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Two Cops Eyed in Long Island Murders
Seth Wenig / AP Photo
The New York Post says that two NYPD cops—one active, one retired—are the primary suspects in the killings of at least four Craigslist prostitutes whose remains were found on a Long Island beach. One of the cops retired in the mid-nineties after he was caught purchasing prostitutes while he was supposed to be on patrol; the other cop is still active but was stripped of his gun and badge years ago when he allegedly assaulted a prostitute and was arrested during a sting operation. Authorities have long suspected a cop of the crime based on the way the victims’ bodies were handled.
Read it at New York Post
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Purdey bicentenary trio of guns
London Best Gun and Rifle makers Purdey are celebrating 200 years of trading in the capital this year. How better to mark the occasion than by introducing a special trio of guns that exemplify their craftsmanship and innovation over the last two centuries. The two shotguns and one double-barreled rifle come with a motor case based on one made for King George VI as well as a secure mahogany and impact-proof tubular glass display case.
12-bore side-by-side game gun
Having been in production continuously since 1880 this hammerless ejector is well proven and features Purdey’s own self-opening Beesley action. Each gun is made with extraordinary attention to detail to ensure perfect fit, balance and consistent pattern.
20-bore Damascus over-and-under gun
Though Purdey have been making over-and-unders since 1923 acquiring the renowned James Woodward & Company in 1923 confirmed their reputation for this style. The 1950 design has been refined over 60 years and remains in production today. The bicentenary gun is made with Damascus steel with its great tensile strength and unique beautiful patterning.
.470 Express double rifle
A breech loading two-winged bullet and deeper bore groves developed by James Purdey and his son James the younger in 1865 lead to a longer range and more accurate rifle with high speed and flat bullet trajectory, remenicant to James the younger of the new express trains and so, the ‘express rifle’ was born.
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Hitler's Assumption of Power
Lecture no. 6 from the course: A History of Hitler's Empire, 2nd Edition
Taught by Professor Thomas Childers | 31 min | Categories: The Great Courses Plus Online History Courses
The November 1932 elections showed signs that the Nazi voter coalition was unraveling. How, then, did Hitler get appointed chancellor in early 1933? How did he consolidate the bases of Nazi power once in office?
The Third Reich, Hitler, and the 20th Century
The First World War and Its Legacy
The Weimar Republic and the Rise of the Nazi Party
The Twenties and the Great Depression
The Nazi Breakthrough
Racial Policy and the Totalitarian State
Hitler's Foreign Policy
Munich and the Triumph of National Socialism
War in the West, War in the East
Holocaust—Hitler's War Against the Jews
The Final Solution
Origins of Great Ancient Civilizations Origins of Great Ancient Civilizations
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AU politics
Sexism and misogyny: what's the difference?
An Australian dictionary has changed its definition of misogyny to reflect the fact that it is now used to mean 'entrenched prejudice against women', not just hatred of them. Six feminists tell us what the term means to them
Naomi Wolf, Julie Bindel, Nina Power, Rahila Gupta, Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett, Bidisha
Wed 17 Oct 2012 12.23 EDT First published on Wed 17 Oct 2012 12.23 EDT
Julia Gillard … critics of the Australian PM accused her of misusing the word misogyny and falsely accusing political rival Tony Abbott of hating women. Photograph: Cole Bennetts/Getty Images
Naomi Wolf: Julia Gillard used the word accurately
Naomi Wolf Photograph: Unknown
I object to more heightened words being appropriated carelessly to make political points: sexism is not in fact misogyny; someone can like women quite a lot in person but be very happy to support systematic discrimination against them (sexism) or to use gender stereotypes against them (sexism). So I am sorry to see the dictionary conflating the terms. Sexism is to misogyny what antisemitism is to Jew-hating. Neither is ever acceptable, but we need precise language to understand and fight injustice effectively.
Having said that, Julia Gillard used "misogyny' perfectly accurately. She said that Tony Abbott described abortion as "the easy way out" and cited his political campaign against Gillard involving posters asking voters to "ditch the witch". The latter, especially, is a time-honoured tradition of true misogyny – stirring up atavistic hatred of the feminine – that goes back to witch-hunts against powerful women in the New World. Her critics, for their part, are asking us to water down our awareness of real woman-hating and accept it as normal in political discourse.
"Misogyny" often surfaces in political struggles over women's role, and you can tell because the control of women becomes personalised, intrusive and often sexualised. Misogyny has the amygdala involved – the part of the brain involved in processing emotional responses – there is contempt and violence in it. A public figure who tolerates the systemic under-prosecuting of rape is guilty of serious and unforgivable sexism; making rape jokes or explaining away the damage of rape in public as Congressman Todd Akin did recently in the US, or legislating, as over a dozen US states are now doing, transvaginal probes that are medically unnecessary, simply to sexually punish women for choosing abortion – well, that is misogyny.
Julie Bindel: Sexists are not always misogynists
When a man claims that women are naturally maternal, or are by default, bad drivers, he is a sexist. If he was to add that women are only good for a fuck and should be confined to servicing men and their children, it is misogyny. Misogynists are always sexist, but sexists are not always misogynists. For example, if a man says of a woman, "Look at the state of that fat, ugly cow, I wouldn't touch her with yours," then he is a misogynist. It would follow that he does not respect women as equals and is therefore also a sexist.
Nina Power: Being misogynist, acting sexist
In a moment of idle curiosity a good few years ago, I wondered whether there was an antonym for misogyny. I presumed it would be something like "philogyny" and it was indeed – "fondness towards women". After the definition, a short note in parenthesis: "usage: rare" (and today, too, the spellchecker has red-underlined the word. Apparently liking women has not become any more popular in the computer age!) What a depressing dictionary note, I thought: we talk about misogyny all the time, and yet the opposite is nowhere to be found.
Misogyny, and philogyny for that matter, seems to imply an essential state of being, perhaps an inability to change an outlook, a claim about what that person is. Sexism, on the other hand, is perhaps more often linked to acts and words – "so this person wrote this tweet that was sexist, but it doesn't mean he hates women", that sort of thing. The interchangeable use of the terms may be in keeping with contemporary usage, but we might want to make a quiet plea to hold open the distinction, if only so the antonym for "hating women" might one day usurp its partner in popularity.
Rahila Gupta: A murky pond in which misogyny flourishes
We all know that sexism is the pond in which misogyny flourishes and because the water is so murky, you sometimes don't even notice how healthily it grows. And because it is growing in water, it sometimes reflects back at you as love instead of hate. To be specific, sexism is when men let you jump the queue and get on a crowded bus first in Delhi (to confuse matters further, that's called chivalry) and then the poor dears, willy nilly, get crushed up against you as their hands "accidentally" cup your breasts in a frenzy of misogyny.
Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett: Something darker and angrier
Sexism is to misogyny what Benny Hill is to Rush Limbaugh. While sexism demonstrates a disregard and disrespect for women, I always have associated misogyny with something darker, angrier, and more cynical. Things like Page 3 often betray a failure to move with the times, a certain outdated attitude about women's roles that has the potential to be modernised. But educating someone out of the blinkered hatred of misogyny is a monumental challenge. To think, as the Republicans do, that the male half of society should be able to legislate and control the bodies of the female half, well, that can be nothing but misogyny.
Bidisha: Two sexist remarks and one misogynist one
At a major literary festival, before an event about military fiction, a posh famous English author smirked to me, "What's the difference between a woman and a piece of toast? You can make soldiers from toast." That's sexist.
When boarding a flight from Geneva to London a man followed his wife on to the plane and said at the top of his voice to her, "The plane went down when you got on it," which prompted gasps from everyone around including the cabin staff, while he smirked and the woman looked like she wanted to drop in to a hole in the ground and die. That's sexist.
On a train from York to London a woman was talking on the phone in the quiet carriage. A couple near me got cross. "I'll go and tell her it's the quiet carriage," said the man to us all nearby. "Ooh, don't," muttered the wife. "OK then, I'll go and punch her," he said. That's misogynist.
Julia Gillard
Casual sexism from politicians is no joke
Why do some male politicians feel free to direct sexist jokes and misogynistic vitriol towards their female colleagues, asks Laura Bates
Brazil's women politicians march on – but the pace is still too slow for many
Despite expanding quota system and popular female president, Dilma Rousseff, gender balance lags behind neighbours
Julia Gillard's attack on sexism hailed as turning point for Australian women
The gender wage gap is barely closing and sexual harassment is rife, but PM's outburst offers feminists fresh hope of change
Young women are speaking up for themselves –and it's time politicians took notice
As the reactions to Mitt Romney's 'binders full of women' gaffe and Julia Gillard's lambasting of her misogynist opposition rival show, women are no longer prepared to put up and shut up
Obama steps up criticism of Romney in battle for women voters
'Binders full of women' reconsider voting for Mitt Romney
Ana Marie Cox
Our children's enemy is sexism, not sexualisation
Zoe Williams
Julia Gillard speech prompts dictionary to change 'misogyny' definition
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Roger Federer beats Jo-Wilfried Tsonga to win his first Paris Masters
• Winning streak extends to 12 matches before ATP Tour finals
• Eighteenth Masters title is 69th overall for Swiss
Sun 13 Nov 2011 14.18 EST First published on Sun 13 Nov 2011 14.18 EST
Roger Federer poses with the Paris Masters trophy after his straight-sets win over Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. Photograph: Horacio Villalobos/EPA
Roger Federer beat Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 6-1, 7-6 on Sunday to win the Paris Masters for the first time and clinch the 69th title of his career. The winner of 16 majors had never reached the final of this event but gave the sixth-seeded Frenchman little chance after saving two break points in his opening service game.
"I've been waiting for this for a long time," Federer said. "I'm really happy to have finally made it."
Federer's 18th Masters title puts him one ahead of Andre Agassi and one behind the all-time leader, Rafael Nadal. The 30-year-old from Switzerland is on a 12-match unbeaten run after winning the Swiss Indoors in Basel last week.
Tsonga improved his serve in the second set but Federer was too strong in the tie‑break, taking victory on his third match point when Tsonga's return landed out. Tsonga won the tournament in 2008 but was let down by too many unforced errors on his forehand as he tried to find a way to pressure Federer in their sixth meeting this year. "I just wish I could have competed more," said Tsonga, who beat Federer in the quarter‑finals at Wimbledon but lost at the same stage to the Swiss at the US Open. Overall, Federer now leads Tsonga 6-3.
Federer took 80 minutes to beat Tomas Berdych in straight sets in the semi-finals on Saturday whereas Tsonga laboured for three hours and saved three match points before getting the better of the unseeded American John Isner.
Federer's sharpness showed as he attacked Tsonga's weak second serve in the first set. He opened up a 4-0 lead after Tsonga, remonstrating with himself over too many loose forehands, served a double fault. The opening set lasted 30 minutes, Federer clinching it with a whipped forehand winner into the open court.
Tsonga had to raise his game in the second set or risk a thrashing and he dug out a cross‑court winning forehand in the fourth game to set up break point. With Federer on second serve, Tsonga missed his chance when his hurried forehand went out. With Federer's seemingly impregnable serve dipping for the first time in the match, the Frenchman missed another opportunity at 30-40 in the eighth game when he sent a forehand long.
Federer hardly had to dig deep but he did thrill the crowd with one moment of brilliance in the next game. A closely contested rally saw Tsonga send Federer scampering to the back of the court to retrieve a lob. Federer waited for the ball to sit up, spun round and hit a devastating backhand pass.
Tsonga looked nervous in the tie‑break, hitting a forehand long and a backhand into the net – either side of Federer's forehand winner and service winner – to trail 0-4. Federer raced to 6-1 and, though Tsonga saved two match points with a neat drop shot and a service winner, it was a brief reprieve.
Having won the Swiss indoors and Paris Masters back to back, Federer heads to London in fine form for the eight-man ATP World Tour Finals in London.
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NewsCall 6 Investigates
Dog’s death in west side Indianapolis backyard highlights gap in city procedures
Neighbor called city several times about conditions
By: Kara Kenney
The death of a dog chained up in his own backyard is prompting the City of Indianapolis to change how it handles complaints about animals in distress.
INDIANAPOLIS — The death of a dog chained up in his own backyard is prompting the City of Indianapolis to change how it handles complaints about animals in distress.
Flash, a Pitbull mix adopted from the shelter in October 2018, died on June 27 at a home on Orchestra Way on the city’s west side.
Neighbor Jim Huneycutt called the city numerous times prior to the dog’s death, but no one responded to the home until the pup was already dead.
Huneycutt became concerned when he saw two of his neighbor’s dogs were chained and tangled up outside in the hot sun, and unable to get back inside through their doggy door.
“They’re pretty active dogs, so it’s not a good idea to begin with,” said Huneycutt.
Huneycutt said he talked to his neighbors to no avail, and first called the Mayor’s Action Center about the dogs on June 25, but no one from the city came out. He called again on June 27 around 9:35 a.m.
“There was hardly any wind and the sun was directly above us and no shade, so I felt for them,” said Huneycutt. “They were panting. I was pretty concerned for them."
When Huneycutt checked on the dogs later that morning, at about 11 a.m., Flash was laying down and not moving.
The Huneycutts said he called the Mayor’s Action Center again and messaged their neighbors about Flash’s condition. Huneycutt said he even tried the Request Indy app and the police non-emergency number.
“They just directed me back to the animal control number,” Huneycutt said.
Records show Indianapolis Animal Care Services did not respond to the home until the next day, about 16 hours after Huneycutt called the city to say Flash wasn’t moving.
When the IACS officer arrived, Flash was already dead and had been removed by the owner.
“It was too late,” Huneycutt said. “It was too late for any dog being outside at that temperature or chained up for that long.”
The IACS officer’s investigation found Flash’s owner, Melinda Ryan, adopted him from the city’s animal shelter in October 2018.
“It’s horrible,” Huneycutt said. “Nobody’s pet should have to go through that. It’s just horrible.”
Huneycutt called the city’s response unacceptable.
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"It should have never happened,” said Huneycutt. “It was a bad day for my kids and myself, but mostly the dog. You don't want to see an animal go through that."
Call 6 Investigates spoke with Katie Trennepohl, Deputy Director for Indianapolis Animal Care Services, who said they have a backlog of 400 runs.
Huneycutt’s initial call was characterized as a standard animal neglect run.
“Our runs are prioritized by the information we get when the call comes in,” said Trennepohl.
When Huneycutt called the city back on June 27 to say Flash wasn’t moving, the Mayor’s Action Center emailed an IACS supervisor to escalate the complaint.
However, the IACS supervisor didn’t see the email right away.
“By the time she got that email and updated the run to a higher priority, unfortunately the dog had already passed away,” said Trennepohl. “So, we have had conversations with the Mayor's Action Center about how we can address that issue in a more timely manner. "
Call 6 Investigates also contacted the Mayor’s Action Center to find out why the information about Flash’s condition was emailed rather than called into IACS.
“At the time of this case creation, email escalation was the correct protocol agreed upon by ACS,” said Joel Smith, Mayor’s Action Center Administrator. “We are currently working with ACS to open other communication processes for these situations in the future.”
Indianapolis Animal Care Services has added animal control officer positions to cut its backlog in half since last summer.
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“We are already getting more officers out on the street and trying to decrease the response times to these runs,” said Trennepohl. “It’s very unfortunate this happened.”
Trennepohl said the agency is “sick” to know this happened to one of their own dogs.
“That’s never the goal when we send an animal home,” said Trennepohl. “We expect them to go to a life-long happy home, and unfortunately that didn’t happen, and it’s devastating for our staff.”
Indianapolis Animal Care Services screens all families who adopt animals and also provides a copy of the city’s Care and Treatment ordinance to all pet owners .
“They’re given a folder of information, and in that folder is all of the ordinances,” said Trennepohl.
Indianapolis Animal Care Services cited Flash’s owner, Melinda Ryan, with three care and treatment violations and she must appear in court August 5.
The IACS officer told the owner if an animal is tethered, the tether must be 12 feet long and have working swivels on both ends.
“I also told Melinda that Flash’s death was due to her negligence and there was no other excuse,” read the IACS officer’s report.
Melinda Ryan could face a fine of $25-$2,000 per violation, and could lose the other dogs in her custody, depending on what the court decides.
Flash’s owner did not answer the door when we stopped by, but RTV6 could hear dogs barking inside.
Call 6 Investigates left a business card at her door.
Jim Huneycutt hopes Flash’s death will prompt the city and pet owners to make changes.
“Hopefully this doesn’t happen again,” said Huneycutt. “Whoever is in charge needs to fix something. It’s a big failure all around.”
Here’s what you can do:
Talk to your neighbor, if possible, about proper care & treatment
If the animal’s life is in immediate danger, call 9-1-1
Use the Request Indy app or website (this puts information directly into the city’s system)
Call the Mayor’s Action Center 317-327-4622
Provide as much information as possible including whether the dog has food, water, shade, shelter, whether they’re tethered, as well as an exact address
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Could this EU Green Card save freedom of movement for Britons in Europe?
Alex Macbeth
alex.macbeth@thelocal.com
@alexmacbethtoc
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Alex Stubb, former PM of Finland (centre), Madeleina Kay, EU SuperGirl and Roger Casale (left) in the European Parliament in July 2018 for the launch of the prototype Green Card. Photo: New Europeans.
Imagine a card that would let Brits in Europe keep freedom of movement and all the rights of EU citizenship after Brexit. It might sound like fantasy but one organisation is leading the way to make it happen. We spoke to the campaign's founder.
A campaign by New Europeans is lobbying the EU to intervene in Brexit and issue a card that would offer "privileged status" for UK nationals currently living in the EU, as well as for Europeans settled in the UK and essentially allow them to keep their treasured freedom of movement.
The campaign is being led by Roger Casale, a former Labour MP who now lives near Florence in Italy and who heads the New Europeans.
"The Green Card would ring-fence the rights that you had as an EU citizen," Casale told The Local. "It would create equivalent status."
With nearly 55,000 signatures and counting, a petition on change.org started by Casale is slowly gathering steam.
An EU-issued "Green Card" could be a vital addition for the 3.6 million or so EU nationals living in the UK, as well as the 1.2 million or more Brits in Europe.
Under his plan the EU Commission would issue a resolution to offer the 'five million', UK nationals living in the EU and EU citizens living in the UK, the right to a special recognition for having acquired residency before Brexit.
This would effectively guarantee a sort of privileged status, far greater than the rights agreed under the current Withdrawal Agreement, for five million UK and EU citizens whose rights are set to be stripped back by Brexit.
A Green Card would enable British citizens who have already exercised their treaty rights before the Brexit to retain free movement, a right that will be lost if Theresa May's Withdrawal Agreement is ratified.
It would help restore a sense of "status" and "privilege" that EU citizenship entailed, Casale said.
It would also help EU citizens in the UK prove that they have settled status swiftly and efficiently to obtain the services, employment and housing benefits that settled status affords.
As Casale notes, the Home Office has said it will not offer EU citizens any additional document to prove settled status - everything will be digital. This will make it difficult for EU citizens to prove they have the additional rights guaranteed by the settled status package at any given time.
Casale's idea has already been applauded by the Financial Times and New Europeans is the 2019 recipient of the Schwarzkopf Award. Casale's organisation was also the recipient of the CiDAN/ESDA Europe award in late 2018, "in recognition of New Europeans' leading role in the campaign to safeguard the rights of EU27 citizens in the UK and Britons in Europe following the Brexit referendum."
Casale himself has also received a Medal of the President of the French Republic. But it is the response from key EU institutions that will matter most.
"It's at a critical stage," said Casale, a former Labour MP for the London constituency of Wimbledon.
"The Green Card works regardless of if there's a deal or no deal," adds Casale, a British citizen, who has settled near Florence in Italy. "The rights afforded it by such a scheme would be for life."
Casale is due to give evidence at the Constitutional Affairs Committee of the EU parliament (AFCO) in early 2019.
How does he hope a Green Card could come about and what kind of time frame can we expect?
If AFCO makes a proposal, the EU parliament would then vote on it. Should the European Parliament approve the idea, the EU Commission would then have to pass a resolution for the EU Council to vote on. The minimum timeline would be 12-18 months in a best case scenario, Casale admits.
New Europeans hopes the platforms it has created for citizens rights in the EU, such as Friendship Group on Citizens' Rights, the 20-MEP strong cross-party group at European Parliament, will help raise the campaign's profile.
"It was always my view that there would be a problem to rely on the Withdrawal Agreement. The risk of not getting what you want was always too great" says Casale, explaining how New Europeans and citizens' grassroots campaign group British in Europe ultimately pursued different strategies and objectives in pursuit of similar goals.
"Somebody needed to have a Plan B," says Casale, whose organisation's focus is on lobbying the EU institutions to help resolve the impasse on citizenship rights, rather than lobbying Brexit negotiators directly, an approach preferred by British in Europe and the3million, which represents EU citizens in the UK.
"We didn't feel that it was right to go into the negotiations," adds Casale.
British in Europe and New Europeans continued to work together and in parallel, from one group attending the other's mass lobby on parliament in February 2017, to giving evidence to the same European Parliament committees.
One of the appeals behind the Green Card campaign is that it is is cross-party and endorsed by voters on both sides of the Brexit divide, argues Casale. "A lot of Leave voters think EU citizens' rights should have been sorted two years ago," he says.
The EU has the experience to implement such a system – a Blue Card, a "work permit issued to highly-qualified non-EU citizens" is already in place.
"They already have the set up and the machinery. They only need to change the ink from blue to green," quips Casale.
The former MP with extensive networks among MEPs is confident there is broad support for the motion in the European Parliament. Whether that can translate into getting Brits in he EU free movement will depend on how the EU chooses to react.
That could depend on whether the UK continues to remain on course for a potential exit without a deal from the EU. Such a scenario would see UK nationals living in Europe at the mercy of legislation of individual Member States (France and Germany have already passed contingency laws), as there would be no Withdrawal Agreement or pan-European motion to protect them.
A Green Card would be one option to fill that void.
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PARKTARDS
YOUR COLLEAGUE NEEDS YOU!
Your colleague is leaving soon and needs help writing the standard thoroughly insincere, drippingly sanctimonious and downright lie of an email to the rest of the company. These little gems that we all chortle over 4 or 5 times a year do not write themselves. Your utterly stumped colleague told the Lux Splice, “I just want one of them to find it in their tiny, hateful hearts to let me sail off into the sunset. I’ve secured another dead-end, pointless job and would like to maintain at least a shred of dignity.” Narrowing her eyes, she hissed “If not I’ll reveal which one of those assholes took the flat screen from Reception.”
MAUT. IN OR OUT?
In response to the Umwelt scheme* and the proposal to extend German road tolls to cars, Luxembourgish parliament is planning to quadruple the price of fuel, coffee, tobacco and alcohol at the faintest hint of a German accent. "We were just going to do it on the Eastern side of the country, but then we also punish the normal, less arrogant Germans who don't work here," said a cross-eyed politician. Asked whether it was enough punishment that Luxembourg breweries monopolize the country and force their piss-poor beer on everyone he said, "You'd think so, but no."
*A scheme brought in during the night, almost certainly while you were sleeping.
Lux's expats already taking skiing positions up
The shallow and stuck-up amongst you (yes you) are already taking up your skiing positions. Pistes everywhere are blighted with you lot standing right in front of where the chair lifts unload, blocking the bars from noon til night and parking in two spaces outside two-space only hotels. A stuffy Spaniard (who claims he is in Switzerland but is really in the Voges) said, "I behave just like I do in Luxembourg. If Luxembourg had mountains I'd be even more of an insufferable cunt". "It's all in the L Registration plates out here!" he added with a lop sided smirk.*
*This may be because he was once glassed in an Edinburgh pub.
Where to move luxembourg?
Proposals are now officially open to decide where the Grand Duchy should be moved to. As is well known, all of the tower cranes in the country are being combined to form the world’s biggest removals company, whichwill be used to move the Grand Duchy somewhere else on the planet. The front runner is (rather unambitiously) the other side of Germany. An ex-pat who has been here for donkey’s years offered, “Czechs and Austrians* as neighbours instead of the two arrogant ingrates we have now? It’s a no-brainer!” Another punter added, “These Luxos who keep bleating about fucking off to Madagascar every year are secretly only willing to move just East of Bayern. They make me sick.”
*Some Czechs and Austrians interviewed thought it was an ok idea.
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WATCH: Government warned against 'parliamentary trickery' to stop Brexit vote
Matt Withers
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Senior MPs have raised concern that the government could use parliamentary "trickery" to keep the Commons in Brexit "limbo".
Labour former minister Yvette Cooper has called for urgent assurance that ministers will not try to use "loopholes" to stop MPs having a say if the UK does not reach a deal with the EU.
Cooper was prompted to make the comments after the government pulled the meaningful vote on Theresa May's Withdrawal Agreement.
Brexit Minister Robin Walker told MPs that "in keeping with the clear intention of the EU Withdrawal Act" the government would ensure that the question of whether to accept an agreement was put before the Commons before January 21.
Cooper said: "None of us know whether the prime minister is going to pull the vote again or whether she is even going to table a vote on the deal again, so, if we get to 21 January and there is no deal, the agreement to Parliament was that the government should make a statement and Parliament should be able to vote on it.
"The minister said that if in the unlikely event there is no deal that would happen; however we need urgent assurance from the attorney general that the government will not find a loophole in this."
"By never quite getting round to offering a vote on this deal 'til it is too late, but also not having a vote on no deal, keeping us in limbo - no vote on the deal and no vote on no deal. If the government were to do this it would be a constitutional outrage."
Walker reiterated that the government would bring a vote, adding: "Let us not allow some of the conspiracy theories and the scare stories that have been told about this to run away."
Tory former education secretary Nicky Morgan later warned the government not to use "trickery" to stop Parliament voting on the prime minister's Brexit deal.
Morgan, who chairs the Commons Treasury Committee, said: "It is unquestionable that this Parliament must have a say, a meaningful vote on the deal or no deal that comes about.
"Can the minister give categorical assurance that there will be no trickery by the government to stop Parliament having a say?"
Walker responded: "I'm very happy to give that categorical assurance. We will be putting before Parliament a motion even in the circumstances where no deal was before the House but I strongly believe and expect that there will be a deal before this House which I will be urging Parliament to support."
Shadow solicitor general Nick Thomas-Symonds said Walker's assurances "meant nothing" without the legal backing of the attorney general.
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DIONYSOS GOD ΔΙΟΝΥΣΟΣ
I) What was Dionysos the god of?
GOD OF VITICULTURE
Patron of: Vineyards; Grape-harvest
GOD OF WINE
Patron of: Wine; Wine-making
GOD OF FRUIT
Patron of: Fruit; Orchards; Grapes; Apples; Figs; Berries
GOD OF DRUNKENNESS
Patron of: Drunkenness
Favour: Pleasure; Release
Curse: Sickness; Violence
GOD OF PARTIES & FESTIVITIES
Patron of: Parties; Festivities; Banquets; Drinking; Bacchic Revelry
Favour: Pleasure; Fun
GOD OF MADNESS & INSANITY
Patron of: Madness; Bacchic Frenzy; Insanity; Hallucination
Favour: Religious frenzy (in the orgiastic cults); Ecstasy
Curse: Destructive insanity / madness
GOD OF HOMOSEXUALITY
Patron of: Homosexuality; Effeminacy; Cross-dressing
GOD OF WILDERNESS VEGETATION & PREDATORS BIG CATS
Patron of: Forest Wilderness; Wild vegetation; Predatory big cats (lions, leopards, lynxes, tigers)
GOD OF REINCARNATION & THE AFTERLIFE
Patron of: Reincarnation; The path to Elysium (paradise)
Favour: Afterlife in Elysium (paradise)
GOD OF PLAYS
Patron of: Comedy and Tragedy Plays; Playwrites; Actors
II) What were his symbols, attributes,
sacred plants and animals?
Thyrsos (pine-cone tipped staff); Ivy crown
Thyrsos; Ivy-crown; Grape-vine
Drawn by a pair of leopards
SACRED PLANTS / FLOWERS
Grape-vine (Greek "ampelos"); Ivy (Greek "kisseus"); Cinnamon (Greek "kinnamonon"); Silver Fir (Greek "elate"); Bindweed (Greek "smilax")
Leopard (Greek "pardalis"); Goat (Greek "aix"); Donkey (Greek "onos");
Lion (Greek "leon"); Serpent (Greek "ophis"); Wild bull (Greek "tauros")
PLANET OF DIONYSOS
DAY OF DIONYSOS
III) Who were the family & attendants of Dionysos?
ZEUS King of the Gods, son of the Titanes Kronos and Rhea
SEMELE Princess of Thebes, daughter of King Kadmos and the Goddess Queen Harmonia (Semele was immortalised as the goddess Thyone)
ARIADNE Princess of Krete (made immortal)
DIVINE CHILDREN
PRIAPOS God of Vegetable Gardens
IAKKHOS A God of the Eleusinian Mysteries
HERO CHILDREN
OINOPION King of Khios
DEIANEIRA Wife of Herakles
ATTENDANTS & MINIONS
SEILENOS God of Drunkenness
PAN God of Shepherds & Pastures
THE SATYROI & SEILENOI Spirits of Fertility & the Wild
THE BAKKHANTES & MAINADES Nymphe and Women revellers
KOMOS Satyriskos cup-bearer
IV) Where and how was he worshipped?
PATRON OF REGIONS
Boiotia in Greece; Naxos Greek Island; Edonia in Western Thrake
HOLIEST SHRINE
Mt Kithairon (Nysa) in Boiotia, Greece (site of Bacchic orgies)
OTHER SHRINES
Temples throughout Greece
ASPECTS OF DIONYSOS
ZAGREUS A God of the Orphic Mysteries
IDENTIFIED WITH
NON-GREEK GODS
Sabazios (Thraco-Phrygian god); Priapos (Mysian god);
Liber (Roman god); Tammuz (Phoenician god); Orotalt (Arabian god);
Osiris (Egyptian god)
V) What were some of the popular myths about Dionysos?
SAGA OF THE GODS
* Dionysos' mother Semele forced Zeus to appear before her in his full glory, and was consumed by the fire of the god's lightning-bolts. Zeus rescued their unborn child Dionysos and sewed him inside his thigh for the rest of the term. When he was born, Hermes carried the boy off to the foster care of his three aunts or the Nymphs of Mt Nysa.
* Dionysos, on reaching adulthood, travelled the world teaching men the arts of viticulture and winemaking. Later, forming a fabulous army of Bakkhantes and demi-gods he made War on the Indians of the east.
* When Hephaistos had trapped his mother Hera in a cursed throne, Dionysos got him drunk and persuaded him to return to Olympos and free her. The pair entered the home of the gods together and claimed their seats amongst twelve great Olympian gods.
* Dionysos travelled to the underworld to fetch his dead mother Semele, brought her back to Olympos as the goddess Thyone.
* Dionysos discovered Ariadne on the island of Naxos, where she had been abandoned by Theseus, and made her his immortal wife. Dionysos placed her marriage crown amongst the stars as the constellation Corona.
* Dionysos loved a handsome young Satyr named Ampelos who was gored to death while attempting to ride a wild bull. From his blood Dionysos created the first grape-vine.
* The god seduced the proud virgin Aura by producing a spring of wine, and then lying with her in her drunken stupor. Discovering her pregnancy she went on a man-slaying rampage, and bearing twins tore the first child limb from limb.
FAVOUR & BLESSINGS
* Dionysos rewarded his childhood nurses, the Nysiades, by restoring their youth and placing amongst the stars as the constellation Hyades.
* Dionysos taught the art of wine-making to the Athenian lord Ikarios. Unfortunately some shepherds, thinking he had poisoned them, slew him with rocks. Dionysos sent a plague upon the Athenians until they atoned for the crime and honoured Ikarios and his daughter as heroes.
* Dionysos was hospitably entertained by King Oineus of Aitolia, who even allowed him to lie in the bed of his wife Althaia. In return the god bestowed upon him the vine and taught him the art of viticulture.
WRATH & PUNISHMENT
* King Pentheus of Thebes denied the divinity of Dionysos and forbade his subjects from honouring him. When he went to spy upon the revels of the Bakkhantes upon Mt Kithairon, the god drove his followers into a mad fury, and they tore Pentheus limb from limb.
* King Lykourgos of Thrake attacked Dionysos and his followers with a cattle-whip, driving them to seek refuge with Thetis in the sea. Dionysos returned and drove him to madness, dismembering his own son, and eventually being slain by wild beasts on Mt Pangaios.
* Dionysos was captured by Tyrrhenian pirates as he sought passage to the island of Naxos. He enveloped the ship in vines and summoned forth phantom beasts. The pirates leapt overboard and were transformed into dolphins.
* The Minyades, princesses of Orkhomenos, refused to join in the celebrations of Dionysos, calling him a false god. In anger he transformed them into bats.
I) Depictions of Dionysos in Greek Vase Painting
These images of Dionysos come from Ancient Greek Vases, painted approximately
2,500 years ago. NB Click on thumbnails to view full-size images.
II) Other Classical Depictions of Dionysos
Dionysos was also depicted in classical statues, stone reliefs, frescoes and coins.
SELECTED MYTHS (short versions)
I) The Birth of Dionysos
"Zeus fell in love with Semele and slept with her, promising her anything she wanted, and keeping it all from Hera. But Semele was deceived by Hera into asking Zeus to come to her as he came to Hera during their courtship. So Zeus, unable to refuse, arrived in her bridal chamber in a chariot with lightning flashes and thunder, and sent a thunderbolt at her. Semele died of fright, and Zeus grabbed from the fire her six-month aborted baby, which he sewed into his thigh. After Semeles death the remaining daughters of Kadmos circulated the story that she had slept with a mortal, thereafter accusing Zeus, and because of this had been killed by a thunderbolt.
At the proper time Zeus loosened the stitches and gave birth to Dionysos, whom he entrusted to Hermes. Hermes took him to Ino and Athamas, and persuaded them to bring him up as a girl. Incensed, Hera inflicted madness on them, so that that Athamas stalked and slew his elder son Learkhos on the conviction that he was a dear, while Ino threw Melikertes into a basin of boiling water, and then, carrying both the basin and the corpse of the boy, she jumped to the bottom of the sea ... As for Zeus, he escaped Heras anger by changing Dionysos into a baby goat. Hermes took him to the Nymphai of Asian Nysa, whom Zeus in later times places among the stars and named the Hyades." Source: Apollodorus, The Library 3.26-29
II) Dionysos & the Death of Pentheus
"They say that Pentheus [king of Thebes] treated Dionysos spitefully, his crowning outrage being that he went to Kithairon, to spy upon the women, and climbing up a tree beheld what was done. When the women detected Pentheus, they immediately dragged him down, and joined in tearing him, living as he was, limb from limb. Afterwards ... the Pythian priestess commanded them by an oracle to discover that tree and to worship it equally with the god." Source: Pausanias 2.2.6-
III) Dionysos & the Impiety of Lykourgos
"The son of Dryas, Lykourgos the powerful, did not live long; he who tried to fight with the gods of the bright sky, who once drove the fosterers of rapturous Dionysos headlong down the sacred Nyseian hill, and all of them shed and scattered their wands on the ground, stricken with an ox-goad by murderous Lykourgos, while Dionysos in terror dived into the salt surf, and Thetis took him to her bosom, frightened, with the strong shivers upon him at the man’s blustering. But the gods who live at their ease were angered with Lykourgos and the son of Kronos [Zeus] struck him to blindness, nor did he live long afterwards, since he was hated by all the immortals." Source: Homer, The Iliad 6.129
IV) Dionysos & the Wine of Ikarios
"When Father Liber [Dionysos] went out to visit men in order to demonstrate the sweetness and pleasantness of his fruit, he came to the generous hospitality of Icarius and Erigone. To them he gave a skin full of wine as a gift and bade them spread the use of it in all the other lands. Loading a wagon, Icarius with his daughter Erigone and a dog Maera came to shepherds in the land of Attica, and showed them the kind of sweetness wine had. The shepherds, made drunk by drinking immoderately, collapsed, and thinking that Icarius had given them some bad medicine, killed him with clubs. The dog Maera, howling over the body of the slain Icarius, showed Erigone where her father lay unburied. When she came there, she killed herself by hanging in a tree over the body of her father. Because of this, Father Liber [Dionysos] afflicted the daughters of the Athenians with alike punishment. They asked an oracular response from Apollo concerning this, and he told them they had neglected he deaths of Icarius and Erigone. At this reply they exacted punishment from the shepherds, and in honour of Erigone instituted a festival day of swinging ." -Hyginus Fabulae 130
V) Dionysos & the Tyrrhenian Pirates
"Dionysos appeared on a jutting headland by the shore of the fruitless sea, seeming like a stripling in the first flush of manhood: his rich, dark hair was waving about him, and on his strong shoulders he wore a purple robe. Presently there came swiftly over the sparkling sea Tyrsenoi pirates on a well- decked ship - a miserable doom led them on. When they saw him they made signs to one another and sprang out quickly, and seizing him straightway, put him on board their ship exultingly; for they thought him the son of heaven-nurtured kings. They sought to bind him with rude bonds, but the bonds would not hold him, and the withes fell far away from his hands and feet: and he sat with a smile in his dark eyes. Then the helmsman understood all and cried out at once to his fellows and said: `Madmen! What god is this whom you have taken and bind, strong that he is? Not even the well-built ship can carry him. Surely this is either Zeus or Apollon who has the silver bow, or Poseidon, for he looks not like mortal men but like the gods who dwell on Olympos. Come, then, let us set him free upon the dark shore at once: do not lay hands on him, lest he grow angry and stir up dangerous winds and heavy squalls.'
So said he: but the captain chided him ... He had mast and sail hoisted on the ship, and the wind filled the sail and the crew hauled taut the sheets on either side. But soon strange things were seen among them. First of all sweet, fragrant wine ran streaming throughout all the black ship and a heavenly smell arose, so that all the seamen were seized with amazement when they saw it. And all at once a vine spread out both ways along the top of the sail with many clusters hanging down from it, and a dark ivy-plant twined about the mast, blossoming with flowers, and with rich berries growing on it; and all the thole-pins were covered with garlands. When the pirates saw all this, then at last they bade the helmsman to put the ship to land. But the god changed into a dreadful lion there on the ship, in the bows, and roared loudly: amidships also he showed his wonders and created a shaggy bear which stood up ravening, while on the forepeak was the lion glaring fiercely with scowling brows. And so the sailors fled into the stern and crowded bemused about the right-minded helmsman, until suddenly the lion sprang upon the master and seized him; and when the sailors saw it they leapt out overboard one and all into the bright sea, escaping from a miserable fate, and were changed into dolphins. But on the helmsman Dionysos had mercy and held him back and made him altogether happy." Source: Homeric Hymn 7 to Dionysus
VI) The Wedding of Dionysos & Ariadne
"[Theseus] carried off Ariadne [from Krete] and sailed out unobserved during the night, after which he put in at the island which at that time was called Dia, but is now called Naxos. At this same time, the myths relate, Dionysos showed himself on the island, and because of the beauty of Ariadne he took the maiden away from Theseus and kept her as his lawful wife, loving her exceedingly. Indeed, after her death he considered her worthy of immortal honours because of the affection he had for her, and placed among the stars of heaven the ‘Crown of Ariadne." Source: Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History 4.61.5
VI) The Journey of Dionysos to the Underworld
"Liber [Dionysos] received permission from his father [Zeus] to bring back his mother Semele from the lower world, and in seeking a place of descent had come to the land of the Argives, a certain Hyplipnus met him, a man worthy of that generation, who was to show the entrance to Liber [Dionysos] in answer to his request
So then, when Liber [Dionysos] came to that place and was about to descend, he left the crown, which he had received as a gift from Venus [Aphrodite], at that place which in consequence is called Stephanos, for he was unwilling to take it with him for fear the immortal gift of the gods would be contaminated by contact with the dead. When he brought his mother back unharmed, he is said to have placed the crown in the stars as an everlasting memorial." Source: Hyginus, Astronomica 2.5
FURTHER INFO (15 detailed pages on Dionysos)
NOTE: Many of these sections are currently under construction (they will be available in early 2005)
PART 1: INDEX & ILLUSTRATIONS
Index of Dionysos pages
Illustrations from Greek Vase Paintings
Quotes - Descriptions, Hymns
PART 2: DIONYSOS GOD OF
Quotes - describing his various divine functions
PART 3A: MYTHS GENERAL 1
Quotes - general stories about Dionysos
PART 3B: MYTHS GENERAL 2
PART 3C: MYTHS GENERAL 3
Quotes - general stories about Dionysos set in the East
(Egypt, Libya, Phoenicia, Syria, Arabia, Phrygia, and India)
PART 3D: MYTHS GENERAL 4
Quotes - general stories about Dionysos in Orphic & Thrakian myth
PART 4A: MYTHS WRATH 1
List of those Punished
Quotes - stories of those punished by the god
PART 4B: MYTHS WRATH 2
Quotes - stories of those punished by the god: Pentheus & the Kadmeides
PART 5: MYTHS FAVOUR
List of those Favoured
Quotes - stories of heroes blessed or assisted by the god
PART 6A: MYTHS LOVES
List of Lovers
Quotes - stories of the women loved by Dionysos
PART 6B: MYTHS LOVES ARIADNE
Dionysos and Ariadne
Quotes - stories of Dionysos and Ariadne
PART 6B: MYTHS CHILDREN
List of Children
Quotes - children of Dionysos
PART 7: TREASURES
Lists of divine Possessions
Quotes - items owned by the god; sacred plants and animals
PART 8: ATTENDANTS
Lists of divine Attendants
Quotes - attendants of the god
PART 9: BACCHANALIA
Quotes - the Bacchic orgies in myth and cult
PART 10A: CULT OF DIONYSOS 1
Quotes - cult of the god organised by region
PART 10B: CULT OF DIONYSOS 2
PART 11: TITLES & EPITHETS
List of Cult Titles and Poetic Epithets
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BC Ferries cancellations continue into Monday after high winds damage vessel
A number of sailings between Tsawwassen and Swartz Bay were cancelled
Joti Grewal
A BC Ferries vessel is out of service forcing the cancellation of several sailings.
The Spirit of British Columbia ferry which travels between Tsawwassen and Swartz Bay sustained damage trying to dock during Saturday’s heavy winds, the corporation said.
READ MORE: BC Ferries cancelling several sailings on south coast due to strong winds
As a result, three round trips on Sunday starting with a departure from Swartz Bay at noon have been cancelled. Additionally, two round trips on Monday starting with a departure from Swartz Bay at 6:00 a.m. have been cancelled.
“The damage is being assessed and a timeline for repairs will be provided tomorrow, along with any future sailings that may be impacted,” according to BC Ferries.
The corporation said it was working to find a replacement ferry for the affected sailings, and where possible will accommodate passengers on a later sailing.
As of noon, BC Ferries added two additional sailings on Monday starting with a 2:00 p.m. departure from Tsawwassen and a 4:00 p.m. departure from Swartz Bay.
All customers impacted by the cancellation will be notified by email and receive a full refund.
“Once sailings resume, standard practice is to first load customers with a reservation on their scheduled sailing, as they were not cancelled,” said BC Ferries. “All other customers will be loaded in the order they check in at the terminal.”
For current conditions at BC Ferries view their website here.
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In this Wednesday, May 8, 2019, photo, a barge pushes a container ship to the dockyard in Qingdao in eastern China’s Shandong province. President Donald Trump’s latest tariff hikes on Chinese goods took effect Friday and Beijing said it would retaliate, escalating tensions in fight over China’s technology ambitions and other trade strains. (Chinatopix via AP)
Beijing retaliated for previous tariff hikes by raising duties on $110 billion of American imports
President Donald Trump’s latest tariff hike on Chinese goods took effect Friday and Beijing said it would retaliate, escalating a battle over China’s technology ambitions and other trade strains.
The Trump administration raised duties on $200 billion of Chinese imports from 10% to 25%. China’s Commerce Ministry said would take “necessary countermeasures” but gave no details.
The increase went ahead after American and Chinese negotiators began more talks in Washington aimed at ending a dispute that has disrupted billions of dollars in trade and shaken global financial markets.
American officials accuse Beijing of backtracking on commitments made in earlier rounds of negotiations.
The talks were due to resume Friday after wrapping up with no word on progress.
“China deeply regrets that it will have to take necessary countermeasures,” said a Commerce Ministry statement.
Shares in Asia were mixed Friday amid renewed investor jitters about the possible impact of the trade battle on global economic growth.
The latest increase extends 25% U.S. duties to a total of $250 billion of Chinese imports. Trump said Sunday he might extend penalties to all Chinese goods shipped to the United States.
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Chinese officials have targeted operations of American companies in China by slowing customs clearance for their goods and stepping up regulatory scrutiny that can hamper operations.
The higher U.S. import taxes don’t apply to Chinese goods shipped before Friday. By sea, shipments across the Pacific take about three weeks, which gives negotiators a few more days to reach a settlement before importers may have to pay the increased charges.
The negotiators met Thursday evening. Then, after briefing Trump on the negotiations, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin dined with the leader of the Chinese delegation, Vice Premier Liu He.
Liu, speaking to Chinese state TV on his arrival in Washington, said he “came with sincerity.” He appealed to Washington to avoid more tariff hikes, saying they are “not a solution” and would harm the world.
“We should not hurt innocent people,” Liu told CCTV.
At the White House, Trump said he received “a beautiful letter” from Chinese President Xi Jinping and would “probably speak to him by phone.”
The two countries are sparring over U.S. allegations that China steals technology and pressures American companies into handing over trade secrets, part of an aggressive campaign to turn Chinese companies into world leaders in robotics, electric cars and other advanced industries.
This week’s setback was unexpected. Through late last week, Trump administration officials were suggesting that negotiators were making steady progress.
U.S. officials say they got an inkling of China’s second thoughts about prior commitments in talks last week in Beijing but the backsliding became more apparent in exchanges over the weekend. They wouldn’t identify the specific issues involved.
A sticking point is U.S. insistence on an enforcement mechanism with penalties to ensure Beijing lives up to its commitments. American officials say China has repeatedly broken past promises.
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Two hundred Fortnite World Cup cheaters have prizes taken away after sting catches 1,200
Roughly one in 25 prizes awarded had to be rescinded after players were found to have violated the game's rules
By Alex Sassoon Coby, Digital Gaming Editor
EPIC Games has found 1,200 cheats in the competitive rounds of the first week of the Fortnite World Cup.
206 of the 5,250 prize winners were hit a ban, and had to forfeit their share of the £770,000 that was up for grabs in the first week.
The World Cup will have places allocated by server region, not by countryCredit: EPIC GAMES
There are ten weeks of qualifiers for the big tournament in New York that's coming up this summer, with a total of £30million up for grabs for the top Fortnite players from around the world.
A blog post from Epic revealed that most of the bans were from people trying to enter in multiple regions to boost their own chances of getting through.
Spots in the finals have been allocated for different areas across the world, with different qualifying tournaments for each of those regions.
In week one there were 19 spots in the finals available -- 8 for Europe, 8 for North America (split into East and West), and one each for Asia (excluding China), Brazil and Oceania.
To get into the qualifier proper and have a shot at qualifying for the World Cup in New York you need to place in the top 3,000 point earners for that region in the semifinals.
So as well as players in regions with fewer spots thinking they might have a better chance getting into the finals through a larger region, players in larger regions might prefer their odds of getting into the top 3,000 in a region with fewer players, and trying their luck from there.
The finals are going to be held in New York's Arhtur Ashe stadiumCredit: Getty Images - Getty
As well as the 1163 accounts banned for 14 days for playing in multiple regions, 48 were banned for "account sharing". This involves multiple people using the same login details to play as the same person, and could be used to get a better player to play as you to help you qualify before you then take over later on.
8 accounts were banned for "teaming" -- co-ordinating with other players in Solo matches to gain an unfair advantage.
The most heinous offender was banned for life after being found using cheat software; Epic claimed this software was detected within five minutes of the player in question joining the end.
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While Epic did reveal the total number of prize winners who had been disqualified, they did not disclose their placements.
The prize amounts were then recalculated based on the results with the cheaters removed, though the online leaderboards have not been updated to reflect this change.
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Lil Kesh is not my friend neither is he my enemy – Reekado Banks
It seems the little drama between Reekado Banks and Lil Kesh that happened at the Headies Award night in 2015, is yet to be resolved between the two artistes.
The Mavin Records’ music star made this known while granting an interview with SoundCity 98.5 FM in Lagos. In the course of the chat, he was asked if he still felt pained about the little drama that played out after the 2015 Headies Award between himself and Lil Kesh’s camp.
According to Reekado, he was still pained but has moved on from it. “Like I said it was paining me, yea we are good now, we are not really like friends and enemies,” he said. When asked if there would be any possibility of him collaborating with Lil Kesh, he said he is ready to make it happen.
It would be recalled that early this year at Reekado’s “Thank You Concert” in Ibadan, Reekado ranted that he is better than the nominees of the 2015 award.
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Ski Resort in Andorra
Ski Lifts & Pass
Soldeu and El Tarter lie in the parish (administrative division) of Canillo some 17km NE of the capital of Andorra between Andorra La Vella and the French border at Pas de la Casa (2085m). Arguably the best known area in Andorra for skiing, Soldeu and El Tarter (neighbour villages) are lively, good value for money, modern and friendly, with great skiing and snowboarding facilities. In summer, Soldeu is popular with walkers and golfers who make the most of the beautiful scenery. In winter the Soldeu weather conditions change dramatically with excellent snow conditions providing excellent terrain for skiing and snowboarding.
Soldeu is the ski capital of Andorra. Centrally situated in Grandvalira, Andorra’s biggest ski region, at a base altitude of 1,800m Soldeu is a charming village and vibrant ski resort, and considerably less boisterous than nearby Pas de la Casa.
Together with Pas de la Casa, Soldeu and El Tarter make up the Grandvalira which is the largest, highest and most popular ski area in Andorra. Soldeu is the larger and livelier of the two villages, with El Tarter retaining a more traditional feel. Although just around the corner from Pas de la Casa, there is a much more relaxed and family friendly vibe in Soldeu and El Tarter, and they have successfully distanced the villages from the cheap and cheerful heavy partying reputation that Andorra built up in the nineties.
The resorts now presents themselves as a serious alternative to the higher Alpine resorts, and we find it increasingly hard to disagree. With over 200 kilometres of slopes, a dizzying array of off slope activities, and a blossoming reputation for freestyle and freeriding, there is more than enough to keep everyone entertained for a week’s holiday.
Most of the off slope activities and amenities are located along the main street in Soldeu, whilst El Tarter is more residential, making it the perfect location for a quieter family trip. Both villages remain relatively compact (especially compared to some of the monstrosities in the Alps) and with lifts and runs terminating right in the centre you’ll never find yourself far from your hotel (or a bar!) at the end of the day.
Transfers are on the long side - averaging 3 ½ hours - but you’ll gain this time back with interest when you arrive in resort, and will soon learn to love the efficient lift system and relative lack of crowds. It’s a great place to learn to ski too. There are strong English and antipodean contingents in all of the local ski schools, so kids taking to the slopes for the first time will be right at home.
Soldeu info card
Longest Run 9km
Directions of Slopes N
Uphill Capacity 94500
Skiing in Soldeu
There really is something for everyone in Soldeu. With over 60 green and blue ski runs and designated beginner areas at Soldeu and El Tarter there is plenty of pistes for beginners and progressing skiers and snowboarders to enjoy. Intermediate and advanced skiers will appreciate the 210km of varied slopes, including 38 red pistes and 22 black pistes, across the large ski domain as well as exploring the 6 different ski sectors. The journey and range of slopes between Soldeu and Pas de la Casa is superb.
El Tarter has a huge freestyle park with great selection of kickers, rails, boxes and features. There is a chairlift and a drag lift that runs up alongside the park for easy access. The El Tarter snow park has a fantastic park team that keeps the freestyle areas well maintained and ready for the professional competitions held throughout the season.
Snowboarders will love the variety of slopes on offer across the Grandvalira ski area and the park, boardercross and freeride areas.
Snow conditions in Soldeu
The best skiing in Soldeu takes place between December and April. Snowfall is generally good across Grandvalira where snow bases peak at around 200cm in March. Over 1 billion Euros has been spent across the Grandvalira ski domain in recent years to improve ski lifts, creating new facilities and increasing snow cannon coverage (now 65% of the ski area).
Best time to visit Soldeu and El Tarter
The shorter winter in the Pyrenees means that the best time to visit Soldeu-El Tarter (and Andorra in general) is often during the height of the season. The snow is at its best between January and March, and you shouldn’t notice the crowds as much as you would in the Alps. Recent improvements in the snowmaking facilities ensure that the snow tends to hang around of longer these days and, if the snow’s a bit sketchy later on in the season, then you best remember to pack your sunnies and some sunblock. With a reputation for some of the best weather in Europe, you’ll almost be tempted to simple crack open a cold one and soak up the sun for the day.
Families in Soldeu and El Tarter
We love Andorra’s family friendly ski resorts and Soldeu-El Tarter is one of the best around. Get the whole clan booked into a cheap ski package and spend the week progressing quickly and – more importantly – enjoying the slopes.
Soldeu’s and El Tarter's ski schools are known for their excellent Brit-run lessons, so anyone learning for the first time will feel right at home.
Just above Soldeu is a huge area of cruisey blue runs to build confidence on, and if more experienced skiers fancy a challenge on some of the highest pistes in Andorra, the Grandvalira is theirs to roam (look out for the Avet World Cup slope and El Tarter’s snowpark).
Keep your eyes peeled for special family deals in the resort - the ticket office and ski school have worked together in previous years to offer cheap packages for 6-12 year olds, while under 6s can sometimes get a free lift pass if you show ID at the ticket office.
The nurseries in Soldeu and El Tarter look after 2-4 year olds, with an indoor play area and supervised snow games, while the Snow Garden club provides 4-5 year olds with a gentle introduction to the snow – with fun ski lessons and outdoor play. The ski school teaches 6-11 year olds and kids over 12 can book into snowboard lessons if they want to learn something new.
For more experienced skiers and snowboarders, Snowpark El Tarter (the biggest park in the Pyrenees) and the Encamp freeride area should more than suffice, when you want a change from Grandvalira’s 200km+ of skiing.
Group Holidays Soldeu and El Tarter
With the biggest ski area in Andorra to explore, Soldeu and El Tarter are superbly based for a cheap group ski trip. Beginners are well-catered for with plenty of easy blues and lessons with British instructors, while for more confident skiers and snowboarders, the area has over 200km of pistes, 3 snowparks (El Tarter’s is the biggest in the country) and specially designated freeride areas.
Of the two villages, El Tarter is the smaller and slightly quieter, while Soldeu has more choice of bars and restaurants: The Harp is everything you could expect from a proper Irish tavern and the Aspen stays open until the early morning. We have a huge selection of hotels in both villages - and they’re a great option for groups if you want the privacy of your own rooms but big communal areas to chill out in. Another option is self-catering, which keeps costs down and makes the week flexible enough to cater to everyone’s individual needs. If your group’s the right size, book out a catered chalet and have the rule of the roost, with six days of sit-down dinners taken care of.
If you’re thinking of inviting any non-skiers along for the ride, they should find plenty to do. A half hour bus ride takes you into Andorra’s capital city - Andorra La Vella – for duty free shopping and historical sites like Andorra’s oldest church, 9th century Església de Santa Coloma and the 16th century Casa de la Vall (now used for parliament).
Transportation - Get In
The nearest airports to Andorra, with daily bus service, are Tolouse in France and Barcelona and Girona in Spain
Novatel runs a daily mini bus service from all three airports.
There are 5 departures throughout the day (starts 10:30 then 13:00, 15:00, 17:00 and 19:45) from Barcelona to Andorra and a similar number (05:00 then 08:00, 10:00, 12:30 and 15:15) running in reverse from Andorra to Barcelona. A single Novatel bus service daily from Girona and Andorra at 15:00 and leaving Andorra for Girona at 09:30 and there are two Novatel buses daily from Toulouse to Andorra (10:30 and 19:00) and from Andorra back to Toulouse (05:30 and 14:00).
Eurolines offer similar 5-6 bus departures daily in each direction between Barcelona and Andorra.
Reservations are necessary and be sure to check websites for latest timetables and prices
Tel: +376 803 789
Web: www.andorrabybus.com
Eurolines
Tel: +376 805 151 and Barcelona +34 934 903 000
Web: www.autocarsnadal.com
By car from Spain
Madrid - Zaragoza - Lleida - Ponts - Andorra 613km Barcelona - via the Cadi Tunnel 185km (Toll / péage) via Cervera 208km Girona - Olot - Puigcerdà - Andorra 219km
By car from France
Paris - Toulouse - Foix - Ax les Thermes - Andorra 882km Toulouse - Foix - Andorra 196km Perpignan - Bourg Madame - Pas de la Cassa - Andorra 128km
Transportation - Get Around
The national bus service runs through Soldeu both in the direction of Pas de la Casa and the French border, and in the direction of Andorra la Vella (the capital city of Andorra) where there are frequent connections nationally and internationally. There isn't a train service in Andorra and there is no airport, the closest being La Seu d'Urgell in Spain, although this is very small.
There isn't a taxi rank in Soldeu, the nearest being in Andorra la Vella.
This luxurious hotel is located next to the Grandvalira Ski Lifts in Soldeu. It offers a modern spa and attractive rooms with free Wi-Fi and a private balcony with mountain views.
WHAT KIND OF HOTEL
Guests recommend this as a wellness hotel
Guests say the hotel is perfect for a romantic getaway.
Guests recommend this as a luxury hotel.
Great view
SPORT HOTEL HERMITAGE & SPA SUMMARY
With an excellent TrustScore of 94, this hotel is one of the top 1% in its city. Guests highly recommend it because of its service, wellness & sports facilities and Vibe.
Property Location: With a stay at Parador Canaro in Soldeu (Incles), you'll be minutes from Bosc and Soldeu Ski Resort. This 4-star hotel is within close proximity of TSD4 Tarter and TC10 Tarter.
Rooms: Make yourself at home in one of the 64 guestrooms featuring refrigerators and flat-screen televisions. Complimentary wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and satellite programming is available for your entertainment. Private bathrooms with showers feature complimentary toiletries and hair dryers. Conveniences include phones, as well as safes and desks.
Amenities: Enjoy the convenience of ski-in/ski-out access at this hotel, which also features a fitness center. Additional features at this hotel include complimentary wireless Internet access, babysitting/childcare (surcharge), and ski storage. The complimentary ski shuttle makes getting to the slopes a breeze.
Dining: Satisfy your appetite at the hotel's restaurant, which serves lunch and dinner. Dining is also available at a coffee shop/café, and room service (during limited hours) is provided. Quench your thirst with your favorite drink at a bar/lounge.
Business, Other Amenities: Featured amenities include complimentary newspapers in the lobby, dry cleaning/laundry services, and a 24-hour front desk. Free self parking is available onsite.
Impressive bathroom
HOTEL PARADOR CANARO & SKI SUMMARY
This hotel has an excellent TrustScore of 88. Guests highly recommend it because of its rooms, service and comfort.
Sport Hotel Village is in Soldeu, right next to Grandvalira’s Ski Lifts. It offers a gym, a seasonal outdoor pool and a large children’s section with a soft play area and a ball pit.
Guests think this is a family-friendly hotel.
Great menu
SPORT HOTEL VILLAGE SUMMARY
This hotel has an excellent TrustScore of 87. Guests highly recommend it because of its service, location and breakfast.
The Hotel Piolets Park & Spa is a modern mountain hotel located in Andorra, at 300 metres from the Grandvalira ski slopes, in which it is possible to enjoy pure Nature the whole year round. An impressive spa area is available & wellness and a Kids' Club for the enjoyment of children. Owing to its location, the Hotel Piolets Park & Spa is ideal for mountain and Nature lovers, and for families who look for tranquillity and comfor.
Affordable parking
Rooms need regular maintenance
HOTEL PIOLETS PARK & SPA SUMMARY
This hotel has a very good TrustScore of 85. Guests recommend it because of its food, service and location.
This hotel is located in Soldeu, northeast Andorra in the heart of the Pyrenees, just 100 metres for the Soldeu ski lift. Although it is in the heart of the Ski region it can offer a number of exciting outdoor activities for all seasons. Besides the usual trekking and hiking in the region there are a number of mountain biking tracks and a golf course less than 3 km away. For little pampering guests can visit the nearby spa and wellness centre, which has special arrangements with the hotel. Afterwards one can simply head back to the onsite restaurant and enjoy a delicious meal with his companions. All of the warm and comfortable rooms are decorate in a cosy mountain style, with rustic furniture and everything needed for a good night sleep.
Guests recommend this hotel for solo travelers.
Guests recommend this for traveling with friends.
HOTEL SOLDEU MAISTRE SUMMARY
With a very good TrustScore of 86, this hotel is one of the best 18% in the city. Guests recommend it because of its location, service and value for money.
Property Location: With a stay at Hotel Galanthus in Soldeu (Incles), you'll be convenient to Soldeu Ski Resort and El Tarter Snow Park. This 4-star hotel is within the vicinity of Sant Joan de Caselles and Sant Serni Church.
Rooms: Make yourself at home in one of the 55 air-conditioned rooms featuring minibars and flat-screen televisions. Complimentary wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and satellite programming is available for your entertainment. Private bathrooms with showers feature complimentary toiletries and hair dryers. Conveniences include phones, as well as safes and desks.
Amenities: Pamper yourself with a visit to the spa, which offers massages and body treatments. A spa tub and a sauna offer a relaxing way to wind down after a day on the slopes. Additional features at this hotel include complimentary wireless Internet access, concierge services, and babysitting/childcare (surcharge). The complimentary ski shuttle makes getting to the slopes a breeze.
Dining: Enjoy a meal at a restaurant, or stay in and take advantage of the hotel's room service (during limited hours). Quench your thirst with your favorite drink at a bar/lounge.
Business, Other Amenities: Featured amenities include complimentary newspapers in the lobby, dry cleaning/laundry services, and multilingual staff. Self parking (subject to charges) is available onsite.
Could be quieter
Parking is rare
HOTEL GALANTHUS & SPA SUMMARY
This hotel has a very good TrustScore of 83. Guests recommend it because of its service, location and wellness & sports facilities.
Set in a stunning natural landscape in the north of the Principality of Andorra, with the Spanish and French borders nearby, this hotel is an ideal base to go skiing in the region.
Rooms could be larger
HOTEL NAUDI SUMMARY
This hotel has a very good TrustScore of 84. Guests recommend it because of its service, location and breakfast.
This charming ski hotel is situated at the on the main road of Soldeu. It is just 150 metres from the ski lifts, which provide access to the ski resort of Grand Valira. Andorra La Vella is 19 km away and can be reached in half an hour by car. This establishment is a hotel with features typical of an Andorran high mountain chalet, with a lot of wood and stone. It is recommended for a romantic holiday or for fun among friends and comprises a total of 40 guest rooms. Guests are welcomed into a lobby with 24-hour reception and a hotel safe. On-site facilities include lift access, a café and bar. WLAN Internet access and room and laundry services are provided. Guests arriving by car can leave their vehicles in the nearby car park or parking garage (fees apply). The hotel's guest rooms all come with a south-facing private balcony, which overlooks the ski slopes, as well as a complete bathroom with shower and hairdryer. In-room facilities include satellite TV, a direct dial telephone, double beds, central heating and in-room safes are available for a fee. The hotel does not have any triple rooms, interconnecting rooms or extra beds. The hotel has a fitness centre with a heated indoor swimming pool, a hot tub and a sauna, and fees apply to all of these activities. A gym and massage service are also provided.
All Accommodation & Hotels in Soldeu, Andorra
Historically, the six village resorts that make up the “Grand Valley” were unable or unwilling to cooperate with each other meaning that, potentially, you needed a different pass for Pas de la Casa, Grau Roig, Soldeu, El Tarter, Canillo and Encamp.
But that was before the government in Andorra la Vella insisted that the families who ran these resorts start working together. Grandvalira is the result - the union of Pas de la Casa - Grau Roig and Soldeu El Tarter to create a unified 1,926 hectares ski area with 110 runs and 193km of skiing and boarding served by 64 lifts, 972 snow cannons, 2 ski and snowboard schools with 450 instructors and a total of 33 mountain restaurants and eateries,
The entire ski area spreads above Soldeu (1,800m) and five nearby villages - Encamp (1,300m), Canillo (1,500m) and El Tarter (1,710m), Grau Roig (2,120m) and Pas de la Casa (2,100m), rising to 2,640m and besides 193km of pisted runs includes 4 off-piste ski routes, 2 competition areas, 3 freestyle areas, 2 permanent boardercross and an adventure activities centre.
It's not in the same extent nor as high as the biggest ski areas in the Alps, but with 193km of skiing and a lift system carrying 99,600 skiers per hour Grandvalira is by far the biggest ski area in the Andorra and Spain - Baqueira Beret has 104km, Sierra Nevada 84km and Aramon Formigal 64km.
Skiing out of Soldeu begins at TSD6 Soldeu or TC8 Soldeu from which it is possible to connect with all the other runs in the Grandvalira once you reach Tossal de la Llosada. If you get to the northern end of the run (Pas de la Casa) or the south (El Forn) and decide you don't want to ski back, there is a bus (free if you show your ski pass) from any point on the Grandvalira all the way home. To make matters simpler still, the bus displays the word "Grandvalira" in very big letters so it won't be mistaken for the local service.
Snow cannons cover 68km of 193km (35%) of the ski area and with Soldeu and most villages in Grandvalira at an altitude above 1,700m and the skiing mostly between 2,000 -2,680m the ski area is reasonably snow sure.
With 18 green slopes, 38 blue, 32 red and 22 black runs all categories of on-piste skier are catered for, but it's predominantly best for beginners and intermediates, but there's plenty of opportunity for advanced skiers including skiing off-piste between the trees.
Soldeu Beginners
The Grandvalira region has a total of 18 green runs and 38 blue of which 6 green runs and 13 blue are above Soldeu.
There is a "beginner zone" next to the ski school at Espiolets at the top of the two Soldeu lifts which is served by the Escola button lift.
Adventurous beginners who take the blue run "gall de bosc" as far as Riba Escorxada will find another "beginner zone" served by the Riba lift. From here it is possible to take the blue "esquirol" run down into El Tarter and get the Grandvaliar bus back to Soledu (free on production of your ski pass) or take the TSD6 Tosa Espiolets lift up to Tosa dels Espiolets and then any one of a number of blue runs back down to Soldeu. There are no green runs back into town.
Soldeu Advanced
For those who fancy clocking up 193km in one day there is the new Explore Grandvalira tour itinerary which gives you the option to cover the whole ski area from Pas de la Casa to El Forn which passes through Soldeu.
Conditions permitting there are also good opportunities off-piste skiing from Pic D'Encampadana (black and red runs) but getting to this is an effort. From Tossal de la Lossada take the blue run Llosada to where the pistebasher will tow you across the saddle to the Pic D'Encampadana. The alternative is to take three lifts up from Canillo.
Three graded off-piste ski routes (2 red and 1 black) converge at Riba Escorxada from which there is a snowshoe route down to El Forn then take the TSD4 Portella ski lift back up to Portella and ski down the blue run "daina" to start over again.
The Grau Roig sector is noted for its scenic mountain landscapes and as one of the largest of the six sectors comprising Grandvalira offers extensive off-piste skiing and boarding opportunities.
To find the best snow and the best off-piste opportunities in Grandvalira, which is mostly given over to piste skiing, and to do so safely you'll need to hire a guide and be prepared to do some skinning to get away from the main ski runs.
Soldeu Boarding & Freestyle
There’s no restriction on snowboarding within the Grandvalira which is keen to be “cool” and increasingly the authorities are investing to expand and improve the existing snowparks and freestyle circuits.
Already there are 8 freestyle areas - three above Pas de la Casa, two at Grau Roig, another two above Soldeu and the ACG Snowpark above El Tarter. Of these "collibri" on a red run descending from Cortals (2,502m) is probably the most spectacularly positioned but getting up is tediously complex (it's actually easier to get there from Grau).
Alternatively "bordercross solana" is a permanent boardercross freestyle area below Tossal de la Llosada is accessed without too much difficult from Tosa dels Espiolets if you take the "cucut" black run down to the TSF4 Assaladors lift. The circuit includes cambers and jumps so whether on skiing freestyle or boarding you need to be agile and learn to control the speed of your descent which makes it's a good place to practice and sharpen up your skills.
The ACG Snowpark, El Tarter, is exclusively for freestylers with six big jumps, a permanent pipe, rails, including a wave-shaped hand rail, pyramid, two boxes and a kick zone for beginners. Freestyle instructors are on hand to offer advice on how you can better your tricks and jumps and a dedicated maintenance team is in charge daily throughout the season. Not surprisingly given the size and quality of installations the ACG Snowpark is allegedly the best snowpark in the Pyrenees and the venue for a number of high level competitions and exhibition events during the season. Get to it from the Pla de Riba Escorxada by the TK Font Roges or TSD6 Tossa Espiolets.
All the ski lifts in Grandvalira have both a code and a name. There are 64 ski lifts – 1 funitel (twin cable car), 3 cable cars, 14 detachable high-speed chair lifts, 16 fixe grip chair lifts, 16 ski lifts, 9 overhead cable lifts and 5 magic carpets with a combined transport capacity of the 99,600 skiers per hour.
Each ski lift has a numeric code as well as a name which is clearly marked on the piste map in capitals. The ski pistes themselves just have names, not numbers, some of which sound curious to Anglophones ("clot", "muflo". "llop", "cucut", "fagina" and "tubs") but you quickly get used to them.
The TSD6 Soldeu is a new 6-seater detachable chairlift that starts on the far side of the Valira river (crossed by a new bridge) and allows skiers to arrive at Pla d'Espiolets with their skis on. The TC8 Soldeu is an 8-person cable car from the village side of the river just behind The Villager pub.
From Espiolets there are a number of runs that will take you down to either TSF4 Assaladors or TSD 6 Llosada. Both of these lifts will get you on to Tossal de la Llosada from where it's possible to join the Grandvalira. You can either head south towards El Tarter and Canillo or north towards Grau Roig.
All the ski lifts are shown on the piste map in capital letters while the ski runs are in lower case.From Tossal de la Llosada there is a lift simply known as Cortals which takes you up on to the Solanells ridge. Because it is a button lift, it isn't prefixed by a number.
Ski passes in Soldeu are as for the rest of Grandvalira, range from around 35 euros (1 day) to around 180 euros (6 days) in high season and are only marginally (10%) cheaper in low season. Beginner ski passes are for Soldeu only and cost 22 euros, regardless of season or age.
The cartel which runs Grandvalira is putting a lot of money into developing the lift system (spurred on by its rivalry with Vallnord in the west of the country) so things are likely only to get better. There's a lot of money in Andorra and ski tourism is a major priority for the locals.
Lifts open at 9 am in the morning and officially close at 5pm although some (two above Grau, two above Soldeu, one above Canillo and one above Encamp) start closing from 4:15 pm onwards. There will be signs on the lifts in question warning you, but check in advance so not to be caught out.
Grandvalira Lift Pass Prices
Duration Adult
(18-64) Junior
(12-17) Child
Morning €26 €26 €26
Afternoon €37 €32 €27
1 Day €48
(RRP €49) €44
(RRP €45) €33.50
(RRP €34.50)
2 Days €88.80
(RRP €90.80) €80.60
3 Days €133.20
(RRP €136.20) €120.90
(RRP €123.90) €90.30
(RRP €124.40)
5 Days €212
(RRP €217) €189
(RRP €148)
+ Days €42.40
Non-Consecutive Lift Pass Prices
3 from 5 €139.50
5 from 7 €221
(RRP €226) €201.50
7 from 10 €309.40
The skiing in Soldeu is good for all levels, and there are some advanced descents for the more experienced skier through the powder fields below Pic d'Encampadana.
For snowboarders, Soldeu’s half pipe and an additional natural half-pipe makes the resort a popular choice. Allso has an excellent bumps stadium for the advanced skier.
There are ice-climbing opportunities in the area, but if you are not experienced in the craft of ice-climbing it would be worthwhile undertaking a guided tour in other places of New Zealand such as the Fox Glacier.
Cave Stream Scenic Reserve is about 5 minutes drive east of Flock Hill Lodge. The open country surrounded by the limestone rocks makes for a perfect picnic spot or a great place to head for some gentle walking. Tours into the cave are self-guided and take about one hour. The water in the cave is normally waist level, but you’ll need to keep an eye on it. If planning on going into the cave, you’ll need to take a torch, warm clothing and sturdy footwear.
If you’re staying at Flock Hill Lodge, you can go mountain biking within their land. The working farm is 14,000 hectares, and in addition to checking out the sheep, cattle and deer, the land has geological features that make for an interesting ride along many kilometres of tracks. They hire out mountain bikes and can show you where to go. They can also show you various spots to go on a tramping adventure.
Soldeu Apres Ski
Whilst the nightlife in this neck of the woods is overshadowed by nearby Pas de La Casa, there’s still enough variety for a one week ski holiday. And if this doesn’t prove to be the case, then Pas is just a short bus ride away…
With a good range of tapas and assorted pub grub, as well as the usual suspects drinks wise, the Villager is the first port of call after big a day on the mountain.
Fat Albert’s (Fatty’s to the locals) serves a range of local specialities and European staples. The nightclub upstairs is open until three or four all week if you’re after a solid twelve hour après session… if you’re up for the first chair after this, you’ll even earn the respect of the resorts seasonaires. The Harp’s the local Irish Bar, and as you would expect offers a traditional British menu, live entertainment, and of course, Guinness.
Once upon a time the Pussycat Cocktail Bar & Night Club was a regular old barn, but no more. With different themed nights each day, a sensational sun terrace, and a kaleidoscopic mix of drinks, you’ll be assured of a warm welcome day or night.
Dylan’s in El Tarter has a great menu for families- pizzas, burgers, and tex mex is the order of the day. Later on, the relaxed cocktail bar cum chill out lounge is perfect for a less intense drink and a game of pool.
Non skiers are well catered for - Andorra La Vella (the capital city) is half an hour’s bus ride away and serves both discerning shoppers (duty free galore) and history buffs (Andorra’s oldest church Església de Santa Coloma and the 16th century Casa de la Vall are two attractions). The Caldea Spa is also worth a visit whether you ski or not, for all kinds of wellness.
Soldeu Mountain Restaurants
Grandvalira has 33 on-mountain eating and drinking places offering a wider range of cuisine and eating experiences, from full-service restaurants to cafeterias and small huts where you can easily pit stop without even taking off your skis.
Whether you want to lunch on outdoor terrace with great panoramic views of the Andorran Pyrenees or you snuggle up around a warm fireplace in a traditional mountain inn or just want to grab a bite to eat on the fly, there's a good choice and Grandvalira has codified its mountain restaurants into five categories to ease selection and budgeting:
Top of the tree are 6 full-service 'Restaurants with charm', one in each resort sector, mostly with good views of the ski area and serving international cuisine at a cost of around 36 euros per head.
Restaurants with charm
Solanelles (Encamp) Tel: +376 759 008
Roc de les Bruixes (Canillo) Tel: +376 890 696
Pi de Migdia (El Tarter) Tel: +376 890 500
Gall de Bosc (Soldeu) Tel: +376 890 607
Refugi dels Llacs dels Pessons (Grau Roig) Tel: +376 759 015
Costa Rodona (Pas de la Casa) Tel: +376 800 870
Less expensive at around 22 euros per head are 7 self-service cafeterias (Grau Roig has two) serving salads, pizzas, basic fish and meat dishes:
Self-service cafeterias
El Forn (Canillo) Tel: +376 890 687
Espiolets (Soldeu) Tel: +376 890 581
El Cubil (Grau Roig) Tel: +376 872 930
El Piolet (Grau Roig) Tel: +376 759 190
Cheaper still at around cost 6-10 euros per head are 3 Fun Food (for which read 'fast food') establishments for burgers, salads, sandwiches and drinks:
Canillo (Canillo) Tel: +376 890 662
Riba Escorxada (El Tarter) Tel: +376 890 662
Gall de Bosc Tel: +376 890 604
And if you just want a mid-morning coffee break (or breakfast) or a drink during the day there are 9 Espress'Oh! Cafeterias throughout Grandvalira, mostly situated in and around the main restaurants and Fun Food locations:
On a mission to clock the maximum amount of skiing and too busy for anything but a fast pit stop? Then you can pit stop at one of 16 'Xirixuca (small wooden shelter or stone hut) for a quick bite to eat or a drink sometimes without having to dismount from your skis or your board.
In Soldeu Gall de Bosc is worthy of its place in the Charm category and can be found at the top of the TC8 Soldeu ski lift in Pla Espiolets. There is a set menu for 27 euros and the a la carte starts at 36 euros. The view of the slopes is excellent as is the service.
In the same building you'll also find Fun Food Gall de Bosc, Espress'oh! Gall de Bosc and out on the terrace there's a XiriXuca known as XiriCrepes Gall de Bosc.
At the end of the Astoret blue run which descends from the TSD6 Solana there is a handy Xirixuca known as XiriPizza la Solana.
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SambaSafety buys Vigillo
by James Menzies
Mobile and IT
SambaSafety
Vigillo
PORTLAND, Ore. – SambaSafety has acquired Vigillo, a provider of real-time data for analyzing commercial driver and motor carrier safety performance.
Vigillo is best known for its CSA monitoring platform, which allows carriers to gain detailed visibility into their safety performance and compliance rating. SambaSafety offers driver risk management tools and will combine its suite of services with that of Vigillo. The terms of the deal, which closed Friday, were not disclosed.
“I’m super excited about it,” Steve Bryan, founder and president of Vigillo, told trucking industry press in a conference call yesterday. “I think it’s going to allow us to continue and certainly accelerate our mission here at Vigillo to bring best-of-class safety analytics to the commercial trucking space. I’m as excited as can be to be partnered with a much larger organization with more resources.”
Bryan will remain with the company, but will hand over its daily operations to its new parent while spending more time engaging the industry, he said.
Richard Crawford, CEO of SambaSafety, said the acquisition will marry his company’s MVR data with the CSA analytics provided by Vigillo. “We are excited to add Vigillo to the growing number of companies that make up SambaSafety as we continue to define driver risk management by adding to an already robust platform. Our regulated customers will benefit by utilizing a single risk identification and mitigation dashboard combining both motor vehicle record (MVR) data and CSA data,” he said.
SambaSafety offers what it claims to be the industry’s “first and leading driver risk management solution,” however it wasn’t focused exclusively on commercial drivers.
“If you think about this industry and the needs of this industry, we realized for a long time the industry is underserved,” Crawford said.
The two companies have been discussing a potential deal for about 18 months.
“We both had a common vision that there are many more things we could do together,” Crawford said. “So many opportunities to help the industry and help our customers.”
The discussions intensified about a year ago, culminating in a deal Friday. The Vigillo name will remain intact but customers will now be able to package its CSA monitoring service with those offered by SambaSafety. The combined services will cover a driver’s lifespan within a company, from pre-hire through employment.
The companies combined now have more than 5,000 fleets and a million drivers under their umbrella.
James Menzies
James Menzies is editor of Truck News magazine. He has been covering the Canadian trucking industry for more than 15 years and holds a CDL. Reach him at james@newcom.ca or follow him on Twitter at @JamesMenzies.
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Frankie Boyle’s Response To Possible Nuclear War Is Hilarious
By : Tom Percival On : 11 Apr 2017 15:52
Unless you’ve been living under a rock or avoiding the bleak 24-hour news cycle like the plague you’re probably aware that people are a little worried about the impending threat of nuclear war.
And while people in dark rooms across the world are probably furiously scribbling down casualty probabilities, blast radiuses and working out other terrifying maths, there’s one man who’s got other worries.
Had a wee moment of genuine worry there that nuclear war will stop Celtic doing 10 in a row
— Frankie Boyle (@frankieboyle) April 14, 2017
Controversial comedian Frankie Boyle is most concerned about his beloved football team Celtic F.C., who are currently on track for a record breaking ten Scottish Premier League titles in a row – and the threat that nuclear war means to that achievement.
Frankie shared his opinions on Twitter where people were quick to mock who else but the intermittent Green and White Hoops eternal rivals, Rangers.
Here’s a few of the best reactions…
[tweet https://twitter.com/Diversion50/status/852813058921472001 conversation=”false”]
[tweet https://twitter.com/AyeBorders/status/852832191977447424 conversation=”false”]
[tweet https://twitter.com/mulcs85/status/852831858819596288 conversation=”false”]
[tweet https://twitter.com/lukelynch87/status/852826755064778752 conversation=”false”]
[tweet https://twitter.com/westy250909/status/852832063593906176 conversation=”false”]
[tweet https://twitter.com/alanmchugh64/status/852817261307887616 conversation=”false”]
At least if nuclear war does break out Frankie candie knowing that Celtic went out with a bang?
More of a concept than a journalist, Tom Percival was forged in the bowels of Salford University from which he emerged grasping a Masters in journalism.
Since then his rise has been described by himself as ‘meteoric’ rising to the esteemed rank of Social Editor at UNILAD as well as working at the BBC, Manchester Evening News, and ITV.
He credits his success to three core techniques, name repetition, personality mirroring, and never breaking off a handshake.
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Tag: Hubble 3-D IMAX
Posted on March 31, 2011 January 19, 2016
Contest: Win IMAX Hubble DVD
When I saw the IMAX Hubble movie last year when it was released in theaters, it’s portrayal of the immensity and gloriousness of our universe literally brought me to tears (read my review here) Now you can have a copy of your very own IMAX Hubble, as it was just released on DVD. And Universe Today has 5 copies to give away, courtesy of Warner Brothers! Just send an email to [email protected] with “IMAX Hubble” in the subject line for your chance to win. Contest ends on Monday, April 4, 2011 at 1500 GMT.
See the original movie trailer, below.
Continue reading “Contest: Win IMAX Hubble DVD”
Review: Hubble 3-D IMAX
I have seen the new Hubble 3-D IMAX movie twice now, and both times I was overcome with tears by the end of the film. It wasn’t that the story of Hubble itself was overwhelming; no, that story I already knew by heart. It wasn’t that the account of the servicing mission to save Hubble was especially dramatic; actually, I think watching the five EVAs live on NASA TV in May 2009 was more heart-pounding. And it wasn’t that the cinematography was overly stunning or that there were non-stop 3-D effects.
What this film does is portray the immensity and gloriousness of our universe, and that we are currently, serendipitously, living during an amazing era of discovery, one that humanity has never known before. Some of these discoveries we are only able to make because of this marvelous telescope and the people who laid their lives on the line to fix it and make it better. It also shows — almost subtly – that we are inexorably connected to the Universe around us, joined like the intertwining web of 3-D galaxies shown near the movie’s final scenes. We are witnessing – and are a part of – history.
The movie chronicles the 20-year life of Hubble, and focuses on the STS-125 servicing mission, the final mission to Hubble. There ARE wonderful 3-D views of Hubble itself, anchored to shuttle Atlantis’ payload bay, where the telescope appears to come out into the audience and into your lap. This includes stunning views of planet Earth spinning overhead. “This is a gift we astronauts have been given,” astronaut Mike Massimino says of the vistas that can only be seen from space.
And viewers get to experience not one, but two shuttle launches captured in the so-close-up-you-can-feel-it shots which can only be experienced in IMAX. But much of the footage from on-orbit detailing the EVAs and action inside the shuttle were shot with the regular, albeit high-tech cameras that normally NASA flies on missions, including the small “lipstick” cameras on the helmets of the spacewalkers, and some was able to be rendered in grainy, but effective 3-D. The only genuine IMAX 3-D camera on board the mission was bolted to the shuttle’s cargo bay and it carried only 5,400 feet of film – which translates into just 8 minutes of IMAX 3-D footage. Here’s an article about a 3 D Solar System
Endearing are the behind-the-scenes looks at the STS-125 mission. Astronauts joking with each other on orbit – Commander Scott Altman sticking gum under the shuttle’s “dashboard,” Massimino describing how suiting up for an EVA is like putting on a snowsuit as a child. “You need your Mom,” he says.
In both showings I attended, the scene that got the most audible reaction from the audience was Drew Feustal making a chicken salad tortilla wrap. But, hey, we all have to eat, and for those who have never seen food preparation or astronauts eating in space before, it holds a certain level of fundamental fascination.
Additionally we get to hear what is going through the minds of the astronauts on launch day. Mike Good recalls how his grandfather opened up the Universe by showing him views through a telescope. Megan McArthur glows with excitement. John Grunsfeld meticulously goes through in his mind all the tasks that lie before him and the crew.
The film quickly moves through the EVAs, highlighting anxious moments of the mission — stuck bolts, the handrail that Massimino had to rip off of Hubble, the tension of undertaking the meticulous repairs on a one-of-a-kind iconic telescope, all while wearing a bulky spacesuit. But within a 43 minute film, these situations are dealt with quickly, — and honestly, — the movie doesn’t give real justice to how tense some of these situations really were.
A vast canyon of dust and gas in the Orion Nebula from a 3-D computer model based on observations by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: NASA, G. Bacon, L. Frattare, Z. Levay, and F. Summers (STScI/AURA)
But most mesmerizing in the film are 3-D visualizations of actual Hubble data. For this film, regular 2-D Hubble images were converted into 3-D environments, giving the audience the impression they are traveling through space and time.
Viewers get to experience an exhilarating ride through the Orion Nebula, swooping through a giant canyon of gas and dust, and witness star-forming regions that include dusty tadpole-shaped objects that are fledgling solar systems, likely a vision of how our own solar system once looked.
Later we travel to the distant Virgo Cluster and emerge on the other side of a black hole, and then travel back in time to witness early misshapen galaxies. Returning to more recent views that include new images from the Wide Field Camera 3 that was installed on STS-125, we see an ocean of stars in multiple wavelengths. Upon pulling away from the stars, we see 3-D galaxies interwoven like a web.
It’s these mind-numbing visions that produce a child-like sense of awe and wonder – and in my case, tears. The film is a testament to how Hubble has allowed us to see the wonders of our Universe.
I asked for reactions from the members of the audience following the premier showing of Hubble 3-D at the Kennedy Space Center IMAX, and while many commented on the amazing graphics, they also observed how small they felt in comparison to the rest of the Universe, but yet, incredibly an integral part of all that is.
The graphics were created by image processing specialists at Hubble’s Space Telescope Science Institute,– familiar names to those of us that follow Hubble : Frank Summers, Zolt Levay, Lisa Frattare, and Greg Bacon. They worked with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (more about them in a subsequent, upcoming article on Universe Today), and the Spitzer Science Center at the California Institute of Technology.
Hubble 3-D was directed by Toni Myers, who has been at the helm of all the space-themed IMAX movies, and narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio.
Go see the movie if you have the chance, and bring anyone who may not normally follow space exploration or astronomy. Their view of the Universe will never be the same.
For more info see the official Hubble 3-D IMAX website. Official trailer below.
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Charlotte Coffee House
Fish Fry?
By ilektronik, August 17, 2005 in Charlotte Coffee House
ilektronik 0
Location: Charlotte
I can't seem to find anywhere that does fish fry on friday's. I know it's a northerner/Catholic thing but I'm not even Catholic and still dig fish fries. So are there any mom&pop joints that do fish fries around here?
monsoon 0
Gigalopolis
Heh. There are only about a 1000 Fish Camps in the area. They are all packed on Friday nights but in reality that has nothing to do with religious dogma.
The South is not Catholic territory. When I was growing up, before the great Yankee Diaspora from the North started, it was extremely rare to run into anyone who was Catholic and when one did, they were regarded as strange people. "who would believe in that stuff?"
It wasn't until I went to work for a large NY based company that I learned about the Catholic religious ritual of not eating red meat on Fridays.
my story is similar to yours MB. I grew up in the DC area, where Catholics were also rare. My wife is from NY though and is Polish on top of that, so her family are "hardcore" Catholics. Being overwhelmingly non-religious myself, the concept of Fish Fry was odd at first, but now I love it lol It sort of became a tradition, instead of a religious thing, ya know??
skysdalimit 0
Location: Charlotte, NC, USA (the QC)
Yeah, there are a LOT of fish camps. Though some think they are "low-rent" (and some of the places are hole-in-the-wall joints) some are pretty good. Fox's over in Lincoln Co. east of Lincolnton is good. Captain Steve's in Fort Mill is also good.
nmcheese 0
Township Grille at the corner of Independence and HW51 (out near Matthews) on the Home Depot corner - used to only offer the fish-fry plates on Friday, but now it's an everyday thing. Fish/Fries/Hushpuppies/Coleslaw for ~$8 - and it's usually quite good too - crispy outside, not greasy inside.
DigitalSky 5
Yeah I didn't know much about Catholicism and some of my friends are, and they said they can't eat meat during lent.. yet they considered fish a meat, which i never understood.
Yeah, If it has a mother, it is meat.
Carolinagirl 0
OK, please help...
It was stated that there are 1000 fish camps in the area, but I have no idea how you find one. Can anyone recommend a few? Cap Steve's in Fort Mills was suggested and Township Grille (not a fish camp) was also mentioned earlier. But I'd like to have a few more suggestions. Also, are there any really in Charlotte? I've heard mention of Mooresville, Lincolnton etc...but I am not driving 60 miles round trip for a fish fry. Anything closer to South Charlotte?
teshadoh 0
Location: Louisville, CO
^ Part of the allure of fish camps is that they are in rural areas - but I don't know how many are still around Charlotte. Unfortunately I don't think it's there anymore - but there was a great fish camp in McAddenville. Also a popular fish camp was the Fish Hook north of Rock Hill in India Hook (though I recall it going down hill around '90).
But I had never heard of a 'fish fry' being a Catholic tradition - interesting. In Atlanta, in predominately Black areas - a fish fry is common on Friday. But oddly the term 'fish camp' is not known in Georgia, the closest traditional fish camps I've found was near SC near the Savannah River.
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You ROCK monsoon
nyxmike 16
I'm Italian/Catholic and we don't consider fish meat...
In my book, if it bleeds, it's meat! I don't know how profusely fish bleed though
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News Roundup: Dabur Closes In On Femcare, Jet May Sell 10% To Temasek
Dabur Closes In On Femcare - Dabur India is close to acquiring Fem Care Pharma for nearly Rs 300 crore and the deal is expected to be signed next week. Others in the race are Godrej Group and Marico. This is Daburs first acquisition sine 2005 and will help it expand in the
consumer care business.
Asianet To Buy English News Channel - The South-based regional news channel is set to acquire an English general news channel and a vernacular newspaper in South India. The comined deal size for both the deals is expected to be Rs 200 crore and funded mostly through debt. Asianet News is owned by Rajeev Chandrasekhar.
US Co To uy Diwan Chand- Radiology company Diwan Chand is in talks to sellout to US-based Allied Medical Services. Diwan Chand Imaging Services, a Delhi-based radiology and has centres in the NCR region with sales of around Rs 40 crore last year. The deal size is expected to be $25-30 million.
Zydus Cadilla Buys Italian Co - Zydus has acquired Etna Biotech, the wholly-owned subsidiary of Dutch biopharma company Crucell. Crucell is focused on biologicals, and has also entered the vaccine space. This is Zydus Cadilla's first acquisition in the research space.
Jet May Sell 10% To Temasek - India's largest airlines Jet Airways may sell 10% stake to the Singapore government-owned Temasek Holdings. Jet is expecting to raise Rs 250 crore from the stake sale, with valuation of Rs 2,500 crore. The stake sale is likely to take place through
issue of fresh shares. Another report has said that Jet may raise Rs 1,000 crore debt from Abu Dhabi-based Mubadala Development Co.
Fidelity Ups Stake In EXL Services - The asset management firm has picked up an additional 6.77% stake in Nasdaq-listed BPO firm ExlService Holdings. upping its sake to 21.77%. Private Equity firm Oak Hill holds a 36.5% stake in the firm. The deal size for stake acquisition is expected to be $10-14 million.
Bloom In Gloom
Metlife To Hire 33,000 - US-based Metlife Insurance is planning to hire 30,000 agents and 3,000 managers in the next two months in India. It is also planning to take advantage of the slump in the real estate market and double its branches from 191.
StanC Buys Mumbai Property For Rs 750 Cr - Multinational bank Standard Chartered has bought close to 2.5 lakh sq ft of office space in Mumbai's Bandra-Kurla Complex (BKC) for Rs 750 crore. The propertyhas been bought from PD Developers at around Rs 30,000 a sq ft. One of the largest deals in the presently weak real estate markets, it is more than 33% less than the previous deals in the same area.
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Is Ethernet King? You Bet It Is, And It’s Only Getting Better
By Rita Mailheau Networking, Technology Ethernet, Ethernet Alliance, Ethernet Applications, Ethernet interoperability, IEEE, PoE, Power over ethernet
The Ethernet Alliance (EA) recently announced the 45-year anniversary of the Ethernet movement. And just for the record, they’re only getting started. The benefits of delivering low power and data delivery over one cable have not diminished. In fact, it’s safe to say these advantages are just as relevant in the age of green as they were back in their earliest days of development. The EA incorporated in 2005, in the State of California.
This article will discuss some of the takeaways from their May 2018 Global Consortium in Pittsburgh PA. The discussion about continuing interoperability centers on five areas.
Building and industrial
Ethernet interoperability
As a review, interoperability is an industrywide standards-practice whereby consumers can interchange components from different vendors seamlessly. You’re not tied to one manufacturer. You have to give the manufacturing community credit for their practical boldness.
Anyone reading this who is old enough to remember the VCR versus the Betamax video player will understand the cost and frustration that resulted from multiple video player formats.
Proprietary thinking eventually backfired on SONY. While other manufacturers adhered to the VCR format, the Japanese tech giant watched their video player die a slow and painful death, despite the valid argument that Betamax video quality was better.
The importance of having one standard
One standard saves much grief. Industry-defined Power over Ethernet (PoE) certification ensures that all equipment is not only interchangeable, but also those performance standards are kept high.
Performance is only the half of it. The Ethernet Alliance has also led the charge on the naming and labeling for each generation of new Ethernet technology.
They have provided an industry-defined test plan that ensures that when a customer reads IEEE 802.3, they know they are getting the quality guarantee of PoE rated technology.
Further, each of these labels gives insight as to the type and class of equipment a buyer is getting.
Now let’s move on to the industries where these advances are playing out.
Ethernet in automotive
By 2019, the EA forecasts an impressive 500 million ports of Ethernet will ship in 119 million vehicles. Ethernet will allow all of the systems to “talk” to one another, and most especially the automated systems. That means, a lot of speed and a lot of throughputs to synchronize all systems together.
What is Gbe?
Gbe is short for Gigabit Ethernet. It is a version of the Ethernet technology used in discussions of local area networks (LANs). It breaks down rates for transmitting Ethernet frames at 1 Gbps. This term describes that backbone in most networks, including behemoth enterprises found in large organizations.
Ethernet is expected to surpass 400 Gbe. Essentially that car will be its own LAN reaching data speeds of 400 x the current 1 Gbps rate.
Ethernet enterprises
The bulk of all PoE purchases occur in business and campus settings. Hundreds of millions of ports ship each year, including BASE-T products. One clear advantage for implementing Ethernet in longstanding structures is the reuse of existing copper cabling found in the walls from the big telecom era.
An added 70 billion meters of cable has been deployed between servers and networks over the past decade-and-a-half through the use of twisted pair cable.
What is BASE-T?
BASE-T is a type of Ethernet networking technology. The leading number indicates transmission speeds. For example, 10BASE-T means transmission speeds are 10 Mbit/s. BASE denotes signals of a near-zero frequency range. The T indicates twisted pair cable, where twisting reduces electromagnetic interference and crosstalk between pairs.
Ethernet in the cloud
Cloud providers have adopted 10Gbe servers on a large scale. High-speed network connectivity allows seamless redundancy at a moment’s notice. Server redundantly spread across far-flung geo-locations will enable providers 100 percent uptime when disaster hits.
What is cloud technology?
Cloud technology is another name for remote networking over the Internet. The way it works is that instead of running programs and storing data on local servers, end users run everything over an Internet connection to servers farms and software service provider platforms.
Gigabyte speeds continue to increase. Current networking architectures within these warehouse-scale data centers have driven multiple multimode and single-mode fiber solutions at 100, 200, and 400 Gbe. Demands of hyperscale service providers are rapidly expanding.
What is hyperscale?
Hyperscale computing distributes networks across far-reaching facilities and efficiently provisions data from just a few servers to thousands as required by the customer. Hyperscale computing is big in the data and cloud computing disciplines.
Ethernet in building and industrial applications
Lean manufacturing continually looks for ways to measure performance. Cameras and sensors play a significant role. Installing these remote low-power industrial devices is why PoE continues to gain ground in this sector.
The goal is always increasing customer value. Ethernet brings greater efficiency with fewer resources. That’s what is driving the adoption of PoE in the industrial space.
The EA projects robust sales of 165 million ports in this sector for 2019.
Ethernet used by Internet service providers
The credit for increased Ethernet speeds rests squarely on the shoulders of the ISP provider. To enhance their competitive advantage, telecoms are also driving the integration of optical transport and wireless solution development.
As a result, Ethernet technology developers continue to strive for higher speeds, throughput, and distances to meet these demands.
It all boils down to one thing—customers want to stream video, and that appetite will only continue to skyrocket bandwidth consumption for the foreseeable future.
Final thoughts on Ethernet development
Along with reviews and discussions of current projects, and the installation of team members, the EA launched two new task forces during the consortium:
IEEE P802.3ck 100 Gb/s, 200 Gb/s, and 400 Gb/s Electrical Interfaces Task Force – specifying electrical interfaces based on 100 Gb/s signaling
IEEE P802.3cm 400 Gb/s over Multimode Fiber Task Force – defining lower-cost higher data rate and density optical solutions
It will be interesting to watch these new projects unfold and witness the advantages from an end user perspective that these refinements will bring to these 5 sectors.
If you would like help putting together an equipment list for your client installation, feel free to contact us.
Monika@axm761 Reply
Ethernet can be a king because it is a provider of all the network. Due to it’s maintenance and efficiency it can proved to be the best internet service considered.
clint Reply
Ethernet cabling will be around for along time. Physical security is easier to keep safe than wireless. You can keep them out of your building but not always out of your parking lot or wifi range. Also cables are getting more efficient such as Cat6A. Some manufacturers are coming out with Ethernet lighting which has traditionally been electrical.
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Cahoon Museum of American Art 4676 Falmouth Road 508-428-7581 Cotuit Seasonal. Reopens end of March. 10 – 4 Tuesday – Saturday; 1 – 4 Sunday. Collection of 19th-century American art and primitive paintings by Ralph and Martha Cahoon. Regular exhibitions and part of permanent collection on view, as well as gift shop. Yearly Brush Off summer festival with auction, artists painting live, food, and music on Cotuit Village Green. Museum Admission: General $10, seniors & students $8, Members and children under 12 free.
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Coast Guard Heritage Museum 3353 Main St, Route 6A 508-362-8521 Barnstable Village Opens May 1st. Hours: 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays. Mission is to preserve and share story of U.S. Coast Guard from 18th-century Revolutionary War period into the modern era. Exhibits and artifacts on display, including scale-model ships, aircraft, navigation lights, lightships, lighthouses, ships bells, artwork, books, commemorative coins, more. Newly expanded Vietnam War exhibit and history of War of 1812. Blacksmith Jim Ellis working his forge in old Carriage House. Gift shop. Admission: $5. Children age 10 or under and active duty Coast Guard personnel admitted free.
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19th Century Battle Reports
Battle Report: 16th November 2001
Egyptian ~vs~ Mahdist
(Dave Lancaster ~vs~ Robert Avery)
Fig.'s Org. Class Weapons Pts/Fig Points
. CinC
. .. . 100 100
1st 2inC 1 50 50
Brigade 1st Battalion 20 4x5 RegC blr 10 240
2nd Battalion 24 4x6 RegC blr 10 280
3rd Battalion 24 4x6 RegC blr 10 280
Attach'd Cavalry 12 2x6 RegC s, l, blc 15 200
Attach'd Artillery 2 2x1 RegC light blrb FA 89 198
2nd 2inC 1 50 50
Mahdist
Fig.'s
Org.
Pts/Fig
Tribal Brown Henandoah 36 1x36 FanA sw/sp, sh 8 303
Group White Henandoah 36 1x36 FanB sw/sp, sh 7 267
Tribal Blue Flag 32 1x32 IrregB sw/sp, sh, blr 10 335
Group Green Flag 32 1x32 IrregB sw/sp, sh, blr 10 335
Purple Flag 32 1x32 IrregC sw/sp, sh 4 143
Red Flag 32 1x32 IrregC sw/sp, sh 4 143
Yellow Flag 32 1x32 IrregC sw/sp, sh 4 143
Horse 1st Unit 10 1x10 IrregA l, sw, sh, arm., mlr 14 155
2nd Unit 10 1x10 IrregA l, sw, sh, arm., mlr 14 155
Artillery Tribal Guns 3 1x3 IrregC light blrb FA 107 336
Ammo Wagon 1 50 50
. Egyptian Mahdist
Foot 2800 4640
Horse 480 400
Guns 8 6
Neither side out-scouted, so set up was simultaneous.
The Egyptians formed a line of infantry across the centre of the battlefield (from right to left, 1st/1st; 1st/3rd; 2nd/3rd), immediately supported on their left flank by the 2nd/1st in column and the 2nd Brigade's artillery. On their right flank, they had a "horn" of half the cavalry from each brigade and the 1st/2nd in column; on their left flank, they had a "horn" of the other half of the cavalry supported by the 2nd/2nd in column. The 1st Brigade artillery were way at the back on the right, occupying a small hill.
The Mahdists formed a rough line across their side of the battlefield. From left to right, they had the two Henandoah units; followed by the Blue, Green and Red Flag units supported by the Yellow and Purple Flag units; followed by the artillery and then the cavalry.
As battle commenced. both sides advanced forwards quickly, with the Mahdist artillery occupying a small hill on their side of the field, and the two Egyptians flanking "horns" moving forwards at the double. The 1st Brigade artillery also realised at this point that they were too far away to do any good, so began to extricate themselves from the positions they had occupied on the hill.
The Mahdist line then halted, drums falling silent, obviously not keen to get into the range of the Egyptian breech-loaders, waiting for their opponents to close.
The Egyptian line carried on moving forward, and some effective artillery fire briefly routed the Red Flag tribesmen before the Mahdist CinC rallied them at the edge of the field. The Purple Flag tribesmen took their place in the Mahdist front line.
At this point, however, the Egyptian right "horn" got a bit overenthusiastic and came just a little too close to the two fanatical Henandoah units. The 240 Egyptian Lancers charged forward, but changed their mind as 1440 screaming madmen charged at them!
Unfortunately the retreat of the Lancers shielded the charging fanatics from the sight of the 1st/2nd battalion of Egyptian infantry. They saw the Henandoah tribesmen too late to form a proper line and were smashed from the field in a crush of mangled fezs!
Half the Henandoah charged after the still retreating cavalry, but the other half had a better target: the now exposed right flank of the main Egyptian line! Not pausing for a second, they fell onto the rear of the 1st/1st!
Meanwhile, the first lot of Henandoah had disposed of the Egyptian cavalry: catching them in a bloody melee as the horsemen tried to form up. They then found themselves under the guns of the 1st Brigade's artillery, finally down on the field after wrestling their guns down the slopes of their hill. The fanatics charged again, but just didn't have enough "umph" any more. The guns canistered them into little pieces!
On the other side of the field, things had progressed slowly but steadily: the Mahdist guns had been routed by infantry and artillery fire, but not before disposing of the rest of the Egyptian cavalry with a few well-aimed shots, including a hit of "unexpected devastation". Otherwise, the Egyptian battle-line was now fully deployed and ready to move forward.
However, they never got their chance. When we last left the centre of the field, the Brown-clad Henandoah unit was about to fall on the rear of the other end of the Egyptian line. They did, and the 1st/1st broke and ran; followed by the 1st/3rd; 2nd/3rd; and 2nd/1st. A horrendous domino effect occurred as the Fanatics rolled up the Egyptian line.
The rest of the Mahdist line now moved forward and the Egyptians were caught on two sides. It's fair to say that only the 1st Brigade artillery would have escaped the massacre that followed!
The Egyptians lost 300 infantry; 80 cavalry; and one battery of artillery: a total of 460 casualties (although large numbers of them would have been massacred fleeing the field!).
The Mahdists lost 320 Henandoah tribesmen; 180 other tribesmen; 80 horse; and 120 artillerymen: a total of 700 casualties.
A victory for the Mahdists.
This was a battle won by the commander who made least mistakes.
The Egyptians threw away their superiority in artillery by placing the 1st Brigade's battery where it could do nothing; and then allowed his right "horn" to get too far ahead of his main line, and had bunched its infantry and cavalry components too close together.
Once the Fanatics had got behind the main Egyptian battle-line, the result was a foregone conclusion: helped by the fact that the Egyptians were sluggish to react to the Henandoah threat, still concentrating on moving forward.
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Politicians are calling for an investigation into whether the US government experimented with weaponised insects.
Source link : http://news.sky.com/story/calls-for-probe-into-us-govt-weaponising-insects-to-spread-disease-11764918
A parent thought to be the first transgender man seeking to be named as father rather than mother on his child’s birth certificate has lost his bid to keep his identity secret.
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The level of care shown to elderly crime victims is not good enough in more than half of cases, according to a report.
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Filing for NC-09 over with 10 Republican candidates, McCready sole Democrat
By David Hodges | March 15, 2019 at 12:29 PM EDT - Updated March 15 at 10:14 PM
CHARLOTTE, NC (WBTV) - Friday is the last day for candidates to file in the North Carolina’s new 9th Congressional District election.
Ten Republicans entered the race. Dan McCready is the sole Democrat. The election comes after the State Board of Elections voted unanimously in favor of a new election after a hearing on election fraud and absentee ballot tampering in Bladen County.
Here’s the list of current candidates. Republicans are listed in order of how they will appear on the primary ballot.
Dan McCready (D)
Stevie Rivenbark Hull (R)
Matthew Ridenhour (R)
Stony Rushing (R)
Fern Shubert (R)
Albert Lee Whitley Jr (R)
Chris Anglin (R)
Dan Bishop (R)
Leigh Thomas Brown (R)
Kathie C Day (R)
Gary Dunn (R)
Allen Smith (GRE)
Jeff Scott (LIB)
While the election takes place the US House of Representative Office of the Clerk announced it will provide constituency services for people living in the 9th Congressional District.
WBTV obtained a copy of an internal memo confirming the move. The memo says that while there is no Congressional member is representing the district the congressional office will operate under control of the clerk and provide constituent services.
Right now it’s unclear if that means local offices will open or just the Washington DC office.
David Hodges
Investigative Reporter
David is an Investigative Reporter at WBTV. He focuses on local government in Mecklenburg County and consumer issues.
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Tennessee eliminated after 5-2 loss to North Carolina in Regional final
by: Marshall Hughes
Posted: Jun 3, 2019 / 02:08 AM CDT / Updated: Jun 3, 2019 / 02:08 AM CDT
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (WATE) – Tennessee got into an early hole and was unable to come back in a 5-2 loss to North Carolina in the NCAA Regional final on Sunday at Boshamer Stadium.
The loss ends the Vols season, one where Tennessee got off to its best start in program history and reached the postseason for the first time since 2005.
Zach Linginfelter, a former Sevier County standout who was making his postseason debut, got off to a rocky start against the Tar Heels. The 6-foot-5 right-hander threw five past balls in the first inning, the fifth scoring a run and giving North Carolina a 4-0 lead.
After Ashton McGee’s 2 RBI single got North Carolina on the board, Dylan Harris chipped in with an RBI single to right field. Harris, a Hardin Valley Academy alum, transferred to UNC from Walters State.
Tony Vitello pulled Lingingfelter with two outs in the first inning and turned to Morristown West alum Will Heflin. The junior held the Tar Heels scoreless over three innings of work, giving up one hit to go with three strikeouts.
Tennessee got its first run on the board before it tallied its first hit. After Alerick Soularie walked in the second inning, the left fielder would trot home from third on a past ball to make it a 4-1 game.
After Jay Charleston broke Austin Bergner’s no-hitter in the fourth inning, Soularie added an RBI single to center, cutting the Tar Heels’ lead to 4-2 in the fourth.
But Tennessee would not get much going after that. Austin Bergner struck out eight over seven innings before Joey Lancellotti closed the game. The Vols had the tying run at the plate in the ninth inning
Vanderbilt basketball's future just got a lot bigger with the addition of a pair of 6-10 forwards.
Tuesday Vanderbilt announced forward Quentin Millora-Brown is transferring from Rice and Oton Jankovic from Croatia signed a national letter of intent.
by Kayla Anderson / Jul 16, 2019
In this Sports Digital Extra report, News 2's Kayla Anderson takes us inside SEC Media Days, where the Tennessee Volunteers were one of four teams in the spotlight on Tuesday.
The Vols return 17 starters, one of those include quarterback Jarrett Guarantano, who is expected to take big steps forward this season.
In this Sports Digital Extra report, News 2's Kayla Anderson takes us inside Day 2 of SEC Media Days in Hoover, Alabama. The Tennessee Volunteers were one of the highlighted teams on Tuesday. Head Coach Jeremy Pruitt knows expectations haven grown in his second year at U-T and he's confident in what this team can do this season.
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Three Hitox Directors Are Ousted By Shareholders; Fourth Resigns
a Wall Street Journal Staff Reporter
Updated June 2, 1999 1:15 am ET
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas -- Shareholders owning more than 50% of Hitox Corp. ousted three directors who had supported the sale of the company, and a fourth director resigned at a meeting of the new board.
A group of shareholders led by two current directors of Hitox, a pigments maker, engineered the coup to block the sale of Hitox to Zemex Corp. Zemex increased its offer to $3 a share on April 16 from $2.50 on April 5.
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The Big Match Preview - AFC Wimbledon
All you need to know about the trip to the Cherry Red Records Stadium on Saturday (k.o. 3pm).
AFC Wimbledon vs Wycombe Wanderers
Saturday 21st November 2015, k.o. 3pm
Cherry Red Records Stadium
Referee: Phil Gibbs
Two supporter-owned clubs go head-to-head managed by old friends from the famous 'Crazy Gang' days - but the sentiment gets pushed aside for 90 minutes as both teams look to build momentum after a positive run of results.
The Wombles have collected 10 points from their last four league games, losing just once in their previous five matches on home turf, although they did suffer a setback in the FA Cup when they were knocked out in the first round by Conference side Forest Green.
Wycombe meanwhile are looking for a third consecutive away win after their triumphs at Mansfield and Halifax in league and cup respectively which have set them back on track after a wobbly run of results in October.
Neal Ardley was appointed Wimbledon boss just 16 days after Gareth Ainsworth took the helm at Adams Park, and the former team-mates have both made great progress throughout their respective stints, with Ardley steering his side away from relegation candidates into a squad ready for a promotion push.
The hosts will be without suspended midfielder Jake Reeves but striker Tom Elliott is likely to return after injury, while Ainsworth will hope to have a fully-fit squad to choose from after Anthony Stewart made his first appearance in three months in last week's match with Leeds United.
Wanderers have never won in the league at AFC Wimbledon and their three meetings last season were evenly matched, with one win apiece (Wycombe in the league, Wimbledon in the cup) and a 0-0 draw in April.
Wanderers sold 556 tickets in advance but fans will be available to buy on arrival for the Your Golf Travel Terrace.
Standing:
Adults - £16
Over 65s and students - £10
By Adrian Wood
*Why not grab a seat in a fellow fan's car, or offer a lift of your own, using the Liftshare service approved by the Football League?*
Recommended road directions
Head towards London on the M40. Leave the motorway at Junction 1A then take right-hand lane, and then join the M25 anticlockwise following signs to ‘Heathrow’. Continue to Junction 10 and take the A3 northbound towards London. At the exit for New Malden/Worcester Park, turn off and take the left into Malden Road (A2043) towards Kingston. Follow this to the next roundabout. Take the first exit into Kingston Road (A2043 still) and the stadium is one mile on the left.
Mileage from High Wycombe = 44
Recommended area for car parking
The car park at the Cherry Red Records Stadium is free to use, but can be full up to 90 minutes before kick-off. Street parking is available in the local area, however please park considerately if using local roads.
Using the train?
The nearest railway station is Norbiton which is less than a mile from The Cherry Red Records Stadium. Trains run from Waterloo every 15 minutes via Clapham Junction and Wimbledon. Leave the station via the back exit, and take the first left onto Norbiton Avenue. Turn right at the end onto Gloucester Road, and walk down to Kingston Road, turn left, and the stadium is 400 yards on the right. New Malden station is also within walking distance.
Facilities for away fans
The ground capacity is 4,850 (2,265 seats). Away fans are housed in the Your Golf Travel Terrace at one side of the pitch. This small shallow terrace is partly covered to the rear, with open standing areas on each side. Note that the away terrace is not accessible by going through the main entrance into the stadium car park. Away fans should instead continue going along Kingston Road (keeping the main entrance on the right) and take the next right into Jack Goodchild Way. In addition seats are normally available in the new John Green Stand, adjacent to the East terrace.
Facilities around the ground
There are two bars inside the main stand and away supporters are usually admitted. There is not much around the stadium. An option is to visit Kingston or New Malden town centres – bus number 131 goes past the ground from both towns. On New Malden High Street there is a Wetherspoons outlet called the Watchman which is located near to the Fountain roundabout on the 131 bus route.
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As Mentioned in Episode 242 – Spider-Mansfield Park
April 7, 2019 As Mentioned, As Mentioned One comment
Okay, then. (Spider-Man and X-Factor: Shadow Games #1)
…Actually, yeah, it does kind of look like Jello. (Spider-Man and X-Factor: Shadow Games #1)
Flash Thompson should probably not be left in charge of children. (Spider-Man and X-Factor: Shadow Games #1)
These charming reprobates. (Spider-Man and X-Factor: Shadow Games #1)
This is also what he does when he sees someone parked illegally. (Spider-Man and X-Factor: Shadow Games #1)
I’m not sure exactly what is happening with Havok’s hair in this panel, but it is not okay. (Spider-Man and X-Factor: Shadow Games #1)
I bet JJJ smells like an ashtray, like, ALL the time. (Spider-Man and X-Factor: Shadow Games #1)
Spider-Man: He’s Not Phil (Spider-Man and X-Factor: Shadow Games #1)
“Seriously, have you MET us?” (Spider-Man and X-Factor: Shadow Games #2)
He looks like such a reprobate. It’s great. (Spider-Man and X-Factor: Shadow Games #2)
“By the hoary hosts of Hearst!” (Spider-Man and X-Factor: Shadow Games #3)
“In other breaking news, I have bizarrely tiny hands!” (Spider-Man and X-Factor: Shadow Games #3)
Aw, poor Mirrorfacemaskperson. (Spider-Man and X-Factor: Shadow Games #3)
I really thought I was losing my mind briefly; but compare Havok’s hair on this page… (Spider-Man and X-Factor: Shadow Games #3)
…and the subsequent page. (Spider-Man and X-Factor: Shadow Games #3)
It’s like a fight, right? (Spider-Man and X-Factor: Shadow Games #3)
WHOOPS. (Spider-Man and X-Factor: Shadow Games #3)
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242 – Spider-Mansfield Park
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In which we encounter one of comics’ greatest rarities; Spider-Man cannot actually do whatever a spider can; Flash Thompson subscribes to the X-Factor school of child endangerment; alliteration is the source of a very specific sort of powers; Spider-Man is not Phil; guilt is Spider-Man’s greatest motivator; we root for the antagonists; Guido Carosella would be an epic Twitter monster; a lot of people have hung out with the X-Men; and Glob Herman is a lovable, gross mystery.
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The Ultimate Guide to New York City’s Fall Fitness Openings
by Lisa Elaine Held, September 3, 2013
More than a dozen fitness spots will debut this fall—from barre studios in Brooklyn to boutique rowing in Union Square. Here's your guide to them all.
Labor Day Weekend is officially over, and that means it’s back to class. Fitness class, that is. And this fall, New York City will be flush with new workouts and fitness studios to sweat and sculpt in.
More than a dozen workout spots and gyms will debut in the coming months. (For some perspective, in fall 2012, we reported six new openings.) The new ones this season? They include barre studios in Brooklyn, boutique rowing in Union Square, and dance cardio in Soho. CrossFit is ever expanding, as expected, and indoor cycling is also seeing a big boom, with even more locations of the big-name studios and a handful of newcomers to the heart-pumping pedaling market.
We scoured the scene (and broke a sweat) to bring you this ultimate guide to New York City’s fall fitness studio openings, listed in alphabetical order. Some back-t0-gym shopping may be in order… —Lisa Elaine Held
Note: Because these locations are not yet open, most photos are of the brand represented, not the actual new studios.
AKT in Motion
52 Mercer St., at Broome, Soho (Upper East Side opening TBD)
Opening: September 9
Celebrity cardio dance trainer Anna Kaiser (whose clients include Sarah Jessica Parker and Kelly Ripa) has been working on establishing a home base for a while. On September 9, she’ll get slightly closer to that goal when she moves her classes, currently held at Ripley Grier dance studios, to an 800-square-foot pop-up studio inside CitiBabes Soho. Morning and evening classes and private sessions will be held at the pop-up until her permanent studio opens on the Upper East Side later this fall. (More details on that soon!) www.aktinmotion.com
Blink Fitness
32-27 Steinway St., between Broadway and 34th Ave., Astoria
308 Eigth Ave., between 25th and 26th Sts., Chelsea
2374 Grand Concourse, Bronx
Opening: Astoria in November; Chelsea and Grand Concourse in December
Equinox’s budget gym, which debuted at Astor Place in 2011, is in rapid expansion mode, with close to 10 locations anticipated in the tri-state area over the next quarter. The gyms cost between just $15 and $25 per month for membership, are clean and modern, and all have more than 150 pieces of strength and cardio equipment. You just won’t find a group fitness schedule. But for those obsessed with SLT or YogaMaya classes, it’s a great option for when you just need a place to hit the treadmill. Blink also has one of the best personal training deals in the city. www.blinkfitness.com
Bradford Method
1080 Park Avenue, at 88th Street, Upper East Side
Opening: September 23
Shonda Bradford’s popular Bradford Method, which she currently teaches in the Hamptons and out of her uptown apartment, finally gets a real Manhattan home this fall. The Upper East Side location will offer semi-private classes on the Garuda (a Megaformer-esque muscle-isolating machine that’s the only one of its kind in the city), trampoline barre classes, and private sessions. www.bradfordmethod.com
ChaiseFitness at the 92Y
1395 Lexington Ave., between 91st and 92nd Sts., Upper East Side
Opening: Mid-October
Popular Flatiron studio Chaise 23 has a new name, ChaiseFitness, and is bringing its tricked-out Pilates chair workout to a new studio located on the ground floor of the 92nd Street Y. While the studio is inside the facility, it will operate a stand-alone business, so you don’t have to be a member of the 92Y’s gym. The new studio will host 50 classes a week to start out and familiar instructors from the 23rd Street location, including mother-daughter founding team Lauren and Rachel Piskin. www.chaise23.com
CityRow
Exact address TBD, Union Square
Opening: Late October
Fitness classes based on rowing machines are about to have a moment in the city. There’s the recent opening of Brooklyn Crew, plus Throwback Fitness in preview mode and on the hunt for studio space, and now CityRow (originally called Row NYC), debuting in Union Square this fall. (Because the ink isn’t completely dry yet, the owners were not ready to share the exact address.) “CityRow will be offering a range of classes that will each leverage the water-based WaterRower and then combine it with yoga, Pilates, or sculpt movements, delivering a true total-body workout,” says founder Helaine Knapp. www.cityrow.com
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281 Broadway, between Reade and Chambers, Tribeca
Tribeca’s popular CrossFit 212 quickly outgrew its original space on Franklin Street and is now opening a second location in order to meet demand and keep class sizes small. The new Broadway box is 5,000 square feet and like its big brother, will also offer CrossFit classes for kids as well as yoga. www.212crossfit.com
CrossFit NYC
157 Columbus Ave., at W. 67th St., Upper West Side
CrossFit NYC, on 28th Street, is the largest CrossFit gym (or box, in CF-speak) in the world, and it’s only just started its reign of heavy lifting. To better accommodate massive membership rolls, it’s opening a gigantic 12,000-square-foot location across from Reebok Sports Club/NY. The space is currently in “soft-launch” mode and is already at 50 percent capacity in terms of membership. www.crossfitnyc.com
Crunch Bowery
2 Cooper Square, at Bowery and E. 4th St., Noho
Opening: September/October
Crunch is closing its popular Lafayette Street gym and opening a two-story location on the Bowery, just a few blocks away. Like its recently opened Chelsea, gym, it will be built from scratch, which means members will be treated to a shiny new feel as they head to the gym’s array of creative fitness classes. www.crunchbowery.com
David Barton Christopher Street
668 Greenwich St., at Christopher St., West Village
Opening: Fall
David Barton is expanding its chain of chandelier and disco-ball equipped gyms into the West Village, with a Christopher Street location that will be slightly smaller than its Chelsea and Astor Place spaces. The brand says the new club will have more of an intimate, neighborhood feel, but “with all of the bells and whistles you have come to expect from a David Barton Gym.” Representatives would not confirm a more specific open date just yet. www.davidbartongym.com
415 Greenwich St., at Hubert St., Tribeca, 150 Amsterdam Ave., at W. 66th St., Upper West Side
Opening: Tribeca in November, UWS in December
Flywheel is debuting a pair of shiny new studios on opposite ends of Manhattan so that New Yorkers won’t have to venture far to work on their TorqBoard scores. Current instructors will circulate among the new and old studios, and, most importantly, the Upper West Side location will also include a Flybarre studio, the brand’s second in the city. www.flywheelsports.com
Peloton Cycle
140 W. 23rd St., between Sixth and Seventh Aves., Chelsea
Opening: December
The company that’s revolutionizing at-home cycling with its seriously tech-saavy bike is making its first move into live group fitness classes. And it’s setting up shop it in the heart of New York’s boutique fitness scene, just blocks from stalwart studios like Flywheel and SoulCycle. The 5,200-square-foot location will feature locker rooms, a lounge, a juice bar, and an integrated video-streaming studio. Not to mention retail space where you can purchase a Peloton bike to take the experience home with you. www.pelotoncycle.com
Pure Barre Brooklyn
266 Court St., at Butler St., Cobble Hill
This nationally-known barre brand now has two locations in Manhattan—in Union Square and at Columbus Circle—and it’s expanding its New York presence to the outer borough of Brooklyn this October. The storefront location will include a 1,000-square-foot classroom, lockers and changing rooms, and a large area devoted to retail. www.purebarre.com
SoulCycle Union Square 2
8 W. 19th St., between Fifth and Sixth Ave., Flatiron
Opening: November 20
The demand for Soul’s spiritually-infused, indoor-cycling sweat sessions is so high that the company’s opening a second Union Square location just over a block away from its 18th Street studio (which is currently operating 13 packed classes per day). The new space is a massive 5,000-square feet, with 63 bikes and 10 showers. SoulCycle is also opening two suburb studios this fall—in Rye Brook in Westchester and Short Hills, New Jersey. www.soul-cycle.com
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Swerve Fitness
30 W. 18th St., between Fifth and Sixth Aves., Flatiron
Opening: November 1
This newcomer to the indoor-cycling scene is opening a two-story studio with 3,500 square feet of space that will be built to encourage a social experience. So, it will have a juice and smoothie bar with cafe seating and free WiFi. A bring-your-friends mentality will extend into classes, which will feature a “team” element, although the details of class structure are still being worked out. Says co-founder Eric Posner, “Look forward to how Swerve will incorporate technology into the team experience.” He also says to expect full-service locker rooms. www.swervefitness.com
Photo: Lisa Elaine Held for Well+Good
Xtend Barre
147 Remsen St., at Clinton St., Brooklyn Heights
National barre brand, Xtend Barre, is coming to New York City for the first time. Its method involves more Pilates and dance-based moves than others on the booming barre scene. The Brooklyn studio will have three classrooms and will also offer contemporary mat Pilates classes. www.xtendbarrebh.com
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The Story: In 1928, Massachusetts water authorities began land takings for the construction of the Quabbin Reservoir, in the Swift River Valley. Unknown to the authorities was the fact that, subsisting in the more remote, forested tracts of the valley, there was a secretive band of mixed-race hunter-gatherers who had been there for over ten generations. Mitchell's book is the story of the exodus of this tribe and the young anthropologist who first discovers them. The novel takes the form of a legal deposition, taken at the Everglades City Court House, in 1929, concerning the fate of these people.
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21 Years Constructing The "Giant Puzzle of Stone"
Kalasan, Sleman, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
After being buried under the earth for hundreds of years, the first slab of the stone was discovered in 1966. It took 21 years to excavate and construct hundreds of "puzzle" pieces of the stones before Sambisari temple finally stands firmly.
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Mr. Karyowinangun did not have any hunch of what was going to happen on one early morning in 1966. When he was preparing the ground for cultivation with his hoe, he felt it bumping a big stone. When he checked it, he saw carvings on the stone. Karyowinangun and the local people wondered about the existence of the stone.
Knowing the discovery, the archeological department came to the site and defined Karyowinangun's field to be archeological site. The carved stone was supposed to be part of a temple that possibly was buried in the area. Excavation was then executed to find hundreds slabs of stone and ancient statues. It turned to be true that those stones were components of a temple.
After 21 years, we can enjoy the beauty of the temple. The temple building named Sambisari stands grandly in Sambisari Village, Purwomartani Sub-District, Kalasan District, Sleman Regency, 10 kilometer away from Yogyakarta city center. You can reach this place by going eastward through the Yogya-Solo road until you see a signboard directing to this temple. Then, you turn left to follow the road.
Arriving at the area of the temple, YogYES first got surprised. Looking at the center of the temple area, there was an only pile of stones of less than 2 meters high. YogYES wondered if it Sambisari temple was that small? Approaching nearer, we will find the answer. In fact, Sambisari temple is 6,5 meters below the surrounding land.
Sambisari temple is predicted to be constructed between 812 - 838 AD, possibly under the government of Rakai Garung. The complex of the temple consists of 1 main temple and 3 supporting temples. There are 2 fences surrounding the temple complex, on the fences was totally reconstructed, while the other was only showed a little in the east side of the temple. Still function as borders, there are 8 stand phalluses distributed in each point of direction.
The main temple building is unique since it does not have shoe basement like other temples in Java. At the same time, the foot of the temple functions as the foundation to make the temple even on the ground. The foot part of the temple is left plain, without reliefs or decorations. Various elements most of them are of plants ornaments are found on the body to the outer part of the temple top. The ornaments look like batik motif.
Stepping up the stairs of the entrance of the temple, we will see an ornament of a dragon in the open mouth of makara (the magical animal in Hindu mythology). The figure of makara in Sambisari is an evolution of the makara form in India that can be in the form of a unification of elephant and fish or a crocodile and curved-tail fish.
The narrow verandah as wide as 1 meter will be found after passing through the last stair of the main temple entrance. Walking around it, you will see 3 cavities with one statue in each of them. In the north part, there is a statue of Durga (the wife of Siva) with 8 hands each of which is holding a weapon. Meanwhile, in the east side, there is Ganesha statue (son of Durga). In the southern side, there is Agastya statue with aksamala on his neck.
Entering the primary compartment of the temple, we can see quite big phallus and yoni measuring at around 1.5 meters. Its existence shows that this temple was build as the place for worshipping Siva. The phallus and the yoni behind this temple were also used to make the holy water. Usually, the water is poured on the phallus and let flow toward the small ditch on the yoni, then it is accommodated in a container.
Exiting from the main temple to go westwards, we will be able to see the three supporting temples (perwara) standing in the opposite direction. There was a prediction that this perwara temple was intentionally constructed without roof because when excavation was done, no roof stones were discovered. The inner part of the central supporting temples (perwara) has a square saucer decorated with dragon ornament and a padmasana on it. Possibly, padmasana and the saucers were utilized as places for statues or offerings.
When we have been satisfied with enjoying the beauty of the temple, we may leave for the information room. Some photographs featuring the rice field owned by Mr. Karyowinangun before the excavation and the early condition of the temple at the early time of the discovery. There are also photographs of the excavation processes and the temple reconstruction that lasted for tens of years, including the photographs of other goods such as bronze statues found during the excavation that are kept in Building of Archeological Heritance Preservation.
The beauty of Sambisari temple that we can enjoy at present time is the result of hard works of the archeologists for 21 years. The temple that initially looked like a giant puzzle was reconstructed piece by piece for the continuation of one more heritance of the great culture in the past.
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A.I.’s Minority Report for retail: They know you’ll return it even before you buy it
Retail can be a game, a game that Indian online apparel retailer Myntra is learning to play better by predicting people's propensity to return what's in their shopping cart before they purchase, and using rewards and punishments to block returns.
By Tiernan Ray | July 6, 2019 -- 15:31 GMT (08:31 PDT) | Topic: Artificial Intelligence
Like something out of the movie "Minority Report," where killers are apprehended before they kill based on a pre-sentiment, practitioners of machine learning are trying to gauge the likelihood you'll return a piece of apparel even before you buy it.
Myntra, the Bangalore-based online fashion retailer owned by Indian e-commerce startup Flipkart (which is backed by WalMart and others), has published new research this week describing experiments that assess a person's online shopping cart before they click to buy. It's based on patterns of what you've looked at online, but also a guess about your size and fit that even you may not have been aware of.
All of this is meant to enable the computer to decide, in less than 70 milliseconds, just how much of a risk of a return you are. The purpose is to decide whether to treat you differently as a return risk via reward and punishment, with a variety of measures. Those include increasing your shipping charges, as a deterrent, or offering you a coupon as an incentive in return for making the purchase non-returnable.
Myntra's researchers found in tests with real customers that the neural network's predictions, and the rewards and punishments, reduced return rates in measurable ways.
The authors combine several pieces of information into a "deep neural network" to predict product returns, including "latent" vectors of product information, historical return rates, and also a personalized sizing vector that knows that what you're buying may not fit.
The paper, "Early Bird Catches the Worm: Predicting Returns Even Before Purchase in Fashion E-commerce," is posted on the arXiv pre-print server, and is authored by Sajan Kedia, Manchit Madan, and Sumit Borar of Myntra. Borar has since gone to work at Google.
The paper is noteworthy as well for being released last week along with two other papers by Myntra researchers. In one paper, "One Embedding To Do Them All," the authors create a new kind of product listing for retail by combining several sources of information. The third paper, "Fashion Retail: Forecasting Demand for New Items," predicts which new apparel items will do well based on past trends but also based on a model of styles and brands and pricing, a model that can anticipate how brand-new items will do before they go on sale. That last paper is being presented in August at the Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining conference in Anchorage, Alaska.
But it is the "Early Bird" paper that seems to offer the most striking example of how to turn retail into a kind of a game.
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Kedia and colleagues observed that a trend toward easy returns by online retailers has led to a surge in actual returns, which incurs high "reverse-logistics" costs for those retailers. That includes the cost to ship back, and the cost of missed sales of things while a customer has them, all of which "eats a major share of the profit margin of e-tailers," they write.
The retail industry has tried to forecast return rates, but never by "predicting in real-time, at the cart page, so that preemptive actions can be taken based on the return probability value," the authors write.
To make those real-time predictions, the authors put together a "fully-connected" deep neural network, which is trained on numerous factors about products and customers. That trained model will then produce the instantaneous assessment of the customers' cart to predict the probability of returns.
A "real-time production architecture" assesses your shopping cart in less than 70 milliseconds and decides whether to issue rewards or punishments to curb your expected returns behavior.
The factors used vary from what you'd expect to some novel inventions. Among the things you'd expect, a very obvious factor is counting how many times a given article of clothing has been returned to the store in past by anyone.
In addition, data such as the rates at which a product listing is clicked by a given user are used to construct what's called "product embeddings" that are specific to that user. That's done by employing "matrix factorization." That process has the purpose of "transforming the user-product interaction matrix into lower dimensional latent vectors which capture the hidden attributes of the products."
How many similar things you've put in your cart is something they watch, such as the same shirt in different colors. It turns out that such doubling-up of items is a leading indicator of higher returns. In fact, the more items in total that a person has in a cart, the more their return rate has been shown to increase, they write.
"Return rates are highly dependent on the cart size," they write. "With cart size more than five products, return rates goes to 72%, whereas cart with one product has return chances of 9%." The authors don't engage in much speculation of causality, but presumably people are doing the virtual dressing-room thing, loading up on multiple versions of something, to try them at home, fully expecting to return the ones they end up not liking.
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One striking factor employed, which you might not anticipate, is what's called a "personalized sizing latent feature." The authors noticed that in historical data on returns, when people are asked why they're sending something back, over half the instances are because the item was the wrong size or didn't fit the way the person wanted.
The authors observe that it's hard, online, for a person to even know what their size is because the way sizes are listed and described can vary from item to item or from brand to brand. Therefore, they propose creating a vector that concatenates information "from the lifetime clickstream data" of the user. "Here products are defined in a detailed manner like 'Nike-Men-Shoes-Sports-10', where 10 is the size." In addition to information by individual brand, information for entire categories of apparel is aggregated, including sizing information, "which helps in understanding all size related attributes for a product."
The authors embed all that information using the popular "skip-gram" approach developed by Google's Tomas Mikolov and colleagues in 2013, using the "Word2Vec" algorithm those authors developed.
As a result, when they spy on your cart, and examine what you've got, they can compare your intended purchases to "sizing vectors which explain the user's body shape & fit for different brands & products."
Using all these embeddings, run through the neural network, the program creates a probability score of potential returns. The authors conducted a "live" test in "A/B" fashion, showing some shoppers incentives or penalties based on the analysis, while leaving a control group to experience the normal shopping experience. It was tested on 100,000 users on the production Myntra shopping site, they write.
They suggest they were able to get fairly precise analysis in real time.
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"The dual model first predicts the return probability for a cart and then use this in a gradient boosted approach to identify the exact number of products that will be returned from that cart." That prediction is fed into a "real-time production architecture" that makes decisions about the rewards and punishments to implement, if any.
The approach got results, they write. When they varied the shipping charge, for example, on a person-by-person basis, orders went down by 1.7%, but returns also went down, by an even higher 3%. When a coupon was offered in return for making items non-returnable, 27% of customers took the offer and returns went down by 4%, they note.
The lesson for Kedia and colleagues is clear: this kind of statistical anticipation improves aspects of the business.
"Experiment results on action items show that accurate prediction of returns can lead to a reduction in the rate of return." They plan to pursue more "action items" in future work, they write.
Meanwhile, the lesson for consumers is clear, too: When you shop online, you're participating in a game, a game whose rules the merchant knows much better than you do. And while you know very little about how they play the game, the merchant, using machine learning, increasingly knows a heck of a lot about how you play.
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Bringing the past and future to life with Digital Placemaking AR Binoculars
Our friends over at Calvium invited us to create an experimental installation for their Ideascape public showcase at Porth Teigr, Cardiff – so we challenged ourselves to make a set of augmented reality binoculars that allow you to view the past and future of the surroundings.
Back at the beginning of summer, Calvium invited us to contribute to their exciting new project. Calvium were hosting a community engagement event in Cardiff Bay; a playful sandbox event of concepts and interactive prototypes related to the new Porth Teigr development. We would be helping to investigate how augmented reality could be used to encourage people to engage with their surroundings and stimulate their imaginations – contributing to Calvium’s research into digital placemaking.
My close relationship with Calvium goes back quite a few years – I worked on interface design and user experience for many of their heritage apps. We previously investigated ideas of overlaying historical maps and photos onto modern day views in Hidden Florence, a placemaking app designed for the Renaissance city. And when it comes to visitor engagement, we had great success exciting adults and children alike with the Tower Bridge Family Visitor Trail, which has interactive games that use a very physical element as well as accompanying printed material.
Working with Zubr over the past couple of years has taken me in quite a different direction; with realtime 3D graphics and head-mounted displays being a few steps away from placemaking apps. Nevertheless, I think there is such huge potential for content to cross over here – which is why me and the others at Zubr were excited when Calvium posed the question…
Our carpenter, Luke, went to town building the binoculars
“How can we visualise Porth Teigr’s history and future, in situ?”
We already knew we wanted to play to our strength of creating dynamic, visual experiences, and come up with something that simply allows people to visualise the past and future – literally. After some discussion and a couple of site visits to Cardiff Bay, our idea settled into the form of augmented reality binoculars, with a physical lever to transport the viewer through time. We took our inspiration from the metallic coin operated binoculars that are ubiquitous at many seasides and landmarks around the world – perfect for inviting anyone and everyone to experience cutting-edge technology without needing so much as a smartphone themselves.
We were confident that one of our well-established Cardboard VR deployments would fit nicely into the unit. Our fabrication engineer, Luke, was also very excited to build the physical viewer – seizing the chance to really indulge in making a beautiful physical piece that sparked people’s nostalgia – and referenced Porth Teigr’s industrial past!
Making use of Open Source terrain data and reference material
In order to make our software work perfectly for a very specific position, we used open source DTM and DSM lidar datasets from the Welsh Government to recreate an accurate 3D model of Cardiff Bay. Combined with 16K 360 imagery we captured on site, this gave us a real-world foundation on which to build the augmented world view.
Welsh Government Open Source Digital Surface Model of Cardiff Bay
The past: Old ships, trains and buildings augmented into the world view, exactly where they would have been
A map of Cardiff Bay from 1885, used as reference
From there on, we used some awesome reference material – including historical photographs, maps and concept art of future building developments – to help us figure out where (and when!) to position various augmented buildings, ships, trains and other objects. The end result of all this effort is that you’ll see an old steam ship in a dry dock, exactly where it would have actually been 100 years ago. You can even watch an old coal train rumble past, following a railway line traced from a 1930s map.
Adapting ARKit and ARCore for 3D Calibration
After conducting various tests with Apple’s ARKit, we decided to use it for this project. The reason for that might not be obvious, considering the built unit could just use a gyroscope to control rotation. However, we wanted to see if ARKit could be used to ‘calibrate’ our digital twin of Cardiff Bay – effectively allow the augmented reality objects to realign themselves correctly, according to where the viewer is positioned.
In short, what that means is, the augmented view will automatically change if the binoculars are relocated. Amazingly, there is basically no limit to how far you can go. If we decided to move the binoculars 100 feet away, next to that old railway line which is now a road, this is what you’ll see…
And if you walk for 5 minutes across the bay, and look back at the old dry dock next to the Gloworks building, the big ol’ 1900’s steamer will still be securely docked, This clearly has huge potential for portable, user-device placemaking and trail apps.
Towards the end of the project, Google unveiled their answer to ARKit: The similarly named ARCore. With the chance to make use of a much greater screen resolution, we immediately jumped ship and converted the project to Android, settling on a Samsung S8 smartphone as the device of choice.
The night of the event
The augmented reality binoculars were featured as a central part of Calvium’s Ideascape evening. After a few teething problems with the physical unit, we had to swap the time-travelling lever with a flathead screwdriver. Nevertheless, that seemed to add to the charm, with many visitors being quick to make the connection between our handy time-travelling screwdriver and a certain Doctor Who Experience barely 100ft away!
Zubr Developer, Lukasz – on the right – has a cider in one hand, Sonic Screwdriver in the other
The AR binoculars went down extremely well with local residents and out-of-town visitors alike. That included city planners and architects, who were thinking about how they could use such a device for the visualisation of building developments and heritage applications. However, we were most excited by the reactions of local residents. Not necessarily tech-savvy, and not particularly accustomed to time travel; most people fully understood how to use the unit – presumably from cultural familiarity with the idea of coin-operated binoculars.
“People loved interacting with this installation, which mixes the nostalgia of seaside attractions with the magic of seeing a landscape change before your eyes. The fact that you don’t need anything to take part was key, allowing anyone, smartphone user or not, to walk up and see the past and future of the area spring to life around them.”
– Calvium
But most strikingly, most residents wasted no time spinning around to view Porth Teigr’s future building developments – inspecting the height of the buildings, seeing how far they will stretch down the bay, and speculating about coffee shops and pedestrian access. Various couples shared the binoculars and started their own conversations about the residential development – without a word about smartphone screens or ARCore. The technology we had created had become invisible, allowing anyone to peer through to the future in a way they already understand.
We can’t wait to see where these ideas will go next – a city-wide 3D heritage trail? Permanently installed Augmented Binoculars on the streets of Bristol? A super-engaging and accessible form of community engagement for city planners and developers? There are a few ideas in the pipeline, and who knows, you might get to peer through these binoculars sooner than you think!
by Chris Price
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auGEN X v1.02
I am a self-taught person
I never learned to play the guitar, but yet I recorded several albums and played with a few artists as a guitarist.
I never learned to read music theory and yet I made several albums as an arranger.
Likewise, I never learned to be a sound engineer but I have been in this position on many albums and stages also.
Because of that I always thought I was a fraud, an impostor.... Just a lucky guy....
And this App is really not going to help me to trust myself....
Because tomorrow maybe I'll be hired as a sound designer for the next Michael Jackson album....
Oh no, that's not possible....
Beyonce?
Seriously, auGEN X is incredible!
You know, all those sounds, cartoon, police siren, beep, helicopter...
Also, Snares, kick, HH...
I can make them all now!
Yes, and fingers in the noze!!!
And if you don't believe me, you just have to watch the video below!
For the specifications...
I add as always the App Store description at the end of this post.
There is also a very well done user manual inside the App.
Everything is explained.
I had a look on the developer website but the link to the User manual doesn't work, so I added it here, below.
You know, it's the first time that I am not talking about the characteristics of an App...
Nothing...
There are a few reasons for this that I want to explain now.
The first one is, to be totally honest, I am not an expert in this domain and I don't want to copy the App Store description nor the user manual.
The second one is that I don't want you to be scared with a lot of technical terms. auGEN X is so easy to use, so intuitive...
It's just amazing!
It's a game!
Everybody can use it!
Believe me! One more time check out the video demo and keep in mind that it's me who made it! The self-taught person who know nothing in sound design...
The last reason is that I just received a phone call from Steven...
So I have to go
auGEN X is a Killer App! A Must Have ! A incredible App!
Price $19.99 Author auDSPr Type Instrument, Tool Instrument type Synth Instrument sounds Other Supports Audio Unit (AU) Version 1.0.2 Released 12/18/2018
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AUM - Audio Mixer
The Stand Alone version
The AUv3 version
The user manual
The App Store description
auGEN X bridges the creative musical world of artists with the exacting scientific world of audio engineers. What started as a precision audio test utility has grown into a fun experimental sound design instrument. On one end use auGEN X to help set up, test, calibrate, and optimize your audio system. On the other use it to create a wide variety of interesting sounds.
auGEN X has a full-featured audio oscillator, a high quality noise generator, and an impulse generator. The simple yet powerful user interface is designed for fast, precise, intuitive control over your signals. auGEN X works both as a Stand-Alone App and as an AUv3 Audio Unit Extension responding to MIDI In and BPM Sync from Hosts.
I started making this app because as an audio electronics engineer I could not find a single audio generator that does everything that I require AND is an AUv3 Audio Unit. auGEN X has expanded into a musical tool for exploring and learning sound design. Our goal is for auGEN X to be an Essential in your audio toolbox. We hope you enjoy it and we’re excited to hear the cool things that you do with auGEN X!
"I really see this app becoming a standard and a must have component in one's iOS audio app arsenal."
- Paul Henry, Paul Henry Pro Audio
- Oscillator
- 3 Modes: Fixed, Frequency or Level Sweep
- 4 Wave Shapes: Sine, Triangle, Rectangle, & Saw
- Tri & Rect have a Duty Cycle control (1.0% to 99.0%)
- Tri, Saw, & Rect are alias-suppressed yielding virtually alias-free performance at musical fundamental frequencies
- 10 to 20,480 Hz extended audio frequency range (great for testing subwoofers!)
- Full-featured Frequency or Level Sweep with 5 Types, settable Direction, & selectable Repeat or 1-Shot Mode
- Sweep Period has a wicked wide range from 1/10,000th of a second to 100 seconds and can alternatively be set as a Sweep Rate in Hz or BPM
- Wide sweep range allows for FM & AM style sounds
- Noise Generator
- 2 Modes: Fixed or Level Sweep
- White or Pink Noise
- Pink Noise conforms to SMPTE Standard 2095-1:2015 Calibration Reference Wideband Digital Pink Noise Signal
- Impulse Generator (useful for checking reverb algorithms)
- Impulse Width can be set in samples
- AUv3 Audio Unit Extension or Stand-Alone App
- Verified to work great in AUv3 Hosts such as GarageBand, Cubasis, AUM, apeMatrix, BeatMaker 3, & Auria Pro
- As a Stand-Alone App audio is sent to iPad's built-in speakers, Headphone/Line Out, or to any iOS-compatible USB audio interface connected to the Lightning jack
- Creative experimental sound design
- Sound effects for film, TV, & games
- Great chiptune style sounds
- Synthesize sirens or alarms
- Test, characterize audio equipment
- Set up or dial in a home theater
- Tune car audio systems
- Test subwoofers
- Hearing tests
- Ear training
- Vibration analysis
- Audio signal path uses state of the art Double Precision 64-bit Floating Point for maximum accuracy
- Stereo out
- Selectable Pan Laws include Linear & Constant Power Panning
- Supports 44.1, 48, 88.2, & 96 kHz sample rates
- User Guide embedded in App - no internet connection required to read it
- Compatible with iOS 9.0 & up (iPad 2, iPad mini (1st Generation), & up)
- Support way back to iOS 9 means auGEN X works on every iPad model (except the very first iPad).
Breathe new life into your old iPad by using auGEN X to make it a dedicated, precision audio source.
- AUv3 Audio Unit Extensions require iPad 4, iPad mini 2, and up
- 88.2 & 96 kHz sample rate require iOS-compatible USB audio interface connected to the Lightning jack
Watch demos & tutorials on auDSPr's YouTube channel.
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Keep your ears and eyes open for more upcoming auDSPr audio apps! Version 1.0.2 release notesauGEN X just keeps getting better! Version 1.0.2 is a maintenance update to polish things up for our big launch.
- Now the Impulse also responds to MIDI Note-On/Off. This is great for adding a thump to your attacks. We nearly doubled the maximum Impulse width to 63 samples for even more thump. - Fixed an issue where the controls would sometimes disappear when closing and re-opening the window in AUv3 Hosts such as AUM and apeMatrix. - Eliminated clicks when starting and stopping the Oscillator.
- Fixed a minor range limit issue when using the number keypad to enter sweep rates.
- Improved the colors on the e-mail form.
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Because I can read everywhere a Policy...
this blog is man by a human for humans
I can make some mistakes (because I am a human)
Nothing will deleted or removed from this blog. For my mistakes or angers, apologies and corrections will be added if needed.
You can see everyday on a banner in the What's hot today post the Apps offered by a developer...
If you participate to the Sunday Contest, you will have to trust in me... But, if you like you can asked me the email list of the readers who participate to a Contest included Time and Date. I will send it to you...
My rating... The first criterion is the App Store description. The last one is my taste and this is totally subjective... Each post come with a tutorial showing you all the knobs, menu, faders,.... Everything that you will be able to find in an App... I hope that this will help to make your own rating.
If I really don't like an App, don't understand it or found too many bugs, I send an email to the developer.... I asked him if the App will be update shortly, I also offer my services as Beta Tester.... Most of the time, I will wait for a future update... Developers are humans too!...
All comments will be publish here. For insults, offenses or very bad mood, the only restriction is that you have to sign with your real name...
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El Cazador 19 – yes, you could say I’ve been missing the character dynamics this entire time. But they didn’t really gel for me until this ep.
By Ray / August 9, 2007
Say what you like about my unrelenting criticism about this show. My opinions are not going to change until it utterly convinces me that it doesn’t disappoint. Let’s move on to this particular episode.
I was overjoyed when I saw the observatory of the Witches’ Council in the first scene. Usually when things like that are shown, the show is good.
Well, it turns out that I did like this particular episode. But I’m nowhere near convinced that this entire show is good.
I finally laughed for once when Elis imitated Nadi’s face when she makes a face. It gave me some chuckles.
The interaction and embarrassment between Ricardo, Nadi and Elis is fun. I think they’re finally gelling.
Jody was hanging upside down and it seems like Mireille…I mean that blond woman is down and out for good. Why? I don’t know. The show didn’t explain at all. I saw ep. 18 where in the ghost story filler Jody and her crew tried to take Elis away but they were unsuccessful, and fast forward to this episode and all of the sudden it seems like the blond woman is dead. Oh well, I’m sure I’m going to be told that minor characters are not remotely important at all. OK then.
The council leader is back with some explanations about the background of the witches and the motivation behind their recent activities. It’s not much but it helps us to learn a little bit about the witches. Always good to hear Kotono-san’s voice acting.
(Why was Jody hanging upside down but didn’t get a gag ball in her mouth and a vibrator up her pus…never mind.)
Often, the minor characters don’t matter, true, but the minor details on these characters often help a viewer (me) to enjoy the show more. So once again, what happened to Jody and her crew when we find her upside down? Who knows!
In any case, anyone who tells me that Nadi and Elis’ relationship isn’t anywhere near lesbianism need to watch a hundred times the scene where Elis lays her head on Nadi’s arm, and when Elis says: “Do we look like husband and wife?” Sure, Nadi tries to explain that husband and wife means a man and a woman, but hey! Lesbianism is lesbianism. I for one, think it’s quite beautiful.
One can try to explain that Elis’ jealousy comes from the fact that she feels that Nadi and her should be companions forever, or they have met each other spiritually in that cornfield (where’s Kevin Costner?) , but one has to come up with a pretty convincing argument explain away Elis’ behavior before I’ll be convinced that Elis doesn’t have a lesbian thing for Nadi.
The interaction between Ricardo and Nadi in this episode is gold, and I’ll add more points just for that. Also, I loved it when LA’s ass was stunned and stopped when that bracelet on his wrist started working. Haha!
I’m not even going to write about my disappointment in Nadi’s lack of danger sense during a certain event while Ricardo reacted immediately the event right away, twice. You know which part I’m talking about, or you will after watching.
72% recommended for your daily anime diet. At least it’s better than a lot of shows out there.
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3 thoughts on “El Cazador 19 – yes, you could say I’ve been missing the character dynamics this entire time. But they didn’t really gel for me until this ep.”
kaei says:
Yeah, Nadi was an idiot in that scene. I wanted to smack her twice and say “Stop gorging yourself on steak and go over to protect your wife you stupid twit.” I like Nadi, but sometimes I wonder what Ellis sees in her, other than the fact that Ellis has a habit of emotionally clinging to the first warm-blooded emotionally stunted two-legged organism that appears as her caretaker (see ep 14 for exhibit 1. Or was that 13).
Now that it looks like we’re about to enter the final stretch here, I hope to see some of the following: an explanation of what Winay Marka is and why they are going there, a decent (or any) explanation for why Ricardo and Lilio keep crossing paths with Nadi and Ellis, Jody and Nadi fist-fight/wrestle/wrestle half-clothed, Ellis vs LA facedown, someone putting a bullet into Rosenburg’s head (preferably that woman who keeps going “Da-gu” so annoyingly), and one genuine kiss between Nadi and Ellis to consummate their newlywed status.
Azrael says:
Aw I really like this series. I hope the story explode the last episodes – but it’s Bee Train typical to have slow developing stories. I really enjoy to see how Nadies and Ellis relationship develops – it’s really cute to see how jealous Ellis was and to see how concerned Nadie is about protecting her (see episode 18). And the scene in the car was really sweet too. But it bugs me a little, when I think back to episode 18 and Nadies thoughs at the end – she still see’s Ellis as a child (Konoko) – dunno in witch way she really mean this ^^”
I also agree with Kaei: I also want to know more about this Things – it’s so much that we don’t know and there are only 7 eps left :/
I also want to know more about Blue-Eyes (why the hell was she hanging on that rope!?), the witch-council, why L.A. has that thing around his wrist, what Wìnay Marka is and all that stuff – they should interact more instead of showing up every what? – 5 Eps? Durrr…
And Rosenberg seems to be in a never-ending vacation =.= it’s quite annoying – somehow I miss him *drop*
Anyway I love your reviews – so keep up the good stuff!
rayyhum777 says:
Kaei – yes, Rosenberg is annoying save the fact that the show is trying to show us that he’s in control of everything despite sitting on his ass; that he hasn’t dropped out of the picture. And yes, let them kiss!
Azrael – Let’s hope all these things get explained soon. In the previous installment of the trilogy, loose ends were pretty well tied up by the end. But both had 26 eps to work with. It would hard if not impossible to tie all the loose ends if this show isn’t going to get 26 eps.
In any case, I’ve followed this show this far, I’m certainly hoping it goes out with some kind of bang.
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Usually it is the blogger who interviews the authors, publishers and editors from the publishing world, but this time Heather Hildenbrand has turned things around and has put the blogger in the hot seat... ME! :) When Heather approached me about doing the interview I was really excited about getting the opportunity to share my thoughts, and went a long way in making me feel as though the readers opinion is important and valued. Here is my interview with Heather, I hope you enjoy it!
Q & A:
Are you a writer?
I find this question difficult to answer sometimes, as some people only see you as a writer if you have had work published. Yes – I do write, but unfortunately have not ventured into the world of being published yet.
Do you have aspirations of publishing a book someday?
Yes, this has always been a dream of mine. The hardest thing is deciding what to write about.
What is your overall opinion of self-publishing?
I think self-publishing can be rewarding and allows writers an opportunity to share their work without having to get accepted by a publishing company first. I do think it can be a difficult route to follow though as it takes a great deal of work and dedication from the author to circulate the novel without the backing of a publishing company, as well as missing out on the expertise the publishing company can offer with regards to cover art, editing, proof reading etc.
Do you read self-published books?
Definitely – there are so many great writers out there and not all of them are lucky enough to get picked up by a publishing company. I love giving all writers a chance as you may find something really special – it can sometimes be tough though as the ability to self-publish can also mean that there is a lot of writing out there that isn’t particularly great.
What is one thing you like about reading or working with indie authors?
I love how focused indie authors can be, as they know their book relies on them planning and being organised in order to push the book in the right direction. I have also found indie authors to always be so grateful and appreciative of any help that they can get from reviewers.
What is one thing indie authors are doing well?
Communication and Support – indie authors are making the most of social media sites to not only create a buzz about their book, but to also help them in the development stages. The indie author network is so supportive; there is always someone willing to help you where they can and this creates a really positive energy within the indie author sector.
What is one thing indie authors need to work on?
Editing and proofreading – I’m stickler for typing mistakes and the incorrect use of language in writing. When I’m reading a piece of work that contains errors it does break the flow of reading and I feel that there seems to be more and more errors in books I am reading.
What’s your preferred genre to read in?
This is a difficult one as I really enjoy so many different genres. I suppose the ones I read most at the moment would fall into chick-lit and romance novels. But I also love reading historical stories, detective/thriller novels, and have a newfound love for fantasy.
What kind of story are you most excited to read right now?
Right now I am most excited to read stories where the protagonist finds courage and strength to stand up for what they want in their life, and face the battles to get there. And of course where they find real love – contemporary stories that I can relate to.
What’s your prediction on the next “hot” genre?
It is really difficult to predict what the next ‘hot’ genre will be. At the moment I’d be inclined to say Fantasy – this is because I have recently read a fantasy novel which was absolutely brilliant work, and it created such a buzz on social media sites.
Thank you so much to Heather for valuing the reader/blogger and giving me the opportunity to be in the hot seat! It is such a boost to see that writers value our opinion as a reader, not only our reviews of their novels, but also our opinions on the publishing industry and how it is evolving. It has been wonderful working with Heather to produce this post, and would love the opportunity to work with her again.
Heather Hildenbrand is the YA and NA author of more than eight novels including the bestselling Dirty Blood series. She writes from home full-time while teaching other authors to do the same.
She is a co-founder of Accendo Press, a collaborative publishing effort dedicated to publishing stories that ignite the imagination.
Phoenix is a company designed for guiding and mentoring authors through writing, self-publishing, and the business that follows. I offer coaching, mentoring, accountability, strategic planning, step-by-step instructions, checklists, and content editing for authors at all stages of their publishing career.
Publisher Harlequin Escape
Release 1st January 2014
Witty, clever, and sharp. It's going to be the holiday from hell...and that's just how Erica wants it.
When tabloid journalist Erica Parker is forced to take a holiday, she's determined to make it the most miserable holiday she possibly can, but not even her impressive imaginative powers could have come up with sharing a tent with survival expert Nathan Wilde.
Nathan was a married man with a successful TV show before Erica got to work on his life. Now the hottest man she’s ever met is single, furious, and he’s got her alone in the wilderness for three long days…
Goodreads Praise for Once A Bad Girl : “Once A Bad Girl is an amazing debut by author Jane O’Reilly. It is actually hard to believe that it is a debut novel. The interlaced humour and sensuality in this story sucked me in from the start and held me captive throughout...”
Jane O‘Reilly writes for both Escape and Carina UK. The Holiday Survival Guide is her third title with Escape.
Perfect for fans of Victoria Dahl
Jane O’Reilly started writing as an antidote to kids’ TV when her youngest child was a baby. Her first novel was set in her old school and involved a ghost and lots of death. It’s unpublished, which is probably for the best. Then she discovered contemporary romance, and that, as they say, was that. She lives near London with her husband and two children. Find her at www.janeoreilly.com, on Twitter as @janeoreilly, Facebook or email her at jane@janeoreilly.com.
Publishing 15th October 2013
Pulse Romance
Do our actions and decisions mark us and stay with us for the rest of our lives? Gracie has her life before her as the dark clouds of the Second World War gather.
Though she and her family cope well with the stresses on the home front, Gracie's transformation to adulthood is swifter and more brutal than she could have ever imagined.
Gracie meets Tony, who arouses such feelings in her that she has never experienced before - not with Joe her regular beau who considers her his girl. Then, one night, one mistake, and she realises she is carrying Joe's child.
And now Tony has gone to war.
Gracie’s War is a story set during World War II about the life of Gracie and the struggles and fears she faces as a result of one mistake she made on her 21st birthday. I love history and enjoy novels based around this time, so was excited when I was offered an ARC copy of Gracie’s War.
Elaine Everest has written the story in such a way that it highlights the hardships that families faced during wartime, but doesn’t leave you feeling like you are reading a history textbook. The story follows Gracie’s life as she faces the consequences of becoming entangled in a life with Joe Johnson. Immediately as Joe is introduced to the reader I took a strong disliking to him. He is a very cocky and arrogant character and always left me feeling uncomfortable with the way he acted towards Gracie. Joe has no respect for Gracie or her family and I found his behaviour towards her repulsive. My heart broke for Gracie when her life became tied to his, as the reader knows how Gracie really feels and all you want is happiness for her. As the reader you find yourself frustrated that Gracie ever let herself get involved with Joe, but Elaine’s writing makes you very aware that as the war had begun women were being left at home, and every woman growing up at this time was concerned with finding a husband and starting a family of their own. When Gracie found herself all alone whilst her friends around her were falling in love and getting married, you can understand why she had her moment of weakness with Joe.
I love Elaine’s representation of Gracie’s family. They have such a strong connection and a real respect for one another. They stand by each other through thick and thin; although the moral code in society at this time finds this connection being put to the test.
One of my favourite characters is Peggy, Gracie’s best friend. A very positive character, she is always there for Gracie and helps her out any way that she can. A really admirable quality of hers is that she never judges Gracie and stands by her with an unfaltering loyalty.
And then there is Tony *swoon*. From the moment Gracie meets him you can feel the special connection between them, although this makes Gracie’s situation even more heart breaking. Throughout the story I found myself hoping and praying that they would be together one day, and Elaine keeps the reader in suspense at every meeting as it is always left uncertain and unresolved.
Elaine writes in a very familiar way which makes the characters come to life and seem more real and enables you to understand and empathise with them. Gracie is such a likeable character and you really feel for her when her life takes a turn for the worst. No woman deserves what Gracie suffers, no matter what mistakes they have made.
I really enjoyed reading Gracie’s War – it is a very quick, easy read, as long as you can keep track of the time jumps, and Elaine’s writing style is a real page-turner. I did find myself wishing the story was longer and that it elaborated on certain events on many occasions, but at the same time I can appreciate how the pace of the narrative mimics how the war interrupts people’s lives and forces people to put feelings and relationships on hold. My only criticism would be that I spotted a number of grammar mistakes within the story – that’s the proof reader in me crying out – but this doesn’t take anything away from the enjoyment of reading the story.
I would definitely recommend Gracie’s War, not only to those who enjoy stories based around the war, but anyone who enjoys a drama story about a woman facing the struggles of her time and trying to come out fighting.
A story of desperation, great friendships and a fight for true love.
Elaine Everest is a freelance writer and lives in Swanley, Kent with her husband Michael and Polish Lowland Sheepdog, Henry. She has written over sixty short stories for women’s magazines worldwide. Her features have appeared in publications ranging from The Guardian, The Daily Express and the Daily Mail to My Weekly and Your Dog. Her opinion pieces have led to many appearances on radio including chatting to Jenni Murray on Woman’s Hour about having a husband under her feet all day long. Elaine has written numerous columns for canine publications centred around her expertise in the world of dogs. This has led to commissions to write three successful books for dog owners.
Elaine’s successful writing life led her to become a qualified teacher for adult education. Four years ago she founded The Write Place creative writing school and holds regular classes at The Mick Jagger Centre in Dartford Kent.
Elaine was BBC Radio Short Story Writer of the Year in 2003, short listed for The Harry Bowling Prize in 2012, Short listed for The Festival of Romance novel competition in 2012 and winner of the Myrmidon Books (Pulse Romance) Write for Us competition in 2013.
Gracie’s War is her first published novel and is set in North West Kent where she grew up. A member of the Romantic Novelist Association, Elaine is a graduate of the RNA New Writers Scheme. Gracie’s War is short listed for their Joan Hessayon Award in 2014.
@elaineeverest
www.pulseromance.com
@pulseromance
WHAT IF SAVING THE WORLD MEANT LOSING EVERYTHING?
When Eve is rescued from a horrific coach crash by her teachers, she is shocked to discover they possess super strength and speed. But what happens next is even more harrowing.
In the aftermath of the crash she discovers that everyone in her life from neighbours, doctors, dentists, teachers, shop keepers and even her family and friends are actually super strength Guardians sent to protect her. They all have one thing in common, a single minded ferocity that she must be kept alive at all costs.
However, she is surrounded by secrets and lies. Those in the know deny all knowledge of what happened that fateful night. Everyone else carries on as normal, seemingly unaware of the new strange world that she has stumbled against.
With the help of Seth, her best friend, Eve discovers the prophecies surrounding her true identity and the super strength she too holds. With her Guardians pledged to protect her, her closest friends ready to die for her, her own hopes and dreams are put on hold whilst she battles to control the amazing powers she has been bestowed with.
But those that seek to destroy her move ever closer. Will the Guardians be enough to protect her when so many are prepared to stop at nothing to see her dead? And will she be strong enough to fulfil her destiny when the time comes?
A fast paced fantasy adventure for young adults.
With high speed car chases, airborne fights, amazing stunts and super powered beings, this is a story of loyalty, friendship and love.
The fantasy genre is quite new to me, so when Holly offered me the chance to review her novel I was extremely excited. And I am so glad that I did because The Sentinel captured me entirely. Holly has produced an absolute masterpiece and I am still finding it hard to believe that this is her debut novel. It has left me with an insane book hangover, but the brilliant news is that there is more... hurry Book 2! I NEED YOU!!
The Sentinel opens with a dramatic scene where Eve's life is hanging in the balance, and her life is saved by two of her teaches as they stop the school coach from falling off a cliff...by holding the bumper! To add to the madness, everyone denies the events to Eve and suggests she is just suffering from the trauma of the accident. Eve remains suspicious, but even she begins to question herself. The story takes another turn when a fire breaks out in Eve's home, and thus unravelling a roller coaster of events which reveal to the reader, and to Eve, the mystery of the guardians and Eve's importance in the world.
We go on to see Eve struggle to come to terms with what is going on and who she can trust. It is at this point where we first see the strength of the bond between Eve and Seth, her best-friend. *swoon*
Seth is the ultimate in book boyfriends and is the one who reveals the truth to Eve about who she really is. I loved Seth's openness and honesty with Eve despite knowing that he will get in trouble. Seth puts his friendship with Eve first, before his duty as a guardian.
I really admire Eve's strength as a character. She has her moments where it all becomes too much and she has a bit of a tantrum, but she always pulls through fighting - and really, can you blame her? She is 17 years old and just been told that she is supposed to save the entire world! Phew. Through everything Eve's main concern is the safety and happiness of her friends and guardians; she hates what they all have to give up and risk because of her. You can't help but admire Eve for this.
Holly's writing really brings the story and its characters to life. Her descriptions of the characters' actions and emotions create the images for the reader so magnificently - you can picture their expressions, the use of their powers and you can completely feel their emotions like they are your own. In this same way, Holly's ability to build tension in her writing is superb - Holly subtly builds the tension into the story as it is about to take a turn, really creating a sense of anxiety in the reader as you know something terrible is about to befall Eve and her guardians.
Alongside the excitement through the fantastical powers we see Eve discover, it is also a story which follows Eve's discovery of herself. I love that the book highlights one of Eve's most important qualities as her humanity - her ability to feel. This is a beautiful journey we follow through the story as we also see Eve's influence take affect on the guardians as they too learn to feel, and discover their own level of humanity. One of my particularly favourite scenes is the snowball fight - in amidst all the darkness it is great seeing the guardians discover laughter.
The Sentinel explores the importance of humanity, and its ability to influence others, as well as exploring an array of different friendships and relationships. It is packed full of action to get your adrenaline pumping as well as being adorned with beautiful friendships, new relationships and some fiery passion.
I wasn't ready to stop reading The Sentinel and it has left me absolutely craving book 2.
A thrilling journey of discovery and stunning display of true friendship, loyalty and love.
If you haven't read The Sentinel you are definitely missing out! Be sure to get your copy now and discover the brilliance that is Holly Martin.
Amazon Kindle - only £1.90!
We all enjoy a good love story, and what's more romantic than a guy realising he is in love with his best friend. But will he admit it and allow himself to find love? A quest to find a suitable husband to help secure the family ranch leads to a chance for true love to conquer.
I, for one, am excited to read Make Me Crazy - my first Codi Gary novel. If you're looking for something fun, flirty and wrapped in a big bow full of romance, 'Make Me Crazy' sounds like just the ticket - available to download tomorrow (3 December)!
Make Me Crazy (Book 1, The Loco, Texas Series) by Codi Gary
Miranda “Rand” Coleman has seen the way love can wreck a person and wants absolutely no part of it. When her granddaddy dies suddenly, he leaves a clause in his will that has her married in three months or she loses her inheritance. Unwilling to give up the Double C Ranch, she starts to set her eyes towards the eligible men in town, with little luck in finding a man she can stand for a minute let alone a year. Until she sets eyes on the new veterinarian and enlists the help of her womanizing best friend, Jake, to help.
Jake Hansen is a single guy who likes his women pretty and uncomplicated, with no plans to settle down anytime soon. When he decides to help Rand hook her man, he has no idea the effect watching Rand change would have on him. Especially when she starts letting her gorgeous brown hair down and showing off a body he didn’t even know she had. Before too long, Jake isn’t just lusting after his best friend, he’s feeling downright possessive. But when it comes down to the wire, will he get over his issues and step up to the alter…or lose the only woman he was ever meant to love?
This is the first book in a new series. Book 2 will be released in March 2014.
(available on Amazon, B&N, Kobo, and iBooks December 3)
An obsessive bookworm for twenty years, Codi Gary likes to write sexy small-town contemporary romances with humour, grand gestures, and blush-worthy moments. When she’s not writing, she can be found reading her favourite authors, squealing over her must-watch shows and playing with her children. She lives in Idaho with her family. Visit her website www.codigarysbooks.com for latest news, social media, or just to say hi!
Website: www.codigarysbooks.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CodiGarysBooks
Twitter: https://twitter.com/CodiGary
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6583366.Codi_Gary
Interview: Heather Hildenbrand Asks Me
In the Spotlight: 'The Holiday Survival Guide' by ...
BOOK TOUR: 'Gracie's War' by Elaine Everest
'The Sentinel' by Holly Martin
In the Spotlight: 'Make Me Crazy' by Codi Gary
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Location: Archon Milo Benedict Correspondence
Milo Benedict Correspondence, 1876-1885 | Boston Public Library Archival and Manuscript Finding Aid Database
Title: Milo Benedict Correspondence, 1876-1885
Collection Identifier: MS 7372
Arranged chronologically.
Benedict Family
Benedict, Milo, 1866-1931
Milo Benedict (1866-1931) was an American concert pianist, piano teacher, and composer. Born in Cornwall, Vermont, Benedict studied in Boston with Carlyle Petersilea and John K. Paine. During his career, Benedict toured Main, studied in Europe, taught piano, and wrote several books, among them What Music Does to Us (1924). After he married the blind soprano and pianist Gladys Perkins Fogg, Benedict appeared with her at the Perkins Institute for the Blind and the Hotel Tuileries in Boston and in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Benedict, Milo E. B. 1866 — Correspondence
Acquisition Note: Purchased from Crown Collectibles in January 2015.
Preferred Citation: Milo Benedict Correspondence, MS 7372. Rare Books and Manuscripts Department, Boston Public Library. Courtesy of the Trustees of the Boston Public Library.
Collection Material Type: Papers
Scope and Contents: This collection contains thirty letters written between 1853-1885, ten of which were written by Milo Benedict to his family. In these letters Benedict discusses the progress he is making musically, his activities, and the places he visited in Boston. Other letters include those from his siblings to the family in which they describe their work and leisure time.
Folder 1: Benedict, Erastus. A.L.s to Adeline Benedict; New York, 30 May 1897
Folder 2: [Benedict, Gig]. A.L.S. to [Heline Adeline Bendeict] [n.p., n.d.]
Folder 3: Benedict, Gig. A.L.S. to H. Adeline Benedict;, 23 September 1876
Folder 4: [Benedict], gig. A.L.S. to [Helen] A. Benedict; Auburn, 15 October 1882
Folder 5: [Benedict], Gill. A.L.S. to Nellie Benedict; Auburn, 14 November 1882
Folder 6: [Benedict, Milo?]. A.L. (incomplete) o ? [n.p., n.d.]
Folder 7: Benedict, Milo. A.L.S. to William Bendiict; Bremen; Ger., [30] September [1878]
Folder 8: Benedict, Milo. A.L.s. to helen Adeline Benedict; Boston, 17 february 1880
Folder 9: Benedict, Milo. A.L.S. to William Benedict; Boston, 28 March 1880
Folder 10: Benedict, Milo. A.L.S. to [Helen Adeline Benedict]; [n.p., n.d.]
Folder 11: [Benedict, Milo]. A.L.S. to Helen Benedict; Boston, 10 November 1881
Folder 12: Benedict, Milo. A.L.s. to Helen Adeline Benedict; Boston, 31 December 1882
Folder 13: Benedict, [Milo]. A.L.S. to {Helen Adeline Benedict]; Boston, 17 May 1885
Folder 14: Benedict, Milo. A.L.s. to Helen Adeline Benedict; Boston, 4 October 1885
Folder 15: Benedict, Milo. A.L.S. to William Benedict; Newton, Mass., 8 November 1885
Folder 16: Benedict, Milo. A.L.S. to Wil Benedict; boston, 18 November 1885
Folder 17: Benedict, Milo. A.L.S. to Helen Benedict; Boston, 27 March 1881
Folder 18: Benedict, Nellie. A.L.S. to Helen Adeline Benedict; Boston, 26 April 1881
Folder 19: Benedict, Nellie. A.L.S. to helen Benedict; Natic, Mass., 12 June 1881
Folder 20: Benedict, Nellie. A.L.S. to [Illegible]; Cornwall, Vermont, 29 October 1881
Folder 21: Benedict, Nellie. A.L.S. to Helen Benedict; Boston, 30 March 1882
Folder 22: Benedict, Nellie. A.L.s. to Will Bendict; Concord, N.H., 3 Ictiber 1885
Folder 23: Benedict, [Wil] A.L. to Gill Benedictl Boston, 5 February 1880
Folder 24: Carey, Emma. a.L.s. to Helen Benedict; Ogdensburg, 25 August 1853
Folder 25: Castle, C.A. A.L.s. to Helen Benedict; New York, 15 september 1885
Folder 26: Dodge, E.R. A.L.S. to Helen Benedict; [ }, N.Y., 18 October 1881
Folder 27: Foot, [ ]. A.L.S. to Abel Benedict; Mount Pleasant, 9 November 1874
Folder 28: Whitherell, [W. ]. a.L.s. to Helen Benedict; Webster Groves, St. Loius County, 16 December 1877
Folder 29: Whitherwell, W. to Milo Benedict; Cologne, 24 September 1878
Folder 30: [Witherell, W.] A.L.s. to Milo Benedict; Geneva, 7 October 1878
Folder 31: Calling cards, n.d.
Folder 32: Letter fragments; [n.p., n.d.]
Folder 33: Notice; [n.p., n.d.]
Folder 34: Poem: The Toboggan Slide, nd.d
Folder 35: Recipes
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Pacific Air Boss: Airmen Still Training Despite Changes to Joint Exercises
—Rachel S. Cohen
USAF Lt. Col. Fredrick Millar, left, talks airlift strategy with Royal Australian Air Force Flt. Lt. Kyle Hornberg, right center, and USAF Maj. Kyle Tobin, right, as Republic of Korea Air Force 2nd Lt. Dongjo Kim, left center, takes notes for sharing with ROKAF airlift counterparts in the Korean Air Operations Center’s Air Mobility Division during Key Resolve 2017 at Osan AB, South Korea, March 22, 2017. US Air Force photo by SSgt. Benjamin W. Stratton.
Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan and South Korean Defense Minister Jeong Kyeong-doo have “reviewed and approved” a decision to “conclude” the Key Resolve and Foal Eagle exercise series, the Pentagon announced March 2.
“The Minister and Secretary reaffirmed their commitment to ensuring the continued combined defense posture of US-ROK combined forces to meet any security challenge, and agreed to maintain firm military readiness through newly designed Command Post exercises and revised field training programs,” according to a DOD readout of the phone call.
A Pentagon spokesman did not immediately answer whether concluding the exercises means cancellation altogether or whether scaled-down versions are still in the works.
Pacific Air Forces boss Gen. Charles Brown recently downplayed the impact of shrinking joint training exercises with South Korea, saying Seventh Air Force airmen stay sharp because they still fly each day. But planners sometimes need to take special precautions to “make sure we don’t upset the diplomatic aspects of what’s going on,” he added.
“It’s doing things a little bit differently than they have been in the past, while still looking at ways to maintain readiness,” Brown said during a March 1 media roundtable at AFA’s Air Warfare Symposium. “Sometimes the scope and scale may not be as big as it had been in the past, but we’re still getting some of the training that we would do anyway.”
Last week, Stars and Stripes reported that Foal Eagle and Key Resolve, which typically involve tens of thousands of American and South Korean troops, will be smaller this March than in years past. The Associated Press noted last year the two events convened 200,000 troops at their peak in the 1980s. More than 31,000 US troops participated in Foal Eagle 2017, and 12,800 forces participated in Key Resolve that year, prior to a toned-down version in 2018.
The news came as President Trump held his second meeting with North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un in Vietnam, which failed to produce a denuclearization agreement, even though the US had decided to cancel certain allied exercises—satisfying a key North Korean demand—in mid-2018 following the initial meeting.
A PACAF spokeswoman did not immediately respond to questions over the weekend about which Air Force assets plan to participate in the scaled-back training or what they would do.
Brown told Air Force Magazine he doesn’t discuss exercises with the White House and wasn’t sure whether US Indo-Pacific Command chief Adm. Philip Davidson or Army Gen. Robert Abrams, who leads US Forces Korea, had consulted with the Commander-in-Chief.
Brown deferred to Abrams when asked how long the US could sustain its reduced joint training before the countries’ ability to fight together is more deeply affected.
Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.), the ranking member on the Senate Armed Services Committee, told Air Force Magazine in a brief chat at the Orlando International Airport that the threat to readiness may be overblown. Keeping a lower profile lets the military continue somewhat as planned, he said, and leaders are adjusting as the Korean Peninsula’s political realities evolve.
But, he acknowledged, eventually losing the “muscle memory” of coalition warfare will become a concern, and full-scale exercises will need to resume.
Brown and Reed referenced comments made by INDOPACOM leaders at a SASC hearing in February on the region’s near-term military outlook, during which Abrams noted he was considering how to tweak the “size, scope, volume, and timing” of exercises without sacrificing readiness “to unacceptable levels.”
As of the Feb. 12 hearing, Abrams had been given the go-ahead from the Pentagon to continue planning a large-scale exercise in the spring.
He also told Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) anyone at a rank lower than Army battalion commander would not sense their regular training had changed. A battalion commander “has not noticed the difference yet, but he might in the upcoming months,” as would his superiors, Abrams said.
But “combat readiness is perishable … especially true of forces in Korea” because of high turnover, Abrams added in written testimony. Davidson similarly cautioned that “combat readiness and combined lethality” are still the best deterrent against North Korean threats.
Since October 2018, US service members in the Pacific theater have conducted “dozens” of small-scale exercises to refine operational concepts and remain proficient at essential tasks with their South Korean counterparts, Abrams said.
“We must continuously strike a balance between the clear need to train and exercise military capability and the requirement to create space for and support strategic diplomacy,” he said. “Such fine tuning [of exercise design and scope] allows for the mitigation of impacts inherent to rapidly switching from our traditional large-scale exercise program to one of more targeted events.”
Brown suggested that airmen are coming up with innovative ways to train in the absence of regular order, and that geopolitical complications are nothing new.
“There’s always some level of constraint that we have to work through,” he said.
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Cohen Commercial Realty Signs All Star Tax Services in New Lease Transaction
Shoppes at Cresthaven, West Palm Beach, FL
Bryan S. Cohen
West Palm Beach, FL (June 26, 2013 )— Bryan S. Cohen and Allan Carlisle announced today the signing of All Star Tax Services, to lease a 1,600-square-foot unit at the Shoppes at Cresthaven located on the northwest corner of Military Trail and Cresthaven Road.
Allan Carlisle
Cohen Commercial Realty represents the landlord. They join Winn Dixie, YouFit, and Dade Medical College at Shoppes at Cresthaven.
Jamie Crocker 561-471-0212
Cohen Commercial Realty, Inc.
www.cohencommercial.com
Statement of David Stevens on Johnson-Crapo FHA Bill
David H. Stevens
Washington, D.C. (July 16, 2013) – David H. Stevens, President and CEO of the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA), today issued the following statement regarding the release of Senate Banking Committee Chairman Tim Johnson (D-SD) and Ranking Member Mike Crapo’s (R-ID) bipartisan ‘‘FHA Solvency Act of 2013”:
U.S. Senator Tim Johnson
Democrat, South Dakota
“I strongly commend Chairman Johnson and Ranking Member Crapo for reaching a bipartisan agreement that will ensure FHA continues to fulfill its traditional role as a critical source of affordable credit for first-time home buyers and working families.
“The FHA Solvency Act of 2013 contains common-sense reforms that will help shore up FHA’s finances. As we continue to analyze the bill, we may suggest some fine tuning of specific provisions. We support the direction of this legislation and look forward to working with the Chairman and Ranking Member as the committee considers their proposal in the coming days and weeks.”
Rob Van Raaphorst
Robust Economy Drives Tampa Bay, FL Apartments
Tampa, FL night skyline
TAMPA, FL -- The Tampa Bay apartment sector rolls into the third quarter riding the momentum of positive trends that will sustain strong near-term property performance, according to a second-quarter analysis by Marcus & Millichap real Estate Services.
Job creation was robust in the first half of 2013, supported by a recovery in home sales and home building, and additional retail spending.
In addition, Amazon announced during the second quarter that it selected the south Hillsborough County community of Ruskin as the location for a 1 million-square foot warehouse that will employ roughly 1,000 workers.
With the announcement, the metro’s tested formula of affordability and the presence of a trained workforce has re-emerged as a driving force for economic growth in the region.
In the present, however, strong tenant demand pushed vacancy to less than 6 percent at midyear for only the second time since the recession began.
Property owners are successfully raising rents as leases roll over, sometimes substantially. Completions will decrease this year ahead of an active 2014, when fluctuations in vacancy will occur as new properties come online in the Central Tampa submarket and in St. Petersburg.
Gina Relva
2999 Oak Road
gina.relva@marcusmillichap.com
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For Investors, Not Enough Properties to Go Around in Orlando, FL Market
Fountains at Lake Eola Park, Downtown Orlando, FL
ORLANDO, FL – Marcus & Millichap Real Estate Services reports a slowdown in hiring in the first half of 2013 does not significantly dim a positive outlook for the Orlando apartment sector over the remainder of the year.
Despite subdued job creation, additions to payrolls over the past three years restored roughly 60 percent of the jobs lost during the recession, far exceeding the statewide recovery of 40 percent.
Newly employed residents are driving a vigorous apartment sector, creating sufficient new demand to slash vacancy to less than half the peak level recorded during the downturn.
The improving job market is also fueling a resurgence in home building and single-family home sales across the metro. Intense bidding among prospective home buyers for limited listings and high down payment hurdles, however, preclude many renters from making the leap to homeownership.
Meanwhile, new apartment construction will help meet demand from newly formed households that are selecting rental housing as their residence of choice.
Projects delivered in the first quarter this year were well received, as vacancy declined during the period. Job growth, however, must accelerate from its current pace in order to generate demand sufficient to absorb new units coming online after 2013.
Service Sector Job Gains, Long-Term Trends Buoy Miami, FL
MIAMI, FL – Marcus & Millichap’s second-quarter data shows several factors support Miami-Dade County’s place within the upper tier of apartment markets in the country.
The number of workers in service industries has exceeded its pre-recession peak and is growing, though job creation in other employment sectors remains lackluster.
Additional residents employed at shops, bars, restaurants and hotels are lifting several segments of the local economy and sustaining low apartment vacancy. Also, housing affordability has improved throughout the South Florida region, but the homeownership rate has declined, expanding the pool of potential renters.
The entire region, and Miami-Dade in particular, could also see a surge in housing demand if immigration reform is enacted. While prospects for a prolonged period of steady rental housing demand appear strong, new construction could create some occasional swings in vacancy as new projects are stabilized.
Scheduled additions to supply this year and beyond, however, are a benign 2.2 percent of existing stock, minimizing the potential market-wide impact of development.
Although expensive high-rise condos are forming on the waterfront, building rentals remains challenging due to limited land and higher costs to transport construction materials from outside of the state.
Sales dollar volume topped $1 billion over the past 12 months, the first time that threshold has been breached in seven years.
Economic Engine Revs Up, Drives Deal Flow in Broward County, FL
Margaritaville Resort rendering, Hollywood, FL
FORT LAUDERDALE, FL – Marcus & Millichap reports positive trends in Broward County are sustaining low vacancy and generating increases in monthly apartment rents.
Since the recovery began, employers have added jobs in each of the past 14 quarters, and improvements in the single-family housing and retail sectors will support additional payroll growth in the second half of 2013.
The county’s demographic trends are also tilting favorably for the apartment sector. One of the fastest growing segments of the local population is individuals aged 24 years to 29 years, a slice of the prime renter cohort.
Many younger residents will remain renters by choice in order to relocate more easily within the region to pursue job opportunities — an important consideration in South Florida, where daily commutes can be problematic.
Large-scale development is also making a comeback in Broward. Officials in Hollywood recently voted to allow developers to proceed with the construction of the $147 million Margaritaville Resort.
The project, tentatively slated for completion in 2015, will create the type of service sector positions that the rental housing market relies on as a source of potential tenants.
Dedicated multifamily property investors and new capital are entering the South Florida region and debt sources remain
. HFF closes sale of grocery-anchored retail center in Salinas, CA
Boronda Plaza, 1576 North Sanborn Road, Salinas, CA
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – HFF announced today that it has closed the sale of Boronda Plaza, a 93,796-square-foot, grocery-anchored retail center in Salinas, California.
Nicholas Bicardo
HFF marketed the property on behalf of the seller, Donahue Schriber. Phillips Edison-ARC Shopping Center REIT Inc. successfully purchased the asset free and clear of existing debt amongst a highly competitive field of 20 bidders.
Boronda Plaza is located at 1576 North Sanborn Road at the intersection of East Boronda Road approximately three miles east of Highway 101. Situated on 9.5 acres, the center was built in 2002 and is 95 percent leased to multiple tenants including anchor tenant Food 4 Less, which occupies 59,412 square feet of space.
The HFF investment sales team representing the seller was led by managing director Nicholas Bicardo, along with associate director Mark Damiani, both out of the San Francisco HFF office, as well as managing director Bryan Ley from HFF’s LA office.
Mark Damiani
“This transaction represented an excellent opportunity for the buyer to acquire a dominant grocery-anchored retail center located in a secondary market in Northern California at a very attractive yield comparatively to primary markets.
“Given where spreads are on cap rates between primary and secondary markets, we are seeing a tremendous amount of capital migrate to similar markets like Salinas in search of higher yields,” said Bicardo.
Bryan Ley
Donahue Schriber is a private real estate investment trust (REIT) operating on the West Coast. The company owns and operates a portfolio of 74 neighborhood, community and power shopping centers representing more than 11 million square feet throughout California, Arizona, Nevada, Oregon and Washington.
www.phillipsedison-arc.com.
www.donahueschriber.com.
Student-Housing Sector Gets “A” Grade from Experts
ATLANTA, GA – After showing impressive resilience during the Great Recession, the student-housing sector is set for a strong future and is attracting increased interest from investors.
Michael Bull
Those were some of the points made by a panel of student-housing experts on the most recent episode of the “Commercial Real Estate Show,” hosted by Michael Bull of Bull Realty. The episode examined many topics related to the sector, including in-demand amenities, rent growth, financing and construction costs.
“To sum up, conditions right now really look good for the student-housing market,” said Ronald Johnsey, president of AxioMetrics Inc.
Student-housing communities performed better in terms of rent growth and occupancy than traditional apartments during the recession, in part because many people returned to school during the downturn to improve their employment prospects, Johnsey said.
Ronald Johnsey
Now, with much of the Millennial generation entering their college years, overall college enrollment growth in the United States could average 1.5 percent a year for the next decade, he said.
Combine increasing enrollment with decreased state funds for building or renovating on-campus residences, and the demand for privately developed and operated residential communities near colleges should continue to be strong, Johnsey noted.
Rent growth should actually slow in 2013 because a sizeable amount of new supply – 50,000 beds – will be delivered this year, according to Johnsey. However, rent growth should rebound to 3.7 percent next year, and “occupancy should be in the 96 percent range over the next four years,” Johnsey said. “We think the outlook’s great.”
Ted Rollins
The areas surrounding the non-flagship schools of public university systems offer great opportunities for student-housing developers and operators, said Ted Rollins, CEO of Campus Crest. That’s because enrollment at the institutions is growing as students seek cheaper tuition costs, he said.
“Students are focusing on these non-flagships due to their value and the quality of education that the students are getting,” Rollins said.
Amenities at student-housing communities are more elaborate than ever, said David Nelson, a vice president with Carter. “It’s about trying to provide almost an all-inclusive environment for students, where they canstudy and be productive, where they can hang out and have fun without” leaving the community, he said.
Resort-style pools, golf simulators and even tanning beds are among the common amenities, Nelson said.
Financing for student-housing projects has become more readily available in recent years, even to the point that non-recourse loans are not unheard of, Nelson added.
Still, lenders are carefully evaluating the developers and operators they’re giving money to, according to Miles Orth, chief operating officer of Campus Apartments. “We are constantly getting feedback – whether it be from the life companies or GSEs – that experience is the most critical aspect for them, whether it be on the [project] delivery side or the management side,” he said.
Miles Orth
The entire student-housing episode is available for download at www.CREshow.com. The next “Commercial Real Estate Show” will be available on July 17 and will feature an update on the U.S. office market.
The Wilbert Group
E-mail: sursery@thewilbertgroup.com
Please note new office number: (404) 549-7150
www.thewilbertgroup.com
Integrity Home Loan hosting, sponsoring Sunday afternoon Radio Program on Mortgage Rates, home owner Strategies
LAKE MARY, FL. — Integrity Home Loan of Central Florida, which ranks as the state’s largest privately-owned, Florida based residential mortgage company, is hosting and sponsoring “The Real Estate Debate” on WDBO AM 540 Radio airing Sundays from 1 to 2 p.m., featuring Matt Malloy, president of Integrity Home Loan and occasional guests.
Malloy, whose company provided more than 2,700 mortgage loans last year that totaled more than $600 million from 11 offices in Jacksonville, Lake Mary, Orlando, Altamonte Springs, Maitland, Tampa, Clearwater, West Palm Beach, Coral Springs and Southfield, Michigan, said mortgage interest rates and residential mortgage strategies are an important component of the national economy.
“For most people who own their home or plan to buy a home, mortgage interest rates become critical information, and refinancing an existing mortgage can substantially improve a family’s financial picture,” Malloy said.
“The Real Estate Debate” covers all the ways families are planning their futures around their homes, whether buying, selling or refinancing,” Malloy said.
Malloy projects Integrity will serve up more than 3,200 residential mortgage loans in 2013.
Larry Vershel, Larry Vershel Communications, 407-644-4142, lvershelco@aol.com
City Center St Petersburg Nears Full Occupancy with 14,000 Square Foot GSA Lease
City Center, St. Petersburg, FL
St. Petersburg, FL. – Less than a month after announcing a 26,000 square foot lease with Kobie Marketing, Feldman Equities has executed a 14,000 square foot lease with the GSA (General Services Administration) at City Center St Petersburg.
“When we acquired the property in January of 2011 the building had an effective occupancy of 44%. We’re now over 93% and surging with the recent leasing and renewal activity,” commented Larry Feldman, CEO of Feldman Equities and co-owner of City Center.
Feldman attributes their turn around success to an aggressive pricing program coupled with an extensive renovation program. Given their recent success, the City Center ownership group is setting their sights on acquiring new buildings in downtown St Petersburg. Their plan is to purchase under-performing assets and investing extensively in new renovations and tenant amenities to attract new tenants.
Cliff Stein
The GSA will move the technology arm of the Veteran’s Administration from their Bay Pines facility to the City Center office complex in St. Petersburg’s Downtown Central Business District. David Green with Jones Lang LaSalle brokered the deal.
Feldman Equities is the modern business entity that encompasses a century of success in commercial real estate development.
In the last 25 years, Larry Feldman has developed or acquired over 11 million square feet of office and retail properties with an aggregate value in excess of $2.5 billion.
Reid Berman
Feldman Equities is recognized for its hands-on approach to turning around distressed assets. Feldman gained a national reputation as a property turnaround specialist when he was the Chairman and CEO of the publicly traded Tower Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: TOW).
Tower Realty Partners is an Orlando-based commercial real estate owner focusing on value-added opportunities throughout the state of Florida. Tower’s principals are Cliff Stein and Reid Berman. Since its inception, Tower has acquired over $1 billion of office properties. Currently, Tower’s assets consist of nearly 4 million square feet office property throughout the state of Florida.
Feldman Equities,
lfeldman@feldmanequities.com
www.citycenterstpete.com.
Marcus & Millichap Arranges Sale of North Miami Beach Ale House for $4.35 Million
North Miami Beach Ale House, 3227 NE 163rd Street
Adam J. Tiktin
NORTH MIAMI BEACH, FL, July 16, 2013 – Marcus & Millichap Real Estate Investment Services, the nation’s largest real estate investment services firm, has announced the sale of North Miami Beach Ale House, an 8,999 square-foot net-leased restaurant located in North Miami Beach, FL. The asset sold for $4,350,000.
Adam J. Tiktin, a Vice President Investments, and Michael Biama, an Associate, both from Marcus & Millichap’s Miami office, had the exclusive listing to market the property on behalf of the seller, a private investor from Boca Raton. The buyer, a private investor from Aventura, was also secured and represented by Tiktin and Biama.
Michael Biama
“North Miami Beach Ale House has been at the site for 14 years. The triple-net lease has approximately 12 years remaining and provides two additional five-year options,” says Tiktin.
The property has great visibility and frontage along 163rd Street and is located half-way between Biscayne Boulevard and Collins Avenue. National retailers in the surrounding area include: Outback Steakhouse, Dunkin' Donuts, Dollar Tree, Winn-Dixie, T.J. Maxx, and Old Navy among others.
NMB Ale House is located at 3227 NE 163rd Street in North Miami Beach, FL.
Kirk A. Felici
Cortland Acquires 1,037 Apartment Homes in Florida and Texas for $130.3 Million
Saxon Woods Apartments, Dallas, TX
ATLANTA, GA (July 16, 2013) — Continuing its expansion in the multifamily sector, Cortland Partners has acquired, inseparate transactions, three communities totaling 1,037 units in Florida and Texas for a total investment of $130.3 million. The properties are located in Dallas, Houston and Jacksonville.
The Halstead, Houston, TX
These acquisitions bring to nine the number of communities that the Atlanta-based multifamily investment firm owns in its partnership with Cortland Partners GP Fund I and a large institutional capital partner.
Sticking with the practice of repeat lender relationships, Cortland worked with Berkadia Commercial Mortgage LLC and Ares Commercial Real Estate Corp. to place the debt capital for these transactions. In 2013, Cortland and Ares have worked together on five acquisitions.
“These acquisitions are an important part of our strategic investment plan to bolster our presence in Florida and Texas,” said Steven DeFrancis, CEO of Cortland Partners.
“Currently we have five additional assets in Texas and Florida under contract to purchase over the course of the summer. We will be making additional inroads into these states and significantly improving our economies of scale there as well as our overall portfolio diversity.” Over the past three years, Cortland’s ownership portfolio has grown to almost 15,000 units in Texas and the Southeast.
Tony Wilbert
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Trepp June Pay Off Report: Percentage of Loans Paying Off Remains Near 12 Month Low; Only 32% of Loans Coming Due Pay Off
NEW YORK, NY -- According to the just-released Trepp June 2012 Pay-Off Report, the percentage of loans paying off on their balloon date remained anchored near its 12 month low.
In May, the rate plummeted to 29.4%, the lowest level since October 2010. In June, the rate ticked up but the gain was marginal, indicating that despite historically low interest rates, the ability for borrowers to refinance remains challenging.
In June, only 32.3% of loans reaching their balloon date paid off. This is the second lowest total in 21 months. Only May 2012 was lower.
The June total of 32.4% was well under the 12 month average of 42.7%. (This number simply sums the averages of each month and divides by 12--there was no balance weighting across the months.)
By loan count (as opposed to balance), 55.2% of the loans paid off. On the basis of loan count, the 12 month rolling average is now 51.8%. The disparity between the volume-based total and the count-based total indicates that it was mostly small balance loans that managed to pay off in June.
Prior to 2008, the pay-off percentages were typically well north of 70%. Since the beginning of 2009, however, there have only been four months where more than half of the balance of the loans reaching their balloon date actually paid off.
Eric R. Gerard
Great Ink Communications
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Should Rising Interest Rates Affect REITs?
Susan Persin
By Susan Persin
For Trepp
NEW YORK, NY -- Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke commented in both May and June that the Federal Reserve may begin to wind down its bond purchases in the fall.
His remarks sent stock markets down and pushed interest rates up. The REIT market was particularly affected.
The FTSE NAREIT All REIT return was 5.8% in April, but fell to -6.56% in May and -2.28% in June. So far in July, the return has measured a slight 0.16%, bringing the year-to-date return to 5.97%.
The REIT market may have retreated at least partially in response to over exuberance in the first four months of 2013, but higher interest rates have also played a significant role in the pullback. Interest rates are rising, yet they remain low by historical standards, so why is there such a significant impact on REITs?
Evidence suggests that REITs can perform well in higher interest rates environments.
Looking back to the year 2000, the 10-year Treasury rate had risen steadily to an average of 6.03% from 5.65% in 1999 and 5.26% in 1998, yet total REIT returns for industrial/office (33.38%), retail (17.97%), residential (34.30%), and lodging (45.77%), and other property types were still very strong.
In its 2000 annual report, Boston Properties (BXP), which was the second largest office REIT at the time, noted that, “the Year 2000 was one of the most successful in Boston Properties’ history.” In comparison, the June 2013 10-Year Treasury rate was 2.3%, up from a 2012 average of 1.8%.
Additionally, at NAREIT’s REIT Week conference in June, representatives from a number of REITs indicated that their interest rate risk is limited because much of their financing is locked in. Many REITS have also used hedging strategies to limit interest rate risk.
The direct impact of higher interest rates on REITs’ borrowing costs seems to be less of an issue than the indirect impact of higher rates:
1) Higher interest rates will undoubtedly affect the economy, which will impact demand for commercial real estate. Higher rates will make housing less affordable and could affect or altogether derail the housing recovery. Higher rates could also lead consumers to cut back on purchases ranging from autos to travel to consumer goods. Declining demand for these goods and services would affect corporate expansions and their demand for all types of commercial real estate, which would hurt market fundamentals and consequently affect REITs.
2) Higher interest rates will affect the value of the real estate held by REITs. Higher borrowing costs mean that buyers aiming for a certain return will be willing to pay less for a property.
3) Investors looking for the greatest returns can be fickle. In recent years they have poured money into REITs whose attractive dividends helped them achieve the greatest yields. As higher interest rates make yields elsewhere more attractive, investors will pull back on their REIT allocations to invest elsewhere.
The REIT market’s negative reaction to higher interest rates seems disproportionate, given the nation’s consistent economic expansion and improving real estate market fundamentals. The greater danger appears not to be higher borrowing costs, but rather any number of factors that could derail the nation’s economic recovery and make already skittish investors more nervous.
Robert Russell Joins Greystone as Head of CMBS Production and Managing Director of Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac Orginations
New York, NY, July 16, 2013 – Greystone, a leading national provider of multifamily and healthcare mortgage loans, today announced it has appointed Robert Russell as the Head of CMBS Production and Managing Director for the firm’s Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac platform.
Joseph H. Mosley
He will report to Joe Mosley, Executive Managing Director of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Lending.
In this newly created position, Russell will coordinate the firm’s production of CMBS loans and originate multifamily Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac loans for Greystone’s agency platform. He will be based in the New York City office.
“Robert’s experience working with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, coupled with his unparalleled creativity and knowledge of the industry, is a fantastic addition to Greystone,” said Mosley. “Robert will play a key role in our organization as we continue to expand our offerings, and we are thrilled to welcome him to the team.”
Russell brings more than 15 years of real estate experience to Greystone and has executed transactions in excess of $6 billion throughout his distinguished career.
Previously, Russell was the Chief Production Officer at Pillar Multifamily, LLC and served as a Managing Director at Wachovia Securities, where his duties included originating and structuring debt/preferred equity transactions in the United States, and establishing Wachovia's lending operations in Canada. He has also held similar positions at Credit Suisse, Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette and Nomura Asset Capital Corporation.
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Marcus & Millichap Arranges Sale of North Miami, FL Land Development for $1.125 Million
Michael A. Mele
NORTH MIAMI, FL, July 15, 2014 – Marcus & Millichap (NYSE: MMI), a leading commercial real estate investment services firm with offices throughout the United States and Canada, today announced the sale of North Miami Land Development, 57,997 square feet of land located in North Miami, Florida, according to Richard D. Matricaria, regional manager of the firm’s Tampa office. The asset sold for $1,125,000.
Michael A. Mele, a first vice president investments and Luke Elliott, associate in Marcus & Millichap’s Tampa office, had the exclusive listing to market the property on behalf of the seller, a local developer.
The buyer, Banner Storage Group, was secured and represented by Sean M. Delaney, a vice president investments in the firm’s Chicago Oak Brook office.
North Miami Land Development is located at 640-685 NW 133rd Street in North Miami, Florida. The property is situated on five parcels of land that have been zoned for commercial self-storage and consists of approximately 1.33 acres, allowing for a footprint up to approximately 46,000 buildable square feet, with a maximum height of 55 feet.
Sean M. Delaney
This investment also includes 9,500 square feet on 133rd Street and easements in-between the parcels with the right-of-way abandoned.
“This is the first self-storage development site we have sold since before the downturn,” says Mele. “It shows that development is back in a big way in south Florida, particularly in Dade County.”
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HFF closes sale of Atascocita Shopping Plaza in northeast Houston, TX suburb
Rusty Tamlyn
HOUSTON, TX – HFF announced today that it has closed the sale of Atascocita Shopping Plaza, a 158,613-square-foot, grocery-anchored retail center in Humble, Texas.
HFF marketed the property on behalf of the seller, Red Tail Acquisitions. A private investor purchased the asset.
Atascocita Shopping Plaza is situated on a 16.73-acre site at 6900-7072 FM 1960 in Humble, a retail corridor in northeast Houston less than seven miles from I-69. The grocery-anchored property is 94.7 percent leased to tenants including Aldi, Dollar Tree, Specs and Goodwill Industries.
The HFF investment sales team representing the seller was led by senior managing director Rusty Tamlyn, managing director Ryan West and associate director Matt Berry.
“This property featured Aldi on a lease, which is rare in the Houston area as most are free-standing owned stores,” Tamlyn said. “It also involved a loan assumption and is located in a thriving retail section of Atascocita in northeast Houston.”
Ryan West
Red Tail Acquisitions is a value investor that seeks office, industrial and retail properties that normally have leasing or construction issues. Over the last 25 years, the group has purchased more than 10 million square feet of commercial property in the western United States. Learn more at www.rtacq.com.
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Avison Young completes $7.75-million sale of two office buildings in Murrieta, CA
Dan Vittone
Irvine, CA – Avison Young, the world’s fastest-growing commercial real estate services firm, announced today that it has completed the $7.75-million sale of two, class A office buildings totaling 37,652 square feet (sf) in Murrieta, CA.
Avison Young Principals Dan Vittone and Alan Pekarcik, based in the company’s Irvine office, represented the seller, Village Walk Square, LLC, as well as the buyer, Village Walk Murrieta, LP.
Built in 2004, the well-located buildings offer high visibility from Interstate 15. The first building in the acquisition is called Village Walk Corporate Center and is located at 41391 Kalmia Street.
The three-story property totals 32,572 sf and was 96% occupied by 11 tenants at the close of escrow. The second building in the sale is located at 41381 Kalmia Street and totals 5,080 sf. The building is fully occupied by Pacific Western Bank.
The two assets are within the first phase of Village Walk Murrieta, a 65-acre mixed-use business park which includes more than 400,000 sf of upscale shops, restaurants, seniors housing and office buildings.
Alan Pekarcik
“This transaction was a favorable one for both the buyer and seller,” comments Vittone. “The seller was able to dispose of a stable asset that is outperforming the immediate submarket, and the buyer acquired a high-quality asset below replacement cost.”
Vittone adds: “Murrieta has a growing population base that wants to work close to where it lives as opposed to commuting to employment centers such as San Diego or Orange County. With that said, the Murrieta office market is poised to strengthen over the next few years.”
The City of Murrieta is situated within southwestern Riverside County. Murrieta – part of the greater Temecula Valley market, which includes the cities of Temecula and Menifee – has emerged as a major employment center for the local area.
Murrieta’s projected expanding employment base and the region’s affordable housing provide favorable conditions for commercial real estate investment now and in the foreseeable future.
Darcie Giacchetto
D.G. Communications, Inc.
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Award Winning Calculator Helps Local Agencies Predict Hotel Occupancy Tax Revenues
Jamie Lane
Atlanta, GA, July 15, 2014 -- PKF Hospitality Research, LLC (PKF-HR) today announced the release of the “Hotel Occupancy Tax Calculator,” an Excel-based tool that gives local agencies the ability to incorporate objectively developed forecasts into their estimates of future hotel occupancy tax collections.
“The calculator helps agencies improve their projections and avoid operational inefficiencies, such as unjustified budget cuts, hiring freezes and changes in tourism promotion efforts,” said Jamie Lane, senior economist with PKF-HR.
The award-winning calculator estimates taxed revenues for the next five years using the PKF-HR Hotel Horizons® econometric forecasting methods. These highly accurate forecasts come from estimating the stable statistical relationship between measures of the economy and hotel performance for the metropolitan area in which the tax district is located.
“The Hotel Occupancy Tax Calculator allows users to customize their forecasts based on the taxing juristiction historical data and also make alternative assumptions about key inputs, such as occupancy tax rates,” Lane added.
Jamie Lane Chris Daly
PKF Hospitality Research, LLC Daly Gray Public Relations
Tel: 404 809 3950 Tel: 703 435 6293
Email: jamie.lane@pkfc.com Email: chris@dalygray.com
www.pkfc.com www.dalygray.com
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Cisco adds new capabilities to its IBN infrastructure
Cisco has advanced its intent-based networking gear so now it can both verify that networks are actually running according to the intentions set by admins and also so it can help to find and resolve network problems faster on both wired and wireless networks.
The company says this is a new phase in the evolution of its IBN in which it is addressing assurance – the ability to assess whether the intentions that have been translated into policies and orchestrated throughout the network by configuring individual devices are carrying out the intentions they are supposed to.
Assurance is being added to the list of Cisco’s IBN capabilities with a new software product and enhancements to two other pieces of software being announced at the Cisco Live conference in Barcelona today.
This gives Cisco a more integrated and comprehensive IBN offering than competitors whose offerings can support targeted core features of IBN, but not across an entire network, says Rohit Mehra, the vice president of network infrastructure for IDC. “It brings policy, security and all capabilities around network assurance, and how network assurance makes the network resilient and secure,” he says. “This is a good, logical next step.”
It’s a step that will up the bar for Cisco’s competitors. Mehra says the IBN market is fairly fragmented with many vendors offering up a piece of an IBN solution, but not many integrated pieces. “Different vendors provide some of these,” he says. “You have to think of them as point solutions, and to the extent they do their job some of them are excellent.”
For example, IDC has written about startups Live Action, 7Signal Solutions, Nyansa, Thousand Eyes and Kentik that provide cloud based monitoring, an important piece of IBN. But more established vendors such as NetScout, CA and IBM also offer this type of network monitoring, he says. “Getting IBN coherent from a single vendor, I think there such more value in it,” Mehra says.
The announcement centers on the following:
Cisco Network Assurance Engine: This is a new piece of software running in a virtual machine and providing the assurance capabilities for data centers with Cisco’s Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) enabled data centers. ACI is Cisco’s software-defined networking that is baked into the network hardware. The Network Assurance engine will enable IT pros to understand the impact of proposed network changes in data centers and verify that network behavior complies with policies that have been set.
Cisco DNA Center Assurance: This is software that gathers and analyzes data from across networks to help identify the root cause of problems and suggest ways to fix them. A separate software platform, Cisco Meraki Wireless Health supports similar features for wireless networks.
Cisco Meraki Wireless Health: This is a software enhancement to the dashboard for Cisco’s Meraki line of wireless gear. It spots anomalies and trends that could indicate problems, helps isolate the causes and suggest remediation.
In earlier IBN announcements, Cisco addressed what it calls translation, the act of capturing the business intent that IT is trying to get out of the network and translating that into policies the network understands. This phase also checks that these policies can be deployed without conflicting with other intents.
The next phase Cisco announced was orchestrating the policy throughout the underlying infrastructure with configuration of individual devices and making sure they have been provisioned correctly to deliver the intent.
This latest phase, assurance, guarantees that the orchestrated policies are actually delivering on the intent. Assurance continuously verifies that the network is remaining in the right state to do so. This is done by gathering and analyzing data from all devices in the network, both hardware and software. The analysis can give context to events on the network that can help troubleshoot problems more quickly. And, the analysis can recommend actions that could be taken to correct problem issues, the company says.
This can be accomplished with Cisco gear, but the company is also working with other vendors so their products can contribute to a more comprehensive IBN infrastructure, the company says. Some of these vendors are Citrix, F5, AVI, Splunk and VMware.
Some of these additions to Cisco’s IBN portfolio are available now and others will be added over the next few months.
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After three short months, Ophelia has closed. Ophelia/Facebook
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Editor's note: Sudden restaurant closure and a hidden gem lead this round of top stories. Read on for more of the week's most popular headlines.
1. East Austin restaurant suddenly suspends operations after barely getting started. Are you ready for this? Ophelia, one of Austin's newest restaurants, closed its doors just three months after opening. In a surprising announcement on Wednesday, the Cajun eatery said that it would be "suspending operations effective immediately."
2. East meets Tex-Mex at this yummy North Austin hidden gem. While it's no secret that North Austin is home to some of the city's best Asian cuisine, Asian-Tex-Mex fusion certainly isn't something you'd expect to find in a little retail strip on Research Boulevard. But you'll find it at Yummitaco.
3. Ultimate guide to The Domain's newest hot spots — and what's up next. The Domain has saved the best for last with the launch of Rock Rose, a parade of restaurants, businesses, and bars breathing new life into the North Austin shopping destination. Here's a look at what's open now, and what's on the horizon.
4. Tito's Vodka creator's newest Austin endeavor is a dramatic one. For Tito Beveridge, things couldn't be better these days. His business — Tito's Handmade Vodka — is booming, and he is looking at life as a "great adventure," one that he wants to celebrate every day. His healthy outlook is evident in his latest venture, a new play titled This Side of the Dirt.
5. Austinites really hate cleaning and other odd facts about locals. Austin is home to interesting people with even more interesting needs. The evidence? Thumbtack, an online service that links people with service professionals, combed through tens of thousands of requests from locals to uncover a handful of things truly unique to Austin.
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How to live to the battery without recharging — examination
For how long you can leave your car, then it is guaranteed to start? Experts “Behind the wheel” found the name of the main “energolesprom”, compared to the real loss data of car manufacturers and made recommendations for drivers. Alexey Revin “driving”Expert Michael Kolodochkin “driving”Expert
Rules of the daily supply
Sometimes that is the absolutely perfect car for a long time is laid up. And after a while may drain the battery below the “waterline”. No one knows when it will happen. Try to figure?
Just specify that the leakage current of the battery is not taken into account: they are too small in comparison with the capabilities of the main energofinprom. The main one is the on-Board electronics of the car.
Controllers constantly expend energy, and appetite changes from brand to brand. So we sent requests to representative offices of automobile companies explain, they say, what is the current consume of the machine is at rest.
The data obtained, we present below the article — instead of PostScript.
The protection does not sleep
Another energotamir — additional security alarm, which by definition have to stay awake.
The most voracious are satellite system. So, ARKAN Control consumes 40 to 60 mA, ARKAN Satellite — all 60 mA.Current consumption alarm and telemetry complexes in the resting (parked) is equal to 6-15 mA. Appetite depends on the configuration of the specific device and user preferences.
For example, security complex StarLine E96 in rest mode “eats” 6 mA, and BT B96 StarLine 2CAN+GSM GPS 2LIN (maximum configuration with integrated main unit GSM+BLUETOOTH interface and GPS antenna + GLONASS) — 14,6 mA.
In any case, even the most complex electronic “secret police”, including systems with two way communication, do not consume more than 80 mA.
Higher consumption is almost always caused by incompetent system connection to the vehicle.
And we?
Proclaimed not a sin to check in practice, more precisely on the editorial cars. Alternately, each of them detachable terminal on the battery and plug in the circuit the ammeter. Then put the car on guard, and observe how changing the readings in time. The results of our measurements in table.
The steady-state current was within the expected range — tens of milliamps. But transients all cars differ quite strongly. Surprised the figures of Vesta, and especially Cobalt. However, after a while they came back to normal.
But the findings were in line with those reported by representatives of corporations. When the calculations can navigate about 30 mA for machines without additional signaling and 100 mA for vehicles with the fancy electronic means against stealing.
Tips and warnings
A few tips for those who want to test the appetite of his car. On disconnecting the battery terminals the car to react badly. In the best case they have reset the clock and audio system.
In the worst case the machine may refuse to start, considering your actions unauthorized intervention (however, it is peculiar only to some “advanced” models, which all stuff need to go to the service). In addition, many machines will scream offline alarm.
To measure fit simple tester. So as not to burn it, make sure you switch to the measurement mode current of 10 A. If the measurements you found that the current consumption does not want to fall to tens of milliamperes for fault.
The kidnappers electricity can be a variety of tuning devices, such as audio amplifiers, trip computers and even a scanner ELM327, permanently plugged into the OBD.
How much will stretch?
So how much will the battery last without recharging? Accurate to seconds are not taken to identify, but roughly count up.
For example, installed in the car battery of 70 amp-hours and current consumption is 20mA (or 0.02 A). Divide one another — we get 3500 hours. But to start the machine the battery needs solid energy at least a dozen amp-hours need to keep. Then there will be 3000 hours, or approximately four months. If the current consumption is 100 mA and the battery is not fresh, it is already week three or four the car to let fail. Well, if it’s cold, that after ten days the Parking lot of a frozen battery may not be able to start the engine.
In real life the battery will last longer. These 70 Ah say only that the battery can give current of 3.5 A for 20 hours. But the real dependence of battery capacity on the current is exponential in nature: the smaller the discharge current, the higher the capacity and Vice versa.
How does it work? Imagine that the battery is a glass filled with drink with ice. While you languidly SIP a drink through a straw, the ice slowly melts, helping to “stretch pleasure.” It behaves as a battery with a low current consumption. Is it worth it to make a powerful gulp, the drink will end immediately, as happens when a large current.
In short, the battery with low current consumption will last about twice longer than follows from the calculations. An optimistic calculation shows that under favorable circumstances the car can last six months or more.
At statement of machine on protection current consumption can jump up to several amperes — actuate the actuators of the locks. Perhaps the tester is configured to measure in milliamps and will withstand this load, but during the measurement it is better not to risk it and when locking the car momentarily short-circuiting its terminals, allowing a large current to flow directly. Below is the results of measurements on drafting machines:
Consumption current, And
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0,02 (18 min.)
Of 0.02 (2 min.)
Current consumption declared by producers:
Audi: the average current in idle state electronics, the so-called Busruhe when all of the digital bus and the blocks are “asleep”, depending on the model of 30-50 mA. While stationary, some systems check the condition of the machine, and the current is increased, and when returning to rest down again.
Citroen: after the car is “asleep”, the consumption current is 20-30 mA. This figure does not depend on the Parking time.
Jaguar/Land Rover: as follows from the manufacturer’s documentation, the current state of rest must not exceed 30 mA. In reality, he is 5-15 mA. During Parking, the figure can fluctuate due to the fact that periodically checks the control units (the height of the suspension, anti-lock braking system and others).
Kia: side the grid goes into sleep mode after 10-20 minutes after switching off the ignition and closing the locks. Thereafter, the current does not exceed 50mA.
Mitsubishi: after disconnecting consumers exchange data tire lasts about 10 minutes, then the car goes into rest mode. Current consumption in this mode is in the range of 10-20 mA, depending on the type of vehicle.
Skoda: the quiescent current, if the vehicle is repaired – no more than 40-50 mA. The time during which the value can stabilize up to 40 minutes (usually 5-10 minutes). For sequential power-off control unit responds to the control unit onboard network of the CSM.
Volkswagen: approximately 10 to 20 minutes after the vehicle protection electronics enters the power saving mode. Current consumption depends on the model and configuration and does not exceed 40 mA.
Volvo: pkW current current in sleep mode does not exceed 30 mA. Under normal conditions, regardless of time of Parking, the current is not changing. If using the application, the VOC (Volvo On Call) to apply to the car, it will be a short-term increase, while TEM (Telematics module, through which Volvo On Call communicates with the machine) is in active mode.
Lada: current consumption technically perfect vehicle at rest — two minutes after arming or 16 minutes after the ignition is turned off and the last impact on the vehicle (e.g. door closing), averages 20 mA. The current does not change if no external impact on the vehicle.
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No. 122 Lampongsche Bruiloft.
Beautiful antique print depicting a Lampung wedding. In a double wedding in Lampung, the high rank of the families is indicated by the various status symbols seen in the plate Substantial dowries were paid for brides of good families, especially those from a better family than the groom. According to the authors of the detailed explanatory notes in Dutch that accompanied the original portfolio of plates, this often resulted in men marrying late, as in the case of the groom on the left who was recorded to have paid 24,000 Dutch guilders for his bride, exclusive of wedding expenses. Al the end of the wedding dinner the couple adopt a new name to avoid spirits calling on them by their old ones
This photograph depicting the Dutch East Indies was originally published as part of an information series for school children. It consisted of 170 educational prints and covered a diverse range of subjects, separated into two parts: numbers 1-150 depicted places and people in the Dutch East Indies and numbers 151-170 depicted places and people in the Dutch West Indies. The first 150 photographs of the collection are attributed to the photographer Jean Demmeni (1866-1939), whose pictures provided the Dutch public with some of the first photographic depictions of the colonies that they had read so much about. Demmeni was born in Padang Panjang in West Sumatra, the son of a native woman of the island of Madura and a Frenchman who had left his country to join the Dutch East Indies Army. Demmeni followed in his fatherʹs footsteps and, after technical training in Holland, entered the Third Infantry Regiment in 1887. He was seconded to the topographic unit of the armed forces and in 1894 was assigned as the official photographer to an expedition to Borneo led by Dr. A.W. Nieuwenhuis. Demmeni was then employed by the Topographical Service at Batavia from 1911 until 1920, after which he worked as a photographer at the Central Office of Dactyloscopy. In the biography of Jean Demmeni Indonesia: Image s of the Past (Singapore: 1987), Leo Haks described him as ʹone of the first photographersʹ to capture the islands of the Indonesian archipelago, and called his work a ‘vital contribution to Indonesian history and the art of photography’ which ʹprovides a comprehensive record of the Indonesian islands at the turn of the century, unmatched in its singular insightsʹ. This selection of photographs shows interesting details around the expansion of industries such as tobacco (a lucrative export) in the area, and the local processes of production. The group also records the religious influences in the region, showing Islamic and Christian presences in local communities. Islam had been established in Indonesia since the fourteenth century, and colonial European settlers had ushered in a new phase of Christian proselytising around the Pacific Ocean – one which was frequently characterised by notorious insensitivity towards the indigenous population. However, these photographs demonstrate the more tolerant educational interest being taken at the beginning of the twentieth century.
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Treason by Ann Coulter
posted in Reviews on October 27, 2003 by Kevin Holtsberry
Ann Coulter’s Treason is a difficult book to read. Not because the subject is too dense or complex or because it is one we would rather avoid. No, the book is difficult because it is an angry, hyperbolic, disorganized, and disorienting rant – one that goes on for almost three hundred pages.
Coulter’s look at post-World War II American history is a mix of revisionism, satire, and polemics. Her basic premise is that liberals are not misguided but well-intentioned idealists but instead, traitors who hate their country and oppose it at every turn. In attempting to make this rather controversial point she touches on everything from espionage in the Roosevelt (FDR) administration to the attacks on (the current) President Bush; from Alger Hiss and Whitaker Chambers to racial profiling after 9/11. Although she moves in a roughly chronological direction she jumps back and forth between time periods with abandon.
It is a wild ride but one that leaves you exhausted rather than persuaded. The underlying problem with Coulter’s approach is an attempt to overturn a simplistic and warped view of history with an equally simplistic and warped view of history. The failure of large parts of the left to see communism for what it really was – a totalitarian ideology that brought death and destruction in its path – is a serious issue. It is an issue that has not been dealt with in any real way by large swaths of the culture and by much of elite opinion in this country. And that is a problem, but Treason takes that issue and smothers it in over-the-top rhetoric and confusion. Coulter has many valid points to make but her ability to communicate the message to anyone not already on her side is severely limited by her imprecision and her sophomoric tone and language.
It is important to note, however, that buried underneath all of this rhetoric is a number of valid points. Coulter is absolutely correct to point out that Joseph McCarthy was not the dangerous ogre and destroyer of lives that he is made out to be by the media and in all too many textbooks. In fact, McCarthy was right in his essential point that the American government failed to take Communist infiltration and espionage seriously enough. McCarthy’s main failing was his inability to be precise and not over-reach knowing that the media and elite establishment would do anything to cut him down. In one of her better chapter conclusions Coulter asks a valid question:
Maybe it would have been better if McCarthy had been more measured in his rhetoric. And maybe it would have been better if Ken Star had the savoir-faire of Cary Grant and if Linda Tripp looked like Gwyneth Paltrow, and Monica – no, Monica was perfect. But were there Soviet spies in the State Department?
Despite its snarky tone, this is a valid question and one that if answered honestly places McCarthy in a very different light.
Another area where Coulter’s underlying point is well taken, is the utter idiocy of pundits and politicians. This is where Coulter is at her best. She resurrects the quotes of pundits, academics, and politicians over the last fifty years and reveals just how wrong many of the “best and the brightest” really were. As I stated above, it is a fact that much of the left was tragically wrong about communism and its ramifications. Coulter’s quotes also reveal that all too often liberals defended their own no matter what the circumstances and that their idealism rarely had limits.
Even given these strengths, the book fails to make its case. It does so for a number of reasons: it is sophomoric, it is overly simplistic, and it is imprecise. With a subject matter this controversial and emotional those are fatal flaws; unless of course you are only seeking to preach to the choir and wind up the faithful.
The first problem is one of tone. The book becomes tiresome as the reader is forced to wade through the insulting and smart-ass language. If you expect to be taken seriously you need to write with a certain amount of seriousness. Coulter accuses liberals of going into a “diarrhea panic” and describes them as “sniffling pantywaists.” She claims that the Iran Contra Affair was “one of the most stirring episodes in U.S. History.” She calls actors “sissy-boys who put on little-girls’ plays.” She describes the accidental bombing of a French Embassy as having been motivated by a “puckish sense of humor” and with “Pow! So sorry, our mistake.” The entire book’s tone is one of angry superiority and condescension. This can get old very quickly.
Related to her far from serious tone, is the tendency to over-simplify and exaggerate. Coulter starts with the hyperbole right from the top. Her first sentence reads: “Liberals have a preternatural gift for striking a position on the side of treason.” She follows that up closely with: “Everyone says liberals love America, too. No they don’t.” See how simple history can be? Liberals are treasonous people who don’t love their own country. Seeking further explanation, at one point Coulter seems to claim that treason is a natural trait of elite WASPs:
Protecting traitors was part of the bonhomie of the ruling class. It was as if the WASPs had developed some XXY chromosome that led to overt treason. They had ruled magnificently for many years, but there blood had gotten thin. Angry ethnics like Joe McCarthy made much better Americans.
Her love for overly broad and over-the-top statements never ends until you close the book. Here are a few additional quotes:
– Time and again, in all crucial matters of national self-defense, the Democratic Party has shirked the honor of leading this country in war, be it cold or hot. Such a party must not be allowed in the Oval Office.
– Because of Democrat incompetence and moral infirmity, all Americans lived under threat of nuclear annihilation for half a century.
– The only important lesson from the Vietnam War is this: Democrats lose wars.
– It is a fact that the Democrats have been responsible for every unmitigated foreign policy disaster since World War II.
– Conservatives are devastatingly clear, consistent, and logical, while liberals are whirling dervishes of inconsistent positions.
Coulter lives in a black and white world, conservatives are always right and liberals are always wrong.
One might forgive Coulter her black and white worldview if she was at least clear and concise about her own argument. Instead she jumps back and forth between decades without considering that things might have changed between Truman and Reagan. She uses liberal and Democrat interchangeably with no real attempt to explain what liberal means or how it might be different from others on the left or how the Democratic party might have changed in the post-war era. She doesn?t even seem cognizant of the changes within conservatism during the post war period. She holds up Reagan as the only authentic conservative president since World War II but fails to explain how that affects figures like Eisenhower, Nixon, and Ford. Were they on the devils side with the liberals or were they on the side of the angels with the GOP? Were liberal Republicans better than liberal Democrats?
If her rhetoric is confusing, her history is no better. Because she is stuck at 10,000 feet she fails to consider the policy going on at a much lower level. This is the “Great Man” theory of history taken to the extreme. Coulter’s obsession is with the party leaders and the talking heads in the press so she ignores any policy making below the level of President or Senator. She ridicules containment and praises the concept of roll back or “nothing but victory,” but fails to mention that there was a great deal of policy going on behind the scenes that was aimed at rollback and victory before Ronald Reagan came along and under Democratic Presidents too. She rightly points out the treasonous activities of many of the liberal elite, especially under FDR, but she never acknowledges that there were honest liberal, and even leftist, anti-communist intellectuals and politicians. She mentions Reagan’s secret meeting with the Pope but she fails to mention CIA funding of liberal non-profit groups and newspapers in Europe during the Cold War. Coulter writes as if the Korean War would have been won if Truman hadn’t fired Macarthur. She assumes that the U.S. could have won in Vietnam if Democrats hadn’t hamstrung the military. These points might be arguable, and many conservatives believe them to be true, but Coulter fails to offer a compelling argument, instead blaming the failure on liberals. Adding to the incongruity and confusion is her insistence on trying to wrap the entire post-war period into one neat argument. The sections on the War on Terror and Iraq, not to mention the chapter on celebrities, seem tacked on and superfluous. Plus, it is maddening trying to follow the arguments as she jumps around in time, castigating liberals in the forties one minute and Al Gore the next.
After ranting and castigating and poking fun for nearly three hundred pages Coulter ends where she began, claiming: “They [liberals] instinctively root for anarchy and against civilization. The inevitable logic of the liberal position is to be for treason.” These grand statements certainly bring a sense of gravity to Coulter’s accusations but it the end she fails to back them up. To be sure, she does expose much of the left for their hypocrisy and dishonesty in dealing with communism and espionage in this country.
The book clearly reiterates the conservative criticisms of many American foreign policy choices in the post-war era and makes a strong case that the public’s tendency to trust Republicans with defense and foreign affairs is well founded. But given her over-the top rhetoric and ridiculously simplistic view of history, it is not surprising that she fails to carry her argument. In the end it is not really an argument anyway but an emotional diatribe. Coulter may sell a lot of books with this tactic but I doubt she wins many converts. And on this critical subject shouldn’t we be aiming for the later?
Kevin Holtsberry
I work in communications and public affairs. I try to squeeze in as much reading as I can while still spending time with my wife and two kids (and cheering on the Pittsburgh Steelers and Michigan Wolverines during football season - oh, and watching golf too).
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A Nickel's Worth of Free Advice October 27, 2003 at 8:26 am
Introducing Collected Miscellany
Longtime readers of this blog will know that I have often struggled with what this blog is all about. At
Begging To Differ October 27, 2003 at 9:16 am
Kevin Holtsberry of A Nickel’s Worth of Free Advice fame has started a new website dedicated to books and authors. He plans to have reviews, interviews and various musings on books and literature. The site looks great. Head on over…
David R. October 27, 2003 at 9:29 pm
I like the new blog, it’s terrific. I hope this will help you keep your focus and end your focus struggles. It’s also got a great design.
On another note, I want to be the first to leave a comment here.
Mission accomplished.
mark butterworth November 1, 2003 at 5:28 am
Ann stirs the pot and popularizes important information. For that she is a great blessing. Also her ridicule is spot on. She’s funny!
But she makes it possible for others to take up the arguments with less polemics and more persuasion for those not in the choir.
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Circuit City, 1950 Bush River Road: 1999 22 comments
I've written about Circuit City before. The gist of it was I never liked the store in its original concept because the salesmen were so predatory. This store dates from that era. Unlike the NorthEast store, this one (as far as I know) had only two locations rather than three. It started here, on Bush River right at the I-20 intersection and then picked up and moved out to Harbison when that area started to get hot.
Frankly that strikes me as a bad choice. This location is an easy-in/easy-out right from the Interstate, while nothing in the Harbison area is "easy". They may get more drive-by traffic there, but I'll bet they get less "destination" traffic.
Nothing else ever located in the Circuit City building after they left, but stores have come and gone from the surrounding strip mall. I believe there was an If It's Paper for a while and there has been a medical equipment tenant for many years now. I tried to shop there once for a hospital style "over-bed table" (they are *great* for using your laptop in bed!) but it turned out to be easier to order one on-line. Given the new traffic brought to Bush River Road by the new Wal-Mart Supercenter, it will be interesting to see what happens to this property.
UPDATE 11 March 2011: Changed closing date to 1999 based on commenter Andrew's research. Also added full street address.
UPDATE 4 June 2012 -- Not much visible has changed, but Hamrick's does have their building permit posted in the north doorway:
UPDATE 24 June 2012 -- The Hamrick's signs are now up:
UPDATE 20 August 2012 -- Hamrick's is now open in this location:
Written by ted on July 17th, 2008
Tagged with Bush River Road, electronics, historic, I-20, I-26, stores
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This Circuit City was originally located on Dutch Square Blvd. not I-20 & Bush River Rd.
18 Jul 08 at 6:04 am
So it did have 3 locations like the other one. Oh well.
This comment is out of place, but I could find no other way to contact the author. I wanted to point out that Hudson's Smokehouse Express on Knox Abbot Drive in Cayce has closed. Not surprising, as I found their service to be very poor. The main location in Lexington offers great service and great food, but the express location fell very short in the service department.
18 Jul 08 at 10:17 am
Well, I'm not familiar with that place, but maybe I can take some pictures when I get back from vacation.
About Harbison...
When I moved to Columbia in 97, the Harbison area was quite "comfortable" and easy to get in & out of. That's why more stores moved in, and eventually, it became overcrowded with cars, and the traffic is terrible. I could really see it happening especially on Black Friday (day after Thanksgiving). I would take the back roads to avoid Harbison at all costs.
Harbison is really not that bad. You have to know what times to go and it also helps to know some of the back roads.
Harbison is going downhill fast. Its getting more and more crowded and the crime rate is rising. The quality of people has dropped badly as well. Also that old circuit city on bush river road is a wasted building as is the whole shopping center. Bush River road is dangerous, drug infested, prostitute infested and a waste for any decent business to move to. The old days when Bush River, Broad River and Saunt Andrews were nice places is quickly dying. These places are filth now. Bush and Briad river is a complete hopeless mess. Its grabage and unsavable. Not trying to be mean but being honest. No decent business will move there because nobody decent is there anymore. sure, you may be able to stick a cash loan place, a pawn shop, a crap gas station or a liquor store n these places but thats about it.
Since they opened the Bower Parkway, getting in and out of Harbison isnt nearly as hard as it used to be. People just like to say "Ugh Harbison is Sooooooo trafficky!!"
I worked at the Harbison Bi-Lo for 4 or 5 years in the mid nineties, and THEN traffic on Harbison was a bitch. During the Christmas season, it wasnt uncommon for me to take 20 minutes to get out of the BiLo parking lot after work.
Nowadays, i drive thru there all the time and even during holidays it isnt that bad.
In response to Mr. Bill: Harbison is a long way from going downhill. It has had a few store closings over the year but that is not a predicate for how the area will survive. Circuit City had been in trouble for a long time and its demise was certainly predictable. Something will take its place soon. Granted, the Bush River Road and Saint Andrews Road areas have seen better times. Business moved away from these areas when Harbison started as a viable area. This is true in almost any city and is certainly visible in Columbia as is seen with the growth of Sandhills and the reduction of traffic along the Decker Blvd. corrider. But Columbia's growth has reached its peak and we will see a return to business closer to town. With the right tax climate and business incentives, we can see a regrowth of the forementioned areas.
9 Apr 09 at 12:06 am
The first Circuit City was across from Dutch Square on the back side, then they moved to the Bush River Road side of town. There was another one on Two Notch Rd. on the same side as Columbia Mall, but it was a big pain in the rear to park there also.
11 Apr 09 at 11:27 pm
What year did Circuit City move out of the Bush River Rd. location ?
2 Jul 09 at 10:23 pm
I'm not sure. It was sometime after I moved out of town in 1985 and before I moved back in 03 or 04.
The Harbison location opened in '99, but the Bush River location, which opened in '86, didn't close until '03.
But before 1986 Circuit City was behind Dutch Square from the mid to late 70's through the mid 80's when they moved to Bush River Rd. BUT, the original CC before it became CC was called " Dixie Hi-Fi"..( I think) and it was on Broad River Rd. in a small strip mall along with Mo Levy's..but that was back in 1975.
3 Jul 09 at 8:06 am
Del,
When I started buying stereo gear in the mid 70s Dixie HiFi was a great place to shop. The people working there were knowledgeable and friendly but that was all lost when Circuit City took over.
I think the other store you referred to was Levi's, not Moe Levy's.
3 Jul 09 at 10:21 am
It seems like there was some type of apparel store opened there at one point but I couldn't make much out of it
5 May 10 at 9:59 pm
There was also a Kinko's in the building that was ACS for a while that is now Tri-County Home & Health
Hi! My name is Adam Rosenberg and I'm working with WulfTeam Productions to create a documentary about Circuit City. Your photos of the abandoned CC building above are great, and we'd love to use 1 or 2 in the documentary!
Please let me know if this would be ok. You
would of course be creditied for your excellent work. Email me at asr2e@virginia.edu for any questions or visit our website: http://circuitcitystory.com
Adam Rosenberg
This Circuit City left here in 1999...read below:
RETAIL MOVES LEAVE BUSH RIVER CORRIDOR LOOKING FOR NEW LIFE
ALANA ODOM, Staff Writer
Retail stores are still shifting and shuffling in an attempt to get space on the area's hottest shopping spot - Harbison Boulevard.
Circuit City and Kinko's are following Target's lead and moving to Harbison Boulevard's Columbiana Station, from space at 1950 Bush River Road.
Wes Bolick Bedrooms will head in another direction - Dutch Square Center - but it also will leave its current Bush River Road address, just as a General Cinemas...
Published on 1999-03-10, Page B6, State, The (Columbia, SC)
10 Mar 11 at 11:28 pm
Received an email advertising Hamrick's plans to move into this building...they will close at Outlet Pointe on June 16 and then in early July, for the first time since 1999, something will be operating in this building..but in the meantime, they're having a moving sale at the Outlet Pointe store
29 May 12 at 1:12 pm
I saw roadside signage today indicating that Hamrick's plans to open up at this site on July 2, marking the first time since 1999 that this part of the building has been in use.
18 Jun 12 at 2:28 pm
very cool...I got some daylight pics this afternoon comparable to the ones you just updated with...
The following domino effect has been set into motion here:
1) Hamrick's has departed Market Pointe Mall into a building that has been vacant for a dozen years
2) SC Dept. of Revenue offices will move out of the SC State Muesum into where Hamrick's just left
3) The SC State Museum will expand where the SCDOR is relocating
24 Jun 12 at 10:06 pm
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Tag: nerd chapel
Our Friends and Allies
The Christian Gamers Guild is not alone in our efforts to build faith communities among the geek sub-cultures. Numerous other organizations, ministries, and individuals are also doing valuable and powerful work among Trekkies, roleplayers, cosplayers, video gamers, and many other segments. This is by no means an exhaustive list, but here are a few people we think you should get to know!
Editor’s note: Where possible I’ve paraphrased what each group has to say about itself, replacing all the “we” language with “they.” I don’t know why I’m putting this in an Editor’s note, since the author and the editor are the same person, but whatever…
And some errata: Geekdom House has split off their publishing arm into Mythos & Ink in order to comply with Canadian non-profit law. GH itself is retooling a bit, and we’ll know more about what they’re becoming in a few weeks, I guess. I am also adding some other groups that I overlooked initially. They’re all at the top of the article, so if you’re just looking for the updates, start here!
Although several of these organizations produce (or are) products, the Christian Gamers Guild does not endorse any of them, in accordance with our policy to neither condemn nor endorse any particular game product. If you have any questions about the appropriateness of any product for yourself, your family, or your gaming group, it is up to you to investigate and decide.
The Nerdy-Gritty is a podcast a weekly discussion where pastors Dez and Fox delve deep into the details of pop-culture! Comics, movies, video games… even YouTube itself! Everything is up for grabs when Dez and Fox start spewing their opinions. They have a YouTube channel, and can be found on Facebook and Twitter.
The Grave Robbers reach out to the Goth community with the love of Jesus Christ. They provide an exciting and God honoring environment to connect with other Christian Goths around the world and help our Goth brothers and sisters to grow spiritually in their walk with Christ. They are God’s Night Watch.
Gaming Rogue is providing news, tips, events, and gaming deals for the gaming community. And occasionally slipping some Scripture into the feed.
The Gaming Chaplain is a Twitch streamer playing both video games and table top RPGs, with the hope of expanding into miniatures.
The Christians Discord group is a safe place for humor, fellowship, praise, prayer and active mobile, console, and PC gaming. Not a gamer? No problem; join for the fellowship.
Camping Grounds is a game studio ministry that focuses on making fast pace visual novels of praise and worship.
Cactus Game Design publishes a variety of Christian-themed games and toys, including Solomon’s Temple and the Redemption Collectible Card Game.
The Bridge is a Facebook group for those who bridge Christianity and Fandom. It took over from where Fans for Christ left off a couple of years ago.
God Loves the Freaks is a book that points to a serious issue facing the church today – reaching out to subcultures and those who are considered the freaks of society. Stephen Weese paints a vision of a church living by grace, in unity; without the legalism that divides and causes us to shun others based on outward appearance. God looks at the heart and he loves everyone, including the freaks. If God loves the freaks, shouldn’t the church as well?
City on a Hill Gaming is a 5th edition D&D actual play podcast. They looked in vain for a family-friendly actual play and couldn’t find one, so they made their own!
Deliverance is an epic “Christian Fantasy” Boardgame Adventure that features Angels vs Demons in a cooperative tactical dungeon crawler for 1-4 players. And yes, it 100% fits within the Biblical narrative while being a fantasy game! It’s not available yet (as of 2/4/2019), but there’s a Kickstarter campaign starting up soon, and there’s a Facebook group to follow for news and playtesting opportunities.
Costumers for Christ: Mild-mannered minister by day, Scott Bayles and his family are active costumers and comic-collectors who share the message of Christ through comics and cosplay. There’s also a Facebook page and associated group and Scott has written a book entitled Holy Heroes: The Gospel According to DC and Marvel.
Dungeon Master Pastor is a blog where Pastor meets Dungeon Master, and following Jesus meets tabletop fantasy role playing. As baptized children of God, we can do all things through Christ who strengthens us. One of those things happens to be: Play Dungeons & Dragons like a boss. They run an annual Pastors & Dungeons Retreat where, with a mixture of gaming, learning, and Sabbath rest, ministers will explore the connections between life, ministry, and the world’s greatest roleplaying game.
Chara Games designs and publishes innovative and fun tabletop games with Christian themes. They want to help you, your family, and your friends find joy through the relationships built around the games they publish.
Geeks Under Grace wants to Educate Christians on how to safely consume pop culture, Evangelize geeks with the message of the Gospel, Equip Christians and churches to reach geeks with the Gospel, and Encourage Christians as they grow into a deeper relationship with Christ. They have articles and reviews about video games, board games, rpgs, television, movies, comics, music, anime, and Christian life.
Geekdom House exists to love and serve nerds and geeks by making a creative contribution to the culture and encouraging, fostering, and facilitating deeper community through discussion and support. They also desire to provide the space and opportunity for those seeking excellence within those sub-cultures to hone and perfect their craft and to give them the tools and encouragement needed to graft their love of geekery into all aspects of their life.
The Aetherlight is a swashbuckling steampunk action-adventure game based on the greatest story ever told! Astute players will recognise echoes with the epic story of the Bible at key points: characters, major plot shifts, life lessons, and personal encounters. The Aetherlight is a story as old as time, reimagined for a digital age.
Mighty Grace Positive Gaming reaches out to video gamers through various media, shares the message of Jesus Christ, creates a positive encouraging community, facilitates spiritual growth and wellness with people. They have a very exciting personal support and counseling service for gamers available in English, Mandarin, Cantonese, and Japanese. That is in addition to convention and local game store ministry, streaming, and game reviews.
The Holy Lands RPG is an expressly Christian high-fantasy tabletop RPG. Real Christianity is the fundamental faith of the character, not some allegorical fantasy faith in a polytheistic (multi-god) world. The character believes in, proclaims, and fights for God the Father, Jesus Christ, and the real message of eternal salvation.
The Christian Game Developers Conference is a unique event, focused around encouraging and edifying those who are interested in both making games and glorifying God. The conference is three days of talks, workshops, and fellowship, fellowship, fellowship. Come prepared to show what you are working on, and to encourage others in their projects and be inspired.
Mythos & Ink is a small press with a passion for publishing great stories and the community built around them. Keep an eye on them for their upcoming podcast The Wayfarer’s Guide to Worldbuilding.
Innroads Ministries is the umbrella organization for the Game Store Prophets and Bard and Bible podcasts. They have a number of articles about ministering through tabletop games, both roleplaying and board games, and how to bring your faith to bear on your hobby. Check out their Facebook group The Tavern to interact with them. That’s not the whole of their efforts, though! Check out their What We Do page for more information.
Saving the Game is a podcast at the intersection of faith in Christ, tabletop roleplaying games, and collaborative storytelling. They provide resources for Christian gamers, and in their own way they aim to close the gap between non-gaming Christians and non-Christian gamers. They have a Discord channel, where you can chat with them and their other listeners.
Love Thy Nerd wants to speak redemption, hope, truth, and love into the parts of nerd culture that have often been alienated, demonized, dismissed, or simply ignored by Christians. They also want to educate Christians on the value of nerd culture and how we can love our nerdy neighbors better. They minister at conventions; host articles on comics, video games, roleplaying, film, and more; and host three pocasts: Humans of Gaming, Free Play, and The Pull List. Interact with them in their Facebook community.
Geek@Arms is a podcast at the crossroads of geek culture and Christian faith. Your humble editor is one of the hosts. We discuss comics, sci-fi, fantasy, historical swordsmanship, video games, medieval reenactment, tabletop gaming, and more.
The Geekpreacher, Derek White, is a United Methodist pastor who not only serves his own church, but also ministers at several gaming conventions, including serving as the chaplain for Gary Con. He realizes that geeks need a pastor too and tries his best to share faith and spirituality in a way that complements geek culture.
On the Min/Max Podcast, two seminarians and a photographer explore the intersection of gaming, nerd culture, and theology.
Cardboard Koinonia brings people together in fellowship to foster relationships, and build community across cultural, social, and generational divides using games. They run Family Game Nights in which they invite people from all walks of life around a board game table. They have a Facebook group.
Redeemed Otaku is a podcast about anime for the Christian consumer. Reviews, discussion, recommendations on old and new and rarely covered anime from a Christian worldview.
Wild East Games makes board games and is owned and operated by the husband and wife team of Brian and Jill Bollinger. Brian is a pastor, and his personal testimony is prominent on the company web-site. Geeky polymaths, they also operate Bollinger Edgerly Scale Trains, which sells model train kits and building supplies, and tickcomics.com, a guide to collecting Tick comic books.
The purpose for Gaming and God is to bridge the gap between the pastime that is playing video games to scripture, biblical values and life lessons that we can use daily.
The podcast 1 Geek 411 is the brain child of friends Cameron Franklin and Chris Nicolay. Cameron and Chris met at Oklahoma Christian where they bonded over ultimate, video games, and Magic: The Gathering. They began discussing social norms and questioning why it’s okay to watch sports for hours a day but then geeks and nerds are questioned about playing video games or their other activities for hours. As a result 1 Geek 411 was born.
The Nerd Chapel is committed to being a bridge between the Body of Christ and nerds/geeks/gamers who are interested in exploring the Bible and Jesus. We also want to be a resource for Christian nerds of all sizes.
Gamechurch is a non-profit dedicated to bringing the message of Jesus’ love, hope, and acceptance into the culture of video games.
One Cross Radio is a podcast, and 2099 One Cross Street is a website, exploring Christianity and pop culture.
Theology of Games hosts board game news, reviews, and interviews. They also feature three boardgame podcasts: Theology of Games, That’s How I Roll, and Boardgames Daily.
Faith & Fandom is a book series of devotional essays on faith & geek culture. There are 5 volumes out now, plus a kids edition! They also do podcasts, art, panels, apparel, memes, and Comic Con life in general. They travel to roughly 28 comicons a year in the south east and also have a podcast series and a video series.
Games For All is a blog by Stephen Taylor, who wants to help you discover your character and skills for life through gaming. And give you pointers to help your children/partners/friends do so to. For parents in particular he hopes this blog will give you an insight into what on Earth your children are talking about when they discuss their gaming hobby, and perhaps give you some alternative games to suggest when they want one that makes you feel uncomfortable to buy them.
ScreenFish is where faith and film are intertwined, creating a place for dialogue and discussion on the latest in film, tv and movies.
Open Table Ministries puts on strategy game nights three Saturdays per month in Kettering, Ohio.
Christian Geek Central exists to equip, encourage and inspire Christian geeks of all kinds to live more and more for Christ. To this end, they’ve made it their goal to be both a gateway to, and creator of, the highest quality entertainment and resources on the web that they believe will be of special interest to Christian geeks. In addition, Christian Geek Central is an active and growing community of Christian geeks who come together to both celebrate and examine their favorite hobbies from a biblical perspective. They host a podcast network, including: Christian Geek Central, Untold, Strangers and Aliens, Theology Gaming, POS TOS, Helix Reviews, and Retro Rewind. And if that weren’t enough, they also have a forum!
The Pop Culture Coream Deo Podcast examines the artifacts of pop culture in light of God’s self-revelation.
And finally, what about us? The Christian Gamers Guild is a community of Christian gamers that has been working to explain roleplaying to Christians and Christianity to roleplayers since 1996. Joining the Guild is as simple as joining our email discussion list, which is the core of our ministry. In addition to the discussion list and the articles on this web-site, we also organize and host worship services and panels at a few gaming conventions each year, and CGG members are frequently in attendance at many other cons, regardless of whether the Guild itself has an event scheduled. We have a few branded items in our Store, if you want to show your allegiance, or you can make your own using the materials available in the publicity package.
Phew! And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. You can find your sisters and brothers in Christ all over the place, at conventions, in games, and on Twitter. And whoever you meet and game with, whether they’re a believer or not, remember to extend the love of Christ to everyone!
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An electric vehicle (EV) is one powered – in full or in part – by a battery that plugs directly into mains electricity.
There are a few key types of electric and hybrid vehicles that you could consider.
Pure EV
Powered solely by a battery charged from mains electricity. Typically has a range of around 100 miles. Can be driven by holders of automatic licences, since it has no gearbox.
PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle)
Plug-in battery plus internal combustion engine (ICE). Once its pure-electric range of 10 miles or more is used, the PHEV reverts to hybrid power. Ideal for longer journeys.
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Like a Pure-EV but with a more limited range – approx. 40 miles on the electric battery. However an on-board ICE-powered generator extends the range to around 300 miles.
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While charging a Pure-EV from flat to full can take around eight hours using a domestic socket, we recommend installing a dedicated home charge point, which can charge a Pure-EV in just half that time. The UK Government’s Office for Low Emissions Vehicles (OLEV) is currently offering EV drivers £500 towards installation.
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7 Signals Your Boss Hates You
Body Language Cues of Dislike, Disrespect and Disgust
Body cues speak volumes, according to Patti Wood, body language expert and author of Snap: Making the Most of First Impressions, Body Language and Charisma.
Cues of dislike:
No mirroring of voice and body language. “When we like someone, we match and mirror there voice, tone, tempo and speaking rate…” and body movements too, says Wood, of snapfirstimpressions.com.
Neutral facial expression: No empathy or interest expressed in what you’re saying, “We often express interest through raised eye brows and smiles. Or facial expressions that appear to show the opposite emotional reaction to what you are saying.”
Eye rolling: A sign of contempt and disrespect for others.
Wrinkling of the nose: Indicates that something doesn’t smell right and can be an indication of disrespect.
Puts up barriers, for example, touches cell phone or sips out of coffee cup. “It says symbolically this object is more important than you are, it is what I want to touch and interact with,” says Wood.
There are also gender specific cues
For a male boss. He stands facing you when giving you directions and sharing information: Standing side to side rather than face to face signifies that a man trusts you and is comfortable with you.
For a female boss. She doesn’t face towards you when you are speaking. Women face you to show they respect you and want to hear you. If she doesn’t like you, she may aim her body away from you, closes her hands and arms over her heart.
Patti Wood, MA, Certified Speaking Professional - The Body Language Expert. For more body language insights go to her website at www.PattiWood.net. Check out Patti's website for her new book "SNAP, Making the Most of First Impressions, Body Language and Charisma" at www.snapfirstimpressions.com. Also check out Patti's YouTube channel at http://youtube.com/user/bodylanguageexpert.
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The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis
Having recently been selected for Oprah's Book Club, this debut novel has catapulted its author into the limelight. It has garnered enormous interest as much for the book as for the story surrounding its inception.
Ayana Mathis is a graduate from the MFA Creative Writing course at the prestigious Iowa Writers Workshop. Her tutor for the first semester was Marilynne Robinson, winner of the Orange Prize for Home. She advised Mathis that her “characters were not sufficiently complex to the situation”. The result is a novel that is based around twelve different characters, all throwing light on the life and character of the main protagonist, Hattie Shepherd.
Set in 20th century America, it is the story of loss, grief and redemption. Hattie Shepherd is a mother trying to do her best in difficult circumstances. Hattie’s story, set against the historical backdrop of the Great Migration, is told over five and a half decades.
In 1923, aged 15, Hattie, her mother and sisters flee Georgia for a more promising life in Philadelphia. Two years later Hattie is married to August and tending to her seven month old twins, Philadelphia and Jubilee, whose names she picked because they were “reaching forward names ... “. Unable to provide her twins with the warmth and medication necessary they both pass away, in the order they were born, from a crippling bout of pneumonia.
Hattie has nine more children. Each one of the tribes refers to her children, nine living, two dead and one grandchild. Through each one of these lives we discover more about Hattie, her sacrifices, her disappointments and ultimately her strength of character.
Disappointed by a husband who promised their rented home would only be short term, Hattie concentrates on the tasks she must do every day to keep the children fed and clothed. Her husband’s drinking and womanising has left Hattie to save what she can, rotating shoes as children grow out of them and worst of all giving away her daughter to her childless sister for a better life.
Her children perceive her as loveless, so consumed with feeding and providing essentials, there was nothing left for her to give. The only man she ever loved ended up in a relationship with one of her daughters.
Each child has brought on themselves a terrible fraught life, the women seemingly at the mercy of gambling, womanising men. As Hattie ages some of her bitterness, her coldness towards her children, has been chipped away. Despite trying to keep them at arm’s length to protect herself, she is still heartbroken by their predicament.
August, now frail and no longer able to lose himself with women, has chosen God instead. Hattie surprises herself by finding some solace in the church, but it is a measured careful attachment, not an indulgent one.
Although this seems on the surface to be a bleak book, Hattie’s resilience in the face of such desperation is hopeful.The structure of the book allows Hattie’s story to unfold seamlessly. The reader gets a brief glimpse of each child, but ends up with a whole and complete picture of Hattie Shepherd. The book revolves solely around her.
Mathis has written a deeply affecting novel. Her command of language is extraordinary and her character development at the heart and soul of this novel.
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Seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii infection and its as- sociated risk factors in neuropsychiatric patients in Jazan Province, Saudi Arabia
Zaki, W. M., Hofdi, R. Y., Shebiley, A. A., Saadi, Z. A.,Ageel, A. H.
J. Egypt. Soc. Parasitol. 2016; 46: 467-474
Toxoplasma gondii has worldwide distribution in nearly one-third of the human population. It is a neurotropic protozoan parasite so a potential role of T. gondii infection for some neuropsychiatric disorders was postulated. Patients with psychiatric disorders had high toxoplasmosis se- roprevalence. Limited information about toxoplasmosis seroprevalence in psychiatric patients was known in southern area of Saudi Arabia. The current cross sectional case control study aims at determination of the prevalence of T. gondii IgG & IgM in neuropsychiatric patients in Jazan Province. A total of 162 neuropsychiatric patients from Al-Amal hospital for psychiatric health and 162 subjects without neuropsychiatric manifestations from Jazan General Hospital, Jazan City, KSA. were enrolled in the study. Psychiatric diagnosis was based on the International Classification of Diseases-10 (ICD-10 classification). Serological analysis for latent toxoplasmosis (IgG) and active toxoplasmosis (IgM) was done using Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA). Investigations for the association with socio-demographic, clinical and behavioral characteristics in psychiatric patients were also done. The serofrequency of IgG antibodies among neuropsychiatric patients was significantly higher than that of the controls (35.8% vs 14.8%) P = 0.0022. OR 3.2 with 95% CI= (1.4952 to 6.8774). However; serofrequency of toxoplasma IgM antibody between neuro-psychiatric patients and controls was not statistically significant (P > 0.05).,Bivariate and multivariate analysis for socio-demographics and possible associated risk factors showed that contact to cats and/or dogs, eating under cooked meat, and contact to soil were significantly higher in neuropsychiatric patients than controls.
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Zaki, W. M., Hofdi, R. Y., Shebiley, A. A., Saadi, Z. A., Ageel, A. H.
Journal of the Egyptian Society of Parasitology 2016; 240: 1-8
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Ground Control by Anna Minton (Amazon us /uk)
Anna Minton has carefully researched and traced the outline of the policies in the UK behind not only the privatisation of public buildings and space, but have also shaped how we use and think about the city. Grand regeneration projects have turned public space with potential value to everyone into private, corporately managed and policed space, from which the original inhabitants have been all but excluded. Housing Projects have divided communities, created fear and loathing. CCTV and policing policy have exacerbated social divisions.
This thoroughly researched book takes us historically through the key projects and key policies that have brought us to this situation. From the Docklands in the late Eighties under Thaterism through to the present day taking in other major developments across the country. In Liverpool with Liverpool One and Manchester in Exchange Square to name a few of the other major developments that follow this model.
It’s a more encompassing book than just looking at the Urban developments though. It clearly links crime and fear of crime in the UK to the changes in the law and running of developments and housing in the UK. Government policies have reinforced or created these negative effects, the Pathfinder scheme, ASBO’s and Secured by Design. These policies along with the rise of gated communities all over the UK and of CCTV cameras (more in the UK that in the rest of Europe combined) which actually increases the fear and insecurity in society as well as social exclusion. As an example of good writing which clearly links social policy to concrete outcomes in the urban fabric of cities and with actual social outcomes this book sets the bar.
Published in 2009 around the last crash in 2012 an extra chapter was added to cover the Olympic Games of 2012 itself probably worthy of a book. In the conclusion Anna Minton tries to find some silver lining to the dark clouds. Urban Space Management stands out as the lone example she can muster, their Development in Trinity Buoy Wharf an example of how things could have been all over the country. It’s compelling but sobering stuff a must read for anyone in this field and hopefully it has helped to shine a light on an area of public policy which is so opaque but which we should be much more engaged with.
I can’t help but to link this book to The New Aesthetic, the blog by James Bridle that recognises the crossover of the net into the physical world. The use of drones and (mentioned in this book) the mosquito, CCTV and gated communities, all examples of places that exist because of new technology and the ability to produce action at a distance to monitor,control and segregate from anywhere anonymously. Is Britain becoming a visible artifact of the network of control and commerce which has grown up in the last twenty five years in the UK? I sure hope it’s not that bad.
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It is a truism that deposing a foreign tyrant can only be justified after all of his most heroic and principled domestic opponents have tried to do it themselves and been slaughtered. Obviously it's a shame they'll be dead and all, as they'd have been the ideal people to rebuild the country as a democracy, but how else can we be sure the population don't really love their murderous dictator? We may say it's automatically better to have a democracy than a genocidal tyranny, but that's a completely irrelevant, subjective cultural preference. When the choice is between rape rooms and gas attacks or freedom and peace, who are we to judge?
Thanks to Harry Hatchet for the link.
UPDATE: I've been asked to post here a comment I left at Harry's on one integral aspect of, or flaw in, Noam Chomsky's thinking:
What is so striking about Chomsky's writing is how pathological is his obsession with hypocrisy. I read Media Control at the beginning of the year and I don't think there is a single argument within that isn't based on the assumption that it is utterly outrageous to do one thing, however good, while condemning someone else for doing something rather similar, however bad. Anyone with enough worldliness or sense of proportion to recognise hypocrisy as the tribute vice pays to virtue is going to laugh Chomsky's 'arguments' right out of court.
"John says it is a bad idea to eat a chocolate cake when on a diet. However, John himself once ate a slice of chocolate cake when on a diet. Therefore, it is a good idea to eat chocolate cake when on a diet, and John can't give a single reason to think otherwise that couldn't be refuted by a barely literate thirteen year-old."
That really is about as sophisticated as Chomskyism gets.
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The Left's ultimate litmus test
While Tribune editor Mark Seddon says the Prime Minister must now choose whether he wants Bush or Kerry to take America into 2009, pro-war leftie Harry Hatchet is sceptical. First, Harry rightly notes the diplomatic niceties democracies normally extend one another by trying as far as is reasonable not to interfere in each other's elections. Second, he wonders why Blair should feel any need to make a choice even if he did have a preference.
I think this criticism is right on both counts, and I also suspect that most of the lefties now considering this same question recognise that the boundaries of political reality would rule out any attempt by Blair to intervene in the American election. They don't realistically expect Tony Blair to do anything publicly that shows partiality towards Kerry. What motivates their intense interest in the Prime Minister's leanings on this issue is the belief that it could answer the question of whether he and they actually occupy the same planet politically.
If, whatever his faults, Blair at least can see that Kerry would be better than Bush, then they can breathe a rare sigh of relief. But if he can bring himself to support George Bush even given the alternative of John Kerry, then they will know that this is a man they just cannot understand, and with whom they just cannot share more similarities than differences. If the traditional Left can have it confirmed that Blair supports Bush, then they will know for sure that their own support for Blair was a really horrible mistake.
The balkanised bigger picture
Over at England's Sword, I look at another case of a council rubbing away a little part of a local community for the sake of political correctness:
I recall Peter Hitchens once writing very insightfully of what he had always imagined would be worst about trying to live in an invaded and occupied country. For him it would be passing a foreign flag every morning on the way to work, seeing harmless and homely customs brought to an end, witnessing the demolition of precisely those little things that bring together a community and a nation. As the months and years go by, we are all getting a flavour of just what he means.
"As George Walden pointed out in The New Elites, it has become pretentious not to be a hypocrite: Our Betters trumpet the NHS as the Envy of the World while making their own secret arrangements to get better, private treatment (don't we all, if we can?). Oxbridge graduates applaud the breakthrough arrival of students who can't spell in our great universities, whose class-ridden fault is still wanting to curriculumise courses teaching scholarship, respect for truth, love of learning for its own sake and up-themselves cr*p like that." - Frederic Raphael
Carey on Islam
Lord Carey, the last Archbishop of Canterbury (and perhaps the last ever Bible-believing Christian to hold the post) has detailed a fierce criticism of the sort that may soon be illegal on those Muslim clerics unable or unwilling to condemn the terrorists who kill in the name of Allah. Though his comments on the paucity of Islamic democracies are merited, I think he went much too far in his suggestion that the Arab world has contributed nothing for centuries. But the phenomenon of Islamic leaders again and again refusing to condemn Al-Qaeda or acting as apologists for suicide bombers needs highlighting.
How often have we heard Muslim clerics say that they condemn terror with a firm "on all sides" qualifier? How many of them can assert that they want to see an end to "all violence", but never find it within themselves to say that terrorism is plainly, unequivocally wrong? Based mainly on personal experience, I don't for a moment believe that extremist groups like the abominable Muslim Association of Britain are truly representative of most British Muslims, but how distant their rhetoric is from that of most Imams is not so clear cut. If the great majority of Islamic clerics are fiercely and unequivocally opposed to terrorism, anti-Semitism and campaigns to subvert liberal democracy, then it is all the more important that we hear from them, that they speak out against groups like Hamas, Al-Qaeda and the MAB.
The head of the Muslim Council of Britain claims that "mainstream Muslim organisations have consistently condemned terrorist acts but their statements are often ignored by the media". It may well be the case that such statements are already being made, and for self-loathing PC reasons the BBC and its press counterparts are more interested in airing the grievances of those who know no better than Jenny Tonge than reporting the views of the decent majority. If this is true, then it is the liberal media who are responsible for creating the impression that most Muslim leaders propagate moral equivalence or worse, and it is they, not Lord Carey, who should be condemned.
Thanks to Samizdata for the link.
UPDATE: Jonah Goldberg stresses the crucial role for moderate Muslims:
If every German I meet or see is a Nazi, it's reasonable for me to say all Germans are Nazis. It may not be true, of course, but having no evidence indicating otherwise it's certainly understandable that I would draw that conclusion. If, however, I constantly hear Germans condemn Nazism and anything which remotely resembles Nazism, if I see them repudiating German Nazis, and working to repair the damage done by German Nazis, it would be outrageously unfair and malicious for me to say all Germans are Nazis.
Now, under both hypothetical circumstances, the actual number of Germans who are Nazis can remain the same. The only difference is what the non-Nazi Germans do. As the saying goes, all that evil needs to triumph is for good men to do nothing.
"Let us kill the English: Their concept of individual rights could undermine the power of our beloved tyrants!" - Joan of Arc, The Simpsons
Guest Post: Benjamin from Harry's Place on the Budget
In a matter of months, Benjamin Mackie has under various guises become the central figure of the Harry's Place comments section with his instant replies to anything and everything anyone says. Despite his leftism, I asked him to give his view of the Budget, and he was kind enough to accept. - Peter
The Economist deploys the typical old nonsense when it comes to last week's Budget.
GORDON BROWN'S eighth budget was about politics, not economics.
No, it's a budget, so it's about both. :)
Given how fast the budget deficit has been growing, a prudent custodian of the public finances would be raising taxes or cutting spending. But, with an election likely next year, neither was uppermost in Mr Brown's mind. Instead, he kept his budget neutral, stayed rather quiet about the state of the public finances and had a great deal to say about the economy.
Typical Tory waffle. What has this got to do with anything?
The economy is Labour's biggest electoral asset.
LOL! This time Nu-Lab spin! Why can't he think for himself?
But if the economy is strong, the public finances are not.
More ad hominems. So shallow and predictable. How low will the Economist sink in its attacks on progressives and public spending?
Four years ago, at a similar point in the electoral cycle, Mr Brown's fiscal position was impregnable, with a surplus of £15 billion ($27 billion). Now he has a deficit of £38 billion - 3.4% of GDP. He is forecasting deficits of £33 billion in 2004-05 and £31 billion the year after.
Lies, damned lies and statistics! This pretentious drivel may just make it into Pseud's Corner in Private Eye!
It seems the Nu-Lab/Daily Mail mob can't make any relevant argument that doesn't mean ad hominems. All they can offer is the same false divide between good and bad.
That tells you all you need to know about how good the budget was.
The shame of statesmanship
You have to feel for the Israelis. They can do no right in some eyes - usually those belonging to people who insist on moral confusion in every other area - but you'd expect at least some recognition from the global chatterati that killing the founder of Hamas isn't exactly nun-rape. Sheikh Yasin has helped ensure the deaths of hundreds of Israeli women and children. If you go in for all that cycle of violence stuff, he also helped provoke much bloodshed for his own people. He was the lowest of the low, the wickedest of the wicked; he deserved to die. In making that happen, any normal country would be congratulated. But not Israel.
The condemnations and complaints have come not just from the far-left, the French and the Islamofascist fifth column, but from the White House, Downing Street, the Foreign Office and the Conservative Party. While normal people of all political views are grinning modestly or rejoicing openly - self-described socialist Gene Zitver and even many of the Democratic Underground crew among them - the professional political class in all its ideological diversity delivers a petulant slap on the wrists of those bolshy Jews.
World opinion isn't particularly hospitable to the US or the UK. Indeed, the esteem in which a nation is held abroad seems to be inversely proportionate to the good it has done the planet. But even these countries could expect an overwhelmingly positive reaction to any equivalent achievement. If the Americans managed to liquidate Bin Laden in this way, world leaders would be scrambling for the microphones to congratulate her, to express their relief that such a terrorist mastermind has met his deserved fate. But when Israel cleans up her own back yard and sends out an anti-terrorist message sorely needed in these days of voting out PMs who upset AQs, the world statesmen of the early twenty-first century all come out sounding like George Best's wife when asked to comment on her husband's latest return to the bottle.
There is a case for a charitable attitude towards those who reach such heights of government. If they were openly to endorse such acts, it could lead immediately to questions about when they would and would not do the same themselves. If they're honest, most democratic states occasionally order assassinations. Recent British governments of both stripes have certainly concluded now and then that pacifying Ulster may mean bringing forward the dates of a few IRA or LVF funerals, and of course they are right to do so. But it's not the sort of thing you talk about openly.
Perhaps that needs to change. Conservatives are usually somewhat defensive of hypocrisy, noting that in a world of fallible people the only alternative is the deliberate endorsement of wrong acts. But this sort of hypocrisy - a coy modesty about righteous and utterly defensible executions - only serves to foster an immoral climate in which even the worst of mass murdering terrorists are seen as sympathetic, as possessing a right to life. They don't. Terrorists no more have an abstract right to live than bureaucrats have an abstract right to be employed in the civil service. From the moment anyone becomes involved with a terror group and devoted to the murder of a country's citizens to the moment they sever all such links, they have a right to life only in so far as their opponents see advantage in granting it. The killing of terrorists, like the hiring and firing of bureaucrats, is a proper function of the state. We all need to start saying so.
UPDATE: James Taranto supplies the grim death toll:
Yassin was quite a prolific murderer. "Over the past 3 1/2 years, . . . Hamas has, in 425 attacks, killed 377 Israelis and wounded 2076," notes the Jerusalem Post. "Hamas perpetrated 52 suicide attacks, in which 288 people were killed and 1646 were wounded."
Rationalists don't bow to the evidence because they're rationalists
Not to sound like Matthew Yglesias (politics aside, no bad thing), but sat in the bath yesterday reading the excellent posthumous collection of Peter Utley's columns A Tory Seer, the answer to a rather interesting philosophical conundrum occurred to me. How it is that people can, against so much evidence of history, continue to hold so fervently to rationalist schemes of social remodelling and believe they can work, I have often wondered. How is it that some can still fail to see that - as John Weidner put it - "God made the 20th Century to teach us that the notion that things work better when experts plan them is a fallacy"?
Obvious as it seems in retrospect, it's because they are rationalists that they reject empiricism. The evidence of history is not the basis of their judgement - it's what works in theory, what ought to make sense, what plans would be preferable assuming their flawless implementation. Asking someone to look to all the dozens of cases where such plans have created not harmony and utopia but poverty, tyranny and murder is begging the question, assuming that evidence and tradition trump reason, that empiricism trumps rationalism. Of course, it is precisely this that socialists, modern liberals, communists, anarchists, fascists, some libertarians and most ideologues deny. If rationalists could be swayed with evidence of what appears to work, they wouldn't be rationalists at all.
I'd therefore like to offer this definition: A conservative is someone who recognises that history is smarter than he is.
My semi-absence
Posting should be very light for the next week, so don't expect much until a week on Monday. I may add the occasional thought, however, and will in the meantime read a couple of books out in paperback soon and probably review them, so do stop by between now and then.
UPDATE: I am back a week early after all. Sorry to disappoint anyone.
"[I]t is one of the privileges of the Left to describe its inadequacies as dilemmas and its mistakes as tragedies: where a Conservative would blush and be quiet, a Socialist is privileged to enter a stage of audible self-examination in which the responsibility for his own errors is subtly transferred to the rest of mankind. The alleged dilemmas of Socialism today are nothing more or less than the failure of the whole Socialist technique of arguing straight from abstract principles to policies, the whole heritage of political rationalism in the naive form in which it passed to the intelligentsia of the 1920s and the 1930s. The move towards the Right is a move towards empiricism, towards scepticism of generalities in politics, and towards the belief that sound political thinking must begin from concrete situations understood in the light of the history which created them. It is a repudiation of the tradition of the Encyclopaedists and of the French Revolution, the tradition to which doctrinal Socialism is the heir." - T. E. Utley
Trading on a flat earth?
I'm not someone convinced of Pat Buchanan's anti-Semitism, and I certainly do not see him as a curse on the American right. The very least one can say is that he is an able commentator and a great orator with the very rare distinction of having served both of the two greatest Presidents of the twentieth century; Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan.
But I do find his foreign policy attitude disagreeable and believe his economic views to be ignorant (as Peter Brimelow has noted, his advocacy of tariffs as a means of altering the trade balance apparently takes no account of how the dollar exchange rate would appreciate in proportion to the fall in imports, restoring the original balance of trade).
An example of this is his piece in the latest American Conservative. One thing it certainly reveals is a very screwy sense of history. He attributes British decline to her acceptance of the theory of comparative advantage without a thought for the geopolitical circumstances. Except it wasn't Lord Salisbury, Prime Minister from 1895, who ushered in free trade. The nineteenth century considered as a whole was a time when this country opened its markets to the world, and benefited. We even adopted unilateral free trade towards those countries who, so much the worse for them, persisted with their own protectionism. It was the most globalised period in history, and it came at the moment when British prestige and power were at their greatest.
Equally, the 1930 Smoot-Hawley tariff of 40% on imported goods immediately preceded the fastest rise in unemployment in the worst recession in American history. For so many smaller nations, cutting oneself off from international trade was what set them so much apart from their more successful neighbours, all those Asian tiger economies which embraced global markets outstripping them with ease. If history tells any story about trade, it is that Ricardo was right.
I can't yet claim to understand fully the workings of the balance of payments or the current account. But I know enough to say with confidence that a trade deficit, though it may be epiphenomenal to other economic difficulties, cannot itself be deemed a problem. What, then, is Buchanan's evidence of other problems? That Americans are consuming 4% more than they are producing, relying on capital inflows to fund this.
China is becoming the factory floor of the world. And as her leaders force her people to sacrifice for the future, America, where the consumer is king, indulges herself in the present.
... The Chinese are the ants of summer, gathering for the winter. Americans are grasshoppers consuming themselves into dissipation.
But unless one is to take the view that foreign investment in one's country is inherently bad and foreign consumption of one's country's goods inherently good, I don't see why a Chinese Pat Buchanan couldn't make an identical argument by looking at the figures the other way around: so flawed is the Chinese economy that its people want to consume far less than they are producing - but even with all that saving China still lacks the promising industry or services that would tempt her own people to plug the capital account deficit by investing more at home rather than in the US and elsewhere. As a result, she is only getting by at all by sweating away on the factory floor and then selling more of her goods to the rest of the world than she is getting back in return. Is this equally one-sided outlook any better than his on America? Is it the economy of a country "subsidizing [American] consumption ... [f]or the same reason a drug dealer hands out samples of crack cocaine to school kids. To get them hooked"?
I am wary of saying this sort of thing is the equivalent of George Monbiot's Tuesday tripe, if only because of Warren Buffet's apparent agreement with some of it. But it does appear that Pat Buchanan's piece contains some unargued assumptions that few real economists - least of all conservative economists - would accept.
UPDATE: Andrew at Southern Cross devotes an epic post to the historical debate.
"Galloway could, assuming a bomb goes off three days before the next general election, be the next British Prime Minister." - Peter Briffa
We'll be digging toddlers' limbs out of London rubble before a major public figure comments on this
Astonishingly, more British Muslims are now telling pollsters they support Al Qaeda's terrorist attacks on the United States than are expressing support for the liberation of Iraq.
More than one in 10 British Muslims back al Qaida-style terror strikes on the United States, a poll has revealed.
... Attacks on the US by al Qaida or other groups were viewed as justified by 13% of the 500 British Muslims questioned.
Another 15% said they did not know whether such attacks are wrong or right.
Far fewer, 10%, said Prime Minister Tony Blair and US President George Bush were right to go to war.
You read that right: 28%. I'm speechless.
UPDATE: Laban Tall gets out his calculator: "Let me see, 13% of 1.6 million - that makes 208,000 terrorism supporters living in the UK." It took 19 to bring about 9/11.
A terrible day for democracy
Plastic Gangster has a gruelling assessment of the Spanish elections, which as you'll no doubt be aware spelled a shock victory for the Socialists who have been so critical of the stance Jose Maria-Aznar's People's Party has taken over the war on terror, and who have promised to withdraw all Spanish troops from Iraq.
In practical terms, the terrorists have won. They have launched an attack on an American ally and the result they have seen from it is that within 96 hours the anti-terror coalition has folded like a house of cards and one of the Coalition countries will be withdrawing from Iraq with almost immediate effect.
Talk about behaviour reinforcement. It goes against every rule in the anti-terrorism book. Expect more [terrorist attacks] as a direct result of this election outcome.
There can be little doubt it was the events of Thursday that decided this one. As Denis Boyles reported in the National Review the next day:
Aznar was responsible for ending the Socialists' 14-year grip on power. His subsequent success with Spain's economy, now the eighth-largest in the world; his stern denunciation of ETA, echoing the position taken by his predecessor; and his defense of Spanish interests in the face of French and German opposition meant the Socialists had almost no chance of winning the election before the blast.
But the blast came, and it seems enough people blamed the Spanish government's resolution for the attacks Al Qaeda launched and the country has now opted out of fighting the war on terror.
Plastic Gangster declines to blame the Spanish electorate. I cannot be so generous. The aftermath of mass murder ought to be a time when ordinary, decent people recover their inherent sense of moral absolutism and feel an unshakeable determination for the ruthless assertion of justice. Various US journalists have noted that the rest of the world had no appreciation of the uncomplicated fury, the sheer rage, that the American people felt after 9/11. Who can doubt that this anger - like anger at so many other injustices - was ultimately translated into good consequences for the world? Spain, in its own way, could have followed this path. Instead, the country has chosen introspection, division, surrender and the snake-oil of appeasement. To those Spaniards who let 3/11 swing their vote in the Socialists' favour I can only say: You selfish, myopic dupes.
"The whole theory that colonialism was exploitative was dreamed up by Vladimir Lenin, desperate to explain why capitalism still throve decades after Marx had predicted its collapse. That theory, like the rest of Leninism, now has all the intellectual respectability of an Elvis sighting." - John Derbyshire
Gosh! Who'd have thunk it?
What a surprise:
Teenage pregnancies have risen fastest in areas of the country where the Government has specifically targeted resources to reduce them, a new survey has revealed.
The report, to be published tomorrow, says that the explicit sex education leaflets and free condoms provided to under-age girls by the Government schemes have simply encouraged them to have sex.
... There has also been a 62 per cent increase in the number of cases of sexually transmitted diseases among young people aged 19 and under, rising from 25,143 cases in 1997 to 40,821 in 2002.
... One guide, called "4 Girls", tells teenagers how to obtain contraception, explains sexually transmitted diseases, and gives reassuring advice about sex. Another leaflet tells young girls: "Contraceptive advice and supplies are free to everyone. It doesn't matter how old you are . . . there's no right age to have sex."
Mrs Riches said: "The Family Planning Association sows confusion in a child's mind about right and wrong and presents only one moral absolute - the use of condoms."
The report points out that the promotion of abstinence among young people in America has lead to a drop in teenage pregnancies by 10 per cent.
UPDATE: Susanne Fields outlines the alternative.
The consequences of university expansion
John Clare's Education Answers, a collection of letters to and answers from the great Telegraph educationalist, is a surprisingly gripping read. The book is full of revealing little titbits and anecdotes, the letters and responses painting quite a picture of Britain's education system. Here is one depressing correspondence.
"The first year of my nephew's three-year degree course in English and history at Plymouth University is being taught under a 'franchise' arrangement at a further education college. He did not study either subject at A-level and his knowledge of them seems negligible. What particularly concerns me, a former teacher, is the low standard of work he is doing at the college. It would be more appropriate for a pupil aged 12 or 13 and is certainly below GCSE level. Is this what studying for a degree means nowadays?"
It is not yet the norm. However, the Government, in its drive to increase the proportion of young people in higher education from 30 per cent to 50 per cent, is committed to funding many more such courses.
"We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing, and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress, while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization." - Caius Petronius, AD 66
Thanks to Patrick Whittome for this one. Any resemblance to present events and governments is entirely coincidental.
The common ground in the culture wars
I have for some time been planning a piece here on the prospects for a backlash in the culture wars, with particular reference to the experience of Keith Joseph, who ushered in the economic backlash against the left. In a week or two, I will probably find time for that.
In the meantime, keen Burkean MP John Hayes has a good Spectator piece emphasising a similar point, in which he focuses on how and why British Conservatives should emulate their more successful counterparts in Australia and the United States by resisting the objectives of the left in cultural as well as economic and foreign policy issues. Making a point Margaret Thatcher and Iain Murray have both made, he advocates 'Social Thatcherism' - the rejuvenation of responsibility and self-reliance in the social sphere - as a counterpart to her achievements in restoring those qualities to economic affairs.
Of particular note is the point he makes about Sir Keith Joseph's distinction between the 'middle ground' - the midway-point average of where politicians lie - and the 'common ground' - the values of the people of this country. The two are far from the same thing, and something supported by the great majority of politicians can still be vigorously out of step with public opinion, as demonstrated by the issue of capital punishment above all. Indeed, it is difficult to think of any social issue on which the political class is not to the left of the voters.
It certainly is the case that every political advance of the social liberals for many years now has been against the wishes of most voters. Be it the lowering of the age of consent for anal 'sex' to just sixteen, the denial of parental consent to contraceptive and abortion pills handed out in schools, the quasi-legalisation of cannabis, the scrapping of section twenty-eight, the great wave of migration and asylum cases or the widespread introduction of early release and tagging as an alternative to proper sentencing, all these measures were opposed by the majority.
In addition, encouraging research is now suggesting that the curious phenomenon in the United States of most members of Generation X being considerably less liberal than their Baby Boomer parents is true in this country, too. On issues ranging from abortion, marriage and illegitimacy to asylum and the monarchy, it seems the sons and daughters of Thatcher are more children of the twenties than of the sixties. (Thanks to DumbJon for the link.)
Whatever else might be said of the culturally liberal agenda, it isn't being pushed through because the voters demand it, and nor is its opposition restricted to church-goers, pro-family campaigners and the elderly.
Those for whom alleged evil is not worth considering, so long as it is anti-American evil
The Guantanamo captives held by British authorities, let us be clear, were picked up in very, very dodgy circumstances. None of them have yet been found guilty of a crime, so it is wrong to say for certain that they are terrorists, but the details of their capture given by one Bush Administration official should weigh heavily in all our minds.
[T]hey had all been in the combat zone in Afghanistan. One had been picked up in Pakistan, in a safe house used by Abu Zubaydah, Osama bin Laden's former chief of operations and the most senior al-Qaida leader captured to date. Another one allegedly met Bin Laden three times. All four were described as veterans of al-Qaida training camps, schooled in terrorist skills from bomb-making to assassinations.
It is certainly possible one of them was in that part of the world at that time for entirely innocent reasons. But four? Perhaps a trial will establish that this really is the case. But reading the left-wing press, it seems such questions simply aren't worth asking. To consider the very real possibility that they are traitors who waged war on British soldiers in defence of one of the most wicked regimes and terror groups in the world is just so uncouth. That they might pose a danger to British people if released is dismissed with the wave of a hand.
'The famous five with stories to tell' is the Guardian's comely headline. Those few words really do say it all. Famous five? Stories to tell? It seems that for the liberal elite, because these men are accused of waging war on those ghastly Bush cowboys, they must be earnest Enid Blyton characters, badgered and bullied by George's Golliwog Guards of Guantanamo Bay. It's not what they are or what they are accused of that matters - it's who defending them allows one to blame. I forget who it was noted that the left's preoccupation with defending the Rosenbergs owed far less to an assured belief in their innocence than to an utter indifference to whether they were guilty. It's a mentality alive and well today.
UPDATE: All of them have now been set loose on a legal technicality. Dear Lord.
UPDATE II: Richard Littlejohn has more:
Security chiefs think it is only a matter of time before there is an atrocity here. We know al-Qa'ida cells are beavering away in Britain.
Some soft-headed people still refuse to accept there's a war on. It's not a conventional war, but it's a war nonetheless. And there are different rules in wartime.
To those wittering on about the "human rights" of the Guantanamo Bay detainees, one senior Bush official had this to say: "If the British government had captured Luftwaffe pilots bombing London during the middle of World War Two, they would not have given them lawyers to argue they were innocent and ought to be released."
"For those who read their history, fascism was always about youth. Currently the nearest thing to a fascist youth movement is the area where animal rights, anti-globalisation and environmentalism meet. The kind of people who will hit an elderly hunt follower in the face with a hammer, surround a house containing terrified children and smash all the windows, burn foreign-owned property (if it's American owned, that is), publish lists of enemies to be dealt with, or wear 'Hurry up and Die, Queen Mother' t-shirts. Currently these movements all belong to the cultural Left." - Laban Tall
Where one blogs
I don't write much here on blogging, but I liked Jeff Jarvis' suggestion that bloggers show their readers the locations where they write their posts. Glenn Reynolds and John Hawkins have both proceeded to put up their pictures.
Here is my blogspace, when I am at university.
UPDATE: The online Through the Keyhole continues with Brian Micklethwait.
Partisan competition, not unity, is how to defeat fascists who lump all democrats together
A group called Unite Against Fascism has launched a blog-based campaign against the British National Party, and Tom Watson and Harry have already signed up, urging others to follow suit by displaying sidebar advertisements like that below. Should I do the same?
As regular readers will know, I like any Conservative oppose the BNP for almost every policy it has. Even without the party's long, dreary history of violence, holocaust denial, Nazism and neo-nazism, the rest of her platform besides the race issue would be an embarrassing left-wing joke. Her economic policies in particular consist of the most laughable Mercantilism, the sort of Bennism even the Labour Party of that time had rejected by the mid-1980s.
Yet I genuinely don't see what good signing up to this campaign would do, and suspect that so far as people like me have any influence, it could do some harm. Liberal Democrat election chief Chris Rennard is of all people the one I think came closest to the truth on this issue, when the Guardian put him on a panel also containing representatives from the two main parties.
All the panellists agreed that choice and healthy competition between the mainstream parties are essential to squeeze out the BNP.
So what should be done about the BNP? Full-blooded competition between the mainstream parties could help, argued Mr Rennard. "I think we've made a mistake sometimes by thinking, okay, if they're growing strong, perhaps by getting together with all three parties and saying whatever you do, don't vote for them this is actually not a very helpful approach. People who may vote for them are actually the ones who think that all parties are the same, that all the mainstream parties are the same." And competition also has the added benefit of increasing voter turnout, making it harder for the BNP to break through.
For all parties to 'Unite Against Fascism' in this way could mean falling securely into that trap of signing up to an anti-BNP campaign with the best of intentions and as a result portraying the BNP as the only real opposition to the existing state of affairs, the only ones who offer an alternative. This is a message the party's leadership fights endlessly to get across: as they put it, they are the only ones who can bring the change that the "establishment parties" all oppose. By publicly uniting into one single opposition, democratic politicians could be playing right into their hands.
By definition, anyone who supports the Tories - as I do - opposes the BNP, and anyone who supports any party opposes all the others. Although the ideological source of the BNP's rhetoric and policies should never leave the lips of mainstream political activists who face them, I don't think voters need reminding that all the other parties oppose the British National Party. What they need to know is that the Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats all offer different ideas and have different policies on migration and asylum. Under the last Conservative government, Britain had small-scale, controlled immigration. Under Labour, asylum and immigration rates both doubled in five years. Under the Liberal Democrats, we would have still more people coming here. Which of these proposals sounds most palatable is a matter for individual preference, but no one must be left with the illusion that the choice is not there, as they might by any campaign stressing the similarities rather than the differences between the parties. Conservatives who want to see the BNP defeated shouldn't be afraid to say the other parties have got it wrong, and that we will fix things. Ditto Labour and Lib Dem supporters and activists.
Healthy competition between democratic parties that raises voter turnout and makes clear the genuine choice on offer will hurt the BNP. Tokenistic co-operation may only serve to strengthen the case they put to everyone with concerns about our asylum and immigration system that they alone offer an alternative.
UPDATE: Yesterday also marked Tom Watson's first anniversary as a blogger. It's not terribly consistent with the rest of this post for me to say it of a Labour MP, but congratulations to him.
The difference is the state
Anthony Browne has some surprising words for those who deny the quality of British health care.
Don't listen to the denigrators - the health service in Britain can be wonderful. I was recently walking down a London street on a Sunday afternoon, when I decided to have a medical problem dealt with. I dropped into a medical centre I happened to be passing, which was open, and asked to see the specialist, who attended to me there and then with a smile. In a sparkling clean clinic packed out with a vast array of brand new medical equipment that seemed like something out of a science fiction film, dozens of tests were quickly done, which, as well as diagnosing my medical problem, checked out a range of other conditions from brain tumours to diabetes. The specialised medical apparatus that was prescribed for me was manufactured instantly.
I know you think that I am making this up, just teasing you, that it is too good to be true, but it is not. I promise you, within an hour of walking in without an appointment on a Sunday, I walked out of the optician with a pair of bespoke spectacles for my myopia and astigmatism, and a dream that one day all healthcare in Britain would be this way.
Of course, opponents of health service reform did not predict this when the General Ophthalmic Service was effectively privatised by Margaret Thatcher in 1989. They said it would ruin the service, when in fact it has turned it into by far the most successful sector of the medical service.
Meanwhile, back in government hospitals:
She arrived at 10am. The place was dirty and grimy and smelly. Parts of the waiting area stank, to the extreme discomfort of those having to wait there. She was finally ushered in for her scan, where it emerged that in spite of having consumed large amounts of water as part of the prep for the scan she had to consume yet more. The harassed nurse departed to look for drinking water which was not readily available. After sitting waiting for a while, the door burst open to admit not the nurse, but a cleaner who, without acknowledgement or apology proceeded to hoover noisily around the room and around the patient.
Now if you really want to leave civilised political discourse behind, why don't you see if you can reach some reasonable conclusions based on these entirely typical anecdotes?
The link of this week is to WorldMagBlog, the weblog of the American magazine World. Now blogging for them is the excellent social writer Marvin Olasky, author of The Tragedy of American Compassion. The posts are good, and even the comments section has some real pearls of wisdom, Christopher Taylor amongst others really arguing well.
Thanks to Laban Tall for the link.
"So we have 'female genital mutilation' which, in English, is called 'Grievous Bodily Harm' and 'honour killings' which, again in English, are pronounced 'murder'." - David Carr clarifies some cultural differences between the West and the rest
Retro Conservative Commentary
I am currently putting some of my longer and better pieces up in a special essays section of this site. This will consist of lengthier posts here which I feel make important points of lasting relevance. So far the section includes pieces from mid 2002 and late 2003. Eventually it will feature material from throughout the twenty months that I have been blogging, and beyond.
I try to avoid posting too much at the weekend, and I have other things to be getting on with now anyway, so in place of much content before Monday, here are the essays up there so far. Comments are welcome.
28.07.02 Self-control is not state control
It is no mere joke to say that at present libertarians are those who like the liberal society but hate paying for it. If you believe in a truly libertarian society, your only way to success is in working to build a society based upon traditional morality, shame and chastity, not the destructive policies of social liberalism.
22.08.02 An unknown liberal's manifesto for Britain in 2002, written in the early sixties
I want a world where the cardinal virtue is tolerance of all behaviour, and where those who sin against this are demonised and expelled from polite society.
23.09.03 An issue to be determined in local elections, not by referenda
Should voters have to take the consequences of voting for worthless and incompetent politicians? If you go out and put a cross in the box next to the man who promises the moon, and he wins, should you have to face the tax increases that result when he spends like an African dictator?
30.10.03 The last Conservative leader ... and the next
In two short years, IDS has transformed our prospects to the extent that we can even look to government rather than to simply existing at all. If now we can go from a leader who has taken us such a distance on the journey back to government to a leader supremely well equipped to take us a lot further, it is the right decision to make.
18.11.03 Not a lurch, but a step to the right - and a good thing too
People vote in Conservative governments when the Tories appeal to their aspirations, when people see a significant difference in what they can hope to gain from the parties. When both parties are on the centre-ground, that difference is not obvious, and people may be inclined to vote on other issues. But when the Tories leave a chasm of aspiration between themselves and Labour, the choice is clearer - and the swing voters of Middle England overwhelmingly show themselves willing to jump that chasm whenever we have the courage to offer them greater opportunities.
24.11.03 Thoughts on Michael Howard
Howard's ascent to the Tory leadership confirms the long history of the Conservatives choosing as their chief someone who, even a short time before, very few would have predicted would be holding the position, and refutes the claim that in modern politics the House of Commons matters not a jot.
25.11.03 Thoughts on Tony Blair
Blair knows his party will defend to the death the belief that government and the state can more effectively and more equitably ensure people care and education than those people can themselves. So he is forced into a feebly slow, piecemeal approach to an issue where boldness above all is required. But now with even that piecemeal approach looking like it has reached the limits of what Labour backbenchers will accept, he can do nought but sit back and watch the schools deteriorate and the health service collapse as he waits to feel the full force of public anger. It's now far too late for anyone to claim Tony Blair as a radical, reformist Prime Minister with a domestic agenda that will revolutionise Britain. Even the most patient must now acknowledge that if he hasn't done these things in seven years, he never will.
11.12.03 Thoughts on Charles Kennedy
Kennedy's is a strategy of week after week and month after month making the most vulgar, shameless appeals to the media elite, to the liberals and lefties who currently dominate what remains of our establishment when you take out the government. Think of Any Questions audiences, of the Independent letters page or the Guardian opinion section. Charles Kennedy speaks for them.
27.12.03 In defence of outsourcing
You mostly see attacks on "job-destroying" machinery only from people who suffer directly from it. This is rightly recognised as selfish special pleading rather than a genuine economic case against such innovation. So why are foreigners staffing call centres any different?
Bush or Kerry?
With the far more credible and interesting John Edwards defeated this week in the race to challenge Bush by Ted Kennedy's Massachussetts sidekick John Kerry, we now know the choice facing Americans in November: Bush or Kerry.
OR KERRY?
It's a tough one this time. More at Free Republic.
UPDATE: The excellent Airstrip One, which doesn't receive nearly as much attention as it ought, focuses on Kerry's stance on Ulster: a rejection of Unionist demands that Sinn Fein/IRA uphold their end of the Good Friday Agreement if they want to sit in government. Philip Chaston thus concludes that "it would be in Britain's interests if Kerry remained where he belongs, unelected". I would go further and say that this stance might also give American voters further reasons to doubt Kerry's suitability. Can a man with such a selective distaste for terrorists really be the right one to fight a war on terror? As Mark Steyn has noted, waging war is about argument and rhetoric, not just bombing. Kerry may inherit the military end of this battle automatically, but he'll need to summon the moral side for himself. Is he capable of doing so?
"What I don't understand is why it's a great thing for unaccountable judges to change the meaning of the Constitution without a public debate while it is some form of tyranny for the House, Senate and fifty states to debate the issue over the course of months or years under the glaring spotlight of the media." - Jonah Goldberg
Thanks to John Hawkins for the link.
The end of the line for Blairism?
Paul Richards has a piece in Progress, the magazine for 'Labour Progressives' (don't laugh - the left really do think conservatives oppose progress), thinking ahead to after the next General Election. On almost any substantial swing from Labour to the Conservatives, the situation looks bad for those who broadly go along with the Blairite project and want the Labour Party to do the same.
[W]hat does such a swing [of 5%] do to the loyalist/rebel balance of forces inside the PLP? Twenty-one of the 50-odd losers would be MPs who are currently on the 'payroll vote': ministers, whips, or PPSs. These are solid Blair loyalists. A further eight are loyalist backbenchers, who backed the government on the crucial higher education vote. So about 30 Blair loyalists would be polishing up their CVs on a five percent swing. There are only four members of the Socialist Campaign Group - the so-called 'hard left' (hardcore serial rebels) who would be joining them: Philip Sawford, John Cryer, Robert Marshall-Andrews and Ann Cryer. Inside the PLP, the swing is towards those willing to vote against the government and away from those who support it.
And what about a massive ten percent swing from Labour to Conservative (bear in mind Thatcher's victory in 1979 was based on a 5.2 percent swing, and Labour's in 1997 was based a 10.2 percent swing.)? The government would be in serious trouble. A ten percent swing wipes out about 130 Labour MPs, and with it Labour's overall majority. With Labour on roughly 283 and the Tories on roughly 296, Labour would need the support of the Liberal Democrats to form a minority administration. This would be Blair's killing fields. Just two further members of the Socialist Campaign Group would be out: Ian Gibson and Mike Wood. But 28 Labour ministers and PPSs would be history, plus a large swathe of habitually loyal backbenchers, most of whom owe their seats to the modernisation of the Labour party. This scenario would see a PLP which resembles much more closely, in terms of politics, the class of 1983.
It is worth remembering how much the landslide of 1997 introduced a class of MP to the Commons who in normal circumstances would never have got there. In Servants of the People, Andrew Rawnsley records Blair walking into Parliament in May 1997, seeing some of the new Labour MPs gathering in the lobby and exclaiming "Doesn't he look like the guy who did Gordon's photocopying?!" to which he received the answer that the MP was the man who did Gordon Brown's photocopying. Above all, 1997 saw the election of many fiercely loyal 'Blair babes' who became their party's candidates only because superior male candidates were banned from competing. Independent-mindedness is not the first thing that comes to mind when one considers these sorts of member. The 2001 Election preserved this state of affairs, and has probably made Labour's first two terms much easier.
So it should be no surprise that these landslide loyalists also look the surest to fall if Labour cannot secure a third consecutive landslide in 2005 or 2006. I have written before that Blair has little hope of getting forward any serious programme of reform either side of the next election. If Paul Richards' mathematics is correct, I now feel still more confident in that judgement.
UPDATE: British Spin links to the same column, and his commenters give their thoughts.
"Amidst all the partying I did in Brussels last weekend, I somehow managed to find the time to actually learn a thing or two.
The first thing I learned was not everyone takes the Euro terribly seriously (while fiddling around for correct change to pay for a taxi, I let the words 'Mickey Mouse money' slip from my mouth whereupon the taxi driver began laughing and said 'oui, Monsieur, oui')." - David Carr
Now crooks have their own Suffragettes
Does the idea of vote-grubbing politicians in marginal constituencies canvassing the paedophile and rape sections of their local jails, smiling, shaking hands, making jokes and promises to the inmates, appeal to you? Apparently it does to the Liberal Democrats.
A campaign has been lauched to try to overturn a 134-year-old law which deprives prisoners of the vote.
And it's not just the Liberal Democrats, whose official policy is to allow convicts to cast their ballots in elections. They are being supported by the usual stock of prisoners' charities and even a few MPs from the two main parties.
Why? Who knows? I certainly can't think of a good reason. One can only assume that the motivating principle is the same as that which prompts so much of modern legislation: the belief that making any distinction between right and wrong is a bit naff, a bit outdated, a 'subjective' judgement which rightly has no wider impact. Certainly, they'll no doubt argue, it's not our place to judge these people, to say that their inability to obey the law, for which they are currently doing time, should deprive them of a say in who makes those laws. In other words, the motivation stems from the very same immoral culture that helps ensure we have such fantastic levels of crime in the first place.
At a time when voter apathy and distrust of politicians is a concern on the lips of almost the entire chattering class, this is a measure sure to help solidify all these problems. Could you shake hands through prison bars with a mugger who cracked a pensioner's skull open in the hope of taking her purse? Could you assure him that his views matter to you, that you will do what you can for people like him, that he can count on you? I don't know if I could. But some people could do that in a second, and some will no doubt already be in the House of Commons and many council chambers. What can safely be said is that more members of this class of politician will be elected if this immoral scheme succeeds. If canvassing the local nick becomes part of the job prescription of an aspiring MP or councillor, you can be sure that whoever is willing to sink the lowest and work the hardest at pleasing the most unsavoury elements of society will gain electoral advantage from it. No wonder the Lib Dems are so keen. They know that muggers, burglars and all the other undesirables they want released as a matter of course are going to vote for anyone offering them a get out of jail free card. But let none of them pretend that further lowering the class of politician elected to the parliaments and council chambers of this Kingdom will do anything but harm to the public's confidence in their representatives.
One could, at a stretch, suggest that there are so few prisoners likely to be interested in voting that permitting it for those who do care would make no difference to any single election. Well, if it really will have no effect, then why on earth should it be pushed through? If it's not going to be an aid to shifty and callous politicians, then it's not going to help at all. Either way, there is no upside to such a reform.
It should go without saying that there is not a single problem facing Britain today that would be solved if Ian Huntley and his fellow inmates were given the vote. All it would achieve would be to give a political elite already frighteningly partial towards the criminal a further, very self-interested, reason for so being. If that's what you want, vote Liberal Democrat. If they have any sense, that's what the criminals will be doing.
Peter Briffa is back, and brings with him a wonderfully revealing quote.
"Too often the left's over-devotion to individual rights usurps what should be its natural role as the defender of the power of the state - and of its servants." - Polly Toynbee
If you want just one reason for opposing the left in all its manifestations, there it is.
'Work and investment? What do we need that for?'
Michael T. Darda offers some supply-side smelling salts to John Kerry, making clear just how damaging it would be to enact his retrograde proposal to reverse so much of President Bush's tax relief.
Kerry is proposing to cut the deficit in half by boosting the top two income-tax rates back to Clinton levels. This would lift the top rate to more than 39 1/2 percent from 35 percent and the second highest rate up to 36 percent from 33 percent. Presumably Kerry also would reverse Bush's 2003 tax cuts on capital gains and dividends, clearly the most powerful and pro-growth elements of the Bush fiscal repertoire.
... If the Bush tax cuts are deep-sixed, investors would only keep 60.4 cents on the dividend dollar, down from 85 cents today, a drop of 29 percent. Capital-gains investors would keep 80 cents on the dollar instead of 85, a decline of nearly 6 percent. After-tax rates of return on labor would fall by more than 7 percent for top-rate payers. The combined result would be a 32 percent reduction in the after-tax rates of return to working and investing.
If it pays less to work and invest, less working and investing will be done. At a minimum, this would slow growth.
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Commentary. In Praise of Studies That Use More Than One Generic Preference-Based Measure
David Feeny, William Furlong, George W. Torrance
Journal: International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care , First View
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 July 2019, pp. 1-6
Objectives and Background
Generic preference-based (GPB) measures of health-related quality of life (HRQL) are widely used as outcome measures in cost-effectiveness and cost-utility analyses (CEA, CUA). Health technology assessment agencies favor GPB measures because they facilitate comparisons among conditions and because the scoring functions for these measures are based on community preferences. However, there is no gold standard HRQL measure, scores generated by GPB measures may differ importantly, and changes in scores may fail to detect important changes in HRQL. Therefore, to enhance the accumulation of empirical evidence on how well GPB measures perform, we advocate that investigators routinely use two (or more) GPB measures in each study.
We discuss key measurement properties and present examples to illustrate differences in responsiveness for several major GPB measures across a wide variety of health contexts. We highlight the contributions of longitudinal head-to-head studies.
There is substantial evidence that the performance of GPB measures varies importantly among diseases and health conditions. Scores are often not interchangeable. There are numerous examples of studies in which one GPB measure was responsive while another was not.
Investigators should use two (or more) GPB measures. Study protocols should designate one measure as the primary outcome measure; the other measure(s) would be used in secondary analyses. As evidence accumulates it will better inform the relative strengths and weaknesses of alternative GPB measures in various clinical conditions. This will facilitate the selection and interpretation of GPB measures in future studies.
Context-Specific Economic Evaluation for Molecular Pathology Tests: An Application in Colorectal Cancer in the West of Scotland
Janet Bouttell, Yun Yi Tan, David Creed, Gillian McGaffin, Neil Hawkins, Ruth McLaughlin, Graeme Smith, Paul Westwood, Nicola Williams, Janet Graham
The cost-effectiveness of molecular pathology testing is highly context dependent. The field is fast-moving, and national health technology assessment may not be relevant or timely for local decision makers. This study illustrates a method of context-specific economic evaluation that can be carried out in a limited timescale without extensive resources.
We established a multi-disciplinary group including an oncologist, pathologists and a health economist. We set out diagnostic and treatment pathways and costs using registry data, health technology assessments, guidelines, audit data, and estimates from the group. Sensitivity analysis varied input parameters across plausible ranges. The evaluation setting was the West of Scotland and UK NHS perspective was adopted. The evaluation was assessed against the AdHopHTA checklist for hospital-based health technology assessment.
A context-specific economic evaluation could be carried out on a timely basis using limited resources. The evaluation met all relevant criteria in the AdHopHTA checklist. Health outcomes were expected to be at least equal to the current strategy. Annual cost savings of £637,000 were estimated resulting primarily from a reduction in the proportion of patients receiving intravenous infusional chemotherapy regimens. The result was not sensitive to any parameter. The data driving the main cost saving came from a small clinical audit. We recommended this finding was confirmed in a larger population.
The method could be used to evaluate testing changes elsewhere. The results of the case study may be transferable to other jurisdictions where the organization of cancer services is fragmented.
Treatability Statements in Serious Illness: The Gap Between What is Said and What is Heard
JASON N. BATTEN, BONNIE O. WONG, WILLIAM F. HANKS, DAVID C. MAGNUS
Journal: Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics / Volume 28 / Issue 3 / July 2019
Empirical work has shown that patients and physicians have markedly divergent understandings of treatability statements (e.g., “This is a treatable condition,” “We have treatments for your loved one”) in the context of serious illness. Patients often understand treatability statements as conveying good news for prognosis and quality of life. In contrast, physicians often do not intend treatability statements to convey improvement in prognosis or quality of life, but merely that a treatment is available. Similarly, patients often understand treatability statements as conveying encouragement to hope and pursue further treatment, though this may not be intended by physicians. This radical divergence in understandings may lead to severe miscommunication. This paper seeks to better understand this divergence through linguistic theory—in particular, H.P. Grice’s notion of conversational implicature. This theoretical approach reveals three levels of meaning of treatability statements: (1) the literal meaning, (2) the physician’s intended meaning, and (3) the patient’s received meaning. The divergence between the physician’s intended meaning and the patient’s received meaning can be understood to arise from the lack of shared experience between physicians and patients, and the differing assumptions that each party makes about conversations. This divergence in meaning raises new and largely unidentified challenges to informed consent and shared decision making in the context of serious illness, which indicates a need for further empirical research in this area.
Sustained improvement in hospital cleaning associated with a novel education and culture change program for environmental services workers
Elena K. Martin, Elizabeth L. Salsgiver, Daniel A. Bernstein, Matthew S. Simon, William G. Greendyke, James M. Gramstad, Roydell Weeks, Timothy Woodward, Haomiao Jia, Lisa Saiman, E. Yoko Furuya, David P. Calfee
Journal: Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , First View
To sustainably improve cleaning of high-touch surfaces (HTSs) in acute-care hospitals using a multimodal approach to education, reduction of barriers to cleaning, and culture change for environmental services workers.
Prospective, quasi-experimental, before-and-after intervention study.
The study was conducted in 2 academic acute-care hospitals, 2 community hospitals, and an academic pediatric and women’s hospital.
Frontline environmental services workers.
A 5-module educational program, using principles of adult learning theory, was developed and presented to environmental services workers. Audience response system (ARS), videos, demonstrations, role playing, and graphics were used to illustrate concepts of and the rationale for infection prevention strategies. Topics included hand hygiene, isolation precautions, personal protective equipment (PPE), cleaning protocols, and strategies to overcome barriers. Program evaluation included ARS questions, written evaluations, and objective assessments of occupied patient room cleaning. Changes in hospital-onset C. difficile infection (CDI) and methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) bacteremia were evaluated.
On average, 357 environmental service workers participated in each module. Most (93%) rated the presentations as ‘excellent’ or ‘very good’ and agreed that they were useful (95%), reported that they were more comfortable donning/doffing PPE (91%) and performing hand hygiene (96%) and better understood the importance of disinfecting HTSs (96%) after the program. The frequency of cleaning individual HTSs in occupied rooms increased from 26% to 62% (P < .001) following the intervention. Improvement was sustained 1-year post intervention (P < .001). A significant decrease in CDI was associated with the program.
A novel program that addressed environmental services workers’ knowledge gaps, challenges, and barriers was well received and appeared to result in learning, behavior change, and sustained improvements in cleaning.
Edited by David Crane
Expected online publication date: June 2019
The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with accounts of new critical, stage and screen interpretations. In this second edition of Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor David Crane emphasises the liveliness of the play in stage terms. He also claims that this citizen comedy was an expression of Shakespeare's fundamental understanding of human life, conveyed centrally in the character of Falstaff. In the process he examines Shakespeare's free and vigorous use of different linguistic worlds. An account of the play's textual history concludes that at the time of its earliest performances Shakespeare's text was being adapted to specific theatrical needs, and as much in the possession of its players as of its author.
Edited by David Bevington
Print publication: 04 July 2005
The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with accounts of new critical, stage and screen interpretations. For this second edition of Antony and Cleopatra, David Bevington has included in his introductory section a thorough consideration of recent critical and stage interpretations, demonstrating how the theatrical design and imagination of this play make it one of Shakespeare's most remarkable tragedies. The edition is attentive throughout to the play as theatre: a detailed, illustrated account of the stage history is followed, in the commentary, by discussion of staging options offered by the text. The commentary is especially full and helpful, untangling many obscure words and phrases, illuminating sexual puns, and alerting the reader to Shakespeare's shaping of his source material in Plutarch's Lives.
Early conversion of classic Fontan conversion may decrease term morbidity: single centre outcomes
David Blitzer, Asma S. Habib, John W. Brown, Adam C. Kean, Jiuann-Huey I. Lin, Mark W. Turrentine, Mark D. Rodefeld, Jeremy L. Herrmann, William Aaron Kay
Journal: Cardiology in the Young , First View
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 June 2019, pp. 1-6
The initial classic Fontan utilising a direct right atrial appendage to pulmonary artery anastomosis led to numerous complications. Adults with such complications may benefit from conversion to a total cavo-pulmonary connection, the current standard palliation for children with univentricular hearts.
A single institution, retrospective chart review was conducted for all Fontan conversion procedures performed from July, 1999 through January, 2017. Variables analysed included age, sex, reason for Fontan conversion, age at Fontan conversion, and early mortality or heart transplant within 1 year after Fontan conversion.
A total of 41 Fontan conversion patients were identified. Average age at Fontan conversion was 24.5 ± 9.2 years. Dominant left ventricular physiology was present in 37/41 (90.2%) patients. Right-sided heart failure occurred in 39/41 (95.1%) patients and right atrial dilation was present in 33/41 (80.5%) patients. The most common causes for Fontan conversion included atrial arrhythmia in 37/41 (90.2%), NYHA class II HF or greater in 31/41 (75.6%), ventricular dysfunction in 23/41 (56.1%), and cirrhosis or fibrosis in 7/41 (17.1%) patients. Median post-surgical follow-up was 6.2 ± 4.9 years. Survival rates at 30 days, 1 year, and greater than 1-year post-Fontan conversion were 95.1, 92.7, and 87.8%, respectively. Two patients underwent heart transplant: the first within 1 year of Fontan conversion for heart failure and the second at 5.3 years for liver failure.
Fontan conversion should be considered early when atrial arrhythmias become common rather than waiting for severe heart failure to ensue, and Fontan conversion can be accomplished with an acceptable risk profile.
Healthcare-associated urinary tract infections with onset post hospital discharge
Miriam R. Elman, Craig D. Williams, David T. Bearden, John M. Townes, John D. Heintzman, Jodi A. Lapidus, Ravina Kullar, Sheila Markwardt, Amanda T. Trieu, Arrash A. Vahidi, Jessina C. McGregor
Journal: Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology / Volume 40 / Issue 8 / August 2019
Current surveillance for healthcare-associated (HA) urinary tract infection (UTI) is focused on catheter-associated infection with hospital onset (HO-CAUTI), yet this surveillance does not represent the full burden of HA-UTI to patients. Our objective was to measure the incidence of potentially HA, community-onset (CO) UTI in a retrospective cohort of hospitalized patients.
Retrospective cohort study.
Academic, quaternary care, referral center.
Patients:
Hospitalized adults at risk for HA-UTI from May 2009 to December 2011 were included.
Patients who did not experience a UTI during the index hospitalization were followed for 30 days post discharge to identify cases of potentially HA-CO UTI.
We identified 3,273 patients at risk for potentially HA-CO UTI. The incidence of HA-CO UTI in the 30 days post discharge was 29.8 per 1,000 patients. Independent risk factors of HA-CO UTI included paraplegia or quadriplegia (adjusted odds ratio [aOR], 4.6; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.2–18.0), indwelling catheter during index hospitalization (aOR, 1.5; 95% CI, 1.0–2.3), prior piperacillin-tazobactam prescription (aOR, 2.3; 95% CI, 1.1–4.5), prior penicillin class prescription (aOR, 1.7; 95% CI, 1.0–2.8), and private insurance (aOR, 0.6; 95% CI, 0.4–0.9).
HA-CO UTI may be common within 30 days following hospital discharge. These data suggest that surveillance efforts may need to be expanded to capture the full burden to patients and better inform antibiotic prescribing decisions for patients with a history of hospitalization.
Temporal changes in left ventricular strain with the development of rejection in paediatric heart transplant recipients
Justin Godown, William A. McEachern, Debra A. Dodd, Michael Stanley, Corey Havens, Meng Xu, James C. Slaughter, David W. Bearl, Jonathan H. Soslow
Myocardial strain measurements are increasingly used to detect complications following heart transplantation. However, the temporal association of these changes with allograft rejection is not well defined. The aim of this study was to describe the evolution of strain measurements prior to the diagnosis of rejection in paediatric heart transplant recipients.
All paediatric heart transplant recipients (2004–2015) with at least one episode of acute rejection were identified. Longitudinal and circumferential strain measurements were assessed at the time of rejection and retrospectively on all echocardiograms until the most recent negative biopsy. Smoothing technique (LOESS) was used to visualise the changes of each variable over time and estimate the time preceding rejection at which alterations are first detectable.
A total of 58 rejection episodes were included from 37 unique patients. In the presence of rejection, there were decrements from baseline in global longitudinal strain (−18.2 versus −14.1), global circumferential strain (−24.1 versus −19.6), longitudinal strain rate (−1 versus −0.8), circumferential strain rate (−1.3 versus −1.1), peak longitudinal early diastolic strain rate (1.3 versus 1), and peak circumferential early diastolic strain rate (1.5 versus 1.3) (p<0.01 for all). The earliest detectable changes occurred 45 days prior to rejection with simultaneous alterations in myocardial strain and ejection fraction.
Changes in graft function can be detected non-invasively prior to the diagnosis of rejection. However, changes in strain occur concurrently with a decline in ejection fraction. Strain measurements aid in the non-invasive detection of rejection, but may not facilitate earlier diagnosis compared to more traditional measures of ventricular function.
23 - Using Disclosure to Regulate PBMs
from Part VI - Challenges in Promoting and Measuring Transparency in Health Care
By David A. Hyman, William E. Kovacic
Edited by Holly Fernandez Lynch, I. Glenn Cohen, Carmel Shachar, Barbara J. Evans
Book: Transparency in Health and Health Care in the United States
Print publication: 06 June 2019, pp 343-356
David Lewis-Williams, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Book: Image-Makers
Print publication: 23 May 2019, pp viii-viii
1 - A Go-Between
Print publication: 23 May 2019, pp 1-22
6 - Threads of Light
Print publication: 23 May 2019, pp 99-117
Note on Spelling
Print publication: 23 May 2019, pp xii-xii
Note on Pronunciation
Print publication: 23 May 2019, pp xiii-xiii
4 - Patterns of Participation
3 - The Narrative Problem
Print publication: 23 May 2019, pp xv-xx
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Does State Ownership Matter? Institutions' Effect on Foreign Direct Investment Revisited
Carl Henrik Knutsen, Asmund Rygh, Helge Hveem
Journal: Business and Politics / Volume 13 / Issue 1 / April 2011
This paper investigates whether Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) decisions are influenced by state ownership. The literature has established that host country institutions affect FDI allocation, but there is no systematic evidence how state ownership affects such relationships. However, we expect that state ownership systematically affects the relation between host country institutions and FDI. Theoretical arguments indicate that state-owned enterprises (SOEs) should invest relatively more than privately owned enterprises (POEs) in countries with poor rule of law, poor property rights protection and a high degree of corruption. However, SOEs are expected to invest relatively less than POEs in dictatorships and countries with poor human rights protection. We test these hypotheses, using a new dataset on Norwegian firms' FDI from 1998 to 2006. The empirical analysis suggests that SOEs invest relatively more than POEs in countries with high level of corruption and weak rule of law. Indeed, SOEs' FDI appears not to be reduced by such institutional risk factors. However, there is no solid evidence indicating that SOEs invest more in democracies and countries with better human rights protection.
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Physics And Astronomy (2)
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia (1)
Symposium - International Astronomical Union (1)
International Astronomical Union (2)
GravityCam: Wide-field high-resolution high-cadence imaging surveys in the visible from the ground
C. Mackay, M. Dominik, I. A. Steele, C. Snodgrass, U. G. Jørgensen, J. Skottfelt, K. Stefanov, B. Carry, F. Braga-Ribas, A. Doressoundiram, V. D. Ivanov, P. Gandhi, D. F. Evans, M. Hundertmark, S. Serjeant, S. Ortolani
Journal: Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia / Volume 35 / 2018
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 December 2018, e047
GravityCam is a new concept of ground-based imaging instrument capable of delivering significantly sharper images from the ground than is normally possible without adaptive optics. Advances in optical and near-infrared imaging technologies allow images to be acquired at high speed without significant noise penalty. Aligning these images before they are combined can yield a 2.5–3-fold improvement in image resolution. By using arrays of such detectors, survey fields may be as wide as the telescope optics allows. Consequently, GravityCam enables both wide-field high-resolution imaging and high-speed photometry. We describe the instrument and detail its application to provide demographics of planets and satellites down to Lunar mass (or even below) across the Milky Way. GravityCam is also suited to improve the quality of weak shear studies of dark matter distribution in distant clusters of galaxies and multiwavelength follow-ups of background sources that are strongly lensed by galaxy clusters. The photometric data arising from an extensive microlensing survey will also be useful for asteroseismology studies, while GravityCam can be used to monitor fast multiwavelength flaring in accreting compact objects and promises to generate a unique data set on the population of the Kuiper belt and possibly the Oort cloud.
Physics and Results from the AMANDA-II High Energy Neutrino Telescope
Steven W. Barwick, the AMANDA Collaboration, J. Ahrens, X. Bai, S. W. Barwick, T. Becka, K.-H. Becker, E. Bernardini, D. Bertrand, F. Binon, A. Biron, S. Böser, O. Botner, O. Bouhali, T. Burgess, S. Carius, T. Castermans, D. Chirkin, J. Conrad, J. Cooley, D. F. Cowen, A. Davour, C. De Clercq, T. DeYoung, P. Desiati, J.-P. Dewulf, P. Doksus, P. Ekström, T. Feser, T. K. Gaisser, R. Ganupati, M. Gaug, H. Geenen, L. Gerhardt, A. Goldschmidt, A. Hallgren, F. Halzen, K. Hanson, R. Hardtke, T. Hauschildt, M. Hellwig, P. Herquet, G. C. Hill, P. O. Hulth, K. Hultqvist, S. Hundertmark, J. Jacobsen, A. Karle, L. Köpke, M. Kowalski, K. Kuehn, J. I. Lamoureux, H. Leich, M. Leuthold, P. Lindahl, J. Madsen, K. Mandli, P. Marciniewski, H. S. Matis, C. P. McParland, T. Messarius, Y. Minaeva, P. Miočinović, R. Morse, R. Nahnhauer, T. Neunhöffer, P. Niessen, D. R. Nygren, H. Ogelman, Ph. Olbrechts, C. Pérez de Los Heros, A. C. Pohl, P. B. Price, G. T. Przybylski, K. Rawlins, E. Resconi, W. Rhode, M. Ribordy, S. Richter, J. Rodríguez Martino, D. Ross, H.-G. Sander, K. Schinarakis, T. Schmidt, D. Schneider, R. Schwarz, A. Silvestri, M. Solarz, G. M. Spiczak, C. Spiering, D. Steele, P. Steffen, R. G. Stokstad, P. Sudhoff, K.-H. Sulanke, I. Taboada, L. Thollander, S. Tilav, W. Wagner, C. Walck, C. H. Wiebusch, C. Wiedemann, R. Wischnewski, H. Wissing, K. Woschnagg, G. Yodh, S. Young
Journal: Symposium - International Astronomical Union / Volume 214 / 2003
This paper briefly describes the principle of operation and science goals of the AMANDA high energy neutrino telescope located at the South Pole, Antarctica. Results from an earlier phase of the telescope, called AMANDA-BIO, demonstrate both reliable operation and the broad astrophysical reach of this device, which includes searches for a variety of sources of ultrahigh energy neutrinos: generic point sources, Gamma-Ray Bursts and diffuse sources. The predicted sensitivity and angular resolution of the telescope were confirmed by studies of atmospheric muon and neutrino backgrounds. We also report on the status of the analysis from AMANDA-II, a larger version with far greater capabilities. At this stage of analysis, details of the ice properties and other systematic uncertainties of the AMANDA-II telescope are under study, but we have made progress toward critical science objectives. In particular, we present the first preliminary flux limits from AMANDA-II on the search for continuous emission from astrophysical point sources, and report on the search for correlated neutrino emission from Gamma Ray Bursts detected by BATSE before decommissioning in May 2000. During the next two years, we expect to exploit the full potential of AMANDA-II with the installation of a new data acquisition system that records full waveforms from the in-ice optical sensors.
Simulator for Microlens Planet Surveys
Sergei I. Ipatov, Keith Horne, Khalid A. Alsubai, Daniel M. Bramich, Martin Dominik, Markus P. G. Hundertmark, Christine Liebig, Colin D. B. Snodgrass, Rachel A. Street, Yiannis Tsapras
Journal: Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union / Volume 8 / Issue S293 / August 2012
We summarize the status of a computer simulator for microlens planet surveys. The simulator generates synthetic light curves of microlensing events observed with specified networks of telescopes over specified periods of time. Particular attention is paid to models for sky brightness and seeing, calibrated by fitting to data from the OGLE survey and RoboNet observations in 2011. Time intervals during which events are observable are identified by accounting for positions of the Sun and the Moon, and other restrictions on telescope pointing. Simulated observations are then generated for an algorithm that adjusts target priorities in real time with the aim of maximizing planet detection zone area summed over all the available events. The exoplanet detection capability of observations was compared for several telescopes.
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Fireball as Russian space junk 'belly flops' to Earth above Australia
By Hilary Whiteman, CNN
updated 6:02 PM EDT, Fri July 11, 2014
Fireball seen shooting through sky above southern Australia Thursday night
Astronomers said it was third-stage of Soyuz rocket which launched on July 8
Fireball was object re-entering atmosphere, creating a fiery tail
(CNN) -- A fireball the size of a small truck, which shot through the sky over Australia Thursday night, was space junk from Russia's Soyuz rocket, astronomers said.
More accurately, it was "object 40077," the third stage of the Soyuz rocket which was launched from Kazakhstan on Tuesday.
It was hurtling around the Earth at some 18,000 mph, or almost 29,000 kilometers per hour.
"What you're seeing in that fireball is it slowing down really fast. It's belly-flopping on the world's atmosphere at 18,000 miles an hour. That really hurts," said Jonathan McDowell, astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
Residents who saw the fireball initially guessed it was a meteor. Some feared it was a plane crash and called emergency services. Photos started popping on Twitter with the hashtag #meteor.
"Just saw the biggest meteor I've ever seen, going all way across the sky heading North, amazing!" Justin Nicholas tweeted.
Steven Wright: "At first I thought it was a low-flying jet with some wild vapor trails, because it was moving that fast."
I don't want to panic anyone, but... #Meteor #Melbourne #MelbMeteor pic.twitter.com/m9FuWZcw68
— Leon Sjogren (@Leonsjogren) July 10, 2014
Steve Wright was on the rooftop of a car park trying to take a photo of the Melbourne Star -- the city's giant Ferris wheel -- when he saw the fireball streaking through the sky.
"I had no idea what it was, and at first I thought it was a low flying jet with some wild vapor trails, because it was moving that fast," he told CNN. "But because there was no sound, and it didn't make sense to see a vapor tail it behind the plane at night, I knew it had to be something else."
My #meteor shot from last night. No idea what is was when I saw it. Very cool sight #Melbourne @theage pic.twitter.com/9DLOsCEGh1
— Steven Wright (@regularsteven) July 11, 2014
While the fireball came as a surprise to residents, McDowell said astronomers had an early warning.
Russia launched its Soyuz rocket on July 8 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, carrying the Meteor-M2 weather satellite and other smaller satellites.
The projected path of the third stage of the rocket showed it moving northbound between Melbourne and Canberra.
Here is the Russ. rocket stage before launch -this is the actual one that burnt up over NSW @EstherHjHan @cosmicpinot pic.twitter.com/Ciqaq4YW41
— Jonathan McDowell (@planet4589) July 10, 2014
"They're not usually seen because most of the Earth is either ocean -- or very sparsely inhabited. And of course, if it comes down in the daytime, you may not notice as easily," McDowell said.
"You get reports like this a few times a year. Maybe once or twice a year, but it happens much more often."
One user on Twitter couldn't let the relatively rare opportunity pass without using it as an excuse to join the latest meme involving Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott.
RT @occupy_now: Breaking: #Meteor seen over Melbourne tonight #abbotting #climatechange pic.twitter.com/uxkE65j39E #auspol #toadyfarts
— Electric Cars (@CoolElectricCar) July 10, 2014
The Australian leader released an image earlier this week striking a pose with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
PM Abe wearing his gift from Australia - RM Williams boots. Both proud to be wearing them today #RMs pic.twitter.com/fxjyrSNNQz
— Tony Abbott (@TonyAbbottMHR) July 9, 2014
Around 1,000 of these types of space junk have re-entered orbit since the start of the space age, McDowell said.
"It's possible that some of the pieces might reach the ground but most of it would melt away."
Star Trek legend became NASA's 'secret weapon'
updated 3:34 PM EDT, Mon August 25, 2014
Nichelle Nichols has spent her whole life going where no one has gone before, and at 81 she's still as sassy and straight-talking as you'd expect from an interstellar explorer.
World's largest aquatic insect specimen found in China
updated 7:52 AM EDT, Tue July 22, 2014
The world's largest flying aquatic insect, with huge, nightmarish pincers, has been discovered in China's Sichuan province.
Cheating death through 'suspended animation'
updated 8:10 AM EDT, Mon June 23, 2014
As fans of "Grey's Anatomy," "ER" and any other hospital-based show can tell you, emergency-room doctors are fighting against time.
At Harvard, swarming robots that mimic termites
updated 7:59 AM EDT, Thu May 29, 2014
Ask 100 robotics scientists why they're inspired to create modern-day automatons and you may get 100 different answers.
Namibia's 'fairy circles': Nature's greatest mystery?
updated 12:35 PM EDT, Fri June 13, 2014
From the air, the Namibian desert looks like it has a bad case of chicken pox.
Incredible new tech inspired by biology
updated 12:43 PM EDT, Wed May 28, 2014
The trend for nature-inspired designs has spread across industries from crab-style deep-sea vessels to insect-inspired buildings.
Top 10 newly discovered species
updated 8:22 AM EDT, Sun May 25, 2014
Consider it the taxonomist's equivalent of a People magazine's Most Beautiful List.
New life engineered with artificial DNA
updated 11:32 AM EDT, Fri May 9, 2014
For the first time, scientists have shown it is possible to alter the biological alphabet and still have a living organism that passes on the genetic information.
Should scientists bring extinct species back to life?
updated 7:48 AM EDT, Mon May 5, 2014
Do we really want to go the route of "Jurassic Park"?
Vertical travel could transform your commute
updated 8:44 AM EDT, Fri May 2, 2014
Catch a train from the sky! Perhaps in the future, the high-rise superstructures could help revolutionize the way we travel.
How test-tube meat could be the future of food
updated 10:58 AM EDT, Mon May 5, 2014
In a nondescript hotel ballroom last month at the South by Southwest Interactive festival, Andras Forgacs offered a rare glimpse at the sci-fi future of food.
Dinosaur dubbed the 'chicken from hell'
updated 10:12 AM EDT, Thu March 20, 2014
For a Tyrannosaurus rex looking for a snack, nothing might have tasted quite like the "chicken from hell."
Itsy bitsy dinosaur was T. rex cousin
updated 6:29 PM EDT, Fri March 14, 2014
Everyone is familiar with Tyrannosaurus rex, but humanity is only now meeting its much smaller Arctic cousin.
Biggest predator ever to stalk Europe
updated 12:12 PM EST, Thu March 6, 2014
At about 33 feet long, weighing 4 to 5 tons and baring large blade-shaped teeth, the dinosaur Torvosaurus gurneyi was a formidable creature.
'Very strange-looking' dinosaur skull found
This Pachyrhinosaurus can go to the head of its class.
How your brain makes moral judgments
updated 8:04 AM EDT, Thu March 27, 2014
Science is still trying to work out how exactly we reason through moral problems, and how we judge others on the morality of their actions. But patterns are emerging.
FDA considering '3-parent babies'
A promising way to stop a deadly disease, or an uncomfortable step toward what one leading ethicist called eugenics?
Huge mammoth tusk discovered
updated 8:07 PM EST, Fri February 14, 2014
Seattle paleontologists safely removed the largest fossilized mammoth tusk discovered in the region from a construction site.
Mysterious structure in ancient lake
updated 6:13 AM EDT, Tue April 23, 2013
A mysterious, circular structure, with a diameter greater than the length of a Boeing 747 jet, has been discovered submerged about 30 feet underneath the Sea of Galilee in Israel.
Blood Falls and other oddities
updated 5:25 PM EST, Fri January 17, 2014
Every corner of the planet offers some sort of natural peculiarity with an explanation that makes us wish we'd studied harder in junior high Earth science class.
3.5 billion year old life in Australia
updated 8:20 AM EST, Thu November 14, 2013
Deep in a remote, hot, dry patch of northwestern Australia lies one of the earliest detectable signs of life on the planet, tracing back nearly 3.5 billion years, scientists say.
Artist creates faces from random DNA
updated 3:10 PM EDT, Wed September 4, 2013
We leave genetic traces of ourselves wherever we go -- in a strand of hair left on the subway or in saliva on the side of a glass at a cafe.
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Cantilevers: Gravity-defying architectural protrusions
Updated 5th January 2018
Credit: Steve King
Written by Trudie Carter, Dezeen
Dezeen is a leading design, interiors and architectural magazine. CNN Style has collaborated with Dezeen on a number of stories exploring the latest trends in architecture and design. Click here for more.
From remote viewing platforms to high-profile museums, architects are increasingly using cantilevers to add height or unusual proportions to their buildings, and to push the boundaries of what can be built on difficult terrains.
1/11 – Balancing Barn, England
Philosopher Alain de Botton has taken time out from writing his famous novels to create a series of modern build rentals called Living Architecture. Credit: Edmund Summer
A cantilever is a protruding volume or beam that is attached to a structure at only one end. They have been widely used in bridge construction for hundreds of years, but contemporary buildings incorporate them in various ways. Cantilevers can extend buildings on uneven slopes, shelter car garages or angle a room towards a viewpoint.
In some cases, entire rooms are suspended several meters in the air at dizzying heights. Chilean architect Mathias Klotz's Casa 11 Mujeres beach house features a cantilevered floor that protrudes above a 45 degree cliff slope to offer better views of the sea.
Astearchitecture went further with Top of Tyrol, a steel viewing platform that cantilevers nine meters above a glacier at Mountain Isidor, Austria.
Set in the hills of Tehran, Iran-- this multi-layered build features three volumes stacked on one another. Credit: Courtesy Parham Taghioff
For +node house, Japanese studio UID Architects took full advantage of forest surroundings. A second box-like volume is stacked above the first and pivoted 90 degrees, creating a long cantilever that hovers ten meters above the ground. It features cut-out sections that allow trees to grow up inside it.
Recently cantilevers have been used to support the trend for buildings made from irregularly stacked boxes, with prominent examples including Herzog & de Meuron's Vitra House, Ole Schreeran's The Interlace and Mosha House by Iran-based New Wave Architecture.
In 2010, Zaha Hadid won the Stirling Prize for the Maxxi museum in Rome, a chunky concrete structure that conceals a pedestrian path below its cantilevered volumes.
Maxxi Museum designed by Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid Credit: ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP/Getty Images
Meanwhile, Ström Architects has been shortlisted for an award at this year's World Architecture Festival for The Quest -- a larch-clad retirement home that cantilevers over a parking spot to protect a vintage Aston Martin.
Construction in China's 'skyscraper capital' shows little sign of slowing
Rotterdam practice MVRDV chose to suspend a swing from the one end of Balancing Barn, a mirror-clad residence that extends 15 meters (50 feet) over a grassy slope in the English countryside.
Some of the most striking examples range in scale from a tiny Arctic exploration cabin that teeters over the shoreline to Coop Himmelb(l)au's Busan cinema, which currently holds the world record for having the longest cantilevered roof at 85 meters (280 feet).
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Thursday, February 13, 1986 The Skidmore News
Student Gov’t a Growing Concern
(CPS)—University of Texas students are up to their old anarchic ways again.
Some of them hope to abolish their student government for the second time in five years, and there are signs that, in the process, they may help feed a reform wave now washing over student governments nationwide.
Schools as diverse as Notre Dame, Washington, Swarthmore and Minnesota—among dozens of others—have been grappling recently with measures to restructure, weaken, and, in some cases, get rid of their student governments altogether.
It wouldn’t be the first time.
Five years ago, reformers at Texas, Georgia, Virginia, Clinch Valley College, Oklahoma, Arizona, Arkansas and Maryland, among other campuses, moved to dissolve all or parts of their campus governments.
In most cases, reformers argued the governments were ineffective or meaningless. They actually succeeded in abolishing governments at Texas and Georgia.
At both those campuses, administrators eventually helped rebuild student governments.
But now at Texas and some other campuses, reformers are at it again.
In October UT sophomore Richard Munisteri, along with a handful of fellow members of Young Conservatives of Texas, sued UT President William Cunningham and Student Association President Scott Scarborough for using SA’s mandatory student service fees to endorse certain Democratic candidates for state office.
Before long, the controversy grew into an abolition movement that collected some 700 signatures to get a dissolution measure on the next campus ballot.
Munisteri now says his groups—CRAP (Committee to Retire Aspiring Politicians) and STOMP (Students Tired of Manipulative Politics)—will “just sit on the issue” until spring.
“It took four years to get the issue of reinstating the SA on the ballot. It took two weeks to get the issue of dissolving in on the ballot,” Munisteri says.
Such interest seems to be spreading.
Students for a Better and Balanced Education (SBBE), composed primarily of College Republican members, tried to weaken New Mexico’s student government by drastically reducing its budget last fall, hoping to deny school funding to gay and ethnic groups.
While the Republican effort lost by a 10-1 margin, it did increase voter turnout in the subsequent campus-wide election.
And though New Mexico’s student government’s vote of confidence was strong, it was singular. At many schools, talk of reform and reorganization usually reflects a serious lack of confidence.
At Notre Dame, members of the Hall Presidents’ Council tried dissolving the Student Senate because “it doesn’t get anything done.”
One-fifth of Bradley University’s student senators resigned because their organization was “travelling down the wrong road.”
The University of Tampa recently formed committees to reorganize the student government and its constitution. A Villanova junior, charged “the current government is inefficient and stagnant,” is fighting to eliminate two vice presidential positions as part of a major reform proposal.
To forestall discontent, Brigham Young’s student government has a hotline to let students air complaints and a “Student Body 'President for a Day” contest, giving students a chance to learn firsthand how their system works.
Swarthmore Student Council Co-President Raijen Naidoo is proposing drastic changes in his organization, and one SC member says student awareness of the issue is “fantastic.”
Similarly, the Western Michigan University Student Association drew up its own restructuring proposals in response to student dissatisfaction.
“I couldn’t tell you the first thing you’re doing,” complained a member of West Virginia’s Board of Governors when the BOG asked S A President Mike Oliverio to list his accomplishments.
Florida’s Student Senate, labelled “Kiddie Congress,” is “known as much for their weekly rubber-band fights and on-the-job pizza parties as their awesome clout in controlling the purse strings,” claimed the campus paper in a story about lack of confidence in the Senate.
Missouri Western State College’s student president readily admits his Senate had “a real priority problem” when it held its longest debate of the year to decide what color jackets senators should buy.
Students at the University of Missouri-St. Louis and West Chester College in Pennsylvania are trying to fire their student presidents, and minority groups are leading a fight to reform Washington’s government.
Organized discontent is beginning to reach state student associations as well.
One school has pulled out of the Washington (State) Student Lobby while another three are considering pulling out, partly because of “incredibly sloppy management problems,” says the student president of U. Washington.
And, as happened five years ago, dissatisfaction with student governments is also showing up in increasing numbers of absurdist candidacies.
Faced with a choice between silliness and seriousness, Eastern Illinois students elected a Silliness Party candidate running on a platform of “graft, corruption and lies.”
At Mississippi, Opus the Penguin of “Bloom County” fame finished second in the student government presidential race, getting 778 votes to a human’s 822.
At Maryland, Monarchist Party Candidate King Tom II, aka Thomas Cooper, won by promising “a benevolent rule” and a“security moat circling the campus filled with a cold lager,” after capturing the endorsements of major campus groups and some administrators.
Schedule of Spring Term Workshops
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Frank Bryant is a professor of literature.
And Rita is his newest student.
A hairdresser who thinks Macbeth runs the local pub. And Hamlet is a plate of eggs with cheese.
He’s a failed writer who has given up on his life.
She’s determined to change hers by getting an education.
And the more she loves to learn.
The more he learns how to love.
Sometimes students end up being the best teachers.
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MICHAEL CAINE • JULIE WALTERS
Friday, Feb. 14 at 7 & 9 p.m.
Gannett Auditorium
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THE FAR SIDE
By GARY LARSON
© 1986 Universal Press Syndicate
Title February 13, 1986
Date February 13 1986
Transcript 14 Thursday, February 13, 1986 The Skidmore News Student Gov’t a Growing Concern (CPS)—University of Texas students are up to their old anarchic ways again. Some of them hope to abolish their student government for the second time in five years, and there are signs that, in the process, they may help feed a reform wave now washing over student governments nationwide. Schools as diverse as Notre Dame, Washington, Swarthmore and Minnesota—among dozens of others—have been grappling recently with measures to restructure, weaken, and, in some cases, get rid of their student governments altogether. It wouldn’t be the first time. Five years ago, reformers at Texas, Georgia, Virginia, Clinch Valley College, Oklahoma, Arizona, Arkansas and Maryland, among other campuses, moved to dissolve all or parts of their campus governments. In most cases, reformers argued the governments were ineffective or meaningless. They actually succeeded in abolishing governments at Texas and Georgia. At both those campuses, administrators eventually helped rebuild student governments. But now at Texas and some other campuses, reformers are at it again. In October UT sophomore Richard Munisteri, along with a handful of fellow members of Young Conservatives of Texas, sued UT President William Cunningham and Student Association President Scott Scarborough for using SA’s mandatory student service fees to endorse certain Democratic candidates for state office. Before long, the controversy grew into an abolition movement that collected some 700 signatures to get a dissolution measure on the next campus ballot. Munisteri now says his groups—CRAP (Committee to Retire Aspiring Politicians) and STOMP (Students Tired of Manipulative Politics)—will “just sit on the issue” until spring. “It took four years to get the issue of reinstating the SA on the ballot. It took two weeks to get the issue of dissolving in on the ballot,” Munisteri says. Such interest seems to be spreading. Students for a Better and Balanced Education (SBBE), composed primarily of College Republican members, tried to weaken New Mexico’s student government by drastically reducing its budget last fall, hoping to deny school funding to gay and ethnic groups. While the Republican effort lost by a 10-1 margin, it did increase voter turnout in the subsequent campus-wide election. And though New Mexico’s student government’s vote of confidence was strong, it was singular. At many schools, talk of reform and reorganization usually reflects a serious lack of confidence. At Notre Dame, members of the Hall Presidents’ Council tried dissolving the Student Senate because “it doesn’t get anything done.” One-fifth of Bradley University’s student senators resigned because their organization was “travelling down the wrong road.” The University of Tampa recently formed committees to reorganize the student government and its constitution. A Villanova junior, charged “the current government is inefficient and stagnant,” is fighting to eliminate two vice presidential positions as part of a major reform proposal. To forestall discontent, Brigham Young’s student government has a hotline to let students air complaints and a “Student Body 'President for a Day” contest, giving students a chance to learn firsthand how their system works. Swarthmore Student Council Co-President Raijen Naidoo is proposing drastic changes in his organization, and one SC member says student awareness of the issue is “fantastic.” Similarly, the Western Michigan University Student Association drew up its own restructuring proposals in response to student dissatisfaction. “I couldn’t tell you the first thing you’re doing,” complained a member of West Virginia’s Board of Governors when the BOG asked S A President Mike Oliverio to list his accomplishments. Florida’s Student Senate, labelled “Kiddie Congress,” is “known as much for their weekly rubber-band fights and on-the-job pizza parties as their awesome clout in controlling the purse strings,” claimed the campus paper in a story about lack of confidence in the Senate. Missouri Western State College’s student president readily admits his Senate had “a real priority problem” when it held its longest debate of the year to decide what color jackets senators should buy. Students at the University of Missouri-St. Louis and West Chester College in Pennsylvania are trying to fire their student presidents, and minority groups are leading a fight to reform Washington’s government. Organized discontent is beginning to reach state student associations as well. One school has pulled out of the Washington (State) Student Lobby while another three are considering pulling out, partly because of “incredibly sloppy management problems,” says the student president of U. Washington. And, as happened five years ago, dissatisfaction with student governments is also showing up in increasing numbers of absurdist candidacies. Faced with a choice between silliness and seriousness, Eastern Illinois students elected a Silliness Party candidate running on a platform of “graft, corruption and lies.” At Mississippi, Opus the Penguin of “Bloom County” fame finished second in the student government presidential race, getting 778 votes to a human’s 822. At Maryland, Monarchist Party Candidate King Tom II, aka Thomas Cooper, won by promising “a benevolent rule” and a“security moat circling the campus filled with a cold lager,” after capturing the endorsements of major campus groups and some administrators. 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Climate Action Plan 2.0 Update
On November 15th, 2016, Emeryville City Council approved and adopted the Climate Action Plan 2.0. The City of Emeryville is the first city in the Bay Area to update their Climate Action Plan and align their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions targets with the State of California’s climate targets. The CAP 2.0 includes updates to Emeryville’s 2008 Climate Action Plan, looking towards state targets for reducing 40% below baseline levels of GHG emissions by 2030 and 80% below baseline levels by 2050.
The CAP 2.0 meets the compliance for the Global Covenant of Mayors, a platform for standardizing climate change action planning for local city governments and demonstrating local commitment to climate change mitigation and adaptation. The CAP 2.0 contains GHG targets, updated GHG community and municipal inventories, business-as-usual GHG forecast, deep decarbonization vision for 2050, adaptation and mitigation action plans, and a monitoring plan.
With 17 mitigation goals, 5 adaptation goals, and over 100 combined initiatives for 2030, and 5 long-term strategies for 2050, this CAP 2.0 represents a strong step in reducing emissions and building climate resilience!
The CAP 2.0 and relevant materials, including the Climate Action Plan methodology, can be accessed in the resources below. The complete GHG inventory reports and climate initiatives can be found in the Implementation Plan.
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Edinburgh art festival review – a plodding, poor relation of the fringe
Source:theguardian Author:Jonathan Jones Date: 2018-07-30 Size:
Orson Welles’s boot slumps in a heap of soft black leather in the ……
Banal … Melanie Gilligan’s interactive sci-fi soap opera, The Common Sense
Orson Welles’s boot slumps in a heap of soft black leather in the oddest and saddest art exhibition in Edinburgh this summer. It is an object of great melancholy, a charity-shop image of failure and waste. The same entropic aura clings to his drawings, paintings and doodles.
The visual art of Orson Welles has never been exhibited before, and that’s because it isn’t really art. Welles did caricatures of himself, landscape sketches of the many places his film-making adventures took him, and made his own Christmas cards. These disparate daubs and jokes communicate the titanic personality of the man but also the frustration of his creative life. You get the impression he had too much doodling time. The exhibition smells of dead cigars and lonely hotel rooms.
Though it is a pathetic affair, Summerhall’s homage to Welles is one of the most memorable art exhibitions in Edinburgh this summer. This is the place and time to get drunk and see standup comics, or perhaps even a play. Art at the Edinburgh festivals is an afterthought and the city’s official art festival a very poor relation of the fringe.
Tramping the sun-scorched Old and New Towns in search of decent art I am teased by a seemingly infinite number of posters for every kind of comedy and play. Where’s the wild spirit of spontaneity that makes performance at Edinburgh so special in the plodding art festival?
Part of the Dead Images project.
After the desperate-looking sandwich board signs that announce art festival venues, I find myself deep inside the Edinburgh College of Art. Past the casts of classical statues, I find Dead Images, an exhibition about the history, ethics and politics of European skull collections. Curated by a team of academics, it features videos of talking heads pondering the rights and wrongs of anthropology departments still owning non-European skulls collected in the 19th century.
There is even a trigger warning before seeing a wall-length photograph of Edinburgh University’s skull collection. When did the city of Burke and Hare get so squeamish? The university’s skull collection is debatable, but ethical hand-wringing is not art.
Melanie Gilligan’s interactive video soap opera, The Common Sense, is art, I suppose. Anyway, it has been bought by Edinburgh University’s Contemporary Art Research Collection. Even allowing for the fussy technology – there’s a headset that is supposed to synchronise automatically as the wearer walks from one screen to another to see the next episode in the story, but it didn’t work smoothly for me – Gilligan’s science-fiction drama about a future of digital surveillance is badly acted and banal. Why put yourself through it when you could be watching Black Mirror instead?
Of course, there are much better things in the art festival. It technically includes Rembrandt and Emil Nolde at the National Galleries as well as a superb mini-retrospective by Tacita Dean at the Fruitmarket that is a powerful afterword to her recent London mega-show. If you want to see great modern art in Edinburgh this summer just make a beeline for Nolde and Dean. Yet shouldn’t a festival be more than a way of branding a lot of unrelated art exhibitions that happen to be on in the same city at the same time?
Emil Nolde’s Paradise Lost, 1921. Photograph: Nolde Stiftung Seebüll Museum/Emil Nolde
I do find a theme of sorts as I walk in glorious sunshine over the city’s hills and through its mysterious valleys. Edinburgh is a city where nature is uniquely close, where a rugged urban vista can suddenly reveal Arthur’s Seat or the sea beyond Leith. In Talbot Rice Gallery, pages from 19th-century books that illustrate ferns and seaweed fronds are exhibited among sculptures that translate organic forms into slate, bronze, steel, or clay. Lucy Skaer is fascinated by alchemical transformations. Her exhibition, The Green Man, is an entrancing journey through natural form and the ways art can change it into the stuff of dreams.
That same feel for nature takes on a cosmic mystery at Ingleby Gallery, whose skylit chapel in the Georgian New Town is the perfect setting for a survey of art’s fascination with astronomy. Katie Paterson shows a sculpture that she made with meteorite metal. There are photographs by the Apollo astronauts, mesmerising astral drawings by Vija Celmins, a photograph in which Garry Fabian Miller distils the essence of the night sky. It is a beautiful show that opens your mind to the universe.
Magic – but the art festival lacks the messy exuberance that makes the fringe so unpredictable and alive. At least Summerhall, which is not part of the official art festival, seems to know that. It is nurturing the seed of a much better event.
As well as its wacky Welles exhibition, it has Free the Pussy!, a raw homage to the Russian rebels Pussy Riot. The punk veteran Jamie Reid has created a collage of Putin as a Pussy Rioter. There are paintings that one of the group’s daughters made when her mother was in prison, and “slut chairs” to enthrone the feminist heroes. The British artist Haley Newman exhibits Pussy Riot-style masks made from dishcloths and there’s a furious poem by Yoko Ono that asks why we make ourselves a hell in paradise.
The most amazing thing here is a video by radical Russian art group Voina, in which a woman goes around Moscow kissing as many policewomen as possible. There seem to be an awful lot of officers around. Yet kissing them by surprise seems to leave them wondering what to do. Will they see the light and join Pussy Riot?
The figurative painter John Keane shows a picture of Pussy Riot in action. He has also got his own show at Summerhall, a madcap blast of rage at war and injustice. It ranges from his paintings of the first Gulf war, when he was an official war artist, to his anything-but-official more recent images of Iraq bomb victims, blasts at Tony Blair and denunciations of torture. It is a kind of samizdat retrospective.
Summerhall’s shows have the fun and shock I expect from Edinburgh at festival time. If the city’s “proper” galleries could get off their prissy lecturing podiums and embrace its chaos, there might actually be an Edinburgh art festival worthy of the name.
Edinburgh art festival is at various venues until 26 August. Free the Pussy! and Orson Welles Drawings and Sketches are at Summerhall from 2 August until 23 September.
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French business bureau quits Russia claiming obstruction
By RFI Issued on 16-07-2018 Modified 16-07-2018 to 17:19
French President Emmanuel Macron with Russia's Vladimir Putin in May Dmitry LOVETSKY / POOL / AFP
Business France, the government agency charged with promoting French companies abroad, has closed its office in Russia, the French embassy there announced on Monday.
"Local conditions no longer allowed Business France to carry out its mission," an embassy statement said, complaining of "illegal seizures carried out on its bank account" and the "expulsion of its director who had a diplomatic passport".
Four senior French diplomats were among the 58 foreigners expelled by Russia in retaliation for Britain's expulsion of 140 Russians over the poisoning of ex-double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia.
The Russian authorities had made it clear that Business France can no longer operate in the manner prescribed by French law, the statement said.
Private firms will now help French companies operate in Russia.
The Russian foreign affairs ministry declared itself surprised by the decision, according to the Interfax news agency, adding that it was in favour of developing economic ties.
The announcement came as the French team headed home after winning the 2018 World Cup in Russia and as US President Donald Trump met Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
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Alabama Approves Contested Coal Mine at Birmingham Water Source
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama, August 19, 2011 (ENS) – Alabama state officials have approved a coal mine to be located 800 feet from a primary drinking water intake for Birmingham, the largest city in the state.
The Alabama Environmental Management Commission Friday voted unanimously to approve a permit issued for the Shepherd Bend coal mine, a 1,773-acre strip mine.
The Commission was ruling on a challenge to the permit brought by the Southern Environmental Law Center, representing the nonprofit Black Warrior Riverkeeper.
The environmental group claims that in granting the permit, the Alabama Department of Environmental Management, ADEM, was not protective of water quality in the Mulberry Fork of the Black Warrior River.
The Shepherd Bend Mine would discharge wastewater into the Black Warrior’s Mulberry Fork directly across from the Birmingham Water Works Board’s Mulberry Fork drinking water intake, which serves 200,000 customers of the Birmingham Water Works Board.
In upholding the permit, the Environmental Management Commission “disregarded evidence from the Riverkeeper and from the Birmingham Water Works Board and ignored instructions from the judge who was assigned to hear this case,” said the Southern Environmental Law Center in a statement Friday.
Birmingham Water Works Board’s Mulberry Fork Water Intake across the river from the proposed mine site. (Photo by Nelson Brooke courtesy Black Warrior Riverkeeper)
“We are disappointed that the commission charged with protecting Alabama’s water resources has chosen to rubber-stamp a faulty permit in violation of the Clean Water Act,” said SELC senior attorney Gil Rogers.
“Once again, ADEM is putting the interests of big coal mines ahead of the water needs of the citizens of Birmingham and clean water in the Mulberry Fork,” said the staff Riverkeeper for Black Warrior Riverkeeper, Nelson Brooke.
The Birmingham Water Works Board has offered detailed information as to how the wastewater discharges from the mine will introduce toxic pollutants and sediment into the water, potentially leading to decreased water quality, possible health risks, and increased treatment costs, which are typically passed on to customers.
A Birmingham Water Works Board representative has testified that a mine this close to a major water intake would be “incompatible” and “unprecedented.”
In the April 18, Homewood City Council Meeting, BWWB representative Darryl Jones estimated that if the mine were built, the water treatment cost per household could increase $10 monthly.
Of the 286 acres permitted for mining by the Commission, Shepherd Bend, LLC has the leases necessary to start mining an initial increment of 34 acres.
If Shepherd Bend chooses to mine beyond that first small increment, the company will have to obtain leases from other property owners, including the University of Alabama, an owner of both land and mineral rights at Shepherd Bend. As a practical matter, without the consent and full participation of the university, it may not be cost effective to mine Shepherd Bend at all.
The University of Alabama Environmental Council, an environmentalist student group, has been organizing opposition to the mining company. In February, University of Alabama students threatened to boycott UA Services if UA System leases or sells their Shepherd Bend land for mining.
Dr. Robert Witt, president of the University of Alabama, expressed concerns about the Shepherd Bend Mine during a speech to the Rotaract Club of Birmingham on July 7.
While not stating that UA would never lease land or minerals for the Shepherd Bend Mine, Dr. Witt recognized the feedback he has received from students, scientists, cities, organizations, and other citizens opposing the mine proposal. He expressed interest in helping protect the river and Birmingham’s drinking water.
Black Warrior Riverkeeper is not ready to let the matter rest.
The Southern Environmental Law Center will be considering potential avenues for appeal of the ruling on behalf of its client, Rogers said.
Charles Scribner, Black Warrior Riverkeeper’s executive director, said, “Not only are we considering avenues for appeal, but we will also continue imploring the University of Alabama not to lease or sell their significant land and mineral rights at Shepherd Bend to the mining company. Without UA’s land and minerals, mining across the river from our drinking water intake may not be economically feasible.”
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Iowa State University. College of Engineering
Honors and Awards Records
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Iowa State University, College of Engineering, Honors and Awards Records, RS 11/1/5, Special Collections Department, Iowa State University Library.
Courses in Mechanic Arts were first offered in 1869 at Iowa State College (University). In 1871, the college divided the curriculum in Mechanic Arts into Civil Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. Dean Anson Marston organized the engineering curriculum into a separate division of the college in 1904. The Division of Engineering was renamed the College of Engineering in 1959 to coincide with the renaming of Iowa State College to Iowa State University. As of 2005, the College of Engineering at Iowa State University trains students in several engineering disciplines: aerospace engineering, chemical engineering, civil, construction, and environmental engineering, electrical and computer engineering, industrial and manufacturing systems engineering, materials science and engineering, and mechanical engineering. The College of Engineering and the College of Agriculture also jointly administer the Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering.
The Iowa State University College of Engineering first started recognizing outstanding alumni with the Anson Marston Medal in 1938. Since then, several other awards have been established to recognize College of Engineering alumni, faculty, and staff for superior professional, academic, and service achievements. The awards are presented during several events throughout the year including the ISU Alumni Association Honors and Awards Ceremony, the College of Engineering Fall Convocation, and the Marston Club Banquet.
This collection (1938-[ongoing]) contains files on College of Engineering alumni, faculty, and staff who received awards given out by the College of Engineering, Iowa State University, and the ISU Alumni Association. The files consist of material that was included in the award nomination packet such as nomination forms, correspondence, and biographical information. The material in this collection is limited to only those nominations that were successful award winners. Programs for the various award presentations are also included in the collection
The College of Engineering Honors and Awards History book contains complete information on the history of each award, nomination requirements, award value, and event during which the award is presented. It also contains complete listings of awards received by College of Engineering alumni, faculty, and staff.
The collection is arranged in alphabetical order.
Alumni Merit Award
Alumni Recognition Medal
Amoco Foundation Award for Outstanding Teaching
7 22 Award Information Packet 1989
Barron, Wallace E., All-University Senior Award
Boylan, David R., Eminent Faculty Award for Research
Burlington Northern Foundation Award for Career Achievement in Extension/Professional Practice
Burlington Northern Foundation Award for Career Achievement in Research/Scholarship
Career Achievement in Research Award
Career Achievement in Teaching Award
College of Engineering Honors and Awards History
Dean's Staff Excellence Award
Dean's Student Leadership Award
Distinguished Achievement Citation
Early Achievement in Research Award
Ellis, J. H., Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Introductory Teaching
Engineering Dean's Leadership Award
Hopson, James A., Alumni Volunteer Award
Iowa Governor's Science Medal
ISU Faculty Citation
ISU Foundation Award for Academic Advising
ISU Foundation Award for Early Achievement in Research
ISU Foundation Award for Early Achievement in Teaching
ISU Foundation Award for Mid-Career Achievement in Research
ISU Foundation Award for Outstanding Achievement in Extension or Professional Practice
ISU Foundation Award for Outstanding Achievement in Research
ISU Foundation Award for Outstanding Achievement in Teaching
ISU Honorary Degree
Marston, Anson, Distinguished Professor Award
Marston, Anson, Medal
Marston, Anson, Medal – News Clippings and Listing of Award Winners
Outstanding Young Alumnus/Alumna Award
Outstanding Young Alumnus Recognition
Professional Achievement Citation in Engineering (PACE) Award
Professional and Scientific CYtation Award
Professional and Scientific Excellence Award
Professional and Scientific Outstanding New Professional Award
Professional Progress in Engineering Award (Photos: 1 – 4x5 b/w, 6 – 5x7 b/w, 1 – 5x7 color)
Professional Progress in Engineering Award
Programs – Anson Marston Medal
Programs – Anson Marston Medal and PACE Awards
Programs – Various Awards Ceremonies
Regents Staff Excellence Award
Regents Faculty Excellence Award
Service Key Award
Superior Engineering Advisor Award
Superior Engineering Extension Award
Superior Engineering Teacher Award
Superior Service Award
Thompson, Louis, Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award
University Honors Program Teaching Award
University Professor Award
Wilton Park International Service Award
Young Engineering Faculty Research Award
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Photos from the 50th Anniversary Celebration Weekend
Finding our folk at the Christchurch Folk Music Club’s 50th celebrations. Thank you Warren Watson for recording these wonderful memories.
Danny Tawhiti and Iain Mitchell: AKA The Long & the Short of it
Mitch has been singing British Celtic music semi-professionally since he was twelve.
Danny is an extremely talented guitarist and they both blend their skills into an experience that will not be forgotten.
Caleb Issac
An energetic singer/songwriter based out of Christchurch, New Zealand, Caleb Isaacs writes pop songs that feel like rock songs and folk songs that sometimes feel like soul songs. Drawing heavily from traditional folk, soul and rock n’ roll influences Caleb enthusiastically blends genres together to create music that is lively, moving and always from the heart.
Ceollu – Tessa White & Jonathan Le Cocq – a Celtic flavour night
Ceollu began as an ‘Irish duo with a twist’ delivering traditional and untraditional songs and tunes in an unexpectedly refreshing style. Now a three-piece, Argene, Kirsten and Mary’s sound is strong in Irish flavour with a hit of rock, pop and jazz.
Molly's Remedy
Christchurch-based “MOLLY’S REMEDY” are vibrant and soulful.
They mix folk, country and Irish traditional music performing original songs and re-arrangements in an energetic yet sensitive way. Since forming ,“Molly’s Remedy” has performed at the CBS Arena, Ingham Lazy Sundays, Greymouth Waitangi Picnic; headlined at Canterbury Folk Music Festival, Tui Farm Folk Festival, House Concerts, Folk Clubs and Festivals around the country. Their debut album “We’ve Got This” is available now.
We provide an outlet for local acoustic performers – singers, songwriters & poets all welcome. We encourage all levels – novice or expert – to hone performance skills in front of a sympathetic audience.
Everything is provided – microphones, stage, lighting, leads, music stands – plus a dedicated sound tech who will work with you to make you sound amazing!
Welcome to the Christchurch Folk Music Club
CONCERTS ON SUNDAY EVENINGS:
Door open at 7.00pm. Performance starts 7.30pm
VENUE: Irish Society Hall
29 Domain Terrace, Spreydon
The hall is situated up the long driveway, directly next to Domain Park, and there is plenty of well-lit off-street parking.
DOOR SALES ONLY:
Please note: there is no Eftpos available on site.
Folk music is ‘music which covers multiple genre music styles’. We vary the weekly concerts, giving variety for all age groups and music preferences.
The Folk club is an inclusive club made up of members, visitors & performers with a common appreciation and love of performing arts & music. Audiences are often prompted to participate throughout the concerts when appropriate. There is always the opportunity after concerts to interact with performers, discuss instrumental techniques and a great social way to get to know members and performers alike.
The Club supports local musicians and groups, as well as facilitating many International Performing Artists throughout the year, many of whom are launching CDs or are renowned internationally for their particular chosen musical genre and expertise. We also facilitate occasional ‘open mic’ nights, allowing artists (both amateur and professional) to perform at the club while being supported by a professional Sound Technician & sound equipment. This is a wonderful experience for amateur musicians to gain microphone experience, and an excellent opportunity to share their music with an appreciative audience.
Concerts consist of two 50 min performances, split by a 20-minute break. There is a small bar open for refreshments, Tea, Coffee & Cakes are available at halftime. Toilets on site.
We have reduced rates for music students with ID cards.
Club membership is a minimal fee, and entitles members to a $5.00 reduced weekly door charge, a copy of the ‘Hear-Ye’ newsletter, which is circulated regularly. The Hear -Ye, informs you of the up-coming weekly concerts, the performers’ music styles and backgrounds, entry fees, club activities, email reminders, and provides discount vouchers from Music Works.
The club is well established and has been running in Christchurch for 50 years by a committee of volunteer members. Please speak to a committee member if you have any questions/concerns, if you think you might be interested in joining or becoming more involved in the club activities.
Please like our Facebook Page for reminders of up-coming concerts & musical events.
Also: like the ‘Kiwifolk’ facebook page for regular updates of nationwide folk club concerts and musical events.
Come join in , feel welcome, meet new people with similar interests and most of all…enjoy the music.
Presenting a mixture of trad, acoustic blues and other stuff with some of it taken from their new album: “The Long and the Short of it.”
What began as an ‘Irish duo with a twist’ delivering traditional and untraditional songs and tunes in an unexpectedly refreshing style. Now a three-piece, Argene, Kirsten and Mary’s sound is strong in Irish flavour with a hit of rock, pop and jazz
Kids Open Mic Night
We provide an outlet for local acoustic performers – singers, songwriters & poets all welcome. We encourage all levels – novice or expert – to hone performance skills
An energetic singer/songwriter based out of Christchurch, Caleb Isaacs writes pop songs that feel like rock songs and folk songs that sometimes feel like soul songs.
Ceilidh Dance
Family fun for all, the steps explained as you go.
Molly’s Remedy
Mixing folk, country and Irish traditional music performing original songs and re-arrangements in an energetic yet sensitive way.
Colin Henderson and Jeff Bell: Songs you may know
Jeff and Colin both respected musicians in their own rights are getting together on one of the rare appearances to present a set list of some favourite singers and songwriters from the last 30 years.
Christchurch Folk Music Club performs at Acoustic Routes Nelson
The Christchurch and Nelson Folk Club's have been sharing a musical relationship for many years. Nelson musicians have performed at both the Folk Club and the Canterbury Folk Festival over the past fifty years. Many...
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HomeEditorialWhat’s up with the National Museum?
What’s up with the National Museum?
January 2, 2019 admin Editorial 0
OF LATE an emissary has reportedly called on the Diocese of Borongan to negotiate that one of the Balangiga bells be placed at the National Museum in Manila.
Although National Museum Director Jeremy Barns has denied any part to the Zubiri Senate Rosultion 965 that sought the transfer of one of the Balangiga bells to the National Museum, his media statements tell his mind quite substantially.
He in fact has lambasted the Diocese of Borongan and the Catholic church for hypocrisy and double standardizing. “Stating that ‘respect’ for historical integrity, the sacred character of church objects, and the property rights of the Christian faithful cannot be compromised…raises eyebrows among those dedicated persons, including many within the government, who constantly work to mitigate the ongoing degradation and loss of our church heritage in many parts of the country,” so said Director Barns.
Referring to the statement of the Diocese of Borongan (See page A11) in response to Senate Resolution 965, Barns was quick to add, “Such strong statements as were made make the Church in general open to charges of hypocrisy or double standards, which we would deeply regret.” He also noted that the worsening quality of churches and Catholic symbols in the country are “too often caused by the Church authorities themselves as items, including bells, are sold or allowed to decay beyond repair due to ignorance, indifference or worse.” That’s a gross accusation. It subscribes to a myopic view that churches and church artifacts were primarily made for museums and nothing else, and, therefore, not preserving them the way museum curators do makes the Church “ignorant, indifferent or worse.”
Barns must have glossed over the fact that the country’s teeth in museum pieces came only in 1966 when President Ferdinand Marcos signed Republic Act No. 4846 or the Cultural Properties and Protection Act that designated the museum as the lead agency in the protection and preservation of the nation’s cultural properties
Without even mentioning the centuries-old museums of UST, San Agustin and other Church collections, it does not settle well with common sense to accuse of hypocrisy and double standardizing the very institution that was the only one that preserved these artifacts for many centuries when the National Museum and those “dedicated persons” were yet in limbo. It may be good to check how the government has preserved historical and cultural artifacts since Aguinaldo’s time. Even the preservation of government’s records down to the municipal level has been quite in shambles until lately.
Also, mentioning in his media statements that Barns’ office has been helping “for years to rebuild the church in Guiuan since Typhoon Yolanda” and those “numerous dioceses and parishes which we have assisted, expending considerable government resources and public funds in the process” is an unnecessary nitpicking that leaves some bad taste in the mouth. As a matter of course, that presumably expects a debt of gratitude that smacks of patronage politics that demands a quid-pro-quo—in the same fashion that a politician builds a government project, say a waiting shed, and place his name on it for every constituent to acknowledge and give vote.
The national museum director raises the issue of the “strongly worded” statement of the Diocese of Borongan, as if a “softly worded’ statement would change the rhyme and reason in its objection to the Senate Resolution 965.
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MEN'S EHF CUP MEN'S EHF CUP ▼
Clubs > FCP > Player
Torres, Alfredo
Position Wing
Place of Birth Guarda
FC Porto Sofarma
A few surprises, a favoured winner and an all-time goal-scoring record
TAKE AWAYS: We saw some surprises along the way, but in the end, the favourites won the Men’s EHF Cup 2018/19 – which also saw history made with a new all-time scoring record set
Bramming and the all-time scoring record
FEATURE: With 100 goals, TTTH Holstebro left wing Magnus Bramming reached an all-time scoring record in the Men's EHF Cup.
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Up for a little chit chat?
Want to hear about great creative work? Join the conversation at Pecha Kucha Night. Pronounced Pe-CHAW Ke-CHAW, it means “chit chat” in Japanese. Already in 200 cities around the globe, the movement debuts in Tacoma 5:30 p.m. June 3 at the New Frontier Lounge.
Klein Dytham architecture created the event in Japan in 2003 as a way for young designers to meet, network and show their work. Each presenter shows 20 slide images for 20 seconds each, with six minutes and 40 seconds for each presentation—no go-backs, pauses or do-overs.
Some of Tacoma’s creative finest are set to present at Tacoma’s first PK Night. Volume 01 celebrates our hometown and 12 artists, musicians, designers, architects who influence it. The inaugural presenters include Jennifer Adams, Beautiful Angle, Oliver Dorris, Lisa Fruichantie, Elias Hansen, Rachel Moorehead, Chris Sharp, Michael Sullivan, Jennifer Weddermann-Hay, and Shannon Eakins and Marc Dombrosky.
For more information, visit www.pecha-kucha.org, then click on the link to Tacoma’s site. Email the organizer at pechakucha.tacoma@gmail.com if you have questions or would like to present at a future PKN.
Winter & Company to make historic preservation improvements
The City of Tacoma wants to make sure that new development work and historic preservation interests are in synch. Tacoma Community & Economic Development Department has selected the nationally known firm Winter & Company to make it happen. “We’re interested in providing more clarity and certainty for developers and the preservation community,” said Reuben McKnight, Historic Preservation Officer. For the $100,000 project, Winter & Company will scour the City’s development and historic preservation policies for inconsistencies and make recommendation for relevant updates to the City’s comprehensive plan; update the historic building inventory, which now numbers approximately 2,000 properties; and create a more user-friendly database of those properties. The City Council committed funds to this project and a related review of the City’s archaeological resource protection policies to make development easier while protecting the integrity of the City's unique historic building stock.
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Going to Everton ?
December 31, 2018 December 30, 2018 Anne Latest
By car 123 mls, 2 hours 45 mins
DIRECTIONS FROM THE NORTH AND SOUTH
From the M6, exit at junction 26 onto the M58 and continue until the end. At the gyratory go left to join the M57 Junction 7. Exit the M57 at Junction 4 to turn right into East Lancashire Road (A580). Follow the road across Queen's Drive into Walton Lane. Goodison Road is less than a mile along on the right.
DIRECTIONS FOR ALTERNATIVE ROUTE FROM THE SOUTH
From the M6 exit at Junction 21a onto the M62 to Liverpool. Follow to the end of the motorway and turn right onto the A5058 Queen's Drive. After 4.5 miles, at the roundabout junction with the A59, turn left into County Road. Three quarters of a mile along County Road, turn left into Spellow Lane, and then left into Goodison Road. Goodison Park is on the right.
DIRECTIONS FROM THE EAST
From the M62, exit Junction 6 onto the M57, go to the end of the motorway and then left onto the A59 Ormskirk Road. Then follow the same route for north.
DIRECTIONS FROM THE WEST
From the M53, continue to Wallasey and follow Liverpool via the Kingsway Mersey Tunnel. Turn left at the end into Scotland Road, taking the right fork to the A58 Kirkdale Road. Follow the road round for two miles and Goodison will appear in front of you.
Car parking is available in Stanley Park, approximately half-a-mile from Goodison Park.
Services from Queen Square Bus Station in Liverpool city centre – 19/19A, 20, 21, 130*, 210*, 250*
Services from Paradise Street Interchange – 19/19A, 20, 21, 130*
Services from Thomas Street Stand EA – 350/351, 311, 210*, 250*
Other services which don't operate via the City Centre but serve Goodison Park include- 68/168 (Bootle – Aigburth Vale) and 62/162 (Crosby/Bootle – Penny Lane)
* – service operates evenings and Sundays only
The closest rail station is Kirkdale on the Northern Line, which is approximately 1 mile from Goodison Park.
Train takes between 3 and 3 hours 30mins to Liverpool off peak return £53.50
About a 15 minute walk away from the visiting supporters entrance, is the Thomas Frost pub on Walton Road. This Wetherspoon outlet, is a fairsized pub, that has a good mixture of home and away supporters. Bradleys Wine Bar is a proper family run local with a good selection of beers including some real ales.
Otherwise you can walk along Priory Road (where the away coaches drop off and park) or across Stanley Park, going away from Goodison over towards Anfield. The Arkles pub, the usual haunt of away fans visiting Anfield is also popular with away fans going to Goodison. It is about a 10-15 minute walk. At the end of Priory Road, turn right into Arkles Lane and the pub is up on the left. It also shows Sky Sports.
All information is provided in good faith but the Foxes Trust cannot be held responsible for any errors.
Thanks to the Football Ground Guide and Everton FC
Déjà vu – and not in a good way
Next Up Everton – 1 Jan 2019
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Sand Creek Country Club
Cavanaugh and Nondorf Orthodontics
Walt Disney's 2019 "Dumbo" Brings warm message with new twists
Written by: Rich Bachman — Apr. 2nd 2019
Overview: The once famous Medici Circus has fallen on tough times in the early 1900’s. The United States is suffering from World War I and the Circus is struggling to provide fresh entertainment to customers. However, owner Max Medici (Danny Devito) may have found a way to solve his issues. One of his elephants gives birth to a baby with extremely large ears and other hidden gifts. Medici must try to use baby Dumbo to enliven interest from his customers and save his business.
Dumbo is rated PG for peril/action, some thematic elements and brief mild language
What Worked: There were many aspects of the 2019 remake of Dumbo that were executed very well. To begin, I thought that the acting was very solid. The two main actors carrying the movie were Max Medici (Danny Devito) and our villain V. A. Vandevere (Michael Keaton).
Devito and Keaton are perfectly casted in a live action cartoon because of how animated they are themselves. Both actors provide great charisma and some of the best comedic moments in the film. By the end of the movie the audience absolutely despises Keaton, which is the result of great character performance. Other actors such as Colette Marchant (Eva Green) and the children Milly (Nico Parker) & Joe (Finley Hobbins) do an admirable job also. Famous composer Danny Elfman’s score is terrific and provides extra emotion for the highs and lows of Dumbo. The movie’s special effects were top notch and our main character Dumbo himself looked realistic and downright adorable!
Finally, my favorite aspect of the movie was director Tim Burton and his overall execution. I haven’t been a fan of Burton's work since Big Fish, but I feel like he has hit expectations with this gem. The movie looks, sounds and overall just drips of Burtons machismo. The early 1900’s costumes look authentic and the remake retained some of the darker, unique moments from the original in true Burton fashion. Dumbo was well made and it made the viewer feel as if we were watching the live circus in person.
What Didn’t Work: As a fan of the original cartoon I was sad to see most of the original music left out of Dumbo. I was very surprised that the classic original “When I See An Elephant Fly” for instance wasn’t included. Overall the acting was good although I thought Colin Farrell’s character (Holt Farrier) could’ve been casted with a more heartfelt performer. I was sad to see Timothy Q. Mouse’s character downgraded from the original. Most of his character and plot importance was transitioned to the children.
Dumbo takes place in a circus atmosphere so obviously there will be a lot of characters, however I think that the amount of different people being thrown at children left and right could confuse them. Finally, the movie is a bit long for a Disney movie. In fact, it practically doubles the original cartoons length clocking in at right around two hours. In my theatre, many kids started to get anxious and rustle around at the 90 minute mark. Lastly, I kind of wish the animals spoke as they did in the original. It kind of gets away from “realism”, but we are talking about a movie starring a flying elephant after all.
Overall: Tim Burton does the Walt Disney original justice with this new remake of Dumbo. The movie is a tad long, some original elements should’ve been kept and the large number of characters could cause confusion in young children. However, the movie shines because Burton stuck to his guns and made this feel like a true Tim Burton film. The actors are great, the costume designs looks authentic and it still retained the warm message of the original classic. Our star Dumbo steals the show without even having to use words. The visual effects do wonders displaying his cuteness and personality, and like Dumbo himself don’t judge a book by it’s cover indeed. Dumbo is a solid addition to the Disney catalog for children and families alike. It does the original movie justice, providing a fresh angle with an updated imagination.
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Current Search: Research Repository (x) » Psychology, Clinical (x) » BRAGG, ROBERT ASHBY, JR. (x)
Abused youths' attitudes toward physical punishment: A test of the intergenerational transmission of physical child abuse.
Clausen, Margaret Lynne., Florida State University
The intergenerational transmission of physical child abuse was addressed by examining the relationship between 121 male adolescent delinquents' self-reported childhood experiences with physical discipline and the intensity of the discipline they endorse for children. Childhood experiences with physical punishment were assessed through the frequency with which adolescents were punished by their parents and the magnitude of resulting injuries they had received. Endorsement of discipline was...
Show moreThe intergenerational transmission of physical child abuse was addressed by examining the relationship between 121 male adolescent delinquents' self-reported childhood experiences with physical discipline and the intensity of the discipline they endorse for children. Childhood experiences with physical punishment were assessed through the frequency with which adolescents were punished by their parents and the magnitude of resulting injuries they had received. Endorsement of discipline was defined both by intensity of physical punishment and by intensity of any punishment, irrespective of form. The influences of sex and perceived rewardingness of the administrator of the harshest physical discipline were also examined, along with subjects' attributions for the punishment they had received., Adolescents were asked to choose the discipline they (a) would use and (b) would feel like using in response to a series of parent-child scenarios in which the child was misbehaving. A statistically significant, but small, relationship was found between the magnitude of the injuries subjects reported having received as a result of punishment and the intensity of punishment they endorsed: Subjects who had received physical injuries were more likely to indicate that they would administer intense discipline to their children., Similarly, a small, but statistically significant, interaction of frequency of punishment and sex of the disciplining parent was found: Adolescents who reported having been physically punished frequently by their fathers were more likely than those punished by their mothers or those not frequently punished to indicate that they would feel like using intense physical punishment with their own children., None of the attributions had any utility for predicting adolescents' endorsements of punishment, but did suggest that adolescents generally perceive their parents' punishment as justified and well-intentioned., Overall, the results of this study do not provide strong support for postulations based upon social learning theory or theories of moral development regarding the role of early disciplinary experiences in predicting adolescents' current attitudes toward punishment.
The acquisition of occupational knowledge in deaf populations: A schema theory approach.
Clark, David Anthony., Florida State University
The effects of a schematic cognitive intervention were examined along several lines of thought including occupational certainty, vocational identity, occupational representation systems of deaf clients. Theoretically, the development of a meaningful schemata will allow clients to organize new information in a way that will lead to clients being more prepared to benefit from the career guidance process in general, and from career learning events and Computer Assisted Career Guidance (CACG) in...
Show moreThe effects of a schematic cognitive intervention were examined along several lines of thought including occupational certainty, vocational identity, occupational representation systems of deaf clients. Theoretically, the development of a meaningful schemata will allow clients to organize new information in a way that will lead to clients being more prepared to benefit from the career guidance process in general, and from career learning events and Computer Assisted Career Guidance (CACG) in particular. This study has, first, examined the effects of schematic cognitive intervention upon a subsequent interaction using CACG vs. a traditional human counselor intervention model with deaf subjects. Second, this study has examined the differential levels of deaf subjects' cognitive complexity regarding the world of work following intervention. CACG interventions have increased in use and popularity among career counseling and guidance professionals. This is reflected in the same manner with disabled clients. Researchers have not yet fully identified the methods by which CACG can be fully implemented for diverse populations to optimally facilitate career counseling. In regard to career counseling and CACG interventions, disabled individuals present special needs. Disabled individuals, especially those whose disabling condition presents barriers to employment through impinging on the ability to process information, i.e., deafness, learning disabilities, visual impairments, can be described: (1) as having potentially more to gain from career counseling interventions, and (2) as having potentially a greater need for a working model that allows for clarification and efficient use of the information involved in career choices.
ALTERED TIME ESTIMATES AND BEHAVIOR.
WHITE, MARVIN DEAN., The Florida State University
AN ALTERNATIVE TO ELECTRIC SHOCK FOR MODIFYING MALADAPTIVE BEHAVIORS OF THE MENTALLY RETARDED.
MCKENZIE, EARL RAY., The Florida State University
ANALOGUE MEASUREMENT VS. HOME OBSERVATION IN A SHORT-TERM AND LONG-TERM PARENT TRAINING PROGRAM.
CURTON, ERIC DONALD., Florida State University
Twenty-four parents of young children were instructed in child management techniques taught by one of two methods: lecture-discussion or role-playing. Outcome measures were an analogue questionnaire and home observations collected after two weeks and four weeks of training. The role-play method of presentation was shown to be superior to the lecture-discussion method after both two weeks and four weeks of training on the analogue questionnaire. There were no differences between groups...
Show moreTwenty-four parents of young children were instructed in child management techniques taught by one of two methods: lecture-discussion or role-playing. Outcome measures were an analogue questionnaire and home observations collected after two weeks and four weeks of training. The role-play method of presentation was shown to be superior to the lecture-discussion method after both two weeks and four weeks of training on the analogue questionnaire. There were no differences between groups according to home observations after two weeks of training. After four weeks of training, the lecture-discussion method of presentation was the most effective in teaching parents how to give appropriate commands to their children. Improving parents' skills in applying correct contingencies was found to be more effective in changing childrens' compliance rate than was improving parents'a skills giving correct commands. The results of the present study call into question the generalization of results in parent training studies which use either analogue measures or short-term training procedures.
ANALOGUE SELF-RECORDING THERAPY: EXPECTANCY EFFECTS.
HUTZELL, ROBERT RAYMOND., The Florida State University
AN ANALOGUE STUDY OF PSYCHOTHERAPY: YOUTHFUL OFFENDERS' AUTONOMIC AND BEHAVIORAL REACTIONS TO STRESS AS A FUNCTION OF RACE OF SUBJECT AND A BRIEF EXPOSURE TO ONE OF FOUR DIFFERENT THERAPEUTIC ORIENTATIONS.
DAWKINS, MARVA PHYLLIS., The Florida State University
Analysis and meta-analysis of fuzzy relational structures by means of generalized morphism and their computer-aided tool support.
Kim, Eunjin., Florida State University
This dissertation describes a technique for identification of the structures implicit in scientific data and further develops the supporting methodology for analysis of fuzzy relational structures using the mathematical theory of Fuzzy Relations and Generalized Morphism. Analysis of fuzzy relational structures are made in three distinctive ways. In the first way, the fuzzy relational structures which were computed in the subdomain of the problem can be compared with those in the complete...
Show moreThis dissertation describes a technique for identification of the structures implicit in scientific data and further develops the supporting methodology for analysis of fuzzy relational structures using the mathematical theory of Fuzzy Relations and Generalized Morphism. Analysis of fuzzy relational structures are made in three distinctive ways. In the first way, the fuzzy relational structures which were computed in the subdomain of the problem can be compared with those in the complete domain by means of generalized morphism in order to investigate their contextual matches or dependencies. In the second way, the fuzzy relational structures computed by means of various fuzzy logics can be analyzed using generalized morphism; namely, meta analysis of fuzzy relational structures. The result of meta analysis is represented as the Hasse Diagram structure of meta relations by classifying equivalent classes of fuzzy relational structures. In the third way, the property of contrapositive symmetry of fuzzy relational structures can be efficiently detected using the classification table of equivalent classes which was constructed in the meta analysis. Such analysis processes are also applied to data of several problem domains: clinical psychological data on Parkinsonian patients, test data of patients with Ectopic Pregnancy and Endocrine data from two medical knowledge sources. A computer-aided tool that supports this analysis, namely Fuzzy Relational Structure Analysis System (FRSAS), is designed using the methodology of Activity Structure. FRSAS is implemented in the programming language Modula-2.
AN ANALYSIS OF THE CURRENT FUNCTION OF A STATE MENTAL HOSPITAL (PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTION, DEINSTITUTIONALIZATION, YOUNG CHRONIC PATIENT, FLORIDA).
BLOOMER, JUDITH SPECIAL., Florida State University
A two phase study was carried out to evaluate the impact of the deinstitutionalization movement on the admission and discharge practices of a large state psychiatric hospital in Florida. Phase I involved a follow-up study of 370 patients who were subject to discharge in 1973, the year after new deinstitutionalization legislation went into effect. Over one-third died at the hospital during 1973-1984. Eighty-seven percent of those who did not die were discharged, most returning to live with...
Show moreA two phase study was carried out to evaluate the impact of the deinstitutionalization movement on the admission and discharge practices of a large state psychiatric hospital in Florida. Phase I involved a follow-up study of 370 patients who were subject to discharge in 1973, the year after new deinstitutionalization legislation went into effect. Over one-third died at the hospital during 1973-1984. Eighty-seven percent of those who did not die were discharged, most returning to live with relatives. Forty-two percent of those initially discharged were subsequently readmitted. Barriers to community placement were examined for the remaining 45 patients. Barriers to discharge included both clinical and nonclinical factors. Behavioral problems accounted for most of the clinical barriers while nonclinical factors included legal or financial constraints and the lack of appropriate support systems or residential facilities in the community., Phase II of the study examined the characteristics of 227 patients admitted to the hospital during 1983-84, ten years after deinstitutionalization policies were implemented at the state level. The average patient in this admissions population was male, younger than 40, had three prior admissions and a history of alcohol or drug abuse. Sixty-seven percent had not been employed within the three years preceding admission, and 85% were indigent. Over one-fourth had a history of contact with the criminal justice system. Most stayed at the hospital less than six months. The utilization of the state hospital varied among counties as some communities referred patients to the hospital rather than keep them in a community-based facility as cost saving measure and as a means of social control for deviant behavior not tolerated within the community. In addition to providing treatment which was primarily stabilization via psychotropic medication, it was determined that the state hospital also continues to provide custodial care and asylum, particularly for more elderly patients. Utilization of all three of these functions is expected to continue into the future, as perpetuated by the hospital itself and the community it serves.
Analysis of the link between delinquent behavior and reading developmental disorders in a sample of chronic, male juvenile offenders.
Partyka, David John., Florida State University
In a study on the role of learning disorders in the development of juvenile delinquency, 123 students in a training school for severe, chronic delinquents were classified as average readers, low-average readers, or reading disordered. Measures from the Wechsler intelligence scales and the Woodcock-Johnson Psycho-educational Test Battery were utilized to assign the students to one of the three reading groups. Phonological processing deficits were measured to discriminate between below average...
Show moreIn a study on the role of learning disorders in the development of juvenile delinquency, 123 students in a training school for severe, chronic delinquents were classified as average readers, low-average readers, or reading disordered. Measures from the Wechsler intelligence scales and the Woodcock-Johnson Psycho-educational Test Battery were utilized to assign the students to one of the three reading groups. Phonological processing deficits were measured to discriminate between below average readers and reading disordered students. Legal and behavior data were collected and analyzed for group differences. The study's major finding revealed that there was no significant difference between the general population and the sample of delinquents in prevalence rate of reading disorders. In addition the three groups did not differ significantly across a variety of legal and behavioral data. The three reading groups did not differ significantly on variables measuring aggressive behavior, noncompliance, criminal severity, number of adjudications, and legal commitments. The results failed to support the hypothesis that learning disorders play an important role in the development of juvenile delinquent behavior. The results of the study support a shift in the study of delinquent behavior from individual differences to the nature and quality of adolescent interaction processes.
AN ANALYSIS OF VARIABLES AFFECTING LEISURE ACTIVITY BEHAVIOR OF MULTIHANDICAPPED RETARDED PERSONS.
REID, DENNIS HUNTINGTON., The Florida State University
THE ANXIETY-AROUSING EFFECT OF TABOO WORDS IN BILINGUALS.
GONZALEZ-REIGOSA, FERNANDO., The Florida State University
THE APPLICABILITY OF THE MMPI-BASED CRIMINAL CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM TO FORENSIC HOSPITAL PATIENTS.
DOREN, DENNIS MITCHELL., Florida State University
This study investigated the applicability of the MMPI-based criminal classification system to people hospitalized by the court after being tried on criminal charges (i.e., those adjudicated to be mentally disordered sex offenders or people who were not guilty by reason of insanity). There were two purposes for this research. One was to investigate the generalizability of a typology found useful with various penal populations. The second was to discover if that classification system could...
Show moreThis study investigated the applicability of the MMPI-based criminal classification system to people hospitalized by the court after being tried on criminal charges (i.e., those adjudicated to be mentally disordered sex offenders or people who were not guilty by reason of insanity). There were two purposes for this research. One was to investigate the generalizability of a typology found useful with various penal populations. The second was to discover if that classification system could serve as a means of communication between penal institution mental health staff and forensic hospital personnel concerning viable differential treatment and prediction for offenders., Subjects for the research were drawn from the population at the Forensic Service at the Florida State Hospital in Chattahoochee, Florida. Their MMPI profiles were obtained along with a variety of data from the patients' hospital medical files. To test the applicability of the typology to that population, statistical analyses were performed comparing the hospital patients to the prison subjects studied by Megargee et al. (1979)., There were two hypotheses tested. The first stated that different proportions of people would be classified within each typological category when comparing samples from the two settings. That hypothesis was supported. The second stated that people classified within each category would not differ in their demographic and behavioral correlates, regardless of the institution from which they came. Results did not tend to support that hypothesis. Some procedural flaws were noted, though the investigator still concluded that there was a lack of support for the use of the MMPI-based classification system with forensic hospital populations with the same meaning it has acquired within penal settings. Future research directions are discussed.
APPLICATION OF THE MMPI-168 TO THE MEGARGEE TYPOLOGICAL SYSTEM IN A CORRECTIONAL SETTING.
MOORHEAD, KAREN LYNN., The Florida State University
ASPIRATION, SELF ACCEPTANCE, AND ACCEPTANCE OF OTHERS IN NORMAL AND NEUROPSYCHIATRIC GROUPS.
CORRIE, CHRISTOPHER C., The Florida State University
ASPIRATIONS AND EXPECTATIONS OF NONTRADITIONAL OCCUPATIONAL CHOICES.
MILES, WENDY E., Florida State University
Nontraditional occupational choices were examined within the context of aspirations, or ideal choices, and expectations, or realistic choices. As background for the study, the literature on occupational stereotyping was reviewed. A major purpose of the study was to determine if altering subjects' perceptions of base rates, or the proportions of males and females in a given occupation, would affect subjects' reactions to that occupation. The relationship between nontraditional occupational...
Show moreNontraditional occupational choices were examined within the context of aspirations, or ideal choices, and expectations, or realistic choices. As background for the study, the literature on occupational stereotyping was reviewed. A major purpose of the study was to determine if altering subjects' perceptions of base rates, or the proportions of males and females in a given occupation, would affect subjects' reactions to that occupation. The relationship between nontraditional occupational choices and several subject and parental characteristics was also explored. Subjects consisted of 107 female and 82 male seventh grade students, who were each given a description of one occupation. Control subjects were told that the base rate of that occupation would remain stable. Experimental subjects were told that the percentage of the non-dominant sex would increase to 50% in the future. Subjects rated the occupation as both an ideal and a realistic choice for them. Measures of subjects' open-ended occupational choices, sex role attribution, and parents' occupation and education were also obtained. Contrary to expectations, the experimental manipulation did not affect subjects' ratings of the occupations. On the open-ended responses, significant sex differences were found, with males making job selections which were more traditional than the choices made by females. The majority of females named a nontraditional job for both their ideal and realistic choices. Weak relationships were obtained between background variables and subjects' job choices, with father's education emerging as the best predictor of a male-dominated occupation. Androgynous individuals were no more likely than other types to choose a nontraditional occupation.
THE ASSESSMENT OF CLIENT SATISFACTION WITH OUTPATIENT MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES: THE EMPIRICAL DEVELOPMENT OF A SCALE.
MARCHNER, THOMAS J., Florida State University
An attempt was made to develop a scale that measures a meaningful set of dimensions of consumer satisfaction with outpatient mental health services. After items were written to ensure content validity of seven presumed dimensions, the scale was administered three times consecutively with empirical item selection occurring after the second administration. The scale was administered first to a small sample of clients at a general psychological services clinic. In the second and third...
Show moreAn attempt was made to develop a scale that measures a meaningful set of dimensions of consumer satisfaction with outpatient mental health services. After items were written to ensure content validity of seven presumed dimensions, the scale was administered three times consecutively with empirical item selection occurring after the second administration. The scale was administered first to a small sample of clients at a general psychological services clinic. In the second and third administrations the scale was completed by outpatients at two different Veterans Administration hospitals. Analyses of data from the third administration (based on a sample of N = 174 which was predominantly white, male and middle-aged) showed that both the total scale and six of the seven subscales possess adequate test-retest reliability and internal consistency but that the subscales have poor discriminant validity. A principal factor analysis showed the presence of one major factor but further analysis showed the presence of one major factor but further analyses suggested a tendency for the subscales to emerge as minor factors. It was concluded that the scale measures only one empirically discriminable dimension although the subscales are useful for practical assessment purposes.
Assessment of psychopathy in a population of incarcerated adolescent offenders.
Brandt, John Randall., Florida State University
The Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R) has proven a reliable and valid assessment procedure with incarcerated, adult, white offenders. We investigated the psychometric properties, factor structure, and evidence of validity for a modified version of the PCL-R in a sample of 130 incarcerated, black and white, adolescent offenders. These young offenders, arrested for felony offenses, typically had long criminal careers before being committed to the training school in which the study took...
Show moreThe Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R) has proven a reliable and valid assessment procedure with incarcerated, adult, white offenders. We investigated the psychometric properties, factor structure, and evidence of validity for a modified version of the PCL-R in a sample of 130 incarcerated, black and white, adolescent offenders. These young offenders, arrested for felony offenses, typically had long criminal careers before being committed to the training school in which the study took place., Interrater reliability and internal consistency were high for the modified version of the PCL-R, which was completed with file information only, without interviews. Coefficients of congruence revealed that the data did not greatly differ from the two-factor solution found for other populations. Significant differences with regard to race were not found for reliability, factor structure, or the distribution of psychopathy scores., PCL-R scores related to psychometric measures and behavioral indicators of maladjustment similar to how they do in adult populations. How the PCL-R relates to the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) was not adequately answered. Subjects rated high in psychopathy were free from confinement for a shorter period of time before receiving new referrals for law violations. This relationship was particularly true for violent re-offenses., The construct of psychopathy appears to be applicable to both black and white adolescent offenders; the current study provides evidence of reliability and validity for the PCL-R in this population.
Assessment of psychosocial treatment integrity in an inpatient psychiatric setting: Can retrospective self-ratings by clinicians reflect actual behavior?.
Lazarus, Mark Leander., Florida State University
In residential treatment settings, it is essential for many clinical and research purposes to conduct high-quality assessments of the integrity of treatment, that is, the extent to which the intended therapy is occurring. When psychosocial treatment integrity has been measured in these settings, retrospective ratings by direct-care staff have often been utilized. The current study was designed to empirically evaluate the potential of both self-ratings by staff and ratings by their supervisors...
Show moreIn residential treatment settings, it is essential for many clinical and research purposes to conduct high-quality assessments of the integrity of treatment, that is, the extent to which the intended therapy is occurring. When psychosocial treatment integrity has been measured in these settings, retrospective ratings by direct-care staff have often been utilized. The current study was designed to empirically evaluate the potential of both self-ratings by staff and ratings by their supervisors for accurately assessing treatment integrity. Forty staff members of an inpatient psychiatric unit rated their own behavior toward clients. In addition, 11 unit supervisors completed a similar rating-scale measure on 29 of the workers. When the data were examined at the level of the individual worker, self-ratings by staff and ratings by their supervisors were at best only moderately similar to data on the Staff-Resident Interaction Chronograph, a direct-observational-coding instrument. These results clearly do not warrant use of rating-scale data for clinical decision-making, which often has profound effects on peoples' lives. However, when administered under certain conditions and averaged across respondents, both self-ratings and supervisor ratings did fairly accurately reflect the actual interactional pattern exhibited by the staff group, suggesting some potential for uses requiring information that is accurate at this level (e.g., program evaluation).
Attachment in adolescents and their families: A qualitative analysis of attachment in the early months of adolescent addiction treatment.
Sayre, Lori D., Florida State University
The purpose of this study was to investigate attachment in adolescents and their parent(s) in a long-term addiction treatment program. Attachment processes and stability during a specific window of time in early treatment were analyzed through verbal accounts of attachment-related family activities, behaviors, and rituals., A qualitative methodology utilized content analysis on text derived from three interviews with the adolescent and parent(s). Interview #1 questions were pre-selected....
Show moreThe purpose of this study was to investigate attachment in adolescents and their parent(s) in a long-term addiction treatment program. Attachment processes and stability during a specific window of time in early treatment were analyzed through verbal accounts of attachment-related family activities, behaviors, and rituals., A qualitative methodology utilized content analysis on text derived from three interviews with the adolescent and parent(s). Interview #1 questions were pre-selected. Questions for interview #2 and #3 were derived from emergent content categories in interview #1 text. The categories that emerged from interview #1 text remained important categories throughout interviews two and three. These content categories give insight into the attachment processes in these adolescents and their families. Interview text was given an attachment quality rating of secure, anxious, avoidant, or disorganized/disoriented., In addition to the interviews, the Bartholomew (1990) Attachment Typology and the Hazan & Shaver (1990) Attachment Typology were administered at interview #1 interview #3. Comparisons were made between self-rated attachment quality on the typologies at interview #1 and #3. Self-rated attachment quality was compared to coder rated attachment quality determined by the interview text content. Emergent categories in Interview #1, #2, and #3 were analyzed and comparisons were made between adolescents and parent(s) and, males and females. Four important findings that emerged from text data analyses include: (1) the discovery of a language of attachment, (2) all participants were rated as insecurely attached, (3) there was no congruence between self-rated attachment quality and interview text attachment quality for parents, and (4) longer treatment is indicated for optimal outcome. These findings are in case presentation form, followed by treatment recommendations and implications for future research.
ATTITUDINAL AND BEHAVIORAL CHANGE ASSOCIATED WITH PSYCHIATRIC ATTENDANT TRAINING.
STOCKTON, MICHAEL DONALD., The Florida State University
Auditory processing in dyslexia: A neuropsychological analysis using middle latency event-related potentials.
Krull, Kevin Ronald., Florida State University
The processing of sequentially presented auditory information was investigated in Reading Delayed (RD) and Non-Reading Delayed (NRD) children through the use of middle latency event-related potentials (MERP's). MERP's from 16 4th and 5th grade RD children were compared to MERP's from 15 2nd and 3rd grade NRD children matched on intelligence and reading level. The children responded to a two tone behavioral sequencing task, then engaged in passive perception of a similar two tone sequence...
Show moreThe processing of sequentially presented auditory information was investigated in Reading Delayed (RD) and Non-Reading Delayed (NRD) children through the use of middle latency event-related potentials (MERP's). MERP's from 16 4th and 5th grade RD children were compared to MERP's from 15 2nd and 3rd grade NRD children matched on intelligence and reading level. The children responded to a two tone behavioral sequencing task, then engaged in passive perception of a similar two tone sequence while MERP's were recorded for each tone. Various inter-stimulus intervals (ISI) were used in each task. On the behavioral sequencing task the NRD children performed better at all ISI's (F = 5.78, p $<$.03). MERP recordings from the RD group indicated a shorter latency of the Na waveform generated by the second stimulus at a 75 ms ISI compared to a 150 ms ISI (t = 4.66, p $<$.001) or a 500 ms ISI (t = 2.87, p $<$.01). Furthermore, the latency of the Na peak to the second stimulus was significantly and positively correlated to both groups' performance on the behavioral task, especially at the shortest ISI (r =.45; p $<$.006). These results are taken as an indication of a lack of normal inhibition in the RD group. When presented with a two tone sequence separated by short ISI's, the RD group failed to inhibit processing of the second tone, whereas at longer ISI's they responded in a manner similar to that of the NRD group.
AUTONOMIC CONCOMITANTS OF AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR IN REPRESSORS AND SENSITIZERS: A SOCIAL LEARNING APPROACH.
SCARPETTI, WILLIAM LOUIS., The Florida State University
AVERSIVE CONDITIONING TREATMENT OF OVERWEIGHT.
FROHWIRTH, RICHARD ARNOLD., The Florida State University
AVOIDANCE CONDITIONING OF A SALINE SOLUTION IN RATS WITH X-RADIATION.
PERRY, NATHAN WARREN, JR., The Florida State University
BEHAVIOR MANAGEMENT OF THE PRESCHOOL DEAF.
MOORE, BENJAMIN LUTHER., The Florida State University
BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION OF APPOINTMENT ATTENDANCE AMONG YOUTHFUL DELINQUENTS.
HANSON, GARY WHITE., The Florida State University
BEHAVIORAL COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY: A BEHAVIORAL-BASED PROGRAM FOR TEACHING EMPLOYMENT INTERVIEWING SKILLS TO VOCATIONALLY HANDICAPPED PERSONS.
BRISCOE, RICHARD VON., Florida State University
Ten handicapped subjects participated in a short-term behavioral training program to increase their verbal employment interview behaviors. Treatment consisted of a two hour training session using instruction, modeling, role-playing, behavioral rehearsal with performance feedback and social reinforcement. Verbal employment interview skills were behaviorally defined as: specific work statements, general work statements, personal statements, questioning statements and incomplete statements....
Show moreTen handicapped subjects participated in a short-term behavioral training program to increase their verbal employment interview behaviors. Treatment consisted of a two hour training session using instruction, modeling, role-playing, behavioral rehearsal with performance feedback and social reinforcement. Verbal employment interview skills were behaviorally defined as: specific work statements, general work statements, personal statements, questioning statements and incomplete statements. Treatment was assessed by behavioral measurement of each subject's pre-, post- and follow-up performance during simulated unstructured interviews. Subjects' performance was compared with a reference group of college students. Also, assessment involved social validation ratings of subjects' performance by employers., The results indicated increased appropriate and work-related statements during post-training and follow-up interviews. The rate of statements increased to a level comparable with the higher level of reference group subjects. Employers' ratings indicated the effectiveness of treatment by showing increased ratings of subjects during post-training interviews., Subjects rated their level of anxiety after each interview and this data revealed no change in their anxiety levels during pre-, post-, and follow-up interviews. Satisfaction measures showed subjects' positive ratings of the training program helping them learn interview skills., This study revealed that a short term behavioral training program enabled handicapped persons to improve their verbal interview behaviors to a level consistent with non-handicapped persons. Further, the study indicated verbal behaviors can be quantified by using direct observation procedures.
BEHAVIORAL CONTRAST IN HUMANS: CONCOMITANT CHANGES IN STATE ANXIETY TEST SCORES AND REWARD PREDICTIONS AS A FUNCTION OF EXTINCTION AND THREAT OF ELECTRIC SHOCK.
MASH, ERIC JAY., The Florida State University
BEHAVIORAL CONTRAST IN HUMANS: THE EFFECT OF REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULES AND RESPONSE COST.
KING, LARRY WAYNE., The Florida State University
THE BEHAVIORAL MODIFICATIONS ASSOCIATED WITH THREE DIFFERENT PROGRAMS FORCHILDREN CLASSIFIED AS MENTALLY RETARDED IN THE GADSDEN COUNTY SCHOOLS INTHE STATE OF FLORIDA.
SMITH, HERBERT WARREN., The Florida State University
A Bender Gestalt validity study: the performance of mentally retarded children.
Eber, Milton
BINAURAL BEATS: THEIR PERCEPTION BY INDIVIDUALS WITH AND WITHOUT ORGANIC BRAIN PATHOLOGY.
KENT, ERIC G., The Florida State University
Blame and stigmatization of victims of sexual and nonsexual harassment as a function of severity of harassment, of filing a grievance, and of consequences to the perpetrator.
Correa, Maria Judith., Florida State University
Three experiments were conducted using written vignettes depicting a man harassing a woman co-worker. The vignettes in all the experiments were designed to represent three levels of severity of harassment (mild, moderate, and severe), to represent sexual and nonsexual situations, and to be not significantly different within each level of harassment. Subjects who participated in the experiments were female undergraduate students attending General Psychology courses at Florida State University....
Show moreThree experiments were conducted using written vignettes depicting a man harassing a woman co-worker. The vignettes in all the experiments were designed to represent three levels of severity of harassment (mild, moderate, and severe), to represent sexual and nonsexual situations, and to be not significantly different within each level of harassment. Subjects who participated in the experiments were female undergraduate students attending General Psychology courses at Florida State University. The purpose of the experiments was to assess whether blame and stigmatization of a victim of harassment differs as a function of severity of harassment, of type of harassment, of whether or not the harassment was reported, and of consequences to the harasser. The results of the experiments indicate that subjects ascribed less blame to the woman when she reported an incident of severe harassment than when she did not report severe harassment. They also perceived the woman who reported severe harassment to be more agreeable and conscientious. An interaction between severity of the harassment and consequences to the perpetrator was also obtained. Subjects in this experiment rated the woman's character less positive when the man was fired for an incident of mild harassment, but higher when he was fired for severe harassment.
Challenge preference in young children: Relationship to other motivational variables and maternal behaviors.
Castro, Rafael., Florida State University
The present investigation is divided into two main studies. The purpose of the first study was to assess individual differences in children's challenge preference using Dweck's categorization procedure, to assess the short-term stability of this classification process, and to examine its relationship to demographic and other motivational variables of interest. The purpose of the second study was to explore the relationship of challenge preference classification to maternal behaviors....
Show moreThe present investigation is divided into two main studies. The purpose of the first study was to assess individual differences in children's challenge preference using Dweck's categorization procedure, to assess the short-term stability of this classification process, and to examine its relationship to demographic and other motivational variables of interest. The purpose of the second study was to explore the relationship of challenge preference classification to maternal behaviors. Participants in the first study included 236 four to six year old children attending private day-care centers and public kindergarten in the Tallahassee area. A subsample of 72 children was selected for the second study. The children attempted challenging tasks individually and while interacting with their mothers. The presence of helplessness in younger children was confirmed along with a cognitive and affective profile similar to that shown by older children. A significant relationship between initial skill and challenge preference was also revealed. The short term stability of challenge preference was found to be low although it improved when a composite measure that included a behavioral choice and the reasoning behind that decision was used. Girls exhibited profiles more consistent with predictions, showing significant relations between their challenge preference status and two other motivational indexes. Finally, maternal requests for their child to persist at a challenging task differed by group, with those from the CS group encouraging their children not to give up significantly more often than CA mothers.
CHLORPROMAZINE: ALONE AND AS AN ADJUNCT TO GROUP PSYCHOTHERAPY IN THE TREATMENT OF CHRONIC PARANOID AND CATATONIC SCHIZOPHRENIA.
WETHERHORN, MITCHELL H., The Florida State University
CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGISTS' JUDGMENTS OF THE SCIENTIFIC MERIT AND CLINICAL RELEVANCE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY OUTCOME RESEARCH.
COHEN, LAWRENCE HOWARD., The Florida State University
THE CLINICAL VALIDITY OF THE BENDER GESTALT TEST WITH CHILDREN: A DEVELOPMENTAL COMPARISON OF CHILDREN IN NEED OF PSYCHOTHERAPY AND CHILDREN JUDGED WELL-ADJUSTED.
BYRD, EUGENE., The Florida State University
Cognitive appraisal, stress, coping, and encounter outcomes of law enforcement officers.
Braunsdorf, Mark S., Florida State University
This study examined the functional relationships among cognitive appraisal, coping processes, and their short-term outcomes within a stressful context for law enforcement officers. The subjects were 203 officers from North Florida who voluntarily completed a questionnaire., The variables investigated were primary and secondary appraisal, coping, and encounter outcome. Primary appraisal referred to individuals' evaluations of encounters with respect to their significance for well-being....
Show moreThis study examined the functional relationships among cognitive appraisal, coping processes, and their short-term outcomes within a stressful context for law enforcement officers. The subjects were 203 officers from North Florida who voluntarily completed a questionnaire., The variables investigated were primary and secondary appraisal, coping, and encounter outcome. Primary appraisal referred to individuals' evaluations of encounters with respect to their significance for well-being. Secondary appraisal referred to the subjects' assessment of their own coping resources in relation to the task at hand. Coping referred to those cognitive/behavioral efforts individuals used to manage demands appraised as stressful. Encounter outcome referred to the subjects' judgment of the degree to which the situation was resolved successfully., Five separate analyses were conducted using one canonical correlation analysis and four regression analyses., From the canonical correlation analysis three significant roots emerged, suggesting that the primary and secondary appraisal variables were related to coping responses., A multi-variate regression analysis revealed that a significant relationship existed among the primary appraisal, secondary appraisal, and coping response variables., The data indicated that when law enforcement officers thought they had sufficient resources to change a stressful encounter they tended to accept responsibility and engage in confrontive coping behaviors. When they appraised their resources as inadequate, they embarked on different coping pathways that were less directive and designed to minimize their affective reactions. Successful encounter outcomes were associated with positive reappraisal coping and also when the losing respect for others appraisal was not at stake.
A cognitive assessment of men who sexually offend against children.
Lloyd, Shayn W., Florida State University
In this study, 38 adult males who were diagnosed as pedophiles and were in treatment as a condition of probation, and 38 males who were on probation for a non-sex related offense were both administered four assessment instruments (The Survey Of Personal Beliefs, The Abel And Becker Cognitions Scale, The Attributional Style Questionnaire, The Self-Efficacy Scale). These assessment instruments measured the following variables: general illogical cognitions, illogical sex cognitions, negative...
Show moreIn this study, 38 adult males who were diagnosed as pedophiles and were in treatment as a condition of probation, and 38 males who were on probation for a non-sex related offense were both administered four assessment instruments (The Survey Of Personal Beliefs, The Abel And Becker Cognitions Scale, The Attributional Style Questionnaire, The Self-Efficacy Scale). These assessment instruments measured the following variables: general illogical cognitions, illogical sex cognitions, negative attribution styles, positive attribution styles, and self-efficacy beliefs., A discriminant analysis was conducted and it was found that the resulting discriminant function was significant. Only one variable was found to significantly differentiate between the two groups and this was general illogical cognitions. However, the pedophile group indicated greater rational beliefs than the comparison group, contrary to the hypothesis which stated that the pedophile group would have greater irrational thoughts. Several post-hoc analyses were conducted and it was discovered that the length of time in treatment did not have any effect on the pedophile group responses and that the pedophile group admitted more deviant illogical sex cognitions before their behavior was discovered by others, rather than current beliefs. A third post-hoc analysis was conducted to assess the comparability of the two groups and the groups were found to be comparable. Implications for treatment and further research were discussed in light of these results.
COGNITIVE CONTENT AND ADJUSTMENT DIFFICULTY IN CHILDREN OF DIVORCE.
RUSHBROOK, JOHN CHARLES., Florida State University
Cognitive-mediational models of behavior suggest that cognitive content and internal dialogue have the functional capability of influencing arousal, appraisal, adaptation to stress, and problem-solving behavior. This study examined the relationship between the divorce-related cognitive content reported by school-age children of divorce and the severity of their observed postdivorce adjustment difficulty., Sixty-four 8- to 11-year-old children of divorce were identified within public and...
Show moreCognitive-mediational models of behavior suggest that cognitive content and internal dialogue have the functional capability of influencing arousal, appraisal, adaptation to stress, and problem-solving behavior. This study examined the relationship between the divorce-related cognitive content reported by school-age children of divorce and the severity of their observed postdivorce adjustment difficulty., Sixty-four 8- to 11-year-old children of divorce were identified within public and private schools, and the behavioral adjustment of each subject was evaluated via independent parent Louisville Behavior Checklist and teacher School Behavior Checklist ratings. On the basis of these behavioral judgements, the following subject classifications were formed: 16 males and 16 females with high adjustment difficulty (HAD), and 16 males and 16 females with low adjustment difficulty (LAD)., All subjects completed the following measures of divorce-specific cognitive content: (1) the Divorce Inventory of Self-Statements for Children (DISSC), which revealed the frequency, valence, and content of reported inner speech; and (2) the Children's Attitudes toward Parental Separation Inventory (CAPSI), assessing the frequency and content of reported problematical attitudes., Multivariate analyses of variance (MANOVA's) with the factors of adjustment difficulty and gender were performed using the DISSC and CAPSI scores as dependent measures. The MANOVA's revealed that the HAD and LAD groups could not be differentiated on the basis of their DISSC positive and negative self-statement scores. All the groups reported greater frequencies of positive or adaptive self-statements regarding divorce than negative or maladaptive self-statements., An adjustment difficulty by gender interaction was uncovered for the CAPSI problem attitude measure. The male HAD children admitted having more frequent attitudinal problems regarding separation and divorce than the remaining HAD and LAD groups, while the HAD females failed to show this elevation., Secondary analyses of the DISSC and CAPSI content areas culminated in generally nonsignificant findings. Methodological issues which may have precluded the demonstration of a significant relationship between adjustment difficulty and divorce-specific cognitive content were discussed.
Cognitive therapy with depressed, female outpatients in individual, couple, and group treatment modalities: An evaluation.
Dick-Grace, Janet Elizabeth., Florida State University
The effectiveness of cognitive therapy utilized within the individual, couple, and group treatment modalities was examined using an A-B-A single subject research design. The subjects were 15 depressed, female outpatients between the ages of 25 and 45, married or cohabitating with the opposite sex, literate, and on an antidepressant for at least 6 weeks. The subjects were randomly assigned to a treatment modality. They were assessed utilizing the Generalized Contentment Scale, the Automatic...
Show moreThe effectiveness of cognitive therapy utilized within the individual, couple, and group treatment modalities was examined using an A-B-A single subject research design. The subjects were 15 depressed, female outpatients between the ages of 25 and 45, married or cohabitating with the opposite sex, literate, and on an antidepressant for at least 6 weeks. The subjects were randomly assigned to a treatment modality. They were assessed utilizing the Generalized Contentment Scale, the Automatic Thoughts Questionnaire, the Provision of Social Relations scale, and a self-anchored scale measuring degree of depression. After completion of 4 baseline measurements, subjects received 8 cognitive therapy sessions followed by 4 weekly measurements of the dependent variable. Visual inspection of the charted responses of each subject occurred as well as use of the Two Standard Deviation Band Approach to determine statistical significance at the.05 level. The results indicated that the subjects in the individual treatment modality achieved a greater reduction in depression, did so sooner, and maintained the decrease longer than subjects in the other modalities. Subjects in the group modality achieved a greater reduction in depression, did so sooner, and maintained the decrease longer than subjects in the couple modality. Across all treatment modalities, levels of social support were moderate for the subjects while levels of depression and negative self-statements remained higher for the majority than was expected. Future investigations of cognitive therapy with depressed female outpatients may consider the assessment of marital satisfaction, an analysis of an educational workshop, an evaluation of a group modality, and an expansion of the number of treatment sessions across all modalities.
COGNITIVE-BEHAVIORAL ASSERTION TRAINING WITH AGGRESSIVE INDIVIDUALS AND ITS IMPACT ON THEIR PARTNERS.
DUFFEY, DONALD KEARNS., The Florida State University
Cohesion and adaptability: The question of curvilinearity and a new measure of healthy family functioning.
Cluff, Richard Barton., Florida State University
A review of David Olson's Circumplex Model of Marital and Family Systems and accompanying scales used to measure his model, Family Adaptability and Cohesion Evaluation Scales (FACES) and Clinical Rating Scale (CRS), reveal evidence of multiple construct confounding. Therefore, the primary purpose of this dissertation was to create a refined, linear measure of cohesion or interpersonal warmth. The FACES II, Parent-Adolescent Communication Scale (PAC), McMaster Family Assessment Device (FAD),...
Show moreA review of David Olson's Circumplex Model of Marital and Family Systems and accompanying scales used to measure his model, Family Adaptability and Cohesion Evaluation Scales (FACES) and Clinical Rating Scale (CRS), reveal evidence of multiple construct confounding. Therefore, the primary purpose of this dissertation was to create a refined, linear measure of cohesion or interpersonal warmth. The FACES II, Parent-Adolescent Communication Scale (PAC), McMaster Family Assessment Device (FAD), and thermometer subscales were used to test the construct validity of the new instrument. The new instrument was then used to test the hypotheses that (a) adaptability is better conceptualized as a subscale of the refined cohesion construct and that (b) the curvilinear construct of enmeshment is better conceptualized as a combination of multiple linear constructs that correlate in both a positive and negative fashion creating pseudocurvilinear results., The new instrument was constructed using data from 1649 male and female participants from 8 states ages 13 to 71. The psychometric properties of the new measure and hypotheses of the dissertation were tested using 475 female and male undergraduate students., Results indicate that the new instrument has high test retest and internal consistency reliability. There was also strong evidence for content and construct validity. Adaptability was found to be highly correlated with cohesion and the new instrument. Ideal and dysfunctional measures of the new instrument subscales support the conclusion that enmeshment is better conceptualized as consisting of multiple linear constructs.
COMMUNITY UNEMPLOYMENT CONDITIONS IN RELATION TO FOUR PSYCHO-SOCIAL INDICES: MENTAL HOSPITALIZATIONS, SUICIDES, HOMICIDES, AND MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENTS.
HARTMAN, JOSEPH HAROLD., The Florida State University
A comparison between computer and clinician administered psychological assessment interviews: Effects on social desirability response bias.
Milo, Karen Marie., Florida State University
Some proponents of computer assisted psychological assessment have argued that computer administration of tests may reduce social desirability response bias and, consequently, increase the validity of test results. Although computer administration has been shown to decrease this response bias in nonclinical subjects, this effect has not been found in clinical populations. This author hypothesized that clinical subjects may experience repercussions because of their test responses (e.g.,...
Show moreSome proponents of computer assisted psychological assessment have argued that computer administration of tests may reduce social desirability response bias and, consequently, increase the validity of test results. Although computer administration has been shown to decrease this response bias in nonclinical subjects, this effect has not been found in clinical populations. This author hypothesized that clinical subjects may experience repercussions because of their test responses (e.g., changes in treatment) and this could have a greater effect in determining responses than social desirability. To test this hypothesis, 76 adult psychiatric outpatients were assessed either by computer or clinician on measures of social desirability and psychopathology. One-half were tested under typical clinical conditions in which their therapists received feedback on their results and one-half were tested under standard research conditions assuring confidentiality. ANOVA tests revealed a significant difference between subjects tested under clinical (i.e., possible repercussions) and research (i.e., no repercussions) conditions on the measure of psychopathology and one of the two social desirability measures. Subjects presented themselves as having more traits which are considered psychologically healthy and fewer traits which are viewed as antisocial when their therapists would know their results. The type of assessor, either computer or clinician, had no significant effect on subjects' responses. Although both types of assessor were rated favorably, subjects rated the clinical interview as significantly more enjoyable than the computer administered version of the interview. Implications of these findings for future research and clinical practice were discussed.
A COMPARISON OF ATTENTIONAL TRAINING UTILIZING A RESPONSE COST PROCEDURE AND METHYLPHENIDATE (RITALIN) ON THE CLASSROOM BEHAVIORS OF HYPERACTIVE CHILDREN.
RAPPORT, MARK DAVID., Florida State University
In Experiments I and II, the relative efficacy of an attentional training program utilizing a response cost procedure, methylphenidate (ritalin), and baseline levels of behavior were evaluated on the on-task and academic performance of two hyperactive children by an ABACBC reversal design across academic areas, i.e., phonics and mathematics. Daily dosages of methylphenidate were administered and individually titrated over a period of several weeks. Both subjects initially ingested 5 mg...
Show moreIn Experiments I and II, the relative efficacy of an attentional training program utilizing a response cost procedure, methylphenidate (ritalin), and baseline levels of behavior were evaluated on the on-task and academic performance of two hyperactive children by an ABACBC reversal design across academic areas, i.e., phonics and mathematics. Daily dosages of methylphenidate were administered and individually titrated over a period of several weeks. Both subjects initially ingested 5 mg Ritalin qAM, with gradual increments of 5 mg, resulting in peak dosages of 15 mg (.65 mg/kg) and 20 mg (.92 mg/kg), for subjects 1 and 2, respectively. The effects of methylphenidate were contrasted with baseline (ABA) and attentional training (CBC) by two reversal designs, with a multiple baseline component across the two academic areas. The attentional training program (response cost) resulted in higher rates of on-task behavior and academic performance for both children. The 15 mg Ritalin condition proved to be the most potent medication phase, resulting in rates of on-task behavior and academic performance clearly exceeding baseline levels of responding., The purpose of Experiment III was to assess the replicability and generalization of using an attentional training program with hyperactive children in an academic setting. A multiple baseline design across two academic areas (i.e., writing and phonics) was used to evaluate the effectiveness of the attentional training program on the academic performance of two hyperactive children. Implementation of the program resulted in rates of academic assignment completion and accuracy clearly exceeding those observed during baseline conditions., Teacher ratings in all three experiments suggested that attentional training was an effective intervention for improving the classroom behavior of hyperactive children and normalized them to a significant degree. Additionally, post teacher and student questionnaires indicated that the program was viewed as effective, practical, and well-received by students and teachers alike. Suggestions were offered regarding the implementation of attentional training and medication for use in elementary school classrooms.
A COMPARISON OF BEHAVIORAL TECHNIQUES IN THE MODIFICATION OF HETEROSOCIAL PROBLEMS IN COLLEGE MALES.
HEIMBERG, RICHARD GORDON., The Florida State University
A comparison of compliance to group meditation, individual meditation and didactic group training in a program to help lower blood pressure in black adults.
Cort, Douglas Alan., Florida State University
The prevalence of hypertension is 2 to 4.5 times higher among blacks than whites. Rates of severely elevated pressures are 6 times higher for blacks. In addition, blacks are among the least likely to obtain treatment for this disease. While research suggests that meditation may be useful in lowering blood pressure, the results reflect a good deal of variability between patients. It was hypothesized that a large portion of this variance may be due to differences in compliance to the meditation...
Show moreThe prevalence of hypertension is 2 to 4.5 times higher among blacks than whites. Rates of severely elevated pressures are 6 times higher for blacks. In addition, blacks are among the least likely to obtain treatment for this disease. While research suggests that meditation may be useful in lowering blood pressure, the results reflect a good deal of variability between patients. It was hypothesized that a large portion of this variance may be due to differences in compliance to the meditation regimens., To test this hypothesis, an experiment was conducted with 51 black adults. Compliance was defined as attendance to the weekly meditation or educational training sessions. To increase compliance individuals were assigned to one of three groups; individual meditation, group meditation, or a didactic control group. Each participant was given a questionnaire to assess their degree of comfort with the condition to which they were assigned., The data support the claim that greater compliance to a meditation program leads to greater decreases in blood pressure. Determination of differences in degree of satisfaction and its subsequent effect on attendance to specific programs was not possible, probably because of structural problems in the phenomenological questionnaire.
A comparison of didactic and modeling instruction in grief intervention skills training.
Tait, Alison Norene., Florida State University
The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of two short-term grief education curricula, didactic (lecture) and modeling, in teaching students about grief and how to effectively interact with someone who was grieving. A control group was included in which subject read articles on euthanasia. Subjects were 84 students (67 females, 17 males) enrolled at a southeastern university who volunteered to participate in exchange for extra credit, and who met the inclusion criteria that...
Show moreThe purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of two short-term grief education curricula, didactic (lecture) and modeling, in teaching students about grief and how to effectively interact with someone who was grieving. A control group was included in which subject read articles on euthanasia. Subjects were 84 students (67 females, 17 males) enrolled at a southeastern university who volunteered to participate in exchange for extra credit, and who met the inclusion criteria that they not be acutely grieving. This study was unique in its incorporation of an analogue interaction that allowed for coding of subject responses to a grieving confederate. Subjects completed a demographic questionnaire, a grief knowledge test, and a death anxiety scale. They were ranked on the appropriateness of responses during the analogue interaction, and their responses in the analogue interaction were coded for degree of facilitativeness to the griever., MANOVAs were used to analyze the dependent measures by instructional format. No major findings for instruction emerged. MANOVAs were also conducted to examine subject gender and confederate gender. Significant results were obtained for subject gender in which females scored higher on a death anxiety scale than males. For confederate gender, subject who interacted with male confederates had significantly higher death anxiety scores, fewer total observation responses, fewer nonfacilitative responses, and a lower percentage of nonfacilitative responses., Potential limitations of the study were that the lecture and modeling instructional units may have been too brief, and the subject population may have been knowledgeable in therapeutic techniques and grief information, thereby deriving few benefits from instruction.
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Athlete Transition: Effects of Coping on Self-Concept Clarity of NCAA Athletes.
Cologgi, Kimberly A. (Kimberly Ann), Chow, Graig Michael, Newman, Joshua I., Tenenbaum, Gershon, Conway, P. (Paul), Florida State University, College of Education, Department of...
Show moreCologgi, Kimberly A. (Kimberly Ann), Chow, Graig Michael, Newman, Joshua I., Tenenbaum, Gershon, Conway, P. (Paul), Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational Psychology and Learning Systems
Understanding athlete transition is a complex process which involves many subjective pieces. A review of previous literature on athletic career termination has shown that two of the most highly debated topics include athletes' specific reason for retirement (Cockerill 2004; Orlick & Sinclair 1993; Webb, Nasco, Riley, & Headrick 1998), and the coping techniques employed by athletes during their transition period (Coakley 1983; Grove, Lavallee, & Gordon, 1997; Lavallee 2005; Sinclair & Orlick,...
Show moreUnderstanding athlete transition is a complex process which involves many subjective pieces. A review of previous literature on athletic career termination has shown that two of the most highly debated topics include athletes' specific reason for retirement (Cockerill 2004; Orlick & Sinclair 1993; Webb, Nasco, Riley, & Headrick 1998), and the coping techniques employed by athletes during their transition period (Coakley 1983; Grove, Lavallee, & Gordon, 1997; Lavallee 2005; Sinclair & Orlick, 1993; Reynolds 1981). The purpose of this study was to examine important components involved in retirement from National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) competitive athletics: self-concept clarity, athletic identity, willingness to retire, coping and overall life satisfaction. Self-concept clarity was conceptualized as the primary variable of focus because it tends to be internally consistent over time (Lodi-Smith & Roberts, 2010), and previous studies have shown that the effect of role exits and entries negatively predicts one's perceived self-concept clarity (Light & Visser, 2013). Participants were female (n=148) and male (n=89) former NCAA athletes from over 75 different Division I colleges and universities across the United States, ranging in age from 20 to 27 years old (M=22.47, SD=.837). They were to be no more than 12 months removed from their last NCAA game or practice, and the total number of months they were retired ranged from 1 to 12 months (M=7.77, SD= 2.1). Path analyses were used to determine which factors significantly contributed to self-concept clarity, and overall life satisfaction. Results revealed coping style, significantly mediated the relationship between athletic identity, willingness to retire, and self-concept clarity. Most importantly, emotion-focused coping lead to higher self-concept clarity for athletes during the transition process, and avoidance coping lead to a negative effect on athlete self-concept clarity.
FSU_2017SP_Cologgi_fsu_0071E_13694
Can Playing a Video Game Foster Computational Thinking Skills?.
Zhao, Weinan, Shute, Valerie J. (Valerie Jean), Dennis, Lawrence Carl, Reiser, Robert A., Ke, Fengfeng, Almond, Russell G., Florida State University, College of Education,...
Show moreZhao, Weinan, Shute, Valerie J. (Valerie Jean), Dennis, Lawrence Carl, Reiser, Robert A., Ke, Fengfeng, Almond, Russell G., Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational Psychology and Learning Systems
Computational thinking is increasingly recognized as an important skill set to learn for people living in the 21st century, and the middle school years comprise a critical stage to introduce children to computational thinking. Video game based learning is a promising way to foster computational thinking among middle school students, however, it is relatively less researched compared to other methods. In this dissertation study, I evaluated the effectiveness of a video game Penguin Go on...
Show moreComputational thinking is increasingly recognized as an important skill set to learn for people living in the 21st century, and the middle school years comprise a critical stage to introduce children to computational thinking. Video game based learning is a promising way to foster computational thinking among middle school students, however, it is relatively less researched compared to other methods. In this dissertation study, I evaluated the effectiveness of a video game Penguin Go on developing middle school students’ computational thinking skills, as well as on improving their attitudes toward computer science. I designed Penguin Go to cover the core components of computational thinking, including problem decomposition, abstraction, algorithmic thinking, conditional logic, iterative thinking, and debugging. I implemented the game based on Blockly, a block-based programming language. The game was evaluated with 43 middle school students during two weeks. In addition to the overall effectiveness of the game, I aimed to investigate the impact of a specific game feature—constraints on the number of blocks in a solution—on both students’ computational thinking skills and their attitudes toward computer science. Results showed that after playing Penguin Go for less than two hours, students’ computational thinking skills improved significantly, however, the additional constraints did not generate a significant impact on learning gains. Also, the game did not bring about significant attitudinal changes among students. The additional constraints, however, resulted in a significant negative change in students attitudes toward computer science. Implications of the findings and possible directions for future research regarding using these types of games to foster computational thinking are discussed.
FSU_FALL2017_Zhao_fsu_0071E_14222
The Cascading Effect: Mitigating the Effects of Choking under Pressure in Dancers.
Fryer, Ashley Marie, Tenenbaum, Gershon, Blessing, Susan K., Chow, Graig Michael, Welsh, Thomas M., Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational...
Show moreFryer, Ashley Marie, Tenenbaum, Gershon, Blessing, Susan K., Chow, Graig Michael, Welsh, Thomas M., Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational Psychology and Learning Systems
The purpose of this study was to explore the cascading mechanism of choking under pressure in dance, validate an integrated-perceptual model of choking, and examine the effectiveness of a 7-week combined self-talk and progressive muscle relaxation (ST-PMR) training program in alleviating the effects of self-consciousness in choking under pressure in dance. The proposed model aimed to determine the performance decline-choking incidence by evaluating the appraisal processes that contribute to...
Show moreThe purpose of this study was to explore the cascading mechanism of choking under pressure in dance, validate an integrated-perceptual model of choking, and examine the effectiveness of a 7-week combined self-talk and progressive muscle relaxation (ST-PMR) training program in alleviating the effects of self-consciousness in choking under pressure in dance. The proposed model aimed to determine the performance decline-choking incidence by evaluating the appraisal processes that contribute to the domino effect of choking under pressure prior to, during, and after a performance error occurs. The model additionally included self-presentational concerns on anxiety and performance decline. The study examined 23 dancers using a mixed method approach which consisted of a randomized pretest-posttest control group experiment and semi-structured interviews. Overall, the ST-PMR training program was effective in increasing self-confidence, self-efficacy, and overall performance rating in comparison to dancers in the control condition. In addition, the ST-PMR training decreased somatic and cognitive anxieties significantly for dancers in that condition in comparison to dancers in the control condition. However, the results failed to show a decrease in self-consciousness as expected. The integrated-perceptual model was also partially substantiated; pre-intervention data suggested that the dancers’ initial appraisals of their performance led to increased cognitive anxiety and emotional arousal which preceded initial error occurrence. The dancers’ ability to utilize coping skills contributed to the likelihood that they experienced subsequent errors, which is consistent with the integrated conceptual model of choking under pressure. However, the post-intervention data failed to support the study’s hypotheses as all dancers in the ST-PMR and control conditions did not experience the cascade effect. Additional implications for this study and future research are discussed in detail.
2018_Su_Fryer_fsu_0071E_14627
Change Management in Business: An Empirical Investigation of Practitioner Competencies.
Jun, Hye in, Klein, James D., Lamont, Bruce T., Driscoll, Marcy Perkins, Sampson, James P., Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational Psychology...
Show moreJun, Hye in, Klein, James D., Lamont, Bruce T., Driscoll, Marcy Perkins, Sampson, James P., Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational Psychology and Learning Systems
We live in a world that requires us to adapt to change rapidly in both professional and personal settings (Lorenzi & Riley, 2000; Murthy, 2007). For many businesses, change is a way to survive in a competitive market. Businesses must react quickly in order to remain competitive and overcome challenges in a volatile environment. One way to react effectively is to engage Change Management methodology in the organization. The purpose of the study was to help strengthen and validate competencies...
Show moreWe live in a world that requires us to adapt to change rapidly in both professional and personal settings (Lorenzi & Riley, 2000; Murthy, 2007). For many businesses, change is a way to survive in a competitive market. Businesses must react quickly in order to remain competitive and overcome challenges in a volatile environment. One way to react effectively is to engage Change Management methodology in the organization. The purpose of the study was to help strengthen and validate competencies developed by ACMP and determine which ones are most critical by collecting survey responses from Change Management practitioners. These members helped to identify the five most critical competencies that employers should actively seek among candidates and for colleges to better prepare students for the job market. The five competencies were Identify sponsors supporting and accountable for the change, Define the change, Determine why the change is required, Identify stakeholders affected by the change, and Execute, manage, and monitor implementation of change management plan. Findings revealed that four out of five top rated competencies were from the first category Evaluate change impact and organizational readiness. One explanation is that the vast majority of the top competencies found in the first category determine the likelihood of success of a project, therefore Change Management practitioners placed importance towards the first category.
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Combining Regression Slopes from Studies with Different Models in Meta-Analysis.
Jeon, Sanghyun, Becker, Betsy Jane, Huffer, Fred W. (Fred William), Yang, Yanyun, Paek, Insu, Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational...
Show moreJeon, Sanghyun, Becker, Betsy Jane, Huffer, Fred W. (Fred William), Yang, Yanyun, Paek, Insu, Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational Psychology and Learning Systems
Primary studies are using complex models more and more. Slopes from multiple regression analyses are reported in primary studies, but few scholars have dealt with how to combine multiple regression slopes. One of the problems in combining multiple regression slopes is that each study may use a different regression model. The purpose of this research is to propose a method for combining partial regression slopes from studies with different regression models. The method combines comparable...
Show morePrimary studies are using complex models more and more. Slopes from multiple regression analyses are reported in primary studies, but few scholars have dealt with how to combine multiple regression slopes. One of the problems in combining multiple regression slopes is that each study may use a different regression model. The purpose of this research is to propose a method for combining partial regression slopes from studies with different regression models. The method combines comparable covariance matrices to obtain a synthetic partial slope. The proposed method assumes the population is homogeneous, and that the different regression models are nested. Elements in the sample covariance matrix are not independent of each other, so missing elements should be imputed using conditional expectations. The Bartlett decomposition is used to decompose the sample covariance matrix into a parameter component and a sampling error component. The proposed method treats the sample-size weighted average as a parameter matrix and applies Bartlett’s decomposition to the sample covariance matrices to get their respective error matrices. Since missing elements in the error matrix are not correlated, missing elements can be estimated in the error matrices and hence in the parameter matrices. Finally the partial slopes can be computed from the combined matrices. Simulation shows the suggested method gives smaller standard errors than the listwise-deletion method and the pairwise-deletion method. An empirical examination shows the suggested method can be applied to heterogeneous populations.
FSU_FALL2017_Jeon_fsu_0071E_14179
Comparing Early Father-Daughter, Father-Son, Mother-Daughter, and Mother-Son Verbal Interactions in Low-SES Families.
Ingrole, Smriti A. (Smriti Aniket), Phillips, Beth M., Jones, Ithel, Roehrig, Alysia D., Yang, Yanyun, Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational...
Show moreIngrole, Smriti A. (Smriti Aniket), Phillips, Beth M., Jones, Ithel, Roehrig, Alysia D., Yang, Yanyun, Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational Psychology and Learning Systems
SES related differences in children’s early language skills influence their later language development. Parent-child verbal interactions during the initial years of children’s life play an important role in children’s early language development. Although both mothers’ and fathers’ early language input contributes to children’s language skills, until recently mothers were considered as the only primary caregivers of children and thus have been the focus of majority of the research in this area...
Show moreSES related differences in children’s early language skills influence their later language development. Parent-child verbal interactions during the initial years of children’s life play an important role in children’s early language development. Although both mothers’ and fathers’ early language input contributes to children’s language skills, until recently mothers were considered as the only primary caregivers of children and thus have been the focus of majority of the research in this area. The father’s role in a family has evolved in the past three decades meaning that fathers are increasingly spending more time with their children and contributing to their overall development. The evidence from limited research comparing mothers’ and fathers’ early speech with their preschool aged children is mixed. Also, some findings, mainly derived from research on mothers, suggest that parents socialize their sons and daughters differently, which reflects in early parent-child verbal interactions. In contrast, some research suggests that children, by the function of their own gender, elicit speech differently from their parents. Furthermore, there is an indication of differences in mother-son, mother-daughter, father-son, and father-daughter early talk. Considering the important role of parent and child gender in early parent-child verbal interactions, the current study aimed to compare parental quantity/quality and children’s quantity of language among the four independent groups of father-daughter, father-son, mother-daughter, and mother-son. A total of 112, mainly African-American, parent-child dyads were recruited for this study. Specifically, the sample included 32 father-daughter, 28 father-son, 26 mother-daughter, and 25 mother-son dyads. The convenience sample of children (37-60 months of age) and their respective mother or father were recruited from preschools known to serve a socio-economically disadvantaged population in the southeastern US. Semi-structured parent-child play sessions were videotaped at the child’s child-care facility for approximately 15-minutes. The videotapes were coded for parents’ quantity and quality of language and children’s quantity of language. The results indicated no differences among father-daughter, father-son, mother-daughter, and mother-son groups in terms of parental quantity/quality of language and children’s quantity of language. Suggesting the bi-directional nature of early parent-child interaction process, the exploratory analysis revealed significant differences in correlations among parental quantity/quality and child quantity of language across the four groups of this study.
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The Comparison of Standard Error Methods in the Marginal Maximum Likelihood Estimation of the Two-Parameter Logistic Item Response Model When the Distribution of the Latent Trait Is Nonnormal.
Lin, Zhongtian, Paek, Insu, Huffer, Fred W., Becker, Betsy Jane, Yang, Yanyun, Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational Psychology and Learning...
Show moreLin, Zhongtian, Paek, Insu, Huffer, Fred W., Becker, Betsy Jane, Yang, Yanyun, Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational Psychology and Learning Systems
A Monte Carlo simulation study was conducted to investigate the accuracy of several item parameter standard error (SE) estimation methods in item response theory (IRT) when the marginal maximum likelihood (MML) estimation method was used and the distribution of the underlying latent trait was nonnormal in the two-parameter logistic (2PL) model. The manipulated between-subject factors were sample size (N), test length (TL), and the shape of the latent trait distribution (Shape). The within...
Show moreA Monte Carlo simulation study was conducted to investigate the accuracy of several item parameter standard error (SE) estimation methods in item response theory (IRT) when the marginal maximum likelihood (MML) estimation method was used and the distribution of the underlying latent trait was nonnormal in the two-parameter logistic (2PL) model. The manipulated between-subject factors were sample size (N), test length (TL), and the shape of the latent trait distribution (Shape). The within-subject factor was the SE estimation method, which includes the expected Fisher information method (FIS), the empirical cross-product method (XPD), the supplemented-EM method (SEM), the forward difference method (FDM), the Richardson extrapolation method (REM), and the sandwich-type covariance method (SW). The commercial IRT software flexMIRT was used for item parameter estimation and SE estimation. Results showed that when other factors were hold equal, all of the SE methods studied were apt to produce less accurate SE estimates when the distribution of the underlying trait was positively skewed or positively skewed-bimodal, as compared to what they would produce when the distribution was normal. The degree of inaccuracy of each method for an individual item parameter depended on the magnitude of the relevant a and b parameter, and were affected more by the magnitude of the b parameter. On the test level, the overall average performance of the SE methods interact with N, TL, and Shape. The FIS was not viable when TL=40 and was only run when TL=15. For such a short test, it remained to be the “gold standard” as it estimated the SEs most accurately among all the methods, although it requires relatively longer time to run. The XPD method was the least time-consuming option and it generally performed very well when Shape is normal. However, it tended to produce positively biased results when a short test was paired with a small sample. The SW did not outperform other SE methods when Shape is nonnormal as the theory suggests. The FDM had somewhat larger variations when TL=1500 and TL=3000. The SEM and REM were most accurate among the SE methods in this study and appeared to be a good choice both for normal or non-normal cases. For each simulated condition, the average shape of the raw-score distribution was presented to help practitioners better infer the shape of the underlying distribution of latent trait when the truth about the latent trait distribution shape is unknown, thereby leading to more informed decisions of SE methods using the results of this study. Implications, limitations and future directions were discussed.
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The Contributions of Psychological Skills and Mindfulness to NCAA Student-Athlete Well-Being.
Foster, Brian Joseph, Chow, Graig Michael, Newman, Joshua I., Tenenbaum, Gershon, Dong, Shengli, Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational...
Show moreFoster, Brian Joseph, Chow, Graig Michael, Newman, Joshua I., Tenenbaum, Gershon, Dong, Shengli, Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational Psychology and Learning Systems
Participation in elite level sport requires being subjected to considerably stressful training and competition environments. Psychological skills and mindfulness have been demonstrated to enhance performance in sport, but less is known regarding how they impact an athlete's well-being in their sport and in their life. Greater knowledge of this relationship would aid practitioners in developing holistic, more psychologically well-adjusted student-athletes. To meet this end, 222 current NCAA...
Show moreParticipation in elite level sport requires being subjected to considerably stressful training and competition environments. Psychological skills and mindfulness have been demonstrated to enhance performance in sport, but less is known regarding how they impact an athlete's well-being in their sport and in their life. Greater knowledge of this relationship would aid practitioners in developing holistic, more psychologically well-adjusted student-athletes. To meet this end, 222 current NCAA Division I fall and winter sport athletes representing six different sports completed the Mental Health Continuum –Short Form (Keyes et al., 2008), Sport Mental Health Continuum –Short Form (Foster & Chow, 2016), Ottawa Mental Skills Assessment Tool-3 (Durand-Bush et al., 2001), Mindfulness Inventory for Sport (Thienot et al., 2014), and the Athletic Identity Measurement Scale (Brewer et al., 1993). Path analysis indicated that both psychological skills and mindfulness had significant moderate direct effects on sport well-being; however, only mindfulness was shown to have a significant moderate direct effect on global well-being. Correlational data indicated foundational skills and somatic skills, specifically self-confidence, relaxation, and activation, to be the most salient psychological skills for sport well-being and global-well. Nonjudgmental acceptance was the most salient mindfulness skill, as it had a moderate causal path to sport well-being and a strong causal path to global well-being. The practical implications of the findings include evidence for the importance of developing these skills in college athletes to enhance their sport well-being and global well-being.
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Critical Issues in Survey Meta-Analysis.
Gozutok, Ahmet Serhat, Becker, Betsy Jane, Huffer, Fred W., Yang, Yanyun, Paek, Insu, Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational Psychology and...
Show moreGozutok, Ahmet Serhat, Becker, Betsy Jane, Huffer, Fred W., Yang, Yanyun, Paek, Insu, Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational Psychology and Learning Systems
In research synthesis, researchers may aim at summarizing peoples' attitudes and perceptions of phenomena that have been assessed using different measures. Self-report rating scales are among the most commonly used measurement tools to quantify such latent constructs in education and psychology. However, self-report rating-scale questions measuring the same construct may differ from each other in many ways. Scale format, number of response options, wording of questions, and labeling of...
Show moreIn research synthesis, researchers may aim at summarizing peoples' attitudes and perceptions of phenomena that have been assessed using different measures. Self-report rating scales are among the most commonly used measurement tools to quantify such latent constructs in education and psychology. However, self-report rating-scale questions measuring the same construct may differ from each other in many ways. Scale format, number of response options, wording of questions, and labeling of response option categories may vary across questions. Consequently, variations across the measures of the same construct bring about the issue of comparability of the results across the studies in meta-analytic investigations. In this study, I examine the complexities of summarizing the results of different survey questions about the same construct in the meta-analytic fashion. More specifically, this study focuses on the practical problems that arise when combining survey items that differ from one another in the wording of question stems, numbers of response option categories, scale direction (i.e., unipolar and bipolar scales), response scale labeling (i.e., fully-labeled scales and endpoints-labeled scales), and response-option labeling (e.g., "extremely happy" - "completely happy" - "most happy", "pretty happy", "quite happy"- "moderately happy", and "not at all happy" - "least happy" - "most unhappy"). In addition, I propose practical solutions to handle the issues that arise due to such variations when conducting a meta-analysis. I discuss the implications of the proposed solutions from the perspective of meta-analysis. Examples are obtained from the collection of studies in the World Happiness Database (Veenhoven, 2006), which includes various single-item happiness measures.
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Designing Problem Based Learning for Teachers in Malaysia: A Study of the Nine-Step Problem Design Process.
Jamiat, Nurullizam, Klein, James D., Adams, Jonathan L., Dennen, Vanessa P., Jeong, Allan C., Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational...
Show moreJamiat, Nurullizam, Klein, James D., Adams, Jonathan L., Dennen, Vanessa P., Jeong, Allan C., Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational Psychology and Learning Systems
The purpose of this study was to investigate the use of the nine-step problem design process (Hung, 2009) to design a problem based learning course. I applied a descriptive case study approach to conduct design and development research (Richey & Klein, 2007). The study was conducted in the Malaysian teacher education setting. In this study, I served both as the researcher and instructional designer of the course. The instructor also involved as co-designer. The student participants were 25...
Show moreThe purpose of this study was to investigate the use of the nine-step problem design process (Hung, 2009) to design a problem based learning course. I applied a descriptive case study approach to conduct design and development research (Richey & Klein, 2007). The study was conducted in the Malaysian teacher education setting. In this study, I served both as the researcher and instructional designer of the course. The instructor also involved as co-designer. The student participants were 25 preservice teachers enrolled in a video production course. Various data sources were collected such as a designer log, extant data, surveys, and interviews. The findings indicated that the nine-step problem design process was somewhat suitable in the context of this study due to conditions such as decision-making power, existing materials, lack of knowledge, unclear information of the steps, and time. Therefore, it is recommended that designers have client buy-in when deciding which design model or processes to follow and have some content expertise and experience designing problem based learning. It is also important to have subject matter expert involvement when using the steps to design problem based learning. In regards of participants’ perceptions, the instructor had positive views toward problem based learning and indicated her intention to use it again in the future. However, the instructor felt that designing problem based learning was a challenging and time-consuming task. Overall, the students found problem based learning to be interesting but challenging in terms of completing the video competition and reflection tasks. For future research, performance data such as students’ achievement and problem-solving skills should be collected to inform the effectiveness of the problems developed by using the nine-step problem design process.
2018_Sp_Jamiat_fsu_0071E_14288
Dimensions of Undergraduate Research: Research Engagement, Researcher Role-Identity Salience, Awareness, Interest, and Career Attitudes Among Diverse Undergraduate Majors.
Nzekwe, Brandon Joshua Okechukwu, Losh, Susan Carol, Schwartz, Robert A., Phillips, Beth M., Becker, Betsy Jane, Hughes, Roxanne M. (Roxanne Marie), Florida State University,...
Show moreNzekwe, Brandon Joshua Okechukwu, Losh, Susan Carol, Schwartz, Robert A., Phillips, Beth M., Becker, Betsy Jane, Hughes, Roxanne M. (Roxanne Marie), Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational Psychology and Learning Systems
This study investigated dimensions of undergraduate research among diverse academic majors at a large Southeastern public research university. Undergraduates' engagement in research, awareness of research opportunities, interests in participating in research activities, researcher role-identity salience, and research career attitudes were collectively examined. Special attention was paid to effects associated with gender, race/ethnicity, academic class level, first-generation college status,...
Show moreThis study investigated dimensions of undergraduate research among diverse academic majors at a large Southeastern public research university. Undergraduates' engagement in research, awareness of research opportunities, interests in participating in research activities, researcher role-identity salience, and research career attitudes were collectively examined. Special attention was paid to effects associated with gender, race/ethnicity, academic class level, first-generation college status, and academic major. The study proposed a researcher role-identity salience measurement model resulting from confirmatory factor analysis of a 4-factor solution that fit well to the data. Findings suggest that the proposed researcher role-identity salience model of this study is a useful instrument for measuring the extent to which undergraduates identify with a role of a researcher. Dimensions of undergraduate research varied significantly by gender, race/ethnicity, and college major. Specifically, research engagement, researcher role-identity salience, research career attitudes, research participation interest, and awareness of research opportunities tended to be most positive among male students, Asian/Pacific Islander students, and physical and life sciences majors. These dimensions of undergraduate research tended to be least positive among female students, Black/African-American and White/non-Hispanic students. Engagement in research intensive activities was found to positively relate to other dimensions of undergraduate research, particularly researcher role-identity salience and awareness of research opportunities; being a science major was found to positively relate to research participation interest. The results from this study may help explain undergraduates' attitudes toward and identification with prospective occupational role-identities, and assist in identifying undergraduate populations that may benefit from increased promotion and availability of research intensive experiences. Deeper understanding of these relationships will inform how undergraduate research experiences affect the next generation of research professionals through occupational identity development and career attitudes.
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The Effect of ARCS-Based Motivational Email Messages on Participation in an Online ESOL Class.
Trotta, James, Klein, James D., McDowell, Stephen D., Darabi, Aubteen, Almond, Russell G., Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational Psychology...
Show moreTrotta, James, Klein, James D., McDowell, Stephen D., Darabi, Aubteen, Almond, Russell G., Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational Psychology and Learning Systems
The purpose of this study was to measure the impact of ARCS-based motivational email messages (MVEMs) on student participation in a free online English for Speakers of other Languages (ESOL) course. The course consisted of 10 communicative tasks and learners were to complete two tasks per week for five weeks. Each task involved pre-task activities with model language before students completed the communicative task by posting on the class message board. Students received task instructions via...
Show moreThe purpose of this study was to measure the impact of ARCS-based motivational email messages (MVEMs) on student participation in a free online English for Speakers of other Languages (ESOL) course. The course consisted of 10 communicative tasks and learners were to complete two tasks per week for five weeks. Each task involved pre-task activities with model language before students completed the communicative task by posting on the class message board. Students received task instructions via email. The independent variable (IV) for the study was type of email students received. The IV had three levels. The control group received task instructions via email. The experimental groups received the same task instructions with added ARCS-based motivational messages related to relevance, confidence, and volition. One experimental group received non-personalized relevance messages while the second experimental group received personalized relevance messages. Students received two emails per week for five weeks during the course. The emails were sent regardless of participation or performance so even students who did not complete any communicative tasks were sent 10 emails with instructions and, depending on group assignment, motivational messages. I measured participation based on number of students who completed at least one task, number of tasks completed, number of words written, number of visits to pre-task webpages, and time logged in to the class message board. Results suggest that ARCS-based MVEMs may encourage students to participate in free online language classes as both experimental groups outperformed the control group. No clear difference was found between the personalized and non-personalized MVEM groups. I also asked students for their thoughts about participation in the class. A qualitative content analysis revealed that students blamed commitments such as work, school, and family for lack of participation in the free ESOL class. Students credited the communicative tasks when they participated in the class. Students who received MVEMs appreciated the confidence and volitional messages. Implications for increasing student participation in free, online language courses are provided.
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The Effects of a Psychological Skills Training Program on Maintenance of Use and Self-Efficacy in Psychological Methods.
Klein, Tyler Gregory, Chow, Graig Michael, Panton, Lynn B., Tenenbaum, Gershon, Turner, Jeannine E. (Jeannine Ellen), Florida State University, College of Education, Department...
Show moreKlein, Tyler Gregory, Chow, Graig Michael, Panton, Lynn B., Tenenbaum, Gershon, Turner, Jeannine E. (Jeannine Ellen), Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational Psychology and Learning Systems
This study explored maintenance of psychological method use and self-efficacy of method use during and following a systematic psychological skills training (PST) program. A sample size of 44 division-I collegiate athletes (27 males, 17 females) competing in baseball (n=19), softball (n=14), and track and field (n=11) sports participated in a quasi-experimental, two-group, untreated control group design study with dependent pretest-posttest and three-month follow-up. The PST program, titled...
Show moreThis study explored maintenance of psychological method use and self-efficacy of method use during and following a systematic psychological skills training (PST) program. A sample size of 44 division-I collegiate athletes (27 males, 17 females) competing in baseball (n=19), softball (n=14), and track and field (n=11) sports participated in a quasi-experimental, two-group, untreated control group design study with dependent pretest-posttest and three-month follow-up. The PST program, titled AIM (Adopt, Integrate, Maintain), combined evidence-based practices with pragmatic psychological method use recommendations, and was implemented using systematic protocols for each session. Participants received four successive and cumulative PST sessions consisting of goal setting, relaxation, imagery, and self-talk that emphasized education, skill building, self-monitoring, and regulation of psychological methods. Participants were measured on use of psychological methods via the Test of Performance Strategies-2 (TOPS-2; Hardy, Roberts, Thomas, & Murphy, 2010) and self-efficacy in use of psychological methods via a scale constructed based on Bandura’s (2006) recommendations. Both measures were administered pretest (pre-intervention), posttest (one week following fourth session), and at six-week follow-up. Repeated measures MANOVAs conducted for method use and method efficacy separately, revealed nonsignificant interaction effects. Conversely, within-subjects contrasts revealed treatment group participants significantly increased (pre- to posttest) and maintained (posttest to follow-up) method use in relaxation, imagery, and self-talk. Control group contrasts indicated significant increases in imagery from posttest to follow-up. For method efficacy, the treatment group significantly increased and maintained efficacy for all four methods with no significant changes for the control group. To the author’s knowledge, this is the first sport psychology study to employ intervention fidelity monitoring, revealing full adherence and adequate intervention quality. Overall, findings from the study revealed support for increasing and maintaining method use and efficacy treatment gains three months following PST.
FSU_SUMMER2017_Klein_fsu_0071E_14076
The Effects of Acute Exercise on Driving Performance and Executive Functions in Healthy Older Adults.
Lebeau, Jean-Charles, Tenenbaum, Gershon, Panton, Lynn B., Chow, Graig Michael, Turner, Jeannine E. (Jeannine Ellen), Florida State University, College of Education, Department...
Show moreLebeau, Jean-Charles, Tenenbaum, Gershon, Panton, Lynn B., Chow, Graig Michael, Turner, Jeannine E. (Jeannine Ellen), Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational Psychology and Learning Systems
The benefits of exercise on cognitive functioning are well established. One population that especially benefits from exercise is older adults. Research has demonstrated that chronic exercise in older adults improves cognitive functioning; especially executive functioning. One limitation of the current literature is that researchers have almost exclusively relied on well-controlled laboratory tasks to assess cognition. Moreover, the effects of a single bout of exercise in older adults have...
Show moreThe benefits of exercise on cognitive functioning are well established. One population that especially benefits from exercise is older adults. Research has demonstrated that chronic exercise in older adults improves cognitive functioning; especially executive functioning. One limitation of the current literature is that researchers have almost exclusively relied on well-controlled laboratory tasks to assess cognition. Moreover, the effects of a single bout of exercise in older adults have received limited attention. The proposed study addresses these limitations by (1) introducing a more ecologically valid, real-life task relevant to the older population (i.e., driving), and (2) assessing the effects of an acute bout of aerobic exercise on driving performance and executive functioning. This study employed a randomized controlled design and compared the effects of 20min cycling at moderate intensity vs. sitting and watching driving videos on driving performance. Driving performance was measured with three different scenarios assessing variables such as decision making, driving errors, reaction time, and attention. On a subsequent session, all participants performed a submaximal fitness test. This fitness test served as exercise and executive functioning was assessed before and after this exercise by counterbalancing two commonly used measures of executive functions: The Trail Making Test (TMT) and the Stroop test. Non-significant effects of exercise were observed on driving performance across all three scenarios. These results might be explained in terms of differences in expectations, as the video control group had higher expectations, compared to the exercise group, for the effects of the intervention on driving performance. An additional possible explanation is that participants were experienced drivers and the driving task was not challenging enough to benefit from exercise. However, a significant effect of exercise on more traditional executive functions tasks (i.e., TMT and Stroop test) emerged. Participants had a better performance on the TMT and Stroop test after exercise compared to before exercise. These results demonstrate the difficulty of using a more ecologically valid task and challenges the transfer of the current laboratory results in exercise psychology to everyday life functioning. This study also highlights the importance of assessing expectations as a possible moderator of the effects of acute aerobic exercise on cognitive functioning. Future studies should examine other relevant ecologically valid tasks and insure similar expectations between experimental and control groups to further advance the knowledge base in the field.
FSU_SUMMER2017_Lebeau_fsu_0071E_14079
Effects of Annotation Sharing and Guided Annotation Strategies on Second Language Reading.
Huang, Yujia, Shute, Valerie J., Lan, Feng, Dennen, Vanessa P., Ke, Fengfeng, Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational Psychology and Learning...
Show moreHuang, Yujia, Shute, Valerie J., Lan, Feng, Dennen, Vanessa P., Ke, Fengfeng, Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational Psychology and Learning Systems
Computerized annotation has gained great popularity and is a main tool among the various explorations of computerized second language reading. The present dissertation study investigated whether and how annotation sharing and guidance on annotation strategies could promote second language reading comprehension. In this study, I proposed six annotation strategies which fulfilled the need to deepen second language learners’ understanding about the basic components and developing their skills to...
Show moreComputerized annotation has gained great popularity and is a main tool among the various explorations of computerized second language reading. The present dissertation study investigated whether and how annotation sharing and guidance on annotation strategies could promote second language reading comprehension. In this study, I proposed six annotation strategies which fulfilled the need to deepen second language learners’ understanding about the basic components and developing their skills to use the components to express their thoughts. The results revealed that annotation sharing was more effective than private annotation, and guidance on annotation strategies was more effective than personal strategies (though this difference was not significant) in promoting L2 reading comprehension. Implications of the findings relating how to better use the guided annotation strategies and how to integrate them into second language learning and teaching are discussed.
2018_Sp_Huang_fsu_0071E_14400
The Effects of Cardiovascular Health on Cognitive Function and Driving Performance among Healthy Older Adults.
Mason, Justin Richard, Tenenbaum, Gershon, Panton, Lynn B., Chow, Graig Michael, Yang, Yanyun, Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational...
Show moreMason, Justin Richard, Tenenbaum, Gershon, Panton, Lynn B., Chow, Graig Michael, Yang, Yanyun, Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational Psychology and Learning Systems
Aging is associated with a decline in cognitive and psychomotor functions, resulting in difficulties with daily activities such as driving. Cognitive function has been found to be associated with arterial stiffening. These age-related decrements can be mitigated through routine aerobic exercise. To determine the effects of life-long aerobic exercise on cognitive function, driving performance, and cardiovascular health (i.e., arterial stiffness and thickness) among older adults (65 – 84 years...
Show moreAging is associated with a decline in cognitive and psychomotor functions, resulting in difficulties with daily activities such as driving. Cognitive function has been found to be associated with arterial stiffening. These age-related decrements can be mitigated through routine aerobic exercise. To determine the effects of life-long aerobic exercise on cognitive function, driving performance, and cardiovascular health (i.e., arterial stiffness and thickness) among older adults (65 – 84 years old). A cross-sectional design was utilized to compare 27 endurance-trained older adults with 35 sedentary counterparts. Driving performance and cognitive function were measured via driving simulator and a cognitive battery, respectively. Cardiovascular health was assessed via a perceptually-regulated exercise test, carotid-intima media thickness (IMT) via Doppler ultrasound, and carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (cf-PWV). Fitness comparisons were made using an independent sample t-test. Cognitive function and driving performance scores were transformed to Z-scores. VO2max was higher in the endurance-trained group compared to the sedentary group (41±9 vs 25±3 ml/kg/min, p<.01). There were no differences between the groups in cf-PWV (12±2 vs. 12±2 m/s), carotid-IMT (.74±.15 vs .76±.13 mm), nor cognitive function scores (-.01±.57 vs -.09±.97). However, the endurance-trained group performed better on the driving simulator (.18±.58 vs -.28±.92, p<.05). Enhanced cardiorespiratory fitness may mitigate age-related decrements to driving performance.
FSU_FALL2017_Mason_fsu_0071E_14223
Effects of Different Types of Annotations on College Students' Foreign Language Learning in the Synchronous Multimodal Computer-Mediated Communication Environment.
Xue, Xinrong, Dennen, Vanessa P., Niu, Xufeng, Ke, Fengfeng, Klein, James D., Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational Psychology and Learning...
Show moreXue, Xinrong, Dennen, Vanessa P., Niu, Xufeng, Ke, Fengfeng, Klein, James D., Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational Psychology and Learning Systems
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of different types of annotations on college students’ foreign language learning in the synchronous computer-mediated communication environment. One hundred and forty-seven second year students were randomly assigned to three conditions: text-only annotations, text + picture annotations, and no annotation. Results indicated that students who received the text-only annotations and the text + picture annotations significantly outperform...
Show moreThe purpose of this study was to examine the effects of different types of annotations on college students’ foreign language learning in the synchronous computer-mediated communication environment. One hundred and forty-seven second year students were randomly assigned to three conditions: text-only annotations, text + picture annotations, and no annotation. Results indicated that students who received the text-only annotations and the text + picture annotations significantly outperform students who had no access to any annotations on information comprehension and vocabulary learning. However, no significant differences between the two annotations groups were found. The findings, when examined in light of the previous research about computer-based multimedia learning, call into questions of instructional materials design and instructional support that should be provided to students during instruction. The study extended research on applying multimedia principles to different teaching and learning situations, specifically, the synchronous multimodal computer-mediated communication environment.
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Effects of Embodied Interactions on Learning in a Kinect-Enabled Learning Environment.
Xu, Xinhao, Ke, Fengfeng, Erlebacher, Gordon, Shute, Valerie J. (Valerie Jean), Jeong, Allan C., Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational...
Show moreXu, Xinhao, Ke, Fengfeng, Erlebacher, Gordon, Shute, Valerie J. (Valerie Jean), Jeong, Allan C., Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational Psychology and Learning Systems
Embodied interactions and learning have garnered a lot of interest among researchers and game designers in past years, especially with the recent development of consumer-level body sensory devices like the Microsoft Kinect. This study focused on examining whether embodied interactions, enabled by the Kinect, could lead to greater knowledge acquisition compared to traditional mouse-based interactions working with STEM-related (numeric systems) and language-related (Chinese character) learning...
Show moreEmbodied interactions and learning have garnered a lot of interest among researchers and game designers in past years, especially with the recent development of consumer-level body sensory devices like the Microsoft Kinect. This study focused on examining whether embodied interactions, enabled by the Kinect, could lead to greater knowledge acquisition compared to traditional mouse-based interactions working with STEM-related (numeric systems) and language-related (Chinese character) learning in a virtual learning environment for adult learners. Embodied cognition, body movements and learning, cognitive processing theories were discussed as a theoretical framework for this study. A 3D virtual learning environment was designed, in which learners could interact with the instructional materials through either their body movements, or a mouse. The study utilized an experimental, two-group, pre- and posttest design. The experimental group used the Kinect-enabled embodied interactions and the control group used the traditional mouse-based interactions during an on-site learning intervention. Fifty-three adult participants were recruited and randomly assigned to either the experimental group or the control group. Scores from immediate posttest and delayed posttest between the two groups were compared with ANCOVA using pretest score as the covariate. Statistical results informed that embodied interactions enabled by the Kinect facilitated learning in numeric systems and Chinese characters for the participating adult learners. However, compared with the mouse interaction, the embodied interaction enabled by the Kinect did not lead to significantly better knowledge retention and application results in both immediate posttest and delayed posttest in numeric systems learning. And for Chinese characters learning, compared with the mouse interaction, the embodied interaction enabled by the Kinect did not lead to significantly better knowledge retention results in the immediate posttest either, but achieved significantly better performance in the delayed posttest. The study outcome implies that Kinect-based embodied interactions do not necessarily lead to better learning performances over traditional mouse-based interactions for adult learners. The performances may depend on subject areas, and at what time learners’ knowledge retrieval were evaluated. When designing computer-mediated learning modules, researchers and practitioners should not only look at the new technology and novel approaches to interacting with the computers, but also take the subject areas, learners, and time issues into consideration as well.
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Effects of Instructional Strategies Based on the Music Model of Academic Motivation on Undergraduate Mathematics Students' Subject Learning.
Puplampu, Nefertiti, Dennen, Vanessa P., McDowell, Stephen D., Klein, James D., Paek, Insu, Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational Psychology...
Show morePuplampu, Nefertiti, Dennen, Vanessa P., McDowell, Stephen D., Klein, James D., Paek, Insu, Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational Psychology and Learning Systems
This study is a quantitative, quasi-experimental inquiry into the effectiveness of motivational instructional strategies on undergraduate math students' subject learning. Secondarily, it examines the effects of the motivational strategies on the effort students exert in lesson activities, and on their motivation within the lesson. The treatment in this study is based on the MUSIC® Model of Academic Motivation and was conducted within a single lesson. The existing literature shows that...
Show moreThis study is a quantitative, quasi-experimental inquiry into the effectiveness of motivational instructional strategies on undergraduate math students' subject learning. Secondarily, it examines the effects of the motivational strategies on the effort students exert in lesson activities, and on their motivation within the lesson. The treatment in this study is based on the MUSIC® Model of Academic Motivation and was conducted within a single lesson. The existing literature shows that motivational instructional design by lay educators is often hindered by the complexity of the field, and by the specialization of existing motivational models. The MUSIC Model holds some promise in organizing and simplifying motivational strategies such that classroom educators and non-instructional specialists can apply them in their lesson design. The research questions for the study are "How do MUSIC based motivational instructional strategies affect student learning, student effort and the five components of students' motivation within an undergraduate math lesson?" Two sections of a single mathematics course, taught by one instructor, were participants in the study. The treatment section received the MUSIC intervention for the lesson. This research intervention was created by mapping each of the lesson activities to each component in the motivational model, thereby generating motivation enhanced adaptations of lesson activities. Students were tested and surveyed post-lesson for all three variables; subject learning, effort and lesson motivation perceptions. Results of the study inform and facilitate the design and implementation of further engaged lessons based on the MUSIC Model.
2018_Fall_Puplampu_fsu_0071E_14929
The Effects of Presentation Timing and Learner Control on Effectiveness and Efficiency on Learning Statistics Skills.
Aktan, Filiz, Jeong, Allan C., Erlebacher, Gordon, Dennen, Vanessa P., Klein, James D., Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational Psychology and...
Show moreAktan, Filiz, Jeong, Allan C., Erlebacher, Gordon, Dennen, Vanessa P., Klein, James D., Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational Psychology and Learning Systems
Use of real, authentic whole tasks in training has been the focus of current instructional theories and practical educational approaches (Merrill, 2002; Reigeluth, 1999; van Merrienboer & Kirschner, 2001). However, teaching authentic tasks poses challenges because of the complex nature of these tasks and the limited capacity of working memory. To overcome these challenges, van Merrienboer and Paas (1996) proposed the Four Components of Instructional Design (4C/ID) model to teach authentic...
Show moreUse of real, authentic whole tasks in training has been the focus of current instructional theories and practical educational approaches (Merrill, 2002; Reigeluth, 1999; van Merrienboer & Kirschner, 2001). However, teaching authentic tasks poses challenges because of the complex nature of these tasks and the limited capacity of working memory. To overcome these challenges, van Merrienboer and Paas (1996) proposed the Four Components of Instructional Design (4C/ID) model to teach authentic complex skills without overloading the working memory. The model has four components: learning tasks, supportive information, procedural information, and part-task practice. Basing the 4C/ID model, Kester et al. (2001) suggest that presenting supportive information before and supportive information during the task practice would lead to more effective and efficient instruction than presenting the procedural information before and supportive during the practice tasks. Even though the ‘supportive before, procedural during’ information presentation format has been hypothesized to be superior to the other information presentation formats (i.e., supportive before, procedural before; supportive during, procedural before; supportive during, procedural during), not all empirical studies and findings confirm this particular hypothesis (Kester et al., 2001; Kester, Kirschner, & van Merrienboer, 2004a; Kester, Kirschner, & van Merrienboer, 2006). To explain these conflicting findings, differences in the degree to which learners were allowed or not allowed to review information presented prior to the practice session (learner control) was tested in this study. The purposes of this study were to (a) investigate the effects of the information presentation format on practice tasks, posttest, transfer test, mental effort, instructional efficiency, and performance efficiency, (b) investigate the effects of the learner control on practice tasks, posttest, transfer test, mental effort, instructional efficiency, and performance efficiency, (c) reveal the interaction effects, if there is, between the information presentation format and learner control on the practice tasks, posttest, transfer test, mental effort, instructional efficiency, and performance efficiency, and (d) assess the students’ attitudes toward the instructional modules. To accomplish these purposes, the study used 2x2 (n=4) factorial design to compare the effects of presenting supportive information before procedural information during the practice tasks with learner control (PS_L); presenting supportive information before procedural information during the practice tasks with system control (PS_S); presenting supportive information before procedural information during the practice with learner control (SP_L); and presenting supportive information before procedural information during the practice tasks with system control (SP_S). The dependent variables were practice task scores, post-test, transfer test, mental effort, time-on-task, instructional efficiency, and performance efficiency. The students completed a demographic survey, two modules with practice tasks, post-test, transfer test, and an attitude survey. The learner control group was enabled the students to go back and review supportive information during task practice within the entire course while the system control group were not able to go back to review the procedural information they receive prior to starting the task practice. Overall, ninety-hundred participants from a southern city in the United States are assigned to one of four conditions. The results revealed that students in the PS group performed significantly better on the practice tasks and posttest than students in the SP group; students in the learner control group performed significantly better than students in the system control group on the practice tasks and posttest. Even though no interaction found between the timing of information presentation format and learner control on the dependent variables, the post hoc results showed that presenting procedural information before the practice tasks with learner control led to a greater performance on the practice tasks, posttest, and instructional efficiency. Regarding to the post study learners’ attitude survey, the SP_L group showed more positive attitude toward the instruction than the other groups even though the PS_L group performed significantly better than the other groups. Overall, the study found some evidence that presenting procedural information before practice task was more effective and efficient than presenting supportive information before practice task when given learner control. In cases where it is possible to provide learner control (such as an online self-paced instructions), the findings in this study suggest that instructors use the PS presentation format. Considering the limitations of this study, the findings in this study are not conclusive.
FSU_SUMMER2017_AKTAN_fsu_0071E_14055
Error-Detection in Marksmanship: Merging Overt and Covert Paradigms.
Sanati Monfared, Shamsi, Tenenbaum, Gershon, Folstein, Jonathan R., Ericsson, K. Anders (Karl Anders), Chow, Graig Michael, Florida State University, College of Education,...
Show moreSanati Monfared, Shamsi, Tenenbaum, Gershon, Folstein, Jonathan R., Ericsson, K. Anders (Karl Anders), Chow, Graig Michael, Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational Psychology and Learning Systems
The study of expertise and superior performance can be more imperative when performance is assessed in real-life conditions and professions. The present study’s aim was to capture the performance of expert marksmanship through the observation of error-detection awareness—an essential anticipatory and cognitive skill in expert performance. Two research paradigms were employed to study this phenomenon: (a) neuro-cognitive tracking, and (b) think aloud protocol. The neuro-cognitive paradigm...
Show moreThe study of expertise and superior performance can be more imperative when performance is assessed in real-life conditions and professions. The present study’s aim was to capture the performance of expert marksmanship through the observation of error-detection awareness—an essential anticipatory and cognitive skill in expert performance. Two research paradigms were employed to study this phenomenon: (a) neuro-cognitive tracking, and (b) think aloud protocol. The neuro-cognitive paradigm consisted of tracking brain activity via the use of neuro-imaging technology (electroencephalography, EEG). The “think aloud” paradigm consisted of tracking thoughts and sensation expressed during shooting preparation. Both approaches relied on chronometric experimental procedures using a warning stimulus and subsequent imperative stimulus (using Tenenbaum & Summers’ model, 1997) to uncover the temporal progression of error-detection. The magnitude of error-detection signals associated with specific actions by observing the error-related negativity (ERN, a neural signal related to the commission of errors), along with the overt verbal report from performers (see Ericsson & Simon’s think aloud protocol, 1984) were measured. The results suggested that the expert shooters relied less on visual feedback in order to detect performance error.
FSU_FALL2017_SanatiMonfared_fsu_0071E_14068
An Evaluation of the Psychometric Properties of the Academic Behaviors and Skills of College Students (ABS-C) Scale.
Diers, Sarah E., Prevatt, Frances F., Lewis, Sandra, Krach, S. Kathleen, Becker, Martin Swanbrow, Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational...
Show moreDiers, Sarah E., Prevatt, Frances F., Lewis, Sandra, Krach, S. Kathleen, Becker, Martin Swanbrow, Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational Psychology and Learning Systems
The Academic Behaviors and Skills of College Students (ABS-C) Scale is a measure that assesses in- and out-of-classroom behaviors and skills that may be affecting current academic standing. The measure inquires for self-perceptions of why college students may be having difficulty in courses. The ABS-C Scale demonstrates promising utility as a single instrument that encompasses a variety of specific academic behaviors and skills. The 42-item scale includes six subscales that measure academic...
Show moreThe Academic Behaviors and Skills of College Students (ABS-C) Scale is a measure that assesses in- and out-of-classroom behaviors and skills that may be affecting current academic standing. The measure inquires for self-perceptions of why college students may be having difficulty in courses. The ABS-C Scale demonstrates promising utility as a single instrument that encompasses a variety of specific academic behaviors and skills. The 42-item scale includes six subscales that measure academic preparedness, time management, study skills, academic outcomes, assistance seeking, and classroom engagement. The ABS-C Scale can be easily and quickly administered via an online-based survey. The present study evaluated and provided further evidence for the psychometric properties of the ABS-C Scale. The findings provided evidence of reliability and validity by means of internal consistency, factorial validity (confirmatory factor analysis), and discriminant validity (group differences among those with ADHD, SLD, or no diagnosis). The ABS-C Scale has the potential to inform preventive measures and interventions that could increase achievement and be targeted to identify the academic needs of those with learning difficulties. This scale could be used to evaluate the effectiveness of programs designed to teach or remediate the use of effective academic competencies, as well as the efficacy of research efforts investigating these factors. In working with students with disabilities, this measure could also be useful in allowing practitioners to identify specific academic behaviors and skills that need remediation.
2018_Su_Diers_fsu_0071E_13793
Examining First-Year Student-Athlete Transition into College.
Freeman, Jaison Cleveland, Chow, Graig Michael, Taylor, John, Tenenbaum, Gershon, Becker, Martin Swanbrow, Florida State University, College of Education, Department of...
Show moreFreeman, Jaison Cleveland, Chow, Graig Michael, Taylor, John, Tenenbaum, Gershon, Becker, Martin Swanbrow, Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational Psychology and Learning Systems
The purpose of this study was to develop and test a model of first-year student-athlete (FYSA) transition into college. The model examined basic psychological need satisfaction (BPNS) levels in both athletic and collegiate domains, and the impact of BPNS in each domain on athletic (sport motivation, athlete satisfaction, sport confidence, perceived sport performance), academic (academic motivation, student satisfaction, academic self-efficacy, perceived academic performance), and quality of...
Show moreThe purpose of this study was to develop and test a model of first-year student-athlete (FYSA) transition into college. The model examined basic psychological need satisfaction (BPNS) levels in both athletic and collegiate domains, and the impact of BPNS in each domain on athletic (sport motivation, athlete satisfaction, sport confidence, perceived sport performance), academic (academic motivation, student satisfaction, academic self-efficacy, perceived academic performance), and quality of life outcomes amongst a sample of FYSA at various NCAA institutions in Divisions I, II, and III across the country (N = 260). The model was tested via path analysis, and the results revealed a number of significant direct associations between the factors. Included amongst the most notable and powerful of these relationships were influences of athletic competence on sport confidence, athletic autonomy on athlete satisfaction, collegiate competence on academic efficacy and academic motivation, and sport confidence on academic efficacy and integrated quality of life. The general conclusions of the study stressed the significant impact that BPNS and the development of psychological skills can have on the transition and adaptation process for FYSA. The analyses conducted in this study contribute to the development a deeper understanding of how FYSA experience transition into college and has potentially significant implications for how athletic department administrators approach and allocate resources to orienting FYSA to the campus community.
2018_Su_Freeman_fsu_0071E_14731
Exploring Firefighters' Views of Personal Impact, Coping Strategies, and Social Support Following Work-Related Crises.
Smith, Shannon Marie, Prevatt, Frances A., McWey, Lenore M., Roehrig, Alysia D., Dong, Shengli, Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational...
Show moreSmith, Shannon Marie, Prevatt, Frances A., McWey, Lenore M., Roehrig, Alysia D., Dong, Shengli, Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational Psychology and Learning Systems
Firefighters in the United States are at risk for developing a range of concerns given the physical and psychological risks of their job duties (Farnsworth & Sewell, 2011; Lourel, Abdellaoui, Chevaleyre, Paltrier, & Gana, 2008; McFarlane & Bryant, 2007; Wagner, McFee, & Martin, 2010). Additionally, the risk for suicide may be higher in this population than the general population (Savia, 2008). This phenomenological qualitative research study aimed to understand firefighters’ experiences...
Show moreFirefighters in the United States are at risk for developing a range of concerns given the physical and psychological risks of their job duties (Farnsworth & Sewell, 2011; Lourel, Abdellaoui, Chevaleyre, Paltrier, & Gana, 2008; McFarlane & Bryant, 2007; Wagner, McFee, & Martin, 2010). Additionally, the risk for suicide may be higher in this population than the general population (Savia, 2008). This phenomenological qualitative research study aimed to understand firefighters’ experiences following work-related crises, including how they were impacted across domains (e.g., emotional, cognitive, physical, relational), how they coped in the aftermath, and their use of social support. Therefore, 10 professional, active firefighters were interviewed in order to gain insights into their experiences. Additionally, an online survey was used as a sampling strategy, and to gain information on the types of events they experienced and those they find most distressing. The survey yielded a total of 132 completed responses with an additional 18 partial responses. The findings of this study included the identification of 11 cluster themes related to impact, coping strategies, and social support. Impact cluster themes included: different types of negative impact, different types of positive impact, circumstances of event, and cumulative impact of event. The themes related to coping strategies included: emotion-focused coping skills, problem-focused coping skills, and factors that are unhelpful to coping with an event. Lastly, social support themes included: types of support utilized, differences in support from firefighters and non-firefighters, barriers to using social support, and attitudes towards professional mental health services.
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Exploring the Relationship between Religious/Spiritual Coping Practices and Adaptation to an Aquired Physical Disability.
Fioramonti, Daniel, Ebener, Deborah J., Burdette, Amy M., Canto, Angela I., Dong, Shengli, Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational Psychology...
Show moreFioramonti, Daniel, Ebener, Deborah J., Burdette, Amy M., Canto, Angela I., Dong, Shengli, Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational Psychology and Learning Systems
This dissertation study sought to examine the extent to which both positive and negative religious/spiritual (R/S) coping practices predict adaptation to an acquired chronic illness or disability (CID). The predictive capacities of positive and negative R/S coping practices were evaluated after accounting for demographic variables, duration of disability, social support, and organizational religious activity. To gather data, a national sample of adults with physical disabilities was surveyed...
Show moreThis dissertation study sought to examine the extent to which both positive and negative religious/spiritual (R/S) coping practices predict adaptation to an acquired chronic illness or disability (CID). The predictive capacities of positive and negative R/S coping practices were evaluated after accounting for demographic variables, duration of disability, social support, and organizational religious activity. To gather data, a national sample of adults with physical disabilities was surveyed via Amazon's Mechanical Turk platform. Statistical analyses of relationships between variables were performed by running bivariate tests and generating two hierarchical multiple regression models. Results of the study indicated that higher educational attainment, higher yearly household income, and greater social support each significantly related to better adaptation to disability. Heightened negative R/S coping correlated inversely with adaptation. The output of a three-phase regression model showed that over and above educational attainment, yearly household income, and social support, negative R/S coping increased the explained variance in adaption by 10.8%. In fact, negative R/S coping proved to be the most powerful single predictor of adaptation in the model. Altogether, this four-factor model accounted for 39.5% of the variance in adaptation to CID. In a second three-phase regression model, the addition of positive R/S coping to demographic and social support factors did not alter the explained variance in adaptation outcomes. Results of this investigation will contribute to rehabilitation psychologists' knowledge about the relationship between positive and negative R/S coping practices and adaptation to CID. Such knowledge may assist rehabilitation practitioners in structuring screening and intervention efforts so as to reduce harmful R/S coping responses to CID onset and promote more adaptive R/S coping patterns.
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Factors Influencing and Predicting the Likelihood of Mental Health Help-Seeking of Collegiate Student-Athletes.
Bird, Matthew David, Chow, Graig Michael, Taylor, John, Tenenbaum, Gershon, Becker, Martin Swanbrow, Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational...
Show moreBird, Matthew David, Chow, Graig Michael, Taylor, John, Tenenbaum, Gershon, Becker, Martin Swanbrow, Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational Psychology and Learning Systems
Collegiate athletes experience mental health concerns at similar rates to non-athlete students, however, the student-athlete population underutilizes professional mental health help with only 10% of those in need seeking services. Criticisms of the extant research on student-athlete mental health help-seeking include studies that lack theoretical guidance, and convenience samples who are not experiencing a mental health issue. The aim of this study was to conduct a theoretically driven...
Show moreCollegiate athletes experience mental health concerns at similar rates to non-athlete students, however, the student-athlete population underutilizes professional mental health help with only 10% of those in need seeking services. Criticisms of the extant research on student-athlete mental health help-seeking include studies that lack theoretical guidance, and convenience samples who are not experiencing a mental health issue. The aim of this study was to conduct a theoretically driven investigation assessing factors of help-seeking associated with the Health Belief Model and Reasoned Action Approach while sampling student-athletes who identified as currently experiencing a personal or emotional health concern. More specifically, the purpose of this study was to investigate which factors of help-seeking behavior predict the likelihood that a student-athlete will seek professional help, and to identify the differences in help-seeking factors between student-athletes with a lower likelihood of seeking help compared to those with a higher likelihood of seeking help. Participants were 269 NCAA student-athletes who completed an online survey assessing factors related to their help-seeking behavior. A multiple liner regression reveled that perceived benefits, perceived susceptibility, and perceived attitudes factors were significant predictors of the likelihood that a student-athlete would seek treatment. Results from a one-way MANOVA showed significant differences between the lower likelihood and the higher likelihood of seeking help group on the perceived seriousness, perceived susceptibility, perceived benefits, instrumental barriers, stigma-related barriers, and the perceived attitudes factors. Additional information gathered in this study suggests the most frequently reported factors which prevented student-athletes from seeking help include a belief the issues they are experiencing is not that serious, or a desire to seek help from a source other than a mental health professional. Findings from this study have implications for athletic departments, campus counseling centers, and future interventions designed to enhance mental health help-seeking.
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Fathers of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: Understanding Stress, Coping, and Opportunities for Growth.
Nichols, Megan Adair, Canto, Angela I., Cripe, Juliann J. Woods, Phillips, Beth M, Turner, Jeannine E, Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational...
Show moreNichols, Megan Adair, Canto, Angela I., Cripe, Juliann J. Woods, Phillips, Beth M, Turner, Jeannine E, Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational Psychology and Learning Systems
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder that can affect an individual’s communication, social interactions, adaptive functioning, and academic achievement (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). Prevalence rates of those diagnosed with ASD have been increasing, with rates rising to one in 68 children diagnosed with ASD by the eight years of age (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2014). Although the presence of ASD symptomology varies between individuals,...
Show moreAutism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder that can affect an individual’s communication, social interactions, adaptive functioning, and academic achievement (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). Prevalence rates of those diagnosed with ASD have been increasing, with rates rising to one in 68 children diagnosed with ASD by the eight years of age (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2014). Although the presence of ASD symptomology varies between individuals, parents of children with ASD may experience a myriad of challenges in raising their child. Considering the pervasive nature of ASD, this subset of parents may be at an additional risk to experience chronic stress over time, which can lead to caregiver burnout or maladjustment to their parenting situation (Benson, 2014; Paynter et al., 2013; Pedersen, Crnic, & Baker, 2015). Although this experience is undoubtedly challenging, recent trends in the literature have suggested that this subset of parents may also be apt to experience stress-related growth or benefits in light of their parenting experience (DePape & Lindsay, 2015); however, less is known about this experience with fathers in general. Considering the lack of research on the experience of fathers with children with ASD, the current phenomenological study sought to better understand the parenting experience with fathers, including how their experience has changed over time. The current study also investigated the notion of stress-related growth with a small sample of fathers. Five fathers were successfully recruited for participation in the current study to answer the following research questions: Research Question 1: How do fathers initially describe the experience of raising a child with ASD and how has this experience changed over time? Research Question 2: What meaning or stress-related growth do fathers attribute to raising a child with ASD? To answer these questions, the participants first provided demographic information through an online survey and then completed a semi-structured interview with the researcher to learn more about their respective experiences. The data from this study resulted in the identification of four superordinate themes (e.g., initial impact, early stressors, coping strategies, and change over time), with 14 subordinate themes related to understanding the first research question (e.g., experience of fatherhood). Two superordinate themes (e.g., lessons learned, personal growth), with six subordinate themes, were associated with answering the second research question (e.g., meaning attributed to the parenting experience).
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Featured Student Profiles: An Instructional Blogging Strategy to Promote Student Interactions in Online Courses.
Lim, Taehyeong, Dennen, Vanessa P., Adams, Jonathan L., Klein, James D., Ke, Fengfeng, Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational Psychology and...
Show moreLim, Taehyeong, Dennen, Vanessa P., Adams, Jonathan L., Klein, James D., Ke, Fengfeng, Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational Psychology and Learning Systems
Although blogs have been used in online learning environments with optimistic expectations, the distributed nature of blogs can pose some challenges. Currently, we do not have a robust collection of tested blogging strategies to help students interact more effectively with each other when blogs are used as a primary form of engagement in an online class. Prior studies have illuminated the need for effective strategies that will lead to greater active engagement on student blogs. Thus, the...
Show moreAlthough blogs have been used in online learning environments with optimistic expectations, the distributed nature of blogs can pose some challenges. Currently, we do not have a robust collection of tested blogging strategies to help students interact more effectively with each other when blogs are used as a primary form of engagement in an online class. Prior studies have illuminated the need for effective strategies that will lead to greater active engagement on student blogs. Thus, the purpose of the study was to test an early iteration of an instructional blogging strategy, “Featured Student Profiles,” which is designed to help students become acquainted with each other better and encourage them to visit and comment on each other’s blogs. Eighteen undergraduate students who were enrolled in an online course for pre-service teachers in which student blogs are the primary medium of peer interactions, participated in the study. Using a case study design, seven students participated in interviews and all student blog interactions were analyzed. Thematic analysis was applied to analyze the interview data and identify salient themes of students’ blogging experiences overall under the study strategy. The findings indicated that students took the most direct and efficient path they experienced to complete the blog task. Their peer interaction patterns varied, but several shifted from random to targeted relationships as the semester progressed. Although all students perceived the strategy as a positive approach to peer awareness, there was no clear evidence of its effect on student interactions. This study provides three suggestions that are needed to achieve more effective use of the strategy.
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The Impact of Interpersonal Trauma Exposure and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder on Suicide-Related Outcomes.
Blankenship, Allison Paige, Canto, Angela I., Tripodi, Stephen J., Becker, Martin Swanbrow, Osborn, Debra S., Florida State University, College of Education, Department of...
Show moreBlankenship, Allison Paige, Canto, Angela I., Tripodi, Stephen J., Becker, Martin Swanbrow, Osborn, Debra S., Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational Psychology and Learning Systems
Relationships have been previously established between trauma exposure and suicide, particularly when the trauma exposure occurs during childhood, and when the event results in symptoms of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Interpersonal types of trauma (i.e., trauma within a human relationship) have been found to exhibit stronger relationships with both suicidal ideation (SI) and suicide attempts (SA) than noninterpersonal trauma (e.g., natural disaster). More specifically, interpersonal...
Show moreRelationships have been previously established between trauma exposure and suicide, particularly when the trauma exposure occurs during childhood, and when the event results in symptoms of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Interpersonal types of trauma (i.e., trauma within a human relationship) have been found to exhibit stronger relationships with both suicidal ideation (SI) and suicide attempts (SA) than noninterpersonal trauma (e.g., natural disaster). More specifically, interpersonal events that are physically assaultive exhibit stronger relationships with suicide-related outcomes than other types of trauma. Existing research has compared individual trauma events; however, there is a need to understand the differences between overarching types of trauma, and to explore the relationships between interpersonal trauma, age at time of exposure, PTSD, and suicide-related outcomes. The Interpersonal-Psychological Theory of Suicide (IPTS; Joiner, 2005) theorizes that death by suicide occurs when an individual possesses perceived burdensomeness (PB), thwarted belongingness (TB), and acquired capability for suicide (AC). Empirical evidence for IPTS is emerging, and relationships have been established between PB, TB, and AC with suicide-related outcomes. While interpersonal trauma exposure has been speculated to increase risk for PB, TB, and AC, there is a need to examine these relationships further, and to identify the interactions between trauma type and IPTS constructs. The first aim of the present study was to explore the relationships between trauma type (i.e., interpersonal assaultive, interpersonal non-assaultive, and noninterpersonal), age at time of trauma exposure, PTSD symptomology, and suicide-related outcomes (i.e., SI, SA, and severity of suicide-related outcomes (SSRO; a single variable that encompasses both SI and SA)). Given the existing relationships noted in literature, it was hypothesized that all variables would be significantly related to all suicide-related outcomes, and predictive of SSRO. Specifically, it was hypothesized that interpersonal assaultive trauma would demonstrate a stronger relationship with SSRO than the other trauma types. The second goal of the present study was to explore the relationships between trauma type and the IPTS constructs of PB, TB, and AC (Joiner, 2005) with suicide-related outcomes, as well as to explore interactions between IPTS constructs and trauma type. It was hypothesized that each IPTS construct would be significantly related to all suicide-related outcomes, and predictive of SSRO. Based on the conceptual understanding that assaultive trauma events increase habituation to painful experiences (Joiner, 2005), it was further hypothesized that interactions would be found between interpersonal assaultive trauma and AC. The current sample included 515 individuals. Of this sample, 426 individuals (82.7%) endorsed a traumatic event that met the minimum threshold of stressfulness to be included in the primary analyses. Participants completed an online survey that included a Demographic Questionnaire, the Trauma Experience Questionnaire (TEQ), a Worst Event Sampling Questionnaire, an Event Stressfulness Rating item, the Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Checklist for DSM-5 (PCL-5; Weathers, Litz, Keane, Palmieri, Marx & Schnurr, 2013), a questionnaire regarding history of SI and SA, an abbreviated form of the Interpersonal Needs Questionnaire (INQ; Van Orden, Witte, Gordon, Bender, & Joiner, 2008), and finally, an abbreviated form of the Acquired Capability for Suicide Scale (ACSS; Van Orden et al., 2008). Participants’ qualitative reports of their “worst traumatic experience” were coded by a trauma-focused research team into one of the three trauma types: interpersonal assaultive, interpersonal non-assaultive, and noninterpersonal. Statistical analyses included bivariate correlational analyses and a series of hierarchical regression analyses. Regression analyses examined the relationships between trauma type, age at time of trauma exposure, PTSD symptomology, PB, TB, and AC with SSRO, as well as the interactions between trauma type and IPTS constructs. Results indicated that age at time of trauma exposure and PTSD symptomology were both significant predictors of SSRO, but that trauma type did not predict SSRO when the aforementioned variables were controlled for. In regard to IPTS constructs (Joiner, 2005), PB was determined to be a positive predictor of SSRO after controlling for age at time of exposure and PTSD, when interaction effects were also included in the model. However, TB and AC were both found to have significant interactions with interpersonal assaultive trauma. Implications of this study include the clinical focus on elevated PTSD symptomology, younger age at time of trauma exposure, and feelings of burdensomeness in the assessment and treatment of individuals with history of trauma exposure. Limitations include the cross-sectional nature of this research as well as limited generalizability due to characteristics of the participants. This study further contributes to empirical evidence for IPTS by supporting the relationship between constructs and suicide-related outcomes, and by being the first known study to explore the interactions between IPTS constructs and trauma type.
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The Impact of Rater Variability on Relationships among Different Effect-Size Indices for Inter-Rater Agreement between Human and Automated Essay Scoring.
Yun, Jiyeo, Becker, Betsy Jane, Huffer, Fred W. (Fred William), Paek, Insu, Zhang, Qian, Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational Psychology and...
Show moreYun, Jiyeo, Becker, Betsy Jane, Huffer, Fred W. (Fred William), Paek, Insu, Zhang, Qian, Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational Psychology and Learning Systems
Since researchers investigated automatic scoring systems in writing assessments, they have dealt with relationships between human and machine scoring, and then have suggested evaluation criteria for inter-rater agreement. The main purpose of my study is to investigate the magnitudes of and relationships among indices for inter-rater agreement used to assess the relatedness of human and automated essay scoring, and to examine impacts of rater variability on inter-rater agreement. To implement...
Show moreSince researchers investigated automatic scoring systems in writing assessments, they have dealt with relationships between human and machine scoring, and then have suggested evaluation criteria for inter-rater agreement. The main purpose of my study is to investigate the magnitudes of and relationships among indices for inter-rater agreement used to assess the relatedness of human and automated essay scoring, and to examine impacts of rater variability on inter-rater agreement. To implement the investigations, my study consists of two parts: empirical and simulation studies. Based on the results from the empirical study, the overall effects for inter-rater agreement were .63 and .99 for exact and adjacent proportions of agreement, .48 for kappas, and between .75 and .78 for correlations. Additionally, significant differences between 6-point scales and the other scales (i.e., 3-, 4-, and 5-point scales) for correlations, kappas and proportions of agreement existed. Moreover, based on the results of the simulated data, the highest agreements and lowest discrepancies achieved in the matched rater distribution pairs. Specifically, the means of exact and adjacent proportions of agreement, kappa and weighted kappa values, and correlations were .58, .95, .42, .78, and .78, respectively. Meanwhile the average standardized mean difference was .0005 in the matched rater distribution pairs. Acceptable values for inter-rater agreement as evaluation criteria for automated essay scoring, impacts of rater variability on inter-rater agreement, and relationships among inter-rater agreement indices were discussed.
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The Impact of Unbalanced Designs on the Performance of Parametric and Nonparametric DIF Procedures: A Comparison of Mantel Haenszel, Logistic Regression, SIBTEST, and IRTLR Procedures.
Alghamdi, Abdullah Ahmed, Paek, Insu, Huffer, Fred W. (Fred William), Becker, Betsy Jane, Yang, Yanyun, Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational...
Show moreAlghamdi, Abdullah Ahmed, Paek, Insu, Huffer, Fred W. (Fred William), Becker, Betsy Jane, Yang, Yanyun, Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational Psychology and Learning Systems
The current study examined the impact of unbalanced sample sizes between focal and reference groups on the Type I error rates and DIF detection rates (power) of five DIF procedures (MH, LR, general IRTLR, IRTLR-b, and SIBTEST). Five simulation factors were used in this study. Four factors were for generating simulation data and they were sample size, DIF magnitude, group mean ability difference (impact), and the studied item difficulty. The fifth factor was the DIF method factor that included...
Show moreThe current study examined the impact of unbalanced sample sizes between focal and reference groups on the Type I error rates and DIF detection rates (power) of five DIF procedures (MH, LR, general IRTLR, IRTLR-b, and SIBTEST). Five simulation factors were used in this study. Four factors were for generating simulation data and they were sample size, DIF magnitude, group mean ability difference (impact), and the studied item difficulty. The fifth factor was the DIF method factor that included MH, LR, general IRTLR, IRTLR-b, and SIBTEST. A repeated-measures ANOVA, where the DIF method factor was the within-subjects variable, was performed to compare the performance of the five DIF procedures and to discover their interactions with other factors. For each data generation condition, 200 replications were made. Type I error rates for MH and IRTLR DIF procedures were close to or lower than 5%, the nominal level for different sample size levels. On average, the Type I error rates for IRTLR-b and SIBTEST were 5.7%, and 6.4%, respectively. In contrast, the LR DIF procedure seems to have a higher Type I error rate, which ranged from 5.3% to 8.1% with 6.9% on average. When it comes to the rejection rate under DIF conditions, or the DIF detection rate, the IRTLR-b showed the highest DIF detection rate followed by SIBTEST with averages of 71.8% and 68.4%, respectively. Overall, the impact of unbalanced sample sizes between reference and focal groups on the performance of DIF detection showed a similar tendency for all methods, generally increasing DIF detection rates as the total sample size increased. In practice, IRTLR-b, which showed the best performance for DIF detection rates and controlled for the Type I error rates, should be the choice when the model-data fit is reasonable. If other non-IRT DIF methods are considered, MH or SIBTEST could be used, depending on which type of error (Type I or II) is more seriously considered.
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Implementation and Evaluation of a Performance Profile Intervention with Collegiate Dancers: A Randomized Controlled Trial.
Castillo, Elmer Alfonzo, Chow, Graig Michael, Ericsson, Anders, Ericsson, K. Anders, Tenenbaum, Gershon, Canto, Angela I., Florida State University, College of Education,...
Show moreCastillo, Elmer Alfonzo, Chow, Graig Michael, Ericsson, Anders, Ericsson, K. Anders, Tenenbaum, Gershon, Canto, Angela I., Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational Psychology and Learning Systems
Since its inception nearly three decades ago, the performance profile (PP) technique has undergone several modifications and been employed exclusively in the sport domain. The purpose of this study was to extend the application of the performance profile technique to dance and systematically examine the utility and efficacy of the revised performance profile technique (Gucciardi & Gordon, 2009b) with collegiate dancers on two specific outcomes – self-awareness and behavioral change. The...
Show moreSince its inception nearly three decades ago, the performance profile (PP) technique has undergone several modifications and been employed exclusively in the sport domain. The purpose of this study was to extend the application of the performance profile technique to dance and systematically examine the utility and efficacy of the revised performance profile technique (Gucciardi & Gordon, 2009b) with collegiate dancers on two specific outcomes – self-awareness and behavioral change. The secondary aim was to assess dancer perceptions of the benefits and future use of the revised performance profile technique. Using a RCT design, 44 collegiate dancers were randomly allocated to participate in either a revised PP (experimental; n = 22) condition or a didactic PP (active control; n = 22) condition to examine the pre-post impacts of a single performance profile intervention on the outcome measures. Systematic intervention protocols were developed to guide the implementation of the individually based revised PP and the didactic PP interventions. Results revealed significant differences in the pre-post intervention self-awareness scores between conditions, with a significant increase within the revised PP condition and a decrease within the didactic PP condition. There was no significant difference in pre-post behavior scores between the experimental and active control conditions. Analysis of a brief post-workshop evaluation administered to revised PP participants indicated that dancers felt the intervention provided several benefits and that they were highly likely to use their individual performance profiles again in the future. Applied implications and future directions are discussed.
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Improving Undergraduates' Problem-Solving Skills through Video Gameplay.
Emihovich, Benjamin W., Shute, Valerie J. (Valerie Jean), Boot, Walter Richard, Dennen, Vanessa P., Ke, Fengfeng, Florida State University, College of Education, Department of...
Show moreEmihovich, Benjamin W., Shute, Valerie J. (Valerie Jean), Boot, Walter Richard, Dennen, Vanessa P., Ke, Fengfeng, Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational Psychology and Learning Systems
Education researchers are exploring how well-designed video games can be used to improve knowledge, skills, and abilities known as game-based learning (GBL). Current American students are not receiving adequate exposure to authentic ill-structured problem-solving scenarios in their classrooms, and schools need to address the acquisition of problem-solving skills for students in the 21st century (Shute & Wang, 2016). The present study investigated the impact of two distinct types of video...
Show moreEducation researchers are exploring how well-designed video games can be used to improve knowledge, skills, and abilities known as game-based learning (GBL). Current American students are not receiving adequate exposure to authentic ill-structured problem-solving scenarios in their classrooms, and schools need to address the acquisition of problem-solving skills for students in the 21st century (Shute & Wang, 2016). The present study investigated the impact of two distinct types of video gameplay, one roleplaying (Warcraft) and one brain training game (CogniFit) on students’ problem-solving skills over the course of two semesters. Students playing Warcraft significantly improved the rule application component of problem-solving skill on the posttest compared to students playing CogniFit. Implications for future studies on GBL are discussed.
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Instagram for the Development of Foreign Language Students' Intercultural Competence.
Fornara, Fabrizio, Dennen, Vanessa P., Leeser, Michael J., Ke, Fengfeng, Klein, James D., Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational Psychology...
Show moreFornara, Fabrizio, Dennen, Vanessa P., Leeser, Michael J., Ke, Fengfeng, Klein, James D., Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational Psychology and Learning Systems
The global diffusion of the Internet and the rise in affordable digital electronic devices has exponentially increased the access to culturally authentic materials (Hadley, 2001). Foreign language educators can take advantage of this wealth of resources to design activities that encourage students to explore a foreign culture online (Bush, 2007). For example, social media users often share snapshots of their daily life and discuss topics related to their home culture. This content can be used...
Show moreThe global diffusion of the Internet and the rise in affordable digital electronic devices has exponentially increased the access to culturally authentic materials (Hadley, 2001). Foreign language educators can take advantage of this wealth of resources to design activities that encourage students to explore a foreign culture online (Bush, 2007). For example, social media users often share snapshots of their daily life and discuss topics related to their home culture. This content can be used to provide students with a regular and frequent exposure to authentic and timely cultural information and to promote intercultural analysis and reflections. The last two decades have seen a growing concern of the role intercultural competence plays in contemporary foreign language education. However, despite the rising awareness that “the study of another language is synonymous with the study of another culture” (Cutshall, 2012, p. 32), integrating cultures into instruction is still not a priority for many language instructors, especially because of the challenges the process may entail. This study aims to address this gap in practice and research by introducing a model that foreign language instructors can use to design pedagogically-structured learning opportunities that guide students’ intercultural explorations and reflections for the development of intercultural competence. Specifically, the study introduces a sequence of Instagram-based activities and aims to explore how completing these activities helps foreign language students to develop intercultural competence through the development of cultural and intercultural awareness of cultural products, behavioral practices, and philosophical perspectives. The study has an explanatory single-case study design where the collective experience of the class with the instructional activity represents one case. Participants are 18 students enrolled in one section of a third-level Italian language course at a large research university in the United States. Students used Instagram to explore posts shared by Italian users and to share with their classmates their cultural and intercultural observations. Moreover, they completed a set of individual reflective online assignments aimed at developing their knowledge and skills for the development of intercultural competence. The general conclusion of this study is that using Instagram for intercultural explorations and reflections can help students to acquire knowledge and develop skills for the development of intercultural competence. Students engaged in the Instagram chat in a process of knowledge sharing and knowledge building that helped them to develop their skills of interpreting and relating and their cultural knowledge of products and practices, especially of the most unfamiliar themes. By completing the individual reflective assignments, students also developed intercultural awareness of products and practices and used their developing skills of discovery to develop awareness and understanding of foreign perspectives. Even if students completed these assignments individually, they agreed on what the core perspectives of Italians are. Some students were also successful in establishing cross-cultural relationships and showed instances of intercultural awareness development of perspectives. Some other students, instead, were hardly able to advance from the surface culture of products and practices and to reflect on the significance that specific products and practices have in different cultures. Students could benefit from more guidance and opportunities for feedback throughout the whole sequence of activities. While detailed instructions and the initial instructional support can help to scaffold students’ observations and analysis, they may not be sufficient to properly sustain the development of knowledge and intercultural competence in a process that becomes increasingly sophisticated. A continuous instructional support can facilitate the development of students’ autonomy for the development of intercultural competence. The study also presents two individual student cases and an overview of students’ reactions to the sequence of activities, which, in general, were positive. The study concludes by addressing its main limits and by discussing its implications for future practice and research.
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Long-Term Effects of Peer Victimization: Examining the Link Among Early Experiences with Victimization, Social Support, and Current Well-Being in Honors College Students.
Saintil, Marcia, Pfeiffer, Steven I., Readdick, Christine A., Osborn, Debra S., Canto, Angela I., Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational...
Show moreSaintil, Marcia, Pfeiffer, Steven I., Readdick, Christine A., Osborn, Debra S., Canto, Angela I., Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational Psychology and Learning Systems
Gifted individuals tend to experience social stressors similar to their not-gifted peers, yet minimal research has been conducted on the potential impact of early social difficulties on their later adjustment. The main purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between early experiences of peer victimization and later well-being in honors college students and the potential moderating effect of social support on this relationship. Three research questions were posed: What is the...
Show moreGifted individuals tend to experience social stressors similar to their not-gifted peers, yet minimal research has been conducted on the potential impact of early social difficulties on their later adjustment. The main purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between early experiences of peer victimization and later well-being in honors college students and the potential moderating effect of social support on this relationship. Three research questions were posed: What is the difference in reported early peer victimization between honors college students and non-honors college students; what is the relationship between early experiences of peer victimization and later well-being of gifted and not-gifted college students, with respect to age, gender, and ethnicity differences; and does early social support serve to moderate the relationship between early peer victimization and later well-being in gifted and not-gifted students? Completed data from a total of 78 honors and 68 non-honors college student participants, attending 1 of 2 four-year universities in the southeastern region of the United States, were analyzed. Early experiences of peer victimization, current well-being, and early perception of social support were measured utilizing the Retrospective Bullying Questionnaire, Positive and Negative Affect Schedule, the Satisfaction With Life Scale, Ryff's Scales of Psychological Well-Being, and a revised version of the Child and Adolescent Social Support Scale, respectively. The ages of student participants ranged from 18-33 years of age. Data was collected for this study between Summer and Fall 2016. A chi-square test of independence, MANOVA, and MANCOVA were utilized to investigate the study's research questions. Results indicated that gifted students reported more early experiences of relational forms of peer victimization than not-gifted students. For both groups, White/Caucasian, Black/African-American, and Asian/Pacific Islander participants and those with early experiences of bullying showed variation in scores of well-being. Significant interaction effects suggested that early social support from teachers and close friends moderated the relationship between early experiences of victimization and later well-being. A discussion regarding the interpretation, limitations, implications of the obtained findings, along with needs for future research, is provided.
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Meaning in Life in College Student Veterans: Exploring Its Relationship to Career Thoughts and Depression.
Buzzetta, Mary, Lenz, Janet G., Schatschneider, Christopher, Osborn, Debra S., Sampson, James P., Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational...
Show moreBuzzetta, Mary, Lenz, Janet G., Schatschneider, Christopher, Osborn, Debra S., Sampson, James P., Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational Psychology and Learning Systems
College student veterans may experience a variety of challenges as they transition from military life to student life, including adjusting to the academic environment, coping with mental health concerns such as depression and anxiety, redefining their identities, and balancing multiple roles (e.g., family, school, and work). In addition, research indicates that veterans may experience difficulty in finding meaning and purpose outside of the military. The purpose of the current study was to...
Show moreCollege student veterans may experience a variety of challenges as they transition from military life to student life, including adjusting to the academic environment, coping with mental health concerns such as depression and anxiety, redefining their identities, and balancing multiple roles (e.g., family, school, and work). In addition, research indicates that veterans may experience difficulty in finding meaning and purpose outside of the military. The purpose of the current study was to add to the career development literature related to college student veterans and explore variables which may influence meaning and purpose in their lives, specifically career thoughts and depression. The current study utilized a passive observational research design to survey 132 college student veterans attending higher education institutions across different geographic locations in the United States. Regarding demographic characteristics, participants ranged across ages, military branches, and classification levels. Career thoughts was measured using the Career Thoughts Inventory (CTI), and depression was measured using the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale – Revised (CESD-R). Meaning in life was assessed using the presence of meaning and the search for meaning subscales of the Meaning in Life Questionnaire (MLQ). A linear multiple regression analysis was used to determine if the total scores on the CTI and the CESD-R were significant positive predictors of scores on the MLQ. In addition, Pearson correlation analyses were utilized to understand the relationship between meaning in life and depression, as well as meaning in life and career thoughts. Moreover, beyond career thoughts and depression, this study also sought to explore whether or not there were differences in meaning in life scores among particular demographic variables, including gender and ethnicity. ANOVA analyses were used to examine differences in meaning in life scores among participant gender and ethnicity. Results of the analyses revealed that both career thoughts and depression were statistically significant predictors of the presence of meaning in one’s life, with 46% of the variance in the presence of meaning in life scores accounted for by total scores on the CTI and the CESD-R. Pearson correlation results indicated that all variables were statistically significant at alpha level of .01. Furthermore, results of ANOVA procedures showed no statistically significant differences in the presence of meaning in life scores, as well as in the search for meaning in life scores, for the gender and ethnicity variables. Limitations of the study and areas for future research are discussed. Lastly, implications for practitioners working with student veteran populations are included.
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Moving Metacognitive Regulation Beyond Curriculum and into Culture: Improving Marginalized Students' Agency through Motivation Infused Cognitive Awareness Training.
Sermon, Jenay R. (Jenay Rolaunda), Klein, James D., Jones, Maxine Deloris, Dennen, Vanessa P., Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational...
Show moreSermon, Jenay R. (Jenay Rolaunda), Klein, James D., Jones, Maxine Deloris, Dennen, Vanessa P., Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational Psychology and Learning Systems
Underrepresented (UR) university students approach postsecondary studies in multitudes; yet are minorities in the larger landscape. They are less prepared given sustained societal and systemic inequities, and face added obstacles to success and marginalization in postsecondary settings. To empower them and redress pervasive deficit framing, I evaluated the impacts of a distinctive training system in explicit metacognitive regulation (MR) on low performing, UR university students’ skills and...
Show moreUnderrepresented (UR) university students approach postsecondary studies in multitudes; yet are minorities in the larger landscape. They are less prepared given sustained societal and systemic inequities, and face added obstacles to success and marginalization in postsecondary settings. To empower them and redress pervasive deficit framing, I evaluated the impacts of a distinctive training system in explicit metacognitive regulation (MR) on low performing, UR university students’ skills and agency. Metacognition, or “thinking about thinking” and self-regulation, the successful control of learning processes are critical to students’ learning and achievement. While institutionalized MR teachings characteristically occur in discipline specific or ‘learning to learn’ courses, the challenges of restricted access and stigmatization of UR students are also pervasive. MR training with explicit motivational theory as content, which is also discipline-flexible and culturally driven, is nonexistent. I used mixed data, bound in a descriptive case study to measure the impacts of this nuanced training. To determine initial impacts, I obtained the participants’ pre to post scores on the Metacognitive Awareness Inventory and Self-Regulation Skills Inventory-Self Report. I interviewed participants six months after training as well, to investigate their extended applications of MR skill for agency. MRT participants significantly improved in MR skill initially and used such skills for agency in their academic lives in the two semesters after training. The students also exerted behaviors in their academic contexts to exemplify Bandura’s (1986) agency tenets – Intentionality, Forethought, Self-Reactiveness and Self-Reflectiveness. I attribute the MRT participants’ successes to the integration of explicit motivation theory topics, cultural relevance and context autonomy in training, with implications and recommendations to researchers and practitioners. I encourage future research studies evaluating such intentional MR training systems, which can subsidize agency within these culturally nuanced college learners.
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Online Learners' Satisfaction: Investigating the Structural Relationships among Self-Regulation, Self-Efficacy, Task Value, Learning Design, and Perceived Learning.
Yalcin, Yasin, Dennen, Vanessa P., Adams, Jonathan L., Klein, James D., Yang, Yanyun, Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational Psychology and...
Show moreYalcin, Yasin, Dennen, Vanessa P., Adams, Jonathan L., Klein, James D., Yang, Yanyun, Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational Psychology and Learning Systems
The purposes of this study were to investigate the structural relationships among the factors that affect online learners’ satisfaction with the learning experience, and to develop a structural model that explains online learners’ satisfaction. For these purposes, a research model was developed based on the principles of social cognitive theory and the Macro Model of Motivation and Performance, and the findings reported in past research. The study investigated the effects of self-regulation,...
Show moreThe purposes of this study were to investigate the structural relationships among the factors that affect online learners’ satisfaction with the learning experience, and to develop a structural model that explains online learners’ satisfaction. For these purposes, a research model was developed based on the principles of social cognitive theory and the Macro Model of Motivation and Performance, and the findings reported in past research. The study investigated the effects of self-regulation, self-efficacy, task value, and learning design on perceived learning and satisfaction, and the effect of perceived learning on satisfaction. Participants consisted of higher education students who were enrolled in fully online courses in the Spring 2017 semester at a public university in the Southeastern United States. Data analyses were conducted on a dataset that included 1115 responses. Majority of the participants were female (810 students, 72.6%), and pursued an undergraduate degree (838 students, 75.2%). Participants’ age ranged between 18 and 62 with a mean of 24.14 and a standard deviation of 7.99. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was used to answer the research questions and test the research hypotheses. Assessment of the measurement model revealed that the six-factor model showed a good fit to the data. Assessment of the structural model revealed that eight out of the nine research hypotheses were supported. The results showed that self-regulation, self-efficacy, task value, and learning design had significant direct effects on perceived learning. These four factors explained 66.7% of the total variance in perceived learning. Furthermore, self-regulation, self-efficacy, task value, learning design, and perceived learning had significant direct effects on satisfaction. Contrary to the research hypothesis, the effect of self-regulation on satisfaction was negative. Five factors explained 81.4% of the total variance in satisfaction with the online learning experience. Finally, perceived learning had a mediation effect for the relationships between self-efficacy, task value, learning design, and satisfaction. The results suggested that metacognitive self-regulation, self-efficacy beliefs for interacting with the instructor and peers, task value beliefs, learning design, and perceived learning are important factors to consider in online learning settings in terms of learners’ satisfaction with the learning experience. The results are interpreted and discussed in the light of theory and past research findings. Implications of the research results are shared for instructional designers and online instructors.
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Perfectionism and Interpersonal Theory of Suicide: Thwarted Belongingness and Perceived Burdensomeness as Mediators of Multidimensional Perfectionism and Suicide Ideation.
Morpeth, Julia Erin, Becker, Martin Swanbrow, Pfeiffer, Steven I., Dong, Shengli, Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational Psychology and...
Show moreMorpeth, Julia Erin, Becker, Martin Swanbrow, Pfeiffer, Steven I., Dong, Shengli, Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational Psychology and Learning Systems
The current study was conducted to investigate the associations among multidimensional perfectionism, suicidal ideation, and the interpersonal theory of suicide. The author's primary purpose was to focus on the mediating effects of the social dimensions of suicidality (thwarted belongingness and perceived burdensomeness) on suicidal ideation and social dimensions of perfectionism (other-oriented and socially prescribed). A sample of 266 undergraduate and graduate students at a large...
Show moreThe current study was conducted to investigate the associations among multidimensional perfectionism, suicidal ideation, and the interpersonal theory of suicide. The author's primary purpose was to focus on the mediating effects of the social dimensions of suicidality (thwarted belongingness and perceived burdensomeness) on suicidal ideation and social dimensions of perfectionism (other-oriented and socially prescribed). A sample of 266 undergraduate and graduate students at a large southeastern university completed the Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale, the Interpersonal Needs Questionnaire, Beck Scale for Suicide Ideation (Worst), Beck Scale for Suicide Ideation (Current), Psychological Distress Index, Beck Hopelessness Scale, and demographic measures. Analysis confirmed that all perfectionism dimensions were positively associated with suicidal ideation. Thwarted belongingness and perceived burdensomeness were positively association with suicidal ideation, as expected. Mediation analyses revealed partial mediation by perceived burdensomeness of socially prescribed perfectionism and suicidal ideation and self-oriented perfectionism and suicidal ideation. Perceived burdensomeness fully mediated the relationship between other-oriented perfectionism and suicidal ideation. Thwarted belongingness fully mediated the relationship between other-oriented perfectionism, socially prescribed perfectionism, and self-oriented perfectionism, respectively, with suicidal ideation. Results suggest social isolation is at play when perfectionists are experiencing suicidal ideation Particularly, perfectionists who believe others have unrealistic standards of perfection as well as perfectionists who have unrealistic standards of perfection for others may experience perceptions that they are unable to fit into social groups due to these standards. Clinicians working with perfectionist clients should target not only maladaptive thinking, but also interpersonal interactions.
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Predictors of Parenting Stress in Hispanic Immigrant Mothers in New York City: The Roles of Risk Factors, Social Support, and Length of Time Living in the United States.
Cantonis, Anastasia Maria, Osborn, Debra S., Lewis, Sandra, Prevatt, Frances A., Swanbrow Becker, Martin Alan, Florida State University, College of Education, Department of...
Show moreCantonis, Anastasia Maria, Osborn, Debra S., Lewis, Sandra, Prevatt, Frances A., Swanbrow Becker, Martin Alan, Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational Psychology and Learning Systems
Despite rapid growth and expansion of Hispanic immigrant families to the United States over the past several decades, there is a clear underrepresentation of literature dedicated to mental health treatment and prevention for this population. Even fewer studies have examined the predictors of parenting stress in Hispanic immigrant mothers. This present study aimed to identify the salient predictors of parenting stress in a sample of Hispanic immigrant mothers (N = 110) living in New York City....
Show moreDespite rapid growth and expansion of Hispanic immigrant families to the United States over the past several decades, there is a clear underrepresentation of literature dedicated to mental health treatment and prevention for this population. Even fewer studies have examined the predictors of parenting stress in Hispanic immigrant mothers. This present study aimed to identify the salient predictors of parenting stress in a sample of Hispanic immigrant mothers (N = 110) living in New York City. This research utilized archival data previously collected by the Ackerman Institute for the Family in partnership with the Coalition for Hispanic Family Services in September 2014 (n = 53) and in September 2015 (n = 57) for the participants who completed the initial enrollment assessments for their First Steps parenting education program. Measures that assessed participant risk factors, social support, and parenting stress included: the Family Risk Index (FRI; Grossman, 2011), the Patient Health Questionnaire – 9 (PHQ-9; Kroenke & Spitzer, 2002), the Family Support Scale (FSS; Dunst, Jenkins, & Trivette, 2007), and the Parenting Stress Index – Short Form (PSI-SF; Abidin, 1995). It was hypothesized that risk factors (depression, educational attainment, single mother status, documentation status, and having a child with special needs), social support, and length of time living in the U.S. would all significantly predict parenting stress. In addition, it was hypothesized that social support would moderate the relationship between risk and parenting stress and that documentation status would moderate the relationship between social support and parenting stress. Results of a linear multiple regression analysis found depression significantly predicted increased parenting stress and social support significantly predicted decreased parenting stress. However, single mother status, educational attainment, having a child with special needs, documentation status, and length of time living the U.S. were all non-significant predictors of parenting stress. Results of moderated regression analyses found social support significantly moderated the relationship between educational attainment and parenting stress. Documentation status did not moderate the relationship between social support and parenting stress. Despite the limitations of this present study, implications for mental health practitioners highlight the significance of cultural values and contextual circumstances on how a Hispanic immigrant mother appraises depression, social support, and parenting stress. Individualizing prevention and intervention efforts for Hispanic immigrant mothers is recommended in order to capture both cultural values and contextual circumstances unique to each individual.
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Productive Failure: Examining the Impact of Need for Cognition and Cognitive Flexibility on Conceptual Learning in Chemistry.
Arrington, Thomas Logan, Darabi, Aubteen, Charness, Neil, Klein, James D., Paek, Insu, Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational Psychology and...
Show moreArrington, Thomas Logan, Darabi, Aubteen, Charness, Neil, Klein, James D., Paek, Insu, Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational Psychology and Learning Systems
Productive failure refers to an instructional strategy that tasks students with attempting to solve a complex and/or ill-structured problem prior to instruction about the topic. In their problem-solving attempts, the students are anticipated to fail. Failure is a subject of discussion in many theories related to learning (e.g., expertise and self-regulation). In these theories, failure is considered as a natural occurrence where the learners must identify a method to recover. However, recent...
Show moreProductive failure refers to an instructional strategy that tasks students with attempting to solve a complex and/or ill-structured problem prior to instruction about the topic. In their problem-solving attempts, the students are anticipated to fail. Failure is a subject of discussion in many theories related to learning (e.g., expertise and self-regulation). In these theories, failure is considered as a natural occurrence where the learners must identify a method to recover. However, recent literature has begun to investigate the efficacy of leading learners directly to experience failure as an instructional strategy. This study investigated the effectiveness of the instructional strategy “productive failure” in improving learners’ conceptual knowledge in chemistry. Productive failure is comprised of two phases, exploration and consolidation. Exploration refers to learners having the opportunity to generate multiple solutions to a problem (i.e., attempt to solve the problem through multiple representations). Consolidation refers to an event where learners refine, correct, and/or consolidate the knowledge generated in the exploration phase. The research on productive failure has traditionally used a complex and/or ill-structured problem during the exploration phase and teacher-led instruction in the consolidation phase. Thus, productive failure is defined as a preparation for future learning activity, in that the exploration phase prepares individuals to learn from the subsequent consolidation phase. Compared to other instructional strategies, productive failure has led to improved knowledge gains on concepts, whereas other learning outcomes result in minimal or no gain. While the efficacy of this approach has been documented throughout the literature, many of the learner characteristics moderating their success under this strategy have not been identified. The types of elements that lead to improved learning under this approach should relate to learners’ abilities to persist through the exploration phase and realize the connection among explored concepts during the consolidation phase. Two characteristics that fit these criteria are cognitive flexibility and need for cognition. Cognitive flexibility deals with a person’s ability to adapt to a learning situation and quickly restructure their way of thinking. Need for cognition refers to a learners’ disposition towards difficult activity. The purpose of this study was to document the effects of productive failure against direct instruction with practice on conceptual learning. Also, this study aimed to identify a moderating role between learners’ need for cognition and cognitive flexibility in their conceptual learning outcomes. In addition, the study investigated four exploratory hypotheses dealing with learners’ satisfaction and process variables of problem solving. The study occurred in an undergraduate chemistry course with 64 students enrolled at a research three university in the southeastern United States during the Fall 2017 semester. This study focused on the topic of chemical reactions, where learners were tasked with explaining molecular changes in a substance. Of the 64 students invited, 58 attended the session where the learners had an opportunity to consent. Of the 58 students, 52 consented to be a part of the study. Those 52 students were randomly assigned into one of the two conditions. Throughout the implementation of the study, six participants dropped out by not attending one or more sessions. This left a remaining 46 total students, with 24 in the direct instruction with practice condition and 22 in the productive failure condition. The difference between these groups was in the sequence of events. Learners in the productive failure condition were tasked to solve a complex problem before instruction on the topic (i.e., chemical reactions), whereas these events were reversed for participants in the comparison group. All participants completed five separate instruments: a demographic and background survey, the cognitive flexibility measure, the need for cognition measure, a satisfaction measure, and a knowledge test before and after instruction. In addition, information on learners’ problem solving performance (i.e., self-reported problem solving time and number of solutions generated) was gather in each group. A combination of t-tests and two-way ANOVAs were conducted to investigate the seven hypotheses laid out within this study. The results indicated that there was no significant difference between the conditions in their posttest scores (i.e., conceptual learning). While cognitive flexibility approached being a significant predictor, neither it nor need for cognition were significant factors impacting learning in either group. The exploratory hypotheses indicated that cognitive flexibility impacted the amount of time learners spent on problem solving, while need for cognition had no impact. Finally, learners’ satisfaction on productive failure was not originally equivalent but in a delayed measure there was no significant differences among the groups. The implications, limitations and suggestions for future research are discussed.
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Psychological and Suicidal Distress among Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual College Students: Stressors and Strengths.
Roberts, Stacey Nemeth, Becker, Martin Swanbrow, Joiner, Thomas, Pfeiffer, Steven I., Turner, Jeannine E, Florida State University, College of Education, Department of...
Show moreRoberts, Stacey Nemeth, Becker, Martin Swanbrow, Joiner, Thomas, Pfeiffer, Steven I., Turner, Jeannine E, Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational Psychology and Learning Systems
This project examined the increased tendency towards suicidality in cisgender LGB college students as compared to their cisgender heterosexual counterparts. The responses of 1,503 LGB college students to a survey distributed by the National Research Consortium of Counseling Centers in Higher Education (RC) in 2011 were analyzed. Given the increased propensity toward suicidal distress in LGB college students, this study next sought to elucidate the mechanics by which suicidality evolves in...
Show moreThis project examined the increased tendency towards suicidality in cisgender LGB college students as compared to their cisgender heterosexual counterparts. The responses of 1,503 LGB college students to a survey distributed by the National Research Consortium of Counseling Centers in Higher Education (RC) in 2011 were analyzed. Given the increased propensity toward suicidal distress in LGB college students, this study next sought to elucidate the mechanics by which suicidality evolves in this population. The objective of this project was to determine whether minority stress factors (sexual orientation concerns, discrimination, victimization, and campus climate) have a relationship with suicidal ideation in LGB college students as mediated by the interpersonal factors of thwarted belongingness, perceived burdensomeness, and sense of coherence. This project tested relationships drawn from the minority stress model, the interpersonal theory of suicide, as well as sense of coherence to understand their impact on the development and escalation of suicidal ideation in LGB college students. It was found that the stressors of sexual orientation concerns, victimization, and discrimination acted directly on thwarted belongingness and perceived burdensomeness. In addition, the stressors indirectly influenced the development of suicidality through thwarted belongingness and perceived burdensomeness. Campus climate was found to be a protective factor for LGB students. Sense of coherence was not only a mediator of the stress factors, but also acted directly upon thwarted belongingness and perceived burdensomeness. Implications for higher education administrators and campus mental health professionals, as well as directions for future research are also discussed.
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A Qualitative Study of Systemic Factors Contributing to Successful Implementation of Response to Intervention Programs in Elementary Schools.
White, Sheila B. (Sheila Booth), Canto, Angela I., Rice, Diana Claries, Prevatt, Frances A., Roehrig, Alysia D., Florida State University, College of Education, Department of...
Show moreWhite, Sheila B. (Sheila Booth), Canto, Angela I., Rice, Diana Claries, Prevatt, Frances A., Roehrig, Alysia D., Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational Psychology and Learning Systems
Response to intervention (RTI), an educational reform effort designed to meet the needs of struggling learners, has been adopted by an increasing number of states as a primary component of their educational service delivery model for low-achieving students (Burns et al., 2013; Castillo & Batsche, 2012). RTI models are multi-tiered instructional systems that allow for increasingly intensive interventions depending on the individual student’s need or response to instruction as indicated by data...
Show moreResponse to intervention (RTI), an educational reform effort designed to meet the needs of struggling learners, has been adopted by an increasing number of states as a primary component of their educational service delivery model for low-achieving students (Burns et al., 2013; Castillo & Batsche, 2012). RTI models are multi-tiered instructional systems that allow for increasingly intensive interventions depending on the individual student’s need or response to instruction as indicated by data-based progress monitoring (Fletcher & Vaughn, 2009). Because RTI programs require large-scale paradigm change and multi-disciplinary coordination at many levels of a school and district, some educators are skeptical that RTI can be implemented with fidelity and produce the desired outcomes. Schools that have successfully implemented RTI in a highly effective manner can serve as exemplars for others who are attempting to implement, improve, or refine their programs. The purpose of this proposed study is to examine the systemic factors related to the successful implementation of Response to Intervention (RTI) programs. The study proposed herein is presented from a systems theory perspective, which attempts to understand how the parts of an organization interact and influence each other and contribute to the overall performance of the system (Patton, 2002). Additionally, the emerging field of implementation science provides a useful framework for studying the transition of RTI from a research-based concept to applied practice (Forman et al., 2013). Using the National Implementation Research Network framework (Fixsen et al., 2005, 2009, 2010) as an organizational structure, this study will explore the system level factors related to successful RTI implementation in elementary schools. Understanding the contextual factors or local ecology of an organization such as a school is important when planning the implementation of large-scale school reform projects (Kratochwill et al., 2012; Patton, 2002). Kratochwill and colleagues (2012) called for an increase in qualitative studies, mixed methods designs, and single-case studies when studying evidence-based practices in schools and human service systems to better understand the local contextual factors related to successful programs. Therefore, in order to understand the unique local factors that have contributed to the successful adoption of RTI in elementary schools, qualitative methods were selected for use in this study. Two qualitative case studies of successful RTI implementation sites at the elementary school level will be investigated. Then, cross-case analysis will search for common systemic themes that influenced the RTI implementation process. It is hoped that this study will identify factors that may contribute to successful RTI implementation in elementary schools. These findings will contribute to the knowledge base regarding barriers and facilitators of evidence-based practices in the public elementary school setting.
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Reading Comprehension Ability among College Students with ADHD.
Coleman, Jennifer L. B., Prevatt, Frances A., Schatschneider, Christopher, Pfeiffer, Steven I., Phillips, Beth M., Florida State University, College of Education, Department of...
Show moreColeman, Jennifer L. B., Prevatt, Frances A., Schatschneider, Christopher, Pfeiffer, Steven I., Phillips, Beth M., Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational Psychology and Learning Systems
College students with ADHD are an understudied population. Reading comprehension difficulties are common among those with ADHD. Research is limited addressing reading comprehension abilities among college students with ADHD. This study compares college students with ADHD to a national sample of college students to determine differences between groups on variables associated with reading comprehension. Further, the study addresses reading comprehension ability among college students with ADHD...
Show moreCollege students with ADHD are an understudied population. Reading comprehension difficulties are common among those with ADHD. Research is limited addressing reading comprehension abilities among college students with ADHD. This study compares college students with ADHD to a national sample of college students to determine differences between groups on variables associated with reading comprehension. Further, the study addresses reading comprehension ability among college students with ADHD to determine if components of the simple view of reading (SVR) mediate the relationship between ADHD symptoms and reading comprehension. Understanding how college students with ADHD compare to a national sample of college students without ADHD may provide information useful in determining the focus of interventions and support for college students with ADHD. Objective: This study examines four questions. Do college students with ADHD perform below average compared to national college norms on measures of silent reading fluency, language comprehension, and reading comprehension? Do college students with ADHD perform below average compared to national college norms on measures of working memory? Is the relationship between working memory and reading comprehension mediated by silent reading fluency and language comprehension? Is the relationship between attention and reading comprehension partially mediated by silent reading fluency and language comprehension? Methods: A total of 370 college students diagnosed with ADHD completed measures of working memory, attention, language comprehension, reading fluency and reading comprehension. The sample consisted of 14 % freshman, 18 % sophomores, 24 % juniors, 24 % seniors, and 19 % graduate students. The self-identified gender composition was 46 % female and 54 % male. The self-identified ethnic composition is 65 % Caucasian, 18 % Hispanic, 10 % African American, 2 % Asian, and 5 % identified as ‘other’. Researches diagnosed 52 % of the sample as ADHD-PI (Primarily Inattentive Type) and 47 % ADHD-C (Combined Hyperactive and Inattentive Type). Results: The analysis found that college students with ADHD perform as well or better on all measures than their non-ADHD peers from a national sample. The mediation models that included working memory were significant, the mediation models including inattention were not significant. Conclusion: College student with ADHD may be a unique population in that they experience reduced reading comprehension difficulties as compared to their ADHD peers who do not attend post-secondary education. The mediating models suggest that improvement in working memory does not contribute to meaningful gains in reading comprehension and intervention design may be more successful if directed toward component reading skills and environmental cues that can assist with reducing the effects of ADHD symptoms on reading behavior at a university level.
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Redefining ADHD in an Adult Population: Should Inattention Be Viewed as a Separate Dimension from Cognitive and Physiological Activity Level?.
Miller, Nathan Andrew, Prevatt, Frances F., Stepina, Lee P., Canto, Angela I., Krach, S. Kathleen, Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational...
Show moreMiller, Nathan Andrew, Prevatt, Frances F., Stepina, Lee P., Canto, Angela I., Krach, S. Kathleen, Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational Psychology and Learning Systems
The accepted structure of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has changed repeatedly and significantly over its history, with many symptoms being added, changed or dropped. Despite this, many questions remain about the nature of the disorder and the potentially related set of symptoms known by most researchers as sluggish cognitive tempo (SCT). This study sought to investigate the latent structure of ADHD and SCT by exploring the relationship between SCT, hyperactivity, and...
Show moreThe accepted structure of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has changed repeatedly and significantly over its history, with many symptoms being added, changed or dropped. Despite this, many questions remain about the nature of the disorder and the potentially related set of symptoms known by most researchers as sluggish cognitive tempo (SCT). This study sought to investigate the latent structure of ADHD and SCT by exploring the relationship between SCT, hyperactivity, and inattention as reported by adults. This study proposed that some of the structural issues found in ADHD may be due to the assumption of linearity, and proposed that two significant changes, if supported by the data, would offer some resolution. The first proposed change would be to view hyperactivity and sluggishness as a single continuum of activity level, rather than individual syndromes, and the second proposed change would be to view symptoms of inattention as a separate dimension from the hyperactivity and sluggishness. It was also proposed that evidence of the validity of this dimensional restructuring might be seen as a quadratic curvilinear, or U-shaped, regression line between inattention and the continuum of activity level, where inattention was highest toward the extremes of activity level and lowest at the midpoint of activity level. For the current study, symptoms of hyperactivity and sluggishness were matched by topic to form a continuum from low levels to high levels of activity. This measure, along with a symptom checklist for ADHD inattention, was included in a survey and provided to a sample of 1,398 adults throughout the United States, collected through Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. Participants demographics were similar to the population demographics with few variations. Measures of internal scale consistency and of normality were used to analyze the new Activity Level scale produced by matching hyperactivity and sluggishness, and curve estimation was conducted to analyze whether a quadratic regression model was a significant predictor of the relationship between activity level and inattention. Results of the analyses revealed that the new Activity Level scale was unimodal and within commonly accepted limits of internally consistency for both the full sample of participants and for the portion of the sample that endorsed a diagnosis of ADHD. Furthermore, results of the regression analysis indicated that a quadratic model of activity level and inattention accurately explained a small but significant portion of the variance in both the full sample of participants and the in the ADHD sample. Implications are discussed for the both theory and practice. Lastly, limitations of the study and directions for future research are included.
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The Relationship among Dysfunctional Career Thoughts, Interest Profile Elevation, and Ability Self-Estimates.
Kronholz, Julia, Osborn, Debra S., Guthrie, Kathy L., Lenz, Janet G., Sampson, James P., Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational Psychology and...
Show moreKronholz, Julia, Osborn, Debra S., Guthrie, Kathy L., Lenz, Janet G., Sampson, James P., Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational Psychology and Learning Systems
This study used the Career Thoughts Inventory (CTI; Sampson et al., 1996b) and the Self-Directed Search, 5th Edition (SDS; Holland & Messer, 2013) to examine the relationships among dysfunctional career thoughts, interest profile elevation, and ability self-estimates among a population of individual career counseling clients. The sample included undergraduate, graduate, and community members seeking individual counseling at a university career center (N=86). The CTI was used as a measure...
Show moreThis study used the Career Thoughts Inventory (CTI; Sampson et al., 1996b) and the Self-Directed Search, 5th Edition (SDS; Holland & Messer, 2013) to examine the relationships among dysfunctional career thoughts, interest profile elevation, and ability self-estimates among a population of individual career counseling clients. The sample included undergraduate, graduate, and community members seeking individual counseling at a university career center (N=86). The CTI was used as a measure dysfunctional career thoughts, specifically, decision-making confusion and commitment anxiety. The SDS was used as a measure of interest profile elevation and ability self-estimates. Multiple regression analyses found significant relationships among decision-making confusion, commitment anxiety, interest profile elevation, and ability self-estimates. Results indicated that dysfunctional career thoughts captured 16% of variance in interest profile elevation and 12.6% of variance in ability self-estimates. A MANOVA analysis was performed to determine differences in level of dysfunctional career thoughts (high, moderate, and low) in terms of interest profile elevation and ability self-estimates. Results revealed non-significant differences and thus further analyses were not performed. A discussion of the findings is offered, which includes examination of the results and possible confounds or limitations. Implications for theory, research, practice and policy are discussed, in addition to suggestions for future research.
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The Relationship among First-Generation College Student Status and Resilience, Social Support, Perceived Barriers, and Negative Career Thoughts.
Freeman, Vanessa Frierson, Lenz, Janet G., Guthrie, Kathy L., Osborn, Debra S., Sampson, James P., Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational...
Show moreFreeman, Vanessa Frierson, Lenz, Janet G., Guthrie, Kathy L., Osborn, Debra S., Sampson, James P., Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational Psychology and Learning Systems
The aim of the present study was to gain a further understanding of first-generation college students (FGCS) in comparison to their non-FGCS peers. The study examined both groups in relation to the following variables: resilience levels, perceived social support, perception of barriers, and negative career thoughts. Specifically, the goal was to understand how resilience levels and perceived social support were related to perception of barriers and negative career thoughts. General group...
Show moreThe aim of the present study was to gain a further understanding of first-generation college students (FGCS) in comparison to their non-FGCS peers. The study examined both groups in relation to the following variables: resilience levels, perceived social support, perception of barriers, and negative career thoughts. Specifically, the goal was to understand how resilience levels and perceived social support were related to perception of barriers and negative career thoughts. General group differences on resilience levels, perceived social support, perception of barriers, and negative career thoughts were explored using a one-way ANOVA. Then, multiple regressions were used to examined whether resilience level and perceived social support could predict perception of barriers and negative career thoughts. The 10-Item Connors-Davidson Resilience Scale (CDRISC; Campbell-Sills & Stein, 2007) was used to examine resilience levels. The Social Support Appraisal Scale (SSA; Vaux et al., 1986) was used to examine perceived social support. The Perception of Barriers Scale (POB; Luzzo & McWhirter, 2001) was used to examine perception of barriers. The Career Thoughts Inventory (CTI; Sampson, Peterson, Lenz, Reardon, & Saunders, 1996) was used to examine negative career thoughts. Participants (n = 272) for the study were recruited from a large, southeastern, public university, specifically from the university’s College of Education and the Center for Academic Retention and Enrichment (CARE). CARE’s mission is to recruit and support FGCS. There were 101 FGCS and 171 non-FGCS included in the sample. The results indicated that there were no statistically significant differences between groups on resilience levels, perceived social support, and negative career thoughts. There were statistically significant differences between groups on perception of barriers with non-FGCS perceiving more barriers than FGCS. The multiple regression revealed that resilience level and perceived social support predicted 9.1% of the variance in perception of barriers and 15.3% of the variance in negative career thoughts. A discussion regarding the findings of the study, limitations, and implications for theory, practice and future research are offered.
The Relationship between Certification Pathways and Teacher Effectiveness for Beginning and Experienced Teachers in Florida.
Christesen, Eric M., Roehrig, Alysia D., Jakubowski, Elizabeth M., Turner, Jeannine E, Zhang, Qian, Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational...
Show moreChristesen, Eric M., Roehrig, Alysia D., Jakubowski, Elizabeth M., Turner, Jeannine E, Zhang, Qian, Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational Psychology and Learning Systems
The purpose of the current study is to provide evidence of the possible repercussions of different teacher certification pathways on student achievement that can inform policy in order to improve the instruction students receive. In the current context of accountability, and with a teacher's effectiveness often defined by his or her students' test scores, policies should be based on empirical evidence, and not just political or ideological perspectives (Cochran-Smith et al., 2012). I used a...
Show moreThe purpose of the current study is to provide evidence of the possible repercussions of different teacher certification pathways on student achievement that can inform policy in order to improve the instruction students receive. In the current context of accountability, and with a teacher's effectiveness often defined by his or her students' test scores, policies should be based on empirical evidence, and not just political or ideological perspectives (Cochran-Smith et al., 2012). I used a hierarchical linear model (HLM) to investigate the relationship between teachers' pathway to certification, experience, and effectiveness for fourth through eighth grade English Language Arts (ELA) and math teachers who received a certification to teach in the state of Florida and taught at only one school in the 2016-17 school year. All data were retrieved from FDOE. The study included 4,967 math teachers and 3,567 ELA teachers. Effectiveness was based on a Value-added model (VAM) score. The ELA and math VAM scores used in this analysis include the same predictor variables as those used by the Florida Department of Education (FDOE). However, this analysis used a one-year aggregate score, while FDOE provides a suggested VAM category based on a three-year aggregate score and standard errors. The one-year aggregate was best suited for the current analysis because it standardizes the amount of years included for beginning and experienced teachers (the three-year aggregate can include anywhere from one to three years of teaching), and it allows teachers who have switched schools within the past three years to be included in the model. The analysis controlled for experience, the percentage of courses taught infield, and the number of general knowledge Florida Teacher Certification Exam (FTCE) and subject specific FTCE tests taken before passing at the teacher level, and school grades at the school level. No significant differences in teacher effectiveness in math were found for the different pathways. In ELA, however, there was a significant interaction between certification pathway and experience. Completers of District Professional Development Certification Programs (PDCP) were found to be more effective in ELA in their first three years of teaching than completers of the traditional Initial Teacher Preparation (ITP) programs or Educator Preparation Institute (EPI) programs. Findings provide evidence that allowing for alternative pathways to certification increases the number of effective teachers entering the workforce.
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Role of Parent Oral Language Input in the Development of Child Emergent Literacy Skills.
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Show moreTabulda, Galiya A., Phillips, Beth M., Wood, Carla, Roehrig, Alysia D., Paek, Insu, Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational Psychology and Learning Systems
Children's emergent literacy skills have been found to be predictive of concurrent and subsequent academic achievement. Proponents of a nurture-driven approach to learning posit that children's linguistic competencies are associated with the quantity and richness of language input that they receive from primary caregivers. The primary goal of this study was to investigate the longitudinal relations between the properties of parent language addressed to children when they were 3 years old and...
Show moreChildren's emergent literacy skills have been found to be predictive of concurrent and subsequent academic achievement. Proponents of a nurture-driven approach to learning posit that children's linguistic competencies are associated with the quantity and richness of language input that they receive from primary caregivers. The primary goal of this study was to investigate the longitudinal relations between the properties of parent language addressed to children when they were 3 years old and children's emergent literacy skills (vocabulary, grammar, and phonological awareness) a year later. This study also examined longitudinal continuity of children's emergent literacy skills and explored how two different types of parent language input (contextualized and decontextualized) predict children's outcomes. Participants included 69 parent-child dyads from diverse socio-economic and ethnic backgrounds. Participants were audio-recorded at home during completion of two semi-structured tasks: conversation about past events and free play. Parent and child verbal communication was transcribed, coded and analyzed. About a year later, participating children were assessed using a battery of standardized tests measuring vocabulary, grammatical skill, and phonological awareness skills. The results indicated that children's early oral language skills, vocabulary in particular, predict their later emergent literacy skills. Parent oral language input, specifically its lexical diversity, predicts later child emergent literacy skills when child prior language is not in the model. Finally, parent language input from different communication contexts did not differentially predict child outcomes. Overall, the findings tentatively supported a nurture-driven account of language acquisition in children and highlight the importance of providing sophisticated language models to children in early stages of language development.
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Best, Lori Jean, Pfeiffer, Steven I., Lewis, Sandra, Prevatt, Frances A., Canto, Angela I., Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational Psychology...
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The coexistence of extraordinary gifts and exceptional impairment residing within the same individual is an inherently curious contradiction. Empirical research on gifted students with one or more disabilities, termed twice-exceptional, is limited. The purpose of this investigation was to explore the role of twice-exceptionality on key constructs related to identity development and self-regulation. This study examined developmental changes in students’ self-esteem ratings and locus of control...
Show moreThe coexistence of extraordinary gifts and exceptional impairment residing within the same individual is an inherently curious contradiction. Empirical research on gifted students with one or more disabilities, termed twice-exceptional, is limited. The purpose of this investigation was to explore the role of twice-exceptionality on key constructs related to identity development and self-regulation. This study examined developmental changes in students’ self-esteem ratings and locus of control ratings from eighth grade through twelfth grade, and compared students identified as twice-exceptional with their peers who were identified as gifted-only, disability-only, or non-identified (i.e., a group of “typical” students). Participants were sampled from an existing dataset – the National Educational Longitudinal Study. Measures included questionnaire items adapted from the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (1965), and from Rotter’s Internality-Externality Scale (1966). Results of a two-way mixed design MANOVA revealed no differences between groups on a combination of self-esteem and locus of control ratings, meaning that developmental patterns over time were similar across all ability classifications. Students in the gifted-only group reported the highest levels of self-esteem and the most internalized locus of control, whereas students in the disability-only group reported the lowest self-esteem and most externalized locus of control. Significant differences were revealed between average ratings of twice-exceptional students and ratings of their peers. This manuscript concludes with a discussion of the study’s limitations, implications drawn from the study’s findings, and directions for future research.
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New Controversy Over Thor's Handling of Historic Coney Island Buildings
Coney Island USA's Dick Zigun, who founded the Mermaid Parade and is a member of the board of the Coney Island Development Corp. among other things, has been involved in efforts to landmark a number of significant Coney Island structures and has been seeking a permanent home amidst the redevelopment that will take place. In that context, the story in today's amNY is a must read for those following the Coney Island story, both because Mr. Zigun speaks out about his dealings with developer Joe Sitt and Thor Equities and because it deals with the fate of two structures with fascinating histories, the Grasshorn and Henderson buildings.
The Coney Island USA organization has city grant money to buy a permanent home and, last year, was in talks with Mr. Sitt to use $2 million to purchase the Grasshorn building. (It has already purchased its building at 1208 Surf Avenue, but was looking to the other building as that the Coney Island Museum, which needs a bigger, better home, could expand.) We'll let amNY pick up the narrative:
Zigun hoped to move the Coney Island Museum into the building that was best known as the home of Henry Grasshorn's hardware store, which provided amusement owners with the parts they needed to keep their rides running. But Sitt broke off talks with Coney Island USA last month, saying the building was no longer for sale and that he planned to build a new structure there, Zigun said...
"He will not sell me any of those buildings because he intends to knock down every old building that Thor owns and only develop new buildings and not really be involved with any type of preservation efforts," Zigun said.
Thor officials declined to comment.
The Grasshorn and Henderson buildings are among six structures in the neighborhood that Coney Island USA has nominated for landmark protection, but the organization has received unofficial feedback saying the two buildings have been altered too significantly over the years to qualify, leaving their fate solely in Sitt's hands.
"I thought we were over this, where developers and architects realize that, in a place like New York, a mix of rehabbed old buildings together with new buildings speaks a lot more to the history and culture of New York City than a suburban attitude, where everything is new and sort of uniformed," said Zigun, who added that because Sitt led him on for a year and a half into believing he would sell the Grasshorn building, Coney Island USA faces forfeiting its grant money if it does not spend it before the end of the Bloomberg administration next year.
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One should understand that Mr. Zigun is not anti-development, but is fighting for development that makes sense for Coney Island, and for preserving a genuine amusement district. We understand that real estate negotiation is a tough game, but we're especially at a loss for words in this case. We are pretty shocked that Thor would risk this sort of awful publicity. Our own personal reacation to the developer's conduct as related in the story is confined to individual words: Reprehensible. Disgusting. Awful. Vile. While Mr. Sitt is under no obligation to provide more space for Mr. Zigun's organization, as a major landowner and as one that has a number of structures that are of historic interest in Coney Island and as a developer that needs to cultivate public support, the sort of conduct reported in the amNY story is truly troubling, if not totally counterproductive. It is part of a troubling pattern of distressing behavior including evictions and premature demolition of attractions and the reported refusal to give Astroland another year without a zoning deal that has generated significant opposition to and concern about the Coney Island project. It plays into the hands of those arguing that Thor is playing a dangerous game of chicken with city officials and that the ultimate victim could be Coney Island itself if the city does not move quickly to safeguard its future.
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Preworn said...
Exactly. The other thing the AMNY story mentions is that Dick Zigun was in talks with Thor for the property. Now, ultimately Thor is the villain here. Lying to people and generally being what is colloquially described as an "asshole" to others. But I can't help but think that Dick Zigun might have been louder and more vocal about what is happening to Coney Island had he not be in tallks with Thor.
Hopefully now that Thor has officially screwed everyone over, more and more people will speak out about what they are doing and how they are doing it.
Thanks for posting this for those of us watching Coney's struggle from afar -- I was afraid something like this would happen. It's clear that Thor Equities just wants to raze every inch of the land they've purchased and build their damn condos. I really detest this kind of disingenuous, misleading, and downright crappy behavior. Historic preservation has a place in modern-day real estate development. Like Dick Zigun, I am not anti-development but rather in favor of development that makes sense for the neighborhood. I was afraid something like this was going to happen, and yet I think I could have predicted it, too.
I think Joe Sitt needs to sign up for the historic preservation readings course my husband's going to be teaching this fall at the university where he's a PhD student. He's already got one real estate development student signed up, so if Joey Coney feels like taking a semester off and coming down to South Carolina to get schooled, we'd even let him crash at our place... NOT!
One other point about this whole mess. I can't help but compare it to Bruce Ratner and the Atlatic Yards project. People don't like Ratner, but at least he's been honest and clear in his intentions even if you disagree with him.
In the case of Joe Sitt? Manipulation on top of manipulation on top of bullying tactics. In my mind, there is officially no reason to believe anything he and his organzaition say or do.
They destroyed the Albee Square Mall and now this.
who walk in brooklyn said...
preworn speaks the truth but i will say Zigun was in a no-win situation. he can try to be the most charming, persuasive pawn in the world but was there ever any real question he was a pawn? hell, i'd even venture there are a few people in City Hall who truly like & appreciate all he's done but yeah, to everyone watching this... it's not a surprise in the least. i'd like to call this whole fiasco Sitt's own version of a funhouse mirror but it's too goddamn depressing. (& yes, while i love quiet Coney, esp. in winter, there are plenty of ways to redevelop the area that are a whole lot less destructive to its history.)
jeanne, if you post back here, can you suggest any crucial texts in yr husband's class? txxx in advance--
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Hey wwib... not wanting to totally hijack this comment thread with my husband's recommended reading, I posted some stuff over at my own blog. If you click the hyperlink in my name above it'll take you there.
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What is Idolatry?
In our work with the spirits, we often find ourselves lighting candles in honor of the spirits we're Working with. Biblically, this can be construed as breaking the First Commandment, that one about having no other gods before me. I've seen a lot of debate on whether that commandment means you can't worship any God but Jehovah or whether it means Jehovah has to come first, or even if that just means that in the temple, you'd better not have any other god depicted.
Based on what I've learned from my spiritual experiments over the years, God is the source of the springs that manifest as other gods or angels or spirits. There is only One God at the source, and from that God springs everything that is, the Word, the seven Spheres and their intelligences, the Workman, the physical, Nature, animals, and even Mankind. The spiritual traditions of every culture, Christian, Buddhist, Persian, or Aztec teach the same goal: Remembering and Reclaiming our divine heritage; bringing awareness of that source-ness and at the same time our individual embodiment of it to our daily lives, and eventual death. And beyond.
So to me, the idea that you can even have a God before God is fundamentally off. I think the only reason the Jews received that commandment was because they were CHOSEN by God to be an example to the rest of Mankind. That law (and the rest) is for the Hebrews. He offers plenty of evidence in the rest of the bible that he was (and is) revealing himself to other nations, tribes, cultures, and lands in addition to the Hebrews. Melchizadek, for instance, received Abraham's tithe. He was a Priest of the One true God, right? Hell, later on, Jesus is said to be the High Prest in the order of Melchizadek. Dude was pretty important, but not Hebrew, not the Chosen people, and not bound by the Law. Paul mentions too that God revealed himself to the gentiles in their poetry when he's talking to the Athenians. He quotes "in whom we live and breathe and have our being" from a Pagan poem. He also says the altar to the "Unknown God" is an altar to Jesus.
So, when I'm lighting a candle in honor of Bune as I ask him to get me a windfall of riches, I'm not placing a God before God Jehovah. I'm going to a manifestation of the One True God that manifests to every culture as he sees fit, the specific part that is there to bring men riches and eloquence, and putting in a request. The candle isn't an idolotrous offering, it's a way to "lift up the prayer" into the spiritual realms. Heat rises. As the wax is consumed, the request is raised. As the wax is transformed by the fire, the physically spoken request is transformed into its spiritual components. In revelations, we see angels bringing incense before God, and it says the smoke is the prayers of his people. Smoke, fire, prayer, they're all part and parcel of the same thing.
Sacrifices in general intrigue me. It wasn't the meat that God wanted in the old testament. It was the smell of the burning fat. Says so in the Bible. You know how GOOD burning fat smells? Maybe not if you're a vegetarian, but maybe you get the same out of burning olive oil or something, I dunno. That delicious smell that makes you want to consume, that's the offering that's being given to God. Here God, eat the smell of the burning fat, and forgive my sins while you're at it.
Personally, I wish he'd just take my own fat away, without making me exercise or eat less. In a way though, it makes my exercise holy when I think about it that way. Kind of gross, but sacred too.
I'm getting off topic.
Point is, I don't think lighting a candle is idolatrous if you're doing it with the full knowledge that the being you're Working with is a manfestation of the Monad God the Father that makes everything. If you're just lighting candles to images without thinking about it, thinking it's the image that's going to make shit happen, I thionk you've missed the boat and will have a lot less success in your Work. It's the Spirt represented, and it's the the thing that represents itself as the Spirit that you're really working with. The candle's just sort of there as a physical reminder of what it is you're doing in your Work. It's you rising through the spheres and returning in power, rising to the level of the spirit and bringing back via your prayer the result you seek.
I hope this makes sense.
Suecae Sounds April 03, 2009 3:05 AM
You are definitely making sense; more sense then most, and make a good argument for your position.
Gordon_Finn April 03, 2009 2:13 PM
>>Personally, I wish he'd just take my own fat away, without making me exercise or eat less. In a way though, it makes my exercise holy when I think about it that way. Kind of gross, but sacred too.
I was gonna say this before, but you were gung ho about being motivated. As much as it seems like this wouldn't work, it will. Call up Bune. Just like when you wanted a windfall of money, tell him you want him to take the extra fat on you and convert it into water or fluid that you piss away. Use the energy stored in the cells to make water. I tried it once and it worked for me. The thing is, this increases the amount you are storing in your bladder all the time. It got converted so quickly that I was going every hour and a half at times. Sometimes, I'd wake up every 2-4 or 5 hours and have to go. I'm not making a joke about it either. Somehow, there's some aspect of Bune's abilities that allows this to happen. I just don't know what. It might have to do with his ability to reward for work done. That would be the only thing I can think of that might be it. I didn't have to change how much I was active or what I ate.
Rufus Opus April 04, 2009 11:25 AM
"Call up Bune. Just like when you wanted a windfall of money, tell him you want him to take the extra fat on you and convert it into water or fluid that you piss away. Use the energy stored in the cells to make water. I tried it once and it worked for me."
Gordon, sometimes you're an idiot. I don't believe it worked for you. I think you're making it up. A friend tried it, and her LIVER BLEW. Where does the fat go? Blood stream. What filters fat out of the blood? LIVER. What's a fatty-liver cause? Cirrhosis.
This is really stupid advice. You've got to quit just making shit up that sounds good before you hurt someone.
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Track and Field hosts Liberty Bell amid exciting season
May 15, 2018 /in Sports /by Charlotte Dickinson
Every year around the end of April, Heritage hosts a huge track meet with about 40 schools participating. Organizing the event this year is the head track coach Mr. Tyler Knoblock, from the Physical Education Department. The meet was held on April 27 after school and April 28 during most of the day.
Ms. Jill McCormick from the Math Department ran the event in the past. She emphasizes the need to prepare and be ready for any circumstances. The organizer especially has to be aware of the weather conditions.
“One time the wind picked up a tent and blew it across the track,” McCormick recalls.
“Mentally I’m really excited because [the event] was canceled last year,” comments Braxton Sorenson ’18.
Sorenson is happy with how he has progressed in his training and is optimistic about the meet.
Knoblock is organizing the event according to the format used in past years.
“I do a good job of delegating things between coaching staff, parents and the Athletic Department. It’s all taken care of,” comments Knoblock.
According to McCormick, Heritage has performed best during the individual events in the past years. Knoblock’s goal for this year is very simple.
“I hope a lot of athletes find great success. I’m just trying to make it as good a representation of our program as possible,” he says.
Knoblock’s goal speaks for the purpose of the event itself. It’s meant to represent Heritage and encourage athletes to do their best.
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Bruce Johnstone • “A Simple Wish” transcription
From the recording House of Relics, recorded October 9, 2011.
Bruce Johnstone
A Simple Wish transcriptionFor 10 long years, two guys managed to keep Bruce Johnstone from being named the top baritone saxophonist in the world in Downbeat’s Readers Poll.
It wasn’t a plot: the two guys in question were Gerry Mulligan and Pepper Adams, and the fact that some newcomer from New Zealand could elbow everybody else out of the way and take the bronze — for ten years! — amid such illustrious company is, while perhaps surprising, entirely appropriate!
A Simple Wish by Kelly Bucheger
Bruce shared the bari podium with the two American heavies thanks to his own considerable strengths: a tart, instantly-recognizable sound, and an appealing and unhurried behind-the-beat time feel that was poised and in the pocket no matter the tempo (perhaps calling to mind Dexter Gordon — someone Bruce regularly locked horns with during his days in Copenhagen).
High school band geeks (like me!) first heard Bruce with Maynard Ferguson’s big band. Bruce very nearly steals the show on my favorite Maynard record, M.F. Horn 4 & 5: Live At Jimmy’s, whether swaggering and snarling through Stay Loose with Bruce, or battling the great Dutch tenorist Ferdinand Povel on Two For Otis, or taking an unexpected latin break on MacArthur Park!
(As one YouTube commenter put it, regarding Stay Loose With Bruce and the rest of the album: “One of the best bari solos ever recorded! I call Live At Jimmy’s ‘bari sax clinic’. Of course, I love Gerry, Pepper, Carney, et al, but this solo is just amazing. Oh yeah, I think there was a trumpet player in the band, as well.....”)
Bruce made a big impression on me. I was one of those subscribers who dutifully filled out and mailed in my Downbeat Readers Poll ballot every year — my alto-tenor-bari Holy Trinity was regularly Phil Woods, Sonny Rollins, and, of course, Bruce Johnstone! (Joe Farrell often got my soprano vote...)
Obviously, I’m thrilled to feature Bruce on my new recording, House of Relics! While I loved his work in Maynard’s band playing fiery tunes at ball-busting tempos, I wanted to showcase his kinder and gentler side: in live performances I’ve heard him prove himself to be a master balladeer, and I hoped to grab some of that for my record!
His performance on my tune A Simple Wish is all I could have hoped for: quiet, tender, and just plain lovely! I’ve mentioned elsewhere that transcriptions typically contain only about half of the “data” (at best!) that makes a solo great, and that applies here as well. Bruce’s articulations can't really be captured in musical notation: he’s a master at goosing or understating this or that note in a way that gives his lines lift and swing and momentum — Bruce’s notes are short or long or accented or ghosted in ways that defy standard notation. As I’ve done with other transcriptions in this blog, I’ve put in the “bigger picture” articulations: it’s up to you to listen to the recording and grab all the wholesome goodness that’s not on the page!
Bruce’s time feel also challenges transcription. It’s worth noting his effective use of quarter note triplets to convey the sense that he’s floating above the time, and also to provide rhythmic variety. What can’t really be expressed in notation is his groove, his habitual placement of notes on the back side of the beat. This is Big Boy stuff they don’t teach you in school. This transcription can only approximate Bruce’s free and easy way with the time — listen to the recording and play along to get a better sense of Bruce’s sophisticated approach to the pulse.
Don’t let these caveats intimidate you: have fun! Bruce’s solo in transcription is a lovely little etude with some deep musical wisdom behind it. Play along (and stay loose!) with Bruce in the recording and you’ll be getting a heavy lesson with one of the greatest and most recognizable bari players jazz has produced!
House of Relics is available on iTunes, from Amazon (CD or MP3), Bandcamp, & CD Baby.
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ICER has established its Distinguished Scholar Awards with a view to contributing to an increased reflection on energy regulation policy issues. These Awards acknowledge important contributions made to enhance electricity and gas regulation around the world. In order to promote a broad consideration of the issues and to ensure the applicability of the papers to ICER’s diverse membership, ICER will select two recipients for the Distinguished Scholar Award, based on the following categories: 1) impact on developing countries; and 2) “next” practices.
The Distinguished Scholar Awards are given out every three years, in conjunction with the World Forum on Energy Regulation (WFER). The Call for Articles which outlines the Submission Process is posted approximately 18 months prior to WFER. Stay tuned for application information associated with WFER 2021.
2018 Theme: Regulating in a Time of Innovation: Empowered Consumers, Dynamic Markets and Sustainable Infrastructure
Winner of the Impact on Developing Countries category:
Winners: Juan A. B. Belt (Lead Author), Nicolas Allien, Bahman Kashi, and Jay Mackinnon, Limestone Analytics with Copehagen Consensus Center
Paper: Cost Benefit Analysis of Power Sector Reform in Haiti
Winner of the Next Practices category
Winner: Kenneth W. Costello, Principal Researcher, Energy and Environment, National Regulatory Research Institute
Paper: The Challenges of New Electricity Customer Engagement for Utilities and State Regulators
2015 Award Theme: Creating and Managing Regional Energy Markets
Winners of the Impact on Developing Countries category:
Winners: Katelijn Van Hende, Lecturer, and Carmen Wouters, PhD candidate, both from the School of Energy Resources, University College London, Australia.
Paper: “The Role of Microgrids within Future Regional Electricity Markets”
Winners of the Next Practices category:
Winners: Carlos Battle, Associate Professor; Pablo Rodilla, Researcher; and Paolo Mastropietro, Research Assistant; from the Institute for Research and Technology, Comillas Pontifical University.
Paper: “Capacity Remuneration Mechanisms in the Context of the European Internal Energy Market”
2012 Award Theme: Integrating New Technologies into the Grid
Category: Next Practices
Winner: Carlos Colom, President, CNEE/Guatemala
Paper: Development of New Infrastructure and Integration of New Technologies in Guatemala’s Electricity Sector: Practical Lessons Learned by a Regulator in a Developing Country
Category: Impact on Developing Countries
Winning team from Italy: Luca Lo Schiavo, Maurizio Delfanti, Elena Fumagalli and Valeria Olivieri
Paper: Changing The Regulation for Regulating the Change: innovation-driven Regulatory Developments in Italy: Smart Grids, Smart Metering and E-mobility
2010 Award Theme: The Impact of Renewables on Energy Regulation
Winner: Darryl Biggar (Economist, Australian Energy Regulator (AER) and the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC))
Paper: Pricing of Ancillary Services and the Impact of Wind Generation on the Capability of the Transmission Network
Winner: Association of Mediterranean Regulators for Electricity and Gas (MEDREG)
Paper: Effects of the Introduction of Successful Mechanisms to Promote Energy Efficiency in Non-EU Countries
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Some years back I met a guy who eagerly billed himself as “the angriest mayor in America.” He was coming to speak to some of our students. He eagerly told me that he hated economists, except this one economist, a guy who unlike all the other economists told it like it really is. He then proceeded to spin some bullshit that, of course, nearly every economist rejects. But he’d found that one guy with an Econ PhD who confirmed his economic beliefs, and that was the evidence he needed to support his claim that he was right and almost all economists were wrong.
Bryan Caplan would surely shake his head in amused or weary acknowledgement of the mayor’s foolishness. And yet Caplan has done the same, in choosing Thomas Szasz as his go-to psychologist. Szasz argued that the mental illness/disease model was wrong, and that “there is no such thing as ‘mental illness’” (source). Although rejected (at least in his more extreme pronouncements) by the majority of the psych profession,* Szasz confirms for Caplan what Caplan wants to be true about psychology. That is, Caplan wants to treat these issues as merely one of preferences. (more…)
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How We Get Norms People Don’t Even Particularly Want
Prevailing theory assumes that people enforce norms in order to pressure others to act in ways that they approve. Yet there are numerous examples of “unpopular norms” in which people compel each other to do things that they privately disapprove. While peer sanctioning suggests a ready explanation for why people conform to unpopular norms, it is harder to understand why they would enforce a norm they privately oppose. The authors argue that people enforce unpopular norms to show that they have complied out of genuine conviction and not because of social pressure. They use laboratory experiments to demonstrate this “false enforcement” in the context of a wine tasting and an academic text evaluation. Both studies find that participants who conformed to a norm due to social pressure then falsely enforced the norm by publicly criticizing a lone deviant. A third study shows that enforcement of a norm effectively signals the enforcer’s genuine support for the norm. These results
demonstrate the potential for a vicious cycle in which perceived pressures to conform to and falsely enforce an unpopular norm re-inforce one another.
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Several recent studies have investigated the consequences of racial intermarriage for marital stability. None of these studies properly control for first-order racial differences in divorce risk, therefore failing to appropriately identify the effect of intermarriage. Our article builds on an earlier generation of studies to develop a model that appropriately identifies the consequences of crossing racial boundaries in matrimony. We analyze the 1995 and 2002 National Survey of Family Growth using a parametr
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New smoking ban in mental health units is just cruel
If there is one thing in that statement which I would take issue with, it is Mallon’s overly optimistic belief that the new policy is “well-meaning”.
That’s because anyone who has spent any time in an Irish hospital over the last few years will have seen the smoking ban enforced in draconian and nasty ways which are simply punitive and judgmental.
Even those who have been fortunate enough to stay away from hospitals in that time can see the results of such bans.
Drive by the Mater on any rainy day, for instance, and you will see patients huddled together in their dressing gowns, exposed to the elements as they take a break from the drudgery of hospital life. This, apparently, is healthier than allowing the patients an enclosed area – which they used to have – where they could smoke without bothering anyone else and, perhaps, not get soaked to the bone at the same time.
People smoke in hospitals for a variety of reasons, and one which is never considered by the authorities is that it is actually good for their head.
Certainly, when my father spent a few years in and out of James’s hospital with the terminal, non-smoking related disease which would ultimately kill him, he measured the days by increments of when he’d go out for a smoke. It broke the endless monotony of living on a ward and, like many other long-term patients, he was determined to not become a ‘lifer’, one of those lost, institutionalised souls who simply lie in bed all day staring at the ceiling.
One might be forgiven for believing that this is more about sin and repentance than concern for the welfare of the sinners.
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Quote : 1.52 -0.02 (-1.30%) @ 2:34PM
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Date of report (Date of earliest event reported): May 14, 2019
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(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)
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Item 5.07. Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.
The Annual Meeting of Stockholders of Verastem, Inc. (the “Company”) was held in Needham, Massachusetts on May 14, 2019. At that meeting, the stockholders considered and acted upon the following proposals:
Proposal No. 1 — Election of Class I Directors . By the vote reflected below, the stockholders elected the following individuals to serve as Class I directors until the 2022 Annual Meeting of Stockholders and until their respective successors are duly elected and qualified:
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Michael Kaufmann, M.D.
Eric Rowinsky, M.D.
There were no abstentions with respect to this proposal.
Proposal No. 2 — The Ratification of the Selection of Ernst & Young LLP as the Company’s Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm for the Current Fiscal Year . The stockholders voted to ratify the selection of Ernst & Young LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the current fiscal year. 56,127,092 shares voted for the proposal; 2,617,081 shares voted against the proposal; and 3,242,487 shares abstained from voting on the proposal. There were no broker non-votes on the proposal.
Proposal No. 3 — Non-Binding Advisory Vote on the Compensation of the Company’s Named Executive Officers . The Company’s stockholders approved, on a non-binding, advisory basis, the compensation paid to the Company’s named executive officers. 18,153,297 shares voted for the proposal; 2,308,728 shares voted against the proposal; and 3,420,652 shares abstained from voting on the proposal. There were 38,103,983 broker non-votes on the proposal.
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
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Cybersecurity Special Report: Ransomware in Heathcare Will Get Worse
Victoria Startseva | Jul 7, 2016
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That’s according to “Hacking Hospitals,” a two-year study by Independent Security Evaluators of 12 healthcare facilities, two healthcare data facilities, two healthcare technology platforms and two medical devices.
The study concluded healthcare has two major problems when it comes to digital security: a near-exclusive focus on defending patient records, and measures that target unsophisticated adversaries and blanket attacks.
“One of the biggest things we took away from our Anonymous attack was that in the past, I had always thought about cybersecurity related to health IT as safeguarding data ― but our experience made us understand it is more than that,” said Daniel Nigrin, MD, CIO at Boston Children’s Hospital, which was attacked by the hacker group Anonymous in 2014. “These cyberattacks can be disruptive to the routine daily operations of a hospital. One can argue these kinds of attacks are even more significant than the breach of data because at the end of the day we are taking care of patients who are sick, and that has to be Priority No. 1.”
Recent events emphasize this point. For example, in February, hackers launched a successful ransomware attack against Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center, holding the hospital’s data and normal operations hostage until the hospital ultimately paid the hackers 40 bitcoins (about $17,000). Others followed in rapid succession: Hackers struck Los Angeles County Department of Health, Chino Valley Medical Center and its sister site Desert Valley Medical Center, Methodist Hospital in Kentucky and MedStar Health in the nation’s capital.
Today in healthcare, provider organizations should not fool themselves: It’s not as much about preventing intrusions as it is managing intrusions, said Elliott Frantz, founder and CEO of Virtue Security, a security technology company that conducts ethical hacking to help protect clients.
And healthcare organizations, by and large, are not prepared. More than 80 percent spend less than 6 percent of their IT budgets on security, and more than 50 percent say that figure is less than 3 percent, which is alarming given the significantly higher percentages spent on security in other industries such as government (16 percent) and finance (between 12-15 percent), according to a recent survey of more than 100 health IT decision-makers by HIMSS Analytics and Symantec titled “Addressing Healthcare Cybersecurity Strategically.”
Nearly 75 percent of survey respondents say security ― be it a strategic plan, metrics, status or incidents ― is only brought up at board meetings some of the time or upon request, which shows the lack of strategic importance healthcare organizations give security, the study says. And cybersecurity training and education for end-users ranks very low in the survey when it comes to the amount of importance it is given by healthcare organizations.
Overall, most provider organizations have a tactical approach to security rather than a strategic approach, the study says, reacting to immediate threats rather than deploying a comprehensive strategy.
On that note, Healthcare IT News interviewed a variety of cybersecurity experts to determine the most pressing issues today. The experts pointed to five things every healthcare C-suite should understand: Ransomware attacks will get worse; whaling is a major threat; the need to educate C-suite executives on security has never been greater; application security should not be overlooked; and medical devices and the Internet of Things open an endless number of new doors that can threaten not just security but patient safety.
1. THE RANSOMWARE THREAT IS GROWING. This style of attack does not require an unusual amount of hacking skill or resources to successfully pull off. And because other industries have already have gone through the wringer with hacking and subsequently invested quite heavily in security, healthcare is a sitting duck.
“Health systems have the money and they’re willing to pay it, especially if they are behind the times and do not have the technology to undo a ransomware attack,” said Erik Devine, chief security officer at Riverside HealthCare, an Illinois health system. “Ransomware attacks will continue to happen until the reward for the hacker is less than the risk and effort to do the attack. Ransomware attacks in healthcare will increase in the years to come.”
Devine said Riverside is regularly hit with minor ransomware attacks that he calls “annoyances” because they only hit files of minimal importance. He is not as concerned about ransomware as other CSOs might be because he is confident his health system is prepared.
“We have excellent backups, which are a must, and we have the right access control list, which only occasionally allows minor threats to hit minor files,” he said. “Access lists, control lists, permissions ― these are a huge step you have to make sure you assess at least once a quarter; we do so once a month. We go through all users and make sure they have appropriate permissions. And backups are huge ― without them, you’re up a creek and you end up paying to get data or control back.”
Riverside HealthCare also has invested in application white-listing, a security service that only allows software handpicked by information security staff to run within a network. That way, if a ransomware strike is activated and an application trying to run is not on the white-list, it cannot infect.
“Application white-listing was a huge initiative for Riverside ― we used to do it only at the edge of the point of entry and to the LAN, but now we do it everywhere,” Devine said. “It’s been a huge success, but a huge initiative with a lot of painful steps back and forth until we got it right.”
Another way to combat ransomware is to ensure all systems and patches within a network are up to date.
“If you look at health IT infrastructure overall, it’s alarming how many organizations have not been refreshing systems, making patches and updating OS versions,” said Ryan Witt, vice president and managing director of the healthcare industry practice at Fortinet Inc., an information security technology vendor. “Organizations need to be much more vigilant keeping systems up to date; it is an easy step healthcare can take to better secure the environment.”
And if a system that’s running is not necessary? Turn it off.
“Technical assessments often show many unnecessary services running throughout a network,” Virtue Security’s Frantz said. “Every unnecessary service is a ticking time bomb because, in general, there are more and more vulnerabilities released in software. A healthcare organization can significantly reduce exposure simply by shutting down all of the unnecessary software and services that are running.”
2. HACKERS ARE PHISHING FOR WHALES. Phishing remains a common way for hackers to infiltrate healthcare organizations. And members of the C-suite need to understand the different forms of phishing, especially whaling, where criminals have been much more successful than Captain Ahab.
“2015 was the year of healthcare attacks, when healthcare became the prime target, and on that note, there needs to be a robust discussion of phishing,” said Karl West, CISO at Intermountain Healthcare. “The attacks that have been occurring, like at Anthem, UCLA and Hollywood Presbyterian, these are phishing attacks, and our C-suite executives must understand the different types of phishing.”
West describes three basic kinds of phishing attacks: blanket, spear-phishing and whaling. A blanket attack hits perhaps thousands of users within a network with malicious e-mails. A spear-fishing attack targets a group of individuals. Whaling, however, aims for just a few members of a C-suite ― the big fish.
“Healthcare has become better at identifying blanket phishing and a little better dealing with spear-phishing, but whaling, those are much more sophisticated attacks,” West said. “With whaling, someone is doing a kind of social engineering: Who is the CFO? Who is the CIO? Who is the CEO? It is a derivative of phishing that can produce far greater risk to an organization, and the industry is seeing quite a bit of it today.”
Whales, in fact, have greater security permissions. A chief medical officer, for instance, will have greater access to medical records, and a chief financial officer can authorize payments. If a hacker can correlate even two whales, the attacker could, for instance, make it appear that the CEO sent an e-mail to a CFO requesting a confidential transfer of funds.
“We’ve had these kinds of attacks attempted, but these e-mails are spoofed ― if you hover over the e-mail address, you can see it is not the CEO but a Gmail address or similar,” West explained. “At Anthem, that whaling campaign was all about trying to get a database administrator who had the ability to transfer large amounts of data.”
How has Intermountain successfully fought back the whaling attacks it has seen ping its network? That leads right into point No. 3.
3. SECURITY EXECS MUST CONSTANTLY EDUCATE THE C-SUITE. Many health IT security experts say that healthcare C-suite executives ― and board members, for that matter ― do not receive sufficient education and updates on security matters. As a result, effective security is not sufficiently prioritized.
“Attacks create fear and anxiety, and if we’re educating executives at the C-level appropriately then we can take appropriate actions as opposed to reactions,” said West of Intermountain. “After the Hollywood Presbyterian attack, I was called up to visit with our C-level within a few days to explain what we are doing. I told our C-level executives Hollywood needed good end-point protection and good anti-phishing software, and shared what we already had been doing to protect against such attacks. We have a strategy around phishing, we have an end-point protection tool, and they will protect us against ransomware.”
West sends a daily security operations center report to the C-suite, letting them know what he observed the day before and what, if anything, needs to be done about it. The daily report includes a threat level indicator. If the threat level changes, then he outlines, for example, what the chief medical officer and the chief nursing officer should be doing.
“We elevated the threat level because of the Hollywood Presbyterian ransomware attack, and since then we’ve seen six instances of that kind of ransomware attack within Intermountain ― but the hackers have not been able to penetrate. We captured and removed the threats,” West explained. “I just had a C-level executive send a message asking me to look at an e-mail. I replied, ‘You are No. 6.’”
It is the responsibility of the executive in charge of information security at a healthcare organization to help C-suite executives understand and digest technical and threat assessments, which can be quite technical, and properly prioritize security, said Devine of Riverside HealthCare.
“The chief security officer is the interpreter of the documents that say what is needed for a health system, who then translates that into an actual strategy with a vision, a budget and a three- to five-year outlook,” Devine added. “Healthcare organizations must find someone in the health system who can interpret assessments and execute a strategy ― this is key ― and then develop a relationship of trust with the C-suite.”
Devine added that if there seems to be a need for cultural change around high levels of security, then work to change the culture should happen first, and as quickly as possible, before a strategy and a vision can successfully be undertaken.
“I have explained to C-level executives and others that at the end of the day, an organization is merely an IP address, and IP addresses all look identical to hackers,” he said. “Hackers don’t care who you are or what size you are, they simply will go for the easiest target. So if you continue down a route of poor security or poor security education, it’s inevitable you will get hit.”
On the subject of educating the C-suite, David Finn, health IT officer at Symantec, points back to the results of the HIMSS Analytics/Symantec security study as clear evidence much more education is needed.
“One of the stats I got excited about, at first, because it looked so good, was a big percentage of organizations, 54 percent, that report on security to the board,” Finn said. “But when we read into the survey details and the analysis of interviews, that really only happens when the board requests it. When you start digging into organizations that routinely report on security to the board, that number drops off very quickly.”
That shows that security is not a strategic function of the board, Finn said.
“You do not go to a board meeting and not get a financial report, and most hospital boards get a quality report, but they only get a security report if they see a headline and ask,” he said. “If you really are going to make security a strategic function of an organization and show a proper level of concern, security has to be at every board meeting, and the board has to understand the risks, not just your degrees of compliance.”
4. APPLICATION SECURITY SHOULD NOT BE OVERLOOKED. Some security experts add that if healthcare organizations are really going to make security a high priority, they cannot ignore what is known as application security. Application security is the use of hardware, software and processes to combat external threats from endangering applications.
“There is a big deficiency in healthcare with application security,” said Frantz of Virtue Security. “The knee-jerk reaction is to conclusively say, ‘Data is encrypted in transit and at rest.’ But there is the runtime state, when an application is handling data and that data has to be decrypted. That is where we find the most vulnerabilities. We see a large number of applications that expose data to unauthorized users or the general public.”
Many healthcare executives said they are not ready for application security simply because it is a more advanced level of security technology — but it is an enormous focus in the financial world, Frantz said.
“It’s definitely an area where healthcare is lacking, where healthcare executives say they’re not ready for it because there are so many bigger problems, because they’re getting phishing attacks and network attacks, all of these low-skill attacks that everyone is battling,” he said. “So a lot of organizations are not tackling application security. But it is inevitable; you cannot put it off forever.”
The fact that healthcare is lagging behind with application security actually gives the industry one big advantage: It does not have to reinvent the wheel.
“There are so many security frameworks that exist for application security; it is easier than ever to build applications that are secure,” Frantz said. “From a process standpoint, healthcare really has an opportunity to build an application security process right the first time.”
5. Medical devices and the Internet of Things mean trouble. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the MITRE Corporation are working together to foster a more collaborative approach to address the sometimes abject vulnerability of critical medical devices to cyberattack. Medical devices and the blossoming Internet of Things together are a virtual Pandora’s Box of security holes.
“MITRE is a federally funded research and development center tasked with helping us at FDA advance the medical device security vision,” said Suzanne Schwartz, MD, the FDA director of emergency preparedness, operations and medical countermeasures. “They’ll do so by evolving a medical device vulnerability ecosystem that will share relevant cybersecurity information among both government and private sector stakeholders.”
Medical devices and Internet of Things devices, such as smartwatches and web-enabled appliances, involve incredible security risks because in most cases manufacturers have not been sensitized to the issue of healthcare cybersecurity and have not embedded necessary safeguards, said Nigrin of Boston Children’s Hospital.
“Even if manufacturers of medical devices hardened their new products tomorrow, it takes a good amount of time for an organization to swap out all of its hardware with the new,” Nigrin said. “Organizations are thinking about segregation of networks for medical devices, for instance, and keeping tabs on the perimeter certainly is important. But there is no quick, easy solution to this problem; it’s pretty bad at this point.”
On the upside, Nigrin said, cybercriminals so far are not out to cause physical harm to individuals connected to medical devices; they’re just looking for financial gain or drawing attention to an issue important to them.
“Perhaps with terrorism, however, it will come to physical harm,” Nigrin added. “When it comes to criminals hacking in and fouling up an IV pump to kill someone, I don’t think we’re there yet. Though I know it’s probably just a moment away, looking at how society is these days. Hopefully the time we have before such risks become real is enough time to have the manufacturers improve their products.”
Nigrin makes an alarming point about medical devices, one that is near and dear to his heart — or, actually, his kidneys.
“I am a diabetic and I have an insulin pump,” he said. “There recently were proof-of-concept attacks on insulin pumps that were successful. Some enterprising diabetics not waiting for closed loop insulin pump devices to control the rate of insulin administration hacked up protection themselves. That is powerful and cool, but on the other hand, they should not be able to do that. That means there’s a hack people can come up with that allows for an insulin pump to be controlled by something other than the pump itself. We have to go into this brave new world with our eyes wide open.”
Bill Siwicki
FROM: Healthcare News
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Resurrection and redescription of Squalus suckleyi (Girard, 1854) from the North Pacific, with comments on the Squalus acanthias subgroup (Squaliformes: Squalidae),
A taxonomie re-evaluation of the status of the North Pacific Squalus suckleyi (Girard, 1854) combining the use of meristie, morphological and molecular data reveal this species to be clearly distinct from the widespread Squalus acanthias (Linneaus, 1758). Differences in the external morphology between S. acanthias and S. suckleyi are subtle and are likely to be masked by intraspecific variation within individuals. However, we found S. suckleyi to differ from S.acanthias based on the following morphological and meristic characteristics: a short, broadly-rounded to acute snout;first dorsal-fin midpoint more posterior to pectoral-fin insertion; pelvic-fin origin closer to second dorsal fin than first dorsal fin; total vertebral counts average 99 (97-106). Molecular analysis of approximately 650 bp of the CO1 mitochondrial gene (DNA barcode region) showed separation of S. suckleyi and S. acanthias into two distinct genetic clades with 98% bootstrap support. Within species genetic diversities were 0.109±0.036% and 0.176±0.041% for S.suckleyi and S. acanthias respectively; between species diversity was 5- 6 fold greater at 0.765+0.307%. Squalussuckleyi is thus resurrected and a neotype for this endemic North Pacific Squalus species is designated. Copyright © 2010 Magnolia Press., Cited By (since 1996):20, ,
Ebert, White, Goldman, Compagno, Daly-Engel, Ward
Paralytic shellfish toxins sequestered by bivalves as a defense against siphon-nipping fish,
Saxidomus giganteus (butter clams), are known to sequester diet-derived paralytic shellfish toxins (PST), highly potent neurotoxins, in their siphons. Captive staghorn sculpins (Leptocotus armatus), a marine fish species known to crop bivalve siphons, developed a significant aversion to siphons from toxic but not non-toxic S. giganteus following a single conditioning feeding of toxic siphon tissues. Control fish showed no aversive response to siphons from non-toxic S. giganteus during 11 feeding sessions over 56 d. Aversive and non-aversive behavior varied with the toxicity of the siphons, but not with the geographic origin of the clams. Both experimental and control fish ate freely and showed no aversion to siphons from toxic littleneck clams (Protothaca staminea). Littleneck clams, unlike S. giganteus, retain PST in their visceral mass but not in their siphons. Both toxic and non-toxic S. giganteus extended their siphons significantly more often and higher above the sediment surface during dark hours, but toxic S. giganteus extended their siphons higher than non-toxic individuals. These results support the hypothesis that siphon-nipping by fish may have selected for the retention of PST in butter clam siphons as a chemical defense. © 1991 Springer-Verlag., Cited By (since 1996):9, CODEN: MBIOA, ,
Kvitek
Biological response to iron fertilization in the eastern equatorial Pacific (IronEx II). I. Microplankton community abundances and biomass,
During the IronEx II experiment in the eastern equatorial Pacific (May to June 1995), the response of the microplankton community to mesoscale iron fertilization was followed using a combination of marker-pigment, microscopical and flow cytometric techniques. Phytoplankton standing stock bloomed dramatically over a period of 6 d following 3 iron additions of 2 and 1 nM, respectively. Carbon biomass in the patch increased by a factor of 4, chlorophyll a by about a factor of 16 and diatoms by > 70-fold relative to contemporaneous levels in the ambient community. The bloom then plateaued sharply and remained at a more or less constant level for 4 d, despite the addition of more iron (1 nM) and physiological indices (low C:chl a ratio and elevated photochemical quantum efficiency) suggesting that the cells were healthy and growing rapidly. Relatively large pennate diatoms (Nitzschia spp., median length 20 to 24 μm) dominated the patch bloom, with smaller pennate species and centric diatoms declining in relative importance. Heterotrophic bacteria increased at a slow rate (0.08 d -1) for > 10 d during the experiment, as did heterotrophic nanoflagellates. There were also indications of enhanced cell size, cellular pigment content and possibly growth rates of small phytoplankton. Nonetheless, little difference was observed between the ambient community and the peak patch bloom with respect to the size composition of auto- and heterotrophic populations < 10 μm in cell size. The relative constancy of the smaller size fractions, the sharp curtailment of net growth of the bloom after 6 d, and > 3-fold increase in large heterotrophic dinoflagellates and ciliates suggest that protistan grazers may have played an active role in controlling the phytoplankton response to increased iron availability., , , ,
Landry, Ondrusek, Tanner, Brown, Constantinou, Bidigare, Coale, Fitzwater
The Santa Barbara oil spill Part 2,
The initial effects of the Santa Barbara oil spill on intertidal and kelp bed organisms were studied. Based on earlier surveys, the greatest negative biological change at a sample station after the spill was the loss of 16 plant species. However, losses in species were correlated in most cases with sand movement, and may have been related to the severe storms which occurred before and during the oil spill. Although gross species changes were not correlated with oil dosage, severe damage occurred in intertidal surf grass and barnacle populations as a result of the oil pollution. Potential long-term biological effects of the continuing pollution are discussed., , ,
Foster, Neushul, Zingmark
Early development of Diaphus garmani (Myctophidae) in the transition region of the western North Pacific,
We present the descriptions of the larval and transforming stages of one of the most abundant Diaphus species in the transition region of the western North Pacific, Diaphus garmani. Species identification was achieved by tracing characters backward from identifiable juveniles through transforming and larval stages. Description of the larval development includes the morphometric characteristics, pigmentation, and photophore development, which help identify the early life stages of this species., Cited By (since 1996):6, Fish and Fisheries, ,
Sassa, Kawaguchi, Loeb
Effects of shade from multiple kelp canopies on an understory algal assemblage,
We examined the effects of shade from multiple kelp canopy layers (surface Macrocystis pyrifera canopy, understory Pterygophora californica canopy), both individually and in combination, on an understory algal assemblage in a central Californian kelp forest. The removal of both kelp canopies resulted in a dense recruitment of the understory brown alga Desmarestia ligulata that formed a third canopy layer, which significantly decreased bottom light and the abundance of understory red algae. We subsequently created an additional canopy treatment by removing this third canopy layer. In general, the understory red algae fluctuated seasonally with winter swell intensity, changes in kelp canopy cover, and grazing; and although species richness increased significantly with increased bottom light, red algal bottom cover did not respond significantly to the canopy clearings until 2 yr after the canopies were initially cleared. Red algal cover within the Pterygophora canopy treatment was similar to that in the control treatment. In the absence of Pterygophora, the Macrocystis canopy treatment and 'no canopy' treatment were found to have greater red algal cover and species richness. Individual understory species were rare, which resulted in small effects sizes and thus low statistical power. However, when grouped post hoc, according to how they responded to the canopy clearings (i.e. response groups), we were able to detect canopy treatment effects as much as 1 yr earlier. This method identified that some understory red algae adapted to areas of canopy removal (light-adapted), and others adapted to a variety of light regimes (shade-tolerant). We were able to classify the light-adapted algae into 2 subgroups: the high-light species and the intermediate-light species. Although this method of grouping was done post hoc, our results indicate that it may provide the clearest assessment of how understory algae respond to shading from kelp canopies., Cited By (since 1996):40, Seaweeds, CODEN: MESED, ,
Clark, Edwards, Foster
Iron, primary production and carbon-nitrogen flux studies during the JGOFS North Atlantic bloom experiment,
Primary production was measured every other day towards the end (18-31 May) of the 1989 North Atlantic spring bloom. Rates varied with light and averaged 90.4 mmol C m -2 day -1 at the 47°N, 20°W station. Productivities measured south of Iceland (59°30′N, 20°45′W) were somewhat lower, averaging 83.6 mmol C m -2 day -1. Carbon and nitrogen fluxes were estimated using free-floating, VERTEX type particle trap arrays. To obtain mean rates representative of the North Atlantic spring bloom, flux data from three trap deployments were combined and fitted to normalized power functions:. mmol C m -2 day -1 = 14.35 (z/100) -0.946, mmol N m -2 day -1 = 2.34(z/100) -1.02, with depth z in meters. Regeneration rates were:. mmol C m -2 day -1 = 0.136(z/100) -1.946, mmol N m -2 day -1 = 0.0239(z/100) -2.02. The carbon export rate from the upper 35 m for the entire NABE study period (24 April to 1 June) was 39 mmol m -2 day -1. This value divided by the averaged productivity for the entire study (86 mmol N m -2 day -1) gave an F-ratio of 0.45. Concentrations of Cu, Fe, Ni, Pb and Zn were determined in water samples provided by JGOFS NABE scientists involved with primary productivity measurements. Although little contamination was observed for Cu, Ni and Pb, relatively large amounts of Zn (10 nmol kg -1) were found in some cases. In subsequent studies it was learned that this quantity of Zn can depress productivity rates by 25%. North Atlantic dissolved Fe concentrations were similar to those occurring in the Pacific (surface = 0.07; deep = 0.5-0.6 nmol kg -1). Although no evidence of Fe deficiency was found in enrichment experiments, the addition of nmol amounts of Fe did increase CO 2 uptake and POC formation by factors of 1.3-1.7. In this region, most of the phytoplankton's Fe requirement is probably met via the lateral transport of Fe from distant continental margins., Cited By (since 1996):170, CODEN: DSROE, ,
Martin, Fitzwater, Michael Gordon, Hunter, Tanner
An acoustic harassment technique to reduce seal predation on salmon
Mate, Brown, Greenlaw, Harvey, Temte, Mate, Harvey
Permeability-porosity relationships of subduction zone sediments
Permeability-porosity relationships for sediments from the northern Barbados, Costa Rica, Nankai, and Peru subduction zones were examined based on sediment type, grain size distribution, and general mechanical and chemical compaction history. Greater correlation was observed between permeability and porosity in siliciclastic sediments, diatom oozes, and nannofossil chalks than in nannofossil oozes. For siliciclastic sediments, grouping of sediments by percentage of clay-sized material yields relationships that are generally consistent with results from other marine settings and suggests decreasing permeability as percentage of clay-sized material increases. Correction of measured porosities for smectite content improved the correlation of permeability-porosity relationships for siliciclastic sediments and diatom oozes. The relationship between permeability and porosity for diatom oozes is very similar to the relationship in siliciclastic sediments, and permeabilities of both sediment types are related to the amount of clay-size particles. In contrast, nannofossil oozes have higher permeability values by 1.5 orders of magnitude than siliciclastic sediments of the same porosity and show poor correlation between permeability and porosity. More indurated calcareous sediments, nannofossil chalks, overlap siliciclastic permeabilities at the lower end of their measured permeability range, suggesting similar consolidation patterns at depth. Thus, the lack of correlation between permeability and porosity for nannofossil oozes is likely related to variations in mechanical and chemical compaction at shallow depths. This study provides the foundation for a much-needed global database with fundamental properties that relate to permeability in marine settings. Further progress in delineating controls on permeability requires additional carefully documented permeability measurements on well-characterized samples. © 2010 Elsevier B.V., Cited By (since 1996):10, CODEN: MAGEA
Gamage, Screaton, Bekins, Aiello
A framework for investigating general patterns of benthic β-diversity along estuaries
The description of major patterns in beta (. β) diversity is important in order to understand changes in community composition and/or richness at different spatial and temporal scales, and can interrogate processes driving species distribution and community dynamics. Human impacts have pushed many estuarine systems far from their historical baseline of rich, diverse, and productive ecosystems. Despite the ecological and social importance of estuaries, there has not yet been an attempt to investigate patterns of β-diversity and its partitioning along estuarine systems of different continents. We aimed to evaluate if benthic assemblages would show higher turnover than nestedness in tropical than in temperate systems, if well-known impacted estuaries would show greater nestedness than less polluted systems, and to propose a conceptual framework for studying benthic macrofauna beta diversity along estuaries. We analyzed subtidal benthic macrofaunal data from estuaries in Brazil, USA and France. We estimated alpha (. α), beta (. β) and gamma (. γ) diversity for each sampling time in each system, investigated patterns of β -diversity as multivariate dispersion and the partitioning (nestedness and replacement) of β-diversity along each estuary. There was a decrease in the α-diversity along marine to freshwater conditions at most of the estuaries and sampling dates. Beta diversity as multivariate dispersion showed high variability. Most of the estuaries showed a greater proportion of the β-diversity driven by replacement than nestedness. We suggest a conceptual framework for estuaries where relatively pristine estuaries would have their β-diversity mostly driven by replacement while impacted estuaries subjected to several anthropogenic stressors would show total nestedness or total replacement, depending on the stress.
Barros, Blanchet, Hammerstrom, Sauriau, Oliver
Larval competency of red abalone (Haliotis rufescens): A new timeframe for larval distribution
Settling cues in the form of coralline algae were presented to groups of hatchery-reared red abalone (Haliotis rufescens, Swainson 1822) larvae daily from day 4 to day 32 posthatch (temperature, 14°C). Survival of postlarval abalone after settlement was monitored for 30 days to quantify the effect of delayed metamorphosis on the subsequent survival of benthic juvenile abalone. After exposure to live coralline algae, an average of 85% of the larvae metamorphosed and settled the following day. The number of settled postlarvae increased gradually the longer the settling cue was withheld. Postsettlement juveniles were raised in individual containers on mixed diatoms for up to 34 days. Red abalone larvae remained competent to settle 32 days after fertilization. Larvae that metamorphosed from day 4 through day 19 had longer survival during the next 30 days (average, 19%) than those presented with a settling cue from day 20 to day 32 (average, 8%). Statistical analysis using a threshold cut point indicated that the 20-day threshold marked a significant change in subsequent postlarval survival. A receiver-operating characteristic curve analysis indicated that the 20-day cut point predicted high or low future survival of postmetamorphic abalone 73.4% of the time. Larvae that swam for less than 20 days had postmetamorphic survival of 8 days or more, whereas survival was 7 days or less for postmetamorphic abalone that had swam previously for 20-32 days. A larval competency period of 20 days is significantly longer than the 5-7-day larval stage often used to estimate transport times for this species., Downloaded from: http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.2983/035.031.0429 (9 June 2014).
McCormick, Buckley, Navas, Barber, Billups, Gill, Jones, Peterson, Saylor, Sayre
A model of the iron cycle in the ocean,
The IRONEX II in situ fertilization experiment showed decisively that availability of iron limits the growth of phytoplankton in equatorial Pacific surface waters. High-nutrient low-chlorophyll (HNLC) surface waters, potentially iron limited, are also found in the North Pacific and the Southern Ocean. A model of seawater iron geochemistry has been incorporated into a global ocean circulation and carbon cycle model and tuned to match the observed ocean Fe distribution. The model reproduces the observed HNLC areas in the equatorial Pacific and Southern Ocean but predicts nutrient depletion in the North Pacific (a region of high dust fluxes from Asia). The model is based on the idea that the concentrations of organic iron-binding ligands in seawater control the subsurface Fe concentration and predicts that a majority (70-80%) of the global carbon export production can be sustained by upwelling of dissolved iron in seawater rather than by atmospheric deposition. The ocean iron cycle increases the efficiency of iron utilization in the biological pump, buffers new production against interannual fluctuations in iron deposition, and contributes several new intrinsic timescales to the ocean carbon cycle: several hundred years for the ocean iron concentration and perhaps several thousand for the concentration of ligand in the deep sea. Ocean recycling of Fe appears to play a major role in determining the strength of the biological pump in the ocean and the pCO2 of the atmosphere., Cited By (since 1996):117, , , Oceanography
Archer, Johnson
Effect of water clarity on the distribution of marine birds in nearshore waters of Monterey Bay, California,
The distribution of marine birds relative to water clarity was examined in the nearshore waters of Monterey Bay, California. I conducted nine at-sea surveys in 1999 and 2000 and simultaneously recorded water clarity and the density of five taxa of marine birds. Among plunge-divers, Forster's Terns (Sterna forsteri) occurred more frequently than expected over turbid water (<2.5 m Secchi depth) and, among pursuit-diving species, Brandt's Cormorants (Phalacrocorax penicillatus) occurred most often in the clearest water available (>5 m Secchi depth). Turbidity in Monterey Bay may be caused by suspended organic matter, including phytoplankton, during summer and fall. Forster's Tern may prefer such areas because small fish are likely to occur near this potential food source. Brandt's Cormorants probably rely on vision to catch fish near the bottom and turbid water may reduce available light and limit visual acuity. The distribution of Brown Pelicans (Pelecanus occidentalis), Western/Clark's Grebes (Aechmophorus occidentalis/clarkii), and Marbled Murrelets (Brachyramphus marmoratus) did not appear to be influenced by turbidity levels, indicating that some seabirds use marine habitats with a wide range of water clarities. ©2006 Association of Field Ornithologists., Cited By (since 1996):8, Marine Mammals, Birds & Turtles, ,
European green crabs (Carcinus maenas) in the Northeastern Pacific,
Aim The European green crab (Carcinus maenas) expanded dramatically after its introduction to the west coast of North America, spreading over 1000 km in < 10 years. We use samples of Carcinus maenas collected over time and space to investigate the genetic patterns underlying the species' initial establishment and spread, and discuss our findings in the context of the species' life history characteristics and demography. Location The central west coast of North America, encompassing California, Oregon, and Washington (USA) and British Columbia (Canada). Methods We collected 1040 total samples from 21 sites representing the major episodes of population establishment and expansion along the west coast of North America. Microsatellite markers were used to assess genetic diversity and structure at different time points in the species' spread, to investigate connectivity between embayments and to estimate both short-term effective population sizes and the number of original founders. Assignment testing was performed to determine the likely source of the introduction. Results Carcinus maenas in western North America likely derived from a single introduction of a small number of founders to San Francisco Bay, CA from the east coast of North America. Throughout its western North American range, the species experiences periodic migration between embayments, resulting in a minor loss of genetic diversity in more recently established populations versus the populations in the area of initial establishment. Main conclusions Low genetic diversity has not precluded the ability of C. maenas to successfully establish and spread on the west coast of North America. An efficient oceanographic transport mechanism combined with highly conducive life history traits are likely the major drivers of C. maenas spread. Evidence for a single introduction underscores the potential utility of early detection and eradication of high-risk invasive species. © 2009 Blackwell Publishing Ltd., Cited By (since 1996):9, Invertebrates, CODEN: DIDIF, ,
Tepolt, Darling, Bagley, Geller, Blum, Grosholz
Behavior of gray whales summering near St. Lawrence Island, Bering Sea,
Most Eschrichtius robustus behavior involved apparent benthic feeding. There was little socializing by whales in July, but more in late September. Percent of time at the surface was about 21% in July and 23% in September. There were fewer blows per surfacing, shorter surface times, and shorter dive times when whales were not feeding than when they were feeding. Intervals between successive blows were longer in nonfeeding whales, but number of blows per minute did not differ between feeding and nonfeeding whales. Number of blows per surfacing and duration of surfacing increased with increasing water depth (from <20-80m). Dive duration did not change appreciably with depth in July, but did so in September. Blow rates by feeding whales increased in deeper water, indicating the need for whales to respire more as depth of dives increased. Time of day affected surfacing-dive respiration characteristics differently in different months. Whales fed more from 1800-2100 local Bering Sea time than at other times of day. During an average surfacing, feeding whales moved approx 50m; during a dive, net horizontal movements were 90-100m. Speed averaged 2km/h and was twice as fast at the surface (3.4km/h) compared with net underwater speed (1.7km/h)., Cited By (since 1996):12, Marine Mammals, Birds & Turtles, ,
Wursig, Wells, Croll
Genetic and historical evidence disagree on likely sources of the Atlantic amethyst gem clam Gemma gemma (Totten, 1834) in California,
Aim: Historical information about source populations of invasive species is often limited; therefore, genetic analyses are used. We compared inference about source populations from historical and genetic data for the oyster-associated clam, Gemma gemma that invaded California from the USA Atlantic coast. Location: Mid-Atlantic (North Carolina, Maryland), Northeastern (New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts) and the California coasts (Elkhorn Slough, San Francisco Bay, Bolinas Lagoon, Tomales Bay, Bodega Harbor). Methods: The documented history of transplantation of Eastern oysters to California was reviewed. C. ytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) sequences from recent and archived clams were examined in a haplotype network. We used AMOVA to detect geographic genetic structure and a permutation test for significant reductions in diversity. Results: Chesapeake Bay oysters were transplanted to New York prior to shipment to San Francisco Bay and from there to peripheral bays. Gemma in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions were genetically differentiated. In California, populations in Bodega Harbor and Tomales Bay were genetically similar to those in the Mid-Atlantic area while clams in San Francisco Bay, Elkhorn Slough and Bolinas Lagoon resembled populations in the Northeastern region. In California, genetic variation was not highest in San Francisco Bay despite greater magnitude of oyster plantings. Haplotypes varied over time in native and introduced populations. Main Conclusions: Historical records and inferences from genetics agree that both Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions were sources for Gemma in California. Only complex genetic hypotheses reconcile the strong segregation of haplotypes in California to the historical evidence of mixing in their proximate source (New York). These hypotheses include sorting of mixtures of haplotypes or selection in non-native areas. Haplotype turnover in San Francisco and Massachusetts samples over time suggests that the sorting hypothesis is plausible. We suggest, however, that Gemma was introduced independently and recently to Tomales Bay and Bodega Harbor. © 2010 Blackwell Publishing Ltd., Cited By (since 1996):6, CODEN: DIDIF, ,
Hoos, Whitman Miller, Ruiz, Vrijenhoek, Geller
234Th:238U disequilibria within the California Current
Profiles of dissolved and particulate 234Th were determined at several stations within the California Current. Modeling of the disequilibria between the 234Th and 23aU within the surface waters provides for estimates of the residence time of dissolved thorium with respect to particle scavenging (TP varies from 6 to 50 days), the particle residence time (TP varies from 2 to 20 days), and the particulate 234Th flux exiting the surface layer. The model-derived, first-order scavenging rate constant for dissolved thorium is observed to be proportional to the rate of primary production. Particle residence times seem to be governed by the rate of zooplankton grazing and the types of zooplankton present. Model-derived particulate 234Th fluxes are in good agreement with direct measurements by sediment traps.
Coale, Bruland
Iron in north-east Pacific waters,
Although Fe is an element of great biological 1 and geochemical 2 importance, little is known about its distribution in the sea. The reasons for this are: (1) contamination is extremely difficult to avoid during sampling and laboratory procedures, not only because of man's wide use of this element, but also because it is fourth most abundant element in the Earth's crust (5.63%) 3; (2) the chemistry of Fe is very complex, and its form (or forms) in seawater is poorly known, hence whether one preconcentration technique will work for existing species is questionable. Iron also appears to be very insoluble 4 in oxygenated ocean water, and most (90%) 5 precipitates out in association with dissolved organics during estuarine mixing processes 5-8. Indeed, some argue that truly dissolved Fe does not exist in seawater and that the fraction found in filtrates is totally colloidal 9. We have been attempting oceanic dissolved Fe measurements for the past four years and report here three vertical Fe profiles (Fig. 1) that have the following features in common: Fe is severely depleted (0.15-0.30 nmol kg -1) in surface waters; Fe maxima (up to 2.6 nmol kg -1) occur in association with oxygen minima; and, Fe levels appear to vary little in mid-depth waters (0.5-1.0 nmol kg -1)., Cited By (since 1996):33, ,
Gordon, Martin, Knauer
Evolution of marine sedimentation in the Bering Sea since the Pliocene
Sediment of the Bering Sea, derived mainly from biogenic, glaciomarine, and, secondarily, riverine sources, reflects the history of oceanographic changes within the basin and climatic changes on the adjacent continents. Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) Expedition 323 recovered cores that reveal the evolution of sedimentation in the Bering Sea over the past 5 m.y., a period that includes globally significant events such as the early Pliocene warm period, the onset of extensive Northern Hemisphere glaciation, and the Pleistocene glacial-interglacial and millennial-scale climate cycles. To begin to understand the Bering Sea regional response to and role in these global climate change events, we examined the sedimentary constituents of Expedition 323 sites U1339, U1343, and U1344 on the Bering Slope, and U1340 and U1341 on Bowers Ridge. New particle size and petrographic analyses, combined with shipboard lithostratigraphic and physical property data, are used to characterize sediment types and texture and its distribution through space and time. The sediment comprises mainly two components, opaline diatom valves and siliciclastic grains (mainly clay and fine silt size). Approximately 40% of the variance in particle size can be explained by the abundance and preservation of diatom valves, a rough indicator of biogenic opal productivity. Particle size data indicate that productivity was generally higher during interglacials compared to glacials, and higher during the Pliocene warm period, decreasing as Northern Hemisphere glaciation intensified ~3 m.y. ago. Although the abundance of diatoms in the sediment varied, diatom ooze and diatom mud are the dominant lithologies at Bowers Ridge, indicating that there was a persistent supply of diatoms to the sediment in the open Bering Sea during the past 5 m.y. This study provides a comprehensive view of sediment types and sedimentation processes; future work should be aimed at validating our interpretations of past changes in productivity and siliciclastic sedimentation mechanisms with multiple additional proxies. © 2012 Geological Society of America., Cited By (since 1996):3, Rocks and Cores
Aiello, Ravelo
Evaluation of dispersant toxicity using a standardized modeled-exposure approach,
A spiked-exposure toxicity test procedure has been developed, in which initial dispersant concentrations are diluted at a standardized rate to provide a simple model of exposure experienced in the field. Traditionally, acute dispersant toxicity has been described using constant-concentration exposures of 24 to 96 hours. Constant concentrations are unrealistic in the field because of the dilution effects of wind and wave conditions required for dispersant application. The spiked-exposure procedure has been adopted in California as a standardized tool for comparing dispersant toxicity. Five dispersants have been tested using four Californian species. Tests using oil and dispersant-oil mixtures are being developed., Oceanography, ,
Weetman, Lee, Singer, George, Jacobson, Tjeerdema, Sowby
Recovery rates of bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) carcasses estimated from stranding and survival rate data
Recovery of cetacean carcasses provides data on levels of human-caused mortality, but represents only a minimum count of impacts. Counts of stranded carcasses are negatively biased by factors that includes at-sea scavenging, sinking, drift away from land, stranding in locations where detection is unlikely, and natural removal from beaches due to wave and tidal action prior to detection. We estimate the fraction of carcasses recovered for a population of coastal bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus), using abundance and survival rate data to estimate annual deaths in the population. Observed stranding numbers are compared to expected deaths to estimate the fraction of carcasses recovered. For the California coastal population of bottlenose dolphins, we estimate the fraction of carcasses recovered to be 0.25 (95% CI = 0.20-0.33). During a 12 yr period, 327 animals (95% CI = 253-413) were expected to have died and been available for recovery, but only 83 carcasses attributed to this population were documented. Given the coastal habits of California coastal bottlenose dolphins, it is likely that carcass recovery rates of this population greatly exceeded recovery rates of more pelagic dolphin species in the region.
Caretta, Danil, Chivers, Weller, Janiger, Berman-Kowalewski, Hernandez, Harvey, Dunkin, Casper, Stoudt, Flannery, Wilkinson, Huggins, Lambourn
Seastar response to organic enrichment in an oligotrophic polar habitat,
The high Antarctic marine system, including McMurdo Sound, is food limited. Benthic scavengers, especially the seastar Odontaster validus, respond rapidly to sources of organic material, however, fecal material from the McMurdo Station sewage outfall is not consumed. Laboratory and field experiments showed that O. validus responded quickly (within hours) to organically enriched sediments, but that the presence of the anaerobic bacteria Beggiatoa spp. modified seastar behavior. In the lab, anoxic sediments, even more strongly than the presence of Beggiatoa, caused seastar avoidance. In the field, Beggiatoa caused seastar avoidance even of organically enriched sediments. The large mass of organic material remaining from pre-sewage treatment years at the McMurdo outfall is currently completely covered by a thick Beggiatoa microbial mat. O. validus and other megafaunal scavengers are abundant nearby but do not feed on the sewage organics that are covered by the microbes. The outfall deposit is thus likely to exist for a long period of time, undergoing slow anaerobic microbial degradation rather than rapid processing by megafaunal scavengers. This is an example of competition between constituents of the microbial and megafaunal communities and espouses the need for an ecosystem approach to ecology rather than community analysis within a limited size class (i.e. mega-, macro-, meio-, or micro-fauna). © 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved., Cited By (since 1996):10, Invertebrates, CODEN: JEMBA, ,
Kim, Thurber, Hammerstrom, Conlan
Growth rate and age determination of bamboo corals from the northeastern Pacific Ocean using refined 210Pb dating,
Bamboo corals from Davidson Seamount and from the Gulf of Alaska were aged using a refined 210Pb dating technique. The goal was to determine growth rates and age for several bamboo corals with higher precision. Radiometric results for 2 Davidson Seamount corals (Keratoisis sp.) converged on a radial growth rate of ∼0.055 mm yr-1. One colony was aged at 98 ± 9 yr, with an average axial growth rate of ∼0.7 cm yr -1. The age of a large colony was >145 yr with an estimated axial growth rate of 0.14 to 0.28 cm yr-1. Inconsistent rates may indicate nonlinear axial growth. A Keratoisis sp. specimen from the Gulf of Alaska was aged at 116 ± 29 yr from a radial growth rate of ∼0.056 mm yr -1, which led to an average axial growth rate of ∼1.0 cm yr -1. An Isidella tentaculum colony was aged at 53 ± 10 yr and grew most rapidly with a radial growth rate of ∼0.10 mm yr-1 and an average axial growth rate of ∼1.4 cm yr-1; however, the 210Pb decay pattern may have provided evidence for either a hiatus in radial growth or environmental changes in 210Pb. Our findings of slow growth and long life compared favorably with other bamboo coral studies and provided age estimates with greater precision. The high longevity of bamboo coral is an indication that recovery from disturbance or removal may take decades to a century. These age data provide a basis for a defensible position on the protection of bamboo coral and essential information for describing other life history characteristics., Cited By (since 1996):12, CODEN: MESED, ,
Andrews, Stone, Lundstrom, Devogelaere
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November 17, 2018 / julie / 3 Comments
MOVIES TO SEE (& Some to Avoid) OVER THANKSGIVING BREAK
Hope you got some time off for Thanksgiving because the past 2 weeks have gifted us with a cornucopia of highly anticipated flicks. Not all of them are worth the hefty ticket price, though. I’ve seen all of the new releases (OK, most of them) and can tell you which ones to see with your family, which ones to see with your drunk, adult friends, and which ones you should dodge like a bullet. Here are the Julie Says So Movies to See Over Thanksgiving (and which ones to AVOID). I even put them into nifty categories to make it easy for you.
Scoot over, so I can get a better look at Dumbledore.
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald feels like a J.K. Rowling fever dream. She packed it with everything she thinks we want to see in a Fantastic Beasts follow-up (loving shots of Hogwarts, surprising family trees and, of course, fantastic beasts), but she also had to tell about 20 other stories in the process. You’re left with a four-hour-long mess (OK, it’s just 2-hours-long but it FEELS so much longer). My 11-year-old looked at me as the Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald credits rolled and said, “What? I’m so confused.” And that sums the whole movie up in 4 words. (D)
Best Part: Jude Law’s young Dumbledore is simply delicious.
Worst Part: Johnny Depp. Just any scene he’s in. Continue reading →
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December 13, 2017 / julie
FREE MOVIE PASSES: See “Father Figures” EARLY & FOR FREE
I get the text below from my friends all the time:
Hey, I’m going to the movies. What should I see?
I always respond with my favorite films that are currently out. I tell them about the 7 Golden Globe nominations that The Shape of Water got or about the gorgeous scenery in Call Me By Your Name. I’ll remind them about Frances McDormand’s powerful performance in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri or that they could just watch the phenomenal Mudbound at home, on Netflix.
I’ll give them my list of Best Movies Out Now, but when I run into them later and ask what they saw, it’s ALWAYS the goofiest movie out.
When I ask WHY they chose that one, they always say,
“I just wanted something that would make me laugh.”
Look, I haven’t seen Father Figures yet. This story about two men (Owen Wilson and Ed Helms) searching for the father that their mother (Glenn Close) said was dead just might be Oscar worthy. Christopher Walken, Ving Rhames and Harry Shearer just might give the performances of their lives. Or, maybe Father Figures is simply the perfect Just-Make-Me laugh movie for you. Continue reading →
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February 13, 2017 / julie
FREE MOVIE PASSES: See “Rock Dog” EARLY & FOR FREE
Bodi (Luke Wilson) is a Tibetan Mastiff who spends his days protecting the sheep in his peaceful village. His eyes are opened to a whole new world though, when a radio falls from a passing plane and introduces him to Rock-n-Roll. From that day forward, Bodi wants nothing more than to be a Rock Dog. Continue reading →
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FREE MOVIE PASSES: See “Patriots Day” EARLY & FOR FREE
Are you broke? I am so broke right now. This is usually the time of year when I stay home and eat nothing but food that’s been sitting in the freezer for the past six months until I can financially catch my breath. We could still go to the movies, though! See, while I was on vacation PILES of free movie passes landed on my front porch and they’re all for movies we want to see, like Patriots Day. This one stars Mark Wahlberg and tells the true story of the Boston Marathon bombing and the manhunt that followed. It won’t be in theaters nationwide until January 13th but we get to see Patriots Day EARLY and FOR FREE! Just click HERE to grab your free passes, then watch the trailer below. Oh man, and bring boxes of tissues to this one.
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Mommy-Movie-Review: Is “La La Land” OK for Kids?
I hear the same thing from my friends-with-kids all the time:
“We just can’t go to movies anymore, unless they’re animated.”
I know the feeling, and wouldn’t see about 99% of the films I DO if it weren’t for this whole Film Critic thing. There are plenty of movies out there that families can watch together though, even ones not marketed as “Kid Flicks.” If you don’t mind sparse profanity or a few hints of sexuality, the doors will open wide to great films you’d never expect, like La La Land. Continue reading →
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FREE MOVIE PASSES: See “LA LA LAND” EARLY & FOR FREE
I started a minor riot on my Facebook page yesterday. No, it wasn’t about that. I just admitted that I don’t like musicals and everyone attacked, saying they were outraged and that we could no longer be friends. I thought I might have to say something political, just to calm them all down. The only reason I mentioned my disdain for musicals is because I saw LA LA LAND and loved it. Yes, I adored every single second of that movie even though Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling sing and dance the whole way through it. That might sound ridiculous to anti-musical people like ME, but LA LA LAND is also the top contender for Best Picture this year. So, do you want to see it EARLY and FOR FREE? Continue reading →
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October 12, 2016 / julie
PODCAST: “The Accountant” Had Us Screaming at the Screen
Rebekah Black and I saw The Accountant last night and had pretty extreme reactions to it. In fact, one of us even started yelling at the movie screen during the film. Here is our review and I’m proud to say that it’s 100% Spoiler Free. Well, at least no one behind us feel asleep and snored through it, like The Girl on the Train last week. Enjoy!
And because we talked about it so much, here’s the trailer for John Wick: Chapter 2. (SQUEEE!)
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October 4, 2016 / julie / 6 Comments
FREE MOVIE PASSES: See “The Accountant” ON ME!
If you’ve been to the movies in the last 3 months, you’ve probably seen the trailer for The Accountant. It stars Ben Affleck as a freelance accountant who un-cooks the books for dangerous criminals. What happens though, when the authorities close in and those criminals start to see him as a threat?
I get so excited every time I see this trailer. I don’t know if it’s because The Accountant stars some of my favorite actors (J.K. Simmons, Jon Bernthal, Anna Kendrick) or if it’s just the excellent use of Radiohead. Whatever the reason, we can all see The Accountant EARLY and FOR FREE. Just click HERE to get your passes, then watch the trailer below. See what I mean about the perfect use of Radiohead?
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MOVIE REVIEW: Disney’s “Zootopia” Has Heart & A Message…& a SLOTH!
Judy Hopps is a bunny with a dream. She wants to move to the big city and become the first ever Rabbit Police Officer, but no one believes she can. Even Judy’s parents tell her to give up her dream, but she’s a tough cookie who keeps on trying.
Sounds like a trite little bedtime story you’d read to your kids, but don’t be fooled. Zootopia is anything but trite with directors Byron Howard (Tangled, Bolt) and Rich Moore (Wreck-It Ralph) steering the ship. Throw in a writing staff that includes Jim Reardon (WALL-E), Josie Trinidad (The Princess and the Frog) and Jennifer Lee (Frozen), and you just might have a classic on your hands. Because Zootopia isn’t just about Judy Hopps’ struggle to realize her dreams or the discrimination that holds her back. At it’s heart, Zootopia is about the ignorance and FEAR we are all capable of, and how often we let it guide us. Continue reading →
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4/5 Star Review of Polonia in The Observer
The Anglo-Polish singer (and aviator) Katy Carr follows up 2012’s justly admiredPaszport with a companion piece that likewise honours overlooked Polish heroesof the second world war and its aftermath. Among her inspirations are Krystyna Skarbek (Churchill’s favourite spy and Fleming’s Vesper Lynd), the exiled generalStanislaw Maczek, and Enigma codebreakers of Bletchley Park. If the historical […]
‘Polonia’ music video debuts on Guardian playlist :)
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Katy Carr – Paszport (Deluce) Alt folk singer-songwriter Carr’s last album, Coquette, was a concept work inspired by stories from 40s Britain, France, Germany and Poland. This, her latest, also takes the concept route but with a rather more personal slant. Polish on her mother’s side, Carr has chosen to explore the nation’s WWII’s experience, […]
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University function about democracy as ‘the guideline on the people’: a system of getting procedures determined by those who are to comply with all those procedures.
The definition of democracy originates from the Greek words demos, signifying ‘people’, and kratos, message ‘power’. Consequently, democracy is commonly described as ‘the dominate of a people’: a system of producing policies influenced by those who are to obey many principles. Most international locations give consideration to democracy of being the sole appropriate and workable set-up of authorities by which all eligible citizens take part similarly also right or all the way through elected reps. Democracy is considered the highest quality sort of federal as, thus far no almost every other kinds of federal could been employed by basically. In enable of the aforementioned affirmation, Winston Churchill in 1947 announced, “Many forms of state are commonly sampled, and will be worked with in this world of sin and woe. No individual pretends that democracy is ideal or all-is. Truly, this has been told me that democracy is going to be most awful form of Government apart from many of those other forms which were tried out every now and then.” This journalist really wants to verify the veracity associated with the announcement by Winston Churchill by the soon after talk.
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Democracy is known as the widely approved ultimate along with a aspiration, which depends upon basic figures embraced by people today world wide society irrespective of national, governmental, social networking and economical issues. This is in this way a rudimentary appropriate of citizenship to end up being practiced less than situations of liberation, equality, openness and duty, with owed dignity for ones plurality of viewpoints, also in the awareness with the polity. Consequently, Abraham Lincoln in his Inaugural House address, 1861 stated “This land, utilizing its establishments, is one of the people that inhabit it. Each time they shall evolve weary of already present united states government they could regular exercise their constitutional precise of amending it, or their innovative right to dismember it.” In the practice of democracy, the will of people to either manage or modify the prevailing federal with recurrent elections will be the bottom prerogative or inalienable precise. 2
Democracy thrives on elementary values like ‘individual autonomy’ whereby no-the first is put through rules which has been enforced by other people; the key of ‘equality’ which signifies that everybody needs to be addressed in the same way with the regulations with the assert. Other styles of authorities violate these rules, for electrical power is performed because of a a number of someone or https://royalessay.org/ social networking quality who then check out choices for the other residents. Like for example, an oligarchy is ruled using a simple, privileged set recognized by some prime quality particularly riches, spouse and kids or army powers. With these other types of national there is no view for significant our legal rights, law of regulation and equality prior to the legal system.
A very extensive shape of democracy is liberal or associate democracy, that will individuals elect representatives who set up rules and rules and appoint government entities representatives. In principle, associate democracy requires the free of charge and realistic political election of your governing administration in a the vast majority vote of your companion truly being depicted. A liberal democracy is observed as a the guideline of laws, splitting up of forces, proper protection of individual legal rights and shielding of minorities. The rule of legal system is definitely the concept that a government and judiciary perform only as outlined by penned protocols. It is usually very closely connected with the key of splitting up of strength, in accordance with in which the legislative (parliament), exec (state) and judiciary (courts) function independently of each and every other. Using a democratic government human rights present you with a prevalent price system.
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Library Guide for International Students
Academic Integrity and Plagiarism
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Finding Books
Finding Journal Articles
Selecting and Evaluating Sources
Citing Correctly and Avoiding Plagiarism
Citing and Referencing Glossary
The International Center for Academic Integrity defines academic integrity as a commitment, even in the face of adversity, to six fundamental values: honesty, trust, fairness, respect, responsibility, and courage. Acts of plagiarism and other forms of cheating compromise academic integrity.
Plagiarism - A Cultural Construct
International students may sometimes find it difficult to understand the concept of plagiarism depending on their cultural backgrounds. There could be several reasons for that -
Western cultures view an individual as owner of knowledge while Non-Western cultures view knowledge as shared property
Western cultures value individual achievements and responsibilities while non-Western cultures often emphasize on collective/shared efforts and goals
As a form of respect, international students may not feel that they can enhance or refute the ideas and writings of scholars in their specific fields
Copying the scholar's work without citing the source may be considered as a sign of respect
Students may not cite a well-known scholar on the basis that it is implicit in their paper (everyone knows who they are talking about)
Different Teaching and Learning Styles
Open discussions and debates are encouraged in Western Classrooms. Drawing attention to oneself by expressing opinions may be considered disrespectful to the professor who is considered to be the ultimate authority in classroom
Memorization of the scholar's works may be viewed as a sign of respect and the ability to recite their works verbatim in tests and exams could win higher grades
Academic performances in non-western educational systems are often based on memorization and tests/exams and students have little or no experience in writing research papers that require critical thinking and individual opinions
Research and writing may take much longer if the students' native language is not English
Students may not feel confident in expressing themselves in English and find it easier to find and use already written text that reflect their personal opinions
Even if these reasons are understandable, all students, international and domestic, at NDNU are required to follow the Student Academic Conduct Code and refrain from any acts that are considered "Academic Misconduct."
Please make yourself aware of the policies and regulations that are in place regarding "Academic Misconduct" at NDNU. If you have any questions about plagiarism or academic integrity, just ask for help!
Talk to your professor. They are there to help and want you to succeed.
Schedule an appoint with a Research Librarian (email: library@ndnu.edu or phone: 650-508-3444)
Visit the Academic Success Center, Tutorial Center, and/or Writing Center (located in the Campus Center off of the quad, close to the cafeteria; email: mcrane@ndnu.edu and phone: 650-508-3670)
Plagiarism at NDNU
NDNU, like all American universities, views plagiarism as "academic misconduct" or "academic dishonesty" or "violation of academic integrity."
Per NDNU's Student Conduct Code, "representing another person‟s ideas, processes, results, or words, as your own; using the ideas, organization, or words of another from a book, article, paper, computer file, or another source in any assignment without giving proper credit following accepted citation rules" is viewed as plagiarism.
NDNU's Policies regarding Academic Misconduct take from NDNU's Student Conduct Code
Academic Misconduct Introduction
All members of the university community have a responsibility to protect and maintain an academic climate of integrity and ethics. Academic relationships should be governed by a sense of trust and a commitment to learning and working in an environment that is a level playing field for all students. Deceptive acts violate the standards that are critical for every student to have his/her work equitably evaluated. It is important that a member of the community who is aware of a breach of the standard of conduct bring it to the attention of the course instructor.
Definition of Academic Misconduct: Academic misconduct involves wrongful acts occurring in the course of or related to curricular activities including but not limited to:
Using unauthorized materials (such as notes or books) as an aid during an examination
Copying answers from another person‟s exam, report or assignment
Providing assistance to, or receiving assistance from, another person in any manner prohibited by the instructor
Possessing or providing an examination or assignment, or any part thereof, at any time or in any manner not authorized by the instructor
Taking a quiz, exam or any similar assignment for another person, or utilizing another person to take a quiz, exam or assignment in place of oneself
Submitting any course materials or activities not the student‟s own, allowing such a submission to be made for oneself, or making such a submission for another
Representing another person‟s ideas, processes, results, or words, as your own; using the ideas, organization, or words of another from a book, article, paper, computer file, or another source in any assignment without giving proper credit following accepted citation rules (plagiarism)
Forging or any other unauthorized alteration of a document, record, identification or other property maintained by an individual, department, or the University Altering, stealing, and or falsifying research data used in research reports, theses, or dissertations
Disregarding policies governing use of human subjects or animals in research
Attempting any of the above or assisting others to engage in any similar unacceptable behavior Knowingly violating copyright laws and regulations
Other similar acts of such dishonesty
Definition of Research Misconduct: Research Misconduct is a specific form of Academic Misconduct that has been defined by the Federal Office of Research Integrity and violations must be investigated and reported through the Office of the Provost. The essence of research scholarship is the pursuit of knowledge. Actions that undermine the integrity of scholarly activity impede the advancement of knowledge, compromise the work of other investigators, harm members of the general public, and damage the reputation of the University. NDNU employs the federal definition of research misconduct, as defined by the U.S. Office of Research Integrity, to mean the “fabrication, falsification or plagiarism in proposing, performing, or reviewing research, or in reporting research results.” According to the U.S. Office of Research Integrity:
Fabrication is making up data or results and recording or reporting them;
Falsification is manipulating research materials, equipment, or processes, or changing or omitting data or results such that the research is not accurately represented in the research record;
Plagiarism is the appropriation of another person‟s ideas, processes, results, or words without giving appropriate credit.
Sanctions for Academic Misconduct Cases
University policy permits discipline up to and including the expulsion for academic misconduct. If a faculty member believes that a student has engaged in academic misconduct, the faculty member may take any of the following actions at the time the misconduct is detected, and must, as part of the process, present evidence to the student of the misconduct:
The student may be reprimanded in writing.
The student may be offered the opportunity to re-complete the assignment or re-take the exam
The student may receive an “F” on a paper, test, or project.
The student may receive an “F” for the course after the faculty member has consulted with the Department Chair or Program Director. In appropriate cases, the faculty member may require a cessation of the participation of the student in the academic activity as interim preventive measure, with the concurrence of the Dean, pending resolution of an academic misconduct case.
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Culture of Corruption: Forde and His Team of Cheats, Crooks, and Cronies
Wednesday August 5, 2009, federal authorities charged New York carpenters union leader Michael J. Forde, seven other union officials, a contractor, and contractor’s representative with 29 counts of corruption, including racketeering, fraud, bribery, and perjury. According to the charges, bribes were paid out to union leaders to allow contractors around the city to pay cash to workers at below union-rate wages and therefore avoid paying benefits.
The New York District Council of Carpenters and Joiners of America has been here before. In 1990, the union had been infiltrated by organized crime and the federal government came in, cleaned out union leadership, and established monitoring. Yet, here we are again.
Union leader Forde was hailed as a reformer in 2000, after his predecessor was indicted on corruption charges, but his tenure has been plagued by no fewer than two bribery charges-—one ending in an overturned conviction and the other in acquittal. This apparently didn’t set off any alarms for court-appointed and union-paid monitor, William Callahan, who was almost removed in 2007 for a lack of evidence he was actually doing his job—but a federal judge refused to remove him. Fast forward two years.
Last week's slew of charges is the activity the court-appointed corruption monitor is in place to prevent. Clearly the current system of corruption monitoring isn’t working.
Forde and His Team of Cheats, Crooks and Cronies are specifically charged with the following offenses:
Ct Charge Defendant(s) Maximum Penalty
1 Racketeering
Conspiracy FORDE, GREANEY,
HAYES, O'NEILL,
BRENNAN 20 years in prison;
fine of the greater of
$250,000 or twice the
gross gain or loss from
the offense
2 Racketeering FORDE, GREANEY, HAYES, BRENNAN 20 years in prison; fine of the greater of $250,000 or twice the gross gain or loss from the offense
3 Conspiracy (as to Contractor #1) FORDE, GREANEY, O'NEILL, BRENNAN, OLIVIERI, CARSON, RUOCCO, STAMBERGER, VIVENZIO 5 years in prison; fine of the greater of $250,000 or twice the gross gain or loss from the offense
4 Conspiracy (as to Contractor #2) FORDE, GREANEY, HAYES 5 years in prison; fine of the greater of $250,000 or twice the gross gain or loss from the offense
5 Conspiracy (as to Contractor #3) GREANEY, HAYES 5 years in prison; fine of the greater of $250,000 or twice the gross gain or loss from the offense
7 Wire Fraud and Deprivation of Honest Services (as to Contractor #1) FORDE, GREANEY, BRENNAN, O'NEILL, CARSON, RUOCCO, STAMBERGER, VIVENZIO 20 years in prison; fine of the greater of $1 million or twice the gross gain or loss from the offense
8 Wire Fraud and Deprivation of Honest Services (as to Contractor #2) FORDE, GREANEY, HAYES 20 years in prison; fine of the greater of $1 million or twice the gross gain or loss from the offense
9 Wire Fraud and Deprivation of Honest Services (as to Contractor #3) GREANEY, HAYES 20 years in prison; fine of the greater of $1 million or twice the gross gain or loss from the offense
10 Wire Fraud and Deprivation of Honest Services (as to Contractor #4) GREANEY, HAYES 20 years in prison; fine of $1 million or twice the gross gain or loss from the offense
11 Unlawful Acceptance of Payment by Labor Representative FORDE, O'NEILL 5 years in prison; fine of $15,000
12 Unlawful Acceptance of Payment by Labor Representative GREANEY 5 years in prison; fine of $15,000
13 Unlawful Acceptance of Payment by Labor Representative GREANEY, HAYES 5 years in prison; fine of $15,000
14 Unlawful Payments to Labor Representatives OLIVIERI 5 years in prison; fine of $15,000
15 Unlawful Acceptance of Payments to Labor Representative HAYES 5 years in prison; fine of $15,000
16 Unlawful Acceptance of Payment by Labor Representative BRENNAN 5 years in prison; fine of $15,000
17 Unlawful Acceptance of Payment by Labor Representative VIVENZIO 5 years in prison; fine of $15,000
18 Unlawful Acceptance of Payment by Labor Representative CARSON 5 years in prison; fine of $15,000
19 Unlawful Acceptance of Payment by Labor Representative STAMBERGER 5 years in prison; fine of $15,000
20 Unlawful Acceptance of Payment by Labor Representative RUOCCO 5 years in prison; fine of $15,000
21 Acceptance of Loan to Influence Operations of Employee Benefit Plan OLIVIERI 3 years in prison; fine of the greater of $250,000 or twice the gross gain or loss from the offense
22 Perjury OLIVIERI 5 years in prison; fine of $250,000
23 Perjury FORDE 5 years in prison; fine of $250,000
24 Perjury GREANEY 5 years in prison; fine of $250,000
25 Perjury HAYES 5 years in prison; fine of $250,000
26 Perjury BRENNAN 5 years in prison; fine of $250,000
27 Perjury CARSON 5 years in prison; fine of $250,000
28 False Statements RUOCCO 5 years in prison; fine of $250,000
29 Obstruction of Justice BRENNAN 10 years in prison; fine of $250,000 or twice the gross gain or loss from the offense
GREANEY, 49, of Yonkers, New York; HAYES, 38, of New York, New York; OLIVIERI, 54, of Yonkers, New York; CARSON, 49, of the Bronx, New York; RUOCCO, 49, of East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania; STAMBERGER, 52, of Brick, New Jersey; and VIVENZIO, 61, of Mahwah, New Jersey, were arrested this morning. FORDE, 54, of Woodside, New York, is expected to surrender to federal authorities later today. O'NEILL, 44, of Paramus, New Jersey, and BRENNAN, 53, of Bushkill, Pennsylvania; remain at large.
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Since we're not the biggest Christmas lovers, we decided to let the fans decide which Christmas movie we should cover. We listened to your recommendations, put them all in a cute stocking and picked one out to watch. The winner was....Santa Claus the Movie! Released in 1985 and starring Dudley Moore and John Lithgow, Santa Claus the movie is part Santa origin story part Christmas epic saga, and believe it or not we had never seen it (or remembered it). Join us as we experience a full dose of Christmas, and hear what troubles us the most about this flick (hint it rhymes with Lon Mithgow's beef). Thanks to @Megs_C @mitzy247 and @CAlice13 for the recommendation!
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Episode 94: The Mighty Ducks 0
Quack! Quack! Quack! Quack! Guys, we watched The Mighty Ducks and we're here to say, it holds up! From 1992, who can forget when Gordon Bombay got a pesky DUI and as punishment was forced to coach a pee-wee hockey team and look deep inside himself on why he was a miserable bastard. This movie falls into the genre of a rag-tag under team beating all odds to win it all! Tune in as we discuss the lackluster acting skills of Emilio Estevez, why we're still in love with Joshua Jackson after all these years, and why did people wear all sort of inappropriate hats in the 1990s. Bonus Sweetie knocks down the mic. Twice.
Episode 93: The Bodyguard 0
We're capping off our month of random selections with 1992's The Bodyguard! A movie where the soundtrack might just be better than the film (sorry) but we love it anyways I guess. Starring Whitney Houston in her very first movie role as Rachel Marron (worst pop star name I ever heard) and hot in the 90s, Kevin Costner. Join us as we talk about hard hitting topics like: Lollipops---not professional. Orange Juice---a terrible beverage and most importantly how badly can we butcher a Whitney Houston song? Listen to find out!
**Warning turn down your volume early on when Sweetie goes to town in the Sweetie Synopsis intro**
Episode 92: The Money Pit 0
The house is going to be great! Famous last words in this hilarious comedy from 1986, which was a very good year indeed because our sweet Sweety was born! We loved this film as kids, and heck we don't even know why because what did we know about home repair? But now that we're seasoned HGTV watchers, we totally get the plight of Walter and Ana, as they deal with the never ending nightmare of a reno project but also how this tests their fragile relationship that was unknowingly filled with massive trust issues! Wow, this is heavy. Listen in as we chat about all the secondary characters we loved, sing multiple rounds of the "The Name Game" Song (Anna Banna Bobanna etc), and wax on endlessly about the comedic brilliance of the one, the only Tom Hanks!
Episode 91: That Thing You Do! 0
As two Sweeties who were in the prime of the Boy Band resurgence in the 90s, we fully support and LOVE That Thing You Do! with every fiber of our being. Written and directed by Tom Hanks (Sweetie Club member and alumni), That Thing You Do! tells the tale of The Wonders' quick rise to fame in 1964. Join us as we discuss why Jimmy is probably most definitely a serial killer, our own experiences with boy band mania, and hear Sweety sing all the songs from the soundtrack.
Episode 90: Babe 0
Straight talk you guys. If you don't find Babe to be the cutest movie that ever existed....you might be a terrorist. Just sayin. Join us as we relive this cute AF movie and talk all about how it warmed our hearts and souls. We'll get angered by its Oscar snub, reenact our favorite Gay Cow moments, and wonder if Babe 2 Pig in the City is worth watching. We'll also continue to be confused at why we thought this movie was supposed to take place in the UK and pour one out for Christine Cavanaugh who sadly passed away in 2014. That'll do pig. That'll do.
Episode 89: Jumanji 0
Do you hear that drumming? It's a new episode all about your favorite book about a game turned movie, turned game----JUMANJI!!! Released in 1995 and starring the always endearing Robin Williams, Jumanji taught us that board games can sometimes be dangerous and that comedically placed Monkeys won't save bad CGI no matter how wily you make them. Join us as we discuss which game obstacle was our favorite, why they chose to make the same actor play the mean scary hunter and Alan's dad, and hear us mix up the name Alan and Peter the entire time!
Episode 88: Annie 0
Great day! Great day! WE DID ANOTHER MUSICAL!
Sweetie's third favorite musical is ANNIE, and oh boy was she excited today! From 1982, Annie is the lovable story about an orphan with a heart of gold and literally a gold heart locket, who warms the heart of the Depression era, Republican, money loving Daddy Warbucks! The songs are famous! The red headed wig is famous! What's not to love? Tune in as we warble through all 13 musical numbers, discuss the idea of Miss Hannigan as a sympathetic villain, whether Daddy Warbucks and Grace's relationship was really workplace appropriate, and dissect the really unfortunate racial stereotypes that seem to plague all our beloved 80s films. Womp, womp. Tomorrow! Tomorrow! Don't wait to listen to this podcast until tomorrow! It's only a download awayyyyyyy.
Episode 87: Addams Family Values 0
Spooky Spookerson month continues with the spookiest family of them all and one of the better sequels to come out of the 90s, Addams Family Values! Our favorite macabre family is back in action, but this time Uncle Fester is lusting after the nanny, who turns out to be a homicidal maniac gold digger, the kids get shipped off to the summer camp from hell, they have a baby named Pubert (worst name ever!)?! Join us as we chat about our love for Joan Cusack, if Uncle Fester or Cousin It would be good in the sack, why Debbie picks a pumpkin colored bowl cut style for Fester's toupee, and whether or not we'd spend a night in the Addams' family creeptastic house!
Episode 86: Buffy the Vampire Slayer 0
Guys, it finally happened. We found a DVD player and treated ourselves to watching our favorite movie about a valley girl turned vampire slayer...Buffy (THE Vampire Slayer)! Released in 1992 and starring Kristi Swanson and Luke Perry, Buffy the Vampire Slayer was one of our favorite movies as kids and we're here to announce that it's still pretty awesome. Join us for a lively discussion about: what scenes scared us the most as kids, what makes this movie super 90s, and of course Sweetie Questions that will knock your chunky white socks with loafers off!
Episode 85: The Silence of the Lambs 0
It's October, so we thought we'd do a few movies that scared the crap out of us as wee ones. First up is 1991's Silence of the Lambs and we hope we don't need to tell you that this movie is....amazing. A rare psychological thriller/horror film that won an Oscar, we first watched this in its edited version on TV. And when that magical time came when we watched the full version...boy were we confused. So join us as we discuss: how utterly fantastic Jodie Foster is, how Hannibal Lecter is the sweetest serial killer we know, and hear our new smash hit, "I don't want no seed pods"
Episode 84: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 0
Rejoice! Our first trilogy is complete! We watched Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and then cried because there are none left now (That's right, Kingdom of the Crystal Skull does NOT count!) Released in 1989, The Last Crusade brings together the powerhouse duo of Harrison Ford and Sean Connery and provides so many comedic moments that it's almost hard to count. Join us as we discuss our favorite parts, our favorite lines AND hear Sweetie sing her new favorite song: the Third Reich anthem (just kidding!) (but actually that is a catchy tune goddamn you Nazis.) Plus, catch a first listen of our new track "The Penitent Man (Kneel)" courtesy of Sweetie Records.
Bonus Episode! Sweetie was on Jeopardy!!! 1
Today we're bringing you a very special bonus episode! As you know our very own Sweetie was on Jeopardy this past week and we can finally talk all about it! Listen as Sweetie spills all the deets on her Jeopardy experience including: the audition process, what meeting Alex was like and how frickin nervous she was! We'll answer questions posed by our Twitter followers and Sweetie will finally tell you all what the hell was up with that damn buzzer!!
Episode 83: My Girl 2 (Sequels September #6) 0
Guys. It's our last Sequels September! We closed it off with a truly sweet sequel--My Girl 2! Released in 1994, My Girl 2 picks up the endearing story of Vada Sultenfuss now in her teenage awkward years, as she embarks on a quest to find out more about her mother in Los Angeles. While not as sad as the first one, My Girl 2 still delivers a healthy dose of tears, mostly in the form of Vada's mother singing the best rendition of 'Smile' EVER. So grab those tissues again and hear us talk about random things like that time we discovered that our father had been married before (gasp!), the magical story of how Ron and Carol first met, and hear us sing the first song that comes to mind in a little game we like to call, "Your friends awkwardly make you sing a song at a picnic...go!"
Episode 82: Grease 2 (Sequels September #5) 0
Nearly done with September Sequels! Tonight we tackle our first sequel musical and man, we gotta say, Grease 2 is NOT the word. From 1982, Grease 2 stars Michelle Pfeiffer and Rex Manning and some D list T-Birds and Pink Ladies. Grease 2 has all the high school musical shenanigans - bowling alley dance parties, bad sexual euphemisms, bunker seductions that go bust, a talent show that gets side tracked by a sad sack drama queen and don't forget the world's worst rip off of Danny Zuko we've ever seen. Sorry, we're being harsh. Grease 2 provides a ton of nostalgia and it's a great bad movie that we'll cherish till our dying day. We'll review all the good bad songs, let Sweetie do a timed 1 minute rant about Adrian Zmed, and talk about who are favorite season is from the Calendar Girls musical number. Cool rider baby. Cool rider.
Bonus Episode: The Disney Afternoon 0
Remember The Disney Afternoon?! You'd come home from school, grab your snack and plop yourself down in front of the TV to watch the most magical few hours of Television programming that ever existed....The Disney Afternoon! In this episode, we'll cover three of our favorites: Gummi Bears, Duck Tales, and Rescue Rangers and debate about which was our fave and why. We'll sing the theme songs at the top of our lungs and go off on a weird tangent about cereal. Come on and get cozy with us!
Episode 81: Wayne's World 2 (Sequels September #4) 0
Next up in Sequels September is Waynes World 2 aka WW2 which as true Wayne's World's fans know, does NOT mean World War 2. Released in 1993 only a year after the previous film, WW2 picks up also a year later and finds Wayne and Garth moved out of their parents house and trying to make it in the real world as true 'adults'. Join us as we discuss a never ending list of Sweetie Confusions and discover that Sweetie is still very much confused about a few of them. We'll also look up some celebrity riders (cough cough Mariah Carey), and talk about how Aerosmith had a strange resurgence in the 90s.
Episode 80: Gremlins 2 (Sequels September #3) 0
Our next stop on the Sequels September train is the followup to the 1984 horror/comedy classic Gremlins.....that's right...Gremlins 2. Picking up again with Billy Peltzer and now fiance Kate, Gremlins 2 takes the Gremlins and places them smack dab in the middle of NYC, wreaking havoc on a suped up 90s technological superbuilding! What could go wrong? Straight talk you guys, this movie is NOT good, but we friggin loved it when we were kids. So join as we discuss: why we loved it so, what scenes scared us the most, and hear the classic tale of how Sweetie gets horribly confused and cannot tell the difference between Marathon Man, The Running Man, and Blade Runner.
Follow us on Twitter @TheSweetieClub and on Instagram @LargeMargeSent
Episode 79: Look Who's Talking Too (Sequels September #2) 0
Our next Sequels September flick is the followup to Look Who's Talking....aptly titled Look Who's Talking Too and damn it we love it. How can you go wrong with babies voiced by Bruce Willis, Roseanne Barr AND Damon Wayans....HOW?!?!?! OK so it's not an Oscar contender...but Mr. Toilet man is voiced by Mel Brooks you guys. Mel Brooks! So join us as we discuss some classic Sweetie segments, talk about our favorite NYC moments, and hear us sing a lot of really great songs because wouldn't you know it...this movie has a kick ass soundtrack (again!) We're all shook up over our strange love of Look Who's Talking. Sorry not sorry!
Episode 78: The Neverending Story 2 (Sequels September #1) 0
It's time for SEQUELS SEPTEMBER! A whole month where we cover amazing (but probably terrible sequels)! First up is the 1990 Sequel to the 80s classic The Neverending Story. Starring a young Jonathan Brandis, The Neverending Story 2 is...........pretty awful, but for some reason we remembered it fondly. Picking up sometime in the near future, Bastian is now a really annoying, horrible kid afraid of high diving who travels back to Fantasia to save the Childlike Empress (again) from 'The Emptiness" aka "The Nothing Part 2". Join us as we discuss: Xaida's (sp?) cool fashion sense, Bastian and Atreyu's weird forced friendship and hear Sweetie recount a story about that time Sweety missed Power Rangers and cried. Good times guys. Good times.
Bonus Episode: Nick Arcade 0
It's time for another Bonus Episode! This time we're taking you back to the early 90s game show Nick Arcade. A technical marvel for the 90s, Nick Arcade put two teams of kids against each other as they battled for a chance to compete in the elusive Video Zone----a massive blue screen (green screen?) that allowed the contestants to be players in a video game. Join us as we discuss the strange pop quizzes (guess what's in this vice?) (Weird AF.), why Phil Moore was da bomb.com, and how we finally got to see what it was like behind the scenes of the Video Zone. Game on bitches.
Theme song performed by Deidre Cullen. Logo designed by Frankie Donlon. Follow us on Twitter @TheSweetieClub and on Instagram @LargeMargetSentUs
Episode 77: My Girl 0
Get your box of tissues ready, we're tackling one of the saddest movies on the planet....My Girl! Released in 1991, My Girl gives us a tour of Vada Sultenfuss's summer as an 11 year old girl coming of age in 1972. We'll talk about hard hitting subjects like: life and death, blue eye shadow (is there such a thing as too much?) (Answer: YES), why Bingo is a great game but also sometimes scary, and of course, Tubas---- The #1 instrument you probably shouldn't adopt as a recreational hobby. Bonus! Everyone's favorite segment 'Call Carol" returns! WARNING we talk about periods at the end. Also get over it though.
Episode 76: Clue 0
Get ready because we're bringing you THE best ever board game to movie adaptation on the planet....Battleship. Just kidding! Like we'd give two and a half shits about that trash. We're talking about Clue! The whodunit classic from 1985 that brought to life one of our favorite board games to play at boring family functions! Starring the ever amazing Tim Curry, Clue taught us that communism was only a red herring and ALSO that scarlet is actually red and not a nice teal green as Miss Scarlet's dress would have you believe. So join us for a rousing discussion on our favorite board games and hear Sweetie get in the weeds about who the cutest boy on the Dream Phone cards is.
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