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Twenty20 World Cup 2016
Mirage replied to Fader's topic in Cricket Predictions
0.5pt e/w F. du Plessis to be top tournament batsman @ 33/1 with William Hill (1/4 odds 1-4) 0.5pt e/w G. Maxwell to be top tournament batsman @ 100/1 with Bet365 (1/4 odds 1-4) Both of these men had good series when coming up against each other in South Africa and I fancy them to carry on that form. Faf du Plessis topped his side’s runscorer chart vs Australia and you’d think he’s guaranteed a bat in every match he plays here. As captain he won’t lose his place and at number three he should get plenty of balls to face on more than one occasion. He’s one of many that come in to this tournament with very good knowledge of Indian conditions – he’s played in the IPL since 2011. Good form and guaranteed time at the crease make this price look very good. Glenn Maxwell finished the series against South Africa in good touch. He was at the crease when the winning runs were scored in the series decider and his partnership with David Warner in the second match set them up for victory. Australia play at the home ground of KXIP twice and that suits Maxwell nicely since it’s his home IPL ground. At number five, facing enough balls could be an issue but with his talent he may only need one occasion of getting in early for him to register a big score. He’s more than capable of scoring quickly at the end of an innings so he should be able to accumulate plenty of runs in that role. Despite the risk of him not getting much time at the crease, 100/1 seems far too big for a man in this kind of form and with this kind of talent.
10 Mar 2016 10:40am
0.5pt e/w J. Bumrah to be top tournament bowler @ 20/1 with Bet365 (1/4 odds 1-4) 0.5pt e/w D. Steyn to be top tournament bowler @ 33/1 with Paddy Power (1/4 odds 1-4) I’m confident that India and South Africa will go far in this tournament so it’s logical to go with bowlers from their sides at prices I believe offer value. Jasprit Bumrah comes in to this off the back of a successful Asia Cup – taking six wickets and doing well when given the ball in the latter overs. The expectation on this India side will be huge but Bumrah has enough talent around him in the bowling attack to ensure that he isn’t carrying his side’s hopes on his shoulders. This will be the first time some batsmen have faced him so that element of surprise could catch some out. He’s only young and has relatively little experience but the success so far in his career and his ability to outfox batsmen lead me to believe 20/1 is a little big. On the other end of the experience scale is Dale Steyn. We all know he’s one of the best bowlers in the world and that is partly because he has bundles of experience of pressure situations. Steyn has been a consistently high performer in the IPL over the years so knowledge of the conditions isn’t an issue and although he’s not played a great deal lately, he had a couple of run-outs vs Australia and came through those ok. In a side that should go far, Steyn should be up there challenging for the top wicket-taker title.
1pt India to win Group 2 @ 13/8 with Stan James This price looks huge. I’m not sure it needs much justification as they come here following another Asia Cup win and with a side packed full of talent. They’ve been consistently good in T20s for a while now and their side are more than used to the pressure their nation will place upon their shoulders. Australia have just beat South Africa in South Africa but their bowling attack, Faulkner apart, concerns me – they lack a quality spinner and potentially another pace bowler. New Zealand look short of a batsman and a bowler and Pakistan could be a lively outsider or lose every game. Whilst the odds on them to win the tournament look a bit tight, I’m very surprised that India aren’t around 5/4-6/4 to win the group.
1pt South Africa to win tournament @ 11/2 with Skybet 1pt South Africa to win Group 1 @ 15/8 with BetVictor South Africa have all of the ingredients to go far in this competition. I think they’ve been put in the easier of the two groups so should be more than able to swat aside a transitional Sri Lanka, a West Indies side without some of their big names and an England team who they’ve just beaten 2-0 at home. Nine of South Africa’s probable starting eleven have IPL experience so these conditions shouldn’t be a problem. In de Villiers, Amla/de Kock and du Plessis they have a powerful top three and an in-form Miller lurks down the order fully capable of finishing an innings. Tahir is one of the best spinners in the world at the moment whilst Rabada has shown no signs of being overawed by occasions in his fledgling career. Add those to Steyn and you have a triple threat that will rival everyone else’s bowling attack. South Africa have just lost a home series to Australia but that doesn’t concern me – if anything I’m happy because the price has remained value, if not increased. That series was used to experiment with the top two and with the bowling attack whilst a few changes were made in the middle order too. There were enough big performances to leave me confident that they will go to India in good spirits. This side has an abundance of talent with the bat and enough variation with the ball to cause sides problems. 11/2 could look very big very early in the tournament. The 15/8 on them to win the group also looks very big.
South Africa vs Australia T20 Series March 4th - March 9th
Mirage replied to Mirage's topic in Cricket Predictions
An Australia win meant that the series score outright lost. Rabada struck with at the death to deny Tahir the number one wicket-taker spot for his side but the dead-heat still brings in a profit. du Plessis managed to bring in his outright although Miller did make it a bit too close for comfort. All of this, minus the one point loser in today's game, means a healthy final profit of +14.63 points.
Champions League > March 8th - 16th
Mirage replied to Aidymac's topic in Champions League Predictions
Chelsea vs PSG: 1pt Both teams to score @ 3/4 with Betfair Both of these sides should go in to tonight’s game looking to score as one Chelsea goal puts PSG on the brink and vice versa. This is the third season in a row that the sides have met in the knockout stages and both sides have found the net on three of the four previous occasions. Chelsea are unbeaten in their last ten at home and in eight of those games they’ve scored and conceded at least one. PSG have found the back of the net in eight of their last nine away ties. Chelsea are still missing Terry and Zouma whilst PSG have doubts over key men Verratti and Matuidi. These potenital weak points plus the firepower each possess and their need to score makes the 3/4 look just big enough to be worth taking.
Zenit vs Benfica: 1pt Zenit to qualify @ 2/1 with BoyleSports 1pt Zenit to beat Benfica @ 21/20 with Ladbrokes 1pt Both teams to score @ Evens with Paddy Power I rarely take three bets in one game but it could have been even more – two others narrowly missed the cut. I think the bookmakers have underestimated Zenit in this match and have overestimated Benfica’s patchwork defence. The hosts come in to this game without Javi Garcia but it’s the visitors who have the bigger problems to deal with. Benfica are without Luisao, Lopez, Jardel, Cesar and Almeida and only Lindelof of their recognised centre-backs is available. Jardel and Cesar have played in every game since the start of the group stage whilst Almeida has played in six of those seven matches. The absence of the ability and, potentially more importantly, experience of Luisao (four appearances) and Lopez (two appearances) will be felt once more. Whilst Zenit weren’t in a strong group, their home record in the group was impressive. They scored seven and conceded only two in their games against Gent, Lyon and Valencia. They’ve done well in the league when playing host, only losing two of their ten home games so far. Benfica were also in a relatively weak group and did ok away, scoring five and conceding five as they beat Atletico, lost to Galatasaray and drew at Astana. Benfica have been great away from home in the league, winning eleven of the twelve games, drawing the other. They’ve managed to score at least two goals on eight of those twelve occasions. These two sides met twice in the 2014/15 Champions League and Zenit were victorious on both occasions, winning 2-0 away and 1-0 at home in the group stage. The main negative against Zenit is the fact that, since December, they’ve only played one competitive game – the first leg. Benfica haven’t had the luxury of having weeks to prepare for these games but they may be a bit sharper than their opponents. Despite Zenit coming in to this following friendlies rather than competitive matches, I think the prices on them to win and qualify offer value. Zenit’s home record to-date in this year’s competition has to be admired and odds- against on them winning the match looks a good price. Benfica’s defence is there to be got at so Zenit will fancy their chances of scoring at least a couple. One Benfica goal could end Zenit’s hopes of progressing but at 2/1 I’m willing to take a chance on Zenit out-scoring them by a big enough margin. Benfica have a habit of scoring away from home and Zenit need to score at least once, therefore, odds-against on both teams to score looks good value.
Great work on the Shahzad bets, Fader
Vfl Wolfsburg vs KAA Gent: 1pt Both teams to score @ 3/4 with Betfair These two sides played out a five-goal thriller in the first game and I think there’ll be goals again tonight. Wolfsburg have Jung out but should be able to cover adequately but they’ll be sweating over the fitness of key players Draxler and Kruse. I’d imagine at least one, if not both, will be risked if it is touch-and-go but, either way, they should have enough to progress. Mitrovic will be a big miss for Gent as the Serbian has been an ever-present for them up until now. The form of these sides are at opposite ends of the scale. Wolfsburg come in to the game having only lost once in seven and that was against Bayern Munich. Overall they have a very good record at home, only losing three times all season with two of those against Munich and the other against Dortmund. Despite that good record, they have conceded on all but six occasions. Gent had a great spell of one defeat in fourteen not so long ago but have since only won twice in seven. They do have a habit of scoring at least one away from home – only failing on 4 occasions all season. Both of these sides have a good habit of getting on the scoresheet so, for me, the odds on offer represent a little bit of value.
It looks as though Russell is free to play, that's a big boost for the West Indies. Like BMD, I'll be getting involved after the South Africa - Australia decider.
3rd ODI: 1pt G. Maxwell to be top Australian runscorer at 8/1 with Skybet We go in to the third and final T20 in good shape as all three outrights are still very much alive. We're effectively on South Africa to win the match at 13/8, du Plessis leads his side's runs chart and Tahir is a good performance away from topping the bowlers'. Like Durban, past results indicate that wickets should fall. In the two T20s and one ODI here since the start of 2015, fourty of the sixty wickets fell with only one of the six innings seeing less than five bastmen sent packing. This makes the 8/1 on Glenn Maxwell to top score for Australia look a bit big. Maxwell and David Warner took Australia to victory last time out and the former's 75 will ensure he comes here feeling in good touch. We all know that Maxwell can be inconsistent but with wickets likely to fall he should get time to play himself in. 8/1 for a man in form and likely to get a bat looks too big to turn down.
Rabada shared the top-the wicket-taker prize. Now +8.25 points for the series with 3 bets unsettled going to Cape Town.
2nd T20: 1pt K. Rabada to be top South African bowler @ 7/2 with BoyleSports I backed Rabada in this market in the first T20 and I'm more than happy to do so again at this price. He picked up two wickets in that game and should follow that up with another solid performance at his home ground. South Africa played England here in T20 and ODI matches earlier this year and Rabada chipped in with six wickets over the course of those two games. Familiar surroundings, a rich run of form and a shaky Australian line-up are enough for me to give the youngster another chance to top his side's wicket column.
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Great call on Tahir BMD
Premier League > March 5th & 6th
Mirage replied to Aidymac's topic in Premier League Predictions
Watford vs Leicester City: 1pt Over 2.5 goals @ 5/4 Betfair Leicester travel to Watford for the Saturday evening game hoping to extend or maintain the lead they had before the start of the day. Watford come in to this match in inconsistent form. They’ve won, drawn and lost a couple of their previous six games and have only managed to score four, conceding four too. They’ve had a tough run of games lately against Chelsea, Man. United and Spurs but did well to come away with a win at Crystal Palace amongst those. This game isn’t much easier but I do think there is reason for them to hope because they’re still looking a solid side. They were unfortunate to lose against Man. United in midweek when a direct free-kick was the only thing separating the two sides. With relegation very unlikely and Europe just as far away, Watford have the luxury of being able to start playing with freedom. Leicester come in to this after a couple of unconvincing displays. After leaving it late to beat Norwich at home they let West Brom snatch a point in midweek. Those results suggest to me that a bit of nerves and/or tiredness are starting to creep in to their game. The Foxes have lost two of their last five away games after going unbeaten since the start of the season. Whilst they should have Kante available for this game, how fit he is remains to be seen. He’s such a key player for them that any niggles could leave his team exposed. Watford have a very good defence and Leicester have the league’s best attack so something has got to give here and I think it’ll be the former. Despite their defensive record Watford have conceded two or more in four of the five games they’ve played at home against the top seven. They’ve scored in four of the five games, despite their poor attack. Leicester usually concede on the road but they also usually score. All of the above leads me to believe that the 5/4 on offer for over 2.5 goals looks the value play. | cc/2019-30/en_middle_0017.json.gz/line1239 |
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pratty
Re: Seriously.......WTF has happened to........
Post by pratty » Tue Mar 10, 2015 5:16 pm
GigaPepsiMan wrote:
pratty wrote:
GigaPepsiMan wrote: It's been nearly a year since Daniel Bryan won the Wrestlemania main event and it feels like the WWE have been punishing fans for getting behind him ever since.
I don't know about that. Why, because he's not in the main event of wrestlemania two years in a row? Let's not pretend Reigns wasn't over prior to the Royal Rumble, when all of a sudden it became hip to boo him out of the blue.
There is nothing wrong with putting guys in the main event multiple times, HBK was in the title match a. Wrestlemania XI, XII and XIV (he probably would have done XIII too if he had not lost his "smile"). Austin main evented and won the title at XIV, XV and XVII.
Roman Reigns have never been massively popular. People cheered him at the 2014 Royal Rumble because it came down to him and Batista. People liked him before his injury because of the shield and when the shield split he was being booked to be a tough guy. It's everything that has happened since he returned from injury that has made him unpopular, Vince McMahon tried to make him into the next John Cena, fans censored on it, now they want him to be the Rock, fans don't want that because that isn't Roman Reigns.
Even if Reigns was booked in a way that worked to his strengths people still wouldn't want him to main event just yet, the guy is still green and lacks experience. John Cena was originally supposed to win the WWE Championship at Wrestlemania XX but they knew he wasn't ready so they pushed it back a year. Roman Reign's isn't near ready and he isn't by any means the right person to beat Brock Lesnar. Truth be told no one in WWE is truly qualified to beat Brock Lesnar for the belt but that is WWE's own fault for doing such a bad job building talent over the last 7 years, the only two guys in that time to really get to true main event level are Cm Punk and Daniel Bryan.
WWE would do great business if they could see the landscape changing, people like Daniel Bryan, Ziggler and Cesaro are who the fans want to see. It's a sad state that it is the year 2015 and the top heels on TV Week in and week out are Big Show and Kane. WWE crap on WCW for a lot of things but they are making all the mistakes WCW were making all those years ago. The only guy I can see legitimately rising to the top at the moment is Seth Rollins and that's because he's Triple H's own personal pet project.
I don't have a problem with people being multiple WM main events either, which is why I also don't complain about WWE not making new stars, however many people do so WWe are attempting to do that with Reigns, a guy people actually did react well to prior to the Rumble, you can't blame WWE wanting to push a guy when people react well to him. They didn't boo him when he returned, they (the rabid cry-baby Philly fans) only booed him at the royal rumble because their prefered guy didn't win.
Somebody has to face Lesnar, and Reigns is as qualified as anyone to have a crack at him, Reigns wins a lot including clean wins over Orton and Bryan, and an ever so slightly tainted win over CM Punk. And I literally cannot remember Reigns being pinned clean in a one on one match ever, certainly not recently. So how is he not worthy to at least challenge Lesnar? And that's all WWE are promising,they're not saying Reigns will win, you've already decided that for yourself, maybe he won't, but if he does beat Lesnar then by definition he was the man to do it. And don't forget Lesnar was green himself when he beat the Rock in 2002 and nobody made a fuss over it.
The top heels are not Big Show and Kane, it's Rollins and Lesnar, HHH and Bray Wyatt, Big Show and Kane are just the Authority's henchmen.
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Post by DPrinny » Tue Mar 10, 2015 7:40 pm
pratty wrote: I don't have a problem with people being multiple WM main events either, which is why I also don't complain about WWE not making new stars, however many people do so WWe are attempting to do that with Reigns, a guy people actually did react well to prior to the Rumble, you can't blame WWE wanting to push a guy when people react well to him. They didn't boo him when he returned, they (the rabid cry-baby Philly fans) only booed him at the royal rumble because their prefered guy didn't win.
Actually its not about the WWE not making new stars, its about the WWE not pushing what they already have.
Look at Ziggler, he won the Survivor series match, is liked
Cesario, a great work history, is hard working and, is liked
As said they have loads of talent that remains unpushed, in the case of Ziggler he has held a major WWE title, but was soon squashed
Post by pratty » Tue Mar 10, 2015 10:09 pm
DPrinny wrote:
... squashed by his ability to concuss himself as soon as he won the world title. He can't say he hasn't had a chance, now it's Reigns' chance (who is also hard working), I'm sure if he drops the ball they'll pass it to someone else. Similarly Bryan couldn't wrestle as soon as he won the title last year, maybe WWE are sick of putting titles on the big bump takers that injure themselves as soon as they're given the ball.
Of course I admit since Ziggler lost the title they since pushed a couple of lazy underserving guys called CM Punk and Daniel Bryan, and some guy called Brock Lesnar who's never sold a ticket in his life, yeah WWE don't push anyone who deserves to be.
Seriously WWe can't win anyway, if they pushed Dolph Ziggler as the top face we'd still hear about Daniel Bryan being 'buried', if they pushed Cesaro as the top heel we'd just hear about Bray Wyatt and Seth Rollins being 'buried'. They can't push and please everyone.
The other thing people don't take into account is all the other things that come with being champion, people just judge a guy's ability to be champion from the bell to bell and their proficiency on ther mic (though a lot of people overlook that aswell, sorry but Ziggler is almost as weak on the mic as Reigns), but being champion comes with a lot of other baggage, the work load is increased, the appearances increase, the travel, the early morning media commintments, the advertising and sponsorship stuff, make a wish visits, and generally mindign their Ps and Qs in public, not to mention the pressure of carrying the company, drawing the houses and selling PPV buys. All this is also taken into consideration when they decide who to make champion and the face of the company, some people are more up to it than others.
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Post by Negative Creep » Wed Mar 11, 2015 12:06 am
As with Star Wars and Lucas, I'm starting to think the best thing that could happen to WWE is to get it away from McMahon. I don't dislike Reigns but he was the least interesting of the Shield and it's clear they are getting increasingly desperate to try and get people to like him. The only person who can really match Lesnar physically is Rusev, but they would risk a heel-heel main event so I have to wonder where his push will end up..
Still, for all the flak the Network gets at least I can go back and watch all the classics
Post by DPrinny » Wed Mar 11, 2015 12:44 am
^I unsubbed from the network as I really dont like its web player
Other sites offer better ones
Actually if you see what happened with Bryan afterward winning it was nothing but high risk matches with a load of high spots
Ziggler was the result of Del rio being botchy
CM Punk was great, but was sick of being over worked (Hence why he left).
Theres room for more than one top star
Post by pratty » Wed Mar 11, 2015 2:22 am
DPrinny wrote: Theres room for more than one top star
I personally agree with this (generally there's only one heel and one face on top at any given time, but you need a few to rotate between), as do WWE I think, hence why WWE are pushing Reigns this year instead of Daniel Bryan (who's already had the big push and big win), to create a new main eventer, a new babyface option outside of Cena and Bryan. I don't think it's a case of them saying Reigns is necessarily better than Bryan, they just want a new star and they think now is the time to create one, and for every promotion up the card there has to be a demotion down the card to accommodate it. If it all goes pear shaped they can always turn him heel and they have a new main event heel instead.
You can make a decent case for Ziggler over Reigns but Ziggler has had a few title opportunities already where as Roman hasn't had any yet. Ziggler may never get his big run with the title but I'm fine with that, not everybody can or should be champion, Ziggler may end up with a Mr Perfect-esque career but there's no shame in that. People lament Ziggler losing the high profile matches but then ignore the fact he's been putting over guys like Rollins and Bray, other young deserving talent that a lot of people like, if Bray and Rollins have put over Ziggler people would just cry about how wasted and 'buried' those guys were instead? You can't make an omlet without breaking a few eggs.
DoraemonTheCat
Post by DoraemonTheCat » Wed Mar 11, 2015 10:52 am
Negative Creep wrote: As with Star Wars and Lucas, I'm starting to think the best thing that could happen to WWE is to get it away from McMahon. I don't dislike Reigns but he was the least interesting of the Shield and it's clear they are getting increasingly desperate to try and get people to like him. The only person who can really match Lesnar physically is Rusev, but they would risk a heel-heel main event so I have to wonder where his push will end up..
I was going to ask.........where on the Super Duper Information Highway, can I find old school WWF/E videos? I really just want to sit through the days I first watched - is it possible to find them online?
Post by DPrinny » Wed Mar 11, 2015 12:12 pm
^The best (legal) place is the WWE Network (£9.99 a month), its only let down by its web player that often drops the quality
RMLF
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Post by RMLF » Wed Mar 11, 2015 1:26 pm
Those bored with WWE stick with NXT mainly because it's miles better than Raw/Smackdown
I'll echo it as has already been mentioned, watch Lucha Underground, by far the best wrestling show anywhere at the moment. Aerostar <3
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Post by Negative Creep » Wed Mar 11, 2015 6:19 pm
DPrinny wrote: ^The best (legal) place is the WWE Network (£9.99 a month), its only let down by its web player that often drops the quality
I keep having the problem where it only takes up about a 1/3rd of the screen if you switch to full screen mode with either Firefox or Chrome, which is indeed very annoying. But you can now watch it through the 360 (and I assume the One and PS3/4)
Post by DPrinny » Wed Mar 11, 2015 7:13 pm
The lack of being able to shrink the video screen was a problem for me, I might be working on something and want to have it on in a smaller window (like I do with the likes of Youtbe and a few other video sites)
DPrinny wrote: The lack of being able to shrink the video screen was a problem for me, I might be working on something and want to have it on in a smaller window (like I do with the likes of Youtbe and a few other video sites)
I just leave it on the normal size, shrink the window around it and use the Always On Top extension for firefox. Means I can "work" and watch it at the same time
HalcyonDaze00
Post by HalcyonDaze00 » Wed Mar 11, 2015 8:27 pm
it's awful, as bad as it's ever been, don't think it will ever get back to past glories
Negative Creep wrote:
"Working on something"
Nar I dont use Firefox
Post by DoraemonTheCat » Thu Mar 12, 2015 11:56 am
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[Let's read] 13th Age Playtest, first round
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The first playtest round of 13th Age ended yesterday, and with it the first rule of playtest (Don't talk about playtest). So let's talk!
Since the game is still in development, and half of the rules have probably been rewritten by now, it makes no sense to go too much into detail. But I think the game has drawn enough interest that gamers want to know where the game might be headed and where it could carve its niche.
The file is titled "An indie-style d20 RPG by Rob Heinsoo & Jonathan Tweet" and I think that's a good description. It definitely reads more like a home campaign transcript, but in a good way. There are many cooments in the way of "Rob prefers it like this, but Jon skips this rule", which encourage the DM to take the game and make it his own. I hope the final product will be full of this meta-information, because it provides good insights even to experienced DMs.
Next up... Chapter 1: Icons
- Chapter 1: Icons -
The Icons are a unique and central concept to 13th Age, and putting them first in the book underlines this. The concept isn't entirely new to D&D - every game world has powerful NPCs that shape its fate. For example, Planescape has the Lady of Pain, Ravenloft has Strahd, Dark Sun has the Sorcerer Kings, Eberron has the Lord of Blades... The Icons in 13th Age take these as a general concept or templates that the DM can flavor according to taste. For example, the Archmage is the archetype of the powerful Wizard, represented by Elminster, Mordenkainen or Raistlin.
Wisely, 13th Age avoids the Lord British Postulate (if it has stats, we can kill it). So no stats. The file does include a chapter on how to handle encounters with an icon, but it's purely narrative.
Instead, each PC allocates points to icon relationships. This doesn't mean the PC knows the icon personally (although that could be true, if it fits the background). Rather, it represents a relationship the PC has with the icon's larger organization. The PC could be a member, or he could just be able to call in some favors. It could also be that the relationship is antagonistic, and that the points represent a high level of "know thy enemy".
In their current form, icon relationships represent contacts, influence and resources (in the lingo of RPGs that have these things). For someone coming from 4E, it would also be cool if the icon relationships could provide something like inherent bonuses, or utility powers. Say, invoke your "Boon of the Lich King" to take control of a group of skeletons.
Currently, there are 13 icons (one for each age). We'll see what the final list will look like. There is a "Create your own icon" competition going on, maybe they'll take an idea or two from there.
http://www.pelgranepress.com/?p=7814
The publicized ones so far are Archmage, Lich King, High Druid, Diabolist, and a fifth unnamed one in the title bar of the homepage.
- Chapter 2: Character Creation: Races -
Character creation is fairly standard D&D / D20, with some indie elements thrown in.
Start with choosing a race. Races are split in "standard" (human / elf / dwarf ...) and non-standard (aasimar, tiefling, dragonborn, warforged ...) For unknown reasons, drow are "standard", which should raise some eyebrows. The current text encourages players to come up with unique characters, even if that means coming up with a completely new racial writeup. Which is cool. It also should encourage DMs more to just say yes - life is too short to set arbitrary limits to creative PCs. Quote: "The point of 13th Age is to set up the version of the game you want to play. If a player wants to play one of these races they should have that right, but not necessarily at the expense of the GM’s vision if the GM already knows how they want to handle such characters." In my experience, this so-called "DM's vision" is just enforcement of D&D clichees. D&D clichees is what 13th Age is about, but it should encourage their creative use at any opportunity.
The racial writeups are fairly similar to 4E (+2 to one of two ability scores, get an encounter utility power). Some of the powers are different, though. The Tiefling one is interesting because it's rather generic "DM's call what happens". These kind of generic powers show up again in class abilities, and they mark quite a step from the very formulaic nature of 4E. It fits some DM styles, but probably not others. They are marked as experimental in the test, so it's not clear how they'll look in the final print.
Next up is class choice, but that's better covered when I talk about classes. So I'll skip them and go for ability score generation.
Character Generation: Ability Scores
It looks like Rob Heinsoo likes to let his players roll stats, while Jonathan Tweet likes point buy. So 13th Age has both in pretty standard versions. Personally, I'm fiercely in the point buy camp, rolling stats can GDIAF. Ah well, that's a different thread.
To these base scores, you get a +2 bonus from both race and class. Which is kind of funny because the 5E team had the same idea, probably independently.
The stats then determine modifiers in standard D20 fashion.
First-level hit points are determined in a way that's not 4E but end up in a similar ballpark (around 30 at level 1). I'll talk more about hp / damage scaling later.
There are 3 defenses, AC, physical and mental. AC is as expected, physical defense is fortitude, reflex defense is split between the two, and mental defense is will. These three stats are generated by taking a base number by class and adding the middle value of three ability score bonuses. Say, if you have +4, +1 and +0, the stat modifier is the +1. As much as I like the rest of the system, this rule struck me as a sore thumb. If you want to make a character with one really good score and many mediocre ones, this really screws your defenses. I hope the final game will find a better way to handle this.
Next up (tomorrow): more on character creation, and I'll answer questions as far as I can.
Spider Proletariat
Fascism At It's Basest
When you were talking about races, are there literally dragonborn/warforged/tieflings/aasimar, or are you just using a shorthand for equivalents? Also, any 'new' additions to the race lineup?
Mr.Samedi said:
Unless WotC puts Tiefling etc. under OGL, other publishers will have to skirt around the issue with alternate names.
I don't know anything about new races.
Mr. Teapot
mkill said:
They also published a brief description of all 13 Icons in their Page XX.
Mr. Teapot said:
Ah, I somehow missed that. Nice to see that the Crusader is a fan favorite, I fully agree.
Matt Sheridan
Minus 10 horse points.
I'm really interested in 13th Age. It sounds like it's running contrary to expectations in multiple directions, while still very much aiming to produce one coherenet vision. I mean, "3e/4e D&D but more narrative" is a really odd idea. I think it could be completely awesome.
I really dig the sound of those little inside-comments-from-the-designers asides. I think a lot of games could benefit from that kind of transparency.
Hey, so what about the basic rules of the game? All pretty much d20 standard? What kinds of "indie-style" elements are involved?
Silvercat Moonpaw
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Arnold J Rimmer
What kicked off the current wave of bloodshed?
The Soviet invasion of Afghan? The fall of the Shah? The abandonment of military actions against Israel?
What set the spark to the tinder for the fire that is consuming the Middle East and other areas? It isn't just jihad, because they're killing far more muslims than they are infidels.
So what set it off?
Any man can hold his place when the bands play and women throw flowers; it is when the enemy presses close and metal shears through the ranks that one can acertain which are soldiers, and which are not.
Much earlier than that. If you read Tom Holland's book on the start of Islam, there were fanatics chopping unbelievers heads off in the seventh and eighth centuries And by unbelievers I include those who believed in a different brand of Islam or were not fanatical enough. Isis were genuinely copying early Islam.
"To be free is better than to be unfree - always."
For more recent agitation how about the failure of the Americans to support the British and French at Suez. Up until then Britain and France had kept a lid on things but the US supported Nasser and Britain and France withdrew things gradually feel apart.
johns624
There were problems back in the Lawrence of Arabia days according to this book, which I read several years ago.
https://www.amazon.com/Lawrence-Arab.../dp/0307476413
The Koran.
"It's like shooting rats in a barrel."
"You'll be in a barrel if you don't watch out for the fighters!"
"Talking about airplanes is a very pleasant mental disease."
— Sergei(son of Igor) Sikorsky, 'AOPA Pilot' magazine February 2003.
Originally posted by Surrey View Post
Yeah, I know it's always been a creed with low tolerances, but we went for quite a while without suicide bombers and bloody mayhem. Then we hit the 90s and events just kept building until 9/11, and we're drone-striking them, and they're killing each other.
So what ended the quiet lull this time? What got the drums beating in the brush and sent the natives upon the warpath?
101combatvet
Originally posted by Arnold J Rimmer View Post
Around 1988 with Obama bin Laden as the mastermind.
There were Islamic terrorists in the 80s. Remember the attack on the US Marines in Lebanon. Then the Iranians took the embassy in Tehran. It had been building up since Suez.
Britain and France had been keeping a lid on things throughout the c19th but with the retreat from Empire they came back again.
Simply large surplus of young men who are unemployed and have no future. They are easily swayed by someone offering them future. Nothing particularly to do with Islam. Same thing has happened elsewhere with other ideologies like Red Kherms in Cambodia who if anything were worse than IS.
In Syria troubles started after long drought when cities were filled with unemployed people from countryside.
"Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery"
Robert G. Ingersoll 1833-1899
Half Pint John
Par for the times.
Christians were burning people at the stake
"Ask not what your country can do for you"
Left wing, Right Wing same bird that they are killing.
you’re entitled to your own opinion but not your own facts.
The start, according to bin Laden was Gulf 1 when the west stationed large military forces on holy land in SA. The French and British earlier occupation did nothing but build resentment
Stonewall_Jack
Supremacist Jews, Christians and Muslims of the middle east are a problem. Its only Turkey of all middle eastern countries that allows freedom, Turkey is Muslim majority but home to Patriotic Turkish Jews and Christians.
People are the problem, religion is a thing it can never be blamed for the ills of society.
Long live the Lionheart! Please watch this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...&v=jRDwlR4zbEM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3DBaY0RsxU
Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.
Originally posted by JML View Post
Poverty can be issue, but even in the USA there is brutal poverty, there is in my country the fact that we do not have national health insurance or any sort of feeling of pride, of actually standing for something worthy like we once had in the past.
Even in wealthy countries such as the USA there are homeless folks. There is religious bigotry in the USA, in the highest of ranks. In the USA there are supremacist Christians in Trumps admin such as Pastor Jeffress(Trump spiritual advisor) whom suggest Mormons, Jews, and Muslims are going to burn in hell.
In Saudi Arabia and Israel we see two somewhat wealthy countries...there is struggle in these two countries. In Israel and Saudi while there is wealth there are also many poor and working class Jews and Muslims and many of them stand by freedom.
Its the working man in the middle east that reaches out to Americans , English and more as a means to say hey even though our governments are corrupt we the people stand for freedom. Israel and Saudi Arabia is a case of two somewhat wealthy countries allied to the USA that also have laws that are different from the USA, in terms of freedom of movement and equality among man. The USA has to once and for all bring back the American spirit and ally with countries that support freedom. Lobbyists of the Israeli and Saudi gov are in the wrong and must be opposed and kindly told to change their views, if there is no change further action must be taken. All men deserve freedom, it is a crime that in Saudi Arabia and Israel there is not dignity nor freedom.
Poverty is not the only issue facing the Middle east. No Gov in the Middle East has the right to tell people what religion they must be or whom they can marry, only Turkey stands by US style freedom.
The entire middle east can learn from the legacy of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.
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wolfhnd
The Mongols pretty much broke the back of Islam in North Africa. Later the Ottoman empire's collapse lead to instability in the Arab countries. The sultan was more of a secular leader than a religious leader despite theocratic overtones. A more radical religiosity in North Africa and Iran was a natural reaction to new secular powers of France and Britain replacing the Ottoman empire. The Zionist insurrection in Palestine is evidence of how weak British and French control was after WWII while at the same time oil brought infidels in increasing numbers to the middle east further destabilizing a culture already in crisis. The radical form of Islam that emerged in Saudi Arabia and later in Iran created an environment and resources where terrorism was bound to emerge as a political tool in a convoluted web of conflicts. The hatred of Jews in the Koran made Israel a propaganda and recruiting tool uniting various traditions in hatred of foreigners who even partially supported Israel.
Terrorism is the natural tool of weak powers confronting foreign control. Islam itself is the perfect tool for terrorist recruitment. The existence of a "holy land" unites Muslims all over the world. The number of Muslims may be the most significant factor in how common Muslim terrorists appear to be. Fanatics willing to kill themselves for an ideology are unfortunately not unusual.
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EUREKA! Giuliani Says NO to PLO State!
By Pamela Geller - on August 15, 2007
"Palestinian": Jihad against Jews
Woo-tay Ru-day!
Seeing the NY Sun headline, written by the best Middle East reporter on the scene today, Eli Lake, made my day. I have my reservations about Giuliani but he is so right on this issue. Unafraid to stand with the civilized man – in the war against the savages. I am in awe. He gets it!
There is hope. As the violence unfolds and Islamic jihad becomes bolder, more violent and merciless, America will see then evil confronting her. Of this I am sure
Finally, a light at the end of the tunnel. Someone is talking reason. Perhaps Giuliani has been so right on the war on Islamists because he not only saw 9/11 up close (damn near died in that elevator) but he also was privy to intel. He gets it. And the relentless fight against the barbaric political idealogy of Islam is going to take a man of great courage.
Rice is a useless tool for Islamic jihad and Bush checked out a year ago.
Gd bless Rudy. Ol Merde, don’t let the door hit you in the ass.
Giuliani Warns on PLO State Eli Lake New York
Giuliani Warns on PLO State
Stance Puts Daylight Between Him and Rice
WASHINGTON – In a sweeping repudiation of the conventional wisdom that America‘s
war on terrorism must address Palestinian Arab national grievances, the
leading Republican contender for the presidency is warning of the
dangers of pressing too soon for Palestinian statehood and is asserting
that Israeli security is a "permanent feature of our foreign policy."
"Too much emphasis has been placed on brokering negotiations between
the Israelis and the Palestinians – negotiations that bring up the
same issues again and again," Mayor Giuliani
writes in an essay published yesterday in Foreign Affairs. "It is not
in the interest of the United States, at a time when it is being
threatened by Islamist terrorists, to assist the creation of another
state that will support terrorism."
In some of the boldest language on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
used thus far by any presidential candidate, Mr. Giuliani writes:
"Palestinian statehood will have to be earned through sustained good
governance, a clear commitment to fighting terrorism, and a willingness
to live in peace with Israel."
That language appears to be a direct shot at President Bush and Secretary of State Rice,
who are making just such a push for final status negotiations between
President Abbas and Prime Minister Olmert in September, despite Hamas‘s takeover of Gaza in June.
Finally, a voice of reason
The former mayor’s vision
for Israeli-Palestinian negotiations is also a repudiation of the
approach of the Baker-Hamilton Commission, a panel on which Mr.
Giuliani served briefly. In its final recommendations on Iraq
policy in December 2006, the commission urged America not only to
re-engage in the peace process, but also to explore ways for Israel to
cede the Golan Heights to Syria.
Mr. Giuliani’s senior foreign policy adviser, Charles Hill,
said yesterday that the Bush administration’s current push to forge a
peace deal between the Palestinian Authority president and the Israeli
prime minister may be "risking too much."
Here’s what empowering Islamic terror wroughts
thanks to 1701.
Tunnels from Gaza into Israel hat tip Jan
How much bloody proof do you need?
Two Years after Disengagement, Iran-Backed Terror
Group Converts Gaza into Hamastan
for Timeline of Post-Disengagement Violence and Attacks against Israel
(July
2006-August 2007)
Gaza U.N. Pre-and Post-Disengagement Map
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UPDATE: Official who worked with U.S. planned suicide attack
Palestinian lawmaker, intelligence official also served as terror group chief
Toward a Realistic Peace
By Rudolph
From Foreign Affairs, September/October 2007
Summary: The next U.S. president will face
three key foreign policy challenges: setting a course for victory in the
terrorists’ war on global order, strengthening the international system the
terrorists seek to destroy, and extending the system’s benefits. With a stronger
defense, a determined diplomacy, and greater U.S. economic and cultural
influence, the next president can start to build a lasting, realistic
Rudolph W. Giuliani, former Mayor of New York City, is a candidate for
the Republican presidential nomination.
We are all members of the 9/11 generation.
The defining challenges of the twentieth century ended with the fall of the
Berlin Wall. Full recognition of the first great challenge of the twenty-first
century came with the attacks of September 11, 2001, even though Islamist
terrorists had begun their assault on world order decades before. Confronted
with an act of war on American soil, our old assumptions about conflict between
nation-states fell away. Civilization itself, and the international system, had
come under attack by a ruthless and radical Islamist enemy.
America and its allies have made progress since that terrible day. We have
responded forcefully to the Terrorists’ War on Us, abandoning a decadelong —
and counterproductive — strategy of defensive reaction in favor of a vigorous
offense. And we have set in motion changes to the international system that
promise a safer and better world for generations to come.
But this war will be long, and we are still in its early stages. Much like at
the beginning of the Cold War, we are at the dawn of a new era in global
affairs, when old ideas have to be rethought and new ideas have to be devised to
meet new challenges.
The next U.S. president will face three key foreign policy challenges. First
and foremost will be to set a course for victory in the terrorists’ war on
global order. The second will be to strengthen the international system that the
terrorists seek to destroy. The third will be to extend the benefits of the
international system in an ever-widening arc of security and stability across
the globe. The most effective means for achieving these goals are building a
stronger defense, developing a determined diplomacy, and expanding our economic
and cultural influence. Using all three, the next president can build the
foundations of a lasting, realistic peace.
Achieving a realistic peace means balancing realism and idealism in our
foreign policy. America is a nation that loves peace and hates war. At the core
of all Americans is the belief that all human beings have certain inalienable
rights that proceed from God but must be protected by the state. Americans
believe that to the extent that nations recognize these rights within their own
laws and customs, peace with them is achievable. To the extent that they do not,
violence and disorder are much more likely. Preserving and extending American
ideals must remain the goal of all U.S. policy, foreign and domestic. But unless
we pursue our idealistic goals through realistic means, peace will not be
achieved.
Idealism should define our ultimate goals; realism must help us recognize the
road we must travel to achieve them. The world is a dangerous place. We cannot
afford to indulge any illusions about the enemies we face. The Terrorists’ War
on Us was encouraged by unrealistic and inconsistent actions taken in response
to terrorist attacks in the past. A realistic peace can only be achieved through
A realistic peace is not a peace to be achieved by embracing the "realist"
school of foreign policy thought. That doctrine defines America’s interests too
narrowly and avoids attempts to reform the international system according to our
values. To rely solely on this type of realism would be to cede the advantage to
our enemies in the complex war of ideas and ideals. It would also place too
great a hope in the potential for diplomatic accommodation with hostile states.
And it would exaggerate America’s weaknesses and downplay America’s strengths.
Our economy is the strongest in the developed world. Our political system is far
more stable than those of the world’s rising economic giants. And the United
States is the world’s premier magnet for global talent and capital.
Still, the realist school offers some valuable insights, in particular its
insistence on seeing the world as it is and on tempering our expectations of
what American foreign policy can achieve. We cannot achieve peace by promising
too much or indulging false hopes. This next decade can be a positive era for
our country and the world so long as the next president realistically mobilizes
the 9/11 generation for the momentous tasks ahead.
WINNING THE EARLY BATTLES OF THE LONG WAR
The first step toward a realistic peace is to be realistic about our enemies.
They follow a violent ideology: radical Islamic fascism, which uses the mask of
religion to further totalitarian goals and aims to destroy the existing
international system. These enemies wear no uniform. They have no traditional
military assets. They rule no states but can hide and operate in virtually any
of them and are supported by some.
Above all, we must understand that our enemies are emboldened by signs of
weakness. Radical Islamic terrorists attacked the World Trade Center in 1993,
the Khobar Towers facility in Saudi Arabia in 1996, our embassies in Kenya and
Tanzania in 1998, and the U.S.S. Cole in 2000. In some instances, we responded
inadequately. In others, we failed to respond at all. Our retreat from Lebanon
in 1983 and from Somalia in 1993 convinced them that our will was weak.
We must learn from these experiences for the long war that lies ahead. It is
almost certain that U.S. troops will still be fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan
when the next president takes office. The purpose of this fight must be to
defeat the terrorists and the insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan and to allow
these countries to become members of the international system in good standing.
We must be under no illusions that either Iraq or Afghanistan will quickly
attain the levels of peace and security enjoyed in the developed world today.
Our aim should be to help them build accountable, functioning governments that
can serve the needs of their populations, reduce violence within their borders,
and eliminate the export of terror. As violence decreases and security improves,
more responsibility can and should be turned over to local security forces. But
some U.S. forces will need to remain for some time in order to deter external
threats.
We cannot predict when our efforts will be successful. But we can predict the
consequences of failure: Afghanistan would revert to being a safe haven for
terrorists, and Iraq would become another one — larger, richer, and more
strategically located. Parts of Iraq would undoubtedly fall under the sway of
our enemies, particularly Iran, which would use its influence to direct even
more terror at U.S. interests and U.S. allies than it does today. The balance of
power in the Middle East would tip further toward terror, extremism, and
repression. America’s influence and prestige — not just in the Middle East but
around the world — would be dealt a shattering blow. Our allies would conclude
that we cannot back up our commitments with sustained action. Our enemies —
both terrorists and rogue states — would be emboldened. They would see further
opportunities to weaken the international state system that is the primary
defense of civilization. Much as our enemies in the 1990s concluded from our
inconsistent response to terrorism then, our enemies today would conclude that
America’s will is weak and the civilization we pledged to defend is tired.
Failure would be an invitation for more war, in even more difficult and
dangerous circumstances.
America must remember one of the lessons of the Vietnam War. Then, as now, we
fought a war with the wrong strategy for several years. And then, as now, we
corrected course and began to show real progress. Many historians today believe
that by about 1972 we and our South Vietnamese partners had succeeded in
defeating the Vietcong insurgency and in setting South Vietnam on a path to
political self-sufficiency. But America then withdrew its support, allowing the
communist North to conquer the South. The consequences were dire, and not only
in Vietnam: numerous deaths in places such as the killing fields of Cambodia, a
newly energized and expansionist Soviet Union, and a weaker America. The
consequences of abandoning Iraq would be worse.
Our goal is to see in Iraq and Afghanistan the emergence of stable
governments and societies that can act as our allies against the terrorists and
not as breeding grounds for expanded terrorist activities. Succeeding in Iraq
and Afghanistan is necessary but not sufficient. Ultimately, these are only two
battlegrounds in a wider war. The United States must not rest until the al Qaeda
network is destroyed and its leaders, from Osama bin Laden on down, are killed
or captured. And the United States must not rest until the global terrorist
movement and its ideology are defeated.
Much of that fight will take place in the shadows. It will be the work of
intelligence operatives, paramilitary groups, and Special Operations forces. It
will also require close relationships with other governments and local forces.
The next U.S. president should direct our armed forces to emphasize such work,
in part because local forces are best able to operate in their home countries
and in part in order to reduce the strain on our own troops.
A STRONGER DEFENSE
For 15 years, the de facto policy of both Republicans and Democrats has been
to ask the U.S. military to do increasingly more with increasingly less. The
idea of a post-Cold War "peace dividend" was a serious mistake — the product of
wishful thinking and the opposite of true realism. As a result of taking this
dividend, our military is too small to meet its current commitments or shoulder
the burden of any additional challenges that might arise. We must rebuild a
military force that can deter aggression and meet the wide variety of present
and future challenges. When America appears bogged down and unready to face
aggressors, it invites conflict.
The U.S. Army needs a minimum of ten new combat brigades. It may need more,
but this is an appropriate baseline increase while we reevaluate our strategies
and resources. We must also take a hard look at other requirements, especially
in terms of submarines, modern long-range bombers, and in-flight refueling
tankers. Rebuilding will not be cheap, but it is necessary. And the benefits
will outweigh the costs.
The next U.S. president must also press ahead with building a national
missile defense system. America can no longer rely on Cold War doctrines such as
"mutual assured destruction" in the face of threats from hostile, unstable
regimes. Nor can it ignore the possibility of nuclear blackmail. Rogue regimes
that know they can threaten America, our allies, and our interests with
ballistic missiles will behave more aggressively, including by increasing their
support for terrorists. On the other hand, the knowledge that America and our
allies could intercept and destroy incoming missiles would not only make
blackmail less likely but also decrease the appeal of ballistic missile programs
and so help to slow their development and proliferation. It is well within our
capability to field a layered missile defense capable of shielding us from the
arsenals of the world’s most dangerous states. President George W. Bush deserves
credit for changing America’s course on this issue. But progress needs to be
accelerated.
An even greater danger is the possibility of a terrorist attack on U.S. soil
with a chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear weapon. Every effort must
be made to improve our intelligence capabilities and technological capacities to
prevent this. Constellations of satellites that can watch arms factories
everywhere around the globe, day and night, above- and belowground, combined
with more robust human intelligence, must be part of America’s arsenal. The
laudable and effective Proliferation Security Initiative, a global effort to
stop the shipment of weapons of mass destruction and related materials, should
be expanded and strengthened. In particular, we must work to deter the
development, transfer, or use of weapons of mass destruction. We must also
develop the capability to prevent an attack — including a clandestine attack —
by those who cannot be deterred. Rogue states must be prevented from handing
nuclear materials to terrorist groups. Our enemies must know that they cannot
murder our citizens with impunity and escape retaliation.
We must also develop detection systems to identify nuclear material that is
being imported into the United States or developed by operatives inside the
country. Heightened and more comprehensive security measures at our ports and
borders must be enacted as rapidly as possible. And our national security
agencies must work much more closely with our homeland security and law
enforcement agencies. We must preserve the gains made by the U.S.A. Patriot Act
and not unrealistically limit electronic surveillance or legal interrogation.
Preventing a chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear attack on our
homeland must be the federal government’s top priority. We must construct a
technological and intelligence shield that is effective against all delivery
Military victories are essential, but they are not enough. A lasting,
realistic peace will be achieved when more effective diplomacy, combined with
greater economic and cultural integration, helps the people of the Middle East
understand that they have a stake in the success of the international
DETERMINED DIPLOMACY
To achieve a realistic peace, some of what we need to do can and must be
accomplished through our own efforts. But much more requires international
cooperation, and cooperation requires diplomacy.
In recent years, diplomacy has received a bad name, because of two opposing
perspectives. One side denigrates diplomacy because it believes that negotiation
is inseparable from accommodation and almost indistinguishable from surrender.
The other seemingly believes that diplomacy can solve nearly all problems, even
those involving people dedicated to our destruction. When such efforts fail, as
they inevitably do, diplomacy itself is blamed, rather than the flawed approach
that led to their failure.
America has been most successful as a world leader when it has used strength
and diplomacy hand in hand. To achieve a realistic peace, U.S. diplomacy must be
tightly linked to our other strengths: military, economic, and moral. Whom we
choose to talk to is as important as what we say. Diplomacy should never be a
tool that our enemies can manipulate to their advantage. Holding serious talks
may be advisable even with our adversaries, but not with those bent on our
destruction or those who cannot deliver on their agreements.
Iran is a case in point. The Islamic Republic has been determined to attack
the international system throughout its entire existence: it took U.S. diplomats
hostage in 1979 and seized British sailors in 2007 and during the decades in
between supported terrorism and murder. But Tehran invokes the protections of
the international system when doing so suits it, hiding behind the principle of
sovereignty to stave off the consequences of its actions. This is not to say
that talks with Iran cannot possibly work. They could — but only if we came to
the table in a position of strength, knowing what we wanted.
The next U.S. president should take inspiration from Ronald Reagan’s actions
during his summit with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in Reykjavík in 1986: he
was open to the possibility of negotiations but ready to walk away if talking
went nowhere. The lesson is never talk for the sake of talking and never accept
a bad deal for the sake of making a deal. Those with whom we negotiate —
whether ally or adversary — must know that America has other options. The
theocrats ruling Iran need to understand that we can wield the stick as well as
the carrot, by undermining popular support for their regime, damaging the
Iranian economy, weakening Iran’s military, and, should all else fail,
destroying its nuclear infrastructure.
For diplomacy to succeed, the U.S. government must be united. Adversaries
naturally exploit divisions. Members of Congress who talk directly to rogue
regimes at cross-purposes with the White House are not practicing diplomacy;
they are undermining it. The task of a president is not merely to set priorities
but to ensure that they are pursued across the government. It is only when they
are — and when Washington can negotiate from a position of strength — that
negotiations will yield results. As President John F. Kennedy said in his
inaugural address, "Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to
negotiate."
Another step in rebuilding a strong diplomacy will be to make changes in the
State Department and the Foreign Service. The time has come to refine the
diplomats’ mission down to their core purpose: presenting U.S. policy to the
rest of the world. Reforming the State Department is a matter not of changing
its organizational chart — although simplification is needed — but of changing
the way we practice diplomacy and the way we measure results. Our ambassadors
must clearly understand and clearly advocate for U.S. policies and be judged on
the results. Too many people denounce our country or our policies simply because
they are confident that they will not hear any serious refutation from our
representatives. The American ideals of freedom and democracy deserve stronger
advocacy. And the era of cost-free anti-Americanism must end.
Since leaving the New York City mayor’s office, I have traveled to 35
different countries. It is clear that we need to do a better job of explaining
America’s message and mission to the rest of the world, not by imposing our
ideas on others but by appealing to their enlightened self-interest. To this
end, the Voice of America program must be significantly strengthened and
broadened. Its surrogate stations, such as Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty,
which were so effective at inspiring grass-roots dissidents during the Cold War,
must be expanded as well. Our entire approach to public diplomacy and strategic
communications must be upgraded and extended, with a greater focus on new media
such as the Internet. We confront multifaceted challenges in the Middle East,
the Pacific region, Africa, and Latin America. In all these places, effective
communication can be a powerful way of advancing our interests. We will not shy
away from any debate. And armed with honest advocacy, America will win the war
of ideas.
STRENGTHENING THE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM
The next U.S. president will share the world stage with a new generation of
leaders, few of whom were in office when the attacks of 9/11 occurred but all of
whom have been influenced by their impact. This will be a rare opportunity for
American leadership to make the case that our common interest lies in defeating
the terrorists and strengthening the international system.
Defeating the terrorists must be our principal priority in the near future,
but we do not have the luxury of focusing on it to the exclusion of other goals.
World events unfold whether the United States is engaged or not, and when we are
not, they often unfold in ways that are against our interests. The art of
managing a large enterprise is to multitask, and so U.S. foreign policy must
always be multidimensional.
A primary goal for our diplomacy — whether directed toward great powers,
developing states, or international institutions — must be to strengthen the
international system, which most of the world has a direct interest in seeing
function well. After all, the system helps keep the peace and provide
prosperity. Some theorists say that it is outmoded and display either too much
faith in globalization or assume that the age of the sovereign state is coming
to a close. These views are naive. There is no realistic alternative to the
sovereign state system. Transnational terrorists and other rogue actors have
difficulty operating where the state system is strong, and they flourish where
it is weak. This is the reason they try to exploit its weaknesses.
We should therefore work to strengthen the international system through
America’s relations with other great powers, both long established and rising.
We should regard no great power as our inherent adversary. We should continue to
fully engage with Europe, both in its collective capacity as the European Union
and through our special relationship with the United Kingdom and our traditional
diplomatic relations with France, Germany, Italy, and other western European
nations. We highly value our ties with the states of central and eastern Europe
and the Baltic and Balkan nations. Their experience of oppression under
communism has made them steadfast allies and strong advocates of economic
America is grateful to NATO for the vital functions it is performing in
Afghanistan and elsewhere. Yet NATO’s role and character should be reexamined.
For almost 60 years, it has been a vital bond connecting the United States and
Europe. But its founding rationale dissolved with the end of the Cold War, and
the alliance should be transformed to meet the challenges of this new century.
NATO has already expanded to include former adversaries, taken on roles for
which it was not originally conceived, and acted beyond its original theater. We
should build on these successes and think more boldly and more globally. We
should open the organization’s membership to any state that meets basic
standards of good governance, military readiness, and global responsibility,
regardless of its location. The new NATO should dedicate itself to confronting
significant threats to the international system, from territorial aggression to
terrorism. I hope that NATO members will see the wisdom in such changes. NATO
must change with the times, and its members must always match their rhetorical
commitment with action and investment. In return, America can assure them that
we will be there for them in times of crisis. They stood by America after 9/11,
and America will never forget.
As important as America’s Western alliances are, we must recognize that
America will often be best served by turning also to its other friends, old and
new. Much of America’s future will be linked to the already established and
still rising powers of Asia. These states share with us a clear commitment to
economic growth, and they must be given at least as much attention as Europe.
Our alliance with Japan, which has been strengthened considerably under this
administration, is a rock of stability in Asia. South Korea has been a key to
security in Northeast Asia and an important contributor to international peace.
Australia, our distant but long-standing ally, continues to assume a greater
role in world affairs and acts as a steadfast defender of international
standards and security. U.S. cooperation with India on issues ranging from
intelligence to naval patrols and civil nuclear power will serve as a pillar of
security and prosperity in South Asia.
U.S. relations with China and Russia will remain complex for the foreseeable
future. Americans have no wish to return to the tensions of the Cold War or to
launch a new one. We must seek common ground without turning a blind eye to our
differences with these two countries. Like America, they have a fundamental
stake in the health of the international system. But too often, their
governments act shortsightedly, undermining their long-term interest in
international norms for the sake of near-term gains. Even as we work with these
countries on economic and security issues, the U.S. government should not be
silent about their unhelpful behavior or human rights abuses. Washington should
also make clear that only if China and Russia move toward democracy, civil
liberties, and an open and uncorrupted economy will they benefit from the vast
possibilities available in the world today.
Our relationships with other American nations remain of primary importance.
Canada and Mexico, our two closest neighbors, are our two largest trading
partners. With them, we share a continent, a free-trade agreement, and a
commitment to peace, prosperity, and freedom. Latin America faces a choice
between the failures of the past and the hopes of the future. Some look to the
governments of Bolivia and Venezuela, and their mentor in Cuba, and see an
inevitable path to greater statism. But elections in Colombia, Mexico, and Peru
show that the spirit of free-market reform is alive and well among our southern
neighbors. Cuba has long stood out in Latin America, first as one of the
region’s most successful economies, later as its only communist police state.
The death of Fidel Castro may begin a new chapter in Cuban history. But America
should take nothing for granted. It must stand ready to help the Cuban people
reclaim their liberty and resist any step that allows a decrepit, corrupt regime
from consolidating its power under Raúl Castro. Only a commitment to free people
and free markets will bring a prosperous future to Cuba and all of Latin
More people in the United States need to understand how helping Africa today
will help increase peace and decency throughout the world tomorrow. The next
president should continue the Bush administration’s effort to help Africa
overcome AIDS and malaria. The international community must also learn from the
mistakes that allowed the genocide in Darfur to begin and have prevented the
relevant international organizations from ending it. The world’s commitment to
end genocide has been sidestepped again and again. Ultimately, the most
important thing we can do to help Africa is to increase trade with the
continent. U.S. government aid is important, but aid not linked to reform
perpetuates bad policies and poverty. It is better to give people a hand up than
a handout.
Finally, we need to look realistically at America’s relationship with the
United Nations. The organization can be useful for some humanitarian and
peacekeeping functions, but we should not expect much more of it. The UN has
proved irrelevant to the resolution of almost every major dispute of the last 50
years. Worse, it has failed to combat terrorism and human rights abuses. It has
not lived up to the great hopes that inspired its creation. Too often, it has
been weak, indecisive, and outright corrupt. The UN’s charter and the speeches
of its members’ leaders have meant little because its members’ deeds have
frequently fallen short. International law and institutions exist to serve
peoples and nations, but many leaders act as if the reverse were true — that
is, as if institutions, not the ends to be achieved, were the important
Despite the UN’s flaws, however, the great objectives of humanity would
become even more difficult to achieve without mechanisms for international
discussion. History has shown that such institutions work best when the United
States leads them. Yet we cannot take for granted that they will work forever
and must be prepared to look to other tools.
EXTENDING THE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM’S BENEFITS
Most of the problems in the world today arise from places where the state
system is broken or has never functioned. Much of the Middle East, Africa, and
Latin America remains mired in poverty, corruption, anarchy, and terror. But
there is nothing inevitable about this. For all these troubled cases, there are
many more success stories that deserve to be celebrated. The number of
functioning democracies in the world has tripled since the 1970s. The poverty
rate in the developing world has been cut by roughly one-third since the end of
the Cold War. Millions of people have been liberated from oppression and fear.
Progress is not only possible, it is real. And it must continue to be real.
America has a clear interest in helping to establish good governance
throughout the world. Democracy is a noble ideal, and promoting it abroad is the
right long-term goal of U.S. policy. But democracy cannot be achieved rapidly or
sustained unless it is built on sound legal, institutional, and cultural
foundations. It can only work if people have a reasonable degree of safety and
security. Elections are necessary but not sufficient to establish genuine
democracy. Aspiring dictators sometimes win elections, and elected leaders
sometimes govern badly and threaten their neighbors. History demonstrates that
democracy usually follows good governance, not the reverse. U.S. assistance can
do much to set nations on the road to democracy, but we must be realistic about
how much we can accomplish alone and how long it will take to achieve lasting
The election of Hamas in the Palestinian-controlled territories is a
case in point. The problem there is not the lack of statehood but corrupt and
unaccountable governance. The Palestinian people need decent governance first,
as a prerequisite for statehood. Too much emphasis has been placed on brokering
negotiations between the Israelis and the Palestinians — negotiations that
bring up the same issues again and again. It is not in the interest of the
United States, at a time when it is being threatened by Islamist terrorists, to
assist the creation of another state that will support terrorism. Palestinian
statehood will have to be earned through sustained good governance, a clear
commitment to fighting terrorism, and a willingness to live in peace with
Israel. America’s commitment to Israel’s security is a permanent feature of our
foreign policy.
The next president must champion human rights and speak out when they are
violated. America should continue to use its influence to bring attention to
individual abuses and use a full range of inducements and pressures to try to
end them. Securing the rights of men, women, and children everywhere should be a
core commitment of any country that counts itself as part of the civilized
world. Whether with friends, allies, or adversaries, democracy will always be an
issue in our relations and part of the conversation. And so the better a
country’s record on good governance, human rights, and democratic development,
the better its relations with the United States will be. Those countries that
want our help in moving toward these ideals will have it.
USING ECONOMIC AND CULTURAL INFLUENCE
Economic development and engagement are proven, if not fail-safe, engines for
successfully moving countries into the international system. America’s robust
domestic economy is one of its greatest strengths. Other nations have found that
following the U.S. model — with low taxes, sensible regulations, protections
for private property, and free trade — brings not only national wealth but also
national strength. These principles are not ascendant everywhere, but never has
it been clearer that they work.
Ever more open trade throughout the world is essential. Bilateral and
regional free-trade agreements are often positive for all involved, but we must
not allow them to become special arrangements that undermine a truly global
trading system. Foreign aid can help overcome specific problems, but it does not
lead to lasting prosperity because it cannot replace trade. Private direct
investment is the best way to promote economic development. The next U.S.
president should thus revitalize and streamline all U.S. foreign-aid activities
to support — not substitute for — private investment in other countries.
Our cultural and commercial influence can also have a positive impact. They
did during the Cold War. The steadfast leadership of President Reagan, working
alongside British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Pope John Paul II, helped
the Soviet Union understand that it could not bully the West into submission.
Although such leadership was essential, alone it might not have toppled the
Soviet Union in the time that it did. But it was effective because it came with
Western economic investment and cultural influence that inspired people in the
Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact countries. Companies such as Pepsi, Coca-Cola,
McDonald’s, and Levi’s helped win the Cold War by entering the Soviet market.
Cultural events, such as Van Cliburn’s concerts in the Soviet Union and Mstislav
Rostropovich’s in the United States, also hastened change.
Today, we need a similar type of exchange with the Muslim countries that we
hope to plug into the global economy. Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, and the United Arab
Emirates are pointing the way by starting to interpret Islam in ways that
respect the distinctiveness of their local cultures but are consistent with the
global marketplace. Some of these states have coeducational schools, allow women
to serve in government, and count shopping malls that sell Western and Arab
goods side by side. Their leaders recognize that modernization is their ticket
to the global marketplace. And the global marketplace can build bridges between
the West and the Islamic world in a way that promotes mutual respect and mutual
benefit.
Economic investment and cultural influence work best where civil society
already exists. But sometimes America will be compelled to act in those parts of
the world where few institutions function properly — those zones that lack not
only good governance but any governance — and in states teetering on the edge
of conflict or recovering from it. Faced with a choice between leaving a
troubled zone to anarchy or helping build functioning civil societies with
accountable governments that can serve as bulwarks against barbarism, the
American people will choose the latter.
To assist these missions, the next U.S. president should restructure and
coordinate all the agencies involved in that process. A hybrid military-civilian
organization — a Stabilization and Reconstruction Corps staffed by specially
trained military and civilian reservists — must be developed. The agency would
undertake tasks such as building roads, sewers, and schools; advising on legal
reform; and restoring local currencies. The United States did similar work, and
with great success, in Germany, Japan, and Italy after World War II. But even
with the rich civic traditions in these nations, the process took a number of
years. We must learn from our past if we want to win the peace as well as the
PRINCIPLED STRENGTH
Civilization must stand up and combat the current collapse of governance, the
rise of violence, and the spread of chaos and fear in many parts of the world.
To turn back this tide of terror and defeat the violent forces of disorder
wherever they appear, America must play an even more active role to strengthen
the international state system.
In this decade, for the first time in human history, half of the world’s
population will live in cities. I know from personal experience that when
security is reliably established in a troubled part of a city, normal life
rapidly reestablishes itself: shops open, people move back in, children start
playing ball on the sidewalks again, and soon a decent and law-abiding community
returns to life. The same is true in world affairs. Disorder in the world’s bad
neighborhoods tends to spread. Tolerating bad behavior breeds more bad behavior.
But concerted action to uphold international standards will help peoples,
economies, and states to thrive. Civil society can triumph over chaos if it is
backed by determined action.
After the attacks of 9/11, President Bush put America on the offensive
against terrorists, orchestrating the most fundamental change in U.S. strategy
since President Harry Truman reoriented American foreign and defense policy at
the outset of the Cold War. But times and challenges change, and our nation must
be flexible. President Dwight Eisenhower and his successors accepted Truman’s
framework, but they corrected course to fit the specific challenges of their own
times. America’s next president must also craft polices to fit the needs of the
decade ahead, even as the nation stays on the offensive against the terrorist
threat.
The 9/11 generation has learned from the history of the twentieth century
that America must not turn a blind eye to gathering storms. We must base our
trust on the actions, rather than the words, of others. And we must be on guard
against overpromising and underdelivering. Above all, we have learned that evil
must be confronted — not appeased — because only principled strength can lead
to a realistic peace.
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Was Canada punished for supporting Israel at UN?
By Gil Troy, Canadian Jewish News, 10-27-10
Canada’s failure to win a seat on the UN Security Council has triggered a predictable debate – with a surprising twist. Predictably, most have seen the move as a rejection of Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s muscular, pro-western, pro-Israel, anti-terrorism foreign policy.
But the columnist David Frum has injected a fascinating perspective. After actually doing some research, Frum suggested that the vote had more to do with European power dynamics, western rivalries, and the peculiarities of the UN regional voting bloc system. Outsiders will have a hard time figuring out who is correct. Hopefully, historians in the future will be able to sort it out. Still, the debate about the failure illustrates some enduring anomalies regarding how we discuss foreign policy, Israel and the United Nations itself.
For starters, the central assumption guiding the partisans in the debate is depressing. The most passionate talk has focused on whether Canada was being punished for supporting Israel. We are at a dangerous moment here. We are starting to take Israel’s toxicity for granted. Why should support for Israel bear such a price? Israel’s enemies have been so successful in maligning Israel and elevating Israel into such a powerful symbol that where a country stands on Israel risks defining its entire foreign policy.
As we approach the 35th anniversary of the General Assembly’s despicable “Zionism is racism” resolution, Israel’s adversaries are poised to enjoy a double victory. The anti-Israel package they sell involves both demonizing Israeli actions and exaggerating Israel’s centrality in the Middle East, and world politics. The Palestinians’ ultimate conceit traditionally has been to make everything about Israel be about them, pushing a perspective suggesting that no conversation about the Jewish state should be about anything but the Palestinian issue. Now, the Palestinian conceit – fed by the UN – is even more grandiose, suggesting that the Palestinians’ problems are not just the most significant in the world today but the key to world peace. It is extraordinary how many foolish diplomats, politicians, academics, students and activists.
Amid all the hysteria, Frum’s alternative perspective noting that Canada was boxed out because the European bloc secured seats for Germany and Portugal was doubly welcome. First, both pro-Israel and anti-Israel partisans need to remember that not everything is about the Palestinians and the Jews. At the end of the day, the Arab-Israeli conflict is a minor regional conflict. Even if some peace agreement could be signed, Iran would still be trying to go nuclear, North Korea would remain a bad citizen of the world, Islamist terrorists would still target westerners – and their own people – the economy would waver, the environment would be at risk, etc. Pro-Israel forces also have to be careful not to see everything through the Palestinian-Israel prism. We should remember that it is not helpful to jump at every attack on Israel.
Frum’s perspective also reminds us how complex, political, and bureaucratic the UN has become. The high hopes of the 1940s continue to mislead most of us when we talk about the UN. Even after decades of watching it degenerate into the Third World dictators’ debating society, we still want to see it as the biggest do-good organization in world history. Even when the UN is not being corrupt, or not being obsessive about Israel, politics rules. Regional rivalries are only one of the many distracting side shows that stop the UN from fulfilling its main mission to advance the causes of peace and justice throughout the world.
Getting a seat on the Security Council is not an award for doing good – or much of anything else. It is one of many privileges and responsibilities constantly doled out, periodically in play, in the world organization. Of course, it was delusional to expect that the UN would be politics-free. But rather than having Canada’s loss trigger yet another round of pro-Israel versus pro-Palestinian fireworks, perhaps it is time for all of us to start learning about how the UN functions, what is does right, where it goes wrong, and how it can improve.
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by giltroy on October 27, 2010 • Permalink
Posted in Canadian Jewish News
Tagged Canada, Israel, UN Security Council, United Nations
Posted by giltroy on October 27, 2010
https://giltroyzionism.wordpress.com/2010/10/27/canada-punished-supporting-israel-un/
Israel is peripheral in the US elections – fortunately
By Gil Troy, Jerusalem Post, 10-27-10
Although Americans glided smoothly to the 2008 presidential election, with most increasingly giddy at the prospect of Barack Obama’s historic victory, they are stumbling haphazardly toward the 2010 congressional midterms, with most increasingly cranky. Pollsters predict that on November 2, Barack Obama will suffer a major defeat. Gone is the faith that this mortal can solve America’s problems. Gone is most of the hope that galvanized millions. Gone is the sky-high popularity rating that had Republicans and comedians wondering in January 2009, “how are we ever going to criticize, let alone laugh, at this guy.” Gone is the “yes we can” optimism, as many Americans take a “no we can’t” approach. And gone may be the power President Obama drew from his Democratic congressional majority.
When the actor Jamie Foxx led Los Angeles Democrats in chanting “We are not exhausted,” to introduce Obama, even the pro-administration New York Times called it “a backhanded rally cry if there ever was one.”
Many issues have shaped this campaign, especially health care, taxes, immigration, and gay marriage. The challenges of Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan loom in the background. But Israel has been a peripheral issue – which makes sense, for America’s sake and Israel’s.
Americans are, most appropriately, focusing on domestic issues. America’s economic crisis has once again triggered a crisis of faith. Americans rarely view their economic ups and downs as cyclical – but as cataclysmic. In a nation addicted to prosperity and success, hard times are particularly hard.
Remembering the Great Depression, and his father’s slide from garment center riches into economic and psychic despair, the playwright Arthur Miller recalled: “a fine dusting of guilt fell upon the shoulders of the failed fathers.” Guilt implies responsibility. Rather than blaming economic failure on outside forces, Americans often blame themselves. This approach helps propel most to the kind of creativity that triggers the next boom, but it makes the bust extremely traumatic.
Obama’s liberal agenda and the Republicans’ obstructionism have not yet stimulated the economy but they have stimulated debate about how big government should be. While this campaign hit a low when Christine O’Donnell, running for Senate from Delaware, felt compelled to insist, “I am not a witch,” the ideological clash is significant. Americans are still debating the issues Ronald Reagan’s election raised in 1980. Obama seems to have misread his mandate to replace George W. Bush as a mandate to restore the Big Government which first sparked Reagan’s revolution.
The truth from 2008 still holds in 2010. What Israel most needs from America is a strong America. Israel needs its best friend in better shape, economically, diplomatically, militarily, psychically. While there is no guarantee this election will improve matters, Israel was lucky that Americans have been debating their future not their friendship with Israel.
Although Israelis and Jews often assume Israel is a central issue, focusing on Israel is not necessarily good news for the Jews. Barack Obama has made two central mistakes in approaching the Middle East. The first, was buying the Palestinian conceit that solving the Palestinian problem is the keystone problem in world politics today. An American-brokered Palestinian-Israeli peace accord tomorrow probably would not even calm the Middle East. Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas, Iraq and Afghanistan would remain problematic and unaffected.
Nevertheless, acting on his first flawed assumption, Obama bullied Israel into freezing building in settlements. Obama’s big push for a settlement moratorium created a new opening demand for Palestinian negotiators – which has now become the new first obstacle to peace talks. This move placed an issue of short-term importance which a real agreement would solve, ahead of the difficult long-term issues which must be resolved for any agreement to hold. It also treated settlements as the major obstacle to peace, ignoring the threat posed by continuing Palestinian dreams of destroying Israel.
Ironically, Israel’s most enthusiastic friends and harshest enemies overplay Israel’s centrality in the world. It has long been the anti-Semite’s distinguishing tic to blame the Jew for many ills; modern anti-Semites masquerading as “just” anti-Zionists impute to the Jewish State undue importance in singling out Israel for condemnation. The entire BDS – Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions – movement hinges on this exaggeration. Labeling Israel the new South Africa, the boycotters caricature Israel as the great threat to world peace, the world’s greatest source of injustice and instability.
Israelis should be relieved that Israel has not been an issue in this American campaign. Recent polls showing just how enthusiastically Americans support Israel should prove even more reassuring. And the late summer survey by the Cohen Center at Brandeis estimating that 63 percent of Jews feel “very much” or “somewhat” connected to Israel while 75 percent agree that caring about Israel is an important part of their Jewish identities, should be even more reassuring.
Nevertheless, despite this popular enthusiasm for Israel, no one should interpret any setback Barack Obama may suffer at the polls as any kind of message about Israel. Nor will a Democratic defeat lift the pressure on Israel. If Obama feels he did better than the pundits predicted, he may feel more empowered to continue pushing Israel around without pressuring Palestinians equally. Alternatively, if the Democrats lose so badly Obama fears he may be a one-term president, he may pressure Israel to give him some victory somewhere. Foreign policy is often the last refuge of a frustrated president.
In short, after the election, Israelis will awake to a world similar to the world today. Obama will remain president. And the perpetual conundrum – how to give the Palestinians enough concessions to feel satisfied while giving Israelis enough assurances to feel safe – will also persist. Few should expect dramatic lurches in American policy – or quick resolutions of this complex conflict.
Posted in Jerusalem Post
Tagged Barack Obama, Israel, Midterm Elections, United States
https://giltroyzionism.wordpress.com/2010/10/27/israel-peripheral-us-elections/
Boycotting Israel damages Palestinian cause
By GIL TROY, Montreal Gazette, 10-23-10
Montrealers seeking peace in the Middle East should condemn the “All-Canada BDS Conference” convening here this weekend.
“BDS” stands for “boycott, divestment, and sanctions,” a toxic cocktail designed to ostracize Israel. This tactic makes it hard to achieve a two-state solution that respects the national rights of both Jews and Palestinians.
Members of the postal union CUPW and other unions should be ashamed that their dues are subsidizing a conference dedicated to making that volatile region even more unstable. Members of the academic community should regret that the UQAM campus is being used as a forum for demagogy and dishonesty.
Mutual recognition requires mutual respect. Exaggerated attacks on Israel as the world’s bogeyman feed a cycle of de-legitimization.
Boycotting Israel economically, academically, and diplomatically assumes that Israel is so reprehensible that it deserves to be quarantined. This punishment is particularly absurd considering that these activists do not advocate boycotting truly repressive dictatorships such as Iran, North Korea, and Saudi Arabia.
Polls show that most Israelis now accept the legitimate national aspirations of the Palestinian people, but Israelis will be less likely to acknowledge those rights if they feel that Palestinians are assailing Jews’ national rights and Israel’s very right to exist. Nations, like people, stiffen when besieged. Even Israelis who advocate compromise are unlikely to compromise with adversaries calling for their country’s destruction.
A peaceful future means nurturing relationships between Palestinians and Israelis, while fostering within the Palestinian national movement a culture of nation-building. But the many posters falsely accusing Israel of being an “apartheid state,” and the many sessions promoted on the conference’s website perpetuating that lie, suggest that this conference is more dedicated to trying to destroy Israel than to building a future Palestine.
Calling Israel an apartheid state is part of the New Big Lie which singles out only Zionism, Jewish nationalism, as racist. Apartheid was the system of racial segregation of the old racist South African regime. Using that ugly word to characterize Israeli policy and Israel itself suggests that Israel, like the old South African regime, cannot be reformed but must be destroyed.
Again and again, the BDS movement hides its exterminationist agenda behind a smokescreen of human rights rhetoric. Using liberal terms to hide a most illiberal agenda is an increasingly popular technique aiding the world’s terrorists and dictators. Those of us living in free, liberal democracies must expose these frauds. Calling for peace while making it ever more elusive; targeting democracies while shielding dictators; and respecting the human or national rights of some but not all -these tactics mock the universal standards for human rights that Canadians helped the world define six decades ago.
Unfortunately, this masquerade has lured some trade unionists in Quebec and elsewhere into supporting a movement which is so busy being anti-Israel it often harms Palestinians. In a world where conflicts abound, union members should ask how a simplified, stick-figure version of the complicated Israeli-Palestinian issue has been catapulted to the forefront of their collective agenda. And in a Middle East where many Israelis and Palestinians are economically interdependent, union leaders must prove that assaulting the Jewish state economically would not harm many Palestinians.
The selective obsession with Israel also makes the BDS movement vulnerable to the charge of anti-Semitism. Of course, not all criticism of Israel is anti-Semitic, but too many in the BDS movement too frequently echo traditional anti-Semitism.
On campus today, we tread extra carefully to avoid offending historically disenfranchised groups. In that spirit, I challenge the participants to show equal sensitivity in distancing themselves from the historic anti-Semitism which has marred their movement. In combating prejudice, the burden of proof is on the bigot not the victim to distinguish between legitimate criticism and historic bullying. There is enough extreme anti-Semitism festering among anti-Zionists for true moderates to condemn, while still having much opportunity to criticize Israeli policies they dislike.
This weekend, Quebecers can vote against this destructive distraction by responding to calls for a boycott with a “buycott.” Buy one Israeli product -wine, cosmetics, or candy. Send an email to friends encouraging them to do the same.
Let’s see a run on Israeli products in Montreal. With these seperate acts by fair-minded individuals, we can show the BDS activists that their destructive campaign against Israel truly is counter-productive.
Gil Troy teaches history at McGill University.
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The struggle to save Soviet Jews – Book Review
quixotic protests for freedom eventually triumphed
Jewish schoolchildren in Montreal demonstrate in support of Soviet Jewry outside the Soviet consulate in June 1978.
Photograph by: PETER BROSSEAU, GAZETTE FILE, Freelance
When They Come for Us, We’ll Be Gone: The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry
By Gal Beckerman
Houghton Mifflin, 608 pages, $33.95
When the Soviet secret police detained the dissident Anatoly Scharansky, one of his KGB interrogators mocked the movement to free Soviet Jewry as limited to students and housewives. Scharansky -today Natan Sharansky -a chess master constantly outwitting his tormentors, feigned surprise. The KGB provided photos of rallies. Scharansky demanded more evidence, thereby getting the KGB to update him about the grassroots protests that saved his life.
Soviet dissidents like Scharansky, along with the students and housewives the KGB disdained, star in Gal Beckerman’s compelling new book When They Come for Us, We’ll Be Gone: The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry. Beckerman, a young journalist, shows how scattered American and Soviet-Jewish protests in the 1950s and 1960s gradually gained momentum, until Soviet Jews’ fate became a central U.S. political issue, a diplomatic Cold War hot potato, and the symbol of “all that was repressive and evil about Soviet society.”
The movement achieved popular-culture immortality when Gilda Ratner, caricaturing a senile granny, asked on Saturday Night Live why everyone was fussing about “Soviet jewellery.” The movement achieved political immortality when the Soviet Union collapsed. “If the first half of the twentieth century gave us the ultimate example of Jews as victims of history,” Beckerman writes, “then the second half gave us -in addition to the establishment of Israel -this triumphant story, one in which Jews grabbed history and changed its course.”
To help modern readers appreciate this achievement, Beckerman illustrates how marginal the calls to grant 3 million Soviet Jews the right to emigrate first were -and how oppressive life in Communist Russia could be.
Two decades after Communism collapsed, many forget the Soviet dictatorship’s evils. Even at the time, many Western elites minimized them. In tracing the rise of the “refuseniks” -the Jews the Soviets blocked from emigrating -Beckerman catalogues the Soviets’ sins against their own citizens. Jews suffered doubly, prevented from embracing their distinct identity while nevertheless frequently targeted as different.
Anyone who deviated from the Soviet line risked harassment, imprisonment, exile, even death. Beckerman marvels: “Living in a totalitarian state, these were people who decided, almost out of nowhere, to assert an ancient identity, turn themselves into pariahs, risk everything, and become living proof of man’s capacity for bravery -all so they could be Jews.”
Many also forget how quixotic the movement abroad first was. Most Jewish leaders preferred private pleading to public protesting. Many leading Americans were too enamoured of Communism’s egalitarian aspirations or too fearful of nuclear destruction to embrace the cause. When the movement grew in the 1970s, U.S. President Richard Nixon and his powerful Secretary of State Henry Kissinger bristled as Senator Henry Jackson, backed by a growing chorus of Americans, demanded that Soviet citizens enjoy basic human rights before relations between the two nuclear superpowers improved.
Yet powerful forces galvanized the movement. American Jews were inspired by the Civil Rights Movement and sobered by their community’s failure to save European Jews during the Holocaust. When a young Holocaust survivor named Elie Wiesel published The Jews of Silence in 1966, he solidified the link, prodding America’s once-silent Jews to defend Russia’s now-silenced Jews. While wary of enraging the Soviet superpower, Israel saw 3 million Soviet Jews as a source for Zionist renewal and population growth. And within the Soviet Union, the trauma of the Holocaust, the thrill of Israel’s Six Day War victory, the lure of Jewish tradition and some human beings’ indomitable resistance to having their state crush their souls, helped propel ordinary people from conventional if constricted lives to these dissidents’ historic achievements.
Alternating his focus between the Soviet and U.S. sides of the equation, Beckerman effectively captures the movements’ parallel successes at the grassroots and the highest levels of government. But Beckerman ignores the movement’s global reach. The crusading housewives and students, lawyers and politicians, in Canada, Britain, France, Australia, and elsewhere in the West were essential. They added resources to the fight. They increased the pressure on the Soviets. And they made it harder for the Soviets to dismiss the pleas as simply another U.S. Cold War tactic.
In April 1987, Ronald Reagan’s secretary of state, George Shultz, hosted a Passover seder for leading refuseniks at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. With a skullcap perched on his head, Shultz said: “You are in our minds; you are in our heads. … But never give up, never give up.” They didn’t -and good people throughout the world didn’t, either. Beckerman reminds us how lucky we all are that the refuseniks’ democratic and spiritual aspirations triumphed over the Soviets’ police powers.
Tagged Gal Beckerman, Soviet Jews, We'll Be Gone: The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry, When They Come for Us
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Buycott Against the anti-Israel Boycott
URGENT NOTICE TO MEMBERS OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY
As some of you may know, there is an anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) conference taking place in Montreal this weekend (22nd-24th).
After consulting with various Israel-related activists and academics in the city, we have determined that a BUYCOTT will be organized this weekend.
The Israeli Consulate in Montreal recommends that we focus on Israeli wines and Ahava products. People should go to buy these products between the 22nd and the 24th (this weekend) at their own leisure.
Please disseminate this information to your mailing lists and post it to social media. We need your help, so please include this in the upcoming mail-outs of your organization.
Check out www.buyisraelgoods.org to find the closet place to you to BUYCOTT. Please ensure in your dissemination that, when people buy a product, that they send an email to Zach Paikin: zpaikin@hasbarafellowships.org so that we can keep track of how many purchases have been made.
This is focusing on the Montreal region, but isn’t limited to Montreal.
B’shalom
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American Jews should demand Pollard’s freedom
What many long suspected has been confirmed. Ronald Reagan’s Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger targeted America’s Jewish spy from the 1980s, Jonathan Jay Pollard, to teach Israel a lesson. One of Weinberger’s assistant secretaries of defense, Dr. Lawrence Korb, recently wrote a letter to President Barack Obama saying: “Based on my first-hand knowledge, I can say with confidence that the severity of Pollard’s sentence is a result of an almost visceral dislike of Israel and the special place it occupies in our foreign policy on the part of my boss at the time, Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger.”
As members of Congress circulate a demand for Pollard’s release after nearly 25 years in captivity, as American Jews once again agonize, as speculation grows about using Pollard’s release as a figleaf to allow Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to extend the settlements’ building moratorium, justice remains AWOL. Pollard should not be freed as part of a deal but as part of a settlement, wherein the American government atones for abusing his rights. The presidents who could have released him, the national security types who insisted on jailing him, as well as the Americans and Israelis who failed to redeem him, should all hang their heads in shame. The hero of the moment, Dr. Korb himself, should explain his quarter-century delay before doing the right thing. While we dithered, Jonathan Pollard has languished in jail.
Since Jonathan Pollard’s arrest in November 1985, most American Jews have wanted to forget all about him. Until Bernard Madoff, Pollard was the undisputed black sheep of the American Jewish family. If Madoff’s swindle brought to life the anti-Semitic caricature of the greedy Jew, Pollard embodied the treasonous Jew, the untrustworthy Jew, the dual-loyalty Jew. Despite the community’s affinity for lost causes, few have dared buck America’s national security establishment to defend the most infamous Jewish Judas since the 1950s’ Ethel and Julius Rosenberg Atomic spy case. Such blaring silence for so long demonstrates a dismaying insecurity about Jews’ place in America.
It makes sense that in 1985 most American Jews wanted to see Pollard jailed. Pollard broke the law when he passed secret navy intelligence documents to Israel. No patriotic American can countenance such behavior – even if the documents went to an ally. Yet even at the time, in denouncing Pollard’s “despicable” and “shameful” acts so vehemently, Jews seemed overly anxious to demonstrate their loyalty at Pollard’s expense.
American Jews got their wish. Pollard was punished, severely. In March, 1987, as part of a deal intended to keep his then-wife Anne Henderson Pollard from jail, Pollard plead guilty to “conspiracy to commit espionage.” His plea spared the government from the risk of spilling more secrets at trial. Yet despite the plea bargain, and swayed by a blistering pre-sentencing memorandum from Secretary of Defense Weinberger, Judge Aubrey Robinson threw the book at both Pollards. Pollard was sentenced to life imprisonment; his wife, who was never accused of stealing secrets, was sentenced to five years.
Pollard is no hero. But should Jews ignore the compelling cries for fair, proportionate justice simply because Pollard embarrasses us? Pollard does not deserve special treatment because he is Jewish, but neither does he deserve undue retribution. He is entitled to the same crusade the ACLU might mount for a murderer who, while guilty, does not deserve the death penalty.
When Pollard was arrested, many American Jews were furious because his actions supposedly made all Jews suspect. Since 1985 many Jews have endured more extensive investigations when being considered for security clearances; Israelis have faced more obstacles collaborating in defense-related American industries too. That one person could cause so much damage is mind-boggling. But does this say more about Pollard’s crimes or about Jews’ status in America?
If one rogue can threaten an entire community’s standing, something is wrong. Is that all it takes to derail the Jewish campaign to be America’s model minority? Are Jews merely tolerated, not accepted? American Jews’ reaction to the Pollard case evoked 1950s America, when first-generation greenhorns struggled to prove that Jews could be “a credit to our race and to our country.” Back then, Judge Irving Kaufman presided over the Rosenberg Atomic espionage case determined to rehabilitate Jews’ reputation. Millions of success stories later, American Jews should feel more secure. The many accomplishments, the deep patriotism, should refute the ancient dual loyalty libel.
American Jews do not live at the indulgence of Polish Nobleman patrons or a Russian Czar. American Jews do not enjoy civil rights as long as they sacrifice their Jewish identities, as their ancestors in “enlightened” Germany and “emancipated” France did. Jewish freedom is not contingent on anyone’s good will or on communal good behavior, but stems from inherent rights, “regardless of race, color, or creed.”
The American dream invites all citizens to sit at the table as equals. The American Jewish neurosis compels Jews to act like model dinner guests terrified of being banished from the dining room. Ironically, American Jews’ shame concedes too much to Jonathan Pollard and to anti-Semites – maybe Jews don’t feel as at home as they claim to in the Diaspora.
American Jews should be free, strong, proud, and comfortable enough to demand Jonathan Pollard’s release – unconditionally. This one individual does not reflect on the community but his continued imprisonment does reflect badly on American justice. If Jews lack that comfort, if Jews cannot apply the same standards to this one unfortunate Jew that they do to others the courts mistreat, then maybe American Jews should realize that they too are imprisoned, by delusions and fears. Ironically, by defending this spy, by arguing that Jonathan Pollard has been punished enough, Jews can demonstrate loyalty to America, and to the fundamental fairness that makes America, America.
Tagged American Jews, Caspar Weinberger, Jonathan Pollard, Lawrence Korb
https://giltroyzionism.wordpress.com/2010/10/20/american-jews-should-demand-pollards-freedom/
Loyalty acts, not loyalty oaths
By GIL TROY Jerusalem Post, 10-13-10
Photo by: lior Mizrahi (AP)
We need a renewed covenant between the country’s citizens and its government – not meaningless mouthings targeting Israel’s Arabs.
Trying to preserve Israel’s Jewish and democratic character by imposing loyalty oaths like the one the Netanyahu government is proposing makes as much sense as trying to solve America’s unemployment crisis by simply declaring the recession over. Words have meaning. They can set tones, define directions, articulate visions, reaffirm core values and, when done right, inspire confidence. But in building national identities – as with managing national economies – changing behaviors trumps pronouncements.
Israel’s future as a Jewish and democratic state, with its pluralistic population in all its glorious contradictions, depends on loyalty acts, not loyalty oaths. We need a renewed covenant between the country’s citizens and its government – not meaningless mouthings targeting Israel’s Arabs.
In an age of multiple identities and mobile populations, all Western democracies struggle, trying to balance patriotism and pluralism, nationalism and cosmopolitanism. Nineteenth-century romantic nationalism found unity in sameness. Countries were built on shared senses of history, community and destiny. The nationalist ideal assumed interlocking, mutually-reinforcing identities. Thus the Englishman would be Protestant, white and British; the Italian would be Catholic, white and Italian.
These nationalists got it half right. The nation-states they created remain our defining political unit. But the Disraelis and Garibaldis of yesteryear would be shocked to see how people of different races, colors, and creeds now share common citizenships. Today, there are British Pakistanis and black Italians.
Human beings are complex – as are the societies we create. We can juggle different feelings, loyalties and identities. Modern democratic nations have to figure out how to inspire some harmony amid the cacophony.
Even in the US, which always had a more diverse population, traditional assumptions of unity now conflict with the attempt to forge a national identity in a teeming, polyglot, multicultural society. Thomas Jefferson and Theodore Roosevelt would recognize few people in Manhattan today as “typical” Americans. Continuing clashes about illegal immigration, mosques near Ground Zero and persistent African-American poverty demonstrate the messes of modern nation-building .
ISRAELI DEMOCRACY offers its own variation. The Jewish people are entitled to a nation-state like other peoples. The Jewish state – unlike its Middle Eastern neighbors – is democratic. And history’s particularities have created a Jewish state including 1.5 million Arabs, who are neither Jewish nor necessarily excited about the country’s founding Zionist vision.
Israel’s Declaration of Independence promises all citizens civic equality, be they Jewish, Christian, Muslim or atheist; black, white or brown; long-standing Jewish Jerusalemite, Holocaust survivor, Jewish refugee from Arab lands or Arab villager from the Galilee. As with other Western nations, Israeli national identity can be defined enough to have a Jewish character and forge a Jewish public space, but elastic enough to offer full citizenship and rights to, say, a Palestinian who harbors resentment that there even is a Jewish state. Does that create identity confusion, legal contradictions and political tensions? Certainly. But are these problems that cannot be resolved or reasons to view the Jewish nation state as something to be dissolved? Certainly not.
Israel needs a smart, enlightened, citizenship policy to maximize individual rights while working out the complexities of minority groups’ collective rights. Focusing on loyalty acts, not loyalty oaths, would start with the government ensuring that Arab schools are as well-funded as Jewish schools, and that every Israeli Arab feels empowered to live freely and prosper in the Middle East’s one truly democratic state.
Good citizenship and good governance both demand mutuality; in fulfilling its obligations to its citizens, the state also makes demands. We need universal national service, not loyalty oaths. Every young Israeli – male or female, religious or secular, Arab or Jew – should devote a minimum of two years to national service. Considering Arabs’ current sensitivities, we should only compel their service within Israeli Arab political units or institutions. But they should have opportunities to volunteer in venues that serve the entire nation – and that could get young Israeli Muslims, Christians and Jews working together. Such actions would encourage much more social cohesion than any combination of words force-fed down people’s throats.
YES, ISRAEL is being judged by yet another double standard. When Canadian immigrants swear allegiance to the queen, it is charmingly anachronistic. When Americans pledge allegiance to the flag, it is red-white-and-blue patriotic. Yet when Israelis propose loyalty oaths, it becomes oppressive.
Still, while Binyamin Netanyahu’s so-called nationalist government must do more to boost patriotism and Zionism, why start with meaningless, controversial declarations? Why not start fostering pride by fixing the education system, cleaning the streets, fighting crime? Why not create a vision of Zionist civics that includes haredim and Arabs, who frequently use state funds to carve out anti-Zionist collective identities? Nationalism is best nurtured, not dictated; loyalty is best earned, not proclaimed. We need a politics inspiring a sense of mutual obligation, not generating confrontation. We need policies that encourage rather than compel.
The best patriotism is the quiet patriotism of millions of lives well-lived, with citizens appreciating how blessed they are to live where they live, under the government they voted in, in the society to which they freely belong. The loud, aggressive patriotism of bluster and bullying is not just fleeting but counter-productive. Many have argued recently that in an age in which Israel is being delegitimized, headlines about loyalty oaths only make matters worse. I worry about the civic fallout more than the diplomatic fallout. In an age of cosmopolitanism coexisting uncomfortably with nationalism, we accomplish more with the light touch than the heavy hand. We need good citizens not resentful subjects, good government not posturing politicians.
The writer is professor of history at McGill University, and a Shalom Hartman Institute research fellow in Jerusalem. He is the author of Why I Am a Zionist: Israel, Jewish Identity and the Challenges of Today, and The Reagan Revolution: A Very Short Introduction. giltroy@gmail.com
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Tagged Arab Israelis, Benjamin Netanyahu, citizenship, Israel
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Gil Troy Quoted in Time: “Israel: A Belly Dance Video and the Spectre of De-legitimization”
By Karl Vic, Time, 10-8-10
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a weekly Cabinet meeting in September
Jim Hollander / AFP / Getty Images
Israel’s latest mortification, now playing on YouTube, features a Palestinian woman, captive, blindfolded and standing stock still in modest Islamic dress while an Israeli soldier undulates against her, trilling his fingers like the belly dancer he pretends to be as he grins at the friend who holds the camera. This follows the infamous Facebook posting of a female soldier beaming beside blindfolded and bound Palestinian men — her prisoners — in the photo album “IDF — The best time of my life.” That came on the heels of a YouTube video of an Israel Defense Force patrol dancing to Kesha’s “Tik Tok” on the streets of Hebron, a West Bank city where the military mission is to protect a handful of Israeli settlers who choose to live in a hostile mostly-Palestinian city.
The dance video at least has charm. But lest there be any confusion about how the world sees these things, the algorithm is about nothing if not context. And the page’s first two “suggestions” for related fare are “Shocking video! Israeli army committing crimes…” and “Israel Soldiers shoots arrested Palestinian.” Originally posted by an Israeli, the Hebron dance line lives on under the title, “It’s easy to laugh at the occupation when you’re the repressor (and a douche bag).”(See pictures of settlements in Israel.)
The hits just keep on coming, and with a relentlessness that lends subtle but persistent urgency to the effort to keep alive the peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Even if the sides navigate the obstacle posed by the end of Israel’s moratorium on West Bank settlement construction, the odds of negotiating a solution to the conflict will remain remote. But the alternative is seeing Israel’s international standing corroded one Web post at a time.(See pictures of 60 years of Israel.)
Israelis themselves debate the fairness of this. Some, such as the former Hebron sergeant Yehuda Shaul, say social media simply showcase the moral calluses Israel has built up over the 43 years it has sent young people to occupy Palestinian territory conquered in the 1967 war.(See pictures of heartbreak in the Middle East.)
“You need a peace deal because this is the reality,” says Shaul, who with other West Bank veterans founded a group called Breaking the Silence to show the Israeli public exactly what soldiers do in their name. The group started with a photography show, then published testimonies of soldiers troubled by the abuses they described as routine.
“Social media is a great tool because it doesn’t allow the system to control everything,” says Shaul. “More or less it’s like water: You can find a way to block it, but it’s going to find a way to get out.”(See pictures of life under Hamas in Gaza.)
Others acknowledge the bad behavior of individual soldiers in what proud Israelis still dub “the most moral army in the world.” But they worry about how much is made of individual disgraces. There are some concrete reasons that world sympathy has shifted steadily away from Israel — still the underdog in 1967, when it whipped three Arab armies in six days — and gathered behind the Palestinians. Reason one: the occupation itself.
But other reasons are not so concrete, some say. They are in the air, says McGill University history professor Gil Troy, wafting on currents detectable to the antenna that Jews have developed over thousands of years living with anti-Semitism.
“Israel is the only country whose very existence is still being debated,” he claims. Troy believes Israel is “the only country that still seems to be on probation.” Consider Pakistan, also founded in 1948. But when its chief nuclear scientist sells The Bomb to rogue states, as A.Q. Khan did more than once, “people don’t jump from criticizing that action to questioning why Pakistan was created in the first place,” Troy says.
Many in Israel and its supporters believe the country faces a systematic campaign of “de-legitimization,” accomplished when international support for the Jewish state is diminished to the point where its existence is up for grabs. Indeed fear of Israel’s declining international situation, particularly in the wake of last May’s flotilla fiasco, is taken for granted here as a major factor in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to pursue a final status agreement with the Palestinians, despite decades as a hawk.
The need to nurture U.S. support against Iran was only one reason Netanyahu came around to the Obama administration’s bid for talks, says Troy. “The second is this question of de-legitimization.” And though not all criticism of Israel amounts to opposition to its existence, he says, some “use these Facebook incidents, they use aberrations, they use the flotilla to say: ‘Aha. It’s no good. We should end it.” Meaning Israel, where the middle aged recall being taught as schoolchildren to chant, “The whole world is against us,” with a brave defiance that comes a less easily to adults.
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__label__wiki | 0.569061 | 0.569061 | Will the EU survive?
A bunch of selfish politicians (intelligent psychopaths) won't be able to achieve what Caesar, Napoleon and Hitler could not.
currency status public debt budget balance
From an economic point of view, the only thing the Euro succeeded in was to window dress Inflation. If you still believe Inflation is good, see how little a Waiter's salary (mi salario de camarero) has gone up. Clearly not enough to cover for the higher cost of living. Inflation is theft in daylight by the Authorities...The irony is that as a consequence, we are ALL getting poorer. Those countries with the highest taxes, the largest debt, and biggest budget deficits have the highest unemployment rates and the weakest economies!
The video clip clearly proofs the EU is a Marxist invention and structure where politicians just bypass the will of the people, deny referendums (26 States were denied a referendum) and push through their will using back doors -
The Euro's bitter-sweet triumph at 10
If the purpose of the euro is to confront US dollar hegemony and turn the European Union into a monetary superpower, it is a signal triumph. But politicians should be careful what they wish for. Posted December 31, 2008
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
On its tenth birthday, the single currency is an unquestioned part of daily life for 330m people in sixteen states (Slovakia joins on January 1st), spreading almost as widely as Rome's denarius -- the first truly Pan-European coin.
There has been no "tissue rejection" by the public, even if Euro-barometer data shows that the euro is more accepted than loved. Shoppers blame it - unfairly -- for inflation. Half the French still think in francs. Oddly, a slew of regional currencies has begun to circulate in German regions since the launch of EMU. Sociologists are baffled.
Market eagerness to push the euro to sterling parity, and too defiant highs against the dollar, Yuan, ruble, and rupee, is an undeniable stamp of confidence. But success is bitter-sweet. The euro-zone itself is in deep recession. A currency surge at this juncture is a cruel blow for the export industry. The full damage will hit in late 2009 as the time-lag effects work their curse.
The point of monetary union -- at least for Paris -- was to stop this happening. EMU was supposed to shield Europe against the fall-out from Anglo-Saxon "casino capitalism" and to ensure a stable currency.
Stable it is not. The Élysée never imagined that it would be a currency on steroids, spiking so high that it hollows out the French industrial core and drives Airbus to the brink. As President Nicolas Sarkozy put it in a moment of fury, "we didn't create the euro so that we could no longer build a single aircraft in Europe".
Otmar Issing, an ex-High priest of the European Central Bank, says half the states of West Europe would now be facing currency storms akin to the early 1990s were it not for the fortress strength of EMU.
The yield spreads on Italian, Greek, Portuguese, Spanish, Austrian, and Irish debt would be even higher than they are already, amplifying the effects of the credit crunch and probably making it too dangerous for governments even to think of fiscal rescue plans. "People do not seem aware of this. They are now taking the advantages of the euro for granted," he said.
This is true in one sense, although the 1990s ructions stemmed from a fixed link to the D-Mark, a recipe for disaster. But such claims and counter-claims hardly touch on the deeper question of whether EMU is a viable undertaking over the long run -- or an "optimal currency area" (OCA) in economic jargon. Ten years on, the controversy rages. Both sides have enough evidence to say with equal vehemence, "I told you so". It all depends on which part of the picture you look at.
Let us not forget that the euro is a revolutionary construct. Never before have sovereign states of equal weight agreed to abolish their currencies -- some dating back to the Middle Ages -- and tied their destiny to a supranational bank.
The franc -- minted in 1360 to celebrate the end of Jean Le Bon's captivity in England -- evoked France itself, and French voters were not easily persuaded to give it up. The Maastricht Treaty passed by a wafer-thin margin in September 1992. We will never know how the German people would have voted if allowed to decide on the fate of their beloved D-Mark, the symbol of national renewal.
Currency unions come and go, typically revolving around one dominant power. The euro is a different animal. It has no political anchor. It is a leap into the unknown without a state, treasury, debt union, or EU social security net to back it up.
For arch-critics at Germany's universities, the decision to press ahead with the euro before the creation of a full-fledged EU state was to put the cart before the horse. America had forged its union before issuing a currency, as had 19th century Germany.
This is the bigger question to be tested over the euro's second decade. Currency unions can mask risk for a while. They shield sinners long enough to let imbalances get out of hand, storing up trouble for a more traumatic crisis later.
Eurosceptics say this is exactly what is happening. The gap between North and South has grown ever wider as Europe's nations hold true to type, and as the ECB's one-size-fits-all policy has vastly different effects on different cultures. Italy has lost 40pc in labor cost competitiveness against Germany since the currencies were fixed in 1995, and Spain has lost about 35pc.
The reasons are complex, rooted in the wage-bargaining structures, the protected guilds, and the banking systems of countries refusing to give up their traditions. In Spain, 70pc of wages are indexed to inflation, and over 98pc of mortgages are linked to floating Euribor. Is it any wonder that Spain's property boom mushroomed out of control when the ECB held rates at 2pc (to help Germany, then in trouble)?
Latin Bloc states could have taken drastic steps to make their economies more compatible with Germany. They failed to do -- despite heroic efforts by officials, especially at the Bank of Spain -- because the political class never understood the implications of EMU. Nor did Germany's leaders, for that matter. The shining exception is Finland.
Current accounts tell the sorry tale. Germany has a surplus near 7pc of GDP, while deficits have reached 10pc in Spain and Portugal, and 14pc in Greece. Club Med extravagance can continue only as long as foreign investors are willing to plug the gaps with fresh capital. Italy's debt headache is different but no less serious. As Europe's most indebted state, it must roll over €200bn of bonds this year in hostile markets.
It will not be easy for victims to claw back competitiveness within the constraints of monetary union. They will have to "deflate" wages relative to Northern Europe, but there lies the risk of a self-feeding debt trap.
We are shifting into the political realm in any case. Spain's unemployment has jumped from 8pc to 13pc in little over a year, and some analysts are predicting 18pc by 2010. When does civic patience snap? Nobody knows, but the ferocity of last month's riots in Greece is a warning. [2011 official unemployment is Spain is 23%]
As Europe's slump deepens this year we may find out if it matters whether or not the euro is a stateless currency. In dollar land, Washington disburses a fifth of GDP. A system of "fiscal transfers" automatically shifts stimulus from healthy regions to bust zones. This is how an 'OCA' self-adjusts. We may find out too whether Euro land enjoys the solidarity of a nation, "all for one and one for all" when the chips are down. German body-language so far does not suggest that it does.
For now, the eurozone is basking in glory as of the world's ultimate safe-haven. Icelanders are eyeing the currency longingly, and Denmark has paid a high price (two rate rises into the crisis) for its semi-detached role in the Exchange Rate Mechanism. The Poles are trying to rid themselves of the zloty as fast they can.
Berkeley Professor Barry Eichengreen says the euro is the "great winner" of this financial crisis, confounding those in the Milton Friedman camp who thought EMU would blow apart in the first bad storm. The nature of this banking drama has played -- unexpectedly -- to EMU's strengths, he argues.
Banks in European states outside EMU mostly lack a domestic currency used for international dealings, so they have borrowed in euros (and dollars). This has proved to be an Achilles Heel. "The implication is clear. National banking systems need a lender of last resort. In small countries, where a significant share of bank liabilities is in someone else's currency, the national central bank lacks this capacity. The only options are then to slap draconian controls on the banking system or join the euro area," he says.
His verdict is that every country except perhaps Britain will have to join Euroland. "The writing is on the wall", he said.
So the debate goes on. For defenders of sterling - and the Swedish and Norwegian crowns -- the precipitous slide against the euro over recent months is broadly a boon, unless you work in the travel industry, or ski a lot. It acts as a shock absorber at a crucial moment, helping to cushion the economy against debt deflation.
Export profits may hold up long enough to give a lifeline to UK manufacturing and service firms as banks shut off credit lines. It is the difference between survival and failure for thousands of healthy companies. This is what an independent currency is for. It preserved social stability in 1931 when Britain left the Gold Standard, and again in 1992 on leaving the ERM (from which the pound later roared back to a higher level, at the appropriate time).
We are too close to events to draw any definitive conclusions about the workings of EMU or the crash in sterling. There will be many twists and turns before this great debacle has played itself out across the world.
When the Chinese leader Chou-en-Lai was asked what he thought about the French Revolution, he replied: "too soon to tell". To judge the euro revolution on just a decade is frivolous.
Posted August 16, 2008 , Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Well, my own view is that gold bugs should start looking very closely at something else: the implosion of Europe. (Japan is in recession too)
Germany's economy shrank by 1pc in Q2. Italy shrank by 0.3pc. Spain is sliding into a crisis that looks all too like the early stages of Argentina's debacle in 2001. The head of the Spanish banking federation today pleaded with the European Central Bank for rescue measures to end the credit crisis.
The slow-burn damage of the over-valued euro is becoming apparent in every corner of the eurozone. The ECB misjudged the severity of the downturn, as executive board member Lorenzo Bini-Smaghi admitted today in the Italian press. By raising interest rates into the teeth of the storm last month, Frankfurt has made it that much more likely that parts of Europe's credit system will seize up as defaults snowball next year.
As readers know, I do not believe the eurozone is a fully workable currency union over the long run. There was a momentary "convergence" when the currencies were fixed in perpetuity, mostly in 1995. They have diverged ever since. The rift between North and South was not enough to fracture the system in the first post-EMU downturn, the dot-com bust. We have moved a long way since then. The Club Med bloc is now massively dependent on capital inflows from North Europe to plug their current account gaps: Spain (10pc), Portugal (10pc), Greece (14pc). UBS warned that these flows are no longer forthcoming.
The central banks of Asia, the Mid-East, and Russia have been parking a chunk of their $6 trillion reserves in European bonds on the assumption that the euro can serve as a twin pillar of the global monetary system alongside the dollar. But the euro is nothing like the dollar. It has no European government, tax, or social security system to back it up. Each member country is sovereign, each fiercely proud, answering to its own ancient rhythms.
It lacks the mechanism of "fiscal transfers" to switch money to depressed regions. The Babel of languages keeps workers pinned down in their own country. The escape valve of labor mobility is half-blocked. We are about to find out whether EMU really has the levels of political solidarity of a nation, the kind that holds America's currency union together through storms.
My guess is that political protest will mark the next phase of this drama. Almost half a million people have lost their jobs in Spain alone over the last year. At some point, the feeling of national impotence in the face of monetary rule from Frankfurt will erupt into popular fury. The ECB will swallow its pride and opt for a weak euro policy, or face its own destruction.
What we are about to see is a race to the bottom by the world's major currencies as each tries to devalue against others in a beggar-thy-neighbor policy to shore up exports, or indeed simply because they have to cut rates frantically to stave off the consequences of debt-deleveraging and the risk of an outright Slump.
When that happens - if it is not already happening - it will become clear that both pillars of the global monetary system are unstable, infested with the dry rot of excess debt.
The Fed has already invoked Article 13 (3) - the "unusual and exigent circumstances" clause last used in the Great Depression - to rescue Bear Stearns. The US Treasury has since had to shore up Fannie and Freddie, the world's two biggest financial institutions.
Europe's turn will come next. We will discover that Europe cannot conduct such rescues. There is no lender of last resort in the system. The ECB is prohibited by the Maastricht Treaty from carrying out direct bail-outs. There is no EU treasury. So the answer will be drift and paralysis.
When EU Single Market Commissioner Charlie McCreevy was asked at a dinner what Brussels would have done if the eurozone faced a crisis like Bear Stearns, he rolled his eyes and thanked the Heavens that so such crisis had yet happened.
Let those pretending there is democracy in Europe stand up! - Francis d. Schutte
Once political power is transferred from father to son and/or from man to wife, we should all know something is deathly wrong with Democracy.
Now that Ireland has rejected the Lisbon Treaty, I don’t see any earthquakes but rather a resumption of the scenario we saw after the French and Dutch voted ‘No’.
The EU ain’t freezing up. The talking heads designate either a country as too small to count (Ireland, The Netherlands) or the people’s decision is classified vertically and the Lisbon treaty will be pushed through overnight when all are asleep.
The European Parliament will do the impossible to ensure it’s very existence and I have no doubt Europe's clever lawyers will find a way to slip any text through in some way.
Nicolas Sarkozy plans to use France’s EU presidency to steamroll the treaty through “legal’ measures in the same way Louis XVI did before he ended up on the Guillotine.
However, with the Real Estate crises, the Credit Crunch and the destruction of money and the (hyper) inflation that comes as a consequence, I see the EU bumping into heavy problems. The odds are this complex society won’t survive the actual energy crisis after all.
History shows over and over again that if politicians don’t change politics, We the People get rid of the politicians ( even if it means they have to use a guillotine). One can only fool people as long there are games and bread but the upcoming hyperinflation and depression with a potential shortage of Food and Energy commodities will be a wake-up call for most of us.
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Edgar winner and internationally best-selling author Mo Hayder returns with a terrifying thriller about the hunt for a homicidal mental patient.
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Mo Hayder has worked as a filmmaker, Tokyo nightclub hostess, and English language teacher in Asia. She is also the author of Birdman; The Treatment; The Devil of Nanking, winner of the Elle Magazine crime fiction prize; Pig Island, shortlisted for the Barry Award for Best British Crime Novel; Ritual, shortlisted both for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger award and for the coveted Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award; Skin; and Gone; as well as the winner of the 2011 Crime Writers’ Association Dagger in the Library award for outstanding body of work. She lives in England.
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Poppet is Hayder at her most terrifying: A gripping novel set in a high-security mental health ward. Something is not right at Beechway psychiatric unit. First one resident turns violently to self-harm, then another to suicide—both recalcitrant patients with no prior history of self-directed violence. Rumor has it that the place is being terrorized by a creature called The Maude. Clinic higher-ups dismiss this as superstition, but the surviving victim certainly saw something. When staff Nurse AJ LeGrande calls on Detective Jack Caffery to investigate, what he learns about what’s going on inside and outside the hospital will shock him and place individuals beyond the ward walls in danger. And what of Flea Marley, the police diver whose dark secret Caffery has been keeping? Can he save her from herself, or will she take him down with her?
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“Mo Hayder has written some of the grisliest crime fiction in recent memory. . . . Nowhere is Hayder’s portrayal more nuanced and compelling than in Poppet. . . . A compelling mystery that will cause fans and new readers alike to ponder not just who did it, but why.” —Paula L. Woods, Los Angeles Times
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“If there’s anything better than being poleaxed by a book, it’s turning to the “also by this author” page and seeing EIGHT previous books to dive into, including one Edgar winner. Mo Hayder knows what’s scary. Insanity is scary. Malevolent dwarfs in nightgowns are scary. Motionless, faceless beings standing in your yard watching your bedroom window at night—scary. . . . Story and character get equal weight as LeGrande and Cafferty work through the clues surrounded by a cast of very real personalities, at a pace that lets us absorb a plot point and then move on to the next.” —Salem Macknee, Charlotte Observer
“Hayder’s latest installment in the Jack Caffrey series (after Hanging Hill and the Edgar award-winning Gone) is a creepy, twisty thrill ride that doesn’t stop and will give you the shivers if you dare to read it at night. This is another winner.” —Library Journal (starred review)
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“Mo Hayder has a talent for weaving the macabre through the mysterious in equal parts, resulting in a tapestry that presents a tantalizing and puzzling mystery that mesmerizes even as it shocks. So it is with Poppet, which gives readers an opportunity to warmly welcome the return of Detective Inspector Jack Caffery. . . . Be warned: Poppet is a shocker, though delightfully so. . . . Hayder twists and turns the primary plot into 90- and 180-degree angles yet never lets the reader get lost, confused, or misdirected. And while you might guess some of what will happen, there is almost no way that you will figure out all of it before its time, particularly the subtle little anti-climax you will never see coming yet makes perfect sense. Poppet will have you placing Mo Hayder on your must-read list, if she wasn’t there already.” —Joe Hartlaub, Bookreporter.com
“Is there any creepier setting than a mental institution? Combine that tried-and-true horror milieu with the talent of an author who can make the brightly lit streets of Tokyo feel sinister, and it’s almost an unfair advantage. But that’s what we get with Mo Hayder’s sixth Jack Caffrey thriller, Poppet.” —Bookpage (Book Case blog)
From the bed Monster Mother stares at the triangle of light coming from under the door. It’s muddied, agitated. Something is waiting there outside her room. Lingering.
Silently she pushes herself out of bed and creeps to the furthest corner of the room. Her eyes don’t leave the door. She knows what’s out there. The Maude.
Monster Mother glances frantically around the room—checking every corner, every crack in the plaster. Any place at all that The Maude can crawl in. She knows more about The Maude than anyone in this place does. But she can’t talk about what she knows—that would be dangerous.
Carefully she pushes her hand up under the thin red negligee she wears and moves her trembling fingers along the skin between her breasts. When she finds the thing she needs she tugs. It hurts, but she continues. There is a wet smacking sound as her stomach muscles spring free from her skin.
Monster Mother takes a deep breath and straightens up—solid and brave—her stripped muscles glinting in the security lights. She faces the door.
The Maude will never find her now.
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The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, for example, an innovator in using analytics, has recently also begun harnessing artificial intelligence to improve care.
The health system has developed AI-based algorithms used on its more than 27 petabytes of data to define patient subpopulations — those with congestive heart failure or asthma, for instance — to target interventions to those groups. It’s developed algorithms using electronic health record data to predict patient decline in hospitals.
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“The data sets are more robust now. They include clinical data, financial data, other identifying data of the social demographic. The personally identifiable data can then be used for medical identity theft. It all makes healthcare data that much more attractive for cybercriminals to attack healthcare, which is considered a soft target compared with other industries that invested earlier in security technology,” she says.
The explosion of IoT devices and networked medical devices are the biggest security threats among the emerging disruptive technologies in the view of Christopher Frenz, director of infrastructure at Interfaith Medical Center in New York. He wrote the Open Web Application Security Project’s (OWASP) report on medical device deployment.
Frenz points to the WannaCry ransomware attack, which affected some radiology equipment, as the most chilling example.
“WannaCry showed it’s not just a patient information issue, but a patient safety issue as well,” he says. “This creates a whole new and wholly unacceptable meaning for denial of service.”
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Among the IDC predictions: By 2021, the world will have seen its first $100 million class-action lawsuit against a medical device manufacturer for negligence because of a cyberattack causing the death of more than 25 people connected to networked medical devices while hospitalized.
The security implications of new technologies must be evaluated individually, according to John Houston, vice president of privacy and information security at UPMC. It has a structured program to do that, whether it be artificial intelligence, Google Glass or any other emerging technology, he says.
“Any platform is going to have specific components that raise specific considerations from a security perspective, especially around how it’s going to be used in a hospital setting,” Houston says.
He considers the dramatic shift to the cloud one of healthcare’s greatest security challenges, since the data no longer remains under the organization’s control. And sensitive data is being pushed out in all sorts of new ways to patients’ devices and to physicians who may be vacationing in other parts of the world.
“I really have to think about how data is stored and delivered all over the planet. … It really is a problem of scale and where that data resides,” Houston says.
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Healthcare’s approach to security traditionally has been comparable to the way preschoolers play soccer, according to Dunbrack — everyone goes after the ball at the same time. When there are phishing attacks, for example, everyone invests in anti-phishing technology.
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By Jeff Simms on January 11, 2019 2 Comments
5G, wireless conversation picks up in Beacon
By Jeff Simms
The Beacon Planning Board on Tuesday (Jan. 8) recommended that the City Council exercise caution, particularly with regard to scenic viewsheds, as it begins to consider applications for “small-cell” units and other types of wireless facilities.
The council last year adopted a law — Beacon was one of the first municipalities in New York State to do so — regulating the relatively new small-cell units, which are low-powered radio antennas typically placed on top of buildings or on utility poles rather than standalone high-rise towers. An attorney representing Verizon told the council last year that the units can boost wireless signals for 500 to 1,000 feet and are used to fill coverage gaps in high-traffic areas.
As applications for those units and other wireless structures trickle in — there are three on the table now — the council asked the Planning Board to review an older telecommunications law as well, to ensure that all of the city’s legislation is in sync.
A small-cell antenna in Newark (Verizon)
Together, the two laws strengthen the city’s ability to oversee the implementation of 5G and other technologies, said Planning Board Chair John Gunn.
There are two pending applications to place small-cell units in Beacon on existing utility poles at 2 Red Flynn Drive and 7 Cross St., both on the city’s west side. Those applications, submitted by Verizon, will go to the Planning Board for review.
Verizon also has applied to install a 52-foot wooden utility pole on private property on Howland Avenue, a few blocks from Mount Beacon Park.
The City Council is reviewing that request, and last month approved a Verizon proposal to add a rooftop antenna to equipment atop the Mase Hook and Ladder fire station on Main Street.
As more applications arrive, however, “it’s not going to be a pretty sight,” Planning Board member Gary Barrack predicted at the Tuesday meeting.
He said he had no problem with the legislation the board was reviewing but that he wasn’t so happy about cell towers in general. “It certainly will not enhance the look of the city or neighborhoods unless they were strategically placed in spaces where we wouldn’t see them,” Barrack said.
Even as cellphone use continues to grow (by one estimate, nearly 70 percent of the U.S. population uses them), and with it a demand for bandwidth, municipalities in the Highlands have resisted the industry’s perceived intrusion on scenic resources.
In Putnam County, Homeland Towers and Verizon last year sued Philipstown and Nelsonville after both municipalities denied applications for cell towers. In Philipstown, a tower had been proposed for a hillside along Vineyard Road, off Route 9. The Nelsonville tower would have overlooked the Cold Spring Cemetery.
In Beacon, Planning Board member Patrick Lambert said he has similar concerns about the potential for blight. “Once this tsunami starts, it’s going to be tough to reel in,” he said.
Where is Fios?
While 5G technology is on its way to Beacon, a fiber-optic network apparently is not. A Verizon spokeperson says the company has no plans (but declined to say why) to expand Fios, its high-speed internet, telephone and television service, into Beacon or Philipstown, although it is available in much of the rest of Dutchess and Putnam counties, along with Albany, Buffalo, Long Island, New York City and Syracuse.
A coverage map for Fios created by Broadbandnow.com
The Howland Avenue application includes a map showing several Beacon sites “at various stages of development” for Verizon facilities, including the train station, an area called “Rombout,” the area near Cliff and Willow streets, an area called “Tioronda” and at the fire station.
While the federal government prevents municipalities from regulating wireless facilities based on health concerns — it leaves that to the Federal Communications Commission — it does give cities flexibility to regulate aesthetics.
The small-cell law adopted in Beacon last year, for example, requires a special-use permit from the City Council to install units on poles more than 50 feet high, within 20 feet of a home, or with equipment less than 15 feet from the ground.
Beacon’s older wireless telecommunications law, adopted in 2002, restricts radio towers and other wireless facilities in most cases from the waterfront or residential and historic zoning districts. Planning Board members on Tuesday said they’ll recommend that the City Council consider scenic viewsheds, as well, when reviewing applications.
But John Clarke, a city planning consultant, noted that could be difficult to implement. “Anyone can say ‘That’s my viewshed, so it’s important,’ right?” he observed.
Meanwhile, Beacon resident Stanislaw “Stosh” Yankowski has cautioned the council for months that the electromagnetic radiation, especially at higher 5G frequencies, emitted by cell phones and other wireless devices is more dangerous than the FCC is letting on.
“These things are eventually going to be all over the city,” he said, referring to the small-cell units. “It may take a few years to build out, but there are people out there that are electromagnetic sensitive.”
There is no conclusive science on potential health risks, and scientists have not identified any way that electromagnetic radiation could cause cancer. The National Cancer Society notes that it’s difficult to study “because the majority of individuals in the general population are exposed only intermittently” and individual exposure varies by population density, distance from the source, and the time of day or day of the week.
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Charles Symon January 13, 2019 at 6:57 am
Fios will never come to Beacon. Why? Old technology and a money loser for Verizon. Putting up the 5G transmitters will give Verizon the ability to transmit video in the future, and that’s cheaper with no wires and no installations to individual homes. Get ready for the little (LOL) boxes on all the poles if you want an alternative for a TV signal.
Steve Smith January 14, 2019 at 10:43 am
Fiber-optic based communications solutions are superior to wireless in numerous ways. Verizon simply wants to let their physical plant rot and refuse to invest in lighting up new fiber because it’s cheaper for them in the short term. If it was a money loser for Verizon in the long term, they would not lobby to prevent local municipalities from delivering their own fiber to the home. Verizon is just trying to take the easy way out by offering “good enough” services and to keep those quarterly earnings numbers looking good. We (taxpayers) literally paid Verizon to build out fiber to the home and they just pocketed the cash and didn’t build anything.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-kushnick/verizons-wireline-network_b_12022492.html
https://www.wired.com/story/new-york-city-verizon-internet/
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From Brannon Parker: “The following is excerpted from research on the writings of Colonel Tod. Col. Tod was a British military man who did extensive research into India’s history. He spent much time in India during the 1800s and claimed to have found many ancient recorded evidences and writings in Rajasthan, India. These findings convinced him that India’s people and civilization were the genesis of much of the world’s civilization. In his book, “Rajasthan”, he traced a multitude of links to India. Below are some of his findings on India’s connection to Turkestan and Northern Asia.
The Turanians extending over the whole of Turkestan and Central Asia were originally an Indian people. Colonel Tod says, “Abdul Gazi says that Tamak, the son of Ture, is the the Turishka of the Puranas. His descendants gave their name to Tocharistan or Turkestan.” Professor Max Muller says, “Turvas and his descendants who represent Turanians are described in the later poems of India as cursed and deprived of their inheritance,” and hence their migration.
Colonel Tod says, “The Jaisalmer annals assert that the Yadu (Lord Krishna’s dynasty) and the Bahlika branches of the Indu race ruled Korassan after the Great War of Kurukshetra and are the Indo-Scythic races mentioned in the ancient Greek writings.” Besides the Bahlika and the numerous branches of the Indo-Medes, many of the sons of Kuru dispersed over these regions, amongst which we may place the Uttara Kurus, or Northern Kurus of the Puranas. They were known as the Ottorocurae to the ancient Greeks. Both the Indus and the Surya peoples were sending their excess population to these distant regions.”
A Mohammedan historian says that emigrants from India first inhabited the country of Khata. It is also known that Hindu settlers left India for Siberia, where they founded a kingdom, with Bajrapur as its capital. It is related that upon the death the king of that country in battle, three of Lord Krishna’s sons, Pradyumna, Gada, and Samba, made a journey to Bajrapur. They were also accompanied by a large number of brahmanas (priests) and ksatriyas (warriors). The eldest brother, Pradyumna, ascended the throne. When Lord Krishna left this world, it is said that the inhabitants of Bajrapur came to Dvaraka, Krishna’s city, to console His family members. (This is recorded in the Hari Vamsha, Vishnu Parva, Adhyaya 97.)
Colonel Tod continues, “The annals of the Yadus of Jaisalmer state that long before King Vikrama they held dominion from Ghazni to Samarkhand. They established themselves in those regions after the Great War of the Mahabharata and were not pushed back to the Indus until the rise of Islam. The Yadus of Jaisalmer ruled Zabulistan and founded Ghazni. They also claim Chagatai (a descendant of Genghis Khan) as being of their own bloodline. This is a claim I now deem worthy of credit.”
The Afghans are the descendants of the Aphgana, the serpent tribe of the Apivansa region of ancient India. According to Abu Haukal, the city of Herat is also called Heri. This adjoins Maru or Murve, the country called Seestan, which was also a settlement of the Hindus. Seestan (the region of cold, see-stan) and all sides of the valley were occupied since very ancient times by another branch of the Yadus.
In fact the very name of the continent Asia comes from the Indian clan who were known as the Ashva. Also the name Europa comes from the Sanskrit words Surupa which means “beautiful form.”
It has been shown that the Bactrians were an Indian people and that the Indian migrations extended to Siberia and the northernmost parts of Asia. This is evident from the fact that the descendants of these Vedic Aryans are still to be found there. The Samoyedes and Tchoudes of Siberia and Finland were originally known as the Shyamayadus and the Joudes of India. The languages of the two former races have a strong affinity and are classed as Indo-Germanic by Klaproth, the author of the book “Asia Polyglotta.” Mr. Remusat traces these tribes to Central Asia, the exact place where the Yadu dynasty long held sway. Shyama is a name of Krishna and Krishna is known as the Lord of the Yadus and this branch of His family was known as the Shyama Yadus.
The race of Joude is described by Baber as occupying the mountainous range at the very spot mentioned in the annals of the Yadus as the point marking the furthest extension of their migrations. The most prominent hill in this range is called Yadu-ki-dang or “hill of Yadu”. According to these records, they left India approx. 4000 years ago.”
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Hilary Duff Recites ‘Lizzie McGuire Movie’ Quote In Epic Throwback — Watch
This is truly what dreams are made of! During a signing for her latest album, Hilary reenacted one of her most famous lines from ‘The Lizzie McGuire Movie.’ Click to WATCH!
Hilary Duff, 27, just made everyone want a Lizzie McGuire Movie sequel more than ever. The starlet recited one of the best lines from the classic movie during an album signing on June 17. It’s epic. So was Hilary reenacting a Lizzie McGuire scene or an Isabella Parigi scene? Find out now!
Not going to lie — Hilary’s Italian accent in The Lizzie McGuire Movie was underappreciated. Hilary proved she still has the incredible accent down pat during an album signing for “Breathe In. Breathe Out.” In an epic moment that we are not worthy of, Hilary recited the line, “Sing to me, Paolo.”
YES! While we can constantly catch Hilary saying the quote on The Lizzie McGuire Movie DVD we all have, hearing Hilary reciting the line again is a life-altering moment. Hilary played Lizzie McGuire and doppelganger Isabella Parigi in the 2003 teen film. In the movie, Isabella comes out onto the stage to expose Paolo and taunts him with the line.
Hilary Duff Reunites With ‘Lizzie McGuire’ Co-Stars
Hilary has been keeping hope alive that a Lizzie McGuire reunion could happen. During an outing in April 2015, Hilary reunited with Lalaine and Jake Thomas. Yep, that’s Miranda and Matt. Gordo must have been a little busy. We forgive him.
After the unexpected get-together, Jake wrote about it on his website and possibly teased a full-on reunion. “It was great for us all to see each other again, and perhaps there’s something in the works very soon,” he wrote. OMG!
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__label__wiki | 0.880357 | 0.880357 | Man interviewed about body found in creek arrested hours later for mom’s murder
Posted 6:12 PM, June 7, 2018, by Tribune Media Wire
\WYALUSING TOWNSHIP, Pa. - A man who spoke with a reporter about a body found in a Pennsylvania creek has now been arrested after police identified the remains as his mother.
Patricia Haverly's body was found in the creek in Wyalusing Creek near Camptown Thursday night, and state police arrested her son Matthew Haverly Friday.
It was only after WNEP interviewed Matthew Haverly on camera that troopers found evidence that led to the charges.
When interviewed, Haverly gave the impression he didn't have any idea what was going on.
"I'm like, 'What they hell is going on?' And now I realize that's what they were actually doing. I had no clue. It's sad to say that that's someone's either daughter, mother or whatever," Haverly had said.
Later on Friday, investigators identified the woman found in the creek as Patricia Haverly, 60, so when Haverly mentioned it could be someone's mother, it turned out it was his mother. During his interview, he said he thought it was someone from out of town.
"I think it was some kind of a hit, and something happened. Something went bad, and this is like a rural area, so they just wanted to plant the body somewhere else besides wherever the hell they were from," Haverly told WNEP.
Haverly lives across the street from where the body was found. When WNEP asked him again what he thought, Haverly continued to talk about mob or gang-related killings.
"It would be like a place where people from the city would want to put a body because most likely it wouldn't be found," he said.
Haverly also spoke about his mother's possible reaction to troopers finding a body near their home.
"I'm guessing my mother, she would be concerned. Probably a lot of the other neighbors would be concerned."
Shortly after the interview, troopers arrested Haverly. He's charged in his mother's murder and accused of abusing her corpse.
"If that's exactly what happened, that's shocking," said Vanessa Billings of Camptown.
Neighbors like Billings are shocked to see how Haverly carried himself during his interview.
"It's heartbreaking because he comes across concerned, and that's what's scary because you don't know what's going on next door at your neighbor's house."
"That's kind of weird. You got people like that running around, not good," said Mark Beattie of Spring Hill.
People who live along Wyalusing Creek say it's frightening because their children use the creek as a recreation area.
"We moved up here eight years ago from Indiana to come to a small community where you don't have to lock your doors and everyone knows your neighbors and everyone's friends, and to have this right in the heart of Camptown is very concerning. It's heartbreaking," said Billings.
The Bradford County coroner has not released the results of the autopsy yet.
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MILWAUKEE — The Pretenders have added more headlining dates to their North American tour, including a show at the Pabst Theater on Tuesday, July 10th.
Doors open at 7 p.m and the show starts at 8 p.m.
Tickets for the show go on sale Friday, March 16 at noon. CLICK HERE to purchase tickets online. You can also call The Pabst and The Riverside box offices at 414-286-3663.
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__label__cc | 0.574116 | 0.425884 | Visitors to lakefront to see greater law enforcement presence; ‘Deputies will respond quickly’
Posted 10:02 pm, May 27, 2018, by Angelica Sanchez, Updated at 10:24PM, May 27, 2018
MILWAUKEE -- The scorching heat on Sunday afternoon, May 27 prompted many to seek relief at Milwaukee's lakefront.
Bradford Beach
Memorial Day weekend is often seen as the unofficial start of summer. Judging by the atmosphere of the crowd on Sunday, that certainly was the case.
"This is my weather. I like being out in the sun," said Chanel Eichelberger, a beachgoer.
However, a new sheriff in town means a shift in safety this summer.
"You're going to see a presence here," said Acting Milwaukee County Sheriff Richard Schmidt. "Deputies will respond quickly to stop unruly behavior."
Acting Milwaukee County Sheriff Richard Schmidt
Last Thursday, Sheriff Schmidt announced additional patrols near the water.
"You will see traffic enforcement on Lincoln Memorial Drive, a little bit more than usual," Schmidt said.
That is something that beachgoers and their families seem to appreciate.
"I'm going to stay as close as I can to the sheriff's. I'm not going to lie about that. They're all here out on the parking lot. I'm going stay near the parking lot," said Paul Gayle Jr., a beachgoer.
After what felt like a never-ending winter, Sheriff Schmidt said county parks and the lakefront have quickly become popular spots for the public. The goal this summer is to increase law enforcement visibility.
"I want more vehicles down here so people can pinpoint a sheriff's vehicle a lot easier than maybe a deputy walking somewhere," Schmidt said.
Sheriff Schmidt asks the public to use common sense when it comes to safety -- so everyone can enjoy the anticipated summer heat.
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The morning after pill is an emergency contraception that can be used after unprotected sex, to prevent pregnancy. The instructions given by the manufacturer should always be followed precisely, and any user should pay attention to the amount of time following intercourse that the morning after pill is said to be effective. Like any other medication, the morning after pill can have side effects. We'll take a closer look at them to help women who want to know what to expect.
Not every woman using the morning after pill will have the same side effects, of course, and most of the more common side effects are not dangerous. Potential side effects also depend on the brand of pill you are using like EllaOne, Plan B, and many others. For a complete list of side effects, read the package insert of your morning after pill. For more general information, we're here to help you now.
The more common side effects of emergency contraception are changes in the next menstruation (too early, too late, heavier than usual), nausea and vomiting, headaches, and lower abdominal discomfort. Muscle pain is also possible, along with breast tenderness, tiredness and being dizzy. With the morning after pill, there is an elevated risk of ectopic pregnancy. Emergency contraceptives prevent ovulation in women who didn't already ovulate that cycle, and makes the uterine lining unreceptive to any fertilized egg that is already in the body. Because of this, such a fertilized egg may instead nestle into the lining of one the fallopian tubes.
Tubal pregnancies are extremely dangerous and may well result in the removal of your fallopian tube. Emergency contraceptives are generally safe to use, but they are obviously not meant to serve as a long-term birth control method, and they do not prevent the spread of sexually transmitted diseases.
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What would happen if Iceland voted now?
'Elections now!' was the simple demand of these protestors on Monday. Photo: Iceland Monitor/Kristján
Protestors in Iceland have been demanding early general elections – but how would elections, say, tomorrow affect the shape of Iceland’s parliament?
The Icelandic parliament is called Alþingi (pronounced ‘Althingi’), a democratic institution which can trace its history right back to 930 AD and the first Norse settlers.
63 MPs elected from Icelandic constituencies by proportional representation sit in Alþingi and pass national legislation.
The Iceland Parliament in Reykjavik. Photo: Ómar Óskarsson
A total of 32 MPs is needed to form a majority government. Representatives of six parties currently sit in Alþingi and the government is a two-party coalition.
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Based on the very latest opinion poll reported on this morning, the open-democracy Pirate Party would be the runaway winners, with 43% of the vote.
On the basis of the raw percentages alone, this would give the Pirate Party 29 seats out of 63, a hair’s breadth away from an absolute majority. They currently have just three MPs in Alþingi.
The Pirate Party could from just three MPs to almost thirty. Photo: Iceland Monitor/Styrmir Kári
In this case, the Pirate Party would have the first crack of the whip at forming a coalition.
Given the numbers of MPs estimated for the other five parties, the Pirates could form a two-party coalition with any of them.
The current fall from grace of the Progressive Party (led by the beleaguered Prime Minister) and the major ideological differences between the Pirate Party and the Independence Party make these two options unlikely.
Katrín Jakobsdóttir (left) is leader of the Left-Green Movement, while Árni Páll Árnason (right) leads the Social Democratic Alliance. Photo: Iceland Monitor/Kristinn Ingvarsson
The Pirates could form a comfortable majority either with the Left-Green Movement (37/63) or the Social Democratic Alliance (36/63).
By contrast, the only possibility of a majority government not involving the Pirates would have to be a four-way alliance of the other four parties – a highly unlikely and unstable prospect. The Bright Future party would disappear from Alþingi according to the lastest poll.
(All MP figures for 2016/17 quoted here are estimates based on raw percentages only.)
It is not yet known when exactly Iceland will next be going to the polls. Photo: Iceland Monitor/Brynjar Gauti
The chart below shows the current make-up of Alþingi (after the 2013 elections) and a possible future distribution based on the latest opinion poll. It is not yet clear whether elections will take place early, i.e. 2016, or in 2017 as originally planned.
Hover over the different-coloured little MPs to see exact data.
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‘We’ve talked for a long time about approaching a constitutional crisis. We are now in it.”
That was House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler on Wednesday.
When reporters asked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday if she agreed with Nadler’s assessment, her response was that she does, “because the administration has decided that they’re not going to honor their oath of office.”
What neither Nadler nor Pelosi did say, however, is the “crisis” the country is now in has been engineered entirely by Nadler and his fellow Democrats.
Consider: At this very moment, there is a virtually redaction-free version of the Mueller report available to Nadler and other top Democrats. In this version, supplied by the Justice Department in deference to Democrats’ demand for more transparency, the sum total of the redaction in Volume II of the Mueller report — the part Democrats say they are most interested in because it deals with obstruction of justice — is two full lines of text and seven partial lines of text.
That document is sitting in a secure room in the House. Yet not a single Democrat has bothered to look at it.
In fact, the Democrats are purposely avoiding reviewing it, for fear that it would undermine their case for still more disclosures.
In a letter to Nadler, Assistant Attorney General Stephen Boyd said that the fact that Democrats refuse to examine this almost entirely unredacted version of the report “naturally raises questions about the sincerity of the committee’s interest in and purported need for the redacted material.”
Indeed, it does.
Meanwhile, Nadler knows full well that complying with his demand for millions of pages of additional documents — including secret grand jury proceedings — would itself be illegal.
The Judiciary Committee’s ranking Republican, Doug Collins, made it clear: the subpoena “commands the department to provide Congress with millions of records that would be plainly against the law to share because the vast majority of these documents came as a result of nearly 2,800 subpoenas from a grand jury that is still ongoing.”
Justice Department spokeswoman Kerri Kupec added that Attorney General William Barr “could not comply with the House Judiciary Committee’s subpoena without violating the law, court rules, and court orders, and without threatening the independence of the department’s prosecutorial functions.”
So far as we know, no Democrat has credibly claimed otherwise.
In other words, Nadler is declaring a constitutional crisis because Barr won’t turn over documents that, if Barr did relinquish them, would result in Nadler’s accusing him of breaking the law.
Nadler claims that releasing all grand jury information “has occurred in every similar investigation in the past.”
USA Today tries to make this case as well, saying that “in investigations into Presidents Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton, judges ordered the release of grand jury evidence because the public interest outweighed witness privacy.” But in both cases, the House was pursuing impeachment of those presidents.
Even then it was considered an extraordinary exception. As the Congressional Research Service reported:
“The long-established rule of grand jury secrecy is enshrined in Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 6(e), which provides that government attorneys and the jurors themselves, among others, ‘must not disclose a matter occurring before the grand jury.'”
The CRS goes on to say that “no exception to the general rule of secrecy explicitly authorizes disclosure of grand jury matters to Congress, either by agreement or pursuant to a congressional subpoena.”
Even in the case where Congress is demanding an exception on access to grand jury proceedings as part of an impeachment action, the CRS report explains, “a committee seeking court-authorized disclosure on the basis of this exception must establish a ‘particularized need’ for the materials at issue, which requires a showing that the need outweighs the public interest in secrecy.”
Nadler hasn’t shown any “particularized need” for this data dump request, nor has he made the case that there’s any public interest involved, other than his own party’s determination to keep the Trump administration bottled up in endless investigations. In fact, Democrats are busily downplaying any plans to impeach Trump.
Democrats portray this is a battle against an imperialistic administration. But when the Justice Department weighed in on Congress’ access to grand jury testimony three decades ago (in response to a bill that would have made it easier for lawmakers to get their hands on grand jury materials) here’s what it concluded:
“Because the Executive alone is entrusted with the power to enforce the laws, the Executive alone should make the day-to-day decisions as to whether the release of law enforcement materials to Congress would interfere with its prosecutorial discretion.
Independent access by Congress to grand jury materials without the consent of the Department of Justice would seriously endanger grand jury secrecy and thereby weaken the grand jury as an institution.”
In short, what Nadler is doing is nothing more than a fishing expedition — one designed to create a crisis. Since the trumped-up Russia collusion charges amounted to nothing, and Mueller couldn’t adequately make a case for obstruction of justice, Nadler apparently hopes he can find something, anything, in the millions of pages of documents, so that he can keep the Democrats’ drumbeat against Trump going.
Nadler himself made his true intentions plain days after the 2016 election, when he declared, “We cannot wait four years to vote Mr. Trump out of office. We must keep our eyes on two important goals: depressing Trump’s public support and dividing the Congressional GOP from him and from each other.”
Nadler later refused to go to Trump’s inauguration because, in his mind, the election was “illegitimate.”
Yes, there is a constitutional crisis here. It involves one party using every means at its disposal to overturn a legitimate presidential election more than two years after the fact.
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Ndanielson says:
The constitutional crisis will arrive when the American people finally realize what the Fake News and their Democrat puppets have done to weaponize the federal government.
Leo Smith says:
Arrest, convict and execute the Treasonous Coup Members.
daylight58 says:
My life experience has taught me that Democrats (now, “Progressives”) don’t want solutions to problems.
They want the problems to continue to exist in order to justify their existence and lust for authoritarian power….
D3F1ANT says:
LOL! Can we all just agree that this is nonsense and simply refuse to acknowledge this so-called Constitutional Crisis? I mean…we have that already…it’s the FBI…it’s the RIFE election rigging by Democrats…it’s Hillary stealing the nomination from Bernie…it’s CONSTANT obstruction of the POTUS…it’s SPYING on a campaign based on lies! Can Democrats BE any more duplicitous!?
TDS in its most acute form…
Come on, haven’t you all figured out dems’ M.O. yet? Accuse the other side of what you’re doing, even though they aren’t doing what you say they are. It just confuses things, especially with the press magnifying the (fake) message. The current cries about constitutional crisis are in prep (confuse and dilute the term) for the real crisis that’s coming when the coup leaders are brought to justice and the house tries to stop it.
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The Node carries out numerous activities to boost the innovative and entrepreneurial capabilities of MIT students, faculty, researchers, and alumni, in collaboration with the Hong Kong community and the Pearl River Delta. These include internship opportunities, educational programs, engagement opportunities, and innovation-focused events.
In January 2016, a group of MIT students traveled to the southern-most province in China for the first-ever Guangdong Manufacturing Innovation Ecosystems Tour during the Independent Activities Period as part of the MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives (MISTI) China program. Participants enjoyed a behind-the-scenes look at China’s manufacturing hub.
The Guangdong Manufacturing Innovation Ecosystems Tour was a prelude to the activities and programming taking shape for the MIT Hong Kong Innovation Node. MIT has since built out a Hong Kong-based team that has officially established a 5,000 sq.ft. physical space that fosters collaboration and making through its activities and regular programming.
The inaugural program of the Innovation Node was launched in June 2016 and has since evolved into its flagship program called the MIT Entrepreneurship and Maker Skills Integrator (MEMSI). This program brings together 15 MIT students with 15 students from universities throughout Hong Kong for a two-week immersive bootcamp. Embedding the Institute’s Mens et Manus principle of learning by doing, the curriculum features the Disciplined Entrepreneurship framework and advanced maker skills taught by MIT faculty and staff from the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship, Project Manus, and the MIT Hong Kong Innovation Node.
During MEMSI, learning takes place in a dynamic classroom environment, coupled with discussion and activities that leverage insights from thought leaders from the local innovation ecosystem convened for each session. Outside of the classroom, students experience China’s rapid prototyping and manufacturing capabilities first-hand over two days of factory visits in China.
Following successive iterations of MEMSI, the MIT Hong Kong Innovation Node has evolved the program for other learners in the form of a high school entrepreneurship program, and will soon be launching a sector-focused adaptation focused on FinTech. MIT Entrepreneurship and FinTech Integrator (MEFTI) will bring together university students from MIT and from Hong Kong to explore technological applications of FinTech to multiple industry verticals. This bootcamp includes a one-day immersion in Shenzhen to experience the digital economy.
Visit the Node’s events page to learn more about upcoming activities or connect with the team at hkinnovationnode@mit.edu
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__label__wiki | 0.61014 | 0.61014 | WEBINAR OVERVIEW Live Consumer Q&A: Gen Z Panel
Mobile08 May 2019by Chloe Rigby
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In a recent InternetRetailing webinar, Live Consumer Q&A: Gen Z Panel, we were joined by Martin Shaw of InternetRetailing’s research business RetailX, Rachel Tonner, head of marketing at Cybertill and a panel of five members of Generation Z, Daniel, Tracey, Michael, Cemil and Rach, to find out more about this generation’s attitudes to shopping, from mobile and loyalty to sustainability, omnichannel and in-store technology. Here’s a bulletpoint overview of what they said.
Introductions: members of the panel spoke about their latest shopping experience
Overview of Cybertill/YouGov research findings: among others, these included 36% want to buy through apps, and 33% fast track checkout.
Web traffic share: RetailX analysis of how customers visit marketplaces and leading retailers
Questions: do shoppers use mobile websites or apps? What could retailers do better? How do you see mobile use changing in the future?
Everyone had used both apps and mobile websites, but tended to use websites more often.
“Mobile apps tend to be set up better for mobile phones,” said one participant, but others said they’d had stock issues and payment issues using apps and preferred to shop from the mobile website. “I’d like more accurate recommendations,” said another panellist.
All said they’d probably use mobile more and more in the future.
Overview of Cybertill research findings, including the findings that 52% don’t shop enough for it to be worth being in a loyalty scheme, while 30% who are members of a loyalty scheme.
Questions: what loyalty schemes are the panellists members of, how do they use them, would they shop from a retailer if they weren’t in its loyalty scheme?
“More often than not, a lot of T-shirts don’t fit me, it depends on the brand, so free returns are important.” Panellists value free delivery above points.
Overview of Cybertill research findings, including that 31% of respondents wanted a donation station that would reward those who donate used clothing to be recycled, while 13% wanted a repair service for clothing they bought. “There is a growing movement among consumers to be more sustainable shoppers,” said Rachel Tonner, pointing to steps that government and retailers are taking on sustainable fashion.
Martin Shaw on trends in recommerce and reuse of goods. Recent RetailX Global Luxury Market report showed how there’s been growth in marketplaces that resell secondhand goods. Luxury brands are moving to bring those goods back onto their own platform and resell there. ”It’s a way of offering entry-level pricing to future brand-loyal customers.”
Question: Is it important to recycle clothing? What do panellists do with clothing they no longer wear? Will GenerationZ pay more for sustainable products?
“I keep my clothes” “I tend to put my designer T-shirts on eBay.” “Depending on condition put them in a charity bag or sell on a marketplace site.” Sixty:forty of the room said they didn’t mind if products were sustainable. Some said they would pay a certain amount more for sustainable goods. One panellist, a student, said he wouldn’t.
Overview of Cybertill research: “Omnichannel is the new normal – about online influencing sales, wherever they take place.” GenZ prefer to buy in store, with shopping a leisure activity: asked which ways they’d consider buying different items, 73% said they would buy clothes in store, 61% directly through a retailer online or via an app, and 52% through a marketplace. The findings looked at 10 categories from footwear and jewellery to furniture and toys.
Martin Shaw, RetailX, said that only a minority of the Top500 were online only, with 82 (16%) of the Top500 online only, and only 12 of the Top100. Many expanding their online stores, but pureplays extending their reach via stores. Most are multichannel, with half of those retailers enabling online functions such as enabling shoppers to return an ecommerce order to the store.
Questions: Do you use click and collect? Do you pay for it? What would make your ideal shopping scenario? How late should the latest delivery be? Would coffee shops in stores help?
Panel: “I use click and collect if I know I’m going to be near that store in the next couple of days, on the way to or from work.” “Would wait for free delivery over paid click and collect.” “Used to use it at university because deliveries to halls were harder.” “Same-day delivery would be ideal delivery option.” “I’d pay for evening deliveries because I work.” “Best time for latest delivery depends on what it is that they’re buying. Clothes need to come in time to go out same evening, homewares not so much.”
Instore technology
Cybertill findings: 44% want real-time stock availability, 32% said they would use self-service payment apps in store. Only 14% wanted technology that would recognise them as a customer.
What in-store technology have you used/would you use? What bit of tech do you see in the retail store of the future.
One panellist had visited a New York store where they could find stock and pay online, but staff were there to help. “The tech wasn’t a barrier but enabling staff to be more self-sufficient.” Another had paid using mobile point of sale. “I really liked it, it was in and out, and quick but still with a human reaction.” “If I could order the next item from a changing room, rather than having to queue again…” “The idea of shop and pay as I walk around, leave items, rather than carrying them all with me.” “Self-service in any shop.” “Want to see what a dress is like in another store, instant price comparisons in different stores.” “E-receipts"
To hear the panel discussion in full, to see the slides and hear all the questions, visit the IR webinars page and watch the Cybertill webinar again here. Download the Cybertill research here
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__label__wiki | 0.896862 | 0.896862 | Las Vegas Metal: The Nocturnal Affair is going on TOUR!!!!
by Annie · February 7, 2019
While Loudwire covers the “big dogs” of this tour The 69 Eyes let me give you all my take. From April through May 2019 this tour will consist of 26 dates across 20 states for a cross country US Tour of the ages. While we all know what a huge fan of Finnish rock and metal music I am (don’t even get me started on what Europe has to offer the music scene), let
me take a moment to shout out the “little guys”.
Supporting The 69 Eyes on this tour is none other than Las Vegas, NV locals The Nocturnal Affair. Over the last couple of years they’ve dialed back on the number of shows they’ve played to focus on writing and perfecting their craft under the management expertise of DevilDriver & Coal Chamber frontman Dez Fafara via Oracle Management . Only playing a few select shows to include the Homegrown Show put on by our local rock station Komp 92.3 FM .
While they went on a live gig break Vocalist Brendan Shane could still
be found out and about doing acoustic sets. Other members such as Guitarist Andy Ingram and bassist Michael James focused on other projects. Andy Ingram, also being the guitarist for another Vegas local band Bravo Delta, is by far one of the best guitarists in Vegas. The dude can shred.
Nocturnal just recently debuted their latest single “Into The Darkness” on February 1st as a prelude to the Tour Announcement.
This wont be the first time they’ve taken the big stage with well known bands. Among the
heavy hitters they have shared the stage with HELLYEAH, PopEvil, Black Stone Cherry , 3 Doors Down and more. Bringing their own sound to the stage to set them apart and make their mark in the music industry and with fans. Their music can make you feel like you are in a melancholic dream wondering around the ether and teetering on the edge of the void as it calls out.
April 17 — Pittsburgh, Penn. @ Crafthouse
April 18 — Joliet, Ill. @ The Forge
April 19 — Newport, Ky. @ Thompson House
April 20 — Memphis, Tenn. @ Growlers
April 22 — Kansas City, Mo. @ The Riot Room
April 23 — Denver, Colo. @ The Oriental Theater
April 24 — Salt Lake City, Utah @ Soundwell
April 26 — Seattle, Wash. @ El Corazon
April 27 — Portland, Ore. @ Hawthorne Theater
April 28 — Sacramento, Calif. @ Holy Diver
April 30 — San Francisco, Calif. @ DNA Lounge
May 01 — Los Angeles, Calif. @ Regent Theater
May 02 — San Diego, Calif. @ Brick By Brick
May 03 — Las Vegas, Nev.@ Count’s Vamp’d
May 04 — Mesa, Ariz. @ Club Red *
May 05 — Dallas, Texas @ Gas Monkey Live
May 07 — Austin, Texas @ Come And Take It Live
May 08 — Houston, Texas @ Warehouse Live
May 10 — West Palm, Fla. @ Respectables
May 11 — Tampa, Fla. @ The Orpheum
May 12 — Atlanta, Ga. @ The Masquerade (Hell)
May 14 — Baltimore, Md. @ Ottobar
May 15 — Amityville, N.Y. @ Revolution
May 16 — Brooklyn, N.Y. @ The Kingsland
May 17 — Providence, R.I. @ Fete Music Hall
May 18 — Philadelphia, Pa. @ The Trocadero **
*no MXMS
** no MXMS and The Nocturnal Affair
Want to learn more about the band? Want to follow them for more updates? Add their jams to your playlist? Check out their social media info below and ENJOY!
m.me/thenocturnalaffair
http://www.TheNocturnalAffair.com
@NoxAffair
@TheNocturnalAffair
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I Like Tony Rogers.
Introducing: Tiny Bit of Giant’s Blood!
By iliketonyrogers
After the death of Devin Arkin, my lifelong friend and songwriting / business / creative / everything partner in The Good, I felt like it was time to do something altogether different. The Good will likely perform some day, but we don’t have plans to create new material without Devin.
My new band is an entirely new animal. A wild animal. The indomitable John Scholvin (stellar and longtime lead guitarist of The Good) and I wanted to create something heavier, more aggressive, but also more over-the-top and more focused on a SHOW… with a consistent goal of making the viewer/listener feel a good few feet taller, and celebrating the kind of self confidence that is never earned but often necessary. Elements of glam and punk, baked into the kind of theatrical rock we love from bands like Queen in the 70’s. A four-piece with ambitious recordings but a stripped down live show made from guitar / bass / vocal / ridiculously powerful drums / six-foot letters made out of lights. And so Tiny Bit of Giant’s Blood was born.
We’ve been working on the material since the winter of 2016/17, and have this year added the remarkable Jackie Schimmel (Sunshine Boys, Justin Roberts) on bass, and the thundering Greg Fundis (Led Zeppelin 2, 56 Hope Road) on drums. We recorded a 5-song EP, available for purchase or free streaming here.
Tiny Bit of Giant’s Blood played our first show at Martyrs in Chicago, on December 13, 2018. If you were there, it’s possible that you became pregnant in the space of our epic 90 minute set. You’re welcome. Best way to keep current on what the band is doing is to visit, like and follow our Facebook page. See you soon!
I have a song on a freaking Sam Moore album.
Tiny Bit of Giant’s Blood @ Martyrs in Chicago, Dec 13, 2018
We Got Into a Submarine, or okay a cruise ship
The Being Where music video, a virtual Hollywood walk of fame.
Listen to / Download Tony’s music
Visit Tony's bandcamp page to check out the Sycamore album and tons of other music by Tony and his band The Good.
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__label__cc | 0.689452 | 0.310548 | Each year, the Arts & Faith community asks anew: what is happening at the intersection of faith and cinema?
These lists represent their annual conversations surrounding film. You can join the current conversation here.
The Top 25 Road Films
The best films about drifters, travelers, adventurers, and those living their lives on the road. Each of these stories reflects a fundamental desire for spiritual progress, epiphany, and grace.
The Top 25 Divine Comedies
G.K. Chesterton says, “A joke can be so big that it breaks the roof of the stars.... There is but one step from the ridiculous to the sublime.” Here are the best films exploring the space between the ridiculous and the sublime.
The Top 25 Horror Films
The definitive list of big-screen nightmares that raise and address vital questions about human nature, addiction, spiritual forces, death, and the afterlife.
The Top 25 Films on Memory
What is suggested over and over again by the films on this list is that the exploration of memory is, in and of itself, a kind of spiritual quest, a quest for transcendence or truth.
The Top 25 Films on Marriage
These films represent important responses to the challenge of marriage and portraying marriage, including the mysteries of love, mortality, loyalty, and human vows.
The Top 25 Films on Mercy
These films show us visions of a world so often lacking in mercy, as well as worlds in which one merciful act alters the landscape of human experience forever.
Reading the Eternities: The Top 100 Films
“Read not the Times, read the eternities,” Thoreau advised. If you want to explore eternal themes, check out these films. Each film provokes spiritual questions and kindles our deepest longings for all that is sacred and good. | cc/2019-30/en_middle_0017.json.gz/line1337 |
__label__wiki | 0.750554 | 0.750554 | Anderson Paak Quotes
Top 10 Anderson Paak Quotes
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American - Musician Born: February 8, 1986
Not everything is going to be handed to you just because you're talented with a big smile. Sometimes you just gotta get out and shoot jumpers for hours and hours and hours. That's something I didn't really get a grasp on until way later, waking up early and treating it like a job if you're serious about it. Get the freak up and, you know, work.
Smile Work You Job
My story as an artist has been about trial and error. It's been about artist development, character building, struggle, happiness and failure, family, and music.
Family Failure Happiness Music
I just want people to be affected by the music. I'm really affected by my surroundings and put everything in my music - what I'm not getting and what I desire. I want it to be uncompromised... almost a spiritual thing.
Music People Spiritual Want
The dot stands for 'detail' - always be paying attention to detail. I feel that people take you as serious as you take yourself. I spent a lot of time working on my craft, developing my style, and after I came out of my little incubation, I promised that I would pay attention to detail.
Yourself Time You Style
I tell people a lot of times, if you want to be a part of something, you never know, you kind of just have to be around. A lot of people don't really have the patience for it, and they don't stick around. Dre and I are still working together, and we have plenty of music for the future.
Patience Music Future You
I put a list together. It was like: Get health insurance, get a car, get a bigger apartment, travel more, get a record deal, get a publishing deal, sell 10,000 units, be a part of a No. 1 album, make a million dollars. I got to check off 90 percent of the stuff last year. I hit some serious landmarks in 2015.
Car Health Travel Together
I learned a lot from working with and watching Knxwledge, seeing how he produces non-stop. He doesn't dwell too long on stuff. He's very simple, using only about two or three elements. I like that in production. Sometimes it doesn't take more than three drums, a melody, the vocal, looping a sample or whatever, just as minimal as possible.
Simple Long Sometimes Three
I used to work with mentally disabled people when I was 18 or 19, changing diapers and catheters. I was working, like, 16 hour night shifts, having to distribute meds and go capture people who would break out of the house. Sometimes they'd have seizures, and we'd have to rush them to the hospital. That was an interesting time, very humbling.
Work Time People Night
Life got very good - we went from living in a one-bedroom apartment to a five-bedroom mansion by the time I was in high school. I had everything I wanted growing up, though all I wanted was music stuff - drums, a PC, turntables.
Life Good Music Time
I don't know many artists who've come out of Beverly Hills, y'know? You need that struggle.
You Struggle Know Need
A lot of Knxwledge's instrumentals just brought out this tone and swagger that I had played with before but had never really pinpointed before on my Anderson .Paak stuff. But then it just came so easily.
Never Just Out Swagger
Drumming is a real part of my live show, and I like to do it because so many people aren't expecting me to go and do it.
Me People Live Go
My mom had a produce business in in Oxnard, and we used to take these long trips to talk to farmers and different distributors. She'd take us with her after picking us up from school, and she'd be blasting all this old soul music and R&B. I knew all those O'Jays songs before I knew Snoop or Dre or Tupac.
Music Business Soul Mom
I didn't start playing drums until I was 12, for school band; they didn't have any saxophones left. My step-pops had a kit at the house, and I had never done anything that I understood so quick. It was so natural. It was the most fun and consistent thing in my life.
Life My Life School Fun
My wife was born in Korea, and we met in music college; she was there for vocal, and I was there for drums.
Music Wife College Born
I'm at my best when I'm talking about relationships, talking about women, talking about situations and stories.
Best Women Talking Relationships
My mom was born in Korea - Seoul, Korea, during the '50s, '51. She was abandoned; her and my uncle were abandoned. My grandfather was a Seabee and adopted my mom and my uncle, and brought them to Compton in the '50s. That's where she was raised.
Mom Uncle Born Grandfather
My mom eventually got out to Oxnard and started a produce company and was in the strawberry business. My pops was out of the picture by the time I was 7.
Time Business Mom Picture
I didn't always take myself that seriously. Image-wise, I was somewhat of a jokester.
Myself Always Seriously Take
If you grow up playing in church, it removes a lot of the boundaries that other musicians might have, growing up with sheet music or whatever.
Music You Church Grow
I grew up in Oxnard, CA, and I went to a church called St. Paul, where I was playing drums. My mom had a strawberry company. The whole town of Oxnard is basically built on produce, and more particularly, strawberries.
Mom Church More Company
I had a project called 'Cover Art,' which was the first project I did under the new name Anderson .Paak. I went through this process where I was recording new music for about six months straight.
Music Art Name Process
Growing up in a house where there was a lot of different musical influences - my mom listens to soul stuff and Top 40, my sisters would listen to hip-hop - and the church, I grew up listening to a lot of gospel stuff. So I think that plays a role in how I make music now because my music has a lot of range. I don't just do one thing.
Music Soul Mom Think
I think there's a void for some authentic soul music with an edge. I think there's some people who grew up with Motown and Stevie Wonder that still can appreciate Future, Drake, and all these different things, too, but there shouldn't be a void for those people, as well.
Music Future People Soul
If you're doing black music, you should have a core understanding of where that comes from, and the fundamentals - so you're not some bozo thinking you're doing something new.
Music You Black Thinking
There's quite a few artists that didn't pop off until they were a little older - Rick James being one.
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__label__wiki | 0.575312 | 0.575312 | Research ArticleNEUROIMMUNOLOGY
Conventional DCs sample and present myelin antigens in the healthy CNS and allow parenchymal T cell entry to initiate neuroinflammation
Sarah Mundt1,
Dunja Mrdjen1,*,†,
Sebastian G. Utz1,†,
Melanie Greter1,
Bettina Schreiner1,2 and
Burkhard Becher1,‡
1Institute of Experimental Immunology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
2Department of Neurology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
↵‡Corresponding author. Email: becher{at}immunology.uzh.ch
↵* Present address: Department of Pathology, Stanford University, San Francisco, CA, USA.
↵† These authors contributed equally to this work.
Science Immunology 25 Jan 2019:
Vol. 4, Issue 31, eaau8380
DOI: 10.1126/sciimmunol.aau8380
Sarah Mundt
Institute of Experimental Immunology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
ORCID record for Sarah Mundt
Dunja Mrdjen
ORCID record for Dunja Mrdjen
Sebastian G. Utz
ORCID record for Sebastian G. Utz
Melanie Greter
Bettina Schreiner
Institute of Experimental Immunology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.Department of Neurology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
ORCID record for Bettina Schreiner
Burkhard Becher
ORCID record for Burkhard Becher
For correspondence: becher@immunology.uzh.ch
Licensing myelin-reactive T cells
Multiple distinct populations of potential antigen-presenting cells (APCs) are interspersed among the different anatomical components of the brain, including microglia, B lymphocytes, macrophages, and dendritic cells (DCs). Mundt et al. investigated which steady-state APC types are responsible for displaying peptide fragments of myelin proteins to pathogenic CD4+ T cells with the capacity to initiate neuroinflammatory disorders such as human multiple sclerosis. Adoptive transfer of myelin-reactive CD4+ T cells to mice with conditional deletion of MHC class II molecules in specific brain APC subsets identified conventional DCs as the essential APCs enabling initiation of T cell–mediated immunopathology. The results of this study will assist in the precision targeting of immunotherapies aimed at restraining rogue T cells responsible for human neuroinflammatory diseases.
The central nervous system (CNS) is under close surveillance by immune cells, which mediate tissue homeostasis, protection, and repair. Conversely, in neuroinflammation, dysregulated leukocyte invasion into the CNS leads to immunopathology and neurological disability. To invade the brain parenchyma, autoimmune encephalitogenic T helper (TH) cells must encounter their cognate antigens (Ags) presented via local Ag-presenting cells (APCs). The precise identity of the APC that samples, processes, and presents CNS-derived Ags to autoaggressive T cells is unknown. Here, we used a combination of high-dimensional single-cell mapping and conditional MHC class II ablation across all CNS APCs to systematically interrogate each population for its ability to reactivate encephalitogenic TH cells in vivo. We found a population of conventional dendritic cells, but not border-associated macrophages or microglia, to be essential for licensing T cells to initiate neuroinflammation.
Multidirectional interactions between the central nervous system (CNS) and the immune system have a profound impact on brain protection and pathology. There is evidence that not only brain development and homeostasis but also social behavior, psychiatric disorders, and neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease are influenced by innate and adaptive immunity (1). Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a prototypical paradigm for pathological CNS-immune interactions, because CNS-invading autoaggressive T helper (TH) cells induce immunopathology, leading to demyelination, axonal loss, and brain atrophy (2). Even fully primed and activated encephalitogenic TH cells must encounter their cognate antigen (Ag) in the CNS to cross the basal lamina of the blood-brain barrier (BBB) and to infiltrate the parenchyma (3). This local reconfirmation of the correct Ag then also triggers an inflammatory cascade and the recruitment of monocytes, which, in turn, mediate CNS tissue damage (3). The reactivation of myelin-reactive TH cells outside but proximal to the parenchyma requires a CNS-resident population of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class II (MHCII)–expressing Ag-presenting cells (APCs), which have sampled myelin protein from oligodendrocytes and present its peptides within the homeostatic CNS.
Within the CNS parenchyma, microglia are the only resident leukocytes and therefore the most likely candidate to directly interact with invading T cells (4). Recently, high-dimensional cytometry and algorithm-guided analyses revealed an abundant and complex immune cell landscape of CNS-blood and CNS–cerebrospinal fluid interfaces, which includes border-associated macrophages (BAMs), monocyte-derived cells (MdCs), dendritic cells (DCs), lymphocytes, and even granulocytes (5–8).
The prototypical tool to study T cell–mediated neuroinflammation in vivo is experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE), which not only serves as the preclinical model for MS but also permits the investigation of T cell–APC interactions in general. Most EAE-based studies that identify CNS APCs have used bone marrow chimeric rodents, which—largely due to the irradiation-induced cytokine storm—suffer from the infiltration of the CNS by various immune cells and, therefore, do not allow the study of T cell–Ag encounters within the steady-state CNS (9). Likewise, active immunization with complete Freund’s adjuvant (CFA) also changes the CNS leukocyte landscape independent from the presence of auto-Ag (10). Complicating matters is the difficulty of distinguishing between CNS-resident and CNS-invading leukocytes because of overlapping phenotypes. We had previously presented data suggesting that CNS-associated DCs are the most potent APCs of the CNS (7). However, CD11c, which we had used to restrict MHCII expression to DCs, has been shown to not be specific to DCs, because microglia, BAMs, Ly6Chi, and Ly6Clow monocytes—which are all present in the steady-state CNS—can also express this marker (5, 11–13). Moreover, there is some evidence for APC function in BAMs, microglia, and other CNS-resident cells (14–16).
To systematically interrogate each potential CNS APC population for its capacity to effectively present myelin Ag to encephalitogenic TH cells, we took advantage of new in vivo genetic targeting and single-cell cytometry tools. We first performed mass cytometric [cytometry by time of flight (CyTOF)] analysis with subsequent high-dimensional data mining to identify and characterize all APCs of the steady-state brain. Conditional deletion of MHCII across CNS APCs in combination with adoptive transfer (AT) EAE allowed us to specifically investigate T cell reactivation in the CNS, independent of peripheral priming.
Multiple potential APCs are found in the steady-state CNS
To determine which cells of the CNS have the potential to present Ag, we scanned all CNS-associated leukocytes for MHCII expression in the steady-state brain. To be able to fully capture the complexity of CNS immune cells, we used our recently described workflow for the high-dimensional single-cell analysis by mass cytometry and computational data mining (5). Live, single cells were isolated from murine brains (C57BL/6), stained with metal-tagged antibodies, and acquired with a CyTOF analyzer. After preprocessing and manual gating of CD45+ MHCII+ cells (Fig. 1A), the data were visualized on a t-distributed stochastic neighbor embedding (t-SNE) map (17), and the cells were grouped into populations by Flow-Self Organizing Map (SOM)–guided clustering for an unbiased identification and overview of the major MHCII-expressing leukocyte populations in the CNS (5, 18, 19). We identified eight distinct APC populations by their specific expression profile (Fig. 1, B and C, and fig. S1A): BAMs (42%), CD172a+ conventional type 2 DCs (cDC2s) (25%), Ly6Cint MdCs (7%), mature B cells (10%), a microglia subpopulation (6%), CD24hi immature B cells (6%), CD11blo cDC1s (2%), and plasmacytoid DCs (pDCs) (1.5%) (Fig. 1D). MHCII expression on microglia, pDCs, and immature B cells was low compared with moderate MHCII levels on MdCs and B cells and high expression on BAMs and cDCs (Fig. 1E). CD86 expression was low on immature B cells, B cells, and microglia, was moderately expressed in BAMs, and was highest in pDCs and cDCs, whereas MdCs displayed an exceptionally activated phenotype with high co-inhibitory programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) expression (Fig. 1E).
Fig. 1 Identification of MHCII+ cells in the steady-state CNS.
(A) Immune cell populations from the whole steady-state brain (i.e., parenchyma, parenchymal vessels, intact choroid plexus, and the adhering leptomeninges) including the dura mater were analyzed by CyTOF. After gating on live singlets, MHCII+ CD45+ cells were exported as an FCS file using the FlowJo software. (B) The MHCII+ fraction of CNS immune cells was visualized using t-SNE and clustered using the FlowSOM algorithm in R (6907 total cells: max iterations = 5000, perplexity = 50, θ = 0.5). (C) Median relative expression of all panel markers. (D) Frequency of CD45+ (left graph) and MHCII+ cells (right graph) of FlowSOM clusters. (E) FlowSOM cell clusters were analyzed for MHCII, CD86, and PD-L1 expression intensity (after percentile normalization) and plotted as histograms for each cluster using R. Shown are pooled data from n = 3 mice.
Regarding the localization of MHCII-expressing cells across the CNS, we found immature B cells, pDCs, and MdCs to be abundant in the dura mater of the naïve CNS, whereas other brain compartments were almost devoid of these cell types (fig. S1B). In contrast to the inner layer of leptomeninges, the dura mater is not involved in lymphocyte trafficking into the CNS (20, 21). We therefore excluded the dura mater from further experiments and focused our analysis on cell types, which do not exclusively reside in this compartment.
Because of their strategic location at the interface of systemic circulation and the CNS parenchyma, brain endothelial cells were also considered as potential APCs (14). However, we failed to detect MHCII expression on CD31+ cells in the steady-state brain (fig. S1, C and D) or in active neuroinflammation (fig. S1E). We thus also excluded endothelial cells from further detailed interrogation.
Microglia are dispensable for T cell reactivation within the CNS
Microglia globally up-regulate MHCII during neuroinflammation, revealing their potential as APCs (fig. S2A) (5). In the steady state, however, the bulk of microglia (97 to 100%) did not express MHCII (fig. S2, A and B). The small subset of MHCII+ microglia occasionally detected in the brain of naïve mice expressed only low MHCII (Fig. 1, B, C, and E, and fig. S2B) (5). We recently described Sall1 as a microglial signature gene allowing microglia-specific manipulation (22). Using Sall1GFP reporter mice, we confirmed the identity of MHCII+ microglia, which we had identified by FlowSOM clustering (Fig. 1B and fig. S2B). Next, we crossed Sall1CreERT2 mice to Iabfl mice carrying a conditional loxP-flanked Iab allele (23) (Fig. 2A) to specifically delete MHCII in microglia (Fig. 2B) and to investigate the role of the small steady-state MHCII+ microglial subset on myelin Ag presentation to CNS-infiltrating T cells. Because of the small and varying numbers of MHCII-expressing microglia, the targeting efficiency of this system could not be determined in the naïve brain. MHCII expression of non-microglial APCs remained unchanged in Sall1CreERT2/+ Iabfl/fl mice (Fig. 2C).
Fig. 2 Microglial MHCII is dispensable for AT EAE.
(A) Sall1CreERT2 mice were crossed to Iabfl mice carrying floxed MHCII alleles. (B) Graphical abstract to illustrate the tamoxifen treatment strategy of Sall1Cre/+ Iabfl/fl mice. Cre+ animals and Cre− littermates were administered tamoxifen via oral gavage (three times on alternate days) to induce Cre recombinase expression in microglia. (C) MHCII targeting profile of whole steady-state brain APCs in Sall1CreERT2/+ Iabfl/fl and Sall1+/+ Iabfl/fl mice 1 week after tamoxifen treatment (for gating strategy, see fig. S2, C and D). The relative median fluorescence intensity (MFI) has been calculated by normalizing absolute MFIs of each cell population to the MFI of cDC2s (which do express the highest MHCII levels). The MFI of cDC2s of one mouse was set to 100%. Data are representative of one of two independent experiments (n > 7 mice per group). (D) EAE was induced by AT of encephalitogenic 2D2 cells into recipient mice. Data show individual maximal EAE score and number of mice with clinical EAE symptoms. (E to G) At the peak of disease, the CNS (whole brain and spinal cord pooled) was analyzed for inflammatory infiltrates (E) and MHCII targeting of APCs (F and G) by flow cytometry. (E) Infiltrating monocytes (Ly6C+, Ly6G−, CD11b+), neutrophils (Ly6Cint, Ly6G+, CD11b+), and CD4+ T cells (CD4+, CD11b−, CD11c−) were manually gated in FlowJo; absolute numbers (log10) per brain ± SEM are shown. (F) MHCII targeting profile (log10 MFI MHCII) in microglia and (G) other CNS-infiltrating and CNS-resident APCs at peak EAE (relative MFI) (manually gated in FlowJo without using MHCII for the gating). (D to G) Data are pooled from three independent experiments (n > 9 mice per group).
We adoptively transferred lymphocytes from actively immunized T cell receptor (TCR) transgenic 2D2 mice (24) into tamoxifen-treated Sall1CreERT2/+ Iabfl/fl and littermate controls (Fig. 2B). The TCR in 2D2 mice recognizes the myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein (MOG)35–55 peptide in the context of MHCII. We developed an AT EAE protocol omitting the irradiation of recipient mice (25), thereby preserving steady-state conditions of the CNS and the integrity of the BBB. Both Sall1CreERT2/+ Iabfl/fl mice and Sall1+/+ Iabfl/fl littermates developed EAE with similar kinetics, clinical scores (Fig. 2D), and inflammatory CNS infiltration (Fig. 2E). This is in line with a recent report by Wolf and colleagues (26), which, using a different targeting approach, also showed MHCII in microglia to have no function in T cell entry during EAE or demyelination. Activation-induced microglial MHCII expression was completely aborted in Sall1CreERT2/+ Iabfl/fl mice (Fig. 2F), whereas other cell types retained MHCII (Fig. 2G), confirming the specificity of Sall1CreERT2 for parenchymal microglia.
The Iab locus is hypersensitive to Cre-mediated targeting
Having excluded microglia as vital APCs in neuroinflammation, we next aimed to target non-microglial CNS-associated APCs (DCs, BAMs, and B cells). First, to delete MHCII expression in BAMs, we crossed the myeloid cell–specific Lyz2Cre mice to the Iabfl strain (fig. S2E) (27). In the steady-state brain of Lyz2Cre/+ Iabfl/fl mice, MHCII expression not only on Lyve1− BAMs (containing the MHCII+ BAM subset) (5) but also on other APCs, including cDC1s, cDC2s, and even B cells, was strongly diminished when compared with littermate controls (fig. S2G; gating strategy: fig. S2, C and D), indicative of promiscuous gene targeting outside the target populations. AT of encephalitogenic T cells into these Lyz2Cre/+ Iabfl/fl mice expectedly revealed protection from EAE (fig. S2G). We next used ItgaxCre/+ Iabfl/fl mice to specifically delete MHCII expression in CD11c-expressing APCs (28), namely, DCs in the steady-state CNS. However, similar to what we observed with the Lyz2Cre system, MHCII was deleted across the entire APC compartment of the steady-state brain (fig. S3H). In addition, the ItgaxCreEGFP/+ Iabfl/fl strain (29), which has been generated by a knock-in strategy to deliver a more faithful targeting pattern, resulted in an overreaching of the targeting frequency (fig. S3I). The same problem arose in Zbtb46Cre/+ Iabfl/fl mice, where Cre expression is directed by the Zbtb46 gene, a transcription factor reported to be exclusively expressed in cDCs and endothelial cells (fig. S3J) (30). These findings demonstrate that constitutive Cre-mediated targeting of Iab is unreliable in that it leads to almost complete ablation of MHCII expression across numerous cell types.
Deleting MHCII in CNS cDCs, but not macrophages, confers protection to AT EAE
To overcome the limitations of the hypersensitive Iab locus, we opted to test an inducible targeting system. Taking advantage of the differences in cell longevity, the Cx3cr1CreERT2 strain permits the specific targeting of CX3CR1+ macrophages (including BAMs and microglia), Ly6Clow monocytes, and DCs (8, 31) by inducing recombination at different time points (Fig. 3, A and B). We used two tamoxifen treatment protocols to differentially target CX3CR1+ MHCII+ cells: an “early” and a “continuous” regimen.
Fig. 3 cDCs, but not BAMs or microglia, are required for the reactivation of 2D2 CD4+ T cells in the CNS.
(A) Cx3cr1CreERT mice were crossed to Iabfl mice. (B) Cx3cr1CreERT2/+ Iabfl/fl (early) mice and Cx3cr1+/+ Iabfl/fl littermates received a short, early tamoxifen treatment via oral gavage (three times on alternate days) 4 weeks before AT EAE or steady-state CNS analysis. Tamoxifen treatment of Cx3cr1CreERT2/+ Iabfl/fl (cont.) and Cx3cr1+/+ Iabfl/fl littermates was initiated 1 week before induction of AT EAE or steady-state brain analysis and continued until the end of the experiment. (C) MHCII targeting profile in APCs of naïve Cx3cr1+/+ Iabfl/fl (white circles) and Cx3cr1CreERT2/+ Iabfl/fl mice (early: gray circles; cont.: red circles) from the whole steady-state brain. Data represent the MFI (±SEM) of MHCII of each manually gated (for gating strategy, see fig. S2, C and D) population and are representative of one of more than three independent experiments (total of n > 12 mice per group). (D) Encephalitogenic 2D2 cells were adoptively transferred, and the clinical outcome was compared between Cx3cr1CreERT2/+ Iabfl/fl mice (early, gray circles; cont., red circles) and Cx3cr1+/+ Iabfl/fl littermates (white circles) over time. Data represent the individual maximal EAE score and the number of mice with clinical EAE (pooled from three independent experiments with n > 14 mice per group); P < 0.0001, χ2 analysis. (E) At the peak of disease (days 12 to 14), the CNS (whole brain and spinal cord pooled) was analyzed for inflammatory infiltrates by flow cytometry. Infiltrating monocytes (Ly6C+, Ly6G−, CD11b+), neutrophils (Ly6Cint, Ly6G+, CD11b+), and CD4+ T cells (CD4+, CD11b−, CD11c−) were manually gated in FlowJo, and absolute numbers (log10) per brain ± SEM are shown. Data are representative of one of three independent experiments (total of n > 10 mice per group).
In the early treatment regimen, mice were exposed to tamoxifen 4 weeks before AT of encephalitogenic T cells [referred to as Cx3cr1CreERT2/+ Iabfl/fl (early)] (Fig. 3B) to target long-lived, self-maintaining CX3CR1+ cells, namely, microglia, and perivascular and meningeal BAMs in the CNS; short-lived DCs and monocytes are replaced over time and will not be targeted at the time point of AT (8, 31). Accordingly, MHCII expression was specifically reduced in BAMs (−89%) of the steady-state brain, whereas DCs, B cells, and other APCs retained MHCII expression (Fig. 3C; gating strategy: fig. S2, C and D). After AT of encephalitogenic T cells, Cx3cr1CreERT2/+ Iabfl/fl (early) mice and tamoxifen-treated littermates developed similar signs of EAE with comparable incidence, mean maximum score (Fig. 3D), and inflammatory CNS infiltration (Fig. 3E).
In the continuous treatment regimen, mice were exposed to tamoxifen 1 week before steady-state CNS analysis and treatment was continued during AT EAE [referred to as Cx3cr1CreERT2/+ Iabfl/fl (cont.)], to deplete MHCII expression across all CX3CR1+ cells, regardless of their ontogeny or lifespan. Accordingly, we observed that MHCII expression was abrogated not only in BAMs (−94%) but also in cDC1 cells (−65%) and cDC2 cells (−72%) (Fig. 3C; gating strategy: fig. S2, C and D). cDC1s and cDC2s display low-to-moderate CX3CR1 expression in the steady-state brain and are thus targeted with continuous tamoxifen treatment (fig. S3A). Continuous tamoxifen treatment resulted in markedly reduced clinical EAE symptoms in Cx3cr1CreERT2/+ Iabfl/fl (cont.) mice compared with tamoxifen-treated littermates (Fig. 3D), accompanied by reduced CNS infiltrates at the peak of EAE (Fig. 3E). Continuous tamoxifen treatment itself had no impact on the clinical outcome of AT EAE (fig. S3B). Microglia of Cx3cr1CreERT2/+ Iabfl/fl mice did not up-regulate MHCII expression during EAE, regardless of the treatment regimen, thus confirming the expected targeting of microglia with both strategies (fig. S3C). Together, differential targeting of CX3CR1-expressing cells in the CNS revealed that, in contrast to microglia and BAMs, cDCs are required for the reactivation of encephalitogenic T cells and the initiation of CNS infiltration and neuroinflammatory events in EAE.
Distinct subsets of DCs reside at CNS interfaces
Because of a lack of specific markers, traditional methods have thus far not allowed a thorough characterization of DCs in the steady-state CNS. We further characterized the CNS DCs by enriching for this rare cell population by fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS) from the steady-state brain and then categorized the cells using our mass cytometry workflow with a DC subset–focused antibody panel. Here, we confirmed the existence of three major populations: cDC1s, cDC2s, and pDCs. The vast majority of DCs were CD11b+ CD172a+ cDC2s (76%), as observed in other peripheral tissues (Fig. 4, A and B) (32). We also identified two distinct CD11blo cDC1 subpopulations, which differ with respect to XCR1, CD103, and CD205 expression. Last, Ly6C+, B220+, Siglec-H+ pDCs could be clustered into MHCIIint and MHCIIlow cells.
Fig. 4 CNS-associated cDC2s reside in the steady-state brain leptomeninges and reactivate 2D2 T cells in vitro.
(A) In-depth CyTOF analysis of DC subsets from pre-enriched whole-brain leukocytes (n = 20 naïve brains): DCs were identified and subset from the initial data, subjected to t-SNE dimensionality reduction (3509 total cells; max iterations = 750, perplexity = 200, θ = 0.5), and clustered into three main subsets using FlowSOM-guided clustering according to their marker expression. (B) Relative abundance of the DC subsets within total CNS DCs. (C) Representative immunofluorescence images of CD11c+ MHCII+ CD11b− cDC1s and CD11b+ cDC2s in the dura mater, leptomeninges, and choroid plexus of the steady-state brain (n ≥ 2 mice, ≥4 sections per mouse). Scale bar, 50 μm. A zoomed-in view is shown. (D) Brain compartments [leptomeninges, dura mater, choroid plexus, and parenchyma (hippocampus)] were dissected from n = 10 brains. Individual compartments were pooled and single cells were analyzed by flow cytometry followed by computational high-dimensional data analysis. After gating on live singlets, CD45+ cells were exported as an FCS file using the FlowJo software. Shown are pooled data from n = 10 mice, visualized using t-SNE and clustered using the FlowSOM algorithm in R (142,655 total cells; max iterations = 10000, perplexity = 50, θ = 0.5). Plots show FlowSOM clusters of leukocytes overlaid onto a t-SNE map of the combined dataset (left) or shown separately for each compartment as indicated. (E) Data show frequencies of cDC1s, cDC2s, and pDCs of total DCs (left graph) or CD45+ cells (right graph) as determined by FlowSOM clustering. (F) DCs (CD11chi, MHCII+, B220−, MerTK−), BAMs (MerTK+, CD11b+, CD45hi, MHCII+), microglia (MerTK+, CD45lo, CD11b+), and B cells (CD11b−, B220+, CD11c−, MHCII+) were isolated from pooled whole steady-state brains of 20 to 25 C57BL/6 mice and incubated with in vivo activated encephalitogenic 2D2 cells in the presence [2000:55,000 (APC:T cell); upper graph] or absence [11,000:55,000 (APC:T cell); lower graph] of MOG35–55 peptide for 72 hours. IFN-γ production was measured by ELISPOT assay. Data represent the mean ± SD cytokine activity of IFN-γ from technical duplicates and are representative of one of two independent experiments.
Despite their critical role in T cell reactivation, cDCs are sparsely distributed in the steady-state CNS. Using immunohistochemistry, we localized CD11c+ MHCII+ cells [which almost exclusively consist of DCs in the steady-state brain (fig. S4B)] primarily in the leptomeninges and dura mater with fewer cells in the choroid plexus (Fig. 4C), whereas DCs were largely absent from the perivascular spaces, confirming previous observations (5–7). Early T cell encounters with brain-derived Ags specifically occur in the parenchyma surrounding leptomeningeal spaces (consisting of the pia and arachnoid mater), highlighting the strategic localization of DCs to reactivate CNS-infiltrating T cells (15, 20). We confirmed that DCs in the leptomeninges and dura mater consisted mainly of CD11b+ cDC2s, whereas CD11b− cDC1s were the dominant DC subset in the choroid plexus (Fig. 4C). To quantify the relative distribution of cDCs across different CNS compartments, we physically separated the dura mater, leptomeninges, choroid plexus, and parenchyma/perivascular spaces and analyzed the subset composition of each compartment using flow cytometry. This approach is only an approximation because of potential cross-contamination of different brain compartments (mainly of the leptomeninges with parenchymal tissue) and because it is not possible to isolate the complete leptomeninges of adult mice. However, using algorithm-guided clustering (FlowSOM), we found that cDC2s make up to 80% of brain DCs in the dura mater, the pia mater, and the parenchyma/perivascular spaces (here, we only found very low numbers of CD11c MHCII+ DCs). In contrast, the choroid plexus revealed a dominant presence of the cDC1 subset (Fig. 4D and fig. S4C). This was also confirmed using a manual gating strategy to quantify cDC1 and cDC2 cells (fig. S4D). Together with the rarity of cDC1 cells, that Batf3−/− mice, which lack cDC1s in the CNS (fig. S4, E and F), were fully susceptible to transfer EAE, provides an additional argument against a role of cDC1s in the reactivation process of encephalitogenic CD4+ T cells.
cDCs process and present myelin Ag to infiltrating T cells
Last, to independently compare the ability of CNS APCs to reactivate infiltrating MOG35–55-specific T cells in vitro, we sorted cDCs, BAMs, B cells, and microglia from the steady-state brain of adult C57BL/6 mice (fig. S4G) and incubated them with in vivo–primed 2D2 CD4+ T cells in the presence or absence of MOG35–55 peptide. In the presence of exogenous peptide, cDCs induced the strongest activation of T cells in terms of interferon-γ (IFN-γ) expression as measured by enzyme-linked immunospot (ELISPOT) assay (Fig. 4F). The second most potent APCs were BAMs, whereas B cells and microglia failed to induce IFN-γ production in primed 2D2 cells. We observed that DCs could reactivate myelin-specific 2D2 T cells even in the absence of exogenous peptide (Fig. 4F). No other APC was able to reactivate primed CD4+ T cells without the addition of MOG35–55 peptide in vitro. These findings demonstrate that CNS cDCs actively process and present endogenous MOG protein in the steady-state CNS and confirm their superior Ag presentation capacity compared with other APCs (6).
Active communication between the CNS and the immune system has a profound impact on tissue maintenance and pathology. Yet, even already primed TH cells are relatively innocuous when they do not reencounter their cognate Ag in the respective target tissues. The nature and origin of the APCs required to reactivate CNS-specific, encephalitogenic TH cells has been heavily disputed because the strong overlap in CNS-associated myeloid cell phenotypes has hindered deciphering their individual contributions in this critical process (7, 15, 33–35). We here present a precise categorization of MHCII-expressing cells in the steady-state CNS and a systematic study of their individual ability to elicit inflammatory immune responses in the CNS.
EAE has served for decades as a model for autoimmunity, cellular immune activation, T cell–APC interactions, and cytokine networks in inflammation (36). The AT EAE model resembles several aspects of MS, as it mimics immune infiltration into the healthy CNS in the absence of systemic inflammation. Because the transient contact between adoptively transferred encephalitogenic T cells with stromal cells in the periphery is MHCII independent (7, 37), our investigation of the MHCII-dependent T cell reactivation could be restricted to the CNS, rather than other peripheral organs. Crossing the endothelial cell barrier from the vessel lumen to the meninges by encephalitogenic T cells occurs in an Ag-independent manner (20, 37), whereas the presentation of myelin epitopes by CNS APCs in the leptomeningeal space is required for their entry into the CNS parenchyma and for the initiation of disease (20).
Astrocytes, pericytes, and endothelial cells have been suggested as possible APCs in the CNS (14). In the non-inflamed brain, however, most cell types (particularly non-immune cells) do not express MHCII or costimulatory molecules and are therefore unlikely to be responsible for the initial reactivation of encephalitogenic T cells. In addition, microglia, the only leukocytes of the steady-state brain parenchyma, have been implicated to promote the pathogenesis of EAE (38). We identified a minor MHCII+ microglial cell population (up to 3% of total microglia) in the steady-state CNS. However, although microglia have the capacity to process and present exogenous Ag onto MHCII molecules in principle, their anatomical location is distant from the CNS interfaces, where T cells make initial contact with the brain. Using Sall1CreERT2/+ and Cx3cr1CreERT2/+ Iabfl/fl mice, we confirmed that microglia do not have an essential role in initial T cell reactivation in AT EAE (7, 26).
Considering the relative abundance of bona fide MHCII-expressing cells in the steady-state CNS interfaces (pia mater, choroid plexus, and perivascular spaces) implicated in T cell reactivation (15, 20, 21), we considered BAMs, cDCs, and B cells as the main candidate APCs to reactivate T cells in EAE. In MS, B cells recently have been shown to induce autoproliferation in brain-homing T cells in an human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-DR–dependent manner (39); however, for the reactivation of CNS-infiltrating encephalitogenic T cells in the MOG35–55-dependent EAE model, they appear to be entirely dispensable (40). We here confirmed that even with external MOG35–55 loading, CNS-associated B cells are relatively poor APCs to myelin-specific T cells. The most hotly debated CNS APCs are BAMs and DCs (7, 15, 41–43). Similar to microglia, most CNS BAMs are embryonically derived cells (4, 8), and we found that most of those cells do not express MHCII in the steady-state brain (5). However, others have observed that macrophage depletion in EAE can reduce clinical progression by blocking parenchymal T cell invasion (41). BAMs are strategically located at CNS-immune interfaces (5, 8, 15) as ideal candidates to present Ag to incoming T cells. However, “meningeal macrophages,” as described by Schläger et al. (15), were so named on the basis of their morphology and ability to take up dextran molecules. We found morphology alone not to allow the unambiguous discrimination of BAMs from other members of the mononuclear phagocyte system, most notably cDCs (5). Compared with CNS BAMs, DCs are a very rare population and, as such, have often evaded detection in the steady-state CNS. It is likely that the steady state function of these rare CNS DCs is tolerance maintenance. Global CD11c+ cell depletion was shown to exacerbate the clinical outcome of actively induced EAE (34, 44).
In contrast, tolerance is bypassed in AT EAE by the infusion of primed, encephalitogenic T cells, which, in turn, must encounter their cognate neuro-Ag in the tissue. The threshold for reactivation of already primed T cells is much lower, and the cognate TCR/MHCII peptide encounter is dominant (45). AT of encephalitogenic T cells into DC-depleted recipients failed to trigger disease (33, 46). Moreover, DCs have been proposed previously to be sufficient to reactivate CNS-infiltrating T cells when MHCII expression was confined to CD11c+ cells (7). However, in vivo cell depletion often results in collateral inflammation and alteration of tissue homeostasis because other cells often invade the empty cellular niche (47). In addition, CD11c can no longer be considered a DC-specific marker (11–13, 38). Hence, a more systematic interrogation of APC capacity across the CNS-leukocyte landscape was necessary.
New insights into the differences between brain-associated myeloid cells in terms of ontogeny and longevity made it possible for us to exploit the Cx3cr1CreERT2/+ Iabfl/fl system to differentially target MHCII+ expression in macrophages and DCs by using different tamoxifen treatment regimens. Using this strategy, we revealed that cDCs, but not embryonically derived BAMs and microglia, are required for initial T cell reactivation and parenchymal infiltration. Furthermore, we showed that cDCs isolated from the CNS of naïve C57BL/6 mice are superior in presenting MOG35–55 Ag to TCR transgenic primed 2D2 cells when compared with microglia, B cells, or MHCII+ BAMs. We also found clear evidence for myelin sampling, processing, and presentation by CNS cDCs, when freshly isolated CNS cDCs were capable of triggering specific T cell reactivation even in the absence of pulsed peptides. In line with in vivo imaging data in rodent EAE models, there is mounting evidence to support that meningeal inflammation precedes the clinical manifestation of MS (48, 49). Whereas the choroid plexus is mainly home to CD11b− cDC1s, the cDC2 subset is enriched in the CNS meninges (5–7, 33). Most of the initial CNS-invading T cells accumulate in the leptomeninges rather than the choroid plexus (15, 20). This is in line with the view that cDC2 cells, which are found in the leptomeninges and not in the choroid plexus, are the main facilitators of early T cell entry into the CNS.
In summary, our data demonstrate that parenchymal microglia do not serve as early APCs to myelin Ag–restricted T cells. Further, despite their relative abundance and ideal location at the CNS-immune interface, BAMs are unable to process and present myelin Ag to arriving T cells. By contrast, and despite their scarcity, CNS-associated cDCs, in particular the leptomeningeal-associated cDC2 subset, are exquisite and powerful APCs and the only bridging cellular element that can permit effective T cell–CNS interactions.
This study aimed at identifying and characterizing CNS-resident APCs in the steady state and their ability to sample myelin Ag for presentation to T cells. For this, we used a combination of multiparametric single-cell mass cytometry and algorithm-guided computational analysis. To then interrogate the ability of different CNS APC populations to engage with the first-arriving encephalitogenic T cells, we used Cre-loxP–mediated MHCII ablation during AT EAE in vivo.
2D2 TCR transgenic mice [C57BL/6-Tg(Tcra2D2,Tcrb2D2)1Kuch/J; #006912] (24), Lyz2Cre mice [B6.129P2-Lyz2tm1(Cre)Ifo/J; #004781] (27), ItgaxCre mice [B6.Cg-Tg(Itgax-Cre)1-1Reiz/J; #008068] (28), ItgaxCreEGFP mice [C57BL/6 J-Tg(Itgax-Cre,-EGFP)4097Ach/J; #007567] (29), Zbtb46Cre mice [B6.Cg-Zbtb46tm3.1(Cre)Mnz/J; #028538] (30), Iabfl mice (B6.129X1-H2-Ab1tm1Koni/J; #013181) (23), and Batf3−/− mice [B6.129S(C)-Batf3tm1Kmm/J; #013755] (50) were purchased from the Jackson Laboratory. Cx3cr1CreERT2 mice [B6.129P2(C)-Cx3cr1tm2.1 (Cre/ERT2)Jung/J; #020940] (31) were provided by S. Jung (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel), and Sall1CreERT2 and Sall1GFP mice (51) were provided by R. Nishinakamura (Kumamoto University, Japan). Transgenic mice were bred in house, and C57BL/6 mice were purchased from Janvier. Age- and sex-matched (male and female) 6- to 12-week-old mice were used for all experiments. All experiments performed in this study were approved by the Swiss Veterinary Office and performed according to federal and institutional guidelines.
Tamoxifen treatment
Tamoxifen (Sigma) was dissolved in ethanol and corn oil (1:9) to 25 mg/ml and administered in 200-μl doses via oral gavage (5 mg per dose).
Adoptive transfer EAE
Donor mice (2D2) were immunized with 200 μg of MOG35–55 emulsified in CFA and treated with 200 ng of pertussis toxin (intraperitoneally) on the day of immunization and again 2 days later. After 9 days, splenocytes and lymph node (inguinal, axillary, and brachial) cells were cultured in complete RPMI (10% fetal calf serum, penicillin/streptomycin, and β-mercaptoethanol) containing MOG35–55 (20 μg/ml; GenScript), recombinant IL-23:Fc fusion protein (10 ng/ml; ACROBiosystems), and anti–IFN-γ (5 μg/ml; R4-6A2; BioExpress) at a density of 6 × 106 to 8 × 106 cells/ml for 72 hours. To induce EAE, we injected (intraperitoneally) up to 20 × 106 cells into recipient mice.
Tissue preparation and single-cell suspension
In brief, tissues (whole brain and spinal cord) were cut into small pieces and incubated with collagenase type IV (0.4 mg/ml) and deoxyribonuclease I (DNase I) (0.2 mg/ml) (Sigma-Aldrich) for 30 to 40 min and passed through a 19-gauge needle to obtain a homogeneous single-cell suspension. CNS cell suspensions were further enriched by Percoll gradient (30%) centrifugation (1590g, 4°C, 30 min, no brake).
Individual brain compartments—including leptomeninges, dura mater, choroid plexus, and parenchyma (hippocampus without leptomeninges or choroid plexus)—were microdissected. The dura mater was removed from the skull after cortex removal. The leptomeninges was partially removed from the cortex by starting at the olfactory bulb and gently peeling off the soft meningeal layer. The choroid plexus was dissected from the fourth ventricle by separating the cerebellum from the cerebral cortex. Next, the two cerebral hemispheres were gently separated, and the choroid plexus from the lateral ventricles and the third ventricle was harvested. To exclude contamination of residual leptomeninges on the surface of the cortex, we dissected the hippocampus from both hemispheres after the choroid plexus was removed. The hippocampus was used as a control for the parenchyma and perivascular spaces because it only harbors blood vessels without contamination by leptomeninges or choroid plexus. All brain compartments were separately subjected to collagenase type IV/DNase I digestion (see above). CNS leukocytes from the parenchymal hippocampus samples were further enriched by Percoll gradient centrifugation (see above).
Flow cytometry was performed on an LSRII Fortessa (Becton Dickinson) and analyzed with FlowJo software (Tree Star). Fluorochrome-conjugated monoclonal antibodies specific for mouse MHCII I-A/I-E (clone M5/114.15.2), CD11b (clone M1/70), CD11c (clone N418), CD45 (clone 30-F11), CD24 (clone M1/69), Ly6G (clone 1A8), Ly6C (clone HK1.4), F4/80 (clone CI:A3-1), CX3CR1 (clone SA011F11), MerTK (DS5MMER), CD4 (clone GK1.5), Flt3 (clone A2F10), CD31 (clone 390), Lyve1 (clone ALY7), XCR1 (clone ZET), B220 (clone RA3-6B2), GR-1 (clone RB6-8C5), and CD206 (C068C2) were purchased from either BD Biosciences, eBioscience, or BioLegend. Dead cells were excluded using a LIVE/DEAD stain kit (Invitrogen), and doublets were excluded by FCS-H versus FSC-A in FlowJo.
Ex vivo Ag presentation assay
DCs (CD11chigh, MerTK−, MHCIIhi), MHCII+ BAMs (MerTK+, CD11b+, MHCII+), microglia (MerTK+, CD45low, CD11b+), and B cells (B220+, MHCII+) were sorted by FACS and incubated with activated (day 9 active EAE) magnetically sorted (negative selection, CD4+ T Cell Isolation Kit from Miltenyi Biotec) 2D2 CD4+ T cells in the presence or absence of MOG35–55 peptide (20 μg/ml) at 37°C for 72 hours. Cells were analyzed for IFN-γ expression by ELISPOT (Abcam).
Mass cytometry
Mass cytometry experiments were performed exactly as recently described (5). Mass cytometry antibodies were either labeled in-house using antibody-labeling kits and protocols or purchased from Fluidigm. Antibodies were individually titrated and optimized for the final panel before use to ensure that each parameter was informative. For MHCII+ population identification, data were taken from Mrdjen et al. (5). Here, five palladium metal isotopes were used for live cell barcoding of samples with CD45 while keeping CD45-147Sm as a common channel to identify cells expressing varying degrees of CD45, such as microglia (5). Briefly, cells from individual naïve adult C57BL/6 brains were incubated with respective CD45-Pd + CD45-147Sm antibodies in phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) for 30 min at 37°C, after which they were washed twice with FACS buffer (PBS supplemented with 0.5% bovine serum albumin) and then combined into composite samples. For DC subset analysis, we used a DC-focused antibody panel with additional DC markers. Here, brain samples were prepared as described and pooled without barcoding. After pooling, cells were enriched by FACS to remove the majority of non-DC populations. Cells were stained with the cocktail of primary CyTOF antibodies for 30 min at 37°C, washed with FACS buffer, and then incubated with secondary antibodies for 20 min at 4°C. After washing, samples were incubated with intercalating solution (iridium from Sigma) in Maxpar Fix/Perm buffer (Fluidigm) overnight at 4°C. Before acquisition, the samples were washed twice with FACS buffer and once with Milli-Q water. Barcoded composite samples were acquired on a Helios mass cytometer (Fluidigm). Quality control and tuning processes on the Helios were performed by routine before acquisition.
Preprocessing of mass and flow cytometry data
Cytometry data were processed as previously described (5, 18). Mass cytometry data were normalized to EQ Four Element Beads (Fluidigm), and live cells were exported by gating on event_length, DNA (191Ir and 193Ir positive), and live cells (195Pt negative) using FlowJo software (Tree Star). For the barcoded samples, debarcoding was achieved by Boolean gating in FlowJo. After quality control for each channel, the debarcoded gates or complete pooled sample FCS files were imported into the R environment and transformed using an inverse hyperbolic sine (arcsinh) function with a cofactor of 5.
For flow cytometry data, after compensation correction in FlowJo, live, single, quality-controlled, and compensated cells were exported by manual gating. The appropriate transformation cofactors were determined by uploading the files into Cytobank (www.cytobank.org) and using the Scales feature; thereafter, transformation was carried out in MATLAB, and transformed files were imported into the R environment for further preprocessing and analysis. To equalize the contribution of each marker in subsequent automated data analysis steps of both mass and flow cytometry data, we performed percentile normalization, normalizing all data to the 99.9th percentile of the merged sample in each experiment, depending on the number of outliers present. This process preserves biologically relevant differences in expression values (staining indices) but normalizes intermarker maximum and minimum expression values from 0 to 1.
Automated population identification in high-dimensional data analysis
Preprocessing of the raw data was followed by dimensionality reduction and visualization by t-SNE (17). Initial clustering and meta-clustering with FlowSOM (19) was followed by expert-guided manual merging of some of the metaclusters using the information from the t-SNE with overlaid marker expression values and a heatmap of median expression values (18).
For clinical scores over time, influence on MHCII expression in different cell populations, or analysis of CNS infiltration of different cell types between different groups, differences were evaluated by two-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) with Bonferroni’s post hoc test, Tukey’s or Sidak’s multiple comparisons. Differences for one parameter were evaluated by one-way ANOVA with Bonferroni’s post hoc test when comparing more than two groups and by the two-tailed Student’s t test when comparing two groups (unpaired t test with Welch’s correction when the two samples have unequal variances and unequal sample sizes). χ2 test was applied to compare incidence of EAE. P values of less than 0.05 were considered statistically significant, with *P ≤ 0.05, **P ≤ 0.01, and ***P ≤ 0.001.
After transcardiac perfusion of mice with PBS and 4% (w/v) paraformaldehyde (PFA) in 0.1 M phosphate buffer (pH 7.4), CNS tissue was postfixed overnight at 4°C, followed by cryoprotection with 30% (w/v) sucrose in PBS. Sections were cut at 14 μm and mounted on slides, or free-floating sections were cut at a thickness of 30 μm using a Hyrax C60 cryostat (Zeiss). CNS tissue sections were permeabilized by incubation in blocking solution (PBS supplemented with 0.1% Triton X-100 and 4% normal goat serum) for 30 min to 1 hour at room temperature. Subsequently, sections were incubated with the following primary antibodies (diluted in blocking solution) for 24 to 72 hours at 4°C: anti–GLUT-1 (1:500; Millipore), anti-Iba1 (1:500; Wako), anti-MHCII (1:200; BioLegend), anti-CD206 (1:100; BioLegend), anti-CD11c (1:40; BioLegend), and anti-CD11b (1:50; BioLegend). After washing, samples were incubated either at 4°C overnight or at room temperature for 1 to 2 hours with the respective Alexa Fluor–conjugated secondary antibodies (1:500; Life Technologies). Counterstaining was performed using SlowFade Gold antifade reagent with 4′,6-diamidino-2-phenylindole (DAPI) (Invitrogen). Fluorescence photomicrographs were captured with a confocal laser scanning microscope (SP5; Leica, Heerbrugg, Switzerland) equipped with argon and helium lasers using a 40× objective (oil immersion; numerical aperture, 1.25). Images were processed and merged using Imaris imaging software (Bitplane, Zurich, Switzerland).
Histopathological analysis of EAE tissue
LFB (Luxol fast blue)–PAS (periodic acid–Schiff) stainings were done according to standard protocols on 4% PFA-fixed, decalcified paraffin-embedded 6-μm-thick tissue sections. We analyzed EAE histopathology on cross sections (four to six per mouse) of lumbar spinal cords and recorded digital images of tissue sections with a light microscope (Olympus BX41). Total demyelinated area of LFB- and PAS-stained sections was measured by Fiji/ImageJ version 1.46j software (National Institutes of Health), and the area of demyelination was calculated as the percentage of the whole area of white matter within a given section.
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Fig. S1. Identification of MHCII+ cells in the steady-state CNS.
Fig. S2. Microglial MHCII is dispensable for AT EAE.
Fig. S3. cDCs, but not BAMs or microglia, are required for the reactivation of 2D2 CD4+ T cells in the CNS.
Fig. S4. Different DC subsets reside at the steady-state brain interfaces and present myelin Ag to CD4+ 2D2 T cells.
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Goyal’s penchant for control, according to people who have worked with him, has emerged as a major obstacle as the airline tries to negotiate a rescue deal, Reuters reported last month.
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Even so, Etihad’s stake will be capped at 49 percent given foreign ownership rules in Indian airlines.
Once its stake goes past 25 percent, under the country’s capital markets regulations, Etihad will have to make an open offer to shareholders for a majority of the shares, unless it obtains a rare exemption from the market regulator.
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Last week, Reuters reported that crisis talks between Jet and aircraft lessors had failed to ease the row over late payments, prompting some lessors to explore repossessing their aircraft.
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China’s anti-corruption watchdog said on Saturday that it had uncovered evidence of graft at China Petrochemical Corp (Sinopec Group), warning the state-owned oil giant to take strong action to eradicate kickbacks, nepotism and theft.
Sinopec, the parent company of China Petroleum & Chemical Corp , must take steps to stop “power-for-money dealings” and prevent the loss of state assets, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) said.
Some executives are suspected of corruption in areas of project construction, supply, sales, joint-ventures, and overseas operations, the agency said in a statement on its website (http://www.ccdi.gov.cn/).
It also said businesses set up by families and relatives of managers have profited from their connections.
The statement quoted Sinopec Chairman Fu Chengyu pledging to “take real and tough actions and severely punish corruption”.
China has stepped up inspections, focusing on strategic firms, as it prepares to carry out its most ambitious reform of state-run industrial conglomerates in nearly two decades.
President Xi Jinping has warned that corruption is a threat to the Communist Party’s survival and has vowed to go after powerful “tigers” as well as lowly “flies”.
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Nepal takes on arguably the strongest side of the pool Myanmar during their second Group ‘E’ match of the AFC U-16 Women’s Championship Qualifier at the APF Ground in Halchowk, Kathmandu, on Friday.
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The two teams are in contrasting position considering the outcome of their first match—Nepal lost 4-0 to Philippines while Myanmar crushed Malaysia 3-0 on Wednesday. A win over Myanmar will keep alive Nepal’s qualification hopes alive while a defeat will all but end their chances to making it to the Finals. Unlike Nepal, victory will confirm Myanmar’s place in the Finals to be played next year in Thailand.
Only the top two teams in the four-team qualifying group will earn tickets to the Finals. Myanmar, who beat Philippines 7-1 and Malaysia 2-1 in the AFF Cup on May 1-13 in Indonesia and eventually finished runners up, are arguably the favourites to progress into the Finals.
Despite suffering a drubbing in the first match, Nepal still harbour hopes of qualifying and coach Ganga Gurung said her team will give its best to beat Myanmar.”We will come up with changed strategy against Myanmar,” said Gurung who also attributed that her side does not have any option other than to beat Myanmar to keep intact their hopes for next rounds. “We will play for win in order to chase our dream of making it to the Finals. If everyone play to their full potential it is not impossible to beat them,” she said.
Myanmar will also be looking to confirm their place in the final with a match in hand and will go for a win against the hosts. “We have been preparing for this Qualifiers for the last five months and our aim is to qualify for the finals,” Myanmar’s head coach San San Thein had said ahead of their opening match on Tuesday.
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NORTH PALM BEACH, Fla. – Kayla and her brothers are sorting through dozens of DVD movies for kids. Kayla will be donating them to South Florida hospitals. She was inspired by her youngest brother Ethan, who has health problems, including juvenile rheumatoid arthritis.”My brother he’s been through surgeries and he’s been to the hospital a million times and since and he’s really inspired me and lifted my spirits up,” Kayla says.
Kayla noticed when Ethan and the other children were in the hospital, they got bored with the few movies that were available for them to watch. A month ago, she started Kayla Cares 4 Kids. “It will help them pass the time instead of just doing nothing, ” she says.
How many DVDs has Kayla collected so far? Would you believe over 700 of them which will be going to children in area hospitals. “I am super psyched and I can’t wait to get even more, ” she says.
The Palm Beach Gardens Elementary student is getting support from area businesses that have drop boxes to collect the DVDs. Even local politicians like Representative Patrick Rooney and Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater are hearing about Kayla’s mission.
“It will make them happier to have a bunch of DVD’s’, I would be overjoyed, ” says Kayla.
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Letter #28: To John Hamilton Reynolds, 21 September 1817
Lots of things of interest in this letter to Reynolds, all of which has been preserved in a transcript by Richard Woodhouse (unlike the earlier September letter to Reynolds from which we have only his comical verses on Oxford). Keats jokes about one of his favorite topics for comedy: debt. Faithful KLP readers will recall two earlier letters from 1817 which feature a primary focus on money issues: the 16 May letter to Taylor and Hessey, which we had illuminated for us by Alex Dick, and the 10 June letter to Taylor and Hessey, plumbed to its depths by David Sigler. Well, Keats keeps on honing his burgeoning stand-up routine on 19th-century money problems, starting off his letter to Reynolds with gems like “as I say to my Taylor send me Bills and I’ll never employ you more.” And there’s this amazing passage preceding that one-liner, which we feel compelled to quote in full:
So you are determined to be my mortal foe–draw a Sword at me, and I will forgive–Put a Bullet in my Brain, and I will shake it out as a dewdrop from the Lion’s Mane;–put me on a Gridiron and I will fry with great complancency–but, oh horror! to come upon me in the shape of a Dun!
Ah, good times. The KLP generally takes the position that if there is a chance Keats might be making a pun, then he’s definitely making a pun. So although the misspelling of “complacency” as “complancency” might be an error on the part of the transcriber and not Keats’s own, we choose to accept that Keats was indeed making a purposeful misspelling in order to lodge the sound of “complain” in “complacency,” thereby creating a new word, which really ought to exist in English, in order to name the phenomenon when someone claims to feel complacent about a situation while constantly (and perhaps passive aggressively) complaining about the very same situation. Even if you’re not convinced that Keats is punning, the image of frying with great complacency is quite lovely.
All that silly stuff aside, what this letter is perhaps best known for is one of Keats’s most forceful negative comments about women (describing the Bluestockings as “a set of Devils”), followed by his appreciation of the poetry of Katherine Philips. For a response to today’s letter, Rachel Schulkins offers a nuanced reading of Keats’s denouncing of the Bluestockings and the seemingly contradictory move of then expressing appreciation for Philips’s accomplishments. In Schulkins’s treatment, the two moments are less contradictory than they may at first seem.
For a public domain edition in which to read today’s letter, we direct you again to Harry Buxton Forman’s 1895 one-volume collection of the letters. Also below are the images of Woodhouse’s transcript, courtesy once again of Harvard’s Houghton Library. Ah, but one other thing before we go! At the end of Keats’s letter, he writes “I have left the doublings for Bailey.” The “doublings” refer to the spaces on the top and bottom of the back side of the letter’s second leaf, where the paper was folded (creating a doubling) to conceal the text written on it and turn the paper into its own little envelope with blank space (in between the doublings) for writing an address (if that all sounds confusing, just go back and look at the letter to Jane Reynolds from last time). Anyway, the final image below shows what Bailey wrote on the doublings. Thanks to Woodhouse for transcribing that bit too!
Page 1 of Keats’s 21 September 1817 letter to Reynolds. Keats Collection, 1814-1891 (MS Keats 3.3). Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Page 4 of Keats’s 21 September 1817 letter to Reynolds (featuring Bailey’s message written on the doublings). Keats Collection, 1814-1891 (MS Keats 3.3). Houghton Library, Harvard University.
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I said earlier this week that Microsoft and Sony should be worried about Valve's Steam Box plans, because they appear to have traditional home consoles square in their sights.
Sony And Microsoft Should Be Worried About The Steam Box. Very Worried.
The future of home gaming. The next generation. For years now, the anticipation and excitement over …
Well, in an interview with Eurogamer, Microsoft's Phil Harrison (still feels weird typing that) seems to get awfully defensive, issuing what amounts as a warning to Valve that the hardware business is so-called because it's hard.
"Entering the hardware business is a really tough business," Harrison said. "You have to have great fortitude to be in the hardware business and you have to have deep pockets and a very strong balance sheet. It's not possible for every new hardware entrant to get to scale."
"They can be successful at small scale. But it's very rare for a new hardware entrant to get to scale, and I mean tens or hundreds of millions of units. There are a very small number of companies that can make that happen."
True! But then, of that very few, I'd wager that Valve—and other companies that specialise in selling PC hardware—can do it.
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Apache Tomcat software powers numerous large-scale, mission-critical web applications across a diverse range of industries and organizations. Some of these users and their stories are listed on the PoweredBy wiki page.
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Tomcat 4.x was released with Catalina (a servlet container), Coyote (an HTTP connector) and Jasper (a JSP engine).
Catalina is Tomcat’s servlet container. Catalina implements Sun Microsystems’s specifications for servlet and JavaServer Pages (JSP). In Tomcat, a Realm element represents a “database” of usernames, passwords, and roles (similar to Unix groups) assigned to those users. Different implementations of Realm allow Catalina to be integrated into environments where such authentication information is already being created and maintained, and then use that information to implement Container Managed Security as described in the Servlet Specification.
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Coyote listens for incoming connections to the server on a specific TCP port and forwards the request to the Tomcat Engine to process the request and send back a response to the requesting client. Another Coyote Connector, Coyote JK, listens similarly but instead forwards its requests to another web server, such as Apache, using the JK protocol.[5] This usually offers better performance.[citation needed]
Jasper is Tomcat’s JSP Engine. Jasper parses JSP files to compile them into Java code as servlets (that can be handled by Catalina). At runtime, Jasper detects changes to JSP files and recompiles them.
As of version 5, Tomcat uses Jasper 2, which is an implementation of the Sun Microsystems’s JSP 2.0 specification. From Jasper to Jasper 2, important features were added:
JSP Tag library pooling – Each tag markup in JSP file is handled by a tag handler class. Tag handler class objects can be pooled and reused in the whole JSP servlet.
Background JSP compilation – While recompiling modified JSP Java code, the older version is still available for server requests. The older JSP servlet is deleted once the new JSP servlet has finished being recompiled.
Recompile JSP when included page changes – Pages can be inserted and included into a JSP at runtime. The JSP will not only be recompiled with JSP file changes but also with included page changes.
JDT Java compiler – Jasper 2 can use the Eclipse JDT (Java Development Tools) Java compiler instead of Ant and javac.
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A high-availability feature has been added to facilitate the scheduling of system upgrades (e.g. new releases, change requests) without affecting the live environment. This is done by dispatching live traffic requests to a temporary server on a different port while the main server is upgraded to the main port. It is very useful in handling user requests on high-traffic web applications.
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Tomcat 7.x implements the Servlet 3.0 and JSP 2.2 specifications.It requires Java version 1.6, although previous versions have run on Java 1.1 through 1.5. Versions 5 through 6 saw improvements in garbage collection, JSP parsing, performance, and scalability. Native wrappers, known as “Tomcat Native”, are available for Microsoft Windows and Unix for platform integration.
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Child Poverty - Percentage of children under 16 years living in low income households: local authorities covering Coastal West Sussex CCG (2008-13)
This section shows a number of measures of deprivation across NHS Coastal West Sussex CCG. The most recently available deprivation data are from the 2015 English Indices of Deprivation and this shows relative deprivation at small areas (LSOAs). Data on household deprivation comes from the 2011 census. Data on child poverty (the number and proportion of under 16 year olds living in low income households) is also given here.
The Indices of Deprivation is an area-based measure of relative levels of deprivation in small areas, (Lower Super Output Areas (LSOAs), which contain approximately 1,500 people). It can be used to compare the deprivation across different areas, identify the most deprived areas within a larger geography (for example in the CCG), and to examine which domains of deprivation are more or less prominent in an area. The Indices cannot be used to quantify how deprived an area is (nor can it say by how much one area is more deprived than another), and there are different indices of deprivation for Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland (so comparisons cannot be made across countries).
The indices are published by the Department for Communities and Local Government every 3-4 years and are widely used, notably in funding allocations and targeting. The most recent update is the ID2015, released in September 2015 using data mostly from 2012/13. ID2015 is made up of seven domains of deprivation, although each domain is not given equal weighting. From these, an overall score of small area deprivation is calculated; these are then ranked from most deprived (1) to least deprived (32,844). It is important to note that the indices measure deprivation and not affluence (the least deprived area may not necessarily be the most affluent).
Domains contributing1 to the overall Index of multiple deprivation:
Income (22.5%)
Employment (22.5%)
Health Deprivation and Disability (13.5%)
Education, Skills and Training (13.5%)
Crime (9.3%)
Barriers to Housing and Services (9.3%)
Living Environment (9.3%)
The map shows the relative deprivation deciles (using national rankings) for LSOAs in NHS Coastal West Sussex CCG. The most deprived areas (those in the most deprived 10% of LSOAs in England) are shaded dark blue. As can be seen from the map, NHS Coastal West Sussex CCG contains some of the most deprived neighbourhoods in the country (these fall within the River, Courtwick with Toddington and Bersted wards).
If you cannot see the map, please click on this link and use the back button of your browser to return to this page.
GP practices do not have established geographical boundaries (e.g. people residing in one area may be registered to GP practices outside of their local area and more than one GP practice may operate in a single area). However, using the January 2016 release of residential location of GP registered patients, it is possible to create a deprivation score for each GP practice “reach”.
The GP Practice deprivation score is the registered population (as at 31st December 2015) weighted by ID2015 score, as a proportion of the total population registered to the GP. This is calculated by taking the deprivation score for every LSOA where a GP has registrations multiplied by the number of registrations for the GP in that LSOA and dividing this total by the number of people registered to the GP.
The figure below shows GP practices within each CCG in West Sussex by their national decile group (practices in dark blue are estimated to have the most deprived populations in England whereas those in orange are the least deprived).
Population weighted (using Jan 2016 HSCIC release) ID2015 deprivation score
In NHS Coastal West Sussex CCG, one practice (Bognor Medical Centre) is estimated to have a population in the ID2015 3rd most deprived decile. In addition, one practice falls within the 4th most deprived decile (Fitzalan practice). Conversely four practices within NHS Coastal West Sussex CCG are amongst the 10% least deprived in England (Barn Surgery, Steyning Health Centre, Southbourne Surgery and Loxwood Surgery).
The table below shows the number of practices in each deprivation decile for NHS Coastal West Sussex CCG, and other CCGs in West Sussex.
NHS Crawley CCG
NHS Coastal West Sussex CCG
NHS Horsham and Mid Sussex CCG
West Sussex GPs
10% most deprived GP practices 0 0 0 0
2nd decile 0 0 0 0
3rd decile 0 1 0 1
4th decile 1 1 0 2
6th decile 5 9 0 14
8th decile 4 13 0 17
10% least deprived GP practices 1 4 21 26
Total number of practices 12 53 23 88
The Income Deprivation Domain measures the proportion of the population experiencing deprivation relating to low income. The definition of low income used includes both those people that are out-of-work, and those that are in work but who have low earnings (and who satisfy the respective means tests). The score for this domain is expressed as a proportion of the total population of the Lower-layer Super Output Area as at mid-2012 (from the Office for National Statistics) less the prison population (from the Ministry of Justice).
The map below shows the relative income deprivation deciles (using national rankings) for LSOAs in NHS Coastal West Sussex CCG. The most deprived areas (those in the most deprived 10% of LSOAs in England) are shaded dark blue. You can also change the view to show the relative deprivation deciles within the CCG itself (to identify most and least deprived small areas in the CCG) by clicking on the right hand side of the map.
In addition to the overall income deprivation score, two supplementary indices are available; the income deprivation affecting children index and the income deprivation affecting older people index.
The Income Deprivation Affecting Children Index is the proportion of all children aged 0 to 15 living in income deprived families. Income deprived families are defined as families that either receive Income Support or income-based Jobseekers Allowance or income-based Employment and Support Allowance or Pension Credit (Guarantee) or families not in receipt of these benefits but in receipt of Working Tax Credit or Child Tax Credit with an equivalised income (excluding housing benefit) below 60 per cent of the national median before housing costs.
The map below shows the relative income deprivation affecting children deciles (using national rankings) for LSOAs in NHS Coastal West Sussex CCG.
The Income Deprivation Affecting Older People Index is the proportion of all those aged 60 or over who experience income deprivation. This includes adults aged 60 or over receiving Income Support or income-based Jobseekers Allowance or income-based Employment and Support Allowance or Pension Credit (Guarantee).
The map below shows the relative income deprivation affecting older people deciles (using national rankings) for LSOAs in NHS Coastal West Sussex CCG.
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The Employment Deprivation Domain measures the proportion of the working-age population in an area involuntarily excluded from the labour market. This includes people who would like to work but are unable to do so due to unemployment, sickness or disability, or caring responsibilities.
The Employment Deprivation Domain numerator was expressed as a proportion of the Employment Deprivation Domain denominator to form the Employment Deprivation Domain score. The score represents the proportion of the working-age population experiencing employment deprivation. The denominator is the working-age population (women aged 18 to 59 and men aged 18 to 64), derived from 2012 and 2013 mid-year population estimates (from the Office for National Statistics), with the prison population (from the Ministry of Justice) subtracted. In order to provide a time point which closely matches the numerator, 2012 and 2013 mid-year population estimates were used, with a weight of 0.75 applied to the 2012 count and a weight of 0.25 applied to the 2013 count.
The map below shows the relative employment deprivation deciles (using national rankings) for LSOAs in NHS Coastal West Sussex CCG. The most deprived areas (those in the most deprived 10% of LSOAs in England) are shaded dark blue. You can also change the view to show the relative deprivation deciles within the CCG itself (to identify most and least deprived small areas in the CCG) by clicking on the right hand side of the map.
The Education, Skills and Training Domain measures the lack of attainment and skills in the local population. The scores for two subdomains (education deprivation affecting children and education deprivation affecting adults) are combined to create an overall score of the education deprivation affecting the local area.
The map below shows the relative education deprivation deciles (using national rankings) for LSOAs in NHS Coastal West Sussex CCG. The most deprived areas (those in the most deprived 10% of LSOAs in England) are shaded dark blue. You can also change the view to show the relative deprivation deciles within the CCG itself (to identify most and least deprived small areas in the CCG) by clicking on the right hand side of the map.
The Health Deprivation and Disability Domain measures the risk of premature death and the impairment of quality of life through poor physical or mental health. The domain measures morbidity, disability and premature mortality but not aspects of behaviour or environment that may be predictive of future health deprivation.
The map below shows the relative health deprivation deciles (using national rankings) for LSOAs in NHS Coastal West Sussex CCG. The most deprived areas (those in the most deprived 10% of LSOAs in England) are shaded dark blue. You can also change the view to show the relative deprivation deciles within the CCG itself (to identify most and least deprived small areas in the CCG) by clicking on the right hand side of the map.
The Crime Domain measures the risk of personal and material victimisation at local level. Indicators include rates (per 1,000 at risk population) for violence, burglary, theft and criminal damage.
The map below shows the relative crime deprivation deciles (using national rankings) for LSOAs in NHS Coastal West Sussex CCG. The most deprived areas (those in the most deprived 10% of LSOAs in England) are shaded dark blue. You can also change the view to show the relative deprivation deciles within the CCG itself (to identify most and least deprived small areas in the CCG) by clicking on the right hand side of the map.
The Barriers to Housing and Services Domain measures the physical and financial accessibility of housing and local services. The indicators fall into two subdomains: ‘geographical barriers’, which relate to the physical proximity of local services, and ‘wider barriers’ which includes issues relating to access to housing such as affordability. Indicators include road distance to schools, shops and primary care as well as household overcrowding, affordability of housing and homelessness.
The map below shows the relative barriers to housing and services deprivation deciles (using national rankings) for LSOAs in NHS Coastal West Sussex CCG. The most deprived areas (those in the most deprived 10% of LSOAs in England) are shaded dark blue. You can also change the view to show the relative deprivation deciles within the CCG itself (to identify most and least deprived small areas in the CCG) by clicking on the right hand side of the map.
The Living Environment Deprivation Domain measures the quality of the local environment. The indicators fall into two sub-domains. The ‘indoors’ living environment measures the quality of housing; while the ‘outdoors’ living environment contains measures of air quality and road traffic accidents. You can also change the view to show the relative deprivation deciles within the CCG itself (to identify most and least deprived small areas in the CCG) by clicking on the right hand side of the map.
The map below shows the relative living environment deprivation deciles (using national rankings) for LSOAs in NHS Coastal West Sussex CCG. The most deprived areas (those in the most deprived 10% of LSOAs in England) are shaded dark blue.
This section contains data on small area deprivation using the 2011 Census.
The 2011 census collected a wide variety of information which can, in combination, be used to identify some of the characteristics common to deprived households. Census data are available at smaller geographies than the ID2015, down to output area level (covering approximately 100 households); this is useful in West Sussex as in some areas, deprivation is concentrated within smaller neighbourhoods, where affluence and deprivation are “cheek by jowl”.
The census examines four dimensions of deprivation:
Employment - a household is considered deprived if any member of a household, who is not a full-time student, is either unemployed or off of work due to long-term sickness.
Education - a household is considered deprived if no person in the household has at least level 2 education, and where no person aged 16-18 is in full-time education.
Health and disability - a household is considered deprived if any person in the household reports their general health to be bad or very bad or if any person in the household reports that they have a long term health problem.
Household overcrowding - a household is considered deprived if the household accommodation is overcrowded (with an occupancy rating of -1 or less), or if the household is in a shared dwelling, or has no central heating.
The output for this measure of deprivation is the proportion of households which are identified as deprived on none, one, two, three, or four of the above dimensions of deprivation. Census data is provided at the LSOA level, and as LSOAs are coterminous with CCG boundaries it is possible to determine the proportion of households in the CCG which were deprived on Census day 2011. The table below shows the proportions of households identified as deprived on none, one, two, three, or four deprivation dimensions for each of the CCGs in West Sussex.2
Not deprived in any dimension
Deprived on one dimension
Deprived on two dimensions
Deprived on three dimensions
Deprived on four dimensions
NHS Crawley CCG 42.1% 34.6% 18.5% 4.5% 0.4%
NHS Coastal West Sussex CCG 44.0% 34.3% 17.70% 3.60% 0.4%
NHS Horsham and Mid Sussex CCG 53.9% 31.0% 12.6% 2.4% 0.2%
West Sussex CCGs combined 46.4% 33.4% 16.4% 3.4% 0.3%
Number of households
NHS Crawley CCG 42,727
NHS Coastal West Sussex CCG 212,042
NHS Horsham and Mid Sussex CCG 90,845
West Sussex CCGs combined 345,614
The map below shows the proportion of households at Lower-layer super output area level in NHS Coastal West Sussex that were identified as deprived on at least one measure of deprivation from the 2011 Census. Darker areas indicate a higher proportion of deprived households.
Proportion of households at LSOA in Coastal West Sussex CCG deprived on at least one measure of deprivation - 2011 census
The map below shows the proportion of households at Lower-layer super output area level in NHS Coastal West Sussex that were identified as deprived on three or four measures of deprivation from the 2011 Census. Darker areas indicate a higher proportion of deprived households. Using the census 2011 groupings these represent the most deprived areas in the Coastal West Sussex CCG region.
NHS Coastal West Sussex CCG - Proportion of Households identified as deprived on three or four census deprivation indicators.
This section contains data on the number and proportion of under 16 year olds living in low income households.
There is strong evidence linking childhood poverty to poorer outcomes throughout childhood and later life, including lower educational attainment, poorer job prospects, lower earnings and lower life expectancy.
At a national level, four key measures of child poverty are published:
Relative low income: Children living in households whose income is less than 60% of the median income (after adjusting for household type and size).
Combined low income and material deprivation: A combination of the level of income and also material aspects (for example whether children have been able to go on school trips, or can go swimming once a month).
Absolute low income and persistent low income: This measures income compared to a fixed baseline.
Persistent low income: Relative low income persists for three of the previous four years.
At a county level and below (e.g. local authority districts), only data on relative low income are available. Information is provided for children aged under 16 years, and also for all children (where young people under the age of 20 years are living at home either in full-time education or unemployed). Nationally, targets have been adopted for each of the four measures. For the relative low income measure, the national target is for less than 10% of children to be living in low income households by the year 2020.
In 2013, 12.1% of children under the age of 16 years in West Sussex were living in low income households. Within the CCG area, the proportion of children living in low income households ranges from 8.2% in Horsham to 15.3% in Adur.
The table below shows the number and proportion of children under 16 years of age living in low income households in local authority districts of NHS Coastal West Sussex CCG between 2008 and 2013. It should be noted that the data for Horsham reflects the whole district of Horsham and not just the part of Horsham that is designated as NHS Coastal West Sussex CCG.
Percentage of children under 16 years living in low income households: local authorities covering Coastal West Sussex CCG (2008-13)
Adur 1,820 (17.5%) 1,960 (18.7%) 1,795 (17.2%) 1,785 (17.0%) 1,720 (16.1%) 1,650 (15.3%)
Arun 3,835 (16.3%) 4,050 (17.1%) 3,845 (16.2%) 3,880 (16.3%) 3,625 (15.0%) 3,555 (14.6%)
Chichester 2,330 (12.7%) 2,425 (13.1%) 2,340 (12.6%) 2,230 (12.0%) 2,100 (11.3%) 2,050 (11.2%)
Horsham 2,065 (8.9%) 2,275 (9.8%) 2,195 (9.5%) 2,095 (9.1%) 1,890 (8.2%) 1,865 (8.2%)
Worthing 2,635 (14.8%) 2,915 (16.1%) 2,865 (15.7%) 2,790 (15.2%) 2,460 (13.3%) 2,450 (13.3%)
West Sussex 18,490 (13.4%) 19,950 (14.3%) 19,345 (13.8%) 19,070 (13.5%) 17,655 (12.4%) 17,210 (12.1%)
South East 233,325 (15.2%) 249,690 (16.0%) 243,950 (15.5%) 239,725 (15.1%) 226,550 (14.2%) 219,485 (13.7%)
England 2,068,970 (21.6%) 2,131,350 (21.9%) 2,066,320 (21.1%) 2,026,465 (20.6%) 1,912,310 (19.2%) 1,854,005 (18.6%)
There are also considerable differences in child poverty within the local authority districts in Coastal West Sussex. Although count data (e.g. the exact number of children under the age of 16 living in low income households) are not available for small (LSOA) areas, it is possible to identify the proportion of children living in child poverty. The map below shows the proportion of children under the age of 16 years in each LSOA living in low income households according to child poverty figures for 2013. The map areas are shaded green if the 2020 national target for child poverty of 10% has been met, and grey, orange, and red if the level of child poverty is higher than 10%.
Percentage of children under 16, in 2013, living in low income households, LSOAs within NHS Coastal West Sussex CCG
The weights used to calculate how much each domain contributes to the overall score is included in brackets. ↩
An additional table gives the overall number of households for reference. ↩
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Via Matt Drudge, we get this laugher out of Texas:
Prosecutor in probe of DeLay PAC raises funds for other side
Earle's speech on political corruption keys on the GOP leader, whom he likens to a bully
By MICHAEL HEDGES
Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle Washington Bureau
A newly formed Democratic political action committee, Texas Values in Action Coalition, hosted the May 12 event in Dallas to raise campaign money to take control of the state Legislature from the GOP, organizers said.
Well, here is the Texas Values website, and they aren't being coy about their mission or the Earle speech. The Houston Chronicle did ask Earle about the propriety of this appearance, and delivered more chuckles:
Earle said Wednesday he knew the group that met in Dallas was raising money for Democrats, but that it was not his reason for speaking.
"I'd make the same speech to any group, Republican or Democrat, as long as the group was interested in honest, open government," Earle said in a telephone interview.
The prosecutor said he did not recall making other fund-raising speeches for anyone besides himself since he began investigating DeLay.
We have reflected upon the possible partisanship of Mr. Earle before.
UPDATE: Charles Kuffner rises to the defense of Ronnie Earle:
As for his motives in investigating Tom DeLay and his cronies, I've always thought that it would be extremely stupid of Earle to take anything less than rock solid evidence to trial, because he's ultimately going to be judged by how those trials turn out. If he loses, his entire career will mean nothing - he'll always be the guy who tried and failed to take down DeLay, and he'll always be a partisan hack and a loser because of it.
Uh huh. And right now Earle is the guy who tried and failed to take down Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson, yet still he remains DA.
The readers in his comments are also in revolt.
And the Houston Chronicle editors are displeased:
Earle's attendance and remarks attacking DeLay at a Democratic fund-raiser last week in Dallas damaged the credibility of his investigation with a stunning display of prosecutorial impropriety.
Earle is an elected Democrat, so his attending a party fund-raiser is legal. However, it is inappropriate for a prosecutor to discuss a case under investigation in a political setting, or to single out a potential target of that probe for criticism.
The fact that Earle refuses to recognize his blunder and would do it again calls into question whether he has the necessary impartiality and judgment to conduct the investigation that to a great extent will determine whether Texas election campaigns will be financed and perhaps determined by corporations or by individuals.
I have not seen word from the Dallas Morning News.
From the link above: "A newly formed Democratic political action committee, Texas Values in Action Coalition, hosted the May 12 event in Dallas to raise campaign money to take control of the state Legislature from the GOP, organizers said.
Earle, an elected Democrat, helped generate $102,000 for the organization.
In his remarks, Earle likened DeLay to a bully and spoke about political corruption and the investigation involving DeLay, the House majority leader from Sugar Land, according to a transcript supplied by Earle.
"This case is not just about Tom DeLay. If it isn't this Tom DeLay, it'll be another one, just like one bully replaces the one before," Earle said.
"This is a structural problem involving the combination of money and power," he added. "Money brings power and power corrupts."
The crowd of 80 to 100 Democratic activists responded by making donations that exceeded the event's fund-raising goal."
Just a few questions popped into my mind:
If this is a fundamentally structural problem and the combination of money and power results in corruption how is it that this group will be any different?
Does this structural relationship between money, power and corruption ONLY apply to Delay and republicans?
Since this isn't about Tom Delay but about one bully replacing another, is Mr. Earle suggesting that the democrat that he would like to replace Delay would be just another bully in the chain?
Since these democratic activists' contributions exceeded the fundraising goal does that imply that they are particularly corrupt, given the established structural relationship between money and corruption?
Since Mr. Earle has clearly established his lack of objectivity and fairness vis-a-vis Mr. Delay, should he recuse himself from any future legal actions regarding Mr. Delay?
Luckily, there are those citizens like Mr. Earle in our midst who are above the mere search for power, who are uncorruptible by filthy money and who have only our best interests at heart. Standing above the fray they altruistically go about their daily lives seeking only to serve their fellow citizens. It's a shame they are only democrats. Wouldn't it be a better world if just a few republicans could find it in their evil hearts to rise to that level?
Posted by: Harry Arthur | May 20, 2005 at 09:12 AM
I don't know which is more indicative of Democrats' stupidity, Earle saying this at a FUND RAISER:
Or that the crowd coughed over $100,000 in response.
Posted by: Patrick R. Sullivan | May 20, 2005 at 09:21 AM
Recently a felony murderer in Austin was allowed to plea to four years because he "Fell through the cracks" at the DA level.
In the end I don't actually know whether the DeLay investigation distracted Mr. Earls office from protection of the public. The fact remaining is the people he is sworn to protect have been shorted critical protection from a very dangerous man. Sadly, I believe from the available information, the indictments against the people involved with Congressman DeLay will be a wild goose chase on a level that eclipsis the Kay Bailey Hutchison fiasco. Perhaps if that manpower had been otherwise directed a man who would have been eligible for the death penalty will not be on the streets in 2007.
The underlying premise in your editorial is correct. Earle could be chasing people in his party as well for the same reasons he is chasing these republicans. It is very much like the police observing looters of all races but only arresting the black ones.
Posted by: Beto Ochoa | May 20, 2005 at 09:33 AM
This is reminiscent of Spitzer's campaign touting the still-ongoing AIG investigation. It's one thing for a prosecutor to run on the scalps on his belt, it's another to make explicit that his prosecutions are part of a political strategy.
Posted by: Crank | May 20, 2005 at 11:51 AM
Earle is an elected Democrat helping raise funds for his fellow party members in an entirely legitimate way. He is now investigating whether DeLay and his cohorts broke Texas laws, which specifically prohibit the use of corporate money for political activity. Regardless of his party affiliation, Earle has prosecuted Democrats for corruption when that was called for.
There's nothing wrong here. It's disappointing to see you imply otherwise, Tom.
Posted by: Thomas Nephew | May 20, 2005 at 11:58 AM
I seem to recall a big shot prosecutor, conicidentally a Democrat, coming to Onondaga County to root out corruption. I think our County Executive, coincidentally a Replublican, ended up getting fined $50 for some sort of technical electoral violation. After months of effort, and thousands of dollars.
Shortly thereafter the then mayor of Syracuse was caught by the FBI and convicted of taking kickbacks for city business and sent to prison. A less cynical person than myself might believe it was totally coincidental that the Democrat Attorney General's office failed to investigate a Democrat mayor for corruption that was common knowledge throughout the city.
I'm glad Texas is not prone to such corrupt behaviour.
Posted by: Mark | May 20, 2005 at 12:45 PM
I have little use for Delay. Frankly I think he is a boob, especially for his actions to block federal matching funds for mass transit projects in Houston that had already been approved and were going forward no matter what, at the behest of his construction industry pals. But Delay is a duly elected representative and if his constituents get tired of his behavior they can vote someone else into office.
Mr. Earle, however, is a different story altogether. Ronnie Earle is a tinpot DA from the most liberal county in the state of Texas that uses his public trust to attempt prosecution of those he perceives as his political enemies. I well remember Mr. Earle's attempt to prosecute Kay Bailey Hutchison, an attempt that caused Mr. Earle to get tossed out of court on his ear by the judge on the first day of the case.
If one believes that Mr. Earle's investigation of Mr. Delay and his associates is important and not a partisan abuse then it seems to me one should be appalled by Mr. Earle's undermining this important investigation by shooting off his mouth at a fund raiser this way.
In the end I am way more concerned about someone that uses their political office to undermine and corrupt the criminal justice system by prosecuting their political enemies than I am by some boob like Delay going on junkets with the corn growers association or some such hokum.
Posted by: Dwilkers | May 20, 2005 at 12:50 PM
Earle looks like a goof, even the Delay hating Houston Chron realizes how idiotic this looks.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/editorial/3190300
Posted by: Ripclawe | May 20, 2005 at 03:30 PM
I was at the fundraiser and the detractors here are way off base. Out of a 20 monute speech Earle mentioned Delay once in one sentence. Once. This is nothing more than DeLay and his minions trying to divert attention away from his unehtical behavior. DeLay seems totally incapable of following the rules. Ronnie, a Deomocrat, spoke at a democratic function. Oh, my God! How horrible! What was he thinking? TEXVAC is a legal PAC raising money legally from everyday Texans and acting within the sytem, unlike DeLay's PAC which stong-armed out-of-state corporations to illegally give money to meddle in Texas affairs. Ronnie did nothing more than show a moron (DeLay) how to act within the political rules.
Posted by: clint.thomson | May 20, 2005 at 11:58 PM
"Ronnie did nothing more than show a moron (DeLay) how to act within the political rules."
Funny how it's always a democrat DA that's involved in politicised investigations. Then again it's just the flip side of the same coin. On the one side politically manipulative prosecutors who abuse their powers to influence the electorate. On the other side politically manipulative judges.
Different names, same schtick.
Posted by: ed | May 21, 2005 at 01:12 AM
Dallas Morning News had a story yesterday:
http://www.dallasnews.com/s/dws/news/texassouthwest/stories/052005dntexearle.c455f694.html
You have to understand....Austin is the one place in Texas where a liberal would feel right at home. Ronnie has no problem getting re-elected there, ESPECIALLY if he's going after Republicans.
Posted by: antimedia | May 21, 2005 at 02:10 AM
Clint, I'm wondering if you don't feel dirty and corrupted by the money, power and corruption clearly present at this fund raiser? After all this is a structural thing you know.
Can't help but also wonder also whether your group was able to select a "bully" to support to replace Delay.
Since the fund raising goal was exceeded I can only assume that the answer to both questions is "yes."
Posted by: Harry Arthur | May 21, 2005 at 03:07 PM
To start for those of you commenting on something which you know nothing about. Ronnie Earle has prosecuted three to four times as many Democrats and he has Republicans, how does to compute in the partisanship of it all ???
Second, Ronnie Earle is not investigating DeLay’s PAC for raising money to help take over the Texas House. He is investigating DeLay’s PAC for illegally funneling corporate contributions into Texas politics against Texas law.
Let’s repeat together, shall we? Corporate contributions, bad! Raising money from everyday hard working Texans who are tired of the corruption in Austin and tired of the Republicans running our state into the ground, good.
If you are somehow implying that TEXVAC is like DeLay's group, you are just plain wrong (that’s Texan for you’re blowin’ smoke out your ass). TEXVAC follows the law, DeLay’s PAC breaks it. TEXVAC plays by the rules, DeLay’s PAC ignores the rules, and that they most assuredly learned from DeLay. TEXVAC raised $100K. That is chump change compared to what DeLay’s PAC raised. Hell, they can get more than that shaking down one special interest lobbyist.
Ronnie Earle was simply showing DeLay how you play by the rules. It’s like showing a three year-old how to clean up after himself so that maybe he can do it right the next time.
Not that it will help. DeLay and his cohorts, and the entire Texas Republican leadership, are hardwired differently than the rest of us decent folks. They are genetically incapable of following the rules.
So let’s repeat for the ethically challenged among us (read Republicans). Earle’s investigation is of DeLay’s PAC not DeLay (not yet) and it has to do with illegal campaign contributions. Earle isn’t against politics, he’s against corrupt politicians. Earle has never denied he is a Democrat. He is, but that hasn’t kept him from investigating three times as many Democrats as Republicans as DA.
As Earle puts it, “You can’t abuse power unless you have it. Republicans haven’t had it that long in Texas.” Yes, but they are making up for lost time. Going after cheats and thieves is a decidedly Texas value. Making excuses for them is not. I bet the detractors are not even from Texas.
Posted by: Clint Thomson | May 22, 2005 at 02:37 AM
That's right Clint. Corporation money BAD! George Soros money YUMMIE, YUMMIE YUMMIE! Tell me MoveOn.org or the other Soros funded 527s don't spend any money in Texas. I've seen their anti-Delay commercials on my TV. I'm from Texas, Clint. I voted for Tom Delay and I think he is doing a good job. I used to be one of you blind stupid corrupt Texas Democrats. Never again.
Ronnie Earle is abusing his prosecutorial power. Period.
Posted by: John Scherwitz | May 22, 2005 at 06:26 AM
I shouldn't say never again. Read this and you'll see there may be hope. Not here but somewhere.
Posted by: John Scherwitz | May 22, 2005 at 03:45 PM
Clint, very nice smug, condescending, self-righteous rant about something YOU know nothing about - my ethical standards, or those of any other conservative or republican commentators here I might add. My point above was precisely illustrated by your juvenile tirade.
Republicans are "genetically incapable of following the rules"?? This according to you self-described "decent folks."
Unfortunately a T Y P I C A L ad hominem screed. No real argument, no real facts, just unsubtantiated allegations and character assassination. Sure won me over. Pathetic!
Let's take a look at some overlooked facts about politics, corporate cash and campaigns in the Lone Star state.
Ronnie Earle says his motivations are not political, so why did he help inspire a new Democrat political action committee called, Texas Values in Action Committee (TEXVAC), whose mission is for Democrats to takeover the Texas state legislature from the GOP. He even gave a speech at their recent fundraiser and helped bring in over $100,000 in donations. Printed on TEXVAC's Web-site is this disclaimer:
“Note that corporate contributions are prohibited by state law, and only personal checks or credit cards will be accepted.”
That statement is simply not true. Here is what Texas state law says:
Ҥ 253.100. EXPENDITURES FOR GENERAL-PURPOSE
COMMITTEE. (a) A corporation, acting alone or with one or more
other corporations, may make one or more political expenditures to
finance the establishment or administration of a general-purpose committee.”
Also, if Ronnie Earle is so concerned about the amount of corporate and labor money influencing campaigns in Texas then he should look at the Democrats who raised and spent more corporate and labor cash. The following is an excerpt of a non-partisan report called “Passing the Bucks: Texas” compiled by Followthemoney.org.
"National party contributions to Texas state committees increased dramatically over the three election cycles. These committees gave just $2.3 million in 1998, $5.2 million in 2000 and $16.3 million in 2002. The Texas Democratic Party received the bulk of the 2002 contributions, taking in $11 million to the GOP's $5.2 million."
Ronnie Earle got an indictment against Jim Ellis because he claims that Ellis took $190,000 of corporate money raised in Texas (also called “soft” money,) and gave it to the Republican National Committee, and then over a period of two weeks, the RNC sent hard money back to Texas candidates in the exact amount. Well, since the RNC's soft money account and the RNC State Elections Committee account of hard dollars are completely separate, Ellis' action was legal. And, the actual amount that the RNC gave to candidates in that election cycle in Texas equaled over $1 million during that election cycle. (Also see a piece written by elections lawyer Cleta Mitchell http://www.family.org/cforum/fnif/commentary/a0036509.cfm)
If Ronnie Earle is concerned about hard for soft or soft for hard money trades, read again an excerpt from “Passing the Bucks: Texas.”
“The Institute found eight trades of soft money for hard money, all between the Democratic National Committee and the Texas Democratic Party. In two trades in 1998, the DNC sent $172,500 in soft money to Texas, and the state party sent back $150,000 in hard money. In two trades in 2000, the DNC sent $150,000 of soft money and received $125,000 in hard money. And over a series of four trades in 2002, the DNC gave the state party $255,000 in soft money, and the Texas Democratic Party sent $225,000 in hard money to the DNC.”
It seems clear to me that Ronnie Earle is partisan and is selectively prosecuting the TRMPAC case because he wants to taint Tom DeLay. TRMPAC fully disclosed their receipts and expenditures as required by the IRS. If Ronnie Earle is concerned about a lack of full disclosure, just take a look at the filed reports of the Texas Trial Lawyers PAC that raised millions in the 2002 election cycle. Not one expenditure is listed other than campaign contributions. Is there no staff to pay for? No rent? No costs for fundraising? No telephone bills? Maybe they didn't list those expenditures because they didn't want anyone to know who actually paid for it. Why doesn't Ronnie Earle ask that question? Maybe perhaps the Trial Lawyers PAC donated tens of thousands of dollars to Earle's campaigns for District Attorney?
A recent LA Times magazine cover story featured Earle's prosecutorial pursuits. Earle was asked if he was nervous about making a mistake in the TRMPAC indictments especially after his abysmal failure in prosecuting Republican Kay Bailey Hutchison in the 90's. His reply that making a mistake in this case “would not be the end of the world.” Tell that to Jim Ellis, one of the three indicted in the TRMPAC case, a widower who is raising his teenage daughter while trying to defend himself from these ridiculous charges.
Earle can so whimsically drag someone like Jim Ellis through this and it would be no big deal if he's wrong?
Posted by: Mel hopkins | May 24, 2005 at 03:41 PM
But, Mel, none of this matters. These are only facts. We don't argue from facts or logic, especially when they're so inconvenient and it's so much easier to simply impugn the character and ethics of those with whom we disagree politically.
Thanks for the "Paul Harvey" version - very illuminating.
And a few more issues to consider. Four of the eight corporations that were indicted in the TRMPAC case have had their cases dismissed. NOT a plea bargain, but dismissed. Now what is troubling is that all of the corporations had to pay money to a University as a part of their dismissal deal. Sounds like dollars for dismissals to me. How is it legal to make the corporations pay money to get their charges dropped? Some would call that extortion. Congressman Gohmert of TX is asking the same thing. See his House floor speech at http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?r109:11:./temp/~r109JDdLhc::
Posted by: Mel hopkins | May 25, 2005 at 09:39 AM
John Scherwitz - MoveOn.org and MoveOn PAC are two separate organizations, which are you referring to? Moveon.org is not a PAC and can spend their money in an way they please. Moveon PAC just like TRMPAC and every other PAC in Texas may not use Corporate contributions for anything other than administrative expenses. I will not comments on the other "Soros funded 527s" unless you name them. Also TRMPAC is accused of "Active candidate evaluation and recruitment. Message development. Market research and issue development".
Harry Arthur - You are pathetic. You pick out two sentences from a whole page and personalize them instead of providing some substantive retort. Run out of things to say ?? or out of arguments? What a shame. As for my "very nice smug, condescending, self-righteous rant" I have something to be smug, condescending and self-righteous about. Tom DeLay stinks and he has ever since he sold pesticides. He has been rebuked numerous times and everyone knows that he skirts the legal edge on every issue. Yet you still cling to him with all your might. Are you blind to his bad side or attracted to it? Don't worry, He is very powerful and I doubt that this investigation will take him down. If I were you however, I would distance myself from him as he will eventually fall and take everyone around him down also.
Mel hopkins - I'm not admitting that his motives are political, but if you don't want the DA to be political or partisan, make his position appointed instead of elected.
Second, let’s start to set you straight shall we?
Ronnie Earle did not inspire TEXVAC, you can thank George Bush and Carl Rove for that! I was at the TEXVAC fundraiser that Ronnie Earle spoke at and one of the Co-Founders told me and the rest of the crowd that the second George Bush victory and the blatant neo-conservative tone of this administration as well as the shame of having Bush come from Texas all contributed to the founding of TEXVAC.
The statement on the TEXVAC website is completely true since they will be using the funds raised for political activities (prohibited by state law) and not administrative expenses.
Also from Followthemoney.org You forgot to mention that in 2004 Republicans began leading in Contributions to Party Committees by $3.2M to the Democrats $2.4M. but what do these numbers mean anyway? What's the point? Republicans raised more money in Texas than Democrats by a large margin in both 1998 and 2000. Point?
You are attempting to link the Democratic Party to this investigation and say "look they are also doing it" instead of addressing the case itself. Instead of answering the question, you are diverting attention. This has nothing to do with the Democratic Party, it has to do with a Felon (Tom Delay) and his prosecutor (Ronnie Earle) and if there are any political motivations for this prosecution.
Ronnie Earle's previous prosecutions record is solid and non-partisan (Ronnie Earle has prosecuted three to four times as many Democrats and he has Republicans), I feel that it is the best way in which to answer this charge.
You are all blinded by the defense's attempt to shift attention and blame from the real criminal.
As for Jim Ellis, ignorance is never an excuse against prosecution. The only person I feel sorry for is his teenage daughter who will have to suffer for her father's ignorance or perhaps intentional participation in criminal activity.
Has a crime been committed? Where there is smoke there is fire and if a Grand Jury decided that there was enough evidence to indict some people, then there must be a fire somewhere.
Posted by: Clint Thomson | May 30, 2005 at 02:27 PM
Ok, several points. Regarding Followthemoney.org, the major point is that Republicans did raise more hard dollars than Democrats in Texas and Democrats outraised Republicans in soft money. My point is, if Earle is so concerned about soft money influencing Texas politics, go where more of the soft money is -- the Democrats and the lawyers.
As far as Earle inspiring TEXVAC, I was referring to a quote from the PAC's co-founder Russell Langley. See Houston Chronicle excerpt.
"Russell Langley, a co-founder of Texas Values in Action Coalition, said Earle was among those who inspired formation of the committee and that the prosecutor's participation in the campaign was proper.
"'Throughout his career he has represented honesty and integrity in government. ... As long as he was raising money legally, we didn't see any problem with it,'" Langley said."
And who is the felon? Tom DeLay hasn't even been questioned in this case, let alone indicted or convicted.
I do believe Earle's partisanship isn't revealed in who he prosecutes but who he doesn't. Where was Earle when Democrat TX AG Dan Morales was breaking the law? He is now in federal prison. Not only could he have pursued him under the Public Integrity Unit but also because he was in Travis County. Come on. Why didn't Earle investigate Democrat Martin Frost and his Lone Star Fund PAC but convened four grand juries to pursue TRMPAC when they set up their accounts exactly the same way?
TRMPAC sought legal counsel before they acted and felt they were within the law to use corporate money for "establishment and administration" of their PAC. All money raised and spent was disclosed to the IRS as required.
I have one word for everyone on the evil man side of the room (read Tom Delay) - CONVICTION. Ha ha.
Well actually, not quiet, but definitely proof of some sort of shannanigans.
As reported quite some time ago. A Republican judge, Hart, who heard testimony in the lawsuit in March but did not rule until now, said in his written decision the contributions should have been reported to the Texas Ethics Commission because “they were used in connection with a campaign for elective office.”
Ceverha argued for TRMPAC that the money went toward administrative costs, not campaigns, however Hart did not buy that defense and awarded the Democrats a total of $196,660 in damages.
He did not rule specifically on whether the money was raised and spent illegally, saying that was “for another trial.” Since this was a civil matter, there was no way to present a criminal charge to be defended.
Still think you smell roses? Or poo-poo?
For your reading pleasure, here is the original article which is but one of the stories on this issue.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7994750/
DELAY'S SECRET CORPORATE CASH FUNNELLING CATCHES UP TO HIM
Reuters reports, “Ethics questions swirling around U.S. House of Representatives Majority Leader Tom DeLay mounted on Thursday when a Texas judge ruled that a committee formed by the powerful Republican had violated state law by failing to disclose $600,000 in mostly corporate donations.” Hailing the victory as a win for good, clean government, an attorney leading the charges against DeLay said, “It sends a very clear message to corporations and lobbyists and other folks that this sort of secretive, underhanded activity is against the law and not allowed in Texas.”
Posted by: Clint Thomson | June 05, 2005 at 03:01 AM
"Well actually, not quiet, but definitely proof of some sort of shannanigans."
Well, I'm glad it's not funneling foreign funds into presidential campaigns . . . because then we'd have to go through another round of "campaign finance reform." That way we could enact a bunch of further laws (that nobody seems interested in following), and a decade later some hacks would be trying to convince us the way to solve the problem was by limiting public speech within a month or two of elections (unless of course the speaker happens to run a major news corporation). And then and applying that to the internet. (Yeah, like that'll keep Chinese money out of DNC coffers.)
In any event, the ethical dilemma here was whether or not a legislator should be forced to step down from a leadership position if he was indicted. And whether that would help to maintain the highest ethical standards, or merely encourage political opponents to engineer an indictment on flimsy charges. I think that question has been answered.
Posted by: Cecil Turner | June 05, 2005 at 10:33 AM
Cecil - I think that you are a democrat at heart. I hope you don't take that as an insult, but surely you have noticed that your statement "solve the problem was by limiting public speech within a month or two of elections (unless of course the speaker happens to run a major news corporation). " clearly looks to me like you are concerned by the media and hoe slanted it has become, yet it puzzels me how you could like media like Clear Channel, Belo, and others to the Demms?
As for control of the media, HELLO ??? Bush has several media scandals in his reign, one of which I'm sure even a chinese citizen has heard of... "Gannon Gate" ring a bell? How do you explain a Gay hooker constantly called upon by the white house press secretary and even the president?? or the two year daily press pass?? Instead of ignoring the huge black spots on your party, why are you not asking these questions? I know I would be asking them it this was a Demm.
I think I would start with this question, "Who was the gay hooker sleeping with in this homophobic religious-right pandering Republican white house to get these privleges?"
I am in no way happy with the Democrats, but come on... I'd rather support sometimes stupid than evil and corrupt.
I think the bigger introspective question here is this, why do you allign with your party? What does your party actually stand for (not the party plan but it's recent record) and why is that appealing to you?
Let me help you plot your party's recent actions.
1) Religious Fundementalism
2) Big Business including Oil, etc.(Fortune 500 not your insignificant small business)
3) Big Spending with Tax Cuts geared toward the top 2% (big deficits)
4) Bully Mentality World Policy (Neo concervatives, we're bigger, so why care what our neighbors think)
5) Selfishness - All About Us, Who cares about the people dying the the Sudan, they are too poor to give a sh&t about. Call us when a 1st world country has a problem.
I am so ashamed of your party I wish I was Canadian when I travel abroad. Are you?
You should be, and by the way, if you travel abroad, pretent to be Canadian, it helps alot.
If you can't travel abroad for finanical reasons, blame your president. Weak Dollar, high unemployment and an International community that hates us all thanks to Bumbeling GW.
"I think that you are a democrat at heart."
My main problem with Dems is their utter fecklessness on national defense. If they'd fix that, my vote'd be in play.
"How do you explain a Gay hooker constantly called upon by the white house press secretary and even the president??"
How do you explain the quality of the questions going down when he left? Seriously, pretending the media is in the tank for Bush is laughable. Even liberal studies show the opposite.
"I am so ashamed of your party I wish I was Canadian when I travel abroad. Are you?"
Umm, no. (And they suck even worse at defense.) But it's a personal issue, and if you are, I'd support your decision to switch.
Byron York, National Review Online
June 20, 2005, 9:10 a.m.
“Dollars for Dismissals”
The prosecutor in the DeLay case dropped charges in exchange for cash to pet cause.
Ronnie Earle, the Texas prosecutor who has indicted associates of House Majority Leader Tom DeLay in an ongoing campaign-finance investigation, dropped felony charges against several corporations indicted in the probe in return for the corporations' agreement to make five- and six-figure contributions to one of Earle's pet causes.
A grand jury in Travis County, Texas, last September indicted eight corporations in connection with the DeLay investigation. All were charged with making illegal contributions (Texas law forbids corporate giving to political campaigns). Since then, however, Earle has agreed to dismiss charges against four of the companies — retail giant Sears, the restaurant chain Cracker Barrel, the Internet company Questerra, and the collection company Diversified Collection Services — after the companies pledged to contribute to a program designed to publicize Earle's belief that corporate involvement in politics is harmful to American democracy.
Some legal observers called the arrangement an unusual resolution to a criminal case, at least in Texas, where the matter is being prosecuted. "I don't think you're going to find anybody who will say it's a common practice," says Jack Strickland, a Fort Worth lawyer who serves as vice-chairman of the criminal-justice section of the Texas State Bar. Earle himself told National Review Online that he has never settled a case in a similar fashion during his years as Travis County district attorney. And allies of DeLay, who has accused Earle of conducting a politically motivated investigation, called Earle's actions "dollars for dismissals."
YOU'VE BEEN A BAD, BAD CORPORATION
On September 21, 2004, a grand jury in Travis County indicted three associates of DeLay — John Colyandro, the head of DeLay's political-action committee, Texans for a Republican Majority (TRMPAC), Jim Ellis, a DeLay aide and officer of the committee, and Warren Rebold, a Washington fundraiser. The indictments received front-page coverage, with a number of commentators suggesting that Earle was moving toward ultimately indicting DeLay.
Receiving less attention was the grand jury's decision to indict the eight companies for making allegedly illegal contributions to TRMPAC. In addition to Sears, Cracker Barrel, Questerra, and Diversified Collection Services, the group of indicted companies included Bacardi USA, Westar Energy, Williams Companies, and the trade group Alliance for Quality Nursing Home Care. Under Texas law, corporations are not allowed to contribute directly to political campaigns, but are allowed to fund the administrative expenses of a political committee.
After the indictment, Earle announced that his prosecutors had uncovered "the outline of an effort to use corporate contributions to control representative democracy in Texas."
The companies denied wrongdoing. Two sources with extensive knowledge of the case involving one of those companies, Sears, spoke at length to NRO and say that Sears executives were convinced the company had done nothing illegal when it contributed $25,000 to TRMPAC. Given that, according to the sources, Sears lawyers were not interested in a plea bargain to end the case. "We were pretty confident that we would win," one source says.
When the company's representatives spoke to Earle, they discovered that the prosecutor was not as adamant about prosecuting them as his public words might have suggested. Indeed, the sources say Earle was willing to drop the charges, providing Sears met a few of his conditions.
First among those, according to the sources, was that Sears make a significant contribution to an organization known as the Center for Deliberative Democracy at Stanford University. The Center is devoted to something called "deliberative polling," which was developed by a Stanford professor (and Earle acquaintance) named James S. Fishkin.
Deliberative polling, according to Fishkin, is designed to measure public opinion on issues about which many members of the public are essentially uninformed. According to the Center's website, it works like this:
Deliberative Polling is an attempt to use television and public opinion research in a new and constructive way. A random, representative sample is first polled on the targeted issues. After this baseline poll, members of the sample are invited to gather at a single place for a weekend in order to discuss the issues. Carefully balanced briefing materials are sent to the participants and are also made publicly available. The participants engage in dialogue with competing experts and political leaders based on questions they develop in small group discussions with trained moderators. Parts of the weekend events are broadcast on television, either live or in taped and edited form. After the deliberations, the sample is again asked the original questions. The resulting changes in opinion represent the conclusions the public would reach, if people had opportunity to become more informed and more engaged by the issues.
Earle and Fishkin know each other. Earle told NRO that he became aware of Fishkin's work a few years ago and had become "casually acquainted" with Fishkin when Fishkin was a professor at the University of Texas in Austin, before moving to Stanford. Fishkin, who told NRO that "I don't know [Earle] really well, but I know him slightly," says he once sent Earle a tape of a deliberative-polling production done in Britain, and that Earle "has talked to me vaguely about doing some kind of project."
Earle says a program based on deliberative polling would be a good way to "educate" Americans about the threat that he believes corporate political activity poses to the country's political system. Such a program's influence, he says, would extend far beyond Texas, which is one of 18 states that ban corporate giving. To be most effective, the program would be televised nationally; Fishkin has in the past done polls in conjunction with MacNeill-Lehrer Productions, the company that produces >The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" on PBS.
"My concern has been that there needed to be a conversation about the role of corporations in American democracy," Earle told NRO. "How do you do that? I think it is vitally important to the future of the country that there be a discussion of this concept."
THE $1 MILLION POLITICAL LESSON
That's where the indicted corporations came in. According to the sources with knowledge of the Sears case, Earle told company representatives that he wanted Sears to contribute to the Deliberative Democracy group at Stanford, and that a program devoted to the dangers posed by corporate political money might cost as much as $1 million.
"They asked for an outrageous amount of money," says one Sears source, noting that the maximum penalty the company would have been forced to pay if it had gone to trial and lost would have been $20,000. "All the defendants would pay in similar amounts to a fund that would fund a symposium or seminar or event that would be produced in conjunction with PBS, and it would be televised, and the goal of it would be to explore the evils of corporate money in politics and why that is a bad thing."
Sears representatives balked at the offer. Not only was the dollar figure too high, but they believed that the resulting program would be devoted solely to bashing the political activities of corporations, while leaving untouched those of labor unions and other interest groups like trial lawyers. The two sides agreed to talk again later.
Sears was not dead set against paying some money into some sort of project, but company officials were determined that it not go to Stanford, which, Sears believed, would produce an anti-corporation project. When Sears raised its objections, Earle was adamant that Stanford get the money. In response, Sears suggested an alternative, saying it might be interested in contributing some amount of money to the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas. Even though the university was in his own back yard, Earle still wanted Stanford.
The two sides agreed to talk yet again. The impasse was resolved when, a short time later, Earle changed his mind and agreed that the money — the final figure would be $100,000 — could go to the University of Texas. (As it turned out, a top protégé of Fishkin, professor Robert Luskin, does deliberative polling work at the University of Texas.) The final agreement says that, "The defendant, after discussions with the district attorney, has decided to financially support a nonpartisan, balanced and publicly informative program or series of programs relating to the role of corporations in American democracy, which shall include a program conducted through the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas."
The agreement contained a number of other conditions. First, Sears agreed to "modify [its] website to provide for public access to and disclosure of corporate contributions made by the company." Second, Sears agreed to "not make any illegal corporate political contributions," either in Texas or any other state where such contributions are illegal. Third, Sears agreed to "cooperate with the State of Texas in its prosecution and investigation of any other person for any offense related to the corporate contribution made by defendant." And fourth, Sears agreed to a statement defining its political activity as a danger to the country. "The defendant further acknowledges that the historical basis for the Texas prohibition against corporate political contributions is that they constitute a genuine threat to democracy," the agreement said.
In return, Earle stipulated that the alleged offense charged in the indictment "appears to be restricted to a single incident within the State of Texas and does not constitute a continuing course of conduct." Earle also conceded that Sears had no intent to break the law and "has a history of good citizenship and high ethical standards." Earle noted that Sears had hired a compliance officer, and "has already begun a thorough review of the company's contributions policies and practices." Finally, the agreement said Earle believed that dropping the charges "will serve to cause corporations to more closely monitor and evaluate their political contributions in Texas and throughout the United States."
Earle made similar deals with Cracker Barrel, Questerra, and Diversified Collections Systems. (Cracker Barrel agreed to pay $50,000, and the amount paid by the other two could not be determined by press time.) Cracker Barrel included the text of its agreement with Earle in a filing with the Security and Exchange Commission, where it can be viewed on the SEC's "Edgar" database.
FLIPPED?
Earle's deals with the corporations received relatively little press coverage in light of reporters' continuing interest in the DeLay angle of the story. What coverage there was, was not entirely accurate, according to the Sears sources.
On January 12 of this year, the Los Angeles Times reported that the corporations had "flipped," that is, agreed to cooperate with prosecutors. Citing unnamed sources, the paper reported that "information gleaned from the companies could be used as leverage to pressure remaining defendants and, potentially, to target more powerful members of the Republican Party in Texas and Washington."
The "flipped" reference rankled insiders. "That was absolutely not true," says one Sears source. "There was no shred of truth to it." Sears officials, the sources say, had already cooperated fully, telling Earle everything they knew about Sears' lone contribution to TRMPAC. In addition, the sources say, Sears had no knowledge of any illegal activity on the part of anyone else. The implication that Sears had turned state's evidence and might finger other companies involved in similarly illegal acts — which, of course, Sears denied it had committed — was, the sources contend, simply wrong.
In any event, the agreements between Earle and the corporations struck some outside observers as not only unusual but also indicative of the highly political nature of the case. "What does funding think tanks and polling organizations have to do with a violation of the criminal law?" asks former United States Attorney Joseph DiGenova, who has publicly supported DeLay. "This is an extortionate use of the indictment power." One close ally of DeLay calls it a "dollars for dismissals" scheme.
Making the situation worse, say DeLay allies, is what they believe is Earle's political motivation in pursuing DeLay. As an example, they point to Earle's attendance at a Democratic fundraiser in Dallas on May 12, in which Earle publicly discussed DeLay. For his part, Earle, an elected Democrat, has denied have any partisan purpose in the investigation. Whatever the case, Earle's dismissal of the charges against Sears, Cracker Barrel, and the other corporations has at least raised the question of whether his allegations were very strong in the first place.
— Byron York, NR's White House correspondent, is the author of the new book The Vast Left Wing Conspiracy: The Untold Story of How Democratic Operatives, Eccentric Billionaires, Liberal Activists, and Assorted Celebrities Tried to Bring Down a President — and Why They'll Try Even Harder Next Time.
http://www.nationalreview.com/york/york200506200910.asp
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Aggelos Kiayias:
Cryptography and Law, an Unexpected Encounter that was Obvious all Along
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Peter is Director of Research at Coin Center, the leading non-profit research and advocacy group focused on the public policy issues facing cryptocurrency technologies such as Bitcoin. He is a graduate of NYU Law, as well as a self-taught designer and coder. He drafts the Center’s public regulatory comments, and helps shape its research agenda. He has briefed policymakers and regulatory staff around the world on the subject of Bitcoin regulation. Previously, he was a Google Policy Fellow and collaborated with various digital rights organizations on projects related to privacy, surveillance, and digital copyright law.
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Dionysis is a cryptography PhD student at the University of Athens in Greece.
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Lindsay A. Jibb
Jeffrey G. Richards
Cell survival during hypoxia exposure requires a metabolic reorganization to decrease ATP demands to match the reduced capacity for ATP production. We investigated whether AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) activity responds to 12 h exposure to severe hypoxia (∼0.3 mg O2 l–1) in the anoxia-tolerant goldfish (Carassius auratus). Hypoxia exposure in goldfish was characterized by a strong activation of creatine phosphate hydrolysis and glycolysis in liver and muscle. AMPK activity increased by ∼5.5-fold in goldfish liver within 0.5 h hypoxia exposure and this increase in activity was temporally associated with an 11-fold increase in [AMPfree]/[ATP]. No changes in total AMPK protein amount were observed, suggesting that the changes in AMPK activity are due to post-translational phosphorylation of the protein. Hypoxia exposure had no effect on the expression of two identified AMPKα -subunit isoforms and caused an ∼50% decrease in the mRNA levels of AMPK β-subunit isoform. Changes in AMPK activity in the liver were associated with an increase in percentage phosphorylation of a well-characterized target of AMPK, eukaryotic elongation factor-2 (eEF2), and decreases in protein synthesis rates measured in liver cell-free extracts. No activation of AMPK was observed in muscle, brain, heart or gill during the 12 h hypoxia exposure suggesting a tissue-specific regulation of AMPK possibly related to a lack of change in cellular [AMPfree]/[ATP] as observed in muscle.
phosphorylation potential
Environmental hypoxia is a common, naturally occurring phenomenon in many aquatic ecosystems, the prevalence of which is increasing due to anthropogenic nutrient loading and eutrophication of both freshwater and marine environments. The major metabolic challenge facing animals living in hypoxic environments is the inhibition of ATP production via oxidative phosphorylation, thus hypoxia-intolerant animals quickly succumb to hypoxia due to an inability to maintain cellular energy balance and a loss of cellular [ATP] (Boutilier, 2001). By contrast, hypoxia-tolerant animals are able to maintain cellular energy balance when faced with an O2 limitation by reducing metabolic demands to match the limited capacity for O2-independent ATP production. At the cellular level, metabolic rate depression is achieved by reducing rates of protein synthesis and membrane ion movement among other processes (Hochachka et al., 1996). In hepatocytes isolated from the anoxia-tolerant turtle (Chrysemys picta belli) ATP-utilization during anoxia exposure falls to ∼10% of normoxic rates (Buck et al., 1993) with reductions in protein synthesis making up the largest percentage of this decline (Land et al., 1993). In addition, similar hypoxia-induced reductions in protein synthesis rates have been observed in the anoxia-tolerant crucian carp Carassius carassius (Smith et al., 1996). Hypoxia survival necessitates the timely and well-synchronized restructuring of cellular processes involved in both energy provision and utilization; however, little research has focused on how these cellular processes are co-ordinated during hypoxia in order to maintain cellular energy balance.
AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) represents an ideal candidate protein to co-ordinate the metabolic responses to hypoxia. AMPK is a heterotrimeric protein kinase composed of a catalytic subunit (α) and two regulatory subunits [β and γ (Carling, 2004)]. Phosphorylation of AMPK at Thr-172 on the α-subunit is essential for its activation (Carling, 2004) and this is brought about via the activity of upstream kinases. Two of these upstream kinases have been identified, LKB1 (Sakamoto et al., 2005) and CaMKK (Witters et al., 2006), in mammals. AMPK appears to be continuously phosphorylated; however, the phosphate group is rapidly removed under normal conditions returning AMPK to an inactive form (Hardie, 2007). Binding of AMP to AMPK induces a conformational change and prevents dephosphorylation (Sanders et al., 2007). Upon activation, AMPK inhibits anabolic processes in the cell and activates catabolic processes (Hardie et al., 2006), thereby helping to maintain cellular [ATP]. In mammalian models, AMPK has been shown to inhibit protein synthesis through phosphorylation of eukaryotic elongation factor 2 [eEF2 (Horman et al., 2002)], decrease glycogen synthesis rates through inactivation of glycogen synthase (Nielsen et al., 2002) and decrease fatty acid synthesis rates through phosphorylation of acetyl-CoA carboxylase-1 [ACC-1 (Hardie and Pan, 2002)]. Activation of AMPK has also been shown to result in increased skeletal muscle hexokinase activity, glucose transporter expression [GLUT-4 (Holmes et al., 1999)] and translocation to the membrane (Kurth-Kraczek et al., 1999), and increased phosphofructokinase-2 (PFK-2) activity in rat cardiomyocytes (Marsin et al., 2000), all of which could enhance O2-independent ATP production. Combined, these actions have led to AMPK being termed the cellular `energy gauge' because of it critical role in maintaining cellular energy balance. However, the cellular consequences of AMPK activation have been studied mainly in exercise- and ischemia-stressed mammalian models, and no study has assessed the role of AMPK in co-ordinating the cellular responses to environmental hypoxia in a hypoxia-tolerant fish.
At the extreme of hypoxia-tolerance among teleost fishes are the Carassius sp., which are capable of surviving months of anoxia at cold temperature. An important means by which members of this genus accomplish this feat is through a strong hypoxia-dependant depression of metabolic rate and activation of substrate-level phosphorylation. This has been described in the common goldfish, Carassius auratus, which depresses metabolic rate by ∼70% during anoxic bouts [assessed via direct calorimetry (Van Waversveld et al., 1989)]. Metabolic depression during hypoxia/anoxia is key for goldfish survival as it allows for the conservation of endogenous glycogen reserves thereby extending the amount of time that can be spent under O2-limiting conditions.
Given that AMPK is sensitive to changes in cellular energy status and that its activation leads to a general reduction in anabolic pathways and a stimulation of catabolic pathways, we hypothesize that it may play a role in co-ordinating the processes involved in the metabolic rate depression observed in the goldfish during exposure to severe hypoxia. In the present study, we determined cellular energy status, activation pattern of AMPK and its interactions with a well-characterized target, eEF2, and protein synthesis in liver and skeletal muscle of normoxia- and hypoxia-exposed goldfish. This was carried out in an attempt to determine whether or not AMPK may play a role in co-ordinating metabolic depression during hypoxia exposure in hypoxia-tolerant organisms.
Adult goldfish (Carassius auratus L.) weighing 36.0±1.4 g (means ± s.e.m.) were purchased from a local supplier (Delta Aquatics, Richmond, BC, Canada) and held in either flow-through or static renewal dechlorinated City of Vancouver tap water at 16°C. Fish were fed daily with commercial goldfish flakes. All animal procedures adhere to the Canadian Council on Animal Care guidelines as administered by the University of British Columbia Animal Care Committee.
Identification of AMPK subunits
Tissue sampling and gene identification
Goldfish were sampled directly from a holding tank and sacrificed with an overdose of benzocaine (1 gl–1). Samples of brain, eye, heart, gill, intestine, liver, kidney and muscle were rapidly excised, flash-frozen in liquid nitrogen, and stored at –80°C. Total RNA was extracted from these tissue samples following the methods of Chomczynski (Chomczynski, 1993) using Tri Reagent (Sigma-Chemical Co., St Louis, MO, USA). Following isolation, total RNA was quantified spectrophotometrically and the integrity of the two ribosomal bands was assessed by electrophoresis. RNA was stored at– 80°C. Reverse transcription reactions and PCR amplification of AMPK sequences were carried out following the methods outlined in Richards et al. (Richards et al., 2003). Briefly, cDNA was synthesized from 4 μg total RNA using RevertAid H Minus M-MuLV Reverse Transcriptase (Fermentas, Burlington, ON, Canada) following the manufacturer's instructions. Partial AMPK subunit sequences were obtained using primers designed from the conserved regions of known AMPK subunit isoforms (α1, α2, β1, β2, γ1, γ2, andγ 3) using all available vertebrate sequence information in GenBank, although only primers designed for α1 and β1 yielded amplicons. Primers for AMPKα1a were (forward) 5′-GGG CCA GCG TAA AAC CTT CCT-3′ and (reverse) 5′-GGA GGG GAA CTG TTT GAT TAT AT-3′, and PCR for this gene product consisted of 35 cycles; 1 min at 94°C, 1 min at 51°C and 2 min at 72°C. Primers for AMPKα1b were (forward) 5′-GGA GGG GAG CTA TTT GAT TAT AT-3′ and (reverse) 5′-GGG TTC TTC TTC GTA CAC G-3′, and PCR for this gene product consisted of 35 cycles; 1 min at 94°C, 1 min at 53°C and 2 min at 72°C. Primers for AMPKβ1 were (forward) 5′-GCC GGA AGG AGA GCA TCA GTA CAA GT-3′ and (reverse) 5′-GCG CTA AGA ACC ATC ACG CCA T-3′, and PCR for this gene product consisted of 35 cycles; 1 min at 94°C, 1 min at 60°C and 2 min at 72°C. Primers were designed using GeneTool Lite software (www.biotool.com). PCR products were gel purified and ligated into a plasmid vector (pGEM-T EasyVector System II; Promega, Madison, WI, USA). Ligated plasmids were transformed into heat-shock competent Escherichia coli (strain JM109; Promega) and plated onto LB-agar plates. Colonies were grown overnight at 37°C and several colonies containing the ligated insert were selected and grown in liquid culture. Following overnight culture, plasmid DNA was harvested from cultured cells using a GenElute Plasmid Miniprep kit (Sigma Chemical Co.) and sequenced on an Applied Biosystems PRISM 377 sequencer (Foster City, CA, USA).
Tissue distribution of AMPK isoforms
Tissue distribution of goldfish AMPK isoforms was estimated using quantitative real-time PCR (qPCR) and isoform-specific primers designed using Primer Express software (Applied Biosystems, Foster City, CA, USA). Primers for AMPKα1a (GenBank accession number EU583380) were (forward) 5′-GCC AAG ATC GCT GAC TTT GG-3′ and (reverse) 5′-CGC AGC TCG TTC TCA GGA A-3′. Primers for AMPKα1b (EU583381) were (forward) 5′-TAA GGA CGA GTT GCG GTT CTC-3′ and (reverse) 5′-GCC CTG CGT ATA ACC TTC CA-3′. Primers for AMPKβ1 (EU580137) were (forward) 5′-GCT GCA GGT GCT CCT CAA C-3′ and (reverse) 5′-GTT GAG CAT CAC ATG GGT TGG T-3′. Total RNA was extracted from brain, eye, heart, gill, intestine, liver, kidney and muscle from fish sampled directly from the holding tank and cDNA was prepared using the same methods as outlined above. Expression was quantified by qPCR using an ABI PRISM 7000 sequence detector (Applied Biosystems). qPCR reactions consisted of 2 μl cDNA (reverse transcribed from 4 μg or total RNA), 4 pmol of each primer and Universal SYBR green master mix (Applied Biosystems) in a total volume of 22 μl. qPCR conditions included initial incubations of 2 min at 50°C and 10 min 95°C, followed by 40 cycles consisting of 15 s at 95°C and 1 min at 60°C. Melt-curve analysis was performed following each reaction to ensure that only a single product was amplified. Additionally, random products were sequenced following the methods outlined above to ensure the amplified product was indeed the product of interest.
Hypoxia exposure
Temperature acclimation
Three weeks before experimentation, a group of ∼80 fish were transferred into a 375 l aquarium equipped with a canister filter and a cooling coil. Water temperature was then lowered in the tank at a rate of 2°C per day using a re-circulating water-chiller until it reached 10°C, at which point temperature was maintained for at least two weeks prior to experimentation. Fish were fed commercial goldfish flakes daily throughout the acclimation period.
Thirty-six hours before experimentation, goldfish were transferred into individual exposure chambers and returned to the aquarium. The exposure chambers consisted of highly perforated plastic beakers that allow for good water exchange between the exposure chamber and the bulk water and were large enough so the fish could move freely. These chambers were designed so that they slid smoothly into basins that were slightly larger than the exposure chamber and we could remove the fish from the aquarium without air exposure or causing agitation. An overdose of benzocaine (1 gl–1) could then be added to the basin and the fish sampled. To obtain normoxic tissue samples, eight chambers, each containing a fish, were removed and benzocaine added. At complete anaesthesia, which occurred ∼3 min following the addition of benzocaine, individual fish were removed, patted dry, and weighted to the nearest 0.1 g. Blood was sampled following caudal severance using haematocrit (Ht) tubes and samples of skeletal muscle, liver, heart, brain and gill were rapidly excised, flash-frozen in liquid nitrogen, and stored at– 80°C.
It should be noted that many anaesthetics are known to affect protein phosphorylation [e.g. tetracaine (Nivarthi et al., 1997)] but nothing is known of the impacts of benzocaine on protein phosphorylation; however, since all fish in the present study were sampled in an identical manner, any changes in protein phosphorylation observed are due to hypoxia treatment and not the anaesthetic chosen.
Following the sampling of normoxic fish, the water [O2] in the experimental tank was lowered over a 1 h period by bubbling nitrogen-gas into the water, until it reached ∼0.3 mg l–1. Water [O2] was monitored throughout the course of hypoxia exposure using an Oakton DO 6 dissolved O2 meter (Cole Parmer, Montreal, QC, Canada). Eight fish were sacrificed at each of the six time points (0.5, 1, 2, 4, 8 and 12 h hypoxia exposure) in an identical manner to normoxic fish. Water temperature was maintained at 10°C throughout the experiment.
To obtain sufficient tissue for complete biochemical analysis, the acclimation and experimental trials were performed twice. Fish from the first experiment were used for the determination of muscle and liver intracellular pH (pHi), muscle metabolite concentrations, and muscle and liver AMPK activity, protein content and mRNA expression levels. Fish from the second experiment were used for the determination of haematology, plasma [lactate], liver pHi, metabolites, eEF2 and phospho-Thr-56 eEF2 protein expression, and analysis of liver protein synthesis rates. Liver pHi and [lactate] were determined in both experiments and no significant differences were found between the two experiments [data not shown; two-way analysis of variance (ANOVA), P>0.05], therefore we consider both experiments to be comparable.
Analytical procedures
Blood [haemoglobin] (Hb) was determined spectrophotometrically using Drabkin's reagent (Blaxhall and Daisley, 1973). Haematocrit was determined by centrifugation of whole blood at 5000 g for 3 min in sealed capillary tubes. Mean cellular haemoglobin content (MCHC) was calculated as [Hb]/Ht.
Tissue processing, pHi and metabolites
Frozen muscle (∼200 mg) was ground to a fine powder under liquid nitrogen and pHi was determined in an aliquot following the methods of Pörtner et al. (Pörtner et al., 1991) using a thermostatted Radiometer BMS3 Mk2 capillary microelectrode with PHM84 pH meter (Radiometer, Copenhagen, Denmark). The remaining ground muscle tissue was lyophilized for 72 h and stored above desiccant at –80°C. For pHi determination in liver,∼ 50 mg of liver was sonicated using a micro-sonicator (Kontes, Vineland, NJ, USA) at medium frequency for ∼3 s in 0.2 ml ice-cold metabolic inhibitor (Pörtner et al., 1991). Liver pHi was measured using an ultra-fine Accumet pH electrode (Cole Parmer).
For metabolite determination, ∼20 mg lyophilized skeletal muscle or∼ 100 mg of frozen liver was homogenized at maximum speed in ice-cold 8% perchloric acid for 30 s using a Polytron homogenizer (Kinematica Inc., Bohemia, NY, USA). Homogenates were then centrifuged at 20,000 g for 5 min at 4°C and the supernatant adjusted to∼ pH7.6 with 3 mol potassium carbonate. Neutralized extracts were centrifuged at 20,000 g for 5 min at 4°C and the supernatant was immediately frozen in liquid nitrogen and stored at– 80°C until use. These extracts were then used for the enzymatic determination of tissue [lactate], [ATP] and [creatine phosphate] (CrP) (Bergmeyer, 1983). Total [creatine] (Cr) was determined by heating an aliquot of extract in sealed Eppendorf tubes for 20 min at 60°C and assaying for Cr enzymatically (Bergmeyer, 1983). Free [Cr] was calculated for each sample by subtracting [CrP] from total [Cr]. Plasma [lactate] was measured enzymatically on deproteinized plasma [20 μl 8% perchloric acid added to 20 μl of plasma].
Sample preparation, SDS-PAGE and western blotting were carried out according to the methods outlined by Todgham et al. (Todgham et al., 2005). Briefly, liver and muscle samples (∼20 mg) were homogenized in a buffer containing: 100 mmol l–1 Tris-HCl; 1% sodium dodecyl sulphate (SDS); 5 mmol l–1 ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid; 1μ gml–1 aprotinin; 1 μgml–1 pepstatin A; 1 μgml–1 leupeptin; 20 μgml1 phenylmethanesulphonylfluoride; pH7.5. Homogenates were centrifuged at 5000 g for 10 min at 4°C, the supernatant was assayed for total protein using the methods of Bradford (Bradford, 1976) and a portion of the supernatant was denatured by boiling it for 3 min in SDS-sample buffer (Laemmli, 1970). Denaturing SDS-polyacrylamide gels were loaded with denatured liver and muscle homogenates at a protein concentration of 20 μg protein per lane and electrophoresed for 15 min at 75 V followed by 75 min at 150 V. An identical control sample was included on each gel to control for gel-to-gel variation. Following electrophoresis, proteins were transferred to nitrocellulose membranes (Bio-Rad Laboratories, Hercules, CA, USA) using a Trans-Blot semi-dry transfer cell (Bio-Rad). Blots for total AMPKα were blocked using Tween-20 Tris-buffered saline [TTBS: 17.4 mmol l–1 Tris-HCl; 2.64 mmol l–1 Tris Base; 0.5M sodium chloride (NaCl); and 0.05% Tween-20 (v/v)] with 2% (w/v) non-fat powdered milk. Blots for eEF2 and phospho-Thr-56 eEF2 were blocked using TTBS with 3% (w/v) bovine serum albumin. All membranes were incubated overnight at 4°C in a 1:1000 dilution of primary antibody [either rabbit IgG anti-AMPKα, rabbit IgG anti-eEF2 or rabbit IgG anti-phospho-Thr-56 eEF2 (Cell-Signalling Technology, Danvers, MA, USA)]. Following washing in TTBS, membranes were incubated in 1:5000 IgG goat anti-rabbit secondary antibody [alkaline phosphatase conjugated (Sigma Chemical Co.)] in TTBS for 1 h. Membranes were developed in alkaline phosphatase buffer containing 5-bromo-4-chloror-3-indolyl phosphate (BCIP) and nitroblue tetrazolium (NBT; Sigma Chemical Co.). Band intensity was quantified using a FluorChem 8800 imager (Alpha Innotech, San Leandro, CA, USA) assisted by AlphaEase FC software (v. 3.1.2; Alpha Innotech), and protein amount was expressed relative to total homogenate protein loaded into each well and normalized to the normoxic control samples.
AMPK activity
AMPK activity was determined following the methods described by Davies et al. (Davies et al., 1989). Briefly, ∼150 mg frozen tissue (muscle or liver) was homogenized for 30 s at medium speed in approximately 3 volumes of ice-cold homogenization buffer [50 mmol l–1 Tris-base; 250 mmol l–1 Mannitol; 1 mmol l–1 EGTA; 1 mmol l–1 EDTA; 50 mmol l–1 sodium fluoride (NaF); 5 mmol l–1 sodium pyrophosphate; 1 mmol l–1 phenylmethanesulphonyl fluoride (PMSF); 4 g ml–1 trypsin inhibitor; 1 mmol l–1 benzamidine; and 1 mmol l–1 diothioreitol (DTT)]. Samples were then centrifuged at 4°C for 20 min at 14,000 g and 360 l supernatant was transferred to a new micro-centrifuge tube, and 40 l of 25% (w/v) polyethylene glycol-6000 (PEG-6000) was added bringing the concentration in the tube to 2.5% PEG-6000. Sample tubes were then vortexed for 10 min at 4°C and subsequently centrifuged at 10,000 g for 10 min at 4°C. Following centrifugation, 320 l supernatant was transferred to a new micro-centrifuge tube and ∼60 l of 25% PEG-6000 was added bringing the concentration in the tube to 6% PEG-6000. Tubes were again vortexed for 10 min at 4°C and centrifuged at 10,000 g for 10 min at 4°C. The supernatant was then removed and discarded and the pellet was washed with 300 l of 6% PEG-6000 (prepared in homogenization buffer) before being centrifuged for a final time at 10,000 g for 10 min at 4°C. Following centrifugation, the supernatant was removed and discarded and the pellet was resupended in 75 l ice-cold resuspension buffer (50 mmol l–1 Tris-base; 250 mmol l–1 Mannitol; 1 mmol l–1 EGTA; 1 mmol l–1 EDTA; 50 mmol l–1 NaF; 5 mmol l–1 sodium pyrophosphate; 10% w/v glycerol; 0.02% sodium azide; 1 mmol l–1 PMSF; 4 mg ml–1 trypsin inhibitor; 1 mmol l–1 benzamidine; 1 mmol l–1 DTT). An aliquot of the purified resuspended protein solution was taken to determine the total protein by the Bradford protein assay [Sigma Chemical Co. (Bradford, 1976)]. Aliquots of 50 l of 1 mg ml–1 resuspended protein were prepared for each sample in 0.12% Triton X-100 (Sigma Chemical Co.) made up in resuspension buffer and immediately frozen at –80°C for no longer than two weeks before the activity assays were run. At the time of assay, samples were thawed on ice, and 2.5 l of suspension was assayed for total AMPK activity in a final volume of 25 l, containing: 40 mmol l–1 Hepes; 80 mmol l–1 NaCl; 8% w/v glycerol; 0.8 mmol l–1 EDTA; 0.2 mmol l–1 SAMS peptide (GenScript, Piscataway, NJ, USA); 0.2 mmol l–1 AMP; 0.8 mmol l–1 DTT; 200 mol ATP; 5 mmol l–1 magnesium chloride; and [32P]-ATP (∼3500 cpm pmol–1). Negative controls, where sample was replaced with distilled H2O, were also run for each sample. After incubation for 5 min at 20°C, 15 l aliquots were spotted onto 2 cm round phosphocellulase paper (Whatman p81, GE Healthcare, Baie d'Urfé, Quebec, Canada) and the phosphorylation reaction immediately stopped by submergence of the spotted papers into 200 ml of 150 mmol l–1 phosphoric acid. Spotted papers were washed 10 times for 5 min each in the same volume of fresh 150 mmol l–1 phosphoric acid. Ten washes were necessary to reduce non-specific binding to near background levels. Spotted papers were then washed once in 300 ml of acetone for 5 min and air-dried. The amount of bound 32P on the papers was assessed using scintillation counting. AMPK activity was initially expressed as nmol of incorporated 32P min–1 mg–1 of total protein; however, we did not run T=0 assays to correct for non-specific radioactivity coming down with the protein (although this binding will be consistent across all samples assayed), therefore, we present AMPK activity relative to the normoxia control sample, which was set to T=1.
AMPK gene expression
The expression of AMPKα1a, AMPKα1b and AMPKβ1 mRNA in liver was estimated using qPCR and cDNA synthesized from extracted mRNA using the above protocols. The qPCR primers were identical to those described above and, in this case, the expression of each gene was normalized against the expression of β-actin. qPCR primers were designed for β-actin using available goldfish sequence (Accession No. AB039726) and were (forward) 5′-TGA CCG AGC GTG GCT ACA G-3′ and (reverse) 5′-TCT CCT TGA TGT CAC GGA CAA T-3′. There was no effect of hypoxia exposure on the expression of actin when expressed as a function of total RNA, thus actin appears to be a good control gene for hypoxia studies. To determine the extent of genomic DNA contamination, we developed non-reverse transcribed controls for a random selection of samples. To develop non-reverse transcribed controls, we diluted our RNA samples (containing genomic DNA) to the same extent as our samples used for cDNA synthesis; however, did not reverse transcribe the samples. These samples, along with their paired cDNA sample, were subjected to qPCR and any amplification in the non-reverse transcribed control was due to genomic DNA contamination. Genomic DNA contamination was present in all samples but never constituted more than 1:1024 starting copies for AMPKα1a, 1:32 starting copies for AMPKα1b or 1:524 288 starting copies for AMPKβ1. Genomic DNA, therefore, represents a minor contribution to the total qPCR signal. One randomly selected control sample was used to develop a standard curve relating threshold cycle to cDNA amount for each primer set to assess efficiency of the reaction. All results were expressed relative to these standard curves, and mRNA amounts (in arbitrary units) were normalized to the expression of actin. Expression levels in hypoxia-exposed animals were expressed relative to the mean expression levels in the normoxia control samples. All samples were run in duplicate and the coefficient of variation between duplicate samples was always <10%.
Cell-free protein translation assay
Protein synthesis rates were determined following the methods outlined by Rider et al. (Rider et al., 2006). Briefly, frozen liver was homogenized at 1:5 (w/v) in ice-cold extraction buffer containing: 50 mmol l–1 Hepes (pH 7.4); 250 mmol l–1 sucrose; 20 mmol l–1 NaF; 5 mmol l–1 sodium pyrophosphate; 1 mmol l–1 EDTA; and 1 mmol l–1 EGTA, and then clarified by centrifugation at 14,000 g for 15 min at 4°C. The resulting supernatant was removed and stored at –80°C until analysis, which was performed within two weeks of extraction. On the day of analysis, Sephadex G-25 columns (GE Healthcare, Piscataway, NJ, USA) were equilibrated with buffer containing: 50 mmol l–1 Hepes (pH 7.4); 200 mmol l–1 potassium acetate; 5 mmol l–1 magnesium acetate; 1 mmol l–1 DTT; 5 g ml–1 leupeptin; 1 mmol l–1 benzamidine; and 1 mmol l–1 PMSF as instructed by the column manufacturer. Clarified tissue extracts were thawed on ice and 0.5 ml was gravity filtered through columns to remove endogenous amino acids. Filtrate, containing cellular proteins, was collected and analysed for total protein using the Bradford assay as described above. To determine protein synthesis rates, a 50 l aliquot of the filtrate was added to assay buffer containing, 50 mmol l–1 Mops (pH 7.1), 140 mmol l–1 potassium acetate, 20 mmol l–1 magnesium acetate, 2 mmol l–1 DTT, 20 mmol l–1 CrP, 20 mmol l–1 creatine kinase (CrK), 1 mmol l–1 ATP, 0.5 mmol l–1 GTP, 0.1 mmol l–1 spermidine, 10 U RNaseOUT (Invitrogen, Burlington, ON, Canada), 50 ug ml–1 total RNA prepared from goldfish liver using the Tri-Reagent method as outlined above (Sigma Chemical Co.), and 20 mmol l–1 of each amino acid (except leucine) to a final volume of 100 μl. The reaction was started with the addition of 0.9 ul of 20 μmol activated leucine stock containing L-[4,5-3H]-leucine (∼300 cpm pmol–1) and incubated at 25°C for 90 min. Negative controls, where clarified extract was replaced with distilled H2O, were assayed for each sample. Following incubation the reaction was immediately stopped with the addition of 1 ml 10% (w/v) trichloroacetic acid and placed on ice for 10 min. Samples were then centrifuged at 10,000 g for 5 min to collect precipitated proteins and the pellet was resuspended in 0.2 ml of 0.1 mol l–1 sodium hydroxide and re-precipitated in 1 ml of 5% (w/v) trichloroacetic acid. After 10 min on ice, proteins were collected by centrifugation and subjected to an additional wash. Following this wash, proteins were solubilized in 1 ml formic acid and 0.9 ml of the solubilized protein solution was taken for counting in 10 ml of Toluene-based scintillant on a LS 1801 liquid scintillation counter (Beckman Coulter, Mississauga, ON, Canada). Protein synthesis rates are expressed as pmol of leucine incorporated per mg of total protein per hour.
Calculations and statistical analysis
Free cytosolic [ADP] and [AMP] were calculated from measured values of [ATP], [CrP], [Cr] and pHi assuming equilibrium of the creatine kinase and adenylate kinase reactions. Before calculating [ADPfree] and [AMPfree], metabolite concentrations were converted to molar concentrations using a tissue–water content of 0.8 ml g–1 wet mass (Wang et al., 1994). The equilibrium constants for creatine kinase (K′CK) and adenylate kinase (K′AK) were corrected for experimental temperature, ioinic strength, measured pH and free Mg2+ [assumed to be 1 mmol l–1 (Van Waarde et al., 1990)] according to published protocols (Golding et al., 1995; Teague et al., 1996).
Free cytosolic [ADP] was calculated using the following equation:
(1) and free cytosolic [AMP] was calculated using the following equation:
(2) The Gibbs free energy of ATP hydrolysis (ΔfG′; kJ mol–1) was determined using the following equation:
(3) where R is the universal gas constant (8.3145J K–1 mol–1), T is temperature in K andΔ fG′°ATP is the standard transformed Gibbs energy of ATP hydrolysis (
) at the measured pH and temperature and estimated free [Mg2+] (Golding et al., 1995). Cytosolic free [Pi] was estimated assuming the inverse of CrP hydrolysis and starting with a resting tissue level of 1 μmol g–1 wet mass (Hardewig et al., 1998).
All data are presented as means ± s.e.m. All muscle metabolite concentrations determined on lyophilized tissue were converted back into wet mass using a 4:1 wet:dry ratio. Statistical analysis involved one-way ANOVA followed by Holm–Sidak post hoc test to identify where statistical difference occurred. All data were tested for normality (Kolmogorov–Smirnov test) and homogeneity of variance (Levene median test). In cases where data sets did not meet these assumptions, data were log transformed and statistical analyses repeated. For those data sets that still did not meet assumptions following transformation, statistical analysis involved Kruskal–Wallis one-way ANOVA on ranks followed by Dunn's post hoc test. Differences were considered statistically significant at P<0.05.
AMPK isoforms
We identified two genes coding for AMPKα1 and one gene coding for AMPKβ1 in goldfish. Alignment of the cDNA sequences with the DNA sequences deposited in GenBank revealed homologies of 69–95% for the AMPKα1-catalytic subunit and 78–84% for the AMPKβ1-regulatory subunit. Each of these AMPK genes was expressed in all goldfish tissues examined (Fig. 1). AMPKα1a was expressed most highly in brain, kidney and intestine (Fig. 1A), AMPKα1b was expressed most highly in brain, kidney and gill (Fig. 1B) and AMPKβ1 was expressed at relatively constant levels across tissues with the highest expression in brain (Fig. 1C).
Responses to hypoxia
Whole animal and blood
Goldfish remained quiescent throughout the hypoxia exposure and no fish deaths were observed. Less than 4% of all fish exposed to hypoxia showed signs of distress or lost equilibrium during the hypoxia exposure and these fish were removed from the treatment and placed into a well-aerated tank for recovery and not included in the data analysis. There were no significant effects of hypoxia exposure on blood [Hb] or Ht (Table 1). MCHC decreased significantly compared with normoxia at 1 h hypoxia exposure and remained lower than normoxic values for the duration of the hypoxia exposure (Table 1). Plasma [lactate] increased significantly by ∼6-fold over the first 0.5 h of hypoxia exposure and continued to rise, reaching values that were 11-fold higher than during normoxia at 12 h exposure to hypoxia (Table 1).
Blood haemoglobin (Hb), haematocrit (Ht), mean cellular haemoglobin content (MCHC) and plasma [lactate] in goldfish exposed to normoxia (∼9.5 mg O2l–1) and 12 h hypoxia (∼0.3 mg O2l–1)
Liver [ATP] decreased significantly by ∼50% within the first 0.5 h of hypoxia exposure and remained at this lower level for the duration of the hypoxia exposure (Fig. 2A). Over the same time frame, [CrP] decreased significantly to nearly one-quarter of normoxic concentrations and was constant at this level for the remainder of the exposure (Fig. 2B). Total [Cr] was not significantly affected by hypoxia exposure, therefore free [Cr], calculated as the difference between total [Cr] and [CrP], increased significantly at 0.5 h exposure to hypoxia and remained elevated compared with normoxic controls for the 12 h hypoxia exposure (Table 2). Lactate concentrations in liver increased significantly by ∼4-fold over the first 2 h hypoxia exposure and continued to rise to values that were 7-fold higher than normoxia by 12 h (Table 2). pHi decreased rapidly and significantly within the first 0.5 h of hypoxia exposure and remained lower than normoxic samples for the duration of the treatment (Table 2). Calculated [ADPfree] was elevated by 1 h exposure to hypoxia and remained elevated for up to 4 h after which point [ADPfree] was no longer significantly elevated compared with normoxic controls. Liver [ADPfree]/[ATP] and [AMPfree] followed similar patterns with values increasing significantly over the first 0.5 h of hypoxia exposure, remaining elevated throughout the 12 h hypoxia exposure (Table 2). Liver [AMPfree]/[ATP] increased rapidly following the onset of hypoxia, continued to increase over the first 4 h hypoxia exposure, then stabilized between 8 and 12 h at values that were between 11- and 15-fold higher than observed in normoxic controls (Fig. 2C). The ΔfG′ of ATP hydrolysis in goldfish liver fell significantly over the first 0.5 h of hypoxia exposure and remained lower than normoxic controls for the duration of hypoxia exposure (Table 2).
Liver free [Cr], [lactate], pHi, [ADPfree], [AMPfree], [ADPfree]/[ADP] andΔ fG′ in goldfish exposed to normoxia (∼9.5 mg O2l–1) and 12 h hypoxia (∼0.3 mg O2l–1)
Liver AMPK activity increased significantly by ∼5.5-fold over the first 0.5 h of hypoxia exposure, remained elevated until 8 h exposure to hypoxia to return to levels that were not significantly elevated compared with controls at 12 h exposure to hypoxia (Fig. 3A). Our western blot analysis using antibodies raised against human AMPKα sequence detected two immunoreactive bands of similar size (∼62 kDa) that varied in concert with each other. No other immunoreactive bands were detected on the western blots in the present study (full western blots not shown). Quantification of the darker band revealed no significant effect of hypoxia exposure on AMPKα protein expression in liver (Fig. 3B). Hypoxia exposure had no significant effect on AMPKα1a or AMPKα1b mRNA
expression; however, a significant decrease in AMPKβ1 mRNA was noted at 1, 2, 4 and 12 h hypoxia exposure (Table 3).
Distribution of AMPKα1a (A), AMPKα1b (B) and AMPKβ1 (C) mRNA in eye, heart, brain, kidney, liver, muscle, intestine and gill in goldfish. Expression of each gene is relative to the same standard sample and absolute expression is adjusted such that the tissue with the lowest expression for each gene has an expression quantity of 1.
AMPKα1a, AMPKα1b and AMPKβ1 mRNA expression in the liver of goldfish exposed to normoxia (∼9.5 mg O2l–1) and 12 h hypoxia (∼0.3 mg O2l–1)
During hypoxia exposure, there was a rapid (by 0.5 h) and significant 2-fold increase in phospho-eEF2, which remained elevated for the first 2 h of hypoxia exposure and waned following 4 h hypoxia exposure (Fig. 4A,B). There was no significant effect of hypoxia exposure on total eEF2 quantity in goldfish liver (representative western blot shown in Fig. 4B). Protein synthesis rates in liver, as assessed by 3H-leucine incorporated into protein in cell-free extracts, decreased rapidly and significantly over the first 0.5 h of hypoxia exposure and remained depressed compared with the normoxic controls for the full duration of the hypoxia exposure (Fig. 4C).
Liver [ATP] (A), [creatine phosphate] (CrP) (B) and calculated [AMPfree]/[ATP] (C) in goldfish exposed to normoxia (N; ∼9.5 mg O2 l–1; open squares) and 12 h of hypoxia (∼0.3 mg O2 l–1; closed squares). Horizontal broken lines through normoxia are shown as a reference. Data are means± s.e.m. (N=5 to 8). *Significant difference from normoxia, P<0.05.
Liver AMPK activity (A), protein AMPK (B) and representative AMPKα western blot (C) in goldfish exposed to normoxia (N; ∼9.5 mg O2l–1; open squares) and 12 h hypoxia (∼0.3 mg O2l–1; closed squares). Horizontal broken lines through normoxia are shown as a reference. AMPK activity during hypoxia exposure is expressed relative to the activity observed in normoxia, which was set to 1. AMPK protein is normalized to total homogenate protein and expressed relative to the values observed in normoxia. C Bands shown on representative western blot are at ∼62 kDa. Data are means ± s.e.m. (N=5 to 11). *Significant difference from normoxia, P<0.05.
Muscle [ATP] did not change significantly in response to hypoxia exposure (Fig. 5A). Hypoxia exposure caused a significant drop in muscle [CrP] by 2 h hypoxia, which remained lower than normoxic values throughout the hypoxia exposure (Fig. 5B). Total [Cr] levels were not affected by hypoxia exposure (data not shown) thus calculated free [Cr] increased during hypoxia exposure (Table 4). Muscle [lactate] increased significantly by ∼4-fold within the first 1 h of hypoxia exposure and continued to increase throughout the hypoxia exposure (Table 4). Muscle pHi fell significantly by 1 h hypoxia exposure and remained lower than normoxic controls for the duration of treatment (Table 4). There were no significant effects of hypoxia exposure on calculated muscle [ADPfree], [ADPfree]/[ATP], or [AMPfree]/[ATP] (Table 4; Fig. 5C). Muscle [AMPfree] was not significantly affected by hypoxia exposure until 12 h, where concentrations increased significantly by nearly ∼5.5-fold (Table 4). Furthermore, there was no significant effect of hypoxia exposure on theΔ fG′ of ATP hydrolysis in goldfish muscle until 12 h hypoxia exposure, where ΔfG′ decreased significantly relative to the normoxic controls (Table 4).
Muscle free [Cr], [lactate], pHi, [ADPfree], [AMPfree], [ADPfree]/[ADP] andΔ fG′ in goldfish exposed to normoxia (∼9.5 mg O2l–1) and 12 h hypoxia (∼0.3 mg O2l–1)
Unlike the response observed in liver, AMPK activity in muscle was not affected significantly by 12 h of hypoxia exposure (Fig. 6A). Only a single immunoreactive band at ∼62 kDa was observed in muscle (see representative western blot analysis, Fig. 6C) and hypoxia exposure had no significant effect on the amount of AMPK protein (Fig. 6B,C).
Brain, gill and heart
There was no significant effect of 0.5, 8 or 12 h hypoxia exposure on AMPK activity in brain, gills or heart (Table 5).
Relative changes in AMPK activity in brain, gill and heart in goldfish exposed to normoxia (∼9.5 mg O2l–1) and at 0.5, 8 and 12 h hypoxia (∼0.3 mg O2l–1)
In order to survive hypoxia exposure, hypoxia-tolerant organisms must reorganize cellular metabolism to limit ATP demands to match the limited capacity for O2-independent ATP production. It has been speculated (Bartrons et al., 2004; Bickler and Buck, 2007; Rider et al., 2006) but never experimentally determined that AMPK may play an important role in co-ordinating the hypoxic cellular response in hypoxia-tolerant animals. The present study is the first to show that AMPK activity increases in response to short-term, severe hypoxia exposure in a hypoxia-tolerant animal, and that this activation is associated with a reduction in protein synthesis rates, potentially mediated through the phosphorylation of eEF2. There was a close temporal relationship between calculated increases in [AMPfree]/[ATP] and the activation of AMPK in goldfish liver (Table 2; Fig. 3), supporting the notion that a disruption of cellular energy status is essential for activation of AMPK. Responses of AMPK to short-term, severe hypoxia exposure were tissue-specific, with responses observed only in the liver and not in other tissues.
Liver phospho-eEF2 (A), representative phospho-Thr-56-eEF2 and eEF2 western blots (B) and protein synthesis rate (C) in goldfish exposed to normoxia (N;∼ 9.5 mg O2l–1; open squares) and 12 h of hypoxia (∼0.3 mg O2l–1; closed squares). Horizontal broken lines through normoxia are shown as a reference. Bands shown on representative western blot are at ∼95 kDa. Data are means ± s.e.m. (N=5 to 8). *Significant difference from normoxia, P<0.05.
Muscle [ATP] (A), [creatine phosphate] (CrP) (B) and calculated [AMPfree]/[ATP] (C) in goldfish exposed to normoxia (N; ∼9.5 mg O2l–1; open squares) and 12 h of hypoxia (∼0.3 mg O2l–1; closed squares). Horizontal broken lines through normoxia are shown as a reference. Data are means ± s.e.m. (N=5 to 15). *Significant difference from normoxia, P<0.05.
It has been suggested that maintenance of a stable cellular [ATP] during hypoxia exposure is the hallmark measure of a hypoxia-tolerant animal (Boutilier, 2001; Hochachka et al., 1996); however, this may be an over simplification. In goldfish, hypoxia exposure caused liver [ATP] to decrease by nearly half during the first 0.5 h but following this initial drop, liver [ATP] stabilized for the duration of hypoxia exposure (Fig. 2). These results are in general agreement with the results of Busk and Boutilier who showed in isolated eel hepatocytes that anoxia caused an initial decrease in [ATP] followed by a stabilization at a new, lower level (Busk and Boutilier, 2005). By contrast, Krumschnabel et al., demonstrated that exposure of isolated goldfish hepatocytes to anoxia did not result in a decrease in [ATP], whereas the same preparation exposed to chemical anoxia (sodium cyanide), showed a decrease in [ATP] (Krumschnabel et al., 1997). This latter decrease in [ATP] was modest when compared with the large decreases in [ATP] observed in anoxia-exposed hepatocytes isolated from the hypoxia-intolerant rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss). The fact that [ATP] is maintained in the liver after an initial disruption, rather than falling to fatally low concentrations highlights the ability of the hypoxia-tolerant goldfish to enter a state of lower ATP turnover. Furthermore, the decrease in [ATP] in fish liver, but not muscle (Fig. 5A), during hypoxia has been described previously in goldfish (van den Thillart et al., 1980) and sole, Solea solea (Dalla Via et al., 1994). These authors postulated that the low [CrP] observed in liver results in an inability to adequately buffer [ATP] during the onset of hypoxia. This hypothesis agrees with the present study where liver had ∼3-fold lower [CrP] than muscle (cf. Fig. 2B and Fig. 5B), and [CrP] decreased in goldfish liver over the same time period as the decline in [ATP] (Fig. 2). Overall, the initial decline in liver [ATP] results from its hydrolysis in the face of a blunted capacity for ATP production, which leads to the observed accumulation of its breakdown products, [ADPfree] and [AMPfree] (Table 2). In agreement, [ADPfree]/[ATP] and [AMPfree]/[ATP] increased significantly during the first 0.5 h and remained elevated for the duration of the hypoxia exposure (Fig. 2; Table 2).
Muscle AMPK activity (A), AMPK protein (B) and representative AMPK western blot (C) in goldfish exposed to normoxia (N; ∼9.5 mg O2l–1; open squares) and 12 h of hypoxia (∼0.3 mg O2l–1; closed squares). Data are means ± s.e.m. (N=6 to 12). See Fig. 3 caption for more detail. *Significant difference from normoxia, P<0.05.
Hypoxia exposure caused a significant disruption of cellular phosphorylation potential in goldfish liver with a rapid (within 0.5 h) and dramatic decrease in ΔfG′ of ATP hydrolysis occurring upon hypoxia exposure (Table 2). Following the initial decrease, there was a stabilization ofΔ fG′ of ATP hydrolysis at approximately –54 kJ mol–1, which is above the values calculated as being required for the function of ATPases in rat myocardium [–49, –51, –53 and –45 to –50 kJ mol–1 for sarcolemmal Na+/K+-ATPases, Ca2+-ATPases, sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca2+-ATPases and actomyosin-ATPases, respectively (Kammermeier, 1987; Kammermeier, 1993)]. Species differences in ΔfG′ of ATP hydrolysis requirements exist (Pörtner et al., 1996) and the actual requirements of goldfish ATPases are not known; however, our data suggest that the free energy of ATP hydrolysis in goldfish liver during hypoxia exposure is maintained at a balanced level that continues to allow for the function of integral cellular processes, albeit probably at substantially reduced levels.
Clearly, the liver is capable of readjusting metabolism after a short period of transition and it has been proposed that this occurs through the co-ordinated depression of ATP hydrolysis and increased glycolytic flux to support ATP production (Hochachka et al., 1996). The activation of AMPK, as observed in the present study (Fig. 3A), has been hypothesized to co-ordinate these events (Hardie, 2007). AMPK activation decreases rates of cellular anabolism, in particular the rates of protein synthesis, and upregulates PFK activity in rat cardiomyocytes (Marsin et al., 2000) and increases GLUT-4 transcription and insertion into rat skeletal muscle membranes (Holmes et al., 1999; Kurth-Kraczek et al., 1999). Overall, these effects on PFK and GLUT transporters, if they occur in fish, should enhanced glycolytic ATP production. Furthermore, PFK is allosterically activated by increasing [AMPfree] and [ADPfree] and inhibited by high [ATP], possibly further enhancing glycolysis and lactate production during hypoxia exposure.
Lactate accumulation in goldfish liver during our hypoxia exposure occurred at a relatively slow rate with a significant 4-fold increase occurring at only 2 h (Table 2). This slow accumulation of lactate tends to argue against a substantial increase in liver glycolytic flux; however, it must be noted that our experimental design does not allow us to assess liver glycolytic flux during hypoxia exposure in goldfish. To calculate glycolytic flux we would need to know the rates of lactate uptake or release from the liver, which is difficult to assess in vivo. The observed plasma to liver [lactate] gradient (estimated liver intracellular lactate is 7.2 mmol l–1 after accounting for an intracellular water content of 0.8 ml g–1 wet tissue cf. 10.4 mmol l–1 in plasma) (Tables 1 and 2), opens the possibility that measured liver lactate is of plasma origin and not endogenously produced, although a number of factors play into dictating lactate movement across membranes (Wang et al., 1996). In addition, we exposed the goldfish to severe hypoxia, not anoxia, therefore O2 is still available for mitochondrial respiration and ATP production, although possibly occurring at reduced levels. Overall, measurements of liver O2 consumption and liver lactate production rates would be useful to determine the relative roles of metabolic rate depression, enhanced glycolysis and oxidative phosphorylation in longer-term (>1 h) hypoxia survival. However, it remains reasonable to suggest that prolonged hypoxia-survival necessitates a decrease in ATP utilization that can be supplied by either moderately enhanced glycolytic flux or sustained oxidative phosphorylation and that these events appear to be co-ordinated by the activation of AMPK.
The mechanism for the observed AMPK activation in goldfish liver is likely to be post-translational modification through phosphorylation of theα -subunit at Thr-172 (Beauloye et al., 2001; Rider et al., 2006). Decreases in liver [ATP] may be a requisite for the observed AMPK activation as ATP binds to the same allosteric domain as AMP (Hardie, 2007; Scott et al., 2004) competitively inhibiting AMPK (Corton et al., 1995; Hardie et al., 2006). The concurrent increase in [AMPfree] and the decrease in [ATP] observed in goldfish liver may thus be required to activate AMPK. To ascertain whether the increase in AMPK activity shown in Fig. 3A was due to phosphorylation, we screened several anti-phospho-Thr-172 AMPK antibodies but discovered that the antibodies were unable to detect the phosphorylated protein in any goldfish tissue tested. Regardless, the rapid and large-scale changes in activation state of liver AMPK are probably only possible by post-translational modification. No changes in total AMPKα protein or mRNA expression and decreases in AMPKβ1 mRNA levels were observed during the 12 h hypoxia exposure (Table 3; Fig. 3B) therefore, upregulation of protein expression cannot explain AMPK activation. The lack of change in AMPK α-subunit expression concurs with previously published findings from human glioblastoma cells, which show no change in AMPKα1 mRNA or protein expression in response to hypoxia exposure and only demonstrate an upregulation of AMPKα2 isoform protein and mRNA after prolonged hypoxia exposure [>24 h (Neurath et al., 2006)].
Regardless of expression pattern, it is known that the activation of AMPK decreases cellular protein synthesis rates, in part through direct phosphoryation of eukaryotic elongation factor-2 kinase [eEF2K (Browne et al., 2004; Horman et al., 2002)], which in turn phosphorylates eEF2 and renders eEF2 unable to bind ribosomes. In the present study, we demonstrate a rapid (within 0.5 h) and significant increase in phosphorylation of eEF2 at Thr-56 in livers of hypoxic goldfish (Fig. 4A). This increase in phosphorylation is temporally associated with a significant decline in the rate of 3H-leucine incorporation into new proteins in cell-free extracts, which fell to ∼70% of normoxic values by 0.5 h hypoxia exposure and continued to fall to ∼93% of normoxia by 4 h hypoxia exposure (Fig. 4B). Protein synthesis, for its part, accounts for 20–30% of total ATP-coupled O2 demand (Bickler and Buck, 2007) and has been shown to decrease by ∼90% in anoxia-tolerant hepatocyte cultures (Land et al., 1993) and by 56–95% in the liver of crucian carp (Smith et al., 1996) and Amazonian cichlids [Astronotus ocellatus (Lewis et al., 2007)] during anoxia/hypoxia exposure. Interestingly, in the present study, both the increase in phosphorylation of eEF2 and the decline in 3H-leucine incorporation into proteins occurs over the same timescale as the increase in AMPK activity (Fig. 3) suggesting that the hypoxia-induced reductions in protein synthesis may be mediated by the activation of AMPK. To demonstrate a causal relationship between AMPK activation and inhibition of protein synthesis in hypoxic goldfish, direct manipulation of AMPK activity using the pharmacological activator 5-aminoimidazole-4-carboxamide ribonucleoside (AICAR) must be performed.
The large decrease in liver pHi measured in goldfish during hypoxia exposure (Table 2) may also contribute to the regulation of protein synthesis and metabolic rate depression. Tissue acidosis has been shown to cause an increase in eEF2K activity and eEF2 phosporylation, reducing protein synthesis rates (Dorovkov et al., 2002). In addition, beyond the specific effects of acidosis on protein synthesis, decreases in pHi and extracellular pH are thought to contribute to initiating and sustaining metabolic rate depression in vertebrates and invertebrates through general effects on enzyme function or membrane transport (e.g. Reipschläger and Pörtner, 1996), although not all studies support this notion (e.g. Brooks and Storey, 1989).
Because it appears that AMPK activation can affect metabolically costly processes, like protein synthesis, in hypoxia-tolerant fish and facilitate metabolic rate depression, it is of interest to consider other proteins or pathways, which are important in metabolic rate depression and may be activated by AMPK. For instance, second to protein synthesis, iono-regulation is the largest energy sink in the cell comprising ∼20% of ATP demand in hypoxia-tolerant hepatocytes of the western painted turtle, Chrysemys picta belli (Hochachka et al., 1996). In goldfish hepatocytes, Na+ pump activity and K+ leak pathways are downregulated in a co-ordinated manner during chemical anoxia for energy conservation purposes (Krumschnabel et al., 1996). This ability of hypoxia-tolerant cells to manipulate ion regulatory processes contributes to a large degree to metabolic rate depression and represents an appealing target for regulation by AMPK. Interestingly, epithelial Na+ channel currents in Xenopus oocytes and collecting duct cells in mice are inhibited in an AMPK-dependant manner (Carattino et al., 2005) demonstrating that some iono-regulatory action of AMPK is known.
AMPK α and β subunits are expressed in all tissues examined (Fig. 1) with the highest levels of mRNA being present in the brain, kidney, intestine and gill. However, this tissue-specific expression pattern does not translate into detectable differences in AMPK activation in these tissues during short-term O2-deprivation. Unlike results demonstrated in the goldfish liver, no activation of AMPK was observed in muscle, brain, heart or gill during 12 h of severe hypoxia exposure (Fig. 6; Table 5). These results are in contrast to those obtained in hypoxia-sensitive mammalian models (Kudo et al., 1995; McCullough et al., 2005; Mu et al., 2001) where AMPK activation in muscle, brain and heart was observed in response to hypoxia exposure. In agreement with our results, the brain and heart of both killifish (Fundulus grandis) and trout (Salmo gairdneri) showed fewer signs of metabolic stress when exposed to hypoxia than did the skeletal muscle or liver (Dunn and Hochachka, 1986; Martinez et al., 2006) indicating that not all tissues respond in a similar fashion to hypoxia exposure. There are a number of potential explanations for this tissue-specific AMPK activation in goldfish. First, our goldfish were exposed to severe hypoxia rather than complete anoxia thus differential shunting of blood to these organs during hypoxia exposure may explain why the brain, heart and gill displayed no activation of AMPK. Upon hypoxia exposure in fish, essential tissues receive increased blood flow and, therefore, O2-delivery (Booth, 1979; Gamperl et al., 1995; Soengas and Aldegunde, 2002) and consequently may not experience a metabolic stress to the same degree as liver. Second, the duration of hypoxia exposure may not have been long enough to observe activation of AMPK. Third, AMPK maybe regulated in a tissue-specific fashion with either different upstream regulating kinases expressed in different tissues or the level of cellular disruption required, e.g. degree of increase in (AMPfree)/(ATP), to observe AMPK activation may differ between tissues.
Within muscle, there was no significant increase in [AMPfree]/[ATP] (Fig. 5C) and no apparent activation of AMPK during the 12 h exposure to hypoxia. The maintenance of high muscle [ATP] during hypoxia exposure, as seen in other studies (Fig. 5A) (Richards et al., 2007; van Ginneken et al., 1995; Zhou et al., 2000), may impede AMPK activation since, as mentioned previously, ATP competitively inhibits AMP binding to AMPK. Indeed, in goldfish muscle [AMPfree]/[ATP] ratios were unaltered by hypoxia exposure at all sampling times, as were [ADPfree] and [ADPfree]/[ATP] measurements (Fig. 5C; Table 4). Additionally, there was also no significant change in [AMPfree] orΔ fG′ of ATP hydrolysis until 12 h hypoxia (Table 4), suggesting that only at >12 h hypoxia exposure might goldfish muscle experience an energy stress great enough to result in the activation of AMPK and the need to activate biochemical means of reducing ATP demands. Longer-term hypoxia exposures are needed to determine if AMPK is activated in these tissues and plays a role in hypoxic survival.
AMPK has been proposed as an appealing candidate for co-ordinating the metabolic responses of tissues to hypoxia exposure in tolerant organisms (Bartrons et al., 2004; Bickler and Buck, 2007; Rider et al., 2006). Indeed, AMPK activity increased in liver in response to hypoxia exposure and the characteristic interactions between AMPK and the downregulation of protein synthesis were in place and responded to hypoxia exposure. These responses were tissues-specific with no observed activation of AMPK in brain, gill, heart or muscle. AMPK activation was closely associated with increased [AMPfree] and decreased [ATP], suggesting that the ratio of these adenylates may have been important for activation. The decreased rates of protein synthesis, a well-known component of metabolic depression, combined with the phosphorylation of eEF2, a downstream target of AMPK, potentially implicate AMPK in the cellular effort to suppress metabolism in tolerant species exposed to hypoxia.
We gratefully acknowledge Milica Mandic and Ben Speers-Roesch for their valuable assistance during sampling. This work was funded by a Natural Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada Discovery Grant to J.G.R.
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Looped (Evolution Theatre Company – Columbus, OH)
September 16, 2016 September 17, 2016 Chuck III Columbus, Theatre ALCOHOLIC, closeted, columbus, comedy, CURTIS NITZ BROWN, DIALOGUE REPLACEMENT, DIE DIE MY DARLING, DRUNK, Evolution Theatre Company, Film, gay, JEFFREY GRESS, jimmy bohr, JON OSBECK, Kent Halloran, LOOPED, LOOPING, MATTHEW LOMBARDO, REBECCA BAYGENTS TURK, SCOTCH, TALLULAH BANKHEAD, theatre, VICKY WELSH BRAGG
It’s 1965, and stage and screen star Tallulah Bankhead has seen better days. Suffering the ill-effects of a lifetime of boozing and doping, she is called in to re-record (or “loop”) one line for what would be her final film, Die! Die! My Darling! Based on a true event, Ms. Bankhead makes sure to put the sound engineer and film editor through the ringer before they get what they want out of her, playing up to their expectations of what a quarrelsome and demanding woman she can be. Looped enjoyed a brief run on Broadway in the spring of 2010, garnering Valerie Harper a Tony Award nomination as the beleaguered Tallulah Bankhead.
Photo: Jerri Shafer – Vicky Welsh Bragg (Tallulah Bankhead) and Jon Osbeck (Danny Miller)
Is it worth seeing?
Looped is the kind of play where the concept is much better than its execution. Who wouldn’t enjoy seeing a comedic piece about a loud-mouthed lush, a star of both stage and screen, showing off her bad behavior? There are plenty of zingers to be had in Matthew Lombardo’s script, but at nearly two hours with an intermission (placed at a particularly contrived moment within the play), there doesn’t seem to be enough there to justify that much of an investment. However, Looped is that rare play that improves greatly in its second half, even if it gets rather maudlin and embarrassingly overwrought dealing with a discussion of homosexuality in the era. Mixing comedy with drama is tricky, but luckily the moments where the balance is completely off are brief and don’t sink the show. This is far from a great work, but, with the right crowd and performers, it’s more good than bad.
Vicky Welsh Bragg makes a fine Tallulah Bankhead, sounding a great deal like the actress, speaking in a low register that must be a challenge. Ms. Bragg is engaging if less biting that one might expect playing a drug-addicted alcoholic, but she is consistently interesting to watch and embodies the proper spirit to make her part work. Jon Osbeck as Danny Miller, the put-upon film editor struggling to corral Ms. Bankhead, performs as beyond irritated from the get-go, not allowing much room to grow all that much more frustrated with Ms. Bankhead’s shenanigans without yelling expletives that I doubt any studio employee would use towards a star, even a drunken one. Part of the problem is in the writing, but Mr. Osbeck is to blame for his entirely false crying scene near the end of the second act. It often feels like Mr. Osbeck thinks that he is part of a duet when it is quite clear that Ms. Bragg and her character is the star here.
Photo: Jerri Shafer – Jon Osbeck (Danny Miller) and Vicky Welsh Bragg (Tallulah Bankhead)
Technically, the show is quite impressive, with a detailed black, white, and gray set by Jeffrey Gress complete with a boom mike that looks right out of that era. Nitz Brown’s lighting is detailed down to the ever-so-slight reflection of the film being projected (which we don’t see) for Ms. Bankhead to use as a reference for her vocal performance. Rebecca Baygents Turk’s costumes, from Ms. Bankhead’s improbable red gown (looking much like Bette Davis’s frock in All About Eve) to Danny Miller’s high-waisted slacks and slick shoes impressively represent a 1965 as one might imagine it from seeing sitcoms of the era; too perfect to be real, but too defined and attractive to ignore.
Ultimately, Looped misses its target, but not by as much as it could’ve had Evolution’s production not had such a proficient design team and game cast. At its best moments, when Ms. Bragg’s lines elicit honest laughter and Mr. Osbeck‘s exasperated look relaxes a bit in intensity, the production is quite enjoyable, though it takes someone with an appreciation of the era, film making, and that special kind of smoky female brashness to hang on through the more awkwardly written moments (like the ending that feels right out of Casablanca). Note to other playwrights: exercise caution when including excerpts from vastly superior works (in this case, Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire) into your script.
My rating: ** 3/4 out of ****
Looped continues through to September 24th in the Van Fleet Theatre within the Columbus Performing Arts Center at 549 Franklin Avenue, and more information can be found at http://evolutiontheatre.org
Sticks & Stones (Evolution Theatre Company & CATCO – Columbus, OH)
June 8, 2016 June 8, 2016 Chuck III Columbus, Theatre catco, closeted, columbus, columbus performing arts center, CORY SKURDAL, CPAC, Evolution Theatre Company, FEAR, gay, joe bishara, JOSIE MERKLE, lesbian, LIBEL, LOCAL PLAYWRIGHT'S FESTIVAL 2016, PREJUDICE, PRIYANKA SHETTY, STALEY JOPHIEL MUNROE, STICKS & STONES, TRANSGENDER, VAN FLEET THEATRE
“There’s always a price to being included,” Janice Sanders says in Cory Skurdal’s Sticks & Stones, the final play in this year’s Local Playwright’s Festival presented by Evolution Theatre Company in partnership with CATCO. The specifics behind Ms. Sanders’ statement become clear throughout the play, a thought-provoking and honest exploration of the prejudices that exist around being true to oneself, be it openly gay, trans, or anything considered other than the norm. No, on second thought, perhaps it’s about jealousy and self-hatred. Actually, there are many different themes covered in this story of two women fighting over words, the kind used to classify as well as subjugate people.
Mr. Skurdal’s play won the 2014 CATCO/Greater Columbus Arts Council Playwriting Fellowship; this is its first full production after a reading last year. On the surface, Sticks & Stones is about the aforementioned Janice Sanders, a popular art critic, who feels she has been libeled by Kyle, a transgender blogger, after certain innuendos are made about her private life online. Janice is quite conservative and traditional, and it’s easy to see that the uninhibited Kyle is the polar opposite – or is she? Both women know what it’s like to struggle with their identity, but they deal with it in completely different ways: Janice goes inward and keeps her cards close to her chest while Kyle lets “Kylie” (the name she calls herself) out for the world to see. The action unfolds as each woman relays her interpretation of the conflict to their respective lawyers, putting the audience in the position of being the jury.
Mr. Skurdal’s writing is uncommonly rich with dialogue that flows naturally and makes a point without being preachy. “You’re sick with shame,” Kyle shouts at Janice, only to have her hurl back, “And you ought to be!” So much judgmental and prejudicial rhetoric comes from Janice that it brings to mind those impassioned but completely misguided and embarrassing Facebook rants we all see posted by former high school friends or distant cousins. The only thing constant in life is change, and that’s one point which Janice struggles to accept based largely on the feelings of her family.
Photo: Jerri Shafer – (left to right) Josie Merkle (Janice) and Kim Garrison Hopcraft (Susan)
Women are the stars of this piece, and it is their actions that drive the plot. Some men are on hand in the cast, but what a rare treat to see a play with so many important roles for women in a culture where being white and male is flaunted as the ultimate prize in the genetic lottery. Director Joe Bishara keeps things moving at a swift rate, incrementally increasing the pace until an inevitable emotional (and physical) confrontation occurs between Janice and Kyle; the moment is so heated and real that I had to suppress the urge to jump in to break it up.
Photo: Jerri Shafer – (left to right) Josie Merkle (Janice) and Frank Barnhart (Dana)
Josie Merkle is the cantankerous Janice Sanders, ostensibly the villain of this work. She has no trouble delivering her caustic remarks with relish; and yet, Ms. Merkle allows us to see Janice as sympathetic as well, a product of her environment from a time when going against the grain was not much of an option. Playing her as an unrepentant harpy would’ve been too easy with this material, and Ms. Merkle has an instinctive biting delivery that would’ve made that a walk in the park for her; instead, she chooses another path, one laced with frustration born out of years and years of paying the price for inclusion.
Photo: Jerri Shafer – (left to right) Staley Jophiel Munroe (Kyle) and Priyanka Shetty (Kendall)
As competent as the cast and script is, the show would not function half as well without the glorious performance of Staley Jophiel Munroe as the fearless Kyle, a trans woman who manages to push the buttons of most everyone in her vicinity, sometimes just for fun (as when she challenges the personal space of her lawyer Kendall, played by Priyanka Shetty, who squirms uncomfortably and believably at the intrusion) but more often for just being true to herself and refusing to allow the opinions of others to bring her down. I gather Ms. Munroe has a deep well of life experience that informs her portrayal; the flashback scene with her father is particularly heartbreaking, surely touching a nerve with any LGBT person who has faced hostility from their family. “He can’t be this way!” her father shouts, while Ms. Munroe’s plaintive, “I AM this way!” is so nakedly honest that I defy anyone to walk away unmoved. After the performance, I had the pleasure of meeting Ms. Munroe, who was quite modest about her abilities, stating that she had never acted on stage before; what’s wonderful is what she does here doesn’t feel like acting at all – it’s simply being – and I sincerely hope this is but the first of many performances she will gift to us.
Photo: Jerri Shafer – Staley Jophiel Munroe (Kyle)
Sticks & Stones is compact at just over an hour in length, but it has so much to say about our outside differences, deeply-held prejudices, and fear. People tend to fear the unknown, and the very nature of being trans means that there isn’t a “one size fits all” way of classifying them; they may or may not have had certain surgeries to change the anatomy with which they were born, but that’s for each trans person to know and share (or not) with whom they please. For some people it’s easier to manage fear if they have a way of categorizing things, setting apart what they do understand from what they don’t. What Sticks & Stones drives home is that all of the important characteristics of being a human are there within all of us; love, sadness, longing, betrayal – these emotions feel the same to each of us on the inside no matter what we look like on the outside.
Sticks & Stones continues through to June 12th in the Van Fleet Theatre within the Columbus Performing Arts Center at 549 Franklin Avenue, and more information can be found at http://evolutiontheatre.org
Yank! The Musical (Evolution Theatre Company – Columbus, OH)
June 4, 2015 January 24, 2016 Chuck III Columbus, Theatre brent fabian, closeted, doug joseph, Evolution Theatre Company, gay, jesika siler lehner, jimmy bohr, musical, nick hardin, william mackle, WWII, yank, zellnik
All I knew of Yank! The Musical before seeing the Evolution Theatre Company production of it (twice) this past week was that it was about gay men in the military during WWII. And, yes, very generally it is about that, but it is also so much more. Written by David & Joseph Zellnik (brothers, not lovers) and first publicly performed in 2005, the show ran off-Broadway in early 2010 (as Yank! A WWII Love Story) for just over a month. That cast was reunited for the belated 2013 recording of a cast album, and now here we have the Midwest theatrical premiere of this notable and important show.
The show opens with a millennial talking about an old, abandoned journal that he found in a thrift shop, and from there the history of the journal plays out from when it was first given to Stu (Nick Hardin) as he heads off to basic training. Stu just doesn’t fit in with the rest of the guys, the kind that trash talk and are vulgar and seem at home in the military, but he is quickly befriended by Mitch (William Macke), a guy everyone in the squad likes. In between drills and polishing shoes, Stu develops feelings for Mitch, and it appears that to some extent Mitch does the same for Stu, but neither knows what to do about it. Ah, this was the ’40s, when being “light in the loafers” was synonymous with “faggot,” and you’d better lust after Betty Grable or otherwise face ridicule. Fortunately, Stu meets Artie (Brent Fabian), a photographer for “Yank Magazine” (published for servicemen) and who is also gay (but has embraced it on the sly). Artie gets Stu a journalist position with the magazine, and they leave to cover stories, with Artie showing Stu all the tricks to finding men and being convert. When Stu and Mitch meet up again after some time has passed and the war has started to take its toll on them both, they find that their feelings are still there and decide to explore them in secret.
As long as there have been people there have been gay people, and yet I never thought anything about gays being in the military and what that was like especially during WWII until this play. I had heard about men meeting in public restrooms and various tapping and hand gestures meant to signal to those in the know, but that is all of a different generation. I think it is hard for younger people to understand just how far society has come in regards to gay people when it is now largely acceptable to be out, so plays like this are doubly important. Yank! The Musical is smart, sensitive, and realistic, and the music perfectly captures the era while also moving the plot forward. Stu isn’t a gay stereotype, and Mitch isn’t your typical closeted man either. As in real life, the truth is so much more complicated than that.
I’m consistently surprised by the quality of productions by the Evolution Theatre Company of Columbus, Ohio, and Yank! The Musical is my favorite production of theirs yet in the two years I’ve been attending their shows at the Columbus Performing Arts Center. Director Jimmy Bohr has taken a rather small performing space in the Van Fleet Theater, where the audience is so very close and seated on bleachers in the front and on the sides, and used it as an advantage in telling this story. The show moves and changes locales easily with minimal props or set pieces needed, and the actors often appear from behind the audience and walk between the bleachers to the front.
I’ve been to enough local shows in the past few years to recognize some of the actors, and it always tickles me to see them tackle such different roles seemingly effortlessly. I was glad to see Doug Joseph ham it up again (albeit in several smaller roles here) after hilarious turns in The Divine Sister (Short North Stage) and Psycho Beach Party (Immersive Theater), and it took me a while to recognize Nick Hardin as being the moody and rambunctious Chicklet from Psycho Beach Party I wouldn’t have thought the same person did such utterly different roles had the program not tipped me off; as well as the expression of disgust Nick gives at one point, reminding me of Chicklet’s constant expression. Special attention should be paid to Jesika Siler Lehner playing all six female roles, seamlessly transitioning between each and making them feel like completely different people, many with a different posture and gait, all with different costumes and hair. She goes from sexy torch singer to butch lesbian to wholesome mom with ease, believable as always. I had not seen Brent Fabian in anything before, but man can he tap! His Artie is knowing and sly while also being sympathetic. I look forward to seeing him again. William Mackle and Nick Hardin have genuine chemistry, though on the surface they don’t look like two people that would necessarily be drawn to each other, but that’s kind’ve the point.
Somehow they found actors with “period” faces and bodies, all looking at home in the setting of the story. Take a picture of any scene in the play in black and white and it would pass for a photo from seventy years ago, no question. There is a brief nude scene at the beginning showing seven of the guys from behind and to the side, all looking so different and comfortable, and it’s a credit to this production that such a titillating moment (for me anyway) is far from the best reason to see this show – it’s a highlight, to be sure, in a show of many.
I only wish there were more chances to see this terrific production again. I saw the preview performance on Wednesday as well as the Sunday matinee, all performed like the cast had been doing the show for months and enjoying it.
**** out of ****
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April 3rd, 2018 (Lexington, KY)
LBX Company LLC, Lexington, Kentucky has raised $47,500 in support of the American Heart Association’s (AHA) annual Life is Why We Give™ campaign. LBX made a commitment to donate $500 for every Link-Belt excavator, forestry machine or material handler retailed in February in North America. This is the second year that LBX has participated as a national supporter of the campaign.
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While stumbling (it seems that StumbleUpon is a rich resource for blogging fodder) I came across an interesting website which I assumed to be a collection of thought-provoking games. As I read through the website, however, and began to play some of the games, I realized that the games had been developed for a reason other than entertainment. One of these games, developed by Singapore-MIT game lab, was developed to help clinically depressed persons see the beauty in life and ultimately relieve their depression. The game is called “Elude” and the website’s description of it says:
“Developed by Singapore-MIT Gambit Game Lab, Elude is a dark, atmospheric game that aims to shed light on the nature of depression. You play a little guy exploring a beautiful yet forbidding world. The world has three distinct levels, each a metaphor for a different mental state.
The forest that you start the game in represents a normal mood. You can ascend to a higher plane – happiness – by climbing the trees in the forest. From, here you can leap joyously up into the sky by jumping on floating flowers and leaves. The leaves and flowers disappear after you have touched them and eventually none are left to keep you aloft and you plunge down into the third game area: depression.”
This struck me as odd; a video game supplying some medical remedy instead of a doctor or medicine. But after considering this for a while, I began to realize, why couldn’t a video game help to cure someone of their depression? A game has the potential to elevate someones mood, even give thema different outlook on life. But that largely depends on the elements of the game. Does one connect with the character? Does the story accomplish the goals it sets out to achieve? I ask these questions after playing a short online video game, but perhaps this concept could be expanded into a longer video game. And perhaps it already has? Would you consider games like “The Sims” or “Second Life” to be an example of this game, being that a player can create a character in their image but give them a better/different life that they can control? Are there studies that show the effects of these games from Singapore-MIT game lab? Discovering this game has led to more questions than answers, but it is just another link between the worlds of video games and learning.
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This is a really great article on how our troops are using video games in Afghanistan and Iraq during their off-time. I wasn’t aware that soldiers were allowed to bring gaming devices/laptops overseas, but it makes sense so that they don’t lose their minds from boredom.
One of the Marines interviewed actually said playing Call of Duty 4 made him think more about the fact that he was taking a life from his Humvee; he couldn’t really see the death from his gunner position, but when playing CoD you’re often in a direct line of sight of who you’re shooting.
There are some really great stories and anecdotes in this article and I highly recommend you all to take a look at it.
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News: Blade Runner visions of live-action Akira flood early director’s concepts
Posted on July 5, 2016 by Elisabeth O'Neill in News // 2 Comments
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Akira‘s live-action interpretation has been stuck in development hell at least since 2002, when it was first publicly announced. Since then, various directors have hopped on and off the Warner Bros. project, and though now it’s looking like Fast and Furious and Star Trek Beyond‘s Justin Lin could be at the helm, it was a very different picture early in proceedings. One of the first attached was Irish director Ruairí Robinson, best known for his sci-fi horror tales such as The Last Days on Mars and the Child’s Play-like short ‘BlinkyTM’.
He was well into the production stages before he left, for the studio then to hire From Hell‘s Albert and Allen Hughes. Bloody Disgusting previously dug up the Hughes brothers’ unused Akira storyboards, but now the horror news site has discovered concept art from Robinson’s incarnation of the film, originally shared by himself in 2014. As well as imagining Captain America‘s Chris Evans as Kaneda and Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Tetsuo (renamed “Travis”), the stunning setting concepts from Charlie Wen frame Neo-Manhattan as a Blade Runner-esque cityscape of mountainous rain-slicked steel and concrete.
If you’re curious to see more, a full gallery of concept art, plus storyboards, can be found at Robinson’s official website.
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TheWarner // July 5, 2016 at 6:42 pm // Reply
I like Chris Evans and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, they’re both good actors and I love looking at them…they’re gorgeous. Even so, I don’t want to see either of them cast as Kaneda or “Travis” in a live-action Akira film. I cringe at the thought of the liberties that will be taken with casting and adapting a live-action Akira film. There are far too many Asian actors out there for Chris Evans and Joseph Gordon-Levitt to be cast in these roles.
Dominic Cuthbert // July 5, 2016 at 6:56 pm // Reply
I agree. The erasure of Asian actors in Hollywood has already gone on long enough. To see Akira full of casicasions would be a crime.
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HCS (I, 6): LSU Homecoming Part 2: Tigers and Rage
Posted on March 3, 2012 by g-mo
“You a terrorist, boy?”
“No sir, I’m just an LSU fan.”
-Dialogue between Halliburton employee and Janos Marton, 10/05
Alex got into Crystal’s car with Ronnie, while Josh, Janos, and I rode in Subi. I pulled the car onto the on-ramp and almost immediately lost Crystal in construction traffic. This was unfortunate because we didn’t know anything about LSU and had neither Ronnie nor Alex’s phone numbers. However, we were versatile and in road trip mode, so I pulled off an exit to a gas station to survey the alcohol situation with Janos. We had three-quarters of a handle of Smirnoff Razz. To complement, we purchased six bottles of Boone’s Farm (I wistfully thought of Come As You Are and Derby parties from yesteryear) and an eighteen-pack of Bud Light. It turned out campus was a mile away from the gas station, so twenty minutes later, the three of us were walking alongside the homecoming parade, armed with an overflowing backpack of wine coolers, beers, and vodka. The parade was extraordinary in its level of celebration. There were no less than twenty cars, each crawling slowly down the road around the main quad, advertising the Homecoming court members with marquee banners as students threw candy and body paint to the crowd. We walked alongside this display, past tents where alumni families had set-up barbeque areas and children played touch football, and finally settled down beneath a large oak tree on the far side of the meadow.
Janos sloppily finger-painted the letters of the school on his forearm as we each broke open a bottle of Boones. I lay my head back against the autumn grass and stared through the branches, wondering how high I could tilt my Strawberry Breeze before it would trickle sticky all over my bearded face. We sat in a three-man circle, picking grass stalks systematically and letting the festivities settle into ambient melody to our Saturday afternoon.
An hour, five Boone’s Farms, three beers, and two trips to the restroom in the Visitor’s Pavilion later, we remobilized and started walking up the promenade along the defunct parade route. Janos led the way, marching around languid personas like a real-time steeplechase, the whole while engaged in some staggering monologue about Lyndon B. Johnson’s response to Hurricane Betty. We still have no tickets, nor do we know where our friends are, Josh offered. Janos Marton turned to the two of us and while walking backward in front of us, tossed his arms on our shoulders.
“No talk of that, Josh Potter. This mission is ours and ours alone.” His twisted, knotted hair tossed around before his fiery eyes as he grew more animated. “Don’t doubt this university! Jesus Christ, Huey Long is rolling in his grave over your… your resounding disbelief in the nature of our mission. Huey Long tells us that the time has come for all good men to rise above principle, and look at you Josh Potter, worried about principles like tickets and location. We will rise above. Onward!”
Janos lurched forward into the center of an alley of alumni tents. It is difficult to fully capture the brilliance of a drunken monologue by Janos Marton, but if I had to peg it in historical context I’d call it a cross between William Wallace encouraging his kinsmen in the face of sure defeat and Hunter S. Thompson nonsensically deriding his Vegas ether-ridden surroundings. The man marched forward with heavy steps, parrying the slower pedestrians and drawing a path for Josh and me to follow. He stopped suddenly.
“Guillermo, look at that tent!”
I turned and saw an alumni tent flying a Haliburton flag. My stomach turned in anticipation of trouble, and sure enough Janos was halfway to the tent across the gold and purple sea of LSU fans. By the time I caught up to him, he was in the midst of a conversation with one of the Haliburton alumni, politicizing and chatting it up as he does. Cordial as hell, “just happy to meet a Haliburton employee here at the big game, you all excited about them fighting tigers,” and various etceteras when from nowhere a ruddy mustached man pushed his way from the middle of the tent to our edge and grabbed Janos by the shirt.
“Are you a terr-o-rist, boy?” he angrily shouted. His breath was laced with enough bourbon that I could smell the Southern Comfort from behind my best friend, the good half-Hungarian, half-Indian, brown-skinned and longhaired, and only two-term Dartmouth College student body president in history. Janos threw his hands up. Josh had arrived by this point and watched the confrontation hesitantly from Janos’ other shoulder. The three-hundred pound Southerner stared warily at Janos as the other Haliburton employee stepped back and laughed. Janos was confusedly terrified.
“Uh, no sir, not at all.” Janos paused. “Just an LSU fan, that’s all.”
The man grunted and released Janos, turning his attention back to the large plastic cup in his hand and away from our side of the tent. We fled immediately as the other Halliburton employee apologized to our receding backs. That was the only personal experience I have ever had with the Halliburton Company.
Our next course of action was to acquire game gear as soon as possible to prevent such Patriot Act tactics from further derailing our Homecoming experience. We signed up for college credit cards at a booth across from the on-campus tiger pit, where the school kept a live Royal Bengali Tiger named Mike. In return for our false applications with false phone numbers and addresses that listed Pass Road as home, we threw on gold and gray LSU t-shirts. We spent the next thirty minutes sitting in a small knoll with our backs to the tiger pen, drinking beers out of our backpack and watching children play touch football before us. It was a good nod to my own memory, as the children ran the same quarterback sneak over and over again. We assigned arbitrary names to the kids marching up and down the thirty yard field: Tough Guy, Sidelines, Sixteen. My favorite player was Tough Guy’s little brother, Little Guy. Little Guy was pushing a half decade in age, looking for cues from the giants all around him, lining up next to Tough Guy on every play, getting runover by Sixteen on hikes, springing up in the dust, chasing the opposing quarterback fruitlessly, and doing it all over again each play. Watching Little Guy’s sweat run down the bones of his dirt-caked cheekbones made me think of things that we could almost forget. I drank my beer and watched until their parents broke up the game, and the three of us stood up to finally try to find tickets.
By now it was nearly four o’clock, but our logic was so: the economy of scalping had a finite time during which value kept itself artificially high before it would collapse below the price floor and tumble down to affordable prices. Therefore, if we waited long enough, the scalpers would get desperate enough to offer us prices we unpaid servants of servants could afford. On top of all this, LSU was playing Appalachian State of all teams for its homecoming game, a Division II school it had never before competed against. The stadium couldn’t possibly be filled to capacity for this game, even for Homecoming. Right? Right, Josh affirmed as we made our way through the crowd along the periphery of the stadium.
We were rounding the third gumbo station when Alex and Ron burst out of the lulling crowd, forkfuls of dripping jambalaya in hands. Their dilated pupils barely acknowledged the surprise of our encounter, and the blue cooler they were flanking was definitely part of the equation.
“Ay, boys,” Ronnie grunted between chews. I turned to talk to Interiors Alex, but he had already disappeared back into the purple sea of fans and children. It turned out that after arriving on campus and settling for the possibility of randomly running into us at some point in the afternoon, Alex and Ronnie had spent the last two hours of their time purchasing tickets from scalpers, five at a time, then re-selling them for profit. They had done this enough times to have started with seats in the third tier of the stadium and upon Alex’s most immediate return, had acquired six seats eight rows from the field. Brilliant. I ate a spoonful of jambalaya and smoked a cigarette, and we carried the cooler and a folding chair over to the tiger side of the stadium for the incoming homecoming parade. Janos passed out in a chair in the middle of oncoming parade traffic and we had to drag him back into the crowd where he continued to snore through the drums and the horns, sunglasses in place. It reminded Potter of “Weekend at Bernie’s,” which was so on point. He slept like this for another forty minutes before we woke him up to go drink vodka with us.
Alex and Ronnie went in with Crystal, who wordlessly followed Ron around this entire time. However, drinking was not allowed in the stadium, so the two J’s and I settled behind some shrubbery at a nearby dorm and swigged more vodka. Josh began smoking cigarettes, which meant he was pretty drunk as Josh only smoked when he drank. We ran out of beer, which meant it was time to charge the stadium, burst through the barbaric gates, and watch Tigers tear up Mountaineers or whatever the poor Appalachian State mascot was. Janos came up with a brilliant idea to circumvent the drinking rule— we poured Smirnoff into Budweiser bottles and brought them in sticking from our pockets, brilliance in a nutshell. We flew through the turnstile, found our eighth row seats, and heartily cheered our stealth by clinking our bottles. The security guards descended upon us within seconds.
“Sirs, give me all the bottles you have on you.” It was only then that we began to realize our extreme error of substitution; this was funny later but irksome at this point to hand over close to twenty ounces of vodka to LSU security. Oh drunken stealth, as clever as any wild, inhibition-free tough guy, sneaking through that museum on that mission to steal that Ming vase or the equivalent through glassy eyes. No, no, distraught and caught, we contemplated our loss sadly before the ridiculous university brought their ridiculous tiger onto the field and then we cheered boisterously. Mike the Tiger, if only it had been you instead of Keggy the Keg, I mused between bites of popcorn. The poor displaced animal circled the stadium echoing with Cajun screams of approval. Mike returned to his cage and was carted off the field.
Cindy?
The game was blurry. Someone sitting behind us knew one of the Appalachian State cheerleaders by name, which we then shouted endlessly until Cindy stepped out of line post-cheer at the beginning of the second quarter, threw her hands up, and asked from eight rows away whether she knew us. LSU was just trouncing the other team, so I think we left Ronnie and Crystal and descended through the tunnels of the complex just after halftime. We retrieved the rest of the vodka and our backpack from the shrubbery from earlier, and marched on to a keg stand taking place in the middle of a field. We got some beer and continued on some time, through the dark mist of the October field before we realized we had lost Alex. Undeterred, we wished him luck wherever he was and continued on to drop the bag off with Subi on the far side of campus, then to the bar scene of Baton Rouge. We did just that, but lost Potter in the process who was content to end his night in the backseat of that car.
We were down to two, and down to a fifth of the handle or so left from the vodka. Janos and I walked through the damp grass, skirting circumferential quad paths for a direct route, through the dew to the bright lights of the bars. Along the way we decided to climb part way up a fire escape to drink the last of the vodka, where we talked about family. I wish often that I could remember more of what was said- I later worried that it was important. But honestly, it was all a blur straight into an open air bar full of sweat and loud music. I drank as much as I did the entirety of the day, and it kept going down as the lights staggered and flailed in oval halos across the fields of my sensually failing vision. Lights. And women.
Mistakes were made.
I blacked out and came to making out with someone in the back of a pick-up truck. Rather than perfume or femininity, she smelled like sweat. Terrified, I sat up and gathered my immediate guesses about the situation, whatever subliminal facts I had gathered in the spaces I couldn’t remember. Janos dancing with some girl and me interrupting him to yell “hang out.” And this person, a kindergarten teacher. A Waffle House blonde wants me to come to the hotel ten miles out of town. I had been making out with this woman.
I confusedly tried to get to my feet, and fell out of the truck bed onto the gravel parking lot. Undeterred, I stood up, said good night, and sprinted back through the bar. Janos was nowhere. I ran through out into the night, where the street was pooling with the drunken sway of 2 a.m., through and back onto campus, running until I realized it called attention to myself so walking until I realized I had no idea where I was so then finally sitting against a wall, pulling my cell phone out, and acknowledging that it was very much out of batteries.
Throughout time many a man has been passed on the street, lost and alone, on some rock in Neolithic times, outside a way-station pub during the Middle Ages, head in hands outside the Chicago Greyhound, kicking the can around the train station at Roma Termini. And now I, another man whose silent pride had me sitting helpless, staring at a blank cell phone. Of course I didn’t know where the car was. All I had was Josh Potter’s phone number scrawled on the back of a business card. I breathed out and stared into the cracks of the sidewalk sprinkled with a new, light rain.
“Hey man, you alright?”
I looked up to see baggy blue jeans, a red jersey, headphones around a neck, a doo-rag. I collected myself accordingly, swallowed it all in my miserable solitude, and asked.
“Do you have a cell phone I could use for a second? Mine is dead and I’m kinda lost.”
The kid shrugged and reached into his pocket.
“Yeah, I got one.” He handed me salvation in the form of Nextel’s bluescreen. It was 2:45 a.m., I noted, as I thanked the guy and dialed the phone number in my pocket.
“…hello?” Groggy Josh.
“Josh, you have to help me, I just made out with the most enormous woman I’ve ever made out with—“
The cell phone owner started laughing so hard that he was leaning with his hands over his knees. I smiled politely and continued explaining my tenuous situation to Potter, who listened with a sleepy interest and gave me the name of the building Subi was parked in front of.
“Whose phone are you talking on?”
“Hey,” I turned to the kid. “What’s your name, man?”
“Brawn,” he said, still laughing at me. “My name’s Brawn.”
I hung up and asked Brawn which direction the building was.
“Aw, that’s over on the west side of campus…do you know where the pond is? (No.) You know what, it’d be a lot easier if I just walked you over there, it’s only a bit out of my way, I’ll walk you there.” Brawn led me through the night mists of the deserted campus, littered with beer cans, and talked with me about LSU, the state of SEC football, and Joseph Addai. Twenty minutes later, I was waving good-bye to him and getting into the driver’s seat of Subi, where Janos lay curled in the trunk and Josh Potter had taken the passenger seat.
My first memory as a child was getting my left ankle broken in half as a result of sticking it in the spokes of my father’s bike while riding on the back. I was three and we lived in Japan. That may seem irrelevant, but my second memory was the burgundy backseat of the guy’s car that drove my father and I to the emergency room for emergency ankle reconstruction. Some guy driving around the Naval base that drove us to the ER, in and out of my life at such a crucial moment, then gone. I never thought another cameo in my life would hold similar significance until now, remember the sight of Brawn walking up through the haze of the sodium lampposts, replacing his headphones carefully, bobbing his head slowly to his nightcap lullaby, turning a corner around a building and then gone forever. I closed my eyes and slept.
I woke up the next morning with a wicked cough and curled up in the backseat as we made our way home. The three of us stopped at a Burger King attached to a gas station and I hazily grabbed what I thought was a bottle of cough syrup to quell my insistent throat, swigging half of it back and figuring that’d do the trick. Only 20 minutes later as I fell to my knees in a Louisiana bathroom stall did I realize I’d purchased Brand X Nyquil instead. When my friends finished breakfast, they had to wake me up from semiconsciousness and help me to my feet to get me back to the car. When I came to, we were already back in Biloxi and Finch of all people was standing in the middle of the field. As Janos went to greet and I stumbled to my feet, Casey’s mother appeared to hug me and tell me they were leaving. And that I had no idea what this and all of us meant to her son. I put on my hardest smile and wished them the best before slinking back away from the building and toward a few stragglers sitting at the remnants of the Termite campfire. I sat down defeated, looked over at a woman half asleep in a sleeping bag, and then introduced myself to some guy who’d just returned from a 3 week long drunken hitchhike through Virginia, Denver, and Juarez. He was Ryan Quinnelly, and that’s when I met him.
But in terms of LSU, yeah. That’s how it all went down.
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Didn’t you leave your glasses in the Burger King bathroom?
I was laughing for the entire second half of this story. Ladarla in the truck? I remember you rambling on Brawn’s phone about a pond, and me saying something like, “Guillermo, here they call it a bayou” and hanging up on you. Also, we slept late enough into the morning that people were tapping on our windows and taunting us like zoo animals. I’m not even sure it was a legitimate parking space. | cc/2019-30/en_middle_0017.json.gz/line1419 |
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A strong comeback to the mainstream by Jay Sean.
English singer and songwriter, Kamaljit Singh Jhooti, better known by the stage name Jay Sean, drop a new hit with “Gucci Mane” and “Asian Doll“.
Though, We haven’t heard from Jay Sean in a hot minute.
The “Down” hitmaker was previously signed to Cash Money Records, leaving in 2014 and taking them to court for unpaid royalties.
He’s been silent on the release front for years but after the success of “Down,” we all know that he can pull out another hit
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"Are you feeling better now?" Mo Han asked, sitting down.
"Yeah," Xia Qingyi only nodded and sat down to eat.
Mo Han sat opposite her, and the two of them ate in silence. Xia Qingyi slowed down as she ate, thought, and spoke in the end, "I want to try and look for them."
"What?" Mo Han looked at her.
"My past memories." Xia Qingyi said seriously, "I thought a lot, and I feel that I can't always remain like this and stay at your house. You have to lead your own life. And I also want to know what happened to me in the past, I want to try and find my past memories."
"How are you going to do it?" Even though Mo Han did not look at her, Xia Qingyi felt that his face did not look good.
"I... don't know... I can probably start by looking at the hospital records first."
She could hear that Mo Han's tone was not happy, and he kept his head lowered as he ate. "Did you think that I didn't try before? Before your adoption, I thoroughly searched there and I didn't find any useful information at all."
"Then... from the alley that I'd remembered. Even though it's hazy, but I... still want to try... if I could remember a little bit more..."
Xia Qingyi was interrupted by Mo Han. "Start your investigation from a hazy image?! Don't you think this is very impractical?"
She felt a little angry and put down her bowl and chopsticks. "So, you're saying that you don't want to let me check?"
Mo Han kept silent and did not speak.
Xia Qingyi wanted to laugh. "I'd remember eventually even if you don't let me check. I can't use my memory loss as an excuse to borrow this Xia Qingyi identity, use your sister as an excuse to keep on living here!"
Since the period when they just started to know each other, the both of them clearly knew their own identities. From then on Xia Qingyi never mentioned the relationship between the two of them, so she had almost forgotten the fact that she was not Mo Han's sister, that she was not Xia Qingyi.
"What I mean is investigate after you've remembered something more precise," Mo Han was also shocked as he had not not thought that Xia Qingyi would say something like that.
Xia Qingyi narrowed her eyes at him and said nothing.
"I have to confirm that the things you remembered today are indeed real and not your imagination."
"I remember it very clearly, it was real and it did exist," Xia Qingyi pouted.
"Then you still have to wait until after I find you a psychiatrist and confirm it with him."
"I don't need to see a psychiatrist, I'm fine."
"Calm down for a few days first, I'll bring you to see a psychiatrist. If you remember something again like today in the future, a psychiatrist will be of some help to you," Mo Han said sternly.
Xia Qingyi considered his words, and felt that they made sense.
"Hurry up and eat, the food's getting cold," Mo Han said from opposite her.
Xia Qingyi did not have any appetite at all, she put down her chopsticks after eating a few bites. The events of this morning felt like a stone crushing her heart, no matter whether she was sleeping or eating, a sentence kept resurfacing in her mind from time to time.
That was the last sentence she remembered when she was saved.
If I'm still alive, I won't be coming back. You can treat me as though I've never existed. If I'm dead, just take it as repayment for your kindness for all these years.
"What did you say?" Mo Han heard Xia Qingyi mutter something with her head down.
"Eh?" Xia Qingyi lifted her head and looked at Mo Han with a stunned expression.
"What did you say just now?" Mo Han continued asking.
Xia Qingyi realized that she had probably said the sentence aloud accidentally, but she herself could not think of the reason or the scenario for the sentence; there were no other hints at all.
Just like how she knew that it was a wide world behind her, but she was trapped in an alley with a dead-end by this sentence, pacing impatiently as she watched the white sky, and all she could do was wait.
She did not intend to tell Mo Han about the sentence for now, she wanted to wait until everything was clear before telling him.
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__label__wiki | 0.564429 | 0.564429 | William N. Finnegan IV
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William Finnegan is highly respected by the market and has a wealth of experience to offer clients. Peers are quick to praise him and note that "he has terrific relationships with clients and is very smart."Chambers USA 2016
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William N. Finnegan IV is a partner in Latham & Watkins' Houston office. He has an extensive practice covering a broad range of corporate and securities transactions, including the representation of issuers and underwriters in public and private offerings of debt and equity securities, negotiating and structuring public and private company acquisitions, forming and financing joint ventures and partnerships, and advising on general corporate and securities transactions.
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Recognized by Texas Lawyers’ 2019 Professional Excellence Award for Lifetime Achievement.
Known as a top-flight attorney with deep experience in M&A and securities transactions. He is notably active in the oil and gas space, and is described by a peer as "brilliant, bright, and creative." Chambers USA 2019
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Energy Transfer Partners LP — US$18 billion acquisition of Regency Energy Partners LP
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EXCO Resources Inc. — US$725 million joint venture with Harbinger Group, Inc. to create a private oil and gas partnership
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Southcross Energy Partners in its US$180 million initial public offering (Counsel to the Company)
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“Saffron Terror” Hmmm…
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The term “Hindu Terror” has been around for quite sometime now on news channels, media reports, newspapers etc. I’m writing this post following yesterday when the Indian Home Minister, Mr. P. Chidambaram publicly used the term “Saffron Terror”. It was sort of making the term “official” coming from a professional like him on a public platform. Being in a Hindu-dominated country this has already raised many eyebrows… or has it? Well here are some of my reflections on this issue:
Why did the Home Minister use this term: Isn’t he scared that this may cause disturbance among the Hindu citizens of the country and the UPA may lose the Hindu vote? Now the BJP says that the UPA is politicizing this issue only for targeting the BJP and the RSS and thus unnecessarily insulting the holy “saffron” colour. Let’s assume that UPA is actually politicizing this! Do you think the HM, as eminent and experienced as he is, will be so dumb to do such a thing? Isn’t the Hindu voter more valuable to the UPA than pointing fingers at BJP and the RSS?
How good or bad is the HM’s bold move: I admire and appreciate the boldness of the Home Minister for coming out in public and finally terming this ‘menace’ as it ‘can’ be called. All the public has anyways seen this issue with the tern “Hindu Terror” for quite sometime now, and NO-ONE had an objection to that! But when someone from the Government says it, should that be a big problem?
National Awareness: I also admire the UPA government for the courage of going ahead and bringing this issue out in the public because it is a menace! This actually requires attention! The UPA government in its past 5 years had risked its chair twice centering around the Nuclear Deal and even recently during the potential Adjournment Motion in Parliament. I give it to the HM for stating the truth than just bothering about how the Hindu voter would respond.
Are Hindus actually offended: I don’t think so! Even since the term “Hindu Terror” had been used, there were no media reports anywhere about the people’s hatred against the term and not even so for yesterday’s HM remarks. However, from interacting with my Hindu neighbours and friends, the average Hindu is sad that these certain elements are bringing a bad name to the beauty of Hinduism that glorifies a remarkable tradition since ages! I’m so proud of all my Hindu brothers that they don’t give a shit to these “in-house” terrorists and strongly consider them irreligious. Same goes to all the Muslims all over the world for completely disregarding filthy groups like the LeT, JuD, Taliban etc. as elements that can never be part of Islam, even though those groups have used the term “Jehad” by themselves.
So then what is the problem: The Government is ok to use the term. The people are ok to use the term. Then who has the problem then? As of now, it’s the BJP. They are accusing the UPA for politicizing this issue and bringing a bad name to the Hindus of this country. But I’ve given an insight on this in my first point above. Is the BJP guilty that they are forced to making these comments? I think so… very much! Take the members of the RSS for example, or Bajrang Dal or Pramod Muthalik and his goons, working under the title of “Sri Ram” Sena. If the BJP is REALLY concerned of Hindu emotions, then they should go against people like these and the misuse of Lord Ram’s name in such petty groups! The BJP being in the Hindutva soup that they always are engrossed in, I think it’s the BJP that needs to worry about the Hindu voter, and that’s why THEY are politicizing this issue against the UPA than facing the reality of the situation.
BJP the real terror: In a BJP dominated state like Karnataka, my city of Mangalore, for the first time in its history saw communal violence consecutively for the past three years. All these times it was either the “saffron people” against the Christians or the “saffron people” against the Muslims causing violence in the name of Lord Ram and Indian Culture! What was and what IS the BJP doing then and NOW???
Experts say that post Independence Indian Governments have ignored or have “taken it lightly” when it came to these rising terror groups for which we’re paying the price today! We have to compliment the Home Minister that he has taken this bold step to have taken a start to put an end to the emerging “Saffron Terror”. I appeal to all Indians of any religion to look at terror as “Terror” whether its Saffron, White or Green. | cc/2019-30/en_middle_0017.json.gz/line1436 |
__label__wiki | 0.903629 | 0.903629 | The creator behind the best sex games talks art, intimacy, and gay culture
Robert Yang makes indie games dripping with sex.
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By Jess Joho 2019-06-09 13:00:00 UTC
Every day of Pride Month, Mashable will be sharing illuminating conversations with members of the LGBTQ community who are making history right now.
It might sound reductive or even eking on offensive, but in his own words, Robert Yang makes "obscenely gay" art games.
By design, the homosexuality drips off the screen in his most well-known games, played by millions despite being indie, NSFW, and often banned by platforms like Twitch. Whether it's a game about "pleasuring a gay car" or a simulation of historic police entrapments targeting gay men in public bathrooms (but replacing penises with flesh-colored guns in an attempt to circumvent the Twitch ban), Yang's work balances the seriousness of its subject matter with a joyousness of play and humor, never sacrificing depth in the process.
It's a disservice to diminish Yang to a single niche. The New York University Game Center professor also makes more meditative and strictly academic games, like the Borges-inspired Intimate, Infinite or an Emily Dickinson experiment titled Much Madness.
What makes Yang's work such a testament to the medium as an art form, though, is how he captures the beautiful, honest awkwardness of our naked selves. While mainstream games champion hyper-idealized heternormative power fantasies, Yang reveals how limiting that is by exploring the experiences of those the power fantasies leave out.
Through games that are extra as hell, he shows the pride in being loudly visible in spaces that don't make room for you.
The interview below has been edited for length and clarity.
Mashable: Tell me your origin story with games — how did your relationship to games first begin then turn into a vocation? What made you want to start creating games about intimacy and gay experiences?
Robert Yang: I grew up modding my favorite video games like Starcraft or Half-Life. I also grew up gay and closeted. When I started coming out in college, I wondered why those two parts of my life were separate. There were so many books, movies, and YouTube compilations of German soap operas to help me make sense of my sexuality (my favorite gay soap storyline was in Verbotene Liebe) yet there were very few video games about young gay people trying to figure out their shit.
Then I realized I could make those mods and games and stories myself; this was paired with the sobering realization that this work would make me basically unemployable in the AAA game industry because it was "too weird." Even today, I am now pigeon-holed as "that guy who makes the weird gay sex games." Even if it's a fabulous thing, who wants to be reduced to just one thing? But I think I'm coming to peace with that. If I'm stuck in the pigeon hole, that means no one else will get crammed into it. I'll hold the door open for everyone after me.
Mashable: From your perspective, what about video games makes them uniquely equipped for explorations of intimacy and LGBTQ experiences? Why is there such a strong community of queer creators in games, despite the industry’s obvious homophobia?
RY: Haha um I think I don't agree with the premise here ... right now, video games are NOT uniquely equipped for intimacy or LGBTQ experiences. Game culture is still a hostile environment for LGBTQ experience in so many ways. Every major internet platform is policing sex and queerness; Steam and Itch.io are definitely rare storefront platforms that tolerate sexuality, but what's the point if Tumblr, YouTube, and Twitch oppress us to ensure we have no audience or community? Why should any game journalist or streamer cover us, when the main thing that gets them viewers is Fortnite and regurgitated AAA PR announcements? There's no oxygen left in the room.
And that's even if you manage to make and finish a game! Making a game about intimacy is still really difficult and experimental. Game developers have decades of research and resources for how to put a gun in a game, how to make the gun feel accurate and fun to shoot, etc. But comparatively we have very little history or context for making games about gay cuddling. How would you even do that, what are the patterns and design conventions here?
Queer creators are on the forefront of researching these design problems, because the industry certainly won't invest in it. That bright future of cuddling games is possible only if we support and fund brilliant queer folks like Heather Flowers, Ryan Rose Aceae, Mitch Alexander, Hien Pham — otherwise, like a lot of creatives in 2019, eventually we all just burn out.
Mashable: Do you see your games (and others like it) as a form of activism? What role can games play in furthering LGBTQ rights, representations, etc?
RY: I'm really against the idea of the "empathy simulator" — the tech industry's desperate attempt to sell VR headsets as a way to experience other peoples' lives. My games are not, and never will be, "gay simulators" or ways for straight people to know what being gay is like, because a video game alone cannot possibly convey that experience. If this stuff is to have any activist function at all, it's more about a basic level of representation, awareness, and political conversation. A game can help you identify blind spots or broaden your horizons, but it's still up to you to fill in that gap and do something.
But honestly, we're still a long way away from that kind of literacy about games. We still have many game industry veterans who think their video games have no politics or ideological assumptions.
Mashable: I love how you embed real-world stats on anti-LGBTQ violence and race into the coding of your games, like in Tearoom. Why is that important to you?
RY: I like playing with the idea of simulation. In terms of game balance, what's the difference between a 43 percent probability, or a 43.253 percent probability sourced from an anti-discrimination study? The difference is conceptual. 0.253 percent doesn't change the behavior of the simulation in a significant way, but it does change what it all means. A statistic has politics that reach outside of the game code, like a ghost in the machine. More games should seek to haunt us.
Mashable: What are some of your grounding principles for translating intimacy and sex into the rules and systems of a game (like, for example, consent?)
RY: I start with some sort of core idea, and then think about how consent emerges from that. If consent should be negotiated, how do we simulate a negotiation in a game — should the player try different options at different times to see what the game's submissive agrees to do with you (like in my game Hurt Me Plenty), or maybe technological consent takes the form of a EULA [End User License Agreement — like those pesky iTunes Terms of Service] that you click through without reading (like in Cobra Club). In my upcoming game Macho Cam, consent is a deck of cards that you construct, symbolizing the things you are willing to do for money.
Consent is the foundation of intimacy, consent is what makes sex sexy. Foreplay, seduction, someone begging you for more, marginalized people understanding how society will punish them for their intimacy but bravely defying society anyway — and consent is also the foundation of games and play, because every game requires willing players.
Mashable: Of course they're much more than just this, but many of your games are characterized by a wonderfully freeing, unapologetic, in-your-face Gayness with a capital G. It’s not dissimilar to what some folks love about Pride parades. Why is that so central to your work?
RY: LGBTQ people are often told that we'll be tolerated if we hide our gender and sexuality and bodies behind closed doors. OK, so we did that in sex shops, theaters, clubs, and bars, with these nice big doors. But nope. The police still raided and shut these places down. I guess Stonewall didn't have the right kind of door, and LGBTQ people weren't the right kind of public!
This history teaches us not to trust society's false promise of respectable privacy, because they will always change what they mean by public or private. That's why respectability politics is a trap, and that's why public sexuality will always be necessary at Pride. Leather queens making out in the street is also what convinces a "normal" monogamous tax-paying gay couple that it's safe enough to hold hands on the sidewalk.
lol this is the same company that bans my gay games and refuses to explain why... happy pride, everyone https://t.co/Q9pNo7yD5w
— Robert Yang (@radiatoryang) June 1, 2019
Mashable: You’ve had issues with Twitch banning your games, too. Then Tumblr went anti-sex, affecting part of Cobra Club. What do you make of these bans and other negative reactions to the sexuality in your games?
RY: If we hide our sexuality, that means straight people define what our sexuality means.
Take Twitch: When they ban games, it's a punishment usually reserved for creepy child porn or rape simulator games. So when they also ban my games about consensually spanking a man or consensually showering with another dude, that equivalent treatment sends a message: Twitch is saying that gay men are basically rapists. I don't know about you, but that sounds pretty damn homophobic to me.
Instead of banning my games, what if Twitch moderated my games with the adult content controls that are ALREADY BUILT INTO THEIR WEBSITE? We'll never know, because Twitch refuses to explain why they banned my gay games, or what they'd want from me in the future.
So my message for the LGBTQ community is this: Don't let tech companies like Twitch wave rainbow flags while pushing homophobic, sexphobic policies. These companies want more control over the internet and our lives, but none of the responsibility or ethical questioning. It's 2019, so many of us live and work on the internet now. This matters. Don't let them get away with it.
Mashable: Sex in mainstream games is, well, lacking. Queer representation is nearly non-existent. What do you see as the industry’s most common mistakes or issues when it comes to representation of sex, intimacy, and/or queerness? Are you hopeful for the future?
RY: In mainstream commercial video games, sex is when you fade to black. Sex is a point in time, but just a brief point. My games do something basic: They dedicate actual space and time to sex, and depict sex with duration. You spend time doing sex. Even a teenage sex comedy movie understands that masturbation takes time, and that's where it finds humor. We don't even have the equivalent of teenage sex comedies in video games. Or look at Fifty Shades of Grey which was some kinda basic erotica, and so many people loved it. The world is so thirsty for thirst, so desirous of desire, and gamers are willing to settle for the 5 minutes of sexual situations allotted in a 50-hour Bioware RPG? Look at that untapped market, look at that blue ocean. What if, gasp, we just made games that let the sex marinate and breathe?
So much of the commercial game industry is ruled by fear. Everyone copies each other to appease scary investors who demand huge unrealistic returns. It's also no accident that the audience for romantic or erotic work is mostly women, and the straight men in charge of the game industry ultimately want to keep video games for the boys. Again, fear is powerful. To preserve their world, they must destroy every other world.
Sexuality, intimacy, and queerness, can only thrive when we have "a room of our own" AND when we're not locked in that room, you know? For now, I guess I'll fight to preserve that possibility of another world, and wait for a hero.
Read more great Pride Month stories:
Meet the trans man who sued Trump for the right to serve in the military
This Iranian activist wants to give every LGBTQ refugee a new chance at life
Explore Stonewall National Monument's digital makeover and add your own story
WATCH: Black Women Animate is trying to change the media industry for black women
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__label__cc | 0.635083 | 0.364917 | MMHA collaborates with iHV on PIMH conference #iHVPIMH19
19th June 2019 Amy Tubb News
This year’s Institute of Health Visiting (iHV) conference, in collaboration with the Maternal Mental Health Alliance (MMHA), will focus on the importance of good relationships in perinatal and infant mental health (PIMH) care.
“We are delighted to collaborate with iHV on their second annual PIMH conference and look forward to welcoming delegates, hearing from those with experience of PIMH care and discussing opportunities to improve relationships and access to specialist services.” Clare Dolman, Vice Chair of the MMHA
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Summer 2019 campaign e-bulletin out now
The Everyone’s Business Summer 2019 e-bulletin has all the latest updates from the Campaign, including details about:
Progress in England and the remaining challenges.
What’s happening with the £50 million in Scotland
How campaigners in Northern Ireland are making the case for specialist services.
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Infant Mental Health Awareness Week 2019
6th June 2019 Amy Tubb News
10th to 16th June 2019.
A week-long campaign organised by The Association for Infant Mental Health UK (AIMH UK).
This year’s topic is ‘Difficult Beginnings’.
What’s happening and how to get involved
AIMH (UK) will be sharing articles each day following a different theme, see full list on the AIMH (UK) website.
Join in the discussion on Twitter using #IMHAW19.
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Positive steps taken in Scotland to improve access to inpatient care
30th May 2019 Amy Tubb News
In 2015, the Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland carried out a themed visit to find out how many women received care in a local adult acute ward, without their baby, during a period of perinatal mental illness. They found that just over one third of women were separated from their baby, sometimes for a prolonged period. In Scotland, it is a legal duty for Health Boards to provide joint mother and baby admissions. Continue reading Positive steps taken in Scotland to improve access to inpatient care →
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Political parties in Northern Ireland agree landmark maternal mental health Consensus Statement
9th April 2019 Amy Tubb News
“We in Northern Ireland urgently request the commitment of investment and ring-fencing of funds required to ensure women, babies, families and communities get the care and support they need and deserve.”
– Consensus Statement on the improvement of Perinatal Mental Health services in Northern Ireland
Despite the stalemate in Stormont, all political parties in Northern Ireland have co-signed a ground-breaking Consensus Statement, drafted as part of the Maternal Mental Health Alliance Everyone’s Business campaign, committing to close the gap in specialist mental health provision for women during pregnancy and the first year after giving birth.
England, Scotland and Wales have faced similar challenges with their specialist perinatal mental health services, but in recent years each have seen significant improvements due to specific and targeted investment. While stakeholders in Northern Ireland have shown support in principal, until now a formal commitment had not been made. Continue reading Political parties in Northern Ireland agree landmark maternal mental health Consensus Statement →
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NHS England announce specialist mental health support for new mums now available across England
The Maternal Mental Health Alliance’s (MMHA) Everyone’s Business campaign welcomes today’s announcement from NHS England about the opening of specialist perinatal mental health services in the remaining areas of England, meaning women should now be able to access life-saving care in their local area. Continue reading NHS England announce specialist mental health support for new mums now available across England →
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UK Maternal Mental Health Matters Awareness Week 2019
27th March 2019 Amy Tubb News
29th April to 5th May 2019, organised by MMHA member the Perinatal Mental Health Partnership (PMHP).
A week-long campaign dedicated to talking about mental illness during pregnancy or after having a baby and signposting to support for all mums. The focus is on advocating for mums affected by maternal mental health and helping them to access the information and help they need to enable recovery.
This year’s theme for the third annual UK Maternal Mental Health Matters Awareness Week is Mums Matter.
Highlight what your organisation does to support families affected by perinatal mental illness
Join in with the daily activities listed below
Use the #maternalmhmatters hashtag on social media when referring to the week
Continue reading UK Maternal Mental Health Matters Awareness Week 2019 →
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Spring 2019 campaign e-bulletin published
The Everyone’s Business campaign Spring 2019 e-bulletin is now out, including details about:
Nicola Sturgeon’s announcement of more than £50m for perinatal and infant mental health
London turning the map green
NSPCC NI’s new report saying it’s ‘time for action’
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First Minister announces more than £50m funding boost for perinatal and infant mental health services
On 6th March, First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, and Minister for Mental Health, Clare Haughey, visited the mother and baby unit (MBU) at St John’s Hospital in Livingston, Scotland, where they announced that more than £50m is to be spent on improving access to perinatal mental health (PMH) services.
Following the funding announcement, the National Managed Clinical Network (MCN) for PMH launched their needs assessment report, funded by the Scottish Government, and Women and Families Maternal Mental Health Pledge, which was developed in partnership with Maternal Mental Health Scotland Change Agents.
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The Maternal Mental Health Alliance (MMHA) responds to the launch of NHS England’s long term plan
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January 7th saw the launch of the NHS Long Term Plan, setting out their ambitions for health care in England, including many positive goals for perinatal mental health.
Commenting on the publication of the NHS long term plan, The Maternal Mental Health Alliance (MMHA) Director Emily Slater welcomed the plan’s announcement and commitment to women and families in England, in particular the news of an increase in services to benefit more women and the extension of specialist mental health support for new parents, which will now be offered for two years after the birth of their child.
Emily Slater said:
“The Maternal Mental Health Alliance is really pleased to see that the NHS has committed to expanding perinatal mental health services and helping more women and families access vital treatment. The details of the long-term plan signals that the NHS wants to build on the success it has had creating specialist perinatal mental health services to ensure more women and families can access essential, lifesaving support.”
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I think of a snapshot of a single period of a doubly periodic function as one parallelogram-shaped tile in a tessellation. Could a function have a period that repeats like a honeycomb or some other not rectangular tessellation?
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$\begingroup$ What kind of functions are we talking about here? $\endgroup$ – Qiaochu Yuan Apr 28 '11 at 19:38
$\begingroup$ C--> C, complex $\endgroup$ – futurebird Apr 28 '11 at 19:50
$\begingroup$ The fact that there exist functions that "repeat like a honeycomb" does not contradict the fact that the fundamental domain is a parallelogram, and in fact a rectangle. Suppose two parallel sides of the hexagon are horizontal. Go from the center of one hexagon in a horizontal direction until you reach the next center of a hexagon (thus NOT one of the ones that are adjacent to the one you started in) and that's one side of a rectangle. Then go from that same center in a vertical direction until you reach the next center (of a hexagon that IS adjacent to the one where you started$\,\ldots\qquad$ $\endgroup$ – Michael Hardy Aug 25 '16 at 22:23
$\begingroup$ $\ldots\,$and that's another side of the rectangle. $\qquad$ $\endgroup$ – Michael Hardy Aug 25 '16 at 22:23
(many literature searches and Mathematica experiments later...)
The usual Jacobi and Weierstrass elliptic functions have as their "repeating unit" a parallelogram (which can be made rhomboidal or square through appropriate choices of parameters). It is known that apart from parallelograms, hexagons can tile the plane by translation; so, why can't there be a doubly periodic function that has a hexagonal repeating unit?
It turns out that A.C. Dixon (the guy whose book on elliptic functions Hans linked to), in a long 1890(!) paper, studied a class of elliptic functions (now named after him) based on the inversion of the Abelian integral
$$\int\frac{\mathrm dt}{\left(1-t^3\right)^{2/3}}=t {}_2 F_1\left({{\frac13\quad \frac23}\atop{\frac43}}\mid t^3\right)$$
where ${}_2 F_1\left({{a\quad b}\atop{c}}\mid x\right)$ is a Gaussian hypergeometric function.
There are two of these Dixon elliptic functions, $\operatorname{sm}(z,0)=\operatorname{sm}(z)$ and $\operatorname{cm}(z,0)=\operatorname{cm}(z)$, corresponding to the usual sine and cosine respectively. Both functions have a real period $\pi_3=B\left(\frac13,\frac13\right)$ (where $B(a,b)$ is the beta function) and a complex period $\pi_3\exp(2i\pi/3)$, and satisfy the following relations (reminiscent of usual trigonometric identities):
$$\begin{align*} &\operatorname{sm}\left(\frac{\pi_3}{3}-z\right)=\operatorname{cm}(z)\\ &\operatorname{sm}^3(z)+\operatorname{cm}^3(z)=1\\ &\operatorname{sm}^\prime(z)=\operatorname{cm}^2(z),\quad \operatorname{cm}^\prime(z)=-\operatorname{sm}^2(z) \end{align*}$$
and, most relevant to the purposes of this question, a rotational invariance:
$$\exp(-2i\pi/3)\operatorname{sm}(z\exp(2i\pi/3))=\operatorname{sm}(z),\quad \operatorname{cm}(z\exp(2i\pi/3)) =\operatorname{cm}(z)$$
Plots of the Dixon functions on the real line don't look very interesting:
but, as with the usual elliptic functions, the fun starts in the complex plane:
These contour plots clearly display the hexagonal structure of the Dixon functions. Here is a single "fundamental period hexagon" for $\operatorname{sm}(z)$:
Note that a section of the real line (in the plots above, $\left(-\frac{\pi_3}3,\frac{2\pi_3}{3}\right)$) corresponds to a chord of the period hexagon.
Both Dixon elliptic functions possess three poles (once you've identified the congruent poles in the period hexagon) and three zeros within the fundamental hexagon. Of course, one could go the usual route and consider the "repeating unit" of the Dixon function to be a particular rhombus; this is equivalent; since the rhombus can be appropriately dissected into a regular hexagon, and vice-versa.
The Dixon elliptic functions can also be expressed in terms of Weierstrass elliptic functions:
$$\operatorname{sm}(z)=\frac{6\wp\left(z;0,\frac1{27}\right)}{1-3\wp^\prime\left(z;0,\frac1{27}\right)}$$
$$\operatorname{cm}(z)=\frac{3\wp^\prime\left(z;0,\frac1{27}\right)+1}{3\wp^\prime \left(z;0,\frac1{27}\right)-1}$$
(there are also expressions for Dixon functions in terms of Jacobi elliptic functions, but they are rather complicated.)
Finally, if you're interested in knowing more about the Dixon elliptic functions (including combinatorial applications), this paper is a good starting point.
A Mathematica notebook for those interested in exploring the topic further is available from me upon request.
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$\begingroup$ So this makes me wonder: what about the other 15 wallpaper groups? $\endgroup$ – graveolensa May 2 '11 at 21:40
$\begingroup$ @deoxy: That's an interesting question, too. Maybe you should ask it as a separate question? $\endgroup$ – J. M. is a poor mathematician May 3 '11 at 5:11
$\begingroup$ Yeah, and what about tessellations in other geometries? $\endgroup$ – Raskolnikov May 3 '11 at 7:52
$\begingroup$ @J.M. this question: math.stackexchange.com/questions/36737/… $\endgroup$ – graveolensa May 3 '11 at 17:45
$\begingroup$ @Michael, "None of this should be taken to mean you don't get a parallelogram as a fundamental region." - yes, I did mention the dissection into a rhombus in this answer. $\endgroup$ – J. M. is a poor mathematician Dec 17 '16 at 20:16
I don't think so. If there are exactly two periods (not parallel), then we have a parallelogram, so in your case there must be at least three independent periods. But that implies that the function is constant (or multi-valued), as proved for example in this old book by Dixon on elliptic functions (see §32 on p. 19).
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$\begingroup$ On the other hand, Hans displays something almost, but not quite hexagonal here (scroll down to the equianharmonic case of the Weierstrass $\wp$ function). $\endgroup$ – J. M. is a poor mathematician Apr 28 '11 at 19:40
$\begingroup$ I think it depends on how the tesilation works, I just realized that if you create you honeycomb bu translation it can be repartitioned in to parallelograms. Now if we ad a rotation, then it would not work. I think that this needs to be restricted to tesilations where you can pick up the whole plane and map it to itself after translation and rotation. --- still, it's not obvious to me that there are more than three periods... Can you expand on that? $\endgroup$ – futurebird Apr 28 '11 at 19:47
$\begingroup$ Well, as you say, you can have a honeycomb pattern, but that's really just a doubly periodic pattern in disguise (with periods 1 and $\exp(i\pi/3)$, say). If you really want to go beyond the case where there is a fundamental region in the shape of a parallelogram lurking somewhere, you will have to look for something with more than two periods, and that is apparently not possible. $\endgroup$ – Hans Lundmark Apr 28 '11 at 20:59
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Next to La Scala’s main entrance you will find the Ristorante Teatro alla Scala “Il Marchesino”, run by celebrated Italian chef Gualtiero Marchesi. The perfect place to enjoy an aperitif or dinner before or after the show, the restaurant is open Monday to Saturday from morning to late evening. Booking recommended.
LA SCALA SHOP
The La Scala Shop is located inside the opera house and can be accessed from the street and from the stalls foyer during performances. The La Scala Shop sells CDs, DVDs, books and other La Scala-related items.
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__label__wiki | 0.777741 | 0.777741 | Governor Creates Task Force on Women in Sports
In the hopes of developing strategies that support and promote opportunities in Michigan for girls and women in sports, Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed an executive order creating a task force to help accomplish that goal. The Task Force on Women in Sports will be housed within the Department of State and chaired by Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson. The task force will develop recommendations to the governor and State of Michigan on legislation, policies, investments, and programs to address the problems.
The members appointed to the task force are:
Penny Allen-Cook, commissioner of the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association
Dr. Ketra Armstrong, an associate dean, professor of sport management and faculty athletics representative at the University of Michigan
Kathy Beauregard, director of intercollegiate athletics at Western Michigan University
Keri Becker, director of athletics at Grand Valley
Lorin Cartwright, retired athletic director and athletic trainer from Pioneer High School
Carolyn Cassin, president and CEO of Michigan Women Forward
Dr. Judi Brown Clarke, diversity director for the BEACON Center at Michigan State University
Cali Crawford, incoming director of athletics at Schoolcraft College
Joanne C. Gerstner, sports journalist in residence at the School of Journalism at Michigan State University
Jennifer Grange, an advocate for nonprofit and charitable causes
Mike Guswiler, president of the West Michigan Sports Commission
Carol Hutchins, head coach for softball at the University of Michigan
Sam Mullet, offensive coordinator for the Bear Lake varsity football team
Erika Swilley, senior director of community and social responsibility for the Detroit Pistons
To read the full executive order, please click here.
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__label__wiki | 0.514719 | 0.514719 | Introducing The A. Lange & Söhne Lange 1 20th Anniversary Set (Price & Specs)
Today, at the Watches & Wonders fair in Hong Kong, A. Lange & Söhne have just introduced five different Lange 1 20th Anniversary sets. These commemorative sets, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the A. Lange & Söhne Lange 1, comprise a Lange 1 and a Little Lange 1, each with a gorgeous hand-crafted guilloché dial. COLLECTORS, PAY ATTENTION : there are just 20 sets in each colour!
The new sets each comprise a normal-sized Lange 1 (that means 38,5 mm in diameter) and a mid-size Lange, which measures 36.1 mm in diameter. The latter has 64 brilliant-cut diamonds (Top Wesselton, VVS, 0.8 ct) set onto the bezel. There are five case/dial variations: platinum/black, platinum/rhodié, white-gold/blue, pink-gold/argenté and pink-gold/black, and each variation is limited to 20 sets. Enough to chose from, if you’re looking for a his & hers Lange 1, however we’re sure they will be sold out in a jiffy.
In the first 20 years of its existence, the Lange 1 appeared in a smaller size before: the Petit Lange 1 Soiree, which was adorned with diamonds and featured a mother-of-pearl dial. And yes, there have been normal-sized Lange 1’s with a gulloché dial as well. There was the Lange 1 Soirée that did not have any glittering stones, however it came with a guilloché MOP dial. And there was the Lange 1A, which can be considered as a true collector’s dream. That one was issued in 1998, to commemorate the inauguration of the second Lange manufactory building, and was a limited edition of 100 watches in yellow gold with an 18-carat yellow gold guilloché.
And also in today’s newly announced Lange 1 20th Anniversary sets the main attraction is the dial, now in solid-silver, that is guilloched by hand.
In both the Lange 1 and the Little Lange 1 ticks the manufacture calibre L901.0; a beautifully finished manually wound movement, that is visible through the sapphire crystal in the caseback.The signature three-quarter main plate, made in German silver that is adorned by Glashütte ribbing (the German variant of the better-known Côte de Genève) and features in gold set chatons, heat-blued screws and of course hand-engraved balance cock, a typical A. Lange & Söhne treat. The twin main spring barrels boast 72 hours, or three days, of power reserve when fully wound, and it’s mechanical heart beats at the rhythm of 3 Hz (21,600 vph.) As a hint to the limitation AND the 20th anniversary of the A. Lange & Söhne Lange 1, the balance cock is now engraved with the number 20.
Retail price in the US will be $98,100 USD for each of the pink gold sets, $100,500 USD for the white gold set and $122,900 USD for each of the platinum sets. Lange & Söhne have chosen a very nice way to celebrate their first born, and I would not be amazed if the 5 x 20 sets will all be spoken for, before the Watches & Wonders fair ends. Which is you favourite colour?
More info: www.alange-soehne.com
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__label__cc | 0.682597 | 0.317403 | --Bushland Management
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Trees within Mosman are protected under part 3 of SEPP (Vegetation in Non-Rural Areas) 2017 and managed under the Urban Forest Management Policy. A property owner is responsible for trees, and vegetation, growing from within the boundaries of their property. This includes branches, and roots, which overhang or grow into adjoining properties.
All pruning work on private and public land requires Council consent unless work is undertaken on an exempt species as listed in Mosman’s Development Control Plans – Preservation of trees or vegetation as shown within the Urban Forest Management Policy. You can also see Preservation of Trees or Vegetation which includes exempt species below.
Changes to 10/50 Vegetation Clearing Scheme
Effective 12 August 2015, the 10/50 Clearing Entitlement Scheme has been significantly amended. The entitlement area for the Mosman Local Government Area has been reduced from the original 56% of residential lots affected to 6% of residential lots now affected.
It is the property owner’s responsibility to ensure all works under this scheme comply with the recent changes. Some of the notable changes (but not limited to) include:
Exclusion of all parcels of land (lots) that are wholly or partly within 100 metres of the NSW coastline map and mapped estuaries, as provided by Land and Property Information from the operation of the 10/50 scheme
Clarification that landowners will not be exempt from civil liability as a result of negligence or damage occurring during landslip and soil erosion as a result of their clearing
Category 2 vegetation as listed on Bushfire Prone Maps is excluded from the operation of the scheme
Non-combustible exempt developments such as decks, suspended slabs and pools which have been constructed according to the State Environmental Planning Policy (Exempt and Complying Development Codes) 2008 are excluded from the definition of ‘external wall’
That section 100R of the Rural Fires Act 1997 is to be amended to include a provision requiring landowners to obtain the written consent of all neighbours for which they are using the distance from those neighbour’s building to clear vegetation on their own property
Given the significant reduction of the areas covered under the scheme, Council urges any property owner wishing to use this scheme to remove trees to check if their property is still covered.
The following information is provided to assist the community:
Residents should visit the NSW Rural Fire Service website to self assess whether their property is within a clearing entitlement area and works are in accordance with the RFS code of practice .
Regarding trees on public land – Land owner’s consent is required, there is no obligation for council to allow removal or pruning of trees or vegetation. Residents are not permitted to remove vegetation or trees on Council land.
Any works required to be carried out on public owned trees, where access is required from public land, prior written approval from Council must be obtained through a Tree Permit Application. Application for Tree Permit for Public Land
Pruning of public trees from private property – Council strongly recommends that a tree permit assessment is obtained from Council to ensure works conform to the RFS code of practice and Australian Standards. This will also ensure that trees maintain their structural integrity and limit future management issues. Any works carried out not in accordance with AS 4373 are in breach of the RFS Code of Practice as well as Council’s tree preservation. All breaches will be investigated by Council and may result in prosecution and penalties imposed under relevant legislation. Application for Tree Permit Private Property
Property owners are under no obligation to remove or prune trees on their private land.
Residents concerned about the negative effects of the legislation should make a submission to NSW Rural Fire Service at NSW Rural Fire Service (RFS) attention the RFS Commissioner.
If a resident has a genuine fire concern the process is to send correspondence in writing to Council or RFS. The RFS will inspect the fire complaint and provide feedback to both the resident and Council.
Enquiries regarding this scheme should be directed to the Rural Fire Service on (02) 8741 5555.
Trees Mosman mobile app
Created by Mosman Council’s tree experts, Trees Mosman offers a simplified way to submit a tree permit application, request a street tree planting, report suspicious tree work and determine tree protection zones when planning construction or development works.
Loaded with high quality images and detailed descriptions of exempt species, a frequently asked questions page and links for tree-related information and issues it provides an easy and efficient way to manage trees.
Trees Mosman can be downloaded free from the iPhone App Store and Google Play.
Management of Trees on Private Property and Public Land
Applying to Carry Out Tree Work
Application forms for tree work, on either private or public land must be completed and paid for online. Application forms can be accessed via the link below .
Application for Tree Permit Private Property
Application for Tree Permit for Public Land
It is the applicants’ responsibility to provide sufficient information to support the reasons for the requested tree work, particularly for tree removals. Failure to do so may result in consent for the requested works being denied.
Only the owner of a tree or their authorised agents can apply to remove a tree. Applications for trees that are growing on common land (e.g. Strata Plan) must be accompanied by either a letter from the managing agents or minutes of the relevant Strata Plan meeting indicating the majority of owners support the application.
Pruning Overhanging Branches from a Neighbour’s Tree
Council does not have the power to compel a property owner to prune or remove a tree (unless under exceptional circumstances) which is, or is perceived to be, impacting on another property (excluding Council land).
Any person who is affected by overhang from a tree growing from within an adjoining property, including Council land, may apply to prune the overhanging branches. All pruning, if approved by Council, must be undertaken to Australian Standards (AS4373-2007).
If access is required into the adjoining property to undertake the work correctly the property owner must provide the applicant with approval to access the property for works to be carried out. If the pruning does not require access to the tree owner’s property the owner of the tree is not required to give their approval for works to be carried out. In such cases, if Council consent is granted for the works, the consent does not give authorisation to the applicant, or engaged contractor, to enter the tree owner’s property.
In some circumstances Council may insist that the applicant consult with, or inform, the tree owner of the intention to prune their tree prior to Council consent being granted.
Pruning or Removing of Trees Contained Within a Neighbouring Property
If a person wishes to prune a tree contained entirely within a property which they do not own, they will be required to have that property owners written consent for works to be carried out before it can be assessed by Council.
Disputes between neighbours regarding trees are civil matters. Council has no role to play in solving such disputes. If a tree dispute cannot be resolved amicably residents may wish to contact the Community Justice Centre on 1800 990 777 or visit their website at www.cjc.justice.nsw.gov.au.
Trees Protected Within a Development
Council will not accept a tree permit application to remove a tree which is protected under a Development Consent. In such cases a Modification Application must be submitted to amend the Development Consent.
If pruning of a tree is required on a development site a tree permit application must be submitted outlining the pruning work required.
Trees Located on Council Land
All vegetation on Public Land is protected under the Local Government Act and part 3 of SEPP (Vegetation in Non-Rural Areas) 2017. Council permission is required to undertake any work on Public Land. Any person or organisation can apply to undertake work on Council trees and the application will be assessed as outlined below.
Assessment of a Tree Permit Application
Council’s Tree Management Officer will assess the application and provide the determination to the applicant. This process usually takes up to 10 working days. The assessment and determination is based on a visual inspection of the subject tree and consideration of the documentation provided with the application. Council does not provide a tree consultation service and the assessment is not a tree hazard assessment.
What will Council consider when assessing a tree permit application?
The assessment and determination of the application will address, but not be restricted to, the following;
The health and or condition of the tree or trees; including useful life expectancy and previous pruning record;
Amenity value of the tree including visual amenity, ecological value, heritage significance, and the tree’s value as habitat;
Severity and relevance of problem reported;
The number of healthy trees that a parcel of land can support;
The impact that the proposed work, whether pruning or removal, will have of the tree or the landscape as a whole.
There are a number of other factors that do not usually warrant pruning or removing trees. These include:
A tree is shedding leaves, fruit, bark, cones or twigs, particularly where fouling gutters and pools.
A tree is causing minor shading.
Unsupported fears about healthy trees/ branches failing
A tree is causing minor structural damage, such as to footpaths or driveways.
A tree is causing blockage to pipes, unless the damage is serious and recurring.
Generally Council will not permit the removal of trees to improve views.
What happens following assessment of a tree permit application?
Once an application has been assessed, the determination will be provided to the applicant. Any work is to be undertaken in accordance with the determination detailed on the assessment. Council will not contribute to the cost of any approved tree works.
For approved tree work on public land the applicant must engage one of Council’s approved contractors to undertake the works. The work and payment are to be organised directly with the contractors.
It should be noted that tree work can be a dangerous task requiring extensive training and specialised equipment. Indiscriminate lopping or pruning can also reduce the long-term safety and health of a tree. For these reasons it is recommended that a professional tree worker or arborist, who is adequately qualified and insured, be engaged to undertake the work.
Unless otherwise indicated on the assessment all pruning must conform to Australian Standards (AS4373-2007 Pruning of Amenity Trees).
Appealing a Tree Permit Assessment
If you are not satisfied with the assessment you may formally appeal the assessment by filling out an Application to Appeal Tree Permit Assessment , accompanied by an independent arborist’s report. The matter will be reported to Council for a final determination. A fee is required as per Council’s pricing policy.
Planting Replacement Trees
It is Council policy that a replacement tree be planted to replace any tree removed. Exceptions to this may be made at the discretion of Council’s Tree Management Officer and will be noted on the assessment. Specifications for the replacement will be shown on the assessment form.
Leightons Green Cypress
At the Council meeting on 15 August 2006 Council formalised it’s position to discourage the planting of Leightons Green Cypress, Cupressocyparis leylandii. At times these trees have been planted to the detriment of neighbours’ views and solar access. The Leightons Green Cypress is a particular problem as it is readily available in advanced sizes, it is fast growing and has a dense habit.
Since formalising its position in regard to Cypress Leighton Green, Council has:
Continued to eliminate the species from landscape plans through the development application process.
Made the tree exempt from Council’s tree permit application process.
Forwarded information to property owners outlining the detrimental effects Cypress Leightons Green can have on neighbours.
Advertised Council’s position regarding the species in the Council Column in the Mosman Daily.
Council requests property owners consider their neighbours’ solar access and views in planting trees on private property and keep hedges of Cypress Leighton’s Green pruned to a suitable height.
Urban Forest Management Policy (327kB)
Unauthorised Tree Work
Any person who carries out tree work without Council’s consent may be liable to substantial fines and/or conviction in a court of law. A person may also be liable for a penalty for engaging or allowing another person to remove or prune a tree without Council’s consent.
Reporting unauthorised tree work
If unauthorised tree work is suspected the details of the incident should be noted and reported immediately to Council on 9978 4000.
Trees (Dispute Between Neighbours) Act 2006
Put simply this Act provides property owners a legal avenue to have tree issues they believe are unreasonably affecting them or their property considered by the Land and Environment Court. Information on the Land and Environment Court website states:
The purposes of the Act are to enable the Court to make orders to remedy, restrain or prevent damage to property or to prevent injury to any person when a tree that is situated on adjoining land might cause that damage or injury. The Act also permits the Court to order compensation for or rectification of damage caused by a tree.
The Act does not allow the Court to make orders solely for other purposes (such as lopping or removing trees which block views).
However, the Attorney General has recently undertaken a review and made a number of recommendations which will modify the act. Information on the NSW Government Lawlink website states that under the new laws to commence on August 2, 2010, the Act will:
empower the Land and Environment Court to hear disputes about high hedges that severely block sunlight to a window of a dwelling on adjoining land, or views from such a dwelling;
support the enforcement of court orders by allowing councils to recover the cost of trimming or removing any trees plus a prescribed administration fee;
give the subsequent owner of the property the right to enforce certain orders made under the Act;
give the court authority to hear disputes over trees that have caused damage but have since been removed;
allow the court to make orders in relation to problem trees and damaged dividing fences;
enable the court to hear tree disputes on land zoned ‘rural-residential’ but only where a tree is causing damage or risking injury;
include vines as a prescribed plant under the Act.
Before The Court will hear a case it must first be satisfied that the applicant has made a reasonable effort to resolve the matter with the owner of the land on which the hedge is situated. Where resolutions prove difficult, residents can now apply to have the court intervene without the requirement for a lawyer. The Court will have the power to intervene in cases where a hedge has severely impacted a neighbour’s views or access to sunlight.
The legislation will empower the Court to determine the appropriate height at which a hedge should be maintained through making a balanced judgment regarding the right to privacy versus the broader benefits of maintaining healthy urban vegetation.
Should the land owner upon which the hedge is located choose to ignore the Court’s order, councils will be given the power of enforcement and be able to charge the cost of enforcement and a prescribed administration fee to the resident.
Both the and the provide information on the Trees (Disputes between Neighbours) Act 2006 and are useful resources for anyone with an interest in the purpose and application of the new legislation.
Cases which have been determined by the Court in the past have been based on expert advice and resident submissions and all involve site inspections. The Court also uses Acting Commissioners with arboricultural or related expertise. A review of cases displayed on the Land and Environment Court website shows the Court is taking a balanced and considered approach to matters which it addresses.
The community of Mosman values its trees and Urban Forest assets. Council protects and manages trees on public and private property in Mosman through its Urban Forest Policy and Local Environmental Plan. While Council is happy to provide information to residents on tree management in Mosman it will not become involved in disputes between neighbours. Council will provide assessments on trees where a permit application has been submitted for pruning or removal. Assessments do not provide comment on whether a tree is a hazard to persons or property.
Council will provide the following information to the Court for its consideration in matters involving trees on private land in Mosman. (Note the following documents are available on Council’s website or under Council’s open file policy).
A copy of Council’s Urban Forest Policy.
A copy of the relevant parts of Council’s part 3 of SEPP (Vegetation in Non-Rural Areas) 2017 and DCPs.
Advice on whether the subject trees are covered by Council’s part 3 of SEPP (Vegetation in Non-Rural Areas) 2017 and DCPs.
Advice on whether the subject trees are included in Council’s Urban Forest Management Register.
Any valid tree permit applications or assessment documents on the subject trees. (Tree permit assessments are valid for 12 months).
Preservation of Trees or Vegetation – Includes List of Exempt Species
Part 3 of SEPP (Vegetation in Non-Rural Areas) 2017, through the use of Preservation of trees or vegetation in Mosman’s Development Control Plans, is used by Council manage the pruning and removal of trees on both Council and private land.
Part 3 of SEPP (Vegetation in Non-Rural Areas) 2017 applies to the following:
All trees which:
are 5m or more in height; or
have a circumference of 450mm or more measured 300mm above ground level; or
are listed on Council’s Urban Forest Management Register; or
are 2m or more in height, only if located in a heritage conservation area, or if are a heritage item or form part of a heritage item.
Tree ferns (Cyathea australis & Cyathea cooperi) which are 2m or more in height.
Part 3 of SEPP (Vegetation in Non-Rural Areas) 2017 does not apply to the following:
The following trees:
Camphor Laurel, Cinnamomum camphora (with height < 10m)
Citrus Trees, Citrus spp.
Cocos Palm, Syagros romanzoffiana
Coral Tree, Erythrina x sykesii
Cotoneaster, Contoneaster spp.
Cypress, Cupressus Spp.
Giant Bird of Paradise, Strelitzia nicolai
Hackberry, Celtis australis
Hibiscus, Hibiscus spp.
Leyland Cypress (Leighton Green) and its cultivators, xCupressocyparis Leylandii
Mulberry, Morus spp.
Norfolk Island Hibiscus, Lagunaria patersonii
Oleander, Nerium spp. and thevetia spp.
Paw Paw, Carica papaya
Privet, Ligustrum spp.
Prunus, Prunus spp.
Rubber Tree, Ficus elastica
Umbrella Tree, Schefflera actinophylla
Wild Olive, Olea europaea subsp. cuspidata
Willow, Salix spp.
Plants or weeds that are declared to be a biosecurity risk by Council or the Department of Primary Industries, including those legislated as notifiable or a prohibited matter under the Biosecurity Act 2015.
Tree and vegetation that may be cleared under the 10/50 Vegetation Clearing Scheme, pursuant to the Rural Fires Act 1997.
Pruning of trees to provide adequate clearances for power lines carried out by Ausgrid contractors under relevant legislation.
Dead wood in trees on private land.
The maintenance of trees and/or vegetation on roads and public land, if such action is considered appropriate by Council and is undertaken by Council or persons approved and authorised by it to perform any of the actions listed in Part 3 of SEPP (Vegetation in Non-Rural Areas) 2017.
Note that all vegetation on Council (public) Land is protected and any work will require the lodgement of a tree permit.
Trees and Their Impact on Private Assets
Due to the large number of trees in Mosman most residents live in close proximity to a street or park tree and unfortunately associated conflicts can arise. Council has therefore decided to develop and implement uniformed practices to address problems of impacts from Council trees.
Damage to sewer and stormwater pipes in particular is a difficult and time consuming issue. To assist residents and Council the following information has been prepared to enable all parties to resolve such issues in an efficient and consistent manner.
Trees are an important part of the character of Mosman and the community values the amenity trees provide. Council understands that trees can sometimes affect privately and publicly owned assets near them. The following information is provided to clarify Council’s position and provides advice on the course of action residents should take when there is a concern that private property has been damaged by a tree growing on public land.
Who is responsible for private in-ground services?
A property owner is responsible for the upkeep and maintenance of in-ground services, such as sewer and storm water pipes, even though they may run through or adjoin private and public land. That is a resident is responsible for pipes servicing their property, not only within their property boundary but also, for example; to the sewer main.
How do trees affect in ground services?
Tree roots can enter in ground services causing the pipes to be blocked. While it is possible for a tree root to crack a pipe this is uncommon if the pipe has been installed and maintained correctly. Tree roots often enter a pipe as a result of the pipe failing, usually through deteriorated seals in older pipes.
Why do tree roots enter in ground services?
Tree roots are opportunistic and grow towards wherever conditions are favorable. They do not actively search for water. Tree roots will follow a pattern of growth where, when they come in to contact with water/nutrients, they will grow towards an increasing concentration of water/nutrients. Tree roots will only usually enter pipes that have a fault and are leaking water.
Why might my in ground services be leaking?
Sewer or storm-water services may crack for a number of reasons including the age of the pipe (old terracotta), failure at a joint, ground movement, etc.
What process should I follow if it is alleged the damage or blockage is caused by a tree growing on Council land and I wish to make a formal claim for the cost of repairs?
You should obtain 3 written quotations for the necessary repair works.
If excavation through a council road or footpath is required, you will need to obtain a road opening permit which is available from Council.
Necessary repair work can be undertaken to avoid any further damage and/or reduce the hazard. Note that at this stage Council has not accepted any liability for damages and the decision to undertake repairs is made by the owner of the asset.
During the course of the works you must arrange for a council officer to inspect the exposed pipe and confirm if Council tree roots have caused the problem or whether the pipe has been damaged for some other reason.
While on site the council officer will take photos as a record to be referred to later if necessary.
It is recommended that you also keep your own records.
If you would like to take further action it will be necessary to make a formal claim against Council for the cost of repairs if you are of the opinion that Council has been negligent in some way. All information gathered above should be included in your claim.
What happens if it appears that the roots are the cause of the problem?
The matter will be referred to Council’s insurers for assessment of liability including the cost for the repairs. For Council to be considered liable for any damages the asset owner will need to provide evidence of negligence of Council and how any such negligence resulted in the damage.
Why does Council take this approach?
It is important to follow the process above as the works relate to a private asset and may involve spending public funds on the repair. The above process needs to be followed for both insurance and governance purposes. This information is provided to advise of the importance of having clear evidence to forward to insurers if there is a claim in the future, particularly if there is a chance the initial damage may have been the result of other causes. The clearer the evidence provided the greater the likelihood of a positive result through any insurance claim.
How can I manage my in ground services so that I can prevent this happening in the future?
The most efficient way to prevent root damage to your services is to replace the old terracotta pipes with new PVC or UPVC ones and use pressure seals. Other methods include the type and compaction of the backfill around these services which help prevent root growth in these areas. Also using chemical or mechanical forms of plumbing equipment to control root development in the pipes, but this may only be a short term solution and might not prevent root ingress in the future.
Pruning of Trees for Power Line Clearance
The pruning of trees to provide adequate clearances for power lines is carried out by Ausgrid contractors. For further information or enquiries please contact 1300 738 733.
All initial enquiries and requests for tree permits should be directed to Council’s Corporate Support Team on 9978 4000 between the hours of 8.30am and 5.00pm Monday to Friday.
For further information on the preservation of trees, nominations for the Urban Forest Management Register or other tree management issues contact Council’s Tree Management Officer on 9978 4000.
Enquiries about Council’s bushland should be directed to the Bushland Officer.
Council approved contractors for Public Tree permits
Australian Urban Tree Services – 9460 7044
TreeServe – 9620 2060 or admin@treeserve.com.au
Plateau Tree Service – 9939 5350 or info@plateautrees.com.au
SkyLine Tree Care, Luke Smart – 0412 646 972 or 1300 087 332
Active Tree Services, Glenn Cooper – 94502977 or GlennC@ActiveTreeServices.com.au
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__label__cc | 0.693365 | 0.306635 | MRO Completes Paperless Process for Disability Information Requests
Automated, end-to-end transactions now possible for healthcare sector that accounts for more than 20% of all release-of-information requests
KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa. – June 09, 2008 – MRO Corp., the market leader of shared-service, release-of-information (ROI) solutions for healthcare providers, today announced the launch of e-Request capability for disability ROI requests. The automated functionality now completes the end-to-end, paperless process for disability requesters, a sector of the market that accounts for more than 20 percent of all ROI requests.
The new e-Request feature automatically interfaces with the Social Security Administration (SSA) to securely obtain requests for medical records from state disability offices to healthcare providers. MRO’s system presents the requests to the hospital’s Health Information Management (HIM) department as an inbound electronic request for records. The HIM staff is then able to validate the request and upload the requested medical records into the MRO system for secure electronic delivery back to the SSA.
Previously, healthcare providers received disability requests via the mail and administrative time was spent opening the mailed documents and logging in the general patient information. The new e-Request feature eliminates the clerical time spent processing the mail and logging the request into the ROI database.
“This milestone mirrors the U.S. government’s initiative to move toward use of electronic transmissions for disability requests in lieu of paper-based systems,”said CEO of MRO, Stephen Hynes. “With such a high percentage of the nation’s requests coming in on behalf of disabled individuals, MRO worked to implement a process that would offer timeliness, efficiency, and true, end-to-end automation with no paper transactions anywhere in the process. This new method can reduce the turn-around time for a disability request to just 24 hours from the time the state office requests the record until it is uploaded into their system for claims adjudication.”
MRO’s flagship software, ROI Online allows healthcare providers to exert more control over the ROI process, efficiently respond to ROI requests, leverage EMR systems, and streamline delivery to internal requesters.
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MRO is the market leader of shared-service, release-of-information (ROI) solutions for healthcare providers. By continually enhancing its proprietary technology and utilizing the latest in software and document capture systems, MRO provides simple, effective, and affordable ROI solutions that integrate with daily workflow processes for both paper-based and electronic record systems. For additional information, visit MRO on the Web at www.mrocorp.com. | cc/2019-30/en_middle_0017.json.gz/line1466 |
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Stop-and-go funding makes planning tough for Mississippi airport chiefs
Posted by: Ted Carter in Economic Development, Govt/Politics August 12, 2011
The refusal of Congress to go beyond short-hop funding for the Federal Aviation Administration has made uncertainty just another work challenge that the heads of Mississippi’s two major commercial airports must overcome.
As one funding lapse ends another one appears on the horizon for Dirk Vanderleest at Jackson-Evers International Airport and Bruce Frallic at Gulfport-Biloxi International Airport.
The Aug. 8 vote by the Senate to temporarily extend FAA funding after the House recessed without reauthorizing the money ended a two-week shutdown of FAA construction projects. The action assured the return of 10 FAA workers to Jackson-Evers and resumption of work on Gulf-Biloxi’s new 120-foot air traffic control tower.
Nationwide, the reauthorization returned 4,000 FAA workers to their jobs as well as 70,000 construction workers who had been working on air traffic control projects.
Now Vanderleest and Frallic have their calendars marked for Sept. 12, when the extension approved Aug. 8 expires.
“When Congress comes back from recess they will have to deal with this issue,” said Vanderleest, CEO of the Jackson Municipal Airport Authority.
“Yes, it creates challenges,” said Frallic, executive director of the Gulf-Biloxi Airport Authority. “We’ve been through this many times before, particularly the last 12 to 14 years have been very challenging. We take it like it comes.”
Vanderleest says his count shows 21 temporary funding extensions in recent years.
Each funding delay causes a snag on the planning side, Vanderleest said. He said a five-year extension would enable “the FAA, airports, airlines and the aviation community to plan accordingly.”
The most recent funding lapse is estimated to have cost the FAA about $420 million in tickets fees from the airlines. That translates to fewer dollars available for projects at airports around the country, including Jackson-Evers where $68 million in projects are planned through 2014, and Gulfport-Biloxi where $16 million in projects are planned.
“The FAA has not figured out what impact it will have on airports for the next several years,” Vanderleest said of the lost money.
Of the $86 million Jackson-Evers expects to receive, about 68 percent is to be funded from the FAA’s Airport Improvement Fund, the fund depleted by the recent shutdown.
An access-control project that includes cameras, baggage screening and other security measures is also part of the long-range work.
Frallic said he is unsure what the trickle-down will be but for now he is “just thankful we have an FAA bill in place.”
In new fiscal year’s FAA funding, Frallic expects funds for design work on a second taxiway extension. One taxiway extension is under way, along with lighting improvements and roadwork, he said.
Despite the two weeks of lost work on the new control tower, Frallic still thinks the FAA will have the tower’s interior completed by the end of the year. “The tower is virtually completed,” he said. “Pretty much by the end of the year they will be done with equipment installation and begin with training.”
The tower replaces one erected in the 1970s.
At Jackson-Evers, work on an overlay for the east runway was spared a shutdown because money for the work had already been received, Vanderleest said.
Had Congress delayed FAA funding resumption until Labor Day, about $1 billion in ticket fees would have been lost to the agency.
That, Vanderleest said, would have had “a significant impact” on Jackson-Evers International Airport and Hawkins Field, along with other airports in Mississippi. “It would have been huge.”
What does Congress do Sept. 12?
“Your guess is as good as mine,” he said.
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State regulators probe All American Check Cashing on suspicion of violating loan rollover law
Posted by: in Banking & Finance, MBJ FEATURE, NEWS July 16, 2014
Madison payday lender All American Check Cashing is under a “cease and desist” order after refusing to let examiners from the Mississippi Department of Banking and Finance review its records for signs of illegal lending.
The order followed a state raid on 15 of the company’s 41 Mississippi stores, a former executive of All American Check Cashing said.
Examiners say they suspect All American had a companywide policy of illegally rolling over short-term payday loans. This was done through a formalized policy of having the borrower pay only the fees assessed on the original loan, an arrangement that garners the lender a new set of fees when the loan extension expires, the Department of Banking and Finance says.
Payday lenders require borrowers to be employed, have a bank account and show proof of receiving regular paychecks. They must leave a “delayed” personal bank check as security.
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Mississippi law forbids rollover of loans which essentially means “you can’t pay one loan with the proceeds of another loan,” said Taft Webb, director of the department’s consumer finance division.
Webb said his office initiated the cease and desist order after “a couple of days” of All American Check Cashing failing to allow examiners access to records of transactions made at its 41 Mississippi stores. Examiners were following up multiple complaints received from borrowers about All American’s loan rollover practices, Webb said.
In the order, Webb and Banking Commissioner Jerry Wilson say the department “has reasonable cause to believe that All American check Cashing has violated certain provisions of the Mississippi Check Cashers Act and the Mississippi Title Pledge Act.”
As the investigation proceeds, All American can proceed with its payday loans and its other financial retail activities, but can’t take further action on the loans taken out by borrowers who brought the complaints against the company, Webb said.
However, All American also must stop all lending under what the company calls its “Monthly Lending Program, he said. Under this policy, employees are illegally directed to accept only the fee on a delayed deposit check and “further instructs them on how to illegally roll a check during the middle of each month, the cease and desist order states.
The order notes All American designed the program especially for borrowers who get monthly paychecks or government benefit checks.
Webb and Wilson said examiners discovered the “Monthly Lending Program” on All American’s intranet last month. “Multiple examined locations have also confirmed participation/use of the program,” they said.
In a further demand, Webb and Wilson addressed the use of the “delayed” deposit checks borrowers must give All American as a requirement of the loan. The company, they said, must cease and desist from “rolling” checks, renewing checks and “in any form or fashion using the proceeds of one delayed deposit check to pay the principal or fee owed on any other delayed deposit check.”
In an indication they suspect All American is lending to borrowers who do not have actual bank accounts, Webb and Wilson’s order forbids the company from doing delayed deposit transactions for customers who do not maintain legitimate bank accounts. The order further prohibits transactions based on a pre-paid debit card instead of a bank account.
Webb, in an interview Tuesday, said he is unsure when the department will complete its investigation. While each violation can bring a fine of up to $500, findings of serious wrongdoing could lead to revocation of All American Check Cashing’s license to operate in the state, according to Webb.
“We are in the very early stages of the investigation,” he said.
‘No Meaningful Regulation’
In Mississippi, payday loans are either tier one or tier two. Tier one loans are limited to a combined total of $400 and have a two-week repayment period. A tier two loan is a single loan of from $250 to $500 and must be repaid within 28 days. The state allows a fee of $22 to be assessed on each $100 of a tier one loan and $44 on a single tier two loan.
The Center for Responsible Lending, a non-partisan watchdog
organization based in North Carolina, designates Mississippi as among states lacking laws that provide meaningful regulation. The organization, created to combat predatory lending, estimates Mississippians pay $261 million a year in fees to the state’s slightly more than 1,000 payday lenders.
“Over two-thirds of that is due to churning borrowers every two weeks,” said Diane Standaert, Center for Responsible Lending’s legislative counsel.
In Mississippi and elsewhere in the United States, 75 percent of the fees handed over to payday lenders come from borrowers who take out more than 10 loans a year, Standaert said.
Mississippi’s “no meaningful regulation” designation is merited by the payday-lender friendly provisions legislators inserted into a 2012 renewal of the state’s payday lending law, said Paheadra Robinson, an attorney and the Mississippi Center for Justice’s director of consumer protection.
As revised, Mississippi’s law helps to ensure borrowers stay trapped in a debt cycle, she noted in an interview Tuesday.
The law increased the allowable loan amount from $400 to $500 but lengthened the repayment period from 14 to 28 days and limited the fees attached to 28-day loans.
But it left lenders a way around the 28-day repayment period and fee limit that accompanied it, Robinson said. Say a borrower needed $400.
Instead of making a tier two loan of $400 with a fee cap of $44, the lender uses its leverage as the loan authorizer to persuade the borrower to take out four $100 loans, each of which carry a fee of $22, she explained.
The borrower gets his $400 but he also is owes $88 in fees and has 14 fewer days to pay up.
It’s all legal, Robinson said.
But what is not legal though widely practiced in Mississippi is an arrangement by which the borrower, on a continuing series of 14-day due dates, keeps paying the $88 in fees, she added, with the $400 principal remaining intact.
“That is what that company (All American Check Cashing) was doing,” she said.
“We can’t wait to see the final outcome.”
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Ruminations and Rejoinders: Eternal Recurrence, Nietzsche's Noble Plato, and the Existentialist Zarathustra
Robert Gooding-Williams
Penn State University Press
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Ruminations and Rejoinders:Eternal Recurrence, Nietzsche’s Noble Plato, and the Existentialist Zarathustra
Only rarely do our scholarly efforts receive the engaged and engaging criticism that Zarathustra's Dionysian Modernism (ZDM) has obtained in the three preceding essays. I am honored and grateful that Paul S. Loeb, Martha Woodruff, and Kathleen Higgins have given ZDM such thoughtful, detailed, and largely sympathetic consideration. By probing and questioning the interpretation of Thus Spoke Zarathustra I set out there, they have prompted me carefully to reevaluate the reasons that can count for or against that interpretation.
In the pages that follow, I hope to show how much I have learned from Loeb, Woodruff, and Higgins, even where I continue to disagree with them. I will forgo the temptation to summarize ZDM, for taken together their essays effectively outline the book's main lines of argument. I begin with a point-by-point rejoinder to Loeb's critique of the thesis that the thought of eternal recurrence is a "thought-drama" revealed through Zarathustra's thoughts and actions. As a rule, Loeb's criticisms fall short of their mark, for notwithstanding their prima facie persuasiveness they betray an insufficient appreciation for, and practice of, what Nietzsche terms "reading as an art," a necessary condition of which, he insists, is "ruminating [wiederkauen]" (GM P 8). Loeb is not enough of a cud chewer I suggest, and according to Woodruff neither am I. Indeed, Woodruff claims that ZDM does not chew over enough Nietzsche's admiration for, and indebtedness to, Plato—a charge with which I agree. Thus, I more than welcome her extended reflections on Z's relation to the Republic and the Symposium and take them as an invitation to write more here than I write in ZDM about what I interpret as Nietzsche's fidelity to Plato. With respect, finally, to Higgins's portrait of an "existentialist" Zarathustra, I am delighted to continue a conversational rumination, which, as she notes, we began some years ago, and to convince her that less separates her Zarathustra from my Zarathustra than perhaps she suggests.
As I count them—and I apologize in advance if I have missed some or conflated others—Loeb states six sets of objections to my interpretation of eternal recurrence. In what follows, I try to address his objections. [End Page 96]
First, Loeb seems to object to the claim that eternal recurrence (as I interpret it) is the Grundconception of Z, arguing that because "D1," the soothsayer's speech, in response to which Zarathustra first forms the thought of recurrence (or so I argue), "does not take place until the end of part 2, . . . it is . . . not clear how the thought-drama of eternal recurrence is the unifying theme for the entire book" (Loeb, p. 80). According to Loeb, I have two responses to this objection: (1) that the soothsayer's representation of repetition is prefigured by similar representations in parts 1 and 2 and (2) that the thought-drama of recurrence contextualizes the possibility of creating new values, which "is the other unifying theme of Z" (Loeb, p. 81). The first response is unconvincing, he proclaims, for "the heart of the thought-drama, the movement from R1 to R2 to R3 [the three notions of eternal recurrence], would then still take place only in the second half of Z" (Loeb, ibid.). And the second response is questionable, because it "ties the thought of eternal recurrence to a lesser (albeit significant) theme of Z and thereby loses some of the breadth and import that Nietzsche intends for this thought" (Loeb, ibid.).
Loeb's criticism of my first response is beside the point, for it presupposes a notion of a Grundconception that I do not defend. In short, Loeb assumes that a Grundconception is something like a musical leitmotif—for example, a melodic figure or a chord sequence—that can recur in distinct parts of a single composition.1 Thus, he suggests that a Grundconception could unify a work—literary or musical—only if it were explicitly evident or "mentioned" in all the parts of that work (Loeb, p. 80) and, specifically, that the thought-drama of recurrence... | cc/2019-30/en_middle_0017.json.gz/line1470 |
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New Music From Night Riots – “On The Line”
“…brooding, restless, and totally infectious…with an added bonus of New Wave paranoia and perfectly layered, textured harmonies.” – MTV
“…urgent, cathartic new wavey bliss”– Billboard
“…they’ve fashioned the sound of urban desperados wandering rain-slickened streets, hearts playing tug-of-war with hope and despair.” – Buzzbands.la
Fresh off of a string of sold-out headlining shows in the UK, California new wave mainstays Night Riots are debuting “On The Line”. The Sirius XM and BBC favorites’ follow up to “Colour Morning,” which racked up over a million plays in just weeks, finds lead singer Travis Hawley demanding authenticity over a creeping, arpeggiating synth and pulsing drums, drawing sonic inspiration from the likes of Billy Idol and The Cure.
He recalls the scene that inspired the lyrics as well as the artwork: “I went to a party out in the country where we live in central California, on a ranch with two trailers on a hill overlooking the entire city – there is a tribe of girls who live there. They’re girls who shoot shotguns, ride horses and blast Kendrick Lamar at all hours of the day and night. In one of the bedrooms, there was a group of them, cast out on the bed like modern day Marie Antoinettes, laughing and passing around a blunt. It struck me because it wasn’t a performance, they weren’t trying to stand out or impress. There was a lawlessness and a realness that struck me. This is the modern youth, I believe this is the majority of people, not the sensationalized thing we see in entertainment right now where everything needs to be shocking and full octane. In these times, you can shut the real you out because you feel like you need to put on a show to stand out. To me, putting it all on the line is reconciling with who you are and putting it out to the world.”
The band will be taking this new material and more on the road this summer for the headlining US-wide Dark Violet Tour, featuring indie pop favorites courtship. and LA’s Silent Rival. For dates, see below.
With the release of 2016’s Love Gloom LP, followed by “Colour Morning” and “On the Line,” Night Riots has garnered praise from the likes of KCRW, Huffington Post, NYLON, The AV Club, and more while performing with acts from Lana Del Rey, Cage the Elephant, Andrew McMahon & The Wilderness, K Flay, Phantogram, Walk the Moon, The Hunna to OK GO – garnering consistent praise throughout; earning comparisons to The Cure (by MTV) and The Killers (Earmilk), described as “new wavey bliss” (Billboard) and praised for their “anthemic, synth-laden rock” (Spin). After growing and cultivating their fanbase, earning the respect of the diehards through their dedication to the studio and the road, the headlining Dark Violet Tour sets the band up for a spot in the mainstream – and they’re certainly ready. After garnering over 40 million streams on Spotify, placements on Netflix’s 13 Reasons Why, and sold-out UK shows, Night Riots are poised to continue their streak.
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6/1 – Phoenix AZ – Valley Bar
6/2 – El Paso TX – Lowbrow Palace
6/4 – Austin TX – Antone’s Nightclub
6/5 – Dallas TX – House of Blues
6/6 – Houston TX – White Oak Music Hall
6/8 – Atlanta GA – The Masquerade
6/9 – Charlotte NC – Visulite Theatre
6/10 – Washington DC – U Street Music Hall
6/12 – Boston MA – Brighton Music Hall
6/13 – New York NY – Baby’s All Right
6/15 – Philadelphia PA – The Foundry @ The Filmore
6/16 – Albany NY – The Hollow
6/18 – Columbus OH – The Basement
6/20 – St. Louis MO – Blueberry Hill
6/21 – Cleveland OH – Grog Shop
6/22 – Chicago IL – Subterranean
6/23 – Detroit MI – Shelter
6/25 – Kansas City MO – The Record Bar
6/26 – Denver CO – Marquis Theatre
6/27 – Salt Lake City UT – Kilby Court
6/29 – San Francisco CA – Popscene
6/30 – Los Angeles CA – El Rey Theatre
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How to fish for surfperch
Surf fishing is one of Oregon’s most underutilized fisheries. There are hundreds of places to fish along Oregon’s sandy beaches, and there are plenty of fish within an easy cast from shore.
The most popular and abundant target for the surf angler is surfperch – slim, saucer-shaped fish that can reach up to 2 pounds. Perhaps their most unusual feature is that the females bear live young that look like miniature versions of the adults. There are nine different species of surfperch found off the Oregon coast, but the most often-caught are redtail surfperch. Schools of surfperch often congregate within 30 feet of the shoreline, darting in and out of the surging surf in search of food, and presenting an accessible target for anglers.
Scott Haugen joins ODFW biologist Robert Bradley to show you how to surfperch. Click on photo above to see video.
A general Oregon Angling License is all that’s required to fish for surfperch.
When and where to fish
Although surfperch are available year-round, the most productive time to fish for them is in the spring and early summer when they school up along sandy shorelines for spawning. The best fishing often occurs on an incoming tide, especially an hour or two before high tide. Take advantage of low tides to scout out good surfperch water. Look for places where there’s a deep hole or depression that could hold surfperch. These places include steeply sloped beaches where the waves break hard, rocky areas in the sand or sandy areas near jetties, or places where the shore cuts inward.
Equipment for surfperch fishing
Surfperch fishing requires heavy tackle – not to land a 2-pound fish but to handle the heavy surf these fish live in. While there are a lot of personal preferences when it comes to fishing tackle, a good starter outfit for surfperch could include a long (9- to 11-foot) rod capable of handling a 2- to 6- ounce weight, and a spinning reel large enough to hold 200-300 yards of 15- to 30-pound monofilament line. If you’d like to try surfperch fishing before you invest in new tackle, some sporting goods stores on the coast allow you to rent rods and reels by the day.
A popular set-up for surfperch includes two #4 or #2 hooks, some swivels and a pyramid sinker. Three-sided pyramid sinkers are common, easy to cast and tend to roll less in the surf. The size of the weight will vary with surf conditions and the size of your rod – use whatever it takes (usually 2 to 6 ounces) to keep your rigging in one spot in the surf. About 12 inches above the sinker attach a 3-way swivel. On one loop tie on the first hook with 6-8 inches of monofilament. You want just enough monofilament to keep your bait away from the mainline. About 16 inches above the first hook attach a second hook in the same way.
Popular baits for surfperch include mole crabs, marine worms, sand shrimp, mussels and clam necks – the choice depends on availability, convenience and personal preference. Many anglers gather crabs, worms and shrimp during low tide from the same beaches they’re going to fish later. A growing number of surfperch anglers are using plastic baits such as Berkley Gulp sand worms, which are convenient, stay on the hook well and catch fish.
Fishing in the surf, it’s guaranteed your feet are going to get wet. If air and water temperatures are comfortable, many anglers simply wear shorts and sandals and get wet. In cooler waters, however, you will be more comfortable in good quality hip boots that keep your feet and legs dry. Chest waders can be comfortable if it’s cold and rainy, but aren’t usually necessary.
Other surfperch opportunities
Many kinds of surfperch are also found in bays, estuaries and along rocky ocean shorelines. Look for water with some kind of structure (rocks, jetties, pilings, sunken ships, etc.) and keep your line and bait close to that structure.
A final note on keeping fish
The bag limit for surfperch is generous – 15 in aggregate per day in 2017. However, a lot remains unknown about the size of surfperch populations off the Oregon Coast. Certainly keep enough for a dinner or two (they are excellent eating), but don’t hesitate to catch and then carefully release surfperch to help safeguard future populations.
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SUNY Canton President Zvi Szafran congratulates Morgan Stinson for earning the highest of honors during the fall 2017 semester. "I'm proud that you've earned the right to be named to the SUNY Cant...
SUNY Canton Congratulates Morgan Stinson for making the Dean's List
On behalf of the faculty and staff at SUNY Canton, the College's deans congratulate Morgan Stinson for academic achievement during the Spring 2017 semester. In recognition of your academic excellen...
Congratulations Morgan Stinson for making the SUNY Canton Dean's List!
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Morgan Stinson of Richville Receives Part Time Honors at SUNY Canton
Morgan Stinson, a SUNY Canton Graphic and Multimedia Design major from Richville (NY) 13681, received Part Time Honors for the spring 2016 semester. Stinson is a 2014 graduate of Gouverneur High S...
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Morgan Stinson of Richville Made the SUNY Canton Dean's List
Morgan Stinson of Richville, NY, 13681 was named to the SUNY Canton Dean's List for exceptional academic performance during the fall 2015 semester. Stinson is a SUNY Canton undeclared major who gr...
Morgan Stinson of Richville Made President's List at SUNY Canton
Morgan Stinson of Richville, NY, 13681 made the SUNY Canton President's List during the spring 2015 semester. Stinson is a SUNY Canton undeclared major who graduated from Gouverneur High School in...
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Morgan Stinson of Richville is one of SUNY Canton's newest Roos
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Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:
Data Element
Source of notification
Synonymous names:
Source of child protection notification
METeOR identifier:
Children and Families, Standard 22/11/2016
The person who, or organisation that, made the initial child protection notification to the relevant authority, as represented by a code.
Data Element Concept:
Child protection notification—source of notification
Value domain attributes
Representational attributes
Representation class:
N[N]
Maximum character length:
Permissible values:
1 Subject child
2 Parent/guardian
3 Sibling/Other relative
4 Friend/neighbour
5 Medical practitioner
6 Other health personnel
7 Hospital/health centre
8 Social worker
9 School personnel
10 Child care personnel
11 Police
12 Departmental officer
13 Non-government organisation
14 Anonymous
Supplementary values:
99 Not stated/inadequately described
Collection and usage attributes
Guide for use:
CODE 1 Subject child
Any person who notifies the department regarding a concern about themselves.
CODE 2 Parent/guardian
A natural or substitute parent, spouse of a natural parent, adoptive parent or spouse of an adoptive parent or any other person who has an ongoing legal responsibility for the care and protection of a child.
CODE 3 Sibling/Other relative
Sibling includes a natural (i.e. biological), adopted, foster, step-brother or half-brother or sister.
Other relative includes a grandparent, aunt, uncle or cousin. The relationship can be full, half or step, or through adoption, and can be traced through, or to, a person whose parents were not married to each other at the time of his or her birth. This category also includes members of Indigenous communities who are accepted by that community as being related to the child.
CODE 4 Friend/neighbour
An unrelated person or acquaintance who is known to, or lives in close proximity to, the subject child or their family, or to the person believed responsible for the abuse or neglect.
CODE 5 Medical practitioner
This category includes only registered medical practitioners. This includes both general practitioners and specialists in hospitals or in the community.
CODE 6 Other health personnel
Any person engaged in supplementary, paramedical and/or ancillary medical services (for example, nurses, infant welfare sisters, dentists, radiographers, physiotherapists and pharmacists). It does not include social workers and non-medical hospital/health centre personnel.
CODE 7 Hospital/health centre
Any person not elsewhere classified who is employed at a public or private hospital or other health centre or clinic.
CODE 8 Social worker
Any person engaged in providing a social or welfare work service in the community.
CODE 9 School personnel
Any appropriately trained person involved in the instruction of, or imparting of knowledge to, children or providing direct support for this education. This includes teachers, teachers' aides, school principals and counsellors who work in preschool, kindergarten, primary, secondary, technical, sporting or art and crafts education.
CODE 10 Child care personnel
Any person engaged in providing occasional, part-time or full-time day care for children.
CODE 11 Police
Any member of a Commonwealth, state or territory law enforcement agency.
CODE 12 Departmental officer
Any person, not classified above, who is employed by a state or territory community services department.
CODE 13 Non-government organisation
Any non-government organisation not classified above that provides services to the community on a non-profit-making basis.
CODE 14 Anonymous
This category covers all those notifications received from a person who does not give his or her name.
CODE 88 Other
All other persons or organisations not classified above (e.g. ministers of religion or government agencies and instrumentalities not classified above).
CODE 99 Not stated/inadequately described
This category includes all reports that are received from an unknown source.
Collection methods:
The categories for ‘Hospital/health centre', ‘Departmental officer’, ‘Non-government organisation’ and ‘Other’ should only be used for people that could not be elsewhere classified. For example, a medical practitioner employed at a public or private hospital should be recorded as a ‘Medical practitioner’ not as ‘Hospital/health centre'.
Source and reference attributes
Submitting organisation:
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Steward:
Data element attributes
This item refers to the personal or professional capacity of the person who is making the notification. For example, if a person contacts the department as a concerned neighbour and in the conversation it becomes apparent that this person is a police officer, this person is still recorded as a neighbour, as they did not call in their capacity as a police officer.
The source of notification is classified according to the relationship to the child allegedly abused or neglected or harmed.
This item should be recorded at the time of the notification to the Department responsible for child protection. If a notification is made more than once about the same event, then only the first notification is recorded. Therefore, only the first person to notify about the event should be recorded.
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) 2013. Child protection national minimum data set, data collection manual 2012-13. AIHW: Canberra.
Relational attributes
Related metadata references:
Supersedes Child protection notification—relationship to child of source of notification, code N[N] Community Services (retired), Standard 30/04/2008
Implementation in Data Set Specifications:
All attributes +
Notifications, investigations, and substantiations (NIS) file cluster Children and Families, Superseded 22/11/2016
Community Services (retired), Recorded 09/10/2014
DSS specific attributes +
Implementation start date: 01/07/2011
Implementation end date: 30/06/2013
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Nikola Zigic was approached by Arsenal (Picture: PA)
Nikola Zigic has confirmed reports Arsenal were keen on signing him towards the end of the summer transfer window.
The Serbian forward was among a host of names to be linked with the Gunners this summer, as boss Arsene Wenger stepped up his search for a striker following injury to Olivier Giroud.
And the 33-year-old, currently without a club after leaving Birmingham at the end of last season, admits Arsenal did approach his agent over a deal.
‘Everything that you saw in the press was true. My agent was talking with Arsenal but they finally opted for another player,’ he told the International Business Times UK.
‘We talked with them until the last few days of the market. I am very happy because Arsenal had me on their list.’
Arsenal eventually made a £16m move for Manchester United’s Danny Welbeck in the closing stages of Monday’s deadline day and the England international is expected to make his debut in next weekend’s clash with Manchester City.
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Written By NA Craft Beverages - June 21 2018
Campbell resident Donna Hockey and her husband Tammer Zein-El-Abedein started Surreal Brewing Company nine months ago to create nonalcoholic craft beer. Chandelier Red IPA is their flagship brew. (Photograph by Anne Gelhaus)
By ANNE GELHAUS | Bay Area News Group
PUBLISHED: June 20, 2018 at 11:09 am | UPDATED: June 21, 2018 at 3:48 pm
After Donna Hockey beat cancer last year, she and her husband, Tammer Zein-El-Abedein, came home to Campbell from a celebratory trip with a renewed sense of purpose. Since her post-treatment diet doesn’t allow for a tall, cold one, the beer lovers and home brewers set out to create a nonalcoholic craft brew with all the flavor and only 0.5 ABV.
The couple is eager to share the result, a red IPA they make under the name Surreal Brewing Company. They launched their flagship product in May, and 12-once cans of Chandelier Red IPA are now available at The Vesper in downtown Campbell, River Rock Taproom in downtown Sunnyvale and at Dishdash restaurants in both Sunnyvale and Milpitas.
“We wanted to bring flavors to the market for people who usually don’t drink alcohol,” said Hockey over a couple of Chandeliers at The Vesper.
While Surreal is one of the first brewers to focus on nonalcoholic craft beers, Hockey said the market is there, despite the difficulties involved in brewing a beer with only half a percent of alcohol by volume while maintaining the flavor palate of an IPA with an ABV of 7 or 8 percent.
“We wanted it to be crisp, not sweet and hoppy but not bitter; really refreshing,” she said of the Chandelier Red. “It’s difficult to get that complexity and meet the criteria for a nonalcoholic craft beer.”
They achieved their desired flavor profile using six malts and three hops.
“We came up with our own process,” Hockey said. “There was no recipe available, so we developed it over nine months, kind of by trial and error.”
While the couple is currently doing their own marketing and distribution, and contracting with a local brewery to produce mass quantities of their beer, she said they’re in talks with a couple of national retailers to roll out Chandelier Red across the country.
“There’s a real demand for nonalcoholic beers,” she added. “It brings adult beverages into the daytime.”
With the local craft scene booming, Hockey said she hopes more established brewers will start creating nonalcoholic versions of their beers.
“There are so many craft breweries and not a lot of nonalcoholic options,” she added.
The Campbell couple is also looking to partner with cancer support groups and other community organizations to get their beer in front of people who can’t have the alcohol but want the flavor. As one of these people, Hockey is a big fan of her own product.
“I like to have these pretty much every day, so I’m going through our inventory,” she joked, adding that starting Surreal Brewing was a good way for her and her husband to embrace life post-cancer.
“It’s always good to put your creativity into something with the end result of enhancing people’s lives,” Hockey said.
For more information about Surreal Brewing, visit surrealbrewing.com.
This post originally appeared on The Mercury News.
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FINLAND is famous for its reindeer and global leadership in education, and at least one of those seems to be paying off in the automotive realm. (ILLUSTRATION: Toroidion 1MW Concept)
At April’s 2015 Top Marques auto show in Monaco, Finnish company Toroidion unveiled the 1MW Concept, a completely Finland-designed-and-built supercar. The moniker references the car’s 1 megawatt of output, the metric equivalent of 1,341 horsepower, which makes the Toroidion the first electric car to break a barrier that only a handful of gasoline-powered cars have surpassed. In an electric car this is more a matter of basic math than super tuning carburetors; each wheel has its own motor, with two 200-kilowatt motors in the front and two 300-kilowatt in the back. Given that electric motors produce 100% of their torque at zero rpm, we’d expect the Toroidion to be fast — perhaps ludicrously so — off of the line.
The eye-catching concept model is bulbously sleek and self-consciously light — behind the butterfly doors with handles of 3D-printed latticework, the interior is stylishly sparse — and the whole enterprise is light on details. That’s okay for Top Marques, where the goal is to find buyers willing to finance the build of their own supercar, but auto enthusiasts of the shallow-pocketed kind are anxious for more details.
What we do know is that the design is courtesy of Passi Pennanen, an automotive stylist who has worked for Jaguar and Honda, and run an eponymous design studio since 2004. We also know that the 1MW is built on a new powertrain model, one that is designed to be scalable for different applications, implying both racing and street versions to come. Tantalisingly, the website notes that “The high-capacity battery of the Toroidion powertrain is as easily replaced in the pit-lane as it is in the home garage,” making us wonder what hot-swappable wonder Pennanen has imagined.
The name, “toroid ion” should give us some kind of hint, some idea of how a molecularly charged donut might make for a lighter high-performance battery or more efficient electric motor. But, alas, we didn’t go to school in Finland.
Below is a video from RuptlyTV that features Pennanen and the Toroidion concept at the recent 2015 Top Marques Monaco:
Not long ago, 500 horsepower seemed an incredible output for a car. Then the Bugatti Veyron arrived and all of a sudden the “1,000-hp supercar” had entered the automotive vernacular. Lately, more and more cars have been coming out with “megawatt” ratings, which for those readers unaccustomed to measuring power in watts is equivalent to 1,341 hp.
Swedish supercar brand Koenigsegg already has two megawatt cars in its lineup, the One:1 and Regera, and now a company from another Nordic country, this time Finland (it must have something to do with the cold weather), has come out with a new megawatt car: the Toroidion.
Unlike the pair of Koenigseggs, the Toroidion isn’t destined for production but is simply a proof of concept for an electric powertrain developed by an engineering firm also by the name of Toroidion. Founded in 2011 in the Finnish town of Raasepori, the company original’s goal was to develop an electric powertrain that would be competitive in endurance racing, namely the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
However, because of the scalable nature of the technology, other applications are now possible. The key is Toroidion’s rapid-swap, high-capacity battery technology, which is similar to what Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] has developed for its Model S and future vehicles. Drive comes from four electric motors, one of which sits at each wheel.
Unfortunately, Toroidion doesn’t provide any further details on its technology but says more information will be released once all the testing is complete. Toroidion’s founder, Pasi Pennanen, is a Finnish industrial designer with more than two decades of experience building concepts and production models. Among the companies he claims to have worked for in the past are Honda, Jaguar and Italian design house Zagato.
“There is no such thing as ‘it cannot be done’,” Pennanen said in a statement. “I believe in pushing the boundaries in product development and design.”
Sources: BBC Autos & Motor Authority
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There is a new study that a group of Neanderthals in south-east France have all come out fighting for being depressing. If that says anything about Neanderts, it seems that they weren't so different from us – for better and worse.
Bones in the cave
There was an alarm in Moula-Guercy's cave in south-east France about 120,000 years ago. Archaeologists digging the site in the early 1990s discovered the bones of six Nderthals close to the east wall of the cave, dug by, and harvested by deer and other wildlife. It is strange that he bones the bones, as the dead Naederts were left with the remnants of their food; there is much evidence that Neanderthals had buried the dead. But at Moula-Guercy, at least six Nettles – two adults, two teenagers, and two children – were treated differently. The bones and those that deer identify show equal marks in cutting, scraping, and tapping, usually the type of damage associated with butchery.
“When human remains are found on an unexpected living floor, with patterns similar to damage, animal remains, stone tools, and fires, they can be legitimately interpreted as evidence of a cannabis,” wrote Scotland paper Defleur and Emmanuel. Recent paper desclaux In A Journal of Archaeological Science.
Bones from ankles, eggs, and the legs of the dead show signs that they are breaking and cutting to cut with large pavilion for rusting, and there are signs of stone tools used to force the muscles. as well as stone hammers like turf on the cows. and openings used to open the bone to get to the inner bone. And the man who did the work was detail about it. On one skull, Defleur identified “the successful signatures of the only stone tool, showing the return of temporalis muscle. “That's the wide circle, a shapeboard on the side of your head, used in chewing. And at the least, Neanderthals had at least one of the trophies suggesting that the language was cut out. There are two signs of potato (small bones) which look much more like Nderthal's teeth than any carnivore.
Some parts of women are left showing evidence of broken signs and cremation sites.
Defleur et al. 1999
Attachment (top) and lower jaw bone (base) bone have the smaller bone tone showing the same pattern of broken signals.
Identify markings of Neanderthal's parking field (skull).
For the last twenty years, archaeologists have discussed what it means. A small number of further sites across Europe have evidence of possible evolution, although not quite as clear as the view of Moula-Guercy. We know very little about the life of Edward, and so it will be easy to surprise if the dead was a part (or eaten) of a dead as part of a funeral ceremony; there is a basis for that in a number of human cultures, from there. But we have evidence on careful and responsible funerals with at least 17 sites in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia; cannabal proposals are much more rare and it is unlikely that Moula-Guercy's bones would have been wiped out of any kind after the truth.
Instead, a new study of the environment in south-east France is currently celebrating that the work of an insider struggling to survive the marked signals of the bones. Or, as the archaeologist T.D. White in the 2003 paper, “People usually eat because they are hungry, so most pre-historic canals may have been hungry. ”
Tenancy time
For tens of thousands of years, Neanderthals had lived in a cold stepp, where there were large mammals such as the reindeer and wool mammals traveling through herds. What we know about Neanderthals so far, based on a chemical study of their bones, suggests that meat is important in a diet, and that they depended on the plants and fish of many hunters and people t .
Although they were very similar in school – as much as we do children Homo sapiens leaving their markings on today's genes – their bodies were built slightly different. Some studies say that Neanderthal needed more calories to keep them on: about 3,500 to 5,000 per day. In this, they had been dependent on a larger, more plentiful game.
But things have changed (this is probably the shortest human history summary we will ever get). Around 130,000 years ago the world began to become warmer; from sea sediment rocks and ice worms, we know that global temperature rose to around 2⁰C higher than today, and the sea level rose by around six to nine meters (19.69 to 29.53 feet). . The Neanderthal landscape had been successful for thousands of years before it became warmer and more drier.
Pollen and insects in sediments, along with the remains of wood from prehistoric hearth, suggest that the previously exposed steppe became a shrub of woodland and grassland. Smaller species of prey are grazed in denser numbers than the larger herds of stores.
Woodlands are a challenging place for people gathering in the modern world, and less of a pilgrimage may not have been enough to support the Neanderthals. Moula-Guercy has a number of muscles that have a narrower pattern of enamel (known as linear enamel hypoplasia) which indicates periods of severe illness or malnutrition. These people had a hard life and they might be approaching hunger with a few times.
In fact, if Defleur and Dasclaux are correct, the downstream items were discovered immediately after apocalyptic for the band they used to use Moula-Guercy as a summer camping site and collapse (based on layers of bones and bone at the site. location). Neanderthal sites that are as early as international times are not as common as the glacial periods before and after, although most Neanderthals may have left the area for more challenging times, t or not live without change – the issue is far from established.
Nossdert's population density was always very small compared to today's groups of modern people. Anyway, one version of the story means that Moula-Guercy's band could be among the people left in the area. The rest are fairly easy to believe, as the tooth marks on these finger bones tell their own story.
Very human accident
This same story was going on throughout our history: The Great Famine in Europe during the fourteenth century, the Starving Time at Jamestown, the Donner Party, which was struck by a 1972 flight in the Andes, and t Algonquian tales of the Wendigo.
Based on the remaining remains, and how many broken pieces of bone that still fit together, Defleur and Dasclaux say that Moula-Guercy groups are celebrating a single event of bad weather, not one. a long-term strategy. The remains of all six men would feed on a group of 15 to 25 people (about how many groups were commoned in a hunter-gatherer) for about two days – perhaps four days with careful rationing. Later layers suggest that Neanderthals were returning to use the campsite in subsequent years, although there is no way it would be the same people coming, or did they know what had happened there.
For modern people, cannibalism is impaired, even if it is the only way to survive, and leave us thinking how the Neanderthals of this site handled their experience. We know, interestingly, that Neanderthals were quite similar; they created art and jewelery, used symbols to communicate their ideas, and buried their dead. So how would they feel about eating the dead to survive? We can only guess.
“The cannibalism which was exposed at Baume Moula-Guercy does not seem to signify the advancement or sub-humanism,” wrote Defleur and Dasclaux. If there is anything, it is quite scary about severe problems in times of crisis.
Journal of Archaeological Science, 2019. DOI: 10.1016 / j.jas.2019.01.002; (About DOIs).
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Arctic Inspiration Prize announces 10 finalists for lucrative contest
This year’s prize money triples to $3 million from $1 million in previous years
Qarmaapik House project leaders celebrate their Arctic Inspiration Prize win at the organization’s December 2016 gala in Winnipeg. The Kangiqsualujjuaq-based Qarmaapik House won the AIP’s top prize of $700,000 for its family-focused centre, which offers health and social services, parenting support and crisis intervention. (FILE PHOTO)
From qajaqs to hockey camps—organizers of the Arctic Inspiration Prize have announced their finalists for this year’s contest and groups, or individuals, who made the list are proposing a variety of creative projects to benefit northerners.
Many of the projects suggest ways to reconnect youth with their elders, with traditional knowledge and skills, and with the land, and also to build their leadership skills and confidence.
The AIP offers a total of $3 million in prize money within three categories: $1 million, up to $500,000 and up to $100,000, with the latter two categories available to multiple winners.
In previous years, only $1 million was offered, but this year, the prize money has tripled.
Winners will be announced at the 2018 Northern Lights Business and Cultural Showcase in Ottawa, Jan. 31, 2018.
Shortlisted for $1 million:
• Arctic Indigenous Wellness Project, Dr. Nicole Redvers, Yellowknife. Redvers proposes an urban-based healing program for Inuit, First Nations and Métis at risk of suicide and/or incarceration.
• From-the-land, Food Ambassadors Program: Jackoline Milne, Northern Farm Training Institute, N.W.T. The project would address northern food insecurity by empowering food producers to share knowledge of traditional wild food skills, and sustainable meat and vegetable production, with Arctic peoples.
Shortlisted for up to $500,000:
• Unaaq Men’s Association of Inukjuak, Intensive Traditional Program Development, Tommy Palliser, Nunavik Marine Region Wildlife Board, Nunavik. The project would design seasonal training programs and pair young men with elders and experienced hunters to enhance intergenerational bonds, promote self-esteem and share traditional knowledge.
• Our Families, Our Way, the Peacemaking Circle, Lori Duncan, Carcross/Tagish First Nation, Yukon. The project proposes to combine traditional and contemporary knowledge to develop community-based peacemaking circles to help families and community workers resolve disputes peacefully.
• Inuinnait Ingilraatuqanit Ayuiqharvik, Inuinnait Cultural School, Pam Gross, Kitikmeot Heritage Society, Nunavut. The school proposes to develop formal courses for youth, delivered on the land, based on Inuinnait pre-history, history, geography, linguistics and traditional knowledge.
• The Qajaq Program, Glen Brocklebank, Chesterfield Inlet, Nunavut. With help from local elders, Chesterfield Inlet youth will learn to build and paddle their own qajaqs based on traditional designs from the region.
• Dene Heroes Publication Project, Dakota Orlias, Colville Lake, N.W.T. The project hopes to support young Dene men and women as they learn to compile, publish and distribute a four-colour book that honours their Dene heroes.
• North in Focus: Nunavut, Our Land, Our People, Ashley Cummings, Pangnirtung, Nunavut. This project seeks capacity building for a future prize nomination to deliver mental health workshops and connect people with mental health resources to reduce stigma associated with mental illness, and help youth, aged 12 and older, realize strength and build pride.
• Rankin Rock Hockey Camp, David Clark, Hamlet of Rankin Inletm Nunavut. The hockey camp hopes to develop youth leadership by giving youth hands-on experience learning how to be coaches and leaders with a hockey camp.
• Rivers to Ridges, Erin Nicolardi, Emily Payne, Whitehorse, Yukon. This land-based education initiative hopes to meaningfully connect young people to the land and provide access to a natural space for child-directed, emergent and inquiry-based learning.
Past prize winners include the Qarmaapik family house in Kangiqsualujjuaq, the te(a)ch project, led by Ryan Oliver, and Qaggiavuut’s Qaggiq project, based out of Iqaluit.
The Arctic Inspiration Prize was launched in 2012 by philanthropists Arnold Witzig and Sima Sharif, who invested in a $1 million prize aimed at growing Arctic knowledge and well-being throughout Canada’s northern regions.
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__label__wiki | 0.51637 | 0.51637 | Dr. Matthew A. Wood Receives Award from the National Science Foundation - News and Events for Texas A&M University-Commerce in East Texas
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27 Nov 2017 Dr. Matthew A. Wood Receives Award from the National Science Foundation
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Dr. Matthew A. Wood, a professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy, has been awarded funds by the National Science Foundation to acquire a new research-grade astronomical observing facility for Texas A&M-University-Commerce. His collaborators on the proposal are Drs. Kent Montgomery and Kurtis Williams, also of the Department of Physics & Astronomy.
Dr. Wood, an astronomer whose research focuses on cataclysmic variable stars, astrophysical fluid dynamics, and white dwarf evolution and pulsations, was named the university’s Distinguished Principal Investigator for Excellence in Research in 2014. He holds an M.S. and a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin, and was recently named interim vice provost for research and dean of graduate studies.
The funds will go towards a PlaneWave CDK700 telescope, an Andor iKon-L 936 CCD camera for scientific imaging, and associated equipment which will be placed at the A&M-Commerce observatory located five miles south of campus. The facility will be operable not only on-site, but also remotely and semi-autonomously using ACP Observatory Control Software. “We’ll be able to queue up observing requests not only from our research students, but also students and teachers at regional high schools and community colleges,” explained Dr. Wood.
“The new telescope will also be used in open houses, allowing the public the chance to see the telescope in action,” said Planetarium/Observatory Director and new interim physics and astronomy department head Dr. Kent Montgomery. “We will also open it up to community colleges and high schools to be able to use it to improve their own astronomy classes and programs.”
A&M-Commerce and Texas A&M University-College Station house the only physics and astronomy departments in the A&M System that offer a graduate program and an independent B.S program in physics. The new facility will allow the department to pursue research projects that require long-term time series monitoring of photometrically-variable astronomical targets. It will also create opportunities for meaningful collaborations with astronomers both nationally and internationally. Additionally, the new facility will help grow A&M-Commerce’s undergraduate astronomy and physics program and significantly strengthen the graduate program.
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__label__wiki | 0.690744 | 0.690744 | Home Entertainment Interviews Nancy Cartwright – Exclusive Interview With The Voice of Bart Simpson
Nancy Cartwright – Exclusive Interview With The Voice of Bart Simpson
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Wed February 23, 2011
The Hollywood Sentinel – Bruce Edwin: What motivates you as an artist?
Nancy Cartwright: Hmmm…No one’s really asked me that before…
Bruce Edwin: Oh good, I was hoping I would get at least one!
Nancy Cartwright: You scored! It has to do with a bigger concept, I feel as an artist, that the artist in society is here for a reason other than to just entertain. I think the artist has a purpose in our civilization that elevates the culture. And if all artists were to look at it in that way, it is a huge responsibility, so that when you really break it down, and look at an actor that’s on a set, and they are going to their job, and if they show up late for that job, how that affects the other players in that game, because it’s a group, and a real group is formed by the individuals of the group, and to the degree that one of those individuals is weak, it breaks down to the whole group. So for me, when you wear your hat as an artist, and you show up, and not only do your job, but actually you do better than what’s expected…and for me, I have a certain integrity that I have about what it is that I’m communicating, and feel my purpose is to kind of elevate the society that will make the world a better place.
Hollywood Sentinel: Wow!
Nancy Cartwright: I want to do that. It’s a troubled world that we live in, and I think artists are making all the difference in the world. And there’s all kinds of different people that we have on the planet, trying to get along with each other, but some have conflicts and disagreements, but when you really look at music, and look at bands, and you look at messages that are portrayed through literature, and film and television, it’s the artist that can give hope to those that are watching.
Hollywood Sentinel: Definitely, that’s beautiful. And I know that you’ve absolutely done and are doing that, and just a small glimpse of your work in person with what you do for kids at your charity event-I mean wow-that was just incredible…
Flashback: October, 2010, The home of Nancy Cartwright: (Monte Carlo Night- Fundraiser for Youth) Bart Simpson and SpongeBob Squarepants (Nancy Cartwright and emcee for the night – Tom Kenny) sing a hilarious, rocking version of Nancy Sinatra’s “These Boots Are Made for Walking,” which gets thunderous applause. Later, Nancy Cartwright confessed, “I’m not one to gamble much, but…I love to throw a party!” And my, what a party it was. The Mayor of Los Angeles’ office took the stage and presented Nancy Cartwright with a humanitarian award for her service to children and to the city. A flag in Washington DC flew in her honor and is now atop a flagpole on Nancy’s property.
Nancy Cartwright: Well thanks, I mean, to do it for five years of turning it out fast, and putting some padding there, and finding out hit and miss kind of what works, but after you do it one time, you realize, oh my gosh, we’ve got to change that, or that really works, and you find out really quickly what works and what doesn’t work, and I’ve had great staff that have helped me out, and volunteers in the community that have come on board too, and the support of the LAPD and that kind of thing is very exciting, it starts very early and you know the set up time is like a week or three in advance, to start setting it up all up. It is really fun! I really, really enjoy doing it and I think a lot of people have fun coming out.
To be Continued in next issue. To see more of Nancy, visit The Hollywood Sentinel below.
“If things aren’t quite ‘going your way’ and you feel like the world has got you down, DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT! Make a decision. Change your direction. Re-evaluate who your friends are. Do something that will put you at more cause over your life. You will find it makes all the difference in the world. Oh, and don’t have a cow, man.” – Nancy Cartwright
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__label__wiki | 0.943554 | 0.943554 | INEC pledges speedy collation of results, declaration of winners
February 24, 2019 Featured, News, Politics, Project
#TrackNigeria -The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Sunday said it was doing everything possible to ensure the speedy collation of results and declaration of winners for Feb. 23 Presidential and National Assembly elections.
The commision’s Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, made the pledge on Sunday at press conference at the National Collation Centre in Abuja.
Yakubu said that he expected the State Collation Officers for Presidential Election (SCOPE) to start arriving at the National Collation Centre later today (Feb. 24) or Monday (Feb. 25) morning .
Yakubu, who said that INEC was happy with general peaceful and patriotic conduct of citizens, added that Nigerians demonstrated extraordinary resilience and abiding faith in democracy and electoral processes
He said that the commission met on Saturday night to review the process and the challenges arising from the conduct of the Saturday Presidential and National Assembly elections.
Yakubu said that in spite of INEC’s best efforts to enhance the functionality of the Smart Card Readers (SCRs), it experienced technical hitches in some locations.
“Through the deployment of 8,809 Area Technical Support (RATECHS) that we engaged as ad hoc, many of these hitches were successfully rectified which enabled voting to take place seamlessly in the affected PUs nationwide.
“Yet there were places where voting could not proceed as a result of the failure of the SCRs. In addition, there are places where materials arrived late for voting to proceed.
“After consultation with the communities involved, and in line with our Regulations and Guidelines, new SCRs have been reconfigured and deployed for elections in the affected polling units.
“Right now elections are ongoing in some PUs in Abia, Bayelsa, Benue, Plateau, Zamfara and one Polling Unit in Binji Local Government Area of Sokoto State and Kuje Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
“We are determined that the vote of every Nigerian is important and must count.”
Yakubu said that the commission had received preliminary reports and was closely monitoring the situation in Rivers, particularly Bonny and Akoku-Toru Local Government Areas.
“We are similarly awaiting the detailed report from our Imo office particularly in respect of the Owerri Municipal LGA.
“We are also aware of the incidents in some parts of Lagos, particularly Okota,” he said.
Yakubu said that INEC was also aware of incidence of intimidation, abduction, hostage-taking and violence unleashed on election officials in some states like Akwa Ibom and the burning of a vehicle conveying materials used for Saturday’s election in Dekina Local Government Area of Kogi.
“Some Youth Corps members serving as ad hoc staff were also attacked in Osun,” he said.
Yakubu also disclosed that the commission received reports of voters who presented genuine PVCs read by the SCRs but were not allowed to vote because their names were not on voter register.
“We have been confronted by such a situation in one of the off-season elections conducted by the Commission.
“For this reason, we made a clear provision in our draft Regulations and Guidelines to allow such voters to vote.
“However, when the draft was discussed with stakeholders, the clause was rejected on the grounds that it will encourage voting by identity theft. We dropped it,” he said.
The chairman also disclosed that the commission’s attention had also been drawn to the omission of the logo of the African Action Congress (AAC) from the ballot paper for Lagos East Senatorial District.
“We have checked our record and confirmed the inadvertent omission. We have contacted the Chairman of the party to acknowledge the error.
“The omission is inadvertent and it is one out of 23,316 nominations for elections into 1,558 constituencies,” he said.
Asked on his view about performance of the security agencies, Yakubu said it was not yet the right time to assess the performance of any institution involved in the election.
He said that he was not aware of cancellation of election result in the FCT, or anybody forcing his way to collation centre to change election result in Rivers. (NAN)
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__label__wiki | 0.57176 | 0.57176 | Polls to local bodies not in near future
Posted on January 3, 2019 by NT Bureau
Chennai: The term of Special Officers of the State local bodies which came to an end 31 December, is likely to be extended by another six months. The announcement is excepted to come up during the ongoing Tamilnadu Assembly session, sources from the Department of Municipal Administration said.
In June 2018, the State Assembly adopted two bills to extend the term of Special Officers for Tamilnadu local bodies (village panchayats, panchayat union councils, district panchayats, town panchayats, municipalities and municipal corporations) till 31 December 2018. This was the fourth extension since October 2016 when the Madras High Court cancelled the State Election Commission’s notification for elections to local bodies.
The bills moved by Municipal Administration Minister SP Velumani were opposed by DMK, Congress and IUML. Leaders of these parties urged the government to conduct polls to local bodies at the earliest as the absence of elected representatives prevented the usage of Central funds for local bodies development work. However, Velumani argued that polls could not be held as the delimitation of wards was yet to be completed.
Following this, on 26 December, Municipal Administration Minister S P Velumani and Electricity Minister P Thangamani presented a letter to the Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to urge the Centre to release Rs 3,776.20 crore pending funds as grants under the 14th Central Finance Commission to carry out day- to-day affairs and provide basic amenities to citizens. They had assured the Defence Minister that ward delimitation and other activities would be over in 45 to 60 days.
Meanwhile, sources in the Municipal Administration Department today said now that the delimitation of wards are complete, elections would be held soon and till then, the term of the Special Officers would be extended by another 6 months. “Right now, allocation of special constituencies for SC/ST and women candidates are going on for local body polls,” sources said.
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__label__wiki | 0.779546 | 0.779546 | New York City Area Airports Look At Expansion
By Levon Putney July 8, 2011 at 10:57 am
Filed Under:Air Traffic Control, Airports, EWR, Flight Delays, Jamaica Bay, JFK, JFK International Airport, LaGuardia Airport, Levon Putney, LGA, Newark Liberty International Airport, Port Authority, Radar, Regional Plan Association, Runways, Satellite, Stewart International Airport, Tim Wright
A Continental Airlines jet is seen at Newark Liberty International Airport - Newark, NJ - Nov 24, 2009 - Photo: KAREN BLEIER/AFP/Getty ImagesA Continental Airlines jet is seen at Newark Liberty International Airport - Newark, NJ - Nov 24, 2009 - Photo: KAREN BLEIER/AFP/Getty Images
NEWARK, NJ (WCBS 880 / AP) – The Port Authority is taking in proposals to do an airport capacity study for Newark Liberty International Airport, JFK International Airport, and LaGuardia Airport to look into expanding runways to help ease congestion.
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“The truth is the first thing to do is probably to upgrade the air traffic control system,” says Regional Plan Association executive director Tim Wright.
On average, flight delays at the three major airports average 20 minutes and about one-third of flights through the three airports were delayed or cancelled in 2009.
“Which is totally unacceptable,” says Wright. “And if you don’t want to see those delays go up to 25, 30 minutes, and if you want to be able to fly in and out without being bumped from flights, you better be rooting for new runways.”
He says moving from a radar-based system to satellite will speed up takeoffs and landings.
“It can be implemented before building new runways, which are going to take a long time to plan and finance and construct,” he says. “But after that, all those other things, Stewart, high speed rail, regional airports – they don’t do it, and you’ve just got to, at some point, bite the bullet and you gotta look at building new runways.”
In January, a report by the Regional Plan Association recommended building an additional runway at either Newark Liberty or Kennedy. But it warned that construction at Kennedy might require filling in parts of the federally protected Jamaica Bay.
What are your suggestions for easing congestion at area airport? Let us know below…
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__label__cc | 0.612951 | 0.387049 | HCL Infosystems to Shut PC Manufacturing Business
Indian PC maker HCL Infosystems will stop manufacturing personal computers as the company continues to make losses from the business which contributes to about 8% of its total revenues.
This has been coming for a while. Indian PC maker HCL Infosystems will stop manufacturing personal computers as the company continues to make losses from the business which contributes to about 8% of its total revenues, according to a new report.
“We will be stopping manufacturing. My distribution today does lot of distribution of PCs of multiple brands… We will be in PC distribution and in after sales services but will not manufacture HCL branded products some time in the future,” HCL Infosystems CEO and managing director Harsh Chitale told news agency PTI. (source)
Chitale did not specify when the company will shut manufacturing business.
HCL Infosystems, part of the $6.5 bn HCL Group, will focus on servicing and distribution of electronic goods.
According to the company’s latest quarterly earnings, it made a loss of Rs 133 cr from the hardware products and solutions business in the year ending June 2013, while its services & distribution business remained profitable.
Appreciation of the dollar against the rupee has eroded margins of PC makers in India, while demand has been propped up by government orders. HCL, which had a dominant market position in its heydays, was quickly pushed over by Dell, HP, Lenovo and other PC makers who entered the Indian market.
According to IDC, Hewlett Packard leads the Indian market with 34.1% share at the end of August.
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__label__wiki | 0.75766 | 0.75766 | Krug to be re-evaluated in three weeks after taking puck to jaw
By Joey AlfieriSep 21, 2017, 10:31 AM EDT
Torey Krug‘s 2017 training camp is officially over.
The Bruins defenseman suffered a non-displaced fracture in his jaw after taking a puck to the face in Tuesday’s preseason game against the Red Wings.
General Manager Don Sweeney expects Krug to be re-evaluated in three weeks, which means he could miss Boston’s regular-season opener against Nashville on Oct. 5.
Losing Krug for any regular season games would be huge for the Bruins, as he had eight goals and 51 points in 81 games last season.
In other injury news, the Bruins also announced that forward Matt Beleskey (foot contusion) is day-to-day. He was hurt in Boston’s preseason opener against Montreal on Monday.
Jakob Forsbacka Karlsson (upper body) is also day-to-day. He was injured against the Red Wings, too.
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Feature: Summer Travels with May Beattie, Fifty Years On
Posted on September 15, 2015 by agnesupshall
Now that the summer holidays have definitely drawn to a close, I’m happy to publish the third installment in our Beattie Archive mini-series from Katherine Clough, all about May Beattie’s summer adventures hunting carpets through Europe and Turkey. Through photographs and excerpts from her diary entries, we can experience some of May’s summer holidays vicariously, and get an insight into how the Beattie Archive was compiled.
For many the summer months are a time for adventures, relaxation and travelling abroad, with September signalling a return to working life. This blog post considers one of May Hamilton Beattie’s own summer excursions – in pursuit of carpets – in the summer of 1965, fifty years ago. Beattie travelled extensively in Europe, Central Asia and North America, visiting and recording carpets she encountered photographically, with analysis sheets and by recording her thoughts in detailed diary entries. In 1965 May and Colin Beattie left their Sheffield home by car to travel on a circuit through Europe to western Turkey and back again, driving through many countries, and stopping to visit rugs en route.
Map roughly showing the Beatties’ route by car in Summer 1965, as deducted from her diary notes in MBA Ref 63.
The opening paragraph of May’s diary shows how their journey did not always go to plan, but once at their destination she launched straight into intensive work on a rug collection:
We left Sheffield on Sunday the 18th, crossed as usual to Ostende, after suffering two punctures and discovering a weak-walled tyre on the way down and non-acting brake lights. Hardly a cheerful beginning! We were off the boat by 4.20 a.m. and in Düsseldorf by 10.30. There were more rugs there than I was aware of and some interesting fragments. I worked at top speed and still did not finish everything by 4.30 when we had arranged to meet outside. Col. had missed his way back to the car so I foraged in the lunch basket and sat in the sun outside the Museum and ate brown bread and butter and bananas, having had no lunch.
Car problems would hit several times that summer, with May writing about how she veered the car into a ditch on 26th August, on the road out from Konya in Turkey. Fortunately, neither Colin nor May were hurt and ‘there was not much apparent damage to the car apart from the fact that the gear lever came away in the hand’ on impact (MBA Ref 63, f.669). After a couple of days’ delay waiting for the repair work, they were soon travelling again.
A photograph from another journey to Konya, Turkey, in 1973 captures Beattie’s recording of carpets en route with the carpet photographed while held out in front of a car (MBA Imag 24, f.46).
At the front of her 1965 diary May filed correspondence with museums and collectors that she hoped to visit, sent in advance of their journey. Her diary notes list her encounters with museums, religious buildings and members of the community as well as detailed descriptions of rugs inspected, offering insight into particular carpets, but also into her life as a researcher in the 1960s. For example, a local doctor is very helpful following a visit to a bishop’s house in Romania in early August (MBA Ref 63, f.609):
Pure gold was forthcoming – an official list of the numbers of rugs and fragments at present in the Evangelical churches. This was more than I hoped for, and luckily the typewriter was in the car so that I got to work in the office and copied the list and such correspondence as was relevant.
The thoughtful doctor also provided ‘a letter to look at church rugs, which will allay the fears of the good ladies with the keys, who naturally think it odd that anyone should want to spend a day making notes on rugs’ and the nearby museum allowed her ‘to take small pieces of rug’ (MBA Ref 63, f.609). Textile fragments from another part of the archive are labelled with the same town names as on her 1965 trip – these notes could potentially provide provenance and further contextualization to the material. Beattie built up an extensive collection of such carpet samples, creating a useful resource for today’s researchers, especially as non-destructive methods of analysis are preferred these days for museum artefacts with restrictions on destructive sampling.
This box holds over seven hundred individually-labelled envelopes containing tufts and threads of carpets collected by May Beattie from carpets in museums and field sites on her travels across Europe. A similar box contains a further four hundred samples from rugs in Central Asia, the United States and the Middle East. Both are in the process of being rehoused.
In another research stop-off, Beattie found a Dr Ditroi ‘quite charming’ in facilitating her research: ‘I spent an hour on the floor of his office looking at rugs – a perfectly good but coarse Lotto, kileem style, and a ‘Tintoretto’ type – very odd’ (MBA Ref 63, f. 598). She also recorded her frustrations and the effects of her perseverance in attempting to access some museum stores: one custodian ‘klinked his keys’ and ‘bristled with indignation’ at her persistent determination to visit Turcoman rugs (MBA Ref 63, f. 596). Walking round museums Beattie also noted paintings depicting carpets – an ongoing activity that would build up into her ‘Rugs in Pictures’ image index that makes up seven out of the seventy-five boxes of the total IMAG archive material and over 1,300 folios.
All of May’s diary entries were typed out on the move after long days of viewing carpets, with accommodation often little more than a tent, making the detail included even more remarkable. May did take a short break from research, over two-thirds of the way into their trip – it seems mainly at Colin’s request – to enjoy the scenery of Kuşadası Bird Island, near Ephesus, for a couple of days. They then set off again driving north round to Greece, and on to museum visits in Florence and Milan in Italy. Finally, the last sentence of her travel diary on 9th September 1965, writing from Milan, records her hunting for a different kind of textile: ‘To-morrow we must search out woollen clothes for we are back to northern Europe and its rain and cold’ (MBA Ref 63, f.703).
Katherine Clough
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All images taken by author © Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology
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Feature: Floating Carpets, Rugs with Feet and Cultural Context – Some Reflections on the Challenges of Capturing Carpets with Cameras, as Seen in the Beattie Archive
Posted on July 22, 2015 by agnesupshall
I’m pleased to present the second installment of our Beattie Archive mini-series from Katherine Clough, at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, all about the difficulties (and the interesting advantages) of photographing rugs. If you’ve never encountered rugs with feet before, read on!
The art of capturing carpets in pictorial records has a long history, with artworks depicting carpets, such as Persian miniatures and European paintings, offering invaluable clues to long-lost textiles.1 Carpets occur as decorative domestic floor and furniture coverings, as backdrops demarcating sacred spaces and as prestige items in portraiture, within a range of painted arts across cultures. However, the advent of photography in the late nineteenth century provided a new method of visualising woven textiles, and, with the camera’s ‘scientific eye’, carpets soon began to be photographed as subjects in themselves, for promotion in sales catalogues, museum publications and in the interests of research in carpet studies. A certain type of carpet photography has become a ubiquitous standard in publications: a high quality image, with the carpet flat, evenly lit and floating in negative space, isolated from its context to emphasise its visual qualities. However, photographs taken ‘in the field’, or those that happen to feature carpets, also provide additional contextual information, such as clues to location, suggestions of how carpets were used, and the inclusion of people and further material culture, which can be just as important for carpet research.
May Beattie valued the potential of photography in carpet research, taking photographs of carpets she visited and requesting and collecting images of carpets from museums, sales catalogues and other reproductions such as postcards, publications and newspapers. It is this type of material that makes up roughly one-third of the May Beattie Archive held at the Ashmolean Museum, constituting a formidable collection of carpet imagery, organised and filed into defined categories.
Two postcards collected by Beattie (MBA Imag 33 Fols 61, 63), show the different domestic uses of rugs in a reconstructed eighteenth-century Turkish Ottoman setting (left) and a European stately home (right).
However, carpets are not necessarily easy to capture on camera. The image that featured in a previous blog post on the Armenian orphan rug is a great example of a photograph that shows the challenges of photographing large rugs in situ, and the potential benefit of added context: here the holders drape the carpet from the roof of a building in order to display it for the camera, with the whole scene providing an immediate sense of scale, a specific location, and their potentially recognisable faces, all of which add visual significance to the story of this particular rug. The difficulty of representing carpets photographically for use in research, both in the studio and in the field, is two-fold: firstly, the physical problems of photographing flexible, flat surfaces, especially with larger carpets, and secondly, limitations in capturing material detail to reveal production techniques rather than just visual design.
The challenges surrounding capturing carpets on camera are well represented in the Beattie Archive. Many of May Beattie’s own photographs held in the archive are ‘field’ images – carpets photographed in situ on her travels, held up by stretched arms, with glimpses of the holders and surrounding location framing the edges of the carpet. In many images fingers are barely visible, limited to the tips at the borders. Often what results is a series of almost surreal images with rugs shown as if autonomously standing, with feet and legs poking out underneath.
Rugs with feet: many of the photographs in the archive show Beattie’s attempt to capture clear images of the rugs with the holders’ bodies hidden except for their feet. Other photographs reveal the photographer’s own feet, such as the central image of a carpet detail taken from above. (L–R: MBA Imag 11 Fols 140, 141; MBA Imag 24 Fol. 27)
Edited versions of her photographs show how she later used correction fluid and cropping to alter some of these images to isolate the carpet and achieve the publication-quality standard image of a flat, floating carpet instead.
Beattie annotated some of her photographs for editing to use in publications, like this one (MBA Imag 33 Fols 155–156), which includes instructions for the removal of traces of the carpet holder and background.
But, like the Armenian rug example mentioned above, unedited versions and wider location shots can also offer carpet researchers further information about the carpet, its context, and even the photographer. Friends and associates often appear incidentally in the archive: Colin Beattie, May’s husband, features in many of the photographs, assisting in the holding of rugs and standing in the background. Additionally, there is always the potential for taking copies of photographs to the depicted locations to see if faces and specific sites can be identified. Returning photographs in anthropological research (my own academic background) has proved a fruitful method for adding layers of knowledge to existing photographs, but also potentially for benefitting the communities featured in the images by gifting copies, supporting interest in local heritage and family histories, themes significantly associated with making carpets in many societies.2
Family portrait? Several generations of women appear with the rug in this photograph
(MBA Imag 3 Fol. 46) found in the Beattie Archive.
Beattie’s correspondence also details the challenges of using photography in carpet research and the importance of good-quality images. In response to a letter from a collector in autumn 1976, who had written to ask for Beattie’s opinion on a rug (MBA Ref 18. Fols. 55–62), she affirms the importance of examining carpets in person, writing:
‘I cannot of course express any opinion on your carpet without seeing it.’
‘The difficulty about trying to assess a carpet from photos is that one does not know the technique and there are so many forgeries about that one is always reluctant to say much.’
Through the chain of correspondence she finally receives an ‘excellent photo’ of the said carpet via the Metropolitan Museum, and expresses her wish to use the image in her own lectures. The collector even describes the complications the Met had in achieving this image with the carpet described as being ‘too large to be photographed in its entirety in their studio’, instead being ‘done from the wall’, causing a delay in the provision of the image.
Similar complications in photographing textiles continue to face museums today. Current methods of photographing large textiles, such as carpets, at the Ashmolean require the participation of textile conservators and the photography studio. Prepared lengths of fuzzy Velcro, stitched to wide cotton tape, are temporarily fixed to the short end of a carpet, which is then carefully attached to a wooden baton prepared with hooked Velcro. The baton can then be suspended from the rigging in the photographic studio, with the weight of the carpet more evenly supported than using fingers, and where it can be evenly lit and photographed at the correct angle. Textile conservator, Sue Stanton, further confirmed it as a time-consuming process, only undertaken with planning and preparation. Photographs are increasingly being seen as important records of museum objects, entered onto museum databases and used on digital display platforms, in addition to printed publications.
Screenshot of the digital online record of a Baluchi prayer rug (EA1998.101) bequeathed by May Beattie on the Ashmolean’s Eastern Art Online website.
The vast range and amount of photographic and other visual material in the Beattie Archive constitutes a fantastic resource for a variety of subjects within, and related to, the field of carpet studies. The current work on recording and providing support for the material demands of these images continues.
All images © Ashmolean Museum and original copyright holders of the two postcards featured above.
1. For early examples of texts exploring pictorial records of carpets, see: John Mill’s National Gallery text Carpets in Pictures (1975), revised as Carpets in Paintings (1983) or his Hali articles (1978, 1/3 pp. 234–243; 1978, 1/4 pp. 326–334; 1981, 4/1, pp. 53–55; 1981, 3/4 pp. 278–289); and the first section of Kurt Erdmann’s Seven Hundred Years of Carpets, of which May Beattie co-edited the 1970 English translation.
2. For examples of returning photographs in visual anthropological research, see: Joshua Bell’s chapter in Laura Peers and Alison Brown’s Museums and Source Communities: A Routledge Reader (2003, London: Routledge Press, pp. 111–121); and J. Dudding’s ‘Visual Repatriation and Photo-elicitation: Recommendations on Principles and Practices for the Museum Worker’ in Journal of Museum Ethnography (2005, 17, pp. 218–231).
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Feature: Human Feeling and Hard Facts about Carpets – An Update from the Beattie Archive
Posted on May 29, 2015 by agnesupshall
Today I’m excited to introduce full-length features as a brand new category of blog post on the OATG blog, and launching our new category is a fascinating feature from Katherine Clough, who is working as the Beattie Archive Assistant at the Ashmolean Museum. Kathy has agreed to write a series of updates about her work with the Beattie Archive over the next few months, and we hope to publish six in total. This first update will also appear in Asian Textiles magazine, but the remainder will be published only on the blog, so keep checking back for future installments!
One of the things that I find most exciting while working with the archive of renowned carpet specialist May Hamilton Beattie (gifted to the Ashmolean Museum in 2000) is that moment of anticipation just before opening a box to discover its contents. Some expectations are generated before opening: clues found in the layered labels stuck to the lid and through the lists provided in the nine-month-long mapping project by museum volunteer Suriyah Bi in 2013. However, I continually find myself in awe at the revelation of the vast amounts of photographs, paperwork, notes and articles on a comprehensive range of subjects, and textile fragments collected for analysis, all collated by this singular researcher. This current project of foliating and rehousing over 150 boxes to archival standards is the latest in a string of activities to provide better long-term care and improved access to Beattie’s material legacy. In the pursuit of facilitating future research, these ongoing tasks build on the work of previous Beattie Fellow, Jon Thompson, of Pirjetta Mildh with the digitization of Beattie’s carpet analysis sheets and slide collection, and on work completed by museum volunteers, as publicized by Ashmolean curator Francesca Leoni in the 2013 winter edition of Hali (Issue 178, p.37).
Photograph of May Beattie attached to a travel document held in the archive.
The quantity and arrangement of the material in the archive represents a lifetime of specialized hard work. It is therefore perhaps surprising that Beattie only began the serious study of carpets in her forties, stimulated by a conversation at a cocktail party, and encouraged by her scientist husband, Colin, to publish her research or remain ‘a typical dilettante’ (Mackie 1987, p.10). Over forty published articles and catalogues of various private collections from around the world appear in the bibliography of her works compiled by Louise W. Mackie for the 1987 edition of Hali’s Oriental Carpet & Textile Studies (Vol. III, Part One)*. The supporting original research material for Beattie’s publications resides in the archives now held at the Ashmolean, along with vast amounts of unpublished notes, travel diaries, samples, correspondence and collated material.
As found in the archive: tufts of carpet collected for analysis stapled to a letter.
One of the challenges of this particular archive is caring for the wide range of materials to archival standards for the best long-term care, without losing the connections and contextual relationships between small fragments, photographs and Beattie’s paper-based work.
A bacteriologist by training with a PhD from Edinburgh, Beattie is widely recognized for the scientific approach she brought to the study of carpets reflected in her use of analysis sheets. This is also reflected in the overall organizational structure of her archive into text-based reference material and image strands that cross over and correlate with each other. The full extent of this organization has only recently come to light (see Suriyah Bi’s article in OATG’s Asian Textiles, No. 56, 2013) as many of the connections are not explicitly labelled on the individual boxes but would have been stored in Beattie’s own memory. One of the challenges of working with the archive today is to try and retain and restore these connections in the process of documenting and rehousing the folios.
The archive also contains Beattie’s library collection of well over 1,000 books and pamphlets, of which the books were recently catalogued into the Oxford University library search system, increasing their visibility for reference use in the Museum’s Eastern Art Study Room. Amongst the shelves a humble looking edition of Delabère May’s How to Identify Persian Rugs (London, 1920) was the first and only book on carpets that Beattie owned while living in Baghdad for ten years before her full enthusiasm for rug studies erupted (Mackie 1987, p.7). This ninety-five-year-old book includes chapters on examining rugs closely – particularly their knots and weaves – in addition to design characteristics, an approach Beattie took to greater depths with her later scientific analyses of rug composition.
The first book about carpets that May Beattie owned while living in Baghdad.
Her whole collection of books is now available to search on the University of Oxford’s online library catalogue.
Her drive for continual advancement of her own knowledge, and the wider field of carpet studies, can be seen in the fact that Beattie supplemented her own publications held in the Beattie Library with reviews and criticisms of the work stapled to the inside covers, along with her own annotated corrections on the pages themselves. These personal touches, in addition to the more obviously intimate records of her diaries and correspondence also in the archive, offer tangible insights into the personality of a remarkable researcher, fieldworker and woman with a good sense of humour mixed in with scientific rigour. While reporting on her mapping project, Suriyah Bi commented on her own sense of getting to know Beattie through the process of surveying her material. Beattie herself acknowledged an appreciation of putting the ‘human feeling as well as hard fact into a subject’ when commenting on Cecil Edward’s 1953 publication, The Persian Carpet (Beattie, 1963, p.150; Mackie, 1987, p.9).
Delabère May’s How to Identify Persian Rugs (London, 1920) was the first and only book on carpets that Beattie owned while living in Baghdad for ten years before her full enthusiasm for rug studies erupted.
We are six weeks into our six-month schedule and so far over 13,000 folios have been numbered, recorded and rehoused under the guidance of Bodleian Library Archivist, Gillian Grant. Forty boxes have been worked on; there are quite a few boxes to go. The process could be a fairly monotonous exercise; however, the ‘human feeling’ of May Beattie’s life is very evident in the archive during these practical tasks. It is hoped that completion of the project will allow Beattie’s personal passion and expertise to go on continuing the advancement of carpet studies as a sustainable and accessible archive resource.
*This edition was dedicated to May Beattie on the approach of her 80th birthday, in recognition of her contribution to the field of carpet studies.
Beattie, M.H. (1963) ‘Background to the Turkish Rug’ in Oriental Art, IX:3, p.150
Bi, S. (2013) ‘Unlocking the Beattie Archive’ in Asian Textiles, Autumn, No. 56, Oxford: Oxford Asian Textiles Group, pp.5–10
Edward, C. (1953) The Persian Carpet, London: Theodor Brun
Leoni, F. (2013) ‘A Perfectionist’s Passion for Provenance’ in Hali, Winter, Issue 178, p.37
Mackie, L. (1987) ‘May Hamilton Beattie’ in Oriental Carpet & Textile Studies, Vol. III, Part One, pp.6–13
May, D. (1920) How to Identify Persian Rugs, London: G. Bell and Sons Ltd.
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An intriguing, motivated book explores skipping rope-its history, its health benefits and the good ol' ditties we used to sing! Grab a rope, or just skip in place; jump with joy in your heart and bring enthusiasm to your life. Restore your self-confidence, encourage the inner you as you gain strength and endurance, and even shed a few pounds for a healthier lifestyle. Start jumping now! Get all your friends involved-Mom and Dad, brother and sister, even Grandpa and Grandma. Step up to the challenge and fun for a new beginning to a new you and have a wonderful time doing it! To all the little children in our lives that bring us the touch of joy through their interaction and enthusiasm-may they carry forward this joy to all those that are willing to share with them. Two little eyes to look to God, two little ears to hear His word, Two little feet to walk in His ways, two little lips to sing His praise. Two little hands to do His will, and one little heart to love Him still. May we keep skipping uphill!
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Man in Profile
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This fascinating biography reveals the untold story of the legendary New Yorker profile writer and unravels the mystery behind one of literary history's greatest disappearing acts. Born and raised in North Carolina, Joseph Mitchell was Southern to the core. But from the 1930s to the 1960s, he was the voice of New York City. Readers of the New Yorker cherished his intimate sketches of the people who made the city tick-from Mohawk steelworkers to Staten Island oystermen, from homeless intellectual Joe Gould to Old John McSorley, founder of the city's most famous saloon. Mitchell's literary sensibility combined with a journalistic eye for detail produced a writing style that would inspire New Journalism luminaries such as Gay Talese, Tom Wolfe, and Joan Didion. Then, all of a sudden, his stories stopped appearing. For thirty years, Mitchell showed up for work at the New Yorker-but produced nothing. Did he have something new and exciting in store? Was he working on a major project? Or was he bedeviled by an epic case of writer's block?The first full-length biography of Joseph Mitchell, based on the thousands of archival pages he left behind and dozens of interviews, Man in Profile pieces together the life of this beloved and enigmatic literary legend and answers the question that has plagued readers and critics for decades: What was Joe Mitchell doing all those years?Fifty years after his last story appeared, and almost two decades after his death, Joseph Mitchell still has legions of fans, and his story-especially the mystery of his "disappearance"-continues to fascinate. With a colorful cast of characters that includes Harold Ross, A.J. Liebling, Tina Brown, James Thurber, and William Shawn, Man in Profile goes a long way to solving that mystery-and bringing this lion of American journalism out of the shadows that once threatened to swallow him.
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__label__cc | 0.66523 | 0.33477 | Unrequited Love: How to Stay Friends
(PhysOrg.com) -- Unrequited romantic feelings don't have to sink friendships, according to research by Michael Motley, a professor of communication at the University of California, Davis.
"When romantic attraction is disclosed and rejected within a friendship, the result is virtually always awkwardness and embarrassment for both partners, and usually this causes the friendship to end," Motley says. "But certain behaviors and conditions allow some friends to handle the initial awkwardness, put the episode behind them, and reestablish a mutual friendship."
Through analysis of hundreds of interviews with college undergraduates, Motley has found that friends who stay friends tend to:
• Affirm that they can accept and can handle the situation, and that they value and want to maintain the friendship -- and then drop the matter.
• Return to their earlier patterns of communicating and getting together, rather than avoiding each other.
• Tell each other about new romantic interests as they develop.
• Have known one another as friends for a long time and spent a lot of time together before the disclosure-rejection episode.
Motley has also identified big "don'ts," including:
• The platonically inclined friend should not tell any third parties about the amorous disclosure.
• The platonic friend should not invent a new love interest to justify the rejection.
• The romantically inclined friend should tone down any flirtation or sexual innuendo that may have characterized the friendship.
According to Motley, deciding whether to reveal romantic attraction for a friend is among the most common serious communication dilemmas reported by college students. He says that eight in 10 have experienced at least one instance of unrequited romantic attraction within a friendship by the age of 20.
The research appears in "Studies in Applied Interpersonal Communication" (Sage Publications, 2008), a new book edited by Motley.
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It's interesting. Apparently, romantic love at least at a certain age has complex psychological correlates that make one fear it. Casual partners come and go, but friends who became romantic partners at some points will either stay or go due to what just happened, both cases including some kind of long-term decision that the teenagers probably feel not ready to make.
Personal comment: I remember when I was a teen that every time when some romance appeared between a friend and me, my worry was that I would end up marrying him (for there's no reason to break up being such good friends, knowing each other, etc) wasting my chances to actively seek other romantic partners and "getting to know the world" before making such an important decision.
at the same time, breaking up needed some kind of excuse and finding reasons for quarrel meant losing a friend. Therefore, immediately finding a new romantic partner became a priority. "A friend would understand" :) | cc/2019-30/en_middle_0017.json.gz/line1569 |
__label__wiki | 0.66161 | 0.66161 | October 7, 2010 report
UK town using fuel from human waste
by Lin Edwards , Phys.org
(PhysOrg.com) -- A town in Oxfordshire has become the first in the UK to have biomethane gas generated from human waste piped to their homes for gas central heating and cooking.
Up to 200 households in Didcot now receive the gas via the national gas grid. Head of energy, technology and innovation at British Gas, Martin Orrill, said customers would not notice any difference as the gas is purified to the highest standard and has no odor. The gas is generated at a sewage treatment works plant in Didcot installed earlier this year by Thames Water.
The entire process takes less than three weeks, with the sewage being collected and sent first to settlement tanks. The solid waste material is then fed into digesters, where anaerobic bacteria digest the sewage, with the aid of enzymes to speed up the process. The digestion process generates methane, which can be burned to drive turbines and produce electricity, or can be purified and fed into the gas network and piped to homes and businesses. British Gas says supplying the gas rather than electricity is far more efficient since around two-thirds of the energy is lost in electricity generation.
Joint venture partners in the Didcot project, British Gas, Scotia Gas Networks, and Thames Water, all hope to expand the process to other towns across the United Kingdom, and other utility companies such as Ecotricity and United Utilities have also announced biomethane projects being planned. One of these projects, in Manchester, could be supplying 500 homes with biomethane by mid next year. Another British Gas project in Suffolk will provide gas from digestion of brewery wastes to around 235 households.
The Didcot project cost £2.5m (around $4 m US) and was influenced by promises of government incentives aimed at encouraging utility companies to develop renewable technologies. An EU directive means the UK must ensure at least 15 percent of its energy is from renewable sources by 2020.
There are now fears that government spending cuts could reduce incentives, making it more difficult for companies to develop the new infrastructure without unacceptable price rises.
The UK produces an estimated 1.73 million tonnes of sewage sludge annually. If all sewage treatment works in the UK were fitted with the technology, they could supply gas for up to 350,000 households.
Methane from microbes: a fuel for the future
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How many homes can you supply with the waste output of one home?
I suppose the number is significantly less than 1
Well I suppose it more depends on what the inhabitants of this one home are eating..:P
For example, after a holiday like Christmas I imagine there will be enough fuel for all of London to use equally.
But seriously one home is probably not hugely significant, it's more the entire town's waste that's being processed for fuel efficiently. | cc/2019-30/en_middle_0017.json.gz/line1570 |
__label__cc | 0.655309 | 0.344691 | Pincode of Samrat Ashok Nagar Madhinath Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh is 243006
Samrat Ashok Nagar, Avas Vikas Colony, Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh 243005, India
Name R.K.University S.O
District Bareilly
State Uttar Pradesh
Status Sub Office(Delivery)
Head Office Bareilly H.O
Sub Office
Location Bareilly Taluk of Bareilly District
Telephone No 0581-2520332
SPCC Bareilly HO-243001
Department Info Bareilly Division Bareilly Region Uttar Pradesh Circle
Address University Hospital, M.J.P. Rohilkhand University, Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh 243006, India
Indian Postal Code System Consists of Six digits. The first to digits represent the state, the second two digits represent the district and the Third two digits represents the Post Office.In this case the first two digits 24 represents the state Uttar Pradesh, the second two digits 30 represent the district Bareilly, and finally 06 represents the Post Office R.K.University S.O. Thus the Zip Code of R.K.University S.O, Bareilly, uttar pradesh is 243006
Bareilly Info
Bareilly (/bəˈrɛli/) is a city in Bareilly district in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Located on the Ramganga, it is the capital of Bareilly division and the geographical region of Rohilkhand. The city is 252 kilometres (157 mi) north of the state capital, Lucknow, and 250 kilometres (155 mi) east of the national capital, New Delhi. Bareilly is the fourth city in Uttar Pradesh with compressed natural gas (CNG) filling stations (after Lucknow, Kanpur and Agra). It is the seventh-largest metropolis in Uttar Pradesh and the 50th-largest in India. Bareilly, because of its significant importance is in Smart City list of U.P. as well as India.
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Title: Truffle shavings
I am absolutely delighted to make note of the release of the third and final season of Star Billions, yours for a measly $2.99. ^_^ You may need to update the app first; I noticed the announcement in the update release notes.
But if that's not your bag, how about a newly announced made-for-TV Invader Zim movie? =:D The same treatment is apparently also being extended to Rocko's Modern Life.
Do you live where you do out of choice? Where do you call "home", and why? For my part, no, not presently; it's a perfectly okay locale, but, a long way from where I'd consider home - San Francisco.
Aaaah, so that's where it went! In iOS 9, Safari used to offer a "request desktop site" in the address bar pulldown. In iOS 10, however, it seems they've dual-tasked the reload icon; press and hold, and you'll be given that option, along with "reload without content blockers". Useful, as a few sites will improperly serve the phone version to an iPad, leading to UI delights like buttons the entire width of the display. =:P
Zootopia may have had Shakira, but My Little Pony's big screen debut will have Sia. =:D
Here's a language resource with a difference: Lexicity. They link to resources for grammar, dictionaries, and suchlike, for old tongues, such as Aramaic, Akkadian, Sumerian, Mayan, and Etruscan.
Or for something a little more on the technical side, how about Disney's Practical Guide to Path Tracing?
/u/Fearful_Leader painted me! =:D
Another example of the dangers of traveling while brown, this time a naturalized US citizen daring to visit her family in Turkey, flying to and from LAX.
Well, now, that's not much fun.. I was out rabbiteering on Thursday, which turned out to be a mostly beautifully bright day, despite both the Met Office and MeteoGroup insisting it'd be overcast, later reluctantly updating to just "cloudy". ^_^; Beautiful day, the buns were out - what could happen? The lens could stop focussing, that's what. =:P Suddenly, it became a manual focus lens - not much use with fast-moving subjects. *sigh* So, I'll have to see what I can do to try to fix the issue, else, establish that it really needs repairing; there's the possibility it's just a matter of the contacts being dirty. It's possible it's the body, but the Sigma 30mm f/1.4 is functioning normally. I'll be trying to clean the body and lens contacts with a dustless eraser, and checking if it works on the roomie's D5500. Worst case, it'll be an expensive trip to Nikon or an appointed service center - a quick search suggests something around $300 to replace the focus motor. =:P Hopefully it won't come to having to make such a decision. ETA: whew! Spent a couple minutes polishing the contacts with a putty eraser (great things! Can form them easily to a point for accurate pencil erasing, with no rubber dust or shavings), and everything appears to be working normally again. (I tried in the field with just a clean hankie, but to no effect) Yay! And the weekend's looking sunny - maybe the buns will be gracious enough to be out and about again then. And I must remember to pack some raisins for them as well. ^_^
I'm not generally keen on superheroes, with very occasional exceptions like both versions of TV's The Flash, and the recent Supergirl, but Joss Whedon writing and directing a Batgirl film does sound rather good fun. ^_^
The film industry does seem to have some realisation that things need to change, but as one might expect, cinema owners are putting up stiff resistance to the concept of releasing films to home audiences after a 30-day window, or when the number of screens falls below a certain threshold. You know where I stand on this: multiplexes hold no magic for me - if I'm watching a film by myself, I'd far sooner be able to do it from the comfort of the warren. Groups of friends, that's a different matter - and when you've got places you actually can enjoy going to, like the Castro Theatre, that's again very different, but venues with character aren't in the multiplex business model.
I'm relieved to (finally!) read that Pixar isn't planning any further sequels past Toy Story 4 and The Incredibles II. It's undeniable that Toy Story 3 did superbly at the box office, and even Cars and Planes have proven lucrative, primarily through merchandising, but - I've been growing increasingly concerned at that turn, almost reliance, on sequels, at the inevitable expense of original stories. I'd so much prefer to see another original production like Ratatouille, Inside Out, or Wall-E than another continuation of Toy Story or Finding Nemo. (And we'll forget about The Good Dinosaur. Not a bad film, certainly, but.. not exactly amongst their crowning accomplishments, I think we can agree)
It'll be a while before we see any industrial scale deployments, but nonetheless, this OLED development news is quite exciting, with a potential improvement in energy efficiency from the current 25% or so, up to more or less a perfect 100%. (As is, the rest just becomes heat. The patent holders might stand to benefit from that, as will we all. I wonder if the technique described might be useful for bulbs as well, not just displays..)
There was another SPG live performance last Saturday, and you can find the archive over here. ^_^
Anyone who follows Intel processors: we've seen AMD coming back recently with Ryzen and friends, but does the company have anything at all in store for low power usage, like phones, or even laptops? As a casual observer, it seems like they're completely ceding that ground to ARM and Intel respectively.
It seems there's a very welcome added benefit to legal weed: a distinct drop in opioid overdoses. "Hospitalization rates for opioid painkiller dependence and abuse dropped on average 23 percent in states after marijuana was permitted for medical purposes, the analysis found. Hospitalization rates for opioid overdoses dropped 13 percent on average."
Here's an interesting security issue - taking over a smart TV. 'The proof-of-concept exploit uses a low-cost transmitter to embed malicious commands into a rogue TV signal. That signal is then broadcast to nearby devices. It worked against two fully updated TV models made by Samsung. By exploiting two known security flaws in the Web browsers running in the background, the attack was able to gain highly privileged root access to the TVs. By revising the attack to target similar browser bugs found in other sets, the technique would likely work on a much wider range of TVs. "Once a hacker has control over the TV of an end user, he can harm the user in a variety of ways," Rafael Scheel, the security consultant who publicly demonstrated the attack, told Ars. "Among many others, the TV could be used to attack further devices in the home network or to spy on the user with the TV's camera and microphone."' This exercise only pertains to DVB, so the US isn't affected - that said, I haven't looked into ATSC to see whether it might have an equivalent attack vector.
Huh! So the iTunes Store does offer multiple language tracks after all! They just tend to be very coy about it. I finally got around to watching my rental of Long Way North (which I'll very happily recommend), and thought I'd just check if there was an original language option - and lo, the French soundtrack and English subtitles were available. Yay! (The English voicework is good, though - this isn't a Tenchi Muyo grade dub. ^_^;) As for the film itself: I'd wondered if the animation style might grate, but no, the painted look works very well, and indeed, provides a refreshing change from the Pixar 3D CG look adopted nigh universally amongst the big studios. Overall, I enjoyed it very much, and will consider purchasing it - and I'm only reluctant to do so as I simply don't rewatch films often at all. (Hell, it was in the final hours of its month long rental period that I even got around to it for the first time =:) It's suitable for all audiences, but it's not especially aimed at younger children - perhaps think of it in terms of similar appeal to Doctor Who. Anyway! Have a look at the trailer, and see if it might be something you'd enjoy. (Regrettably, I see it's returned to being a $4.99 rental; I took advantage at 99¢. Would that that were the norm!)
Following a rather unfortunate trademark tussle with a Birmingham pub, BrewDog has apologised honestly, and in a rather fun twist, made all their recipes available, past and present.
Well, poop. I've finished all the iOS Phoenix Wright games. It began innocently enough, with the release of Apollo Justice - which, for some reason, Capcom released after the title following it in the series, Dual Destinies; so, of course, I had to replay DD to gain a better feel for that one, now in better context. And then I though I'd go through the original trilogy.. hey ho. I imagine they'll bring the newest one to iOS at some point, and maybe even Miles Edgeworth Investigations - and of course, there's the ending chapter of Star Billions now. ^_^
Oh, yay. Looks like one tooth is deciding to gradually shuffle off its mortal coil.. a little fragment came away the other day. =:P Time to get registered with some local dentist and see just how bad things are.
If you enjoy good music videos, have a look over here - BUG Videos periodically collects several that have caught their eye, and produce viewer notes for each. Speaking of which, might you have any to recommend of late? You've seen some indication of what musical styles I like - the ideal then is for a video that perhaps tells a story (Black Light Dinner Party "We Are Golden"), or is simply wonderfully odd (Galantis "Peanut Butter Jelly"), not merely concert footage or miming, unless, perhaps, there's a really good light show or particularly appealing costumery.
And on that note, Badmarsh & Shri "Get Up" is a good example of a nondescript video carrying a rather cool track - sort of South Asian drum'n'bass. Meanwhile, this animated one tells a story - but how do you interpret what finally happens? C2C "Delta". A tidily choreographed video with a catchy track: Keren Ann "My Name is Trouble". A downtempo/folk rock track with a story being told: Mala Vita "Top of the World". Quite an odd animated video: Rone "Bye Bye Macadam". And I'm amazed I'd forgotten to post this one until now, given it's a very well produced stop motion video starring a bunny: The Shins "The Rifle's Spiral". The video's playfully designed, reminiscent of Michel Gondry's work, with a breezily funky vocals-led track with some echoes of Bjork: Jain "Come". (Her bio is quite fascinating, too!)
Food recommendation of the day: Sainsbury's Basics pollock fish fingers. At 65p for ten, way cheaper than any of the big brands, and surprisingly good, with even a slightly higher fish content as well.
It's a fairly niche combination of interests, but still, a wonderful piece: Revolutionary Mare Utena, by mr-tiaa. Perfect! ^_^
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Author: mondhasen
Do you live where you do out of choice? Where do you call "home", and why?
I live where I do, RI, out of convenience, and a perceived commitment. I'm comfortable here, work close by, and have no desire or driving force to move along. I'm on a part of what was a small farm my parents bought in 1967 (technically I've lived here since then), a place that meant so very much to my mom. And we have a family 'plot' on the land (my brother's side), so 'rooted in the soil' takes on a double meaning.
At one time I wished to move to Vermont, or even my home State of New Hampshire (I was born there but we moved when I was but 3). Those dreams faded, as do many, and I've now no thought now to leaving my little hole in the Shire.
...if I'm watching a film by myself, I'd far sooner be able to do it from the comfort of the warren.
My wife and one of my sons just saw Kong at the cinema: they were the only people in that theater.
Author: makovette
Rocko's Modern Life could be EPIC as long as they don't censor it to death....
Let's please have the theme arrangement by the B-52s, too. That fit the show so perfectly. ^_^
Hm! I see on the show's Wikipedia page that "Murray revealed to Motherboard that in the special, Rocko will come back to O-Town after being in space for 20 years, and that it will focus on people's reliance on modern technology". | cc/2019-30/en_middle_0017.json.gz/line1577 |
__label__cc | 0.542237 | 0.457763 | Imaging of phakomatoses revisited: a pictorial review
Keywords: Congenital, Education, Diagnostic procedure, MR, CT, Conventional radiography, CNS, Neuroradiology spine, Neuroradiology brain, Genetic defects, Seizure disorders
Authors: A. Manzella, D. Sousa, S. Morais, L. Nascimento-Neto, L. Á. Neto, E. Cavalcante, M. Vasconcelos, G. Lago; Recife/BR
1. To review the clinical and imaging features of the most important phakomatoses. 2. To illustrate the imaging findings of some of these neurocutaneous syndromes.
The phakomatoses are congenital disorders manifesting with central nervous system and cutaneous abnormalities. The structures predominantly affected are those of ectodermal origin, including the skin, nervous system, and eyes. The four most common phakomatoses are neurofibromatosis (types 1 and 2), tuberous sclerosis, Sturge-Weber disease, and von Hippel-Lindau disease. Imaging of the brain and spine in these disorders plays an important role in diagnosis, as well as determining the extent of...
INTRODUCTION The term “phakomatoses” (after the word “ phakos” , meaning birthmark) was formulated by the ophthalmologist Van der Hoeve when he described the retinal hamartomas. Phakomatoses or neurocutaneous syndromes are a heterogeneous group of congenital disorders with variable degree of penetration, primarily involving structures derived from the embryological neuroectoderm. NEUROFIBROMATOSIS Neurofibromatosis Type I Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) also known as Von Recklinghausen’s...
Imaging plays a major role in evaluation of patients suspected of having these disorders. In addition to making or confirming the diagnosis imaging studies are essential for preoperative planning whenever surgery is contemplated, and are also used to follow patients for progression and complications of their disease as well as screening the first-degree relatives of an identified proband.
Herron J, Darrah R, Quaghebem G et al. Intra-Cranial Manifestations of the Neurocutaneous Syndromes. Clinical Radiology 2000; 55: 82-98. Fortman B F, Kuszyk B S, Urban B A et al. Neurofibromatosis Type 1: A Diagnostic Mimicker at CT. RadioGraphics 2001; 21:601–612. Gosein M, Harris A, Pang E et al. Abdominal Imaging Findings in Neurocutaneous Syndromes: Looking Below the Diaphragm. AJR 2017; 209: 1-12. Hekmatnia A, Ghazavi A, Marashi M J. Imaging Review of Neurofibromatosis: Helpful Aspects...
Heterotaxy syndrome in the adult: a review of its radiological findings and associated genetic alterations.
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Myxoid soft-tissue neoplasms
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Advanced imaging and genetic testing in CNS manifestation of Tuberous Sclerosis: new horizons for an "old" disease
F. Dossin1, M. Dorigatti Soldatelli1, T. M. B. Da Conceição2, F. Pereira dos Santos1, B. C. Chwal1, C. Brinckmann Oliveira Netto1, J. Ávila Duarte1; 1Porto Alegre/BR, 2Porto Alegre, RS/BR
Role of 3D space sequence and susceptibity weighted imaging in the evaluation of hydrocephalus and proposal of refined definition and classification of hydrocephalus
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Imaging of posterior fossa tumors with histopathological correlation: what radiologists should know
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Differential diagnosis of intracranial ring-enhancing lesions: a practical approach
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Development of a dynamic cardiac simulator controlled by Arduino
C. K. Bandeira1, H. Vieira Neto2, M. P. M. M. Vieira2; 1São José dos Pinhais/BR, 2Curitiba/BR | cc/2019-30/en_middle_0017.json.gz/line1579 |
__label__wiki | 0.597394 | 0.597394 | Study: Black Patients Fare Better Than Whites With Equal Healthcare Access
Lakin Starling
According to most analyses, Black patients don’t do as well as White patients when it comes to health measures due to socioeconomic disparities, but researchers are finding that in situations where these injustices and social imbalances do not exist, the scales shift.
The U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs conducted research that reveals the effects of the health system’s lack of equal access among Black and White patients. While this lack of access usually means a higher mortality rate for Black patients, data from an analysis of 3.1 million people showed that Black patients do medically better than Whites when they get the same healthcare. In fact, Black people have a 24 percent lower mortality rate than Whites with an equal playing field, Circulation reports.
Although members of the Black community tend to be at higher risk for health complications and conditions, this information shows that Blacks have a longer life-span because of genetic and biological advantages.
The Los Angeles Times reported:
“We thought we were going to show they do the same if the same care is offered to both groups,” said senior author Dr. Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh, a nephrologist and epidemiologist at UC Irvine. “But we found blacks do even better.”
Kalantar-Zedah called the situation a “paradox within a paradox.”
U.S. researchers found no racial difference in the rate of strokes for both groups, but did identify that 37 percent of African-American men and women were less likely to get heart disease than White people. However, the genetic leverage of Black patients is voided by the resources afforded to many White patients, due to differences in demographic and access. In the meantime, it’s already been established that Black patients live longer with kidney disease than White patients. Also, care for kidney disease is not affected by the racial divide as much, because the government covers dialysis for all who need it.
To juxtapose the VA findings, the National Health and Nutrition Examination Society also conducted research on 5,000 people. The study found that the death rate was 42 percent higher for Blacks than Whites. Health professionals Dr. Nakela Cook and Dr. George Mensah of the National Institutes of Health reported that the gap revealed by the VA system could also show that diet, exercise, and other access and wellness factors play a role.
The VA health systems provide healthcare to all patients, but the ways the treatment is offered could vary due to differences in race.
SOURCES: The Los Angeles Times | PHOTO CREDIT: Getty
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Frightened Rabbit’s Pedal Power
Cycling 1100 miles in 12 days? Aye right. Why would anyone of non- Olympian pedigree take that on?
I’m talking about this May’s Great Big Cycle, where ten amateur cyclists, including Grant Hutchison of Frightened Rabbit fame, covering of the UK and Ireland. They’ll visit five capitals over 12 days and cycle about 100 miles a day. The reason? A really important cause.
Grant’s brother and lead cyclist Neil’s three year old daughter, Morven, suffers from a rare genetic condition called cystinosis that can cause growth impairment and kidney problems. At the moment there is no cure. The cycle will aim to raise a mighty £100,000 for Cystinosis Foundation UK, a charity who research the disease and how it might be treated in future. Ahead of the cycle Grant shared the power tracks on his playlist. Read about the reasons below while listening to the Spotify playlist…
And really it’s an incredible feat for a really important reason. Please spread the word by sharing this link where you can learn more and donate: http://www.greatbigcycle.com or http://www.justgiving.com/greatbigcycle
You can also suggest a song to add to the playlist and spur them on by leaving a comment here or on Facebook!
Grant’s Great Big Playlist
Lorde – Team
When you’re on the bike for a few hours it’s important to have a collection of melodies that don’t really get tired and this something that Lorde does pretty well on Pure Heroine. It’s also great if they’re fairly simple otherwise you’ll have one line going round the whole time because you can’t remember anything else! This track is probably my favourite because of the harmonies and the beat but I’m a fan of them all so they’ll all be going round my head a fair amount.
Katy Perry – Roar and Firework
Pure unadulterated pop that gives me great motivation. The classic breakdown and finale is something that will never get old and the lift created by it is incomparable. Roar is Eye Of The Tiger for the tween generation but has just as much of an affect on me!!
Placebo – Pure Morning
Everything about this track is just so menacing and whenever I want to feel like a hardman(which is not often I should add) I’ll stick this on and get my swagger going!! I was a huge fan of Placebo growing up and again the simplicity and repetitive nature of this track makes it perfect for the ride. It’s so rhythmic too which is obviously important for turning the pedals hour after hour, day after day.
Frightened Rabbit – Late March Death March
Only because it is Morven’s favourite song and will act as a reminder for the whole reason for doing this when times get dark on the bike
Roger and The Gypsies – Pass The Hatchet
This is all about the drum beat in this song. Once again the rhythmic nature of it is great and I just love how happy the vocals sound. It creates a great image of that time of dance halls and making music for people to get up and move to which is something you see less and less these days especially with live bands.
No idea why but it regularly pops into my head when I’m on my bike.
The Felice Brothers – Run Chicken Run
I love the ramshackle sound The Felice Brothers are so good at creating. This song is just so frantic and it moves in such a great way that just makes it impossible to stay still when it’s on. It has a great feeling of community too. Like the whole band are just in the one room playing along and shouting out harmonies that come in to their head and that’s something that will be important on the ride too. There are 10 of us taking part for the duration and we’ll have to work together a whole lot and really help each other through it and I expect we’ll become a very tight knit group.
Wintersleep – Archeologists
I just bloody love these guys. When we toured with them it was like we’d known them forever and I remember those tours with such fondness that to not have them in here would just be a travesty. They are all absolute dicks though!
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Take a walk around Chicago by going to the Kankakee Library
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"Sidewalks II: Reflections on Chicago" author and photographer Rick Kogan and Charles Osgood pause for a smile. Kogan will speak in Kankakee Library about the work. Later this month the library will host a discussion about another one of his books, "America's Mom: The Life, Lessons, and Legacy of Ann Landers." Photo by Chris Walker.
The Kankakee Public Library will have an unusual patron in-house this evening. And some might only be able to recognize him by his distinct voice, which floats on an octave so low it generates gentle rumbles on eardrums.
Chicago Tribune senior staff writer and WGN radio host Rick Kogan will be on-hand Nov. 12 at 7 p.m. to talk about his latest collaborative effort with former Chicago Tribune photographer Charles Osgood, “Sidewalks II: Reflections on Chicago.” This is the second collection of their well-known Sunday paper columns about intriguing people and places around the Windy City, and Kogan agreed to the engagement, in part, because he loves libraries.
Copies of the book, which will be officially released Nov. 13, will be available to purchase for the first time at the event. They will be offered at a discounted price, $30 instead of $40, and Kogan will be signing books after speaking about the work.
The Sidewalks column stories are primarily about the little things, everyday characters and peculiar locations that form the cultural textures of Chicago.
“The thing about Sidewalks is the stories are not stories that deserve front-page news,” Kogan said. “I just think that they’re stories that deserve to be told because they do address the sort of fabric of this area.”
The event is the third of six in the Kankakee Public Library’s current author and artist series. The library’s assistant director Allison Beasley said people will turn out for the event because they know Kogan and Osgood’s work, but they will be pleasantly surprised to learn how interesting and relevant the Sidewalks books are to any city in America.
“It’s certainly about Chicago and Chicago’s people, but I think it’s about human nature,” Beasley said. “It’s about the interesting kind of quirky side to people.”
Osgood, former Chicago Tribune photographer, will not attend. He said one of his favorite stories in “Sidewalks II” was “Honor Flight,” which was about an event where World War II veterans were flown from Midway Airport to Washington, DC for the day to tour monuments and other significant spots as a way to show gratitude for their service. A crowd gave them a warm reception upon their return.
“It was one of the more interesting situations I’ve been in because I had never heard of this thing before, but a lot of people have,” Osgood said. “So you have people of all ages from all walks of life that are standing cheering the Marines or the former servicemen as they get off the plane.”
“Sidewalks II” is the first offering by Sidewalks Book Company, which Kogan and Osgood formed this year. Kogan said if “Sidewalks II” is successful, their next release might be a collection of images from newspaper photographers, which he called “the most anonymous artists in contemporary America.”
The vibrant front cover of "Sidewalks II: Reflections of Chicago" by Rick Kogan and Charles Osgood is the first offering by the publishing company they began this year for the purpose, Sidewalks Book Company. Graphic courtesy of Sidewalks Book Company.
An exhibition including more than 60 large reproductions of Osgood’s Sidewalks photographs and Kogan’s stories opens Nov. 19 at the Chicago Tourism Center Gallery downtown.
The next featured author or artist at the Kankakee Public Library will be Chicago filmmaker Andrew Surprenant in January, known for his work producing the documentary “The Atom Smashers,” which aired on PBS in 2008. | cc/2019-30/en_middle_0017.json.gz/line1593 |
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By Shannon Jones
Workers at the Faurecia auto parts plant in Saline, Michigan southwest of Detroit are outraged over the unilateral decision by the United Auto Workers to shut down their strike just hours after it began early Friday morning.
The walkout had the potential to quickly shut down auto assembly operations nationwide at the Detroit automakers as well as electric vehicle maker Tesla. It demonstrated the immense social power of the working class after decades in which the class struggle has been suppressed.
Faurecia workers on strike
The four-year contract covering the 1,900 workers at Faurecia in Saline expired June 1, but the UAW refused to call a strike at that time, despite a 97 percent vote in favor of strike authorization. Instead, the UAW dragged out negotiations, allowing Faurecia more time to prepare.
This is the latest in a series of actions by the UAW demonstrating once again that this is a compliant tool of management. It follows the decision by the UAW to end a six-week strike by nurses at Mercy Health St Vincent Medical Center in Toledo, Ohio, ordering a return to work over the mass opposition by workers. Nurses subsequently rejected the UAW-backed contract.
Any contract that comes out of this process can only be a betrayal. Workers must prepare to reject this sellout and to resume their struggle on the widest possible basis, winning support form workers at the major auto companies and parts suppliers.
The most important practical step is the election of a rank-and-file factory committee to take the contract fight out of the hands of the UAW strikebreakers.
Workers must advance their own demands, corresponding to their needs, not the profit requirements of stockholders. This should include workers’ control over health and safety, the transformation of all part-time workers into permanent employees and a 40 percent pay increase to compensate for past concessions.
The strike by Faurecia workers was the first auto strike since a walkout by workers at Nexteer in Saginaw, Michigan in 2015, which was also shut down by the UAW within hours. Because of the just-in-time inventory system, a disruption anywhere in the supply chain can cause a chain reaction of production shutdowns.
Moreover, the UAW fears that a successful fight by Faurecia workers to beat back concessions would reverberate throughout the auto industry, increasing the resolve of workers at the Detroit-based automakers, whose contracts expire in September, to press for the restoration of lost concessions, including the elimination of low-paid part-time and contract work.
GM is demanding that the UAW impose major new concessions in 2019, including an expansion of low-paid contract workers and increases in out-of-pocket health care costs. The UAW and the Detroit automakers are scheming to use the threat of plant shutdowns as a club to force through a new round of deep cuts.
To describe what the UAW is doing as “contract negotiations” is a misnomer. Rather, the UAW is engaged in a conspiracy. Management and the UAW are working to force through concessions agreements in the face of the overwhelming sentiment of workers for a fight.
Shane, a former Faurecia worker, spoke out in support of the workers at the Saline plant via Facebook.
“I would say to continue to fight the good fight,” he said. He warned, “Please do not settle for whatever they offer you. You deserve a better way of life, a better quality of life for yourselves and your families. It may be a struggle but without struggle there is no progress. True progress will outlast a temporary gain. So continue to stand together in solidarity and be united!”
Faurecia workers who spoke to the World Socialist Web Site Autoworker Newsletter as the UAW dismantled picket lines Friday morning emphasized the horrific working conditions at the factory, where three workers died in the space of just one year.
They told the WSWS that the only concrete “gain” the UAW could point to was the payment of a $2,500 bonus in two installments, one now and another in January.
“By the time January comes, half the people will be fired and gone,” said Clare, noting management’s highly punitive disciplinary system, where workers are penalized for taking medical leave or even holidays.
Her friend added, “A lot of people are about to be fired, because they are at 6-8 points. So you won’t even see that $1,000 in January. They know what they are doing. Eight points is all you get. There is no family time; even if you get pulled out by the EMS [emergency medical services], that’s a point.”
Clare noted, “Even if EMS goes out on the floor and gets you, that’s a point for me. That goes toward my eight points." Her friend added, “She’s getting a point, and not only is she getting a point, she is paying for the paramedics.
“Yes,” Clare agreed, “I am going to get that bill. That’s $500.”
Workers at Faurecia were prepared for a fight after taking a $1 per hour pay cut four years ago and losing their Blue Cross Blue Shield health coverage. Workers earn little more than poverty wages at the highly profitable French-based auto parts manufacturer, which assembles door parts and other interior components for Ford and other automakers, including Tesla.
David, who has worked at the plant for one year and makes $13 an hour assembling doors, spoke to the WSWS Friday morning after the UAW called off the strike.
“I have no clue what is going on,” he said. “I’m trying to figure it out. I don’t know what they agreed on. We are basically in the dark.
“The first thing we need is more money. The cost of living is up. People have kids. They cut our overtime, and right now I am working only 40 hours a week.
“We need better benefits, mainly health insurance. We could also use life insurance.”
Ben has worked at the plant since 2012. “I have been doing the math about the extension of the contract so close to changeover, and it seems they want to save the company money.
“We don’t know what we’re striking for. They have laid off people in the Mustang area. In two departments they are getting rid of machinery.”
Clare said, “If it was up to us, we would have been on strike June 1 because we didn’t agree to their [terms] June 1. But they didn’t say anything to us. Ninety-seven percent voted to go on strike; we didn’t go on strike.”
She agreed with uniting all autoworkers in a common fight. “There were Ford workers out here this morning supporting us. They said they were not bringing anything to our plant and they are not taking anything out of our plant because they are coming right behind us. They are trying to take care of us before the Big Three. We really start off for the Big Three.”
The brutal conditions facing workers at Faurecia are typical of what workers face in the auto parts sector. Once paying wages comparable to those at auto assembly plants, the auto parts makers, with the assistance of the UAW, have waged a decades-long drive to slash costs in the parts industry.
A fightback is required, uniting auto workers with all workers throughout the United States and internationally! We urge Faurecia workers to read the WSWS statement, “Autoworkers must take contract fight into their own hands!” and participate in the call in meeting set for June 27 on the upcoming auto contract fight.
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SAF medics go out of their way to help road accident casualties
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by Noah Tan on Apr 26, 2018
Not all heroes wear capes. Or armoured suits. Or wield a lightning hammer.
Some, like Military Expert (ME) 3 Ng Jaan Woei, third sergeant (3SG) Delwin Tay, and ME2 Muhammad Zulhilmi, are simply decked out in their green Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) uniforms and armed with nothing but their medical knowledge.
And a big heart.
So, while thousands of Singaporeans may have flocked to the cinemas on Wednesday (April 25) to catch the likes of Iron Man, Captain America and Thor in Avengers: Infinity War, it was a nondescript group of SAF personnel who proved to be the true heroes of the day instead with their public-spiritedness and display of compassion.
According to a Facebook post by the Singapore Army, Ng, Tay and Zulhilmi were on the way to an outfield exercise with a group of servicemen from SAF Medical Training Institute’s (SMTI) Combat Medic Specialist Course when they came across a road accident at Mandai Avenue.
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The accident – the result of a school van crashing into a lamppost – saw two of its four child passengers suffering from cuts to the head and limbs.
So, instead of simply keeping to their orders to get to the location of their exercise, the group did what heroes would do: they stopped to render assistance to the casualties.
Ng, who made the call to stop the convoy “after seeing…four children crying and the driver at the side of the road at the accident scene”, proceeded to treat one of the boys who had “sustained a bad cut on his forehead and cuts on his legs due to the shattered glass from the school van”.
Tay, too, went on to provide first-aid treatment for another boy who had cuts on his forehead and left elbow.
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Reflecting on his actions, Tay explained that he felt a responsibility to not only “care for soldiers”, but to “care for civilians as well”.
He added: “I’m a medic, and I know I need to get my job done. My job is to treat the ones who sustained injuries and take down information so that there will be a smooth transition from us to the doctors.”
Meanwhile, Zulhilmi mobilised the rest of the convoy to help remove the fallen lamppost from the road in order to free up traffic congestion, thus making it easier for the ambulance to travel to the accident site.
A 14-year-old boy was taken to Khoo Teck Puat Hospital while three children, aged between 10 and 12, were taken to KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital.
Unsurprisingly, netizens were quick to heap praise upon Ng, Tay, Zulhilmi and the rest of the SAF personnel involved in this incident.
After all, they had demonstrated initiative and selflessness by going out of their way to help those in need.
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They were able to keep their cool in what must have undoubtedly been a chaotic situation to apply their skills and knowledge effectively. Having served as a combat medic during National Service (NS) myself, I know for a fact that this is easier said than done.
In addition, I am heartened to see how their actions have helped to shine the spotlight on the importance of a vocation which is not always accorded the respect it deserves.
So, I would gladly and proudly add my voice to the chorus of commendation that Ng, Tay, Zulhilmi and the rest of their group have deservedly received in the wake of this incident.
Yes, they didn’t do any avenging.
But you can be damn well sure they’ll keep seeking, saving, and serving.
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