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Paris imposes driving restrictions, plans clunker ban as smog hits highs
Geert De Clercq
PARIS (Reuters) - The French capital Paris announced on Wednesday licence-plate based driving restrictions for a third day in a row and plans bans on old cars as the City of Light experienced the worst air pollution in a decade.
A small-particle haze hangs above the Eiffel Tower, that is seen on the horizon from Suresnes, near Paris, France, December 8, 2016. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann
On Tuesday and Wednesday, Paris banned cars from circulation based on whether their license plates ended with odd or even numbers. It will now ban half of all traffic again on Thursday.
Other French cities such as Lyon are also planning bans as clouds of pollution hang over many European cities due to a lack of the winds that normally blow in off the Atlantic Ocean.
It is only the fourth time in 20 years that Paris has imposed such a ban and the first time it applies for consecutive days. Municipalities around Paris also imposed the ban.
With its famous Eiffel Tower shrouded in a grayish haze and some Asian tourists donning face masks, the city also made all public transport, residential parking and the Velib’ bicycle and Autolib’ electric car schemes free.
“Cars are poisoning the air. We need to take preventive measures,” said Paris city hall transport official Herve Levife.
Besides instant measures like license-plate based driving bans, the city also plans to step up its fight against chronic pollution by gradually banning the oldest and most polluting vehicles from the city center, he said.
“We want these bans to automatically take effect when the pollution exceeds a certain level, not have to negotiate them with the government each time,” Levife added.
From mid-January, Paris will become the first French city to launch the new “Crit’Air” vignette system that will require all cars to have a color-coded sticker indicating their age and pollution level. The stickers will allow police to control which vehicles can circulate in the city center.
Grenoble in eastern France also plans to use the vignettes and other French cities are looking into banning clunkers from their roads.
Cars 20 years and older have already been banned from Paris roads from July 1, 2016 and some 120,000 stickers have been distributed. But participation in the scheme so far has been voluntary and enforcement scarce.
From July 1, 2017, the city will impose bans on diesel-powered cars and vans first put into circulation in 2001 and trucks first registered in 2006. Between 2018 and 2020, the city will gradually tighten circulation permits.
Paris has no plans to introduce London-style tolls for cars entering the city.
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo is on a drive to reduce car traffic. She has increased the cost of parking meters, banned free parking on Saturdays and the August holiday period, and is turning a highway on both banks of the Seine into a riverside park.
Reporting by Geert De Clercq; Editing by Tom Heneghan
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Steve Smith DRS controversy: BCCI stands by Virat Kohli, Indian cricket team; hopes matches are played in true spirithttps://indianexpress.com/article/sports/cricket/steve-smith-drs-controversy-bcci-stands-with-virat-kohli-indian-cricket-team-hopes-matches-are-played-in-true-spirit-4560168/
Steve Smith DRS controversy: BCCI stands by Virat Kohli, Indian cricket team; hopes matches are played in true spirit
The Indian cricket board, BCCI, in a statement, has backed the team and skipper Virat Kohli in the 'Reviewgate' case.
By Express Web Desk |Bangalore | Updated: March 8, 2017 9:33:55 pm
Virat Kohli had said that he had seen it happening twice. (Source: AP)
In a new twist in the DRS controversy involving Steve Smith, the BCCI has released a detailed statement and “stands with the Indian cricket team and its Captain Mr. Virat Kohli”.
Here’s what the Indian cricket board said in a statement, “The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) after due deliberation and seeing the video replays of the episode steadfastly stands with the Indian Cricket Team and its Captain Mr. Virat Kohli.
Mr. Virat Kohli is a mature and seasoned cricketer and his conduct on the field has been exemplary. Mr. Kohli’s action was supported by ICC Elite Panel Umpire Mr. Nigel Llong who rushed in to dissuade Mr. Steve Smith from taking recourse to inappropriate assistance.
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BCCI has requested the ICC to take cognizance of the fact that the Australian skipper Mr. Steve Smith in his press conference admitted to a ‘brain fade’ at that moment. BCCI sincerely hopes that the rest of the matches are played in the true spirit of cricket.”
The incident occurred in the 21st over of Australia’s second innings when Umesh Yadav trapped Steve Smith dead in front of the wicket. The delivery, which bowled at 87.2 mph, did not rise and swept along the ground. It landed on a fuller length and scooted on to hit Smith plumb in front of his wickets. Smith walked up to his partner Peter Handscomb who signalled him towards the dressing room. Smith seemed to ask the dressing room for help.
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Seeing Smith’s action, umpire Nigel Llong asked Smith stop. India captain Kohli also rushed and asked the umpire to stop him.
This is what he Kohli said at the presser about the controversy: ““I saw the same thing twice when I was batting out there. I pointed it out to the umpire as well that it’s happened twice, and I have seen their players looking upstairs (to the dressing room) for confirmation. And that is why the umpire was acting when Smith turned back. The umpire knew exactly what was going on. We observed that (looking at dressing room), told match referee also and umpires that they have been doing this for last three days and this has to stop. It has to stop because there is a line that you don’t cross on the cricket field. Sledging is different. But I don’t want to mention the (particular) word but it falls in that bracket. I would never do something like that on the cricket field.”
Follow the Cricket World Cup 2019 live updates and real-time analysis on IndianExpress.com. Check the ICC Cricket World 2019 Schedule, Teams and Points Table.
1 India vs Australia: Ian Healy’s comments on Virat Kohli may have switched India even more, says Shoaib Akhtar
2 India face England in ICC Women’s World Cup opener
3 India vs Australia: Steve Smith must have learnt a lesson, says Steve Waugh
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Window World to Sponsor Andretti for Freedom 100
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – Andretti Autosport announced today that Window World will return to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway as the primary sponsor for Jarett Andretti’s No. 18 Indy Lights Dallara for the 2019 Freedom 100 presented by Cooper Tires. Also decorating the racing machine of the third-generation driver are Harding Group, MI Windows and Doors, and Superior Auto as associate sponsors.
“It’s great to go to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and make this step in my career with a company that’s been there since the beginning,” said Andretti, driver of the No. 18 Window World Dallara for Andretti Autosport. “Dad’s (John Andretti) last Indianapolis 500 was with Window World as a primary sponsor and I can’t wait to represent them at IMS again. It is also an honor to represent both Harding Group, MI Windows and Doors, and Superior Auto in the Freedom 100. They have all been supportive of my racing career and I am looking forward to running all four company’s logos at the biggest race of my career thus far.”
With his rookie start at the Freedom 100, Andretti will become the seventh Andretti family member to compete at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
Known as the largest window replacement company in America, Window World serves customers from over 200 locations. Committed to delivering the highest quality products, Window World prides their company to deliver value and quality through their affordable prices.
“Supporting Jarett (Andretti) in the upcoming Freedom 100 Indy Lights race is an absolute joy. Window World has had a long-standing partnership with Jarett’s father, John Andretti, for quite some time," said Tammy Whitworth, Chairman and CEO for Window World. "We were privileged to watch John race around the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in the No. 43 Window World car some years ago, and it’s wonderful to be able to share that same honor with his son Jarett on Friday. We wish him the absolute best."
Indianapolis-based paving company, Harding Group, has been a supporter of Andretti’s racing career, specifically in sprint cars, since 2016. Harding Group will appear on the engine cover, side nose and shock cover of the No. 18 racing machine.
“Really excited for Harding Group to sponsor Jarett Andretti for the Freedom 100 during Miller Lite Carb Day,” said Mike Harding, owner of Harding Group. “Jarett is such a strong racer; I really think he can be a major competitor against the full-time Indy Lights presented by Cooper Tires drivers. We’re looking forward to having a great race come May 24th!”
Headquartered in Gratz, Pa., MI Windows and Doors is one of the nation’s largest suppliers of precision-built vinyl and aluminum windows and sliding patio doors. MI Windows has been serving the needs of distributors, remodelers, exterior contractors, architects, builders, and homeowners for over 70 years.
“MI Windows and Doors is so proud to continue our support of Jarett Andretti and this exciting next chapter in his racing career,” said Matt DeSoto, CEO of MI Windows and Doors. ‘’The Freedom 100 is a thrilling event and we wish Jarett the best as he continues his journey. Our team will be cheering for him the entire way!”
With over 65 location across Indiana, Ohio, Michigan and Kentucky, Superior Auto prides their company on being specialty leader in the “buy-here/pay-here” business model. The “buy-here/pay-here” model allows Superior Auto to focus on selling quality used vehicles and providing customers with in-house financing options. Superior Auto has been a long time partner of the third-generation driver throughout his Andretti Short Track career.
The Freedom 100 presented by Cooper Tires will air live on NBCSN on Friday, May 24, at 1:00 p.m. ET. Practice for the Freedom 100 presented Cooper Tires begins Monday, May 20, and will be streamed live on Road to Indy TV app with Qualifying for the Freedom 100 on Thursday, May 23.
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What I Learned From Rebranding Our Company In 4 Short Weeks | Infer
June 05, 2014 by Danielle Ricci - 5:41 min read
What I Learned From Rebranding Our Company In 4 Short Weeks
My co-founders and I were ecstatic — we had just closed our $10m Series A round with top investors. Our two years of developing a great product in stealth mode and achieving profitability with key customers had culminated into a fantastic financing milestone. We finalized a launch date and put the wheels in motion for our first press announcement and coming out party. Little did we know we were about to begin a whirlwind roller coaster ride, during which we re-branded our company in just four weeks – naming, logo, website and all.
During my startup’s early days, we had little time to prioritize branding. In fact, we initially incorporated the company as “Party On Data,” which in introductory meetings would always result in ten minutes of questions about why. Soon after, we renamed our company to “Slice Data” and purchased slice-data.com (because slicedata.com wasn’t available). During our preparation for launch, it occurred to me that we should get the hyphen-less URL now that we had the funds, so I checked the domain again and it looked like a ghost town owned by two young guys in India. I figured the U.S. dollar would go far there, and we’d be able to purchase it fairly easily and quickly. Boy was I wrong.
Saying Farewell to Slice Data
I started with an offer of a few grand and gradually increased it up to the low five-figures. After waiting three long hard days for a response, I’d heard nothing and started to worry. We were thinking about other company names, but didn’t want to go down that path because everything from our logo to product integrations with customers used the Slice Data name. We knew we had to go big or go home.
I pinged Aaron Levie who I knew had a similar experience getting box.com, and in general, always has amazing advice. He told me “Your brand is hugely important, and that you should be willing to drop six-figures for a name even at this early stage for an enterprise play.”
I went for it, and sent an email offering the big bucks. Surprisingly (and thankfully) they declined, forcing us to come up with a new name. We did naming brainstorms daily, and I spent several nights in bed just looking up domains and making bids or feelers from my tablet. We initially focused on names stemming from “Slice,” but one of our concerns was being confused with slicedata.com or slice.com, as both companies are also in the intelligence space.
One night, the name “infer” came to me. It stems from “inferences,” a common term in machine learning work. I looked up the domain and it was of course taken, but appeared to be a squatting site. I chatted with my team the next day and we narrowed it down to three options: infer, greenlight, or topline. We liked infer but at first worried about inconsistent pronunciations, spelling, whether it would sound crisp over the phone, etc. You really do and need to overthink your name like this.
Time was of the essence, so I figured I’d let time and money help narrow things down further. I started up the domain negotiations (again). I made substantial starting offers to show that we were serious. The domain owners for topline and greenlight were overmilking their price. Meanwhile, the China-based owner of infer.com was slow to respond. I was also concerned about how the transfer would happen and whether our legal docs would even be enforceable if he did sell.
He finally responded as my starting offer was one to respect, but didn’t come back with a price. I tried to read between the lines and made an offer $15K higher – saying take it or leave it in 24 hours. My heart was racing … did I just blow it? The next day I constantly refreshed my inbox until later that night when his response rolled in. I paused for a good 30 seconds before opening it, and to my surprise, he accepted the deal. Remarkably, we got the domain for less than what we offered for slicedata.com (and this one was a five -character dictionary word!). I couldn’t believe it.
Giving Rise to Infer: From Trademark to Logo, and Everything in Between
Now we had two weeks for escrow, legal, trademarking, and of course rebranding everything starting with our logo. Lots of people recommended using 99designs.com to crowd source the logo design via a contest format. We were tempted by the idea of having multiple logo options to choose from, but ultimately decided against it. Even a one-week turnaround would be too short if we didn’t find a logo we liked, so we needed to maintain control over the process.
Our big team of five and a designer (who agreed to help out for a few days) all went home and drew up different logos, which we then reviewed together before selecting a few to polish. Most of our rough logo ideas used all caps for INFER, and they just felt too generic. We played with the typography and switched to lower case to bring in more of the contours and varying shapes of the letters in order to convey more character.
The dot of the “i” felt like a point in a graph, so I drew a wave through it and we started to get somewhere with our paper drawing. We added a second wave fitting to the first wave in our i – like a machined learned function fitting to data (the core of our technology) – and it worked perfectly. Our designer helped us finalize the logo, and revamp our website and homepage in less than a week before our planned launch.
Lessons from a Branding Roller Coaster
It was a mad rush to the finish, but fortunately, we had a very successful launch and couldn’t be happier with our new name and logo. Looking back, it’s easy to see that it was all worth it. I now realize that Slice Data, just by virtue of ending with “Data,” led investors, customers, and prospects to automatically call us a big data analytics company (which is too broad). With a broader name like Infer, people tend to look more to our description of “helping sales and marketers predict hot prospects” to define us – which is much more powerful strategically.
What did I learn? One, always be launching, as you can ship amazing things under time pressure with a great team. Secondly, don’t let go – I’m convinced if we hired a branding agency or domain negotiation firm, we wouldn’t have gotten a name or URL we liked in time. And finally, start working on your brand earlier rather than later!
What I Learned From Rebranding Our Company In 4 Short Weeks 2014-06-05T05:05:57-07:00 2019-05-20T15:41:55-07:00 Danielle Ricci
Salesforce Veteran Joins Infer as VP of Marketing
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Infer’s Top 25 Predictive Sales & Marketing Innovators (INFOGRAPHIC)
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SiriusDecisions Webinar: How to Evaluate Predictive Lead Scoring Vendors
Predictive Meets Inbound Marketing
Welcome to the AI Spring: How Predictive Will Permeate the Software Industry
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Data Snapshot: Fewer Young Adults Lack Health Insurance Following Key ACA Provisions
by Jessica A. Carson
The share of people without health insurance has dropped dramatically since the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), but declines have been most dramatic among young adults age 19 to 25. In 2008, one-in-three 23-year-olds were uninsured, likely reflecting their graduation from college and therefore, their ineligibility to be covered on parental plans. Beginning in 2010, the ACA allowed young adults to remain on their parents' plans until age 26; the orange line in Figure 1 reflects this shift, as 26-year-olds, rather than 23-year-olds, became the most often uninsured by 2013.
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Title: Data Snapshot: Fewer Young Adults Lack Health Insurance Following Key ACA Provisions
Authors Jessica A. Carson
Copyright holder(s) Carsey School of Public Policy at The University of New Hampshire
Geographical Focus North America / United States
Keywords carsey , insurance , among young adults , affordable care act
URL: https://jobcreation.issuelab.org/resource/data-snapshot-fewer-young-adults-lack-health-insurance-following-key-aca-provisions.html
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Production Coordinator (Full-Time)
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Production Coordinator (Full-Time) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin | Careers at WI-Milwaukee;9001 N. Green Bay Road (WITI)
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Posted Date 3 months ago(4/17/2019 10:43 PM)
WITI is looking for a Production Coordinator to assist with the production of live news broadcasts and commercial and promotional projects by operating equipment such as studio cameras, teleprompters and lighting equipment.
This position is responsible for studio lighting and constructing and maintaining sets. You must be familiar with a lighting grid. You will be cuing talent and assisting talent and guests with wireless microphones and IFB set up. In this role you will operate special equipment such as the teleprompter and jib camera. You will be responsible for cleaning the studio and reporting any malfunctioning equipment to engineering.
Qualified candidates must have studio lighting experience and a basic understanding of set construction. The ability to handle simple tools and physically able to move studio fixtures is required. Must possess ability to communicate clearly and effectively to relay directions and work well in a team. Candidates will have a technical school education or equivalent experience in television or theater production procedures.
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Search location: US-WI-Milwaukee
Tribune Media Company (NYSE: TRCO) is home to a diverse portfolio of television and digital properties driven by quality news, entertainment and sports programming. Tribune Media is comprised of Tribune Broadcasting’s 42 owned or operated local television stations reaching approximately 49 million households, national entertainment cable network WGN America, whose reach is more than 75 million households, Tribune Studios, and a variety of digital applications and websites commanding 49 million monthly unique visitors online. Tribune Media also includes Chicago’s WGN-AM, the national multicast networks Antenna TV and THIS TV and Covers Media Group, an unrivaled source of online sports betting information. Additionally, the Company owns and manages a significant number of real estate properties across the U.S. and holds a variety of investments, including a 31% interest in Television Food Network, G.P., which operates Food Network and Cooking Channel. For more information please visitwww.tribunemedia.com.
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Tonight was another of our movie nights in the LA Conservancy's Last Remaining Seats series, which shows old movies in now-closed movie palaces in LA. Tonight's movie was "Streetcar Named Desire," yet another classic that I had never seen. We had planned some themed activities to go with the movie - Sazerac cocktails and dinner at a restaurant in the building that used to be the hub for LA's streetcar system, but I got behind on some work and messed up our plans. Luckily, I did make it to the movie itself. The Los Angeles Theater opened in 1931 and was the last of the great movie palaces on Broadway, and perhaps the grandest. The size of the theater, complete with a downstairs ballroom, childrens playrooms and enormous and elaborate bathrooms and lobbies, is impressive in itself; but its elaborate French Baroque-inspired decor explains why they are called movie palaces. Indeed this is.
Jon Berry June 24, 2009 downtown, LA, history, neon, friendsComment
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Good Food Ireland at The Web Summit
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In November we got to take part in what’s been called “the best technology conference on the planet”, the Web Summit which took place in the RDS, Dublin. Over 20,000 delegates took part in the event and the task of feeding them was handed to the members of Good Food Ireland, a network of food producers, restaurants and hotels from all over the country. The Food Village which Good Food Ireland organised in Herbert Park certainly delivered a premium Irish food experience and Killowen Farm’s contribution took the form of 8000 glass jars of yogurt which delegates enjoyed at both breakfast and lunch. The reaction was fantastic and people were blown away by the standard of the food at the event.
We got some great feedback from happy delegates via Twitter:
Overall the Food Summit was a fantastic demonstration of what can be achieved when people come together and we are very proud to have been part of it.
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The birth of modern dentistry
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LDS examinations
Oil painting of Thomas Arnold Rogers by J Sydney Willis Hodges. (BDA Museum ref: LDBDA 2941)In 1860 candidates for the LDS exam had to provide certificates as evidence that they fulfilled the criteria for the LDS. These certificates were to the Board of Examiners who then drew up the list of candidates. The cost of the examination was 10 guineas.
Examination for the LDS consisted purely of a viva voce exam until 1872 when the first written examination was introduced. The Monthly Review of Dental Surgery remarks 'it cannot be doubted that the knowledge of the fact that the examination has become more stringent, will enhance the value of the diploma'.
The 1874 regulations for the LDS stated that the written section of the exam comprised questions on General Anatomy and Physiology and General Pathology and Surgery. The oral exam used preparations, casts and drawings to examine the candidate’s knowledge. Candidates who failed the exams could not be admitted to re-examination for six months.
In 1877 Sir John Tomes called for improvements to be made to the exam by the introduction of a practical element.
In 1897, the Royal College of Surgeons of England made further changes to the examination procedure. The LDS exam was divided into two; a final exam and an earlier examination which included dental mechanics and dental metallurgy. The curriculum was also adjusted to require all pupils to make and adjust six dentures. This change had already been suggested by the dental schools who felt that the Dentists Act 1878 hadn’t gone far enough in restricting the practise of dentistry. There were still many unqualified practitioners extracting teeth and providing dentures. The schools wanted to restrict the provision of dentures to only qualified dentists and it was hoped that providing more instruction on Dental Mechanics in the LDS curriculum would help achieve this.
The questions asked in the exams were often reproduced in the dental journals. The Monthly Review of Dental Surgery provides these questions from the LDS exams held on the 21st June 1872.
Anatomy and physiology:
1. Describe the process of mastication, enumerate the muscles which are concerned in it, and state their respective functions.
2. Describe the structure of salivary glands, their situation and relative size, the course and terminations of their ducts, and the influence of the saliva on food.
Pathology and surgery:
1. Describe the situation, pathology and treatment of an epulis.
2. What are the local symptoms of periostitis of the lower jaw? And what are its effects?
Dental anatomy and physiology:
1. Where is the enamel pulp situated? And what is its structure?
2. Describe the anatomical condition of the lower jaw in relation to the teeth, both temporary and permanent, in a child of five years of age.
3. In what direction does calcification take place in the dentine, the enamel, and the cementum?
Dental surgery:
1. What symptoms, local and general, would lead you to diagnose between inflammation of the pulp and inflammation of the investing membrane of the root or roots of the teeth?
2. What conditions of the teeth give rise to chronic closure of the jaws? How would you treat such closure, and the conditions giving rise to it?
3. Describe the casts numbered 1, 2, 3, and 4 and state how you would treat the irregularities of the teeth which they exhibit.
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Have started magisterial probe, visited spot of incident: DC Sgr
District Magistrates Srinagar Shahid Iqbal today said that they have started the proceedings into the case of custodial death of Awantipora teacher under the magisterial probe and that the inquiry will be conducted by the Additional Commissioner Srinagar, who has already visited the spot of incident.
Talking to Kashmir News Service (KNS), Iqbal said that by evening they will issue a statement on the outcome of the magisterial probe taken up into the death of Rizwan Ahmed Pandit, 28, of Awantipora. “We will complete the probe soon and submit the report to the government,” Iqbal said. Earlier, police had said that Rizwan died in police custody after he was picked up by them in connection with a militancy related case.
It is to mention here that a private school teacher died on Tuesday allegedly in the custody of Special Operations Group (SOG) of Jammu and Kashmir police in Srinagar.
Official sources said that a youth identified as Rizwan Asad Pandit, a resident of Awantipora area of south Kashmir’s Pulwama district was picked up by National Investigations Agency (NIA) a few days ago and was lodged in the Cargo camp of SOG in Srinagar.
A teacher by profession, Pandit has reportedly died during the intervening night of Monday and Tuesday (March 18, 19).
However, there were no immediate reports of circumstances in which the teacher has died.
Soon after the incident the police has requested for magisterial inquiry under 176 CrPC to initiate the thorough probe for ascertaining the actual cause of death.
The Jammu and Kashmir police also issued a statement regarding the death of an Awantipora youth in custody today.
The spokesman in a statement said that in pursuance of militancy case investigation, one suspect Rizwan Pandit, a resident of Awantipora in south Kashmir, was in police custody.
The said Pandit died in police custody. In this matter while following the procedure laid down in section 176 of crpc a magisterial inquiry is underway.
Separately police investigation has also been initiated in the jurisdictional area of the incident, police said.
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Inspiration, Analysis, News and Insights for Peacebuilding and Crafting Change
Category: Syria
Global Crowdfunding Campaign: Please Help Support Youth Peaceworkers from Syria, Iraq, Libya, Yemen and Ukraine
May 12, 2016 Posted in Emerging Peace Leaders, Innovations in Peacebuilding, International Youth Peace Forum: Global Youth Rising 2016, Peacebuilding, People Rising, Stop War, Syria, Time to Abolish WarTagged Be the Change You Want to See in the World, Global Youth Rising 2016, PeacebuildingLeave a comment
Personal Request for Your Support – from Kai Brand-Jacobsen, Director of the Department of Peace Operations (DPO) of PATRIR:
For Youth Peace Workers from Syria, Libya, Iraq, Yemen and Ukraine
Global Crowdfunding Campaign: Support Youth Peaceworkers from Syria, Iraq, Libya, Yemen and Ukraine
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Research Article|January 30 2017
Towards a research agenda for water, sanitation and antimicrobial resistance
Susanne Wuijts
National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), P.O. Box 1, 3720 BA Bilthoven, The Netherlands
Harold H. J. L. van den Berg
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, USA
Lydia Abebe
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Mark Sobsey
Antoine Andremont
Diderot Medical School, University of Paris, Paris, France and Bichat Hospital Bacteriology Laboratory, Paris, France
Kate O. Medlicott
World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva, Switzerland
Mark W. J. van Passel
Ana Maria de Roda Husman
Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences (IRAS) of Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
E-mail: ana.maria.de.roda.husman@rivm.nl
J Water Health (2017) 15 (2): 175-184.
https://doi.org/10.2166/wh.2017.124
Susanne Wuijts, Harold H. J. L. van den Berg, Jennifer Miller, Lydia Abebe, Mark Sobsey, Antoine Andremont, Kate O. Medlicott, Mark W. J. van Passel, Ana Maria de Roda Husman; Towards a research agenda for water, sanitation and antimicrobial resistance. J Water Health 1 April 2017; 15 (2): 175–184. doi: https://doi.org/10.2166/wh.2017.124
Clinically relevant antimicrobial resistant bacteria, genetic resistance elements, and antibiotic residues (so-called AMR) from human and animal waste are abundantly present in environmental samples. This presence could lead to human exposure to AMR. In 2015, the World Health Organization (WHO) developed a Global Action Plan for Antimicrobial Resistance with one of its strategic objectives being to strengthen knowledge through surveillance and research. With respect to a strategic research agenda on water, sanitation and hygiene and AMR, WHO organized a workshop to solicit input by scientists and other stakeholders. The workshop resulted in three main conclusions. The first conclusion was that guidance is needed on how to reduce the spread of AMR to humans via the environment and to introduce effective intervention measures. Second, human exposure to AMR via water and its health impact should be investigated and quantified, in order to compare with other human exposure routes, such as direct transmission or via food consumption. Finally, a uniform and global surveillance strategy that complements existing strategies and includes analytical methods that can be used in low-income countries too, is needed to monitor the magnitude and dissemination of AMR.
antibiotics, antimicrobial resistance (AMR), risk assessment, risk management, sanitation, water
‘Without urgent, coordinated action, the world is headed for a post-antibiotic era, in which common infections which have been treatable for decades can once again kill.’ Dr Keiji Fukuda, World Health Organization (WHO) Assistant Director-General for Health Security
In May 2015 the World Health Assembly of the WHO approved the Global Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance (GAP on AMR) (WHO 2015a). AMR elements, including resistant bacteria and antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs or AMR genes), as well as antibiotic residues, are common in water, wastewater, and feces. Therefore, understanding and addressing the role of water, sanitation and hygiene (WaSH) in combatting AMR, including antibiotic resistance, is a critical element of the GAP on AMR. Box 1 summarizes the strategic objectives of the GAP on AMR. The role of WaSH in combatting AMR focuses on improved awareness and understanding through surveillance and research, in order to reduce the incidence of AMR infection. WaSH thus contributes to objectives 1–3 of the GAP on AMR (Box 1).
Strategic objectives of WHO's Global Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance (GAP on AMR)
To improve awareness and understanding of AMR
To strengthen knowledge through surveillance and research
To reduce the incidence of infection
To optimize the use of antimicrobial agents
To develop the economic case for sustainable investment that takes account of the needs of all countries, and increase investment in new medicines, diagnostic tools, vaccines and other interventions.
Current WHO Guidelines for Drinking-Water, Recreational Water, and Safe Use of Wastewater do not yet contain information on antibiotics and other antimicrobial agents, their metabolites, AMR bacteria, or AMR genes. Occurrence and trend data for these elements are needed for risk assessment and risk management strategies for health-related AMR in the environment to be developed and implemented.
A WHO workshop was organized as a side event of the IWA Health Related Water Microbiology Symposium on September 18, 2015, in Lisbon, to identify knowledge gaps and to develop a research agenda for WaSH aspects of AMR. This paper describes the presentations, input, discussions, discussion and results of this workshop as building blocks for a research agenda.
During the workshop ‘Developing a Research Agenda for Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WaSH) and Antimicrobial resistance (AMR)’, input from the scientific community of water professionals was solicited on the role of the environment in the spread of AMR, mostly antibiotic resistance, and possible adverse health outcomes of environmental exposures in order to identify knowledge gaps and to develop a research agenda for WaSH aspects of AMR. Key issues in risk assessment, risk management, and monitoring and surveillance were discussed. This research agenda aims to identify knowledge gaps that need to be addressed in order to achieve the WaSH-related objectives (objectives 1–3, see Box 1) of the GAP on AMR and can thus be a foundation for future global guidance and action on WaSH and AMR.
The program started with several presentations on the latest insights regarding AMR and WaSH from both health and environmental perspectives. During breakout sessions, the participants were divided into three groups to consider questions on the following topics:
monitoring and surveillance.
Prof. Dr Ana Maria de Roda Husman of the National Institute of Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) of the Netherlands opened the discussion on the importance of AMR in the environment. The complex interaction of the natural environment, i.e., water, soil, and air (Huijbers et al. 2015), and the interplay of AMR bacteria, AMR genes, and antibiotic residues in the environment were highlighted. AMR originates from humans and animals exposed to antibiotics, and from the environment itself; thus, AMR should be approached as a ‘One Health’ problem. Sources for AMR include, for example, wastewater and manure, as was shown during her presentation. There needs to be recognition that there are multiple uses of water, such as washing, irrigation, recreation, and drinking, that contribute to the increasing risk of exposure to AMR. Existing safety plans, such as Water Safety Plans and Sanitary Safety Plans, do not specifically address AMR yet and De Roda Husman suggested that greater attention should be afforded on AMR in such Safety Plans.
Kate Medlicott of the WHO went on to summarize the WHO GAP on AMR. The World Health Assembly at its 67th session adopted resolution WHA 67.25 on combatting antimicrobial resistance (WHO 2015a). Through this resolution, the Health Assembly requested the development of a draft GAP to combat AMR, including antibiotic resistance. The WHO has led the development of a GAP that reflects the commitment, perspectives, and roles of all relevant stakeholders, and in which everyone has clear and shared ownership and responsibilities. The action plan is built on six guiding principles: public and stakeholder engagement, actions based on best available knowledge and evidence, ‘prevention first’, ‘access not excess’, sustainability, and incremental targets for implementation.
Furthermore, a briefing note on AMR in the environment was prepared (WHO 2015b).
Prof. Dr Antoine Andremont, of Diderot Medical School and Bichat Hospital Bacteriology Laboratory (France), explained the role of sanitation in the development and spread of AMR. In his presentation, AMR was addressed from a medical perspective and he indicated the need to consider the roles of the environment and agriculture in addition to clinical contributions to the development of resistance (Allen et al. 2010; Graham et al. 2014; Zhang et al. 2015). He demonstrated that, in France, single-antibiotic resistance was predominantly of hospital origin, but this has evolved to community-borne (food and environment) transmission whereby multi-drug resistant bacteria return from the environment back into the hospital.
Two examples of major AMR genes impacting human health and coming from environmental sources were presented:
ESBL genes confer antibiotic resistance to all beta-lactams except carbapenems (plus multi-resistance) (Humeniuk et al. 2002);
NDM-1 genes confer the same phenotype plus resistance to carbapenems (Kumarasamy et al. 2010).
These examples show that there is a feedback loop, whereby more infection results in more antibiotic use, which results in more antibiotic resistance. More ESBL infection leads to more use of carbapenems, which leads to the rise in carbapenem (NDM-1) resistance (Rossolini et al. 2008).
The contribution of ‘medical tourism’ to AMR was shown by Kumarasamy et al. (2010), with the spread of NDM-1 from India to the UK. Andremont stressed the importance of sanitation in his presentation. Poor sanitation or the lack of sanitation is an important pressure on AMR (Andremont & Walsh 2015). The One Health concept links the environment, agriculture/food, and sanitation/community health in an integrated risk-based approach.
The next speaker, Lydia Abebe of the University of North Carolina (USA), presented the preliminary findings of an ongoing systematic literature review of WaSH and AMR that focused on the current status and gaps in knowledge. The literature review focused on AMR bacteria in the environment and associated human health implications. Abebe discussed the purpose of the review, which is to evaluate the role of environmental exposure to AMR bacteria and human health outcomes through evaluating the methods used to create the linkages. Expected outcomes from the review will be an assessment of methods used to create environmental linkages between transmission of AMR bacteria in environmental and human reservoirs to human health outcomes to identify gaps, and thereby make recommendations for establishing stronger evidence for links between environmental exposure to AMR bacteria and adverse human health outcomes. This work will lead to a literature review that focuses on AMR and WaSH from an integrated One Health perspective, and it is envisaged that this will serve to stimulate a research agenda on AMR and WaSH.
Prof. Dr Mark Sobsey of the University of North Carolina (USA) continued with an overview of the research topics from the Joint Programming Initiative on Antimicrobial Resistance (JPI-AMR) agenda for the European Union (JPI-AMR 2013). The JPI-AMR programme seeks to harmonize AMR priorities and research initiatives to address research gaps. There are six priority topics that will be targeted to reduce AMR: therapeutics (alternatives to antibiotics), diagnostics (treatment and prevention of infection), surveillance (monitoring, including of environmental reservoirs), transmission, environment (including sources, selection and dissemination mechanisms), and interventions (for example, treatment technologies). One of the priority topics, selection and dissemination mechanisms in the environment, emphasizes the assessment of the contribution of pollution of the environment with antibiotics, antibiotic residues, and AMR bacteria on the sources, occurrence, and spread of AMR and the development of strategies to minimize environmental contamination by antibiotics and AMR bacteria.
Finally, Prof. Dr Mark Sobsey discussed the urgency of new research into AMR surveillance. Many studies have been carried out to detect AMR in environmental samples. Nevertheless, there is no organized, harmonized and functional system for AMR surveillance in the environment. Globally used monitoring methods for environmental microbial surveillance are the detection of Escherichia coli and intestinal enterococci. These methods are based on the detection of fecal contamination, but no global or national surveillance systems are in place for the detection of environmental AMR. Dr Sobsey presented the need for the establishment of an international, standardized surveillance programme for AMR and antibiotic use in human and agriculture settings that includes targeted environmental monitoring relevant to human exposures. Potential approaches to environmental surveillance for AMR bacteria were discussed.
During this breakout session, facilitated by Prof. Dr Antoine Andremont, the following questions were asked of the participants:
What are the needs to identify and quantify the sources, occurrence, and transport of AMR bacteria and their genes?
What are the needs to estimate risk of AMR bacteria to human health?
Multiple studies (references were made by participants to studies conducted in Germany, New Zealand, Australia, Denmark, the UK, the Netherlands, Thailand, and South Africa) have been carried out on the identification of antibiotic (AB) residues, and AMR bacteria and AMR genes throughout the water cycle as well as certain ‘hotspots’ such as hospital wastewater systems, biogas plants, wastewater treatment plants, and livestock such as poultry (New Zealand). The monitoring data now available are insufficient to identify occurrence status and trends in the appearance of AMR. It is clear, however, that AMR is found throughout the pathways from human and animal to excreta and manure, but it is more difficult to identify and quantify these conditions in the other domains of the water cycle. Research is needed on the selection of bacteria, AMR properties, locations, sample matrices, and standardized analytical methods for monitoring. The HACCP approach (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points) could be a useful method to identify the ‘critical control points’, bacterial analytical methods, and matrices. Water Safety Plans and Sanitary Safety Plans are primarily based on this approach. It is important to find the most important pathways, whether these be drinking water or other environmental exposure pathways and media, e.g., irrigation with wastewater. This knowledge would help to inform the public and other stakeholders on effective measures.
There is discussion on the importance of water as a pathway for AMR compared to other exposure routes, such as food or from person to person. However, this does not mean that inadequate sanitation and fecally contaminated water could not be important routes for AMR transmission. Little is known about exposure to AMR through WaSH routes and the resulting effects on public health. Therefore, research is needed in this field. So far, experiments to transfer genes in laboratory simulations have not succeeded.
The potential risk of infection by AMR bacteria through the consumption of drinking water gives rise to the public's questions and concern. This is especially a concern in areas in which water reuse projects are being developed and implemented. Governments and water companies need to address these questions supported by scientific data that are based on actual evidence of exposure and observed health risks. It is important that these data are collected in a transparent way with good study design and methods, allowing for easy comparison with studies in other countries or regions.
Following this inventory, the discussion shifted towards the needs of resource-limited countries. One of the participants sketched the situation in India, where generic antibiotics are very inexpensive and readily available for a large population, and there is often poor sanitation. A worldwide analysis (Woerther et al. 2013) demonstrated that Asia is one of the continents with the highest incidence of ESBL-enterobacteria fecal carriage. From the African region, the aspect of the susceptibility of a resource-limited population to infections from WaSH exposures was mentioned in relation to the increased risk of AMR infections. The limited resources in low resource settings call for a pragmatic approach with a baseline surveillance strategy supported by appropriate monitoring and further strengthening of water and sanitation conditions. Research is needed to develop these approaches.
During this breakout session, facilitated by Prof. Dr Ana Maria De Roda Husman, the following questions were asked of the participants:
What are the needs with regard to water and wastewater treatment technologies?
What are the needs with regard to practical risk management systems to identify policies, practices, and tools to minimize human exposure?
Research in relation to the establishment of risk management systems should focus on prevention and treatment. Educational materials to increase awareness of appropriate use of antibiotics and proper antibiotic disposal is required in order to reduce the release of antibiotics to wastewater and the environment. The group suggested that a literature review of the drug/pharmaceutical management practices of various countries would generate ideas of policy and waste management systems for the safe and environmentally protective disposal of antibiotics. The literature review should include veterinary (animal) and agriculture, household, and hospital/healthcare practices for antibiotic use and the disposal of unused antibiotics and the governance structure in place for this.
In terms of water and wastewater technology applications, three dominant questions centered on identifying basic mass balance inputs:
What levels of AMR bacteria, genetic material, or antibiotic residues are entering the treatment system?
What levels are removed or could potentially be removed?
What levels in effluent and biosolids are necessary to protect the receiving environment and ultimately benefit the clinical settings?
With regard to answering these questions, the group noted that studies have been undertaken on the occurrence of AMR bacteria, AMR genes, and antibiotic residues in raw sewage, although, not using a standardized methodology. Moreover, quantitative information is needed on potential environmental concentrations; loading mass/volume; and total load in animals, agriculture, wildlife, household, and hospital settings. Loading and concentration data should include those related to antibiotic metabolites (i.e., excreted forms and potential environmental transformation products) as well as parent compounds (direct disposal via toilet flushing). These research questions may be challenging and efforts will be required to ensure that analytical methods and detection limits are adequate and standardized between samples.
With respect to treatment, there are serious knowledge gaps around fate (persistence and survival), interactions, and treatment efficiency (removal, log reductions) of antibiotic compounds, metabolites, AMR bacteria, and AMR genes in water and wastewater technologies. Treatment studies should consider both AMR bacteria as well as AMR genes because DNA may persist despite death of the cell or biological entity. Alternatively, there may be other treatment markers or indicators of AMR bacteria or genes present as indicators of removal or reduction. ‘Critical control points’ should be identified.
Research into treatment technologies should also consider low-cost technologies, appropriate developing world technologies, conventional treatment (water and wastewater), non-standard techniques such as solar/sunlight, and septic systems with/without reticulated water supply. There is a need for criteria and guidelines to assess technologies in order to assist policymakers and utility managers in identifying appropriate technologies and their performance capabilities.
To address the third dominant question, the group noted that treatment requires a goal. How much removal is necessary to make a difference in controlling ARM impacts on the environment and human health? What levels in the environment are acceptable with regard to public health protection? How can we work to quantify health impacts associated with reductions in drug usage or drug concentrations (will reducing drug usage have negative health impacts)? What are the health impacts associated with AMR bacteria or genes and loading to the environment, that is, will reducing AMR bacteria or genes loading to the environment improve clinical health outcomes? A potential method of analysis is a Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment (QMRA) as suggested by Ashbolt et al. (2013). An example QMRA study for exposure to ESBL in recreational waters was published recently (Schijven et al. 2015), but further studies on this subject are necessary.
Monitoring and surveillance
During this breakout session, Prof. Dr Mark Sobsey initiated the discussion with the following questions to the participants:
What are the needs with regard to monitoring?
What are the needs with regard to surveillance?
What are the needs with regard to regulatory activities and agents?
Numerous studies have detected AMR in environmental samples through a variety of culture and molecular methods (Huijbers et al. 2015). Nevertheless, there is no organized, harmonized, and functional system for AMR surveillance in the environment.
There are different reasons to perform environmental surveillance of AMR, such as identifying emerging genes and a potential genetic relationship; characterization of pharmaceutical waste; identifying AMR bacteria, AMR genes, and antibiotic residues entering the environment; and, identifying other hot spots compared to sewage (source tracking). Appropriate methods should be established depending on the purpose of AMR surveillance in the environment. During the discussion, different methods were mentioned to identify and quantify AMR bacteria, AMR genes, and antibiotic residues in the environment, such as culture methods and molecular detection methods. Initially, selection of an index parameter needs to be set. Different index parameters were discussed: antibiotics, detection of AMR in fecal indicators (such as E. coli and intestinal enterococci), other clinically relevant microorganisms (such as Clostridium difficile, Staphylococcus aureus, and bacteriophages), horizontal gene transfer and metagenomics. Then, standard methods should be prescribed to detect these index parameters. A tiered approach was recommended because of different resource settings, and specific guidance on this approach is greatly needed.
Studies on environmental surveillance of AMR do not always link to clinical relevance, e.g., studies do not focus on obtaining data relevant to human exposures from environmental pathways, AMR bacteria of human health/clinical concern, or human exposure media; studies do not focus on known major sources of AMR release to the environment. To improve the linkage to clinical relevance, the group discussed the importance of combining data from humans, animals, and the environment; the One Health approach; communication from the environmental domain to clinical and veterinary domains; and, linking human surveillance with environmental surveillance. To better address the links between human, animal, and environmental data, designing surveillance strategies with a harmonized and tiered approach was recommended.
As a result of monitoring and surveillance, data on AMR in the environment will be collected, which can form the evidence base to take actions to minimize exposure and human health risks. Therefore, a threshold (regarding risk level and safety) of AMR in the environment within a regulatory framework is needed. The threshold should answer the following questions: What is an acceptable level of AMR risk? When should management take action to further minimize risk? Furthermore, the gathered data should be communicated to other relevant fields and stakeholders, such as, for example, healthcare professionals, policymakers, and water and sanitation experts, and provide advice on reduction or removal of AMR, including recommendations on cost-effectiveness.
The WHO workshop organized on September 18, 2015, in Lisbon, provided the opportunity for participants to contribute to a research agenda on WaSH and AMR. For each of the three key topics discussed, namely risk assessment, risk management, and monitoring and surveillance, it was evidently demonstrated that there are more open questions than answers at this time. Box 2 links research questions to GAP on AMR objectives. A research agenda should be consistent with and support the process of focusing on relevant questions and sharing best practices. Box 2 summarizes the output of the workshop discussion, including open questions identified by the workshop participants for all WaSH-related objectives of the GAP on AMR. The abundance of research questions and ideas identified during this workshop naturally led to the topic of funding. The speakers encouraged the workshop participants to apply to open calls for research proposals from funding organizations, such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and European Joint Programming Initiatives (JPIAMR), in order to address the topic of AMR and WaSH.
Research needs on AMR and WaSH, output WHO-workshop, September 18, 2015
Identification and quantification of sources, occurrence, and transport (contributes to GAP-objective no. 2):
Quantify concentrations and total loads of AMR bacteria, AMR genes, and antibiotic residues from humans and animals to the environment.
Identify and quantify AMR bacteria, AMR genes, and antibiotic residues in different water-related exposure routes and determine the importance of each route in order to focus research capacity and to support guidance and advice to stakeholders and the public on adequate actions. Identify, quantify, and locate in time and space the sources that are hotspots of release such as health care facilities.
Set up a uniform system and methodology for identification and quantification (HACCP as a suggested approach).
Perform meta-analysis to determine and quantify the persistence of AMR bacteria, AMR genes, and antibiotic residues in different environmental matrices.
Determine the occurrence, loads, and persistence of AMR bacteria, AMR genes, and antibiotic residues in the environment.
Understanding the risk to human health (contributes to GAP-objective no. 2):
Identify health impacts associated with reductions in drug usage or drug concentrations.
Identify health impacts associated with ARB/ARGAMR bacteria and gene concentrations and loading to the environment.
Conduct risk assessment strategies to identify acceptable environmental concentrations or acceptable biological entities (i.e., certain bacteria or genes are acceptable whereas others are not) in exposure media such as water.
Determine concentrations or loads (in wastewater effluent and biosolids) that are necessary to protect the receiving environment and ultimately benefit the clinical settings.
Efficiency of water and wastewater treatment technologies (contributes to GAP-objective no. 2 and 3):
Provide criteria and guidance on waste and wastewater management for the reduction of AMR bacteria, AMR genes, and antibiotic residues in relevant settings, e.g., clinical, agricultural, household, and the environment.
Quantify the role of AMR horizontal gene transfer in waste and wastewater.
Identify ways of optimizing onsite waste treatment for reduction of AMR bacteria, AMR genes, and antibiotic residues.
Address exposure risks by determining reduction efficiencies of applied water, waste treatment and human and animal excreta treatment processes for AMR bacteria, AMR genes and antibiotic residues and other WaSH-related settings and facilities, including household water treatment processes, water reuse practices and alternative sanitation systems.
Identify simple microbial measurements (such as bacterial indicators) for system verification.
Incorporate AMR bacteria, AMR genes and antibiotic residues in WHO Water Safety Plans and Sanitation Safety Plans, programs and practices. Identify critical control points to utilize in such Safety Plans.
Develop criteria and guidance to water utilities, wastewater treatment plants and other AMR-relevant treatment facilities (antimicrobial production and aquaculture facilities) on the reduction efficiencies of their applied treatment processes and overall treatment for AMR bacteria, AMR genes and antibiotic residues.
Develop criteria and guidance to different communities such as rural communities on the reduction efficiencies of AMR bacteria, AMR genes and antibiotic residues by local waste and wastewater practices and processes.
Development of practical risk management systems and tools (contributes to GAP-objective no. 1):
Develop, exchange and link information, data and experiences from the environmental domain to industrial, clinical and veterinary domains and vice versa (including epidemiological information).
Identify target communities such as septic tank communities in rural settings as well as health care facilities and their professionals (e.g., nurses) and educational institutions (schools and their teachers) in clinical, educational and rural settings to raise awareness of proper treatment or handling of waste and wastewater for awareness raising on what to do with waste and wastewater and AMs with respect to AMR and produce and implement community specific educational materials.
Collect and provide evidence-based information to the public on safety of drinking water and wastewater used in agriculture and aquaculture with respect to AMR.
Identification of policies, practices and tools (contributes to GAP-objective no. 1 and 3):
Perform systematic reviews of the literature on regional/national policies and risk governance for AMR.
Determine effectiveness of regulations not specifically directed at reduction of AMR bacteria, AMR genes and antibiotic residues and develop indicators for monitoring of policy and practice measures related to AMR.
Derive treatment targets (Log Reduction Values) and other health health-based targets in relevant media (water, wastewater, biosolids, etc.) for exposure to AMR bacteria, AMR genes and antibiotic residues to determine the need for reduction.
Development of monitoring strategies, surveillance and regulatory agents (contributes to GAP-objective no. 3):
Provide criteria and guidance for the different purposes, targets and methods of AMR surveillance and monitoring (using a tiered and preferably holistic approach), interpretations of AMR data and actions to be taken.
Select index parameters and standard analytical methods to identify and quantify AMR bacteria, genes and residues in the relevant environmental media that are applicable in low resource settings too.
From the discussion, three major themes could be identified, which are discussed here.
Evidence of water as a pathway for AMR exposure
The importance of water, wastewater, and wastes as pathways for AMR human exposure (compared to other routes such as food consumption) was identified as a research focus (see also the review by O'Neill (2015)). Little is known about the exposure to AMR through WaSH routes, drinking water consumption, and water reuse applications and resulting effects on public health. Data based on magnitudes of exposure and objectively measurable health outcomes should be collected in a consistent and transparent way, to achieve data comparability among countries or regions, respecting the basic principles for the ‘right to data’.
Guidelines for a consistent and pragmatic approach to prevention and control
There is a need for a pragmatic approach to make prevention and control of AMR actionable, accessible, and comparable for all countries throughout the world. Current prevention and control by existing WaSH guidance should be assessed, i.e., the efficacy of AMR reduction by specific wastewater, excreta, biosolids, and water treatment technologies. Guidelines on AMR and WaSH should be harmonized with and preferably incorporated into the GAP on AMR as well as in the risk-based approach developed in the Water Safety Plans (Bartram et al. 2009) and the Sanitation Safety Plans of the WHO (Jackson et al. 2015).
Uniform and global surveillance
The call for a consistent, pragmatic, and transparent approach is also reflected in the use and harmonization of surveillance and monitoring techniques and the call for criteria and guidelines. Methods that can be used in all countries, including those with limited resources, should be identified, validated, and implemented to monitor AMR in the environment. The sampling methods should be those already in use to survey the bacterial concentrations and loads in the environment. The simplest would be to add screening to quantify a single type of AMR bacteria as a minimal requirement in these samples. ESBL-E. coli appears to be a relevant candidate because: (i) it is easily detected using commercial media and screening plates used in human medicine; (ii) large variations in occurrence and densities that are to be expected between countries can be quantified; and (iii) it could be a monitoring system common across human medicine, the food chain, and water and wastewater management, thus allowing powerful geographical comparisons and follow-up over time.
Understanding and addressing the role of WaSH in combatting AMR is a critical element of the GAP on AMR. Therefore, research and development of guidance under the three previously identified themes is needed:
to identify and quantify the sources, occurrence and transport of antibiotics, other antimicrobial agents and their metabolites, AMR bacteria, and AMR genes in environmental media, especially water, wastewater, animal fecal wastes and biosolids and other media to which humans are exposed;
to understand the human health outcome from environmental exposures;
to identify water and waste treatment technologies that can remove antibiotics and other antimicrobial agents, their metabolites, AMR bacteria, and AMR genes in human animal wastes and in environmental media for which the WHO provides specific guidance;
to identify options to minimize the release or introduction of antibiotics and other antimicrobial agents, AMR bacteria, and AMR genes into the environment by the establishment and use of policies, programs, and practices to eliminate and minimize use and to contain or destroy these contaminants at their source or ‘critical control points’;
to identify policies, practices, and tools to minimize human exposure to AMR from the environment;
to support and develop monitoring strategies, surveillance and regulatory activities for AMR prevention and control related to the environment and WaSH.
The authors would like to acknowledge the participants of the WHO workshop ‘Developing a Research Agenda for Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WaSH) and Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR)’ (September 18, 2015, Lisbon) for their contributions in the discussion to identify knowledge gaps on the role of the environment in the spread of AMR, mostly antibiotic resistance, and possible adverse health outcomes of environmental exposure and relevant questions for a research agenda for WaSH aspects of AMR. The results of this workshop were used as a basis for this paper. Minutes of the workshop and a list of participants are available at the WHO.
Kate Medlicott is an employee of WHO. The authors alone are responsible for the views expressed in this article and they do not necessarily represent the views, decisions or policies of WHO.
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Graham Spiers: One for the Memory Hole...
A hat-tip to Love and Garbage on twitter for this sterling example of intellectual consistency and serious-mindedness from Herald football columnist, Graham Spiers. The topic: the Offensive Behaviour at Football Act and subsequent police enforcement measures taken under it. In an article headlined "How the SNP have made policing fans a minefield" published yesterday, Spiers suggests that the Act was
"... a piece of legislation that many - this writer included - had doubts about. The act seeks to do what it says on the tin: stamp out “offensive behaviour” such as bigoted or sectarian expression. There has been plenty of that around the Old Firm over the years, so to that end all decent-minded people felt that the law should crack down on bigots."
Cataloguing what he now perceives as the Act's problems, Spiers continues:
"Someone said to me: “A law never works if it cannot be objectively measured.” This absolutely captures the problem of the Offensive Behaviour at Football legislation. We got a glimpse of the mess the Scottish government was getting into when, in June 2011, Roseanna Cunningham, not having realised how much she had chewed off, had to frantically backtrack and delay the processing of the bill.
That day it took a mere half hour of questions to realise that Alex Salmond and the SNP, wobbling towards their legislation, hadn’t quite appreciated the acuity of supporters who wanted to defend their right to hold political or cultural positions in song and slogan. The Offensive Behaviour bill was duly delayed.
But its final clarity, when put on the statute book last year, was scarcely enhanced. It has all become quite a dog’s breakfast. Meanwhile, football supporters in Scotland feel like they are under a type of surveillance once associated with life behind the old Iron Curtain."
All of which gives the impression that the judicious Mr Spiers was a long-standing critic of these proposals, who set out these concerns about the clarity of the legislation and its definitions at the time, sorry to see his predictions about the illiberal and reactionary potential of this legislation borne out in practice. The only problem with this little pen-portrait is that it's a self-serving counterfeit.
Spiers refers to Roseanna Cunningham's Justice Committee appearance in 2011 which was not, with the best will in the world, her most triumphant parliamentary performance. He neatly glosses over his own. On the 6th of September 2011, the Scottish Parliament's Justice Committee had the benefit of Mr Spiers' own evidence on the Offensive Behaviour a Football Bill as it was being rammed through Holyrood. No doubt he put his concerns to our tribunes? Articulated these "doubts"? Quantified those anxieties about how this vaguely-drafted piece of legislation might operate in practice?
Er. Not really. Quoth Spiers:
"I am in favour of this bill in principle. If someone asks whether I want to live in a country where thousands of people can shout about the Pope and say “F the Pope”, I say that I do not want that in a football stadium in my country. In principle, I am in favour of the bill."
Okay. So that isn't exactly a doubt-wracked assessment of the draft legislation, but perhaps further on in his testimony, Spiers really got to grips with the detail of the Bill, and the concerns many folk articulated at the time about the scope of its provisions? Fife SNP MSP Roderick Campbell, himself an advocate in a past instantiation, raised some of these concerns with him in the Committee session.
Roderick Campbell: "I will follow up on three themes that were developed in the earlier session. I would like to hear the panel’s views on the suggestion by the Rangers representative in the previous session that by legislating we are using a sledgehammer to crack a nut, and any comments on the context and clarity of the legislation, particularly from Graham Spiers and Pat Nevin."
In all fairness, Spiers' response was not the model of clarity, but the gist of his answer and the scope of his doubts was not that the Bill was too broadly drafted, overcriminalised football fans or threatened free expression, but that its provisions may be extraneous to requirements, given existing common law and statutory offences which apply to conduct in and out of football grounds.
Graham Spiers: "There is probably some substance to that complaint. As much as I wish the bill well, it seems to me—although I am not an expert on the statute book—that there are already contingencies in place such as religious hate crime law, breach of the peace, and other laws that give the police powers such as banning orders to apprehend supporters. There is a lot of stuff currently on the statute book that could deal with many of these problems, so I am a bit mystified as to why we must have an extra load of law—if I can put it in that way—to deal with the issue.
I suppose I need to qualify that by saying that I have been aware this morning that a lot of people are complaining about the anomaly between crimes that are committed in a football stadium and crimes that are committed in the street or in a bus shelter. People have said that that is odd, but a part of me says that it is not. I have been going to these games for decades, and there can be a particular poison in a football stadium. The expression of that may be found out in the street, on the factory floor or wherever, but it nonetheless finds particularly acerbic expression in a football stadium, so a part of me wants some type of specific law to deal with that.
That answer is perhaps as clear as mud, but I hope that you get what I am trying to say."
As Spiers notes in yesterday's Herald piece, the legislation he approved of in September did not differ materially from the final text adopted by the Scottish Parliament in November. He looked at the "dog's breakfast" in the autumn of 2011, and enthusiastically endorsed it.
Better one sinner repenteth and all that, but mightn't the entire debate have been improved, if folk like Spiers hadn't given the Scottish Government spurious political cover for this cobbled-together enterprise, had actually read the draft legislation properly when it really mattered, rather than composing self-righteous jeremiads now, when the reactionary legislation which Spiers himself helped to get on the statute book is enforced by the police in a predictably illiberal fashion?
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Richard 21 March 2013 at 15:26
Spiers mental contortions is just an example of the illiberalism that follows when the so-called tolerant try to criminalise things they do not like. The answer to the law being broken is to enforce the law, not pass new laws. Why on earth was the existing breach of the peace not adequate?
As for him citing religious hatred offences, that is another illiberal Act that should be binned. But does the Racial and Religious Hatred Act 2006 not just apply to England and Wales?
"If someone asks whether I want to live in a country where thousands of people can shout about the Pope and say “F the Pope”
Plenty of contexts where this would be a breach of the peace. However, if expressing a profanity against a religious leader is by definition a crime because the person is a religious leader. Would that not automatically criminalise people who hold quite legitimate republican views. Since the Queen is the head of the Anglican church, a republican expressing a political view of fuck the Queen, is committing a criminal offence in Spiers world.
Lallands Peat Worrier 21 March 2013 at 22:24
You're quite right about the extent of Blair's 2006 Act on religious hatred. Indeed, ironically, the SNP deleation in Westminster made a big thing at the time about arguing that the new offences shouldn't extend to Scotland. Only for their colleagues to do so in government just over a decade later, arguing they were "bringing Scotland into line" with England. Not one of the Nationalists' finer, most consistent moments, that.
A *half* decade that should have been. Getting ahead of myself.
Edwin Moore 22 March 2013 at 06:25
Ach I think Graham has speared himself (maybe 'spiered' is the mot juste) on his own rhetorical exuberance. He seems (in so far as I can be arsed following these matters) to be a favourite of the Celtic fans and maybe he slipped his moorings to join their angry wee blockade of Holyrood. The Rangers fans don't like it either - maybe they should all join together in footie comradeliness. Don't think many of us care as long as the idiots among both sets cease their offensive chanting and menacing behaviour.
My own take is that the SNP have made a consistent mess of its handling of the issue - though I get a feeling that Cunningham is maybe unfairly exposed in a manner that suits her SNP rivals. The party is surely right that it needs tackling - why should the rest of us have to listen to obscenities against the Queen or the Pope? - they have just been very sloppy about it.
Ha! Le mot juste indeed, Edwin.
On your point about Roseanna, I can't speak to the machinations behind the scenes. What we can say, however, is that this project ended up on her desk, from the very top of the party, which itself lacked any clear sense of direction about why it was legislating, or what it wanted its legislation to achieve. Hence the dog's breakfast from the get-go, and the uncomfortable fall-out now.
Yes, I like Cunningham. Am not a gambler but wish I had put money on her taking Fairbairn's old seat, having met the Tory that was put up against her - a classic glassy eyed NewTory who worked for a Japanese merchant bank in London. I had previoulsy met him at my old company in Bishopbriggs when he was running against Sam Galbraith. Some of the Board arranged a party at which he could meet and 'impress' the staff, I assume some sort of freemason thing going on there. He got gubbed of course and I couldn't believe the Perth Tories fell for him.
The Tories committed suicide in Scotland not because of being right wing but because of being stupid! They really were the stupid party.
Anyway I agree about it being a dumped-on-desk matter, and I don't blame Cunningham for this mess, I think she comes out of it OK.
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The Case for Network-Centric Landscape Architecture
By Tanya Olson on March 15, 2011 3 Comments / 721 views
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Row, Row, Row Your Boat; or The Case for Network-Centric Landscape Architecture
From Wikipedia on the meaning of Row, Row, Row Your Boat
“The lyrics of Row, Row, Row Your Boat have often been used as a metaphor for life’s difficult choices, and many see the boat as referring to one’s self or a group with which one identifies. Rowing is a skillful, if tedious, practice that takes perfection but also directs the vessel. When sung as a group, the act of rowing becomes a unifier, as oars must be in sync in a rowboat. The idea that man travels along a certain stream suggests boundaries in the path of choices and in free will.”
The Biology of Twitter
I didn’t actually call my boss obsolete. I was trying to impress upon her that proficient use of technology is now one of the basic and expected tools of the landscape architect.
Apparently, it came out sounding a little more like “adapt or die”.
The reality is that while most landscape architects and their firms have been quick to absorb new technology into their existing business systems we have been slow to understand the impact of technology on the business itself. In fact, as a whole, we’ve pretty much ignored it.
While we have been working, new technology has been impacting nearly every aspect of the world of commerce. The culture and practice of many businesses, including landscape architecture firms, may indeed be becoming obsolete. And the culprit is….Twitter.
Well. Its not exactly Twitter. It is what Twitter represents. The answer is not as obvious as it might seem and the implications are mind-boggling.
So what does Twitter represent and why is it so pervasive?
Clues sometimes come from the most unlikely places, in this case – the Department of Defense. The DoD Command and Control Research Center, looking for new perspectives on human nature and the power of social networks (and how to manipulate them, of course) found that humans have a long-standing biological and cultural investment in creating and maintaining social networks. Surely that surprises none of us.
But what they found next might.
“There is evidence that people [individuals] self-select to identify a social network role to accomplish critical tasks and preserve the integrity of the group….Instead of having to impose such cooperative mechanisms from above or through formal monitoring and intervention processes, highly sophisticated cooperative behaviors can be evoked by creating a context in which the appropriate social signaling takes place. Once given the appropriate signals and rules, groups can spontaneously self-organize and control themselves.” (http://www.dodccrp.org/files/Human_Nature.pdf )Autonomous groups respond to changing environmental conditions quickly and efficiently, giving them competitive advantage over traditional organizational structures or hierarchies. In other words, people naturally form networks, they maintain social order within the networks, and the networks operate efficiently through autonomy rather than authority. Networking systems like Twitter have been so immediately and completely absorbed into nearly every human culture on the face of the planet because they are an extension of our biologically intrinsic social nature.
Twitter represents a system that is synchronous with who we already are.
If what this research says about hierarchies versus networks is true, our predominant business model has us paddling against the flow of biology and culture. Collectively, we’re not actually moving anywhere and we’re expending a
of energy doing it.
For landscape architects, who ultimately work with biology and culture, this dichotomy is particularly disconcerting. If we had a model of commerce based on network systems, and which was in-synch with intrinsic human nature, we could gain agility, effectiveness, a competitive advantage and, more importantly, reconcile our business culture with our landscape architecture practices.
Can landscape architects turn mid-stream and adapt our craft to flow with human nature?
With or without formal structures, this is exactly what is happening in some businesses across the globe. We watch half in amusement half in amazement as modern matchmakers from New Delhi work as consultants for singles in New York City, interviewing and pre-selecting dates in a process personally tailored to each client, the world’s foremost musicians host interactive music and theory classes available to anyone, and Big Brother is constantly monitored by the cell-phone-video-enabled hoi polloi. “Social technologies support new forms of network-centric interaction and activity between people, allowing and enhancing informal access to create and distribute
. These technologies empower ordinary people to have a global presence for business, political and social purposes. The new social technologies….are the tools of a rising digital democracy.” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network-centric_organization )
The technology is relatively inexpensive and accessible to just about anyone with a skill and an idea. Much of the exchange of
, goods and services takes place with a digital handshake and collectively monitored good faith. Consultants and contractors work from their homes, in coffee shops, in co-working spaces or on vacation – anywhere internet access is available – employment no longer linked to location or regular business hours. A few landscape architects are jumping on board, using networking technologies to retain valuable employees in the wake of family or location changes. These pioneers suggest a “network-centric” business model is emerging in contrast to traditional hierarchical structures.
Ocean Liner or Canoe?
Hierarchies have never been a very good fit for me, but I am also not a loner.
Interviewing after grad school in cubicle-populated office buildings surrounded by seas of parking made me nauseous. The hip urban office of the “big name” landscape architect had a better aesthetic but an uncomfortably ruthless hierarchical social atmosphere. I finally found a good fit with a group of landscape architects that set up their firm as a peer group rather than a hierarchy. Hierarchies and their subsequent business models had not been a very good fit for them either.
Clearly, each of these firms created an environment that reflected some aspect of their philosophy. How heavy a hand did an adopted corporate business structure play in the culture and practice of landscape architecture in these firms?
The traditional business world has given us organizational ocean liners of secretaries and bosses, private offices and cubicles. Its an expensive model, both structurally and spiritually, in the broadest sense. And, like the Queen
, of a vanishing era.
Worst-case; in order to pay for the private offices and secretaries, the workers have to work eight hour days with fifteen minute breaks and half-hour lunches and, if they want to get ahead, skip their breaks and work into the night, the goal not being to make a better product or a more effective worker, but to get ahead of the competition. Best-case; a company hires primarily obsessives who are compulsively committed to their cog in the wheel and are enabled with in-house exercise rooms, espresso bars and nap areas – a much more humane scenario but possibly more Huxleyesque, replacing independent social life with corporate social life. There are many models in-between, but the basic premise is the same: the workers are coal for the engines of the corporation.
In contrast, network-centric organizational models are the organic offspring of networking technology and human nature. Really, they are people-centric organizations made possible by people-centric technologies. More like a canoe than the Queen
, they are adaptive, agile and efficient. They are constructed of the behaviors and strengths of the individual members and do not try to modify them to suit an authoritarian superstructure. They require professional and individual experience, expertise and responsibility. They rely on socially-constructed collective knowledge otherwise known as ‘talking to each other’ as the predominant source of learning, creativity, insight and innovation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network-centric_organization ) and they create atmospheres of organic collaboration. People interact as consultant-contributors rather than employees, tech-support rather than managers.
We (hopefully) all recognize some of these attributes from our own professional work. Network-centricity is a natural fit for landscape architects, but it still requires a paradigm shift – a mid-stream change in direction – to swing our business structures back into line with our professional philosophies.
The New Canoe
Ocean liners never really did fit landscape architects. We need to touch the water, not just imagine what it might feel like from our sixth storey window. Externally focused, we work through participation, observation, contemplation, experimentation and creation. We work with, and require, space and time. We need interaction with the dynamic biological and cultural systems that are both our material and our context. We are also inherent collaborators, moving with ease between the creative and scientific worlds and between the allied design professions and our clients. We advertise these abilities as unique to our profession but increasingly these essential processes are succumbing to constant economic pressures.
We all recognize the conflict. Could it be that this pressure has a corollary relationship with the business structures that we increasingly contort our businesses to fit?
Many of us already think of the business management of our firms as unpleasant chores that we begrudgingly think about once or twice a month. Or better yet, hire someone to think about it for us.
The organizational behemoths we have tried to adapt to, with their ingrained financial systems, are overdesigned for our profession, out of synch with the sources of our inspiration and are driving us farther away from the essence of our identities as landscape architects. The insistent bottom line has us convinced that the things we need as landscape architects are actually only wants, when of course it is really the other way ‘round.
Given the success of social networking and what it reveals about the flow of human nature, could network-centric systems be sea-worthy vessels for landscape architects in new waters?
Network-centric systems deliver radical organizational or business design concepts; life experiences have economic value, social networking is an efficient means of exchanging knowledge with the group and keeping it running smoothly, people intrinsically operate autonomously and cooperatively at the same time, insight is not necessarily related to the amount of experience in a field but to how well a person integrates and communicates collective and personal knowledge. Add technology into the equation and you have the best paddle you have ever seen – a completely new design, instinctive to use, easy to integrate, works great for propelling and steering and has a bunch of other yet-to-discover uses.
With this new tool, employee-consultants can work from any physical location because they already have the autonomy to coordinate necessary schedules themselves. Work blends seamlessly with mountain biking, sick children, volunteer activities, and contemplation because our vessel is created from real life. Network-centric business design, supported by technology, provides the passage for landscape architects to break away from out-of-synch business models and assume responsibility for the creation and directions of economic frameworks that wholistically support the our practices. Sound too interesting to be a business structure? When landscape architects align the “business of landscape architecture” with the “essential practice and philosophy of landscape architecture”, it is interesting – it all becomes part of the design problem. And if we are uniformly anything, we are problem solvers.
To design business systems that are well-proportioned for our profession and the new waters opened to navigation by technology, systems that are in-synch with our sources of inspiration, that bring us closer to the essence of our identities as landscape architects and are integrated with our lives, we need look no further than our own tool boxes. We are already trained to develop synchronous business systems using the same old tools of analysis, inventory, program development, conceptual plans and construction. We have strong underlying philosophies, patterns for the design process, and established systems of relationship networks. When we combine these abilities with what we know and can now observe about human nature, then it stands to reason that landscape architects are uniquely positioned to make the shift to network-centricity as a profession precisely because of who we already are.
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Thanks so much Jon. I’m glad to know that it was not only legible, but meaningful! I really appreciate your comments.
Jason Turner March 29, 2011, 6:31 pm
wow, Tanya. You didn’t trot that out in 5 minutes. Thanks for all the thought and time that went into that missive. As I can understand your piece though, it has two thrusts, the review and call for reexamination of our business model (with which I completely concur, and spend a great deal of time musing over myself), and the more obvious role of social media, such as Twitter.
Every week, Chris Heiler sends out an email, mostly about this topic, yet I remain unconvinced. Life is very much a fractal. I find my life fascinating, but I know that it is no spectator sport – from a relatively short distance, it appears as dull as dishwater. How would my life translate into a Twitter feed that will entertain my clients and make them want to subscribe to my pontification? Worse yet, will the need to be entertaining not force me to try too hard to be interesting, and potentially lose me followers/customers? (‘Jason is trying to break the world record for tequila consumption whilst dangling upside down from the Arc de Triomph’)
How exactly, will one of you young guns enlighten me, does one put together a Twitter feed that is relevant and interesting to our industry, without trying too hard. Lets be honest, much of what we do is pretty technical, and not really something that makes for interesting reading. I’m no Bono…
Thanks for your comments, Jason. Like I said – its not really about Twitter (Twitter is really a code-word for social networking)- its about the insight that the popularity of Twitter gives us about human behaviour and how we can use that to our advantage in our ‘corporate structure’ for lack of a better term.
Twitter itself has not yet held much appeal to me. A LA feed that I would find interesting might be plant pics from nursery visits, designs you visit, projects under construction, etc.???
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Baltic Tribes. Last Pagans.
A popular science documentary about the last pagans of Europe - the Baltic tribes.
Role: Estonian prisoner
Title: Baltic Tribes. Last Pagan
Director: Raitis Abele, Lauris Abele.
The “main hero” is a merchant from Gotland- Lars- who travels from one territory to another, thus introducing the audience to the various Baltic tribal locations, habits, traditions, rituals, laws and other aspects of evidence that today can be researched and reconstructed thanks to the modern science and archaeology.
To embark on a trading expedition through Eastern Baltic Sea coastal lands Gothlandian merchant Lars arrives at the ancient Prussian seaport (todays Poland) and hires a local crew, who will accompany him in his trading journey. After an accident in the market square they are forced to learn the local Prussian laws and religious practices.
On the road the main characters explore the Gallindian household and domestic life, learn about diseases and medicine and witness the sacrificial rituals practised by Yotvingians.
Then their journey heads north/east and the crew become witnesses of how Lithuanians and Aukštaitians establish their country (todays Lithuania). Further down the road, they participate in Selonian summer solstice rituals and meet the Livonian Brothers of Sword. During their short stay with Livonians, the crew faces the Couronian attack and the film’s main protagonist and his fellow travellers are captured. They are forced to spend several years in Kursa working as slaves.
The story ends with the Battle of Saule (last and largest Nothern Crusade battle) where Lars, the main character dies.
Throughout the film historians, archaeologists and scientists comment the events.
Overall, having watched the documentary film the viewers will have gained a notion of the life and historical context of the late Middle Ages in the Eastern and Northern part of the Baltic Sea and what heritage these tribes have left us for today.
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You can prepare for a career as a computer programmer through associate's, bachelor's and master's degree programs offered by public colleges and universities in New Mexico. Master's degree applicants need to have a bachelor's degree with certain math and science classes already completed. At one school, you'll also need to submit transcripts, GRE scores and recommendations for graduate study.
At the undergraduate level, you can expect to take general education requirements and major coursework in computer programming. If a double major would help advance your goals, you can apply to a B.A. in Computer Science program and choose a double major. A senior thesis or project may be required to graduate from a bachelor's degree program. Master's degree students can choose a thesis or non-thesis track; the non-thesis track requires additional classes and a project. You can participate in teaching and research assistantships, too. Read on to see if one of these programs is right for you.
Computer Programming Associate's Degree Program in New Mexico
San Juan College
Your core requirements at this school, situated in northwestern New Mexico, include courses in C++ computer programming fundamentals/data structures, Java programming, UNIX systems Web programming and Windows GUI programming, in addition to calculus and discrete mathematics. You also complete general education courses in communications, math, physics, social/behavioral sciences and humanities/fine arts. This school additionally offers an object-oriented computer programming certificate and a Web programming certificate in procedural, structured and object-oriented languages.
Program Name: Associate of Science in Computer Science
Program Length: 2 years, including summers, full-time
Tuition and Fees: In-state $1,474 per year, out-of-state $4,114 per year (2015-2016)
School Type: 2-year, public; 8,323 students (all undergraduate)
Computer Programming Bachelor's Degree Programs in New Mexico
New Mexico State University - Las Cruces
A B.S. in Computer Science can prepare you to work in such technical fields as networking, operating systems and software infrastructure. Alternatively, a B.A. may be of interest in order to tailor the program to your needs; for example, if you intend to use computer science and software in conjunction with a specialty like business or publishing. Your programming course options at this school include object-oriented programming, machine programming/organization, programming language structure, functional programming, logic programming, visual programming and parallel programming. You also complete either a senior project or thesis in these degree programs. In addition, this school offers several computer minors that include programming courses. They provide training in algorithm theory, bioinformatics, computer systems and software development.
Program Name: Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science or Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Computer Science
Field of Study Options: BA students may choose an additional major in another discipline
Program Length: 4 years, full-time
Tuition and Fees: In-state $6,094 per year, out-of-state $19,652 per year (2015-2016)
School Type: 4-year, public; 15,829 students (12,784 undergraduate)
New Mexico Tech
This school is centrally located in New Mexico. Potential courses include object-oriented programming, systems programming, programming languages and formal languages. Along with the required courses in this program, you complete technical electives in other areas of computer applications and general education requirements.
Program Name: Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
School Type: 4-year, public; 2,127 students (1,633 undergraduate)
Some courses at this school include intermediate programming, large programs design, declarative programming and numerical programming. You also choose technical electives, on top of the required computer science and general education courses. Your options for a minor area of study are comprised of computer engineering, mathematics, statistics and management information systems.
Computer Programming Master's Degree Programs in New Mexico
In the master's degree option comprised of only coursework, you complete 36 graduate credits of computer science courses. Near the end of your program, you take the final written examination consisting of 4 exams lasting 1 hour each. Your other master's degree option requires completion of 33 graduate credits, a 2-part final exam based on your graduate courses and a thesis or master's research project. The exam includes an oral presentation discussing your work in the thesis or project. This school offers research and teaching assistantships for which you may apply.
Program Name: Master of Science in Computer Science
Program Length: 33-36 credits, depending on thesis option
Prerequisites: Bachelor's degree
The required course categories for this graduate degree include empirical methods, mathematical methods and methods in engineering/system building. Your master's examination consists of a defense of your thesis or an oral mastery exam of your core areas of study, depending on which degree plan you have chosen. Teaching or research assistantships may be available.
Program Length: 32 semester hours
Prerequisites: Bachelor's degree, including specific computer science and math courses
Admission Requirements: Transcripts, 3 letters of recommendation, recent Graduate Record Examination (GRE) scores, letter of intent
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Guest Column · Upcoming shows
WYCE’s Jammie Awards assure robust night of music, community, ‘awesome’ vibe
by Local Spins
The 19th showcase of regional music unfurls Friday at The Intersection. WYCE manager Quinn Mathews reflects on the daunting but inspiring ‘biggest night for West Michigan music.’ See the full schedule.
Community Spirit: More than 1,000 people are expected to attend Friday’s Jammie Awards show. (Photo/Derek Ketchum)
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By Quinn Mathews
WYCE Station Manager
Quinn Mathews
Nervous. Excited. Am I the right choice for this job? Am I doing this right? Don’t mess this up.
That was Day 1 as station manager on my drive in to WYCE (88.1 FM).
Now almost two years later, on my drive in this week: Nervous. Excited. Am I the right choice for this job? Am I doing this right? Don’t mess this up.
“Make it personal. I want to hear it in your words,” John Sinkevics of Local Spins advised me for this column about managing WYCE community radio as the Grand Rapids station prepares for Friday’s 19th Jammie Awards show at The Intersection, an event celebrating the best in regional music.
I went to school for broadcasting. I studied radio waves, audio production, public speaking, communications. But there was no class on “people,” on “human interaction,” on “community.” That’s what they missed. I guess at a school in North Carolina in the late 1990s they couldn’t gear my classes toward community, non-profit work in Grand Rapids, Mich., in 2018.
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But what I’ve come to realize? In any organization, anywhere, for anything, it’s all about people.
Community radio, community media, is about people. It’s the staff of the organization, the volunteers involved in the day to day, the folks that listen, or watch, or attend, or donate.
It’s about people.
And that’s what worries me most.
We all know that these are, how do I say it, “Interesting times.” If you post on social media that you just went to a gas station to pump gas, a storm of comments will ensue. Why did you go to that station? Do you support them? What are your views on that gas station? Next thing you know, you’re in a heated social media battle, all because your vehicle needed gas.
It’s all about communication. So, let’s talk, let’s figure it out.
I’ll be honest, I don’t have every box checked off on the list of being a station manager for a radio station. But I know how to listen and I know how to communicate. My first week on the job I got seven things wrong, four things right, three more things wrong, and then ended with maybe one more right thing. This week, almost two years later, I got seven things wrong, four things right, three more things wrong, and then ended the week with maybe one more thing right.
But this Friday at The Intersection I get to spend the day and night with my community and
that’s definitely doing something right.
This is a community of musicians, friends, colleagues, volunteers, the people that care about sharing the art of music. Will everything go as planned? Yes, yes it will. Ha. Yeah, right. But we’re doing something; it’s happening. There will be more than two dozen performances by regional acts, with awards doled out for the best local releases of the past year as well as a special Local Spins award for “emerging artist of the year.” (View a list of nominated albums and songs online here.)
Top Honors: WYCE will dole out awards to the best regional releases of 2017. (Photo/Kendra Kamp)
The predecessors of the music community of West Michigan, of WYCE radio, of our community, started this 19 years ago and we get to continue it in 2018. That’s a success.
Will 12 people show up? Will 100? 1,000? No idea. But we all worked hard, all for the sake of music. The players worked hard, the recording engineers worked hard, the WYCE programmers worked hard, the Intersection staff, the production crew, this community worked hard in 2017, all for the sake of music, radio and art in 2018, and we are going to celebrate.
I’ve attended the Jammies each year since moving to Grand Rapids, going as a fan and community member, as a WYCE programmer and in 2017, for the first time, as station manager.
Last year, I walked around nervous and confused, checking in on each work station, to which I would get the reply “Quinn, we got this, settle down.” So, I went to the side stage and watched the show and it was incredible, act after act. I stood five feet away from Lady Ace and JRob tearing the place up, I high-fived The Accidentals as they walked up the ramp to the stage. I was a fan; it was awesome.
Closing Out the Night: Desmond Jones plays this year’s after-party. (Photo/Derek Ketchum)
There are people that have been a part of this event for 19 years. That’s how this event happens, because of them. I’d say that’s what I’ve learned the most about the WYCE Jammie Awards: Leave it up to the pros.
I think I’m supposed to be at The Intersection by about 11 a.m. Friday. I already know my drive over there. Nervous. Excited. Am I the right choice for this job? Am I doing this right? Don’t mess this up.
But now I know that this event is about the community, the programmers, the volunteers and the musicians, so it’s gonna be fun. Let’s do this: Jammies XIX Friday at The Intersection.
Someone save me a spot in the beer line, please.
Have your own favorite local or regional release from 2017? Submit your choice(s) for local album or song of the year to john@localspins.com and it might get played on this week’s special Jammies edition of Local Spins on WYCE (88.1 FM) at 11 a.m. Friday.
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Lourdes Social News
The Social Committee are planning to run a family social in July and a fish and chips supper with entertainment for adults in October. Full details and arrangements will be announced in the bulletin in due course about these events; we welcome parishioner’s input on future events.
We have a good number of people who as helpers turn up on the night to assist in various ways but we really do need more people serving on the committee to help organise and run things, especially a few younger parishioners to get new fresh ideas, and parishioners who aren’t already involved in other things and would like to be. If you can help please contact Darrell (below) or the Parish Office.
The Margueriteville Country Music Club is run usually once a month at St James’ Church Hall to raise funds for the Lourdes Parish Centre. The next event will be the Club’s sixth birthday celebration on Saturday 4th July. Following last Month’s successful gig, another donation of £500 has now been made to the Parish centre fund, meaning that over £7,200 has been raised through the Margueriteville since it was formed in 2009.
Grateful Thanks to parishioners Bernadette Lane, Vita de Souza and Sandie Hippard who have helped Darrell in various ways in running the club. We welcome other parishioners’ support and help in running this and other social activities.
For more information on the Club and Lourdes social activities at the parish Centre please contact Darrell Binding on 07825686249 or email margueriteville@hotmail.co.uk.
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Christopher Robin Red Carpet Premiere – A Lovely Event!
by Myrah | Disney, Red Carpet Events
Disclosure: This post is part of my all expense paid trip to Los Angeles, CA provided by Disney, in exchange for coverage. However, opinions are 100% mine.
I attended the red carpet premiere for Christopher Robin, the new Disney movie releasing August 3rd! This is one of Disney’s most popular childhood stories of a boy and his little bear, Winnie the Pooh. Today I’m going to share a bit about my experience at Christopher Robin’s red carpet premiere at Walt Disney Studios!
Where was the Christopher Red Carpet Premiere?
As I had mentioned to you, I traveled to Los Angeles, California to experience this fabulous event. The red carpet was rolled out on part of the lot and closed off to the public for tours. It was so awesome to experience the magic right there at Walt Disney Studios lot in Burbank, California, as I mingled with actors, filmmakers, and their families!
What happened at the Christopher Red Carpet Premiere?
Mickey and Minnie Mouse were on the scene for photo opportunities. Behind the scenes, I was able to experience even more magic. There were honey sticks from the Honey Board, beach chairs from the promotional images and props from the film atop a picnic table. Hanging out at the beach with Jill and Winona!
Amazing Food Selections
I had such a blast enjoying food before watching the Christopher Robin film. The food was inspired by the movie. The food selections included little baskets of fish and chips with mac and cheese, fruit cups, honey cakes, and Mickey ice cream bars. All of that Christopher Robin inspired food kept me going while we waited to view the film.
Celebrity Sightings at the Christopher Red Carpet Premiere
It was super cool to spot the actors from the new Christopher Robin film that’s releasing in theaters on August 3rd. Christopher Robin is played by Ewan McGregor, who was found getting photos along the red carpet. Check out the stars of Disney’s “Christopher Robin,” Ewan McGregor, Hayley Atwell, Bronte Carmichael, Jim Cummings and Brad Garrett joined director Marc Forster!
BURBANK, CA – JULY 30: (L-R) Actor Brad Garrett, Director Marc Forster, actors Jim Cummings, Ewan McGregor, Bronte Carmichael, Hayley Atwell and Songwriter Richard M. Sherman attend the world premiere of Disney’s ‘Christopher Robin’ at the Main Theater on the Walt Disney Studios lot in Burbank, CA on July 30, 2018. (Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images for Disney) *** Local Caption *** Brad Garrett; Jim Cummings; Marc Forster; Ewan McGregor; Bronte Carmichael; Hayley Atwell; Richard M. Sherman
It’s interesting that this film allows you to see Christopher Robin all grown up. His wife is played by Hayley Atwell, who was on scene at the Christopher Red Carpet Premiere too.
Even Winnie the Pooh was on the scene, yes! The little-stuffed bear from the Christopher Robin film was on the red carpet for photo opportunities.
Richard Sherman was on the scene, and if you don’t think you know who that is, you may be wrong. Richard Sherman is the composer of most of Disney’s songs. He is best known for the following Disney Songs:
MANY Winnie The Pooh Songs
Charlotte’s Web
The Slipper and the Rose
“It’s a Small World (After All)”
Who plays each character in Christopher Robin?
Ewan McGregor as Christopher Robin
Hayley Atwell as Evelyn Robin
Bronte Carmichael as daughter Madeline Robin
Jim Cummings voices both Winnie the Pooh and Tigger
Brad Garrett as Eeyore
Toby Jones as Owl
Nick Mohammed as Piglet
Peter Capaldi as Rabbit
Sophie Okonedo as Kanga
Christopher Robin arrives in theaters everywhere on August 3, 2018. I hope that you’ll hit the theater and enjoy this heartwarming tale of a boy all grown up.
About Christopher Robin’s New Movie
A working-class family man, Christopher Robin, encounters his childhood friend Winnie-the-Pooh, who helps him to rediscover the joys of life.
The opportunity to enjoy this sweet movie with those who poured their heart into the creation of it is just a treasure. The energy of a room full of filmmakers, actors, and their families while the movie plays is magical. I cannot wait to take my family, but I am happy that I got to see it at the premiere.
Stay connected via Social Media:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DisneyChristopherRobin/
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What a wonderful experience and opportunity. The movie is just darling. The whole world will fall in love with Pooh bear all over again. BTW I love the dress!
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TechCrunch: Healthcare wearables level up with new moves from Apple and Alphabet
February 4, 2019 Manager Mint MediaEntrepreneur, TechCrunch, Technology
Announcements that Apple has partnered with Aetna health insurance on a new app leveraging data from its Apple Watch and reports that Verily — one of the health-focused subsidiaries of Google‘s parent company — Alphabet, is developing a shoe that can detect weight and movement, indicate increasing momentum around using data from wearables for clinical health applications and treatments.
For venture capital investors, the movea from Apple and Alphabet to show new applications for wearable devices is a step in the right direction — and something that’s been long overdue.
“As a healthcare provider, we talk a lot about the important of preventative medicine, but the US healthcare system doesn’t have the right incentives in place to pay for it,” writes Cameron Sepah, an entrepreneur in residence at Trinity Ventures. “Since large employers largely pay for health care (outside of Medicaid and Medicare), they usually aren’t incentivized to pay for prevention, since employees don’t stay long enough for them to incur the long-term costs of health behaviors. So most startups in this space end up becoming an expendable wellness perk for companies. However, if an insurer like Aetna keeps its members long enough, there’s better alignment for disseminating this app.”
Sepah sees broader implications for the tie ups between health insurers and the tech companies making all sorts of devices to detect and diagnose conditions.
“Most patients relationship with their insurer is just getting paper bills/notifications in the mail, with terrible customer satisfaction (NPS) across the board,” Sepah wrote in an email. “But when there’s a way to build a closer relationship through a device that sits on your wrist, it opens possibilities to partner with other health tech startups that can notify patients when they are having mental health issues before they even recognize it (e.g. Mindstrong); or when they should get treatment for hypertension or sleep apnea (e.g. Cardiogram); or leverage their data into a digital chronic disease treatment program (e.g. Omada Health).”
Aetna isn’t the first insurer to tie Apple Watch data to their policies. In September 2018, John Hancock launched the Vitality program, which also gave users discounts on the latest Apple Watch if they linked it with John Hancock’s app. The company also gave out rewards if users changed their behavior around diet and exercise.
In a study conducted by Rand Europe of 400,000 people in the U.S., the U.K., and South Africa, research showed that users who wore an Apple Watch and participated in the Vitality benefits program averaged a 34 percent increase in physical activity compared to patients without the Apple Watch. It equated to roughly 5 extra days of working out per month.
“[It will] be interesting to see how CVS/Apple deal unfolds. Personalized health guidance based on a combination of individual medical records and real time wearable data is a huge and worthy goal,” wrote Greg Yap, a partner at the venture capital firm, Menlo Ventures . But, Yap wrote,I’m skeptical their first generation app will have enough data or training to deliver value to a broad population, but we’re likely to see some anecdotal benefits, and I find that worthwhile.”
Meanwhile the types of devices that record consumer health information are proliferating — thanks in no small part to Verily.
With the company reportedly working to co-develop shoes with sensors that monitor users’ movement and weight, according to CNBC, Verily is expanding its portfolio of connected devices for health monitoring and management. The company already has a watch that monitors certain patient data — including an FDA approved electrocardiogram — and is developing technologies to track diabetes-related eye disease in patients alongside smart lenses for cataract recovery.
It’s part of a broader push from technology companies to tie themselves closer to consumer health as they look to seize a part of the nearly $3 trillion healthcare industry.
If more data can be collected from wearable devices (or consumer behavior) and then monitored in a consistent fashion, tech companies ideally could suggest interventions faster and provide lower cost treatments to help avoid the need for urgent or emergency care.
These “top of the funnel” communications and monitoring services from tech companies could conceivably divert users and future healthcare patients into an alternative system that is potentially lower-cost with more of a focus on outcomes than on the volume of care and number of treatments prescribed.
Not all physicians are convinced that the use of persistent monitoring will result in better care. Dr. John Ioannidis, a celebrated professor from Stanford University, is skeptical about the utility of monitoring without a better understanding of what the data actually reveals.
“Information is good for you provided you know what it means. For much of that information we have no clue what it means. We have absolutely no idea what to do with it other than creating more anxiety,” Dr. Ioannidis said
The goal is to provide personalized guidance where machine learning can be used to identify problems and come up in concert with established therapeutic practices, according to investors who back life sciences starups.
“I think startups like Omada, Livongo, Lark, Vida, Virta, and others, can work and are already working on this overall vision of combining real time and personal historical data to deliver personalized guidance. But to be successful, startups need to be more narrowly focused and deliver improved outcomes and financial benefits right away,” according to Yap.
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Bitglass Raises $70 Million to Monitor and Secure Employee Devices
PRNewswire April 9, 2019, 3:55 pm April 9, 2019
Bitglass, a Campbell, California-based startup developing a cloud service that helps to protect corporate data, announced that it’s raised $70 million in series D funding from new investor Quadrille Capital and existing investors FutureFund, New Enterprise Associates, Norwest, and Singtel Innov8, bringing its total venture capital raised to around $150 million. It follows on the heels of a $25 million series B in 2014 and a $45 million funding round in January 2017, as well as a $10 million series A in 2013, shortly after its launch.
CEO Nat Kausik said the capital infusion will fuel Bitglass‘ product development and customer acquisition efforts well into the coming months. “Cloud and mobile are driving business data beyond the firewall, introducing new security and compliance risks … [and] cloud adoption is disruptive of incumbents securing networks, servers and other infrastructure,” he said. “Bitglass uniquely delivers real-time inline data protection in the cloud, at access, and on any device … Our [system] uniquely secures against data leakage and threats without installing more hardware and software.”
Kausik, an IT industry veteran who served as principal scientist at HP from 1989 until 1997, founded and sold several startups to conglomerates like Cisco before joining forces with CTO Anurag Kahol in January 2013. The two met at Juniper Networks, where Kahol was director of engineering.
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Genetic Evidence Linking Age-Dependent Attenuation of the 26S Proteasome with the Aging Process
Ayako Tonoki, Erina Kuranaga, Takeyasu Tomioka, Jun Hamazaki, Shigeo Murata, Keiji Tanaka, Masayuki Miura
Ayako Tonoki
Department of Genetics, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
Erina Kuranaga
Department of Genetics, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, JapanJST, CREST, Tokyo, Japan
Takeyasu Tomioka
Jun Hamazaki
Laboratory of Protein Metabolism, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
Shigeo Murata
Keiji Tanaka
Laboratory of Frontier Science, Core Technology and Research Center, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8613, Japan
Masayuki Miura
For correspondence: miura@mol.f.u-tokyo.ac.jp
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.01227-08
https://doi.org/10.1128/MCB.01227-08
American Society for Microbiology Journals
Received August 5, 2008
Returned for modification September 8, 2008
Accepted December 1, 2008
Published online January 27, 2009.
Accepted Manuscript version (December 15, 2008).
Ayako Tonoki1,
Erina Kuranaga1,2,
Takeyasu Tomioka1,
Jun Hamazaki3,
Shigeo Murata3,
Keiji Tanaka4 and
Masayuki Miura1,2*
1Department of Genetics, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
2JST, CREST, Tokyo, Japan
3Laboratory of Protein Metabolism, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
4Laboratory of Frontier Science, Core Technology and Research Center, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8613, Japan
↵*Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Genetics, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan. Phone: 81-3-5841-4860. Fax: 81-3-5841-4867. E-mail: miura{at}mol.f.u-tokyo.ac.jp
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Steady-state physiological variations across a graded series of Na,K-ATPase-amplified cells.
P G Pauw, R N Sheck, J F Ash
P G Pauw
Department of Anatomy, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City 84132.
R N Sheck
J F Ash
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.9.1.116
Measurements of internal ion concentrations, amino acid pools, and membrane potential were made across a series of HeLa subclones which are amplified for the genes for the sodium- and potassium-activated ATPase (Na,K-ATPase). These subclones expressed heterogeneous levels of ouabain-binding sites, allowing us to construct a graded amplification series. While [K+]i levels did not vary systematically across the series studied, [Na+]i ranged from 9 to 20 mM as a function of Na,K-ATPase expression. Steady-state accumulation of tetraphenylphosphonium in low versus high potassium was used to measure membrane potential. Values for [Na+]i and the membrane potential were used to calculate the sodium electrochemical potential, which was also found to be a function of Na,K-ATPase expression. Measurements of acid-soluble amino acid pools in cell lysates demonstrated that amino acids which are substrates for sodium-dependent transport systems, or which can potentially exchange through system L for a substrate of a sodium-dependent system, varied as a function of the sodium electrochemical potential. This confirmed our prediction of increased amino acid pool sizes in Na,K-ATPase-amplified lines based on observations of elevated flux through the sodium-independent system L. Finally, we measured lactate production and glycolytic potential in a subset of clones and found that both were reduced in subclones with elevated Na,K-ATPase.
Molecular and Cellular Biology Jan 1989, 9 (1) 116-123; DOI: 10.1128/MCB.9.1.116
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Fear and Learning
Essays on the Pedagogy of Horror
Fear and Learning quantity
SKU: 9780786468201 Categories: Education, Film, Genre, Horror, Literature, Popular Culture & Performing Arts, Social Sciences
This groundbreaking collection of new essays presents critical reflections on teaching horror film and fiction in many different ways and in a variety of academic settings—from cultural theory to film studies; from women’s and gender studies to postcolonialism; from critical thinking seminars on the paranormal to the timeless classics of English horror literature. Together, the essays show readers how the pedagogy of horror can galvanize, unsettle and transform classrooms, giving us powerful tools with which to consider interwoven issues of identity, culture, monstrosity, the relationship between the real and the fictional, normativity and adaptation. Includes a foreword by celebrated horror writer Glen Hirshberg.
Aalya Ahmad teaches at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, and has published work on zombie fiction. She lives in Gatineau, Quebec.
Sean Moreland has published numerous essays, primarily on literary and cinematic horror, as well as poetry and short fiction. He is chief editor of Postscripts to Darkness (pstdarkness.com), and is on the editorial board for the Edgar Allan Poe Review.
Edited by Aalya Ahmad and Sean Moreland
Bibliographic Info: notes, bibliography, index
Foreword by Glen Hirshberg 1
Introduction: Horror in the Classroom
Aalya Ahmad and Sean Moreland 5
Postmodernism with Sam Raimi (or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Theory and Love Evil Dead)
Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock 19
Towards a Monster Pedagogy: Reclaiming the Classroom for the Other
John Edgar Browning 40
When the Women Think: Teaching Horror in Women’s and Gender Studies
Aalya Ahmad 56
Acts of Re-Possession: Bollywood’s Re-Inventions of the Occult
Possession Film
Sean Moreland and Summer Pervez 75
Beyond the Lure: Teaching Horror, Teaching Theory
Brian Johnson 95
A Raven’s Eye View: Teaching Scopophilia with Dario Argento
K. A. Laity 124
The Hulking Hyde: How the Incredible Hulk Reinvented the Modern Jekyll and Hyde Monster
Lance Eaton 138
Critical Thinking on the Dark Side
Lisa Marie Miller 156
“Inside…Doesn’t Matter”: Responding to American Psycho and Its Dantean Agenda
Miles Tittle 179
In the Dark of Your Own Psyche: Jungian Theory and Horror
J. A. White 200
Skins and Bones: The Horror of the Real
John Edward Martin 224
The Pedagogical Value of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein in Teaching Adaptation Studies
Ben Kooyman 245
About the Contributors 265
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Intel Outlines Itanium Roadmap
Friday Jun 15th 2007 by Andy Patrizio
Intel highlighted its planned route from Montecito to Poulson, with scheduled stops in Montvale and Kittson.
Intel today extended its roadmap for the Itanium processor, affirming its commitment to the EPIC technology chip through several revisions over the next few years. The company is looking to increase its core and thread count, as well as incorporate some technologies from other products.
Diane Bryant, vice president of the digital enterprise group at Intel said on a conference call that the Itanium product line has two separate teams working on different versions. One team consists of developers involved in HP's PA-RISC (define) chip, while another team in New England is made up of former developers of the DEC Alpha processor.
Compaq purchased DEC in 1998 and sold off the Alpha line to Intel in 2001 shortly before HP bought out Compaq. HP ended its Itanium development efforts in 2004 and Intel acquired that staff.
Itanium has been slowly ramping up, Bryant noted, and now accounts for 63 percent of the RISC market. Itanium systems revenue in 2006 were $3.4 billion, a 40 percent growth over 2005 revenues.
Intel released the dual-core Itanium 2, code-named Montecito, in July 2006. The Itanium ecosystem has grown to 12,000 applications, a 100 percent growth from 2005 to 2006, and most of those apps run on either Windows or Linux.
Intel is on track to release Montvale, the follow-up processor to Montecito, in the second half of 2007. Not much was said about it, considering the chip is close to release. Bryant mentioned improvements only in reliability as a notable feature.
She did talk at length about Tukwila, due in late 2008. It will be twice as fast as the current processors, feature four cores, hyper-threading technology supporting up to eight threads per core, large on-die caches, integrated memory controllers that do away with the front-side bus (like Nehalem will do on the desktop) and new memory error detection.
This feature is called Double Device Data Correction (DDDC), a RAS (define) capability that enables a memory DIMM to continue operation even if it suffers two sequential DRAM device hard-errors, i.e. chip failures. Today, some systems can keep running if one chip on a DRAM stick fails, but if two chips fail, the whole DIMM fails and can crash a system.
After that will come Poulson, which will be the first new Itanium architecture since the Itanium 2 was introduced in 2002. Poulson will emphasize scalability, performance, reliability and flexibility with more cores, more threads and more instructions per cycle. Poulson will be based on 32nm designs, skipping 45nm entirely.
Beyond that is Kittson, which will increase parallelism and add even more cores and threads. Bryant did not say when Intel hopes to release Poulson and Kittson.
Bryant then introduced Tod Wiederholt, manager of systems development for McKessen, a health care services provider. As a long-time HP customer, McKessen opted to upgrade its servers, so it chose to migrate to Itanium. So far, the Montecito processors are filling the company's needs quite well.
"We saw dual core was coming out and started to see a need in our servers we were hitting our max utilization. Some system were hitting 80 percent utilization," he said. One upgrade later and that 80 percent CPU utilization dropped to 20 percent.
"That was like taking yourself out of a 100 horsepower Chevette and into a 400 horsepower Corvette."
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Mumbai, India - October 9, 2018 - Netflix Inc., the world’s leading internet entertainment service announced today that the Original Series Selection Day will launch globally on December 28, 2018.
Based on Aravind Adiga’s novel of the same name, Selection Day is a coming-of-age drama about two brothers who are raised by their strict, obsessive father to be star cricket players in India. It’s a moving story about ambition, love, acceptance and finding your own path.
The cast includes Mahesh Manjrekar (Slumdog Millionaire, Kaante), Ratna Pathak Shah (Love Per Square Foot, Lipstick Under My Burkha), Rajesh Tailang (The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Mukkabaaz) and introduces newcomers Yash Dholye and Mohammad Samad as brothers Radha and Manju Kumar.
Simran Sethi, Director, International Originals, Netflix, said, “We are excited to share this joyous and emotional coming of age story with India and the world. Selection Day is an amazing opportunity to expand our array of programming after the exciting debuts of Sacred Games and Ghoul”.
Anil Kapoor, Producer said “With Selection Day, Netflix is once again bringing Indian talent onto the world stage. India is a land rich with stories and we can now share these across the globe. I can't think of a better way of bringing people together.”
Anand Tucker, Producer, said, “When I read Aravind Adiga’s beautiful and brilliant book, I felt that this was a story that deserved a global stage. I hope audiences from Minnesota to Mombasa to Mumbai will all love this show. The fantastic creative partnership we have with Netflix has enabled us to bring this universal story of family, cricket and coming of age to thrilling life.”
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Fourteen-year-old Manju is destined for cricket greatness. There’s only one problem, he hates cricket. Controlled from a young age by his overbearing and cricket-obsessed father, Manju’s main role in life is to support his older brother and fellow cricket star, Radha. When the family moves to Mumbai and the brothers start at a new school, Manju discovers his interests outside of cricket and starts slipping away from Radha and his father’s grasp. More importantly, Manju becomes friends with Radha’s greatest cricket rival, a boy who is the very definition of freedom and confidence - concepts Manju has never experienced himself.
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The growth in urban event spaces like The Goei Center, shown here, allows event planners to offer unique venues tailored to the needs of their clients. Photo by Katy Batdorff
Event spaces proliferate in response to growing demand in West Michigan
BY Mitch Galloway Sunday, October 29, 2017 12:17pm
Athriving business climate and renewed interest in communities across West Michigan have sparked increased demand for event space throughout the region.
In Grand Rapids alone, more than 140 event spaces dot the landscape, according to data from Experience Grand Rapids, the local convention and visitors bureau. The facilities range from traditional venues like the Amway Grand Hotel and chic urban spaces like Studio D2D or The Goei Center to intimate settings at former restaurants that have been converted to host events.
“It’s growing very fast,” said Tim Nelson, the director of convention services at Experience Grand Rapids. “We have a lot of new event spaces recently opened and more opening.”
Among the recent entrants is a second space at Studio D2D at 401 Hall Street SW, which added its City View venue in December 2016 to complement its Loft setting. According to owner Dan DeWard, the growth of firm’s business drove the need to develop the additional space.
“With the volume of referral business we receive from our previous clients and guests who have attended our events, the two venues work very well,” DeWard said. “Being located in the same Grand Rapids historical building but far enough apart that the two parties don’t overlap while events are going on is perfect.
“Plus, many repeat clients like to work with us on multiple events, so having the two venues provides an opportunity for repeat clients to mix it up while at the same time receiving our high level of planning and service.”
DeWard and wife Andrea DeWard have been in the wedding and events business for more than 20 years. Their business offers many lines of service to clients, including a photo studio, floral/decor studio and tuxedo services, to name a few.
“It allows us to streamline the process for our clients and provide them a good price for any additional services needed,” DeWard said.
The ability to offer a range of services under one roof also has paid dividends for Noto’s Old World Italian Dining on 28th Street SE in Cascade Township. According to co-owner Joann Noto, the company added on 13 years ago to allow it to host more corporate events, family events, reunions, weddings and holiday parties. Today, the facility boasts more than 42,000 square feet that can be used for events of all sizes, she said. The main floor of the restaurant can be reserved for 700 people, an upstairs area can seat 250 people, and a wine cellar has capacity for another 110 people.
“We are very lucky about our location — having everything under one roof makes it a lot easier,” Noto said. “It gives people a lot of flexibility. Occasionally, we close down the restaurant for banquet space. Depending on the event, we have done multiple levels. … It can work really well for those larger groups.”
Noto also credits ample free parking, the 35 nearby hotels and the business’ proximity to the Gerald R. Ford International Airport as key factors clients have cited in selecting the facility for events.
BECOMING A DESTINATION
With events like ArtPrize and the State Games of America, coupled with the city’s vibrant beer and food scene, Grand Rapids has become an ideal spot to host corporate events, Jeff Hainer, senior research analyst at commercial brokerage firm Colliers International, wrote in an email to MiBiz.
“As Grand Rapids continues to accumulate accolades, we are beginning to gain exposure as more than just a middle-market city,” Hainer said. “While size-wise we are still middle-market, we are definitely well in advance of many of our peers in terms of entrepreneurship, philanthropy, and progressive thinking government officials and business leaders.”
As Grand Rapids becomes a destination city, Hainer said, “event space is needed.”
“People are coming here to have events; so companies dedicating real estate specifically for events makes sense,” he wrote. “It is happening. But it’s because of the demand for it that we have created.”
Hainer cited Waldron Public House, Peppino’s and Brann’s as examples of businesses transitioning to include event spaces or catering. The same is true for the Gilmore Collection-owned Mangiamo, which closed as a restaurant in August to focus more on the events business, according to reports.
SATURATION POINT?
As more event space options come online in recent months and years, some in the industry worry the market could be approaching the point of saturation, particularly as restaurateurs seek new opportunities outside of the highly competitive segment.
“Yes, there is a huge demand for space, but downtown Grand Rapids is a little flooded right now with restaurants,” said Kim Lemmen, the director of catering and special events at the Grand Rapids-based Gilmore Catering, a part of the Gilmore Collection. “A lot of companies are going in this direction because restaurants have so much competition. There is so much competition downtown, so (restaurants) go into catering and event spaces.”
If a restaurant or hotel has a space big enough for events, Noto said it makes economic sense for them to consider marketing their facility.
“I think they all have a need for something,” Noto said. “Everybody wants to do it. We are seeing a lot of pop-up spaces — like pop-up barn weddings. Those maybe are more trendy and may go away. When you have a location you can do everything in, it helps. We do all of our food here — one person can take care of everything. It’s different with other spaces that have separate (services).”
Nelson at Experience Grand Rapids said holding events also provides restaurant owners another way to connect with new customers.
“For restaurants and breweries, events are often a great way to get people into their business for the first time,” he said.
“I am sure there is a saturation point, but I don’t know where that is,” Nelson added. “I think a lot of this demand of event space is this fuel for Grand Rapids. We have a lot more groups coming downtown, creating additional downtown revenue, not just for event spaces but for all spaces downtown. Grand Rapids is becoming known for food and beer, which are popular and lend themselves to events.”
ADDRESSING A NEED
The trend toward creating more event space has even pushed well beyond the Grand Rapids metro area.
In Sawyer, Mich., about 15 miles south of St. Joseph, the owners of the Clean Plate Club — who also own the adjacent Greenbush Brewing Co. — opted to convert the restaurant into an event space after a year and a half in operation.
Greenbush founder and CEO Scott Sullivan said the company opted to make the change at the request of customers and out of a desire to alleviate the swings of operating a business in a seasonal tourist town.
“In our case, it’s a couple of things,” he told MiBiz of the decision. “We were getting so many requests for events and catering. In the summertime, (business is) fine, but in the off season, it dies. And there definitely is a huge demand for the space with the amount of people who travel to West Michigan.”
The 1,800-square-foot Clean Plate Club, which seats 80 people inside and an additional 30 people outside, now focuses on corporate and special events, catering and rehearsal dinners. Although it’s in the early stages of transition, the company already has bookings into next year for the event space, Sullivan said.
“We have something every week, and we want to build it into something more,” he said. “It helps when everything is done in-house.”
OFFERING OPTIONS
As more bars and restaurants and even retail stores like high-end fashion boutique A.K. Rikk’s open their business model to hosting corporate events, it’s offering event planners more options when seeking out unique experiences for their clients, according to Nelson at Experience Grand Rapids.
“People are looking for more than a chicken dinner in a banquet room. Beer flights with locally sourced food pairings set in a brewery are more appealing,” he said. “I think we are seeing a lot more demand for non-traditional event spaces. There was a time when banquet rooms were the norm. We are not getting those calls now. People are expanding their view of what an event space is.
“They want to do more unique spaces … and a lot of people are adding spaces.”
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System Issues (Action/Submission & Discussion)
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The full Board convened at 7:30 a.m.
Roll Call indicated a quorum present.
Regents Present: Lynn Morrison-Hamilton, Christian Hur Vice-Chair, Ed Jasmin Chairman, John Mercer, Richard Roehm, Mark Semmens, Lila Taylor. Also present was Commissioner Sheila Stearns
Regents Absent: Governor Judy Martz ex officio, and Superintendent of Public Instruction Linda McCulloch ex officio.
Regent Hamilton MOVED for APPROVAL of the Minutes of the November 20-21, 2003 Regular Meeting in Bozeman, MT.
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Economic Roadmap work plan – Sheila Stearns / Dave Gibson
Dave Gibson indicated that working with Commissioner Sheila Stearns, Pam Joehler from the Legislative Division, and the PEPB committee they had developed two themes for this issue. First is the opportunity for the MUS to take on a new greatly expanded role in the economic development of the state. The second is the unique opportunity the MUS has to bring people together from around the state. The university system will need to leverage the strength of what it does well. There also needs to be a process that involves a variety of people to obtain their buy-in, and the Board of Regents must agree to take the lead. The proposal has two phases. By May, a leadership group for oversight, and a project work group will be pulled together. The leadership group will report to the Regents to see if they are on track. Subgroups of the Project Work Group will be formed to work on a variety of issues, and Pam Joehler will interface with the legislative side. Pam Joehler noted that in the documents provided, PEPB is listed as the legislative committee, however the appropriate players need to be discussed next week at the PEPB meeting. She indicated it was necessary to take this to a higher level. Commissioner Stearns added that involved in the first bulleted item would be Arlene Parisot of OCHE, and in the second bulleted item Bruce Marks of GSL. Regent Semmens said he hoped the team would also focus on the resources that would be required to meet these goals. He requested they realistically assess the fiscal implications. Regent Hamilton asked if EDAG would be able to help with the community research. Dave Gibson replied the group had been disbanded since it was too large and unable to focus or come to an accord. It is necessary for the Board to go forward with things over which they have authority and control in order to accomplish anything. Regent Roehm noted he found no businessperson on the list. Dave Gibson indicated he was open to modify the group, but wanted to keep it limited in size so it will function.
Regent Hur MOVED APPROVAL of the concept.
Regent Mercer asked if the Governor was interested in this proposal. Dave Gibson indicated she had not seen the final document due to a family emergency, but she is supportive of, and committed to the concept. Regent Mercer urged Dave Gibson to visit with the Governor for her concerns. He asked Pam Joehler to get together with the Legislative Council and PEPB to cover all the issues she raised. Pam Joehler indicated the Council meets tomorrow and then again in March. If this is what the Board desires, time is of the essence. She requested Regent Mercer and Dave Gibson join her at the meeting. Regent Mercer suggested that if this proceeds, previous members of EDAG should be contacted and complimented on the work they had done, and suggest that this is a continuation of the work they began and they will be kept informed. He stated they focused on the economic development of the state, but the other concept is how to save money. Is there a better way to punish criminals than to send them to jail, or are there ways to prevent crime? There are many other areas and these should be kept in mind while working on the development of the plan. Dave Gibson indicated they were asking the Board for approval of the process at this time.
Regent Hur MOVED ADOPTION of the concept.
Regent Hamilton requested the group bring to the Board a budget to accomplish the goals, and a source of funding.
Motion APPROVED UNANIMOUSLY on 7-0 vote.
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Non-beneficiary students Memo
Chief Dull Knife CC – Richard Little Bear / Bill Wertman
Salish Kootenai CC – Joe McDonald / Robert Peregoy
Rod Sundsted reminded the Board they had adopted a new process a few months ago that dovetails into the legislative budget. They are preparing an early list of ideas to be submitted to the Governor by May. There is more work to do, and they have two more meetings. They need to get the Community Colleges included in the process. Regent Semmens noted the Budget Committee meeting of the previous day was productive. They are now asking the campuses to take the direction given at that meeting, and to solicit information from staff to further refine the proposals. They are also asking OCHE to synthesize these suggestions to pull them together. Rod Sundsted and Commissioner Stearns will solicit input from outside entities on how the MUS can do a better job of meeting the needs of Montana and will present a report at the March 25-26, 2004 meeting. Regent Mercer noted they want to change the approach of the legislature to the budget process, to recognizing how these proposals can promote the economic development of the state and its citizens. He believes no progress will be made until the budget review culture is changed to looking at economic benefits. As an example, rather than presenting tuition as a burden to families, it should be shown what economic impact is made on the state if these students can remain in Montana. When talking to the legislators and taxpayers, it is necessary to point out the return on their investment in the MUS through those who choose to stay in-state. If non-resident enrollment is regained, it results in $70 million put back in the Montana economy. This has not been used as part of the debate. Another component is timing, and by the time the legislature convenes, all the budget decisions are made. It is necessary to involve policy makers in the Board’s ideas prior to those decisions being made. Regent Taylor commented it is very difficult to change a mind set. She stated she is still wearing her legislative hat, and is having difficulty herself changing that mind set, but she is getting there. Regent Roehm asked that compensation, recruitment and retention be added to this category as they proceed. He indicated that Commissioner Baker had a scheme that included everyone in the process. Regent Semmens indicated that was also a subtopic and encouraged those in attendance to give thought to creative ways of funding. Beyond the process, it was agreed that at the next meeting they will present recommendations for mandatory reports that can be discontinued. Regent Hur noted that faculty salaries and maintenance issues are looming over the MUS, and he asked how much more resident tuition could be raised before their enrollment drops off like the non-resident students’ has. Regent Semmens stated that over the last ten years, Montana’s non-resident tuition ranked 8th out of the nine area states, but today is first in cost. There are now 1000 fewer non-resident students.
Non-beneficiary students
President Richard Little Bear and Bill Wertman of Chief Dull Knife College, and Robert Peregoy, Associate Vice President of Salish Kootenai College made presentations to the Board of Regents with the request that they continue to advocate for a line item for non-beneficiary students at the tribal colleges during the budgeting process. They do not recruit non-beneficiary students since their mission is to serve the reservations, but they have open enrollment and refuse no one. One reason non-beneficiary students attend the tribal colleges is the low tuition cost to them. Another is most of the reservations are in very remote areas, which makes them the local source of higher education. Non-beneficiary students have access to the same scholarships that tribal members do. Chief Dull Knife College awarded 15 grants last year, with 11 of those going to non-beneficiary students. Bob Peregoy explained that Salish Kootenai College is the most highly impacted of the tribal colleges by non-beneficiary students. The population on the reservation is 3 non-tribal to 1 tribal member. In the last three years, 41% of their graduates have been non-beneficiary. For the various health programs, they have spent $1.9 million dollars to graduate these non-beneficiaries. The tribal colleges are limited by the legislature to $1500. Congress has authorized $6,000 per year for beneficiary students, but has never appropriated that amount. The most it has ever appropriated is $4,220, which was allocated for AY 2002-03. This is only 70% of the amount authorized. He also requested the Board of Regents advocate during the budgeting process for a line item for non-beneficiary students at the tribal colleges. Regent Semmens indicated the arguments and rationale provided were valid and sound, and the Budget committee will be working through the process until May.
ITEM 122-114-R0104 – Quality Benchmarks Committee – Roger Barber Membership List
Deputy Commissioner Roger Barber gave a background report on the creation of the committee. He noted that three positions had not been named on the copy previously mailed. He added Senator Greg Barkus to # 13, and Dennis Bud Williams to # 19. He also noted the community colleges had been overlooked and would like to be represented.
Regent Hamilton MOVED APPROVAL of the list of members, to move the process forward, and requested Roger Barber bring a Charge to the Committee to the Board.
Regent Semmens asked for an amendment for flexibility to add up to three additional members.
Regent Mercer asked an amendment to add up to five additional members.
Regent Hamilton indicated she would be agreeable.
Motion to APPROVE with up to five more members APPROVED UNANIMOUSLY on 7-0 vote.
Deputy Commissioner Roger Barber advised the Board he had a draft Charge to the Committee and passed it to the Board. Commissioner Stearns said the next step will be to flesh out the membership, look at the charge and define the working sub-groups. They will present a report at the March meeting. They already are assembling materials for the committee.
It was agreed that following a 15 minute break, the Board would look at the Charge to the Committee, and Roger Barber could present his recommendation.
The meeting recessed for a 15-minute break.
The Board reconvened at 10:00 a.m.
Regent Roehm MOVED Adoption of the Charge to the Committee as presented.
Regent Semmens requested the committee gauge quality on common issues across the system, with the differences being blended into the report.
Motion to ADOPT Charge to the Committee APPROVED UNANIMOUSLY on 7-0 vote.
END SYSTEM ISSUES
ADMINISTRATIVE/BUDGET ITEM
ITEM 122-1022-R0104 – Authorization to Name the School of Journalism Building Don Anderson Hall; The University of Montana-Missoula
There was discussion on the merits of this item. President Dennison indicated that if the State refuses to cover the O&M on the new building, UM will pick it up themselves. However, he will continue to ask them for help since it is a state building that is being built with outside funds.
Regent Roehm MOVED APPROVAL of Item b.
ACADEMIC/STUDENT AFFAIRS ITEMS
ITEM 122-115-R0104 - Writing Proficiency Recommendation – Jan Clinard (co-presenters: Beverly Ann Chin Professor, The University of Montana; Bruce Messinger, Superintendent, Helena Public Schools; Greg Hirst, Teacher, Wolf Point High School; Mary Moe, Dean, MSU-GF COT; possibly another teacher: Geoff Proctor, Teacher, Helena High School Background Budget Letters of Support Questions and Answers
Jan Clinard, Director Academic Initiatives related the history of this project which has far exceeded the hopes of those involved. It was intended to use ACT to take over this project, however a new test will be marketed without the factors needed for Montana. Dr. Clinard requested the Board allow postponement of a specific recommendation on ACT and SAT scores until they are able to evaluate the new one. Beverly Ann Chin explained that the assessment grew from higher education requirements, as OPI evaluated their standards, and brought them into alignment. She believes the Writing Assessment benefits MUS in four ways. First, prospective students have explicit entry requirements which are aligned with K-12 requirements. Second, the writing assessment may be chosen as basis for freshmen placement. It is a bridge between instructional assessment and the curriculum. Third, this can be used for all beginning teachers in K-12 to prepare them for the classroom. One hundred and twelve volunteers gained profound understanding and took more responsibility for writing. Last, every teacher has a tool that can show them how students grow as writers and thinkers. They value assessment as a positive and productive opportunity. Dr. Chin noted that Montana is a national leader in discussion and collaboration between P-20 because of this program. Greg Hirst, an enrolled Blackfeet tribal member, is a certified English teacher. He has been a lifelong reservation resident, and is now at Wolf Point. Their current enrollment is 50% tribal members. In the first year of the pilot program, the assessment was low, but there was a dramatic improvement the second year. He indicated he was surprised this hasn’t happened before now. He believes this is the best way to provide the best education to students, as the growth in their scores indicates. Bruce Messinger, Superintendent of the Helena School District noted he has been on this committee for many years. The value of the protocol is the valid measurement tool it provides. This has been a capstone experience for their students. They intend to continue following the lead of MUS in aligning standards. Regent Roehm explained to Greg Hirst that when this issue was first raised a few years ago, both then Regent Conroy and her successor Regent Wetsit voted against implementation of a writing assessment since it lacked sensitivity to the cultural issues of Native American students and other minority students. In response to a question from Regent Roehm, Greg Hirst responded that the teachers and students have seen the improvement using this assessment tool, and know they can, and want to do even better. As an educator, he wants to see all students do their best. Two years ago, they had a student who failed the writing assessment, but is now a 4.0 GPA student at The University of Montana. Regent Semmens indicated he was a great fan of assessment, and that it does not limit access but enhances student success. As with the mathematics standards, there are separate standards for traditional and non-traditional students. Dr. Clinard recommended the Board continue the program, but requested support to form a consortium in the future. Regent Semmens requested she present a recommendation to the Board on how to manage the consortium. Roger Barber reminded the Board there will be additional costs along the way, which they will need to support and approve. He also noted that out of state campuses may not accept Montana’s writing assessment in lieu of SAT or ACT scores. Regent Hamilton said this is a star of cooperation between the systems.
Regent Hamilton MOVED ADOPTION of the recommendation, postponement of dates to set SAT and ACT standards, and that funding be provided from the Regents’ set-aside.
Regent Hur complained that $87,000 is about 35 student scholarships, and asked why it was the Board’s job to make sure that K-12 does their job. Regent Semmens replied that it is appropriate for the Board to share the responsibility. All benefit from the program and shared sense of responsibility, and suggested comparing the requested funding to the cost of remedial education across the MUS.
ITEM 122-102-R0104 Revision of Guidelines Determining Level of Involvement of BoR in Academic and Research Proposals – Roger Barber Attachment
Regent Hamilton MOVED APPROVAL of Item a.
Regent Hamilton commented that the Academic world is missing the presence of the Academic/Student Affairs Committee where they could work through some of these issues more thoroughly.
Motion APPROVED UNANIMOUSLY on 7-0 vote as amended.
ITEM 122-113-R0104 - Revision of Admission Policies – Roger Barber Attachment A Attachment B Attachment C Attachment D Attachment E
Deputy Commissioner Roger Barber explained the process he followed to draw all of the policies on Admission into two policies, one for resident and one for non-resident students. He worked with the two-year campuses, and has shared this with the Chief Academic Officers and the Student Affairs Officers. He expects to bring the final version to the Board for action in the next couple of meetings. Regent Mercer urged Dr. Barber to look at the requirements for foreign students to be tested for medical ailments, while non-foreign students receive an exemption if it is too much of a burden. He also noted the religious exemption to this requirement, and indicated that no one should be able to introduce a disease to the campuses.
Additional work will be done on a report on admissions policies in general.
Updated College Prep Exemption Report – Roger Barber
Deputy Commissioner Roger Barber reminded the Board this report had been prepared for a number of years, but the structure of the report did not provide the information needed. He walked them through the new format. Some campuses admit a few more than the 5% allowable because the conversion is not the same. He also found students admitted to the two year programs, or who were non-declared that were not included. Further, there is no report after the first year. He requested the Board advise him of the information they want included in the report. Regent Semmens requested tracking for retention and graduation rates for this group. Mary Craigle indicated there remain some problems with the data provided in the data warehouse. They are working for a common set of definitions and codes to be used across the system to achieve more accurate reports. Regent Mercer asked if there was a report available on the number of students that apply but are not admitted under this policy. Mary Craigle indicated that report has not been developed yet, however the campuses have that information.
Deputy Commissioner Roger Barber briefly explained a few of the items included in the Level I memo. Programs that are being discontinued at one campus are being continued at other campuses, since the market for certain degrees is region specific.
Level II Memo
Regent Hamilton commented on the problems with the Level II items since there is no Academic/Student Affairs Committee. Commissioner Sheila Stearns said that some of the proposals need more analysis than what the staff and CAOs can provide. She will work with the Board to create a subcommittee for more thorough discussion.
With time short, the Board agreed to take up the Level II memo again on Friday morning.
The meeting recessed at 12:05 for Regents' lunch with student leadership, followed by a meeting with Faculty Senate representatives.
The Board of Education convened at 2:00 and adjourned at 4:00 p.m.
The Executive Session in regard to MSU proposals for Honorary Degrees was moved from Friday to 4:00 p.m. Thursday, following the Board of Education Meeting.
ACADEMIC/STUDENT AFFAIRS ITEMS continued
ITEM 122-112-R0104 – Enrollment Caps – Regent Roehm
Regent Roehm noted this is the revised version of the item presented at the November 20-21, 2003 meeting. He also added “the campuses of” to the final paragraph.
Regent Roehm MOVED APPROVAL of Item d. as AMENDED
There were no questions on the Level I memo.
Deputy Commissioner Roger Barber told the Board these are items which will come before them at the next meeting for action. Regent Hamilton indicated there were very important issues included in the level II items, including the clinical capacity on nursing proposals, nursing content, common core requirements, and general education requirements. Regent Roehm indicated the proposal for doctorate programs raises the red flag. He noted there is a vacuum caused by the loss of the Academic/Student Affairs Committee, and he believes the Board is not giving adequate oversight or feedback on the direction they want for academic programs. He requested the Commissioner look at possible mechanisms to provide more detailed oversight. Regent Hur questioned the lack of a proposal for a Minor in Military Sciences at UM, while MSU has their minor coming up in a couple of months. He understood the proposal at UM was defeated because some professors are against the war in Iraq. Provost Muir indicated that under accreditation, it is important for faculty to oversee the curriculum. There are issues about the nature of courses to be included in the curriculum. Dave Pattison, a member of the review committee for this proposal indicated the article in the Kaimin was in error. There were only three possible military science courses available, and the rest were political science and history. Professor Knowles stated they had made it clear the decision had to be made on the academic merits of the proposal. Regent Mercer said it could be an advantage to have an Academic/Student Affairs Committee, but he would like at least to have the documents attached to the Level I and Level II memos. Regent Hamilton suggested the need for some sort of forum, perhaps meeting the day before the Board meeting.
It was agreed that Commissioner Stearns and Deputy Commissioner Barber will work on the process for Level II items and will suggest alternatives to the Board.
END ACADEMIC STUDENT AFFAIRS
ADMINISTRATIVE/BUDGET ITEMS continued
ITEM 122-1010-R0104 – Authorization to Name the Transfer Station Building the Marlice McMahon Transit Center; The University of Montana-Missoula
Regent Mercer MOVED APPROVAL of Item a.
ITEM 122-108-R0104 – Revision of Policy 901.10 – Retirement Revolving Account – Rod Sundsted Attachment
Regent Hur MOVED APPROVAL of Item c.
ITEM 122-110-R0104 – Revision of Policy 940.1 – Residency; Montana University System - Lynn Hamilton Memo
Regent Hamilton MOVED APPROVAL of Item d.
ITEM 122-101-R0104 – Compliance with Military Selective Service Act – Rod Sundsted Memo
Regent Semmens MOVED APPROVAL of Item e.
ITEM 122-109-R0104 – Montana Family Education Savings Program; Changes in Investment Options – Rod Sundsted
Regent Taylor MOVED APPROVAL of Item f.
ITEM 122-2005-R0104 – Authorization to Expend Equipment Fees; Montana State University-Bozeman
Regent Roehm MOVED APPROVAL of Item g.
Regent Roehm requested the Budget Committee review the lower limit of $25,000 for approval by the Board, in order to lift it to a more contemporary rate.
ITEM 122-2006-R0104 – Authorization to Renovate Portions of Cooley Lab; Montana State University-Bozeman
Regent Roehm MOVED APPROVAL of Item h.
ITEM 122-2008-R0104 – Authorization to Renovate Portions of Roskie Hall; Montana State University Bozeman
Regent Roehm MOVED APPROVAL of Item i.
ITEM 122-2009-R0104 – Authorization to Paint Existing Auxiliaries Facilities; Montana State University-Bozeman
Regent Mercer MOVED APPROVAL of Item j.
ITEM 122-2007-R0104 – Authorization to Construct, Maintain, Repair and Replace New and Existing Parking, Street and Access Facilities; Montana State University-Bozeman
Regent Mercer MOVED APPROVAL of Item l.
ITEM 122-2010-R0104 – Authorization to Renovate Portions of Marsh Lab; Montana State University-Bozeman
Regent Roehm MOVED APPROVAL of Item k.
ITEM 122-2015-R0104 – Approval of University System/Employee Joint Venture; Montana State University-Bozeman
Chief Legal Counsel LeRoy Schramm took the opportunity of this item to make suggestions for the future. He had no problem with the item itself. He noted that the policy lists what should be included in these proposals. These points are buried in the narrative rather than being specifically answered. He presented a rough format he had drawn up for these proposals, which would present more detailed information to the Board. It was the consensus of the Board that this would provide more needed information. It was understood that some of the scientific information is proprietary and cannot be divulged in the item. Regent Semmens said it would be helpful to have a 45 minute presentation from Tom McCoy and Dan Dwyer giving an overview of what is going on now, what looks promising, federal resources, and what the campuses are doing that could be leveraged as an asset.
Regent Roehm MOVED APPROVAL of Item m.
Regent Semmens indicated it would also be helpful to develop general guidelines on how these are structured, such as licensing fees in relation to milestones, royalties, and the split between the campus and the faculty member. He requested a presentation at the upcoming meeting.
ITEM 122-2016-R0104 – Authorization to increase the current unrestricted fund authority of Fire Services Training School by $41,697.56 and $5,119.04 for FY 04 and FY 05 respectively to accommodate the funding that will be transferred to the agency from MSU-Bozeman.
Regent Taylor MOVED APPROVAL of Item n.
Post-retirement contract – Rod Sundsted
Rod Sundsted gave the Board a heads-up on two post-retirement contracts that will be written. One is for LeRoy Schramm and the other for Laurie Neils. They must wait 30 days after retirement to take advantage of these contracts. Further, they are limited to 960 hours/year at their current salary. Commissioner Stearns indicated she would like the sense of the Board on this issue so she would know if this was a possibility. Regent Roehm noted the Board hires the Commissioner, and task her to perform a variety of functions, and she can hire whomever she wants to hire. He suggested that this type of information be listed as information only in the weekly summary of activities which the Commissioner provides to the Board.
Space Needs – SAF/OCHE/MGSLP – Update - Jim Stipcich / Sheila M. Stearns
Jim Stipcich indicated that this was also a heads-up item. The last time they discussed this issue was at the May, 2003 Board of Regents’ meeting. SAF will need to hire 150 to 200 more employees in the next two years. There are currently parking difficulties with the expansion that has already taken place. The property to the east of the building is not available, and the property to the west is very expensive. SAF has already started shift work to relieve the congestion, and more will be going on shifts. He noted they are in negotiations with lease options. They are looking at financing issues, credit issues, and space needs for the next ten years. He will return to the Board at the March 25-26, 2004 meeting with a full plan for their action.
END ADMINISTRATION BUDGET
a. MIEA Annual Indian Education Conference – Ellen Swaney / Patty LaPlant
Ellen Swaney introduced Cheryl LaPlant, daughter of Patty LaPlant who was unable to attend the meeting. Ms. LaPlant provided handouts on the conference and invited all the board members to attend. Ms. Swaney indicated that when the call to conference with more details is available it will be provided to the Regents so they will be able to select sessions that would interest them.
END PUBLIC COMMENT
a. ITEM 122-100-R0104 – Staff; Office Commissioner of Higher Education
b. ITEM 122-1000-R0104 – Staff; The University of Montana Missoula
c. ITEM 122-1500-R0104 – Staff; Montana Tech of The University of Montana
d. ITEM 122-1600-R0104 – Staff; The University of Montana-Western
e. ITEM 122-2000-R0104 – Staff; Montana State University-Bozeman
f. ITEM 122-2001-R0104 – Authorization to Confer the Title of Professor Emeritus of Chemistry upon Professor Edwin H. Abbott; Montana State University-Bozeman
g. ITEM 122-2002-R0104 – Authorization to Confer the Title of Professor Emeritus of Extension upon Clair Del Guerra; Montana State University-Bozeman
h. ITEM 122-2003-R0104 – Authorization to Confer the Title of Professor Emeritus of French upon Douglas Daniels; Montana State University-Bozeman
i. ITEM 122-2004-R0104 – Authorization to Confer the title of Professor Emeritus of Extension upon John Maki; Montana State University-Bozeman
j. ITEM 122-2300-R0104 – Staff; Agricultural Experiment Station
k. ITEM 122-2400-R0104 – Staff; Cooperative Extension Service
l. ITEM 122-2700-R0104 – Staff; Montana State University-Billings
m. ITEM 122-2701-R0104 – Authorization to Confer the Title of Professor Emeritus of Mathematics upon Professor William Self; Montana State University-Billings
n. ITEM 122-2800-R0104 – Staff; Montana State University-Northern
o. ITEM 122-2850-R0104 – Staff; Montana State University-Great Falls College of Technology
Regent Roehm moved APPROVAL of all staff items.
Labor Agreements/Other:
a. ITEM 122-103-R0104 – Approval of Tentative Agreement with Helena Teacher’s Union; Office Commissioner of Higher Education Memo Agreement
b. ITEM 122-104-R0104 – Approval of Tentative Agreement with Montana Nurses Association; Office Commissioner of Higher Education Memo Agreement
c. ITEM 122-105-R0104 – Approval of Tentative Agreement with The University of Montana-Western Faculty Association; Office Commissioner of Higher Education Memo Agreement
d. ITEM 122-107-R0104 – Approval of Tentative Agreement with AFSCME Local 2235; Office Commissioner of Higher Education Memo Agreement REMOVED FROM AGENDA
ITEM 122-106-R0104 – Montana Rural Physicians Incentive Program; Office Commissioner of Higher Education
Regent Roehm moved APPROVAL of items a., b., c. and e.
END CONSENT AGENDA
Please see attached reports
END STUDENT REPORTS
COMMISSIONER' REPORT
Commissioner Stearns presented to the Board an overview of a systematic process in the two-year legislative cycle. She noted that each component is in draft form, as is the time-line from one session to the next. She requested input with ideas to refine the process. Commissioner Stearns pointed out the check list for legislative contacts made by the Regents, a list of stakeholders in MUS, and said there would be feed-back cards asking how the MUS can help. They will build on the work done by EDAG, and provide a report at each Board meeting. She asked the Board if they wanted one-page throw-away presentations, or something more sophisticated. They are preparing a set of message slides which can be tailored to the audience. Regent Semmens thanked Commissioner Stearns and noted this is exactly what the Board needs to do. He recommended putting together a straightforward spiral bound flipbook with a logical flow. It would cover the opportunity of investing in the MUS, and present all the facts that should be known to convince the audience of the soundness of the investment. The presentation could be 20 to 25 minutes long. He believes it would be a mistake to have a handout that was 50 to 60 pages long. Supplementary materials could be provided on quality, spending, funding, student affordability, economic impact, and other facts that justify the investment. He hopes they soon are agreed on a key message, and that there are specific assignments and deadlines, with the inherent ownership to follow through. Commissioner Stearns indicated that Cathy Conover and Bill Johnston were taking notes, and she thanked the Presidents for the carte blanc use of their UR people. Regent Mercer indicated the work the budget committee is doing needs to be included in the book to show the return on investment. Regent Hamilton said they need to clarify their objectives. They have a good platform for working with the legislature, but she hopes they don’t ignore the long-term strategy to reach the voter. There are a number of misperceptions that need to be addressed.
END COMMISSIONER'S REPORT
DISCUSSION WITH CAMPUS CEOs
Regent Semmens asked why there were different academic start dates on the various campuses. It was explained that it had to do with transfer between the units. More information will be provided by OCHE.
END CAMPUS REPORTS
ELECTION OF BOARD CHAIR
Regent Jasmin resigned his position as chairman of the Board since his term as a Regent expires on February 1.
Regent Hur became the acting Chair and asked for nominations.
Regent Roehm made the following statement:
Elections in democracies are a time to chart new directions, and to support the will of the majority.
Regent Mercer will be nominated to be our next Chair. I am certain there will be no other candidates. Therefore, as the sole candidate, I suggest the Board elect him by affirmation.
This Board has recently embarked on many new and excellent initiatives that I believe will bring positive results. We do not need a power struggle on the Board at this time, even though the press would like to see a “cat fight.” We do not need a power struggle to divert our focus from governance and progress.
We need cohesion and cooperation on this Board, to most efficiently meet our obligation to the fine members of the University System and to the people of Montana.
The acting chair deemed the foregoing a nomination of Regent Mercer and there was no objection. The chair then asked if there were additional nominations. There being none, the chair declared the election complete whereupon without objection Regent Mercer was named the new Chair
a. Resolution of Appreciation to Regent Ed Jasmin
Regent Hamilton moved ADOPTION of item a.
Motion approved UNANIMOUSLY on 6-0 vote with Regent Jasmin abstaining
b. Resolution of Appreciation to LeRoy Schramm
Regent Jasmin moved ADOPTION of item b.
With no further business to come before the Board, the meeting adjourned at 12:15 p.m.
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Bristol Antifascists
news and information on the fight against fascism and the far-right in Bristol and beyond
by bristolantifascists - May 15, 2019 May 15, 2019
No platform for fascism or bigotry
We are pleased to announce that Bristol UWE have cancelled the debating event and platform for fascist, misogynistic scumbags, Milo Yiannopoulos and Carl Benjamin aka Sargon of Akkad. While this is great (and saves us wasting our milkshakes), and a testament to the power of collective organising and pressure, their stated reasons for pulling the event, “security concerns”, are a disgrace. In UWE’s statement there was nothing about concerns over giving a platform for and enabling far right figures to spout bigotry and thinly veiled hate speech. Of course the UWE debating society and UWE as an institution would predictably justify it all as taking a stand for “free speech” but as militant antifascists who understand the history of fascism and how it grows, we know where this approach leads us. Fascists worldwide and throughout history have always used “free speech” as a shield to gain power. And once they do, see how quickly their much heralded “free speech” disappears for anyone who disagrees with them. It’s giving a platform for fascist, white supremacist views that emboldens fascists and leads to murderous attacks such as what we saw in Pittsburgh, Christchurch, London and so many other places where fascist terrorism has shocked the world. Fascism is not to be debated. It needs to be smashed.
The racists and fascists will be enraged by this cancellation and removal of their platform. The debating society appears similarly annoyed on their twitter yesterday (14th May):
“UWE Debating Society were informed earlier today that the University has withdrawn support for our EU elections hustings. We are still in communication with @UWEBristol and @TheSUatUWE to allay any concerns they have. We are continuing to prepare for Friday’s event.”
Keep your eyes and ears open in case they try to get the event reinstated or to hold a speaking event in an alternative venue in Bristol. Let’s be ready. Antifascists assemble!
by bristolantifascists - May 9, 2019
Swansea demo report
This report comes from our comrades in South Wales:
“On Saturday the 27th of April, antifascists from across South Wales joined Swansea Antifa to oppose the far-right. UKIP-rejects “For Britain” had called for a march in Swansea, while fascist wannabe-hooligans boasted of coaches to join them from London. The coaches never showed-up, and their “march” amounted to 30-odd For Britain and DFLA types huddled around a crap PA. Under the protection of the police they remained in a corner of the old Norman castle – an appropriate spot for right-wing British nationalists.
Though billed as a plain “Brexit” demo, For Britain’s anti-Muslim and anti-migrant agenda was as obvious as ever. Typical of the far-right, the party scapegoats and attacks already persecuted groups. Their policies push for further state violence against refugees and more welfare cuts against those trying to survive on benefits. Their racism is blatant. The last time For Britain leader Anne Marie Waters spoke in Swansea (to a hidden mass meeting of ten) she talked of the supposed threats faced by the white “racial group”. Her previous transphobic remarks were also repeated by a fellow-speaker on Saturday.
As antifascists, we spent most of the day keeping an eye on smaller groups of fascists strutting around. Later we joined other protesters, including those from Women’s Strike Cymru and the Socialist Party, who confronted the rally from across the street. With more of a whimper than a bang, For Britain eventually packed their bags and left – and after some macho-posturing and mouthing off from afar, their nastier friends went without a goodbye.
Stand up to Racism had organised their own rally nearby. Typically, they tried to pull protesters away from any real confrontation with the far-right and keep everyone well-behaved in front of their official stage. It was encouraging to see that most people would rather shout at fascists than stand there listening to the Swansea council leader. The Socialist Workers Party, which form Stand up to Racism, have a history of covering-up rape inside their party and are happy working with the police and state-institutions. We maintain that antifascism must be feminist and cannot co-operate with the racist state. Only direct action and community organising can beat back the far-right.
The day showed that it is always worth while for antifascists to mobilise. Left unopposed, the far-right is given free-rein to attack who they like – as those stray groups of fascists might have. Far-right mobilsations may remain small in South Wales, but the racist vandalism of a home in Swansea that same morning shows that there’s little to celebrate. Bashing Muslims and immigrants has been normalised by the politicians already in power. Meanwhile, austerity keeps grinding down the working class. Neither Corbyn or a “People’s Vote” will save us – we need a real, fighting movement, on the streets, in our communities and in the work-place. No pasaran!”
by bristolantifascists - April 29, 2019
They are not alone!
19th April marked the 124th day of Imam Sis’ indefinite hunger strike, and 7 members of Bristol anti-fascists went on a 24 hour fast in solidarity with him. 4 of the group travelled to Newport to visit the Kurdish community centre and fast with 30 or so others. Imam Sis is a friend and comrade to some members of the group, and the Kurdish struggle is something we have always believed in.
Imam is one of thousands participating in this hunger strike to end the isolation of Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan. It is understood that peace talks with Turkey cannot go ahead without the democratically supported Kurdish leader.
As we write this, it is the 131st day of Imam’s strike and the 167th day for Leyla Guven (elected MP imprisoned in Turkey for voicing critique), among thousands of others. With 9 already lost and the situation being critical for so many more, the time to act is now.
Support the demo called by the Bristol Kurdish Solidarity network on 8th May at 6pm, meeting at the fountains. Spread the word!
You can also find out more about how to take action by following Kurdish solidarity network on social media.
Read about Imam’s hunger strike here: https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/voices/abdullah-calan-erdogan-imam-sis-welsh-parliament-a8846926.html%3famp
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Swansea demo tomorrow!
Support antifascists in South Wales organising against a fascist rally in Swansea tomorrow. Help make sure the streets are ours!
Plymouth fascists exposed
Nazi Gaven Hewett
We have received this thorough and well researched expose of far right activists in the Plymouth area. See link below. It’s good to see concerted efforts to put the bad people under pressure and make life more difficult for them.
Hateful Al Holbeach
Good work comrades! No space for neo nazis or fascist scum.
https://reallyfreespeech.noblogs.org/post/2019/04/21/far-right-active-for-plymouth-exposed
by bristolantifascists - March 24, 2019 March 24, 2019
ANNA LIVES ON – REMEMBERING IS FIGHTING!
Here’s our report on the awesomeness that was last Saturday’s march. #antifa #weareeverywhere #bristolisantifascist #ypg #ypj #annacampbell #womensliberation #martyr #kurdistan #afrin #rojava
On 16 March people gathered for a demonstration to remember Anna Campbell, who was martyred in Afrin, Syria, a year ago. Anna joined the Kurdish revolution in 2017 and fought with the YPJ (Women’s Protection Unit), who have been at the forefront in the fight against ISIS. She was killed by a Turkish airstrike. Women’s liberation, direct democracy and the environment are central to the Kurdish movement and echoed Anna’s own politics.
Around 150 people marched on the streets of Bristol, some having travelled from Belfast, Liverpool, London, Cornwall and Brighton to show their love for Anna and their support for all she believed in. Banners read ‘Remember Anna, keep fighting’, ‘Sehid Namirin’ (martyrs never die) and ‘Anna lives on in our hearts and our actions’. Many of the groups she was part of also came with their banners. The demonstration blocked roads around the city centre as it travelled down Bond Street, Bearpit roundabout and Bristol Bridge. Cops on horses and in riot vans attempted to block the march at several points.
There was a gathering at Hydra bookshop afterwards where the book ‘Immortal: mourning, martyrs and murals’ was launched. The book is a series of poems, photos, drawings, letters and other writings made by friends and comrades of Anna. Buy the zine here: immortalbook.bigcartel.com or support the crowdfunder: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/immortal
The following day there was also a demonstration in Cardiff, with banners hung from an occupied building. Other demonstrations have taken place around the world in the last few days, including in Rojava.
Thanks to everyone who came and supported the day in various ways. It was incredible to be amongst so many people who loved Anna, to walk and shout together. Seeing all the banners and people from different parts of Anna’s life was a powerful reminder of everything she did and stood for and everything we can, and do, achieve together.
Remembering is fighting! There’s lots going on to get behind. Imam Sis, a 32 year old Kurdish refugee living in Newport, South Wales, has based has been on an indefinite and irreversible hunger strike since 17th December 2018 along with many Kurdish activists in Europe, Kurdistan, and in Turkey and he will continue until the isolation of Kurdish leader, Abdullah Öcalan, ends. There are events coming up to support Imam and other hunger strikers coming up in the next weeks. Follow Bristol Kurdish Solidarity Network for more info: https://www.facebook.com/BristolKurdishSolidarity/.
On 28 March the Arms Fair is taking place in Farnborough. This will include UK arms companies supplying arms to Turkey. The fair has been forced to stop holding events in Birmingham, Bristol and Cardiff by massive protests. Join others to show the fair, and all it represents, is not welcome in Farnborough or anywhere! https://www.facebook.com/events/329767240996725/
by bristolantifascists - February 27, 2019
Anna is with us, we fight on!
Bristol Antifascists are joining with other radical groups and comrades in Bristol for a demonstration on 16th March to remember our comrade Anna Campbell and to show our shared commitment to all that she stood for and towards the better world she fought so hard for. Join us! Meet 2pm near the International Brigades plaque in Castle Park, between the church and the river.
15th March 2019 marks the first anniversary of when we lost Anna Campbell. Anna went out to Rojava, the Kurdish region of Syria, to join the Kurdish struggle against fascism. She was inspired by the revolution because of the politics of direct democracy, feminism and environmentalism and fought with the YPJ (Women’s Protection Units), who have been at the forefront in the fight against ISIS. Anna was killed by a Turkish airstrike whilst defending the city of Afrin.
Anna lived in Bristol before she left for Rojava, and throughout her life was active in many groups and causes, including prison abolition, feminism, anti-fascism and animal liberation.
Join with us to remember Anna and all those who have fallen in the struggle, and to take a stand for all that she, and we, believe in. The demonstration will be followed by a gathering at Hydra Bookshop, where Anna volunteered, to launch a zine made by Anna’s friends and comrades and to (hopefully) link up with the Internationalist Commune in Rojava. If you have ideas or contributions for the gathering please get in touch by email on bristolantifascists@riseup.net.
Friends, comrades and all those who wish to remember Anna and others are welcome.
https://alternativebristol.com/events/anna-is-with-us-we-fight-on/
by bristolantifascists - January 31, 2019
Rise up for Rojava demo report
Members of Bristol Antifascists joined a 300 strong demonstration in London on 27th January as part of the international days of action under the banner of “Rise up for Rojava”. Despite the driving rain and bitter cold the demo was fired up, loud and defiant as it was led by Kurdish youth and women. Inspired by the bravery and determination of the Kurdish hunger strikers (one of whom was on day 82!) and the ongoing resistance to the Turkish state, ISIS and the forces of fascism and capitalism in Rojava, we added our voices to the worldwide solidarity with the Rojava revolution. We heard how the previous day hundreds of protesters entered a Turkish military base in northern Iraq’s Kurdish region, setting fire to the facilities and vehicles and sacking the base after Turkish airstrikes killed civilians.
The demo started with a rally at the BBC, loudly and clearly condemning the corporation for it’s silence and complicity with the war on the Kurdish people. Shouts of “Wake up London, wake up UK!”, “Stop supporting terrorism, stop arming Turkey!” and “One solution, revolution!” amongst others went up all the way to Trafalgar Square, accompanied by Kurdish resistance music, speakers and plenty of flares. When the cops started massing numbers to snatch some Kurdish youth displaying their flags, word quickly went around to form a protective circle around them to prevent any arrests. The police thought better of it and backed down. Solidarity is our best defence and this was a very clear example of how we share the same enemies, from ISIS and genocidal states such as Turkey and the UK, to capitalism and it’s uniformed protectors. For international solidarity and antifascist resistance.
For more info and to get involved:
https://twitter.com/KurdishStudents
https://www.facebook.com/BristolKurdishSolidarity/
Here is the original callout for the international days of action. The call for action and solidarity still stands:
# RiseUp4Rojava – Call for global days of action on 27 and 28 January 2019
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by bristolantifascists - January 21, 2019 January 28, 2019
Solidarity with Russian antifascists
Members of Bristol antifascists joined a sizable solidarity demonstration in London last weekend to let antifascists in Russia know that they are not alone and not forgotten. Some 200 comrades met at the awesome Cable Street commemoration mural in East London where there were speeches about the severe repression and state brutality being endured by our comrades in Russia and the urgent need for international solidarity. Accompanied by a sound system blaring out motivational antifascist tunes and flares, the demo then went through residential and shopping areas distributing information, talking with local people about the situation and showing our solidarity. There were more speeches and a rally at Altab Ali park in Whitechapel. This park is named after a 25 year old Bangladeshi man murdered in a nearby street by racists in 1978. It was a fitting place to hold our rally, standing together in the face of an upsurge of fascist and racist demonstrations, violence and murders worldwide.
Russian anti-fascists and anarchists are being arrested, framed and tortured in a brutal wave of repression which has put eleven Russian anti-fascists behind bars, facing obviously fabricated charges which could see them jailed for five to twenty years each.
The repression began in autumn 2017 when six anti-fascists were arrested in Penza and had weapons and explosives planted on them. The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) tortured the anti-fascists in the pre-trial detention facility by electrocuting them, beating them and hanging them upside down. While torturing them, security chiefs forced the activists to memorise the testimony the FSB wanted them to give: that they were part of a fictional terrorist group called ‘The Network’.
Two more anti-fascists were arrested in St. Petersburg at the end of January 2018 and were also beaten, electrocuted and forced to incriminate themselves by saying they were members of ‘The Network’. A third person was accused in St. Petersburg and two more from Penza have also been arrested for supposed involvement in this make-believe organisation. The FSB claims that the detainees planned to arrange explosions during the presidential elections and the World Cup to “further destabilise the political situation in the country”.
After knowledge of the fabricated court cases and horrific torture became widespread, solidarity actions started to take place, but this led to more repression. Some Russian activists who took part were detained, electrocuted and had criminal proceedings started against them – just for expressing solidarity.
This repression of anti-fascists comes at a time when the Russian state are working with gangs of far-right thugs to repress the whole of civil society. One poignant example of this happened ten years ago, two Russian anti-fascists, journalist Anastasia Baburova and lawyer Stanislav Markelov, were murdered by fascists in broad daylight on 19 January. Every year, Russian anarchists and anti-fascists gather to remember them.
More info about the situation here: https://rupression.com/en/
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Jackie Evancho Net Worth 2019: Wiki Biography, Married, Family, Measurements, Height, Salary, Relationships
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Jackie Evancho Wiki Biography
Jaqueline Marie Evancho was born on 9 April 2000, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania USA, and better known as Jackie Evancho, she is a singer and actress who rose to fame due to her successful appearance in the television series “America’s Got Talent” in 2010.
So just how rich is Jackie Evancho? The sources state that Jackie’s net worth is estimated to be $2.5 million, accumulated during the short time since she came to prominence in 2009.
Jackie Evancho Net Worth $2.5 Million
Jackie Evancho was inspired to sing by the musical “The Phantom of the Opera”. Evancho launched her career by making appearances in local singing contests, nursing homes and different events in Pennsylvania. This took up so much time that she was schooled by internet, having previously attended Pine-Richlands school. Jackie Evancho attended professional singing lessons, participated in a Children’s Festival Chorus and launched her own YouTube channel.
Jackie Evancho’s busy career continued with the U.S.A World Showcase Talent Competition and Kean Idol competition. Evancho managed to become a runner-up in both of these events. Eventually, largely due to her YouTube videos, Jackie Evancho was noticed by a record producer David Foster and offered participation in yet another competition where she earned a second place. In 2009, Evancho took part in Foster’s concert in New Jersey, and later that year released her debut album called “Prelude to a Dream”. The album, mainly consisting of cover songs, peaked on the Billboard charts and gained Evancho an exposure to a wide public, as well as boosting her net worth. Jackie Evancho then went on to participate in the fifth season of “America’s Got Talent”, where she finished as a runner-up, only losing to Michael Grimm.
In 2010, Evancho signed a record deal with SYCO and Columbia Records, and later that same year released an official debut album called “O Holy Night”. At the age of 10, Jackie Evancho became the youngest solo artist to make a debut in the Billboard top 10. The album, certified platinum by the RIAA in the United States and Canada, sold over 239,000 copies during the first week and by 2011 a total of one million copies. It is estimated that Evancho’s earnings from this album alone amount to $1.3 million. To promote her album, Jackie Evancho was even invited to be interviewed by Oprah Winfrey onto her “The Oprah Winfrey Show”. The same year Evancho met President Barack Obama, and performed during a number of important events.
A year later, in 2011, Evancho released her second full-length album titled “Dream with Me”. The album was soon certified gold with 161,000 copies sold during its debut week. During her singing career, Jackie Evancho has now released a total of six studio albums, while her “Awakening: Live in Concert” album also ranked highly in Billboard’s top classical albums of 2014 and 2015.
In 2012, Jackie appeared in the film “The Company You Keep” with Robert Redford, and has also modelled for Justice Girls Clothing and GUESSKids. In 2011, Jackie Evancho was featured on a list of best-mannered people of the year, and became the youngest person to be honored with the Annual History Makers Award Dinner. In addition, Kean Quest Talent Search provides an award named after Jackie called “Jackie Evancho Award” to those contestants who show exceptional talents and abilities during the competition.
Full Name Jackie Evancho
Net Worth $2.5 Million
Date Of Birth April 9, 2000
Place Of Birth Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Profession Singer, Actor
Parents Lisa Evancho, Michael Evancho
Siblings Juliet Evancho, Rachel Evancho, Zach Evancho
Nicknames Jacqueline Marie Evancho , Jacqueline Marie "Jackie" Evancho , Jackie
Facebook http://www.facebook.com/jackieevancho
Twitter http://www.twitter.com/jackieevancho
Instagram http://www.instagram.com/officialjackieevancho
MySpace http://www.myspace.com/jackieevancho
IMDB http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3450022/
Allmusic http://www.allmusic.com/artist/jackie-evancho-mn0002532572
Movies The Company You Keep
1 Expressive gestures while singing
2 Double-handed wave
3 Mature singing voice
1 I have always despised people who thought they were better than others, and I made a promise to myself that I'd never turn into that kind of person. My family also helps to keep me grounded. Whenever I get a "diva moment," as they like to call it, they let me know it and say, "Stop acting like a diva!" They're pretty good at it, too.
2 I warm up with my mom and make sure I understand what the songs are about, and make sure I'm using the right technique. To be honest with you, I really don't practice a lot... Usually I say a prayer and ask the Lord to sing with me and help me and stand on the stage with me.
3 My parents don't want me to be exhausted. They let me stay home as much as possible so I can have my friends over.
4 Singing is my main goal, and I think philosophy will help me write songs.
5 We like to say [my voice] was a gift from God.
1 Jackie's 2010 EP "Oh Holy Night" made her the top-selling debut artist for 2010, the youngest solo artist to debut in the Top 10, the youngest person to have a Top 3 album and the youngest solo artist ever to go platinum.
2 Jackie has recorded two PBS specials, Great Performances: Jackie Evancho: Dream with Me in Concert (2011) (2011) and Great Performances: Jackie Evancho 'Music of the Movies' (2012) (2012) and a third will be released in 2014.
3 Jackie has recorded 5 studio albums to date. These albums are Prelude to a Dream (2009), Oh Holy Night (2010), Dream With Me (2011), Heavenly Christmas (2011) and Songs from the Silver Screen (2012). Her 6th studio album is in the works and will be released in 2014.
4 Has an older brother, as well as a younger brother and sister.
5 Her mother travels with her for Jackie's singing engagements.
6 Her education is by taking online courses.
7 She was America's Got Talent (2006) season 5 runner-up.
8 Last name is pronounced "ee-VANK-oh".
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno 2010-2011 TV Series performer - 4 episodes
Britain's Got Talent 2011 TV Series performer - 1 episode
The Company You Keep 2012 Isabel Grant (as Jacqueline Evancho)
She's Out of My League 2010 Extra (uncredited)
Ok! TV 2017 TV Series Herself
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The Company You Keep: New York Premiere Press Conference 2013 Video short Herself
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A Hollywood Christmas Celebration at the Grove 2011 TV Special Herself
Piers Morgan Tonight 2011 TV Series Herself
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Wizards of Waverly Place 2011 TV Series Herself
Hit Man Returns: David Foster & Friends 2011 Documentary Herself
NHL on NBC 2011 TV Series Herself - USA National Anthem Performer
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Jackie Evancho is worth her weight in 100 carat diamond, and just as rare. There just isn’t a more perfect singing voice for the 21st century. At 16 she is just beginning her career as “The Voice”.
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Brain imag(in)ing the make believe
I seldom get worked up over the fate of fictional characters. That said, I joined millions in horror as the infamous Red Wedding (or “Rains of Castarmere”) finally unfolded on screen in last week’s Game of Thrones. Having read the books, I’ve waited for the *spoilers/youknowwhat* with a mixture of dread and anticipation. When it finally came, it felt like my heart was ripped out, trampled and shredded into bits all over again.
Once sucked into a good story, we experience the entire rainbow of emotions alongside the protagonist. Why are stories SO emotionally powerful?
Neuroscientists have long known that stories activate parts of our brains associated with language and comprehension. However, the brain doesn’t stop at just “understanding” - it seems to “recreate” the story, in terms of neuronal activation. Reading about someone grasping, for example, strongly activates parts of the primary motor cortex representing hand movement (in fact, this area lights up even when non-literal phrases like “grasping at straws” are said, albeit to a weaker extent). This activation is fairly specific to the body part used; reading about “scratching an itch” won’t activate cortexes involved in foot motion. Neuronal “re-imagining” encompasses all senses: words describing scents (like “perfume”, “coffee”) lights up the olfactory cortex, as if the brain is trying to smell, while those that suggest touch activate tactile-processing circuits.
So are we also trying to recreate emotions during story time?
Our brains certainly respond to emotionally charged words, even when they’re presented in isolation of a story context. A central region involved is the amygdala, an almond-shaped structure deep within the brain that processes both fear and pleasure. Neuroimaging studies tell us words like “torture” or “happy” increase blood flow to the amygdala and stimulate the release of dopamine, while more neutral words (“pencil”) do not. This happens even when we’re not consciously processing the word. In a 2005 study, researchers flashed a string of words at epilepsy patients while recording from their brains. The words disappeared so quickly that the patients couldn’t say what they were – however, their amygdala still activated in response to “intense” words.
But stories are not a string of emotionally charged words. Gasps and shudders are evoked by a rollercoaster of chilling scenarios, often without any direct mention of words describing emotional states (for example, “I can hear his footsteps coming closer…” is pretty creepy, but each single word is completely innocuous). This high-level of understanding requires us to fully place ourselves into others’ thoughts and feelings, to experience the storyline from the characters’ point of views.
Theory of mind: I think that you're thinking this and that of me. Source: http://genealogyreligion.net/
In a 2011 meta-analysis of 86 fMRI studies, researchers found that neuronal networks involved in story comprehension overlapped remarkably with those used for social interactions, especially those where we try to infer the thoughts, motivations and emotions of others. This ability to reflect on other’s mental processes is called “theory-of-mind”, and many researchers propose that this ability allows us to experience fiction as if it’s reality. Many studies show that we tend to treat fictional characters like “real people”: the mere presence of them can relieve feelings of loneliness and isolation. However, story comprehension and theory-of-mind only partially share the same neuronal circuits, and we don’t know if those overlapping circuits are sufficient to produce a similar feeling of empathy. Based on imaging studies alone, it’s far too early to conclude that our ability to experience emotions from stories stem from our understanding of other human beings and social interactions (although I do see the appeal of this hypothesis).
What we do know is that we can get so worked up over a story that our bodies respond as if in stress. In a 2011 neuroimaging study, researchers played a recording of “The Ugly Duckling” while monitoring the subjects’ heart rate changes and brain blood flow with fMRI. (For those who didn’t grow up on fairy tales, “The Ugly Duckling” tells the story of a shunned duckling that eventually blooms into a beautiful swam.) They found that intense parts of the narrative, including both woeful and joyous segments, significantly increased heart rate and perspiration. At the same time, a whole network of brain circuits –including the amygdala and areas involved in auditory processing- lit up like fireworks. These networks are usually involved in simple auditory fear conditioning, where you learn to associate pain or terror with something completely innocuous (circus music, anyone?). This tells us that as complicated as stories are, emotional processing of narratives may utilize a very basic, evolutionarily conserved circuitry that may produce a physical response.
Emotional narratives trigger strong activation in the amygdala, temporal lobe, thalamus (network linked to emotional processing of sound stimuli) and other cortical regions, including language areas and motor cortices.
A general, sweeping conclusion is then stories trigger a basic emotional processing system in our brain. The more intense the narrative, the more this circuit activates, and the more we generate a physical arousal (no, not that kind) response to the story. Of course, emotions often don’t come from stories per se, but from memories triggered by the narrative. A story of betrayal, for example, would be much more emotionally challenging to someone who has suffered dishonesty before. I would love to see research on the interaction between our autobiographical memories and fictional literature in the future.
In the meantime, I'm eagerly looking forward to the new Game of Thrones season. It's going to be satisfying.
Bonus video:
Mikkel Wallentin, Andreas Højlund Nielsen, Peter Vuust, Anders Dohn, Andreas Roepstorff, & Torben Ellegaard Lund (2011). Amygdala and heart rate variability responses from listening to emotionally intense parts of a story Neuroimage, 58, 963-973 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.06.077
Mar RA (2011). The neural bases of social cognition and story comprehension. Annual review of psychology, 62, 103-34 PMID: 21126178
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Covert Farms Family Estate Wins Five Golds at International Organic Wine Awards 2018
July 27, 2018, 2:10 pm • Thompson Okanagan Tourism Association
OLIVER BC – Covert Farms Family Estate has taken home five gold medals and one silver for its 100 per cent organic estate grown and produced wines at the 9th annual International Organic Wine Award in Germany.
Competing against more than 1,000 organic wines from a record 28 countries, Covert Farms’ wines earned high marks in this growing international competition.
“This is the second year we have entered the competition and we are really proud of the results,” said Gene Covert, winemaker and co-proprietor of Covert Farms Family Estate with his wife Shelly. “This competition allows us to be measured against organic wineries around the world at a time when the international wine community continues to increase production of organically grown and produced wines. To continue to be acknowledged at a high level as the competition grows is fantastic.”
Under the red wine category, Covert Farms received two gold medals for the 2015 Grand Reserve Pinot Noir and Grand Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon, which were given 93 points and 92 points, respectively. The 2015 Grand Reserve Zinfandel was awarded 89 points and a silver medal under the red wine category.
The 2016 Pinot Blanc was awarded 91 points and a gold medal in the white wine category, while the Covert Farms Rosé, a blend of Pinot Noir and Merlot, was awarded 93 points and a gold in the rosé category. The Ancestral Pinot Noir, a petillant naturel or natural sparkling wine, was given 90 points and won gold in the sparkling wine category.
“We have dedicated our time to creating wines that honour the biodiversity of our ecosystem,” said Covert. “We share that commitment to the land through our wines. We are always excited when consumers, who may have yet to taste a natural wine or an organic wine, start to better understand the connection from their glass to the land and feel that same sense of pride in not just where their wine comes from but pride in how it was grown and made.”
Covert Farms was the only Canadian winery to enter the competition, which uses a combination of expert judges and a sensory evaluation system known as the PAR system.
Covert Farms has been making organic wines for more than a decade. The winery is located on a 650-acre parcel of land in Oliver. Covert Farms Family Estate is certified organic growers and producers of wine. They practice biodynamic growing and use indigenous yeasts whenever possible.
To purchase Covert Farms Family Estate wines online, visit www.covertfarms.ca
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The Interpreters (Part 1)
By تجربة Jul 8, 2014
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The interpreters who worked alongside American and NATO forces in Afghanistan are among our bravest and most loyal allies. They played an essential role in sourcing intelligence and educating Western troops about the local culture. Now they're being abandoned.
In Part 1, VICE News correspondent Ben Anderson speaks with Srosh, an interpreter that he first met in December 2010. They spent five weeks together as US Marines attempted to defeat the insurgency in Sangin — the most violent district of Afghanistan's most violent province. The Marines that Srosh worked for have since returned home, but he remains in hiding.
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NBA rumors: Two former Lakers could be Warriors options in free agency
Josh Schrock
NBC Sports BayArea• June 18, 2019
NBA rumors: Two former Lakers could be Warriors options in free agency originally appeared on nbcsportsbayarea.com
It's going to be an interesting offseason for the Warriors.
First of all, the Warriors have to figure out whether or not both Klay Thompson and Kevin Durant plan to re-sign.
It appears Thompson is a near-lock to re-up with the Dubs, choosing to take the five-year, $190 million max contract he's eligible for to remain with the team that drafted him. After tearing his ACL in the Warriors' Game 6 NBA Finals loss to the Toronto Raptors, Thompson likely will be out until around February if not longer.
Things are much murkier with Durant. Despite the Achilles tear he suffered in Game 5 of the NBA Finals, KD is expected to get max contract offers from a number of teams, including the Warriors. An exit from the Bay Area still seems like a possibility for the two-time Finals MVP. Even if he chooses to stay in Golden State, Durant will miss all of next season, so no matter his decision, Durant will not be suiting up for the Warriors next season.
Now that we've got that all sorted out, the Warriors will have to find a way to replace some of Thompson and Durant's production on the wings next season. After all, Steph Curry can't do it all.
Heading into the offseason, Golden State only will have the mid-level exception to use.
That will take a lot of options off the table, but two former running mates of LeBron James reportedly could be a possibility for the Warriors once the dust settles, according to The Athletic's Jordan Brenner.
The Warriors will have to wait and see which free-agent wings don't get the contract offers they are hoping for and then pounce, as they did with DeMarcus Cousins, and sources are telling Brenner that Kentavious Caldwell-Pope and Reggie Bullock are two wings that could be willing to take less to play for Golden State.
After the Lakers' season went up in flames last year, it's unlikely that either finds themselves back with the Purple and Gold, especially as LA looks to re-tool around James and Anthony Davis.
Caldwell-Pope, while a Klutch Sports client, never seemed to fit well alongside James. Bullock's shooting makes him a potential MLE candidate for the Lakers, but it seems more likely than not that Rob Pelinka will look elsewhere to fill his team's needs.
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Bullock, 27, is a typical 3-and-D wing, who could fit well in the Warriors' system. While he only hit on 37.7 percent of his triples last season, he shot over 40 percent in each of the two seasons prior.
As for Caldwell-Pope, he's an athletic wing who has shown the ability to put the ball in the basket. While his 3-point shooting (34.7 percent last season) leaves a little to be desired, he might not be a bad one-year option for the wounded Dubs.
It will be interesting to see where the Warriors go to patch up their injury-ravaged roster.
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Mystery..Who deposited Rs 70 lakh fake currency in Gujarat bank?
Ahmedabad: City police on Monday lodged a complaint against unidentified persons who had deposited Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICN) having face-value of Rs 68.47 lakh in various banks in the city in last three months.The FIR has been registered by the Special Operations Group of the city police after it received the quarterly report from 16 different banks and also from the Reserve Bank of India on details of fake notes having face value of more than Rs 68.47 lakh being deposited in the months of October, November and December, said ACP, city SOG, B C Solanki.According to him, most of these fake notes were in the denomination of Rs 500 and Rs 1000.
"Ninety-nine per cent of these notes are of Rs 500 and Rs 1000 denomination which have been banned. People also deposited fake notes of Rs 10, Rs 20, Rs 50 and Rs 100 during last three months in 16 banks, including RBI, nationalised banks and private sector banks," said Solanki.Being the nodal agency to probe cases related to FICN, city SOG gets quarterly reports from all the banks for further action on the deposit of such notes.
"According to the report, these notes were deposited by unidentified persons at these banks before as well as after the Centre's move to scrap high value currency. Three private sector banks received maximum number of such notes during that period," said Solanki.
Though it is very difficult to identify the culprits by scanning all the CCTV footages of each bank, Solanki claimed that serial number on these notes can provide a crucial lead.
"We are having a record of all those persons who were caught with FICN in the recent past. We can crosscheck if some of them had also deposited fake notes having same serial number in these banks before getting caught with remaining notes by the SOG in the past," said Solanki.
In the previous three quarters, SOG was informed by the banks that fake notes worth Rs 1.41 crore were deposited between January and September, for which, FIRs were registered by the agency earlier, said Solanki. (PTI)
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LaLiga panel discussion: How to produce talent
Football | 24 JUN 2019
The secret to producing football talent: From global partnerships to teaching life skills
LaLiga joined talent development gurus from top European clubs to discuss how academies can best cultivate young players for future success.
Managing cultural differences, forming strong partnerships with local institutions and seeking improvement in coaching are key pillars of LaLiga’s grassroots projects.
For football to develop in any country there needs to be a depth of playing talent that creates competition for places at domestic clubs, drives up overall standards and improves the ability to compete internationally. To achieve this, a strong grassroots infrastructure is essential.
But while every nation sets out to develop the next football superstar, grassroots programmes remain complex to implement and sustain. There’s a need to boost participation and to create a bond with the young players that keeps them engaged. On top of this, the standard of coaching must be constantly reviewed and improved.
These elements were at the centre of a discussion about the future of football talent, held at Soccerex China and attended by some of the world’s leaders in sports development. Among them was Carlos Casal, LaLiga’s Senior Specialist in sports projects development, who has spent over two years developing grassroots projects in China as well as assisting many global federations in building their own programmes.
Strong partnerships
From Casal’s point of view, the key to success depends on multiple groups coming together, citing the example of Spain where local clubs play a central role in the management of academies. “It is very important to have a system of partnership that creates a link to your local club or institution,” he says.
“In Spain, football development is principally based on the club model, meaning that kids feel part of their local side from a young age. Whatever country you are in, I think that should be present in each football system.”
With different countries in different states of football development, there is a need to adapt to local context, but partnership should remain the ultimate aim. In the case of China for example, the sport primarily takes place in a school setting, after the Ministry of Education made football development a key part of its curriculum.
“Chinese parents, they now see football as part of the education of their kids,” Casal noted. “When we came to China, we started working with the ministry of education. This allowed us to reach as many kids as possible.”
Whether forming links with clubs or with schools, the strategy creates a local identity and shared purpose which can keep youngsters excited in the sport. “One of the aims for all human beings is to feel a part of a community,” Casal added. “You want to represent your hometown, your region or your community and feel proud of that.”
Looking overseas
After forming such local partnerships, the next step is to build international links in order to review and share best practice. Looking overseas for inspiration can be a particularly valuable step in understanding the different state of football development on a global scale.
“You need to show that football is very complex and there needs to be research and study,” Casal remarked. “You should always be prepared to take best practice from other countries and not assume that you have the best model.”
For this reason, LaLiga has spent recent years forming close working relationships with football federations, clubs and leagues around the world, building a network of expertise that will improve the standard of the game and protect its future.
“If you want to develop football very quickly, you might focus on what is happening in the likes of Spain, France, the Netherlands and Germany. But the state of football development in other countries is not the same as in Western Europe, so you may need to adapt your way of training and your tools.”
Continuous coaching education
With participation levels now increasing, there is a need to ensure that young players are receiving the best possible coaching. As Casal explained, this requires a deep local knowledge coupled with a willingness to embrace change.
“There isn’t a 100-page book that teaches you how to manage an academy,” Casal pointed out. “You have to adapt to the context. You have to first of all study where you are. You have to study what your players are like. After that, go step by step and implement your method.
“As a league, we try to set the common points of our clubs’ methodologies, in terms of football development. But you can’t use all of the methodology that you’re using in one country because it will not be successful everywhere.”
Since LaLiga arrived in China in 2015, the league has trained up over 6,000 coaches through various partnerships. The idea is that these coaches can then go out and spread LaLiga’s country-specific methodology. However, LaLiga’s responsibility doesn’t end when the courses finish. “We keep in touch with the coaches and keep exchanging knowledge and different exercises,” Casal explained.
There is an onus on the coaches themselves to keep improving and to constantly refresh and update their knowledge. As Casal noted: “Becoming a coach isn’t just attending a training course and then applying what you have learned. A good football coach is the coach who goes back home after training or a match and who thinks that they could do better the next time.”
Role in wider society
Following these steps can encourage children to take part in football, establish a football culture and ultimately create more success for the game at a national level.
But the true success of a grassroots programme, Casal adds, can be measured in its effect outside of the game.
“Nobody can tell you if a 12-year-old kid is going to become a professional football player,” Casal said. “But if you invest in your child, in terms of time, energy as much as money, then after several years they will have a better chance to be more successful in life.
“Becoming a professional footballer should not be the only or main objective. The best academy players will also be more able to work in a team and to have better relationships with people. I think that’s very important, not only for the football system, but also for society.”
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Business | 24 JUN 2019
LaLiga redoubles its commitment to Chinese grassroots football in Madrid
Presidents of LaLiga and the Chinese Football Association (CFA) presented an extension of its permanent training base in Santo Domingo, Madrid in June.
LaLiga has underlined its agreement to Chinese football development through major agreements with both the CFA and Chinese Super League (CSL) in recent months.
‘Smart scarf’ of Real Sociedad provides innovative new connection to its fans
The scarf’s wearable technology links to mobile application enabling real time updates and exclusive offers for fans, while easy stadium access will soon be included.
New product has already received a positive response from fans and will lead to new technological innovations at the club.
The magic of Lionel Messi and Cirque du Soleil combine in new show that celebrates the entertainment of football
‘Messi10 by Cirque du Soleil’ will arrive at Parc del Fòrum in Barcelona on October 10th.
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News Politics Gov. Yahaya Bello Sends Traditional Rulers In 21 Lgs To Beg Buhari For Apc Ticket
Nigeria Student Forum / General Discussion / Political News / News Politics Gov. Yahaya Bello Sends Traditional Rulers In 21 Lgs To Beg Buhari For Apc Ticket
News Politics Gov. Yahaya Bello Sends Traditional Rulers In 21 Lgs To Beg Buhari For Apc Ticket. by Nk (f): 11:29am on June 22
The heat is on for the November 16, 2019 governorship election in Kogi State. Governor Yahaya Bello has continued to come under intense pressure to secure the ticket of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to seek re-election for second term in office.Some stakeholders in Kogi State say the governor is desperate for second, adding that the governor recorded monumental failure in the about past four years of his first tenure.
Governor Bello, National Daily gathered is deploying every paraphernalia in his political arsenal to get the support of the party leadership beginning with President Muhammadu Buhari to the APC National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, for the party ticket.
Having made overtures to APC national chairman, Oshiomhole, and APC national leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, without assurances of support, Governor Bello at the weekend mobilised traditional rulers in the 21 local government areas of Kogi State to subtly extend his campaign for the APC ticket to President Buhari.
The traditional rulers, National Daily was told, were at the State House, Abuja, to beg President Buhari to support Governor Bello in getting the APC governorship ticket for his second term re-election in the November election.
The traditional rulers from the 21 local governments held closed door meeting with the president in which the Chief of Staff to Buhari, Abba Kyari, was said to be in attendance.
However, the meeting was said not to have yielded the desired result. Details in subsequent reports.
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Home Movies & TV Reviews Hot Docs review: Behind The Curve
Hot Docs review: Behind The Curve
Daniel J. Clark's documentary is a remarkably clear-eyed look at the Flat Earth Movement
Behind the Curve
BEHIND THE CURVE (Daniel J. Clark, U.S.). 96 minutes. Rating: NNNN
Unlike a few other films about people who hold questionable beliefs, Behind The Curve is a remarkably clear-eyed look at the Flat Earth movement, in which people around the globe (but mostly in America) labour to convince the rest of us that our planet is flat – more like a terrarium, really – but sinister forces have gone to elaborate lengths to keep it quiet.
It’s a literal conspiracy theory, and one spun out over and over again by the likes of Mark Sargent and Patricia Steere, who’ve become superstars in the Flat Earth YouTube community over the last few years. They don’t offer real answers, just innuendo and suspicion – Steere loves referring to “The Powers That Should Not Be” – but that’s what keeps people coming back, of course.
Documentarian Daniel J. Clark interviews them, and a few other believers, and lets them tell their version of reality – but he also speaks to astrophysicists and psychologists who efficiently debunk their beliefs and explain how people might have come to hold them. (The Dunning-Kruger effect, in which people convince themselves they know everything about something while actually knowing very little, is brought up fairly early on, along with confirmation bias, which keeps people focused on evidence that supports their existing beliefs rather than evidence that challenges them.)
While there’s entertainment value in watching the clown show of fringe weirdos drawn to the movement – one especially enthusiastic dolt swerves from terrarium theory to anti-vaxxer and Young Earth talking points in a matter of seconds – Clark also offers a compassionate view, hoping that the brighter ones might be talked back to an acceptance of reality. I want to believe he’s right.
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Deontay Wilder won’t accept anything less than a 50-50 split for any fight with Anthony Joshua
By Obrimah Blog Last updated Apr 5, 2018
Deontay Wilder won’t get in the ring with Anthony Joshua for anything less than a 50-50 split but if he does he has promised to knock the British world heavyweight champion out.
The WBC title holder is on a collision course with IBF and WBA champ Joshua with both increasingly vocal in recent weeks of there chances over the other.
Negotiations over a long-awaited meeting have begun, even if only at the preliminary stage, but American Wilder is adamant about what he wants.
“I knock Joshua out and don’t be surprised if it is in the first round. But I definitely knock Joshua out,” he told ESPN when asked how he believes any fight would play out.
“It is a great fight, it is one of the biggest fights in the world and everyone wants it. It will be 50-50 or else we don’t see a fight.”
Joseph Parker, holder of the WBO crown, is also waiting in the wings in a crowded heavyweight division and Wilder believes Joshua and his camp may be looking to fight the New Zealander next.
“I don’t think they are trying to make a negotiation at this point,” he added. “I think they are trying to seek Parker. They got him on his agenda. [He is] their top priority which is fine. If they don’t want to fight at this time, that it is ok.
“We’re not [going to] chase [anybody]. I’m not chasing Joshua. If Joshua [doesn’t] want to fight, then that’s fine. If they want to have one fight apiece, and fight me next, that is fine.”
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Replace selfie stick with this camera app
Edited By Odishatv Bureau Published By IANS On Jan 7, 2016 - 10:18 AM
New York: A US-based developer has developed a camera app that lets a user take selfie or groupfie by just tilting his/her head and without a physical selfie stick.
Named as “Selfie Stick”, the app is designed by San Diego-based iOS developer Ford Davis who reckons that the need to carry an extra bit of kit just to snap a selfie could be reduced with better self-timer software, tech crunch reported on Tuesday.
“Selfie Stick is a virtual selfie stick that lets you take photos without using your hands, and without the need for a physical selfie stick, bluetooth trigger or headphone jack by using face detection magic,” the app details on Apple store.
Davis’s app has a free face-detecting feature that starts the timer as soon as a user tilts the head.
To take a photo, the user has to tilt his/her head till a green circle is fully drawn on the screen.
After the face is locked in, the green colour of the circle starts changing through orange to red to show the user how much time is left before the shot will be taken.
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The app is a little glitchy at the introductory version (v1.0) as it requires extensive head tilting to trigger the timer.
Davis admitted that the app is not flawless.
“I am not funded, I do not have a company or any employees so I’m not technically even a startup, just a guy with a Macbook and some crazy ideas,” he said.
Also, if the user is not holding the phone in his/her hand, it has to be “mounted on a tri-pod or leaned against something”.
This may not persuade selfie stick loyalists to switch to this app.
The physical selfie stick follows other software self-timer apps that have voice-triggered options, and apps that snap a shot when you smile.
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21-year-old Rose Pamphyle lives with her grouchy widower father who runs the village store. Engaged to the son of the local mechanic, she seems destined for the quiet, drudgery-filled life of a housewife. But that's not the life Rose longs for. When she travels to Lisieux in Normandy, where charismatic insurance agency boss Louis Echard is advertising for a secretary, the ensuing interview is a disaster. But Rose reveals a special gift - she can type at extraordinary speed. Unwittingly, the young woman awakens the dormant sports fan in Louis.
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"Forget me not " Lapel Pin
"Forget me not " Lapel Pin (Myosotis) gold plated with blue enamel .
Dimensions: 7,5 mm.
The Story Behind Forget Me Not Emblem!
In the years between World War 1 and World War 2 The blue Forget Me Not Emblem (Das Vergissmeinnicht) was a standard symbol used by most charitable organizations in Germany, with a very clear meaning: “Do not forget the poor and the destitute“.
It was first introduced in German Masonry in 1926, well before the Nazi era, at the annual Communication of the Grand Lodge Zur Sonne, in Bremen, where it was distributed to all the participants. That was a terrible time in Germany, economically speaking, further aggravated in 1929 following that year’s Great Depression.
That economic situation, contributed to Hitler’s accession to power. Many people depended on charity, some of which was Masonic. Distributing the forget-me-not at the Grand Lodge Communication was meant to remind German Brethren of the charitable activities of the Grand Lodge.
In early 1934, it became evident that Freemasonry was in danger. In that same year, the Grand Lodge of the Sun (one of the pre-war German Grand Lodges, located in Bayreuth) realising the grave dangers involved, adopted the little blue Forget Me Not flower as a substitute for the traditional square and compasses.
It was felt the flower would provide brethren with an outward means of identification while lessening the risk of possible recognition in public by the Nazis, who were engaged in wholesale confiscation of all Masonic Lodge properties. Freemasonry went undercover, and this delicate flower assumed its role as a symbol of Masonry surviving throughout the reign of darkness.
In 1936 the Winterhilfswerk (a non- Masonic winter charity drive) held a collection and used and distributed the same symbol, again with its obvious charitable connotation. Some of the Masons who remembered the 1926 Communication possibly also wore it later as a sign of recognition. We have no evidence of that and its general signification still was charity, but not specifically Masonic charity.
During the ensuing decade of Nazi power a little blue Forget Me Not flower worn in a Brother’s lapel served as one method whereby brethren could identify each other in public (although even then it was not always safe to wear any non-Nazi pin), and in cities and concentration camps throughout Europe. The Forget Me Not distinguished the lapels of countless brethren who staunchly refused to allow the symbolic Light of Masonry to be completely extinguished.
When the Grand Lodge of the Sun was reopened in Bayreuth in 1947, by Past Grand Master Beyer, a little pin in the shape of a Forget Me Not was officially adopted as the emblem of that first annual convention of the brethren who had survived the bitter years of semi-darkness to rekindle the Masonic Light.
At the first Annual Convent of the new United Grand Lodges Of GermanyAF&AM (VGLvD), in 1948 Bro. Theodor Vogel, Master of the Lodge “Zum weißen Gold am Kornberg”, in Selb (then in Western-occupied Germany), remembered the 1926 and 1936 pin, had a few hundred made and started handing it out as a Masonic symbol wherever he went. When Brother Vogel was later elected GM of the Grand Lodge AFuAM of Germany and visited a Grand Masters’ conference in Washington, DC, he distributed.
But is the story True?
Information about the Masonic tradition surrounding the blue forget me not amounts to very little. It is true that the flower was used by some German Masons about 1926, and it appears likely that in March 1938 some of them did wear it again as a Nazi badge, even though by an extraordinary coincidence, it had been chosen as a Masonic emblem twelve years earlier. It is likely not true that it was ever worn after March 1938 as a secret mean of recognition.
However, even if many German Masons (together with the great majority of German citizens of that time) never objected to the Nazi politics and went so far as to support Hitler, some were brave enough to fight him openly.
Based on the membership of all the then existing German Lodges, it is likely that around 1 or 2%. Out of the 174 Lodges which participated in the creation of the first United Grand Lodge of Germany, five only belonged to the Symbolical Grand Lodge of 1930, the only German Grand Lodge which resisted Hitler.
For human and political reasons as well, those Masons who thought it their duty to rebuild German Freemasonry once the War was over could hardly tell the whole truth to their foreign brethren. I personally believe they might have told the story of those dark years in a different way, but I am ready to admit that it is probably easier to say so in 2009 than it was in the 1950s.
Accordingly a legend was born. Not the legend of the forget-me-not, but that of a German Freemasonry too weak to resist, banned as soon as Hitler became Chancellor of the Reich, wearing a badge on the streets and – of all things ! – in concentration camps. That legend was likely born as the result of an unconscious effort to inhibit the past as well as a conscious manoeuvre. It was believed not only because it was the logical thing to do, but also because it was reassuring to imagine Freemasons acting according to their ideals, fighting for freedom and defending it.
Lets keep it at that and let us admit to the Masonic Brotherhood of the blue Forget Me Not and thus did a simple flower blossom forth into a symbol of the fraternity, and become perhaps the most widely worn emblem among Freemasons in Germany.
In the years since adoption, its significance world-wide has been attested to by the tens of thousands of brethren who now display it with meaningful pride.
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A Totally Unauthorized Reading Group Guide to Carol Anshaw’s ‘Carry the One’ With 10 Discussion Questions for Book Clubs
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10 Discussion Questions for Book Clubs and Others
Carry the One
By Carol Anshaw
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This guide for reading groups and others was not authorized or approved by the author, publisher or agent for the book. It is copyrighted by Janice Harayda and is only for your personal use. Its sale or reproduction is illegal except by public libraries, which may make copies for use in their in-house reading programs. Other reading groups that would like to use this guide should link to it or check the “Contact” page on One-Minute Book Reviews to learn how to request permission to reproduce it.
Time is supposed to “heal.” But do some wounds run so deep that they remain immune to its effects? A tragedy in the first chapter of Carry the One places that question at the center of the lives of the adult siblings Carmen, Alice and Nick Kenney. A 10-year-old girl dies after being struck by a car full of stoned and drunken guests who are leaving Carmen’s wedding near Chicago in 1983. And for the next 25 years, that event will reverberate across the paths of the Kenneys, which are at once separate and intersecting — Carmen’s marriage and motherhood, Alice’s lesbian affairs, and Nick’s descent into drug use and meetings with hookers. Each Kenney seeks redemption in a different way. But all of their lives testify to the words of a guest at Carmen’s wedding. In affairs of the heart, she says, you can never discount the effects of time: “Time is always a player.”
Spoiler Warning! Some of the questions below involve events that occur late in the novel. Stop reading here if you would prefer not to know about these.
10 Discussion Questions for Carry the One:
1. Carol Anshaw took on a big challenge – that of keeping her story moving forward while continually switching back and forth between the stories of Carmen, Alice and Nick. Did she keep you turning the pages? Why or why not?
2. Which of the three Kenneys did you find most and least interesting?
3. Kevin Nance wrote in a review in the Chicago Sun-Times that Carry the One might have been stronger if Anshaw had given her story one main character instead of three. Do you agree or disagree?
4. Each of the Kenneys immerses him- or herself in something after the crash that kills 10-year-old Casey Redman: Carmen in social activism; Alice in art; and Nick in drugs. Why do you think they do this? Are they trying to escape from their memories? To atone for their guilt? Or to do something else?
5. Horace and Loretta Kenney are so self-absorbed that they don’t go to their daughter Carmen’s wedding. [Page 8] Does this affect how their adult children react to the crash that killed Casey Redman? How?
6. All three Kenney children have failed relationships: Carmen with her first husband, Matt; Alice with her lesbian lover, Maude; and Nick with Olivia, the driver of the car that killed Casey Redman. Does this have more to do with their upbringing or with the crash?
7. What parts of Carry the One did you find witty or amusing despite the tragedy at the heart of the novel?
8. Nick dies soon after Casey Redman’s mother, who has “cancer of everything,” forgives him for her daughter death. [Page 243, 245] What is the connection those events? Did Nick need Shanna’s forgiveness in order to die? Or had he been staying alive for Shanna (and lost his reason for living when, presumably, she died, too)?
9. The last line of Carry the One is unusual in that it is spoken by someone who has just appeared on the scene. [Page 253] It is much more common for the final words of a novel to come from someone we know fairly well by then. How do you interpret the last line of Carry the One? Is Olivia “okay”?
10. Michiko Kakutani called this novel “beautifully observed” in her New York Times review of Carry the One. What are some of the things that Anshaw observes especially well?
1. The Simon & Schuster reading group guide for this novel says incorrectly that “Mourning and loss are the themes of this book.” “Mourning” and “loss” are not “themes”; they are subjects. A subject tells you what a book is “about” while a theme tells you what a book says about its subjects. So you might express the theme of Carry the One as, “People may grieve for the same loss in different ways” or “Contrary to the popular idea that you need ‘closure,’ you may grieve for some losses all your life.” Can you sum up in a sentence what the book says about loss or grief?
2. Carry the One actually has a larger theme than anything it says about loss or grief (which might be better described as a subtheme.) Anshaw expressed that theme in an interview in which she said that “time both makes a great deal of difference, and no difference at all.” As a character in the novel puts it, “Time is always a player” (though the degree to which it “plays” may vary). [Page 212] How is time a “player” in Carry the One?
3. All three characters in Carry the One have the names of opera characters or variations on them. [Page 40] In what ways is this novel “operatic”? [A discussion of this appears in the review of Carry the One posted on One-Minute Book Reviews.]
4. Jennifer Egan’s Pulitzer Prize-winning A Visit From the Goon Squad deals with the effects of time and shares other elements with Carry the One, such as switching back and forth between characters’ stories. If you’ve read that novel, how would you compare it with Anshaw’s?
Carry the One. By Carol Anshaw. Simon & Schuster, 261 pp., $25. Published: March 2012. A review of Carry the One appeared on One-Minute Book Reviews on May 8, 2012.
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#35 - PTSD in Welcome To Marwen (Movie)
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On April 8, 2000, Mark Hogancamp was attacked by five men and left for dead outside of a bar in Kingston, NY. After nine days in a coma, he awoke to find he had no memory of his previous adult life. He had to relearn how to eat, walk and write.
When his state-sponsored rehabilitative therapies ran out, Mark took his recovery into his own hands. In his backyard, he created a new world entirely within his control - a 1:6 scale World War II town he named Marwencol. Using doll alter egos of his friends and family, his attackers and himself, Mark enacted epic battles and recreated memories, which he captured in strikingly realistic photographs. Those photos eventually caught the eye of the art world, which lead to a series of gallery exhibitions, the award-winning documentary "Marwencol," the acclaimed book "Welcome to Marwencol," and a new identity for a man once ridiculed for playing with dolls.
That's the true story. Today we are covering the 2018 Drama/Fantasy Movie, Welcome To Marwen
Mike is out today and Christine Michelle from the Antidotes: Stories in Medicine podcast steps in like a hero to keep this mental health podcast rolling. Christine, a Nurse practitioner, for EMS and Army Medic and seen her fare share of PTSD. Ryan has also seen his fair share right in his office. They break down what life is like for Mark and the community around him from the movie Welcome To Marwen, and grade the accuracy of the movie as well as Steve Carell's performance.
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Keating and Chmelevski on target again in preseason action
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Photo: Valerie Wutti – Blitzen Photography
OTTAWA, ON – Ottawa 67’s forwards Austen Keating and Sasha Chmelevski both found the back of the net Sunday afternoon in preseason action at The Arena at TD Place. Ottawa and Kingston met for the second time in three days with the Fronts coming away with the 4-3 decision, despite the 67’s outshooting the visitors 26-13 in the final two periods.
Goaltender Leo Lazarev was on his game in his first star of the preseason turning aside 14 of 15 first period shots as the 67’s trailed 1-0 after the opening frame.
Austen Keating scored his fourth of the preseason after netting a hat-trick Friday night in Kingston to pull the game even at 1-1. The Fronts regained the lead just over a minute later, but Sasha Chmelevski pulled Ottawa back level with his second in as many games. Kingston would score late to carry a 3-2 lead into the third period.
Drake Rymsha scored just over two minutes into the final period, but Kingston again answered regaining the lead less than two minutes later. Mario Peccia managed to turn aside the rest of the 67’s chances throughout the period including a late scramble in front of goal in the final second.
Next up for the 67’s is a home-and-home series with the Gatineau Olympiques starting Friday night in Gatineau. The cross-river rivals will meet again on Sunday (September 11) at The Arena at TD Place at 2:00 p.m.
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Home Archive Packaging films industry headed for consolidation
Packaging films industry headed for consolidation
Flex Films’ Poland plant could see capacity expansion
Anantshree Chaturvedi, vice chairman and chief executive officer, Flex Films International at the interpack stand
Flex Films is the global film manufacturing arm of India’s largest multinational flexible packaging materials and solution company Uflex Limited. Flex Films manufactures biaxially oriented polyester (BOPET) films, biaxially oriented polypropylene (BOPP) films and cast polypropylene (CPP) films, speciality and metallized films. The company operates state-of-the art manufacturing facilities in India, UAE, Mexico, Egypt, Poland and the USA.
Moving towards specialized products
A result of the low price and oversupply situation is that companies are now moving away from commodity films to speciality films. “Margins have come down to such a level that commodity films do not seem to have a bright future for a few years at the least. So, everyone is moving towards speciality films. I believe, in all this, the key to be a winner in this race will be the way in which companies execute their strategies in the smoothest manner and who will continuously innovate and create new products for the customers,” Chaturvedi argued.
Flex Films is in the midst of a transition from commodity films towards having a focused portfolio of speciality films. Some of the highlights of Flex Films’ speciality products at interpack were a digital printing (PDP) polyester film, which is a recently HP Indigo certified substrate suitable for direct digital printing without requiring any priming or coating. Another was a special polyester film that has replaced BOPA and PVC substrates from a typical Alu-Alu laminate for pharmaceutical packaging.
Chaturvedi stated that these days the holy grail for all film manufacturers is high barrier films. “The higher the barrier that you can achieve the more you can claim that your film is special and unique, whether you achieve it by coating or by changing the masterbatch or whatever way. There is a huge demand for this film and the demand will continue to grow as consumers in developed markets like Europe and US now demand less packaging,” he informed.
Expansion in Poland
Flex Films supplies its European customers from its film manufacturing plant in Poland. The plant has a state-of-the-art 8.7 meter wide BOPET film line that runs at 500 meters a minute with a monthly designed capacity of 2,500 metric tons. The plant was commissioned in 2012. “I can tell you that most likely the next expansion in the group’s film business will be the second line in Poland. When will we take that step? How will we take that step? Will we put a PET line or OPET line? All this is too early to say. However, I want to repeat that there is room for a second line and Poland is doing well enough to get that,” Chaturvedi said.
Finally, taking about some trends in the European market, he commented that digital printing is gradually becoming a reality in Europe. Anything to do with short-run and quick turnaround time is utilizing this technology; products which are seasonal or which need continuous promotion or organic foods are ideal for digital printing. Another trend he mentioned was that sustainability is back on the table in Europe. “The topic was dead for the last couple of years but now there is a return to pursuing green polymers. Players are serious about it and do not want to do it just for the sake of talking about it,” he said.
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2018 Miss New Mexico USA Candidate Kristen Leyva Encourages Young Girls To Pursue Careers In Engineering Through Her Program Called #JustOne
The United States may be known for its higher education; compared to many other countries. However women are just 13 percent of mechanical engineering undergraduate students.
When these disparities persist, everyone suffers. Women miss out on opportunities in growing and highly paid occupations that require science and engineering skills. So, how can we get more women into engineering fields, and help them stay for their whole careers? We need their insight and creativity to help solve the problems facing our world.
The gorgeous Kristen Leyva, who'll be competing for the crown of Miss New Mexico USA 2018, created her own mentorship program called #JustONE where she utilizes her position as engineer to travel to elementary and middle schools all over her state to inspire and encourage young kids, especially girls to peruse opportunities and careers in engineering.
If she wins the crown Kristen will have the opportunity to represent her state at Miss USA 2018. Did you know ? New Mexico has had moderate success at Miss USA, with many placements in the 1960s to the '80s and one Miss USA, Mai Shanley in 1984.
I had the opportunity to interview Kristen on her preparation for the upcoming pageant. Lets know a little more about this beautiful and inspiring woman through this interview!
You will compete at the Miss New Mexico USA Pageant, how will you prepare the contest? What unique characteristics would you say you bring to the competition?
There are number of things that have gone into my preparation for Miss New Mexico but I have to say the most important aspect has been the people I’ve surrounded myself with. From the very beginning my family and friends have been so motivating and supportive throughout the entire process. I’m also a very family oriented person so spending time with them is key to me maintaining a great head space and staying grounded.
I would say unique characteristics I’m bringing to the competition include my devotion to my passion and intelligence. I’m a Mechanical Engineer for the U.S Department of Defense and my passion is encouraging young minds to embrace their inner intelligence and not be afraid to peruse challenging opportunities like engineering.
Photo by Carlos Velez
49 girls were crowned for the 2018 Miss USA Competition, do you already have a favorite?
Bryce Armstrong, Miss District Of Columbia USA! She’s such a beautiful person inside and out. We met a few months before she went on to compete in Miss DC and after becoming very close with a few of the wonderful ladies competing in that pageant, I flew down there to attend and got to witness her crowning moment. It was beautiful and I’m obsessed with her cake business page on Instagram (mainly because I have zero baking skills). Hopefully we’ll get reunite at Miss USA (*wink *wink)
What inspired you to walk on the course of beauty pageants?
I did not grow up with beauty pageants so my inspiration to peruse the title of Miss New Mexico actually came from the realization of what an impact one person can have on you. Growing up I had one amazing woman who showed me exactly what it meant to be a great title holder. She showed me that all it takes is one person to inspire someone to be or do something great and because of her I was not only inspired to become the engineer that I am today but I was also inspired to become that person for kids all over my state.
This incredible woman was my mom who was also a mechanical engineer. I lost her to cancer just two months before I was getting ready to graduate with the very degree she had inspired me to get. However, in that loss I realized what an amazing impact she had on me just by being the role model she was and I had decided I wanted to be that same kind of role model for others. As a result I began my #JustONE program. With this program I travel to schools in my state and encourage kids to be excited about engineering and most importantly give them the same opportunity that I was given. The opportunity to fall in love with engineering and have someone who believes in them.
Tell me something about yourself and your work. What do you actually do, and have done in the past?
I was born and raised in Las Cruces, New Mexico. I was raised in a single parent house hold with my mom and sister. We enjoyed doing everything together and referred to ourselves as “The Three Musketeers.” Growing up I excelled mathematics and had a persistent curiosity for the way things worked. I once got in trouble with my mom for taking apart our family’s computer because I wanted to understand how it worked. Needless to say I got grounded but it also led to my mom, who was also a mechanical engineer for NASA at the time, to take me to work with her one day.
On that particular day they were launching the Crew Escape Vehicle for the International Space Station and it was such an impactful experience for me. So much that I went on to graduate from New Mexico State University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering and am now working as a Mechanical Engineer for the United States Department of Defense while also pursuing my Master’s Degree in Industrial Engineering.
Kristen in front of a memorial of her mom at New Mexico State University - "She is the reason why I pour every ounce of energy and second of free time into these kids. Because I had someone who did it for me. All it takes is one person to inspire someone to do or be something great."
Many misses have said that their dream since a child was to participate in a pageant as prestigious as Miss World (or Miss Universe). It this your case ? And if so, why ?
This was not the case for me. My childhood dream was to be an engineer. I am a giant nerd. I didn’t get introduced to pageantry until I was in college. When I realized what pageantry really embodied, is when I got hooked and now I’ve got my heart set on that Miss Universe stage.
Social media seem to play a major role in pageantry nowadays. Do you think this is advantageous to you? Why or why not?
I do think it’s an advantage. Social Media has given me the opportunity to promote my platform and my engineering outreach organization #JustONE. When I first went public with what I was doing in schools all over my state I actually began getting even more requests to come do classroom visits with the kids and get them exposed to careers in engineering. It’s created a great response in my community and has helped to expand my program which is amazing.
We’ve all seen the stereotypical portrayals of pageant contestants, a la Miss Congeniality, spreading peace, love and beauty throughout the world. How do you think you'll make a difference ?
First of all, I really love that movie. If I could wear the title of Gracie Lou Freebush, I totally would. But on a serious note I really hope by being an example of a female in a male dominated industry, that other young girls are inspired to look beyond the stereotypes and peruse whatever sets their soul on fire.
What would you advise any young girl out there who has a dream of being a queen one day?
I would tell them that they don’t need a crown and sash to be a queen. A queen in someone who is confident in who she is and stays true to herself. So in pursuit of becoming the best possible version of herself and working hard towards her dreams, she will become a queen. After all, the girl is what makes the crown. The crown doesn’t make the girl.
Thanks to the beautiful Kristen for the interview. Pageants News wishes you all the very best for Miss New Mexico USA pageant.
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Soft Law as Foreign Relations Law
Cornell Law Review, Vol. 99, No. 4, 2015
60 Pages Posted: 17 May 2014
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Jean Galbraith
David T. Zaring
University of Pennsylvania - Legal Studies Department
Date Written: May 15, 2014
The United States increasingly relies on “soft law” and, in particular, on cooperation with foreign regulators to make domestic policy. The implementation of soft law at home is typically understood to depend on administrative law, as it is American agencies that implement the deals they conclude with their foreign counterparts. But that understanding has led courts and scholars to raise questions about whether soft law made abroad can possibly meet the doctrinal requirements of the domestic discipline. This Article proposes a new doctrinal understanding of soft law implementation. It argues that, properly understood, soft law implementation lies at the intersection of foreign relations law and administrative law. In light of the strong powers accorded to the executive under foreign relations law, this new understanding will strengthen the legitimacy and legality of soft law implementation and make it less subject to judicial challenge. Understanding that soft law is foreign relations law will further the domestic implementation of informal international agreements in areas as different as conflict diamonds, international financial regulation, and climate change.
Galbraith, Jean and Zaring, David T., Soft Law as Foreign Relations Law (May 15, 2014). Cornell Law Review, Vol. 99, No. 4, 2015. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2437572
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The incidence of histomoniasis, commonly known as blackhead disease, is increasing in Southeastern US broiler-breeding operations — and young breeders 25 to 30 weeks old seem particularly susceptible, C. Stephen Roney, DVM, clinical associate professor at the University of Georgia’s Poultry Diagnostic and Research Center reported at the 2018 Western Poultry Disease Conference.
Based on data he’s collected, Roney said blackhead disease prevention requires producers to pay close attention to pullet-house floor management, coccidiosis vaccination and worm-control programs. Recent outbreaks have resulted in mortality rates as high as 6% and egg production suffers in birds that survive infections.
Post-outbreak treatment options are very limited. A combination of the Food and Drug Administration’s nitroimidazole antihistomonal ban in the 1990s, recent voluntary manufacturer withdrawals of phenylarsonic acids and parasitic worm drug resistance creates a “perfect storm of therapeutic inadequacy,” he said.
Histomoniasis infects breeding broiler pullets when egg production begins to peak. Postmortems of infected chickens reveal oocysts and cecal cores of Eimeria tenella, the parasite responsible for hemorrhagic coccidiosis.
Liver lesions typically found in turkeys with blackhead disease may or may not be present, Roney said. He thinks E. tenella infection predisposes broilers breeders to Histomonas meleagridis, the parasite that causes blackhead disease.
Citing poor pullet immunity as a possible reason why infected birds succumb to the disease, Roney also faulted genetic programs aimed more at meat production than disease resistance.
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Blackhead disease can cause an important drop in egg production among commercial layer hens, Christina Sigmon of North Carolina State University, said during the 2018 International Poultry Scientific Forum.
Alternative therapies called best long-term hope for blackhead disease in turkeys
Alternative treatments may be the only long-term hope for managing blackhead in turkeys, said Robert Beckstead, PhD, turkey health specialist, North Carolina State University.
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Home Dispatches Poll: Voters Want Local Control, Not State Takeovers
Poll: Voters Want Local Control, Not State Takeovers
by Simon Davis-Cohen
States in red have adopted laws that preempt cities from passing their own local minimum wage laws—as of January 31, 2017. Source: NELP.
The Republican Party and corporate-backed groups like the Koch-funded American Legislative Exchange Council have made “state preemption” of local political and economic powers a top priority for decades. Left-leaning electoral movements have been sluggish in their response.
Despite Occupy and other mobilizations against globalized capitalism, for example, the institutional left has stopped short of promoting anything close to the structural change that would be necessary to accommodate pro-local projects. Yet municipalist movements are broadly supported in the United States, in movements for local control over renewable energy, education, the minimum wage, and other issues.
A new poll commissioned by Local Solutions Support Center shows that a majority of voters nationally disapprove of state legislatures’ preemption of local laws expanding worker benefits, increasing wage increases, and tightening gun controls.
The poll also found that 70 percent of people think state preemption “happens frequently or sometimes due to corporate special interests and lobbyists convincing state lawmakers to preempt local laws to protect their profits.” And 58 percent believe local governments are more knowledgeable of community needs.
Despite Occupy and other mobilizations against globalized capitalism the institutional left has stopped short of promoting the structural change necessary to accommodate pro-local projects.
Rene Lara, legislative director of the Texas AFL-CIO, says an informal coalition of groups has unified in response to that state’s flood of preemption laws. Local governments in Texas are now prohibited from hindering federal immigration enforcement, raising the minimum wage, curtailing fossil fuel extraction, regulating payday loans, protecting local seed varieties from genetically modified pollen, and much more.
Opponents see “the overall issue of state preemption as a common threat,” Lara says.
In Florida, gubernatorial hopeful Andrew Gillum, the mayor of Tallahassee, has made defending local solutions a key campaign issue, helping to bring together a diverse coalition of groups stifled by the state’s undermining of municipal governments. A laundry list of gun control advocates, environmental groups, labor unions, immigrant rights organizations, and local elected officials have signed on to the Campaign to Defend Local Solutions, which is helping to make state preemption a top issue ahead of the November 2018 elections.
But pushing back against preemption is not just a matter of winning elections. People who feel disenfranchised by what they see as a corrupt, centralized power structure aren’t looking for the next elected official to save the day. They want to save their own day.
Tish O’Dell, Ohio state organizer for the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, has worked with more than a dozen communities on local ordinances that challenge state preemption and corporate “personhood.” The group is now advancing a state constitutional amendment to affirm the right of local governments to build on state and federal government protections. It would establish state law as a “floor” local governments can raise but not lower.
“The people understand that they need to change the system itself to codify their decision making authority to self-govern their communities above corporate or state claims of preemption,” O’Dell said in an interview.
It’s great to win elections and get some of that power back, but that doesn’t address all of the reasons local communities are powerless to protect themselves in the first place.
Minimum wage preemption, fracking preemption, payday loan preemption, and rent control preemption, are all symptoms of a broader imbalance of power. It’s great to win elections and get some of that power back, but that doesn’t address all of the reasons local communities are powerless to protect themselves in the first place.
In Michigan, the state legislature’s suspension of local governments has disproportionately targeted predominantly African American communities in Detroit and Flint. Detroit-based “water warrior” Monica Lewis-Patrick says the state has for decades undermined Detroit’s democratic control over its water system and set up the city for financial ruin. The ongoing water crisis in Flint and Detroit is bringing these historic power dynamics to the fore.
Similar histories of state meddling in inner-city public education is also rearing its head across the nation, as privatization of traditional public schools has relied heavily on states’ suspension of local school districts. In fact, countering “state takeovers” of local schools and school districts has become a central concern of a leading education justice #WeChoose campaign resisting the privatization of public education.
Movements are afoot to develop a comprehensive vision of egalitarian federalism and “local control,” one that guarantees civil and human rights while also guaranteeing basic rights to local democratic decisions. The new poll by Local Solutions Support Center shows that the public is ready for such a vision.
Simon Davis-Cohen is editor of the Ear to the Ground newsletter, an exclusive “civic intelligence” service that mines local newspapers and state legislatures from across the country.
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Wii Remote Controller Makes Gaming As Accessible to People
Wii Remote Controller makes gaming as accessible to people of all ages and all abilities.
Online PR News – 07-September-2009 – – General Introduction
The Wii Remote Controller makes gaming as accessible to people of all ages and all abilities. Nintendo fused the familiarity of a remote control with the sophistication of motion-sensing technology -- creating a multifunctional device limited only by the imagination. In a tennis game, it serves as your racket you swing with your arm. In a driving game, it serves as your steering wheel. For first-person shooters, the remote acts as your weapon that you point at an enemy. The list of potential uses goes on and on.
To make gaming as accessible to people of all ages and all abilities, Nintendo wanted to create a controller that was as inviting as it was sophisticated- the result is the Wii Remote. Nintendo fused the global familiarity of a remote control with the sophistication of motion-sensing technology to come up with an input device that differentiates the Wii from any other console that has come before it.
Revolutionary control
Sporting the dimensions of a small traditional remote control, the wireless Wii Remote is a multifunctional device that is limited only by the game designer's imagination. The magic of the Wii Remote's design lies within; acellerometers inside the controller body measure movement in all directions and at all speeds. In a tennis game, it serves as your racket as you swing your arm for a long forehand or a quick and hard backhand. In a 4x4 driving game it serves as a steering wheel, allowing you to swerve to avoid obstacles or pickup power-ups. In first-person shooters, the Wii Remote acts as a firearm that you can point directly at an on-screen enemy. The list of potential uses is enormous, and the light weight of the Wii Remote allows gamers to play for hours without feeling fatigued.
As comfortable as it is functional
The Wii Remote is equally comfortable in right and left hands and houses just the right number of buttons for gaming- not so many that new players will get confused, but enough so that Wii games don't feel constrained. On the face of the remote are the D (or "plus") pad, a large "A" button which is used for major on-screen actions, and two small options buttons. Between the game buttons are a plus and minus buttons (which often act as "forwards" and "back"), as well as a "Home" button to engage the Wii home screen to change settings or check remote battery levels. On the back side of the controller is a trigger-like "B" button, perfect for timing releases of a bowling roll in Wii Sports.
Thankfully, battery life is excellent with the two included AA batteries, just as with the previous generation of Nintendo wireless controllers.
Immersive intelligence
Along the bottom of the Wii Remote, four blue LED lights indicate which player position the remote is currently set to. The controller automatically connects to the Wii console via Bluetooth wireless technology. Below the LEDs, an expansion port lets you connect a number of devices including the Nunchuck and Classic controllers for Virtual Console gaming (Virtual Console games and controller accessories sold separately). Other features of the Wii Remote include adjustable rumble force-feedback and a reinforced wrist strap to ensure safe use. A speaker inside the remote gives the player feedback about the strength of swings or the accuracy of their moves- such as realistic tennis noises as the "racket" connects with the ball in Wii Sports. Overall, the physical design of the remote is extremely sturdy and of very high quality, ensuring countless hours of Wii gaming fun!
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CES Announces New Telecom Pavilion for 2011 Show
Global Telecom Buyers Meet Next Generation Broadband Infrastructure Solutions at 2011 CES
Arlington, Va., April 13, 2010 – The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)® today announced the official launch of the Telecom Pavilion at the 2011 International CES® , the world’s largest consumer technology tradeshow. The Telecom Pavilion will feature a dedicated exhibition area in the Las Vegas Convention Center for manufacturers of advanced broadband equipment and related products and services. The 2011 International CES is scheduled to run January 6-9, 2011 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
"We are thrilled to create this new exhibit area focused on broadband equipment and services, a phenomenal growth area in the technology industry,” said Gary Shapiro, president and CEO, CEA. “The CES Telecom Pavilion will fill the void left by the close of SUPERCOMM and unite the world’s top telecom service providers with manufacturers showcasing next-generation broadband solutions."
The Telecom Pavilion at CES is designed to bring traditional and emerging communications companies together to leverage the rapid convergence of advanced core network and broadband equipment, services, content and applications. The newly floored CES exhibit space will feature the latest in 3G/4G, broadband, content, copper and fiber-based networks, FMC (Fixed-Mobile Convergence), IPTV, IMS, triple play, quad play, security, VOIP and more.
The 2010 CES attracted all of the top 50 global telecommunications service providers and featured 2,500 technology exhibitors, including a record 330 first time exhibitors. The Telecom Pavilion space for the 2011 International CES has been officially floored and the wait/priority list is now open. Companies interested in exhibiting at the 2011 Telecom Pavilion at CES should contact Tira Gordon, Senior Account Manager for CES, at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
CEA:
The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) is the preeminent trade association promoting growth in the $165 billion U.S. consumer electronics industry. More than 2,000 companies enjoy the benefits of CEA membership, including legislative advocacy, market research, technical training and education, industry promotion, standards development and the fostering of business and strategic relationships. CEA also produces the International CES – The Global Stage for Innovation. All profits from CES are reinvested into CEA’s industry services. Find CEA online at www.CE.org. EVENTS
CES on the Hill
April 20-21, 2010, Washington, DC
Digital Patriots Dinner
April 21, 2010, Washington, DC
LA Games Conference
April 29, 2010, Los Angeles, CA
CEA Line Shows
June 22-23, 2010, New York, NY
2010 SINOCES
July 8-11, 2010, Qingdao, China
2010 CEA Industry Forum
October 17-20, 2010, San Francisco, CA
i-stage
October 18, 2010, San Francisco, CA
Digital Hollywood Fall
October 18-21, 2010, Santa Monica, CA
CES New York Press Preview featuring CES Unveiled @ NY
November 9, 2010, New York, NY
Future of Television East
November 19, 2010 New York, NY
2011 International CES
January 6-9, 2011, Las Vegas, NV
Atlantic City Enthusiast Summit (ACES) 2019: Atlantic City, NJ
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Whistleblower to expose whaling industry
pjdickens animal rights, conservation, Greenpeace, Humpback, International anti-whaling day, IWC, Japan, Japanese whaling, Sea Shepherd, Whale Wars, whales 1 Comment
As Japan pushes to overturn a 24 year ban on commercial whaling, “Mr Whale” has come forward with allegations of corruption, bribery and other acts of criminality.
Supposedly hunted in the name of research, “Mr Whale”who worked on board the Nisshin Maru whale factory ship, has blown the whistle. He alleges the crewmen are instead seizing and selling prized cuts of meat to earn extra cash, in some cases many times more than their annual salary.
“Even before we arrived in the Antarctic Ocean,” he says of a recent expedition, “the more experienced whalers would talk about taking whale meat home to sell. It was an open secret. Even officials from the Institute of Cetacean Research [a quasi-governmental body that organises Japan’s whaling programme] on the ship knew what was happening, but they turned a blind eye to it.”
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International Anti-Whaling Day 5 November.
pjdickens Dolphins, Faero Islands, International anti-whaling day, International Whaling Commission, IWC, marine conservation, National Geographic, nature, Paul Watson, Sea Shepherd, Taiji, wildlife Leave a comment
Mmm, so it’s been a few days since I did the whole blog thing. What have I been up to? This is the question.
Aside from a very dull day job, I’ve been working behind the scenes with some cool people for the International Anti-Whaling Day Protests happening tomorrow, 5 November. Cape Town and Pretoria being two of more than 120 cities in over 60 countries taking part.
So, what’s all the noise about? Well firstly, each year around 22 000 dolphins are killed off the coast of Japan alone. These creatures are herded into a death trap where they get speared to death and their throats are slit. The Japanese also hunt whales. Lots of them. More than a thousand. Around 900 Minke whales, the balance made up of hump-backs, southern rights etc. The Japanese do this in a protected area and attempt to disguise the massacre as research. The IWC are spineless and recent evidence goes so far as to show Japan giving monetary aid to developing nations on condition of supporting Japanese whaling policy. Thats buying the IWC vote!
Whaling has hardly changed in the last 100 years. These majestic creatures are shot with a harpoon which has an exploding tip attached to it, The harpoon shot does not kill the whale, but causes massive trauma and unbearable pain. The injured and alarmed whale thrashes futilely against its fetters and is shot repeatedly with rifles until it dies some time later.
Now, before you wish to vent your fury solely on the Japanese, consider the following. Japan is one of TEN nations involved in this barbaric practice. So is the US of America, Russia, Norway, Faroe Islands, Canada, Indonesia, Greenland, Iceland, St Vincent and the Grenadines. The slaughter of pilot whales in the Faroe Islands is particularly heinous and very much akin to the atrocities perpetuated in Taiji Japan. Paul Watson refers to them as the Ferocious Islands. The participants of the “grind” slaughter just under a thousand each year. The water turns crimson as it is stained with blood as men with machetes and knives hack these innocent creatures to death. None are spared, not even pregnant females.
I could continue ad nauseum, but you get the picture. So thats what all the noise is about. Fortunately, people do actually care. Hundreds of folks from all around the world will unite in condemnation of this horribly cruel practice. It will be the largest animal rights protest in history. I am proud to have played a small roll in its execution and I further thank and congratulate all parties involved for their contribution. I pray that policies surrounding whaling change, the slaughter relegated to a thing of the past, a haunting reminder of the apes we used to be.
For further info and how you can help, check out the facebook page for Sea Shepherd SA
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Justia Patents Including Sampling, Gating, Or SwitchingUS Patent for Envelope detector including sample-and-hold circuit controlled by preceding carrier pulse peak(s) Patent (Patent # 5,724,002)
Envelope detector including sample-and-hold circuit controlled by preceding carrier pulse peak(s)
Jun 13, 1996 - Acrodyne Industries, Inc.
A sampling synchronous envelope detector adopts a specialized sample-and-hold ("S&H") approach, basing a detected output on instantaneous values of the carrier waveform which are sampled at specially chosen instants. Non-linear distortion is avoided by timing the sampling instants to occur at or near a carrier wave peak which is subsequent to an earlier carrier wave peak which serves as a time base. Sampling instants occur only at or near positive carrier peaks (or only at or near negative peaks) in a half-wave embodiment, and sampling instants occur at or near both positive and negative carrier peaks in a full wave embodiment. Another aspect of the detector provides means, such as a phase locked loop, for ensuring that the phase of the sampling instants is maintained continuously, even in the event of carrier pinch-off or other event which distorts or minimizes the carrier waveform from which the timing instants would otherwise be determined. Still another aspect of the detector provides for low pass filtering, and group delay equalization of the filtered signal, before it is output.
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The present invention relates to envelope detectors for detecting envelopes of signal waveforms. More specifically, the invention relates to electronic envelope detectors, especially suitable for linear, distortion-free detection of amplitude-modulated (AM) waveforms.
2. Related Art
The PN junction signal diode, being a simple individual component, has long been used for inexpensive amplitude modulation detection. However, the I-V transfer characteristic of the PN junction signal diode shown in FIG. 1 illustrates its shortcomings as an envelope detector.
The signal diode's I-V transfer function is not linear, and does not pass through the origin. This transfer function results in signal distortion, especially of small signals. Bias may be applied to move the V-axis crossing so that the curve passes through the origin, but this does not resolve the linearity problem, at either small or large signal amplitudes. Accordingly, use of a PN junction signal diode necessarily results in a distorted demodulated signal.
The tunnel diode offers a small improvement over the signal diode in the context of envelope detection. As shown in FIG. 2, the I-V characteristic of the tunnel diode passes through the origin, thus reducing distortion in small-amplitude signals without requiring bias. Further, the useful detection part of the curve is more linear than that of the signal diode. However, some nonlinearity is still characteristic of the tunnel diode, rendering it unacceptable as an envelope detector in many applications.
Accordingly, there is a need in the art for a relatively simple yet reliable system and method of detecting signal envelopes which do not introduce distortion. It is to fulfill this need that the present invention is directed.
Various types of envelope detectors, more sophisticated than simple diode detectors, are known in the art. U.S. Pat. No. 4,617,521 (Fox) discloses an S&H (sample-and-hold) demodulator involving active components and a switched capacitor. U.S. Pat. No. 4,426,623 (Wilkens et al.) discloses an AM demodulator in which there are two S&H circuits, the goal of the Wilkens et al. arrangement being to reduce ripple. U.S. Pat. No. 4,393,352 (Volpe et al.) discloses an active RC filter involving an S&H approach. U.S. Pat. No. 3,651,419 (Janz) is directed to a peak demodulator in which peak detector(s) sample positive and negative peaks and produce a pulse which closes switch(es) allowing an input signal to be sampled by charging a capacitor which is at the output of the switch(es). U.S. Pat. No. 3,378,779 (Priddy) discloses an early demodulator. Finally, U.S. Pat. No. 3,154,749 (Perkins) discloses an early envelope detector involving an S&H approach.
However, none of these systems perform the envelope detection in the same way as the present invention, or with the advantages possessed by the present invention.
The inventive envelope detector provides a long-needed improvement over PN junction diode detectors, tunnel diode detectors, and other envelope detectors. It is superior in performance because envelope detection is not dependent on the transfer characteristics of a diode or any other detection device. Accordingly, the detector itself does not constitute a source of distortion.
The present invention provides what may be termed a sampling synchronous envelope detector. It adopts a specialized sample-and-hold ("S&H") approach, basing a detected output on instantaneous values of the carrier waveform which are sampled at specially chosen instants.
The invention envisions at least two exemplary embodiments: a half-wave embodiment and a full-wave embodiment. In either embodiment, the inventive sampling synchronous envelope detector introduces no nonlinear distortion. Such distortion is avoided by timing sampling instants to occur at or near a carrier wave peak which is subsequent to an earlier carrier wave peak which serves as a time base. Sampling instants are timed to occur only at or near positive carrier peaks (or only at or near negative peaks) in the exemplary half-wave embodiment, and sampling instants occur at or near both positive and negative carrier peaks in the exemplary full wave embodiment. As used in this specification, a "peak" denotes a maximum-amplitude portion of a pulse, and may encompass positive maximum values (the narrower definition of a "peak") and negative maximum-amplitude values (which others may more narrowly define as a "trough").
Another aspect of the invention provides means, such as a phase locked loop, for ensuring sampling instants are maintained continuously, even in the event of carrier pinch-off or other event which distorts or minimizes the carrier waveform from which the sampling instants are determined.
Still another aspect of the invention provides for low pass filtering, and group delay equalization of the filtered signal, before it is output.
Other objects, features and advantages of the invention will become apparent from the following detailed description of the preferred embodiments and the accompanying drawing figures.
The invention is better understood by reading the following Detailed Description of the Preferred Embodiments with reference to the accompanying drawing figures, in which like reference numerals refer to like or similar elements throughout, and in which:
FIG. 1 illustrates the I-V characteristic of a PN junction signal diode, for demonstrating the nonlinearity it introduces into detector circuits.
FIG. 2 illustrates the I-V characteristic of a tunnel diode, for demonstrating the nonlinearity it introduces into detector circuits.
FIG. 3 illustrates a preferred embodiment of a half-wave sampling synchronous envelope detector according to the present invention.
FIG. 4 illustrates a preferred embodiment of a fun-wave sampling synchronous envelope detector according to the present invention.
FIGS. 5A through 5I, which are hereinafter referred to collectively as "FIG. 5", constitute a timing diagram showing waveforms found at various points in the exemplary circuits of FIGS. 3 and 4.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS
In describing preferred embodiments of the present invention illustrated in the drawings, specific terminology is employed for the sake of clarity. However, the invention is not intended to be limited to the specific terminology so selected, and it is to be understood that each specific element includes all technical equivalents which operate in a similar manner to accomplish a similar purpose.
The preferred embodiment of the inventive envelope detector includes a sample-and-hold (S&H) circuit which samples and holds the carrier wave input voltage value at or near a peak positive (and/or negative) point of each RF carrier cycle. This value is held until renewed by sampling and holding a peak positive (and/or negative) value of the next cycle in time. If only peak positive (or only negative) envelope values are stored, rectification takes place and the RF carrier is eliminated. The result is linear envelope detection.
In the following description of a preferred embodiment, certain assumptions are made:
First, operational amplifiers ("op amps") are assumed to have zero output impedance, infinite input impedance, and infinite open loop gain. Modern operational amplifiers very nearly meet these assumptions since an open loop bandwidth of 500 MHz or more, an output impedance of tens of milliohms or less, and an input impedance of megohms along with open loop gain of more than 100 dB, are all available in the same op amp.
Second, operational amplifiers are assumed to be capable of linearly amplifying a signal at common IF frequencies where desired amplitude detection takes place, and with very low distortion.
Third, it is established that modern voltage comparators are capable of stable operation with an input signal frequency greater than 50 MHz, well above the intermediate frequency at which envelope detection takes place in most applications.
Fourth, it is assumed that propagation delay through a voltage comparator is a function of the degree of overdrive to its input relative to its reference voltage, but that beyond only tens of millivolts overdrive, the time delay is constant.
Finally, it is preferred that the source impedance driving the exemplary detector circuits (described below) is nominally 50 ohms.
Of course, these assumptions are mentioned as background for describing preferred embodiments of the present invention, and are not strictly required of a particular real-world circuit to fall within the scope of the claims. Thus, the scope of the invention should not be limited to any or all of the foregoing.
FIG. 3 illustrates a preferred embodiment of a half-wave sampling synchronous envelope detector according to the present invention. FIG. 4 illustrates a preferred embodiment of a full-wave sampling synchronous envelope detector according to the present invention. The FIG. 3 half-wave circuit may be considered a subset of the FIG. 4 full-wave circuit, as its sample-and-hold circuitry is triggered on carrier wave pulses of only one polarity. The sample-and-hold circuitry of full-wave embodiment of FIG. 4 is triggered on carrier pulses of both polarities.
FIG. 5 is a timing diagram showing waveforms found at various points in the exemplary circuits of FIGS. 3 and 4. Element reference numerals in FIG. 5 refer to the similarly numbered nodes in FIGS. 3 and 4.
Referring especially to FIG. 3, an amplitude modulated RF carrier signal is input on node 302A to a buffer operational amplifier ("op amp") 310. Op amp 310 is in series with a switch 315 (preferably a CMOS transistor) which is connected to a capacitor C3. Capacitor C3 drives another op amp 340, which is connected in series with a low pass filter 350 and a group delay equalizer 360 which outputs the detected envelope output signal on node 375. A control signal 316 for switch 315 is formed from the following control circuitry 390.
The input signal on node 302A drives a buffer op amp 320 which is in series with an optional phase locked loop 325, a comparator 330 (functioning as a rise/fall indicator), and a differentiator 335 which provides a sample pulse on node 316 which drives the gate (control input) of switch 315. The operation of these and other elements in FIG. 3 is described in greater detail below.
FIG. 4 illustrates a preferred embodiment of a full-wave sampling synchronous envelope detector according to the present invention. The full-wave embodiment includes many elements corresponding closely to elements in the half-wave embodiment of FIG. 3. For example, FIG. 4 elements 310, 315, 340, 350, and 360, as well as elements 325, 330 and 335, are identical to or functional equivalents of like-numbered elements in FIG. 3. Control circuitry 490 corresponds generally to FIG. 3 control circuitry 390.
However, additional elements are also present in FIG. 4 which are not present in FIG. 3, to allow detection of both positive and negative pulses of the input carrier waveform.
An additional op amp 410 and switch 415 are provided, in parallel with op amp 310 and switch 315. Both op amps selectively feed capacitor C3 under control of the respective switches.
Likewise, a comparator 430 and differentiator 435 are provided, in parallel to comparator 330 and differentiator 335. These sets of comparators and differentiators provide respective control signals 316, 416 to switches 315 and 415.
FIG. 4 op amp 420, resistor R28, and LPF 427 perform functions similar to corresponding elements 320, R8, and 327. The operation of these corresponding elements need not be described in duplicate. However, it is preferred that only a single LPF 427 be provided in the full-wave embodiment, so that the same precise peak is determined by both comparators 330, 430 in FIG. 4.
The operation of the illustrated embodiments is now described, focusing on the half-wave embodiment but with the understanding that its principles of operation extend to the full-wave embodiment.
Referring to the half-wave sampling synchronous envelope detector in FIG. 3 and to corresponding timing waveforms in FIG. 5, an amplitude-modulated (AM) radio frequency (RF) or intermediate frequency (IF) carrier on node 302A drives the non-inverting input of op amp 310. In a particular preferred embodiment, resistors R5 and R5 are chosen so that op amp 310 has an arbitrary gain of 2.
The same AM signal on node 302A drives the non-inverting input of op amp 320, with resistor values R1 and R2 chosen to give op amp 320 an arbitrary gain of 1. Series resistors R1 and R2 make up the nominal 50 ohm load to the driving source. The output signal of op amp 310 is thus two times the voltage output level of op amp 320. Otherwise, the op amps 310 and 320 may be considered identical in function, with both serving essentially as buffers.
Op amp 310 provides an output on node 302B to a switch illustrated as element 315. In the preferred embodiment, the switch is an RF CMOS transistor whose on-off state is controlled by a logic level 316 provided to the transistor's gate. When logic level 316 to the gate is high, switch 315 is a closed circuit; when the logic level to the gate is low, the RF switch is an open circuit.
The gate is the controlling element of the switch, and ideally never affects the switch otherwise except for minuscule leakage current which does not substantively affect operation of the envelope detector circuit as a whole. Preferably, the switch is on for a very small fraction of the carrier period, so that switch 315 essentially causes the output of op amp 310 to be sampled and held by capacitor C3. This sampled voltage is held until the next carrier wave pulse's sample.
The output of op amp 320 drives the inverting input of a voltage comparator 330. Between op amp 320 and comparator 330 are a resistor R8, an optional phase locked loop 325, and an R-C pair functioning as a low pass filter 327. The low pass filter 327 includes a resistor R10 connected between the inputs of the comparator, and a capacitor C1 connecting the comparator's non-inverting input and ground. Resistor R8 is incidental to the concept of operation of the envelope detector.
However, it is significant that the signal output from op amp 320 feeds the non-inverting input through the time lag (low pass filter) circuit. Due to the time constant determined by R10 and C1, the voltage signal at the non-inverting input to comparator 330 always lags the signal at its inverting input. A time constant of, for example, 2.8 nanoseconds may be arbitrarily selected for a carrier frequency of 45 MHz so that the polarity of the differential signal across the two inputs of the comparator changes immediately after the positive and negative peaks of the RF carrier.
Thus, the combination of the low pass filter and comparator function as a trigger which changes state immediately after the carrier waveform changes direction. Because this change of direction occurs at (that is, within 2.8 nanoseconds after) peaks of the carrier waveform, the edges of the comparator's output can be considered peak indicators.
More specifically, as shown in FIG. 5C, just after a positive peak in the carrier signal, the comparator output 331 goes to a high logic level. Similarly, just after the negative peak, the comparator output goes to a logic zero. The comparator thus outputs what is essentially a square wave, assuming a generally regular sinusoidal input carrier. In the illustrated half-wave embodiment, only one of the two transitions, namely the positive-going transition, serves as a time base for the sample and hold switch 315.
The output of comparator 330 is differentiated so that only a very short-duration pulse at the rising edge of the comparator's square wave output pulses is input to the control input of switch 315. Differentiator 335 preferably includes a series arrangement of a capacitor C2, a delay line 336, and a resistor R11. In the FIG. 3 embodiment, a Schottky diode D1 clips the unused spikes extending toward the opposite polarity.
Advantageously, the delay line may be selected to cause the envelope detector to work in a variety of ways. If a short delay (or no delay) is selected, switch 315 goes to its "on" state immediately after the peak of the present pulse of the carrier wave. Alternatively, with larger delays, the delay may be selected to cause switch 315 to go to its "on" state at a later time, such as (preferably) the precise amplitude peak of a subsequent carrier peak.
Generally, the timing delay should be chosen so that the switch is closed momentarily at the peak of any subsequent cycle (or, if desired, any other consistently chosen time in the carrier cycle). The absolute duration of the delay is somewhat arbitrary, but the delay should be such that sampling does not take place while the carrier waveform is at or near its zero crossover. Setting the time delay to cause closure of the switch at the very peak produces the highest-amplitude demodulated signal, to thus maximize detection gain and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR).
When switch 315 is on, the voltage across holding capacitor C3 is updated. In the half-wave detector of FIG. 3, the voltage on the capacitor is updated at a rate equal to the carrier frequency since the positive peaks of the carrier determine the output state of the comparator 330. The output impedance of op amp 310, which supplies the electrical charge to capacitor C3, is assumed to be very low so that the op amp may inject or remove charge from the capacitor substantially instantaneously.
Op amp 340 amplifies the voltage on capacitor C3 to a desired level. A low pass filter 350 preferably follows op amp 340 to eliminate switching frequency components caused by the discretely-timed sampling updates described above. The corner frequency of the filter should be determined based on the highest frequency component of the baseband modulating signal which is being detected.
Certain technical details of the embodiment are now provided for the sake of completeness, with the understanding that variations of circuit content, circuit topology, and component values may be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the scope of the invention. Reference is made especially to FIG. 3 with the understanding that similar corresponding components in FIG. 4 function in a like manner and may therefore be similarly chosen by those skilled in the art.
In FIG. 3, R1 and R2 form the desired input termination impedance. In the FIG. 4 embodiment, R21 provides the desired input termination impedance.
The resistor-capacitor combinations at the inputs of the comparators in FIGS. 3 and FIG. 4 determine how soon after the carrier peaks the comparator(s) change state. Specifically, the values of R10 and C1 determine a time constant which determines the delay past the true carrier peak at which comparator 330 changes state. It has been demonstrated, for example, that a time constant of 1.2 nanoseconds is realizable using comparators such as the Maxim MAX 913.
Resistor R11 provides a suitable termination load to delay line 336, and also functions with capacitor C2 to differentiate the square wave output by the comparator 330. In the illustrated embodiment, diode D1 clips the negative pulses so that only positive pulses reach the switch 315. Advantageously, the R-C time constant at the input of the comparator is not required to be of close tolerance because the comparator state change does not have to happen precisely at the peak: it is sufficient that it occur at the same point in each cycle.
The comparator will change state at the same point in each cycle if the R-C time constant at its input is maintained substantially constant. Turning on the switches 315, 415 at a peak of a subsequent cycle is preferable, as it maximizes the output signal and therefore offers the greatest signal to noise ratio of the detector as a whole. The particular turn-on time of switches 315, 415 is set by delay line(s) 336, 436 at the output of the comparators, rather than by the R-C combinations at their input.
Applying connections to the operational amplifiers and the comparators such as supply voltages, as well as choosing the values and connection of other elements in the illustrated circuits, lie well within the ability of those skilled in the art and are not necessary to explain the operation of the circuit. Also, the particular values of other resistors and other components to achieve desired waveform levels and other waveform characteristics lies well within the ability of those skilled in the art. Accordingly, further discussion of such details is not needed to describe the invention or enable those skilled in the art to make and use it.
The structure and operation of embodiments of the present invention having been provided above, some of the advantages and conceptual observations relating to the invention are now presented. It is understood to those skilled in the art that other advantages may accrue, and that these or other conceptual observations are not necessary to describe the invention or allow those skilled in the art to make and use it.
In many cases, it is desirable to exclude quadrature modulation components of supposedly purely amplitude modulated carrier waves in the detection or demodulation process. This is because the quadrature modulation is usually due to undesirable carrier wave modulation such as "incidental carrier phase modulation." This undesirable effect occurs in supposedly "linear" amplifiers which are not truly linear in the transmitter after the modulation process has taken place.
The addition of the quadrature modulation component results in a modulated signal with an X component (the desirable "intended" component) and a small Y component (the undesirable, "unintended" component) causing a resultant Pythagorean Z component. Unfortunately, envelope detectors cannot distinguish the Z value from the desired X component.
Synchronous detectors may be used to extract the X and Y components separately, and the Y component may be discarded if desired. In vestigial sideband modulation, a Y component is intentionally generated, and is a necessary component as a result of the asymmetry of the upper and lower sidebands. A synchronous detector finds the X and Y components separately. These two components are independently squared, the squares are summed, and the square root of the sum is determined so as to find a Z value. However, this is a slow process which severely limits the maximum carrier frequency and modulation bandwidth which may be accommodated in a practical circuit. Using a simple diode demodulator finds the resultant Z directly, but as described in the Background of the Invention the diode detector circuit is nonlinear and thus introduces distortion.
An advantage of the present invention is that the invention preserves the full envelope of the detected signal, Z, without introducing the distortion of conventional diode detectors.
The embodiments of both FIG. 3 and FIG. 4 use the modulated carrier wave signal itself as a reference for the comparator(s), unlike known systems.
The invention smoothes the sample detected signal by filtering with a low pass filter 350 to rid the sampled signal of switching spikes. A group delay equalizer all-pass filter 360 counters the group delay distortion naturally introduced by the low pass filter.
As mentioned above, an advantage of either embodiment of the present invention is that it preserves the full envelope of the detected signal, Z, without introducing the distortion of conventional diode detectors.
It is recognized that the full-wave embodiment of FIG. 4 includes more circuitry than the half-wave embodiment of FIG. 3. In some instances, the FIG. 3 half-wave embodiment performs substantially as well as the FIG. 4 full-wave embodiment. The exemplary half wave circuit in FIG. 3 may be used if the carrier frequency is much greater than the frequency spectrum of the modulating signal: for low-frequency modulation, the carrier wave peaks occur often enough to update the holding capacitor C3 for successful linear detection.
However, the full-wave embodiment is preferable over the half-wave embodiment when the frequency of the modulating signal approaches the carrier frequency. The preferred performance of the full-wave embodiment derives from the fact that, for the half-wave detector of FIG. 3, sampling occurs only at the carrier frequency because peaks of only one polarity (positive or negative) trigger the comparator. However, for the full-wave detector of FIG. 4, sampling occurs at twice the carrier frequency because peaks of both polarities (positive and negative) trigger the comparator.
An exemplary application of the present invention is to detect an NTSC television baseband video signal on a carrier wave with modulation components as high as 4.18 MHz at an IF carrier frequency of 45.75 MHz. In this application, the full wave embodiment of the inventive envelope detector offers no advantage over the half wave circuit because the Nyquist criterion is met in both cases: specifically, in FIG. 4, the Nyquist criterion:
(2.times.45.75) MHz>(2.times.4.18) MHz
is met, but in FIG. 3, the Nyquist criterion:
45.75 MHz>(2.times.4.18) MHz
is also met. In contrast, if the carrier frequency were at a non-standard value (such as 5 MHz, for example), then only the full wave embodiment should be used.
Specifically, in FIG. 3:
5 MHz<(2.times.4.18) MHz
and the Nyquist criterion is not met. But in FIG. 4, the Nyquist criterion:
(2.times.5) MHz>(2.times.4.18) MHz
is met. The half-wave circuit in FIG. 3 would not sample often enough, and incurable aliasing would occur in the baseband television demodulated signal. Accordingly, there are instances in which the use of the extra circuitry of FIG. 4 is justified.
Another issue of concern in envelope detection is when the carrier amplitude is substantially reduced, making it more difficult to detect its envelope. For example, for high modulation percentages, carrier pinch-off is approached, the magnitude of the carrier signal output from op amps 320, 420 is too small to trigger a change of state in the comparators' outputs. By implication, the comparator (peak detector) ceases to operate properly, and demodulation is interrupted. For modulation as high as (for example) 95% to 100%, the phase locked loop (PLL) circuit 325 in FIGS. 3 and 4, locked to the carrier wave in phase and frequency, is preferably used. The carrier wave input to the PLL free-runs during any interruption in the input signal and allows continuous demodulation even during carrier pinch-off, and during other events in which the carrier wave is momentarily too low in amplitude to be used as a reference for the comparator.
Modifications and variations of the above-described embodiments of the present invention are possible, as appreciated by those skilled in the art in light of the above teachings. For example, the particular resistance and capacitance values, and the choice of particular implementations of the operational amplifiers and comparators may be varied without departing from the scope of the present invention. Indeed, the operational amplifiers and comparators exemplified above may be replaced with other implementations appreciated by those skilled in the art, provided the requisite functions are performed as claimed. It is therefore to be understood that, within the scope of the appended claims and their equivalents, the invention may be practiced otherwise than as specifically described.
1. A synchronous sampling envelope detector, comprising:
an input for receiving a carrier waveform which includes a series of pulses; and
means, responsive to a detected maximum-magnitude value of a present pulse of the carrier waveform, for sampling an instantaneous value of the carrier waveform at a time which is delayed to a portion of a subsequent pulse of the carrier waveform which occurs after the present pulse.
2. A synchronous sampling envelope detector for detecting an envelope of a carrier waveform which includes a series of pulses, the detector comprising:
a) an input which receives the carrier waveform;
b) a switch having:
1) a signal input which is responsive to the carrier waveform;
2) an output; and
3) a control input for determining whether the switch is "on" to connect the output to the signal input or "off" to disconnect the output from the signal input;
c) a holding device, responsive to the switch's output, for receiving a sample of the switch output's instantaneous amplitude when the switch is on, and for holding the sample as being indicative of the carrier waveform's instantaneous amplitude after the switch has been turned off; and
d) control means, responsive to the carrier waveform, for determining a maximum-magnitude value of a present pulse of the carrier waveform and for providing a sample signal to the switch's control input at a time delay after the determined maximum-magnitude value which occurs during part of a subsequent pulse of the carrier waveform, so as to cause the holding device to sample and hold the sample which is indicative of the instantaneous amplitude of the carrier waveform.
3. The detector of claim 2, further comprising:
a low pass filter for smoothing discretely-timed variations in the samples stored in the holding device.
a group delay equalizer, connected to the low pass filter.
5. The detector of claim 2, wherein the control means includes:
means for allowing the control means to continue to cause the holding device to sample and hold the value indicative of the instantaneous amplitude of the carrier waveform at phases which remain consistent, even when the carrier waveform is substantially reduced in magnitude.
6. The detector of claim 5, wherein the means for allowing includes:
a phase locked loop, locked in frequency and phase to the carrier waveform, for providing a continuous-phase signal for detection of the maximum-magnitude value even when the carrier waveform is substantially reduced in magnitude.
7. A method of detecting an envelope of a carrier waveform which includes a series of pulses, the method comprising:
beginning a time period in response to a detected peak of a present pulse of the carrier waveform;
determining an end of the time period during a subsequent pulse of the carrier waveform which occurs after the present pulse; and
sampling an instantaneous amplitude of the carrier waveform at the end of the time period.
a buffer which receives the carrier waveform and provides a buffered waveform;
slope indication means, responsive to the buffered waveform, for providing a slope indication signal which changes state substantially at peaks of positive and negative polarity; and
a differentiator which is responsive to the slope indication signal to provide to the switch's control input, a narrow pulse constituting the sample signal.
9. The detector of claim 8, wherein:
the buffer includes an operational amplifier.
10. The detector of claim 8, wherein the control means further includes:
a phase locked loop, responsive to the buffered waveform and which provides a reference signal to the slope indication means even when the buffered waveform is small in magnitude.
11. The detector of claim 8, wherein the slope indication means includes:
a) a low pass filter (LPF) which is responsive to a first signal derived directly from the buffered waveform and which provides a slightly delayed version of the first signal; and
b) a comparator having:
1) a first input which is directly responsive to the first signal;
2) a second input which is responsive to the delayed version of the first signal; and
3) a comparator output which changes the slope indication signal's value when the first input's value crosses the second input's value.
12. The detector of claim 8, wherein the differentiator includes:
a delay element which substantially determines the time delay which expires during the subsequent pulse of the carrier waveform.
a limiter which clips narrow pulses of a predetermined polarity so that only narrow pulses of a second polarity opposite the predetermined polarity affect the sample signal.
14. The detector of claim 8, wherein:
a) the buffer includes an operational amplifier;
b) the control means further includes a phase locked loop, responsive to the buffered waveform and which provides a reference signal to the slope indication means even when the buffered waveform is small in magnitude;
c) the slope indication means includes:
1) a low pass filter which is responsive to a first signal derived directly from the buffered waveform and which provides a slightly delayed version of the first signal; and
2) a comparator which has a first input which is directly responsive to the first signal and a second input which is responsive to the delayed version of the first signal, and which changes the slope indication signal's value when the first input's value crosses the second input's value;
d) the differentiator includes a delay element which substantially determines the time delay which expires during the subsequent pulse of the carrier waveform; and
e) the control means further includes a limiter which clips narrow pulses of a predetermined polarity so that only narrow pulses of a second polarity opposite the predetermined polarity affect the sample signal.
the control means constitutes a hardware circuit.
16. The detector of claim 15, wherein:
the hardware circuit includes discrete active and passive electronic components.
17. A full wave synchronous sampling envelope detector for detecting an envelope of a carrier waveform which includes a series of pulses, the detector comprising:
b) a first buffer which provides a first buffered waveform in response to the carrier waveform;
c) a first switch having:
1) a first signal input which is responsive to the first buffered waveform;
2) a first output; and
3) a first control input for determining whether the first switch is "on" to connect the first output to the first signal input or "off" to disconnect the first output from the first signal input;
d) an inverter which provides an inverted waveform in response to the carrier waveform;
e) a second switch having:
1) a second signal input which is responsive to the inverted waveform;
2) a second output; and
3) a second control input for determining whether the second switch is "on" to connect the second output to the second signal input or "off" to disconnect the second output from the second signal input;
f) a holding device, responsive to the first and second switches' outputs, for receiving samples of the first and second switches' outputs' instantaneous amplitudes when the respective switches are on, and for holding successive sample values indicative of the carrier waveform's instantaneous amplitude after the switches have been turned off; and
g) control means, responsive to the carrier waveform and which determines respective peak and trough maximum-magnitude values of present pulses and which provides first and second sample signals to the respective first and second control inputs of the first and second switches at time delays after the determined peak and trough maximum-magnitude values which occurs during part of respective subsequent pulses of the carrier waveform, so as to cause the holding device to sample and hold values indicative of the instantaneous amplitude of the carrier waveform.
18. The detector of claim 17, further comprising:
20. The detector of claim 17, wherein the control means includes:
21. The detector of claim 20, wherein the means for allowing includes:
first slope indication means, responsive to the buffered waveform, for providing a first slope indication signal which changes state substantially at peaks of positive and negative polarity;
second slope indication means, responsive to the buffered waveform, for providing a second slope indication signal which changes state substantially at peaks of positive and negative polarity;
a first differentiator which is responsive to the first slope indication signal to provide to the first switch's control input, a narrow pulse constituting the first sample signal; and
a second differentiator which is responsive to the second slope indication signal to provide to the second switch's control input, a narrow pulse constituting the second sample signal.
24. The detector of claim 22, wherein the control means further includes:
25. The detector of claim 22, wherein the first and second slope indication means include:
a) a shared low pass filter (LPF) which is responsive to a first signal derived directly from the buffered waveform and which provides a slightly delayed version of the first signal; and
b) respective comparators, each comparator having:
26. The detector of claim 22, wherein each differentiator of the fast and second differentiators includes:
first and second limiters which clip respective narrow pulses of a predetermined polarity so that only narrow pulses of a second polarity opposite the predetermined polarity affect the respective first and second sample signals.
c) the first and second slope indication means include:
1) a shared low pass filter (LPF) which is responsive to a first signal derived directly from the buffered waveform and which provides a slightly delayed version of the first signal; and
2) respective comparators, each comparator having:
i) a first input which is directly responsive to the first signal;
ii) a second input which is responsive to the delayed version of the first signal; and
iii) a comparator output which changes the slope indication signal's value when the first input's value crosses the second input's value;
d) each differentiator of the first and second differentiators includes a delay element which substantially determines the time delay which expires during the subsequent pulse of the carrier waveform; and
e) the control means further includes first and second limiters which clip respective narrow pulses of a predetermined polarity so that only narrow pulses of a second polarity opposite the predetermined polarity affect the respective first and second sample signals.
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Date of Patent: Mar 3, 1998
Assignee: Acrodyne Industries, Inc. (Blue Bell, PA)
Inventor: Timothy P. Hulick (Schwenksville, PA)
Primary Examiner: Siegfried H. Grimm
Law Firm: Reid & Priest LLP
Current U.S. Class: Including Sampling, Gating, Or Switching (329/361); With Three Or More Terminal Discrete Semiconductor Device (329/362); Input Signal Split Into Plural Signals (329/363); Discriminator Or Demodulator (455/337)
International Classification: H03D 102;
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Associate Dean (Graduate Education), College of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences
Associate Professor, School of Humanities
Email: mbcng@ntu.edu.sg
Office: HSS 05 56F/ HSS-03-52
First Class Honours, PhD La Trobe University.
After her PhD, Ng Bee Chin worked as a Post-doctoral fellow at the University of Queensland. Following that, she taught in Monash and La Trobe University before joining Nanyang Technological University in 2000. Currently, she is in the Division of Linguistics and Multilingual Studies. She is the co-author of Bilingualism: An advanced Resource Book, published by Routledge 2007.
Ng Bee Chin works in the area of child language acquisition and semantics. Her primary area of research is in psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics aspects of language acquisition in multilingual contexts. Topics which she has worked on include bilingual acquisition, language identity and attitudes, semantic and conceptual acquisition, interpretation and translation, language and gender, speech pathology in multilingual settings. Given the multilingual context she works in, she is interested in any aspect of language enquiry which explores the interaction between the speaker and the enviroment.
Digital Intangible Heritage Asia (DIHA)
Exploring the crossroads of linguistic diversity: language contact in S.E. Asia
MICE - A Multilingual Corpus of Emotion Expressions of Malay, Indonesian, Chinese and English
Silent but all Ears: The critical role of speech perception and input in 6-12 month bilingual infants.
The Impact of Language Repertoire on Elderly Singaporeans
Cavallaro, Francesco, Mark Seilhamer, Ho Yen Yee and Ng Bee Chin. (2018). Attitudes to Mandarin Chinese Varieties in Singapore. Journal of Asian Pacific Communication, 28(2), 195–225.
Wong, G., & Ng, B. C. (2018). Moral judgement in early bilinguals: Language dominance influences responses to moral dilemmas.. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 1070.
Cavallaro, Francesco, Mark Seilhamer, Felicia Chee and Ng Bee Chin. (2016). Overaccommodation in a Singapore Eldercare Facility. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 37(8), 817-831.
Ng Bee Chin. (2016). Special Issue on Language and Emotion on Chinese Languages. Lingua Sinica, .
Cavallaro, Francesco and Ng Bee Chin. (2015, October). Measuring language "attachment" in Singapore: a direct and an indirect approach. Paper presented at 21st Conference of the International Association for World Englishes (IAWE 2015), Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey.
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What Women Want: A Chinese Take
I can’t explain what it is, but the original Mel Gibson version of this film has just stuck with me for years. I loved it and loved the idea behind it. Almost like a comedians joke, it is true that men can’t think behind what women are thinking. Combine that with Mel Gibson’s attitude and apparent macho sex appeal, and you got yourself a movie with comedy, wit, and a combining of the sexes.
And the same thing goes for the Chinese version of this film. Starring Andy Lau and
Some real chemistry between two beautiful Asians.
Gong Li, these two had a chemistry on film that wasn’t present as much between Mel Gibson and Helen Hunt. The humor is all there in both films, it just comes off as more of a real feeling when watching this 2011 remake. Maybe the Chinese know something about gender relations than we do…
Basic plot. Sun Zigang (Andy Lau) is a successful and macho advertising agent. He knows sex sells to a male audience and does it in a very male oriented way. After all his success and the expectation of a promotion, along comes Li Yilong (Gong Li). She’s young, sassy and successful, and her headstrong attitude scares Sun. He must learn to work under her when she takes his sought after promotion, only to struggle against her managerial style. After taking some female products home, Sun is struck by electrocuted by a fish lamp in his bathtub.
Andy Lau as a secure male. In red heels.
That’s where everything changes. Suddenly, Sun Zigang can hear the thoughts of women. Not all people, like a useful power would, just women. And he finds out that all the women at his work hate him, even his own daughter from his newly divorced wife. With this massive hit to his ego, he must save face and do well in his job all at the same time.
I keep coming back to it, but the idea of a plot like this fascinates me. Most men in this situation would use this power to manipulate women. Andy Lau does this to an extent. But to learn that women can be just as mean to men (just not saying it) is a scary and
Gong Li really is a beautiful woman.
depressing thing. I hope this idea/ script was written by a women, or it wouldn’t be as true and enlightening and this film becomes.
I’m sure there are those people who write this off as just a romantic comedy. Why look into it any more than that? But why not? The idea that maybe being able to be honest and truthful with one another (even if we don’t know that we are) can make things better. It can improve relationships, maybe break them. Maybe that’s not a bad thing. But honesty is at the heart of this movie, and that’s what I connected so much with. Listen, I’ve not had a bunch of good luck with female friends in the past. They back stabbed me, left me, didn’t understand me, and I tried to communicate with them on a real level. Maybe that’s something a lot of people can’t handle. Unrelenting trust. That’s the kind of difficulty this movie idea tries to handle.
Ya got beat, Mel.
The acting is great, just like the original, but the chemistry and relationships seem a bit more realistic in this Chinese version. I liked the awkward Asian stereotype at play in the way that it was an ebb and flow between the characters. Nobody ever really said what they wanted to say, and that proves how hard it is to be trusting and honest, completely, with other human beings. I saw a side of China that you don’t often get to see, and it reassures me that not everywhere other than America is so unrelated to us. The music was upbeat and modern, and the comedy was nicely paced and quirky. I gotta say, Mel Gibson, you got beat by Andy Lau. 7.1 out of 10.
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Reynolda House Museum of American Art’s Cinema Under the Stars outdoor movie program has long set the standard for summer movie experiences in the Piedmont Triad. - Yes! Weekly
The ninth annual Cinema Under the Stars promises strange encounters in city, surf, and outer space. Scream along to creature features Jaws and Close Encounters of the Third Kind and sing along to inhumanly entertaining musicals Cabaret and An American in Paris. Films are shown on the front lawn; in case of rain films are shown in the Babcock Auditorium. Beer and wine will be available for purchase, and filmgoers are encouraged to arrive early and picnic on the lawn. Co-presented by the School of Filmmaking at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.
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Latest Children's Book Released – "You Can Do It"
WILMINGTON, Del. - Rezul -- Lois Petren has launched a new children's book in the first of the Five Enchanted Mermaids series.
""How often does a parent hear "I cannot do it" that during their kids' childhoods? It is so frustrating and painful to hear those words from your child. The best way a parent can help is to equip our kids with tools they can use to break through this negativity and develop confidence that they have the skills to solve life's big and little challenges." said Ms. Petren
"This is why we created the Tales of the Five Enchanted Mermaids books. Each of the five Mermaids represents a different area of emotional intelligence and, through these stories, they present practical solutions that your child can carry with them and use in their own lives."
In You Can Do It! Otto the octopus works through his frustrations as he learns to use blocks to build a house, with assistance from the Mermaids. Each Mermaid helps him tackle one aspect of the challenge and come up with several possible ways to solve it. The format of this book acts as a conversation starter and makes it easy to transition into a real-world discussion about additional solutions your child may have.
The book's charming and lighthearted illustrations, show how Otto is feeling as he works through the process and then eventually reaches a successful outcome.
"You Can Do It! is the first book in a series of picture books for children 3 to 7 years of age. If you and your children like unique stories that help develop emotional intelligence and a growth mindset, you'll love these books and a range of supporting party supplies" added Jackie Bunn, CEO of LifeMadeSimple.
All of the products and books, in paperback and eBook format, are available on Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/stores/page/1DA5EC38-9340-43C8-8DFE-0E105B53A5D2?channel=Press%20Release%20Feisty) and on the Five Enchanted Mermaids (https://www.fiveenchantedmermaids.com/shop) website (www.fiveenchantedmermaids.com). Free coloring and activity pages featuring images from the books can be downloaded here (https://www.fiveenchantedmermaids.com/copy-of-c...).
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Relevance of nature landscapes with national significance in school and out-of-school environmental education
Dr. Alexandra Siegmund, Prof. Dr. Alexander Siegmund
The project analyzes the relevance and prevalence of natural landscapes with national significance in school and out-of-school environmental education.
Since 2005 the German national parks, biosphere reserves and nature parks are combined under the brand ”National Nature Landscapes” (“Nationale Naturlandschaften“). From the Wadden Sea to the Bavarian Forest there are already more than 100 of those nature landscapes in Germany. All of them have one thing in common: the goal to protect and preserve nature and make the experienceable to visitors. The protection of an area, however, can only be successful when it is possible to include the population and to convince them of the value of the area for their own life and the life of future generations.
For this reason the topic “National Nature Landscapes” has to be an important part of school and out-of-school environmental education. The first step is to determine the previous relevance of this topic by a quantitative analysis. Thereby, all curricula, biology and geography schoolbooks and educational magazines from the 16 federal states have to be analyzed. The second step is to analyze the topic in connection with field trips of schools.
One of the national nature landscapes: Neureichenau in the Bavarian Forest (photo: Alex Schmitt)
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09-08-2017 | ANCA-associated vasculitis | News
‘No clear evidence’ for extending azathioprine maintenance therapy in ANCA-associated vasculitis
medwireNews: A post-hoc analysis of combined trial data suggests that extending azathioprine maintenance therapy beyond 18 months is not necessary for preventing relapses among patients with antineutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitis.
In an analysis of 380 patients with newly diagnosed disease who participated in six European multicenter studies and were followed up for a mean of 65.4 months after diagnosis, Anoek de Joode (University Medical Center Groningen, the Netherlands) and colleagues found that 84 participants experienced a first relapse during azathioprine maintenance therapy, while 71 relapsed after discontinuation.
When participants were grouped according to the duration of maintenance therapy after remission induction, which varied from less than 12 to 42 months, 65.3% of 301 patients receiving azathioprine for longer than 18 months after diagnosis were relapse-free at 60 months, compared with 55.0% of 51 who discontinued the drug at or before 18 months, a nonsignificant difference.
And when comparing azathioprine treatment duration of longer than versus up to 24, 36, and 48 months, there was a “numerically small and not statistically significant increase” in relapse-free survival rates.
“[O]n the basis of our findings, we think there is no clear evidence that extension of maintenance therapy with [azathioprine] beyond 18 months after diagnosis in general is effective in relapse prevention,” write the researchers in Rheumatology.
The team did, however, find that relapse-free survival was significantly associated with mode of induction therapy, with higher rates of relapse seen among patients treated with intravenous cyclophosphamide versus oral treatment (hazard ratio [HR]=1.21), and with ANCA specificity, in that participants with PR3-ANCA antibodies were more likely to experience relapses than those without (HR=1.32).
de Joode and colleagues note that their study was limited by its retrospective nature, and that participants’ clinical data were only collected at baseline. Furthermore, the findings “may not be applicable to certain groups of patients who may have higher risk of relapse or other specific characteristics,” they caution.
And the team concludes that the results of an ongoing “large multicentre maintenance of remission study comparing short- and long-term courses of [azathioprine] maintenance therapy,” should “enable clinicians in daily practice to decide what maintenance agent to choose and for how long.”
By Claire Barnard
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Doação 2.0: Curso à Distância
Universidade de Stanford
A philanthropist is anyone who gives anything — time, money, experience, skills, and networks — in any amount, to create a better world. This course will empower you to practice philanthropy more effectively and make your giving more meaningful to both you and those you strive to help. Giving 2.0: The MOOC, is a Stanford University-sponsored online course intended to teach givers of all ages, backgrounds, incomes and experiences to give more effectively. Taught by social entrepreneur, philanthropist and bestselling author Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, Giving 2.0: The MOOC will teach you how to assess nonprofits, create a high-impact philanthropic strategy, volunteer more effectively, use existing, free technology for good and more. Giving 2.0: The MOOC is a six-module course. Each module has a particular theme and 5-10 content-packed and activity-rich, videos exploring that theme. Videos will include lectures from Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen as well as interviews, discussions and lectures given by guest speakers. Guest speakers are renowned leaders in multiple industries including philanthropy, technology and business, who will provide unique insights into course topics. Course participants will have the opportunity to join Talkabouts – small virtual meeting groups created to discuss class-related topics. By the course’s conclusion, course participants will have created an Individual Giving Action Plan to guide their future giving in a highly effective and meaningful way. Course participants will also complete a formal nonprofit assessment and be provided with ongoing, post-MOOC philanthropy education content that will support continued development and execution of their philanthropic goals.
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Nonprofit Selection and Assessment
This module will empower learners to efficiently assess any nonprofit through a variety of tools, metrics and perspectives. Course participants will learn how to research and engage with nonprofits, as well as conduct a comprehensive nonprofit assessment.
Introduction to Nonprofit Assessment3:52
Your Relationship with Nonprofits6:35
Guest Speaker: Darren Walker5:11
Guest Speaker: Holden Karnofsky5:38
Guest Speaker: Jacob Harold7:57
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
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Hello, I'm Darren Walker, and I serve as president of the Ford Foundation.
We've been asked to share with you how we think about grant-making and
evaluation here at the Ford Foundation.
When I was a grantee,
there were many challenges that I faced working with funders.
One was a lack of transparency.
I wasn't always sure what they were evaluating my organization for.
The second was the sheer power imbalance that exist between grantees and
our grant makers, and what it does is distorts the relationship.
And so it's encumber upon grant makers,
philanthropists to work hard to overcome that imbalance.
You can never erase it.
But you can work to sincerely, authentically,
genuinely engage nonprofits who you fund so
that you can get a more honest, frank, and genuine relationship with them.
It's that relationship that builds trust, and
it's trust that over time allows you to really be a great partner.
Not everything that is important can be measured.
So if you're working on a vaccine, that's a very different product,
that's a very different project.
Than working in the humanities or working for a women's right initiative.
You can actually do a randomized control trial on a vaccine.
You can't do a randomized control trial on the women's rights program.
Great philanthropists always take great risks, and
that's because doing it the safe way, the easy way is in many ways, a cop out.
The benefit of philanthropy is the flexibility that one
has to invest in a spectrum of ideas and
innovations that some might think are a little wacky, even.
And there have been many instances over the history
of modern philanthropy where ideas that were somewhat
unconventional were moved to the mainstream,
in part because a philanthropist made a high-risk investment.
Decisions about whether to invest or not to invest need to be made holistically,
based upon a number of indicators, including the rigorous data,
but also your gut.
It's very important to have a longterm view of your work as a philanthropist and
your grantee partners.
We know that change doesn't happen overnight, not in one or
two year grant-making cycles.
Real demonstrable change requires years of hard work and investments,
and so it's important to fortify yourself with the knowledge and
the understanding of what it will take to build a sustainable
organization that is durable over the long haul.
So we thought it might be useful to share with you a video
that we've created here at the Ford Foundation on the grant-making process.
>> Each and every year, the Ford Foundation makes approximately 1,400
grants to organizations all over the world that serve the public good.
We fund a broad range of issues, but at the heart of our work
is a belief that all people deserve the opportunity to fulfill their potential,
contribute to society, and have their voices heard.
Our grant-making tackles the systems and
structures that keep those opportunities out of reach for many communities.
Each of our areas of work from education to human rights to economic fairness
is overseen by teams of program officers.
These teams are experts in their fields with years of experience and
deep ties to the communities with which they work.
>> How do grants get made?
>> Based on their extensive knowledge of the most pressing issues in their fields,
program teams seek out people and organizations with bold ideas and
scalable solutions.
The teams work with prospective grantees to create grant proposals,
to support those solutions.
Grant applications may also be submitted through the Ford Foundation website.
But in a typical year less than 1% of unsolicited applications receive a grant.
>> How are proposals reviewed?
>> Once a proposal is selected for funding, it goes through a thorough review
which ensures we comply with all legal requirements for charitable giving.
We hold ourselves to the highest standards of accountability.
The foundation then formally approves a grant and issues an official grant letter.
>> How are grants monitored?
>> Through visits, convenings, and written reports.
Program teams maintained close communication with the people and
organization they support, learning about their progress and challenges.
It is a privilege to work on the front lines of social change with this visionary
leaders and organization.
And it is our mission to support them transparently, and responsibly.
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Data and Systems Perspective on Constituent Body Reform
Data, together with the systems and regulated processes by which they are measured, collected, compared, shared, processed and applied, are fundamental to WMO. In that sense, data has shaped the...
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Mozambique cyclones are “wake-up call,” says WMO
Climate change, Tropical cyclones, Disasters, Floods, WMO
Fact-finding mission makes recommendations for future resilience / The devastation caused by cyclones Idai and Kenneth which hit Mozambique within the space of a few weeks is a wake-up call about more high-impact tropical cyclones, coastal flooding and intense rainfall linked to climate change, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
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Enabling worldwide use of timely, reliable and accurate Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) products and services in all time-scales for applications related to weather, climate, water and environment.
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Artificial Intelligence for good
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Artificial intelligence is creating opportunities for contributing to much-needed efficiency gains in the handling of data that underpins Earth system science and weather and climate predictions, WMO Secretary-General Petteri Taalas told the Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Good Global Summit.
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Hazard warnings must reach the last mile, metre - and bucket
Disaster risk reduction, Natural hazards, Hurricanes, Partnership, Tropical cyclones
The Second Multi-Hazard Early Warning Conference has opened at World Meteorological Organization headquarters with calls for more impact-based warnings that reach the most vulnerable as part of wider climate adaptation, disaster risk reduction and sustainable development strategies.
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Disaster preparedness limits toll from Cyclone Fani
Hurricanes, Disasters, Tropical cyclones
Publish Date: 2 May 2019
Extremely severe cyclonic storm Fani made landfall close to Puri in Odisha on 3 May, with maximum sustained wind speeds of 180-190 km/h. It tracked North-North Eastwards and weaken as it moves towards West Bengal and then on to Bangladesh, according to the Indian Meteorological Department. Accurate advance forecasts and a huge, well-coordinated disaster risk reduction campaign were credited with keeping the death toll to a minimum.
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Another unprecedented tropical cyclone and flooding hits Mozambique
Tropical cyclones, Hurricanes, Disaster risk reduction, Floods
A few weeks after IDAI which wreaked havoc on central Mozambique (and eastern Zimbabwe), the country is dealing with another unprecedented event. Tropical Cyclone Kenneth made landfall in northern Mozambique on 25 April, near the border with Tanzania, in an area where no tropical cyclone has been observed since the satellite era. There is no record of two storms of such intensity striking Mozambique in the same season. Torrential rainfall in the days following the cyclone worsened the problem and hampered humanitarian operations.
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The Pure Energy Centre is a company committed to the design, development, and manufacture of low and high-pressure hydrogen electrolyzers. We offer our electrolyzer products and services globally all aimed at multiple industries including the renewable, oil & gas, metallurgical, glass, food, gold, and other applications.
The Pure Energy Centre where the first company in the world to install a completely offgrid hydrogen electrolyser system all owned by a community in 2005. Since then, it has installed electrolysers in Asia, the Middle East, Americas, and in many European countries. The Pure Energy Centre has an enviable proven track record as an expert in the hydrogen alternative fuel production, compression, storage and dispensing all of being used to your advantage.
We offer electrolyzer’s tailored solutions for hydrogen houses, businesses, farmers, refineries, green transport, energy storage solutions, gold and diamond mining, food processing, power station cooling and we aim at ensuring that as many applications of our hydrogen generator units use renewable energy.
Each of our electrolyser product is unique and built to your needs all with the latest innovations in hydrogen production, safety and operation. We offer small scale 0.5Nm3/h to large multi MW electrolysers.
Our hydrogen generator specification and prices
Price: The price for a hydrogen electrolyser varies from size to size, technology to technology and from one pressure output to another one. But it is possible to say that electrolysers costs vary from £40,000 to £250,000 for the small ones and multi-million pounds for the larger ones.
Production: Wide range of hydrogen electrolysers available to suit your various projects.
Quality: Excellent durable hydrogen electrolyser.
Proven record: Hydrogen Electrolyser installed under the most stringent weather conditions of the Scottish Isles (UK).
Intermittency: Suitable for intermittent electricity sources like solar electrolysers or wind and hydro.
Maintenance: 5 year maintenance contracts available.
Monitoring: Remote monitoring available.
Installation: Easy to install the hydrogen electrolyzer in a containerised solution.
Quality assurance: All our electrolyzers are CE marked.
Electrical supply: 120/240 VAC, 400/440 VAC, 50/60Hz
Contact us on +44 (0) 1957 711 410 for more information on our full range of electrolyzers.
Making Hydrogen via electrolysis
The Pure Energy Centre (PEC) is a hydrogen electrolyzer manufacture. As such, the PEC offers a wide variety of hydrogen electrolyzers that allows you to produce hydrogen via the electrolysis process.
Our electrolyzer’s membrane and catalysts aim at taking advantage of a 19th-century electrochemical reaction invention to split water (H2O) into oxygen (O2) and hydrogen (H2) molecules. The end product is Hydrogen gas that can be stored and then used to fuel a fuel cell stack, internal combustion engines, cookers, boilers, heaters, and any type of hydrogen cars.
Types of hydrogen electrolyzers
We provide two types of electrolysers. Alkaline and Proton Exchange Membranes (also known as Hydrogen PEM electrolysers). Note that there is a third type of electrolysers, called Solid Oxide Electrolyzers.
Both our Alkaline and PEM electrolysers produce industry grade hydrogen with extremely high gas purity ranging from 95% up to 99.999%. Note that fuel cell grade hydrogen must be what is called as five nines, meaning 99.999%.
Our electrolysers can be used to produce hydrogen but also to store the oxygen. The use of electrolyzer oxygen can be included before or after installation. The PEC has already installed hydrogen/oxygen electrolyzers where the hydrogen is used to fuel hydrogen trucks, while the oxygen is sold to oxygen users.
Hydrogen electrolyzer manufacture
At our state-of-the-art facilities, we manufacture, supply and deploy hydrogen electrolyzers in many different configurations, all of which can be installed on your hydrogen site.
We have different electrolyser size solutions, where both gases can be stored at different pressures such as atmospheric. But we also produce high-pressure electrolyzers at 5 bar, 10 bar, and 30 bars. Note that all our water electrolyzer comes with innovative control and management systems.
There are times where we have hydrogen electrolyzer for sale, whether they are PEM or Alkaline type. We take safety as the top of our development pyramid our team of hydrogen experts custom build electrolyser to your satisfaction and to maximise safety. The aim is to ensure that they are manufactured to the appropriate level of details.
Hydrogen electrolyzers for renewable energy
We deploy and operate electrolyzers that can be connected to a renewable form of energy source or directly connected to the grid. We usually build an electrolyzer with a view to connecting it to a solar, wind, or hydro source of energy right from the design stage until it is finally installed.
The Pure Energy Centre was the first entity in the world to have provided a community hydrogen production electrolysis solution and to announce that the electrolysis unit was directly connected to a wind turbine. We can supply a wide range of hydrogen flow including 0.5 Nm3/h, 1 Nm3/h, 2 Nm3/h, 5 Nm3/h, 16 Nm3/h, and 200 Nm3/h and above. Other configurations are also possible and some of these are summarized below.
Home electrolyzer
The Pure Energy Centre has also been manufacturing a set of home electrolyzer systems for many years. The initial idea was to design these as hydrogen home electrolysis unit to support the uptake of hydrogen home technologies for cooking and refilling cars.
However, most of our home electrolyzers have found their real hydrogen homes in universities at a global level. The home electrolysis kits sold to higher education organisations have been used as laboratory equipment for training and teaching.
The universities and colleges also use these to perform hydrogen experiments. The aim is to produce small quantities of hydrogen in laboratories for students to learn about hydrogen technologies and for researchers to perform some innovative testing. The below picture illustrates one of the home electrolysers as installed at Split’s University in Croatia.
But the quantities of home hydrogen electrolysis production can also be used to fuel vehicles. Usually, home electrolysers stacks can be as small as 0.5 Nm3/h and up to 2 Nm3/h. A small electrolyser can, therefore, be used with a hydrogen compressor to fill a vehicle or a quad.
Home electrolysers have also be used to produce hydrogen for cooking and heating purposes. The Pure Energy Centre have more hydrogen plans in the future and will continue to provide innovative hydrogen solutions.
Pure Hydrogen electrolyser
The Pure hydrogen electrolyser (PureH2 electrolyzer) series are robust, highly reliable proven alkaline and PEM electrolysers. The PureH2 has been designed to produce hydrogen for a fuel cell, H2ICE, Hydrogen cooker, power stations, vehicles, and many industrial processes. A complete hydrogen production solution consists of the following:
The hydrogen generator power conditioning unit
Electrolyzer’s water treatment Unit
The hydrogen production electrolysis control and monitoring unit and the safety system
Our hydrogen electrolysers are particularly suitable for intermittent electricity sources such as renewable energies. They have been specifically developed to store excess energy. Benefits of the electrolyser are to increase the use of renewables when the grid is weak or not available. Our hydrogen production unit can also connect directly to grid electricity.
Summary of our most commonly purchased hydrogen electrolyser (Contact us if you have specific requirements)
Hydrogen Electrolyser Model
Max H2 Production
Max O2 Production
Max Power*
2Nm3 Pure hydrogen electrolyser 2.66 Nm3/h 1.33 m3/h 15 kW
4Nm3 Pure hydrogen electrolyser 4 Nm3/h 2 m3/h 22 kW
5Nm3 Pure hydrogen electrolyser 5.3 Nm3/h 2.65 m3/h 30 kW
10Nm3 Pure hydrogen electrolyser 10.66 Nm3/h 5.33 m3/h 58 kW
16Nm3 Pure hydrogen electrolyser 16 Nm3/h 8 m3/h 81 kW
21Nm3 Pure hydrogen electrolyser 21.33 Nm3/h 10.66 m3/h 108 kW
32Nm3 Pure hydrogen electrolyser 32 Nm3/h 16 m3/h 175 kW
*: Includes parasitic load such as safety equipment
Click here to find products that can be used with our hydrogen electrolyser offer.
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Luke 20: What Does Life Look Like After I Die?
Matt Brown // May 14, 2016
What will life be like after we die? Are we going to become angels with wings? Stay the same but just hang out in the clouds? Will we still be married or single, parents or children? In this message, Pastor Matt Brown shares what God says will happen in the afterlife.
Luke 1: Our New Year’s Resolution
2:52 week 1 January 02, 2016
Luke 2: It’s Time to Grow
Luke 3: Unexpected
Luke 4: How to Handle Temptation
Luke 5: Jesus Heals
Luke 6: How to Become More Like Jesus
2:52 week 6 February 06, 2016
Luke 7: How to Experience Real Forgiveness
Luke 8: Who Am I?
Luke 9: Who is Jesus?
Luke 10: The Divine Mentor
2:52 week 10 March 05, 2016
Luke 11: Learning How to Pray
Luke 12: How to Fight Worry
Luke 13: How to Experience the Healing Power of Jesus
Luke 14: What Does God Want From Me?
2:52 week 14 April 02, 2016
Luke 15: The Divine Seeker
Luke 16: What’s Really Valuable
Luke 17: How Do I Grow in My Faith?
Luke 18: How To Get My Life Right With God
Luke 19: How Can I Be a Better Person?
2:52 week 19 May 07, 2016
Luke 21: Becoming Generous Like Jesus
Luke 22: Have You Been Rescued?
Luke 23: How to Have A Better Life
2:52 week 23 June 04, 2016
Luke 24: How Jesus Has the Power to Change Your Life
Acts 1: How to Get the Most Out of Life
Acts 2: Real Life in the Church
Acts 3: What Can Jesus Do for You?
2:52 week 27 July 02, 2016
Acts 4: How You Can Help Change the World
Acts 5: How To Become A More Authentic Person
Acts 6: The Challenge with Change
Acts 7: Speaking the Truth When It’s All on the Line
Acts 8: How to Hear the Voice of God
2:52 week 32 August 06, 2016
Acts 9: The Right Kind of Risk
Acts 10: The Power of the Gospel
Acts 11: How to Join What God is Doing
Acts 12 – How to Get God to Hear Me
2:52 week 36 September 03, 2016
Acts 13: What Kind of Believer Are You?
Acts 14: Do You Have the Right Image of God?
Acts 15: How to Manage Conflict
Acts 16: How to Handle Stress
2:52 week 40 October 01, 2016
Acts 17: How To Make Better Decisions
Acts 18: Your Voice Matters
Acts 19: How Do I Know If My Faith In God Is Real?
Acts 20: How Does God Speak Directly To You?
Acts 21: Join the Story
2:52 week 45 November 05, 2016
Acts 22: God Gave You a Story to Give Away
Acts 23: How to Act in a Politically Charged Climate
Acts 24: How Do You Plead?
Acts 25: How To Help People Come To Know Jesus
2:52 week 49 December 03, 2016
Acts 26: Encountering Jesus Changes Everything
Acts 27-28: How to Navigate Life’s Challenges
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Trump Calls Nancy Pelosi Immediately After She Announces Dems Will Hold Him In Check
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Rep. Nancy Pelosi pledged Tuesday to seek bipartisanship as Democrats took control of the House — but made clear she and her troops will take on President Trump, too.
“Today is more than about Democrats and Republicans, it’s about restoring the Constitution’s checks and balances to the Trump administration,” Mrs. Pelosi said at Democratic Party headquarters in Washington, surrounded by her leadership team.
She is in line to take over the speakership for the second time, after holding it from 2007 to 2011, then ceding it for the last eight years.
#DemocraticMajority in the House brought to you by #Facebook who strategically removed more than 50% of all #Conservative pages, silenced major voices that reached nearly 100 million voters – all in the last few weeks before the #Midterms2018 Election Meddling.#ElectionNight
— Amanda Shea (@TheAmandaShea) November 7, 2018
In her victory speech, Mrs. Pelosi didn’t mention impeachment and has tamped down that kind of talk, even though her left wing is itching for at least a conversation on taking that step.
Instead, the California Democrat listed issues where she said they might seek common ground with Mr. Trump, including infrastructure and health care and drug prices.
She also suggested action on ethics, and an attempt to crack down on some campaign spending.
“The Democratic Congress will be led with transparency and openness so the public can see what’s happening and how it affects them,” she said.
Despite Pelosi’s insult to GOP House injury in her arrogant announcement, President Trump called her up right after hearing it:
President Donald Trump called House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to congratulate her party on seizing control of the lower chamber in the 2018 midterm elections, her office said in a late Tuesday statement.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) (C) has a laugh during a news conference after the House passed health care reform legislation at the U.S. Capitol March 22, 2010 in Washington, DC. The House passed the Senate’s version of the health care bill by a vote of 220-211 and without a single Republican vote.
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders originally cast doubt on whether he would call Pelosi noting that many within her own party may not even vote for her to become the next speaker of the house. Trump, however, expressed magnanimity in the call and noted Pelosi’s call for bipartisanship.
The president also tweeted earlier in the evening noting the results of the 2018 midterm elections so far saying he was heartened by the results despite the House loss.
Tremendous success tonight. Thank you to all!
Trump heavily invested himself in several races where Republicans have either flipped Democratic seats or held on to them with victories in Indiana, Tennessee, Texas, Missouri and North Dakota. Trump also scored gubernatorial victories in Florida and Ohio.
Trump is currently spending his election night with family and friends at the White House watching results.
Former Navy Seal Dan Crenshaw Wins Big In Texas – Gets Last Laugh!
Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Elected to House – All Hell About To Break Loose
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By Mark Ray
From the September-October 2018 issue of Scouting magazine
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Last August, just as fall recruiting was gearing up in the Susquehanna Council in Williamsport, Pa., another local event was getting a lot more attention: the Little League World Series. Nearly 25,000 people attended the championship game, one of 33 games televised on ABC or ESPN.
“We live in a Little League town,” says Dave Whitnack, Cubmaster of Pack 14 in Williamsport. “Baseball’s rabid here.”
But baseball is just one attraction. Chad Larson, Cubmaster of Pack 88 in nearby Montoursville, has Scouts who are also into football, soccer and wrestling. And things are much the same for the girls who joined that pack last spring, says the Rev. Beverly Cotner, whose church charters Pack 88.
“Girls are just as busy,” she says. “The activities may be different.”
Fortunately, these and other Scouters say Cub Scouting can both survive and thrive in a busy environment. You just have to remember the three C’s: calendaring, communication and commendation.
In high school, extracurricular activities can become all-consuming, but schedules are somewhat less demanding in elementary school. That means there’s space for den meetings — you just have to find it.
Whitnack says it helps to stake your claim on meeting days early. His pack planned its program year six months in advance, so families choosing sports teams already knew which dates would and wouldn’t work.
But sometimes you have to get a little more creative. When Beverly Cotner’s husband, Mike, was den leader for their older son, Derek, the pack they were in at the time held dual den meetings.
“One team didn’t have practice on Monday, and the other team didn’t have practice on Tuesday,” he says. “As a den, we didn’t all meet together; half would meet on one night and half would meet on another night.”
Larson, meanwhile, likes to hold monthly weekend events where Cub Scouts can get caught up.
“You try to plan in advance that you’re going to do something,” he says. “Then, at the last minute, you change up your plan based on what each Scout needs.”
If all else fails, you can even change meeting nights with the seasons.
“We would never set anything in stone,” Mike Cotner says. “They would change from fall to winter to spring.”
Good communication is important, especially with families that might miss the occasional meeting (or month of meetings). Whitnack’s pack relies heavily on Scoutbook. He says the BSA’s web app for tracking advancement and communicating with parents is a handy tool.
“I go to eight different places for sporting information, and I go to one place for Scouting information, which is Scoutbook,” he says.
Besides informing parents, you also have to sell them, Larson says.
“You can communicate until the cows come home, but until you actually have a program that’s exciting for the kids, that they want to come to, you’re not going to hear from them,” he says.
Outreach is also important, Mike Cotner says.
“If we didn’t see anybody for a month or so, we would call the parent and make sure the child was still interested,” he says. “We didn’t want them to lose interest.”
Finally, it’s important to commend, not criticize, Cub Scouts who are active in sports and other youth activities.
“We let them know it’s important to be at den meetings and pack meetings, but it’s also important to play sports and be part of music programs,” Whitnack says.
Last year, he had a boy show up at an awards ceremony out of uniform for the first time in a month. When an adult complained that the boy wasn’t in uniform, Whitnack quickly pointed out that the boy had just come from a school event.
“He was upset that he had to go to his choir concert,” he says. “He wanted to come to Scouts.”
(Whitnack knew how the boy felt; he attended his own Eagle Scout board of review in a tuxedo because he was headed to an orchestra event.)
Pack 14 also encourages dens to attend one another’s ballgames. If the kids in the dugout wonder about a player’s cheering section, it’s easy to say, “They’re his Cub Scout friends; you should come, too.”
In fact, that’s pretty much what happened when the Cotners’ younger son, Matthew, was in kindergarten.
“One night after practice in the spring, we brought applications and handed them to every boy that was on the team,” Mike Cotner says. “Ten out of the 12 signed up.”
More than half those boys eventually became Boy Scouts, including Matthew. He went on to play football well into high school and recently became an Eagle Scout like his soccer-playing brother.
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Who's Co-Piloting The Millennium Falcon in the Last Jedi?
by Chris Agar
The latest TV spot for Star Wars: The Last Jedi shows an alternate angle of the Millennium Falcon's cockpit while Chewbacca and his Porg friend fly through the mines of Crait, and interestingly enough, the seat next to the Wookiee is vacant. When the full theatrical trailer for the highly-anticipated sequel arrived back in October, one of the most talked-about shots was a Porg letting out a "ferocious" battle cry as the Falcon evaded TIE fighters in a sequence reminiscent of The Force Awakens' famous flight through a fallen Star Destroyer. Besides giving fans their first look at a Porg in live-action, the image was noteworthy for the way it was blocked. The pilot's chair was not in-frame, causing some to wonder who was flying the ship with Chewie.
It was initially presumed the identity of the Falcon's pilot was a spoiler Lucasfilm was attempting to preserve until the movie's premiere. The only realistic options were major characters (Rey, Luke Skywalker, maybe even a redeemed Kylo Ren), and it's never been in the studio's interest to reveal any twists in marketing. Coupled with the fact The Force Awakens went out of its way to say how difficult it is to fly the Falcon without two people at the controls, it was thought somebody had to be with Chewie. However, newly released footage suggests that may not be the case.
Related: Chewie Smacks A Porg In New Last Jedi Footage
The next in a growing line of Last Jedi promos is now online (watch it above) and has earned the title "Flying Porg" due to one hilarious moment of slapstick comedy where Chewie's pet Porg slams against the window of the Falcon a la a Looney Tunes cartoon and screams in terror. In the spot, there's the classic back view of the ship's cockpit and a new side angle for us to see. Both shots clearly show the seat next to Chewie is empty, so at least in this moment, the Wookiee is flying solo, as the Porg isn't offering much help in that regard.
However, this does not necessarily mean there is no pilot at all. A couple of times in the original trilogy, Han and/or Chewie were away from the cockpit attending other matters on the ship (see: right before the asteroid field chase), so it's possible something similar is happening here. Remember, the Falcon is a very old vehicle (it hadn't even flown for years before Rey and Finn absconded with it on Jakku), so it's probably not in the best shape. In typical Star Wars fashion, it could be in need of some emergency repairs while under attack. The freighter never did have the biggest crew, meaning if there is anyone else onboard, they're preoccupied with making sure the Falcon doesn't fall completely apart as it navigates the tight crevices of Crait.
It's also worth keeping in mind Chewie is in the co-pilot's seat, which is where he's been for 40 years. Granted, he could have sat there out of habit, but if he were piloting the ship alone (and if anyone not named Han could do it, it's Chewie), odds are he'd be in the other chair, just like Rey during the Jakku escape. This is more evidence that someone else has to be on the ship with everyone's favorite walking carpet, but Lucasfilm is still not keen on sharing who that is. It's just one of the many mysteries that will be solved when the film finally opens later this month.
MORE: Porgs Get Their Own Social Media Emojis
Source: Lucasfilm
Key Release Dates
Star Wars 8/Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) release date: Dec 15, 2017
Star Wars 9 / Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019) release date: Dec 20, 2019
Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018) release date: May 25, 2018
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Home News Taking Liberties The Goodfellas of the Trump Crime Family
The Goodfellas of the Trump Crime Family
by Joel McNally
Photo credit: Mitchell Resnick
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency Scott Pruitt
Our Founding Fathers always feared America falling into the hands of a totally unscrupulous president without any respect for democracy. They attempted to create a meticulous system of checks and balances and a fail-safe procedure to remove any president for vaguely defined “high crimes and misdemeanors.”
Our Founders clearly underestimated the criminal mind. They couldn’t anticipate Donald Trump would one day declare as president he had absolute power to decide what even constituted a crime in his country and to pardon any crimes committed by a growing list of family members and associates either charged or under investigation by prosecutors including his son, son-in-law, campaign manager, national security advisor, personal legal “fixer” and even himself.
That sounds a lot like America being taken over by organized crime, the Goodfellas of the Trump crime family. Scott Pruitt, the corrupt, environmentally destructive administrator of Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency, added a comic element by using his position to acquire a discount Trump Home Luxury Plush Euro Pillow Top Mattress from Trump’s Washington hotel in case the whole gang has to “go to the mattresses” like the Corleone family in The Godfather.
Anyone who considers this an outrageous exaggeration might want to review the preposterous claim by Trump legal advisor Rudy Giuliani that the president can neither be indicted nor subpoenaed to testify about criminal activities and would have the absolute right to pardon himself even if he shot and killed former FBI Director James Comey in the Oval Office. Damn. Why didn’t Thomas Jefferson and the boys think to write something into the Constitution to prohibit the president from committing murder?
Of course, Giuliani assured us even though Trump could commit any crime he wanted and then pardon himself, Trump would never, ever think of doing such a thing. Actually, he already has. Trump repeatedly mused aloud during the campaign about publicly shooting someone in the middle of Fifth Avenue and getting away with it because of the loyal support of his most rabid followers.
Besides, if we’ve learned anything from Trump’s chaotic, incoherent presidency, it’s that no one can predict with absolute certainty anything Trump will or won’t do, not even Trump himself.
Law and Order Republicans?
As appalling as it was for Trump to boast about committing murder, it’s even more appalling to see Republicans, who once claimed to support law and order, stand behind Trump and even join in his full-scale assault on law enforcement for trying to root out public corruption and criminal activity in Trump’s campaign and government.
It’s unprecedented on a national scale, but those of us from Wisconsin have already witnessed a successful statewide Republican campaign by Gov. Scott Walker to shut down a legitimate investigation by prosecutors into a suspected illegal scheme by Walker and Republicans to launder millions of dollars in the 2012 recall elections to cover up bribery of public officials.
It was only after Republicans on the Wisconsin Supreme Court shut down the criminal investigation that voters learned a mining company was allowed to rewrite state mining and environmental regulations after secretly contributing $1.2 million to elect Walker and legislative Republicans. A Texas billionaire being sued for millions of dollars for producing lead paint causing brain damage to children was shielded from legal liability under state law after secretly donating $750,000 to those same Republican politicians.
Walker and legislative Republicans later passed an actual law outlawing so-called John Doe investigations by prosecutors into public corruption and criminal activity by state politicians. That’s Trump’s kind of law. It would put a stop to all the UNCONSTITUTIONAL witch hunts (with lots of exclamation points!!!) that have been poking around in the Trump family’s private business ever since he’s been president.
Until then, Trump just found out he has almost unlimited power to pardon anybody for any crimes they’ve ever committed. Boy, is that going to come in handy. Trump embraces presidential powers that could be used for good and immediately lowers them to his own seedy, tawdry level.
Trump has little concern for the mass incarceration of tens of thousands of African Americans serving absurdly long sentences for non-violent drug crimes. But Kim Kardashian West saw a story about Alice Marie Johnson on TV and became the perfect advocate to convince Trump to commute Johnson’s life sentence after 21 years. Good for Johnson. All those thousands of others just need to find their own beautiful celebrity spokeswomen.
Now Trump is like a kid at Christmas thinking up names of real-life celebrity criminals to pardon. Extra credit goes to virulent bigots like convicted Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio and right-wing hate monger Dinesh D’Souza. It also helps if you appeared on “Celebrity Apprentice” like former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich.
But, of course, first dibs on presidential pardons go to the Don himself and all the made men and their molls in the extended Trump crime family.
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Send fatso Trump to Hazelton - give him Whitey Bulger's old cell.
Bill Murphy 252 days ago
Clinton Death List
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At this point, McNally, the draft dodger is just the Milo Yiannopolous of the left. Carpetbagging trash.
John Galt 355 days ago
More lies by the liberal media
Trump so far has granted seven clemencies: five pardons and two sentence commutations.
NONE of which were for "crimes committed by a growing list of family members and associates either charged or under investigation by prosecutors including his son, son-in-law, campaign manager, national security advisor, personal legal “fixer” and even himself." as this story is quoted as saying and tries to imply.
Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio followed federal law. He had no business being charged with anything in the first place.
Get over your hypocritical butt hurt Liberals. You don't really care about this anyway. You sure never did before!
Chelsea Manning: The soldier was sentenced to 35 years in military prison for passing secrets to the website WikiLeaks about US operations in Afghanistan and Iraq. Manning had served seven years when OBAMA PARDONED HER.
Oscar Lopez Riviera, a Puerto Rican nationalist linked to several deadly bombings in the 1970s. Also pardoned by Obama.
General James Cartwright: Who lied to the FBI about providing information to journalists. Just another of the 539 pardons Obama dished out between Jan. 17th and 20th of 2017.
Where was your hypocritical outrage then? (crickets chirping)
President Trump has committed exactly ZERO crimes. The economy is booming. Trump is getting hostages home without trading terrorists or sending a plane full of cash to countries that support terrorism. He just had an historical meeting with the leader of N. Korea and is working on peacefully denuclearizing the country and making the world safer. Trump has more women in positions of power than any President in history.
Face it...Trump is winning. And even though that is making your country and MOST Americans lives better...You don't care. You lost and you just can't get over it. You actually HOPE for a recession. Think about that...You HOPE for failure. You cheer when a celebrity says "F Trump". You're ok with the Presidents daughter being called a "C**t".
And then you try to act like Trump and his supporters are Nazi's, fascists, racist, sexist or whatever "ist" you try to associate us with?
November is going to be a bad month for you. Get your therapy puppy on order now because the Democrats are going to lose their 4th straight election then.
EHarris more than 1 year ago
What defines "Legal"?
Our "democratically elected" government officials decide what is legal or not.
We do not make our laws by "referenda democracy" where all of our citizens, rich and poor vote directly on the laws, we simple elect a package deal politician and they make the laws.
That means their campaigns and the issue ads serve only to stir up the people on empty promises, wishful thinking, and outright fear of when the other side wins.
Once in Washington (or Madison), then they just do what their "most valued" campaign contributors wanted, even to the "rights of more" over the "weakness of less."
SE Wisc. Citizen more than 1 year ago
Joel, here is the American pecking order...
Big business has rights and privileges over small business,
Business owners have rights and privileges over their customers,
the customers have rights and privileges over the business's workers,
and the workers have rights and privileges over the non-workers.
There are no 'Equal Outcomes" nor "Equal Opportunities".
It's all about the flow of money, rights go to those who have enough to make the decision of how much to spend, when to spend, and choice of what or who to spend it on.
That is what our founding fathers really set up, a government of, by and for the people that mattered, namely the property owners were the only ones who had a right to vote, so the early laws got set up to be in the owner's favor.
In this brand new, untapped lands, those businesses were in harvesting what nature had taken thousands of years to provide, it was all in favor of the "producer", never the "consumer", nor the hard-working free peasantry that made up the bulk of our early citizens.
"Peasants" like back in the old world they came from, except they did not belong to the land, the land owned by the nobility. In America, the land owners had rules of how to punish those lower ranks who would not do as they were told, so our owners had to drove them off the land, or cut them off from economic prosperity instead.
The answer is simple
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiHN3IJ_j8A
""Well, when the president does it, that means that it is not illegal." Richard Nixon, our greatest president.
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Chickenpox is a common illness, caused by the varicella-zoster virus, that causes an itchy rash and red spots/blisters (pox) all over the body. It is most common in children, but one can get chickenpox later on in life if one has not had the chickenpox vaccine.
Chickenpox is generally a mild, self-limiting disease in healthy children but it can cause problems for pregnant women, newborns, adults, and people who have lowered immunity.
Varicella-zoster virus
Incubation Period:
Infectious Period:
Chickenpox is highly infectious for 1-2 days prior to the onset of rash, up until 5-7 days after the appearance of the vesicles until scabbing occurs.
Chickenpox is highly contagious. It is spread mainly via the airborne route (through respiratory secretions from coughing or sneezing), but may also be transmitted via direct contact with the fluid from vesicles.
Clinical Features:
Chickenpox often begins with a fever, bodyaches, headache and general feeling of lethargy. Other symptoms may include fatigue and a loss of appetite. The typical rash of chickenpox usually appears 1 to 2 days later. The fever usually abates once the rash has completely appeared. Occasionally, there may be the appearance of rash without any of the usual preceding symptoms.
The chickenpox rash goes through several stages. It generally begins as a reddish bump or blister, then it bursts, dries up and crusts over. Groups of new lesions appear in crops over 4 to 7 days. In general, the scalp, face, limbs and trunk tend to develop the rash, whilst sparing the palms and soles. Occasionally, there may be involvement of the oral mucosa and conjunctiva (outer covering of the eye).
1. Bacterial skin infections - secondary bacterial infection of the vesicles/rash may occur, and if it develops, antibiotics is usually required
2. Encephalitis - inflammation of the brain causing acute cerebella ataxia (mainly in children) and diffuse encephalitis (mainly in adults)
3. Pneumonia - occurs more commonly in adults (about 1:400 cases)
4. Hepatitis - this generally occurs in those who are immunocompromised
5. Reye syndrome - occurs in children with aspirin use
6. Infection in pregnancy:
(i) Infection with the chickenpox virus in early pregnancy (8 - 20 weeks) carries a 2% risk of congenital malformation.
(ii) Infection in the later stages of pregnancy predisposes the infant to herpes zoster.
(iii) If the mother develops chickenpox within 5 days prior to delivery and within 48 hours post delivery, the newborn is predisposed to severe neonatal infection and the use of VZIG prophylaxis is indicated.
Diagnosis:
Your doctor will ask you about your symptoms and proceed to examine you. This is usually sufficient to make the diagnosis of chickenpox. In the very early stages, it may be difficult for your doctor to confirm the diagnosis, so you may be asked to return for review in 24 hours.
Very occasionally, should there be a need for more timely confirmation of diagnosis (eg. in a pregnant mother where the use of VZIG is being considered), or in atypical cases, viral antigen detection by immunofluorescence (IF) or polymerase chain reaction (PCR) can be done from vesicular fluid or cell smears.
Most uncomplicated cases may be treated symptomatically with anti-pyretics (for fever/pain), and anti-histamines (for itch). Anti-virals (eg. acyclovir, famciclovir and valcyclovir) may be used to treat chicken pox, and in uncomplicated cases, they have been shown to cause shorter periods of new lesion formation, fewer lesions, and more rapid healing but only if started within 24 to 48 hours of the onset of the rash. Oral anti-virals is more strongly recommended for children with underlying skin disease such as eczema, newborns, adults, and in those who smoke, as these groups have a higher risk of complications from chickenpox infection. Intravenous acyclovir is used in those who are immunocompromised.
Infection Control & Prevention:
Proper hygiene and isolation of infected individuals are key to preventing the spread of chickenpox. One can transmit the virus via respiratory droplets, or via direct contact with the lesions during the infective period (see above). Fortunately, the varicella virus is susceptible to disinfectants, desiccation and heat, so simple hygiene measures like washing with soap can kill the virus.
Vaccination:
Vaccination against the varicella virus can prevent one from contracting chickenpox, and it is recommended for those who are non-immune to chickenpox, especially in those who are at increased risk of contracting the disease (e.g. healthcare workers and those living in institutional settings).
Vaccine dosage regimes are as follows:
(i) For children (i.e. those < 13 years of age): 2 doses required. 1st dose at age 12-15 months, and 2nd dose at 4 - 6 years of age.
(ii) For adults and those > 13 years: 2 doses required 4 to 6 weeks apart.
As the chickenpox vaccine is a live attenuated viral vaccine, it should not be used in those who are severely immunocompromised or in pregnant women.
Post-Exposure Prophylaxis
Varicella-zoster immune globulin (VZIG) provides maximum benefit when administered as soon as possible after exposure to the varicella virus. However, it may still be effective up to 96 hours after exposure.
VZIG may be considered in certain conditions eg. in newborns whose mothers had onset of chickenpox within 5 days before and 2 days after delivery.
Varicella vaccination may be effective in preventing illness or reducing severity if used within 3 days, and possibly up to 5 days of exposure.
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Storm of protest follows jailing of water campaigners
Thousands vent their anger in Dublin Rally.
Fine Gael national conference venue in Castlebar targeted by campaigners from Sligo, Leitrim, Galway and Dublin.
Ellis condemns jailing as ‘scandal’
Nearly 8,000 gathered in Dublin to express their anger over
the jailing and arrest of anti-water charge activists.The protesters,
led by families of jailed campaigners, later marched to Mountjoy where they were addressed by leaders of the national anti water charges campaign.
Describing the jailing of the water charge protesters as a scandal and calling for their immediate release, Dublin Sinn Féin TD Dessie Ellis said their detention was wrong.
“They have been jailed for peaceful protest and for exercising their democratic rights as citizens.
“This jail where we gather today has seen thousands of people locked up for political reasons in the past 150 years – republicans, women’s rights campaigners, trade unionists, Concerned Parents Against Drugs, the Rossport Five and now campaigners against water charges and austerity.
“As well as these jailings we equally condemn the dawn raids on citizens in Tallaght.
“What we are now witnessing is an effort by the political establishment in this country to put the movement against water charges and austerity in general off the streets.
“The corrupt politicians, bankers and developers who destroyed the Irish economy have not spent a day in jail. But Irish citizens who take a stand against austerity are locked up.
“Our message is very clear – this Government will not succeed in putting people off the streets, it will not succeed in forcing unwanted mater meters on communities and it will not succeed in imposing the double taxation of water charges.
“Today we say release the prisoners, stop the metering and scrap the charges. Scrap this austerity regime, vote this toxic Government out of office and claim this country back for our people.”
In Castlebar, protestors from areas including Dublin, Galway, Leitrim and Sligo demonstrated outside the constituency office of the Taoiseach, Enda Kenny and afterwards close to the heavily guarded venue where the Fine Gael national conference is being held over the weekend.
This evening tensions are rising after it was confirmed a number of the jailed protesters have gone on hunger strike. Derek Byrne has said he and other protesters are refusing food.
In a statement issued on his behalf, Mr. Byrne said he and other protestors were moved from Montjoy to Wheatfield prison in Clondalkin where they have been confined to a cell for the last three days “on complete lock down.
“If we are not moved back to Mountjoy Training Unit as we were told we would be on Monday morning we will be taking it further and refusing fluids until we are moved back,” the statement adds.
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Monthly V-Jump Magazine Confirms That Goku From Dragon Ball GT Will Be A Dragon Ball FighterZ DLC Character!
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Yesterday, the latest Monthly V-Jump Magazine issue revealed that the Dragon Ball GT variant of Goku “will join Dragon Ball FighterZ as a playable character via paid downloadable content,” according to gematsu.com.
The news was first reported by ryokutya2089.com, who leaked out this information from the latest issue of Monthly V-Jump Magazine online. Click here to be taken to that website–as this is where gematsu.com possibly got the news from.
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According to gematsu.com, ryokutya2089.com claims that this Goku’s special move is called the ‘Super Kamehameha,’ which allows GT Goku to take on his Super Saiyan 3 form “when there are two or fewer overall team members” left. GT Goku also has a mysterious, special attack alongside a “Super Spirit Bomb” Meteor special attack, according to gematsu.com.
However, the last tidbit of information collected about this DLC character is that “his other attacks include [the] ‘Power Pole’ and ‘Reverse Kamehameha.'” Other than that, nothing else regarding other Dragon Ball FighterZ DLC characters or features were shared online. However, if another character we’re unaware of get’s revealed in the next issue of Monthly V-Jump Magazine, we’ll be sure to update you all.
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Six Things About the Three Tomatoes
Ageless Provocateurs July 11, 2016
I have been following The Three Tomatoes since 2011, and most women over 50 love what they do, so it’s no wonder that they’ve gathered such a devoted fanbase of women who want to live their lives fully at every age and every stage. A “tomato” is used to describe a woman who exudes confidence. Tomatoes are not defined by age or labels like boomers – but are all about living and enjoying life fully, at every age and every stage. Are you a tomato?
I was drawn to their “irreverent, often funny, usually informative, and always good natured” style of writing. The site is one part city guide (if you live in New York, San Francisco, or Los Angeles) one part lifestyle blog and one part directory. From feng shui to fashion, it’s too daunting to even attempt to list the myriad of topics they cover.
My favorite column is Gossip with Liz Smith, the self-proclaimed “2000 year old gossip columnist.” She has written for nearly every newspaper and magazine in New York City and even dubbed a “Living Landmark.” Her weekly column is funny, varied, and entertaining, but watch out for Game of Thrones spoilers!
Tomato #1 is Cheryl Benton. The site started as a newsletter that she sent to 60 friends because she started to feel invisible as an older woman in New York City. That newsletter transformed into a cherished website “by grown up women for grown up women.”
Tomato #2, Roni Jenkins, is a marketing whiz and mom to three children. I don’t know how or where she finds the time to also volunteer with UN Women, the Nation MS Society, and more.
Tomato #3, Debbie Zipp, is over in L.A. doing what most people in L.A. do – writing, acting and producing. She plays Donna on “Murder She Wrote” and most recently wrote the book “The Aspiring Actor’s Handbook, What Seasoned Actors Wish They Had Known”.
But wait, there’s also a fourth tomato! Carol Davis helps with events, sponsorships, and marketing for the brand.
The Three Tomatoes was one of the first newsletter/blog/websites to act on the fact that us ladies over a certain are being left out of the media landscape. It’s run by amazing, high-powered, tenured, charismatic, philanthropist women (so basically superwomen) and arrives weekly, packed with the message that “Hey, yeah, we’re still here! And we’re even more fun and fabulous than before.”
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Gigi, this was such a nice review! Thanks so much for the positivity and support! Love women who help other women.
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I agree with the article. It’s a good idea to get involved with this group.
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Houston rapper Joseph “Doeman” Gonzales has already experienced a large amount of success within Houston’s hip-hop scene. Born and raised in Southeast Houston, Doeman’s flows are largely about his experiences as a Mexican-American man. It is no surprise, then, that his lyrics focus less on typical hip-hop subjects such as women and material possessions, and focus more on social statements and current events. The self-proclaimed “Barrio God” grew up listening to soul music and classic Motown like The Temptations, Sunny Ozuna, and Sam Cooke because of his parents, and his rap style is heavily influenced by ‘90s rap greats Tupac, Will Smith, and Big Pun. Socially, Doe looks up to people like Cesar Chavez and Malcolm X. Doeman’s influences are displayed through his musical choices in terms of his lyricism, cadence, and musicality.
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Great White Fleet, United Fruit Company, T.E.S. Talamanca, Dinner Menu, March 29, 1940
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This unique, beautiful, and historical collection of menus was graciously donated on behalf of Mr. Hayden Mathews of Vero Beach, Florida and Stamford, Connecticut. Mr. Mathews began collecting menus when he was a young boy in the 1930s. There are over 300 items, spanning the 1920s through the 1940s, from hotels and inns, cruises and shipping lines, trains, planes, clubs, and commemorative events.
Some of the menus were collected during Mr. Mathews’ travels with his family, but as his relatives and parents' friends learned of his endeavor they enthusiastically contributed to the collection. Evidence of this can be found in a humorous letter from a great uncle who helped add to the collection.
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Adaptation Strategies of Islamist Movements, POMEPS Studies 26
Long repressed, banned, and exiled, many Islamist movements and parties across the Middle East and North Africa witnessed a moment of electoral success after the 2011 uprisings. Since then, their fates have varied widely. Some have made significant compromises to stay in power, others have...
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Politics, Governance, and Reconstruction in Yemen, POMEPS Studies 29
Yemen’s war has become one of the world’s worst humanitarian catastrophes. The preventable consequences of the war have been well-documented and the military conflict is now at a stalemate. For Yemenis, 2018 promises a sustained downward spiral. The war and humanitarian catastrophe in Yemen has...
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Local Politics and Islamist Movements, POMEPS Studies 27
Scholars and policymakers have increasingly recognized that Islamist movements and actors vary widely – from domestically oriented, quietist movements engaging in democratic systems to revolutionary, armed movements aiming to upend the nation-state system. Yet little has been done to understand...
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Engaging and influencing public policy debates on areas of their expertise is a core part of the mission of academics. The last decade has in many ways been the golden age of academic policy engagement. Social media, the proliferation of online publishing platforms, and a generational change in...
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The Middle East has experienced a dramatic flood of refugees and forced migration over the last fifteen years. The UN High Commission on Refugees reports more than 16 million refugees and 60 million displaced persons around the world today, including asylum seekers and the internally...
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New Analysis of Shia Politics, POMEPS Studies 28
The study of Islamist movements has often implicitly meant the study of Sunni Islamist movements. An enormous amount of political science scholarship has dissected the ideology, organization, and political strategy of Sunni Islamist movements. However these academic communities that study Sunni...
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Income Tax Rules For New Financial Year: Key Points
The interim Budget introduced certain key changes in the tax rules for the financial year 2019-20. These changes came into effect from April 1, 2019.
Here's a look at some of the key changes:
02/12No tax on income below Rs 5 lakh
No need to pay tax if your net taxable income does not exceed Rs 5 lakh. Tax rebate under section 87 has been hiked to Rs 12,500, thereby making income up to Rs 5 lakh tax free.
03/12What if income exceeds Rs 5 lakh
If net income exceeds threshold limit even by a rupee, the rebate will vanish. However, a person with an income above the basic exemption limit of Rs 2.5 lakh will still have to file income tax return (ITR).
04/12Hike in standard deduction
Standard deduction has been raised from Rs 40,000 to Rs 50,000.
05/12When standard deduction was reintroduced
When standard deduction was reintroduced in 2018, the government had removed the tax exemption to transport and medical reimbursements, thereby reducing the benefit of the change.
06/12No tax on notional income
Till last year, a person who owned a second house property and it was vacant -- was taxed for the notional rent from the property. However, this year onwards there is no tax on such notional income.
07/12What is new TDS threshold
Tax Deducted at Source (TDS) will apply only when interest from Fixed Deposits (FDs) and Recurring Deposits (RDs) exceeds Rs 40,000 a year.
08/12What was TDS threshold earlier
Till last year, bank deducted 10 per cent TDS if interest earned on FDs and RDs exceeded Rs 10,000 a year.
09/12Invest LTCG in two houses instead of one
Taxpayers who sell their property will now have the option to invest the long-term capital gain (LTCG) in two houses instead of one to avoid paying tax on the amount.
10/12Limit for availing LTCG benefits
The benefit of investing LTCG from sale of house property into two houses can be availed only if the capital gains do not exceed Rs 2 crore once in a lifetime.
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Getting Back: Relevance Club
Full disclosure, I stole this article idea 100-percent from JC Shurburtt of 247Sports/TheBigSpur.com. I have learned as much from Shurburtt through my career as anyone else. And he writes some exceptional pieces now and then that really make you say ‘wow.’
Well he wrote another one on Jan. 7 (linked) which I’ve been thinking about for a few days now. In fact I even reached out to him to ask him about Oregon and how he felt they fell into his metaphor.
The premise of what he wrote, if you don’t read it, is talking about getting atop college football’s heirarchy like Alabama and Clemson among others. The way he describes it is there is essentially a club at the top of the stairs you are climbing up to. It’s not a club of merely teams that have won a national title, but teams that are among the elite. While Alabama and Clemson are certainly there, he points out (to me) Tennessee and USC are in there too because of past success at each respective program even though both have been bad for the past few seasons, or more.
Several programs have made the trek up the stairs, knocked on the door and been pushed down the stairs. I would have to say Stanford falls into this category, maybe a Oklahoma State. A few schools that are good every few years but just aren’t the swinging elite. UCLA falls into this category as well.
FWIW, Shurburtt doesn’t think South Carolina is in the ‘club’ just yet but does believe Oregon is. More on that in a bit.
A lot of folks want to argue about being tired of watching Bama and Clemson play for the national title. But the reality is this, if it’s not them, it will just be someone else that is likely in that club. That’s what happens in college football. Once you’re in, you’re in. And you have a much better shot at getting back to that game than everyone else who isn’t in the club. He called it a relevance club which I think accurately depicts it. Not a champions club.
Oregon’s relevance, or entry, is much newer than a number of other schools. Notre Dame, been in forever. Michigan, been in there forever. USC had some historic runs that keeps them relevant and able to attract top-flight talent. EVERY. SINGLE. YEAR.
Now Shurburtt says the schools that have struggled but are still in the room, he metaphorically calls them in a corner. I like to think of the room as having rows of seats in it. Sort of like a church. Six rows with the current hot programs in the front rows. Tennessee would be closer to the last row.
Oregon meanwhile in my mind is in the middle. They had a front row seat after knocking through the door in 2010. That’s when Oregon got in. The way I see it, Rich Brooks climbed up the stairs a little, maybe like halfway up, Mike Bellotti got Oregon right at the door and then Chip Kelly judo-kicked his way into the club in his second year. (Coaches Reaction: Who the hell is this new guy? His offense is too fast, it’s unsafe.)
And remember, once you’re in, you’re in.
So while Oregon has only won 11 games in the past two seasons (not counting 2018), they were already in the club. Which means if anyone showed up and rolled up their sleeves, they could recruit. Maybe not at the level of Bama or Clemson or Georgia, but well enough to win. And well enough to stay relevant.
Enter Mario Cristobal and a fresh 9 win season.
Now don’t get me wrong, I watched the national championship game Monday night and thought, those teams are so far superior to Oregon at EVERY position, save offensive line, I don’t see anyway Oregon competes with either of them. And I believe that. These early 2019 rankings putting Oregon in the top ten don’t make sense to me. Is it a top 20 team? Probably. Top 10? I’m not buying it. Not yet.
But in his first year I believe Cristobal has been able to move Oregon up a row, possibly even two. So in my metaphor, I think Oregon had been rapidly demoted to the last row, maybe second to last row, but they moved back. Taggart clawed them back up a row, like row three maybe. Cristobal in one year has moved Oregon up a row maybe or like one leg over the seatback about to hop over into row two. Sort of hovering in there.
Between a highly-ranked recruiting class and piling up 9 wins, some of them ugly, but still 9 wins, Oregon is inching closer to row one. But still not there yet. Alabama, Clemson, Georgia, Oklahoma, Ohio State, Notre Dame are sort of occupying all the seats in that first row right now. One of them has to get bumped to make room for Oregon.
Meanwhile I see potential at Oregon. Huge potential. Before Larry Scott completely erases all of the conferences reputation, Oregon has to keep fighting. I can never stress enough how importnat recruiting is to any program. Every program. It’s fundamentally necessary to recruit to succeed.
But there are two parts of recruiting. There is star power and there are developmental guys. And you have to have both on any roster. So some folks look at Alabama and see some random 3-star at the bottom of the commit list and wonder, what the heck is Saban doing? And while it’s nice to have a roster filled with 5-stars, it’s not easily attainable for 99-percent of college football. It’s not even in the scope of being possible.
For Oregon I don’t see it being possible. They can certainly add more than they have in the past few years, and they are, but you also have to identify some developmental guys and take a chance on your gut. A lot of folks don’t see why Oregon takes a guy like Isaac Townsend in this class. Well look at his size, skill and athleticism. Maybe he pans out, maybe he doesn’t. But if he does, he potentially grows into a 6-foot-7, 250-pound pass rusher the Ducks DESPERATELY need. You take a flier on a kid like that if you trust your gut.
If Oregon is going to get into that front row, it’s going to take finding ‘Isaac Townsend’ in each class. You just can’t find that kind of length and size out West like you can in the SEC/ACC. (Current examples: Troy Dye, Jordon Scott, Justin Herbert, Ugo Amadi - All 3-stars)
But there is also this. The Pac-12 is not especially strong at the moment. It’s a solid conference, despite what Larry Scott has allowed people to believe, but there really isn’t a dominant star of the conference. Washington was the pride of the conference for a bit, but Oregon seems to have closed the gap, at worst, with them. Stanford is good but not dominant. Wazzu will always be what they are. USC is, well, Clay Helton is still there. Chip Kelly has so much work to do with that UCLA roster he’s going to need time.
So my point is this, if Oregon can continue the current trajectory, the conference is ripe to be dominated. And as long as you don’t ‘beat yourself’ you’ll have a pretty clear path into the college football playoff. And remember, once you’re in that front row, it’s hard to kick you out.
That’s where this needs to go. That’s the ticket for Oregon right now. It’s not about winning about 2019, it’s about moving forward each year. Row by row.
Maybe 2019 is the year, maybe it isn’t. I’m betting it’s not. I still think Oregon has one more leg to get over and get into row two. I think a strong 2019 season, coupled with another strong recruiting class (2020) can get them to put a leg into that front row. But they will have to fight like hell because nobody else wants to get bucked out of there.
Coaching stability, improved strength program, culture, accountability, recruiting, development, all these things seem to have normalized and/or improved for Oregon this season.
I don’t know that it’s enough to constitute some of the expectations I’m seeing, but it’s enough to warrant some optimism.
For example, Dabo Swinney gets to Clemson in 2008. Here are his wins by year until 2015, his first national championship game appearance. (A loss)
2008 - 4 (7 combined with Bowden) (Took over mid-season)
Then Clemson goes from row two into row one.
2015 - 14 (CFP Loss)
2016 - 14 (CFP Win)
Firmly in row one by now and showing virtually ZERO sign of being removed for the foreseeable future.
I use Clemson, not Bama, as an example for a reason. I think the Ducks and Tigers have way more similarities than Alabama. I mean the Tide have been in the club for 50+ years. When Nick Saban took over in 2007, he inherited a team that had won 22 games the two seasons prior to his arrival. It’s fricking Alabama.
Clemson meanwhile has risen much like Oregon did. Taken advantage of a relatively weak conference (ACC) and with some great coaching stability. They only really started to recruit as well as they have the past few seasons to match the success they’ve had. What helped them get there was getting some dudes, some stars, but also finding developmental talent.
And yes I did call the ACC relatively weak. Miami is down, FSU has Taggart and it’s not the same conference it was 5 years ago. Clemson is built to stay atop of that conference and maintain it’s spot in row one.
A stud at quarterback, great running backs, depth at both lines and length at receiver and defensive back, along with staff continuity and a down conference, Clemson will stay.
Oregon is building towards this, but it takes time and patience. And the latter has been hard for some to come by.
Keep climbing those rows Mario.
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Mexican Funk Rock Band, Ikkarus, Take Flight
December 12, 2017 Sonic News Alternative Rock, Funk, Punk, Rock 1
If you thought Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson was the only rock star balancing his musical career with that of an airline pilot, you’d be sadly mistaken. Javier Lardizábal took to the skies first in Santiago, Chile, then in his homeland of Mexico, all the while spending any available time writing and demoing songs himself in the studio. After nearly ten years of developing the tracks, he found his musical family in the form of Dave Ramos (drums) and Wens Castellanos García (keyboards), Javier himself taking on guitar and vocal duties. Ikkarus is the end result, a relentlessly funky slab of alternative rock which, though it touches on the sounds of the 90s Seattle music scene, has an energy and emotion entirely of its own.
Watch a stunning live rendition of Hanky Fanky here – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLSVXsok8LU
Though “Stains & Echoes” is fired by a bass sound which immediately brings to mind prime Red Hot Chili Peppers, it is the layers of sound which continually draw you back for repeated listening: Javier’s vocals having the drawled harmonics of Layne Staley; the tremulous tones of Eddie Vedder, as well as the lung-stretching power of Chester Bennington. With the addition of whip-crack drumming and washes of atmospheric keyboards, the tracks are full of light and shade – verse-chorus-verse is replaced by attack-stun-hypnotise.
With the confidence and musicianship to feature the stunning instrumental track, “The Messenger”, alongside the punk attack of “01800”, Ikkarus is a band which is armed to the teeth to take on the world from Mexico City. Any rock band who has yet to come up with a line as ingenious as, “My cannibalism-raised-metabolism” is invited to sit back, listen, and pick their jaws up off the floor.
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Posted on June 9, 2015 May 18, 2019 Sainik School
Mr George Joseph (Mr GJ – that is how everyone addressed him) taught us English in Grade 10 and 11 at Sainik School Amaravathinagar. He joined the school in the vacancy of Mr Seshadiri who left the school (with his daughter Sita from our class) in 1973. I started interacting with him at a personal level in Grade 11 when we went on a trek from Munnar to Idukki in Kerala in September 1977. That was the first time he opened up with me about his teaching experiences.
Mr GJ’s first class in our school was for the batch of David Davidar (three years senior to us), who authored The House of Blue Mangoes (2002), The Solitude of Emperors (2007) and Ithaca (2011). On the very first day, Mr KG Warrier (https://rejinces.net/2014/09/16/the-linguists/), head of the English department had forewarned him that the linguistic capability of the students was at a very high level and he had to be fully prepared to face them, let alone teach them. Mr GJ on many occasions claimed that he actually learnt English by teaching students at our school. During our school days, Mr GJ was a bachelor and hence had all the time in the world to himself. One could mostly see him spending his spare time at the library, reading up all the books which he could not during his university days.
Mr GJ was a good basketball player and coached the school basketball team. He was a good swimmer and hence joined Mr Krishnan Kutty (the crafts Master) (https://rejinces.net/2014/08/08/arts-and-crafts/) to form the nucleus of the canoeing club. He later took over the reins of the canoeing club, once he mastered the art of canoeing and could navigate through the Amaravathi Dam’s waters. He again claims that he perfected the art of canoeing by learning the same from the senior students.
During the boxing competitions at school, Mr GJ was a judge always. He once narrated that he had never seen a boxing bout in his life until he joined our school. One day when Mr CM Nair (Physical Training Instructor) (https://rejinces.net/2014/07/23/233/) while preparing the gymnasium for the boxing competition realised that he was short of a judge as Mr Venkateswaran, the biology teacher had left the school. Whether Mr CM Nair found some similarity between Mr GJ and Mr Venkateswaran in their physical appearance, or not, he summoned Mr GJ and requested him to be the boxing judge the following week. Obviously Mr GJ showed his reluctance having had no experience in the field, why even he had never witnessed a boxing bout and now he has been tasked to be a judge. Mr CM Nair conducted a detailed clinic for Mr GJ and handed him over the rule book of boxing. After the clinic, Mr GJ became very confident and every year till we left the school, he was always a boxing judge and never was his judgement ever questioned.
Once he threw the towel in to the ring to stop a bout, as he realised that the contest was really uneven and the loser of the bout might suffer an injury. This raised a few hackles then, but now looking back one realises how apt his decision was and also that his action befitted that of a seasoned boxing judge.
During our trek from Munnar to Idukki in 1977, the first day’s halt was at a village called Vellathooval. We started the trek early in the morning from Munnar and reached Vellathooval by late afternoon to be received by the Headmaster, staff and students of the Government High School there. The school organised a special assembly of the entire school to welcome us and Cadet Benoy Zachariah (now a cardiac surgeon at Boston, USA) was tasked by Mr GJ to deliver the English speech and I was tasked to deliver a speech in Malayalam, to motivate the students to join Sainik Schools and then the armed forces. That was the first motivational speech I delivered and as per Mr GJ we did a decent job of it. The preferential treatment we received at this school was because Mr GJ had arranged the same with our class mate George Paul’s father who was the Educational Officer, under whose jurisdiction this school came.
After three days of trekking we reached Idukki and then went around sightseeing for the next three days. One evening I was talking with Mr GJ and the subject was regarding the difficulties faced by the teachers while managing the students during various treks and hikes at the school. Mr GJ narrated his very first hiking experience at our school the year he had joined. Mr GJ was tasked to lead the hike to Yercaudu in Tamil Nadu, a quiet little hill station on the Shevaroy hills of the Eastern Ghats. During the train trip to the base of Yercaudu, Cadet Appu fell off the train. Mr GJ got the entire entourage to disembark from the train at the next station and he walked about five kilometers along the track back and found Cadet Appu lying unconsciously near the rail track. Mr GJ administered first aid to Cadet Appu and carried him on his shoulders and walked back to the railway station where the rest of the entourage was waiting. They then boarded the next train and continued with the hike.
Like most classes at our school, Mr GJ’s English classes were mostly group discussions with the teacher in the lead and acting as a moderator. Among some of the memorable discussions we had, one was about opening Sainik Schools for girl cadets too. Mr GJ brought out that the boys would be better disciplined, better dressed, better behaved if girl cadets were studying along with us and the overall performance of the cadets would surely improve manifold. This discussion took place in the days when no one in India thought of opening military service for women.
Once Mr GJ opened up a discussion by his justifications for men resorting to domestic violence. As expected, all cadets in the class opposed it tooth and nail. At the end of the class Mr GJ concluded by saying that had he not put up a few arguments in support of the motion, no worthwhile discussion would have emanated. He brought home the point that to get noticed in the group discussion, at times one would have to support a cause which one is sure will have no takers. He always encouraged us to approach an issue differently; mainly to stand out and also to try out a different method or a path.
After we moved on from the school, Mr GJ moved out as the Principal of Navodaya Schools in Kerala and is now retired and has settled down at Palai, Kerala. He can be contacted on Cell # 944 636 8276 and email gjay51045@gmail.com.
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17 thoughts on “English Teacher”
Congrats to GJ for handling u guys well.í
mathew adipuzha , June 9, 2015 at 6:59 PM
Top quality recall of a great mentor.Obviously the school has had quality output; a publisher/writer, Reji and a Surgeon being worthwhile samples.Such teachers hardly exist now…Just the stuff of sepia recall. Raj
dagger19 , June 9, 2015 at 9:11 PM
Its after a long gap I’m going through your article. The very well narrated piece took me to the good old days we spent with such eminent teachers and guides at our School.
Sunil Kumar , June 9, 2015 at 11:10 PM
Nostalgic….. wonder if it’s the perceptional difference (from a pre-teenager’s eye view vis-vis pre-oldager’s); the quality of teachers were exceptional those days…. they taught us ‘life’ instead of just the curriculum….Tasmai Shrii-Gurave Namah!!!!!!
Ravi Kumar , June 9, 2015 at 11:45 PM
A nice piece. Your writing reminds me of R K Narayan’s Malgudi days.
Rajan Menon , June 10, 2015 at 2:11 AM
you have a way with words like your English teacher Mr GJ
Maj J L Malik , June 10, 2015 at 4:58 AM
Reji
Great! You put it across marvelously. Your thoughts & insights you got from GJ has been narrated well. Keep it up. Keep going. I remember
GP , June 20, 2015 at 6:28 AM
Nostalgic. Going down memory lane. Every word about the teachers like Mr. K G Warrier, Mr. and Mrs. Sheila Cherian, and others is the equal feeling of other students too. If at any time in any life if the God gives a chance to become a student would plead to him that he give me the same teachers who taught me in Sainik School Amaravathinagar.
MAHESH REPE , July 9, 2015 at 11:19 PM
No doubt that such dedicated & committed teachers leave their imprint in your mind for a lifetime. One will always cherish such fond memories.
Jose Kurian , July 12, 2015 at 8:35 AM
Great Reji. It was a great trip back the memory lane about Mr GJ , Mr Warrier , Mr. Nair and Mr, Seshadri. Mr. Warrier was so strict in correction that even David used to get only 58.25 While distributing mark sheet Mr Warrier used to remark that as he getting older he is becoming liberal
G Sivakumar , July 17, 2015 at 6:25 AM
Reji”s sainik school- life. It was really awesome to read…. no.. it took me back to our campus. I started to feel like living there once again with all those humble souls…. Great work done by Reji… salute you…👍👍👍 👍👍👍
Selvaraj.K 926 SSA 1980 batch , July 27, 2015 at 1:41 PM
Man u went to Munnar in the name of hike … we don’t have that moment now .. Maximum we go to Thalanji tribal village ..Staff are not as much fit in the way you describe the staff who where there during your school time . All they come for chicken in mess
Shiva , July 27, 2015 at 2:04 PM
We are gifted ones as you said during our telephonic discussions, so we are having the boon of being the students of these noble teachers. You have not written about few other teachers like B Sitaraman (Hindi), CSS ( hindi) Venketasehwaran ( the maths genius) MS(Tamil), KE ( Tamil), Dhomadhoran (MI ROOM) medical assistant, PR( History) PT( Geography) and many others like that. Please pen down on every one. Your are gifted with the art of expressing by writing, Which only very few have.
Murugan Senniappan , July 27, 2015 at 2:08 PM
Please read https://rejinces.net/2015/01/28/hindu-arabic-numerals/ about VM. About others, will write. I am looking for an idea or a seed to write about and to tag them in.
Reji Koduvath , July 27, 2015 at 2:59 PM
Nice writing sir, i am from 1990 batch and we feel blessed to have Mr.GJ for our 7th class. It is during late 80’s he left SSA. A towering personality. Prabhu Andrews
Prabhu Andrews Lazar , November 21, 2015 at 10:13 AM
Sudha Bhuvanachandran , August 27, 2018 at 9:31 AM
Another good write up. Mr. GJ got married when we were probably in the 9th or 10th std. His wife used to accompany him to school, when he was in-charge of the Night Prep. As newly weds, they caught the attention of all the students. I remember her as a chirpy lady, having a friendly chat with us.
N.S. Rajagopal, 1104 , March 22, 2019 at 4:16 AM
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Resisting the new colonialisms
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The April 2019 issue of Race & Class shows how the reinvention of colonialism through the domination of digital technology and transnational flows of securitisation is being met by unique forms of resistance.
‘Today, a new form of corporate colonisation is taking place’, argues Michael Kwet, ‘Instead of the conquest of land, Big tech corporations are colonising digital technology’. Kwet, a Visiting Fellow at Yale Law School, reveals in a path-breaking article, with South Africa as an example, how the US is reinventing colonialism by exerting structural control of the tech ecosystem, leading to perpetual resource extraction and US economic and cultural dominance in the global South.
And as US multinationals exercise imperial control of the digital world, flows of securitisation also travel via geopolitical relationships. Chandni Desai and Heather Sykes, faculty members at the University of Toronto, trace the flow of securitisations between Israel and Brazil, showing how Israeli companies use Gaza as a ‘lab’ to develop weapons, policing techniques and security technologies that is then sold at the Olympics to police the favelas. The way that favela communities in Rio were perceived and violently policed during the 2016 Olympics resonates with Alan MacLeod’s timely article on how western media represents Venezuelan chavista supporters (who are mainly working-class black communities) as dangerous ‘gangs’, hoards or mobs.
As Jair Bolsonaro was embraced by Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the presidential swearing-in ceremony in 2018, revealing the deepened relations between the two rightwing leaders, Desai and Sykes also highlight the ‘the unique forms of solidarity from Brazil to Palestine’, through which global struggles against the policing and militarisation of oppressed communities are being strengthened.
And actively recalling these anti-racist histories of resistance is an important political act. As Jasbinder S. Nijjar writes in his commentary on Southall, a key community of resistance in the UK, ‘out of systemic racial oppression comes political awakening, collective organising and persistent campaigning – guidelines for resisting the many forms of contemporary racism.’
Digital Colonialism: US empire and the new imperialism in the Global South by Michael Kwet
An ‘Olympics without Apartheid’: Brazillian-Palestinian solidarity against Israeli securitisation by Chandni Desai and Heather Sykes
Chavista ‘thugs’ vs. opposition ‘civil society’: western media on Venezuela by Alan MacLeod
Southall: symbol of resistance by Jasbinder S. Nijjar
Unravelling the concept of unconscious bias by Jenny Bourne
On the creation of the UK’s ‘hostile environment’ by Frances Webber
Churchill: walking with destiny by Andrew Roberts (John Newsinger)
Sceptics of Islam: revisionist religion, agnosticism and disbelief in the modern Arab world edited by Ralph M. Coury (Donald Malcolm Reid)
Choke Points: logistics workers disrupting the global supply chain edited by Jake Alimahomed-Wilson and Immanuel Ness (Jerry Harris)
Colonial Lives of Property: law, land, and racial regimes of ownership
by Brenna Bhandar (Liz Fekete)
Racial Ecologies edited by Leilani Nishime and Kim D. Hester Williams (Al Gedicks)
L.R. James: the artist as revolutionary by Paul Buhle; The Young C.L.R. James: a graphic novelette by Milton Knight, Lawrence Ware and Paul Buhle; The Polemics of C.L.R. James and Contemporary Black Activism by Ornette D. Clennon (Christian Høgsbjerg)
The Stopping Places: a journey through Gypsy Britain by Damian Le Bas (Chris Searle)
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Faith Goldy Defends ID Canada After Vice Article
In discussing the murder of 50 Muslim worshipers in Christchurch, New Zealand once can't help but note that the title of the murderer's fevered ranting that he generously calls a "manifesto" that the title is one that anyone familiar with the identitarian movement would be familiar with:
In addition to the myth of "white genocide" throughout the document, the murder discusses what is referred to as the "great replacement":
The great replacement (French: le grand remplacement) is a right-wing conspiracy theory, which states that the white Catholic French population, and white Christian European population at large, is being systematically replaced with non-European people, specifically Arab/Berber Middle Eastern, North African and Sub-Saharan African populations, through mass migration and demographic growth. It associates the presence of Muslims in France with potential danger and destruction of French culture and civilization. The conspiracy theory commonly apportions blame to a global and liberal elite, such as Brussels and the European Union, which is portrayed as directing a planned and deliberate plot or scheme to carry out the replacement of European peoples.While the idea appears to have originated with Renaud Camus it has been made more accessible by the hipster fascists Generation Identity and their Austrian leader Martin Sellner:
Sellner, a former overt neo-Nazi who appears to have tried to rebrand himself, and others like him have attempted to whitewash the history of white nationalism and presents Generation Identity as a non-violent civil rights group. The truth appears to be though that such claims are a rather cynical attempt to shield themselves from legal repercussions for the rhetoric that can and has resulted in real-world violence:
In short, I think they know exactly what the language they use will result in. As such it shouldn't be surprising to learn that the Christchurch murderer was also in correspondence with Sellner:
A look at identitarianism, a movement the New Zealand shooter allegedly supported
The Far-Right Group The Christchurch Suspect Donated To Held An Anti-Immigrant Protest In France. Now It's Facing New Calls To Be Banned.
Not surprisingly, the identitarian movement is under a rather uncomfortable spotlight. Of interest to our readers, though admittedly a bit late to the game, is that there are Canadian connections to the story as two infamous white nationalists have strong connections to the identitarian ideology:
Both Lauren Southern and Faith Goldy are closely identified with identitarianism. Of the two, Southern is probably the most apparent connection in that she is a close friend of both Sellner and his fiancee Brittany Pettibone and has participated in a number of Generation Identity stunts:
A European alt-right group wants to take to the sea to stop rescuers from saving migrants
Why 3 anti-Islam activists were refused entry to the UK
Southern has also echoed the "great replacement" myth:
It seems appropriate to put this here in response:
It is interesting though that Southern has remained rather silent on this since the raid of her friend Sellner's apartment; we might speculate as to the reasons for her current reticence to say or write anything of a public defence. For that we have to go to another the other Canadian alt-right personality:
March 30, 2019 Racist Rally in Edmonton Part II: Counter-Protester Assaulted and Soldier of Odin Member Taken Into Custody
Much like Vancouver and Toronto, it looked like the most recent Worldwide Coalition Against Islam (WCAI) event in Edmonton would yet again fail to feature anyone actually associated with the WCAI. Certainly some of the Canadian Combat Coalition members back in Ontario appeared to be rather frustrated by yet another no-show:
However while ARC initially reported that the racist rally organized by Joey Deluca of the WCAI with participation of groups such as the Soldiers of Odin, Northern Guard, and Canadian Combat Coalition failed to launch, it turns out that they were waiting until they thought there wouldn't be anyone there to spoil their fun:
Ah, there's the casual racism and threats of violence that we've come to expect from Joey.
Later in the video, cut off because Dubois' batter died, Deluca continued his racist anti-immigrant missive referring to immigrants from developing countries as "sewage" and further dehumanizing rhetoric:
Now this sort of turns out to be rather awkward considering Deluca's association with the reactionary Yellow Vest movement in Canada and their claims to being opposed to racism and in favor of legal immigration:
Readers will also remember this video published by ARC on March 16:
ARC has written extensively about Jeff Sharpe in the past. According to our friends in Edmonton, he is currently involved in a power struggle to control the Yellow Vests in Edmonton:
It was really hard to tell with the police lines and people walking down Whyte Avenue. There may have been around 20, but that feels generous.
Les Michaelson and Jeff Sharpe are fighting for control of the yellow vests it seems, so there were a lot of confusion about location. https://t.co/wM6jIyuwLO— EdmontonAgainstFascism (@EdmontonAgainst) March 30, 2019
He was also involved in promoting the Yellow Vest event that was swamped by counter-protesters earlier today:
Well isn't it funny that Jeff Sharpe who claims that racism isn't a part of the Yellow Vest protests is present with racist Joey Deluca and the WCAI as well as the Soldiers of Odin, CCC, and Northern Guard:
International bankers eh?
Dude, aren't you even going to bother trying not to sound antisemitic?
Now, the racists, antisemites, and Islamophobes did discuss the earlier counter-rally and though they attempt to make fun of them with the tired, "mom's basement" and "they had to take mass transit" (which is something many of their supporters likely rely on in major cities so not much of an insult) it is clear they were rattled:
The remainder of the video was devoted to highlighting some of the people who attended including Win Nay, misogynist Adam Stevenson of Onward Christian Soldiers, and a few Northern Guard and Nouns of Odin, one of whom was very proud that his SoO chapter was "Finland approved" which again might be a bit problematic considering the Finnish parent club was started by an overt neo-Nazi:
With knowledge that the bigots would be returning to the legislature, anti-fascists in the city oraganized on pretty short notice and managed to counter the boneheads in numbers that were at first smaller but looked to be growing as more became aware of what was happening:
Neo-Nazis gathering at the Legislature again. #ableg— EdmontonAgainstFascism (@EdmontonAgainst) March 30, 2019
Incoming. pic.twitter.com/L3FgrxcACt— EdmontonAgainstFascism (@EdmontonAgainst) March 30, 2019
pic.twitter.com/60N55NcEMT— EdmontonAgainstFascism (@EdmontonAgainst) March 30, 2019
In the end it was more of a cameo as they spent between 15 minutes and half an hour at the legislature and left before their numbers could again be swamped by counter-protesters:
pic.twitter.com/tTANIegzEB— EdmontonAgainstFascism (@EdmontonAgainst) March 30, 2019
Nazis left. They did say they would see us tomorrow. https://t.co/5P3KAHRaXZ— EdmontonAgainstFascism (@EdmontonAgainst) March 30, 2019I'm sure that they will.
Dubois posted a video (must have found a charger) in which he speaks about how clever they are:
Now, while the boneheads were chased off, they did find time to assault some of the counter-protesters:
They did end up regrouping on Saturday and assaulted counter-protestors. Including swinging a flag pole embedded with nails. Police watched, blamed counter protestors, and then blocked counter protestors while the hate groups walked off.— (((Trevor Riel))) (@TrevorRiel) March 30, 2019
I did see two clips of members of the Northern Guard and Soldiers of Odin shouting homophobic slurs and threats at counter-protesters whom they encountered followed by the assault. There will be more on that, but though more than one bonehead was involved, only one Noun of Odin was taken into custody; I'm not sure if he was arrested or released later.
In any case, I would urge anyone who can to head to the Edmonton legislature tomorrow with the awareness that you might have to move to other locations as the boneheads try to avoid being opposed.
PRESS RELEASE: Report on counter-demonstration against Tommy Robinson & UKIP
London: Representatives from across society stand together against far-right attempts to hijack Brexit debate
View Tweets from the event including attempts by far-right to disrupt anti-racist protest here
As the Brexit stalemate continues in Westminster, anti-racists took to the streets today to warn of attempts by the racist far-right to use the crisis to spread hatred and violence. … Read the rest
Alabama Voting Rights Project helps 2,000 people cast ballots in Alabama, but many more do not know they can vote
Rodney Lofton had never cast a ballot before a felony conviction stripped him of his voting rights in 2015.
Solitary Confinement: Inhumane, Ineffective, and Wasteful
Around the world and increasingly in the United States, there’s a growing consensus that solitary confinement of incarcerated persons is, at best, an ineffective and inhumane practice with little or no carceral benefit and, at worst, outright torture.
SPLC: Conversion therapy provider continues to secretly operate nearly four years after jury finds practices unconscionable
The SPLC this week filed a motion asking a judge to institute contempt proceedings against JONAH (Jews Offering New Alternatives for Healing), now known as JIFGA (Jewish Institute for Global Awareness), for violating an injunction entered over three years ago requiring that it permanently cease all operations and completely halt all elements of its fraudulent gay-to-straight “conversion therapy” program.
Federal judge rules against Medicaid work requirements in Kentucky and Arkansas
A federal judge this week ruled against the Trump administration’s approval of Medicaid waiver projects in Kentucky and Arkansas that include work mandates and other cuts to health coverage.
Tomorrow: London UKIP/Tommy Robinson to be opposed by leavers and remainers against racism & fascism
PRESS RELEASE – FOR IMMEDIATE USE
This Friday 29 March, UKIP and Tommy Robinson have called a ‘Make Brexit happen’ demo in Whitehall. A counter demonstration of anti-racists, trade unionists, faith groups and politicians both leave and remain will take place against them from 4-5pm on Richmond Terrace, between Whitehall and Embankment. … Read the rest
Joey Deluca of WCAI Planning Rally in Edmonton on March 29. He Should Be Prepared O Be Laughed At.... Again
Sometimes I come across information in a rather round-about way. For example years ago I found myself reading an article on Wikipedia and realized that I had forgotten how I had gotten there. I just started clicking links from the original piece I had been looking up so I had to backtrack. FYI, one can get to an Asian warlord of the 13th century by originally looking up information on an actor who starred in a 1990s medical drama in 12 clicks.
Such is the case with this:
But lets start and the beginning which was about three weeks ago.
I hadn't been looking at posts on Stormfront in some time so I decided to see what was new. Truth be told, not much. A few of the usual suspects remain posting in the Canadian section, but for all intents and purposes it is a bit of a ghost town there. Still, one post by Bill Noble caught my attention:
I had known that George Burdi had come out as a white nationalist after close to two decades of claiming to have rejected the ideology in part due to his stint in prison. I was genuinely saddened when I learned this because a big part of the reason I do this is because of the hope that people can change. I still believe this to be true, but one has to want to change and I don't think Burdi really did despite his claims he did.
In any case, it didn't take long for Kevin "No Show" Goudreau to offer his $0.02. (incidentally, he appears to have failed to show up at a March 21 rally he claimed to have organized; I know you're as surprised as I am).
Where No Show earned his nickname.
Goudreau is a narcissistic nobody who likes to present himself as the nexus of the white nationalist movement during the past 30 years based primarily on his 4 second appearance in the documentary "Hearts of Hate" and decades later an appearance in the "National Post." And of course in his response he Goudreaus all over the place:
Goudreau was called out by someone on the forum because even some boneheads know a bullshitter when they come across one:
We also had an appearance from Tom Trenerry:
Trenerry hadn't posted on SF for at least 10 years by by count, but back when he was hanging out with the Aryan Guard/Blood & Honour he was a frequent posted using numerous usernames as he was frequently being banned for threatening other forum members. He hadn't been in ARC's sights for years until his association with the reactionary Yellow Vests protests and shacking up with Dara "Nazi Mom" Graham:
Still, it was funny to read this since not long ago Trenerry and Goudreau seemed to get along:
It goes without saying that Trenerry also isn't a fan of ARC:
However his post on SF mentioning Joey Deluca and the Worldwide Coalition Against Islam and this post on Twitter reminded me....
.... what IS Joey up to lately?
SPLC statement on judge’s order blocking Trump administration’s Medicaid work requirements in Kentucky and Arkansas
A federal judge today rejected the Trump administration’s efforts to require people who depend on Medicaid to work in exchange for health benefits in Kentucky and Arkansas.
SPLC reacts to Facebook policy on white nationalism
The internet, and social media in particular, continues to be a powerful tool used by the radical right to accelerate the spread of hate into the mainstream.
Gab Moves to Withdraw SEC Filing Amid Growing Financial Challenges
Gab, best known for operating an online space where white supremacists organize, abruptly withdrew its request to sell stocks to finance the company.
James Alex Fields Jr., Who Killed Heather Heyer at 'Unite the Right,' Pleads Guilty to Federal Charges
The white supremacist sympathizer who plowed a car into a crowd and killed a woman after a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, pleaded guilty Wednesday afternoon to 29 federal hate crimes.
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Stuck Between Venus and Mars
by The Erotics
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1. Stop, Drop, & Roll
2. This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things
3. Stuck Between Venus & Mars
4. Best Song of the Night
5. I Dismember You
6. Skulls
What an upbeat and absolutely fun EP. These songs are awesome, exhibiting a punch, life, and energy that’s mostly absent in today’s music. Thanks to my friend (you know who you are) for talking enough about The Erotics to turn me onto listening to this. Now you should as well- The Meister -Decibel Geek
opening song “Stop Drop and Roll” confirms that The EROTICS still play 80s influenced hard rock’n’roll. “This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things” is heavy and sleazy with a memorable chorus, “Stuck Between Venus and Mars” is a classic glam metal tune with great guitar riffs, and this time, the band has also decided to slow things down a bit with “Best Song Of The Night”, a power ballad somewhere between GUNS N’ ROSES‘ version of “Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door” and POISON‘s “Every Rose Has Its Thorn.” This being said, The EROTICS also keep their punk metal edge and dark humour lyrics with the catchy “Dismember You” and offer us a powerful cover of The MISFITS‘ “Skulls.” This is a great EP, and The EROTICS will be on tour in England soon (see dates below), so don’t miss them if you can go to one of these shows. /Laurent C.-Veglam
It’s always great when the new release by a band you love hits the inbox and over the years The Erotics have been one of those bands that has never disappointed me. Their new EP ‘Stuck between Venus and Mars’ is no exception – it’s six tracks of the Sleaziest most raucous Rock N Roll you could imagine.
We kick off with ‘Stop, Drop and Roll’ a dirty stuttering ditty that builds on a huge riff before Mike Trash’s whiskey-soaked vocal gives a feel of vintage AC/DC to the murky mix. It’s a late-night ‘destroy the neighbors and play it loud’ type of song that is heavier and weightier than recent offerings. All in all spikier, punkier and dirtier than these guys have sounded in a while and a great way to open up the account.
What follows is astounding ‘This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things’ is a late night chant-along classic that really makes me think off all those East Coast proto-punk bands of the seventies washed through with the dirty sheen of eighties Rock and Roll revivalists like The Dog’s D’Amour. Mike Trash has always had the knack of landing a huge chorus and this is certainly one of his biggest!
Title track ‘Stuck between Venus and Mars’ is that mid-tempo rocker that’s become a trademark of the Erotics and whilst it lets up the pace a little its full of all the kicks and licks that are the start of any party.
‘The Best Song of the Night’ cruises on in on the back of that fade-out and drops a chill-pill, it’s a song that, dare I say it, has hints of ‘Every Rose has its Thorn’ about it, a cool, bluesy heartfelt ballad that works on every level. It might rather stick out on this release but there’s no disputing its a great song and the other side of Trash’s songwriting.
Mark-Rockpit
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End of Year Favourite Things | Horror, Revisionism, Punishment and Thor(s)
Posted on December 18, 2017 by Teodor Reljic under book review, Books, Comics, Reading, review, TV
As I’ve mentioned in my last post, December took it upon itself to welcome me with a nasty sucker-punch of the flu: a freelancer’s nightmare in a season when all the clients want things done in bulk so that everyone can rest up during the holidays.
But one upside of it all is being able to soak in all the stuff I would have soaked in otherwise, but with an added single-mindedness… partly owing to the fact that I could do little else and so was justified in spending days on end just reading and watching things.
So here are some recent things I’ve consumed and enjoyed during that period… though some of them were either consumed or begun before the illness hit. Either way, feel free to allow them to double-up as gift ideas. Am sure the indie creators on the list would appreciate that especially.
Creatures of Will and Temper by Molly Tanzer (novel)
I was never too keen on the ‘& Zombies’ sub-genre of literature, if we can call it that. It just seems like such a one-trick-pony gimmick that to spread it out over an entire book — much less an entire unofficial series of them — just struck me as a bit redundant and silly.
Having said that, I did enjoy the Pride and Prejudice and Zombies film, in large part because director Burr Steers deftly shot all of it as a Jane Austen pastiche first and foremost, with the zombies having to blend in with the established ‘heritage film’ mise-en-scene, rather than overpowering everything into pulp madness once they do show up.
Rest assured that Tanzer’s novel — a meticulously put together gender-swapped take on Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray — owes very little to the ‘& Zombies’ trend, save for perhaps this last element. When the supernatural element does rear its ugly head, it does so in world with firm period rules already established, and in a story about sibling angst that stands front-and-centre for the bulk of the running time.
The result is an experience that is both immersive and captivating; a Victorian pastiche and tribute to the legacy of Wilde that very much scratches those familiar itches, while also offering a fun, pulpy comeuppance in the end.
The Man Who Laughs by David Hine & Mark Stafford (graphic novel)
The last thing I did before getting sick was attend Malta Comic Con 2017, and a fun time that was indeed. Meeting old friends and new under the spell of our geeky obsessions is an experience that’s tough to beat. I also spent an inordinate amount of money on comics and artwork and no, I regret nothing.
Particularly when it concerns undeniable gems such as these — a work that once again draws on a literary classic, though one certainly not as universally lauded as The Picture of Dorian Gray.
As writer David Hine writes in an afterword to this adaptation of Victor Hugo’s L’ Homme qui rit — perhaps more famous for a silent film adaptation starring Conrad Veidt which in turn inspired look of Batman’s arch-nemesis The Joker — the original novel, a late-period Hugo miles away from the populist charm of a Les Miserables, is something of a convoluted, knotted beast whose socio-political digressions he’s had to cut down to ensure the story flows as well as it can.
Mark Stafford, ladies and gentlemen
Stripped down as such, and aided by tremendous illustration work from artist Mark Stafford, the volcanic melodrama at the centre of the story — and it is a melodrama, though perhaps in the best possible sense of the word — is allowed to come to the fore, and I practically tore through the pages as my heart raced, yearning to discover the fate of poor perma-rictus-infested Gwynplaine and his fragile adoptive family.
Stafford’s work really is tremendous, though. His grasp of the grotesque idiom works to highlight both the social horror and sublime tragedy that frames the whole story, and the chalk-like colouring technique adds that something special to the feel of each page.
The assured lines and deliberate exaggerations brought to mind the work of Lynd Ward, and in any case — here’s a story that definitely shares some genetic make-up with God’s Man, dealing as it does with the venal, compromising nature of the world.
Winnebago Graveyard by Steve Niles and Alison Sampson (comics)
Collecting all the single issues of the titular series, this is another gorgeous artefact I managed to pick up at Malta Comic Con, this time from its affable and keenly intelligent artist, Alison Sampson, who was kind enough to sign my copy over a chat about the comic’s intertextual DNA of ‘Satanic panic’ and folk horror.
It’s a lovely-to-the-touch, velvety volume that comes with generous backmatter expounding on the same DNA, but what’s in between isn’t half bad either.
A simple story about a family being shoved into a deeply unpleasant situation — i.e., an amusement park that dovetails into a Satanic human-sacrifice ritual — is elevated away from cliche by Sampson’s art, which flows from one panel to another — often letting rigid panel divisions hang in the process, actually — in a grimy-and-gooey symphony.
Thor: The God Of Thunder (Vols. 1 & 2) by Jason Aaron & Esad Ribic (comics)
More comics now, though this one only confirms that I’m as much of a lemming to the machinations of popular culture as anyone else. To wit: when Comixology announced a discount-deal on a bunch of Thor comics in the wake of the brilliant and hilarious Thor: Ragnarok, I bit like the hungriest fish of the Asgardian oceans.
I’m glad I succumbed to this obvious gimmick, though, because it gave me the chance to catch up with this gem of a story arc, which gives us three Thors for the price of one, all of them trying to stop not just their own Ragnarok but the ‘Ragnarok’ of all the gods of the known universe, as the vengeful Gorr vows to unleash genocide on every single divine creature out there.
The two storylines out of the run that I’ve read so far — ‘The God Butcher’ and ‘Godbomb’ — felt like such a perfect distillation of everything that makes superhero comics work. A grandiose, epic story of ludicrously huge stakes, sprinkled with a necessary indulgence in pulp craziness (Thor on a space-shark, anyone?) which is in turn deflated by the strategic deployment of self-deprecating humour (the sarcastic back-and-forth between the Thors is a pure delight).
Ribic’s art seals the deal though. His gods certainly look the part — they may as well have been carved out of marble — helped along by the clean, gleaming shimmer that is Dean White’s colouring work.
While I eagerly look forward to devouring the latter half of the series, this rounds off a great year in Norse-related literature for me, during which I’ve enjoyed Christine Morgan’s across-the-board excellent The Raven’s Table from Word Horde, while I’m currently devouring Neil Gaiman’s Norse Mythology — a book that so far displays the popular myth-maker’s slinky and pleasant way with words, if nothing else.
The Punisher (TV)
Another Marvel product that needs no signal-boosting for me, but which I found gripping enough through its 13-episode run, for some obvious and less-obvious reasons. Yes, updated as it is to insert a too-easy critique of the American military-industrial complex (though really, only of its “bad apples”), Frank Castle’s adventures offer an easy cathartic kick.
As the title character of another show I love dearly — far, far more dearly than The Punisher or anything else for that matter — would have it, “Doing bad things to bad people makes us feel good“.
But that wasn’t what stayed with me. What stayed with me was Frank’s very nature as a “revenant” — he’s even referred to as such by another character at one point — and how that’s hammered home by the fact that he’s made to operate from an underground lair as his true self, but that when he returns temporarily to the surface, it is as if he were alive again, but only when he wears his new disguise.
A mythic touch in a story that revels in its supposed grittiness, and a welcome one too.
Happy holidays to all!
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Tag Archives: You Are What You Buy
February Updates #2 | iBOy, RIMA, You Are What You Buy & the latest in Mibdul (again)
Posted on February 17, 2017 by Teodor Reljic under Art, Films, Interview, Malta, Theatre, Writing
Some updates from my ‘day job’ desk-adventures. Happy to report that February is turning out to be quite the productive and creatively satisfying month. Click here to read the previous update.
Questioning consumption | You Are What You Buy
It was interesting to hear what Kristina Borg had to say about her project You Are What You Buy, which takes an interdisciplinary approach to assessing the implications of shopping at the supermarket.
“One of the principal themes of this project is consumption – what and how we consume. This does not solely refer to food consumption; one can also consume movies, literature and more. However, in order to reach and engage with a wider audience I felt it was necessary to work in, with and around a place of consumption that is more universal and common for all. Let’s face it, whether it’s done weekly or monthly, whether we like it or not, the supermarket remains one of the places we visit the most because […] it caters for our concerns about sustenance and comfort.”
Kristina Borg
“An interdisciplinary approach definitely brings together different perspectives and different experiences and […] it could be a way forward for the local art scene to show and prove its relevance to one’s wellbeing. I think it is useless to complain that the arts and culture are not given their due importance if as artists we are not ready to open up to dialogue, exchange and distance ourselves from the luxury that one might associate with the arts. Talking about experience instead of a product might be what the local art scene needs.“
Click here to read the full interview
Fixing the moment | Mohamed Keita and Mario Badagliacca
The migrants living at the Belgrade Waterfront are using the beams of abandoned tracks (or tires or rubbish) against the temperatures below zero degrees and to produce hot water. Photo by Mario Badagliacca
Ahead of their participation at the RIMA Photography Workshops, I got a chance to delve into the dynamics of migration — particularly the problematic way in which migratory flows are portrayed through mainstream political discourse and the media — with Sicilian photographer Mario Badagliacca, who tapped into his experience of documenting the realities of migration — most recently in my own native Belgrade — as well as Ivorian photographer Mohamed Keita, who took a self-taught route to photography after traversing Africa to reach Italy.
The power of photography is to fix the moment. Psychologically speaking, there’s a difference between perceiving a ‘fixed’ image and a ‘moving’ image (as in a video, for example). The ‘fixed’ image constrains us to reflect on it in a different way. In my case, I want the images to serve as a spur for further questions – to be curious about the stories I’m telling. I don’t want to give answers, but raise more questions. – Mario Badagliacca
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I had fun watching the ‘Netflix Original’ iBoy — not a groundbreaking movie by any means, but certainly a fun way to spend an evening in the company of Young Adult urban sci-fi that slots into formula with a satisfying click.
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“iBoy is yet another example of British cinema being able to strip down genre stories to their essentials and deliver up a product that, while hardly brimming with originality, still manages to create a satisfying piece of escapist entertainment. From Get Carter (1971) down to Kingsman (2014), the Brits sometimes manage to upend their Stateside counterparts by just cutting to the chase of what works without the need to inflate their budgets with unnecessary star power and special effects, while also toning down on any sentimentality and drama at script stage.”
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“The thing about the detailed outlining of issues – and the rough thumbnailing of the pages in particular – is that, unlike the planning stage [in my journal], I approach them largely by instinct. This is the time when you have to feel your story in your gut, because you need to put yourself in the position of the reader, who will be feeling out the story in direct beats instead of painstakingly – and digressively – planned out notebook excursions. (To say nothing, of course, of the fact that the story needs to look good on the page – that the artwork needs the necessary room to breathe).”
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Operation Martlet Game 6: Striking at St Nicholas Again
The British infantry worked quietly through the orchards north of St Nicholas. It was mid-morning, and after the last 12 hours of constant German counter-attacks it felt good to be out of their slit trenches and advancing, taking ground from Jerry. Bayonets were fixed, tank engines could be heard not far behind, and the Germans had taken a beating in their counter–attacks. If any of them were left defending the farm at St Nicholas then surely one more push and it would fall into British hands?
The British would be fielding a fairly strong platoon with two full sections and one understrength section with an inexperienced leader. Lavishly supported with 22pts, I chose:
Churchill AVRE
Sherman V
Extra rifle section
Adjutant
The Germans were fielding a fresh platoon of 22 men, plus an attached Panzer IV. For their support they picked:
A Pak 40 anti tank gun
An extra rifle team with JL
A tank scrape for their Panzer IV
The battlefield is the same one we fought on a few turns ago: the farm at St Nicholas. Last time the British had sent a platoon of Sherman tanks through the fields and got them all blown up. The heavy weapons would continue to dominate that open ground while the infantry would only be able to safely advance through the orchards, but had to hop over some high walls once they got there.
I rolled badly for free patrol marker moves; only one. We met in the middle, with the British grabbing two JOPs in the orchards, and the Germans putting one in the stone barn and farmhouse. Phil also put one on a table edge out in the fields, which had “heavy weapon” written all over it, so I took the opportunity to put one of mine not far away on the same edge so I could rush it if need be.
Markers at the end of the patrol phase
The view from the British end. That orchard on the left is only approach with any cover.
My plan was pretty simple: smash the buildings the Germans were likely to be hiding in to rubble. The AVRE was the vehicle for this job, but I’d learned my lesson about charging tanks across the open fields and would be approaching through the orchards. The Sherman was to clear this route and draw out any German AT weapons or tanks.
The Germans were clearly expecting this kind of attack, as they reinforced their attached Panzer IV with a Pak 40. The infantry had more than enough men to hold the farm, and these two heavy weapons would dominate the open ground. All up, a pretty solid defence.
The British attack was spearheaded by a rifle section in the orchard. They were led by the platoon sergeant and he’d brought the 2″ mortar with him. Their job was to feel out the German defences and put some smoke on them. Soon another section moved up behind them, and the Sherman started crashing through the orchard at a good speed to link up with the infantry.
British troops deploy into the orchard
More British move up behind the lead section
A Sherman tank crashes through the trees behind the infantry
The Germans know the Brits are coming, and set up their MGs
British troops close on the farm
Reaching the outer walls, the British are taking no fire yet.
The Germans were playing it fairly cool, but put MGs into both the upstairs windows of the farmhouse, with a rifle squad downstairs and another MG-armed squad in the stone barn. After last time they attacked this farm the British were expecting Germans in the buildings, and as soon as it reached the edge of the orchards the Sherman began shelling the stone barn, immediately causing casualties and colourful Teutonic swearing from the Germans within. After an unlikely triple phase during which the Sherman battered the barn for all it was worth the Germans inside decided they’d had enough of the barn and went for a breather in the yard outside. This put them in the open, but the high walls around the yard protected them for now.
Meanwhile, a British section had been sneaking down the flank hugging the wall and was now nearing the back corner and the rear door of the white farmhouse that held the platoon HQ. The British point man risked a quick glance around the corner of the wall and saw a Panzer IV parked outside the back door of the farmhouse. Not good news! Word went back for the PIAT, but too late as the British infantry had been spotted by the tank crew and the big Mark IV Special lurched into gear and raced over to the corner of the wall. It clanked to a halt pointing right at the infantrymen at near point blank range, but before it could open fire the riflemen nipped over the wall and into the dubious safety of the farmyard, only metres away from the German squad who had piled out of the stone barn!
A section moves cautiously along the outside wall of the farm
While another section reaches the other wall, while their tank knocks holes in the stone barn
“Er, I think I hear something around the corner…”
Leaping out of the frying pan into the fire, the British section jumps into the farmyard
The Germans must have been taken by surprise by this bold move, as they simply gawped at the newcomers, who in turn opened fire with everything they had (I actually played an interrupt), one of the Germans went down wounded and the rest took some shock. This had meant that one of the MG42s was down to one man, and with the shock it meant that the return fire from the Germans was somewhat reduced.
With the action well and truly on, the British Sherman commander barked an order at his driver and the tank smashed out of the orchard and roared down the road towards the farmyard, hoping to catch the German squad in the open and hose them down. The tank crew knew the Panzer IV was round on the other side of the farm complex and not in position to engage them, but they hadn’t counted on a well-concealed Pak-40 that was lurking in the open fields on their flank. The long German anti-tank gun lined up a near-perfect shot on the weak side armour of the Sherman tank, at this range could Herr Magoo and his elite crew miss? Well, as it turns out they found a way. Needing only a 5 on 2d6 the dice came up as a 4, and the 75mm high-velocity round screamed past the head of the surprised tank commander, smashing a ragged hole in the barn behind him.
The Sherman wasted no time, traversing quickly while the Pak-40 scrambled to reload. The HE shell from the tank struck dangerously close, wounding a Pak-40 crewman, and the tank’s fire was supported by a barrage of small arms fire from a fresh British section deploying into the open fields and throwing everything they had at the gun crew. Another German fell wounded.
Back in the farmyard, the British and Germans were continuing their murderous short range firefight, but German firepower was beginning to tell. Casualties so far on the Brits in the open had been fairly light, but they picked up plenty of shock. Sensing the need to split German fire, the platoon commander led a second section over the wall into the farmyard of death.
Back on the other side of the wall however the platoon sergeant was facing off against the Panzer IV. Commanding the PIAT team, they dashed into a hasty firing position by the old wooden barn and fire off a quick shot at the German tank. Predictably it sailed wide, but the tank didn’t react, perhaps unaware that it was being shot at (or maybe Phil just didn’t get any command dice he could activate it with…) A second shot from the PIAT found the mark. It didn’t penetrate but did force the tank to back up.
In other tankbusting news, the Pak-40 crew had reloaded and had another go at the sitting duck Sherman to their front. This time they managed to hit it, just. The glancing hit bounced off the thin armour of the Sherman and the German high command groaned.
The Sherman tries to sneak around behind the German squad and sandwich them…
…but gets bounced by the AT gun!
Back in the farmyard, bullets were flying everywhere. The British CO attempted to send a Bren team around behind the stone barn to hit the German squad stuck in the open from behind, but unbeknown to them an MG42 was still on overwatch in one of the windows of the farmhouse. A single burst of fire rang out and all three men of the Bren team fell down dead. British force morale fell to eight, with the Germans on ten. The British were trying to fight, but the fortunes in the farmyard were swinging the Germans’ way.
Back outside the walls, the British PIAT crew chambered their last round and aimed at the panzer. They hit it again but the little PIAT bomb again failed to cause any fatal damage, although it did put another point of shock on and panic the gunner. The PIAT team had managed two hits out of three despite not having good odds, while out in the fields the Pak-40 crew were still struggling to convert a nearly unmissable flank shot on a poxy Sherman into a kill. Their third shot at the American-made tank was a hit and it penetrated killing the gunner, but again failed to completely disable the tank. In return they’d taken three crew wounded from HE shells and small arms fire. Not a great exchange rate really.
But back in the farmyard events were coming to an end. The British CO, shocked at the instant death of one of his Bren teams, attempted to get the rifle section into the stone barn for some cover. Phil played an interrupt and an MG42 blazed it’s way through the team, wounding the officer (British FM down to 6) and one of the men, and putting enough shock on the team to ensure they didn’t reach the safety of the barn. Their comrades across the yard were faring no better, now pinned by hefty amounts of shock they’d been unable to return fire on the Germans and when more German fire raked the section they broke and fled off the nearby table edge, taking three more points of force morale with them.
The British situation was now hopeless. The assault on the farm had failed, and the remaining team with the CO were likely to get cut to ribbons shortly, the Pak-40 was still firing and was likely to finish the Sherman off before it could be silenced, the Panzer IV was still alive while the PIAT team were out of ammo, but most importantly British morale was circling the drain and with only three command dice it was unlikely they could muster much of an attack against a German force that was still strong and with high morale. The British CO sounded the retreat. The farm at St Nicholas had stopped the British cold again!
The Butcher’s Bill
Including their supporting AT gun the Germans lost five men during the game, but their hefty seven point force morale advantage means they took no permanent losses.
On the British side seven men including the tank gunner copped it, but only four of these were from the core platoon. So the result was two dead, one wounded. In the withdrawal the British also suffered a bit of a blow when their platoon sergeant went missing for the next campaign turn. Presumably he’s currently being hidden in the cellar by some French farmer (or maybe his daughter?) and will wander back into British lines when he’s finished with his little interlude.
So pretty much a flawless victory from the Germans: no damage and they’d snatched the campaign initiative back. This campaign is played against the clock, so delaying the Brits for a turn is the best result they can get. On the British side the casualties were mercifully light, considering, but the tactical result is a bit of a disaster.
Campaign Post-Match
The British CO was not happy at all, and dropped his opinion by two points, so won’t be giving out extra toys any more. The men are basically happy, they took more casualties than the Germans but the impact on the core platoon was pretty light. The platoon commander himself remains in his rather odd “Loud” mood, which has a neutral effect.
Both the German CO and the men in the platoon were cautiously optimistic, and both scores are now back at zero wiping out the German reverses from earlier in the campaign. The German platoon commander’s mood shifted from “thoughtful” to “relaxed”, so he clearly enjoyed his brush with the British army today.
No medals for anybody in this game, in fact we both walked away feeling like our troops needed a kick in the arse instead of a pat on the back. Phil was particularly scathing about his useless Pak-40 crew.
Platoons for Next Game
The Germans are still at full strength and happy. The British platoon is down to 31 men for the next game, so will be missing a few men here and there, but nothing serious. The missing platoon sergeant is likely to be their biggest worry.
The Germans will be launching a counter-attack, so it’s back to Fontenay yet again for campaign turn 7. That’s a problem for the British, as the absolute earliest they could now reach Rauray is campaign turn 10, which is the last turn they can claim an outright victory. Put another way, I have to win four games in a row (including this bloody farm!) to win the campaign. For the Germans to win they need to hold map 5 at the end of turn 11. Anything else is a draw. The odds in the campaign are starting to swing towards the Germans, I think.
Overall the campaign is trending fairly similar to what happened in real life. The 49th Division did manage to force a gap between 12th SS and Panzer Lehr, but stubborn German resistance meant the British forces didn’t clear the Rauray spur until well after their original deadline. The British attack did succeed in pulling German reinforcements away from the main show of Operation Epsom, which I guess you could say we’ve also seen in this campaign as the Germans have thrown in their Panthers and have had to replace their first platoon with a fresh one.
Always apply maximum force to the critical point. I had a whole section and the fearsome AVRE still off table. If I’d held off my attack until they were in position it could have gone differently. I rushed it, and it cost me.
Stick to your plan! I sprung the infantry assault on the farm before I’d adequately softened it up. I got distracted by the prospect of sneaking a section around to the back door and assaulting the house containing the German HQ, but the Germans had enough troops in reserve to easily counter this.
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5 Responses to Operation Martlet Game 6: Striking at St Nicholas Again
Nicholas Caldwell says:
Fantastic – I love these reports. The Brits definitely have their work cut out for them!
Excellent report. What happened to the AVRE then, not the right command dice? That just doesn’t make sense to me, but perhaps I am wrong and it was something else?
I sent the Sherman ahead through the orchards to draw out any nasty surprises, then all my command dice got sucked into managing the infantry fight at the farm. It would have taken too long to deploy the AVRE and bring it up to the point where it was useful (at least 3-4 phases).
Like I said, I should have sat tight with the infantry and brought up more support (AVRE and the third section) before attacking. I think part of the problem is the pressure to get a result in during a club night game (about 3 hours) so there’s no much time for messing about.
JOHN BOND's WARGAMING STUFF says:
Excellent AAR Andy , always a good read,
Fantastic report. An extremely tough time for the British. Shows how close to history you can sail when using Chain of Command rules, i love em. Many thanks for posting these great bat reps.
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Sri Lanka vs. South Africa 6/28/19 – Cricket World Cup – Odds, Prediction, Pick
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Sri Lanka face South Africa in Durham on Friday with Sri Lanka still in with a shot of qualifying for the semi-finals. They have six points from six matches and sit 5th in the table. South Africa have already been eliminated from the competition and have just three points with two games left to play.
South Africa have endured a dismal World Cup which has seen them claim just one win so far. Their victory over bottom of the table Afghanistan is the only match they have taken two points from with their only other point coming from their abandoned match with West Indies.
Sri Lanka also beat Afghanistan and a shock win over England in their previous match has kept their tournament hopes alive. They also had matches abandoned due to rain which meant they came away with a point against Bangladesh and Pakistan.
They stunned the competition by beating hosts and tournament favorites England in their last match. They only managed 232/9 from their 50 overs and England were expected to chase that total down with ease. Sri Lanka managed to bowl them out for 212 with just three overs remaining to claim a famous 20-run win.
Sri Lanka’s bowlers were outstanding. Veteran paceman Lasith Malinga – playing in his last World Cup – produced a vintage performance and finished with figures of 4/43. The England batsmen had no answer for his hostile bowling and South Africa will be worried about facing him. Dhananjaya de Silva backed up Malinga well and claimed 3/32 from eight overs.
The pick of their batsmen was Angelo Mathews who scored a brilliant 85 from 115 deliveries to anchor his side’s innings. Avishka Fernando and Kusal Mendis both got into the 40s but they will be hoping that more of their batsmen to chip in with runs against South Africa.
South Africa’s last match was a dramatic four-wicket loss to top of the table New Zealand. Rassie van der Dussen top scored with 67 from 64 and Hashim Amla also claimed a half century. Chris Morris was the pick of the bowlers, claiming figures of 3/49, but their efforts weren’t good enough to secure the win for their side.
South Africa have been below par throughout the tournament and have struggled to find any sort of rhythm. Their aging players are past their best and it is looking like the end of an era for this ODI team.
On the other hand, Sri Lanka were one of the less favored teams leading up to the tournament. For them to still be in with a chance of finishing in the top four and reaching the semi-finals must be seen as an achievement.
Neither side has been in eye catching form but Sri Lanka still have something to play for. For that reason, I'm predicting that Sri Lanka will beat South Africa on Friday and keep their semi-final hopes alive.
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South Africa Vs West Indies- Third Test- Day 1: Ramdin’s dismissal puts the hosts on top
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It was the third test between South Africa and West Indies at Cape Town. South Africa were in hold of a 1-0 lead in the series after the two test matches. The second test was majorly washed out by the rain and thus it resulted in a draw. West Indies won the toss initially and opted to bat first today. Dale Steyn started off the proceedings for South Africa while it was Kraigg Brathwaite and Devon Smith who opened the innings for West Indies.
It was a nice start to the West Indian innings. The opening partnership looked steady in the initial overs and the two were going on nicely. It was in the 14th over of the innings when Steyn brought South Africa the first breakthrough in the form of Brathwaite. Next, Leon Johnson came to the crease to bat and there was a small partnership being built on between Johnson and Smith. Smith looked to play freely and played quite a number of good shots. But he was dismissed by the debutant South African bowler, Simon Harmer. Smith was dismissed at the score of 47 runs and at lunch, West Indies were poised at the score of 80 runs for the loss of 2 wickets.
In the second session, things went quite in favour of both the teams. There was a small partnership being built between Marlon Samuels and Leon Johnson. They were going on quite nicely. Johnson also completed his half century. It was surely a well deserved one. He tackled the South African pace well. But unfortunately, he was dismissed at the score of 54 runs by Harmer. He struck 9 boundaries in his innings. Then came in Shivnarine Chanderpaul. Just when they were about to build a decent partnership, Samuels was dismissed by Stiaan Van Zyl at the score of 43 runs. He struck 6 boundaries in his innings. At tea, West Indies were poised at the score of 172 runs for the loss of 4 wickets.
The third session did not start well for West Indies. Just after the start of the third session, Chanderpaul was stumped at the score of 9 runs. This was the second time in his career when he has been stumped in tests. Then there were two relatively new batsmen at the crease in the form of Jermaine Blackwood and Dinesh Ramdin. After completing his half century, Ramdin was dismissed right few overs before the close of the day’s play. He was dismissed by Steyn at the score of 53 runs. At stumps, West Indies are poised at the score of 276 runs for the loss of 6 wickets.
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Feb 24 Gig Review: The Rookery's Jazz, Funk and Afro-Beat Showcase
Danté West
The Rookery’s latest instalment in their catalogue of Jam Sessions and Showcase gigs once again did not fail to impress as Newcastle welcomed Picnic, Ponyland and Agbeko to perform their own unique styles to an eager audience.
Organised by The Rookery Collective founder Joey Swindlles, who was extremely upbeat when I spoke with him prior to the main event:
“We always, always start with a jam session; it’s a way to lighten the mood, make everyone feel comfortable. It just gives people that are learning to play, and have no one to play with, the chance to play in a relaxed, no pressure environment”.
Joey spoke about how the jam sessions beforehand came from his love for playing
with other people:
“Playing with other people was the maddest experience I’ve ever had, that’s how the Rookery came about and then these sessions after”.
This astute individual hand-picked the three bands that performed and I honestly don’t think he could’ve selected a better line-up for this event, the acts encapsulated the fundamentals of Jazz, Funk and (in Agbeko’s case) Afro-Beat with their unique style and instrument selection.
Opening the show was Picnic, a seven piece jazz/indie band from Sunderland.
Their feel good ballads set the tone for the night and, as took to the stage and had fun, the group's aura radiated across the room.
The high point of the set, and one of the songs I enjoyed the most during the showcase, was their rendition of 'I Ain’t Got No Money', a song with the damning truth about what it’s like to be
broke and how it affects someone physically and mentally.
Despite the connotations of the song Picnic brought a feel good factor to the song, as the audience picked up on and sang along to a catchy chorus while grooving to the accompanying and distinct sound of the Saxhophone.
Picnic really do fulfil their tagline of “happy songs for sad people”.
Following Picnic was Ponyland, a Newcastle based Punk/Jazz group with Afro-Beat and Reggae
influences in their work. Hype was built up prior to their set, with Joey himself putting them on a high pedestal: “the moment I saw them live at a gig I just thought that they’re fucking unreal.”
He wasn’t wrong either, I’d describe Ponyland as something I’ve never experienced before and their music was almost trance inducing.
They are amazing performers visually, with each member donning a different mask and dress, giving off a vibe that they are individuals within this group setting. Individuals that can flourish alone but are even better as a collective.
I was taken on a journey down a path that I would probably have been tentative to walk down previously.
Ponyland's musical balance and fusion was outstanding, with that being their unique selling point this is a band I’m sure I’ll hear of again in the not too distant future.
Rounding off the night was Agbeko, an 11 piece Afro-Beat EthioJazz group hailing from Manchester’s up and coming music scene.
Their sounds are quite reminiscent on the kind of Afrocentric rhythmic sounds that got me into music in the first place, and what impressed me the most was the fact that their instrumentals were so good...and I mean so, SO good.
I would happily sit in a studio with them and just listen to them create sound after sound.
The African drums, amazing lead vocals bolstered by a full horn section, and then one of them had the audacity to be a flutist as well? Come on, it’s like they were intentionally trying to woo me, and it worked. I’m a fan.
My first experience of a Rookery jam sesh and showcase gig was certainly a memorable one and definitely will not be my last.
I’ll be looking towards the next instalment with eagerness and excitement, and you should make sure you join me there!
Words: Dante West
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