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Interestment’s 100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time, 1-100
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'Miracle man' credits favorite song for medical rebound - KTEN.com - Texoma news, weather and sports
'Miracle man' credits favorite song for medical rebound
Friday, March 15, 2019 5:40 PM EDT
Saturday, March 16, 2019 5:58 PM EDT
By Shereen Hashem, KTEN News
shashem@kten.com
Rusty Summit's fiancée, Laura Walker, played a song that awakened him from a coma. (KTEN)
Rusty Walker was in a coma for more than 50 days. (Courtesy)
DURANT, Okla. -- His name is Rusty Summit. But lots of people are now calling him the "miracle man."
"I was in a coma and I couldn't wake up," he said.
Summit, 60, was diagnosed with cirrhosis of the liver, leaving him hospitalized for more than 50 days. He was in a coma for nine days, his health quickly deteriorating, when his family was told they needed to start saying goodbye.
"He ended up on the life support, because his lungs failed, his kidneys failed," said Laura Walker, Summit's fiancée. "At one point in time we were... the surgeons were contemplating keeping him on life support and letting the family decide what we're going to do."
But then, a miracle happened.
"The doctors couldn't get me awake," Summit recalled. "They told Laura, she took our favorite song -- which is Perfect by Ed Sheeran -- and she put it in my ear, and played it, and I woke up!"
Summit received a liver transplant 12 hours later and survived his medical ordeal. Walker has been with him through it all.
"Him laying in that bed was... I was his lifeline, and he was my lifeline," she said.
Now, miracle man Rusty Summit says he feels better than ever; he's back to work and able to live a happy life alongside the woman who cares for him unconditionally.
"I've got my energy back, I've got my drive back, I'm living life to the fullest, and I'm blessed," he said.
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Makeover nears completion at Ardmore shopping center
Thompson Square's makeover is almost complete. (KTEN)
"We've been doing those updates that are necessary to make sure we're offering our tenants a quality product," said Thompson Square property manager James Thompson.
A lesson in lawn care for Denison youngsters
Youngsters at the Boys & Girls Club of Denison got a lesson in lawn care. (KTEN)
Don't let the kids complain about having "nothing to do" this summer.
Trail proposed for Sherman elementary students
A new trail would mean a safer commute for Sory Elemtary School students. (KTEN)
The trail would create a passage through Baker Park for Sory Elementary School students.
Searing heat puts a strain on your tires
You're more likely to see evidence of tire failure along highways during the hot weather months. (KTEN)
As the mercury climbs, you can count on seeing more tire debris along roads and highways.
Family seeks justice after road rage death
The family of crash victim Shelley Mayo remains stunned after the road rage crash that took her life. (KTEN)
"The man that is responsible for it... I want justice. That's all I want," said Iona Pettit, who witnessed her mother's death in a head-on crash near Durant on Saturday.
Oklahoma AG calls company 'kingpin' in state's opioid crisis
Posted: Monday, July 15 2019 12:11 AM EDT2019-07-15 04:11:36 GMT
Updated: Tuesday, July 16 2019 7:11 AM EDT2019-07-16 11:11:12 GMT
(AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, Pool). Judge Thad Balkman listens to a defense attorney during the last day of testimony in Oklahoma's ongoing opioid drug lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson Friday, July 12, 2019, in Norman, Okla. Closing arguments are schedu...
Closing arguments are scheduled to begin in Oklahoma's case against Johnson & Johnson alleging the consumer products giant and its subsidiaries helped fuel the state's opioid crisis.More >>
OHP: Fatal crash near Durant was 'intentional strike'
Ralph McEnnerney faces two counts of murder after what state police called a road rage incident on US 70 near Durant on July 13, 2019. (OHP Lt. Scott Hampton/KTEN)
Oklahoma state troopers say a driver pushed another driver left of center on Saturday evening, resulting in a head-on crash with a third vehicle.
Search for runaway Sherman teen enters second week
The Park County Sheriff's Office said 16-year-old Emma Stokes of Sherman ran away from a foster care home in Pine Junction, Colorado, on July 7, 2019. (Courtesy Park County Sheriff's Office)
Authorities say Emma Stokes, 16, left a foster care home near Denver with another girl on July 7.
Denison ISD continues work to address overcrowding
The Denison ISD is looking at expansion plans at Mayes Elementary School. (KTEN)
The Denison Independent School District continues to look at options to relieve capacity issues at Mayes and Hyde Park elementary schools.
Closing arguments set in Oklahoma's case against drugmakers
Posted: Monday, July 15 2019 9:21 AM EDT2019-07-15 13:21:04 GMT
Closing arguments are scheduled to begin in Oklahoma's case against Johnson & Johnson alleging the consumer products giant and its subsidiaries helped fuel the state's opioid crisis.
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A Holocaust survivor laments Jewish fascism in Israel, but seems unaware of Judeofascism’s own role in the Holocaust
Interesting take from Holocaust survivor Hajo Meyer on Jewish fascism in Israel, and how it is comparable to Nazism.
He also has an interesting perspective on Jesus: "The Jewish idea of how to treat a foreigner, how to treat a servant, which is in the Old Testament, was taken up by nobody less than Jesus Christ, who was the last of the great Jewish prophets. The prophets in the old tradition wanted to stress the ethical content of Judaism, and so there is reason enough to be proud. And what is happening now in Israel towards the Palestinians is exactly the opposite."
The first half of the video is a narrative of Jewish ethics and their relationship with the Jewish experience at the hands of the Nazis, the second half is a narrative of the Palestinian experience at the hands of the Zionists.
Unfortunately, the narrative omits the treatment of dissidents, opposition groups, the White Guard confederation and its partisans, Cossacks, Christians, Ukrainians, and millions of others murdered or terrorized at the hands of the Jewish banker-financed Jewish Bolshevik and Stalinist coalition in the Soviet sphere years prior to the Holocaust, which was decisive in terms of why Jewry was treated the way it was, and why those unfortunates seen as potential Judeofascist Bolsheviks or their allies were targeted as threats as well, in Nazi Germany.
Jewish history (and even modern world history) makes no sense with the omission of stubborn and enduring Judeofascism; once Judeofascism is accounted for (the rejection of which the best of the Jewish prophets on their good days, culminating in the sublime and ultimate morality of Jesus Christ, were angling towards in fits and starts) -- then Jewish history and its attendant aggression and consequential tragedy for both Jews and non-Jews makes perfect sense.
Just like the 9/11 inside job, Jewish neoconservatism and Democrat liberal fascism and their perpetual Mideast wars, all the pieces fit so long as we're allowed to examine the full picture (as shattered and far flung as the pieces may be). But so long as we're kept in blinders and forced to omit the Judeofascism angle, it all remains shrouded in mystery, or a totally distorted picture, at best.
Why do both the contemporary establishment Left and Right (and even self-styled "Judeo-Christians") insist on keeping us fitted with blinders? Because all are complicit in the post-Christian and post-Western Judeofascist agenda and its crimes against humanity, and implicated in its (and their own) ongoing crimes against our countries and our civilization.
WWII, the Holocaust and the "fall" of communism were not the end of an epoch because the full history and all of the malefactors contributing to those events, ideologies and tragedies were never addressed and held accountable, but rather papered over and ignored, and Marxism and Judeofascism are still with us, and burrowing away from both the liberal-fascist Left, the neocon Right and the Judeo-Christian Zionist Right.
They may all be separate ideological currents with little more than Jewish crossover, but their dishonesty, deceit, subversiveness and self-serving treachery are all manifest -- and insufferable for anyone interested in truth.
Posted by Chris Moore at 10:12 AM
Up to his neck-warmer in trouble: 6 things to know for July 17 - New pictures of Ehud Barak entering Jeffrey Epstein's mansion attempt to paint him in a more sinister light, and Labor, women, and society lose a fighter
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Home > Magazine > Community Newsmakers > Emory Savera won Second place in national classical dance
Emory Savera won Second place in national classical dance
Compiled/partly written by Suzanne Sen
Founded in 2012, Emory Savera is the only classical fusion dance team that combines the styles of Odissi, Kuchipudi, Bharatanatyam, and Kathak. The dance group has gained popularity in recent years with their choreography to hip-hop, Bollywood, electronic and pop music.
This year, the team made a decision to focus on their classical roots by telling a story through dance. Instead of performing their typical fusion of the styles, they wanted to highlight Kuchipudi, Bharatanatyam, and Kathak by having dancers in each style performing side-by-side. Recognizing the influential quality that dance can have, Savera chose to raise awareness about climate change, an issue that plagues today’s society.
The title of the piece, “Prakriti,” embodies the equilibrium that underlies the principle of matter, but can loosely be translated to the “natural reality” in English. The story opens with the Earth as it once was—pristine. Mother Nature is played by a dancer who admires the beauty of Earth and the harmony of mankind with nature. Lumberjacks enter and are portrayed as an evil force. They tie Mother Nature up and chop down trees in order to build homes for themselves. This segment represents the deforestation of Earth. Following this, dancers convey sea levels rising. Mother Nature drowns at the end of this segment in order to illustrate that the Earth is literally diminishing under water due to the warming of the planet. At this point, Mother Nature is at her weakest. Air pollutants stalk her, and she proceeds to suffocate from the toxic air, clearly blind to the atmospheric change. The pollutants finally suffocate her, so she appears near death. Humans come back on stage and realize the destruction they have caused. They mourn for Mother Nature’s incapacitated state. The piece ends with humans trying to gradually fix some of the damage they have done, as Mother Nature looks on approvingly.
Accepted to perform at Navarasa, North Carolina’s premiere intercollegiate classical dance competition hosted at North Carolina State University, Emory Savera was impassioned to share their piece. The team was humbled to share the stage with the competing teams: Case Western Nritya, Tufts Pulse, Virginia Commonwealth University Thandavam, and Penn State Natya. The judges for the competition included Ramya Sundaresan Kapadia, Meena Rajagopal, and Rinku Bhattacharya Das. After an evening filled with brilliant performances, Emory Savera was honored to receive the second place award, accompanied by a cash prize. The team plans on allocating a portion of their winnings toward an environmental NGO, fitting with their theme for this year.
B=Bharatanatyam, Ka=Kathak, Ku=Kuchipudi,
S=Senior,J=Junior, So=Sophomore, F=Freshman
Captains:
B: Minorvi Amin (S, Neuroscience, Rocky Hill, CT)
Ka: Rhea Mody (S, Finance, Princeton, NJ)
B: Bhavani Taramangalam (S, Biology, Freehold, NJ)
B: Lekha Chilakamarri (J, Religion and Chemistry, Houston, TX)
B: Nivedita Potapragada (So, Economics and Human Health, Seattle, WA)
B: Rajashree (Shree) Hariprasad (J, Biology, Cleveland, OH)
Ka: Ayushi Ashar (J, Business and Economics, Mumbai)
Ka: Monjori Mukerjee (So, Biology and Political Science, Mumbai)
Ku: Megna Solipuram (F, Business Administration, Hyderabad)
Ku: Sherly Boddu (S, Nursing and Public Health, Andhra Pradesh)
Non-Competing Team Members:
B: Maya Subbanna (So, Neuroscience and English, Knoxville, TN)
B: Shannon Cherian (So, Biology and Human Health, Brookfield, WI)
B: Tejasvi Subramanian (S, Marketing and Psychology, St. Louis, MO)
B: Veena Prakash (J, Finance, Bridgewater, NJ)
Ku: Ruhika (Ru) Prasad (F, Undecided, Portland, OR)
Bhavana Kaki of Navarasa kindly answered a few questions about the competitions.
Besides Navarasa at North Carolina State University, are there other national or regional team competitions for classical dancers, and where are they held?
There are a few other national classical competitions, but the total number is under 10:
Laasya which travels based on the winning team,
Dhirana at the University of Pittsburgh,
Mayuri at the University of Maryland,
Dheem Tana at UC Davis,
Hansini at UT Dallas, and
Tu Bi Nachle at George Mason University.
What are the differences in the competitions?
One difference can be in the competition format: all but Tu Bi Nachle (TBN) and Navarasa are strictly classical competitions, whereas TBN and Navarasa include other dance forms as well, such as fusion, bhangra, and raas.
Another major difference is that each competition has its own judging rubric that varies; thus oftentimes rankings between similar teams are different at different competitions since each competition might focus more on a particular aspect of the dance. Some competitions are more traditional than others and some are much more established since they have been around longer.
What is special about your competition?
Navarasa is the first classically emphasized competition with a bhangra and raas showcase. We really wanted to provide another platform, especially in this area, in order to allow the classical circuit to continue to grow while also raising awareness about bhangra and raas. Plus, Navarasa combines trained judging of the classical teams with a viewers’ voting for a bhangra/raas winner. Oftentimes the more established competitions are dominated by the same eight teams, so by bringing another platform to the circuit we wanted to give lesser known teams a chance to compete and gain experience.
Navarasa is also proud to partner with Child Rights and You (CRY), a nonprofit that works closely with local charities to empower them in the most efficient way to help at-risk children. As a first year competition with planning only beginning 3 months prior, we are really happy to say we have raised over $7k for CRY.
How many colleges/universities have Indian dance teams?
Most universities that have a large presence of South Asian Indian students tend to have Indian dance teams. There are so many different dance styles in India and so many established competition circuits! There are competitions for Bollywood fusion, bhangra, raas, and classical dance. At NC State we have all 4 teams. Art is a huge part of Indian culture and most Indian children growing up are exposed to singing and dancing, whether it be taking lessons or performing on stage.
Do the teams belong to an organization?
They don't belong to one collective organization, but there is a network called DDN (Desi Dance Network) that is trying to establish organization across all circuits and teams.
What thought would you like to leave with our readers?
Dance is something that can unify people across any differences, and so we hope to see these competitions continue to grow so that more awareness can be raised about the importance of understanding and appreciating art!
[The article above contains additional material not in the print and digital issues.]
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Admittedly, we ended up translating " Papers, Please " through a stroke of luck. But we worked hard for it!
About one year ago I was preparing what has then become the LocJAM translation contest, which would feature a previous game by Lucas Pope called Republia Times .
As mentioned in the (great) postmortem Lucas wrote about localizing the game, we met at the Indie stream party held in Sony's building during Tokyo Game Show 2013.
My main goal then was to get guidance for the daunting task of turning Republia Times , a flash game which only supported English, into a pick-up-and-play platform for aspiring French-German-Japanese-Italian-Spanish translators (with limited technical skills, and weird alphabets).
Needless to say I loved Papers, Please . I mean, I liked Republia Times so much that I was building a whole international contest around localizing it, it's hardly surprising.
So, when I finally met Lucas, we ended up talking about potential pitfalls in localizing Papers, Please , from the randomized genders of some characters, to the very large number of names and papers to be kept 100% consistent.
At the end of the conversation, I just mentioned that I would be happy to give more ideas and suggestions if needed.
But I didn't know two things:
The first one is that Lucas doesn't simply face challenges: he carpet-bombs them into submission with a barrage of brilliant tools (spoiler: just look at his localization tool for Papers, Please ). That chat was all the feedback he needed.
The second one was that a few months later I would ask him help with Japanese fonts for Republia Times (he saved LocJAM's bacon multiple times) and he asked us if we were available for translating Papers Please.
Volunteer for IGDA, guys, it clearly gives good karma.
What is Papers, Please - the easy part
First of all, the basics:
Product description: Papers, Please is A Dystopian Document Thriller developed by indie game developer Lucas Pope, focusing on the emotional toll of working as an immigration officer, deciding whom to let in and whom to exclude from entering the fictional communist country of Arstotzka
*Story: Ever taken an international flight to a foreign country and felt nervous passing through the immigration checkpoint? Papers, Please *aims to turn that around and put you in the role of immigration inspector. Instead of working in a nice modern airport booth, you're assigned to the Ministry of Admission in the war-torn dystopian nation of Arstotzka.
The communist state of Arstotzka has ended a 6-year war with neighboring Kolechia and reclaimed its rightful half of the border town, Grestin.
Your job as immigration inspector is to control the flow of people entering the Arstotzkan side of Grestin from Kolechia. Among the throngs of immigrants and visitors looking for work are hidden smugglers, spies, and terrorists. Using only the documents provided by travelers and the Ministry of Admission's primitive inspect, search, and fingerprint systems you must decide who can enter Arstotzka and who will be turned away or arrested.
Rating: Not rated, but equivalent to PEGI 16 for violence. We don't see actual torture, but people do die in (pixelated) graphical ways.Language wise, we have two instances of “fuck” (Stupid fucking terrorist. What the fuck!), for the rest it's mostly scatological swearing (“It is still a shit-hole. As before.”, “What is this amateur shit?”, “But what is other shit hanging here?”)"
Platform: Mac, Windows and Linux but everything is always said “in character” (mouse buttons are never mentioned, we only have two instances of “double click”)
Length limits: All text has strict space requirements. Abbreviate where necessary. If the text absolutely cannot fit when localized, leave it in English.
Studying the game itself
All the above is true and useful, but it really doesn't narrow down the true nature of the game.
In my experience, the most effective localizations start from the game, learning how it works and interacts with its text. And then build from there.
Papers, Please is quite special in this regard, because you can follow its creation pretty much day by day thanks to its very detailed development blog.
All I had to do for preparing our style guide was to group the different topics together.
Everything you see has been written and published directly by Lucas, I've just added headers and underlined some passages for our convenience.
Sorry if it's a bit long, but even after reviewing it I must admit that all its parts were very useful for our work. Let's say that it's worth sharing as is for documentation alone, but feel free to skim to the next chapter if you want!
From the many times I've gone through immigration in the past few years. The anxiety as a foreigner and comfort as a native returning home got me thinking about the whole process and how there's probably enough there for a game. Also inspired by various spy movies where passing through immigration is often a critical moment.
Going through airport immigration is always a tense experience and I thought the whole setup could be molded into something fun. There’s tension, documents, suspicion, spies, terrorists, empathy, etc. All kinds of elements that mix together well to build game mechanics and tell a story
One of my motivations for making this game is to exploit the player's morals and give them tough choices. I think there's more potential for hard choices here than in Republia Times.*
I have some opinions [about politics] but they're not particularly strong and I'm intentionally trying to not politicize the game, My goal is more to connect players with the difficult decisions an immigration inspector has to make. The focus is on the low-level task of trying to manage a job and a family when the right thing to do isn't so clear.
My priority is basically: make it fun, then make it mean something. It was only after I felt the core document-comparison mechanics in “Papers, Please” were fun that I started thinking about how to take it further. Limiting the player’s story influence to approve, deny, and detain helps with keeping the focus on the OCD document stuff. The setup itself is fertile ground for tough choices and I’m just lucky enough that the gameplay balances it out.
Part of my goal for this game is to do a lot with very little. It's basically a single-screen game with a mostly-static interface. I've worked out enough of the story to think that I can make a good game using only the elements that are already there. That means I probably won't add new modes like night-time duty, walking-to-work, or pulling-guns-on-entrants.
TIME IS TIME, MONEY IS MONEY
Just like real life, you'll have to decide if it's worth flipping through the rulebook looking for a specific rule, or sending a slow telex query to check a name. This keeps things simple too; no need for a special hud or an explanation of what does or doesn't cost time. >> TIME COSTS TIME < <
Your "score" will actually be your money. Some less-than-honest applicants can offer you money up front, or the promise to mail cash to you later in exchange for a quick approval. This will give you some non-altruisitic incentive to let the bad ones through.
The money system could also nicely tie in to the overall progression. Let's say you receive a daily salary from the Ministry based on performance. Each day you lose a little money due to living expenses. Your current income represents your wealth bracket, of which there are several. The story and game progresses as you move up the brackets.
Your small salary as an inspector is barely enough to squeak by so you'll have some tough choices to make about how to spend your money.
My plan is to expand on a similar technique I used in Republia Times. In that case there was only a single sentence about the family each day but it served to humanize the player and make their daily decisions more difficult. I want to take that same effect and give it more weight. Not by defining the family more, but by providing more fine-grained influence over their wellbeing.*
Although a single night screen from one day looks pretty stark, your family's status will change and progress throughout the game. If your uncle is sick too long without medicine he'll die. Or his medicine costs will go up each day. Or maybe your son's birthday is coming up and he wants a new toy. Skip your uncle's medicine for a day and you can afford the toy. Or, as you mention, a new apartment with lower rent/heating costs is available for a fee. The choices you make on this screen will have lasting effects and you'll need to be careful about how you spend your money.
I think some of an immigration inspector's anxiety comes from not knowing what happens to the immigrants they process every day. In Papers Please there will be immediately visible consequences in some cases (terrorist bomber). But in other cases the person will just pass through and you won't know what happened
The citations are something I decided are absolutely necessary for the gameplay aspect. Going back to the alpha, I find it really frustrating to not know exactly what I missed when getting cited. The immediate feedback also allows me to skip a lot of introductory tutorial text and let the player learn from their mistakes as they go. Story-wise the citations are a little thorny*
In the beta, you can see the not-yet-functional overwatch light on the stamp bar. It wasn't going to be explained until much later, but the overwatcher worked in shifts. When this light was on, he was watching; if it turned off, he wasn't. If you wanted to approve someone with a mistake on their passport, you could avoid a citation by waiting until the light went out to quickly stamp/return the documents.
So that was all well and good; lots of potential. I really like this kind of subversion of expectations, where the rules change suddenly or the player is faced with something unexpected and has to change their thinking.
After working through a few scenarios though, I was left overall with a worse game than before. The moment the script flips is all well and cool but it's at the cost of everything before and after. If the overwatcher works in obvious shifts then all the sob story immigrants just become a case of waiting a few seconds for the light to go out. It changes the focus from the interesting stuff to watching for a light to turn off.
If the overwatcher is a guy that can be so easily reached then maybe the system isn't so overbearing. Unaddressed and untouchable though, it becomes an implicit force outside of any influence. I feel this works better for both the gameplay and the story. In the final game there's only a touch of mystery behind the citations but it's (I hope) quickly accepted as an implicit construct.*
STORY - implicit narrative
I strongly believe in the importance of gameplay systems in effective interactive media.
For me personally, the interactivity afforded by games makes them a much more effective medium, especially for empathy, than non-interactive books or movies. I hope Papers, Please is a good example of that.“I don't want to strip search you ma'am but it's the only way to be sure about this typo on your entry permit.”*
[QUESTION] The key moment for me came on the second day when I found myself scrutinising a man's documents more carefully than usual just because he had brusquely told me that he was in a hurry. You can just wait, you bastard, I thought. Now that's immersion!
I like that encounter because even though he (or she) is a dick, the docs are in order so you have to approve entry. I imagine there's a fair bit of those teeth-gritting moments for real immigration inspectors. I stamp the passport all crooked in those cases.
NO TUTORIALS
There are a lot of good arguments for a tutorial. But as a gamer I vastly prefer to learn things on the fly, even under pressure. The game will make it easy to go back and replay the day so you can always look at this as an implicit tutorial. I found myself doing this a few times on a recent play through and it was kinda fun to try optimizing a day before moving on.*
One of my mantras for the design in Papers Please was "keep it vague". That goes for both the story elements and the gameplay mechanics. I wanted the player to be overwhelmed at first and to have to feel their way through the interface and ruleset. I really liked the idea of "winning" a labor lottery and being thrown into a job with no training though, so I was hesitant to fix this.
Eventually, in the last few weeks before shipping, I decided to add a ton of pages to the rulebook to centralize what was previously a slew of scattered information.Important information is still introduced in the bulletin but it also gets a place in the rulebook and disappears from the bulletin on the next day. Doing it this way unified enough instructional material that I could actually be more vague in other areas. A lot of work near the end of the project but worth it.
Story - Explicit narrative
From a development perspective, I don't like to write much dialog. And from a gamer perspective, I don't like to read much dialog. I think the game works better by making the motions more mechanical and less like a traditional dialog tree. At least it enhances the bureaucratic feel for me*
The game is set in the alternate 1980, a communist and low-tech 80's
I've been writing a bunch of the generic question and response dialog recently. Initially I authored it to flow naturally with proper English grammar but the game lost much of its Eastern-European feel. Now I'm trying rougher, less fluent English and it's a little better: "I'll stay for three months." becomes "I stay three months."Pretty subtle but I was surprised at how the fluent English destroyed some of the mood. I hope this works better.
The low level day-to-day stuff is random within parameters; the story is scripted.
And even the predefined people often have only certain things defined. So likely their faces, nationality, and possibly errors will be different each time you play. I don't think that's too interesting though and I don't really consider a feature. Just that specifying those things hasn't been necessary yet and the random generator takes care of it without any effort.*
The main story mode will only have a small amount of randomness. I'm more inclined to get the narrative right than to make it replayable. Hopefully the endless mode can satisfy that itch.
The way I'm setting it up now, there'll be lots of story "threads" involving one or more applicants. Most of the threads will be short (1-3 encounters) but I'm planning on 2 or 3 longer ones and 1 overall thread that spans the entire game. Each thread may have custom docs like this, special news headlines, or customized travelers.*
I want to front-load some cool stuff to hook the player, expand on longer stories in the middle, add new elements to maintain interest, and ramp things up to a climax at the end.
During the entire development I collected and implemented small encounters or mechanics. Coming up with these was really fun; spy document handoff, nosy reporter, time bomb defusing, corrupt guard, etc. The task of tying all that together with a logical progression and interesting story was not as fun. I wanted the gameplay to evolve at a good pace but also to motivate each new mechanic with a story element. And with lots of these things to lay out, it's also important to avoid having too many things happen at once that can misdirect or confuse the player.
[The] economy simulator (a QA tool that allows to only focus on money and story mechanics) was one of my more useful tools made for the game. The stuff I learned with it fed back into the story layout to let me know when it would be good to add a bribery or other money-affecting event. The niece event was laid out this way. I saw a dip below zero on one day and came up with the story for her to appear with her mom's savings as relief.
"Papers, Please" will be the third game where I use newspaper headlines to relay story points. Can't resist. The newspaper headlines format is a great way to update the player without much reading.
There's 20 endings in all, which is honestly way too many. Adding a new ending became a logical and elegant way to handle all the different things the player could do. 12 of the endings are considered "early" in that they appear before the 31 days are up. The remaining 8 are attainable at the end of day 31. Which ending you get is dependent on the decisions you make during the days and nights. The branching save system makes it easy to go back and try different things.
When you and your family escape to Obristan after day 31, you were supposed to play this minigame again while passing through the Obristan checkpoint as an immigrant. You'd go through an interactive sequence of waiting in line, approaching the counter from the other side, giving the inspector your docs, and sweating it. This was a nice "tables have turned" payoff for the entire game.
Eventually, I decided that the best approach for the game endings was a generic system that could be used for everything. The picture-with-text system used in the intro worked great for that and was much easier to implement. I restructured the Obristan immigration sequence using this much simpler system and kinda liked it.
It also lined up better with my neutral treatment of the endings. Adding a special minigame just for the Obristan escape ending would've given it extra weight, implying that it was more correct than any of the other day-31 endings; which wasn't the case.
Once the image+text style from the intro was recycled for the endings I had a good system for adding endings easily. This had a bigger effect than I expected. Now it made more sense production-wise to allow the player to do more things with more consequences. Instead of carrying player decisions through the entire game I could terminate things early with an ending. Or decisions that did carry through could have their own unique variation of a later ending. It sounds like a cheap trick but honestly the alternative was to not have these decision points at all
- *[QUESTION] Why there is a small tutorial before the no paper guy?*
Don't feel bad, my design is still failing here and lots of people still miss this.
The problem is the conceptual change from: “Get the docs, check em out, inspect docs for fun” to: “Get nothing, inspect certain rulebook rule to proceed”
Some people make this leap no problem. For others it's so far off the radar as to be nonexistent. It even looks like a bug and once that happens, brain over.
- ** [QUESTION]* Why you can't call in new applicants from your desk? *
I think it's important to make the player look up to the top area every once in a while to click the booth. This is mainly why I put the button there (instead of keeping it on the desk).
- ** [QUESTION]* Why the sniping? *
Trust me, you will want to pull the trigger and it will feel good when you hit your target. I've worked out a story arc that's deeply integrated with the sniping. This is my favorite arc so far so the matter is completely settled in my mind.
- ** [QUESTION]* Why applicants are seen from a tilted angle? *
Unlike nice places where the inspector sits at your height, in Artstotzka inspectors sit high above hopeful immigrants in order to maintain a downward gaze. IOW there's a small step up to reach the booth. I like the hostility of the shutters.
- ** [QUESTION]* Why do you ask Calensk if he's a spy? *
T here's a secret document hand-off encounter early in the game.
You get handed two identical documents and need to keep them straight.
Implementing this was easy but there was no clear place to put it in the game.
The event involves a bulletin callout, 2 travelers (the spy and his follower), and 2 documents. It's a pretty heavy event actually because once you read the bulletin, you're on the lookout for the first spy and his follower; it somewhat consumes the player's headspace.
This meant that I didn't want it to overlap with any other days where you have an important bulletin message, when you're expecting someone specific, or when you have another document handoff. It finally wound up on the same day you meet Calensk.
Now the problem is that as soon as you read the bulletin about a spy coming, this military-looking guy walks up. Naturally you'd think he was the spy. If I had any other choice I would've moved this encounter or Calensk's intro but out of the 31 days there was no other place.
I ended up just letting these events overlap but made one small dialog addition to clear up any confusion. When Calensk walks in for the first time, the inspector asks "Are you the spy?", to which he responds "What? No". Ship it.
- *Why a line says “no luggage allowed”?*
Baggage inspection was removed from gameplay
- *Why the shutter?*
Removed gameplayNormally I'd remove any vestiges of a cut feature but in this case I left the shutter switch in. It's a fun little thing to role play and it comes in handy for triggering a hint early in the game. I still get comments about the pointlessness of this switch though. Maybe I should've removed it.
- *Why taking passports?*
Passport confiscation is a critical end-game revelation.Taking someone's passport is a clear escalation on the things-are-getting-serious scale. This sets up the scenario of having your own family's passports taken and leads directly into the end game.
From a mechanics and progression perspective, I found there was a lot more impact if the confiscation drawer was introduced for the purpose of taking passports.
What is Papers, Please - the tough part
Now that we have all the elements, we can finally answer the question: What is Papers, Please ?
First and foremost, it's an addictive game, based on abnegation and grinding.
The more you get into it, the more your world vanishes into the almost tactile pleasure of taking documents, placing them on your desk, comparing dates/places/seals and then neatly stamping them.
The endless mode is there to prove this irresistible appeal of bureaucracy.
On top of that, we have the implicit story written by our own choices and morals. You are a small cog in the big bureaucratic machine, " trying to manage a job and a family when the right thing to do isn't so clear ".
Will you let that refugee pass despite a missing document, or will you save those credits in order to buy a birthday present for your child? Will you swallow your pride and accept a bribe from a shady character, or will you tell your family that tonight you can't afford dinner?
On top of that, we have the explicit story written by the author, carving a path through your daily activities.
And the main lesson of the study above is that said story plays a much different role than most assume.
It is there to introduce new mechanics, like new documents and procedures.
It is there to help you behind the scenes, like offering a bribe or another money-affecting event when players are likely to be in a tough spot.
It is there to structure the experience in a satisfying arc, with the well-being of your family being at stake in the end.
What it isn't there for is providing a message. Not only the game is declaredly non-political, it strives to be as neutral as possible.
This is most evident in the endings: while the Obristan escape can be perceived as "the good" ending by most, Lucas chose to portray it exactly like every other one.
Fleeing with your family abroad (using money lent from a drug smuggler), bringing in a revolution (letting terrorists in and poisoning adversaries), serving your country faithfully (despite it being a hateful dictatorship)... the choice is yours.
There is no black or white, but you are free to pick your shade of grey.
When you open the translation tool (more on this later), the first thing you see is the following guidelines
- The game is set in a fictional universe. Don't use words, events, or names specific to real places. The game world is modeled after Eastern Europe but it is not Russia/USSR. Don't use the word "comrade" or its translated equivalent.
- Use "foreign-style" grammar for speech. Use plain legible (native) grammar for documents. Keep dialog short and concise.
and later on
- Notes from EZIC. All uppercase with stilted speech. Use '-' or carriage returns to separate sentences. Stay brief.
- Avoid too much personality or uniqueness here since these lines may be repeated often by different travelers.
In other words, all your dialogues have to be short and concise and use broken foreign-style grammar.
Ok! Here we go!
Glory to Arstotzka!
The greatest country!
***Where is your passport? ***
Passport!
Arstotzka so great, passport not required.
***A passport is required. ***
Ok, ok. I hear you.
I come back again.
While most characters are randomized and thus devoid of personality or uniqueness.
***What is the purpose of your trip? ***
***Duration of stay? ***
I stay a few weeks.
***These names do not match. ***
It must be a mistake. The document is valid.
And the only areas you are allowed a bit more leeway... are the crushingly bureaucratic manual and bulletin.
The rulebook has been updated with information regarding confiscation policy.Confiscate all Arstotzkan passports from residents living in ALTAN district.Travelers may still be granted entry if passport is confiscated and no other rules are violated.PASSPORT SEIZURE slips will be issued to allow entry or denial without a passport.
CONFISCATE ALL ARSTOTZKAN PASSPORTS. NO EXCEPTIONS.
A break-in at M.O.A. offices may have compromised our document sealing plates.Nothing important was stolen but intelligence suggests counterfeiters have already begun forging official Arstotzkan documents.
The more we keep sentences short and neutral, the more the player can focus on the gameplay and the moral dilemmas.
The more we keep them minimal, the more space the player will have to fill the void with their imagination.
It all makes perfect sense within the framework above.
But now we have a problem: how are you supposed to make an interesting and enjoyable translation when you are pretty much forbidden from using rich and creative writing?
The "slavonic" accent
The first element we used for giving flavor to the text is the slavonic accent.
Now, accents in videogames are usually a shortcut for characterization.
The real-life stereotypes associated with a certain country will brush off on the characters, so that a "cockney" character will coded as brash but kind, while a "Jamaican" one will be cheerful but mysterious and so on.
In Papers, Please we think that it acts like a filter. " This is not the world you know ", it says, " Everything is different, from the names we use to the language we speak, so don't bring your preconceptions here. Use your head ".
Alas, while it is very light in English, just dropping a few words here and there, it had to be reinvented into something much more defined for Italian.
Going for a cartoonish accent would have been completely against our goals, so we went for the most realistic model you can possibly imagine.
Maus by Art Spiegelman
«Affermare che nel caso di Maus la bellezza del testo risiede proprio nelle parole di Vladek e nel suo linguaggio sgrammaticato potrebbe sembrare un paradosso, tuttavia sono proprio quelle parole e quel linguaggio così arduo da riprodurre che trasmettono l’essenza del personaggio e la gamma di emozioni che scaturiscono dal racconto della sua vita.»
«To claim that, in the case of Maus, the beauty of the text lies specifically in the words of Vladek and in his ungrammatical language may sound like a paradox. However, it's precisely those words and that language, so arduous to recreate, that transmit the essence of the character and the gamut of emotions that spring from the account of his life .»
PREVITALI Cristina, «Nota del traduttore» in Maus by Art SPIEGELMAN
Not much to add, really. The Italian translation of Maus is a master class in creating an accent that is at the same time readable, realistic and respectful.
Following its pattern, we opted for
- Leaving out a few definite and indefinite articles (not all of them, not consistently, but especially when it comes to prepositions and possessives: "prima della guerra" > "prima di guerra", "presero i nostri documenti" > "presero nostri documenti")
- Switching a few prepositions around or adding/removing them (again, not consistently)
- Separating pronominal suffixes from the verb: "è bello avervi qui" > "è bello avere voi qui");
- Simplifying verbal tenses and moods (replacing gerunds with present tenses, past tenses into past simple/imperfect, subjunctive/conditional into indicative - but without eccess "Vorrei che voi andaste" > "Io volevo che voi andate", not "Io voleva che voi va" or worse still "Io volere che voi andare").
The end result is a speech pattern that is recognisably "foreign" but not completely broken, like you would expect, for example, from an eastern caregiver who lived many years in Italy.
And ideally, something that will soon become "transparent", almost readable like a normal text, while retaining its specific flavor.
The terminology
The second tool we used to give flavor to the text is terminology.
As you can expect, the game contains a lot of bureaucratic terms: Arstotzka Ministry of Admission, access permit, id supplement, Ministry of labor, grant of asylum, replacement inspector, information audit...
What may be less expected is that none of them match the usual US/UK terms.
While the satire of bureaucracy is always present (and often comes with a healthy dose of black humor), there are no direct jabs to real institutions.
Again, what we seem to have here is a filter that lets us see something we know and understand (immigration) in a new perspective.
You probably have an opinion about the Department of State and the green card. But what about the Ministry of Admission and the access permit?
In game terms, they are pretty much equivalent, but just changing names led you into reconsidering your opinion.
Now, as Wikipedia tells us, the Italian language is official in four countries. Within the Italian peninsula we have Italy itself and two microstates (San Marino and Vatican City) that don't provide much language variety.
And then we have Switzerland with the Italian-speaking Canton Ticino.
Oh boy...
While Swiss-Italian and plain Italian use exactly the same grammar and terminology 99% of the time, some common terms get retranslated from French or German (the most spoken languages of the Federation) and thus take unexpected meanings.
To make an example, in Swiss-Italian, the " vignetta " is a compulsory seal you must buy in order to drive on highways. In plain Italian it's a comic book panel.
So you are reading a perfectly straightforward description of Swiss roads, and all of a sudden it tells you that you must absolutely buy the latest comic book panel and glue it on your windshield if you don't want to be fined. It's the law, pal.
Linguistically, it's like coming back home and your mom has suddenly started to smoke Cuban cigars, for totally unexplained reasons . It's the Twilight zone.
While not so extreme, the terminology used by the Swiss-Italian customs gave us a perfect platform for achieving that "parallel world" feeling.
Entry? You would expect ingresso, but it's entrata throughout (visto d'entrata, permesso d'entrata, cedolino d'entrata).
An unexpected benefit of this approach is that while Italian bureaucracy has a penchant for archaisms and latin mumbo-jumbo, for example translating denial with diniego, the Swiss stay much closer to what you would expect from modern Italian (rifiuto), giving a lighter tone that was more fitting for a videogame.
In the same vein, we stayed clear from the heaviness usually associated with buraucracy, but went full on with its pettiness.
Your booth is a guardiola , the entry ticket is a cedolino d'entrata , the id supplement is an identificativo and so on.
Every term is a derivative of some sort and thus feels small, boring and insignificant.
Regarding nation names, we kept all of them as is, except for United Federation which became Federazioni Unite similarly to how United States is called Stati Uniti .
This may sound counter-intuitive, given the relevance other languages gave to adapting that aspect, but it's really a cultural thing.
A whole paper could be written just about this but, without going into too much detail, Italians seem to prefer original/foreign names, even when quite detached from our language.
When dealing with a text with the name "Mumpit Mush" during LocJAM, two translators out of three decided to leave it as is or tweak it slightly. That's how we roll.
One last terminology choice we had to deal with was how to adapt "Ministry of Admission", as a straight translation would have sounded a bit off.
Our favorite solution was Ministero dell'Accoglienza which translates both as Ministry of Acceptance and Ministry of Welcoming .
As this meant adding a strong element of double-speak satire, we also suggested Ministero dei Confini which roughly means Ministry of State Lines and thus played with the idea of a bureaucratic structure devoted to hopelessly trivial things.
In the end, Lucas went for Ministero dell'Accoglienza as a homage to 1984.
After all, guess what book the 978-0-452-28423-4 ISBN number at the end of the ingame manual actually belongs to?
Continues... (Really, 5000+ words and we haven't even started with the translation proper. That's why I don't write these very often)
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In our last Miami survey we unveiled a booming city, effortlessly combining brand new world-class architecture with art and culture, attracting starchitects from all over the world, as well as many prominent local architects.
Since then, Miami has only been going from strength to strength with key projects reaching completion but several more taking their place in the Florida city’s construction roaster.
The Perez Art Museum by Herzog and de Meuron was not the only prestigious new addition in town. Rene Gonzalez’s shimmering Glass residences received their finishing touches this month, while Sou Fujimoto’s Palm Court retail complex opened earlier this year at the Miami Design District. MDD has now entered its Phase III and the construction of twenty new buildings, slated for completion by August 2016. Meanwhile, the Faena District has been fast progressing with the Faena Hotel Miami Beach gearing up for inauguration later this year and Faena Forum by OMA swiftly following suite in early 2016.
Even more architecture schemes are still underway, including not only seaside condos – a Miami staple – but also many cultural and commercial ventures. Grimshaw Architects’ Museum of Science is currently in construction, with the estimated completion date set for the summer of 2016. Similarly, Fernando Romero’s Latin American Art Museum design is being built in Downtown Miami, on track for a 2017 completion.
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[caption id="attachment_13784" align="alignnone" width="640"] Photo: Rui Fernandes[/caption] On Monday, March 20, at 8 pm, the musical production "Let's Sing for Young People in Malawi" will take place at the Théâtre des Variétés. Janine Pezzuoli-Grinda, particularly appreciative of the approach of young pupils of the Second International Option class at the Lycée Albert I and their professor Marie-Claude Riley, has brought together 25 singers from the Monegasque association "Si On Chantait" to hold a musical show. This will raise funds for a non-governmental organisation working for children's rights in Malawi, one of the poorest countries in Africa. "Thinking Future-Keeping Girls in School" is an educational programme led by the African Network for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect to enable young girls, and soon young people, not to leave school to marry prematurely. The initiative is part of the PEACEJAM program, organised by the Directorate of National Education, Youth and Sports. On this occasion, high school students are invited to come together around noble causes and projects of a humanitarian character. Through this programme, students also have a tremendous opportunity to participate each year in an exchange with a Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Tickets (€10 or €7 for students) will be on sale before the show or now from pupils, as well as Mrs Pezzuoli-Grinda at 06 07 93 51 62.
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A fourth site has joined the Media Library passing under communal management: the Library Princess Caroline - Ludothèque, dedicated to youth.
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"Islamic fascism" (first described in 1933), also known since 1990 as "Islamofascism",[1][2] is a term drawing an analogy between the ideological characteristics of specific Islamist movements and a broad range of European fascist movements of the early 20th century, neofascist movements, or totalitarianism.
1 Origins of the term "Islamofascism"
1.1 Popularisation of the term after 2001
1.1.1 Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week
2 Exposition of the term in the commentariat
3 Evaluation by historians and scholars
3.1 Scholars who affirm a relation between Islamic political movements and fascism
4 Criticism of theory of a link between Islam and fascism
Origins of the term "Islamofascism"[edit]
The term "Islamofascism" is defined in the New Oxford American Dictionary as "a term equating some modern Islamic movements with the European fascist movements of the early twentieth century".[3]
The earliest known use of the contiguous term Islamic Fascism dates to 1933 when Akhtar Ḥusayn Rā’ēpūrī, in an attack on Muḥammad Iqbāl, defined attempts to secure the independence of Pakistan as a form of Islamic fascism.[4] Some analysts consider Manfred Halpern's use of the phrase 'neo-Islamic totalitarianism' in his 1963 book The Politics of Social Change in the Middle East and North Africa, as a precursor to the concept of Islamofascism, in that he discusses Islamism as a new kind of fascism.[5] Halpern's primary case was based on an analysis of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, and he argued that such Islamic movements were an obstacle to the military regimes who were in his view representatives of a new middle class capable of modernizing the Middle East.[6][7] Halpern's work, commissioned by the United States Air Force from the Rand Corporation, arguably represents a mix of mid-Cold War analysis and orientalism.[8]
In 1978, Maxime Rodinson, a distinguished Marxist scholar of Islam, responded to French avant-garde enthusiasm for Khomeini's revolution in a three part article in Le Monde, by arguing that, in response to successive assaults by Crusaders, Mongols, Turks and Western imperialism, Islamic countries had come to feel embattled, and the impoverished masses had come to think of their elites, linked to foreigners, as devoid of traditional piety. Both nationalism and socialism imported from the West were recast in religious terms, in a process of political Islamicization which would be devoid of the progressive side of nationalism and revert to what he called "a type of archaic fascism" characterized by policing the state to enforce a totalitarian moral and social order.[9]
The earliest example of the term "Islamofascism," according to William Safire,[10] occurs in an article penned by the Scottish scholar and writer Malise Ruthven writing in 1990. Ruthven used it to refer to the way in which traditional Arab dictatorships used religious appeals in order to stay in power.[11][12] Malise Ruthven, Construing Islam as a Language, The Independent 8 September 1990. "Nevertheless there is what might be called a political problem affecting the Muslim world. In contrast to the heirs of some other non-Western traditions, including Hinduism, Shintoism and Buddhism, Islamic societies seem to have found it particularly hard to institutionalise divergences politically: authoritarian government, not to say Islamo-fascism, is the rule rather than the exception from Morocco to Pakistan."[13] Ruthven doubts that he himself coined the term, stating that the attribution to him is probably due to the fact that internet search engines don't go back beyond 1990.[14]
Popularisation of the term after 2001[edit]
As a neologism it was adopted broadly in the wake of the September 11 attacks to intimate that either all Muslims, or those Muslims who spoke of their social or political goals in terms of Islam, were fascists.[15] Khalid Duran is often credited with devising the phrase at that date. He used it in 2001 to characterize Islamism generally, as a doctrine that would compel both a state and its citizens to adopt the religion of Islam,[3][16][17] journalist Stephen Schwartz has also claimed priority as the first Westerner to adopt the term in the aftermath of the attack on the World Trade Center in an article in The Spectator, where he used it to describe the Wahhabi ideology of Osama Bin Laden.[4][18][19] and defined it as the "use of the faith of Islam as a cover for totalitarian ideology."[20] The term was sufficiently in vogue by 2002 to lead the cultural historian Richard Webster to remonstrate with its usage, in arguing that grouping many different political ideologies, terrorist and insurgent groups, governments, and religious sects into one single idea of "Islamofascism" both grossly oversimplifies, and induces us to ignore root causes, a key one of which, in his view, was 'the history of Western colonialism in the Middle East, and above all in Palestine'.[21]
Accounts differ as to who popularized the term. President George W. Bush introduced the term officially during his presidency.[22][23] According to Safire, author Christopher Hitchens was responsible for its diffusion, while Valerie Scatamburlo d'Annibale argues that its popularization is due to the work of Eliot Cohen, former counselor to Condoleezza Rice, reputed occasionally to be "the most influential neocon in academe".[24][25] It circulated in neoconservative circles for some years after 2001 and came into wider currency after President George W. Bush, still grappling to find a phrase that might identify the nature of the "evil" which would define the nature of his enemy in the War on Terror, stated in 2005 that Islamofascism was an ideology synonymous with Islamic radicalism and militant jihadism, which, he then clarified, was decidedly distinct from the religion of Islam.[26] It moved into the mainstream in August 2006.[27] After the arrest of Islamic terrorists suspected of preparing to blow up airlines, Bush once more alluded to "Islamic Fascists", apparently a "toned-down" variant of the word,[28] The public use of the neologism and the analogous Islamic fascism during the run-up to the U.S. 2006 mid-term elections,[29] perhaps with a specific focus group in mind,[30] provoked an outcry, or storm of protest, and was quickly dropped from the president's rhetorical armory.[19][31] Katha Pollitt, stating the principle that, "if the control the language, you control the debate", remarked that while the term looked "analytic", it was emotional and "intended to get us to think less and fear".[27] David Gergen, former speechwriter for Richard Nixon, commented that the phrase "confuses more than it clarifies", for "Islamic fascism has no meaning" in the Arab world.[19] Neoconservative writers, critics and scholars from Hitchens to Robert Wistrich however responded that the Muslim religion itself is fascistic, a view which, in identifying Islam with political fascism, was lambasted for being as offensive as the term Judeo-Nazi[32] coined in the 1970s by Yeshayahu Leibowitz, editor of the Encyclopedia Hebraica, to characterize Messianic Jews settling in the occupied West Bank.[33] Hitchens replied that the link is no more deleterious than that made by Leibowitz, or by left-wing analysts who wrote of clerical fascism.
Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week[edit]
David Horowitz developed an "Islamo-Fascist Awareness Week" consisting of 26 workshops on university campuses, between 22–26 October 2007.[24][33] Critics call it a (conservative) buzzword.[17][26] A number of Republicans, such as Rick Santorum, used it as shorthand for terrorists,[26] and Donald Rumsfeld dismissed critics of the invasion of Iraq as appeasers of a "new type of fascism".[29] In April 2008, the Associated Press reported that US federal agencies, including the State Department and the Department of Homeland Security, were advised to stop using the term Islamo-fascism in a fourteen-point memo issued by the Extremist Messaging Branch, a department of another federal body known as the National Counterterrorism Center. Aimed at improving the presentation of the War on Terrorism before Muslim audiences and the media, the memo states: "We are communicating with, not confronting, our audiences. Don't insult or confuse them with pejorative terms such as 'Islamo-fascism,' which are considered offensive by many Muslims."[34] By 2007 Norman Podhoretz, arguing that the United States was in the midst of World War IV, identified Iran as the main center of the Islamofascist ideology he was convinced America had been fighting since 2001. Podhoretz called on the United States to bomb Iran as "soon as logistically possible".[35][36]
Exposition of the term in the commentariat[edit]
Schwartz's approach argues that several factors buttressed his notion of a similarity between fascism and Islamic fundamentalist terror:
Resentment by an economically frustrated middle class as feeding the rage that led to fascism, something that fitted Al-Qaeda's hold on sections of the Saudi, Pakistani, and Egyptian middle classes, and also on Hezbollah's attraction for Shiites in Lebanon;
Most forms of Fascism to date have been imperialistic, as are, he claimed, Wahhabis and Hezbollah;
It was totalitarian insofar as Islamic fundamentalist may impose takfir, putting all members of global Islam who dissent with their extremism outside the Ummah;
Both have paramilitary organizations, and not just a politically organized ideological grouping. While none of these are intrinsic to Islam, he stated, they are all part of Islamofascism, and the distortion mirrors that brand of Christian extremism which led to clerical fascism.[37]
Hitchens, though preferring to speak of "fascism with an Islamic face", a variation on the phrase "Islam with a fascist face" deployed by Fred Halliday to describe developments in Iran after the overthrow of the Shah in 1979,[38] insisted that Bin Ladenism and Salafism shared similarities with clerical fascism, a term already used by Walter Laqueur to refer to the recent form a resurgent Islamic fundamentalism was taking.[39][40] Such clerical fascism was, he argued, like Islamic fundamentalism, had a devotion to a charismatic leader, a point contested by Frederick W. Kagan,[41] trusted in the authoritative power of one book, was queasy about sexual deviance, contemptuous of women, hostile to modernity. nostalgic for past glories, toxicly Judeophobic, obsessed with old grievances, real and imagined, and addicted to revenge. Islamofascism was, he allowed, not perfectly congruent, with European fascism, in that the latter idealized the nation-state. Islam has no concept of a master race. On the other hand, he affirmed, the notion of a revived Caliphate might lend itself to an analogy with Hitler's Greater Germany, and Mussolini's desire to revive the Roman Empire, as Islamic rhetoric about the pure believers as opposed to the kuffār suggests a non-ethnic based form of cleansing.[33]
The American journalist and former Nixon speechwriter William Safire wrote that the term fulfilled a need for a term to distinguish traditional Islam from terrorists: "Islamofascism may have legs: the compound defines those terrorists who profess a religious mission while embracing totalitarian methods and helps separate them from devout Muslims who want no part of terrorist means."[10] Eric Margolis denied any resemblance between anything in the Muslim world, with its local loyalties and consensus decision-making and the historic, corporative-industrial states of the West. "The Muslim World", he argued, "is replete with brutal dictatorships, feudal monarchies, and corrupt military-run states, but none of these regimes, however deplorable, fits the standard definition of fascism. Most, in fact, are America's allies."[42]
Malise Ruthven opposed redefining Islamism as "Islamofascism," a term whose usage has been "much abused".[43] The Islamic label can be used for legitimizing and labeling a movement, but ideology must be distinguished from the brand name associated with it. The difference between Islamic movements and fascism are more "compelling" than the analogies. Islam defies doctrinal unification.[44][45] No particular order of government can be deduced from Islamic texts, any more than from Christianity. Spanish fascists drew support from traditional Catholic doctrines, but by the same token, other Catholic thinkers have defended democracy in terms of the same theological traditions.[46]
Evaluation by historians and scholars[edit]
The widespread use in mass media of the term "Islamofascism" has been challenged as confusing because of its conceptual fuzziness. George Orwell, it has been noted in this connection, observed as early as 1946 that "[T]he word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies 'something not desirable'", and linking Islam to that concept was more a matter of denigration than of ideological clarity.[47][48] Chibli Mallat, while noting that the term is controversial, thinks it warranted but notes that there is something anomalous about Islam being singled out, since fascist practices among Jews in Israel, Buddhists in Burma, and Narendra Modi's Hindi constituencies in India do not generate the same terminology: one rarely hears of Hindu-, Buddhist- or Judeo-fascism.[49] A number of scholars and thinkers, such as Michel Onfray,[50] Michael Howard, Jeffrey Herf, Walter Laqueur, and Robert Wistrich have argued that the link between fascism and Islam/Islamic radicalism is sound. Many scholars who specialize in Islam and the Arabic world are skeptical of the thesis: Reza Aslan, for one, identifies the roots of jihadism not in the Qur'an, but in the writings of modern Arab anti-colonialists and, doctrinally, to Ahmad Ibn Taymiyyah[51] Historians like Niall Ferguson dismiss the word as an "extraordinary neologism" positing a conceptual analogy when there is "virtually no overlap between the ideology of al Qaeda and fascism".[52]
Walter Laqueur, after reviewing this and related terms, concluded that "Islamic fascism, Islamophobia and antisemitism, each in its way, are imprecise terms we could well do without but it is doubtful whether they can be removed from our political lexicon."[53]
Scholars who affirm a relation between Islamic political movements and fascism[edit]
Cover of the book of Barry Rubin and Wolfgang G. Schwanitz, Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East (2014). According to the authors, there is a nexus between Nazism and Islamism and the vector would have been Amin al-Husseini (left).
Manfred Halpern, the first major thinker to characterize politicized Islam as a fascist movement, called it "Neo-Islamic Totalitarianism" in his classic 1963 study The Politics of Social Change in the Middle East and North Africa.[54][55][5]
The French Marxist Maxime Rodinson described Islamic movements such as the Muslim Brotherhood as a "type of archaic fascism" whose goal was the establishment of a "totalitarian state whose political police would brutally enforce the moral and social order."[5] He accused the French left of celebrating in Islamism a religious form of fascism.[5]
The sociologist Saïd Amir Arjomand has argued since 1984 that Islamism and fascism share essential features, an argument he made at some length in his 1989 book The Turban for the Crown; The Islamic revolution in Iran.[5]
Michael Howard has defended the use of the term drawing parallels between Wahhabism and European Fascist ideology.[56] Howard was initially deeply unhappy with George Bush's idea of a global war on terror: it was not a war in his view, except metaphorically, and one cannot wage war against an abstract concept like terror. Giving one's adversary a belligerent status by reciprocating their idea that they are engaged in a war, as opposed to a confrontation, was against British policy in suppressing insurgencies in Malaya, Ireland, India and Palestine, where the question was one of "criminal disruption of civil order".[56] Yet Howard endorsed Bush's description of the adversary as "Islamic fascists", though he qualified this by stating that "although they are no more typical of their religion than the fanatics who have committed abominations in the name of Christianity", and their teachings are as much derived from Western notions as from Islam.[57] Fascism is, for Howard, "the rejection of the entire legacy of the Enlightenment" with its values of "reason, toleration, open-ended inquiry and the rule of law".[56]
In an April 2010 article in The New Republic, historian Jeffrey Herf, elaborating on a talk given to the U.S. State Department in Washington, D.C., outlined what he regarded as the ideological linkage of Islamism with World War II Nazi antisemitic propaganda which was broadcast to Muslims throughout the Middle East. He considered radical Islam as the third major form of totalitarian ideology, though closer to fascism and Nazism than Communism in sharing continuities with the former two, such as Judeophobia and anti-Zionism. Radical Islam fitted the model of reactionary modernism in its rejection of democracy and espousal of technology. Islamic Nazi propagandist rhetoric assured Germans they would "exterminate the Jews before the Jews had a chance to exterminate them" and:
echoes of these arguments come across loud and clear in the Hamas covenant of 1988, bin Laden's declaration of war against the "Zionist-Crusader alliance", Ahmadinejad's calls to wipe out the state of Israel, and TV programs in Arab countries that reproduce new versions of anti-Semitic blood libels.[58]
Secondly, Herf argues that like Nazi/Fascist paramilitaries, they were hypermasculine, anti-feminist brotherhoods. Unlike Communists who thought survival an end of strategy, Islamists like those in Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Iran would not be deterred the inevitability of massive retaliation, and in their concept of martyrdom have different ideas about a coming religious apocalypse. Fear of offending Muslims has led the U.S. to avoid terms redolent of Islamophobia. Just as Christian antisemitism played a role in Nazism, he affirms, so too the Qur'an feeds into Islamic rhetoric. Nazi propaganda broadcasts fed into the Arab world's attachment to Islam, and the collaboration rested on shared values, the rejection of liberal democracy and above all hatred to Jews and this tradition fed straight into the formulations of Hassan al-Banna, the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, and the essays of Sayyid Qutb to influence modern Islamic radicalism. Euphemisms must be dropped, Herf counseled, and killing civilians, Muslim or otherwise, defined as a "war crime", so that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad should be indicted for incitement to genocide. His public statements are, Herf believes, violations of Article Three of the U.N. Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide; the Iranian nuclear program, threatening a second Holocaust and nuclear attacks on the US, must be halted, with retention of conventional military strikes against that country as an option.[58]
Criticism of theory of a link between Islam and fascism[edit]
While Islamic Fascism has been discussed as a category of serious analysis by the scholars mentioned above, the term "Islamofascism" circulated mainly as a propaganda, rather than as an analytic, term after the September 11 attacks on the United States in September 2001[59] but also gained a foothold in more sober political discourse,[60] both academic and pseudo-academic.[61] Many critics are dismissive, variously branding it as "meaningless" (Daniel Benjamin);[62][63] "a kosher-halal" throwback version of the "vacuous" old leftist epithet "fascist pig" (Norman Finkelstein);[64] a "figment of the neocon imagination" (Paul Krugman);[65] and as betraying an ignorance of both Islam and Fascism (Angelo Codevilla).[66]
Tony Judt, in an analysis of liberal acquiescence in President George W. Bush's foreign policy initiatives, particularly the War on Terror and the invasion of Iraq, argued that this policy was premised on the notion there was such a thing as Islamofascism, a notion Judt considered catastrophic. In his diagnosis of this shift he detected a decline in the old liberal consensus of American politics, and what he called the "deliquescence of the Democratic Party". Many former left-liberal pundits, like Paul Berman and Peter Beinart having no knowledge of the Middle East or cultures like those of Wahhabism and Sufism on which they descant authoritatively, have, he claimed, and his view was shared by Niall Ferguson,[67] latched onto the war on terror as a new version of the old liberal fight against fascism, in the form of Islamofascism. In their approach there is a cozy acceptance of a binary division of the world into ideological antitheses,[68] the "familiar juxtaposition that eliminates exotic complexity and confusion: Democracy v. Totalitarianism, Freedom v. Fascism, Them v. Us" has been revived. Judt cited many others who, once liberals have fallen in lockstep with the American idea of a global war against Islamic jihad: Adam Michnik, Oriana Fallaci; Václav Havel; André Glucksmann, Michael Ignatieff, Leon Wieseltier, David Remnick, Thomas Friedman and Michael Walzer.[69] Christopher Hitchens was also criticized by Judt, as making unhistoric simplifications, to justify use of the term.[33]
The term "Islamofascism" has been criticized by several scholars.[70]
In 2012 a special issue of Die Welt des Islams was dedicated to surveying the issue of Islamophobia in recent Western reportage and scholarly studies, with essays on various facets of the controversy by Katajun Amirpur, Moshe Zuckerman, René Wildangel, Joachim Scholtyseck and others. Their positions were almost invariably critical of the term and the concept underlying it.
In a 2016 lecture, American historian Paul Gottfried proposed that some strains of Islam could accurately be described as Islamist or Islamic terrorist but definitely not fascist, because he maintains that the only accurate use of Fascism is to describe the government of Italy under Mussolini from 1922 to 1938.[71]
Amin al-Husseini
Anti-Masonry
Islamic religious police
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
Muhammad Najati Sidqi
Muslim Patrol incident
Nazi SS Division Handschar (Bosnian Muslims)
Nazi SS Division Skanderbeg (Muslim Albanians)
Nazi SS Division Kama (Bosnian Muslims)
Relations between Nazi Germany and the Arab world
Talibanization
Worldwide caliphate
Wahhabi movement
Deobandi movement
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^ a b c Stolberg 2006.
^ Schwartz 2006. "Islamofascism refers to use of the faith of Islam as a cover for totalitarian ideology. This radical phenomenon is embodied among Sunni Muslims today by such fundamentalists as the Saudi-financed Wahhabis, the Pakistani jihadists known as Jama'atis, and the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. In the ranks of Shia Muslims, it is exemplified by Hezbollah in Lebanon and the clique around President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Iran."
^ Webster, Richard (2002). "Israel,Palestine and the tiger of terrorism: anti-semitism and history". richardwebster.net. Retrieved 2018-05-28. Those on the right who have taken up the chant of 'Islamofascism' repeatedly enjoin us to 'forget the root causes'.
^ Bush 2005:'Some call this evil Islamic radicalism. Others militant jihadism.BUSH: Still, others Islamo-fascism'.
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^ Stolberg 2006."I'd prefer to call them Islamists," said Frederick W. Kagan, a military historian and neoconservative thinker at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington. Fascists, Mr. Kagan said, idealize a strong man, like Hitler or Mussolini. "Bin Laden's stated aim is for Allah to be venerated, so I think it's a very different thing."
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^ Aslan 2010, pp. 25–6:"It has more in common with the Bolsheviks and the French revolutionaries than it does with militant Muslim nationalist groups such as Hamas and Hizballah. To talk about Jihadism as Islamofascism is to misunderstand both Jihadism and fascism. Fascism is an ideology of ultranationalism; Jihadism rejects the very concept of the nation-state as anathema to Islam. In that regard, Jihadism is the opposite of Islamism" ... "What was for centuries considered a collective duty waged predominantly within the confines of an empire or state and solely in defense of life, faith, and property ... has, in Jihadism, become a radically individualistic obligation utterly divorced from any institutional power."
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^ Greene 2006:'Security expert Daniel Benjamin of the Center for Strategic and International Studies agreed that the term was meaningless. "There is no sense in which jihadists embrace fascist ideology as it was developed by Mussolini or anyone else who was associated with the term," he said. "This is an epithet, a way of arousing strong emotion and tarnishing one's opponent, but it doesn't tell us anything about the content of their beliefs. "The people who are trying to kill us, Sunni jihadist terrorists, are a very, very different breed.".'
^ Larison 2007 "The word 'Islamofascism' never had any meaning, except as a catch-all for whatever regimes and groups the word's users wished to make targets for military action. Hitchens is also well known for his tendentious misunderstandings of all forms of religion, likening theism to a supernatural totalitarian regime and attributing all of the crimes of political totalitarianism to religion. It was therefore appropriate that he should promote the term 'Islamofascism' since it defines a religious movement in the language of secular totalitarianism."
^ Finkelstein & Wajahat 2007:'The term is a throwback to when juvenile leftists, myself among them, labeled everyone we disagreed with a "fascist pig." So this is a kosher-halal version of that epithet. Fascism used to refer to a fairly precise historical phenomenon, although it's even doubtful that the term accurately encompasses regimes as different as Mussolini's Italy and Hitler's Germany. But when you start using the term to characterize terrorist bands who want to turn the clock back several centuries and resurrect the Caliphate, it is simply a vacuous epithet like "Evil Empire," "Axis of Evil" and the rest.'
^ Krugman 2007:' there isn't actually any such thing as Islamofascism — it's not an ideology; it's a figment of the neocon imagination. The term came into vogue only because it was a way for Iraq hawks to gloss over the awkward transition from pursuing Osama bin Laden, who attacked America, to Saddam Hussein, who didn’t.'
^ Codevilla 2009, p. 25
^ Ferguson 2006:'what we see at the moment is an attempt to interpret our present predicament in a rather caricatured World War II idiom. I mean, 'Islamofascism' illustrates the point well, ... It's just a way of making us feel that we're the "greatest generation" fighting another World War, like the war our fathers and grandfathers fought. You're translating a crisis symbolized by 9/11 into a sort of pseudo World War II. So, 9/11 becomes Pearl Harbor and then you go after the bad guys who are the fascists, and if you don't support us, then you must be an appeaser.'
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The Oracle Cluster File System (OCFS, in its second version OCFS2) is a shared disk file system developed by Oracle Corporation and released under the GNU General Public License. The first version of OCFS was developed with the main focus to accommodate Oracle's database management system that used cluster computing. Because of that it was not a POSIX-compliant file system. With version 2 the POSIX features were included.
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SMU School of Law
Singapore Management University School of Law
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The Singapore Management University School of Law (SMU School of Law) is one of the six schools of Singapore Management University. It was set up as Singapore's second law school in 2007, 50 years after the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law and 10 years before Singapore University of Social Sciences School of Law. Before becoming a law school, the school was a Law Department within the School of Business between 2000 and 2007.
The school offers a four-year undergraduate single Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degree programme and a double degree programme combining the law degree programme with one of SMU's existing non-law programmes. The school also offers a graduate Juris Doctor (JD) programme as well as a Master of Laws (LLM) programme. The Dual LLM in Commercial Law, which confers LLM degrees from Queen Mary University of London and SMU, was launched in 2015.
Admission to the law programme is competitive: in the 2015 University Admissions Exercise, both the 10th and 90th percentile had an Indicative Grade Profile (of Singapore-Cambridge GCE A-Level qualifications) of AAA/A; approximately 1,300 applicants were shortlisted for an interview and a written test.[1][2]
Since the launch of its international moots programme in 2010, the school has been to the championship final of the largest and most established international moot court competitions and holds the world records for most number of international moot championship finals in a season and most number of international moot championships in a season.
2 Programmes
2.1 Undergraduate and postgraduate
2.2 Professional
3 Student life
3.1 International moot competitions
3.2 Law reform
4 Research impact
Inside the Kwa Geok Choo Law Library
A segregated third of the function hall in the basement
The School of Law was preceded by the Law Department, which was created in 2000 and part of the university's Lee Kong Chian School of Business, and headed by Professor Andrew Phang (now Judge of Appeal, Supreme Court of Singapore).[3] A full-fledged law school was established in 2007 – 50 years after the establishment of the first and then-only law school in Singapore, National University of Singapore Faculty of Law — following a review by the government that concluded there was a shortage of qualified legal personnel in Singapore.[4][5]
The school's first dean was Professor Michael Furmston, a leading authority on contracts and commercial law in the Commonwealth.[6] He headed the school from its inception in 2007 to 2012. Professor Yeo Tiong Min SC was then the dean from 2012 to 2017.[7][8] Associate Professor Goh Yihan has been the dean since 2017.[9]
On 18 March 2009, the Doctor of Jurisprudence (JD) programme was launched.[10] In May 2010, the Continuing Legal Education programme (since re-branded as SMU Law Academy) was launched.[11]
In March 2013, the school became the first Asian law school to join the THEMIS network[12] and in November that year a partnership was set up with Yonsei University for a dual JD programme.[13]
The Applied Research Centre for Intellectual Assets and the Law in Asia (ARCIALA) was launched in May 2015[14] and in June that year the school signed a sponsorship and training agreement with WongPartnership.[15] In August, it launched a dual LLM with Queen Mary, University of London.[16]
The law school building relocated in December 2016 to Armenian Street[17] and in October 2017, a Pro Bono Centre was launched.[18]
In June 2018, the school received a $4.5m grant from the NRF and IMDA to helm a research programme on AI and data use.[19] In July that year it launched the LLM in Judicial Studies[20] and in September a Centre for AI and Data Governance.[21]
Former Judge of Appeal VK Rajah giving a speech at SMU School of Law in 2017. He was on the school's advisory board between 2008 and 2012 and has been chairman of the board since 2017.
There is an Advisory Board which provides advisory assistance to the School of Law; it routinely includes Supreme Court judges, senior litigators, corporate lawyers, managing partners of law firms, and partners of foreign law firms. The Advisory Board is currently chaired by former Judge of Appeal and Attorney-General VK Rajah SC.[22] Rajah, together with former Supreme Court judges Yong Pung How and Chao Hick Tin, serve as Distinguished Fellows.[23]
Programmes[edit]
A seminar room
Undergraduate and postgraduate[edit]
To be admitted to the Bachelor of Laws (LLB) programme, applicants should have good passes in their respective GCE A-Level subjects and also at minimum an A or a B for H1 General Paper or H2 Knowledge and Inquiry. In the 2015 University Admissions Exercise, both the 10th and 90th percentile had an Indicative Grade Profile (of 3H2/1H1 content-based subjects) of AAA/A.[1] Potential candidates are called for a short written test and a group interview.
The LLB programme is a four-year programme; it is also possible to enroll in the double degree programme (combining law with accountancy, business, economics, information systems, or social sciences). Students must also complete ten weeks of internship and 80 hours of community service to graduate. The law school is partnered with law schools including Peking University, University of New South Wales, University of San Diego, and University of St Gallen for direct law-to-law exchange.[24]
Based on the 2017 Graduate Employment Survey, 97.6% of the school's graduates found employment; the school's graduates also commanded the highest mean basic monthly salary among all schools in the university.[25] In the 2018 survey, the overall rate was 92.7%.[26] Alumni of the school are well-represented in the major law firms, the Supreme Court Justices' Law Clerk scheme.[27]
The SMU Juris Doctor programme is an additional route for persons who already have a degree in another discipline or a law degree not recognised for the purpose of admission to the Singapore Bar to become members of the Singapore legal profession. Applicants must have completed at least three years of full-time undergraduate education and show proficiency in the English language. SMU's JD curriculum is a mix of compulsory law courses and electives. Similar to all SMU undergraduates, six weeks of internship and 50 hours of community service are required for graduation. Students are required to complete a total of 25 Credit Units of law courses. Although students are expected to complete the programme within three years, the programme may be accelerated.[28]
Completion of the either the LLB or JD allows a student to apply to do the bar examination and be called as a lawyer.[29]
There are three Master of Laws (LLM) options: the LLM in Cross-Border Business and Finance Law in Asia, the Dual LLM in Commercial Law (Singapore and London), and the LLM in Judicial Studies (which is offered jointly with the Supreme Court). The first two options are one-year programmes while the dual LLM is a 15-month programme where students split their time between SMU and Queen Mary University of London.[30]
Professional[edit]
The SMU Law Academy or SMULA runs seminars on developments in the law for the legal profession; attendees receive Continuing Professional Development points. Courses taught to the LLB, JD, and LLM students may also be audited.[31]
Student life[edit]
International moot competitions[edit]
Moot court training session in progress at the David Marshall Moot Court
Since the launch of its international moots programme in 2010, the school has been to the championship final of the largest and most established international moot court competitions: Jessup (2013 and 2014), Vis (2015 and 2016), Vis East (2015 and 2016), Price (2010, 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018), ICC (2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018), Frankfurt (2015 and 2017), IHL (2016 and 2019), and International Maritime Law Arbitration Moot (2016). As of June 2019, SMU has emerged champions 23 times, 1st-runner-up 23 times, and 2nd-runner-up 26 times in international moot competitions, in addition to winning hundreds of Best Oralist and Best Memorial prizes and 14 national round championships (including five Jessup national titles in the last seven years).[32][33] It set a world record of eight international moot finals in a single season in 2014/15 (winning a world record five), a feat it bettered in 2015/16 when it reached nine international moot finals.[32][34][35] It also became the first university in the history of international moots to successfully defend a major moot international title when it won back-to-back championships in the ICC moot in 2015 and 2016; it became the second university to do the same when it won back-to-back championships in the Price moot in 2016 and 2017.[34][35]
Law reform[edit]
SMU students have given representations at various law reform efforts, including during the Constitutional Commission's hearing on the elected presidency[36] and the Select Committee's hearing on deliberate online falsehoods.[37]
Research impact[edit]
The faculty have appeared as amicus curiae before courts in Singapore and overseas.[38][39] The faculty have also authored various leading texts regularly cited by the courts, such as The Law of Torts in Singapore by Gary Chan and The Law of Contract in Singapore by Goh Yihan et al.
In the QS World University Rankings by subject, the school was ranked 101–150 for Law and Legal Studies from 2013 to 2016 and 2019.[40]
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Inclusion criteria?[edit]
Simply put, what are the criteria for inclusion on this template? They should at the least be recorded on this talk page, and not off on some other page.oknazevad (talk) 06:31, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
The current criteria is the 30 largest airports by passenger enplanements on this list. This could be changed, to say, any airport designated "P-L" (primary large hub) by the FAA, however.
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I think that would indeed be a better criteria. either way, its good to actually have a record of the criteria here, not on a distant page.oknazevad (talk) 21:45, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
It does say as a hidden comment on the template. Either way, sounds good to me. I think that's a better criteria.
Okay, so if that's the criterion, why is MDW left off? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.245.207.102 (talk) 15:02, 25 June 2012 (UTC)
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Memphis???[edit]
Since MEM is the hub for FedEx, it is one of the busiest airports in the world. It should be on the list!
Not on the FAA-designated P-L list. Why it isn't, you'd have to ask the FAA. oknazevad (talk) 17:01, 11 March 2013 (UTC)
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So I'm being bold and removing the second list of airports on the bottom of the navbox.
Yes, it's alphabetical by IATA code. But the IATA codes are already listed parenthetically after the names in the first list. To include such redundant links is usually not done in navboxes; the only analogous example I can think of is navboxes for radio stations in metro areas, which link both by the frequencies and by the call signs, but in those cases call signs are unlikely to be recognized by people outside the area, and neither are particularly descriptive. More importantly, the one set of links doesn't include the same information as the other set of links, that is the call sign doesn't appear next to the frequency or vice versa.
So I really don't think we need both sets of links here, and feel the full names make for a better set of links. oknazevad (talk) 17:01, 11 March 2013 (UTC)
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You are as agile and energetic as someone in his twenties. So how did your wonderful journey into Kuchipudi start?
My love for Kuchipudi dance started when I was very young. I was probably 4 years. Kuchipudi dancer Yedavalli Rama was our neighbor. I used to go to her house and watch her dance rehearsals and come home to do what I saw, repeating in front of the mirror. My father being a playback singer in the film industry knew Guru Vempati Chinna Satyam. Once when he asked me to dance what I knew, I danced what I had seen and then Master asked my father to admit me in his dance class at Kuchipudi Art Academy. It was 3 December 1973 when I first started learning my first adavu.
You have an incredible achievement; wonder if you yourself really ever thought about it. Learning from the legend is a blessing indeed. Yet another blessing it must be to have been the dancer chosen to play the most challenging role as Lord Shiva. The world knows how exacting are Master’s standards and how meticulous he was in demanding the best from his students.
(With a smile...) Having learnt the adavus thoroughly for many years and being slim and tall, master chose me to do the role of Lord Shiva in his dance drama Srinivasa Kalyanam in the early eighties after almost 10 years of hard training. The 10 minute lasya tandavam along with Parvathi performed to perfection with my senior colleague Bala gave me an opportunity to impress people with whatever little talent that I had imbibed from Guruji's teachings. My journey started off from there. Even though initially with very little knowledge of what I was doing being a young boy, slowly I started living the role. Every program was an experience performing the role of the dancing deity.
When I turn back and see, it is almost 32 years of donning the role of Lord Shiva. I don’t think I have scaled Everest (I had compared his achievement earlier to scaling Everest) by doing this role for several years because it is not a right comparison as I am a simple human being getting opportunity to do the mighty role of Lord Shiva. Every show is a lesson to learn. As a dancer I feel very lucky that I am able to perform the role to the best of my knowledge.
After performing the title dance for Hema Malini's Noopur serial and immediately getting an opportunity from Hemaji asking me to perform the lead role of Shiva in her magnificent ballet Durga with Sathi, Parvathi and Durga being performed by Hemaji herself was a big surprise. Today, having performed more than 400 shows with this dancing diva, I feel very happy and elated and thank my parents and my Guru Dr. Vempati Chinna Satyam for their blessings and gratitude to Hemaji for having confidence in me to carry on doing a role which is always a dream to all dancers.
Do you realize that there is perhaps only one more dancer who stands close to this achievement of playing a role so consistently well and over long duration in the recorded history of Kuchipudi in the modern era...Guru Vedantam Satyanarayana Sarma!
I do not want to be compared to stalwarts as I always feel I am in the learning process and every performance of mine is a lesson and an experience to better my dancing skills. I have learnt a lot of things pertaining to dance while dancing with Hemaji in presenting a particular role to perfection. Every show is a penance for a dancer and practicing for every show is a must.
As we continued our discussion further, he invited me to his house where I was able to see pictures of his performances with Hema Malini. There is also an impressive picture of Lord Krishna, yes of Murthy. A phone call from a documentary filmmaker alerted him of his next appointment for the day. Our discussions made me realize that the modern and commercial times have to respect and honor our committed artists much more.
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New model suggests source of spectral broadening in liquid water
Vibrations of short-lived and heterogeneous hydrogen bonds are the likely cause of unresolved spectral features.
Liquid water is awash in molecular chaos. Individual water molecules constantly rotate and rearrange as they forge and break hydrogen bonds with their neighbors. This bustle blurs the intermolecular modes that recent spectroscopic measurements have struggled to resolve, and microscopic theories based on molecular dynamics simulations have failed to predict the precise source of this spectroscopic smearing.
A new paper by Sidler and Hamm presents a model that suggests an origin for the observed mode broadening, arguing that it is the inhomogeneities in the stretching of intermolecular hydrogen bonds that are most likely responsible.
At the molecular scale, rapid bond reconfiguration tends to make each bond look the same on average, while heterogeneous structural changes to the hydrogen-bond network are only apparent on short time scales. Prior models could not distinguish between the two—both of which can broaden the THz and Raman spectra probed by two-dimensional spectroscopy.
The researchers developed a simple model that treats each bond as an anharmonic oscillator and builds in both sources of broadening from the beginning. Using just six independent parameters, the model showed good quantitative agreement with the spectroscopic response of water measured in experiments.
Hamm says it’s surprising that the spectrum seems to arise in the way it does, since it implies that the heterogeneous network of hydrogen bonds lives long enough to be resolved. The authors suggest that their model could help refine the understanding of the information that can be extracted in future spectroscopy experiments.
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Reference: Sidler, D. and P. Hamm (2019). Feynman diagram description of 2D-Raman-THz spectroscopy applied to water. J. Chem. Phys. 150: 044202 (10.1063/1.5079497) Sidler-2019
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After Epic Season Finale, “Steven Universe” Is Just Getting Started
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“Steven Universe” is a favorite here at Nerd News Today, and that season finale from a few months ago still has us rocked. It could have been a series finale the way it wrapped up, but thankfully it won’t be. Many things came to a close but there are certainly some new loose threads hanging around, and that means the show is now free to take a deeper examination of the titular protagonist.
On a recent episode of Cartoon Network’s official Steven Universe podcast, series creator Rebecca Sugar and former co-executive producer Ian Jones-Quartey discussed how the season finale “Change Your Mind” is really a new starting point for Steven Universe as a character:
The thing about Steven Universe is that it’s a coming of age story and this is something that he had to figure out in order to start making decisions for himself. Throughout the show, it’s actually been very difficult to write Steven because he puts others in front of himself and his motivations are so tied in with what he thinks other people want—what he thinks his mother would have wanted, what he thinks the Gems want, and who he’s supposed to be.
This is where we finally break that all down. He can’t be distracted by any sort of “supposed to.” It doesn’t exist for him and he doesn’t have to be what other people want or expect him to be.
Jones-Quartey added:
I don’t think it’s a spoiler to say that this specific arc of Steven’s, like “Change Your Mind” definitely makes a definitive statement on Steven and who he is and what he thinks he is and how he feels about it. Moving forward, everything’s going to be different.
No new details were revealed about what to expect from the next season or when it will air. At least we only have less than a year to wait for the Steven Universe movie, which is also still shrouded in mystery.
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Jobs, Jobs, Jobs in the O-zone
Well, the official score came in just before Big Guy left for Camp David:
Jobs: 0
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So it’s a tie.
Big Guy didn’t have a chance to comment on the box score since he had a father-daughter date at Camp David.
And if a person were to believe in omens, this might be considered a bad one: first Big Guy and Wee Won Two were diverted to Fredrick Maryland from the helipad at Camp David due to “weather conditions.” They completed their trip by motorcade. Although there was some speculation that it was just to avoid the Press - since the diversion was actually planned before they ever left the Big White, butt the media was not advised. Others have far more nefarious explanations. (H/T Kathy)
Anyway, then, yesterday afternoon, some idiot flew his private plane into restricted airspace over the Camp and had to be escorted out by an F-18 fighter jet.
I don’t think he’ll do that again!
Big Guy sure doesn’t need all these distractions while he’s busy working on his jobs, jobs, jobs plan.
And then the fairy job mother appears…
Lady M didn’t go with BO and Sasha yesterday morning. She’s still mad at Big Guy for reasons I’m not at liberty to discuss butt may or may not have to do with his/her drinking habits. Don’t worry though, she and Wee Won One will be joining the rest of the family at Camp David about an hour before Big Guy has to leave on Sunday for his Presidential review of hurricane ravaged New Jersey and his big Labor Day troop review (union, not military) in Detroit. The speech will be a mini-preview of the BIG speech to Congress, so don’t miss it. Plus, Aretha Franklin is going to be his opening act! And Pug Trumka will be this year’s mascot for Detroit’s annual Labor Day parade!
No wait, that’s not right:
This year’s Detroit rally and Presidential appearance is brought to you exclusively by the AFL-CIO.
Dick Trumka: delivering for the AFL-CIO since January, 20, 2009
Anyway, the bad news just keeps piling on. After Big Guy’s retreat on the ozone standards yesterday, it looks like we’re going to have to talk the enviro’s in off the ledge. We surely are not use to this kind of talk, at least not from our own side:
“Many MoveOn members are wondering today how they can ever work for President Obama's reelection, or make the case for him to their neighbors, when he does something like this, after extending the Bush tax cuts for the rich, and giving in to tea party demands on the debt deal,” Ruben said in a statement. “This is a decision we'd expect from George W. Bush.”
What ever made these people think that Big Guy would oppose anything in the O–zone?
Any hoo, Lady M is getting rested up for her big role in ensuring Big Guy’s reelection. She’ll be ready to go as soon as the DNC comes up with the right incentives. As we speak, her agent is negotiating over the final details. The sticking point seems to be Lady M’s demand that she get a percentage of the total box office campaign take. Butt once they explain the questionable legalities of that arrangement to one of the brightest Harvard Law School graduates of all time, I’m sure they will all be able to settle on a suitable work-around.
And we’ll be ready to select our new campaign wardrobe and hit the trail. Committed to WTF since 2008.
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Apparently Big Guy really doesn’t know how to play poker.
Butt he sure does look like he knows what he’s doing!
He didn’t use the exact words this time, butt never-the-less he sent John-Boy the message: “don’t call my bluff.” This time he was talking about rescheduling his joint session of Congress “jobs, jobs, jobs” speech. Butt old John’s been playing cards a lot longer than Big Guy and, recognizing an amateur’s hand, went ahead and called him anyhow.
So Big Guy had to throw down his cards. Now he finds himself on TV Thursday night - up against Kid Rock and Lady Gaga’s pre-game send up of the NFL season kickoff, and the Big White staff is furious.
It’s gotten so bad that JJ is beginning to develop an involuntary tick/sneer with his left lip. Watch, beginning around the 12 second mark. If he can’t develop a better game-face for defending our team’s tactics he may have to be benched:
Big Guy thought he could finesse the hand he was holding by pulling an “unprecedented” move and simply declare the date and time he would address Congress. Oh,oh! Apparently that’s not how it works, at least not constitutionally speaking:
The fact is a president cannot schedule a joint session of Congress on his own hook. He simply does not have that power Constitutionally. He must ask the Senate majority leader and the speaker of the House of Representatives if the date he is requesting will work. Such a date has to be agreed upon by Congress before announcements are made. Obama did not do this.
It may be time for Big Guy to admit that he doesn’t know much about poker (or the constitution), and stick with something he’s better at. Like sending emails to his true believers:
At 10PM on the night of August 31, Obama’s reelection campaign sent out an email titled “frustrated.”
“I know that you’re frustrated by that. I am, too,” the email had Obama “saying” to his supporters.
The email goes on:
It’s been a long time since Congress was focused on what the American people need them to be focused on. That’s why I’m putting forward a set of bipartisan proposals to help grow the economy and create jobs — that means strengthening our small businesses, giving needed breaks to middle-class families, while taking responsible steps to bring down our deficit.
The president continued: “I’m asking lawmakers to look past short-term politics and take action on that plan. But we’ve got to do this together.
This whole joint session date dance was obviously engineered to make the GOP look like they are obstructionists for the president’s obviously selfless desire to get America back on track and the Old Media did its best to assist Obama to parlay that feeling.
Really, it was just so they would know that he felt their pain.
So, with the move to Game day, Big Guy has been forced to go on air at 7:30 EDT, requiring his California team to listen on the radio since they’ll still be stuck in traffic on their way home. He really had no choice once he decided to reschedule his own game-changer speech; he sure didn’t want to get called for a delay of game too.
In other important email news, Big Guy just authorized the launch of our official answer to the Tea Party assault: the Obama 2012 We The People campaign. He had Plouff-Daddy send out this email to his loyal minions explaining how our grass roots populist propaganda pogrom will work:
We're about to change the way Americans engage with President Obama and his Administration by launching a new way for you to join with fellow Americans to petition the federal government on a range of issues.
It's called We the People and you can learn more about it, and sign up to be the first to know when it's live here.
President Obama believes that government should be open and accountable to its citizens, and that's the goal of We the People. This online platform gives Americans a direct line to the White House on the issues and concerns that matter most to them.
Soon, anyone will be able to create or sign a petition at WhiteHouse.gov seeking action from the federal government on a range of issues. If a petition gathers enough signatures, the White House staff will review it, make sure it gets to Obama Administration policy experts, and issue an official response. President Obama will even answer a few himself.
While this is a big change for the White House's website, the idea is actually written into our founding documents. Throughout our history, Americans have used petitions to organize around issues they care about. We the People gives you a new way to join together with others to ask your government to address a problem, change a policy, or take action on a range of issues.
We the People will be launching very soon so start thinking about the issues that matter to you and the people you'll ask to join you.
We're looking forward to hearing from you.
David Plouffe
Senior Advisor to the President
P.S. Help us spread the word about this new tool by forwarding this email to ten friends. And remember, if you want to learn more about We the People and be the first to know when it is live, head to http://www.WhiteHouse.gov/WeThePeople
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H/T pipedream
According to the Blaze:
The White House unveiled a new online tool Thursday intended to help individuals petition the government. The new “We the People” feature, accessible on WhiteHouse.gov, is, according to White House director of digital strategy Macon Phillips, “a new way for your voice to be heard in our government.”
Per We the People’s features, if a petition garners enough signatures — 5,000 names within 30 days – the White House promises lawmakers will review it and that the White House will craft an official response.
I think our new Digital Propaganda Czar, Macon “Bacon” Phillips will be a very, very busy man if we’re going to respond to every petition with 5000+ signatures. And fortunately since he’s working on “official government work” his overtime will be paid by the Federal government instead of the Obama for America campaign fund. We need to watch every penny of that billion dollar campaign chest!
Little Mo (not an official government employee and therefore not required to carry any water around here) can’t wait for the official start up of the “We the People” campaign. He has already drafted his first petition:
“We the People petition the President of the United States, Barack Hussein Obama, to fulfill his promise to Matt Lauer that ‘if I don’t have this done in three years’ it will be a one term proposition. Accordingly, we the people call on President Obama to resign as of January 20, 2012”
I don’t know, I think this campaign has the potential to backfire.
Do any of you have petitions you’d like to launch?
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The Essence of Lady M: She’s Black and Beautiful! WTF?
You’ve probably heard the exciting news about Lady M gracing the cover of the October issue of Essence. The only question in many people’s minds was “which nose would she be sporting?” Well the suspense is over: it’s nose # 3.1 – nearly the newest, although 3.2 is still in the beta mode.
Also on display, along with our famously toned guns will be all of the the other, ahem, “reimagined” enhancements: some real, some computer assisted.
New and improved since this PSA cover for AARP was shot
You may recall how disappointed we all were last December when the much anticipated Vogue cover shoot was cancelled. Well, now that we’ve made the big time, Lady M said that “Those people at Vogue can just go straight to hell!”
From the Essence article:
“My story to young people around this country and around the world is: Don’t look at me as the First Lady first; look at me as Michelle Obama, a girl who grew up on the South Side of Chicago. Because I was there, and this is attainable. There is no magic to this. It is hard work….”
Exactly! If you can get enough people working on HOPE and CHANGE for your husband’s campaign, the sky’s the limit!
In the article, “The Leading Lady,” she reflects on what she calls the “big, bright light” of her power as First Lady -- and she shares her mission to impart a critical message to young women: that where she is now is attainable with hard work.
At least I think she’s talking about the hard work on the campaign. It’s possible she’s referring to all of the personal “transformational” work she’s done herself.
She recounts her emotional trip to Africa, providing exclusive images for ESSENCE readers which document her various stops and what they meant to her personally.
Unfortunately, the Judicial Watch investigation into that trip may prove to be even more emotional than the trip itself.
Butt what really caught my eye when I was reading the Lady M piece was another article on the Essence website: 50 Reasons Black Women are Beautiful.
What struck me was how Lady M embodies so many of these 50 reasons herself. Here are just a few examples:
#8 “We play to win.” (Venus Williams)
Pretty self-explanatory.
#9 “We’re straight up.” (Janet Jackson)
With respect to the “black is beautiful” meme: excuse me, butt hasn’t Janet Jackson had more work done to erase her beautiful black features than anyone other than her dearly departed and peculiarly distorted brother?
And what’s up with the steroid-rage arms on these chicks?
#11 “We are creative beyond measure” (June Ambrose)
“creative beyond measure” for sure
Creativity ‘R Us
# 48 Cornrows accentuate our natural God-given beauty. (Cicely Tyson, 1973 before the braces.)
While Lady M doesn’t do corn rows (a bit passé) both she and Cicely do like to channel their inner Cindy Lou Who.
Oh, and Lady M also shares Cicely’s flare for jewelry:
#2 We love hard! Beyonce
Whatever that means. (Are those “slave” earrings she’s wearing!?) Anyway, Lady M is hard to love loves hard too.
# 23 Our faces can carry major lashes (Diana Ross)
As long as your lashes don’t extend further than your hairdo, you’re rockin’.
These two are still my favorites though:
#15 We break barriers every day (Josephine Baker)
It’s all in the wrist work: singing and dancing are optional.
# 29 We can be glam tomboys (Queen Latifah)
Maybe we went a little too far with the gangsta’ look? Butt It’s still a good look when you feel like throwing your weight around.
#40 We’re mentors, ready to guide a young person Beyonce – again!
Because she’s such a great role model for young girls.
We all remember how Beyonce teamed up with Lady M to dance away kids’ fat behinds to the tune of her “Get me Bodied” hit (With modified lyrics of course since the original are rather, uh, adult.) Really, could you find two better role models for young girls? They both embraced the American Dream in their own way. Of course Beyonce, not being as smart as Lady M, has to work a lot harder in order to have it all. Butt I’m sure she won’t mind having Big Guy and Lady M spread her wealth around – in order for them to live their American Dream.
Anyway there’s tons more reasons why Black is Beautiful, and most of them apply to Lady M so go check the rest out yourself. If you have absolutely nothing else to do.
H/T Fausta
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More Blogger Problems
It appears I can post without pictures butt for whatever reason, Blogger won’t post my Lady M update today. (Doug Ross had problems earlier this week, it looks like it’s my turn in the barrel. At least the whole blog hasn’t disappeared! Yet.)
Continuing to effort a resolution. Hope to be posted soon.
If the Economy’s Wrecked, You Can’t Re-elect. Verdict: GUILTY. WTF?
Is it any wonder Big Guy has been looking so haggard lately:
Not only is his end-of-summer book report due right after the Labor Day holiday, butt now we’ve just identified yet another constitutional role that falls on the shoulders of the Federal government: instruction on appropriate honoring of the dead at memorial services. You wouldn’t think that sort of instruction would be necessary, butt on second thought…
BO/MO, posthumous Medal of Honor ceremony for Sergeant First Class Jared Monti
Step one, according to the Boston Herald is to look sad. We seem to have been practicing that part, and pretty much have it nailed.
Just pretend you have to come home from vacation a day early
So is it any wonder we haven’t had time to deliver our Jobs, Jobs, Jobs! speech yet?
Also distracting from our important agenda this week: false reports alleging that Big Guy did not really ride on his Big Black Bus during his infamous Mid-west heartland tour. I have evidence that not only is this report not true, butt that Big Guy was actually driving the bus himself:
photo credit: BKeyser
“Whoa! What’s this? Another dead-end? Does anyone know how to drive this thing”
Although we must be doing something right, because I see that Mexico’s President Calderone has taken a page right out of the official Obama Playbook and blamed American consumers for Mexico’s continuing drug wars:
Mr. Calderón made "an appeal to the society, the Congress, and the government of the United States" asking them to "reflect on the tragedy that Mexico and many Latin American countries live through, in large part, as a consequence of the insatiable consumption of drugs" in the US.
So apparently someone is paying attention to our tactics. Coincidentally, el Presidente is running for reelection next year too. Unless someone changes his mind.
Butt enough news from the political world. Closer to home, you may remember that FOM and MOL Clarice has been subpoenaed to sit on a grand jury right here in our nation’s capital. She of course can’t discuss the matter brought before the grand jury, butt I can!
Grand juries as a rule make the Wons a little nervous, butt since this one was called hot on the heels of the Judicial Watch and the trolls at Fox News complaint about Lady M’s little road trips, you would think that maybe Lady M would really be all wee-weed up about it. Butt no; she remains remarkably calm; almost comfortably numb.
My sh** detector circuit when berserk when I heard about it though, so I decided to do a little sleuthing. I have now learned from my secret source (Little Mo), that although there are 6 individuals being investigated, only one will be brought before the grand jury initially. If an indictment is obtained in the first case, a rapid cascade of indictments will be issued subsequently in a manner that will send shock waves throughout the country.
In the first case, prosecutors will seek to indict - are you ready - a Ham Sandwich!
The as of yet unindicted co-conspirators have been identified in court documents only as Cheese 1, Condiment 1, Leafy Vegetable 1, Vegetable 2 and Sugary Soda 1.
Specific charges against the Ham Sandwich remain sealed, butt it is reasonable to speculate that they will include RICO charges, because everybody brought before a grand jury is accused of violating some aspect of the RICO act. Other charges include violation of the Federal “hate crime” Act because the Ham Sandwich is made with a pork product, clearly not halal and therefore sending a hateful message to the Muslim community, violation of “animal cruelty” laws because it is unapologetically not a vegetarian sandwich, and finally, violation of the “child abuse” Act because it can, and has, contributed to the development of a child’s fat behind.
Wow! No wonder they say you can indict a ham sandwich!
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Mining exploration in Mexico hits 12-year low
Cecilia Jamasmie | May 9, 2019 | 9:58 am Precious Metals Latin America Gold Silver
Peñasquito gold mine in Mexico. (Image: Newmont Goldcorp via Flickr.)
Investment in mineral exploration in Mexico hit a 12-year low last year, due mainly to social conflicts that forced some companies to halt operations, according to a report published this week by the country’s mining chamber, Camimex.
Around $383 million was invested in exploration in Mexico last year, down 37.4% from the $612 million registered in 2017
Foreign and local companies invested about $383 million exploring in Mexico in 2018, down 37.4% from the $612 million registered in 2017, official data shows. The sum also represents a 67.1% drop from an all-time-high of almost $1.2 billion reached in 2012.
While juniors’ difficulties accessing finance also played a role, the Canadian Chamber of Commerce (Cancham) in Mexico says actions such as the one-month blockade of Newmont Goldcorp’s Peñasquito gold mine and the ongoing obstruction to MAG Silver’s project in Chihuahua have weighed in.
“In general, the economy of extortion is a factor of uncertainty for mining activity,” Cancham’s president, Armando Ortega, told El Economista.
Source: Camimex | Graph: MINING.com.
Only about 25% of Mexico, the world’s No.1 silver producer, has been explored for mineral and oil riches so far.
The figure may not grow much in the next few years, as President Andres Manuel López Obrador has promised to increase scrutiny on miners’ environmental practices and treatment of Indigenous people.
Roughly 70% of foreign-owned mining companies operating in Mexico are based in Canada, according to Global Affairs Canada.
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Matt Dujay
On Your Mark, Get Set... BALLS!
Another semester of ball-filled events at the University of Calgary has come to an end. This year Oneball UCalgary launched Testicular Cancer Awareness Week to promote the need for self-checks of testicular cancer in males.
It's time to #GIVEANUT
“My friends and I would always joke about blue balls, but I didn’t think it was an actual thing,” says Tim Schultz, a 19-year-old from Grand Prairie who was diagnosed last month with a condition known as Hyacintho Pilas, commonly known as ‘Blue Balls’.
Got balls?
When talking about getting him neutered, we asked questions like how will this affect his growth? Will his personality change? What if he (we) wanted puppies one day? I was actually very scared about someone operating and removing a part of him, even though there were many very good reasons for him to get neutered. But how could I do this to my little puppy? Much to my own surprise, this experience really got me thinking about my own experiences with having balls removed and how it has impacted my life.
Cancer-Patient Database Analysis Leads to ...
Currently, testicular cancer patients receive medical follow-up for many years after undergoing chemo-therapy. The latest research findings indicate that this follow-up may no longer be necessary after two years. In 2012, Oneball supported and funded a proposal to create a database and registry of patients with testicular cancer where medical professionals could assess patient outcomes, prognostic factors and better delineate clinical questions that are were unclear. The latest research study to use the database was the Conditional Survival of Patients with Metastatic Testicular Germ Cell Tumors Treated With First-Line Curative Therapy, which found that CT scans are no longer needed for testicular cancer patients two years after undergoing chemo-therapy.
Super Ball Recap
This year Oneball expanded its fundraising efforts for the Super Bowl, which is better known as the Super Ball to Oneballers. While the main event was still at Hudsons Downtown, we had several betting games at the Crowfoot and Shawnessy locations of Hudsons as well. Through the 85 people at the Downtown location and the betting games at the other locations we were able to raise over $5,300!
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Former health minister Paul Burstow joins MHP
Will provide strategic advice and support to itsclients and staff
MHP Communications' Rachel Rowson and Paul Burstow
MHP Communications has added former UK health minister Paul Burstow to its roster of advisers in a role that will see him provide strategic advice and support to its clients and staff.
Burstow was minister of state for health between 2010 and 2012, and MP for Sutton and Cheam until this years' election.
He joins other senior MHP advisers, including ex-Home Secretary Charles Clarke and former BIS and Defra Permanent Secretary Sir Brian Bender, and will work primarily with the agency's Health practice.
Rachel Rowson, head of health at MHP Communications, said: “Paul is an experienced, knowledgeable and well-respected figure within the health and care community, so I am thrilled that he will be working as an advisor to our industry-leading team.
“The rapidly changing health and social care environment poses complex challenges for our clients so having a fresh communications approach combining policy, media and campaigning is vital.”
During his time at the Department of Health Burstow focused particularly on care services with a brief that included care for the elderly, adult social care, mental health and learning disability programmes.
He has also chaired two major independent commissions on mental health and on the future of residential care and is currently leading the Right Place, Right Time Commission for NHS Providers examining transfers of care.
Burstow said: “I am delighted to be working with MHP. Their style of working and problem solving approach is pragmatic and refreshing.
“The team really puts patients at the heart of what they do, bringing together a range of stakeholders helping us to understand how we can create a more sustainable health system in this country.”
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GJA Condemns Death Threats Against Anas
The Ghana Journalists Association has condemned death threats against ace investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas following his latest work on football corruption in Ghana.
In a statement signed and issued by the GJA President, Mr Roland Affail Monney on Wednesday evening, the GJA said the several pictorial images which have been posted online, television and on social media purporting be that of Anas is not Anas.
"These images, which are not the real identity of Anas, tend to put the lives of other persons at risk and this must stop forthwith," the GJA statement said.
The GJA called on the security agencies not to allow aggrieved and disgruntled individuals to endanger the life of Anas, "who, at a very young age, has rendered very invaluable services to the nation."
Below is a copy of the GJA statement
Anas Aremeyaw Anas Needs Police Protection Against Death Threats
It has come to the attention of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) that internationally-acclaimed investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas has received many death threats following his latest investigative piece on the game of football in Ghana, which is scheduled to be premiered in Accra on Wednesday, June 6 and Thursday, June 7, 2018.
According to sources close to the ace investigative journalist, apart from receiving messages containing threats of death, some unidentified persons have been tracking his office and other locations ostensibly to harm him.
Several pictorial images have been posted online, television and on social media. These images, which are not the real identity of Anas, tend to put the lives of other persons at risk and this must stop forthwith.
The GJA finds these developments extremely disturbing and highly unfortunate. We, therefore, urge the Ghana Police Service, Bureau of National Investigations and other security agencies to, as a matter of urgency, and in the utmost national interest, provide a 24-hour protection for Anas and all his interests, including his family and properties.
The security agencies should not allow aggrieved and disgruntled individuals to endanger the life of this patriotic citizen of Ghana, who, at a very young age, has rendered very invaluable services to the nation.
We appreciate the fact that investigative pieces of this nature always arouse passion, emotions, anger and even hatred. However, regardless of one’s feelings, whether good or ill, under no circumstances must one deviate from the rule of law to tread on the path of impunity and engage in an assassination mission. Instead, one must resort to the law courts to seek redress to anything one finds untoward in such matters.
Whatever be the case, Chapter 13 of the GJA Code of Ethics fully justifies the means by which Anas conducts his investigative works on the ground of national interest.
The GJA wishes to remind the nation of Ghana’s enviable first position on the World Press Freedom Index 2018 and the enormous economic benefits it holds for the nation.
This achievement was not procured on a silver platter; it was earned through our collective resolve to promote press freedom in the country, as captured under Chapter 12 of the 1992 Constitution. In that same spirit of unity of purpose, we must collectively resist acts, much less death threats on journalists that have the tendency to undermine our press freedom status and collective good.
Even before the premiering of the undercover expose, Anas’ investigative piece has already generated international interest. And so it is important for us to conduct our affairs in a manner that would bring dignity, not disgrace, to Ghana. The whole world is watching us.
Affail Monney
Source: Graphic.com
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Presenting the Sustainable Industry
By Tina Caparella
In 2015, the National Renderers Association (NRA) formed a committee to examine how best to present the North American rendering industry as the sustainable industry it is to regulators, customers, world leaders, and the general public. Over the past year, committee members have worked diligently to develop parameters that best depict the four main principles of rendering sustainability:
1. Produce safe animal food.
2. Practice environmental stewardship and operate efficiently.
3. Care for local communities and employees.
4. Help feed a hungry world by providing nutritious feed ingredients for animal production by recycling responsibly.
The steps taken to show the industry’s sustainability were presented in October at NRA’s 83rd Annual Convention on Amelia Island, Florida. They comprise of promoting industry-wide data on rendering’s low carbon footprint, joining the U.S. Sustainability Alliance, and working with livestock groups to ensure rendering is included in their sustainability models. Dr. David Meeker, NRA scientific services, suggested that renderers track their own data using tools NRA has developed to confirm improvement in their own sustainability goals and then promote the results. NRA has developed a white paper on the industry’s sustainability for renderers to share (posted here).
As part of meeting the socially responsible aspect of sustainability, NRA once again held an auction at the convention to raise funds for Canine Companions for Independence, a non-profit organization that provides assistance dogs to United States (US) war veterans across the country. A variety of items were available for bidding and at the close of the auction, $25,000 was raised for the Canine Companions for Independence Wounded Veterans Initiative.
One growing area of interest where rendering already plays a sustainable role is in reducing food waste. NRA President Nancy Foster informed members that legislation has been introduced in Congress that would provide loans and grants to municipalities for anaerobic digestion and composting of food waste. Although the bills most likely won’t advance this year, NRA educated one bill’s author, Maine Representative Chellie Pingree, about rendering who appreciated the knowledge and decided to reintroduce her bill next year. NRA has vowed to work on providing assistance on drafting any food waste bill.
“Also expect to see food waste addressed in the next farm bill in 2018,” Foster warned.
Michael Koewler, Sacramento Rendering Company, informed convention attendees that the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, or CalRecycle, has earmarked $100 million per year for the next 10 years aimed at reducing methane and food waste in the state through anaerobic digestion. California renderers have told CalRecycle that rendering already reduces both but since the agency does not regulate rendering, renderers cannot partake in the subsidized program.
Other matters discussed at the convention included the US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) waters of the US rule. Steve Kopperud, SLK Strategies, shared with the NRA Environmental Committee that Congress has tried six times to force EPA to withdraw the rule and rewrite it, but President Barack Obama has said he would veto any bill as this is part of his legacy on environmental issues. Many states and industry groups have sued EPA over the intrusive regulation.
“We will continue to fuss about it but the rule will end up in the Supreme Court next year,” warned Kopperud.
NRA’s Biofuels Committee Chairman Doug Smith, Baker Commodities Inc., noted that continued low heating oil prices have kept biodiesel producer profits down while the industry awaits EPA’s final rule on Renewal Fuel Standard volume requirements for 2018. The rule is currently at the Office of Management and Budget and was expected to be published by the end of November. Kopperud predicted that Congress will pass a biodiesel tax extenders bill tacked onto another bill by the end of this year as has happened in the past.
“Don’t expect to see any major changes, like making it a producer’s credit,” he commented. Foster alerted renderers to a bill introduced in Congress by the oleochemical industry that would exempt animal fat from the biofuels tax credits. NRA opposes the bill as it is discriminatory and is concerned it might slip in at the last minute attached to another bill.
Meeker updated members of the Animal Protein Producers Industry Committee (APPI) on the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) that saw its first compliance date in September. He said of the 6,000 animal feed and feed ingredient facilities registered with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), just over 1,000 individuals have been certified as “preventive control qualified individuals” as required by FSMA. Within the rendering industry, over 100 individuals have been certified to date out of 250 facilities.
APPI Committee Chairman Dr. Ansen Pond, Darling Ingredients Inc., said training of FDA and state inspectors is of utmost importance but the agency has only held one training thus far. FDA asked to conduct a joint training with industry so committee members voted to invite federal/state FSMA inspectors to APPI’s North American Rendering Industry Code of Practice training session in June 2017.
Pond developed several white papers on thermal validation explaining why rendering process temperatures are appropriate to destroy Salmonella and other pathogens. NRA is looking to have these papers published in a peer-reviewed journal. Pond also wants to identify the benefits APPI brings to the rendering industry and develop a strategic plan for the next four to five years.
“It is a very different environment than it was 10 years ago,” he noted, especially with FSMA now in place.
An Interrogator, Farmer, and Meat Producer Went to a Rendering Convention
NRA’s convention featured several notable guest speakers, including Eric Maddox who, as a staff sergeant in the US Army, conducted over 300 interrogations in Iraq in 2003 and collected intelligence that directly led to the capture of Saddam Hussein. He explained that his interrogation technique is about listening.
“When you sit across from a human and can increase your ability to really listen, you become the ultimate problem solver,” Maddox shared, adding that a person only listens to 25 percent of what they hear primarily due to internal and external distractions. The biggest distraction is listening to respond.
“We need to learn to listen through empathy without distraction,” Maddox stated.
Chuck Conner, National Council of Farmer Cooperatives and former deputy secretary of agriculture, discussed three issues and the “elephant in the room”: genetically modified organisms (GMO), trade, regulations, and the 2016 presidential election. He noted that the agriculture industry is only about two percent of the US population but was instrumental in guiding a workable GMO bill through Congress.
“Senate Bill 764 was a victory for science over social media,” Conner declared. As for the election, he said the biggest challenge for the next president will be the budget. The US Congressional Budget Office and the Office of Management and Budget predict that by the year 2031 just four programs will consume the entire budget of the US government: Medicare/Medicaid, subsidized healthcare, social security, and interest on the nation’s debt.
“Entitlement reform is a must,” Conner declared.
Randy Blach, CattleFax, presented his annual US and global livestock industry report that renderers look forward to at each convention. The past year presented no big surprises in US raw material supplies with the cattle market able to maintain its current inventory going into 2017. Blach showed that beef production is up 5.8 percent from last year, poultry production up 3.0 percent, and pork production up 1.2 percent. He remarked that late 2012 going into early 2013 was a tough time for livestock producers because of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus, the drought, and $8-a-bushel corn, but cattle inventory is now on the rise with total herd size forecasted to be nearly 8 million head larger by 2018-2019 than in 2014. Cattle weights continue to be higher but are moderating at an average 893 pounds. Regionally, cattle on feed is shifting away from the Southwest and California and moving into the central region, especially into Kansas.
Blach pointed out that US pork exports are up 4 percent with a lot of new pork processing plants coming online, increasing 6 percent by the fall of 2017 and 8 percent by 2018.
“Those are big numbers,” he stated. Poultry exports are also up 4 percent. “The poultry side has been pretty consistent and has gained a huge share of the beef market in the past 25 years,” Blach commented, adding that meat and poultry consumption overall continues to rise in the United States.
As for global livestock production, beef has seen slow growth over the past 10 years but is forecasted to increase 1.4 percent next year while poultry production will be up 2.6 percent and pork up 1.0 percent. The United States is the largest poultry and beef producer followed by Brazil. Collectively, both countries produce nearly 48 percent of all global protein. Although China is the number one pork producer, the country’s production is on a downward trend while other regions (Brazil, European Union, Russia, and United States) are slightly higher.
Blach finished up by mentioning that crude oil and tallow prices are still tracking together, although tallow is higher. With crude oil inventories plentiful, he doesn’t see prices going above $60 per barrel in the foreseeable future.
Barry Carpenter, North American Meat Institute (NAMI), focused on challenges the meat industry is facing, including recent studies declaring that red meat causes cancer and processed meat “probably” causes cancer.
“These conclusions are hazard analysis-based, not risk analysis-based,” Carpenter stated. Another challenge is the use of antibiotics in food animals as consumers lump all antibiotics into one group. Some in the industry are moving away from antibiotic use but NAMI supports the prudent and judicious use of antibiotics in food animal production to maintain the highest standard of animal welfare practices.
“There is a real need to educate the consumer on antibiotics,” Carpenter noted. “That is a tough challenge.” NAMI is working on building industry transparency to reach millennials and squash some of the bad myths about meat production by posting educational videos on YouTube, social media interaction on Facebook and Twitter, and creating infographics.
Trade is critical to meat producers and agriculture as it keeps industry on a level playing field with foreign competitors, Carpenter commented. Currently, US beef has a 38 percent tariff imposed by Japan, dropping to 9 percent in 16 years, while Australia already enjoys a lower 11 percent tariff.
Overseas markets are important to US renderers as another outlet for their finished products besides domestic consumption. NRA’s International Market Development Committee focused on various trade issues at the convention beginning with Kent Swisher, NRA international programs, reporting that Singapore is the biggest global importer of tallow and Australia is the largest exporter of tallow at 473,800 metric tons. US tallow exports are down by over half from 2010 highs at 407,000 metric tons in 2015 but are now being shipped to Singapore for Neste’s renewable fuels facility. Swisher said that use of rendered fats and greases as feedstock in biodiesel and renewable diesel across the globe is growing. In 2010, 2.2 million metric tons (MMTs) were used in the European Union, United States, Brazil, Canada, and China. Forecasts for 2016 show about 6.6 MMTs will be used worldwide with Europe consuming nearly 3.2 MMTs, the United States using 1.2 MMTs, and China turning 1.1 MMT of used cooking oil into biodiesel. In the United States, 80 percent of used cooking oil/yellow grease production was used in global biofuels in 2015.
Peng Li, NRA regional director for Asia, announced that the first shipment of US tallow has arrived in China after the market reopened earlier this year, but more effort is needed for registration of renderers, importers, infrastructure for storage and transportation, and end users such as soap manufacturers. In Taiwan, a ban remains on ingredients from meat, bone, and blood of all species of terrestrial animals in countries with bovine spongiform encephalopathy; however, US feather meal and tallow are allowed to be imported and US porcine plasma is exempt from the ban. Li pointed out that Indonesia is a stable and important market for US renderers who export.
German Davalos, NRA regional director for Latin America, said the association is working with two large feed groups in Mexico to export US ruminant meat and bone meal into the country. The pet food and poultry markets are growing in Mexico so imports of competitively-priced feed ingredients are needed as the country is deficient in raw materials. Costa Rica is now allowing imports of US ruminant meat and bone meal while other Central American countries are still working on regulations to formally do so. Davalos stated that exports of US animal protein meals to Latin America have increased 227 percent since 2003, from 64,492 metric tons to 211,000 metric tons in 2015.
Bruce Ross, Ross Gordon Consultants, reported that the Federation of Oils, Seeds, and Fats Associations (FOSFA) in Europe has put used cooking oil and used cooking oil methyl esters on its list of “banned immediate previous cargos.” The federation claims the action is over concern on the “lack of transparency and traceability of used cooking oil origination.” NRA protested the action to FOSFA, which was rejected. In addition, changes to Europe’s Renewable Energy Directive after 2020 would most likely eliminate the double-counting of waste oils such as used cooking oil. NRA is now working with US allies to ensure the best market conditions for used cooking oil as a feedstock for biofuels in Europe. US renderers exported 150,000 metric tons of used cooking oil to the region in 2014, 130,000 metric tons in 2015, and 113,000 metric tons in the first nine months of 2016.
Reports from other parts of the world provided US renderers with a snapshot of the global industry. Niels Nielsen, president of the European Fat Processors and Renderers Association, reported that renderers in Europe are still struggling due to a feed ban. Presently, only non-ruminant processed animal proteins can be fed to fish. Before proteins can be included in poultry or swine diets, the European Commission wants a reliable method to test finished feed, although renderers want protocols in place to test feed ingredients. Andy Bennett, Australian Renderers Association, explained that China has not yet lifted its ban on Australian poultry meal following an avian influenza outbreak in the country three years ago. In addition, a concern in the Indonesian market is a decree deeming the use of European Union processing conditions for all animal protein meals.
“If this was implemented, the majority of [Australian] traders would be unable to supply product,” Bennett announced. He then confirmed that Neste’s renewable fuels refinery in Singapore has become the major destination for Australian tallow followed by China, Taiwan, and Pakistan. Australia is seeing a slight drop in beef and sheep slaughter due to drought while poultry and pork production is higher because of increased consumption.
Lucas Cypriano, Associacao Brasileira de Reciclagem Animal (ABRA) in Brazil, shared that it has been a busy year in his country with the Olympics held this past summer, ABRA celebrating its tenth anniversary, and corruption in politics being eliminated.
“It’s a completely new country, changed by the people,” he declared. “We’ve learned that complaining works.” On meat production, in 2015, beef dropped 3.1 percent while poultry increased 3.6 percent and swine rose 6.2 percent with forecasts for slight increases in all meat segments this year. Brazilian renderers currently process 12.3 MMTs of raw material – 57.6 percent beef, 32.2 percent poultry, 6.8 percent swine, and 1.2 percent fish – into 2.0 MMTs of fat and 3.3 MMTs of protein meals. Although 141,000 metric tons of Brazil’s meals are forecasted to be exported in 2016, very little animal fat is since it is used in biodiesel, currently mandated at a 7 percent blend rate with Brazil’s petroleum diesel and scheduled to increase to 8 percent in March 2017.
Cypriano has been working on an animal carcass collection program with Brazil’s government for more than three years that is finally moving forward. The earliest the program could be implemented is in 2018 with the potential of 1.7 MMTs of raw material available. There is much support from Brazil’s agriculture department, livestock producers, and the biodiesel industry, which could benefit from more than 300,000 liters of fat per year from these animals. The challenge is whether the government will allow the resulting protein meal to be used in animal feed or if the collection of carcasses will be only a public service.
NRA’s next convention will be held October 23-27, 2017, in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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Containing the Possible
Political overtones are hard to ignore in an ambitious eight artist show at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, says William Kherbek
Konrad Smolenski ŚMIERĆ / THE DEATH 2009 Image courtesy Galeria Leto Copyright the artist
Pippy Houldsworth Gallery is exhibiting an ambitious eight artist group show entitled Containing the Possible. Group shows create strange ecologies as different works mark their aesthetic territories. This analogy is not idle; from a critical perspective, thinking about group shows can resemble a type of folk science. Coincidences of subject matter or material usage can prompt spurious associations and presumptions of patterns where they are not intended—or particularly welcomed by—given artists. In the case of Containing the Possible, it is hard to keep politicised readings of the works from bubbling up.
Benedict Drew’s piece, Drone, this is less problematic. The work consists of a print of a drone (or, to use the military’s preferred term “unmanned aerial vehicle”) placed over a speaker which is attached to a nearby DVD player. The speaker emits a sound one expects is quite familiar in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of the Pakistani frontier with Afghanistan. It all seems quite innocuous, which is, presumably, part of Drew’s point. The seductive banality of the image and the sound mirrors the quiet way terms like “drone strike” have insinuated themselves into our vocabulary.
Konrad Smoleński’s video work Śmierć/The Death is a more problematic case. Smoleński’s film centres on a burning wooden sign reading “ŚMIERĆ” as it is slowly consumed. The sign sits in a field next to a railway track. It’s a strangely hypnotic six minutes as you watch the letters blaze and decompose.Though there was nothing overtly political in the work, it too seemed to have an aura of protest about it. I doubt that would be how Smoleński would see it, but such are the vagaries of the group show.
“The speaker emits a sound one expects is quite familiar in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of the Pakistani frontier with Afghanistan”
Somewhere in between Smoleński and Drew’s sensibilities is the work of Jörg Obergfell who has a forlorn,arresting photographic triptych in the show. The work shows a plastic bag suspended on a stick in an empty street that could pass for—and very possibly is—Canary Wharf at the weekend.
Deserted pavements, streets and sleeping office buildings surround this bleak little flag. It feels like a requiem for the last thirty years of hyperfinance, and in that sense, it couldn’t be timelier, but there’s enough
humour in the neatness of the image to keep it from being reducible to mere politics. It’s a difficult trick to manage, steering between the Scylla and Charybdis of social engagement and sloganeering, but Obergfell manages it deftly.
There were performances on the opening night and, in truth, they were far less effective than the static works. Jirĭ Kovanda’s work Fence, in which a man cuts off the hem of a woman’s skirt as she stands obediently still and then places the resultant fabric on a plinth, loses some of its mystery
in the performance of the act, but the finished product somehow redeems it.
Jenny Moore’s fragmentary, at times too self-regarding, performance of a Proposal for a Rock Opera is unlikely to receive backing unless Max Bialystock is in town. Again, the instruments and projector with which she performed the work had enough presence on their own. Why kill a good idea by realising it?
Containing the Possible shows at Pippy Houldsworth from 5th July to 1st September
Words William Kherbek
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Bullz-Eye’s TV Girlfriends, Round One: Hot and Smart
Posted by David Medsker (01/30/2009 @ 12:10 pm)
Our inspiration was innocuous enough: as fervent “24” watchers – and occasional haters – the entire Bullz-Eye staff fell head over heels for one of the terror thriller’s female leads. Smart but challenging, tough but vulnerable, every minute that she wasn’t on screen – provided Jack wasn’t killing or maiming someone, of course – was just wasted time. Eventually, we declared her to be the official girlfriend of Bullz-Eye, because she was the only girl we could all agree on. We’re talking, of course, about…
Chloe O’Brian.
What, you were thinking Michelle Dessler? Nina Myers? Kim Bauer? First Lady Sherry Palmer? Mandy the bisexual assassin? Good guesses all, but none of them hold a candle to Chloe and her delightfully quirky “personality disorder,” as her supervisor Bill Buchanan succinctly put it. Once we had christened her, though, we wanted more girlfriends. Eventually we went all “Big Love” on the boob tube (oh man, do we deserve to be slapped for that one) and started appropriating women from dozens of shows to join our burgeoning harem.
And now, our harem is having its debutante ball, its season premiere, if you will. We have hand-selected 100 women from the last 40 years of television and put them into ten categories, based on personality type, career, intelligence (or lack thereof) and even marital status. We’ll unveil a new list each month, and you, gentle reader, will tell us which ones you would most like to have as your girlfriend. Once we’ve whittled the list down to one girlfriend from each category, we’ll pit them against each other and get the hell out of the way.
With that in mind, it is our great pleasure to introduce the first group: Hot and Smart.
Liz Lemon (Tina Fey, “30 Rock”)
With her quirky sense of humor, social ineptness and those sexy librarian glasses, Liz Lemon may be the only true-blue nerd on our list. That, of course, is anything but an insult. As the head writer for NBC’s “TGS with Tracy Jordan,” Liz doesn’t have a whole lot of free time to date, and even when she does go out, chances are she’ll figure out a way to sabotage the whole thing. But Liz’s foibles merely make her that much more endearing, even if the incessant “tick-tick-tick” of her internal clock understandably makes us a little nervous. Then again, there are worse things in life than settling down with an attractive, intelligent and successful woman who loves junk food, “Star Wars” and a good joke. Her boss, Jack Donaghy, still suspects that Liz may be a lesbian, but we’re not ashamed to admit that the mere possibility only heightens our interest in her. Plus, she kind of looks like the beautiful (if slightly crazy) Sarah Palin.
Dr. Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson, “The X-Files”)
Smart, tough, beautiful – Scully is an insecure man’s worst nightmare. She challenged and contradicted Mulder at every turn, and even though she was usually some version of wrong, it never deterred her. Always the skeptic, she somewhat grounded her partner by demanding some sort of logic and scientific proof. Wrangling Mulder was like herding cats, but Scully might have had a little feline in her as well – she avoided death on several occasions leading to the theory that she was, in fact, immortal. It’s more likely that she was just too stubborn to die. She stared down countless psychopaths, supernatural beings, aliens — you name it — and always came back for more. This quality — her fierce and undying loyalty — was her greatest trait. True, the woman could be a giant pain in the ass, but Fox always knew that she would have his back, and that’s why he eventually fell in love with her. And really, who can blame him?
To see the rest of Bullz-Eye’s Hot & Smart TV Girlfriends and vote for your favorite, click here. We will announce the winner – and the nominees for our next group, Pretty, Vacant – on Friday, February 27.
Posted in: Actresses, TV, TV Action, TV Comedies, TV Dramas, TV Sci-Fi
Tags: Amy Acker, Bullz-Eye, Bullz-Eye TV Girlfriends, Carol Hathaway, Christine Sullivan, Colleen McMurphy, Dana Delany, Dana Scully, Dr. Lisa Cuddy, Fred Burkle, Gillian Anderson, Hot and Smart, Jennifer Marlowe, Jeri Ryan, Julianna Margulies, Lisa Edelstein, Lisa Miller, Liz Lemon, Loni Anderson, Markie Post, Maura Tierney, Seven of Nine, Tina Fey, TV Girlfriends
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#1878 #S1053 - El Borracho, Seattle - 9/1/2011
El Borracho ("the drunk") is a new Mexican place in the space of the old Pan African along 1st Ave in the Pike Place Market. It is run by Kittie Davidovich of Le Bon Ton Roule, who has said she is after a sort of taco truck kind of place. There is a wide range of pretty good taco truck style tacos (including lamb, shrimp, pork, fish, beef, and rabbit) and a nice choice of margaritas.
1521 1st Ave, Seattle, WA 98101 - (206) 538-0440
Est. Aug 2012
Previous bars in this location: Pan African Market
Reviews: seattlemet - thestranger - yelp
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#1877 #S1052 - Ballard Station, Seattle - 9/1/2011
The Ballard Station Public House is a substantial upgrade in maturity in both management and drink quality from the shortlived Ballard Avenue Pub. The cocktails are quite good -- I especially liked the Sundance Kid (Old Overholt rye, lillet and Cynar) -- the vibe is casual and welcoming, and features nods to both Ballard history and traditional British pubs.
2236 NW Market St, Seattle, WA 98107 - (206) 999-5600
Est. Aug 13, 2012 - Building constructed: 1927
Previous bars in this location: Ballard Avenue Pub
Web site: theballardstation.com - facebook
Best Reviews: myballard - seattlemet - thestranger - seattleweekly - yelp
#1876 #S1051 - Borsalino's, Seattle - 8/29/2011
Update: Borsalino's closed in Feb 2013.
For the past decade or so (2001-2011), this was Romio's Pizza, in the odd castle-like building just south of the University Bridge and across the street from the original Red Robin Tavern/Restaurant. In October of 2011, it was modernized into Borsalino's, which included upgrades to more high quality food stressing organic ingredients. The remodeling did not go so far as to replace the signage outside, but instead drapes some quickie banners over the railing. The bar and the food both seemed fairly pedestrian -- a decent alternative if you happen to be nearby, but nothing notable enough to draw from a wider area.
Historical (and personal) notes: In addition to serving as a furniture store and art gallery, this castle-like building has hosted the Town House Restaurant in the 30s, the Llahngaelhyn jazz and coffee house from 1965 to 1968, Rapunzel's Tavern from 1975 to 1985, and the Scoundrel's Lair (and "Club Fiasco") briefly in the mid 80s. Scoundrel's Lair was booked by Jon Poneman of SubPop, and was one of the few pre-Nevermind clubs that booked alternative bands, including small touring national acts like the Cowboy Junkies and Dead Milkmen, as well as local bands like Green River, Soundgarden, The Melvins, Pure Joy, Room 9, Cat Butt and Girl Trouble. In addition to seeing several of those bands there, I remember a particularly rocking night with the Royal Crescent Mob, and also one night there when I first really talked to the woman who would become my wife (after meeting at the Central Tavern before a Sonic Youth show).
3242 Eastlake Avenue East Seattle, WA 98102 - (206) 323-4444
Est. Oct 2011 - Closed Feb 2013 - Building constructed: 1916
Previous bars in this location: The Town House, Rapunzel's Tavern, Scoundrel's Lair
Web site: borsalinospizzapasta.com
Reviews: thestranger - eastlakeseattle.org (building history) - yelp - urbanspoon
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#1875 - Marko's Place, Roslyn, WA - 8/25/2011
Marko's is a very old, very laid back, and a bit artsy. It's under fairly new management, which has upgraded the beer choices. It has a mix of art on the brick walls, a pressed tin ceiling, and a grand old oak back bar. The sign says that it was established during prohibition, in 1931, and while it is unclear when it became a legal bar, it seems highly likely that this was shortly after the federal Beer and Wine Revenue Act took effect in April 1933. Two daughters of founder Marko Korich, Mary and Eva, have left audio recordings describing their father buying the place around the start of the decade and selling wine he made in the basement as well as bootleg whiskey though prohibition. While at the bar I also chatted with Alex, now 84, who remembered sneaking into the bar when he was 11-- i.e. in 1939. (Alex's hearing is not what it used to be; when someone asked "Do you have email?" he responded, "Have female?")
The 1937 Polk Guide lists a bar owned by Marko Korich, but at the address of 13 1st N. I'm fairly confident this was the same building, because we already know that Roslyn changed the street numbering scheme along this street, as The Brick, now listed at 100, was listed at 1 in the 1930s and 40s. In addition, Marko's daughters allude to the bar being in the same building the entire time.
The sisters also mention that Marko purchased the bar from a Mr. Bruno, and a 1913 Polk Guide lists a bar owned by Bruno & Filberto. This listing does not include an address, but it is intriguing to consider whether it is the same location.
In any case, it's a friendly bar, with a nice patio area, fairly basic liquors and beers. The new owner is working on fixing up the back patio area, where locals used to play bocce ball 70 years ago.
(There are some very old looking bar tokens for Marko's out there.)
106 North First Street, Roslyn, Washington 98941 - (509) 649-2349
Est. 1931 (bar since at least 1933?)
Web site: facebook
Best Reviews: dorandbob - yelp - tripadvisor
Labels: Back Bar, Highest Recommendation, History
#1874 - Arnie's Horseshoe, Ellensburg, WA - 8/25/2011
I do not know how old the Horseshoe is, but a 1970 article in the Ellensburg Daily Record describes it as being sold to a new owner in 1918 (this account may not be entirely correct, as it describes that year as "a year before prohibition became law," and prohibition was in effect in Washington state Jan 1, 1916). Also, there is no bar listed at this address in either the 1937 or 1949 Polk Guides (I did not check under other business types), however there is one listed in 1911 under "Whitman & Lee" and again in 1913 under "C E Whitman."
In any case, the article recounts a storied history, back to the days when bars on the street were open 24-hours and the owner did much of his sales in gold. As was not unusual northwest bars in the late 19th and early 20th century, the Horseshoe also appears to have served as a bank, payroll office, and employment office -- e.g. distributing payroll to thrashing crews.
The current version of the Horseshoe positions itself as a sports bar, but more closely resembles a class, rural dive, with hunting trophies, paraphernalia for watery, corporate beers, and stickers sporting dopey jokes. Some of the latter evince a bit of the douchebag element that currently tends to hang out there ("Are all women on the rag the same day?" "Speak English or get the fuck out"). It can sometimes have a high BBCS (Backwards Baseball Cap Score), but most the folks there seem pretty agreeable.
106 West 3rd Avenue Ellensburg, WA 98926 - (509) 925-4044
Est. ? (1911 or earlier?)
Reviews and articles: Ellensburg Daily Record - yelp - urbanspoon
Labels: Dive
#1873 - The Palace Cafe, Ellensburg, WA - 8/25/2011
Ellensburg may be the best town in the state for old bars, and as you are reminded by a number of signs, the Palace Cafe has been around since 1892. It existed in a couple different locations until opening in the current space in 1949. However, it is not clear how long the cafe has also featured a saloon. The drinks are pedestrian, but it's got a nice vibe with lots of historical photos. And while it is not quite an alley entrance (always a welcome sign for a bar), there is a sort of back door side entrance that most the bar patrons use.
323 North Main Street Ellensburg, WA 98926 - (509) 925-2327
Est. ? (Restaurant est. 1892, in current location 1949)
Web site: thepalacecafe.net - facebook
Reviews: tripadvisor - yelp - collegehotsheet - urbanspoon
#1872 - Fat Cat's, Walla Walla, WA - 8/25/2011
Okay, I did not do a good job searching for the interesting bars in Walla Walla.
430 West Main St, Walla Walla, WA 99362 - (509) 529-8233
Reviews: insiderpages - yellowbot - tripadvisor - yelp
#1871 - Bojack's Broiler Pit, Lewiston, ID - 8/25/2011
Named for original owners Bob and Jack, who for some reason decided to put a steakhouse restaurant in the basement of a rollicking dive bar upstairs, Bojack's is a local institution. It was founded in 1951, purchased by Wally and Katie Eglund in 1969 (the restaurant that is, they bought the bar later), and run by the Eglund family ever since. The bar upstairs is fun, if a little intimidating for some diners to traverse, and there are nifty signs on either side of the building. Locals recommend the Bite Sized Steak (tender deep fried pieces of steak).
311 Main Street, Lewiston, ID 83501 - (208) 746-9532
Web site: bojacksbroilerpit.com - facebook
Best Reviews: inland360 - yelp - tripadvisor - urbanspoon
#1870 - Brodock's, Grangeville, ID - 8/25/2011
Although it was staffed by nice people, this bar in Oscar's Restaurant seemed boring and formulaic when we visited, with the vibe of an Applebees. But I've seen a few Oscar's reviewers who complained about all the noise coming from the bar, so we clearly did not come at a good time to judge.
Grangeville, Idaho is the largest town in Idaho County, at the base of the state's pan handle. It arose in a large meadow at the edge of the Nez Perce National Forest -- traversed by gold prospectors whose fortune seeking was not to be slowed by the treaty granting the Nez Perce control of the area. It was incorporated in 1889 and now has a population of around 3,000 people. Brodock's is the most genteel of the handful of bars in town.
101 E Main, Grangeville, ID - (208) 983-2106
Reviews: localtom - tripadvisor - yelp - travel.yahoo - beerandwhiskeybros
#1869 - The Establishment, Grangeville, ID - 8/25/2011
"The Establishment" was admittedly our second choice in Grangeville, after finding our original target, "Earnie's Man Cave," closed. Earnie's was marked by the name formed in rope light above the door, signs on the door itself only partially obscuring the old NAPA Auto Parts signs, and a confusing sandwich board that listed the hours as "Open 1am to close."
So confused and disappointed, we wandered down to The Establishment, "North Central Idaho's Premier night spot." That it may be, as one bitter online reviewer includes among his complaints that the (fairly sizable) place is "way too small for the crowd that it draws, especially in the summer time." But on this lazy Saturday afternoon, it was just us and a bored bartender.
142 E. Main St, Grangeville, ID 83530 - 208-983-1830
Reviews: bermtopia - lewisclarknightout - travel.yahoo
#1868 - The Silver Dollar, White Bird, ID - 8/25/2011
White Bird, Idaho, is named for the chief of the Lamátta band of the Nez Perce, a leader in the Battle of White Bird Canyon, where in 1877 the Nez Perce routed the U.S. Army in the opening skirmish of the Nez Perce War. Although White Bird's resistance continued beyond the surrender of Chief Joseph (attributed with the line "From where the sun now stands I will fight no more forever"), the U.S., of course, eventually prevailed, in what an 1877 New York Times editorial described as "On our part, the war was in its origin and motive nothing short of a gigantic blunder and a crime." (1)
In the current town of White Bird, population 91, down the canyon along Old U.S. Highway 95, is the Silver Dollar Cafe and Saloon. You walk in under a baggie of water hanging over the door, which people believe keeps away flies. The saloon is in front, where a woman with a beehive hairdo serves strong, cheap drinks. Through the saloon is the cafe, where locals play cribbage and refresh their coffee at the self-serve stand. The locals do not immediately cotton to out-of-towners, and it takes a while to find who might eventually warm up to chat with you. We didn't find out how long the Silver Dollar had been around, but apparently an old version burned down, and this one was rebuilt around 1951.
100 Old US Highway 95 White Bird, ID 83554 - (208) 839-2293
Est. 1952 - Building constructed: 1951?
Reviews: barflyzen - earthwormenvy - richardbiking - yelp
#1867 - Summerville's Cafe and Bar, Riggins, ID - 8/25/2011
The small town of Riggins, Idaho lies deep in a canyon, just west of the deepest gorge in north America (the Snake River Canyon) and in the shadows of the Seven Devils Mountains, which the Nez Perce once said were seven giant, child-eating monsters. It is also at the confluence of the Little Salmon and the Salmon Rivers, the latter the longest free flowing river in the contiguous 48 states, with it's portion to the north long known as the "River of No Return." It is the Salmon that makes this old gold miner's town double in population in the summer months, and claim title to the whitewater capitol of Idaho, or of the "universe," depending upon who you talk to. It is a far cry from the days when the town was originally named "Gouge Eye," after a tussle between two gold miners at odds over the affections of a local woman.
Despite the tourists, the town of 500 or so residents is happily free of chain restaurants, and the few local watering holes might have an expansive area for hosting large numbers of visiting bikers and rafters, fronted by a cozy area attended regularly by the locals and peppered with photos of various citizens with their hunting and fishing trophies. This is the case with Summerville's Cafe, and it was in the small bar area that we met old John, a throwback to the times when gold miners first settled in the area in the 1850s. John looked the perfect example of a mountain man, with his bushy beard and missing ring finger he'd lost when his ring caught in some large machinery.
And indeed John actually moved into the area to pan for gold, and lived there with a fat, diabetic mutt he named "Dog," which he was nursing through various infirmities. Despite John's gentle nature and our pleasant conversation ranging from highway routes to cell phone carriers, we could barely have imagined a more perfect bar stool companion for evoking the days of old Gouge Eye.
106 S Main St, Riggins, ID - (208) 628-3311
#1866 - Paradise Burgers, McCall, ID - 8/23/2011
Update: The gates of Paradise are now permanently closed.
This is an odd sort of paradise -- somewhere between a fast food joint, a sports bar, a classic diner, and a teen hangout. The small, limited bar doesn't have any particular attractions to recommend it, but the place has personality.
319 North 3rd St, McCall, ID 83638 - (208) 634-8377
Reviews: yelp - tripadvisor
#1865 - Salmon River Brewery, McCall, ID - 8/23/2011
Salmon River Brewery is a nifty little craft brewery and pub in McCall, Idaho. Although they are just a block off the highway, you need to know where you are going, as people would never see it in normal driving around McCall. But once you find it, you'll have some very good beers, an eclectic choice of food from sushi to elk burgers (recommended), and a warm, funky atmosphere. The pub has that feel that the best cabins have -- built one section at a time with a hodge podge of random parts and decor assembled from personal collections and friends. There's a nice beer garden out back, with horseshoes and live bands.
SRB is run by two couples, Matt & Jennifer Hurlbutt and Matt & Ellen Ganz, who use local ingredients and work on promoting the community. Their pub is a welcome relief from the bland corporate development in various parts of McCall.
300 Colorado St, McCall, ID 83638 - (208) 634-4772
Est. Feb 27, 2009 (Brewery est. 2008)
Web site: salmonriverbrewery.com - facebook
Reviews: link - yelp - ratebeer - beeradvocate - tripadvisor - urbanspoon
Labels: Highest Recommendation
#1864 - Double Eagle Saloon, Donnelly, ID - 8/23/2011
Dave and Kathy's Double Eagle Saloon is a new cafe and lounge serving American classic comfort food and standard cocktails in a location that used to be Vigilantes Restaurant and Lounge. The "Double Eagle" portion of the name is a tribute to two members of the ownership team who are retired army colonels.
263 Main St., Donnelly, ID 83615 - 208-325-4005
Previous bars in this location: Vigilante's
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Romios Gold's Metallurgical Test Hole at its Galore Creek Area Newmont Lake Property Cuts Bonanza Grade Mineralization Grading 753.00 g/t (21.96 oz) gold, 462 g/t (13.47 oz) silver and 0.69% copper
Bonanza Grade Mineralization contained within a 14.01 metre (45.95 feet) zone grading 26.44 g/t (.77 oz) gold, 21.36 g/t (.62 oz) silver and 0.21 % copper
Toronto, September 22, 2008 -- Romios Gold Resources Inc. (TSX-V: RG) announces that a metallurgical test hole drilling program at its Newmont Lake property in the Galore Creek area of northwestern British Columbia has intersected bonanza grade gold and silver mineralization grading 753.00 g/t (21.96 oz) gold, 462 g/t (13.47 oz) silver and 0.69% copper over a core length of 0.44 metres (1.45 feet) within a breccia zone. The extremely high grade mineralization is contained within a wider 14.01 metre (45.95 feet) mineralized interval that assayed 26.44 g/t (.77 oz) gold, 21.36 g/t (.62 oz) silver and 0.21% copper.
In addition to the zone of very high grade mineralization, the hole intersected two other gold intervals. The hole cut 3.02 metres (9.90 feet) from 43.13 metres to 46.15 metres assaying 7.11 g/t (.21 oz) gold, 11.28 g/t (.33 oz) silver and 0.08 % copper. An additional intersection was cored from 70.01 metres to 74.71 metres, for a total of 4.70 metres (15.40 feet), that assayed 3.22 g/t (.09 oz) gold, 29.23 g/t (.85 oz) silver and 0.13% copper.
The metallurgical hole was located in the central part of the North West zone resource and drilled as part of the 2008 exploration program to a depth of 246.58 metres (809 feet). It intersected several gold-silver-copper trends (see Table 1 for details) over distinct zones of sulphide and magnetite mineralization associated with silicification and brecciation.
Preliminary metallurgical testing is being carried out to evaluate metallurgical recoveries of gold, silver and copper mineralization contained within the deposit. All drilling was done with conventional NQ diamond drilling (47.6 mm core diameter) and assaying was carried out by ALS Chemex of Vancouver. Assays in this release are reported as uncut values. As a matter of sampling procedure, selected core intervals from each hole were split in the field using an electric-powered core saw and then the samples were hand-delivered to Chemex's lab at Terrace, British Columbia for preparation and then forwarded to Vancouver for analyses. In addition to the laboratory's quality control program, a rigorous on-site quality assurance and quality control program was implemented by Romios involving the insertion of blanks, standards and splits.
Romios has drilled a total of seventeen holes during its 2008 exploration program. Eleven holes have been drilled at the North West Zone, including three metallurgical holes, and six holes have been completed at the Trek property. This release concludes the reporting of assay results for all of the metallurgical holes. Assay results are still pending for the exploration holes at the North West Zone and the Trek property and will be released as they become available.
Based on the information from drill logs, a recently completed computer modeling program related to the North West Zone and an examination of drill core, the widths of the intersections are assumed to be true widths.
Tom Drivas, President stated, "We are very excited about the bonanza grade mineralization intersected in this metallurgical hole. The extremely high grade mineralization is contained within a breccia zone, which has been identified in our other metallurgical holes as well as exploration holes completed this summer. This high- grade breccia zone will be targeted as we continue to define the resource at the North West Zone."
The North West Zone was calculated to contain an NI 43-101 compliant inferred resource of 1,406,000 tonnes at a grade of 4.43 gpt Au, 0.22% Cu and 6.4 gpt Ag or a gold equivalent grade (AuEq) of 5.16 gpt that was announced in a press release dated March 26, 2007. This equates to in-situ contained metal of 200,000 ounces of gold, 6,790,000 pounds of copper and 291,000 ounces of silver. These resources are reported at a base case gold equivalent cut-off grade of 2 gpt. Mineral Resources are not Mineral Reserves as Mineral Resources have not demonstrated economic viability..
The details of the main intervals of gold, copper and silver mineralization are summarized in Table 1 below.
From (m)
To (m)
Width (m)
Width (F)
Au g/t
Ag g/t
% Cu
The technical information contained in this press release has been reviewed and approved by Mr. Thomas Skimming, P. Eng., Geologist, V.P. of Exploration, Director of Romios Gold Resources Inc. and a qualified person as defined by National Instrument 43-101.
About Romios Gold Resources Inc.
Romios Gold Resources Inc., a progressive Canadian mineral exploration company established in 1995, is headquartered in Toronto and is actively engaged in precious and base metal exploration across North America with a primary focus on gold, silver and copper. Romios has significant property interests in British Columbia, Ontario and Nevada. The Corporation is undertaking extensive exploration work on its Galore Creek area properties in British Columbia, which are centrally located between Nova Gold's large gold-copper-silver deposit and Barrick's high grade gold mine at Eskay Creek.
Tom Drivas, President and Director: (tel) 416-221-4124, (fax) 416-218-9772 or (email) romios@romios.com
Thomas Skimming, Vice President of Exploration and Director: (tel) 416-444-0900, (fax) 416-444-0586 or (email) tmsk8ing@hotmail.com
The TSX Venture Exchange does not accept responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
Exchange Listings and Symbols: TSX-V:RG, NASDAQ OTC:RMIOF, Frankfurt:D4R.
25 Adelaide Street East, Suite 1010
Toronto, ON Canada, M5C 3A1
Tel: 416-221-4124, Fax: 416 218-9772
Website: www.romios.com
Contact: Tom Drivas, President
Email Address: romios@romios.com
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements:
This Press Release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties, which may cause actual results to differ materially from the statements made. When used in this document, the words "may", "would", "could", "will", "intend", "plan", "anticipate", "believe", "estimate", "expect" and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Such statements reflect our current views with respect to future events and are subject to such risks and uncertainties. Many factors could cause our actual results to differ materially from the statements made, including those factors discussed in filings made by us with the Canadian securities regulatory authorities. Should one or more of these risks and uncertainties, such actual results of current exploration programs, the general risks associated with the mining industry, the price of gold and other metals, currency and interest rate fluctuations, increased competition and general economic and market factors, occur or should assumptions underlying the forward looking statements prove incorrect, actual results may vary materially from those described herein as intended, planned, anticipated, or expected. We do not intend and do not assume any obligation to update these forward-looking statements. Shareholders are cautioned not to put undue reliance on such forward-looking statements.
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Visit JHeroes & my blogs:
Other Journalism, AEJMC News & Boblog.
Also bookmarks & @bobstep on Twitter.
It was originally more gateway than ego-trip. Now it's mostly historical. From 2004 to 2013, typing my last name in a browser to get here was a shortcut for students to access my now-defunct University of Tennessee website or, more recently, my Radford University pages for information about courses I was teaching in journalism, web design and related topics.
As of May 2013, I've retired from teaching to write, play music and generally be healthier and happier. The writing goes on in several places. Here's a summary:
JHeroes.com is short for "Newspaper Heroes on the Air," my book-in-progress, a blog and podcast about old-time radio's portrayals of newspaper editors, reporters and other journalists -- often heroic, sometimes not.
Other Journalism, my main blog about journalism, online education and related topics, began elsewhere in 2002, but migrated to Wordpress after the demise of its original hosting service (see my OJ blog archive).
At the AEJMC Newspaper Division, I have kept the group's original site for a decade, but added a blog-style AEJMC.us/news version to get more members involved. Summaries from its RSS feed should appear elsewhere on this page, after the "Other Journalism" headlines.
Boblog is my "for fun" blog (dating back to November 2001), and it is where I write about music, including a growing number of instruments in the ukulele family. The page's widgets echo a few of my delicious.com bookmarks and Twitter (@bobstep) posts in the margin, more new technologies that I encourage students to try.
I previously taught at Emerson College in Boston and the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, after getting two master's degrees at Wesleyan University and a doctorate at UNC Chapel Hill. At Radford, I became an assistant professor in fall 2007 as the university began a new RU School of Communication. I enjoyed it, mostly, but couldn't juggle the teaching load and my research the way younger faculty do.
Newspaper Heroes on the Air (jheroes.com) was my main research project for the past few years, and I'm still having a great time working on it. Stop in and listen to some old radio shows streaming from the page. You may find them even more fun than my musings on the relationship between fictional and real-life journalism.
About the layout...
Rather than redesign this whole (mostly archival) site, which used to have a two-column layout, I've shifted everything into a series of boxes that should display acceptably on mobile devices as well as large monitors.
The former right-column: RSS Feed Boxes | Links & Resources
This page demonstrates a lot of Web features that students learn about in my classes, including use of style sheets to position columns of type, images, media players and boxes full of headline feeds. This first box is mostly about the page itself and its modest author. It has links to other sites I've built and things I've written over the years.
The next stack of boxes (or right column, in one version of this page layout, which I change from time to time in class demonstrations and coding experiments) has a couple of feed-readers from my blogs, then several blocks of links to Web sites I use and recommend, including one that allows you to play my favorite old newspaper movies. (If you would rather just watch a movie than read any more, click the picture of Walter Burns and Hildy Johnson from the "'Dark Ages' of the newspaper game...")
I was an early fan of the One Laptop Per Child project and volunteered some wiki contributions documenting features of its little XO computer, which runs Linux software and a unique operating system called Sugar. Some of this page was created using the XO as a Linux terminal, to raise my sensitivity to small-screens, low budgets, and non-Microsoft products. (In fact, I don't always have a chance to test the latest version of this page with the latest version of Microsoft Windows Explorer. Let me know if you have problems with it.)
In August 2007 I added the Scottish tartan background to celebrate moving to the "home of the Highlanders" -- Radford University in Radford, Va. I joined the Media Studies Department, which merged into our new School of Communication a year later.
"Bob" (or "Robby") is short for Robert Bruce, and my becoming a "Highlander" might have some Glasgow ancestors smiling. Some even had the same name as a county next to Radford, my inspiration for using using one of the "Montgomery" clan tartans.
My mother's ancestors were Irish and would at least approve of the color. And my Polish relatives may be amused that the county across the river is named Pulaski. What's that song about "coming home to a place he'd never been before"? (Wrong song and mountains, but I'm getting the same feeling.)
Tools: This page is gradually migrating to up-to-date HTML5 and CSS, although there are still signs that it has been around for more than a decade.
Over the years, along with plain hand-coding of HTML, I have tried popular blogging software and keep demos around, as mentioned above. I used Radio Userland for seven years, but later returned to Blogger and WordPress.
I learned a lot about Drupal by building a Radford School of Communication site, since replaced by the university's decision to switch to a more expensive system called DayCQ5. A provider of free Drupal hosting that I used for classroom demos also has closed. Now the only remaining evidence of my five-year flirtation with Drupal is the page that was also my first try: a 2006 subscriber blog at the Knoxville community site KnoxViews.
Along with teaching news writing and online journalism for three years at UT, my best contribution was as a catalyst, convincing a terrific programmer to master the Django toolkit to create TNJN.com.
Before UT, I taught at Emerson College in Boston, where I started blogging. While belatedly finishing my dissertation, I joined the blogging group at Harvard's Berkman Center. Its blog server started out on Userland's Manila content-manager software before migrating to WordPress.
I've also used free WordPress servers at Blogsome.com and WordPress.com, which I recommend to students these days as a great starting place, along with Blogger.com.
Lots of links: My blogs and the right column of this page have long been ways to share links to interesting sites. My del.icio.us bookmarks do that in an even bigger way, with more than 1,000 links tagged with dozens of keywords for information categories you can combine. For instance, use http://del.icio.us/bstepno/django to see my links related to the site-construction framework by that name, or make that django+Holovaty for links related to a particular Django co-author.
Career & computers...
Until the late 1970s I pounded out news stories and college papers on Royal and Olivetti manual typewriters, but then The Hartford Courant put an IBM Selectric on my desk, followed shortly by one of its first Atex editing terminals. Ever since, I have been writing with and about computers, communication technologies, and the changes they have made in our lives. Even my research on media history and popular culture has relied on technology, most recently using blogging software to explore digital archives of newspapers, films and radio programs.
When I left the newspaper for Wesleyan University, my Atex experience inspired me to visit the computer center and learn to use its mainframe to reorganize hundreds of pages of field notes for an anthropology/ethomusicology master's thesis. Next, I bought one of the first microcomputers sold through the university, an Osborne 1, in 1982, finished the thesis, and took Russ Walter's summer computer courses in 1983.
Writing a newsletter for Wesleyan Osborne users and putting Russ's courses on the top of my resume landed me a job with a software company for a few years. Thinking about writing with computers (and how it was different from writing on paper) inspired me to do a 1988 master's essay about hypertext -- well before the Web spread that word around the world. Hanging out with MultiMate's programmers and at the computer center also had me interested in networks -- CompuServe, Prodigy, FidoNet, BiX, and the Wesleyan's connection to Usenet bulletin boards, as well as games like Adventure and Zork.
When a boating magazine made me a better job offer than the computer magazines I'd been freelancing for, I even found an excuse to write about networked boat owners using CompuServe and Usenet. Over the magazine's low-speed modem, I read Tim Berners-Lee's and Marc Andreesen's announcements about the Web and the X-Mosaic browser on the alt.hypertext Usenet newsgroup.
I wrote back, and was invited to beta-test the Windows version of Mosaic, but that would require a university-quality Internet connection, which the magazine didn't have. Ph.D., here I come.
Thanks to that one more trip to grad school, I have been publishing on the Web since 1994 in one form or another, at least trying to keep track of useful resources.
My beat had been "higher education" for most of my newspaper career, and I have been in and out of my own higher education ever since: Three times as a grad student (of culture + computers + communication) and then as a teacher, co-designing my first "Web" course as a teaching assistant in 1995 and teaching my first full course in 1998 at UNC Chapel Hill.
This "stepno.com" domain and home page aren't just an ego trip. During the school year, the link on top takes students to course material at Radford. (Some previous academic creations are archived at stepno.com/unc and stepno.com/ec.) The rest of this page makes a handy parking space for past, present and future projects, personal news, and a box full of links I use myself and recommend to others, as well as a few mild-mannered amusements. As the banner suggests, you can reach me by e-mail as my first name @ my last name.
If you're another Stepno, or looking for one, drop a line. (If you thought the "stepno" address was short for "step number," in either a computer-coding or 12-step sense, you're in the wrong place -- but feel free to look around.)
My main Web spaces
My old Other Journalism Weblog was for thoughts, notes and headlines about news reporting, personal and "pro-am" community journalism on the Web, demos of technical tricks, and (less often) photos and news of personal events. The blog's left column has links to essay-style pages that I update from time to time, usually to preserve link that might get lost in the calendar-accessed daily blog entries. Blogging itself can be an "other journalism," hence the name.
For several years I sorted out my newspaper-related blog items as a subset to link with the website I manage for a journalism educators' group, the AEJMC Newspaper Division. I've also saved my notes from my Digital Archives panel at the AEJMC 2006 national convention in San Francisco.
In 2003 I started listening to audio weblog "podcasts" and in 2004 I started thinking about having one of my own, as well as writing what I knew about the history of that new medium. I decided to make it a "hobby" site about folk music, rather than pretend to be in the news business, and called it "podfolk." The testing was a success, but I decided I had no time to record audio podcasts. The site continued as an infrequent text-only blog about music, a place to hang some of my photos of musicians, and a "maybe someday I'll get back to it" item on the to-do list.
In December 2010 I finally did launch a very different podcast, called JHeroes.com, already mentioned elsewhere on this page. The audio programs are hosted at the Internet Archive, so I just provide commentary and links.
My Red Liner Weblog takes its name from the site's Harvard-crimson motif and the MBTA subway I used to take to get to Harvard's Berkman Center for the Internet & Society for Thursday night blogger meetings. (See the disclaimer in the blog's right margin.) Originally, "Red Liner" was a combination of notes on issues that came up at Berkman meetings and an excuse to learn to use the Manila community blogging system. For a while it continued mostly for classroom demonstrations and special situations.
About Weblogs, my original year-2000 discussion page about the subject, survives, with many updates, as a sidebar to my main weblog. Newer pages there explain RSS Syndication, podcasting and video blogging.
AEJMC Newspaper is the home page I update now and then for the newspaper division of the Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication, along with the newspaper-related weblog items I mentioned above.
My old Boston-based "Resources for Reporters" collection of more than 1,200 Web bookmarks for my students, became a New England Society of Professional Journalists Resources database for a couple of years, but did not survive a change of SPJ sysadmins.
My Emerson College faculty archive of pages created for courses in the Department of Journalism and the Institute for Liberal Arts & Interdisciplinary Studies at Emerson. Here are samples of student work in my online journalism classes.
My grad school archive of pages built at the University of North Carolina School of Journalism & Mass Communication, 1994-1999.
Old News: After four years of teaching in "all but the dissertation" limbo, I officially became "Dr. Bob" on Dec. 21, 2003, the day of winter graduation at the University of North Carolina School of Journalism & Mass Communication in Chapel Hill. More "who am I?" biographical information is at the top of my earlier home page. My old freelance/consulting resume may be of interest to a few people.
Research and writing
An MIT conference paper based on a dissertation chapter about the visual evolution of WRAL OnLine.
A rediscovered ASCII copy of my 1988 Wesleyan University MALS master's project, "Approaching hypertext: Cognitive models and usability of an electronic book technology."
My oldest online "writing sample," a Hartford Courant feature story that was revived along with the New England Fiddle Contest. Contest organizers had both the story and a photo of mine in a press kit in 1980 -- and put them online 20 years later.
For a journalism history conference, I started digging into The Evening Graphic of the Roaring Twenties, and I'm still researching its themes of visual literacy, newsroom cultures, evolving ethics, and blurred lines between news and entertainment. That work led me to become an associate of the Image of the Journalist in Popular Culture project. I'm investigating the presentation of newspaper reporters in classic radio dramas, movies and novels, including some connected to the Evening Graphic.
Computers also blur lines between "real" and "virtual" communities. Those communities don't have to be as computer-oriented as engineers or bloggers. For example, I've written about online yacht clubs (for Soundings) and I've sung along with computer-assisted folksingers.
More stories, scattered across the past 30 years -- from PC World, Soundings, The Boston Globe, The Hartford Courant and its Sunday magazine. (Note: For a couple of those, you'll have to imagine the yellowing newsprint of the originals.)
Nuts and bolts: This page and those linked to it were created with a variety of computers and software, including an Android tablet and phone, and a (December 2007) cute little green laptop.org One Laptop Per Child machine in Linux terminal mode, as well as Macs and PCs with software including BBEdit and TextWrangler, Nvu, Notetab, Dreamweaver, Arachnophilia, Emacs, Pico (or Nano), and CMS systems including WordPress and the now-defunct Userland Radio. The network protocols SSH and Kerberos keep the connection secure, and have added to my Linux/Unix vocabulary.
Thanks to my friend Richard Silverman, former occupant of what we informally call "The Robert S. Stepno Chair in Mathematics" at Wesleyan University, for hosting this page and helping me learn to be a little more of a geek... (I wonder if my Dad's big brown chair is still in some math grad student's office?)
From my feeds...
Some favorite tools and places...
for searching...
Google.com usually finds whatever I'm looking for online, but I also visit Amazon's A9.com and other search engines. Know your sources: Whois can help identify owners of Web domains, while Who Owns What? identifies owners of mass media companies. The Center for Public Integrity lets you search for television, radio, cable, broadband and newspaper companies within ZIP code areas. Here's Radford
I use del.icio.us to make my bookmark list searchable using overlapping categories and keywords, but rarely have time to go back and delete dead links. Combine keywords with a slash and a plus sign, like this: del.icio.us/bstepno/radford+technology
Archive.org is a great place to find old Web pages, copyright-free music, and even classic films like "His Girl Friday" (left), my favorite newspaper movie.
Wikipedia offers anyone the opportunity to inform or misinform you, and you can do the same for them. Go to any page on a topic you know something about, then check its "history" and "discussion" tabs to see how the "facts" have changed.
Craigslist is almost everywhere, including Southwest Virginia, where Radford ads appear in both the Blacksburg and Roanoke sections.
news biz buzz
J-blogs: My own blue, green and red weblogs have never attempted to match Jim Romenesko's daily newsbiz news or Jon Dube's Cyberjournalist. EditorsWeblog has an international news business focus; the Lost Remote knows what's going on with television news online, and Editor & Publisher still keeps track of the newspaper industry, including its online incarnation. Paid Content, Smartmobs and J.D. Lasica's Social Media add online media perspectives.
Media watchdogs and support organizations: Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting, the Project for Excellence in Journalism, Investigative Reporters and Editors, the Center for Public Integrity, the Media Giraffe Project, and tthe Society of Professional Journalists.
And more: The Poynter Institute, PR Watch, the American Society of Journalists & Authors, the National Association of Science Writers, the Reporters Committee on Freedom of the Press.
Before the Web, we had to look for insider journalism news at the "JRs" -- American, Columbia -- to which you can add the Online Journalism Review: AJR, CJR and OJR.
Virginia news
I started to explore my new home in the summer of 2007, using Virginia news and Radford area news, via Topix... and...
The Tartan, Radford student newspaper.
RU Whim student magazine online.
New River Voice
New River Valley News
WVRU
BlueRidge Muse, a topnotch "citizen journalist" weblog in Floyd.
Washington Post Virginia politics page
InRich from the Richmond Times-Dispatch
... and more.
old news friends
My "own" news media: The Hartford Courant, Soundings, the Raleigh News & Observer, where my Web-editing adventures began at Nando.net, and WRAL OnLine, where I did my dissertation research.
In Boston my news bookmarks were Boston.com, the Boston Herald, Boston Phoenix, Community Newspapers, the Weekly Dig for an "alternative" edge, Adam Gaffin's Boston Online for local lore and news, and Dave Winer's ScriptingNews for the latest in the blog-tech world.
In Knoxville, my "visit daily" news links were KnoxNews, The Daily Beacon, tnjn.com (which I had a small hand in starting), the Metro Pulse, WUOT-FM (NPR), WBIR TV, WATE TV, WVLT TV, plus KnoxViews and the KnoxBlab.
blogs and feeds
While living in the Boston area, I was an early member of the Thursday night circle of bloggers that Dave Winer started at Harvard Law School's Berkman Center, a great introduction to blogs as more than personal online diaries or favorite-links lists.
A blogger formerly known as South Knox Bubba helped me find my way to Knoxville, where he had assembled a whole Rocky Top Brigade of Tennessee bloggers under an inspiring constitution, single malt and all.
"Daily Me" style feed aggregator services are now part of everything from Bloglines and Netvines, or my.Yahoo and i.Google, to most Web browsers.
For more about the history of blogs, RSS, podcasts, aggregators and more aggregators, follow the links in the left column of my weblog.
For comparison when a big story breaks, see the international collection of headlines at news.google.com. (It's an automated search, so expect some idiosyncrasies.)
Slashdot and CNet, both good for a technical perspective on the news. For information about information, I visit Resource Shelf, among other places that I may get around to listing here.
The Christian Science Monitor has thoughtful coverage of world and national issues.
For more world and national news, I check the BBC, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, USA Today, Reuters, The Irish Times, and The Yomiuri Shimbun (in English). Also, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, AR, PRI, PBS, ABC News.
The Associated Press Web pages, for today's news, enter through the Cape Cod Times or Mass Live.
magazines and other pastimes
For more information, The Atlantic recognizes that an ocean, a good magazine and a good website have depth in common. Online, the magazine's searchable archives go back to the days when hypertext was just a glimmer in Vannevar Bush's eye.
Other magazines in my life: Wired, Editor & Publisher, Mother Jones, Harpers, Adbusters, Dirty Linen, Sing Out!, Folio, InfoWorld, MacWorld, PC World and Soundings.
Life is also music: The Mudcat Cafe, an amazing archive and conversation about of traditional and not-so-traditional songs. Live music: LEAF, near Asheville, N.C., is one of the best music and dance festivals I've been to -- so good that they have fall and spring editions. Other past haunts: In Connecticut, The Sounding Board and the Jovial Crew at the Griswold Inn. In the Boston area, The Burren, Club Passim, Johnny D's and Ryles. In Knoxville, the Bijou, WDVX Blueplate Specials, the Laurel Theatre, the Tennessee Theatre and the Timewarp Tea Room.
Journalism at the Movies
Archive.org has started allowing other Web publishers to "embed" video players in our pages, so here's "His Girl Friday." Grab some popcorn and click on the play button to start the Hollywood-plus-Web magic... or just go to http://www.archive.org/details/his_girl_friday_ipod and download a copy.
"His Girl Friday" began as a Broadway play titled "The Front Page." In it, "Hildy Johnson" was a male reporter trying to escape his boss. The added complication of making the reporter the editor's ex-wife -- a Hildebrand-to-Hildegarde sex-change -- is the His Girl Friday innovation. The two-guys script was made into a movie a couple of times. Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon took on the starring roles in the 1970s, but Archive.org has a free copy of the original from 1931. Adolphe Menjou as Walter Burns may be a more believable tough-guy editor, if less romantic than Cary Grant, but Pat O'Brien is certainly no Rosalind Russell. See for yourself:
Finally, evidence that the habit of newspaper reading (and listening to the radio at the same time) sticks when started early...
photo by R.S. Stepno
That's probably a Sunday Boston paper or Springfield Union. The past week's Daily Hampshire Gazettes are stacked on the radiator in this photo taken by my father. I started delivering the Gazette in junior high school and still remember columns by Arthur Hoppe making me laugh--the first byline that ever stuck with me.
Closing thought: When today's 12-year-olds are turning gray and entering their anec-dotage, will they wax nostalgic about something digital they read, listened to or watched -- or created as their first Web page, Facebook account, blog, podcast or Twitter feed? I wonder.
Will I ever actually redesign this page?
(Originally notes for Web production students and the terribly curious.)
During the summer of 2011, began updating this ancient page to HTML5 and CSS3 from the original 1999 table-layout version, which had grown full of an ugly mixture of in-line "font" codes, updated style tags and odd markup. Just to be retro about it, I'm still writing much of the new code with the Nano/Pico text editor directly on a Linux file server.
While updating some of the content of the page, adding new links and deleting no-longer-functioning ones, I began working through the design update in stages:
Replace the page table cells with DIV divisions styled as IDs and Classes (DONE)
Replace the HTML font tags with CSS styles (DONE)
Experiment with CSS styles, such as rounded corner boxes and "elastic" or "liquid" layout.
Test on a wide variety of screen sizes and browsers. Originally kept a two-column layout for large screens; one-column for smaller ones.
There were more... but when I stopped teaching they, strangely enough, became "academic."
Drop me a line if you notice anything terribly broken, terribly dumb, or just terrible. But be kind. :)
Last page update that I remembered to record: Jan 25, 2015
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Lessons Learned in Southern Voices 2014-2017 Review
As the most recent phase of the Southern Voices project came to an end in 2017, it was time to review successes, challenges and lessons learned. The next big question was how Southern Voices would move forward into the future.
To take this task on, a review of the entire 2014-2017 project was undertaken by INKA consult, through one Danish and one southern-based consultant. Download the review report here.
To assess the relevance, influence and impact of the SV-Adapt project from 2014 – 17, the consultants interviewed participants from all nine partner networks; climate negotiators and delegates from governments of five SVA-countries; and the Manager of NAPs and Adaptation Policies at the UNFCCC Secretariat.
The outcome was positive across the board: SV-adapt has fostered linkages across the international, regional and national level – with The Joint Principles for Adaptation finding their way into UNFCCC official material and local community adaptation projects alike.
The JPA was for this reason found to be the flagship achievement of the project, uniting partners throughout the Global South around a set of common goals. It has fostered expertise exchange, while giving them a tool to monitor and promote pro-poor adaptation.
Furthermore, Southern Voices and the JPA have enjoyed wide recognition amongst government delegates and international negotiators, giving southern civil society wider outreach at international fora.
Partners also reflected on the greater leverage the JPA and the Southern Voices project gave them in promoting a truly international set of principles to lobby their national governments.
The review also identified room for improvement – particularly the need to ensure more regular sharing of news and results on social media and the website.
Achievements so far
At the national level, SVA partners took big strides in creating inclusive, equitable, and pro-poor adaptation in their countries:
• In Ghana, district development plans now include gender-sensitive climate change adaptation provisions
• In Guatemala, the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources is developing a popular version of its national law on climate change, making it accessible to the most vulnerable people in the country
• In Nepal, the government has recognised the principle of “Leaving no one behind” while preparing its NAP, adopting local consultations as part of the process
• In Kenya, the country’s County Environmental Action Plans have undertaken an inclusive and representative process that reflect community needs at the sub-national level
• In Cambodia, the practical and strategic needs of women are included in the National Technical Guideline of Climate Change Adaptation in Commune Development Plans
• In Malawi, SVA partner CISONECC is now represented on the government’s NAP core team and helped formulate an application to the Green Climate Fund for NAP readiness funding
• In Nicaragua, a nationwide campaign for a new climate change law has now reached the national parliament
• In Sri Lanka, work is underway to set up a NAP monitoring system, incorporating the JPA with the Sustainable Development Goals, attracting interest from the government and major donors such as the Asian Development Bank, Global Environment Facility, World Bank and World Food Program
• In Vietnam, SVA partner CCWG has provided climate adaptation inputs during the formulation of the country’s National Adaptation Plan and Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs)
The Future of Southern Voices
Another important purpose of the review was establishing how Southern Voices would move forward. As the project enters 2018 and beyond, civil society networks supported by Care Denmark will take the Southern Voices on Adaptation project forward as a learning platform for adaptation advocacy. SVA engagement in Nepal, Vietnam, Kenya, and Ghana will continue with the same or new partners, in addition to new advocacy partners in Niger, Mali, Tanzania, Uganda, and Mozambique, joining CARE Denmark country programmes during the first half of 2018. The platform will also be open for adaptation networks supported by SV-Adapt’s consortium partners – DanChurchAid and IbisOxfam.
In accordance with recommendations in the review report, the ambition is to strengthen southern ownership; therefore, plans to transition the secretariat from Copenhagen to a new location in the Global South are already underway.
Recommendations for the next two-year period following Southern Voices’ review for the new learning platform are:
• Continued advocacy work at the local and national level, whilst retaining a link to the international community
• A renewed focus on monitoring and evaluation of adaptation finance to maintain momentum behind the Paris Agreement’s goals for 2020
• Engaging with governments to deliver on adaptation communications – in assistance to the global stock-take also outlined in the Paris Agreement
• Pushing to link climate change adaptation and the JPA to the Sustainable Development Goals in adaptation efforts
• Getting more stakeholders involved and working with the JPA
• Capacity-building of CSOs on how to work on policy issues and engage in policy processes
• Working with multiple stakeholders at the national level – reaching out to academia, the private sector and governments
• A continued community of practice, maintained through regular physical and digital contact, sharing of expertise and lessons learned
The work of Southern Voices will now aim to take these goals forward throughout 2018. Over the same period, the transition of SVA will take place, introducing new members and new opportunities. Nevertheless, the drive and determination to support pro-poor adaptation will continue as strong as ever.
Written by Jamie Taylor
Southern Voices at NAP-Expo in Bonn 11-15 July
The Southern Voices welcomes the first affiliate member
Update from Cambodia civil society
Side-Event at COP 19
Pre-COP18 Joint Workshop on Climate Change Advocacy
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REVIEW: 'Seven to Eternity' #1 by Rick Remender, Jerome Opena and Matt Hollingsworth
By Hank Rea September 21, 2016
★★★★☆ (4/5)
I don't know how Rick Remender finds the time to write so many comics but I'm just glad he does. His latest title, 'Seven to Eternity,' with artists Jerome Opena and Matt Hollingsworth, is a meaty fast-paced fantasy that lays the groundwork for the plot in the debut issue while looking stunning in the process.
Remender mixes up genres - western, sci-fi, fantasy - to great effect. The House of Osidis falls into disgrace after the demonic ruler kills the patriarch and the family is exiled. Not content with living in peace far away from his homeland, a brave vengeful son, Adam, leaves his family behind to face the evil "Mud King" and hear what he has to offer. Despite the warnings of his father in the past, Adam is either on the path to righteousness and revenge or falling into a deadly trap?
A lot happens in the first issue, from the initial great conflict, to Adam's decision to seek out the evil God, it feels slightly rushed with heavy exposition at times. The first issue could have used an additional ten pages to let the story breath.Nonetheless, 'Seven to Eternity' is a sweeping tale of revenge and magic that establishes itself as the next great fantasy title from Image Comics. Remender sets the table with all the players leading to a dramatic ending that will have readers demanding the next installment now.
No fantasy comic worth its salt succeeds without a dynamic and visionary art team. 'Seven to Eternity' has that and more. Having worked with Remender on Uncanny X-Men and Fear Agent, Opena has a great eye for turning the script into a fully realized world as common as ours and as extraordinary as the imagination allows. He designs some creative creatures and landscapes that envelope the reader, immersive and wondrous, Opena doesn't hold back. Hollingsworth begins with some nice dark earth tones before giving way to more vibrant primary colors as the story leads to more otherworldly locations. It's a nice contrast that emphasizes the brilliance of the alien faction with the the literal down-to-earth hues of the humans.
'Seven to Eternity' #1 introduces us to another wild world from the mind of Rick Remender. It's brought to vivid life by Jerome Opena and Matt Hollingsworth. This story of sacrifice, honor, and revenge set in a fantastical and magical realm plays to the creators strengths, albeit a little rushed. Remender is chomping at the bit to tell this tale and it's worth every penny just to stare awestruck at each and every panel. This is highly recommended.
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BC Rail's North End
This tape covers operations on BC Rail lines north of Prince George. The six axle Alcos are gone but the remaining four axle Alcos make the North End their home. This tape shows trains on the Dawson Creek and Fort Nelson lines, and then 24 hrs. of action on the Chetwynd sub north of Prince George, BC Rail's busiest line, in July of 1997. The electrics and trains into Prince George from the south are also shown. 60 minutes.
CP around Kicking Horse Pass
Canadian Pacific's main transcontinental line through the Rockies runs over spectacular Kicking Horse Pass in Banff and Yoho National Parks. The famous spiral tunnels are on the steeply graded west slope and the east slope follows the scenic Bow River. This video shows 32 hours of action between Morant's curve along the Bow River and Golden at the base of the lower Kicking Horse Canyon in July 1997. 106 minutes.
Montana Rail Link in the Rockies
Montana Rail Link is one of the largest and most dynamic of the new Regional Railways. This video shows over 30 hours of awesome action on MRL in the Rocky Mountains on Mullan Pass with its steep grades and on both sides of Winston Hill, east of Helena, in July of 1997. Three sets of pushers based at Helena are kept busy. 108 minutes.
BNSF - UP Puget Sound Joint Line
The busiest rail line in the Pacific Northwest in the BNSF - UP Joint Line between Seattle and Portland. This tape shows 24 hours of action on this line around Centralia, WA, midway between Seattle and Portland in July of 1997. Nearly 50 freights, locals, and Amtrak trains run daily on this scenic but seldom photographed or written about line. 87 minutes.
BNSF on Marias Pass
This videotape shows a day and a half of action in July of 1997 between Whitefish and Browning in northern Montana amid the beauty of Marias Pass which runs along the southern boundary of Glacier National Park. BNSF's busy main line between Chicago and Seattle runs through this beautifull but accessible pass. Pushers, mountain grades, high bridges, new BNSF orange and green units - Marias has it all. 115 minutes.
Canadian National on Yellowhead Pass
Yellowhead Pass in the majestic Canadian Rockies, west of Jasper, Alberta, is the lowest rail crossing of the continental divide in the Rockies. All CN transcontinental traffic and Via's trains run through Yellowhead. CN's business has grown rapidly with nearly 40 trains a day through Yellowhead when this was videotaped in July of 1997. 93 minutes.
UP and BNSF at Rochelle, Illinois
Rochelle, 75 miles west of Chicago, is one of the most visited railfan hot spots in the Midwest with 85 trains hammering the diamonds on a good day. The former CNW, now UP main line to Omaha crosses the former BN, now BNSF line to the Twin Cities at grade. A park was being built next to the diamonds when this was shot in Sept. 1997. Most any type of train and run-through power can be seen. CN's trains from Duluth run through Rochelle also. 3 hours, 52 minutes. 3 DVD, 2 tape set.
Conrail in the Berkshires
This tape shows the current trains and operations on the first mountain railroad in the World, Conrail's former Boston and Albany line, at peak fall foliage in October of 1997. We caught a day and a half of Conrail action on the steep grades between Chester and Pittsfield, including plenty of SD80MAC's. 89 minutes.
Midwest Regionals 1997
This videotape shows the trains and operations on five regional railroads in the Midwest in the fall of 1997. This tape is a last look at the Chicago, Central, & Pacific which was recently reacquired by the IC, and a 1st look at the five month old I&M Rail Link. We caught quite a few trains on the other 3 Midwest regionals - the Toledo, Peoria, and Western, Iowa Interstate, and Dakota, Minnesota, and Eastern. There were many 1st generation units on these railroads including two Alcos. 132 minutes.
Watseka - Illinois Hot Spot
Watseka, 77 miles south of Chicago, is where the UP's line to Texas crosses the TP&W. The CSX trains from Chicago to the Southeast and CP trains to Louisville have trackage rights on the UP to Woodland Jct. 5 miles to the south. As many as 50 trains hammer the diamonds at Watseka. This video shows 24 hours of action at Watseka and Woodland Jct. in Sept. 1997. Watseka deserves to be called a Hot Spot as it was in Trains Magazine. 110 minutes.
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Military Space Situational Awareness
1st April to 2nd April 2019,
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SMi Group is proud to announce the 14th annual Military Space Situational Awareness Conference taking place on the 1st and 2nd April 2019 in London, UK.
As space has become more contested, congested and competitive the need to maintain effective situational awareness in the 4th domain is more critical than ever. With this in mind, SMi are set to host the Military SSA forum to bring together key stakeholders across the military, government and industry sectors to discuss approaches and strategies for providing a holistic approach to Space Situational Awareness (SSA).
Exploring space debris, space surveillance and tracking (SST), space weather, the impact of new mega-constellations and international partnerships in space – this remains a key calendar date for anyone involved in the satellite sector.
Featuring 120+ attendees, 7+ hours of networking and an extensive exhibition space – once again this year’s conference will also provide unparalleled chance to meet and greet all the key players in this important domain.
Discuss how mega-constellations in LEO will influence space traffic management and key priorities for space debris mitigation and removal
Learn about key topics within the SSA community including the impact of space weather, future space requirements, cataloguing of artificial satellites, sensor system integration and planetary defense
Hear from key allied nations on how international partnerships are being developed to maximise domain awareness
Heads of National and International SSA Programmes
Space Programme Managers
Heads of Space Operations Centres
SSA technical instructors
Principle scientists
Head of Space security
Strategic Analysts involved with Space Surveillance and Tracking
Military Space Security Advisors
Military Space Business Development Leads
Senior Space Researchers
Mission Leaders
AFSPC SMC/SYG; Air Attache's Office- Embassy of Brazil; Airbus Defence & Space; Airbus Defence and space; Applied Defence System; Applied Defense Solutions; Applied Space Solutions Limited; Astro- und Feinwerktechnik Adlershof GmbH; Astroscale; Austrian Armed Forces; Baader Planetarium GMBH; Beijing Institute of Space Science & Technology; Canadian Armed Forces; CDTI; China Academy of Space Technology; CNES – Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales ; Defense Intelligence Agency; DigitalGlobe; DSTL; EU SatCen; European Space Agency; European Space Agency (E S A); European Space Policy Institute; Exoanalytic Solutions; FMV (Swedish Defence Material Administration); FOI; French Joint Space Command; GMV Aerospace and Defence S.A.U.; Harris Corporation; Italian Ministry of Defence; Kratos RT Logic; L-3 Communications ASA Ltd Rusint House; LeoLabs, Inc.; Lockheed Martin; Lockheed Martin Space Systems Co.; MacDonald Detwiler Associates; MCC Corporation; MDA; Measat Satellite Systems; Measat Satellite Systems Sdn. Bhd.; Met Office; Ministry of Defence Germany; Ministry of Defence UK; Ministry of Defence, UK; MoD ; Northumbria University; Omitron Inc; Omitron, Inc.; Oneweb; PlaneWave Instruments; Polish Space Agency; RAF; Raft Systems Limited; Raytheon; Raytheon Company; Roke Manor Research Ltd; Royal Air Force; Royal Australian Air Force; Royal Thai Air Force; RT Logic; Saab AB; Salamanca Group; SciSys UK Ltd; Secretary of the Air Force, Space Acquisition; Secure World Foundation; Seradata Limited; Serco Group plc; Shephard Media; SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation; SSCL; STFC, RAL; Swedish Defence Research Agency; Sybilla Technologies Sp. z o.o.; Thales ; Thales Alenia Space UK Ltd; The Boeing Company; The Harris Corporation; Turkish Air Forces ; UK MOD; UK Space Agency; University of Bern; University of Surrey; University of Vienna; US Air Force Space Command; US DOD; XTAR;
8:00 Registration & Coffee
8:50 Chairman's Opening Remarks
Squadron Leader (Ret'd) Ralph Dinsley, Associate & Founder, Reflecting Space
Sqn Ldr (Retd) Ralph “Dinz” Dinsley is a retired RAF officer with more than 32 years of active service as an Aerospace Battle Manager including 16 years as a surveillance of space practitioner and space situational awareness advocate. His final assignments included leading the RAF contribution to global SSA in 2 significant programmes. Dinz’s unique military experience is further underpinned, as a CAS Fellow, with an MA in Peace and Development from Leeds Metropolitan University; his dissertation covering "Critical Perspectives on UK Space Security". Since retirement from the military in September 2017 Dinz formed, and is now Executive Director of NorSS Ltd, an innovative Northumberland based SSA company. Additionally, he was one of the founding members of SAINTS (Situational Awareness Information National Technology Service) a group of NE tech companies developing SA for government, industry and academia. He is also an observer to the Hague Space Resource Governance Working Group.
9:00 The RAF’s Approach to Space Situational Awareness
Why is SSA important?
What have we been doing about it?
Wing Commander Andy Hindley, Air Capability SO1 Space, Royal Air Force
Joining the RAF in 1991 as an RAF Regiment Officer he fulfilled a number of Flight Commander roles before he sustained an injury that precluded him from staying in the RAF Regiment. He transferred to the Operations Support (Flight Operations) specialization on its inception on 1 Apr 1997 and as a Flight Operations Officer he has served at multi-engine, fast-jet and rotary-wing aircraft units. Operational tours have included Kosovo and multiple tours in Afghanistan. Staff tours have included Headquarters, instructional and Career Management roles.
On promotion to Wing Commander he was selected for Advanced Command and Staff Training and has served on the Air Staff in the Ministry Of Defence where he was responsible for RAF International Policy and engagement for North and South America, Australasia, South East Asia and the Far East regions. He served in a unique Command role at RAF Shawbury as Officer Commanding of both Operations Wing and Administration Wing and also Deputy Station Commander. A tour in Air Resources and Plans followed Command, during which he conducted a 3 month Secondment with KPMG, and he was Chief Of Staff in the RAF Transformation Team before taking on the role of SO1 Space within the Air Capability area at HQ Air Command.
Ms Emily Mills, Domestic Space Surveillance & Tracking Lead, UK Space Agency
Emily Mills is the Domestic Space Surveillance & Tracking Lead for the UK Space Agency. She has previously worked on policy and programme development across the Civil Service, and joined the UK Space Agency in 2018 on the EU SST programme. Most recently she became the UKSA lead on domestic SST to develop and deliver UK civil requirements for a National Space Operations Centre in collaboration with MOD and the RAF.
9:30 Debris Mitigation - The Responsibility of us All
Mr Sean Goldsbrough, Senior Orbital Analyst, UK Space Agency
Sean Goldsbrough is currently Senior Orbital Analyst at the UK Space Agency with almost 15 years working within the Space Industry. He previously spent a large portion of his career working within the US Space Surveillance Network based at RAF Fylingdales performing several roles including Space Analyst. He is currently UK lead for one of four UN Inter-Agency Debris Committee working groups and provides direct support to the UK Space Agency regulations and licensing team. His role includes the evolution of UK national Space Surveillance and Tracking (SST) and Space Situational Awareness (SSA) capabilities as well as UK technical lead within the EU SST programme. He works closely with UK MOD and is involved in a number of projects on-going with our global military partners from within the UK Space Operations Centre, in addition to other international civilian agencies. Sean has in-depth experience in operational analysis and mission support, along with a vast knowledge of numerous topics required for true Space Situational Awareness and is a member of the British Interplanetary Society.
Current debris problem and challenges
Current mitigation efforts within UKSA and across industry
Future responsibilities and suggestions for improved mitigation
10:00 Technology for an Evolving Space Surveillance and Tracking Market
Dr Douglas Hendrix, CEO, ExoAnalytic Solutions
Doug Hendrix is chief executive officer and co-founder of ExoAnalytic Solutions, Inc. In addition to his executive role, he serves as the Commercial Space sector president. For 25 years, Dr. Hendrix has developed advanced software solutions to enable the United States to maintain its technological superiority in EO/IR sensing for missile defense and space situational awareness. Dr. Hendrix has a broad professional background that ranges from research and development to commercial software development in the areas of atmospheric, underwater and nuclear explosions, hyper-velocity impacts, space weather, and the development of a commercial fusion reactor.
As a co-founder of ExoAnalytic Solutions, he had one major idea in mind for the company, which is to build a focused team comprised of the best and brightest in the industry to develop and field cutting edge technology to greatly surpass the state of the art. In his current role at ExoAnalytic Solutions, he remains deeply involved in technology development for both missile defense and space situational awareness.
Dr. Hendrix earned a B.A. in Physics from the University of California, Berkeley and obtained his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Irvine, and is the proud son of a former submarine officer.
Current Paradigm - Space Situational Awareness
Background and current services
Limitations and challenges
Future paradigm - Space traffic management & Space Defense
Space Traffic Management
Services specific for STM
Technology and process requirements
Benefits and implications
Space Defense
Services specific for space defense
Identification of activities best suited for commercial providers or militaries a future construct
10:30 Morning Coffee
11:00 Dstl Activities in SSA
S&T approaches to overcoming future SSA challenges
The future space environment and population
The Daedalus experiment – providing a low-cost alternative to de-orbiting and preventing space debris (including outcomes from the RemoveDebris mission)
Analysis of LEO and MEO orbit structures and its importance in determining future launch patterns
Ground-based surveillance and its role in monitoring space congestion
Building a collaborative approach to UK space domain awareness
Dr Simon George, Senior Scientist, DSTL
Dr Simon George is a senior scientist at the UK Defence Science and Technology Laboratory; contributing to the MOD Chief Scientific Advisor’s Space Situational Awareness research project at Dstl, and the EU’s Space Surveillance & Tracking (EUSST) project.
He has 10 years’ experience working in space research; most notably on topics associated with space debris and the surveillance of space. He currently leads on EUSST activities associated with connectivity between Operational Centres, and also participates in Dstl’s SSA experimental activities.
His briefing provides an overview of Dstl’s SSA research programme via their involvement in an observation campaign of the 2018 RemoveDEBRIS mission.
Mr Andrew Ash, Principal Scientist, Dstl
Mr Andrew Ash (UK Defence Science and Technology Laboratory) is the Project Technical Authority for the UK MOD Space Situational Awareness project, and currently resides within the Space and Strategic Sensing team. He has over 10 years’ experience in the field of space and sensors assessment and has previously presented at a wide range of international SSA conferences, including SMi and AMOS, and leads on S&T activities in SSA within the Combined Space Operations initiative.
11:30 Applying RF Sensing to Global Space Situational Awareness
Mr Matt Prechtel, Business Area Director for the Spectral Data Products and Federal Network Projects, Kratos
Mr. Matt Prechtel is the Business Area Director for the Spectral Data Products and Federal Network Projects business areas at Kratos RT Logic in Colorado Springs, Colorado. These two business areas focus on the application of data analytics to RF satellite emissions in support of Electromagnetic Interference detection and Space Situational Awareness as well as the application of network management software to mission monitoring and mission control projects respectively.
Mr. Prechtel has over 20 years of experience in software engineering and engineering management and holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Pittsburgh in Electrical Engineering, a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Temple University and a Master in Business Administration from the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs.
Overcoming RF SSA Challenges
Enhancing Space Situational Awareness with Passive RF Data
Maneuver Detection, RF Event Detection, Anomaly Cause & Attribution
RF Analytics and Machine Learning
12:00 Space Weather : Developments in Understanding and Mitigating the Risk
Mr Simon Machin, Met Office Space Weather Lead for Defence and Security, Met Office
Simon Machin is the Met Office Space Weather lead for Defence and Security, having worked within the Met Office on space weather impacts relevant to defence over the last decade. Simon works in the space weather management team who collectively coordinate scientific research, capability development, operational delivery and training elements, with Simon leading on alignment of MOSWOC capability development to deliver services and advice to meet defence requirements. This achieved through understanding of impact, effect and mitigations alongside appropriate means of communication to deliver high value services, underpinned by robust science, to users from across the defence community
Improving society’s understanding of the GNSS dependency underpinning all technology.
Measuring and modelling atmospheric disturbances
Forecasting space weather impacts on GNSS
Future requirements for mitigating the space weather risk
12:30 Networking Lunch
13:30 PANEL DISCUSSION: Global Space Traffic Management for the 21st Century
Traffic management vs control – should space be regulated by legal frameworks or accepted norms?
Drowning in data but starving for insights: how can data management on earth help us make sense of what we’re tracking?
How can we firm up our customary practices for future management of space assets?
What does Brexit mean for UK-European collaboration on STM?
Dr Stuart Eves, Director, SJE Space
Stuart Eves is a satellite-system engineer. He has recently formed his own consultancy company after spending 14 years with Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) and 16 years with the UK Ministry Of Defence.
During his time with the MOD, Stuart initiated the TopSat satellite programme, which established a new world record for “resolution per mass of satellite”, and for a time formed part of the space gallery at the Science Museum.
He has recently published Space Traffic Control, a book which describes the measures needed to maintain the space environment and protect satellites from both natural hazards and man-made threats such as space debris.
Stuart has an MSc in Astrophysics, a PhD in constellation design, and has been a fellow of both the Royal Astronomical Society and the British Interplanetary Society for more than 25 years. He takes an active interest in all things space, and is thus best described as an “astro-nut”!
Ms Alexandra Stickings, Research Fellow, Space Policy and Security, Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)
Alexandra Stickings is Research Analyst for Space Policy and Security within the Military Sciences team at RUSI.
Her research interests include space as a military domain, the role of space across UK government, space resilience, counterspace capabilities, SSA/STM and international space programmes. She has written on space topics for a range of publications and regularly contributes to the media.
Alexandra holds an MSc in International Security and Global Governance from Birkbeck College, University of London, a BA(Hons) in International Studies from the Open University, and a BSc(Hons) in Physics with Astronomy from the University of Nottingham.
14:15 Policy and Management of Australia’s SSA Programme
Wing Commander Steve Henry, Deputy Director – Surveillance of Space, Royal Australian Air Force
WGCDR Steven Henry is Deputy Director Surveillance of Space within the Air Force Headquarters Directorate of ISR, EW & Space.
WGCDR Henry has served as a Crew Commander and Chief Instructor on the US Space Based Infrared System; as an Operations Analyst for Overhead Persistent Infrared capabilities at Defence Science and Technology Group; and he founded the Joint Space Operations Cell at HQ Joint Operations Command, which quickly evolved to become the Australian Space Operations Centre. During his posting to the Pentagon in 2016 – 2017 he developed space policy and strategy advice for the Principal DoD Space Advisor, focused on Space Situational Awareness and Space Traffic Management.
In his current role WGCDR Henry manages the Space Awareness sub-program. He also supports a number of external interactions, including industry engagement, coordination of RAAF sponsored S&T projects and research agreements, and is seconded to the Australian Space Agency as the RAAF Liaison Officer.
An introduction to the RAAF’s space programme and why SSA remains critical to safely operate in space
Current ground-based infrastructure for SST and where capability needs to be enhanced
Collaboration with the Australian Space Operations Centre and other partner agencies
Monitoring space weather and integrating it into orbit management solutions
Key cooperation with allied partners to build SSA catalogues and develop a holistic understanding of space
The role of space surveillance for both debris mitigation and air missile defence
What next for Australian space programme?
14:45 German SST – The GSSAC at Present and in the Future
Lieutenant Colonel Christoph Gross, Air Force Liaison Officer , German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Lieutenant Colonel (GS) Christoph Gross is the Liaison Officer of the German Air Force with DLR Space Administration and works as a policy officer with the DLR Strategy and Communication Department, on issues including security policy, cooperation with the Ministry of Defense and Space Situational Awareness (SSA). He is also a member of the German delegation to the Consortium implementing the European Space Surveillance & Tracking (SST) Support Framework for the European Commission and serves as German permanent military representative. Lieutenant Colonel (GS) Gross is a graduate of both the French and the German Armed Forces Staff College and has held responsibilities as Maintenance Squadron Leader at the Special Air Mission Wing of the German Federal Ministry of Defense and several assignments as an aircraft maintenance officer in the German and French Air Force.
The current space situation: growing traffic and debris as obstacles to overcome
Realising plans to acquire space SSA capability to maintain assurance of space assets
Military and civilian input into the German Space Situational Awareness Centre (GSSAC)
Utilising ground based assets such as GESTRA – SST tracking radar
Optical sensors specifications and requirements for future systems
15:15 Afternoon Tea
15:45 Polish Space Domain Awareness and System Architectures
Colonel Rafal Borek, Director, Defence Projects Department, Polish Space Agency
Col Rafal Borek (POLSA) graduated in 1997 as engineer in telecommunication (electronic branch) from Wroclaw University of Technology, in 1999 M.Sc. in automatics (electrotechnic branch) Radom University of Technology, later on supplementing education with postgraduate studies: in cybersecurity at National Defence Academy; in analysis of international security aspects at Collegium Civitas; in space management in modern economy at Warsaw School of Economics and Military Foreign Service at War Studies University. At present He is a Ph.D. student at War Studies University in security faculty aiming to complete thesis in SST field.
Since 1997 he had worked at variety of military posts mainly related to aviation technologies as an engineer and later on chief of metrological laboratory responsible for calibration of aircrafts test devices, mainly for Air Forces. Since 2007 he worked in Operational Command dealing with Lessons Learned System establishment and later abroad in Polish Military Representative to the NATO & Military Committee in the field of development of EU military capabilities.
Since 2014 he has been working in the space area in the Inspectorate for Implementation of Innovative Defence Technologies and after in Polish Space Agency. In both institutions responsible for managing surveys, studies and Polish involvement analysis in number of space areas: SSA, EO, technology harmonization etc. (at national level and within international context - ESA, EDA, European Commission).
Timeline for joining the European Union Surveillance and Tracking (SST) Support Framework Initiative
Defining the possibilities and conditions for realisation of works related to space domain awareness
Collaborating with the Armed Forces to ensure that space capabilities meet future SATCOM and EO requirements
Polish radar technology and recommendations following the recent acquisition from PZL Warszawa-Okecie
Utilising multi-wavelength spectroscopy and monitoring systems to maximise SSA
16:15 Space Traffic Management for Space Assets in Arctic Orbit
Lieutenant Commander Oystein Glomsvoll, Staff Officer, Space Programs , Norwegian MoD
LtCdr Øystein Glomsvoll has an operational background as Commanding Officer of navy combat vessels at the Norwegian Coastal Ranger Commando and Operations Officer of Skjold-class missile corvettes. He has served as a lecturer in nautical science at the Royal Norwegian Naval Academy, and is currently serving as Staff Officer for Space Situational Awareness at the Norwegian Ministry of Defence. He holds a MSc. degree in Positioning and Navigation Technology from the University of Nottingham.
Brief introduction to Norwegian space history and its use of SATCOM in high north and arctic environments
What being a leading space nation in the arctic involves and how it fits into cross sector requirements for the region
Unique orbit requirements to maintain SATCOM and EO capabilities in these areas
International cooperation and collaboration to support allied nations in the north
Space traffic management for satellites deployed in these orbit arcs – key considerations
Final concluding comments
16:45 The Facets of Effective Space Situational Awareness
What space weather systems & debris mean for managing the increasingly congested orbit structures around earth
Working with key US partners within the L5 mission to maximise space monitoring
The role of SSA within planetary defence and liaising with military partners to protect against near-earth objects
Current ESA projects developing technologies for space debris monitoring
Dr Tim Flohrer, Senior Space Debris Monitoring Analyst, Space Situational Awareness Programme , European Space Agency
Dr. Tim Flohrer
ESA/ESOC; Senior Space Debris Monitoring Analyst, Space Safety Programme Office
Tim Flohrer joined ESA’s Space Debris Office as an engineer in 2007 and has been working as an analyst since 2009, as a senior analyst since 2018.
Since 2014 he is co-leading all work plan activities in ESA's Space Situational Awareness Program (SSA) Programme that address monitoring space debris. In the Space Debris Office he is supporting operational collision avoidance activities for ESA and third party missions, re-entry predictions, and risk assessments. He is deeply involved in feasibility studies for space debris observations and observation campaigns using various techniques, e.g., with ESA’s 1-m telescope on Tenerife, Spain.
Before he moved to Darmstadt, Germany, Tim was a research associate at the Astronomical Institute of the University of Bern, Switzerland, where he mainly worked on ground- and space-based optical space surveillance, and related planning and processing software. He is still happy to extend further his hands-on experience with optical observation systems. Tim is an ESA delegate to the IADC, where he was chairing WG2 (environment and database), and he is a member of the IAA Committee on Space Debris, the ECSS Space Debris Working Group, the CCSDS Navigation Working Group, and CEN/CENELEC TC5 WG2. Tim holds a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD; Dr. phil.-nat.) from the University of Bern, Switzerland, and a Diplom-Ingenieur in Geodesy from the Dresden University of Technology, Germany.
Tim has been working on space debris and space surveillance topics for about 18 years.
17:15 Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day One
17:30 Post Conference Drinks Reception Sponsored by ExoAnalytic
Captain Brittany Stackhouse, Program Manager, SMC, US Air Force
Capt Brittany Stackhouse is a Program Manager and lead for Space Situational Awareness Advanced Concepts, Space Superiority Systems Directorate, Space and Missile Systems Center at Los Angeles Air Force Base, California. She leads a 40 member team executing over $110 Million in revolutionary Space Situational Awareness solutions to gain, maintain and exploit space superiority.
Capt Stackhouse entered active duty in 2012 through the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps program at the Virginia Women’s Institute for Leadership at Mary Baldwin College. During her career, she has served as Program Manager for Launch and Test Range Systems providing critical space lift launch capabilities. Prior to her current assignment, she was a Project Manager for Space Command & Control directing development and deployment of capabilities to protect and defend national assets.
9:00 Keynote Address: U.S. Intra-governmental Collaboration on the Provision of Space Situational Awareness Data and Space Traffic Management Services
Major General (Ret'd) Robert D. Rego, Strategic Missions Adviser to the Commander, US STRATCOM
Robert D. Rego is the Strategic Missions Advisor to the Commander, U.S. Strategic Command, Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska. In this role he assists the Commander in operationalizing the Space Joint Operating Area and supports the on-going execution of the nuclear, space, cyber and electronic warfare missions providing depth of experience and critical insight to innovatively and agilely deliver cross-domain integration for issues affecting Command capabilities. Mr. Rego is a highly qualified expert and will serve in this position for two years. Mr. Rego served a 31-year active duty and reserve career, retiring as a major general in 2017. He entered the Air Force in 1985 as a graduate of the Reserve Officer Training Corps program and held assignments as a Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile crewmember, duty in special projects at Headquarters, U.S. Space Command, as the Air Force Research Laboratory liaison to the U.S. Army Big Crow Program Office, in numerous assignments at Headquarters, Air Force Space Command, and as the Air Force Global Strike Command Director of Communications and Vice Commander. Prior to his current assignment, he was the Mobilization Assistant to the Commander, U.S. Strategic Command, Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska.
Mr Kevin M. O Connell, Director, Office of Space Commerce, U.S. Department of Commerce
Kevin M. O’Connell is the Director of the Office of Space Commerce at the U.S. Department of Commerce. Within this position, Mr. O’Connell leads an office with responsibility as a space industry advocate within the Executive Branch of the U.S. government. Mr. O’Connell brings over 35 years of experience in the U.S. government, in research organizations, and as an entrepreneur and business leader to this position. Mr. O’Connell has researched and written extensively on the policy, security, and global market issues related to commercialization of remote sensing. Aside from numerous articles and op-eds, he was co-author of Commercial Observation Satellites: at the Leading Edge of Global Transparency (2000). He served as the Executive Secretary and Staff Director of the NIMA Commission (1999-2000). He was a member, and later Chair, of NOAA’s federal advisory committee on remote sensing from 2002-2016. Previously, Mr. O’Connell served as the CEO of Innovative Analytics and Training, a Washington, D.C. professional services firm focused on analysis and decision support for U.S. government and commercial clients. Among other issues, the firm focused on market trends and anticipatory/futures analysis for high-technology industries such as cyber, cloud computing, and geospatial technologies. During this time, he also served as a senior consultant to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and as an independent advisor to the Director, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency. Mr. O’Connell’s background also includes extensive experience in national security and intelligence matters, including assignments in the Department of Defense, Department of State, National Security Council, and the Office of the Vice President. He spent a decade conducting and managing research in these areas at the RAND Corporation, including as the first director of RAND’s Intelligence Policy Center. Finally, Mr. O’Connell has taught a long-running course on comparative intelligence in Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, Security Studies Program.
9:30 EU Space Surveillance and Tracking Framework : A Consortium of Member States Safeguarding European Space Infrastructure and Orbital Environment
Dr Pascal Faucher, Chairman EU SST Consortium, CNES
Dr Pascal Faucher is graduated (1997) from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace (SUPAERO). He also holds a Master’s Degree (1998) and a Ph. D. in Physical Oceanography (2001) by the University Paul Sabatier, financed by the Ministry of Defence, and an Executive Master of Business Administration (2007) by ESCP Europe. After a post-doctoral position in the EU project “Marine Environment and Security for the European Area”, his experience includes 16 years of various positions at CNES headquarters as international relations adviser and programme manager. For the last 8 years, in the defence and security office, he is responsible for the following themes: space security, space situational awareness (SST, SWE, NEO) and space debris. He is currently the Chairman of the Steering Committee of the EU SST Consortium. He also acts as a French delegate to the Programme Board SSA of ESA, the Steering Group of the Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee (IADC), the Steering Committee of the Space Mission Planning Advisory Group (SMPAG), the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS), actively participating to the Working Group on the Long Term Sustainability of Outer Space Activities (WG LTS). In France, he is responsible for the National Coordination Group on Space Weather (GCME). He is a member of the French Steering Group on Unidentified Aerospace Phenomena (GEIPAN).
Strategic importance of space security for Europe
Governance of the Consortium
Sensors, European database and precursor catalogue, service provision, users
Architecture simulations
10:00 Functional SSA as Part of the National Space Strategy
An overview of the US DoD space structure and how the respective departments feed into a unified space vision
Driving a unified approach to the 4th domain through collaboration with industry and allied partners
The US space surveillance network: how the future space fence will enhance ground-based SST
Processing, exploitation and dissemination of data – how to integrate non-traditional information sets
What SSA means for safely deploying in orbit
How collaboration can help us overcome the challenges of operating in a congested domain
Lieutentant Colonel Mia Walsh, Commander 18th Space Control Squadron, US Air Force
Lt Col Mia Walsh is the Commander of the 18th Space Control Squadron at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. The 18th Space Control Squadron is responsible for providing 24/7 support to the Space Surveillance Network, maintaining the space catalog, and managing United States Strategic Command’s space situational awareness sharing program with US, foreign government, and commercial entities. The squadron also conducts advanced analysis, sensor optimization, conjunction assessment, human spaceflight support, re-entry and breakup assessment, and launch analysis. In addition, the squadron oversees Detachment 1, located in Dahlgren, Virginia.
Lt Col Walsh entered the Air Force in 1998 and worked in ICBM launch operations, space surveillance, and missile defense, and completed staff tours at both Air Force Space Command and the Air Staff at the Pentagon. Prior to her current assignment, she served as the Deputy Chief, Strategy Plans Division, at the Combined Space Operations Center.
10:30 SSA Sharing and Spaceflight Safety
Ms Diana McKissock, SSA Sharing and Spaceflight Safety Lead, United States Air Force
Ms. McKissock works for the 18th Space Control Squadron (18 SPCS), 21st Space Wing, at Vandenberg Air Force Base, as the lead for Space Situation Awareness (SSA) Sharing. Previously, she served as an active duty Air Force Space and Missiles officer, as well as with the U.S. Department of State and New Zealand Defence Force, before returning to the Air Force as an Orbital Analyst for the U.S. Combined Space Operations Center in 2010. In her current position as the SSA Sharing Lead, she focuses on executing USSPACECOM’s SSA Sharing Program by facilitating data exchange among the global space community.
How 18 SPCS is working with international partners to advance combined space operations
How 18 SPCS is working with partners to support pre-launch risk assessment, manoeuvre planning and decommissioning activities
How spaceflight safety enables the warfighter
11:30 To Support Global SSA There Needs To Be a Trusted Interaction Between Civilians, Commercial, and Military Systems Based On a Common High Quality Knowledge Base
Mr Tom Kubancik, Vice President of Advanced Programs, L3 Applied Defense Solutions
Tom is the General Manager of Commercial, Civil, and International Space and the Vice President of Advanced Programs at L3 Applied Defense Solutions.
Tom’s entire career has been focused on advanced technology with over 30 years in Space Systems, High Performance Computing, and Visualization systems. As a recognized international expert in Space Situational Awareness (SSA), Tom has participated in research, development, and operational programs since the 1980’s. At L3 Applied Defense Solutions (ADS), Tom has led the evolution of commercial non-governmental SSA, establishing an enterprise approach including data collection systems, advanced processing, and decision support products. Tom and the L3 ADS team have a passion for problem-solving and innovation with a world class research portfolio coupled with exquisite analytical capabilities and deep operational experience.
Tom is active in NATO Science and Technology efforts to establish multinational approaches for collaborative SSA. He has published several articles on global SSA and is a frequent speaker at domestic and international conferences.
He is a graduate of Bowling Green University. Tom and his family live in Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A.
Deep and open data pools
Simple and effective standards
Understanding the quality of measurements
Common methods to rate uncertainty
A message format to exchange information
12:00 Space Surveillance and Tracking Research and Development
Dr Francis Chun, Director, Center for Space Situational Awareness Research, United States Air Force Academy
Francis Chun is a professor in the Department of Physics at the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) and Director of the Center for Space Situational Awareness Research. In his 35-year Air Force career, as a military officer and government civilian, Professor Chun worked on a variety of space-related programs to include the air-launched anti-satellite weapon system and space-based infrared missile defense systems. As a physics professor, Dr. Chun has taught many general and advanced physics courses specializing in the space domain. In his current role, he leads a team of faculty and cadets conducting satellite characterization research using small telescopes and developing the U. S. Air Force Academy’s world-wide Falcon Telescope Network. He received a Ph.D. and M.S. degree in Geophysics and Space Physics from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a B.S. in Space Physics from the U. S. Air Force Academy.
Detecting, tracking, identifying and characterising space objects – what SST is and what it means for situational awareness
Developing novel techniques to characterise satellites from point source images
How to enhance R&D in SSA moving forward
13:30 SST – a strategic opportunity for Italy in the frame of the “Space Strategy for Europe”
Lieutenant Colonel Walter Villadei, Head of Space Strategy and Operations Office, Air Force Staff, Italian Air Force
Air Force Staff – General Office for Space
From 01.09.2017 Chief of the 2nd Office “Space Policy and Operations”
Air Force Staff, 3rd Dept. – ItAF Space Policy Office
2014 – 31.08.2017 Chief of the “Innovation, Space Systems and Applications Section”
09.2010 – 11.2013 Chief of the “Space Policy, Space Systems and Applications Section”
Air Force Staff, 4th Dept. – Office for Advanced Technologies and UAV’s programs
06.2009 – 09.2010 Chief of “Space Systems and Applications”
04.2006 – 06.2009 Staff Officer at the “UAV and Space Systems Section”
10.2003 – 04.2006 Staff Officer at the “Human Spaceflight, Navigation and Meteorology Section”
Comando Squadra Aerea – 46th Air Brigade at PISA AFB
03.2003 – 10.2003 Chief of “Maintenance scheduling Section” at the Aircraft Maintenance Dept
05.2002 – 02.2003 Chief of “G-222 and C-27J Maintenance Section” at the Aircraft Maintenance Dept
12.1999 – 05.2002 Chief of “G-222 Maintenance Section” at the Aircraft Maintenance Centre
02.1999 – 12.1999 Chief of “Planning and Control Unit” at the Aircraft Maintenance Centre
Air Force Accademy, NAPLES
1993 – 1998 Officer Cadet Course and university degree in “Aeronautical Engineering with Specialization in Space” at the University of Studies named “Federico II”
An overview of the current Italian space efforts and how they feed into the wider defence strategy
Refuelling for in-orbit assets: current responsibilities and engineering challenges
Debris removal: domain ownership and future priorities in the era of growing space congestion
Integrating De-orbiting techniques for redundant satellite into initial design
Life extension for satellite constellations in service – maximising asset utility moving forward
14:00 Royal Netherlands Air Force Space Status Update
Monitoring space weather to optimise asset deployment and safeguard critical infrastructure – products and projects
Ground based space surveillance and tracking projects, results and ambitions
Development of Space Operations within the NL MoD and cooperation with other nations and entities
RNLAF focus to develop its space capabilities for the future
Major Petra Wijnja, Head Space Security Center NL, Royal Netherlands Air Force
Major Petra Wijnja started her career in the Royal Netherlands Air Force in 1998 at the Royal Military Academy. She worked as a Fighter Controller at the RNLAF Air Operations Control Station from 2001 until 2015, developing from Fighter Controller and Fighter Controller instructor to Fighter Allocator and Squadron Training Officer. During that time, she obtained her bachelor’s degree cum laude in Mathematics. In 2015 she started in the newly founded RNLAF Space Security Center, where she is responsible for creating Space Situational Awareness (SSA) within the NL MoD, by developing SSA products, managing projects, setting up training and education and participating in (inter-)national working groups and exercises. As of October 2018 she is the Lead of Space Situational Awareness activities within the Space section of the RNLAF and head of the Space Security Center.
15:00 Building a Recognized Space Picture for the Swedish Armed Forces
Mr Kristofer Hallgren, Senior Analyst, FOI
Kristofer has combined embedded operational research positions at the Swedish Armed Forces HQ with work on space related questions since 2012. He is a member of the Expert group on Space for Defence and Security at the Swedish Defence Research Agency and in 2018 he became responsible for a project with the aim to provide the Swedish Armed Forces with a Recognized Space Picture.
Kristofer is a space engineer by training with a master’s thesis conducted at NASA Ames Research Agency. He has a PhD in Atmospheric Physics and Microwave instrumentation from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Göttingen, Germany.
A recognized space picture for Sweden, what does it look like, why do we need it and how can we use it?
Challenges in bringing different actors together for a collaborative effort.
SSA as a tool to maintain peaceful, secure and sustainable space activities
15:30 Algorithm Tools for Space Surveillance and Tracking
Ms Laura Pirovano, Scholar, Surrey Space Centre
Laura Pirovano received her bachelor degree in Mathematical Engineering from Politecnico di Milano and her Master degree in Aerospace Engineering from the Technical University of Delft. She started her PhD at La Universidad de la Rioja under the supervision of Dr. R. Armellin and has recently transferred to the Surrey Space Centre, at University of Surrey. Her research focuses on the use of differential algebra to efficiently deal with uncertainty, applied to the problem of orbital determination of space debris. Last year she won the “best paper” award at AMOS, primary conference on SSA in the US.
Developing efficient methods for short-term and long-term orbit propagation and its application for debris environment modelling
An algebra-based sampling method to measure near-earth objects
Performance and assessment of multi-beam radar sensors for SST
Long term techniques for maintaining effective data sets on orbital objects
Optical observations at short arcs – utilising predication tools
16:00 Commercialisation of Space Situational Awareness
Ms Shagun Sachdeva, Senior Analyst, NSR
Ms. Sachdeva joined NSR in December 2017. Prior to joining the team, she worked as the Business and Marketing strategist at Satellite Squared. During her time there, Ms. Sachdeva’s main activities included the market analysis and segmentation, identification of potential customers as well as the valuation studies for the company’s core product concepts: In-Orbit Servicing and Satellite Power Boosting.
Ms. Sachdeva completed the Toulouse Business School’s Aerospace MBA program, and holds a Masters degree in Aerospace Engineering from Monash University, Australia. During her studies, she worked on various aerospace assignments and led a research project that investigated the existence of a convergence between the internet and space industries. The study looked at the future of the telecommunication satellite constellations from the technological, economical and legal perspectives. As part of her MBA internship, Ms. Sachdeva’s work also included a comprehensive study on the funding opportunities for start-ups within the space industry, with a geographical evaluation for new space ventures.
Prior to her transition into the space industry, Ms. Sachdeva worked as a project engineer at Ford Motor Company Australia, leading various projects and new program launch activities at different sites, globally. The experience she has gained from the automotive industry, combined with her passion for the aerospace sector has helped Ms. Sachdeva in exploiting the conceptual and technological synergies between the two domains.
Current SSA landscape – the problem and the solution
The SSA value proposition and the applications for improved awareness
Space’s competitive landscape – ground and space-based solutions to SSA
SSA commercialisation, the problem and solution
16:30 Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day Two
Colonel Rafal Borek
Director, Defence Projects Department, Polish Space Agency
Dr Pascal Faucher
Chairman EU SST Consortium, CNES
Lieutenant Colonel Christoph Gross
Air Force Liaison Officer , German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Major General (Ret'd) Robert D. Rego
Strategic Missions Adviser to the Commander, US STRATCOM
Mr Kevin M. O Connell
Director, Office of Space Commerce, U.S. Department of Commerce
Mr Sean Goldsbrough
Senior Orbital Analyst, UK Space Agency
Ms Diana McKissock
SSA Sharing and Spaceflight Safety Lead, United States Air Force
Wing Commander Andy Hindley
Air Capability SO1 Space, Royal Air Force
Captain Brittany Stackhouse
Program Manager, SMC, US Air Force
Dr Douglas Hendrix
CEO, ExoAnalytic Solutions
Dr Francis Chun
Director, Center for Space Situational Awareness Research, United States Air Force Academy
Dr Simon George
Senior Scientist, DSTL
Dr Stuart Eves
Director, SJE Space
Dr Tim Flohrer
Senior Space Debris Monitoring Analyst, Space Situational Awareness Programme , European Space Agency
Klisman Murati
Director, Pangaea Wire
Lieutenant Colonel Walter Villadei
Head of Space Strategy and Operations Office, Air Force Staff, Italian Air Force
Lieutenant Commander Oystein Glomsvoll
Staff Officer, Space Programs , Norwegian MoD
Lieutentant Colonel Mia Walsh
Commander 18th Space Control Squadron, US Air Force
Major Petra Wijnja
Head Space Security Center NL, Royal Netherlands Air Force
Mr Andrew Ash
Principal Scientist, Dstl
Mr Kristofer Hallgren
Senior Analyst, FOI
Mr Matt Prechtel
Business Area Director for the Spectral Data Products and Federal Network Projects, Kratos
Mr Simon Machin
Met Office Space Weather Lead for Defence and Security, Met Office
Mr Tom Kubancik
Vice President of Advanced Programs, L3 Applied Defense Solutions
Ms Alexandra Stickings
Research Fellow, Space Policy and Security, Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)
Ms Emily Mills
Domestic Space Surveillance & Tracking Lead, UK Space Agency
Ms Laura Pirovano
Scholar, Surrey Space Centre
Ms Shagun Sachdeva
Senior Analyst, NSR
Ralph Dinsley
Director, Northern Space & Security Ltd
Squadron Leader (Ret'd) Ralph Dinsley
Associate & Founder, Reflecting Space
Wing Commander Steve Henry
Deputy Director – Surveillance of Space, Royal Australian Air Force
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March 30th - Fighting and Feats of Speed
Today was supposed to be Feats of Speed, but when I suggested it, Zephyr wasn't into it. "We're having a Pokemon battle," Zephyr said, and I didn't want to get in the way of him playing with his brother. So I watched them play a bit.
Feats of speed postponed for a Pokémon battle. I feel like I should insist on physical fitness but dudes are INTENSELY embroiled in imaginative play. #morningfunmanifesto
However, it descended into them fighting with each other. Way not cool. Zephyr took a toy from Lyric, Lyric grabbed it back, and Zephyr took it again. And then Lyric hit Zephyr in the face, and I immediately sent him into the corner for time out.
Zephyr was really upset (as would be anyone who was hit in the face). He had that delayed reaction, as if he couldn't believe what just happened, and then he started crying.
Importantly, I tried to remain calm. I didn't want to show too much sympathy for Zephyr, I wanted him to toughen up a bit and accept it.
This can be a hard lesson to learn, but that's my feeling on fighting: Brothers are going to fight. You have to allow that's going to happen. Obviously you can't encourage it, but you have to let them learn lessons from it. Let them learn to defend themselves, how to deal with adversity, how to respond, and how to forgive.
Zephyr is very sensitive, in so many ways.
His immune system is sensitive: He's been highly allergic to eggs and dairy (although he's gotten over those) and peanuts and sesame.
His nervous system is sensitive: he's EXCEPTIONALLY squirmy at the doctor's and dentist's office. His mom is a redhead, and as we found out during her pregnancy, redheads have been clinically proven to need 25% more anasthesia than people with other hair colors, so it's possible he just feels pain more vividly (Of course, Zephyr himself isn't a redhead, but those genes are very present in him).
Zephyr is definitely an emotionally sensitive young kid... he feels things very deeply. He's not at Wells For Boys level, but man oh man did that skit just NAIL it.
Sensitive people need to be able to experience the world on their own terms and they deserve that, but when you're raising a sensitive child you have to allow them to take a few hits and realize it's not the end of the world. So I didn't rush over to Zephyr, but instead kept my distance, verbally reassuring him that I saw everything and would handle it.
Zephyr really wants to be the one who can punish Lyric, but that responsibility is of course for Mom and Dad only. However, as sensitive as we've established Zephyr to be, I think on a certain level Zephyr is starting to see these moments as opportunities: getting toys through punishment. This is because I've started using the power of toy-taking justice.
For example, when Zephyr lost one of Lyric's Pokemon cards under the neighbor's rug, I decreed Lyric could take any of Zephyr's Pokemon cards in return. I felt like King Solomon on that one, I could tell just by their reactions that the judgement was fair and true. They're at an age where their individual property means a lot to them, where correctly dividing their stuffed animals between their bunk beds is of tantamount importance. So legislating who has what is a valuable chip to have over them.
So I sent Lyric to time out in the corner and talked to him, in front of Zephyr, about how wrong it is to hit your brother. I stressed how conflicts should NEVER come to violence. I forced them both to run down the hall for Feats of Speed. And I told Zephyr to leave the room while I had a moment alone with Lyric. Zephyr hit Lyric a bit with the door on the way out, which I bet was intentional, but I allowed it.
I told Lyric he has to get better at letting things go, and he has to be nicer to his brother. And I held him and put him in my lap to help get on his sneakers. And then we went outside to race in the hallway.
My neighbor was throwing away something in the compactor room. We waited for her to get back in her apartment, and then gave Lyric a five second head start. And then Zephyr ran to catch up with him. It looked pretty tight, and then Zephyr pushed past Lyric and Lyric fell to the ground, crying. Again, looking back on it, I think this also probably was intentional retribution by Zephyr. But that's allowable fighting for brothers.
I comforted Lyric, checked for him that he was okay and not bleeding, and let them try racing again. Our other neighbor's kids had come out to see what we were doing. The tears stopped and everyone went to race together.
Lot of lessons learned this morning.
March 31st - Juice Crew and Breakdancing (Cancelled), New Schedule for April
March 29th - Sweet Ninja Moves
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Facebook Faces Fine For Allegedly Violating Seattle’s ad Transparency Law
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Facebook is facing a hefty fine after the city of Seattle, in Washington, accused the social media giant of violating its political ad transparency law. According to the claims, Facebook violated the state’s 1977 campaign finance law, which states that those who accept advertising dollars from political campaigns be transparent with the public about the “exact nature and extent of the advertising services”.
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News portal Fast Company reported that if Facebook is found at fault, it could be liable for $5,000 per violation. Under state law, advertisers who provide political advertising during a campaign must make available the names and addresses of the people it accepted the ads from, the exact nature and extent of the advertising and the “consideration and the manner of paying”.
“Though the law was initially enacted in 1977, it is interpreted to apply to all forms of advertisements, including print, television, radio and Internet,” the report pointed out.
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In December, a Seattle newspaper, The Stranger, requested 2017 state election ad data from Facebook. On failure to get a satisfactory response, Wayne Barnett, Executive Director of the Seattle Ethics and Elections Commission, sent Facebook a letter giving the company until January 2 to comply with the request. At that time, Facebook requested a 30-day extension, which was granted. Last Friday, the social media giant served a two-page spreadsheet which Barnett said fell short of providing the information required by law.
The document lists candidate names, their Facebook page names, Facebook page addresses, total spend, service provided and manner of payment. “The problem is that a lot of the information Facebook provided seems limited and it does not match with the disclosure filings from the candidates themselves,” the report said. The Stranger claimed that the possible reason for the mismatched numbers was that many of those Facebook ads were purchased through third parties, like political consultants, and not directly through the candidates’ own Facebook pages.
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Shaky Start For Djokovic In Cincinnati, Venus, Tsonga Fall; Federer, Murray, Serena Wednesday
by Staff | August 12th, 2014, 11:17 pm
After flaming out of Toronto last week to Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in one of his worst career losses, Novak Djokovic began his quest for a first Cincinnati title with a shaky 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 second round win over Gilles Simon.
The World No. 1 who is trying to become the first player to win all nine Masters titles – only missing Cincinnati – was down a break in the first, blew a break lead in the second before finally putting away the Frenchman in a rain-affected third.
“I think I did well for the most of the match,” Djokovic said. “End of the second, start of the third wasn’t that great, but I try to take positives from every match. I know I’m not playing at the level yet where I want to be and it’s obvious, but I keep on pushing myself.
“Every day is a new challenge to try to look out for a better game tomorrow and after tomorrow, and hopefully it’s going to come.”
Earlier, red-hot Toronto champion Tsonga fizzled against Mikhail Youzhny. Tsonga, who had beaten four straight Top 10 guys last week, put up little opposition in a 6-1, 6-4 lackluster loss to Youzhny.
“It’s never easy,” said Tsonga. “You have to get used to the conditions really quick… I just gave everything on court, but I didn’t have enough today to compete at the good level.”
Among other winners were Marin Cilic, Robby Ginepri, Stan Wawrinka, Ernests Gulbis and Vasek Pospisil who saved three matchpoints to beat Radek Stepanek.
In the women’s event, Montreal finalist Venus Williams ran out of gas against Lucie Safarova falling 6-7(2), 6-3, 6-4.
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“It was definitely a quick turnaround,” Venus said. “But she just played so well. No matter what shot I hit, she hit a winner, or if I hit it really deep, she somehow managed to control it down the line. I think she got a little tight at 5-1, so I had some chances to come back, but that’s a deep hole. Sometimes it’s just tough to play opponents who are hitting everything off every shot. She managed to do that today.”
Maria Sharapova also went three sets but she came out ahead edging young American Madison Keys 6-1, 3-6, 6-3.
“Against Madison, someone who serves really well, it’s always one or two moments that are really crucial in the match,” Sharapova said. “In the first set I returned quite well and broke her a few times. She got a bit more consistent on her groundstrokes in the second set and there were some moments at the beginning of that second set where I felt that I could have taken the lead and broken her. I didn’t do that, and she stepped it up and was able to break me a couple more times.
“But ultimately I was happy with the beginning of the third set. That was really crucial.”
Caroline Wozniacki, Sara Errani, Sloane Stephens and Svetlana Kuznetsova were among the other winners.
Former No. 1 and defending champion Victoria Azarenka withdrew from the event with a right knee injury.
“Unfortunately I won’t be playing in Cincinnati this year. But I had to make the best decision for me. I will definitely be back next year,” she wrote on twitter.
Azarenka beat Serena in a third set tiebreaker in one of the best title matches of 2013.
In the late match Simona Halep made a strong hardcourt debut ousting former Wimbledon semifinalist Kirsten Flipkens 6-4, 6-2.
On tap Wednesday are 5-time champion Roger Federer, Andy Murray, Serena William, Eugenie Bouchard and Gael Monfils who will be a curious nighttime attraction against Roberto Bautista-Agut.
WEDNESDAY CINCINNATI SCHEDULE
CENTER COURT start 11:00 am
ATP – [8] A Murray (GBR) vs J Sousa (POR)
WTA – [1] S Williams (USA) vs S Stosur (AUS)
ATP – V Pospisil (CAN) vs [2] R Federer (SUI)
WTA – [7] E Bouchard (CAN) vs S Kuznetsova (RUS)
ATP – [13] R Bautista Agut (ESP) vs G Monfils (FRA)
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Tags: Andy Murray, Caroline Wozniacki, Ernests Gulbis, Gael Monfils, Gilles Simon, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Maria Sharapova, Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer, Stanislas Wawrinka, Venus Williams
32 Comments for Shaky Start For Djokovic In Cincinnati, Venus, Tsonga Fall; Federer, Murray, Serena Wednesday
Well, that is how tough it is to follow up on your performance back-to-back. After a superlative performance at Montreal, Tsonga just gave it up at Cincinnati unable to compete and gave it on a platter to Youzhny. In the light of this, you can just go back to last year when Rafa won Montreal, Cincinnati and US Open on a trot and the magnitude of his achievement would just sink in on us.
@Michael We seldom see these guys who beat top ranked players back it up. We’ve seen them play lights out and then be wore down the next week. Excessive training, being in the best possible shape, creates stamina. These factors separate the men from the boys. The top guys are in amazing shape and that’s why they stay at the top…..imo.
Speaking of Rafa, just think how hard he had to train to put himself in that position again. An amazing fete to say the least!
Simon is a tough out for anyone, especially in the first round. Bad luck of the draw for both that they met this early, so not surprising it went 3.
Re; Tsonga is a rythim player also. Wonder if the conditions were slower and combined with this quick turn around did him in… remember, he is not a Fed, Nadal, Murray or Nole. Just goes to show you just can’t have mojo, but carry that consistent mojo to different speeds and be consistent throughout the year. Something this 29 yr old has had troubles doing.
Okiegal,
That is the difference between a Great Player and a Good player. Great players do something different on court to merit their status. For instance, Tsonga is a very talented player who can produce extraordinary shots with insane angles on his day, but he will look pretty ordinary the next day bewildering viewers as to whether this was exactly the one who played a day earlier ? Fortunately, for Tsonga his form didn’t desert him till the end of the tournament which made him annex the coveted title. Talking about the creamy top, it is just two who are pretty consistent these days – one is Novak and the other is Rafa. And the other two namely Roger and Andy, while the former’s consistency is suffering due to his age, the later has some physical issues which is not allowing his normal play.
@Skeezer…..spot on with your last paragraph. That is exactly what I wanted to say but couldn’t come up with the right words….too much thinking! LOL
You are so right, that is the difference between a great player and a good one. I think about Monfils. He is so talented but I’m gonna say a little on the lazy order to want to be a great player. If he trained like Novak, Roger, Rafa….He could be fantastic. I realize Tsonga and Gael have had some injury woes, but who hasn’t? They just don’t put out the effort to be great, imo.
As Skeezer said, Tsonga has had trouble being consistent in his career. I remember the Aussie Open when he thumped Rafa good and proper. I thought to myself, wow, this kid is going to be a contender, but he really hasn’t been. When he’s on …..very dangerous. But I have to say, Novak looked ill to me the day they played. I couldn’t see the fight in Novak’s eyes. His heart wasn’t in it.
Steve 27 Says:
Well, Tsonga is a head case after all,
The french tennis provide a great players but not provide a great champions.
c’est la vie, après tout. aucun goût d’occasions manquées.
deja vu éternelle.
fed should have won in toronto. he lost his 5th final of the year. very consistent performance throughout 2014 . tsonga on the other hand had a not so good 2014 and wins toronto right away.
fed should be more egoistic , not so generous to other players ,-)))
RZ Says:
Tsonga’s last two weeks are proof, once more, that it is easier to knock off the members of the big 4 than it is to become a member of the big 4.
Polo Says:
RZ, I like your comment. Very concise, very precise, very true.
tsonga, dimitrov, berdych all out
oh tsonga. all the hype of you becoming a threat at the US Open. just not enough consistency to be at the top week in, week out. IMO berdych is on the downhill slide. the next wave of young players will push him down the rankings.
@Polo – Thanks!
Cincy is sllllooowwwww….
courbon Says:
That is goooooooddddd…( for Novak )
Yes it issssssss
Win #300 @ the Masters level. Congrats Fed, you’re through!!
Hippy Chic Says:
Great win for Roger against and up and coming young talent,and congrats on 300 Masters level wins,another record….
Purcell Says:
Pospisil has a strong head on his shoulders. No nonsense, nothing too fancy, just gets on with it. Good, skilful match by both and pretty hilarious interview with Fed on Sky. Congrats on 300 you old devil…sorry…you little devil.
Fed gave a world class interview with JG after the match. Then went directly brhind him to the legion of fans and continued to sign autographs. Awesome model for the game.
thark Says:
It’s possible I’ll take some heat for generalizing here, but it just seems like the French contingent of ATP don’t really mind losing all that much. Gasquet, Monfils, Tsonga – they all seem to just sorta shrug and move on. Normally I would think this is a healthy response, but if you are too sane you lose the hunger. Rafa, Nole, Fed, you can tell losing just devours them. They hate it so much, no matter how many wins they have to balance it out. There isn’t anyone on the French team that seems to feel that way. Maybe it’s cultural, maybe it’s coincidence, IDK.
Anyway, who am I to judge, Monfils is a hell of a dancer, but all the time these guys spend dancing, Rafa is on the practice courts trying to add one more RPM…
Cincy used to be lightning fast a few years ago.
@RZ 11:40
True dat!!
Wog boy Says:
Who is watching Gulbis? Is he playing bad or Johnson is playing good.
Is Thomas Berdych in decline?. I remember Roddick losing against Lu in Wimbledon 4 years ago. Is the beginning of the end to the Czech?
Well, as I said before, that was short lived addiction. Gulbis is out.
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=733676210039402&substory_index=0&id=229522267121468
Berdych seems on a decline, he is not making quarters as his ranks show. Let’s see if the trend continues but I rather see a fresh name on WTF instead of having him there to be punch bag for everybody else.
Humble Rafa Says:
While you are doodling over some guy’s 300th master’s win, check out my win loss record on the masters.
Also ask your reasonable brain, how long can this record last.
Agut has no gut. Monfiks breaks his serve on the 1rst game of the second, and he is folding like a quesadilla.
Things to do before you go to bed
1) watch lesser players play
2) Stir up Skeeze
3) Prep for doctor visit
4) Turn off lights
5) Go to bed hoping no injury will occur while asleep
I sleep good every night. Apparently some struggle with injuries while sleeping. I am sorry about that. Get well soon. Whilst getting well, enjoy watching Feds tweeners and 17 all time best Slams.
Nighty night.
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Sitan Dama vs Tartessos A.C.
30571 at Nostromo Dome
Referee: Ben Armstrong
Homefield: STRONG [0] Discipline: STRICT [24]
1. Greg Tansey (AFC) 5
2. Michael Nardone (BAL) 4
3. Cani (AFC) 4
4. Daniel Podence (USL) 4
6. Glen Coe (BAL) 4
7. Martin Wilkie (MVV) 4
8. Les Charmes (ORP) 4
1. Unsporting 6 0 1 16 3 18
2. Aberdon 5 0 2 15 8 15
3. Orpington 4 0 3 14 13 12
4. Caley 4 0 3 7 6 12
5. Ballingry 3 2 2 20 13 11
6. Narainn 3 2 2 8 8 11
7. Colony 3 1 3 7 7 10
8. Tartessos 3 0 4 9 16 9
9. Reading 2 2 3 4 6 8
10. Sitan 1 3 3 7 10 6
11. Spartak 2 0 5 3 10 6
12. Clarendon 0 2 5 5 15 2
Sitan v Tartessos
Reading v Caley
Orpington v Narainn
Clarendon v Colony
Ballingry v Spartak
Unsporting v Aberdon
Sitan Dama - Adam Meney
GK Brown Jenkins 4 21 100 n
DF Shai Hulud 3 24 85 n
DF Tony Dungy 6 16 77 n
DF Cameron Benque 1 16 69 n
DF Hector Branch 5 13 100 n
DF Clarke Gribble 0 15 60 n
MF Crispin La Roque [c] 5 20 79 n
MF Cairn Sana 2 21 100 n
WG Danté 2 25 83 n
FW Gabriel Roman 3 27 74 n
FW Randall Sinn 0 12 100 n
GK Urhua Fiorenzi 2 25 54 n
DF Wilbur Whateley 4 18 58 n
MF Dexter Drake 5 14 80 n
FW Ben Aros 6 16 100 n
FW Alexei Mikhaylichenko 4 21 49 n
Tartessos A.C. - Fran Morillo
GK Mitchel Webb 3 26 73 n
DF Marlon Scorsetti 2 23 97 n
DF Gavin Trout 3 21 74 n
DF Marc Bartra 3 18 66 n
DF Robin Mulgrew 4 20 75 n
MF Paul Rubble 3 22 76 n
MF Julius Asanghe 3 22 73 n
WG Pedro Santamaria 6 16 78 n
FW Arthur Pattersson 5 20 98 n
FW Harry Smylie 3 21 74 n
FW Vlada Stosic 4 24 74 n
SW Carter Blythe 3 20 49 p
DF Murphy MacManus 7 13 88 n
DF Micky Droy 6 12 100 n
MF Parker Haynes 5 12 98 n
FW Paul Marvin 5 15 44 p
Sitan Dama open up with a 5-2-3 formation.
The Saints start with a Normal tactics.
Fran Morillo sets up the Tartessos in a 4-2-4 formation.
The Tartessos are opening the match with Normal tactics.
Julius Asanghe (TAR) wants to stop time wasting but he is deemed too close to the goalkeeper preventing release. YELLOW CARD!
A one-two between Gabriel Roman (SIT) and Tony Dungy keeps the Tartessos A.C. defence on it`s toes…
Harry Smylie (TAR) makes a grave error against Sitan Dama...
...he throws himself into the tackle and misses...
...Shai Hulud (SIT) finds the ball at his feet and shoots…
Save!!! Saved sweetly by Mitchel Webb (TAR).
Patient play from Sitan Dama…
…Gabriel Roman (SIT) and Gabriel Roman happy to keep hold of the ball making the defence work…
Gabriel Roman (SIT) collects on that right flank...
...his cross ricochets to the Argentinian striker Danté (SIT)…
GOAL!!! Danté (SIT)! He slots it under Mitchel Webb (TAR) and into the back of the net!!!
Gabriel Roman (SIT) gets the assist on his stat sheet.
Score Now: SIT 1 - 0 TAR.
A great spell of possession football from Tartessos…
…Sitan Dama are on the back foot and struggling to keep their formation…
…This could be a chance now for Tartessos A.C.…
Cameron Benque (SIT) comes in from nowhere to nick the ball…
...Arthur Pattersson (TAR) still does not know what happened…
…Away and out of danger for Sitan Dama!
Tidy interplay between Tony Dungy (SIT) and Tony Dungy…
…Sitan Dama have forged themselves a great chance…
A great pass from Tony Dungy (SIT) finds Cairn Sana (SIT)…
…he tries a wildly ambitious effort…
GOAL!!! Cairn Sana (SIT)! He knocks the ball past the onrushing Mitchel Webb (TAR)!!!
Tony Dungy`s involvement was key.
Hector Branch (SIT) rides a challenge in midfield…
… He flicks the ball through the Tartessos defense to Randall Sinn (SIT) who gets behind the defence…
Randall Sinn`s cross from the right...
...finds the feet of Shai Hulud (SIT)...
...he jinks and turns and fires at goal…
...flies over the goal. A missed opportunity for Sitan Dama!
Tony Dungy (SIT) picks up a long clearance and heads toward the byline…
…He flicks it onto Tony Dungy…
…This looks like a good chance…
Tony Dungy (SIT) in space inside the area...
...he slices his shot but it finds Gabriel Roman (SIT)...
GOAL!!! Gabriel Roman (SIT)! An emphatic finish!!!
A neat interchange of passes between Pedro Santamaria (TAR) and Harry Smylie…
…Tartessos A.C. have some space to build something…
Fabulous move from Harry Smylie (TAR) as he plays through Julius Asanghe…
…He fires in a shot…
Save!!! A great reaction from the keeper to deny Julius Asanghe (TAR)…
…Sitan Dama fight on.
Randall Sinn (SIT) looks up and spots Danté (SIT) arriving in the box…
…The Jamaican tees up Danté…
Great tackle by Vlada Stosic (TAR) to prevent Randall Sinn (SIT) from scoring…
…Precise tackling from the Tartessos A.C. player.
Adam Meney makes a personnel change…
…Urhua Fiorenzi (SIT) on for Brown Jenkins (SIT) at GK.
HALFTIME: Sitan Dama: 3 - 0 :Tartessos A.C.
A lot of huff and puff but no end results.
The ball arrives at Arthur Pattersson (TAR)…
...Cameron Benque (SIT) stick`s in a foot to challenge…
...Arthur Pattersson (TAR) drags it away from the tackle and keeps possession...
...He finds Vlada Stosic (TAR) who has space to advance…
...Crispin La Roque (SIT) tries to bring him down...
...Ben Armstrong waves play on...
...Vlada Stosic (TAR) could be through here...
Cameron Benque (SIT) muscles Arthur Pattersson (TAR) off the ball before he can control…
…Ben Armstrong says it`s legal…
…Great play from Cameron Benque.
Robin Mulgrew (TAR) takes on Danté (SIT) and beats him…
…Harry Smylie keeps up and takes over the attack…
…Tartessos A.C. could have a chance here…
Robin Mulgrew (TAR) takes control of the pass from Harry Smylie and smashes a shot on the spin…
...Urhua Fiorenzi (SIT) goes the wrong way but his shot curls inches wide! Robin Mulgrew (TAR) should have done better.
Adam Meney thinks it time to change tactics...
...He goes for Stall is the new option.
YELLOW CARD!!
...Cynical foul by Crispin La Roque (SIT). A clear booking.
The ball arrives at Danté (SIT)…
...Marlon Scorsetti (TAR) stick`s in a foot to challenge…
...Danté (SIT) drags it away from the tackle and keeps possession...
...He finds Gabriel Roman (SIT) who has space to advance…
...Julius Asanghe (TAR) tries to bring him down...
...Gabriel Roman (SIT) could be through here...
Julius Asanghe`s calamitous attempt at tackling frees up Gabriel Roman (SIT) on the right-hand side of the area...
...he takes it on and steers the coolest of passes to Cairn Sana (SIT) who shoots…
...wide of the net.
Tony Dungy (SIT) gets overlapped by Gavin Trout (TAR)…
…He threads it to Paul Rubble (TAR) who is get clear…
Sitan Dama are rocking at the back...
…Paul Rubble (TAR) comes in from the left flank unchallenged...
…He slots in Vlada Stosic (TAR) who shoots…
Save!!! Urhua Fiorenzi (SIT) gets a touch but can`t stop it...
...but his touch causes it to drift out of danger.
A change of aggression for Clarke Gribble (SIT). He now plays at p aggression.
FINAL: Sitan Dama: 3 - 0 :Tartessos A.C.
Man Of The Match: Gabriel Roman (SIT)
Sitan Dama 3 - 0 Tartessos A.C.
20 - Danté
35 - Cairn Sana
43 - Gabriel Roman
45 - Brown Jenkins
45 - Urhua Fiorenzi
67 - Crispin La Roque
30571 15 - Julius Asanghe
Sitan Dama Player Stats
GK Brown Jenkins 45 21 21 21 9 70 n 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 71
GK Urhua Fiorenzi 45 25 25 25 11 24 n 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 70
DF Shai Hulud 90 25 24 24 19 25 n 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 89
DF Tony Dungy 90 16 16 16 12 17 n 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 90
DF Cameron Benque 90 16 16 16 12 9 n 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 92
DF Hector Branch 90 13 13 13 10 40 n 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 82
DF Clarke Gribble 90 15 15 15 13 0 p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 82
DF Wilbur Whateley 0 18 18 18 14 57 n 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
MF Crispin La Roque [c] 90 21 20 20 20 19 n 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 76
MF Cairn Sana 90 22 21 21 18 40 n 0 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 90
MF Dexter Drake 0 14 14 14 12 79 n 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
WG Danté 90 26 25 25 22 23 n 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 90
FW Gabriel Roman 90 27 27 27 27 14 n 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 98
FW Randall Sinn 90 12 12 12 12 40 n 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 86
FW Ben Aros 0 16 16 16 16 99 n 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
FW Alexei Mikhaylichenko 0 21 21 21 21 48 n 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
GK Brown Jenkins 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Subbed Off
GK Urhua Fiorenzi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Subbed On
DF Shai Hulud 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Starter
DF Tony Dungy 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Starter
DF Cameron Benque 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Starter
DF Hector Branch 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Starter
DF Clarke Gribble 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Starter
DF Wilbur Whateley 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Unused Sub
MF Crispin La Roque [c] 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Starter
MF Cairn Sana 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Starter
MF Dexter Drake 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Unused Sub
WG Danté 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Starter
FW Gabriel Roman 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Starter
FW Randall Sinn 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Starter
FW Ben Aros 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Unused Sub
FW Alexei Mikhaylichenko 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Unused Sub
Tartessos A.C. Player Stats
GK Mitchel Webb 90 26 26 26 11 13 n 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 84
SW Carter Blythe 0 20 15 15 14 48 p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
DF Marlon Scorsetti 90 23 23 23 18 37 n 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 75
DF Gavin Trout 90 22 21 21 16 14 n 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 75
DF Robin Mulgrew 90 20 20 20 16 15 n 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 77
DF Marc Bartra 90 18 18 18 14 6 n 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 75
DF Murphy MacManus 0 13 13 13 10 87 n 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
DF Micky Droy 0 12 12 12 9 99 n 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
MF Paul Rubble 90 22 22 22 19 16 n 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 74
MF Julius Asanghe 90 22 18 18 19 13 n 4 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 71
MF Parker Haynes 0 12 12 12 12 97 n 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
WG Pedro Santamaria 90 16 16 16 14 18 n 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 80
FW Vlada Stosic 90 25 24 24 24 14 n 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 89
FW Harry Smylie 90 21 21 21 21 14 n 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 86
FW Arthur Pattersson 90 20 20 20 20 38 n 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 80
FW Paul Marvin 0 15 11 11 15 43 p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
GK Mitchel Webb 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Starter
SW Carter Blythe 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Unused Sub
DF Marlon Scorsetti 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Starter
DF Gavin Trout 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Starter
DF Robin Mulgrew 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Starter
DF Marc Bartra 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Starter
DF Murphy MacManus 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Unused Sub
DF Micky Droy 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Unused Sub
MF Paul Rubble 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Starter
MF Julius Asanghe 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Starter
MF Parker Haynes 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Unused Sub
WG Pedro Santamaria 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Starter
FW Vlada Stosic 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Starter
FW Harry Smylie 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Starter
FW Arthur Pattersson 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Starter
FW Paul Marvin 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Unused Sub
Min 1 : SIT | N : 5-2-3 | TOTALS : 50.4 / 127.6 / 144.7 | 6.3%
Min 1 : TAR | N : 4-2-4 | TOTALS : 49.2 / 109.7 / 142.2 | 4.7%
Min 61 : SIT | S : 5-2-3 | TOTALS : 50.4 / 158.1 / 93.2 | 2.0%
Min 61 : TAR | N : 4-2-4 | TOTALS : 49.2 / 109.7 / 142.2 | 3.4%
Sitan Dama
Assistant Coach: Gabriel Roman wins the Man of the Match Award.
Assistant Coach: Crispin La Roque earns a Captains Bonus. +1 SL.
Assistant Coach: Shai Hulud (SIT) played 90 minutes today and raised his SL by 1.
Assistant Coach: Cairn Sana (SIT) played 90 minutes today and raised his SL by 1.
Assistant Coach: Danté (SIT) played 90 minutes today and raised his SL by 1.
Assistant Coach: Clarke Gribble Trade Embargo reduced by 1.
Assistant Coach: Randall Sinn (SIT) now has 540 mins of match experience and has gained his 5th SL bonus.
Tartessos A.C.
Assistant Coach: Gavin Trout (TAR) played 90 minutes today and raised his SL by 1.
Assistant Coach: Vlada Stosic (TAR) played 90 minutes today and raised his SL by 1.
Min 15 : TAR - YELLOW
Min 16 : SIT - SHOT - SAVED
Min 20 : SIT - SHOT - GOAL - ASSISTED
Min 29 : TAR - SHOT - KEY TACKLE
Min 37 : SIT - SHOT - OFF TARGET
Min 43 : SIT - SHOT - GOAL
Min 44 : TAR - SHOT - SAVED
Min 45 : SIT - SHOT - KEY TACKLE
Min 59 : TAR - SHOT - OFF TARGET
Min 67 : SIT - YELLOW
7. Bill Parcells (ORP) 4
7. Narainn 3 2 3 8 11 11
8. Sitan 2 3 3 10 10 9
10. Reading 2 2 4 5 8 8
Reading Rattlers 1 - 2 M.V.V. Caledonian
21 - Henry Dremen
70 - Dan Deed
70 - Cass Tiel
91 - Fraser McGowan
45 - Buck Fast
45 - Kenneth Vannan
78 - Diego Planeta
79 - Gros Manseng
81 - Opus One
84 - Martin Wilkie (p)
Orpington Inkspots 3 - 0 Inbhir Narainn
2 - Remington Typewriter
28 - Remington Typewriter
63 - Les Charmes
70 - Norman Capitals
70 - Narcissus
17 - William Connor
45 - Sparkle Cat
45 - Theo Hernández
45 - Teferi
48 - Alice Blake
Clarendon Park Rangers 1 - 1 Old Colony F.C.
17 - Sheldon Cohen
59 - Ray Galton
91 - Kofi Annan
38 - Dušan Mirković
38 - Albert Kropp
45 - Donny Kerabatsos
45 - Etienne Navarre
55 - Fritz Robinson
Ballingry United 3 - 1 Spartak Rangers
45 - Ronnie McNeish
75 - Alex McClure
89 - Glen Coe
88 - Yersiz Tersasteela
Unsporting Lisbon 1 - 3 Aberdon F.C.
45 - Al Pacino
45 - Rui Patricio
45 - Andre Pinto
45 - Tom Page
52 - Bob Kane
71 - Neal Stephenson
12 - Tachi
30 - Cani
91 - Jim Leighton
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St Pauli Pirates vs Asteria Kromatos
21525 at The Crows Nest
Referee: Brian Wake
St Pauli Pirates are a rival of Asteria Kromatos
1. Al Phacentari (AK) 9
2. Richard Neudecker (SPP) 7
3. Horst Haecks (SPP) 5
4. Marcus Bent (VOB) 5
5. Charlie Fleming (ADE) 4
6. Ernesto Mastrangelo (MVT) 4
7. Fernando Torres Jr (ADE) 4
8. Didier Drogba (COB) 4
1. Chelsea 7 4 3 20 11 25
2. Dutch 7 4 3 13 10 25
3. St Pauli 7 3 4 22 17 24
4. Asteria 6 5 3 16 11 23
5. Tricolores 6 3 5 13 17 21
6. Cascadia 5 5 4 12 10 20
7. Sorukoviso 6 2 6 17 15 20
8. Queens 5 4 5 14 11 19
9. Villa 5 3 6 17 20 18
10. Adelaidonians 4 3 7 12 13 15
11. West Coast 2 6 6 4 12 12
12. Gotham 2 2 10 7 20 8
Queens v Villa
St Pauli v Asteria
Cascadia v Tricolores
West Coast v Chelsea
Dutch v Adelaidonians
Sorukoviso v Gotham
St Pauli Pirates - Roy Rolsten
GK Korbinian Muller 2 24 83 n
SW Philipp Ziereis [c] 5 24 76 n
DF Clemens Schoppenhauer 2 26 82 n
DF Christopher Avevor 1 22 100 n
DF Luca Zander 3 20 90 n
MF Johannes Flum 0 15 100 n
MF Aziz Bouhaddouz 6 19 41 n
WG Dimitrios Diamantakos 0 15 100 n
WG Luis Coordes 2 26 59 n
FW Alex Meier 1 20 100 n
FW Horst Haecks 3 28 64 n
GK Philipp Tschauner 4 21 100 n
DF Daniel Buballa 4 16 83 n
DF Marvin Knoll 0 14 100 n
MF Richard Neudecker 1 22 54 n
FW Harry Cowlbeck 7 15 55 n
GK Jacob Allan Turner 5 20 92 n
DF Dene Bola 4 27 65 n
DF Keith Ain 5 20 78 n
DF Pollux Polydeuces 6 14 98 n
DF Martin Smith 2 15 96 n
MF Meryn Glarson 2 25 95 n
MF Oliver James Harrison 5 20 92 n
FW Gavin Trout 1 12 70 n
FW Castor Polydeuces 6 16 94 n
GK Teejay Woodall 2 12 100 n
MF Po Lestar 4 13 66 n
FW Fillipe Arcturus 7 11 75 n
Roy Rolsten starts St Pauli Pirates with a 4-2-4 formation.
The Buccaneers look to be using Normal tactics to begin with.
Asteria Kromatos look like they starting in a 5-2-3 formation.
The Crazy Tomatoes are opening the match with Normal tactics.
Buccaneers break forward with Luis Coordes (SPP) and Dimitrios Diamantakos…
…St Pauli Pirates look like they are building up to something…
The impressive Martin Smith (AK) is able to get the ball back to the goalkeeper…
…Calm defending from the Asteria Kromatos DF.
Crazy Tomatoes break forward with Rename (AK) and Dene Bola…
…Asteria Kromatos look like they are building up to something…
Dene Bola (AK) in space inside the area...
...he slices his shot but it finds Gavin Trout (AK)...
Save!!! Stopped by Korbinian Muller (SPP).
The ball arrives at Castor Polydeuces (AK)…
...Clemens Schoppenhauer (SPP) stick`s in a foot to challenge…
...Castor Polydeuces (AK) drags it away from the tackle and keeps possession...
...He finds Gavin Trout (AK) who has space to advance…
...Luca Zander (SPP) tries to bring him down...
...Brian Wake waves play on...
...Gavin Trout (AK) could be through here...
The ball is chipped back to the far post...
...where two Asteria Kromatos players are waiting...
...Castor Polydeuces out jumps Luca Zander (SPP)...
...and he powers a header at goal...
...into the stands. Castor Polydeuces (AK) should have done better.
Really great pressing from Asteria Kromatos…
…Their harrassment in the middle of the park has won them the ball…
…This could be a chance now for Asteria Kromatos…
Christopher Avevor (SPP) clears with ease and mops up the attack…
…Quality defending.
Now the ball comes to Dimitrios Diamantakos (SPP)…
…He pings it to Luca Zander (SPP) who has space to advance…
...Dene Bola (AK) stick`s out a boot to challenge…
...Luca Zander (SPP) rides the challenge and retains the ball…
The pass is deflected and spins back to Dimitrios Diamantakos (SPP)…
…He takes on the first time shot…
...But does not see Dene Bola (AK) who steal the ball from his toe and clears…
…Classy defending from the Asteria Kromatos player.
Crazy Tomatoes break forward with Rename (AK) and Castor Polydeuces…
Great tackle by Horst Haecks (SPP) to prevent Rename (AK) from scoring…
…Precise tackling from the St Pauli Pirates player.
Now the ball comes to Horst Haecks (SPP)…
…He pings it to Philipp Ziereis (SPP) who has space to advance…
...Philipp Ziereis (SPP) rides the challenge and retains the ball…
Horst Haecks (SPP) takes a heavy touch…
...Dene Bola (AK) steps in and clears the danger…
…Alert defending from the n/a.
Horst Haecks (SPP) picks up a loose ball…
...Dene Bola`s challenge was not strong enough…
...Horst Haecks (SPP) finds Alex Meier (SPP) in plenty of space…
...Brian Wake looks to his assistant for an offside but waves play on...
...Alex Meier (SPP) could have a chance here…
Alex Meier (SPP) collects on that right flank...
...his cross ricochets to the German striker Horst Haecks (SPP)...
…he shoots...
Save!!! Comfortably saved by Jacob Allan Turner (AK).
Philipp Ziereis (SPP) beats Pollux Polydeuces (AK) with a nice piece of skill…
…He finds Dimitrios Diamantakos who protects the ball well…
…Patient play from St Pauli Pirates who could have a chance here…
Philipp Ziereis (SPP) lines up for a strike at goal…
...Dene Bola (AK) is there to make a key tackle.
The ball is hooked forward towards Luca Zander (SPP) who takes on Dene Bola (AK)…
…Too easy for the St Pauli Pirates player…
…St Pauli Pirates could have a great opportunity here…
Luca Zander (SPP) breaks past Rename (AK)...
...and he rolls a low cross to Horst Haecks (SPP)...
...and Horst Haecks (SPP) sidefoots at goal…
Save!!! Slams the shot right at Jacob Allan Turner (AK) who makes the save.
Alex Meier (SPP) picks up a loose ball…
...Keith Ain`s challenge was not strong enough…
...Alex Meier (SPP) finds Philipp Ziereis (SPP) in plenty of space…
...Philipp Ziereis (SPP) could have a chance here…
Philipp Ziereis`s waited too long to pass…
…Alex Meier (SPP) is waiving his arms furiously at Philipp Ziereis…
…He is caught offside he needed the ball played up to him earlier.
Dimitrios Diamantakos (SPP) gets overlapped by Keith Ain (AK)…
…He threads it to Oliver James Harrison (AK) who is get clear…
Oliver James Harrison (AK) finds his teammate…
...Al Phacentari (AK) volleys a powerful shot from the right...
GOAL!!! Al Phacentari (AK)! His shot goes in!!!
Oliver James Harrison (AK) was pivotal in that move.
Score Now: SPP 0 - 1 AK.
Roy Rolsten pulls Harry Cowlbeck (SPP) back from his warm up…
…Harry Cowlbeck (SPP) on for Aziz Bouhaddouz (SPP) at MF.
St Pauli Pirates makes a change…
…Richard Neudecker (SPP) on for Luis Coordes (SPP) at MF.
HALFTIME: St Pauli Pirates: 0 - 1 :Asteria Kromatos
St Pauli Pirates change formation to 4-3-3.
Now the ball comes to Al Phacentari (AK)…
…He pings it to Gavin Trout (AK) who has space to advance…
...Horst Haecks (SPP) stick`s out a boot to challenge…
...Gavin Trout (AK) rides the challenge and retains the ball…
Richard Neudecker`s appalling attempt at a tackle frees up Gavin Trout (AK)...
...who knocks the ball onto the head of Al Phacentari (AK)...
GOAL!!! Al Phacentari (AK)! He knocks the ball past the onrushing Korbinian Muller (SPP)!!!
Quality contribution from Gavin Trout (AK).
A one-two between Alex Meier (SPP) and Horst Haecks keeps the Asteria Kromatos defence on it`s toes…
Fantastic defending from Keith Ain (AK)…
...Danger snuffed out.
Harry Cowlbeck (SPP) picks up a loose ball…
...Oliver James Harrison`s challenge was not strong enough…
...Harry Cowlbeck (SPP) finds Harry Cowlbeck (SPP) in plenty of space…
...Harry Cowlbeck (SPP) could have a chance here…
Harry Cowlbeck (SPP) spins and plays the ball to the right of the box...
…meeting the on-rushing Christopher Avevor (SPP) in his stride...
...Christopher Avevor (SPP) shoots…
OFF TARGET!! Christopher Avevor (SPP).
The ball arrives at Horst Haecks (SPP)…
...Keith Ain (AK) stick`s in a foot to challenge…
...Horst Haecks (SPP) drags it away from the tackle and keeps possession...
...He finds Dimitrios Diamantakos (SPP) who has space to advance…
...Rename (AK) tries to bring him down...
...Dimitrios Diamantakos (SPP) could be through here...
Dimitrios Diamantakos (SPP) gets a flick onto Harry Cowlbeck (SPP)...
...who reacts quicker than Rename (AK) in front of goal...
...Harry Cowlbeck (SPP) shoots…
...over the goal missing perhaps the easiest chance of the season.
FINAL: St Pauli Pirates: 0 - 2 :Asteria Kromatos
Man Of The Match: Dene Bola (AK)
St Pauli Pirates 0 - 2 Asteria Kromatos
45 - Aziz Bouhaddouz
45 - Harry Cowlbeck
45 - Luis Coordes
45 - Richard Neudecker
21525 42 - Al Phacentari
47 - Al Phacentari
St Pauli Pirates Player Stats
GK Korbinian Muller 90 24 24 24 10 23 n 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 83
GK Philipp Tschauner 0 21 21 21 9 99 n 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
SW Philipp Ziereis [c] 90 25 24 24 19 16 n 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 75
DF Clemens Schoppenhauer 90 26 26 26 20 22 n 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 76
DF Christopher Avevor 90 22 22 22 17 40 n 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 83
DF Luca Zander 90 20 20 20 16 30 n 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 79
DF Daniel Buballa 0 16 16 16 12 82 n 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
DF Marvin Knoll 0 14 14 14 11 99 n 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
MF Johannes Flum 90 15 15 15 13 40 n 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 74
MF Aziz Bouhaddouz 45 19 19 19 19 11 n 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 61
MF Richard Neudecker 45 22 22 22 19 4 n 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 63
MF Harry Cowlbeck 45 15 15 15 15 25 n 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 68
WG Dimitrios Diamantakos 90 15 15 15 13 40 n 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 83
WG Luis Coordes 45 26 26 26 23 29 n 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 65
FW Alex Meier 90 20 20 20 20 40 n 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 80
FW Horst Haecks 90 28 28 28 28 4 n 0 0 2 2 2 0 0 0 1 0 93
GK Korbinian Muller 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Starter
GK Philipp Tschauner 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Unused Sub
SW Philipp Ziereis [c] 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Starter
DF Clemens Schoppenhauer 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Starter
DF Christopher Avevor 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Starter
DF Luca Zander 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Starter
DF Daniel Buballa 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Unused Sub
DF Marvin Knoll 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Unused Sub
MF Johannes Flum 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Starter
MF Aziz Bouhaddouz 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Subbed Off
MF Richard Neudecker 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Subbed On Blackened Toe
MF Harry Cowlbeck 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Subbed On
WG Dimitrios Diamantakos 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Starter
WG Luis Coordes 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Subbed Off
FW Alex Meier 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Starter
FW Horst Haecks 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Starter
GK Jacob Allan Turner 90 20 20 20 9 32 n 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 92
GK Teejay Woodall 0 12 12 12 5 99 n 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
DF Dene Bola 90 27 27 27 21 5 n 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 101
DF Keith Ain 90 20 20 20 16 18 n 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 91
DF Pollux Polydeuces 90 14 14 14 14 38 n 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 86
DF Martin Smith 90 15 12 12 15 36 n 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 91
MF Meryn Glarson 90 25 20 20 25 35 n 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 78
MF Oliver James Harrison 90 20 20 20 20 32 n 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 83
MF Po Lestar 0 13 13 13 11 65 n 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
FW Castor Polydeuces 90 16 16 16 16 34 n 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 83
FW Gavin Trout 90 13 12 12 12 10 n 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 94
FW Fillipe Arcturus 0 11 11 11 11 74 n 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
GK Jacob Allan Turner 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Starter
GK Teejay Woodall 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Unused Sub
DF Dene Bola 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Starter
DF Keith Ain 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Starter
DF Pollux Polydeuces 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Starter
DF Martin Smith 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Starter
MF Meryn Glarson 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 90 0 Starter
MF Oliver James Harrison 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Starter
MF Po Lestar 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Unused Sub
FW Castor Polydeuces 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Starter
FW Gavin Trout 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Starter
FW Fillipe Arcturus 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Unused Sub
Min 1 : SPP | N : 4-2-4 | TOTALS : 58.0 / 134.0 / 174.9 | 9.1%
Min 1 : AK | N : 5-2-3 | TOTALS : 51.0 / 111.6 / 114.6 | 2.1%
Min 46 : SPP | N : 4-3-3 | TOTALS : 58.0 / 142.0 / 149.0 | 6.4%
Min 46 : AK | N : 5-2-3 | TOTALS : 51.0 / 111.6 / 114.6 | 2.0%
St Pauli Pirates
Team Physio: Richard Neudecker picked up a slight Blackened Toe during the game suffering a small EL hit of -20.
Assistant Coach: Philipp Ziereis (SPP) played 90 minutes today and raised his SL by 1.
Assistant Coach: Gavin Trout (AK) played 90 minutes today and raised his SL by 1.
Min 2 : SPP - SHOT - KEY TACKLE
Min 2 : AK - SHOT - SAVED
Min 8 : AK - SHOT - OFF TARGET
Min 15 : AK - SHOT - KEY TACKLE
Min 18 : SPP - SHOT - KEY TACKLE
Min 29 : SPP - SHOT - SAVED
Min 36 : SPP - SHOT - OFFSIDE
Min 42 : AK - SHOT - GOAL - ASSISTED
Min 83 : SPP - SHOT - OFF TARGET
1. Al Phacentari (AK) 11
4. Xurxo (SSK) 5
8. Marco Van Gasten (TDM) 4
Queens Rangers 2 - 4 Villa Old Boys
6 - Ryan Denaro
22 - Michael Kennedy
63 - Dean Denaro
71 - David Sloane (p)
22 - Marcus Bent (p)
58 - Marcus Bent
61 - Stileon Petrov
71 - Frank Harris
91 - Ed Williams
Cascadia United F.C. 3 - 0 Montevideo Tricolores
1 - Mo Jordan
49 - Gustav Svensson
51 - Sol Hopeman
70 - Yerry Mina
87 - Falcon Rodriguez
46 - Nicolas Lopez
51 - Agustin Rogel (p)
West Coast Raiders 0 - 1 Chelsea Old Boys
34 - Jim Capaldi
38 - Kevin De Bruyne
The Dutch Masters 1 - 2 Adelaidonians F.C.
7 - Marco Van Gasten (p)
7 - Fernando Torres Jr
17 - David Weir
31 - Harry Knight
31 - J K Rowling
46 - Alex Papadopoulos
81 - Marco Papperson
91 - Shaun ODoyle
Sparta Sorukoviso 4 - 2 Gotham City Knights
3 - Xurxo
7 - Robson Cordeiro
15 - Robson Cordeiro
43 - Mekere Kina
45 - Rock Singh
45 - Reiva Fruvius
45 - Constantin
45 - Yuri Lubyanka
27 - Jon Stewart
49 - Ricardo Carvalho
58 - Kara Zor-El (p)
73 - Alfred Beck
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Don't be a Dodo
By Alyssa Ruane
Today’s printers must cultivate a shift in mindset to match the changing buyer. So, when the buying habits and tendencies change, so should you.
Once upon a time, printers defined themselves as product suppliers. They’d send salespeople to various customers to discuss what the printer could offer, formulate a bid, and wait. If the printer won the customer, it would deliver the products and hopefully develop a lasting relationship.
But that’s not how it works these days. Today’s printers believe that adding new capabilities and services – more clips in the chamber, if you will – helps keep them relevant.
Mark Steputis is still mesmerized by the scope of technology that continues to hit the print landscape. “Technology has evened the playing field as far as who’s a good printer,” says Steputis, president and CEO of Denver-based Vision Graphics, Inc. “It has neutralized any manufacturing superiority that people might have.”
And with the introduction of new software and techniques like G7 and digital proofing, among many other game-changers, quality is the difference maker for today’s printers. What makes you more valuable than the printer down the street is what you can deliver, how it is delivered and when. “The challenge is, if you continue to only supply components, the competition is fierce,” Steputis says. “The margins are tiny, and the expectations are as high as ever.”
Today’s printers must cultivate a shift in mindset to match the changing buyer. Why? More than anything else, the way consumers buy today continues to change. So, when the buying habits and tendencies change, so should you.
“I believe customers have grown wary of having eight printers they get prices from, receiving products from different vendors, and trying to coordinate it all,” Steputis says. “That requires staff on their end, too. That traditional sales model of having a salesperson get a quote and bring it back is becoming automated.”
Sarah Scudder believes that every printer must have a deep understanding of today’s print client and know exactly what it is they want. Scudder is CEO of ProcureIt5, a print management company that specializes in print procurement and buys on behalf of clients. And from what she sees, the print client is an entirely different animal than it was in the past.
“Buyers are a lot younger now,” she says. “The typical buyer used to be a white man over the age of 50. But now the buyer can be potentially ethnic, female or a Millennial. The way they want to buy and the solution they want are very different than buyers of the past. More and more companies value procurement and supply chain, making significant investments to drive cost-saving and efficiency. It’s shifted the way companies buy. The buying decision was once made by one, maybe two people, but the average sale now has six to 10 buyers.”
And technology, as with so many other industries, has disrupted the way consumers shop around. “Buyers now do 80 percent of their research before even speaking to someone on the sales team,” Scudder says. “Millennials don’t want to talk to people. They want to do their research online.”
This means big changes for printers. Evolving sales teams. New technology. Dynamic marketing protocols. The transition is still difficult for some traditional printers to pull off.
Scudder has seen, firsthand, the potential push-back from more traditional industry peers. The scenario has played out more than she cares to admit. “I have experienced several situations and environments where it was a big change for people to consider new ways of thinking and working with a younger demographic,” she says.
“It has been very difficult to transition members of the sales team to a newer model,” Steputis explains. “It’s not what they know; it’s not what they were initially hired for. You have to stop wishing they were different and let them do what they do. Maybe that means we need to find different individuals with different ideas about how they want to engage with customers.”
Those “different ideas” Steputis references have a lot to do with the new procurement model both his company and ProcureIt5 have implemented. The B2B buying process not only demands a new selling recipe, but also a different level of discussion with clients. Steputis says the old sales model had printers talking about themselves, their reputations and their equipment list. But now, printers like Vision Graphics, Inc. are asking the clients more about their goals and any problems they’re experiencing.
Both Vision Graphics, Inc. and ProcureIt5 use their own proprietary software for print procurement. The objective of each piece of software is similar: to make the procurement process more automated, easier and more efficient. In turn, automated procurement allows these companies to provide clients with more complete solutions. By bringing the many needs of one client to a single printer, it allows that printer to fully serve the client and build stronger, more strategic partnerships.
“What we do hasn’t changed,” Steputis says of his company, which has been in business since 1952 (he has been there for 31 years). “What’s changed is how we interact with our customer, how we relate to that customer and how we obtain that customer.”
Instead of just delivering product and detaching themselves from the project, the new sales model suggests printers be more in-tune with their client’s goals. It’s all about finding an integrated solution. That’s why many printers have transitioned to marketing solutions providers (MSPs), even though the bulk of what they do – print – remains a prominent part of their resources.
So, while printers like Vision Graphics, Inc. and ProcureIt5 are not going to disappear into the sunset, they will continue to adapt to new landscape. “Eventually you reach a tipping point where you realize you’re having more success with the new model of client interaction,” Steputis says. “And you see how challenging and frustrating the old model is. In order to make a change like this, it has to be deliberate.”
Today, with new technology, new print procurement models and a number of new opportunities to engage with their customers, printers are moving into a new age of development. Scudder believes that companies are being smarter with dollars and resources and finding new ways to market to customers and involve print.
The key is to stop listening to those who proclaim that print is dead. “I don’t think it’s true,” Scudder says. “I think printing has changed and the way people use print is very different, but I don’t think print is dead. It’s not going away.”
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More info on 1975 NBA Finals
Series Summary
1975 NBA Finals: Wikis
Categories: 1975 in basketball > Washington Bullets > Golden State Warriors > National Basketball Association Finals
Team Coach Wins
Golden State Warriors Al Attles 4
Washington Bullets K.C. Jones 0
Dates: May 18 - May 25
MVP: Rick Barry
(Golden State Warriors)
Television: CBS (U.S.)
Announcers: Brent Musburger and Oscar Robertson
Game 1: Earl Strom and Joe Gushue
Game 2: Darell Garrettson and Richie Powers
Game 3: Jake O'Donnell and Don Murphy
Game 4: Richie Powers and Manny Sokol
Hall of Famers: Rick Barry (1987)
Elvin Hayes (1990)
Wes Unseld (1988)
Coaches:
K.C. Jones (1989, player)
Eastern Finals: Bullets defeat Celtics, 4-2
Western Finals: Warriors defeat Bulls, 4-3
< 1974 NBA Finals 1976 >
The 1975 NBA World Championship Series was the championship round of the 1974-75 NBA season of the National Basketball Association. The Golden State Warriors (48-34) of the Western Conference played against the Washington Bullets (60-22) of the Eastern Conference. The series was played under a best-of-seven format.
The Warriors' home games were played at Cow Palace in San Francisco due to scheduling conflicts at their normal home court of Oakland Arena during the week of May 19-26. In addition, an odd scheduling format had to be used because Golden State could not secure Cow Palace for Memorial Day Weekend (May 24-26). A Sports Illustrated article about the series reported that Washington, which held home court advantage, was given the option of a 1-2-2-1-1 scheduling format due to Golden State's problems or, if they wished, opening on the road and then having Games 2, 3, and 4 at home. Washington opted for the 1-2-2-1-1 format not out of a sense of fairness, but because they wanted to open the series at home.[1]
The series is notable as it was the first championship game or series in any of the four North American major professional sports leagues to feature two African American head coaches or managers, as Al Attles coached the Warriors and K.C. Jones coached the Bullets.[2] On a lesser note, it was the first time that the NBA ever scheduled a game to be played in the month of June (Game Seven was scheduled for Monday Night, June 2). The first June game ever, however, would have to wait until 1976.
The underdog Warriors won four close games in a row to earn a sweep over the Bullets.
1 Series Summary
2 Game 1
6 Team rosters
Game 1 May 18 (Sun.) Golden State Warriors 101, Washington Bullets 95 @ Landover, Md.
Game 2 May 20 (Tue.) Golden State Warriors 92, Washington Bullets 91 @ San Francisco, Cal.
Game 3 May 22 (Fri.) Golden State Warriors 109, Washington Bullets 101 @ San Francisco, Cal.
Game 4 May 25 (Sun.) Golden State Warriors 96, Washington Bullets 95 @ Landover, Md.
Golden State Warriors defeated Washington Bullets, 4 games to 0.[3]
Coming off a tough seven-game conference finals win over the Chicago Bulls, the Warriors were somewhat haggard, but built a 14-point lead in the first half over the Bullets at the Capital Centre. The Bullets began to storm back, but Phil Smith came off the bench to score 20 points in 31 minutes of playing time as Golden State took the first game, 101-95.
Instead of their familiar Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, the Warriors were forced to play their first two scheduled home games of the series at the nearby Cow Palace (the Oakland facility being unavailable). The Bullets jumped to an early 13-point lead, but Golden State battled back, led by 36 points from Rick Barry, to take a 92-91 lead in the closing seconds. Washington got the ball back with six seconds left but missed two shots and now were down 2-0.
Rick Barry poured in 38 points and backup center George Johnson had 10 points and nine rebounds off the bench to help the Warriors to a key Game 3 109-101 win.
Two major factors enabling the Warriors to take an insurmountable lead were the defensive play of the seemingly undersized Jamaal Wilkes on Bullets' power forward Elvin Hayes and the play of the Warrior bench. In three games, Hayes had only 29 points and the Warriors' bench players had outscored the Bullets' reserves 115-53.
Back at home, the Bullets seemed to be on their way to staving off an unexpected sweep by the underdog Warriors, leading by 14 points early on. Bullets forward Mike Riordan was assigned to guard Rick Barry, who had killed the Bullets in the series up to that point by averaging 35 points a game. Riordan played Barry very physical, arousing the ire of Warriors' coach Al Attles. Midway through the first quarter, Barry went on a drive to the basket and was fouled hard from behind by Riordan. Barry reacted with a shove, but Attles bolted onto the court and initiated a fight of his own with Riordan, thereby protecting his star player from an ejection and getting ejected himself.
After the brawl, Barry immediately went on a scoring tear, but had to endure boos and taunts from the Capital Centre crowd. His performance, along with the Warriors' pressure defense, brought them back and guard Butch Beard scored the last seven points of the game, including two free throws to make the final score 96-95.
Golden State Warriors 1974-75 NBA Champions
10 Johnson | 15 Dudley | 20 Smith | 21 Beard | 22 Bracey | 23 Mullins | 24 Barry (Finals MVP) | 32 Bridges | 34 Kendrick | 40 Dickey | 41 Wilkes | 44 Ray | 52 Johnson | Coach Attles
[Game 2 from nbatube.com http://nba-tube.com/game-2-1975-nba-finals-warriorsbullets-part-2-of-14/ ]
^ Legends of Basketball - Where Are They Now?
^ "Dungy to evaluate future in coming days". ESPN.com. 2007-02-05. http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/playoffs06/news/story?id=2754837. Retrieved 2007-02-05.
^ "Barry’s Warriors Produce Epic Upset". NBA.com. http://www.nba.com/history/finals/19741975.html. Retrieved 2007-05-27.
Champions • O'Brien Trophy • Most Valuable Player Award • Brown Trophy • Greatest Game Ever Played • Game 6 of 1998 Finals • Broadcasters • WNBA Finals
Formerly the Philadelphia Warriors and the San Francisco Warriors • Founded in 1946 • Based in Oakland, California
Franchise • All-Time roster • Seasons • Head coaches • Current season
Philadelphia Arena • Philadelphia Convention Hall • Cow Palace • San Francisco Civic Auditorium • USF War Memorial Gymnasium • HP Pavilion • Oracle Arena
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D-League Affiliate
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Paul Arizin • Rick Barry • Wilt Chamberlain • Joe Fulks • Tom Gola • Neil Johnston • Jerry Lucas • Robert Parish • Andy Phillip • Nate Thurmond
NBA Championships (3)
Conference Championships (5)
1947 • 1956 • 1964 • 1967 • 1975
Sacramento Kings • Dallas Mavericks
TV: Comcast SportsNet Bay Area • Radio: KNBR/KTCT • Announcers: Bob Fitzgerald • Jim Barnett • Tim Roye
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The CBS Late Movie • College Basketball on CBS
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Rick Barry • Gary Bender • Hubie Brown • James Brown • Don Criqui • Billy Cunningham • Len Elmore • Keith Erickson • John Havlicek • Tom Heinsohn • Sonny Hill • Rod Hundley • Steve Jones • Kevin Loughery • Verne Lundquist • Brent Musburger • Pat O'Brien • Bill Raftery • Don Robertson • Oscar Robertson • Mendy Rudolph • Bill Russell • Dick Stockton • Pat Summerall • Lesley Visser
"Last Night" • "Whatever We Imagine" • "Back in the High Life Again" • "The Famous Final Scene" • "The Way You Do the Things You Do" • "Theme from The Last Waltz"
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Categories: National Basketball Association Finals | Golden State Warriors | Washington Bullets | 1975 in basketball
Dungy to evaluate future in coming days - Dungy to evaluate future in coming days - NFL - ESPN
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Review: Atomic Blonde
After avoiding a tonne of crap at the cinema this year like Life, The Great Wall, Ghost in the Shell, Transformers 5, whatever nonsense Pirates of the Caribbean movie came out and Valerian last week, I didn't want to break my bullet-dodging streak with Atomic Blonde, an action spy movie starring Charlize Theron and James McAvoy when I found out it had a less than stellar opening at the US box office. Despite reservations I said I would chance it as it was from one of the directors of the glorious John Wick, it's set in the closing years of what I like to call "The good ol' days" (The Cold War) and critics was praising the stylised violence despite the daft plot (or lack of it).
Boy was I glad I did! It has five major hooks:
1. Despite the general unrealistic nature of the fight scenes (possibly stemming from it's graphic novel origins) which often involved near-immortal enemies, the various characters use of benign objects like skateboards, garden hoses and shoes to harm foes with is inventive, especially Charlize Theron's use of a corkscrew.
2. Headshots! Painting a nearby surface with the crimson contents of an enemies head due to ballistic projectile forcefully introduced to (preferably) the face, is too often a misunderstood art-form. There's not a huge amount of it here, but adequate and when it happens it's gloriously perfect, truly sublime.
3. A too-short but hot girl-on-girl sex scene with "proper" nudity.
4. Classic 80's era hits on the soundtrack including Queen, Bowie, George Michael and The Clash (remember back when music was good).
5. While Stoli vodka is consumed like water from beginning to end, the winning goal here is that Atomic Blonde is the largest, borderline vulgar, on-screen product placement/advertisement for Jack Daniels I've ever seen on film. One character even referring to it as coming "straight from the Virgin Mary's tit," and let's be honest - he's not wrong.
So basically about as far removed from a John LeCarre novel as you can get while still being a Cold War spy movie. So if none of the above interest you, then avoid this - but if they do, off you go to the cinema.
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Ace Vergel
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Youth Conference 2018 in capital Oct 14
The Citizen’s Platform for SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals), Bangladesh will organise a day-long conference titled ‘Youth Conference 2018: Bangladesh and Agenda 2030 -Aspirations of the Youth’ in the capital on October 14, reports UNB The objective of the conference is to make the youth aware about SDGs and their roles in implementing the goals, said the organisers. The conference logo, website, registration, photography and short-film contests have already been launched, said a press release. Director, Dialogue and Communication, Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) Anisatul Fatema Yousuf is the coordinator of the platform.
In the press release, distinguished Fellow of CPD and convenor of the platform Dr Debapriya Bhattacharya said nearly 30 per cent of the total voters in the next general election is young.
“So, the voice and aspirations of the youth should be heard and considered while designing policies for national development. The Youth Conference 2018 will be a platform for recognising youth aspirations and inspiring them to get engaged with the national policy influencing process,” he was quoted as saying in a press release. The core group members of the platform and executive director of Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) Dr Iftekharuzzaman and Executive Director, Manusher Jonno Foundation Shaheen Anam also emphasised and elaborated on the importance of engaging youth in the SDG implementation, said the press release.
The conference activities include research on youth employment in Bangladesh, fair showcasing youth activities, policy dialogues on youth concerning issues, mapping on the NGOs working on youth Bangladesh, analysis of government initiatives on youth development, analysis of youth agenda in election manifestoes, youth-issue based policy briefs, launch of e-library on youth activities, short-film and photo competition, cultural session and a youth declaration 2018.
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Call for changing mentality to prevent violence against women
Underscoring the need for changing the mentality to prevent violence against women, State Minister for Women and Children Affairs Meher Afroze Chumki yesterday said the act of changing the mindset should begin from the families, reports UNB.
“It'll be possible to stop violence against women and children if we teach our sons to show respect towards women and if male members refrain from unleashing violence against women,” she said while speaking at a seminar on “National Action Plan 2018-30 to Prevent Violence against Women and Children”.
The Women and Children Affairs Ministry organised the programme at the city's Biam auditorium. The state minister said extensive awareness campaign is needed to change people's outlook and mentality so that no child or woman becomes victim of violence.
Director General of the Department of Women Affairs Kazi Rowshon Akter said sexual harassment against women in workplaces and public transport is the main obstacle to women empowerment.
Women's development will be hampered greatly if women face sexual violence and insecurity in their workplaces, she said, adding that lack of a safe environment in workplace will lead to frustration among women making them reluctant to go to work.
While presiding over the programme, Additional Secretary to the Women and Children Affairs Ministry Mahmuda Sharmin Benu said in the National Action Plan 2018-30, several proposals have been incorporated from the district and upazila levels.
Project Director of the National Action Plan Dr Abul Hossain read out the draft of the plan at the seminar.
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Women and the Achill Mission Colony
Patricia Byrne 30 August, 2015 Irish History
Eliza Nangle and daughters, Francesand Henrietta watercolour early 1830s. Courtesy of the Nangle Family
Protestant women missionaries on Achill island in the 19th century. By Patricia Byrne. (A version of this article was presented at the Heinrich Böll Memorial Weekend, Achill on 2 May 2015)
Graves Apart
If you travel to Dugort on the northern coast of Achill Island as far as St Thomas’ Church and follow the signs for the Sean Reilig up on to the slopes of Slievemore Mountain, you will arrive at what survives of an old cemetery.
In a place where you can look out on to the waters of Blacksod Bay, you will come upon two flat boulders on which the inscriptions are barely legible. One of these marks the resting place of Eliza Nangle – wife of Edward Nangle, initiator and main driver of the nineteenth-century Achill Mission Colony.
The Nangle family are buried in old cemeteries across the breadth of Ireland
The burial spot also holds the remains of six of the Nangle children: an adult daughter, Tilly, who died suddenly in 1852, two years after her mother, and five infants who died in Achill at birth or soon afterwards.
Across the breadth of Ireland, in Row J, South Section of Deansgrange Cemetery, Monskstown, County Dublin, a gravestone has toppled to the ground at the resting spot of Edward Nangle and his second wife, Sarah. Edward had suffered a severe health breakdown as a young man and endured bouts of physical and mental ill-health throughout his life, particularly at times of stress and over-exertion.
Eliza Nangle’s burial place at Dugort
However, he outlived his first wife by three decades. It’s possible that his frequent speaking and fundraising trips abroad, alongside his frenetic writing, acted in a therapeutic way for him while his wife had no release from the unrelenting harsh Achill conditions.
Eliza Nangle died at the age of 46. She left behind six children: three adult daughters and three sons, the youngest, a delicate boy George, just six years of age. Most of her previous sixteen years had been spent in Dugort, Achill, until poor health forced her to relocate to Dublin. From an early stage of the couple’s life in Achill, it appears that Eliza Nangle was a broken woman.
Tempestuous Years
Slievemore Mountain Dugort
The Nangles and their three small daughters, together with Eliza’s younger sister Grace Warner, arrived in Achill in the summer of 1834. Edward had a vision – modelled in part on the Second Reformation efforts of Lord Farnham in Cavan with ‘moral agency’ and moral reformation at its core – to convert the poverty-stricken peasants of the island through a combination of scriptural education, land reformation, employment and moral reform.
The early years of the infant Mission were tempestuous. John MacHale, Catholic Archbishop of Tuam, responded to the establishment of Mission schools by setting up competing establishments with the assistance of the new National Board of Education and the island schools became a sectarian battle ground.
The Nangles aimed to convert the islanders to Protestantism through a combination of scriptural education, land reformation, employment and moral reform.
Physical conditions in Achill were harsh, the winter storms severe, hostility toward the Colony explosive, and Edward Nangle was absent from his Dugort home for long periods on fundraising and speaking trips. On 19 April, 1835, almost a year after the family took up residence in one of the Colony’s new slated houses on the slopes of Slievemore, Eliza gave birth to a son. He lived just two days.
Soon afterwards, Dr Neason Adams – a friend of the Nangles who ran a medical practice in St Stephens Green, Dublin – relocated to Dugort with his wife Isabella at a time when the couple might have been looking forward to retirement. The Adams couple and Grace Warner would provide the main support network for Eliza for the remainder of her life.
On 11 July 1836, Eliza gave birth to a second son, Edward Neason, who survived just six weeks. A third son, George Neason, born in October 1837, died the following month. The cumulative effect of these infant deaths, alongside the growing hostility to the Colony and the vicious community conflict appear to have had a devastating effect on Eliza. Three years into the family’s life in Achill she was a shattered woman, as revealed in a letter to her sister Grace in late 1837. She would never recover her full health.
Eliza Nangle letter to her sister, Grace Warner, dated 4 December 1837.
I have so given up letter writing that to lay a letter aside, and then forget to reply to it all together, is quite an ordinary event…
I often find my heart swelling with sorrow, and my eyes filling with tears that I cannot restrain….
I trust I may become purified and made more meek for the kingdom of Christ, with whom our three dear infants abide for ever and ever.
Edward has been much spared in this owing to his absence from home. The burden rested on our affectionate friend Dr Adams. I am becoming very absent, much unfitted for the affairs of this life. My children often say to me – ‘Now Mama, do you know what you are saying; and will you remember to-morrow?’
I cannot write more now than to say, that I love you.
Your very affectionate sister,
Eliza Nangle
Achill Herald, March 1865
Protestant Evangelical Women
The women associated directly with the Achill Mission Colony – Eliza Nangle, her sister Grace Warner, Isabella Neason, and the Nangle daughters – exhibited characteristics of the nineteenth-century Protestant woman supporting and following a strong evangelical male figure. They were part of a development which saw women move out of the purely private and domestic sphere into philanthropic roles in areas such as education, orphanages, and moral improvement activities.
Like many Evangelical women of the 19th century, the Nangles asserted themselves by supporting and following a strong evangelical male figure
This enabled Protestant women of the period to move beyond the strictly domestic arena, but in a manner which did not threaten the prevalent ideals of womanhood in a patriarchal society. It was a process which had some parallels in the growth of the Catholic female religious orders in mid-nineteenth century Ireland.
The ‘moral agency’ template which Lord Farnham applied at his Cavan estate in the 1820s at the height of the Second Reformation, influenced the young curate, Edward Nangle, then resident in the nearby Arva, when he came to establish the Achill Mission.
One could say that the women at the Dugort Colony, alongside Dr Neason Adams, carried on the ‘moral agency’ function of the Mission: Isabella Neason was active in the infant school, as well as supporting her husband in his medical work; Tilly Nangle and her sisters worked in the orphanage; Eliza Nangle, in addition to carrying out book-keeping duties, also taught the skills of sewing, knitting and housekeeping/cleanliness.
It is clear that the Nangle daughters were reared in Achill in the strict traditions of a middle-class Protestant family, and the prevalent norms for Victorian women as seen in an 1838 advertisement for a Governess for the girls.
For a Clergyman Family in Achill
A governess of active and industrious habits, experienced in tuition and attached to the Church of England, to instruct Three Children in English, French, Music, Drawing and Needlework; qualified to train them up in habits of order, and in the ways of true religion. She will also be required to cut out their Dresses, to assist in needlework, and to take charge of their wardrobe – the oldest child being under nine years of age. Salary, £25 per year.
Applications, stating references, to be made to the Rev Edward Nangle, Mission House, Achill.
Conditions for Native Achill Women
The Colony, Dugort, Achill c. 1870 with St Thomas’ Church in foreground.
Achill in the mid-nineteenth century presented a remote, isolated, economically-deprived location. Since the Achill Sound bridge had not yet been built, travel to Newport and Westport was often undertaken by boat.
Housing in Achill was categorised as ‘fourth-class’, a classification which indicated one of the main symbols of poverty in pre-famine Ireland. The island being predominately mountain and bog with little, arable land, life was difficult and harsh.
There was no administrative or commercial centre on the island and no middle class apart from the coastguard families. Economic survival depended on seasonal migration to the harvest fields of Scotland and England to obtain cash to pay the landlord.
There was no indigenous middle class on the island and daily life was a constant struggle to pay rent to the landlord.
The most significant indicator of the position of Achill women in the mid-nineteenth century comes from the National School data for the 1830s and 1840s. It shows that only 20-25% of those enrolled in the new schooling system were female, reflecting a society attitude to women which survived into the next century. The lives of Achill women were also negatively affected by the growing authoritarian presence of the Catholic clergy in the years following Catholic Emancipation, and in the aggressive response by John MacHale and his clergy to the Achill Mission.
While Achill life for Eliza Nangle – from a sheltered, middle-class, Protestant background in County Meath – was undoubtedly grim, the contrast with the living conditions of the local island women was glaring. For one, the middle class Victorian home was her realm; for the other, the island’s land, mountains and seashores were her domain.
Achill women had poor education and lives of hard physical labour.
The Achill woman footed and saved turf and carried it from the bog on her back. She hauled seaweed from the shore, baited and gutted fish, planted and weeded potatoes, sheaved and stacked oats. In the summer months she would take over the main responsibility for farm work when many of the island man left for migrant harvesting work in Scotland and England. In the post-famine years, Achill women would themselves join the annual harvest exodus of tattie-hokers (potatoe pickers) from Achill.
Women Caught in Sectarian Crossfire
Given their subservient position, particularly in relation to literacy and linguistic skills, it is not surprising that women were caught up in the ecclesiastical crossfire between the male clerical protagonist led by Archbishop John MacHale, Edward Nangle and their clergies in Achill in the 1830s. A young island woman, Bridget Lavelle, became a servant in the Nangle household in early 1835 and, over several months, openly declared herself a Protestant.
One evening, Bridget Lavelle’s mother arrived at the Nangle house in Dugort to announce that Bridget’s eldest sister was seriously ill and wished to see Bridget before she died. When Bridget returned home, she found her sister by the fire in perfect health, and the tall figure of the new Achill Parish Priest, Father Martin Connolly, waiting. Bridget was forcibly restrained from returning to the Colony. Later, she was assisted by Edward Nangle to move secretly to Dublin where Dr Neason helped her to obtain employment.
Catholic clergy vigourously resisted efforts to convert the islanders.
The case of Margaret Reynolds, wife of the Chief Coastguard Francis Reynolds, was even more dramatic. Captain Francis Reynolds, Chief Coastguard in Achill, was a close ally of Edward Nangle with a fierce aversion to Catholicism. His wife, Margaret, mother of their seven children, was Roman Catholic and a native of Malin, County Donegal. Her position could not have been more uncomfortable as she attended mass on Sundays while her husband openly challenged the local clergy and denounced their teachings.
In December 1838, as a result of a violent altercation in Keel over access to a shipwrecked vessel, Captain Reynolds was assaulted and died two weeks later from his injuries. On 2 January 1839, his body was interred on Slievemore in a burial spot next to the graves of the Nangle infants. His widow was pregnant with their eight child.
Four days later, on the afternoon of 6th January, his body was exhumed from its grave to allow for a coroner’s inquest, and then reinterred. Within hours, a violent storm – the most severe to reach Ireland in several hundred years – swept across the country leaving hundreds dead and devastation in its wake. It was The Night of the Great Wind – Oíche na Gaoithe Móire. Margaret Reynolds gave birth to her eight child after her husband’s death. Six of their children afterwards emigrated to Reynolds’ relatives in Canada and Margaret ended her days back in Malin where she died in 1876.
Achill Famine
Eliza Nangle gave birth to two children during the famine years: a daughter, born in Achill on 10 March 1846, died at birth, as famine was taking a grip on the island. A son was still-born in December 1847 and Eliza’s health problems were by then acute.
In Dugort, Eliza Nangle and her family witnessed the calamitous consequences of the famine in its early years. We get some insight into what this experience was from the observations of Dr Neason Adams who took a leadership role in famine relief at the Achill Mission. In the Achill Herald of May 1847, Dr Adams described the crowds who gathered at the Colony seeking assistance: ‘The sick, aged, and infirm are not the only applicants for support…The cry for food is almost universal…The mournful cry of “Give me a [food] ticket – give me a [food] ticket – myself and family are starving – dying of the hunger” from morning to night never ceases round our doors and windows.’
During the Great Famine of the 1840s the Nangle raised funds to try to alleviate starvation but they also brought up orphans in the Protestant religion.
On 14 January 1846, The Telegraph carried a report that a young girl, Bridget Niland from Tyrawley, north-east Mayo, had applied for admittance to Castlebar Workhouse. According to her story, her father had taken the family to Achill where he changed his religion in return for work and food. When she refused to become a Protestant, she was beaten by her father and ran away. This incident highlights the charges of ‘souperism’ against the Achill Mission and accusations of linking famine relief to conversion and the rescinding of their Catholic faith by relief recipients.
The whole rationale of the Mission – like that of the Second Reformation efforts by Lord Farnham in Cavan – was an unbroken link between the Colony activities i.e. education, moral reform, temporal improvements, employment, and scriptural education. However, in the Great Famine period, the success of Edward Nangle’s fund-raising activities and the increase in the number of conversions heightened awareness and criticism of the linking of relief to proselytising activity. Criticism of the Colony’s orphan asylum, where Catholic children were raised as Protestants, was particularly criticised as a base method of trading in souls.
At the close of 1847, when the Famine was at its height, Eliza Nangle moved to Dublin where she spent the remaining three years of her life as her physical and mental health deteriorated. Her life in Achill was over.
‘She never was a woman of many words’
Eliza Nangle plaque at St Thomas’ Church Dugort
After Eliza’s death in 1850, her husband’s obituary in The Achill Herald gives us an insight, not just into Eliza’s character, but also into the prevalent views about the appropriate role of an evangelical woman of the period.
Edward described his wife’s singular skills in account keeping, which saved the Mission the expense of paying for a book-keeper over many years. He also made the unusual comment that Eliza was, ‘in every respect a woman of masculine understanding’ who devoted all her energies to the Mission, while at the same time ‘shrinking from notoriety under the shadow of her husband’s name’.
After Eliza Nangle’s death in 1850 her husband wrote she was, ‘in every respect a woman of masculine understanding’ who devoted all her energies to the Mission, while at the same time ‘shrinking from notoriety under the shadow of her husband’s name’.
While Edward Nangle was prolific and fluent in speech and writing, his wife, he wrote, was ‘never a woman of many words’. It was as if a toughness and endurance was expected of her, alongside a demureness and meekness in keeping with the prevailing ideal of womanly virtue.
Two years after her mother’s death, the Nangles’ third daughter, Tilly, died suddenly in Killiney, County Dublin while caring for her delicate brother. She was nineteen and her remains were also brought back to Achill and buried next to her mother on the slopes of Slievemore. By this stage the Nangles’ direct involvement with the Colony had come to an end as Edward had been appointed Rector of Skreen, Co Sligo. The family would continue to return to the Dugort each summer.
Isabella Adams and her husband remained on in Achill. Following a stroke, Isabella had been speechless and paralyzed for a number of years. She died on December 1855, exactly twenty years since she and her husband had relocated to the Colony.
Grace Warner did not marry and appears to have taken on a caring role, after the death of Eliza and Tilly Nangle, for Edward and Eliza’s youngest child George, who suffered from mental illness and spent much of his adult life in the North Wales Lunatic Asylum. Grace returned to Achill in her later years and died in Sheridan’s Hotel, Dugort, in 1891, four decades after the death of her only sister, and a half-century after she had landed on Dugort Strand with her brother-in-law Edward Nangle at the start of the Achill Mission.
A few years after Grace Warner’s death, in the summer of 1894, thirty-two Achill islanders drowned when the Victory hooker capsized in Clew Bay while taking migrant tattie-hokers to Westport to catch the steamer to Scotland. The majority of those who drowned were female, the youngest just twelve years old. By the end of a tumultuous century, it appeared that little had changed in the living conditions of the Achill islanders, except that Achill women had now joined the men in the annual exodus of migrant harvesters essential for island survival.
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[…] Earlier this year I was back in Achill for my favourite arts festival, the Heinrich Boll Memorial Weekend where one of the themes was the Achill Mission Colony and I was delighted to give a talk on the role of women at the Colony. A version of this paper has now been published in the online publication Irish Story. […]
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Heritage Elementary, Keller ISD, April 27, 2007
“Marketing your eLearning Programs by Design”
co presented with Romana Hughes at
eCollege CITE 2007 Conference, Denver, Colorado, March 30, 2007.
Presentation of Art/Artists to Second Grade Students
Lakewood Elementary School, Euless, Texas, May 2001.
“Developing High Quality Online Doctoral Programs,” co-written by Romana Hughes and Kerrie Conover and published in the following: E-Learn 2011 Ed/Lit Library, October 2011
“A Simple Solution: Tracking, Troubleshooting and Resolving Faculty Training Needs,” co-written by Romana Hughes and Kerrie Conover, Ed-Media 2010 Ed/Lit Library, June 2010
“Art Speaks,” Kerrie Conover and Emerson Mayo, Sample Press, Issue 8, July 2008, page 14-15.
“What works best as a study tool: podcasts or games?” co-written by Romana Hughes and Kerrie Conover:
E-Learn 2008 Ed/Lit Library, November 2008
Ed-Media 2008 Ed/Lit Library, July 2008
“Podcasts or Study Tools…”Co-written by Romana Hughes and Kerrie Conover; Leader, Volume 36. No. 3, Spring 2008.
“Supporting Mac Faculty in a PC World,” co-written by Romy Hughes and Kerrie Conover;
E-Learn 2007 Ed/Lit Library, October 2007
Ed-Media 2007 Ed/Lit Library, June 2007
Leader, Volume 35. No. 2, Winter 2007.
“Visual Arts: Fort Worth Community Arts Center,” Fort Worth Weekly, Week of April 12-18, 2006, page 18.
Kultur, “More Cowtown,” Fort Worth Weekly, Week of April 5-11, 2006, page 25.
“Gallery,” Fort Worth Weekly, Week of April 5-11, 2006, page 16. (reproduction).
“Body / Temple,” Fort Worth Community Arts Center, www.fwcac.org, March –April 2006 (reproduction).
The Search advertisement, University Christian Church, Fort Worth Magazine, January 2006 (reproduction)
“Michael Bloomberg: The business of proposals,” UTA Magazine, Fall 2005, page 11 (reproduction).
Ladyfest*East Summer Camp and 99 Square Pegs Photography Exhibition Program, June 2, 2004 (reproduction)
“Art Slam,” J.M. Moudy Exhibition Hall Postcard. March 2002 (reproduction).
“Hands On,” Photo essay by Dunai, David, TCU Daily Skiff, November 27, 2001, front page, (exhibition photo of interactive art).
“Illuminance: A National Exhibition of Photographic Works 2001,” Catalog, p. 6.
“Image 2000: International Photography Exhibition,” Art Centre Journal, October/November/December 2000.
Long, Frank W. and Patricia Richards. “IMAGE 2000: An International Exhibition of Photography,” The Art Centre of Plano, 2000, Catalog p. 7 (reproduction).
McCormack, Bethany, “Art to art,” TCU Daily Skiff, February 14, 2001, p.1.
“Night And Day, Tuesday the 27th, Fort Worth Weekly, Volume 6, Number 34, November 22-28, 2001, page 13.
“TCU Displays Art,” Fort Worth Star Telegram, Star Time, November 23-29, 2001p. 3. (reproduction)
TCU J. M. Moudy Exhibition Hall 2001-2002 Season Calendar. (reproduction).
Van Meter, David, “Developing Students,” TCU Magazine, Vol. 45, No. 2, Page 12, Summer 2001 (reproduction and article).
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In Atlanta on business, straight-laced and overly analytical architect Peter Highman is flying home to Los Angeles and his wife Sarah for the imminent birth of their first child. However, traveling by plane no longer becomes an option when he and a fellow passenger, aspiring actor Ethan Tremblay, are kicked off the plane, which was caused by Ethan's social inappropriateness, due to being generally unaware, exacerbated by Peter's temper at a situation against his sensibilities. Peter, who ends up without money or his suitcase, is forced to accept Ethan's offer of a shared car ride to Los Angeles, Ethan who is looking for his big acting break. For Peter, this partnership is one made in hell, but he feels he has no other choice. Peter obviously wants to take as direct and as quick a route as possible, while he is at Ethan's mercy as the person with the driver's license, car rental and money. They get into one misadventure after another on this trip, with the same issue at each ...
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Affluent and aimless, Conrad Valmont lives a life of leisure in his parent's prestigious Manhattan Hotel. In the span of one week, he finds himself ...
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In a futuristic society, some people are selected at birth to become soldiers, and trained in such a manner that they become inhuman killing machines. ...
Genres: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Actors: Kurt Russell, Jason Scott Lee, Jason Isaacs, Connie Nielsen, Sean Pertwee, Jared Thorne, Taylor Thorne, Mark Bringelson, Gary Busey, K.K. Dodds, James Black, Mark De Alessandro, Vladimir Orlov, Carsten Norgaard, Duffy Gaver
It is New Year's Eve, and over 2,000 passengers & crew are ringing in the New Year aboard the huge cruise ship 'Poseidon' when it ...
Genres: Action, Drama, Thriller, Adventure
Actors: Josh Lucas, Kurt Russell, Jacinda Barrett, Richard Dreyfuss, Emmy Rossum, MÃa Maestro, Mike Vogel, Kevin Dillon, Freddy RodrÃguez, Jimmy Bennett, Fergie, Andre Braugher, Kirk B.R. Woller, Kelly McNair, Gabriel Jarret
The inspiring story of the team that transcended its sport and united a nation with a new feeling of hope. Based on the true story ...
Genres: Sport, Biography, History, Drama
Actors: Kurt Russell, Patricia Clarkson, Noah Emmerich, Sean McCann, Kenneth Welsh, Eddie Cahill, Patrick O'Brien Demsey, Michael Mantenuto, Nathan West, Kenneth Mitchell, Eric Peter-Kaiser, Bobby Hanson, Joseph Cure, Billy Schneider, Nate Miller
An American scientific expedition to the frozen wastes of the Antarctic is interrupted by a group of seemingly mad Norwegians pursuing and shooting a dog. ...
Actors: Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, T.K. Carter, David Clennon, Keith David, Richard Dysart, Charles Hallahan, Peter Maloney, Richard Masur, Donald Moffat, Joel Polis, Thomas G. Waites, Norbert Weisser, Larry J. Franco, Nate Irwin
In Austin, Texas, the girlfriends Julia, Arlene and Shanna meet in a bar to drink, smoke and make out with their boyfriends before traveling alone ...
Genres: Thriller
Actors: Kurt Russell, Zoë Bell, Rosario Dawson, Vanessa Ferlito, Sydney Tamiia Poitier, Tracie Thoms, Rose McGowan, Jordan Ladd, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Quentin Tarantino, Marcy Harriell, Eli Roth, Omar Doom, Michael Bacall, Monica Staggs
Incarcerated and charged with murder, David Aames Jr. is telling the story of how he got to where he is to McCabe, the police psychologist. ...
Genres: Thriller, Romance, Sci-Fi, Mystery, Fantasy
Actors: Tom Cruise, Penélope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Kurt Russell, Jason Lee, Noah Taylor, Timothy Spall, Tilda Swinton, Michael Shannon, Delaina Mitchell, Shalom Harlow, Oona Hart, Ivana Milicevic, Johnny Galecki, Jhaemi Willens
It all begins when young Will Stronghold, the son of the two famous superheroes: Steve and Josie, A.K.A. the incredibly strong, seemingly invulnerable Commander and ...
Genres: Comedy, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Family
Actors: Michael Angarano, Kurt Russell, Kelly Preston, Danielle Panabaker, Christopher Wynne, Kevin Heffernan, Dee Jay Daniels, Kelly Vitz, Loren Berman, Nicholas Braun, Malika, Khadijah, Jake Sandvig, Will Harris, Mary Elizabeth Winstead
In 1928, in Egypt, a strange device is found by an expedition. In the present days, the outcast linguist Dr. Daniel Jackson is invited by ...
Country: USA, France
Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Actors: Kurt Russell, James Spader, Jaye Davidson, Viveca Lindfors, Alexis Cruz, Mili Avital, Leon Rippy, John Diehl, Carlos Lauchu, Djimon Hounsou, Erick Avari, French Stewart, Gianin Loffler, Christopher John Fields, Derek Webster
After success cleaning up Dodge City, Wyatt Earp moves to Tombstone, Arizona, and wishes to get rich in obscurity. He meets his brothers there, as ...
Genres: Action, Biography, History, Drama, Western, Romance
Actors: Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer, Sam Elliott, Bill Paxton, Powers Boothe, Michael Biehn, Charlton Heston, Jason Priestley, Jon Tenney, Stephen Lang, Thomas Haden Church, Dana Delany, Paula Malcomson, Lisa Collins, Dana Wheeler-Nicholson
Ray Tango and Gabriel Cash are narcotics detectives who, while both being extremely successful, can't stand each other. Crime Lord Yves Perret, furious at the ...
Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller, Comedy
Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Kurt Russell, Teri Hatcher, Jack Palance, Brion James, James Hong, Marc Alaimo, Philip Tan, Michael J. Pollard, Robert Z'Dar, Lewis Arquette, Edward Bunker, Leslie Morris, Roy Brocksmith, Susan Krebs
Escape from New York
In the future, crime is out of control and New York City is a maximum security prison. Grabbing a bargaining chip right out of the ...
Genres: Action, Sci-Fi
Actors: Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine, Donald Pleasence, Isaac Hayes, Season Hubley, Harry Dean Stanton, Adrienne Barbeau, Tom Atkins, Charles Cyphers, Joe Unger, Frank Doubleday, John Strobel, John Cothran, Garrett Bergfeld
Terrorists take over a 747 bound from Athens to Washington D.C., supposedly to effect the release of their leader. Intelligence expert David Grant suspects another ...
Genres: Action, Thriller, Adventure
Actors: Kurt Russell, Steven Seagal, Halle Berry, John Leguizamo, Oliver Platt, Joe Morton, BD Wong, Len Cariou, Whip Hubley, Andreas Katsulas, Mary Ellen Trainor, Marla Maples, J.T. Walsh, Ingo Neuhaus, William James Jones
Mac Mckussic is an unlikely drug dealer who wants to go straight. His old and best friend Nick Frescia is now a cop who is ...
Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller, Romance
Actors: Mel Gibson, Michelle Pfeiffer, Kurt Russell, Raul Julia, J.T. Walsh, Arliss Howard, Arye Gross, Gabriel Damon, Daniel Zacapa, Eric Thiele, Tom Nolan, Dawn Martel, Lala Sloatman, Budd Boetticher, Ann Magnuson
The Art of the Steal
Crunch Calhoun (Kurt Russell), a third rate motorcycle daredevil and semi-reformed art thief, agrees to get back into the con game and pull off one ...
Genres: Crime, Comedy
Actors: Kurt Russell, Matt Dillon, Jay Baruchel, Kenneth Welsh, Chris Diamantopoulos, Katheryn Winnick, Jason Jones, Terence Stamp, Devon Bostick, Elle Downs, Dax Ravina, Durward Allan, Rob deLeeuw, Karyn Dwyer, Christopher Dyson
Actors: Kurt Russell, Jack Warden, Gerrit Graham, Frank McRae, Deborah Harmon, Joe Flaherty, David L. Lander, Michael McKean, Michael Talbott, Harry Northup, Alfonso Arau, Al Lewis, Woodrow Parfrey, Andrew Duncan, Dub Taylor
Truck driver Jack Burton arrives in Chinatown, San Francisco, and goes to the airport with his Chinese friend Wang Chi to welcome his green-eyed fiancée ...
Genres: Action, Comedy, Adventure, Fantasy
Actors: Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall, Dennis Dun, James Hong, Victor Wong, Kate Burton, Donald Li, Carter Wong, Peter Kwong, James Pax, Suzee Pai, Chao Li Chi, Jeff Imada, Rummel Mor, Craig Ng
Furious Seven
Dominic and his crew thought they'd left the criminal mercenary life behind. They'd defeated international terrorist Owen Shaw and went their separate ways. But now, ...
Country: USA, Japan
Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller
Actors: Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Jason Statham, Michelle Rodriguez, Jordana Brewster, Tyrese Gibson, Ludacris, Dwayne Johnson, Lucas Black, Kurt Russell, Nathalie Emmanuel, Elsa Pataky, Gal Gadot, John Brotherton, Luke Evans
After an outlaw unknowingly leads a band of cannibalistic Troglodytes into the peaceful western town of Bright Hope, the monsters kidnap several settlers, including the ...
Genres: Drama, Thriller, Horror, Western, Adventure
Actors: Kurt Russell, Patrick Wilson, Matthew Fox, Richard Jenkins, Lili Simmons, Evan Jonigkeit, David Arquette, Fred Melamed, Sid Haig, Maestro Harrell, James Tolkan, Kathryn Morris, Zahn McClarnon, Michael Emery, Jeremy Tardy
Some time after the Civil War, a stagecoach hurtles through the wintry Wyoming landscape. Bounty hunter John Ruth and his fugitive captive Daisy Domergue race ...
Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller, Western, Mystery
Actors: Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Walton Goggins, Demián Bichir, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Bruce Dern, James Parks, Dana Gourrier, Zoë Bell, Lee Horsley, Gene Jones, Keith Jefferson, Craig Stark
A story set on the offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, which exploded during April 2010 and created the worst oil spill in U.S. history.
Genres: Action, Drama, Thriller
Actors: Mark Wahlberg, Kurt Russell, Douglas M. Griffin, James DuMont, Joe Chrest, Gina Rodriguez, Brad Leland, John Malkovich, David Maldonado, J.D. Evermore, Ethan Suplee, Jason Pine, Jason Kirkpatrick, Robert Walker Branchaud, Dylan O'Brien
On the game winning play of the biggest game of his life, the best High School Football player in the nation injures his knee and ...
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Actors: Brian Presley, Melanie Lynskey, Kurt Russell, Christine Lahti, Marc Blucas, Sarah Wright, Sianoa Smit-McPhee, Drew Powell, Kevin Covais, David Scott Diaz, James Duval, Steve Turner, Jacquelyn Evola, Ella Anderson, Bryan Price
Captain Ron
A family in Chicago inherits the yacht formerly owned by Clark Gable. They decide to sail it from the island of Ste. Pomme de Terre ...
Actors: Kurt Russell, Martin Short, Mary Kay Place, Benjamin Salisbury, Meadow Sisto, Sunshine Logroño, Jorge Luis Ramos, J.A. Preston, Tanya Soler, Raúl Estela, Jainardo Batista, Dan Butler, Tom McGowan, Katherine Franco, C.M. Talkington
3000 Miles to Graceland
It was an ingenious enough plan: rob the Riviera Casino's count room during an Elvis impersonator convention. But Thomas Murphy decided to keep all the ...
Actors: Kurt Russell, Kevin Costner, Courteney Cox, Christian Slater, Kevin Pollak, David Arquette, Jon Lovitz, Howie Long, Thomas Haden Church, Bokeem Woodbine, Ice-T, David Kaye, Louis Lombardi, Shawn Michael Howard, Michael Kopsa
Obsession fatale
After a break-in at their house, a couple gets help from one of the cops that answered their call. He helps them install the security ...
Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Actors: Kurt Russell, Ray Liotta, Madeleine Stowe, Roger E. Mosley, Ken Lerner, Deborah Offner, Carmen Argenziano, Andy Romano, Johnny Ray McGhee, Dino Anello, Sonny Carl Davis, Harry Northup, Sherrie Rose, Alicia Ramirez, Ruby Salazar
Fast 8: The Fate of the Furious
Now that Dom and Letty are on their honeymoon and Brian and Mia have retired from the game-and the rest of the crew has been ...
Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller, Adventure
Actors: Vin Diesel, Jason Statham, Dwayne Johnson, Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Ludacris, Charlize Theron, Kurt Russell, Nathalie Emmanuel, Luke Evans, Elsa Pataky, Kristofer Hivju, Scott Eastwood, Patrick St. Esprit, Janmarco Santiago
Set to the backdrop of 'Awesome Mixtape #2,' Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 continues the team's adventures as they traverse the outer reaches ...
Actors: Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Vin Diesel, Bradley Cooper, Michael Rooker, Karen Gillan, Pom Klementieff, Sylvester Stallone, Kurt Russell, Elizabeth Debicki, Chris Sullivan, Sean Gunn, Tommy Flanagan, Laura Haddock
The Strongest Man in the World
A school laboratory accident mixes one student's vitamin cereal mix with Dexter Riley's chemical experiment. When the kids decide to dispose of the mess to ...
Genres: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Actors: Kurt Russell, Joe Flynn, Eve Arden, Cesar Romero, Phil Silvers, Dick Van Patten, Harold Gould, Michael McGreevey, Richard Bakalyan, William Schallert, Benson Fong, James Gregory, Ann Marshall, Don Carter, Christina Anderson
The Fox and the Hound
After his mother is killed, Tod the fox is taken in by the kindly Widow Tweed. He soon befriends the neighbor's new hound dog, Copper. ...
Genres: Drama, Adventure, Animation
Actors: Mickey Rooney, Kurt Russell, Pearl Bailey
This drama is based on the true story of Karen Silkwood (Meryl Streep), who works at a nuclear facility, who was purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured and ...
Genres: Biography, History, Drama
Actors: Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell, Cher
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Westfield resident Semler completes project for Girl Scout Gold Award
By Anna Skinner on April 15, 2019 Westfield Community
Westfield resident Hannah Semler recently completed her Girl Scout Gold Award project, in which she installed a blessing box outside of City Hall, 130 Penn St.
The Gold Award is the highest honor a Girl Scout can achieve.
The blessing box is a mini food pantry which community members have access to 24/7.
Hannah Semler pauses next to her blessing box. (Submitted photo)
“The idea behind the box is take what you need, leave what you can,” Semler said. “The idea is for the community to run it once the word gets out.”
Semler said ideally, people will donate nonperishable food items, and when someone is in need of food, they take what they need from the box.
Semler, 17, is a Juliette Scout, meaning she doesn’t belong to a specific troop. She is homeschooled and decided to continue with Scouting even though her troop disbanded in elementary school.
Semler said her family has been involved in giving back to the community through the local food pantry, Open Doors.
“I wanted to create a way people could have access to food 24/7 because food pantries aren’t always open,” Semler said. “The idea of helping people when they don’t have access to food is really important to myself, and it’s important to teach people to give back to others.”
Semler said the project took approximately a year to complete. She has submitted her final paperwork for the Gold Award to the Board of Reviews, and her Gold Award ceremony will take place in early May.
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Residence at the Crypt
05 Sep Residence at the Crypt
Posted at 15:00h in Books, Place by Yasmin Chopin
Some of my closest friends visibly shuddered when I told them I was hoping to spend time in a crypt. Stephen’s eyes flickered like a dodgy light fitting as he repeatedly asked,
‘But what would you do down there?’
I wasn’t really sure. It was more a case of simply allowing myself time and space: time to write with no interruptions, no demands, no internet, space to think in peace and solitude.
‘It’s a chance for me to just…well…be,’ I said.
The idea to apply for a residency at The Crypt, which lay beneath the parish church of St Pancras in London, emerged from a conversation I’d had some weeks earlier with Caroline Salem, a mentor and teacher of performance and dance. She’d suggested I experience different places and I’d read some months earlier about artists spending time in a crypt so I searched the internet. Google found The Crypt at St Pancras but no residency openings were advertised. The idea of sitting beside bodies below ground consumed my thoughts for days. It grew stronger and stronger. I placed my details in The Crypt’s website enquiry form and by return Anne Noble-Partridge offered me a week in The Crypt in August, free of charge. She said I could have the key.
Some of the lead coffins and their contents have been removed leaving a vast area beneath the church empty, and without purpose.
‘There was some debate whether it should be a café or a night refuge but in 2002 it was decided to use this space as an art gallery. We wanted to keep it looking and feeling like a crypt. We hardly did anything to the structure, it is basically in its original state.’ Anne said.
With no permanent art collection, the gallery lies undisturbed except when artists book it for a show, or Corporates decorate the space with fake cobwebs and real candles and treat their staff to a Hallowe’en drinks party, or when actors, director and crew gather to perform and record scenes that draw inspiration from the unusual atmosphere. Events bring in good money and Anne warned that if a film company wanted to book the gallery it would take precedence over my request to use the space to write. The only stipulation was that I should not be in the crypt alone. I didn’t ask why. A lack of knowledge is sometimes a good thing. I simply assumed the answer would be ‘health and safety’. So, I had to find a writing buddy.
To sit beneath a church for five consecutive days with five hundred and fifty-seven corpses, the ones who remained interred, is quite an ask. This was a job for social media. I put out an invitation through two Facebook writing groups and a number of people came back with ‘Oooh, how exciting, I would love to join you but…’. And, in the midst of the hottest English summer we have had in decades I worried that no-one would have the availability or inclination for it. After all, it’s not everyone’s idea of fun.
Two responses to my advert yielded results. LilyAnn Green Coleman got in touch, she was game for the adventure. I had met her virtually through the Open University’s on-line forum; we were on the same Masters degree course in Creative Writing though she majored in script-writing while I worked in non-fiction. Her comments on the web showed her to be an intelligent worldly-wise ballsy female, astute and to the point. She was my kind of person. I never thought I’d actually meet her one day. Over the phone I learned more about her colourful career. LilyAnn was preparing for a two-week stint at the Edinburgh fringe with her husband’s play Fan Girl but she said she would make time to spend a week in the cool air of the crypt. She is a make-up artist and wig-stylist, she writes and directs plays, coaches actors, assesses competition entries and sometimes earns real money as an arts administrator.
‘What do you want to achieve from the residency?’ I asked.
‘I want the experience of it. I want enforced quiet time to write… where I’m not tempted to do the laundry, or the house work, or go for a walk, or do some gardening or anything like that.’
The other applicant was Ali Walsh, a new acquaintance. Ali is a medical writer who lives in Runcorn. Her day job is concerned with communicating news to doctors and the healthcare industry and although she enjoys the work there is little room for personal creativity. In her free time she lets loose with paints, pens and camera to document life as she sees it. Her motivation to observe people comes from her background as a neuroscientist. Ali constructs personal accounts of her life by collecting thoughts and ideas in paper-based journals. She has a comprehensive body of work that she intends to share one day.
‘I’m quite interested in sense and also how we perceive the world. I’d like to give it a go in the crypt. It’s an unusual experience,’ she said. ‘I’ve just filled my tenth journal and will get some decent paper and start something new.’
Satisfied to have recruited not one but two crypt buddies I contacted Anne, said we were good to go, and scheduled the subterranean sojourn in my diary.
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New Waikato health service breaks new grounds
A groundbreaking new holistic health care initiative in Hamilton is causing ripples nationwide and beyond, with its unique and innovative approach to setting new physical rehabilitation standards. Opening its doors for one-one-one services last week, Tū Tonu fearlessly provides a high quality model of practice where a community of both clinicians and traditional Māori healers work in collaboration, alongside exercise rehabilitation coaches.
"Tū Tonu is for everyone - people from all backgrounds, cultures, demographics and walks of life - anyone who needs rehabilitation and healing," says Tū Tonu Director Niwa Nuri. "Whether they have an injury or condition diagnosis, or any sort of imbalance they personally know they are hosting be it physical or emotional, they are welcome here."
Founder Timi Tapara is based at Tū Tonu full-time as one of several experienced musculoskeletal physiotherapists. He adds, "The most important aspect of what we do, is to provide our whānau who walk in with options, thus allowing them to choose their own pathway of healing. Feeling empowered along the journey to better understanding our own health and wellness, is a key part of the solution to recovery."
As a tribute to the knowledge associated with traditional healing practices, Tū Tonu features traditional Māori healing modalities such as mirimiri and romiromi, as well as lomilomi (traditional Hawaiian massage). These services sit alongside sports massage, acupuncture, cupping, nutrition, Kemetic Yoga, and a skilled neurological physiotherapy service, which will launch in the near future. A dedicated exercise rehabilitation team is onsite to assist whānau with their comeback from injuries and conditions via personal training and coaching, as well as dedicated group training sessions.
An official launch and community open day will take place on Wednesday 17th July, 10am which is open to the general public and will showcase a variety of the services that Tū Tonu provides.
"We invite the Waikato community to come along to the launch and celebrate the opening of all our services with us," says Event Manager Allanah Ashwell. "Come on a guided tour of our whare, enjoy the live music, and participate in the free classes, competitions and activities we have on that day."
"The name "Tū Tonu" refers to standing up and overcoming adversity and speaks to our long-term commitment to journeying with whānau back to full health that extends beyond the individual", Timi says. "We feel excited at the privilege of being able to walk that journey, with every single person and whānau that walks in the door."
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LA FOCUS - The Hollywood Shorties
June 03, 2016 by Carmela Baranowska
The Hollywood Shorties stand center court at the Fabulous Forum along with the Laker Girls, in the center of whom is a nineteen-year-old Paula Abdul. Another Abdul, Kareem, towers munificently over the scene, as Shorty Kevin Thompson puts it, “Photobombing before photobombing was the norm."
Logline: In 1980s Los Angeles, the “world’s smallest professional basketball team” composed of recognizable-but-typecast actors finds itself the unlikely vanguard of a revolutionary movement to bring little people into the public eye as something other than objects of curiosity.
Length: 85 min.
Director: Ryan Steven Green
Producer: Ryan Steven Green, Craig Evans
Writer: Ryan Steven Green
About the writer/director/producer: Ryan Steven Green is a commercial and film director. A native of Los Angeles, Green received a BA in Cinema-Television with an emphasis on non-fiction filmmaking from USC. His documentary work has sent him around the world with Emmy-winning PBS show Travelscope, can be seen in the global collaborative documentary One Day on Earth, and has won numerous awards at festivals around the country. He lives in Los Angeles with his very-understanding wife and daughter.
Key cast: Tony Cox, Martin Klebba, Kevin Thompson, Jimmy Briscoe, George Rossitto, Joe Gieb
Looking for (producers, sales agents, buyers, distributors, film festival directors, journalists):
Funders: Self-funded
Release date: Late 2016
Where can I watch it?
Jerome Indie Film & Music Festival - Friday June 10, 10:00 am, Old Town Center for the Arts, Cottonwood, AZ.
Dances With Films - Friday June 10, 5:00 pm, Chinese Theater, Los Angeles, CA.
San Francisco DocFest - Sunday June 12, 7:00 pm, Roxie Theater, San Francisco, CA. Tuesday June 14, 9:15 pm, Roxie Theater, San Francisco, CA. Thursday June 16, 9:00 pm, Vogue Theater, San Francisco, CA.
Little People of America National Conference - Tuesday July 5, 9:00 pm, Sheraton Boston Hotel, Boston, MA.
Members of The Hollywood Shorties sign autographs for stupefied children following a game versus the faculty of San Gabriel High School.
Congratulations! Why did you make your film?
I made the Hollywood Shorties because this was simply a film that had to be made. Though I have known of the team my whole life, the fact that their existence had been utterly forgotten to history all but compelled me to move forward with it. When I began production there was literally nothing online about the team at all! Throughout production I kept sort of looking over my shoulder, thinking, “Is this really all mine? I’m alone out here?!” A terrific feeling, one I can only hope to have again someday.
Imagine I’m a member of the audience. Why should I watch this film?
This is a story you have never heard of, and certainly never seen. Nor will there ever be another like it, because the story of the Hollywood Shorties is unique to history. And if that’s not enough, a year or two from now, when your friends hear about the Hollywood Shorties and are all excited, you’ll be able to say, “Holy late! I saw the doc in ’16 when it was still festivaling.” I mean, hopefully that kind of situation isn’t that important to you, but still…
How do personal and universal themes work in your film?
From a personal standpoint, The Hollywood Shorties very much is. My late uncle was on the team from the early-70s to late-80s and I grew up with the Shorties very much a part of the Green family lore. So, in a way, this is a family story for me. As for universality, I think the theme that hits for me is that everybody does the best they possibly can given their circumstances.
I did not desire to make this a platform or issue film, so I really placed in the background the adversity that team members faced. To me what matters is that, despite all, here is a group of guys in their twenties, living in LA and having the time of their lives, making lemonade out of the lemons life has handed them and doing so in a most extraordinary way.
How have the script and film evolved over the course of their development and production?
I recently looked back at my notebook from the very earliest days of development and, amazingly, it listed Shorties among four or five other ideas under the heading “Lesser.” Furthermore, next to the film’s title I had written, in parentheses, “SHORT!” So, to go from that fragile beginning to a world premiere at SXSW, yes, the film evolved greatly during production. I can state very simply why it was this happened: I found a compelling storyline, in addition to the compelling facts surrounding the curious history of the Hollywood Shorties.
What type of feedback have you received so far?
The feedback has been very positive! Each of the four screenings of the film has seen a number of folks staying after to ask questions, offer services, or just speak an enthusiastic congratulations. This is even how we met our distributor! The film has received two reviews to date, both very positive, with more in progress. Very pleased thus far.
Joe Gieb proudly displays his custom satin team jacket along with the pair of shoes he wore to the Forum.
Has the feedback surprised or challenged your point of view?
I believed in this film from the moment I rolled camera back in April 2013. I am thrilled but not the least bit surprised that folks are loving it. If there are folks that hate it, they are totally entitled to that opinion as well. But to me, this film is just so precious.
What are you looking to achieve by having your film more visible on www.wearemovingstories.com?
An independent documentary such as this one is such a tender little shoot, a solitary blade of grass in a wide world of media verdure. Every single mention, every like, share, write-up, interview, review adds just that much more nourishment to this budding plant. The chances that it ever blossoms into a mighty oak tree are so slight, but every little bit helps.
Who do you need to come on board (producers, sales agents, buyers, distributors, film festival directors, journalists) to amplify this film’s message?
What type of impact and/or reception would you like this film to have?
I know, because I have asked each festival audience I have yet encountered, that a very small minority of folks have ever actually met a little person. And while simply watching the film does not necessarily present that opportunity, my hope would be that any audience member would leave the Shorties film remembering a name or two from the Shorties team and saying to themselves, “Man! I’d love to take [that guy] to a beer!” If this film can manage to nudge the empathy meter just that much – success.
What’s a key question that will help spark a debate or begin a conversation about this film?
Were the Breakers a necessary step in the evolution of dwarf athletics? Why or why not?
What are the key creatives developing or working on now?
The next one for me is going to be my first narrative, so I am very excited to bring my experience as a documentarian to a new genre. I’ve got two projects in the hopper that I am developing simultaneously, one, a broad comedy, is much further along than the other, which is a horror film. I’ve also got a commissioned short doc that will be shooting later this summer. As ever, it’s onward and upward!
June 03, 2016 /Carmela Baranowska
© We Are Moving Stories 2016.
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Blue Island Branch of Metra Electric Line to shut down July 7 for track work
Metra conductors give the all-clear sign in Blue Island, Ill. (FILE)
CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Blue Island Branch of the Metra Electric Line will be shut down next Saturday, July 7, while workers replace rail ties along the line.
Anyone wanting to take a train from Blue Island will have to go to the Kensington/115th Street station.
The entire updating project is expected to take six weeks, but this specific line will only be shut down Saturday, July 7.
"We understand that this will inconvenience some of our customers, but track projects like this are absolutely essential to maintaining safe and high-quality rail service," said Metra CEO/Executive Director Jim Derwinski. "In this case, taking the branch out of service for a weekend will allow us to replace significantly more ties in a shorter period of time, thereby limiting the overall impact to our customers and making much more efficient use of our workforce."
The Blue Island Branch doesn't operate on Sundays. For more information, visit metrarail.com.
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11 July 2019 | 06:31am
Colac Otway Shire Announce Weed and Vermin Grant For Locals
Colac Otway Shire Council has announced it has been successful in securing a grant opportunity from the federal government for a weed treatment and rabbit control program for the 2019-2020 financial year.
The program will benefit rural and farming communities within the shire, with funding support to substantially increase the capacity of community members to manage the difficult and complex issues created by weeds and pests.
“This grant will enable Council to provide direct support to community members in their efforts to control some of the most prevalent and stubborn weeds in our shire,” Council’s Manager of Environment and Community Safety Stewart Anderson said.
“This is a rare opportunity for Council to run a landscape-scale program to treat high-priority weed species and conduct rabbit control on both private and Council-managed land."
The expression of interest process is now open and will close on Tuesday 23 July at 5pm.
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The 5 Strangest Backgrounds of Coaches and GMs Working in Professional Sports
These five men took roads less traveled on their way to top jobs with professional sports teams.
For most coaches in professional sports, their backgrounds are typical (not to say cliché). They are either former players brought in to connect with the athletes or, in the case of the NFL, men who grew up in football families and worked their way up through the ranks from position coach to coordinator to, finally, head coach. Boooooooring.
Then there are guys whose route to the NFL was anything but typical. Perhaps they used to work with Navy SEALs. Perhaps they were once a competitive surfer. Here are three coaches and two GMs who have the strangest backgrounds in their respective leagues.
For most coaches in professional sports, their backgrounds are typical (not to say cliché). They are either former players brought in to connect with the athletes or, in the case of the NFL, men who grew up in football families and worked their way up through the ranks from position coach to coordinator to, finally, head coach. Boooooooring.
Shaun Huls, Director of Sports Science and Reconditioning for the Philadelphia Eagles
When Chip Kelly left the University of Oregon to take over the Philadelphia Eagles in 2013, an innovative offense wasn't the only thing he brought with him. The inner workings of the Eagles' organization are largely kept secret, but Kelly's vision for how things should be run behind the scenes regarding training and nutrition are as progressive as his multiple read-based option offense.
One of the men Kelly hired was Shaun Huls, who was fresh off a stint as the strength and conditioning coach and combatives coordinator for—wait for it—the Navy Special Warfare. Whoa! Dig a little deeper. It turns out that Huls is also well versed in Brazillian Ju-Jitsu, and he had spent five years working with and rehabbing injured Navy SEALs. Now the Eagles' director of sports science and reconditining, he gets to use his wealth of knowledge about the human body to create some of the biggest and fastest NFL players on the planet.
Michael Gervais, Sport Psychologist for the Seattle Seahawks
Seattle Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll consistently stresses the importance of the mental side of football. Alleviating pressure, living in the moment and refusing to give in are cornerstones of the coach's philosophy. So Carroll brought in Michael Gervais as the team's sport psychologist. Gervais doubles as the Director of DISC's High-Performance Psychology in Los Angeles, and he has done things like helping a skydiver overcome claustrophobia caused by the equipment he wore to set a world record with a 23-mile free-fall.
If "high performance psychology" sounds intense, it truly is. Just check out this paragraph from Gervais's bio:
As a California licensed psychologist specializing in high performance, he works in the trenches of high-stakes environments, where there is no luxury for mistakes, hesitation or failure to respond.
Before he got into psychology, Gervais was a competitive surfer living in Marina Del Ray, California, so he knows a thing or two about pressure.
Daryl Morey, General Manager of the Houston Rockets
Before he became the king of basketball analytics and the GM for a Rockets team bound for the 2015 Eastern Conference Finals, Daryl Morey was just a dude in an office. Armed with an MBA from the MIT Sloan School for Management and a computer-science degree from Northwestern, he was working for STATS, Inc., a company that provided what are now called advanced stats to sports teams and members of the media.
Morey shifted to a consulting firm call The Parthenon Group, which was commissioned in 2002 to help the new owners of the Boston Celtics make a smooth transition. He got his break in sports when the Celtics discovered how well he understood the NBA salary cap. In 2007, he was hired as the GM of the Houston Rockets where his analytics-driven approach has transformed the organization into his personal basketball lab experiment.
Jim Tomsula, Head Coach of the San Francisco 49ers
The new coach of the San Francisco 49ers once lived out of his car. After working odd jobs such as delivering newspapers and repping for a food distribution company, he was an assistant coach at Catawba College (Salisbury, N.C.).
It was the mid-90s and Tomsula was making very little money, so he turned his vehicle into his humble abode. In 2006, he caught on as the head coach of the Rhein Fire of NFL Europe. A year later, he was brought in as the defensive line coach of the San Francisco 49ers. Now he's the follow-up act to Jim Harbaugh, and a long distance away from using his front seat as a makeshift bed.
Pete D'Alessandro, General Manager for the Sacramento Kings
The current general manager of the Sacramento Kings does have a background in basketball (he began as a video coordinator for St. John's College in 1986), but he's had a few unusual gigs on his way to an NBA front office job. He enrolled in law school in 1994, then became a member of Congressman Rick Lazio's re-election campaign team in 1996. He even spent time as a sports agent for awhile, working for Professional Management Associates out of D.C. Now he's in charge of putting together a better roster around DeMarcus Cousins. What a ride.
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It's All About Ghana
Our family is originally from Ghana, so we may show slight favouritism but Ghana is truly a hidden, untouched gem! It's no secret, we love Ghana and you will see this shine through in all that we do here at Adinkra Designs. We hope to inspire you to one day make it over to West Africa to explore this amazing country.
The Essential Facts About Ghana
Location: situated on the west coast of Africa, in between Cote d’Ivoire and Togo
Capital: Accra
Currency: Ghana Cedi (GHS) – Cedi derives from the Akan word for cowry shell as cowry shells were once used as currency back in the day.
Population: 27.41 million (2015)
Size: 238,535 km²
Language: Ghanaians speak over 40 languages throughout its 10 regions. English is the official language, but most people speak several languages as well.
You know that delicious dark chocolate? You can thank Ghana for that, as they are one of the largest exporters of cocoa beans.
Ghana also used to be known as “the gold coast” and is the 7th largest producer of gold in the world.
Ghana experiences two distinct seasons: the rainy season from April to October, and the dry season from November to March.
Travel Tips for Ghana
According to the Global Peace Index 2017, Ghana is ranked the fifth safest sub-Saharan African country to visit. On a global scale, Ghana is ranked the 43rd safest country, to put this in perspective, the United Kingdom is ranked 41st and the USA is ranked 114th. Of course, this is not to say that travellers should not exercise the usual caution and make common sense decisions as you would when in your home country.
You will need to obtain the correct visa to travel to Ghana. Your passport will need to have been valid for at least 6 months (before expiration) and your application needs to be sent to the Ghana Consulate based in Sydney, Perth or Canberra. Your application requires current passport photos along with proof that your yellow fever vaccinations are up to date. Visa costs around AUD$140 and your yellow fever vaccination is around AUD$100-$150. Good news is that once you have yellow fever vaccine, you are covered for life. For further details, visit:
http://ghana.org.au/
http://yellowfever.com.au/
Flights to Ghana
Most of the major airlines fly into Accra. We tend to stick with Emirates and so far have not had any negative experiences with this airline. Food is OK and you are generally comfortable for the duration of the flight – which is about 24 hours depending on stopovers (from Sydney). Ticket prices tend to be a bit cheaper if you have longer stop overs but if you are travelling with kids, I would recommend going for the shortest stop over times as possible! On average, you are looking at approx AUD$2K - $2.5K for an adult to fly from Sydney to Accra. For flight comparisons, visit: https://www.skyscanner.com.au
Best Time to Visit Ghana
During the dry season, it can get really hot – think peak summer weather here in Australia with temperatures in the 40’s degrees. If you visit around July/August, it’s slightly cooler with temperatures in high 20’s but you can strike some rain around this time that can make it a bit more challenging to get around. October/November is a good time when it’s dryer but not yet too hot.
What’s it like in Ghana?
Like we mentioned, the atmosphere in Ghana is so laid back and peaceful. The pace of lifestyle is such a contrast to the Western world. It’s a harmonious place to visit and you can see everyone has respect for each other. Ghana is considered one of the more stable countries in West Africa since its transition to multi-party democracy in 1992. 75% of Ghanaians are Christians and 15% are Muslim. Unlike some other regions, there is next to no conflict between the different religions. Ghanaians are taught from a young age, the importance of freedom of worship, meaning that tolerance and fairness amongst the population are indoctrinated. The people of Ghana believe that you should be able to choose to worship whichever religion you like and there should be no intolerance to anyone from faiths other than your own. I experienced this first hand while I was there. During the Muslim celebration, Eid al-Adha, everyone was invited to partake and the atmosphere was very inclusive.
In Accra, most people speak English well and communication is not really an issue. If you venture to rural or village areas, communication can become more of a challenge for non-Twi speakers but like travelling to any new culture, if you take the time to learn a few words, locals really go out of there way to help you.
Transportation wise, there are a few options available. We were lucky to have family, used to the local traffic conditions, to drive us around. The traffic is unbelievable - it is every man for himself when it comes to road rules so hiring a car when you are not used to local traffic conditions seems out of the question. Stick with orange taxi’s or there are Tro Tro’s.
This website has handy transport tips: http://www.easytrackghana.com/travel-information-ghana_local-transportation.php
Food wise, it is not a place for the light hearted or non spice lovers! Most food consists of some kind of carb like yams, rice, cassava along with a spicy stew or soup like dish such as palm nut soup or light soup. Cassava and plantains are pounded to make a popular dish known as fufu. Given it’s a coastal country, you can expect a lot of fish dishes. Tilapia and Banku (a fermented corn/cassava dough) is a common dish. Jollof rice – a Ghana style fried rice will have you begging for the recipe. You will also find plenty of grilled meat like kebabs around. If you are a bit more adventurous, there are giant snails or smoked bush meat available! Locals eat with their hands but most restaurants will provide you with utensils. If you get cravings for some Western Food, there are malls and restaurants in Accra where you can get typical food like pizza, hot chips, even sushi.
Top 10 Things to do in Ghana
1. Cape Coast
Cape Coast is an idyllic setting with tropical coconut tree lined beaches and a laid back atmosphere. It is home to Elmina Castle, the oldest European built construction in Sub-Saharan Africa. The castle was once used to store slaves before they were shipped off and taken to the Americas. You can have a guided tour of the castle and try not to shed a tear as you hear the tales and only imagine what people endured in this castle. It sounds depressing but truly the place is magnificent with amazing views of Cape Coast and importantly it serves as a reminder to the brutal past of the colonial world. It’s a must see destination.
2. Kakum National Park
Kakum National Park is not too far from Cape Coast so well worth planning to do both around the same time. Take a guided tour on a bush walk through the national park and you will have the option to walk across the famous suspended bridge that hangs over a hundred feet above ground with amazing views of the park. It will test those who are afraid of heights and I have to admit, I was full of trepidation but mostly enjoyed the experience! We were told some groups get lucky and spot a family of elephants walking through the park. We could hear monkeys but didn’t spot any unfortunately. There is a Monkey Sanctuary also located very close to the park which we haven’t had a chance to check out yet.
3. Markola Markets in Accra or Kejetia Market in Kumasi
Who doesn't love to shop! Ghana has the largest open-air market in West Africa - Kejetia market in Kumasi - where you can find everything under the hot Ghanaian sun, from local crafts, beads, traditional cloth, sandals and plenty of local snack foods and fresh produce. If you don’t plan to visit Kumasi then Markola Market is also a bustling market based in Accra worth a visit.
4. A visit to any of Ghana’s amazing beaches
Personally I was disappointed with Labadi beach, it was crowded and covered in litter. But thankfully Ghana has many other options to satisfy the beach goer. Some top beaches to visit: Kokrobite, Busua, Bojo
5. Mole National Park
When you think of African safari’s, most tend to consider South Africa or East Africa. However there is still plenty to see in Ghana’s largest wildlife refuge park, Mole National Park. While you won’t see zebra or giraffes and it’s unlikely you will see any lions, you might get to spot elephants, hippos, buffalo, warthogs, monkeys, baboons and antelope.
6. Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum and Memorial Park
A must visit for an appreciation of Ghana’s history. It is a small museum dedicated to the country's founding father, Kwame Nkrumah. A short walk from the Museum is the Art Centre that is full of handcrafts and souveniers. The shop owners can be a bit pushy but not as bas as I experienced in South East Asia and is still worth checking out.
7. Independence Square in Accra
After a visit to the Memorial Park, also in Accra is the Independence Square. Here you will see monuments dedicated to Ghana's independence struggle, including the Independence Arch, Black Star Gate, and the Liberation Day Monument.
8. Crocodiles of Paga
If you end up travelling to the Northern part of Ghana, then Paga is well worth checking out if only to see the enigma of these sacred crocodiles in Paga. A stark contrast to the crocodiles of Australia, the crocodiles of Paga are so tame that local children can swim in the pond alongside them without being harmed. It’s difficult for an Aussie to wrap your head around it! But legend has it that a crocodile brought a dying man to the pond to drink, who after surviving, declared the pond to be sacred and that no harm should come to the crocodiles. Tourists can touch the crocodiles and be photographed with them.
9. Cape Three Points
The village of Cape Three Points is the southernmost community in Ghana, and its beach is one of the most beautiful along Ghana’s West Coast. Surrounded by Ghana’s only coastal rainforest reserve and many rolling hills, the village also has a few secondary attractions, such as relaxation, beach and sea activities, hiking, and exploration of its cultural present and colonial past. The drive to get there will require a 4WD and it’s a bit challenging but worth the effort to get there.
10. Jamestown
Jamestown is one of the oldest districts located in Accra. The main sight seeing attraction is a lighthouse. Some may not find this area interesting as it’s quite a poor and run down area, the homes are corrugated shacks for the most part, but there’s a constant vibrancy and eclectic feel to the area. It’s a stark contrast to the more modern Osu but I just feel what is it the point of travelling to a country if you are only going to see the shiny side, take it all in.
It’s also well worth doing a bit of research to find out what Festivals are on around the time you plan to visit. Festivals are full of music, lot and lots of dancing and vibrant colour.
Ghana has such a peaceful and friendly vibe and is often described as the best country to start exploring Africa. We will continue to share as much as possible about Ghana like these travel tips, based on our own personal travel experience. I hope you find this brief overview of Ghana helpful and please let me know your feedback in the comments below!
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We are so excited to have our baby moses basket and moses basket stand hand picked by Lisa Hyde (of Bachelor fame) to be included in her nursery as she prepares to welcome her baby girl.
Lisa's nursery decor style has been featured in The Daily Mail, where she reveals an inside look into her baby collection. Anita, a home stylist, was there to assist Lisa in getting organised for bub's arrival.
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Following the same ethical principles of fair trade and sustainable fashion, Created by Culture, our sister company, is proud to showcase the crafts and traditions that have been part of Ghanaian culture for centuries. And in doing so, are able to support and sustain a small team of local Ghanaian artisans who are passionate about sharing their craft and culture with the world. So while we will continue to focus on growing our home decor range here at Adinkra Designs, we will also be working closely with Created by Culture to bring you the best in sustainable fashion, showcasing the amazing work of talented Ghanaian artisans. We are very excited by our new partnership and cannot wait to bring you the amazing designs in the pipeline!
With Love From Ghana - Chapter 2 - Getting Settled
Life in Ghana is very different to Australia and as can be expected, it's been quite an adjustment for the whole family. It's actually been pretty crazy when we look back over the past months and what we have achieved. From finding a new home, dealing with scrupulous landlords, selecting a school for the kids that would be the right fit, feeling like a L plate driver learning to drive for the first time on these crazy lawless roads and learning to live with inefficient services we consider basic like garbage collection, power and water services - but it's not all been stress and chaos, we've already made great friendships, amazing new connections and have been enjoying quality time with family, learning to slow down and take the time to appreciate the small things...
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"Carlsbad Bolts Fan" just got word from Junior that he will sign a 1 day contract with the Bolts and retire a Charger. Check out his article @ http://bolttalk.com/?p=2444.
Thanks CBF for the early scoop!
Trumpet_Man
55 cent contract and thank you for the memories.
It appears Bolttalk.com is the first site to break this story. :icon_banana:
Other sites were too worried about saying anything it appears.
Props to you guys for getting it out first with your crack staff.
Hey Carlsbad -
Do you have a quote from Seau on this?
I'm not discounting the story, just like to know specifically what he said.
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Trumpet_Man said:
If you are wondering how much Junior can be paid/gifted before it affects our cap. Here you go.
http://www.nflpa.org/Media/main.asp?subPage=CBA+Complete
If a Club provides one or more gifts to a player during the term of the player’s Player Contract to commemorate the player’s retirement, and the player has been under contract with the Club in three or more seasons, the fair market value of such gifts up to $10,000 shall not be counted as Salary, and any excess fair market value above $15,000 shall be counted as Salary. If such gifts have a value between $10,000 and $15,000, the parties reserve their rights with respect to the treatment of the excess fair market value above $10,000; in the absence of agreement between the parties on such treatment, the Impartial Arbitrator shall decide. If the player has been under contract with the Club in less than three seasons, the entire fair market value of any such gifts shall be counted as Salary.
............................Just in case anyone is curious....
PosterFormerlyKnownAsCBF
Shamrock said:
He said this while talking with some fellow Charger fans. He was asked what he was going to do be doing next and in the course of that conversation, he said that he'd sign on so he can retire as a Charger. Not really much more to it than that.
I'm sure any one of the networks will pick him up as an analyst. Just my gut feeling, as no one asked him specifically about that. But he seems like a natural for that job. :cool2:
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BoltTalker
Heck yeah, will always be remembered as a SAN DIEGO CHARGER and is good news. I feel god.:icon_mrgreen: :icon_mrgreen:
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Carrie1219
not here
Great news about Seau...:yes:
Thanks for the breaking news Ray and Carlsbad.
AnteaterRaider
Carpe Diem et omni Mundio
first meeting AJ Smith then breaking the Seau story
Man alive Ray's on a roll
THanks for hte memories Seau, your the first charger i really remember watching
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All the credit goes to our buddy Carlsbad. It's all us dedicated Charger fans that makes Bolt Talk tick. :thumbup:
ChargerRay said:
When A.J "touched" you this past week or so ... karma.
You were touched by GOD.
Boltdiehard
Glad to hear it. Thanks for the memories during some VERY lean years Junior.
WonderSlug
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Are they going to give him a little honor ceremony at the home opener versus Tennessee?
WonderSlug said:
I think the Home Opener would be appropriate timing (HalfTime).
That is savvy marketing.
leisure said:
I am beginning to think I need a linkie as I have yet to see this anywhere else but here. Lets hope it's true as I wanna give Charger Ray mega leisure props for breaking the story
Just remember where you heard it FIRST !!!! :yes:
Boltbaby
I really hope this is happens! Junior is still "Mr. Charger" to me, and he deserves to retire, with Fanfare, a San Diego Charger.
That would go a long way to heal the wounds of him getting cut. I think the Chargers had to do it, but it sucked.
Come on, AJ. Give the fans what they want!
Very much so
Junior deserves to go out in style, in his hometown in front of the people that cheered him on for well over a decade.
And if not then then maybe the game that's the game they bring out the hall of famers?
Oh, one home game I'd like to get to... I think SDC will be there too along with the forum regulars :yes:
www.bolttalk.com
FYI - I don't know if anyone saw this, but http://www.footballhuddles.com/ picked up our story about Seau retiring a Charger. It's at the bottom of the front page.
Nice! BT is getting recognized!
That's awesome! Great find Thumper!
the talks with the Raiders have not been heard from past that one article so I don't think he will don silver and black
Yeah, if he did, he'd lose all credibility and "love" in San Diego.
LT teh ghost
I did enjoy seeing him play for us the past couple of years.
More on the story:
NFL Great Touts Value of Hard Work
Junior Seau also tells a Kitsap County audience that he probably will officially retire soon.
By Jeff Graham, For the Kitsap Sun
July 9, 2006 Bremerton
"To be able to do great things in life, you have to work."
Those words, spoken by NFL linebacker Junior Seau, resonated in the minds of roughly 100 people who gathered for a fund-raising luncheon Saturday afternoon at the Harborside Conference Center in Bremerton.
Players and coaches from six area high schools — Bremerton, North Kitsap, Central Kitsap, South Kitsap, Olympic and Klahowya — attended the three-hour event organized by Russ Robison, president of Robison Plumbing in Bremerton and a regular contributor to the Junior Seau Foundation.
Seau served as Saturday’s featured speaker. The 16-year NFL veteran did not disappoint.
Taking to the podium following passionate speeches by Bremerton Mayor Cary Bozeman and former Washington State University director of medicine Mark Smaha, Seau challenged the young players in attendance to strive to reach their goals.
"I have failed more than I’ve succeeded in my life," said Seau, who played 13 seasons with the San Diego Chargers from 1990-2002 and three seasons with the Miami Dolphins from 2003-05. "The difference is I have never quit."
Seau did have his opportunity.
Seau said he was a backup at the University of Southern California all the way through his senior year, until injuries forced him into the Trojans’ starting lineup. He finished the 1989 season with 19 sacks, earning All-American status despite starting just five games.
The next June, the Chargers picked Seau in the first round of the 1990 NFL Draft.
Sixteen years, 12 Pro Bowl appearances and 1,566 tackles later, Seau credits hard work for prolonging his career.
"If you don’t work, you are going to fail," he said.
After his address, Seau fielded several questions from the audience on subjects ranging from Terrell Owens to Ryan Leaf to life after football.
Regarding the latter, Seau said he plans to hold a press conference within the next two weeks announcing his likely retirement. With the end of his career on the field drawing near, Seau sounded eager to continue his efforts in charity.
"I’m blessed to be where I am," Seau said. "I’ve got a great opportunity to do some great things because of the game of football."
Bremerton High football coach Nate Gillam, who joined five of his players at the luncheon, said he was inspired by Seau’s story.
"He’s had to work for everything he’s had and that’s awesome," Gillam said. "He’s a guy who, physically, may not be the prototypical NFL guy, but he got to where he is and played for 16 years in the NFL because he worked his butt off."
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More and more, it looks like he's retiring instead of trying one last gasp at glory.
Not to be a kill joy but Junior Seau had a lot of stuff swept under the rug. Stories were stifled in the papers about his personal life.
The media helped protect his darling image.
I do not respect Junior.
Google the stories about his paternity suits.
There is more but I will not post it out of respect. Come see me at a tailgater if you want to hear the rest. :yes:
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NFL | Seau about to retire
Sun, 9 Jul 2006 08:35:43 -0700
Jeff Graham, writing for the Kitsap Sun, reports free agent LB Junior Seau (Dolphins) said he plans to hold a press conference within the next two weeks announcing his likely retirement. With the end of his career on the field drawing near, Seau sounded eager to continue his efforts in charity. "I'm blessed to be where I am," Seau said. "I've got a great opportunity to do some great things because of the game of football."
A few years back I heard through the grapevine that he signed over ownership of his "Seau's" restaurant to his wife because of an alleged infidelity. Settlement for not divorcing him.
Something like Kobe buying his wife that $4 million ring for his indiscretions.
Also that, even when he moved to Miami to play for the Dolphins, his wife and kids stayed in San Diego.
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December 27 ,2018
BY Ludwig Watzal
Simon Wiesenthal Center's Shitlist of 2018 Top “Anti-Semites”
Year after year, the right-wing Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles publishes its shitlist of the top leading "Anti-Semites" or "anti-Semitic" incidents. It's always funny to read about this organization distortion of reality and unworldliness. These yearly "Anti-Semitism" Awards come right after the famous Hollywood Awards.
At the top of the list, rightly so, ranks the Pittsburgh Synagogue Massacre. Besides the usual suspects, such as Louis Farrakhan, the leader of the Nation of Islam, who is slandered by the Center almost on a regular basis, these Zionists apparatchiks also put Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of the British Labor Party, UNRWA, and AIRBNB on their shitlist. In October, AIRBNB announced it would delist rentals in Israeli communities in the West Bank. What the center doesn't say is that the West Bank is illegal Occupied Palestinian Land.
That the famous Pink Floyd singer Roger Waters takes only tenth place will perhaps disappoint him. The Zionists and their Philo-Semite enforcers are constantly slandering him that he should have come home second. Germans or German institutions are often on this ridiculous list. This time, the Bank for Social Economy finishes up in seventh place.
Nobody should be surprised by this. Zionist extremists such as the campaign journalist Benjamin Weinthal and many others have put pressure on the bank to terminate the bank account of the group "Jewish Voice for Just Peace in the Middle East" because this group supports the BDS movement, which calls for a peaceful boycott of Israeli products from the illegal settlement in Occupied Palestine. That the Wiesenthal Center quotes Henryk M. Broder infamous judgment about the group ("a bunch of anti-Semites") shows how fact-free, obscure, and insane their judgment is.
Anti-Semitism is a form of racism. Racism in Israel is rampant. Israeli politicians should occupy all ten places. In 2017, I recommended Yair Netanyahu, the son of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as a candidate on the organization's Anti-Semitic shitlist, but to no avail. It seems the Simon Wiesenthal Center is not interested in the fight against real Anti-Semitism. They rather slander other people or organizations that speak the truth about Israel's racist occupation and Apartheid policy.
Ludwig Watzal
Dr. Ludwig Watzal works as a journalist and editor in Bonn, Germany. He runs the bilingual blog Between the lines.
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What About Applied Fairness?
Sylvester, Jared, Raff, Edward
Jun-13-2018 –arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence
Machine learning practitioners are often ambivalent about the ethical aspects of their products. We believe anything that gets us from that current state to one in which our systems are achieving some degree of fairness is an improvement that should be welcomed. This is true even when that progress does not get us 100% of the way to the goal of "complete" fairness or perfectly align with our personal belief on which measure of fairness is used. Some measure of fairness being built would still put us in a better position than the status quo. Impediments to getting fairness and ethical concerns applied in real applications, whether they are abstruse philosophical debates or technical overhead such as the introduction of ever more hyper-parameters, should be avoided. In this paper we further elaborate on our argument for this viewpoint and its importance.
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Advanced Ancient Acropolis
In the dark heart of Africa lies the Shining City of Wakanda. ... What? It's night time!
The development and advancement of human civilization has been greatly spurred by tech sharing (or spying) between cultures and peoples as ideas are traded. While some have advanced socially, culturally and/or technologically faster than others thanks to internal stability and enlightened rulers, it's rare for a single society (much less city-state) to advance leaps and bounds ahead of its neighbors while keeping all its advances to itself.
Except in fiction, that is.
A common setting in Pulp stories is the search or surreptitious discovery of an Advanced Ancient Acropolis. Hidden beneath the Earth in a Lost World, an Atlantis under the sea, or concealed with advanced technology or magic, the Advanced Ancient Acropolis is the last city of an empire that reached space age levels of technology and/or mythic magical powers. In some cases, it is an isolated city-state rather than one of an empire. Their claim to fame is that while the rest of the world was living in mud huts they had built a society of Crystal Spires and Togas and parked it in a Medieval comfortable Technological Stasis. All while never revealing its existence, though ancient legends of The Time of Myths may speak of them.
Bonus trope points for avoiding all social decay while being completely insular, double bonus if they use Cultural Posturing on the "inferior" civilization the heroes hail from. One common variation has the Advanced Ancient Acropolis be in the same abandoned and ruined state as the one in Greece, having been destroyed, abandoned, or wrecked from civil war, plague or some other misfortune. There might however be a last survivor in the form of a robot, golem, ghost, or immortal citizen. Heroes visiting these sites are advised that any ancient relics found are likely of the dangerous cursed or Forgotten Superweapon varieties.
Of course, all of this can be explained if the founders of the city were aliens or from a Higher-Tech Species, or the survivors of a cataclysm that reduced the rest of the world to a lower level.
Common deconstructions frequently focus on just how decadent and out of repair such a society can become, which may in fact be what leads to their ruin. Frequently, this is because their slave race of robots (or actual slaves) rebelled.
See also Schizo-Tech. Compare City of Gold and Temple of Doom. A specific form of Older Is Better.
Examples of Advanced Ancient Acropolis include:
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The demon world Pandaemonium in Chrono Crusade[1] has technology leaps and bounds ahead of humanity. Of course, this is because Pandaemonium is actually a giant living spaceship under the ocean and the demons are actually aliens.
The ancient floating city in Laputa : Laputa: Castle in the Sky.
The Mykene from Mazinger Z and Great Mazinger inhabited the Greek island of Bardos in ancient times. Their technologic level was miles ahead of any other culture of the same time, and the rest of the world would need millennia to catch up. However, one earthquake shook their island and destroyed their cities, and they were forced to seek shelter underground. They founded another civilization Beneath the Earth, but on the surface the only remainder left of their presence were abandoned, decaying ruins, and old legends about the Humongous Mecha they used to defend their land.
The Yamatai Kingdom from Kotetsu Jeeg. Slightly subverted, since they used advanced technology as well as magic.
The Protoculture City in Macross DYRL.
Callahia, the Inhuman's city, and Atlantis in Marvel Comics.
The nation of Wakanda in Marvel Comics.
Atlantis in Detective Comics and Aquaman.
Also Atlantis in Blake and Mortimer's "The Secret of Atlantis".
Paradise Island, Pre Crisis home of Wonder Woman and the Amazons, had healing rays, invisible aircraft, and telepathic videophones. Themyscira, the Post-Crisis version, wasn't quite so advanced originally, though it did "avoid all social decay"; later writers and retcons would restore much of the "goofy" tech of the Golden and Silver Ages.
Gorilla City in the DC Universe may be portrayed as one
Atlantis: The Lost Empire.
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. In Frank Darabont's unused draft, the technology was even more advanced than what was seen in the film.
Just about any lost city in the jungle such as Ancient Africa or South America usually qualifies due to containing advanced Bamboo Technology beyond modern inventions and durable death Traps. See the movie Congo for example.[2]
Conan the Barbarian was chock full of these.
HP Lovecraft's 'At the Mountains of Madness' features an example of this, notably of the alien civilisation subtrope.
In Shane Johnson's novel Ice, two stranded astronauts find an advanced moon base built by humans from before Noah's flood. The technology is far beyond anything they've seen.
Dinotopia has the lost civilization of Poseidos, which in its heyday had robot dinosaurs, remote control drones, computers, and all sorts of other Schizo-Tech.
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Played straight and then subverted in Stargate SG-1. Our heroes discover references to the lost city of Atlantis and set out to find it. They think they've found it buried under the ice in Antarctica, but eventually they figure out that Atlantis is in another galaxy.
Wonder Woman TV Series: Paradise Island is an uncharted island within the devil’s triangle. At 1942, The amazons wear togas and use arcs and arrows, but they had an invisible plane, a truth serum, and guns to use in her “Bullets and bracelets” challenge.
Atlantis, of course, in Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, the cinematic game formerly known as Indy 4, with half human hybrids and Bronze Age Orichalcum-powered Lost Technology.
Shevat and its rival Solaris in Xenogears.
To be fair, they were mostly just hoarding tech from the super-advanced starship that brought Humans to their world in the first place.
Lets not forget the Zeboim Civ.
Played straight with Atlantis in Journeyman Project 3. While El Dorado and Shangri La were somewhat advanced in comparison to neighbors, Atlantis was a self-contained city-state that enslaved the crew of any ship that discovered their location.
Golden Sun uses Lemuria, which was formerly the most advanced civilization in Weyard. After the powers of Alchemy were sealed by the lighthouses, the island closed itself off in an attempt to keep the remaining alchemy to themselves. Lemuria makes for an interesting case because, like the traditional Elf village setting, the citizens live for a very long time, and many of them deny that any decay has taken place at all. The king, however, shows the player's party maps of the world prior to the sealing of Alchemy and after, and there's a visible level of decay on a continental scale. This actually serves as a major turning point for the game.
The Final Fantasy series likes this trope:
Final Fantasy I: The flying fortress in the original NES version was obviously high-tech and patrolled by a robotic Bonus Boss. Later versions gave it a more medieval look.
Final Fantasy IV: The Crystal Spires and Togas Lunarian city.
Final Fantasy V: The Ruins Lonka/Ronka Ruins were highly advanced, considering that upon activation they began to fly with the Crystal of Earth and had teleporters and anti-air cannons installed. They also created the airship maintenance base Catapult.
Final Fantasy VIII: The Centra Ruins, though there's only one structure left from the ancient magitech culture.
Final Fantasy X: All over the place. The two main examples are huge subversions of the usual trope.
Bevelle is a living city that abandoned its Lost Technology for religious reasons. Except that they didn't.
Zanarkand is the summoned dream of an ancient, lost technological civilization created as a way of keeping them all "alive" in the face of a war of extinction.
Final Fantasy XII: Mild subversion. The game is definitely once in the throes of a major industrial revolution, and almost all technology in the setting is modern innovation, but the ancient ruins in the game have teleporters. No one in the party really knows how they work nor cares for that matter. It's just something you'd expect ancient ruins to have.
Ivalice games that are set after FF 12 probably have that game to thank for their examples. The Clockwork City of Goug is a Moogle city in Final Fantasy Tactics A2 in which old technology is excavated, and new technology is created. Long in the future in Final Fantasy Tactics, it's also a city where ancient machine relics are dug up and examined.
Atlantis, again in Ecco the Dolphin, where the Atlanteans invented a time machine and escaped into the past when their city was destroyed. The machine remained until Ecco destroyed it after defeating the Vortex.
Any place where Titan structures remain intact in World of Warcraft is this by default. Most are concentrated on areas of land close to the north and south poles. The dwarves have taken particular interest in these old Titan leftovers after relatively recent discoveries of a connection between their race and some of the old Titan constructed races, and make it a point to try and find and excavate such sites.
Arguably played straight in Rapture, the setting of the first two BioShock (series) games. The city was built immediately after World War Two, yet sports a number of technologies that are impossible, even by today's standards. Discounting those created by ADAM, there are free-flying security drones and mounted turrets capable of indepent Friend-or-Foe recognition, a citywide vacuum mail system, a computer capable of predicting the future (the MacGuffin of the Minerva's Den DLC), and watertight, bulletproof Powered Armor (as shown by the Big Daddies). It all appears very strange to the outside observer. Incidentally, this is an Advanced Ancient Acropolis that is fast on its way to being a ruin; it's just not quite there yet.
Inverted with the City of shinto in Asura's Wrath as well as the rest of the Shinkoku Trastrium civilization. All the buildings and sculptures fits the look of Ancient Hindu and buddhist buildings and sculptures that would seem far too advanced for their time, but in a twist, the story takes place several thousands, if not millions of years in the future that merely is made to look like an ancient civilization.
The DLC ending reveals that the game in fact took place 870 million years in the past!
In the Rance Series, the Floating Island of Irapyu is this. At least until it crashes onto the ground in Rance IV.
In Dubious Company, Walter comes from a Magitek nation that resembles a mix of modern day and Crystal Spires and Togas and may or may not be Fluffy Cloud Heaven. The rest of the world follows more closely to a Standard Fantasy Setting and Walter has to piece together most of his tech from scratch.
The Floating Continent of Ys in the second game of the series, the Ancient City in Ys IV, the lost kingdom of Kefin in Ys V, and the ruined city of Kishgal in Ys VI.
In the 2011 reboot of ThunderCats, Big Bad Sorcerous Overlord Mumm-Ra's Futuristic Pyramid is the long-abandoned variation, with Mumm-Ra as its single Living Relic inhabitant until he begins marshalling his forces. Much more capacious than it first appears, it's inferred as the source of all his army's Offscreen Villain Dark Matter. This is due its origins as a battlestar so massive and populated it housed enough people to invade a planet.
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Africa was actually home to many advanced civilizations. One such civilization even managed to irrigate the Sahara and grow dates.
The deserts of Saudi Arabia and the Sahara contain lost cities that are only now being discovered. One city in the deep desert, Iram of the Pillars was assumed to be just a fanciful myth but was in fact a major metropolis with multi-story high-rises completely buried in sand. Another in Yemen is still inhabited.
Just about every continent contains lost civilizations we know little about because the remains got scattered. Most of ancient Persian architecture and civilization is lost, for instance.
Specifically some Native American peoples were quite advanced. Keeping with the spirit of the trope the Cohokia and their neighbors along the Mississippi River had perfected technologies that rivaled the Egyptians while many European countries had their people living in their own refuse. (As reflected by Monty Python and the Holy Grail, "bring out your dead" and all that.) Justified in this case because there was a whole ocean separating the two civilizations so they developed along completely different lines.
On that note, the Olmec. It would be quite some time after they fell that the Mayans would come and rival their glory - and we don't even know what caused the fall. As far as we can tell, everybody just... left.
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Chapter 4: Iti Kaand (The Final Chapter): Boomerang
Finale of the story. Chapter 1, 2 and 3 posted earlier.
His head was buzzing. After trying to call Caddy for the last three hours for some work and failing to get through, he had called one of his reports. That’s how he came to know. He immediately checked in on the others. He could not get through to any of them. Sweating profusely, he checked the news articles from the local newspapers online. Four victims identified. Fifth not identified. But the photograph? No mistaking him. And her. All five of them were dead. This couldn’t be a coincidence. He immediately left the office. He felt like puking. But he had to get away. Before anyone noticed. He took a taxi to Marine Drive. On a weekday afternoon, it doesn’t take long to get there.
He had been staring at the ocean for the last eight hours since then. But all he could feel right now was a dark emptiness. And fear. He had gone through all the details a few times over. Finally, around midnight, he felt convinced that his living in a narrow street of Mumbai, as against the others being in different parts of US would make him untraceable. It was easier to track bloody Americans. Serves them right.
He took the last train back. Usually, these trains are deserted. The compartment he picked was quite, and there were 5-6 passengers sitting in different corners of the compartment. He stood closer to the gates trying to get some fresh air. The distance between Churchgate and Andheri can be quite a bit when time is not on your side. The world seems to desert you at Dadar. Or join you. Tonight, it didn’t. By the time, the train inched into the Bandra station, there were only three of them left. As the train left Bandra, the other two had moved closer to each other. For a moment, he wondered if they were after him. They were having a conversation in hushed voices. At Vile Parle they got up. By the time, the train left the station, they were standing very close to him. He could see that one of them had his hands in his pocket. His mind was playing tricks with him. Or not. The limbo can kill you, without really doing nothing. Or, by doing nothing. The train had gained momentum. The two had started necking. He felt comfortable. At Andheri station, he got down. They did too.
He walked hurriedly to catch an auto-rickshaw. Just as he was about to get down at his apartment in a not so dreamy suburb of the city of dreams, his cellphone started ringing. He hated the default ringtone. He did not know how to change it though. He took out his wallet with his right hand as he picked the call from his left hand. He did not recognize the voice at the other end. Just as the voice asked him to, he turned around. He could see two autorickshaws comings. Both of them stopped right behind his autorickshaw. From the first one, the couple from the train got down. They either were a couple that had a fight before they came aboard the train at Churchgate, or there was a price tag. It would be good to know the price tag. The other auto had an old men getting down. Is he the one? How long do I need to wait? “The couple”, the voice on the phone answered the question he did not ask.
His heart skipped a beat. The couple came closer. The man had his hands in the pocket. He could feel his heart beat louder, and the world around him slowed down to a dramatic slow-motion as the man started taking his hands out of his pocket. He was aware of everything. The old man moving towards the main entrance of the building, the red ford escort pulling over in a distance, the security guards sitting by the tiny fire not expecting any visitors at this time of the night, the girl chewing on a gum which had most likely lost its taste if one were to observe the the wider and rhythmic motions of her mouth, and pulling something out of the hip pocket of her faded navy blue jeans, his own autorickshaw about to take a U-turn and the driver bending down to spit on the other side of the road. He wanted to focus on the guy’s hand just as much as he wanted to run inside the building, but something about the twitch in the girl’s eye made him look at her. She was handing him a small piece of paper.
“Money was lost, Money was found.
1 played 5, but 1 played 6.
5 are dead. Are you in a fix?”
“Gotcha!”, the man said.
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There’s this joke: about the prizefighter who enters the ring, and his brother turns to the family priest and says, “Father, pray for him.” And the priest said, “I will, but if he can punch, it’ll help.”
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Published February 6, 2019 Bishop Kenneth Carter , Chester Wenger , General Conference , Generous Orthodoxy , Hans Frei , Incarnation , Incarnational , United Methodist Church Leave a Comment
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Three months ago I shared “Part I of a Few” about Generous Orthodoxy. Theologian Hans Frei coined the term to describe a position beyond liberal/conservative theological polarities. “Orthodoxy without generosity leads to blindness,” he wrote, “and generosity without orthodoxy is shallow and empty.” But how do we navigate that tension? How do we hold together opposing polarities? How do we engage in meaningful, respectful dialog with those whose views are polar opposites of ours?
I started writing Part 2 in early December. Then Life intervened, as it often does, with travel, holiday festivities, peaks and valleys, surprises, and U-Turns. But Christmas also sharpened this message. Christmas proclaims Love’s visible, tangible reality. God had sent assorted prophets and other messengers to tell Israel the wonder of being children of God. Finally God said, “Look, I’ll show you,” and poured Limitless Love into one human life –Jesus of Nazareth. That bold grace-full act transformed “God is love” into “The Word became flesh and blood and moved into the neighborhood…” (John 1:14 MSG).
“Incarnation”is the theological word that describes God’s decision to embody/enflesh Love in Jesus. At its best, following Jesus is always incarnational. At our best, our words, deeds, and presence are a seamless whole. We embody our faith in deeds ranging from almost-invisible acts of love and care to highly-public game-changing acts of personal sacrifice and/or leadership that energize a transformative movement. Incarnational faith looks like Schweitzer, King, Bonhoeffer, Tutu, and countless more disciples whose names we don’t know but whose lives speak volumes.
The United Methodist Church (of which I’ve been a part as long as I’ve been) has before it an unprecedented opportunity to practice Generous Orthodoxy. In less than three weeks its General Conference (churchwide legislative meeting) will convene to address the church’s nearly-fifty-year-old running disagreement over human sexuality. Political maneuvering and gamesmanship are escalating. The noise level is peaking. Advocates talk past each other so loudly that they overwhelm quieter voices calling the church to prayer to seek God’s will for our future. Florida Bishop Kenneth Carter has urged the church to conduct this dialog in a spirit of Generous Orthodoxy.
From where I sit (admittedly very far from the church’s inner workings), very few seem to be hearing and embracing Carter’s message. Are the delegates that laser-focused on legislative technicalities, parliamentary maneuvering, and–quite honestly–Winning? I want to believe the vast majority of those 864 folks prayerfully seek the best solution for the whole church. Legislation and rule-making are part of that process. So is the hman impact of their decisions. How has the church’s continued exclusion of LGBTQ persons from full participation affected those children of God? How will this General Conference’s decisions (or indecision!) impact them, and all the millions of UM members with various perspectives? What does Generous Orthodoxy look like in one life, one family’s life, especially when addressing this sensitive and highly charged issue?`
Rev. Chester Wenger just wanted to follow Jesus and be the best father and Mennonite pastor he could be. He didn’t know he was practicing Generous Orthodoxy long before Frei, Malcolm Gladwell, and others coined the phrase. Chester and his wife SaraJane served as missionaries in Ethiopia for many years. After the family returned to the USA, Chester continued his outstanding work in missions and Christian education.
In the late 1970’s 15-year-old Philip Wenger told his parents that he was gay. Chester reaffirmed his love for Philip–and shared his hope that Philip would “grow out of it.” Chester also set out to learn all he could. He studied Scripture and read widely on faith and human sexuality for ten years. (Somewhere during this time Philip told his father that he hadn’t “grown out of it”.) Chester’s intense study led him to understand and accept Philip’s sexuality. Philip was excommunicated by the Mennonite church because of his sexual orientation. The Wenger family’s eight children continue to be divided on the issue. Some support their church’s position against same-sex marriage. Some believe same-sex marriage can express a couple’s Christian faith. Long before “generous orthodoxy” had been named and described, the Wenger family had made generous orthodoxy their way of life.
SaraJane Wenger, Rev. Chester Wenger, Philip Wenger, Steve Dinnocenti
In July 2014, Pennsylvania recognized same-sex marriages. Phil and Steve, his partner of twenty-seven years, immediately applied for a marriage license. They asked Chester, now 96, to marry them. Following the wedding Chester reported his action to his ecclesiastical superiors. “…they responded with grace-filled pastoral listening,” he said, “while acknowledging that what I’d done was out of step with established credentialing agreements…Afterward the…credentialing committee met…and retired my credentials…I am at peace with their decision and understand their need to take this action.” Why had Chester performed his son’s wedding? When asked, he replied, “…he’s my precious son.“
A few months later Chester wrote “An Open Letter to My Beloved Church”. Do take time to read the whole letter. Toward the end, Chester said, “My wife and I are devoted to the Lord, with a firm commitment to the authority of the Scriptures. We strive to be faithfully obedient to Jesus. We invite the church to courageously stake out new territory, much as the early church did. We invite the church to embrace the missional opportunity to extend the church’s blessing of marriage to our homosexual children who desire to live in accountable, covenanted ways…My dear companion of 70 years and I declare our enduring love for Lancaster Mennonite Conference, for the Mennonite Church…and for all God’s people. We carry no bitterness or regret…We pray that our love in family and Church will bind us together in God’s family even when our understandings of God’s will may differ. Christ’s prayer for oneness in John 17 can be attained!”
May Chester and SaraJane Wenger’s spirit of reconciling love infuse General Conference as it does the church’s business. And may Bishop Carter’s vision of generous orthodoxy be embodied in all they do and say: “…generous orthodoxy begins with God, and more specifically with the grace of God…A generous orthodoxy will rediscover the practices of Jesus in the gospels, calling all people into communion with him. Is that call a tacit approval of who we are, in our humanity? No, and this is true for gay and straight people…the ground is indeed level at the foot of the cross, and this is the common ground of grace.”
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Complete Morton #27 – Georgia Swing / Get The Bucket
July 11, 2018 July 11, 2018 Andrew
Today’s entry into the Complete Morton Project starts off with one of Morton’s 1927 band tunes, “Georgia Swing.” This was recorded right after his move from Chicago to New York and the original record features a tuba for the first time in the Red Hot Peppers discography. It’s an interesting shift towards the more popular 2 beat dance feel of New York bands of the time and away from the more interactive New Orleans / Chicago type rhythm section on his previous Peppers sides. Ultimately this led to the demise of his bands as he alienated many of the finer New York players and was left with B and C grade musicians, but fortunately this side was before all of that and the original is one of his most peppy records. The tune is not particularly substantial, basically a ripoff of the classic tune “She’s Crying For Me” by Santo Pecora, the trombonist from the New Orleans Rhythm Kings. Still, it was a fun one to record, here you go!
And secondly, David and my ill-fated singing debut, “Get the Bucket.” This is a simple tune which Morton obviously cooked up in the studio with his last recording band for General records in 1940. Interestingly, it features a very swing era feel and chord progression, the type that Morton himself originated with “King Porter Stomp” and which became the hallmark of the Lindy Hop era sound.
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Dr. Geoffrey McCafferty
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By Geoffrey McCafferty (2009)
While awaiting our excavation permit in 2003, the University of Calgary archaeology team was invited to assist the National Museum in the excavation of prehistoric 'mammoth' bones in the region of Veracruz de Zapotal, in the Department of Rivas. Farmers excavating a deep well for their banana fields had encountered fossil bones of a large mammal, and reported them to museum officials. Thus began an unlikely adventure.
The site was remote, and had to be accessed via slippery farm paths. The well was about 3 m deep, and an area of roughly 3 m x 4 m in area (Fig. 1). Since we were working in the rainy season the water table was quite high, and in order to work on the exposed bones it was necessary to run a pump full time (Fig. 2), or else the pit would fill with water within about half an hour.
Figure 1: Excavation unit filling with water, note rib just below surface
Figure 2: Pump crew draining pit
Because of the short amount of time allocated to this project the goal was to remove the exposed bones without additional excavation. This was precarious due to the wet conditions, though fortunately the walls of the pit were quite solid so there was no danger of collapse. Over the course of several days the bones were exposed and carefully removed (Figs. 3-5).
Figure 3: Angelica Lopez Forment preparing to remove rib
Figure 4: Clearing the scapula
Figure 5: Vertebrae in site wall
The in situ deposits indicated the skeleton was at least partially articulated, as segments of the vertebral column was aligned, and in correct anatomical position relative to the pelvis, scapula, long bones, and ribs. No evidence of the cranium was found, unfortunately, and if it too was articulated it may still be buried adjacent to the pit.
The skeletal remains were removed to Rivas, where they were cleaned and conserved (Figs. 6-10).
Figure 6: Tracy Hydemand cleaning section of pelvis
Figure 7: Bone fragments during conservation
Figures 8-10:Vertebra,head of femur, pelvis (?)
A display of the bones was exhibited at the Rivas Museum of Anthropology, where it is tentatively identified as a "mammoth."
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How to Embed One XML Format in Another
by Antone Roundy | Add Your Comments | Atom/RSS, XML
I've got an idea I'd like to suggest, but don't feel inclined to champion right now. So I post it here and either come back to it later, or let someone else run with it.
While working on the Atom feed format, one issue we ran into was how to embed XHTML content in an Atom feed. We defined 3 special values for indicating the type of content: text, html, and xhtml.
"text" means that after unescaping any XML entitites (eg. < for <), the resulting content should be treated as text. Thus, if the resulting content contained <img src="...">, that should NOT be treated as an HTML image tag -- it should be treated as text.
"html" means that after unescaping, the resulting content should be treated as HTML code. In that case, for example, <img src="..."> would be treated as an HTML image tag.
"xhtml" means that the content isn't escaped -- it's an XHTML fragment. "Fragment" means that it's not a complete XHTML document (with an html tag, head section, body tag, etc.), but a fragment from the body section of an XHTML document.
One difficulty with embedding XHTML had to do with namespaces. The XHTML tags either had to have a namespace prefix, or the default namespace had to be changed (assuming you'd set the default namespace to the Atom namespace, which is what's usually done). The question was where to put the namespace declaration.
You can't do this:
<content type="xhtml" xmlns="(XHTML's namespace)">XHTML content goes here</content>
...because the atom:content tag isn't in the XHTML namespace. Instead, you'd have to do something like this:
<feed xmlns="(Atom's namespace)" xmlns:atom="(Atom's namespace)">
<atom:content type="xhtml" xmlns="(XHTML's namespace)">XHTML content goes here</atom:content>
That way, you can use the default namespace for most of your Atom tags, and the "atom:" prefix for any where you're changing the default namespace to XHTML's.
It works. But it's a little weird -- declaring the same namespace as the default and with a prefix.
Here's another solution:
<content type="xhtml"><div xmlns="(XHTML's namespace)">...
This is what you'll actually see in most feeds. But the question (if we hadn't specified Atom the way we did) would be, is that "div" part of the content, or was it just tacked on in order to change the default namespace? Without going into all the odd things that might happen if a consuming application guesses wrong, I'll just say that we didn't want to leave any ambiguity there.
So I proposed that whenever the "xhtml" type was used, the entire content of the atom:content element be required to be surrounded with a div which was not to be considered part of the content.
It was a fairly controversial suggestion. I don't particularly like it myself. But I think it was the best option we had.
Here's my suggestion
What I'm suggesting now, that would have solved the problem for us, is an addition to XML. XML has a few predefined attributes like xml:base, xml:lang, etc. The "xml:" namespace does not have to be declared. What I'd propose is a new element named something like "xml:embed" to be used when embedding one XML format in another.
If we'd had xml:embed, we could have done this:
<content type="xhtml"><xml:embed xmlns="(XHTML's namespace)">XHTML content goes here</xml:embed></content>
Clean and unambiguous. Even if you don't read the Atom spec and discover that the required div isn't part of the content.
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Burn the Witch
Posted at 4:27 pm on September 29, 2013 by BearingArms.com Staff
They’ve been abused by the mainstream media, ignored by Sandy Hook Promise, and exploited by anti-gun politicians, but the marksmanship-loving family of one of Adam Lanza’s targets refuses to let her be exploited:
Rachel D’Avino died Dec. 14, 2012, inside Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown. Twenty first-grade students and six staff members died when Adam Lanza, a 20-year-old Newtown resident who had attended that elementary school, stormed into the building with a Bushmaster AR-15 rifle. He shot his way through classrooms, then killed himself as police converged.
The rifle that killed their stepdaughter and sister was the same kind of military-style rifle the family had shot together that Thanksgiving Day. They’re commonly called assault weapons, a term once applied to fully automatic weapons used on the battlefield but now applied to semi-automatic military copycats given the same look, but not the ability to fire continuously with one pull of the trigger.
Rachel’s murder has not marred her family’s memory of that holiday afternoon. For a family of marksmen, it also has not changed their views about guns.
After months of silence, Hannah D’Avino and Peter Paradis said they feel compelled to speak publicly: They are not happy that Rachel D’Avino’s name and her memory are being used to push for more and tougher gun legislation.
Their tragedy, they say, has been hijacked for political gain, to further a message with which they disagree.
Why is it that some weak-minded people feel compelled to find a totem or talisman to scapegoat in the wake of a crime committed by a depraved individual? The vicious and terrified backlash against a kind or brand of firearm in the wake of a crime isn’t the act of a rational mind, but instead echoes the same sort of ancestral superstitious hysteria that once swept through New England towns centuries before.
Burn the witch.
Were they not so dangerous in their fanatical certainty that guns are the cause murder, and not simply an easily replaceable implement, it would almost be amusing.
These days, a fevered few shriek with the conviction of Cotton Mather that AR-15s (or other firearms, depending on the outrage of the day) are instruments of the Devil, and that Bushmasters and Colts should be burned at the stake as were Goody Glover and Alice Young.
Sadly, Rachel D’Avino’s family had been largely shunned by the New Puritans, for they dare speak heresy by speaking reason in a culture that honors emotionalism and superstition over reason.
Not one of the 26 souls taken at Sandy Hook were victims of an inanimate object.
Their lives were taken by one of a long line of dangerously mentally ill men let down by a broken mental health care system and the fragile ego of politicians and civil rights advocates who refuse to admit that they failed when they pushed them into society and shut down the asylums in the name of “humanity.”
Tell us… how many more families must be torn asunder in the name of “compassion” for those that should have long ago been institutionalized?
The truly guilty are among the loudest voices screaming to scapegoat an inanimate object, and exploit a tragedy they created. How much longer will it be before they are held accountable?
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As part of the Beaufort Historic Site’s mission to educate future generations about their cultural heritage, a Children’s Colonial Day will be held Friday, August 2 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Beaufort Historic Site. For just $10, children from ages 6 through 10 can dress up in colonial clothing, play colonial games, and enjoy a colonial meal.
The home cooked meal will consists of applesauce, spiral ham, and biscuits that the kids will help make! Children will get to weave their own bookmark with a big loom, and learn how spinning wheels were used to create clothing and more. They will also get to partake in games which were an important part of the day for Colonial children with sack races, water flume games, the game of graces, and games fashioned out of rope and wood.
This program is a great way to enrich a child’s mind with history, while allowing parents to bond with their children. “It is amazing to see how little children today know about where their food and clothing comes from other than being purchased at the store,” Denise Finley said. Finley is the Educational Coordinator at the Beaufort Historic Site “We love to keep this important history alive, and we can’t think of any better way to do this than having children and parents participate together.”
The cost is $10 for children, and parents are free. Attendees are encouraged to stick around after the event at 2 p.m. for a flag retirement ceremony. The ceremony will be open to the general public. For more information on Children’s Colonial Day or to reserve you a spot please, stop in at the Welcome Center, visit www.beauforthistoricsite.org, or call 252-728-5225.
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At Yale, we conducted an experiment to turn conservatives into liberals. The results say a lot about our political divisions.
By John Bargh
November 22, 2017 at 5:00 AM EST
When my daughter was growing up, she often wanted to rush off to do fun things with her friends — get into the water at the beach, ride off on her bike — without taking the proper safety precautions first. I’d have to stop her in her tracks to first put on the sunscreen, or her bike helmet and knee pads, with her standing there impatiently. “Safety first, fun second,” was my mantra.
Keeping ourselves and our loved ones safe from harm is perhaps our strongest human motivation, deeply embedded in our very DNA. It is so deep and important that it influences much of what we think and do, maybe more than we might expect. For example, over a decade now of research in political psychology consistently shows that how physically threatened or fearful a person feels is a key factor — although clearly not the only one — in whether he or she holds conservative or liberal attitudes.
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Conservatives, it turns out, react more strongly to physical threat than liberals do. In fact, their greater concern with physical safety seems to be determined early in life: In one University of California study, the more fear a 4-year-old showed in a laboratory situation, the more conservative his or her political attitudes were found to be 20 years later. Brain imaging studies have even shown that the fear center of the brain, the amygdala, is actually larger in conservatives than in liberals. And many other laboratory studies have found that when adult liberals experienced physical threat, their political and social attitudes became more conservative (temporarily, of course). But no one had ever turned conservatives into liberals.
Until we did.
In a new study to appear in a forthcoming issue of the European Journal of Social Psychology, my colleagues Jaime Napier, Julie Huang and Andy Vonasch and I asked 300 U.S. residents in an online survey their opinions on several contemporary issues such as gay rights, abortion, feminism and immigration, as well as social change in general. The group was two-thirds female, about three-quarters white, with an average age of 35. Thirty-percent of the participants self-identified as Republican, and the rest as Democrat.
But before they answered the survey questions, we had them engage in an intense imagination exercise. They were asked to close their eyes and richly imagine being visited by a genie who granted them a superpower. For half of our participants, this superpower was to be able to fly, under one’s own power. For the other half, it was to be completely physically safe, invulnerable to any harm.
If they had just imagined being able to fly, their responses to the social attitude survey showed the usual clear difference between Republicans and Democrats — the former endorsed more conservative positions on social issues and were also more resistant to social change in general.
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But if they had instead just imagined being completely physically safe, the Republicans became significantly more liberal — their positions on social attitudes were much more like the Democratic respondents. And on the issue of social change in general, the Republicans’ attitudes were now indistinguishable from the Democrats. Imagining being completely safe from physical harm had done what no experiment had done before — it had turned conservatives into liberals.
In both instances, we had manipulated a deeper underlying reason for political attitudes, the strength of the basic motivation of safety and survival. The boiling water of our social and political attitudes, it seems, can be turned up or down by changing how physically safe we feel.
This is why it makes sense that liberal politicians intuitively portray danger as manageable — recall FDR’s famous Great Depression era reassurance of “nothing to fear but fear itself,” echoed decades later in Barack Obama’s final State of the Union address — and why President Trump and other Republican politicians are instead likely to emphasize the dangers of terrorism and immigration, relying on fear as a motivator to gain votes.
In fact, anti-immigration attitudes are also linked directly to the underlying basic drive for physical safety. For centuries, arch-conservative leaders have often referred to scapegoated minority groups as “germs” or “bacteria” that seek to invade and destroy their country from within. President Trump is an acknowledged germaphobe, and he has a penchant for describing people — not only immigrants but political opponents and former Miss Universe contestants — as “disgusting.”
“Immigrants are like viruses” is a powerful metaphor, because in comparing immigrants entering a country to germs entering a human body, it speaks directly to our powerful innate motivation to avoid contamination and disease. Until very recently in human history, not only did we not have antibiotics, we did not even know how infections occurred or diseases transmitted, and cuts and open wounds were quite dangerous. (In the American Civil War, for example, 60 out of every 1,000 soldiers died not by bullets or bayonets, but by infections.)
Therefore, we reasoned, making people feel safer about a dangerous flu virus should serve to calm their fears about immigrants — and making them feel more threatened by the flu virus should cause them to be more against immigration than they were before. In a 2011 study, my colleagues and I showed just that. First, we reminded our nationwide sample of liberals and conservatives about the threat of the flu virus (during the H1N1 epidemic), and then measured their attitudes toward immigration. Afterward we simply asked them if they’d already gotten their flu shot or not. It turned out that those who had not gotten a flu shot (feeling threatened) expressed more negative attitudes toward immigration, while those who had received the vaccination (feeling safe) had more positive attitudes about immigration.
In another study, using hand sanitizer after being warned about the flu virus had the same effect on immigration attitudes as had being vaccinated. A simple squirt of Purell after we had raised the threat of the flu had changed their minds. It made them feel safe from the dangerous virus, and this made them feel socially safe from immigrants as well.
Our study findings may have a silver lining. Here’s how:
All of us believe that our social and political attitudes are based on good reasons and reflect our important values. But we also need to recognize how much they can be influenced subconsciously by our most basic, powerful motivations for safety and survival. Politicians on both sides of the aisle know this already and attempt to manipulate our votes and party allegiances by appealing to these potent feelings of fear and of safety.
Instead of allowing our strings to be pulled so easily by others, we can become more conscious of what drives us and work harder to base our opinions on factual knowledge about the issues, including information from outside our media echo chambers. Yes, our views can harden given the right environment, but our work shows that they are actually easier to change than we might think.
John Bargh is a professor of social psychology at Yale University and the author of “Before You Know It: The Unconscious Reasons We Do What We Do”
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Autobiography of a Schnook
By Dauber, November 21, 2018 in Gaming Publications and Websites
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Well, friends, the time has come...
Autobiography of a Schnook has officially launched!
The truth is, though, it launched last week. The preface (or, as some podcasts call it, "episode zero") was released, but I didn't want to make an announcement until the first episode (or "chapter") was available as well, just to get both an introduction and some context out there.
The podcast is available on all the major podcast providers...except Apple Podcasts / iTunes...because, well...Apple takes up to two weeks to approve podcasts. Heck, even Google Play only took *hours*! But hey, it's out.
What's it about? Well...for years it's been my observation that you can go to a library or book store and find biographies of...famous people...but no biographies of just your average, everyday schnook of whom nobody's ever heard. I figured I should publish an autobiography and call it Autobiography of a Schnook. The reality is...I'd never actually finish it. But eventually it occurred to me: why not do it as a podcast? So...here it is.
Despite my two video game podcasts and my frequenting of video game fora, my first love is actually music, so every episode will have a segment called "Music for Schnooks." (Spoiler alert: a future episode will have a "Music for Schnooks" guest many of us have heard of. )
Having said that, I will NOT be posting here every time a new episode is out. In an effort to be as on-topic as possible, after this point I will only post when an episode has a video game topic. I just wanted to announce this podcast for now.
I don't know if this podcast will be any kind of success, but I really don't care; I just want to do it, and I invite you all to give it a listen. The home page is schnookpodcast.com. RSS feed is https://schnookpodcast.com/feed/podcast/. There's a Facebook presence, so you can "like" the page at facebook.com/SchnookPodcast if you do the FB thing. Episode links are below:
PREFACE: Welcome to the world of a schnook.
Sean isn’t anybody rich, famous, heroic, or otherwise remarkable; he’s just a schnook. And he’s here to not only tell his story, but also to refer to himself in the third person.
https://www.schnookpodcast.com/audio/Schnook_Preface.mp3
In the first chapter of Autobiography of a Schnook, Sean focuses on Thanksgiving-related topics:
– A Thanksgiving Curse?
– Music For Schnooks: Don’t Meet Your Heroes (Troubled Genius Edition)
https://www.schnookpodcast.com/audio/Schnook_Chapter001.mp3
Chapter 2 is out. There is...a bit about video games in it, so...I figured heck, I'll post it here.
Chapter 10 features a segment that's almost on-topic for AtariAge.
My SENIOR Year in High School - answering a frequently-posted social media survey
The Mysterious Phantom Pac-Man Game - For years Sean has insisted that a sequel in the Pac-Man franchise existed, yet nobody believed him.
The Doors Without Jim - What's the point? Well...
https://schnookpodcast.com/audio/Schnook_Chapter010.mp3
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Smart Local Warming Designed to Avoid Heat Waste
Archive June 2014
Researchers at MIT have developed a system of individual heating in buildings, whereby warmth is beamed on to each individual person. The invention has the potential to revolutionise climate control in buildings and help optimise energy efficiency.
In 2011, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology filed a patent for Kinetic Super-Resolution Imaging, a system which takes a series of thermal photographs inside buildings and then maps the areas that are wasting heat. In fact quite a lot of study into climate control in buildings is going on at MIT, and a research team has recently developed a system that can create individual pockets of warmth by using lights attached to the ceiling which sense when a person is actually present. This ‘Local Warming’ system is currently on display at the 14th Venice Architecture Biennale, running from 7 June to 23 November.
Targeting warmth at individual people
Carlo Ratti, Director of the MIT SENSEable City Lab and project leader, is highly critical of current heating methods, pointing out: “Buildings are heated 24/7, even when unoccupied, and the empty spaces are heated just as much as the occupied areas.” So the objective of Local Warming is to synchronise the indoor temperature with human presence in a building, promoting energy efficiency. The system uses a WiFi-enabled tracking system, developed exclusively at the MIT Center for Wireless Networks and Mobile Computing), which is attached to the ceiling, and projects heat in the form of infrared light beamed directly – like a spotlight – on to people when they enter a room. The components of the heating system include LED bulbs which generate infrared rays and revolving optical mirrors to direct the heat rays, driven by a small motor which enables the arrays to change direction and realign with the person being tracked.
The building climate control of tomorrow
“With a dynamic system like Local Warming in place, buildings may not need to waste as many resources on climate control,” argues project manager Miriam Roure. External heating in places that are semi-covered, industrial lofts, or large spaces such as building lobbies, which are only sparsely occupied, could all usefully adopt this system. The next step might be to create an even smarter Local Warming application that would enable people to control their very own ‘heat bubble’ from their smartphone. “Local Warming allows participants to engage with their climate directly and to enact a new type of efficient, localised climate control,” enthuses Miriam Roure.
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Ankle Surgery Patients Should “Get up and Walk” to a More Functional Life After Surgery
posted Dec 03, 2018
Sports Medicine Research: In the Lab & In the Field • December 3, 2018
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<span><span>Weight-bearing or Non-Weight-Bearing after Surgical Treatment of Ankle Fractures: A Multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial. </span>Postoperative care after an ankle fracture ranges from complete non-weight-bearing with immobilization cast to full weight-bearing as tolerated with no protective equipment.</span>
Weight-bearing or Non-Weight-Bearing after Surgical Treatment of Ankle Fractures: A Multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial
Take Home Message: Patients with an ankle fracture who followed an unprotected weight-bearing postoperative care protocol reported less disability and returned to work and sport quicker than patients who followed a protocol limiting their weight-bearing following surgery.
Postoperative care after an ankle fracture ranges from complete non-weight-bearing with immobilization cast to full weight-bearing as tolerated with no protective equipment. It remains unclear which approach is associated with less complications, quicker return to functional activity, and better health-related quality of life after an internal fixation surgery for a supination-external rotation Lauge-Hansen classification fracture. Therefore, the authors conducted a multicenter randomized controlled trial among patients who received surgical treatment of an ankle fracture to determine the effects of three postoperative care protocols:
unprotected non-weight-bearing mobilization with crutches and active ankle exercises,
protected weight-bearing with a below knee cast for 6 weeks, or
unprotected weight-bearing with functional weight-bearing as tolerated.
The authors included patients (18 to 65 years old) who sustained a supination external rotation type 2-4 ankle fracture between January 2013 and October 2016 without pre-existing comorbidities. A total of 115 patients were included in the final analysis, 40 patients allocated to unprotected non-weight-bearing, 33 to protected weight-bearing, and 42 to unprotected weight-bearing cohorts. The authors used the Olerud Molander Ankle Score (OMAS) at 12-weeks as the primary outcome to assess patient-reported outcome ankle symptoms (pain, stiffness, swelling, etc). A higher score on the OMAS indicated greater functional outcome, with a max score of 100. The participants also completed the Short-Form 36 to assess health-related quality of life (higher score better; max score = 100). Other variables of interest included time in weeks returning to work and sport and number of complications. The unprotected weight-bearing group (~61) reported a higher OMAS after 6 weeks compared to the protected weight-bearing (~52) and unprotected non-weight-bearing (~46) groups. The unprotected weight-bearing group also returned to work sooner than the other groups, 4.1 weeks versus 5.7 and 7.0 weeks. The unprotected weight-bearing group also had a shorter return to sport time of 8.9 weeks versus 12.7 and 14.1 weeks. Each group had a similar number and type of complications.
Consensus among orthopedic surgeons is to be cautious with weight-bearing activities following ankle surgery to minimize postoperative complications and potential long-term consequences. However, the results of this study would argue that early unprotected weight-bearing may be the better treatment strategy. A postoperative care protocol allowing for early weight-bearing as tolerated did not increase rate of complications, reduced time-loss from work and sports, and improved functional ability and overall quality of life. It is important to note OMAS outcomes were not significantly different at 3- or 12-months post-surgery. This shows function and disability were restored in each mobilization protocol 3 most post-surgery. Clinicians treating patients with Lauge-Hansen type 2-4 ankle fractures should consult with the treating orthopedic surgeon to determine which postoperative mobilization method would be best depending on the patients preferred outcomes.
Questions for Discussion: Do you have a preferred mobilization method following ankle surgery? What is your experience with patients weight-bearing as tolerated immediately following ankle surgery?
Source: www.sportsmedres.org
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Welcome to Beyoncé Online - your #1 source for everything Beyoncé Knowles. You'll find here a lot of interesting information, one of the biggest photo galleries with over 100.000 pictures, downloads and more! Be sure to check out the latest news about Mrs. Carter and leave your comments. We hope you'll enjoy your stay and come back soon! Have fun!
Beyonce.com: The Lion King London Premiere
Beyonce shared photos from "The Lion King" premiere in London on her website and Instagram.
Beyoncé's "Homecoming" Documentary Lands Six Emmy Nominations
Beyoncé easily set a personal Emmy best yesterday with six nominations for her Netflix special Homecoming: A Film by Beyoncé, outdoing her double-nominated 2016 visual album Lemonade, and the single nominations she received for 2013’s Super Bowl halftime show (short form entertainment) and special class program with husband Jay-Z for On the Run Tour.
Homecoming received nominations in the following categories:
Outstanding Variety Special (Pre-Recorded)
“Carpool Karaoke: When Corden Met McCartney Live From Liverpool” (CBS)
“Hannah Gadsby: Nanette” (Netflix)
“Homecoming: A Film By Beyoncé” (Netflix)
“Springsteen On Broadway” (Netflix)
“Wanda Sykes: Not Normal” (Netflix)
Outstanding Directing for a Variety Special
“Carpool Karaoke: When Corden Met McCartney Live From Liverpool,” CBS (Ben Winston)
“Homecoming: A Film By Beyoncé,” Netflix (Beyonce Knowles-Carter, Ed Burke)
“Live In Front Of A Studio Audience: Norman Lear’s ‘All In The Family’ And ‘The Jeffersons’,” ABC (James Burrows, Andy Fisher)
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“The Oscars,” ABC (Glenn Weiss)
Beyoncé Reveales "The Lion King: The Gift" Cover & Tracklist
Beyoncé has revealed the tracklist for her new Lion King-inspired album The Lion King: The Gift. Along with several new Beyoncé songs, the LP features contributions from Kendrick Lamar, JAY-Z, Childish Gambino, 070 Shake, Tierra Whack, Pharrell, and more. In addition, there’s a song with JAY and Bey’s daughter Blue Ivy Carter. Check out the the tracklist and cover art below.
The Lion King: The Gift, executive produced by Beyoncé, is out this Friday, July 19 via Parkwood Entertainment/Columbia Records.
"Spirit" Music Video
Beyoncé premiered the music video for "Spirit" from "The Lion King"! She wrote: “The spirit of indigenous people and their land is within all of us. We support conservation efforts of these tribes to ensure our precious circle of life.”
Harry's Bar in London (July 14)
Beyonce was spotted last night leaving a private party at Harry's Bar in London.
"The Lion King" Premiere in London
Beyonce attended the European Premiere of "The Lion King" at Odeon Luxe Leicester Square on July 14, 2019 in London, England.
"The Lion King" - Behind the Scenes
Watch two new behind the scenes videos from "The Lion King" below!
Beyoncé Films Music Video for "The Lion King"
Beyoncé and Blue Ivy were spotted on the set of a new music video for "The Lion King" in Arizona on July 10.
"The Lion King" Premiere
Beyoncé attended the premiere of Disney's "The Lion King" at Dolby Theatre on July 9, 2019 in Hollywood, California.
"The Lion King" Soundtrack Available Now
Ahead of Disney's 2019 live adaption of The Lion King hitting theaters on July 19, Disney Music has released the original motion picture soundtrack.
The soundtrack consists not only of Beyoncé's "Spirit" — an original single that will appear on her own album The Lion King: The Gift, which will accompany the film's release — but also the 2019 rendition of "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" featuring vocals by Queen Bey, Donald Glover, Billy Eichner and Seth Rogen. (In the film, Glover voices the title role of Simba, and Beyoncé, of course, voices Nala. Eichner and Rogen each play Timon and Pumbaa, respectively.)
The Lion King 2019 soundtrack is currently streaming on Spotify and Apple Music. Physical editions of the release will be available on July 19.
Listen to "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" and the entire soundtrack below.
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Beyonce Expected To Attend Whitney Houston's Funeral
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A-list stars including the likes of Oprah Winfrey, Beyoncé, Jay-Z, Elton John, Aretha Franklin, Bill Cosby, Kevin Costner, and David Bowie will be among those in the pews at Whitney Houston’s funeral at Newark, New Jersey’s New Hope Baptist Church on Saturday, and RadarOnline.com will live stream the service beginning at noon EST. "It’s going to be a ceremony that reflects her life," New Hope church Pastor Joe A. Carter told the New Jersey Star-Ledger. "A celebration of Whitney’s life, with the participation of many people who are very important in Whitney’s life." Scheduled speakers for Saturday’s memorial include Houston’s The Bodyguard co-star Kevin Costner, who personally chose her for the role; her cousin, Dionne Warwick; acclaimed director Tyler Perry; and her ace producer Clive Davis. In addition, Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder, Alicia Keys and R. Kelly are slated to sing at the service, following which, Houston will be buried at Fair View Cemetery in Westfield, New Jersey, which is where her father is also laid to rest. Houston’s ex-husband, Bobby Brown, as well as their 18-year-old daughter Bobbi Kristina, will attend the service; afterwards, Brown will head off to headline a concert with New Edition in Connecticut that very same day. The area around the church will be cordoned off several blocks to the public, according to the paper. Grammy Award-winning gospel singer and Houston family friend Marvin Winans, who presided over Houston’s 1992 wedding to Brown, will deliver the eulogy for the hit-maker, who died Saturday at the Beverly Hills Hilton at 48.
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Updated Gripes
rants March 20, 2013 Leave a comment
Regarding the death of Google Reader, and Google's actions as a whole, James Whittaker says:
The old Google made a fortune on ads because they had good content. It was like TV used to be: make the best show and you get the most ad revenue from commercials. The new Google seems more focused on the commercials themselves.
Have to thank Daring Fireball for that quote.
Regarding the lack of love for Halo 4 from the Halo community, Gamer Suggestions created this infographic based on community responses.
Reader Rage: When Free Is Not Free
Google announced the death of Google Reader in July of 2013. Google Reader is/was a free RSS news reader that syncs/synced among just about any platform or device. The appropriately named Dave Winer says “Next time, please pay a fair price for the services you depend on.” To all the Dave Winers of the world, I literally paid for Google Reader with my eyeballs. Look at Google's a look at Google's financials. Google's cash cow, as in about 95% of Google's profits, is advertising. Much like broadcast TV, anything Google does to draw eyeballs brings in advertising revenue. Google Reader brought my eyeballs to Google, and my eyeballs were not alone.
Google Reader Dies in July
Other companies provide free interent services that are also not “free”. My eyeballs similarly pay for Facebook and news sites. My ears pay for the free versions of Pandora and Spotify. My iPhone, iPad, and Mac purchases pay for iCloud. My Windows and Office licenses pay for Windows Live Mail (formerly Hotmail and rebranded as Outlook.com). All of those free web browsers we love are paid for with out attention. Fremium services make money by encouraging free users to become paid users; I used Evernote for free for about four or five years before becoming a Premium paid member, and for the first time last year, I donated to Wikipedia. These fremium services make money out of their popularity, and using the service makes them popular.
For a giant company such as Google, there is also the notion of goodwill. During a time when everyone was annoyed by Yahoo search and the Ask.com butler, Google came into the search market with a very simple and effective web search page. While the other big internet companies were stumbling all over themselves in sad attempts to provide services, Google giave us Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Maps, Google Docs, the desktop search bar, Picasa, the Chrome web browser, and Google Reader. In return, we gave Google two thirds of the interent search traffic. Axing popular services like Google Reader chips away at the goodwill that Google has built over the past decade and a half. We are already questioning the longevity of Google's other free services. We do not know how much Google Reader cost Google, but certainly Google will pay a cost for killing it.
Halo 4 Fans Lament
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This is the story of how a game developer alienated one of the most prominent fan bases in gaming history. Halo 4 is one of the most successful games in console history. Almost 8 million people have purchased the game and as of February of 2013, it ranks as 4th for Xbox live activity. For any regular game, these numbers would be outstanding. But this is Halo. The community expects more from 343 than any other new developer. Halo 3 was a cultural and media event like no other. This is Halo 4; it should be even better.
Halo 4 is dominated by the DMR
Evidence of the short term failure of Halo 4 is easy to find. HaloCharts.com tracks the daily peak population among all the Halo 4 playlists. The trend is both clear and disturbing for fans of Halo. Each week, fewer and fewer players return to Halo 4. The population dropped off a cliff early when Activision released Call of Duty: Black Ops II and never recovered. Low populations beget low populations, and as fewer players enter matchmaking there will be fewer players to support playlist and fewer players to connect with in order to minimize lag. Based on my past experiences, there is no second cliff nor a resurgance. The death of an on-line community is a slow inevitability.
Halo 4 is losing players
Representatives of 343 have been less than apologetic admitting some mistakes but ultimately concluding that “. . . for a first efferot, it wasn’t half bad.” 343 runs a forum for the Halo community – an outreach program pioneered by 343’s predecessor – and the community is vociferous in its complaints. The number one controversy is weapons balance, particularly the awesome power of two weapons, the Designated Marksman Rifle (DMR) and the Bolt Shot. The number two complaint is the quality of the maps. 343 filled all of the maps with bases to support the new Dominion game type and plenty of boulders to provide cover. The Dominion game type is one of the least popular on Halo 4. Comparing the Dominion playlist population to most popular playlist, Big Team Infinity Slayer, shows how bad of a bet this was for 343. All the bases 343 made for the Dominion are but clutter in Big Team games. Even more telling, the most popular map by far is a remake of a 2007 map made for Halo 3 and of course does not support Dominion. Worse, the map making tools that has come with Halo since 2007 have been neutered by 343. There are no easy fixes for the community’s complaints.
Corridors are too tight for tanks
343 has made the situation worse by alienating the community. The first paid map pack released for Halo 4 came a month after release, meaning the maps could have been released with the game and none of the maps reflect concerns by the community. Worse, due to an error on the part of 343, the paid map pack was released for free. 343 responded by concocting a fake “14 day buy and play” promotion and deactivating downloaded content on players consoles. Then in February, 343 required a second map pack purchase to play a popular game type the community had been asking for since Halo 4’s release. The long sought game type is a free-for-all deathmatch that harkens back to the original first person shooters from the early 1990s. Halo 4 is the first game in the Halo series to require additional paid content to play free-for-all deathmatch..
Too much aim assist on Gauss Hot
The community is dumbfounded by 343’s behavior. Halo 4 is objectively a great game; the Metacritic score is 87% positive. The multiplayer population hit 400,000 players during the first weak of Halo 4’s release. Despite a good number of Die hard fans who refuse to stop playing, this is a war of attrition. 343 has done nothing to acknowledge player concerns or slow the steady drop in mulitplayer population. They are the proverbial Nero playing the fiddle while Rome burns. In this analogy, the fiddle is paid map packs and Rome is one of the most successful media franchises of all time.
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Research article | Open | Published: 18 October 2004
Information assessment on predicting protein-protein interactions
Nan Lin1,
Baolin Wu2,
Ronald Jansen3,
Mark Gerstein4,5 &
Hongyu Zhao6,7
BMC Bioinformaticsvolume 5, Article number: 154 (2004) | Download Citation
Identifying protein-protein interactions is fundamental for understanding the molecular machinery of the cell. Proteome-wide studies of protein-protein interactions are of significant value, but the high-throughput experimental technologies suffer from high rates of both false positive and false negative predictions. In addition to high-throughput experimental data, many diverse types of genomic data can help predict protein-protein interactions, such as mRNA expression, localization, essentiality, and functional annotation. Evaluations of the information contributions from different evidences help to establish more parsimonious models with comparable or better prediction accuracy, and to obtain biological insights of the relationships between protein-protein interactions and other genomic information.
Our assessment is based on the genomic features used in a Bayesian network approach to predict protein-protein interactions genome-wide in yeast. In the special case, when one does not have any missing information about any of the features, our analysis shows that there is a larger information contribution from the functional-classification than from expression correlations or essentiality. We also show that in this case alternative models, such as logistic regression and random forest, may be more effective than Bayesian networks for predicting interactions.
In the restricted problem posed by the complete-information subset, we identified that the MIPS and Gene Ontology (GO) functional similarity datasets as the dominating information contributors for predicting the protein-protein interactions under the framework proposed by Jansen et al. Random forests based on the MIPS and GO information alone can give highly accurate classifications. In this particular subset of complete information, adding other genomic data does little for improving predictions. We also found that the data discretizations used in the Bayesian methods decreased classification performance.
Proteins transmit regulatory signals throughout the cell, catalyze large numbers of chemical reactions, and are crucial for the stability of numerous cellular structures. Interactions among proteins are key for cell functioning and identifying such interactions is crucial for deciphering the fundamental molecular mechanisms of the cell. As relevant genomic information is exponentially increasing both in quantity and complexity, in silico predictions of protein-protein interactions have been possible but also challenging. A number of techniques have been developed that exploit combinations of protein features in training data and can predict protein-protein interactions when applied to novel proteins. Our study is motivated by a study by Jansen et al. [1], who proposed a Bayesian method to use the MIPS [2] complexes catalog as gold standard positives and lists of proteins in separate subcellular compartments [3] as gold standard negatives. The various protein features considered in this method include time course mRNA expression fluctuations during the yeast cell cycle [4] and the Rosetta compendium [5], biological function data from the Gene Ontology [6] and the MIPS functional catalog, essentiality data [2], and high-throughput experimental interaction data [7–10]. The MIPS and Gene Ontology functional annotations are used for quantifying the functional similarity between two proteins. The MIPS functional catalog (or GO biological process annotation) can be thought of as a hierarchical tree of functional classes (or a directed acyclic graph (DAG) in the case of GO). Each protein is either a member or not a member of each functional class, such that each protein describes a "subtree" of the overall hierarchical tree of classes (or subgraph of the DAG in the case of GO). Given two proteins, one can compute the intersection tree of the two subtrees associated with these proteins. This intersection tree can be computed for the complete list of protein pairs (where both proteins of each pair are in the functional classification), and thus a distribution of intersection trees is obtained. Then the "functional similarity" between two proteins is defined as the frequency at which the intersection tree of the two proteins occurs in the distribution. Intuitively, the intersection tree gives the functional annotation that two proteins share. The more ubiquitous this shared functional annotation is, the larger is the functional similarity frequency; the more specific the shared functional annotation is, the smaller is the functional similarity frequency. The essentiality data represents a categorical variable that denotes whether zero, one or both proteins in a protein pair are essential. The supplementary online material of [1]http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/data/302/5644/449/DC1/1 provides more details about the quantification of these variables. Their Bayesian method predicts protein-protein interactions genome-wide by probabilistic integration of genomic features that are weakly associated with interactions (mRNA expression, essentiality and localization). The model was used for two separate predictions of probabilistic interactomes (PI), one of which (PIE) is built on four high-throughput experimental interaction data sets, and the other (PIP) on the mRNA expression, Gene Ontology, MIPS functional and coessentiality data. Within the PIP sub-network, different genomic features are assumed to be independent in prior. In addition, this method involved discretizing the raw data into groups and representing the two mRNA expression profiles (cell cycle and Rosetta compendium data) by their first principal component for computational convenience.
Our current study focuses on assessing the contributions of different types of genomic data towards predicting protein-protein interactions. This may help us to understand which genomic features have the closest biological relationship with protein-protein interactions and hence to construct a better prediction model. As prediction rules involving less relevant information may have lower prediction accuracy, our analysis can give us insights into how to construct more parsimonious models with comparable or better prediction accuracy. A potential disadvantage of the Bayesian network approach may be that the data discretization can obscure information contained in the raw genomic data. Thus, in addition to assessing the information content of the data sources, we also propose alternative non-Bayesian models that fully utilize the data without discretization. These methods, such as logistic regression and random forests, do not require prior knowledge, and we can evaluate the importance of the different genomic features in the context of these methods.
Results and discussions
To accurately and quantitatively assess the information contributions of different genomic features, we construct in essence a simplified problem that has some but not all of the elements of the original study. Here, we only look at a subset of the data from [1] comprising the 18 million protein pairs in total and approximately 8,000 gold standard positives and 2.7 million gold standard negatives. This subset (see Additional File 1) contains 2,104 positives and 172,409 negatives. In this subset, we have complete information for each feature and we can thus quantitatively assess the relative contributions of the different features on this set. This data set can be downloaded from http://bioinformatics.med.yale.edu/PPI. In doing so, we find that some of the features have stronger influence on the overall prediction. While this might be true for the larger problem as well, there are a number of caveats that one has to keep in mind, such as that the features that are present in this subset might not be the strongest in the whole set of 18 million protein pairs.
Here, we construct models for predicting protein-protein interactions that, given the gold standards, are basically dichotomous classifiers. Multiple logistic regression [11] is one commonly used model for such an application [12, 13]. An alternative, more sophisticated supervised learning approach that we apply is the random forest algorithm [14]. Note that, although not our focus here, all these methods can be used to compute the estimated probabilities for predicted protein-protein interactions.
The logistic model has the advantage that it provides an estimated probability that a pair of proteins interact, and is readily available in standard statistical packages. In this paper, the logistic regression analysis was generated using PROC LOGISTIC in SAS/STAT software, Version 9 of the SAS System. Moreover, we can evaluate the importance of different genomic features by variable selections. Among many available schemes, we chose stepwise variable selection that is widely used in standard packages. Stepwise selection is a greedy search algorithm that selects variables with the best marginal prediction power given the current model. To quantify the importance of the predictor variables to the model fitting, we can use the deviance measure
2(log L1 - log L0),
where L0 is the likelihood of the final model given by the stepwise selection, and L1 is the likelihood of the reduced model by removing all terms that involve the corresponding predictor variable from the final model. However, this measure only considers the prediction power of variables for the training sample but not for any random test samples. Therefore, this measure can be biased due to its dependence on the training sample.
We consider, similarly as in [1], all the main effects and interaction terms among the genomic features in the PIP (indirect evidence for protein-protein interactions) and the PIE (direct experimental protein-protein interaction measurements) respectively. Table 1 presents all the terms remained in the final model and their orders to enter the final model. Table 2 shows the deviance measure of predictor variables. The Gavin data, Gene Ontology and MIPS functional similarity features, and the cell cycle gene expression data are the most important genomic evidences for predicting protein-protein interactions according to the deviance measure, whereas the three other high-throughput experimental data sets are less relevant or even do not have significant effects to be included in the final model. However, the logistic model is restricted by its linear form and may not provide an optimal solution to the prediction problem. And it will be more objective to evaluate the variable importance according to its prediction accuracy for any random test samples. In the following, we present the results from using the random forest, a more sophisticated supervised learning algorithm.
Table 1 Order of variables that enter the final model by stepwise selection in logistic regression
Table 2 Deviance of the reduced model from the final model by removing corresponding variables
Random forest
The "random forest" method [14] is a supervised learning algorithm that has previously been successfully applied to many genomic studies. It has been implemented in the randomForest package of R [15]. A random forest is an ensemble of many classification trees generated from bootstrap samples of the original data. It is well known that random forests avoid overfitting and usually have better classification accuracy than classification trees. A natural way to evaluate the importance of the feature variables with the random forest algorithm is to measure the increase of the classification error when those variables are permuted. Intuitively, the more important variables will, when permuted, produce larger classification errors. The importance score provided by the random forest is a more accurate estimate of the classification error that considers the situation of random test samples. Therefore, this importance score provides a more objective evaluation of the relative merit of different genomic features on protein-protein interaction prediction. Moreover, the intrinsic tree structure of the random forest easily takes into account the interactions among the different variables and avoids complications caused by missing data that occurred in many other modeling procedures.
We performed our random forest analysis by growing 5,000 trees. Figure 1 shows the importance measures of the genomic evidences used in the random forest algorithm. The result agrees mostly with that of the logistic regression in that the MIPS and Gene Ontology functional similarity features are found to be very important, whereas most of the high-throughput experimental data sets have negligible effects. However, different from the result from logistic regression, the Gavin data set is shown to be less important than MIPS and Gene Ontology functional similarity features after considering the situation of random test samples. These observations motivated us to perform a more thorough information assessment of the genomic evidences considered. We first compared the performance of different classification methods (random forest, logistic regression and Bayesian network), and then evaluated the importance of the different genomic datasets within the framework the best method (the method with the lowest classification error).
Importance measure of genomic features from the random forest algorithm The horizontal axis presents the importance measure whereas the vertical axis denotes the genomic features.
Comparison of three methods
We conducted 7-fold cross validations on the subset with complete information (described above) on all the features for random forest, logistic regression and the Bayesian network method. Figure 2 displays their receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves, where we observe a better performance of the random forest over the other two and similar performances between logistic regression and the Bayesian network.
ROC curves of random forest, logistic regression and Bayesian networks using 7-fold cross validations
Information assessment
Information assessment of different genomic data may help us understand their relationship with protein-protein interactions, and form a guideline for future model development.
MIPS and gene ontology functional similarity data
We saw that the MIPS and Gene Ontology functional similarities were the two most important information sources under both the logistic regression and random forests methods. Histograms of the MIPS and GO functional similarity data (Figures 3 and 4) show that they are very different for the gold standard positives and negatives; protein pairs in the gold standard positives are associated with smaller functional similarity values than the gold standard negatives. This pattern explains why the functional similarity features have such a strong impact on classification accuracy in the model fitting, as observed in Figure 2. However, the vast number of protein pairs in the gold standard negatives are likely to be those that have not been thoroughly studied by researchers, and henceforth are observed to belong to large functional categories that actually should be further divided into more specific categories. This conjecture suggests that the information from MIPS and Gene Ontology function data is possibly caused by selection biases other than intrinsic biological relevance. It deserves further investigations of the relationship between the gold standards and the MIPS and Gene Ontology functional similarity data.
Histograms of MIPS and Gene Ontology function data for gold standard positives and negatives
Zoom-in histograms of MIPS and Gene Ontology function data for gold standard positives and negatives on the lower end
In the following paragraphs, we show quantitatively that the MIPS and Gene Ontology functional similarities are the dominating information contributors for predicting protein-protein interactions, while other genomic features have negligible benefit and can not provide credible predictions by themselves. We examine the performance of random forests using three different genomic feature sets: (i) all genomic features included, (ii) MIPS and Gene Ontology functional similarities only, and (iii) genomic features other than the MIPS and Gene Ontology functional similarities. The random forest performance is evaluated with the classification error (Err) defined as follows.
Denote Err1 as the proportion of protein pairs misclassified in the gold standard positives, and Err2 the counterpart for the gold standard negatives. Then we define the classification error as the average of Err1 and Err2.
Err is a balanced error rate across gold standard positives and negatives. Suppose the joint probability density functions of the predictor features X are f1(X) and f2(X) for the gold standard positives and negatives, respectively. Denote a classifier by C(X). Then the classification error can be written as
where I(A) is an indicator function equal to 1 when A is true and 0 otherwise. A minimal classification error Err min can be computed by minimizing (1) across the space of X. It is easy to see that
is achieved at C(X) = I(f1(X) >f2(X)). With this formula, we can estimate the optimal (minimum) classification error based on any estimates of f1(X) and f2(X). In our study, f1(X) and f2(X) are estimated by their empirical density functions.
Table 3 presents the optimal classification error using the MIPS and Gene Ontology functional similarity data. Using the MIPS and Gene Ontology functional similarity data sets alone results in a highly accurate classification with an optimal error of only 0.28%. Table 3 also shows the effects of the data discretizations that were originally used in the Bayesian network method ("grouped"). The significant discrepancy between optimal classification errors using the raw data and the discretized data ("grouped") suggests that the discretization causes serious loss of information.
Table 3 Optimal classification errors when using different genomic features
Other genomic features
We also estimated the classification errors using the other genomic features within the random forest framework. Table 4 shows that adding the other genomic evidences in the complete-information subset provides only negligible benefit or even reduces the classification accuracy.
Table 4 Classification errors of the random forest algorithm when using different genomic features
Moreover, we compared the ROC curves (Figure 5) of the random forest method using all genomic information, only the MIPS and GO functional similarities, and the genomic information other than MIPS and GO. Figure 5 shows that we barely gain any by considering other genomic information if the MIPS and GO are available; classifications without the MIPS and GO functional similarity data are poor on the complete-information subset. Note, however, that the subset of full interaction data which have the strongest expression correlations is not necessarily the complete-information set considered. Hence, we would expect that expression correlations might be a stronger source of information in other context.
ROC curves of random forest using different genomic feature sets 'All' – all genomic information; 'MIPS+GO' – only MIPS and Gene Ontology function data; 'ELSE' – genomic features other than MIPS and Gene Ontology function data
In the restricted problem posed by the complete-information subset, we identified that the MIPS and Gene Ontology functional similarity datasets as the dominating information contributors for predicting the protein-protein interactions under the framework proposed in [1]. Random forests based on the MIPS and GO information alone can give highly accurate classifications. In this particular subset of complete information, adding other genomic data does little for improving predictions. The MIPS and GO information, however, is only available for a small proportion of the ~18M protein pairs.
We considered alternative non-Bayesian methods such as logistic regression and random forest for predicting protein-protein interactions. These existing methods do not require prior information needed for the Bayesian approach, and can fully utilize the raw data without discretization. The logistic model performs similarly as the Bayesian method in terms of classifications and, like the Bayesian method, produces estimated probabilities that two proteins interact. As a dichotomous classifier, the random forest method outperforms the other methods considered and efficiently uses the information, although it is computationally more expensive. In particular, its importance measure provides a more objective assessment of different genomic features on predicting protein-protein interactions than simply considering contributions to model fitting. These findings are motivation to look for other, more sensible data resources and superior models.
We found that the data discretizations used in the Bayesian methods decreased classification performance. We note here that the genomic features datasets investigated here themselves are highly processed versions of the datasets they were derived from and that there may be better ways to take the original data into account.
Another caveat is that the predictions might be just defining groups of proteins that have the same genomic properties as the protein complexes in the MIPS data. This does not necessarily mean that they really represent protein complexes. Rather, they may represent groups of proteins that have the same properties as protein complexes.
In this analysis we have looked at the relative weights of various features in predicting protein-protein interactions based on the previous study in [1]. We looked at a particular subset of the data where we had complete information and we were able to show that, for this particular subset of the full information, we are able to show that the functional classification features in the MIPS functional catalog and Gene Ontology were the most informative and that particular machine learning algorithms, such as random forests were more effective than Bayesian networks. However, one has to keep in mind that in the full problem there is the issue of incomplete information. On data sets with incomplete information Bayesian approaches maybe more effective because they can easily handle the missing information. Further careful studies such as these will be needed to determine what the optimum machine learning method is and the optimum features are in presence of incomplete information. It will be also of great interest to consider other genomic features such as phylogenetic profiles [16] and local clustering information [17]. This is just the first step in that direction.
Denote the gold standards by random variable Y and the other genomic features by X1, X2, ..., X n . Let Y = 1 when two proteins interact, i.e., they are in the same complex, and Y = 0 when not. The logistic model is of the form
where the random vector X consists of X1, X2, ..., X n and their interaction terms.
Stepwise variable selection
The stepwise selection procedure starts from a null model. At each step, it adds a variable with the most significant score statistics among those not in the model, then sequentially removes the variable with the least score statistic among those in the model whose score statistics are not significant. The process terminates if no further variable can be added to the model or if the variable just entered into the model is the only variable removed in the subsequent elimination. Here, the score statistic measures the significance of the effect of a variable.
ROC curve analysis
Receiving operator characteristic (ROC) curve [18] is a graphical representation used to assess the discriminatory ability of a dichotomous classifier by showing the tradeoffs between sensitivity and specificity. Sensitivity is calculated by dividing the number of true positives (TP) through the number of all positives, which equals the sum of the true positives and the false negatives (FN); specificity is calculated by dividing the number of true negatives (TN) through the number of all negatives, which equals the sum of the true negatives and the false positives (FP).
Sensitivity = TP/(TP + FN), Specificity = TN/(TN + FP).
The ROC curve plot shows 1 - specificity on the X axis and sensitivity on the Y axis. A good classifier has its ROC curve climbing rapidly towards upper left hand corner of the graph. This can also be quantified by measuring the area under the curve. The closer the area is to 1.0, the better the classifier is; and the closer the area is to 0.5, the worse the classifier is.
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This work was supported in part by NSF grant DMS 0241160 and NIH grant GM 59507.
Department of Mathematics, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, 63130, USA
Nan Lin
Division of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA
Baolin Wu
Computational Biology Center, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, 10021, USA
Ronald Jansen
Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA
Mark Gerstein
Department of Computer Science, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA
Hongyu Zhao
Department of Genetics, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA
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NL and BW conducted the major part of the data analysis, and created all the tables and figures, under the supervision of HZ. RJ and MG provided the data sets for the analysis and contributed to the discussion on the comparisons of different methods. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
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Overweight status of the primary caregivers of orphan and vulnerable children in 3 Southern African countries: a cross sectional study
Mariano Kanamori1Email author,
Olivia Carter-Pokras2,
Sangeetha Madhavan3,
Robert Feldman4,
Xin He2 and
Sunmin Lee2
BMC Public Health201515:757
© Kanamori et al. 2015
Received: 15 October 2014
Accepted: 16 July 2015
Africa is facing a nutritional transition where underweight and overweight coexist. Although the majority of programs for orphan and vulnerable children (OVC) focus on undernourishment, the association between OVC primary caregiving and the caregivers’ overweight status remains unclear. We investigated the association between OVC primary caregiving status with women’s overweight status in Namibia, Swaziland and Zambia.
Demographic Health Survey (DHS) cross-sectional data collected during 2006–2007 were analyzed using weighted marginal means and logistic regressions. We analyzed data from 20–49 year old women in Namibia (N 6638), Swaziland (N 2875), and Zambia (N 4497.)
The overweight prevalence of the primary caregivers of OVC ranged from 27.0 % (Namibia) to 61.3 % (Swaziland). In Namibia, OVC primary caregivers were just as likely or even less likely to be overweight than other primary caregivers. In Swaziland and Zambia, OVC primary caregivers were just as likely or more likely to be overweight than other primary caregivers. In Swaziland and Zambia, OVC primary caregivers were more likely to be overweight than non-primary caregivers living with OVC (Swaziland AOR = 1.56, Zambia AOR = 2.62) and non-primary caregivers not living with OVC (Swaziland AOR = 1.92, Zambia AOR = 1.94). Namibian OVC caregivers were less likely to be overweight than non-caregivers not living with an OVC only in certain age groups (21–29 and 41–49 years old).
African public health systems/OVC programs may face an overweight epidemic alongside existing HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria epidemics. Future studies/interventions to curb overweight should consider OVC caregiving status and address country-level differences.
Primary caregivers worldwide are facing the dilemma of maintaining their own health while addressing the physical and emotional needs of family members [1]. Primary caregiving of children is particularly challenging in Africa, where the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome and the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV/AIDS) pandemic has increased the number of orphan and vulnerable children (OVC) in need of care. More than four-fifths of all OVCs (nearly 12 million) live in Africa. The prevalence of OVC varies widely across countries and across different population sub-groups—with countries and sub-regions with a higher prevalence of HIV having a higher prevalence of OVC as well [2].
Rates of overweight and obesity are high and rising in Africa, particularly among women, and are a cause for concern [3]. Equally relevant is that over- and under-nutrition often co-exists in the same household, particularly with adults being overweight and children underweight. Due to frequent population flows between urban and rural areas, lifestyle habits may be changing with uptake of unhealthier diets and sedentary lifestyles that contribute to obesity occurring even in rural sub-Saharan African settings [3]. It has been suggested that the presence of under-nutrition and overweight and obesity among adolescent girls is due to changes in traditional diets, dependence on processed foods and insufficient local food production [4]. Overweight is traditionally desirable among African women, and thought to reflect success and not having HIV/AIDS.
This study focuses on overweight problems in three southern sub-Saharan African countries because the BMI of women between the ages of 15–49 years is much higher in southern Africa than in other African regions [5]. The impact of caring for OVC on the primary caregivers’ nutrition among 20–49 year old women in Africa remains inadequately understood due to the limited research conducted to date, which has had small sample sizes, lacked appropriate comparison groups, and was predominantly qualitative [6]. In addition, the majority of studies on caregiving and nutritional outcomes focused on adults 60 years and older caring for children and grandchildren [7–9]. The limited number of studies on the impact of caring for OVC on primary caregivers’ BMI in Africa may be due to limited access to relevant national data and researchers in the area [10, 11]. Furthermore, research addressing women’s nutrition in Africa has focused primarily on rural areas or specific regions of a country [9, 10]. Focusing on the overweight status of OVC primary caregivers in Africa is important because child caregiving could serve as an additional stressor and lead to psychological distress that may increase cortisol and catecholamine, lead to unhealthy behaviors (e.g., eating poorly), and result in increased BMI [12]. Women caring for OVC are experiencing more severe economic and social problems (e.g., discrimination, stigma due to HIV/AIDS and lower income) than other women from their own towns [13, 14].
To the best of our knowledge, no previously published studies have investigated the association between overweight status and reproductive age OVC primary caregivers in sub-Saharan Africa. In order to address this research gap, this cross-sectional study investigates the association between caring for OVC with women’s overweight status in Namibia, Swaziland and Zambia. Four mutually exclusive child caregiving groups were included. Two groups included primary caregivers of a child: a) primary caregivers of OVC and b) primary caregivers of only non-OVC. Two additional child caregiving groups included women who were non-primary caregivers of a child: c) non-primary caregivers of a child who were living with an OVC and d) non-primary caregivers of a child who were not living with an OVC. The following research objectives guided this study. First, determine whether the prevalence of overweight is higher than the prevalence of underweight among OVC primary caregivers. Second, determine whether the OVC primary caregivers’ mean body mass index (BMI) were different than the mean BMI of women from the other three child caregiving groups within countries. Third, determine whether the OVC primary caregivers’ mean BMI varied significantly by country. Fourth, identify significant associations between caring for OVC and women’s overweight status in each country. Fifth, identify whether socio-demographic and household characteristics (e.g., age, work status, number of household members, household wealth) modified the effect of the association between OVC primary caregiving status and women’s overweight status in each country.
This cross-sectional study was based on secondary analyses of the most current available data from the Demographic Health Survey (DHS) from Namibia (2006–2007), Swaziland (2006–2007), and Zambia (2007). In order to have a representative sample of the population, DHS surveys involved two stages of sampling. The first stage was based on an up-to-date sampling frame, i.e., a list of small administrative units with defined boundaries and known population size, usually census enumeration areas (EAs). Around 300–500 of these EAs were selected from the sampling frame list with probability proportional to population size [15]. After the EAs (i.e., clusters) were selected, a household listing operation was implemented. This involved sending a small team of field workers (usually 2 people) to each selected EA to locate the boundaries, draw a sketch map, and prepare a list with the name of the head and the address or location of each household. In the selected households, all women of reproductive age (15–49) were eligible for an individual interview [15]. The training consisted of classroom lectures, mock interviews, and practical interviews in the field. Based on the performance during training, participants were recruited to work as supervisors, field editors, enumerators, and data entry personnel [15].
DHS survey teams were assigned sample areas taking into account languages spoken and other requirements and the need to ensure that the travel times per team were minimized as much as possible [15]. If an interview was not completed on the first visit, further attempts were made with the sampled household or respondent (up to three times and over three different days) before classifying the case as non-response. The subsequent contacts were scheduled at times when the respondent was more likely to be at home. There was no replacement for a household or an individual that refused to be interviewed or was otherwise classified as non-response. Eligible women response rates in every country and region included in this study reached at least 94 %. The Macro Institutional Review Board approved every DHS survey. Participants provided consent for participation.
For the purposes of this paper, the country inclusion criteria were: located in Southern Africa (the region most heavily affected by the HIV epidemic and with the highest prevalence of overweight and number of wealthiest countries on the continent), HIV prevalence of at least 5 % or orphan prevalence of at least 8 % among 0–17 year old children (i.e., one or both biological parents have died), had less than 20 % missing BMI data, belong to the Southern African Development Community, had economies linked to South Africa, and had available DHS data for primary caregiving status and women’s anthropometry.
Participants’ inclusion and exclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: women were included if they slept in the household the night before the survey (de facto household residence) and if they were 20–49 years old since many 15–19 year old women would still be in the adolescent growth spurt period and some of them still in puberty.
Exclusion criteria: women were excluded from the analyses if they were pregnant and three months or less postpartum women to avoid the impact of the fetus and lactation on the BMI [16], and/or if their BMI was less than 12.0 or BMI greater than 60.0 because these might be cases of extreme anthropometric measures or resulting from data errors [17].
Dependent variable
The dependent variable was women’s BMI also known as the Quetlet index. BMI was defined as weight in kilograms divided by height squared in meters (kg/m2). BMI was analyzed as a continuous variable (research questions 1 and 2) and as a categorical variable (research questions 3 and 4) using two categories: normal weight (18.5 ≤ BMI < 25.0) and overweight (BMI ≥ 25.0). BMI has been widely used as an anthropometric indicator of health, especially for nutrition-related disease among adult women from Sub-Saharan countries and other regions [16]. Weight was measured using a solar-powered scale (Uniscale) with an accuracy of ± 100 g [16]. Height was measured to the nearest 0.1 cm with an adjustable wooden measuring board (Shorr Height boards).
Independent variable
Primary caregivers of a child were women who lived with a biological child under the age of 18 and/or who were primary caregivers of a non-biological child under the age of 18 [assessed using the question “(Besides your own child/children), are you the primary caregiver for any children under the age of 18?”
The OVC primary caregiving status of a woman was based on the question: “How many orphans and vulnerable children live in your household?” This study used the DHS definition for OVC: children with one or both parents deceased (orphans); and vulnerable children who a) had a chronically ill parent (sick for more than 3 consecutive months during the past 12 months) or b) lived with an adult who was chronically ill or died during the past 12 months. There were four mutually exclusive caregiving categories. Primary caregivers of an OVC provided care to one or more OVC (biological or non-biological) and included women who were primary caregivers of both OVC and non-OVC children. Primary caregivers of a non-OVC provided care to only non-OVC children (biological or non-biological). Non-primary caregivers living with an OVC lived with one or more OVC. Non-primary caregivers not living with an OVC did not live with an OVC.
Potential confounders or effect modifiers
The following socio-demographic and household characteristic variables were considered as potential confounders or effect modifiers: presence of a child 5 years old or younger living in the house (yes, no), women’s marital status (married or living together, divorced, widowed, never married, and not living together); women’s age (20–29, 30–39 and 40–49 years old); women’s education (no schooling, primary school, secondary education, and higher education); region of residence (rural, urban); number of children ever born (0, 1, 2, and ≥3 births); women’s relationship with the household head (head, wife, daughter, other); sex of the household head (male, female); number of household members (less than 3, 4 to 6, ≥7); number of 18–49 year old women in the household (1, 2, 3, ≥4); number of 18–49 year old men in the household (0, 1, ≥2); and, women’s work status (not working, working in agriculture, and working in any field other than agriculture). We also measured household wealth using the Absolute Wealth Index (AWI), a continuous measurement ranging from 0 (no modern goods) to 12+ (all modern comforts, for example flushing toilet, electricity, means of transportation, telephone, etc.) For the purpose of this study, we used a categorical AWI: poorest (0–1, reference group), poorer (2–3), medium (4–5), wealthier (6–7), and wealthiest (8+) [17, 18].
Statistical analyses included data screening to check for outliers and errors as well as descriptive statistics for continuous and discrete variables. Unadjusted and adjusted logistic regression models were used to determine potential confounders. A variable was included as a confounder if the adjusted odds ratio (OR) varied by more than 10 % than the unadjusted OR. Collinearity between each pair of independent variables was tested by using Phi coefficients when both variables were dichotomous and Cramer’s V for variables with three or more levels (a value ≥ .60 showed substantial collinearity and one variable was removed from the analysis). Multicollinearity among the independent variable and all potential confounders entered in the model was tested using the tolerance value and the variance inflation factor (VIF). A tolerance value less than 0.1 was considered as an indication for a serious collinearity problem and a VIF greater than 10 was also considered as a cause for concern and one variable was removed from the analysis [19].
The estimation of marginal means used analytic weights included in the data set to correct for over-sampling and variations in survey response rates by region. Three logistic regression models were performed for each country. In order to report the likelihood for OVC primary caregivers to be overweight as compared to women from the other three caregiving groups, each model included a different OVC primary caregiving reference group. The odds ratio between the OVC primary caregiving category and each of the other three caregiving group categories were presented separately. These logistic regression analyses controlled for potential confounders and interactions, and did not include sampling weights as recommended in the guide for DHS statistics by Rutstein and Rojas (2006). To assess the presence of an effect modifier, one interaction term between the variable OVC primary caregiving status and each potential effect modifier was included in each logistic regression model. If this interaction term was significant, further stratified analyses were performed. Significant associations were assessed using 95 % confidence intervals and p-values (α ≤ 0.05). Analyses were performed using SPSS® 19.
Missing data were addressed using the listwise deletion approach, also known as complete case analysis. This technique omitted those cases with missing data. Although listwise deletion could result in a substantial decrease in the sample size available for analysis, it does have important advantages. In particular, under the assumption that data are missing completely at random, it leads to unbiased parameter estimates. The assumption of missing completely at random was checked using the SPSS missing value analyses procedures including: univariate statistics (number of non-missing values, mean, standard deviation, number of missing values, and number of extreme values); t-tests with groups formed by indicator variables; cross tabulation of categorical and indicator variables; pattern analyses including tabulated cases grouped by missing value patterns; and the Little’s MCAR test with EM results. Missing data for BMI was: Namibia 2.9 %, Swaziland 2.9 % and Zambia 1.2 %. Missing data for the presence of OVC at home was: Namibia 0.0 %, Swaziland 12.5 % and Zambia 0.0 %. These procedures were performed with variables that had more than 10 % of missing information (only for the presence of an OVC in the household in Swaziland).
Our analyses showed that if a respondent was from a rural area in Swaziland, a measure regarding the presence of an OVC in the household was more likely to be missing (Table 1). For example, 16.3 % of missing data for rural areas and 5.2 % for urban areas were found for the variable “presence of an OVC in the household”. There did not seem to be other missing data discrepancies for other socio-demographic characteristics. Also, it appeared that the mean Absolute Wealth Index and the mean BMI were similar between the whole dataset (including missing and not missing cases) and the dataset only including missing cases for the presence of an OVC in the household. In order to confirm the data were missing at random, Little’s MCAR tests was performed. Because the p-value was above 0.05, it was concluded that the assumption was not violated and it was appropriate to listwise delete cases with missing data for the presence of an OVC in the household in Swaziland.
Comparison of missing percentages by socio-demographic characteristics and mean of women’s age, mean of Absolute Wealth Index, and mean of BMI by missing and non-missing cases
Swaziland Missing data for the presence of OVC at home % of missing cases
Other than agriculture
Women age (mean)
Missing and non-missing cases
Only missing cases
Household Wealth Index (mean)
BMI (mean)
Little’s MCAR Test
Chi-square = 5.37, DF = 3, p-value = 0.15
Analyses were performed using data from 20–49 year old women in Namibia (n = 6638), Swaziland (n = 2875), and Zambia (n = 4497). The percentages of OVC primary caregiving were similar among countries and ranged from 26.6 % in Namibia to 28.6 % in Zambia. A higher proportion of women had secondary education in Namibia and Swaziland than in Zambia. The majority of women in Swaziland lived in rural areas; and, around half of Namibian and Zambian women resided in rural areas. While the majority of Namibian and Zambian women had normal weight; the majority of women in Swaziland were overweight (Table 2). In all countries, more than half of women were living with a child less than 6 years old.
Socio-demographic characteristics of the women by country
Namibia (N=6638)
Swaziland (N=2875)
Zambia (N=4497)
OVC primary caregiver
Non-OVC primary caregiver
Non-primary caregiver living with OVC
Non-primary caregiver not living with OVC
p-value*
Nutritional Statusa, n (%)
-Underweight
(13.0 %)
(1.7 %)
-Normal weight
-Overweight
Women’s Age in years, Mean (Standard Deviation)
Women’s Education, n(%)
-No Education
-Primary Education
-Secondary Education
-Higher Education
Marital Status, n(%)
-Never Married
-Married
-Widowed
-Divorced
Work Statusb, n(%)
-Not Working
-Working in Agriculture
-Working other than Agriculture
Region of Residence, n(%)
-Urban
-Rural
Religion, n(%)
-Protestant
-Roman Catholic
-Other/No Religion
Children ≤ 5 years in Household, n(%)
-Yes
Household Wealth, n(%)
-Poorest
-Poorer
-Medium
-Wealthier
-Wealthiest
aUnderweight (BMI < 18.5), normal weight (18.5 ≤ BMI < 25.0), and overweight (BMI ≥ 25.0)
bNon-agricultural jobs include the following: professional, technical, management, clerical, sales, household and domestic services, skilled or unskilled manual jobs. Agricultural jobs include self-employed as well as employed people
*p-values were calculated using Chi-square and ANOVA tests
Overweight and underweight prevalence
Among OVC primary caregivers, the prevalence of overweight (Namibia: 33.4 %, Swaziland: 61.3 % and Zambia: 26.9 %) was higher than the prevalence of underweight (Namibia: 13.0 %, Swaziland: 1.7 % and Zambia: 7.4 %). In Namibia, the percentage of women who were overweight was higher for OVC primary caregivers (33.4 %), non-OVC primary caregivers (39.3 %) and non-primary caregivers not living with an OVC (30.2 %) as compared to non-primary caregivers living with an OVC (22.3 %). In Swaziland, the percentage of women who were overweight was higher for OVC primary caregivers (61.3 %) and non-OVC primary caregivers (63.7 %) as compared to non-primary caregivers living with an OVC (43.4 %) and non-primary caregivers not living with an OVC (40.9 %). In Zambia, the percentage of women who were overweight was higher for OVC primary caregivers (26.9 %) as compared to women from the other three caregiving groups (20.2 % of non-OVC primary caregivers 18.3 % of non-primary caregivers living with an OVC and 21.0 % of non-primary caregivers not living with an OVC.
Mean BMI differences by women’s primary caregiving status within countries
When we compared OVC primary caregivers to the other three caregiving groups by country, we found that in Namibia OVC primary caregivers (mean BMI 23.67; 95 % Confidence Interval (CI) 23.32, 24.02) had lower mean BMI than non-OVC primary caregivers (mean BMI 24.87; 95 % CI 24.55, 25.19), (Fig. 1). The inverse situation was found in Zambia where OVC primary caregivers (mean BMI 23.47; 95 % CI 23.07, 23.88) had higher mean BMI than non-OVC primary caregivers (mean BMI 22.72; 95 % CI 22.52, 22.93). In Zambia, OVC primary caregivers had higher mean BMI than non-primary caregivers living with an OVC (mean BMI 22.40; 95 % CI 21.74, 23.06) and non-primary caregivers not living with an OVC (mean BMI 22.57; 95 % CI 22.13, 23.01) (Table 1). A similar relationship was found in Swaziland where OVC primary caregivers (mean BMI 27.92; 95 % CI 27.41, 28.44) had higher mean BMI than non-primary caregivers living with an OVC (mean BMI 25.36; 95 % CI 24.42, 26.31) and non-primary caregivers not living with an OVC (mean BMI 25.28; 95 % CI 24.61, 25.94).
Body Mass Index by country and OVC primary caregiving status
When we compared OVC primary caregivers to the other three caregiving groups by country, we found that OVC primary caregivers had lower mean BMI than non-OVC primary caregivers in Namibia, and the inverse situation was found in Zambia (Fig. 1). OVC primary caregivers had higher mean BMI than non-primary caregivers living with an OVC and non-primary caregivers not living with an OVC in Swaziland and Zambia.
Mean BMI differences by country within OVC primary caregiver status
Among OVC primary caregivers, women from Swaziland had higher mean BMI than women from Namibia and Zambia. The mean BMI and its 95 % confidence interval for OVC primary caregivers from Swaziland were in the overweight range. The mean BMI and its 95 % confidence interval for Namibian and Zambian OVC primary caregivers were in the normal weight range.
Logistic regression models
In Namibia, OVC primary caregivers were just as likely or even less likely to be overweight than other primary caregivers. In Swaziland and Zambia, OVC primary caregivers were just as likely or more likely to be overweight than other primary caregivers. In Swaziland, OVC primary caregivers were more likely to be overweight than non-primary caregivers living with an OVC (AOR 1.56; 95 % CI 1.04, 2.34) and non-primary caregivers not living with an OVC (AOR 1.92; 95 % CI 1.46, 2.54). In Zambia, OVC primary caregivers were more likely to be overweight than non-primary caregivers living with an OVC (AOR 2.62; 95 % CI 1.80, 3.79; p < 0.0) and non-primary caregivers not living with an OVC (AOR 1.94; 95 % CI 1.44, 2.60), (Table 3).
Association between OVC primary caregiving status and women’s overweight statusa,b
Swaziland c (n = 2,875)
Zambia d (n = 4,497)
95 % CI
Unadjusted Models
-OVC primary caregivers
(0.76–1.09)
<0.01
-Non-OVC primary caregivers
- OVC primary caregivers
-Non-primary caregiver living with an OVC
-Non-primary caregiver not living with an OVC
Adjusted Models
aNormal weight (18.5 ≤ BMI < 25.0), and overweight (BMI ≥ 25.0)
bModels for Namibia are not presented because an interaction term between OVC primary caregiving and age of the OVC primary caregiver was significant. Information from the stratified logistic regression modeling are presented in the “Results” section under “Effect Modification Assessment”
cAdjusted for age and the Absolute Wealth Index
dAdjusted for the number of children 5 years of age or younger in the household, women’s education and the Absolute Wealth Index
Effect modification assessment
In Namibia, women’s age modified the effect of the association between OVC primary caregiving with overweight status. Namibian OVC primary caregivers were less likely to be overweight than non-primary caregivers not living with an OVC only among women ages 21–29 years old (AOR = 0.41; 95 % CI = 0.18–0.94) and 41–49 years old (AOR = 0.36; 95 % CI = 0.15–0.84). We did not find any other interaction effects in Namibia nor in the other two countries.
Findings from this study suggest that in Namibia, OVC primary caregivers were as likely, or even less likely to be overweight than women from the other primary caregiving categories. In Swaziland and Zambia, OVC primary caregivers were as likely, or even more likely to be overweight than women from the other primary caregiving categories. In other words, in these three countries OVC primary caregivers appear to have the same risks of overweight as non-OVC primary caregivers. However, OVC primary caregivers were less likely in Namibia and more in Swaziland and Zambia to be overweight than women who were not primary caregivers.
Our findings also align with the proposed African nutritional paradox that includes an increase in overweight prevalence coupled with a relatively steady underweight prevalence resulting in some households where underweight and overweight coexist [19, 20]. In this context, our descriptive analyses showed that among OVC primary caregivers, the prevalence of overweight (Namibia: 33.2 %, Swaziland: 61.3 % and Zambia: 26.9 %) was higher than the prevalence of underweight (Namibia: 13.1 %, Swaziland: 1.7 % and Zambia: 7.2 %) in these countries. Given the chronic nature of most diseases associated with overweight and the huge cost of treatment, our findings suggest that some African public health systems as well as the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and other programs targeting OVC families should be prepared to face a new overweight epidemic alongside existing ones such as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria [5]. We have concluded that there is a need for revisiting current OVC strategies, their effects on OVC and OVC caregivers, and investments in Africa.
Our findings indicate that there is a lack of patterns or trends in weight status and caregiving of OVC. Strategies and investments for OVC should be tailored according to the reality of each country. Findings from logistic regression analyses also suggest that the specific characteristics of OVC primary caregivers’ nutritional status vary by country. Logistic regression analyses showed that OVC primary caregiving was associated with women’s overweight status. However, the direction of the odds ratios suggested that the role of OVC primary caregiving was a protective factor for overweight in Namibia (only among women ages 21–29 and 41–49 years old) and a risk factor for overweight in Swaziland and Zambia when compared to women from the other caregiving groups. In these three countries, socio-demographic characteristics (e.g., women’s age and education) as well as household characteristics (e.g., number of children 5 years of age or younger in the household and the Absolute Wealth Index) were potential confounders. While the mechanisms underlying OVC primary caregiving and overweight status remain unclear, further studies should analyze possible determinants that could explain differences on the direction of the odds ratios. For example, OVC primary caregivers’ household composition could influence the direction of the odds ratios. In comparison to Swaziland and Zambia, a higher percentage of OVC primary caregivers in Namibia were never married (Namibia: 41.2 %, Swaziland: 28.6 % and Zambia: 6.5 %), and/or were living without a male household member (Namibia: 70.5 %, Swaziland: 33.5 % and Zambia: 23.4 %). A study among adult females aged 18 years or more in Khayelitsha, the largest black township in Cape Town South Africa, found that being married was associated with a high BMI [21]. Researchers have also posited that the association between OVC primary caregiving and the mental health of elder caregivers may be a result of psychological distress [12]. Physiologically, chronic stress could increase cortisol and catecholamine and/or lead to unhealthy behaviors (e.g., eating poorly) that could increase caregivers’ BMI [12].
Marital status could also have influenced the direction of the odds ratio. Among OVC primary caregivers, a higher percentage of women were never married in Namibia (41.1 %) than in Swaziland (28.2 %) and Zambia (6.5 %). Namibian single women may have become OVC primary caregivers because a close family member died from AIDS. As such, Namibian OVC primary caregiver may have less social and economic support than their counterparts from Swaziland and Zambia making OVC primary caregiving status a protective factor for overweight in Namibia and a risk factor in the other two countries. In Namibia, OVC primary caregivers were less likely to be overweight than non-OVC primary caregivers and non-primary caregivers not living with an OVC. Our descriptive statistics shows that in Namibia, a higher percentage of OVC primary caregivers were not working (42.8 %) as compared to non-OVC primary caregivers (37.4 %) and non-primary caregivers not living with an OVC (37.7 %). Further studies should explore role of HIV/AIDS, health status and ability to work on the significance of the association between OVC primary caregiving and women’s overweight status. In Swaziland, non-primary caregivers were more likely to be overweight than OVC primary caregivers regardless if they were or were not living with an OVC. This association was not found with non-OVC primary caregivers. Interestingly, a higher percentage of women who were non-OVC primary caregivers (62.8 %) lived with a child less than 6 years of age as compared to non-primary caregivers living with an OVC (39.3 %) and non-primary caregivers not living with an OVC (32.6 %). Further studies should investigate if the physical and emotional work associated with being a primary caregiver for a child less than 6 years of age could have an effect on a lower probability of being overweight.
Additional studies should also explore determinants that decrease the odds for being overweight among 20–29 and 40–49 year old Namibian OVC primary caregivers as compared to non-primary caregivers not living with an OVC. Previous studies have shown differences in the magnitude of chronic energy deficiency among women at different ages revealing how BMI varies during the reproductive years [12]. A study by McGuire et al., [22] suggested that the stresses women experience during pregnancy and lactation periods could lead to considerable reduction of nutrient levels. These could be possible explanations why among 20–29 year old women, OVC primary caregivers were less likely to be overweight than non-caregivers not living with an OVC.
This study is unique because it included a large sample size to examine the association between reproductive age OVC primary caregiving and the primary caregivers’ BMI in communities located in Sub-Saharan Africa. Strengths of this study include the diversity and representativeness of the population of reproductive age women in three Sub-Saharan countries with different overweight prevalence. DHS surveys contain core questions that are identical across countries, and height and weight were measured rather than relying on self-reported information.
This study presents some important limitations which should be acknowledged. Women’s health status (including mental health) and dietary food intake were not available in DHS datasets. Only one nutritional measurement (BMI) was available. The cross-sectional nature of the study did not allow: 1) determining whether overweight preceded OVC’s primary caregiving or vice versa; 2) assessing whether the child might have moved to live in a wealthier household to receive care; and, 3) assessing the length of time the person was providing primary caregiving.
This study also did not measure the intensity of primary caregiving by the type or quantity of assistance provided. Self-report primary caregiver status could have been improved by providing the respondent with a more detailed description of a primary caregiver (e.g., person who is “primarily responsible for the health, safety and comfort of that child”) [23]. DHS does not collect information regarding the physical activity of the OVC primary caregiver and this study did not address their HIV status. For instance, it would be helpful to know what the mean of transportation, and distance involved, when obtaining ART or accompanying children to school. Due to different contextual factors, this study should be replicated in other African countries to further assess generalizability. It is also important to consider that missing sample analyses showed that if a respondent was from a rural area in Swaziland, a measure regarding the presence of an OVC in the household was more likely to be missing than if a respondent was from an urban area.
The World Health Organization (WHO) suggests that African countries should not just focus on addressing infectious diseases affecting their communities but should also deal with the emergence of chronic diseases [24]. Our study found that while the prevalence of overweight is on the increase in southern Africa [4], in some countries such as Swaziland and Zambia, OVC primary caregivers were more likely to be overweight as compared to non-child primary caregivers. Our results also suggest that the specific nutritional conditions of OVC primary caregivers during this time of nutritional transition in Africa differ by country. As such, it may be a better alternative to study OVC primary caregivers’ nutritional status by country instead of using pooled data from several African countries.
Although programs for OVC families generally focus on undernourishment, we found that overweight also exists among OVC primary caregivers. Currently, OVC data are only available in 15 of the 44 sub-Saharan African countries where DHS is implemented. Our findings imply the need for additional nutritional studies focusing on OVC primary caregivers in other African countries to understand the nature of overweight problems among OVC primary caregivers in the entire African continent. Further studies should perform the same analysis using different definitions of child vulnerability as well as differentiate women who cared for both OVC and non-OVC. In addition, studies are needed to explore the reasons why age modified the effect of the association between OVC primary caregiving and women’s overweight status only in Namibia. In order to assess the validity of our findings, future research with additional nutritional measurements should be performed.
AOR:
Adjusted Odds Ratio
CRUSADA:
Center for Research on U.S. Latino HIV/AIDS and Drug Abuse
DHS:
Demographic Health Survey
EAs:
Enumeration areas
HIV/AIDS:
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome and the Human Immunodeficiency Virus
NIH:
NIMHD:
National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities
OVC:
Orphan and vulnerable children
PEPFAR:
U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief
VIF:
Variance inflation factor
We acknowledge Dr. Michel Garenne as he has always been willing to answer questions and share his previous work related to the Absolute Wealth Index. We are grateful to Macro International Inc. for making available the DHS data for these analyses. This work was supported in part by Cooperative Agreement Number 1 U48 DP001929 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Prevention Research Centers Program and from the P20 Center of Excellence (P20MD002288-06, Sub-Project ID: 6068) at the Center for Research on U.S. Latino HIV/AIDS and Drug Abuse (CRUSADA) funded by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
The authors declare that they have no competing interest.
MK developed the study design and methods, performed statistical analyses and drafted the manuscript. MK and OCP conceptualized the study and interpreted the results. OCP, SM, SL, XH and RF reviewed the study design and methods and edited the manuscript. SM also contributed with her expertise in sub-Saharan Africa’s health, economic and social issues. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
AB carried out the molecular genetic studies, participated in the sequence alignment and drafted the manuscript. JY carried out the immunoassays. MT participated in the sequence alignment. ES participated in the design of the study and performed the statistical analysis. FG conceived of the study, and participated in its design and coordination and helped to draft the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
MK is an epidemiologist with 21 years of work experience with vulnerable populations in the U.S., Africa and Latin America. He is the Scientific Director for the HIV Risk Reduction in High Risk Latina Migrant Workers Project at Florida International University Center for Research on U.S. Latinos HIV/AIDS and Drug Abuse. OCP is an Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Maryland School of Public Health. OCP has conducted health disparities research in the Federal government (21+ years) and academia (6+ years). SM is an Associate Professor of Demography and Sociology Department of African-American Studies and the Associate Director of the Maryland Population Research Center. SM research interest includes children’s well-being, household composition and family structure, the social context of HIV/AIDS and population movement all in the context of sub-Saharan Africa. RHF is a Professor in the Department of Behavioral and Community Health, and Affiliate Professor in the Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health (MIAEH). XH is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Maryland, College Park. SL is a social epidemiologist with a main research interest in social determinants of health. SL is an Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Maryland School of Public Health.
Center for Research on U.S. Latino HIV/AIDS and Drug Abuse, Florida International University, 11200 SW 8th Street. AHC5 422, Miami, FL 33199, USA
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Maryland College Park School of Public Health, 2234G SPH Bldg, College Park, MD 20742, USA
African American Studies Department, 1119 Taliaferro Hall, College Park, MD 20742, USA
Department of Behavioral and Community Health, School of Public Health University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
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“Every 100 Games Series - Heroes Wanted”
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In the past week or so I’ve attempted to stop littering, bust bootleg DVDs, and keep all the crazies in the asylum of Zeta City. One of those plays of Heroes Wanted was my 5,500th game played and so my 55th review in this series of reviews.
In Heroes Wanted players take on their alter-ego roles of such as Captain Rocket or DJ Volcano and attempt to gain the most fame in four different scenarios. The hero that gets the most fame then gets to join the Zeta City Super Hero Team (think Avengers, just more awkward). Players do this by first choosing their hero, which has top half and a bottom half, and will be unique every game. Then a villain is chosen in a similar way to the heroes, so it’ll be unique all the time and you’ll end up with villains like Baron Von Skunk or Big Bad Beast terrorizing Zeta City. Then you choose your scenario, set it up, and play the game.
Each hero gets 7 cards, with one they can get later on, and each turn they either play a card or rest. If they rest, then they get to pick up all the cards they have played in the previous turns (think Mission Red Planet). Those cards allow the heroes to move around, attack the villain, henchmen, or underlings, maybe even attack other heroes and use your super power to reach the goals of the scenario. Once all heroes have taken their turn the villain attacks, heroes take damage or prevent it by playing more of their cards, and the next round begins.
The action card backs are upside down, but I probably wouldn’t have noticed if I didn’t know that going in. Other than that this game looks fantastic. The art is perfect for bringing out the light and crazy super hero theme. The cards are excellent quality and I really like the board design that explains the scenario in a newspaper format, but at the same time is useful for actually playing the game. The henchmen and underlings are all unique wood shaped pieces. If I had a complaint at all it would be the extremely small threat marker (I replaced mine with a black wooden train). I also like that they fit a ton of stuff (it weighs a lot) in a box smaller than the normal “Ticket to Ride” sized box one usually expects with this level of game.
There can be strategy in this game, because for the most part the villain moves in a pre-determined format, but overall I think it is more of a tactical game. Assess the board, make your move, knock out a henchman, damage the hero, whatever you can do and try to set yourself up for the next turn. There are headlines in the game (essentially goals) in which not only do you get more points than your opponent if you complete them first, but it also gives you another bonus off your hero card. Timing when you get these headlines and thus the extra bonuses can be extremely important and strategic part of the game.
I’m really loving this game so far. I’ve yet to play with the quirks, which are basically funny roles the heroes must play, turning the game into an even lighter fare. I want to play with these sometime soon, but have yet to do so. As for the rest of the game, it is my favorite super hero game that I’ve played. I like the tactical play of it and love that I’m a different and odd hero fighting a different and odd villain. I’m also impressed with going the scenario route, instead of a the same city map over and over, it makes the game even more unique. Heroes Wanted is a game that I’m glad I wanted enough to kickstart and now own.
Super Spouse Gamers – This is one to pull out if your spouse is a super gamer. The best part about it is that you can avoid the player vs player attacking that in the game and just play it as a more competitive co-op.
Comic Book Fans – Personally I think this is the best super hero game available right now. I’m not into co-ops like Sentinels of the Multiverse. Legendary is a good game, but not really one that jumps out with the theme, then there is DC Deckbuilder which is a joke as far as the super hero theme goes.
Villain of Strategery – I can see serious strategy gamers being a bit turned off by this one. One of the types of heroes roles dice for their super power, the quirks could really bother such a person (which is one reason I haven’t used them quite yet), and the PVP can throw wrenches in your plans.
Ninjato
“Stealth and Strength - Ninjato is Good!”
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Rules Summary
In Ninjato players are competing Ninjas trying to gain points by infiltrating different clan houses to steal treasures and using those treasures to spread rumors and influence envoys. Players do this by taking 3 turns over 7 rounds with scoring occurring after the 3rd, 5th, and 7th round. Other scoring is dispersed throughout the different turns. On their turn a player can try to steal treasure from a house, influence an envoy by using stolen treasure, learn a new skill to help them in stealing treasure, spread a rumor by spending treasure (these are basically end game bonus points for set collection), or draw additional cards to be used later. Then at the end of the game a final scoring happens and the winner is declared by all other players bowing to him or her!
The Components
The components in Ninjato could not be better. The art evokes the theme very well. The board itself has that wax-like finish that many games have, especially from Z-Man games. I really enjoy this type of finish on a board. It is also very functional for placing pieces on it. The absolute best part about the components though is the very large throwing stars that players use to indicate what action they are taking each turn. These really make the game jump out to passer-bys when playing in a public setting!
The Rest of My Thoughts
These likes and dislikes will of course be from a personal standpoint, but they hopefully will give you some indication of what about the game may make it worth it for you to get.
1. I love the theme! There aren’t enough Ninja themed games out there. Now, you do have to remember that this is a Euro-style game and so the theme isn’t absolutely prevalent in it like it would be in say War of the Ring or Descent, but it fits the mechanics well. That combined with the art, just does it for me.
2. The high/low mechanic used for stealing treasure from clan houses really makes the game. Trying to determine how well your hand is suited to going the stealth or strength route and then using your skills at the appropriate time to try and get the treasures you need. There are plenty several games out there, Aladdin’s Dragons is one, which uses a “guard” to protect something. In those games though, you always have to go over the guards number to beat them. Giving the option to go above or under the guards strength just adds enough tweak to make it more fun.
3. The tightness of the envoy race is also something I like quite a bit. Basically, when it comes to envoys, you are trying to have the most in each of the 3 colors. However, throughout the game, you aren’t getting 10, 15, or 20 of these envoys. Instead you are getting only 1, 2, or maybe 3 of them. So it makes each one you get extremely important. By giving each envoy, an age (tie-breaker), it makes the game much more tense in trying to get that older green colored envoy to win the tie.
4. Comparisons to Stone Age. As soon as this came out, people began comparing it to Stone Age, which I’ve never understood. Sure it has the rumor cards and Stone Age has the huts which score more the more you have. Many games have this end game scoring mechanic though including 7 Wonders, St. Petersburg, and others. Ninjato, to me, has much many more meaningful decisions that Stone Age and also is more fun to play. I like Stone Age just fine, but it isn’t one that has found its way into my collection, where Ninjato did. Simply because Ninjato offers these decisions that I don’t feel Stone Age does.
5. A knock that I can see coming against Ninjato, which for me doesn’t matter as much, is that there is potential to be screwed by the luck of the draw when it comes to getting treasures from the clan houses. For people who want zero luck in your games, then Ninjato probably isn’t for you, but for me there is enough luck in it to make it exciting, but not so much I don’t feel that good players won’t win the vast majority of the time.
If you couldn’t tell from reading this far, Ninjato is a game that will remain in my collection. It offers good strategy and fun in a 90 minute time frame. The pieces and board are great, rules are extremely well laid out, and for a gamer’s game here you can’t go wrong. Also, who doesn’t want to play a game that you yell, “bonsai!” throughout the game?
“Every 100 Games Series - Dominion”
It had to happen. Dominion is my most played game by far, so eventually it would end up in the “Every 100 Games” series. Here are some of my thoughts on the game and hopefully some insight as why it is, in my opinion, the best significant other game out there.
I got Dominion as a birthday gift from my friend in April of 2009. I quickly followed it up with purchases of Intrigue & Seaside as soon as they came out. In a little over a year, I have played over 140 games of it, most of them 2-player against my wife. It is, at least for me, quite addicting.
My three main arguments for why it is the best SO game out there is its simplicity, its quick play time, and the variety it provides. All three of these features can be very important when it comes to gaming with your spouse.
Dominion is simple. You can explain it and get playing quickly. On your turn you can play one action card, make one buy, and then you discard everything you touched and draw 5 more cards. That pretty much explains how to play the game. Now of course there is more to it than that, but unless your opponent wants a detailed explanation of how a specific card works and when you would use it, there really isn’t going to be much more explanation.
Dominion plays fast. This was and is important for my wife and I since our daughter is just now 10 months old. We can get in a quick game while she is napping or at least happy playing on the floor with some toys for a bit. According to what cards you have in the game, which is another great thing of picking the cards for the playtime you want, Dominion can last anywhere from 10 minutes to 40 minutes for a two player game. Most games tend to finish around 20-30 minutes. This means if you blow it, you only have 20 minutes of losing and then you can play again. In the case of my wife and I, we often will play the best of 3 games in a single sitting.
Dominion has variety. With now 3 expansions (not including the single card expansions) out for it now, your Dominion games will have lots of different spice. This, for me as a gamer, is the most important part of a SO game. I want to play games with my wife, but I don’t really want to play Lost Cities over and over and over again. Dominion, even though you are playing the same basic mechanics, can be a different game every time. You can customize it to your mood. There are cards with lots of interaction, no interaction, and somewhere in between. Perhaps you want to encourage curses or have a “big money” game or have all the victory point cards in one game. Dominion allows you to do that!
So to conclude, though Dominion isn’t my favorite game of all time, it is one of the 10 best games that I have ever played at this point in my life! It makes for an excellent SO game and also can still be pulled out with the gamers. If you get all the expansions in one box, it is portable enough to go and play at your local Starbucks on a date.
“Every 100 Games Series - 7 Wonders”
Since I’ve been logging games, I’ve decided to write a review for every hundredth game played. I’ve begun calling it the Every 100 Games Series and enjoy the mystery of what game I will review next. My 2,100th game played was 7 Wonders.
I think I first heard about 7 Wonders on one of the many Gathering of Friends reports that came out. I put it on my wish list as one to think about for the future. Then on Saturday of GenCon 2010 my wife and I heard a very excited voice yelling out with a French accent, “7 Wonders demo starting now”! I immediately pushed Krista over to the table and we joined the 7 player game. It was great! Three months later, a buddy brought his copy over and we played 3 games in a row. Here is what I like about the game and some potential complaints I could see people having about the game.
First, I love the quick play time. Whether playing with that game at GenCon with 7 people or the games we played yesterday with 4 and 5 people the game took right around 30 minutes. This is a rare thing in board games. Often it seems, the more players you add, the more time you are adding to your game. 7 Wonders does an excellent job of not doing it.
Second, the simplicity of the game is its biggest plus side. There isn’t a doubt in my mind that I can teach this game to non-gamers and gamers alike. One of the ladies we played with last night has just been getting into games and had absolutely no problem picking up the mechanics and playing competitively. You don’t have to have a huge big plan and over analyze each turn, you just keep one card and move on. This decision gets even easier as the rounds go on, because you have less and less cards to choose from.
Third, the game is just fun. It’s really fun to see your wonder going up, getting that 3rd matching science symbol, or hoping that temple comes back around to you. The military mechanic also makes for some good fun as you keep trying to out build your neighbor. Then there is the hope that your neighbor on your left plays the clay pit, because along with the stone your other neighbor has you can put that important card into play.
Potential Dislikes
First, the price could be a downer for people. Essentially, 7 Wonders is a card game. There are 7 player boards that come with it and some wood coins and a few cardboard military victory points, but it is a card game through and through. $50 MSRP for a card game, especially one that has not an absolute boatload of them is tough to swallow. I say all this though, but I do have it on pre-order, because I think it is that good of a game.
Second, I think people will complain about player interaction in this game, especially when playing with 4+ players. There aren’t any attack cards where you can directly mess with your opponent. Unlike Fairy Tale, where you only play 3 of the 5 cards you draft, in 7 Wonders you play all the cards you keep. This means it is a bigger pill to swallow to just keep a card to stop your opponent from getting it. Also, when playing with 4 or more players, especially 7 players you can’t do much to effect the others. I think the sweet spot for this game might be 3 players, so everyone’s military affects everyone else’s.
As I’ve already said, I have 7 Wonders on pre-order for when the English edition makes it over here to the United States. So, I obviously think it is that good. My suggestion for you though is this. If you enjoy games that are quick, simple, and don’t have player conflict you should pick this game up. If you absolutely have to have that conflict and want to be able to directly attack someone in your card games, then I’d try it before you buy. However, I am someone that likes a bit of meanness in my games, but despite no real meanness in 7 Wonders I love it! It started out as a solid 9 out of 10 for me and I can see it moving up to a 10. I foresee several dozens of plays in my future.
Mottainai
Tip: “Don't Play With 4 or 5 Players”
I love Mottainai, but I’d suggest it is by far the best with 2 or 3 players. Playing with 4 or 5 players drags the game out, adds a lot of down time, and loses the draw of the game for me.
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I’ve been so busy on house repairs that I haven’t played nearly as much as I’d like, but I’m hoping for a game of Shear Panic tonight.
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7 – 9pm McMenamins Mission Theater & Pub
Geckos can run up smooth vertical surfaces but, until recently, no one knew how they did it. Looking at the structure of gecko feet at the nanoscale and measuring the tiny forces involved showed that gecko feet stick mechanically, not chemically. This discovery lead to the development of the world's first adhesive that is dry, self-cleaning, reversible, and can even work in the vacuum of outer space. Designs based on gecko feet are being used to create robots that can run up walls, and this adhesive could bring changes to the manufacture of everything from home electronics to car brakes. At this Science Pub we will talk about how the study of mechanisms and evolution of animal locomotion has lead to biologically inspired materials and machines.
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Dec 3, 2008 OMSI After Dark
6 – 10pm OMSI (Oregon Museum of Science and Industry)
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Here's your chance to shoot off water rockets, concoct chemical creations, and explore the wonders of OMSI with no kids in sight! Enjoy a glass of wine while learning about robots, tornados, or fossils. Have a pint of local beer while probing the puzzles of our newest exhibit, Mindbender Mansion. Talk to a distiller about the science behind brandy, or taste the hints of maple, vanilla, and dark chocolate in sustainably harvested coffee.
OMSI After Dark is an opportunity for the 21-and-over crowd to explore the museum in a child-free environment. Visitors will also be able to taste and learn the science behind food and beverage favorites with local artisans, such as Caffe Vita, Full Sail Brewing, and Clear Creek Distillery, and Moonstruck Chocolate. Appetizers and a cash bar will also be available for those who want more than just a taste!
At 9:00 p.m., join us in the OMSI Planetarium for a special 45-minute laser show—Electrolyte! Check out brilliant laser imagery choreographed to music from the Chemical Brothers, Beastie Boys, Daft Punk, Nine Inch Nails, Prodigy, and more. Cost: $7.50. Tickets available at the door.
Do your holiday shopping in the OMSI Science Store and enjoy a 10% discount during OMSI After Dark!
Jan 27, 2009 [Science Pub] Snowflakes, Stress, and Semiconductors: Do You See A Pattern Here?
[Featured in The Oregonian on 2009-01-13 ]
Richard Taylor sees a pattern. The University of Oregon professor of physics is leading the way with internationally recognized research into fractals—curious patterns found in nature that repeat themselves. Taylor's startling discoveries show that these patterns-within-patterns may significantly reduce stress and have interesting implications for psychology, medicine, and even the semiconductor industry. Taylor has applied his studies to art, showing how fractal patterns in the work of abstract expressionist Jackson Pollock can distinguish a real Pollock from a fake. Come hear about this amazing intersection of art and science.
Richard Taylor, PhD, is an associate professor in physics, psychology, and art at the University of Oregon. Transforming lives by erasing academic boundaries might be why Taylor was named Outstanding Teacher in Higher Education for 2005 by the Oregon Academy of Science.
Mar 31, 2010 OMSI After Dark
Treat yourself to childfree, brain-building science fun at OMSI After Dark! Check out live demos, a planetarium show, Science On a Sphere, SAMSON the T. rex, new featured exhibits, and old favorites. Sample tasty snacks and sweets along with beer, wine, and craft soda, and talk to regional food and beverage artisans about the science behind them. The OMSI Market Cafe will be open with a special dinner menu and cash bars will also be available for those who want more than just a taste! It's geeks gone wild! (21-and-over only.)
Aug 5, 2012 Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) / Curiosity Rover Landing
10:24 – 10:31pm OMSI (Oregon Museum of Science and Industry)
The 7 minute landing of the Curiosity Rover that will happen on Aug 5th.
The amazing sequence for landing is demonstrated in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzqdoXwLBT8
Doors open at 9pm. "Screens in the Auditorium and Planetarium will display a non-stop live feed from NASA TV."
Aug 15, 2014 TechFestNW Talent Fair - 20+ PDX Companies Hiring
12:30pm through Saturday, August 16 at 3pm OMSI (Oregon Museum of Science and Industry)
Find Your Next Tech Job at TechfestNW
Looking for a job in tech? The Talent Fair at TFNW is here to help connect you with the right opportunities at the right time.
From August 15-16 at OMSI, come meet, mingle and network with some of the Pacific NW’s best employers.
The following companies will be in attendance and are aggressively hiring in the field of digital craft and looking for qualified candidates: programmers, developers, engineers, coders, brand strategists, and more.
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Jan 28, 2015 Lesbians Who Tech - OMSI After Dark: Sugar Sweet Science
6 – 9pm OMSI (Oregon Museum of Science and Industry)
Join us on January 28th for an evening of erudite entertainment at OMSI After Dark: Sugar Sweet Science. After Dark features live demos, exhibitions, snacks, beer, wine, sweets, and other foods. OMSI recommends purchasing a ticket ($13 for non-members) in advance online.
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Nov 19, 2015 DEADLINE EXTENDED - 1776 Challenge Cup Local: Portland
11:30pm through Friday, November 20 at midnight Virtual Meeting
Are you a startup with big ambitions to solve a meaningful problem for our world? From teachers to transportation or food to finance, we want to help. We’ll share pitch-coaching, industry advice, and connect you with the right people to scale in your industry, and there’s $175,000 in cash and over $1,000,000 in potential investments. Apply if you’re up for the Challenge.
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Nov 30, 2015 1776 Challenge Cup Local: Portland - Application deadline
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Dec 10, 2015 1776 Challenge Cup Local: Portland
6 – 9pm Empirical Theater at OMSI
Each year 1776, a global incubator and venture fund, hosts a worldwide tournament called the Challenge Cup. Together, with our Startup Federation partners, Revolution, the Global Entrepreneurship Network (GEN) and over 50 incubator hosts around the world, we’ll discover the most promising, highly scalable startups that are poised to solve the major challenges of our time.
Startups advance through three rounds: Local, Regional and Global Finals. All of the regional winners and a host of wild cards will be invited to participate in the Challenge Cup Global Finals next June in Washington, D.C. There, they’ll compete for over $1 million in prizes, as well as spend time with the investors, customers, media and other key connections that can help them succeed on a global scale.
Join local host, PIE as we bring some of the most promising new startups to stage at the OMSI Empirical Theater.
Nov 2, 2016 Ignite Portland 13
7:30 – 10pm Empirical Theater at OMSI
Ignite Portland is an exciting, fast-paced, night of presentations where people can share their passions and burning ideas. The rules are fairly simple: 20 sides x 15 seconds per slide (auto-advancing) = 5 minutes of awesome. Presentations can be on nearly any topic, so long as they can teach, enlighten, or inspire us.
We’re very pleased to announce our speaker lineup for Ignite Portland 13! The following people will be sharing their burning ideas on November 2nd at OMSI’s Empirical Theater:
Julie Williams: How Buying Nothing Changes Everything Lillian Karabaic: Get on your Red Shoes and Finance the Blues Drew Anderson: 2020 Vision – You, your bots. Stephen Green: A Case for Spending Small* Mason West: Everything I know about Experience Design I learned from Magic: The Gathering Logan Kleier: 4 Reasons to Bootstrap, Not VC, Your Startup George Mandis: A Year Like Any Other (Just Somewhere Else) Jessica M. Frey: From 0 to Dancing in 300 Seconds (a.k.a. 5 minutes) Tyler Sticka: The Best Video Game Console You (Probably) Never Owned Charlie Levenson: Basic Rules for Success in Development and Business Clarissa Littler: Is Physics Computable or: Can I 3D Print a Galaxy? Evan Dumas: Have You Run Out of F#cks to Give? Henry Abel: Top Five Reasons Why Every Responsible Parent Should Immediately Buy Their Teenage Daughter A Motorcycle. Carolynn Duncan: Life Lessons as a Mzungu in Kenya, Africa Mo Nishiyama: Enjoy the Silence Linda Resca: For the Love of Care-giving Simon Tam: 5 Life Lessons Learned from Touring in a Punk Rock Band
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Kindle My Heart – 07
“Hey,” Fenlin murmured into the sleeping man’s ear. Rahlen hadn’t moved from where she’d left him an hour earlier. Dawn was only just creeping pink fingers into the sky, and the cabin was still lit only by the dim embers from last night’s fire. Still sprawled with an arm draped over where she’d slipped out from, Rahlen murmured something indistinct and rubbed a hand over his face. Still asleep, though, Fenlin thought.
She held the puppy in her hands over him, and let it start licking him eagerly.
It was super effective, Fenlin thought to herself with a grin as Rahlen started awake, eyes flying open to stare up at her and the puppy she was holding.
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“Morning sunshine,” She said, laughing at the startled look on his face. Blue eyes looked to her, then the puppy in her hands then back up to her.
“That’s not Potato,” he said, pushing himself to sit up. The blankets slipped to settle around his waist, and Fen bit her lip, slightly distracted by the way his muscles shifted and flexed to hold him upright.
“Mh?” she said, handing him the dark mabari puppy who was wiggling so hard she was sure the pup would squirm free if she held it any longer. “Oh, no. Potato’s sniffing my boots. This little girl’s yours.”
Rahlen looked down at the puppy then up at Fenlin, eyes wide.
“Mine?” He said, staring back down at the happy mabari who wasn’t able to stay still. “Fen you- but, you said you couldn’t afford,” he stammered, brain still catching up to what was happening.
Fenlin shrugged, smiling. She wasn’t going to bore him with the details. About how she’d gotten the breeder to agree to an installment plan, or how she’d be spending the award from last night’s win on the puppy. She also wasn’t about to say that the Breeder had given her a discount, saying that the puppy had already bonded with Rahlen and it was the least he could do after they’d helped him out.
“All yours-” she managed to say before he cut her off by pulling her into a hard kiss, the puppy squirming out from between them. They’d be late getting into Redcliffe, but as Rahlen pulled Fenlin onto his lap, already peeling off her sweater, she wasn’t about to stop him.
“You should come up and visit me in Denerim,” Rahlen said abruptly. Fenlin had just pulled up to the Arrivals dropoff at the Redcliffe airport. The still unnamed puppy was in Rahlen’s lap, dozing after watching the window pass by for the last hour.
“I…” Fenlin said, blinking. “Okay? Uh, when?”
Rahlen smiled at her, leaning over and stealing a last kiss before he reached for the care door.
“Soon, I hope.” He walked around to the trunk to pull his bag out, the sleeping puppy cradled in one arm. Fenlin waved through the window, trying to ignore the twisting feeling in her belly. In the back seat, Potato whined, pawing at the door.
“I know buddy,” Fenlin said, looking over her shoulder. “I’m in trouble.” She sighed, looking back at the door that Rahlen had just walked through. She was in such deep trouble, because she knew that Rahlen wasn’t just a friend anymore, not to her at least. But he was… he was Rahlen, he didn’t do relationships. He didn’t do ‘more than friends’ and augh.
“Let’s go for a walk before we drive home, hm? Clear my head a bit,” Fenlin said, checking her blind spot before pulling out from the drop off lane and heading out of the airport towards the town centre.
Potato whined from the backseat, and Fen sighed, tossing ideas around in her head for how she was going to tell Rahlen she didn’t think could do this anymore. But, he was so great and…
“ARugh,” she groaned, smacking her forehead with the flat of her hand. “I’m so stupid. So. SO STUPID. This was always going to happen. I don’t know why I thought I could just be okay with the no attachments thing. Ugh, Potato why am I this dumb?” She asked. From behind her the puppy barked twice and whined.
“You’re right,” she muttered, pulling into a small parking lot by the old windmill estate. Historical, or something, it had fields that Potato could run around in and burn off his puppy energy before they drove back into the mountains.
“I should call.” He’d be on the plane by now, she could leave a message and then hide until he got it and then he’d be nice and understanding like the considerate ass he was and he’d call her back to see if she was fine and gently tell her that he was sorry that she felt that way and to still be friends when she was ready.
That or he’d laugh and share the voice mail with his- ugh. No. Rahlen wouldn’t do that.
Turning off the car, Fen grabbed her purse and stepped out, letting Potato out from the back of the car, and the Puppy trotted out towards the field, sniffing along the snow as he did.
Pulling her phone out, Fen dialed Rahlen’s number, swallowing her thudding heart as it went to voicemail.
“Hi, it’s uh, me. Fenlin. I just wanted to say I had a really great time this weekend, but… I shouldn’t come visit. Not soon, anyways, like you suggested.” She swallowed hard, walking along in Potato’s trail of pawprints, her head down. “I… I’m sorry. I can’t do this whole… thing anymore. I know I’m being a bad friend, and that there was never any expectations of more than just a friendship and… gods I’m rambling. Sorry. I just, can’t. I’m sorry. Please don’t be mad at me, I don’t think I could handle you being mad at me, but I’d understand it.” She bit her lip, looking up.
That’s odd. There was a car that had pulled in behind hers, blocking the exit.
“I just, sorry, I’m bad at not having feelings I guess. And, until I get over them, seeing you would just make things worse, i think.”
A man got out of the car, and pulled something out along with him. Long and dark, Fen froze as her brain registered the shape of a long gun, her phone still by her ear.
Should she run? Should she throw herself down and hope he wasn’t here for her?
Potato’s angry bark stirred her into action. Fen sprinted to where her puppy was standing, scooping him up and darting for the limited cover of the old windmill. She dropped the phone as something punched into her shoulder, staggering her and sending her slipping in the snow to fall. The snow had started turning red, and it took a moment to realise why.
Curling up around the dog, Fenlin reached out to try to grab the phone.
The man had caught up with her. Kicking it away, he lifted the rifle butt and slammed it down into her face.
“Nothing personal, bunny rabbit,” he said. “But business is business.” Something sharp and hard cracked through her leg, and from far away, Fenlin heard Potato whimper.
Rahlen yawned, rubbing his face as the plane taxied towards the gate. Turning flight mode off on his phone, he waited for the inevitable onslaught of alerts. Two missed calls, four texts, and an ungodly number of social media alerts.
He smiled, opening the text from Fenlin first. Whatever he’d been expecting, it wasn’t the photo that popped up. Curled up into a fetal position, her hair was matted red, and surrounded by a stain of bright red on snow.
The warmth in his chest turned to ice, and Rahlen stared at the picture, his mind trying to figure out why Fen would send a joke picture like that. But as he stared at the picture, sent an hour ago but just received, he noticed a small ear poking out from under her arm. Potato.
No… no no no.
With shaking hands he dialed the emergency line, near shouting once it was picked up.
No he didn’t know where she was. Redcliffe still, probably. He was in Denerim but- no he couldn’t be sure. The only thing he was sure about was that he was getting on the next plane back to Redcliffe.
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Fraction War
By jacinta
In Fractions and Decimals, Games and warm-ups, Number and Algebra
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War is usually played with a pack of cards (e.g. http://www.bicyclecards.com/how-to-play/war/). This version can be played with dominoes.
Learning Objective:
Compare fraction values.
Intended Outcome:
Accurate identification of the larger fraction.
Sets of dominoes
Game Objective:
To collect the most dominoes.
This game should be played in pairs, with a set of dominoes for each pair.
Share all the dominoes between the two players, placing them face down.
Each player must choose one of their dominoes and place it face up in the centre.
Compare both dominoes as a fraction, with the lower number as the numerator and the higher number as the denominator, e.g.
The player with the higher value fraction keeps both dominoes.
If the fractions are equivalent, each player chooses another domino to place in the centre. The player with the higher value fraction takes all the dominoes in the centre.
Continue playing the game until one player owns all the dominoes. This player wins the game.
Instead of playing the game until one player owns all the dominoes, apply a time limit to the game. At the end of the time limit, the player with the most dominoes wins.
Junior Secondary, Senior Primary
‘Space Race’ Game – Introducing Algorithmic Thinking
‘Factor 24’
The Language of Mathematics
Make 10Addition and Subtraction, Computation, Counting, Games and warm-ups, Number and Algebra
Grid GamesGames and warm-ups, Measurement and Geometry
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Pathway to Undergraduate Studies
Admission Categories
Admission Intake Types
Applicant Categories
English Proficiency Requirements for Admission
Credit for Previous Learning
A student that does not meet the English proficiency requirements for admission to undergraduate studies at KPU has the option of taking English proficiency upgrading courses, while simultaneously taking a limited number of undergraduate courses at KPU. The undergraduate courses available to Pathway Students will help them advance towards their intended undergraduate credential and aid their transition to full undergraduate studies.
Entry to Pathway Studies
A student begins their Pathway Studies at one of the following entry points according to their current level of English proficiency. Each Pathway point of entry has designated course options for upgrading English proficiency and undergraduate study:
Pathway Studies
English Proficiency for Pathway Entry
English Upgrading Course Options
Undergraduate Course Options
Assessed below English Studies 12 (C-) ENGQ1 Not available for Pathway 1 students
ELSQ1
ELST 0041 through ELST 01831
One of: (a) English Studies 12 (C-), (b) IELTS 5.5, or (c) equivalent (see full list below). ENGQ 10891
ELST 0256 through ELST 02831 Up to 4 credits from the courses designated for Pathway 2 English Proficiency
One of: (a) English Studies 12 (C), (b) IELTS 6.0, or (c) equivalent (see full list below). ENGQ 1091, 1092 or 10991 Up to 8 credits from courses designated for Pathway 2 or Pathway 3 English Proficiency
Choice of courses may be limited by course prerequisites.
Completing the Pathway and Transitioning into Undergraduate Studies
A Pathway Student becomes eligible for admission to undergraduate studies after completing Pathway 3 English upgrading, which fulfills KPU’s English proficiency requirement for undergraduate admission. Until a Pathway Student is admitted to KPU for undergraduate studies, they are only permitted to register for undergraduate courses designated for Pathway Studies. Successful completion of Pathway 3 English upgrading is required before the transition to undergraduate studies can take place. During the semester following completion of Pathway 3 English Upgrading and prior to undergraduate admission, a Pathway Student must consult with an Academic Advisor to develop their plan for their undergraduate studies, and they may continue to take undergraduate courses designated for Pathway Studies, up to a maximum of 12 credits in total.
Equivalents for Pathway 2 English Proficiency
Completion of BC English Studies 12 or English First Peoples 12 with a minimum grade of C –
Completion of Communications 12 with a minimum grade of B (prior to 2018 Graduation program)
Completion of, as part of the Adult Dogwood Diploma, English 12 with a minimum grade of C- or Communications 12 with a minimum grade of B
Completion of IB (International Baccalaureate) English A1/A2 (HL or SL) with a minimum grade of 2 (or C-)
Completion of AP (Advanced Placement) English Language and Composition or AP English Literature and Composition with a minimum grade of C-
For English 12 and all other provincially examinable courses, KPU will accept the blended grade (classroom grade + provincial examination grade) OR the classroom grade — whichever is higher — for the purposes of Faculty and program admission, and for satisfying course prerequisites, where applicable. Current students wishing to use a higher classroom mark for the purposes of satisfying prerequisites should request to have an official copy of their high school transcript sent to Admissions should they wish to have their academic record updated to include the classroom mark for any provincially examinable courses.
Successful completion of one semester of study (15 credits) at the undergraduate level, with a minimum CGPA of 2.0, at a recognized post-secondary institution where English is the primary language of instruction
KPU Courses
Completion of ELST 0181 with a minimum grade of B-
Completion of ENGQ 1079 with a minimum grade of C
Testing Options
KPU English testing with placement into one of ENGQ 1089 or ELST 0281
International English Language Testing System (IELTS): overall band of 5.5 or higher, with a minimum 5.5 in each band, taken within the last two years
Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL): iBT 61 or higher, with no sub score less than 18, taken within the last two years
Canadian Academic English Language Assessment (CAEL): Score of 50 or higher with no sub score less than 40, taken within the last two years
Pearson Test of English (PTE): Score of 46 or higher, taken within the last two years
Language Proficiency Index (LPI): Level 3 with an essay score of 23 or higher, taken within the last two years
Completion of BC English Studies 12 or English First Peoples 12 with a minimum grade of C
Completion of, as part of the Adult Dogwood Diploma, English Studies 12 with a minimum grade of C
Completion of IB (International Baccalaureate) English A1/A2 (HL or SL) with a minimum grade of C
Completion of AP (Advanced Placement) English Language and Composition or AP English Literature and Composition with a minimum grade of C
Successful completion of one year of study (30 credits) at the undergraduate level, with a minimum CGPA of 2.0, at a recognized post-secondary institution where English is the primary language of instruction
KPU English testing with placement into one of ENGQ 1091, ENGQ 1092, ENGQ 1099 or ELST 0381
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South county legislators’ views on education span all sides of spectrum
Gloria Lloyd
Affton NewsFeatured ArticlesLindbergh Schools NewsMissouri NewsNewsSt. Louis County NewsSunset Hills News
Rep. Doug Beck, D-Affton, presents a legislative commendation to retiring Lindbergh Superintendent Jim Simpson in June.
By Gloria Lloyd
glorialloyd@callnewspapers.com
One of the topics that Missouri legislators focused on in this week’s special session is education.
Gov. Mike Parson called legislators back to expand access to STEM education, or education that focuses more on science, technology, engineering and mathematics — a topic that nearly all legislators seem to agree on.
But on the broader topic of public education and how to approach funding it, legislators from south county occupy both sides of the political spectrum, with some passionately defending public education and some objecting to the idea altogether.
Sen. Andrew Koenig speaks at the Tesson Ferry Republican Club this summer. Photo by Jessica Belle Kramer.
On one side, Rep. Bob Burns, D-Affton, said at a town hall at South County Technical High School in Sunset Hills, “I’m a fan of public education. I personally think that public education is the most successful program in the history of our country because it educates the populace.”
He is joined in his vocal support of public schools by Rep. Doug Beck, D-Affton, and Sen. Scott Sifton, D-Affton, both former members of the Affton Board of Education who continually advocate for more education funding.
And on the other side of the spectrum, south county’s other senator Sen. Andrew Koenig, R-Manchester, questions the current practices of public education and says more students need to be enrolled in private schools.
“I like to call them government schools rather than public schools,” Koenig told the Tesson Ferry Republican Club.
That’s why he supports efforts to increase charter schools and education-savings accounts, which some people refer to as vouchers. Those would allow people to redirect current school tax dollars to pay for private education expenses.
“I’m a big believer in school reform or school choice,” Koenig said. “Competition is good. I mean, who here wants one gas station in St. Louis? You want lots of gas stations, you want choice. And choice makes everybody better.”
With that choice, residents might be able to avoid some of the teachings of public schools, which Koenig sees as substandard, especially in science classrooms.
He prefers that schools teach a curriculum more aligned to the Bible rather than just from science textbooks.
“Too often it’s more of an atheistic viewpoint, and they refuse to teach the other side,” Koenig said of public-school curriculum.
The senator contends that schools should focus on not just teaching evolution in science class, but also instruct students on more of a creationism-focused viewpoint.
“They don’t even teach the flaws in evolution,” he said of science teachers.
One of those flaws, Koenig believes, can be seen in the four-winged fruit fly, which was created by scientists in a lab to demonstrate aspects of evolution such as how modifying a gene can change the entire structure of a species. The line of inquiry led to a Nobel Prize in 1996.
“You hear, ‘Oh, that’s a perfect example of evolution,’” Koenig said. “But the thing can’t fly and can’t reproduce. A lot of these genetic mutations are detrimental to the organism. Surely there’s microevolution that happens, but macroevolution we have not experienced. And our public schools, they just don’t teach the other side.”
As another example from science, Koenig pointed to the bacterial flagellum, which is comprised of over 40 proteins.
It is so complex that it could only have been designed rather than developed over time through evolution, he said.
“One protein is out of place and it doesn’t work — how do you build a bacterial flagellum over millions of years if it just simply doesn’t work?” Koenig said. “Unfortunately they’re not teaching that in our public schools, and I like to give parents choices so that they can achieve what their kids are being taught.”
But some of south county’s schools are the finest in the country, Burns countered at his town hall.
“When you hear that public education is just not what it used to be, check it out for yourselves because we have some of the finest schools in the country, and particularly in our state, in south county and in St. Louis,” Burns said.
Beck said sometimes when it comes to education, “perception is reality,” but anyone who visits schools on the cutting edge of changing education like South County Tech will come away with a different view. Beck collaborated on a joint town hall there in April with Burns, Rep. Sarah Unsicker, D-Shrewsbury, and Rep. Deb Lavender, D-Kirkwood.
Education funding in dispute
Aside from the more philosophical viewpoints on the importance or lack thereof of public education, most of the disputes around education are about how to pay for it.
This year, legislators cut $25 million from the foundation formula for public schools, on top of a $50 million cut last year.
That’s the equivalent of almost the entire budget of Truman State University, Sifton pointed out at a joint meeting of the Affton and Lemay chambers of commerce.
Burns said that Republicans “had the audacity to zero out the foundation formula,” which was said to be $450 million underfunded before that maneuver.
“Then they zeroed it, and now they say, ‘Well, we continue to fully fund public education’ — no they don’t, and it’s educating at least 90 percent of youngsters in our country and in this state,” Burns said.
Beck also took aim at the GOP’s stance on fully funding education.
“So if you have a 12-ounce glass of water and you’re only getting eight ounces, what they’ve done is reduce that glass to eight ounces,” Beck said.
Doing the math with that $450 million reduction and another one this year, in just a few years the GOP’s formula funding provides several billion dollars less than what schools were otherwise slated to get, he noted.
And while former Gov. Eric Greitens touted his administration’s achievement in not cutting funding inside classrooms, the Legislature has continued to cut transportation funding. As schools pay more for buses, some have had to cut back on the classroom. In rural Missouri, 13 school districts have gone to four-day school weeks because they can’t afford a fifth day of busing.
As transportation funds are cut, other school funds have to subsidize that missing money, Beck said.
“You can definitely see that we’re not fully funding education,” he said. “So those are things I’d like to work on. Those would be my priorities.”
[Andrew Koenig], [Bob Burns], [Creationism], [Doug Beck], [Education Vouchers], [Evolution], [Gloria Lloyd], [Missouri Education Funding], [Missouri Legislature], [Missouri Senate], [Photos by Jessica Belle Kramer], [Scott Sifton]
Legislators wrap up 2018 with eventful session for state and south county
Mehlville High School ‘all clear’ after lockdown
Executive Editor, Call Newspapers
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Posts tagged ‘iphone’
Your GPS Will Disable Itself If It’s Going Too Fast
By Chad Upton | Editor
Whether it’s your windshield mounted Garmin or your pocket slung smartphone, your GPS device is programmed to disable itself under certain conditions.
If it’s travelling faster than 1200 MPH or above 65,000 feet in altitude, the GPS function will shutdown.
These restrictions were put in place to help ensure the technology could not be used for malicious intentions by foreign governments or terrorists.
Modern commercial airplanes do not typically approach this speed or altitude, so you can’t test this unless you build your own missile or weather balloon.
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Photo: avlxyz (cc)
Sources: wikipedia, gizmodo
August 20, 2011 at 2:00 am Chad Upton 3 comments
How to Increase Mobile Phone Battery Life
Sometimes, you’re far from your charger and won’t be back anytime soon. Here are some tips to extend your battery when it’s running low.
Not all of these tips will apply to all phones, so use the ones that match the features on your phone. If your phone, camera or other gadgets frequently run out of power while you’re away from an outlet, consider an economical backup battery charger.
Turn Off 3G and Data
Most data capable phones can operate in different modes. If you turn off the high-speed wireless data mode, such as 3G, you will significantly reduce the power your phone consumes. This is the single biggest thing I find affects battery consumption.
Dim the Screen
The screen’s backlight uses a lot of power, keeping it off as much as possible will extend battery life. On the iPhone, press the top button, on many BlackBerrys, press ALT + ENTER to lock the keyboard and shutoff the screen. If your phone has an option to adjust the brightness, dim it. If it has auto-brightness, enable it. If you can set an “auto off” time then set it to the shortest time allowed.
Text Message Instead of Calling
If you can get away with communicating by text message, this can save power too. Although, it does require your screen, so short messages are better. These messages are embedded in the signals that your phone is already sending and receiving to normally communicate with the mobile network, even when you’re not using the phone, so it’s a very efficient way to communicate.
Turn Wifi and Bluetooth Off
Wifi and Bluetooth are great conveniences, but when you’re away from your charger and worried about losing phone capabilities, they’re a luxury that can go. Most phones with these features, have an option to disable them.
Don’t Play Games or Music
Well designed mobile phone processors have a low power mode that sips power when the phone is waiting for incoming calls in standby mode. Playing games requires the processor to work at its limit, which requires a lot more energy than standby mode. The same goes for playing music, especially if they’re compressed, high bit-rate or encrypted or drm protected music files — extra processing is needed to process these files and power the headphones or internal speaker.
Stop Background Apps
Some background apps use more power than others, it really comes down to the hardware in the phone the app is using (ex GPS) and how processor intensive the activity is.
Generally, if you’re trying to save power, closing the apps you don’t need can save power. This mostly applies to BlackBerry, Android and Windows Mobile devices.
It isn’t as important on iPhone since background apps aren’t true background apps, they have limited capabilities and therefore don’t consume a significant amount of battery power. That said, if you have a GPS tracking, VOIP or a music playing app running in the background, it could use significant amounts of power over long periods of time and it should be closed.
If you have any other ideas, drop them in the comments. Thanks to Kraig Brachman for suggesting this secret.
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August 4, 2010 at 5:00 am Chad Upton 58 comments
Free Text Messaging on iPhone and iPod Touch
Update: After many problems with PingChat!, I’d be hesitant to recommend it any longer. WhatsApp seems to be the best alternative at this time. It’s available for iOS, Android, Blackberry and Nokia (Symbian).
I know this is pretty specific to iPhone and iPod touch users, but with 50 million iPhones sold and 35 million iPod touches, there are 85 million of you out there.
Ever since the introduction of the iPhone 3GS and the 3.0 Operating System last year, push notifications have been available to iPhone users. Basically, these are real time messages that can be sent to your phone from Apple’s notification server.
The best part about these messages is that they’re free and your iPhone or iPod touch can be on standby or in any application when you receive them.
There are lots of applications (“apps”) that use this feature. For example, the facebook app (free) will buzz your phone with a notification when someone sends you a message or comments on a photo…etc.
The associated press (free) app will give you push notifications when breaking news is happening, allowing you to tune in and catch the car chase live or see the story as it’s unfolding.
One of the most practical uses for this feature is instant messaging. My favorite text messaging application for iPhone is PingChat! (Ping! Lite is also available for free). This app is great if you text a lot but don’t want to pay for it.
PingChat! works just like the native text messaging application on iPhone, except all your messages are free. With the paid version, which only costs $0.99, you can send pictures too. This app also works for iPod Touch users, so you can text message them when they are on a wifi network.
PingChat! is like Blackberry Messenger for iPhone — users within the blackberry network can message each other for free with Blackberry Messenger.
Since I have a lot of friends outside the US, this is a great way for us to keep each other up-to-date with the little things and avoid the $0.50/message SMS cost for international texts.
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May 20, 2010 at 5:00 am Chad Upton 43 comments
iPhone and iPod Tricks
Apple has sold 50 million iPhones and 35 million iPod touch devices, so there are a lot of people who can benefit from these secrets.
This is by no means a complete list, but I wanted to provide some of the most useful and least well known iPhone tricks. Most of this list also applies to the iPod touch; if you know someone with one of these, be sure to send them a link to this article.
Double Click the Home Button
The button on the front of the phone is called the “home” button. You can choose what happens when you double click it. Mine is set to go to my phone favorites, making it quicker to dial my people. You can get to this screen by going to Settings > General > Home.
As you can see on the option screen above, there is an option for “iPod Controls.” When those are on and the phone is in standby mode (blank screen), you can double click the home button to see the current song/artist/album cover and show audio controls (volume/forward/back/play/pause) — see below for example. If you want to fast forward or rewind, hold the forward/back buttons respectively.
May 3, 2010 at 12:11 am Chad Upton 19 comments
Keeping Headphones Untangled
Walking, flying, train and bus riding — these are some of the most inane, meaningless and repetitive activities that you may do. Many people do them everyday, even twice or more. Headphones, and the devices they’re connected to, make these activities more enjoyable, memorable and sometimes even meaningful.
I’ve spent my fair share of time commuting in planes, trains and automobiles, but few of these experiences were memorable. Even fewer were memorable in a good way. But, I’ll never forget the bus ride when I first listened to the song, “I Will Follow You Into The Dark” by Death Cab for Cutie. I had played the song dozens of times before, but this was the first time I really listened to it. (more…)
April 7, 2010 at 11:32 pm Chad Upton 2 comments
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Post Time: Breeders' Cup Saturday undercard filled with surprises
By Gene Kershner|Published Fri, Oct 31, 2014
ARCADIA, Ca. -- The undercard on Breeders' Cup (BC) Saturday includes a number of talented thoroughbreds, including a first glimpse at some top European turf horses looking to bring the large purses back overseas. With nine total Breeders' Cup races on tap for Saturday afternoon, there's a full schedule of betting opportunities for your friendly, neighborhood horseplayer.
Be sure to check tomorrow's print editions of The News for my advance on the $5 million Breeders' Cup Classic and the star-studded field of 14 that will head to the gate in prime time tomorrow night. Post time for the Classic is 8:35 p.m. ET. I'll be live on the Fan (1270 AM) this afternoon at 1:30 p.m. with some thoughts on Saturday's major race.
Let's play a little $0.50 Pick-4 with the four BC races into the Classic.
$3 million Longines Turf (Race 9, 6:22 p.m. ET) 1 1/4-miles on the turf for 3-year-olds and upward. With the defection of last year's winner Magician earlier in the week, it looks like it’s down to the overseas shippers in the $3 million Turf. 1-Telescope (7-2) looks to be the real deal and races with lasix for the first time, always a good angle with the Euros. 7-Flintshire (3-1) has raced against tough Group 1 company in France finishing second by two lengths to Treve in the Arc. The Graham Motion-trained 12-Main Sequence (9-2) raced last year in England and has not lost in his three starts in the States. Johnny V has the ride on the Aldebaran gelding. We'll go three deep (1,7,12) in the Pick-4 and play a saver win bet on long shot 9-Hardest Core (10-1), this year's Arlington Million winner.
Post Time Outlook: 1-Telescope, 2-Flintshire, 3-Main Sequence, 4-Hardest Core
$1.5 million Xpressbet BC Sprint (Race 10, 7:01 p.m. ET) Six furlongs on the dirt for 3-year-olds and up. This is the race that usually shoots down my Pick-4, so be prepared to go deep with reliance on the Euros in the turf races in the sequence. 6-Rich Tapestry (5-1) has faced the toughest competition facing difficult fields in the Hong Kong Sprint Cup at Sha Tin and Dubai Golden Shaheen (finishing second) at Meydan. 5-Private Zone (6-1) has taken on all comers on both coasts and has three seconds in four tries at Santa Anita. Defending winner 4-Secret Circle (9-2) could be rounding into form at just the right time, second off the layoff for Bob Baffert, who has back-to-back Sprint titles on his resume with Midnight Lute. Our long shot play is 11-Bakken (10-1) with veteran Gary Stevens aboard for Chad Brown. We'll throw in closer 9-Salutos Amigos (6-1) in case there is a pace meltdown for a price. So five deep in the Pick-4 (4,5,6,9, 11).
Post Time Outlook: 1-Rich Tapestry, 2-Private Zone, 3- Secret Circle, 4-Bakken
$2 million BC Mile (Race 11, 7:40 p.m. ET) One mile on the turf for 3-year-olds and upward. With the injury to two-time Mile winner and Horse of the Year Wise Dan, the field swelled to 14 horses, including several top European entrants. Sign me up for 5-Toronado (5-2), the multiple-Group 1 winner running on lasix for the first time for conditioner Richard Hannon. He's a potential single in the Pick-4 sequence. This is your classic box the Euros race. My long shot in here is 3-Veda (12-1), a 3-year-old getting a six-pound weight break from his elders. We'll throw in 8-Trade Storm (12-1), the Woodbine Mile winner and 9-Anodin (6-1) for Freddie Head in our four horse exacta box. For Pick-4 purposes we'll go with 3,5.
Post Time Outlook: 1-Toronado, 2-Veda, 3-Trade Storm, 4-Anodin
Post Time $0.50 Pick-4 (Race 9): 1,7,12/4,5,6,9,11/3,5/6,8,11 (Cost = $45)
Gene Kershner, a Buffalo-based turf writer, is a member of the National Turf Writers and Broadcasters Association, and tweets @EquiSpace.
Telescope works Thursday morning for Breeders' Cup Turf
Gene Kershner – Gene is a Buffalo-based turf writer and a member of the National Turf Writers and Broadcasters Association. He has been The Buffalo News turf writer since October 2010.
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by junasun | April 14, 2009 · 1:45 am
Bulan Priorities: Local Technology and Environmental Protection
by: jun asuncion
THE STATUS OF BULAN. Bulan has all the basic infrastructures needed to develop itself to an economically strong town and the potential of becoming a city in the future. Bulan has the sea port integrated in the Central Nautical Highway program of the national government and fully-developed Maharlika highway that connect it to the rest of the Philippines. And with the addition of the Bulan Airport which is supposed to be operational by 2010, Bulan has completed the requirements for mobilization and transportation and will be practically connected with the whole world. What else does Bulan need? Is it consciousness of its powerful potentials? A dynamic and proud LGU? A business and technologically- oriented community? A politically active constituency?
BE PROUD OF YOUR TOWN. In any case, Bulan is moving forward, slowly but surely, to the place it is destined to, to a status worthy of its inhabitants. This is something each one of us should be proud of. To be proud of your town- this is applied Utang na Loob, which is a way of looking back to pinanggalingan, to one’s origin, a topic we have deliberated quite at length already. Let us as individual Tagabulans redefine our relationship to our town and ask how we can help each other realize our common dream of a progressive Bulan. If you are a student, study well and perform well and just think of giving out your best. The same way if you are a teacher, a fisherman, a farmer, a businessman, a policeman or a politician- altogether the effect is the enhancement of our town. This is synergia, a Greek concept first demonstrated by the Spartans in ancient Greece, which means that combined effect of two or more forces is greater than the sum of their individual effects. This concept of synergy should guide our town planning and management.
BULAN DEVELOPMENTS. Development is not only the production of ideas but also the realisation of these ideas materially. Since we know that Bulan is also endowed with marine and agricultural resources, the focus of economic thinking should be not only on the available local raw materials, capital and labor but also in encouraging and supporting new technologies developed locally geared at harnessing the local resources to the maximum of profitability. This is the other factor needed to boost local economy aside from the infrastructures. From an agrarian and fishing community to a modern IT-Community? From Tricycles to BLRT- Bulan Light Rail Transit System- plying from the Bulan Airport to the other reaches of Bulan? How about a Bulan Mall? A Technorama, a Zoological Garden, a Planetarium, a Bulan Symphony Orchestra, a Concert Hall and a huge Sport Stadium?
THE ENVIRONMENT FIRST. It’s all a matter of time, of creative time starting now. A town, once its momentum of growth has been set to motion at the right time, develops itself to completion, obeying an inner logic. The main concern is that a town tends to be blinded by its achievements – becoming a city but forgetting the very foundation of its success- the natural environment. This has been the case of many cities of today: hardly perfected, are already in the brink of collapse because the rivers and seas are already dead, trees cut, water, soil and air polluted, people sickened- like some parts of China today. It is therefore imperative to have a sincere desire to protect and conserve the ecosystem right from the start: each Tagabulan by doing all the things he knows about environmental protection and the government by educating the public continuously, building and maintaining the appropriate infrastructures and investing in technological research and environmental programs.
THE IMPORTANCE OF A COMMUNITY SEWAGE SYSTEM: But before everything, we should pay attention to this question: What happens when you pull the plug, wash your clothes, have a shower or flush the toilet – where does all the water and wastes go?”. For me, this is the central issue in any environmental program and this should complement solid waste management. Bulan should start realizing this concept for otherwise its environmental program will remain incomplete. This question suggests to us the necessity of a community sewage system to which ideally every household must be connected. Network of pipes (reticulated sewerage systems) underneath Bulan should be built and should carry sewage from homes to modern sewage treatment plant located in any ideal place in the outskirts of Bulan. Once treated, only then is this water released into the environment, i.e.. back to the rivers, streams or seas. I am aware that at present this costly project lies somewhere above every Bulan household but this should at least be taken into account in community planning by now.
MARKETING BULAN AND ITS PRODUCTS. Marketing of local products is the core of economic life. The Bulan airport will be a big factor in marketing the local products and in rousing the interest of local, national or maybe international investors. But for the marketing of Bulan, we are all task to do that. Let’s be positive this time and help one another in introducing our town to the rest of the nation and the world. We know that Bulan has made a name in our nation because of its Waste Management Concept and the Ecopark. That’s already a substantial achievement indicative of the vast developmental potentials of Bulan community. But it’s no reason now to rest on one’s laurels for it is just the beginning. We should defeat this attitude of complacency which seems to be inherent in us if we want to improve the quality of life and living standards in Bulan, should not be satisfied with little achievements but continue on raising the standard of our concept of quality and on improving already existing and well-recognized programs.
Market synergy means creating an environment that is conducive to business and entrepreneurship growth by developing a local investment strategy that promotes networking among local and regional business people, products providers, raw materials suppliers, retailers, consumer organizations, local policy makers, local and regional academe, technological and marketing research institutions, transportation, etc. The existing town industry clusters- fish ( marine) and rice (agricultural) industries in Bulan should be intensified in order to assert their regional and national competitiveness. The Bulan Airport will bring with it the emergence of new industry clusters like tourism, etc. but an open eye must be kept for other local products that would significantly enhance investments once fully developed and marketed.
A SOLID FOUNDATION FOR BULAN. What is of utmost importance is a functioning LGU with stable and modern bodyof political concepts translated into actions by visionary yet competent and professional local politicians. A performance-oriented and transparent LGU who leads the people to new frontiers. This is the foundation, a transparent politics and efficient leadership anchored in public trust without which nothing can be achieved. It’s not a question then of who is running the administration and for how long but of how is Bulan being administered and for whom.
BE READY TO WELCOME GUESTS. Start cleaning your surroundings not only today but everyday so you will not be ashamed when tourists come. Put permanent trashcans in every corner of the town and along the seashores so that people will stop throwing their wastes directly into the sea or seashores. Now we have in Bulan many good environmental programs like Fiesta Sa Kabubudlan, Ecopark, Tree planting activities, etc. How about calling to life a program like Clean Bulan- whatever you name it- whose goal is community cleaning on a big scale, and this should be held annually. Special attention should be given to our rivers, streams and sea and their natural regeneration. To this effect, the LGU-Bulan should let its creativity work in devising environmental protection programs which involve partnership with the private sectors. Remember that Bulan was twice the cleanest and greenest town of Sorsogon under Mayor Guillermo De Castro, Sr. Our concept of cleanliness should be divorced from the ningas cogon attitude that is somehow always within each of us.
The town should always remain clean and presentable even when there is a change in the administration so that the people- especially the children- will feel good. Take note that children growing up in dirty and squalid places will have a very poor concept of hygiene standards. The town should start now educating the young Tagabulans by example and by regular cleanliness program. As in many other things, cleanliness also begins in the head (consciousness).’This is of high priority that pays off in the long run.
FEATURED ARTICLE. In this post I feature an article from DOST V ( Department Of Science AndTechnology ) I found in the net which was written by my brother Engr. Jerry Asuncion- DOST- Provincial Science Officer- where he introduces the newly-developed technology of Pili pulp oil extraction. Pili is one among the raw materials that could help define positively the future of Bulan if farmers and investors are given the incentives to grow them locally, or at least stimulate investment in the development of mechanical Pili pulp press in diverse models and capacities from manually-operated machines that would meet a household need for Pili oil extraction to motorized units for industrial production purposes. For as Jose Dayao- the Department of Agriculture (DA) Regional Executive Director for Bicol – said “The government is revitalizing the Pili nut industry in Bicol through a program designed to commercialize production of the crop and transform it into one of the Philippines’ export winners”. Bulan should venture into this dream of our national government and find local ways to help realize it. Pili nuts and oil are products unknown yet to European markets but- as to my observation- these are quality products that will easily find its place in the European palate once introduced to them.
DOST V Develops Pili Pulp Oil Extraction Technology
Written by Engr. Jerry N. Asuncion, S&T Media Service
The Department of Science and Technology’s provincial office in Sorsogon developed a simple method of producing oil from pili nut pulp. The process extracts oil from freshly harvested pili nuts using minimal heat and simple cooking and filtration tools. Because the process retains the aroma and natural green color of pili pulp, the resulting oil can be considered of premium or virgin quality.
DOST-Sorsogon provincial office initiated the development of the technology as an alternative to the process introduced by National Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology at University of the Philippines in Los Baños, which uses enzymes in extraction and chemicals in refining pili pulp oil. This technology, while more efficient, is rather complicated and requires substantial investment and may not be suitable in a micro or village scale pili nut-processing venture.
There is also a need to satisfy the demand of local organic groups, which took interest in the product for naturally processed, chemical-free, and virgin quality pili pulp oil for food, health, and cosmetic applications.
Oil Yield
Using manual extraction, the technology was tested using different varieties of pili obtained from different areas in Sorsogon province. Oil yield, computed as percentage by weight of whole fresh pili nut, varies widely and is clearly associated with the variety of pili nut. However, the maximum yield recorded so far is about 6 percent, which translates to about 65 ml/kg of fresh whole nuts.
Establishing the varietal differences in oil yield requires further study. But oil recovery is expected to increase if a suitable mechanical pulp press or extractor becomes available.
Oil quality
Analyses conducted at DOST V laboratory showed that the oil produced by the process has a very low free fatty acid (FFA) content of 0.06% and moisture content (MC) of only 0.04%, which favors a longer shelf life of the product.
Chemical and Nutritional Analyses
Chemical and nutritional analyses of pili pulp oil are very similar to olive oil. However, pili pulp oil have more beta carotene, a known vitamin A source, and carotenoids, which makes it more nutritious than olive oil.
Pili oil has always been featured in traditional medicines and herbal remedies in Bicol region where it abounds. Indigenous knowledge gathered attest to its efficacy in treating skin diseases such as scabies and de-worming capability for livestock such as pigs and chicken. Recent testimony to its ability to cure diabetes was published by Fernando Simon of YAMANKO enterprises.
Some groups that advocate and promote organic products reportedly believe in the potential health benefits of pili pulp oil, which they claim could equal or even surpass that of virgin coconut oil.
The simplicity of the technology allowed for its easy diffusion through technology transfer trainings to pili processors, traders, and farmers in Sorsogon. Since October 2004, DOST Sorsogon provided technology transfer training to the following:
• Melinda Yee[proprietor of Leslie Pili Products, Sorsogon City]
• Pili Producers Association of Sorsogon (PPAS)
• City Agriculture Officers/personnel of Sorsogon City LGU
• The Lewis College
• Prieto Diaz LGU
• Gubat LGU
Developing the industry
The introduction of the technology generated renewed interest among local stakeholders and is paving the way for the establishment of the pili pulp oil production industry in Sorsogon. At present, raw pili pulp oil sells at P100 per liter. In support of the industry’s development, DOST V is currently working to develop technologies on mechanical extraction and other non-chemical approach in oil refining. (Engr. Jerry N. Asuncion, S&T Media Service)
Note: I have included here other sources of informations about Pili for further studies. / jun asuncion
New Crop Fact SHEET:
Pili Nut
Contributor: Francis T. Zee, USDA-ARS, National Clonal Germplasm Repository, Hilo, HI.
Copyright © 1995. All Rights Reserved. Quotation from this document should cite and acknowledge the contributor.
English: pili nut
Philippines: pili, anangi, basiad, liputi, pilaui, and pili-pilauai.
Canarium ovatum Burseraceae
Uses.
Pili nut kernel is the most important product. When raw, it resembles the flavor of roasted pumpkin seed, and when roasted, its mild, nutty flavor andtender-crispy texture is superior to that of the almond. Pili kernel is also used in chocolate, icecream, and baked goods. The edible light-yellow color oil from the kernel is comparable in quality to that of olive oil, containing 59.6% oleic glycerides and 38.2% palmitic glycerides. The young shoots and the fruit pulp are edible. The shoots are used in salads, and the pulp is eaten after it is boiled and seasoned. Boiled pili pulp resembles the sweet potato in texture, it is oily (about 12%) and is considered to have food value similar to the avocado. Pulp oil can be extracted and used for cooking or as a substitute for cotton seed oil in the manufacture of soap and edible products. The stony shells are excellent fuel or as porous, inert growth medium for orchids and anthurium.
Philippines: abundant and wild in Southern Luzon, and parts of Visayas and Mindanao in low and medium elevation primary forests.
Crop Status
A minor crop produced only in the Philippines. The bulk of the raw nuts are supplied from wild stands in the mountains around Sorsogon, Albay and Camarines Sur in the Bicol region. The average annual production between 1983-1987 was 2925 tonnes of dried nuts from an estimated 2700 ha. Pili nut has the potential to become a major nut crop. Improvement of nd knowledge in efficient vegetative propagation, ecological and cultural requirements of pili as a commercial crop, and the mechanization for commercial processing are needed.
Synonyms: Canarium pachyphyllum Perkins, Canarium melioides Elmer.
Pili is a delicious evergreen tree up to 20 m tall with resinous wood and resistance to wind. Leaves are compound and alternate with odd-pinnate leaflets. Flowers are borne on cymose inflorescence at the leaf axils of young shoots. Pollination is by insects. Flowering of pili is frequent and fruits ripen through a prolonged period of time. The ovary contains three locules, each with two ovules, most of the time only one ovule develops. Fruit is a drupe, 4 to 7 cm long, 2.3 to 3.8 cm in diameter, and weight 15.7 to 45.7 g. The skin (exocarp) is smooth, thin, shiny, and turns purplish black as the fruit ripens: the pulp (mesocarp) is fibrous, fleshy, and greenish yellow in color, and the hard shell (endocarp) within protects a normally dicotyledonous embryo. The basal end of the shell (endocarp) is pointed and the apical end is more or less blunt; between the seed and the hard shell (endocarp) is a thin, brownish, fibrous seed coat developed from the inner layer of the endocarp. This thin coat usually adheres tightly to the shell and/or the seed. Much of the kernel weight is made up of the cotyledons, which are about 4.1 to 16.6% of the whole fruit; it is composed of approximately 8% carbohydrate, 11.5 to 13.9% protein, and 70% fat. Kernels from some trees may be bitter, fibrous or have a turpentine odor.
Crop Culture (Agronomy/Horticulture)
There are three pili cultivars in the Philippines, they are : ‘Katutubo’, ‘Mayon’, and ‘Oas’. ‘Poamoho’ is the only cultivar in Hawaii.
Pili is a tropical tree preferrring deep, fertile, well-drained soil, warm temperatures, and well distributed rainfall. It can not tolerate the slightest frost or low temperatures. Refrigeration of seeds at 4 to 13C resulted in loss of viability after 5 days. Seed germination is highly recalcitrant, reduced from 98 to 19% after 12 weeks of storage at room temperature; seeds stored for more than 137 days did not germinate. The seedlings take 40 to 50 days to emerge; year old seedlings can be used for rootstock. Asexual propagation is best through patch budding, which claimed to have a success rate of 85-90% in the Philippines. Marcotting is too inconsistent to be used for propagating in commercial production. Production standards for a mature pili tree is between 100 to 150 kg of in-shell nuts. Most of the production in the Philippines are from seedling trees and are highly variable in kernel qualities and production.
Harvesting is from May to October, peaking in June to August, and requires several pickings. Fruits are de-pulped, cleaned and dried to 3 – 5% moisture (30C for 27 to 28 h). Nut in shell with a moisture content of 2.5 to 4.6% can be stored in the shade for one year without deterioration of qualities.
College of Agriculture, University of the Philippines at Los Banos, College, Laguna 4031, Philippines.
USDA/ARS, National Clonal Germplasm Repository, Hilo, P.O. Box 4487, Hilo, HI 96720 (limited).
Latest News About Pili:
Gov’t to make pili nut industry more globally competitive
The government is revitalizing the pili nut industry in Bicol through a program designed to commercialize production of the crop and transform it into one of the Philippines’ export winners, Department of Agriculture (DA) Regional Executive Director for Bicol Jose Dayao said.
Dayao said the proposed P150-million Pili Development Program (PDP) will involve a massive replanting of seven pili varieties in the Bicol provinces of Albay, Camarines Norte, Camarines Sur, Catanduanes and Sorsogon, which account for 82 percent of the supply of the crop. “Pili has high potentials for being a top export commodity for the Philippines, as it can very well compete with macadamia, cashew, almond and walnut in terms of quality,” he said.
The PDP, Dayao said, will kick off with the production and distribution of quality planting materials through the DA nurseries, the private sector, local government units (LGUs) and research outreach stations. Through the LGUs, the department will also put up technological demonstration farms and pili orchards; distribute organic fertilizers and provide soil analysis services; conduct training and provide extension support to farmers; undertake research and development work, marketing activities and monitoring and evaluation of the PDP.
Dayao said the target areas under the PDPcover5,000 hectares that will include 3,750 hectares in the municipalities of Bacacay, Malilipot, Malinao, Sto. Domingo, Tiwi and Tabaco City; Rapu-rapu, Camalig, Daraga, Manito and Legazpi City; Guinobatan, Libon, Ligao, Pio Duran, Oas, Polangui and Jovellar in Albay.
For Camarines Norte, Dayao said the target area is 150 hectares, while for Camarines SurtheDA is aiming to expand pili production in 600 hectares. For Catanduanes, the covered area is 150 hectares, and Sorsogon, 350 hectares, he added.
Under the PDP, the DA will promote production and processing technology through model farms to be put up at the local level, particularly within the region’s Strategic Agricultural and Fisheries Development Zone.
Dayao said the research, promotion and development efforts under the PDP would involve the production of quality products with vast market potentials; establishment of strong marketing linkages between users and producers; and improvement of the packaging of pili products and by-products.
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by junasun | October 15, 2008 · 9:11 pm
Lessons That We Should Have Learned Long Time Ago…
October 15, 2008 at 4:49 pm ·
from rudybellen
On Technology Development :
The research agency that virtually turned Taiwan around from an agrarian to an industrialized economy suggests that the Philippines should put up a similar agency that can get technologies take off from the shelves. The Philippines may derive a model from Taiwan in having established in 1973 the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), which widely bridged the gap needed in technology commercialization.
ITRI told a Congressional Commission on Science, Technology, and Engineering (Comste) forum that the US technology model (of the academe collaborating with industries) may not work in Asian countries like Taiwan and the Philippines. But the ITRI model may work too for the country as much as it did in Taiwan. US companies are very big and have the capability to do research through links with the university. ITRI is like something in between to get the universities to work with industries. Such institution, should be run like a private enterprise, although it may receive seed money from government.
Comste said that government has been studying the setting up of an institution that will enable the country to develop niche products that have high commercial potential. And ITRI may just lead the way. We may set up an R&D institute that’s partly government and partly private. This may need legislation. The role of government is basically to set incentives, maybe give some grants, some tax breaks. Essential to making research institutions meet private enterprises’ needs for technology is a law that allows government-funded R&D works to be owned and patented by researchers themselves. Comste said that to start off with a similar ITRI agency, government may pass a law converting the Advanced Science and Technology Institute (ASTI) into a profit-earning corporation. ASTI at present is one of the Department of Science and Technology’s (DoST) seven-research institutes. While earning a small profit, ASTI remits much of its earnings to government. In my own personal view, I would probably start small and consider ASTI which is now focused on ICT (Information Communication Technology) and electronics to “corporatize”. Their mandate can cover many areas, not only ICT. Because it is advanced science and technology, it can also be on biotechnology and nano technology.
As Taiwan has been beefing up its R&D budget, which is now approaching three percent of gross domestic product (GDP), the country should devote more budgets for this from its present minuscule 0.12 percent of GDP, many times less than that of Taiwan, a lot smaller country of 23 million people, in the 1950s-1960s, the Philippines had a higher per capita income. Taiwan with its investments in R&D, ninth biggest in the world, has experienced an economic miracle that has made it sixteenth in rank in global trade and foreign exchange reserve fifth in the world. The Philippines still has an edge in being an English speaking-country and in having many natural resources, unlike Taiwan that only has its people as resource. However, its sole wealth in people, enabled Taiwan to tap its greatest potential in developing high-technology industries. ITRI, an agency with more than 5,000 researchers and more than 1,000 Ph.Ds, has enabled the spin-off of many technology companies.
The emergence of world’s biggest wafer foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.,
is partly attributed to it. ITRI has invested more and has helped growth and birth of 255 companies under its Open Lab. These are Taiwan’s world market share in technology products: soho router, 93 percent; WLAN, 90 percent; Ethernet LAN switch, 84 percent; and cable CPE, 80 percent.
On Melamine Scare : Gov’t should strengthen dairy industry
The global impact of the melamine scare should push the government to reexamine its dairy program and accelerate its milk self-sufficiency target, which is originally set for 2018. The National Dairy Authority (NDA) set 2018 as the target for 100 percent milk sufficiency even as the discovery that large inventories of milk produced in China were laced with melamine, a chemical ingredient in the manufacture of plastics, has cast doubts on the integrity of imported milk. NDA is targeting to secure 11,000 dairy cattle in the next five years in its bid to raise production to 63 million kilos of milk yearly.Total national production is only five percent of demand, and the country’s entire population of milking cows is a pittance at 15,000 head. The annual production, mostly from cooperatives, is only 13 million kilos, while a big Thai dairy cooperative produces one million kilos a day.
A foremost backer of a strong dairy industry was former Senator Leticia Ramos Shahani, who launched her White Revolution years ago to bring in Indian cows and bulls to propagate higher yields of milk and meat in the country. The Philippine Carabao Center (PCC) also developed in vitro fertilization (IVF) to propagate better breeds, including some from Hungary, to increase the number of livestock for milk production. Dairy farmers have complained that there is little incentive for milk production even though there are large pasture areas in the country that have not been adequately exploited.
Industry players have said milking cows could increase milk production by consuming moringa or malunggay leaves, as proven by the experience of Nicaraguan farmers who secured an increase in milk by 45 percent. Malunggay could be intercropped with fruit-bearing trees to ensure that farmers would earn more. Experts said that with enough malunggay in pasture areas and with abundant grass sufficient for 10 cows per hectare, milk production could increase significantly.Some enterprising dairy farmers have proven that with enough pasture land; a cow can produce 15 liters of milk a day. More pregnant cows mean more milk, and cows can produce milk from seven to 10 years. They give birth on the eighth month and can get pregnant again after three months. Experts said small farmers all over the country could participate in the dairy improvement program through proper training and education on the long-term benefits of milk production.
The government needs to invest at least P500 million annually to enhance the local dairy industry’s capacity to produce milk and help lessen the country’s dependence on milk imports. The country imports between US$ 500 million to US$ 600 million or P25 billion worth of milk and other milk products annually. About 99 percent of milk and dairy products available in the Philippine market is imported, while only one percent is produced locally.The country’s dependence on imported milk and milk products makes the country vulnerable to the entry of toxic food products. Should the government “diversify” its focus and invest in the local dairy industry’s capacity to produce milk, the country could ensure the safety of dairy products in the market. The annual investment, will cover the importation of milk producing animals such as cows, which is estimated to cost P70,000 per head. The P500 million per year investment can easily be recovered by lessening the country’s spending on imported milk. Only a small portion of the Department of Agriculture’s budget is allotted to the local dairy industry, with the bulk of expenditures focused on rice sufficiency and operating expenses. Food security advocates, on the other hand, said the influx of contaminated food into the country could be traced to the Philippines’ trade policies. According to the Task Force Food Sovereignty, the trade liberalization strategy adopted in the early 1980s has caused the “inevitable toxic food dumping” at present.
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Carthay School of Environmental Studies Magnet: New Programs, New Vitality
Imagine a place with banana, apple and other fruit trees, lush gardens growing vegetables of all shapes and sizes, chickens scratching, and burbling water tanks where fish produce nutrients for the dangling roots of plants, which, in turn, clean the water for the fish. It’s an oasis of calm and green, just steps away from busy city streets, where children learn not only about the beautiful garden, but where the garden – and learning in and about the wider physical, outdoor world – colors every subject they study, as well as how they learn. For example, when a first grade teacher teaches students to read the word “apple,” and shares a book about the fruit…a master gardener plucks a few ripe orbs off a nearby tree for the students to taste. This “Garden of Possibilities” exists…and it’s the bedrock of the Carthay School of Environmental Studies Magnet.
Read the whole article in the Larchmont Buzz.
Carthay Community School Park Opening
The park is an outgrowth of the Carthay school garden, which began almost exactly 10 years ago ... The garden has since grown to include the new outdoor classroom and park space, and serves as the foundation of the school’s effort that transformed Carthay Center Elementary into Carthay School of Environmental Studies Magnet, which began operating as a magnet program last year. ... the garden was the first of its kind in the district, but one of hopefully many more ...
“Gardens are wonderful opportunities for students to learn the basics of how the planet sustains life ... But there is also the simple beauty of it,” ... our society’s values should be reflected in our schools, which should be beautiful places we all can share.
If Michelle Obama Taught Biology, it Would Look Like This
"In a display of extraordinary multitasking, a humble Title I elementary school in Southern California boldly takes on numerous White House social initiatives in a single biology course. A gaggle of 3rd and 4th Graders, supported by community volunteers, explore photosynthesis, animal science and nutrition all in the pursuit of maintaining their very own organic garden -- and they couldn't be more enthusiastic to learn."
Read the full HuffPo article
Carthay School science fair is hair-raising fun
The Carthay School Environmental Studies Magnet’s Science Fair and Environmental Expo includes classroom projects, exhibits, garden tours, student performances, workshops, games and an e-waste collection.
“It’s really Carthay’s biggest event of the year. We expect between 500 and 1,000 people” said Jon K. Armstrong, a Carthay School parent and volunteer organizer. “It brings the community together and showcases what’s going on at the school. It’s a fun event but it’s also educational."
Read more about the 3rd Annual Science Fair and Environmental Expo at the Beverly Press
Read about the 4th Annual Science Fair and Environmental Expo at the Beverly Press
Carthay Elementary replaces lawn with drought-tolerant plants
Parents and staff supported the students by writing a grant proposal to the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service to cover the cost of plants, materials and labor. LAUSD approved the project and applauded the efforts of students, teachers and parents. The project features two new oak trees and a native meadow area, walking paths and a rainwater retention feature that will capture water from the school’s roof. The rainwater capture feature will support student studies of water conservation methods. The downspouts will be redirected to the new meadow area to replenish groundwater and irrigate plants.
Read the story at the Beverly Press
Carthay's Beautiful Science Garden Built in Part by Big Sunday Volunteers
"At Carthay Center Elementary School in Los Angeles, parent Teresa Dahl is organizing water bottles, T-shirts, and energy bars to fuel volunteers on Big Sunday, with the eager assistance of a bunch of kids…. Carthay has a beautiful school science garden, which has been built in large part with the efforts of Big Sunday volunteers…. "
Listen to NPR story
CARTHAY STUDENTS' SCRIPTS Performed by top actors
Carthay student Tamara Sims was one of five students in Los Angeles whose script was selected in Fall 2015 to be performed by actors such as Jack Black, Keegan Michael-Kay, and Leslie Mann. Each year, twenty 5th graders are mentored by professional screenplay writers from Young Storytellers and their play is performed by professional actors at the Big Show at Carthay. The show for which Tamara's play was selected is called The Biggest Show.
Carthay student Brooklyn Hughes was one of four students in Los Angeles whose script was selected in Spring 2015 to be performed by the cast of Glee. The performance was called the Final Glee Big Show.
Watch this YMF video to learn more about Tamara and her play.
Watch this Hollywood Today segment about the Biggest Show (including Tamara)
Read the Hollywood Times article about the Final Glee Big Show, with Brooklyn's play
Seeds of Change grant for community gardening project
"Carthay Elementary School’s Garden of Possibilities is one of 17 recipients to receive a Seeds of Change grant... The Los Angeles school was awarded $10,000 to open its 5,000 square foot garden to the local community, offering workshops on seed saving, square foot gardening, garden cooking, soil conservation and composting as part of a broader effort to encourage healthy eating. The hope is that the school will become a hub for information sharing in support of healthy, sustainable living."
Read the full LA Daily News article
It's an (Urban) Bug's Life - "Like a mini-Galapagos"
"What we’re really interested in doing is understanding the effect of urbanization on organismal biodiversity…. The tool that we’re using to study that is insects. … Insects are particularly great animals to look at if you want to understand evolution and adaptation to outside factors. They have such short lifespans, so changes to the species happen so much more quickly than they do for large animals like us. So over the course of this study, which will be three years, scientists will be able to watch evolution in action….. like a mini Galapagos.”
Listen to the KCRW story
(Carthay wasn't mentioned in the radio story, but there are photos of insects from Carthay's Sampling Station, #19)
Big Sunday in Carthay's Garden
"Chris Phipps helped unload redwood at Carthay Center Elementary on Sunday to build a chicken coop in the school's "Garden of Possibilities" — a small but seemingly enchanted plot filled with tomato, cucumber and herb plants. Students already use the garden as part of their education, but adding livestock will take it to another level, parents said."
Read the full LA Times article
California's Green Schools
"A year long effort to bring gardens to their mostly concrete and asphalt schools has taken the education of LAUSD students to a new level. By providing hands on experience with gardening, the students -- 77% of whom live in poverty -- are being led by example toward a more sustainable and economically practical future."
Read HuffPo article and watch CNN video (Carthay is at the 1:00 minute mark)
Inspiration for Springfield Elementary on the Simpsons!
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New music: Yamma Ensemble
Fresh new Israeli music on Chavah to light up your Hanukkah celebration:
Yamma Ensemble – Yamma
This is Yamma Ensemble's first album, and I think you fine Chavah listeners are in for a treat. They have a rich, authentic Middle Eastern sound that you fine listeners will very much enjoy. Their songs are takes on Biblical poetry and ancient Jewish songs; it’s right up your alley.
Give it a listen and if you enjoy, you can purchase their music or donate over at Yamma's music page.
Q. I don’t see the song request button in Chavah. Where is it?A. It’s the to the left of the play button. Click that button, and then type the name of a song, artist, or album:Click the song you’re looking for, then click the ‘Request’ button:You’re done!Chavah will play the song instantly for you. Other people listening to the station will hear the song request as soon as their current song finishes.(p.s. Don’t like a song that someone requested? Thumb it down. Chavah will play something else for you, and the next time that song is requested, she’ll skip sending it to you.)(p.p.s. Looking for a song, but don’t quite remember the name? This is a great way to find it. Just type anything you do remember about the song, whether album, artist, or name (even if incomplete) and Chavah will do her best to find it for you.)
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Are The Seattle Seahawks Running Short Of Running Backs?
By Julian Rogers on July 30, 2014 at 6:19 AM
With Marshawn Lynch a no-show and Christine Michael’s shoulder a no-go, did the Seattle Seahawks just go from a position of strength to a weakness?
The short answer, if you were to ask Head Coach Pete Carroll or General Manager John Schneider, is “no.” In fact, the Seahawks have made a handful of recent transactions. None of them included the running back position. If the Seahawks brass is worried, they’re certainly not acting like it.
True, they did bring in a trio of running backs a few days ago for a look-see. Former Arizona Cardinal William Powell, former Green Bay Packer Orwin Smith and former Dallas Cowboy Phillip Tanner had workouts with the Seahawks. None were given contracts. Clearly, the Seahawks are content to go with the hand they’re currently left with at the running back position.
This means a few things. First, they probably feel pretty confident that Lynch will give up his quest to have his contract renegotiated and attend training camp before the penalties for not showing up grow too great. Lynch can be fined $30,000 per day he misses, plus forfeits a major chunk of his 2012 signing bonus if he stays out much longer. Additionally, he faces stiff monetary penalties for missing preseason games.
Who’s gonna blink first?
The Seahawks hold all the leverage. Despite threats to retire, the safer bet is that Lynch returns to the Seahawks sooner, rather than later. The Seahawks do not have to impose the fines that they are contractually allowed to impose, so there is still some negotiation that could go on between the two camps to get Lynch amicably back into the fold.
Naturally, the Seahawks have expressed mild disappointment in Lynch’s decision to not attend training camp. They are wisely not making statements publicly that could enflame the situation. Additionally, they are talking up the two most likely replacements for Lynch should he continue to hold out: third-year running back Robert Turbin and second-year running back Christine Michael.
The Seahawks may, indeed, have utmost confidence in the two heirs to Lynch’s throne. Statistically speaking, they have no reason to be. Neither has performed very impressively to date in their young careers. The Seahawks experience a precipitous drop-off in productivity whenever Lynch leaves the field.
Past production is no promise of future performance. In the case of Turbin and Michael, this is good news. It’s too soon to write off either running back, but another lackluster season of minimal productivity will not only scuttle the Seahawks’ season— if Lynch really is not coming back — but ruin the Seahawks’ offensive identity for the near future. How do you ground-and-pound with nobody that can pound?
Hope abounds for the speedy Michael. Unfortunately for the Seahawks’ best laid plans to wait out Lynch, Michael suffered a “not serious” shoulder injury. He missed a couple training camp practices to recover. For now, Seahawks fans can move away from the panic button. It is a situation that bears watching through the preseason.
If/when Lynch returns, he’s unlikely to see much preseason action. Michael and Turbin, on the other hand, will need to each make their cases in the fake games to either be “the guy,” in the event that Lynch stays away, or be the No. 1 backup. Both bring different skill sets to the table: Michael is more elusive and explosive; Turbin is more reliable as a blocker, pass-catcher and between-the-tackles plodder. Neither has the burst and presence of Lynch.
What about the fullbacks?
Not forgetting the fullbacks … although perhaps we should. The Seahawks received all of 15 yards rushing last season from their fullbacks. Clearly, they don’t bother handing the ball off to the beefy backfield blockers. Maybe that will change this season if they have to go into week one starting Turbin — and lamenting the missing Lynch and the banged-up Michael. In this worst-case scenario, Spencer Ware and Derrick Coleman may see double duty. Both were running backs in college.
For now, the Seahawks are content to make roster tweaks that do not include adding or subtracting running backs. While they didn’t bite on the three players brought in for tryouts, they certainly are keeping their contact info handy. Of course, there are other running backs out there and the Seahawks are not averse to trading for the right guy — like Lynch.
For Lynch, reality has set in. Most likely driving his gambit for a renegotiated contract is the likelihood that he has peaked. He won’t admit it, nor will the Seahawks. He is paid among the top running backs now and his high usage, combined with his age, do not presage another year of statistics like he has produced over the past three seasons. Three seasons, of which, he carried the ball more than any other running back.
If there’s a player destined to hit the wall this year, it is the modern day Earl Campbell, Marshawn Lynch. If you have the stomach for it, check out Campbell’s rushing stats post age 28 (courtesy of ProFootballReference.com), for a glimpse at what Lynch is headed for. It ain’t pretty. Lynch is 28, by the way.
The Seahawks know the actuarial tables for older, workhorse running backs as well as Lynch does. Don’t count on them caving in to Lynch’s demands. Given the wear-and-tear on Lynch’s legs and the need to integrate Turbin and Michael, Lynch will be fortunate to break 1,000 yards this regular season. In light of that, the $5.5 million Lynch is scheduled to earn this season looks like no bargain for the Seahawks. Asking for more? Not gonna happen.
A Lynchless Seattle? It could happen sooner than you think. The Seahawks are not out of running backs … yet. One more unpredictable yet not entirely unlikely injury, however, and plan C could become the only choice they’ve got.
Julian Rogers
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7 Athletic Directors Discuss Their Strength Program
Written by Hewitt Tomlin
We see it on the Facebook groups, we overhear the conversations at the conferences and clinics, and the topic will always be around as long as AD’s are: How do strength coaches build and maintain successful relationships with their athletic directors?
After all, much – or all – of the resources the strength program is afforded will originate with the Athletic Director. You know that saying, “Behind every successful man is a strong woman”? Well, the same be could be true here: For every successful strength coach is a supportive Athletic Director.
In our case, we decided to interview 7 athletic directors that were recommended as being “above average” in supporting and building their high school strength program. We wanted to speak with them directly, hear their language and understand their thought processes behind their philosophy on strength and conditioning:
AD Jason Schroeder at North Scott High School has gone as far as hiring three full-time strength coaches to train both athletes and non-athletes throughout the school day. Of course, the strength program has created enduring success in athletics, but Schroeder notes that the morale of the entire student body has improved since installing the full-time strength program for all students. When asked what makes him unique that he would recommend to other AD’s, he simply states, “Showing up. I walk into the weight room every day to talk to coaches and students. Supporting people from the ground up is the culture here.”
Jim Duae of Waukee High School agrees. He attributes the strength program as the “number one reason why we experience the athletic success here that we do” which includes multiple state titles in track and field. Duea says he’s witness athletic programs that did not invest in S&C and saw outcomes he did not want. When he became AD, he hired an experienced strength coach 12 years ago and an additional coach 7 years after. When asked about the future of S&C in high schools, Jim gives a straightforward answer: “Schools that do not invest in their strength program will not be able to compete. The correlation is obvious that schools with good athletic success in our area also have resources devoted to comprehensive training. Even a nice weight room with too narrow a focus on weight training (not enough on speed, agility and other components) will fall behind the pack.
John Atkins at Corydon Central High School is in the beginning stages of developing a high level performance program at his school with S&C being offered 6 periods a day and 85% of athletes participating. He says that a good strength program is not built overnight, “I think we’re another year or two from seeing translate into many more wins on the court and field.” John had spent time at past programs with great strength programs and instantly recognized that Corydon needed to work to get to that level. He had also seen schools attempt to install successful strength programs and fail by putting the wrong people in charge. Naturally, we asked who the right people should be: “Experience is number one for me. If you have someone that is not experienced, get them involved in the associations and get them educated in a contemporary certification. A non-qualified strength coach can be a big program for a school. I am thankful that we hired someone who is knowledgeable.”
Now, the word “knowledgeable” was the word most widely used across all of these interviews. Almost every AD expressed the need for the strength coach to have knowledge in the field.
TJ Rockwell is the AD at Perry High School is a former collegiate football player and a weight room enthusiast. However, as his coaching and administrative career progressed he realized that the strength and conditioning field was progressing as well. That’s when he decided to hire a full-time strength coach; he cannot overstate the return on that investment. “My strength coach knows what to do and how to do it which makes my job 100% easier. Everyone can buy into the strength program – including me – if the leader is qualified and passionate.”
The future of strength programs at the high school level drew a mostly unanimous opinion, that the high school athletic landscape would adapt to the necessity of having a training program and act accordingly. Scott Garvis of Newton High School even went as far as to say that combining the S&C and PE departments was a huge measure of success and helped bolster their programs. He believes the same model would work for other schools and recommends it. However, Garvis also noted that every school is different and that the model may not be universal although every high school should pursue a formal strength program.
Nemer Hassey at Cienega High School has a more pragmatic take on the future of S&C by saying that it’s ultimately up to the financial resources of the school or school district. “It’s going to be hard to fund physical education and strength training, I don’t see people committing to it overall mostly for funding but also because some administrators may not see the value in strength and conditioning yet. It still needs to be propagated as an essential tool for all students and not just athletics.” This is coming from an AD who runs 14 weight training sections with 7 periods every single day across 2,000 students — fewer AD’s have that sort of experience with how a strength program affects an entire school.
When asking about specific strategies for growing and support the strength program, Mike Sorensen of Northwest High School made a strong suggestion: “We changed the way we did things in the summer. Our strength coach and myself organized the summer weight sessions and prioritized what sessions we would coach. We looked at our “big money sports” (football and volleyball) and worked with them specifically. Ultimately, students-athletes are successful and wins get accumulated. With more wins, more people come to watch the contests. With more people coming to watch the contests, more gate money is collected and this money goes back into our athletic programs.”
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