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Couple fishing netted burglars’ bag with guns, sorority pins stolen 26 years ago
Posted 1:04 pm, May 16, 2019, by CNN Wire Service
LAKE OCONEE, Ga. — Sam Nichols III was out in the fields in Auburn, Alabama, when his wife told him he got a call from the sheriff’s office in Greene County, Georgia.
A couple that had gone fishing on Lake Oconee caught a bag containing two guns and gold fraternity and sorority pins and turned them in. After some sleuthing, authorities had good reason to believe the pins belonged to Nichols’ parents, stolen during a burglary in 1993.
“We’re pretty amazed the pins were found after 26 years. Everybody had forgotten about it,” Nichols told CNN.
The detectives tracked him down after looking at the engraving on one of the pins which carried his dad’s name, Samuel Nichols Jr, who died in 1982. They sent the items to Nichols.
“We will probably never know why the burglar tossed the bag a state away, but it’s great to be able to get these items back to the family after 26 years in the lake,” the sheriff’s office said in a Facebook post.
At least one of the guns was also stolen during a different burglary in 1993, the office said. Neither weapon belonged to the Nichols family.
Both Nichols late father and mother Margaret, who died in 2013, belonged to fraternities and sororities in the 1930s, he said.
“My dad was a chemistry professor at Auburn University and won several chemistry awards over the course of his career,” he said.
One of the pins has the Greek letters Phi Lambda Upsilon, a chemistry honor society. Another one has the Tri Delta sorority crescent moon symbol.
Nichols said the burglary took place at the Auburn house where he grew up and where his parents had lived for 40 years.
“Someone had cut one of the pans in the front window, climbed through and, with the help of an accomplice, went upstairs to steal a bunch of jewelry, pins, and my mother’s silver, which was engraved,” he said. “The pins had not much value per se, but a lot of personal value for my parents.”
Auburn is about a two and a half hour drive from Lake Oconee.
His mother managed to get farm state insurance and moved to Columbus, Ohio, where Nichols sister and brother live.
“Everyone forgot about the pins until now,” he said. “My mom would be so happy to get her pins back.”
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Jamie Bell's Wife Kate Mara is Pregnant, Expecting First Child Together
Baby on board for Jamie Bell and Kate Mara! The Billy Elliot star's wife is pregnant; the couple is expecting their first child together, Page Six has confirmed.
The actress showed off her growing baby bump at the Golden Globes 2019 on Sunday, January 6, in a flowy Miu Miu gown.
An eyewitness exclusively told Us Weekly that the House of Cards actress, 35, walked the red carpet with the BAFTA Award-winning actor, 32.
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Kate was spotted chatting with Emily Blunt at the star-studded awards show while waiting in line for the bathroom.
According to the Page Six report, Kate told the Mary Poppins Returns actress about her pregnancy at the time.
The House of Cards alum, 35, is reportedly five months along.
Fantastic Four co-stars Jamie and Kate began dating in late 2015 and became engaged in January 2017.
The couple announced on July 17, 2017, that they had got married. Kate is stepmother to Jamie's son, Jack Matfin Bell, who he shares with ex-wife Evan Rachel Wood.
The former couple had got married in 2012 and got a divorce in 2014.
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Even More Suggestions for the Thirteenth Doctor
Posted by Kendall Ashley on February 21, 2016
We’ve been talking a lot about who could possibly take over reign of the TARDIS after Peter Capaldi leaves his role as Twelfth Doctor for good. Unsurprisingly, you Whovians spoke out loud and clear about which potential Time Lords you’d love to see as the new face of Doctor Who. So close your eyes (but then open them again to read this article) and dream about a world where one of these individuals is the Doctor.
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Idris Elba is an amazing actor. He’d be able to bring such a huge amount of gravitas to the role, while still being extremely likable. Elba’s name is frequently tossed around in talks whenever Doctor Who or the Bond franchise needs a new front man, and it’s understandable. He’s a force onscreen, and I think he could do just about either role extremely well. Though he might need to talk to the TARDIS about borrowing her nickname, Sexy.
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I wasn’t terribly surprised to see Freeman’s name pop up. After all, since he’s been in pop culture staples like The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Sherlock, and The Hobbit (just to name a few) he’s an icon in geek culture. It would seem that making him the Doctor would only be the logical progression in his geeky acting career, right? And hey, maybe we could get Benedict Cumberbatch to be the companion on a few episodes. Eh?
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I was definitely not surprised to see fans calling for Hiddleston to be the next Doctor. This guy is ridiculously charming, has a bit of a goofy streak, and has managed to capture the hearts of Marvel fans everywhere. He certainly has the wit and attitude of a Time Lord, and I think he could bring something really awesome to the franchise. Of course, it might cut into his Marvel time to bring Loki to the big screen, so we’ll have mull that one over more thoroughly…
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This is a no brainer here. She’s got experience with magic, she’s traveled through time, she’s used to being the cleverest one in the room, and she usually goes everywhere with a companion. Okay, so maybe I’ve described Hermoine more than I’ve described Emma Watson, but still, she could bring something pretty unique to the role to make a very rad Thirteenth Doctor. And anyway, using a sonic tool has got to be pretty similar to using a wand, right?
Chris O’Dowd
I don’t think I would have ever thought of Chris O’Dowd as the Doctor if one of you hadn’t suggested it, but now that you have, I must admit that I kind of love this idea. Chris is hilarious and extremely likable and a bit goofy. However, he’s proven that he’s able to deliver the serious moments needed to truly play the Doctor well. And, if nothing else, we know from his experience saying “Have you tried turning it off and back on again?” four thousand times on The IT Crowd that he’s comfortable with having a catchphrase.
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I had to add this one. This one didn’t come from you fine readers, but from Maisie herself. Though she initially lobbied for Idris Elba, she did say that she’d be more than happy to become the next Doctor. Of course, much like with Capaldi, the Doctor would have to work out why the regeneration face chosen was that of Ashildir/Me, though with the Doctor’s relationship to Me over the ninth season, there could be some really cool character work for the Doctor to do. Though, I’ll just say that if Maisie is our new Doctor, I would become very worried for one Lady Arya Stark…
What do you think of these picks for the Thirteenth Doctor? Let me know what you think in the comments!
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MARS NEEDS WOMEN (1967) AND NIGHT FRIGHT (1967) ON THE TEXAS 27 FILM VAULT: MAY 10TH, 1986
Tommy Kirk’s Greatest Moment
IN THE MIDDLE 1980s/ WAY DOWN ON LEVEL 31 …
Before MST3K there was The Texas 27 Film Vault! In Balladeer’s Blog’s latest look at this mid-1980s cult show from the Lone Star State I’ll examine “The Dallas Double-Feature” from May 10th, 1986. My research through VERY old newspapers and other sources has uncovered several episodes where exact broadcast dates can be determined. This is the 4th review in that series.
THIS DOUBLE FEATURE FIRST BROADCAST: Saturday May 10th, 1986 from 10:30pm to 2:30am.
IF THE ONLY BAD MOVIE SHOW YOU KNOW IS MST3K THINK OF: Attack of the the (sic) Eye Creatures.
FILM VAULT LORE: Usually The Texas 27 Film Vault ran 2 1/2 hours, from 10:30pm to 1am, and would feature machine-gun toting Randy Clower and Richard Malmos presenting (and mocking) episodes of old Republic serials followed by a cult movie. The previous Saturday night our “Film Vault Technicians First Class” showed the 12th and final episode of Radar Men from the Moon followed by the film Queen of Blood.
The night of May 10th Randy, Richard, Tex, Joe “The Hypnotic Eye” Riley, Laurie Savino and the rest of the Film Vault Corps (“the few … the proud … the sarcastic”) presented a special called The Dallas Double Feature. The episode dispensed with a serial and showed (and mocked) two films made in Texas, one by Larry Buchanan and the other by Russ Marker. Also featured was an interview with good old Bill Thurman, a Buchanan regular who also appeared in the Russ Marker film Night Fright. Thurman was also promoting his latest film appearance, in the low-budget horror film Mountaintop Motel Massacre.
MARS NEEDS WOMEN (1967) – Texas’ Larry Buchanan is known for low-budget remakes of many AIP schlock films, from Zontar the Thing from Venus (a remake of It Conquered The World), to Attack of the the (sic) Eye Creatures (a remake of Invasion of the Saucermen) and others.
Mars Needs Women sports many scenes beloved by all of us bad movie geeks. Think of the army translating a message from space with the tech saying “Sir … the message reads three words … Mars … Needs … Women.” Think of an alleged expert on space medicine, played by Yvonne “Batgirl” Craig, delivering a lecture titled “Sex and Space” to a leering male audience. Think of the ridiculous alien uniforms worn by Tommy Kirk and his colleagues, outfits that make Christopher Lee’s duds in Starship Invasions seem dignified by comparison.
I could go on and on but if you haven’t seen the movie it’s more fun discovering these scenes yourself. As the title says, Mars does indeed need women to overcome their reproduction crisis. Tommy Kirk, as Dop, the Captain Kirk of the Martians, first tries to teleport various sultry women onto the space ship but we’re told they all died in transmission over the “transponder”. Since transPORTERS are for transporting and transPONDERS are for radiowave transmission that might be why, but who am I to second-guess superior Martian science?
The stymied Dop next leads his crew through Earth’s defenses and we get lots of Plan 9 style stock footage of the armed forces supposedly trying to shoot down the Martians. Dop and company land, sporting flashlights and harpoon guns that the movie tries to pass off as Martian weaponry. They plan to slip into Earth clothing and infiltrate us for a night, hypnotizing, kidnapping and cryogenically freezing women on their ship so they can return to Mars with fertile women in tow. (Don’t laugh, today this would be a reality tv show.)
Expect the usual Larry Buchanan fun, from relentlessly inane dialogue to hysteria-inducing special effects to LOTS of footage of Texas. Naturally, Dop falls in love with Yvonne Craig’s character, Dr Marjorie Bolen, setting up the predictable ending. Bill Thurman, of course, turns up along the way as he does in almost all of Buchanan’s flicks. If you can endure the forces of entropy that are always at work in a Larry Buchanan film you will absolutely LOVE this movie.
NIGHT FRIGHT (1967) – This flick was originally released in 1964 under the title The Demon From Devil’s Lake. Russ Marker also wrote The Yesterday Machine so you can guess what we’re in for. Randy and Richard’s guest Bill Thurman is moonlighting in this non-Buchanan film and portrays Deputy Ben Whitfield. His Sheriff is Clint Crawford, played by THE John Agar, the Sonny Tufts of his generation.
A downed experimental NASA craft was carrying a menagerie of animals to study the effects of space travel on them. The cosmic radiation that caused the craft to crash-land in Texas also caused all the animals to merge into one big monstrous creature that supposedly has the characteristics of all the animals on board. The filmmakers obviously never bothered to correct those kinds of statements in the script because the monster looks like just an ape with a kind of armadillo head. The budget must not have permitted the creature envisioned in Marker’s original script but no low-budget filmmaker can be expected to remember to adjust the script to match the finished creature, now can they?
Randy (right) and Richard way down on Level 31 hosting The Texas 27 Film Vault
There’s also Agar’s love interest, who is so bland and is so lacking in chemistry with Agar that their love scenes are as passionate as two mannequins parked in each other’s vicinity. Anyway, Agar’s Clint Crawford and his men are trying to stop the composite creature’s reign of terror, well, more like reign of mild distress in this lackluster excuse for a monster movie.
The good guys are aided by a character named Roger Ready, who, despite his name, is NOT a porn star but is actually a scientist. Toss in all the usual goodies like wooden and awkward attack scenes, suicide-inducing dialogue and some of the WORST and most frequent day-for-night shooting in cinema history. Naturally the monster is destroyed in the end and the characters return to their grey, listless lives.
IN THE NEAR FUTURE BALLADEER’S BLOG WILL PRESENT MORE TEXAS 27 FILM VAULT MILESTONES. Be here to share the Film Vault Corp’s mission of “safeguarding America’s schlock-culture heritage”.
FOR ADDITIONAL INFO ON THIS SHOW – https://glitternight.com/texas-27-film-vault/
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Tagged as Bill Thurman, Joe Riley's Hypnotic Eye, Larry Buchanan, Mars Needs Women, Mountaintop Motel Massacre, MST3K, Night Fright, Randy and Richard, Randy Clower, Richard Malmos, Rifftrax, Texas 27 Film Vault, The Demon From Devil's Lake, The Texas 27 Film Vault, Tommy Kirk, Yvonne Craig
57 responses to “MARS NEEDS WOMEN (1967) AND NIGHT FRIGHT (1967) ON THE TEXAS 27 FILM VAULT: MAY 10TH, 1986”
Maggie F
Wonderful! ur reviews r so funny! The Texas 27 Film Vault sounds like it was quite a show and it deserves more pub!
Thanks! Feel free to tell one and all about the show!
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Thanks! It was a very funny show!
Pingback: Michael J Reynolds
I liked both shows, but I do love The Texas 27 Film Vault!
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isn’t that the truth!
Pingback: Nick
Yep, I can’t believe this show isn’t remembered more for that very reason if nothing else.
Pingback: Tycoon
Thanks! It was!
Pingback: Demi Fan
Thanks for commenting! I’m sure it was!
Pingback: Becky
No problem! Glad to do it! Feel free to email me any memories you have of the show!
Pingback: Hondo
Thanks for commenting! I agree The Texas 27 Film Vault deserves more attention!
NOTHING BUT A MST3K IMITATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LMAO! So many Misties cannot grasp how calendars work. The Texas 27 Film Vault came BEFORE Mystery Science Theater 3000, which didn’t start until November of 1988. Take a look at the date of this T27FV episode, fool.
omg I think I saw this show when I was in high school in Oklahoma!
It’s possible! Feel free to email me with any memories you have of the show. My email is on my FAQ page.
Gotta love Billy Thurman!
Wow! The Texas 27 Film Vault should get a lot of attention with the MST3K TURKEY DAY MARATHON COMING UP RUN BY JOEL HODGSON!
Maybe so!
Mickey P
All hail Randy and Richard, the Previous Emperors of Cinematic Cheese!
Ha! You said it!
Holy shit! And this show was before MST3K? Don’t let the Misties find out! They’re not emotionally stable enough to handle it!
LOL Most of them are, there’s that weird 10% or so who are psychotic and who pretend MST3K was the first show to ever make fun of bad movies.
The Texas 27 Film Vault was like an ancestor of Mystery Science Theater 3000!
Sort of, yeah.
OMG! This is the missing link between the older horror hosts and MST3K!
LOL That’s one way of looking at it I guess.
This show is a lost classic!
2 funny! Randy and Richard are like Joel and Mike’s big brothers or something!
That’s an interesting way to look at it!
I saw Mountaintop Motel Massacre!
Pretty grim, isn’t it?
Dondi Lives
Very very awesome! The lost fossil in terms of horror hosts!
Thank you! !
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Recently in Peru
Posted 1 February 2006 2:48 GMT
Here once again to share with you some of what has been published in the Peruvian blogosphere. These days the categories are somewhat mixed up. Blogs that normally post about other things are now writing on politics and thematic blogs are posting personal items. More evidence that in the blogosphere anything is possible and there aren't restictions to creativity and personal expresion except for what we ourselves impose.
Beginning with politics, or better said, continuing with the discussion about Ollanta Humala who continues to offer plenty to talk about, especially now that several surveys have put him as the leading presidential candidate. In Gustavo García's blog, Cultura Peruana is the post, “We'll play in the forest while Ollanta is, Ollanta is …”. Gustavo says of Ollanta Humala:
He's become the fierce wolf of Peruvian politics, the terrible outsider who is threatening to become the country's president, the “menacing ghost” who at once is united to the dark side of the force: Hugo Chávez
In De todo un poco, Pedro Flores posts, “Ollanta, why won't you shut up?” where he comments:
The statement that he is going to intervene in multinational corporations, that he's going to impose new taxes, that he will be a radical with the transnationals; he's making a big blunder. It's because of these statements that the market comes down while the dollar rises and keeps rising and the investments stay stalled.
He then makes an analogy between an administrator of a commercial building and the president of the country which is interesting though somewhat superficial. To conclude with the posts on Humala, Diego of Desde la Clandestinidad sarcastically posts, “Why I Will Vote for Humala”:
It doesn't matter if the farms stop producing and industry stops or if we can no longer listen to Los Prisioneros because they're Chileans1. Good bye to the foreigners and their ideologies because they alienate us. Farewell Catholicism and franchises. We'll eliminate the press, electricity, the Spanish language, and gasoline. I've already got my vote decided.
But not everything is about Huamala. Fujimori is also worrying some bloggers and in Perú Político Bernd Krehoff speaks of “The Streets of Fujimori,” concluding with the following:
The hundred thousand supporters that Fujimori had imagined waiting at the airport for his return to Peru appears to be more the product of a misplaced dream than a realistic calculation.
Check out the plentiful comments which are diverse and extremely interesting. And even better, Bernd went out of his way to translate the post to english so that the readers of Global Voices and all of the world can read it. The English version is here (though the interesting comments are on the Spanish version).
On another theme, ingenuopais (naive country) posts an unsettling article that's not meant for the naive. “Chile in Peru … Do They Already Have Their Candidate?”
If we Peruvians make the decision to suit the rules of the game of investments in Peru to make them compatible with the national interest, the government of our neighbor will consider it a potential problem. And sure, … it reminds the current governing “friend” that “… it's necessary that the establishment of legal protections for Chilean investors advances.” Nothing more to say.
But let's leave the anger that at times is produced by politics and let's laugh a little with Lanuez's “Electoral Ethics Pact.”
As a bridge between politics and technology, we have the post of Juan Carlos Luján in Sin Papel: “Peruvian Politicians Don't Know Anything About the Internet.”
Despite the fact that they all have Internet presence (there are eleven political movements that have no clue of the web's power), not one has demonstrated the astuteness to take advantage of the tool that would help them reach nearly three million Peruvian internet surfers and position themselves adequately on the world wide web.
In Communication and Peru's Development Eland Vera posts about “Ideas that were Brought Up in the Blogs and Education Course at UNSA.” It's a good handful of ideas which aren't completely original, but transfered to a city like Arequipa could do much good. A Mango tells us about “The Powers of Blogs, Part Two,” something which is just recently being seen in Peru. Finally, in “The Metaverse of JL,” JL tells us about his recent impressions of TV, cable, Tivo, and other related things in “Goodbye to TV Programming which also has a version in English: Say goodbye to the TV Guide.
Changing topics, the blog, Powerful Words momentarily leaves behind its literary side to post about a current event in Lima: “Story of a Kidnapping,” which is about the wave of abductions that have invaded our capitol city. Another hot topic of late was the recent attempt to hack our website, BlogsPerú, but luckily our webmaster, Leuzor realized in time and the problem was rapidly overcome. However, in the interim, various bloggers reported on the topic: Letra Suelta: Blogsperu y los crackers, http://e-nredados.blogspot.com/: Blogsperu crackeada y Blogsperu crackeada v2: 2006 es el año!, verolindapechocha: ¡BlogsPeru Hackeado! y BaluArt.net: BlogsPerú hackeado (Actualizado). Thanks to everyone for their concern.
For those that don't already know, I don't just live in Lima, but also in Iquitos, a beautiful city by the Amazon river. I tell you this because Pako Bardales, a blogger based in Iquitos, posts in his blog, Diario de IQT, “Alberto Fuguet Ama a Iquitos,” about the presence of Iquitos in the literary imagination of various writers. And from writers we move to the journalists. In El Crónico, they post almost in a humorous tone, “Singing 1, 2, 3!: Journalists Rise to the Scene,” about the various musical adventures of mainstream journalists. Speaking of music, Juan Carlos Bondy of Lado B laments in his post, “Why Don't the Stones Come?” which concludes:
Let this serve as a lesson to the naive, like this blogger, who dreamed of seeing the Rolling Stones around these parts. But don't worry, Daddy Yankee is sure to visit us soon.
Not everything is so full of regret however; Alexandra of Raising Ravens writes about the Peruvian band, “Maganzoides: when the horror cannot stop,” a nostalgic post about the incredible rock band.
In the section of personal blogs, there are some excellent choices like Vir, who was just recently interviewed in BlogsPerú. In her blog, Puerto Asterix is a reflection on “Life, oh life, what is it all about” as well as various other topics:
How many times have I distrusted perfection? As if affirming my own imperfections somehow grants me a letter of authenticity, humanity, what they call an absence of pretension or “posing.” A species of silly rebellion. A change, two changes, three changes, aaah, life changes, I change, becoming another, but basically still me, crossing the threshold of your time, my beloved Al.
About other things, but with a certainly poetic tone, Laura of The Ingenious Naivete, tells us of “Sheets of the Sea:”
I will search you when you leave the sea, because there I find myself more easily. There in the water, blue and cold, I remove the legs that have lost me, I strip away the salt of the day to day and I am once again a woman and marine spirit, like before … like always.
For her part, Antolín Prieto of A Park Bench goes back in time juggling curious words in “A Wait:”
You can figure the ticking on the heels of a waiter in the bar or on that slow music that, you know, could be Piaff. But, How long will this song last? You wait until it finishes or maybe another one, without thinking of a thing. You stare at those pictures hanged on the wall. They are not hooked on you or they are staring at you vividly. The worst are those pointing at you or the ones laughing mysteriosly, hiding their roaring laughter.
In this post we also have a translation to English thanks to the valuable collaboration of the indefatigable Kat who I'd like infinitely thank here.
Introducing a new topic in these selections, nothing better than a couple uninhibited girls: Definitely Unfaithful writes, “Dirty Mouth,” which talks about the intimacies that nearly everyone likes to hear. And Mojadita tells us about her experiences in past parties in “Anonymous.” I was able to get both bloggers to translate their posts, respectively: Noisy and Anonymous.
Hmmm, perhaps we should change topics and discuss parties: Invazor C!!! tells us about the birthday of a fellow Peruvian blogger in “Santos’ Birthday”. It's too bad we weren't there huh?
Finally, but no less important is our selection of photos. Remember the post, “Miscelanea Fotográfica: Trujillo, 31 de diciembre” which I had selected the time before? Well, there is never a first without a second and this time Crepúsculos y cuadernos presents Miscelánea Fotográfica: Huanchaco, 31/12/05, 1-2/01/06, a continuation of the photojournalistic report that began with the prior post. Comunal dances in the Southern Sierras of Peru and part of Bolivia are displayed in the series of two posts at “Caporales de la Tuntuna I,” which has sparked controversy among readers. And with that, I leave you until next time.
1: Refers to a law passed in Venezuela which requires that half of all music played on public radio stations comes from domestic bands.
Translation by David Sasaki
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Trinidad & Tobago: Where's the Integrity?
Transparency and good governance have been popular topics in the Caribbean blogosphere of late, thanks to stories on financial impropriety, concerns over massive spending of taxpayers’ dollars and anxiety over freedom of the press.
The latest debacle over integrity (or lack thereof?) comes from Trinidad and Tobago, where, in the last few weeks, a second attempt to establish an Integrity Commission has come to a crashing halt amidst revelations that the Chair of the Commission, a Catholic priest, had committed acts of plagiarism in his weekly column for a local newspaper. To add insult to injury, Fr. Charles claims that he drew this act to the attention of President Richards, whose job it is to appoint members of the Commission, and was told it was “okay” – this decision allegedly from a man who spent years at the helm of the University of the West Indies. Father Charles has since resigned from his post, citing Canon Law as the primary reason for his withdrawal.
To add even more fuel to the fire, the journalist who drew attention to the plagiarism in the first place, has been fired from his post at Newsday, supposedly in retaliation for his actions – and even though the Media Association of Trinidad and Tobago appears to have remained silent on the issue, bloggers certainly have not, even posting their views on Twitter.
B.C. Pires, a Trinidadian journalist-turned bogger who now resides in Barbados, has been following developments from the outset. As early as May 7, he published a letter he wrote to local media houses:
My colleague Kevin Baldeosingh quite responsibly brought to national attention the use by putative Integrity Commission Chair, Henry Charles, of arguments and language copied from (1) an op-ed piece in the New York Times of 9 December; and (2) a column by Darin Belousek published in the National Catholic Weekly on 30 March.
I invite citizens to locate on the Net and compare a column written by David Brooks in the New York Times on 7 May, 2006, called, “Marshmallows and Public Policy” with one titled, “The Marshmallow Test” published a week later in the Guardian under the byline of the good Henry Charles.
If once is mistake and twice, habit, would three times be standard operational procedure? What does this reveal about the integrity of Mr Charles? As with governments, do countries get Integrity Commissions they deserve?
Fellow blogger This Beach Called Life backs up B.C.'s position in a post from the same date:
Somehow I don’t feel a self-confessed, under-pressure, serial plagiarist should be allowed to even come within 1000-feet of a member of the Integrity Commission much less chair it.
If Kevin Baldeosingh didn’t point out the plagiarism to The Father would he have confessed? That is the big question but the answer seems horribly obvious. And as Kevin Baldeosingh said ‘I found the apology unconvincing and I would have let the matter rest there, except I am now wondering what will happen when, as chairman of The Integrity Commission, Mr. Charles, finds himself under pressures rather more intense that writing a weekly newspaper column.’ Please note the inverted commas and thus no plagiarism.
B.C. Pires, himself no stranger to being fired from mainstream media gigs, continued to keep a close eye on the situation, eventually posting this blog entry once he noticed that “Newsday has not run my erstwhile newspaper and still Humanist Association colleague Kevin Baldeosingh’s column for the last two Fridays. I suspect there is a connection to Kevin having done Trinidad & Tobago and the world a favour by uncovering the hypocrisy of our own plagiarizing priest/wannabe Integrity Commission Chair, the good Henry ‘Hey, I Completely Forgot About Copying That David Brooks Column’ Charles.” He then goes on to publish the third column of Baldeosingh's that had failed to appear in print.
Other bloggers soon rallied to Baldeosingh's cause once it was confirmed that the journalist had indeed been fired. Pires writes:
And so after two weeks of suspense – literally, too, just leaving him dangling, not using columns he dutifully supplied, without the common decency of an explanation – the Trinidadian newspaper, Newsday, has sacked Kevin Baldeosingh, easily its best writer and the only semi-public figure to have displayed any integrity in the whole Integrity Commission bullshit affair; and you have to take your hat off to Trinidad; nowhere else would have the gumption to publicly punish someone for doing the right thing.
And now, in a plot twist Albert Camus might have rejected for his novella, The Stranger, Kevin, the open atheist, is being punished for revealing the hypocrisy of a priest his own newspaper would have hushed up.
Shame on Newsday, shame on the priest – how he sleeps at night, the Devil alone knows – and shame on Trinidad & Tobago for penalizing the only person in the whole shebang that did the right thing and protecting the scoundrels who let us down.
This Beach Called Life says:
This blog supports Kevin Baldeosingh because this blog…
* …believes in integrity
* …is against hypocrisy
* …supports people of intelligence and honesty
* …is against cover ups, regardless of imaginary heavenly or social affiliation
* …is against any newspaper that tried to hide vital truths from the public since that newspaper’s opinions are now tarnished beyond shine
* …understands people who hide vital truths from the public is part of the real problem
Caribbean Free Radio adds:
The more important point…is that Baldeosingh was dismissed from his job for doing—regardless of where he happened to be doing it—what journalists are supposed to do, i.e. investigate a matter of public interest and present the information to the public.
Finally, journalist/blogger Attillah Springer, who admits she is not a Baldeosingh fan, is big enough to see the bigger picture:
I get no joy from the news that Newsday hasn’t run Kevin Baldeosingh’s column for the past three weeks, leading to speculation that he has been fired. You attack one, you attack all. And when the neighbour house on fire, Jah know you better start wetting your own. Or so it is in my book.
It’s not just about free speech. It is about undermining investigative journalism. Intimidating other journalists who might want to put God out of their thoughts and try to expose some injustice. It is a warning to others to not step out of line. Who wins, then? Who wins when voices are silenced? Who wins when a priest can get away with lifting some copy from another writer but teenagers are on trial for buying copies of exams? Who wins when a journalist gets fired from a newspaper for daring to challenge a holy man even as children’s jhandis are under threat at Barrackpore West? We have lost track of reality. We have lost a vital voice in our national conversation. We have lost our sense of perspective. Nobody wins.
The thumbnail image used in this post, “jonathan kevin anu news that stays news”, is by Georgia Poppplewell, used under a Creative Commons license. Visit Georgia's flickr photostream.
Written byJanine Mendes-Franco
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We have lost our way in Trinidad & Tobago. When the Law Association of that country issues a press release (see link – http://www.newsday.co.tt/news/0,100674.html) such as this, we all have to sit up and listen. Abuse of power comes from all sources – from the newsrooms of daily newspapers right up to the serene residences of Heads of State.
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‘Russian Ebola': Civic Project Tracks Russians’ Deaths in Police Custody
A Russian journalist's website is tracking deaths in police custody to raise awareness of the issue. Images mixed by Tetyana Lokot.
Over the course of 2015, 197 people died in police custody in Russia. The deaths often occurred under mysterious circumstances, and many of the detainees died even before being charged or getting to trial. Information about each of the 197 cases has been made publicly available online as part of a civic journalism project called “Russian Ebola.”
“Russian Ebola” is the brainchild of journalist Maria Berezina, created to monitor cases of death in police stations, pretrial detention facilities, and related places such as drunk tanks. The project's statistics do not take into account prisoners who have already received a jail sentence after a court-issued criminal verdict, but only record the deaths of those who were detained or faced administrative arrest.
Berezina, who previously worked in the Journalism Investigations Agency in St. Petersburg and the TASS news agency, launched the website in March of 2015. While doing work for the blog of Oleg Kashin, a Russian opposition journalist, she noticed regular reports of deaths and decided to retrieve openly available government data on the numbers of those who die in police custody from the Ministry of Internal Affairs. What she found was staggering: each month, anywhere from nine to 29 people had been dying at police stations across Russia, with few of the cases investigated and even fewer guilty parties established.
Berezina informed Kashin of her discovery, and he soon wrote a column about the incidents and the alarming trend, titling it “Russian Ebola.”
Если новости каждый день приносят внезапную смерть в полицейском участке, то речь действительно идет о какой-то странной эпидемии, нуждающейся в точном выяснении ее причин, локализации и эффективной борьбы с нею. Это менее интересно, чем Донбасс, это не вызовет бурных обсуждений в социальных сетях, да и скучно читать заунывно повторяющиеся одинаковые истории — «Умер, умер, умер». Но вы уверены, что умирать всегда будет кто-то другой, не вы? Я по поводу себя совсем не уверен, и я боюсь этой эпидемии, и хочу, чтобы все ее боялись, потому что она страшная, и ее нужно остановить.
If every day the news brings sudden death at a police station, then we're really talking about some strange epidemic that needs to have clearly identified reasons, needs to be localized and combatted effectively. This is less interesting than Donbass, this won't cause passionate discussions on social networks, and it's boring to read mindnumbingly similar, recurring stories—”Dead, dead, dead.” But are you sure it's always going to be someone else dying, and not you? I'm not so sure about myself, and I'm afraid of this epidemic, and I want everyone to be afraid, because it is terrifying, and it must be stopped.”
Berezina decided to make the publicly available data more visible and launched a separate website, borrowing the name from Kashin's piece. Though she started work in March of 2015, she went back through the Interior Ministry reports to get death numbers as far back as September 2014.
Maria Berezina, the journalist behind “Russian Ebola.” Photo from Facebook.
Soon after the launch, Berezina described her reporting routine in an interview to Russian Spektr website.
Искать такие сообщения не сложно. Я просто ищу в «Яндекс.Новостях», вбиваю запросы типа «Полиция. Умер». Времени это занимает немного. Три раза в день я мониторю интернет, это недолго. Запостить саму новость тоже — минуты две.
It's not difficult to find these reports. I just search in Yandex.News, I type in a search query like “Police. Died.” This doesn't take a lot of time. I monitor the Internet three times a day, not that long. Posting the news itself also takes all of two minutes.
Besides daily reports and summary statistics for each month, the project also publishes occasional opinion columns by human rights lawyers and advocates, addressing the issues of police abuse and detainee rights.
The 2015 figures from “Russian Ebola”‘s annual report are nothing but numbers and facts, but they paint a chilling picture:
A total of 197 Russian citizens died in police stations, pre-trial detention centers, and other temporary detention facilities in 2015.
Among the dead, 183 were men and 14 were women.
109 people died in police stations, 42 in temporary detention facilities, 31 in pretrial detention, ten more died in police vehicles. One each died in an investigative administration building, a drunk tank, a road police station, a local drug control office, and during an on-site investigative experiment.
The most popular cause of death in 2015, according to official reports, was a “sudden deterioration in health conditions” (104 people), usually described by “unknown circumstances” or “a stopping of the heart.” 62 people reportedly died of suicide, five—of epilepsy, three of tuberculosis, two from alcohol-induced delirium, one of poisoning. Ten more people died of trauma they reportedly received before arriving to the detention facility, five people died in a fire, one was reported to have been killed by fellow detainees. Four were reportedly killed by police officers.
In October of 2015, Vladikavkaz citizen Vladimir Tskaev was detained on suspicion of attacking an OMON (special forces) police officer and was pronounced dead at a hospital the day after his detention. The police claimed the man beat his own head against the floor, but Tskaev's relatives doubted the report and went to the street in protest. The operatives suspected of beating Tskaev were arrested some time later, along with the head of the city's criminal investigations department, and the North Ossetia Interior Minister lost his post. This is one of only a handful of cases where police violence was suspected and the relatives of the deceased were able to resolve the case. Most suspicious deaths in police custody remain in the dark.
In a recent interview to Daily Dot, Berezina said that she was still not hopeful for any sort of official response from Russian law enforcement. After being questioned over the website's activity by the state Center for Combating Extremism, she said she felt like even they didn't take her work seriously.
While the journalist doesn't expect to effect any tangible change or for the police to hold themselves accountable, she said the “Russian Ebola” website was created “in order for people [to] think for themselves.” Berezina's intent, she said, was not to paint the Russian police force as completely bad. “Maybe there is nothing bad at all—but then why [do] people keep dying?”
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Kudoes to Russia for investigating! In the USA in 2012, the latest year for which the Bureau of Justice Statistics’ Deaths in Custody Reporting Program has released data, 4,309 people died while being held in local jails or state prisons. Add to that 1100+ unjustified killings of citizens by police at accident and supposed crime scenes and you realize the USA has a problem UNEQUALLED IN THE WORLD.
TIM TOMSEN
Russian noe – Stalinist Hypocrites like Putin groom the world with RuSSian Kremlin Propaganda about how bad everyone else is..
And why does Putin’s propaganda machine do this you ask…
Well it makes perfect sense it is so the rest of the world the EU, USA, UN and all others becomes hyper-aware of their own minor (or non-existent) wrongdoings, while actively dismissing anything that ruSSia themselves are doing wrong..
This KGB tactic of propaganda and blame game, would have even made propaganda German Minister Goebbels blue in the face of envy, First thing Russia does is relocate blame—then, our western conscience and PC. liberal mind, does the rest of the work for them.
Russian Hypocrites spend their lives cheating, betraying, conning, and deceiving. But despite this disgusting pattern of behavior, RuSSians still feel entitled to point out (or invent) the most minor mistakes in others—and they’ll point them out repeatedly, to negate & excuse all of their own horrible actions.
Russian Prison System
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Russian police beats prisoners to death
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Great Britain: Militaria: Badges, Uniforms & Equipment
Great Britain & Commonwealth Realms
Briish Army skill at arms badges & trade badges
By Paul L Murphy, September 5, 2009 in Great Britain: Militaria: Badges, Uniforms & Equipment
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Location:Cambs UK
This badge in gold wire & black thread (the blue horizontal stripe on the white flag is represented by a strip of black stitching on black, is I think (forgot & have'nt time to look (the Greenjackets.
Is t post 1960 style, or the smaller a Mess Dress? It's 2" tall by 1 3/4" wide.
Armoured Car Trade Badge - Armoured Car Crewman, later Class I "B" Tradesman, worn upper right arm, later lower right, worn by The 12th Lancers & later by The 9th / 12th Lancers.
The 12th Lancers were mechanised in 1928, in a reconnaissance role, with Rolls Royce Armoured cars.
The badge was worn upper right arm by all ranks of The 12th Lancers up to WOII, above chevrons & below The Prince of Wales's feathers when worn by NCOs.
Later discontinued, the badge was re-introduced in 1955, mentioned in the regimental journal that year..
In 1960 tThe 12th Lancers amalgamated with the 9th Lancers & the positioning of the badge was changed to the right forearm, WOs now being eligible to wear it between their rank insignia & The POW's feathers.
In 1963 it was discontinued for a short time in No. 2 Dress & was re-introduced in 1972 for wear by Class I Tradesmen.
Anodised badges were produced & worn for a short time but were phased out in favour of brass.
The badge was produced in gold bullion on dark blue cloth, but it is not known if it was produced in other embroidered versions.
"British Army Proficiency Badges" shows a photo of the armoured car badge being worn facing the other way, on the upper left sleeve of a corporal of The Tank Corps, 1919 - 1923, possibly in metal.
This example is in solid die-struck brass, with east / west wire loop fittings, & cost the person who got it for me from The 9th / 12th Lancer's PRI £1.65 in 1989.
The Trumpeter's badge, an appointment badge worn on the upper right arm (Clothing Warrant 1865).
Seen in photographs either way up, sometimes mixed within the same unit.
Trumpeters of RA & RE wore the badge with an upright sprig of laurel, (bells of trumpets uppermost, (DRRA 1864).
During Victorian times RE & ASC Trumpeters in mounted units & Buglers in foot units wore the version with laurel sprig, which is believed to have phased out in favour of the version swithout laurel sprig during WWI.
A worsted version of the Trumpeter's badge shown with a brass version for size comparison:
Bandsman's badge, Royal Artillery, origibally an appointment badge, now a trade badge, introduced about 1856.
Worn lower right arm, riginally on both arms.
Between 1931 - 1950 it was replaced by the small sized lyre, wreath, Crown Bandsman's badge, which, it's thought, was also used outside this period on tropical dress.
The version in gold wire on dark blue cloth, & the small lyre, wreath, King's Crown badge referred to above - the khaki worsted version:
A Canadian badge, similar to the Brtish Royal Artillery Bandsman's badge but with the addition of a wreath of maple leaves:
Paul L Murphy
Here are some more Royal Artillery Band musician's badges, but more recent than those shown by Leigh. We have both the No 1 dress version in bullion and the No 2 dress version in cloth.
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Posted October 4, 2009 (edited)
The Bandsman's badge, originally an appointment now a trade badge, worn upper right arm (Clothng Regs 1888).
in 1886-7 a large version of this badge was introduced into wear by Bandmasters (Clothing Regs 1887), worn by most but not all units, an unofficial "Badges & Dates" publicaton of 1886 made mention of the large badge, but not of the small version being in use. By about 1890 the small badge was featuring in photographs.
The King's Crown khaki worsted version, as shown a couple of posts above, the post c1960 reduced size badge with St Edward's Crown (which replaced the St Ed's Crn version of the khaki worsted), two King's Crown brass badges, one with a dark blue cloth backing (similar to the backing colour of RAF badges, possibly an RAF badge) the other with red on black cloth backing - I got this at the same time I got a 1920's photo of a Northamptonshire Regiment Bandsman in KD, the badge on his sleeve could have been this colour combination. Black was the facing colour of some infantry regiments, including The North Staffordshire Regiment.
Edited October 4, 2009 by leigh kitchen
A gold anodised St Edward's Crown badge with red cloth backing. I associate these anodised with red cloth backing with wear in shirt sleeve order.
Bandsman, "Unoffficial Band", issued to various unofficial bands, including RAF ones, Cadet Corps & sometimes to Band-Boys attached to Bands, prior to 1956.
It's not a Bandsman's badge with the crown snapped off, it's struck as a desgn without a crown, tho' no doubt some Bandsman's badges would be adapted to form this one.
Here are a few more bandsman's badges. The first is on a cherry red backing so presumably for hussars ?
And here we have No2 dress for the Light Infantry, followed by bullion on black on red (presumably full dress for one of the regiments with black facings) and finally a bullion version on dark green (not sure which regiment this is for).
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tubbyboy
Or, possibly, if on dull cherry RAMC?
I will post more on this thread tomorrow as this is, pretty much, my main area of expertise...
RobW
To add some purely Australian flavour, here is a signaller skills badge, service dress on khaki, c1940.
I look forward to seeing your posts :cheers:
Army Recruiter's badge, this version is the post-1962 one, reduced to 3/4 of it's predecessor & instead of a variety of colours of thread, bullion & backing cloth, only with a red backing.
The King's Crown version of the larger badge had lapsed during & post WWII, & the badge was revived as a St Edwards Crown version (WODC January
In 1961 the WODC had been asked to consider a 2/3 size badge of No 1 Dress quality & backing for wear on the new khaki No. 2 Dress, but the decision was to adopt this badge at 3/4 size & in the one version - of coloured thread, gold wire & on red backing cloth.
The "ARMY RECRUITER" cloth shoulder title which had been worn above the previous, larger crossed flags was discarded & the new, smaller crossed flags were now worn only on the right arm of No. 1 & No. 2 Dress.
They are worn above the appropriate substantive rank insgnia.
There is a version without bullion in the design, which was worn on Jersey Heavy Wool's etc.
This badge measures about 3 3/4" inches (85mm) in height & in width.
A badge that I've had for some years but can't identify. Presumably a "C" Class tradesman in a unit wth Scottish connections, possibly a Commonwealth unit?
Mervyn Mitton
Location:Umhlanga. STH. AFRICA
You know Leigh - the old saying you 'learn something new everyday' still applies. The lovely badge you have shown above for Army Recruiters - I've never heard of this before. I always thought they were seconded from their regiments , or units, for a period .
This is obviously why our Army has shrunk - they've spent all the money on badges...
They are seconded, but in the past there were "Paid Pensioner Recruiters".
According to "British Army Proficiency Badges" by Dennis Edwards & David Langley, for some time before 1934, a badge "PPR" was worn by Paid Pensioner Recruiters, replaced by the crossed flags badge worn on both sleeves of the blue serge frock only.
Army Recruiters also wore a shoulder title "ARMY RECRUITER" in gold bullion on blue above the crossed flags, which themselves were above rank badges.
The Army recruiter title, above crossed flags, above 3 x chevrons is shown in a photo c 1935.
Recruiting Sergeant Turner of the Somerset Light Infantry, circa 1927.
He wears the cap & collar badges of the SLI, with "favours" on his cap, presumably in red, white & blue, the Paid Pensioner Recruiters "PPR" insignia on the lower sleeves & a red sash.
He wears the Queens South Africa Medal with 3 x Clasps, The Kings South Africa Medal with 2 x Clasps, 1914 Star with Bar, British War Medal & Victory Medal.
I have another photo somewhere of what will be a Paid Pensioner Recruiter, it's a coloured card & shows the PPR cuff badge in yellow, presumably representing gold bullion, on a red backing (which I assume is a mistake) being worn on the blue uniform.
I've found the card, & I was wrong - I must have been thinking of those cuffs & the crowned royal cypher cap badge - no visible recruiting badges on this man:
Edited November 28, 2009 by leigh kitchen
Graham Stewart
Location:Darlington
I'm still unsure as to why they chose to use the old pattern Colour Sgt's badge, last seen on full dress at the outbreak of WWI, for use by the Recruiter? There must be an AO or ACI somewhere detailing as to how and why it was adopted, replacing the "PPR" badge.
"Edwards & Langley" comments on the similarity to the 1868 - 1914 Colour Sergeant's badge, indicates that the crossed flags badge was introduced as a replacemnt for "PPR" ( PPR - PVCN 1929) circa 1934, & that the St Ed's Crown version was approved by the War Office Dress Commitee followng the WWII & post war lapse in wearing of the crossed flags (WODC Feb 1953).
david grumpy
The early enamelled brass, the plain brass - same sized badges, just I've messed up the res:
any evidence please to support the contention that the enamelled flags badge was 'early', earlier than the plain gilding metal ['brass']?
I ask because neither the Royal Army Clothing Department ledgers, nor Clothing Regs, nor Priced Vocabs [i have complete copies of all this info from c. 1850 to 1950] give any hint of an [expensive to produce] enamel version.
My belief, which is up for challenge, is that the enamelled version is a vanity individual item, or a collective regimental vanity, and that it was never an Ordnance item. India, with its skilled native craftsmen, might be the source of the enamel badges.I think the only proof needed to knock my theory is a Sealed Pattern.
peter monahan
Britain & Canada Moderator
The "MG" & "LG" without wreath series of badges were discontinued by Army Council Instruction 23 of 1932, but were still appearing in PVCN 1936 & Small Arms Training Volume 1 of 1937.
It's probable that they were being worn by TA Hotchkiss Gunners, the Hotchkiss was phased out of the Regular Army by 1940, the Regulars had adopted LG in wreath in 1921, it's likely that the TF adopted the "LG" without wreath as it now stood for Light (Machine) Gunner.
The MG & LG series of badges without wreath were declared obsolete by List of Changes in Ordnance Material 5067/52.
You mean you can't qulify for "range taker" by being the fastest 'mouse man' - "By the numbers, point and click!" in yr missile battery? :whistle:
The only reference to its being early I can think of offhand is "British Army Proficency Badges".
Thank you: I don't disown the book, which I co-authored, but if I were to start again today, there would be a lot of changes!
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Things to Do in Downtown Dubai & The Dubai Mall During Your Vacation
April 19, 2017 By Amy Sherbert Leave a Comment
The beating heart of the glittering, modern Dubai as it’s known the world over stems from the wide, manicured boulevards and state of the art venues of the Downtown Dubai and Dubai Mall area.
This is one of the newest, most innovative, and iconic areas of the Emirate where locals and visitors alike converge on the many restaurants, shops, and locales in the neighborhood.
The shiny glass surfaces and glittering night lights of the Burj Khalifa stand as a beacon over Downtown Dubai, while the newly built Dubai Opera House beckons in culture vultures and music buffs to a rotating program of plays, ballets, operas, conferences, and concerts.
If you’re looking for things to do in Downtown Dubai and Dubai Mall during your trip, check out our list of the best local activities and attractions, including…
Dubai Fountains
Hop-On Hop-Off Big Bus Dubai Tour
Hysteria Haunted House
Souk Al Bahar
Dubai Opera House
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At The Top At Burj Khalifa
It’s hard to top such an action and culture-packed day, but At The Top at the Burj Khalifa might just do the trick.
You’ll get to experience the world’s tallest building from the very top as you travel up 10 meters per second to the 124th and 125th floors of the tower.
From the observation deck, you’ll have amazing, 360-degree, panoramic views of almost the entire city. You’ll also get to experience interactive displays and exhibitions providing history and context about each building and landmark of the Dubai skyline. Super strength telescopes also allow you to zoom into the details on the ground.
Getting In: At the Top – Burj Khalifa tickets are included with the Go Dubai Card.
By Alberto-g-rovi (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 or GFDL], via Wikimedia Commons
Following a morning of thrills, chills, and mall browsing, take a moment to relax and reflect at the Dubai Fountains.
Situated just outside of Dubai Mall, this incredible water feature captivates audiences with specially choreographed light, water, and music shows.
You can enjoy a mix of both Arabic and Western music perfectly synced to the water and music show, for free, every afternoon at 1:00pm and 1:30pm and then every half hour each evening.
For more, check out our post on free things to do in Dubai.
Getting In: Access to view the Dubai Fountains is free.
One of the best ways to experience the city is from Dubai’s main road, Sheikh Zayed, which runs the entire length of the city.
Jumping onto the Hop-On Hop-Off Big Bus Dubai Tour Bus will give you an excellent view of the city from the comfort of a glass topped open bus, so you can tick off the Emirates most memorable landmarks from your to-see list – an amazing Dubai sightseeing tour for first time visitors.
Choosing the Big Bus Dubai Tour’s Red route will give you a full tour of the downtown area with the ability to hop-on or hop-off and explore at your leisure.
Each tour comes complete with narration and commentary in 12 different languages that includes cultural, historical, and anecdotal insights into the Emirate that will add context and color to your visit.
Your city bus tour will take you through Deira and Old Dubai and the Gold and Spice Souks before heading onto the Dubai Fountains and the base of the Burj Khalifa.
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Once you’ve relaxed on a leisurely city tour, it’s time to get your heart pounding with a spook-tacular visit to Hysteria Haunted House at Dubai Mall.
This attraction drops you into a haunted house where theatrical special effects bring a scary story of missing children to life. Ghosts, ghouls, and other creatures are brought to life as you navigate your way through the adventure.
Make it through the gauntlet of the haunted house and you have the excitement and reward of a leisurely afternoon in the hundreds of shops and restaurants at Dubai Mall to soothe your frazzled nerves.
If they can handle it, this can be a very fun thing to do in Dubai for teens – check out more ideas here.
Getting In: Dubai Hysteria Haunted House tickets are included with the Go Dubai Card.
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Crossing the bridge from Dubai Mall over the manmade Burj Khalifa Lake, will bring you to the entrance of Souk Al Bahar.
Here you can experience the wonders and delights of an authentically designed traditional Arab souk turned into a shopping, dining, and entertainment complex.
From a range of international cuisines, from sushi to American style BBQ, to Mexican and even Lebanese, to the many boutiques and shops where you can buy mementos and souvenirs of Dubai to bring back home to loved ones and friends, Souk Al Bahar is a place both to sight-see and to indulge.
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By Dubai Opera LLC (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons
Following a leisurely lunch and walk around Souk Al Bahar is the perfect time to visit one of Downtown Dubai’s newest and most intriguing residents, the Dubai Opera House. This cutting edge architectural project recently opened its doors, bringing a diverse platform of cultural events to the Emirates.
Created to evoke the silhouette of a traditional Arabic dhow boat, the Opera House rises from the Boulevard. It is one of the most technologically advanced venues to date, with a system of hydraulics to assemble and arrange up to 2,000 seats within its opulent space.
Even if you can’t make it in for a show, the exterior and area around the Dubai Opera House is equally breathtaking and worth an afternoon exploration.
Getting In: Admission to the Dubai Opera House is separately ticketed and is not included with the Go Dubai Card.
With enough of a cultural fix under your belt make your way over to Oasis Mall for a fun-filled afternoon at Thrill Zone Dubai. This entertainment funplex is packed with enticing games and activities for all ages.
You can use your Go Dubai Card for entrance to Thrill Zone where you’ll experience two 15-minute laser tag games and two five-minute 6D movies.
You’ll be thrown into the action of a laser tag game in a special suit and state of the art laser weapon as you make your way through a volcanic rock and jungle themed route complete with UV lights, music, and fog.
While the 6D cinema will have you holding on in wind, fog, rain, and moving chair actions throughout the films.
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There you go – a few great recommendations for things to do in Downtown Dubai and Dubai Mall during your trip.
If you’re looking for the glitz and glamor of Dubai, you don’t have to look any further than Downtown Dubai and the Dubai Mall.
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WhatsApp messaging platform to launch cryptocurrency targeting NRIs sending money home
By nargisbano on March 4, 2019 • ( 0 )
In April last year, RBI had issued circular banning banks from providing services to crypto businesses. However, some exchanges have found a new way around the banking problem by launching exchange-escrowed peer-to-peer services.
Source: BusinessToday
India is the world’s top recipient of remittances with its diaspora sending $80 billion back home in 2018, and WhatsApp, an end-to-end encrypted messaging platform, is looking to target that market with a launch of cryptocurrency in the first half of 2019. The news hasn’t come as much of a surprise as earlier last year too Facebook had spoken about incorporating Bitcoin into its products.
Remittance payments are a multi-billion dollar industry where NRIs send money back to their family members in their home country. India has a huge migrant population who can benefit from cryptocurrencies as unlike the legacy financial system, cryptocurrencies would make transfer of money easy and the remittance payers would spend less in fees to send their money.
According to a Bloomberg report, Facebook is developing a digital currency pegged to the US Dollar. The digital currency will first be rolled out to the WhatsApp users in India (over 200 million), allowing them to send money to their friends and family members, both internationally and domestically. WhatsApp is not the only messaging platform planning to roll-out the cryptocurrencies. Signal and Telegram have also decided to release their own digital coins. However, unlike Bitcoin which is decentralised, the coins launched by WhatsApp and other messaging platforms will be centralised.
Facebook has already pulled in blockchain experts and according to NYTimes, Facebook could “succeed where cryptocurrency start-ups have failed by introducing mainstream consumers to the alternative world of digital coins.” Cryptocurrencies have been in the news for over a decade but it hasn’t been adopted by the masses owing to the complications associated with the mining process. With WhatsApp cryptocurrency, Facebook could change all that.
It won’t be an easy ride though. WhatsApp hasn’t been able to successfully launch its payment business- WhatsApp Pay – in India. WhatsApp Pay was launched in India last year in May and since then its roll out has been delayed over issues surrounding RBI’s data localisation norms. Indian government is currently in the process of drafting crypto regulation. Earlier in April last year, RBI had issued circular banning banks from providing services to crypto businesses. However, some exchanges have found a new way around the banking problem by launching exchange-escrowed peer-to-peer services.
The government regulators could lay down the rules that Facebook might not like. It could be asked to scrutinize users, reverse fraudulent transactions and act in accordance with banking regulations just like any other payment network would. All this would require Facebook to have some amount of control over the transactions and doings of the third-party developers.
Despite the legal and privacy issues, the only company that can pull this off is Facebook. It has the reach and the money to turn this into a big deal – and collecting the chips from the billion dollars a year remittances is more motivation than required to do so
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Microfibers from Clothes Contaminating Marine Environment
Posted on April 5, 2017 Updated on March 31, 2017
By Kesavan Unnikrishnan
Studies in Canada show that microfibers used in garments such as yoga pants have become a huge threat to aquatic life. Microfibers made up 95 percent of the plastic pollution in waterways as compared to microbeads which constituted only 5 percent.
Fibers captured on a 20 micron filter. A micron (or micrometer) equals one millionth of a meter (a centimeter is one hundredth of a meter). The fibers were captured by filtering washing machine effluent after washing a Patagonia jacket. The scale in the photo indicates the length of 1,000 microns. Photo: Shreya Sonar, Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at UCSB. Patagonia
Many of the developed nations have proposed regulations to ban the sale of microbeads in toiletries because of the risk they pose to aquatic and marine environments.
But now it appears that a different type of microplastic is becoming a growing threat to aquatic animals.
Findings of a recent research conducted by scientists from Carleton University, Ontario show that most of the microplastics recovered from the Ottawa River and its tributaries were from microfibers rather than microbeads.
Jesse Vermaire, assistant professor of environmental science, geography and environmental studies at Carleton University said:
What really surprised us is that we found plastic particles in every single water and sediment sample we took, so the plastic was really prevalent in the river system. As much as 95 per cent of the plastic in the water samples collected by Vermaire and the Ottawa Riverkeepers was made up of microfibers. Around five per cent of the plastic was made up of micobeads. A lot of them are coming from synthetic clothing.
Yoga pants, fleece-type jackets, athletic wear and other garments made from synthetic materials contain microscopic plastic fibers — called “microfibers”. Every time you run your washing machine, hundreds of thousands of microfibers are flushed down the drain into natural waterways, eventually reaching the sea and into the food chain.
Ingesting microplastics over a period of time makes animals feel full, meaning many later die of starvation.
Some companies have already started to suggest interim solutions, such as washing synthetics less or capturing the fibers with filters, But a larger, systemic solution, such as new fabric formulations can only be a permanent solution.
*This story first appeared on Digital Journal
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Research Extracts-14
Secular Sources
Research Sources from Brit-Am Now nos. 676-700
1. Families in Germany were keeping Together
2. Troubles with Iran Predicted by Midrash?
3. The Angels Michael and Gabriel Alone on the Side of Israel?
4. Are Israelites Only a Minority in the USA?
5. Is the Temple Music Reflected in Irish and US Country and Western Tunes
6. Steven Collins: Finland as a Buffer Zone reflects Issachar Characteristics
7. Pro-Jewish Adherents of British Israel Do Exist!
8. Discussions Concerning NZ, the Kiwi, and Biblical Quail
"Brit-Am Now"-679
2. Family History from Germany Illustrates Brit-Am Point
Subject: Re: "Brit-Am Now"-676
item #2. Question on the Effects of Intermarriage and Ancestry
Hi Yair,
  It's interesting about families living in small villages and intermarrying with a few families. One branch of my maternal family came over here from Germany (Bavaria). My relative was the first to come in 1865 and most of the rest of the village came over by 1929 when a huge group of about 40 people came together. My family intermarried repeatedly with one or the other of the three families (Klein, Swartzkkofpt, and Sautter) even for about 50 years after they got to America, going back and forth between 3 cities to find mates with the family branches there. I had always thought Klein was a Jewish name and I know lots of Swartzes are Jews. But when I've tried to find out about religious persuasion it always comes up Catholic, although they were Lutheran when they got to America.
 G
4. Chaim Hayman: Interesting Midrash about Persia and the Last Days
Yalkut Shimeoni (Isaiah):
<< Rabbi Yitschak said: In the year when the Kingly Messiah appears all the rulers of the world will be struggling with each other. The King of Persia [Iran?] will be fighting the King of Arabia and the King of Arabia will go to Aram to receive advice from them. Consequently the king of Persia will destroy the world and all the nations of the world will be in an upheaval and be panicking and falling on their faces and they will seized with pains as in the throes of childbirth. Israel also be in upheaval and panicking and asking,
Where shall we go and to whom do we turn?
God will say unto them:
My children Do not be afraid. You have nothing to fear. All that I did I only did for your sake.
Why are you afraid?
You have nothing to fear.
The Time of Your Redemption has arrived. The Final Redemption is not like the First Redemption.
The First Redemption was accompanied by sorry and subjection and followed by foreign rulership but the Final Redemption will not be accompanied by sorry and subjection and not be followed by foreign rulership.>>
2. EVEN THE ANGLES OPPOSE ISRAEL!
A new chapter (ch.10) has been added to
the Brit-Am Commentary to Daniel:
http://britam.org/DanielContents.html
Chapter Ten: Michael: Guardian-Angel of Israel
Even Most of the Angels Are Against Us!
Extract:
[Daniel 10:21] BUT I WILL SHEW THEE THAT WHICH IS NOTED IN THE SCRIPTURE OF TRUTH: AND THERE IS NONE THAT HOLDETH WITH ME IN THESE THINGS, BUT MICHAEL YOUR PRINCE.
The Commentary "Daat Mikra":
<< BUT MICHAEL YOUR PRINCE. Here it mentions that Michael, "ONE OF THE CHIEF PRINCES" (Daniel 10:13), is Your Prince, the Prince [Ruler, Protector] of Israel. "MICHAEL THE GREAT PRINCE WHICH STANDETH FOR THE CHILDREN OF THY PEOPLE" (Daniel 12:1). Rabbi Isaac Abarbanel wrote: "This tells us that all the Supreme Princes aligned with the Heavenly Constellations were against Israel. Gabriel however was an advocate for them and Michael his motivator strengthened him". The existence of Gabriel is an extension of Michael. Michael is higher up than Gabriel who executes his will.>>
Israel is alone even in heaven. If you are an Israelite you are part of a lonely people.
LO, THE PEOPLE SHALL DWELL ALONE, AND SHALL NOT BE RECKONED AMONG THE NATIONS [Numbers 23:9].
2. "The USÂ a Israelitish nation: wishful thinking"?
From: Al Ramsay
Subject: Re: Jerusalem News-427
Yair, here is the official US census of the major racial groups that currently form the population base of the USA.
A rough count shows 28 % of the population are of the tribes of Israel, unless you include the German immigrants too.
I think that it is wishful thinking to imply that the US is a Israelitish nation. Sure there are huge pockets of Israelites but 28% is far from a majority.
I am reminded what G-d said to Moses before the Children of Israel marched across the Jordan and into the promised land. Moses was told that through time the people would rebel against God and He would send them into captivity and would serve other races. It looks like the same situation is again happening in Europe, with 58 million Moslems as well as the US where they are becoming overrun by other cultures. Are we looking at the prophetic 'time of Jacob's trouble'?
Answer: We do identify most of those of German descent in the USA
as descended from Israel and regard them as a different origins from the
Germans of Germany as we have explained frequently and justified in detail
in our book "Joseph. The Israelite Destiny of America". The same principle applies to
many of the peoples in the USA.
http://www.britam.org/Questions/QuesGermany.html
Q1. Brit-Am does not include Germany amongst the 'Israelite" nations. What is your explanation for the fact that a great many citizens of the USA descend from German immigrants?
5. Is the Temple Music Reflected in Irish and US Country and Western Tunes?
1. Israelite Temple Music, Irish and Appalachian Music
Ashira Morgenstern is a Musician, a Composer, and a Teacher of
Music in Jerusalem.
Ashira for quite a long while has been conducting intensive
research into the Music that was used in the Temple.
This research is still in progress.
Music was an important part of the Temple Service.
There were choirs of Levites in the Temple and
instrumented orchestras.
The Psalms of David were composed to be set to Music
and David himself invented musical instruments.
[Amos 6:5] THAT CHANT TO THE SOUND OF THE VIOL,
AND INVENT TO THEMSELVES INSTRUMENTS OF MUSICK,
LIKE DAVID;
Ashira believes that the Music used in the Temple gave rise
to the traditional melodies of Ireland and that Spanish music also
shows the same influence. She says that Appalachian Music
(from which evolved much of Country and Western) in the USA
is closely related.
This is not my field but I spoke to Ashira and my impression was
that the research is serious and the results could be
2. The Bagpipes in Scripture
There is an opinion that musical instrument termed
"NABAL" (pronounced "naval" and translated as "psalter" in the KJ)
was a form of bagpipe.
See the Brit-Am Commentary to 1-Samuel 10:5
http://britam.org/samuel-10.html
Ashira Morgenstern points out that the bagpipes are also recalled
elsewhere in Scripture and we have used her references to add the
following to our Commentary on Daniel 3:5:
<< PSALTERY>>: "Simponia" in Aramaic. PSALTERY in the King James is the usual translation for the Hebrew word "nabal" which we have interpreted to mean "bagpipes" (1-Samuel 10:5).
So too, the meaning is here also to bagpipes.
Saadia Gaon (882942 CE) says, "Sumponia. This is what the shepherds play [tunes] on. It is like a blown up animal skin [nod], for example the "bait sumponia" [animal lung] mentioned in the Mishna, Hulin 3;1. "
Saadia is referring to a type of bagpipe as confirmed by the Rabbinical Commentary, "Shilti Giborim" p.41, who includes an illustration of a primitive type of bagpipe.
 [This source was pointed out to us by Ashira Morgenstern who is a Musician, a Composer, and a Teacher of Music in Jerusalem.]
So too, the very early Medieval Rabbinical Reference book "Aruch" says that the word "Simponia" means "a musical instrument, a kind of bagpipe".
This is also the opinion of "modern" commentators as mentioned by Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagpipes
<<although the Aramaic word sumponyah ( ), appearing in Daniel 3:5, 10, and 15, has been translated "dulcimer" (a stringed instrument) and "symphony", modern Bible translations generally render the expression as "bagpipe." Koehler and Baumgartners Lexicon in Veteris Testamenti Libros gives the meaning "bagpipe" (Leiden 1958, p. 1103).>>
2. Ashira Morgenstern: Modality not Melody
R' Yair - Shalom,
An important correction in what you posted recently about music.
There is no possible way -- at present -- to discern melodies from the Beis HaMikdash.
If you replace the word "melody" with "modality" in what you wrote -- we'll be closer to the truth.
I believe mentioned the distinction to you, but I apologize for not explaining the concept more fully.
Chag Kasher v'Samayach,
Brit-Am Comment: Ashira explained that in layman's terms "modality" means type of music whereas
"melody" means a specific tune.
We said:
<< the Music used in the Temple gave rise
shows the same influence. >>
This should preferably be replaced by:
<< the Music used in the Temple would seem to have had
a similar modality to that later known from
the music of Ireland. Spanish music also
Since the research on Temple Music is still in progress and some tentative conclusions have yet to be confirmed
Ashira would prefer NOT to correspond on the issue at this stage.
4. Steven Collins: More on Issachar and Finland
From: Steve Collins <scollins@ll.net>
Shalom Yair,
I would like to make a short comment on the Israelite ancestry of the Finnish people. I agree with Yair's linkage of the Finns with the tribe of Issachar. One additional point further strengthens the link between Issachar and Finland.
Genesis 49:14-15 prophesies that Issachar, in the latter days, would be a nation which was "couched down between two burdens," and in a position of being under "tribute" to more powerful nations. The Finns fulfill this prophecy very well. They have been between "two burdens" (two stronger nations) for centuries. They have been in a buffer zone first between Sweden and Russia, then between Germany and Russia and, during the Cold War, between the Eastern Bloc and NATO. The situation of being caught between two more powerful nations or alliances is so closely linked to Finland in the modern world that being caught in a buffer zone between two greater powers is often called "Finlandization."Â Genesis 49 is a key prophecy as it gives specific traits or characteristics of each tribe's situation or condition in the latter days of this age. God has surely guided historical migrations and developments so each tribe now fulfills the prophesied situation for each tribe.
These aspects of Finnish history are examined in considerable detail in my most recent book, Israel's Tribes Today.
Brit-Am Note: The Israelite and Tribe of Issachar (along with elements from Gad and Simeon)
identity of Finland is also discussed in some detail in our work "The Tribes"
which includes original and exclusive information of value and great relevance to this subject.
 http://britam.org/the-Tribes.html
4. British Israel Actually Pro-Jewish?
Letter Received by John Hulley
From: DAVID SCOTT HILL
To: jonhully@netvision.net.il
Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 11:22 AM
Subject: Hello John
Hello John....looking forward to your book being published. I definitely want a copy when the press is done.
I found your website thru Yair Davidiy weekly email announcements. Looking over your website, I noticed that you label British Israel as a false doctrine that replaces the Jews. I am a British-Israelite and do not support that view at all, nor anyone else I know. Maybe the so called "Christian Identity" doictrine does this which is pure heresy in my oponion....but not the British Israel I know, nor any of the pastors I listen to do this.
I believe my dear brother, that the Jews are a part of Israel consisting of 2 of 12 tribes. They are our brothers that must come together and be joined into one stick, one kingdom, ....
Anyway I just wanted to say my peace on this and let you know that the majority of British-Israelites do not believe this and we are supportive of our brothers, the Jews.
God bless you and your efforts, David Hill.
http://www.britam.org/now/699Now.html
1. Wayne Laurence: Kiwi bird incorrectly described
2. Facts about the Kiwi
(a) The bird
b. The Symbol
c. Vast Numbers Once Existed
d. Kiwi Shoe Polish
e. The Nickname "Kiwi": bird, coin, and fruit
3. (a) The Pertinence to "Quail" in the Bible
(b) New Zealand birds like the Biblical "Quail" in in Numbers 11:30-32
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An international convention on the enforcement of mediated settlements – UNCITRAL moves one step closer
Government proposals and consultations, Mediation (General)
The UNCITRAL working group that has for several years now been considering the potential for an international enforcement regime for international mediation has now completed its work and produced draft instruments.
At its most recent meeting in New York, the UNCITRAL Working Group II (Dispute Settlement – formerly Arbitration and Conciliation) approved a draft convention and a draft amended Model Law on international settlement agreements resulting from mediation.
The aim of the initiative is to implement an international regime for the enforcement of mediated settlements broadly akin to the New York Convention regime for the enforcement of arbitral awards – and thereby increase the attraction of mediation for international litigants, with all its well-known cost efficiencies and other potential benefits.
The development stems from a view amongst some commentators that the use of mediation to resolve international disputes has been impeded by the fact that, unless a settlement reached via mediation is in the context of a pending arbitration and can be converted into an arbitral award, parties can only enforce it in the same way as any other contract – which in an international context can involve potentially difficult (and usually lengthy) processes to obtain a court judgment and then enforce it in a foreign jurisdiction. Of course, it is by no means a universal view that this is in fact a problem. As noted in an opinion piece on our ADR Hub, ‘Is the enforceability of mediated settlements holding back the future of dispute resolution?‘ (commenting on the early data gathered from the 2016/17 Global Pound Conference series participants), anecdotal evidence from regular users of mediation is that non-compliance with mediated settlements is in practice a quite rare occurrence (compared to court judgments or arbitral awards).
Both draft instruments will be considered for finalisation by the Commission at its upcoming session in New York this summer (from 25 June). However, there remains a wide range of views on the topic and there may be much more discussion before any position is finalised in the Commission and any process of ratification and domestic implementation begins.
The texts of the draft instruments finalised by the Working Group in February have not yet been made available on the relevant UNCITRAL webpage. However they will in due course be posted on this page, which currently contains the most recent drafts (from November 2017) together with other details of the initiative.
Government proposals and consultations, Mediation (General) enforcement, Global Pound Conference, UNCITRAL
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Florida High School Football News October 4, 2018
Florida Top 25 – Week 6
West Orange’s 30-29 upset of Wekiva shakes things up a bit in the latest High School Football America Florida Top 25 that is created with our proprietary algorithm. The Mustangs drop a couple of spots to No. 7 this week,…
Florida High School Football News September 26, 2018
Miami Central Moves to the Top of the Florida Top 25
For the first time since the 2014 season, a team other than IMG Academy sits atop the High School Football America Florida Top 25 that is created with our proprietary algorithm. Miami Central moves to No. 1 in the latest…
Florida High School Football News, National News June 7, 2018
John Peacock back as head coach at Venice (Florida)
Less than two months after being fired, John Peacock is back in-charge of the Venice High School football program that won Florida’s 7A state championship last year, finishing No. 17 in the High School Football America 100. Venice school officials…
Coaches Corner, Florida High School Football News, National News June 5, 2018
Is Venice’s (Florida) head coach returning after being fired?
The Suncoast News Network is reporting that John Peacock may be returning as Venice’s head football coach, a couple of months after being fired. Peacock was fired after “liking” a controversial tweet about Braden River head coach Curt Bradley. Peacock…
Alabama High School Football News, Florida High School Football News, Georgia High School Football News, Louisiana High School Football News, Mississippi High School Football News, Regional Top 25's January 2, 2018
Regional Rankings: Southeast Top 20 – Final
IMG Academy (Florida) finishes as the No. 1 team in the final High School Football America Southeast Top 20. The Ascenders only played eight games in 2017, but did beat four state champs, three of whom are in the regional…
Florida High School Football News December 6, 2017
Championship time in the High School Football America Florida Top 25
Time to hand-out the gold in the Sunshine State. Half of the eight state championship games feature head-to-head match-ups within the High School Football America Florida Top 25. In 6A, No. 3 Northwestern will face No. 5 Armwood for state…
No. 55 Venice stops No. 20 St. Thomas Aquinas’ state championship run
Venice is heading to a Florida state high school football champion game for the first time since 2000. Friday night, the Indians, ranked No. 55 in the latest High School Football America Top 100, knocked-off three-time defending 7A champ St….
National News, National Top 100, Top 100 November 12, 2017
NEW Top 100 features seven head-to-head match-ups this week
Last week was the first time all season that we didn’t have at least one head-to-head match-up within the Top 100, but this week, it will be a different story with seven games featuring Top 100 vs. Top 100. And,…
Florida High School Football News November 1, 2017
High School Football America Florida Top 25 – Week 10
Norland’s upset of No. 3 Northwestern brings the Vikings into the latest High School Football America Florida Top 25. Norland breaks-in to the rankings created with our proprietary algorithm at No. 25. Related: Top 100 Another other change in the…
National News October 5, 2017
Where the Top 100 plays this weekend
This week’s Top 100 matchups include two of the newest teams to enter the rankings as well as some familiar names that have plenty of experience playing against the nation’s top programs. Another Friday night, another Top 100 matchup for…
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Nick Gordon Facing Lawsuit Over Bobbi Kristina Brown
The sad and ongoing tale of Bobbi Kristina Brown added a new chapter this week after a lawsuit was launched against her boyfriend slash brother, Nick Gordon. The civil lawsuit alleges that Gordon physically assaulted Brown and stole cash from her as well.
Georgia news outlet WXIA released a report regarding the lawsuit, which comes on the heels after it was announced Brown would be entering hospice care. Ever since Brown’s health ordeal became public, speculation over Gordon’s role in the matter has been robust. In this latest instance, the court-appointed conservator looking over Brown’s funds and affairs drew up the lawsuit which alleges some shocking actions by way of Gordon.
From WXIA:
The lawsuit alleges that Gordon presented himself to be Brown’s surrogate brother prior to 2012. After Brown inherited a substantial sum of money (presumably from her mother, Whitney Houston’s estate), Gordon “assumed the position of Brown’s boyfriend.” Around Jan. 9, 2014, Gordon “perpetuated the fraud that he had married Brown, though in fact he never did so,” according to the lawsuit.
According to the lawsuit, Gordon used that “misrepresentation” as Brown’s husband to “control Brown and limit with whom she could interact.” The suit alleges that Gordon answered Brown’s cell phone, wouldn’t allow her to make appointments without his permission and “manipulated her bank relationship so that she could access her money.”
Conservator Bedelia Hargrove also alleges that Gordon assaulted Brown one night so badly that he knocked out a tooth. While Brown was recovering in a coma after she was discovered unconscious in a bathtub, Gordon allegedly took $11,000 in cash from her.
Hargrove said in a statement that Brown’s father, Bobby Brown and aunt Pat Houston are seeking “justice” in the 22-year-old’s name.
Watch WXIA’s report in the clip below.
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HAWKS HAVE SOLID OPENING DAY IN QUEBEC WITH SPLIT
Today the women's volleyball team hit the floor today in the first day of a four game exhibition tour in Quebec, playing both Cégep André-Laurendeau and Bois-de-Boulogne.
GAME 1: Hawks vs Cégep André-Laurendeau
During the first set of the weekend, our Hawks came out hard against the Cégep André-Laurendeau Boomerangs. As they quickly grabbed the lead, the Hawks stayed disciplined and pulled away with a 25-21 win.
In the second set, both teams were neck and neck as they pushed each other to earn points through hard-fought rallies. Slowly, the Hawks lost their footing, causing them to drop the set 23-25.
Quickly disregarding the last set, the Hawks came back more energetic than ever in the third and fourth matches. Fighting point for point, the Hawks buckled down and grabbed the third set at 25-22 and the fourth and final win at 25-18.
Julia Watson and Alex Krstonosic crushed the Hawks offence, each earning 11 and 10 kills respectively.
GAME 2: Hawks vs Bois-de-Boulogne
The first set in the game against the Cavaliers brought a rocky start to the Hawks. As they struggled to find their footing, they fell under the pressure of a strong opposing offence, dropping the first set 13-25.
In the second set, the Hawks found their groove and put up a stronger fight against the Cavaliers. Each point included intense rallies, where the Hawks found ways to put the ball away more often, snatching the second set 25-22.
Our Hawks dominated the third set both offensively and defensively as they ran with an early seven point lead. Then, as Brandy Ferguson dominated the service line, the Hawks downed the Cavaliers 25-11.
Unfortunately, the fourth set mimicked the first. With a slow and unsteady start, the Cavaliers stole a strong lead which the Hawks were unable to recover from, losing 12-25.
In the fifth set, the hawks pulled away with a four point lead. This was slowly lost as both teams battled back and forth in long rallies. The women fell just short of the match's victory, losing 15-12.
Sally Nguyen dominated the net with 7 kills and 4 blocks, while Kyla Wilkins was named Player of the Game for both games.
Tomorrow the Hawks are set to play another two games, first against Lionel-Groulx at 11:30am, and then versus Edouard-Montpetit at 4:30pm
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The Institute for Exposomic Research
The Mount Sinai Institute for Exposomic Research
The nucleus of environmental exposure and effect studies at ISMMS
The Transdisciplinary Center on Health Effects of Early Environmental Exposures
Studying the health impacts of chemical, genetic, nutritional, and social exposures and the interactions among them
Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes
Investigating the effects of a broad range of environmental exposures on children’s long-term health
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Meet the Co-Director
Robert O Wright, MD
Co-Director, The Institute for Exposomic Research
Rosalind J Wright, MD, MPH
The Mount Sinai Institute for Exposomic Research is the nucleus of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai’s work on studying early environmental exposures and its effects on life health, disease, and development. This is the world’s first research institute to focus on exposomics. Our goal is to translate our findings into new strategies for prevention and treatment. The Institute builds on the School’s internationally recognized expertise in Environmental Health Sciences and Exposure Biology and unique capabilities of The Senator Frank Lautenberg Laboratory, the Physiological Assessment of Children’s Environmental Risk Laboratory, the Transdisciplinary Center on Health Effects of Early Environmental Exposures (NIEHS P30 Core Center), the Child Health Exposure Analysis Resource (CHEAR) program, and the Environmental Influences and Child Health Outcomes.
Researchers Discover Earliest Recorded Lead Exposure in 250,000 Year-Old Neanderthal Teeth
Using evidence found in teeth from two Neanderthals, researchers report the earliest evidence of lead exposure in an extinct human-like species from 250,000 years ago.
Prenatal Exposure to Phthalates Significantly Associated With Elevated Rate of Language Delay in Children in Sweden and the U.S.
Researchers have found an elevated rate of language delay in children at 30 months old who were born to mothers exposed to phthalates.
Mount Sinai Researchers Identify Respiratory Support as Source of Exposure to Phthalates in Neonatal Intensive Care Units
Mount Sinai researchers identify noninvasive respiratory support as a source of phthalate exposure in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).
Mount Sinai Researchers Receive $43 Million Grant to Study Impact of Environmental Exposures On Children’s Health and Development
Researchers have been awarded $43 million from the NIH for a five-year research program, called Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO).
Mount Sinai Exposomics Leader Named to National Advisory Environmental Health Sciences Council
Robert Wright, MD, MPH, Director of the Institute for Exposomic Research, has been appointed to serve on the National Advisory Environmental Health Sciences Council.
Zinc and Copper Metabolic Cycles in Baby Teeth Linked to Autism
Mount Sinai Research Could Result in Future Diagnostic System for Autism Spectrum Disorder
National $8.5 Million Grant Awarded to Mount Sinai Institute for Exposomics Research
Five-year award will continue research on early environmental exposures and its effects on health and development
Exposure to Specific Toxins and Nutrients During Late Pregnancy and Early Life Shapes Autism Risk
Using baby teeth to find metal exposure and link to autism in children.
Wild Orangutan Teeth Provide Insight Into Human Breast-Feeding Evolution
Institute members new research gives insight into human breast-feeding evolution
New Institute for Exposomic Research Will Study Lifelong Effects of Environmental Exposures
Under the leadership of Robert O. Wright, MD, MPH, and Rosalind J. Wright, MD, MPH, two international leaders in environmental health, the Institute will study the effects of environmental exposures on health.
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People powered modular bathrooms
Interpod News
Any business is only as good as its people. The key to a successful company is its people. The key to a successful company creating innovative products is its people. Simply put, a business cannot engender the level of trust and respect that creates long-term relationships with customers without:
• genuinely caring about the employees in the business and helping them further develop their inherent strengths; and
• conveying to customers that the people building the products genuinely care about the work they are doing and take pride in doing it well.
At Interpod, our employees truly care about what they’re doing and how the roles they play contribute to the success of our customers, as well as to the success of Interpod.
“The bathroom pods are a great, innovative product, and the people here are very excited and very enthusiastic about the product and they enjoy building them,” explains Bob Robbins, one of our Project Managers.
Getting that 100 per cent buy in from staff can only be achieved by looking after them. Enabling them. Empowering them. Challenging them. And rewarding them when they deliver great work that delights customers and contributes to the success of the business.
At Interpod, our strength is our people. We challenge our people and we reward them for the role each and every one of them plays in bringing to life our industry-leading prefabricated modular bathrooms.
“The best thing about Interpod is the passion that the team bring and the environment that we work in,” adds Interpod Quality Manager Mitchell Bastock.
Underscoring culture and camaraderie
At Interpod we are very passionate about our employee culture. Our people produce quality work and there’s a legitimate sense of camaraderie amongst colleagues on the production floor. Our people are committed to the important role they play in helping us produce high quality prefabricated modular bathrooms to high Australian standards.
“The company is always focused on creating and maintaining a team environment,” says Planning Manager & Production Lead Scott Adams.
There’s a real sense of support and belonging throughout our workplace, which contributes to the great employee culture we enjoy. We believe in our staff and support and enable them with upskilling opportunities via internal training, mentoring and coaching and external courses. Our employees know that they can access opportunities for internal development and promotion with Interpod.
Celebrating our local community
Interpod plays its part in supporting the local workforce and economy on the Central Coast of NSW, offering long-term employment opportunities to both qualified tradespeople and young people seeking a trades career. We believe this is something to celebrate. Indeed, it is one of the reasons why we manufacture our prefabricated modular bathrooms in-house and in Australia, as opposed to outsourcing production to offshore companies.
Our directors and shareholders strive to create a supportive culture with high employee engagement. This is because our strength is our people. We are a family business that emphasises the ‘family’ aspect of business.
“It’s a fantastic company, a family oriented company,” Team Leader Martin Grayson attests. “Here at Interpod, you’re not just an employee; you’re a part of the Interpod family.”
Interpod is a progressive employer with a commitment to equal opportunities and creating a supportive, flexible working environment. We have earned a reputation for being a preferred employer on the Central Coast, which has helped us to become Australia’s industry leader in prefabricated modular bathrooms. For a discussion about how we can offer the modular bathroom solution for your next commercial or residential building project, contact us now.
Posted on December 19 2018 by Dijana Opacic
Monash University – Peninsula Campus
Efficiency without compromise in modular bathrooms
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Adelaide Wednesday May 17, 2017
SafeWork overlooked Crown lawyers for new RAH death prosecution
Prosecution over the 2014 death of new Royal Adelaide Hospital construction worker Jorge Castillo-Riffo – sensationally abandoned earlier this year – was handed to private lawyers because the Crown Solicitor’s Office could not put the case together quickly enough, InDaily can reveal.
Wednesday May 17, 2017
The new Royal Adelaide Hospital. Photo: Tony Lewis / InDaily
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Castillo-Riffo died, aged 54, when his back and head were crushed in a scissor lift on the site, which was run by Hansen Yunken Leighton Contactors joint venture (HYLC).
SafeWork SA presented its investigation into his death to the Crown Solicitor’s Office (CSO) in April 2015.
But InDaily can reveal that about a month later, the government’s lawyers informed SafeWork they had made little or no progress on the case and advised it might be months before they could process it.
SafeWork then asked the CSO to recommend private legal counsel instead and it selected Michael Roder SC – one of the state’s top lawyers – to lead the prosecution.
SafeWork refused to confirm the series of events, however court documents, seen by InDaily, show Roder acted for the regulator in the case earlier this year.
It’s not the only high profile State Government case to be farmed off to private lawyers in recent times.
Last week, chief executive of the Northern Adelaide Local Health Network Jackie Hanson revealed private lawyers had been chosen to investigate employees at the condemned Oakden Older Persons’ Mental Health Service – instead of the CSO – because “it was indicated that it would take … potentially over 12 months of their collective resources to undertake those investigations”.
Mental Health Minister Leesa Vlahos told question time in Parliament yesterday afternoon that the decision to engage private lawyers from Minter Ellison was made to “expedite” the investigations.
However, Attorney-General John Rau says he is unaware of any resourcing issues preventing the CSO from doing its work quickly enough.
A spokesperson for Rau told InDaily that “the Attorney-General has not been advised by the Crown Solicitor of any resourcing or staffing issues within the Crown Solicitor’s Office that is impacting on their ability to do their work in a timely manner”.
“The Crown Solicitor’s Office has approximately 185 lawyers and 60 support staff.”
According to the CSO’s website, any decision by a public authority to engage private solicitors or legal counsel must generally be signed off by the Cabinet, or by Crown Solicitor Judy Hughes.
The CSO’s Client Handbook explains the convention is enforced because the CSO offers best value for taxpayer money, is “appropriately resourced” and has unique expertise in “crucial whole-of-government and public law issues”. (The handbook sets a maximum fee in the event that private senior counsel is chosen: $423 per hour.)
The rule also reflects a binding directive – Treasurer’s Instruction 10 – which dictates: “[a] public authority shall not use the services of a legal practitioner other than the Crown Solicitor without first seeking the advice of the Crown Solicitor on whether the use of such a practitioner is appropriate”.
A spokesperson for the Attorney-General’s Department, which houses the Crown Solicitor’s Office, said that “for a range of reasons, Government agencies will from time to time obtain legal advice external to the Crown Solicitor’s Office”.
“A decision was made between the Crown Solicitor’s Office and Safework SA that it was appropriate to seek external legal advice in this case, in line with Treasurer’s Instruction 10 that governs the use of external legal practitioners by Government agencies,” the spokesperson said.
“As this matter is currently the subject of a legal review into recent prosecutions relating to workplace deaths in South Australia, and under consideration by the Coroner, the Government will not comment any further.”
SafeWork sensationally abandoned its case against HYLC three days before it was due to begin early this year.
“Your Honour, the situation is that the complainant is tendering no evidence against the first and second defendants [the companies that form HYLC] and, therefore, the complaint can be struck out,” Roder is quoted as saying in a transcript of the February 10 court proceedings.
Pam Gurner-Hall, Castillo-Riffo’s widow, told InDaily she was “mortified” by SafeWork’s decision.
She said she was told of the decision the day it was made – a Friday. The case was due to begin the following Monday.
“To be told after 28 months that … the business day before … was a serious shock,” she said.
“I was shocked … and mortified.
“I thought, for sure, at that late stage that [the case would proceed].”
She said a SafeWork official had previously assured her the case was strong, and was likely to proceed.
“For me, this is just another form of injustice,” she told InDaily, adding that her partner – who came to Australia as a refugee from the Pinochet regime in Chile – had been a victim of injustice his entire life.
Construction workers gathered the day of Jorge Castillo-Riffo’s death on the new Royal Adelaide Hospital site in 2014. Photo: Bension Siebert / InDaily
She said that as a teenager, Castillo-Riffo had been pursued by the regime’s secret police – and was regularly hidden under his mother’s floorboards to evade them.
She said the young Castillo-Riffo watched in horror as Pinochet’s henchmen threw his girlfriend off a building.
He was smuggled to Brazil as a political refugee and eventually arrived in Australia, where he took up a job in construction and became “an absolute safety nut”.
When he got home from work each day, she said, he took extensive notes on safety issues on the site during his shift.
“I’ve got books of notes on every job he was on,” she said.
“He had suffered and witnessed injustice [in life].
“I can’t believe that even in death he hasn’t seen any remedy that looks like justice.”
A SafeWork spokesperson reportedly said at the time that the case against HYLC had been abandoned “following legal advice” and in light of Castillo-Riffo’s direct employer SRG Building signing a legally binding agreement to improve its safety procedures.
Soon after the prosecution was dropped, the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) organised a “Justice for Jorge” rally on the steps of Parliament House, at which Premier Jay Weatherill declared he would call a review into a string of cases SafeWork had abandoned before going to trial since 2010 – and that there should be a Coroner’s inquest into Castillo-Riffo’s death.
InDaily understands a senior prosecutor from the Director of Public Prosecutions has now been seconded to the CSO to undertake the review.
SafeWork executive director Marie Boland resigned from her post less than a fortnight after the HYLC prosecution was abandoned.
Boland declined to comment other than to say that throughout her time at SafeWork she worked tirelessly to help families affected by workplace injury and that: “I consider that I supported families as best I could to navigate their way through the legal system”.
SafeWork told InDaily in a statement that it: “does not comment on the details of legal advice that informs its decision making, as it is subject to legal professional privilege”.
However, it “will, from time to time, engage private solicitors on matters where it is deemed appropriate – they in turn engage counsel,” the spokesperson said.
“SafeWork SA relies upon the advice received from the firm and counsel engaged to inform its decision making.”
InDaily is not suggesting that the private solicitors or counsel acted inappropriately.
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For other people named Derek Holland, see Derek Holland (disambiguation).
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Holland with the Texas Rangers
Texas Rangers – No. 45
Starting pitcher
Born: (1986-10-09) October 9, 1986 (age 32)
Newark, Ohio
Bats: Switch Throws: Left
April 25, 2009, for the Texas Rangers
Win–loss record
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Texas Rangers (2009–present)
Derek Lane Holland (born October 9, 1986) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Texas Rangers of Major League Baseball (MLB). He was the no. 2 rated prospect in the organization according to Baseball America, behind Neftalí Feliz, for 2009.[1] He is nicknamed the Dutch Oven.[2]
1.1 Pitching style
1.2 Texas Rangers (2009–present)
2 60 feet 6 Foundation
Pitching style
Holland has the ability to throw a variety of pitches to right-handed hitters and left-handed hitters at different speeds. His primary pitch is a four-seam fastball averaging 94-95 mph. To lefties, he throws the four-seamer, a two-seamer, and a slider (82-85). To righties, he throws a balance of the aforementioned pitches as well as a changeup in the mid 80s and a curveball in the mid-high 70s. Holland relies heavily on his slider with two strikes to both right-handed and left-handed hitters.[3]
Holland was drafted in the 25th round in 2006 out of Wallace State Community College in Hanceville, Alabama, a member of the National Junior College Athletic Association.[4]
On April 22, 2009, Holland made his major league debut; pitching 2⅓ innings, allowing 3 hits, no runs, no walks, and striking out 2. On August 9, he pitched his first complete game, a 7–0 shutout against the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim in Anaheim. For the 2009 season, Holland finished the season 8-13 with a 6.12 ERA in 33 games (21 starts).
Holland spent the majority of 2010 in Triple-A Oklahoma City, and was called up only due to injuries to other starters. After winning his first two decisions, he lost his next three. He ended the regular season with a 3–4 record, and 4.08 ERA.
Holland allowed 3 runs in 4.2 innings in the ALDS against the Tampa Bay Rays. He pitched 5.2 innings in the ALCS with no earned runs, and was crucial in Game 4, earning the victory against the defending champion New York Yankees. He came in in the fourth inning with one out and the bases loaded, and got his team out of a serious jam while also eating away innings to protect his bullpen.
Holland did not have the same success in the World Series against the San Francisco Giants. In game 2, Holland entered with one on and one out in the bottom of the 8th inning, with the Rangers trailing 2-0. Holland walked all three batters he faced without recording an out, and he forced in the runner he inherited via his final walk. Holland's wildness opened the door for what turned into a huge inning for the eventual champion Giants, as all three of the batters he walked came around to score. The Rangers lost the game 9-0. Holland pitched a scoreless relief inning in a game four 4-0 loss, but he and the Rangers lost the series 4-1.
Holland started the 2011 season as a starter for the Rangers, and despite a 4.96 ERA, won four of his five starts in April and May.[5] He lowered his ERA to 4.14 in June, mainly by virtue of his first shutout of the season.[6] He started off July with inconsistency, failing to make it out of the first inning against the Marlins. Over the next five starts, he responded by throwing three more shutouts.[7]
In 2011, he was 16–5 with a 3.95 ERA.[8] He led the AL in shutouts (4; tied for fifth-most in Rangers history), was 3rd in win-loss percentage (.762; the fifth-best in Rangers history), and was 4th in wins.[8][9]
On October 23, Holland was the winning pitcher in Game 4 of the World Series against the St. Louis Cardinals, giving up no runs on two hits, two walks and striking out seven. He was pulled from the game after pitching 8 1⁄3 innings. The Rangers lost the World Series after 7 games.
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Holland in 2014
He signed a contract extension on March 20, 2012 that is worth $28.5 million over five years with a two-year club option with Texas Rangers.[10] Holland finished the regular season with a win-loss record of 12-7 with an ERA of 4.67 as he gave up 32 home runs, fifth highest in Major League Baseball.
In 2013, Holland went 10-9 with a 3.42 ERA in 33 starts.
On January 7, 2014, Holland suffered a knee injury after a fall while playing with his dog at home.[11][12] MRI testing revealed torn cartilage in his left knee. Holland underwent arthroscopic microfracture surgery to repair the cartilage damage on January 10, 2014. He was placed on the 60-day disabled list and sidelined until the All-Star break.[13]
Holland strained his subscapularis muscle during the Rangers' first home game of the 2015 season, and was placed on the 60-day disabled list on April 10. Holland returned on August 19, 2015 to start against the Seattle Mariners. He went 6.1 innings pitched with 6 strikeouts and 2 earned runs as he earned his first win of the season in a 7-2 Rangers' win.[14]
60 feet 6 Foundation
In 2014, Holland launched the 60 Feet 6 Foundation to help raise awareness of and fund research for leukemia, particularly the pediatric forms. Through the charity, he raises funds to help families battling the disease.[15]
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Ecuadorian cuisine is diverse, varying with altitude, and associated agricultural conditions. Pork, chicken, beef, and cuy (guinea pig) are popular in the mountainous regions, and are served with a variety of carbohydrate-rich foods, especially rice, corn, and potatoes. A popular street food in mountainous regions is hornado, consisting of potatoes served with roasted pig. Some examples of Ecuadorian cuisine in general include patacones (unripe plantains fried in oil, mashed up, and then refried), llapingachos (a pan-seared potato ball), and seco de chivo (a type of stew made from goat). A wide variety of fresh fruit is available, particularly at lower altitudes, including granadilla, passionfruit, naranjilla, several types of banana, uvilla, taxo, and tree tomato.
The food is somewhat different in the southern mountainous areas, featuring typical Loja food such as repe, a soup prepared with green bananas; cecina, roasted pork; and miel con quesillo, or "cuajada", as dessert. In the rainforest, a dietary staple is the yuca, elsewhere called cassava. The starchy root is peeled and boiled, fried, or used in a variety of other dishes. It's also used as a bread, and has spread throughout the nation, most notably to Quito, where a company sells the native pan de yuca in a new sense: different types sold with frozen yogurt. Many fruits are available in this region, including bananas, tree-grapes, and peach-palms.
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Ecuadorian cuisine traditionally consists of two dishes, a soup and a rice platter. For the most part, Ecuador is known not only for its bananas, and all the dishes made from them, but for its starch consumption of products like potato, bread, rice, and yuca. Traditionally any of these ingredients can be found in either the soup or the rice platter that may be served. Most regions in Ecuador follow the traditional three-course meal of sopa (soup) and segundo (second dish), which includes rice and a protein such as beef, poultry, pork, or fish. Then dessert and coffee are customary. Dinner is usually lighter and sometimes just coffee or agua de remedio (herbal tea, lit. "remedy water") with bread. Tortillas are also eaten in other regions.
Aguardiente, a sugar cane-based spirit, is probably the most popular national alcohol. Canelazo is a popular drink made from aguardiente. Drinkable yogurt, available in many fruit flavors, is popular and is often consumed with pan de yuca (a light bread filled with cheese and eaten warm). One traditional non-alcoholic beverage is pinol, made using machica (toasted barley flour), panela (unrefined sugar), and spices.[1] Another traditional non-alcoholic beverage is colada morada, which is made with black corn flour, sweetened with panela, and flavored with fresh fruit, herbs and spices.
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Besides the regions, there are several typical Ecuadorian dishes consumed on special occasions. Fanesca, a fish soup including several types of beans, lentils, and corn, is often eaten during Lent and Easter, and is traditionally served all over Ecuador. During the week before the commemoration of the deceased or All Souls' Day, the fruit beverage colada morada is typical, accompanied by t'anta wawa which is stuffed bread shaped like children.
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1. An electromagnetic wave amplifying repeater capable of amplifying and repeating the magnetic field of electromagnetic waves generated artificially or generated from various electromagnetic wave generating sources, comprising:
an induction coil formed by winding a coil with a predetermined thickness in a desired size and form by a predetermined number of winds;
a magnetic substance having a predetermined size and form, the magnetic substance being combined with the induction coil to increase flux; and
a variable condenser connected to the induction coil to construct a resonance circuit.
The present invention provides an amplifying repeater, which is constructed in such a manner that a ferrite core is inserted into a coil with a pre-determined number of winds to increase an induced electromotive force caused by an increase in flux linkage using a time-varying magnetic field of electromagnetic waves at a position distant from various electromagnetic wave generating sources by a predetermined distance and the induction coil and a variable condenser for inducing resonance are connected to each other to increase current while reducing a resistant component existing in the induction coil to intensify and amplify the magnetic field of electromagnetic waves. Furthermore, the present invention provides a wireless power conversion charging device using the magnetic field of electromagnetic waves, which is located between an electromagnetic wave generating source transmitter and a receiving coil or attached to the transmitter and receiving coil. The wireless power conversion charging device includes a rectifying diode for rectifying an electromotive force induced in a construction in which a resonance and impedance matching variable condenser is connected to a coil in series or in parallel in order to transmit maximum induced power to a charging battery that is a load using electromagnetic waves amplified by the amplifying repeater, and a smoothing condenser for smoothing the rectified voltage. Accordingly, charging power required for various small power electronic devices can be provided and power can be supplied to various loads.
WIRELESS ELECTRICITY FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICES
Covidien PLC
3D EYEGLASSES, CHARGING CRADLE, 3D DISPLAY APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR CHARGING 3D EYEGLASSES WIRELESSLY
WIRELESS POWER TRANSFER SYSTEM AND A LOAD APPARATUS IN THE SAME WIRELESS POWER TRANSFER SYSTEM
Maxell Ltd.
WIRELESS POWER TRANSFER IN PUBLIC PLACES
WIRELESS POWER TRANSFER FOR PORTABLE ENCLOSURES
WIRELESS CHARGING WITH SEPARATE PROCESS
CELESTIAL NAVIGATION SYSTEM FOR AN AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE
iRobot Corporation
WIRELESS POWER APPARATUS AND WIRELESS POWER-RECEIVING METHOD
POWER TRANSMITTING APPARATUS
System And Method For Wirelessly Powering Medical Devices
Power Transfer Apparatus
WIRELESS ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLY METHOD AND WIRELESS ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLY APPARATUS
POWER TRANSMMISSION APPARATUS, POWER TRANSMISSION/RECEPTION APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF TRANSMITTING POWER
WIRELESS POWER SUPPLY APPARATUS
WIRELESS POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM AND WIRELESS POWER SUPPLY METHOD
Apparatus, System, and Method for Multicoil Telemetry
University of Utah Research Foundation
SPACE-ADAPTIVE WIRELESS POWER TRANSFER SYSTEM AND METHOD USING EVANESCENT FIELD RESONANCE
Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute
Compact autonomous coverage robot
Robot confinement
Robot system
Debris sensor for cleaning apparatus
Autonomous surface cleaning robot for wet and dry cleaning
Obstacle following sensor scheme for a mobile robot
Hitachi Consumer Electronics Company Limited
WIRELESS POWER TRANSMISSION SYSTEM, POWER TRANSMITTING DEVICE, AND POWER RECEIVING DEVICE
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co Ltd.
Power transmission apparatus, power transmission/reception apparatus, and method of transmitting power
ELECTRIC POWER FEED APPARATUS, ELECTRIC POWER FEED SYSTEM, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS
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Sunshine Heart Company Pty Ltd.
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LG Innotek Company Limited
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Autonomous mobile robot system
Wireless power supply system
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Remote control scheduler and method for autonomous robotic device
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Autonomous floor-cleaning robot
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Wireless power receiver and method of manufacturing the same
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Short range efficient wireless power transfer including a charging base transmitter built into a desktop component and a power relay integrated into a desktop
Systems and methods for wireless power transferring
Global Energy Transmission Co.
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd.
Wireless power assembly
Wireless power transfer using a field altering circuit
Coverage robots and associated cleaning bins
Autonomous coverage robot
Wireless peripherals charged by electromagnetic induction
Primax Electronics Limited
Antenna tuning circuit for AM radio receiver
Inductance-capacitance resonance circuit
Rex Harold B.
View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
2. The electromagnetic wave amplifying repeater as claimed in claim 1, wherein the induction coil wound by the predetermined number of winds is designed and manufactured in a solenoid or spiral form.
3. The electromagnetic wave amplifying repeater as claimed in claim 1, wherein the magnetic substance combined with the induction coil to increase flux is a ferrite core or a substance having magnetism.
4. The electromagnetic wave amplifying repeater as claimed in claim 3, wherein induction coils wound by a predetermined number of winds are connected in series or in parallel to control the resistance and inductance of the induction coils, to thereby effectively generate the magnetic field of electromagnetic waves.
5. The electromagnetic wave amplifying repeater as claimed in claim 4, wherein the variable condenser constructing the resonance circuit is connected to the induction coil in series or in parallel to amplify the magnetic field of electromagnetic waves.
6. A wireless power converter comprising:
an electromagnetic wave amplifying repeater including an induction coil formed by winding a coil with a predetermined diameter in a desired size and form by a predetermined number of winds, a magnetic substance, and a variable condenser, the electromagnetic wave amplifying repeater serving to amplify and repeat the magnetic field of electromagnetic waves generated artificially or generated from various electromagnetic wave generating sources;
an induction coil and a magnetic substance for generating an induced electromotive force using the magnetic field amplified by the amplifying repeater;
a variable condenser for performing resonance and impedance matching, the variable condenser being connected to the induction coil to improve power conversion efficiency;
a rectifying diode for rectifying a voltage induced by the induction coil and the variable condenser; and
a condenser for smoothing the voltage to form a voltage having a desired DC component.
View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
7. The wireless power converter as claimed in claim 6, wherein induction coils wound by a predetermined number of winds are connected in series or in parallel to control the resistance and inductance of the induction coils, to thereby improve power conversion efficiency.
8. The wireless power converter as claimed in claim 6, wherein the amplifying repeater is attached to an electromagnetic wave generating source transmission coil and a receiving coil or to one of the electromagnetic wave generating source transmission coil and the receiving coil, and at least one amplifying repeater is installed between the electromagnetic wave generating source transmission coil and the receiving coil in consideration of the distance between the electromagnetic wave generating source and the receiving coil.
9. The wireless power converter as claimed in claim 8, wherein the amplifying repeater and the receiving coil are designed and manufactured in a solenoid or spiral form.
10. The wireless power converter as claimed in claim 6, wherein the amplifying repeater and the wireless power converter including the amplifying repeater further comprise an electromagnetic wave generating source to which a spiral or solenoid transmission coil artificially generating electromagnetic waves is attached.
11. The wireless power converter as claimed in claim 6, wherein the wireless power converter is constructed in such a manner that an induction coil is wound round one side of a core wound by a transmission coil of an artificial electromagnetic wave generating source and the induction coil is connected to a capacitor to construct an amplifying repeater, that an induction coil is wound round one side of a core wound by a receiving coil and the induction coil is connected to a capacitor to construct an amplifying repeater, or that amplifying repeaters are respectively set at both sides of the core of the transmission coil and receiving coil.
12. The wireless power converter using an electromagnetic wave amplifying repeater as claimed in claim 6, wherein the wireless power converter is constructed in such a manner that a spiral coil is wound round the outside of a transmission spiral coil of an artificial electromagnetic wave generating source and connected to a capacitor to construct an amplifying repeater, that a spiral coil is wound round the outside a receiving spiral coil and connected to a capacitor to construct an amplifying repeater, and that spiral coils are respectively wound around the outsides of transmission and receiving spiral coils and connected to a capacitor to construct an amplifying repeater.
[0001]The present invention relates to an amplifying repeater, which is constructed in such a manner that a ferrite core is inserted into a coil with a predetermined number of winds to increase an induced electromotive force caused by an increase in flux linkage using a time-varying magnetic field of electromagnetic waves at a position distant from an electromagnetic wave generating source by a predetermined distance, and that the coil and a variable condenser for inducing resonance are connected to each other to intensify and amplify the magnetic field of electromagnetic waves, and a wireless power converter using electromagnetic waves, which is located at a predetermined distance from the amplifying repeater, connects a resonance and impedance matching variable condenser to a coil to effectively transmit an induced power to a load, and rectifies and smoothes the induced power using a diode to supply the power to a charging battery or various loads.
[0002]The induced electromotive force obtained from a time variation of the magnetic field of electromagnetic waves using Faraday's law is generated in proportion to the number of winds of an induction coil and a time variation of flux linkage. However, the intensity of the magnetic field is abruptly decreased in response to a distance from an electromagnetic wave generating source. Thus, the induced electromotive force is hardly induced to the induction coil at more than a predetermined distance so that energy according to wireless power conversion cannot be obtained. Furthermore, the induction coil must be disposed within a very short range from the electromagnetic wave generating source in a prior art so that its installation position is greatly restricted or it cannot be installed because of its bad appearance.
[0003]Accordingly, the present invention has been made in view of the above.quadrature.mentioned problem, and it is an object of the present invention to provide an electromagnetic wave amplifying repeater, which is constructed in such a manner that a ferrite core is inserted into a coil with a predetermined number of winds to increase an induced electromotive force caused by an increase in flux linkage using a time-varying magnetic field of electromagnetic waves at a position distant from an electromagnetic wave generating source by a predetermined distance, connect the induction coil to a variable condenser for inducing resonance to construct an amplifying repeater that maximizes a current while reducing a resistant component existing in the induction coil to intensify and amplify the magnetic field of electromagnetic waves, and to provide a wireless power converter using the amplifying repeater, which includes a rectifying diode for rectifying an electromotive force induced in a structure in which a resonance and impedance matching variable condenser is connected in parallel with a coil to effectively transmit an induced electromotive force using the electromagnetic waves amplified by the amplifying repeater, having a predetermined distance from the amplifying repeater, and a smoothing condenser for smoothing the rectified voltage. Another object of the present invention is to provide an amplifying repeater located at a very short distance from an electromagnetic wave generating source or attached to a wireless power converter to intensify and amplify the magnetic field of electromagnetic waves such that the amplifying repeater is installed unrestrictedly and an amplifying repeater and wireless power converter are applied in various ways according to wireless power conversion using the amplified electromagnetic waves.
Technical Solution
[0004]To achieve the above objects, according to the present, there is provided an electromagnetic wave amplifying repeater capable of amplifying and repeating the magnetic field of electromagnetic waves generated artificially or generated from various electromagnetic wave generating sources, including: an induction coil formed by winding a coil with a predetermined thickness in a desired size and form by a pre-determined number of winds; a magnetic substance having a predetermined size and form, the magnetic substance being combined with the induction coil to increase flux; and a variable condenser connected to the induction coil to construct a resonance circuit.
[0005]Further objects and advantages of the invention can be more fully understood from the following detailed description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which:
[0006]FIG. 1 illustrates the appearance and configuration of an amplifying repeater according to the present invention;
[0007]FIG. 2 illustrates a wireless power converter having a charging function according to the present invention;
[0008]FIG. 3 illustrates a construction for measuring a charging voltage, a charging current and a charging power using only a wireless power converter without using an amplifying repeater;
[0009]FIG. 4 illustrates a construction for measuring a charging voltage, a charging current and a charging power using a single magnetic field amplifying repeater and a wireless power converter;
[0010]FIG. 5 illustrates a construction for measuring a charging voltage, a charging current and a charging power using two magnetic field amplifying repeaters and a wireless power converter (combined with one of the amplifying repeaters);
[0011]FIG. 6 illustrates a construction for measuring a charging voltage, a charging current and a charging power using two magnetic field amplifying repeaters and a wireless power converter (independent);
[0012]FIG. 7 illustrates a construction for measuring a charging voltage, a charging current and a charging power using magnetic field amplifying repeaters, a repeating amplifier and a wireless power converter, which are combined with each other;
[0013]FIG. 8 illustrates a construction in which a transmission coil generates a magnetic field, and a voltage, current and power are measured using an amplifying repeater, a receiving coil and a wireless power converter;
[0014]FIG. 9 illustrates a construction in which a transmission coil generates a magnetic field, and a voltage, current and power are measured at an output terminal using an amplifying repeater, a receiving coil wound on the upper part of a common core, and an amplifying repeater disposed at the lower part of the common core;
[0015]FIG. 10 illustrates a transmitter and a receiver constructed in such a manner that an amplifying repeater and a transmission coil or a receiving coil are wound around a single core;
[0016]FIG. 11 illustrates a construction in which an amplifying repeater composed of a spiral coil is attached onto a spiral coil, and a voltage, current and power are measured at an output terminal of a receiving coil;
[0017]FIG. 12 illustrates a construction in which an amplifying repeater composed of a spiral coil is located between a transmission coil and a receiving coil, and a voltage, current and power are measured at an output terminal;
[0018]FIG. 13 illustrates a construction in which an amplifying repeater is located outside a transmission coil, and a voltage, current and power are measured at an output terminal of a receiving coil; and
[0019]FIG. 14 illustrates a construction in which an amplifying repeater is located outside each of a transmission coil and a receiving coil, and a voltage, current and power are measured at an output terminal of the receiving coil
[0020]11; Core, 12; Inducing Coil [0021]20; AC Power Generator [0022]21; Electromagnetic Wave Generating Source [0023]22; Receiver 23; Output Part [0024]24; Ruler [0025]25,26,27,28,30,32,34; Amplifying Repeater [0026]29; Transmission Coil [0027]31; Receiver1, 33; Receiving Coil [0028]51; Spiral Coil Type Receiving Coil [0029]52; Spiral Coil Type Amplifying Repeater [0030]53; Spiral Coil Type Transmission Coil [0031]L1: Receiving Coil,
[0032]C1: Condenser for Impedance Matching,
[0033]C2: Smoothing Condenser, [0034]1.3V: Battery Voltage for Charging
MODE FOR THE INVENTION
[0035]The present invention will now be described in detail in connection with preferred embodiments with reference to the accompanying drawings. For reference, like reference characters designate corresponding parts throughout several views.
[0036]The present invention provides an amplifying repeater, which is constructed in such a manner that a ferrite core is inserted into a coil with a predetermined number of winds to increase an induced electromotive force caused by an increase in flux linkage using a time-varying magnetic field of electromagnetic waves using Faraday's law at a position distant from an electromagnetic wave generating source by a predetermined distance and the induction coil and a variable condenser for inducing resonance are connected to each other to maximize an induced current while reducing a resistant component existing in the induction coil to amplify the magnetic field of electromagnetic waves. Furthermore, the present invention provides a wireless power converter located at a predetermined distance from the amplifying repeater or attached to the amplifying repeater. The wireless power converter includes a rectifying diode for rectifying an electromotive force induced in a construction in which a magnetic core such as a ferrite core is inserted in an induction coil with a predetermined number of winds for transmitting maximum induced power to a charging battery that is a load using electromagnetic waves amplified by the amplifying repeater and the induction coil is connected to a variable condenser for controlling resonance and impedance matching, a smoothing condenser for smoothing the rectified voltage, and a receiving coil having a predetermined DC voltage and current.
[0037]In receiving electromagnetic power using Faraday's law, the present invention amplifies the magnetic field of time-varying electromagnetic waves generated in a television receiver or a monitor or electromagnetic waves artificially generated by connecting a transmission coil to a load of an AC power generating circuit using an amplifying repeater to obtain an induced electromotive force using an induction coil at a position distant from an electromagnetic wave generating source by a predetermined distance and maximizes the obtained induced voltage and current, to thereby provide a magnetic field amplifying repeater for receiving electromagnetic power, which enables high efficiency electric energy conversion, and a high efficiency wireless power converter using the amplifying repeater.
[0038]The construction of the amplifying repeater for amplifying an induced magnetic field of electromagnetic waves will now be described.
[0039]The electromagnetic wave amplifying repeater according to the present invention obtains an induced electromotive force using electromagnetic waves generated from an electromagnetic wave generating source and emits the obtained induced power to the air. The present invention winds a coil round a bobbin having a predetermined diameter and size (having an internal diameter of 10 mm and an external diameter of 15 mm) by a predetermined number of times and a ferrite core is inserted in the bobbin to manufacture an induction coil. The diameter and the number of winds of the induction coil and the size of the ferrite core are designed such that the induced electromotive force is maximized. The induction coil can be constructed in parallel or in series in consideration of its resistance value. In the present invention, the diameter and length of the ferrite core are 9 mm and 110 mm, respectively, and two induction coils each have a diameter of 0.3 mm and a number of winds of 160 are connected in parallel with each other. The induction coils are wound round the aforementioned bobbin, the ferrite core is inserted into the bobbin and a variable condenser is connected in parallel with the induction coils to construct a resonance circuit to maximize induced power and emit electromagnetic waves.
[0040]The wireless power converter according to the present invention is located at a pre-determined distance from the amplifying repeater or attached to the amplifying repeater and includes a ferrite core having a diameter of 9 mm and a length of 110 mm and two induction coils having a diameter of 0.3 mm and a number of winds of 100, connected in parallel with each other. The induction coils are wound round a bobbin having a predetermined size (an internal diameter of 10 mm and an external diameter of 15 mm), the ferrite core is inserted into the bobbin and a variable condenser is connected in parallel with the induction coils to impedance-match with a resonance and load electronic circuit to maximize an induced electromotive force. The wireless power converter further includes a diode for rectifying the induced electromotive force and a smoothing condenser for smoothing the rectified voltage. The wireless power converter can be used as a power supply of a charging device because it generates a DC voltage having a specific current.
[0041]FIG. 1 illustrates the electromagnetic field amplifying repeater manufactured according to the present invention on the left and a circuit constructing the amplifying repeater on the right. FIG. 2 is a circuit diagram of the wireless power converter constructed to obtain an electric energy using electromagnetic waves amplified by the amplifying repeater. In FIG. 2, L1 denotes a receiving coil, C1 represents a capacitor for impedance matching of resonance and maximum power transmission, C2 denotes a smoothing capacitor, and 1.3V represents a charging battery voltage. Table 1 represents a charging voltage, a charging current and a charging power obtained when the wireless power converter of FIG. 2 is located having a predetermined distance from an electromagnetic wave generating source 21, as shown in FIG. 3, without using the electromagnetic field amplifying repeater. From Table 1, it can be known that the charging current and charging power are hardly induced when the distance of a ruler 24 exceeds 4 cm.
TABLE-US-00001 TABLE 1 A charging voltage, a charging current and a charging power Using the wireless power converter in FIG. 2. Charging Charging Charging Distance(cm) Voltage(V) Current (mA) Power(mW) 0 1.3 87 35.1 1 1.3 18.4 83.9 2 1.3 10.7 13.9 3 1.3 4 5.2 4 1.3 0 0
[0042]FIG. 4 illustrates a construction in which a single electromagnetic field amplifying repeater 25 designed and manufactured according to the present invention is located in proximity to the electromagnetic wave generating source 21 and a charging voltage, a charging current and a charging power are measured using a receiver wireless power converter according to the present invention while varying the distance between the electromagnetic field amplifying repeater and the wireless power converter. The measurement result is represented in Table 2. Referring to Table 2, the charging current and charging power can be obtained even at a point at which the distance of the ruler is approximately 10 cm.
TABLE-US-00002 TABLE 2 A charging voltage, a charging current and a charging power Using the wireless power converter in FIG. 4. Charging Charging Charging Distance(cm) Voltage(V) Current (mA) Power(mW) 5 1.3 44.0 57.2 6 1.3 26.2 34.1 7 1.3 21.7 28.2 8 1.3 15.7 20.4 9 1.3 10.7 13.9 10 1.3 4.9 6.4 11 1.3 0 0 12 1.3 0 0
[0043]FIG. 5 illustrates a construction using two electromagnetic field amplifying repeaters 25 and 26 according to the present invention. One of the amplifying repeaters is located having a predetermined distance from the electromagnetic wave generating source 21 and the other one is disposed in proximity of the receiver 22 and the wireless power converter. Here, the amplifying repeater 26 and the receiver 22 are combined with each other. Table 3 represents a charging voltage, a charging current and a charging power measured using this construction while varying the distance between the electromagnetic wave generating source and the amplifying repeater 26 and the receiver 22 attached to each other. Referring to Table 3, the charging current and charging power can be obtained even at a point distant from the electromagnetic wave generating source 21 by 12 cm.
TABLE-US-00003 TABLE 3 A charging voltage, a charging current and a charging power Using the wireless power converter in FIG. 5. Charging Charging Charging Distance(cm) Voltage(V) Current (mA) Power(mW) 5 1.3 51.2 66.5 6 1.3 36.8 47.8 7 1.3 29.2 37.9 8 1.3 21.4 27.8 9 1.3 16.6 21.5 10 1.3 12.7 16.5 11 1.3 4.7 6.1 12 1.3 1.2 1.6
[0044]FIG. 6 illustrates a construction using two electromagnetic field amplifying repeaters 25 and 27 designed and manufactured according to the present invention. In this construction, one of the amplifying repeaters is located having a predetermined distance from the electromagnetic wave generating source 21, the other one is disposed having a distance of 5 cm from the electromagnetic wave generating source 21, and a charging voltage, a charging current and a charging power are measured using the wireless power converter while varying the distance between the wireless power converter and the amplifying repeaters. Table 4 represents the measurement result. Referring to Table 4, a slightly increased charging power can be obtained and a specific charging current and charging power can be obtained even at a point distant from the electromagnetic wave generating source 21 by 13 cm.
TABLE-US-00004 TABLE 4 A charging voltage, a charging current and a charging power Using the wireless power converter in FIG. 6. Charging Charging Charging Distance(cm) Voltage(V) Current (mA) Power(mW) 10 1.3 34 44.2 11 1.3 22.3 29.0 12 1.3 6.3 8.2 13 1.3 1.7 2.2
[0045]FIG. 7 illustrates a construction in which an electromagnetic field amplifying repeater 25 is manufactured in such a manner that a coil having the same diameter as the aforementioned coil is wound round a bobbin having the same size as the afore-mentioned bobbin by a number of winds of 200 to connect two induction coils in parallel, a ferrite core is inserted into the induction coils and a variable condenser is connected in parallel with the induction coils to construct a resonance circuit, and the amplifying repeater 25 is located having a predetermined distance from the electromagnetic wave generating source 21. In addition, another amplifying repeater 27 identical to those used in FIGS. 3, 4, 5 and 6 is located at a point corresponding to 5 cm of the ruler, and an amplifying repeater 28 and the wireless power converter are attached to each other to measure a charging voltage, a charging current and a charging power while varying the distance between the electromagnetic wave generating source and the wireless power converter. Table 5 represents the measured charging voltage, charging current and charging power. It can be known from Table 5 that a specific charging current and charging power can be obtained even at a point distant from the electromagnetic wave generating source 21 by 16 cm.
TABLE-US-00005 TABLE 5 A charging voltage, a charging current and a charging power Using the wireless power converter in FIG. 7. Charging Charging Charging Distance(cm) Voltage(V) Current (mA) Power(mW) 10 1.3 41.0 53.3 11 1.3 29.8 38.7 12 1.3 20.2 26.2 13 1.3 15.8 20.5 14 1.3 10.7 13.9 15 1.3 3.2 4.1 16 1.3 1 1.3
[0046]Various experiments were made using the electromagnetic field amplifying repeater designed and manufactured as above and the wireless power converter according to the present invention, as shown in FIGS. 3 through 7. In the case where only the wireless power converter is installed without having the amplifying repeater, as shown in FIG. 3, the induced electromotive force is hardly generated from the induction coil when the wireless power converter is located distant from the electromagnetic wave generating source by 4 cm, as represented in Table 1. Thus, a charging current does not flow in a charging battery that is a load and charging battery power indicates zero. In the case where the amplifying repeater is added, as shown in FIG. 4, the maximum charging current of 44 mA and charging power of 57.2 mW are obtained when the wireless power converter is located distant from the electromagnetic wave generating source by 5 cm and charging power of 6.4 mW is obtained when the wireless power converter is located distant from the electromagnetic wave generating source by 10 cm, as represented in Table 2.
[0047]When the wireless power converter is combined with the amplifying repeater, as shown in FIG. 5, the charging current and charging power are higher than those obtained from the construction of FIG. 4 at the same distance. When the two amplifying repeaters are used as shown in FIG. 6, the charging power at the point distant from the electromagnetic wave generating source by 10 cm is 44.2 mW as represented in Table 4, which is approximately seven times the charging power of 6.4 mW obtained using only one amplifying repeater in FIG. 4. Furthermore, the charging current and charging power can be obtained even at a point distant from the electromagnetic wave generating source by a distance corresponding to 12 cm of the ruler. Thus, it can be known that electromagnetic power is transmitted and induced-converted into an electrical energy to be transmitted to a load even at a distance four times the distance when the wireless power converter is used without using any amplifying repeater.
[0048]In the construction in which two different amplifying repeaters 25 and 27 are in stalled and the amplifying repeater 28 is combined with a receiving coil and the wireless power converter, as shown in FIG. 7, increased charging current and charging power are measured at the same distance in the construction having no amplifying repeater of FIG. 6 and a distance capable of obtaining the charging current and charging power is increased to 16 cm, as represented in Table 5.
[0049]In another embodiment of the present invention, a transmission coil is connected to a load of an AC power generating circuit of a TV receiver, which is an artificial electromagnetic generating source, to construct a source of generating AC power waveform having a frequency of 130 kHz, and the transmission coil, a repeater and coils used in first and second receivers are constructed, as shown in Table 6, to measure a receiving voltage, a receiving current and a receiving power in response to a ruler distance using the wireless power converter of FIG. 2.
TABLE-US-00006 TABLE 6 Coil Construction of Transmission coil, Repeater, Receiver1, Receiver2 Transmission Repeat-Coil er Receiver1 Receiver2 Coil 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 Core(mm) 9*55 7*45 7*45 7*45 (Dia.*Length) No. of 40 40 15 Upper winding Receiver(10Times) Lower Repeater(40Times)
[0050]In Table 6, the first receiver is constructed of a general solenoid coil constructed such that a coil is wound round a core and the second receiver includes a receiving coil wound round the upper part of a common core ten times and a repeater constructing a resonance circuit of a coil wound round the lower part of the common core forty times and a capacitor.
[0051]FIG. 10 illustrates a transmitter and a receiver constructed by winding a transmission coil outputting power generated from the electromagnetic wave generating source or a receiving coil receiving electromagnetic waves round a common core provided with an electromagnetic wave amplifying repeater. This construction can obtain high wireless power conversion efficiency because it can maximize generation and reception of electromagnetic waves in the resonance circuit of the amplifying repeater.
[0052]Table 7 represents the voltage, current and power measured at an output load terminal (tens of parallel LEDs) of a receiver 31 when a transmission coil 29, an amplifying repeater 30 and the receiver 31 manufactured as shown in Table 6 are installed as shown in FIG. 8. The amplifying repeater is located in proximity to an electromagnetic wave generating source. The voltage, current and power are measured while moving the receiver from the electromagnetic wave generating source to distances 5 cm, 10 cm and 15 cm.
TABLE-US-00007 TABLE 7 A receiving voltage, current and power measured at an output load terminal of a receiver1. Receiving voltage Receiving Current Receiving Distance(cm) (V) (A) Power(W) 5 3.9 1.900 7.410 10 2.6 1.000 2.600 15 1.4 0.200 0.280
[0053]Table 8 represents the voltage, current and power measured at an output load terminal of receivers 33 and 34 when the transmission coil 29, amplifying repeater 32 and receivers 33 and 34 manufactured as shown in Table 6 are installed as shown in FIG. 9. The amplifying repeater is located in proximity to an electromagnetic wave generating source. The voltage, current and power are measured while moving the receivers from the electromagnetic wave generating source to distances 5 cm, 10 cm, 15 cm and 20 cm.
TABLE-US-00008 TABLE 8 A receiving voltage, current and power measured at an output load terminal of a receiver2. Receiving voltage Receiving Current Receiving Distance(cm) (V) (A) Power(W) 5 4.6 3.500 16.100 10 4.4 3.500 15.400 15 2.7 1.700 4.590 20 2.0 0.700 1.400
[0054]It can be known from Tables 7 and 8 that the receiving voltage, receiving current and receiving power in response to a distance are much larger when they are obtained using the receiver 31 manufactured by winding only an induction coil round a core than when they are obtained using the receivers 33 and 34 including an induction coil and a repeater constructed of a resonance circuit, which are attached to a single common core.
[0055]Another embodiment of the present invention constructs induction coils by winding coils having various diameters round bobbins having various sizes by different numbers of winds in consideration of the size and scale of an electromagnetic wave generating source, connects the induction coils in series or in parallel, inserts ferrite cores having diameters and lengths fitted into the internal diameters of the bobbins, and connects the induction coils to a variable condenser to construct a resonance circuit. In this manner, an electromagnetic field amplifying repeater can be constructed in various sizes and forms and an apparatus capable of obtaining charging voltage, charging current and charging power with various levels can be realized using the amplifying repeater and the wireless power converter.
[0056]Another embodiment of the present invention constructs a transmission coil, a repeater and a receiver using the spiral structure disclosed in Korean Patent Application No. 10-2004-0000528 applied by the Applicant. In this case, an electromagnetic wave generating source that generates a voltage of AC 220V and 60 Hz converted into an AC voltage waveform having a frequency of 120 kHz through an AC-AC adapter is connected to the transmission coil in a spiral form, a receiving coil is connected to a charging circuit, and a received charging current and voltage are measured. The distance between the transmission coil and the receiving coil is 5 cm. FIG. 11 shows a case where the amplifying repeater is located on the transmission coil in proximity to the transmission coil. Table 9 represents the internal diameters, external diameters, types and numbers of winds of the spiral transmission coil, repeater coil and receiving coil.
TABLE-US-00009 TABLE 9 Internal diameters, external diameters, types and numbers of winds of the spiral transmission coil, repeater coil and receiving coil. Internal External Coil Numbers diameters (mm) diameters (mm) spec. of winds Receiving 30 80 0.2*9 24 coil Repeater 30 80 0.2*9 24 coil Transmission 30 40 0.2*9 4 coil
[0057]In FIG. 11, transmission power output through the transmission coil of the electromagnetic wave generating source is 16 W, charging voltage measured by the wireless power converter of FIG. 2 is 1.4V, charging current is 0.36 A, and charging power is 0.50 W. When the amplifying repeater is located between the transmission coil and the receiver, which are spiral coils having the dimension represented in Table 6, as shown in FIG. 12, charging voltage is 1.4V, charging current is 0.4 A and charging power is 0.56 W. In this case, current and power slightly higher than those obtained in the case of FIG. 11 can be obtained. For reference, when only the transmission coil 53 and receiving coil 51 are used without using the repeater and the distance between the transmission coil and the receiving coil is 5 cm, charging voltage is 1.4V, charging current is 0.01 A and charging power is 0.014 W, which are very small.
[0058]FIG. 13 shows a case where the amplifying repeater surrounds the transmission coil. Here, the repeater is not connected to the transmission coil through wire. Table 10 represents the internal diameters, external diameters, types and numbers of winds of the spiral transmission coil, repeater and receiver used in the construction shown in FIG. 13.
[0059]In FIG. 13, transmission power output through the transmission coil of the electromagnetic wave generating source is 16 W, charging voltage measured by the wireless power converter of FIG. 2 is 1.4V, charging current is 0.9 A, and charging power is 1.26 W. When the amplifying repeaters respectively surround the transmission and receiving coils, which are spiral coils having the dimension of Table 10, as shown in FIG. 14, charging voltage is 1.4V, charging current is 1.0 A and charging power is 1.4 W. That is, the highest current and power can be obtained in the experiments using the spiral coils. Here, the distance between the transmission coil and the receiving coil is 5 cm.
TABLE-US-00010 TABLE 10 Internal diameters, external diameters, types and numbers of winds of the spiral transmission coil, repeater coil and receiving coil. Internal External Coil Numbers diameters (mm) diameters (mm) spec. of winds Receiving coil 30 80 0.2*9 24 Repeater 40 80 0.2*9 20 coil Transmission 30 40 0.2*9 4 coil
[0060]Furthermore, the present invention can construct a wireless charging device that generates an induced voltage and current with high efficiency and charges the induced voltage and current in a charger using a rectifying diode and a smoothing condenser by simultaneously winding two wires of the spiral coil disclosed in Korea Patent Application No. 10-2004-0000528 in the form of plate such that they are located in parallel vertically, placing a ferromagnetic substance in a doughnut shape on the coil in order to increase flux caused by flux linkage per hour and connecting a variable condenser to the coil in series or in parallel to construct a resonance circuit. Here, an electromagnetic field amplifying repeater can be manufactured by constructing the resonance circuit using the spiral plate type coil, ferromagnetic substance in a doughnut shape and variable condenser. A method of manufacturing the electromagnetic field amplifying repeater is described in detail in Korea Patent Application No. 10-2004-0000528.
[0061]The present invention constructs a magnetic field amplifying repeater for amplifying a magnetic field at a position having a predetermined distance from an electromagnetic wave generating source and locates an electromagnetic wave amplifying repeater and a wireless power conversion charging device converter at a position distant from the amplifying repeater by a predetermined distance. The wireless power conversion charging device include a rectifying diode that rectifies an electromotive force induced in a structure in which a resonance and impedance matching variable condenser and a coil are connected in parallel with each other to induce maximum power using electromagnetic waves amplified by the amplifying repeater to transmit the induced power to a load and a smoothing condenser smoothing the rectified voltage and a wireless power. Accordingly, the present invention can repeat power to a predetermined distance from the electromagnetic wave generating source and convert electromagnetic power to improve industrial applicability. For example, the present invention can be used to charge contactless wireless battery or transmit power in real time at a short distance in the air or an insulator of a small power electronic device.
[0062]The present invention can locate the magnetic field amplifying repeater at a position having a predetermined distance from the electromagnetic wave generating source to install the wireless power converter using electromagnetic waves, and thus the wireless power converter can be freely located and applied in various ways.
[0063]While the present invention has been described with reference to the particular illustrative embodiments, it is not to be restricted by the embodiments but only by the appended claims. It is to be appreciated that those skilled in the art can change or modify the embodiments without departing from the scope and spirit of the present invention.
ANDONG NATIONAL UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION, JC PROTEK CO., LTD.
Lee, Hyung-Joo
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Current Assignee: ANDONG NATIONAL UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION, JC PROTEK CO., LTD.
Sponsoring Entity: ANDONG NATIONAL UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION, JC PROTEK CO., LTD.
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At Potts Print (UK) we not only balance carbon across the business, we make sure we’re producing as little as possible in the first place. Potts Print (UK): The first Carbon Balanced Printing Company in the North of England
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CARBON BALANCING Value Proposition “Carbon Balanced Publication� is the highest statement of integrity and credibility for the End User, and providers of paper based communications, where the carbon impacts of the whole production of the printed item has been estimated and balanced (offset). Printer qualification Alongside the mandatory use of Carbon Balanced Paper, it is produced by a print organisation who has mapped their operational carbon footprint to defined boundaries, 3rd party verified by the Edinburgh Centre of Carbon Management (ECCM), and has then Balanced (offset) their full operational impact. Carbon Balancing Carbon is balanced by the World Land Trust, an ecological charity, through land purchase of ecologically important standing forests under threat of clearance. Carbon is locked that would otherwise be released, and then these standing forests continue to absorb Carbon from the atmosphere. For more information about how Carbon Balanced printing can help your organisation go to www.potts.co.uk/greenprint or call 0845 375 1875.
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Is AI the ‘silver bullet’ IT decision makers make it out to be?
Jacques-Pierre (Jp) Dumas
New research from ESET reveals that the recent hype surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) is deceiving three in four IT decision makers (75%) into believing the technologies are the silver bullet to solving their cybersecurity challenges.
The hype, ESET says, is causing confusion among IT teams and could be putting organisations at greater risk of falling victim to cybercrime.
In the past year, the amount of content published in marketing materials, media and social media on the role of AI in cybersecurity has grown enormously.
ESET surveyed 900 IT decision makers on their opinions and attitudes to AI and ML in response to this growing hype.
ESET CTO Juraj Malcho says, “It is worrying to see that the hype around AI and ML is causing so many IT decision makers – particularly in the US – to regard the technologies as ‘the silver bullet’ to cybersecurity challenges.
“If the past decade has taught us anything, it’s that some things do not have an easy solution – especially in cyberspace where the playing field can shift in a matter of minutes. In today’s business environment, it would be unwise to rely solely on one technology to build a robust cyber defence.”
“It’s crucial that IT decision makers recognise that, while ML is without a doubt an important tool in the fight against cybercrime, it must be just one part of an organisation’s overall cybersecurity strategy.”
Miscommunication leads to misunderstanding
While many IT decision makers regard AI and ML as the silver bullet, the reality is that the majority of respondents have actually already implemented ML in their cybersecurity strategies.
What’s more, many respondents stated that there is confusion over what the terms ‘AI’ and ‘ML’ mean, with just 53% of IT decision makers saying their company fully understands the differences between the two.
Malcho continues, “Sadly, when it comes to AI and ML, the terminology used in some marketing materials can be misleading and IT decision makers across the world aren’t sure what to believe.
“The reality of cybersecurity is that true AI does not yet exist, while the hype around the novelty of ML is completely misleading, it has been around for a long time.”
“As the threat landscape becomes even more complex, we cannot afford to make things more confusing for businesses. There needs to be greater clarity as the hype is muddling the message for those making key decisions on how best to secure their company’s networks and data.”
Understanding the limitations
ML is invaluable in today’s cybersecurity practices, particularly malware scanning. It primarily refers to a technology built into a company’s protective solution that has been fed large amounts of correctly labelled clean and malicious samples to essentially learn the difference between the good and the bad. With this training, ML is quickly able to analyse and identify most of the potential threats to users and act proactively to mitigate them.
However, it’s important for businesses to understand ML’s limitations. For example, ML still requires human verification for initial classification, to investigate potentially malicious samples and reduce the number of false positives.
In addition, ML algorithms have a narrow focus and play by the rules but hackers, in comparison, are continually learning and breaking the rules.
A creative cybercriminal can introduce scenarios which are completely new for ML and thereby fool the system. Machine learning algorithms can be misled in numerous ways and hackers can exploit this by creating malicious code that ML will classify as a benign object.
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Design is the first phase in the digital manufacturing process. In this course, through a series of lectures and hands-on lessons, we’ll examine a designer’s approach to the design and manufacturing process—from concept to 3D model. We’ll start by applying design thinking to understand user needs, and then we’ll explore design criteria as we dive deeper into Autodesk® Fusion 360™ sketching, modeling, rendering, and documentation features.
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Simplemente, Excelente! Sencillo de aprender pero un reto si te propones a sacarle el máximo provecho.
Good course to know about design process with example
This week covers the fundamentals of laying out multiple sketches for a complex part. With a design like a quadcopter, it is important to understand the artistic freedom and the mechanical constraints. Through concept sketches, we explore the shape and form in various 2D views. This allows us to understand physical volume constraints for components like a controller, batteries, and camera while playing with the overall shape.
Design Criteria: Design Specifications7:31
Design Criteria: Component Selection | Part 19:51
Design Criteria: Component Selection | Part 215:15
Design Criteria: Component location11:59
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In this design criteria lesson,
we're going to start to talk about our component selection.
After completing this lesson,
you'll be able to understand multirotor component basics.
So first we want to talk about the basic parts of a multirotor.
When I say a little multirotor,
it's a general category of a multiple rotor flying device.
So in most cases, you're going to talk about a quadcaptor,
which is what we're designing and has four motors.
Now in some cases you might have a tricaptor which has three, or
a hex, or an octocopter, or some other configuration.
Now we've already talked about these in our introduction.
But in general all of these fall into the category of a multirotor,
and they're all going to have the same equipment.
Now in our case, the first thing is going to be a frame or
a body that holds all of the things together so that we can fly it.
Now that's the entire point of our course is to design and
engineer, manufacture our body, so that we can have a custom device,
a custom quadcopter that we can use for our intended purpose.
Now you can buy a lot of off-the-shelf frames and build your own.
And I will actually suggest during the course
to buy some of these off-the-shelf racing drone frames
to do as a test platform as we figure out all the components and the controls.
The next thing is going to be the motors and the propellers.
Now there are a lot of variables here and we're going to talk about some basics to
understand, and we're going to talk about some specifics when planning how to build.
Now the entire point of our course is to design a 3D printed body for
a disaster relief drone or a disaster search drone.
But we want to make sure that you have all of the information to not only do that
portion of the course, but to also point out your own build.
Because that's the entire point here, is to understand the design process, and
here is specifically the design process as it applies to designing a quadcopter.
So the motors and propellers, a lot of variables, we're going to talk about those
in generalities, and then we're going to talk about specifics and calculations.
Batteries again also,
lots of variables when you start to plan out a build with batteries.
We'll talk about what the numbers on a battery mean, we'll talk about how to plan
them into your build, and how changes in the batteries will effect things.
The flight controller.
Again, when you're talking about multirotors or
quadcopters specifically, there is no shortage of flight controllers out there.
We have a specific one we're using because of its small size, but
I'll talk about some others in general and
what different options you might see when you start to plan out a build.
An ESC or
electronic speed controller is another important part of this type of build.
It's going to take the information from the flight controller,
and it's going to convert it into something that the motor needs.
The motors that we're using are going to be brushless motors, and
they need a specific type of signal in order to turn and spin and be useful.
The next thing is a PDB or power distribution board.
Now these aren't generally needed on all types of multirotors or quadcopters, but
it's a nice piece of tech to have because it allows us to bring in our battery
voltage and it does a few things for us.
It converts it down to five volts as well as 12 volt regulated or just unregulated
input power and allows to take that power out to our ESCs to all of our motors.
It also allows us to do custom things like send five volts out to the camera or
send 12 volts out to some other components.
And again, we'll talk about the specifics of all those and
how many different PDBs are out there on the market.
In some builds, you might use an electronic speed controller that has
what's called a battery eliminator circuit, in which case you can hook
battery power directly up to the number one ASC, and then from there you can
actually wire it up so that you don't need a power distribution board.
In our case, we're using a power distribution board specifically because we
have a camera, a transmitter and some other components.
But again it's not necessarily needed on all quadcopters.
A controller and a receiver is a necessity in our case, because we're
having a quadcopter that's completely flown by a controller on the ground.
There are cases where you can design one to flag by itself based on GPS coordinates
and waypoints but in our case we have a remotely piloted vehicle.
That's means we're going to have a controller, a person on the ground that's
controlling it directly and the receiver on our quadcopter.
The next thing in our specific case is a camera tx and tilt motor.
Now the tx part of the camera is a transmitter, it's going to take our camera
signal and it's going to send it down to us so we can view it on a monitor.
The tilt motor can be a salvo or brushless gimbal motor but
in general we're going to be using a tilt motor so that we can take the camera and
tilt it up or down based on what we want to look at.
So these are the basic components or basic parts of most multirotors.
Now this does also fall in line with various other types of vehicles.
A lot of these can apply directly to ground vehicles as well.
So if you're using this course and you're trying to plan out a build whether it's
a quadcopter or an airplane or some other vehicle like a car,
an RC truck, a lot of this is going to directly translate to those as well.
The flight controller that we use can be on airplanes,
it can be used on ground vehicles, or boats or motorcycles as well.
So it all will directly apply to all of those categories.
So now the last thing I want to talk about in this lesson is the big picture, and
understanding the big picture helps us understand what these components do, and
how it helps us plan them out.
So the overall weight of any flying vehicle is extremely important.
You can't make a very heavy flying vehicle and have it fly for
a long time and be maneuverable.
All the different things that we need in our design criteria.
So as we look at the overall weight, the batteries that I've planned to talk about
in this course are between 100 and 300 grams each.
Now we'll get into picking the components later and what it all means, but
right now all you need to know is that we're going to be using two batteries, so
we're looking at generally 200 to 600 grams total weight on our vehicle.
The components that we're using, which includes the motors, the props,
the speed controllers, the power distribution board, the flight controller,
the receiver, all the other stuff that's not the batteries,
that's going to be between 200 and 300 grams.
The reason I gave a range there is because we can mix and match parts,
we can change things out and have a big effect on that weight.
Now we're going to be shooting for the 300 gram range but again there's a range there
because you can use different cameras, you can remove the tilt servo and
have a fixed camera, we can maybe change out our power distribution board,
different things like this can have an effect on them.
And lastly we have the body which I have to be determined.
Now in general when you're planning out a quadcopter, it's a good rule of thumb to
have your battery weight be between 50 and 65% of the overall vehicle weight.
Now there's no hard and fast rule that it has to be that but in general, when you
get your batteries over about 65% of the overall vehicle weight, you're really
just adding more weight to spin the motors to carry the weight of the batteries.
So there's a fine line between that 50 and 65% where you're not really adding
anything additional to the flight of the vehicle, in this case our quadcopter.
So if we look at this and again remember we're using two batteries,
we're looking at 600 grams of batteries, 300 grams of components, so to keep with
that roughly 50% rule, we're going to be looking at roughly 300 grams for the body.
So that's going to be our starting point and our target for the design body.
Of course if we can make it lighter that's better because we can add more components
and still have the same thrust ratio.
The next thing that we want to talk about in the big picture is the thrust,
because this is actually the force that gets us off the ground.
Now the thrust comes down to three main factors, the propeller size,
the battery configuration and the motor we choose.
Now the reason all these are important is because all three of them go together.
Now certain motors are specifically designed for certain propeller sizes.
The motor that we're going to be using is generally used on five or
six inch propellers, but it's only used on six inch propellers in certain
battery configurations and five in other battery configurations.
This information comes directly from the motor manufacturer and
you can also test it by building a test rig with a scale and a restrained motor.
But for right now, we're going to be using the information that comes directly from
the manufacturer in comparing how changes in the battery and
the prop size will affect the thrust that we get.
Because remember we're planning for
600 grams of battery, 300 component and roughly 300 gram body.
So that value, that 1,200 grams is what we're looking at for
the amount of thrust that we need.
And we're going to plan all that out and
we're going to talk about those in general and specifically in other videos.
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Ex-worker at nursing home sentenced to death for killing 3 residents
Mar. 23, 2018 06:41 am JST Mar. 30, 2018 | 12:00 am JST
© KYODO
Yubaru
Mar. 23, 2018 07:30 am JST
Given the history of the police getting confessions, circumstantial evidence, and lack of any other physical evidence, I am puzzled by the death penalty being given in this case.
Lock him away, ok, but death penalty?
I agree with Yubaru. This seems very weak.
I wouldn't be surprised if this man was executed, and someone else arrested later.
Of course he's recanting his story now that he's looking at a rope, he's got nothing to lose by doing so. But when it's time to carry out his sentence, how about tossing him off a building instead of dropping him through the floor.
Geoff Gillespie
No evidence and just a confession? Death penalty...?
How easily that veneer of civilisation can be tarnished.
Don’t agree with the death penalty, but throwing old people over a balcony is a vicious way.
If he did it...
Toasted Heretic
Horrible, horrible crime. If it happened that way.
Barbaric to seek the death penalty.
Imai had pleaded not guilty, saying he made false statements to escape police pressure during interrogations,
but Presiding Judge Hidetaka Watanabe said that "there was no leading by police officers
Sorry Hide- were you actually there? did you actually see the interrogation tapes??
and the explanations were rational" and his initial confession was "highly credible."
Meaning you just want to get a scapegoat you scumbag. What if it was your son...?
Yeah. Exactly.
Scary to get old in this country with the kind of help in these home.
Although I agree with the verdict I always feel some discomfort when the judge acts as jury and makes conclusory statements such as: "there was no leading by police officers and the explanations were rational" and his initial confession was "highly credible."" I would prefer a jury to make such conclusions of fact and credibility based on their life experiences.
Mar. 23, 2018 12:27 pm JST
I hope he gets the death penalty if guilty. However, since Japan doesn't have a First-World justice system, perhaps the death penalty isn't such a good idea.
Fagui Curtain
death sentence is barbaric, whatever the crime is
The regularity of abuse in nursing homes is alarming. The article states it’s due to a lack of training and being understaffed. I’d say it’s because of the low salaries and ridiculous working hours. You have to feel sorry for the oldies in Japan who have been paying ¥40-50,000 into that rip-off pension scam only to be put into a nursing home that costs their family everything they have to care for their ailing parents. Japan is ‘supposed to be’ a country that cares for its elderly, but the reality is much different.
Japan is very much a victim of its own success. They manage to keep elderly people alive longer but the infrastructure to take care of them is poor to non-existent. Until the government wakes up to the fact that there is no cheap fix to this problem and puts its hands deep into its pockets for quality care for the elderly, we are going to see more and more distressing stories like this one.
that person
not conducting sufficient training of care workers to prevent abuse at the facility.
Right. Because abuse is caused by:
"Lack Of Training"
Police looking for man who poked another man in eye with umbrella
Killer's sentence unchanged despite new mental illness diagnosis
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Posts Tagged ‘glory’
The Mushroom
Posted: December 23, 2008 in Parables
Tags: cedar, comparison, Creator, glory, mushroom, North Wind, parable, Psalm 139:14
James 1:2-4, Romans 5:1-5, Psalm 139:14, Jeremiah 1:5
There in the woods was a small plain mushroom of one brownish color who discovered that it was the smallest creature of all the woodland world. It found its place in the world at the base of a magnificent cedar tree of unbelievable size. The cedar stretched to the highest reaches of the forest towering high over the rest of the woodland trees. All of the woodland creatures looked up to the mighty Cedar, its height was the envy of all the other trees. They constantly compared themselves to the glory of the mighty Cedar; it’s thick trunk was a symbol of unbelievable strength, it’s hundreds of huge limbs spread out wide, shading the forest floor from the severe elements of the mountain weather, it’s yearly production of seed cones helped thousands of new trees begin life in the forest floor miles around. This grand tree was the mightiest of the mighty, the strongest of the strong and the healthiest of the healthy and it was the envy of all the other forest vegetation.
The younger trees longed to be as big and strong as the mighty Cedar. The shrubs and bushes envied the Cedar’s height. The flowers of the forest floor admired the Cedar’s strong sturdy trunk. The deciduous trees longed to be green year around and strong enough to hold so much snow in their branches as the mighty Cedar could. The ferns wished they could produce as many little ferns as the Cedar produced new trees each year. Even the little mushroom, the smallest creature of the woods dreamed of some day being as big as the mighty Cedar, knowing that it would be impossible. She hoped that someone would only notice her growing quietly in the shadow of the Cedar, beside the massive trunk and under the huge limbs. There seemed to be no purpose for her. It made her sad that she did not have the amazing qualities of the mighty Cedar and soon she started to resent the Cedar and wished it would just go away.
One day a terrible wind storm blew through the mountains where the little mushroom lived. It blew very hard all night long. The wind, roaring through the trees that towered over the mushroom, made an awful rushing noise that made the mushroom very much afraid. In the early hours of the morning the mushroom held her head low trying to close the noise out when a loud cracking sound split through the rushing wind. It was so loud the mushroom almost jumped out of the ground from being startled. She was very much afraid for the rest of the night.
But like all storms this one came to an end as the sun peeked up over the far hills. The mushroom lifted her head to look around in the cool morning light that streamed through the surrounding branches of the many trees in her forest. She saw many broken branches laying on the forest floor and the whispering of the trees about the violence of the storm that night. The forest soon came back to life with the animals and trees and plants chatting and playing.
The little mushroom wondered what the loud “cracking” noise could have been during the storm, so she thought she would ask the one being who she thought would know the answer: the mighty Cedar.
She was nervous because the Cedar had never talked with her before and he was so big and intimidating, and he probably didn’t have time for such a small creature of the woods.
“Excuse me.” She said timidly.
“Excuse me.” She said a bit louder.
“Yes?” Came a booming voice right next to her. It was the Cedar, he was speaking to her. The little mushroom shivered out of nervousness and surprise that he had spoken to her.
“I was wondering if you knew what that loud Cracking sound was last night.” She replied, thinking he would just push her aside and get on with his greatness.
“I will tell you, Little Lady, but you must promise not to tell any of the other forest creatures.” The Cedar said to her.
Surprised, she answered quietly, “OK.”
The mighty Cedar leaned closer to the little mushroom and said, “Last night the wind was too strong for me to handle. It was a great North Wind of mighty proportions and it has cracked my trunk, I fear that I may not be able to stand much longer. My fear is that I may fall and hurt many of the woodland creatures in the path of the destruction.”
“But how? I mean, why? I mean, how is it possible that someone as great and mighty as you could break?” Asked the littlest creature in the forest.
“Little Lady, over the past 600 years I have grown tall and strong and have become the envy of the entire forest. I know that my trunk is of unmatched proportions and my limbs spread wider than any other tree and I produce more seed cones than any creature of the forest. I am a mighty cedar tree that has no enemy and no comparable peer. But, Little One, over the years I have allowed this greatness to become my idol and have not given my praise back to the One who has allowed me to become so mighty. This pride, I have secretly enjoyed, started to eat away at the core of my trunk almost 80 years ago, weakening my in most being. On the outside I still look strong, but my heart is weak and sick. Years ago I could stand up to such a strong wind; I would laugh at the North Wind. But now, because I have taken pride in the envy of the woodland creatures I have become unable to withstand the winds, which lead to my fragile shell of trunk to crack and I am afraid I will soon die.”
The little mushroom didn’t know what to say. It was hard to believe that such a mighty being could be at the edge of death.
“I do not understand. How could you die? You look so big and strong.” Asked the mushroom.
“This is a path that I have chosen for myself because I did not turn the praise of my fellow woodland creatures back towards the Creator. I have taken all the praise for myself and although I have repented of my wrong, my time is passed and I now must face the end.”
“But there is more young lady.”
“What is it?” asked the mushroom.
“You are a sign of good things to come. You are growing because of the rot that is in my heart and which has gone into my roots. You’re simple beauty has flourished because of the death within me. The Creator of all things has set a certain Truth in place, which says that beauty can emerge
out of pain.
You, little mushroom, have spent many days wanting to be like me while all along missing the amazement of who you are. You carry certain qualities that I will never have.”
“I do?” Questioned the small mushroom.
“Why yes! You are dainty, an attribute I could never attain. You have grown out of the ground in the shade and from a soil that most would call ‘rotten,’ but which you have used for good and growth. You alone, Little Lady, are in a shape that only you possess, and that shape is beautiful. You are extremely interesting in your own right and that interest should never be taken lightly.”
“Please understand that while you are longing to be like me, you are desperately trying to flee from the beauty you were created to be, and instead of giving your praise back to the Creator you are telling him that what He has created is ugly and not good enough. You are in jeopardy of the same sickness I have found myself in, that of a sick heart. Please learn from my mistake and take glory in your unique beauty and give glory to the Creator for His amazing creation: You.”
The small woodland creature took the words of the might Cedar and thought about them for many days. She didn’t want to believe the words were true and that she was wonderful and amazing just like he was. She felt there was truth in the words but they were so hard to accept, especially looking up every day at the Mighty Cedar.
One night the North Wind swept back into the forest. It made the mushroom quite afraid as the branches of the mighty Cedar shook and swayed and creaked for hours. Then it happened, there was a splitting noise that echoed through the forest with a ferocious cry ending with a crash that exploded through the noise of the wind.
Soon the North Wind passed and as the sky turned light again the mushroom turned her head towards the sky only to see the Mighty Cedar had been broken down in a mighty fall, and she saw that what the tree had said about his heart was true, for there in his trunk was a rotten core with only a few inches of living tree around it.
The small mushroom cherished these things in her heart and began to praise the Creator for the beauty she was given and she learned to give praise for her amazement.
The following spring the little mushroom was joined by hundreds of other mushrooms all growing from the decaying roots of the Mighty Cedar and she was able to teach each of them of the unique beauty each individual mushroom has and the wonder of giving that glory back to the Creator.
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Mammals & Madams & Menswear, Oh My!
Megan Carpentier
Filed to: News At 10Filed to: News At 10
Barbara boxer women's issues
Eliot spitzer hookers
It's easy to get distracted from the depressing reports about unemployment, Army suicides, torture, money laundering and man-made natural disasters when there are cuddly creatures, sex workers and men's fashion in the news this morning.
Yesterday, as I searched in vain for news that didn't make me want to tell stupid people to shut the fuck up, I found out from Nicholas Kristof both that he's part of a video game about women in the developing world (yes, I follow him on Twitter) and that Senator Barbara Boxer will be chairing a new subcommittee on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee specifically charged with women's issues. Can we all just love Nick Kristof and Barbara Boxer a little this morning? Thanks.
Anyway, onto the dirty news of the day. The U.S. economy shed more than half a million jobs in January, more American soldiers committed suicide than were killed in combat that same month, and it's entirely possible that one of the damns China built recently was the proximate cause of the earthquake that killed so many people last year. But, hey, don't pay attention to the man behind the curtain; Eliot Spitzer liked to fuck prostitutes without condoms and is a whiny little bitch.
In the mean time, the "negotiators" for Hamas who went to Egypt, it turns out, weren't really there to negotiate as much as launder some money which, due to Egyptian interference, they didn't quite manage to accomplish. Larry Summers is having as much trouble negotiating interpersonal relations as Hamas, as he's busy thinking of ways to dick over and lock out Paul Volcker. Who knew he was Dick Cheney 2.0 (without the bum ticker)? And Cheney may have found his next move, if he wants to go work for yet another evil organization — Ticket Master probably needs a new spokeshenchman after they dicked over Bruce Springsteen and all his fans buy buying up the tickets to his event and then reselling them above face value on their own reselling site. But, no worries, there are cute mammals roaming the White House grounds!
In Administration news, CIA director nominee Leon Panetta is feeling less torture-iffic than his predecessors, Obama went and ralled his troops on the stimulus package and he's having the Census Director report to Rahm Emanuel rather than the incoming Commerce Secretary, Judd Gregg, who, incidentally, tried to defund the department and politicize its functions. That sort of begs the question of why you'd nominate a guy you don't fucking trust to do his fucking job, but maybe that's just 'cause I ain't had my Kool-Aid this morning. Anyway, Congress is delaying both the switch over to digital television signals because it's even more of a clusterfuck than anyone imagined and Hilda Solis' confirmation hearing because Republicans are still quaking in their expensive leather boots at the thought of Wal-Mart workers unionizing. But, hey, I was right and it turns out that Bush did go jacketless in his Oval Office despite all the carping from the former Bushies about Obama not being formal enough. So, I guess they can all shut the fuck up now. Oops, I did it again.
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What's it like to be back? / June 26, 2016 by Jimmy Hyland
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(My first cup of tea when I arrived home, it has never tasted so good)
I arrived back in Buxton 2 am on a Thursday morning. I was knackered and pleased to be finally headed to my own bed. After an hour or so sleep I woke up really hot, I wasn’t used to sleeping inside, so opened the window and fell instantly back asleep. The following morning I awoke with the window open to a warm, damp British summer. Looking from the window out over the green hills of the peak district was like sensory overload!
Taking it back a week, from Moron where I left my bike I travelled some 2500km over around 45 hours on busses to the city of Ullistai, in the south west of Mongolia where I lived with a nomadic family. I was totally immersed in Mongolian life and really got a feel for things, the hardships faced, what makes people tick, where the food comes from, where people wash… everything. Its an experience that was very far from what I’m used to, but I realised that this type of immersion into different cultures is what I loved most about this trip, and with that in mind that experience deserves a blog of its own, so bear with me!
From Ullistai I headed back to UB where I had a day or two to spare before heading home. It was nice to be in the city and be able to relax, which I hadn’t done when I was initially there before starting to ride, and I spent my time wandering round the lesser seen areas enjoying the things that I came across. Ulaanbaatar is a totally unique city; a perfect compromise between traditional Mongolian culture and modern city life. Huge areas of the city are ‘Ger District’; very similar to the ones I had come across in the towns and cities in other parts of the country, but on a much larger scale. It struck me that even here, the capital, less than a mile from the city banks, high rise business towers and government buildings, people were living in tents, with no sanitation services and no access to running water. You have to travel to a pump station with your buckets.
At 5am, local time on Wednesday the 15th Jun, I set off via taxi to Mongolia’s only international airport. After a few tense moments in an interrogation room where they thought my tripod was a gun, I flew to Moscow. I had a 10-hour lay over in Moscow and then flew to Heathrow, landing just after 10pm local time. Although I had also lost 8 hours through time difference. It felt good to be back in England, and the fact I had a small welcome party at the airport gate made it even better. The drive home was all on dark motorways so I didn’t see anything from the window.
Which takes me back to waking up on Thursday morning and looking out of the window, I was and still am finding my self totally taken aback by the deep greens and vivid colours. We live in an incredibly beautiful country and it’s easy to take that for granted.
The other thing that strikes me is things, possessions… We all have so many things, do we really need them all? Do we really need that new scarf that matches the jacket, or a new phone or whatever it might be? The conclusion that I have come to is that in some instances we do, in the society that we live in realistically it is nice to have some luxuries, but we don’t ‘need’ them. And it’s important to remember that certain things are luxuries, and think ourselves lucky that we have access to them. We also need to be selective about our possessions and we need to think about where they are coming from. We also need to think about what the ramifications of our consumer society have else where in the world. It’s up to us to take responsibility!
Its great to be home, great to be back with my friends and family and doing the things I love at home, but there is certainly a part of me that wishes I was still out on the bike, in the middle of nowhere with the wind for company. I miss sleeping under the stars, battling for food and water and constantly moving on. Whilst I was out there I was living a very simple life, and coming back to the complexity that we are used to have their pros and cons, but a part of me longs for the simplicity.
My over-riding thoughts on Mongolia are that it’s an incredible country. It’s the most amazing place to travel, a beautiful landscape and I think a very up and coming country. We will for sure be hearing much more about Mongolia in the next few years, and I think that is a great thing. If anyone gets an opportunity get yourself out there, I guarantee you will not be disappointed!
(The cup doesn't lie, I love riding my bike even more than I did before now)
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It can be a lonely land / June 12, 2016 by Jimmy Hyland
(In Hatgal I finally managed to wash some clothes. This minus a pair of running shorts and a T-shirt has been my wardrobe for the past two months. Everything subsequently froze)
I sat in Hatgal, in my tent, snow falling outside, contemplating my next move… It was simple, ride 100km to Moron and from there 300km to Bulgan, sell the bike, find a way of getting back to UB and head to the Gobi desert for my last few days.
But I couldn’t help a little niggle at the back of my mind; Moron to Bulgan is another 300km of open steppe, a scenery that I have grown to love and really respect, but also one that, as much as I hate to admit it, can become a little monotonous as you tick the kilometres off. Particularly whilst riding on a paved road (which it is all the way to Bulgan). The scenery changes very little, you might not see a living creature for 50km, sometimes more, your lost in your own thoughts and forced to keep yourself company.
This solitude and isolation can begin to play on your mind; it starts to get very lonely! In places it’s so bleak that a bird in the sky, or distant herd of goats add welcome variety, and in a strange way companionship.. I couldn’t help but think that the 4 days I would spend riding to Bulgan I could spend more productively somewhere else, on some other form of transport, one capable of covering the vast distances much quicker than I can on the bike. It would give me an opportunity to see more of this incredible country.
(The beautiful, but bleak landscape I had become so accustomed to)
But I’m not one to give in or give up, and I didn’t want to stray from the plan I had made. Making targets and giving myself no option but to achieve them is what has kept me going in the moments I was finding things hard, and as of yet I had achieved every target I had set myself, I didn’t want to change that now. I really didn’t know what to do.
Finally I decided to ride the 100km to Moron, I was confident I could do it in a day, and see how I felt at the end. I would use that to make up my mind, and for the first 80km of that day I was going to be continuing to Bulgan.
(Psyched for the big drop down into Moron)
But then the road changed, the last 20km to Moron drops down from the mountains into the valley. Some 1000m of vertical descent over the 20km, the majority of which falls away fast at the very top. This was a decent I had been looking forward to for weeks, it was getting late and I had promised myself a proper bed for the night as well as a proper meal, and that in itself was very appealing. I couldn’t wait to cruse down the switchback mountain road, wind in my hair, enjoying the ride to the promised home comforts. I stopped at the top and ate my last snickers, drank some water and started to descend.
Picking up speed fast over the steep top section I pulled my front brake to keep everything under control… and POP… The brake lever was firmly against my grip, and I was still accelerating… I pulled the back brake… POP… same story…. It took me a minute to register what was happening then it hit me…
‘OH SH*T’ was the first thing that sprung to mind, and the second was to shout “MY BRAKES HAVE FAILED”. Still picking up speed I realised I had to think of something fast, I rammed my foot between the fork and the tyre, and in a cloud of white smoke and burning rubber (I thought you could only get that doghnuting cars, but apparently not), I began to slow down.
I finally came to a standstill and assessed the damage, the pistons had popped of the springs in the brake calliper so when the cable pulled nothing happened, and the pistons were in a sealed housing so virtually impossible to get to. In short they were broken beyond point of repair on the side of the mountain.
I walked the bike for the top steepest 5km, and then would get on and coast down the hill, picking my places to do so carefully where I could see there was a rise further down the road I could use to slow me down. The combined weight of myself and all my kit on the bike meant I would accelerate fast, and I just had to ride it out until I slowed on the slight inclines. Either side of the road was a gravel siding, and 10 metres or so in the gravel would slow me down a lot.
Eventually I pulled into Moron, found somewhere to stay and spent a little while sat enjoying the fact I made it without falling off the bike and skinning myself on the tarmac, I was actually quite shaken by the descent it was pretty full on.
My mind was made up, Bulgan was a town too far, pushing on would be pointless and within an hour I had found someone willing to buy the bike.
(The smile didn't leave his face for two days)
Everything had come together and I realised that my cycling was over. I couldn’t really work out what was in my head, I was sad to see the end of the bike trip; it had been the most incredible experience. I have truly learnt things, seen things and done things that will stay with me and I think shape me for the rest of my life. Cycling in this land had put so many things into prospective, and made me really think about life and how I want to live it. Bringing this to a close was certainly difficult, but at the same time there was a sense of relief. It had been a tough few months in a lot of ways and drawing a line beneath this let me relax a little.
But then I saw my bike coming up the road, 3 kids on the bike, 2 in the trailer, all wearing a grin from ear to ear. With each pedal stroke the rider had to let the pedal make the bottom third or so of each stroke on its own because his legs weren’t quite long enough to follow it all the way round, even with the seat as low as it would go. I knew at that moment I had made the right decision.
(For sure a highlight of camping has been the incredible star displays each night)
I began to make inquiries into how to spend my last few days, and through a newly acquainted friend Sandag, was put in touch with a Nomadic family in the west. To meet with them I needed to go to Ullistai, only 300km south west of where I was, but with Mongolia being Mongolia the only way to get there was to get a 16 hour bus to UB and then a 23 hour bus from there to Ullistai. A journey with a total distance of some 2000km… Much of which was on dirt roads.
Mongolian busses are an adventure in their own; firstly there is the challenge of getting a ticket. Pointing at a collection of Cyrillic letters that I really hoped were indeed for my intended destination I managed to explain with hand gestures that I was after a single ticket for the following day.
Then you have the busses themselves, rusty old looking things that squeak at every bump (continuous doesn’t even cover the frequency of these on dirt roads).
(this was by a very long way the most luxurious bus I took, the others were considerably older. Photo taken during one of the breakdown stops)
From what I could gather the busses were imported second hand from China or most likely Japan. It’s hard to date them but I would say they were built some time in the nineties, and have had a pretty tough life. The interiors are simple, but all had some kind of TV screen hanging from the roof that played a continuous loop of Mongolian music videos. Every bus was rammed full, every seat filled, and a pretty special atmosphere. The length of the journey meant all the locals would greet each other and make friends. The whole trip was accompanied with the sound of people singing along to the videos on the TV.
Break downs are common, and on two of my three bus journeys we have broken down. The first time was something to do with the electrics and the second time was that the suspension broke. Fortunately the drivers (there are always two) double as mechanics and both times we were back on the road within 30 mins. It seems that no matter how serious the problem these guys can get it sorted with ease and minimal tools.
(the internal view of the bus above, note the tv at the front)
It was interesting seeing peoples reaction to me on the busses, on each journey I had a continual rotation of people in the seat next to me, at one point a mother and very cute and playful baby, and at another a very drunk man. The person who stayed the longest was a middle aged woman who fell asleep, her head landing on my shoulder where it stayed for over 8 hours, me needing a wee more and more but not having the heart to wake her up at any of the frequent wee stops.
Briefly stopping in UB I continued on to Ullistai where I spent time living with a lovely local family. It was fascinating to see more of the’ true’ Mongolian life that I had experienced whilst riding but never stayed in one place long enough to really understand. It was grat to get an insight into such a considered and thught out, yet simple and relaxed way of life. I’m going to hold you in suspense for the details of such a life for my next blog.
(Enjoying the view from the top of the mountain. The pole next to me is an Ovoo, a Buddhist/ Shaman shrine with the blue cloth representing the sky gods)
In the mean time, I am still here having the time of my life. Loving the experiences, the people and the stories. But at the same time I’m looking forward to returning to the UK, and a good cup of tea!!
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Bike Touring, Mongolia By Bike, Uncategorized Adventure, adventure travel, bike, camping, Cycling, Endurance, expedition, filmmaking, long distance, Mongolia, outdoor, photography, rab, Solo, Travel, travel writing June 12, 2016
Nuts and Bolts of a Country / May 23, 2016 by Jimmy Hyland
(Me, Loving Life right now!)
Touring by bicycle is a truly incredible way to travel; it gives you the most amazing sense of freedom. It puts you right there on the ground vulnerable to the weather and whatever the road may throw at you… And it’s the raw-ness and vulnerability that makes it so great. It gives you a perch from which to see the real nuts and bolts of a place, see how things work, how people live and what makes them tick… This is a privileged insight that I believe would be much harder to attain whilst travelling on other forms of transport, and because of this I can only sing praises for touring by bicycle!!
I’m in a small town called Khotont, about 170km south of the Russian border and on the southernmost tip of the infamous Khovsgul Lake, the second largest lake in Mongolia that is estimated to hold between 1% and 2% of the world’s fresh water Its currently still semi frozen. I have hit and surpassed the 1000km mark on the bike and it’s been one hell of a trip to get here!
Since leaving Karkhorin (my last blog post), I rode 130km west to a city named Tsetserleg, the road was paved but I started to climb into the mountains meaning the scenery began to change. The rolling steppe gradually evolved into steep, loose rocky mountains and the temperatures began to drop. Being in the mountains also meant that there were a lot more rivers around, you could almost visibly see the land surrounding me get greener and greener as the KM ticked by. The road to Tsetserleg rises steeply to a peak from which you can see the city sprawled before you, you then drop down into the city along a KM or two of gentle descent.
(The City of Tsetserleg)
Tsetserleg is a province capital nestled between rocky mountains and is labelled as a city, but infact it is more like a small town. With a population of only around 22,000, which for Mongolia is huge, although really it’s not so big. Everything revolves around a small market in the centre, where you can find stalls selling pretty much all the essentials. There are restaurants, a college and a number of other services around. The locals generally live in Ger’s, spread around the centre.
(Horse Meat for sale in the market, Tsetserleg)
By the time I arrived in Tsetserleg the bike was not in a good way, I had hugely underestimated the importance of spreading weight around the bike evenly, meaning that my luggage was spread between my trailer and my rear panniers, but all going through the back wheel. Putting it under a huge amount of strain, that it was struggling to deal with. The poor distribution of weight also meant that the bike was pretty unstable and hard to control, particularly going down… Fortunately the road from UlaanBaatar (UB) thus far had been pretty much constantly uphill.
I was lucky to come across the Fairfield Guest house, run by Australian Murray and his family who helped me enormously by lending me a front pannier rack and set of rear pannier bags to distribute the weight more evenly, which has made a huge difference to the handling of the bike.
(Spreading the weight is key to bike stability, Here you can see my new set up)
From Tsetserleg I headed again west to a town called Tairat and the white lake. The road is mostly paved, although you cross 3 mountain passes en route that are left as dirt road to make sure that vehicles can get grip during periods of snow. This section of road remains pretty consistently uphill, although the ‘hills’ are considerably steeper. I also hit some pretty rough weather, a day of 50km/h headwind made moving forward very hard… And keeping the tent up even harder, but fortunately I managed to find an old animal enclosure that I could hide the tent in for the night. I actually got a pretty good night sleep.
(This abandoned animal shelter provided a great wind block)
I woke up the next morning to driving rain, which as I got higher over the next two days gradually turned to sleet and then snow. Again this made riding hard, but what I hadn’t realised is that the snow would turn out to have much more serious consequences over the next few days.
Upon arrival in Tairat it felt like I had reached the end of the world. It’s a small town, maybe only 4 or 5 thousand people, there is a semi constructed ‘high street’ that consists of a couple of small restaurants, a few shops and that’s about it. There is no ATM or Internet connection to mention and even electricity proved pretty hard to come by. It really felt a little like stepping back in time, and reminded me greatly of towns you would see on the sets of cowboy films.
(A view of the white lake, 10km west of Tairat. In the foreground you can see the tepee, this is a shaman shrine and they are common place on most Mongolian hill tops. Often decorated with blue and yellow silks and filled with offerings)
What I hadn’t realised was that the snow from the previous days would infact bar my way, the 120km track crossing the +3000m mountain pass would be impossible. Even the serious off-road 4x4’s were not up for making the trip, so I found myself stranded in Tairat. I had 3 options.
The first was to try to hitch a lift with a lorry back to UB, to then hitch from there along the upper road to Moron, although that was an option that I really didn’t like the idea of.
Option two was to try and get a lift on a lorry heading west, to travel 200km to a cross road where I could then try to catch a second ride back east about 200km to Moron. I heard varying reports of road conditions on this route, certainly only the first 100 was paved and I was told few vehicles travelled the route heading back east. I spent a day by the side of the road trying to get a lift but in more than 8 hours only 5 lorries passed me, 4 of which were oil tankers carrying fuel that I couldn’t get the bike on and the final one was so full of supplies that I couldn’t get the bike in there either… So that option was also a no-go.
The third option was to try and get a lift with a local van about 200km around the mountain range to a town called Jarglant, on the dirt road… Thankfully I managed to come across a lift and made the trip in only a few hours. The rickety van somehow made the very rough trip without too much problem, definitely not helped by the copious amounts of beer the driver drank throughout the journey.
(The bike loaded up for the bumpy 200km trip to Jarglant, the trailer was on the back seats)
From Jarglant it’s around 200km off-road to Moron, still in the mountains and through some pretty steep and tough terrain. Its definitely the hardest riding that I have come across so far and without the road navigation was also much more important. There are 3 major mountain ridges to pass over, the largest of which saw me pushing the bike uphill for 7 hours, in which time I covered only 12 km. Thankfully the simple law of what goes up must come down came into play and I greatly enjoyed weaving down the peaty hillside.
(View from my camping spot in Jarglant. The mountains in the distance were the ones that I would cross over the next few days)
The following day for the first time I ran out of water, and for 6 thirsty hours I was panicking… Although luckily before too long I came across a nomadic Ger who filled my bottles for me with a smile.
At the top of the third mountain ridge the altitude is around 2500M, and from here there is a solid 30km descent dropping down to Moron (1250M) in the valley below. The top section was very rocky, and saw me break 2 more spokes on the rear wheel… But the rocks soon gave way to flowing, fast grassy tracks that allowed me to enjoy (although gingerly due to the back wheel) a great descent. The final 5 km or so are very sandy, but compact so still fast and around 8pm, hungry and totally exhausted I pulled into Moron.
(Out of granny gear for the first time in 3 days!!)
I really don’t like Coke, but the first thing I did in Moron was buy a 2 litre bottle (for the equivalent of about 90 pence), and drank it on the spot… which made me feel much better!!
I spent a day resting in Moron, and enjoyed losing myself in the huge market. It’s much bigger than the one in Tsetserleg and you could buy pretty much anything… Including boiled goat head, which is supposedly quite a delicacy in these parts, I will take the Mongols word for it! You can also find lots of street food stalls selling Hoshuur and Buuz, a tasty either fried or steamed dumpling filled with meat (I have given up trying to work out from what animal) and if your lucky some onion too. I really think that there is a potentially very lucrative market for these simple treats as an alternative to a kebab on a big night out.
(Boiled Goat head, all intact)
From Moron I headed north, again uphill toward Khotont. I was hoping to make the 100km in a day, but hadn’t accounted for the initial 30km of solid uphill that saw me rise around 1000 vertical metres. This was to be my lowest day so far, and for the first time I was really questioning what I was doing out here. I felt really lonely and dreamt of being back at home, surrounded by the people I love. I learnt a lot about myself that day and about how to deal with myself and keep moving at such a low point.
At 65 km, after 10 hours on the bike and totally exhausted I set up my tent in a semi built log cabin, ate a quick meal of pasta and fell straight asleep. 3 hours later I woke up, my tent buried in about 2 foot of drifting snow. For the rest of the night I had to periodically dig the walls of the tent out to stop the snow from collapsing it, and when the sun rose the blizzard continued as strong as ever. Realising that riding was going to be impossible I made myself some millet (My standard breakfast, with at least 5 spoons of sugar, although I dream of porridge) and a coffee whilst weighing up the options, lying warm inside my sleeping bag unaware of the fact the weather had deteriorated further outside. I was preparing to spent the next few days holed up, which would have been fine except that apart from the millet I had run out of food, Fortunately this wasn’t necessary as once again I was saved by the wonderful nomads.
Because of the driving snow visibility was less than 10 metres, out of the wall of white appeared a man, who ushered for me to follow him. Leaving my tent and all my gear where it was I did follow him, and for about an hour (it felt like 10). We battled through the snow, eventually turning up at a ger, the mans family home.
(Me and my two new friends)
Without realising I found myself in a small town, maybe you would call it a hamlet, so small it wasn’t marked on my map. The family consisted of Mother, Father and two wonderful small girls, 10 and 13. I was hosted for 2 days with the family whilst waiting for the weather to improve and was welcomed with open arms. I spent the time viewing daily life, and where I could helping out. I showed the girls how to make toast; something I don’t think they had come across before and they thought it was the best thing in the world!
(Two Loving sisters)
What’s sad is that the closer I get to the Russian Border the more and more I see the effects of vodka, and vodka was a big part of daily life for the parents of this family. Now maybe Its because it was the weekend, or maybe its because the snow had brought things to a stand still but both days I stayed the parents by early afternoon were drunk to a point of incapability to do anything, leaving the running of the home to the two girls. It was saddening to see such a burden put on the girls shoulders and I really wished I could find some way of helping the situation. The fact of the matter is I think this is a part of daily life here, and a problem that I know many people are trying to find ways to assist, but I fear the imminent future is bleak.
(Its an extremely sad reality the affects of Alcohol here, this was part way through the second bottle of the day)
The second evening I stayed, with both parents passed out and snoring loudly I felt something move beside me whilst I was drifting off to sleep. I rolled over to find the youngest daughter lying next to me. She gave me a big hug and fell straight asleep on my chest… a moment I found very moving and that will stay with me forever.
The next morning I left early and walked back to the bike, I rode the remaining 45km or so through the snow to arrive in Khotont. From here I have restocked with supplies and plan to head on up the west shore of the lake. Its incredibly beautiful, and much more forested. I’m keeping my plans very fluid, and am not really sure where I’m going to head after returning from my trip around the lake, I will just see what happens.
I have made contact with 2 French cyclists heading the same direction as me, they are a couple of days behind me but I’m hoping to connect up with them and we will see what happens from there.
(Giving my legs a quick rest before pushing on up the next hill, this was taken about 40km east of Tairat)
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Bike Touring, Mongolia By Bike, Uncategorized Adventure, adventure travel, bike, camping, Cycling, Endurance, expedition, filmmaking, long distance, Mongolia, outdoor, photography, rab, Solo, Travel, travel writing May 23, 2016
The Totally Active Podcast Episode 001 - Trail and Ultra Runner Claire Maxted
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UPCOMING EVENTS/ PERFORMANCES:
(I play “Koto Jazz” on the keyboard in Washington, Oregon, California and Colorado:
June 08, 2019, Saturday, 12:30pm – 3:00pm
Musical Performance: Kotojazz
main stage, see Http://ShorelineFarmersMarket.org.
June 08, Saturday, 7-9 PM,
Music Host: Kotojazz Music Open Mic
Songwriters In Seattle @Souvanny’s Tavern,
9501 Rainier Avenue, south Seattle; Music open mic sign up at 6:30pm.
June 12, 2019, Wednesday, 3pm – 7pm
Wallingford Farmers Market
is located in Meridian Park at the corner of Meridian Avenue N and N 50th Street. See http://www.sfmamarkets.com/visit-wallingford-farmers-market.
June 29, 2019, Saturday, 3:30pm – 3:50pm
Music Performance: Koto into Jazz
Location: Main Stage
Japan Fair 2019, Meydenbauer Center
11100 NE 6th St, Bellevue, WA 98004, email: info@japanfairus.org. see http://japanfairus.org
July 12, 2019, Friday, 3pm – 7pm
Madrona Farmers Market main stage.
The Market is located in the parking lot of the Madrona Grocery Outlet, at the corner of Martin Luther King, Jr. Way and E. Union Street. See http://www.sfmamarkets.com/madrona-farmers-market.
July 27, 2019, Saturday, 12:30pm – 3:00pm
Performance: Kotojazz
Shoreline Farmer’s Market main stage, see Http://ShorelineFarmersMarket.org
August 16, 2019, Saturday, 3pm – 7pm
Musical Performance: Koto into Jazz
Madrona Farmer’s Market,
Madrona Grocery Outlet, at the corner of Martin Luther King, Jr. Way and E. Union Street. See http://www.sfmamarkets.com/madrona-farmers-market.
August 21, 2019, Wednesday, 3pm – 7pm
August 24, 2019, Saturday, 12:30pm – 3:00pm PST
Shoreline Farmer’s Market main stage, see Http://ShorelineFarmersMarket.org.
September 21, 2019, Saturday, 12:30pm – 3:00pm PST
Live Interview April 11, 2018 with former 93.3 KUBE DJ “Dirty Harry”, (see second half of video at 1hr. 06m on Youtube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22YnZURqSWk, and Twitch, https://m.twitch.tv/videos/249258138
Listen to KotoJazz songs @ KING FM 98.1 Radio, 2nd Inversion program, http://tunein.com/radio/KING-FM-Second-Inversion-s187219/
iHeartRADIO, http://www.iheart.com/artist/chris-kenji-beer-30782493/albums/koto-jazz-season-suite-30888612/
KFSK Radio, NPR syndicate, south Alaska airs ” Koto Jazz – Ripples on Creek Rock”, https://kfskchris.wordpress.com/tag/chris-kenji-beer
Japan Fair Main Stage, July 7-8, 2018, http://napost.com/japan-fair-main-stage-programs/
Art Walk of Edmonds, http://artwalkedmonds.com/find-a-performing-artist/
Representing the West 2017 Exhibit, chosen among 550 applicants, Sangre de Cristo Arts Center, Pueblo, Colorado. https://www.sdc-arts.org/
Improv and Kotojazz, Seattle Weekly, http://events.seattleweekly.com/events/2017/02/23
American Towns & West Seattle blogs – David Wilborn & Chris Kenji @ the C&P Coffee Company, November 18, 2016, http://www.americantowns.com/wa/seattle/events/chris-kenji-2016-11-18 ; http://westseattleblog.com/event/koto-jazz-performs/
David Wilborn & Chris Kenji @ the C&P Coffee Company, July 1, 2016 – http://candpcoffee.com/event/1142/
Northwest Folklife Festival, May 27, 2016, Seattle Center’s CenterHouse Theater, Koto Jazz at “The Folklife”, https://2016northwestfolklifefestival.sched.org/event/6wNB/koto-jazz-with-chris-kenji-gang
Koto Jazz @ Fremont Art Walk The Stone Way Cafe, Seattle, Fremont/ Wallingford, February 06, 2016 – http://fremont.com/event/stone-way-cafe-chris-beer-koto-jazz/
Artist Trust Innovator Award Recipients– Performing Arts Panelist, funded by The Dale and Leslie Chihuly Foundation, https://artisttrust.org/index.php/news/press-release/artist_trust_announces_25000_arts_innovator_award_recipients, and Americantowns.com – Seattle
The Stranger calendar, Egan’s Jam House, http://www.thestranger.com/events/23170778/chris-kenji
The Stranger Slog calendar, The Royal Room, http://slog.thestranger.com/events/22902273/chris-kenji-and-marie-bolla
Earshot Jazz newsletter, http://www.earshot.org/event/chris-kenji-with-marie-bolla/
Japan JET Alumni Association, newsletter announcing Koto Jazz October events.
Last.fm Radio, “KotoJazz: Season Suite”, Koto Jazz by Chris Kenji.
Madison Valley News:, “An evening of elegance: UW Arboretum community Garden Party at the Japanese Garden”, Koto Jazz piano by Chris Kenji, July 24, 6 – 8:30pm.
Seattle Parks & Recreation, “An evening of elegance: Seattle Parks and Recreation invites community to Garden Party at the Japanese Garden”, Koto Jazz piano by Chris Kenji, July 24, 6 – 8:30pm.
The Stranger, “Jazz Beautified by Japanese Traditional Koto Music”, September 8, 8pm Koto Jazz by Kenji.
Charles Mudede, The Stranger Suggest KotoJazz by Chris Kenji 09082014
The Stranger, digital color copy, “Jazz Beautified by Japanese Traditional Koto Music”,
40th Annual Cherry Blossom &Japanese Cultural Festival, “Kotojazz by Chris Kenji Beer”,
Chris Kenji Beer on My-Piano.org, “Kotojazz – Season Suite”,
SNewsi.com on Stranger Slog
“Kenji Jazzes Up the Koto”, Northwest Asian Weekly, Seattle, 2014, Vol 33 No 28 | July 5 – July 11.
“Nikkei Musician Meets West and East”, North American Post/ Hokubei Hochi, Seattle, June 26, 2014.
Internet-Radio.com, “KotoJazz: Season Suite”, Koto Jazz by Kenji.
Royal Room, Columbia City, “Koto Jazz – Season Suite” at South Seattle’s premiere jazz club, The Royal Room, November 30th, 6-7:45pm by Chris Kenji.
Kiro TV, “Koto Jazz – Season Suite”, November 30th, 6-7:45pm by Kenji.
Explore Kirkland, “Koto Jazz – Season Suite”, February 20, 2015, 7:45pm – 9pm by Kenji.
Seattle PI, “Koto Jazz – Season Suite”, November 30th, 6-7:45pm by Kenji
Seattle PI, September 8, 8pm Koto Jazz by Kenji
Tacoma News Tribune, September 8, 8pm Koto Jazz by Kenji.
PAST EVENTS:
May 11, Saturday, 7-9 PM,
March 23, Saturday, 3-5:30PM,
Live @Reunion House, Capitol Hill, 530 10th Ave E, Seattle, WA 98102; must RSVP to sales@mzinger.com.
April 13, Saturday, 7-9pm
Musical Performance: Music Open mic
Souvanny’s Tavern “Songwriters In Seattle” music open mic, hosted by Kotojazz, 9501 Rainier Ave S, Seattle, WA 98118. Check out this Meetup with Songwriters in Seattle at http://meetu.ps/e/Gn0y8/zt17f/d.
April 6th, Saturday, 7-9pm PST
Couth Buzzard Books and Coffee, 8310 Greenwood Ave N, Seattle, WA 98103, (Greenwood neighborhood) North Seattle; #(206) 436-2960
May 3-5, Friday – Sunday, 10am – 4:30pm (tentative TBA)
Spring Unveiling Arts Festival 2019, Cannon Beach, OR; email: info@cbgallerygroup.com.
February 24, Sunday, 2-4pm
Grumpy Ds Coffee Music Showcase; 7001 15th Ave NW, Seattle, WA 98117, (206) 783-4039
March 09, Saturday, 7-9pm
January 19, Saturday, 7-9pm – The Den Coffee & Wine Shop; 10415 Beardslee Blvd., Bothell, Washington; # 425-483-0764.
February 2, Saturday, 6:30-8:00pm, Frederick Holmes and Companyart gallery piano performance and birthday celebration. 309 Occidental Avenue; Occidental Square, downtown Seattle’s Pioneer Square neighborhood. Tel: 206.682.0166.
November 2-4, 2018 – Saturday November 3rd, 3pm at Coaster Theater Square; Stormy Weather Arts Festival, 207 N Spruce Cannon Beach, OR 97110. Phone: 503-436-2623.
November 2-4, 2018 – Saturday November 3rd, 5pm at Jeffrey Hull Gallery, Sandpiper Square, 172 N Hemlock St # 24, Cannon Beach, OR 97110; Stormy Weather Arts Festival, Cannon Beach, OR 97110. Phone: 503-436-2623.
November 25th, Sunday, 2-4pm – Grumpy D’s Ballard; 7001 15th Ave NW, Seattle, WA 98117; Tel: (206) 783-4039; http://grumpydsballard.com
September 22, Saturday, 12:30pm – 3pm – Shoreline Farmer’s Market; 15300 Westminster Way N | Shoreline WA 98133, WA; http://ShorelineFarmersMarket.org.
July 7, 2018 – Japan Fair Annual Reception/ Dinner Fundraiser, Saturday, July 7th, 6-7pm; Meydenbauer Center, downtown Bellevue: 11100 NE 6th St., Bellevue, WA 98004; http://japanfairus.org.
July 7-8, 2018 – Japan Fair, Saturday, July 7th, 2:30pm; Sunday, July 8th, 2pm; Meydenbauer Center, downtown Bellevue: 11100 NE 6th St., Bellevue, WA 98004; http://japanfairus.org.
July 8, 2018, 4pm – Japan Fair, Center Stage, Meydenbauer Center, downtown Bellevue: 11100 NE 6th St., Bellevue, WA 98004; http://japanfairus.org
June 09, 2018, Saturday, 12:30 pm to 3:00 pm – Shoreline Farmer’s Market, 2nd Act Main Stage, 15300 Westminster Way, N, Shoreline, WA 98133, see http://ShorelineFarmersMarket.org.
June 21, 2018, Thursday, 5-9:00 pm – Make Music Days (Seattle) at the Bonfire Gallery, Panama Hotel, 603 S. Main Street, Seattle, WA; see http://www.makemusicday.org/seattle/.
May 19, 2018, Saturday, 7-9 pm, popular local talent Mark Goldberg and Koto Jazz by Chris Kenji are live at the Mill Creek Newsroom Coffee House, 800 164th Street, SE, Mill Creek, WA 98012; #425-361-1949. No cover. RSVP here, https://www.facebook.com/events/2126666407565529/.
May 27, 2018, Sunday, 2:45 – 3:15 pm, Koto Jazz and “The World of Koto” at NORTHWEST FOLKLIFE, Center Theater, Seattle Center Armory (lower level), 305 Harrison Street, Seattle, WA.
May 05, 2018, Saturday, 1:45pm- 3:45pm, Ecola Square, Cannon Beach Spring Unveiling Arts Festival, Cannon Beach, OR. Contact Cannon Beach Chamber of Commerce at http://cannonbeach.org or call #(503) 436-2623.
April 27, 2018, Friday, 7-9 pm, Newsroom Music Showcase with Nathaniel Chapman, Nancy Chibazakura, Mark Goldberg, and Koto Jazz; Newsroom Gelato and Coffee, 800 164th Street, SE, N, Mill Creek, WA 98012; #(425)-361-1949.
April 06, 2018, Friday, 7:00pm-9:00pm, Grumpy D’s Coffee House, http:// www.grumpydsballard.com, 7001 15th Ave NW, Seattle, WA 98117; Tel: (206) 783-4039.
April 07, 2018, Saturday, 7-9 pm, Koto Jazz with Metro Echo, Newsroom Gelato and Coffee, 800 164th Street, SE, N, Mill Creek, WA 98012; #425-361-1949.
March 10, 2018, Saturday, 6:15-7 pm, Newsroom Gelato and Coffee, 800 164th Street, SE, N, Mill Creek, WA 98012; #425-361-1949.
March 24, 2018, Saturday, 7-9 pm, Live Music “Showcase” – Newsroom Gelato and Coffee, 800 164th Street, SE, N, Mill Creek, WA 98012; #425-361-1949.
January 13, 2018, Saturday, 6:00pm-8:00pm, The Red Café, http://www.caferedseattle.com
7148 Martin Luther King Jr Way S, Seattle, WA 98118; Tel: (949) 910-9104.
February 10, 2018, Saturdays, 7-9pm, Mill Creek Newsroom Gelato & Coffee – Songwriters in Seattle (SiS), https://www.meetup.com/SongwritersInSeattle/events/247044148/, https://newsroomgelato.com/, 800 164th St., NE, Seattle, WA 98012; Tel: 425-361-1949.
December 16, 2017, Saturday, 8:00 pm, The Den Coffee House & Café, 10415 Beardslee Blvd., Bothell, WA; Tel: (425) 398-9792.
December 2, 2017, 7:30 pm, Couth Buzzard Books & Espresso, 8310 Greenwood Avenue, North, Seattle, WA 98103; Tel: (206) 436-2960.
November 3, 2017, 5pm, Jeffrey Hull Gallery, 172 N. Hemlock St., Cannon Beach, Oregon.
August 26, Saturday, 1:30pm – 2:30pm, West Seattle’s Camp Long. Arts in Nature Festival 2017. I’m playing KotoJazz at the Entrance of the Festival. Address: Corner of 35th Ave., SW and SW Dawson Street, West Seattle’s Delridge neighborhood. See more information at http://fest.naturec.org.
November 4-5, 2017, Stormy Weather Arts Festival, Cannon Beach, Oregon; Cannon Beach Chamber of Commerce. Time TBD.
August 05, Saturday, 3pm, Kotojazz @ Reunion House, Capitol Hill, Seattle, WA. To attend, contact sales@mzinger.com if not a Reunion House member.
July 8 & 9, 2:30 PM – 5 PM, Japan Fair 2017, Meydenbauer Center lobby, Bellevue WA. Address: 11100 NE 6th St., Bellevue, WA 98004 (map)
July 8, 6pm, Japan Fair 2017 Benefit Dinner (formal suit and tie annual dinner) Meydenbauer Center, Bellevue, WA. See Japan Fair website for more information: http://japanfairus.org/.
May 04, 6:00-8 PM, Thursday, SeattleArt Walk – Improv & Kotojazz by Chris Kenji & David Wilborn at FREDERICK HOLMES & COMPANY Art Gallery, Seattle’s Pioneer Square neighborhood. No cover. 309 Occidental Avenue, Occidental mall, downtown Seattle, WA.
June 10, Saturday, 3 PM, Kotojazz @Reunion House, Capitol Hill, Seattle, RSVP sale@mzinger.com required
April 11, 6:00-8 PM, Tuesday, Improv & KotoJazz by Chris Kenji & David Wilborn at THE ROYAL ROOM, South Seattle’s Columbia City neighborhood. No cover. Visit map to Royal Room, Seattle. Address: 5000 Rainier Avenue, Seattle, WA 98118.
February 23, 6:45-9 PM, Sunday, KotoJazz by Chris Kenji & David Wilborn at THE ROYAL ROOM, South Seattle’s Columbia City neighborhood. No cover. Visit map to Royal Room, Seattle. Address: 5000 Rainier Avenue, Seattle, WA 98118.
January 15, 6:45-9 PM, Sunday, KotoJazz by Chris Kenji & David Wilborn at THE ROYAL ROOM, South Seattle’s Columbia City neighborhood, visit map to Royal Room, Seattle. Address: 5000 Rainier Avenue, Seattle, WA 98118.
November 05, 2-7 PM, Saturday, Koto Jazz Trio @ Stormy Weather Arts Festival, downtown Cannon Beach, Oregon; #503-436-2623 (tentative); Chris Kenji, David Wilborn, & Patrick Wilson; two pianos/ keyboards & digital horn.
October 6, 5-7 PM, Sunday, Koto Jazz @ FREDERICK HOLMES AND COMPANY Art Gallery, 309 Occidental Ave., Occidental Mall, Pioneer Square, dowtown Seattle; #206-682-0166 (PRIVATE SHOWING ONLY).
August 31, 7-9PM, Wednesday, KotoJazz by Chris Kenji & modern Jazz by David Wilborn at THE ROYAL ROOM, South Seattle’s Columbia City neighborhood, visit map to Royal Room, Seattle. Address: 5000 Rainier Avenue, Seattle, WA 98118.
July 01, 7-9 PM, Friday, Koto Jazz by Chris Kenji & traditional Jazz by David Wilborn at C & P Coffee Company, 5612 California Avenue SW, Seattle, WA 98136; no cover.
June 26, 5-7 PM, Sunday, Koto Jazz by Chris Kenji & traditional Jazz by David Wilborn at Stone Way Café, S. Wallingford, Café: (206) 420-4435, P: (360) 907-0522; 3510 Stone Way N, Seattle, WA 98103.
June 15, 6:30pm-8PM, Wednesday, KotoJazz songs at Grumpy D’s Coffee, Ballard, Seattle
May 27, 4:30- 5:10 PM, Friday, 2016 NORTHWEST FOLKLIFE FESTIVAL;“Koto Jazz – Seasons & Sounds On the Coast” by Chris Kenji, Center Theater, Seattle Center, Seattle WA. No cover. Listen to us @ KING FM 98.1 Radio, 2nd Inversion program, http://tunein.com/radio/KING-FM-Second-Inversion-s187219/.
• April 29th, 7-8:30PM, Saturday, Koto Jazz @ FREDERICK HOLMES AND COMPANY Art Gallery, 309 Occidental Ave., Occidental Mall, Pioneer Square, dowtown Seattle; #206-682-0166.
• April 13th, 7-9:30PM, Wednesday, THE ROYAL ROOM, South Seattle’s Columbia City neighborhood, Koto Jazz with Patrick Wilson’s electronic Bossa Nova on the “SyntHorn”; For directions and map, visit map to Royal Room, Seattle. Address: 5000 Rainier Avenue, Seattle, WA 98118.á
• April 1st, 6-10pm, Saturday, FREMONT ART WALK – Marie Bolla folk ballads and Patrick Wilson, Inventor of the SyntHorn with “Koto Jazz” by Chris Kenji; Stone Way Café, S. Wallingford, Café: (206) 420-4435, P: (360) 907-0522; 3510 Stone Way N, Seattle, WA 98103.
• February 6, 8-10pm, Saturday, “Koto Jazz – Sounds On the Coast” by Chris Kenji Beer; Stone Way Café, Wallingford, Café: (206) 420-443
• March 27th, 3-5pm, Sunday, Koto Jazz, Sounds of the Coast by Chris Kenji Beer; C & P Coffee Company, 5612 California Avenue SW, Seattle, WA 98136; no cover
November 21, 9pm (Saturday) @ Egan’s Jam House in Ballard – Chris Kenji, “Sounds from the Coast” ($5 cover). For directions and map, visit map here: 1707 NW Market Street (Ballard), Seattle; Call or text: 206-200-2733.
October 22, 7-9pm, Friday, “Koto Jazz – “Sounds from the Coast” by Chris Kenji and Marie Bolla at C & P Coffee Company, 5612 California Avenue SW, Seattle, WA 98136; no cover.
OCTOBER 27th,7:30-9:30pm (Tuesday),“Sounds from the Coast” by Chris Kenji and Marie Bolla at the The Royal Room, Seattle’s Columbia City neighborhood ; no cover charge. “Koto Jazz- Sounds from the Coast” by Chris Kenji and Marie Bolla. For directions and map, visit map to Royal Room, Seattle. Address: 5000 Rainier Avenue, Seattle, WA 98118; Call or text: 206-200-2733;
JULY 24, Friday, 6 to 8:30 p.m.”Koto Jazz & 55th Anniversary Event of the UW Arboretum Seattle Japanese Garden“; – “An Evening of Japanese Arts and Cuisine to Benefit Seattle Japanese Garden”. The garden becomes the backdrop for an elegant fete of scrumptious Japanese cuisine with fine wines and sake, a Nodate tea ceremony, and traditional performing arts during this 55th anniversary benefit event. Tickets: $75. Tel: 206.684.4725; seattlejapanesegarden.org; located in the University of Washington Arboretum, 1075 Lake Washington Blvd E, Seattle, Washington 98112
JULY 25, 7-9pm, Friday, “Koto Jazz- Season Suite” by Chris Kenji at C & P Coffee Company, 5612 California Avenue SW, Seattle, WA 98136; no cover.
June 26, Friday, 2pm; “Koto Jazz Piano “; Kawabe Memorial House Annual Volunteer Reception, Seattle (senior home).
June 06, Saturday, “Koto Jazz On The Coast“, music by Chris Kenji Beer; 101 Public House, 1015 W. Robert Bush Dr., South Bend, WA. 98586. Tel: (360) 487 – 0416; www.101PublicHouse.com
April 24-26, The 40th Annual Japanese Cherry Blossom & Cultural Festival;”Koto Jazz- Season Suite“, music by Chris Kenji Beer;
Saturday, April 25 – 5-5:30 pm at Armory stage, Seattle CenterHouse, Seattle Center, and
Sunday, April 26 – 12:45-1:00 pm and 3:30-3:45 pm at Fisher stage, Fisher Pavilion, Seattle Center
March 6th, 6-8pm, Friday, “Asian New Year” celebration open house, piano by Chris Kenji Beer at Dragonfly Holistic Healing, 760 N. 34th Street, Seattle, WA 98103; Fremont neighborhood. Website: DragonflyHolisticHealing.com
February 20th, Friday, 7:45-10:00pm, “Koto Jazz- Season Suite” album release by Chris Kenji Beer Beer at Stage Seven Piano Studio, in Kirkland, Washington; no cover charge.Address: Stage Seven is located at 511 6th Street South, Kirkland, WA 98033; Call or text: 206-200-2733;
February 13th, Friday, “Koto Jazz- Season Suite” Valentines Day Party by Chris Kenji Beer at Primary Elements Art Gallery, Cannon Beach, Oregon; wine and food served; no cover.
November 30th (Sunday),“An Evening of Thanksgiving”, by Kenji at the The Royal Room, Seattle’s Columbia City neighborhood, 6-8pm; no cover charge. The first hour is “An Evening of Thanksgiving, featuring at least five popular songs about thanksgiving (e.g., Peter Kater and George Winston). This is followed by “Koto Jazz- Season Suite” by Chris Kenji Beer. This piano series is preceded by wine tasting at 6pm. For directions and map, visit map to Royal Room, Seattle. Address: 5000 Rainier Avenue, Seattle, WA 98118; Call or text: 206-200-2733;
November 22nd & 23rd (Saturday & Sunday), “Koto Jazz Season Suite” and Thanksgiving songs, music by Chris Kenji Beer at Primary Elements, Saturday 6-8pm and Sunday 5-7pm, in Cannon Beach, Oregon; no cover charge and includes wine and refreshments. Address: Primary Elements Gallery is located at 232 N. Spruce Street, Cannon Beach, OR 97110; Call or text: 206-200-2733 or Stephanie at #503-436-0220;
November 7th (Friday), “Season Suite”, by Kenji; Stormy Weather Arts Festival at Primary Elements, 6-8pm, in Cannon Beach, Oregon; no cover charge (includes wine and refreshments). Address: Primary Elements Gallery is located at 172 N. Hemlock, Cannon Beach, OR 97110; Call or text: 206-200-2733;
NOVEMBER 8th (Saturday), “Koto Jazz Season Suite” album and New Age music, music by Chris Kenji Beer at the Brass Tacks, 7-9pm, in the Georgetown neighborhood of Seattle; no cover charge. For directions and map, visit Brass Tacks Georgetown map. Address: 6031 Airport Way, South, Seattle, WA 98108; Call or text: 206-200-2733;
SEPTEMBER 8th,“Koto Jazz by Kenji” at the Royal Room, Seattle’s Columbia City neighborhood, 8:00 – 9:00pm; no cover charge. Koto Jazz by Chris Kenji Beer is preceded by wine tasting at 6pm and followed by the Rob Weinstein Trio at 9pm. For directions and map, visit map to Royal Room, Seattle. Address: 5000 Rainier Avenue, Seattle, WA 98118; Call or text: 206-200-2733;
JULY 5th, “Koto Jazz by Kenji” at the Brass Tacks, 9:00pm – midnight, in the Georgetown neighborhood of Seattle; no cover charge. For directions and map, visit Brass Tacks Georgetown map. Address: 6031 Airport Way, South, Seattle, WA 98108; Call or text: 206-200-2733;
JUNE 17th and JULY 1st at the QCafe, 6:30 – 9:30pm, in InterBay neighborhood of Seattle; no cover (one of many performers), by Victory Music.
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New First Pooch Is Arriving Soon
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During the dog days of last summer, perhaps the most important looming decision facing Barack Obama was choosing a dog for his girls. Way back, as he set out on this quest for the Presidency, he made the one campaign promise he absolutely could not break: that when it was all over, whatever the outcome, his daughters could get a dog. And if they ended up at Pennsylvannia Avenue the pup would certainly not be the first dog or pet in the White House so would have a long legacy of presidential pets to follow and live up to.
Things have changed since the days when George Washington could name his hounds Drunkard, Tipler and Tipsy. Warren Harding’s Airedale Laddie Boy had a valet and occupied a hand-carved chair at Cabinet meetings. Ulysses S. Grant told his White House staff that if anything happened to his son’s beloved Newfoundland, they’d all be fired. Teddy Roosevelt had, along with a badger, a toad, some snakes and a pig, a bull terrier named Pete who once ripped the pants of a French ambassador. Cousin Franklin’s dog Fala had a press secretary, starred in a movie and was named an honorary private in the Army. George H.W. Bush’s springer spaniel Millie wrote a book, which sold more copies than the President’s autobiography. And then, of course, there was Checkers. Harry Truman supposedly once said, You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog. ( By Nancy Gibbs/TIME)
It’s hard enough to pick the right dog. But adding the fact that you may be the First Family and need a hypoallergenic breed increases the difficulty of the process. So the American Kennel Club (AKC), hoping to help ensure the 23rd purebred dog into the White House, conducted a survey. The public could even vote online for the type of dog they thought the Obamas should get for the AKC survey, and other groups sponsored similar surveys. Since first daughter Malia has allergies, the AKC limited the ballot choice to five hypoallergenic breeds. It suggested the bichon frise with its history as a companion to French noblemen implying qualification of the breed for the White House. But perhaps it was not the exact image the Obamas were looking for. It recommended the miniature schnauzer as an excellent watchdog, for a little added security (although probably not needed), and the soft-coated wheaten terrior with its sweet-temperament as a positive goodwill ambassador, though it “must be handled firmly and with consistency,” which also may not have been the ideal characteristic choice for the candidate of Change.
The AKC’s preference for purebreds, however, missed the obvious stellar opportunity for the Obamapup. Surely a self-proclaimed postpartisan reformer, who promised to ‘reach across the aisle’, would lean toward some stunningly blended mutt, a rescued shelter dog or at least one of the American Canine Hybrid Club’s 500 plus registered hybrids. Afterall, the hybrid pooch or designer dog was bred to give you the best of both breeds: a Labradoodle, a Peke-a-Poo, a Bagle (half basset, half beagle) or a Chiweenie (half chihuahua, half dachshund). A bully pulpit seeking candidate might like the Bullypit (a bulldog-pit-bull mix), or he could go for a Sharmatian–part Chinese Shar-Pei, part Dalmatian–and get the whole East-and-West, black-and-white thing going in one single pooch.
There was even a suggestion during the campaign, that their decision for a type of dog, if not actually getting one before the election, should be moved up, given the competition from the ‘McCainines’. An AP–Yahoo News poll last June (2008) found that pet owners favored John McCain over Obama, 42% to 37%, with an even bigger margin among dog owners. One participant explained that it “tells you that they’re responsible at least for something, for the care of something.” Or, in the McCains’ case, “many somethings”: their menagerie includes a slew of fish, some parakeets, turtles Cuff and Link, Oreo the cat and four dogs, including terriers Lucy and Desi. Obama could take comfort in his 14-point lead among non–pet owners, except that they form a definate minority of U.S. households.
The Obamas were pre-warned, that although a good one, they were definitely looking at another major life change by getting a dog for the first time. “A dog was never an option in the apartment where I grew up”, said Obama, “and my daughters knew that training the dog they so desperately wanted was nothing compared with training me to accept one”.
Well it is now two and a half months into the presidency and still no first dog, and it seems like the whole world, at least the pet loving world, is waiting for their choice and the arrival of the first pooch. The word from First Lady Michelle is April, after their Spring Break family vacation, and possibly a Portuguese Water Dog… and not a puppy (which could mean that in the end the AKC got their next purebred into the White House afterall). Senator Ted Kennedy, whose neice Caroline got a pony while in the White House, highly recommended the breed. He has two. Their coat is a single layer and does not shed. In most cases, these dogs are hypo- allergenic, making them a good choice for those that have allergies.
So, there will be a new pooch frolicking on the South Lawn by the end of this month.
The next obvious question for speculation, of course, is the perfect name for the next first dog. Some suggest the Obamas should just get two, one for each of the girls, and call them Hope and Change. Of course there are others that suggest getting two dogs but calling them Smoke and Mirror or Fear and “Quo”, for Status Quo, would be the best call, but that would be a subject for another type of blog or article.
President Bush and His Pets
Arrival of New First Pooch Imminent
Bush and Barney, Just Like Old Times
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Home > Blog > Hanging on the telephone?
Hanging on the telephone?
Self-assessment deadline date puts extra pressure on HMRC phone lines, and makes already lengthy waiting times longer still. So if that tricky payroll problem requires a call to someone at HMRC today, how long should you expect to wait?
Wait a Moment, the site dedicated to logging call waiting times, currently lists 21 minutes as the shortest wait, and over an hour as the longest posted by its contributors.
Rather more scientifically, Which? published a report in December 2015 entitled ‘Is this the UK’s slowest helpline?’ (a title which rather pre-empts the findings) after making 100 calls to HMRC. 1 in 4 calls took more than an hour to be answered. The average wait was 38 minutes (a whopping 20 minutes worse than the 2014 survey), although there were improvements in the number of callers cut off: 7% this year compared to 29% last.
And in an online survey of over 8.500 Which?’s readers, 52% of respondents had waited between 30 minutes and one hour to have their call answered, with a further 24% taking longer than one hour.
Last year, the Citizens Advice Bureau compiled its own report that suggested waiting for the HMRC to answer your call would cost you an average of £4.66 in phone charges.
A few months back we reported on outgoing HMRC chief exec Lin Homer’s assertion that the service wasn’t getting worse. She was responding to the CAB report which suggested waiting times were an average of 47 minutes. The 38-minute average is a clear improvement on that figure, although we’d argue the Which? survey is the more scientific (HMRC also dispute the CAB report) and paints a worsening picture.
There have been changes. An additional £45 million investment and 3,000 new staff were announced in September. And new call answering software that prioritises the most deadline-urgent calls should by now have started to make a difference. Frustratingly, the practical effect of this is that although you should wait less for a response to your self-assessment query on 31 January, or your tax credit query on 31 July, everyone else – including payroll providers – will likely be sat in an even longer queue.
We’re not alone in hoping that one of the first moves of the as yet unnamed incoming chief executive will be to improve call wait times, and the quality of the help available.
Payroll World quotes Helen Hargreaves, policy and research manager at the CIPP, who says:
“While HMRC has previously announced that it will increase the number of staff in its call centres, we have yet to reap the benefit from this. And, though HMRC would instead prefer its customers to obtain the information they need from Gov.uk, it is crucial that the quality and depth of guidance available is increased – reversing the current practice of removing the detailed and technical guidance previously available.
“Tackling these issues is crucial for those working in payroll, and whoever takes the post has lots to do.”
In the meantime, if you’ve a payroll query that needs answering, get in touch here. We promise we won’t keep you waiting…
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Light rail, technology keys to protecting pedestrians
Monday, Nov. 27, 2017 | 2 a.m.
The heartbreaking numbers keep going up.
This year, it’s all but certain there will be a record number of pedestrian deaths in Clark County.
The Las Vegas Valley came into this month with 59 deaths, according to the Nevada Office of Traffic Safety. The record for a full calendar year is 62, set in 1999.
There are multiple causes to the problem, of course. Some intersections are poorly designed, poorly lit, poorly marked or all three. Speed is a factor, as 45 mph speed limits are common on surface streets in Las Vegas, and being struck by a car going that fast is almost always fatal for pedestrians.
Jaywalking and distracted or drunken driving also are factors, as some people make bad choices that contribute to tragedies.
Heading into 2018, here are a few initiatives that local officials should get behind to help address the problem:
• Light rail: The valley’s roads are crowded, which leads to a simple mathematical formula: More cars plus a steady or increasing number of pedestrians equals more chances for accidents.
It’s one of many reasons that in 2018, officials should make development of a light rail system a top priority.
Light rail wouldn’t end pedestrian fatalities — no single solution would — but it would help get some cars off of some roadways, easing congestion in some high-traffic areas.
There are many other reasons to kick it into high gear on light rail — including that it would help tourism and convention business by making the visitor experience more convenient — but improving safety would be among the multitude of benefits.
• Smart crosswalks: At a crosswalk downtown, the city of Las Vegas recently began testing lidar (short for light detection and ranging) technology that will provide a huge range of data that traffic engineers can use to help protect pedestrians. Joanna Wadsworth, program manager, said the remote sensing system can detect when cars are driving the wrong way into the crosswalk, when traffic is especially heavy, when cars are speeding and more.
The data could be helpful in numerous ways. For instance, it might prompt engineers to put up more signage to guard against drivers going the wrong way, or the city might use it to request law-enforcement presence during times when traffic volume is especially high.
• Interconnected infrastructure and vehicles: Imagine if your car could communicate digitally with computer systems that monitored parking spaces and could direct you to open spots, saving you from having to drive around looking for a place to pull in.
The technology exists, and it’s expanding all the time to include interconnected traffic lights (so your car can map out a route), interconnected cars (which communicate to each other to help motorists find the fastest routes and map out detours around accidents), and interconnected utility poles (which can monitor for backups in traffic and, using sensors, facilitate instant reporting of accidents). It all can help reduce road miles by cars, thereby cutting down on the chances of cars hitting pedestrians. Local transportation officials are exploring such technology with an eye toward integrating it into designs for road projects and enhancements.
Current measures to reduce pedestrian fatalities are fine — like several new, brightly lit crosswalks that have popped up — but the number of deaths this year is a clear sign that much more needs to be done.
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Billings, MT Consumer Law Attorney with 16 years experience
(406) 839-9091 3970 Avenue D
Consumer, Bankruptcy, Legal Malpractice and Medical Malpractice
John is a graduate of the University of Montana (honors) and University of Montana School of Law (high honors). After graduating from college, John worked as a truck driver, a fork lift operator and a teamster intern, helping him learn the value of hard work and an honest paycheck. John began his legal practice by serving as a law clerk for United States District Court Judge Richard F. Cebull. Thereafter, he worked in private practice at the Edwards Law Firm, handling both civil and criminal cases, including the case of Ammondson et al v. NorthWestern Corporation et al, which resulted in...
Paul Gallardo
Great Falls, MT Consumer Law Lawyer with 7 years experience
(406) 727-8494 1026 1st Ave. S.
Consumer, Insurance Claims, Landlord Tenant and Products Liability
Paul was stationed at Malmstrom AFB, Great Falls, in 1999 and has made Montana his home. After obtaining a B.S. in Criminal Justice from Park University and serving 2 enlistments in the U.S. Air Force, Paul attended the University of Montana School of Law, where he earned his Juris Doctorate in 2011. He then worked as a Law Clerk for the Honorable Sam E. Haddon, U.S. District Court, District of Montana, from 2011-2012. In addition to working at the firm, Paul serves in the Montana Air National Guard. Paul is admitted to practice in Montana state and federal court. In...
Juliane Lore
Billings, MT Consumer Law Attorney
(406) 206-0144 2921 2nd Ave. North
Consumer, Bankruptcy, Business and Elder
University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law
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Deer Lodge County
Granite County
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Pamela Holmes
Wells, ME Attorney with 19 years experience
(866) 646-1068 PO Box 1647
Wells, ME 04090
Appeals and Family
University of Maine School of Law
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Smilie Gregg Rogers Esq
York, ME Attorney with 17 years experience
(207) 361-4680 279 York Street
York, ME 03909
Elder, Estate Planning, Probate and Tax
University of Washington School of Law and University of Oregon School of Law
It's not about us, it's about you. With that focus in mind, the mission of my firm, Brennan & Rogers, PLLC, founded by my wife and me, is "We Care". That mission focus drives our entire way of thinking about elder law, estate planning, probate, and taxes and how we practice from top to bottom.
Michael Stephen Bowser Jr.
Kennebunk, ME Attorney with 25 years experience
(888) 526-9737 37 Western Ave., Unit #307
Kennebunk, ME 04043
Free ConsultationCriminal Defense, DUI & DWI and Personal Injury
University of New Hampshire School of Law
Attorney Bowser has successfully defended hundreds of cases for clients charged with drunk driving, commonly referred to as Operating Under the Influence (OUI) in Massachusetts and Driving While Intoxicated (DWI) in New Hampshire. He is Board Certified as a DUI Defense Specialist by the National College for DUI Defense. This certification is accredited by the American Bar Association but not regulated by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He has developed a well earned reputation for being on of the top drunk driving defenders in the area.
Attorney Bowser also handles a variety of personal injury claims for clients sustaining injury due...
Peter Clifford Esq
(207) 985-3200 62 Portland Rd, Suite 37
Pete has achieved Martindale Hubbell's highest independent Peer Review Rating, "AV- Preeminent," for both legal ability and ethical standards. He has been selected by his peers to inclusion in the publication "New England Super Lawyers," as one of the top 5% of attorneys in Maine. He has also been selected by his peers for inclusion in "Best Lawyers in America." Pete has managed a statewide personal injury practice since 1991. In March, 2011, he completed his term as President of the Maine Trial Lawyers Association, which has more than 600 trial attorney members statewide. Pete handles wrongful death cases, personal injury...
Albert Hansen
Kennebunk, ME Lawyer with 21 years experience
(207) 467-3767 62 Portland Rd., Ste. 44
Free ConsultationCriminal Defense, DUI & DWI, Divorce and Family
Widener University Delaware School of Law
Attorney Hansen's practice areas include DWI and criminal defense, divorce and family law, as well as civil litigation, including court-approved factoring transactions. He graduated from Bates College in 1991 and Delaware Law School in 1996. He is licensed in NH, ME, and MA. As a former prosecutor and criminal contract attorney for NH and ME, Al has extensive courtroom experience with numerous jury and non-jury trials under his belt. He is a member of the NH, ME, and National Associations of Criminal Defense Lawyers, National College for DUI Defense, as well as the NH Bar Association's...
Jeanette M Durham
Kennebunk, ME Attorney with 5 years experience
(207) 200-5822 11 Main Street, Suite 5
Divorce, Domestic Violence and Family
University of Maine - School of Law
Jeanette is focused on helping clients in divorce, child custody and support matters, guardianship matters, and in protection actions. Jeanette has also argued before the Maine Supreme Judicial Court and worked on several appellate cases involving family matters.
Amy Fairfield
Lyman, ME Attorney with 15 years experience
(207) 985-9465 10 Stoney Brook Lane
Lyman, ME 04002
Free ConsultationCriminal Defense, DUI & DWI, Domestic Violence and Family
Amy Fairfield is an accomplished and experienced trial attorney. Amy's commitment and determination to protecting the rights of her clients is legendary. Amy's criminal practice has included numerous high profile cases and she has represented thousands of individuals charged with serious felonies and misdemeanors. Amy's family practice focuses on divorce and parental rights and responsibilities. Amy is also a rostered Guardian ad Litem.
Lee Anne Graybeal Esq
(207) 985-4644 5 Webhannet Pl
Bankruptcy and Foreclosure Defense
I have represented individuals and small businesses in bankruptcy proceedings under Chapters 7, 11, and 13 since 1982. I also handle foreclosure defense cases, in which the concept of bankruptcy as a final option is very useful. It's my goal to provide compassionate, effective representation through a difficult time in my clients' lives. If you are struggling with debts of any kind, don't suffer any longer in insecurity. It helps to learn about your options. I give a free, half-hour initial consultation.
Bradley C Morin
Sanford, ME Lawyer
(207) 324-4422 PO Box 1068,
949 Main St.,
Business, Divorce, Personal Injury and Real Estate
William J. Smyth Esq
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William T. Bly Esq
Biddeford, ME Attorney with 14 years experience
(207) 571-8146 50 Adams St
Free ConsultationCriminal Defense, DUI & DWI, Domestic Violence and Juvenile
Prior to going back to college at the age of 27, I was a member of the US Army and served in Korea, Saudi Arabia and Ft. Banning, GA as a Cavalry Scout (19D). During my time in service I made my way up through the enlisted ranks and eventually applied to OCA where I was accepted and began officer training. Unfortunately, due a serious injury sustained prior to the final phase of the course, I was unable to complete my training and eventually left the US Army, receiving an Honorable Discharge for my service to this country.
Since...
Edmund Folsom Esq
(207) 710-2070 25 Pool Street
Free ConsultationCriminal Defense, DUI & DWI and Domestic Violence
University of Maine School of Law and Stetson University
Criminal defense attorney with 34 years of law practice experience. Criminal defense, OUI/DUI defense, juvenile defense in greater Portland, Maine, including Portland, S.Portland, Gorham, Westbrook, Scarborough, Biddeford, Saco, Old Orchard Beach and Cumberland and York Counties generally.
Christopher Causey Esq
Sanford, ME Attorney with 19 years experience
(207) 324-4422 949 Main Street
Arbitration & Mediation, Divorce, Family and Personal Injury
Harvard Law School and Lewis & Clark Law School
Result-oriented attorney for your personal injury, wrongful death, car accident or complex divorce. Emphasis on client satisfaction and efficient, professional service in and out of the court room. 17 years experience in Maine and Alaska law practices. Real-life experience--six years as a commercial fisherman in Kodiak, Alaska before law school. Former Federal Law Clerk for the United States District Court, District of Alaska.
I am passionate about law practice and helping people in difficult situations, whether that means a hard-fought court-room battle or a smart negotiated settlement at a conference table. I welcome your...
Robert Guillory Esq
Saco, ME Attorney with 38 years experience
Saco, ME 04072
Free ConsultationDivorce, Foreclosure Defense, Landlord Tenant and Personal Injury
Over 35 years experience. General practice focusing on Divorce/Family Law, Mortgage Foreclosure Defense, Personal Injury, Landlord/Tenant and general civil and criminal litigation. Attorney Guillory is a lifelong resident of the Biddeford/Saco area. He also has many contacts and satisfied clients in the Lewiston/Auburn area. When not practicing law you can often find Bob on the golf course.
Russell Goldsmith Esq
York, ME Lawyer with 28 years experience
(800) 773-8622 647 U.S. Route One
Free ConsultationAdministrative, DUI & DWI, Personal Injury and Social Security Disability
Attorney Goldsmith pursued a liberal arts education at Haverford College where he graduated with a degree in Philosophy in 1987, following those studies with the immediate pursuit of a law degree. While at the University of Maine School of Law, Attorney Goldsmith was the only student in his class selected as a member of both the law school’s Law Review and Moot Court Competition Board, and did publish during his senior year an article entitled Contracting out of Maine’s Employment-At-Will Doctrine, 42 Maine Law Review 553 (July 1990). While in law school, he likewise interned at well-respected law...
Kathryn Bedell Esq
Elder, Estate Planning and Probate
University of Texas - Austin
Admitted to Bar: 1991 Maine, Massachusetts
Education: Wellesley College (B.A. 1986); University of Texas (J.D. 1989)
Member: York County Bar Association; Maine Bar Association (Elder Law Section, Trusts and Estate Planning Section), Greater York Chamber of Commerce, National Aging in Place Council
Practice Areas: Probate Administration, Wills, Trusts and Estate Planning, Guardianship, Elder Law, Asset Preservation/Medicaid Planning
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Neal L Weinstein Esq
Old Orchard Beach, ME Attorney with 38 years experience
(207) 934-2173 32 Saco Ave
Old Orchard Beach, ME 04064
Criminal Defense, DUI & DWI, Domestic Violence and Personal Injury
Neal Weinstein is an attorney with over 38 years of legal practice, concentrating on defending persons charged with criminal violations, representing injured people, and representing small businesses, among other general practice areas.
Neal started practicing law as an intern at the Middlsex County District Attorney's Office, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the Appellate Division, arguing serious felony criminal cases in the Massachusetts Supreme Court and Massachusetts Appellate Court. Following his admission to the Maine Bar, Neal initially practiced as an intern with the York County Maine District Attorney's Office before opening his own practice in Old Orchard Beach. ...
Meredith G. Schmid
(207) 337-6040 PO Box 335
Free ConsultationCriminal Defense, DUI & DWI, Divorce and Elder
Meredith G. Schmid, an attorney formerly employed by the United States Department of Justice, aggressively represents clients in York County, Maine, who have found themselves caught up in the legal system. Attorney Meredith Schmid defends clients charged with OUI/DWI and drug-related offenses, as well as other felony and misdemeanor crimes. Meredith also tirelessly represents clients in family matter disputes including child custody, child protection, and guardianship. Prior to moving to Maine, Meredith specialized in National Security Law and Counterterrorism in Washington, D.C. As an attorney with the Department of Justice’s National Security Division, Meredith collaborated with...
Thomas P. Elias
York, ME Attorney
(207) 363-0222 28 Long Sands Road, Suite 5
Top 2% of Criminal Defense Attorneys, American Society of Legal Advocates. Distinguished Peer Review Rating, Martindale-Hubbell. Client Reviews at EliasLawOffices.com. Serving Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts. Maine State Bar Association. Maine Trial Lawyers Association. York County Bar Assoc. Board of Directors. New Hampshire Bar Association. Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys.
Gordon Gates Esq
Suite 1300-G
Tulane University School of Law
I am a Social Security disability lawyer. I represent clients with Social Security disability and SSI claims in Maine and New Hampshire. I help clients with: *Social Security disability benefits *SSI benefits *Initial Claims *Reconsideration *Hearings *Appeals My practice concentrates on Social Security disability and SSI claims at all administrative levels. I have conducted hundreds of Social Security disability hearings, and I am familiar with the administrative law judges who decide the claims in Maine and New Hampshire.
Michael Patrick Earner
York, ME Attorney with 2 years experience
(877) 862-4635 10 Woodbridge Road
Suffolk University Law School and Suffolk University Law School
Virginia Lee Holt Esq
(207) 282-1280 29 Common Street, Suite 101
Free ConsultationBusiness, Divorce, Estate Planning and Family
Practicing in Cumberland and York Counties since 1994.
Alexander Zissimos Typaldos
Kittery, ME Attorney with 13 years experience
(207) 703-0813 72 Route 236
Kittery, ME 03904
James Molleur Esq
(207) 283-3777 419 Alfred St
Univeristy of Maine Law School
Kevin Getchell Moynihan
Free ConsultationCriminal Defense
Kevin began working at Fairfield & Associates in July of 2012. Prior to joining the firm, Kevin worked for another prominent criminal defense firm in Portland, Maine for three years. Prior to his work as a criminal defense attorney, Kevin completed a one-year judicial clerkship with Justices Carl O. Bradford, G. Arthur Brennan, Roland A. Cole, and Paul A. Fritzsche, all of the Maine Superior Court. Kevin graduated from Stonehill College in 2004 with a major in Political Science and a minor in Philosophy. After graduating from Stonehill, Kevin worked in the Maine State Legislature for the Joint Standing Committee...
Gregory Joel Orso Esq
York , ME Lawyer with 21 years experience
(207) 363-0025 18B York Street
York , ME 03909
Free ConsultationDivorce, Family and Real Estate
Maine Law School
Kenneth Marass Esq
Springvale, ME Attorney
Springvale, ME 04083
Criminal Defense, DUI & DWI, Divorce and Family
Catherine Miller Esq
Portland, ME Attorney with 21 years experience
(207) 899-3544 75 Pearl Street
Arbitration & Mediation, Business, Divorce and Family
Miller Law & Mediation, LLC is a boutique law firm located in Portland, Maine. Our focus is on the legal needs of individuals, their families, and their businesses. With over fifty years of combined experience, our lawyers offer a customized and practical approach to protect the interests of our clients on legal matters that affect their families and businesses during times of change. Whether you are going through a divorce, need to plan for your future, or need help with your business or real estate plans, we tailor our legal services to offer strategic, creative, yet affordable, solutions. ...
Mark Dunlap
Portland, ME Lawyer with 44 years experience
(800) 804-2004 92 Exchange St
Free ConsultationMedical Malpractice, Nursing Home, Personal Injury and Social Security Disability
Mark Dunlap has specialized in personal injury law for over 30 years. Mark has an “AV Preeminent” rating by Martindale-Hubbell, a well-respected peer review organization that rates lawyers based on input from judges and other esteemed members of the legal community. An AV Preeminent rating is awarded to the most outstanding lawyers in a particular field of law and is the organization's highest possible rating. Mark has also been listed in the U.S. News “Best Lawyers in America” directory since 2008 in the area of personal injury law. Having been lead counsel in over 125 jury trials in his career,...
David Lourie Esq
Cape Elizabeth, ME Lawyer with 44 years experience
(207) 799-4922 189 Spurwink Avenue
Cape Elizabeth, ME 04107
Free ConsultationLandlord Tenant, Municipal, Personal Injury and Real Estate
I have been Corporation Counsel for the City of Portland and other municipalities as well as private clients in land use and related real property, and civil liberties disputes.
Richard Smith Berne
(207) 871-7770 482 Congress Street Suite 402
Free ConsultationCriminal Defense, DUI & DWI, Domestic Violence and White Collar Crime
PORTLAND MAINE CRIMINAL LAWYER & ATTORNEY
Mr. Berne has been practicing criminal law for over forty-two years. He received a B.S. degree from Harvard College, cum laude, in 1970 and his law degree from Boston University School of Law in 1974.
Prior to establishing his office in Portland, Maine, Mr. Berne served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Eastern District of New York and the Northern District of California, where he prosecuted cases involving narcotics, bank fraud, and various white collar crimes. Upon leaving the Government in 1981, he entered private practice with a nationally prominent white collar defense firm...
Portland, ME Lawyer with 7 years experience
(207) 210-6559 2 Union Street
Free ConsultationAppeals, Divorce, Estate Planning and Family
I graduated with honors from The University of Maine School of Law. My practice focuses primarily on three areas: Family Law, Estate Planning, and Appeals. I set up Port City Legal with the idea that a small law firm effectively serving the regular legal needs of regular people with intelligence ~and~ compassion could do very nicely here in Portland, ME. Six years later, the idea has proved true. Along the way, I have enjoyed many successes both in and out of the courtroom. My client reviews have been excellent. I've won five of...
Fred Bopp III
Yarmouth, ME Attorney with 29 years experience
Yarmouth, ME 04096
Bankruptcy, Business, Landlord Tenant and Real Estate
Vanderbilt University Law School
My legal practice has focused on significant complex commercial civil litigation and negotiations (for plaintiffs and defendants), the pursuit and enforcement of creditors' and debtors' rights and remedies, bankruptcies, reorganizations, insolvencies, liquidations, restructurings, receiverships, workouts, collections, contract review and negotiations, sale transactions, appeals, mediations, arbitrations, and related matters in and out of state and federal court. I am a longstanding trusted legal advisor to banks, other financial institutions, lenders, businesses, asset acquirers and sellers, landlords, tenants, health care administrators, executives, and other individuals and entities. I am admitted in the state and federal courts in Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts,...
Sarah McDaniel Esq
WESTBROOK, ME Attorney with 15 years experience
(207) 591-5747 90 Bridge Street, Suite 100
WESTBROOK, ME 04092
Free ConsultationAppeals, Environmental, Municipal and Real Estate
After receiving her B.A. from College of the Atlantic and her M.E.S. from Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, Sarah McDaniel worked in the land conservation and planning department at The Trustees of Reservations, a state-wide land trust in Massachusetts, for three years before graduating Harvard Law School in 2003. Sarah founded Maine Land Law in 2009 after developing a law practice focusing on all aspects of real property law, with a particular emphasis on conservation transactions, civil litigation, and land use permitting. In 2013, Sarah joined with colleagues to co-found Douglas McDaniel & Campo LLC, PA...
Adrienne Hansen
Free ConsultationEmployment and Workers' Comp
University of Colorado Law School
Mary-Anne E. Martell
1399 Bridgton Road
Free ConsultationBankruptcy, Business, Estate Planning and Landlord Tenant
Seacoast Law Founder and Senior Counsel, Mary-Anne Martell is a native Mainer whose varied life and professional experience brings an unparalleled level of understanding and service to her clients. During the 1970s, she worked as a welder, building turbine steam nuclear re-heaters for General Electric in South Portland and was very active in the union. Later, she spent eight years at Burnham & Morrill in Portland. Among other tasks, Mary-Anne spent her first year there "putting the pork" in the cans of beans. It was during her tenure at the bean factory that she found herself the sole...
Matthew Govan Esq
Portland, ME Lawyer
(207) 774-2414 97 India Street, 2nd Floor
Divorce and Family
Attorney Matthew Govan is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, University of Maine School of Law, and University of Southern Maine at Portland. He most recently obtained his masterâs degree in Social Work at the University of Southern Maine at Portland in May 2012. Attorney Govan enrolled in every course that the University of Maine School of Law offered at the time in the areas of family law and childrenâs advocacy. He and a fellow student created the curriculum for and led a class titled The Child, Family and State. After becoming a member of the Maine Bar...
Michael Turndorf Esq
(207) 729-4500 415 Congress Street
Free ConsultationCriminal Defense, Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury and Products Liability
Franklin Pierce Law Center
Highly experienced and highly rated trial attorney. Many jury trials and hearings under his belt. Practice areas include: personal injury, medical malpractice, products liability, criminal defense, family law and litigation.
Dylan R. Boyd
(207) 536-7147 6 City Center
Free ConsultationCriminal Defense, DUI & DWI, Divorce and Estate Planning
Over the course of his career as a Maine attorney, Dylan Boyd has successfully represented clients at all stages of litigation. Inside the courtroom, he has zealously advocated for clients at both jury trials and hearings before judges in both criminal and civil cases. He has also guided clients to successful results outside the courtroom by negotiating advantageous deals and drafting effective legal documents. Dylan Boyd was born and raised in Boothbay Harbor, Maine. He attended the University of Vermont and earned a bachelor’s degree in English in 2006. He returned to Maine to attend the University...
Robert Montgomery Esq
Divorce, Domestic Violence, Family and Juvenile
New York Law School
I provide legal advice and representation for all family matters, including divorce, spousal support, child support, domestic violence, paternity and adoption. I graduated from Middlebury College in 1977 and New York Law School (cum laude) in 1983. Family Law has been my specialty for the last 30 years.
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Defining Hope: Screening and Discussion
End of Life Choices New York and Queens Library System
Flushing Library
Defining Hope, an hour-long documentary from director Carolyn Jones, tells the story of patients dealing with life-threatening illness as they move between ICUs, operating rooms, hospice care and home. This film asks essential questions about dying in America and starts a conversation that will, and must, continue after the credits roll.
How do we want to die? It's a relevant question for every human being, yet it's one we avoid discussing, even when faced with a diagnosis of serious illness. Flushing Library and End of Life Choices New York will host a screening and discussion of the documentary, Defining Hope. Defining Hope is a story about people weighing what matters most at the most fragile junctures in life, and the nurses who guide them. It's a documentary that follows individuals with life-threatening illnesses as they make choices about how they want to live, how much medical technology they can accept, what they hope for, and how that hope evolves when life is threatened. It is optimistic and reminds us that we have choices in how we die. The screening will be followed by Q&A featuring a panel including EOLCNY Executive Director Laurie Leonard, Barbara Glickstein, the producer of the film, and experts in hospice and palliative care.
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UK Basketball Notes Following Win Over VMI
Posted: 10:02 PM, Nov 18, 2018
Kentucky’s Reid Travis (22) shoots while defended by VMI’s Tyler Creammer (25) during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game in Lexington, Ky., Sunday, Nov. 18, 2018. Kentucky won 92-82. (AP Photo/James Crisp)
The UK Basketball team was able to raise it’s record to 3-1 with three players scoring in double figures for the Wildcats and P.J. Washington pulling down an astounding 18 rebounds.
Here are some other important team and individual notes following UK’s 92-82 win over VMI on Sunday.
Final Score: No. 10/2 Kentucky 92, VMI 82
Team Records and Series Notes
· Kentucky improves to 3-1 on the season, while VMI falls to 3-2.
· The Wildcats lead the series with the Keydets by a 6-3 margin with tonight’s win.
· Next for Kentucky: the Wildcats will host Winthrop on Wednesday for the third of the four-game Ohio Valley Hardwood Showcase. That game is slated for a 1 p.m. tip on the SEC Network.
In the First Half
· Kentucky started Immanuel Quickley, Tyler Herro, Keldon Johnson, PJ Washington and EJ Montgomery for the first time this season.
o It marked the first start of Montgomery’s career.
· Johnson scored UK’s first points of the game on a 3-pointer from the corner after the Cats displayed great ball movement. It’s the third time he’s scored the opening points for UK and the first off a 3-pointer.
· At the first media timeout, UK led 8-6 in large part to an 8-3 edge on the boards.
· VMI got hot from long range scoring five consecutive buckets off 3-pointers to take an 18-16 lead with 12:25 to go.
· Back-to-back possessions where the Cats got free throws from Quickley and Quade Green gave the lead back to the Cats at 20-18 with 10:34 to go.
· Reid Travis knocked down free throws on consecutive offensive possessions to lift UK to a 28-24 lead with 6:46 to play.
· A momentum-changing sequence began with steal from Green which resulted in a fast-break layup from Washington. On the ensuing possession by VMI, Ashton Hagans was disruptive and forced a turnover in the backcourt. Travis got an offensive rebound and put it in to push UK’s edge to 38-29, marking its largest of the half, with 3:36 remaining.
· Herro assisted a run-out dunk for Montgomery to lift Kentucky to a 48-34 lead with 12.4 seconds remaining equaling the team’s biggest lead of the half for the intermission score.
· Washington nearly had a double-double in the opening half alone with 10 points and nine rebounds.
· Travis led the team with 12 first-half points to couple with four boards.
· As a team, UK corralled 14 offensive boards which was more than VMI accounted in all (11). Travis and Washington had nine of the 14.
· Montgomery and Hagans led the way defensively. Montgomery had three first-half swats and Hagans had a pair steals. Both of those totals were career-best marks in the first stanza alone.
· Kentucky was 15 of 18 (83.3) from the free-throw line in the half.
· UK assisted on nine of its 15 made baskets in the stanza for a 60-perent rate.
· Every player who checked in for the Cats scored at least two points.
In the Second Half
· Kentucky started Hagans, Johnson, Quickley, Montgomery and Washington to begin the second half.
· Johnson scored UK’s first four points of the half increasing UK’s lead to 15 less than two minutes into the frame.
· Listed as questionable to return with an eye injury at halftime, Travis, wearing protective eyewear, reentered the game just three minutes into the half and promptly scored a bucket.
· Green drained a 3-pointer and then swiped a pass on the ensuring VMI possession that resulted in a Herro fast break dunk to increase UK’s lead to 17 midway through the second half with 13:14 to play.
· VMI utilized a 12-2 run over 2:55 of game clock to pull to within nine at 67-58 with 9:15 to go. Washington generated a traditional three-point play off another offensive rebound to snap the spurt.
· The Keydets would not go away and trimmed the lead to seven with 4:38 to play.
· VMI’s Bubba Parham drained his 10th 3-pointer of the night to pull the visitors to within six with 1:37 to play.
· Green calmly sank a 3-pointer on the offensive end to get it back to a double-digit lead at 11 with under a minute to go.
· VMI hit 12 3-pointers in the second half at a 54.5 percent rate.
· The Keydets outscored the Cats 48-44 in the second half.
· Kentucky was 14 of 17 from the line (82.4 percent) to help put the game away.
Team Notes
· Kentucky won the game despite VMI hitting 19 3-pointers in the game for a 50 percent rate.
o It’s the most 3-pointers ever made in a game against Kentucky in its history.
o Parham knocked down 10 of the Keydet’s 19 3-pointers. That’s the second most for a single player against the Cats. Only Corey Allmond (11) from Sam Houston State on Nov. 19, 2009 has hit more in a game against Kentucky.
o Parham scored a game-high 35 points. It’s the most points the Cats have given up in a game and in Rupp Arena since Texas A&M’s Elston Turner scored 40 on Jan. 12, 2013.
· The win marked the 46th consecutive home win over an unranked AP poll nonconference opponent.
o UK is now 226-38 under John Calipari against unranked competition.
· UK is now 6-5 as an Associated Press No. 10-ranked team under Calipari.
· UK improved to 236-5 (.979) under Calipari when leading by at least 10 points at any point in the game.
· Kentucky continues to earn a lot of free throws and is averaging 32.5 attempts per game and making an average of 25.
o The Cats sunk 29 of 35 (82.9 percent) in tonight’s win. That’s tied for the ninth-most makes in a single game under Calipari.
o It’s the most makes in a game since hitting 29 against Illinois State on Nov. 30, 2015.
· Kentucky outrebounded VMI by a plus-21 margin. UK has outrebounded each of its last three opponents by 21 or more.
o Kentucky is plus-79 on the boards for the season for an average of 19.8 a game.
· Kentucky’s bench outscored the Keydets 50-9. Travis and Green combined for 39 off the bench.
· UK won points in the paint 42-14 and second-chance points 23-3.
· One game after scoring a career-high points, PJ Washington produced his fourth career double-double with 19 points and a career-high 18 rebounds.
· It’s the third-most rebounds in a single game under Calipari. Teammate Nick Richards had 19 against Southern Illinois earlier this season and Michael Kidd-Gilchrist had the same number against Louisville on Dec. 31, 2011.
· The double-double is the second of the season for a UK player. Keldon Johnson had the first against North Dakota on Wednesday.
· Seven of Washington’s rebounds came on the offensive end.
· Reid Travis came off the bench for the first time since Stanford played Miami in the NIT championship game on April 4, 2015 during his freshman season.
· It snapped a streak of 73 consecutive starts. He had started 73 consecutive games prior to tonight.
· He led the Wildcats in scoring for the first time this season with 22 points.
· That matches his season high that he also achieved against Duke.
· He hit a season-high 10 free throws.
· Quade Green posted 17 points and added a pair of assists and two steals.
· He’s charted two or more steals in back-to-back games after swiping a career-high three against North Dakota.
· The 17 points is a season high and the most since he scored 18 against Ole Miss on Feb. 28, 2018.
· Ashton Hagans had the most complete game of his young UK career. He logged five points, a game-high four assists, two blocks and two steals.
· The four assists matches a career high, which he also set against Duke.
· The two blocks and the two steals are both career bests.
· The five points is a career high.
· He also played a career-high 21 minutes.
· Calipari is now 278-65 at UK.
· Calipari has a 723-205 all-time on-court record.
· He is now 19 wins away from tying Joe B. Hall for the second-most victories by a UK head coach in program history.
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5 Unusual Uses for Plastic Bags
by Alia Hoyt
Not all plastic bags have such clearly defined uses.
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Even if you don't love to shop, you have to hit up a store every now and then for something. An inevitable side effect of shopping is the accumulation of plastic bags of all shapes and sizes. Pantries, closets and junk drawers everywhere are overflowing with them. Many of us don't like to toss them out; it seems like a terrible waste to simply send them off to a landfill.
Trillions of plastic bags made from sources such as natural gas or crude oil are produced each year. The United States alone creates and uses more than 100 billion of them per year, a measly 0.6 percent of which are recycled [source: World Watch Institute]. Plastic bags can take as long as 1,000 years to decompose and are a serious health risk to marine animals and other wildlife that ingest them accidentally [source: Reuters]. As a result, many big box retailers are taking measures to reduce their plastic bag consumption.
In the meantime, there are countless ways that this environmentally unfriendly -- but often very handy -- receptacle can be reused. Some of the easiest reuses for plastic bags are obvious. For example, they're excellent vessels for diaper disposal or taking a lunch to work (just make sure not to mix the two up). HowStuffWorks.com has put together a list of clever, less well-known ways to repurpose this common household item.
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Living Arts Live
Living Arts Live brings you the best news in upcoming Filmmaking, Animation, Photography, Interior Design, Audio Production, and Interactive Media trends.
Alumnus Brett Brown is now employed by Nike as a 3D Designer.
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Category: Filmmaking
FILM ALUMNI WORKS WITH THE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE FICTION
Film graduate and Valedictorian Justin Fick (pictured on left) had the honor to work with The Museum of Science Fiction. Justin with the help of his wife, Kristina Fick, who is an Interactive media graduate and Valedictorian, created videos that shows the behind the scenes of an exhibit being built. The exhibit will feature a spaceship from the famed science fiction book “Eon”, written by Greg Bear. The Museum of Science Fiction will open in 2018 in Washington D.C. http://www.museumofsciencefiction.org
By living arts livein Filmmaking, Interactive Media December 13, 2016 March 29, 2017 83 Words
SNEAK PEEK OF SOME BEHIND THE SCENES OF “THE HEALER”
Produced by students and faculty, “The Healer” is a fantasy drama directed by film instructor Michael Pearce. This full length feature movie was made on the latest in Film-making technology, the Sony F55, 4K camera.
By cageadminin Filmmaking July 29, 2016 March 29, 2017 48 Words
ARAVIND RAGUPATHI’S FILM PREMIERES AT LIVING ARTS COLLEGE
Living Arts College will be hosting an evening of film screening for celebrated Cinematographer, Lighting Designer and Producer, Aravind Ragupathi on February 25th, 2016. As an 18-year veteran with over two dozen festival wins, several feature films and independent productions to his credit, Aravind’s work has landed him in productions in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Kansas, Virginia, North Carolina and in his native India.
His extensive portfolio as a Cinematographer includes features, narratives, industrial and music videos for leading film production houses. He is an eight-time Telly Award winning Cinematographer / Producer. Hundreds of his photographs and write-ups have been published in leading magazines and newspapers in Asia and around the world.
Aravind’s interest in American history and culture motivated him to collaborate and produce compelling stories involving the American Civil War, African-American history, the Civil Rights Movement and neo-American stories. In 2015, he produced two unique projects which share a unique perspective centered on war and personal relationships.
This screening features “Sons of our Fathers”, a story of a family separated by the American Civil War. A family divided by North and South, with the consequences being devastating life-changing twists and turns. The second film, “Karma’s Shadow”, follows two young GI’s connected by war and circumstance during the Vietnam War. After the war, both men embark on different moral paths that will ultimately bind them together towards a violent outcome, where an action-packed showdown in New York City determines their ultimate fates.
Aravind collaborated with local talent and crew members who contributed to these projects. Director (Karma’s Shadow) Rob Underhill, along with Co-Producer (Sons of our Fathers) Anthony Dowling, celebrate this evening of art with friends and our community. Anyone interested in attending must RSVP to: Aravind@AravindDP.org as seating is limited to this engagement!
Facebook for Sons of our Fathers: http://www.facebook.com/SonsOfOurFathers
Facebook for Karma’s Shadow: http://www.Facebook.com/JustKarmaMovie
By cageadminin Filmmaking February 18, 2016 February 22, 2016 321 Words
COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER – ESTES TARVER
Living Arts College’s graduating class was treated to a guest speaker who has been an actor, director, writer, and producer. Estes Tarver holds an MFA in acting from UNC-Chapel Hill. He is currently recurring on Season 2 of Finding Carter on MTV as Sgt. Hall.
Mr. Tarver has also appeared on such shows as Under the Dome, One Tree Hill, and Dawson’s Creek. Estes coaches actors at the professional level. His acting students have booked major roles on shows and films such as Terminator Genesys, Hunger Games, and Army Wives.
Mr. Tarver’s advice to our graduates (paraphrased): “Do what makes you happy,” “Get out there and network,” and “Follow your dreams.” and he should know. People suggested to him that a move from New York to Raleigh might not be the right direction. Estes makes sure to tell whoever suggests as much that he is doing very well, thank you
By cageadminin Filmmaking February 9, 2016 February 22, 2016 152 Words
STUDENTS ATTEND MOVIE PREMIERE!
UNION BOUND
June 2013 Uptone Pictures produced a film based on a true story about a union soldier during the civil war who was captured and escaped from a Florence POW camp in 1864. The film was made here in North Carolina at the Stageville Plantation in Oxford. Twenty one days at approximately fourteen hours per day, cast and crew battled the heat, ticks, snakes, mosquitos, and more to film this epic event.
Mike Davis, CEO of Uptone Pictures and a longtime friend of Living Arts College has always been a huge supporter of our faculty and students. He contracted Professor Craig Brandwynne and his company Center Sound Records to provide all of the audio and music needed for the film. Craig hired about 12 students from the college for the project. Some were paid and some were interns depending on their availability and experience. This was a fantastic opportunity for the students to have this type of credit on their resume while attending college. There were some more students that did participate in a limited fashion but they did get some experience.
Our institution is very proud to be a part on this film as it is opening in over 250 theaters around the country and slated for many overseas markets. The following faculty and students were a part of this production. Some are continuing to work on the M&E Track for overseas distribution.
Union Bound premiered on January 14, 2016 at the Marquee Cinema at Wakefield Plantation, Raleigh NC.
Living Arts College received screen credit along with all of the students that participated in the film.
Professor Craig Brandwynne – Sound Supervisor/Composer
Professor Nicholas Bagwell – Lead location sound mixer /Post Production dialog, music editor, SFX editor and mix engineer
Professor Benjamin R. Parks – Additional Voices (ADR)
STUDENTS & ALLUMNI
Louis Russell – Assistant Location Sound Mixer/Boom Operator
Brian West – Boom Operator
Thomas McCollugh – Boom Operator
Jefferey Whitner – Foley & Sound Design
Rebecca Grant – Foley & Sound Design
Max Gratzer – Foley & Sound Design
Jeremey Allred – Foley & Sound Design
Arnold Hernandez – Foley & Sound Design
Fredrick Williams – Additions Gospel Music
Cameron Bullock – Additional Voices (ADR)
Brandon Thomas – Additional Voice (ADR)
Jordan Ramsey – Additional Voices (ADR)
Marsalis Davis – Additional Voices (ADR)
EXTRAS (On Screen)
Jeremy Pidgeon
Isaac Holder
By cageadminin Audio Design, Filmmaking February 5, 2016 June 8, 2016 389 Words
TODAY’S FILMMAKER
Today’s filmmaker is moving from treatment to pre-production to production to post to distribution with TOTAL filmmaking experience.
Course work is more like STUDIO WORK via a series of Portfolio Studio critiques.
Productions are built around learned TEAMWORK made possible by meeting course challenges such as deadlines.
There is an “art” to success in filmmaking and it’s called PRODUCTION DESIGN and it’s taught here—hands on.
Building industry CONNECTIONS is about the learning and meeting others outside the classroom such as competitions.
Cross over to JOIN FORCES with other program talent such as Audio and Media Design to become a CREATIVE FORCE for production.
By living arts livein Filmmaking February 5, 2016 February 22, 2016 105 Words
with an all new look and brand new feel, Living Arts Live returns to the front with breaking-in news and details on the latest in Filmmaking, Animation, Photography, Interior Design, Audio Production, Interactive Media and more!
By living arts livein Animation, Audio Design, Filmmaking, Interactive Media, Interior Design, PhotographyAside February 4, 2016 February 22, 2016 Leave a comment
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MIT Cracks Algorithm for Robot Object Recognition: Will It Usher in Era of Household Robots?
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Helping robots recognize common objects may bring household robot help one step closer. MIT researchers develop computer algorithm that can help such a robot quickly identify objects it would need to manipulate.
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Researchers at MIT say a computer algorithm that will help robots recognize objects in a household environment could bring us one step close to robot "maids" to take the drudgery out of housework.
Such robots will need to be able to identify the objects they're supposed to handle and manipulate, the researchers note, and the mobility of such robots can help them look at those objects from more than one perspective to aid in that identification.
However, learning to meld those different views of an object presents a computational challenge, one addressed by an algorithm that can identify four times as many objects as algorithms using a single perspective, with make fewer misidentifications, the researchers say.
Developing that algorithm into a new version has yielded one that is up to 10 times as fast, which could help household robots which must make real-time identifications of target objects, they report in the Journal of Robotics Research.
Lawson Wong, a graduate student of computer science and electrical engineering, and his fellow researchers started with an algorithm created for tracking systems such as radar, which need to be able to determine if objects imaged at different instants are indeed the same object.
"It's been around for decades," Wong says. "And there's a good reason for that, which is that it really works well. It's the first thing that most people think of."
That algorithm generates numbers of hypotheses of which object in any one image corresponds to objects in other images, but problems arise as the amount of those hypotheses increases rapidly when images from new perspectives are added.
The algorithm copes by throwing out all but the most likely hypotheses at each new image step, but even still sorting through all candidate hypotheses at the end of the process is time-consuming.
The researchers at MIT went for a different approach; their improved algorithm doesn't discard any of the hypotheses, but doesn't attempt to examine every single one, either, instead opting to sample them at random.
In a sufficient number of samples, the researchers say, hypotheses showing significant overlap will be adequate to yield an accurate correspondence between object in any two consecutive images.
While the algorithm is a significant step forward, we're still a ways from robots that could set our dinner table with plates, glasses and silverware and then clean up afterward, Lawson acknowledges.
"As it is now, it's still very far from commercialization," he says.
Still, it suggests some day we may be able to leave the dinner table and just say, "let's let Roberta the Robot tidy up, shall we?"
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The Fifth Annual Taste of Buswick bringing Brooklyn's finest foods to Brooklyn Steel
By: Kareem Gantt AXS Contributor May 29, 2018
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Brooklyn is a foodie paradise, filled with cuisine from every inch of the planet.
From upscale restaurants to neighborhood joints, Brooklyn is, arguably, the soul of New York City’s world-famous foodie culture, so, whenever a food festival comes around and Brooklyn is on center stage, it’s not an event people think about attending, it’s a must attend.
That sentiment fits the bill for the Taste of Bushwick, which is produced by The Bushwick Starr and is aimed at celebrating everything there is to love about Brooklyn, from the food to its people. The event, now in its fifth year, will bring in the restaurants most responsible for making New York’s most famous borough the of the foodie universe.
Along with its famed restaurant scene being showcased to the world, Brooklyn’s revitalized bar scene will also get the star treatment, with the borough’s most beloved bars showing off their craft and innovative drinks to all those in attendance.
There is just something special about the Taste of Bushwick. Is it the food? It very well could be. Or, how about the drinks? That could be it, too. What makes the Taste of Brunswick so special, though, is its ability to bring together the wonderful, diverse population that has long made Brooklyn the best borough in New York City.
Arguably, anyway.
So, for foodie fans in the New York area, make sure to grab those tickets to the Fifth Annual Taste of Bushwick, happening on June 12 at the Brooklyn Steel (319 Frost St., Brooklyn, NY 11222).
By: Kareem Gantt AXS Contributor
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Surprising industries boom in recession
by James Hall
The Australian economy has slowed to its weakest level since the tail end of the Global Financial Crisis as the Reserve Bank lunged to assist the struggling housing market by slashing rates to its lowest in history.
Employment numbers are flailing and a recent leading business survey from NAB declared the retail sector was "clearly in recession".
But a new report from industry research firm IBISWorld said there will be a handful of sectors which could boom during a looming recession.
Senior analyst Tom Youl said households will see little benefit over the next 12 months as both wages and household consumption are expected to experience modest gains.
He said the recently approved income tax cuts as well as lower interest rates will offer some relief to incomes but both financial policies are unlikely to provide meaningful economic growth.
"Under investment in productivity-boosting policy and packages, and chasing budget surplus when fiscal stimulus is needed, are anticipated to drag on the economy over the coming year," Mr Youl said.
"In addition, signs of slowdown in the global economy, which has been reporting strong growth, pose a threat to export-oriented firms."
Household consumption, which accounts for 55.8 per cent of the Australian economy, is the primary driver of GDP growth but that has fallen by nearly 3 per cent since 2015/16 as wage growth stagnated.
"Although Australian GDP has been growing, the corporate profit share of GDP has been rising strongly," Mr Youl said.
"In other words, most of Australia's economic growth over the past five years has been reported on corporate income statements rather than employee pay slips. This trend is expected to continue in 2019-20, limiting household consumption and economic growth."
So, that's what's wrong with the economy. But which segments will benefit during a recession?
Depressingly, IBISWorld senior analyst Jason Aravanis told news.com.au this industry will perform strongly when, well, there's debt to collect.
"When the economy starts to slow down you're likely to see more households defaulting on their debt and businesses hire more debt collectors," he said.
"It's certainly not a good sign.
"Australia might be particularly exposed to this trend because our household debt is very high compared to disposable income - it's at a record high of about 190 per cent right now.
"The problem with having really high household debt is it becomes very difficult when you've got low wage growth like we do right now."
TEMPORARY STAFF SERVICES
You might expect an uptick in unemployment during an economic slow down to bolster temporary staff services but Mr Aravanis said it will be driven by the inability for companies to commit to staff.
"When expectations of economic growth falter, businesses place a higher premium on having flexibility in their workforces," he said.
"Meaning they can quickly either increase the number of staff or decrease the number of staff and not have ongoing commitments to pay wages and long term contracts.
"That's why businesses typically ramp up their use of temporary staff because this gives them the ability to be more flexible when economic conditions can change quickly."
ANTIQUE AND USED GOODS RETAILING
In 2013, when economic growth declined at the end of the mining boom, used goods business Cash Converters posted its highest ever revenue growth of any retailer with more than $100 million in sales.
"As consumer sentiment weakens, households divert spending to cheaper used items rather than purchasing more expensive new products," Mr Youl said.
"In addition, as unemployment rises, consumers are more likely to sell off assets to cover their expenses, increasing the supply of goods for firms in the antique and used goods retailing industry."
FURNITURE, APPLIANCE AND EQUIPMENT RENTAL
Similar to the last industry, general rental would benefit when wage growth is weak and household spending is limited.
"When consumer confidence falters, consumption expenditure is likely to go down and households are likely to want to retain their wealth by either renting goods or purchasing used goods," Mr Aravanis told news.com.au.
UNIVERSITY AND OTHER HIGHER EDUCATION
When the GFC drove many countries into recession, younger residents and recent graduates struggled to get jobs.
This caused many to continue studying to increase job prospects.
"We didn't see this in Australia because it technically never went into a recession," Mr Aravanis said.
"Australia has had more than a quarter century of consistent growth, so if it were to enter a recession in the future we would expect something similar to happen with Australian universities."
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Author: Marie-Noëlle Anaëlla
I am Marie-Noëlle Anaëlla, a Globetrotter and Travel Writer from the Netherlands, currently residing in Paris. I describe myself as a Third Culture Kid (TCK) and see the world as my home, having been born in the African country of Gabon and spending my early years in several diverse countries around the world. Living in places like Cameroon, Japan, China, India, Ireland, the United States and much more, has meant that it has become difficult for me to adequately describe where I am from to the people I meet. As a result, I am now simply calling myself a citizen of the world, coming from here, coming from there and coming from everywhere. Having caught the travel bug at a very young age, I have since made it my life and have now either lived in or visited more than 140 countries across 7 continents. Not traveling, for me, would be like staring at empty pages in a book, too afraid to open myself up to the world and see its beauty. This traveling life has now seen me take up a career in travel writing about my experiences and why it is so important. I spend much of my time encouraging others to travel, inspiring them to seek greatness and turn negative experiences into something positive. When I am not busy traveling around the world or writing about it, I practice Tai-Chi and meditation, treat my body with the utmost respect and loves a cup of English tea. What else do you want to know? :) Happy Traveling! www.marieblogging.com
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Growing Up Avant-Garde
David Moss’ kit — February 19, 1999 Outpost, Albuquerque — photo by Mark Weber
March 1, 2o18 Jazz @ Noon every Thursday (starts at 12:07 after the satellite news) Host MARK WEBER KUNM Albuquerque, USA 89.9 FM (Mountain Standard Time) also streaming on the web KUNM.org Current time zone offset: UTC*/GMT -6 hours (*Coordinated Universal Time)/Greenwich Mean Time)
In my mind the central figureheads of the 1960 New Thing advance guard avant-garde were Ornette, Cecil, Albert Ayler, Coltrane, Sun Ra, and Dolphy. I was way into that scene. The first Ornette album I owned was THE EMPTY FOXHOLE. That tells you everything you need to know about me: I’m in high school and I’m listening to probably the whackiest record Ornette ever made. I found it in the used bin at Aron’s Records (on Melrose near Fairfax)(in L.A.)(I have to write about Manny Aron someday, he pointed me toward a lot of great music when I was a kid, every time I see my Honegger Pacific 231 I think of him, among others). Anyway, at the time I was into Capt Beefheart, so EMPTY FOXHOLE was not a complete left turn, and of course Zappa. And those long free-form jams of the Grateful Dead. It wasn’t long after that I started in on the ESP catalog —- Manny would special order them for me. They’re such austere records, they sound like cold-water flats in Greenwich Village, these ESP records were never warmed up with reverb, they are the cold hard truth of uncompromising modernists that I aspired to. Everything I knew about New York was gleaned from Jackson Pollock and the abstract expressionists, and Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, WSBurroughs and the Beatnik scene, and all the MacDougal Street folkies like Joan Baez (who I was in love with), when Maynard G Krebs on TV took his date out to listen to the train go by under the moon I totally related to that. Here was Hollywood poking fun and minimizing the Beatnik worldview but it backfired on me, I either missed their mockery, or didn’t care: Take your girl (Joan) out to listen to trains sounded like IT, baby!
Anyway, I’m getting off track here. Where were we? The avant-garde, and my first goatee, beret, and shades, baby. No wonder the cops pulled me over all the time in my turquoise tie-dyed-curtain VW bus.
Jazz is a continuum. And as scholar Bill Shoemaker points out in his new book, the free jazz movement had it’s immediate predecessors in four ground-breaking albums of 1958: 1) Sonny Rollins THE FREEDOM SUITE 2) Max Roach WE INSIST! FREEDOM NOW 3) Ornette’s first album SOMETHING NEW!!! 4) Randy Weston’s UHURU AFRICA —- toss in some Mingus, and that’s the general picture of the times, We’ll explore some little bit of that on today’s radio show.
The Untempered Trio — April 1, 1993 at Outpost Performance Space (the old Morningside location) —- Warren Smith (vibes & percussion) and Bill Cole (double-reeds & flutes) — photo by Mark Weber —- I have procrastinated so long to interview Warren Smith over his work with Max Roach’s M’Boom (I ran into him at Roulette at Connie Crothers Memorial Nov. 13, 2o16 and he agreed to an interview on my radio show but with one thing and another I have dragged along)
Two of my favorite people I haven’t seen in a long time — poet Cheryl CAT Townsend and impresario Suzanne Degaetano at her bookstore Mac’s Backs in Coventry, Cleveland, Ohio — November 13, 1994 — photo by Mark Weber —- Cheryl was the publisher/editor of IMPETUS literary magazine all through the 1980s and 90s
Don Alias & Oscar Brashear — June 16, 1984 Playboy Jazz Festival — photo by Mark Weber —- Don Alias worked on Joni Mitchell albums 1977-1980 including MINGUS, as well as Miles BITCHES BREW, as well as Jeremy Steig, Tony Williams Lifetime, Airto, Chick, and 351 recording sessions listed at Tom Lord Discography
Alan Lechusza, Anthony Braxton, Chris Jonas — three saxophonists — during Anthony’s Composer Residency at University of New Mexico — April 2, 2003 — photo by Mark Weber
George Cables and Sonny Fortune in Albuquerque outside the Farmer’s Market on Coal — I was driving them around on their day off on tour with Frank Morgan — March 24, 2003 — photo by Mark Weber — George Cables needs your help
Two saxophonists: Richie Cole and Stan Getz, never the twain shall meet — Hollywood Bowl — June 20, 1981 — photo and line drawing by Mark Weber
George Cables needs our help — That’s George with Janet Simon and Bobby Shew — (George only knows me as Dr Simon’s husband, she’s a podiatrist and has advised George for years regarding his feet) — October 4, 2o14 at the Outpost show for The Cookers — photo by Mark Weber —- For details see > https://www.gofundme.com/team-george-cables —- both Janet and Bobby have already donated
Linda’s giving me that look like she’s either going to kick my ass, or hug me. She was special. And L.A. is a tough town, I wish she could have conquered her demons, but it didn’t work out that way. I had bugged out and was living in Cleveland when I got word that she had passed. There’s a lot of sadness in this world. Even though we were friends (she was always after me to do a session together: piano & poetry) I wish I knew more about her. Where did she learn to play piano like that? Was L.A. her home town? Earliest story I know about her was how Horace met her — She was a nurse in the hospital (early 60s) where he was recovering from I forgot what and one day he opened his eyes and there was this beautiful nurse towering over him. Photo from April 25, 1980 — Everett Brown Jr and Linda Hill at United Western Studios, Hollywood, recording her one and only album under her own name —- photo by Mark Weber
Etta James singing her salvation at Johnny Otis’ church Sunday morning — October 14, 1981 — photo Mark Weber
Every jazz historian needs make pilgrimage to New Orleans. First time I went was Spring 1978 and I stayed six weeks and slept in flops and roominghouses ($2.50/night! I still have receipts). Summer of 1982 was my only other visit and I was a little more flush this 2-week trip, also, my brother Craig was working as a roustabout on the oil derricks in the Gulf so I had a place to stay. One night I took a cab to see the legendary James Black —- I get in the cab and tell the (white) cabbie my destination —- He pauses, then turns around and says: Are you sure? He figures me for an out-of-towner — I say: Yup, shore am —- He says: You’re not exactly the right color to be in that ward (he’s tipping a fellow member of the white race) —- I say: It’s cool —- He says: It’s your funeral —- We arrive at the address, which is a converted wood frame house in a residential neighborhood: Alice’s Keyhole Lounge (2214 S. Clairborne) —- Cabbie turns around and says: Okay, I’m going to tell you one more time, I wouldn’t go in there if I were you —- I reassure him that the white race is not imperiled and pay him —- I grew up in scrappy Cucamonga (Okies are crazy) and spent my weekends in the blues bars of Watts, “Dicey” was my middle name —- And just as I knew it would be: All was happy-to-see-you handshakes and come-right-in (after Alice checked me out through the keyhole). One of the truisms of us music nuts is we’re a small club, color is secondary. Ears and a brain are the only requirement for membership. James Black (drums), Mary Bonnett (vocal), Warren Bell Sr.(alto), David Torkanowsky (subbing for Eddie Collins on piano), Rusty Gilder (bass) — July 3, 1982 photo by Mark Weber
An enlarged version of this photo hung for years in Dwain’s bookstore The Magic Door in Upland, California —- that’s Art Pepper and Dwain Kaiser (who I spoke about in my previous JFM posting) at Donte’s, North Hollywood — January 16, 1982 — photo by Mark Weber
Jay McShann visits Los Angeles! and brings Claude Fiddler Williams(violin) and Paul Gunther(drums) from Kansas City, and they pick up Angelinos Larry Gales(bass) and Eddie Cleanhead Vinson(alto) — September 23, 1980 — Parisian Room — photo by Mark Weber
Vinny Golia & Bobby Bradford — March 30, 2o17 Albuquerque — photo by Mark Weber
Han Bennink — March 23, 2006 — (those are the Outpost Performance Space drums — I don’t think Han ever travels with a drumset? doesn’t he just grab whatever’s laying around?) — photo by Mark Weber at soundcheck
Bill Shoemaker’s latest book JAZZ IN THE 1970s: Diverging Streams (Rowman & Littlefield, 2o18) is a monumental contribution to scholarship — The 1970s needs be articulated by those of us that lived it, before it all fades away —- photo of Bill at Studio 725, Albuquerque — April 20, 2o13 — line drawing & photo by Mark Weber —- We will speak with him this day over the telephone, always interesting perspectives and insights, he is the editor of the on-line journal Point of Departure and has published widely over the years on jazz —- It is important that public radio give voice to these “divergent” endeavors, a sorting through all the ideas, covering an already unpopular art form (jazz) and an even more tendentious variety of the art form (free jazz). A lot of times you can’t see the forest for the trees, which is why a book like this is so valuable, Bill Shoemaker takes the time to outline the evolution of the what became free jazz that found its flowering in the 1970s —- He’s astute enough to ground it all in the gestalt of the times, the socio-economic temper, and the concepts of what is art. He situates the early beginnings in the late 1950s with the Freedom civil rights movement, which sort of explains why I always thought the music had leanings more toward politics than it did music. In the 1950s I was still on my pogo stick so a lot of this was only felt later, rather than lived, as I did in the 1970s (I wrote for the avant jazz magazine CODA). I’ll have to give him a good-natured hard time why he follows in the footsteps of Gary Giddins fat book VISIONS OF JAZZ: THE FIRST CENTURY(1998) and never mentions Connie Crothers. (The truth about Connie and her work will survive.)
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I see in Linda Hill’s own liner notes to her album LULLABY FOR LINDA (Nimbus) that she was born October 6 (year?) in El Paso —- moved to Watts when she was 2 —- Her mother was a pianist/organist and all but two of her seven siblings played music, I’m guessing she was the eighth? Her first instrument was cello in Jr high school —- Says she worked as a nurse “after high school I got a job at General Hospital . . . worked there for two thousand years, when lo & behold I come in there one midnight” and Horace Tapscott is a patient on her watch, and within four years the beginnings of the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra are generating —- Inside the Lp jacket I find an 8×10 sheet of manuscript where Linda & I collaborated on a prose poem: it appears we were at the Watts Towers Jazz Festival summer 1985 when we composed it, among other things we’re noting how odd it is to see Horace on stage with an electric piano . . . .
Linda Hill got away from us July 1987 Los Angeles
Bill Payne
Great, Fantastic writing!!! I felt like I was in the cab with you in New Orleans! You mentioned one of my favorite albums of all time “The Freedom Suite!” The music is, to my ears anyway, beyond words. I have listened and listened to this album hundreds of times over the years…The photography is immense!!! Thanks
billy the celloist
Linda Hill was badlikeam.f. She could play !!!
please say hello to Warren Smith for me. we played together in Gil Evans band at Birdland long time aback.
thanks for being you and remembering the things we were trying to do.
Sheila Jordan
WONDERFUL AS ALWAYS IN EVERY WAY. PEOPLE LIKE MARK WEBER KEEP JAZZ ALIVE. THANKS MY FRIEND. LOVE AND BEST ALWAYS. SHEILA JORDAN.
joan voss
wow, haven’t seen a pic of Cat Townsend ever… and whatta great one of Etta James… keep on rockin Mark… love these posts! your fab pix are always surprising to see…
Another great post, Mark. Thanks very much.
I attended the Hollywood Bowl on May 16, 2007, to hear Gunther Schuller conduct “Epitaph” by Charles Mingus. It was a stitched-together long-form recital of Mingus pieces, kind of a musical Frankenstein, supposedly the way the Great Man actually conceived them. It smelled a little fishy. But it was a chance to hear the New York cats play Mingus, and that was worth something. It was 22 pieces–with six trumpets (including Jack Walrath and Valery Ponomarev), six trombones (including Conrad Herwig and Frank Lacy), six reeds (including Craig Handy, Steve Slagle and Ronnie Cuber), Howard Johnson on tuba, etc. Somebody dropped a bundle underwriting that tour.
I was with the late publicist Peter J. Levinson, who knew everybody in the music and seemed to have a gold key to every place I ever accompanied him to. In the bowels of the Bowl’s dressing room area, i found myself face-to-face with Warren Smith, the trap drummer for the Mingus outfit. You’ll be interested to know, Billy, that I thanked him for contributing “Love in The Open” to the Gil Evans Ampex album, and he seemed to appreciate it.
February 22, 2o18
The Unwound Jazz Radio Show
1. Frank Strazzeri Sextet “Jo Ann”(FS) w/ Gary Barone (trpt), Sam Most (tenor), Sal Nistico (tenor), John Terry (drums), Dave Parlato (bass), Frank (piano) —Lp THAT’S HIM & THIS IS NEW (Revelation) — 29march69
2. Woody & Boomer aka Michael Anthony(guitar) & David Parlato (elec-bass) “Out of Nowhere” — 20feb2o18 recorded at Studio 725
3. Kenny Burrell w/ Stanley Turrentine (tenor), Bill English (drums), Ray Barretto (conga), Major Holley (bass), Kenny (guitar) —- “Chitlins con Carne” –21apr67 * I first heard this song of Burrell’s done with harmonica on
Jr Wells album 1965 album HOODOO MAN BLUES (Delmark) one of my favorite albums off all time
** I played this track “Chitlins con Carne” because Pat Malone Trio (w/ Cal Haines & Colin Deuble) plays it on their gigs last Sunday and this coming Sunday at El Farol, Santa Fe, Canyon Road
4. Pat Malone Trio “Beautiful Love” — 16jan2o12 w/ Cal Haines (drums), Michael Glynn(bass), Pat (guitar)
5. Woody & Boomer “Footprints” done samba — ibid.
6. Woody & Boomer “Saudades de Elis” (Toquinho)
7. Woody & Boomer “Birk’s Works”
8. interview w/ David Parlato & Michael Anthony — ten minutes
9. Linda Hill nonet “Lullaby for Linda” title track to her 1981 album on Nimbus Records w/ Adele Sebastian (flute) & Everett Brown Jr (drums) & Aubrey Hart (flute solo)
10. Charlie Parker Quintet “Embraceable You” –28oct47 w/ Miles, Duke Jordan, Tommy Potter, Max (Dial)
*I played this to illustrate my theory of where Anthony Ortega jumps off from: Bird’s total free flow outside Gershwin’s melody where he plays only upon the harmony of the song, which reminds me a lot of the starting point for Mr Ortega’s work
11. Anthony Ortega Trio “Hot House”(Tadd Dameron) –9july2000 w/ Mike Wofford(piano), Joe LaBarbera (drums), Anthony (alto) —-cd SCATTERED CLOUDS (Hatology)
Tim Oswald
Thanks Mark, always a great read. Now, ….. just waiting for the book.
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The Divergent Streams jazz radio show
March 1, 2o18 —————-KUNM Albuquerque
1. Julius Hemphill “The Hard Blues” — Feb.1972 album COON BID’NESS (Arista)
*only played first 5 minutes or so as we had a lot of ground to cover before telephone
interview with Bill Shoemaker
2. Anthony Braxton Quartet “track one, side one” NEW YORK FALL 1974 (Arista) w/ Kenny Wheeler(trpt), Dave Holland(bass), Jerome Cooper(drums), Anthony(alto)
*Bill’s suggestion that we play this
3. Connie Crothers Trio “Three-Way” –7sept74 album PERCEPTION (Steeplechase) contrafact upon “You don’t know what love is”
4. Derek Bailey – Evan Parker – Han Bennink “Titan Moon” from THE TOPOGRAPHY OF THE LUNGS (psi) — London, 1970 ***George Brooks was visiting my show and called this track “deliberately provocative” haha
5. Telephone conversation with author BILL SHOEMAKER regarding his book JAZZ IN THE 1970s
6. Mark Dresser solo string bass “Threaded” –29oct2o16 —– vinyl Lp MODICANA (NoBusinessRecords)
7. Cecil Taylor solo piano “After All” Lp SILENT TONGUES (Arista) — 2july74 *Shoemaker’s suggestion
8. Art Ensemble of Chicago “Ja” — May 1978 Lp NICE GUYS (ECM) *Shoemaker’s suggestion
The Take An Eccentric Out to Lunch Jazz Radio Show
March 8, 2o18 ——————–KUNM Albuquerque
1. Oscar Pettiford “Sonny Boy” –Feb.1960 Copenhagen w/ Bent Axen(piano), Oscar(cello), Erik Moseholm(bass), Finn Fredericksen(drums) cd IN DENMARK (Stunt Records)
2. Lennie Tristano Sextet “Marionette” — 16may49 w/ Warne Marsh(tenor), Lee Konitz(alto), Arnold Fishkin(bass), Denzil Best(drums), Lennie(piano), Billy Bauer(guitar & composer of Marionette, built on the chords of “September in the rain”)
3. Carol Liebowitz – Birgitta Flick duo — piano & tenor saxophone “Marionette/September in the Rain” (vocal by Carol) — work-in-progress, sneak preview of upcoming CD — Nov. 2017 NYC
4. Warne Marsh – Sal Mosca duo — tenor & piano Live at Village Vanguard “Marionette” — 1981 — cd Volume 2 (Zinnia Records)
5. Wes Montgomery Quartet w/horns + flute (over-dubbed after the fact) “Willow Weep for Me” — Fall 1965 Live at the Half Note—– cd WILLOW WEEP FOR ME (Verve) w/ Wynton Kelly(piano), Paul Chambers(bass), Jimmy Cobb(drums), Wes(guitar)
6. Janis Borla 6 “Lennie’s Pennies” (Lennie Tristano) –Sept.2o13 cd PROMISES TO BURN w/ Scott Robinson (marvelous tenor solo), Art Davis(trumpet), John McLean(guitar), Bob Bowman(bass), Jack Mouse(drums), Janis(ace vocal, she must have had her Wheaties for breakfast)
7. Kazzrie Jaxen Quartet “Lennie’s Pennies” —-19jan2o13—-cd QUATERNITY w/Charley Krachy(tenor), Don Messina(bass), Bill Chattin(drums), Kazzrie(piano)
8. Wes Montgomery “Bumpin'” — May 1967 — cd BUMPIN (Verve)
9. Lena Bloch Feathery Quartet “Rubato” — 27may2o12 cd FEATHERY (13th Hour Records) w/ Cameron Brown(bass), Dave Miller(guitar), Billy Mintz(drums)
10. Henry Franklin L.A. Jazz Machine “Bolivian Odyssey” — 2o17 — brand new cd BOLIVIAN ODYSSEY (Skipper Productions) w/ Benn Clatworthy (wow, this tenor player is someone I want to hear MORE from), Sam Hirsh(piano), our good friend Henry Franklin(bass), Yayo Morales(drums)–this cd is loaded!
11. John Coltrane 5 “Invitation”(Bronislaw Kaper) — 11july58 cd THE STARDUST SESSION (Prestige) w/Red Garland(piano), Paul Chambers(bass), Jimmy Cobb(drums), Wilbur Harden(trumpet/flugel)
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The Stephen Hawking Memorial Jazz Radio Show
1. Jimmy Greene Quartet “Last Summer” w/ Renee Rosnes(piano), Christian McBride(bass), Lewis Nash(drums), Jimmy (tenor) — 2014 cd BEAUTIFUL LIFE in memory of his daughter Ana who was killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School gun slaughter Dec. 14, 2o12 — 28 people died —– First time I caught Mr Greene (b.1975) was when Dick Hyman & Bucky Pizzarelli & Bumblebee Bob brought him to New Mexico to play Lensic in 2o14, and he really caught my attention, a young guy playing that old repertoire with such reality.
2. Bill Smith w/ Dave Brubeck Quartet (Bill on clarinet, in for Paul Desmond who was taking a short break) –1960 album BRUBECK A LA MODE (Fantasy) “Frisco Fog”
3. Count Basie Trio “Sandman” w/ Louis Bellson(drums) and Ray Brown(bass) –28aug75 cd FOR THE SECOND TIME (Pablo)
4. Bud Shank Quartet “Surf for Two” — 1959 soundtrack for movie SLIPPERY WHEN WET w/ Billy Bean(guitar), Gary Peacock(bass), Chuck Flores(drums), Bud(alto) — I just read memoir BARBARIAN DAYS: A SURFING LIFE (2o15) by William Finnegan, which is recommended if you happen to like being around the ocean — thanks to Dr Ben Daitz for tipping to this great book
5. Stanley Turrentine + The 3 Sounds “Blue Riff” — 16dec60
6. Paul Bley Trio “Start”(Carla Bley) w/ Barry Altshul(drums), Steve Swallow(bass), Paul(piano) — 1966 Lp CLOSER (ESP)
7. Billy Mintz Quartet “Relent”(BM) –1feb2o13 cd BILLY MINTZ QUARTET (Thirteenth Note) w/ Roberta Piket(organ), Putter Smith(bass), John Gross(tenor), Billy(drums)
8. MW’s “Smooth Jazz” gag — created 17april2002 w/ Quincy Adams
9. Zoot Sims “Let’s Not Waltz Tonight” — 1957 album ZOOT PLAYS TENOR & FOUR ALTOS
10. Cal Tjader “Invitation” w/ Brew Moore(tenor) — 1956 album LATIN KICK (Fantasy)
11. Erin McDougald singing “Brother can you spare a dime?” — 2o10/2o17 cd OUTSIDE THE SOIREE
12. Arne Domnerus – Rune Gustafsson — alto saxophone & guitar duet “Here’s that rainy day” –1990 cd SKETCHES ON STANDARDS (Proprius)
13. Ted Brown – Konitz Quartet “Smog Eyes” — 1999 cd DIG IT (Steeplechase)
14. Paul Bley Trio “Ida Lupino”(Carla Bley) — Lp CLOSER
*Stephen Hawking RIP (1942 – March 14, 2o18)
Just wondering if you have access to any old Nimbus West lps on vinyl? I’ve bought copies of pretty much everything Tom still has in stock but am still looking for about ten more titles. In particular, the Nate Morgan albums, and the first Tapscott Live At Lobero.
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Who’s right ,Eurpoe or The USA ??
By Brian Parkin and Tony Czuczka
June 7 (Bloomberg) — Chancellor Angela Merkel‘s Cabinet is meeting to tie up a “decisive” round of budget cuts that will shape government policy for years to come, fueling disagreement with U.S. officials who favor measures to step up growth.
Ministers met for 11 hours until early today to identify potential savings of 10 billion euros ($12 billion) a year, after Merkel said Europe’s debt crisis underscores the need for budget tightening to ensure the euro’s stability. A large part of the cuts were agreed overnight, a government official who spoke on customary condition of anonymity said by phone. Talks resumed at 9 a.m. Berlin time.
“It’s not exaggerated to say that this Cabinet meeting will give important direction for Germany in coming years, years that will be decisive,” Merkel told reporters yesterday before ministers met in the Chancellery. She is scheduled to hold talks with French President Nicolas Sarkozy in Berlin later today.
Merkel’s government is reining in its deficit and urging fellow euro-region states to do likewise to thwart a sovereign- debt crisis. The savings risk further alienating voters angry at Germany’s 148 billion-euro share of a European plan to backstop the euro and clash with a June 5 call by Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner for “stronger domestic demand growth” in European countries like Germany that have trade surpluses.
At stake for Merkel is “the credibility of Germany as one of the countries forcing the others to start fiscal tightening,” Juergen Michels, chief euro-area economist at Citigroup Inc. in London, said in a phone interview on June 4. “It’s a very fine line between fiscal tightening and not choking off the economy.”
Bund Yield Record
German 10-year bunds rose, pushing the yield down to a record low today, as concern the debt crisis may spread boosted demand for the perceived safety of the 16-nation currency’s benchmark securities. The yield fell three basis points to 2.55 percent as of 8:52 a.m. in London. It reached 2.548 percent, according to Bloomberg generic data, the lowest since at least 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell. The euro fell 0.2 percent to $1.1940 at 10:49 a.m. in Frankfurt.
Tax increases, cuts in welfare and jobless benefits and the loss of about 10,000 civil service posts are among the German measures being considered, Deutsche Presse-Agentur reported, citing unnamed government sources. Utilities face 2.3 billion euros in higher taxes if parliament agrees to extend the running time of German nuclear-power plants, the news agency said.
‘No Taboos’
The Defense Ministry said last week there are “no taboos” when it comes to potential savings. Merkel’s Cabinet seeks to cut almost 30 billion euros to 2013, Bild newspaper said June 5, without saying how it got the information.
Germany’s budget deficit is forecast to rise to 5.5 percent of gross domestic product this year. While that’s less than half the 13.6 percent of GDP in Greece last year and smaller than the U.K.’s 11.1 percent for the fiscal year to March 2010, it’s still almost double the European Union’s 3 percent limit.
Germany’s top AAA rating is at risk unless Merkel’s government agrees on deficit cuts and persuades other euro-area nations to do likewise, Kurt Lauk, who heads a business lobby within Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union party, told reporters on June 2. “We’re at a decisive turning point,” he said.
Spain, which lost its top grade from Fitch Ratings last month, has seen government borrowing costs soar to a euro-era record, even after Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero announced the deepest budget cuts in at least three decades.
Roubini on Stimulus
While countries with large debt such as Italy should trim deficits and contain wages, Germany should spend more and raise wages to help fuel demand in the euro area, Nouriel Roubini, the New York University economist who predicted the financial crisis, said in an interview.
“Germany can afford having more stimulus not just this year but next year,” Roubini said June 5 in Trento, Italy.
Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, in an interview en route to a meeting of Group of 20 counterparts including Geithner in Busan, South Korea, said there’s no disagreement “in principle” over the need to reduce deficits, only over the pace at which action is taken.
While “it’s possible that the U.S. could use accelerating growth over time to help them reduce their deficits, in Europe we can’t count on growth alone to mend our fiscal position,” Schaeuble said June 4. “I don’t share the view that reducing deficits and strengthening growth are mutually exclusive.”
To contact the reporters on this story: Brian Parkin in Berlin at bparkin@bloomberg.net; Tony Czuczka in Berlin at aczuczka@bloomberg.net. source http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aVGqrlbamDjE
May 26, 2010Don’t Doubt Bernanke’s Ability to Create Inflation
With the Dow Jones now down 11% nominally from its high last month, NIA has been getting hundreds of emails and phone calls asking if there is any way we could be wrong about the threat of hyperinflation in the U.S. and if indeed deflation is the real problem we need to be worried about. The names Nouriel Roubini, Robert Prechter, and Harry Dent get mentioned to us a lot, with many NIA members asking why these so-called “experts” believe deflation is in our future.
Roubini, Prechter and Dent have been wrong about the overwhelming majority of their economic forecasts over the past decade. When it comes to their latest predictions about deflation, they will actually be right to some extent. We will see deflation in some assets like stocks and Real Estate, but only when priced in terms of real money – gold and silver. In terms of dollars, prices for pretty much all goods and services are guaranteed to rise dramatically over the next few years. Creating inflation is the only thing in the world Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke knows how to do and is good at.
During the past week, the mainstream media has shifted from saying we are experiencing an “economy recovery” to now saying we are at risk of a “double dip recession”. Nothing fundamentally has changed in our economy. The fact is, the U.S. economy has been in a recession since mid-2000. All government reported positive GDP growth since mid-2000 has been due to nothing but inflation. Our economy should have experienced a depression in 2001 and an even greater one in 2008, but the depression has been temporarily avoided at the expense of an inevitable Hyperinflationary Great Depression down the road.
NIA believes it is impossible for the U.S. to experience price deflation when the Federal Reserve has held interest rates at 0% for the past 17 months. Sure, there will probably be a second wave of mortgage defaults that could cause another round of forced liquidations on Wall Street, but during any future period of forced liquidations, we doubt the U.S. dollar will still be looked at as the “safe haven” it was in 2008/2009. Gold and silver will soon be looked at as the only real safe havens because they are the only assets that provide protection from both a deteriorating economy and massive inflation. Precious metals will decouple from the Dow Jones and we will begin to see gold and silver rise at the same time as the stock market falls.
Bernanke was questioned yesterday following a speech at the Bank of Japan about whether a 4% inflation target would be better than the Fed’s current inflation target of 2%. Bernanke responded that “it would be a very risky transition” if the Fed changed their inflation target, claiming that U.S. inflation expectations are currently “very stable”. (NIA estimates the real rate of U.S. price inflation is already north of 5%.)
Unfortunately, no policymaker in the world is smart enough to accurately control the rate of price inflation through the manipulation of interest rates, and certainly not Bernanke. It’s mind-boggling to us how the mainstream media could believe anything Bernanke says about inflation after how wrong he has been about everything else. Maybe the press has already forgotten that it was Bernanke who in July of 2005 said, “it’s a pretty unlikely possibility” that home prices will decline across the country, “house prices will slow, maybe stabilize but I don’t think it’s going to drive the economy too far from its full employment path”. We are 100% sure that Bernanke will be proven wrong again when it comes to inflation.
The U.S. Dollar Index has rallied from 75 to 87 since December and is approaching its high from March of 2009 of 89. This has given Bernanke the cover to keep interest rates at a record low 0%, but NIA believes Bernanke is misreading these economic signals. When the U.S. Dollar Index reached its high last year of 89, gold was only $900 per ounce. Today, gold is approximately $1,200 per ounce. The fact that gold has held up so strong despite a rapidly rising U.S. Dollar Index, proves that our financial system is getting ready to overdose on excess liquidity. The U.S. Dollar Index has rallied only because it is heavily weighted against the Euro. The Euro is now overdue for a huge bounce, which we believe will send the U.S. dollar crashing while sending gold to new record highs.
It’s not good for us to pay too much attention to short-term volatility in the financial markets. Short-term “noise” often causes investors to second guess what they know is true. In our new documentary ‘Meltup’ (which has now surpassed 441,000 views in 10 days) we said, “If stocks were to see a nominal decline one last time, we will likely see Bernanke shoot up his largest ever dose of quantitative easing, which could turn the current Meltup into hyperinflation.”
We are seeing signs of this coming true already. Washington is now calling for another stimulus. Larry Summers, senior economic adviser to President Obama, has asked Congress to begin drafting a new stimulus bill in an attempt to prevent a “double dip recession”. The proposed size of this new stimulus is so far only $200 billion, much smaller than the last $787 billion stimulus bill. However, we are sure Congress will increase the size of it, especially if stocks continue their nominal decline. The new stimulus bill will likely coincide with trillions of dollars in additional quantitative easing by the Federal Reserve.
Source http://inflation.us/dontdoubtbernanke.html
The major difference is that the Americans want to print money and spend
And the Europeans and particular the Germans want to tighten and save and stop waist!
To my mind the most prudent are of course the Europeans but it would suggest that there is a lot more pain heading our way ,with our European partners in contraction mode and the Germans demanding more austerity measures from all the other EU countries I can’t see where the jobs growth will come from
Even when our own incompetent government will be telling that Ireland is now growing again
Without growth in jobs this is just a mirage that soon will fade again.
The Billions that are been poured down the toxic banks toilets will not save or generate jobs
the billions so far have not even stabilized the situation, and with the next phase of the depression now coming down the track at us the government will need to borrow more money to plug even more holes in the toxic Anglo Irish Bank, together with the disaster that is NAMA there is no way we can borrow enough money and remain financial viable as an independent sovereign state !
Somebody please stop this madness
David Mc Williams has a new article ” Kill Anglo to save Ireland” (http://www.davidmcwilliams.ie/2010/06/07/kill-anglo-to-save-ireland) all independent minded people should take the time to read
We cannot afford to just sit back and allow our sovereign nation disappear in an ocean of debt
we owe it to our children and ourselves .
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The Apocalypticon ~ Stupidity unbound, climate costs, corruption and data wars
27th Apr 2019 Mark Webster
Stupidity unbound — Hundreds of students and faculty at two universities in Los Angeles have been asked to stay home unless they can prove they’ve been vaccinated against measles.
Car drivers think bike riders ‘subhuman’ — Researchers have an explanation for why many drivers act aggressively toward cyclists: they are actually dehumanising people who ride bikes, according to an April study by Australian researchers in the journal Transportation Research. And this dehumanisation – the belief that a group of people are less than human – correlates to drivers’ self-reported aggressive behaviour. [I ride a bike. Newsflash: like most bike riders, I also drive a car. The only cyclists I find annoying are those flocking cyclists in lycra.]
Apple CEO Tim Cook has called for more government regulation on the technology industry in order to protect privacy in an interview at the TIME 100 Summit in New York. [Yeah, right, how about regulating your profits then?]
Sitting bull — Time spent watching TV and videos has remained consistently high in the United States over the past 15 years, but time sitting at a computer has increased dramatically, new research finds.
Twitter can’t ban White Supemacists because this would also rule out Republicans — A Twitter employee who works on machine learning believes that a proactive, algorithmic solution to white supremacy would also catch Republican politicians. [Is anyone surprised?]
But apparently the Sri Lankan bombers were ‘smart‘ — They included a pair of brothers from a wealthy, upper-class family; a man with a law degree; and another who studied in the United Kingdom and did postgraduate work in Australia before coming home to settle down in his native Sri Lanka.
People are strange — The Japanese not having sex: Japan is home to one of the fastest aging populations in the world, exacerbated by a persistently low birth rate. As it turns out, these social changes can be explained by the lack of heterosexual intercourse among Japanese adults, say scientists led by Dr Peter Ueda at the University of Tokyo, Japan.
US retirees are blowing their savings on their kids — Financial independence, once a hallmark of adulthood, has gone by the wayside as adult children increasingly depend on their parents to help them cover the cost of rent, student loans, health insurance and more. But parents’ desire to give their children a financial assist could be misguided, and will backfire in the long run. [This is what you get when you collapse the middle class so the super rich can get super richer.]
Melting permafrost in Arctic will have $70 trillion climate impact — The release of methane and carbon dioxide from thawing permafrost will accelerate global warming and add up to US$70tn (£54tn) to the world’s climate bill, according to the most advanced study yet of the economic consequences of a melting Arctic.
Virgin Islands hurricane mental health impacts — More than a year and a half after two major hurricanes struck the US Virgin Islands, the effects of the storms are still obvious. But the storms had another, less visible impact: on the mental health of island residents.
Data wars and corruption — The New York State attorney general’s office plans to open an investigation into Facebook’s unauthorised collection of more than 1.5 million users’ email address books.
A total of 50 malicious apps have managed to bypass Google’s security checks and land on the Google Play store, leading to millions of installs on Android devices.
It was only last week that researchers from Check Point uncovered a total of six apps laden with the PreAMo ad fraud malware on Google Play which had been installed 90 million times.
Companies that make tax preparation software, like Intuit, the maker of TurboTax, would rather you didn’t know you can file for free. Intuit and other tax software companies have spent millions lobbying to make sure that the IRS doesn’t offer its own tax preparation and filing service. In exchange, the companies have entered into an agreement with the IRS to offer a Free File product to most Americans — but good luck finding it.
Facial scans replacing boarding passes — Homeland Security in the US said it plans to scan the faces of over 97%” of departing international passengers by 2023. According to Buzzfeed, 17 US airports are currently part of the program.
Good news? A little. A major pharmaceutical distribution company and two of its former executives are facing criminal charges for their roles in advancing the nation’s opioid crisis and profiting from it.
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Futurology ~ Universe expansion, cool star flares, hypersonic rocket, balloon plane, coffee solar cells, anti-malaria, AI invisibility, wrap for aged structures
A plane partly developed in the Scottish Highlands has traits of a balloon and flies thanks to variable buoyancy
Universe is expanding faster than expected — New measurements from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope confirm the Universe is expanding about 9% faster than expected based on its trajectory seen shortly after the big bang, astronomers say.
The new measurements reduce the chances that the disparity is an accident from 1 in 3,000 to only 1 in 100,000 and suggest that new physics may be needed to better understand the cosmos.
~ So those distant planets are steadily escaping us.
Little star sparkles brightly — Scientists spotted a superflare larger than some of the hugest solar storms on record — from what seems to be a tiny, almost Jupiter-sized star. The Next Generation Transit Survey (NGTS), a sky-surveying telescope in Chile, first detected the flare in August 2017. Not only is it the second-largest observed flare to come from a star of the L-dwarf type, but this is the coolest star to show this kind of powerful flare to date.
~ It was so cool, scientists weren’t aware of it till it flared.
Hypersonic rocket — A Chinese university claimed to have launched and landed a hypersonic prototype rocket that could travel faster than five times the speed of sound.
The success of the experiment means that Chinese engineers are one step closer to building a full-fledged rocket capable of flying faster than 6174kmh (3836mph) and it can be recycled.
~ Recycled because it landed itself after the test.
Plane lifts like balloon — Researchers from the University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI) have helped create a revolutionary new type of aircraft.
Phoenix is an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) designed to stay in the air indefinitely using a new type of propulsion: variable-buoyancy.
~ It propels via compressed air, and it’s way cheaper to launch than a satellite.
Coffee-improved solar cells — UCLA professor Yang Yang’s lab, chock-full of coffee drinkers, spent several years searching for a stability-enhancing additive to turn famously unstable perovskite PV cells into a useful product. One day, on a lark, Yang’s graduate student Rui Wang suggested they try adding caffeine to the mix. To the team’s surprise, caffeine produced longer lasting and more powerful solar cells.
~ But do they stay up longer?
First anti-malarial vaccine — Health officials are making history, rolling out the first approved vaccine aimed at stopping a human parasite for malaria. The vaccine could save the lives of tens of thousands of children each year.
This vaccine RTS,S is one of the few immunisations designed and launched specifically to help young children in Africa, says Deborah Atherly at PATH, a nonprofit that helped develop the immunisation.
~ The vaccine has taken 30 years to develop.
Printed pattern fools AI recognition — A group of engineers from the university of KU Leuven in Belgium shared a paper shared on how simple printed patterns can fool an AI system designed to recognise people in images.
If you print off one of the students’ specially designed patches and hang it around your neck, from an AI’s point of view, you may as well have slipped under an invisibility cloak.
~ So print some t-shirts with it immediately!
Sticky wrap for old buildings — Fast Wrapping Fibre-Reinforced Polymer (FasRaP), created using commercially available glass fibres, includes a proprietary glue-like resin developed by NTU materials scientists. The resin will harden only when exposed to light, making it possible for it to be pre-applied in the factory and packaged into a roll of sticky wrap, similar to double-sided tape.
FasRaP can be applied directly to an ageing wall or pillar by only three workers.
~ But do flies then stick to it? People?
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The Apocalypticon ~ Climate, Plasticapocalypse, dirt on Trump, Facebook, racist China, UK surveillance, Bots and hackers, Ebola,
Climate — Anticipating accelerating climate change-fuelled disasters in the coming decades, telecommunications giant AT&T recently partnered with Argonne National Labs to build a three-decade model called a Climate Change Analysis Tool to help forecast the devastating impact of climate change on the company’s infrastructure and business on a level that details down to the individual neighbourhood.
Hurricane Maria was the rainiest storm known to have hit Puerto Rico, and climate change is partly to blame, according to a new study.
Snow power — Winters are only going to get more severe, but there’s at least one silver lining as researchers from UCLA have come up with a way to harness electricity from all that snow.
Plasticapocalypse — Amid the rugged peaks of the Vicdessos region of the French Pyrenees, the only visible signs of a human presence are a smattering of villages and the odd hiker or skier; it is considered a pristine environment. But even here, scientists have detected tiny pieces of plastic falling out of the air: artificial dust.
Planet’s ocean-plastics problem detailed in 60-year data set —Scientists have uncovered the first strong evidence that the amount of plastic polluting the oceans has risen vastly in recent decades — by analysing 60 years of log books for plankton-tracking vessels.
Nestlé has come under fire what advocates say is an outsized contribution to the plastic crisis — So Greenpeace activists hauled a 4.57m-tall heap of garbage, artfully crafted to resemble one of those deep sea fish that’s about 90% jowl, in front of the Nestlé’s US headquarters in Arlington, Virginia.
Dirt on Trump — Mueller Report: The Justice Department has released a redacted copy (c400-page PDF) of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
Militia messing with US town — Arivaca, Arizona is a tiny village, population about 700, with an outsize problem. Just 18kms (11 miles) from the US-Mexico border, it has become a magnet for self-styled militia groups from out of state that say they want to patrol the border and stop migrants. Their presence has strained the town that has long prided itself on its live-and-let-live, cooperative spirit.
AI to racially profile in China — According to a report from the New York Times, the Chinese government is using facial recognition to track Uighurs, the country’s Muslim minority. The technology reportedly targets this population based on their physical appearance.
And England has surveillance kiosks — A telecommunications company, free Wi-Fi service, police departments and local councils in the UK have developed and deployed a new system that aims to identify suspicious behaviour on free Wi-Fi kiosks in the nation and then automatically block related calls.
Faecesbook — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg oversaw plans to consolidate the social network’s power and control competitors by treating its users’ data as a bargaining chip, while publicly proclaiming to be protecting that data, according to about 4000 pages of leaked company documents largely spanning 2011 to 2015 and obtained by NBC News. All the while, Facebook was formulating a strategy to publicly frame these moves as a way of protecting user privacy…
Bots and hackers — Bots, in general, are estimated to make up roughly 37.9% of all Internet traffic. In 2018, one in five website requests – 20.4% – of traffic was generated by bad bots alone.
Hackers have stolen data from “several FBI-affiliated websites.” Now details on “thousands of federal agents and law enforcement officers” are floating around on the web.
Latest Ebola not a global health crisis … yet — The outbreak started in August of 2018 and is so far the second deadliest Ebola outbreak in history. As of today, 1206 people have been infected and 764 people have been killed.
It’s the 10th Ebola outbreak in the DRC in the past 40 years and a startling 29% of cases have been in kids under the age of 18.
Good news: will exercise prolong your life? Well, what do you think? High levels of physical activity and longer telomeres do not guarantee a longer life, they definitely increase the likelihood, and runners live on average 3 years longer than non-runners.
And ‘new’ cereals like this might help save the planet.
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Futurology ~ Wormhole travel, AI invents game, better water filter, human monkeys, reanimated pigs, U2 archaeology
AI has invented a sport for us, and it’s called Speedgate. Um, gee, thanks AI.
Travel through wormholes is possible, but slow — A Harvard physicist has shown that wormholes can exist: tunnels in curved space-time, connecting two distant places, through which travel is possible.
But it’s probably not useful for humans to travel through, said Daniel Jafferis, from Harvard University, the author of the study written in collaboration with Ping Gao, also from Harvard and Aron Wall from Stanford University: it takes longer to get through these wormholes than to go directly.
~ Well, you know, maybe it’s more scenic.
AI invents a sport — The game, Speedgate, combines elements of several existing sports including Rugby, Soccer, and Handball, and can be customised to suit large or small fields. Players pass a ball (a size four Rugby training ball is currently used until the official Speedgate ball hits the market) to teammates by tossing, kicking, or punting it. The full rules and regulations for Speedgate are available on a website.
~ And it easily looks as crazy as all the human-invented ones.
Nanowires improve water filtration — Combining nanowires with natural plant fibres, a team of scientists in China has found a way to purify water efficiently using water purification filter paper made from ultralong hydroxyapatite nanowires combined with natural plant fibres.
~ And when it breaks down, will add it to the plastic apocalypse?
Human genes ‘improve’ monkeys — A research group in China has introduced a human gene regulating brain development into monkeys, resulting in transgenic nonhuman primates that exhibited improved working memory and shorter reaction times.
~ Now how about we reintroduce them into humans?
Pigs reanimated — In a study that raises profound questions about the line between life and death, researchers have restored some cellular activity to brains removed from slaughtered pigs.
~ It should help work out what kinds of brain functions could be restored after, say, a stroke.
Declassified U2 spy pix show hidden archaeological sites — Inspired by a Chinese researcher who used the U2 images to view historical aerial imagery of his hometown, Emily Hammer and Jason Ur decided to see if the copious amounts of declassified data had any scientific worth. Much of the landscape in Europe, the Middle East, and central eastern Asia has changed since the Cold War, making these aerial records both historically and archaeologically important.
~ For example, they found the historical Aleppo from before the massive destruction wrought in the ongoing civil war; ancient stone animal-trapping ‘kites’; Marsh Arab settlements; ancient waterworks.
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The Apocalypticon ~ Face-plant, tech woes, online extremism, the world of pain, climate change, schadenfreude
6th Apr 2019 Mark Webster
Tech execs in the gun — In the wake of the terrorist attack in Christchurch, New Zealand last month, Australia is putting major pressure on Big Tech to prevent the spread of hateful and violent content on their platforms, with a new law that threatens major fines and imprisonment.
Microsoft’s culture of sexual discrimination — An internal Microsoft email chain, first reported by Quartz, reportedly details a litany of egregious acts of sexual harassment and discrimination experienced by women at the company.
Facebook paying for better press — Facebook is paying British newspaper the Daily Telegraph to run a series of sponsored articles called “Being human in the information age” defending it against claims it is encouraging the spread of misinformation, aiding in the spread of hate speech, violating privacy, and generally ruining society in myriad other ways. [So weird that new media is paying old media to make it look better! I hope it costs Facebook a lot before getting it nowhere.]
Meanwhile, in the US, the ABC network did the same — ABC News aired an exclusive interview with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg on Good Morning America, but instead of asking Zuckerberg tough questions, interviewer George Stephanopoulos lobbed softball after softball so Zuck could deliver his prepared talking points.
Facebook is still not doing enough to prevent the ongoing promotion of violence and hate in Myanmar on its social network, according to a member of the United Nations team.
Researchers uncovered more than 70 Facebook groups openly selling black-market cyberfraud services, some of which they say had been running for up to eight years.
Google’s ‘ethics’ — Vox and other outlets reported that Google’s newly-created AI ethics board was falling apart amid controversy over several of the board members.
Youtube’s extreme videos — Facing criticism over the videos it recommends to users, YouTube seems to have a new favourite talking point, one that might surprise anyone who has spent time online: extreme content, the company claims, just doesn’t do that well on the site. Yet even a cursory review of YouTube shows that the most shocking and inflammatory videos are regularly among news outlets’ most viewed content.
Around the world of pain — Donald Trump claimed wind turbines cause cancer with their noise This may be because the president has a grudge against wind power, or because he is a complete and total idiot, but it is a patently ridiculous claim that it would be more or less a total waste of our time to debunk. The claim has no scientific support whatsoever, yet his flunkies still pretended the President’s words weren’t idiotic.
Brunei now stones people — Brunei’s interpretation of Islamic law now imposes death by stoning as a punishment for sex between men and adultery, as well as amputation of limbs for theft. Lesbian sex can carry a penalty of up to 10 years in jail. [Um, peace be with you?]
South Korean wildfires — South Korea is using its military to contain a large forest fire that spread quickly after igniting in Gangwon Province, along the country’s east coast. Strong winds have moved the blaze from city to city.
Venezuela is in the midst of “a major, major emergency” when it comes to health.
Proper procedure did not help crashing plane — The pilots of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 followed proper procedures before the March 10 flight that killed 157 people, according to a preliminary report by the Ethiopian government.
Job-changing in China can drop your social credit — Lots of things can hurt your social credit in China. Failing to repay your debts, plagiarizing academic articles and building a debt-laden tech empire and then fleeing to another country, to name a few. One province now wants to add another “discredited behavior” that seems much more harmless: switching jobs too often. [If only we could stop China’s atrophied leadership from watching Black Mirror and thinking all its concepts are good ideas.]
Chinese autism rates are the same — Around one in a hundred people in China has autism spectrum conditions – a proportion similar to that of the West.
Russian military talking to dolphins — A journal published by Russia’s Ministry of Defence became the subject of mockery after publishing claims “Russian specialists” have communicated with dolphins, crashed computer programs and even looked into safes using the power of telepathy.
US strips visa from International Criminal Court prosecutor after they infer US war crimes in Afghanistan — The US has revoked the visa of the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor just weeks after warning it would take such an action against anyone from the ICC who is investigating allegations that US personnel may have committed war crimes in Afghanistan.
In the US, three-quarters of a million people would likely lose their food stamps later this year under a new proposal by the Trump administration. The goal is to encourage able-bodied adults to go to work and get off government aid. But opponents predict people would go hungry instead, if the rule goes into effect.
Climate — Great Barrier is not regenerating: Successive ocean heat waves are not only damaging Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, they are compromising its ability to recover, raising the risk of “widespread ecological collapse,” a new study has found.
Canada warming twice as fast — Canada is, on average, experiencing warming at twice the rate of the rest of the world, with Northern Canada heating up at almost three times the global average, according to a new government report.
Nebraskan flooding disaster — The byzantine networks of rivers and streams that drain the Midwest is facing a flooding crisis of historic proportions.
UK Labour declares climate emergency — The Labour Party declared a climate emergency. It likely marks the first major party declaring a climate emergency at the national level anywhere in the world, in yet another sign that climate politics are rapidly shifting.
Schadenfreude — Ecuador’s President Lenin Moreno has accused Julian Assange of violating the terms of his asylum and leaking private photos of Moreno’s family and friends online in the latest dust-up between the WikiLeaks founder and his increasingly frustrated hosts.
So-called ‘pharma bro’ Martin Shkreli is now in solitary. Shkerli earned the eternal ire of the public when he was the CEO of a company called Turing Pharmaceuticals, which he bought the rights to the life-saving drug Daraprim then jacked the price from US$19 to $1052 a pill. He was caught still running one of his companies from inside.
Any good news? Coffee may limit prostate cancer: A research group in Japan has identified compounds found in coffee which may inhibit the growth of prostate cancer.
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Futurology ~ Better encryption, better batteries, better pesto, post menopause, better movement, Pole trees, new Mammoths, 4-legged whale
Remnants of a previously unknown, 42.6-million-year-old quadrupedal whale has been discovered along the coast of Peru
Un-decryptable — set of computer scientists has taken a major step toward this goal with the release today of EverCrypt, a set of digital cryptography tools. The researchers were able to prove ( in the sense that you can prove the Pythagorean theorem) that their approach to online security is completely invulnerable to the main types of hacking attacks that have felled other programs in the past.
~ But did they only achieve this by very strictly limiting the operational parameters?
Better solid-state batteries — Scientists in Japan have developed a complex hydride lithium superionic conductor that could result in all-solid-state batteries with the highest energy density to date.
All-solid-state batteries incorporating a lithium metal anode have the potential to address the energy density issues of conventional lithium-ion batteries. But until now, their use in practical cells has been limited by the high resistance of lithium ion transfer within anode materials.
~This should open up new fields in solid electrolyte materials.
Better pesto — Machine learning has been used to create basil plants that are extra-delicious. The effort reflects a broader trend that involves using data science and machine learning to improve agriculture.
~ I’ll wait till the machine learning learns to harvest my basil and make the pesto.
Bone loss mechanisms in post-menopausal women — Japanese researchers have found that blood serum levels of Sema3A decrease in premenopausal women as they get older and drop even further once women reach menopause, linked to oestrogen loss, and this appears to be the mechanism for weakened bones.
~ See how I didn’t use ‘Osteoporosis breakthrough’?
Even an hour of walking a week can help older adults with ailing knees — Researchers looked at data from an earlier project studying thousands of middle-aged and elderly Americans with knee osteoarthritis, the Osteoarthritis Initiative, which began in 2004. Exercise helps prevent conditions of knee osteoarthritis and improve symptoms, reduces pain, and slows down the disease’s progression.
~ I’ve always been of fan of ‘more movement, less worrying about food’.
‘New’ Californian mammoths — Mammut pacificus, a new species of mastodon specific to a small segment of the North American West, is the first new mastodon species to be recognised in 50 years.
~ There have been known examples, just not recognised as distinctive.
Four-legged Peruvian whale — The discovery of a fossilised, 42-million-year-old, four-legged whale is shedding new light on the evolution and geographical spread of these aquatic mammals.
~ The ancestors of modern whales and dolphins evolved from a small, four-limbed hoofed animal that lived in south Asia around 50 million years ago during the Eocene.
Trees almost at the Pole — Using sedimentary records and plant fossils, researchers have found that temperatures near the South Pole were about 20C higher than now in the Pliocene epoch, from 5.3m to 2.6m years ago. Then, a variety of beech and possibly conifer trees grew at Oliver Bluffs, 300 miles from the South Pole.
~ So plants may colonise that area again, at current rates.
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Major Art Competitions in the UK 2012
This is my annual post listing all the Major Art Competitions in the UK in 2012. It includes an overview of what each competition is about plus key dates - including the deadline for entry where known.
This is a very long post - so best to get a hot drink, a comfy chair and a pen and paper before you start reading!
ING Discerning Eye - Private View (for the Artists)
Updates in 2012
I will also be updating information - as information becomes available - to include:
Announcement of selected artists
Shortlists for Prizes
More information and updates of links to official websites are provided in the TWO sites detailed below - these will both be constantly updated during 2012 so choose your bookmark!
Major UK Art Competitions 2012 - this is a static page at the top of this blog (click the link just under the title of this blog to access this page)
My website Art Competitions in the UK This also includes general and specific tips relating to entering art competitions:
Tips about entering Juried Art Competitions
Art competitions - challenges and complications
Art Competitions - The Artist's Statement
If you want to be kept informed about updates:
you can subscribe to this blog (see right hand column). Note that a subscription means you will either get an email or notification in your feed reader about every post I publish - and they're not all about art competitions, although you may well find them interesting!
Alternatively bookmark one of the two sites listed above.
Or do both!
Please note that this post EXCLUDES:
art competitions based in the UK which have a first prize of less than £10,000 (unless they are the major award for that type of art eg Jerwood Drawing Prize)
the major open exhibitions by national art societies which I covered in Key Dates for UK National Art Society Exhibitions in 2012 (first published 28 October 2011)
Exhibitions in London in 2012
Bear in mind that in 2012, London is going to have huge numbers of additional visitors from both the UK and other countries during the summer months because of the Olympics. Exhibitions may well get even busier than usual - and if your work is selected it will be seen by even more people than usual!
Now for the listing......
Major Art Competitions in the UK in 2012
The Turner Prize 2012
This is a competition but it's not an Open Competition so nothing to do! Nominations are invited. The exhibition was held outside London for the first time in 2011.
John Moores Contemporary Painting Prize 2012
The John Moores Contemporary Painting Prize is the UK's best-known contemporary painting competition with a first prize of £25,000. It's a biennial event with the next prize being held in 2012.
Making A Mark post: John Moore Painting Prize 2012: Call For Entries
John Moores Prize 2012 - Key dates:
Registration: Deadline Friday 20 January 2012
Stage1: Deadline 3 February 2012
Stage 2: Deadline 27 April 2012
Exhibition at Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool: 15 September 2012 until 6 January 2013
BP Portrait 2011:
one of last year's selected works
BP Portrait Award 2012
Last year 2,372 artists submitted their work and the exhibition, which featured fifty-five paintings, was seen by over 341,000 people at the National Portrait Gallery.
The BP Portrait Award 2012 is the leading portrait award is a major international open competition - with a first prize of £25,000 and an exhibition in the National Portrait Gallery. It attracts submissions from all over the world.
Making A Mark post: Call for Entries: BP Portrait Award 2012 11 Dec 2011
BP Portrait Award 2012 - Summary of Call for Entries (highlights):
website: http://www.npg.org.uk/index.php?id=9112
Prize: first prize of £25,000, various smaller prizes
Exhibition: National Portrait Gallery June to September 2012 followed by national tour (2 venues)
Registration / submission
online entry form / the rules of entry - see call for entries
deadline for registration: 13 February 2012
artwork receiving days: March 2012 - see call for entries for details
Links to Past exhibitions can be found on Portraiture - Resources for Artists
The work entered should be a painting based on a sitting or study from life and the human figure must predominate.
Important note: You need to have met the sitter - the entry form includes a box which requires you to tick to say you have met the sitter. As I indicated last year given that the hyper-realistic "photographic" portrait has been rampant in the past few years it's very probable that the Award is trying to emphasise its basic presumption that this a competition for "proper" portrait artists ie people who can work from life for at least part of the painting. In other words, in my personal opinion, this is code meaning "do not embarrass us and reveal that you are totally incapable of undertaking a commission and working from life if you win".
In the future I will publish on this blog:
a reminder about the deadline for entries
the list of artists selected for the exhibition (eg see the post for 2010 - BP Portrait Award 2010: List of Exhibitors and Brian Sewell and
the list of shortlisted artists (see BP Portrait Award 2011 Shortlist 18 Apr 2011)
an article about the awards ceremony
features about the prizewinning artists (see those relating to award winners in 2010:
Daphne Todd wins BP Portrait Award 2010
Two American Artists win BP Portrait Prizes
BP Portrait Award: Michael Gaskell's unparalled record
a video of the exhibition (for 2010 see Video - BP Portrait Exhibition 2010 opens today )
an announcement of the people's favourite plus an analysis of relevant statistics (eg see BP Portrait Award 2011: People's Favourite & Statistics
The Royal Academy of Art - Summer Exhibition 2012
This is the largest annual exhibition in the UK which lasts several weeks during the summer at the Royal Academy of Art. Any artist may enter work for selection - over 12,000 works are submitted for consideration every year and around 1200 are exhibited. Information about next year’s exhibition will be available from early January.
Making A Mark post: to be published next week when online form becomes available
RA Summer Exhibition 2012 - Summary of Call for Entries (highlights)
website: http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/summerexhibition/
Prize: £25,000 (The Royal Academy of Arts Charles Wollaston Award) plus various smaller prizes
Exhibition: Burlington House, Royal Academy of Arts 4 June - 12 August 2012
Registration / submission:
Download the 2011 Open Submission Leaflet - available January 2012
Download the 2011 Terms and Conditions - available January 2012
FAQ: Download the list of frequently asked questions
Deadline to obtain entry form: March 2012
Registration of an entry closes 9 March 2012
receiving days: latter half of March 2012
2011 - my blog posts:
Call for Entries - Call for Entries: RA Summer Exhibition 2011
The Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2012
This year (2011) the competition attracted over 6,000 submissions from 2,506 photographers ranging from gifted amateurs and talented young students to established professionals.
Website (2011): http://www.npg.org.uk:8080/photoprize/site11/index.php
Making A Mark Review: Review: Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2011 10 Nov 2011 I thought it was excellent
Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2012 - Summary of Call for Entries (highlights)
website: to be published
The Call for Entries for the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2012 will open in May 2012. You can pre-register your interest in entering
The JOLOMO Bank of Scotland Award For Scottish Landscape Painting 2013
The Jolomo Awards for Scottish Landscape Painting are made every two years. See my post over on The Art of the Landscape -Scottish Landscape Painting and a £25,000 prize.
The Jolomo Awards for Scottish Landscape Painting 2013 - Summary of Call for Entries (highlights)
Subject to final confirmation, the next Awards will be launched in September of 2012 and prizes awarded in June 2013.
As such, the first call for entries will be in September 2012. I'll be publishing a post once plans have been finalised.
Winner of the Threadneedle Prize 2011
The Threadneedle Prize for Painting and Sculpture 2012
The Threadneedle Prize is the UK's leading showcase for paintings and sculptures that promote the practice of representational art, but challenge its language and assumptions.
This is Major Prize for contemporary figurative and representational art can be entered by artists living and/or working in the UK. This prize lost its original USP in 2010 when the major prize was awarded by the selectors rather than via a public vote. However in 2011, for the first time the public visiting the exhibition determined who won the Visitors Choice Award valued at £10,000 - and could choose from any of the works which were selected for the final exhibition. Pre-selection by digital image was also introduced and will continue in 2012.
Making A Mark post re formal Call For Entries: will be posted c. March 2012 when registration opens
Threadneedle Prize for Painting and Sculpture 2012 - Summary of Call for Entries (highlights)
website: http://www.threadneedleprize.com
Exhibition: Mall Galleries, The Mall London - dates to be confirmed
Eligible artists: Artists of all nationalities aged 18 or over (on 1 January 2012), living or working in the UK and Continental Europe
Eligible work: paintings, sculptures, original prints and drawings, mixed media constructions, reliefs and other figurative installations.
No. of works: A maximum of three works may be submitted, completed after 1 January 2011. Works must not have been exhibited in any other prize or competition.
Registration opens: 1 March 2012
Dates and details on submission will follow.
Links to Past exhibitions (2008-2011) can be found on Art Competitions in the UK
2011 posts:
Shortlist for Threadneedle Prize 2011 dominatedby women artists ...08 Sep 2011
Review: Threadneedle Prize Exhibition 2011 22 Sep 2011
Threadneedle Prize: The Making a Mark Selection 26 Sep 2011
Henriette Simson wins Threadneedle Prize 201106 Oct 2011
Winner of the Lynn Painter Stainer Prize 2010
Lynn Painter Stainers Prize 2012
Now in its seventh year of competition, the purpose of the Lynn Painter Stainers Prize is to encourage creative representational painting and promote the skill of draughtsmanship. This annual exhibition (which missed a year in 2011) is open to all UK artists who create representational artwork
Making A Mark post: Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize 2012: Call For Entries 15 Nov 2011
Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize 2012 - Summary of Call for Entries (highlights)
website: main website being overhauled at present; Parker Harris provide details
Prize: The Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize - £15,000 plus an engraved Gold Medal
Mall Galleries, London SW1 from 28 March – 5 April 2012 - this allows for a much bigger exhibition
WH Patterson Gallery, London W1 from 16 – 20 April 2012.
Eligible artists / work: this is a painting competition for UK artists who produce representational work.
Call for Entries Leaflet (pdf file) | Lynn Painter Stainers Prize 2012
Entry form (pdf file) | Lynn Painter Stainers Prize 2012
Deadline for entries: 18 February 2012.
Previous Making A Mark posts (with images): see Art Competitions in the UK - Lynn Painter Stainers Prize 2012
Sunday Times Watercolour Competition 2012
Sunday Times Prizewinners 2011
photo by Katherine Tyrrell
website: http://www.parkerharris.co.uk/artists/awards/index.php?ArticleID=218
Prize: First Prize of £10,000, a Second Prize of £6,000 and the Smith & Williamson Cityscape Prize of £1,500
Exhibition: Mall Galleries, The Mall London
Eligible Artists:
Registration / submission: to be announced
winner of the BBC Wildlife Artist of the Year 2011
Wildlife Artist of the Year
There are two art competitions in the UK for the Wildlife Artist of the Year. These are:
David Shepherd’s Wildlife Artist of the Year 2012
(DS WAY)
BBC Wildlife Artist of the Year 2012
(BBC WAY)
Making A Mark post Wildlife Artist of the Year 2012 - Call for Entries (x2) 16 Dec 2011
website: David Shepherd’s Wildlife Artist of the Year 2012
Prize: £10,000 cash prize
Exhibition: Mall Galleries (dates to be announced)
5 categories
deadline for entries 20 January 2012
website: http://www.discoverwildlife.com/webform/wildlife-artist-year-competition-2012-call-entries
Prize: a 10-day painting safari with Pip McGarry in Botswana in October 2012
Exhibition: Marwell International Wildlife Art Society exhibition in August.
Eligible work:
Eligible Artists: International submissions are allowed
deadline for entries 29 February 2012
International - digital submission only
ING Discerning Eye
The ING Discerning Eye aims to produce a show of small works independently selected by six prominent figures from different areas of the art world: two artist, two collectors and two critics. Work is selected from open submission and with works by artists invited by the individual selectors.
ING Discerning Eye 2011
Making A Mark - Call for Entries: post to be written when Call for Entries is published
website: http://www.discerningeye.org/
Prize: The ING Purchase Prize is £5,000 plus there are a variety of other prizes.
Exhibition: Mall Galleries - generally in November (dates to be confirmed)
Registration / submission: see Parker Harris website for details when published
2011 exhibition online
ING Discerning Eye 2011 - Call for Entries 26 May 2011
ING Discerning Eye 2011 - Selected Artists 12 Sep 2011
Review: ING Discerning Eye Exhibition 2011 12 Nov 2011
Jerwood Drawing Prize
The Jerwood Drawing Prize (£6,000) is the country’s leading award in drawing, and is the largest and longest running annual open exhibition dedicated to drawing in the UK. , the Prize aims to recognise and support both established and emerging artists. Each year between 60 and 70 artists are selected for the exhibition
Making A Mark post: post about Call for Entries to be published when announced
website: http://jerwoodcharitablefoundation.org/page/jerwood-drawing-prize
Prize: first prize of £6,000, a second prize of £3,000 and two student awards of £1,000 each
Exhibition: usually Jerwood Space
Eligible Artists: Open to artists resident or domiciled within the UK
http://www.parkerharris.co.uk/artists/awards/index.php?ArticleID=277
Registration opens on the Jerwood Visual Arts - Artists Opportunities website on to be announced (In 2011 - opened 1 April 2011; closed 7 June 2011)
submission: Registered artists are invited to submit work through one of the regional collection centres: London, Cardiff, Cheltenham, Cornwall, Durham, Edinburgh, Exeter, Liverpool and Norwich
That's it for now.
If you have any queries please leave a comment. If I don't know the answer, very often there are other readers who do - or I can tell you how to find out.
Posted by Making A Mark on Tuesday, January 03, 2012
Categories art, art competition, call for entries, drawing, exhibition, exhibition review, painting, sculpture, Sunday Times Watercolour Competition
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Tag: #environment
Border Follies
There are four borders on our planet and we’re not one of them.
There are four borders on our planet:
The air we can breathe and the air we cannot.
This border is gradual and becomes more real as any of us ascend into our atmosphere. While the troposphere contains ~80% of our air (which is a mix of gases as faithful readers already know), the stratosphere holds a mere 19% or so. As we leave sea level and go up mountains, there is less air, therefore less pressure exerted by the air upon us. By the time we get around to climbing Mount Everest, there is so little oxygen left in the lower pressures of atmosphere experienced at that altitude that climbers must bring their own. On the other hand, it gets much colder as we climb so there are two good reasons to remain close to flat land: (1) decreasing air and (2) decreasing temperature. This is all graphed out in the Pressure scale helpfully included in the following:
The Structure of the Atmosphere
As a little imagination game, imagine that your roommate and/or spouse (depending on years of commitment) has just cracked open a rotten egg in your kitchen. The spreading smell represents earth’s atmosphere and you want to get as far away from that particular atmosphere as possible. The farther you remove yourself, the less the smell and (for purposes of this analogy only) the less atmosphere there is. Although you can’t really smell air, you can experience its absence quite profoundly (caution: side-effects may include a light-headed feeling, confusion, dizziness, shortness of breath, and death).
2. The air we can breathe and the earth we cannot.
While sea level and much mountain air is pleasant to breathe, inhaling earth of any kind results in clogged oral and nasal passages. If attempts to breathe earth are continued, bronchi and alveoli may become non-functional leading to a lack of air and at least some of the side-effects mentioned above. Do not breathe earth. While it is good for plants to stick their snouts deep within a nice chunk of earth, particularly when it is enriched with supplements, we must insist that you do not attempt to replicate their behavior. While a diagram of the earth coming into contact with air is not very exciting, there are many important processes that happen between the various solid surfaces, natural and human-made, and the air. Here’s a nice diagram of how the stuff we put into the atmosphere comes back for visits:
The structure of earth’s atmosphere and how what we do on the surface has an effect.
3. The air we can breathe and the water we cannot.
You would think this boundary is as boring as the one between the air and the earth and you would be incorrect. The atmosphere and bodies of water of significant size have a very dynamic interaction. This incredible time-lapse map of global oceanic currents (courtesy the nice people at NASA) shows their beauty, dynamism, local and transglobal effects, their overall complexity:
But these are only the surface manifestations of phenomena that reach into the clouds and oceanic depths as well. The following video, produced by NASA using data from a number of their satellites and narrated by Liam Neeson, starts with an explanation of how the earth is protected and affected from the sun’s energy output by the magnetosphere.
Chances are that you may have missed the thermodynamic heat pump that powers circulation in our oceans. It is called thermohaline (“temperature-salt”) circulation or conveyor belt. As surface water is warmed by the sun at the equator it is swept north and south toward the icy poles. There it is cooled. As cold salt water is denser than the warm variety, it sinks as it approaches the poles and is swept along the ocean’s floor back towards the equator and elsewhere around the globe. Given the complexity of the currents and circulation, it is thought that it may take up to 1,000 years for one unit of water (let’s say a cubic kilometer) to circulate back to its point of origin.
4. The water we cannot breathe and the earth we cannot breathe.
This is not our realm. We belong walking along the surface of the earth, breathing the atmosphere and drinking the purer forms of water. We must take our atmosphere with us when we move into the water or earth.
Our takeaway lesson? While you can only breathe the air portions of this very real barrier between the air and water or between earth and water, the effects that air, earth, and water have on each other is astonishingly complex and persistently in motion. Without this perpetual motion going on between the three of them, there would be no weather and no recycling of the gaseous and aqueous realms so necessary for us to live.
The fifth border is imaginary—human-made—compared to the four above. Here is one way of picturing it:
For a more legible version
All these countries, all these governments, all these people divided up by imaginary lines cut into the earth and bleeding the blood of its citizens. Why do some people want to go elsewhere? Why are “violations” of these imaginary lines fraught with so much emotion, so much passion, so much need?
Here’s another way of looking at these imaginary lines:
Courtesy World Bank databases (if you’re curious, it is free to do your own data searches)
At one end of the spectrum of net national incomes, we have Malawi, a country that is full of nice people who through no fault of their own barely scrape through a year on virtually nothing… and that’s the AVERAGE income! At the other end, we have Qatar, Monaco, the Scandinavian countries, some others (the names aren’t as important as the concept here). The average net national income across all countries is around $45,000/year.
The reasons the imaginary boundaries are important is that people who have governments that don’t work in the interests of the families who live there want to leave and find opportunity elsewhere, which makes their destinations nervous—probably for some good reasons. The destinations of choice all seem better from a distance as the people who want to leave their countries are doing fairly poorly. As more people arrive at their destinations, it is likely that the quality of life in that country will be overwhelmed by newly arrived citizens—and the existing citizens who were already doing poorly and will see a deterioration in their quality of life. On the other hand, the people who leave their countries of origin leave behind many family members, the culture and geography they know and appreciate, their way of doing things, which may have been that way for millennia and are much loved.
The solutions are not easy. I propose the following:
The countries that are not doing well by their citizens must determine why there are disparities in quality of life and correct them so that anyone who wishes can make a one-to-one comparison between their lives at home and their imagined lives elsewhere.
This will often mean that the people who are doing the best in those countries must find ways to share their success with more of their citizens. As it is often the case that wealth from natural resources, agriculture, etc., are harvested by the poor and enjoyed by those who are already comfortable, that seems to be an appropriate basis for sharing. Do corporations and governments own the natural resources of any particular country? I would think all citizens of the planet “own” them equally and that the corporations and governments are only there to ensure equitable distribution of them and any profits that arise from manufacturing.
The countries that are doing well must find ways to channel resources to the countries who are not. These resources must find their ways first to the people who need them the most. Once inequities in education, nutrition, safety, health, domicile and baseline income are addressed, more generalized issues (e.g. governmental corruption) must be addressed as well.
This kind of change is needed. The earth—on its own—figures it all out in spite of the various environmental disasters we keep visiting upon it. Now, we the people must figure out how to stop killing each other—or passively allowing each other to be killed—and work through the inequities that we allow to exist between us.
It is easy to come up with arguments that refute these positions: political, religious, racial, gender, class, family history, income, etc. It is better to stop arguing and get to solutions. We are all one thing and that thing is the human species. Let’s solve our problems so we can all stop with the stupidity.
Author makingsenseofcomplicationsPosted on October 9, 2016 October 10, 2016 Categories Complications, One at a TimeTags #astronomy, #climatology, #collies, #dogs, #dreams, #education, #environment, #health, #history, #language, #learning, #life, #love, #NASA, #oceanography, #oneworld, #philosophy, #physics, #religion, #science, #thedailypost, #thedailyprompt, #world11 Comments on Border Follies
The Seasonal Song
Five triplet trills…
sound out from the trees
and a similar song
responds from the shade.
In the spring and the fall
the finch sounds its song,
a merrier music
than the other bird calls.
Sometimes it hides high
in the branches above,
in a flutter of wings
it rests inches away.
When it warms, it moves on,
when it freezes, it goes
but it’s back for the best parts
of the seasonal show.
Author makingsenseofcomplicationsPosted on October 2, 2016 Categories Complications, One at a TimeTags #birds, #environment, #fiction, #life, #music, #poem, #poetry, #seasons, #thedailypost, #thedailyprompt11 Comments on The Seasonal Song
Another Slow Day in Paradise
It was another slow day in paradise.
It was another slow day in paradise. A and B were flitting about the huge meadow with its vast and varied flowers, shrubs, and trees, all of them spaced perfectly so every flower, shrub, and tree got the perfect amount of sunlight, the perfect amount of water sipped from the fertile earth. Every kind of beetle, fly, bee, ant, butterfly, and spider floated about in the gentle breeze, while every kind of bunny, mouse, cat, dog, horse, goat, sheep, pig, lion, giraffe, elephant, and gazelle pranced about, munching on all of the good things there were to eat, which sprang back up as soon as they were nibbled. A stream ran through the center of the meadow but then again there were streams with stepping stones every so often all over the place. Some had waterfalls and some had pools of just the right depth in their centers, causing the stream to widen a bit more than usual, then tighten back up after the pool was behind the coursing waters.
Theit (that’s what it liked to call itself when it came down to check in with A and B; it wasn’t a real name, sort of a joke—”the it”—you see?) had just wafted in from everywhere and coalesced in the form of a fluorescent tapir. Theit had tried subtler appearances but had to spend too much time convincing these two that it was it. Theit did it gently as the last time it at coalesced, A and B had run off screaming and it took precious seconds to find them cowering behind a baobab tree. This time, Theit found form behind a yew bush growing near one of the streams and strolled out to talk to “the experiment,” as it called them in its mind.
“Hi A. Hi B. How’s it going down here?” The fluorescent tapir spoke in a perfect East African accent, which sounded startlingly like many of the sounds A and B heard on a daily basis, except shaped more carefully and regularly into sounds that made sense to their minds.
A and B stared at the tapir and knew what it said. This sort of thing had happened before and while it had been confusing and a little terrifying at first, they had grown accustomed to unexpected creatures sauntering up to them and having a chat. After all, they spent a good deal of any day doing the same thing with squirrels and horses. Walking up, having a chat, the creatures chatting back. Why not this oddly-hued beast with truncated snout?
“Hi Theit!” they said in unison. It was like they shared a brain. Not always in a good way either. “It’s going the same as always. Nothing new to say, just having a nice day speaking to everyone and enjoying the sunshine and streams and fruits. Did you want something in particular?”
“Well, yes. It’s lesson time.” Theit noticed that both of them shuddered. Theit was aware this was not their favorite activity, which was exclusively wandering about bothering their fellow creatures and picking an excessive number of flowers, which it had warned them about on numerous occasions: “They’re for the bees and butterflies, you two. All you’re doing is taking beauty out of the ground, sniffing it, then throwing it down. Just lean over and do your sniffing on the living thing, please!” he had said. They went ahead and picked flowers as if they had no memory at all.
“Do you remember what we talked about yesterday?” Theit had a really confused sense of time as it meant nothing to it at all, while still being this counter-function it had implanted in the world so that stuff might eventually get done.
A and B shook their heads. No surprise. And, to be fair, it may have been more than a day. Theit needed to work out how to be more regular in lesson-giving.
“Well, we worked through addition and subtraction. Remember those? I give you two fruit, then I give you two more. How many fruit do you have?”
“Two” they said in unison.
Theit breathed in slowly and then let the air escape from the tapirs lungs. “No. I first gave you two fruit. At that time you had two fruit. Then I gave you two more. How many fruit did you have?”
“Two” they said in unison. Then B said “Two two.”
“Good, B! And how many is two two? What do we call that number of fruit?”
“Fruit” said A. “Two two” said B.
“And what do we call “two two,” B?”
“Four?” said B. “Fruit” said A.
“Very good, A! I can hear that you remember the word for two two! That is very nice! Please teach that to A so he remembers, okay?”
“Yes” said B.
“Okay, let’s see how you remember subtraction. If you have four fruit and I ask for two fruit back so that I may share them with other creatures. How many fruit do you have?”
“Two” said B.” “Fruit” said A. At this point Theit thought A’s time might be better spent smacking himself in the head with a rock but Theit didn’t make him do that. Although that made sense. That would have been beneath Theit’s mission with this experiment, which was purely about creation, observation, data, and outcomes.
“B, could you help out A with this subtraction concept? There are bigger numbers to add and subtract and even different ideas that are not addition and subtraction and we must talk about them as well.”
“Okay” said B. A said “fruit!”
Theit was a little worried. It seemed that B was slowly understanding the information being shared but A was not. And both of them, to be honest, seemed more concerned with playing with the creatures and picking flowers than they were in learning. How was multiplication and division going to go if adding and subtracting up to four was proving this difficult? Theit let a rare shudder ripple through the tapir’s frame, although Theit was the one shuddering. Was this another failed experiment like the bacteria that ate all its own young and didn’t multiply? Or the lizard that popped off its own head when it was caught by a predator? They seemed like good ideas at the time—bacteria that controlled themselves, lizards with an escape mechanism—but those had gone wrong.
Theit didn’t really know how long that thought lasted. Was it brief or was it really long? In any case, Theit looked up and A was chasing a bunny through the meadow grasses and flowers and B was chasing A. Neither A nor B were catching what they chased but they laughed as they ran. You couldn’t really hate that.
“Come here, you two” said the fluorescent tapir. “More studying to do!”
A and B took their time but came over looking a little petulant with the tapir, which was an odd look as tapir’s usually provoke giggles rather than petulance. Theit didn’t care. It was time for lessons.
“Okay, let’s try something. It’s a trick I use all the time and it works on stars, planets, galaxies, and universes. I even used it here to make all these grasses and trees and flowers and bunnies. You like all these things, right?”
A stared and B nodded. A looked at B and noticed the nodding thing, which he had seen before, and nodded as B took the time to stare.
“Now, I’m going to talk about multiplication. It’s a way to make big numbers of things out of small numbers of things. Just listen and see if you get a pattern. We’re going to start with “one.” One multiplied by one is one. You can say this more simply just by saying “times” whenever you would say “multiplied by,” okay?”
“Okay” they said in unison. Theit had no idea if they were mimicking him or understanding, so he went on.
“If one times one is one, guess what one times two is?”
A said “one” and B said “two.” Perhaps there was some hope for B.
“Next. One times three is what, B?”
B said “three.”
“A. Anything?” asked Theit.
“One” said A, looking quite determined. Inside, the fluorescent tapir sighed a little sigh.
“B, what is one times four?”
“Four” replied B. A rubbed his leg and looked at a flower.
“Let’s try it something, B. What is four times one?”
“One” said B. Theit’s brief snout wiggled a little. It was confirmed. This was going to take a long time. Whatever would happen when the discussion turned to algebra? The snout wiggled ferociously at this thought. Theit sent a calming wave of thought through the tapir and got it to settle down. No one liked a condescending teacher, even if the teacher was a loveable tapir in bright colors.
Theit had a thought. There was a lot to do. Although Theit was coalesced in various forms all over this universe and every other universe doing this same kind of stuff, Theit thought that it might be time to pay attention to some of the more curious experiments and leave these two to their own devices. Their meadow too. It was a nice meadow and was perfectly balanced to live without dying and replenish itself without looking too sad. That took a certain amount of stamina from Theit’s other projects, which were infinite in number and completely manageable but still….
Theit visited A and B, this time as an enormous paramecium with lots of undulating cilia. A and B knew it was Theit because they had never seen this thing before. Although they found it sort of horrible, they also knew that it was okay to approach it as it ciliated its way over to them.
“A. B. How are you?”
“Good” they said in unison.
“Getting enough to eat?”
“Finding enough playmates among the squirrels and bunnies?” Theit asked about these because it seemed that A and B had a particular fondness for them over the larger animals or the ones who roared, although they all lived well next to each other. As was planned.
They both nodded. That seemed like an advance. Perhaps B had taught A the nod thing.
“Okay. Well. I have good news and bad news. Which would you like to hear first?”
“Good” they said again, although perhaps they meant that they would like to hear the good news first. That’s how Theit interpreted it.
“Well then. The good news is that all of this stuff you like is going to stay here. You can play with it all and eat fruit and drink from the streams and have as much fun as you like. Would you like to hear the bad news now?” Theit asked.
“Good,” which Theit took as a tacit understanding that they would now like to hear the bad news.
“Well. Hmmm. The bad news. Erm. I’m not sure how this is going to work out but I’m going to be away for a while. I’m not going to be able to perform maintenance on this place. Instead, you’re going to have to start doing it yourself. What does this mean? Well, it means that I’m going to give everything the power to multiply and divide but I’m also going to give everything the power to add and subtract. New stuff will come alive and old stuff will die. Bunnies and horses and trees and flowers and bees will all multiply but their cells—the little bits of life inside them that make all of this stuff work—will divide. That probably makes no sense to you at all since you haven’t really graduated from basic addition and subtraction (and I really don’t want to think about algebra or calculus, Theit said internally) but I’m hoping that if you see it happening it will make sense over time. It may take a while.”
A and B stared at Theit and didn’t move. They really had no idea what Theit was talking about. This was often the case and sometimes if they remained really still for a sufficient amount of time, Theit was quiet and loped off into the trees. It didn’t seem like this thing was going to lope but they could hope.
“It’s been nice, A and B. You’re the only ones I’ve made that are as hairless as you are. Really, you’re just a variation on a theme. See the hairy ones over there? The ones chasing after a zebra? Yeah. You’re the hairless—relatively speaking, of course—variety. And you walk on your back legs without using your front legs. I’m pretty sure that’s going to have consequences, by the way, but that’s beside the point. I do like you. Don’t take any of what’s about to happen personally. It’s not. Really. I just have a lot to do.”
With this statement, Theit coalesced a giant chunk of wrapped paper blocks out of the air and opened one to a middle page.
“See these? I’m going to call them “books” because they don’t have a name. They don’t have a name because I’ve been thinking about them and it’s come time to make some, so here they are. If you look at this page (it’s called a page, guys), you’ll see black squiggly marks. That’s called “writing” and this writing is in the first language of your creature-type. It tells you stuff. But I can’t wait around for you to learn what it says. I’m going to call this “homework” and you have to worry about what it says or you’re going to be a little out of luck for a long time. Okay?”
“Okay” said A and B.
“Okay” said Theit. Then he made the paramecium lope off into the woods.
A and B stared at the “books” and then stared at each other and then sat down.
Then they got up and ran after the bunnies and squirrels.
After a while, A and B noticed that the grasses changed colors and were replaced with other grasses and other flowers and that when they picked the flowers, they didn’t grow back. They noticed that when they picked fruit from the trees, the fruit didn’t grow right back. They noticed that the beasts who roared stopped other creatures from moving and tore them apart and that the smaller creatures kept away from the roarers. Some of the larger creatures were none too thrilled with the roarers either, so a lot of creatures moved away from them and lived in trees. A and B moved along with them. After they ate all the low-hanging fruit, they climbed trees to get the other fruit. After they ate those, they started to look at the bunnies and squirrels sort of like they saw the roarers looking at the bunnies and squirrels. They caught a few and tore them apart but then the bunnies and squirrels got smart and stayed away. And then the streams dried up, so A and B had to start walking. Their hips hurt. Their feet hurt. Their lower backs hurt. And they learned to feel pain, which led them to cry. Then they learned to say mean things to each other, which made one or both of them cry more.
Then one day, B got fatter and fatter and eventually a new creature popped out. B took care of the little creature until it grew. A wandered around playing with animals and flowers and leaving B to do all the work of raising the creature, which was as hairless as they were. And they kept walking until they found a place to call “home,” which was not much like their old place and had less fruit and the creatures stayed away. But it was home and they raised their creature and then another.
There was only one thing they had forgotten. They left the books at the place where Theit made them and had no idea how to get back there.
It took a long time for them to figure anything out. They remembered Theit fondly now and made up some stories, almost none of which were true. And they left out the bits about the fluorescent tapir and the enormous paramecium. They had a difficult time believing those themselves. So who would believe them?
Paramecium caudatum
Author makingsenseofcomplicationsPosted on September 29, 2016 September 29, 2016 Categories Complications, One at a TimeTags #agnosticism, #anthropology, #biology, #books, #creativewriting, #environment, #fiction, #history, #learning, #life, #longreads, #philosophy, #religion, #science, #story, #time, #worldLeave a comment on Another Slow Day in Paradise
I am not a psychologist. I am really not an infant behavior specialist.
I am not a psychologist. I am really not an infant behavior specialist. I have never been a parent, although I have been a child (as I am a male, I probably still am one). On the other hand, it only takes a modicum of observational insight to notice that humans establish, almost insist on, dominance and submissive roles in many of or interactions. No, not THAT kind, although that is certainly a clear example of the phenomenon (and whatever… not my boat; if it floats go ahead and paddle forth (that’s probably a bad pun)).
Parents with two or more infants, particularly twins, or who host play dates with children of near-identical ages have probably seen dominance behaviors in simple interactions. Imagine two infants with a set of blocks positioned between them. It is likely that one of the two children will start dominating block play fairly soon, either by gathering them disproportionally to themselves, building something, or even exhibiting aggressive behavior towards their peer. They are peers, after all. Just a couple of infants who are supposed to be playing. For some reason, one is likely to develop an advantage of some sort with the blocks. The other child may be unmoved and unimpressed or see the behavior and attempt to gain block parity with the dominant child. This may lead to new dominance or to an increase in aggressive behavior—new attempts by the initially dominant child to have more blocks, throwing blocks, vocalizations by one or the other or both, banging blocks together, etc. It is probable that most of these interactions will be interrupted by adults. If they are not, it is likely that one child will dominate.
Dr. Anthea Pun et al., Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, published a study earlier this year in which 48 infants between 9 and 12 months of age were shown to exhibit submissive behavior to infants from numerically larger groups or to smaller groups that included larger infants—numerical and size-dominance. The following is a summary of the study’s significance:
The ability to detect dominance relationships is essential for survival because it helps individuals weigh the potential costs and benefits of engaging in a physical competition. Here we show that infants as young as 6 mo of age are capable of detecting dominance relations when provided with an ecologically relevant cue such as social group size. Furthermore, infants can infer the social dominance relationship between two competing individuals based on the size of the group to which they belong, and expect individuals from a numerically larger group to get their way. These findings reveal that infants may have an evolutionarily ancient cognitive capacity to represent social dominance relations that is shared with other species within the animal kingdom.
In the body of the paper, the study states that it seems that numerical size of a group is a more significant determinant than individual size. They cite several examples in chimpanzee and bird species wherein a single individual within a group does not gain dominance without the support of a group, regardless of the individual’s size. Interestingly, they also indicate that adults process social status indicators (e.g. military rank) in the same region of the brain in which group size (i.e. “numerical ratio discrimination”) is processed—the inferior parietal cortex (IPC).
Of course, like all studies, this is dependent on many studies on similar questions. But it is the last sentence in the quoted paragraph that concerns me today:
These findings reveal that infants may have an evolutionarily ancient cognitive capacity to represent social dominance relations that is shared with other species within the animal kingdom.
This is elaborated on as follows:
Competition for valuable resources such as mates, food, and territory (1) is commonplace across the animal kingdom. To minimize the cost of fighting (e.g., energy spent and personal injury or death), natural selection appears to have favored the emergence of cognitive adaptations that help individuals predict whether they stand a chance against an opponent (2–5).
Okay. This seems like a set of behaviors that is well understood in our world, so well understood that infants “understand” that larger groups and/or groups with larger infants may have a dominance advantage over them, although it is an abstract concept to them at the time (i.e. they are probably not competing for mates, food, or territory unless their parents have abandoned them entirely).
This is the problem, though. Social cues that serve various fauna populations well to this day do not do our species much good at all. I would argue, in fact, that these behaviors set up domination/submission conflicts that have sometimes laughable, sometimes mortally serious implications for how we all live together. The behavior reveals itself everywhere!
Families in the same neighborhood compete to “keep up with the Joneses.” Who has the nicest driveway? Who has the best grille? In less suburban settings, the metrics may change but the game is the same. Who has painted their house, rethatched it, most recently? Who has the most wives and/or children (probably a correlation therein)? Who herds the most goats? It’s all about numerical (or value) domination and all is arbitrated right there in the IPC. If families do this, then the towns and cities in which they live also vie for superlatives. Who has the best sports teams? How many sports teams? Who won the season most recently and how often? From there, we go to national competitions, typically for resources of one type or another, which confer status and likelihood of dominance. Why? Wouldn’t it be better if competition was treated as a method of entertainment it is intended to be rather than a measure of self—and therefore group—worth? Wouldn’t each nation, each continent, the whole freakin’ planet gain a mutual advantage if those infant minds were not sorting out who to push about and who to fear… at the incredibly tender age of 9 to 12 months?
Let me put aside a notion really quickly. I am not talking about the benefits of “communism,” “socialism,” or any other imaginary sociopolitical construct. Any movement initiated in the name of Marx (wait, that’s not the one I meant!) quickly became an authoritarian state, with the most powerful enjoying luxuries the least powerful could not imagine. Just like infants sorting out who gets the most blocks.
What I am discussing is the potentially vestigial nature of infantile power-grabs, by which I mean that it is possible that our species has outgrown its need for this constant balance of power game. We have a vestigial tail—the coccyx—a bump that is located precisely where tails are located in other species and which we share with other tailless great apes. It is an important attachment point for a number of muscles, tendons, and ligaments. Those of you who have angered it by sitting on it too carelessly will probably sit with greater care forever more. The coccyx isn’t the only example of items in human anatomy that are vestigial but it will do for the purposes of our metaphor.
If our IPC insists on keeping score as we group up, which is going to happen—we are a gregarious species, although not all extrovertedly so—we are going to keep making intellectually unsupportable claims about our superiority over others in our family, community, etc. We are going to keep believing that “our team (whoever that is)” have better recruiting, better warm-up games, better coaches and management, better fill-in-the-blanks (I really don’t care) than other teams. “Our nation” is number one, whatever nation that is (at least the politicians in that nation are going to say so; you can tell them by the gravy of corruption dripping from their lips). As long as “our nation” is peddling its superiority over its neighbors—or more likely, nations with delicious resources—this power-grab business will continue. The following clip from HBO’s series Newsroom addresses the “number one” business fairly directly with respect to the U.S. but again it is not my intent to be negative about one country or another. I am after the foundational issue, which is why some of us, as infants, start grabbing power while others might not like it but go along to get along? It’s wired in and it is going to take a conscious, deliberate, and probably relatively slow process to stop us behaving in accord with vestigial processes—by-products even—of the inferior parietal cortex (an irony that this rank ordering business occurs in the inferior PC!).
The foulest blunders our IPCs do in the name of supporting notions of superiority and domination are in the name of genderist, racist, nationalist—in general, chauvinist—thinking. Millions of people have engaged in dominant behaviors characterizable in the simplest way as “murder” because they have come to believe that their beliefs about another group of humans are correct and that other group is fated by deities to die because of their imagined inferiority. I wish I were still talking about infants and blocks at this point. I am not. I am saying something that everyone—those who read this and the billions who don’t—understands at a fundamental level. When one group of people goes after another group of people (or, for that matter, when one person goes after another individual) and kills them, it is murder and the verdict is not changed by calling it war or serial killing or ethnic cleansing or forced emigration (which results in numerous unnecessary deaths) or any other thing.
Women—yup, about 50% of the population (although seeing difficult days at present) of our species—are still treated as property of the male or of their family in many countries. They do not have an unencumbered right to vote in some countries (the U.S. “granted” women the right to vote in 1920, 144 years after the Declaration of Independence was signed (by men, just a footnote here, folks)). They, on average, do not earn as much as men doing the same job. While women nominally have equal rights in many countries, their rights within cultural groups are often quite different than what the law dictates.
This is just plain odd, not to mention wrong. While women comprise 50% of the earth’s human population, they bear 100% of the earth’s human children. In many families, women are responsible, at least tacitly, for raising the children. This works as follows: “I am the breadwinner” said Bob “and your job is to stay home and raise the kids.” That’s the explicit version of the conversation. The implicit version doesn’t happen… it just “is.” And perhaps that is not entirely bad but isn’t it just another form of the play block problem? The dominant person, often the male, tells the less dominant person that he’ll play with the blocks and she will play with the dolls. It should be a conversation (and often is in some cultural segments) but it should ALWAYS be a conversation and dominant/submissive posturing should not be part of the outcome. If all else fails, the jobs should be based on competence, merit, capability.
The place in our culture that this conversation has really been a complete mess for centuries, at the least, is in matters of ethnicity or race, which are often confounded by geographical separation as well. In her work The History of White People, Dr. Nell Irvin Painter discusses how the notion of “whiteness” became a stand-in for superiority and for suppression of regional rivals at least as far back as the Greeks and the histories of conflicts documented by Herodotus. This whole process of domination was executed in part through creating a characteristic that was a “god-given” right for one group to dominate another. That right was “whiteness” and it is also the false notion that empowered enslavement of Africans, Indians (particularly in Central and South America but also in the “sub-continent” of India and elsewhere).
American Progress, John Gast (1872) depicting Columbia, with telegraph wire and a book of knowledge, penetrating the “darkness” of the American West, driving the Native Americans and Bison before them (no kidding, this is how people thought! It was a popular engraving of the time)
The thing is we all have the capacity to be equal at the moment of our birth, absent very real differences in diet, cultural safety, exposure to environmental hazards (including drugs, lead, cigarette carcinogens, alcohol, plasticizers, etc.), and the like. As we grow older, the patterns of dominance emerge and submission kicks in. We have the intellectual capacity to understand that this is not the way we should live our lives.
Am I arguing against competition in products, in markets, in some people just doing some things better than others? Absolutely not! Differences among us will always exist. The differences that do not exist in the first place must go the way of our tails, though. I am white (actually sort of a weird, mottled pink as I have – or had – freckles and my skin is less uniformly “flesh” colored (is that even a color? really?)) than it once was. Do I care? No, I do not. I do not believe I am superior to anyone on earth. I do believe that to achieve this view, I have had to recognize this ancient dominance game that our IPCs play on us and I have to deny its sway. You can too. Every time your mind tells you that you or people that look like you or people from your family or neighborhood or state or nation or gender or race are better than someone else, find your voice and tell that idiot (your own internal, ancient idiot) NO!!!!!
That is a start. If we all do what I’ve described persistently for the next several decades, centuries, perhaps millennia (I sure hope not), we will become the species we should be, the species without that vestigial argument running around in our heads.
If we make it at all.
Pun, A., Birch, S. A., & Baron, A. S. (2016, March 16). Infants use relative numerical group size to infer social dominance. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 113(9), 2376-2381. doi:10.1073/pnas.1514879113
Author makingsenseofcomplicationsPosted on September 13, 2016 January 27, 2017 Categories Complications, One at a TimeTags #anthropology, #creativewriting, #environment, #history, #life, #longreads, #philosophy, #psychology, #quotes, #thedailypost, #warandpeace3 Comments on Building Blocks
Scry the Tomorrow
Thieliz and Troon had arrived at the hidden pond some hours ago and promptly fallen asleep on the reedy, cool bank, sheltered by the forest of willows from the Known World where their countless nosy cousins, siblings, and elders frittered away their day. They knew the narrow path through the dolorous green limbs and greying trunks of this tree-nest and came here when everyone became too much. But they also came here to fashion tools for their private annual mission.
Once they had shaken themselves alive from their torpid shells and gently brushed off the few insects friends who were visiting, they looked about and each chose a firm, tawny reed from among the pussy willows that danced slowly about the limpid pond, still and deep beyond measure. The reeds were easily broken into hollow bits as long as their forearms and had a sweet taste that was fun to sip but left them dozy, unsteady on their feet, and they couldn’t enjoy the nectar today.
Instead of sipping the sweetness from the reeds, they stuck them in the pond, just beneath the scattered lily pads that skirted the edge and inhaled cautiously, letting the darkness slide up the straw until it had nearly reached their lips, then the blew out the contents, repeating this several times until all the deliciousness was gone and no water had reached their lips. They flipped the thin tubes and did this again, one more set of flirting with the honeyed dew and the depthless pond, then they were done with that and ready for their quest into the woods. The reeds were then stowed in thin leaf pouches that they wore on a tendril twine sash around their waists.
While they had come through the fields and forest to get through the narrow break in the willow realm around the pond, finding their quarry would take them through a burrow that beckoned on the far bank. Thieliz thought it had belonged to a badger at some time in the distant past, while Troon imagined it was the work of a bumbleworm, although Thieliz always reminded Troon that she had invented the bumbleworm herself and the furry serpent didn’t exist outside of her own fanciful head. But it didn’t matter. However it had come into being, there the burrow was yawning widely, waiting for them to crawl down into its temperate chambers and branching tunnels.
Once they had gone far enough, the mosses and lichens lit up with the soft teal chemistry of a trillion tiny lights, oozing into brightness, then dimming to a soft glow. The rooms were large enough for them to stand, for neither of them were very tall by the standards of trees and reeds, and the glow lit their path without casting shadows forward or behind. They strolled along, taking only left turns for the longest time until the reached the root room, where the trees above all united and drank from a subterranean spring that leaked up through the ground in just the right measure to sustain the ancient friends blowing in the noonday winds.
Eight paths led out of the room but only one took them to their destination and it was always a little different depending on the time. As it was a little after the sun sat highest and six ticks beyond dawn, it was a simple matter; the passage directly in front of them took them onward and, after a bit more slow, steady progress, upward to where they had to crawl again.
The burrow opening popped them out in a shaded patch of meadow grass, yellowing in the heat of mid-day and waving at the clouds overhead. It smelled of suckle, which must have been close by but none was to be seen here.
The twins kept to the tree shade and slipped away to their right and into a sliver of black that separated a single oak into two towering, forked trunks that dissolved in a head of big dark leaves pendant from uncountable branches rising up and gone. Just beyond this oaken crevice lay a small clearing among the trees, dark as night but with a cluster of ancient arboreal skeletons at the center, spiraling out to a single remnant of the great oak that had passed most recently in all-time.
It was hollow at its core, green bits of moss encasing the crust of bark, algae spilling off into the tiny pool of dew that had collected inside. Thieliz smiled at Troon, who smiled back. There was a single brown leaf afloat on the surface of the dew, which Troon removed gently, placing it on the ground and making a note to herself to return it after they were done.
“I wonder what we’ll learn this year, T.” Troon spoke first as Thieliz had promised not to be so pushy this year.
“We will see what we see, just like always, T.” Thieliz couldn’t help but be bossy and Troon knew that she would find some way to claim her place in their twindom, being slightly older by a minute from when Troon hatched.
Each twin took their reeds from their pouches and held them gently in their left hands, important for doing what they were about to do. They sat at the edge of the oaken memory, one on each side and opposite of each other, arranged in what their inner selves told them was to the star and to the moon, and inserted the clean, dry tubes between their lips, then bent over and placed just the tiniest bit of the tip into the shallow reservoir collected from the morning’s fog. One sip, the least amount possible, as the oaks in their numbers would punish them severely if they demonstrated greed or thirst. This was not the place for that kind of silliness.
Whoom!
They both dropped onto their backs, their legs still crossed before them, knees, calves, shins, and feet still touching the bark. And they saw what they had come to see, what the oaks had to say to them this year.
The world beyond their world was too hot. Grasses and trees burnt everywhere there was land, sending thunderclouds of black smoke into the air, clotting the sun’s rays with motes burned from the living souls of all the beauty that was devoured in the flames. The sun disappeared and became night in the day. No moon peered through the ever-present gloom. There was no cycle, no renewing, no change. Darkness overcame it all and all the green was gone. All the brown was gone and became sooty blackness all around.
And that was all there was.
A day passed with the twins lying completely still in the clearing. Then they awoke and slowly climbed out of what they had seen. Neither said a word. No words could be said. No one would believe them this year and no one could stand to hear what they had to say even if they could.
The darkness of the depthless pool waited for them in the sunlit space among the willow forest and pussy willows, with their catkins fluffing out in their time. They went to join the others who had seen the bad before them. And their time had come for them as well.
Author makingsenseofcomplicationsPosted on September 11, 2016 September 11, 2016 Categories Complications, One at a TimeTags #creativewriting, #environment, #fantasy, #fiction, #literature, #magic, #story, #thedailypostLeave a comment on Scry the Tomorrow
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Home Economy Sharia based investment certificates to be launched soon – Zafar Masud DG
Sharia based investment certificates to be launched soon – Zafar Masud DG
National Savings would be soon launch Sharia Complaint products post formal approvals from the Finance Division and the Federal Cabinet, to cater the needs of local population who mostly shied away from the conventional investment system.
Zafar Masud, director general of Central Directorate of National Savings told Mettis Link from Islamabad that spade work to launch the Shariah Complaint products have been completed and the Ministry of Finance has already green signal, whereby made an appointment of Dar Al Sharia Islamic Finance Consultancy to work as Sharia Advisor.
Zafar Masud said that National Savings would establish an Islamic window to be named as Rafa National Savings which would able to offer Sharia compliant saving products and services.
Rafa National Savings will have a dedicated Sharia Board, comprising of local and international scholars.
“With the successful launch of the Rafa National Savings, CDNS will be able to promote Sharia complaint savings and provide an avenue of financial inclusion to investors that only invest in accordance with the principles of Sharia” Director General explained.
Currently CDNS has a massive portfolio of over 3.5 trillion rupees with more than seven million customers.
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Annual Funds’ Review: Dawood Income Fund tops benchmark returns
July 15, 2019 (MLN): Investment in income funds during a phase of high volatility at equity market and unpleasant investment opportunities elsewhere, could be a dicey approach to uptake, one that requires smart tactics along with a hint of luck.
When Pakistan came to face such harsh conditions during fiscal year 2019, only one income fund managed to cross over the benchmark i.e. the annual average of 6-month KIBOR. Due to persistently rising policy rates throughout the year, the KIBOR maintained a steady hike up north.
While the average 6 month KIBOR for the year stands at 10.2%, the performance chart put together by Mettis Global shows that only Dawood Income Fund managed to jump over this benchmark by giving annual returns worth 11.12%.
However, the rest of the funds also gave decent returns with the lowest of them marked at 6.46%.
Dawood Income Fund’s net assets were valued at Rs.80.4 per share on June 30, 2019 as compared to Rs.72.4 recorded at the start of the year.
The open ended fund carries a ‘medium’ risk profile and has been given a stability rating of ‘AA-(f)’ by PACRA.
During first half of the year, most of the fund’s portfolio comprised of T-Bills, TFCs, Commercial Papers and placement with banks and DFI. Through the latter part (December 2018 onwards), the proportion of placement with banks & DFI grew larger and dominated the portfolio.
In addition to this, investors of this fund also recorded the highest dividend gain when compared to the gains earned from the rest of income funds.
As can be seen in the chart, Dawood Income Fund stands tallest with a dividend gain of 18.96%, followed closely by NAFA Financial Sector Income Fund with 14.11% and JS Income Fund with 14.08%.
In FY19, Dawood Income Fund gave a total payout of Rs.16.74 per unit, NAFA Financial Sector Income Fund gave Rs.1.57 per unit while JS Income Fund gave Rs.14.3 per unit.
The maximum total payout was given by Atlas Income Fund which gave returned its investors a sum of Rs.60.5 per unit.
In addition to this, Dawood Income Fund also observed maximum dividend yield at the end of FY19, positioned at 20.82% while JS Income Fund’s dividend yield stood at 14.96%.
In conclusion, all income funds performed decently during the year, but not all of them could beat the average 6-month KIBOR. To be precise, investment in income funds proved to be much riskier that the equity market, and much less riskier than the money market. That being said, the income funds’ performance befits their reputation as the medium risk investment opportunity.
European stock markets dip at open
July 17, 2019: Europe's main stock markets eased at the start of trading on Wednesday, with London's benchmark FTSE 100 index down 0.2 percent at 7,563.88 points.
In the eurozone, Frankfurt's DAX 30 index dipped 0.1 percent to 12,424 points and the Paris CAC 40 lost 0.2 percent to 5,605, compared with Tuesday's closing levels.
Higher rates boost NSS receipts volume in FY 2018-19:...
Jul 17, 2019: Owing to higher rates offered on different instruments, the net receipts of National Saving Schemes (NSS) witnessed considerable growth during the fiscal year 2018-19 compared to the corresponding period of last year, State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) reported.
“The net receipts of National Saving Schemes (NSS) surged to Rs225.3 billion, compared to only Rs 48.7 billion recorded in the previous corresponding period,” the SBP said in its latest third quarterly report on The State of Pakistan’s Economy.
This showed an increase of Rs176.6 billion in receipts during July-March (2018-19), according to the report.
Giving break up, the report said that the Defence Saving Certificates (DSC) receipts increased from Rs8.3 billion in FY18 to Rs44.6 billion in FY2019, showing an increase of Rs36.3 billion, the Special Savings Certificates (SSC) receipts increased from minus Rs38.5 billion to Rs33.1 billion, showing growth of Rs71.6 billion whereas the Regular Income Certificates (RIC) increased from Rs1.9 billion to Rs102.9 billion, a growth of Rs100.9 billion.
Similarly, the Behbood Saving Certificate (BSC) receipts increased from Rs32.1 billion to Rs89.5 billion, an increase of Rs57.5 billion.
However, during the period under review, the Special Saving Accounts (SSA) receipts declined by Rs102.9 billion from Rs27.5 billion to minus Rs75.4 billion, Saving Accounts (SA) from 2.2 billion to minus 1.1 billion, hence showing 3.3 billion decrease.
The other receipts of NSS increased by Rs16.5 billion, from Rs15.3 billion to Rs31.7 billion, it said.
The major rise was observed only in third quarter where the main contribution was from Regular Income Certificates (RICs), followed by Behbood Saving Certificates (BSCs) and Defense Saving Certificates (DSCs).
According to the report, this increase was due to higher rates offered on these instruments as the Central Directorate of National Savings (CDNS) had increased profit rates on the savings’ instruments under NSS with effective from January 2019
On the other hand, according to the report, the saving and special saving accounts recorded a decline during Jul-Mar FY19.
The Receipts are expected to grow further as the Central Directorate of National Saving (CDNS) has further increased rates on various savings certificates with effect from July 1st, 2019.
“The CDNS notified the upward revision in the profit rates for various saving certificates with effect from July 1st (2019), this would encourage people to invest in various schemes of the directorate,” a senior official of CDNS told APP.
The rate for Defense Savings Certificate has been increased from 12.47 percent to 13.01 percent while the rate of Special Saving Certificate from 11.57 to 12.90, Regular Income Certificate from 12 percent to 12.96 percent.
Likewise, the rates of Savings Accounts have been increased from 8.5 percent to 10.25 percent while the rates of Bahbood Savings Certificates and Pensioners’ Benefit Account were increased from 14.28 percent to 14.76 percent.
The government had also increased the short-term (3 months), medium-term (6 months) and long-term (12months) certificates to attract more people towards savings and investments with CDNS.
CPHGC Power Plant to complete in August 2019: Chinese...
July 17, 2019: China Power Hub Generation Company is soon to complete its 2×660 MW coal-fired power plant in Hub, Balochistan.
Deputy Chief of Mission (DCM), Chinese Embassy Mr. Lijian Zhao congratulated Pakistan in his tweet on Tuesday, by saying that the CPHGC power plant in Hub Balochistan will be completed in August. It is the largest project under CPEC in Balochistan. It created 2900 local jobs.
The CPHGC project, located in Hub, Balochistan, is a joint venture between China-Pakistan International Holding — a state owned entity — and the Hub Power Company Ltd (Hubco) with 74 percent and 26 percent ownership respectively.
Rice exports show a remarkable increase of about 27% in the fiscal year 2018
SECP issues guidelines on Anti Money Laundering/CFT Regulations 2018
Pakistan to export 200,000 tons rice to China by June
Global GDP growth forecast at 3.1% in early 2019: Conference Board
Market Update – Index Down in Early Trade
Rupee weakens by 61 paisa against greenback
European stocks advance despite China slowdown
Overseas investors continue to buy securities via SCRA
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Do Flu Vaccines Cause GBS? The Government’s Plan to Add GBS to the Table
By leahdurantlaw on October 7, 2015 • ( 0 )
GBS vaccine attorney Leah Durant discusses the government’s proposal to add GBS to the Vaccine Injury Table and the potential link between flu shots and GBS
The federal government has recently opened a period for public comment to determine whether Guillain Barre Syndrome (GBS) should be added to the Vaccine Injury Table. While it is currently possible for patients who contract GBS after being vaccinated to receive compensation through the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP), adding GBS to the Vaccine Injury Table could streamline the process significantly.
About Guillain Barre Syndrome (GBS)
Guillain Barre Syndrome is an acute form of paralysis that results from dysfunction of the peripheral nervous system. Approximately 3,000 to 4,000 new cases of GBS are reported every year. While most people who contract GBS are able to fully recover, some patients suffer from permanent disabilities. In some cases, GBS can even be fatal. Sadly, GBS is more prevalent among the elderly, and senior citizens who contract GBS often face less-favorable prognoses.
Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) is a severe form of GBS with symptoms that include weakness, impaired motor function, paralysis, and symmetrical loss of sensory response.
Why Add GBS to the Vaccine Injury Table?
Although it has not yet been scientifically proven, there is evidence to suggest that in some rare cases, GBS can be caused by flu shots. In its proposal to add GBS to the Vaccine Injury Table, the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) points specifically to research concerning the H1N1 flu vaccine of 2009. The scientists who conducted the study concluded that they could neither “accept [nor] reject a causal relationship between seasonal influenza vaccine and GBS.” So, while uncertainty remains, the possibility of a link between the flu vaccine and such a serious complication certainly warrants consideration.
While there are currently multiple types of flu vaccines on the Vaccine Injury Table, the table does not provide coverage for GBS resulting from the administration of seasonal flu vaccines. By adding GBS to the Vaccine Injury Table, all patients who contract GBS within a certain period after being administered the seasonal flu vaccine would be eligible for compensation under the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. The current proposal to add GBS to the Vaccine Injury Table would put this time period at anywhere between three and 42 days after administration.
What to do if You Have Contracted GBS
If you have recently received a flu shot and are now suffering from GBS or CIPD, you may be entitled to financial compensation. To find out more, you should speak with an experienced vaccine injury lawyer as soon as possible. While you are not legally required to have a lawyer in order to pursue a vaccine claim, one of the many benefits of the program is that hiring a lawyer comes at no financial cost to you. By hiring an attorney, you can make sure that you have the best possible chance at obtaining maximum compensation for your injuries.
To Speak with an Experienced Attorney About Your Vaccine Injury Claim, Contact the Law Offices of Leah Durant Today
At the Law Offices of Leah V. Durant, we strongly support the government’s proposal to add GBS to the Vaccine Injury Table. We are passionate about helping victims of vaccine injuries, and if you have contracted GBS or CIPD after receiving a flu shot, we want to help you claim the compensation you deserve. To find out more, please call (202) 800-1711 or contact us online today.
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HOLLYWOOD SHUFFLE & BLACK PANTHER: A FULL CIRCLE DOUBLE FEATURE
Home Contributors HOLLYWOOD SHUFFLE & BLACK PANTHER: A FULL CIRCLE DOUBLE FEATURE
Contributors New Voices July 30, 2018
This post is a part of our New Voices Section.
Written by Jeannine Brice.
Black Panther is one of the biggest films of 2018. It surpassed its $200 million budget in its opening weekend and has since made 1.3 billion dollars at the worldwide box office. It’s been praised by filmmakers, critics and fans alike. And it just happens to be a film featuring a majority black cast and director. I knew it was going to be something special. I had never seen a movie so steeped in black culture with majority black creators be embraced by the mainstream like this. It made me proud, that people who looked like me were being highlighted in such a powerful way. I immediately thought of Hollywood Shuffle.
I remember falling in love with the film Meteor Man, from 1993. Filmmaker Robert Townsend created his own superhero in an effort to put a positive black image into the world using comedy and social commentary. He gave himself the chance to play a character that would sadly not be out there otherwise for a black actor. But before Meteor Man, he directed Hollywood Shuffle, released in 1987, written by Keenen Ivory Wayans and Townsend respectively. It told the story of Bobby, a young black actor who has a chance at a big movie role. While it’s his dream to be an actor, he feels conflicted about perpetuating stereotypes of black actors only portraying lesser characters’ like slaves, pimps, and in this case, a gang leader.
I saw this as a “prequel” in a sense to Black Panther. So I watched ‘Shuffle just days before its release. I was impressed by the way Townsend expressed profound messages with comedy and managed to convey the stigma of being black in Hollywood. He establishes how much Bobby’s younger brother idolizes him. He dresses and moves like him, helps him run lines. This causes most of Bobby’s conflict. Does he really want to tell his little brother that all he can be is a negative stereotype? There are some great comedic fantasy sequences, satirizing black roles as slaves, servants, and the like. Even one about a black acting school where white instructors teach black actors how to jive talk and walk “Black.”. In other dreams, Bobby imagines himself as a slick detective, solving the crime and getting the girl, an epic “Rambo-esque” action hero, rising from the water, machine gun in hand and even a superhero, flying above the city, ultimately waking with a smile.
Seeing ‘Shuffle just before Black Panther gave the latter that much more weight and significance for me. This double feature became a ‘full circle’ moment. Starting with a glimpse at where we wanted to go and continuing (not ending), with us seeing it come to fruition in such spectacular fashion. Townsend conceived and dreamed of this change 30 years ago. So I write this just to say that films can be dreams put on screen and this double feature reminds us to dream big.
I’m Jeannine Brice, a Graphic Designer from Fresno California. I have a bachelors degree in graphic design from Fresno State University. I’m Canadian by birth and Trinidadian by heritage but forever a California girl. I’m an avid movie fan and compete in Collider Video’s Movie Trivia Schmoedown YouTube show as “JEANNINE THE MACHINE.”
Twitter and instagram @jeanninedabean
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Podcast with Tom Stoner - Glistening: Nature Mirrored in Video Art
Podcast: A Conversation with Tom Stoner: Maryland Hall's Exhibitions Coordinator, Emily Kohlenstein, talks with Tom Stoner about collecting time-based media and incorporating it into his home. Tom explains the relevance of nature, both, in his video-art collection and his foundation Nature Sacred (TKF Foundation) which supports green spaces in urban areas.
Related Programming
March 22-25: Outdoor Installation
Special outdoor video installation during the
Annapolis Film Festival featuring Kelly Richardson’s work (cover image) displayed at Maryland Hall.
Tuesday, April 24, 7 pm: Main Theatre
A Conversation with Tom Stoner: Gallery Talk and Screening
Tom Stoner will share the fun and challenges presented by collecting media art and present two special screenings: Travel, 1996-2013, by David Claerbout (Belgium) and Wooden Boulder, 1978-2003, by David Nash (UK).
Refreshments to follow in the galleries.
RSVP for A Conversation with Tom Stoner at exhibits@marylandhall.org
Exiles of the Shattered Star, 2006 Kelly Richardson
From the Collection of Kitty and Tom Stoner
Maryland Hall announces its first all-video exhibition and art-based collaboration with Annapolis Film Festival, Glistening: Nature Mirrored in Video Art.
Glimmers in the vastness of outer space, tide side shadows, sun drenched forests at dawn, and shifts prompted by seasonal cycles are among the inspirations for this selection of new media artworks from the collection of Tom and Kitty Stoner.
Explore how artists from around the world bring the glories of the great outdoors inside at installations in and around Maryland Hall galleries.
Exhibition Curator Kelly Gordon reports, “The diversity of the Stoner Collection provides a lively primer for anyone curious about this flourishing dimension of recent art."
Tom and Kitty Stoner with Kelly Richardson's Exile of the Shattered Star, Photo by Maureen Porto Photography
The Stoner's in their home with Jessica SteinKamp's Rapunzel, Photo by Maureen Porto Photography
ABOUT KITTY AND TOM STONER
In 1983, Native Iowans with a zest for art, Tom and Kitty Stoner were drawn to Annapolis for its historical charm, warm-spirited community and, like many, the great sailing.
They surrounded themselves with works by leading 20th century sculptors, from Rodin to Goldberg, and cultivated a distinctive collection by assembling a cache of drawings by sculptors.
Parallel to this endeavor they established a foundation - TKF - to create nature-focused contemplative spaces that counter the dynamic of settings associated with high stress (naturescared.org).
Kitty and Tom Stoner, Photo by Maureen Porto Photography
They share a conviction that nature is a source for solace and reflection. This informs their philanthropic work as well as their art collection. Beginning in 2005, they shifted to encompass moving image art - video and digital creations.
Media art works are often frenetic and yet the Stoner's focus on acquisitions that celebrate nature and induce engaged meditation. Among the small tribe of those daring enough to collect video art work, few have integrated it as thoroughly into their home life style where it breathes side-by-side with their daily routines, at their threshold, in their hallways and even in their kitchen.
Mr. Stoner, who worked in the communications industry for 35 years, shares with Kitty an innate curiosity for the new and the next, and both exude youthful vigor. This outlook led them to a 21st century art that is driven by young and emerging artists.
"What has surprised me most about building a media collection is the interactivity that exists between moving images and adjacent spaces. It's like on large conversation... especially if the collection is focused on its content. It will be thrilling for me and Kitty to share these compelling works with Annapolitans... even if it means a blank wall in the kitchen." - Tom Stoner
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School Visits with artist H.C. Porter
Last week the galleries were filled with students from the Bates Liberal Arts Band and PVA (Performing and Visual Arts) classes. They were greeted by artist H.C. Porter whose traveling exhibition Blues @ Home: Mississippi's Living Blues Legends is showcased in both the Chaney and Martino Galleries through March 3.
Porter explained the culture of Blues music and its heritage from the state of Mississippi, the background of the Blues @ Home project including interviews and oral histories of each living legend, and the process and techniques of her work - starting as a photograph, transforming into a high-contrast silk-screen image, and finally becoming a mixed media painting with acrylic paint and prisma-color pencil.
The students all had an opportunity to use the audio wands provided and listened to the oral histories of the musicians. They spent time answering questions made up by their teachers. They engaged with the artist and asked questions about her work. Additionally, they reflected on how the work relates to what they are learning about in class, whether it be the musical and performance aspect for the band students or the mixed media technique for the visual arts students. History takes part as well. We look forward to even more groups in the coming weeks.
It is great to see the community engaging with our galleries and we enjoy bringing students from various schools who have found relevance in their curriculum and what we are showcasing. If you are interested in setting up a time for your class (or other group) to visit the galleries and meet the artist please contact Emily Kohlenstein (Exhibitions Coordinator) at ekohlenstein@mdhallarts.org.
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Reflections on Strata: New Work by Gail Watkins
Gail Watkins, Color Canyon (2016)
Written by Janice F. Booth
Gail Hillow Watkins’s newest series of mixed media paintings, “Strata,” explores movement in simple, almost primitive terms. The artist applies the technique she has been exploring for a decade, layering and incising paint, paper, and various other material, but her focus now is on a narrative of motion, not a static uncovering, as in the 2013 series “Comics & Chromosomes.” In some of these new works, simple forms leap and gyrate across the canvas bathed in color bands. The strata, seen together, become an undulating whole -- a dance troupe or a junkanoo parade.
With these new paintings, the viewer stands, a rapt observer, as the sands shift, light shimmers, and a curious sense of movement and motion begins. Since the lines of movement are contained in color bands, the dancing lines and the movement they suggest read like a choreographer’s notations.
Watkins’s kinetic forms evoke Henri Matisse’s work. Consider Matisse’s sinuous paintings, “Dance II,” (1909-10) and “The Dance” (1932-33). In the earlier work, lines interconnect to create a sense of motion; colors, rich and deep, bathe the dancers in blue and coral. After twenty years of seeing and simplifying line and form, Matisse had eliminated all but the beauty of shapes against color to convey fluid motion.
Henri Matisse, Dance II (1909-10) and The Dance (1932-33)
Some of the works in “Strata” have a Caribbean flavor, perhaps inspired by Watkins’s travels in Cuba. Titles reflect Watkins’s Cuban memories -- “The Pink House,” “Malecon,” and “The Gate.”
Inspiration for “The Pink House,” 2014, was the ubiquitous, tabby shell, stucco houses embedded with coquina shells seen everywhere in southern Florida and the Caribbean Islands. In this painting, bands of auburn, amaranth and cerise and carnelian reds, etched with shapes, bustle and tumble through and between the color bands, like figures in an apartment building, each with its own story and vitality. The colors and motion are playful rather than chaotic.
Gail Watkins, Malecon (2016) Gail Watkins, Enlargement from Pink House (2014)
“Malecon,” 2016, seems a subtle rainbow of blues, pink, and bronze cascading down the canvas. A lingering gaze rewards the viewer -- curving, arcing, reaching figures emerge from the bands of color, appearing as though from behind a curtain or from beneath the sea. In reality, the Malecon is an elegant esplanade in Havana with the sea’s tidal rhythms on one side, the ebb and flow of pedestrians and vehicles along the avenue. The indigo and Turkish blue bands along the bottom of the painting suggest the Caribbean Sea, while along the top of the canvas striae incised into the blue band suggest Havana’s decorative grillwork against the blue sky.
Gail Watkins, The Gate (2016)
As we stand before the painting “The Gate,” 2016, we see a square of deep auburn banded with cornflower blue. The work is tranquil, a gate unused. “I saw a rusty gate at the entrance to a Havana Garden. It stuck with me – that lovely rust, the wild garden behind the gate, and always the sea and sky,”
Watkins revisits that sense of discovery from her “Chromosomes…” series with “Genome Fresco,” 2016. But what is uncovered in this painting records not lost life-forms, but instead, some grand, civic event. Celebrants, dancers, participants all march and parade past the viewer, bearing up bands of vermillion and sapphire, rivers of color and ambiguous formations. The painting is playful and celebratory.
Gail Watkins, Genuine Fresco (2016)
Recently, Watkins’s works have eschewed the sensual pleasures of the Caribbean. “Colour Canyon” and “Aleppo,” emerge from Watkins’s personal heritage and her response as an artist to the terrible war and suffering ongoing in the Middle East. Watkins’s great-grandparents grew up in Aleppo, Syria, and left the city as newlyweds, settling in northern Lebanon. The terrible images of death and ruin appearing nightly in newscasts and front pages across the world haunt us all, but evoke a particular pathos for Watkins. “Had they [her great-grandparents], as children, lived on those decimated streets? How did they feel as immigrants” What is my link to their past?”
Movement, mystery, division come together in Watkins’s “Colour Canyon,” 2016, inspired by the artist’s trip to the Sinai Peninsula tracing part of her heritage. The muted golds, roses, and blues are separate forces, layered and resting one on another. Some of the bands reveal flowing, bulbous forms, some reveal very little. The unified painting suggests little motion, but a certain brooding potential.
Gail Watkins, Aleppo (2017)
“Aleppo,” 2017, is in stark contrast to most of the other pieces in this series. It is raw and still, dull gray and dusty tan, a band at the top the color of dried blood. And, on a ragged edge, a scrap of Persian blue, evoking a torn curtain or abandoned garment. Texture is central to this work; jagged, cracked, pockmarked. There is no mistaking the visual impact – even without the work’s title.
Watkins’ work has, for the last decade, focused on uncovering what is hidden. Now, the work seems to step out into the light, conveying joy or suffering. There is no neutrality. What is revealed demands our attention.
Janice F. Booth is the author of Crofton: Images of America and has written for local, regional and national publications including What’s Up? Publications, American Artist, the Wildlife Art Journal, BizPeake Journal, and Lancaster Farming. Janice is an adjunct professor of English and Communications at Anne Arundel Community College, Arnold, Maryland, and has been an educator for over 40 years. She has a Master of Arts Degree from Wayne State University. Additionally. She can be contacted by email at janicebooth@verizon.net. Read her blog at www.open-line.org
Peter Egeli and Lisa Egeli Gallery Talk
Father/daughter duo Peter and Lisa Egeli held a gallery talk on March 11 for their exhibition "Nature/Nurture: The Paintings of Father and Daughter" on display in the Chaney Gallery. The gallery talk was well attended and a number of their paintings have already sold. If you have the opportunity to, stop by and check out their exhibition along with Patrice Drago's and Ruth Connell's also on display at Maryland Hall through April 11. Ruth Connell will be hosting a gallery talk on Wednesday, April 8 at 5:30 pm.
Photos courtesy of Patrick O'Brien - www.PatrickOBrienStudio.com
Peter Egeli
Lisa Egeli
Gallery Talk
Nature/Nurture: The Paintings of Father and Daughter
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Chaney Gallery
Gallery Talk February 9
Please join us for a free Gallery Talk on Monday, February 9 at 6 pm.
Matt Korbelac, president of the Digital Photography Club of Annapolis will introduce the winners of the Digital Visions: Annual Juried Show of the Digital Photography Club of Annapolis in the Chaney Gallery. The winners will discuss their piece, addressing why they chose to take it and how they addressed problems in doing so. Printing on various papers and other materials and framing choices will also be discussed. Speakers will include James Walker speaking for himself and Annette Uroskie, Chris Edwards and Lynann Rudert.
Immediately following the talk in the Chaney Gallery, head up to the third floor for a discussion in the Balcony Gallery by Vince Lupo about his photographs. Vince says of his work, “These photos are impressions of where I've been, what I've seen and the feelings these encounters have evoked. Call them my visual "curricula vitae," or at least a small sliver of them.”
Digital Photography Club of Annapolis
Digital Visions
Matt Korbelac
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Balcony Gallery
All That Art Auction
All That Art Auction Event: Friday, March 7, 6-9 pm; Tickets: $75/person.
Click here to purchase tickets.
Mark you calendars for Maryland Hall's 9th annual All That Art fundraising event. Enjoy an elegant reception in the galleries on Friday, March 7 and bid on artwork throughout the evening by noteworthy local and regional artists. Proceeds from All That Art benefit the artists and Maryland Hall's visual arts program and outreach activities. More than 40 pieces of art will be up for auction during All That Art, with pieces ranging from drawing and paintings to sculpture and jewelry. An exhibition of all the work up for auction is on display in both galleries from February 24 through March 7. Patrons can tour the galleries (free) during the exhibition and selected works (TBA) will be available for sale at "buy it now" prices prior to the auction.
Juried Artists:
Mark Aruta
c.l. bigelow
Terri Borges
Lisa BurgerLentz
Rick Casali
Ruth Connell
Shelia Delaquil
Don Dement
Edie Dillon
Patrice Drago
James Earl
Joanette Egeli
Lorraine Ellerson
Richard Foa
Melissa Gryder
Douglas Hanewinckel
Gail Higginbotham
Channing Houston
Viki Keating
Gayla Lee
Fern Loos Beu
Nancy McCarra
Rufus Norman
Larry Ringgold
Doris Ross
Desiree Holmes Scherini
Wilford Scott
Thackray Seznec
Lida Stifel
Merla Tootle
Linda Trope
Shannon Troxler
Andree Tullier
Erika Walsh
Roxanne Weidele
Rob Wood
Patricia Worsham
William C. Wright
Invited Artists:
Karin Abromaitis
Sasha Blanton
Joe Dickey
Charles E. Emery
Kevin Fitzgerald
Joanne Graham
Nancy Hammond
Claire McArdle
Jill Tanenbaum
Marion E. Warren
Mindy Weisel
Elliott Zuckerman
Thanks to our All That Art Sponsors (to date):
All That Art began in 2006 and since then has grown into Maryland Hall's second largest fundraising event thanks to the generosity and support of individual art patrons, collectors and local businesses that support the event through sponsorship support, donations and art purchases. Proceeds from the sale of the art is split evenly between the artists and Maryland Hall. In addition to sales, the event provides artists with recognition and visibility to new audiences.
All That Art benefits Maryland Hall's visual arts program, which mounts countless exhibitions throughout the year, providing additional exposure to artists. The event also support Maryland Hall's outreach activities that ensure students of all backgrounds have access to the arts.
At right: Top: Lida Stifel, "Fantasy Flowers," oil and Terri Borges, "Fields of Yellow," mosaic
All That Art
Martino Gallery
Call to Artists for All That Art 2014
Artists interested in being considered for the exhibition/auction can apply on our web site by clicking here or downloading the call to artists here and responding via mail. The deadline for submission is November 1.
Call to Artists Prospectus
Maryland Hall is hosting our 9th Annual All That Art exhibition and auction fundraising event. Maryland Hall hosts this event to raise funds for our visual arts program and to benefit local artists; auction sales are split equally between the artist and Maryland Hall.
All That Art includes an exhibit in the galleries from February 24-March 7, 2014, culminating in a ticketed elegant reception and auction on March 7 from 6-9 pm.
Last year’s All That Art was our most successful ever — with net proceeds of more than $82,000, a 29% increase over our net total last year. As you may know, proceeds from All That Art are used to support the artists who participate in the auction; to underwrite and grow our visual arts program; and to fund our ArtReach program which supports arts access for underserved students.
Art sales were particularly good in 2013 again due to many factors. The event has continued to attract committed art buyers who are passionate about purchasing art and supporting Maryland Hall. Thanks to the artists, we had a wide variety of high-quality artwork to sell. And our talented auctioneer, Brenda Anderson, helped connect the audience to the artwork and artists, resulting in many pieces selling for over retail value. In both auctions, judicious starting bids helped generate bidding, enabling almost every piece of artwork to sell this year.
All That Art 2014 Schedule
Friday, November 1: Deadline: Artists submit work for jury’s consideration. Jury may contact artists about their work during the jury process. * (see special note)
Tuesday, December 3: MHCA contacts artists with jury’s decisions.
December/January: Jury continues to consult with accepted artists as necessary about specific pieces in the auction.
Friday, February 14: On-line catalog of works published at www.marylandhall.org.
Monday, February 17: Drop off of work, Room 208, 10 am-5 pm.
Monday, February 24- Friday, March 7: Work is exhibited and for sale in the Chaney and Martino Galleries.
Friday, March 7: All That Art Auctions, Exhibit and Reception, Galleries and Lower Level Community Gathering Space; 6-9 pm.
Monday, March 10: Artists notified if any work is not sold.
Tuesday-Wednesday, March 11-12: All unsold artwork picked up, 10 am to 5 pm.
We are seeking your highest quality work in all media including but not limited to, drawing, painting, sculpture, jewelry, pottery, mixed media and photography. The All That Art jury will consist of Brenda Anderson, Mary Torggler, Joanie Surrette and Sigrid Trumpy.
For All That Art 2014, artists will participate through two processes: invited artists and juried artists.
Juried artists will come from an open selection process (outlined in this call) where all artists are invited to submit work to be considered by the All That Art jury.
2. Several artists will be invited separately by members of the All That Art Advisory committee to participate in the event.
Artists should submit three works for the jury’s consideration by November 1.
Artists may submit three works for the auction to be considered by the jury; the jury will choose one work for the auction, OR;
If an artist would like to create a specific work to be sold at the auction or has one or more works in progress but not yet complete by the deadline, this should be noted on the submission form. In this case, an artist may submit up to three examples of their work for the jury’s consideration. Works submitted should be representative of style, price or medium of the works in progress.
Work must have been created within the past two years and not exhibited in any other setting within a 30-mile radius of Annapolis.
Work can be two or three-dimensional, from any media.
The jury will select the artists to include in the exhibition/auction by December 3.
Of Special Note:
Because All That Art is primarily a fundraising event for both the artists and Maryland Hall, the jury is seeking a specific mix of work and price ranges for auction. Therefore, a member of the jury may contact artists at any point in the selection process to view or discuss works in progress, discuss pricing or request an alternate piece for the auction.
Exhibit/Auction Information
The decision on which art will be sold in the live or silent auction will be made upon the receipt of all actual artwork. All work must be framed with wire (no saw tooth hangers or stationary hooks are acceptable) and received ready for installation. Artwork should not exceed 4 feet in any direction or weigh over 40 pounds. MHCA reserves the right to refuse a piece if it varies significantly from the submitted image and the criteria upon which it was initially accepted or if the work is improperly presented or considered unsafe.
All artists will be listed on the event invitation; in press releases; on Maryland Hall’s web site exhibit calendar; in a web site catalog available before the event; in the printed event catalog; and in event signage.
MHCA is asking artists to provide a list of patrons who collect their work for inclusion in the event invitation mailing list. Along with inviting patrons to the auction, the invitation will notify patrons that your work will be for sale and exhibited in the galleries from February 24-March 7. Use of this list is strictly limited to invitations for “All That Art” only. Please submit a list of your patrons with your application.
Commission and Payment
The final bid (sale price) for each artwork sold will be divided equally between the artist and MHCA. Artists will establish suggested minimum bid and the retail value. When establishing your minimum bid please choose an amount that you are comfortable with, given the 50/50 split with Maryland Hall. Artists may choose to increase the amount given to MHCA if they desire. MHCA’s goal is not to undersell any piece of art in the auction and to give full respect to your established sales record. Artists will receive the name of the purchaser and a check for their portion of the sale by April 1, 2014.
Insurance and Liability
All works are insured against physical damage or loss by Maryland Hall from receipt on February 17 through March 10, when unsold work is to be retrieved by the artist. The insurance value is the retail or fair market value of the piece. Slides and CDs become the property of MHCA and MHCA reserves the right to use the images of accepted works for publicity and educational purposes. All artwork must be original, no reproductions (including giclees, commercially printed or computer generated reproductions of paintings, drawings, etc.) Work that is submitted electronically should be available for auction; substitutions must be approved in advance by the jury. Submission of the entry form constitutes understanding and agreement with all the conditions outlined in this prospectus.
Click here to apply on-line.
Questions about the auction or the submission process should be directed to Kelsey Presswood,kpresswood@mdhallarts.org or 410-263-5544, ext. 25
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Fundamental Theorem of Calculus
The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus says the following:
Theorem. If $f$ is the derivative of $F$ at every point on $[a,b]$, then under suitable hypotheses we have that $$\int_{a}^{b} f(t) \ dt = F(b)-F(a)$$
Theorem. If $f$ is integrable on $[a,b]$, then under suitable hypotheses we have that $$\frac{d}{dx} \int_{a}^{x} f(t) \ dt = f(x)$$
I am trying to put myself in the shoes of Poisson, Cauchy and Riemann. The first theorem is basically saying that to find the area under a curve, we need to find any anti-derivative and evaluate it at the endpoints?
The second theorem is saying that we can view the integral as a function of $x$ and take its derivative to get $f(x)$.
Wasn't the goal of Poisson, Cauchy and Riemann to find the area under a curve? So they hypothesized the first theorem and then only later proposed the second theorem? Both theorems deal with finding the area under a curve (i.e. they are equivalent)?
Do these theorems still hold under other types of integration (i.e. the Lebesgue integral)?
real-analysis soft-question
DamienDamien
$\begingroup$ For the Lebesgue integral, the function f must be not just continuous, but absolutely continuous for the FTC to hold. $\endgroup$ – gary Jun 23 '11 at 23:20
$\begingroup$ @gary - Absolute continuity is only needed for the first part of the FTC above. $f\in L^1$ is enough to guarantee that the second part holds at every Lebesgue point and thus almost everywhere. $\endgroup$ – Corey Jun 23 '11 at 23:31
$\begingroup$ Did you not give any consideration to comments left for you earlier today? $\endgroup$ – Namaste Jun 24 '11 at 0:04
$\begingroup$ Damien: This is technically the 19th question you've asked in roughly 2 days time, with a few of them asking two, sometimes three unrelated questions. I asked you earlier e.g math.stackexchange.com/questions/47209/convergence-of-sequences, e.g. math.stackexchange.com/questions/47259/… You never did answer my question earlier today regarding the title and author of your text, which you say has no solutions. We'd be more than happy to steer you to some supplemental sources, so you can work more independently? $\endgroup$ – Namaste Jun 24 '11 at 0:24
$\begingroup$ The problem is, Damien, is that if you don't start picking and choosing more carefully which questions to ask, and how often to ask, you may find that, like "crying wolf", you run the risk of people here starting to ignore your questions, even though they may very well be urgent, important, good questions. $\endgroup$ – Namaste Jun 24 '11 at 0:30
The relationship between the definite integral and the total change of an accumulation function goes back to well before Poisson, Cauchy, or Riemann. There's a nice historical overview in a recent article by David M. Bressoud, Historical reflections on teaching the Fundamental Theorem of Integral Calculus published in the Monthly last February. You can find one version in Leibniz's work in 1693, where he writes:
"I shall now show that the general problem of quadratures can be reduced to the finding of a line that has a given law of tangency, that is, for which the sides of the characteristic triangle have a given mutual relation. Then I shall show how this line can be described by a motion that I have invented."
"The problem of quadratures" is the problem of finding areas. Leibniz's proof, which is entirely geometric (you can find it in Bressoud's article) follows from the understanding of areas and tangents as certain sums and differences. But it does not originate with Leibniz: Isaac Barrow gave a proof in his Lectiones geometricae (1670); and James Gregory gives one in his Geometriae pars universalis (1668). Gregory shows that finding the length of a curve is equivalent to finding the area under a related curve: he shows that there is a constant $c$, chosen depending on certain given ratios, the length of the curve $y=f(x)$ from $x=a$ to $x=b$ equals the area under the curve $y=c\sqrt{1+(f'(x))^2}$ (though of course, not expressed that way). He then deals with the converse: given $y=g(x)$ on $[a,b]$, finding a curve $y=u(x)$ so that the area under the $y=g(x)$ is equal to the length of $y=u(x)$. He proves that if $$u(x) = \frac{1}{c}\int_a^x z(t)\,dt$$ then $z/c$ describes the slope of the tangent to $u$; this "contains" the second FTC.
Even earlier, the first part of what Gregory did had been done by Hendrick van Heureat, published in 1659 in van Schooten's edition of Descartes' Geometry.
Newton, by contrast, gives a kind of "dinamic proof" of the FTC; it has its roots in Oresme's Tractatus de configurationibus qualitatum et motuum (1350), in which he shows that if you represent velocity by a curve, then the area under the curve corresponds to the distance traveled (that is, the integral of the derivative equals the total change of the function, the first part of the FTC).
So by the time Cauchy and Riemann gave their definitions of integrals, the FTC (both parts) was already on "the table"; they had the onus of showing that their definitions implied the FTC. So the FTC was already "visible" to them (just like it was to Lebesgue), they didn't need to hypothesize the first or second theorem, nor propose them. They only had to show that their definitions were such that the theorems held for their integrals. Much like Lebesgue needed to show that his definition of integral agreed with that of Riemann where they were both defined, but that didn't mean he had to come up with Riemann's definition of integral from scratch: it was already there, he just needed to show his definition did not change the old properties.
Yes, there are versions of the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus that hold for other types of integrals. A good resource is A Garden of Integrals, by Frank E. Burke. The following statements are taken from there.
The Cauchy Integral
The Cauchy definition of integral (from 1823) is the following:
Given a bounded function $f$ on $[a,b]$, divide $[a,b]$ into a finite number of contiguous subintervals $[x_{k-1},x_k]$, $a= x_0\lt x_1\lt\cdots\lt x_n=b$. The Cauchy sum of $f$ is $$\sum_{k=1}^n f(x_{k-1})(x_k-x_{k-1}).$$ (This is the equivalent of a left-hand sum evaluation in today's parlance). We say that $f$ is Cauchy-integrable on $[a,b]$ if and only if there exists a number $A$ such that for every $\epsilon\gt 0$ there exists $\delta\gt 0$ such that for any partition $P$ of $[a,b]$ whose subintervals have length less than $\delta$, we have $$\left|\sum_{P} f(x_{k-1})(x_k-x_{k-1}) - A\right| \lt \epsilon.$$ Cauchy proved that continuous functions are Cauchy-integrable, though this does not exhaust the class. We have the following "FTC"s for the Cauchy integral:
FTC for the Cauchy Integral. If $F$ is a differentiable function on $[a,b]$, and $F'$ is continuous on $[a,b]$, then $F'$ is Cauchy integrable on $[a,b]$ and $$C\int_a^x F'(t)\,dt = F(x)-F(a)$$ for each $x$ in $[a,b]$.
Here, $C\int$ denotes the Cauchy integral.
FTC part 2 for the Cauchy Integral. If $f$ is a continuous function on the interval $[a,b]$, and we define a function $F$ on $[a,b]$ by $F(x) = C\int_a^xf(t)\,dt$, then $F$ is differentiable on $[a,b]$, $F' = f$ on $[a,b]$, and $F$ is absolutely continuous on $[a,b]$.
We also have a convergence theorem:
Convergence for Cauchy Integrable Functions. If $\{f_k\}$ is a sequence of continuous functions converging uniformly to $f$ on $[a,b]$, then $f$ is Cauchy integrable on $[a,b]$ and $C\int_a^bf(x)\,dx = \lim C\int_a^b f_k(x)\,dx$.
The Riemann Integral
The definition of the Riemann integral is the usual one. Lebesgue proved in 1902 that a bounded function on $[a,b]$ is Riemann integrable on $[a,b]$ if and only if it is continuous almost everywhere.
FTC for the Riemann Integral. If $F$ is a differentiable function on the interval $[a,b]$, and $F'$ is bounded and continuous almost everywhere on $[a,b]$, then $F'$ is Riemann integrable on $[a,b]$, and $$R\int_a^x F'(t)\,dt = F(x) - F(a)$$ for each $x$ in the interval $[a,b]$.
FTC part 2 for the Riemann Integral. Suppose $f$ is a bounded and continuous almost everywhere function on the interval $[a,b]$. Let $F$ on $[a,b]$ be defined by $F(x)=R\int_a^x f(t)\,dt$. Then $F$ is absolutely continuous on $[a,b]$; if $f$ is continuous at $x_0\in[a,b]$, then $F$ is differentiable at $x_0$ and $F'(x_0)=f(x_0)$; and $F'=f$ almost everywhere.
Convergence for Riemann Integrable Functions. If $\{f_k\}$ is a sequence of Riemann integrable functions converging uniformly to $f$ on $[a,b]$, then $f$ is Riemann integrable and $R\int_a^b f(x)\,dx = \lim R\int_a^b f_k(x)\,dx$.
Riemann-Stieltjes Integral
Let $f$ and $\phi$ be two bounded functions on $[a,b]$. We say that $f$ is Riemann-Stieltjes integrable with respect to $\phi$ if and only if there exists a number $A$ such that for every $\epsilon\gt 0$ there exists a $\delta\gt 0$ such that $$\left|\sum_{k=1}^n f(c_k)\bigl(\phi(x_k) - \phi(x_{k-1})\bigr) - A\right|\lt \epsilon$$ where $x_{k-1}\leq c_k\leq x_k$, for every partition $P$ of $[a,b]$ whose subintervals has length less than $\delta$. We write $$RS\int_a^b f(x)d\phi(x) = A.$$
FTC for Riemann Stieltjes Integrals. If $f$ is continuous and $\phi$ is differentiable, with $\phi'$ Riemann integrable on $[a,b]$, then $$RS\int_a^b f(x)\,d\phi(x) = R\int_a^b f(x)\phi'(x)\,dx.$$
Theorem. If $f$ and $\phi$ are bounded functions with no common discontinuities on $[a,b]$, and the Riemann-Stieltjes integral of $f$ with respect to $\phi$ exists, then the Riemann-Stieltjes integral of $\phi$ with respect to $f$ exists, and $$RS\int_a^b\phi(x)\,df(x) = f(b)\phi(b) - f(a)\phi(a) - RS\int_a^bf(x)\,d\phi(x).$$
FTC part two for Riemann-Stieltjes Integrals. If $f$ is continuous on $[a,b]$ and $\phi$ is monotonic increasing on $[a,b]$, then $f$ is Riemann-Stieltjes integrable with respect to $\phi$. If we define $F$ on $[a,b]$ by $$F(x) = RS\int_a^x f(t)d\phi(t),$$ then $F$ is continuous at any point where $\phi$ is continuous; and $F$ is differentiable at each point where $\phi$ is differentiable (almost everywhere) and at such points, $F' = f\phi'$.
Convergence Theorem for Riemann-Stieltjes Integrals. If $\{f_k\}$ is a sequence of functions that converge uniformly to $f$ on $[a,b]$ and $\phi$ is monotone increasing on $[a,b]$, then the $f_k$ is Riemann-Stieltjes integrable with respect to $\phi$ for each $k$, $f$ is Riemann-Stieltjes integrable with respect to $\phi$, and $$RS\int_a^bf(x)\,d\phi(x) = \lim RS\int_a^b f_k(x)\,d\phi(x).$$
Lebesgue Integral
FTC for the Lebesgue Integral. If $F$ is differentiable, and the derivative $F'$ is bounded on $[a,b]$, then $F'$ is Lebesgue integrable on $[a,b]$ and $$\int_{[a,x]}F'\,d\mu = F(x)-F(a)$$ for $x$ in $[a,b]$.
Lebesgue's FTC. If $F$ is absolutely continuous on $[a,b]$, then $F'$ is Lebesgue integrable and $$\int_{[a,x]} F'\,d\mu = F(x)- F(a)$$ for $x$ in $[a,b]$.
FTC Part 2 for the Lebesgue Integral. If $f$ is Lebesgue integrable on $[a,b]$, and we define $F$ on $[a,b]$ by $F(x) = \int_{[a,x]}f\,d\mu$, then $F$ is absolutely continuous on $[a,b]$ and $F'=f$ almost everywhere on $[a,b]$.
Dominated Convergence Theorem. If $\{f_k\}$ is a sequence of Lebesgue integrable functions converging pointwise almost everywhere to $f$ on $[a,b]$, and $g$ is a Lebesgue integrable function such that $|f_k|\leq g$ on $[a,b]$, then $f$ is Lebesgue integrable on $[a,b]$ and $$\int_{[a,b]}f\,d\mu = \lim \int_{[a,b]} f_k\,d\mu.$$
Henstock-Kurzweil Integral
A function $\delta\colon [a,b]\to (0,\infty)$ is called a gauge on $[a,b]$. A tagged partition of $[a,b]$ is a finite collection of pointed intervals $(c_k,[x_{k-1},x_k])$, where $x_{k-1}\leq c_k\leq x_k$, $a=x_0\lt x_1\lt x_2\lt\cdots\lt x_n=b$. We say a tagged partition of $[a,b]$ is $\delta$ fine if $c_k-\delta(c_k) \lt x_{k-1}\leq c_k \leq x_k \lt c_k+\delta(c_k)$.
A function $f$ on $[a,b]$ is said to be Henstock-Kurzweil integrable on $[a,b]$ if there is a number $A$ such that for every $\epsilon\gt 0$ there exists a positive function $\delta_{\epsilon}\colon [a,b]\to (0,\infty)$ such that for any $\delta_{\epsilon}$-fine partition on $[a,b]$ with $c_{k}-\delta_{\epsilon}(c_k) \lt x_{k-1}\leq c_k \leq x_{k}\lt c_k+\delta_{\epsilon}(c_k)$, we have: $$\left|\sum_{k=1}^n f(c_k)(x_k-x_{k-1}) - A\right|\lt \epsilon.$$ In that case, we write $HK\int_a^b f(x)\,dx = A$.
FTC for the Henstock-Kurzweil Integral. If $F$ is continuous on $[a,b]$ and $F$ is differentiable on $[a,b]$ with at most a countable number of exceptional points, then $F'$ is Henstock-Kurzweil integrable on $[a,b]$, and $$HK\int_a^x F'(t)\,dt = F(x) - F(a)$$ for each $x$ in $[a,b]$.
FTC part two for the Henstock-Kurzweil Integral. If $f$ is Henstock-Kurtzweil integrable on $[a,b]$, and we define $F$ by $F(x) = HK\int_a^x f(t)\,dt$, then $F$ is continuous on $[a,b]$, $F'=f$ almost everywhere, and $f$ is Lebesgue measurable.
Dominated Convergence for Henstock-Kurzweil Integral. If $\{f_k\}$ is a sequence of Henstock-Kurzweil integrable functions that converge pointwise to $f$ on $[a,b]$, and there exist Henstock-Kurzweil integrable functions $\phi$ and $\psi$ such that $\phi\leq f_k\leq \psi$ for all $k$, then $f$ is Henstock-Kurzweil integrable and $$HK\int_a^b f(x)\,dx = \lim HK\int_a^b f_k(x)\,dx.$$
The integrals above are given in increasing order of strength, in the following sense: if $f$ is a function on $[a,b]$, then: $$\begin{align*} f\text{ is Cauchy integrable on }[a,b] &\Longrightarrow f\text{ is Riemann integrable on }[a,b]\\ &\Longrightarrow f\text{ is Lebesgue integrable on }[a,b]\\ &\Longrightarrow f\text{ is Henstock-Kurzweil integrable on }[a,b] \end{align*}$$ and none of the implications are reversible. The Riemann-Stieltjes (and its variant, the Lebesgue-Stieltjes) integral is not included in the chain of implications, because integrability there depends on both the function $f$ and the function $\phi$.
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$\begingroup$ As far as I can tell, this is the third fantastic answer of yours based on that book. I definitely need to take a look at it! See here and here to see what I mean. $\endgroup$ – t.b. Jun 24 '11 at 17:45
$\begingroup$ @Theo: Thanks for the kind words. The book is very interesting, and very readable. Highly recommended. $\endgroup$ – Arturo Magidin Jun 24 '11 at 18:46
I only have a partial answer.
First of all, try drawing some figures that could belong to those theorems, then they don't seem so mysterious at all.
If a function $f:[a,b] \to \mathbf R$ is Riemann integrable then it is Lebesgue integrable and the integrals coincide.
If $f:[a,b] \to \mathbf R$ is bounded then $f$ is Riemann integrable if and only if the points where $f$ is discontinuous on $(a,b)$ is a null set.
Conversely if we consider the second equation then according to the Lebesgue differentiation theorem we obtain $f(x)$ "almost everywhere".
This gives an answer to your last question.
Another comment is that it is for some problems fine to think about an integral as the area under the curve but for more "advanced" analysis this is not so suitable. I think of them as linear operators.
$\begingroup$ That is a good addition. $\endgroup$ – Jonas Teuwen Jun 23 '11 at 23:24
$\begingroup$ Aaah, finally! Hard earned. $\endgroup$ – t.b. Jun 23 '11 at 23:34
$\begingroup$ You probably already know this but it is worth stating that even though one usually views the Lebesgue integral as an operator, one can also view the Lebesgue integral as "the area under the graph" (using Fubini's theorem, for example). $\endgroup$ – Amitesh Datta Jun 24 '11 at 2:02
The following answer might be somewhat sophisticated but it presents a rather intuitive proof of the Lebesgue differentiation theorem based on the weak type (1,1) property satisfied by the Hardy-Littlewood maximal operator. More specifically, the following result is known as Lebesgue's differentiation theorem:
Lebesgue's differentiation theorem: For any locally integrable function $f$ on $\mathbb{R}^n$ we have
$\lim_{r\to 0} \frac{1}{\left|B(x,r)\right|} \int_{B(x,r)} f(y)dy = f(x)$
for almost all $x\in \mathbb{R}^n$. Consequently we have $\left|f\right|\leq {\cal M}(f)$ a.e.
The idea is that if we can control the operator $T^{*}$ defined by the rule $T^{*}(f)=\sup_{r>0} \left|\int_{B(x,r)} f(y)dy\right|$ by an operator with nice boundedness properties (e.g., the Hardy-Littlewood maximal operator), then we can prove the differentiation theorem above. More precisely, we prove the differentiation theorem above for continuous functions $f$ with compact support (this is easy), and we then use the density of the space of compactly supported continuous functions in $L^1$.
Intuitively, the "trick" is that the boundedness properties of the operator $T^{*}$ imply a certain "bounded oscillation condition" that allows us to prove the result for all locally integrable functions using the validity of the result for compactly supported continuous functions. The more precise explanation can be found in Loukas Grafakos' "Classical and Modern Fourier Analysis", Chapter 2, Section 1, Theorem 2.1.14, page 86.
I like this proof of the differentiation theorem very much because it uses the weak type (1,1) property of the Hardy-Littlewood maximal operator and is based on a result that has various applications (including the solution of the Dirichlet problem in upper half space). Finally, it provides ample evidence for the importance of the Hardy-Littlewood maximal operator in harmonic analysis.
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The Value of Affect: Perception and Media in India today
Posted: May 31, 2010 in Becoming, Benjamin, Bergson, Bollywood, Causality, Cinema, Clinamen, Deleuze, dialectic, Ecology of Sensation, Experiments with vision, India, Method, Mobile Phones, New Media, Nietzsche, Organized Networks, Perception, Photography, Photography of India, Public Sphere, Time, Zen
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Abstract: This essay aims to diagram the set of connectivities (or “system of relations”) developing in business outsourcing affective, communicative labor and the value-adding digital image in contemporary Hindi-Urdu cinema. What emerges is a resonant set of nested temporalities constituting a new media assemblage. Throughout, I draw on a set of analyses that has developed the notion of affective labor as a decisive break in the organization of value under capital. In this work by feminist political economists, postcolonial critics, and Marxist phenomenologists, affect becomes the substance of interaction and communication: distinct from “emotion,” affect is defined by its relational, bodily character, and cannot be reduced to an internalized feeling. In that regard, affect is considered pre-individual, operating in that moving strata of being and becoming where the subject and populations meet. Affect is both virtual and actual at once, it is an emergent, incipient space of mutation and potential as well as the site of modulation, control, and capitalist valorization. Theoretical frameworks that have brought together Marx, Freud, Foucault, and Deleuze have conceived of affective labor using terms such as desiring production, and more significantly, numerous feminist investigations, analyzing the potentials within what has been designated traditionally as women’s work, have grasped affective labor with terms such as kin work and caring labor [or “labor in the bodily mode”]. Through an analysis of No smoking (Kashyap, 2008) and Office Tigers (Mermin, 2006), I explore the singular emergence of affective labor in the South Asian context, in pervasive processes that are informatizing (rendering as/through data) various forms of life and work. I correlate the function of affective labor in both business outsourcing and digital media through analyses of two key modalities: the evolving functionality of information in the nonlinear, open system of computer technology; and the modulation of subjectivity in the capacities of attention and sensation of value creation.
Distributed Networks: On Security, Terror, Mobility and Other Sensations
Posted: April 19, 2010 in Becoming, Bergson, Clinamen, Deleuze, Ecology of Sensation, India, Method, Mobile Phones, New Media, Organized Networks, Perception, Probabilistic chips, social viscosity, Swarms
This lecture is based on research conducted in Delhi-NCR and Mumbai on mobile phone cultures over the past nine months. This research has focused on changing patterns of use emerging from shifts in relations of power between government, network providers, content producers, value added companies, and communities of active users across urban and rural space. The wager of my research is that a new ecology of sensation is emerging through an evolving, globally distributed security apparatus. This apparatus has become centered on controlling populations as searchable digital information, while mutating the biopolitical project of maximizing productive capacity and minimizing risk.
Flow:
1. What is a Media Assemblage?
2. Why is it particularly appropriate for diagramming Mobile phone networks?
3. Emergent properties, critical thresholds, and phase transitions of multiplicities
4. Types of connectivity: Security, interoperability, and standardization (ICON, TRAI regulations); pirated connections (ends up valorizing what you are stealing, non-standardized, on the margins of control); and the strategic refusal (Naxalite sabotage); pre-empting emergence: keep control but enable capitalist innovation and value creation
5. Intensive gradients of populations cannot be understood through linguistic categories, we need tools to be able to model intensive gradients of perception, meaning, rates of flow, density of connectivity…etc
6. This leads to a perspective where we take the body’s sensorimotor processes seriously as a mode of unmediated connectivity to media. UNMEDIATED. DIRECT. But with a history. Patterned but unpredictable, as virtual as it is actual, ecologies of sensation are evolving fields of sense, value, and force. So we can understand in this way the mobile phone as directly productive of sensation: in narrative: the mobile phone is a sensational technology (Dev.D), a dangerous device (A Wednesday), and passage into an intercalated timespace (the private bubble around the bodies of people in public places so common in Hindi cinema)…The mobile phone in cinema has become banal, a device assumed to be everyday for postcolonial modernity…VAS production: the creation of sensation through viral content and “necessary” services.
7. Art and Mobile Phones: The Creative deployment of the mobile: social viscosities project, GPS and mapping, the camera (Kainaz’s iPhone photography), the mobile dropping out of the pants video, use of the camera, text novels in Japan
a. Dialtones: A Telesymphony. There are a few different interactive mobile phone performance art pieces that I am aware of but this is by far the coolest of the bunch. Basically, when you come to see this show you (and your cell phone) actually become a part of the show. You register the phone number of your cell phone so that it gets linked with your seat. Then the show starts and it involves the ringing of your cell phone with new ringtones that have been added to it to make it more musical. Your phone and the phones around you are all ringing as part of this amazingly beautiful musical piece. It’s music but it’s made using mobile phones. It happened way back in 2001 but I still think it’s a magical piece to remember today. http://www.flong.com/projects/telesymphony/
b. Cell Phone Movies by Giselle Beigulman. This artist actually uses the mobile phone to create art by taking different models of cell phones and using the video recorder on them to record different scenes in movement whenever she is on buses or trains or in the car. These videos are then combined together to make cell phone movies of the subjects that she has taken video footage of. Learn more her
c. Phonetic Faces. This is another one of those interactive art pieces that utilizes mobile phones. In this case, the Phonetic Faces exhibit is set up (it’s been in various galleries around the world) and people at the exhibit can come add to the piece. They do so by calling a specific cell phone number which tells them how to choose images to collage together as part of the piece and then also allows them to upload their own picture for use in the collage. Essentially, this captures the visitors to the exhibit in images but also alters the piece through their contributions. That’s public art at its best and it has the cell phone at its core.
d. http://www.textually.org/textually/archives/2007/01/014567.htm
8. Social Viscosities: cuts both ways…. After a certain threshold of connectivity, the network (which includes but is not reducible to people’s use, no one part of the open, distributed system is decisive, what is decisive is the emergent properties that take hold with the nonlinear interaction of these components), the system takes on a kind of life, it becomes self-organizing after a gradient of probabilistic functionality, a gradient of connectivity…
a. Self-organizing networks doesn’t mean that this is utopic, without hierarchies of power, or resistant
b. Sensation gets us out of the dialectic of docility-agency.
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Posted: March 30, 2010 in Becoming, Bergson, Clinamen, Deleuze, Ecology of Sensation, India, Method, Photography of Mumbai, social viscosity, Swarms, Time
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Posted: March 5, 2010 in Becoming, Benjamin, Bergson, Bollywood, Brain, Cinema, Clinamen, Deleuze, Ecology of Sensation, India, Method, New Media, Nietzsche, Perception, Public Sphere, Representation, social viscosity, Swarms, Zen
Tags: affect, Amit S. Rai, assemblage, duration, media, New Media, Photography
This video is a montage of the images with their digital “originals.” I think the video helps defetishize the images, that is it makes the compositing processes a little more palpable. Changing the level of detail changes the sharpness of the color transitions. The processes involved in perception traversing these gradients is what I have been insisting we understand politically, economically, technologically, bodily. At once and altogether. An ecology of sensation, where ecology is understood as a system far from equilibrium involved in creative resonance with other forces, ecologies, material and informational flows.
Arriving trains, Chembur Station
On Social Viscosities: diagramming the flows of mobile media in India
Posted: February 19, 2010 in Causality, Clinamen, Deleuze, dialectic, Ecology of Sensation, India, Method, Organized Networks, Precarity, ressentiment, social viscosity
Sensation and its ecologies get us beyond the pleasure-agency / consumption-docility binary that characterizes radical political thought today. This is simply because sensation is not the synthesis of the dialectic, it is not involved ontologically in dialectics at all. Sensation involves the creative mixing of the virtual and the actual. Deleuze writes, “sensation has no [objective and subjective] sides at all; it is both things, indissolubly; it is being-in-the-world, as the phenomenologists say: at the same time I become in sensation and something arrives through sensation, one through the other, one in the other” (Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation 27; qtd. in Elena del Rio, “Alchemies of Thought in Godard’s Cinema: Deleuze and Merleau-Ponty,” SubStance, Vol. 34, No. 3, Issue 108: French Cinema Studies 1920s to the Present (2005), pp. 62-78, 62). Sensation emerges in gradients of intensity, movement, density, synaesthesia, passing through critical thresholds of becoming, complexly mixing in self-differentiating affective processes across value, sense, and force. As bodies and technologies assemble across delivery platforms emergent properties and co-evolutionary trajectories partly actualize virtual futures, repetitively, stochastically. Sensation also gets us out of the morality of the pleasure-agency / consumption-docility binary, a morality of ressentiment and a practice of “good vs. bad” representation. What we need to affirm in media studies and critical theory today is not the pious memory of the subaltern, but the processes (cultural, institutional, economic, subjective) that have been rendered as products in analyses that seek to bring the subaltern to voice. Dispense with subaltern pieties, return to movement, consider its diagram of change, its variable dimensions, its ecology of becoming. If we attend to the function of a bodily event, if we consider such events in the act of exceeding their actualization, we come to consider the politics of the virtual and the becoming of sensation (I owe this point to a conversation sociologist Shilpa Phadke and I had on a feminist response to lingerie ads in Mumbai, India).
We need therefore to pose clearly what method would allow living the chance of a becoming away from the binary between docility and resistance. What Ned Rossiter and Brett Neilson’s article (“Precarity as a Political Concept, or, Fordism as Exception,” Theory Culture Society 2008; 25; 51) helped bring out for me was the set of problems in which one locates one’s practice. For me this set is best analyzed as they suggest in their article as the “movement of movements.” Someone very wise it was who said “Follow the Movements!” Rossiter and Neilson’s frame of reference includes such names as Agamben, Foucault, Schmidt, Spivak, Mouffe, Berlant, Hardt and Negri, and Lazzarato. This is their abstract:
In 2003, the concept of precarity emerged as the central organizing platform for a series of social struggles that would spread across the space of Europe. Four years later, almost as suddenly as the precarity movement appeared, so it would enter into crisis. To understand precarity as a political concept it is necessary to go beyond economistic approaches that see social conditions as determined by the mode of production. Such a move requires us to see Fordism as exception and precarity as the norm. The political concept and practice of translation enables us to frame the precarity of creative labour in a broader historical and geographical perspective, shedding light on its contestation and relation to the concept of the common. Our interest is in the potential for novel forms of connection, subjectivization and political organization. Such processes of translation are themselves inherently precarious, transborder undertakings.
Urbz Mashup Mumbai
Posted: November 3, 2009 in Becoming, Ecology of Sensation, Experiments with vision, India, Photography of India, Photography of Mumbai, Public Sphere
Tags: assemblage, biopower, Bollywood, creativity, duration, film
Nul Bazaar for Urbz Mashup:
Edward Talkies, Dhobi Talab, Kalbadevi, Mumbai:
Be Like Water / Edward Talkies (Kalbadevi, Mumbai)
Memory, Sensation, Duration in Contemporary Media Assemblages in India
Posted: February 6, 2009 in India, New Media, Time, Value
Tags: assemblage, Becoming, biopower, cell phones, duration, habit, machinic phylum, New Media, ontology, technology, temporality, value added
I am attempting to think through the implications for media assmeblage analysis of the connection that Bergson makes between the body and duration. This is an excerpt from an article I recently wrote. It may appear in South Asian Culture and History.
The main point here for the purposes of this paper, is that Office Tiger presents itself as a corporation that provides measurable value-added services to Western firms, but these quantities are abstractions from the streams of immeasurable and immense values of immaterial and affective labor. This is the labor that inhabits, enables and exceeds the boundaries between home and office, between merit and privilege, between men and women, and between work time and leisure time. It is this space of creativity in between times that Office Tiger attempts to control as its own domain. Indeed, it is the value of temporality itself (starting work on-time, the duration of the work day, the intensification of labor-time through multi-tasking: Aneesh’s “time zone warp,” Deleuze’s Untimely plane of immanence from which the variable present only flows) that is most under attack and occupation by the pedagogies of Office Tiger.
It will be no surprise that this transvaluation of value is central to the actual connectivity between work and information technology, established through an algorithm-based governance structure that Aneesh terms “algocratic.” As Upadhya remarks in her review of Aneesh’s study, the algocratic mode of hegemony depends on technology, especially information technology, which structures work routines and workplace behaviour: in the post-industrial economy many work tasks are now performed through computers and the symbolic manipulation of code, giving rise to new systems of control, based on the coding process. “The algocratic mode has enabled new global flows of information labour as well as control over geographically dispersed workers through constant online access and monitoring, as seen in the model of geographically and temporally ‘distributed development’ followed by Indian software outsourcing companies.” Indeed, the digitization of information and its circulation in real time across the globe is the single most important catalyst for this transvaluation of value. For his part, Hardt notes that one “novel aspect of the computer is that it can continually modify its own operation through its use. Even the most rudimentary forms of artificial intelligence allow the computer to expand and perfect operation based on interaction with its user and environment.”
It is the value-added to specific cinematic clichés by information technology that brings me to a consideration of contemporary Bollywood cinema. I have argued in Untimely Bollywood that contemporary Hindi-Urdu cinema is undergoing a definite phase transition, and that by diagramming the set of durations (or vibratory fields) assembled through the various processes constituting cinema—time embodied in form—we could begin to write a nonlinear history of South Asian media. Giorgos Artopoulos and Eduardo Condorcet note that in Bernard Cache’s analysis of the assemblage entered into by a kite, a method for diagramming “inflections on surfaces of varied curvature” becomes available to thought and practice. “In doing so, he describes the evolution of a form, and its shaping force in time. With the use of advanced geometries, time can be embodied in form—form—for example the kite—is the ‘site’ for the calculation of multiple forces. Digitally-generated environments to be inhabited by a ‘player’ raise the issue of human presence in the space-less environment of the computer” (214). Cinema as inflections moving, embodied in time, in form, and always doubled by the Untimely: this would alas, be too metaphorical, and hence useless, for an effective diagram. But let us progressively differentiate this metaphor, and show the set of intensive entities constituting it.
One way to consider duration ontologically is to follow the relations it enters into. Deleuze suggested that there are definite properties of duration. “Pulsed time and non-pulsed time are completely musical, but they are something else as well. The question would be to know what makes up this non-pulsed time. This kind of floating time that more or less corresponds to what Proust called “a bit of pure time.” The most obvious, the most immediate feature of…non-pulsed time is duration, time freed from measure, be it a regular or irregular, simple or complex measure. Non-pulsed time puts us first and foremost in the presence of a multiplicity of heterochronous, qualitative, non-coincident, non-communicating durations. The problem therefore is clear: how will these heterochronous, heterogeneous, multiple, non-coincident durations join together…” Durations do not (necessarily) communicate, but they do join together. What I have been calling a non-coinciding resonant unity is this “joining together” of duration yielding a media assemblage with emergent properties. Through embedded or transversal time-scales, a non-pulsed time mobilizes self-organization, morphogenesis and a virtual plane. Following Deleuze’s suggestion for a biological understanding of temporal cycles, Delanda puts the problem thus:
Thinking about the temporality involved in individuation processes as embodying the parallel operation of many different sequential processes throws new light on the question of the emergence of novelty. If embryological processes followed a strictly sequential order, that is, if a unique linear sequence of events defined the production of an organism, then any novel structures would be constrained to be added at the end of the sequence….On the contrary, if embryonic development occurs in parallel, if bundles of relatively independent processes occur simultaneously, then new designs may arise from disengaging bundles, or more precisely, from altering the duration of one process relative to another, or the relative timing of the start or end of a process. This evolutionary design strategy is known as heterochrony…”
If heterochrony is the necessary condition of affective capacities, then sexuality (praxis) finds its non-coinciding incipience here as an ecology of sensation, in folded bundles of parallel processes, that disengage, feedback, and mutate. It is this heterochronous duration that marks both the immensity of affective labor, and its susceptibility to control. It also limns an edge of chaos in the phase transition of contemporary Bollywood.
Eddies within eddies, without a trace. The great challenge of Deleuze’s notion of hearing the inaudible is to open the body’s perception to resonating durations in a continuous multiplicity. This is not easy, but there is an intuition necessary to it.
In a review of Virtual Migrations: The Programming of Globalization, Carol Upadhya highlights A. Aneesh’s description of two contrasting systems of Indian software labour deployment—bodyshopping and virtual migration. “Although there is some ethnographic description of the transnational experiences of Indian software workers that place them in an unsettled, interstitial space, the experiences of offshore software workers remain unaddressed. Instead, he focuses on the systems of control that have emerged to govern dispersed IT labour. He argues that virtual software labour migration is characterised by spatial integration (in which work is delinked from the work site) and temporal integration (in which workers in different time zones are linked together), and that this has led to the emergence of a new ‘governance scheme’ and organisational structures. The former are labelled as ‘algocratic’ or in accordance with the rule of algorithm, as distinct from the earlier governance schemes of bureaucratic and panoptical dominance” (Carol Upadhya, Review of Virtual Migrations, in Contributions to Indian Sociology, 42:2, 2008, 344-347, 345). Upadhya expresses some skepticism of the extension of code to various forms of globalization in India, noting, “I am suspicious of the extension of the metaphors of ‘code’ and ‘programming’ to such a wide range of phenomena and processes: while he is attempting to provide a fresh formulation to describe these forms, the excessive use of these terms may appear more clever than insightful” (346). In what sense is code not a metaphor? Here we would insist that code is the very ontology of social relatedness, the form of value itself, in such IT labor. Negri defines immaterial labor and explicates its implications thus: “Today we face a tendency towards the hegemony of immaterial work (intellectual, scientific, cognitive, relational, communicative, affective, etc.) increasingly characterizing both the mode of production and processes of valorization. It goes without saying that this form of work is entirely subordinate to new modes of accumulation and exploitation. We can no longer interpret these according to the time employed in production. Cognitive work is not measurable in those terms; it is even characterized by its immensurability, its excess. A productive relation links cognitive work to the time of life. It is nourished by life as much as it modifies it in return, and its products are those of freedom and imagination. This creativity is precisely the excess that characterizes it” (Antonio Negri, The Porcelain Workshop, Noura Wedell, trans., [Los Angeles: Semiotext(e), 2008] 20).
Aneesh, Virtual Migration 2.
Upadhya 345.
“Rather than the politicization of real abstraction that Virno gleans from the supposed collapse of labor qua measure, Cillario sees the current figure of real abstraction as centering on the proliferation and production of new procedures, of codes of production, of transmissible ‘hows’ rather than measurable ‘whats’. The organizational codifications of the processes in which incommensurate use values are produced becomes central, but the locus of abstraction becomes not labor per se, or commodity-exchange, but the role of cognition within the laboring process. Even if procedures themselves are then subjected to the standards of exchange (i.e., they in turn become products), their centrality to a capitalism that more and more takes the figure of ‘flexible accumulation’ marks a mutation in the character of real abstraction. As Cillario writes, ‘‘The incessant impetus aimed at the change in the methods and procedures of laboring activities is the generative nucleus of the abstractive process of knowledge’’ (1990, 168 /9). The centrality of procedures also means that, in a way that is not necessarily pregnant with emancipatory possibilities, reflexivity is at the heart of contemporary capitalism. That is, it is not just the abstraction of capital’s forms, but its colonization of cognition, that is crucial to an understanding of the present. ‘‘The concept of abstraction which is adequate to the phase in which knowledge becomes capital stems from the reflexive character of the process of social labor’’ (Cillario 1990, 168; 1996, 52)” (Toscano, Alberto, “The Open Secret of Real Abstraction,” Rethinking Marxism, 20:2 (2008), 273—287).
Hardt 94.
Stuart Kauffman’s elegant definition of a phase transition is useful to recall here. In At Home in the Universe, he writes that “when a large enough number of reactions are catalyzed in a chemical reaction system, a vast web of catalyzed reactions will suddenly crystallize. Such a web, it turns out, is almost certainly autocatalytic—almost certainly self-sustaining, alive” (58); “The ratio of possible reactions to polymers is so vast that eventually a giant catalyzed component and autocatalytic sets emerge. Given almost any way in which nature might determine which chemicals catalyze which reactions, a critical molecular diversity is reached at which the number or red catalyzed reactions passes a phase transition and a vast web of chemicals crystallizes in the system. This vast web is, it turns out, almost always collectively autocatalytic” (65).
Gilles Deleuze, “Making Inaudible Forces Audible,” in Two Regimes of Madness, Amy Hodges and Mike Taormina, trans. (New York: Semiotexte, 2006) 156-160, 157.
Delanda, Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy, Ch. 2, 110?
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Category Pakistan – Improvements
Mosque versus state
Updated a day ago
http://www.dawn.com/news/1156025/mosque-versus-state
The writer teaches physics in Lahore and Islamabad.
THE mosque in Pakistan is now no longer just a religious institution. Instead it has morphed into a deeply political one that seeks to radically transform culture and society. Actively assisted by the state in this mission in earlier decades, the mosque is a powerful actor over which the state now exercises little authority. Some have been captured by those who fight the government and military. An eviscerated, embattled state finds it easier to drop bombs on the TTP in tribal Waziristan than to rein in its urban supporters, or to dismiss from state payroll those mosque leaders belonging to militant groups.
Very few Pakistanis have dared to criticise the country’s increasingly powerful mosque establishment although they do not spare the Pakistan Army and the country’s political leaders for their many shortcomings. For example, following the Army Public School massacre, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s promise to regulate the madressahs was immediately criticised as undoable. Had he instead suggested that Pakistan’s mosques be brought under state control as in Saudi Arabia, Iran and several Muslim countries, it would have been dismissed as belonging to even beyond the undoable.
The state’s timidity was vividly exposed in its handling of the 2007 bloody insurrection, launched from inside Islamabad’s central mosque, Lal Masjid, barely a mile from the heart of Pakistan’s government. It was a defining point in Pakistan’s history. The story of the Lal Masjid insurrection, its bloody ending, and subsequent rebound is so critical to understanding the limitations of Pakistan’s fight against terrorism that it deserves to be told once again.
Very few Pakistanis have dared to criticise the country’s increasingly powerful mosque establishment.
In early January 2007, the two head clerics of the Lal Masjid demanded the immediate rebuilding of eight illegally constructed mosques knocked down by the civic authorities. Days later, an immediate enforcement of Sharia in Islamabad was demanded. Armed vigilante groups from Jamia Hafsa and nearby madressahs kidnapped ordinary citizens and policemen, threatened shopkeepers, burned CDs and videos, and repeated the demands of tribal militants fighting the Pakistan Army.
At a meeting held in Lal Masjid on April 6, 2007, it was reported that 100 guest religious leaders from across the country pledged to die for the cause of Islam and Sharia. On April 12, in an illegal FM broadcast from the mosque’s own radio station, the clerics issued a threat to the government: “There will be suicide blasts in every nook and cranny of the country. We have weapons, grenades and we are expert in manufacturing bombs. We are not afraid of death….”
The brothers Abdul Aziz and Abdur Rashid Ghazi, who headed the Lal Masjid, had attracted a core of militant organisations around them, including the pioneer of suicide bombings in the region, Jaish-e-Mohammad. Their goal was to change Pakistan’s culture. On April 12, 2007, Rashid Ghazi, a former student of Quaid-i-Azam University, broadcast the following chilling message to our female students:
“The government should abolish co-education. Quaid-i-Azam University has become a brothel. Its female professors and students roam in objectionable dresses. They will have to hide themselves in hijab otherwise they will be punished according to Islam…. Our female students have not issued the threat of throwing acid on the uncovered faces of women. However, such a threat could be used for creating the fear of Islam among sinful women. There is no harm in it.”
For months, unhindered by Gen Musharraf’s government, Lal Masjid operated a parallel government. Its minions received the Saudi Arabian ambassador on the mosque premises, and negotiated with the Chinese ambassador for the release of his country’s kidnapped nationals. The showdown came in July 2007. Copious TV coverage showed armed madressah students with gas masks firing away into the dense smoke. The final push left 10 of Pakistan’s crack SSG commandos dead, together with scores of madressah students. A tidal wave of suicide attacks — as promised by the cleric brothers — duly followed.
Amazingly Pakistan’s civilian courts exonerated Abdul Aziz and Umme Hassan (his wife, who headed Jamia Hafsa). Ignoring TV footage, the court ruled that possession of heavy weaponry by the accused could not be proven. Today Abdul Aziz remains firmly ensconced in Lal Masjid and hundreds pray behind him. He has threatened to unleash a force of 8,000 students from nearby madressahs if he is again arrested. At the behest of the then chief justice Iftikhar Chaudhry, the destroyed Jamia Hafsa was awarded 20 kanals of choice land in sector H-11 of Islamabad for rebuilding. The land tycoon, Malik Riaz, lavishly reconstructed the damaged mosque.
How many other Abdul Aziz’s does Pakistan have? Clerics who propagate Taliban and Daesh (Islamic State) views to their followers and who, like Aziz, are unmoved by the Peshawar massacre? No one knows even the number of mosques in Pakistan, where they are located, and, most importantly, what their khutbas (sermons) contain. This must change if Pakistan is to make any progress towards containing religious violence.
The first baby step towards bringing an estimated 100,000 to 200,000 mosques under state control requires tasking local authorities at the district and tehsil level with documentation: mosque locations, sizes, religious affiliation, and known sources of funding. The second is to monitor Friday sermons, a possibility offered by modern technology. Many worshippers have mobile phones capable of recording audio. A sermon, once recorded, could be uploaded to a website operated by the Ministry of Religious Affairs. Readers wishing to see how this might be done should visit http://imams.mashalbooks.org/ where sermons from scores of mosques in rural Punjab have been recorded, transcribed, and categorised for full and free public access.
A crisis is said to be a terrible thing to waste. Before the horror of the Peshawar atrocity fades from our collective memory let the state act decisively — albeit in small steps — to restore its right to regulate religious activities within its boundaries. Else the people of Pakistan shall continue to suffer terribly.
Published in Dawn, January 10th, 2015
By sydney2020 Posted in Islam and ignorance and corrupt dictators, Pakistan - Improvements, Pakistan - Low Investment Tagged Mosque in Pakistan, Mullah in Pakistan, Pakistan Mosque vs State, Wahhabi Pakistan
Pakistan Politics near 14 Aug 14
http://www.zemtv.com/2014/08/03/mere-mutabiq-with-hassan-nisar-3rd-august-2014/
By sydney2020 Posted in Islam and ignorance and corrupt dictators, Pakistan - Improvements, Qasim and Hasan Nisar Tagged 14 Aug 14 Hassan Nisar
ARMY architects of disasters and disgrace go scot-free
The merchants of menace
Those questioning this dogma are instantly labelled traitors and ostracised while the architects of disasters and disgrace go scot-free
Dr Mohammad Taqi
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/opinion/10-Jul-2014/the-merchants-of-menace
His clients ranged from Libya to North Korea and properties from Timbuktu to Dubai. At the height of his power his net worth was reportedly $ 400 million. His face, with a Hilteresque moustache, appeared on the February 14, 2005 Time magazine cover captioned ‘The Merchant of Menace’. That man was Dr Abdul Qadir Khan and his trade was nuclear proliferation. While everyone on his trail was convinced that Dr Khan could not have run a sprawling network of aeroplanes and yachts shuttling his P-1 and P-2 centrifuges across international airspace and maritime borders all by himself, the Pakistani authorities insisted that he was a lone wolf. The recent revelations by the former spokesman of the Pakistani armed forces, General (retired) Athar Abbas about the ex-army chief, General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani, make it sound as if Kayani — like Dr A Q Khan — alone was responsible for the monumental mess Pakistan made in the North Waziristan Agency and the terrorist menace it peddled in the region.
Dovetailing with General Abbas’ disclosures about his former boss is a slew of panegyrics praising the incumbent Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif as the ‘soldier’s soldier’ by the same coterie of analysts and anchors who once celebrated General Kayani as the ‘thinking soldier’ who alone had ostensibly changed the army’s doctrine and identified domestic jihadism as the existential threat to the country. The chief has retired; long live the chief! How convenient indeed except that General Kayani did what his institution had trained and required him to do, like the chiefs before him. Was General Ayub Khan alone in staging the 1958 coup d’état? Did he not have Lieutenant Generals Mohammad Azam Khan, Wajid Burki and K M Sheikh with him all the way? Did General Yahya Khan pull off his putsch all by himself? Did Major Generals Ghulam Umar and Sher Ali Khan Pataudi not prod the deep-in-the-cups dictator? Was that most evil of them all, General Ziaul Haq, the sole architect of so-called Operation Fair Play on July 4, 1977? Did Generals Faiz Ali Chishti, Sawar Khan, Iqbal Khan, Jehanzeb Arbab, Fazl-e-Haq, Rahimuddin Khan and K M Arif not go the whole hog with Zia? And was the commando dictator General Musharraf not airborne still when Generals Aziz Khan, Mahmud Ahmad and Muzzafar Usmani wrapped up Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his government on October 12, 1999? Barring a handful of honourable exceptions during the army’s brutal campaign in Bangladesh, did any general ever refuse to carry out unlawful orders and resign?
General Kayani may be an easy punching bag but he, his predecessors and his successor are chips off that same old block, which avoids accountability like the plague. An institution that produced four overtly adventurist chiefs, suffered humiliation in four wars, brutalised the Bengalis and Baloch, meddles incessantly in civilian affairs and has no culture of accountability has a lot to answer for. Instead, stonewalling civilian inquiries into debacles like Kargil or forcing politicians to suppress damning findings like the Hamoodur Rehman or the Abbottabad Commissions’ reports is the military’s standard operating procedure. Even internal inquests into military disasters like the 1965 twin operations Gibraltar and Grand Slam are scarce and read more like a biography or a travelogue than a professional analysis of the rout. Rather than acknowledging and rectifying institutional shortcomings, the military has, for decades, commissioned analysts to write a revisionist history in which even the 1971 resounding defeat is portrayed as a betrayal by the “untrustworthy and Hindu-ised” Bengalis who had “conspired with India”. This poppycock is then taught as the gospel truth in Pakistani schools and, along with other fairytales, passes for history. Those questioning this dogma are instantly labelled traitors and ostracised while the architects of disasters and disgrace go scot-free.
Whatever General Athar Abbas has said is merely partial truth. The key question is if it was Kayani or the outfit he headed that incubated the jihadist legions in North Waziristan. As discussed in this column for years now, General Kayani refused to act against the jihadists in North Waziristan because that risked disrupting the security establishment’s meticulously crafted ‘good/bad’ Taliban tactic — a bedrock of Pakistan’s Afghanistan policy before the good jihadists could be let loose on Afghanistan come 2014’s US withdrawal. Kayani, along with Musharraf, was the architect of the establishment’s good/bad Taliban ruse to keep the US off their backs. The security establishment stoked anti-US sentiments through its assets in the media and the religio-political parties, and then used it as an excuse not to act in North Waziristan ‘under US pressure’ lest it provoke a hyper-nationalist and jihadist backlash. Kayani could not have carried out this convoluted narrative management without his top media manager who has suddenly spoken out now.
The series of operations conducted under Kayani’s command left the good Taliban unscathed and the Zarb-e-Azb offensive is no different. All major operations were announced with fanfare, giving advance warning to the jihadists to flee, as has happened in North Waziristan now. Other than netting Muslim Khan of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) through a talks ploy, no top good or bad jihadist ringleader has been captured or killed in any of the grand sounding military operations conducted to date. The US drones have taken out almost all the TTP and Haqqani network leaders killed thus far. The bravado in the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) communiqués notwithstanding, reports from the locals suggest that Zarb-e-Azb’s outcome will be no different. Two weeks into the ground assault there is no independent verification of the army’s claims of killing hundreds of terrorists. The handpicked embedded journalists are en route to croak victory from North Waziristan soon. Another round of the mock whack-a-mole with the jihadists nears its completion. Unfortunately, the tremendous human cost of this eyewash is being paid by the 800,000 Pashtun civilians uprooted from their homes.
Shifting blame for past disasters to political governments, General Kayani or for that matter even the ISI is a mere diversion to insulate the military establishment against domestic and international criticism for allowing the domestic, regional and transnational jihadists consort freely in North Waziristan resulting in the deaths and maiming of thousands of innocents. The buck in this instance stops not with General Kayani but with his institution. General Raheel Sharif’s pronouncement to fight terrorists of all shades is welcome indeed but without ushering in a robust and transparent institutional accountability that assembly line will keep producing more merchants of menace who, contrary to whatever anyone says, have never acted alone.
Aziz Ihsan • 4 hours ago
Listen Mr. Taqi, the self proclaimed father of all the truth and nothing but the truth since you know damn everything which happens on this green earth.
Not sure but since Maj-Gen ® Athar Abbas was of Maj-Gen rank but his
rank doesn’t make him privy to decisions made in the Corp Commanders /formation commanders meetings, where the normal rank is of Lt-Gen.
AQK is the BIGGEST FRAUD and TRAITOR Pakistan has ever seen.
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Truth Aziz Ihsan • 3 hours ago
What is it that you disagree with the writer? The writer is just pointing the obvious. he is trying to open eyes like yours. Counter his points with what you got. A media manager is indeed privy to everything.
Aziz Ihsan Truth • 2 hours ago
I replied in a statement second para which contradicts the validity of Maj-Gen (R) Athar statement. He was not part of Corp/formation commanders meetings. Only officers with rank level of Lt-Gen are present in these meetings. Therefore, how did he come to know that what Kiyani was thinking out loud?
As so called media manager is not present in these meetings. At the end of the meeting one of the Lt-Gen gives out his sanitized notes to the ISPR DG.
Second this Taqi, with a intellectual level of cab driver knows everything about everything.
Nasrullah Khan Wazir Aziz Ihsan • 7 minutes ago
Aziz Ihsan! your comments are not worthy to replied to. They are merely based on malicious rejection of the obvious. People of your sort and ilk bring the sky down to earth when it comes to Israel and India…condemnable as they are for their atrocities…but you will never say a word about the blood shed of Pashtun being shed under the shadow of Afghan policy being engineered by the Generals.
Chaudhry Z. Ahmad • 4 hours ago
Congratulations, Dr. Taqi – couldn’t have been written more succinctly! Is there anyone listening?
By sydney2020 Posted in Pakistan - Improvements, Pakistan - Low Investment, Population and Economic Problems Tagged ISI, Pakistan Army, Pakistan Army Disasters, Pakistan Army Taliban support
Walled City of Lahore Authority officially launched on Sunday its guided tours inside the Walled City
http://www.dawn.com/news/1074226/guided-tours-to-walled-city-begin
LAHORE, Dec 15: The Walled City of Lahore Authority officially launched on Sunday its guided tours inside the Walled City after it trained over 20 tourist guides in its first Tourist Guide Course held in June this year.
According to officials, the WCLA conducted a guided tour for “Amateur Gardeners Club” (AGC). Almost 180 members of the club participated in the tour which started from Delhi Gate.
The tourists were taken through the narrow streets, recently restored by the WCLA, including Sabeelwali Gali, Gali Surjan Singh, Mohammadi Mohallah, Phoolonwali Gali, Gali Mian Sultan, Koocha Gubarchiyan, Gali Mian Sultan, Quraishiwali Gali, Katra Jawala Singh and Katra Neemwala. The tourists were taken to Masjid Wazir Khan and Delhi Gate.
Activities of interest were also made available on the site so that the tourists could get familiar with the culture of Walled City. Stalls of cultural and traditional items were put up in Sabeelwali Gali for the tourists. Colorful dhamal and monkey show fascinated the tourists.
Officials said the WCLA would regularly conduct these tours in order to attract domestic tourists to the rich city within a city. “The restoration work on Shahi Guzargah is near completion and a patch from Delhi Gate to Masjid Wazir Khan has been opened up for public,” an official said.
By sydney2020 Posted in Pakistan - Improvements Tagged a guided tour in Lahore, Walled City Lahore
Pakistan for years secretly approved of US drone attacks on its territory
2013-10-24 – Pakistan secretly endorsed drone strikes: report
http://www.dawn.com/news/1051470/pakistan-secretly-endorsed-drone-strikes-report
WASHINGTON: Pakistan for years secretly approved of US drone attacks on its territory despite public denunciations, The Washington Post reported Wednesday, citing secret documents.
The purported evidence of Islamabad’s involvement came as Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif visited the White House and urged an end to the attacks, which are widely unpopular with the Pakistani public.
Pakistani support for drone attacks has long been widely suspected, although strikes reported by the Post involved several years up to 2011 — before a slowdown in strikes and Sharif’s election in May.
The newspaper said that top-secret documents and Pakistani diplomatic memos showed that the Central Intelligence Agency had drafted documents to share information on drone attacks with Pakistan.
The report by the Washington post comes just days after a separate UN report suggested that there was “strong evidence” that top Pakistani military and intelligence officials approved US drone strikes on Pakistani soil during 2004 and 2008.
At least 65 drone strikes were marked for discussion with Pakistan, including through briefings at its embassy in Washington and in materials sent physically to senior officials in Islamabad.
In one case in 2010, a document describes hitting a location “at the request of your government.” Another file referred to a joint effort at picking targets.
The article — co-written by Bob Woodward, one of the two journalists who broke the Watergate scandal in the 1970s — said that the documents also showed that the United States raised concerns that extremists were linked to Pakistan’s powerful intelligence service.
In one incident, then secretary of state Hillary Clinton confronted Pakistan about cell phones and written materials from dead bodies of militants that showed links to the Inter-Services Intelligence agency.
In turn, a Pakistani memo gave the names of 36 US citizens believed to be CIA agents and urged the embassy in Washington not to issue visas to them, the newspaper said.
The report came a day after Amnesty International said that the United States may have broken international law by killing civilians with drones.
It pointed to an October 2012 attack that killed a 68-year-old grandmother as she picked vegetables. For the first six months of 2011, 152 combatants were killed, according to a table cited by the Post that did not list any civilian casualties.
The Obama administration has defended drone strikes as a better way to avoid civilian casualties, saying that it carefully selects Al-Qaeda-linked extremists in lawless parts of Pakistan.
By sydney2020 Posted in How-to Internet and Computers, Islam and ignorance and corrupt dictators, Pakistan - Improvements Tagged Drone killings, Drones
POLIO – Pakistan – Fatwa
Fatwa declares polio vaccine Islamic –
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2013\10\25\story_25-10-2013_pg1_2
LAHORE: The Darul Afta (fatwa council) of Pakistan Ulema Council (PUC) has issued a fatwa, saying that the administration of polio drops to children is not forbidden in Islam. It says prominent scholars and experts of the Muslim world are convinced that polio drops do not contain anything that is harmful to health or against sharia. The fatwa issued from the PUC’s central office refers to Shaykh Al-Azhar of Jamia Al-Azhar Egypt, Maulana Samiul Haq of Darul Uloom Haqqania, Mufti Rafi Usmani, Maulana Zahid Mahmood Qasmi, Mufti Muhammad Naeem, Maulana Abdul Bari of Qabail Ulema Council, Maulana Anwarul Haq Mujahid, PUC Central Chairman Hafiz Muhammad Tahir Mahmood Ashrafi and other Islamic leaders. The fatwa says that the holy Quran and Sunnah command us to provide proper medication to our children. It notes that polio is an incurable disease once infected. There are only three Islamic countries where polio still exists and one of them is Pakistan. Therefore, Islamic scholars have urged parents to administer polio drops to their children. The fatwa also demands the UN formulate laws to ensure global spies are kept away from healthcare organisations. It strongly condemns the actions of Shakil Afridi, a Pakistani physician who helped CIA track al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, and says that people in tribal regions and many areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan have refused to administer polio drops to their children to protest against the actions of Shakil Afridi. staff report
By sydney2020 Posted in Islam and ignorance and corrupt dictators, Pakistan - Improvements, Pakistan - Low Investment Tagged POLIO - Pakistan - Fatwa
Pakistan polio outbreak puts global eradication at risk
Pakistan polio outbreak puts global eradication at risk – Dailytimes Report 19 Oct 2013
* Taliban attacks, vaccine ban leave many children exposed
* Dozens of children paralysed in Waziristan outbreak
* Dramatic progress towards wiping out polio in jeopardy
LONDON: A Taliban ban on vaccination is exacerbating a serious polio outbreak in Pakistan, threatening to derail dramatic progress made this year towards wiping out the disease worldwide, health officials say.
Health teams in Pakistan have been attacked repeatedly since the Taliban denounced vaccines as a Western plot to sterilise Muslims and imposed bans on inoculation in June 2012.
In North Waziristan, a region near the Afghan border that has been cordoned off by the Taliban, dozens of children, many under the age of two, have been crippled by the viral disease in the past six months.
And there is evidence in tests conducted on sewage samples in some of the country’s major cities that the polio virus is starting to spread beyond these isolated pockets and could soon spark fresh polio outbreaks in more densely populated areas.
“We have entered a phase that we were all worried about and were afraid might happen,” Elias Durry, head of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) in Pakistan, told Reuters in a telephone interview.
“The risk is that as long as the virus is still circulating, and as long as we have no means of reaching these children and immunising them to interrupt virus transmission, it could jeopardise everything that has been done so far – not only in Pakistan, but also in the region and around the globe.”
Polio is a highly infectious disease that invades the nervous system and can cause irreversible paralysis in a matter of hours. A $5.5 billion global eradication plan was launched in April with the aim of vaccinating 250 million children multiple times each year to stop the virus finding new footholds, and stepping up surveillance in more than 70 countries.
The virus has been cornered to just a handful of areas in Nigeria, Afghanistan and Pakistan, the three countries where polio is endemic. Global cases have dropped by more than 99.9 percent in less than three decades, from 350,000 in 1985 to just 223 last year, according to the GPEI.
But so far in 2013, there have already been 296 cases worldwide. Forty-three were in Pakistan, the vast majority in children in the semi-autonomous Pashtun lands along the Afghan border known as the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), which include North Waziristan.
Accusations that immunisation campaigns are cover for spies were given credence when it emerged that the United States had used a Pakistani vaccination team to gather intelligence about al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, who was found and killed by US special forces in Pakistan in 2011.
The Taliban ban, and associated security threats, mean the polio virus could easily escape and spread back into previously cleared areas.
Tariq Bhutta of the Pakistan Paediatric Association said there was little prospect that the militant Islamist group would change its stance. He said attacks on health teams attempting to reach children to immunise them were becoming both more frequent and more violent.
“The vaccination teams are still going out, but at risk to their lives,” he told Reuters. “People can come up on motorbikes and shoot them, and they’ve also started attacking the police put there to protect the vaccination teams.” A Taliban bomb that exploded earlier this month near a polio vaccination team in the northwestern city of Peshawar killed two people and appeared to target police assigned to protect the health workers.
“This will only be solved if the polio teams can get access to those children – either inside FATA, or when the children move out into other areas,” Bhutta said. “Without that I don’t see how things can improve. Rather I think things might get more serious when the polio virus gets out into settled areas.”
The GPEI says the FATA is the area with the largest number of children being paralysed by wild poliovirus in all of Asia.
Four polio cases in children in Pakistan were reported in the last week. Because the virus spreads from person to person, the World Health Organisation says as long as any child remains infected, children everywhere are at risk. reuters
By sydney2020 Posted in Islam and ignorance and corrupt dictators, Pakistan - Improvements, Pakistan - Low Investment, Tourism Tagged polio outbreak, Taliban Polio ban
Shahbaz expresses sorrow over KP law minister’s death
* CM stresses need for forging unity to counter terrorism
LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has expressed deep sense of sorrow and grief over the death of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa law minister Israrullah Gandapur and the loss of other precious lives in a suicide attack in Kolachi area of Dera Ismail Khan.
Shahbaz Sharif telephoned Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Pervaiz Khatak and strongly condemned the suicide attack. He offered his sympathies over the death of Israrullah Gandapur and others in the tragic incident.
Earlier, on the Eid day, Shahbaz offered prayers at Jaati Umra, Raiwind.
Special prayers were also offered on this occasion for the solidarity, progress and prosperity of the country. Later, the chief minister exchanged Eid greetings with the people. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, Member of National Assembly Hamza Shahbaz Sharif, elected representatives and other leaders of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz also offered Eid prayers at Jaati Umra.
Meanwhile, Shahbaz Sharif said that Pakistan had been facing the serious issue of terrorism for the last several years, and besides officers of the Pakistan Army and the police, common citizens had also offered sacrifices in the war against terrorism. He said that more than 50,000 Pakistanis had embraced martyrdom so far. He said under the leadership of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, the federal government had formulated a policy – with the consultation of all political parties – to curb terrorism, and its implementation would yield positive results, as the situation of law and order would improve in the country.
He was talking to reporters after distributing Eid gifts among under-treatment children at the Children Hospital on the second day of Eid.
Speaking on the occasion, he said that enemies of Pakistan were engaged in conspiracies to destabilise the country, and it was the need of the hour that the whole nation should unite to root out terrorism. He said that Pakistani nation would have to stand as a rock against anti-Pakistan elements, and that collective efforts were needed to check the incidents of terrorism.
The chief minister distributed Eid gifts among the under-treatment children and inquired from their attendants about the medical facilities being provided at the hospital.
He extended heartiest felicitations to the entire nation on the occasion of Eidul Azha and prayed for the development and prosperity of Pakistan.
He said that it was lamentable that the enemies of humanity, Islam, Pakistan and peace shed the blood of innocent people even on the occasion of Eid.
He said that terrorism had caused an immense loss to national economy and it was his Eid message to the nation to counter terrorism and the evil designs of anti-Pakistan forces by forging unity.
In reply to a question, Shahbaz Sharif said that the federal government led by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif furthered the process of negotiations with the Taliban with due sincerity and invited them to talks.
He said that the Taliban should also respond positively to the offer of dialogue. In response to a question about the arrest of the accused involved in molestation of a minor girl of Mughalpura, the chief minister said that he was getting information about the pace of investigation into the case and substantial progress had been made. He said the culprit would not be able to escape punishment. pr
By sydney2020 Posted in Islam and ignorance and corrupt dictators, Pakistan - Improvements, Pakistan - Low Investment Tagged Shahbaz Shareef
‘Overseas Pakistanis’ contributions towards country’s economy vital’
ISLAMABAD: Sardar Ayaz Sadiq, Speaker National Assembly has said the government was facing variety of challenges that would be overcome with the help of the Pakistani nation and support of friendly countries like Britain.
Addressing Pakistani community in Birmingham, UK he said the country was on the way of democracy and heading towards development.
He urged the overseas Pakistanis to play their role in making the country self- reliant in economic field. He called upon them to remit their foreign exchange through legal channels.
Overseas Pakistanis are the assets for Pakistan and we will address their issues on priority basis. The present government gives them a meaningful role in the nation building process. Sarwar as a Governor of Punjab is the best example.
He urged the Pakistani community in Britain to play an effective role for the projection of soft image of Pakistan. He called upon overseas Pakistani that the victims and affectees of earthquake in Balochistan direly need support and help at this moment of disaster. ppi
By sydney2020 Posted in Pakistan - Improvements Tagged Overseas Pakistanis, Overseas Pakistanis contributions
Population Control is no Shame – Pakistan has no oil and Electricity or Gas
fertility in check
Murtaza Haider
http://www.dawn.com/news/1038948/keeping-pakistans-high-fertility-in-check
Published 2013-08-28 17:39:24
-Photo by Fayyaz Ahmed
While contraceptives do help with family planning, what really helps is preventing women from marrying very young.A survey in Pakistan revealed that women under 19 years of age at marriage were much more likely to give birth to five or more children than those who were at least 19 years old at marriage. The same survey also revealed that visit by family planning staff did not have a significant impact on reducing fertility rates. Instead, women who watched family planning commercials on TV were much less likely to have very large families.
Being the sixth most populous nation in the world, Pakistanis are also exposed to disease, violence, and natural disasters, which increase the odds of losing children to accidents or disease. At the same time, many consider the use of contraceptives to be un-Islamic. In addition, the preference for a male offspring is also widespread. As a result, Pakistani parents are inclined to have several children. The immediate task for the governments in Pakistan is to ensure that the rate of decline in fertility rates observed over the past two decades continues. At the same time, the governments in Pakistan should learn from Bangladesh that has made significant progress in stemming the population tide.
Source: The World Bank (2013) – Graph generated by Murtaza Haider.
Getting down to two children per family may seem an elusive target, however, Pakistanis have made huge dents in the alarmingly high fertility rates, despite the widespread opposition to family planning. Since 1988, the fertility rate in Pakistan has declined from 6.2 births per woman to 3.5 in 2009. In a country where the religious and other conservatives oppose all forms of family planning, a decline of 44 per cent in fertility rate is nothing short of a miracle.
A recent paper explores the impact of family planning programs in Pakistan. The paper uses data from the 2006-07 Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey, which interviewed 10, 023 ever-married women between the ages of 15 and 49 years. The survey revealed that only 30 per cent women used contraceptives in Pakistan. Though the paper in its current draft has several shortcomings, yet it still offers several insights into what contributes to high fertility and what the effective strategies are to check high fertility rates in Pakistan.
The survey revealed that the use of contraceptives did not have any significant impact for women who had given birth to six or more children. While 24 per cent women who were not using any contraceptives reported six or more births, 37 per cent of those who used contraceptives reported six or more births. At the same time, 27 per cent of women who were not visited by the family planning staff reported six or more births compared with 22 per cent of women who had a visit with the family planning staff.
Meanwhile, demographic and socio-economic factors reported strong correlation with the fertility outcomes. Women who were at least 19 years old at marriage were much less likely to have four or more births than those who were younger at the time of marriage. Similarly, those who gave birth before they turned 19 were much more likely to have four or more births.
Education also reported strong correlation with fertility outcomes. Consider that 58 per cent of illiterate women reported four or more births compared to 21 per cent of those who were highly educated. Similarly, 60 per cent of the women married to illiterate men reported four or more births compared to 39 per cent of the women married to highly educated men. The survey revealed that literacy among women mattered more for reducing fertility rates than literacy among their husbands.
The underlying variable that defines literacy and the prevalence of contraceptives in Pakistan is the economic status of the households. The survey revealed that 32 per cent of women from poor households reported six or more births compared to 21 per cent of those who were from affluent households.
The above results suggest that family planning efforts in Pakistan are likely to succeed if the focus is on educating young women. Educated young women are likely to get married later and will have fewer children. This is also supported by a comprehensive study by the World Bank in which Andaleeb Alam and others observed that cash transfer programs in Punjab to support female education resulted in a nine percentage point increase in female enrollment. At the same time, the authors found that those girls who participated in the program delayed their marriage and had fewer births by the time they turned 19.
“In fact, women in Punjab with middle and high school education have around 1.8 fewer children than those with lower than middle school education by the end of their reproductive life. Simple extrapolations also indicate that the 1.4 year delay in marriage of beneficiaries associated with the program could lead to 0.4 fewer births by the end of their childbearing years.”
The religious fundamentalists in Pakistan will continue to oppose family planning programs. They cannot, however, oppose the education of young women. The results presented here suggest that high fertility rates could be checked effectively by improving young women’s access to education. At the same time, educated mothers are the best resource for raising an educated nation.
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The world of Merrill K. Riddick, Montana's previous presidential candidate
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By his third presidential bid, Merrill K. Riddick of Philipsburg was a household name in Montana.
His party, not so much.
As Missoulian opinion page editor Sam Reynolds put it following Riddick's death in 1988, "Gone was the founder and probably the only member of the Puritan Ethic and Epic, Magnetohydrodynamics and Prohibition Party."
Magnetohydrodynamics were the major selling point of Riddick's first run for the White House in 1976.
The previous year Missoulian reporter Steve Shirley wrote, "For the spry 80-year-old politician, MHD, or the conversion of coal to electricity in a superheated chamber through the use of magnets (or something like that), is very important."
Last week Gov. Steve Bullock became the first Montanan since Riddick to throw his hat into the presidential ring. His venture promises to be interesting and perhaps more successful than Riddick's were in 1976, 1980 and 1984.
But it'll be nowhere near as zany.
Let's jump on the missoulian.newspapers.com bus, just as Merrill K. jumped onto Greyhounds with two-month passes to cruise down campaign trails, and track a bit of the quirky retired prospector's political career.
Note that Riddick called himself a prospector, not a miner.
"I've crawled into more holes and accomplished less than any prospector I know," he said in 1967, when he was running for governor for the second time.
In 1960 he had finished sixth out of six contenders in the Democratic primary with 1,344 votes. Winner Lt. Gov. Paul Cannon got 44,000.
When Riddick announced his bid for the same post in the 1968 election, against the same number of Democratic opponents, he told the Missoulian State Bureau he was sure he'd do better this time.
Alas, he placed sixth again, this time with 1,052 votes.
In 1972 Riddick switched to the Republican party and ran for U.S. Senate, saying he favored a navigation canal up the Missouri River to Winifred and Fort Benton, and $500 million in dam construction on the upper Missouri River. He took fourth in that race. Out of four.
Montana's resident Don Quixote "parlayed his political interests, optimism and sense of humor into an unbroken string of election defeats," Reynolds wrote after Riddick succumbed to cancer at age 93.
Carl Riddick represented eastern Montana in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1919 to 1923. His son Merrill was born in 1895 and became a World War I flying instructor by that time. Later he barnstormed with Charles Lindbergh and was one of the country’s first airmail pilots. He rejoined the Army during World War II as a flight trainer.
Such aviation background earned him respect and admiration later in life. Riddick had just turned 81 and was in the late stages of his first campaign for president when the Philipsburg airfield was christened “Riddick Field.” Granite County commissioners had been urged by Mike Kahoe of the Bicentennial Committee to pursue the name. It remains Riddick Field to this day.
Riddick's slogan in that first presidential campaign was "Throw the raskels out!"
"He was a campaigner, not a speller," Reynolds noted.
A Las Vegas television station saw a magazine article featuring Riddick in 1975 and offered him half an hour of prime time TV space — until it found out Riddick had a thing against liquor.
"The minute I began talking about prohibition they decided I wasn't going to get prime time," he told Shirley when he stopped by the Missoulian office in 1985.
"Riddick never deluded himself," Reynolds wrote. "In 1979, he summed up his chances of winning the 1980 presidential election with uncanny accuracy: 'Theoretically absolutely impossible.'"
He threw his name in for '80, by the way, two days after the 1976 election. Riddick made the declaration in an interview with The Missoulian from a pay phone in Philipsburg. It was probably the same phone in the Antler Saloon he'd used two days earlier on election night to talk to reporter Jane Byard.
The Antler was next door to his campaign headquarters, which were downstairs from his apartment. Neither had a telephone.
Long before the final returns were in, Riddick told Byard he thought the Ford-Carter race would “go to the electoral college.” If it did, he said, he would ask Congress to appoint him president.
For whatever reasons, Riddick’s White House campaigns in 1980 and 1984 garnered less attention from the state press. Maybe he stopped calling newsrooms from phone booths. But he still criss-crossed the nation on his two-month Greyhound passes, eschewing contributions of more than $1 and financing his campaign with his Social Security and military pensions.
And Riddick still had delighted fans in the media. In Reynolds' Sunday Ticklers on the editorial page of the Missoulian in August, 1981, he hailed Riddick’s recent announcement of another run for president in ’84.
“What would summer be like without sunshine?” Reynolds wrote. “What would a presidential campaign be like without Merrill Riddick? …
“The general assumption is he will face Republican Ronald Reagan and a Democrat, plus assorted others. Good luck to Riddick. He brings some common sense, plus a sense of the Riddick-ulous, to any campaign.”
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“DROP THE G8 CHARGES” DEMANDS DEFENDANTS SOLIDARITY GROUP
July 2005 Solidarity Group | 03.11.2005 17:09 | G8 2005 | Globalisation | Repression | Social Struggles | London | World
The July 2005 Solidarity Group, a support group for people arrested at the G8, has denounced the police publication of “Wanted” photos of anti G8 demonstrators. The Group states that they will support all facing charges arising from the G8 demonstrations, and calls for all charges to be dropped. Scotland against Criminalising Communities, a grass-roots organisation campaigning against the “anti-terrorism” laws, is supporting the stand of the July 2005 Solidarity Group.
On 2nd November 2005 Lothian and Borders Police issued photos of 31 people they wish to interview in connection with the Carnival for Full Enjoyment in Edinburgh on 4th July. 16 of the photos were published on the front page of the Edinburgh Evening News.
Esther MacDonald, spokeswoman for the July 2005 Solidarity Group, said:
“The Carnival for Full Enjoyment was organised against the G8 and in opposition to wage slavery, benefits slavery, the slavery of debt and the slavery of poor people being forced into the armed forces. People taking action against injustice and exploitation were attacked by police wielding batons and charging into the crowd on horseback. Protestors heroically maintained their demonstration in the face of extreme police violence.
“The people of Edinburgh were disgusted by our city being taken over by a huge occupation force of heavily armed riot police. Evidence for this is the large number of local participants in the Carnival, while on a Radio Scotland phone-in the following day caller after caller denounced the outrageous police behaviour.
“People not involved in the protest, as well as demonstrators, were intimidated and threatened by police who detained people within cordons in the city centre, preventing people moving freely about their own city, ” concluded Esther.
Mark Davidson of the July 2005 Solidarity Group described an incident at the Carnival for Full Enjoyment :
“Police violence included a vicious assault carried out by a contingent of at least 25 riot police on two female medics in Princes Street Gardens. The medic defendants were found not guilty in Edinburgh sheriff court on 21st October. In court police admitted deliberately using pressure point holds on the two women - these inflict intense pain.”
”All I can say is that I’ve never screamed in pain before, but I couldn’t not,” said medic Ruth. “It was definitely the most painful thing I have ever experienced. I was yelling out: “We’re not resisting, we’re not resisting!”” stated her colleague Astrid.
Mark Davidson continued : “Now that a Sheriff has stated that there was no evidence that these women had committed a crime, will these officers be charged with assault? Several other defendants have also been found not guilty as the absurdity of the charges has been exposed. In fact according to the police’s own figures 80 per cent of those who have appeared in court to date have NOT been found guilty.
“While many demonstrators were injured, there were no reports of significant police injuries. This massive police operation is totally out of proportion to any “crimes” allegedly committed, and is politically motivated – when ordinary people are victims of serious assaults there is not a fraction of this effort put into finding the attackers.
“We advise anyone arrested not to panic, but to ask for a solicitor and not make any statement to the police. We urge all facing charges to contact the July 2005 Solidarity Group.
“We pledge ourselves to support all arrested or facing charges in connection with the G8 demonstrations – whatever these charges may be. We can supply legal help, and moral and practical support. G8 Legal Support have many witness statements which can help defendants.
“We call for the dropping of all charges arising from the G8 demonstrations. And we urge all concerned with the freedom to protest and social justice to join us in this call. The attempted repression of dissent during the G8 and this attempted witch-hunt against participants in the Carnival for Full Enjoyment are not isolated incidents. So-called “anti-terrorism” laws, dawn raids on asylum seekers and the introduction of ID cards are just a few other examples of the growing authoritarianism of the state. We all need to stand together and defy this repression. “
Contact July2005solidarity@yahoo.co.uk
There is information for G8 defendants at the G8 legal support site www.g8legalsupport.info
There is an account of the trial of the above mentioned medics, and accounts of some other G8 trials, at www.scotland.indymedia.org
There is an interview with the medics about their arrest at www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/07/317485.html
There is a very full account of the Carnival for Full Enjoyment, with photos, at www.nodeal.org.uk
Scotland Against Criminalising Communities web site can be found at www.sacc.org.uk
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Journalist fired over Besigye talk show
Support. Dr Kizza Besigye addresses a rally at Moyo boys playground in Moyo District last Saturday. PHOTO BY SCOVIN ICETA
By FELIX WAROM OKELLO & SCOVIN ICETA
Police in Mubende District raided Mubende FM and switched it off air in attempt to stop Dr Besigye from appearing on a live talk show.
The Board chairperson of Aulogo FM in Adjumani District, Mr Williams Anyama, has sacked Mr Amacha Goli, a talk show host.
Mr Anyama in his July 6 letter directed the station manager to submit a detailed written explanation on the circumstances surrounding the planned radio talk show meant to host former presidential contender Dr Kizza Besigye and other officials, which was stopped by government security agencies and led to a scuffle at Aulogo.
“By copy of this letter, you (Amacha) are directed to be out office to pave way for investigation into this matter and required you to hand over to the programme manager with immediate effect. You will be notified after receiving the document from you and carrying out investigation into the matter,” the letter reads in part.
Mr Julius Asiimwe, the station manager of Aulogo FM, said they took action to ease pressure mounting from some sections of NRM supporters who felt the media had given too much leverage to Opposition figures to express their views.
“We received and receipted money worth Shs1.6 million charged for the scheduled two hours talk show. I was told to inform the Resident District Commissioner and the District police commander as far as security matters within the district is concerned, which I did and later police and Uganda People’s Defence Forces were deployed at the station and cancelled the show,” he said.
Speaking to Daily Monitor on Wednesday, Mr Goli, said: “The letter was written in a hurry and full of emotions by a cowardly politician. I do not deal with talk shows. I don’t know why the failings of the management could have been blamed on me. This is a political witch hunt. In any case, the talk show was also aborted and it was not me who was to host it. I didn’t know about the show.”
Mr Amacha Goli. PHOTO BY SCOVIN ICETA
He added: “What is wrong with hosting [former Forum for Democratic Change party president Kizza] Besigye on the radio station? This is an attempt to curtail media freedom in Adjumani in order to be inclined to one party. This is unethical and unprofessional because some of the media are owned by the party members and journalists are pressured on doing public relations story.”
“We appeal to human rights organisations and legal fraternities to come to our rescue because we are society’s mirror, which is now being broken by politicians who own these radio stations and want us to dance to their tunes,” he said.
Dr Besigye said: “Government has no explanation to pull us out from radio stations. They are spoiling radio businesses. We had paid Shs1.6 million in Adjumani for a talk show of only two hours. This is also charged on us exorbitantly to keep us off. But we paid. But police came and stopped us. But we shall keep on fighting for our rights.”
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Date set for ex-Burkinabe leader trial over Sankara assassination
South Sudan troops killed 50 civilians by suffocation - report
Zambian leader for another term
“The longest I have talked on all the radio stations I moved to, is 15 minutes, and this is only when you do not announce. This is done by a panicking regime that does not want us to mobilise people and mobilise resources,” former FDC president Kizza Besigye said.
In March 2016. The Fourth Estate was supposed to be broadcast at Besigye’s home in Kasangati but the team was blocked.
In April. Police in Mubende District raided Mubende FM and switched it off air in attempt to stop Dr Besigye from appearing on a live talk show.
On Saturday, April 13 and April 4, Kiira FM based in Jinja and Hope Radio in Kabale Municipality were switched off air respectively, a few minutes into the shows.
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Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History
A leading journal of Russian and Eurasian history and culture, Kritika is dedicated to internationalizing the field and making it relevant to a broad interdisciplinary audience. The journal regularly publishes forums, discussions, and special issues; it regularly translates important works by Russian and European scholars into English; and it publishes in every issue in-depth, lengthy review articles, review essays, and reviews of Russian, Eurasian, and European works that are rarely, if ever, reviewed in North American Russian studies journals.
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Willard Sunderland,
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Liudmila Novikova,
Ekaterina Pravilova,
Susanne Schattenberg,
Martina Winkler,
Christian-Albrechts- Universität zu Kiel
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Your support will make this museum and education center a reality. It will ensure that these stories of selflessness, service and sacrifice remain a source of inspiration for generations to come. And as a donor, you will receive recognition on our website and in the new museum and education center.
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Military and Intelligence Database Collection provides access to scholarly journals, magazines, and reports covering all aspects of the past and current state of military affairs. The database offers content in key subject areas including governmental policies, the socioeconomic effects of war, the structure of the armed forces, and more.
Newsbank: Western Massachusetts Local Newspapers
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Opposing Viewpoints in Context
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Minds will meet when researchers in the field of psychology connect with the vast database of information found in Psychology Collection. Students, psychologists, counselors, counselees, behavioral scientists, and other researchers will glean relevant information from the thoughts, views, discoveries, and reports found in over 3.1 million articles.
NEW! Qello
Stingray Qello is the world’s largest collection of full-length concerts and music documentaries streamed on-demand to just about any digital device. All you need is your MFL library card to sign in!
RBdigital Magazine Collection
24/7 access to over 50 popular magazine titles. Read on your computer or download to your device with the RBdigital app. Formerly “Zinio for Libraries,” set up your account on the website with your email and library card, and you’re good to go!
Religion & Philosophy Collection
Religion & Philosophy Collection features a selection of more than 200 magazines and academic journals–everything from Anglican Journal to Zygon–covering religion and the related areas of philosophy and anthropology. Researchers can use this database not only to study theological approaches to social issues, but also to learn about the impact that religion has had on culture throughout history, including literature, arts, and language.
Research in Context
Gale’s Research In Context is designed to bridge the gap between the Kids InfoBits resource for elementary school students and the subject-specific Gale In Context family, developed primarily for high school and undergraduate students.
Science in Context
Supporting high school curricula and university coursework, Science in Context features authoritative information for assignments and projects, and provides detailed coverage of popular subjects. From earth science and life science, to space, technology, mathematics and science history and biography, this revolutionary, this curriculum-oriented online experience is designed to boost achievement for students and researchers.
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Ideal for business schools and entrepreneurs, Small Business Collection is updated daily and provides insights, tips, strategies, and success stories. Users find more than 500 subject-appropriate, active, full-text periodicals, including: Beverage Industry, Black Enterprise, Economist, Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice, HR Magazine, Real Estate Weekly, Restaurant Business, Tea & Coffee Trade Journal, And more.
When starting a new business, entrepreneurs need all the help they can get. Small Business Resource Center covers all major areas of starting and operating a business: financing, management, marketing, human resources, franchising, accounting, taxes and more. Startups, established businesses, and business students alike can find answers from its mobile responsive experience.
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U.S. History Collection
U.S. History Collection is useful both to the novice historian and to the advanced academic researcher. This collection of journals provides balanced coverage of both current thought on events in U.S. history as well as scholarly work established in the field.
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Massive Crack in Earth’s Magnetic Shield Discovered
Paul Seaburn November 5, 2016
If you’re looking for something to take your mind off of the presidential election, this might do the trick. A giant crack has been discovered in the Earth’s magnetosphere – our first line of defense against those pesky cosmic rays that bring down electrical power grids, mess up global positioning systems, garble communications and make your skin look like the last rotisserie chicken in the grocery store oven at closing time. What’s worse, the crack opened over a year ago and we’re just learning about it now. Have you forgotten about who’s running yet?
The crack was discovered by researchers at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research’s (TIFR) Cosmic Ray Laboratory in Ooty, India, using data recorded by the GRAPES-3 muon telescope (Gamma Ray Astronomy PeV EnergieS 3rd establishment), the world’s largest and most sensitive cosmic ray telescope. They noticed that data from June 22, 2015, showed a two-hour-long burst of cosmic radiation ramming Earth at 2.5 million km (1.55 million miles) per hour. The burst measured 20 GeV – that’s 20 gigaelectronvolt or 20 billion electron volts.
The GRAPES-3 muon telescope
What happens when that kind of cosmic force meets Earth’s magnetosphere? According to the report published recently in Physical Review Letters, the protective sphere surrounding the planet was severely dented from 11 to four times the radius of the Earth. Simulations created by the GRAPES-3 researchers showed that the magnetosphere cracked during the two-hour bombardment, allowing lower energy galactic cosmic ray particles to enter the atmosphere.
Illustration of cosmic wind passing through a crack in the magnetosphere before hitting Earth
Didn’t anyone notice this on June 22nd, 2015? The data shows a strong geomagnetic storm occurred at the time, causing an aurora borealis and radio blackouts in high-latitude countries near the poles, but nothing disastrous. Did we take a cosmic bullet in an area that only caused a flesh wound? The study suggests this, along with a warning.
The simultaneous occurrence of the burst in all nine directions suggests its origin close to Earth. It also indicates a transient weakening of Earth’s magnetic shield, and may hold clues for a better understanding of future superstorms that could cripple modern technological infrastructure on Earth, and endanger the lives of the astronauts in space.
OK, we’re all concerned occasionally about astronauts on the ISS and Elon Musk doesn’t want the passengers on his Mars ships to arrive at the Red Planet extra-crispy, but what about us on Earth? We all know what kind of problems a loss of the electrical and communications grid can cause and none of us want to wake up to the smell of frying skin. But what’s really disconcerting is that it’s taken over a year for the news of this crack in the magnetosphere to come out. Why did it take so long? What else haven’t we been told about it?
Still worried about the election?
Tags Conspiracy cosmic rays GRAPES-3 telescope magnetic field magnetosphere natural world Science solar storm space
UFOs Are Flying Low But Actual Heights May Vary
Ex-Pentagon Official Reveals New Info on UFOs and Aliens
Paul Seaburn December 20, 2017
Lost City of the Wichita Nation Found in Kansas
Art and Alien Visitors: What We Leave Behind for Future Space Travelers
Micah Hanks February 20, 2014
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Nigerian Student Arrested By Immigration In Malaysia Dies Of Seizure In His Sleep
Posted on July 12, 2019 by Naija Gists 8 Comments
A Nigerian PhD student in Malaysia has died in the custody of that country’s Immigration Department, the Singapore based television Channel News Asia (CNA) reported on Friday.
Thomas Orhions Ewansiha died on Tuesday, apparently of seizure in his sleep,while in detention at the Bukit Jalil Immigration Depot.
Director General of the Immigration Department, Khairul Dzaimee, said yesterday that he was still awaiting the post-mortem report of Ewansiha, as well as a full medical report to identify the cause of death.
Dzaimee claimed that Ewansiha was among 20 foreigners picked up in an operation on Jul 4 at Desa Aman Puri in Kuala Lumpur, following tipoffs from the public and had attempted to flee during the operation but was captured.
He later produced his passport and was found to be holding a valid student pass upon further checks.
“The action of the subject in trying to escape created doubts on the validity of the student pass held by the subject,” Dzaimee said.
Ewansiha was suspected of committing an offence under the Immigration Act. He was held for 14 days for further investigations, Dzaimee added.
While undergoing the documentation process at the Kuala Lumpur Immigration office, he was provided with basic medical treatment by Civil Defence Force personnel as he had an old wound on his right leg, Dzaimee said.
Ewansiha did not inform Immigration officers of any sickness, he said.
The subjects detained in the operation – including Ewansiha – were sent to the Bukit Jalil Immigration Depot at about noon the next day. They were treated “appropriately” in accordance to the standard operating procedure (SOP) during detention, Dzaimee said.
At about 12.05am on Jul 9, the officer on duty was informed by the other detainees that Ewansiha “suddenly” had a seizure while sleeping.
“The Special Medical Unit on duty immediately examined and treated the subject and contacted Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Hospital (HUKM) for assistance,” said Dzaimee.
The assistant medical officer – who arrived with the ambulance at 12.30am – examined and assisted Ewansiha, but the student was later pronounced dead.
Following the incident, the supervisor and officer on duty lodged a report at the Bukit Jalil police station.
Limkokwing University of Creative Technology said in a statement yesterday that it was informed of Ewansiha’s death.
The 33-year-old was pursuing a PhD in Management at the university and is survived by a wife and two children.
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8 thoughts on “Nigerian Student Arrested By Immigration In Malaysia Dies Of Seizure In His Sleep”
Francesca Adjoa on July 12, 2019 at 6:52 PM said:
He can’t just died of seizure, he was tortured to death for his stubborness
Jigi on July 12, 2019 at 7:47 PM said:
14 days is too long to keep a suspect,was it his attempt to run or his wound that kept the Malaysian ‘s imigration too long to conclude,if you doubted his student visa’s validity.you could have simply visited his school.
The Malaysian government owe the Nigeria an apology and the dead student’s family for life.
Nigerian embassy in that country should please do something.
Segun Daniel on July 12, 2019 at 8:41 PM said:
Africa is doomed, it is high time we started a violent revolution against these corrupt politicians and their family members.
SAM OKEY on July 13, 2019 at 12:14 AM said:
RIP ORHIONS MY MAIN GUY,I LOVE YOU BUT GOD LOVES YOU MOST
iron bar on July 13, 2019 at 3:01 AM said:
we dont even need foreign ambassadors or foreign affairs minister..every dick and harry can do anything and get away with it.seven consecutive week,naija people being killed in diff countries and govt cannot even address it.
Fifelomo on July 13, 2019 at 9:23 AM said:
Sad, he was being tortured to death! Rip.
Tito on July 13, 2019 at 4:03 AM said:
Why PhD study in Malaysia ? Is any university there better than Unilag, UI, Uniben? Anyway, RIP bro.
Gbenga Adekuajo on July 13, 2019 at 9:42 AM said:
Anybody expecting Nigerian official to intervene on behalf of our people be massacred across the globe must be a joker, One criminals leader exist only to plunder our resource nothing i hereby warned Nigerians in diaspora to stay clear of God forsake land called Nigeria do all you can to normalize yourself in your present country of resident as your home country is a plague to humanity.
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Personal recommendations for things to do in Japan
Try Hiroshima style Okonomiyaki at Okonomi-mura
Okonomiyaki is a Japanese savoury pancake, stacked full of ingredients such as meat, fish and vegetables. At Okonomi-mura in Hiroshima you can try Okonomiyaki from dozens of small restaurants.
Authored by James, 12th January 2019
Food and Drink in Japan Things to do in Hiroshima
While in Hiroshima, a must-see destination is Okonomi-mura. Located in the centre of the city, Okonomi-mura is a whole building of small independent okonomiyaki restaurants. It's a fun place to walk around, and a great experience to dine there.
In downtown Hiroshima, in the Shintenchi district, is the "temple of the original okonomiyaki", Okonomi-mura. This 3-story building is a theme park of okonomiyaki restaurants. This is a perfect place to grab some great value, quick and tasty - and very Japanese - food on an evening out in Hiroshima. Even if you're planning to eat elsewhere, it's worth popping into Okonomi-mura and exploring the various floors just to experience the atmosphere with all the sights and smells.
Okonomoyaki is a Japanese savoury pancake made from pancake batter and with lots of other ingredients - usually shredded cabbage and pork, and often with other optional ingredients like squid, prawns, shellfish, green onion and cheese.
It's cooked on a hotplate - sometimes by a chef, and in some restaurants you can cook your own on a hotplate set into your own table.
In Hiroshima, its customary for the okonomiyaki to be layered up with a thin pancake on top and bottom, with layers of noodles, veg and meat in between.
The pancake is served with okonomoyaki sauce, a tangy brown sauce a bit like HP or other brown sauces in the UK.
Okonomiyaki in Hiroshima, made with cabbage, noodles, scallops and lots of other things!
I have to admit - okonomiyaki is not my favourite of all Japanese foods. It's heavy and rich and kind of a bit weird (and I like weird!). But it is an experience watching it being cooked in front of you, and it's a fun dish to share between a few people, especially when you cook it yourself.
The style of okonomiyaki in Hiroshima is also quite different to other areas of Japan. I really like the style from Osaka, where the pancake batter and all the ingredients are mixed together in a jug, and poured out onto the hotplate.
It's definitely something to try, you'll have fun sharing an okonomiyaki and a few beers. You just might not want to have another one for a while...
A cold beer is the best accompaniment to okonomiyaki
How to get to Okonomi-mura in Hiroshima
Okonomi-mura is right in the centre of Hiroshima, in the Shintenchi district and close to the main shopping areas and big department stores like PARCO. Here's a quick link to a Google map.
The closest dentetsu (tram) stop is Hatchobori or Tatemachi which are on the main line west-east through central Hiroshima on lines 1, 2 and 6. However Hiroshima isn't such a big city and Okonomi-mura is a 15 minute walk from the peace park or atomic bomb dome, and the same distance from Hiroshima station.
An english version of the Okonomi-mura website is available for more information.
Other places we recommend:
Arashiyama bamboo forest, Kyoto
The touristy but fascinating rural town of Arashiyama near Kyoto has a stunning bamboo forest and other attractions
Kyoto, Arashiyama bamboo forest, walks, temples
Eat in Tokyo's PARCO department store restaurants for an outdoor rooftop dining experience
Department stores in Japan can be a surprising source of great restaurant and deli food. Parco in Shibuya, Tokyo is a perfect place for lunch.
Tokyo, shopping, food
Rooftop views of Tokyo from the Metropolitan Government Building
A free way to get an incredible rooftop view of Tokyo
Tokyo, skyscrapers, city view
Visit Kamikochi and go hiking in the Japanese mountains
In the mountains of Japan's Honshū island you can go hiking or mountain climbing and stay in hotels, lodges, mountain huts or campsites.
Countryside, Mountains, Trains, Hiking
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Nawaz invites Modi to Pakistan
ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif called India's Narendra Modi Friday afternoon to congratulate him on his landslide election win, suggesting Islamabad is keen to promote better ties with its giant neighbour.
Nawaz spoke to Modi, leader of the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), to hail the "impressive victory", a statement from the PM office said. He also invited the BJP leader to visit Islamabad.
There have been fears that a victory for Modi and his Hindu nationalist BJP could signal bumpy times ahead for the two nuclear powers. Preliminary results following India's six-week election showed the BJP on course for the first parliamentary majority by a single party in 30 years.
Since his own election victory in May last year, PM Sharif has sought to improve ties with India, Pakistan's traditional arch-rival. Islamabad has also been making efforts for resumption of Composite Dialogue process with New Delhi for resolution of all outstanding issues between the two nuclear neighbours with the desire for lasting peace in the region.
Premier Nawaz while addressing the recently held Envoys Conference at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs had said that Pakistan has a number of outstanding disputes with India, which need resolution - Kashmir being one of them and the most important. "We want to have peace in this region. Peace for development. We need to overcome the problems that exist between Pakistan and India," he said.
Pakistan initially reacted cautiously to the victory of Modi but hoped that the new Indian government would positively respond to Islamabad's overture for peace and stability in the region. Foreign Office Spokesperson Tasnim Aslam in her weekly press briefing said that resolution of disputes and durable peace is in favour of every one. It is something that people of this region need for economic development and prosperity, she said.
"It is in that context that we need to resume the dialogue process and focus on finding solutions to outstanding disputes. People of Kashmir have long suffered. The resumption of dialogue is therefore, not a favor done by one country to the other. It is crucial for both", she told a questioner in her last weekly press briefing on May 8.
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Blog List / Charting the Path for Network Security Advancements
Charting the Path for Network Security Advancements
By Bing Wang, Platform Solutions Architect for Network Security & Appliances segment, Intel
Security is a top concern for network and IT professionals. The dependency on the Internet, increased use of personal devices on corporate networks, advances in cloud technologies and rapid growth of Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) have impacted network security significantly.
Combating the increasingly sophisticated threats to your network's security is challenging, especially with such a wide range of security features and solutions available on the market. When considering available technologies and strategies, consider these three areas of focus:
Protect the platform: Establish a hardware-based root-of-trust.
Intel® Trusted Execution Technology (Intel® TXT) is a hardware solution that validates the behavior of key components within a server or PC at startup. Known as the “root of trust,” the system checks the consistency in behaviors and launch time configurations against a “known good” sequence. Using this verified benchmark, Intel® TXT can quickly assess whether any attempts to alter or tamper with the launch time environment have been made.
Secure the data, including data in-flight, in-use, and at rest. Examples include:
Intel® AES New Instructions (Intel® AES NI) is an encryption instruction set that accelerates the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithm and removes the data encryption overhead in the Intel® Xeon® processor family and the Intel® Core™ processor family. Comprised of seven instructions, Intel® AES-NI gives your IT environment faster, more affordable data protection and greater security; making pervasive encryption feasible in areas where previously it was not.
Intel® QuickAssist Technology provides even more security and compression acceleration capabilities used to improve performance and efficiency across the data center. Server, networking, big data, and storage applications use Intel QuickAssist Technology to offload servers from handling compute-intensive operations, such as:
Symmetric cryptography functions including cipher operations and authentication operations.
Public key functions including RSA, Diffie-Hellman, and elliptic curve cryptography.
Compression and decompression functions including DEFLATE, (zlib format), that is abundant in web traffic.
Ultimately, Intel QuickAssist Technology enables users to meet the demands of ever-increasing amounts of data, especially data with the need for encryption and compression without compromising application performance and usability. This helps users to ensure applications are fast, secure and available.
Secure NFV
Addressing the evolving nature of network security and facilitating a smooth transition to Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) can be challenging. Advances in technology make it possible to create a network ecosystem capable of managing a wide range of security threats. It is vital to explore the range of hardware, software and cloud solutions available to help ensure security while also maintaining consistent service and platform delivery to your customers.
Intel® Cloud Integrity Technology (CIT) leverages Intel® TXT to provide a root of trust in the datacenter, enabling software-controlled visibility and policy enforcement of hardware-secured asset tags and launch-time measurements of the BIOS, Operating System (OS), and hypervisor. The trust and asset tag attestation information can then be used to provide workload verification, remediation, reporting, and compliance in both public and private cloud environments. Leveraging Intel® CIT, vSwitch and security virtual network functions (VNFs) can be attested and verified to secure NFV solutions.
Watch the final episode in our eight-part Network Transformation video podcast series, hosted by Jim St. Leger, Data Plane Software Product Line Manager at Intel. This episode covers the latest in network security software and hardware technology advancements and considerations for securing your network.
You can view all the episodes in the Network Transformation series on our YouTube channel.
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Gypsy Printer: Moveable Type Rolls Over Renegade
September 14, 2011 at 4:00 am by Erin Kelsey
by Erin Kelsey
September 14, 2011 September 13, 2011 Filed under:
What looks like one of Chicago’s many food trucks is parked among the other artisan tents on the south side of Division near Marion, where a sleek blue glass building home to Prasino, a sustainable new age eatery and lounge of sorts, can still be seen overhead. It’s only half past noon, but it seems clear the crowds at the Ukrainian Village’s Renegade Craft Fair have agreed it is an acceptable time to begin drinking. Lines at the wine and beer vendors begin to form. An influx of new families with strollers, a greyhound, sometimes two, overwhelms the area surrounding Kyle Durrie’s 1982 Chevy step truck—picture a typical ice cream truck—as passersby begin similar mental exercises of trying to discern exactly what this truck is doing at an arts fair.
Finally, they notice the large lunch board sign, which reads, “PRINT HERE NOW,” gesturing to the passenger side of the van, and some decide to invite themselves into “Moveable Type,” Power and Light Studio’s latest experiment. Inside they are surprised to discover that Durrie has converted this blue striped van into a rather cozy but pleasant-looking print shop and living space.
Durrie pokes her head into the room as she happily greets her guests. A quick scan of the map of North America on the left wall complete with more than thirty pinpoints snaking across the South and Midwest reveals that this young Oregonian with a wavy, sandy blond bob might just be the most hard-core artist at Renegade. She’s clearly the only one with a truck full of a few tons of moveable type equipment and a nine-month itinerary.
Durrie scoots past her guests to answer questions about her operation and experience. “This one here,” she gestures to the larger press that lies flat on a countertop, “is called a show card sign press. I bought it from a Sears store in Wisconsin. It’s from about the 1950s when they used to print their own sales advertisements.”
She demonstrates, sliding the roller over a collection of wooden letters. “Voilá!” she says, holding the card up for inspection.
On the other countertop there is a much older and smaller printing press made of what appears to be cast iron. It’s a Golding Official No. 3 made in 1873 and it’s as intimidating as it is solid. It sits upright and its pitched, circular collar glistens with Durrie’s printers’ ink. On a clear plastic pallet two thick puddles of blue and red ink, freshly poured, wait next to their respective jars. Durrie takes a portion of the blue ink and lays it on the collar. She engages the machine’s lever. Three rollers move ink from the collar to the letters as the machine presses paper to metal, and for a moment a look of excitement flashes over the group to the sound of the ratcheting machine, as if anticipating a jackpot from a casino slot machine.
Durrie holds up her tiny card and passes it around. They are amused, but are not quite ready to purchase any of her prints.
As her guests leave, they take one last look at her cozy studio, the road map of her trans-American odyssey, and a sign above the driver’s seat that reads, “WOMEN’S WORK.” The exiting customers catch the eye of a few others who stretch their necks through the passenger side door before climbing aboard. “I’m going to Michigan next,” she explains to one lingering man, pointing to her map. “Then Buffalo and New York City.”
One woman picks up a card next to a large red and blue sign on the side of the truck that reads, “I PREFER CHICAGO,” with some historical figure pictured. “Look at this one,” she laughs, picking up a card with a little black bat on it. “Bat Shit Crazy For You. That’s great.” (Giovanni Wrobel)
To find out more about Kyle Durrie’s Moveable Type project and Power and Light Press visit type-truck.com.
Kyle Durrie
Power and Light Studio
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Tjizu back in the lower courts
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Maria Amakali Windhoek-Former public prosecutor Ivan Tjizu has made a return to Windhoek’s lower court in Katutura after his appeal was dismissed by the High Court earlier this year. Tjizu made an appearance in the dock before Magistrate Michelle Kubersky, alongside his co-accused, Panduleni Mweendeleli Sackaria, and clearly still hopes to regain his freedom. It is understood he will bring a formal bail application based on new facts that emerged since investigations into the case have been finalised. Tjizu has approached the court on numerous occasions to be released on bail, but the court has stood its ground, noting that Tjizu has influence over potential suspects and witnesses, and as a public officebearer there is concern over potential disappearance of dockets and interference with investigations,. However, his co-accused Sackaria was granted bail in the amount of N$30,000. Tjizu and Sackaria are yet to stand trial on the charges of fraud, racketeering, corruptly using their office and position for self-gratification and corruptly using false documents to conspire to commit offences under the Anti-Corruption Act. State Prosecutor Victoria Thompson informed the court that investigations into the matter have been finalised and the case had been forwarded already to the prosecutor general’s office for a decision. Tjizu was arrested in 2016 in connection to a purported witness fees scam that transpired while he was stationed at Windhoek Magistrate’s Court on Lüderitz Street. It is alleged the scam cost the State more than N$410,000. The accused allegedly worked together with a web of people to fraudulently claim witness fees for people who had travelled from outside Windhoek and were arranged to pose as state witnesses. Witness fees were then falsely claimed and paid out. Magistrate Kubersky this week postponed the matter to February 7, 2018 to give time to the prosecutor general to go through the case and make a decision.
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Are you an Expat in Zurich? Why not go and see “Expats” at Theater Neumarkt in Zurich?
Photo © Philipp Ottendörfer
There is a new play showing in Zurich at the moment which is bound to have a lot of resonance with many of Zurich’s English speaking population. The play is called “Expats”, by Barbara Weber and is in English and German, and as the name suggests all about expats in Zurich.
From the reviews so far it looks like an interesting work, sure to play on both the virtues and vices of the expat lifestyle. The play is at Theater Neumarkt, 5 Neumarkt, 8001 Zurich and the performances are as follows:
Wednesday 6th February, Friday 8th February and Saturday 9th February at 8pm. There are also further performances in March on Friday 15th March and Saturday 16th March at 8pm.
Tickets cost CHF 45 and children and reduced tickets cost CHF 20. For further information visit the website and to buy tickets online go here.
There is also a “Theatre Trilogy Night” where all three plays that are currently being performed as part of a trilogy at Theater Neuhaus (Expats, Dr Madam ihre Mössiö and Truppenbesuch) are shown in succession on Saturday 30th March starting at 6pm. Tickets for this performance cost CHF 75.
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Tocqueville’s Nightmare
Portrait of an Equilibrium
By ADRIAN VERMEULE
Review of TOCQUEVILLE'S NIGHTMARE: The Administrative State Emerges in America, 1900-1940, by Daniel R. Ernst
View PORTRAIT OF AN EQUILIBRIUM .pdf
Although Dan Ernst ends his account of the emergence of the American administrative state in 1940, the true climax, at least from the lawyer’s point of view, occurs in 1932. In that year the great Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes undertook his titanic effort to forge a charter of compromise, a treaty of peace, between the administrative state and the rule of law. The case was Crowell v. Benson, involving an agency charged with deciding workman's compensation cases involving injured maritime workers. Hughes’s opinion in many ways laid down lines of demarcation that were written into the Administrative Procedure Act of 1946, the great framework statute or quasi-constitution of the administrative state. It is a tribute to Hughes that his effort created an equilibrium that outlasted the turbulent years of his Chief Justiceship -- despite the intervening constitutional revolution of 1937, after which the courts stopped trying to enforce narrow readings of the national government’s power over interstate commerce, and stopped trying to police statutory grants of authority from Congress to the executive (the so-called “nondelegation doctrine”).
Having paid due tribute, however, it must be said that the equilibrium Hughes brought into being is a thing of the past. The line of demarcation between administration and law, the frontier of the administrative state, has shifted markedly, with law giving way to administration across almost every margin identified in Crowell -- in large part because law has abnegated its authority to administration. Ernst is not wholly clear about whether the equilibrium he identifies persists all the way into the present, doubtless because the story from 1940 to the present is not the story he is trying to tell. But to understand the significance of his book, it is important to understand that what it offers is a portrait of a particular equilibrium, one that has since vanished. The mid-century attempt to domesticate the American administrative state, described so skillfully by Ernst, ultimately came undone, and it is a live question whether anything else has taken its place.
Ernst’s narrative is highly readable and strikes just the right balance among the historian’s love of detail, the lawyer’s need for conceptual organization, and the political theorist’s addiction to high-level principles. Let me begin with the level of political and constitutional theory. The high-level frame of the book is a choice or contest among possible visions of the relationship between law and administration. Traditional lawyers were afflicted by “Tocqueville’s nightmare,” a vision of a centralized administration abusing its powers and trampling on legal rights. (The nightmare persists, of course, as Philip Hamburger’s recent book shows). The main alternatives or competitors may be understood as different conceptions of “the rule of law.” One alternative, championed by Ernst Freund, was the German idea of the Rechtsstaat -- the rule-of-law state founded on clear positive enactments that would fix the metes and bounds “where the sovereign’s will prevailed and where it yielded to the will of the individual” (p. 2). The Rechtsstaat ideal, however, lost out to a different conception of the rule of law, championed by Hughes among others -- a modified and updated version of Albert Venn Dicey’s ideal that subjected all official action to review by ordinary common-law courts.
After the emergence of the administrative state, the original version of the Diceyan ideal was a non-starter. Ernst shows convincingly that even some traditional lawyers came to understand and appreciate the expertise and efficiency of relatively nonpolitical agencies, who were more professional and less liable to be overrun by patronage politics than other potential suppliers of lawmaking, such as legislative committees, and more knowledgeable and less expensive than the common-law judges and the elaborate processes of litigation. Such lawyers reinvented themselves as transactional engineers, shepherding clients through the administrative process -- not “officers of the court” but “officers of the state” (6). Yet lawyers like Hughes also worked to translate or adapt Dicey’s commitments in the new environment, developing an approach that retained a crucial role for judicial review of administrative action. As Richard Fallon has observed in a different but related context, the translated Diceyan approach attempted not so much to get every given case right, but instead to provide an overall scheme of review that would suffice to keep the administrative state within the bounds of law.
The framework erected in Crowell v. Benson had multiple components. Speaking very roughly, the main elements were that (1) courts would review all questions of law de novo, without deference to agencies; (2) in adjudication between private parties (cases of “private right”), agencies could decide the facts subject to deferential judicial review for “substantial evidence,” on a formal record developed within the agency itself; (3) however, as to “jurisdictional facts” and “constitutional facts,” judicial review would be based on independent fact-finding, without deference. (There is an interpretive question, discussed most clearly by Mark Tushnet, whether the categories of “jurisdictional fact” and “constitutional fact” are different, or ultimately the same; nothing here or in Ernst’s narrative turns on that issue). Later Hughes opinions fleshed out this quasi-judicial framework for agency decisionmaking, perhaps the most famous being the rule of Morgan v. United States in 1936, according to which “the one who decides must hear” -- meaning that the administrative official who decides the case must personally hear and consider the evidence. Crowell, Morgan and ancillary cases all worked towards a general requirement that agencies must, at least presumptively, decide cases by making reviewable findings on a defined record -- a requirement that Ernst, showing an admirable grasp of the practical importance of legal technicalities, calls “the key to understanding the twentieth-century origins of the administrative state in America” (3).
Viewed in the broad, the new equilibrium had two main features. The one Ernst emphasizes is that the equilibrium arrangements implicitly took courts and judicial procedure as the gold standard, and attempted to judicialize agency procedure as the price of administrative power. Rather than make decisions themselves, courts were to review what agencies did, but also wielded doctrines that commanded or encouraged agencies to use court-like procedures. The second important feature was the compromise character of the arrangements, apparent on their face. Hughes attempted to accommodate and trade off two grand imperatives: the desire to allow a “prompt, continuous, expert and inexpensive method” of decisionmaking, and the need to prevent the administrative state from evolving into what Crowell called “a government of a bureaucratic character alien to our system” -- Tocqueville’s nightmare. Respecting both imperatives, the Crowell framework inevitably had a roughly optimizing character. The Administrative Procedure Act later adopted a similar approach. Justice Robert Jackson famously described the Act as a charter of tradeoffs, one that “settles long-continued and hard-fought contentions, and enacts a formula upon which opposing social and political forces have come to rest.” Among the Act’s key tradeoffs and compromises are its elaborate network of rules that partly respect, but partly abandon, the traditional separation-of-powers notion that the adjudicator must not also be a prosecutor or a rulemaker; the Act separates functions, but only below the level of the agency itself, which can as a general matter make rules, prosecute cases, and decide the cases itself.
Where does the Crowell compromise stand today? Both in terms of what it addressed, and in terms of what it failed to address, it no longer fairly represents the prevailing equilibrium between administration and law. The main elements of the framework have come undone, in ways that have shifted power from courts to agencies. In the main, moreover, this shift has come about through the action of judges and courts themselves -- a process of abnegation rather than conquest. The internal logic of legal argumentation has pushed towards ever-greater judicial deference to agencies.
As to questions of law, even before the Administrative Procedure Act was enacted, the Hearst Publications decision in 1944 indicated that courts might decide, in certain cases, that it is best to defer to agencies’ understanding of legal questions. Hearst and successor cases left it unclear whether such deference should apply only to “mixed questions” of law and fact, or also to “pure questions of law,” and courts struggled with the issue for another generation. By the time of the (in)famous Chevron decision in 1984, however, the courts were willing to adopt a general and largely fictional presumption that Congress intends courts to defer to agencies whenever statutes are ambiguous or silent. Lightly cloaked in that fiction, courts abnegated authority to agencies, in large part -- as the Chevron opinion also admitted -- because of the increasing complexity and political sensitivity of “legal” questions in the administrative state. Traditionalists about the separation of powers have never fully reconciled themselves to Chevron, but for the rising generation it is an intellectual fixture that structures their legal intuitions. A world of genuinely de novo judicial decisionmaking on all “legal” questions is now unimaginable.
As to questions of fact, deference under the substantial evidence test holds sway, while the doctrines of “jurisdictional fact” and “constitutional fact” are largely moribund. The latter occasionally surfaces in free speech litigation and a few other areas; the former is a historical curiosity. Indeed the very category of agency “jurisdiction” was declared logically incoherent by the Court itself, through Justice Scalia, in City of Arlington v. FCC in 2013, over the dissent of the Chief Justice. Agencies have no “jurisdiction,” just statutory authority in a given domain, and the only question is whether they have reasonably interpreted the scope of that authority -- so the reasoning went. To the traditional legal mind, City of Arlington is a shocking repudiation of the basic premises of legality. It effectively allows agencies to receive deference on the limits of their own power, making them “judges in their own cause.” The Court could barely bring itself to devote a paragraph to dismissing this venerable common-lawyers’ trope; instead the Court emphasized the countervailing danger that judges would transfer power to themselves through excessively intrusive review. With friends like these, law needs no enemies.
But perhaps the major expansion of the administrative state since Crowell has come not in the areas it addressed, but in an area it said almost nothing about: agency rulemaking. Agencies may act like little courts, as in Crowell, or like little legislatures, making general rules with the force and effect of law. Ernst focuses on adjudication because his subjects did, by and large; Crowell is about agency power to adjudicate, and as Ernst explains, Hughes’s doctrinal contributions center on judicializing agency procedure in adjudication on a formal record. Partly that is because the background law of due process imposes far fewer constraints on agencies acting like mini-legislatures, but partly the explanation is just that contemporaneous agencies made fewer rules.
All that changed in the decades after World War II, especially in the 1970s. Agency rulemaking became central, encouraged by academics and judges who believed that adjudication lacked the virtues of generality and clarity that rules could afford. To some extent, rulemaking was cabined and legalized by (other) judges in the 1960s and 1970s who developed doctrines that required agencies to use extra procedures, beyond those required by the Act; required agencies to give elaborate explanations for rules; and forced agencies to run the gauntlet of “hard look” review -- judicial scrutiny of the rationality of agency decisionmaking. Yet this new domestication of rulemaking was itself partly checked by the Supreme Court, which rejected judicial attempts to proceduralize rulemaking in the Vermont Yankee decision in 1978, and which periodically reins in excessively intrusive “hard look” scrutiny by lower courts.
Despite ongoing controversies over how intrusive judicial review of rulemaking really is (most of the recent empirical work denies that it hampers agencies very much), the larger picture is clear. In recent years a polarized Congress is increasingly hamstrung, and apart from blue-moon events like the Affordable Care Act, the main “legislative” events are agency rulemakings that seriously affect the national economy, as when the Environmental Protection Agency prescribes standards governing whole industries. Revealingly, such rulemakings take place under increasingly antiquated statutes enacted with a view to other problems entirely -- statutes that agencies must fold, spindle and mutilate to make them useful in new circumstances, given congressional paralysis. As Jody Freeman and David Spence put it, under “old statutes” agencies take the lead in addressing “new problems.” One wonders what Hughes, Dicey or for that matter Tocqueville would think of a world in which agencies not only (in effect) rewrite their own authorizing statutes, but have indeed taken center stage in the drama of government. The same forces have also encouraged increasing centralization of authority within the executive branch, as the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, an arm of the Presidency, oversees major agency rulemaking.
In both what it addressed and what it failed to address, therefore, the Crowell equilibrium no longer obtains; the effort to domesticate the administrative state, along lines that common lawyers like Dicey might recognize, has failed, and it is an open question whether any such effort can succeed. Ernst observes that even if the equilibrium he portrays no longer obtains, his narrative “remains relevant because it shows that the builders of the new administrative state did not succumb to alien ideologies” (144). His book thus rebuts “a complaint that has gained in popularity since the eruption of the Tea Party movement in 2009: the statebuilders of the early twentieth century abandoned an American tradition of individualism….” (7). This is true and important, yet it is also true that the Tea Party complaint could simply be relocated in time, say to 1984, the year that Chevron was decided -- and indeed Chevron is a major target of recent revanchist works, by Hamburger and others, that damn the administrative state as unconstitutional. All this may limit the significance of Ernst’s book for current lawyers, yet it adds a poignant note that makes the book well worth reading as history, even apart from its great intrinsic merit. The legal statesmen like Hughes who confidently grasped the reins of state, trading off principled imperatives and balancing the claims of administration and law, in a grand effort to “preserve, not renounce, fundamental principles of American government” (144) -- these statesmen were, in the end, no more than flies of a long but fading summer.
ADRIAN VERMEULE is the John H. Watson Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He is the author or co-author of eight books on public law and legal theory, most recently The Constitution of Risk (2014).
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US plans to allow 1K troops in Syria: report
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The US military allegedly plans to hold several thousand troops in Syria a few months after President Trump Donald John TrumpBiden on a possible candidacy: "I have the most advanced record" of Linke Dems in the minority Washington is adopting a new approach to US Senate spending that will prevent Trump from voting until 2020 if he does not file tax returns. said he would remove all US forces from the country The Trump government plans to continue supporting Kurdish fighters in Syria.
According to reports, the officials added that the plan could hold up to 1
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Trump has repeatedly claimed since December In December, ISIS was completely defeated in the region.
"They constantly heard that it was 90 percent and the caliphate in Syria 92 percent. Now it's 100 percent, we just took it over, "Trump told the troops last month. "Now it's 100 percent, we've only acquired 100 percent of the caliphate, that's the area of the country, we only have 100 percent."
Legislators in Congress and US officials, however, have claimed that ISIS was not completely defeated.
General Joseph Votel, chief military commander-in-chief of the fight against the Islamic State, told CNN last month that ISIS has "still leaders, fighters, moderators and resources."
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The FirstNet first-of-its-kind solution will spur investment and modernize public safety communications across the nation, AT&T executives said.
The FirstNet first-of-its-kind solution will spur investment and modernize public safety communications across the USVI, AT&T executives said.
The U.S. Virgin Islands on Tuesday became the first U.S. territory to “opt-in” to the FirstNet network, following Gov. Kenneth Mapp’s decision to accept the FirstNet and AT&T plan to deliver a wireless broadband network to the territory’s public safety community, helping first responders save lives and protect communities, the carrier announced.
“The USVI participated in FirstNet consultation and outreach activities throughout the planning of the network and reviewed the details of the FirstNet State Plan,” Mapp said.
“I have determined that it is in the best interest of the USVI and the country to participate in the FirstNet deployment of the National Public Safety Broadband Network,” he said.
AT&T, in a public-private partnership with FirstNet, will build, operate and maintain a secure wireless broadband communications network for the USVI’s public safety community at no cost to the territory for the next 25 years. The FirstNet network will drive innovation and create an entire system of modernized devices, apps and tools just for first responders, the carrier said.
The FirstNet network will transform the way the USVI’s fire, police, EMS and other public safety personnel communicate and share information. Specifically, FirstNet and AT&T will:
Connect first responder subscribers to the critical information they need in a highly secure manner when handling day-to-day operations, responding to emergencies and supporting large events, like the Annual Carnival Festivals on St. Croix, St. John and St. Thomas;
Create an efficient communications experience for public safety personnel in agencies and jurisdictions across the territory during natural disasters, including hurricanes and tropical storms;
Enhance network coverage for first responders, residents and visitors alike across the islands and their coastlines;
Drive infrastructure investments across the territory; and,
Usher in a new wave of innovation that first responders can depend on. This will create an ever-evolving set of life-saving tools for public safety, including public safety apps, specialized devices and Internet of Things technologies.
Preemption for primary users over the AT&T LTE network is expected by year-end. This means fire, police, EMS and other public safety workers will have dedicated access to the network when and where they need it – 24/7/365.
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Anthony Weiner’s Sexting Pal Sydney Leathers Adorns Billboard In Manhattan
Leathers New Face Of 'Sugar Daddy' Dating Site December 16, 2013 at 3:14 pm
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Sydney Leathers billboard (Andrea Grymes/CBS 2)
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Sydney Leathers is looking down on New Yorkers.
Leathers, the former sexting gal pal of disgraced Congressman and ex-Mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner, is adorned on a new billboard in Manhattan.
Leathers is the new face of a dating site that aims to pair women with “sugar daddy’s.”
A 30-foot Leathers can be seen in the ad along with the tagline, “Get A Mistress for Christmas.”
The ad located at the corner of Varick Street and Dominick is the first in a campaign that will feature Weiner’s “other woman” across commercials on TV, radio and billboards throughout the Tri-State area.
When Weiner first announced his candidacy for mayor in May, he found himself in the lead in many polls among the Democratic candidates.
But his numbers took a nosedive after revelations surfaced in July about his sexting relationship with Leathers.
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Who is jess from rock of love dating
is on the cover of Parade this weekend in advance of his big-budget flick "Iron man," and inside he talks about his previous relationship with Sarah Jessica Parker, his long battle with drugs and being a parent.From the press release: "Five or six years ago, I saw the writing on the wall. You know, she thinks that she is me and we would be best friends. We get emails from people that are in the city and want to meet up with us. Do you feel naked, like everyone knows everything about you? For example, I was shoe shopping the other day and some girl ran up to me and started freaking out."She told me, 'I'm not doing that [drug] dance with you. The honey, the reward, is the feeling of well-being, the continuity, the sense that I am walking toward a place I want to go." Downey stars as a comic-book superhero in his new movie, Iron Man, opening May 2. " Downey exclaims delightedly, picking up a plastic doll of himself in Iron Man armor.I'm drawing a line in the sand here.' She was absolutely clear about it. "I've done something most people thought I'd never do. But what Jess and I created will always exist in its true form online. Who, in your dreams, is going to play you in the movie? Jess: I was always thinking of the future instead of being able to relax and enjoy the now. I really just let go after the project and it made dating fun again. Tim: I wasn't jealous of him being in a relationship with her.
I was more concerned with finding the writer and director. Other people are saying Aubrey Plaza but I don't know about that one. It's usually like, 'You made me so mad because of what happened in the experiment, but why do I still want to go on a date with you? Jess: Maybe a month after the experiment ended I went on OKCupid."I had very much this post-adolescent, faux nihilistic, punk-rock rebellious attitude," he says."I thought my way was so much cooler than people who were actually building lives and careers.(See: their clashing romantic outlooks.) You may know this as the premise of their ridiculously-popular, exquisitely-designed blog 40 Days of Dating, which last week scored them a movie deal with Warner Bros, to be written by Lorene Scafaria of Have there been any haters saying that the whole thing was just a gimmick now that you have the movie deal? I think what has taken people aback is how well-designed the blog is and that just helps the argument of, 'Oh, this is just a PR stunt .' No, that's just me and Jess. How did the experiment change your outlook on love? Anything else that's not necessarily authored by us, it's a little bit… I think not having expectations really helps relationships.: Tim, are you jealous that she has a new boyfriend? I was feeling like you go through this profound experience with someone and then you kind of feel left behind when they're like, 'Oh, now I'm in love and I'm just busy with this other person.' You're like, 'Well I want to be in love, too!
I was in love with Sarah Jessica," he confesses, "and love clearly was not enough. And, after some heartache, she was meant to find her home with a great star." Describing Parker's husband, actor Matthew Broderick, Downey adds, "He is a lot more gifted and grounded than I ever was.
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Impact study demonstrates "rising tide" of NKY economy
What does regional growth look like?
New shops and restaurants where there once were empty storefronts? People, noise and traffic where there used to be quiet streets? Construction, expansion and redevelopment where projects were previously at a stand-still?
Northern Kentucky may be enjoying all of these signs of life and more, but the best evidence that the region is growing may be less sensory and more statistical.
In other words -- or, rather, in numbers -- Northern Kentucky's growth in 2011 looks like this:
28 companies expanding or locating in Northern Kentucky
4,127 jobs directly or indirectly created in the Cincinnati MSA
$685 million in regional economic impact
These are key benchmarks from Northern Kentucky Tri-ED's 2011 economic impact study, conducted by Northern Kentucky University’s Center for Economic Analysis and Development.
It's a snapshot of a region that is growing steadily, and in spite of national economic adversity. It shows, in no uncertain terms, Northern Kentucky's crucial role in the vitality of the entire region. And it demonstrates the commitment of firms like Northern Kentucky Tri-ED in cultivating a supportive business climate that enables success.
A rising tide, the numbers indicate, lifts all boats.
Growth begets growth
On average, Tri-ED has annually attracted or helped to expand an average of 22 companies. In 2011, Tri-ED exceeded that average: 11 companies announced new locations in Northern Kentucky and 17 existing companies announced expansions.
The fact that most of the economic activity in Northern Kentucky came from existing NKY companies expresses confidence and commitment to the region: Expansions from existing businesses had nearly $510 million in impact on the regional economy and accounted for nearly 2,900 jobs.
That's a good sign, says Janet Harrah, Senior Director of the Center for Economic Analysis and Development at NKU.
"If our existing companies are not growing … our economy will not grow," Harrah says.
As a company expands, she explains, it starts to buy more raw materials, use more utilities, even purchase more office supplies. As payroll extends, more employees invest in housing, buy more groceries, fuel their cars with more gasoline and spend more money in their communities. These are the indirect effects measured by the economic impact study; they add up to about 1500 jobs and $213 million in economic impact in NKY alone.
Cultivating diversity for future strength
Northern Kentucky's advanced manufacturing sector showed particular promise, as leading-edge companies like Messier-Bugati, ZF Steering, Linamar and Mubea increased efficiencies, expanded production capabilities and sharpened their competitive edge.
The region's economy, however, is diverse, and economic growth occurred across all sectors, including key industries such as aviation, life sciences, logistics and e-commerce. That lays the groundwork for a strong, stable economy that's less susceptible to boom-and-bust patterns.
"A well-diversified economy smoothes out the rough edges of a business cycle," Harrah says.
Looking forward, leaders Northern Kentucky hope to encourage innovation and support entrepreneurs, especially in technology.
"There is a strategic focus in Northern Kentucky to encourage entrepreneurs and innovation," said Dan Tobergte, President and CEO of Northern Kentucky Tri-ED, in a press release. "We have significant momentum through initiatives like UpTech and are working to make private investment easier and to build on our results in this area. The growth of Northern Kentucky University’s College of Informatics has greatly enhanced the benefits of the technology sector."
A focus on entrepreneurship underlines one of the most important takeaways of the impact analysis. Overall, the greatest testament to economic progress in the region may not be any single number. What the study reflects is the ability of business leaders in Northern Kentucky to seek opportunity and seize the day, even in the most daunting of circumstances.
"No matter where you’re at in the business cycle, there are business opportunities," says Harrah. "These numbers represent opportunities that the community is taking advantage of."
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© Kwiyeon Ha/Reuters World's oldest living married couple Masao Matsumoto (L) and Miyako Matsumoto look at albums in their room at a nursing house in Takamatsu, Kagawa prefecture, Japan on Sept. 4, 2018.
By Kwiyeon Ha, Reuters
Japan is known for its abundance of centenarians and can now lay claim to having the world's oldest living married couple, with a combined age of 208 - a feat the wife credits to her patience during 80 years of marriage.
Masao Matsumoto, 108, and his 100-year-old wife, Miyako, have been confirmed as the oldest living spouses by aggregate age by Guinness World Records, having been married since October 1937.
"I am so glad. It's thanks to my patience, really," said Miyako with a laugh, posing with Masao and other family members in front of a framed certificate at the nursing home where they live.
"I am so grateful that it brings me tears," she told Reuters.
The Matsumotos never managed to have a wedding as Japan was heading into war and Masao was sent overseas as a soldier, but that was no obstacle to having a big family - including a 25th great-grandchild who was born last month.
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There has never been a populist International nor an exchange of views between different populist leaders on the meaning or significance of their respective struggles. There is consequently a degree of isolated spontaneity peculiar to populist parties which makes it difficult to place the Southern Rhodesian populist movement in an international perspective. This article therefore restricts itself to a discussion of Rhodesian populism with particular regard to the views of N.H. Wilson, who tried to propagate a populist philosophy and programme suited to the circumstances of Southern Rhodesia.
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1. Wen, Haoran. Toward inertial-navigation-on-chip: The physics and performance scaling of multi degree-of-freedom resonant MEMS gyroscopes.
Degree: PhD, Physics, 2018, Georgia Tech
► Gyroscopes based on microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) are micro-scale inertial sensors that measure the rotation of an object without relying on external references. Due to their… (more)
▼ Gyroscopes based on microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) are micro-scale inertial sensors that measure the rotation of an object without relying on external references. Due to their small size and low cost, integrated single-chip MEMS inertial measurement units (IMUs) consisting of 3-axis gyroscopes and 3-axis accelerometers have received great success in personal electronics applications for self-sustained motion tracking. However, IMUs with robust higher performance are required by emerging applications like health informatics, robotics, industrial guidance, and indoor navigation, which are unavailable with current MEMS gyroscope technology. In addition, high-performance MEMS IMUs can be used for exploratory and scientific applications such as direction guidance for field studies in GPS-denied environments, low-cost geophysical measurements, and relativity experiments. Therefore, breakthroughs in multi-axis MEMS gyroscope technology for robust high-performance IMUs are highly desirable. Commercially available MEMS gyroscopes suffer from poor robustness due to their low-frequency design. Contrarily, high-frequency resonant gyroscope technology developed in recent years promises robust high performance with mode-matched resonant operation. While high performance is shown in various resonant yaw gyroscopes, large discrepancies are seen between the promised and delivered performance in resonant pitch and roll gyroscopes, keeping multi-axis resonant gyroscopes from high-end IMU applications and prohibiting a fully integrated single-chip IMU design based on high-frequency gyroscopes. This dissertation focuses on understanding the physical phenomena behind non-idealities in resonant MEMS gyroscopes to identify and provide solutions to the performance scaling limits, especially for resonant pitch and roll gyroscopes, as well as to provide insights into the future path toward resonant-gyroscope-based single-chip inertial navigation systems (INSs). This work has led to novel designs and microfabrication technologies that enabled the implementation of the first high-performance single-chip timing and inertial measurement unit (TIMU) with robust 3-axis resonant gyroscopes. In this thesis, a nano-gap slanted electrode technology was introduced and demonstrated through an advanced high aspect-ratio poly- and single-crystal silicon RIE plus wet-etching (HARPSS+) process to enable, for the first time, electrostatic quadrature error cancellation in pitch and roll gyroscopes with both in-plane (IP) and out-of-plane (OOP) degree-of-freedom (DOF), which has been the bottleneck in multi-axis resonant gyroscope technology. A novel high-frequency resonant framed-annulus pitch and roll gyroscope design with high Coriolis sensitivity was proposed and experimentally verified, incorporating the slanted electrodes and a novel nano-gap comb-drive technology to match the performance of state-of-the-art high-frequency yaw gyroscopes. The framed-annulus gyroscopes were integrated with a novel quasi-solid disk bulk acoustic wave (BAW) yaw… Advisors/Committee Members: Ayazi, Farrokh (advisor), Raman, Chandra (committee member), First, Phillip N (committee member), Hesketh, Peter J (committee member), Sponberg, Simon (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: MEMS gyroscope; Inertial measurement unit
Wen, H. (2018). Toward inertial-navigation-on-chip: The physics and performance scaling of multi degree-of-freedom resonant MEMS gyroscopes . (Doctoral Dissertation). Georgia Tech. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1853/61118
Wen, Haoran. “Toward inertial-navigation-on-chip: The physics and performance scaling of multi degree-of-freedom resonant MEMS gyroscopes.” 2018. Doctoral Dissertation, Georgia Tech. Accessed July 17, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/61118.
Wen, Haoran. “Toward inertial-navigation-on-chip: The physics and performance scaling of multi degree-of-freedom resonant MEMS gyroscopes.” 2018. Web. 17 Jul 2019.
Wen H. Toward inertial-navigation-on-chip: The physics and performance scaling of multi degree-of-freedom resonant MEMS gyroscopes. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Georgia Tech; 2018. [cited 2019 Jul 17]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1853/61118.
Wen H. Toward inertial-navigation-on-chip: The physics and performance scaling of multi degree-of-freedom resonant MEMS gyroscopes. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Georgia Tech; 2018. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1853/61118
2. Johnson, Avery Steven. Development and testing of a gait estimation system.
Degree: MS, Mechanical Engineering, 2013, University of Utah
URL: http://content.lib.utah.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/etd3/id/2285/rec/686
► Computing and data acquisition have become an integral part of everyday life. From reading emails on cell phones to kids playing with motion sensing game… (more)
▼ Computing and data acquisition have become an integral part of everyday life. From reading emails on cell phones to kids playing with motion sensing game consoles, we are surrounded with sensors and mobile computing devices. As the availability of powerful computing devices increases, applications in previously limited environments become possible.Training devices in rehabilitation are becoming increasingly common and more mobile. Community based rehabilitative devices are emerging that embrace these mobile advances. To further the flexibility of devices used in rehabilitation, research has explored the use of smartphones as a means to process data and provide feedback to the user. In combination with sensor embedded insoles, smartphones provide a powerful tool for the clinician in gathering data and as a standalone training tool in rehabilitation.This thesis presents the continuing research of sensor based insoles, feedback systems and increasing the capabilities of the Adaptive Real-Time Instrumentation System for Tread Imbalance Correction, or ARTISTIC, with the introduction of ARTISTIC 2.0. To increase the capabilities of the ARTISTIC an Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) was added, which gave the system the ability to quantify the motion of the gait cycle and, more specifically, determine stride length.The number of sensors in the insole was increased from two to ten, as well as placing the microprocessor and a vibratory motor in the insole. The transmission box weight was reduced by over 50 percent and the volume by over 60 percent. Stride length was validated against a motion capture system and found the average stride length to be within 2.7 ± 6.9 percent. To continue the improvement of the ARTISTIC 2.0, future work will include implementing real-time stride length feedback.
Subjects/Keywords: feedback; gait; inertial measurement unit; insole; mobile
Johnson, A. S. (2013). Development and testing of a gait estimation system . (Masters Thesis). University of Utah. Retrieved from http://content.lib.utah.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/etd3/id/2285/rec/686
Johnson, Avery Steven. “Development and testing of a gait estimation system.” 2013. Masters Thesis, University of Utah. Accessed July 17, 2019. http://content.lib.utah.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/etd3/id/2285/rec/686.
Johnson, Avery Steven. “Development and testing of a gait estimation system.” 2013. Web. 17 Jul 2019.
Johnson AS. Development and testing of a gait estimation system. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. University of Utah; 2013. [cited 2019 Jul 17]. Available from: http://content.lib.utah.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/etd3/id/2285/rec/686.
Johnson AS. Development and testing of a gait estimation system. [Masters Thesis]. University of Utah; 2013. Available from: http://content.lib.utah.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/etd3/id/2285/rec/686
3. Stam, J. Accuracy Assesment of direct sensor orientation in UAV Photogrammetry:.
URL: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:ff977688-ead7-4c1a-b595-49e7626089bf
► With the advent of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, it becomes possible to use these vehicles to acquire photogrammetric images in a more cheap and flexible way… (more)
▼ With the advent of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, it becomes possible to use these vehicles to acquire photogrammetric images in a more cheap and flexible way compared with conventional photogrammetry from a full-sized airplane. A big factor in costs and resources in conventional photogrammetry is signalling and measuring ground control points, which are necessary to determine the location and attitude of the photos. Eliminating the need for ground control points would make the photogrammetric process much less costly and labour intensive. A UAV contains navigational sensors (a GPS receiver and a Inertial Measurement Unit) for it's own navigation. The output of these sensors can also be used for the orientation of the photographs. However, the accuracy of these sensors, especially low cost off-the-shelf sensors, is limited. This thesis concentrates on determining the accuracy of low-cost navigational sensors and the effect of inaccuracies in these sensors on the result of the photogrammetric product: a Digital Terrain Model. Using a UAV developed by the company Heering UAS, founded by Pieter Wijkstra, the effects of inaccuracies in the GPS receiver and the IMU in the UAV on the outcoming Digital Elevation model has been tested. First the theoretical effects of inaccuracies of navigation sensors on the final product is investigated, using the photogrammetric collinearity equations. To validate the theoretical results, a number of tests has been carried out using an available platform with an off-the-shelf camera and dito navigation sensors. A first test, using flight data and photos taken at the unfinished A4 highway site just south of Delft, shows the sensitivity of the final model to errors in the navigational sensors. This test did not give enough data though to give enough insight in the effects of navigational sensor errors. Therefore a second test was carried out using a larger photoblock flown at the dyke of the river Lek at Ammerstol. This test showed that the errors in the terrain model caused by errors in the on-board GPS receiver follow the results of the theoretical simulation. However, because at the time, the UAV did not contain a reliable IMU, the effect of IMU errors could not be tested. So a third test was conducted, using an off-the-shelf IMU combined with a high accuracy GPS receiver to asses the effect of errors in the IMU on the resulting terrain model. The results show that off-the-shelf navigation sensors are not accurate enough to produce a reliable end result. Therefore eliminating ground control points would result in a final product which is not accurate enough. Using the available navigation sensors it is possible to reduce the amount of ground control points. Advisors/Committee Members: Koshelham, K..
Subjects/Keywords: UAV; photogrammetry; accuracy; GPS; Inertial Measurement Unit
Stam, J. (2011). Accuracy Assesment of direct sensor orientation in UAV Photogrammetry: . (Masters Thesis). Delft University of Technology. Retrieved from http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:ff977688-ead7-4c1a-b595-49e7626089bf
Stam, J. “Accuracy Assesment of direct sensor orientation in UAV Photogrammetry:.” 2011. Masters Thesis, Delft University of Technology. Accessed July 17, 2019. http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:ff977688-ead7-4c1a-b595-49e7626089bf.
Stam, J. “Accuracy Assesment of direct sensor orientation in UAV Photogrammetry:.” 2011. Web. 17 Jul 2019.
Stam J. Accuracy Assesment of direct sensor orientation in UAV Photogrammetry:. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Delft University of Technology; 2011. [cited 2019 Jul 17]. Available from: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:ff977688-ead7-4c1a-b595-49e7626089bf.
Stam J. Accuracy Assesment of direct sensor orientation in UAV Photogrammetry:. [Masters Thesis]. Delft University of Technology; 2011. Available from: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:ff977688-ead7-4c1a-b595-49e7626089bf
4. Brown, Ryan Allen, 1977-. Inertial solution for accurately assessing location coordinates (ISAAC).
Degree: Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2010, University of Texas – Austin
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2010-05-862
► Accurately determining one’s location has long been a persistent problem in navigation and has reappeared in recent years in the field of mobile computing. The… (more)
▼ Accurately determining one’s location has long been a persistent problem in navigation and has reappeared in recent years in the field of mobile computing. The ability to determine a device’s location indoors is needed for both automation and efficient communication in collaborative robotic and sensor networks. Technologies such as indoor GPS transmitters and Cricket have been employed, but have had limited success due to cost, accuracy, and power consumption. The Inertial Solution for Accurately Assessing location Coordinates (ISAAC) was developed as a means of filling this need without requiring infrastructure or expensive components to accurately determine position, inside or outside. ISAAC is based on modified six-degrees-of-freedom (6DOF) dead reckoning algorithms currently being used by Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV). UAVs typically have access to other types of sensors to supplement and/or replace the IMU measurements. ISAAC was implemented using a low-cost MEMS 6DOF IMU in which the onboard firmware was modified to incorporate the dead reckoning calculations and communications necessary to realize ISAAC. ISAAC was implemented as a portable unit which communicated with a host computer through an RS-232 interface. ISAAC did not perform as well as expected; the location coordinates were very inconsistent with device movements and did not produce any useful data. The correct intermediate results of the calculations and subsequent review by a local subject-matter-expert implies that the source of the erroneous results lie with the accuracy and precision of the MEMS IMU. ISAAC presents a foundation for future work where more robust sensors and/or filtering can be used for further examination of inertial-based location systems. Advisors/Committee Members: Julien, Christine, D. Sc. (advisor), Barber, Suzanne (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: 6DOF; Inertial measurement unit; Dead reckoning
Brown, Ryan Allen, 1. (2010). Inertial solution for accurately assessing location coordinates (ISAAC) . (Thesis). University of Texas – Austin. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2010-05-862
Brown, Ryan Allen, 1977-. “Inertial solution for accurately assessing location coordinates (ISAAC).” 2010. Thesis, University of Texas – Austin. Accessed July 17, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2010-05-862.
Brown, Ryan Allen, 1977-. “Inertial solution for accurately assessing location coordinates (ISAAC).” 2010. Web. 17 Jul 2019.
Brown, Ryan Allen 1. Inertial solution for accurately assessing location coordinates (ISAAC). [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Texas – Austin; 2010. [cited 2019 Jul 17]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2010-05-862.
Brown, Ryan Allen 1. Inertial solution for accurately assessing location coordinates (ISAAC). [Thesis]. University of Texas – Austin; 2010. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2010-05-862
5. Escobar Alvarez, Hector Domingo. Geometrical configuration comparison of redundant inertial measurement units.
Degree: Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, 2010, University of Texas – Austin
► Inertial measurement units (IMUs) are used in a wide range of applications to estimate position, velocity, and attitude of vehicles. The high cost of tactical… (more)
▼ Inertial measurement units (IMUs) are used in a wide range of applications to estimate position, velocity, and attitude of vehicles. The high cost of tactical grade IMUs makes the low-cost microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) based IMUs appealing. These types of IMUs are less accurate, so to counteract this effect, multiple and different configurations should be used. The work presented here provides efficient and low cost solutions using different configurations of redundant (multiple) MEMS-IMU swarms, which increase the level of accuracy to potentially the order of that of a tactical IMU. Several configurations are presented and compared through different methods. Advisors/Committee Members: Bishop, Robert H., 1957- (advisor), Akella, Maruthi Ram, 1972- (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: Inertial measurement unit; Redundant configuration; Geometrical comparison
Escobar Alvarez, H. D. (2010). Geometrical configuration comparison of redundant inertial measurement units . (Thesis). University of Texas – Austin. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2010-12-2623
Escobar Alvarez, Hector Domingo. “Geometrical configuration comparison of redundant inertial measurement units.” 2010. Thesis, University of Texas – Austin. Accessed July 17, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2010-12-2623.
Escobar Alvarez, Hector Domingo. “Geometrical configuration comparison of redundant inertial measurement units.” 2010. Web. 17 Jul 2019.
Escobar Alvarez HD. Geometrical configuration comparison of redundant inertial measurement units. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Texas – Austin; 2010. [cited 2019 Jul 17]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2010-12-2623.
Escobar Alvarez HD. Geometrical configuration comparison of redundant inertial measurement units. [Thesis]. University of Texas – Austin; 2010. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2010-12-2623
6. Löfstrand, Sebastian. Utvärdering av Movesense för användning vid biomekaniska studier.
Degree: Health Informatics and Logistics, 2019, KTH
Det finns ett behov av att kunna nyttja ett användarvänligt system för interaktion med kroppsnära sensorer vid undervisning och forskning vid skolan för kemi,… (more)
Det finns ett behov av att kunna nyttja ett användarvänligt system för interaktion med kroppsnära sensorer vid undervisning och forskning vid skolan för kemi, bioteknologi och hälsa vid Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan. Ansvariga vid utbildningen har därför gett i uppdrag att utreda om ett specifikt sensorsystem, Movesense, kan utgöra grunden för ett användarvänligt verktyg för att kunna studera biomekaniska rörelser inom utbildning och forskning. En förstudie har genomförts för att undersöka sensorsystemets potential. En systemprototyp har utvecklats för konfiguration av sensorsystemet och hämtning av sensordata. En kvantitativ utvärdering av insamlade data från sensorsystemet och videoanalys har utförts för att fastställa om det är möjligt att utföra rörelseanalyser med hjälp av systemprototypen. Utredningen resulterade i en fungerande systemprototyp, samt slutsatsen att Movesense går att nyttja som verktyg för att studera vissa typer av rörelser. Prototypen har stor utvecklingspotential och sensorsystemet har potentiella möjligheter inom utbildning och forskning.
There is a need to be able to utilize a user-friendly system for interaction with body-worn sensors in teaching and research at the school for chemistry, biotechnology and health at the Royal Institute of Technology. Responsible persons at the program have therefore assigned a Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree project to investigate whether a specific sensor system, Movesense, can serve as a user-friendly tool for studying biomechanical movements within education and research. A preliminary study is carried out to examine the sensor system's potential. A system prototype is developed for configuring the sensor system and retrieving sensor data. A quantitative evaluation of collected data from the sensor system, and video analysis is performed to determine whether it is possible to perform motion analysis using the system prototype. The investigation resulted in a functioning system prototype, and that Movesense can be used as a tool for studying certain types of movements. The prototype has great development potential, and the sensor system has potential opportunities in education and research.
Subjects/Keywords: Inertial Measurement Unit; Movesense; Sensor; Bluetooth; Generic attributes; Inertial Measurement Unit; Movesense; Sensor; Bluetooth; Generic attributes; Software Engineering; Programvaruteknik
Löfstrand, S. (2019). Utvärdering av Movesense för användning vid biomekaniska studier . (Thesis). KTH. Retrieved from http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-252802
Löfstrand, Sebastian. “Utvärdering av Movesense för användning vid biomekaniska studier.” 2019. Thesis, KTH. Accessed July 17, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-252802.
Löfstrand, Sebastian. “Utvärdering av Movesense för användning vid biomekaniska studier.” 2019. Web. 17 Jul 2019.
Löfstrand S. Utvärdering av Movesense för användning vid biomekaniska studier. [Internet] [Thesis]. KTH; 2019. [cited 2019 Jul 17]. Available from: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-252802.
Löfstrand S. Utvärdering av Movesense för användning vid biomekaniska studier. [Thesis]. KTH; 2019. Available from: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-252802
University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign
7. Miller, Martin Hudson. Hardware and software considerations for monocular SLAM in a riverine environment.
Degree: MS, Electrical & Computer Engr, 2017, University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign
► A monocular SLAM algorithm for use on rivers is proposed and compared to existing methods using a newly created SLAM dataset. The proposed algorithm uses… (more)
▼ A monocular SLAM algorithm for use on rivers is proposed and compared to existing methods using a newly created SLAM dataset. The proposed algorithm uses a single camera and inertial measurements to estimate the location of a canoe and a map of a river simultaneously using an extended Kalman filter. The algorithm exploits the reflections of map landmarks in the river in order to obtain a depth estimate from a single view. Landmark reflections are found by using the state covariance matrix of the extended Kalman filter to define a search region where reflections are likely to be found. A process noise model is proposed to more accurately reflect the noise characteristics of the inertial measurement unit. The dataset used for the experiments was collected from a canoe on the Sangamon River covering 2.7 kilometers in 44 minutes and divided into eight subsets. Data collected includes stereo images, inertial measurements, and GPS position data for ground truth. The proposed algorithm is evaluated by measuring the translation and attitude error with respect to ground truth and comparisons are made to the stereo method, ORB-SLAM2. Advisors/Committee Members: Hutchinson, Seth A (advisor), Chung, Soon-Jo (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM); Monocular; Stereo; River; Inertial measurement unit (IMU); Camera; Robotics; Inertial
Miller, M. H. (2017). Hardware and software considerations for monocular SLAM in a riverine environment . (Thesis). University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2142/99412
Miller, Martin Hudson. “Hardware and software considerations for monocular SLAM in a riverine environment.” 2017. Thesis, University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign. Accessed July 17, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/99412.
Miller, Martin Hudson. “Hardware and software considerations for monocular SLAM in a riverine environment.” 2017. Web. 17 Jul 2019.
Miller MH. Hardware and software considerations for monocular SLAM in a riverine environment. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign; 2017. [cited 2019 Jul 17]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2142/99412.
Miller MH. Hardware and software considerations for monocular SLAM in a riverine environment. [Thesis]. University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign; 2017. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2142/99412
8. Kelly, James Paul. The development of multi-range inertial measurement units.
Degree: MS, Aerospace Engineering, 2014, Mississippi State University
► There exist numerous commercial six-degree-of-freedom inertial measurement units capable of measuring low-range accelerations and rotation rates. A commercially available multi-range IMU capable of measuring… (more)
▼ There exist numerous commercial six-degree-of-freedom inertial measurement units capable of measuring low-range accelerations and rotation rates. A commercially available multi-range IMU capable of measuring low and high-range motions does not exist. An IMU with this capability was developed for measuring trajectory data of projectiles such as high-powered rockets. This data can be used to provide performance feedback to projectile designers and users. A small footprint printed circuit board was designed to minimize the overall size of the unit, compared to perf-board prototypes. Several PCB design guidelines were closely followed to reduce electrical interference in digital/analog components and traces. Embedded C code was developed to control the IMU. The unit features a wireless user interface, providing several control options, including an option to download data sampled at 1KHz per sweep of all twelve sensor channels. Preliminary testing reveals good consistency among the high and low-range sensors and acceptably low noise levels. Advisors/Committee Members: Yang Cheng (committee member), Gregory D. Olsen (committee member), Keith Koenig (chair).
Subjects/Keywords: IMU; inertial measurement unit
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Kelly, J. P. (2014). The development of multi-range inertial measurement units . (Masters Thesis). Mississippi State University. Retrieved from http://sun.library.msstate.edu/ETD-db/theses/available/etd-07032014-113527/ ;
Kelly, James Paul. “The development of multi-range inertial measurement units.” 2014. Masters Thesis, Mississippi State University. Accessed July 17, 2019. http://sun.library.msstate.edu/ETD-db/theses/available/etd-07032014-113527/ ;.
Kelly, James Paul. “The development of multi-range inertial measurement units.” 2014. Web. 17 Jul 2019.
Kelly JP. The development of multi-range inertial measurement units. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Mississippi State University; 2014. [cited 2019 Jul 17]. Available from: http://sun.library.msstate.edu/ETD-db/theses/available/etd-07032014-113527/ ;.
Kelly JP. The development of multi-range inertial measurement units. [Masters Thesis]. Mississippi State University; 2014. Available from: http://sun.library.msstate.edu/ETD-db/theses/available/etd-07032014-113527/ ;
9. Ozyalcin, Anil E. SOLITONS: A COMPACT, LOW-COST, AND WIRELESS BODY MOTION CAPTURE SYSTEM.
Degree: MS, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2015, The Ohio State University
► This thesis introduces the Solitons, which are low-cost, compact, and wireless human body motion capture sensors. They utilize microelectromechanical (MEMS) inertial measurement units (IMU) to… (more)
▼ This thesis introduces the Solitons, which are low-cost, compact, and wireless human body motion capture sensors. They utilize microelectromechanical (MEMS) inertial measurement units (IMU) to measure orientation of human body parts. Each Soliton is only slightly larger than a US quarter (29 mm diameter), and can run for up to 6 hours on one battery charge. The sensors are worn by the human subject, and are placed on certain links between the joints on the subject’s body. Each Soliton sends the subject’s limb’s orientation data wirelessly using ANT protocol to a Soliton Station, which is a gateway for all data that is transmitted between the Solitons and the PC client. Soliton Station connects to a PC over a USB connection, and relays the wirelessly received data to the PC client over a serial connection. The PC can then use a forward kinematics model to translate limb orientation to limb position. They were specifically designed to be compact and low-weight enough to be worn by infants with muscular disorders, so they can be used to capture motion on infants, as well as adults. Soliton Reach is also introduced, which is a regular Soliton equipped with both Bluetooth Low Energy and ANT modules. Soliton Reach is designed to interface with mobile devices to provide human motion data to mobile device applications. Advisors/Committee Members: Lee, Robert (Advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: Electrical Engineering; Human Body Motion Capture; Sensor Fusion; Inertial Measurement Unit
Ozyalcin, A. E. (2015). SOLITONS: A COMPACT, LOW-COST, AND WIRELESS BODY MOTION CAPTURE SYSTEM . (Masters Thesis). The Ohio State University. Retrieved from http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1437440750
Ozyalcin, Anil E. “SOLITONS: A COMPACT, LOW-COST, AND WIRELESS BODY MOTION CAPTURE SYSTEM.” 2015. Masters Thesis, The Ohio State University. Accessed July 17, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1437440750.
Ozyalcin, Anil E. “SOLITONS: A COMPACT, LOW-COST, AND WIRELESS BODY MOTION CAPTURE SYSTEM.” 2015. Web. 17 Jul 2019.
Ozyalcin AE. SOLITONS: A COMPACT, LOW-COST, AND WIRELESS BODY MOTION CAPTURE SYSTEM. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. The Ohio State University; 2015. [cited 2019 Jul 17]. Available from: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1437440750.
Ozyalcin AE. SOLITONS: A COMPACT, LOW-COST, AND WIRELESS BODY MOTION CAPTURE SYSTEM. [Masters Thesis]. The Ohio State University; 2015. Available from: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1437440750
10. Arroyo Vera, Jose Gustavo. Comparison of wearable measurement systems for estimating trunk postures in manual material handling, A.
Degree: MS(M.S.), Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, 2018, Colorado State University
► Epidemiologic studies have established that awkward trunk postures during manual materials handling are associated with an increased risk of developing occupational low back disorders. With… (more)
▼ Epidemiologic studies have established that awkward trunk postures during manual materials handling are associated with an increased risk of developing occupational low back disorders. With recent advances in motion capture technology, emerging wearable measurement systems have been designed to quantify trunk postures for exposure assessments. Wearable measurement systems integrate portable microelectromechanical sensors, real-time processing algorithms, and large memory capacity to effectively quantify trunk postures. Wearable measurement systems have been available primarily as research tools, but are now quickly becoming accessible to health and safety professionals for industrial application. Although some of these systems can be highly complex and deter health and safety professionals from using them, other systems can serve as a simpler, more user-friendly alternative. These simple wearable measurement systems are designed to be less intricate, allowing health and safety professionals to be more willing to utilize them in occupational posture assessments. Unfortunately, concerns regarding the comparability and agreement between simple and complex wearable measurement systems for estimating trunk postures are yet to be fully addressed. Furthermore, application of wearable measurement systems has been affected by the lack of adaptability of sensor placement to work around obstructive equipment and bulky gear workers often wear on the job. The aims of the present study were to 1) compare the Bioharness™3, a simple wearable measurement system, to Xsens™, a complex wearable measurement system, for estimating trunk postures during simulated manual material handling tasks and 2) to explore the effects of Xsens sensor placement on assessing trunk postures. Thirty participants wore the two systems simultaneously during simulated tasks in the laboratory that involved reaching, lifting, lowering, and pushing a load for ten minutes. Results indicated that the Bioharness 3 and Xsens systems are comparable for strictly estimating trunk postures that involved flexion and extension of 30° or less. Although limited to a short range of trunk postures, the Bioharness also exhibited moderate to strong agreement and correlations with the Xsens system for measuring key metrics commonly used in exposure assessments, including amplitude probability distribution functions and percent time spent in specific trunk posture categories or bins. The Bioharness is suggested to be an a more intuitive alternative to the Xsens system for posture analysis, but industrial use of the device should be warranted in the context of the exposure assessment goals. In addition, a single motion sensor from the Xsens system placed on the sternum yielded comparable and consistent estimates to a sensor secured on the sternum relative to a motion sensor on the sacrum. Estimates included descriptive measures of trunk flexion and extension and percent time spent in specific trunk posture categories. Using one motion sensor instead of two may serve as an… Advisors/Committee Members: Rosecrance, John (advisor), Gilkey, David (committee member), Reiser, Raoul (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: inertial measurement unit; wearable; manual material handling; accelerometer
Arroyo Vera, J. G. (2018). Comparison of wearable measurement systems for estimating trunk postures in manual material handling, A . (Masters Thesis). Colorado State University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10217/185737
Arroyo Vera, Jose Gustavo. “Comparison of wearable measurement systems for estimating trunk postures in manual material handling, A.” 2018. Masters Thesis, Colorado State University. Accessed July 17, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10217/185737.
Arroyo Vera, Jose Gustavo. “Comparison of wearable measurement systems for estimating trunk postures in manual material handling, A.” 2018. Web. 17 Jul 2019.
Arroyo Vera JG. Comparison of wearable measurement systems for estimating trunk postures in manual material handling, A. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Colorado State University; 2018. [cited 2019 Jul 17]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10217/185737.
Arroyo Vera JG. Comparison of wearable measurement systems for estimating trunk postures in manual material handling, A. [Masters Thesis]. Colorado State University; 2018. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10217/185737
University of California – Irvine
11. Efimovskaya, Alexandra. Multi-Axis Solutions for MEMS Inertial Sensors.
Degree: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, 2017, University of California – Irvine
URL: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/95971097
► Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) integrates three-axis gyroscopes and three-axis accelerometers to provide information about position, orientation, and trajectory. For decades, IMUs based on high-end sensors… (more)
▼ Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) integrates three-axis gyroscopes and three-axis accelerometers to provide information about position, orientation, and trajectory. For decades, IMUs based on high-end sensors have been widely used for navigation, flight control, and stabilization functions. Inspired by recent improvements in performance of MEMS inertial sensors, this Ph.D. dissertation explores a large-scale integration of discrete inertial sensors in a single micro chip solution, and introduces two approaches for a compact tactical-grade MEMS IMU.The first approach is based on a silicon "origami-like" MEMS fabrication process, which involves fabrication of a high density array of discrete single-axis inertial sensors and then folding the array into a 3D IMU configuration. The main contribution of this thesis isinvention and implementation of a double-sided fabrication process for foldable structures with flexible polymer hinges, integrated high-end MEMS inertial sensors, and integration of thru-wafer interconnects in the fabrication process. Dissimilar materials were explored forfabrication of the "origami-like" structures, expanding our knowledge on the use of polymers and standard bulk and surface micro-machining tools for manufacturing of 3D MEMS devices. In addition, this work investigated two tactical-grade gyroscope designs for potential integration with the introduced fabrication process: Dynamically Amplified Gyroscope (DAG) and Toroidal Ring Gyroscope (TRG). We designed, modeled, and implemented the control electronics, and experimentally demonstrated the tactical-grade performance of the DAG and TRG gyroscopes. In this dissertation, for the first time, an IMU prototype with all sensors operational was reported, demonstrating feasibility of the Folded MEMS approach for implementation of a compact tactical-grade performance system.This thesis also explored a MEMS IMU solution, utilizing a single multi-axis sensing element. We demonstrated a 3-axis roll-pitch-yaw gyroscope, a major building block of the miniaturized IMU. The mechanical structure of the gyroscope employed a single vibrationalelement with a torsional drive mode and a multi-directional sense modes. Experimental characterization of the sensor showed that it is capable of measuring an angular rate around all three orthogonal axes simultaneously with a minimal cross talk betweenaxes of sensitivity and increased immunity to external vibrations.
Subjects/Keywords: Mechanical engineering; Aerospace engineering; 3-Axis Gyroscope; 3-D MEMS; Inertial Measurement Unit; Inertial Sensors; Micro-Assembly
Efimovskaya, A. (2017). Multi-Axis Solutions for MEMS Inertial Sensors . (Thesis). University of California – Irvine. Retrieved from http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/95971097
Efimovskaya, Alexandra. “Multi-Axis Solutions for MEMS Inertial Sensors.” 2017. Thesis, University of California – Irvine. Accessed July 17, 2019. http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/95971097.
Efimovskaya, Alexandra. “Multi-Axis Solutions for MEMS Inertial Sensors.” 2017. Web. 17 Jul 2019.
Efimovskaya A. Multi-Axis Solutions for MEMS Inertial Sensors. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of California – Irvine; 2017. [cited 2019 Jul 17]. Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/95971097.
Efimovskaya A. Multi-Axis Solutions for MEMS Inertial Sensors. [Thesis]. University of California – Irvine; 2017. Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/95971097
12. Bray-Miners, Jordan. Biomechanical Performance Factors of Slalom Water Skiing .
► The instrumentation and methodology of this study provided quantitative data for a group of six advanced slalom skiers. Rope load, skier velocity, ski roll, ski… (more)
▼ The instrumentation and methodology of this study provided quantitative data for a group of six advanced slalom skiers. Rope load, skier velocity, ski roll, ski acceleration and ski deceleration were calculated during the deep water start and cutting portion of a slalom run. Four different ski designs were tested in order to determine if the test subjects were able to achieve a different level of performance on each ski. Through a statistical analysis there was enough evidence to suggest that a different performance was achieved between the skis, for rope load and peak roll. There was also enough evidence to suggest that the skiers were achieving different overall levels of performance. The analysis procedure of this study achieved the goal of proving that it could be used to improve coaching capabilities and product design in the water ski industry. Advisors/Committee Members: Runciman, John (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: biomechanics; water skiing; slalom; advanced skier; inertial measurement unit; global positioning system; load transducer
Bray-Miners, J. (2011). Biomechanical Performance Factors of Slalom Water Skiing . (Thesis). University of Guelph. Retrieved from https://atrium.lib.uoguelph.ca/xmlui/handle/10214/2878
Bray-Miners, Jordan. “Biomechanical Performance Factors of Slalom Water Skiing .” 2011. Thesis, University of Guelph. Accessed July 17, 2019. https://atrium.lib.uoguelph.ca/xmlui/handle/10214/2878.
Bray-Miners, Jordan. “Biomechanical Performance Factors of Slalom Water Skiing .” 2011. Web. 17 Jul 2019.
Bray-Miners J. Biomechanical Performance Factors of Slalom Water Skiing . [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Guelph; 2011. [cited 2019 Jul 17]. Available from: https://atrium.lib.uoguelph.ca/xmlui/handle/10214/2878.
Bray-Miners J. Biomechanical Performance Factors of Slalom Water Skiing . [Thesis]. University of Guelph; 2011. Available from: https://atrium.lib.uoguelph.ca/xmlui/handle/10214/2878
13. Chang, Hua-I. Robust and Large-scale Human Motion Estimation with Low-cost Sensors.
Degree: Electrical Engineering, 2016, UCLA
URL: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/55x2f6pz
► Enabling large-scale monitoring and classification of a range of motion activities is of primary importance due to the need by healthcare and fitness professionals to… (more)
▼ Enabling large-scale monitoring and classification of a range of motion activities is of primary importance due to the need by healthcare and fitness professionals to monitor exercises for quality and compliance. Video based motion capturing systems (e.g., VICON cameras) provide a partial solution. However, these expensive and fixed systems are not suitable for patients' at-home daily motion monitoring. Wireless motion sensors, including accelerometers and gyroscopes, can provide a low-cost, small-size, and highly-mobile option. However, acquiring robust inference of human motion trajectory via low-cost inertial sensors remains challenging. Sensor noise and drift, sensor placement errors and variation of activity over the population all lead to the necessity of a large amount of data collection. Unfortunately, such a large amount of data collection is prohibitively costly. In observance of these issues, a series of solutions for robust human motion monitoring and activity classification will be presented. The implementation of a real-time context-guided activity classification system will be discussed. To facilitate ground truth data acquisition, we proposed a virtual inertial measurements platform to convert the currently available MoCap database into a noiseless and error-free inertial measurements database. An opportunistic calibration system which deals with sensor placement errors will be discussed. In addition, a sensor fusion approach for robust upper limb motion tracking will also be presented.
Subjects/Keywords: Electrical engineering; activity classification; body sensing; calibration; inertial measurement unit; sensor orientation; trajectory reconstruction
Chang, H. (2016). Robust and Large-scale Human Motion Estimation with Low-cost Sensors . (Thesis). UCLA. Retrieved from http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/55x2f6pz
Chang, Hua-I. “Robust and Large-scale Human Motion Estimation with Low-cost Sensors.” 2016. Thesis, UCLA. Accessed July 17, 2019. http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/55x2f6pz.
Chang, Hua-I. “Robust and Large-scale Human Motion Estimation with Low-cost Sensors.” 2016. Web. 17 Jul 2019.
Chang H. Robust and Large-scale Human Motion Estimation with Low-cost Sensors. [Internet] [Thesis]. UCLA; 2016. [cited 2019 Jul 17]. Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/55x2f6pz.
Chang H. Robust and Large-scale Human Motion Estimation with Low-cost Sensors. [Thesis]. UCLA; 2016. Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/55x2f6pz
14. Munoz, Joshua. Application of Multifunctional Doppler LIDAR for Non-contact Track Speed, Distance, and Curvature Assessment.
Degree: PhD, Mechanical Engineering, 2015, Virginia Tech
► The primary focus of this research is evaluation of feasibility, applicability, and accuracy of Doppler Light Detection And Ranging (LIDAR) sensors as non-contact means for… (more)
▼ The primary focus of this research is evaluation of feasibility, applicability, and accuracy of Doppler Light Detection And Ranging (LIDAR) sensors as non-contact means for measuring track speed, distance traveled, and curvature. Speed histories, currently measured with a rotary, wheel-mounted encoder, serve a number of useful purposes, one significant use involving derailment investigations. Distance calculation provides a spatial reference system for operators to locate track sections of interest. Railroad curves, using an IMU to measure curvature, are monitored to maintain track infrastructure within regulations. Speed measured with high accuracy leads to high-fidelity distance and curvature data through utilization of processor clock rate and left-and right-rail speed differentials during curve navigation, respectively. Wheel-mounted encoders, or tachometers, provide a relatively low-resolution speed profile, exhibit increased noise with increasing speed, and are subject to the inertial behavior of the rail car which affects output data. The IMU used to measure curvature is dependent on acceleration and yaw rate sensitivity and experiences difficulty in low-speed conditions. Preliminary system tests onboard a 'Hy-Rail' utility vehicle capable of traveling on rail show speed capture is possible using the rails as the reference moving target and furthermore, obtaining speed profiles from both rails allows for the calculation of speed differentials in curves to estimate degrees curvature. Ground truth distance calibration and curve measurement were also carried out. Distance calibration involved placement of spatial landmarks detected by a sensor to synchronize distance measurements as a pre-processing procedure. Curvature ground truth measurements provided a reference system to confirm measurement results and observe alignment variation throughout a curve. Primary testing occurred onboard a track geometry rail car, measuring rail speed over substantial mileage in various weather conditions, providing high-accuracy data to further calculate distance and curvature along the test routes. Tests results indicate the LIDAR system measures speed at higher accuracy than the encoder, absent of noise influenced by increasing speed. Distance calculation is also high in accuracy, results showing high correlation with encoder and ground truth data. Finally, curvature calculation using speed data is shown to have good correlation with IMU measurements and a resolution capable of revealing localized track alignments. Further investigations involve a curve measurement algorithm and speed calibration method independent from external reference systems, namely encoder and ground truth data. The speed calibration results show a high correlation with speed data from the track geometry vehicle. It is recommended that the study be extended to provide assessment of the LIDAR's sensitivity to car body motion in order to better isolate the embedded behavior in the speed and curvature profiles. Furthermore, in the interest… Advisors/Committee Members: Ahmadian, Mehdi (committeechair), Tarazaga, Pablo Alberto (committee member), Sandu, Corina (committee member), Taheri, Saied (committee member), Ha, Dong S. (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: LIDAR; Railroad Health Monitoring; Doppler LIDAR; Track Geometry; Encoder; Inertial Measurement Unit; GPS
Munoz, J. (2015). Application of Multifunctional Doppler LIDAR for Non-contact Track Speed, Distance, and Curvature Assessment . (Doctoral Dissertation). Virginia Tech. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10919/77876
Munoz, Joshua. “Application of Multifunctional Doppler LIDAR for Non-contact Track Speed, Distance, and Curvature Assessment.” 2015. Doctoral Dissertation, Virginia Tech. Accessed July 17, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/77876.
Munoz, Joshua. “Application of Multifunctional Doppler LIDAR for Non-contact Track Speed, Distance, and Curvature Assessment.” 2015. Web. 17 Jul 2019.
Munoz J. Application of Multifunctional Doppler LIDAR for Non-contact Track Speed, Distance, and Curvature Assessment. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Virginia Tech; 2015. [cited 2019 Jul 17]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10919/77876.
Munoz J. Application of Multifunctional Doppler LIDAR for Non-contact Track Speed, Distance, and Curvature Assessment. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Virginia Tech; 2015. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10919/77876
15. Williams, Ethan Storm. Design of an Assistive Technology Adaptive Switch using an Inertial Measurement Unit.
Degree: MSEE, 2016, University of Arkansas
URL: https://scholarworks.uark.edu/etd/1503
► A new assistive technology switch for people with disabilities was developed utilizing an Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) as the sensor technology. The hardware can… (more)
▼ A new assistive technology switch for people with disabilities was developed utilizing an Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) as the sensor technology. The hardware can be customized through firmware to provide custom switch activations on a person by person basis. The firmware is customized to recognize specific data features in the IMU data which identify the desired switch activation movement performed by the user. In this way, the switch can be adapted to activate based on the movements of the user. During this research, the generic hardware platform, including the IMU sensor technology and Bluetooth communications, was designed and tested. An Android application was developed to communicate with the Bluetooth enabled switch to acquire the IMU sensory data for analysis. A case study was performed to recognize thumb and pinky movements as individual switch activations. This experiment tested the feasibility of using the designed switch with an InvoTek client. A training session was performed to acquire movement data of the thumb and pinky. The acquired data was analyzed in MATLAB and a unique data feature was identified. The switch firmware was updated with the necessary algorithm to recognize and differentiate the thumb and pinky movements. Lastly, the switch was tested with 100 repetitive access movements in which the switch accurately characterized and differentiated 100% of the movements. Advisors/Committee Members: Robert Saunders, Jingxian Wu, Jeffrey Wolchok.
Subjects/Keywords: Applied sciences; Assistive technology; Inertial measurement unit; Biomedical; VLSI and Circuits, Embedded and Hardware Systems
Williams, E. S. (2016). Design of an Assistive Technology Adaptive Switch using an Inertial Measurement Unit . (Masters Thesis). University of Arkansas. Retrieved from https://scholarworks.uark.edu/etd/1503
Williams, Ethan Storm. “Design of an Assistive Technology Adaptive Switch using an Inertial Measurement Unit.” 2016. Masters Thesis, University of Arkansas. Accessed July 17, 2019. https://scholarworks.uark.edu/etd/1503.
Williams, Ethan Storm. “Design of an Assistive Technology Adaptive Switch using an Inertial Measurement Unit.” 2016. Web. 17 Jul 2019.
Williams ES. Design of an Assistive Technology Adaptive Switch using an Inertial Measurement Unit. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. University of Arkansas; 2016. [cited 2019 Jul 17]. Available from: https://scholarworks.uark.edu/etd/1503.
Williams ES. Design of an Assistive Technology Adaptive Switch using an Inertial Measurement Unit. [Masters Thesis]. University of Arkansas; 2016. Available from: https://scholarworks.uark.edu/etd/1503
NSYSU
16. Huang, Yin-cheng. The Effects of the Badminton TeachingâAssisted System Using Wearable Technology to Enhance University Studentsâ Learning Performance of Badminton Skills - the Case Study of Smash.
Degree: Master, Information Management, 2018, NSYSU
URL: http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0710118-164528
► Swinging gesture and muscle strength are two key points in learning badminton techniques that instructors provide feedback according to studentsâ body motions. However, instructor can… (more)
▼ Swinging gesture and muscle strength are two key points in learning badminton techniques that instructors provide feedback according to studentsâ body motions. However, instructor can only provide subjective feedback on swinging gesture, not muscle strength. To effectively assist teachers to objectively teach students two badminton techniques and then enhance their badminton learning performance, we developed and evaluated a badminton teachingâassisted system using wearable technology, Myo armband. This system included three mainly functions â instantaneous recording function, automatic grading function, and instantaneous feedback function. These functions can support instructor providing objective feedback to students immediately. Automatic grading function is an expertâs motion model which was built from collection professional badminton playersâ forearm strength of swinging (i.e. electromyography (EMG) signals) and swinging actions (i.e. gyroscope signals) by Myo armband. The instantaneous feedback function can automatic provide students a feedback on their swinging gesture during their badminton practice. The results showed that the badminton teaching-assisted system can effectively monitor the learnersâ swinging gesture, although the system cannot effectively capture studentsâ arm muscle strength. The result also indicated that the instantaneous feedback function can provide reliable suggestions by combining teacherâs suggestions and expertsâ swing gesture eigenvalues. Thus, badminton teachingâassisted system using Myo armband can assist the instructor to teach students learning badminton on swinging gesture. Advisors/Committee Members: Kuo-Chin Lin (committee member), Chen-Hui Wu (chair), Hong-Ren Chen (chair), Ya-Fei Yang (chair), Nian-Shing Chen (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: expert model; neural network; Badminton teaching; wearable technology; electromyography; inertial measurement unit
Huang, Y. (2018). The Effects of the Badminton TeachingâAssisted System Using Wearable Technology to Enhance University Studentsâ Learning Performance of Badminton Skills - the Case Study of Smash . (Thesis). NSYSU. Retrieved from http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0710118-164528
Huang, Yin-cheng. “The Effects of the Badminton TeachingâAssisted System Using Wearable Technology to Enhance University Studentsâ Learning Performance of Badminton Skills - the Case Study of Smash.” 2018. Thesis, NSYSU. Accessed July 17, 2019. http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0710118-164528.
Huang, Yin-cheng. “The Effects of the Badminton TeachingâAssisted System Using Wearable Technology to Enhance University Studentsâ Learning Performance of Badminton Skills - the Case Study of Smash.” 2018. Web. 17 Jul 2019.
Huang Y. The Effects of the Badminton TeachingâAssisted System Using Wearable Technology to Enhance University Studentsâ Learning Performance of Badminton Skills - the Case Study of Smash. [Internet] [Thesis]. NSYSU; 2018. [cited 2019 Jul 17]. Available from: http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0710118-164528.
Huang Y. The Effects of the Badminton TeachingâAssisted System Using Wearable Technology to Enhance University Studentsâ Learning Performance of Badminton Skills - the Case Study of Smash. [Thesis]. NSYSU; 2018. Available from: http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0710118-164528
17. Gautam, Ishwor. Quaternion based attitude estimation technique involving the extended Kalman filter.
Degree: MSin Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, 2019, University of Akron
URL: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1556196539847396
► This thesis illustrates the application of the Extended Kalman filter for onlineestimation of attitude of a body. The accuracy of controlled attitude largely depends on… (more)
▼ This thesis illustrates the application of the Extended Kalman filter for onlineestimation of attitude of a body. The accuracy of controlled attitude largely depends on the performance of the estimation algorithm. In this thesis, the extended Kalman filter (EKF) algorithm consisting of quaternion based state representation is used. The EKF algorithm utilizes gyroscope reading for priori estimation and measurements reading from the accelerometer and the magnetometer to correct the states. In simple terms, the extended Filter is used as the estimation tool by fusing the data from the gyroscope, the accelerometer and the magnetometer. A device that combines the gyroscope, accelerometer and magnetometer is called inertial measurement unit (IMU). The non- accurate scaling, sensor misalignment and non-zero biases of IMU devices are eliminated by proper calibration. The sensors utilized in the estimation have noise and biases which results in propagation of error in time. The noise and biases should be eliminated to get the accurate estimates.In this work, the EKF algorithm with some modification in state equation and in the Kalman filter gain is implemented for both the steady state and the body acceleration conditions. The estimation of the modified EKF is compared with the estimation technique used by VECTORNAV, a well-known commercial IMU. The modified EKF performed well compared to VECTORNAV in steady state condition. However, under body acceleration, the modified EKF did not perform as well as what VECTORNAV did. The attitude estimation technique discussed in this thesis is less expensive and easy compared to those used in missile and aircraft guidance. The algorithm discussed in this thesis can be well implemented in the navigation of robots and drones for home applications. Advisors/Committee Members: Batur, Celal (Advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: Mechanical Engineering; Navigation; Inertial Measurement Unit; State Estimation; Body Acceleration; Euler Angle
Gautam, I. (2019). Quaternion based attitude estimation technique involving the extended Kalman filter . (Masters Thesis). University of Akron. Retrieved from http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1556196539847396
Gautam, Ishwor. “Quaternion based attitude estimation technique involving the extended Kalman filter.” 2019. Masters Thesis, University of Akron. Accessed July 17, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1556196539847396.
Gautam, Ishwor. “Quaternion based attitude estimation technique involving the extended Kalman filter.” 2019. Web. 17 Jul 2019.
Gautam I. Quaternion based attitude estimation technique involving the extended Kalman filter. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. University of Akron; 2019. [cited 2019 Jul 17]. Available from: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1556196539847396.
Gautam I. Quaternion based attitude estimation technique involving the extended Kalman filter. [Masters Thesis]. University of Akron; 2019. Available from: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1556196539847396
18. Won, Peter. Intelligent Fastening Tool Tracking Systems Using Hybrid Remote Sensing Technologies.
► This research focuses on the development of intelligent fastening tool tracking systems for the automotive industry to identify the fastened bolts. In order to accomplish… (more)
▼ This research focuses on the development of intelligent fastening tool tracking systems for the automotive industry to identify the fastened bolts. In order to accomplish such a task, the position of the tool tip must be identified because the tool tip position coincides with the head of the fastened bolt while the tool fastens the bolt. The proposed systems utilize an inertial measurement unit (IMU) and another sensor to track the position and orientation of the tool tip. To minimize the position and orientation calculation error, an IMU needs to be calibrated as accurately as possible. This research presents a novel triaxial accelerometer calibration technique that offers a high accuracy. The simulation and experimental results of the accelerometer calibration are presented. To identify the fastening action, an expert system is developed based on the sensor measurements. When a fastening action is identified, the system identifies the fastened bolt by using an expert system based on the position and orientation of the tool tip and the position and orientation of the bolt. Since each fastening procedure needs different accuracies and requirements, three different systems are proposed. The first system utilizes a triaxial magnetometer and an IMU to identify the fastened bolt. This system calculates the position and orientation by using an IMU. An expert system is used to identify the initial position, stationary state, and the fastened bolt. When the tool fastens a bolt, the proposed expert system detects the fastening action by triaxial accelerometer and triaxial magnetometer measurements. When the fastening action is detected, the system corrects the velocity and position error using zero velocity update (ZUPT). By using the corrected tool tip position and orientation, the system can identify the fastened bolts. Then, with the fastened bolt position, the position of the IMU is corrected. When the tool is stationary, the system corrects linear velocity error and reduces the position error. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed system can identify fastened bolts if the angles of the bolts are different or the bolts are not closely placed. This low cost system does not require a line of sight, but has limited position accuracy. The second system utilizes an intelligent system that incorporates Kalman filters (KFs) and a fuzzy expert system to track the tip of a fastening tool and to identify the fastened bolt. This system employs one IMU and one encoder-based position sensor to determine the orientation and the centre of mass location of the tool. When the KF is used, the orientation error increases over time due to the integration step. Therefore, a fuzzy expert system is developed to correct the tilt angle error and orientation error. When the tool fastens a bolt, the system identifies the fastened bolt by applying the fuzzy expert system. When the fastened bolt is identified, the 3D orientation error of the tool is corrected by using the location and the orientation of the fastened…
Subjects/Keywords: Kalman filter; inertial measurement unit; position tracking; particle filter; fastening tool; orientation
Won, P. (2010). Intelligent Fastening Tool Tracking Systems Using Hybrid Remote Sensing Technologies . (Thesis). University of Waterloo. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10012/5230
Won, Peter. “Intelligent Fastening Tool Tracking Systems Using Hybrid Remote Sensing Technologies.” 2010. Thesis, University of Waterloo. Accessed July 17, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/5230.
Won, Peter. “Intelligent Fastening Tool Tracking Systems Using Hybrid Remote Sensing Technologies.” 2010. Web. 17 Jul 2019.
Won P. Intelligent Fastening Tool Tracking Systems Using Hybrid Remote Sensing Technologies. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Waterloo; 2010. [cited 2019 Jul 17]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10012/5230.
Won P. Intelligent Fastening Tool Tracking Systems Using Hybrid Remote Sensing Technologies. [Thesis]. University of Waterloo; 2010. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10012/5230
19. Kraus, David. Inerciální jednotka pro mobilní robotiku .
► Bakalářská práce Inerciální jednotka pro mobilní robotiku se zabývá problematikou určování polohy pomocí inerciálních senzorů. První část práce je rešerší dostupných senzorů a metod zpracování… (more)
▼ Bakalářská práce Inerciální jednotka pro mobilní robotiku se zabývá problematikou určování polohy pomocí inerciálních senzorů. První část práce je rešerší dostupných senzorů a metod zpracování informací z nich získaných. Druhá část práce se zabývá vybraných metod a senzorů v simulaci a nasazení na reálném HW.; Bachelor thesis Inertial measurement unit for mobile robots is focused on problem determination of position using inertial sensors. First part is reviw of available sensors and methods of processing data from sensors. Second part is implementation of chosen method and sensors in simulation and use it at real HW. Advisors/Committee Members: Vejlupek, Josef (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: Inerciální měřící jednotka; akcelerometr; gyroskop; magnetometr; Inertial measurement unit; IMU; accelerometer; gyroscope; magnetometr
Kraus, D. (2012). Inerciální jednotka pro mobilní robotiku . (Thesis). Brno University of Technology. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11012/13933
Kraus, David. “Inerciální jednotka pro mobilní robotiku .” 2012. Thesis, Brno University of Technology. Accessed July 17, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11012/13933.
Kraus, David. “Inerciální jednotka pro mobilní robotiku .” 2012. Web. 17 Jul 2019.
Kraus D. Inerciální jednotka pro mobilní robotiku . [Internet] [Thesis]. Brno University of Technology; 2012. [cited 2019 Jul 17]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11012/13933.
Kraus D. Inerciální jednotka pro mobilní robotiku . [Thesis]. Brno University of Technology; 2012. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11012/13933
20. Jaroš, Martin. Augmented reality applications in embedded navigation devices .
► Tato práce se zabývá aplikací rozšířené reality v oblasti navigačních zařízení. Popisuje možnosti zpracování videa za účelem projekce virtuální scény pomocí dat získaných satelitním a… (more)
▼ Tato práce se zabývá aplikací rozšířené reality v oblasti navigačních zařízení. Popisuje možnosti zpracování videa za účelem projekce virtuální scény pomocí dat získaných satelitním a inerciálním navigačním sybsystémem. Práce klade důraz na využití moderních hardwarových prostředků pro zpracování videa v mikroprocesorech pomocí grafických akcelerátorů. Součástí je návrh aplikace a realizace prototypu.; This work deals with application of augmented reality in navigation devices. It describes possibilities of video processing, rendering a virtual scene by using data measured by satellite and inertial navigation subsystems. Special care is taken into account for use of modern graphic accelerator hardware available in microprocessors. Design of the application is supplemented with prototype realization. Advisors/Committee Members: Frýza, Tomáš (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: Rozšířená realita; satelitní navigace; inerciální měřící jednotka; Augmented reality; satellite navigation; inertial measurement unit
Jaroš, M. (2014). Augmented reality applications in embedded navigation devices . (Thesis). Brno University of Technology. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11012/32779
Jaroš, Martin. “Augmented reality applications in embedded navigation devices .” 2014. Thesis, Brno University of Technology. Accessed July 17, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11012/32779.
Jaroš, Martin. “Augmented reality applications in embedded navigation devices .” 2014. Web. 17 Jul 2019.
Jaroš M. Augmented reality applications in embedded navigation devices . [Internet] [Thesis]. Brno University of Technology; 2014. [cited 2019 Jul 17]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11012/32779.
Jaroš M. Augmented reality applications in embedded navigation devices . [Thesis]. Brno University of Technology; 2014. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11012/32779
21. Bruno, Carlo. Developing methods and algorithms of sensor fusion by IMUs applied to service robotics.
Degree: 2012, Università degli Studi di Catania
► The importance of research in Inertial Navigation Systems (INS) has been growing in recent years. Usually the IMU is used in inertial navigation, such as… (more)
▼ The importance of research in Inertial Navigation Systems (INS) has been growing in recent years. Usually the IMU is used in inertial navigation, such as UAV, AGV, AUV, but it is also used in games, human movement reconstruction (the use of sensors in the studies of human movement is now quickly gaining importance as a promising alternative to video capture systems laboratories), entertainment, etc. Often IMU is used in association with GPS or other sensors to estimate trajectory or for navigation as well as localization. In literature, there are many examples using Kalman Filter or EKF for this aim. It can also be considered to use the implementation of an algorithm in the use of the robot. Moreover, when speaking about an inertial platform there is also a Kalman Filter as a good algorithm providing good results. The work described concerned the development of systems and algorithms, or new approaches to existing systems to bring robotics to everyday life and to lower costs of implementation of certain devices in industrial processes, or to review some progresses in the light of improvement of technology. We used the IMUs (Inertial Measurement Unit) and MEMS devices such as accelerometers, gyroscopes, but also temperature and pressure sensors for localization and navigation. Through the use of more accurate sensors and to the growing potential of the new microcontrollers, we have been able to implement algorithms to process and filter data the more quickly and with fewer steps and in some cases to be able to find good solutions at the expense of precision, but in the interest of processing speed. These sensors have been designed as an aid to existing sensors or for new applications such as three-dimensional localization in a building using the pressure or for safety, in industry, eg for the monitoring of movements of a robotic arm. Finally, since usually the inertial navigation uses GPS data to correct inertial data, this excludes the GPS spoofing; in other words that someone deliberately alters the signal in such a way that it provides the same values specifically wrong to hack satellite systems installed in the cars. The IMU used in this work is the iNEMO board, an inertial measurement unit developed by STMicroelectronics. It runs a sophisticated sensor fusion algorithm (attitude heading reference system) to provide static and dynamic orientation and inertial measurements. This 10-DOF inertial system integrates five different sensors and has a size of 4x4 cm.
Subjects/Keywords: Area 09 - Ingegneria industriale e dell'informazione; IMU, iNEMO, inertial measurement unit, service robotics, reconstruction trajectory, fusion algorithm, data filtering
Bruno, C. (2012). Developing methods and algorithms of sensor fusion by IMUs applied to service robotics . (Thesis). Università degli Studi di Catania. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10761/1076
Bruno, Carlo. “Developing methods and algorithms of sensor fusion by IMUs applied to service robotics.” 2012. Thesis, Università degli Studi di Catania. Accessed July 17, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10761/1076.
Bruno, Carlo. “Developing methods and algorithms of sensor fusion by IMUs applied to service robotics.” 2012. Web. 17 Jul 2019.
Bruno C. Developing methods and algorithms of sensor fusion by IMUs applied to service robotics. [Internet] [Thesis]. Università degli Studi di Catania; 2012. [cited 2019 Jul 17]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10761/1076.
Bruno C. Developing methods and algorithms of sensor fusion by IMUs applied to service robotics. [Thesis]. Università degli Studi di Catania; 2012. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10761/1076
22. Provot, Thomas. Apport de l’accélérométrie pour l’étude quantifiée des dérives mécaniques de la course à pied face à la fatigue : Contribution of accelerometry for a quantified study of mechanical drift duringrunning with respect to fatigue.
Degree: Docteur es, Mécanique, génie mécanique, génie civil, 2016, Reims
URL: http://www.theses.fr/2016REIMS032
La fatigue est un phénomène bien connu dans le monde du sport provoquant une chute des performances et une augmentation du risque de blessures. La… (more)
La fatigue est un phénomène bien connu dans le monde du sport provoquant une chute des performances et une augmentation du risque de blessures. La communauté scientifique s’intéresse donc à la quantification de ce phénomène au moyen de différents outils d’analyse du mouvement. Cependant certains sports comme la course à pied soumettent les athlètes à des sollicitations mécaniques violentes impactant fortement sur leur santé et leurs performances. Ces sollicitations se traduisent souvent par des chocs importants, un nombre de cycles élevé et sont accompagnées de postures complexes du corps. Les outils d’analyse du mouvement ne sont alors pas toujours adaptés pour la mesures de ces données ni à l’étude du mouvement de l’athlète dans des conditions réelles de pratique. L’accélération apparait alors comme une caractéristique riche en informations. Elle peut permettre de mesurer et d’analyser la pratique de la course à pied afin de quantifier la dérive de la réponse mécanique du corps humain. Par la validation d’outils issus de l’accélérométrie, ces travaux de thèse permettront d’étudier les phénomènes mécaniques intervenant durant la pratique de la course à pied afin de quantifier et prédire leurs effets sur les phénomènes de fatigue des athlètes.
Fatigue is a well known phenomenon in the sports world causing a decrease of performance and an increase of injury risk. The scientific community is therefore concerned with the quantification of this phenomenon using different motion analysis tools. However some sports like running inflict violent mechanical loads to the athletes strongly impacting their health and performance. These loads frequently result in significant shocks, a high number of cycles and are accompanied by complex postures of the body. The motion analysis tools are then not always suitable for the measurement of this information or to study the athlete’s movement in real conditions of practice. The acceleration then appears as a feature rich in information.It can allow to measure and analyze the practice of running in order to quantify the drift of the mechanical response of the human body. By validating accelerometric tools, these thesis works will allow to study the mechanical phenomena intervening in the practice of running in order to quantify and predict their effects on the athlete’s fatigue.
Advisors/Committee Members: Chiementin, Xavier (thesis director), Bolaers, Fabrice (thesis director).
Subjects/Keywords: Accélérométrie; Exposition vibratoire; Course à pied; Centrale inertielle; Fatique; Dynamique; Accelerometry; Vibration exposure; Running; Inertial measurement unit; Fatigue; Dynamics
Provot, T. (2016). Apport de l’accélérométrie pour l’étude quantifiée des dérives mécaniques de la course à pied face à la fatigue : Contribution of accelerometry for a quantified study of mechanical drift duringrunning with respect to fatigue. (Doctoral Dissertation). Reims. Retrieved from http://www.theses.fr/2016REIMS032
Provot, Thomas. “Apport de l’accélérométrie pour l’étude quantifiée des dérives mécaniques de la course à pied face à la fatigue : Contribution of accelerometry for a quantified study of mechanical drift duringrunning with respect to fatigue.” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, Reims. Accessed July 17, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2016REIMS032.
Provot, Thomas. “Apport de l’accélérométrie pour l’étude quantifiée des dérives mécaniques de la course à pied face à la fatigue : Contribution of accelerometry for a quantified study of mechanical drift duringrunning with respect to fatigue.” 2016. Web. 17 Jul 2019.
Provot T. Apport de l’accélérométrie pour l’étude quantifiée des dérives mécaniques de la course à pied face à la fatigue : Contribution of accelerometry for a quantified study of mechanical drift duringrunning with respect to fatigue. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Reims; 2016. [cited 2019 Jul 17]. Available from: http://www.theses.fr/2016REIMS032.
Provot T. Apport de l’accélérométrie pour l’étude quantifiée des dérives mécaniques de la course à pied face à la fatigue : Contribution of accelerometry for a quantified study of mechanical drift duringrunning with respect to fatigue. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Reims; 2016. Available from: http://www.theses.fr/2016REIMS032
23. Sticksel, Justin. Autonomous quadcopter navigation.
Degree: MS, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 2014, California State University – Sacramento
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/131399
► UAV's have become more versatile and prevalent in recent years. Due to their relatively low cost, and ability to operate without endangering a human pilot… (more)
▼ UAV's have become more versatile and prevalent in recent years. Due to their relatively low cost, and ability to operate without endangering a human pilot they are becoming more attractive for the civilian market as well as military applications. For this project an autonomous control system will be created for a RC quadcopter. The system will utilize multiple sensors to track the vehicle's movement, and use this information in a control system to enable the vehicle to fly without human intervention. The systems will be simulated, and a working prototype will be constructed to test their effectiveness. Advisors/Committee Members: Belkhouche, Fethi.
Subjects/Keywords: Inertial measurement unit; Kalman filter; PID Controller
…of an inertial measurement unit (IMU), using angular velocity, acceleration, and… …Inertial Measurement Unit The IMU circuit for this project uses a PIC32MX575F512H microcontroller… …Measurement Unit In order to measure the platform's altitude an ultrasound range finding device… …design since the navigation control unit can use an ADC peripheral to monitor the measurement… …populated with the required components. 17 CHAPTER 3 - INETIAL MEASUREMENT UNIT SOFTWARE 3.1…
Sticksel, J. (2014). Autonomous quadcopter navigation . (Masters Thesis). California State University – Sacramento. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/131399
Sticksel, Justin. “Autonomous quadcopter navigation.” 2014. Masters Thesis, California State University – Sacramento. Accessed July 17, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/131399.
Sticksel, Justin. “Autonomous quadcopter navigation.” 2014. Web. 17 Jul 2019.
Sticksel J. Autonomous quadcopter navigation. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. California State University – Sacramento; 2014. [cited 2019 Jul 17]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/131399.
Sticksel J. Autonomous quadcopter navigation. [Masters Thesis]. California State University – Sacramento; 2014. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/131399
24. Hult, Axel. Smartphone Acquisition and Online Visualization of IMU and EMG Sensor Data for Assessment of Wrist Load.
Degree: Biotechnology and Health (CBH), 2018, KTH
► Work-related musculoskeletal disorders constitutes a substantial burden for society, generating individual suffering and financial costs. Quantifying the musculoskeletal stress and establishing exposure-response relationships is… (more)
▼ Work-related musculoskeletal disorders constitutes a substantial burden for society, generating individual suffering and financial costs. Quantifying the musculoskeletal stress and establishing exposure-response relationships is an important step in facing this problem. Observational methods for assessing exposure in the field of ergonomics have shown poor results, and the technical measurement methods that exists are often complicated to use which limits their scope to scientific purposes. This work describes the development of a prototype measurement system aimed to simplify ambulatory measurements of musculoskeletal load, specifically aimed at the wrist and hand. Wearable sensors including Inertial Measurement Units (IMU:s) and Electromyography (EMG) were connected to a smartphone and used for measuring wrist movement and forearm muscle activity. Data sampled in the smartphone was stored online in a cloud database, and a webapplication was developed to visualize work-load exposure. Testing under controlled conditions indicated that muscular rest can be measured and classified according to suggested risk thresholds. Accurate angular measurements were difficult to implement because of lacking inter-sensor alignment in the horizontal plane, as well as uncertainties in the Bluetooth protocol. Future work should focus on the IMU:s and look to further develop a method of correcting the relative angle error, as well as investigating accurate time synchronization of the two sensors.Alternatively, deriving angular velocities directly from the IMU gyroscopes could be investigated.
Subjects/Keywords: Wrist; Work-related musculoskeletal disorders; WRMD; Inertial Measurement Unit; IMU; Electromyography; EMG; Goniometer; Medical Ergonomics; Medicinsk ergonomi
Hult, A. (2018). Smartphone Acquisition and Online Visualization of IMU and EMG Sensor Data for Assessment of Wrist Load . (Thesis). KTH. Retrieved from http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-231304
Hult, Axel. “Smartphone Acquisition and Online Visualization of IMU and EMG Sensor Data for Assessment of Wrist Load.” 2018. Thesis, KTH. Accessed July 17, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-231304.
Hult, Axel. “Smartphone Acquisition and Online Visualization of IMU and EMG Sensor Data for Assessment of Wrist Load.” 2018. Web. 17 Jul 2019.
Hult A. Smartphone Acquisition and Online Visualization of IMU and EMG Sensor Data for Assessment of Wrist Load. [Internet] [Thesis]. KTH; 2018. [cited 2019 Jul 17]. Available from: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-231304.
Hult A. Smartphone Acquisition and Online Visualization of IMU and EMG Sensor Data for Assessment of Wrist Load. [Thesis]. KTH; 2018. Available from: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-231304
25. Arnold, Lee Anthony. Synchronization of an inertial measurement unit and standalone camera system based on attitude and optical flow data.
Degree: 2016, University of Hawaii – Manoa
M.S. University of Hawaii at Manoa 2012.
The fusion of camera and inertial data is well established and useful for a wide range of tasks.… (more)
The fusion of camera and inertial data is well established and useful for a wide range of tasks. With advancements in camera technology and renewed interest in computer vision, standalone cameras have emerged as a possible research tool. These cameras offer high quality video recording, in a small, lightweight form factor, but are limited by connectivity, thus limiting their usefulness. This thesis presents a software correlation method which correlates inertial data and camera data based on attitude estimates, eliminating the need for additional hardware or connections. This thesis presents a brief background and description of the correlation process, along with a review of similar work. The underlying methods for feature detection, optical flow, and signal comparison are explained in detail in the context of the software correlation method. The software correlation method is then demonstrated in an experiment that looks at a single axis of rotation. Finally, the error in the software correlation process is quantified and compared to that in an uncorrelated system. Software correlation proves to be a viable option for the correlation of inertial measurement units and standalone cameras.
Subjects/Keywords: synchronization; inertial measurement unit; standalone camera system
…3.1 Inertial Measurement Unit Inertial measurement unit (IMU) is a term used to… …incorporation of data from multiple sensors to provide better information. Inertial measurement units… …process. Inertial measurement units and digital cameras, the two sensors this work is built… …synchronize other sensors based on a pulse per second (PPS) signal from a GPS unit. In… …describe a set of sensors that measure inertial data relative to an inertial frame of reference…
Arnold, L. A. (2016). Synchronization of an inertial measurement unit and standalone camera system based on attitude and optical flow data . (Thesis). University of Hawaii – Manoa. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10125/100928
Arnold, Lee Anthony. “Synchronization of an inertial measurement unit and standalone camera system based on attitude and optical flow data.” 2016. Thesis, University of Hawaii – Manoa. Accessed July 17, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/100928.
Arnold, Lee Anthony. “Synchronization of an inertial measurement unit and standalone camera system based on attitude and optical flow data.” 2016. Web. 17 Jul 2019.
Arnold LA. Synchronization of an inertial measurement unit and standalone camera system based on attitude and optical flow data. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Hawaii – Manoa; 2016. [cited 2019 Jul 17]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10125/100928.
Arnold LA. Synchronization of an inertial measurement unit and standalone camera system based on attitude and optical flow data. [Thesis]. University of Hawaii – Manoa; 2016. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10125/100928
Universidade do Rio Grande do Sul
26. Valente, Vitor Tumelero. Análise, simulação e controle de um sistema de compensação de movimento utilizando um manipulador plataforma de stewart acionado por atuadores hidráulicos.
Degree: 2016, Universidade do Rio Grande do Sul
O mecanismo Plataforma de Stewart é um manipulador do tipo paralelo, com seis graus de liberdade, boa relação peso/carga e alta rigidez. Tais características conferem… (more)
O mecanismo Plataforma de Stewart é um manipulador do tipo paralelo, com seis graus de liberdade, boa relação peso/carga e alta rigidez. Tais características conferem a este tipo de manipulador propriedades superiores de precisão em relação aos manipuladores seriais. Neste trabalho, o controle de um Manipulador Plataforma de Stewart (MPS) acionado por atuadores hidráulicos é estudado com o objetivo de compensação de movimentos para viabilização de transferência de cargas e pessoas em ambiente naval.Visando ao desenvolvimento de um protótipo experimental, o manipulador é estudado considerando a situação em que se encontra sobreposto a um segundo MPS que tem por objetivo simular o movimento da maré, sendo ambos MPS considerados desacoplados dinamicamente. Neste contexto, o estudo envolve a análise cinemática e dinâmica do manipulador incluindo, também, a dinâmica dos cilindros hidráulicos. Além disso, são estudadas unidades de medição inercial (IMU) utilizando-as como instrumento para medição do movimento da base a ser compensado. O projeto do controlador do sistema de atenuação de movimento faz uso da técnica de Torque Computado (TC). A análise de estabilidade, feita separadamente para o sistema mecânico e hidráulico, baseou-se da teoria de Lyapunov. Simulações realizadas considerando trajetórias similares às do movimento de um navio são utilizadas. Para compensação do movimento são utilizados, também, sinais provenientes de uma IMU. Por meio de simulação, comprova-se que o sistema proposto é capaz de compensar adequadamente os movimentos da base estudados.
The Stewart platform mechanism is a parallel manipulator with six degrees of freedom, high load/weight ratio and high stifness. These properties give them a better accuracy when compared to serial manipulators. This work focuses on study of electrohydraucally Stewart Platform Manipulators (MPS) to enable compensation of vessels motions for load and personell transfer in sea. Aimed at developing an experimental prototype, a second MPS is placed underneath the rst MPS to simulate vessels motions and so both manipulators are considered dynamically decoupled. In this sense, the kinematics and dynamics of this manipulator are presented, as well as a mathematical model of the hydraulic actuator. Furthermore, special attention is given to the study of inertial measurement units (IMU) which is used as an instrument for measuring the motion to be compensated. Controller design for the compensation system is developed considering compute torque theory which consider the system separated in two: mechanical and hydraulic. The Lyapunov criteria is used to guarantee closed loop stability for each subsystem. Simulations are performed considering similar vessel motions. Signals provided from a comercial IMU are used for motion compensation. The control compensation performance is veri ed by means of computer simulations.
Advisors/Committee Members: Perondi, Eduardo André.
Subjects/Keywords: Manipuladores robóticos; Stewart platform; Atuador hidráulico; Heave compensation; Modelagem matemática; Computed torque control; Inertial measurement unit
Valente, V. T. (2016). Análise, simulação e controle de um sistema de compensação de movimento utilizando um manipulador plataforma de stewart acionado por atuadores hidráulicos . (Thesis). Universidade do Rio Grande do Sul. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10183/141138
Valente, Vitor Tumelero. “Análise, simulação e controle de um sistema de compensação de movimento utilizando um manipulador plataforma de stewart acionado por atuadores hidráulicos.” 2016. Thesis, Universidade do Rio Grande do Sul. Accessed July 17, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/141138.
Valente, Vitor Tumelero. “Análise, simulação e controle de um sistema de compensação de movimento utilizando um manipulador plataforma de stewart acionado por atuadores hidráulicos.” 2016. Web. 17 Jul 2019.
Valente VT. Análise, simulação e controle de um sistema de compensação de movimento utilizando um manipulador plataforma de stewart acionado por atuadores hidráulicos. [Internet] [Thesis]. Universidade do Rio Grande do Sul; 2016. [cited 2019 Jul 17]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10183/141138.
Valente VT. Análise, simulação e controle de um sistema de compensação de movimento utilizando um manipulador plataforma de stewart acionado por atuadores hidráulicos. [Thesis]. Universidade do Rio Grande do Sul; 2016. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10183/141138
University of California – Berkeley
27. Hyun, Dong Jin. On the Dynamics and Control of a Medical Exoskeleton.
Degree: Mechanical Engineering, 2012, University of California – Berkeley
URL: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/2h09q4sr
► A number of passive orthoses have been developed to provide gait assistance and rehabilitation for individuals who have lost the ability to walk. However, the… (more)
▼ A number of passive orthoses have been developed to provide gait assistance and rehabilitation for individuals who have lost the ability to walk. However, the required metabolic cost for legged mobility with conventional orthoses is huge, preventing its daily use. Using the forces/torques generated by external actuators is one of the effective ways to solve the problem induced from the considerable effort required for orthotic gait. For that, design of a compact, efficient and light weight actuation system and its delicate control are required. In Chapter 1, Powered Reciprocating Hip Orthosis, a novel hip actuator making use of the coupling hip mechanism of the reciprocating gait orthosis (RGO) is proposed. The RGO, a wearable and passive orthosis, provides paralyzed patients with hands-free standing and the ability for dynamic ambulation without any external actuation. Therefore, the mechanism of the RGO can be utilized effectively for improving the hip actuator design for a powered lower limb orthosis. Starting with this motivation, a powered limb orthosis combined with the conventional RGO was designed and its control structure was implemented on a paraplegic subject (T12 complete). First, a dynamic analysis is presented to identify and better understand the potential use of the RGO mechanism. For the analysis, the simple RGO dynamic model at a single support phase is obtained and its equations of motion are derived using Lagrange's equations of motion. Through the physical interpretation provided by the inverse dynamics, it is proved that the required maximum hip torque for stance phase is significantly decreased when the RGO hip coupling mechanism is applied. An unproved torso stability provided by the design is also investigated. Subsequently, overall control structure with a user-interface module is introduced to provide basic functions to the powered orthosis for locomotion. While implementing the designed orthosis with the human subject, a difficult problem on the dorsiflexion-activated passive knee orthosis of the conventional RGO is discussed and leads to Chapter 2: Friction Damping Control Knee Orthosis. A simple, but effective, microprocessor orthotic knee control method is presented with a novel knee joint design and an inertial measurement unit (IMU) sensor in Chapter 2. First, an electric hardware and a control structure with the IMU sensor are introduced. Next, to understand the knee dynamics and determine a control strategy, a lower extremity model is set up. Using this model, a dynamic analysis for ballistic walking with overshooting and circumduction of the hip joint motion, and downstairs walking is executed with the experimental hip motion data. Based on the observations for human hip joint motion and the obtained dynamic simulation results, a friction damping control method is proposed. Its implementation enables natural walking on level ground and provides the appropriate resistance of the knee joint in downstairs walking for assistance and safety to normal human subjects using the designed…
Subjects/Keywords: Mechanical engineering; Electrical engineering; Biomechanics; biped locomotion; exoskeleton; inertial measurement unit sensor; knee orthosis; reciprocating gait orthosis; Spinal Cord Injury
Hyun, D. J. (2012). On the Dynamics and Control of a Medical Exoskeleton . (Thesis). University of California – Berkeley. Retrieved from http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/2h09q4sr
Hyun, Dong Jin. “On the Dynamics and Control of a Medical Exoskeleton.” 2012. Thesis, University of California – Berkeley. Accessed July 17, 2019. http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/2h09q4sr.
Hyun, Dong Jin. “On the Dynamics and Control of a Medical Exoskeleton.” 2012. Web. 17 Jul 2019.
Hyun DJ. On the Dynamics and Control of a Medical Exoskeleton. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of California – Berkeley; 2012. [cited 2019 Jul 17]. Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/2h09q4sr.
Hyun DJ. On the Dynamics and Control of a Medical Exoskeleton. [Thesis]. University of California – Berkeley; 2012. Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/2h09q4sr
28. Bruggemann, Troy Sterling. Investigation of MEMS inertial sensors and aircraft dynamic models in global positioning system integrity monitoring for approaches with vertical guidance.
Degree: 2009, Queensland University of Technology
URL: https://eprints.qut.edu.au/32050/
► An Approach with Vertical Guidance (APV) is an instrument approach procedure which provides horizontal and vertical guidance to a pilot on approach to landing in… (more)
▼ An Approach with Vertical Guidance (APV) is an instrument approach procedure which provides horizontal and vertical guidance to a pilot on approach to landing in reduced visibility conditions. APV approaches can greatly reduce the safety risk to general aviation by improving the pilot’s situational awareness. In particular the incidence of Controlled Flight Into Terrain (CFIT) which has occurred in a number of fatal air crashes in general aviation over the past decade in Australia, can be reduced. APV approaches can also improve general aviation operations. If implemented at Australian airports, APV approach procedures are expected to bring a cost saving of millions of dollars to the economy due to fewer missed approaches, diversions and an increased safety benefit. The provision of accurate horizontal and vertical guidance is achievable using the Global Positioning System (GPS). Because aviation is a safety of life application, an aviation-certified GPS receiver must have integrity monitoring or augmentation to ensure that its navigation solution can be trusted. However, the difficulty with the current GPS satellite constellation alone meeting APV integrity requirements, the susceptibility of GPS to jamming or interference and the potential shortcomings of proposed augmentation solutions for Australia such as the Ground-based Regional Augmentation System (GRAS) justifies the investigation of Aircraft Based Augmentation Systems (ABAS) as an alternative integrity solution for general aviation. ABAS augments GPS with other sensors at the aircraft to help it meet the integrity requirements. Typical ABAS designs assume high quality inertial sensors to provide an accurate reference trajectory for Kalman filters. Unfortunately high-quality inertial sensors are too expensive for general aviation. In contrast to these approaches the purpose of this research is to investigate fusing GPS with lower-cost Micro-Electro-Mechanical System (MEMS) Inertial Measurement Units (IMU) and a mathematical model of aircraft dynamics, referred to as an Aircraft Dynamic Model (ADM) in this thesis. Using a model of aircraft dynamics in navigation systems has been studied before in the available literature and shown to be useful particularly for aiding inertial coasting or attitude determination. In contrast to these applications, this thesis investigates its use in ABAS. This thesis presents an ABAS architecture concept which makes use of a MEMS IMU and ADM, named the General Aviation GPS Integrity System (GAGIS) for convenience. GAGIS includes a GPS, MEMS IMU, ADM, a bank of Extended Kalman Filters (EKF) and uses the Normalized Solution Separation (NSS) method for fault detection. The GPS, IMU and ADM information is fused together in a tightly-coupled configuration, with frequent GPS updates applied to correct the IMU and ADM. The use of both IMU and ADM allows for a number of different possible configurations. Three are investigated in this thesis; a GPS-IMU EKF, a GPS-ADM EKF and a GPS-IMU-ADM EKF. The integrity monitoring…
Subjects/Keywords: approach with vertical guidance; global positioning system; inertial measurement unit; aircraft dynamic model; integrity monitoring; fault detection
Bruggemann, T. S. (2009). Investigation of MEMS inertial sensors and aircraft dynamic models in global positioning system integrity monitoring for approaches with vertical guidance . (Thesis). Queensland University of Technology. Retrieved from https://eprints.qut.edu.au/32050/
Bruggemann, Troy Sterling. “Investigation of MEMS inertial sensors and aircraft dynamic models in global positioning system integrity monitoring for approaches with vertical guidance.” 2009. Thesis, Queensland University of Technology. Accessed July 17, 2019. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/32050/.
Bruggemann, Troy Sterling. “Investigation of MEMS inertial sensors and aircraft dynamic models in global positioning system integrity monitoring for approaches with vertical guidance.” 2009. Web. 17 Jul 2019.
Bruggemann TS. Investigation of MEMS inertial sensors and aircraft dynamic models in global positioning system integrity monitoring for approaches with vertical guidance. [Internet] [Thesis]. Queensland University of Technology; 2009. [cited 2019 Jul 17]. Available from: https://eprints.qut.edu.au/32050/.
Bruggemann TS. Investigation of MEMS inertial sensors and aircraft dynamic models in global positioning system integrity monitoring for approaches with vertical guidance. [Thesis]. Queensland University of Technology; 2009. Available from: https://eprints.qut.edu.au/32050/
29. Paiman, C.J.F.N. Observer-Based State of Balance Estimation of the Walking Human with Upper Body Inertial Measurement Unit Data:.
URL: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:44d58bb8-4b49-4d5b-a143-091989282eee
► Knowledge of the state of balance of the moving human is essential for the design of fall detection algorithms and wearable robotic controllers for balance… (more)
▼ Knowledge of the state of balance of the moving human is essential for the design of fall detection algorithms and wearable robotic controllers for balance assistance. Still, there is no known general method to make an online estimation of the state of balance of the walking human, with the limited and local sensor measurements that are usually available. Previous work has failed to address such an estimation for human walking rather than standing or biped walking, with only an upper body Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU), and by incorporating the major human balance strategies, to adequately predict the interaction between the human and the robot. In this study, a state estimation technique is introduced: the applied observer is an Additive Unscented Kalman Filter (Additive UKF), and the model consists of a spring-loaded inverted pendulum and articulated upper body, with virtual pivot point (VPP) control and foot placement based on the extrapolated center of mass (XCoM); the Virtual Pendulum Model. The following is described: the dynamic model and observer design, a sensitivity analysis with simulation data, and observer performance with data from a human walking experiment on a treadmill. Proper tuning and limited errors in model parameters, particularly foot contact detection, resulted in promising estimates. With further research toward improved parameter estimation and higher efficiency for online implementation, this method could be useful for the prediction of human movement. Advisors/Committee Members: Vallery, H..
Subjects/Keywords: Additive Unscented Kalman Filter; Human walking; Inertial Measurement Unit data; Observer; State estimation; State of Balance; Upper body; Virtual Pivot Point
Paiman, C. J. F. N. (2015). Observer-Based State of Balance Estimation of the Walking Human with Upper Body Inertial Measurement Unit Data: . (Masters Thesis). Delft University of Technology. Retrieved from http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:44d58bb8-4b49-4d5b-a143-091989282eee
Paiman, C J F N. “Observer-Based State of Balance Estimation of the Walking Human with Upper Body Inertial Measurement Unit Data:.” 2015. Masters Thesis, Delft University of Technology. Accessed July 17, 2019. http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:44d58bb8-4b49-4d5b-a143-091989282eee.
Paiman, C J F N. “Observer-Based State of Balance Estimation of the Walking Human with Upper Body Inertial Measurement Unit Data:.” 2015. Web. 17 Jul 2019.
Paiman CJFN. Observer-Based State of Balance Estimation of the Walking Human with Upper Body Inertial Measurement Unit Data:. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Delft University of Technology; 2015. [cited 2019 Jul 17]. Available from: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:44d58bb8-4b49-4d5b-a143-091989282eee.
Paiman CJFN. Observer-Based State of Balance Estimation of the Walking Human with Upper Body Inertial Measurement Unit Data:. [Masters Thesis]. Delft University of Technology; 2015. Available from: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:44d58bb8-4b49-4d5b-a143-091989282eee
30. Wu, Jian. Robust Signal Processing Techniques for Wearable Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) Sensors.
Degree: PhD, Computer Engineering, 2018, Texas A&M University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/174385
► Activity and gesture recognition using wearable motion sensors, also known as inertial measurement units (IMUs), provides important context for many ubiquitous sensing applications including healthcare… (more)
▼ Activity and gesture recognition using wearable motion sensors, also known as inertial measurement units (IMUs), provides important context for many ubiquitous sensing applications including healthcare monitoring, human computer interface and context-aware smart homes and offices. Such systems are gaining popularity due to their minimal cost and ability to provide sensing functionality at any time and place. However, several factors can affect the system performance such as sensor location and orientation displacement, activity and gesture inconsistency, movement speed variation and lack of tiny motion information. This research is focused on developing signal processing solutions to ensure the system robustness with respect to these factors. Firstly, for existing systems which have already been designed to work with certain sensor orientation/location, this research proposes opportunistic calibration algorithms leveraging camera information from the environment to ensure the system performs correctly despite location or orientation displacement of the sensors. The calibration algorithms do not require extra effort from the users and the calibration is done seamlessly when the users present in front of an environmental camera and perform arbitrary movements. Secondly, an orientation independent and speed independent approach is proposed and studied by exploring a novel orientation independent feature set and by intelligently selecting only the relevant and consistent portions of various activities and gestures. Thirdly, in order to address the challenge that the IMU is not able capture tiny motion which is important to some applications, a sensor fusion framework is proposed to fuse the complementary sensor modality in order to enhance the system performance and robustness. For example, American Sign Language has a large vocabulary of signs and a recognition system solely based on IMU sensors would not perform very well. In order to demonstrate the feasibility of sensor fusion techniques, a robust real-time American Sign Language recognition approach is developed using wrist worn IMU and surface electromyography (EMG) sensors. Advisors/Committee Members: Jafari, Roozbeh (advisor), Hammond, Tracy (committee member), Park, Sung Il (committee member), Stoleru, Radu (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: robust signal processing; inertial measurement unit; activity/gesture recognition; orientation independent; sensor fusion; sensor orientation calibration; sensor location calibration
Wu, J. (2018). Robust Signal Processing Techniques for Wearable Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) Sensors . (Doctoral Dissertation). Texas A&M University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/174385
Wu, Jian. “Robust Signal Processing Techniques for Wearable Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) Sensors.” 2018. Doctoral Dissertation, Texas A&M University. Accessed July 17, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/174385.
Wu, Jian. “Robust Signal Processing Techniques for Wearable Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) Sensors.” 2018. Web. 17 Jul 2019.
Wu J. Robust Signal Processing Techniques for Wearable Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) Sensors. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Texas A&M University; 2018. [cited 2019 Jul 17]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/174385.
Wu J. Robust Signal Processing Techniques for Wearable Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) Sensors. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Texas A&M University; 2018. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/174385
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As described in the core concepts documentation, a calendar system is a scheme for dividing time into eras, years, months and days and so on. As a matter of simplification, Noda Time treats every day as starting and ending at midnight, despite some calendars (such as the Islamic, Hebrew and Badíʿ calendars) traditionally having days stretching from sunset to sunset.
Additionally, Noda Time only handles calendars that do split time into eras, years, months and days - if we ever need to support any calendar which has other subdivisions, that would require specific support.
Finally, only calculated calendars are supported. Observational calendars (where years and months start based on unpredictable conditions such as the weather, or periodic decisions by political or religious leaders) are currently out of scope for Noda Time.
Noda Time supports the calendars listed below. If you would like us to consider adding support for another calendar system, please contact the mailing list or file a bug.
Note that although the API version listed indicates when a calendar system was first introduced into Noda Time, the access to most calendars was simplified in 2.0 to use properties instead of methods. The API access listed is from 2.0.0 onwards; please refer to the relevant copy of this user guide if you are using an older version.
As of Noda Time 2.0.0, calendar systems themselves only deal with concepts of eras, years, months and days - not the alternative mapping of a date to a "week year, week of week year, day of week". That is now represented by IWeekYearRule. Details are in the week year page.
First supported in v1.0.0 API access: CalendarSystem.Iso
This is the default calendar system when constructing values without explicitly specifying a calendar. It is designed to correspond to the calendar described in ISO-8601, and is equivalent to the Gregorian calendar in all respects other than the century and year-of-century values.
As of Noda Time 2.0, century and year-of-century properties have been removed, at which point the ISO calendar system and the Gregorian calendar system are equivalent. The separation between them in Noda Time is maintained for simplicity, compatibility and consistency.
First supported in v1.0.0 API access: CalendarSystem.Gregorian
The Gregorian calendar was a refinement to the Julian calendar, changing the formula for which years are leap years from "whenever the year is divisible by 4" to "whenever the year is divisible by 4, except when it's also divisible by 100 and not divisible by 400". This keeps the calendar in closer sync with the observed rotation of the earth around the sun.
Although the Gregorian calendar was introduced by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582, it was adopted in different places at different times. Noda Time's implementation is proleptic, in that it extends into the distant past. There is no support for a "cutover" calendar system which observes the Julian calendar until some point, at which point it cuts over to the Gregorian calendar system. Although such a calendar system would more accurately represent the calendar observed in many countries over time, it causes all sorts of API difficulties.
First supported in v1.0.0 API access: CalendarSystem.Julian
The Julian calendar was introduced by Julius Caesar in 46 BCE, and took effect in 45 BCE. It was like the Gregorian calendar, but with a simpler leap year rule - every year number divisible by 4 was a leap year.
The Noda Time implementation of the Julian calendar is proleptic, and ignores the fact that before around 4 CE the leap year rule was accidentally implemented as a leap year every three years. See the linked Wikipedia article for more details of this leap year error, along with suggestions of how history might have actually played out.
Coptic (Alexandrian)
First supported in v1.0.0 API access: CalendarSystem.Coptic
The Coptic calendar system is used by the Coptic Orthodox Church. Each year has 12 months of exactly 30 days, followed by one month with either 5 or 6 days depending on whether or not the year is a leap year. Like the Julian calendar, every year number divisible by 4 is a leap year in the Coptic calendar.
Year 1 in the Coptic calendar began on August 29th 284 CE (Julian). The implementation is not proleptic; dates earlier than year 1 cannot be represented in the Coptic calendar in Noda Time.
Islamic (Hijri)
First supported in v1.0.0 API access:
CalendarSystem.GetIslamicCalendar()
CalendarSystem.IslamicBcl
The Islamic (or Hijri) calendar is a lunar calendar with years of 12 months, totalling either 355 or 354 days depending on whether or not it's a leap year. There are various schemes for determining which years are leap years, all based on a 30 year cycle. Noda Time supports four options here, specified in the IslamicLeapYearPattern enumeration.
In the Islamic calendar, each day officially begins at sunset, but the Noda Time implementation (like most other date/time APIs) ignores this and treats every day as beginning and ending at midnight.
Year 1 in the Islamic calendar began on July 15th or 16th, 622 CE (Julian) - different sources appear to use different epochs, and the "sunset vs midnight" difference exacerbates this. Within Noda Time, the two epochs are known as astronomical (July 15th CE Julian) and civil (July 16th CE Julian) and are specified in the IslamicEpoch enumeration.
The GetIslamicCalendar() method accepts two parameters, specifying the leap year pattern and epoch. You should carefully consider which other systems you need to interoperate with when deciding which values to specify for these parameters. The IslamicBcl property follows the same leap year pattern and epoch as the BCL IslamicCalendar type. It is equivalent to the result of calling GetIslamicCalendar(IslamicLeapYearPattern.Base16, IslamicEpoch.Astronomical).
This calendar is not to be confused with the Solar Hijri calendar which is implemented in a simplified form within Noda Time, as described below.
Persian (or Solar Hijri)
First supported in v1.3.0 ("simple" form only; arithmetic and astronomical introduced in 2.0.0) API access:
CalendarSystem.PersianSimple
CalendarSystem.PersianAstronomical
CalendarSystem.PersianArithmetic
The Persian (or Solar Hijri) calendar is the official calendar of Iran and Pakistan. Three variants of this are supported in Noda Time:
The "simple" calendar, which was the only one supported in Noda Time 1.3, and matches the behaviour of the BCL PersianCalendar before .NET 4.6. This has a simple leap cycle of 33 years, where years 1, 5, 9, 13, 17, 22, 26, and 30 in each cycle are leap years. This calendar starts on March 18th 622 CE (Julian).
The "astronomical" calendar, where each new year begins on the midnight between the two consecutive solar noons which include the instant of the Northern spring equinox, when the sun enters the northern hemisphere. This matches the behaviour of the BCL PersianCalendar from .NET 4.6 onwards, and the Windows 10 Persian calendar. This calendar starts on March 19th 622 CE (Julian).
The "arithmetic" (or algorithmic) calendar proposed by Ahmad Birashk, which organizes leap years in cycles of 2820 years, where each full cycle consists of 21 subcycles of 128 years, followed by one subcycle of 132 years. Each 128-year subcycle consists of a 29 year sub-subcycle, and three 33 year sub-subcycles. A 132-year subcycle is the same as a 128-year subcycle, except the final sub-subcycle has 37 years instead of 33.
Um Al Qura
First supported in v2.0.0 API access: CalendarSystem.UmAlQura
The Um Al Qura (or Umm al-Qura) calendar, primarily used in Saudi Arabia, is similar to the Islamic Hijri calendar, except that instead of being algorithmic it relies on tabular data. Each month has 29 or 30 days, and each year has 354 or 355 days, but the month lengths cannot be determined algorithmically.
The Noda Time implementation uses data from the BCL UmAlQuraCalendar to obtain the required information, but the data is baked into Noda Time so it is available on all platforms.
CalendarSystem.GetHebrewCalendar()
CalendarSystem.HebrewCivil
CalendarSystem.HebrewScriptural
The Hebrew calendar is a lunisolar calendar used primarily for determination of religious holidays within Judaism. It was originally observational, but a computed version is now commonly used. Even this is very complicated, however: most years have 12 months, but 7 in every 19 years are leap years, with 13 months. Two of the months in the regular calendar have variable numbers of days depending on other aspects of the calendar, in order to avoid religious holidays from falling on inappropriate days of the week.
The additional month in a leap year presents challenges for text handling, as well as for calendrical calculations in general. The support in Noda Time 1.3.0 should be seen as somewhat experimental, but feedback is very warmly welcomed. It's important to note that parsing and formatting of month names is expected to be incorrect in this version.
Like the Islamic calendar, a Hebrew day properly starts at sunset, but this is not modelled within Noda Time.
The GetHebrewCalendar() method accepts one parameter, specifying which month numbering system to use. The scriptural month numbering system uses Nisan as month 1, even though the new year (when the year number changes) occurs at the start of Tishri. In the scriptural system, Adar is month 12 in a non-leap year, and Adar I and Adar II are months 12 and 13 in a leap year.
The civil month numbering system uses Tishri as month 1 (so the year number increases when the month number becomes 1 again, as in most calendars) but this means that Adar is month 6 in a non-leap year, and Adar I and Adar II are months 6 and 7 in a leap year. This then means that the subsequent months (Nisan, Iyar, Sivan, Tamuz, Av, Elul) have different numbers in leap and non-leap years.
Unlike the parameters for the Islamic calendar, the month numbering in the Hebrew calendar doesn't affect any calculations - it only affects the numeric values of the months both accepted when constructing values (such as in the LocalDate constructor) and retrieving them (such as with LocalDate.Month).
The convenience properties HebrewScriptural and HebrewCivil are just simpler alternatives to the GetHebrewCalendar method call.
Badíʿ
CalendarSystem.Badi
The Badíʿ calendar, also called the Bahá'í or Wondrous calendar, is a solar calendar used by the Bahá'í Faith. A year consists of 19 months of 19 days, with 4 or 5 intercalary days between months 18 and 19. These intercalary days are called Ayyám-i-Há, and are not regarded as belonging to any month. Until 2015, the length of Ayyám-i-Há was related to the Gregorian calendar: 5 in a Gregorian leap year, and 4 otherwise. From 2015 onwards, the length of Ayyám-i-Há is set to ensure that the new year (Naw-Rúz) coincides with the vernal equinox in Tehran.
The Noda Time implementation of the Badíʿ calendar has two aspects which diverge from the "correct" calendar:
Days in the correct Badíʿ calendar begin at sunset (so that is when the date changes); in Noda Time the date always changes at midnight.
In order to fit in with the rest of the code base, Ayyám-i-Há is modeled as extra days within month 18. This not only affects the reporting of month numbers and lengths, but additionally, operations such as finding "the date at the end of the current month" - in month 18, the end of the month will be reported as being the final day of Ayyám-i-Há.
It is expected that an additional package will be created to report dates in a more strictly-correct fashion, using the Noda Time calendar as the base implementation with a thin wrapper for more idiomatic usage.
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It is possible that in the League of Legends they are majestic generals, possessing supreme power that everyone must be terrified, but the past has many times they play tricks and leave unintended consequences for an empire.
I.Azir
The last king of the ancient Shurima Empire drowned his total Shurima into the sand. One can blame Xerath’s betrayal of Azir’s Sublimation ritual and the destruction of the Empire’s capital, but it must also be mentioned that the root cause is Azir has ignored all words. can dissuade the gods, including the scholar Nasus, to decide to perform his own Sublimation rite when he himself is still very young and not eligible to be chosen by the Sun Priests Make Sublimation (like Nasus and Renekton).
Even Xerath’s betrayal had a profound cause stemming from Azir, when the Emperor, though he had decided to free Xerath’s close friend from slavery, refused to accept it speaking out, the decision to hide it until the last minute and only the holy declaration only freed slavery when performing the Sublimation rite.
Azir’s silence for a long time caused Xerath to that the Emperor had forgotten his promise to abolish Shurima’s slavery and that he would be forced to slavery forever, even if he was his best friend. The emperor. With an ambitious person like Xerath, it was an extremely difficult fact to accept and he was keen to implement the plan to harm Azir, so when Azir gave a new rule to free the slave status of Xerath everything was too late, resulting in the sublimation ritual being destroyed and the pair of best friends Xerath – Azir immersed in hatred until thousands of years later.
Besides, this is also the reason why the Nasus and Renekton become each other’s enemies. Renekton sacrificed himself to seal it with Xerath. But because he was exposed to so much evil, Renekton gradually became angry at the evil human mind. When the rage peaks, it bursts out to make Renekton go crazy and slaughter all the inhabitants of the holy land, with the ultimate goal of Nasus.
Obviously, Azir is a good emperor, but arrogance and disregard for other people’s feelings have made him lose everything.
II.Lee Sin
In the old storyline, Lee Sin was the one who caused the death of an entire village, but afterwards, Riot Games updated his to make the stories of Lee Sin not sad. So in the current plot, Lee Sin points Dragon’s Rage, which makes his teacher … live plants forever. It all comes from the arrogance, the brazen victory of this monk who was young.
It did not stop there, during the time Noxus invaded Ionia, Lee Sin met, befriended Udyr and the two of them set out to join the resistance of the Ionian people. During one of the chases of Noxus from the temple he once practiced, Lee Sin again applied the power of the Dragon’s Rage recklessly, and despite chasing Noxus troops, Lee Sin also … destroyed the temple and lost eyes because of the destructive power of the Fire Soul.
Indeed, talking about the “play big”, Lee Sin is indeed a name that makes many people admiring, is it because of this special personality of this general, the Gamer community has not had many occasions to witness Lee Sin use R – Dragon’s Rage kick Malphite into their ADC’s of face , create the processing phase that goes into the heart people?
III. Aurelion Sol
In terms power, Aurelion Sol is undoubtedly the strongest ever to appear in League of Legends. However, the dragon god possessing the power to create an entire universe is governed by the small Sages from a land called Runeterra.
Why is that? Runeterra’s oldest legends mention Aurelion Sol as the creator of the universe, with the ability to create crystals and give them life. Over thousands of years, Aurelion Sol once met the world Runeterra, worshiped by the Targon as their supreme deity.
Aurelion Sol, though life expectancy has gone through millennia, but because of inner life, little contact with the outside world and not much social experience, has been his own worshipers – the Targon Senators, deceiving him to wear the magic crown, and then from the place of worship, Aurelion was dominated by the power of the crown, becoming a tool for the Senators to use and manipulate.
Still possessing the endless power of the universe, but now, Aurelion Sol must give up the passion create stars to use their power to serve the purpose of the Montagnards Targon.
Now, Aurelion Sol is forced to operate under the Targon’s control, or rather, the Warring Statesman through their incarnations. Now, Zoe can have fun with Evil Dragon God as a puppy, but no one knows what will happen when the seal is destroyed … when Aurelion Sol poured rage for thousands of years into the World , and even Runeterra …
IV. Lux
Lux was a pure innocent lady, and because she was so innocent, if unfortunately Lux did something foolish, no one would blame her.
But being so foolish as to push the Demacia kingdom down to the brink of danger is another matter. Not only breaking the law to provide Sylas with knowledge about Magic Stone resistance, Lux also directly contributed to helping this “bad boy” escape from Demacia prison, to not long after that, he became the leader of the rebellion against the kingdom’s rulers himself
Even many people talk about characteristic of inherited the Crownguard brothers, when Lux’s brother Garen also plays loud, love Katarina – lady of Noxus
V. Anivia
Anivia in the previous story can be a noble and noble creature, we often imagine such creatures are very restrained and peaceful, or hot-tempered like Volibear. However, who knows Anivia in this story is as a naughty.
The thing is that on a beautiful day in the Freljord, Ornn built a beautiful house for him, choosing from the best and noblest woods, Ornn looked at the house and talk a sentence: “The best house I’ve ever made. But Ornn is not know would is already destroy the forest of the Anivia, and she decided to teach this old man a lesson.
So, waiting for Ornn to sleep, Anivia flew into Ornn’s nose with her feathers, causing him to sneeze, the fire flaring from his nose burning the house. Anivia was startled by the fear of and flying away , result that the house was as big as three burnt hills.
Ornn slept like death, didn’t know anything, so when he woke up he found himself in the midst of the remnants of the catch fire, and he nodded and decided to build his next home that could not be caught, not knowing him do if know Anivia burn the house of his, maybe fighting ?
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This essay provides a definition for the category of posts called “Social Insanity.”
Let us first start with the definition of “sanity”:
Good sense or soundness of judgment
Soundness or health of mind
Insanity, by definition, is the opposite or absence of sanity: [1]
As complete darkness is the absence of all light, so complete insanity is the absence of all sanity.
As darkness exists wherever there is a lack of complete illumination or light, so insanity exists wherever there is a lack of complete sanity.
As darkness is the absence of light, so insanity is the absence of sanity.
Sanity is Essential to Life
The primary function of every living organism is to survive and propagate itself into the future. Any living organism that fails to do either inevitably dies forever. Thus any living organism that exhibits a continuing pattern of behavior contrary to its primary function of survival and propagation is not exhibiting sound judgment (not acting sanely); therefore it can be considered insane. For example, when we learn of someone who drinks Drano for breakfast we exclaim, “That’s insane!” because we know that Drano is a poison that will inevitably harm and kill that person.
In order to accomplish the objective of survival and propagation, every living organism must be of sound mind
To recognize the realities of threats to its existence and undertake the appropriate response for continued survival
To understand the proper method of propagation into the future and execute the act of propagation.
In short, every living organism must exhibit and practice “good sense and soundness of judgment” (sanity) to discern reality from unreality; otherwise it surely dies.
For example, if a gazelle sees a roaring lion nearby, fails to recognize it as a threat, ignores it and does not flee, the gazelle will make a tasty meal for the lion. Similarly, if a male gazelle insists on attempting to mate with another male gazelle or an elephant, it will be unsuccessful in self-propagation into the future and cease to exist. In the above examples the male gazelle ceases to exist forever because it failed to recognize reality, ignored the truth and nature of its own existence, and didn’t practice good sense and soundness of judgment. In short, the gazelle’s action was insane. Although one doesn’t normally think of gazelles as being “insane”, the term fits well.
Sanity is Essential to a Society’s Survival
Every living organism is made up of individual units:
A person is a living organism made up of individual cells. If the individual cells fail to recognize the presence of harmful bacteria within the body, then the appropriate defenses aren’t activated and the entire body ultimately succumbs to a mortal illness and dies.
A society, or culture, is a living organism made up of individual people. If the individual people fail to recognize the presence of destructive activities within the society, then the appropriate defenses aren’t activated and the entire society ultimately succumbs to a mortal illness and dies. (The Trojan horse is a classic and vivid example of this error.)
Thus one can see that a society is a living organism just as a person is a living organism. Therefore, according to the nature of every living organism, the primary function of a society, or culture, is also to survive and propagate itself into the future. Any society that fails to do either inevitably dies and disappears.
As with the example of the gazelle, in order to accomplish the essential mission of survival and propagation, the society must be of sound mind to recognize the realities of threats to its existence, to take valid and effective preventative steps, and to understand the proper method of propagation into the future. It must exhibit and practice “good sense and soundness of judgment” (sanity) in order to discern reality from unreality; otherwise it surely dies. As with our gazelle, a society that refuses to act sanely, but rather acts insanely, will inevitably die.[2] Where are the societies of the Assyrians, Persians, and other superpowers of their day? Dead and long gone, because they failed in their primary mission to survive and propagate.
Horses and Dogs
Not all horses are alike, although all comprise the same parts. Some are highly prized thoroughbreds; others are not.
Not all dogs are alike, although all are made of the same parts. Some are prized for their speed; others for their ability to assist the handicapped; still others for their ability to hunt.
The desirable characteristics of horses and dogs are determined largely by their pedigree, or heritage, and passed on to future generations largely through genes and DNA. But pedigree alone is insufficient to continue the heritage: Training is required as well. Racehorses must be trained to win. Show dogs must be trained to win. The winning family heritage of many generations quickly dies when the next generation is not taught to win, in spite of outstanding genes and DNA.
Not all families are alike, although all comprise similar people. Some families are generous; others not so. Some families are gifted artists; others not so. Some families are successful; others not so. The dominant characteristics of a family are heavily influenced by its pedigree, but continuing success is achieved only through proper training, passed from generation to generation through the family culture. Desirable social characteristics such as honesty and hard work must be cultivated (note the same word root as in “culture”) and must be reinforced to maintain the family pedigree. By contrast, undesirable social characteristics such as dishonesty and laziness must be discouraged to maintain the family pedigree. The winning family heritage ceases to exist when it is not properly cultivated and passed on to the next generation. It simply dies.
It is the same for societies. Each new generation must be cultivated to continue and exhibit the desirable social norms and values – the culture - that have differentiated the society and made it successfully survive for many generations in a hostile environment. Failure to do so will result in societal failure and collapse, and ultimately societal death.
Consequently there are two critical requirements for a society’s long-term continued existence:
Physical reproduction of each successive generation to assure propagation
Cultural reproduction of each successive generation to assure continued survival (and flourishing) in a hostile environment.
Any society which fails on either count faces certain death. Consequently sanity (good sense or soundness of judgment, or soundness or health of mind) dictates that every society’s primary focus must be successful reproduction both physically and culturally. To do otherwise is social suicide and insanity.
It is inadequate to reproduce the population without reproducing the culture: The inevitable result will be cultural death.
It is inadequate to reproduce the culture without reproducing the people: The inevitable result is physical death.
Both must be maintained for a society to maintain its identity into the future.
Culture, then, is to society as DNA is to a human being. As DNA defines the characteristics of a person, so culture defines the characteristics of a society. Just as it requires careful selection and reinforcement of desirable genes and DNA to continue the pedigree of a thoroughbred into the next generation, so it requires careful selection of desirable cultural values to continue the pedigree of a society into the next generation.[3]
We live in a hostile world. Enemies abound in all spheres, and survival is a daily battle. Therefore one can expect enemies of a society to attack and try to kill it by destroying it physically in a traditional act of war or by destroying and subsuming its culture into a foreign culture. In either case a society unable or unwilling to defend itself dies.
Any willful act to compromise the core mission of a functioning society to survive in this hostile world is contrary to the society’s best interest and represents a case of social insanity. Similarly, any willful act by a society to thwart propagation of its culture into the next generation encourages its ultimate demise and is a case of cultural insanity.
A society may die for reasons beyond its control, in spite of “good sense or soundness of judgment” (sanity). For example,
Death due to inability to defend oneself against overpowering enemies is normal. But unwillingness to defend oneself is abnormal; it is insane.
Death by ambush or surprise is not unusual. But consciously ignoring an obvious threat and carelessly being caught off guard is suicidal; it is insane.
If someone thrusts a dagger into your heart and you die, that is normal (but undesirable). Thrusting a dagger into your own heart is suicidal, abnormal, and insane. Similarly, a society that succumbs because it consciously ignores its internal enemies and dies of self-inflicted wounds is not acting sanely with “good sense or soundness of judgment” but dies as a result of social insanity.
As we have seen, any conscious societal decision or action contrary to satisfying the prime function of the society – its continuing survival – is an act social insanity. Survival requires that a society
Recognize the realities of threats to its existence and undertake the appropriate response for continued survival
Understand the proper method of propagation into the future and execute the act of propagation.
We have also seen that the second point may be further broken into the following subsidiary requirements:
2a. Physical reproduction of each successive generation to assure propagation
2b. Cultural reproduction of each successive generation to assure survival (and flourishing) in a hostile environment.
Let us now examine these critical elements essential for a society’s long-term continued existence, and provide some representative signs of social insanity:
Requirement for survival
Examples of corresponding social insanity
1. Recognize threats and take effective defensive measures
Inability / unwillingness to address the real existence of both external and internal threats (e.g. Islamic jihad)
Inability / unwillingness to take necessary corrective action to known mortal threats (e.g. budget deficit)
2. Understand and execute propagation
2a. Physical reproduction of each successive generation to assure physical propagation
Public policies discouraging/inhibiting birth of next generation (e.g. public support and encouragement of abortion and contraception)
Public policies encouraging non-reproductive sexual behavior to the detriment of reproductive behavior (e.g. homosexuality)
2b. Cultural reproduction of each successive generation to assure survival (and flourishing) in a hostile environment
Public policies destructive to the basic social unit of healthy families (e.g. policies encouraging single parent “families” to the detriment of traditional families)
Public policies that are destructive to core social values, including actions such as
Ignoring or rewriting social history
Ideologically indoctrinating the next generation instead of educating in truth
Compromising positive values of excellence and performance
Comingling truth and falsehood such that two are indiscernible
Distortion/destruction of core social values, principles, worldview, and social storyline
Starlings and Fish
The concept of social insanity may be a bit abstract, so a visual may be useful:
Consider a flock of starlings in the air. How many times have you noticed every member of the flock suddenly veer and change direction in unison?
…or all the fish in a school do the same thing?
How about a buffalo herd on a wild stampede?
…or people on a wild stampede from a soccer game?
…or a spontaneous riot after some well publicized event or sports event?
All these situations illustrate a process of social decision-making. In each case every member of the group suddenly – for no apparent reason – participates in a mass decision to take an action such that the group appears to act as a unified whole, an integrated living organism. Sometimes such decisions are harmless or even beneficial (as in the case of birds swerving to avoid an obstacle), but oftentimes the decisions are disastrous to the group.
Consider, for example, buffalo and human stampedes. The stampedes cannot be stopped even if the majority of the buffalo herd’s members go over a cliff and are killed in the process or a number of humans are trampled underfoot. Clearly such behavior is contrary to the best interests of the group based on good sense and sound judgment; hence the behavior is irrational or insane – especially if the stampede was sparked by a small, even an imagined or unreal threat.
The same exact phenomenon occurs in human society and culture. Humans instinctively follow each other; that is how fashions and trends develop. People on a wild stampede from a soccer game are little different from a herd of buffalo. A spontaneous riot after some well publicized event or sports event is not unlike the flock of starlings. Viral internet videos are high tech displays of the same phenomena.
The book “The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference” by Malcolm Gladwell examines how minute trends begin and grow into uncontrollable social avalanches – not always with beneficial outcomes.
The Bible describes people as sheep who blindly follow the one out front. If the leader makes irrational and insane decisions, the followers will do the same. That is a common source of mass hysteria, a form of social insanity.
Mass Hysteria
Societies are made up of individuals, and a society’s collective decision represents merely the sum of individual members’ decisions. (Voting is a formalized version of this process; viral internet videos represent an informal version of this same process.) Fortunately, most people make rational decisions most of the time, resulting in the group’s collective decisions generally being rational. However, if enough influential members of the group – a society – make irrational decisions, then the whole society is likely to descend into mass hysteria and insanity. Some examples follow:
Jonestown kool-aid suicide
H. G. Wells War of the Worlds radio show (Also National Geographic article)
1950s alien invasion fad
Heaven’s Gate suicides
Mayan Calendar end of the world scare.
…cults and much more.
In all these instances a group – a society – collectively chose to believe something irrational and unreal. In some cases, as in the case of Jonestown and Heaven’s Gate, the final outcome was death for the entire population. These are two clear examples of how insane actions based on insane group decisions result in the group’s permanent death.
Could today’s social social stampede related to political correctness, statism, Christophobia, and homosexuality be manifestations of mass hysteria and social insanity? Certainly something to be examined, for
[1] Dictionary definition of “insanity” defines the polar opposite of sanity as:
Relatively permanent disorder of the mind; state or condition of being mentally deranged
A defect of reason as a result of mental illness,
Utter folly; stupidity
However, any decision or action that fails to meet the requirements of sanity must be, by definition, insane.
[2] Some may ask, “How about the soldier who willfully lays down his life for his comrade? Is he insane?” Not at all. He is performing his assigned function to preserve the life of the greater living organism of which he is a member: The army. Just as a body may have to sacrifice individual cells and body parts to defeat the threat of a real (potentially fatal) illness, so at times the army may demand personal sacrifice of individual people to defeat the attacks of a real (potentially fatal) enemy army.
[3] What are “desirable” social values? They are the core values that made a society successful in the past. A society departs from wholehearted support of those values at the peril of its own existence.
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Atomically thin magnetic device could lead to new memory technologies
by University of Washington
In the experiment, the researchers sandwiched two atomic layers of CrI3 between graphene contacts and measured the electron flow through the CrI3. Credit: Tiancheng Song
Magnetic materials are the backbone of modern digital information technologies, such as hard-disk storage. A University of Washington-led team has now taken this one step further by encoding information using magnets that are just a few layers of atoms in thickness. This breakthrough may revolutionize both cloud computing technologies and consumer electronics by enabling data storage at a greater density and improved energy efficiency.
In a study published online May 3 in the journal Science, the researchers report that they used stacks of ultrathin materials to exert unprecedented control over the flow of electrons based on the direction of their spins—where the electron "spins" are analogous to tiny, subatomic magnets. The materials that they used include sheets of chromium tri-iodide (CrI3), a material described in 2017 as the first ever 2-D magnetic insulator. Four sheets—each only atoms thick—created the thinnest system yet that can block electrons based on their spins while exerting more than 10 times stronger control than other methods.
"Our work reveals the possibility to push information storage based on magnetic technologies to the atomically thin limit," said co-lead author Tiancheng Song, a UW doctoral student in physics.
In related research, published April 23 in Nature Nanotechnology, the team found ways to electrically control the magnetic properties of this atomically thin magnet.
"With the explosive growth of information, the challenge is how to increase the density of data storage while reducing operation energy," said corresponding author Xiaodong Xu, a UW professor of physics and of materials science and engineering, and faculty researcher at the UW Clean Energy Institute. "The combination of both works points to the possibility of engineering atomically thin magnetic memory devices with energy consumption orders of magnitude smaller than what is currently achievable."
The new Science paper also looks at how this material could allow for a new type of memory storage that exploits the electron spins in each individual sheet.
A depiction of the crystal structure of chromium triiodide (CrI3), with chromium atoms shown in purple and iodine atoms in yellow. The black arrows represent the electron "spins," which are analogous to tiny bar magnets. Credit: Tiancheng Song
The researchers sandwiched two layers of CrI3 between conducting sheets of graphene. They showed that, depending on how the spins are aligned between each of the CrI3 sheets, the electrons can either flow unimpeded between the two graphene sheets or were largely blocked from flowing. These two different configurations could act as the bits—the zeroes and ones of binary code in everyday computing—to encode information.
"The functional units of this type of memory are magnetic tunnel junctions, or MTJ, which are magnetic 'gates' that can suppress or let through electrical current depending on how the spins align in the junction," said co-lead author Xinghan Cai, a UW postdoctoral researcher in physics. "Such a gate is central to realizing this type of small-scale data storage."
With up to four layers of CrI3, the team discovered the potential for "multi-bit" information storage. In two layers of CrI3, the spins between each layer are either aligned in the same direction or opposite directions, leading to two different rates that the electrons can flow through the magnetic gate. But with three and four layers, there are more combinations for spins between each layer, leading to multiple, distinct rates at which the electrons can flow through the magnetic material from one graphene sheet to the other.
"Instead of your computer having just two choices to store a piece of data in, it can have a choice A, B, C, even D and beyond," said co-author Bevin Huang, a UW doctoral student in physics. "So not only would storage devices using CrI3 junctions be more efficient, but they would intrinsically store more data."
The researchers' materials and approach represent a significant improvement over existing techniques under similar operating conditions using magnesium oxide, which is thicker, less effective at blocking electrons and lacks the option for multi-bit information storage.
"Although our current device requires modest magnetic fields and is only functional at low temperature, infeasible for use in current technologies, the device concept and operational principle are novel and groundbreaking," said Xu. "We hope that with developed electrical control of magnetism and some ingenuity, these tunnel junctions can operate with reduced or even without the need for a magnetic field at high temperature, which could be a game changer for new memory technology."
Breakthrough made in atomically thin magnets
More information: "Giant tunneling magnetoresistance in spin-filter van der Waals heterostructures" Science (2018). science.sciencemag.org/lookup/ … 1126/science.aar4851
Journal information: Science , Nature Nanotechnology
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Citation: Atomically thin magnetic device could lead to new memory technologies (2018, May 3) retrieved 17 July 2019 from https://phys.org/news/2018-05-atomically-thin-magnetic-device-memory.html
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SNJO & Arild Andersen Play Mingus. Edinburgh, September 2016.
Arild Andersen joined the SNJO a bassist for the night, playing Mingus. The band have played Mingus before – back in 2003, Tommy Smith said – and I loved it then, and I loved it now. And it seemed like they loved it, too. Andersen has played with the orchestra several times, but this time he was (more or less) just the bassist – the music was the star. A special guest bassist, true, and he played some great solos – but then they were celebrating a special bassist.
The first half was brilliant. They warmed up with Song With Orange, not a tune I’m familiar with. An extended solo from Andersen lead into the bass riff to Haitian Fight Song and then it all kicked off. The synchronised riffing from the saxes, trombones and trumpets, band members hollering in between riffs, and some fast and furious solos. Fables Of Faubus followed, more riffs backing the soloists.
Tommy Smith and Arild Andersen played Goodbye Pork Pie Hat largely as a duet. Smith’s solo was remarkably powerful. I’ve been seeing him play regularly since (I think) 1984 (a fund raising gig for his studies at Berklee and a small residency in a bar in Bruntsfield, if you’re interested), and somehow he gets better and better. It’s too easy to take musicians for granted, but once again I was reminded what world class musicians we have in Scotland.
Not just Smith, mind. Soloist after soloist made their mark: Tom McNiven and Tom Walsh in the trumpets, Chris Grieve and Phil O’Malley in the trumpets and a whole slew of saxophonists – Martin Kershaw and Paul Towndrow on altos, with Kershaw also on soprano, and Konrad Wiszniewski belting out bluesy chorus after chorus.
The first set was remarkable: exciting, high energy music. The second set felt a little more sedate, though only in comparison. It opened with Moanin’, a feature for Allon Beauvoisin on baritone. Apart from the ballad Duke Ellington’s Sound Of Love, the other pieces were less well known. For the encore, though, the band were back to full on hollering form for Ecclusiastics. The high point was Wiszniewski and Smith trading choruses, each excited by the other’s performance (Smith a bit cooler, perhaps), until they joined together in a real tenor battle.
A great evening, full of exciting music and solos. And a reminder if one were needed of the compositional skill of Charles Mingus: one reason his tunes work so well in a big band context is that he wrote for a large ensemble, but could only afford small groups. So he just made them sound big, instead.
Mingus, in 1976.
This entry was posted in Jazz and tagged Arild Andersen, Konrad Wiszniewski, Martin Kershaw, SNJO, Tom McNiven, Tommy Smith on October 1, 2016 by patrickhadfield.
John Etheridge Trio. London, November 2010.
After a fascinating session by musicians Soweto Kinch and Shabaka Hutchins exploring the roots and evolution of jazz (part of the festival’s free education programme, they had two conversations over two days – these were a really interesting couple of afternoons), I ventured out to Kingston for Andy Sheppard’s Movements in Colour and Didier Malherbe’s Hadouk Trio. I wrote about this gig for the LondonJazz blog, so I won’t repeat myself here. This was very “world” tinged jazz. Malherbe’s band were interesting, lively and unexpected; Sheppard’s more – well, chilled. It is no surprised that they record on ECM – they have that very cool, European sound. Despite Sheppard’s excellent – though controlled – sax playing, the star for me was bassist Arild Andersen. I’d go a long way to see him play.
Which I did the next day, venturing across London to see him play with John Etherdige and John Marshall. This was just a brilliant gig. It covered a range of moods, from relaxed to energetic, whilst maintaining a cohesive voice. Both Andersen and Etheridge used electronic looping to construct tracks to play along to, building up the layers of sound. They were, frankly, great. Marshall added so much – playing without amplification (the Bull’s Head, though one of London’s foremost jazz venues, is still really just a pub…), he was simultaneously subtle and powerful. This gig was just wonderful – they played exciting, adventurous music. Exactly as I expected.
This entry was posted in Jazz and tagged Andy Sheppard, Arild Andersen, Bull's Head, John Etheridge, John Marshall, LJF, Shabaka Hutchins, Soweto Kinch on November 28, 2010 by patrickhadfield.
Arild Andersen, Tommy Smith and Paolo Vinaccia. Edinburgh, December 2008.
Last night, I went to see Arild Andersen, Tommy Smith and Paolo Vinaccia play at the Lot in Edinburgh. It was a very similar line up to the concert Andersen, Smith and Alyn Cosker played during the Edinburgh Jazz Festival – but something was missing, last night.
I’m not sure what to was: whether it was the weather, the venue (which normally I think is great – it is intimate, one is close the stage, and usually it works well), the audience (a largely middle aged crowd, for a change – I felt like I was the youngest there!) – or, just maybe, the musicians: perhaps they were feeling slightly jaded, since they are half way through a tour of Scotland, promoting their new CD (which has had some great reviews – and I picked up a copy last night. I have picked up a lot of music over the past couple of days!).
This was a good set, but not a great set – unlike the summer’s trio performance, or Smith and Andersen’s previous duets I saw in Edinburgh (almost exactly two years ago – memories of that evening may be influencing me) and Islay some time before that. It lacked a bit of intensity and excitement. Possibly, my own expectations were simply too high.
The music was lovely though; and the CD is pretty good, too!
This entry was posted in Jazz and tagged Arild Andersen, Paolo Vinaccia, The Lot, Tommy Smith on December 4, 2008 by patrickhadfield.
Andersen, Smith & Cosker and the Brian Kellock Trio. Edinburgh Jazz Festival, July 2008.
The collaboration between Scottish saxophonist Tommy Smith – winner of a recent award in the BBC jazz awards and Norwegian bass player Arild Andersen goes back a few years; I saw them in the ethereal setting of the Round Church in Bowmore, Islay, which produced a concert of such exquisite beauty that I was a little scared to see them again: how could they possibly match up to that memory, especially with the addition of Cosker on drums?
In Bowmore, the combination of the saxophone and the bass had created a mesmeric, meditative sound that was wholly suited to the setting. Andersen had used his ingenuity and some whizzy technology to set up loops of his percussive bass, providing rhythm to which he and Smith played their gentle melodies. How could drums not contrive to break that spell? Particular since I have seen Cosker play before, and he can be a loud, brash and domineering drummer.
The trio answered my concerns within moments. Andersen played a series of pizzicato phrases, looped them and set up a complex rhythm; and Cosker joined in seamlessly, working abstractly away from the beat. With Smith playing tenor, they created some magical sounds, mixing jazz and folk sensibilities to create their own sound.
It was beautifully contemplative, emotional music, the sounds meshing together to create a vivid soundscape. Stunningly lovely.
I have seen Smith and Andersen twice before – they toured Scotland in the autumn of 2006, when they also recorded together (apparently, they are releasing a CD on ECM this autumn – I don’t know if it was the 2006 sessions that provided the music for the CD) – and every gig I have seen them in was in a church or former church – the Round Church, the Lot, and now the Hub. Perhaps they choose their venues to fit the sound they produce…
Andersen, Smith and Cosker were followed onto the stage at the Hub by a trio of Brian Kellock on piano, Chris Lightcap on bass and Matt Wilson on drums. They started off very free and open, Kellock scattering notes seemingly at random, Wilson working his kit and an assortment of hand-held percussion in response, leaving Lightcap to hold it together. This worked really well, the three of them creating an abstract space to explore.
After about ten minutes, the pianos chords resolved into “The Way You Look Tonight”, and Kellock started to play it straight ahead in the mainstream. After the experimental start, I thought this would be temporary, Kellock showing where he had come from and that he could play different styles. Instead, they were firmly stuck in the mainstream for the next hour or so.
This was a pity. They didn’t match the interest they had generated early; they played it very straight – it was good, they knew what they were doing, and they played some great standards, but it wasn’t the same.
They were joined for the last three numbers by Lianne Carroll as guest vocalist. I don’t particularly like jazz singers – and as jazz singers go, I thought Carroll was all right – the vocals didn’t impinge too much – she was using her voice as an instrument in the ensemble, rather being the dominant voice – but it wasn’t what I wanted to hear.
Perhaps I had been spoiled after the wonderful set by Andersen, Smith and Cosker; either, I wasn’t especially enamoured of the trio. All right as far as it went, but they had shown so much more promise.
This entry was posted in Jazz and tagged Alyn Cosker, Arild Andersen, Brian Kellock, Chris Lightcap, EJF, Matt Wilson, The Hub, Tommy Smith on August 9, 2008 by patrickhadfield.
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PAUL CHANTLER PHOTOGRAPHY
BMP107 Katoomba Falls
BMP117 Terrace Falls, Hazelbrook
Blue Mountains National Park & World Heritage Area.
BMP106 The Grand Canyon, Grose valley
The Three Sisters are weathered sandstone peaks, formed thousands of years ago through erosion, are set among the cliffs of the Jamison Valley. Mount Solitary is seen to the right. South Katoomba, Blue Mountains National Park & World Heritage area NSW Australia.
BMP102 Sea of Mist, The Three Sisters & Mt Solitary
The Three Sisters are weathered sandstone peaks, formed thousands of years ago through erosion, are set among the cliffs of the Jamison Valley. Mount Solitary is seen to the right. South Katoomba Blue Mountains National Park & World Heritage area NSW Australia.
BMP125 The Three Sisters in Morning Mist
BMP111 Blue Mountains Ash at Sunrise
Taken From Townsville Daily Bulletin Wednesday 28 January 1931
BLUE MOUNTAINS. GREAT LANDSLIDE SOON.
Millions of Tons of Rock Ready lo Fall. SYDNEY, January 27. Within a day or so, the Blue Moun- tains at Katoomba are likely to stage a most inconceivable landslide of mil lions of tons of rock into the lovely Jamison Valley, thousands of feet below. At Katoomba on Saturday, amazed crowds heard menacing rumblings, as an enormous bulk of the cliff face be tween Narrow Neck and Katoomba Falls started to spill, and a fissure six feet to 12 ft. wide gradually opened as a prelude to the imminent tragedy of Nature. Great boulders have already tumbled over the ledge into the gorge below. The muffled rumblings are growing louder, and ending in ear splitting re- ports, accompany each perceptibie movement or the fissure. In tense silence, crowds have listened to the eerie noises.... Finish reading here: http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/61580280
BMP104 The Landslide & Mt Solitary, Jamison Valley
The Grose Valley is a rugged valley in the Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia. It has been formed by the Grose River, the headwaters of which are in the Mount Victoria area. The valley is located between the Great Western Highway and Bells Line of Road, the two major routes across the Blue Mountains. The majority of the valley falls within the Blue Mountains National Park.
BMP108 Govetts Leap
BMP109 Three Sisters & Mt. Solitary at Sunset
The Jamison Valley comprising of sandstone escarpments, valleys and waterfalls, stretches north-south from just outside of South Katoomba to Coxs River. From west to east, it stretches from Narrow Neck Plateau to Kings Tableland, making it approximately 10 kilometres. Like the entire Sydney and Blue Mountains region, the valley is a sandstone area, characterised by steep sandstone cliffs.
BMP112 Big Sky Mt Solitary, Jamison Valley
BMP110 Sunrise, Three Sisters & Mt. Solitary
Megalong Valley with Boars Head Rock & Narrow neck on left of the picture.
The Megalong Valley is part of the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, Australia. It is located west of Katoomba. On its eastern side, the valley is separated from the Jamison Valley by Narrow Neck Plateau. Wikipedia
BMP129 Megalong Valley with Boars Head Rock & Narrow Neck on left.
The Grose Valley has been formed by the Grose River, the headwaters of which are in the Mount Victoria area. It contains some of the most beautiful and dramatic gorge and canyon landscapes of the entire Sydney basin sandstone region. It is also one of the most accessible wilderness areas for bushwalking or public observation from its escarpment margins.
BMP103 Grose Valley
BMP113 The Three Sisters & Mt Solitary at Sunset
BMP115 The Three Sisters & Mt Solitary at Sunrise
BMP116 Morning Rainbow, The Three Sisters & Mt Solitary
Jamison Valley filled with early morning mist. Katoomba Blue Mountains National Park & World Heritage area NSW Australia.
Comprising of sandstone escarpments, valleys and waterfalls, stretches north-south from just outside of South Katoomba to Coxs River. From west to east, it stretches from Narrow Neck Plateau to Kings Tableland, making it approximately 10 kilometres. Like the entire Sydney and Blue Mountains region, the valley is a sandstone area, characterised by steep sandstone cliffs.
BMP119 Jamison Valley, Blue Mountains
BMP120 The Three Sisters & Mt Solitary
Jamison Valley from Narrow Neck. Katoomba Blue Mountains National Park & World Heritage area NSW Australia.
BMP121 Road to Mt. Hay
BMP122 Early Morning, Govetts Leap, Blackheath
BMP123 Three Sisters & Mt Solitary in the Jamison Valley
BMP124 Sunrise, Govetts Leap, Blackheath
The event of the Phantom Falls is caused by air in the Jamison Valley being warmed by the sun’s rays and rising to meet the colder air in the Megalong Valley. The resulting mist creates a ‘waterfall’ effect which falls slowly and dramatically over the cliff into the Jamison Valley.
BMP127 Phantom Falls, Narrow Neck
The valley comprising of sandstone escarpments, valleys and waterfalls, stretches north-south from just outside of South Katoomba to Coxs River. From west to east, it stretches from Narrow Neck Plateau to Kings Tableland, making it approximately 10 kilometres. Like the entire Sydney and Blue Mountains region, the valley is a sandstone area, characterised by steep sandstone cliffs.
BMP126 Blue Mountains Ash [Eucalyptus oreades]
Typical bush scene of this area. The bush varies from in each area of the Blue Mountains.
BMP128 Govetts Leap at Sunrise
The superb lyrebird has an extraordinary ability to accurately mimic a huge variety of sounds. Both male and female lyrebirds sing but males are louder and sing more often.
In David Attenborough's Life of Birds (ep. 6), the lyrebird is described as able to imitate twenty bird species's calls, and a male is shown mimicking a car alarm and various camera.
BMP105 Superb Lyrebird
BMP114 Scribbly Gums,[Eucalyptus sclerophylla] & Wattle
BMP130 Three Sisters & Mt. Solitary at Sunrise
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by Amanda QuickAmanda Quick
Paperback(Mass Market Paperback - Reprint)
Imogen Waterstone has always prided herself on being a thoroughly independent young woman, but now she needs a man of implacable will and nerves of iron. That's why she invited Matthias Marshall, infamous Earl of Colchester, to her home in Upper Strickland. Who better than the legendary explorer to help her lay the perfect trap?
Her scheme is simple, really: She plans to let it be known that when she inherited her uncle's collection of antiquities, she also inherited a map to a fabulous ancient treasure. She's sure that her enemy would risk financial ruin in pursuit of the mythical artifact. And to make doubly sure the scoundrel took the bait, she wants Colchester to pretend that he's out to seduce Imogene so that he, too, could get his hands on her map.
Yet in all of her plotting, Imogene never anticipates Colchester's violent reaction to her request or her own electrifying reaction to him. Neither does she expect that a malevolent threat would emerge from the labyrinth of London--sinister enough to endanger her and Colchester's lives.
Amanda Quick, a pseudonym for Jayne Ann Krentz, is a New York Times bestselling, award-winning author of contemporary and historical romances. There are nearly thirty million copies of her books in print, including Seduction, Surrender, Scandal, Rendezvous, Ravished, Reckless, Dangerous, Deception, Desire, Mistress, Mystique, Mischief, Affair, With This Ring, I Thee Wed, and Wicked Widow. She is also the author of Slightly Shady and Don’t Look Back, the first two novels featuring Lavinia Lake and Tobias March. She makes her home in the Pacific Northwest with her husband, Frank.
"You pass yourself off as a man of action, but now it seems that you are not that sort of man at all."
"I do not pass myself off as anything but what I am, you exasperating little--"
"Apparently you write fiction rather than fact, sir. Bad enough that I thought you to be a clever, resourceful gentleman given to feats of daring. I have also been laboring under the equally mistaken assumption that you are a man who would put matters of honor ahead of petty considerations of inconvenience."
"Are you calling my honor as well as my manhood into question?"
"Why shouldn't I? You are dearly indebted to me, sir, yet you obviously wish to avoid making payment on that debt."
"I was indebted to your uncle, not to you."
"I have explained to you that I inherited the debt," she retorted.
Matthias took another gliding step into the grim chamber. "Miss Waterstone, you try my patience."
"I would not dream of doing so," she said, her voice dangerously sweet. "I have concluded that you will not do at all as an associate in my scheme. I hereby release you from your promise. Begone, sir."
"Bloody hell, woman. You are not going to get rid of me so easily." Matthias crossed the remaining distance between them with two long strides and clamped his hands around her shoulders.
Touching her was a mistake. Anger metamorphosed into desire in the wink of an eye.
For an instant he could not move. His insides seemed to have been seized by a powerful fist. Matthias tried to breathe but Imogen's scent filled his head, clouding his brain. He looked down into the bottomless depths of her blue-green eyes and wondered if he would drown. He opened his mouth to conclude the argument with a suitably repressive remark, but the words died in his throat.
The outrage vanished from Imogen's gaze. It was replaced by sudden concern. "My lord? Is something wrong?"
"Yes." It was all he could do to get the word past his teeth.
"What is it?" She began to look alarmed. "Are you ill?"
"Quite possibly."
"Good heavens. I had not realized. That no doubt explains your odd behavior."
"No doubt."
"Would you care to lie down on the bed for a few minutes?"
"I do not think that would be a wise move at this juncture." She was so soft. He could feel the warmth of her skin through the sleeves of her prim, practical gown. He realized that he longed to discover if she made love with the same impassioned spirit she displayed in an argument. He forced himself to remove his hands from her shoulders. "We had best finish this discussion at some other time."
"Nonsense," she said bracingly. "I do not believe in putting matters off, my lord."
Matthias shut his eyes for the space of two or three seconds and took a deep breath. When he lifted his lashes he saw that Imogen was watching him with a fascinated expression. "Miss Waterstone," he began with grim determination. "I am trying to employ reason here."
"You're going to help me, aren't you?" She started to smile.
"I beg your pardon?"
"You've changed your mind, haven't you? Your sense of honor has won out." Her eyes glowed. "Thank you, my lord. I knew you would assist me in my plans." She gave him an approving little pat on the arm. "And you must not concern yourself with the other matter."
"What other matter?"
"Why, your lack of direct experience with bold feats and daring adventure. I quite understand. You need not be embarrassed by the fact that you are not a man of action, sir."
"Miss Waterstone-- "
"Not everyone can be an intrepid sort, after all," she continued blithely. "You need have no fear. If anything dangerous occurs in the course of my scheme, I shall deal with it."
"The very thought of you taking charge of a dangerous situation is enough to freeze the marrow in my bones."
"Obviously you suffer from a certain weakness of the nerves. But we shall contrive to muddle through. Try not to succumb to the terrors of the imagination, my lord. I know you must be extremely anxious about what lies ahead, but I assure you, I will be at your side every step of the way."
"Will you, indeed?" He felt dazed.
"I shall protect you." Without any warning Imogen put her arms around him and gave him what was no doubt meant to be a quick, reassuring hug.
The tattered leash Matthias was using to hold on to his self-control snapped. Before Imogen could pull away, he wrapped her close.
"Sir?" Her eyes widened with surprise.
"The only aspect of this situation that truly alarms me, Miss Waterstone," he said roughly, "is the question of who will protect me from you?"
Before she could reply, he crushed her mouth beneath his own.
Hell's teeth! Readers will no more be able to put down Quick's 12th Regency romance than Imogen Waterstone can fend off the delicious advances of Matthias Marshall, Earl of Colchester. From page one, Quick's contract with the reader is clear. Nothing is as it seems, and the plot teases until the happy ending. Of course, the earl known as "Cold-bloodied" Colchester will turn out to be a lamb and a love. Of course, the woman dubbed "Immodest Imogen" is a virgin beneath her heaving bosom. And there's no doubt that the two shall marry, for they make a great business of announcing all the reasons why they can't. But even if the romance is a sure thing, there's suspense enough. At great peril to themselves, Matthias and Imogen must unravel the identity of a pair of cunning murderers who have infiltrated high society. Quick, who is Jayne Ann Krentz writing pseudonymously, has created another golden link here in her long chain of bestsellers (Mystique, etc.). Her alchemical formula? Feisty yet feminine women, sublimely ironic men, amusing chat, hot sex and a sprinkling of period vocabulary and detailsbut not enough to make it feel like a history lesson. Major ad/promo. (June)
With her latest novel, Quick again elevates the Regency suspense novel to an art form through appealing, quirky characters and a rollicking plot. Fans of Elizabeth Peters' archaeologist heroine Amelia Peabody ("The Hippopotamus Pool" ) will embrace a kindred spirit in Imogen Waterstone: independent, verbose, and a keen student of the lost kingdom of Zamar. When Mathias Marshall, earl of Colchester and foremost authority on all things Zamarian, comes to Waterstone Manor to fulfill a promise he had made to Imogen's late father, they immediately strike sparks at each other's touch. Quick lives up to her name by allowing her duo to skip the obligatory squabbling and circling of each other that many romance novelists insist on. Confessing their passion for each other, they marry and embark on the true business of the novel: discovering the source of the society intrigue that results in gossip, accusation, and eventually murder. Playing delightfully on Regency England's fascination with ancient Egypt, Quick gives her fans another sexy and thoughtful historical romance.
Roberta Johnson
In sales and popularity, Quick's (vaguely) Regency-period romance formula continues to wear exceedingly well after its 11 other manifestations, all with eye-wink titles (Mystique, 1995, etc.). Here, again, are a hoydenish heroine, mighty of will, and a titled foe-turned-lover, mighty of, well, just about everything. They'll collide, sizzle, and finally meld in True Love while solving mysteries and thwarting enemies.
Stouthearted Imogen is not the least put off when encountering, in her late uncle's sarcophagus/bed (uncle collected odd artifacts), a caped figurenone other than that of Matthias, the Earl of Colchester, complete with icy eyes and a white streak in his "midnight-dark" hair. Imogen plans to draw Colchester into a scheme to avenge what she believes is the murder of her friend Lucy at the hands of Lucy's detested husband Lord Vanneck. As a scholar and expert on the customs and artifacts of the "lost island of Zamar," Matthias is necessary to further Imogen's plot. (Never mind why.) Soon the pair"Coldhearted Colchester" and "Immodest Imogen" (the latter societal rep imposed when in the past Imogen was surprised, innocently, in a bedroom with Vanneck)are weaving and feinting through the intricacies of the ton. By the close, there are three murders left to solve; a lost journal; a duel attended by a corpse; Matthias' young sister used as a pawn in a dastardly plot; and a dusty showdown in a Zamar museum. While crises loom, Imogenfull of purpose and cries of "bloody hell!"discovers the thrills of "Zamarian" lovemaking.
A tidy package: Lively lovers, a tiny but respectable mystery, sex both lavender and jovial, and good humor throughout. More of the saleable same.
Mischief 3.8 out of 5 based on 0 ratings. 59 reviews.
This story starts out slow and in the beginning I almost gave up, but I warn you read on my friends! As it turns out this happens to be my favorite Amanda Quick book and I've read almost all her books! I love the way she writes!
This book was excellent. Amanda Quick has so far never disappointed me. Her books, including this one have been page-turners which I have read over and over. I also like how her female characters are not weak uninteresting creatures but are possessed with unusual interests and it is in this that draws them to the man of their dreams. Imogen Waterstone is no exception. If it were not for her unusual interest in ancient Zamar, she could never have fulfilled every fantasy of the Cold-Blooded Colchester....
wyvernfriend on LibraryThing More than 1 year ago
While a fun installment in her slightly alternative universe with the finding of a mysterious island called Zamar, which has captivated the historical period (which feels more victorian than regency), this somehow just didn't quite do it for me. I think that the pacing was a little off for me and I really didn't feel a sense of menace from the major bad character. Imogen Waterstone has a plan to get her revenge on Vanneck, a man who married a friend and then broke her heart. Who also was involved in getting Imogen in disgrace. She turns to Matthias Marshall the Earl of Colchester for help and finds herself more involved than maybe she should.It's fun, light and interesting but the characters never really came to life for me. Still it's a good one to borrow.
SlySionnach on LibraryThing More than 1 year ago
This is my first romance novel. I remember it fondly - I read it back, maybe six years ago, and had to read it all over again. I always associated romance with Harlequin and that stuff my mother would tell me as a kid, "You can read anything you want, just not in that section until you're older." Looking back, I'm surprised I listened...Regardless, the book itself I enjoyed immensely. It circles around "Immodest" Imogen Waterstone and "Cold-Blooded" Colchester. Imogen is on a hunt for the real reason her good friend died, and what better way than to enter society again? After all, that's where all the Lords and Ladies are normally.So she comes up with this fantastic way of asking Colchester to help, based on a debt he owed to her Uncle...which her Uncle left to Imogen in his will. He'll pretend to pursue her because she supposedly owns the map to an ancient Zamarian (yes, made up) artifact that they're both interested in, being lovers of that ancient culture. It helps bind them together throughout the four hundred or so pages.I think the part that made me like the novel so much more is the fact that during this conversation, Imogen gets it into her head that "Cold-Blooded" Colchester suffers from weak nerves. The way the author plays on that throughout the rest of the novel is good for some laughter.All in all, I really enjoyed reading this. The characters made me smile, the situations were just ridiculous at some points (in a good way), and there's even a touch of mystery in it to keep me guessing. Would (and have) read it again anytime.
She follows him in
Tangen More than 1 year ago
suspense, murder, artifact, romance, mystery, historical-novel, reread, social-issues Another one from the prolific Quick that I have reread in print and own in audio. Yes, it is romantic suspense, has erotica, and the snarks sneak up on you. Publisher's blurb suggests the plot, but there is more fun to it, and the characters do remind me of a few folks that I have worked with. It is a lightweight, fun read with a mere hint of supernatural and a side order of social issues still present today.
Felt the story was very slow to get into. Also, did not like the heroine very much. Seems like the author always makes the heroine the same in every book. Not quite sure why the hero loves her so much. Very bossy. I usually don't give up on reading a book but I am tempted to with this one. I'll keep reading this but so far I am not enjoying this one.
I enjoy Jayne's writing, regardless of which name she uses.
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Creative director to image creator: An insight into portraiture with Caroline True
Written by: Ailish Cook
Caroline True is no stranger to the challenge of creating original portrait photography, something she does on a regular basis. From being George Michael's personal photographer to shooting footage for TV commercials and documentaries, Caroline's work captures the complete 360-degree vision of her subject, creating timeless and authentic images.
Starting out in the creative industry
Behind every photographer is a background story and introduction to image creation. Before Caroline's interest in photography sparked, she worked with large companies as a creative director, in charge of planning strategic visions and managing creative direction, which is where her eye for detail and ability to initate creative partnerships commenced.
Caroline True.
Being a creative director at Virgin Records through the 80s and 90s gave Caroline a flavour of the photographic industry through working on hundreds of video and photo sessions. This experience led her to becoming George Michael's creative director, where she was involved in managing videos, photoshoots and documentaries. This position furthered and "ultimately led to the honour of becoming his photographer", where her work involved collaborating with some of the most incredible creatives in the world. Working with artists, video directors and photographers from her time as George Michael's creative director and photographer gave Caroline the opportunity to develop a network, explaining her current career as "osmosos from those years".
Discovering a new-found passion for image creation
Caroline's introduction to photography commenced through a project she embarked on for George Micheal, where she recieved her first camera.
"George Michael owned the piano that John Lennon wrote the song ‘Imagine’ on. It was a small, brown, upright Steinway, not the white grand piano that featured in the actual music video. We decided to take the piano on a tour of America with the aim of sending a message of peace. The piano went to multiple places where tragic events had occurred, and to put the piano in situ, we allowed people in different locations a time frame to do and play whatever they wanted on it.
John Lennon's piano at The Lorraine Motel.
I spent three months on this tour with the piano, visiting places such as The National Civil Rights Museum and The Lorrain Motel where Martin Luther King was assassinated, Wako in Texas where the Branch Davidian Siege occurred, New Orleans two years after Hurricane Katrina, and to Virginia Tech after the tragic college massacre. In total, we visited 14 places.
John Lennon's piano in New Orleans.
Before this trip, George gave me a small DSLR camera. After the trip, I came back and told him that I was going to be a photographer! I had taught myself what I needed to know to capture photos of some truly incredible and emotional moments whilst staying in motel rooms along the way. Needless to say, this was a life changer for me.”
Image creation in practice: A shoot with Danny Goffey and Daisy Lowe
Caroline has gone from owning her first small DSLR camera to photographing well-known portraits over the years. As her portfolio has developed, she has captured a range of subjects and settings. Recently, Caroline shot an album cover for singer and song-writer Danny Goffey, who is an ex-member of the British band supergrass. Alongside this, she captured images for Pearl Lowe's fashion brand with model Daisy Lowe.
“Danny and his wife Pearl Lowe are my friends, and live close to me in Somerset. I have taken many photos of the Goffey family over the years. I always strive to give them what they want and a need for purpose.
Danny’s shoot was for press shots for his new album, Schtick, and Daisy was showcasing her Mum Pearl’s beautiful dresses. I wanted to achieve something edgy with Danny and something beautiful for Daisy.”
The art of light
When shooting Danny and Daisy, Caroline aimed to achieve authenticity through composition and lighting. She uses the Profoto B2 to provide flexible shooting and consistent images, along with the A1, which helps achieve light shaping possibilities.
"I use light simply, as for me it is all about the subject. If the lighting is complicated and they have to move half an inch to get a hair light in the right place, I feel that it makes people not behave in a natural way as they are constantly thinking about the light and me, not themselves and the desired portrait. I rarely use more than one light on my portrait shoots.”
“The A1 has been a game changer for me”
“For Danny’s shoot I used the Profoto A1 and B2, with one light per set up, no combination. They are both incredible lights, small, unobtrusive and very easy to set up. The A1 has been a game changer for me. I have never used a speed light so was a bit apprehensive when I bought it, however, I couldn’t believe it actually is like a studio light when using it.”
In order to create authentic portraiture, Caroline sees relaxing your subject as the most important factor. She also believes in and practices the art of simplicity throughout her portraiture, which helps to achieve originality and capture characteristics.
“Simplicity on every level is the most important thing to achieve– less is more! Making the person I am taking photos of feel comfortable, relaxed and loved is crucial to the perfect portrait."
Below are Caroline's favourite images of Danny and Daisy, however she emphasies that finding "the one" is not a systematic process.
"I never know why, however the images that are ‘the ones’ always just pop out at me. They are generally the same images that the people I am photographing like too. I always like to collaborate and give a generous choice on the edit.”
Caroline's approach to portraiture has never changed, and she doubts that it ever will.
"For me, portraiture is all about the person I am talking photos of, and that is my ethos. It is so important to me that they love the photos of themselves and live with them. I have always felt this way, whether it be within photography or video.”
Thank you to Caroline for featuring in Profoto stories. To see more of her photography, visit her website or Instagram.
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Introductory Arabic B
An undergraduate course offered by the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies.
Code ARAB1003
Offered by Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies
Course subject Arabic
Areas of interest Arab and Islamic Studies
France Meyer
Co-taught Course
Offered in Second Semester 2016
Introductory Arabic B (ARAB1003)
Requisite and Incompatibility
Prescribed Texts
The Arabic Language major sequence enables students to acquire valuable skills pertaining to the use of Arabic in a communicative way, as well as an understanding of the Arabic culture. It trains students to achieve communicative competence in four skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. It also prepares students to function at different levels within the Arabic speaking societies and to interact with people.
In the first year, students undertaking Introductory Arabic A and Introductory Arabic B develop basic competences in both written and oral grammatical patterns, both orally and in writing, using Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), and learn to interact in limited aspects of everyday life situations. Emphasis is on mastering the Arabic sound system and pronunciation.
This course extends from Introductory Arabic A. Students will develop their skills in reading, writing and conversation and undertake translation from and into Arabic at an advanced introductory level.
1/ Read simple hand written or printed material containing frequently used structural forms, patterns and vocabulary;
2/ Read and understand known language elements that have been recombined in new ways to achieve different meanings at similar levels of grammatical complexity;
3/ Demonstrate sufficient control of Modern Standard Arabic vocabulary and syntactic patterns to meet social demands and write passages related to social and cultural activities, while expressing main tenses with accuracy;
4/ Use a dictionary or online resources to assist own oral, aural, reading and written communication strategies and engage in independent reading and writing;
5/ Articulate developed courtesy requirements and maintain simple face-to-face conversations on familiar topics; and
6/ Respond to and formulate questions in order to engage in a conversation about simple personal and social matters, or to present a chosen topic to an audience.
On-campus mode of delivery:
• Seven Reading, Writing and Listening Tasks (total of 10%) [LOs, 1,2,3,4,5,6]
• Conversation (ongoing participation in weekly Conversation hour) (10%) [LOs 4, 5, & 6]
• Oral Presentation (5 minutes) (10%) [LOs, 3,4,5,6]
• Two one-hour Quizzes (5% each, total 10%) [LOs 1,2,3]
• Mid-semester written Exam (one hour) (20%) [LOs, 1,2,3]
• Final Exam (oral:5-10 min -10%) (written: 2 hours - 30%) [LOs 1, 2, 3, 5 & 6]
Off-campus mode of delivery:
• Three Reading, Writing and Listening Tasks (to be submitted via Wattle) (8.3% each, total 25%) [LOs 1, 2, 3, 4]
• Conversation (ongoing participation in the 2nd hour of Adobe connect weekly sessions on Wattle)
First hour : review the Arabic sounds, vocabulary and grammar rules acquired during the week, in the corresponding lesson.
Second hour : engage in a simple conversation with the tutor or other students. (15%) [LOs 4, 5, 6]
• Two one- hour invigilated Quizzes (5% each, total 10%) [LOs 1,2,3,4]
• Oral Presentation (5 minutes) (10%) [LOs 1,2,4,5]
• Oral exam (10 min) - individual test conducted by the lecturer on Adobe Connect : reading, vocabulary, grammar and comprehension test (10%) [LOs 1, 2, 5, 6]
• Final written exam (two hours, to be completed on Wattle) (30%) [LOs 1, 2, 3]
This course comprises five hours of lectures and one hour of conversation class per week for a thirteen week semester (a total of 6 hours per week).
Students are expected to spend an average of four hours per week on preparation, study, and assignments, and to work individually on their pronunciation skills using the audio and video resources provided with the workbook and textbook.
Online Mode of Delivery:
This course comprises one hour online Lecture per week for 13 weeks, which will address the week's lesson, answer questions and review the main grammar points, as well as one hour of online Conversation per week for 13 weeks - students will consolidate oral skills acquired during the week and will engage in a simple conversation with the tutor and the other students.
In addition students are expected to spend up to eight hours per week on preparation, study, and assignments, and to work individually on their pronunciation skills using the materials provided.
To enrol in this course you must have completed ARAB1002. If you feel that you meet the requirements through other means please contact the course convenor for approval to enrol in this course. You are not able to enrol in this course if you have previously completed ARAB6103.
Alosh, M,. Ahlan wa Sahlan: Functional Modern Standard Arabic for Beginners - Letters and Sounds of the Arabic Language (Workbook), Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2010.
Alosh, M., Ahlan wa Sahlan: Functional Modern Standard Arabic for Beginners (Textbook), Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2010.
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Salinity and Temperature in South San Francisco Bay, California, at Dumbarton Bridge: Results from the 1999-2002 Water Years and an Overview of Previous Data
U.S. Geological Survey Water Resources Investigation Report 034005
By Laurence E. Schemel, Randall L. Brown and Norton W. Bell
Salinity and temperature were measured in near-surface waters at Dumbarton Bridge in South San Francisco Bay during the 19992002 water years (1999WY2002WY). The complete data set from this site, which included 1990WY1993WY and 1995WY1998WY, provided a timeseries of observations covering a wide range of hydrologic conditions. These conditions included critically dry years and years with above-normal and nearrecord precipitation and discharges from the major rivers and local streams. Data collection at 15minute intervals allowed resolution of variability associated with daily tides and other short-term phenomena. Both local stream discharges to South San Francisco Bay and SacramentoSan Joaquin River discharges to North San Francisco Bay affected salinity at Dumbarton Bridge. Salinity at Dumbarton Bridge varied with the daily tides, and the lowest salinity values (annual) coincided with precipitation and freshwater inflows usually in winter. Shortterm and seasonal variations in temperature at Dumbarton Bridge typically followed changes in air temperature and solar irradiance.
Hydrologic Characteristics of the 1990-2002 Water Years
Hydrography, Tides, and Weather
Seasonal and Interannual Variability
Variability on Tidal Time Scales
Implications for Wastewater Dilution and Transport
Appendix A: Illustrations
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Quiz: Engine Challenge Quiz: What Do You Really Know About Engines?
Engine Challenge Quiz: What Do You Really Know About Engines?
By: Torrance Grey
Image: Arctic-Images / DigitalVision / Getty Images
Has any invention -- OK, short of the wheel -- changed human history quite so much as the engine? Consider its history: After millennia of using strong animals like horses and oxen to pull vehicles, or to power other forms of machinery, humans began dreaming of machines that would power themselves. They didn't, though, agree on what kind of fuel might power the earliest engines. One early effort used hydrogen (an idea we've come back to as fossil fuels lose their appeal). The first winner, however, was steam -- with coal being the raw fuel that boiled the water. Later, it was mainly a German, Karl Benz (his last name might be familiar) who was responsible for the ultimate choice of petroleum fuel (that's gasoline, to us everyday people) to power what became known as the internal combustion engine. "Internal combustion" means that the vehicle or machine has no external power source -- it's essentially a little power plant all its own.
Today, the internal combustion engine fuels not just cars but airplanes that take humans around the world in a matter of hours, the rockets that have sent us to space, and a variety of essential machines. Are you ready to find out how much you know about this vital invention? Our quiz is mostly on automobile engines, but not entirely -- we've slipped in a few questions about aviation and spacecraft engines. Test your knowledge now!
The bulk of the engine, where combustion takes place, is called what?
The overhead cam
The engine block
The power train
There is no term for this
Though the name "engine block" makes it sound kind of inert, don't be fooled. This is where the real work happens.
When we refer to an engine as "four-stroke," that refers to the workings of what engine part?
The air filter
The fuel pump
The pistons
The starter motor
The pistons in most engines have a four-stroke action. This means they go down twice and up twice. We'd go into more details, but we don't want to give away the answer to future questions!
What is the name of the place in the engine where the pistons do their work?
The pistons move up and down in the cylinders. This is where compression and ignition take place.
Which of these is NOT part of a four-stroke cycle?
Ablution
"Ablution" means washing or bathing. The four parts of a four-stroke cycle are intake, compression, ignition (the one we left out) and exhaust.
The movement of the pistons, in turn, serve to move what engine part?
The camshaft
The crankshaft
The piston rod
Technically, all of these
Most directly, the pistons move the connecting piston rods, which move the crankshaft. The movement of the camshaft is synchronized to the movement of the crankshaft. So, like they say on Facebook, it's complicated. But if we had to name a key player here, it's the crankshaft, which carries power to the wheels.
What part of the engine delivers electricity to the cylinders?
The fuse box
The spark plugs
The turbocharger
While "fuse box" might have looked tempting, the fuses control the other electrical items in your car -- the fuel pump, for example, or the radio. It's the spark plugs that directly create the spark (hence the name) that ignites the fuel-air mixture in the cylinders.
The engine will seize if it runs out of ____.
An engine seizes when it overheats, and small parts fuse together. This sounds like a lack-of-water problem, but it actually overheats because of a lack of lubricating oil.
Engine oil comes in grades called what?
Engine oil is graded by its thickness, or "weight," which is a measure of its ability to lubricate under varied conditions, from cold weather to hot, for example. So an oil marked 10W-40 is also called "40 weight."
Which of these is NOT a function of engine oil?
Conducting electricity
Keeping the engine cool
Keeping the engine lubricated
Cleaning the engine
Most people know the main purpose of engine oil, which is lubricating the engine. However, it also keeps the temperature low (because friction, which it prevents, generates heat), and cleans the engine. This last part is why you need to change your oil regularly: It knocks loose and carries away crud on the engine parts, but these can build up in the oil in the crankcase.
What preceded fuel injection in car engines?
Bump starting
Hand cranking
Steam feeding
There are cars on the road today which still have carburetors, but fuel injection is considered superior. Both are methods of mixing a fine spray of fuel with air, to be ignited in the cylinder.
About when did fuel injection become fairly standard in cars?
OK, there were some high-performance cars that had fuel injection prior to the '80s. But that decade was when fuel injection went mainstream.
When the crankshaft completes its first revolution, we say the engine has _______.
Zeroed out
Ignited
Lifted off
Back in the Rodney Dangerfield era, a lot of self-effacing comics used this expression for comic effect. "My wife's like the engine on my old Chevy -- on a cold morning when I need her most, she won't turn over!" (Rimshot).
What is operating when an engine is just "cranking," but won't turn over?
The fuses
The supercharger
When you hear your engine "cranking" but it won't start, what you're hearing is the sound of the starter motor trying to spin the crankshaft a few times. When it can't do that sufficiently to get combustion started, the car overall won't start.
What does a turbocharger use to increase compression?
A turbocharger shunts some of the cylinders' exhaust gases back into them, creating more compression on the next downstroke. And, as you learned in physics, that greater compression will create an "equal and opposite reaction" -- a more powerful exhaust stroke. Clever!
Which of these links the crankshaft to the camshaft?
Besteni rod
Either #2 or #3
You'll hear this part referred to either as the timing "belt" or "chain." Either way, it keeps the pistons and valves in sync, or, more broadly, the crankshaft and camshaft in sync.
What does "torque" mean in terms of engines?
It's a ratio of engine weight to power.
It's how fast the engine can rotate the crankshaft.
It's how quickly the starter motor responds to key ignition.
It's a measure of how deep the cylinders are.
If you remember physics class, "torque" is rotational power or twisting force. In engines, the rotation is that of the crankshaft.
If an engine is overheating, which of these methods can help?
Applying less braking power when slowing
Draining off fuel from the fuel tank
Turning on the radio
Turning on the heater
This is the last thing you want to do on a hot day when in traffic -- which is a common situation in which the engine might overheat! But it actually does help, by drawing heat away from the engine and into the passenger compartment. Which is actually what the heating system is designed to do, just not primarily as an emergency-overheating measure.
If your cylinders do not fit the pistons tightly, and you're losing compression, your car might need ...
New lifters
A radiator flush
A ring job
A carburetor rebuild
If "ring job" doesn't sound like fun to you, it also doesn't to the mechanics who had to perform them. This hard, time-consuming task was once the bane of mechanics, but nowadays, it's rarely necessary.
What differentiates diesel engines from regular gas engines?
They need no spark for combustion.
They don't combust fuel at all.
They run on hydrogen.
They run on cold fusion.
Diesel engines do cause fuel to combust. However, they do so strictly through compression of the fuel-air mixture, with no spark plugs. This requires a special kind of fuel.
True or false: Diesel engines were named for a person.
They're named for Rudolph Diesel. Yes, it really is a last name -- but don't let actor Vin Diesel off the hook; his given name is Mark Sinclair!
If a car stops dead in the street, which of these might be the culprit?
A blown fuse
A broken timing belt
Engine knocking
If the fuse that supplies electricity to the fuel pump blows, the pump will die. If the timing belt breaks, the crankshaft and camshaft won't turn. Either way, it's game over, right there in the street. Engine knocking, on the other hand, you can put up with for quite some time.
Which of these is not a color of engine coolant?
All of these are coolant colors.
Green has long been a common color for coolant, but really, it can be any color. The dye is added to a colorless base, to differentiate it, and yellow and pink are among the possible choices. Really, why does going to Pep Boys have to be as hard these days as going to Sherwin-Williams?
Which of these cannot be used to cool an engine?
They can all be used to cool engines
Surprised? Even fuel can be used as a coolant, and this is often done in airplane engines. It helps that at altitude, the air outside the fuel tanks is quite cold, so the chilled fuel can cool down the hot engine oil, while the engine oil heats up the fuel for use in its main capacity -- to power the plane.
Which of these probably has an air-cooled engine?
A Ford Mustang
A Chevy Corvette
A motorcycle
A bullet train
Motorcycles often have air-cooled engines; it's easier to use air cooling on smaller engines that larger ones. However, they're also noisy -- another reason is they're not popular for passenger cars.
A multi-accessory belt is sometimes called what?
An all-purpose belt.
A multi-driver
A serpentine belt
This name is fairly self-explanatory. A belt that powers multiple accessories wends its way up and down and all over the engine.
If someone refers to his or her car's engine having a "blower," what does it have?
A car phone
Extra coolant
An old-style carburetor
A supercharger
Occasionally, they might mean a turbocharger, but usually this refers to a supercharger. The difference is, a supercharger doesn't just recycle exhaust gases, but uses the engine's powertrain to force air into the cylinders.
Which of these is true about supercharging versus turbocharging?
It's less fuel-efficient.
It causes more friction.
It's more liable to start fires.
All of these
As mentioned in a previous question, supercharging draws on the energy generated by the power train to push air into the cylinders. For this reason, it's not as efficient as simply recycling exhaust. So why do people like it? It eliminates "turbo lag," the short delay between when you call on the car for more speed and when the turbo kicks in.
Which of these engines does not have a throttle?
They all have throttles.
We're used to hearing the word "throttle" in terms of planes and motorcycles -- it's what feeds gas to the combustion system. But cars and trucks have them, too. We just call the foot throttle a "gas pedal."
Which of these is a typical "redline" for a modern passenger car?
10,000 RPM
The "redline" is literally where the measurements on a tachometer go from black into a red zone, and for most cars this is somewhere around 6,000 RPM. In contrast, Formula One cars redline nearer 15,000 RPM.
True or false: "Horsepower" is so named because it compares an engine's power to that of a horse.
It's an outdated measure today, but early on, it was of obvious interest to makers and users of engines, how those engines compared to a draft horse. Horsepower is measured in watts.
In the steam engine, what does the steam actually do?
Creates thrust via a jet
Heats fuel
Moves pistons
Lubricates engine parts
It's hard to imagine steam generating so much force that it moves pistons and powers a vehicle the same way fuel-air combustion does. But it's true: steam was sufficient to power trains, back in the day!
Modern airplanes are usually powered by _____ engines.
Hemi
Jet engines are also internal combustion engines. But they differ from automotive engines in that their main purpose is to create thrust, which they do via a "jet" of hot gases exiting the rear of the aircraft.
What kind of car also uses a jet engine?
Drag racers
The Ford Model T
The early VW Beetle
None of them
We should explain that you can drag race in any kind of car -- hence the informal competitions you might see on back road. But modern dragsters are "rocket cars," using jet engines.
Which of these is an example of an "external combustion engine"?
An air-cooled engine
A lawnmower engine
A rocket engine
A steam engine
In a steam engine, the combustion takes place away from the chamber where the fluid moves the pistons. In simpler terms, combustion heats the water, but elsewhere, steam moves the pistons.
If an engine uses cryogenic liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen, it is most likely an engine for what?
A dragster
A rocket
America's space shuttles used Rocketdyne engines that burned cryogenic fuels. This trend will likely continue with rocket launches in the near future.
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The celebrated Chronicles of England, or "Brut Chronicle", is the earliest prose chronicle in English and was the most popular history of England in the Middle Ages. The Chronicle traces the history of Britain from its earliest (mythical) time (Albinia), including stories of legendary kings such as Brutus of Troy (hence its name), Lear and Arthur, and is quite detailed for the period starting with the reign of Edward I. The medieval prose Brut is a legendary and historical chronicle of England named after its first hero, Brutus, a descendent of Aeneas and the epic founder of Britain. Espousing chivalric ideals and celebrating the deeds of knightly heroes, the Brut resembles aristocratic chronicles in content. History and romance are at times difficult to distinguish, especially in its earlier sections, which include the stories of King Lear, Merlin, Arthur, and others of legend. Yet even the descriptions of Edward III and Henry V are suffused with a concern for the noble and heroic. Later parts of the Brut draw much of their material from the urban chronicles of London, which were addressed to a different audience, and this material tends to reflect the political and practical concerns of wealthy merchants and civic leaders rather than those of the nobility. It is these sections that have received the most modern attention, primarily from historians seeking contemporary accounts of historical events, and yet the entire chronicle was no doubt read by its earliest audience as in some sense accurate history. The prose Brut survives today in several different forms. Current scholarship argues that it was first composed in Anglo-Norman sometime after 1272 by an anonymous compiler working from Latin sources. This Anglo-Norman version was later extended to 1333 and then, in about 1400, translated into English. The English version in turn received its own set of continuations, some extending as late as 1461. Most of these later additions, especially those of the fifteenth century, represent original English composition.
University of Michigan MS 225 is a text of the Middle English Brut. It is an unruled paper manuscript measuring 288 x 205 mm. with no discernible watermarks. The writing block, roughly 210 x 130 mm., fluctuates slightly in size, each folio side typically consisting of 34-35 long lines. MS 225 contains only the Brut, which runs 135 leaves, though not carrying over to the final verso. The manuscript hand mixes Secretary and late Anglicana forms. Initials (usually 2-line) and rubrics in red begin unnumbered chapters. Space for initials and rubrics is left unfilled on folios 111r-v and 112r. Folios 92v and 93r are blank. Eleven folios (verso) have catchwords in the far lower right margin. The first 33 folios have frequent marginal references and notes in a more modern hand; thereafter, a few sporadic notes and pen trials. The four final leaves (136-139) contain various signatures and ownership inscriptions, the most legible names being Thomas Marshe, L. Philippus, and C. Howes. There is also an inscription on folio 111r. Two parchment leaves at the beginning and one at the end may have been part of the original binding. The name Thomas Marshe also appears on the recto of the second parchment leaf. The manuscript is presently in a nineteenth-century binding.
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Tag: girly mags
Sousei no Onmyouji – 11
I’m enjoying the bold, colorful aethetic of this show. I’m enjoying the galaxy of crazy expressions being doled out by both Rokruo and Benio on a regular basis. And I’m definitely enjoying ridiculously scenarios in which Benio causes a self-upskirt by sucking at embroidery as much as Rokuro and sewing her hoop into her dress. That’s some creative flashing right there!
Sure, this wasn’t the most serious episode, but it still had serious undertones, and the notion that Subaru isn’t going to train them the way they expected, and that inability to expect what she’ll say or do next is actually part of their training.
Most of the episode is a game of hide-and-seek, with Subaru using magic, but it isn’t an unwinnable challenge: Roku and Beni simply need to hunker down, focus, and discover the clues that will lead them to Subaru.
Granted, Benio isn’t very practical about looking for Subaru at first, and ends up looking everywhere, including the fridge and Rokuro’s porn stash, but what’s so great about these two is that there’s a good give-and-take; push-and-pull dynamic. Benio isn’t always on Rokuro’s case or vice versa; that would be boring. Instead, both are sometimes on each others’ cases.
The rest of the time, they’re downright normal and decent with each other, which is typically when they’re not overthinking their interactions. Rokuro praises Benio’s good guess about Subaru’s dieting, and Benio likes it. But When Rokuro goes further in trying to read her mind by guessing she wants to eat ohagi (which is probably correct, by the way), she gets cross and tries to step on his foot.
They’re right back on the same side when they end up in Magano, and in a boss fight with a giant octopus Kegare that’s obviously been set up by Subaru. Their initial separate attacks have no effect, and when it’s Octy’s turn he unleashes a giant cloud of miasma that amounts to a “darkness” spell.
No matter; Rokuro and Benio realize the only way they’re getting out of this is by intuiting what each other will do and when. Benio guesses that Roku will move first (not a stretch there), while Roku knows Benio will back him up.
They lay some serious slashes on the octopus, and to their and MY surprise, its dispersal isn’t prefaced by a giant pentagram. Instead, it explodes in a cloud of tiny fans, indicating it was not a Kegare at all, but a familiar cooked up by Subaru. That was a neat little “switching-up” moment that capitalized on the patterns we’d come to expect from Magano battles.
Subaru congratulates the couple for thinking outside the box and trusting in one another. Even though her training was unorthodox to say the least, when she departs, neither Rokuro nor Benio can deny that they learned a lot. Unfortunately for Rokuro, one of the things Benio learns is the location of the rest of his girly mags!
The episode ends with a reveal of anothe rpotential antagonist, but I was far more bowled over by Tatara’s navigation face, making up for the fact that Subaru’s Talbot-Lago has no SatNav. That’s just a really neat little detail in a brisk, boisterous, cheeky, and very entertaining episode.
Author magicalchurlsukuiPosted on Wed, 15 Jun 2016 Categories Anime Reviews, Sousei no Onmyouji, Spring 2016Tags adashino benio, boss fight, cheeky, darkness, enmadou rokuro, exorcists, family, focus, friendship, girly mags, hide and seek, horror, kegare, kinako, magano, master, mitejima subaru, navigation, octopus, onmyouji, sawashiro miyuki, tatara, teamwork, trust, twin brother, Twin Star Exorcists, 双星の陰陽師1 Comment on Sousei no Onmyouji – 11
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