demands, you'll need just 5-10 deep breaths after each set . . . then it's on to the next set.
If your rep speed on each exercise is 2/0/2/0 - two second eccentric, no pauses and two seconds concentric - then each rep will take you 4 seconds. 8 reps per set means that each set will take you 32 seconds. With a 15-20 second rest interval, 24 sets should take only 18-21 minutes, and 32 sets will take 25-28 minutes.
Tempo Tips
The proper tempo combined with the correct resistance is the key to the success of this program. Vince defined optimal tempo as "the evenly spaced sets (time-wise) without any distractions and with complete concentration on when to pick up the next weight and do the next set."
That means no magazine reading, no walking around the gym, no changing your music and no going to the bathroom. The program requires 100% total concentration. If you get interrupted or distracted, you might as well pack up your gym bag and go home.
Don't put the dumbbells down between sets. Rest them on your knees, but don't put them put them down or re-rack them. Also, don't release the bar between sets; rack it, but keep your hands on it. If you using straps, don't unwrap them. Stay on the bench or machine until you complete all 8 sets of 8. take no rest between bodyparts. When you finish the last exercise for the first muscle group, move directly into the first exercise for the next muscle group.
By the way, to follow the tempo guidelines, you'll have to do the program solo.
How Much Weight?
Using 15-20 second rest intervals will limit the amount of weight you can use, but that's okay. Initially, you'll experience a large drop in your normal training poundages. Most people will need to reduce their normal 8-rep max by about 40% to successfully complete 8 sets at the correct tempo with such brief rests. For example, if you normally perform dumbbell flyes with 55's for 8 reps with a 60-90 second rest interval, you're going to have to reduce your dumbbells to about 35's to successfully get through the 8 sets taking 15-30 second rests.
As you become more conditioned you will be surprised at how much weight you'll be able to build back up to while maintaining the short rest interval. You may even get close to your original poundage. At that point some serious growth will begin to occur.
Proper weight selection is critical. You should intentionally make the first workout easy. If you attempt too much weight too quickly, you won't be able to complete 8 reps on the last several sets, nor will you be allowing room for progression over a period of weeks. Vince cautioned that it's imperative to use the same weight for all 8 sets. If you fail on the 6th or 7th rep on the last set or two that's fine, but if your reps drop below 8 by your 4th or 5th set the weight is too heavy.
Whole-Body Training or Bodypart Specialization?
8 sets of 8 is excellent for bodypart specialization or whole-body training. You can use it very effectively on one bodypart at a time. For example, if your chest is lagging, you would do the 8 sets of 8 routine to specialize on chest, and do conventional training for the rest of your body.
If you decide to use the technique for large muscle groups such as legs and back, be warned: It's brutal beyond belief. It's extremely difficult because cardiovascular failure may limit your performance. Prepare to be huffing and puffing. You may have to start with longer rest intervals - about 30 seconds - and work down to 15-20 seconds. Alternatively, you could start with very light weights and build up gradually.
Which Exercises?
Select your exercises carefully to hit the aspects of each muscle you want to target the most. For example, if your after big side delts and shoulder width, you should select side-delt movements such as lateral raises and wide-grip upright rows instead of front raises and military presses.
Machines and single-joint movements are easier, but don't shy away from the big compound movements just because they're more difficult. As with any training program, the basic exercises will always produce the best results. So, if you want a massive back, think rows and chinups, not one-arm cable pulls.
8 sets of 8 works as well for calves, abs, and forearms as it does for any other bodypart. Vince was always partial to 20 reps for the calves. He often suggested staying with 8 sets but upping the reps to 20.
"Training Over Your Head"
Most of your sets will not be taken to failure, and none will be taken beyond failure. On your last set or two of each exercise it's normal to fail on the 6th or 7th rep. When you can easily complete a full 8 sets of 8 reps increase the weight at the next workout.
Although you won't be reaching failure on most of your sets, make no mistake: This is some of the most difficult training you'll ever undertake. Training large muscle groups and doing multi-joint free-weight exercises are especially difficult. You'll face the burn of local muscle fatigue, the challenge of oxygen debt, and the difficulty of maintaining concentration.
This method is a test of strength, endurance, and mental toughness. Gironda called it "training over your head." At times you won't be sure if you can go on, but once you start, you can't stop.
How Many Sets and Exercises?
As a general rule Vince suggested limiting your total sets to no more than 12-15 per bodypart. He said that if you can't get a workout in 12 sets you're not concentrating properly; however, he also said there are certain occasions when the rule could be broken. The 8 sets of 8 program is one of them.
Gironda recommended anywhere from 1 to 4 exercises per muscle group, depending on the circumstances. For this particular variation of the program you will perform 8 sets of 8 reps on 2-4 exercises per bodypart. Generally, you will aim for 3-4 exercises for large muscle groups and 2-3 exercises for small muscle groups.
That's the way he had Makkawy do it when he was training for the Olympia, but Vince was quick to point out that Mohamed was a true genetic superior and that not everyone can handle that kind of volume. The optimal number of exercises and total sets per muscle group will depend on your experience, your tolerance for stress and your recuperative abilities. The most important point os to do only as many exercises as you can fit into the 45-minute limit.
What Type of Split?
The number of exercises per bodypart will also depend on the split routine you use. Vince advocated different types of splits for various purposes. Sometimes he had his pupils train 6 days in a row, working each muscle group 3 times per week. More often, he was partial to 2- and 3-day splits, where each muscle was trained twice per week. He advised advanced bodybuilders to use a 3-day split with 72 hours of recuperation between maximum intensity workouts.
These days it's more popular to split up the bodyparts over 4 or even 5 days. with a 4- or 5-day split you work each muscle group once every 5 to 7 days. If Vince were around today, he would surely give me a verbal beating for saying this, but I've discovered that 8 sets of 8 works with nearly any split routine, whether you train each muscle group once a week of twice a week. The important thing is to adjust your volume so you can observe the tempo and time limit rules. If you have a split routine that works well for you, by all means stay with it.
For example, if you're on the popular 4-day split where you train two days on and one day off, you'll get great results on 8 sets of 8. With that type of split you can do 7 or 8 exercises for 8 sets of 8 and fit it all inside of 45 minutes. If you're on a 2- or 3-day split, as Vince often recommended, you may have time for only 1 or 2 exercise per muscle group.
The sample routine I'll be giving is based on a 4-day split.
8 sets of 8 is a little known and largely misunderstood program. That's partly because Vince never explained it in great detail - not even in his famous mail-order courses. Even whey they fully understand it most people don't attempt the program because it seems like too much volume and the weights seem too light to get anything out of it. Too bad for them. The real reason most people never finish a fully cycle of 8 sets of 8 is because it's too damn hard. 8 sets of 8 performed in 5 minutes for a large muscle group can test the grit of even the toughest bodybuilder.
You don't have to agree with all of Vince's teachings to use the program. It's natural to resist concepts that are so radical. Gironda was used to it. Nearly all of his ideas met with a certain degree of skepticism initially, yet eventually - sometimes two or three decades later - many of them became accepted as bodybuilding truths.
When questioned, Vince replied, "If in doubt, try these concepts and try others. Results count.
Examine. Test. Then make up your own mind. The secret to success is to believe that the course I give will work, and it will. If you have doubts, you'll find it won't work."
Regardless of whether you think Vince was the greatest trainer of all time of just a crusty old curmudgeon, I urge you to give this honest workout an honest try.
8 sets of 8 Routine
Decline low-cable crossovers (touch handles at waist), 8 x 8
Bench press to neck, 8 x 8 . . . all exercises are 8 x 8
Incline dumbbell press (palms facing each other)
Wide grip V-bar dip
Biceps:
Drag curl
Preacher curl
Incline DB curl
Forearms:
Barbell wrist curl
Reverse wrist curl
Shoulders:
Seated lateral raise
Wide grip upright row
Front-to-back barbell press
Bentover lateral raise
Triceps:
Behind-the-head rope extension
Lying extension
Two DB kickback
Back:
Sternum chinup
High-bench two DB row
Low cable row on 18" pulley
Medium grip pulldown to chest
Double crunch (pull in elbows and knees at the same time)
Weighted crunch
Lying bent-knee leg raise
Quads:
Machine back squat
Sissy squat
Leg extension
Hamstrings:
Leg curl
Seated leg curl machine
Calves:
Standing calf raise
Seated calf raise
Here's Steve Holman's take on the 8 x 8:
Tom Venuto did a fine job of analyzing Gironda's 8 sets of 8 program, and providing a routine based on it. I found the article very intriguing and wanted to comment. I haven't tried the technique for every bodypart, but using it for only one muscle group or one exercise can build size quickly; more proof that the Iron Guru knew what he was talking about.
The 8 x 8 protocol has you choose a weight for each exercise with which you can get 8 reps on all 8 sets with a 20-30 second rest between sets. Your last couple of sets are the hardest and to failure. That has a number of advantages:
You don't use extremely heavy weights, which saves your joints from trauma.
Your first few sets are fairly easy, so they act as a warmup.
You get a lot of work done in minimum time thanks to the short rest periods.
Your workouts last less than an hour if you hustle properly.
You get an incredible pump.
The negative is that it's not a strength-building program.
As you can tell, you have to use lighter poundages to get 8 reps on all 8 sets, although your poundages move up quickly as you build up a tolerance to the short rests and fatigue accumulation. Vince never claimed it was a strength-building program; he said it was purely a cosmetic-oriented routine for building large muscles fast.
He suggested using up to four exercises per bodypart, which translates to 32 sets. That's a lot of volume, especially if you're using 8 x 8 on every bodypart. If you decide to try it, you may want to use it on only one or two bodyparts at a time and train others in a more conventional manner. Or you may want to apply it using POF instead of randomly choosing four exercises. With POF you train the muscle through its full range of motion - from midrange to stretch to maximum contraction - which should make the 8 x 8 system even more precise and effective.
For example, let's say you want to specialize on your delts. Here's an 8 x 8 POF delt program that will make you feel like you have bowling balls for shoulders:
Midrange: Smith machine presses, 8 x 8
Stretch: One-arm incline lateral raise, 8 x 8
Contracted: Dumbbell upright row, 8 x 8.
Remember, for each exercise you pick a poundage and use it on all 8 sets. If you get only 6 or 7 reps on the last two sets, that's okay, but if you stall at rep 6 on set 4, you know the weight you chose was too heavy.
Be forewarned: 8 sets of 8 may not sound that tough, but it will wind you. You'll be gasping for air, especially on leg and back exercises and any one-arm movements. For example, you'll be breathing hard on incline one-arm laterals because you'll have to go back and forth from arm to arm without rest. You're only supposed to rest about 20-30 seconds - and that's just enough time for a quick 8 reps with one arm. Then it's on to the other arm.
If you have a bodypart that's lagging, an 8 x 8 blast will get it to respond with new growth and muscularity, guaranteed. You don't even have to do it on all exercises. In fact, I found it effective to use it on the last exercise for a bodypart. For example, I'll use it on lateral raises to end my delt routine, which takes about 5 minutes for all 8 sets. I'm just starting to integrate that protocol into our routine, so watch for more on it in the next installment of Train, Eat, Grow.
I'm Married to a Weightlifter - Sandy Cantore
Mr. Sandy Cantore, er, Dan Cantore
COURTESY OF LIAM TWEED
Bob Hise and Sandy Cantore
Bob Hise at USA Strength & Conditioning Coaches Hall of Fame:
http://usastrengthcoacheshf.com/bhise.htm
This article is dedicated to all the wives, girlfriends, and lovers of men who are athletes, those in particular who are Olympic Weightlifters. My name is Sandy Cantore, and I am here to sympathize with all of you who have been set aside at one time or another for a set of weights.
I met my husband Dan in high school (Eagle Rock - a Los Angeles school). At that time he was into track and field, and cross country. If anyhow would have told me then that my 110-lb. boyfriend would be a national champion, and of all things, in weightlifting, I would have laughed in their face! Running track was a full time thing, even then I spent many hours at a time waiting for him to finish a workout. I followed him all over to see him in meets, stopwatch in hand. I guess, due to all that early training I had in track and field, it has become my second love to weightlifting.
When Danny first started lifting weights, at the L.A. "Y" under capable coach Bob Hise, I was really surprised. He was so skinny, weighing a heavy 115 pounds! It hardly seemed possible that he could move those weights around, but he had an amazing amount of natural strength and coordination. He became very interested, and began by entering novice meets. Winning most of these along with Coach Hise's encouraging words gave him incentive to go on to bigger things. This all led to more workouts, longer workouts, and less time with me. I thought he'd outgrow lifting, but instead it became an obsession. It soon came before school, his family, and me.
When we got married, Danny's coach, Bob Hise, told me I'd become a "Weightlifter's Widow." At first I didn't understand, but it didn't take me long to catch on. By being married, I thought I would see him all the time . . . no chance! When we got back from our honeymoon, the honeymoon was over, believe me. He even brought his workout bag on our honeymoon. Adjusting to married life was no easy task. Danny worked from four to midnight, so I didn't see him evenings, and he trained during the day, so I didn't see him then, either. He began traveling to meets. It seemed like he spent more time away from home than he did at home. I wanted to be a good wife, so I tried to keep my gripes and complaints about lifting to myself, but it was really hard.
Over the next few years I grew to really hate lifting, and everything and everyone associated with it. Socially our lives revolved around other lifters; doing things with them, day in, day out, seven days a week. I shared him, and deeply resented it. It seemed to me that all the lifters got together to support each other's bad habits, and egos.
Drugs entered our lives, too. At first we were socially accepted, but drugs almost destroyed us, along with everything else. At the time I didn't want to have anything to do with weightlifting and completely ignored the fact that Danny was well into the national rankings. So many people in lifting had come between us that we soon found ourselves divided.
Oddly enough things took a turn for the better when we moved to San Francisco. Being in a new place with only a few friends and acquaintances, we drew from and depended on each other. We reevaluated our lives, and ourselves. Danny met new friends at the gym, then Alex's Sports Palace. Being away from our friends and Coach Hise in L.A. was difficult at first, and Danny had a hard time adjusting, but I loved it. It was the first time in three years that I saw him with any regularity. It was easier for me to get into lifting now, knowing that I didn't have to share him with his friends. His training that first year in San Francisco was steady, not terrific, but okay. He lost the Senior National title in 1970. I felt guilty. I thought I had done this by taking him away from his friends, training partners and his coach. We both were looking for some kind of direction and order in our lives. We found our answer in Jesus Christ, and living and believing in God. It was when our faith turned to God instead of other people that our life together had some kind of meaning.
I became more involved in lifting. It was easier for me to help my husband now. I began attending meets regularly, keeping score, selling tickets, etc. I was actually a part of it all now, rather than an outsider. I really felt good about helping Danny, and supporting him in lifting. Despite my efforts and good intentions, Danny bombed out at the '71 Seniors. I got my first taste of politics in lifting, and it proved to be an educational experience.
1972 was a big year, it was an Olympic year. I never really thought about it much, the Olympics; something too big and too fantastic to let creep into my mind. As the year began, Danny really concentrated on planning his workouts; cycling and peaking for the season. By early April he had finished school and graduated from the University of Cal-Berkeley. This left nearly two months of good training before the Olympic tryouts. With no school to worry about he spent the time to train. From this time on, we both became super psyched.
Danny trained four times a week with Roger Quinn, which was really beneficial.
There's an article by Roger Quinn, from this same issue, here:
http://ditillo2.blogspot.com/2018/09/my-special-leg-routine-roger-quinn.html
Danny added 50 pounds to his total in 10 weeks time! We were a pretty good team . . . Danny trained and rested, without working or going to school, and I worked full time and supported the three of us - Danny, myself and our five year old daughter, Jami. Everything paid off . . . proper diet, rest, and a lot of psyche . . . and the results were fantastic!
I really wanted Danny to make the Olympic team, and tried to do everything I could for him. I actually felt like a part of Danny now. When he went to the Seniors, part of me would be with him. I didn't go to the tryouts with him, I was too nervous. Besides, he didn't train and work so hard just for me to go along and make things complicated. To this day I still won't go to a Senior Nationals with him for that reason. When Danny finally called to let me know he had won, and had broken four American records while doing it, I could hardly believe it. The best part of all was that we both were going to Munich . . . to the Olympics!
Going to the Olympics made everything worthwhile. This was my reward for being, as Pa Hise had said, a "Weightlifter's Widow." Munich was a great experience for us both. We were nervous about the competition. This was Danny's first time in an International meet, and what a way to start - at the Olympics.
The competition was stiff, but I thought he did very well, 9th overall. The important thing was that he didn't bomb out. He proved himself worthy of International competition. We really had a great time sightseeing in Munich, but meeting people from all over the world was the greatest thrill. What we learned and experienced from our trip to the Olympics is something we will never forget.
Last year, 1973, was a good year. Danny won the Senior Nationals, and went onto the World Championships. He placed 7th, and won the Pan American Championships, bringing home three gold medals. I am so proud, and at times I'm really impressed with myself when I think of who I'm married to!
Weightlifting has now become a very real part of my life. I really love the sport, and enjoy good competition. I feel I've really stood by my man and encouraged and helped him to do something he enjoys passionately, and I must admit it hasn't been easy. I've had to give much of myself and sacrifice a lot of my own personal ambitions. There's been many a time I've stayed at home while he traveled to really great places. Selfishness and jealousy creep in, and aren't easy to cope with. I've really had to be mature about these things, but I realize that all I can do for Danny makes things a little bit easier for him, and believe me, I'll do anything I can to make him a champion.
At a weightlifting banquet in Los Angeles, Coach Bob Hise introduced Danny for an award, and he added, "Behind every great man is a great woman."
Not great, just patient . . . very patient.
Building a Solid Foundation - Bill Starr (1996)
Taken from This Issue (August 1996)
Note: This is the first article Mr. Starr wrote for his Only the Strong Shall Survive series for IronMan magazine. There followed several years of coherent, experience-rich gems, a treasure we should all take a moment to be thankful for. Yes, I'll go so far as to say the series is a thing of great beauty, created by one of the lifting world's geniuses.
Let's begin . . .
The initial goal of everyone who seriously takes up weight training is to get bigger. Getting stronger usually comes second, but bigger is almost always the priority. This quest for SIZE takes trainees down the wrong road, however, because the key to attaining greater size is to build a foundation of strength. Strength is the basis for all development, whether it's an infant learning to walk, a patient coming back from a prolonged illness or a conditioned athlete seeking a higher level of fitness.
"Strength undergirds all other factors when one considers the total functioning of the body movements. Without sufficient strength, factors such as endurance, flexibility and skill cannot be used effectively." This quote may sound like something that came from the mouth of a strength coach, but in fact the words are from a professor of physiology, Dr. Gene Logan, author of Adaptations of Muscular Activity.
Many who write about and teach weight training are of the mistaken opinion that any form of strength training is directly opposed to the principles of bodybuilding - and vice versa. In truth, the two activities are not mutually exclusive. When programmed correctly, they go together quite nicely.
Every bodybuilder should use some form of strength training during the year, and every strength athlete would do well to incorporate some bodybuilding exercises into his or her routine.
When I first got involved in physical culture, all the bodybuilders I met were as strong as they looked. Over the years this concept has somehow gotten lost. Part of the change was due to the massive influx of steroids into the gyms across the country. In the past people who considered using some form of anabolic steroid had to visit a doctor and follow some sensible guidelines to ensure their health. Once it was discovered that black market steroids were big business, they suddenly became very easy to buy in locker rooms. A few gym chains became notorious for distributing them, and they could also be had through the mail.
The issue of health isn't the only reason that the drugs are detrimental. They make a person lazy. It's so much easier to get bigger and stronger, but at some point progress comes to a halt. That's just the natural process. Before steroids came along, trainees had to learn how to break through the plateaus. They were forced to analyze their routines, make modifications and then work a great deal harder in order to get to the next level.
Drug users, on the other hand, are unaccustomed to dealing with the challenges through serious study and more effort, so they merely increase their drug intake, sometimes to absurd limits. Unfortunately, the result is similar to what happens when someone builds a house on a foundation of sand. Eventually, they can't up the doses anymore, as the pharmaceuticals start acting like poison. All progress comes to a grinding halt, and the gains that were achieved via drug use vanish because the trainees have absolutely no idea what to do.
The second reason bodybuilders have lost the habit of building a solid strength base is the tremendous number of machines that have flooded the market since the 1980s. Today there's a machine for every imaginable bodypart. Now, I'm not anti-machine. Not at all. I believe they serve an important function in strength and fitness training. I also believe, however, that when they're used exclusively of used in place of a more difficult exercise, they deter progress. Simply put, it's easier to work on a machine than it is to use free weights. It's less stressful to do leg presses or squat inside a Smith machine than to perform full squats with a barbell, and it's more fun to work on a T-bar row and the lat machine than to grind out the final few reps of a heavy set of deadlifts or high pulls. In other words, anytime an exercise is made easier, apart from improving technique, that exercise is going to be less productive. The body responds to stress, not to comfort.
Training for strength is currently considered the exclusive domain of Olympic lifters, powerlifters and those engaged in scholastic, collegiate or professional athletics. This was not always the case. The top physique men of the '40s, '50s and '60s were often among the strongest people in the world. These older champions fully understood the necessity of strength work and spent a great deal of their training time on pure strength movements. They built their physiques on strength, and many were extremely powerful. John Grimek, the grand master of bodybuilding, could clean and press 350 pounds at a bodyweight of 180. Vern Weaver may have been the strongest Mr. America ever. He once power cleaned and jerked 380 in an Olympic lifting contest. Val Vasilef was also impressively strong. So were Sergio Oliva, Bill Pearl and Dennis Tinerino. Many of the best in the world of bodybuilding put on strength exhibitions.
The change in training philosophy came about when Joe Weider assumed control of physique competition in the early '70s. When the AAU ran the sport, the contestants were awarded athletic points, and these were absolutely critical for success in the major contests. Since the AAU bodybuilding contests were always held in conjunction with weightlifting meets and bodybuilders generally trained with weightlifters and did many of the same exercises, they found it convenient to compete in the meets in order to obtain the athletic points. In the process of doing clean & presses, snatches, clean & jerks heavy front and back squats, plus lots of heavy pulls, they developed the massive powerful physiques that we don't see on today's bodybuilders.
When Weider took over the sport of bodybuilding, the athletic points were dropped. This really made perfect sense, but as a result, the newer wave of competitors stopped doing the difficult exercises and turned to the easier ones. Why wear yourself out doing heavy pulls off the floor when there's a T-bar row just aching to be used? Bench presses and incline presses are certainly more enjoyable than clean & presses. The baby got thrown out with the bathwater.
One final reason that today's bodybuilders don't do strength training is, they really don't know exactly how to do it. There's some information in some of the magazines, but for the most part it's fragmented and presented in a way that overwhelms the timid trainee. In the event a strength program is publicized, readers often skip over it, since they quickly understand that it involves lots of hard work. There's no question that grinding out a max set of squats is much more demanding than doing countless sets of bench presses or curls. And that's basically why so many people who train are so pathetically weak.
During the blizzard that socked the East Coast last winter, I was forced - and forced is the correct word - to train at the local la-de-da club. In two workouts, which took a total of maybe three hours, I didn't see a single person do squats or heavy pulls. College-age trainees were straining on 95-lb. inclines and 155-lb. benches. The machines, however, were so popular that there were actually lines of people waiting to use them. The concept of trying to be as strong as you look certainly didn't apply in this facility.
Many who are primarily interested in improving their physiques are confused about the role of strength training. Those who only want larger arms and a thicker chest cannot always see why they should bother with squats or deadlifts. "I never plan on entering a powerlifting meet, so why should I do those lifts?" is something I hear a lot. "All I'm after is another inch on my biceps."
If I'm in a patient mood, I take the time to explain that doing the big-muscle exercises, such as squats and deadlifts, will give someone a much better chance of adding that extra inch or two to his upper arms than if he just continues to work his biceps directly. I once observed two high-school age trainees spend an hour and a half doing nothing but curls: standing barbell curls, preacher curls with an EZ-curl bar, then set after set with the dumbbells. Two months later I saw them again. They went through the exact came routine, so I assumed they'd been doing it steadfastly over the past eight weeks. Amazingly, after all that work their arms weren't a millimeter bigger. Admittedly, they were well-defined, but a 13-inch arm, defined or not, is still not all that impressive.
On the other hand, I've put several youngsters on a pure strength routine who packed two to three inches of muscle on their upper arms in less than a year. In many cases they only did a couple of sets per week for their biceps. The strength exercises gave them all they really needed to add size to their arms.
How can that be? How is it possible to get bigger arms without doing lots and lots of specific exercises for your biceps? The secret - if one can be so naive or presumptuous to call it a secret because the concept has been around since Milo first lifted his calf - is that when you stimulate the larger muscles of the body with heavy workloads and force them to get stronger and grow, there's always a corresponding positive effect on the smaller muscles. Simply stated, if you pack on 20 pounds of bodyweight by performing heavy squats and deadlifts, you're automatically going to add size to your upper arms.
Strength training is primarily aimed at enhancing attachment strength. The tendons and ligaments are the body's sources of strength. Make the attachments stronger and it's so much easier to increase both strength and size in the various muscles. One of the reasons that many trainees are able to increase upper-arm size without doing any curls whatsoever is that they do pulling movements with heavy weights. Exercises such as power cleans, high pulls, bentover rows and shrugs all activate the attachments in the elbows as well as the prime movers, the brachioradialis and brachialis.
After handling 500-plus pounds in the shrug, those attachments and prime movers are forced to get stronger. That means you can use a much heavier weight for curling.
When performed correctly, strength training is fun training. Nothing is quite so addictive as getting stronger. Progress comes quickly in a properly administered strength routine, and this makes it self-motivating. I've placed a number of aspiring bodybuilders on strength programs, and they've all responded most favorably. Contrary to what some believe, bodybuilders do thrive on hard work. In most instances they just haven't been taught correct form on some of the strength movements or been given a concise program to follow. Once they learn proper technique and understand the principles of strength training and how it applies to bodybuilding, they work as hard as my most dedicated strength athletes.
In future issues I'll present a precise course on how to organize and implement a strength program. I'll also explain the various concepts of strength training, such as overload, figuring workload, the heavy/light/medium system, plus several other principles intrinsic to the science of strength training.
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16:1 Then 1 came he to Derbe and Lystra: and, behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timotheus, the son of a certain woman, which was a a Jewess, and believed; but his father [was] a Greek:
(1) Paul himself does not receive Timothy into the ministry without sufficient testimony, and permission of the brethren.
(a) Paul, in his second epistle to Timothy, commends the godliness of Timothy’s mother and grandmother.
16:2 Which was b well reported of by the brethren that were at Lystra and Iconium.
(b) Both for his godliness and honesty.
16:3 2 Him would Paul have to go forth with him; and took and circumcised him because of the Jews which were in those quarters: for they knew all that his father was a Greek.
(2) Timothy is circumcised, not simply for any necessity, but in respect of the time only, in order to win the Jews.
16:4 3 And as they went through the cities, they delivered them the c decrees for to keep, that were ordained of the apostles and elders which were at Jerusalem.
(3) Charity is to be observed in things indifferent so that regard is had both of the weak, and of the peace of the Church.
(c) These decrees which he spoke of in the former chapter.
16:6 4 Now when they had gone throughout Phrygia and the region of Galatia, and were d forbidden of the Holy Ghost to preach the word in Asia,
(4) God appoints certain and determinate times to open and set forth his truth, so that both the election and the calling may proceed of grace.
(d) He does not show why they were forbidden, but only that they were forbidden, teaching us to obey and not to enquire.
16:9 5 And a vision appeared to Paul in the night; There stood a man of Macedonia, and prayed him, saying, Come over into Macedonia, and help us.
(5) They are the ministers of the Gospel by whom he helps those who are likely to perish.
16:10 6 And after he had seen the vision, immediately we endeavoured to go into Macedonia, assuredly gathering that the Lord had called us for to preach the gospel unto them.
(6) The Saints did not easily believe every vision.
16:13 7 And on the sabbath we went out of the city by a river side, where e prayer was wont to be made; and we sat down, and spake unto the women which resorted [thither].
(7) God begins his kingdom in Macedonia by the conversion of a woman, and so shows that there is no exception of persons in the Gospel.
(e) Where they customarily assembled themselves.
16:14 8 And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard [us]: whose heart the Lord opened, that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul.
(8) The Lord opens the heart to hear the word which is preached.
16:15 9 And when she was baptized, and her household, she besought [us], saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and abide [there]. And she constrained us.
(9) An example of a godly housewife.
16:16 10 And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of f divination met us, which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying:
(10) Satan transforms himself into an angel of light, and covets to enter by undermining, but Paul openly stops him, and casts him out.
(f) This is a sure sign of the god Apollo, who would give answers to those that asked him.
16:18 And this did she g many days. But Paul, being grieved, turned and said to the spirit, I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. And he came out the same hour.
(g) Paul made no haste to do this miracle, for he did all things only as he was led by the Spirit.
16:19 11 And when her masters saw that the hope of their gains was gone, they caught Paul and Silas, and drew [them] into the marketplace unto the rulers,
(11) Covetousness of evil gain and of profit is an occasion for persecuting the truth. In the meanwhile, God sparing Timothy, calls Paul and Silas as the stronger to battle.
16:20 12 And brought them to the magistrates, saying, These men, being Jews, do exceedingly trouble our city,
(12) Covetousness pretends a desire for common peace and godliness.
16:21 13 And teach customs, which are not lawful for us to receive, neither to observe, being Romans.
(13) It is an argument of the devil to use the authority of ancestors, though not distinguishing exactly which ancestors.
16:22 14 And the multitude rose up together against them: and the magistrates rent off their clothes, and commanded to beat [them].
(14) An example of evil magistrates, to obey the fury and rage of the people.
16:24 Who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet h fast in the stocks.
(h) Because he wanted to be more sure that they did not escape, he set them fast in the stocks.
16:25 15 And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them.
(15) The prayers of the godly do shake both heaven and earth.
16:27 16 And the keeper of the prison awaking out of his sleep, and seeing the prison doors open, he drew out his sword, and would have killed himself, supposing that the prisoners had been fled.
(16) The merciful Lord, as often as he desires, draws men to life even through the midst of death, and whereas they justly deserved great punishment, he shows them great mercy.
16:28 17 But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, Do thyself no harm: for we are all here.
(17) In means which are especially extraordinary, we should not move our foot forward, unless God goes before us.
16:33 18 And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed [their] stripes; and was baptized, he and all his, straightway.
(18) God with the very same hand wounds and heals when it pleases him.
16:35 19 And when it was day, the magistrates sent the serjeants, saying, Let those men go.
(19) Shame and confusion is in due time the reward of wicked and unjust magistrates.
16:37 20 But Paul said unto them, They have beaten us openly uncondemned, being Romans, and have cast [us] into prison; and now do they thrust us out privily? nay verily; but let them come themselves and fetch us out.
(20) We must not render injury for injury, and yet nonetheless it is lawful for us to use such helps as God gives us, to bridle the outrageousness of the wicked, so that they do not hurt others in a similar way.
16:38 21 And the serjeants told these words unto the magistrates: and they feared, when they heard that they were Romans.
(21) The wicked are not moved with the fear of God, but with the fear of men: and by that means also God provides for his, when it is needed.
16:40 22 And they went out of the prison, and entered into [the house of] Lydia: and when they had seen the brethren, they comforted them, and departed.
(22) We may avoid dangers in such a way that we never neglect our duty.
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A Shocking Revelation
By Heidi Simmons
There are big mysteries we live with everyday. Electricity is one of them. No doubt we take electrical current for granted. Hit a switch and the lights come on. Put a charger into a socket and our electronic devises are restored to full power. In Stephen King’s Revival (Scribner, 416 pages), electricity is both metaphor and mystery.
Revival is narrated by the character Jamie Morton. He begins with comparing life to the movies. Jamie suggests everyone is the star in his or her own film with a cast of characters. There are main characters, a supporting cast, bit players and extras. And then there is the “fifth business,” which is someone who appears periodically as a change agent entering as a friend or foe during a crisis.
The story begins in 1962 when Jamie is only six. Charles Jacobs is a new pastor in town and the little boy is immediately drawn to him. The Methodist church is just a stone’s throw away from Jamie’s rural home. Jamie is the youngest in the Morton family. His parents, sister and four brothers all embrace the young pastor, his wife and baby.
The charismatic Jacobs rebuilds the church membership and the congregation thrives. The pastor is an electrical hobbyist who uses electricity as a metaphor for God’s presence, power and mystery. He constructs little electrical games for the youth bible study.
When Jamie’s bother is injured and losses his voice, Jacobs uses electric shock to help him regain his speech. It works! But Jamie is not sure if the healing is psychosomatic, real or an act of God.
When everything seems perfect in all the lives of the characters in Jamie’s world, there is a terrible accident that changes everything for everyone in the community.
When Jacobs delivers his next sermon, it is a reality check for the now preteen Jamie, and his belief system – which is forever altered.
Jamie grows up. He discovers he has a natural gift for the electric guitar and becomes a member of a rock band. The road leads to a heroin addiction that nearly kills him. Then he comes across his “fifth business,” his old pastor Jacobs at a county fair.
Jacobs is using electricity like magic. He is photographing and super-imposing people using light and electricity. Pretty girls volunteer to come up. He electrifies them and gives them a picture. The crowd and volunteers are amazed and mystified.
When Jacobs uses shock therapy on Jamie to stop his heroin craving, there are strange side effects – bad dreams, blackouts and strange occurrences. Jacobs and Jamie part ways. Although Jamie is grateful, he is also fearful of what happened and becomes suspicious of Jacobs’ motives.
The pastor becomes rich as a healer, shocking hundreds of people and restoring all types of ailments in old-fashioned tent revivals. Years later, the two cross paths again. This time there is no doubt Jacobs is dangerous and playing with fire – electrical fire that is. Jacobs recruits Jamie for an important experiment using electricity to open a portal to the ultimate mystery of what happens after death. It becomes clear that Jamie, as well as all the other shock therapy recipients, have only been experiments for Jacobs’ insanity.
When Jacobs opens that “after life” world, it is horrific and not like anything Jamie learned in Sunday school. Jamie discovers he is a conduit to another dimension. And it’s not just him, but all the other victims of Jacobs’ electric shock treatment.
Author King lures the reader into a bucolic setting that spans decades, and then jolts the reader. Jamie’s first person narration of his life from the sixties to the present is credible, fascinating and terrifying. After all, he is telling his story. Even Jamie questions what he truly understood as a boy. But what is certain is he survived the ordeal. As always, Kings paints a familiar and relatable world. This makes Revival strangely fun, engaging and horrific.
The story explores the nature of electricity through the heart-broken, grief-stricken pastor. His hobby becomes a full-blown obsession. “Electricity is the basis of all life,” Jamie recalls. Jacobs tells him the human heart runs on microvolts, a current generated from potassium that the human body converts into electrically charged particles, which also regulates the brain, cells and “Everything else!”
Jamie asks Jacobs about his secret energy supply and why he is doing the electrical experiments on people, but the reader never gets a clear answer. Jacobs compares himself to the fifteenth century alchemist Ludvig Prinn. He sees himself exploring secrets that were covered up by the Church.
But surprisingly, Revival lacks a theological debate. There is a great opportunity for the pastor to argue the differences between faith and science, but it doesn’t happen. Jacobs is trying to see the other side of death. For a minister who last preached there is no God and no life after death, then why find a way over? Is it to prove there is no God or no heaven? Is it to be with his family? For revenge? We never understand the nature of Jacob’s experiments or the motive of his paradoxical obsession.
It could be argued that since Jamie is telling the story, we never fully comprehend Jacobs and his mission. After all, Jamie’s reliability as a narrator could be questionable. After all, he suffered electroshock “treatment.”
None the less, Revival would be more powerful and way more frightening if it directly challenged the Judeo Christian mythos and confronted faith — whether it’s in science or religion. Jamie does wonder how much of his life was predetermined and if indeed meeting up with Jacobs was fate and not free will. Like electricity, life is a mystery and when we seek the unknown it can indeed be shocking.
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Europe’s Tech Startups Warn of a ‘Data Wall’ in Case of No Adequacy Deal
by Dom Hallas | Oct 18, 2018 | Uncategorized | 0 comments
New paper launched by The Coalition for a Digital Economy (Coadec) in partnership with the Progressive Policy Institute think tank urges both sides to ‘get a move on’ in Brexit data talks over an adequacy agreement
The call is backed by an alliance of startup advocacy organisations from across Europe including Allied for Startups and France Digitale
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BRUSSELS, 16 October 2018: The Coalition for a Digital Economy (Coadec), the independent advocacy group that serves as the policy voice for Britain’s technology-led startups and scaleups, has launched a new paper in on Data Flows & Brexit warning that without progress in data talks soon – the success of Europe’s startup economy will be put at risk.
The paper, launched in the European Parliament today, urges both sides of the Brexit negotiations to adopt a pragmatic approach on data – an adequacy agreement with a view to additional cooperation in the future – as the European Council continues Brexit discussions this week.
Prime Minister Theresa May had said that data was one of five key priorities for the negotiations in her Mansion House speech in March 2018, but since that time little progress has been made.
Commenting on the paper launch Dom Hallas, Executive Director of Coadec, said:
“Data is at the heart of trade in both goods and services across the UK and Europe – it is critical for every business that trades across European borders, but no more so than for our fast-growing tech startups. Uncertainty on data will be damaging for everyone, but it could sound a death knell for tech startups.”
Commenting on adequacy, Hallas added:
“We need pragmatism from European leaders, including MEPs who have made worrying noises about data agreements with the UK in the past. We strongly believe that an adequacy agreement with a view to additional cooperation in the future is the sensible and pragmatic approach that will protect growing European digital players.”
The paper makes clear that the UK, the foremost digital market in Europe, has most to lose – but warns that Europe risks slipping behind in the global tech race if it cuts the UK adrift on data.
The paper’s author Michael Mandel, Chief Economist at the Progressive Policy Institute, said:
“No adequacy arrangement will be damaging for both the UK and the EU. There is a real risk of Europe losing out on global leadership in areas such as AI and digitization of manufacturing if they cut the UK adrift on data. Close ties will continue to be critical for the European and UK tech sectors to make progress.”
The warning comes in the wake of the Allied for Startups summit which brought together startup leaders from across Europe in Brussels to talk about key startup policy priorities for 2019 and beyond.
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“Data flows post-Brexit need to be high up the agenda for European leaders in Brexit talks. For the future of European tech and innovation, we can’t afford to get this wrong.”
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From EHR to Paper to EHR .. to Paper??
From thehealthcareblog.com - August 23, 2018 12:30 AM
I can’t help myself from telling patients how things really work in health care. But I feel they have a right to know.
When I see new patients their jaw usually drops when I sit down with them next to the computer with a stack of papers held together with a rubber band or a gigantic clamp and with yellow sticky notes protruding here and there with words like a LAB, ER, and X-RAY.
Patients always assume that medical records transfer seamlessly between practices. They don’t, even between clinics that use the same EMR vendor. The stack of papers gets scanned in, as images or PDFs, but they don’t appear in the searchable, tabular or report-compatible form. Often, they don’t each get labeled, but are clumped together under headings like “Radiology 2010-2017”.
In one of the clinics I work in, a Registered Nurse enters patients’ medical history in the EMR before each new patient’s first appointment. In the other, it is my job. In both cases, only a fraction of he information is usually carried over from one EMR to the other, and the patient’s life story risks getting diluted, even distorted.
It doesn’t take much imagination to understand why things work this way:
Once upon a time, the Rulers of a great country handed out money to all the medicine men so they could start using computers to document what they did (and what they charged for, which was the real reason the Rulers handed out money the way they did).
This was a gift, not only to the medicine men but also to a lot of computer companies, who quickly geared up and made EMRs that the medicine men needed to buy before the deadline the Rulers had imposed.
Soon the medicine men gave all their newfound money to the computer makers. One of the things they thought they remembered hearing about was “interoperability”, but the computer makers were no fools. By making it just about impossible to transfer data between EMRs, the computer companies figured they could keep their respective customer's hostage because no matter how much they hated the slapped-together systems, it would be too costly to start over with another system.
Eventually, each vendor secretly hoped they would end up with the most users and thereby becoming the industry standard when the medicine men and the Rulers caught on to the lack of interoperability.
That, I explain to those of my patients who were around for it, is like the early days of VCRs – Betamax or VHS – more than 100 times over or, think about it, 100 times worse.
Why Does an EHR System Cost So Much?
From zhhealthcare.com - January 22, 2017 11:30 PM
Electronic health record (EHR) systems are an enormous investment. This investment comes in the form of time, labor, and of course, money. Whether a medical practice chooses to host an on-site EHR system or subscribe to a web-based system, these costs demand significant planning and preparation.
Understanding the cost breakdown of an EHR system can help a medical practice not only prepare for the financial investment but also generate implementation focus.
What is the cost of an EHR?
Estimates of EHR costs have ranged anywhere from $15,000 to $70,000 per provider. Many factors drive this expense.
First, the development and design of the system itself is a concrete contributor to the value of electronic medical records. EHR cost is also affected by the degree of interfaces and integrations it offers, particularly with respect to other health records systems.
Implementation decisions also impact the cost. Practices implementing an in-house, locally-hosted system, have higher costs than for those adopting a web-based SaaS (Software as a Service) model.
Regulatory requirements, compliance, and certification, are also a significant source of EHR cost. Testing and certifications to meet Meaningful Use requirements or updates to align with changes such as ICD-10 are examples of how these areas influence EHR cost.
Once selected by a client or practice, user interfaces, customization, implementation, and training also contribute to EHR cost.
Evaluating Cost of EHR
EHR Cost
One of the very best sources for evaluation of EHR pricing is the vendor. During this stage, it is important to scrutinize options with a critical eye to truly evaluate what an electronic records system delivers.
Questions such as “How will data migration or input from paper charts impact pricing?” or “What is the training timeline and volume?” can help your practice to determine value vs. cost for a particular vendor.
This step requires doing appropriate research beforehand on the scope, features, and requirements you’re looking for in an EHR.
Understanding Cost and Value of EHR
High costs should equate to high value. This is true of any service, and healthcare HITaaS (Healthcare IT as a Service) is certainly no exception. Experienced vendors should be able to provide clients with a thorough understanding of the value of their systems and services as well as the cost. This value translates into meaningful benefits for your medical practice, both immediately and down the line.
EHR value should be measurable with concrete metrics including documentation accuracy, workflow efficiencies, and more. And while this means that vendors are responsible for exceptional service, it’s important to remember that you can’t knock cost without knowing the expected value.
Trends Impacting EHR Costs
From zhhealthcare.com - February 19, 2017 11:30 PM
Electronic health records systems can be (and often are) costly. This is true for a variety of reasons. The expenses of implementing an EHR are driven by costs associated with system design to training and everything in between. Even so, health records systems have seen a dynamic history of prices trending from the very expensive to the very affordable. Understanding these market fluctuations requires a quick look at some of the most substantial trends in EHR design and adoption.
Many variable factors influence EHR cost. Watching the environment of the market in the health records industry can help to clarify some of the EHR pricing variations.Three significant trends to follow are open source systems, API usage, and customization in EHR systems.
Open Source and Do-it-Yourself Implementation (Downward Trend)
Despite their initial popularity, particularly with respect to their low cost, open source EHR systems do require a higher degree of technical capacity early on, and some may also lack the functionality delivered by paid, packaged systems. These systems are among some of the most affordable EHR solutions, with little or even no upfront costs in some cases. However, financial investment is typically seen at a later stage in implementation, training, upgrades, and maintenance.
API – Application Program Interface (Downward Trend)
Interfacing software systems through API-driven models has also seen a deceleration, partly due to the complexity of bridging numerous systems. However, a decrease in API-driven models can also serve to drive up costs in health records as a result of adecrease in interoperability and an increase in proprietary systems.
Customization (Upward Trend)
The more adoption of EHR systems in the healthcare industry will lead to more customization. Practices continue to realize that a one-size-fits-all approach to EHRs is detrimental to workflow, revenue cycles, and usability. But with customization comes the increased costs of creating systems tailored by specialty or individual practice.
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3 more Australian Defence Force aircraft to arrive with relief supplies
By Vijay Narayan
(Photo: Fiji Connect Lounge)
Three more Australian Defence Force aircraft will arrive at Nausori International Airport today, carrying relief supplies.
An MRH‑90 helicopter and Australian Defence Force personnel will also arrive later today as part of the Australian Government=s assistance to Fiji in the wake of Severe Tropical Cyclone Winston.
The Australian government has provided 5 million Australian dollars in aid to assist in our efforts to help the people severely affected by Cyclone Winston.
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Homicide in Empoira
Yesterday at approximately 1:42am, a shooting occurred in the 100 block of School Street. A party was being held at this location and there was a confrontation between two adult males. One of the males shot the other. Multiple law enforcement agencies assisted the Emporia Police due to the large crowd present. The victim was transferred to MCV after being stabilized at SVRMC. Detectives are following up on strong leads as to the perpetrator and warrants are anticipated soon. The victim passed away yesterday morning and the identity is being withheld until confirmation that family has been notified.
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BETTER HEARING AND SPEECH MONTH RECOGNIZED AT SOUTHERN VIRGINIA REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER
EMPORIA, VA – Each year in May for more than 75 years, the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) has celebrated Better Hearing and Speech Month. This month is not designated to recognize Audiologists and Speech-Language Pathologists, but to raise public awareness of the 40 million Americans who suffer with developmental disorders related to hearing, speech, language and/or voice, or those who have acquired such a disorder as a result of illness or injury. Fortunately, when detected early most people with communication disorders can be helped with proper treatment.
Recently, the ASHA launched a nationwide public awareness campaign, Identify the Signs, to encourage parents, teachers, caregivers and others to educate themselves about the early warning signs of speech, language, and hearing disorders. According to an ASHA membership survey, 45% of respondents reported lack of awareness as the number one barrier to early detection of communication disorders.
With the nationwide launch of the new public awareness campaign by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), Southern Virginia Regional Medical Center’s speech-language pathologist Stacy Eubanks encourages parents, caregivers, and others to familiarize themselves with the signs of communication disorders. In children from birth to four years of age these signs may include: words are not understandable and/or saying only a few sounds, words, or gestures (18 months to 2 years of age); doesn’t combine words into phrases (starting at 2 years); doesn’t interact socially (infancy and beyond); struggles to say sounds or words (3 to 4 years); and doesn’t follow or understand what you say (starting at 1 year). In adults signs of a communication disorder may include: struggles to say sounds or words; repetition of words or parts of words; speaks in short, fragmented phrases; says words in the wrong order; struggles with both using words and understanding others; difficulty imitating speech sounds, inconsistent errors, slow rate of speech; and slurred speech.
Results of a recent survey of ASHA’s membership revealed that research has shown that early detection is critical to treating—and oftentimes reversing—communication disorders. Delayed treatment can result in isolation, poor academic or career performance, and delayed development.
“As a certified speech-language pathologist, I see how delayed intervention impacts the people of our community every single day,” Stacy says. “ASHA’s campaign has great potential to help the public identify and act on the early warning signs of communication disorders, allowing people to get the most effective treatment for the best chance at improved quality of life.”
ASHA’s campaign consists of English and Spanish television, radio, and print public service announcements disseminated to outlets across the country. In addition, the effort includes an online banner ad and features a campaign website highlighting the early warning signs of speech, language, and hearing disorders, as well as consumer resources for treatment and help.
“Far too many people in Emporia—and across the country—suffer from communication disorders. This campaign has the ability to reduce that number by helping people to identify the first signs of these disorders and seek professional help immediately,” Stacy says.
For more information, visit www.IdentifyTheSigns.org.
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Looking for Something to Do This Summer-4-H Has The Answer
4-H Summer Camp has Scholarship funds still available
4-H still has scholarship funds available for youth ages 9-13 looking to attend 4-H Summer Camp. Summer Camp will be at Airfield 4-H Education Center in Wakefield from July 21st – 26th. For more information please contact the Greensville/Emporia Cooperative Extension Office at 434-348-4233.
4-H Summer Day Camp Experiences
Greensville/Emporia Extension Office is having Summer Day Camps’ for youth ages 9-13 during the week of June 24th-27th. There will be camp for Art, Cooking, Science and a trip to the Zoo. You can register for one day or for all four days. Space is limited.Registration deadline is June 6th! For more information please contact the Greensville/Emporia Cooperative Extension Office at 434-348-4233.
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Top Hand Reds are State Champions
TopHand Reds 10u Baseball team
USSSA Virginia State Champions- 10u AA D2
Left to Right- Coaches: Wes Griffith and Mike Yeary; Back Row: Lane Cross, Christian Kizer, Harlee Henry, Kyle Cook, Dalton Moseley; Front Row: Zach Lee, Garrett Boris, Wyatt Pinner, Layne Felts, Nathan Yeary; Not pictured: Tripp Mattews, Payton Faulkner
USSSA Virginia State Runner-Up- 12u AA D2
Left to Right- Coaches: Greg Byers, Randy Jessee, Rustin Jessee; Back row: Trevor Cook, Josh Smiley, A.J. Walton, Winston Browne, Jared Lynch, Andrew Byers, Josh Haydu; Front Row: T.J. Britt, Mike Walton, Will Bryant, Elliott Cross; Not pictured: Chris Newsome
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Free Fishing Days Established for June 6-8
RICHMOND, VA. -- You may fish without a license again this year, during the first week in June. Take advantage of the free fishing days, June 6, 7 and 8, 2014, and enjoy the great outdoors with your family and friends without having to spend money for a fishing license.
“We hope you catch a big one!” said John M.R. Bull, the head of the Virginia Marine Resources Commission. “We work tirelessly to create and maintain sustainable fisheries. Our conservation efforts are aimed at giving anglers a fair chance at landing some fish. As a result, the fishing in Virginia is terrific.”
No fishing license of any kind will be required for recreational rod and real fishing during free fishing days, except in designated stocked trout waters. All fishing regulations including size, season, catch limits, and gear restrictions, will remain in effect. If you’re fishing in designated stocked trout waters, both a freshwater and trout license will be required.
“We have some of the best rivers, lakes and streams for fishing in the country and we would love it if the non-fishing public would give it a try. It’s fun and rewarding,’’ said Bob Duncan, Executive Director of the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries (VDGIF) which manages freshwater fishing. “Virginia has always been recognized as an angling destination--from blue ribbon trout streams in the mountains, to world-class saltwater fishing in the Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Ocean.”
The Marine Resources Commission’s website, http://mrc.virginia.gov, has extensive information on Virginia’s recreational fishing size, season and creel limits. The freshwater catch regulations can be found at the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries website, www.HuntFishVA.com. Regulations can also be viewed on a cell phone or other mobile device by downloading the Department’s free Hunting and Fishing App: http://www.dgif.virginia.gov/app/.
VDGIF has a way to recognize a trophy freshwater catch, called The Virginia Angler Recognition Program. On average, anglers measure up over 6,000 trophy size fish annually. Since 1963, when the program began, over a quarter-million trophy fish awards have been issued.
If you land a big saltwater fish, please consider posting that information to the Virginia Saltwater Fisherman Journal, an online site which has been used by recreational anglers since 2007.
The Journal is intended to benefit the individual angler, the fishing community, and fishery managers. It allows individual anglers to keep a record of their fishing experience, which they can be used to identify their successful locations and conditions in the future. The Journal also allows the fishing community to share and learn about other anglers' experiences. Finally, posting your saltwater catch information on the Journal will benefit fishery managers by allowing them to assess fish populations by analyzing data provided by you, the recreational fisherman.
“I hope anglers and boaters of all ages take advantage of both free fishing days and the Saltwater Fisherman Journal,” said Commissioner Bull. “Fishing is a great recreational past-time, and fosters a sense of stewardship of our natural environment.”
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Obituary-Mary Louise Pair Whiteside Edwards
Mary Louise Pair Whiteside Edwards, age 82, of Emporia, Va., died Sunday May 25, 2014.She is survived by 1-daughter; Linda Colleen Whiteside, Emporia; 2-sons; Robert Edward Whiteside of Zebulon, N. C. and Benjamin Whiteside of Tampa, Fla and a brother, R. Henry Pair. of Emporia. A memorial service will be held, Thursday, May 29, 2014 ,2:00 P. M., at the Calvary Chapel, North Main St. Emporia, Va. Condolences may be sent to www.echolsfuneralhome. com
Mary Louise Edwards
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Vincent Joins Coast guard
Christopher Downs Vincent joins the United States Coast Guard. Christopher left for Cape May, New Jersey for an 8 week boot camp for the USCG on Tuesday May 20, 2014. Christopher is the son of Timothy S. and Mary Beth Kei Vincent also of Emporia. A 2009 graduate of Brunswick Academy and 2013 Graduate from Longwood University with a B.S in Criminal Justice and a current student at Liberty University seeking a Masters in Criminal Justice and Public Administration. Christopher has chosen maritime enforcement as a career with the USCG. Christopher follows in the footsteps of his grandfather Branch W. Vincent Jr. who served in the U.S.M.C in the 50's. Christopher's father is a Sgt./Investigator for the Lawrenceville Police Department and his mother is a R.N. S.V.R.M.C in Emporia. A July 11th graduation ceremony will be held at Cape May, New Jersey.
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EIGHT DIE IN EIGHT TRAFFIC CRASHES OVER MEMORIAL DAY HOLIDAY WEEKEND IN VIRGINIA
Motorists Urged to “Drive to Save Lives” This Summer
RICHMOND – Eight people lost their lives in eight traffic crashes across the Commonwealth, according to preliminary reports for the 2014 Memorial Day weekend. During the 2013 Memorial Day weekend, nine people also died in traffic crashes statewide. In 2012, 11 individuals lost their lives over the four-day holiday reporting period. In an effort to reduce traffic crashes, injuries and deaths over the Memorial Day weekend, the Virginia State Police stepped up patrols as part of the annual Operation C.A.R.E., (Combined Accident Reduction Effort), which began at 12:01 a.m. Friday, May 23, 2014, and ended at midnight Monday, May 26, 2014.
The eight fatal traffic crashes occurred during the statistical counting period in the counties of Brunswick, Charles City, Cumberland, Giles, Hanover, Northumberland, Scott and Spotsylvania. Of the eight individuals killed, seven were not safely buckled up.
Operation C.A.R.E. is a state-sponsored, national program that encourages law enforcement agencies to increase visibility and traffic enforcement efforts on major travel holidays. The stepped-up law enforcement operation was part of the new, nationwide Drive to Save Lives (#DrivetoSaveLives) campaign that aims to not only reduce traffic fatalities by 15 percent in 2014, but to also increase officer safety for those on patrol. To achieve a 15 percent reduction in the Commonwealth, there must be 111 fewer traffic deaths on Virginia’s highways this year.
During the 2014 Memorial Day weekend, Virginia State Police troopers stopped 13,829 speeders and another 3,136 reckless drivers statewide. In addition, troopers arrested and charged 142 drivers for DUI. Troopers also cited 1,241 safety belt violations and 340 child safety seat violations. State police investigated a total of 463 traffic crashes, eight of which were fatal.
“The summer travel season is now officially upon us,” said Colonel W. Steven Flaherty, Virginia State Police Superintendent. “Our figures indicate there were 10 fewer traffic crashes this Memorial Day Weekend compared to 2013, which is encouraging considering the forecasts for record travel volume over the holiday. However, more than 140 individuals still chose to drive impaired, several thousand chose to speed, and more than 1,200 failed to buckle up. Attitudes and behaviors must change if Virginia is going to reach its goal of 111 fewer traffic deaths by the end of 2014. Every motorist must drive to save lives by complying with speed limits, buckling up, avoiding distractions, and never driving drunk or drugged.”
All funds generated from summonses issued by Virginia State Police go directly to court fees and the state’s Literary Fund, which benefits public school construction, technology funding and teacher retirement.
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SAFE SITTER TRAINING OFFERED AT SOUTHERN VIRGINIA REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER
(EMPORIA, VA) – Southern Virginia Regional Medical Center (SVRMC) will once again offer Safe Sitter, a medically accurate program that teaches boys and girls ages 11 to 13 safe and nurturing child care techniques, behavior management skills and appropriate responses to medical emergencies when caring for children. Specifically, the Safe Sitter learns: what to do when a child chokes, safety for the sitter, how to call for emergency help, babysitting business skills, basic child care skills (diapering, feeding, etc.), and how to entertain children and keep them safe. In addition, Safe Sitter parents are given tips for helping their Safe Sitter to stay safe, and make the most out of their babysitting experiences.
Southern Virginia Regional Medical Center is proud to have served as an official training site for Safe Sitter for more than 20 years. Our certified instructors have been a part of this valuable program since its inception at SVRMC. The two day course is scheduled for July 10th and 11th from 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM in the SVRMC classrooms. The fee for the course is $45.00 per person, and includes lunch, National Safe Sitter Manual and American Heart Association Heartsaver Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) Certification. Registration packet may be picked up at the SVRMC hostess desk beginning June 1st. Registration deadline is Friday, June 20th. For more information on Safe Sitter, or to sign-up, contact Cynthia Mason-Kemp, RN, SVRMC Safe Sitter Site Coordinator at 434-348-4456.
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Dr. Alfred A. Roberts Named Southside Virginia Community College’s Next President
RICHMOND–The next president of Southside Virginia Community College (SVCC) is Dr. Alfred A. Roberts, of Emporia, Virginia. Glenn DuBois, chancellor of Virginia’s Community Colleges, said Roberts will assume his new post on or about Aug. 1, 2014, replacing retiring president Dr. John Cavan.
“I’ve known Al for a long time and I have observed his leadership at SVCC for many years,” DuBois said in making the appointment. “I’m confident he will do a terrific job in taking the college to the next level.”
Roberts is currently provost of SVCC’s Christanna Campus in Alberta, a position he has held since 2012. He served as provost of the John H. Daniel Campus of SVCC, in Keysville, from 2010-2012. Prior to that, he was vice president of workforce services at SVCC. His career at SVCC began in 1995 when he assumed the role of administrator for student support services.
“The Southside Virginia Community College Board unanimously supports Dr. Roberts as our next president,” said Dr. Charlette T. Woolridge, acting chair of the College Board. “We are very pleased and excited to have a solid and experienced new president with proven leadership, expertise to advance educational and workforce development programs to prepare students for the 21st century economy, a commitment to working with the Southside Virginia community and leaders to strengthen our economy, and more. We look forward to his leadership in our region.”
“We set a high standard and spent many hours in our search, with input from stakeholders at the state and local levels,” said Dr. Nancy Carwile, College Board member and former chair. “In all areas, Dr. Roberts was first among well-qualified candidates. Our hearts were in this process and Dr. Roberts' heart is also in this work as SVCC moves forward.”
Roberts says the presidency is “a great opportunity for me to give back to the community that has done so much for me.”
“I have a real commitment to a high level of community engagement; to quality academic programs; and to workforce training and development,” he said. “It will be a challenge to follow in Dr. Cavan’s footsteps, but also a tremendous opportunity to advance the mission of the college and enhance its reputation as a world class, 21st century community college.”
Before joining SVCC, Roberts was program director for Sussex-Greensville-Emporia Adult Activity Services and also taught radio and television production classes at Norfolk State University.
He received his doctorate from Old Dominion University, his master’s from Virginia State University and his bachelor’s degree from Michigan State University.
The longest serving president in the VCCS, Cavan has presided over SVCC since 1983.
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Obituary-Bernadine Bowden Brookover
Bernadine Bowden Brookover, age 98, of Tarboro, NC died peacefully on Friday May 23, 2014.
She was born on July 12, 1915 in Zanesville, OH to Mary and Howard Bowden. She was preceded in death by three sisters and two brothers.
Bernadine is survived by three daughters, Marcylyn Kleinberg (Michael) of Sequim, WA; Marcia Headley (Fred) of Emporia, VA; and Kay Shew (Richard) of Pullman, WA; six grandsons, one granddaughter and nine great-grandchildren.
She graduated from Adamsville High School in Adamsville, OH where she was active in 4-H and played women’s basketball. She was married for 53 years to Charles Milton Brookover and lived in Wintersville, OH and retired to Pinellas Park, FL. Charles proceeded her in death in 1990.
As a homemaker, Bernadine enjoyed traveling, reading, gardening and playing cards. She was active in Wintersville United Methodist Church and served as a 4-H leader.
A memorial service was held on May 25th at The Fountains at the Albemarle in Tarboro, NC. Memorial contributions may be made to Monumental UMC, 300 Southampton Street, Emporia, VA 23847.
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Obituary-Margaret Fulcher Grimes
Mrs. Margaret Fulcher Grimes, age 87, died May 24, 2014. She was the widow of William Grimes. Mrs. Grimes was a drawend for a Textile Co. Visitation will be held 1-hour prior to a 11:00 A. M. funeral service at St. John's Lutheran Church, Emporia, Va, Wednesday, May 28, with interment to follow in the church cemetery.
Margaret Fulcher Grimes
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American Legion Hosts Memorial Day Ceremony
American Legion Posts 46 and 151 hosted a Community Memorial Day Ceremony at Veteran's Memorial Park yesterday, and laid a wreath in memory of our fallen Service Men and Women. Please enjoy this brief slideshow of the ceremony. The slideshow has been set to "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," performed by Judy Collins as featured in the Ken Burns Series "The Civil War" on PBS. "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" was written by Julia Ward Howe and was first published in 1861.
Our modern Memorial Day also dates from the time of the Civil War, originating as "Decoration Day." While Memorial Day started as a way to honor the fallen soldiers of the Civil War, it now serves as a day to honor all Americans that have died in military service. Yesterday's ceremony also featured a moment of silence for Prisoners of War and those Mission in Action.
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Retired General Delivers Keynote at Memorial Day Celebration
Brigadier General (ret.) David L. Johnson served for 30 years as a United States Air Force Officer. General Johnson has 78 combat sorties to his credit. He commanded airdrop/airland operations in Bosnia-Herzegovina (93-95) and was the Deputy Joint Task Force Commander for Operation Support Hope in Central East Africa (Rwanda) in 1995. He commanded the 43rd Airlift Wing and Pope Air Force Base in Fayetteville North Carolina 1997-1999. He served his last operational assignment as the Vice Commander of Air Force Special Operations Command at Hurlburt Field, Florida. Because of his diverse operational credentials, General Johnson was selected to serve as the Air Force Director of Weather and he retired from that position in 2004.
After forming and operating a senior executive consulting company General Johnson was asked to apply for and then served as the Director of the National Weather Service 2004 from 2004, through Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Under his leadership, the National Weather Service exceeded the Government Performance and Results Act standards for tornado accuracy and lead-time during the record setting 2004 tornado season. He led the fielding and achieved the Initial Operating Capability for America’s Tsunami Warning System in the Pacific and Atlantic/Caribbean and acquired operational capability for the 35th and 36 largest supercomputers in the world. General Johnson placed a NOAA weather radio in every public school in America in a massive joint initiative with the Department of Homeland Security.
He retired to Lake Gaston in 2007 with his wife, Elizabeth.
His moving remarks reminded all of us in attendance what the real meaning of Memorial Day is. General Johnson kindly provided an excerpt of his speech, which I am publishing below:
On Memorial Day we remember fallen heroes and pray that no heroes will ever have to die for us again. It’s a day of thanksgiving for their service and sacrifice, a day to remember America and soldiers who now rest. It’s a day we celebrate -- it’s a day to be with the family and to remember.
It is not “Veteran’s Day" when we appreciate all veterans – living and deceased. And, it is not “JUST A DAY OFF”……
It is all about remembering Airmen, Marines, Soldiers, and Navy and Coast Guard Sailors who have died after serving their country. It is about us – being worthy heirsof their sacrifice.
I know this morning, that across the country -- children and their parents will watch or participate in local town Memorial Day parades. I can see the young ones sitting on the sidewalks and waving flags as the decorated bicycles of young people pass – as the high school band goes by. I can see people who were seated – RISE and stand and place a hand over their heart in honor as the flag of our nation passes by. I can almost smell the cookout and see people enjoying a day on the lake. Memorial Day is a good time to remember and it is a good day to be with the family at the cookout and to remember the sacrifices of those who died after protecting us.
Sgt Willie McLawhorn was not at the cookout – and he won’t be on the lake later today. He made the ultimate sacrifice in Afghanistan just before Christmas 2010. He was there to train the Afghan Army – teach them how to operate a checkpoint when suicide bombers turned the building in which he was working -- into a crater in the earth. They used a minivan packed with explosives. Willie was a great soldier. He had re-upped while serving in Iraq – agreeing to another 5 years in the dedicated service of his country. He and everybody knew this was dangerous territory – the homeland of the Taliban.
Ever since the Taliban were supposedly “cleared” from this area in 2001, there had been continuing incidents. The soldiers (Afghan and US) who were working at the base needed protection. While Willie was teaching Afghans in the building -- the suicide bombers crashed through the outer checkpoint. They may have been using Afghan Army Uniforms – a common tactic designed to gain a few seconds of doubt in the guards mind. The explosion was massive and, it was quick. Willie gave his life for us – keeping us safe here by fighting evil over there…
He was young, only 23 years old. He was one of the Screaming Eagles Finest – one of the Roanoke Valley’s best. Diane, Willie McLawhorn Sr. still live here. We honor their son, what he stood for, what he did in his too short life, and we honor his sacrifice.
On June 21, 2006, Massachusetts born -- Sgt First Class Jared Monti was a leader in a team that established a small base on a ridge to support a larger Army operation in the valley below. When the larger operation was delayed, Monti's team ran low on provisions. Unfortunately, the helicopter that brought supplies -- revealed the team's position.
That evening, our small team was attacked by a group of at least 60. Our team took cover and returned fire, and Monti radioed for artillery and close air support. Enemy fire killed one of our team outright. Another soldier, Specialist Brian Bradbury, was severely wounded and was lying out – completely in the open between the enemy and our team's position. The attackers continued to shoot at the wounded man – it was almost like target practice. When someone called out that he was going to try to rescue Bradbury. Monti replied, "That’s my guy. I am going to get him."
Monti made three attempts to reach Bradbury. On his first, he advanced to within three feet of Bradbury before it became so intense that he was forced back by a massive amount of machine-gun and rocket-propelled grenade fire.
The response to his second try was similarly intense and he was forced to turn back. In an act of selfless dedication to Bradbury, as the rest of his patrol provided covering fire, Monti advanced a third time but was struck by a rocket-propelled grenade and died moments later. For this above and beyond the call action -- Sgt Monti was awarded our Nation’s Highest Award – the MEDAL OF HONOR.
Unfortunately the wounded man, Bradbury subsequently died when the cable on the rescue hoist lifting him into the evacuation helicopter broke. The fall also killed a medic who was riding up with him. What bravery, what selfless action, what sacrifice for brothers in arms – and for us.
Another Roanoke Valley Veteran, Dallas Jones just passed away last year.
He was at Kaneohe Air Field – just on the other side of the island from Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Dallas was awakened by Japanese strafing aircraft. Running to the hanger to discover that several of the planes were already ablaze, Dallas recovered a .50 caliber machine gun from one of the burning aircraft and he and a fellow crew member mounted the machine gun on a piece of pipe. As the next formation of three Japanese bombers flew over the hanger, Dallas began firing on the oncoming planes. Dallas Jones lost 7 fellow Naval comrades at Kaneohe that day. Dallas went on to serve a full 20 year career in the Navy, then he retired, spent some time in California but he felt the intense call of family and home – he returned to his native Roanoke Valley. Working locally till he was well into his eighties, Dallas Jones, founded, in 2008 -- the Roanoke Valley Veterans Museum. It is located, just down I-95 in Roanoke Rapids, to honor valley veterans and to educate the community about the sacrifices Veterans and their families make. This Veterans Museum is still going strong today.
All Veterans that make the ultimate sacrifice love America very much. There was nothing they wouldn’t do for their country. They rejected the all too fashionable skepticism of today. Those we honor today -- chose to believe and answer the call of duty.
They personify dedication of the heart and stood for good.
Their sacrifice -- the sacrifice of all we honor here today-- is appreciated by us. We honor them AND THEIR FAMILIES here today, on this special day of remembrance.
Our world is safer because of them and what they did.
And we owe them something.
We owe them first, a promise: That we remember that peace is fragile and needs constant vigilance. It sometimes needs direct action – like helping a newly emerging army in a country half way around the world from us – like saving a buddy from further harm. And we owe them a promise to look at the world with a steady gaze and, perhaps, a resigned toughness, knowing that we have adversaries in this world -- people that have values much different that those we hold dear. Those enemies may not overfly us on the way to a target – they might not even seem dangerous until we know their true intent. We know we have challenges and the only way to meet them and maintain the peace -- is by staying strong and staying engaged where our interests lie.
As President Reagan once said, “If we really care about peace, we must stay strong. If we really care about peace, we must, (through our strength), demonstrate our unwillingness to accept an ending of the peace. We must be strong enough to create peace where it does not exist and strong enough to protect it where it does.” That’s the lesson of this century and, I think, it is a great lesson for this day.
Those we honor here today-- understood that principle of commitment; they acted on it and we honor them.
There have only been two people willing to die for you – one is the American soldier.
May God bless you, and may you have a day full of meaningful memories of those you know from the Roanoke Valley who have paid the ultimate sacrifice. Let us also remember, ALL who have died after serving their country honorably and well in the military.
I just hope we walk worthy in the footsteps they make possible.
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Bee Keepers Host "Open Hive" Demonstration
Saturday May 24th was the perfect day to hold the 2014 Open Hive Demo for the Southside Beekeepers Association. We had about 40 people in attendance. Lucky Streich the President of Southside Beekeepers Association took everyone through different hives in many different stages. He showed everyone honey, pollen, eggs, larvae, capped brood, bees hatching, drones vs worker/nurse bees and the queen. He demonstrated how to clip a queen's wings and how to mark her. He showed how different feeders work on the hive. There were also many bee related products on display for people to look at and ask questions. We had a beehive set up in the garage with all of the components including the brood box & honey super with frames, queen excluder, screen bottom board, screen inner cover and telescoping cover. There was a section of honey extraction equipment including a hand crank honey extractor, uncapping box, uncapping tools, electric uncapping knife, strainers and buckets. There was a bee vacuum and hive extraction tools and swarm equipment, queen marking equipment and many hive tools. We had some new beekeepers picking up their first nucs (5 frame full working hives) Lucky raised and had inspected just in time for this event. Lucky made hamburgers and hotdogs on the grill and everyone brought a dish to share for lunch. A good time was had by all! For more information on becoming a beekeeper call Lucky at (757)403-4616 or attend a Southside Beekeepers Association meeting held every 4th Thursday of the month at the Emporia/Greensville Extension Office, 105 Oak Street, Emporia, VA 23847.
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Hurricane Season – What You Should Do Now
Much of Virginia has seen flooding already this year, and hurricane season is just beginning. What should you do now to protect your family and property?
Talk to an insurance agent about flood insurance. Just one inch of water in a home or office can mean $8,000 in cleanup and repairs, and most homeowners’ insurance policies do not cover flooding. Remember:
There is usually a 30-day waiting period before coverage begins.
Renters also can buy flood insurance, to cover personal belongings or business inventory.
Go to www.floodsmart.gov or call 1-800-427-2419 for more information.
Download the free Ready Virginia app foriPhone® and Android™ devices. Use the app to prepare for disasters and to stay informed during emergencies. Features include:
Location-specific weather watches and warnings issued by the National Weather Service
A customizable emergency plan that can be easily shared with family and friends
The latest disaster news on widespread emergencies from the Virginia Department of Emergency Management
Build an emergency kit. Start with three days’ water and three days’ food that doesn’t need electricity or refrigeration. Then add:
A battery-powered and/or hand-crank radio with a weather band and extra batteries to hear information from local officials
Flashlights and extra batteries
First aid kit and extra supply of medications
Special items for babies, older family members and pets
Learn more about preparing for emergencies at www.ReadyVirginia.gov and www.ListoVirginia.gov.
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Hurricane Preparedness Sales Tax Holiday is May 25-31
Get ready to save money!
Go shopping the last week of May and save money on lots of useful items. Virginia’s annual Hurricane Preparedness Sales Tax Holiday is May 25-31. Before the storms hit, stock up on many supplies for protecting your home and business and you won’t pay sales tax on them.
New this year: gas-powered chainsaws costing less than $350 and chainsaw accessories are tax free! Among other items that are tax-exempt are these, with a price of $60 or less:
Artificial ice, blue ice, ice packs, reusable ice
Batteries, excluding car or boat batteries
Portable self-powered light sources, including flashlights and lanterns and glow sticks
Weather Band radios and NOAA Weather Radios
Portable self-powered radios, including radios with electrical power capability
Bottled water of any size, including flavored and carbonated
Manual can openers
Tarps, plastic sheeting, plastic drop cloths
Bungee cords and rope
Ground anchor systems, tie down kits
Carbon monoxide and smoke detectors, fire extinguishers
Empty gas, propane or diesel fuel tanks or containers
Water storage containers such as buckets, barrels, canteens, coolers
Shop for items on this list that have a sales price of $1,000 or less:
Portable generators and generator power cords
Inverters and inverter power cables.
Retail outlets will have information about the tax holiday. For more, go to www.vaemergency.gov and www.ReadyVirginia.gov
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1st Annual G.Scott Charity Flag Football Game Scheduled
Franklin, VA – The Cover 3 Youth Football League has scheduled their first fundraiser of the year. On June 21, 2014 at 3 p.m. Cover 3 Foundation and The G.Scott Experience will sponsor the 1st Annual G.Scott Charity Flag Football Game at Southampton High School. All proceeds from the event will benefit the Cover 3 Youth Football League.
The G.Scott Charity Flag Football game will feature local high school alumni football players and other football enthusiasts. Greg Scott, retired NFL Defensive Lineman and President of the League, will coach one team and Xavier Scott, former Franklin Quarterback and Vice-President of the League will coach the other team. Admission will be $5 per person with kids 10 and under admitted free. The half-time show will feature music and dancing and a kids relay for a prize. Tickets will be sold throughout the game for a chance to win the 50/50 raffle. Concessions will be available throughout the day. The event will be a family atmosphere filled with excitement and entertainment. There are still a few spots to fill on the team rosters. Anyone interested in playing in the Charity Flag Football Game should contact 757-562-2252 or email greg@cover3foundation.org.
Registration for the Cover 3 Youth Football League will also be available at the game beginning at 1:30 p.m. Any child interested in signing up to participate in the league, should bring a birth certificate, a DMV issued identification card, and their report card. The Cover 3 Youth Football League will offer three programs for the 2014 season; Flag Football, Tackle Football and Cheering. Youth Flag Football will be available for ages 6-8, Youth Tackle Football will be available for ages 8-14 and Youth Cheering will be available for ages 6-14. The cost for Flag registration is $30, Tackle is $40 and Cheer is $20. Registration will also be available online beginning June 1. Deadline for payment and registration is July 15. More information about rules, registration guidelines and team assignments is available at www.cover3foundation.org.
For advance tickets to the Charity Flag Football Game, please call 757-562-2252.
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COMCAST AWARDS $68,000 IN SCHOLARSHIPS TO 59 VIRGINIA HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS
Annual Leaders and Achievers® Scholarship Program Recognizes Students’ Leadership Skills, Academic Achievement and Commitment to Community Service
RICHMOND, Va. – May 23, 2014 – The Comcast Foundation, founded in 1999 to provide charitable support to its local communities and to empower and enrich lives, has awarded scholarships to 59 Virginia high school seniors through its annual Leaders and Achievers® Scholarship Program. The program, one of the Comcast Foundation’s signature community investment initiatives, recognizes students’ leadership skills, academic achievement and commitment to community service.
Comcast, joined by Attorney General of Virginia Mark Herring, recognized the students at a special event held Thursday at the Virginia State Capitol. Fifty-eight of the 2014 Virginia Leaders and Achievers recipients received $1,000 scholarships. Keonna Knight, a senior at Richmond Community High School, was awarded a $10,000 Comcast Founders Scholarship – instituted in honor of Ralph J. Roberts, Founder and Chairman Emeritus of Comcast Corporation – for a total of $68,000 awarded this year to Virginia high school students. After a prize drawing, two students were also given iPads to use at college.
"Each of these deserving students earned their scholarship by displaying a strong commitment to both the classroom and their community," said Attorney General Herring. "Higher education can open doors of economic opportunity and keeps our Commonwealth competitive in a global economy. With the support of their community, including partners like Comcast, these young people's dreams can become a reality."
“In today’s high-tech businesses, advanced education and training are more important than ever,” added Donna Rattley Washington, Comcast’s regional vice president of government and community affairs. “Comcast is dedicated to helping students succeed so they can go on to deliver the next great innovation. We applaud this year’s outstanding scholarship winners and are excited to see them take the next step in their academic journeys.”
The Comcast Leaders and Achievers® Scholarship Program provides $1,000 scholarships to students who strive to achieve their potential, who are catalysts for positive change in their communities, who are involved in their schools and who serve as models for their fellow students. The philosophy behind the program is to give young people every opportunity to prepare for the future and to engage them in their communities. The program also demonstrates the importance of civic involvement, and the value placed on civic involvement by the business community.
To date, Comcast has awarded more than $21.6 million to nearly 21,000 Leaders and Achievers Scholarship winners.
2014 Comcast Leaders and Achievers® Scholarship Recipients from our area.
Emporia - Janae Adams of Greensville County High School
Sussex County - Felicia Miller of Sussex Central High School
Connect with the scholarship winners at www.facebook.com/ComcastLeadersandAchievers. Explore and “like” Comcast in the community atwww.facebook.com/WePowerDreams.
The Comcast Leaders and Achievers® Scholarship Program is one of the many ways that Comcast gives back to the communities we serve. Click here to learn more.
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Library Kicks Off Summer Reading Program
The Meherrin Regional Library System is pleased to announce the start of the Paws to Read Summer Reading Program for children, tweens, and teens. Sign-up begins Monday, June 2. Each child registering for the reading program will receive a gift bag with special summer reading information and prizes. This year’s events are:
Place & Time
Thurs., June 26
Animals Unlimited
Brunswick 11:00
Richardson 1:00
Thurs., July 3
Cynthia Gregg
Thurs., July 10
Sundae Puppets
K-9 Dogs
Creek Critter’s Rehab
Thurs. July 31
Dog Safety (Humane Society)
Wii Game Night
Not scheduled
Making Pet Treats & Toys
Brunswick 5:00
Learn to Draw Superheroes & Pizza Party
(Reserve your seat)
Monday Morning Movies
Richardson 10:30
Monday, July 7
The Summer Reading Program gives area children and teens an opportunity to visit, enjoy, and explore the many educational and recreational resources the library has to offer. Due to room capacity, event seating may be limited.
For more information please visit www.meherrinlib.org or contact the Brunswick County Library, 434-848-2418 ext. 301 or the Richardson Memorial Library, 434-634-2539.
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SOUTHERN VIRGINIA REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR 2014 SUMMER TEEN VOLUNTEER PROGRAM
Emporia, VA – Southern Virginia Regional Medical Center (SVRMC) is accepting applications for the 2014 Summer Teen Volunteer Program. Under the supervision of SVRMC’s Human Resources Director, Becky Parrish, the Teen Volunteer Program offers opportunities for career exposure in the healthcare profession. To be considered for the Teen Volunteer Program, one must be between 14 – 17 years of age and return a completed application for volunteer services, along with a letter of recommendation, by Friday, June 13th.
The number of participants for the program is limited, and applicants will be selected based on the student’s interview, his/her interests and the volunteer needs of the hospital. Those selected will be required to attend a mandatory orientation, provide a parental consent form to participate, parental consent for drug screen and TB skin test, a photo ID and social security number (for drug screen), and $20.00 to cover the cost of the test.
Applications may be picked-up at the SVRMC hostess desk. For additional information on the 2014 Summer Teen Volunteer Program contact Vicky Powell, Human Resources Assistant at 434-348-4486. Deadline for applications is Friday, June 13, 2014.
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Girl Scout Troop 3256 Silver Award “Getting Things Blooming at the Bloom Center”
Article Submitted by Grace Lewis.
Cadette Girl Scout Troop 3256 is currently working on our silver award, which is the highest award a Cadette Girl Scout can earn. Our troop consists of 3 energetic and ambitious young ladies in the 6th and 7th grades, and we are all currently working together on our silver award which requires each of us to have at least 50 hours of work on the project. We have been working on this particular project since we decided in January to make the Bloom Center the recipient of our Silver Award project. The three of us decided together that we wanted to beautify the space and make the residents that live there happy by creating a beautiful outdoor space.
We met with Mrs. Ann Temple, director of the Bloom Center to see specifically what kind of help was needed. We learned that the prayer garden needed a makeover and the patio was looking pretty gloomy with worn out cushions on the furniture and empty flower pots. Our troop leader, Kerrie, asked us to pick which area we would like to fix up. She wanted us to focus on one space, either the patio or the garden. After a brief meeting by the three Girl Scouts, we decided to “go big or go home!” We really wanted to work on both the flower garden and the patio area!
During our research of the garden we discovered it was actually a prayer garden, which was created by the Emporia Women’s Club in 1994 and was dedicated to a former Bloom Center resident, Mattie Hughes Watson. We met with Riparian’s Jean Cobb and Lois Williams who told us about Ms. Watson. She was a petite, soft- spoken, red head with a big heart. Thanks to an inheritance from her twin sister, Ms. Watson was able to generously donate money to Village View , DAR, the Hospital Auxiliary, Brunswick Academy, Southampton Academy and Greensville and Brunswick County schools, to name a few.
Our project has required a lot of physical work as well as research. We have visited Pine View Nursery and talked to them about the types of plants that were hearty, colorful and the deer wouldn’t eat. We made a list of different plants we liked and Michael Padgett, a local landscaper helped us with the first draft of our landscape plan. We met with Mrs. Temple again and presented our ideas to her and the plan was approved.
We have had to make a few changes to our design, but we were finally able to have our first workday last Saturday. We completely cleaned out all of the grasses, weeds, and volunteer trees. We had a lot of help from our families and Ms. Jean Cobb and Mrs. Mary Ann Renner from the Riparian’s Club also helped us out by not only physically working but also by providing gardening advice and bringing us some delicious homemade cookies! The Bloom Center residents had fun watching us work on Saturday from the windows in the dining hall. One even came out to visit us. We were happy to hear that they told Mrs. Temple Monday morning about what they saw.
Hearing stories from Mrs. Renner about residents that enjoyed the fish pond that is there, inspired us to want to keep the pond in place for the enjoyment of the residents. Some of the current residents may not even know there is a fish pond there, because until last weekend it was covered with grass! By Memorial Day we hope to have everything planted and goldfish placed in the pond. It will be a pretty spot for the residents, their families and the workers that take care of them.
This project has taught us to compromise about which flowers to plant and to pick ones that will be best for the garden instead of which plants we think are the prettiest. We’ve learned that sometimes when you start a project, you may find problems that you didn’t know about when you started. We’ve learned to reuse things to save money, like keeping the hosta plants that we didn’t know were there when we visited in the winter and removing a broken piece on a statue to save money for the centerpiece of our garden and honor a gift that was given by someone a long time ago.
We would like to thank the people that have already donated to our project. We are trying to buy things as we collect the money, but we still need donations. $1.00 can buy a fish and $ 50.00 can help buy cushions or a bench to put next to the pond for the residents to sit on while they reflect, pray or just enjoy watching the fish. We anticipate that the total cost of the project will be around $1,000.00. Any donation will help a lot. We would also like to place a footstone in the garden with Ms. Watson’s name on it so that her kindness will never be forgotten. Most of all, we would like to invite the families of the residents and former residents to see how pretty it all turns out. We will keep you posted. To make a donation and help our project “bloom”, please call, Kerrie Combs, Girl Scout Troop 3256 leader at 434-637-1431.
Photo Captions (top to bottom):
Photo #1 Grace, Allie & Jean work together to clean over grown grasses away from the fish pond in the Mattie Hughes Watson prayer garden
Photo # 2 Bloom Center Resident, Mrs. Louise Grant comes out to see what changes the Girl Scouts Allie, Olivia and Grace have made in the prayer garden
photo #3 The Girl Scouts with their friends and family feeling proud at the amount of work they accomplished
Girl Schouts
Bloom Center
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SVCC holds Nurse Aide Pinning Ceremony in Alberta
Southside Virginia Community College held a Nurse Aide Pinning Ceremony on May 8 at the Christanna Campus in Alberta. The following Students were recognized:
Brunswick High School
Row 1 (L to R): Jenifer Wesson, Instructor, Kyesha Manning, Latrell Wallace-Williams, TaNeisha Moore, Anika Smith, Jalisha Maddox, Angelicia Richardson, Shalonda Cherry, Dominque Hill,
Row 2 (L to R): Ashley Blue, Asia Johnson, Whitney Puryear, Tia Fields, Kadajah Thomas, Kristen Jackson, Ryshauna Jones, Stacey Toone
Greensville & Emporia
Row 1 (L to R): Kaylesha Edwards, Brianne Rose, Alexis Autry, Christina Knight, Ashley Walker, Jennifer Watson
Row 2 (L to R): Sabrina Burns, Taylo Harrison, Ashley Myrick, Sharebra Doyle, Mayci Clements
Chase City
Row 1 (L to R): Shuntwayne Osborne, Francine Medley, Rebecca Evans, Crystal Caparatta
Row 1 (L to R): Crystal Roberts, Ariel Phillips, Diana Martinez, Lizbeth Jimenez, Amber Wooton, Brittany Whitby, Summer Wells, DaShawnda Lambert, Olliyah Bagley,
James Ragsdale
Row 2 (L to R): Heather Popick, Tajayla Ratliff , Savanna Pearce, Reba Davis, Tamia Overbey, Terry Edmonds, Alicia Brown, Lori Surry, Instructor
Row 3: Patricia Urda, Instructor
Row 1 (L to R): Krystal Fuentes-Nunez, Kaci Pittard,
Row 2 (L to R): Kristian Crews, Dy’Equa Walker, Amanda Melnick
Lake Country Advance Knowledge Center in South Hill
Row 1 (L to R): Melissa Hamm, Ashley Crump, Jessica Hudson, Jennifer Weeast, Stacey Rogers, Martani Hurt
Row 2 (L to R): Geneva Couch, Tracy Short
Row 1 (L to R): Mattie Bishop, Shaniqua Carter, Kristina Baicy, Jasmine Brown, Kamila Goode-Spencer, LaChanda Brandon
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American Legion to Host Memorial Day Ceremony *Today*
American Legion Posts 46 & 151 of Emporia invites you to attend this years Memorial Day Services. The ceremony will be held at the Veteran's Park Pavilion located behind the Post Office on Main St. on Monday (May 26 at 11am). Memorial Day is a US federal holiday wherein the men and women who died while serving in the United States Armed Forces are remembered. Our guest speaker for this years event is Retired Brigadier General David L. Johnson. General Johnson had a very distinguished military career and we are very pleased to have him as our keynote speaker. Service's start at 11am and we hope you will take a portion of your Memorial Day to honor our fallen heroes. It would surely be great to see the pavilion and hillside filled with many people there to honor these men and women who sacrificed the ultimate in payment for our freedom. Be sure to bring the kids too and explain to them the meaning of the event. God Bless America and God Bless our Troops, Past & Present!
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Blood Drive Today!
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SOUTHERN VIRGINIA REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER RECOGNIZES EMPLOYEES WITH MILESTONE YEARS OF SERVICE
EMPORIA, VA – Southern Virginia Regional Medical Center (SVRMC) honored employees with milestone years of service in 2013 at the annual Service Awards Luncheon held during National Hospital Week. “This was a great opportunity for us to thank our employees,” said Eric Lachance, CEO of SVRMC. “Our dedicated and passionate employees set Southern Virginia Regional Medical Center apart from other healthcare providers,” he said.
As a part of the celebration, staff were invited to a special luncheon where they were recognized for their years of service with a certificate and a gift. Employees with twenty, twenty-five, thirty, and thirty-five years of service were also presented with flowers and the respective manager spoke to the group about the contributions of these long term employees. Thirty-seven employees reached milestone years of service in 2013 representing a total of 480 years of experience.
5 Year Awards – Photo Above Left
Front L- R : Bonnie Cummings, Jakai Barnes, Troy Watson, Erica Brown, Donna Taylor
Back L – R: Kelly Byers, Lauren Barnes, Dora Smith-Person, Leroy Smith, Rhonda Robinson, Telisha Seward
Not Pictured: Linda Allen, Alberta Babaran, Catherine Clary, Ronchetta Jackson, Ashley Page
10 Year Awards – Photo Above Right
Front L – R: Terry Joyner, Ruby Etters
Back L – R: Alison Phillips, Bonnie Anderson, Stephanie Speller, Stacy Atkins
15 Year Awards – Photo Above Left
L – R: Shelby Wyatt, Kandy Poarch, Linda Thompson – Not Pictured: Penny Powell
L – R: Virginia Worrell, Wendy Durham, Lisa Wiant
Gladys Bowser – Not Pictured: Arleatha Young
Barbara Finch – Not Pictured: Lorenze Dennis
35 Year Awards
Helen Wilson, Chris Avent, Vickie Michael
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SOUTHERN VIRGINIA REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER CELEBRATES NATIONAL HOSPITAL WEEK
Emporia, VA – Southern Virginia Regional Medical Center (SVRMC) joined with hospitals across the nation in celebration of National Hospital Week May 12-16. Dating back to 1921, National Hospital Week celebrates hospitals and the men and women who support the health of their communities through compassionate care, constant innovation and unwavering, unmatched dedication to the patients they serve.
SVRMC kicked off their Hospital Week celebration on Monday with a $1.00 lunch special in the cafeteria followed by an ice cream social that afternoon. Other activities included BINGO in the cafeteria and an afternoon candy cart, the annual services awards luncheon, and afternoon wings and things snack attack, and SVRMC casino games and a seafood buffet in the cafeteria. The celebration at SVRMC culminated on Friday with a cookout featuring hot dog, hamburgers, grilled chicken and bratwursts with all the trimmings.
Each year, staff participate in fund raisers leading up to and throughout Hospital Week to benefit the Emporia/Greensville Relay for Life. On the Friday prior to Hospital Week, staff participated in an SVRMC Denim Day, collecting $5.00 from staff who wore their favorite jeans to work. During Hospital Week, all proceeds from the $1.00 lunch special were added to the collection and raffle tickets were sold throughout the week for prize drawings to be held following the Hospital Week picnic. When all was said and done on the final day of the celebration, staff had raised a total of $1,057.00 that they donated to the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life.
Susan Mitchell and Brenda Pultz, Co-Chairs of the Emporia Greensville Relay for Life accept the donation raise by staff during National Hospital Week from SVRMC Chief Executive Officer, Eric Lachance.
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Spring is in the air at the Emporia Farmer's Market
Vendors at the Emporia Farmers display their products,
The Skippers Strawberry Patch (selling, Strawberries),
Alberta General Store (selling Brunswick Stew) and
Wayne's Produce Farm (selling Asparagus, Potatoes, Spring Onions, Cabbage and Beets).
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High Water in Emporia
On Sunday the Meherrin River was forecast to crest at about 23 feet. The Meherrin actually crested at 23.26 feet between 2:00-3:00 Monday Morning. Flood Stage at the Emporia Guage is 23 feet, and even at this modest level, high water could be seen in the back yards of homes near the intersection of Park Avenue and Center Street, where water was running across the road by 8:30 Sunday night.
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Photos from this weekend's Relay for Life
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Progress at Meherrin River Park Canoe Landing
Crews have been busy working on steps to the new Canoe Landing from the Farmers Market, while a new Boat Ramp is under the Main Street Bridge.
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Halifax Regional Health System Honored with 2014 Chancellor’s Award for Leadership in Philanthropy
(Richmond)– Halifax Regional Health System of South Boston, Virginia, has earned the 2014 Chancellor’s Award for Leadership in Philanthropy. The system was nominated for the award by Southside Virginia Community College. The award was given at a luncheon ceremony at the Country Club of Virginia recently.
According to CEO, Chris Lumsden, “Higher Education and the community college system specifically give people opportunities and hope. It is the foundation for our higher education system here in this region and supplied a pool of highly qualified employees for our business.”
He noted that the community college system also provides the vehicle for people to stay at home and receive a great education which means strong job opportunities, too.
The Chancellor’s Award for Leadership in Philanthropy luncheon is hosted by the Virginia Foundation for Community College Education (VFCCE) to honor the leading philanthropists from each of Virginia’s 23 community colleges as well as the statewide foundation. This marks the ninth year the awards have been given.
This year’s class of distinguished philanthropy leaders has contributed a combined total of more than $12 million dollars to Virginia’s Community Colleges.
In keynote remarks, Virginia Business Higher Education Council Chair W. Heywood Fralin said, “Many believe, including myself, that the community college will be the centerpiece of economic development in each region of the commonwealth for the next several decades…..All philanthropists are interested in their local communities, and I would argue that in today’s world, the local community college should be considered a top priority for philanthropic dollars. Where it happens, regions will thrive, and where it doesn’t, they will struggle.”
VCCS Chancellor Glenn DuBois said that the generosity of the two dozen philanthropy leaders makes a critical difference in the lives of students and their families as well as in the economic vitality of the commonwealth. “They believe in the knowledge and skills that Virginia’s Community Colleges offer to every Virginian. We thank them deeply for the partnerships that demonstrate the art of giving.”
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Obituary-CHRISTINE ALLISON ROBERTS
CHRISTINE ALLISON ROBERTS departed this life on Sunday, May 11, 2014, at the family home on Sussex Drive in Greensville County, Virginia after a lengthy illness. Christine was born on April 12, 1920 to the late Ferdinand Vincent Allison, Sr. and Elizabeth Rae Allison, in the Orion area of Greensville County. She moved to Emporia with her family when she was eight years old.
Christine received her formal education in the local public schools and earned a Bachelor's Degree in Elementary Education from St. Paul's College in Lawrenceville, VA, and a Master's Degree in School Administration and Supervision from Virginia State University in Petersburg, VA.
Christine was married to the late Willie "Dinks" Roberts. This union was blessed with two sons, Willie Eugene and Alfred Allison. She faithfully cared for her husband during his extended illness, and was a loving and supportive mother to her "boys". She poured into her sons an enduring sense of faith, family, community, purpose and self-worth. In later years, she shared these same values with her grandchildren.
Christine accepted Christ at an early age and attended the Royal Baptist Church, Emporia, VA. After attending St. Paul's College, she moved her church membership to St. James Episcopal Church where she served faithfully as a choir member and leader of the Episcopal Church Women until her illness.
Christine devoted over 40 years of dedicated service to Greensville County Public Schools, starting her career in a multi-grade, one-room school house. After many years as a first grade teacher at Greensville County Training School, she finished her career teaching first grade at Emporia Elementary School. She was a caring and nurturing teacher who had a heart and passion for her students who needed her most.
Christine was also an active member of the community, giving unselfishly of her time to organizations such as the Community Youth Center, American Red Cross, Meherrin River Arts Council, Virginia and Greensville Education Associations, Greensville Teachers Association Federal Credit Union, Greensville Memorial Hospital Auxiliary, Democratic Party of Virginia, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Christine was a champion of the local civil rights movement and was especially committed to voter registration and voter participation, ensuring that the voices of all citizens of Greensville-Emporia were heard in local, state, and national elections.
Christine is survived by her two sons and a daughter-in-law, W. Eugene Roberts, and Al and Janet Roberts, all of Emporia, VA; three grandchildren, Ross P. Roberts and his wife Cassandra of High Point, NC, Scott A. Roberts and his wife Jennifer of Suitland, MD, and Lauren Roberts Haire and her husband Bryan of Norcross, GA; and one great-granddaughter, Nia Roberts.
She is also survived by one sister, Rosie B. Caves of Washington, DC; one sister-in-law, Lovonia E. Allison of Durham, NC; a devoted caregiver, Doreatha Carrington; and numerous nieces, nephews, cousins, and friends.
Funeral Services will be conducted on Saturday May 17, 2014, 11:00 AM at Knox-High Mortuary Chapel, 568 Halifax Street, Emporia, Virginia.
CHRISTINE ALLISON ROBERTS
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Power Provider for Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative Receives CPCN Approval to Construct 1,000 Megawatt Natural Gas Generation Facility
CHASE CITY – Wildcat Point Generation Facility (Wildcat Point), a state-of-the-art, combined-cycle natural gas generation facility proposed by Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative’s (MEC) power provider, Old Dominion Electric Cooperative (ODEC), has been approved by the Maryland Public Service Commission (PSC). The facility will be located adjacent to ODEC’s existing generating facility in Conowingo, Md.
The $675 million Wildcat Point facility will improve reliability on the region’s electric grid, and help ODEC deliver cleaner, cost-effective power to its 1.2 million members in Virginia, Maryland and Delaware, including those served by MEC. Wildcat Point is expected to generate 1,000 megawatts of electricity, enough to power approximately 390,000 homes annually. By issuing a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity, or CPCN, the PSC has provided ODEC the final permitting required to begin construction.
“The PSC’s decision is an important win for our members and for the region’s energy future,” says Jackson Reasor, president and CEO of ODEC. “As demand for electricity has grown in ODEC-served areas, constructing a state-of-the-art, environmentally-friendly power generation facility became a critical priority. Wildcat Point will enable us to provide our members cost-effective power while reducing reliance on costlier electricity bought on the market.”
John Lee, CEO of Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative and member of Old Dominion Electric Cooperative’s Board of Directors states, “For some time, ODEC has been able to meet significant portions of its members’ power needs through cost effective power contracts; however, forecasts began to show that natural gas pricing made the construction of a power plant the best long-term option. These facilities are strategically located to meet the needs of ODEC’s system demand and appropriately take advantage of existing infrastructure by building this new plant adjacent to our Rock Springs site. We are excited to receive the go-ahead to begin construction and begin putting steel in the ground to meet the growing needs of our members.”
The Maryland PSC’s decision follows a rigorous, 11-month review of ODEC’s proposal by local, state, regional, and federal agencies. To receive the CPCN, Wildcat Point was required to meet stringent environmental, traffic, and historic preservation regulations. During the review process, both ODEC and the PSC hosted public hearings with no one formally opposing the project.
Construction is expected to begin in late 2014, and upon startup in 2017 the facility will increase the capacity owned by Old Dominion by more than 30 percent. Wildcat Point will be built in Conowingo, Cecil County, on existing property at the ODEC-constructed Rock Springs Generation Facility, which became operational in 2003.
Editor's Note: While this article concerns a power plant to be built in Maryland, it is a plant that will supply electricity to members of Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative and other electric cooperatives in Virginia, Maryland and Delaware that are members of ODEC (Old Dominion Electric Cooperative).
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New Study Reveals 205,000 Central Virginians at Risk of Hunger
A new study finds that 205,000 individuals in FeedMore’s service area – including 51,440 children – do not always know where they will find their next meal. In all, over 13% of Central Virginians struggle with hunger, according to research recently released by Feeding America, the nation’s network of food banks.
“Studies like 'Map the Meal Gap 2014' allow FeedMore to continue to evaluate and adjust to the need in our area,” said Jeff Baldwin, media and public relations manager for FeedMore. “The research data shows that hunger continues to be a reality for thousands of our neighbors.”
Map the Meal Gap 2014 is a detailed analysis of food insecurity done by Feeding America and the only study available that provides county–level estimates of food insecurity in the United States. Food insecurity is defined by the USDA as a socioeconomic condition of limited or uncertain access to enough food to support a healthy life. Additional data available in the Map the Meal Gap study include weekly food-budget shortfalls, demographics and poverty levels.
Food-insecurity numbers in the Capital Region are as follows:
City of Emporia – 26% of the population and 20.3% of children – 1,520 individuals and 260 children
County of Dinwiddie – 13% of the population and 13.9% of children – 3,640 individuals and 870 children
County of Greensville – 19.4% of the population and 18.9% of children – 2,360 individuals and 370 children
County of Brunswick – 20.9% of the population and 21% of children – 3,630 individuals and 700 children
County of Sussex – 18.1% of the population and 10.5% of children – 2,190 individuals and 210 children
County of Prince George – 11.3% of the population and 12.7% of children – 4,080 individuals and 1,040 children
City of Richmond – 21.7% of the population and 21.2% of children – 44,510 individuals and 8,310 children
County of Henrico - 12.5% of the population and 13.7% of children – 38,480 individuals and 10,140 children
County of Chesterfield - 9.4% of the population and 11.8% of children – 29,930 individuals and 9,650 children
City of Petersburg – 25.4% of the population and 21.2% of children – 8,180 individuals and 1,450 children
City of Hopewell – 18.8% of the population and 21.1% of children – 4,220 individuals and 1,230 children
City of Colonial Heights – 11.2% of the population and 15.3% of children – 1,950 individuals and 590 children
“Hunger is a pervasive and solvable problem plaguing every corner of America today,” said Bob Aiken, CEO of Feeding America. “By continuing to provide extensive and revealing data like the 2014 Map the Meal Gap study, we will be able to tackle these issues head-on and be armed with the information needed to work towards making sure everyone has enough to eat.”
Research for the study was generously supported by the Howard G. Buffett Foundation, ConAgra Foods Foundation and Nielsen.
“It should be a wake-up call to us all that nearly 50 million of our neighbors are at risk of hunger in the United States, a country with the most productive farmers helping to feed the world,” said Howard G. Buffett, Chairman & CEO of the Howard G. Buffett Foundation. “Research like Map the Meal Gap is critical to organizations like the Feeding America network of food banks and agencies as they work to develop the most effective solutions for addressing hunger in every community in America.”
The Map the Meal Gap 2014 analysis was developed by Dr. Craig Gundersen for Feeding America. Food-insecurity rates are based on a state-level model that allows for estimation of the population in need of food at the county and congressional district level. Additionally, Feeding America worked in collaboration with Nielsen to arrive at estimates for food-cost variation by county. Results were reviewed by the Feeding America Technical Advisory Group in order to ensure accuracy and promote transparency.
A summary of the findings, an interactive map of the United States, and the full report are available atfeedingamerica.org/mapthegap.
The study also reveals that 46% of the food-insecure population in FeedMore’s service area lives below the SNAP threshold of 130% poverty and 61% of children are eligible for federal nutrition programs, like free or reduced-price school lunch or breakfast.
“No one should have to worry about where they will find their next meal,” added Baldwin. “We are confident Central Virginia will continue to rally together and help us ensure that no child, family or senior goes hungry in our region.”
About FeedMore
FeedMore’s programs – the Central Virginia Food Bank, Meals on Wheels and the Community Kitchen – provide hunger-relief solutions for our region’s most vulnerable populations – food-insecure children, struggling families, the disabled and homebound seniors. FeedMore serves neighbors in need across Central Virginia’s 31 counties and five cities, ranging from rural and suburban to urban localities, and is a Feeding America member agency. For additional information about our programs and services, please visit www.feedmore.org.
About Feeding America
Feeding America is a nationwide network of more than 200 food banks that leads the fight against hunger in the United States. Together, we provide food to more than 37 million people through 61,000 food pantries, soup kitchens, and shelters in communities across America. Feeding America also supports programs that improve food security among the people we serve; educates the public about the problem of hunger; and advocates for legislation that protects people from going hungry. Individuals, charities, businesses and government all have a role in ending hunger. Donate. Advocate. Educate. Together we can solve hunger. Visit www.feedingamerica.org for more information.
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Dr. John Cavan Presides Over 32nd SVCC Commencement
For the 32nd and final time, Dr. John J. Cavan, Southside Virginia Community College President, awarded degrees, certificates and diplomas on Saturday May 10, 2014. The capacity crowd of nearly 4,000 moms, dads, family and friends and graduates gathered under the huge tent for the Pomp and Circumstance.
“As a college graduate, you have beaten the odds. The demand for those who earn the credential is increasing every day. That brings me to the question I want to pose this morning: What’s next?,” asked Dr. Glenn DuBois, Commencement speaker and Chancellor of the Virginia Community College System.
Dr. DuBois related his story of finishing high school with no thought of college, becoming a dishwasher at a restaurant and being badgered by his mother to attempt the community college. He finally attended and completed community college and then, kept pursing higher education. Dr. DuBois now heads a state system of 23 community colleges.
“So what does it mean to be graduating this morning? In a word, it means everything,” he said.
It was our job to prepare you for that question with the education and experience you earned here at Southside Virginia Community College, he said. It is now your job to answer What’s next? Choose wisely and good luck, he noted.
During the commencement, student completing the SVCC Honors Program were recognized. This program allows students to pursue a variety of honors courses, seminars and special projects and is designed challenge, and involve the superior student. This year’s Honors graduates are Joseph Baker, Makayla Evans, Waverly Garner, Jeffrey Karow of Emporia (pictured at left), Kristen Milton, Cecilia Moser, Courtney Salley and Victoria Wood.
The American Association of Community Colleges/Phi Theta Kappa/All-USA Team represents the best academic talent at the nation’s community colleges. Being nominated for this award is an honor. This year’s students are Joseph Baker, Waverly Garner and Victoria Wood.
Hooding ceremonies were held for three members of the SVCC faculty who have received terminal degrees this year. Those celebrated were Michelle Edmonds, SVCC Dean of Nursing and Health Technology, who received her Doctorate of Nursing Practice from Old Dominion University, Christy Lowery-Carter, Associate Professor of Mathematics, who received her Doctorate of Education with a concentration in Teaching and Learning from Liberty University, and Sarah Horne, who received a Doctor of Education degree from Liberty University.
The First Annual Hero Award was presented this year by SVCC to Dr. DuBois. A Hero is a person who is admired or idealized for courage, outstanding achievements, or noble qualities. Due to his tireless efforts and courageous willingness to lead and pioneer programs, Dr. DuBois is a hero in area of education and deserving of this award.
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SVCC’s Commencement Pays Tribute To Dr. Cavan, Leader for 31 Years
Dr. John Cavan (Left) and Dr. Glenn DuBois (Right) saying goodby at the Southside Virginia Community College graduation ceremony. Dr. Cavan will retire this year after 31 years at the helm of SVCC.
How do you say goodbye to a great leader, mentor and higher education advocate? A good place to start is a gathering of thousands celebrating the completion of educational goals. This is just what happened on May 10, 2014 at the John H. Daniel Campus of Southside Virginia Community College.
Dr. John Cavan presided over his final SVCC graduation recently and though it certainly is all about the students, this day was about him too. In his tenure, he has graduated more than 12,000 people and spent 31 years at the helm of SVCC.
During the event, Dr. Glenn DuBois, Chancellor for the Virginia Community College System, was the speaker and had the following to say about Dr. Cavan: “If you are lucky, my friends, you will find mentors and people who inspire you throughout your life. I have. And if you will afford me just a moment of personal privilege, I want to tell you about one that is special to me.
The Importance of John Cavan,
For this person, today’s commencement exercise is the final one of his presidency – a significant moment for a man who has loved this community and this college for years. In turn, they have loved him right back.
I am talking, of course, about Dr. John Cavan. Like me, John is a native of New York. That makes him a hybrid, meaning he operates with southern efficiency and northern charm.
You can search high and low, far and wide, and back again and never meet another person who takes the community college mission to heart the way that John Cavan does.
He once told me that he had a re-occurring nightmare – one that would wake him up at night in a cold sweat. Well, what is it, I asked?
Glenn, he said, I dreamed that I ran out of people to recruit to come to the community college. And he was dead serious.
John Cavan would tell you that only two type of people lived around here: Those who were students of this community college and those who someday will be.
John Cavan is enshrined in three different halls of fame for his success on the basketball court. He has competed 120 marathons over the course of his lifetime, including 18 Boston marathons and 29 New York City marathons. (In fact, I even have a picture in my office of him competing in a Richmond race while on crutches.)
But as passionate as John is about those hobbies, I have no doubt that he would stop any basketball game, that he would walk-off from any marathon course if it meant being able to inspire and convince just one more person to attend his college.
Thomas Jefferson once wrote that, “It is in our lives, and not from our words, that our religion must be judged.”
By that standard, John, I believe that you are the single, greatest community college evangelist that I have ever known. For more than 30 years now, you have spread the word about “America’s Democracy Colleges.” You have inspired a “tradition of education” in more families than we can count. And you have done it all with a passion and energy that is second to none.”
Dr. Cavan will retire July 31, 2014.
Dr John J Cavan
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SOUTHERN VIRGINIA REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER HOSTS MAYOR FOR PROCLAMATION DURING NATIONAL NURSES’ WEEK
EMPORIA, VA – A national recognition day for nursing professionals was first signed by President Ronald Reagan in 1982 proclaiming "National Recognition Day for Nurses" to be May 6th of that year. In 1990, the American Nurses Association expanded the recognition of nurses into a week-long celebration each year May 6 – 12. The first annual National Nurses’ Week was celebrated in May 1991 and has continued every year thereafter. The purpose of National Nurses Week is to raise public awareness of the integral role nurses play in the delivery of healthcare national wide.
Nurse leaders from Southern Virginia Regional Medical Center (SVRMC) organized events for nursing staff throughout the National Nurses’ Week. Some of the events included Nursing Superlatives for each unit voted on by that staff, handing out of Lifesavers to staff, and candy baskets delivered to each unit. The week culminated, on Friday, May 9th when SVRMC nurse leaders hosted a reception for nursing staff and nurses from other organizations throughout the community. During this event, Mary Person, Mayor of the City of Emporia, presented a proclamation proclaiming May 6 – 12 as National Nurses Week in the City of Emporia.
In the above photo, CNO, Linda Burnette and Peggy Dunn, Director of Surgical Services look on as Mary Person, Mayor of the City of Emporia, reads the Nurses’ Week Proclamation. The photo at the top of the story were the Nurses attending the reception along with the Nurses’ Week Proclamation and Mayor Mary Person.
Nurses Week
May 6, 2014 through May 12, 2014
Whereas, nurses are knowledgeable health care professionals who are leaders in the management and delivery of health care services; and
Whereas, nurses are striving to meet the challenges of an ever evolving health care system while continuing to provide safe, dependable, and conscientious care for each of us; and
Whereas, professional nursing has been demonstrated to be an indispensable component in the safety and quality of care for patients; and
Whereas, there is an urgent need, not only to recruit well-qualified candidates into the profession, but also to retain nurses in the workplace; and
Whereas,the week of May 6, 2014 through May 12, 2014 has been declared throughout the United States as National Nurses Week with the theme "Nurses: Leading the Way" in celebration of the ways in which nurses strive to provide safe and high quality patient care.
Now, Therefore,I,Mary L. Person,by virtue of the authority vested in me as Mayor of the City of Emporia, Virginia do hereby proclaim May6, 2014 through May 12, 2014 as Nurses Week in the City of Emporia, Virginia and ask all residents of the community to join me in honoring all nurses for their significant contributions to patient care and to our health care system.
Done this 9th day of May, 2014.
National Nurses Week
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Upcoming Neighborhood Watch Meeting *Tonight*
The Neighborhood Watch Organization will be having a meeting at the Jarratt Fire Department in the meeting room on Wednesday, May 21, 2014, at 7:00 P.M.
A short program will be presented by the Virginia State Police Bomb Tech with the Bomb Truck. This will be an excellent and very informative presentation. With all the bomb scares we have had at our local schools this is a program we all need to learn about what happens when threats are called in, what to do, what to look for. Bomb threats can happen anywhere and any time. Please pass the word around about this program, plan to attend and bring a few friends and neighbors. Let’s show our support for the neighborhood watch program.
We all need to be aware of our surroundings and what is going on in our neighborhoods and community.
All residents in Jarratt, Greensville, Sussex Counties and Emporia are invited to attend this program. Please come and voice your ideas to help our area to prevent crime and make our area a safer place to live and enjoy.
For additional information, or if you have any ideas for programs you would like to have presented at the meeting, call: Dana Kinsley 434-535-8861 or Roderic Tuell 434-535-9191
Please tell your neighbors about this meeting and encourage them to attend.
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YMCA Preschool Picks Berries, Plants Garden
Skippers Berry Patch
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Obituary-Evelyn V. Gerke
Evelyn V. Gerke, 92, of Fort Wayne, Ind., died May 12, 2014 in Richmond, Va.. She was preceded in death by her husband, Richard R. Gerke; her parents, Fred and Frieda Kruse; and a sister, Marjory Schwartz. She is survived by a daughter, Elizabeth Gerke Povar and her husband, Tedd; grandson, Matthew Johnson and significant other, Celinda Gardner, of Atlanta, Ga.; grandson, Philip Johnson and wife, Lisa, of Mooseheart, Illinois; granddaughter, Laura Lawal and her husband, Akins, of Alexandria, Va.; four great-grandchildren, Kadin and Haley Johnson, Isaiah and Aderemi Lawal; brother-in-law, Mel Schwartz; and many beloved nieces and nephews. She was an executive secretary for 27 years and retired in 1978. A war bride, she was married in 1943 in Walla Walla, Wash. Evelyn was a charter member of Zion Girls club, a lover of all things chocolate, especially Hershey's chocolate bars, a fast walker at Gayton Terrace, and a good and faithful steward. The family will receive friends at Hockemeyer-Miller Funeral Home, 6131 St. Joe Rd., Fort Wayne, Ind., on Monday, May 19. A funeral service will be held on Tuesday, May 20, at Gethsemane Lutheran Church, 1505 Bethany Lane, Fort Wayne, Ind. Burial will be in Concordia Cemetery Gardens, Fort Wayne, Ind. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the Gethsemane Lutheran Church, Fort Wayne, Ind., St. John Lutheran Church, Emporia, Va., or Lutheran Social Services of Indiana, Fort Wayne, Ind.
Evelyn V. Gerke
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Obituary-Jennifer Harris Haddaway
Jennifer Harris Haddaway, 36, of Emporia, passed away Monday, May 12, 2014. She is survived by two sons, Daniel Wayne Haddaway and Aaron Michael Haddaway; her parents, Wayne and Delores Harris; sister, Debbie Whiting; brother, John Whiting and a number of nieces and nephews. A memorial service will be held 3 p.m. Saturday, May 17, 2014 at Grace Community Fellowship Church. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests memorial contributions be made to Grace Community Fellowship Church, 8014 Little Lowground Rd, Emporia, Virginia 23847. Online condolences may be made atwww.owenfh.com.
Jennifer Harris Haddaway
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City Recognizes Building Safety Month
Whereas,our City’s continuing efforts to address the critical issues of safety, energy efficiency, and resilience in the built environment that affect our citizens, both in everyday life and in times of natural disaster, give us confidence that our structures are safe and sound, and;
Whereas,our confidence is achieved through the devotion of vigilant guardians––building safety and fire prevention officials, architects, engineers, builders, tradespeople,laborers and others in the construction industry––who work year-round to ensure the safe construction of buildings, and;
Whereas,these guardians—dedicated members of the International Code Council—use a governmental consensus process that brings together local, state and federal officials with expertise in the built environment to create and implement the highest-quality codes to protect Americans in the buildings where we live, learn, work, worship, play, and;
Whereas,the International Codes, the most widely adopted building safety, energy and fire prevention codes in the nation, are used by most U.S. cities, counties and states; these modern building codes also include safeguards to protect the public from natural disasters such as hurricanes, snowstorms, tornadoes, wildland fires and earthquakes, and;
Whereas,Building Safety Month is sponsored by the International Code Council, to remind the public about the critical role of our communities’ largely unknown guardiansof public safety––our local code officials––who assure us of safe, efficient and livable buildings, and;
Whereas,“Building Safety: Maximizing Resilience, Minimizing Risks,” the theme for Building Safety Month 2014, encourages all Americans to raise awareness of the importance of building safety; green and resilient building; pool, spa and hot tub safety; backyard safety; and new technologies in the construction industry. Building Safety Month 2014 encourages appropriate steps everyone can take to ensure that the places where we live, learn, work, worship and play are safe and sustainable, and recognizes that countless lives have been saved due to the implementation of safety codes by local and state agencies, and,
Whereas,each year, in observance of Building Safety Month, Americans are asked to consider projects to improve building safety and sustainability at home and in the community, and to acknowledge the essential service provided to all of us by local and state building departments and federal agencies in protecting lives and property.
Now, Therefore,I,Mary L. Person, by virtue of the authority vested in me as Mayor of the City of Emporia, Virginia do hereby proclaim the month of May 2014 as Building Safety Month.
Done this 6th day of May in the year 2014.
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Learn Hands Only CPR
In celebration of EMS Week 2014 (May 18-24), VCU LifeEvac is joining with the Family YMCA of Emporia Greensville, VCU Medical Center, and Greensville Volunteer Rescue Squad to offer FREE Hands Only CPR training to members of the community. Hands Only CPR can be learned in about 30 minutes using three simple steps and is a valuable skill for every one to know!!
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Obituary-Eunice E. “Jeanie” Wilson
Eunice E. “Jeanie” Wilson, 78, of Emporia; widow of Benjamin F. Wilson, Jr., passed away Sunday, May 11, 2014. She is survived by two sons, Charles Wilson and Wayne Wilson and wife, Melanie; daughter, Wanda Wilson and husband, Gene Jordan; five grandchildren, Joshua Wilson, Joseph Wilson, Amanda Stone, Ashley Wilson, Anthony Wilson and Heather Jordan. A graveside funeral service will be held 11 a.m. Wednesday, May 14 at Greensvile Memorial Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, the family suggest memorial contributions be made to The Caring House, 2625 Pickett Rd, Durham, NC 27705. Online condolences may be made at www.owenfh.com.
Eunice E. “Jeanie” Wilson
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Cover 3 Youth Football League Gearing Up
Franklin, VA – The Cover 3 Youth Football League is preparing for the 2014 season. Since the acquisition of the Franklin Little League Football Program, Cover 3 Foundation Founder and Board of Directors have been reorganizing and revamping league operations and standards of safety for the 2014 season.
The goals for the Cover 3 Youth Football League are to increase access to and participation in rural recreation football and cheering, to improve the quality of skill development and football I.Q. in players, to advance safety measures and safety education for players and coaches, to promote physical fitness through football and cheering, to endorse respect in oneself and others through good sportsmanship, to encourage responsibility in oneself through motivated participation and education, and to sponsor football and cheer education and certification for all volunteer coaches.
The Cover 3 Youth Football League will offer three programs for the 2014 season; Flag Football, Tackle Football and Cheering. Youth Flag Football will be available for ages 6-8, Youth Tackle Football will be available for ages 8-14 and Youth Cheering will be available for ages 6-14. The cost for Flag registration is $30, Tackle is $40 and Cheer is $20. Registration for the League and all programs will be available online no later than June 1 with a deadline of July 15. Participants may also register on June 21 at the 1st Annual Alumni Flag Football Charity Event. The Alumni Flag Football game will feature former Southampton and Franklin High School football players and will act as a fundraiser for the Cover 3 Youth Football League. Anyone interested in playing in the Alumni Flag Football Game should contact 757-562-2252. Admission will be $5 per person with kids 10 and under admitted free. The League Board Members and volunteers will be in attendance accepting registrations for all programs. The location of the event is TBD, but will likely be held at Southampton High School. More information about the event can be found at www.cover3foundation.org.
The Cover 3 Youth Football League has become an official participant of the USA Heads Up Football Program which is nationally recognized as the new standard in football skill development and safety. USA Football will assist the League in Coaches Education and Certification, Concussion Awareness, Equipment and Fittings, Heads Up Tackling and Heat and Hydration techniques. “It is vital that our kids are safe while playing football,” said Greg Scott, Founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors, “we will take the necessary steps to insure that equipment is safe, coaches are trained and educated and players understand the proper techniques to play the game. USA Football and the Heads Up Tackling techniques will be instrumental in this process.” USA Football’s Heads Up Tackling℠ is a step-by-step protocol to teach the core principles of the skill and sets a new standard in player safety. The program utilizes five fundamentals through a series of drills to reinforce proper tackling mechanics and teach players how to properly tackle with a focus on reducing helmet contacts.
The Cover 3 Youth Football League is actively seeking volunteers to act as coaches for Flag, Tackle and Cheer. All volunteer coaches and League Board Members will be required to become certified in USA Coaching Education and pass a criminal background investigation to participate in the League. Anyone interested in volunteering, including past coaches and volunteers, should attend the meeting being at on May 12 at 6 pm at the Cover 3 Foundation Headquarters. Interested parties should download the volunteer application from www.cover3foundation.org. The completed application should be presented at the meeting. All coaches, past and future will be required to complete the application. Applications can also be picked up at Cover 3 Foundation Headquarters or by contacting the Foundation at 757-562-2252.
More improvements have been and will continue to be made to League operations. Scott understands that transition may be difficult for some. “I understand that folks have done things a certain way for a very long time. I respect those who have sacrificed their time, effort and resources to help our community. However, there must change in order to improve the safety and skill development of our children which is the most important thing to me,” said Scott, “we are all excited about the future of the League.”
Many outside teams have already contacted the Foundation with interest in joining the League and funding sources are stepping up to the plate to assist in growing the League and helping young people participate. “The NFL Foundation is a huge part of our growth, we are grateful to the help they have provided. In addition, Riddell Equipment will visit our headquarters and inspect all of the equipment, advise us on what to purchase and assist in fitting our players,” added Scott. “I am super excited about the opportunity to help a league that I was once a part of, it’s truly an honor.”
More information including registration forms and weight limits can be found at the Foundation’s newly redesigned website at www.cover3foundation.org.
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Southside Virginia Commnity College Honors Correctional Officers
Southside Virginia Community College held its Sixth Annual Corrections Awards Banquet on April 24, 2014 at Christanna Campus in Alberta. Dr. John J. Cavan presented the Keynote address. Officer and Employee of the Year from each institution were recognized and presented with an award to commemorate the honor.
Front Row – Left to Right:
Officer Mary A. Artis, Lawrenceville Correctional Center
Danielle R. Coleman, Counselor, Nottoway Correctional Center
Officer Tina R. Powell, Nottoway Correctional Center
Sharon A. Alexander, Lunenburg Correctional Center
Richard P. Harrison, Grounds Supervisor, Greensville Correctional Center
Officer Tyrone Cutter, Greensville Correctional Center
Back Row – Left to Right:
Dr. James H. Taylor, III, Associate Professor of Administration of Justice & Program Head,
Charles E. Smith, Safety Officer, Buckingham Correctional Center
Kimberly W. Weaver, Regional Office Manager, Deerfield Correctional Center
Lerberta Davis, Lawrenceville Correctional Center
Sgt. Cynthia B. Powell, Deerfield Correctional Center
Vanessa K. Haskins, Office Services Specialist, Baskerville Correctional Center
Officer Willis A. Woodall, Baskerville Correctional Center
Officer Michael C. Jones, Lunenburg Correctional Center
Officer James R. Hicks, Halifax Correctional Unit #23
Garry A. Jones, Counselor, Halifax Correctional Unit #23
Dr. Chad Patton, Dean of Instruction
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Southside Virginia Community College Honors Dual Enrollment Students
Southside Virginia Community College recognized Dual Enrollment students with a dinner on the Christanna Campus recently. These students take classes that offer credit for both high school and college and many are able to graduate from SVCC before high school. Students from Greensville are (Left to Right) With Assistant Superintendent Angela Wilson, Michael Seay, Tiara Manning, James Driver and Dr. John J. Cavan, SVCC President.
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Southside Virginia Community College Graduates Nursing Students
Southside Virginia Community College recognized Associate Degree Nursing students with a Pinning Ceremony held on May 6, 2014. These students have successfully completed the program and are now eligible to take the State Board to become Registered Nurses. The students from the Christanna Campus Program are (Front Row, Left to Right) Lisa Smith of Kenbridge, Kristina Chapman of South Hill, Jessica Sargent of Blackstone, Cindy Choate of Bracey, (Second row L to R) Melissa McCarthy of La Crosse, Jenea Bennett of South Hill, MIriam Ridout of Bracey, Debra Atkins of Victoria and (Third row, L to R) Sherry Barnette of Brodnax, Ashley Jackson of Boydton, Peggy Carter of Baskerville, Brittney Turner of Emporia and Back Row, l to r Chad Carter of Baskerville, Shauna Robertson of Lawrenceville, Tracey Mays of Warfield and Michael Gallagher of South Hill.
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State Board Committee Certifies Finalists for President at Southside Virginia Community College
RICHMOND– The State Board for Community Colleges has certified finalists for the position of president at Southside Virginia Community College. The three finalists include Dr. Thomas F. Wright, of Cleveland, Tennessee; Dr. Alfred A. Roberts, of Emporia, Virginia; and Dr. Linda Y. North, of Opelika, Alabama.
Dr. Thomas F. Wright is currently vice president for finance and administration at Cleveland State Community College where he also served briefly as interim vice president of academic affairs in 2012. Previously, he worked as director of administrative support services for student development and as director of housing operations at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC. Wright began his career in 1993 at Brevard College in Brevard, NC as assistant director of housing. The following year, he would take on the role of coordinator of maintenance services at Middle Tennessee State University. He holds a doctorate from Tennessee State University and master’s and bachelor’s from Middle Tennessee State University.
Dr. Alfred A. Roberts is currently the provost of the Christanna Campus at Southside Virginia Community College (SVCC). From 2008-2010, Roberts worked as vice president of workforce services at SVCC. His career at SVCC began in 1995 when he assumed the role of administrator for student support services. He previously served as program director for Sussex-Greensville-Emporia Adult Activity Services. Prior to joining the Community Youth Center in Emporia as director in 1980, Roberts taught radio and television production classes at Norfolk State University. Roberts received his doctorate from Old Dominion University, his master’s from Virginia State University and his bachelor’s from Michigan State University.
Dr. Linda Y. North is currently the dean of academics at Southern Union State Community College. For a brief period, she also worked as interim president of Chattahoochee Valley Community College while serving as dean of health sciences at Southern Union State. From 1999-2004, North was employed as associate dean for instructional design at Alabama Southern Community College. She began her career as an instructor at Trenholm State Technical College and has taught nursing at Athens Area Technical Institute and Troy State University. North holds a doctorate and master’s from the University of Alabama, and a bachelor’s from Troy State University.
Candidates will attend interviews at the community college beginning later this week. VCCS Chancellor Glenn DuBois plans to announce the appointment before the end of June. The appointee will replace Dr. John J. Cavan, who will retire this July after 31 years of service as SVCC’s longest reigning president.
About Virginia’s Community Colleges: Created more than 40 years ago, the VCCS is comprised of 23 community colleges located on 40 campuses across the commonwealth. Together, Virginia’s Community Colleges serve more than a quarter-million credit students each year. For more information, please visit www.vccs.edu.
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Brunswick Academy Graduation This Weekend
Baccalaureate service were held in the Brunswick academy gymnasium on Sunday, June 1 at 6:00 PM. The guest speaker will be Rev. Layne Spigener of South Hill United Methodist Church in South Hill, Virginia.
Commencement exercises will be held in the Brunswick Academy gymnasium on Friday, June 6 at 7:00 PM. Twenty-one seniors will be graduating. The valedictorian is Christin Michaela Copeland, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Copeland of Triplett. Ms. Copeland will be attending the University of Virginia in the fall.
The Salutatorian is Dustin Peebles Clary, the son of Daryl Clary of Gasburg and Cheryl Clary of South Hill. Mr. Peoples will attend Virginia Commonwealth University in the fall.
There will be one other honor graduate at this year's graduation: Travis Graham Browder, son of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Browder of Dolphin. Mr. Browder will also be attending Virginia Commonwealth University in the fall.
Nine members of the class of 2014 are children of Brunswick Academy Alumni.
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SOUTHERN VIRGINIA REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER ANNOUNCES APRIL EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH
(EMPORIA, VA) – Patsy Rose has been named the Southern Virginia Regional Medical Center (SVRMC) Employee of the Month for April 2014. Ms. Rose, who has been employed with the hospital since March 1984, is an a Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) in the Behavioral Health Unit.
Patsy Rose
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Mayor Presents Proclimation Honoring a Century of the Virginia Cooporative Extension
Declaring May 1 -31, 2014 as
National Cooperative Extension Centennial Celebration Month
Whereas,Virginia Cooperative Extension of Greensville/Emporia is part of the nationwide Cooperative Extension System that is a partnership of federal, state and local governments and Virginia Tech and Virginia State University, the state’s land-grant universities in Virginia; and
Whereas,the Smith-Lever Act of 1914 established the Cooperative Extension Service, utilizing faculty serving as Extension Agents, who along with local staff and community-based resources, extend University research and knowledge to local communities; and
Whereas,Virginia Cooperative Extension provides wide-ranging educational programs and information in the areas of agriculture, natural resources, family and consumer sciences, 4-H youth development, food, nutrition and health, along with related areas of economic and workforce development across Virginia; and
Whereas,Virginia Cooperative Extension programs in Family and Consumer Sciences; Agriculture and Natural Resources; 4-H Youth Development, and Community Viability, benefit families, schools and businesses in Greensville/Emporia; and
Now, Therefore, I, Mary L. Person, by virtue of the authority vested in me as Mayor of the City of Emporia, Virginia do hereby designated May 2014 as National Cooperative Extension Centennial Celebration Month and encourage all residents to take advantage of the programs and educational opportunities that Virginia Cooperative Extension offers to the community.
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Obituary-James Emerson “Gene” Hallingshead, Jr
James Emerson “Gene” Hallingshead, Jr., 70, of Emporia, passed away Monday, May 5, 2014. He is survived by his wife, Augustine “Tina” Hallingshead; daughter, Dowanna “Dee” Powell; son, Clayton Wayne Hallingshead; three grandchildren, Charles David Martin, Brian Joseph Martin and Emerson Blake Carroll; four great-grandchildren, Harleigh, Aden, Abby and Colton James; brother, Arthur David Hallingshead; two sisters, Sue Eileen Clary and Nancy Ann Hallingshead McKee and a number of nieces and nephews. A memorial service will be held 2 p.m. Sunday, May 11, 2014 at Grace Community Fellowship Church, 8014 Little Lowground Rd, Emporia, Virginia 23847. The family will receive friends at the family home. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests memorial contributions be made to the James Hallingshead Cancer Fund, c/o First Citizens Bank, Emporia, Virginia. Online condolences may be made atwww.owenfh.com.
James Emerson “Gene” Hallingshead Jr
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Obituary-Anna Bourdon Cook
Anna Bourdon Cook, age 24, of DeWitt, Virginia passed away May 5, 2014. She is preceded in death by her step-father, Wade Reese, Sr.; her father, Donald O. Cook; her grandfather, William F. Abernathy, III and her uncle, William F. Abernathy, IV. She is survived by her mother, Laura A. Epps and husband Wayne; her brother, Christopher Cook; her grandmother, Peggy G. Wells and husband Oliver; her significant other, Joseph Richard Calandra, Sr.; and several aunts, uncles, and cousins. The family will receive friends Thursday from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. at Williams Funeral Home, Lawrenceville. Online condolences may be made at www.wmsfhva.com.
Anna Bourdon Cook
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Calvary Baptist Relay for Life Car Show Results
Car & Truck
Most Chrome – Ken Myrick – 1955 Chevy Bel Air/ Mel Ogburn - 2005 Chevy SSR
Least Chrome – Andre’ Cain – 1994 Mazda RX7/ Scott Hudson - 1969 Chevy Corvette
Highest Ride – Glenn Moss – 1966 Chevy pickup
Lowest Ride – Charlie Robinson – 1955 Chevy Bel Air
Most Original – Dickie Delbridge – 1968 Chevy Nova/ Susan Harrell – 1967 Ford Mustang Convertible
Best Interior – Ernie & Nita Sydnor – 1950 Ford Coupe
Best Exterior(paint) – Chris Ellis – 1932 Ford Coupe
Best Engine – Jimmy Day – 1969 Chevy Camaro
Best Paint – Jesse Harrell – 1999 Harley Ultra Classic
Best Engine – Don Bullock – 1996 Boss Hoss
Charles Taylor Memorial Award – Thurston Vann – 1937 Chevy Coupe
David Williams Memorial Award – Walter Lynch – 1965 Chevy pickup
Peoples Choice – Glenn Moss – 1966 Chevy pickup<
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Emporia Greensville Humane Society Doggie Fashion Show
The Empoira-Greensville Humane Society held their Fifth Annual Doggie Fashion Show and Luncheon on Saturday at Golden Leaf Commons. Below is a video of the Fashion Show portion of the day.
Emporia-Greensville Humane Society
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Obituary-Sarah Klugel Temple
Sarah Klugel Temple, 75, of Emporia passed away on May 3, 2014. She was predeceased by her parents Harry T. Klugel, Jr. and Mary Alice Johnston Klugel and a sister Sue K. Harrison. She is survived by her husband Aubrey N. Temple; sons Aubrey “Temp” Temple, Jr. and wife Nancy of Emporia, VA and Thomas “Tom” M.Temple, Sr. of Emporia, VA; grandchildren Starr Temple Nienaber and husband Brent of Denver, CO, Nicholas Evan Temple of Emporia, VA, Thomas Mason Temple, Jr. and wife Amanda of Emporia, VA, and Jonathan Eli Temple of Emporia, VA; great-grandchildren Cassidy Raine Gordon of Denver, CO, Nicholas Evan Temple, II of Emporia, VA, and Gracey Elizabeth Temple of Emporia, VA; brother Harry T. Klugel, III of Gaithersburg, MD; sister Kristina K. Dickens and husband Joe of Skippers, VA; brother-in-law Claude Harrison of Richmond, VA; and numerous nieces and nephews. A memorial service will be held on Tuesday, 2:00pm at Calvary Baptist Church. The family will receive friends following the memorial service. Condolences may be sent to www.Echolsfuneralhome.com
Sarah Klugel Temple
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Dick Collins Retires from Boy Scouts of America
Newport News, VA (April 16, 2014) – Dick Collins, Scout Executive and Chief Executive Officer for the Boy Scouts of America, Colonial Virginia Council, announced his retirement after 33 years serving as a professional with the Boy Scouts of America. For 23 of those years Collins provided leadership to the Scouting program in the Hampton Roads community. Collins, a native of Bristol, Tennessee, is retiring to accept a new position with the Boys and Girls Club of the Mountain Empire, located in his home town.
Collins was honored April 16th at a reception attended by Wayne Brock, Chief Scout Executive of the Boy Scouts of America, headquartered in Irving, Texas. At the reception it was announced the Colonial Virginia Council would establish the Dick Collins Camp Scholarship Fund to commemorate the legacy left by his leadership. The fund will provide scholarship funds for underprivileged youth to attend Bayport Scout Reservation, the 300 acre boy scout camp and high adventure base owned by the council. Individuals interested in contributing to the fund may visitwww.bayportsr.org. At the request of its namesake, donations to the fund should be in addition to any donations given to support Bayport Scout Reservation and scouting in our community.
“Having Dick retire is a tremendous loss to our council,” said Jeff Wassmer, Council President. “However, Dick has built a great and stable foundation for Scouting in the Hampton Roads area. Because of his leadership we will continue to thrive and provide the best program possible to every youth.”
The purpose of the Boy Scouts of America, incorporated on February 8, 1910, and chartered by Congress in 1916, is to provide an educational program for boys and young adults to build character, to train in the responsibilities of participating citizenship, and to develop personal fitness. For more information on joining or volunteering in a Scouting program, contact The Boy Scouts of America, Colonial Virginia Council, at (757) 595-3356.
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Obituary-Alice Rook Ligon
Alice Rook Ligon, 86, of Emporia, VA, daughter of Brutus and Katie Rook, died May 2, 2014. She is predeceased by her husband of 64 years, George Benjamin Ligon; two sisters, Kathleen Rook Ligon and Mary Rook Lyerly and one brother, Brutus Watkins Rook, Jr. She is survived by her children, Gayle Ligon Skowronski and husband Steve, George Benjamin Ligon, Jr. and wife Mary, Sandra Ligon Allen and husband Kenny; 4 grandchildren, Benjamin Andrew Skowronski (deceased), Kay Randolph Ligon, Lindsay Kendall Allen, Kenneth Samuel Allen, Jr. and George Watkins Allen; two step-grandchildren, Mary Katherine Pratt and William Joseph Pratt. Her remains rest at Echols Funeral Home, 806 Brunswick Ave., Emporia, VA, where the family will receive family and friends on Sunday, May 4th, 2 to 3:30pm. A graveside funeral service will be held Monday, May 5th, at 11:00am at Emporia Cemetery, Brunswick Ave., Emporia, VA. Memorial donations may be made to the Greensville Volunteer Rescue Squad or the Emporia Volunteer Fire Department. Condolences may be sent to www. Echolsfuneralhome.com
Alice Rook Ligon
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USDA Seeks Comments to Amend Soybean Request for Referendum Procedures and Announces Dates of the Soybean Request for Referendum
WASHINGTON, March 4, 2014 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is seeking comments on proposed amendments to procedures for soybean producers to request a referendum on the Soybean Promotion and Research Order as authorized under the Soybean Promotion, Research, and Consumer Information Act. USDA also announces the Request for Referendum will be held May 5, 2014, through May 30, 2014, in county USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) offices.
The Act requires that a request for referendum be held every five years following the initial referendum. The previous request for referendum was held in 2009. Only eligible soybean producers wishing to request a referendum on the Order participate. Those producers who do not want a referendum on the Order would not participate. Participating in the request of referendum is voluntary. Eligible producers participating in the request for referendum must certify that they or the entity they are authorized to represent paid an assessment at some time during January 1, 2012, through December 31, 2013. USDA would conduct a referendum only if at least 10 percent of all eligible soybean producers, no more than one-fifth of which may be soybean producers in any one state, requested a referendum.
This action would amend the procedures to request a referendum by removing the specific number of producers eligible to request a referendum. The number of producers eligible to request a referendum would be replaced with language that allows the Secretary of Agriculture to update this number based on information provided by FSA. For the purposes of the 2014 Soybean Request for Referendum, the number of eligible soybean producers identified through FSA soybean acreage reports for crop years 2011 and 2012 is 569,998. Additionally, this rule would replace specific USDA and FSA Web site and office addresses with more flexible language.
The 70-member United Soybean Board, authorized by the Act, administers a coordinated soybean promotion and research program designed to expand uses of soybeans and soybean products in domestic and foreign markets.
The proposed amendments to procedures will be published in the March 4, 2014, Federal Register. Persons wishing to comment on the proposed rule should go to www.regulations.gov. Comments must be received by April 3, 2014. For more information, contact James Brow, Agricultural Marketing Specialist, Research and Promotion Division, Livestock, Poultry and Seed Program, AMS, USDA, STOP 0251, Room 2610-S, 1400 Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, DC 20250-0251; tel. (202) 720-0633, e-mail James.Brow@ams.usda.gov; or fax (202) 720-1125.
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Spring Clean-up at Greensville Memorial Cemetery
We will be doing an annual clean up of the cemetery the week of May 12 - 16, 2014. At this time, all old flowers, flower stands and vases that are not attached to markers will be removed. If you would like to keep these items, please remove before May 12. All mini flag stands will be permitted, as long as they are close to the markers. If you should have any questions, please call Carlissa at 434-882-5871. Thanks for helping us keep your cemetery beautiful.
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YMCA Hosts Run for God
Emporia's Run For God team completed the 5K Challenge on April 26 at the YMCA Sprint for Spring race. The Run For God Bible study was led by Pastor Greg O'Berry of Calvary Chapel Emporia, and the physical study was led by Sharon O'Berry and Brenda Robinson. Run For God is a 12 week training course sponsored by the YMCA, Jeff Robinson & Associates and Calvary Chapel Emporia.
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Chinese knots, with its long history, can date back to the remote antiquity when it originated, the Tang and Song dynasties when it developed rapidly, and to the Ming and Qing dynasties when it boomed. As history classics show, “People of the remote antiquity made knots to keep records, which was later replaced by inscribed words invented by prophets.” Knots in beaks of flying birds found in the patterns on bronze mirrors of the Tang Dynasty were embodiment of love and marriage lasting for ever. Thousands of years flashing by, knots are not used to keep records any more today when, however, they have developed into delicate artworks.
Knots were widely used in ancient China. Clothes then had knots as fasteners, just like buttons and zippers today. The Chinese are used to dressing ornaments fastened to clothes with a thick knotted thread. Seals, import objects carried by ancient Chinese wherever they went, had holes in them for the convenience of knotting. Similar things happened to bronze mirrors. Ancient Chinese were fond of expressing their love with knotted brocade strips which they named romantically the “knot of crossing hearts” or the “true love knot”.
“Thousands of knots in the heart”
Zhang Xian, a famous lyric writer of the Song Dynasty, once composed something well-known to almost every Chinese even up to today which reads “A crossing silk net my heart is, made of thousands of knots” to describe the complicated feelings of a lovelorn girl tortured by a broken love. “Knot” in classics of Chinese literature has always been the embodiment of tangling feelings of young people in love. The great variety of knots is just like the richness of human emotions.
“Knot”, endowed by sentiment people with subtle emotions beyond verbal expression, has gone so far away from its original meaning that many Chinese words involving “unity”, such as words meaning “to become sworn brothers”, “to make association”, “to ally”, “to unit”, have it as a figurative component. Similar cases can be found in words related with marriages such as “to be spousal”, “matrimony”, “and marriage”, “to combine”, etc. “Knot”, to “unify” or to “interlace”, is the beginning of things. Since the “beginning” is the way leading to the “end”, many words in Chinese with the component of “knot” can also stand for “result” or “ending”. The “knot of crossing hearts”, or the “truelove knot”, has always been the keepsake exchanged between lovers to show their lasting love. Other knots like the “Embroidered couple knot” are acknowledged “promise” for exclusive love or marriage between lovers.
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Some of the Chinese knots, such as “the lucky knot” and “the longevity knot”, are considered divine objects to exorcise the evil, guard the house or pray for health and bliss. As talismans of mysterious religious power, they are widely used and inherited among folks. This may also be one of the reasons of the flourishing of the “Knot Culture”.
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C. elegans can inherit the effects of RNAi from their parents and then pass it to their own offspring. Image via Wikimedia.
Inheriting a trait from a grandparent doesn’t always involve their DNA sequences. In many organisms, some traits can be passed down for multiple generations via non-sequence based mechanisms, a phenomenon called transgenerational epigenetic inheritance. The most familiar example is that human disease risk might be influenced by the lifestyle of a person’s grandparents. But by far, the most unambiguous and robustly-studied cases occur in tiny laboratory workhorses like yeast and the nematode worm C. elegans. In the July issue of GENETICS, Spracklin et al. identify the genetic components required for RNA interference (RNAi) inheritance—a type of transgenerational epigenetic inheritance that occurs in C. elegans. They also show that this machinery is required for maintenance of the germline, suggesting an important natural role for this intriguing mode of inheritance.
Normally, small double-stranded RNAs (dsRNAs) are produced by the organism to regulate mRNA expression and transposable element activity. This regulatory machinery intercepts particular transcripts, marks them for degradation, and sometimes triggers epigenetic changes that suppress further expression. RNAi is a powerful genetic tool that allows researchers to easily manipulate gene expression levels by taking advantage of the worm’s natural regulatory systems.
In the lab, treatment with specially designed dsRNAs co-opts this regulation to dampen expression of a target gene. But the RNAi-mediated epigenetic alterations affect not only the worm initially treated with dsRNA, they persist in up to five generations of its offspring. That is, RNAi knockdown is heritable in worms. Some of the genetic components required for RNAi inheritance have been identified already, but much about this process is still unknown.
In this study, Spracklin et al. used a straightforward genetic screen to identify the RNAi inheritance machinery. They took worms expressing green fluorescent protein (GFP) in their germline cells and exposed them to mutagens to randomly break genes across the genome. Then they inhibited the expression of GFP with RNAi and let the worms reproduce. They chose offspring that didn’t inherit the RNAi and still expressed GFP for further study. After screening an astounding 6 million haploid germline genomes, they found six unique, newly identified genes needed for RNAi inheritance.
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The RNAi Inheritance Machinery of Caenorhabditis elegans
George Spracklin, Brandon Fields, Gang Wan, Diveena Becker, Ashley Wallig, Aditi Shukla and Scott Kennedy
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1130: "Poll Watching"
Postby Quicksilver » Mon Nov 05, 2012 5:53 am UTC
Alt Text: "The choices we make Tuesday could have MASSIVE and PERMANENT effects on the charts on Nate Silver's blog!"
Eh, the $100 million Lotto draw is closer to home for me.
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Re: 1130: "Poll Watching"
Postby rhomboidal » Mon Nov 05, 2012 5:54 am UTC
I'm just waiting for the day when whichever presidential candidate wins the final pre-vote poll automatically gets Ohio. And the Dakota/Carolina of their choice.
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Postby nowhereman » Mon Nov 05, 2012 7:04 am UTC
I know some people like that. I kinda want to throw my 10lb stats book at them.
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Postby sardia » Mon Nov 05, 2012 7:11 am UTC
I see even Randall has noticed the famous Nate Silver now.
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Postby mekily » Mon Nov 05, 2012 7:36 am UTC
I knew I had been reading Nate Silver too much when I saw someone holding a completely unlabeled graph printout the other day and instantly recognized it as Nate Silver's Electoral Vote Distribution chart.
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Postby waiwai933 » Mon Nov 05, 2012 7:38 am UTC
sardia wrote: I see even Randall has noticed the famous Nate Silver now.
About four years ago, yes. (See title-text).
Postby DaveMcW » Mon Nov 05, 2012 7:53 am UTC
Randall is one of Nate's biggest fans.
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Postby oliphaunt » Mon Nov 05, 2012 8:13 am UTC
We had elections in the Netherlands seven weeks ago. One day after the elections, a Dutch satirical site published a "news update" in similar vein. Here's a bad google translation.
The title should be: "Election results don't say anything yet about polls."
http://translate.google.nl/translate?sl=nl&tl=en&hl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.speld.nl%2F2012%2F09%2F13%2Fverkiezingsuitslag-zegt-nog-niets-over-peiling%2F&act=url
One nice quote, my translation:
Says De Hond [major Dutch pollster]: "Elections are just daily rates. In two years, everybody will have forgotten the official results of 12 September. Of course it's all very nice to win 76 seats in the elections [a majority; unheard-of for a single party in our coalition politics], but that will at most allow you to form a government and to make your ideals reality; no more than that. If you really want to get sorely-needed media attention, you will have to score high in my polls. The next few days will be crucial."
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Postby BAReFOOt » Mon Nov 05, 2012 8:27 am UTC
It is sad, that even supposedly intelligent and educated people, like Randall, or Jon Steward, completely fall for that utterly meaningless distraction. As if it was in any way relevant to their lives. Like CD jumping, they just never ever seem to get it.
PROTIP: THE DEMS WILL ENACT THE REP CHANGES ANYWAY! AND THE REPS WILL ENACT THE DEM CHANGES ANYWAY! Because in both cases, they are controlled by the same lobbyists, have revolving doors with the same companies (all of them) and will show you the same propaganda on TV to brainwash you into believing whatever they want.
If you still think that it matters, which one of two parties “you” choose (actually: is chosen by bribery aka “donations”, so the big companies are the only ones who decide)… let alone which one of that one single decorative puppet they put in front of you to distract you… then if you don’t want to commit yourself, please shoot yourself right now. Because you have gone officially crazy, a danger to yourself and everyone around you, and belong to a nuthouse.
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Postby Alltat » Mon Nov 05, 2012 8:41 am UTC
BAReFOOt wrote: It is sad, that even supposedly intelligent and educated people, like Randall, or Jon Steward, completely fall for that utterly meaningless distraction. As if it was in any way relevant to their lives. Like CD jumping, they just never ever seem to get it.
I take it you're not really a fan of democracy?
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Postby fasces349 » Mon Nov 05, 2012 9:13 am UTC
Nate Silver is the number 1 reason why I am voting Romney. I'm secretly hoping for a Romney win so the nate has to write a series of articles explaining why his 86.3% chance was wrong.
I hate to break it to you, but corporations account for less then 1/4 of all campaign donations meaning they aren't deciding the election for you
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Postby MrT2 » Mon Nov 05, 2012 9:30 am UTC
Most of the polls over the last few months have had smaller differences than the margin of error values, yet the the media/parties still commission new polls and shout about any change in the (still not significant) numbers.
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Postby dudiobugtron » Mon Nov 05, 2012 9:56 am UTC
Alltat wrote:
It sounds more like BAReFOOt is a fan of democracy, but is just not a fan of the American version of it.
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Postby LüneTanz » Mon Nov 05, 2012 11:32 am UTC
BAReFOOt could be talking about the style of American, and sadly Canadian Democracy as well. I've been transplanted to Europe and have got to say that Representational Govt. just makes sense. It's what democracy is all about. None of this two-party, or first past the post. Something tells me that this thread is going to get very long, very quickly.
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Postby Vahir » Mon Nov 05, 2012 11:35 am UTC
fasces349 wrote: I hate to break it to you, but corporations account for less then 1/4 of all campaign donations meaning they aren't deciding the election for you
I'd just like to emphasize this.
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Postby jestingrabbit » Mon Nov 05, 2012 12:43 pm UTC
fasces349 wrote:
Barefoot isn't talking about campaign contributions, he's talking about the policy making process, and claiming that both sides are in pretty much the same corporations pockets. Regardless of whether its true, you've completely failed to understand what he's saying.
Also, campaign donations... meh. What about superPACs? It is now impossible to know who is spending what on American elections.
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Postby EpicanicusStrikes » Mon Nov 05, 2012 1:06 pm UTC
jestingrabbit wrote: ...campaign donations... meh. What about superPACs? It is now impossible to know who is spending what on American elections.
No candidate has an honest chance without corporate backing. We hardly have decent transparency when it comes to campaign support, and even outside of the hidden money there are many ways to launder contributions.
Even assuming the 1/4 figure that fasces349 tossed out is in any way accurate; if you have 100 million people donating a dollar each, and one person donating $25 million dollars, who's going to have a stronger voice in your administration?
Financial influence is quite real. I'm not saying it's evil or even unwanted at times, but it sure as hell is real.
EDIT: Well, I suppose that'd only be 75 million people unless we're talking about matching 25% of current contributions, but I don't want to get caught up in pedantry.
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Postby armandoalvarez » Mon Nov 05, 2012 1:48 pm UTC
Even supposing that the election were utterly meaningless and the two parties were exactly the same (which I don't agree with), I would say there are plenty of comics indicating that Randall believes in subjective importance, where everything only matters to the extent it matters to you.
See, e.g., the alt-text in http://xkcd.com/915/
and http://xkcd.com/1095/
Wine is objectively meaningless. Pictures of Joe Biden eating sandwiches are objectively meaningless. Crazy straws are meaningless Sports are meaningless. Whether T-Rex had feathers or not will not affect my life in any perceivable way. But we all need hobbies and interests to pass our lives.
Would you say, "I can't understand how otherwise intelligent and educated people can care about [X work of literature, Y movie, whether Z sports team will make the playoffs, a newly discovered exoplanet]"? None of those things change your life.
The only thing that I can think of that might be objectively meaningful are your personal relationships, but even there, nobody in the greater world cares about how good of a father or friend you are.
But as to the idea that who you vote for is meaningless because the two parties are so similar and controlled by corporations, that may be true for many aspects of policy, but not all. Two obvious examples off the top of my head: 1. I think it's clear that if Al Gore had been president, we would not have invaded Iraq in 2003. That makes a radical difference in American history. 2. If you're a gay person in the military, Obama radically changed your life. The repeal of DADT would not have happened in a McCain administration.
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Postby functoruser » Mon Nov 05, 2012 1:49 pm UTC
fasces349 wrote: Nate Silver is the number 1 reason why I am voting Romney. I'm secretly hoping for a Romney win so the nate has to write a series of articles explaining why his 86.3% chance was wrong.
Suppose you are about to roll a pair of dice, and I say "There's about an 88.9% probability one of those dice will be higher than 2." Then you roll a pair of ones. I still wasn't wrong.
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Postby danivon » Mon Nov 05, 2012 1:52 pm UTC
I can't think of a dumber way to decide how to vote. In order to prove a single pundit wrong? (and functoruser has just shown how it won't even prove that)
Seriously, go by tie-colour, or how shiny their shoes are ahead of this. It may be shallow and irrelevant to their policies or abilities, but at least it's about the candidates and not some other guy.
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Postby Whammy » Mon Nov 05, 2012 2:01 pm UTC
waiwai933 wrote:
...replace 2012 with 2016 and this is sadly how I'm probably gonna react once all of this over. That, or I'm gonna go "Great, we're done here...now I got two years to study what the heck happened this election until primaries start up for the next one or otherwise I'll be behind in studying that election!"
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Postby Harry Voyager » Mon Nov 05, 2012 2:38 pm UTC
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Postby jay35 » Mon Nov 05, 2012 2:45 pm UTC
Poll watching... more like pole watching, amirite.
Complaining that voting amounts to being left to choose between two faces of one behemoth, isn't at all a complaint about democracy. Rather, it is a complaint about the system that is pulling the strings behind a veneer of democracy, selecting the options you are allowed to choose from, all of which are benign (or malignant, depending on how you look at it) and will by and large just continue the status quo.
functoruser wrote:
If your claim was merely that "one of the dice will be higher than 2", then no, you wouldn't be wrong. However if your claim selected one of the two dice in particular as the one that would be higher, and it turns out the other one was higher instead, you'd be quite plainly incorrect.
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Postby Aiwendil » Mon Nov 05, 2012 3:02 pm UTC
BAReFOOt wrote: PROTIP: THE DEMS WILL ENACT THE REP CHANGES ANYWAY! AND THE REPS WILL ENACT THE DEM CHANGES ANYWAY! Because in both cases, they are controlled by the same lobbyists, have revolving doors with the same companies (all of them) and will show you the same propaganda on TV to brainwash you into believing whatever they want.
You sound rather a lot like some of those Nader voters in 2000 - you know, the ones who, however inadvertantly, gave us two unfunded wars, massive tax cuts for the wealthy, myriad invasions of civil liberties, etc., etc. The American two-party system has many very serious problems, but if, after all that's happened over the past decade, you still think there's no difference between the Democrats and the Republicans, you're being willfully blind.
jay35 wrote: If your claim was merely that "one of the dice will be higher than 2", then no, you wouldn't be wrong. However if your claim selected one of the two dice in particular as the one that would be higher, and it turns out the other one was higher instead, you'd be quite plainly incorrect.
Umm . . . I think you've missed the point. Let's make it simpler. If you roll one die, I claim that there is an 83.3% chance that you get a number higher than 1. If you roll a 1, you haven't proved me wrong.
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Postby Plundermot » Mon Nov 05, 2012 3:16 pm UTC
Aiwendil wrote:
Indeed. And if you insist on using two dice, if I roll a 6-sided die and a 20-sided die, and I say that the 20-sided die has an 82.5% probability of rolling a higher number, it still doesn't make me wrong if the 6-sided die happens to "win". (Unless my maths was wrong, of course.)
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Postby mattcoz » Mon Nov 05, 2012 4:01 pm UTC
dudiobugtron wrote:
Except that we're not a democracy, we're a republic.
mattcoz wrote:
Democracy is not synonymous w/ "direct democracy." That's one kind of democracy but not the only kind. Democracy in the modern sense means any government where the people have control. The UK is a democracy, but not a republic, because it's a constitutional monarchy. The people in the end control the government. The Union of Socialist Soviet Republics was a republic but not a democracy because although they had no real control. The US is both a democracy and a republic (a democratic republic).
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Postby SerMufasa » Mon Nov 05, 2012 4:36 pm UTC
armandoalvarez wrote: Democracy is not synonymous w/ "direct democracy." That's one kind of democracy but not the only kind. Democracy in the modern sense means any government where the people have control. The UK is a democracy, but not a republic, because it's a constitutional monarchy. The people in the end control the government. The Union of Socialist Soviet Republics was a republic but not a democracy because although they had no real control. The US is both a democracy and a republic (a democratic republic).
Exactly. Very tired (for roughly 20 years now) of "The US is a not a democracy!!!!!111" boneheads hung up on literal definitions.
I'll take it one step further. In modern society, "democracy" also constitutes multiple ideals, such as Free Speech, Free Press, Free Market economy, Pleading the 3rd, etc. Simply letting the people vote isn't enough to make it a democracy if the government still coerces behavior.
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Postby J Thomas » Mon Nov 05, 2012 4:43 pm UTC
armandoalvarez wrote:
It sounds to me like BAReFOOt is arguing that the USA is not a democracy in the way you mean it. We are a republic the way the USSR was.
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Postby mcdigman » Mon Nov 05, 2012 4:45 pm UTC
I've been reading Nate Silver's book... According to the way we constructs his model, if you say theres an 85% chance Obama wins, you aren't wrong at all if Romney wins; however, you are wrong if, over time, in elections you call as having an 85% chance of an incumbent win, the challenger *doesn't* win about 15% of the time.
Unless Nate Silver actually calls the election for Obama (which he hasn't), we won't be wrong if Romney wins. So don't cast your vote to try to prove him wrong, because it will not prove that.
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Postby Ken_g6 » Mon Nov 05, 2012 4:48 pm UTC
Some of us have already voted, and so we have nothing better to do than poll watching.
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Postby radtea » Mon Nov 05, 2012 4:51 pm UTC
A couple of other people have answered this already but I'm seeing this idiocy all of the Web right now so I'll pile on a bit.
This is the anti-Bayesian equivalent of the anti-evolutionist's "People couldn't have evolved from monkeys because there are still monkeys." It confuses a population-based theory with an individual outcome.
How exactly would Romney winning "prove" Silver's 86.3% chance of Obama winning "wrong"?
If the underdog didn't win sometimes (about 13.6% of the time, in the present case) then Silver would be wrong. Ergo, it is necessary that the favourite lose now and then when the prediction is less than 100% certain, which it always is, of course, because certainty is an epistemic error engaged in only by those people who practice that anti-Bayesian travesty known as "faith". [And no, I'm not certain of that, or anything else, including where I left my socks last night, but that doesn't stop me from generally living a happy life and almost always finding my socks in the morning. Certainty is for religious and ideological nutjobs who've done a poor job of becoming mature human beings.]
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Y'all responding to fasces349 are spending too many words on the subject. The answer is simple: Silver would only be wrong if Romney wins after Silver gave Obama a 100% chance to win.
% chance to wins are always a tricky measure, but as long as they don't reach 100%, they're never wrong. Here's a fun one: a graph of the Red Sox playoff chances in 2011.
http://www.totalprosports.com/2011/09/2 ... -collapse/
J Thomas wrote:
Yes, I imagine Barefoot would say that. I was responding to Mattcoz's claim that we're not a democracy merely because we're a republic, as though the two terms were mutually exclusive. They were in ancient Rome, because "democracy" meant "direct democracy." You can't be both a direct democracy and a republic. But today we have the term "direct democracy" to distinguish between direct democracy and representative democracy. Both are considered forms of democracy today.
radtea wrote:
If the underdog didn't win sometimes (about 13.6% of the time, in the present case) then Silver would be wrong.
Then based on your statement, statistics are never wrong, but they're also essentially pointless, since we can't be certain which portion of the percentage the outcome will actually fall within (the 86.3% or the 13.6%). If it can fall in either place, it's essentially 50/50, since any given instance it could go either way.
Postby fasces349 » Mon Nov 05, 2012 5:30 pm UTC
EpicanicusStrikes wrote:
Going back to my source (Bradley Smith, the former Commissioner of the FEC), it was 18% not 25% and that was included Super PACs
@Jestingrabbitt and EpicanicusStrikes: Superpacs don't make it anonymous, in fact its the opposite, a common misconception which even some news shows have gotten wrong.
Donating to the persons campaign is anonymous, but you can't donate more then $2500. Super Pacs have to release the name and amount of money for every donation they receive. And in 2010 1 candidate actually lost because their opponents pointed out that corporations were backing him 50-1 and so he would be bad for the people. The claim that corporations control politics is a complete myth and infact unions donate more then corporations do (18% for corporations and 26% for unions)
Myths about politics:
Both options are the same. The reason most people end up thinking this is because the president actually has significantly less power then people think and so can actually do very little compared to what is expected.
Corporations control politics. If this was the case then Dodd-Frank wouldn't have been passed. In past recessions companies that employ thousands of workers got bailout when they were failing. This wasn't because the CEOs and the politicians were good friends but simply if it didn't happen the recession would have been much worse (can anyone name keynes?) as unemployment would skyrocket. To big to fail isn't because they buy politicians but because they have such a high stake in our economy that if they failed so would the US economy. This being said, EpicanicusStrikes brought up a good point about lobbying, the NRA (a non-profit so doesn't count as a corporation) is on average the largest campaign contributor for republicans and the teachers union is on average the largest campaign contributor for democrats. Obviously as a result Republicans are pro-guns (but this doesn't mean democrats are anti-guns) and democrats are pro-union. However mega corporations, despite popular belief tend to stay out of politics. Microsoft, Google, etc. donate a total of $0 to political parties because the maximum amount of damage a president could do minuscule compared to isolating 1/2 of your consumers by supporting the wrong party. Oil and Agriculture are notable exceptions because they jump behind politicians who support subsidies in their respective industries, simply because subsidies mean more profit. Banks have become a recent exception (The finance sector donated more to Obama in 2008, then they have in every other election combined in history).
The Rich buy elections: Freakonomics did a study in this by looking at every circumstance in history where the same 2 candidates ran against eachother more then once. They found that if you spend twice as much as your candidate, you would get 1% more votes then you originally would have. The reason why in almost every case in history the winner had more money is simply because 56% of donations (in $ amount) come from individuals. Think about it, if your the more popular candidate, more people will donate to your campaign and so you will have more money you have to spend.
I think these are the big ones.
Lastly to clarify my previous post:
SerMufasa wrote: Y'all responding to fasces349 are spending too many words on the subject. The answer is simple: Silver would only be wrong if Romney wins after Silver gave Obama a 100% chance to win.
I'm actually rather disappointed that nobody realized that my original post was a joke. noone (hopefully) is stupid enough to vote for the underdog in an election just because he is the underdog.
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Postby Coyne » Mon Nov 05, 2012 6:26 pm UTC
If you think campaigns are all that matter, you haven't been paying attention. For example, while Obama and Romney have both raised about $1.1 billion for this election, just one PAC--American Crossroads--expects to raise and spend $300 million.
Of course, we don't know how all the PAC's will do, but there are at least 250 of them that matter: And if they each average $30 million, then the aggregate $7.5 billion will significantly overshadow O&R's pathetic campaign donations. The majority of their donations are corporate, because direct giving to campaigns still has limits.
TV Week says PAC spending might go as high as $9.8 billion.
In all fairness...
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Postby Fire Brns » Mon Nov 05, 2012 6:38 pm UTC
I'm laughing at you all.
The polls are all useless. Whenever I see a poll saying " 'Candidate A' guaranteed win in 'State A' " I immediately go to look at how they reached those numbers and can immediately call BS. One poll (which I am only using because it was obviously biased and no one can say I myself am being biased of it's results) said that Obama was guaranteed Ohio.
The poll included 46 Republicans, 19 Democrats, and 35 independents.
The poll had the numbers at 46/52 in favor of Obama.
Conclusion:If every Republican chose Romney and every Democrat chose Obama then 94% of independents had to have voted Obama. Those numbers don't agree with any other poll (but that doesn't matter because the other polls are wrong too) and the balance itself of 46/35/19 isn't an accurate cross section of the population.
Long story short: The only people who are actively polling are the people with a dog in the fight.
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Postby mathmannix » Mon Nov 05, 2012 6:39 pm UTC
fasces349 wrote: I'm actually rather disappointed that nobody realized that my original post was a joke. noone (hopefully) is stupid enough to vote for the underdog in an election just because he is the underdog.
I don't think Romney's really the underdog, because a lot of people expect him to win. I would imagine that the majority of people who will vote for him tomorrow expect him to win, or at least believe that it is possible. However, I bet nobody who will vote for the Prohibition Party candidate, Jack Fellure of West Virginia, tomorrow expect him to win. (Actually, it is technically impossible for him to win, as he only on the ballot in Louisiana, and write-in votes for him in 41 states - including California, Texas, New York, and Florida - will just be thrown out rather than counted - link.)
There are six people who are actually capable of being elected President tomorrow - in decreasing order of how their party's candidates did in 2008, they are Democrat Barack Obama, Republican Mitt Romney, Libertarian Gary Johnson, Constitution Party candidate Virgil Goode, Green Party candidate Jill Stein, and lastly Justice Party candidate Rocky Anderson, whose party was just created last year. As Rocky Anderson would have to get a majority of votes in every single state that he can legally get votes in to be elected, he is (IMO) definitely the underdog.
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In Mende, eight poplar trees decorated with ribbons, embroidered and crocheted scarves are erected in the central aisle of the church for the Pentecost. The church service takes place with the congregation under the decorated trees. The three-day celebration was originally part of the local ethnic Slovak community’s traditions but the non-Slovak Catholics and Lutherans in Mende and the surrounding villages also participate. The custom has been inscribed on the National Inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Hungary in 2011.
Locality Mende, Pest County Hungary
Time Pentecost (Saturday, Sunday and Monday)
History (cyclicality) The tradition of church decorating in Hungary can be traced back to the 17th century. This custom has a long tradition in Mende as well where it is performed regularly every year.
Organizer Local Evangelical-Lutheran congregation
Realisation team All members of the congregation – with specific tasks based on gender and age group
Target group The three-day celebration was originally part of the local ethnic Slovakian community’s traditions but the non-Slovakian Catholics and Lutherans in Mende and the surrounding villages also participate in the celebration and the preparations.
Traditional culture elements
Church decorating is a religious Pentecostal custom of greeting spring. All members of the congregation take part in the raising of the May Pole or May Tree - with specific tasks designated based on gender and age group. Men of the community are responsible for cutting down, transporting and erecting the trees, while women and children prepare the textiles and ornaments to decorate them. Eight poplar trees decorated with ribbons, embroidered and crocheted scarves are erected in the central aisle of the church. The church service takes place with the congregation under the decorated trees.
Ethnographic criterion The custom was known in several settlements in Hungary, but its preservation in Mende is unique. The way of handing down tradition is also defined: men teach the younger generation how to cut, transport and erect the trees, while women teach them how to prepare the textiles.s
Environmental criterion Church decorating has become an organic part of the customs of the ritual year in Mende and the Lutherans of neighbouring settlements.
Cultural-historical criterion Traditional phenomenon existing in several generations, this tradition can be seen as continuous. The originally spontaneous organization of events has been followed by a wave of more conscious safeguarding.
Aesthetic criterion The textiles and the decorated church represent the local aesthetic values.
Ethical criterion There is no ethical problem
Psychological criterion Although the Lutheran congregation operates as an active community all year round, the continuation of the tradition has a significant role in reinforcing and strengthening the group identity. Preparations leading up to the celebration, organizing and managing tasks, drawing in new participants and the community feast held after decorating the trees all serve to further group cohesion.
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Not all campers are happy with having one of the world's richest men sharing a campground. "When [Borlase] goes to the men's room or the shower," complains Billy Barker, who comes here every year, "he has eight or nine guys going with him. And he's the only one allowed in the showers while he's in there. It fouls things up for the rest of us. You know, couldn't he just get a motor home instead? Then he'd have his own facilities. Instead, he's got that eye-sore of a circus tent and a who little village of tents around it. It's ridiculous."
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Review of Videotape by Andrew Zawacki
by Lauren Hilger | Sep 3, 2014
[…]the ex-movie-
plex, each raindrop
a prism,
its spectrum
a trick of machine
(“Track A Errormirror”)The life cycle of technology, it seems, begins with an idea of the future. This is followed shortly by obsolescence. What was once new becomes an embarrassing emblem, a precious bit of our past. Following this stage is nostalgia; here, inventions of yore become relics of an era and can acquire an aura of the talisman. Videotape, Andrew Zawacki’s fourth full-length collection introduces us to a strange, “Xeroxed” world of technological decay: airport parking lots, flailing wi-fi networks, saline flats, “hi-res /turquoise // & the cold.” If this world is terrifying, it’s because we can see it clearly and it was made by us. Sci-fi, post-apocalyptic, and rife with beautifully rendered dystopic landscapes, this book revels in both the earliest aspects of poetry—the internal logic of sound—and the technological contemporary, future, and near past.
Videotape is best in its creepier images and ideas. We encounter “a knife being sharpened to nothing” and learn that “the world exists to end up on DVD.” This landscape seems made up of eyes, mirrors, their refractions, and reflections. Zawacki writes,
That things mean by being: our
industrial trash barrel, curbside
at 5, recycling bin with a ziggurat
of Perrier bottles & Dr. Pepper,
prettier for the diffractions of
metal—41ALU upcycled, as sun-
light to scatter the sun—, a
sweepstakes envelope & its gaudy
This is a place with human things and few humans, a lot of batteries, cassette tapes and, of course, many VHS tapes. Where, the reader wonders, are we? There’s a sense, even though we’re not in every scene, we’re still recording, and broadcasting.
The reader is assured by Zawacki, “All’ll be made more beautiful for the tourists, including the tourists.” Some pressing questions remain: How do we deal with these technological half-lives? Is this a wasteland? Certainly, Zawacki’s ideas of the future appear with “Duracell birds” changing, eroding nature (featuring both the “peneplain” and the “esker.”) One hears “Noises that Skype us, scuff us awake,” and sees the bleak sign, “a clearance sale flogged on Commerce Road: EVERYTHING MUST GO.” Here, disturbingly, are the “Places named for people named for places somewhere else.” Even colors, as they exist in nature, are commercial products, “its Windexblue plane” and “baby aspirin white.”
Uncertainty reigns. The real and its reverse are eerily similar likenesses. In this world, it is difficult to separate the reproduced image from the original:
yesterday morning, an mp3 of
birds at the sill & clothing pinned to the line.
In addition to the mysterious visual of Videotape, Zawacki is a master at engaging the reader by his smart and natural use of sound devices. Phrases like “Georgia mid-/July, the trees halloo Tallulah/Gorge” create both a palpable sense of place and connect the words and images by their sonic qualities. This collection provides a wealth of outstanding examples: “lilies in italics, the lilacs underlined,” “spherical, / sapphirical,” “the seraphim shimmer of summer auguring off,” and “cyan à la / Cézanne:” These are lines meant to be read aloud. The reader finds words inside other words, as though Zawacki has hit a rock with a hammer and suddenly we get to see the geometry of a geode’s crystal. There is also a strong anagram sensibility to many lines, as in “neige & verglas: vigilance orange” forcing the reader to at once consider and listen to the lines.
Not every line is so precious, in fact, some are flinty with expletives, “I’m / scared to hell of the fuck if /I know.” And some of these lines feel as though Zawacki has excised all but an electrical vein of meaning. The phrase, “gun cotton fog” appeals to this reader, as the word “metal” is omitted; the color “gunmetal” is already in the reader’s head so that “gun cotton” can become both color and texture, a streamlined understanding of the fog.
In addition to this tight and precise attention to language, one of the most distinct aspects of Videotape is Zawacki’s use of broken words. With hyphenation, words are divided and are split between lines as in “to lifelike- //nesslessness,” “a thresh /-old of hunger,” and “blacktop format /-ions.” A few employ a French effect: “je /-rry-rigged” “je /-june” and some seem to carry a profound new understanding of the word: “per- /cussing his life,” “Lazar- / us.”
The broken word creates four effects: it mirrors back to us the whole unbroken word, each half, and the word we then read differently, after it’s been broken in half. The experience of reading these split words is additionally affected by whether the hyphen appears in the first or second half, that is, whether the reader is aware another part of the word will change the original meaning.
For example, in “sky/-line” the hyphen is included on the next line; one first reads “sky” and assumes the word will remain intact; the image is then multiplied into “sky,” “skyline,” and “line.” These appear frequently throughout the collection, (perhaps the least exciting is “hy /-phen”) and provide a turn in the poem where one reads both forward then backward.
Zawacki is also paying attention to the look of these poems on the page. In the first section of the book, “Track A Errormirror” they are poems as gorgeous columns. There’s an immediate beauty to these pages. While the outer edges of these columns appear sharp, they are internally made of erratic white space. Zawacki uses the column with a caesura so that shorter lines become flush with either edge. That caesura becomes a divisor, and those spaces between words take on new meaning.
Blank space is used prominently in the section, “Track B Lumièrethèque” as well. These short prose poems appear at the bottom of the page. White space exists above them, so that there is the implication of the footnote, or the fragment. They provide a different landscape, another view of the strange vistas in this collection’s world.
Writing into this hotbed of postmodernism, Zawacki provides “a view of the view/of the OMNIMAX sea,” the “Cell tower beacon a red / boutonniere,” but he never abandons a precise, sonic intention. Here, words, their meaning and sound, are woven into each other, (e.g. “stocked from the Reagan / years, its radar gone haywire.”) Zawacki achieves a great deal in Videotape, there is emotional accuracy, powerful, eerie atmosphere, and it joyfully raises the stakes for the reader to fully experience—aurally, visually, and intellectually—this poetry
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New dock with ramp and railings major step towards universal access at Orange Community Boathouse
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The Community Boathouse of Orange, MA has been providing enjoyment and adventure since its opening in July, 2013. Now in its third season, it’s reached an oar out to another part of the community through an EZ dock. This recent addition to the boathouse facility has enabled those with disabilities or the elderly to gain independence in their canoeing and kayaking experience.
EZ docks are made by FWM docks in New Hampshire. The newly installed dock boasts a large platform suitable for those with a wheelchair or crutches. From the platform, a canoe or kayak is placed onto the launch ramp. The individual can then ease into their watercraft and “roll” themselves into the water via smooth transition rollers by pulling on the side rails.
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Before the installation of the dock, the way to get into a canoe or kayak was at an awkward angle and made it difficult for some people to get in and out.
Reilly Gervais, boathouse staff, said he expects many people to be able to use the dock and that everyone who has loves it.
Gervais said people come back thanks to the new dock system, making it what he called, “a great thing for Orange.”
But the new dock isn’t just a benefit for the community. The material it’s made of is light penetrable, allowing for aquatic plants below to receive partial sunlight.
The purchase and installation was a robust collaboration between Greenworks, the Town of Orange and citizen activists.
The endeavor saw fruition through a Department of Conservation and Recreation trail grant.
As a ranking competitive kayaker, Pam Browning recognized the need of a handicapped access docking system and brought it to the town’s attention.
Reilly Gervais, Boathouse manager, demonstrates how to use the EZ dock.
Browning was the first person to contact FWM docks and get the ball rolling on the handicapped accessibility for the boathouse.
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Other key project members include Polly Bixby and Karen Grzesik. The two were former coaches who took students mountain biking and rappelling long before it was widely popular. The pair pioneered the idea of outdoor recreation in the mainstream Orange community and contributed towards work with the boathouse.
The dock, as currently configured, does not grant universal access. It is, however, the first grand step.
Janet Zeller is an expert canoer/kayaker and the National Accessibility Program Manager for the U.S. Forest Service. She is also, due to an accident in the mid-80s, a quadriplegic. Since her injury, she has dedicated her life’s work to increasing recreational accessibility, especially in relations to outdoor activities. However, Zeller is not as enthusiastic about the EZ dock and has expressed criticism for its limitations.
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In remembering a recent visit to the site of the installation of another EZ dock system, Zeller said, “I saw a man who uses a walker struggle to get close to his kayak to enter, again because the rails were in the way. And a person who has limited vision tripped on that rail as he exited his kayak and injured himself when he fell.”
Zeller also references her own struggles with the EZ dock system. As a quadriplegic, she cannot access her kayak via the dock. She notes that the transfer bench only works for those with a very low level of paralysis. Handicapped individuals lacking a strong upper body can’t move independently or settle into the kayak alone.
Zeller urges the boathouse managers to bring more accessibility options to the boathouse in the future.
An additional component to universal access includes a transfer sling. This is one way for handicapped, paralyzed and quadriplegic individuals to enter their boating vessels. It’s something the project leaders considered but agreed to revisit at a later date.
Another accessibility option includes a shallow transfer area, which involves a platform or land that gently slopes into the water’s edge in a shallow area of the river. This allows handicapped individuals to access their watercraft off their wheel chair or crutches with the assistant of a companion. This is the option Zeller most approves of and considers all other systems to be a compromise. She refers to it as “Universal Design.”
Despite the fact that there is still more to be done, project leaders determined the dock to be a much needed aid to the Orange community that would work until later additions to the boathouse could increase accessibility. They pointed out that not only would it help the disabled but also the elderly.
Greenworks President, Jonathan Schwartz, is pleased with the addition and believes the new dock is the first step towards a boathouse with universal access for all individuals that can become a model for the rest of the nation. He looks forward to working with all interested parties to reach that goal within the next couple of years.
Allen Young, a dedicated Orange resident and columnist for the Athol Daily News, sums up his view on the completed project, as well as an up and coming Greenworks town addition, in a letter of support, “The plan of the town of Orange to develop a trail along the Millers River, and handicapped access, too, is wonderful and merits support from those who have some money to assist a small town with limited funds.”
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Il fantasma dell’Opera ALL POTO PHANS PLEASE READ!! Important...
phangirl4eva posted on Jul 11, 2012 at 12:08AM
I’m going to be starting a petition soon for a Phantom of the opera sequel movie. It’s NOT going to be Love Never Dies, but a sequel ( or alternate first movie ) where Erik and Christine get a happy ending. It will not be a musical, but a REAL movie.
I need ideas though to present to the screenplay writers, directors, etc. So please SEND ME YOUR IDEAS!!
( p.s. I do love Andrew Lloyd Webber’s stories but we need something fresh! )
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più di un anno fa PandaKISS said…
How about having Susan Kay's novel 'Phantom' being made into a movie. I think everyone would like that, there's already a petition for her novel to be made though, you might want to change the ending cuz Erik dies, and I don't like the ending, well I don't hate it I just don't like it. I like Leroux's better.
più di un anno fa bendaimmortal said…
But he dies in Leroux, too. So why exactly do you like it better? :D
I know, phangirl4eva said she wanted Erik and Christine to have a happy ending so I said "you'll have to change the ending to make it "happy" I like Leroux's ending because it's bitter sweet and probably the best ending were going to get as fans of POTO.
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West Nile Encephalitis and Its Characteristics in Childhood
Meltem Karabay 1 , 2 , * , Aziz Ogutlu 2 , Gokcen Ozturk 2 , Ertugrul Guclu 2 and Oguz Karabay 2
1 Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Sakarya University, Sakarya, Turkey
2 Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Sakarya University, Sakarya, Turkey
* Corresponding Author: Meltem Karabay, Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Sakarya University, Sakarya, Turkey. E-mail: drkarabay@gmail.com
Iranian Journal of Pediatrics: June 28, 2015, 25 (3)
Published Online: June 21, 2015
Article Type: Letter
Received: July 1, 2014
Accepted: November 30, 2014
DOI: 10.5812/ijp.246
To Cite: Karabay M, Ogutlu A, Ozturk G, Guclu E, Karabay O. West Nile Encephalitis and Its Characteristics in Childhood, Iran J Pediatr. 2015 ; 25(3):-. doi: 10.5812/ijp.246.
Keywords: Child; West Nile Virus; Fever
Copyright © 2015, Growth & Development Research Center.This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits copy and redistribute the material just in noncommercial usages, provided the original work is properly cited.
West Nile virus (WNV) is a member of the family flaviviridae. Culex mosquitoes and birds are playing crucial role in the spread of WNV. It can also spread through blood transfusions, organ transplants and from mother to baby in the course of breastfeeding (1). WNV was first isolated in a village of Uganda and many epidemics related to this disease have been reported ever since. However, as of this date, great epidemics have been reported in Africa, Europe, Russia and Israel (2). Although various data were given in epidemiologic studies in Turkey, we could reach only one case report from child age group in our country (3). With this letter, for the first time, we aimed to draw attention to the issue by defining WNV infection and its characteristics in children. We present five cases diagnosed West Nile Infection who were admitted with meningo-encephalitis. Cerebrospinal fluid findings and clinical properties of the five cases are summarized in Tables 1 and 2.
Epidemiological studies show that the disease is increased during summer. The nature of the disease is closely related with mosquitos, all of our cases were seen in August-September. WNV is a mosquito borne disease with epidemics in regions where mosquitoes are common between May and October. In our cases, the average age of five children was 9.2. The diagnosis of these five children was established detecting IgM positivity in blood sample taken within 14-18 days after onset of symptoms. The disease has been detected in serological analysis performed in our country. WNV occurs generally with encephalitis symptoms in children under one and adults over 60 years. In a different study in the same region in 2010, encephalitis was detected in five cases in an epidemic. Average age was 64.6. These five cases presented with fever, headache, nausea, vomiting, muscle pains, and consciousness (4). Neuroinvasive WNV disease is generally in the form of meningitis, encephalitis or acute flaccid paralysis. Extrapyramidal symptoms, ataxia, optic neuritis, myelitis and the signs of cranial nerve involvement are the neurological symptoms that occur less frequently. Encephalitis-meningo-encephalitis by itself is more frequent than meningitis (5).
Rash frequency is 50%. Rash is typically localized in chest, back and arms, and it has maculo-papular character. Rash is a crucial prognostic indicator for severe disease and death (6). While WNV is symptomatic progressive in elders, it is generally asymptomatic progressive in young. WNV was detected in 1478 children in USA between 1999 and 2007 (7). There was neck stiffness in three cases, Kernig and Brudzinski positivity in two cases. Although rash in WNV encephalitis is reported in various sources, we observed it in only one case in our study. In this case, rash appeared on legs and it was of maculo-papular characteristic. In CSF (Cerebrospinal fluid) analysis of WNV encephalitis, protein may be normal or slightly high. CSF protein, CSF glucose and CSF cell count of the cases was between 20-200 mg/dL, 49-66 mg/dL and 0-500 mm3 respectively. Hence, children with WNV encephalitis resented with typical signs of aseptic meningitis.
According to our experience, WNV clinical signs of encephalitis started suddenly, and headache and fever were present in all children. WNV must be taken into consideration in suspicious cases in beginning of autumn and mid-summer in provinces located on the migration route of birds. In summer, before diagnosing aseptic meningitis in a child with headache, encephalitis and fever, WNV testing should be done.
Table 1. Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF) Findings of Cases
CSF Protein, Mg/dL 20 30 20 200 100
CSF glucose, mg/dL 66 55 65 56 49
Blood glucose, mg/dL 154 109 145 111 98
CSF Chloride, mmol/L 117 114 117 126 125
CSF albumin, mg/dL 15 20 10 190 70
CSF Cell count, mm3 0 110 0 10 500
Table 2. Demographic Findings of Cases
Age, y 10 16 3 13 4
Leukocyte count 109/L 11000 9200 8000 8400 6300
Fever + + + + +
Headache + + + + +
Vomiting + + - - +
Neck stiffness + + - + -
Kernig + + - - -
Brudzinski + + - - -
Rash + - - - -
1. Hayes EB, Komar N, Nasci RS, Montgomery SP, O'Leary DR, Campbell GL. Epidemiology and transmission dynamics of West Nile virus disease. Emerg Infect Dis. 2005; 11(8): 1167-73[DOI][PubMed]
2. Artsob H, Gubler DJ, Enria DA, Morales MA, Pupo M, Bunning ML, et al. West Nile Virus in the New World: trends in the spread and proliferation of West Nile Virus in the Western Hemisphere. Zoonoses Public Health. 2009; 56(6-7): 357-69[DOI][PubMed]
3. Tapisiz A, Emiralioglu N, Vural O, Ozcan B, Oznur N, Bedir T, et al. The first report of West Nile virus infection in a child from Turkey. Turk J Pediatr. 2011; 53(3): 317-9[PubMed]
4. Karabay O, Tuna N, Yahyaoglu, M. , Ozturk G. High cerebrospinal fluid protein level in West Nile virus encephalitis: report of five cases. Turkish J Med Sci. 2012; 42(6): 1142-6
5. Nash D, Mostashari F, Fine A, Miller J, O'Leary D, Murray K, et al. The outbreak of West Nile virus infection in the New York City area in 1999. N Engl J Med. 2001; 344(24): 1807-14[DOI][PubMed]
6. Pealer LN, Marfin AA, Petersen LR, Lanciotti RS, Page PL, Stramer SL, et al. Transmission of West Nile virus through blood transfusion in the United States in 2002. N Engl J Med. 2003; 349(13): 1236-45[DOI][PubMed]
7. Lindsey NP, Hayes EB, Staples JE, Fischer M. West Nile virus disease in children, United States, 1999-2007. Pediatrics. 2009; 123(6)-9[DOI][PubMed]
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ANZAPPL seminar on disability rights (ADVERTISEMENT)
The Australian & New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law invite members to attend a seminar on the proposed Asia-Pacific Regional Disability Rights Tribunal, to be held on Monday, 16 August 2010 at 6.00pm at Carl Shannon Chambers, Level 13, 175 Liverpool St. The chair will be Dr Astrid Birgden, president of ANZAPPL NSW Branch. Presenters include: Greg James, Mental Health Review Tribunal NSW, Yoshikazu Ikehara, Tokyo Advocacy Law Centre, Rob Ramjan, CEO, Schizophrenia Fellowship NSW, Professor Terry Carney, Sydney Law School.
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NSW Law Reports online
NSWLR Volume 75, Part 1 is now available to online and print subscribers. For a list of cases in the part, and other NSWLR parts and volumes, go to www.nswlr.com.au/reports.
Here we go, Here we go! Support the Bar Football Team
The New South Wales Bar Football Team is competing, for the first time, in the solicitorsâ Inter-firm Football Day tomorrow, 4 September 2010 at Queens Park Ovals commencing from about 9.30 am. Their first game is against Minter Ellison at 9.30 am, followed by Middletons at 11.30 am and Corrs at 2.30 pm with the finals from 3.00 pm (assuming they qualify). Members should bring their friends, families, a picnic basket and their enthusiasm. Remember to **look for the splendid new Bar Association banners._�**_�
TONIGHT - ALRC inquiry into discovery in federal courts
The Australian Law Reform Commission will hold a consultation session with interested members of the bar on its current reference entitled Review of Discovery Laws to Improve Access to Justice. The session will be held in the Common Room at 5.00pm tonight. The government has requested the Australian Law Reform Commission to explore options to improve the discovery process in civil litigation in the federal courts, to promote the early and proportionate exchange of information and evidence in court proceedings.� In conducting its inquiry, the commission has been requested to consult closely with the courts and legal profession.�
Banking and Financial Services Law Association Conference (ADVERTISEMENT)
The Banking and Financial Services Law Association is holding its 27th Annual Conference on 14 to 16 August 2010 in Queenstown, New Zealand. A conference programme and registration brochure may be downloaded from the BFSLA web site. The NSW Bar Association has accredited the conference with 6 CPD points.
_We are delighted to have Lord Hoffmann speaking this year. We are equally delighted that the Judiciary from both New Zealand and Australia continues its strong support for our Conference.� Justice Dyson Heydon from the High Court of Australia, the� immediate past President of the New Zealand Court of Appeal� and recently appointed Justice of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, Sir William Young, Justice Julie Ward from the Supreme Court of NSW and Dr RP Austin, recently retired from that Court, are also speaking.
In keeping with our regulatory and responsibility theme, we also have Bob Pickel from ISDA, New York, Jane Diplock, Chair of the NZ Securities Commission, and Prof John Armour, Lovells Professor of Law and Finance, Oxford speaking on regulation after the GFC. We also have two PPSA topics, our first ever session an Islamic financing, and many other sessions including cross border insolvency, secondary debt trading, AML and anti-terrorism laws and the new consumer credit laws. � We already have over 200 lawyers registered for the Conference. The Bar has always been a strong supporter of the BFSLA and the Conference and we look forward to seeing many of you at the Conference in Queenstown in August._
Appointment to the Supreme Court of Victoria
Attorney-General Rob Hulls has announced the appointment of Peter Almond QC as a judge of the Victorian Supreme Court. Mr Almond has specialised in many areas of civil and commercial law, including administrative law, banking and finance, building and construction, commercial law, corporations and securities, telecommunications and trade practices.
2010 Common Law Dinner - RSVP by today
The Hon Timothy Studdert QC will be the guest speaker at the 2010 Common Law Dinner, which will take place on the evening of Friday, 27 August at the Bond Cafe on Phillip Street. RSVP by today, 20 August 2010. Download your registration form>
Bar Book Club meets on 17 August
The next meeting of the Bar Book Club will be on Tuesday, 17 August 2010, at 6.00pm in the library. As our contribution to election fever (as opposed to Masterchef fever) we have opted for a political theme.� The selected books are: Rise of the Ruddbot: observations from the gallery by Annabel Crabb and _Hawke : the Prime Minister _by Blanche dâAlpuget.� Read either or both books and be ready for a freewheeling political debate, four days out from the election.
Australian Bar Association Conference, Berlin, 3-6 July 2011
The Australian Bar Association Conference 2011 will be held in Berlin between 3 July and 6 July. Among the special guest speakers will be Chief Justice Ngcobo (Sth Africa), Baroness Hale (Supreme Court of the UK), Professor Reinhard Zimmermann (Max Planck Institute) and Lord Neuberger. Download a conference registration form now to reserve your place. The conference will be preceded by the ABA Mediators Conference in Dresden on 27-29 June. Download information about hotel accomodation in Berlin and Dresden, and conference tours. All travel arrangements can be booked using the World Travel Professionals booking form.
Private Ancilliary Funds (ADVERTISEMENT)
The Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP) invites you to an address by John Emerson AM on Private Ancillary Funds. The address will take place on Wednesday, 11 August 2010 at 5.30pm sharp at Banco Court, Queens Square. Refreshments will be served at 7.00pm. For more information, or to register, download a flyer>
BOCSAR report on suspended sentences
The use of suspended sentences is growing rapidly in NSW, according to a new report by the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research. The Bureau examined trends in the use of suspended sentences and other sanctions between 1994 and 2008. Since they were re-introduced to NSW in April 2000, the use of suspended prison sentences has tripled in NSW Local Courts and more than doubled in NSW Higher (District and Supreme) criminal courts.
Free tickets to The Waiting City
The newly-released Australian film The Waiting City _has interesting connections with the legal profession. The main female lead character (superbly played by the beautiful Radha Mitchell) is a senior associate soon to be partner, in a major (fictional) Sydney law firm. She and her husband Ben (Joel Edgerton) are in Calcutta to adopt a little girl. The story is about what happens to them. _The Waiting City has opened to many favourable reviews and has been endorsed by Steve Waugh amongst others.
This filmâs other legal connection is through the producer Jamie Hilton, who is a cousin of Jeffrey Hilton SC, Head of 9 Selbourne Chambers and the script writer/director Claire McCarthy, who is the daughter of John McCarthy QC, head of 5 Wentworth Chambers.
To celebrate these legal connections of The Waiting City arrangements have been made for five complementary passes for the first five members of the Bar Association who contact In Brief.
The annual Banking and Financial Services Law and Practice Conference
The 27th Annual Banking and Financial Services Law and Practice Conference will be held at the Millenium Hotel, Queenstown, New Zealand on 14-16 August 2010. The theme is "Apres GFC: the regulatory and responsibility hangover" with sessions on the new consumer credit laws, cross-border insolvency, secondary debt trading, regulation after the GFC and Islamic financing. Learn more>
Take part in DJAG's online usability survey
The Department of Justice and Attorney General is undertaking a major review of the websites for NSW courts and tribunals. The department is seeking input from users of the web sites and would like to invite members of the legal community to participate in a 20 minute online usability exercise in early August 2010. The exercise can be undertaken from participants' PCs. If you are interested in participating, or would like more information, please contact Miriam Cha.
Fundraising Trivia Night at the Bar Association Thursday, 12 August
Righteous Pups Australia is a not for profit organisation with a mission to raise, socialise and train Autism Assistance Dogs to do a variety of practical tasks for Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorders and their families. An Autism Assistance dog will cost approximately $29,000 to rear, train and place over an 18-month period.
The New South Wales Bar Association is hosting a Trivia Night in the Common Room on Thursday, 12 August to raise vital funds for this wonderful organisation. So itâs time to get your heads together and come and join the fun!� Friends, partners, clients and instructing solicitors are all welcome. Although be warned: anyone caught trying to Google the answers will be fined $20, which will go directly to Righteous Pups Australia.�
Tickets are $35 per person, or $350 for a table of 10. This includes trivia, snacks and beverages. On the night there will be also be a raffle. Limited tickets to trivia available, so get in early. Be sure to book your table by Thursday, 5 August.
If you are not able to attend the evening but would still like to make a donation to Righteous Pups Australia, please complete your details below and send the form with payment to Katie Hall at the Bar Association. Details on the booking form.
Any questions regarding the night, please contact Stephanie Mancell (Wednesday â Friday) at e-mail address smancell@nswbar.asn.au or phone (02) 9229 1717.
LCA seeks pre-election views on key legal issues
The Law Council has invited political parties contesting the 2010 Federal Election to provide their views on key national issues of relevance to the Australian legal profession. The Law Council has prepared a document containing a list of issues and requested political parties provide the details of their policy platform on these key areas by 28 July.� Learn more >
Tonight: trial efficiency and case management under the Criminal Procedure Act
At 5.00pm tonight, in the Banco Court, Lord Justice Leveson, formerly senior presiding judge in Queens Bench and presently the chair of the Sentencing Council for England and Wales, will talk about efficiency reforms in relation to criminal trials in England and his work in sentencing.� Justice McClellan, chief judge at Common Law, will speak about the 2009 report of the NSW Trial Efficiency Working Group and the subsequent amendments to the Criminal Procedure Act 1986. Learn more>
Interested in constitutional and administrative law?
The Bar Association's Constitutional & Administrative Law Section is looking for new members. Any member who is interested in joining should contact Fiona Piercy, assistant to Alan Robertson SC on ph: (02) 8257-2582 or via e-mail:fiona.piercy@stjames.net.au
Final reminder: the fifth John Lehane Memorial Lecture
Members are reminded that the fifth John Lehane Memorial Lecture will be held on Wednesday, 18 August 2010 at 6.00pm in the Banco Court, Queens Square. Lord Hoffmann will speak on the Influence of European Law on the Common Law in English Courts. Attendance will attract one CPD point in the substantive law strand.�
Mediators Conference
The Bar Association of Queensland will hold its annual Mediators Conference over the weekend of Saturday 28 - Sunday 29 August 2010 at the Hyatt Sanctuary Cove, Gold Coast, Queensland. For more information or to register your interest, download a conference brochure. A separate accommodation form is available. Attendance will attract six CPD points.
ONE SPACE REMAINING - Persuasion Power Workshop Series: 17, 24 and 31 October 2010
This Workshop Series focuses on how Barristers can maximise their persuasive ability. Participants practise and analyse persuasive and presentational strategies, tactics and techniques, using material that is specifically designed to enhance persuasiveness in many facets of legal work. This hands-on, small-group format is a laboratory for experiment with each individualâs approach and temperament, in an entertaining, collegial atmosphere where experience is pooled and shared. The emphasis is on helping participants to develop personal persuasive and presentational styles, through intensive practice of micro-skills, often honed under questioning pressure. The series consists of three workshops to be held on Sunday 17, 24 and **31 October 2010 from 10.00am - 2.00pm. Attendance will provide 6 CPD points in the Advocacy strand**. For more information download a flyer. To register, click here.
**12 October 2010
Aviation law seminar: "Shark 02 has crashed"
The Aviation Law Association of Australia and New Zealand (ALAANZ) invite members to a seminar over dinner on the subject of the Nias Island Sea King Accident on 2 April 2005. Barristers David Jordan and Paul W Kerr, who appeared in the Naval Inquiry into this tragic accident, will be presenting a talk on the proceedings and final report.
The seminar and dinner will be hosted at Blake Dawson (Grosvenor Place level 36, 225 George Street, Sydney) on Thursday, 5 August 2010 @ 6pm for 6:30pm
RSVP by Friday, 30 July 2010 to julia.hornigold@blakedawson.com or ph: (02) 9258 5615 - cost including dinner and drinks - members $65 (incl GST) - non-members $75 (incl GST).
The Twentieth British Legal History Conference: call for papers
The Twentieth British Legal History Conference will be held in Cambridge from Wednesday, 13 July 2011 to Saturday, 16 July 2011. The conference theme will be: Law and Legal Process. It will address the intersection between law and legal process, the ways in which the processes of courts and other tribunals, the practices of judges and lawyers, and the needs of litigants, influence each other and shape the development of the law; and the influences in turn of legal doctrine upon the practices of those coming into contact with the law.
The conference organisers welcome papers concerning all jurisdictions, branches of the law and historical periods. Ideally, papers should reflect the conference theme. Papers reflecting the results of innovative legal history research are most welcome. Submissions from doctoral students are encouraged.
Proposals for papers (up to 500 words) are invited, to reach the organisers â preferably by email attachment (in Word or pdf format) sent to the address below â by 31 August 2010. If potential contributors are unsure whether their proposals suitably reflect the theme, the organisers are very happy to be contacted informally by email (again to the address below).
A draft programme and details of registration and accommodation will be circulated early in 2011. Conference Organisers
Professor Sir John Baker; Professor David Ibbetson; Dr Neil Jones; Dr Isabella Alexander and Dr Matt Dyson.
Conference email: LawBLHC@hermes.cam.ac.uk
15 Bobber: the Hon Justice Margaret Cleary
The 15 Bobber to celebrate the appointment of the Hon Justice Margaret Cleary to the Family Court of Australia will be held on Friday, 30 July 2010. Speaking for Justice Cleary will be John McCarthy QC. The 15 Bobber will commence at 5.30pm with the speeches beginning at 5.45pm. Pre-registration is $15 and MUST be sent to the association by 3.00pm Thursday, 29 July. Reservations made after this time and at the door will be $25.
Download a registration form and return it with payment to the New South Wales Bar Association, DX 1204 SYDNEY or fax 9221 1149.
Please contact Katie Hall on ph (02) 9229 1720 if you have any questions regarding the 15 Bobber.
Fundraising for the Martin Place Homeless - RSVPs due TOMORROW
The president and the Bar Council have the pleasure of inviting all members of the New South Wales Bar Association and their guests to a Fundraising Dinner for the Martin Place homeless. The dinner is to take place on Thursday, 19 August 2010 in the Strangersâ Dining Room at NSW Parliament House. The dinner commences at 6.00pm. The RSVP due date is tomorrow, 12 August 2010. For 364 nights per year, volunteers provide an evening meal in Martin Place and the surrounding areas for approximately 175 people. Many of these groups are under-funded and are often not able to provide nutritious meals. The aim of this dinner is to raise sufficient funds to provide these 175 homeless people with a nutritious meal every night for one year. A voluntary tax deductible donation of $100, included with your payment for the dinner, will ensure this can happen. The cost for the dinner is $135 per person (GST inclusive) as well as the voluntary tax deductible donation of $100, included with your payment for the dinner to ensure 175 homeless men and women are fed a nutritious meal every night for one year. If you are unable to attend the dinner but would none the less like to make a donation, this would be most welcome. Please complete the registration form and only fill in the details necessary to make the donation. Please note: All payments should be made to, The New South Wales Bar Association. The donation payments will be held in trust by The New South Wales Bar Association and donated to the St Vincent de Paul Society at the conclusion of the dinner. Following the evening receipts will be provided by St Vincent de Paul. Tables of 10 people per table can be accepted and smaller bookings are also welcome.� 11 August 2010
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Home WA Times Number of illegal immigrants in detention surges 20 percent as DHS vows to deport Haitians
Number of illegal immigrants in detention surges 20 percent as DHS vows to deport Haitians
Homeland Security is holding some 41,000 illegal immigrants in detention right now, the department said Wednesday, as agents struggle to get control of a new surge across the border — including a wave of Haitian migrants that is testing the limits of immigration policy.
Usually the government only contracts for about 34,000 detention beds, so surpassing 40,000 is a staggering number and signals the difficulties immigration agents are facing at the border as Central American children and families, and now Haitians, try to gain a foothold.
Secretary Jeh Johnson said he’s asked for even more bed space, saying that holding onto illegal immigrants, rather than catching and releasing them, makes it more likely they can quickly be deported.
“We must enforce the immigration laws consistent with our priorities,” he said. “Those who attempt to enter our country illegally must know that, consistent with our laws and our values, we must and we will send you back.”
Mr. Johnson also said deportation flights back to Haiti have resumed in full. They had been largely put on hold since the 2010 earthquake that devastated that country. Flights resumed earlier this fall, only to be suspended again after Hurricane Matthew.
Haitians who fled that county to South America after the earthquake have suddenly begun to flow north, hoping to get into the U.S., in recent months.
They’re arriving at a rate of about 3,000 a month, according to an internal Homeland Security intelligence bulletin that said lax U.S. enforcement is encouraging them to make the trip.
Hundreds had massed at border crossings in California, where they waited in line to demand asylum. When that became crowded, Haitians started testing border crossings further east, the intelligence analysts said.
Tens of thousands of Haitians who went to live in Brazil and Chile after the earthquake are now eyeing the journey, border officials predicted. They pay thousands of dollars to smuggling networks to be shepherded north, with varying degrees of cooperation from countries along the way.
In one example, analysts said, Mexican officials grant the migrants passes for transit that are just long enough to let the migrants get from southern Mexico to the northern border with the U.S.
Costa Rica also issues a 25-day permit, which gives them easier access to public transportation to get across that country.
The intelligence analysis said a stronger show of force by U.S. officials vowing to deport Haitians could discourage new migrants from attempting the journey.
Mr. Johnson appears to have taken that advice in ordering Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to kick-start deportations.
“Removal flights from the United States to Haiti have now resumed,” he said in his statement. “In the last several weeks ICE has removed over 200 Haitian nationals and plans to significantly expand removal operations in the coming weeks.”
Mr. Johnson said that of the 41,000 migrants being held, more than 4,400 are Haitians.
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Home » Humor » Humor . . . Irish?
Humor . . . Irish?
February 20, 2016 October 9, 2017 Joe AuBuchon
Humor is a necessary component of modern life — witness the current political landscape here in America. But, here is some humor unrelated to no trumps, cruises, bernie bushes or Englishmen who go up a hillary to cross a rubio.
Into a Belfast pub comes Paddy Murphy, looking like he’d just been run over by a train.
His arm is in a sling, his nose is broken, his face is cut and bruised and he’s walking with a limp
“What happened to you?” asks Sean, the bartender.
” Jamie O’Conner and me had a fight,” says Paddy.
“That little sh*t, O’Conner,” says Sean, “he couldn’t do that to you. He must have had something in his hand.”
“That he did,” says Paddy, “a shovel is what he had, and a terrible lickin’ he gave me with it.”
” Well,” says Sean, “you should have defended yourself, didn’t you have something in your hand?”
“That I did,” said Paddy. “Mrs. O’Conner’s breast, and a thing of beauty
it was, but useless in a fight.”
An Irishman who had a little too much to drink is driving home from the city one night and, of course his car is weaving violently all over the road.
A cop pulls him over.
“So,” says the cop to the driver, “where have ya been?”
” Why, I’ve been to the pub of course,” slurs the drunk.
” Well,” says the cop, “it looks like you’ve had quite a few to drink this evening.”
“I did all right,” the drunk says with a smile.
”Did you know,” say’s the cop, standing straight and folding his arms across his chest, “that a few intersections back, your wife fell out of your car?”
“Oh, thank heavens,” sighs the drunk. “For a minute there, I thought I’d gone deaf.”
Brenda O’Malley is home making dinner, as usual, when Tim Finnegan arrives at her door.
“Brenda, may I come in?” he asks. “I’ve somethin’ to tell ya”.
“Of course, you can come in, you’re always welcome, Tim. But where is my husband?”
”That’s what I’m here to be telling ya, Brenda. There was an accident down at the Guinness brewery…”
“Oh, God no!” cries Brenda. “Please don’t tell me.”
“I must, Brenda. Your husband Shamus is dead and gone. I’m sorry.”
Finally, she looked up at Tim. “How did it happen, Tim?”
“It was terrible, Brenda. He fell into a vat of Guinness Stout and drowned.”
“Oh my dear Jesus! But you must tell me truth, Tim. Did he at least go quickly?”
“Well, Brenda… No. In fact, he got out three times to pee.”
Mary Clancy goes up to Father O’Grady after his Sunday morning service, and she’s in tears.
He says, “So what’s bothering you, Mary my dear?”
She says, “Oh, Father, I’ve got terrible news. My husband passed away last night.”
The priest says, “Oh, Mary, that’s terrible. Tell me Mary, did he have any last requests?”
She says, “That he did, Father.”
The priest says, “What did he ask, Mary? ”
She says, “He said, ‘Please Mary, put down that damn gun…'”
Humor 5 — and for last . . . the best?
A drunk staggers into a Catholic Church, enters a confessional booth, sits down, but says nothing.
The Priest coughs a few times to get his attention, but the drunk continues to sit there.
Finally, the Priest pounds three times on the wall.
The drunk mumbles, “Ain’t no use knockin’, there’s nocpaper on this side either!”
Hope ya’ had a chuckle . . .
http://www.irishcentral.com/top-ten-irish-jokes-a-snippet-of-the-wit-and-sharpness-of-irish-comedy-187483151-237789411.html
http://www.abitoblarney.com/irishjokes.htm
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Trapeze!
John Behlmann
Nuke LaLoosh in BULL DURHAM
by John Behlmann
http://alliancetheatre.org/production/bull-durham
BULL DURHAM in Atlanta
John will join Will Swenson and Melissa Errico in the pre-Broadway engagement of the new musical BULL DURHAM at the Alliance Theater in Atlanta, GA, Sept 3th-Oct 5th. The musical is based on Ron Shelton's belove 1988 film set in the world of minor league baseball, which Sports Illustrated declared "the #1 Sports Movie of All Time". John will play phenom pitcher Ebby Calvin 'Nuke' LaLoosh, the role made famous in the film by Tim Robbins.
Read more by clicking HERE.
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John Behlmann, Melissa Errico and Will Swenson will star in BULL DURHAM, the new musical based on the beloved 1988 film, which Sports Illustrated proclaimed the “#1 Greatest Sports Movie of All-time.” BULL DURHAM will premiere at the Alliance Theatre on September 3, and will run until October 5. Season tickets are on sale now and single tickets go on sale in July, visit www.alliancetheatre.org or call 404-733-5000. The Alliance Theatre is located in the Woodruff Arts Center, 1280 Peachtree Street NE, Atlanta, GA 30309.
Directed by Kip Fagan, BULL DURHAM has a book by Academy Award-nominee Ron Shelton (director and screenwriter of the Bull Durham movie) and music and lyrics bySusan Werner, whom the Chicago Tribune called, “one of the most innovative songwriters working today.”
John Behlmann made his Broadway debut in the Tony award winning Journey’s End and has starred in the Tony nominated play The 39 Steps. Melissa Errico is a Tony Award nominee for her work in Amour. She was seen Off-Broadway as Clara in the recent revival of Passion and has a recurring role on Stephen Soderbergh’s upcoming Cinemax series “The Knick”. Will Swenson can currently be seen as ‘Inspector Javert’ on Broadway in LES MISERABLES and is a Tony award nominee for his work in Hair.
Will Swenson will take a hiatus from LES MISERABLES from July 22 through October 5 for the Atlanta engagement of BULL DURHAM.
BULL DURHAM, loosely based on Ron Shelton’s experiences on and off the field with a Minor League Baseball team, tells the story of three lives brought together by America’s two favorite pastimes. Veteran catcher “Crash” Davis (Will Swenson) has been brought to the Durham Bulls to prepare rookie Ebby Calvin “Nuke” LaLoosh (John Behlmann), a hot rod pitcher with a “million dollar arm and a five cent head,” for the majors. Annie Savoy (Melissa Errico), self-appointed high priestess and muse of the Bulls, has a hard decision to make – every season she transforms one lucky player from an also-ran to an all-star by sharing with them her wisdom, experience and bed. The love triangle heats up quickly as each character struggles with their own desires and hopes for what the future holds. A pitch perfect blend of comedy, baseball, and steamy romance, BULL DURHAM will leave you cheering from the stands.
The creative team also includes Emmy Award-winning choreographer Joshua Bergasse, Tony Award-winner Derek McLane (Scenic Design), Tony Award-nominee Toni Leslie James (Costume Design) and Jason DeBord (music director).
Additional casting, additional creative team and a production schedule will be announced at a later date. Season tickets for the Alliance Theatre are on sale at 404-733-4600. Single tickets will go on sale in July 2014.
For more information, visit www.alliancetheatre.org/bulldurham.
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David W. Krause
Patrick M. O’Connor
Armand H. Rasoamiaramanana
Gregory A. Buckley
David Burney
Matthew T. Carrano
Prithijit S. Chatrath
John J. Flynn
Catherine A. Forster
Laurie R. Godfrey
William L. Jungers
Raymond R. Rogers
Karen E. Samonds
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Preserving Madagascar's Natural Heritage: The Importance of Keeping the Island's Vertebrate Fossils in the Public Domain
David W. Krause, Patrick M. O’Connor, Armand H. Rasoamiaramanana, Gregory A. Buckley, David Burney, Matthew T. Carrano, Prithijit S. Chatrath, John J. Flynn, Catherine A. Forster, Laurie R. Godfrey, William L. Jungers, Raymond R. Rogers, Karen E. Samonds, Elwyn L. Simons, Andre R. Wyss
The origin of Madagascar’s highly endemic vertebrate fauna remains one of the great unsolved mysteries of natural history. From what landmasses did the basal stocks of this unique and imbalanced fauna come? When and how did the ancestral populations arrive on the island? How rapidly did they diversify, and why? The most direct means of addressing these questions, and other enigmas concerning the evolutionary and biogeographic history of Madagascar’s vertebrate fauna, is through discovery of fossils from a sequence of well-dated geological horizons. Many fossils relevant to these queries have been discovered by paleontologists in recent years ... but many more are being lost to commercial enterprises, both foreign and domestic, that have little or no regard for the scientific significance of fossils. The objectives of this essay are to 1) provide an overview of Madagascar’s vertebrate fossil record and its importance, 2) raise awareness concerning the illegal collection, exportation, and sale of vertebrate fossils, and 3) stress the importance of keeping vertebrate fossils from the island in the public domain. In light of these issues, we underscore the necessity for development of adequate repositories and support infrastructure in Madagascar to safeguard and display the country’s vertebrate fossil collections; doing so would ensure the preservation and appreciation of Madagascar’s rich natural heritage for future generations of scientists and Malagasy citizens alike.
paleontology; illegal fossil traffic; natural heritage; dinosaur
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/267
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Telekinesis - JPop.com
Kingssther, PinkFantasy, 5. Element, Send Away Stranger, Erik Borland, home-, Liar Single, Red Baron, AttenCHUN! (Snippet Sampler), Blumen am Arsch der Hölle, Under the shining moon ]vocals Liliana Diaz], Piau, Del Assire, Tokuno Shimasetsu
1) Telekinesis is Michael Benjamin Lerner, an indie rocker based out of Seattle, Washington, United States who is currently signed to Merge Records. Lerner signed to Merge Records in early 2009, and shortly afterward released the eponymously named debut album Telekinesis! on April 7, 2009. Recorded in September of 2008, the album was produced, mixed, and engineered with the help of Chris Walla (guitarist for Death Cab For Cutie), recording one song per day on analog tape. Read more on Last.fm
1) Telekinesis is Michael Benjamin Lerner, an indie rocker based out of Seattle, Washington, United States who is currently signed to Merge Records. Lerner signed to Merge Records in early 2009, and shortly afterward released the eponymously named debut album Telekinesis! on April 7, 2009. Recorded in September of 2008, the album was produced, mixed, and engineered with the help of Chris Walla (guitarist for Death Cab For Cutie), recording one song per day on analog tape. While on tour, Lerner is joined by Jason Narducy bass guitar, background vocals and Cody Votolato: electric guitar, background vocals Official website: http://www.telekinesismusic.com 2) Telekinesis are an up and coming two man outfit driven by the creative minds of Smooth and Markoman. After working together for an extended length of time, they developed the 'Telekinesis' alias, and have begun to see immediate success. Receiving DJ support from artists such as; Pendulum, Matrix & Futurebound, Chris Renegade, Diesel Boy, Ed Rush, Audio, Black Sun Empire, Optiv, Inside Info, Subsonik & Tallon (amongst many others), you can expect much more to come from this rising production duo.
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CJCC Docs
Justice Info
CJCC STATEMENT OF PRINCIPLES
The Harris County Criminal Justice Coordinating Council (CJCC) is the vehicle for criminal justice stakeholders to convene, collaborate, share ideas and solve problems.
All CJCC members are committed to the fair, effective and efficient delivery of justice for all.
The bedrock principle of the justice system is respect – respect for public servants who work in the system, respect for jurors, witnesses, victims, the accused and respect for the challenges, stress and trauma faced by those interacting with the system.
We also carry forward with respect for the taxpayers whose labor funds the justice system and any improvements we champion.
CJCC History
The CJCC was created by the Harris County Commissioners Court in July 2009 as the focal point for efforts to improve the criminal justice system and seek reductions in the jail population. The Council is responsible for policy development and oversight of improvement initiatives for the criminal justice system.
Members include the following elected and appointed officials and appointees:
Administrative Judge of the District Courts
Administrative Judge of the Criminal Trial Division of the District Courts
Judge of the Juvenile Division of the District Courts
Presiding Judge of the County Criminal Courts
Administrative Judge of the Statutory County Courts
Presiding Judge of the 16 Justice of the Peace Courts
Five (5) members of Commissioners Court
Mayor of the City of Houston
Representative of the Harris County Mayors' and Councils' Association
Houston Police Department Chief of Police
Chief Public Defender
Director of the Community Supervision & Corrections Department
Executive Director of the Juvenile Probation Department
Director of Pretrial Services
Criminal Defense Bar Representative
Director, Harris Center
Director, Harris Public Health Department
Director of Department of Community Services, or an appointee, as determined by the Director of Community Services, from the Coalition for the Homeless, or other community services entity
Victim Rights (trauma-informed) Expert
Immigration Expert
University professor with extensive research experience in the field of criminal justice
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Member of a non-profit criminal justice research and policy organization
Member of a non-profit, member based, community organization that does substantial work in the field of criminal justice
Representative of the impacted community
Constable to represent the 8 Constables
Houston Health Department, Director
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Twelve-year-old Gon Freecss one day discovers that the father he had always been told was dead was alive and well. His Father, Ging, is a Hunter—a member of society's elite with a license to go anywhere or do almost anything. Gon, determined to follow in his father's footsteps, decides to take the Hunter Examination and eventually find his father to prove himself as a Hunter in his own right. But on the way, he learns that there is more to becoming a Hunter than previously thought, and the challenges that he must face are considered the toughest in the world.
ハンターｘハンター
Action & Adventure, Animation, Comedy
friendship, fantasy, adventure, shounen
Megumi Han
Gon Freecss (voice)
Mariya Ise
Killua Zoldyck (voice)
Miyuki Sawashiro
Kurapika (voice)
Keiji Fujiwara
Leorio Paladiknight (voice)
Daisuke Namikawa
Hisoka Morow (voice)
Banjou Ginga
Isaac Netero (voice)
Ging Freecss (voice)
Chisa Yokoyama
Biscuit Krueger (voice)
HxH
HxH 2011
Hunter x Hunter Season 1
October 2nd, 201162 Episodes
January 20th, 201374 Episodes
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Ambient folk rock duo Nassau to play SXSW on 3/16
Ambient folk dads Justin Wilcox and Jeffrey Silverstein, aka Nassau, make some pretty sweet, evocative tunes. Their debut record, Heron, arrived last September to eager listeners on Bandcamp. Their songs are stripped down to twangy guitar, reverb-heavy vocals, and a little bit of drum machine, highlighting the duo's great, old school songwriting chops. Nassau are headed to SXSW Music Festival in Austin, playing 3/16 at 18th Over Austin. -Geena Kloeppel
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SXSW Presents: Kyle Craft
In his own ways, Kyle Craft is a little bit country and a little bit rock and roll. The Louisiana-born, Portland based singer/songwriter has a defined understanding of how to mix the two, along with folk and blues elements to produce songs that are rich with the journey through emotions and life.
And all of this from a kid that wasn't even sure he wanted a career in music.
“The whole music thing has been a really strange cinematic sort of journey for me,” Craft says. “None of it really makes sense on paper.” It may not make sense to him on paper, but it makes sense to every last one of his fans. It made sense to Sub Pop Records, too, as they signed Craft without any question or hesitation. Not too shabby for a Southern boy with bluegrass roots. Whether he's playing his solo acoustic sets or backed by his talented band of friends, Craft older sounding tunes for a younger generation of kids. We couldn't be more pleased with that.
<a href="http://kylecraft.bandcamp.com/album/full-circle-nightmare">Full Circle Nightmare by Kyle Craft</a>
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SXSW Presents: Johanna Warren
*photo by Allyce Andrew
Most people think of music as a means of release or expression, and both of those are very much so true. But for songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Johanna Warren, music is something even more - it's like a natural energy. “Music is vibration; it's a direct way to affect matter," says Warren. "A song is a way to journey into places of discord and then resolve back into harmony.” Warren's articulation of this is crystal clear through her delicate folk compositions, each taking some sort of dark and haunting turn in a way that plays off her understanding of mysticism, occultism and human existence.
These themes run deep in her songs, but also in how she visually represents them. Her music videos often carry the same motifs, often showcased through physical movement. Warren has even translated this into the basis of a label, founding Spirit House Records in 2016. The label is home to many radical and fluid minds who find themselves identifying in some way or another as witches, healers and free spirits. One of the first Spirit House releases happened to be the first of her Gemini albums with the second, Gemini II, coming out just a couple days ago. Both find themselves rooted in personal mythology and occult symbolism, pushed through moody melodies and tones.
Johanna Warren's songs are introspective and compound, making for an entrancing live production.
SXSW Presents: Candace
Dreamy in every sense, the shoegazey-psych trio Candace (formerly Is/Is) haven't missed a beat since 2010. Made of Sarah Rose and Sarah Nienaber sharing guitar, bass and vocal roles and Mara Appel DesLauriers supplying drums and vocals as well, they've never ceased to have the utmost understanding of each other, the music they make and the world around them. This understanding aids them in bringing that whirring static sound from inside our brains in a way we actually want to absorb over and over again.
While always remaining pleasantly noisy, some Candace songs teeter closer to reverberated pop while others remain close to the washed out, droney atmospheric haze they've perfected throughout the years. On top of the mysteriously brooding feel their original tracks have to them, for the last couple of years they've released little collections of cover tracks in celebration of Valentine's Day, putting their own little spin on some deep cuts and leaving listeners with no shortage of work to dive into.
No matter when you choose to dive into Candace's discography, its reliable yet sundry songs will pull you in as a fan. Expect the next full length from Candace, titled New Ruins, to be out just in time for SXSW in early March.
<a href="http://candaceisaband.bandcamp.com/album/crying-outside">Crying Outside by Candace</a>
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Monday, January 24
1/24/05 - KEYS TO THE HOT STOVE
It’s time for Jose Melendez’s KEYS TO THE HOT STOVE.
1. The snow banks are piled six feet high in Boston’s historic North End and the New England Patriots are headed to the Super Bowl…you know what that means? Yup, it’s time to talk baseball.
It’s not that Jose doesn’t like football, Jose loves football. In fact, it is far easier for him to watch a football game between two teams he doesn’t care about than a baseball game, but two weeks to talk abut one game? Boring. So here are Jose’s options: either he can join the cacophony and spend the next two weeks yammering on and on and on about the big game, or he can delve into baseball’s offseason. And what is there really to talk about for the Super Bowl? Two weeks of “will Terrell Owens play or not” talk? Fun! And what kind of a nickname is “TO” anyway? Would you really want your star player’s nickname to stand for “turnover” or “time out” or “Tomo Okha?” Jose didn’t think so.
So on to baseball. Now that Randy Johnson has signed with the despicable New York Yankees, he needs a suitable nickname. Now “Big Eunuch” is a classic, but it’s been heavily used for Johnson already, and Jose places a premium on originality. When Jose worked at Fenway he saw Johnson walking down the concourse wearing a Beastie Boys T-Shirt with the sleeves cut off, real sophisticated like. It was one of those shirts with a picture of bees + a picture of a cup of tea + a picture some boys hanging around, like a clue from Alex Trebek’s little known other game show “Classic Concentration.” Jose could probably do something with that, but why should Jose do all the work when most of the work has already been done for him.
Reader “Willie Mays Haze” sent Jose the following unsolicited suggestion. “I wanted to suggest ‘Fabio’ for Randy Johnson's SoSH nickname, since they both exploded a bird, and the likeness is uncanny.”
Well, Johnson exploded a bird with a fastball and Fabio exploded a bird by having it fly into his head while he was on a roller coaster, but it both cases the bird exploded from being struck with a dense object at high velocity. Makes sense to Jose. So while Jose cannot dictate SoSH nicknames, he can dictate nicknames here in Melendezville. So from this day forward the Yankees gangly, soon to be bust, will be known as “Fabio Johnson.”
2. You knew that Jose couldn’t go too long without addressing A-Rod’s little fit about Curt Euro didn’t you? The Globe’s Chris Snow caught the Sultan of Slap (Note: Jose knows this nickname belongs to Ichiro, but isn’t it better suited to A-Rod now?) accusing the Sox ace of crying on the bench after his poor ALCS Game 1 performance and of talking incessantly since his Game 6 victory.
Of course, Euro talked incessantly before Game 6 and during Game 6 as well. Jose suspects Euro even talks in his sleep.
Could it be that Euro’s comment that the A-Rod’s slap at Bronson Arroyo was “Bush-League” and that Derek Jeter would never do something like that is still grating on “the greatest player in baseball?”
It was very odd to see the loser criticize the winner for moping and whining. It almost never happens. You see winners criticize losers for complaining or moping all of the time (Note: See Patriots vs. Colts) but rarely the other way round. In fact, the closest analogy Jose can think of is the second Tyson-Holyfield fight. After Mike Tyson was disqualified for twice biting Evander Holyfield’s ears while on the wrong end of a whoopin’, Tyson co-manager John Horne, ripped Holyfield for “jump[ing] around like a little bitch.” Horne ripped the superior fighter for reacting strongly to having a piece of his ear removed en route to a win, and A-Rod rips the superior baseball player for taking a poor performance hard and then calling a foul a foul while on the way to ultimate victory. Yes, Alex Rodriguez, this is the company you now keep. You thought that going to the Yankees would let you walk in eternity with Ruth and Gehrig, and instead you are forever pared with one of the fight game’s dandy conmen. As the old touch football saying goes “winners talk, losers walk.” Start walking jerk.
3. Finally, Jose must say a fond farewell to DLowe The Paranoid Android a.k.a Megatron as he moves to Los Angeles for a contract that is well in excess of his value. Jose is not only sad that the Red Sox lost a player who played such a key role in the postseason, but that the Massachusetts tech economy has lost yet another battle with California. First, the computer industry moves from Boston to California, then the dotcoms go West and now robotics heads to California as well. Jose can only hope that the folks at Cal Tech have better luck keeping DLowe running at peak efficiency than the gang at MIT.
I’m Jose Melendez, and those are my KEYS TO HOT STOVE.
Posted by Jose Melendez at 1:45 PM
Ned Flanders said...
Although I am late with my comment, I was shocked to find the following error in logic in the January 21, 2005 edition of KEYS:
Why would Jose Melendez travel to altitude to engage in blood doping, where the PO2 (partial pressure of oxygen) is lower than at Jose's home in the North End? Jose would have been wise to train in Aspen, then come home, rest, and then save his blood.
Hey, Jose, love the KEYS. I've been reading 'em since October. Question though: how did D-Lowe get the "Megatron" nickname? I can't figure it out...
Jose Melendez said...
Jose doesn't usually post comments, but he will answer the Megatron question. Click on the following link and go to the KEYS from 10/20/2004 for answers.
http://keystothegame.blogspot.com/2004/10/from-sosh-re-10-20-04-sox-make-history.html
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Praise... Sort of... for KEYS
“Flip it on Jose, you dirty bastard. Keys and mojo as if your life depends on it."
Gehrig 38 A.K.A. Curt Schilling/Euro, SoSH Game Thread
"I read Jose's Red Sox posts using Triumph the Insult Dog's accent and they are always 10 times more entertaining.” Bill Simmons, ESPN.com
“Check Jose Melendez’s Keys to the Game, which offers lengthy, funny, erudite pre-game breakdowns — most of which have nothing whatsoever to do with the game — 162 times a year. You’ll be so busy reading, you’ll forget there’s a game on.” Boston Phoenix
Buy the 2004 KEYS Book--Happy Ending Guaranteed
“Finally, an answer to the question that’s been plaguing the best baseball minds for the better part of the past decade: why didn’t journeyman reliever Jose Melendez ever live up to his full potential? Because he was spending all his time composing his milk-up-your-nose, off kilter observations about life in the big leagues. This book is a must read for anyone who is a Red Sox fan, a baseball fan, a writing fan, a humor fan, literate, or human. Put another way: it’s for everyone except George Steinbrenner. Jose Melendez is a genius—the rest of us can only sit back and laugh as he whips another 101 mph heater down the pike.” Seth Mnookin, author of “Feeding the Monster
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“Jose Melendez is the kind of fan who makes Red Sox Nation so special. He’s passionate, committed, intelligent, and loyal to a fault. Sadly, he can’t write his way out of a paper sack” Eric Neel, ESPN.com
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TV Wrinkles – New and Old
IN THE June 20 ISSUE
andDeborah Harter Williams,
andMysteryrat's Maze,
andTV SECTIONS
by Deborah Harter Williams
Jane and Lily as seniors? Seriously funny.
The success of the Netflix show Grace and Frankie starring Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin might have audiences rethinking the nature of old on television. Comedy is a time-honored way to challenge assumptions and G & F take on age and same sex marriage right out of the box. Add on interracial adoption and any number of semi-sacred cows with just enough I-can’t-believe-they-said-that to remind us that we’re not watching your grandmother’s broadcast television.
Medical Examiners Make Good TV
It started with Quincy, M.E. (1976-1983). The medical examiner (aka forensic pathologist) came out of expository cameos and into a starring role. With Jack Klugman as the lead, Quincy started as part of the classic NBC Sunday Mystery Movie wheel, rotating with Columbo, McCloud and McMillan & Wife. By mid-season it was clear the show was a hit and became a weekly series.
Mystery TV Fall Preview
IN THE August 22 ISSUE
andBooks & Tales,
Fall is in the air, at least in my imagination. The advent of Labor Day turns my mind to thoughts of fresh pencils and notebooks, new shoes and the TV Guide fall preview issue. I can almost feel the heft of the glossy pages as I set out to plan my TV life back in the day – a time when there were only three networks, you had to hurry home to watch your favorites, and sometimes faced painful choices when two were on at the same time.
Forensic Science: The Crime Lab Project
IN THE April 9 ISSUE
andHelping Hands,
by Jan Burke
Almost all Americans know something about forensic science, or think they do. What they may not realize is that in the U.S. forensic science is at a critical crossroads, and needs our attention, concern, and support.
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Triumph Close to Settlement with Insurers
Triumph Foods and three insurance companies could complete a settlement between them within the next two weeks, attorneys told Buchanan County Circuit Judge Randall Jackson on Monday morning.
The lawsuit stemmed from Triumph's $12.25 million settlement following an accidental explosion in 2005 that killed or injured 20 workers during the pork plant's construction. Triumph and the three insurance companies named in the suit had a trial setting last Wednesday but didn't show up.
During Monday's subsequent status hearing, Triumph's local counsel Mark Stingley and attorneys from Hartford Casualty Insurance Co., and St. Paul Surplus Lines Insurance Co., told Mr. Jackson documents to complete the settlement were circulating and they hoped to have it finalized in 10 days.
Mr. Jackson gave the sides 45 days to dismiss the lawsuit. If it isn't settled by then, he advised those involved to be prepared to go to trial. The parties have been working on a settlement since a July mediation.
"The settlement will take care of 90 percent of the insurance cases," Mr. Stingley estimated.
He wouldn't reveal the proposed terms of the settlement.
Triumph agreed to pay $1.25 million of the original settlement. Triumph's lawsuit claims Hartford refused to pay Triumph's portion of the settlement. Triumph says it paid $500,000 to settle the case after Hartford refused to participate in settlement talks.
The suit also names Liberty Mutual Insurance Co., which did not have a representative at Monday's hearing, as refusing to pay any amount. The suit says St. Paul paid $750,000 but wouldn't fully cover its policy and reimburse Triumph for the $500,000.
In another case, Triumph will go before a jury on Nov. 2 in its lawsuit against general contractor Epstein and Sons, Travelers Property Casualty Company of America, D&D Masonry, Employers Mutual Casualty, Midland Steel, Midwestern Indemnity, gas utility Missouri Gas Energy and the Zurich American Insurance.
All those entities were contractors, subcontractors or insurers of contractors during the construction of the pork plant. Triumph's lawsuit claims those companies were required to defend and compensate Triumph for its losses.
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Druze Epistles Of Wisdom Pdf
GMT druze book pdf
Professor Makarim, himself a Druze, used medieval manuscript sources still under the seal of secrecy, to trace the history, beliefs, & customs of this faith from its origins early in Islam & its founding in the 11th century A.D. under the Fatimid caliphs of Egypt. The book contains translations of numerous quotations from the sacred Druze scriptures, the Six Books of Wisdom, set forth in 111... Most scholars have mistakenly referred to only one single manuscript, The Epistles of Wisdom, as embodying the complete Druze scriptures. Some have included an additional two to three manuscripts. This writer has documented 23 manuscripts showing the impact and importance of each on Druze …
Ayoub Kara explains that for the Druze to survive the sword of Islam and persecutions of Christianity, the Druze had to become a secretive group of people, adapting to Islam, or Christianity as the times call for, so they could continue to live.... The Epistles of Wisdom is the foundational text of the Druze faith, alongside supplemental texts such as the Hindu Epistles of India. The Druze faith incorporates elements of Gnosticism,
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The Druze practice a religion related to Islam and Christianity but more based on philosophy. Al-Hakim, a ruler of Egypt during the 11th century sponsored the religion which was created by Hamza bin Ali. principles of biochemistry moran 5th edition pdf Ayoub Kara explains that for the Druze to survive the sword of Islam and persecutions of Christianity, the Druze had to become a secretive group of people, adapting to Islam, or Christianity as the times call for, so they could continue to live.
The Epistles of Wisdom is the foundational text of the Druze faith. The Druze faith incorporates elements of the Isma'ili sect of Shia Islam, Gnosticism, Neoplatonism, Pythagoreanism, Hinduism, and other philosophies and beliefs, creating a distinct and secretive theology known to interpret esoterically religious scriptures, and to highlight the role of the mind and truthfulness. The Druze how to draw cool stuff pdf The Druze faith is monotheistic and an Abrahamic religion - and they follow the teachings of Hamza ibn-'Ali ibn-Ahmad and Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah and they also incorporate elements of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, as well as Gnosticism and elements from other philosophies which makes them unique in one way. They also believe in reincarnation and migration of the soul. Their main text are the
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The relation between the Druze faith and the far eastern thinking is obscure. One of the main evidences is the belief in reincarnation, but there is a main difference between the Druze and the Hindus concerning this issue. Unlike the Hindus, the Druze DO NOT believe in the transmigration of the human soul from the human body to animal, plant or inorganic substances.
Most scholars have mistakenly referred to only one single manuscript, The Epistles of Wisdom, as embodying the complete Druze scriptures. Some have included an additional two to three manuscripts. This writer has documented 23 manuscripts showing the impact and importance of each on Druze …
Al-Muqtana wrote many letters that, with a few surviving writings of al-Hakim and Hamza, would be compiled into the Druze scripture called Rasa’il al-Hikma, or the Epistles of Wisdom. The Druze survived in the mountainous terrain and for centuries lived a rather closed and isolated existence.
The Druze religion was first promulgated in 1017, during the reign of the sixth Fātimid caliph al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, (“Ruler by the Command of Allah”) who ruled over Egypt (r. 996–1021), whom the Druze thought to be an actual incarnation of God.
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The Dancing King is tackling his demons and needs public support now more than ever.
Tyson Fury On the road to redemption Image Getty
Tyson Fury is as controversial a figure as they come in the world of boxing, but he’s also a troubled human being and someone worthy of as much support as he garners criticism.
The story of the Wythenshawe-born fighter’s ascent is a classic rags-to-riches story. A victor in each of his 25 professional fights, Fury’s rise culminated in a superb victory over Wladimir Klitschko, a fighter who had gone 11 years unbeaten. But it didn’t last.
Stripped of his title just 10 dayslater, a series of delays to a Klitschko rematch culminated in Fury testing positive for cocaine in what was fast shaping up to be the classic story of too much, too soon.
Fury’s outspoken views on homosexuality, paedophilia and women had already seen a petition calling for him to be removed from the BBC’s 2015 Sports Personality of the Year shortlist rack up 100,000 signatures and, at that stage, sympathy was pretty thin on the ground.
Abhorrent as the comments may have been, the not-so-media-savvy Fury was as much a victim of his upbringing as he was his views, which were borne out of his Irish Traveller heritage and status as a born-again Christian – something the press were all too aware of.
Those traveller roots also saw Fury subjected to vile abuse on Twitter, which served to further isolate the fighter in his time of need.
“It’s been a witch-hunt ever since I won that world title,” he told Rolling Stone last October.
“Ever since I got a bit of fame for doing good there’s been a witch-hunt on me because of my background, because of who I am and what I do, there’s hatred for travellers and gypsies around the world.”
That frank discussion with Rolling Stone highlighted the severity of Fury’s problems, with the fighter readily admitting he was out of shape and had been using drugs like cocaine in a bid to battle both depression and bipolar disorder.
“I’ve not been in a gym for months. I’ve not been training. I’ve been going through depression,” he said. “I’ve had [sic] enough of it.”
“Never mind cocaine. I just didn’t care. I don’t want to live any more. So cocaine is a little minor thing compared to not wanting to live any more.”
“Ever since I got a bit of fame for doing good there’s been a witch-hunt on me because of my background”
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David Allen, a fellow heavyweight who stepped away from the sport to deal with depression highlighted the problem surrounding the issue of mental health among men in an interview with The Guardian.
“People in this country either don’t know enough about it or don’t take it seriously enough and you can see that in the way the media in particular have questioned if Tyson has even got mental health issues. It’s just not the type of thing a person would make up,” he said.
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To have reached such a low ebb, having risen to such a high position in any profession would be tough to take. To have the public turn against you would have also been a bitter pill to swallow. Then there’s the online abuse which, when added altogether, makes Fury’s situation all the more alarming.
Tyson Fury attends Terry Flanagan's public workout At The Printworks in Manchester on April 5, 2017 Image Mark Robinson/Getty Images
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Figures produced by the Office for National Statistics in February 2016 showed that men account for over three times as many suicides as women with Stephen Buckley, Head of Information at Mind, highlighting the problematic approach to mental health among men.
“Sadly too many men wrongly believe that admitting they are experiencing a mental health problem makes them weak, and this kind of self-stigma can prevent them from seeking help.”
“Even when they do reach out, many men may not be diagnosed as having a mental health problem because more typically ‘male’ symptoms, such as aggression or self-medicating with drugs or alcohol, which may mean their problems are misdiagnosed or overlooked.”
Fury is different though. He’s spoken about his issues, he’s been honest and he’s taking positive steps, as Frank Warren attested to in an interview with The Sun.
“He’s been having treatment,” Warren said. “He’s lost a stone-and-a-half, he should lose weight very quickly provided he’s training.
“too many men wrongly believe that admitting they are experiencing a mental health problem makes them weak”
“I think he’s mentally there. He should be in a good place so hopefully we can get him moving. He needs a couple of quick warm-up fights, and I’ll make sure he gets them, then back into the swing of it.”
Fury is fighting his demons. He’s taking steps to tackle the weight gain the press seem so keen to highlight. He’s also addressing his mental health problems in a way that many could take inspiration from and he’s doing it all while in the public eye – that takes a lot of bravery.
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Smiling again Tyson Fury needs our backing Image Getty
This is about helping someone through something that’s almost impossible to imagine. It’s also about sending a clear and positive message about this important issue.
A return to the ring to face Joshua, win or lose, would therefore not only be a victory for Fury, but a victory for those addressing the stigma surrounding mental health issues among men and that’s a cause everyone can get behind.
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Above is an image of the Cygnus A radio galaxy observed by LOFAR at 240 MHz. LOFAR is being used to study supermassive black holes and the affect they have on their local environment. A classic example of an active galaxy is Cygnus A, which lies in a nearby cluster of galaxies at a distance of about 700 million lightyears. At the center of this galaxy is a powerful active nucleus that emits jets of plasma at relativistic speeds. An early LOFAR image at 240 MHz shown here that these jets extend far beyond the stellar part of the galaxy, up to 200 thousand light years from
the center, before abruptly interacting with the intra-cluster medium at impact points called hotspots. (Image Credits: J. McKean and M. Wise, ASTRON).
There are further detail on these exciting discoveries in a LOFAR press release at the American Astronomical Society on January 9, 2012.
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{|align=left |__TOC__ |} <br><br> <br><br> <br><br> '''Have your say here''' If this article does not start a lively conversation, nothing will. --[[User:Jriley|Jriley]] 07:58, 17 March 2007 (PDT) ==Right to bear and keep arms== I know it will :-) Hehe! Let me start the ball rolling: :I fully support the right to keep and bear arms. I also fully support the right to defend your person, home, property or family against attackers, intruders, burglars and thieves. :I would be against allowing conventional ammunition for civilian use due to the danger it would pose to the pressure vessel. But there are special types of ammunition available. :In the early days, there will not be much need for law enforcement or even self defense, but as the settlements grow things might change somewhat. But this is not the wild west we're talking about, this will be a very tightly sealed environment, and there are no animals to hunt or defend ourselves from. So I must ask the question "Will civilian held guns be necessary at all?". :In answer to that I have to look at countries where guns are illegal and theoretically unobtainable. In a number of those countries, only the criminals (and a few police) have guns. Interestingly, gun crime is on the rise in those countries. -- [[User:Mdelaney|Mdelaney]] 03:27, 04 April 2007 (BST) :Surviving on the moon means a change in the human behavior. Social Darwinism says that behaviors that do not help preserve/increase the gene pool would be ostracized (examples from the history of human civilization: Homosexuality, Incest...) :Guns, violence are something that have to be ostracized. Not a utopia, but also economics and private property will change in the moon... If we look back at the development of capitalism and we compare the capitalism of today with the capitalism of 100 years ago there are differences... Do we want to export to the moon the same system? :Therefore, guns and violence, self defense, private property will be different on the Moon... The point is to think what we want to do with it. We could channel the Lunar constitution to avoid such things as guns... :I am not American, but I know that we can live without them... Prior to my first week in America I hadn't seen a gun in my life... I was really scared when I saw one for the first time... I was 21 and the gun was in a policeman's holster... :I do not understand why other countries can live without guns and Americans can't... It is simply a matter of decide what kind of civilization we want to export... We could export the guns civilization or we can just prevent that from happening... :History will tell the guns story on the moon...----[[User:Jotagiraldez|Jose Giraldez]] 08:56, 25 April 2012 (UTC) ::There is some history that led to the right to bear arms in the United States. In England the monarchy passed from the House of Stewart to the House of Hanover. The Jacobite Rebellions attempted to put the House of Stewart back on the throne. After the failure of the rising of 1715 the government confiscated weapons of the Stewart supporters. This left them unable to defend themselves against bandits who lived in the highlands and raided anyone seen as having reasonably moveable items of wealth, like cows, sheep, and gold coins. Weapons in the American colonies were used for hunting which was an economically important source of food. Settlers also banded together occasionally to fight off the aboriginal inhabitants. All of this tended to lend a favorable light to the ownership of weapons, and the constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right to bear arms. ::These things do not have such significance for a moon colony but it is hard to enforce laws against all weapons. Modifications to various sorts of nail guns can result in weapons that fire nails. A machine shop might not be able to equal modern factory made weapons, but if the mass produced product is unavailable rough machine shop made weapons could be the most effective guns around. People who want to violate a law often find ways of doing so. If there comes to be any motive for criminals to have guns on Luna, it would be hard to block every means of acquiring them. People might want to be prepared. - [[User:Farred|Farred]] 20:08, 25 April 2012 (UTC) :::Again, there might not be a need to enforce a law against weapons. As society evolves on the moon --with a new set of methods of production, a different capitalism (or post capitalism), a different economy... society might evolve. They might not be a need for guns or violence... :::Certainly, we do not know... It can also happen that Moon's culture might turn even more violent than Earth's... All we can do is just to steer their society into a non violent one... Education will play a huge part in the future of Moon Citizen's... If the first settlers are non violent and have a non-gun background they could slow the process of human nature... --[[User:Jotagiraldez|Jose Giraldez]] 21:57, 25 April 2012 (UTC) ::::I think we can guess that a lunar settlement will be in sociological ways similar to Antarctic outposts. I do not have personal knowledge that no one in an Antarctic outpost ever wanted to commit a crime with a gun, but what I have read leads me to guess that that is true for the United Sates' outposts. There is a potential for some people to be dissatisfied with enforced close association with some of their comrads, but I guess that only results in some people not signing up for any repeat tour. We did not send up any guns with the Apollo astronauts. If industrialization does take hold, we might avoid the need for guns for a long time. There could be a policy that any pregnant settler and the father get to use their return ticket early, long before or soon after the child is born. Removing family concerns from the moon and having reasonably short tours of duty in general would eliminate some of the routes to violent crime. However, if a colony is prosperous, I expect there will eventually be long term residents, children and general stores. I am willing to hope for a gun free settlement, but I just do not know what would happen that far in the future. - [[User:Farred|Farred]] 01:23, 27 April 2012 (UTC) :::::As a firm believer of decentralization of power, I'm going to argue that the answer to this question and many others will not be consistent from one colony to another. One colony may be an anarcho-capitalist paradise while another may be an exercise in top down control. Various stages in between are sure to exit as well. I for one would feel enormously safer in a place that allowed me to be fully prepared to defend myself if something ugly happened. ...If for no other reason than pockets of bliss where everything is peaceful and gentle are hard-fought exceptions to what is actually normal -- and I for one don't like the idea of psychopaths having a monopoly on being armed. Obviously, not everyone in the world agrees with me on this, and I am willing to let them set up their places where they try to stay safe without being properly able to make sure they stay that way. For the first few years at least, we're likely to get away with it.-- [[User:Strangelv|Strangelv]] 11:09, 3 June 2012 (UTC) ==Lunar citizens versus Flags of Convenience== So which will it be, Lunar citizens or Flags of Convenience? We do not need both. If the Moon is a nation-state, then it will have jurisdiction, and flags of convenience will not apply. On the other hand, if the Moon is an international entity governed jointly by, say the United Nations, then there will be no such thing as a lunar citizens, all humans on the Moon will be citizens of one or more terrestrial countries, and the Moon will be covered with flags of convenience. So which is it? If the Moon is not a nation state, then the bill of rights means nothing, all persons will be governed by the laws of their home country and the United Nations treaties of 1967 and 1979 etc. [[User:Cfrjlr|Charles F. Radley]] 19:47, 3 April 2007 (PDT) :I've been slowly coming to the conclusion that a world government for any world of significant size, which Luna most certainly qualifies for, is either a really bad idea, or just another variant on Niven's "It was raining on Mongo that morning" problem (or both). There probably will be both flags of convenience and non-Earth citizenship, just not in the same territory. I happen to know I'm far from alone in wanting to be in the latter rather than the former -- the ancient Greek colonial model may be the optimal one: Athens may have founded the colony, but the colony is set up as an independent city-state. :Furthermore, I believe we should have as many competing models of how to structure a society in place as possible, from attempts at stable hippie-style communes to anarcho-capitalist havens to highly centralized bastions of order above all else (and plenty of things in betwixt -- and anyone who knows me knows which of those three polar cases I would choose...). Rather than have the socialists, moral conservatives, libertarians, et c. at each other's throats, let's have them set up independently with no expectations of controlling each other. -- [[User:Strangelv|Strangelv]] 03:05, 4 April 2007 (PDT) :Wasn't the hippie-style commune based loosely on the kibbutz? -- [[User:Mdelaney|Mdelaney]] 18:27, 04 April 2007 (BST) ::The cost of setting up a colony on Luna that pays its own way will be enormous. A colony or colonies will be on Luna by the agreement of all major industrial nations on Earth, or there will be no colony. Neither the United States nor Russia nor China nor the European Union will tolerate a hostile colony on Luna because such a colony could gain military domination of the whole Earth from space. The extreme vulnerability of such a colony during the long developmental period gives any of those entities the power to unilaterally destroy it before it becomes a problem. We need to keep the agreement on a nonmilitary moon and establish the monitoring system to ensure compliance. [[User:Farred|Farred]] 07:50, 11 August 2011 (UTC) === Science Fiction Suggestion of Possibilities === :::In order to communicate more clearly the possibility of military domination of Earth from the moon and avoid suggesting that any particular nation would want to do this, I introduce a simpleminded bit of science fiction in which two new nations are added to those on Earth. I replace the Bahamas with the island nation of Adamantia, located in the North Atlantic and about the size of England and France combined. I place Muland in the South Pacific half way between New Zeeland and Easter Island and about half the size of Libya. Both of these countries stayed neutral during most of World War II. Adamantia declared war on both Germany and Japan in August of 1944 with Muland following suit in September of 1944. :::Having established these nations in Geography and History, I ignore most of history as irrelevant to the story and only describe Adamantia's keen interest in space exploration. It failed to acquire any German rocket scientists during WW II, but managed to reach Luna anyway sending a robot probe that landed in August of 1975. Making great efforts, Adamantia sent 3 or 4 robot missions to Luna every year and shared with the world photographs of magnificent desolation in great detail including photographs of abandoned robot probes which seemed to fail rather regularly. The United states, the Soviet Union, and Western European countries decided to ignore Adamantia's wasteful obsession and concentrated on satellites in Earth orbit to the extent that they had any interest in outer space at all. This continued until May of 2027 when United States Strategic Air Command took note of radar echoes indicating spacecraft appearing from behind the Moon. :::General Blackfoot: "Those Adamantian bastards have been hiding an army behind the moon." :::General Bricksides: "We have satellites failing all over the sky. This is not merely a coincidence. Radar is picking up a very regular meteor shower of the pellets that miss satellites and hit the atmosphere." :::General Blackfoot: "Those spacecraft have trajectories aimed at skimming the atmosphere. They must want to aerobrake to acquire LEO." :::General Bricksides: "We have got to pound Adamantia now. If we wait they will have weapons in orbit that can stop anything we send." :::General Blackfoot: "Get targeting for all of our ICBMs switched to Adamantia. See what we have that can target those incoming spacecraft. I am on the hot line to the President." :::Hot line: "The Vice President of the United States will be speaking to you momentarily, sir." :::General Blackfoot: "Damn, not Seymour." :::Vice President Seymour Milquetoast: "I heard that General Blackfoot. Now, what is the national emergency?" :::General Blackfoot: "Sir, The United States is under attack from the nation of Adamantia. Our satellites are being destroyed along with those of all other nations. Adamantian spacecraft are headed to take up position in Low Earth Orbit from which it is expected they could stop all airborne attacks against their nation. We must counter attack now while we have the chance. A robot army in orbit will not do them any good if they are all dead." :::Vice President: "General, I find this hard to believe. We have friendly relations with Adamantia. There has never been a previous report about them being a major military threat. Couldn't those spacecraft belong to someone else?" :::General Blackfoot: "Sir, only Adamantia has been sending spacecraft regularly to the moon. Apparently they did more than photograph craters and chemically analyze rocks. They must have established factories and built those spacecraft." :::Vice President: "You say they built factories on the moon that they used to build spacecraft on the moon? How would they ever launch them? There is no rocket fuel on the moon. Adamantia could not have sent up enough rocket fuel to launch a significant military force." :::General Blackfoot: "Sir, They must have found a way to launch them (See: [[List of Propulsion Systems]]) because we see them on radar. Adamantia is the only country up there. They must be behind the spacecraft." :::Vice President: "In about five hours the president will be available, in the mean time I have been ordered to act in his behalf. I will have the State Department contact Adamantia to find out what they know about this. It could be extraterrestrials are invading. I authorize attacking the unknown spacecraft, but take no action against Adamantia at this time. I am convening a meeting of the military emergency team for two hours from now. They should have analysis prepared by then." :::SOUND OF GUNSHOT :::General Blackfoot: "It seems as though we have had a communications equipment failure. Robert, you have two things to do. Arrest me for damage of government property and bomb the stuffing out of Adamantia. :::General Bricksides: "General Blackfoot, considering your admission of damaging government property I am busting you to brigadier effective tomorrow, pending review by court martial when we have time to convene one. Meanwhile we have planes and missiles to launch. :::So the first wave of the attack against Adamantia turned it into rubble. The second wave made the rubble bounce. :::After two days Generals Blackfoot and Bricksides were in prison when the radio announcement came from Muland: "We deeply regret the unprovoked attack of the United States against our ally Adamantia. Luckily a sizable number of the leaders were visiting Muland on business at the time and have survived. Considering the violent state of international relations at this time we declare a world wide prohibition of launching any aircraft or rockets without prior permission from the Department of Air Security of Muland. Craft that are in the air now will not be destroyed provided that they are traveling away from Muland and land in a timely fashion. Otherwise unauthorized craft will be destroyed by our orbiting assets at our discretion. A bombardment of the known military bases of the United States is presently underway with the first bombs to fall in about four hours. The reparations to be paid by the United States to Adamantia will the subject of further announcements." :::Story by [[User:Farred|Farred]] 18:10, 9 September 2011 (UTC) ::::My message is that one key unlocks both the potential for peaceful use of lunar resources and military use of lunar resources. That key is industrial development. Since we want the peaceful expansion of human capabilities but no expansion of warfare, we should unlock both and lock up the military potential again so it causes no harm. I believe international agreements to include monitoring of all colonies to continuously demonstrate their nonmilitary nature could be practical. Robot colonies would need to be open to inspection by the robot emissaries of other nations. When colonies are developed enough to support settlers, they would need to be open to inspection by human emissaries. There could be communist, capitalist, or any other economic system of colony, just no secret colonies. [[User:Farred|Farred]] 00:31, 10 September 2011 (UTC) :::::Some of this is covered in [[Geopolitics]]. [[User:Farred|Farred]] 21:30, 6 October 2011 (UTC) ==Faults with the above story== There is no mention in the story of submarine launched ballistic missiles or submarine launched nuclear cruise missiles. It is conceivable that a sufficient military force in Low Earth Orbit could protect a nation from nuclear attack by bombers and ICBMs, but there is not much chance that Muland could protect itself from attack by United States nuclear armed submarines. Beyond that, the capabilities of a modern industrial nation to attack an enemy, when so desperate that there is no moral constraint, is something too sickening to think of much less write into a story. Incinerating millions of people with nuclear weapons is something that can be disposed of with 19 words in a story without having to think about it. I do not actually consider it likely that all the other nations of the Earth would let one nation have the moon to itself for fifty-two years without so much as sending a reconnaissance satellite to look at the far side of the moon. The infra-red emissions of the radiators of factories on the moon would be a tell tale sign that could not be hidden. The fact of military potential for Luna, Mars and the asteroids is an extra problem that space colonization proponents must deal with. It will not be a motivation for anyone to develop extraterrestrial resources. People will be just as satisfied to see that no one is developing the moon as to be able to inspect developments and ensure that they are not military; and no development is the cheaper option. We must sell lunar development as not only worth the cost of development but worth the cost of inspections as well. Just so no one is misled, the idea of international inspection of all extraterrestrial bases to ensure no military uses did not originate with me. In John G. Hemry's book "Against All Enemies,"(copyright 2006) which is set in space in the year 2102, he has the nations agreeing that no one can set up a base on a celestial body "without international approval, supervision, and inspection."(page 7) I would not approve of the well armed military spacecraft that Hemry has patrolling space to enforce this agreement. Also inspections would be sufficient without supervision. There would be plenty of time to destroy a colony that fails its inspections and refuses to repair its situation. It would take a long time for military development to reach the point of a dangerous threat. I do not claim that these ideas originated with Hemry either. [[User:Farred|Farred]] 00:52, 12 September 2011 (UTC) :So, who could benefit from military resources on Luna if the resources could not protect a nation on Earth from nuclear attack? An entity that would exist entirely off the planet Earth could protect itself from any attack from Earth that I know of, by using a set of armed satellites to shoot down any attempt to launch to orbit from Earth. Of course my knowledge of anti satellite weaponry is far from complete. If anti satellite weapons could not break such a defense with today's state of the art, there is always the possibility of future developments. My guess is that Earth based treaties against weapons in space can and should prevent a military threat from space for hundreds of years. Eventually when the human population of outer space is more than double the population of Earth, the situation will become unstable. We can only hope that the transition to military forces in space is not catastrophic for human civilization. War in space will be an ugly thing. On Earth, if your city comes under attack, you can go hide in the woods and maybe give yourself up to whomever wins the war. On Luna or Mars if the city air recycling plant is broken in war, the citizens die. If the radiators necessary for cooling the colony are broken, the citizens die. The difference is the smaller chance for survivors in space war. :On Earth it is said that my right to swing my arm ends where my neighbor's nose begins. On Luna, rights to do as one pleases must take into account the need to demonstrate to Earth that Luna is indeed harmless. Earth's concerns will unavoidably dominate space colony concerns for very many years unless an interstellar planetoid the size of Vesta smashes into Earth without warning and leaves space colonies thereafter completely on their own. [[User:Farred|Farred]] 20:53, 14 September 2011 (UTC) ::After polishing up my crystal ball and gazing intently at a few possible futures, I find that in about four hundred years there will be [[Eddy Current Brake to Orbit|high volume low cost access to orbit]] from Earth. I will add a link to an article about that once I have written it. Heavy industry will have mostly moved off Earth and strategic military force as well. Political power and police forces will remain on the garden planet that Earth will become. At this time a violent change in the leadership of the military forces in space will be possible. Earth itself will not be targeted by weapons. Earth will be seen as the prize to be taken over by the victors, who will then take over political rule from Earth. As to why military forces would be removed from Earth, they would be sitting ducks if they remained on Earth. Once military questions are resolved in space, all left on Earth will either shout, "The king is dead. Long live the king." or they will congratulate the king at thwarting treason. (King is metaphorically government.) Whether there will be one or many governments for humanity in that distant future will depend upon 1> how strongly people gravitate to differing views of what constitutes the least evil form of government 2> how strongly people hold various incompatible cultural beliefs 3> how strongly people are affected by "We are good. They are bad." bias which is sometimes the focus of government propaganda. The focus of my crystal ball is poor in some areas. Just take my word for this. You would not want to be living in space during the time of a total space war. The governmental arrangement that I would think best would be a multi cultural multi economic system of governments that have arrangements for peacefully resolving disagreements. [[User:Farred|Farred]] 17:19, 17 September 2011 (UTC) == Sovereignty == {| style="border-style:none;border-width:0px" | style="border-style:dashed; border-width:1px; border-color:#668B88;" | ''Start quote<br>It follows that, like Antarctica, all settlements must be under the auspices of a sovereign country that is a signature to the treaty.<br>End quote'' |} Why? -- [[User:Mdelaney|Mdelaney]] 14:03, 10 May 2007 (UTC) Nation states wrote the current Moon treaties and so they wrote them to suit their needs. Lunar settlements now have to be under somebody's control and tax system. New treaties will be needed so anything could change, but it is unlikely that Google could found a Moon base without it being under some national sovereignty. It could be the USA, but it would be much cheaper to buy the use of some small country's flag. This is a common business practice. --[[User:Jriley|Jriley]] 15:53, 31 May 2008 (UTC) ---- == John Reyes == Do you think that Syria spying on dissidents? :I suppose you are indicating that your name is John Reyes. That is not quite the customary way of editing Lunarpedia. A section title should describe the subtopic of the section of a talk page, and the name or nickname of the contributor should be at the end of the contribution. While it seems a good guess to me that Syria spies on dissidents, I do not know what that has to do with the moon, which is the general topic for this website. My guess is that there is little likelihood that Syria has a space program of any kind, much less a lunar colonization plan. [[User:Farred|Farred]] 19:21, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
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Conewago and the Lebanon Valley Gateway
Plate#91: View of the Conewago Gorge by photographer William H. Rau, during his first photographic commission with the Pennsylvania Railroad to illustrate the destinations and scenery along the system. Collection of American Premier Underwriters, Inc.
Leaving Royalton behind the main line begins a sustained climb to Elizabethtown with a ruling grade of .84%. Four miles east from the junction of the Royalton Branch the main line, running on the alignment of the former Harrisburg, Portsmouth, Mt Joy and Lancaster Railroad crosses the Conewago Creek valley. Lenape for “At the Rapids”, the Conewago is actually two creeks of the same name: One running from the west to the Susquehanna River in York County the other coming from the east from the headwaters of Lake Conewago in Mt Gretna, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania to the Susquehanna near the village of Falmouth.
Pennsylvania Railroad Track Chart showing the grade and track profile between Highspire and Rheems. Note the junction with the Lebanon Branch at approximately Milepost 90 in Conewago, this branch had an interesting history connected with the Coleman Family iron dynasty of the late 1800's. Excerpts of track charts collection Keystone Crossings.
(Inset) Post card view of the 1885 Cornwall and Lebanon Railroad station in Lebanon, Pennsylvania designed by noted architect George Watson Hewitt. This building survives today and is on the National Register of Historic Places.
By the 1840’s iron forges to the north of Mt. Gretna owned by various descendants of Robert Coleman flourished in Lebanon with transportation access provided primarily by way of the Union Canal. The area’s close proximity to the Anthracite Regions, the Cornwall iron ore hills, an abundance of timber for charcoal/ coke production and local limestone quarries provided the catalyst for growth and development of an industry, which would become the backbone of Lebanon County and the Commonwealth of PA. To feed the forges William Coleman and cousin George Dawson Coleman constructed the North Lebanon Railroad In 1853 connecting the ore hills and forges near Cornwall to the Union Canal landings in Lebanon. By 1870 the railroad was renamed the Cornwall Railroad, interchanging with the Lebanon Valley Railroad, a line that was absorbed by the Philadelphia and Reading. As mining progressed at the Cornwall Ore Hills Company another line, The Spiral Railroad was constructed in Cornwall to facilitate moving material from the pit mines, loading the raw ore into Cornwall RR rail cars. The material would then head out to Lebanon for processing and concentration to be used in local iron production. By 1884 the Cornwall RR would also construct another route the Cornwall and Mount Hope Railroad, providing access to the P&R’s Reading and Columbia Branch allowing interchange freight and connecting passenger services via Manheim.
For a long time the Cornwall Railroad ran with no competition until 1883 when Robert H Coleman, a cousin to William Freeman the president of the Cornwall Railroad and son to the founder to the North Lebanon Railroad, would open a competing railroad, the Cornwall and Lebanon, creating considerable angst between the two operations. Running southwest from Lebanon to Cornwall then onto the resort town of Mt. Gretna following the Conewago Creek Valley, the new line provided a direct connection to the Pennsylvania Railroad in Conewago, opening markets in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and points west. Consequently in the following year, the aging Cornwall Furnaces ceased production, unable to compete with larger mills like Johnstown, Bethlehem and Steelton. Lackawanna Iron and Steel purchased the facilities and iron mines in 1894, later becoming a subsidiary of Bethlehem Steel whom operated the mines into the 1970’s.
Postcard view of the Cornwall iron ore mines circa 1922. The railroad in the image likely to be the Spiral Railroad, providing access to the three ore bearing hills at the mine site which then fed the material to both the Cornwall Railroad and Cornwall & Lebanon Railroads.
Though the forges shut down Robert H. Coleman’s net worth in the 1880s was over 30 million dollars, owing other interests in the iron business. However his investment in the failed Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West Railroad Railway in Florida and the Financial Panic of 1893 Coleman would lose everything and his assets defaulted to debtors who took control of the Cornwall and Lebanon Railroad. Providing an ideal operation to tap the remaining ore deposits, Pennsylvania Railroad’s board of directors authorized purchase of railroad on Mar. 12, 1913 from Lackawanna Steel Company for $1.84 million; officially merging w the PRR April 15th 1918. The route continued to operate through the Penn Central until Hurricane Agnes wiped out considerable pieces of right of way and flooded the remaining pit mines operating in Cornwall.
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Visit MCAA.org3 - 7 March | Phoenix, AZ
IMAGINE GREAT Speakers
NBA Legend, Cultural Icon, and Business Leader
IMAGINE being so successful on the court and in business, you can only be called “Magic.”
Magic Johnson is a hardwood icon. Those who remember the ‘80s will surely recall his epic championship battles with friend and rival Larry Bird. The LA Lakers’ first overall pick in the 1979 NBA draft, Magic won a championship in his rookie season— and he never looked back. Over 13 seasons with the Lakers, Magic redefined the position of point guard. The 12-time NBA All-Star would win four more titles, capturing three MVP Awards, and eventually being named to the Basketball Hall of Fame, twice! Since he left the basketball court for the boardroom, Johnson parlayed his skills and tenacity to become a business powerhouse, dedicating his life to serving urban communities. Still a commanding presence in the sports world, Magic is co-owner of the LA Dodgers, LA Sparks of the WNBA, and Major League Soccer’s LA Football Club.
Learn more about this sports legend, businessman, philanthropist, activist, and broadcaster at magicjohnson.com.
Opening General Session featuring President Michael Brandt and Earvin “Magic” Johnson
Monday March 4 08:30 - 10:00 Grand Canyon Ballroom
Lori Greiner
Shark Tank Star, Author, and Entrepreneur
IMAGINE the perfect blend of instinct and entrepreneurship.
Have an idea you think will sell? She’ll know if your product is a “hero or a zero.” Lori Greiner has created over 700 products and holds 120 U.S. and international patents. A self-made force of innovation, Greiner is a star on the 4-time Emmy Award-winning Shark Tank on ABC, where she invests in companies and helps turn people’s dreams into a reality. Lori is known for her negotiating skills and uncanny ability to identify and invest in winning brands, all with a simple goal: bring happiness to people by making their lives easier. Her bestselling book, Invent It, Sell It, Bank It, was named one of the top 10 business books by Amazon.com. You can find Lori’s products in top magazines like O, The Oprah Magazine, InStyle, and Family Circle. She has also been profiled in Parade, Financial Times, Forbes, and Entrepreneur and has appeared on “The View,” “Bloomberg,” “CNN,” and many others.
Want to know more about this refreshing all-American success story? Visit www.lorigreiner.com.
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Partners’ Program featuring Lori Greiner Hosted by Tina Brandt
Tuesday March 5 08:30 - 10:00 Grand Canyon Ballroom
Theo Epstein
Baseball Executive for the Chicago Cubs and Boston Red Sox
IMAGINE breaking one of baseball’s longest-standing curses. Now imagine doing it twice!
When Fortune magazine unveiled its annual rankings of the world’s greatest leaders in 2017, there was a surprise: Theo Epstein took the top spot (Pope Francis was third!). The President of Baseball Operations for the Chicago Cubs had done the impossible – he broke a century-old curse to lead the Cubs to their first championship in 108 years. What’s even more remarkable, he had done it before. In 2004, the then 30-year-old General Manager led the long-accursed Boston Red Sox to their first title in 86 years. After his Cubs miracle, Time named him one of the world’s 100 most influential people. In addition to his successful baseball career, Epstein and his twin brother Paul created the Foundation To Be Named Later while still in Boston. The foundation is dedicated to improving lives through education, leadership and the healthy development of youth and families.
Explore more of Theo Epstein’s groundbreaking and curse-breaking work at www.foundationtobenamedlater.org/wordpress.
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Awards of Excellence Breakfast featuring Theo Epstein
Wednesday March 6 07:30 - 09:30 Grand Canyon Ballroom
Mark McManus
United Association General President
IMAGINE being inspired by the leader of the nation’s most progressive and influential trade union.
In August 2016, Mark McManus was unanimously elected as General President at the UA’s 39th General Convention and on November 10, 2016, he assumed his new position leading the nation’s most progressive and influential trade union. Mark McManus has had a distinguished career in support of our nation’s hard working men and women and has been unwavering in his commitment to a strong and mutually beneficial partnership between labor and management.
“The UA has represented hardworking, highly skilled men and women in the plumbing and pipe fitting industry for over 125 years. Our strength in numbers and our determination will keep us working for generations to come. I trust union labor. I’m proud of union labor. I’m honored to be union labor.” — General President Mark McManus
Closing General Session featuring UA General President Mark McManus, the Changing of the Guard, and Jon Dorenbos
Thursday March 7 09:00 - 10:30 Grand Canyon Ballroom
Jon Dorenbos
Former NFL Long Snapper and Inspirational Magician
IMAGINE overcoming tragedy as a child to excel in the NFL and blow minds on America’s Got Talent.
Jon Dorenbos’ life has never been a snap. When he was 12, a family tragedy sent him to foster care and then to his aunt’s home. Last year, he saw his 15-year NFL career end suddenly when a team doctor discovered a life-threatening heart condition. Throughout struggles, throughout transition, Jon turned to magic as an escape. His sleight-of-hand tricks endeared him to Eagles fans throughout his 12 years with the team. His magic earned him a third-place finish on “America’s Got Talent” and his magical personality gained him a place in everybody’s hearts. So much so that, despite his retirement, the Eagles showed their love and loyalty when they presented Jon with his own Super Bowl ring. He is a frequent guest on the “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” and a sought-after speaker around the country. The fact that he’s still alive is maybe his greatest trick of all.
Check out more of Jon’s magical story at www.jondorenbos.com.
Katty Kay
Lead Anchor of BBC World News America
Katty Kay is the Lead Anchor of BBC World News America. She is the co-author of The Confidence Code: The Science and Art of Self-Assurance—What Women Should Know and The Confidence Code for Girls: Taking Risks, Messing Up, and Becoming Your Amazingly Imperfect, Totally Powerful Self.
Katty Kay: The Confidence Code for Women and Girls
Monday March 4 10:30 - 11:30 Grand Sonoran A - E
Tom Flick
Former NFL Quarterback
Tom Flick is a former NFL Quarterback and an authority on leadership, leading change, and accelerating performance. He has helped a variety of organizations to develop leaders, lead change, increase teamwork, and accelerate personal and organizational performance.
Education Seminars – Tom Flick: The Heart of Leadership: Leading People to Excellence
Monday March 4 10:30 - 12:00 Grand Sonoran G - K
Molly Bloom
Entrepreneur/Writer
Molly Bloom is best known for her memoir, Molly’s Game, which was adapted into an award-winning film of the same name, tracing her journey from college student to operator of the largest and most notorious private poker game in the world. She now focuses on building WeWork, a community that nurtures the ambitions of female entrepreneurs by providing opportunities to collaborate and grow their businesses.
Education Seminars – Molly Bloom: Molly’s Game: The True Story of the Woman Behind the Most Exclusive, High-Stakes Underground Poker Game in the World
Tuesday March 5 10:15 - 11:45 Grand Sonoran A - E
Ronan Tynan
Irish Tenor Singer
Ronan Tynan was introduced to international audiences as a member of the Irish Tenors. He quickly became known for his unique voice and launched a solo career. He has performed for dignitaries and at many high-profile events. His latest album is I Believe .
Ronan Tynan: Hitting the High Notes: Living Life to the Fullest
President of Sanborn & Associates, Inc.
Mark Sanborn is the President of Sanborn & Associates, Inc., an idea lab for leadership development. He has written several books on the topics of leadership, customer service, and extraordinary performance.
Education Seminars – Mark Sanborn: Leadership Lies and the Truths that Transform
Wednesday March 6 09:45 - 11:15 Grand Sonoran A - E
Mick Ebeling
Film Producer, Author, Entrepreneur, and Philanthropist.
Mick Ebeling is a Muhammad Ali Humanitarian of the Year Award recipient and founder and CEO of Not Impossible Labs, a social innovation lab and production company where he harvests the power of technology and story to change the world. He is the author of Not Impossible: The Art & Joy of Doing What Couldn't be Done.
Learn more about his work at www.notimpossible.com.
Wednesday Lunch with Mick Ebeling: Not Impossible
Your EducationAssociation
Here are more featured and seminar speakers that your Education Association has lined up for you. For more information on their programs, check out the Planning Guide.
Peter Abrahamson
Founder of ESOP Structuring Specialists, Inc. Read the Bio
Founder of ESOP Structuring Specialists, Inc.
Peter Abrahamson is the founder of ESOP Structuring Specialists, Inc., an advisory firm that designs and implements optimal ESOP structures for companies and their owners. He specializes in the valuation of business enterprises and individual securities, structuring ESOP transactions, and executing public and private market capital raises.
Education Seminars – Peter Abrahamson: ESOPs: the How and Why for Your Business
Tuesday March 5 13:15 - 14:45 Wildflower Ballroom A
David Avrin
Author and Business Marketing Expert Read the Bio
Author and Business Marketing Expert
David Avrin, CSP is the author of the acclaimed It’s Not Who You Know, It’s Who Knows You! and Visibility Marketing. His newest book, Why Customers Leave and How to Win Them Back will be in bookstores in March, 2019.
Education Seminars – David Avrin: Customer Experience is Your New Competitive Advantage
Wednesday March 6 09:45 - 11:15 Grand Sonoran G - K
Education Seminars – David Avrin: It’s Not Who You Know, It’s Who Knows You
Joe Bazzano
COO of Beacon Exit Planning LLC Read the Bio
COO of Beacon Exit Planning LLC
Joseph Bazzano, CPA, is the COO of Beacon Exit Planning LLC. He provides public accounting, valuation, and exit strategy services to closely held companies ranging from $5 to $280 million.
Education Seminars – Joe Bazzano and Kevin Kennedy: An ENR Top 20 Contractor’s Exit Bruises: Learn from My Mistakes to Reduce Financial Risk and Find Your Path to Retirement
Monday March 4 13:30 - 15:00 Grand Sonoran E
Tuesday March 5 10:15 - 11:45 Wildflower Ballroom B & C
Kip Bagley
VP Service with MESA Energy/Emcor Read the Bio
VP Service with MESA Energy/Emcor
Kip Bagley is VP Service with MESA Energy/Emcor in Irvine, CA. He is Chair of the MSCA Board of Managers.
Education Seminars – Kip Bagley, Chris Carter, and Steve Smith: The Value of Your Service Business to Recession-Proof Your Company
Monday March 4 13:30 - 15:00 Grand Sonoran H - K
Brian Beaulieu
CEO of ITR Economics Read the Bio
CEO of ITR Economics
Brian Beaulieu is the CEO of ITR Economics, where he researches the use of business cycle analyses and economic forecasts to increase profitability. A popular speaker, he is the co-author of Prosperity in the Age of Decline and Make Your Move.
Education Seminars – Brian Beaulieu: 2019 Economic Forecast – What’s Changed
Tuesday March 5 10:15 - 11:45 Grand Sonoran G - K
Paul Belair
Founder of 10X CEO Coaching Read the Bio
Founder of 10X CEO Coaching
Paul Belair is the founder of 10X CEO Coaching, where he helps contractor CEOs to increase performance, enhance productivity, develop and execute growth and exit strategies, and avoid blind spots. He spent 15 years at the helm of a large national specialty contracting firm that achieved an 83X return on investment in 63 months.
Education Seminars – Paul Belair and Jonathan Slain: How to Prepare For, Thrive During, and Create Massive Wealth After the Next Recession
Tuesday March 5 13:15 - 14:45 Desert Suites 4 & 6
Bob Bolton
CEO of Arden Building Companies, LLC Read the Bio
CEO of Arden Building Companies, LLC
Bob Bolton is the CEO of Arden Building Companies, LLC, a family of firms with corporate headquarters in Pawtucket, RI. By purposefully expanding service offerings and furthering market diversification through acquisition, he has grown Arden Building Companies into one of the largest mechanical contractors in New England. He is MCAA’s Vice President/ Assistant Treasurer and President of MCAA’s New England affiliate.
Education Seminars – Bob Bolton and Brian Helm: A Contractor-Led Discussion on Growth Through Acquisitions
Monday March 4 13:30 - 15:00 Desert Suites 4 & 6
Principal of FMI and Managing Director of Research & Analytics Read the Bio
Principal of FMI and Managing Director of Research & Analytics
Jay Bowman is a principal of FMI and Managing Director of Research & Analytics, where he assists construction industry stakeholders in identifying and assessing the risks influencing strategic and tactical decisions. He has many FMI publications to his credit, including the annual U.S. Markets Construction Overview.
Education Seminars – Jay Bowman: The Unsettled Calm — What is Coming?
Wednesday March 6 09:45 - 11:15 Wildflower Ballroom
VP Service at Murphy Company Read the Bio
VP Service at Murphy Company
Chris Carter is VP Service at Murphy Company in St. Louis, MO and Past Chair of the MSCA Board of Managers.
Jason Dorsey
President of The Center for Generational Kinetics Read the Bio
President of The Center for Generational Kinetics
Jason Dorsey is President of The Center for Generational Kinetics, where he works closely with leaders to separate generational myth from truth. Using original, data-driven research to explain generational behaviors, he and his team have repositioned global brands to win each generation. They’ve advised on multi-billion-dollar acquisitions and taken clients from last to first in both employee retention and customer growth.
Education Seminars – Jason Dorsey: Gen Z Workforce Disruption: Brand-New Insights and Practical Solutions to Unlock Gen Z’s Huge Workplace Potential
Wednesday March 6 09:45 - 11:15 Grand Saguaro East & West
Education Seminars – Jason Dorsey: My Reality Check Bounced: How to Overcome Obstacles and Fast-Track Your Career
Nick Espinosa
Cyber Security Expert Read the Bio
Nick Espinosa is the Chief Security Fanatic and CIO for BSSi2, a Chicago-based company specializing in cybersecurity/cyberwarfare. As a white hat hacker, he analyzes networks for weaknesses to help protect businesses from bad actors.
Education Seminars – Nick Espinosa: Protecting Your Company from Online Threats
Monday March 4 10:30 - 12:00 Wildflower Ballroom
Education Seminars – Nick Espinosa: Protecting the Future: Online Safety for the Whole Family
Todd Fredrickson
Attorney Read the Bio
Todd Fredrickson is a management-side labor and employment attorney and former managing partner of the Denver office of Fisher Phillips. He is a regular presenter on a variety of labor and employment topics.
Education Seminars – Todd Frederickson: Responding to Allegations of Discrimination and Harassment in the Workplace
Wednesday March 6 13:15 - 14:45 Desert Suites 4 & 6
Landon Funsten
Chairman of FMI Corporation Read the Bio
Chairman of FMI Corporation
Landon Funsten is Chairman of FMI Corporation. His work with contractors focuses on buyer and seller representation, business continuity, and stock valuations. He is a veteran of FMI’s Management Consulting practice, where he gained a unique understanding of the difficult organizational, operating, and strategic issues facing an owner in the process of ownership transition. A widely recognized expert, he has written and spoken extensively to construction-industry groups about mergers and acquisitions and ownership transfer issues and trends.
Education Seminars – Landon Funsten: Maximizing the Value of Your Business
Monday March 4 10:30 - 12:00 Grand Sonoran F
Brian Helm
CEO of Helm Group, Inc. Read the Bio
CEO of Helm Group, Inc.
Brian Helm is the CEO of the Helm Group, Inc., based in Freeport, IL. He has grown the company, organically and through acquisitions, into one of the largest contractors in the Midwest. He is Chair of MCAA’s Technology and Education committees and serves as MCAA’s President-Elect.
Founder of Beacon Exit Planning LLC Read the Bio
Founder of Beacon Exit Planning LLC
Kevin J. Kennedy is the Founder of Beacon Exit Planning LLC. He understands firsthand the challenges facing business owners when exiting a company, from attachment to the business, choices, taxes, and the complicated exit process.
Amy Marks
CEO of XSite Modular Read the Bio
CEO of XSite Modular
Amy Marks is the CEO of XSite Modular, a design build firm that also offers consulting in modern methods of construction. Her firm focuses on the use of off-site prefabrication and the incorporation of design for manufacturing and assembly principles into complex, technology-embedded buildings.
Education Seminars – Amy Marks: Driving Innovation with Modern Methods of Construction
Tuesday March 5 10:15 - 11:45 Grand Sonoran F
Jonathan Marsh
CTO/Division Manager Virtual Design & Construction Read the Bio
CTO/Division Manager Virtual Design & Construction
Jonathan Marsh, CTO/Division Manager Virtual Design & Construction, William T. Spaeder Company, Erie, PA.
Education Seminars – Jonathan Marsh, Stacy Zerr, and Sean McGuire: Does Your Company Need a Construction Technology Manager?
Michelle May, M.D.
Physician and Author Read the Bio
Physician and Author
Dr. Michelle May is the founder of Am I Hungry? Mindful Eating Programs. She is also the award-winning author of the book series, Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat.
Education Seminars – Michelle May, M.D.: Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat: How to Eat Mindfully to Live Vibrantly
Wednesday March 6 09:45 - 11:15 Grand Saguaro North
Sean McGuire
Director of Construction Technology Read the Bio
Director of Construction Technology
Sean McGuire, Director of Construction Technology, MCAA, Rockville, MD will guide this discussion.
Jonathan Slain
Entrepreneurial Operating System® Expert Read the Bio
Entrepreneurial Operating System® Expert
Jonathan Slain is an Entrepreneurial Operating System® expert at Autobahn Consultants. He helps companies that are on the fast track for growth to achieve their vision of success by providing business strategy and creating scalability.
Senior VP of ACCO Engineered Systems Read the Bio
Senior VP of ACCO Engineered Systems
Steve Smith, CPA is Senior VP of ACCO Engineered Systems in Burbank, CA. He is Vice Chair of the MSCA Board of Managers.
Photographer Read the Bio
Charles Townsend is a Colorado-based professional photographer. His work ranges from culinary magazines to international event coverage. He teaches photography workshops and believes that cameras are merely tools by which we exercise our visions.
Education Seminars – Charles Townsend: Smart Photography: Unlocking the Potential of Cell Phone Cameras
Tuesday March 5 14:30 - 16:00 Desert Suite 7
Scott Wallenstein
CEO of Neptune Plumbing & Heating Read the Bio
CEO of Neptune Plumbing & Heating
Scott Wallenstein, PCA Chair and CEO of Cleveland, OH-based Neptune Plumbing & Heating will moderate this session.
Plumbing Lunch & Learn
Monday March 4 12:00 - 13:30 Wildflower Ballroom A & B
Stacy Zerr
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Think, 9 Henrik Gedenryd’s How Designers Work3 or Bill Buxton’s Sketching User Experiences. 2 In particular, we see design as an open process, representing a stark contrast to the rationalistic and deterministic process models of traditional engineering.
For many students, this way of thinking bears a particular challenge to accept and understand. On one hand, they can appreciate the value of good design from successful products on the market, with Apple being the obvious model example, for better or for worse. This creates an interest in design, insofar as they see it as a crucial element of their future work. On the other hand, to understand the consequences of the “wicked” nature of design problems16 is more difficult to embrace, as it questions the traditional problem solving strategies of informatics as well as of engineering in general. Our goal is to foster an understanding that most problems are not “given” or even defined apriori, but rather emerge from an interwoven process of problem solving and problem framing that requires a special way of thinking.
˲ Lateral/creative thinking. Both the rational traditions of mathematical and computational thinking, as well as the open and sometimes subjective approaches in design thinking, need lateral or creative thinking.
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˲ Mathematical thinking. Undergraduate informatics curricula often incorporate a sizeable portion of mathematics. In most of our curricula, 25% of all first-year credit points come from math courses. Compared to high school, mathematics at the university level is less concerned with fluency in arithmetic. Instead, it requires students to understand the value of mathematics in problem solving, and the mathematical way of looking at the world. Some of the core concepts are abstraction, induction and deduction, recursion and, above all, the idea of provability.
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In the course, we discuss examples like the one mentioned here. We stage a session of live coding where the difficult to understand solution to the Monty Hall problem18 becomes accessible not only through running a computer simulation, but more importantly by carefully reading the code itself. Following this line of argument, we explore aspects of code as knowledge representation. Starting with the cognitive developmental stages of code understanding by Lister, 11 we show that code can be much more than instruction to a machine; it represents knowledge and can even be used to make an argument. Again, this offers an additional layer of meaning for students to think about code and coding, which they will be doing a lot during their studies.
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Mona Hatoum, "Bunker", 2006
Mona Hatoum. About boundaries and war
Mona Hatoum was born in Beriut from a palestinese family in 1952. From 1975 she live and work in London, where she went to visit the city, but forced to stay in Europe because of the beginning of the civil war in Lebanon. She attended the Beirut University College beetween 1970 and 1972, then the Byam Shaw School of Art and the Slade School of Art between 1975 and 1981. After her studies she began her artistic career with performances and video, then re-inventing her art, using also installation.
Mona’s life deeply influenced her art, because all her works talks about civil situation, political boundaries and theme that concerned also her personal life as a woman who can not go back to her country because of the war.
Most of her works are made with maps and their language, so that she’s one of the most interesting map-artist I’ve ever studied. She find out how improve her work with social and political values, without transforming them in an activism’s flag.
In 2006 opened to the public her exposition “Bunker” in London, near Piccadilly. This gallery is set with 35 seesaws colored in red and painted with the patterns of some important capitals of the world. These strange plays move without touching each other. Their abandoned disquieting movements call off every unit and suggest territorial displacement.
Mona Hatoum, “Bunker”, 2006
Balancoires
Linked to this installation, in 2010 Mona Hatoum created similar seesaws, this time thanks to the exposition in Punkt Ø/Galleri F 15 (Norway), due to the celebration of the 200-year anniversary of Norway Constitution. This time not 35 but only 2 seesaws where exposted. Thier pattern is with, instead of the red of the other works.
Different is also the use of the light and the material. In 2010 Mona used glass instead of the plastic material, so that once illuminated from up-above the spectator can also ammire the patterns reflected on the floor. Maybe that’s means a chage of mind or it give to the same works a different taste, with a different poetic.
Mona Hatoum, “Balancoires”, 2010
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Egypt’s Major Terrorism Problem | Monday Briefing
Charles Lister, Randa Slim, Alex Vatanka
In this week's Monday Briefing, MEI experts Charles Lister, Randa Slim, and Alex Vatanka provide analysis on recent and upcoming events including Egypt's ongoing struggle with terrorism following the recent attack in Rawda mosque, the next round of intra-Syrian Geneva negotiations, and Iran's anxiety over Russia's plans in Syria.
Egypt’s Major Terrorism Problem
Charles Lister, Senior Fellow
The killing of 305 Sufi Muslims in Rawda mosque in North Sinai on Friday was the deadliest terrorist attack in Egypt in decades. Beyond its clear sectarian nature, the attack has served to underline the continued potency of the ISIS threat in the Egyptian Sinai and the failure of years of government military operations to subdue it.
ISIS’ ‘Wilayat Sinai’ branch may not resemble anything on the scale of what ISIS developed in Syria and Iraq in recent years, but it has a demonstrated capacity for conducting sophisticated attacks (it downed a Russian commercial airliner and struck an Egyptian naval vessel in 2015), and for sustaining an insurgency in the Sinai since 2013. This recent expansion to mass killing does not indicate any increase in capability, but the implications for any semblance of Sinai stability are concerning.
The scale, scope and capacity of the terrorist threat emanating from the Sinai has increased since President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi assumed power in Egypt in 2013. Since then, Egypt has intensified its use of conventional warfare tactics to combat an inherently unconventional challenge. Tanks, jets, artillery and other forms of heavy firepower have prevented ISIS from controlling territory, but this scorched earth strategy has also caused widespread civilian displacement and a further deterioration of living conditions in the Sinai. Repeated incidents of military abuse and extrajudicial killings have further marginalized Sinai’s tribal communities. ISIS may not exist because of such misplaced military tactics, but it certainly will not cease to exist because of them either.
Geneva Talks a Sideshow to Real Syrian Negotiations
Randa Slim, Director of the Initiative for Track II Dialogues
Recent political and military developments indicate there is a conflict-ending scenario that is unfolding in Syria. A new and more “liable” Syrian opposition negotiation committee was formed in Riyadh last week. With Tehran and Ankara’s blessing, Moscow is convening a conference in Sochi bringing together representatives of the Syrian regime and opposition groups. Two American-Russian-Jordanian (with indirect Israeli involvement) agreements on de-escalation zones in southern Syria were concluded. Another agreement on de-escalation in Idlib was negotiated in Astana. The U.S. president promised his Turkish counterpart U.S. military assistance to Syrian Kurds will be terminated. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan signaled to Damascus his interest in holding talks about the future of the Syrian Kurds.
In this scenario, Bashar al-Assad and his security regime are here to stay—at least until his presidential term expires in 2021. The Geneva talks are a mere sideshow. For Assad, Geneva has never been the forum for “real” negotiations. Similar to the previous seven rounds, not much is expected from this upcoming round.
To reach a sustainable peace agreement in Syria, Moscow needs buy-in from two stakeholder groups: the spoilers, including Damascus, Tehran and Ankara; and the funders, including the United States, E.U. and Arab Gulf countries. Without the spoilers’ buy-in, no peace agreement can be reached. Without the funders’ blessing, peace-building in Syria is difficult. While all share the objective of ending the conflict in Syria, a wide gap remains within each group and between the two groups about the terms of an acceptable peace agreement.
Iran Suspicious of Russia’s Intentions in Syria
Alex Vatanka, Senior Fellow
As the Syrian war looks to wind down and Russia’s stature as the ultimate powerbroker solidifies, Iran is discernibly anxious. The Iranians do not want to lose the influence they have secured on the ground in Syria over the last nearly seven years of conflict, and appear to have deep reservations about Russia’s intentions. The November 22 summit in Sochi was supposed to bring the positions of Iran, Turkey and Russia on the future of Syria closer together. Instead, it showcased ongoing divisions.
President Vladimir Putin’s one-hour phone call with President Donald Trump before the summit to reassure Washington about Russia’s intentions has unnerved the Iranians. They suspect the Russians are cutting deals over their heads, not only with the Americans but perhaps even with the Israelis and Iran’s Arab rivals. At the same time, the Trump administration’s decision to end the supply of arms to Syrian Kurds will—from Iran’s perspective—cast doubt over Turkey’s commitment to the Iran-Russia-Turkey trilateral mechanism to find a final political resolution to the Syrian conflict.
In the short term, the deepest Iranian fear is that Moscow is promising the Americans, the Israelis and others that Russia will work toward reducing and eventually ending the Iranian military presence on the ground in Syria. This is a non-starter for hardliners in Tehran that happen to control the Syria file. Many in Tehran have for long suspected that Iran and Russia’s joint efforts in Syria were always of a tactical and not a strategic nature. The fallout from the Sochi summit might just prove them right beyond any doubt.
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Crossing the border with Blue Jays beat reporter Jordan Bastian.
That's a Rap
TORONTO — I gave being a Raptors fan a try for one night and it didn’t work out so well, so I’m going to go back to rooting for my Bulls. I headed to the ACC on Wednesday and took in the Raptors-Magic game, which was actually my first time going to the stadium.
We had a good time, but when Juan Dixon is creating the most excitement there’s a problem. I tried to get the J-D-3 chants going in my section, but it wasn’t catching on like I had hoped. I also came inches away from acquiring a free t-shirt, but the concessions stand wouldn’t allow me to have a cap for my bottle of diet coke. As a result, I couldn’t jump like I would’ve been able to with a cap protecting my drink and the shirt eluded my grasp. Ah well.
Had a brief chat with Jays GM J.P. Ricciardi last night. I was actually at the gym when he called me back, so I got some odd looks while I was off in the corner conducting an interview while people headed in to the weight room. Anyway, even though the Jays have been linked to catcher Yorvit Torrealba in some recent reports, Ricciardi said the Jays aren’t going to go that route.
After talking to Ricciardi and Torrealba’s agent, it’s apparent that the catcher is likely to garner a multi-year deal, and probably as a No. 1 guy somewhere. The Jays are fine with Gregg Zaun as their starter, and the club doesn’t want to dish out a multi-year contract when Curtis Thigpen and Robinzon Diaz figure to be in the mix by 2009.
There’s still a chance that the Jays will bring back catcher Sal Fasano, which would give me someone to talk about Da Bears with for another season. Ricciardi didn’t deny that the Jays might have some interest in Mike Lieberthal, but he said Toronto hadn’t realy started talking to potential candidates. That will probably intensify as we get closer to the winter meetings.
Ricciardi said there’s also still a chance that the club may try Thigpen at a position other than just catcher. He’s played some first base, tried his hand some at second and maybe third base is in his future. Ricciardi said that issue will be discussed this winter, so Thigpen will have some clarity by Spring Training. Eventually, he and Diaz will be with the Jays. They both can’t catch.
Also, in regards to the A.J. Burnett trade report, which was slightly blown out of proportion, Ricciardi had this to say: "What’s happening is there’s nothing going on. There’s absoultely nothing going on and people are looking for anything to write. We know we’ve got A.J. for another year. If he decides to opt out after three years, or he decides to stay, we knew that going in. This isn’t something that all of a sudden popped up in our lap."
Well, there’s a little Jays update for you guys to chew on. Here’s some Winter League stats updates:
Scottsdale Scorpions
Travis Snider — .342, .986 OPS, 3 HR, 5 2B, 10 RBIs through 20 games
Sergio Santos — .261, 4 HR, 6 2B, 13 RBIs through 18 games
Ryan Patterson — .239, 2 HR, 5 RBIs through 19 games
David Purcey — 1-1, 1.59 ERA, 17 IP, 17 K, 8 BB, 12 H though five starts
Ricky Romero — 1-1, 4.22 ERA, 10 2/3 IP, 10 K, 5 BB through 8 games, 1 start
Jamie Vermilyea — 0-1, 16.50 ERA, 11 ER, 15 H, 6 IP
Lee Gronkiewicz — 1-0, 0.00 ERA, 4 1/3 IP, 6 K, 0 BB in 3 games
DOMINICAN LEAGUE
Agulias Cibaenas
Hector Luna — .354, .415 OBP, 2 RBIs through 13 games
Azucareros del Este
Manny Mayorson — .364 (4-for-11) through 5 games
Tigers del Licey
Robinzon Diaz — .500 (2-for-4) with 1 run in one game
VENEZUELAN LEAGUE
Ray Olmedo — .326 (30-for-92), 3 3B, 5 RBIs, 13 runs through 23 games
Ryan Houston — 1-0, 1.00 ERA, 9 IP, 7 H, 4 K, 5 BB through eight games
HAWAII LEAGUE
West Oahu CaneFires
Brian Jeroloman — .255, 1 HR, 8 RBIs through 15 games
You can keep checking on the Jays playing winter ball at MLB.com’s Winter Leagues page.
Posted on November 9, 2007 at 10:41 am
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My choice for a back up catcher is Fasano, before Mike Lieberthal. We have experience in Fasano’s qualities in helping both the Doc and the Bulldog this last year.
In addition, I think Diaz is closer than anyone thinks-if he hadn’t been injured he would have been a September call up. He is not getting much playing time in the winter leagues ball yet, so it’s hard to tell how his recovery is going. I expect he’ll get off to a hot start in AAA, like last year and we’ll want him up here, by the All Star break.
I find JP’s comments on Thigpen interesting. I expected Thigpen to start in AAA and likely spend the year there, because Diaz has a better bat. I assume we feels Arencibia is going to rise faster than any one thinks.
By gsumner@rogers.com on November 9, 2007 1:50 pm - Reply
Hey to anybody who thinks/says instant replay in baseball will slow the game down, i heard Mike Wilner today on the fan and he, in my opinion made an excellent point saying that watching a manager argue about a call, and then having the 4 umps discussing it in a circle is likely longer.
By enigma_d17@hotmail.com on November 9, 2007 2:26 pm - Reply
I’m also interested in Jordan’s opinion actually. what do u think should be done in baseball?
I like the way the nfl does it. make it a challenge type of thing.
I would love to see Fasano back next year, and I hope there is a place for him in the organization after he is finished playing. Too bad about Torrealba, but Riccardi has a point.
By gnorman@cogeco.ca on November 9, 2007 2:56 pm - Reply
gnorman
I agree with JP on Torrealba. Diaz is going to be a real good one-why block his entry. I think he’s already better than Torrealba.
In 2009, I expect Diaz will be the main guy and Thigpen the backup. A year or two later Arencibia should be ready. Diaz and Arencibia should be as good as it gets.
sorry for being gone-
happy DIWALI btw if anyone celebrates it
now to baseball
Sign Fasano, Keep Zaun for 1 year (think the deal is over anyways) then have Diaz at catcher.
i think that if we believe in Arencibia so much then instead of trying Thigpen as an infielder let THigpen and Diaz duke it out at catcher and trade the unwanted. This way we got Arencibia coming up and i don’t think we have a shortage of young bats. (lind, snider, rios, wells aint that old…)
Plus is overbay gonna be able to recover from injury and go back to his 06 performance?
Wat’s up with Kevin Ahrens?
nice point enigma with the replays. and like i said lets go with something like challenges i think it will be best.
By harrypotter229@gmail.com on November 10, 2007 5:40 am - Reply
oh and sergio santos is looking really good, like a power hitter something like glaus (low average, high rbi’s and hr)
I like Diaz a lot. This year he hit .320 with an OBP of .346 in 366 at bats. Limited power with only 4 HR’s, BUT only 22 strike outs-so he’s a great contact hitter. He also threw out .400 of attempted base stealers and he’s big at 5’11” and 220 pounds.
Arenciba, who we drafted in the first round and gave a $1,327,500 signing bonus is also big at 6′!” and 210. Although, he didnt have quite the year expected of him in Auburn, I expect he’s shift it into high gear this coming year, since his credentials are so strong.
The combination of these two likley puts Thigpen as the odd man out when Arenciba arrives-but that’s probably 3-4 years away.
It looks like Ahrens had a hard time with the bat, but his defense was solid. THe background on him was great bat, average defense-so maybe he just worked on deefense-who knows.
Balbino Fuenmayor, another signing with high expectations, also struggled at the plate this year.
Let’s hope all 3 of these guys do better next year, since we invested over 3.5 million in signing bonuses between the 3.
By gsumner@rogers.com on November 10, 2007 7:44 am - Reply
The skinny on Brett Cecil
We drafted Cecil this year. He was Maryland’s closer where he set multiple school records and was arguably one of the best college closers in the country. The big lefty is 6’2″ and 225 pounds.
His arsenal as reported by Draft Report is a fastball in the 89-92 mph range and a devastating multiple speed slider which reaches a high of 86 mph, and major league ready.( Randy Johnson-anyone)
This year, Cecil went 49.2 innings for the Auburn Doubledays and established an era of 1.27, with 11 walks and 56 k’s. In 15.1 innings against left handed batters-he gave up no runs and struck out 17.
Now, that’s what I call a lefty specialist.
JP has already mentioned this kid is going to be a fast riser-no wonder. He certainly would look better facing David Ortiz than Tallet or Kennedy.
I’d expect he moves to Dunedin in the spring and quickly to New Hampshire. If he performs as well there as he has in Auburn-don’t be surprised if he’s a September call up next year.
His fastball tops out at 92? That’s not really Randy Johnson material, no matter how good his slider might be….
And, gsumner, did you see that Jordan addressed the Canadian dollar issue in his mail bag?
“The loonie is soaring right now, but Ricciardi said that has no bearing on the team payroll he’s been given to work with. The Jays have roughly $90 million to use on next year’s roster — a similar payroll to last season. Toronto’s GM said the exchange rate hasn’t influenced how much money the team can spend this winter.”
Looks like we got our hopes up for nothing….
By hem.gold@hotmail.com on November 11, 2007 7:19 am - Reply
Sorry, I didn’t mean his fastball, I meant the 86 mph slider.
If I was Riccardi right now, I’d say the same thing. He’s got to put contracts in place with a lot of guys on this roster. No need to broadcast there’s money available.
On the other hand, there might not be any need for additional money-remember they lose a ton of contracts from 2007
By gsumner@rogers.com on November 11, 2007 10:46 am - Reply
hem if youd like to see Cecil pitch go to the following URL and click on “watch now”
http://ww2.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/events/draft_report/y2007/index.jsp?mc=cecil
You can also check out the draft reports on each player at this site.
So, Jordan, How’s that whole being a Bulls fan going?
By robertlee13@rogers.com on November 11, 2007 12:13 pm - Reply
Ouch. Yeah, the Bulls played a brutal game last night….
gsumner: Thanks for the link!
By hem.gold@hotmail.com on November 11, 2007 12:33 pm - Reply
AFL update
Well, I did say David Purcey was getting stronger each outing. Yesterday he went 5 innings, threw 82 pitches-54 strikes, 1 hit, 8k’s, O earned runs,1 BB and lowered his era to 1.23. This effort was against one of the top teams in the AFL. Purcey hasn’t allowed an earned run in his last four starts.
He’s now in the top 3 starters in the AFL in stikeouts, era and whip. As he regains strength he’s striking out more and walking less.
Sergio Santos went 4 for 4 yesterday to raise his BA to .312. It looks like he likes playing 3rd base.
Travis Snider’s in a bit of a slow down with his BA dropping to .337.
By gsumner@rogers.com on November 11, 2007 3:55 pm - Reply
So much for Posada. The Yankees are insane! 4 years at 54 million??? Do they possibly think that he can put up those number for four more years? I guess it is like one of those arod type deals. He can’t possible put up 50 homers, 150 rbis, and win the mvp every year. And what happens if one of those 10 years he gets injured? 35 million down the drain.
By freedom_fighter1121@yahoo.com on November 13, 2007 5:36 am - Reply
I’m not sure the Yanks felt they had any option but to sign Posada. I don’t think they their fan would like to see both Posada and A-Rod’s bat out of the lineup.
I’d think they expect him to become DH in a couple of years when they’re out of Giambi and Damon’s contracts.
Sergio Santos is on a roll in the AFL going 9 in his last 14 at bats.
As of today he’s batting .333, with 10 doubles, 5 hr’s and 19 RBI’s in 22 games. His ops has jumped to .965 and he’s 1 back in the AFL HR race, second in RBI’s, 4th in slugging, top 10 in BA and OPS.
Most impressive is he’s htting .447 with runners on and .409 with runners in hitting positions.
Is he just on a roll or has one of the AFL coaches figured him out and helped, or does he just like 3rd base?
should read .409 with runners in scoring positions
3rd is supposed to be a power position, so I guess when he moved to 3rd, he did a complete job of it.
As I recall, Santos is a pretty big kid, so maybe 3rd is a better fit for him in the bigs.
Adams left a pretty big hole in our system, since he and Hill were supposed to cover the middle infield for a few years. Do we really have a top prospect at shortstop in the minors now?
By gnorman@cogeco.ca on November 14, 2007 5:37 am - Reply
Well, Santos plays short stop, other than that draft choices from 2006. He won the home run contest at the AA All-star game this year.
The two for the left side of the infield are Ahrens-our number 1 draft choice from 2006 and Fuenmayor, who both started in the Gulf Coast this year.
Both had poor offensive years, so we’ll see what happens in 2008. Ahrens should be a good one, but both are likely 3 years away.
Could you get us an update on Robinson Diaz? He played one game on October 24th for Tigres Del Licey, had 4 at bats, and hasn’t played since.
Hs he been shut down?
Santos is 6-2/240, and the scouting report on Ahrens knocks his range, and sez he willl likely end up at 3rd in the bigs. Mind you, if he plays behind Johnny Mac for a couple of years, he should learn the game well enough. They say he’ll play 2nd until he proves he can’t, then move to 3rd.
By gnorman@cogeco.ca on November 14, 2007 3:19 pm - Reply
Ahrens is playing at short not second. His range limitation was poor footwork which apparently has improved significantly-so he might be OK-we’ll see next year.
My error–short it is of course. He has a good arm, good hands, but his speed is a tick below average, which would limit his range, and is harder to correct than poor footwork. I still say he will make a fine 3rd baseman, but we had better be drafting a shortstop to replace JM in a few years.
I just heard on the news that Bonds was indicted , 4 counts of perjury and 1 count of obstruction of justice . They have proof ( blood tests etc )he took the steroids . What a blow for baseball . If he is found guilty he could serve between 5-15 years
Will MLB strip him of his accomplishments?
By indigo_t@hotmail.com on November 15, 2007 3:45 pm - Reply
Well, rumour has it that A-Rod’s back with the Yankees for a mere $275 million over 10 years.
Looks like everyone was blowing smoke on both ends of that deal….
By hem.gold@hotmail.com on November 15, 2007 6:58 pm - Reply
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The AFL-CIO and Chamber of Commerce on Thursday released a set of immigration reform principles, and the press is calling it a breakthrough. But don’t be fooled. The real story is that the backroom talks failed, and Big Labor is still holding out for a political commission to run any new guest-worker program.
Much of the current debate has focused on the country’s 11 million undocumented residents, and we agree that a path to citizenship should be part of the solution. But to reduce unlawful entries going forward, a lightly regulated guest-worker program for low-skill foreign nationals is also essential.
The bipartisan Senate outline released last month calls for “allow[ing] more lower-skilled immigrants to come here when our economy is creating jobs, and fewer when our economy is not creating jobs.” That’s the right principle but it allows for lots of mischief in the details.
The Chamber and AFL-CIO have been trying to work out those details in private talks, but they have made little progress. Our guess is that last weekend’s now famous White House leak about the President’s immigration plan was intended mainly to muscle the Chamber. Mr. Obama’s leaked outline didn’t include a guest-worker program, which labor negotiators cited in urging business to drop or limit the idea.
Labor leaders have been insisting instead on a commission to determine when there are worker shortages that immigrants could fill. The commission, first mooted by Jimmy Carter’s Labor Secretary Ray Marshall, would certify labor shortages and set annual limits for temporary work visas and green cards. The President and Congress would appoint its members, whose proposals would be binding unless Congress voted to reject them.
“It would be a data-driven system by an independent group that would decide if there are shortages and where they are,” says AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka. “The system that we’re looking at would be planning ahead and would be able to predict where shortages would occur.”
Note the words “planning ahead” and “predict.” The U.S. labor market is a vast and varied army of 156 million people, and its composition and needs are constantly changing with the economy. Yet Mr. Trumka wants us to believe that a group of appointees in Washington will be able to know how many cherry pickers, construction workers or software engineers are needed in 2014. The Chinese Communists don’t even believe they can do that anymore.
Economists don’t have generally accepted measures to determine worker shortages overall, much less regionally, and the government data are unreliable or behind the curve. If you want to find out how many unemployed carpenters there are in Miami, the most useful figures are two years old. Only employers know how many workers they need, and they need to know they can get them when they need them.
Mr. Trumka wants a commission precisely because he knows it will never be “independent” in Washington. Its members will always be yanked by political pressure or ideological preference, and Mr. Trumka wants his union allies to control the commission and restrict the supply of immigrant workers. Big Labor talks a good game about solidarity with immigrants, but the reality is that unions don’t want guest workers who compete for jobs.
To do any good, a guest-worker program needs to offer flexible visas of a reasonably long duration—preferably, several years. Workers shouldn’t be hostage to any one employer, which would reduce the chances for exploitation and let workers compete for higher wages. Guest workers should also be able to jump between industries—say, from construction to hospitality to security, depending on the opportunities. The goal should be to let employers rapidly fill their needs while giving workers maximum opportunity to leverage their talents.
The Chamber-AFL-CIO statement on Thursday says that a program should be “market-driven,” but then adds that it should “protect the wages and working conditions” of U.S. workers. No word on how it will do either one. In effect business and the unions are giving up and defaulting to Congress, where Mr. Trumka will use his White House ties to try to resurrect his commission or otherwise politicize any guest-worker program.
For Republicans, a flexible, market-driven guest-worker program should be part of their minimum requirements for an immigration deal. Such a program will help the economy, but it will also reduce the flow of future illegal immigration by giving foreigners legal avenues to work in America. It is the only border enforcement strategy that will work.
As for Mr. Obama, the question is whether he wants a bipartisan solution, or would rather use the issue to mobilize his base for the 2014 election. If the President wants an immigration reform to pass, he’ll have to side with immigrants over the unions.
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