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Home News & Events Hampton College Wins Gold Award for Young Carer Support
Hampton College has been given the Gold award for our work in making sure students don’t miss out on an education because they are young carers.
“Hampton College is absolutely thrilled to receive this prestigious award. Lynda Johnson is an inspiration; giving of her own time to support our young carers both in school and outside and she is extremely well thought of by all of them. This Gold Award is recognition of all the hard work and energy she invests in our young carers and reflects the high quality of support she provides for them each day. We are so proud of our young carers and of Lynda for supporting them so tirelessly.” Mr Gilligan – Head of School
“It makes me so happy to hear we have gained the GOLD award for supporting young carers at Hampton College. The school works hard as a team to make sure young carers are identified and are supported, making sure they achieve their potential. Through working with the Carers Trust and using the School’s Award Scheme we have been able to improve our support and recognise more young carers within the school. The GOLD award has also allowed us to share our good practise and help other schools achieve the award!” Mrs Johnson – Young Carers Lead
“I really enjoy being part of the young carer support group at Hampton College. It gives me somewhere to go at lunchtime and people to talk to who feel the way I do.” Young Carer at Hampton College
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PATRIOTS 7 ROUND MOCK DRAFT 2 .0
The 2018 NFL Draft is just over a week away and the Patriots still have some holes and needs on the roster that they will look to address in the draft. After a surprising trade that sent wide receiver Brandin Cooks to the Los Angeles Rams, the Patriots now own two picks in the first and second rounds and own five of the first 95 picks in the draft.
This seven-round mock draft was conducted on FanSpeak.com using their mock draft simulator. I used the ‘Big Board’ rankings done by Matt Miller of Bleacher Report, with ‘NFL Mock’ for team needs, on the difficult draft setting. Some players may be ranked higher in other rankings and projections then were taken in this mock draft.
Round 1 Pick 23: Rashaan Evans, Linebacker, Alabama
The Patriots linebacking core was terrible in 2017. The Patriots will benefit heavily from getting Dont’a Hightower back from injury in 2018, but is someone the Patriots can not rely on to stay healthy and even with Hightower returning and healthy the Pats could use an upgrade at the position. The Pats select another Alabama linebacker in Evans to pair with Hightower. Evans is extremely versatile and has the ability to play both inside and outside in the pros, as well as get after the quarterback and drop into coverage. Selecting Evans gives a great complimentary piece to Hightower, as well as gives the Patriots insurance if Hightower misses time again in the future. Evans had an official visit with the Patriots last week and is someone who is definitely on the Patriots radar.
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Round 1 Pick 31: Kolton Miller, Offensive Tackle, UCLA
I had the Patriots selecting Miller here in the first version of my mock draft and stick with him again here. Following the departure of left tackle Nate Solder tackle immediately becomes one of the biggest needs for the Patriots, despite the team re-signing LaAdrian Waddle in free agency. Waddle filled in nicely last year at right tackle for Marcus Cannon, but is not a full-time starter. Miller can step in right away and protect the blindside of quarterback Tom Brady. Miller has good size and arm length similar to Solder which will help him defend speed rushers off the edge. 2017 third-round pick Tony Garcia is reported to be getting healthier after missing all of the 2017 season due to having blood clots in his lungs and the Patriots could defer to take a tackle later on in the draft if they believe in Garcia, but I have them taking Miller here who can step in and start right away. Miller visited with the Patriots last week and wouldn’t be surprising to see his name called by the Patriots on Day One of the NFL Draft.
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Round 2 Pick 43: Maurice Hurst, Defensive Line, Michigan
Let me start off by saying that I do not think Hurst will be available at this pick, hell I don’t even think Hurst be around at 23 if were being honest but it’s the way the simulator goes and if for some reason Hurst was available here the Patriots should run up the stage with the draft card with his name on it. As a Michigan fan I’ve watched a lot of Hurst over the past few years and he is an absolute monster on the defensive line. His speed and explosiveness allows him to go through an offensive line with ease and disrupt plays in the backfield. Hurst also has the ability to play inside or outside due to his combination of size and speed. Would be small for a true interior defensive lineman listed at 6’2 282 pounds, but has size flexibility to gain weight to his frame to become more of an interior player or stay where he’s at or slim down and play primarily on the outside and move inside on third down and passing situations. Hurst did have a medical condition for an irregular heartbeat at the NFL Combine but was cleared medically prior to his pro day.
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Round 2 Pick 63: Mike Gesicki, Tight End, Penn State
While I believe that Rob Gronkowski will return to the Patriots for 2018 his status is currently unknown. Even if Gronkowski returns, Gesicki is an improvement from Jacob Hollister and Dwayne Allen, the latter who still could be released from the Patriots and save the team $5 million in cap space, as well as be a nice compliment to Gronkowski in the passing game. Gesicki has good size listed at 6’5 247 pounds, and had a great combine running a 4.54 40-yard dash. While Gesicki isn’t polished as a blocker he has great hands and route running ability, which could allow the Patriots to draft Gesicki and still keep Allen, who was used primarily as a blocker last season.
Round 3 Pick 95: Kyle Lauletta, Quarterback, Richmond
The big question of who is going to be Tom Brady’s successor has finally been answered in Richmond quarterback Kyle Lauletta. Lauletta could end up going earlier than this due to the need of quarterbacks around the league, and the reported Patriots interest in Lauletta earlier in the draft process and offseason. Lauletta was the MVP of the Senior Bowl and has drawn comparisons to Jimmy Garoppolo, primarily due to the two both being quarterbacks from the FCS and some similarities in their play style. If Belichick sees Lauletta as a similar player to Garoppolo you could see the Patriots, and other teams attempt to move up earlier in the draft to select him. There were reports that the Patriots were the team most interested in Lamar Jackson, and while I think Jackson is a great player do not want the Patriots selecting a quarterback too early in the draft, especially with the team likely having to move up in the first round to select Jackson.
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Round 6 Pick 198: Taron Johnson, Cornerback, Weber State
Cornerback looked to be a big need for the Patriots after Malcolm Butler signed with the Tennessee Titans and the Patriots missed out on top guys on the market such as Aqib Talib and Richard Sherman. The Patriots then made a call to their farm system the Cleveland Browns to acquire Jason McCourty, which doesn’t make corner as big an area of need for the Patriots. Johnson player both outside and in the slot during his time at Weber State, but projects as more of an inside corner in the pros due to his size. Johnson has good ball skills having 42 passes broken up during his time at Weber State and could push Cyrus Jones for a roster spot if the former second-round pick doesn’t show signs of improvement.
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Round 6 Pick 210: Christian Sam, Linebacker, Arizona State
Patriots go linebacker again in the sixth round taking Christian Sam, who is a slightly undersized linebacker but has the ability to play inside and outside linebacker. Sam is a good coverage linebacker which is something the Patriots lacked last season and can help fill a role on defense and is someone who always seems to be around the ball. Sam is another player who has had an official visit with the Patriots prior to the draft.
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Round 7 Pick 216: Chase Edmonds, Running Back, Fordham
The Patriots lost Dion Lewis in free agency but retained Rex Burkhead as well as signed Jeremy Hill in the offseason which doesn’t make running back a huge need. Edmonds was an extremely productive four year starter at the FCS level but dealt with some injuries during his time in college. The Patriots could take a flyer on him late to see how he translates from the FCS.
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Home/Fleet Efficiency, Fleet Management, Fleet Optimization, Fleet Safety/Toromont CAT Cast Study
The Challenge: A Disconnected Service Network
Before implementing Geotab telematics about three years ago, Toromont CAT hadn’t used this type of technology for the dealership’s service trucks. Appointed with the task of seeing if telematics would help the company improve routing service calls, Dave Dyer, fleet manager at Toromont CAT, needed to find a telematics solution that fit the company’s needs for accurate, real-time data. Knowing where the technicians are in relation to the service calls would help to reduce customer wait time and minimize the miles driven to get to each job site.
Dyer is the first fleet manager at Toromont CAT and has been in the position for four years. One of the reasons the company created the position is because their fleet costs and challenges were escalating — from needing to improve maintenance management and routing, to increasing billing transparency with customers.
To address these challenges, one of Dyer’s first steps as fleet manager was to the add telematics to fleet and get the surrounding individually operated CAT dealerships to use it as well. But in addition to addressing the challenges the company knew it already faced, adding telematics shed light on other efficiencies the company wanted to tackle, such as safety management disputing accidents, as well as creating a more fuel-efficient driver.
Saving on Miles: Pulling Dispatch Together for Routing Efficiencies
After just three months of using Geotab, Dyer put his case together for how the dealerships could work together to improve routing across the branches. “Our trucks were crisscrossing each other,” he says. “With Geotab, I was able to show how many times we were crossing into each other’s territory on a daily basis — that is fuel we don’t need to burn. So, it reared its ugly head just by watching where the trucks were going.”
“Our trucks were crisscrossing each other. With Geotab, I was able to show how many times we were crossing into each other’s territory — That is fuel we don’t need to burn. So, it reared its ugly head just by watching where the trucks were going.” – Dave Dyer, Fleet Manager
“We basically said, let’s dispatch together instead of individually, so now the trucks are moving shorter distances,” Dyer says. “We were all so focused on our own branches, but now we’re saying you need to care about the other branches because your expenses will come down, and they did.”
By dispatching together, customers can have the closest dealership come to service their equipment and pay less on mileage for the service, though they might have to wait longer; or if they need immediate assistance and a dealership further away is available, they’ll pay slightly more on the travel rate. This has given the dealerships the ability to be completely transparent with customers, reducing the amount of customer concerns on their bills. “We can show customers that the guy 15 minutes from you will be ready in three hours, or I can send someone from my branch right now but you’re going to have to pay more on the travel rate,” Dyer says.
Another easy-to-spot routing inefficiency was where each technician was assigned. Since the technicians take the trucks home at night, by sharing location data across the branches managers realized that some technicians were working at a CAT dealership further away than the dealership closest to their home. By re-assigning certain technicians to a closer dealership, the dealerships have been able to save even more on fuel.
Through this improved routing, according to Dyer, the branches have been saving significantly on fuel. For example, he says that after the first year of having Geotab, Toromont CAT increased its fleet size by about 18% while the company’s fuel expenditures dropped 4%, despite the cost of fuel rising that year by 22%.
– Dave Dyer, Fleet Manager
A Maintenance, Fuel and Safety Tool: Saving on Costs and Time
For maintenance and safety, the transparency telematics offers a company is practically endless. For maintenance, Toromont CAT is able to share vehicle trouble code alerts with its maintenance provider for improved preventive maintenance.
Another challenge Dyer was facing was the need for better maintenance recordkeeping overall. “We had a fairly decent maintenance system but what we didn’t have was a way to accurately record that data,” he says, citing that this included receiving vehicle fault codes in a timely manner as well as managing regularly scheduled maintenance intervals.
In fact, the capital’s Ministry of Transportation at one point had sent a letter to Toromont CAT urging the company to improve its overall compliance or risk being audited. “There wasn’t anything we could’ve given them for maintenance, although we were doing the work, so that is also what encouraged me,” he says, adding that he wanted to avoid getting audited altogether but also ensure that if an audit did happen, the company had all the data they needed.
Dyer has also been a fan of the Geotab system for the safety aspects. He says that Toromont CAT has had one serious accident since having the system, and by using the real-time GPS information and telematics on driver behavior he was able to prove the company’s driver wasn’t at fault.
This information has also been useful to Dyer as a training tool. He uses it to show drivers what could’ve been done differently in order to prevent a particular mishap, whether or not a Toromont CAT driver was at fault.
“It helped us straighten out issues right away,” he says, adding that prior to using telematics, the company had a fairly bad safety record on the road, so decreasing these accidents has significantly minimized the company’s risk for audits.
Along this same vein, the fuel and wear-and-tear savings by managing and improving driver behavior has also been staggering.
In one example, Toromont CAT had one driver that was idling anywhere from 33-40% every day, but once management showed him the data, his average is now 3-4% idle time per day.
“You can change the behavior of the driver just by showing them,” Dyer says. In measuring behaviors like idling, harsh cornering and seatbelt use, he gets a graph each week ranking the different drivers and how much more their trucks costs to operate than a driver with fuel efficient habits. “How you can use the data from telematics is endless,” Dyer says. “I’m even learning today some of the things I’m able to do. The visibility has opened so many doors for us.”
From The Fleet Manager
source: https://www.geotab.com/case-study/toromont-cat/
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Mother Of Murdered Albanian Man: "Didn’t Think This Happened In Iceland" - The Reykjavik Grapevine
Mother Of Murdered Albanian Man: “Didn’t Think This Happened In Iceland”
Klevis Sula memorial page
The mother of Klevis Sula, the 20-year-old Albanian man who passed away Friday from injuries sustained after being stabbed at Austurvöllur the previous weekend, told Stöð 2 that her son spoke often about what a safe place Iceland was and how much he liked living there.
“He was wonderful and wanted to help everyone. He spoke highly of Icelanders and liked the people,” his mother Natasha Sula said. “He was very happy being here.”
The attack happened after Klevis approach a man who was crying. presumably with the aim of consolidating him. The man responded by stabbing Klevis and his friend repeatedly. The friend is recovering well.
Didn’t think this happened in Iceland
Natasha flew to Iceland shortly after the attack along with his brother and she said that Klevis had often told her about how safe Iceland was.
“We didnt think this happened here, Klevis had said nothing bad ever happens in Iceland,” she said. “He came here to work and make a better life for himself.”
Following the attack a call for donations was put out to help with funeral expenses and other costs. The fundraiser is now over and his mother claimed it had gone well.
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Secret Soldier
by Muki Betser
“[Muki Betser] speaks eloquently of the role of commando units, but also deplores violence, capping his riveting combat stories with a paean to peace that’s all the more poignant because it’s penned by a warrior.” —Publishers Weekly
Publication Date December 01, 2007
Moshe “Muki” Betser is a retired Israel Defense Forces colonel. Considered “one of Israel’s legendary commandoes,” while Betser was deputy commander of Sayeret Matkal, he helped plan, was the deputy commander of the ground element, and he was the commander of the break-in teams during Israel’s Operation Entebbe.
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In a riveting autobiography, Israel’s premier special-warfare commander and counterterrorist specialist recounts the inner workings of Israel’s elite forces and provides an intimate firsthand account of Israel’s previously classified counterterrorist defense missions.
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My War Gone By, I Miss It So
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We Gotta Get Out of This Place
The True, Tough Story of Women in Rock
by Gerri Hirshey
“[I]n her vivid, impassioned history of women in rock, We Gotta Get Out of This Place, music journalist Gerri Hirshey takes a long, hard, and lively look at girl groups and divas, punk goddesses and country queens. . . . Hirshey’s enthusiastic, unashamedly partisan history captures the energy, the talent, and the sheer unstoppable will of the women who have managed to make their high-volume, gloriously individual voices heard in the macho world of rock and roll.”–O magazine
Imprint Grove Paperback
Page Count 304
Publication Date July 12, 2002
Dimensions 6" x 9"
Gerri Hirshey has been writing on rock for over twenty years, for Rolling Stone as well as many other publications. She is also the author of the classic Nowhere to Run: The Story of Soul Music.
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A provocative and deeply entertaining history of women in rock, from an acclaimed rock-journalism veteran
Rock and roll has traditionally been a boys’ game. A male-controlled field, it forced female artists to work twice as hard, usually for half the recognition. No matter the obstacles, however, women have always been drawn to the restless life of the road, to the glamour of the stage, to the need to make a joyful noise.
Beginning in the early days with Bessie Smith, Mahalia Jackson, and Maybelle Carter, Hirshey takes us on a wild ride through a century of popular music and the women who made it. We are whispered to in the dark night of Janis Joplin’s soul and pinioned to the studio wall by Aretha’s mighty pipes. We listen in as Phil Spector and Ellie Greenwich build the Ronettes’ perfect pop moment, “Be My Baby.” Joni Mitchell rewrites womanhood, and Debbie Harry and Patti Smith tear it down again. We meet Madonna at nineteen, debating what she’s willing to do for a record deal, and find out what Tina Turner thinks of being called a victim. Hirshey gleefully deconstructs vitriol queen Courtney Love, country darling Dolly Parton, neohippie Sarah McLachlan, and provocateur fatale Lil’ Kim. Whitney Houston and Cher elucidate the meaning of diva, while Lauryn Hill and Missy Elliott look to the female rock star of the future. Through it all, one of rock’s best journalists delivers a passionate history of women in rock that is deft, provocative, and always deeply entertaining.
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“A freewheeling romp through the lives of the pop-music divas who’ve rocked the hardest and wailed the loudest . . . Brilliantly conversational, yet you learn something new on every page.” –Elle
“Gerri Hirshey uses the metaphor of escape, of restless motion, to bind her sisterhood of divas, songbirds, troubadours, and riot grrrls to a single, turbo-powered vector of female urgency. But from the outset, it’s clear that the author’s own ferociously peripatetic mind is the engine powering this locomotive
“Not a textbook history but a collection of insights and anecdotes that illuminate challenges that female musicians have faced; the contributions they have made and the ways they have altered the music industry.” –Tracy Zollinger Turner, Columbus Dispatch
“As absorbing as the best fiction . . . Hirshey . . . has her credentials firmly in hand. . . . A treasure trove of insights.” –Flaunt
“From the doe-eyed girl groups of the early ’60s–bossed around by tyrannical record execs–to contemporary ‘anti-divas’ like Missy Elliott . . . We Gotta Get Out of This Place . . . helps set the record straight.” –Dan Gilgoff, U.S. News & World Report
“Well-research and entertainingly edgy, this is pretty much prime stuff for gender-unbiased readin’ rockers.”–Booklist
“Gerri Hirshey is the real thing and always has been. This book is a statement from a literary soloist who has seen the thing clear eyed, telling the stories of women who have taken the hardest shots the industry has had to offer and gotten up to live and tell about it, through their lives and music. I admire them all, as I admire the chronicler of their stories.”–James McBride, author of The Color of Water
“Gerri Hirshey is rock ‘n’ roll, and she proves it. She can make the words get up and dance.”–Richard Ben Cramer, author of Joe DiMaggio: The Hero’s Life
“This look into the music and lives of female rock (and roll) singers is an extremely fun read. Gerri Hirshey also gives credit to the early divas of the blues who were there at the nascence of rock and roll. In Hirshey’s own words, this book is ‘an evocative and affectionate insider’s tour.’ Even I gasped a few times.”–Mary Wilson, The Supremes
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Blues is a good woman feeling bad.
–Thomas Dorsey
Women do talk; perhaps it’s the intimacies and isolations of domestic life that have made them queens of the cut-to-the-bone colloquial. And before they dared press it in vinyl and send it to market, women had long told one another the unvarnished truth. If you think about it, the blues was the first serious public consciousness raising–frank, sexy and mercifully non-PC. Since the first blues recordings were made by and for African-Americans, it wasn’t necessary to deeply encode the plain facts. There is no mistaking what Bessie Smith meant when she sang “I Need a Little Sugar in My Bowl.
America’s very first rush of popular record buying was ignited in the twenties by the talents of black female blues artists telling it like it was, is and damn well ought to be. Folks just had to have it, at home and in dirt-floor juke joints. Call them the true Mothers of Invention–blues pioneers whose echos can be heard in the primmest, Orlon’d girl groups of the sixties as well as today’s most avant female MCs.
Like the best of rock, theirs was not a studied sound. Largely recorded in the south, in makeshift studios, they were strong women singing hard truths in a twelve-bar blues format. That three-line stanza song form came across the Atlantic Ocean and north along the Mississippi delta; it is the root of nearly all pop, from rhythm and blues to acid rock to reggae to rap. And like the drums that first thrummed it across West African skies, it was talking music.
In the nineties, African-American women could swap truths in spirited, Oprah-inspired reading groups called Go On Girl. But listen to Ma Rainey warn “Trust No Man,” Mae Glover declare “I Ain’t Givin’ Nobody None,” or Ida Cox sing “Wild Women Don’t Get the Blues,” and it’s clear these women weren’t waiting to exhale. They could blow a lyric and a feeling from Augusta to Kansas City under conditions that would make today’s divas bolt for cover under the massage table. Stylists? Maybe some crone heating a hair iron in an alley behind those colored-only boardinghouses. Security? A razor laced to the instep of a dainty boot.
I found the most vivid account of a traveling woman’s trials and compulsions by chance at a used-book sale. I paid a quarter for my dusty copy of His Eye Is on the Sparrow, the long out-of-print autobiography of Ethel Waters. It was published in 1951, when she was fifty-one and an accomplished actress with Broadway credits like “A Member of the Wedding.” But Waters, whose Dickensian first line (“I never was a child.”) unspools into a harrowing but matter-of-fact narrative, began as a teenage blues singer called Sweet Mama Stringbean.
From the outset, life had offered Waters little to sing about; she was the result of the violent rape of her thirteen-year-old mother, who was understandably unfit to raise her. She spent much of her childhood in the care of two alcoholic aunts. Waters wrote that her own compositions came naturally, with such blues all around her: “I also believe that [my audiences] were intrigued by my characterizations which I drew from real life. I’d hear a couple in another flat arguing, for instance. Their voices would come up the airshaft and I’d listen, making up stories about their spats and their love life. I could hear such an argument in the afternoon and that night sing a whole song about it.”
Sweet Mama Stringbean delivered odes to joy as well. They came with the help of the debonair Harlem enablers she called the “hot piano boys”–men with knowing smiles and quicksilver fingers in the mold of Jimmy Johnson: “Men like [Johnson], Willie (The Lion) Smith, and Charlie Johnson could make you sing until your tonsils fell out. Because you wanted to sing. They stirred you into joy and wild ecstasy. They could make you cry. And you’d do anything and work until you dropped for such musicians.”
It stands to reason that on the rough and ready Theater Owners Booking Association (also known as Toby Time or Tough On Black Asses), a black vaudeville circuit covering most southern cities, the best rose to the top on vocal firepower and strength of character. Ma Rainey was born to a pair of road-toughened minstrel troupers and at eighteen married William “Pa” Rainey, who took her on the road working levee camps, tent shows and cabarets. They were billed as “Rainey and Rainey, Assassinators of the Blues.”
Ma’s massacres are now credited as the crucial link between rural southern blues and the more sophisticated versions later sung by Bessie Smith and Ethel Waters. Ma’s delivery was direct, down-home and folksy–pure country. But she was professional. And her presentation of self prefigured rock’s most outrageous impulses for puttin’ on the glitz. Starting at the top with stiff horsehair wigs framing her battered face, Ma accessorized with a brio that would make those Spice Girls gasp. Amid the floaty feather boas hung a chain weighted by $20 gold pieces. A contemporary described the vision: “Ma was loaded with diamonds, in her ears, round her neck, in a tiara on her head. Both hands were full of rocks, too: her hair was wild and she had gold teeth! What a sight!”
By all accounts, her generosity was also multi-karat. Debunking old myths that had Ma “kidnapping” the young Bessie Smith for a traveling show, Chris Albertson’s landmark 1972 biography of Smith reveals that the older Rainey was, in fact, “more like a mother to her” when they both toured with the Rabbit Foot Minstrels.
Bessie Smith lived just forty-three years, from 1894 to 1937. Yet for the next half century, in legend, liner notes and an Albee play (The Death of Bessie Smith), she would be held up as the archetype of Woman Wronged. Even her death was shrouded in a myth that had her bleeding to death after a car crash when a white hospital refused her admission. With careful scholarship, including interviews with Dr. Hugh Smith, a Memphis orthopedic surgeon who came upon the accident and treated Bessie at the scene, and documentation from the black hospital where she died, Albertson set the record straight. The black ambulance driver never took her to a white facility; both Smith and the hospital confirmed that her right side was virtually crushed; several hours after the crash, she died of shock and multiple internal injuries. Smith was revealed as a woman with plenty of trouble in mind: a sizable drinking problem, a penchant for abusive men, ceaseless run-ins with unchecked racism. But she was never a passive victim; in her music and her life, Bessie Smith preferred dealing from strength.
For much of her career, she could command top rates. Despite the historic inequities of male and female salaries, blueswomen were initially paid better than men. The first black blues vocal recording, notes Greil Marcus in Invisible Republic, was Mamie Smith’s “Crazy Blues,” released in 1920. It sold over a million copies in its first year. In much the same way, “Fiddling” John Carson enthralled white “hillbilly” buyers with “The Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane” three years later. This was a populist explosion, a self-discovery of sorts for poor black and white southern audiences, according to Marcus, who writes, “Many copies of these records were bought by people without phonographs. They bought the discs as talismans of their own existence; they could hold these objects in their hands and feel their own lives dramatized.” To his amazement, James Brown encountered a similar phenomenon traveling in Africa half a century later. Leon Austin, a member of his entourage in Zaire, described it for me: “They come out of mud shacks with James Brown albums, don’t never play them, no electricity, for sure no Victrola. But they know who is James Brown.”
Just as they knew Bessie Smith. Her voice and her renown could earn her as much as $200 a side–nearly fifteen times the average fee for a black male singer at the time. This is not to say she wasn’t cheated, over and over. But if Bessie got wind of it, you’d do well to have your insurance paid up. Having found that her pianist, Clarence Williams, had appropriated $375 that was rightfully hers, Bessie–close to two hundred pounds of handsome, towering outrage–cornered Williams, pounded him to the floor and kept whaling at him until he tore up their lopsided contract.
Racism was no match for Bessie in a mood. Put on display in Manhattan by a patronizing white grande dame who demanded a kiss in front of her society pals, Bessie knocked Madame on her astonished keester. On a southern swing with her tent show, Bessie was informed that hooded Ku Klux Klan terrorists were at work outside, sabotaging the poles. “Some shit!” she snorted, and according to Albertson’s sources, she ran outside and faced them down alone, bellowing, “What the fuck you think you’re doin’? I’ll get the whole damn tent out here if I have to. You just pick up them sheets and run.” And they did.
Among her contemporaries, Bessie was a diva. When she met up with Mama Stringbean at 91 Decatur Street, a joint in Atlanta, she expected the younger woman to call her “Miss Bessie.” And she had some instructions for the theater owners as well. Ethel Waters recalled: “Bessie’s shouting brought worship wherever she worked. She was getting fifty to seventy-five dollars a week, big money for our kind of vaudeville. The money thrown to her [onstage] brought this to a couple of hundred dollars a week. Bessie, like an opera singer, carried her own claque with her. These plants in the audience were paid to throw up coins and bills to get the appreciation money going without delay the moment she finished her first number. And if Bessie ordered it, her followers would put the finger on you and run you right off the stage and out of sight, maybe forever.
“Bessie was in a pretty good position to dictate to the managers. She had me put on my act for her and said I was a long goody. But she also told the men who ran No. 91 that she didn’t want anyone else to sing the blues.”
Like some sixties performers now confined to oldies shows, Bessie Smith suffered a dimming of her star when the Depression flattened box offices in the early thirties and restless, sophisticated black audiences cast off the blues as hopelessly old-fashioned. She sold the beloved private railroad car that had spared her some of the discomforts and humiliations of segregated travel, and took gigs in the lowest gin mills again. But when Bessie died in 1937, her career had been back on the rise. She had no reservations about joining the Swing Era. Producer John Hammond had plans to record her with Basie on piano; Lionel Hampton wanted to work with her; and she had a new film contract. The hysteria at her Philadelphia funeral–not unlike that which surrounded the rites for Supreme Florence Ballard in 1976–was the grief of a community belatedly acknowledging the immensity of her achievement against ridiculous odds.
If Rainey and Smith were the Mother and the Empress, respectively, there was no shortage of titled blueswomen–Little and Big Mamas, Canaries and Queens. For the most part, they were self-ordained. Theirs was a genre where modesty gets you nowhere–mighty Chicago blueswoman Koko Taylor still bills herself, justifiably, as the Earthshaker. Among the more regal originals were Ida Cox, Sippie Wallace, Alberta Hunter, Ethel Waters, Victoria Spivey. Of course, there were scores more; some of their ghostly, piney-woods voices have been respectfully disinterred in archival collections. There’s a lot more desolation than deliverance in Shanachie Records’ two-volume collection, I Can’t Be Satisfied. Listening to it all at once can send you headfirst toward the kitchen oven–or out to kneecap the first man you see. It’s a raucous, ghostly symposium on Women’s Issues in the rural south–everything from Victoria Spivey’s “Dirty T. B. Blues” to Sara Martin’s determined “He’s Never Gonna Throw Me Down.” More lost women–Bertha “Chippie” Hill, Lucille Bogan, Ivy Smith, Madlyn Davis, Rosie Mae Moore, Geeshie Wiley, Ruby Glaze–swoop, soar and moan from the musky retrieved tracks. But just as many fervent shouters remain nameless. The blues may have been about endurance, but the popular music marketplace has always been about change.
Nobody knows that better than B. B. King. When I shipped out on tour with him in 1998, he was celebrating a half century on the road in a tour jacket that proclaimed him “King of the Blues Worldwide.” Making his way as a blues singer had afforded B.B. some less than regal moments–many of which he recounted as his big custom bus rolled on those long hauls between the two-hundred-fifty-plus one-nighters a year he still does, at age seventy-five. One muggy evening, amid an almost biblical plague. of crickets in North Texas, I asked B.B. what he’d seen of the lives of blueswomen over his five decades on the move. He shook his head.
“They’ve had a harder time than most men. A lot of the places we could go, they could not. The juke joints, the start-up places. It wasn’t comfortable for them. There have been many times I’ve had to change clothes behind a sheet ’cause there’s no dressing room. And that’s hard for ladies.”
And sometimes it didn’t matter how well their records sold if they didn’t measure up to other standards. Audiences looked harder at a woman. “Yeah, they were the hitmakers,” said B.B. “But there was another thing you have to think about. Men had more money. They did the work like laboring. So if it was a beautiful woman that could sing, she got a good crowd of men. They would usually bring the ladies with them. But a lot of these women wasn’t pretty women. If they were not, like Big Mama [Thornton], they had to sing good. Very good. Big Mama, if she didn’t have a hit record, she caught H-E-double L.”
He says the chitlin circuit had its own variants on the casting couch: “Most of the promoters, or the people that were in power to give her a push, didn’t. Because they [the promoters] didn’t want them [the women] personally.”
Respect–onstage, in contracts and even in death–would prove maddeningly elusive, even for the greatest of blueswomen. In 1970, a housewife’s letter to The Philadelphia Inquirer called attention to the fact that Bessie Smith’s grave in nearby Mount Lawn Cemetery had lain unmarked for over three decades. The resulting publicity brought pledges from two women to share in the cost of erecting a marker: Juanita Green, a registered nurse who had scrubbed Smith’s floors as a teenager and was by then president of the North Philadelphia NAACP, and Janis Joplin, the white rock singer who swore she owed her own success to Smith’s wellspring blues. The marble headstone–secured at cost ($500) from a sympathetic monument company–was set in place in August of 1970, just two months before Joplin died. Albertson’s account of the rather haphazard if earnest “unveiling” is mindful of its final irony: As no family members were present, Bessie’s epitaph was composed by Columbia Records’ publicity department. At least, he notes, the claim was true:
The Greatest Blues Singer in the World Will Never Stop Singing
It’s no surprise that the echos of early blueswomen would reach contemporary audiences largely through the music of white rockers. Bonnie Raitt virtually apprenticed herself to Sippie Wallace, performing and recording with her. Theirs was a genial, respectful collaboration. But Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton, who lived and performed until 1984, did not conceal her irritation over the riches that came to Elvis Presley and Janis Joplin with their remakes of her records “Hound Dog” and “Ball and Chain,” respectively.
Listen to the Solid Smoke live recording of Big Mama singing at the 1979 San Francisco Blues Festival–introducing her own version of “Ball and Chain” by noting that Joplin had had “the nerve to do it”–and you can hear old frustrations crackle through the tumultuous reception. It took several people to help the frail, shockingly thin Thornton to her chair on the stage. In photos of the concert, a man’s pin-striped suit flaps loosely, and beneath her straw cowboy hat, her face is all angles. But the performance is 120-proof as she rocks back in her chair to talk to these little girls about … men. They are shouting with recognition; Big Mama has been there and sent back postcards. Some are weeping for her desiccated womanhood and her outright valor. Vocally, and on harmonica, she gets stronger throughout the set; the crowd is noisily worshipful. Finally, Big Mama roars at one groovy chick who keeps echoing her lines in a Joplinesque whine: “AW SHUDDUP!” She recovers her humor as a fan deposits a watermelon onstage: “I see you givin’ me a San Francisco ham.”
The Lieber & Stoller–penned hit “Hound Dog” made it to #1 on the R&B charts in 1953 for Thornton. But as she grumped to journalist Ralph Gleason: “That song sold over 2 million copies. I got one check for $500 and I never seen another.” Though she wrote “Ball and Chain,” the royalties were assigned to her record company. Big Mama died frail, alcohol-ravaged and poor in a Los Angeles boardinghouse. Other blues musician did respect Thornton’s considerable chops, including her ease on the hitherto unladylike harmonica and drums; the backup band for one of her later albums featured James Cotton and Muddy Waters.
Most serious blues guitarists also acknowledge the gifts of Memphis Minnie (born Lizzie Douglas), who began picking as a five-year-old in 1902 and, when her family moved to Mississippi in 1904, developed a regular habit of running off to Memphis to soak up the Beale Street flavor. At her peak, Minnie played as well or better than any man, once besting Big Bill Broonzy in a contest. She played in parks and streets as well as vaudeville houses, and saw plenty; her blues were full of streetwalkers, dope fiends and doomed consumptives. As Ethel Waters did, Minnie sketched from life; her “Outdoor Blues” is a window-rattling evocation of homelessness during the Depression. But much of her oeuvre consists of twelve-bar tone poems sharply observing domestic life, from making biscuits to making love.
White hillbilly girls knew the blues, too. Theirs were the hardscrabble trials of sharecroppers’ wives and coal miners’ daughters. But nearly four decades before Loretta Lynn warned “Don’t Come Home A-Drinkin’ (With Lovin’ on Your Mind),” few of them dared to voice it aloud. Early country artists confined themselves to the rather polite conventions of traditional forms–the reels, jigs and laments of their Scottish and Irish antecedents.
The Carter Family–A. P. Carter, his wife, Sara, and their sister-in-law Maybelle Addington Carter–began their remarkable career with “old-timey” tunes. Theirs was a body of folk work so deep and wide that virtually every country star that followed declared they “grew up on the Carters.” The folk revival of the late fifties and early sixties, as well as the stark, reedy strains of today’s “alternative” country, “No Depression” music drew straight from the Carter well. (The name is from the Carter song “They’ll Be No Depression in Heaven.”)
In 1927, the Carters auditioned in Bristol, Tennessee, for a talent scout named Ralph Peer, who had traveled south for the Victor Talking Machine Company of New York City. That first day, A.P.’s car juddered into town with his wife and his brother’s wife, the very pregnant Maybelle, it was a different sound they poured into Peer’s portable equipment. The trio’s voices dominated their instruments; they would usher an age of strong, idiosyncratic vocal performance in southern folk music. In 1928, one of their best-known tunes, the pluckily optimistic “Keep on the Sunny Side,” was a huge hit in the mountains and valleys that had yet to see the bustling prosperity of the Roaring Twenties. But more surprising was the success, earlier in 1928, of their rewrite of a traditional song, “Single Girl, Married Girl.” Sara resisted singing it in the family’s first recording session the previous year; she said she didn’t like the song. But the record man insisted. The lyrics limned the great divide in women’s fates:
Single girl, single girl, she goes to the store and buys. Married girl, married girl, she rocks the cradle and cries. Single girl, single girl, she’s going where she please. Married girl, married girl, a baby on her knees.
Once the original trio disbanded, it was “Mother” Maybelle who kept the Carter name in country, enlisting her daughters Helen, Anita and June (who later married Johnny Cash). Though June would later inject a comic, flirty element, the quartet remained basic as biscuits and resolutely God-fearing. There is a piece of black-and-white TV footage of a young Cash and the Carter women, accompanied by just a mandolin and Maybelle’s autoharp, singing what the slick-haired announcer calls “an old sacred song,” “Were You There (When They Crucified My Lord)?” The performance is an Appalachian act of faith so solemn and chilling it all but vaporizes the hokey, rifle-hung fireplace that serves as a backdrop. The people’s music was never so direct as when Cash’s ragged baritone thunders: Were you there?
Cash and the women do not look at one another or the camera; when tall, beautiful Anita–the one Elvis was mad for–looses her piercing keen atop it all, every piney woods terror that ever ringed Clinch Mountain, Virginia, rises up with it. Her voice is at once gorgeous and wounding; you can’t tell if what she sees is salvation or devastation, if she is in a state of grace or mortal dread. It’s a hillbilly righteousness torn straight from the strident shakers who washed up at Plymouth. As the other singers fall in, sequentially, in seamless harmony, on the word “tremble,” the listener does just that.
There is no question, watching any of those preserved performances, that Mother Maybelle was the rock, and perhaps the seer. Through it all, on corny TV hoedowns and plain home-movie footage of family gatherings, Maybelle’s gaze seems fixed on a point no one else can see. Like her sister-in-law Sara, she is almost expressionless in a sharp-planed, American Gothic way, rarely smiling until she seems to remember she probably should. But her right hand is never less than eloquent. Generations of spandexed ax-men (and women) owe much of the reverence now accorded to lead guitar to Maybelle’s innovative playing. Modestly, she held her own amid guitar greats. Says Johnny Cash, “Maybelle was friendly with and admired Chet Atkins, Merle Travis and Django Reinhardt. Her Appalachian style, which she called Carter Scratch, is not easily imitated.”
Nor was it easily learned. Mother Maybelle’s “simple” technique combined melody and rhythm strumming on the same instrument. Study her performance legerdemain and you see a right thumb as busy as the forefingers but keeping its own beat. In his 1997 autobiography, Cash, Johnny explained it this way: “In purely musical, not cultural, terms, Maybelle was more influential than either Lennon or Dylan. She figured out a way to pick the melody on the lower strings of her guitar while she strummed chords on the higher strings, thereby creating the most influential guitar style in country and folk music.”
Maybelle, as her old fishing buddy Cash describes her, was an “absurdly” humble person: “She never grasped how important she was to the music, how revered she was by everyone from Pete Seeger and Bob Dylan to Emmylou Harris and Michelle Shocked. We’d tell her time and time again, but she’d just say, `Naw, that’s just stuff I did a long time ago.’”
Maybelle prefered life’s simple pleasures. She’d cook for all comers, and she loved to fish. Recalled Cash: “She was a worm baiter; she wasn’t afraid to pick that worm up and get the hook through it the way so many people are.” She could also look through your soul, according to those who knew her. Maybelle’s eyes were huge and dark-lashed beneath long, expressive brows, but the centers were a striking light blue. Said her daughter Anita, “The first thing you saw about my mother were her eyes. Her eyes just jumped out at you. Liz Taylor had that, I’ve heard. Mama’s eyes were so sweet. She never said much, though. When somebody would do something they shouldn’t she’d just stare at them.” According to Anita, country legend Hank Snow caught the effect best when he declared, “Mama just whips us to death with those eyes.”
Maybelle and her quiet ways were a saving balm to the troubled men she encountered on the road, like the hard-drinking, tubercular Jimmie Rodgers, who sang and behaved with sure knowledge of his early doom. When he turned up nearly insensible for one recording session, Maybelle stepped up and played Rodgers’s guitar parts for him. She later said she endured his wild behavior and volcanic temper because “he was dying and everybody knew it. He was taking drugs and drinking because of the pain, and it just made him a little bit crazy.” As gentle confessor to other road-ravaged country boys like Hank Williams and Johnny Cash, Mother Maybelle did her best to live up to the name. She listened, she counseled–and she always forgave.
If the Carters virtually started the country-music industry, it was Kitty Wells, the young wife of another hillbilly singer, who finally, emphatically trashed Nashville’s sexist bromide that solo girl singers couldn’t sell records. Kitty’s 1952 “It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels” laid into the devilment of two-timing married men with a double shot of hurt and sass. It flew to #1 on the country charts. As country’s first bona fide female star, Wells blazed a ruffles-and-rhinestone path for a host of Lorettas, Tammys, Dollys and Rebas.
Copyright ” 2001 by Gerri Hirshey. Reprinted with permission from Grove Atlantic, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Distribution Strategic Business Group
Vanti
Cálidda
Contugas
Transmission and Transportation Strategic Busin...
TRECSA
GEBBRAS
EEBIS
Emgesa
Astrid Álvarez, president of Grupo Energía Bogotá, received the 2019 United Nations Women Together Award for the "Energía Para La Paz" program
Five proposals by Grupo Energía Bogotá to improve natural gas availability in Colombia
El Grupo Energía Bogotá alcanzó utilidades por COP$1,7 billones y decretó un reparto de dividendos de COP$1,2 billones
The Grupo de Energia de Bogota (GEB) is a leading LATAM company in the power energy and natural gas sector with a presence in Colombia, Peru, Guatemala and Brazil. Focused on the growth and development of leading companies in the territories in which it operates, with solid and transparent corporate governance accountable to its shareholders.
This strategic business group develops the electric energy and natural gas distribution services required by large consumption centers and mega-cities, promotes cleaner mobility and more efficient energy use to improve environmental quality. Its efforts focused on the consolidation of businesses in Perú through our affiliates Cálidda, in Lima and Callao, Contugas in Ica, and Codensa, Vanti and EMSA in Colombia
Transmission and Transportation
This strategic business group connects large energy sources to consumption centers through electric energy transmission lines and gas pipelines.
This group has the objective of consolidating a Power Energy Transmission LATAM Company. Currently, GEB has a transmission portfolio with Transmission Branch in Colombia, 40% stake in REP and CTM in Peru, Trecsa and EEBIS in Guatemala and Gebbras in Brazil.
It also seeks to strengthen the process of consolidation and growth of the largest gas transportation company in Colombia, TGI.
Seeking for opportunities in power generation with renewable sources
Transmition
Sucursal Transmisión Grupo Energía Bogotá
Branch created by the amendment of Grupo Energía Bogotá bylaws approved during the Extraordinary General Meeting in December 2017. This branch builds on the more than 123 years of experience in electric transmission business on Colombia that had the former Empresa de Energía de Bogotá (funded in 1896).
The transmission Branch is the second most important electric transmission company with a market share of 18,84%.
Key operational figures as of December 2018:
Lines’ total length: 1.523 km and 25 substations.
Infrastructure availability: 99,96%.
99.97*% with controlled
Transportadora de Gas Internacional S.A. ESP
With more than 25 years of experience, TGI is the largest gas transporter in Colombia. It provides services to big users, producers and developers of energy markets, with the aim of connecting sources of energy with consumption centers. TGI provides services to Colombia´s most populated areas such as Bogotá, Medellín, Cali, Eje Cafetero and Piedemonte Llanero.
Gas pipelines total length: 3.994 kilometers.
Average volume of gas transported: 459,6 MSCFD.
Total capacity: 791,8 MSCFD.
95% with controlled
Transportadora de Energía de Centroamérica S.A.
Established on February 2010 under the laws of Guatemala with the name of Transportadora de Energía de Centroamérica S.A., Trecsa. The company is in charge of executing the requirements of the PET -1-2009 tender project, awarded to Grupo Energía Bogotá on January 2010.
Trecsa is currently executing the construction of the Energy Transport Expansion Plan (PET), one of the most important infrastructure projects in Central America. The project includes the construction of 866 km of transmission lines, 11 new substations, the expansion of 12 existing substations and the operation and maintenance once the project is fully constructed.
Gas Natural del Perú
Cálidda was established in February 2002 and started operating in August 2004. It is the largest gas distribution company in Perú and operates the concession (33-year concession) area of Lima and Callao.
It has more than 760.000 customers, reaching around 3 million people.
Market share: 73%
Volume sold: more than 780 MSCFD.
Distribution system of more than 9.600 km of networks.
99.9% with controlled
Gebbras is an electric transmission investment vehicle. Through this vehicle GEB manages four concessions in its operating phase: Transenergia Renovável S. A. (TER), Transenergia São Paulo S. A (TSP)., Goiás Transmissão S.A. (GOT) and MGE Transmissão S. A. (MGE), within 6 Brazilian states.
The four concessions acquired by the company were awarded through a public tender in 2008 and 2009 for a period of 25 years. The total length of the lines is 1,094 kilometers, with active levels of 500, 345, 230 and 138 kv, located in the following states: Espírito Santo, Goiás, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Minas Gerais and São Paulo.
It is important to state that 51% of the 4 concessions were acquired by Gebbras in August 2015, the remaining 49% belongs to Furnas Centrais Elétricas S.A.
• Gebbras operates 1.094 km of transmission lines and 15 substations.
• Market share: 0,8% of Brazil's National Transmission Network.
100% with controlled
EEB Ingeniería y Servicios - Guatemala
Established on April 2011 as a subsidiary of EEB, the company provides engineering services, electrical studies, management and development of transmission projects in Guatemala.
One of EEBIS’ greatest achievements and major projects in 2018, was the completion of the construction of the South Pacific Ring (SPS) project. This project involves the construction of 7 substations and 95 kilometers of transmission lines that will transport the energy generated by the Magdalena, Madre Tierra, Pantaleón, La Unión and Santa Ana mills. The generated energy is available to the National Interconnected System (SIN).
Contugas S.A.C.
Contugas was established in june, 2008 under the Peruvian law as Transportadora de Gas Internacional del Perú S.A. C.
The company distributes and commercializes natural gas in the region of Ica, Perú. In addition, it can also provide design, expansion, financing, construction, commercial and maintenance services for natural gas and hydrocarbons pipelines (both transportation and distribution). The concession period is granted for 30 years, until 2042.
On April 30, 2014, the company started operations after the completion of the construction of the Natural Gas Distribution System in Ica.
It has more than 54.000 customers
Market share of approximately 3,6%
Consorcio Transmantaro
Consorcio Transmantaro S.A. (CTM) is the concessionaire of the transmission line Mantaro-Socabaya. It is responsible for connecting the North Central region Interconnected System with the South region Interconnected System. Currently, CTM is responsible for the construction, operation and maintenance of power transmission networks and systems’ development.
The concession was awarded in 1998 for a period of 33 years. It represents around 23% of Perú’s National Interconnected System.
CTM operates 4.261km transmission lines and 21 substations.
Availability of infrastructure is around 99,96%
Market demand is around 4.377 GWh
15 concessions, 2 extensions and 13 private contracts
Generation, Commercialization
51.51% with participation
Empresa Generadora y Comercializadora de Energía
Established on October 23, 1997, as a result of EEB's capitalization project, with the contribution by EEB in kind and cash contribution of Grupo Endesa, a strategic investor. On December 14, 2006, Grupo Endesa and Empresa de Energía de Bogotá agreed to merge the companies Emgesa and Central Hidroeléctrica de Betania, while EEB maintained 51.51% of the merged company.
Distribution, Commercialization
51.3% participación% with participation
CODENSA S.A. ESP
Company established in 1997 as a result of the capitalization of Empresa de Energía de Bogotá.
It is the second largest electricity distribution company in Colombia. It currently provides services to Bogota and other 129 municipalities in Cundinamarca, Boyacá, Tolima y Meta
It has more than 3,4 million customers.
Leader in the national market with 21,3% of national demand.
The demand for the area amounts to 3.704 Gwh.
25% with participation
Vanti Gas Natural
Vanti (Gas Natural S.A. E.S.P) is the second largest distribution and commercialization natural gas (by pipe network) company in Colombia. It provides services in 105 municipalities within Bogotá and the departments of Cundinamarca, Boyacá, Santander and César for residential, commercial, industrial and vehicular market segments
It has more than 3 million customers
Market share: 32,3% of the national market
Sales: more than 2,6 million m3 of natural gas
Distribution network length: more than 22.800 km.
Distribution, Transmition, Commercialization
16.2% with participation
Electrificadora del Meta S.A. E.S.P.:
Mixed company of public services in the department of Meta, Colombia. Provides transmission, distribution and commercialization of electric energy services. The company operates in 23 of the 29 municipalities of Meta.
48 substations with an installed capacity of 1.057 MVA and 14.273 distribution transformers.
Total length of medium and high voltage networks: 12.638 km.
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Bbc documentary japan a story of love and hate relationship
Japan - A Story of Love and Hate BBC Documentary - video dailymotion
Yoshie and Naokie in Japan: a Story of Love and Hate Photo: BBC There are, of course, many ways to attract viewers' attention in television documentaries. Everything in Naoki's life – job, finances, relationship – was. Japan: a Story of Love and Hate (Monday, BBC Four) began with a shot of Everything in Naoki's life – job, finances, relationship – was teetering on the Here was a rare case of a documentary that worked on two levels. JAPAN: A STORY OF LOVE AND HATE. Sean McAllister. Japan/GB, Documentaries, 59min, OmeU Tenfoot Films BBC, NHK Japan It is a strangely symbiotic relationship – “She hates me, I need her”, Naoki laments –, but somehow.
But she and Naoki no longer talked themselves. All you could guess from her tabula rasa face was that she despised him and you would guess wrong. What was splendid about Naoki was that this instinctive dissident in a congenitally conformist society had an albeit mordant sense of humour.
Everywhere he took us, tragedy and comedy jostled for the foreground. Naoki had a friend called Mr Mushroom Man because he obsessively picked wild mushrooms. But Mushroom Man also had his tale. His brother, crushed by a business culture of bullying, was among the 30, Japanese who kill themselves each year. McAllister, however, had had intimate conversations with both men and saw a chance for them to connect over a shared gift of Viagra. At first this peace offering looked like a shocking breach of etiquette, but the gesture opened things no end.
Suddenly Naoki had a family again. The film produced a true and unexpected insight.
BBC World News - Japan: A Story of Love and Hate
Instead of going to Japan to look for answers, the West might credit itself with having worked out, in the past few decades, some of its own.
After living in Japan for two years, McAllister was getting nowhere in his efforts to make a revealing documentary about the country.
Depressed and drinking too much the film began with him jogging, out of breath and sweating profusely, delivering a desperate monologue to camerahe had almost given up — until he met Naoki, 56, a part-time postal worker. A thin wall away from homelessness, Naoki lived in what was laughably described as a one-room apartment.
In reality it was more like a windowless, strip-lit box. She worked 15 hours a day in three jobs, the worst being as a hired date for married businessmen. It was sleazy and bleak, and obviously pained her greatly. Returning home from drunken evenings, she would often berate Naoki before falling asleep from a cocktail of booze and sleeping pills. We never even saw them kiss. And yet, rather than wallow in self-pity, Naoki regarded his situation with a kind of hard-won irreverence.
Within a society shamed by a shockingly high suicide rate, Naoki refused to be destroyed by his relentlessly unrewarding work-cycle and seemingly hopeless prospects.
Japan - A Story of Love and Hate BBC Documentary
It was this, plus the affectionate interplay between McAllister and Naoki, that gave the film its heart. Naoki used to have everything — his own business, a six-bedroom house and a flashy car — but lost it all in the crash of the early Nineties.
Divorced three times, he now lives with his girlfriend, year-old Yoshie, who works 15 hours a day to support him. Her three jobs include evening work in a sleazy bar where she is paid to flirt with and flatter rich, married men. At his age the only work he can find is a part-time job in a post office. Both suffer from depression and Naoki admits that they do not have sex.
Japan: A Story Of Love And Hate (reviews) | Sean McAllister
Their troubled relationship makes compelling viewing. For three-time divorcee Naoki. While Naoki works only part-time, Yoshie works 15 hours a day, including as a hostess at a club. She comes home drunk every night hostesses are expected to drink with the customers and ridicules Naoki for his lack of money.
Naoki is impotent, and their relationship is cold and dysfunctional. Naoki keeps a collection of about 50 pairs of glasses that Yoshie has broken.
They stay together because Naoki has somehow convinced Yoshie that she needs him for protection. I had several problems with this documentary. In addition to the bouncy, headache-inducing, Bourne Ultimatum-worthy camera work, Japan: At first I figured documentarian Sean McAllister was a reliable expert since he talks with a British accent. But about five minutes into the film, I realized it would have a very narrow focus.
The film begins with McAllister jogging through his town in rural Yamagata Prefecture. McAllister portrays the Japanese as cold, hostile people. McAllister himself accurately describes Naoki's workplace as "communism pretending to be capitalism.
Naoki's story is not typical, although McAllister presents it as such. In one scene, McAllister visits Yoshie's family's home. Yoshie's family lives in a small, but decent, house that is typical of the Japanese working class outside of the big cities. In another scene, Naoki and McAllister visit the home of one Mr.
Mushroom Man whose brother committed suicide due to the pressures of Japanese work. Mushroom Man also lives in a nice house that appears upper middle class. Naoki's lifestyle isn't even typical in the film that purports it as such. The film does accurately portray the Japanese workplace. As is typical in Japan, Naoki finds it almost impossible to re-enter the workforce in his 50s in anything other than a bottom-rung position.
One of Naoki's coworkers has been hospitalized for depression, and another of his coworkers spends his breaks sleeping on the floor because he is so exhausted. Every day begins with radio calisthenics.
Naoki's bosses give daily pep talks that inspire more resentment than encouragement, which are typical in Japan's top-down work culture.
Overall, the film suffers from presenting a rare case as typical.
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Dairy farmers ‘treat those calves like their babies’ – Alexa Cook:
Farmers have hit back at claims of widespread mistreatment of bobby calves, after a video emerged of calves being thrown onto the back of trucks.
The hidden-camera footage, obtained by activist group Farmwatch, also showed calves being dragged along the ground.
The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) has condemned the treatment, and started a full investigation.
But many farmers and farm workers say what was shown on the video did not reflect the reality of the industry. . .
Cruel practices condemned by DairyNZ chief:
DairyNZ chief executive Tim Mackle says cruel and illegal practices are not in any way condoned or accepted by the industry as part of dairy farming.
“The vast majority of farmers care about their animals and we are committed to farming to very high standards.
“DairyNZ works closely with the wider industry in the management of bobby calves, including the transport sector, meat processors and dairy companies, as well as Federated Farmers and MPI.” . .
Merino to make stars of growers – Sally Rae:
“You are going to be the rock stars for the future consumers,” New Zealand Merino chief executive John Brakenridge told about 100 merino growers in Omarama yesterday.
Speaking before the company’s annual meeting in the township, Mr Brakenridge said new brands were emerging where consumers could get to know the producer.
He had just returned from the United States, where he met former All White Tim Brown, the co-founder of shoe company Allbirds which has produced a shoe made from New Zealand merino. . .
Loie and Tony Penwarden are ending their Trewithen Farms sharemilking contract – Sue O’Dowd:
An award-winning Taranaki dairy farm will enter a new era next season as family beckons for its long-serving sharemilkers.
The couple, who have been herd-owning sharemilkers on Faull Farms’ Trewithen Farm at Tikorangi since 2004, are retiring at the end of the 2016-17 season.
The partnership between Faull Farms and the Penwardens won the inaugural Taranaki Ballance Farm Environment Awards (TBFEA) in 2014. . .
Tokanui shepherd perfect woman – Tim Miller:
After two days of fierce competition, which included cooking a steak and flying a helicopter, the perfect woman for 2016 has been found.
The Perfect Woman competition returned to Wanaka at the weekend, after a year off in 2015, and 16 contestants took part.
Shepherd Rachel Rule (22), from Tokanui, took the title and $1000 in prize money.
Miss Rule did not expect to win. She said the best part of the weekend was meeting the other competitors.
“It was a fantastic weekend with just a great bunch of girls and the things we got to do, like flying a helicopter, were really amazing.” . .
Lives given purpose by the ‘legends’ who helped – Marc Gascoigne:
It’s been a stressful spring for farmers in the Waikato with constant rain causing all sorts of problems, but those stresses were put into perspective in a big way for me last week when I attended two funerals.
When people say life is short they’re usually talking about living until you’re in your eighties, so when you are at a two-year-old child’s memorial service, it’s just not right on any level.
Mason was just two when he came to stay at our farm a few weeks ago with his mum and dad and five-year-old brother Weslley. . .
Rubbish boosts tasty delicacy – Alan Williams:
Saffron growers and wine-makers are among the businesses swearing by the benefits of organic compost made from Christchurch city’s green waste.
Te Anau saffron growers Steve and Jo Daley were even prepared to pay up to $2500 a load to get compost trucked the 650km from the Living Earth processing plant at Bromley.
The Living Earth market was 95% rural based, included pastoral and cropping farmers and the rural sales were 85% repeat business, the company’s rural and urban sales manager Graeme Wright said.
The Daleys were determined to be organic growers and the cost was worth it for them, with the consistency of the compost and its ability to hold its properties through a hot, dry summer. . .
Plant-based alternative milk consumption growing in Australia as dairy industry holds firm – Marty McCarthy:
Dairy milk has been flying off the supermarket shelves as consumers continue to sympathise with Australia’s dairy farmers, following the Murray Goulburn crisis.
But so-called “alternative milks” are rising in popularity, and new research shows consumers are increasingly lapping them up.
Supermarkets now stock a range of plant-based milks, including soy, almond, coconut, hazelnut, rice, oat and more recently, macadamia milk.
“While the incidences of lactose intolerance have been increasing there have also been food trends that recommend avoiding cow’s milk,” IBISWorld analyst Lauren Magner said. . .
Rabobank Global Wine Quarterly Q4 2016: Red Dawn? Behind the Rise in Australian Wine Grape Prices:
Australia takes the pulse of wine grape markets, while the Northern Hemisphere harvest appears set to fall on the short side, and China headlines developments in global wine trade, according to Rabobank’s Global Wine Quarterly for Q4 2016.
The Australian wine grape industry has experienced a ‘red dawn’, with prices rising from their 2011 lows, particularly for red wine grape varieties sourced from more premium growing regions. Rabobank senior analyst Marc Soccio says: “Life has returned to Australian wine grape prices, with China driving much of the recovery in market conditions.”
Highlighting the key role of the China/Hong Kong market in Australia’s wine grape price recovery, the performance of the Chinese market remains a key barometer of future red wine grape market condition. The premiumisation trend in other major markets is also a factor, namely in Australia’s domestic market, as well as in the US and Canada. . .
Nominations Have Closed for the 2016 Fonterra Elections:
Nominations for the Fonterra Board of Directors’ Independent Nomination Process candidates and the Shareholders’ Council, Directors’ Remuneration Committee, and Fonterra Farmer Custodian Trustee elections closed at 12 noon today.
The candidates successfully nominated following the Independent Nomination Process will be announced on Friday 4 November, 2016. The full list of candidates, including Self-Nominated candidates for the Fonterra Board of Directors’ Election will be announced by Wednesday, 16 November 2016. . .
Do not cross this pasture unless you can do it in 9 seconds, because the bull can do it in 10.
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Golden harvest from Fiordland farm – Sally Rae:
Growing saffron and Fiordland might sound an unlikely combination.
But Te Anau couple Steve and Jo Daley have big plans for their fledgling organic operation with an ambitious goal of becoming world-renowned for the costly spice.
“It’s just so damn exciting, the product, and people are so interested in what we’re doing,” Mr Daley said.
Mr and Mrs Daley have 1.5million crocus corms on their property and their intention is to increase that to 50million, which would make them the biggest saffron producers in New Zealand.
With a day job as a fencing contractor, Mr Daley, while stationed behind the post driver, got thinking about other ways to make a living. . .
Sand and milk: Dairy farming in the desert – Sally Rae:
For Clayton Buckley, the past 12 years working for Almarai — the world’s largest vertically integrated dairy company — have been quite an experience.
Suffice to say, it was ‘‘not like farming here’’, he said during a recent visit home.
Mr Buckley (35) was brought up in North Canterbury, where his father Russ was a ‘‘part-time’’ deer farmer.
He used to head south during school holidays to stay with his aunt and uncle Gail and Trevor Meikle and help on their farm, near Oamaru.
He enjoyed it so much that when he was about nine, he announced to his parents he was going to buy Mr and Mrs Meikle’s farm, he recalled. . .
Quad bike deaths at record high – Catherine Hutton:
The number of deaths from quad bike accidents has reached a record annual high of 14, and an agriculture expert says the rate is predicted to rise.
A quad bike accident in Taupō on Saturday night left one person dead and another with moderate injuries, bringing the number of deaths from quad bikes this year to 14, a record for a single year.
The former director of Lincoln University’s Telford campus, Charley Lamb, said the deaths were occurring as a result of crush injuries, which research showed roll bars would prevent.
“Very few bikes have roll over protection, which of course they should do. Whether people want to debate that and argue that, they can. But they used to do the same about safety frames on tractors and they did the same about seatbelts in cars.” . .
DIRA changes don’t go far enough – Neal Wallace:
Fonterra has criticised proposed changes to the Dairy Industry Restructuring Act as not going far enough because they continue to impose constraints on the co-operative that help its competitors.
The proposed changes to DIRA announced by Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy provided a mixed bag for Fonterra which its Farm Source chief operating officer Miles Hurrell labelled a “lost opportunity to address artificial constraints”.
While an end was in sight for the requirement to sell milk to its largest competitors, Hurrell said Fonterra was still obligated to accept and process all milk produced which meant shareholders having to invest in stainless steel. . .
Age ousts three directors – Sally Rae:
Three directors, including founder and chairman Graham Cooney, have stepped down from the board of Blue Sky Meats due to an age-related clause in the company’s constitution.
A letter sent to suppliers of the Southland-based meat company this week, signed by chairman Scott O’Donnell and directors Peter Carnahan and Andy Lowe, said Mr Cooney, Peter Houlker and Malcolm McMillan were unable to continue as the constitution precluded any individual from being a director once they reached 65. . .
Don’t blame staff – Annette Scott:
Agri businesses are bad at attracting the right staff rather than being victims of a shortage of skilled and experienced people, Synlait Milk chief executive John Penno says.
“Effectively, I’m saying our primary industry business models are not strong enough to compete for the right people.
“We need leaders growing up in our businesses and we need businesses growing these leaders.” Penno focused on the challenges of knowledge and skills for land-based industries towards 2030, in a presentation to an Agricultural and Horticultural Science Institute forum.
“This really made me think,” Penno said. . .
A changing of the guard for DWN:
Dairy Women’s Network has a new skipper at the helm after today’s AGM, with incumbent chair Justine Kidd stepping down and Cathy Brown of Pahoia being warmly welcomed into the role.
A crowd of about 60 DWN members, staff and sponsors gathered at Wintec in Hamilton today to celebrate another successful year for the 9000-strong not-for-profit organisation that is dedicated to supporting and inspiring women to succeed in the business of dairying.
Brown has been involved with DWN since the late 90s, first hearing about the organisation when she worked at CRV Ambreed. She quickly became a member of what was at that point a largely internet based network and attended the organisation’s first conference in 2001. . .
Cathy Brown (left) with Justine Kidd.
‘Good dog’ makes dog training easier – Anna Holland:
Two words I find invaluable when training dogs are “good dog”.
The secret to their effectiveness is understanding, timing and correct usage; overuse them and their power is lost.
Not only do you need to understand when and how to use “good dog”, but the dog needs to understand the meaning. I once commented to someone, “You never say ‘good dog’.” And the next thing he was like a stuck record with the words; the trouble is he may as well have been speaking a foreign language because the words had no meaning for his dogs. . .
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NZ Beef and Lambassadors
Pablo Tacchini from Cucina in Oamaru is one of Beef + Lamb NZ’s Ambassador Chefs.
Pablo is originally from Argentina where he trained at the culinary institute, Mausi Sebess for two and a half years. He worked in Argentina in different restaurants for more than five years before coming to New Zealand for a holiday with his wife and young son. They fell in love with New Zealand, especially Oamaru and after being offered a job as a chef they decided to stay and make New Zealand home.
Pablo worked at restaurants around the Otago region before taking over as head chef at Cucina 1871. About two years ago the opportunity came about for Pablo and his wife to buy the restaurant. They changed the name to Cucina, upgraded the decor and changed the food style to what it is now.
Pablo’s style of cuisine is a reflection of what he grew up eating with his family every day. Part of his family comes from Italy and the other part from Spain, so when he mixes these two influences with his Argentinian culture, his style of cuisine gets very interesting. . .
Oamaru is blessed with several restaurants where diners are guaranteed delicious food and wonderful service.
Riverstone Kitchen a few kilometres north and Fleurs Place to the south are the most well known.
Cucina, at the entrance to Oamaru’s historic precinct, facing the southern end of the town’s main street is just as good.
Beef + Lamb’s media release on the Ambassador Chefs:
Beef + Lamb New Zealand have announced their five Ambassador Chefs for 2019 to act as figureheads to drive innovation and creativity within the foodservice sector. The appointments follow the announcement of the 173 Beef and Lamb Excellence Award holders for 2019, with the ambassadors selected from some of the highest rated restaurants during the assessments.
The five selected for the coveted roles are; Andrew May (Amayjen the Restaurant, Feilding) Freddie Ponder (Tables Restaurant, New Plymouth), Jarrod McGregor (Rothko at Sculptureum, Matakana), Pablo Tacchini (Cucina, Oamaru) and Scott Buckler (No. 31 Restaurant, Hanmer Springs). . .
The Beef + Lamb Ambassador Chefs’ roll of honour looks like a who’s who of Kiwi culinary trailblazers, with the quintet following in the footsteps of some of New Zealand’s most celebrated chefs. Peter Gordon, Ben Bayley, Sid Sahrawat, Kate Fay and Rex Morgan are just a few of Aotearoa’s finest that have featured in an ambassadorial capacity for Beef + Lamb New Zealand over the 23 years of the Beef and Lamb Excellence Awards. . .
Lisa Moloney has been Food Service Manager for Beef + Lamb New Zealand for over 12 years, overseeing the Ambassador Chef programme. Lisa said: “This year’s ambassadors have been selected not just because they are fantastic chefs, they were identified because of their creativity, dedication and excitement for cooking with beef and lamb.
“Their purpose is simple; to inspire a network of likeminded chefs to move forward, try something new and showcase what amazing creations are possible with beef and lamb.”
Kiwi food fanatics looking to sample the very best the ambassadors have to offer will be able to attend an Ambassador Series Dinner, hosted at each of the chef’s restaurant, with each chef being paired with a Platinum Ambassador Chef to create a unique beef and lamb dining experience.
The Excellence Awards and Ambassador Chefs give recognition to the chefs who highlight beef and lamb on their menus and do it superbly.
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Peony growers flat out until Christmas – Ella Stokes:
As spring turns into summer, the peony growing season is in full swing. Last week, reporter Ella Stokes went to catch up with Mosgiel grower Rodger Whitson, of Janefield Paeonies and Hydroponics, to see what it involves.
What started as a plan to diversify their property is now a full-time business for Rodger and Cindy Whitson, who have 10,000 peony plants on their 4ha block in Mosgiel.
In 2000, Mr Whitson, originally a meat worker, and Mrs Whitson, a dispensary technician, were looking into ways they could diversify their property.
After looking at a range of flowers to grow, they decided peonies were the best option. . .
Mānuka honey: who really owns the name and the knowledge – Jessica C Lai:
Adulterated honey and fake mānuka honey have repeatedly made headlines in recent years.
The arguments around adulterated honey are relatively simple. These honeys are diluted with cheaper syrups and their lack of authenticity is unquestionable. The discourse around mānuka honey is different, as there are serious questions about what authentic mānuka honey actually means.
Two warring families
The term mānuka carries with it a premium. Mānuka honey is made from the nectar of the Leptospermum scoparium flower. This plant is native to New Zealand and south-east Australia. It is, thus, not surprising that much of the war around the term mānuka has played out between Australian and New Zealand producers.
There are many registered trademarks in Australia and New Zealand that include the word mānuka and relate to honey-based products. In July, the Australian Manuka Honey Association filed to protect its name. . .
Research to help regions plan for tourism growth:
Lincoln University is making a major investment to support and grow our understanding of tourism.
A new Lincoln University Centre of Excellence, called ‘Sustainable Tourism for Regions, Communities and Landscapes’, has been created to tackle the dual challenge of growing the value of tourism and enriching the tourist experience in Aotearoa New Zealand, while restoring, protecting and enhancing the quality of regional destinations.
The multi-disciplinary centre is drawing on the expertise of researchers from across the university in such diverse areas as destination management, landscape design, policy and planning, marketing, rural regeneration, parks and protected areas, resource economics and community resilience. . .
Some kitchen action plating up #nzlamb neck and ribs at Alpha St Kitchen in Cambridge. @BeefLambNZ #ambasssdorseries pic.twitter.com/9RSa7msnYI
— Lisa Moloney (@LisaMoloney00) November 7, 2018
Limited progress on China dairy safeguards ups the ante for other negotiations:
News that the review of the China-New Zealand FTA is unlikely to result in improvement for dairy access is disappointing for the New Zealand dairy industry. The Dairy Companies Association of New Zealand (DCANZ) says this increases the importance of high quality and timely access improvements for dairy from the other trade negotiations currently underway.
“Despite the close relationship that New Zealand and China enjoy, New Zealand dairy exports to China continue to incur over a $100 million in tariffs each year, with the safeguards regularly triggered in early January” says DCANZ Chairman Malcolm Bailey. “Additionally New Zealand exporters of milk powder, cheese, and butter will be at a growing tariff disadvantage relative to Australian competitors until these safeguards end in 3-5 years”. . .
Hikurangi Cannabis Company raises another $7m to expand cannabis cultivation and research:
Construction of purpose-built cannabis cultivation and medicine manufacturing facilities on the East Coast is now progressing with Hikurangi Cannabis Company announcing its first wholesale investment round is fully funded.
A small number of high net worth investors have contributed an initial $7 million to complete the next stage of development for the first New Zealand company to receive a cultivation license. Another investment offer is likely to be pursued in the new year as milestones are achieved to further accelerate research and development activities. . .
Look at this cute one experiencing his first snow! 😍
📸 Chater Fold pic.twitter.com/wFkh18pYXI
— FarmingUK (@FarmingUK) November 6, 2018
Joint agreement to protect onion industry:
Biosecurity New Zealand and Onions New Zealand Inc have reached an agreement on funding to prepare for future biosecurity responses.
Both parties signed a Sector Readiness Operational Agreement today (7 November).
“The agreement demonstrates commitment to working in a strong partnership to strengthen readiness for incursions of specific pests and diseases,” says Andrew Spelman, Biosecurity NZ’s Acting Director, Biosecurity Readiness. . .
Pioneering cattle grazing block up for sale set to become avocado or kiwifruit orchard:
A portion of a pioneering cattle grazing and fattening farm that has been owned by members of the same family for 178 years has been placed on the market for sale.
The 23-hectare property at Maungatapere some 11 kilometres west of Whangarei was formerly a much bigger dairy farm known as Crystal Springs which was the first pedigree Jersey stud in Northland, with a gene-poll of breeding cattle brought out from the United Kingdom. . .
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Dave Lifton, who writes for both Ultimate Classic Rock and Diffuser, is a podcaster and author of several books. A native of New York, he now lives in Chicago, where he's usually staring out at Lake Michigan from his apartment or getting into arguments with Bears fans. Also, he likes Bruce Springsteen and pulled pork sandwiches.
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Their last episode on the now-venerable program was the finale of the fourth season.
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Women’s Lacrosse Falls to Westminster
Westminster (Pa.) (4-1) 11 8 19
Hiram (2-6) 4 2 6
G: 3 Players (#02, #04, #20) - 2
A: Katelyn Slomovitz - 1
Sv: Gillian McMaster - 10
G: Bria Braddock - 9
A: Margo Mason - 3
Sv: Emma Bradley - 5
GB: Margo Mason - 9
Mar.23- HIRAM, Ohio- The Hiram College women's lacrosse team fell 19-6 in their non-conference matchup against Westminster, Saturday afternoon.
The Titans were the first to get on the board pushing the game to an early 1-0 lead.
Hiram responded seconds later of a goal from Gianna Palmieri to knot the score at 1-1.
Over a ten-minute period, Westminster went on a 6-0 run to stretch their advantage to 7-1. The Titan's Emily D'Amico lead the scoring attack with three goals.
Alexis Hirsch and Katelyn Slomovitz posted back-to-back Terrier goals to cut the Westminster edge to 7-3.
Westminster closed out the first half with a 4-1 run with all four goals from Bria Braddock. Hirsch scored an unassisted goal for the Terriers to cement the score at 11-4 at the break.
In the last 30 minutes, the Titans would hold an 8-2 scoring advantage to secure the 19-6 win. Hiram would add two more goals in the last half from Palmieri and Slomovitz.
Offensively, a trio of players finished with a multi-goal game including Slomovitz, Hirsch, and Palmieri with two apiece.
Tia Smith paced the defense with four groundballs and three caused turnovers.
Hiram will hit the field again on Tuesday, March 26 when they host Chatham (Pa.). The game is scheduled for a 7:00 p.m. start.
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Tag Archives: Parent abuse
A response to the proposed changes to Domestic Abuse legislation in Britain
These comments are my own and do not necessarily represent those of other parties working and interested in the field of child to parent violence.
I have used the terms adolescent to parent abuse (APA), adolescent to parent violence (APV), child to parent violence (CPV), and parent abuse (PA) interchangeably, except where this has been made clear, to reflect the different usage at different times and by different people.
This week the Government published their landmark Domestic Abuse Bill, alongside the response to the Consultation, Transforming the Response to Domestic Abuse. The Consultation looked at four specific areas:
promoting awareness
protecting and supporting victims
transforming the justice process and perpetrator response
and improving performance.
The Consultation Response and the Bill have been welcomed by many, particularly for the inclusion of economic abuse within the definition, recognition of the harm afforded to children and young people affected by domestic abuse (DA) within the family, for the protection afforded to victims and witnesses in court, and for the commitments to secure tenancies for those being rehoused. Nevertheless, there has been significant concern expressed about the need to translate words into actions, with adequate funding of services. Particular interest groups have rightly pointed out areas where they feel commitments could have been stronger, or where a change of direction is needed. Continue reading →
Filed under Discussion, Law
Tagged as adolescent to parent abuse, Adolescent to parent violence, Child to parent violence, domestic abuse, Parent abuse, Westmarland, Wilcox
Summer #CPV harvest
I am often asked how I come across the news, articles and publications that I tweet and blog about, in relation to child to parent violence (CPV). My original rationale for this site was along the lines of “I do it so you don’t have to”, but of course things are never that straight forward, and the truth is much more like “we do this together”. But here goes: Continue reading →
Filed under Discussion
Tagged as adolescent violence in the home, Child to parent violence, CPV, Eddie Gallagher, Jemma Lucy, Jenny Noyes, Jo Howard, Kildonan UnitingCare, Michael Carr-Gregg, Parent abuse, Teenage violence to parents
Child to parent violence: an unhelpful phrase?
Once upon a time, when I didn’t know so much about “parent abuse” it seemed a little exciting to be at the forefront of a new phenomenon. It felt important to speak clearly and categorically, for clarity, and the avoidance of misunderstanding – which was commonplace. “Parent abuse? You mean abuse BY parents? No? You must mean older people then?” Now it seems that the more I learn, the less certain I am about anything – other than the fact that many, many more parents than we would like to think about are struggling daily with much, much more than anyone should ever have to face within their family. Continue reading →
Tagged as Adolescent to parent violence and abuse, Child to parent violence, CPV, Mumdrah, Parent abuse, VCB, violent challenging behaviour, Yvonne Newbold
Happy Birthday, Holes in the Wall!
Please allow me a moment of self-indulgence as I celebrate 5 years of this website, Holes in the Wall, ‘born’ in May 2011 out of a desire to make a contribution to the understanding of children’s violence to parents, known sometimes as parent abuse. As a present to myself I have ordered shiny new postcards to leave with people at conferences and events, explaining how ‘Holes’ came about and how you can be part of the community!
Tagged as Barbara Cottrell, Child to parent violence, children's violence to parents, Holes in the wall, Parent abuse
Alice Flowers advocates for parent abuse bill in Florida.
Family Of Woman Who Lost Her Life Plead With Lawmakers To Hear Parent Abuse Bill
By SASCHA CORDNER •
This piece is taken from wfsu news, published 24th February 2016
Surrounded by family, friends, and lawmakers, Alice Flowers (middle) is speaking during Wednesday’s press conference about her sister and why she’s advocating on behalf of a bill about the abuse of a parent.
SASCHA CORDNER / WFSU-FM
Some Florida lawmakers and advocates are pushing for a bill classifying the abuse of a parent as a form of domestic abuse. The measure stems from a woman who lost her life years ago.
“On July 15, 2013, my nephew murdered my sister as she was preparing for work,” said Alice Flowers.
Flowers is recalling the painful memory of the events that led to her sister, Rosemary Pate’s death. Pate’s son Everett was sentenced to 30 years in prison for the murder.
“She had suffered years of abuse from him,” she added. “Although he had been detained in the Department of Juvenile Justice, many times he was returned home to her where the abuse continued, although law enforcement were aware of the threats.”
And, Flowers says losing her sister like this has been tough on the whole family.
“My father has been through a lot,” she continued. “He got a call. Early one morning, my youngest sister and her husband went to his house to let him know that his grandchild had murdered his child. We have been through the ringer with this.”
Flowers just finished a bicycle ride from Orlando to Tallahassee in memory of her sister. Now, she’s advocating on behalf of a bill that she says would have helped.
“Myself and four cyclists have cycled to show how serious we are about getting a bill for police protections for parents and a bill that would begin intervening early for troubled children,” she concluded.
That bill Flowers is pushing for is sponsored by Sen. Geraldine Thompson (D-Orlando).
“We know that in Orange County we have a problem because we’ve studied it,” she said. “And, 426 children were arrested in 2012 for domestic violence, physically assaulting family members in their own homes. And, according to an article, elderly people are likely to be hurt by their children or other caretakers more than any other individual.”
And, Thompson says she’s saddened that even with a restraining order stating that Pate’s son had threatened her and she’d been afraid of him for years, the 51-year-old’s petition went nowhere.
“He had indicated that he would kill her two years earlier when he was 16,” Thompson added. “She said her petition to the judge had not really been acted upon because right now, in the law, regarding domestic abuse, the abuse of a parent is not included and so, this bill would correct that. And, it would include abuse of a parent as one of the forms of domestic abuse.”
The abuse may include aggravated abuse, exploitation of a parent’s assets, or emotional abuse of a parent by a biological child. The bill also requires the abuse of a parent be reported to the state abuse hotline.
And, Rep. Victor Torres (D-Orlando), the bill’s House sponsor, says the measure is needed.
“We need to make sure our parents are protected against abusive children,” he said. “The abuse tends to begin with verbal abuse, gradually progresses to property damage, breaking the walls, breaking down doors…ultimately, it becomes physical and that’s when you have the problems, that’s when you start seeing the aggression against the parents.”
So far, neither the Senate nor the House bill have had a hearing. But, both sponsors say they remain hopeful that if it dies this year, it will still be heard next session.
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Tagged as Alice Flowers, Parent abuse, Rosemary Pate
Lazy reporting could not spoil an opportunity to discuss parent abuse
This started off as a weary rant from me today and then changed tone as the day progressed!
While it has been exciting and encouraging to see the increase in coverage of child to parent violence and abuse in the media over the last week, I have been disappointed yet again by the tone of some of the pieces and the apparent laziness of reporting.
The main headline in the Times, (you may not be able to read the next line, “Families cannot deal with minor domestic rows”) today picks up on the report from Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary into the welfare of vulnerable people in police custody, which has held centre stage across the media today. This highlights the often inappropriate use of custody for individuals experiencing poor mental health, or other vulnerabilities, because of a crisis in other support services; and while researchers have said that the findings show pressures faced by many families and carers, and the fact that the police are often used as the agency of last resort, the first example given – thus setting the tone – is of a dispute over a TV remote control. Other examples are given of greater severity of risk and violence. Parents are described as contacting the police because they reach breaking point. But there is no exploration of this issue in a wider way, other than to suggest lone women are finding it particularly difficult to bring up children. Continue reading →
Filed under Discussion, news reports, radio and video
Tagged as child to parent abuse, Child to parent violence, My Violent Child, Parent abuse
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Religion rhymes with prison
February 19, 2016 Uncategorizedoecomuse
The Tim Minchin song Come Home Cardinal Pell arrived like an avalanche in my news feed this week. This is not surprising. I’m a Minchin fan and atheist; and am friends with people who see no reason to believe in the existence of things for which there is no evidence and have cool taste in music.
The mainstream media caught up the next day. Kristina Kenneally penned a highly lauded piece published in The Guardian which also questioned the place of god in a world where the Catholic Church continues to protect rapists and the protectors of rapists.
The pope was also in the news this week, for snapping at one of the faithful. In Mexico. That was the day after the Minchin song hit the headlines. No coverage I saw linked Francis’ loss of composure to the possibility that providing sanctuary to a man nicknamed Pell Pot would create considerable cognitive dissonance for a man who is assumed to have a moral compass.
Being trained in law and not in psychology, my comment is that it seems highly unlikely that these sets of circumstances – Pell being publicly requested to face the music, the Vatican choosing to safeguard Pell from a Royal Commission, il papa losing his cool – are unrelated.
Much of the commentary on the Minchin song is collected and criticised in this excellent post. The discussion I heard on ABC radio, between four journalists – Richard Glover, Jennifer Hewiit, Joe Hildebrand and Emma Alberici (in order on which they spoke about the song) – was unanimously critical of the – wait for it – language that Minchin used.
The four were ‘in furious agreement’ (Alberici) in their offence at Minchin and defence of Pell and his apparent rights. These rights remained unspecified, for the obvious reason that every courtesy has been extended to Pell and none of his rights have been violated.
Here are some of the highlights:
Tar and feather him
Shouting scum scum scum
Celebrities jumping on the bandwagon of the cause de jour
Hurling abuse
Lynch mob mentality
Pitchforks at dawn
We all know paedophiles are evil of course…
Yes there were a lot of mistakes made…
This is four highly trained and remunerated journalists commenting on the release of a song – a song which says scum once, not three times – which suggests Pell should front the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Assault.
The reason Pell should answer the questions of the Commission is that his institution, the one for which he was the most senior representative in Australia, is a known recruiter, harbourer and protector of paedophiles. Priests who rape children. Men of god who use their purported moral superiority to gain access to children and rape those children. That is the problem. They are the wrong-doers. Not Minchin. Not the Royal Commissioner. The rapist priests. We seem to have lost track of this fact somehow.
The most repulsive illogic here is commentators who draw false equivalences between the gross crimes and cover up by Pell and a man singing a song with the word scum in it. These are not comparable moral questions. The word scum is not even offensive to anyone when used in other contexts. But say it about the pope’s man and suddenly those who hold themselves as king mediator of messages call offence.
In the stampede to defend the very important man, we hear all about his rights when his rights have not been breached in any way shape or form. What are we not talking about while blathering about Pell and his not-breached rights? Yes. The victims and survivors of priests who rape children.
Mainstream media feels under threat from social media and the diversity of voices that are now heard in spaces for which they never had to compete, except among each other. The only way they know how to fight back against this threat to their monopoly on controlling the message is to side with power. So they minimalise and trivialise the horrors exacerbated by Pell.
This erases victims from the story. It also directly contradicts the claim that our society condemns adults who sexually assault children in the harshest possible terms. We say we do, and politicians have ramped the child rape sentence up (to a maximum of 25 years) to make it appear equivalent to murder.
Of course this grandstanding has not been and will not be matched by our political leaders loudly condemning the institutions which have failed victims and survivors at every turn.
We do not condemn all men who rape children in real life. Just some of them. We excuse priests and teachers, and burble about their rights and presumption of innocence. To be held innocent until proved guilty beyond reasonable doubt, by the way, is a principle of the criminal law, not investigatory proceedings like a Royal Commission.
At the same time we mobilise millions of dollars to further oppress and violate the rights of Aboriginal people in remote Northern Territory communities on far less evidence than has been collected by the RCIRCSA. A specific group of men are routinely portrayed as sexual predators and condemned en mass across our media landscape.
Where do they think the blue-eyed babies came from?
Children are still not believed. Lives are still wrecked. Families still shun survivors who speak out. Opinion makers still say things like ‘yes mistakes have been made but…’ The Case for the Pope being indicted at The Hague for Crimes Against Humanity – the hundreds of thousands of victims of rapist priests – has been made by none other than Geoffrey Robertson QC. And all we ask of Pell is to answer the damn question: what did you know?
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Can I Peel Tomatoes & Freeze Them Without Blanching?
The Effects of Refrigeration on Fruit
How to Preserve Acorn Squash
Fruits That Contain More Vitamins in the Peel
How to Make 100 Percent Real Fruit Juice
How to Juice Peaches
How to Freeze Honeydew
By Suzanne S. Wiley
Honeydew melon season lasts from summer into the middle of fall, but sales at the market don’t occur all that frequently, and the weight of a ripe honeydew melon can result in a high price. If you’ve been able to get honeydew melons at a substantial discount during a sale, freeze some of them so that you can enjoy the melon later in the year.
Wash the outside of the honeydew melon and dry it. Slice it into strips that you can bend a little; if you cut them too wide, you’ll have trouble cutting out the edible part of the melon, unless you are using a melon baller. Cut off the edible part, and if you want, cut that into chunks. You can either freeze these as is -- the University of Nevada Cooperative Extension says to freeze them on a cookie sheet first -- or pack them in sugar syrup. PickYourOwn.org says the syrup needs to be 30 percent sugar.
Any food, including a honeydew melon, can carry germs that can cause food poisoning, either through contamination in the field or from a person handling the melon in the market. If you cut the melon open without washing it, germs on the outside can travel inside along with the knife blade. Do not skip washing the melon.
Why Freeze Them
Rather than trying to finish off an entire melon within a couple of days, freezing allows you to save some for later without having to worry about it going bad. Honeydew melons don’t last that long once you get them home. If you manage to buy a ripe one -- they won’t ripen on the shelf -- you have only a couple of days to eat it, according to the University of Nevada Cooperative Extension.
Melons are very watery fruits, some more than others. That water can cause the melon’s cells to break when the water inside of them freezes. For very watery melons, like watermelons, this can be a major problem as the flesh essentially collapses when the melon fully thaws. Honeydew melons aren’t as watery, though, so while they won’t become a pile of fruit tissue, they will become soft. Iowa State University Extension advises serving the melons while they are still partly frozen.
Preparing and slicing up a honeydew melon can take some time, but cut up the melon before you freeze it to save yourself trouble later -- just take care when cutting it. Just as freezing and thawing can make the flesh of the melon mushy, it can make the rind soft. This will be annoying to try to cut up because if you thaw it completely, it could be too soft for you to make tidy cuts. If you keep it somewhat frozen, it could still be too hard to cut, or it could become slippery, which is a dangerous situation when using a knife.
PickYourOwn.org: Freezing Cantaloupes, Honeydew, Watermelons and Other Melons
University of Nevada Cooperative Extension: Heavenly Honeydew
Iowa State University Extension: What Is the Best Method for Freezing Watermelon, Honeydew, and Other Melons?
Ochef: Can You Freeze Watermelon?
Ochef: How Much Water is in a Watermelon?
California Cantaloupe Advisory Board: Consumer Tips for Handling Fresh Cantaloupe
Suzanne S. Wiley is an editor and writer in Southern California. She has been editing since 1989 and began writing in 2009. Wiley received her master's degree from the University of Texas and her work appears on various websites.
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Software Engineer Training in Just 18 Weeks
by Susan Hall March 9, 2012 2 min read
Career PathsCertificationsJob News
Software engineering takes some time to learn, given its complexities, but a new 18 week program is hoping to kick start software engineering careers in Detroit.
The Wayne County Community College District in Harper Woods, Mich., has teamed up with Indian IT consultancy Infosys to offer an 18-week program to produce more software engineers for the Detroit region.
Infosys tested the program already to train 14,000 entry-level software engineers in Mysore, India. This will be the program’s debut in the United States. To be fair, it’s not the only program attempting to train new IT pros quickly. The Creating IT Futures Foundation, an offshoot of the IT industry association CompTIA, is creating a similar program involving eight weeks of training followed by a six-month apprenticeship. It’s not calling its students “engineers,” but perhaps that’s quibbling.
The training will be in two tracks: Java and .NET. Classes begin Monday, promising “hands-on experiences, project-based design and team development.” The college’s site and press release do not mention cost.
The Indian outsourcing companies have been setting up shop in the United States to be closer to customers and with an eye toward developing goodwill. HCL Technologies, for instance, set up shop in Redmond, Wash., last fall near Microsoft and Boeing. It also spoke of teaming up with local community colleges to train workers. Though the college press release mentions that Forbes magazine ranked Infosys one of the most innovative companies in the world, Don Tennant, my colleague at IT Business Edge, has been covering the lawsuit by a U.S. employee who claims harassment and retaliation by Infosys after he accused the company of visa and tax fraud.
Introducing Our Software Engineering Talent Community
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RMSx32767 March 10, 2012
Will there be an effort to offer this opportunity to the many Software Engineers (or whatever term you choose) that are unemployed despite years of experience?
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Ma.Bra. - One More
April 20th, 2019 / By: Wausti
Maurizio keeps pumping out releases one after the other in a refreshed remake of old known classics. This one is by himself and Roberto Gallo Salsotto (who is also a part of many known italodance projects) released in 1994 under the name "Flags", one of their many aliases they did together....
Mr. Dendo - The Story Untold collection
Davide Rodia aka Mr. Dendo has now released both editions of The Story Untold, but for the moment only digitally... This can change if enough people will join his crowdfunding-project, 'cause if it reaches the target of 3.000€ he will make the albums as a physical CD and even make some gadgets!...
Ma.Bra. - Get Ready For This
April 1st, 2019 / By: Wausti
Nope, it's no joke! Maurizio Braccagni is back again with yet another Ma.Bra. updated version of an old classic track. This time he has taken the 1991 track "Get Ready For This" released by the dutch eurodance act 2 Unlimited.
1. Get Ready For This...
Release date: March 30th, 2019
Datura feat. Steve Strange - Fade To Grey (Remixes 2019)
March 29th, 2019 / By: Wausti
The Datura guys, Ciro Pagano and Stefano Mazzavillani continues on with their "25th Anniversary"-releases. This time it's their 1994 cover-hit "Fade To Grey" (originally released by Visage in 1981), and again the dear mr. Romanzi has done his magic, putting his own touch...
Dino Brown presents "La Storia Della Dance vol. 3"
The first two volumes of this compilation serie were released in releation to Dino Brown's program on the legendary (regarding italodance) italian radio m2o, but since Albertino (known from Gigi & Albertino - Super and as member of the...
Mr Dendo - The Story Untold 2
Now the 2nd edition of Mr Dendo's "The Story Untold" is ready! The small treasures recovered from his broken hard drive after 9 years trapped inside, just laying in the dust, are finally free and out for everyone to enjoy!
Also this is more like a mini-album rather than an EP, but that doesn't bother us,...
Digital Bros - Kick & Bass
Ricardo Vecchio and Deejay Dav are two lento violento / slowstyle lovers from France, which joined forces and created the project Digital Bros many years ago, and is now out with their first official release.
The guys has worked together for many years, and even released an album...
Release date: March 4th, 2019
Ma.Bra. - Just Can't Get Enough
He is back again! Maurizio Braccagni aka Ma.Bra. is continuing to throw out new Ma.Bra. versions of well-known tracks. This time it's Depeche Mode's hit from 1981 called "Just Can't Get Enough", which Ma.Bra. has remade by taking the melody and...
New releases by Krizdem
Wilber Taype from Peru, which goes by the names Krizdem and Tanz-Love has a few new releases already out, and some coming soon...
Tanz-Love & Krizdem - Slow Life. ...coming soon
- Original Mix
"Yo listen up. Here's the story..." The True Story of Eiffel65's 'Blue'
The legends and some of the pioneers of italodance with their own unique sound, Eiffel65 with Maury Lobina, Jeffrey Jey and Gabry Ponte has been interviewed by the news media Vice for a documentary about the making of their undoubtedly biggest hit "...
Release date: March 21st, 2019
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Research | Open | Published: 23 August 2010
Clinical and psychological correlates of health-related quality of life in obese patients
Edoardo Mannucci1,
Maria L Petroni2,
Nicola Villanova3,
Carlo M Rotella4,
Giovanni Apolone5,
Giulio Marchesini3 &
the QUOVADIS Study Group
Health and Quality of Life Outcomesvolume 8, Article number: 90 (2010) | Download Citation
Health-related quality of life (HRQL) is poor in obese subjects and is a relevant outcome in intervention studies. We aimed to determine factors associated with poor HRQL in obese patients seeking weight loss in medical units, outside specific research projects.
HRQL, together with a number of demographic and clinical parameters, was studied with generic (SF-36, PGWB) and disease-specific (ORWELL-97) questionnaires in an unselected sample of 1,886 (1,494 women; 392 men) obese (BMI > 30 kg/m2) patients aged 20-65 years attending 25 medical units scattered throughout Italy. The clinics provide weight loss treatment using different programs. General psychopathology (SCL-90 questionnaire), the presence of binge eating (Binge Eating scale), previous weight cycling and somatic comorbidity (Charlson's index) were also determined. Scores on SF-36 and PGWB were compared with Italian population norms, and their association with putative determinants of HRQL after adjustment for confounders was assessed through logistic regression analysis.
HRQL scores were significantly lower in women than in men. A greater impairment of quality of life was observed in relation to increasing BMI class, concurrent psychopathology, associated somatic diseases, binge eating, and weight cycling. In multivariate analysis, psychopathology (presence of previously-diagnosed mental disorders and/or elevated scores on SCL-90) was associated with lower HRQL scores on both psychosocial and somatic domains; somatic diseases and higher BMI, after adjustment for confounders, were associated with impairment of physical domains, while binge eating and weight cycling appeared to affect psychosocial domains only.
Psychopathological disturbances are the most relevant factors associated with poor HRQL in obese patients, affecting not only psychosocial, but also physical domains, largely independent of the severity of obesity. Psychological/psychiatric interventions are essential for a comprehensive treatment of obesity, and to improve treatment outcome and to reduce the burden of disease.
Obesity is associated with impairment of health-related quality of life (HRQL) in psychological, social, and physical domains [1, 2]. Improvement of HRQL is recognised as a relevant measure of treatment outcome in obese patients, both in medically- [3, 4] and surgically-treated cases [1, 2]. The specific HRQL concepts that relate to obesity are not clearly defined, although several aspects of patients' lives are relevant to obesity [3, 4]. Factors reported to be associated with greater impairment of quality of life among treatment seeking obese patients include female sex [5, 6], higher body mass index [7, 8], binge eating disorder [9, 10] and psychopathology [9]. They are often associated in the same individuals. For this reason, the assessment of the relative contribution of each condition to HRQL can only be attempted with a large sample size. In particular, the relative role of somatic diseases, psychological distress and previous unsuccessful dieting has never been clearly defined. A few studies found that psychological distress is also affecting physical domains to a greater extent than somatic disorders [9]. A correct identification of factors associated with poor HRQL is essential to develop strategies to improve outcome in these patients, and the association of poor HRQL with depressive symptoms is the rationale for intensive psychological support [11].
The QUOVADIS Study [12] is a multicenter, collaborative survey designed to assess determinants of quality of life in treatment-seeking obese patients. The survey collected a lot of patient-reported data, including those more frequently associated with poor HRQL [3], in a large sample of obese subjects seeking weight-reducing programs in 25 medical Italian hospital-based clinics for the treatment of obesity. Thus, the QUOVADIS database provides a unique opportunity to investigate the factors associated with poor HRQL, to be used as a guide for treatment outcome [13].
We aimed to identify the factors associated with poor HRQL in obese subjects, with special reference to the possible role of psychological distress and psychiatric comorbidity which might make psychological support essential to improve treatment outcome.
Sample and methods
Participating subjects with obesity
The philosophy of the QUOVADIS study and the general characteristics of the population have been partly published in a previous report [12]. Briefly, the study enrolled a representative sample of patients attending 25 hospital-based clinics for weight loss throughout the country. The centers were both outpatient and inpatient specialized obesity clinics, providing multidisciplinary programs for weight loss. The subjects were consecutively enrolled to exclude selection bias. At enrolment, they were interviewed as to weight history, previous somatic and mental diseases, hospital admission during the previous year, self-evaluation of physical activity and eating pattern, and completed a set of self-administered questionnaires. In addition, they were submitted to routine blood tests, but these data were not used in the present report, specifically based on self-awareness of previous disorders. We report an analysis based on 1886 subjects whose complete data on the Case Report Form and on questionnaires were available.
The weight history was checked according to a pre-defined structured interview [14]. Patients' answers were used to compute the total number of dieting programs, and the total weight loss induced by dieting programs. The number of dieting attempts was normalized for the time since first dieting; all other parameters of diet history were normalized for time since age 20.
To facilitate handling of data, the Case Report Forms were implemented in an extranet database provided by CINECA (Casalecchio di Reno, Italy), an Interuniversity Consortium of 15 Italian Universities, using the AMR (Advanced Multicenter Research) methodology, which allows the management of the whole research using standard web-browsers.
All subjects signed an informed consent to take part in the study, which was approved by the ethical committees of the individual centers, after approval by the committee of the coordinating center (University of Bologna)
Quality of life was measured using 3 different tools. The Obesity-Related Well-Being questionnaire (ORWELL-97), an obesity-specific tool, was used with the specific aim to collect data useful in a longitudinal evaluation of HRQL following treatment [15]. It measures the intensity and the subjective relevance of physical and psychological distress generated by overweight.
A score in the ORWELL-97 questionnaire ≥ 70, corresponding to the 75° percentile of the population, was considered indicative of a clinically significant burden of obesity on HRQL.
The Medical Outcome Survey Short-Form 36 (SF-36) was used as a generic measure of HRQL, with the specific aim to measure the extent of the defect in HRQL in both physical and mental domains [16]. The questionnaire is specifically constructed to measure the full range of health status and well-being by means of 36 multiple-choice questions. It measures 8 different domains, 4 in the area of physical health (Physical Functioning, Role Limitation-Physical, Bodily Pain, General Health) and 4 in the area of mental health (Role Limitation-Emotional, Vitality, Mental Health, and Social Functioning). It has been extensively validated worldwide and Italian normative values have been defined [17].
The Psychological General Well-Being (PGWB) questionnaire was used to score psychological distress [18]. The responses to 22 questions are arranged in 6 affective states: anxiety, depressed mood, positive well-being self-control, general health and vitality. The Italian version of the questionnaire has been recently validated and normative values are available to compare the results with population standards [19].
For both SF-36 and PGWB, the values of individual domains of each patient were compared to the age- and sex-matched Italian population norms [17, 19] using the Z-score (difference between patient value and control mean, divided by control standard deviation). According to Cohen [20], the average Z-scores (effect sizes) were rated as small (between 0.20 and 0.50), as moderate (between 0.50 and 0.80) or as large (> 0.80). This proposal is supported by clinical studies [21].
The Binge Eating Scale was used to detect binging [22]; values in the range 17-26 were considered suspect of binge eating, whereas values ≥ 27 were taken as predictive of Binge Eating Disorder. This classification was used to score binge eating on a scale from 0 (< 17) to 2 (≥ 27).
The Symptom Check List-90 questionnaire was used to identify subjects with a psychopathological profile [23]. A value ≥ 1 in the Global Severity Index (GSI) is suggestive of psychopathology, scored as mild (1.00 - 1.49), moderate (1.50 - 1.99), or severe (≥ 2.00). These results of SCL-90 were combined with clinical data to score the presence of mental disorder on a scale from 0 to 5. A previous diagnosis of psychopathological problems was valued 2 points, GSI values in the range 1.00-1.49 (mild distress) were given a score of 1, values between 1.50 and 1.99 (moderate distress) were given a score of 2, values ≥ 2.00 (severe distress) were given a score of 3.
The presence of somatic diseases was used to calculate a composite score, according to Charlson et al [24], with modifications. For this purpose, one point was added for the reported presence of any of the following states: diabetes, hypertension, other endocrine disorders, liver or biliary disease, hip or knee pain. The presence of cardiovascular disease (any condition, including angina, previous myocardial infarction or stroke, peripheral or carotid vascular disease) and a previous diagnosis of cancer were given 2 points.
Weight history was defined at interview on the basis of body weight at the age of 20 years, age at first dieting and the number of times patients had lost weight as an effect of dietary programs, and scored according to previously-published cut-offs [14]. One point was assigned for any value exceeding the 75° percentile in 3 items reflecting weight history: a) number of dieting attempts (cut-off, 0.56/year); b) weight gain since age 20 years (cut-off, 1.87 kg/year); c) cumulative weight loss (cut-off, 2.63 kg/year).
A first descriptive analysis was carried out on all tested variables. Scores of HRQL (and their relative Z-scores) were grouped according to sex, age, clinical status, complications of disease and eating behavior disorders, and the means and 95% confidence intervals for each patient group and for each domain were calculated.
Differences between obese classes were tested using unpaired t test or Mann-Whitney or Kruskall-Wallis test, due to non-gaussian distribution of data, as appropriate. Differences in the prevalence of categorical data were tested by R × C χ2 test.
Multivariate logistic regression analyses were run using dichotomized Z-scores on individual domains of SF-36 and PGWB as dependent variables. The cut-off value vas set at -1.0, but a sensitivity analysis, using the cut-offs of -0.5 and -1.5 was also performed, and the results were qualitatively confirmed (not reported in details). In the ORWELL-97 model, the dependent variable was an ORWELL score >70. Independent variables were BMI classes, the scores of somatic and mental diseases, the BES grade, and the score of weight history. All models were adjusted for age, gender and BMI.
The Variance Inflation Factor was calculated to assess correlation between independent variables and to exclude multicolinearity.
Clinical and psychological characteristics of the study sample
Of the 1,886 patients (1,494 women and 392 men) included in the analysis, 723, 529, and 634 had obesity class I, II and III, respectively. Their age ranged from 20 to 65 years (Class I, 45.4 ± SD 11.3 years; Class II, 44.8 ± 10.7; Class III, 43.9 ± 10.9; P = 0.049, Kruskall-Wallis test). Subjects in Class I were characterized by a higher educational status (primary school 16%, degree 10%) compared with Class II (16% and 9%, respectively) and Class III (21% and 5%, respectively; P < 0.0001). No differences were observed in civil status (single/divorced vs. married/cohabitating or widowed). A larger proportion of subjects in Class III were either housewives (26%) or unemployed (4.4%) compared with Class II (19 and 3.5%) or Class I (17 and 2.8%, respectively; P < 0.0001). Patients in higher classes of obesity showed a significantly greater prevalence of several concurrent illnesses, such as diabetes, hypertension, biliary diseases, and osteoarticular problems, but not of hyperlipidemia, coronary heart and peripheral vascular disease, thyroid disorders, or previously diagnosed psychopathological distress (Table 1).
Table 1 Prevalence of physical problems, as reported by patients entering a weight-reducing program. (prevalence and 95% CI)
The large majority of subjects reported previous attempts to lose weight (Table 2). Patients with higher BMI reported earlier age of first dieting, greater BMI at age 20 years, higher maximum weight loss obtained in the past, and higher cumulative weight loss per year. Scores on the Binge Eating Scale (BES) were in a range suggestive of binge eating in over one fourth of subjects, while over 10% of patients had BES scores indicative of binge eating disorder. Mean BES scores were significantly higher in patients with class III obesity when compared with the rest of the sample. Similarly, psychopathological distress (Symptom CheckList-90) was more frequent and more severe with progressive obesity class.
Table 2 Weight history, scores on the Binge Eating Scale and Symptom CheckList-90 by obesity classes.
Health-related quality of life
HRQL was progressively impaired with increasing BMI. This was shown by all three HRQL measures, i.e., both by the specific ORWELL-97 questionnaire and by the generic SF-36 and PGWB instruments (Table 3). Although all domains were affected, the greatest decrease was observed in domains reflecting physical status, with a less significant impairment in mental health.
Table 3 Scores of health-related quality of life in the QUOVADIS population.
The Z-scores on SF-36 domains, reflecting the impairment of HRQL in comparison with sex- and age-specific population norms, showed that HRQL was particularly poor in the domain of Physical Functioning (-1.33), all other domains being in the moderate range (Role-Physical, -0.67; General Health, -0.61; Vitality, -0.61; Social Functioning, -0.57; Bodily Pain, -0.54) or in the small range (Role-Emotional, -0.47; Mental Health, -0.30). The Z-scores on all domains of PGWB, except Vitality (-0.51), were indicative of a small defect (Anxiety, -0.27; Depression, -0.30; Well-Being, -0.35; Self-Control, -0.41; General Health, -0.44).
SF-36 and PGWB Z-scores in women and men are summarized in Figure 1. There was a systematic trend towards lower Z-scores in females (by 0.1 - 0.2 points), with the notable exception of Physical Functioning, which was significantly lower in males (-1.49 vs. -1.29 in females; P = 0.025). The difference between males and females was particularly significant in PGWB domains (P < 0.001 for Depression, Self-control, Well-being and General health; < 0.05 for Anxiety; Mann-Whitney U test). Depression was not different from population norm in males.
Z-scores on Short Form-36 (upper panel) and Psychological General Well-being questionnaires in relation to gender (Females, open circles; Males, closed circles). Data are presented as means and 95% confidence intervals. All domains crossing the zero line are not significantly different from population norm. Legend for SF-36: PF, Physical Functioning; RP, Role limitation - Physical; BP, Bodily Pain; GH, General Health; VT, Vitality; MH, Mental Health; RE, Role limitation - Emotional; SF, Social Functioning. Legend for PGWB: AX, Anxiety; DP, Depression; WB, Well-Being; SC, Self-Control; GH, General Health; VT, Vitality.
Z-scores on SF-36 and PGWB in relation to obesity class are summarized in Figure 2. A systematic trend towards more severe impairment with increasing BMI (P < 0.001 was observed for all domains, except Anxiety at PGWB, P = 0.0024).
Z-scores on Short Form-36 (upper panel) and Psychological General Well-being questionnaires in relation to obesity class (Class I (BMI, 30-34.9 kg/m2 ), open circles; Class II (BMI, 35-39.9), closed circles; Class III (BMI, ≥40), open squares). Data are presented as means and 95% confidence intervals. Legend: for abbreviations, see Figure 1
Factors associated with poor HRQL
Logistic regression analysis was applied to identify factors associated with poor HRQL (Table 4). For both genders, the most significant factor was the presence of mental disease, as assessed by the composite score including both a reported previous history of psychological distress and a score at SCL-90 above the predefined cut-offs. This score was predictive of poor HROQL both in domains more closely associated with mental state and in those reflecting physical functioning. Data were confirmed by correlation analysis; the r coefficient of correlation between SCL-90 and individual Z-scores varied between -0.672 for Depressed mood in PGWB and -0.300 for Physical functioning in SF-36. Conversely, somatic disease, as expressed by the composite index, was associated with lower scores on the physical domains of SF-36, but had little impact on psychological domains, with the notable exception of social functioning. Among PGWB scales, only General Health appeared to be affected by somatic comorbidities in a relevant manner. No significant association of somatic index with ORWELL scores was observed, after adjustment for potential confounders.
Table 4 Association of clinical parameters with poor health-related quality of life.
BMI class was systematically associated with poor HRQL in the ORWELL-97 score and in the physical domains of SF-36, namely in Physical functioning, but it had almost no effect on PGWB domains with the exception of General health. This association was confirmed at multivariate analysis, after adjustment for concurrent somatic and psychiatric diseases. In correlation analysis, the highest value was observed between BMI and the Z-score of Physical functioning (r = -0.405).
A BES score above the selected cut-offs was associated with poor HRQL in nearly all domains of HRQL measures, whereas a history of weight cycling was associated with poor HRQL only in a few domains of SF-36, namely in Role-Physical, General Health and Social Functioning.
In all models the Variance Inflation Factor was < 5, indicating the absence of multicolinearity.
In our study sample, obesity was associated with a relevant impairment of HRQL, in comparison with population norms, standardized for age and sex. This result is in keeping with previous reports of overweight-induced deterioration of HRQL across a wide age range [7, 25–27]. The study sample was entirely composed of obese patients seeking medical treatment for weight loss and cannot be considered representative of the general population of obese subjects. In this respect, poor HRQL could be a motivation for referral and poorer scores are usually observed in clinic-based samples when compared with population-based surveys [27]. On the other hand, the study of these patients could provide a more accurate picture of obese individuals referring to specialized metabolic clinics, and provide relevant clues for treatment programs.
The study has several strengths. It was based on a very large sample of obese men and women in different centers, thus being representative of the "real world" of treatment-seeking obesity, outside specific research centers where a selection bias may be expected. As expected, obese women experienced a greater impairment of HRQL than their male counterparts. This confirms previous reports in clinic-based samples [6, 15, 25], among patients with chronic illness [5], and in population studies [28]. Gender differences in HRQL could be related to the higher prevalence of psychopathology among women [15, 25, 29], or to a greater cultural drive for thinness experienced by the female sex in Western societies [30].
Not surprisingly, subjects with higher BMI reported a greater impairment of HRQL, as previously reported [7, 8]. This phenomenon can be partly due to the higher prevalence of concurrent somatic diseases and psychopathological disturbances in morbidly obese patients, when compared to individuals with lesser degrees of obesity. However, a greater impairment of HRQL in those with higher BMI persisted at multivariate analysis even after adjustment for somatic diseases, mental disorders, binge eating and weight cycling. A higher BMI appeared to affect mainly physical, rather than psychosocial, components of HRQL, suggesting that the functional impairment and physical discomfort determined by extreme overweight can have a major role in poor HRQL.
Somatic comorbidities, assessed through a score derived from Charlson's index [24], were associated with poorer scores on physical domains of HRQL instruments, but had little effect, after adjustment for confounders, on psychosocial domains. Concurrent somatic diseases also had a small impact on scores of the ORWELL-97 questionnaire, confirming its validity for obesity-related quality of life [15]. Conversely, psychopathological disturbances were associated with impairment of both physical and psychosocial domains of quality of life, even after adjustment for confounders. The presence of depressed mood and/or high levels of anxiety, which are the most common psychological disturbances observed in clinical samples of obese patients [31], can increase subjective distress induced by disease-related physical symptoms and functional impairment [15]. In the present sample, psychopathology was the most important predictor of quality of life among obese patients, in both psychosocial and physical domains. This result is partly in contrast with a previous survey in a small sample of obese patients undergoing bariatric surgery, where mental disorders appeared to affect psychosocial, but not physical domains of SF-36 [32]. Conflicting results can be attributed to differences in sample size (the previous sample being 18 times smaller than the one described in this study) or type of referral (surgery in the previous report vs. medical weight loss programs in the majority of centers of the present survey). In addition, the present study included obese subjects belonging to the whole spectrum of obesity classes, including a large group of subjects with obesity class III. These individuals are scarcely represented in medical settings, and may have a different psychopathological profile [33]. Finally, the definition of psychological disturbances in our study included not only a formal diagnosis of mental disorders, but also high scores on a questionnaire for general psychopathology, which could provide a more accurate description of the psychological status of patients at the time of HRQL assessment.
Binge eating disorder was previously reported to be associated with poor scores on disease-specific HRQL questionnaires [10, 15]. This is consistent with the finding of a poorer perceived health status in patients with higher scores on the Binge Eating Scale. The association of binge eating with impaired HRQL can be partly mediated by higher BMI [34], a greater prevalence of mental disorders [31, 34] and more frequent weight cycling in these cases. After adjustment for these potential confounders, binge eating was only marginally associated with some, but not all psychological domains of HRQL, without any impact on physical scales.
Finally, weight cycling is known to be associated with binge eating [34] and psychopathology [14], and with higher long-term morbidity and mortality [35–37], but its relationship with HRQL has never been demonstrated. In the present study, weight cycling was only associated with a few domains of quality of life, after adjustment for BMI class, somatic diseases, binge eating and psychopathology. It can be speculated that previous unsuccessful attempts at losing weight can negatively affect patients' confidence in the possibility to treat obesity effectively, thus making the psychological burden heavier and heavier. Accordingly, physicians should carefully test patients' motivation at entry into weight loss programs, considering that any treatment failure may be accompanied by a further deterioration of their HRQL. A definition of weight loss expectation and realistic treatment outcomes is pivotal to reduce the burden of disease associated with treatment failure [38].
The broad spectrum of questionnaires used in the study may also help identify which instruments should be preferred to detect impairment in HRQL in different settings. It is noteworthy that scores on both generic (SF-36, PGWB) and disease-specific (ORWELL-97) questionnaires appeared to be affected by the very same factors and in a similar manner. As expected, PGWB appeared to be more sensitive to psychological disturbances, while SF-36 and ORWELL-97 could detect to a greater extent the impact of physical conditions on HRQL. The choice of questionnaires in different settings should take into consideration the domains of greater interest (physical vs. psychological) in individual studies. The choice of instruments for the assessment of the effects of treatment on HRQL should also consider reliability, which is assumed to be greater for generic questionnaires, and sensitivity to change, which is thought to be superior for disease-specific questionnaires; these characteristics were not assessed in the present study.
Our study has relevant clues to obesity treatment. HRQL is now considered a priority in the treatment of chronic diseases, and may be selected as clinical-relevant outcome in treatment programs [39]. The finding that psychopathological distress is the main determinant of poor HRQL makes psychiatric and psychological support essential in obesity centers. Only a multidisciplinary approach in weight management programs, addressing both mental and somatic disorders, is likely to reduce the burden of obesity in individual patients.
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The QUOVADIS study was supported by an unrestricted grant from BRACCO Imaging, S.p.A, Milan.
Geriatric Unit, Department of Critical Care, University of Florence, Italy
Edoardo Mannucci
Department of Metabolic Rehabilitation, San Giuseppe Hospital, Piancavallo, Italy
Maria L Petroni
Unit of Metabolic Diseases & Clinical Dietetics, Department of Clinical Medicine, "Alma Mater Studiorum" University, Bologna, Italy
Nicola Villanova
& Giulio Marchesini
Endocrine Unit, Department of Clinical Pathophysiology, University of Florence, Italy
Carlo M Rotella
Clinical Research Laboratory, "Mario Negri" Institute for Pharmacologic Research, Milan, Italy
Giovanni Apolone
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Correspondence to Giulio Marchesini.
EM drafted the manuscript and participated in study design; MLP drafted the manuscript and participated in study coordination; NV contributed to study discussion and performed the statistical analysis; CR conceived the study and participated in study design and coordination; GA conceived and designed the study; GM participated in study design and coordination, contributed to the statistical analysis, and wrote the manuscript; all the participants of the QUOVADIS Study Group collected the data. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Edoardo Mannucci, Maria L Petroni contributed equally to this work.
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Garmin Mourne Skyline MTR 2017 Race Preview
Posted on October 18, 2017 by talkultra
The Skyrunning UK season concludes in Ireland this coming weekend with the Garmin Mourne Skyline MTR. What a year it has been! From the very first edition, the GMSMTR has sold out and demand continues to exceed places available. It’s a testament to the team behind the race.
The 2016 edition was won by Germain Grangier in a time of 3:49:39 and the ladies’ race was dominated by Jasmin Paris running 4:30:02. However, the ladies course record still stands with USA based runner and Salomon athlete, Stevie Kremer.
Ian Bailey, former course record holder at the Garmin Mourne Skyline MTR returns in 2017 and will not only be looking for victory but dipping under the 3:49:39 set by Grangier last year.
Skyrunning UK Series champions will be confirmed in Ireland. The battle is on for a male champion, Tim Campion-Smith is the odds-on favourite with a convincing 25-point lead. Jason Millward, Tomasso Migliuolo and Jonathan Palmer are in with a shout. Tim Campion-Smith will not run in Ireland, however, Jason Millward will! With a 20% bonus at stake for the final event, if Millward wins or places 2nd, he would leapfrog Campion-Smith for the 2017 overall title by dropping his lowest ranking points (9th at Ben Nevis Ultra) and replacing them with points from the Mourne Skyline MTR – 1st would provide 30 points, 2nd 26.4 points and *3rd would provide 22.8 points.
It is likely that Jonathan Palmer will move from equal 3rd to 3rd overall after the Mourne Skyline MTR. Of course, if Millward has a poor run and Palmer has a great run, this could change!
*3rd place would not be enough for overall victory, it would provide a total of 45.8 points to Campion-Smith’s 48-point tally.
The ladies race is wide open! Kirsty-Jane Birch currently leads the ranking with 11 points but it looks like she will not race in Ireland and therefore she will not have three qualifying races. This leaves the door open for 2nd placed Rebecca Morgan who has 5 points and will race at the Mourne – in many respects, she just needs to finish the race but a top-10 would guarantee overall victory.
As in previous editions, there is a wealth of talent toeing the line. Look out for:
Seamus Lynch, Jonathan Palmer, David Hicks, Barry Hartnett, Ryan Stewart and Shane Donnelly.
Linda O’Connor, Megan Wilson, Martsje Hell, Elizabeth Wheeler, Karina Jonina, Jacqueline Toal, Shileen O’Kane, Hazel McLaughlin and importantly Janne Geurts who placed 2nd at the V3K but this is only her 2nd Skyrunning UK race and therefore cannot qualify for the Series despite having the most points.
Owned by the National Trust, the Mourne Mountains are an area of outstanding beauty, it includes Slieve Donard (850m), the highest mountain in Northern Ireland and Ulster and as such it provides a perfect location for a mountain race.
Among the more famous features, the Mourne Wall is a key element of this region and a key aspect of the race. Comprised of forest path, fire roads, single track, granite trail and tough uneven broken fell, the race is a tough challenge. In just 35km the course has a brutal 3370m of ascent and no less than 9 peaks, the highest being Slieve Donard at 850m.
The coastal town of Newcastle hosts the start of the race and a short section of road leads into Donard Park via the promenade entrance and the ‘Granite Trail’ awaits for a long and relentless climb. Dundrum Bay is visible to the west, before a fast-downhill section to a climb of the stony and challenging Glen River Path to the Col between Slieve Donard and Slieve Commedagh.
At Hare’s Gap, the first major peak awaits, Slieve Bearnagh, first passing the North Tor before reaching the summit quickly followed with the technical ascent of Slieve Meelmore. The Mourne Wall becomes a key feature of the race and for the first time the runners follow its line for just 0.4km before veering right and descending towards The Mourne Way path.
Fofany Dam precludes the only road section of the course which leads to the Mourne Wall and the style between Ott and Slieve Loughshannagh. The climbs and summits come thick and fast now; Slieve Loughshannagh, Slieve Meelbeg and the course continues to follow the Mourne Wall leading to a repeated climb of the technical and challenging Slieve Meelmore, this time in the opposite direction. The toughest climb of the day follows, Slieve Bearnagh.
Passing around the North Tor it is downhill towards Hare’s Gap and a steep climb next to the Mourne Wall towards Slievenaglogh and Slieve Commedagh, Northern Ireland’s second highest mountain. It is ironic that Slieve Commedagh should lead into Slieve Donard and the highest point of the race. On a clear day, the views are magnificent out over the sea, inland towns and villages are visible and of course, the Mourne Mountains. From the summit, it’s all downhill to the finish via the rocky Glen River Path and a fire road that leads into Donard Park and the finish.
You can follow the race in words and images at iancorless.com and a race summary and image selection will be posted on skyrunninguk.com
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Jermaine Jackson at André Rieu & Friends (2013)
Jermaine performed “Smile” and “When The Rain Begins To Fall” during three nights on 12, 13 and 14 July of 2013 with André Rieu and the full Johan Strauss Orchestra at the Vrijthof Square in Maastricht, The Netherlands during André Rieu & Friends.
12 July André Rieu & Friends Vrijthof Maastricht, The Netherlands
In between the You Are Not Alone Musical Tour in France and the European leg of the Unity Tour with his brothers, Jermaine spent ten days in Maastricht in The Netherlands in February of 2013 to collaborate with violinist and composer André Rieu and the Johan Strauss Orchestra. During his stay in Maastricht, Jermaine agreed to perform with André during his annual Summer concerts at Vrijthof Square.
André Rieu performed during the Michael Jackson & Friends concert in Munich, Germany on June 27th, 1999.
On July 12, Jermaine takes the stage during André Rieu & Friends concert in Maastricht that is jam packed with about 10,000 people on the square who enjoy the performances by several guests artists including Dutch comic André van Duin and Trini Lopez. Jermaine performs “Smile” and receives standing ovations from the audience after he finishes the song.
During the show’s finale, Jermaine returns to the stage to sing along to “Para Siempre” with all the other performers. The show doesn’t end after this finale because André and the orchestra continue to play for the audience. Jermaine gets back on stage and performs “When The Rain Begins To Fall”.
During the real finale of the show, all the performers return to the stage once more to sing “Ave” together. During this part, Jermaine has a lot of fun and laughs continuously having comic André van Duin standing next to him while all the performers wave to the audience for minutes.
A Dutch TV network airs the Rieu & Friends concert in Maastricht during Christmas 2013. The broadcast receives the highest rating during the holidays with 1.740.000 viewers.
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Differentiation of Escherichia coli Pathotypes by Oligonucleotide Spotted Array
Raghavan U. M. Palaniappan, Yu Zhang, David Chiu, Alfonso Torres, Chobi DebRoy, Thomas S. Whittam, Yung-Fu Chang
Raghavan U. M. Palaniappan
Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853
Yu Zhang
David Chiu
Alfonso Torres
Chobi DebRoy
Gastroenteric Disease Center, Department of Veterinary Science, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802
Thomas S. Whittam
Microbial Evolution Laboratory, National Food Safety and Toxicology Center, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824
Yung-Fu Chang
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DOI: 10.1128/JCM.44.4.1495-1501.2006
To accurately determine the pathotypes of Escherichia coli strains, a comprehensive assessment of each strain that targets multiple genes is required. A new approach to the identification and characterization of E. coli pathotypes was developed by constructing gene-specific probes (70-mers) for not only the virulence genes associated with each E. coli pathotype but also the O157-, CFT073-, and K-12-specific and common genes of each pathotype. Analysis of oligonucleotide probes with reference and clinical isolates of E. coli pathotypes indicated that the array could differentiate the pathotypes on the basis of their virulence and specific gene patterns. Probes targeting common genes of E. coli were present in all the reference and clinical strains. Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica-specific genes and Salmonella core genes were used as negative controls. The entire E. coli pathotype showed reactivity to only 4 of the 81 Salmonella-specific gene probes. Characterization of the genetic and virulence profiles of a single strain by using probes for virulence factors and specific and common genes in the spotted array is an ideal diagnostic tool for determination of E. coli pathotypes and could also have a significant impact on the epidemiological analysis of E. coli infections.
Received 27 July 2005.
Returned for modification 28 September 2005.
Accepted 11 January 2006.
↵† Supplemental material for this article may be found at http://jcm.asm.org/.
Journal of Clinical Microbiology Apr 2006, 44 (4) 1495-1501; DOI: 10.1128/JCM.44.4.1495-1501.2006
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In 2013 only two groups were engaged in periglacial geomorphology and permafrost researches, the University of Timisoara and Bucharest. The group of periglacial researchers from West University of Timişoara (P. Urdea, A. Onaca, F. Ardelean, A. Ardelean, R. Şerban, R. Puţan, F. Sîrbu) continued to study permafrost distribution and other significant periglacial landforms (solifluxions, block streams, talus slope deposits) in Southern Carpathians. The main goal of the approach was to capture the current amplitude of periglacial processes from Southern Carpathians, taking into account the complex relationship between the detailed morphology of analyzed landforms, their internal structure and their thermal regime and actual movement. To achieve this goal, several test sites were chosen for detailed analysis of selected periglacial phenomena and structures.
In case of permafrost distribution, several rock glaciers from Retezat (Fig. 1) and Parâng Mountains have been investigated through different techniques and methods (ERT, GPR, GST, BTS, GIS modelling), following few main objectives: identification of permafrost occurence; investigating the internal structure of rock glaciers and determining permafrost characteristics by means of geophysical investigations; establishing an effective methodology for permafrost mapping in the Southern Carpathians; long term monitoring of permafrost occupied areas for future evaluation of permafrost degradation induced by global warming; evaluating the influence of local conditions for permafrost preservation and generating a permafrost distribution model. All these results confirm the hypothesis that isolated patches of permafrost could exist in the Southern Carpathians at sites particularly favorable to permafrost conservation. The preservation of permafrost in these rock glaciers it is possible because of the openwork structure (Fig. 2) of the active layers, allowing a significant cooling beneath the bouldery mantle and the storage of cold air in winter below thick snow cover. In addition, an inventory of the rock glaciers and protalus ramparts from Southern Carpathians was realized by the team coordinated by P. Urdea.
Figure 1. GPR investigations in Pietrele rock glaciers, Retezat Mountains (Photo B. Magori).
Some of the results formed the basis for two papers, important for Romanian geomorphological community, by the novelty of the approach (Onaca, A., Urdea, P., Ardelean, A., 2013, Internal Structure and Permafrost Characteristics of the Rock Glaciers of Southern Carpathians (Romania) Assessed by Geoelectrical Soundings and Thermal Monitoring, Geografiska Annaler, Series A: Physical Geography, 95 (3), 249-266, doi:10.1111-geoa.12014; Onaca, A., Urdea, P., Ardelean, A., Şerban, R., 2013, Assessement of internal structure of periglacial landforms from Southern Carpathians (Romania) using DC resistivity tomography, Carpathian Journal of Earth and Environmental Sciences, 8 (2), 113-122).
Figure 2. Openwork structure in Judele rock glaciers, Retezat Mountains (Photo F. Ardelean).
In case of the measurements performed on the talus slope deposits from Făgăraş Mountains the preliminary findings reveals evidence for a complex architecture with several clear strata. More homogeneous layers composed by fine grained deposits intercalated between coarse-grained layers were identified along the GPR profiles. Buried features like the bedrock, morainic materials, different geological structures, drainage systems in the bedrock, rockfall deposits and debris-flows materials could be recognized. The GPR data allowed us to formulate an evolution scenario of the investigated talus slopes from Făgăraş Mountains for the Holocene.
With excellent qualificative, under the coordination of the undersigned, in September was sustained two PhD thesis by A. Onaca, ,,Periglacial processes and landforms from Southern Carpathians. Geomorphological and geophysical approach’’ (237 p.) and F. Ardelean, ,,Semi-automated classification of some landforms for geomorphological mapping. Case study: Ţarcu Mountains’’ (172 p.).
Also, P. Urdea made field investigations on the periglacial forms in some middle mountain area of the Roamanian Carpathians, like Găina Mountain (Apuseni Mountains) (Fig. 4), and Ciucaş (Fig. 4), Suhard and Giumalău Mountains (Eastern Carpathians) (Fig. 5).
The permafrost research team from Bucharest (Răzvan Popescu, Mirela Vasile, Alfred Vespremeanu-Stroe, Nicolae Cruceru and Loredana Bîzgan) continued the main investigations on alpine and low altitude permafrost from Romania by combining traditional methods and new approaches. Seasonal BTS measurements were performed and the functionality of the established GST investigation points was assured. Also, topographical survey for rock glacier dynamics assessment was repeated and dendrogeomorphological investigations were initiated on Retezat Mountains. DC resistivity soundings were also initiated by our team. Besides, extensive measurements on rock deposit porosity variations were performed across different massifs of Southern Carpathians in the attempt to explain the lower permafrost altitudes in the granitic mountains (Retezat and Parâng) in comparison with the crystalline ones (Făgăraş). Several tens of vertical photographs were taken from a 3 meters height using a tripod and additional in situ measurements of clast volume were performed. Monica Voinea processed the images in GIS to obtain the characteristic mean clast volume for each site. The debris porosity was estimated by considering a direct relationship between clast volume and porosity.
Figure 3. ,,Goliath’’ a conglomeratic tor in Ciucaş Mountains (Photo P. Urdea).
Fig. 4. Frost sorting and relict altiplanation terrace in Găina Mountain, Apuseni Mountains (Photo P. Urdea).
Fig. 5. Pleistocene slope failures in Fărăoane area (Suhard Mts.) and in Giumalău Mountains (Photo P. Urdea).
Using temperature and snow depth meteorological data from alpine stations, multiple indices were computed in order to reconstruct the climate favorability for permafrost in Southern Carpathians for the last 70 years.
The researches on seasonal frost and freeze-thaw processes in the alpine environment in the Southern Carpathians also continued this year. The thermal monitoring of rockwalls has been still running, at about 20 locations, with intensive measurements in Bucegi, Făgăraş and Retezat Mountains. We concentrated more on in-depth measurement (50 cm) and on the role of the exposition and slope of the rock faces, following these parameters in more sites.
With the wide purpose of determining the temporal and spatial patterns of frost-induced phenomena such as rockfalls in the specific climate, topographic and geo-tectonic conditions of the Southern Carpathians, we have initiated in several test areas observations and measurements on the joints and cracks density and patterns on the steep rockwalls. This initiative is complementary to the temperature and crack dynamics continuous monitoring in the same rockwalls. By the GIS analysis of images and high resolution photographs taken on the field we are now trying to identify specific characteristics (explicitly the dimensions of the rocks to be detached) of these potential areas for rockfalls, mainly function of exposure and lithology. In the same time, the thickness of the fissures at the surface of the wall was measured, highlighting different joints typologies with specific role in frost propagation and rockfall generation. We are thus trying to correlate these elements (joints characteristics, frost-depth and propagation) in order to get a clear view in respect to seasonal frost as a preparing and triggering factor of such phenomena.
Members of the two universities teams participated with papers in special sessions held at the 8th IAG/AIG International Conference on Geomorphology (Paris, August 27-31) and at the Carpatho-Balkan-Dinaric Conference on Geomorphology (Stara Lesna, Slovakia, June 24-28).
In January 2013 was approved the status and structure of the National Committee for Antarctic Research (CNCA) of the Romanian Academy, in the Geonomic Section Prof. P. Urdea being appointed deputy scientific coordinator.
Report prepared by Petru Urdea (petru.urdea@cbg.uvt.ro).
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1938–39 FA Cup
← 1937–38 1945–46 →
The 1938–39 FA Cup was the 64th season of the world's oldest football cup competition, the Football Association Challenge Cup, commonly known as the FA Cup. Portsmouth won the competition for the first time, beating Wolverhampton Wanderers 4–1 in the final at Wembley. As this was the last full FA Cup competition before the Second World War, Portsmouth held the trophy until the end of the 1945-46 season.
Matches were scheduled to be played at the stadium of the team named first on the date specified for each round, which was always a Saturday. Some matches, however, might be rescheduled for other days if there were clashes with games for other competitions or the weather was inclement. If scores were level after 90 minutes had been played, a replay would take place at the stadium of the second-named team later the same week. If the replayed match was drawn further replays would be held until a winner was determined. If scores were level after 90 minutes had been played in a replay, a 30-minute period of extra time would be played.
Extra Preliminary Round Saturday 3 September 1938
Preliminary Round Saturday 17 September 1938
First Round Qualifying Saturday 1 October 1938
Second Round Qualifying Saturday 15 October 1938
Third Round Qualifying Saturday 29 October 1938
Fourth Round Qualifying Saturday 12 November 1938
First Round Proper Saturday 26 November 1938
Second Round Proper Saturday 10 December 1938
Third Round Proper Saturday 7 January 1939
Fourth Round Proper Saturday 21 January 1939
Fifth Round Proper Saturday 11 February 1939
Sixth Round Proper Saturday 4 March 1939
Semi-Finals Saturday 25 March 1939
Final Saturday 29 April 1939
First round proper
At this stage, 43 clubs from the Football League Third Division North and South joined the 25 non-league clubs having come through the qualifying rounds. Barnsley, York City and Notts County were given a bye to the Third Round. To make the number of matches up, non-league Scarborough and Bromley were given byes to this round. 34 matches were scheduled to be played on Saturday, 26 November 1938. Eight were drawn and went to replays in the following midweek fixture.
Tie no
1 Chester 3–1 Bradford City 26 November 1938
2 Darlington 4–0 Stalybridge Celtic 26 November 1938
3 Bournemouth 2–1 Bristol City 26 November 1938
4 Watford 4–1 Northampton Town 26 November 1938
5 Reading 3–3 Newport County 26 November 1938
Replay Newport County 3–1 Reading 5 December 1938
6 Walsall 4–1 Carlisle United 26 November 1938
7 Folkestone 2–1 Colchester United 26 November 1938
8 Lincoln City 4–1 Barrow 26 November 1938
9 Gainsborough Trinity 2–1 Gateshead 26 November 1938
10 Swindon Town 6–0 Lowestoft Town 26 November 1938
11 Scarborough 0–0 Southport 26 November 1938
Replay Southport 5–3 Scarborough 29 November 1938
12 Doncaster Rovers 4–2 New Brighton 26 November 1938
13 Wrexham 1–2 Port Vale 26 November 1938
14 Ipswich Town 7–0 Street 26 November 1938
15 Bristol Rovers 4–1 Peterborough United 26 November 1938
16 Bromley 2–1 Apsley 26 November 1938
17 Hull City 4–1 Rotherham United 26 November 1938
18 Clapton Orient 3–1 Hayes 26 November 1938
19 Oldham Athletic 2–2 Crewe Alexandra 26 November 1938
Replay Crewe Alexandra 1–0 Oldham Athletic 30 November 1938
20 Crystal Palace 1–1 Queens Park Rangers 26 November 1938
Replay Queens Park Rangers 3–0 Crystal Palace 28 November 1938
21 Southend United 3–0 Corinthian 26 November 1938
22 Hartlepools United 2–1 Accrington Stanley 26 November 1938
23 Scunthorpe United 4–2 Lancaster City 26 November 1938
24 Halifax Town 7–3 Rochdale 26 November 1938
25 Cheltenham Town 1–1 Cardiff City 26 November 1938
Replay Cardiff City 1–0 Cheltenham Town 30 November 1938
26 Yeovil & Petter's United 2–1 Brighton & Hove Albion 26 November 1938
27 Runcorn 3–0 Wellington Town 26 November 1938
28 Torquay United 3–1 Exeter City 26 November 1938
29 Workington 1–1 Mansfield Town 26 November 1938
Replay Mansfield Town 2–1 Workington 30 November 1938
30 Walthamstow Avenue 4–1 Tunbridge Wells Rangers 26 November 1938
31 Aldershot 1–1 Guildford City 26 November 1938
Replay Guildford City 3–4 Aldershot 30 November 1938
32 Horden CW 1–1 Chorley 26 November 1938
Replay Chorley 1–2 Horden CW 30 November 1938
33 North Shields 1–4 Stockport County 26 November 1938
34 Chelmsford City 4–0 Kidderminster Harriers 26 November 1938
Second Round Proper
The matches were played on Saturday, 10 December 1938. Four matches were drawn, with replays taking place in the following midweek fixture. One of these, Halifax Town vs. Mansfield Town, then went to two more replays before being settled.
1 Chester 2–2 Hull City 10 December 1938
Replay Hull City 0–1 Chester 15 December 1938
2 Walsall 4–2 Clapton Orient 10 December 1938
3 Folkestone 1–1 Yeovil & Petter's United 10 December 1938
Replay Yeovil & Petter's United 1–0 Folkestone 15 December 1938
4 Lincoln City 8–1 Bromley 10 December 1938
5 Gainsborough Trinity 0–1 Doncaster Rovers 10 December 1938
6 Ipswich Town 4–1 Torquay United 10 December 1938
7 Stockport County 0–0 Walthamstow Avenue 10 December 1938
Replay Walthamstow Avenue 1–3 Stockport County 15 December 1938
8 Bristol Rovers 0–3 Bournemouth 10 December 1938
9 Hartlepools United 0–2 Queens Park Rangers 10 December 1938
10 Scunthorpe United 1–2 Watford 10 December 1938
11 Cardiff City 1–0 Crewe Alexandra 10 December 1938
12 Port Vale 0–1 Southend United 10 December 1938
13 Halifax Town 1–1 Mansfield Town 10 December 1938
Replay Mansfield Town 3–3 Halifax Town 14 December 1938
14 Southport 2–0 Swindon Town 10 December 1938
15 Runcorn 3–1 Aldershot 10 December 1938
16 Horden CW 2–3 Newport County 10 December 1938
17 Chelmsford City 3–1 Darlington 10 December 1938
Third round proper
The 44 First and Second Division clubs entered the competition at this stage, along with Barnsley, York City and Notts County. The matches were scheduled for Saturday, 7 January 1939, although seven matches began at later dates. Eight matches were drawn and went to replays, with one of these requiring a second replay to settle the fixture.
1 Birmingham 2–0 Halifax Town 7 January 1939
2 Blackpool 1–2 Sheffield United 7 January 1939
3 Chester 1–0 Coventry City 7 January 1939
4 Chesterfield 1–1 Southend United 11 January 1939
Replay Southend United 4–3 Chesterfield 16 January 1939
5 Liverpool 3–0 Luton Town 7 January 1939
6 Leicester City 1–1 Stoke City 7 January 1939
Replay Stoke City 1–2 Leicester City 11 January 1939
7 Notts County 3–1 Burnley 7 January 1939
8 Blackburn Rovers 2–0 Swansea Town 7 January 1939
9 Aston Villa 1–1 Ipswich Town 7 January 1939
Replay Ipswich Town 1–2 Aston Villa 11 January 1939
10 Sheffield Wednesday 1–1 Yeovil & Petter's United 7 January 1939
Replay Yeovil & Petter's United 1–2 Sheffield Wednesday 12 January 1939
11 Grimsby Town 6–0 Tranmere Rovers 10 January 1939
12 Wolverhampton Wanderers 3–1 Bradford Park Avenue 7 January 1939
13 Middlesbrough 0–0 Bolton Wanderers 7 January 1939
Replay Bolton Wanderers 0–0 Middlesbrough 11 January 1939
14 West Bromwich Albion 0–0 Manchester United 7 January 1939
Replay Manchester United 1–5 West Bromwich Albion 11 January 1939
15 Sunderland 3–0 Plymouth Argyle 7 January 1939
16 Derby County 0–1 Everton 7 January 1939
17 Tottenham Hotspur 7–1 Watford 7 January 1939
18 Queens Park Rangers 1–2 West Ham United 7 January 1939
19 Fulham 6–0 Bury 7 January 1939
20 Barnsley 1–2 Stockport County 7 January 1939
21 Brentford 0–2 Newcastle United 7 January 1939
22 Portsmouth 4–0 Lincoln City 7 January 1939
23 Norwich City 0–5 Manchester City 12 January 1939
24 Chelsea 2–1 Arsenal 7 January 1939
25 Huddersfield Town 0–0 Nottingham Forest 11 January 1939
Replay Nottingham Forest 0–3 Huddersfield Town 16 January 1939
26 Cardiff City 1–0 Charlton Athletic 7 January 1939
27 Newport County 0–2 Walsall 7 January 1939
28 Southport 1–1 Doncaster Rovers 10 January 1939
Replay Doncaster Rovers 2–1 Southport 12 January 1939
29 Runcorn 2–4 Preston North End 7 January 1939
30 Leeds United 3–1 Bournemouth 11 January 1939
31 York City 0–5 Millwall 11 January 1939
32 Chelmsford City 4–1 Southampton 7 January 1939
Fourth round proper
The matches were scheduled for Saturday, 21 January 1939. Five games were drawn and went to replays, of which two went to a second replay.
1 Birmingham 6–0 Chelmsford City 21 January 1939
2 Liverpool 5–1 Stockport County 21 January 1939
3 Preston North End 2–0 Aston Villa 21 January 1939
4 Notts County 0–0 Walsall 21 January 1939
Replay Walsall 4–0 Notts County 26 January 1939
5 Blackburn Rovers 4–2 Southend United 21 January 1939
6 Sheffield Wednesday 1–1 Chester 21 January 1939
Replay Chester 1–1 Sheffield Wednesday 25 January 1939
Replay Sheffield Wednesday 2–0 Chester 30 January 1939
7 Wolverhampton Wanderers 5–1 Leicester City 21 January 1939
8 Middlesbrough 0–2 Sunderland 21 January 1939
9 Everton 8–0 Doncaster Rovers 21 January 1939
10 Sheffield United 2–0 Manchester City 21 January 1939
11 Portsmouth 2–0 West Bromwich Albion 21 January 1939
12 West Ham United 3–3 Tottenham Hotspur 21 January 1939
Replay Tottenham Hotspur 1–1 West Ham United 30 January 1939
Replay West Ham United 2–1 Tottenham Hotspur 2 February 1939
13 Millwall 2–2 Grimsby Town 21 January 1939
Replay Grimsby Town 3–2 Millwall 24 January 1939
14 Chelsea 3–0 Fulham 21 January 1939
15 Cardiff City 0–0 Newcastle United 21 January 1939
Replay Newcastle United 4–1 Cardiff City 25 January 1939
16 Leeds United 2–4 Huddersfield Town 21 January 1939
Fifth round proper
The matches were scheduled for Saturday, 11 February 1939. There were four replays, of which two went to second replays.
1 Birmingham 2–2 Everton 11 February 1939
Replay Everton 2–1 Birmingham 15 February 1939
2 Wolverhampton Wanderers 4–1 Liverpool 11 February 1939
3 Sunderland 1–1 Blackburn Rovers 11 February 1939
Replay Blackburn Rovers 0–0 Sunderland 16 February 1939
4 Sheffield United 0–0 Grimsby Town 11 February 1939
Replay Grimsby Town 1–0 Sheffield United 14 February 1939
5 Newcastle United 1–2 Preston North End 11 February 1939
6 Portsmouth 2–0 West Ham United 11 February 1939
7 Chelsea 1–1 Sheffield Wednesday 11 February 1939
Replay Sheffield Wednesday 0–0 Chelsea 13 February 1939
Replay Chelsea 3–1 Sheffield Wednesday 20 February 1939
8 Huddersfield Town 3–0 Walsall 11 February 1939
Sixth round proper
The four Sixth Round ties were scheduled to be played on Saturday, 4 March 1939. There was one replay, in the Huddersfield Town–Blackburn Rovers match.
1 Wolverhampton Wanderers 2–0 Everton 4 March 1939
2 Portsmouth 1–0 Preston North End 4 March 1939
3 Chelsea 0–1 Grimsby Town 4 March 1939
4 Huddersfield Town 1–1 Blackburn Rovers 4 March 1939
Replay Blackburn Rovers 1–2 Huddersfield Town 9 March 1939
The semi-final matches were played on Saturday, 25 March 1939. Wolverhampton Wanderers and Portsmouth won their matches to meet in the final at Wembley.
Wolverhampton Wanderers v Grimsby Town
Old Trafford, Manchester
Portsmouth v Huddersfield Town
Highbury, London
Main article: 1939 FA Cup Final
The 1939 FA Cup Final was contested by Portsmouth and Wolverhampton Wanderers at Wembley. Portsmouth won 4–1, with goals from Bert Barlow, John Anderson and two by Cliff Parker. Dicky Dorsett scored Wolves' effort.
As a result of the suspension of the FA Cup for the duration of the Second World War, the next FA Cup final was not until seven years later in 1946, thereby enabling Portsmouth fans to claim that their team has held the Cup for the longest time.
Portsmouth v Wolverhampton Wanderers
Barlow 29'
Anderson 43'
Parker 46', 71' Dorsett 54'
Empire Stadium, Wembley, London
Referee: T. Thompson (Leamington)
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This article is about the life of Saint Hilarion. For other persons named Hilarion, see Hilarion (name).
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Hilarion (291–371) was an anchorite who spent most of his life in the desert according to the example of Anthony the Great.
The chief source of information regarding Hilarion is the biography written by St. Jerome.[1] The life of Hilarion was written by Jerome in 390 at Bethlehem. Its object was to further the ascetic life to which he was devoted. It contains, amidst much that is legendary, some statements which attach it to genuine history, and is in any case a record of the state of the human mind in the 4th century. [2]
Hilarion was born in Thabatha, south of Gaza in Syria Palaestina of pagan parents. He successfully studied rhetoric with a Grammarian in Alexandria.[3] It seems that he was converted to Christianity in Alexandria. After that, he shunned the pleasures of his day—theatre, circus and arena—and spent his time attending church. According to St. Jerome, he was a thin and delicate youth of fragile health.
Beginnings of monastic Life
After hearing of Saint Anthony, whose name (according to St. Jerome), "was in the mouth of all the races of Egypt" Hilarion, at the age of fifteen, went to live with him in the desert for two months. As Anthony's hermitage was busy with visitors seeking cures for diseases or demonic affliction, Hilarion returned home along with some monks. At Thabatha, his parents having died in the meantime, he gave his inheritance to his brothers and the poor and left for the wilderness.[1]
Time at Majoma
"The Temptation of Saint Hilarion", by Octave Tassaert, c.1857 (Montreal Museum of Fine Arts)
Hilarion went to the area southwest of Majoma, the port of Gaza, that was limited by the sea at one side and marshland on the other. Because the district was notorious for brigandage, and his relatives and friends warned him of the danger he was incurring, it was his practice never to abide long in the same place.[2] With him he took only a shirt of coarse linen, a cloak of skins given to him by St. Anthony, and a coarse blanket. He led a nomadic life, and he fasted rigorously, not partaking of his frugal meal until after sunset. He supported himself by weaving baskets.[1]
Hilarion lived a life of hardship and simplicity in the desert, where he also experienced spiritual dryness that included temptations to despair.[4] Beset by carnal thoughts, he fasted even more. He was "so wasted that his bones scarcely held together" (Jerome). According to St. Jerome:
“ So many were his temptations and so various the snares of demons night and day, that if I wished to relate them, a volume would not suffice. How often when he lay down did naked women appear to him, how often sumptuous feasts when he was hungry! (Jerome, Life of St Hilarion, 7) ”
He finally built a hut of reeds and sedges at the site of modern-day Deir al-Balah in which he lived for four years. Afterwards, he constructed a tiny low-ceilinged cell, "a tomb rather than a house",[2] where he slept on a bed of rushes, and recited the Bible or sang hymns. He never washed his clothes, changed them only when they fell apart, and shaved his hair only once a year. He was once visited by robbers, but they left him alone when they learned that he did not fear death (and had nothing worth stealing, anyway).[3]
Saint Jerome describes his diet as a half a pint of lentils moistened with cold water, and after three years he switched to dry bread with salt and water. Eventually, perceiving his sight to grow dim and his body to be subject to an itching with an unnatural roughness, he added a little oil to this diet.[3]
After he had lived in the wilderness for 22 years, he became quite famous in Syria Palaestina. Visitors started to come, begging for his help. The parade of petitioners and would-be disciples drove Hilarion to retire to more remote locations. But they followed him everywhere. First he visited Anthony’s retreat in Egypt. Then he withdrew to Sicily, later to Dalmatia, and finally to Cyprus. He died there in 371.[5]
Saint Hilarion Castle, Kyrenia, Cyprus
Miracles were attributed to him.[4] His first miracle was when he cured a woman from Eleutheropolis (a Roman city in Syria Palaestina) who had been barren for 15 years.[5] Later, cured three children of a fatal illness, healed a paralysed charioteer, and expelled demons.[5]
Main article: Tell Umm el-'Amr
In time, a monastery grew around his cell, which was so beset by visitors, especially females, that Hilarion fled.
Novelization
Hermann Hesse adapted a biography of St. Hilarion as one of the three Lives of Joseph Knecht, making up his Nobel Prize–winning novel The Glass Bead Game (also known as Magister Ludi).
1 2 3 Kirsch, Johann Peter. "St. Hilarion." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 7. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1910. 28 Jan. 2013
1 2 3 Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series, Vol. 6. Edited by Philip Schaff and Henry Wace, translated by W.H. Fremantle, G. Lewis and W.G. Martley. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1893.) Revised and edited by Kevin Knight
1 2 3 Butler, Rev. Alban, The Lives or the Fathers, Martyrs and Other Principal Saints, Vol.III
1 2 Foley O.F.M., Leonard, Saint of the Day: Lives, Lessons, and Feasts, (rev. Pat McCloskey O.F.M.), Franscican Media
1 2 3 "Saint Hilarion", Saint Stories For All Ages, Loyola Press
In 390 AD at Bethlehem, Jerome wrote of Hilarion's life. According to Jerome, Bishop Epiphanius of Salamis, had already described his virtues in a well-known letter, which has not been preserved.
See also St. hilarion-Aziz Hilarion in Templos- legends of Cyprus
St. Hilarion Castle in Turkish: "101 houses", see the article Templos
The life of St. Hilarion
Colonnade Statue in St Peter's Square
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CURRENT REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d)
Date of report (Date of earliest event reported): May 30, 2019
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or organization)
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Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.
Targa Resources Corp. (the Company) held its annual meeting of stockholders (the Annual Meeting) on May 30, 2019. At the Annual Meeting, the Companys stockholders were requested to: (1) elect three Class III Directors to serve on the Companys Board of Directors for a term of office expiring at the Companys 2022 Annual Meeting of Stockholders; (2) ratify the selection of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the Companys independent registered public accounting firm for 2019; and (3) approve, on an advisory basis, the compensation of the Companys named executive officers. The following are the final voting results on proposals considered and voted upon at the Annual Meeting, each of which is more fully described in the Companys definitive proxy statement on Schedule 14A filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 29, 2019:
Each of the three Class III directors that was up for re-election was elected for a term of three years. Votes regarding the election of these directors were as follows:
VOTES FOR VOTES
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182,412,063 3,317,016 86,138 29,321,018
Rene R. Joyce
Chris Tong.
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP was ratified as the Companys independent registered public accounting firm for 2019. The voting results were as follows:
VOTES FOR VOTES AGAINST VOTES ABSTAINED
213,767,867 1,237,972 130,396
The Board proposal seeking approval, on an advisory basis, of the compensation of the Companys named executive officers was approved. The voting results were as follows:
VOTES FOR VOTES AGAINST VOTES ABSTAINED BROKER NON-VOTES
113,539,243 71,870,528 405,439 29,321,025
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.
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ISCRM Faculty Shine a New Light on Scarring
By Thatcher Heldring
Collaboration is the engine of scientific progress at UW Medicine and at the Institute of Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine (ISCRM), where 130 researchers are developing stem cell-based approaches to treat diseases affecting nearly every organ and system in the human body.
So, exactly what does it look like when two clever minds probing questions about everyday biological functioning team up for the greater good?
Dr. Cole DeForest is an Assistant Professor in Chemical Engineering and an ISCRM faculty member
For Dr. Cole DeForest and Dr. Jen Davis, the story is about shedding new light – literally – on the cellular processes essential for an underappreciated aspect of human health – scarring.
Dr. DeForest is an Assistant Professor in UW’s Department of Chemical Engineering. Dr. Davis is an Assistant Professor of Bioengineering and Pathology at UW Medicine. Both are core faculty members at ISCRM.
Rodent heart cells magnified 40X and stained with immunofluorescent dyes to show the conversion of fibroblasts into myofibroblasts (scar-forming cells)
Scarring is vital for wound healing, whether the injury occurs on the outside of the body or internally, say, to an organ. In their investigation, DeForest and Davis are looking closely at the behavior of fibroblasts, cells that are responsible for building the scaffolding matrix that give organs their structure and shape.
DeForest and Davis want to know what happens to these fibroblasts – and the scaffoldings they create – in response to the pulsatile forces that accompany each heart beat, pumping blood to cells throughout the body.
“There is a growing appreciation that cyclic mechanics play an important role in guiding cell fate,” says DeForest. “Every time the heart pumps, our tissues undergo transient minor stiffening that can alter biological function in largely unknown ways. We are looking into how these cyclic tissue stiffening events impact scarring.”
To answer those questions, DeForest’s lab has developed synthetic environments, known as hydrogels, that recreate critical properties of actual human tissue. In a paper published recently by Advanced Biosystems, DeForest and Davis detail how they created a synthetic culture environment whose stiffness could be reversibly tuned with light, and then used these biomaterials to investigate the effects of cyclic mechanics on fibroblast cell function.
“Our excitement is really two-fold,” explains DeForest. “First, we were able to create materials who stiffness can be cyclically controlled on a timescale similar to what is presented in the body. Second, we used these materials to show that such dynamic network mechanics play a role in signaling fibroblasts to become scar-forming myofibroblast cells.”
Dr. Jennifer Davis is an Assistant Professor in Pathology and Bioengineering and an ISCRM faculty member
Specifically, DeForest and Davis exposed the materials containing encapsulated cells to blinking light patterns, like a disco ball, causing a stiffening and softening cycle that induced the cells to undergo a process called transdifferentiation, a behavioral change that gives a cell a new function. This reprogramming can occur naturally in tissue or be coaxed by cues presented within a synthetic environment like the one developed in DeForest’s lab.
For Davis, who is researching heart regeneration, this window into the nature of scarring has profound implications. “We’re trying to understand the properties of scar growth so that we can modulate it. We know that the more scarring you have, the less regeneration you’re going to get. So, our view is if you can control the scarring, you can improve it, or even block it from happening in the first place.”
Davis sees other exciting applications for the synthetic system that she and DeForest used to study the effects of cyclic stiffening on fibroblasts. “There are so many uses for what Cole has developed that are fundamental to ISCRM. For instance, a major barrier in muscular dystrophy research has been the inability to recreate a dystrophic phenotype in vitro because in conventional cell culture systems muscle cells aren’t exposed to repeated stress and strain. I could envision exposing patient-derived dystrophic muscle cells to these tunable scaffolds and uncovering the primary molecular regulators of dystrophic disease.”
Down the road, Davis and DeForest also see implications for wound healing that could improve life for soldiers or people suffering from diabetes. At the root of their enthusiasm, though, is a shared appreciation for the spirit of collaboration at ISCRM.
“My lab excels at building tunable biomaterials,” says DeForest. “But we really benefit from all the people at ISCRM, encompassing experts from so many areas, to help realize the full potential of these systems.”
“Our work is in two entirely divergent areas,” adds Davis. “I would never have been able to build that material, even though I was desperate for something like it.”
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Day 32: Chuck Norris makes a nice dinner for the survivors. Thanks Locke!
John Locke (Full Name: John Jeremy Jeffrey Jacob '"J. J." Bentham Jingleheimer Schmit) is a bald/crippled box salesmen who hunts boar and time travels before he died and came back to life so he could worship an island with electromagnetic properties -- which, when you say it like that, sort of sounds kind of lame. However, John Locke is also the definition of bad-ass - so it all levels out in the end.
Sadly - Locke's plan to beat death with a big stick was temporarily delayed when some Nameless Jerk stole his ticket back to the land of the living. No worries - Locke needed the nap anyways.
Before the Island Edit
Locke was a born to Emily Locke in the 1950's. Seeing as reality TV was not around, Emily's attempt for a new show -- "I got hit by a car and my baby survived" -- was premature and fell on deaf eyes at the local studio. The book was a minor hit in Mexico, but not enough to pay for the loads of diapers that Locke went through. So she put Locke up for adoption. When he was wee little Locke, he was visited by Richard Alpert, which is pretty damn awesome. He was also a tough man in high school and Richard Alpert tried to recruit him for a pansy science camp. Does he look like a guy who gives a damn about beakers and test tubes (see image to right)? Later in life, Locke met his biological mother again. Surprisingly, he was also in a wheelchair after being pushed out of a building by his organ harvesting father, Anthony Cooper.
On the Island Edit
Hunted a lot of boar.
Post-Island Edit
Didn't do much. Bit of a bad time for Locke.
Back to the Island Edit
When John Locke's body was returned to the Island aboard Ajira Airways Flight 316, Locke seemed to resurrect cos' he's so badass. When questioned, he revealed to Ilana how he came to be on the Island, and stated that he remembered dying. He later found Ben in the makeshift hospital set up in the Hydra offices, and informed Caesar that Ben was the man who had killed him. Locke waited at Ben's bedside until Ben awoke, welcoming him back to "the land of the living".
Artist rendering of John Locke as he might appear today.
Ben, truly surprised at seeing Locke alive, stated that he expected Locke's resurrection. However, Ben began planning to murder Locke once again, manipulating the survivors of Ajira Flight 316 to become suspicious of him. After a confrontation in which Caesar was killed, Ben and Locke traveled to the main Island in the outriggers, where they met Sun and Frank. Once there, Locke disappeared into the jungle while Ben unsuccessfully attempted to summon the monster in order to be judged. Locke then returned, stating that he knew where the monster resided, leading Ben and Sun to the Temple. Throughout their journey, Locke asked Ben a series of questions about Ben's transgressions, seemingly holding him accountable for them (why did you kill me, "is that why you shot an unarmed man?,"). After entering the underground complex of the Temple, Ben fell through the floor onto a lower level. Despite Ben's pleas not to, Locke left Ben to get something to help him back up. Meanwhile, Ben was visited by a manifestation of his daughter, product of the smoke monster. Alex informed Ben that she knew of his plan to kill Locke again, and demanded his firm dedication to follow Locke's leadership, or she would "destroy" him. Ben promised to follow this, and Alex disappeared. Ben, with the help of Locke, left the Temple after telling him that the monster had let him live.
Locke then led Ben and Sun to the Others' camp, where they met with Richard Alpert. Richard greeted him in awe, and commented that there was something different about him. Locke attributed this to him now having a purpose. Locke, Richard and Ben ran an errand; he asked Richard to give instructions to a time-traveling version of Locke from the past. His instructions included the fact that he would have to die, a fate which would later come true. Locke then demanded to be taken to Jacob, inviting along all of the Others. As they set out, he secretly told Ben he intended to kill Jacob.
As Richard led the Others to Jacob, Ben told Locke how his dead daughter had ordered him to follow Locke's every word. Locke, pleased by this, then told Ben it would be him who was to kill Jacob. Richard later asked Locke how he had come to be alive again. Locke attributed it to Jacob, and claimed he wanted to thank Jacob for this. As they made a stop at the beach camp Locke made Ben finally admit he had never met Jacob. He then recounted how, in spite of all of Ben's loyal service to the Island, he had contracted cancer, and eventually been banished, asking why Ben wouldn't want Jacob dead. Richard, the Others, Ben, Sun and Locke eventually arrived at Jacob's home, which was in the base of the ruins of the Statue of Taweret. Locke took Ben inside with him, despite Richard's objections that only one leader could see Jacob.
See Man in Black for more Locke goodness
Ben • Claire • Desmond • Frank • Hurley • Ilana • Jack • Jin • Kate • Miles • Richard • Sawyer • Sayid • Sun • Walt
Ana Lucia • Boone • Charlie • Charlotte • Daniel • Eko • Juliet • Libby • Locke • The Man in Black • Michael • Nikki • Paulo • Shannon
See also: Supporting characters
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Building a System of Care for Children With Special Healthcare Needs
Roberts, Richard N.; Behl, Diane D.; Akers, Adrienne L.
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Infants & Young Children. 17(3):213-222, July-August-September 2004.
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The Use of Blended and Flexible Funding in Part C Programs at the Community Level
Akers, Adrienne L.; Roberts, Richard N.
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Infants & Young Children. 11(4):46-52, April 1999.
Addressing Parent Priorities through State-Level Policies
Bebl, Diane D.; Akers, Adrienne L.; Roberts, Richard N.
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Infants & Young Children. 10(2):36-45, October 1997.
Early intervention in the home: The interface of policy, programs, and research
Roberts, Richard N.
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Infants & Young Children. 4(2):33-40, October 1991.
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Detecting Non-Organic Hearing Loss at CI Assessment
Cullington, Helen PhD
The Hearing Journal: March 2017 - Volume 70 - Issue 3 - p 8,10
doi: 10.1097/01.HJ.0000513792.67299.0f
Dr. Cullington is an associate professor, a research coordinator, and the principal clinical scientist at the University of Southampton Auditory Implant Service.
Non-organic hearing loss can be defined as “a decrease in hearing that is unexplained by anatomic or physiologic abnormalities, or both” (Semin Neurol. 2006;26[3]:321 http://bit.ly/2kt3GJc). It has also been called functional hearing loss, psychogenic hearing loss, pseudohypacusis, and “hysterical hearing loss,” which is hopefully no longer used today. A patient with normal hearing can present with non-organic loss; equally, this condition could be an exaggeration of organic hearing loss.
Non-organic hearing loss is often discussed in medicolegal cases. It is not difficult to understand why someone may exaggerate a hearing complaint when decibels mean dollars. But one area in audiology where non-organic hearing loss is not usually mentioned is cochlear implantation. Prior to the study of Mistry, et. al, only nine cases were reported on non-organic hearing loss among patients with cochlear implants (Cochlear Implants Int. 2016;17[6]:276 http://bit.ly/2k3ChRx;Acta Otolaryngol. 2015;135[4]:376 http://bit.ly/2ktlzHM;Am J Otol. 1994;15[5]:652 http://bit.ly/2ktz9Lf).
In the United Kingdom, cochlear implant centers follow the guidelines provided by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) in determining cochlear implant candidacy (NICE, 2009 http://bit.ly/2ktwhy1). Without satisfying these criteria, the procedure will not be funded by the National Health Service (NHS). Many clinicians and patients feel that the guidelines are too strict, and some people who may benefit from an implant are being rejected. Considering the strict criteria, which forged a public perception that it is difficult to get an implant through the NHS, it may not be surprising that some people with severe hearing loss exaggerate their condition in hopes of receiving extra help.
Mistry and colleagues presented an interesting and clinically relevant discussion on non-organic hearing loss (Cochlear Implants Int. 2016 http://bit.ly/2k3ChRx). Their study was a retrospective review of patients referred to the Yorkshire Auditory Implant Service between 2003 and 2015. During this period, 1,541 people were assessed for a cochlear implant; 760 of them underwent implant surgery. Thirty-two people were found to have non-organic hearing loss, five of which have normal hearing thresholds.
Presenting for cochlear implantation despite having normal hearing seems like a big cry for help. Having a cochlear implant in a normal ear poses unnecessary economic, surgical, and health risks. For example, inserting a cochlear implant electrode damages the cochlea and causes permanent hearing loss.
The same issues are of concern in those patients with non-organic hearing loss in the presence of some organic impairment. The 32 people with non-organic hearing loss were between 14 and 82 years old, with a mean age of 43. There were slightly more women than men. The authors noted that none of the patients with normal hearing thresholds had any psychiatric history, although a small number of those with exaggerated organic loss did. In addressing cases of non-organic hearing loss, clinicians need to employ a sensitive and thorough approach to understand the complex underlying factors. This treatment approach is notably important for patients requesting a cochlear implant and may merit psychiatric assessment.
The authors also documented how non-organic hearing loss was diagnosed—mismatches between observed behavior and testing, stapedial reflex thresholds lower than audiometric thresholds, and a history of sudden hearing loss. They recommended the use of cortical evoked response audiometry (CERA) to assess patients with any of the following factors:
Measured stapedial reflexes at levels below the reported hearing threshold (PTA)
Any reported or documented sudden decrease in hearing thresholds in one or both ears
A mismatch between hearing thresholds and functional hearing test results at clinicians’ discretion
A mismatch between hearing thresholds and observed behavior at clinicians’ discretion
A mismatch between functional hearing test results and observed behavior at clinicians’ discretion
Indications of suspected non-organic hearing loss from local audiology documentation
Use of English as a second language and little experience of performing PTA
This paper estimated the incidence of non-organic hearing loss during cochlear implant assessment to be around two percent. This suggests that one or two cases per year may present at various cochlear implant centers. However, these cases seem underreported, and there is currently no clinical guidelines on how to manage them.
Audiology professionals have committed to helping people with hearing impairments; people with non-organic hearing problems are no exception. They may not benefit from a cochlear implant, but they would benefit from different forms of assistance. It is the job of audiologists and clinicians to evaluate all patients sensitively and effectively, and make the best decisions to help them.
Journal Club Highlight
Inside implant criteria or not? – Detection of non-organic hearing loss during cochlear implant assessment
Mistry SG, Carr SD, Tapper L, et. al. Cochlear Implants Int. 2016;17(6):276http://bit.ly/2k3chRx
The Hearing Journal70(3):8,10, March 2017.
Articles in PubMed by Helen Cullington, PhD
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Other articles in this journal by Helen Cullington, PhD
Revisiting Age-Related Hearing Loss Screening – Part 1
Hidden Hearing Loss: An Audiologist's Perspective
Why is Hearing Loss a Public Health Concern?
Addressing Hearing Loss With an Aging Population
Breaking Down Barriers: Summer Academy Takes on Educational Attainment Gap Between Deaf and Hearing Students
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Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting Abstract | November 2002
Visual processing of image statistics: Qualitative differences between local and global statistics; quantitative differences between low- and high-order statistics
Jonathan D. Victor; Caitlin Hardy; Mary M. Conte
Jonathan D. Victor
Weill Medical College of Cornell
Journal of Vision November 2002, Vol.2, 133. doi:10.1167/2.7.133
Jonathan D. Victor, Caitlin Hardy, Mary M. Conte; Visual processing of image statistics: Qualitative differences between local and global statistics; quantitative differences between low- and high-order statistics. Journal of Vision 2002;2(7):133. doi: 10.1167/2.7.133.
Statistical features of images are crucial to discrimination of visual textures and image segmentation.
We compared the strength of different statistical cues and tested simple models for how they are processed.
Stimuli consisted of four arrays of black and white checks. In three of the arrays, checks were colored at random; in the fourth array (“the target”), a statistical bias was introduced in local first-order statistics (the number of white checks), local fourth-order statistics (the “even” texture), or in long-range correlations (bilateral symmetry). Each kind of bias was introduced in a graded fashion. Each array subtended 2.7 deg and was centered 4 deg from fixation. The number of checks in each array ranged from 6×6 to 16×16.
Subjects (N=7) were asked (100 ms presentation, 4-AFC without feedback) to identify the target.
For targets that were distinguished by their local statistics, 75% correct performance was achieved with sub-maximal levels of statistical structure. For targets that were distinguished by bilateral symmetry, performance never exceeded approximately 50% correct even with maximal statistical structure.
Some subjects showed a modest implicit priming effect when the target was in the same location on consecutive trials, suggesting a covert direction of attention by the statistically anomalous target.
Conditions with greater statistical structure (and greater fraction correct) were associated with shorter reaction times, but reaction times did not show a corresponding priming effect. We constructed a model (for fraction correct) consisting of detection, pooling, and decision stages. Discriminations based on local statistics were well fit by this model. There was a striking difference in the local detection stage between first-order and higher-order statistics, but similar pooling and decision stages. Performance for discriminations based on symmetry could not be fit in a satisfactory fashion by models of this simple structure.
Victor, J. D., Hardy, C., Conte, M. M.(2002). Visual processing of image statistics: Qualitative differences between local and global statistics; quantitative differences between low- and high-order statistics [Abstract]. Journal of Vision, 2( 7): 133, 133a, http://journalofvision.org/2/7/133/, doi:10.1167/2.7.133. [CrossRef]
Support: NIH Grant EY07977
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In a commencement address given at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 1974 (and reprinted in Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! in 1985 as well as in The Pleasure of Finding Things Out in 1999), physicist Richard Feynman noted:
We have learned a lot from experience about how to handle some of the ways we fool ourselves. One example: Millikan measured the charge on an electron by an experiment with falling oil drops, and got an answer which we now know not to be quite right. It’s a little bit off because he had the incorrect value for the viscosity of air. It’s interesting to look at the history of measurements of the charge of an electron, after Millikan. If you plot them as a function of time, you find that one is a little bit bigger than Millikan’s, and the next one’s a little bit bigger than that, and the next one’s a little bit bigger than that, until finally they settle down to a number which is higher. Why didn’t they discover the new number was higher right away? It’s a thing that scientists are ashamed of—this history—because it’s apparent that people did things like this: When they got a number that was too high above Millikan’s, they thought something must be wrong—and they would look for and find a reason why something might be wrong. When they got a number close to Millikan’s value they didn’t look so hard. And so they eliminated the numbers that were too far off, and did other things like that …
As of 2014, the accepted value for the elementary charge is 1.602176634×10−19 C[1], where the (98) indicates the uncertainty of the last two decimal places. In his Nobel lecture, Millikan gave his measurement as 4.774(5)×10−10, which equals 1.5924(17)×10−19 C. The difference is less than one percent, but is six times greater than Millikan’s standard error, so the disagreement is significant.
Factcheck:
1.59 - [Millikan 1908] 1.5911 ± 0.0024 [Birge, 1929] : 1.59875 ±0.004796 Erik Bäcklin, Nature vol 123, no. 3098, p. 409 (1929) - Wide error bar overlaps Millikan’s. 1.60709 ±0.011 Gunnar Kellstrom, Phys. Rev. 1935 Revises Millikan’s value based on updated viscosity of air. Wide error bars 1.602⋅10−19 H.R. Robinson, 1937 Rep. Prog. Phys. 4 212: “Backlin and Flemberg’s result, however, comes down to 1.4778 or very nearly to Millikan’s 1917 value! This is a most unfortunate note on which to end the Report.” 1.60203 ± 0.00050 [Birge, 1942] 1.60210 ± 0.00002 [Dummond and Cohen, 1963] 1.602192 ± 0.000007 [Taylor et al, 1969] 1.6021892 ± 0.0000046 [Cohen and Taylor, 1973] 1.6021773 ± 0.00000049 [Cohen and Taylor, 1987]
Why II
In a study of physics graduates in the workplace, the AIP found that problem solving was consistently rated as the most important skill learned in their undergraduate years.
R. Czujko, “The Physics Bachelors as a Passport to the Workplace:Recent Research Results,” AIP Conf. Proc. 399, 213-223 (1997).
“it is necessary not only to collect data, but also to make and test inferences and convince other scientists that your interpretation is correct.”
Example misconception:
Task 1 - What’s in the Box!
Come up with a team name
(Agree or use role cards)
General Science:
Test out the best ideas using a set of empty boxes (like scientific modelling).
Research examples where scientific or engineering ideas have been revised over time, eg the structure of the atom.
Look at examples of science news stories in the media. Review what information is presented as scientific ‘fact’ and what evidence is given to back up the story.
Collect and display Mystery Boxes ‘best ideas’ from lots of groups, across your organisation, and see how often similar ideas about what’s in the boxes come up.
Talk to friends, family and people in your local community about the skills that they use in their work and everyday life.
Use what you discover to reflect on the relevance of skills to STEM-related work and to other jobs and activities. https://www.dropbox.com/s/g8jqjbze7xif4n2/18254_MysteryBoxes_Online_V3_FINAL_AW.pdf?dl=0
Levitating Cans
Electricity:
The Black Box! - A Golden Oldie–A Black Box Circuit. Keller, Clifton; Wang, Yimin Physics Teacher, v32 n4 p222-23 Apr 1994
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Take Action to End the Incarceration of Families
We share your rage and devastation over the inhumane separation of children from their families at the nation’s borders and the proposed indefinite incarceration of immigrant families. We see your courageous resistance. We are grateful to those of you fighting to abolish oppressive immigration policies and to serve those victimized by them. And we share your burning desire to show up in solidarity with and for our immigrant families.
If you are not already engaged in advancing justice at the border, will you and your organizations join us to end these atrocities? Together we can end the incarceration of our families once and for all.
Here are some things you can do:
Donate: There are many organizations doing important work to keep families together and end their incarceration. PolicyLink and Equity Summit 2018 attendees have raised more than $22,000 to support the Florence Project, a nonprofit providing free legal services to men, women, and unaccompanied children in immigration custody in Arizona.
Donate to the Florence Project
Contact Your Elected Officials: The American Immigration Lawyers Association has an online action center that directs calls, tweets, Facebook posts, and emails to members of Congress.
Volunteer: Many organizations in border states are actively looking for volunteers, especially if those volunteers are Spanish-speaking and have legal experience. If you’re an immigration lawyer, the Dilley Pro Bono Project (a partner in the CARA Family Detention Project) is searching for volunteers who can help represent people with their asylum screenings, bond hearings, ongoing asylum representation, and other needs. Nonlegal volunteers are needed too. Email caya@caraprobono.org to volunteer.
Protest: People are taking to the streets on June 30 in cities across the country to show their vehement disapproval of the atrocities occurring at our borders. Ongoing demonstrations are also being coordinated by local grassroots organizations.
Sign These Petitions: The ACLU, MoveOn, CREDO, and Kids in Need of Defense (KIND) have petitions to Secretary of Homeland Security Nielsen. The National Domestic Workers Alliance has a petition to President Trump.
Speak Up: Submit a letter to the editor or an editorial to your local newspaper about why you care about justice for immigrants and refugees.
Use Social Media: We Belong Together‘s demands for the Administration can be retweeted here. Sample tweets can be found here. For additional information and updates, follow the conversation at #FamiliesBelongTogether and #KeepFamiliesTogether.
Vote: Your 2018 primary election may be coming up soon. Ultimately, we need decision makers who will advance equity for all. Vote if you have the privilege to and mobilize others to join you.
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‘Moses’ Coming to Movie Theaters Nationwide This September
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“Ocean’s 8” Review
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I CAN ONLY IMAGINE’s Jon Erwin to Headline 43rd Annual ICVM Awards & Conference in Nashville
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“Tomb Raider” 4K Ultra HD Review
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“Wonder Woman” 3D Blu-Ray Movie Review
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Latin Voices
Complete Latin Course
Get Started in Latin
One-day courses unless indicated
To be added to our update list: email latin@lingua.co.uk
Gloucester Cathedral
A day with Horace’s Odes
Details and enrolment
Charterhouse, Surrey
The Song of Arms and a Man
Saturday 5th October 2019, 7-9pm
Fishbourne Roman Palace, Sussex
Latin for Beginners
Call the museum on 01243 785859
Roman Baths, Bath
The ancient Romans and their gods
Saturday 1st Feb 2020
“It was a real treat, it was so well done with the wonderful readings … I was transported!”
A day in Ancient Greece and Rome
Fishbourne Roman Palace
“Thank you for a most interesting day”
“The approach to history was so engaging. I cannot wait to follow this up”
“The course was excellent”
“The teaching was ideal”
“It was a lovely day, as always, and the mix of people friendly and inclusive”
Roman Bath
“It made you think, with a variety of tasks”
“Even better than expected.”
“Thoroughly enjoyable and very informative”
“For anyone interested in the Aeneid, this is an absolute must-see!”
Course and event summaries
Courses are presented by George Sharpley
This is the story of Aeneas’ escape from Troy, his stay with Dido and his struggle to fulfil his destiny as founder of Rome. The readings from Virgil’s Aeneid are selective, but tell the whole story of the poem, rarely heard, in a unique presentation of the original Latin verse, echoing the ancient culture of public performance of poetry.
This Latin Qvarter adaptation of Virgil’s poem is presented with an English narration and the Latin read by Emma Kirkby, Matthew Hargreaves, Elizabeth Donnelly and Llewelyn Morgan.
Spend a day on classical Latin, with a look at Latin words at the root of English ones. See how the language works, enjoy some ancient gossip, learn more about ancient writers, and hear their work read aloud.
The Romans and their gods
These colourful fabulous figures enliven the literature of the Romans. But what of their darker side, those mysterious powers with chilling consequences for mortals who err in some way or who are just in the wrong place at the wrong time? Religious beliefs embraced the ‘personality’ gods who figure in ancient literature and art, like Jupiter, Mars and Venus, and also all kinds of less visible spirits.
What do the ancient Greeks and Romans mean to you? This one-day course traces the rise of Greek civilisation from the legendary times of Troy to the end of the Roman Republic and the first emperors. These two cultures are closely related and in turn shaped the world that followed. The Greek classical heyday was the fifth century BC, Rome’s was four hundred years later. In between came Alexander and his conquests, which left a world transfused with Hellenism: this was what the Romans inherited and they put their own stamp on it. In fact they put their stamp on quite a lot.
Horace’s Odes
How unique a poet is Horace? He belongs to a well-established tradition of preclassical Greek lyric poets, he reproduces their forms, themes and functions, and even their metres in the Latin language. He absorbs literary mannerisms of 3rd century Greek poets from Alexandria and also from recent Roman poets like Catullus. After him come medieval verses which echo similar themes, and Renaissance and later poets who deliberately seek comparison (Ben Johnson, Marvel, Pope and others). He is one link in a long chain of lyric poetry. And yet he has an extraordinarily distinctive voice. None of his themes and topics are new (e.g. invitations, celebrations, goodbyes, praises, erotic desires, farewells to love, reflections on friendship, how to live, and not least what to drink). It is possible that there may be more poems lost to us which are close models. But somehow Horace stands out as one of the most original poets in all antiquity, for his humane, ironic outlook, his unpredictable switching of direction (scene, characterisation, emotional focus, tone, slipping into humour or irony and back again); and above all what one scholar called the ‘miracle of sound’: his choice of words, in their time fresh and colloquial, and their enchanting (and for us challenging!) arrangement.
Why Latin in the cathedrals?
In the 8th and 9th centuries there was a renaissance of learning in Europe, and Latin was at its heart – in cathedrals and monasteries.
At that time the overlord of a large part of western Europe, Charlemagne, had many new cathedrals and monasteries built. He instructed them to teach Latin, to produce more scribes to work in the courts and more priests to use the one language shared across Europe.
The Latin of Charlemagne’s day was a broad sweep of literature. There were liturgical and religious texts, laws, histories, administrative records (then, the clergy did all the ‘clerical’ work), works of fiction and poems, and also the treasured books of a much earlier tim e.
These pre-Christian writers – poets, historians, orators, storytellers and letter-writers – reflected values of a quite different world; but they were too good to ignore. The great classical writings of Cicero, Virgil and Ovid, whose stories of mischievous gods and whimsical goddesses were treated as allegories, were copied and kept alive in the cathedrals and monasteries like Gloucester shown here.
To be added to our update list, email to latin@lingua.co.uk
Contact George Sharpley : gdasharpley@gmail.com
The Latin Qvarter was set up by George Sharpley in 2003 to support the learning and enjoyment of Latin. Courses and presentations are taken around the country to schools, universities, cathedrals, museums and other centres.
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It Continues–> Producer Of New Anti-Obamcare Film Hit With IRS Audit
by Jeff Dunetz | Oct 13, 2014 | Other
Logan Clements, producer of “Sick and Sicker: ObamaCare Canadian Style,” a new movie that criticizes Obamacare, claims to be the latest case of a conservative being attacked by the Obama IRS. Clements announced via press release and YouTube video that he is being audited for the first time ever.
Clements points to the audit of Breitbart.com, the FEC arrest of Dinesh D’Souza, and the Justice Dept. subpoena of AP phone records as other examples of Obama Administration attacks on the conservatives.
“I had never been audited before I made this movie,” he says in the YouTube video above. “There seems to be a pattern here.” He adds that the IRS is demanding a “ridiculously long list” of documents, including “a detailed description of all transactions related to all prior year returns and supporting documentation.”
“It sounds like a fishing expedition by the IRS to tie me up for a very long time in retaliation for making a movie against Obamacare,” Mr. Clements says. “Perhaps they were hoping that voters wouldn’t see my movie before the election by keeping me tied up in a battle with the IRS. Well, in fact, their action is going to have the complete opposite effect.”
The producer promises to fight back by getting his message out before Nov. 4 by releasing his film immediately to entire states online using a “statewide open screening license.” “Sick and Sicker” makes the case that Obamacare will eventually lead to socialized medicine with all the problems of the Canadian system (a trailer for the movie is below).
H/T Washington Times
LIKE AN ANTIBIOTIC-RESISTANT STD: Michael Avenatti Tries To Climb Back Into Spotlight…. Instapundit Sarah Hoyt
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VICTORY FOR CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTERS
CA Crisis Pregnancy Centers Win
A federal district court in California has issued a permanent injunction which now prohibits the state from enforcing the California Reproductive FACT Act, a law which compelled pro-life crisis pregnancy centers to promote abortion. The court has also ordered the state to pay attorney’s fees and costs to Liberty Counsel.
Liberty Counsel’s case, Mountain Right to Life v. Becerra, was sent back from the U.S. Supreme Court to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which sent it back to the district court, after the High Court ruled in National Institute of Family and Life Advocates (NIFLA) v. Becerra that crisis pregnancy centers cannot be forced to promote abortions. Liberty Counsel represents three pro-life crisis pregnancy centers in Southern California: Mountain Right to Life, known as the Pregnancy and Family Resource Center (San Bernardino), His Nesting Place (Long Beach) and Birth Choice of the Desert (La Quinta). (Click here to read the full story.)
Years ago, Mat Staver believed abortion was acceptable…
Pro-life Movie Debut "Gosnell"
Abortion Pill on Campuses Vetoed
HHS Stops Funds for Aborted Baby Parts
Liberty Counsel's 'Defending Human Life' Resource Page
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Foundations of Happiness, Emotional Intelligence, and Change
Introduction and Meet Megan Bruneau
Meet Megan (7:26)
Develop Your Self-Care List (0:22)
Guided Journaling: The Life I Envision (0:34)
Takeaways (0:04)
Awareness, Your Most Important Skill
The Role of Awareness in Happiness and Change (17:05)
Building Your Feelings Vocabulary (0:55)
3 Minute Meditation (0:35)
Exercise: Feelings are Necessary for Survival (0:52)
Guided Journaling: What's Underneath My Unhelpful Behaviors? (0:34)
Homework (0:36)
The Most Valuable Relationship in Your Life: The One With Yourself
How You're Standing In Your Way (15:27)
Guided Journaling: Getting To Know Your Inner Critic (1:37)
A Deeper Understanding of The Concepts Discussed So Far (0:05)
Lesson: Learn The Self-Compassion Script (0:47)
Self-Compassion Meditation (0:21)
Takeways (0:04)
Aligning With Your Purpose and Taking Perspective
Purpose and Perspective (6:38)
Meditation on Death (0:31)
Valued Life Epitaph (0:09)
3 Things that I leaned While My Plane Crashed (0:22)
Guided Journaling on Gratitude and Perspective (0:51)
Connection: A Requirement For Happiness and Change
How Connection Relates to Happiness and Change (5:53)
Guided Journaling: Exploring connection (0:31)
Understanding Social Anxiety (0:59)
Guided Journaling: What Do I Value In Others? (0:44)
The Power of Vulnerability (0:08)
It's Not All Mindset: How Life Impacts Mood
Lifestyle: The Missing Piece in the Happiness Puzzle (2:02)
Guided Journaling: Lifestyle Inventory (1:26)
Guided Journaling: Wha Are My Unserving Habits? (0:53)
Continued Practice (0:56)
Recommended Readings (0:29)
The Role of Awareness in Happiness and Change
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Tea Rooms, Nature Reserves and Moravian Settlements – The Best Bits of Pudsey
14 March 2019 · Joseph Sheerin · Culture
Believe it or not, Pudsey has only been a part of Leeds since 1974.
Find out what secrets await in Pudsey as we round up the very best of the Leeds suburb…
Have you ever been to Pudsey? Tucked away in West Leeds, this vibrant suburb has a lot to offer. You’ll find old school pubs, quaint tea rooms and quality restaurants alongside historic settlements and sprawling nature reserves. But don’t let the locals keep it all to themselves, put a date in the diary and check it out for yourself.
Black Carr Woods
Credit: Tim Green licensed under Creative Commons for commercial use.
If you want to explore the great outdoors around Pudsey, head to Black Carr Woods. This ancient wet woodland is a beautiful stretch of greenery, full of towering alder and willow trees, as well as beds of Himalayan Balsam. The paths are flat and clear, so you don’t need to be an experienced rambler to enjoy it, and if you’ve got a pooch, they’ll love it too.
Black Carr Woods, Scholebroke Lane, Pudsey, West Yorkshire, LS28 8DZ.
The Bearded Sailor
Run by a former maths teacher who quit his job to follow his dreams of opening a chippy, The Bearded Sailor is a must-try. The Haddock and Chips is a firm favourite, but they also have a few quirkier items on the menu, like the Salt and Pepper Squid and the Spam Fritters. Of course, you can always just get a fish finger sarnie.
The Bearded Sailor, 1 Robin Lane, Pudsey, West Yorkshire, LS28 7BN.
Cafe Lux
There are two sides to Cafe Lux. By day, it’s a hub for the local community and plays host to a number of workshops and events, as well as providing a welcoming atmosphere for a cuppa and a bite to eat. At night, it’s a bar and venue where you can enjoy lager, wine and spirits, alongside an eclectic programme of live entertainment that takes you from music to comedy and spoken word.
Cafe Lux, Manor House, 23 Robin Lane, Pudsey, West Yorkshire, LS28 7BR.
Thai Sun
An old pub that’s been transformed into a little slice of Bangkok, Thai Sun is a family-run restaurant with a stunning decor. From the Buddhist statues to traditional artwork, it’s full of Thai references that will make you feel a million miles away. The food is great too, with favourites like Weeping Tiger and Thai Sun Spare Ribs alongside a selection of classic soup, noodle and curry dishes.
Thai Sun, 153 Town Street, Pudsey, West Yorkshire, LS28 6ES.
Olde Booths Tea Room
The Olde Booths Tea Room is a quaint little cafe perfect for a cuppa and a quick bite to eat. They do all the classics, from a Full English to sandwiches, salads and jacket potatoes, but the star of the show is their proper Yorkshire pudding, which you can have filled with corned beef hash or mushroom stroganoff. Fancy a bit of indulgence? Go for their wonderful afternoon tea instead.
Olde Booths Tea Room, 20 Lowtown, Pudsey, West Yorkshire, LS28 7AA.
The Crossed Shuttle
Credit: David Webb
You can’t go wrong with a local Wetherspoon’s and The Crossed Shuttle is a fine example. The name takes inspiration from the pair of shuttles on the Arms of the Borough of Pudsey, and the venue is decked out with paintings and information about the local area. Coupled with an extensive real ale offering and a menu of classic pub grub, it ticks all the boxes.
The Crossed Shuttle, 11 Manor House Street, Pudsey, West Yorkshire, LS28 7BJ.
Alternatively Vegan
© Copyright Leeds-List 2019 by Sally Ward
Alternatively Vegan is Pudsey’s only 100% plant-based cafe. It’s the perfect spot to tuck into a tasty menu of meat and dairy-free eats made by owner Angi Haist. You can start the day with the Balsamic Mushrooms on Sourdough, before moving onto the Falafel, Hummus and Pomegranate Ciabatta Roll at lunch. And if you pop by on Friday or Saturday evenings, you can even try their vegan pizzas.
Alternatively Vegan, 118 Richardshaw Lane, Pudsey, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS28 6BN.
The Manor Inn
The Manor Inn is a music-loving, independent bar in the heart of Pudsey. Rock stars and gig posters adorn the walls, while a rocking soundtrack of classic tunes play day and night. There’s plenty to drink, with one of the best selections of real ale and craft beer in Pudsey. Get ready to sup the latest creations from local indie breweries like Eyes and Saltaire.
The Manor Inn, 3 Manor House Street, Pudsey, West Yorkshire, LS28 7BJ.
Pudsey Market
Copyright Betty Longbottom licensed under Creative Commons for commercial use.
Pudsey is a classic Victorian market town and it’s still got the market to prove it. They’ve pitched their stalls in the same place since 1964, so head to Market Place to pick up everything from meat, fruit and vegetables to flowers, handbags and clothes. Popular with locals and visitors alike, it continues to pull in the crowds every Tuesday, Friday and Saturday.
Pudsey Market, 1 Market Place, Pudsey, West Yorkshire, LS28 7BE.
Black Mouse Emporium
Black Mouse is unlike anything else Pudsey has to offer. It’s a specialist fine wine and cheese emporium, where you can pick up tasty titbits from all over the world. You’ll find blocks of Cropwell Bishop, Richard III Wensleydale and Smoked Lincolnshire Poacher, which you can pair with red, rose or white wine. Don’t know where to begin? Their expert team will be happy to help. Look out for their monthly pairing evenings too.
Black Mouse Emporium, 15a Lowtown, Pudsey, West Yorkshire, LS28 7BQ.
Credit: Simon Wiffon
Feed is the Pudsey outpost of the Vice and Virtue family, and it’s a bit different to its siblings. It’s a New York-inspired eatery with a laid-back vibe and reputation for pretension-free fine dining. You can pop in for brunch during the day, visit for a few beers later on or go all out with their eclectic evening menu at night – expect experimental dishes like Cheeseburger Spring Rolls and Crab Tartine.
Feed, 163 Richardshaw Lane, Pudsey, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS28 6AA.
Pudsey Link Bridleway
Whether you like to walk, cycle or horse-ride, the Pudsey Link Bridleway is a great way to explore the natural world around this part of Leeds. It’s a collaboration between both Leeds and Bradford council to connect Tong Village and Apperley Bridge, with Pudsey right in the centre of it. Look forward to leafy strolls through picturesque areas like Tyersal Beck and Woodhall Hills.
Pudsey Link Bridleway starts at Keeper Lane, Tong, Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD4 0RS.
Viet-Thai
Get a taste of South East Asia with a trip to Viet-Thai. At this petite, cafe-style restaurant, you can pore over a small menu of family recipes that have been passed down to Minh and Huong Dao through the generations. There’s favourites like Pad Thai and Thai Green Curry, but you can also try something new, like the Catfish, which comes marinated in a secret mix of herbs and spices. It’s BYOB with no corkage fee too.
Viet-Thai, 134 Bradford Road, Pudsey, West Yorkshire, LS28 6UR.
East Bar Lounge and Grill
East Bar Lounge and Grill is one of the best Indian restaurants in West Leeds. With classic dishes like tikka masala alongside a host of original creations like Keema Achaari, there’s something for everyone – they even serve a handful of British dishes too, including a traditional Sunday roast. Not eating? There’s a cocktail bar and a champagne bar, as well as a rooftop terrace.
East Bar Lounge and Grill, 7 Richardshaw Lane, Pudsey, West Yorkshire, LS28 6BN.
Pudsey Leisure Centre
Need somewhere to exercise? Pudsey Leisure Centre has you covered. It’s got all the facilities you need to keep fit. Start with the 76-station gym, where you can jump on the treadmill, work on the cross-trainer and lift loads of weights. Prefer to swim? The 25-metre pool hosts sessions for both adults and kids, or you can play games in the sports hall and throw down some moves in the dance studio.
Pudsey Leisure Centre, Market Place, Pudsey, West Yorkshire, LS28 7BE.
The Lime Leaf
The Lime Leaf brings pan-Asian delights to Pudsey. Owner Tom Berry has worked for Pho and Wagamama, but now he’s put together an eclectic oriental menu with his wife Tash. They do everything from Malaysian Rendang Curry to Japanese Yakisoba, Thai Green Curry and Vietnamese Chicken Salad, with plenty of vegan and gluten-free options too.
The Lime Leaf, 104 Valley Road, Pudsey, West Yorkshire, LS28 9EU.
Craft beer, cocktails and fancy pub grub is the name of the game at 7 Steps. Head into this rustic yet modern venue where wooden furniture meets chic grey walls, and make a beeline for the bar where you can choose from a host of local breweries like Saltaire, Rudgate and Ossett. They do cocktails too and you can choose from an extensive wine list. Hungry? The menu takes you from Butter Poached Turbot to Chateaubriand.
7 Steps, 9 Chapeltown, Pudsey, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS28 7RZ.
Jade Dragon
Jade Dragon is a family-run Chinese restaurant that’s been serving up Cantonese classics for over two decades. The menu is full of familiar favourites, from sweet and sour to black bean, but they like to turn up the heat, so make sure you double check the chilli ratings. Want to mix things up? Head over on a Sunday where you can try a bit of everything at their Chinese buffet.
Jade Dragon, 14-16 Lidget Hill, Pudsey, West Yorkshire, LS28 7DR.
The Bankhouse Inn
With great beers, quality food and incredible views, it’s no wonder The Bankhouse Inn is considered one of the best pubs in Pudsey. They have loads of ales on tap and the menu is full of pub classics, from Sausage and Mash to the Black and Blue Burger. But if you ask us, Sunday is the day to go for their incredible roast. Just make sure you head outside to take in that view when you go.
The Bankhouse Inn, 40 Bankhouse Lane, Pudsey, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS28 8EB.
Pudsey Civic Hall
Pudsey Civic Hall is the cultural heart of the suburb. It’s an event and conference venue, with an eclectic programme throughout the year. The Vintage Home Show, Pudsey Comic Con and The Leeds & Bradford Guitar Show have all called this home, while Trouble at the Mill also takes over the venue with their theatre, music and street food celebrations.
Pudsey Civic Hall, Dawsons Corner, Pudsey, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS28 5TA.
Wetherby Whaler
When you want fancy fish and chips in Leeds, the Wetherby Whaler always comes up. Their Pudsey restaurant has room for up to 90 people, so grab a table and enjoy everything from Classic Haddock and Chips to Golden Fried Scampi and Fillet of Salmon. Having a chippy dinner at home? Head straight for their takeaway counter.
Wetherby Whaler, 32 Lowtown, Pudsey, West Yorkshire, LS28 7AA.
Growlers is a little shop in Pudsey that has mastered the culinary art of pies. Their growlers, also known as traditional Yorkshire pork pies, are to die for. So much so that they’ve named the place after them. But that’s just the start – you can look forward to everything from steak and kidney to meat and potato pies, as well as specialties like Cornish pasties and sausage rolls.
Growlers, 159 Richardshaw Lane, Pudsey, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS28 6AA.
No. 54 Tearoom and Antiques
Step back in time by visiting No. 54 Tearoom and Antiques in Pudsey. It’s completely retro, with old school mirrors and quirky ornaments in every corner, and since everything you see is for sale, the decor will change with every visit. It’s all hand-picked antiques, so who knows what you’ll find the next time you pop in for a sandwich, a slice of cake and china cup of tea.
No. 54 Tearoom and Antiques, 54 Fulneck, Pudsey, West Yorkshire, LS28 8NT.
Pudsey Park
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Only Roundhay Park has more visits than Pudsey Park, and it’s a proper gem worth seeking out. There are 7.5 hectares of green space to explore, and that includes a rose garden, a bedding area, an aquarium, an aviary and a glasshouse. The Grade-II listed Church of St Lawrence is also in the park, and at the opposite end, you’ll find a cafe, pet’s corner and skatepark.
Pudsey Park, Church Lane, Pudsey, West Yorkshire, LS28 7RR.
Popalong
This cafe, gift shop and creative space is perfect if you want to take five during the day. They have a menu of homemade jacket potatoes, sandwiches and soups to go with a cuppa, if want a little refreshment, but you can also pick up everything from crockery to jewellery, all made by local designers. And if you want to get creative, they run workshops every week for both adults and kids.
Popalong, 149-151 Bradford Road, Pudsey, West Yorkshire, LS28 6AT.
Gigi’s is like walking into a traditional Neapolitan pizza parlour. It has a charming, rustic decor and an intimate atmosphere. Whether you go for the Diavola or the Toscana, there’s a pizza for all palates, but they have a host of Italian mains on offer too, from the Pollo Stroganoff to the Seabass Fillet. Paired with a bottle of vino from their extensive wine list, it’s the perfect night out.
Gigi’s, 63 Lidget Hill, Pudsey, Pudsey, West Yorkshire, LS28 7LJ.
Fulneck Moravian Settlement
Fulneck is home to the biggest Moravian Settlement in the UK and it’s an incredible time capsule of Georgian village life. It was built by members of the Moravian Church who settled in the area in 1744. They established this remarkable set of buildings, many of which are now listed. You can pop into the museum, have a brew in the cafe and follow the footpaths that lead you around the whole complex.
Fulneck Moravian Settlement, Pudsey, West Yorkshire, LS28 8NT.
Tomlinson’s Farm Shop
If you want fresh, local produce, head to Tomlinson’s Farm Shop. They source the finest fruit, meat and vegetables from local farmers, so you can pick up everything on your list, all from nearby. They grow their own herbs, stock a huge selection of cheese and source bread and cakes from local bakery Ortons.
Tomlinson’s Farm Shop, 89 Roker Lane, Pudsey, West Yorkshire, LS28 9NB.
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Take a Look Around Leeds’ Shopping Arcades
24 September 2015 · Joseph Sheerin · Style
Spend a day exploring the city's historic shopping arcades.
Leeds’ arcades are awash with history, but they’re also chock full of amazing shops and eateries that you really need to try out.
Leeds’ shopping scene has been dominated by its fantastic and historic arcades for over a century now. And while many of them have been through hard times, they’re all beautiful examples of the past feeding through into the present. Even better, they offer shoppers a different kind of experience. So whether you’re after upmarket brands, high street favourites or independent genius, it’s time to explore the city’s arcades.
Queen’s Arcade
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Built in 1889 by London arcade guru Edward Clark, Queen’s Arcade is perhaps the most daring of the original arcades. It was the only one that integrated a hotel into its design, alongside its retail offering, and while it’s no longer open, it separates Queen’s Arcade from the rest of the Leeds arcades, with a magnificent four-storey frontage.
Inside it was subject to a bit of a makeover in the early 1990s, but you’ll still find yourself surrounded by old school character. It’s home to some hugely reputable brands such as denim legend Levi’s and shoe giants Office, showing the quality stores these shopping arcades attract.
But it’s not all about the big names – the arcades take great pride in the city’s independents and Queen’s Arcade is no different. Accent Clothing has been dressing the men, women and children of Leeds for 30 years, while Aladdin’s Cave has some fantastic new and vintage jewellery, and Mary Shortle often delights and scares in equal measure with her doll shop.
Queen’s Arcade, Briggate, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS1 6LF.
Thornton’s Arcade
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As the first of the Leeds arcades, built in 1878, Thornton’s Arcade has plenty to crow about. Named after Charles Thornton, the fella who had the ingenious idea of covering up the shopping alleys that connected Briggate to its side streets. The three-storey arcade is dressed up in impressive neo-gothic architecture, and also has a famous Potts’ Clock, the Ivanhoe Clock, which features characters from Robin Hood who all strike the quarters.
While time has passed, Thornton’s is still as impressive as any of the arcades you’ll come across and that’s large in part down to who they have in there. There are big names like Starbucks if you need a caffeine hit, Dune when shopping for some new shoes, and Ann Summers for those of you looking to wow your other half, but it’s also got a huge selection of Leeds’ independent favourites.
OK Comics is a fine example – it’s one of the most renowned comic book shops in the country, always willing to go the extra mile. There’s also Welcome Skate Store for the latest boards and threads – oh, and Tall Boys Beer Market offers up the finest craft beers from around the world, you can even take them upstairs to their beer cafe for a small corkage if you can’t wait to try them out.
Thornton’s Arcade, Briggate, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS1 6LQ.
Victoria Quarter
The most famous of all the Leeds arcades, Victoria Quarter was built in 1900 by Frank Matcham, the guy responsible for the London Palladium and Coliseum. With all those gilded mosaics, the bold marble and the fancy ironwork, it’s easy to see why it is so grand. It had however, fell into disrepair by the 1980s, and a painstaking renovation was carried out which brought it back to life with a stunning stained glass roof on Queen Victoria Street added.
Today, it’s perhaps the most exclusive of the shopping arcades in Leeds, with some huge names opening landmark stores along County Arcade, Cross Arcade and Queen Victoria Street. Alongside the wonderful Harvey Nichols, which replaced the old Empire Theatre in 1996, the likes of Reiss, Paul Smith, Louis Vuitton, Vivienne Westwood, Mulberry, Michael Kors, and Radley have become huge pulls for the city’s shoppers.
And alongside over 70 luxury shops, the Victoria Quarter is home to some impressive dining options too. There’s Harvey Nichols Espresso Bar on the ground floor, where you can have a coffee under the stained glass roof, and two more options upstairs. You can go for dinner Fourth Floor Cafe or grab a drink in The Bottle Room.
Victoria Quarter, Briggate, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS1 6AX.
Grand Arcade
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It’s been a rough ride for Grand Arcade. Opened in 1897, it was a fine example of Victorian architecture, with two extravagant buildings joined together down the middle, and an incredibly unique Potts Clock acting as the cherry on the cake. Fast forward 100 years, and it looked like it was going to be the latest of a number of arcades to have to close down.
Not anymore though, in the past five years Grand Arcade has found itself at the heart of a burgeoning Northern Quarter where some of the finest independents in Leeds are grouping together. The likes of Our Handmade Collective, Casa Colombiana and Traditional Shaving Company opened up in there when all seemed lost and helped to reinvigorate the arcades.
Alongside those three, heavy metal stalwarts Santiago Bar, retro brew makers Just Grand! Vintage Tearoom and veggie friendly favourites Roots and Fruits continue to bring folk in, the latter is an independent mainstay that has been serving up tasty fodder for over 25 years. Recent additions like Thai street food cafe Zaap and secret jazz bar The Domino Club have made this the place to be again.
Grand Arcade, Merrion Street, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS1 6PG.
Central Arcade
A new arcade might seem a little odd in comparison, but Central Arcade, connecting Briggate and Central Road is exactly that, opening up in 2012 on the site of the what used to Market Street Arcade. And it’s a good job, because the old arcade had become run down, a shabby cousin of the other, more grander arcades in Leeds.
The £3 million transformation is a modern realisation of what shopping arcades can be, split over three floors and it’s tried to attract folk with a range of cool fashion brands. There’s Owen Scott, a bespoke tailor who splits time between Leeds, Huddersfield and Saville Row, slick menswear boutique The Allotment and street clothing folk Audere, all helping to dress the city. The latest addition, premium denim brand Denham, is quite the catch, marking a turning point in the arcade’s tricky history.
Central Arcade, Central Road, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS1 6DE.
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We Don’t Need Art Briles in Lubbock
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There was a time very recently that I was disappointed in Coach Kingsbury, and it had nothing to do with his record.
I don't feel like there was an adequate explanation or punishment this year when four Texas Tech players were involved in a mini-riot on Main Street. This wasn't the first time one of the players was in trouble, either. Then again, I'm not the cops or the school. But to us outsiders, it sure seemed like the good ol' boy network was protecting kids who wouldn't have got that protection if they weren't football players.
Now, we have an out-of-town newspaper suggesting we hire Art Briles, who has been involved in a huge scandal of his own.
Coach Briles may or may not be innocent, but that's up to him to prove. We went the career rehab route with Bobby Knight, and it was not an overly fun experience for anyone. From what I've read, I'd take a busload of Bobby Knights over one Art Briles.
I also truly believe a hire like that would split the Texas Tech fanbase down the middle and alienate all of the female fans Coach Kingsbury brought to the sport during his tenure here.
In short, hiring someone who is accused of much, much worse than Mike Leach was accused of would say some very bad things about Texas Tech University. Winning is good, winning at all costs is detestable.
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Loud By Design Bookings
Loud By Design Bookings is an underground DJ and artist bookings agency from London, UK and was founded by Rachel in 2017. As an experienced agent who spent the last 15 years running SUF Bookings, the agency that was affiliated with Stay Up Forever, she created Loud By Design to better represent the changing musical styles of her artists, supporting and promoting the evolution of their individual works as well as seeking out new contacts to work with. The emphasis of Loud By Design is to represent, support and book quality dance music artists that have a strong reputation and solid history within the underground scene, both nationally and internationally, as well as offering diversity with artistic styles that range from techno and hard techno to breaks and acid,
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He’s the one of the key producers behind the Acid Techno sound hailing from London in the late 1990’s and owner of one of the best known underground techno labels in the world, Hydraulix. Since 1997 Dave has been DJ’ing all over the world playing great tracks, both new and old, from his vast catalog of techno music.
His recent remix and production work on labels such as: Reklusive, Elektrax, Naked Lunch, Phobiq and of course Hydraulix, have picked up much attention from some of the worlds top techno DJ’s and often turn up in many of their tracklists.
Dave plays the style of techno that he is currently producing which focuses on the new sound of techno as it is today. The sounds is roughly around the 130 bpm speed and incorporates a lot of Dave’s latest work and new releases from associated artists and labels. Please check his soundcloud page if you are unclear about what that is. He does play occasional “Old Skool” sets which will incorporate some Acid Techno hits, but these must be arranged in advance. Dave is very much trying to push the sound of his productions and Label Hydraulix, so will not appreciate being asked to only play old classic tracks from 20 years ago without some agreement in advance.
He plays using Traktor Scratch with vinyl control, and has taken his sound all over the world. recent gigs include Glastonbury, Brasil, France and Italy.
The Label Hydraulix is now distributed via Labelworx and the release schedule is filling up with great new releases, plus there is soon to be some Vinyl on the way.
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Embracing Unix and Linux Desktops
These OSs work well on a Windows network when it comes to printing. File-sharing and e-mail, however, are more complicated.
By Don Jones
Unix and Linux clients can do quite well on a Windows network. Microsoft, in fact, released its own Services for Unix, which provides some basic cross-compatibility features for Unix clients accessing Windows servers. Other, more robust interoperability solutions are also available for various network services. Fortunately, Unix has been using TCP/IP for longer than Windows, so the two operating systems at least have a networking protocol in common.
One of Windows 2000’s most touted features was its new native authentication protocol, Kerberos. Microsoft didn’t invent Kerberos, so it’s no surprise that Unix platforms have a number of Kerberos options. Unfortunately, Microsoft did have to extend Kerberos a bit to make it work well with Windows, so cross-platform domain authentication still isn’t a cinch.
Most Unix clients can authenticate to a Kerberos realm, which Microsoft calls a domain. Unix servers can act as quasi-domain controllers within a realm, and Active Directory supports trusts between realms and domains. The practical upshot of this capability is that Unix clients can authenticate to a Kerberos realm, which is trusted by an AD domain, effectively authenticating to the domain itself. Unfortunately, that cross-compatibility isn’t perfect. For example, realm members can’t belong to AD user groups, meaning you have to set up some kind of user account mapping to continue to assign security permissions to groups and have Unix users fall into those groups. It’s all pretty complicated.
Fortunately, Unix clients can interoperate directly with AD domain controllers (DCs). For example, Unix Kerberos implementations can request Kerberos tickets from a DC and use those tickets to access Unix-based resources in a realm that trusts the ticket-issuing domain. To authenticate to AD, Unix clients simply need to use the Kerberos utilities, included with most Linux builds. Unfortunately, the exact usage of these utilities differs from brand to brand, so you’ll need to consult the system’s documentation. It’ll involve inserting the phrase “AD domain” wherever the documentation mentions a “Kerberos realm.”
For example, you’ll need to create a user account in AD to represent each Unix host. Just set the new user’s name to be the name of the Unix client. Then open a command-line window and type:
Ktpass.exe –princ host/computer name@domainname –mapuser username –pass password –out UNIX/ machine.keytab.
Computername and username should be the same, and the result will be a keytab file you can copy to your Unix client computers. Then use the system’s built-in ktutil utility to merge the keytab file with the client’s existing Kerberos configuration file. (Ktutil differs from system to system; see the client’s documentation for details.)
Unix Kerberos can also be used to access Windows-based resources, provided the Unix client has the capability to access those resources. For example, the ability to pass Kerberos tickets to a file server doesn’t necessarily mean you can even talk to the file server initially. Unix’s native Kerberos capabilities are only half the puzzle; I’ll talk about the other half next.
The downside to all this Kerberos stuff on Unix is that most Unix variants don’t provide a great graphical user interface (GUI) for their Kerberos bits. Instead, users are forced to contend with command-line utilities like kclient, kinit, kdestroy and so on. Of course, if your Unix users complain about having to use command-line tools, you can simply remind them that that’s why they’re diehard Unix users and offer to get them a Windows-based PC with a nice, friendly GUI.
By the way, domain authentication to NT domains just won’t happen. There aren’t any reliable NT domain clients for Unix. Fortunately, you don’t need domain authentication to access other resources and services; most Windows file and print sharing clients will allow you to provide your domain credentials when you need to access a resource. You won’t authenticate against the domain per se, but you’ll get to the resources you need. It’s pretty much the same as how Windows 9x prompts you for a username and password when you attempt to access a file server not in a domain.
Unix’s native file-sharing protocol is the Network File System (NFS). Windows doesn’t include a native NFS implementation; Windows’ native file-sharing protocol is Server Message Blocks (SMB). Microsoft sells an add-on, however, called Services for Unix, which adds an NFS file server to Windows servers. The combination of Kerberos and Services for Unix would seem to offer a seamless file-sharing solution for Unix clients. Sadly, the NFS protocol doesn’t actually support the use of Kerberos yet, so Services for Unix isn’t kerberized, or designed to take advantage of Kerberos.
So how can Unix clients access Windows-based shared files? Well, given that nobody is really implementing a combined file-sharing and Kerberos solution, you’ll have to accept the fact that Unix users will have to authenticate individually to each resource they access. That’s because, although they can get domain credentials via Kerberos, none of the file-sharing solutions takes advantage of Kerberos. Fortunately, most file-sharing solutions do cache user names and passwords, allowing the solution to authenticate to each resource transparently. That’s pretty much how Windows 9x works, as it can’t take advantage of Kerberos, either, or even properly belong to a Windows domain.
You have two choices for file sharing: Teach Windows how to speak NFS or teach Unix how to speak SMB. Microsoft’s Services for Unix takes the first approach, adding NFS capabilities to Windows servers.
Your second choice is to install an SMB client on your Unix clients, which will let them speak directly to an unmodified Windows file server. One popular client is jCIFS, available from www.jcifs.samba.org. Another popular client is the commercial product Sharity, available from ObjectiveDevelopment, www.obdev.at. The figure shows a typical Sharity screen. Sharity provides a full Network Neighborhood and generally Windows-like operation and is available both for Mac OS X and several Unix variants. A big advantage of Sharity is that you can configure it with a list of your network credentials. Sharity can then map sets of credentials to specific resources, allowing it to authenticate transparently on the user’s behalf and saving the user from having to look at username dialog boxes every time he or she tries to access a resource.
Sharity allows Unix clients to connect to Windows servers and resources. (Click image to view larger version.)
Messaging and Collaboration
Unfortunately, nobody makes an Exchange client for Unix. Fortunately, Exchange provides support to clients using both POP3 and the more feature-rich IMAP4 protocols. These are enabled in Exchange by default, making it easy for POP3 or IMAP4 clients to access their e-mail. Unix users can obtain a number of e-mail clients, including the Unix version of Eudora, which can access POP3 and IMAP4 servers. That’ll get your Unix users connected to corporate e-mail, but it won’t connect them to calendaring, tasks or anything else provided by Exchange. They may be willing to access those features from Outlook Web Access (OWA), but that’s far from a perfect solution. Worse, the version of OWA included with Exchange 2000 is highly optimized for Internet Explorer 5.5 and higher—which isn’t available on Unix. It’ll work fine with other browsers, but the user experience leaves a good bit to be desired.
Document Formats
There’s no version of Microsoft Office for Unix platforms, so you’ll need to find an office suite providing file compatibility with Microsoft Office. Depending on the level of compatibility needed, you can start shopping at www.kde.org, which offers KOffice. KOffice has limited capabilities for importing Microsoft Office documents, though, and it can’t save in any Microsoft Office file types. Instead, it uses the Acrobat PDF format as its native file type, which at least guarantees that documents produced in KOffice can be viewed on practically any other operating system.
OpenOffice, www.openoffice.org, won’t cost you a cent, as it’s an open source project. OpenOffice was actually initiated by Sun Microsystems, owner of StarOffice; OpenOffice is a somewhat stripped-down version of StarOffice, as Sun pays to license some of the components included in StarOffice (meaning they can’t give StarOffice away for free anymore, as they used to). Sadly, OpenOffice doesn’t have great cross-platform file support with Microsoft Office file types. Like KOffice, OpenOffice is designed to interoperate through Acrobat PDF files, not by reading and writing other vendors’ file formats.
Speaking of StarOffice, it’s probably your best bet for a Unix/Linux office suite, as it seamlessly reads and writes Microsoft Office file formats.
Printing is where Unix offers some great interoperability options. In fact, Windows has gradually been adopting more Unix-style printing technologies, bringing the two operating systems closer together.
If you’ve standardized on network-connected printers, chances are your printers themselves (or the devices that connect them, such as HP Jetdirect) are line printer daemon (LPD) servers. Your Windows servers probably print to the printers using LPD, and there’s no reason Unix clients can’t do the same. That means your Windows servers and Unix clients will be competing for access to the printer, which may or may not make you happy.
Ideally, what you want is your Unix clients printing to your Windows servers, like your Windows clients. That allows the server to queue up all the print jobs and send them to the printer in an orderly fashion. One way to accomplish that is to run an LPD service on your Windows servers, allowing Unix clients to print to them natively. Windows includes an optional LPD service for this purpose.
To install the LPD service, open Add or Remove Programs from the Control Panel. Click on Add/Remove Windows Components, and then open “Other Network File and Print Services.” Select “Print Services for Unix” (that’s what Microsoft calls the LPD service), and click OK. Once the service is installed, any shared printer will be accessible via LPD. Use the Unix client’s print utilities (which differ from brand to brand; see your client’s documentation for details) to set up a mapping to the appropriate shared printer.
More on Client-Side Interoperability
• Client-Side Interoperability
• Married to Mac Clients
• Hailing Handhelds
• Back to Embracing Unix and Linux Desktops
Microsoft doesn’t make an official Remote Desktop Protocal (RDP) client for Unix, but that doesn’t mean you can’t get one. Probably the most popular one is rdesktop, www.rdesktop.org, which is free and works great with Terminal Services. It runs on a variety of Unix platforms.
Keep in mind that there’s always VNC, a free and decent alternative to Terminal Services, at least for administrative purposes. VNC servers and clients are available from www.uk.research.att.com/vnc and many other Web sites. VNC won’t work for users who need to access a Windows terminal server, though, so it’s not a complete replacement for Terminal Services.
Your best bet is to consider investing in Citrix’s MetaFrame XP product, www.citrix.com. MetaFrame adds Citrix’s cross-platform ICA protocol on top of Terminal Services, and Citrix provides ICA clients for just about every major Unix variant. Terminal Services can be a great way to provide non-Windows users with access to Windows-specific applications, such as Outlook or other line of business applications. Unfortunately, Terminal Services requires a significant investment in server hardware, so you’ll need to weigh the costs vs. the benefits.
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Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Stanford University Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Residency, Stanford University Medical Center, Cardiothoracic Surgery
Internship, Stanford University Medical Center, Cardiothoracic Surgery (2015)
MD, University of Michigan Medical School (2014)
BBA, University of Michigan Ross School of Business (2009)
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Bioengineered analog of stromal cell-derived factor 1 alpha preserves the biaxial mechanical properties of native myocardium after infarction JOURNAL OF THE MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR OF BIOMEDICAL MATERIALS Wang, H., Wisneski, A., Paulsen, M. J., Imbrie-Moore, A., Wang, Z., Xuan, Y., Hernandez, H., Lucian, H. J., Eskandari, A., Thakore, A. D., Parry, J. M., Hironaka, C. E., von Bornstaedt, D., Steele, A. N., Stapleton, L. M., Williams, K. M., Wu, M. A., MacArthur, J. W., Woo, Y. 2019; 96: 165–71
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Ex Vivo Biomechanical Study of Apical Versus Papillary Neochord Anchoring for Mitral Regurgitation Imbrie-Moore, A. M., Paulsen, M. J., Thakore, A. D., Wang, H., Hironaka, C. E., Lucian, H. J., Farry, J. M., Edwards, B. B., Bae, J., Cutkosky, M. R., Woo, Y. ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC. 2019: 90–97
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A Biocompatible Therapeutic Catheter-Deliverable Hydrogel for In Situ Tissue Engineering ADVANCED HEALTHCARE MATERIALS Steele, A. N., Stapleton, L. M., Farry, J. M., Lucian, H. J., Paulsen, M. J., Eskandari, A., Hironaka, C. E., Thakore, A. D., Wang, H., Yu, A. C., Chan, D., Appel, E. A., Woo, Y. 2019; 8 (5)
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Ex vivo biomechanical study of apical versus papillary neochord anchoring for mitral regurgitation. The Annals of thoracic surgery Imbrie-Moore, A. M., Paulsen, M. J., Thakore, A. D., Wang, H., Hironaka, C. E., Lucian, H. J., Farry, J. M., Edwards, B. B., Bae, J. H., Cutkosky, M. R., Woo, Y. J. 2019
BACKGROUND: Neochordoplasty is an important repair technique, though optimal anchoring position is unknown. While typically anchored at papillary muscles, new percutaneous devices anchor the chordae at or near the ventricular apex, which may have an effect on chordal forces and the long-term durability of the repair.METHODS: Porcine mitral valves (n=6) were mounted in a left heart simulator that generates physiological pressure and flow through the valves while chordal forces were measured using Fiber Bragg Grating strain gauge sensors. Isolated mitral regurgitation was induced by cutting P2 primary chordae and the regurgitant valve was repaired using PTFE neochord with apical anchoring, followed by papillary muscle fixation for comparison. In both cases, the neochord was anchored to a customized force-sensing post positioned to mimic the relevant in vivo placement.RESULTS: Echocardiographic and hemodynamic data confirmed that the repairs restored physiologic hemodynamics. Forces on the chordae and neochord were lower for papillary fixation than the apical (p=0.003). Additionally, the maximum rate of change of force was higher for the chordae and neochord for apical fixation when compared to papillary (p=0.028).CONCLUSIONS: Apical point of anchoring results in higher forces on the chordae and neochord stitch as well as an increased rate of loading on the neochord when compared to the papillary muscle fixation. These results suggest the papillary fixation repair may have superior durability.
A Biocompatible Therapeutic Catheter-Deliverable Hydrogel for In Situ Tissue Engineering. Advanced healthcare materials Steele, A. N., Stapleton, L. M., Farry, J. M., Lucian, H. J., Paulsen, M. J., Eskandari, A., Hironaka, C. E., Thakore, A. D., Wang, H., Yu, A. C., Chan, D., Appel, E. A., Woo, Y. J. 2019: e1801147
Hydrogels have emerged as a diverse class of biomaterials offering a broad range of biomedical applications. Specifically, injectable hydrogels are advantageous for minimally invasive delivery of various therapeutics and have great potential to treat a number of diseases. However, most current injectable hydrogels are limited by difficult and time-consuming fabrication techniques and are unable to be delivered through long, narrow catheters, preventing extensive clinical translation. Here, the development of an easily-scaled, catheter-injectable hydrogel utilizing a polymer-nanoparticle crosslinking mechanism is reported, which exhibits notable shear-thinning and self-healing behavior. Gelation of the hydrogel occurs immediately upon mixing the biochemically modified hyaluronic acid polymer with biodegradable nanoparticles and can be easily injected through a high-gauge syringe due to the dynamic nature of the strong, yet reversible crosslinks. Furthermore, the ability to deliver this novel hydrogel through a long, narrow, physiologically-relevant catheter affixed with a 28-G needle is highlighted, with hydrogel mechanics unchanged after delivery. Due to the composition of the gel, it is demonstrated that therapeutics can be differentially released with distinct elution profiles, allowing precise control over drug delivery. Finally, the cell-signaling and biocompatibility properties of this innovative hydrogel are demonstrated, revealing its wide range of therapeutic applications.
A Unique Collateral Artery Development Program Promotes Neonatal Heart Regeneration. Cell Das, S., Goldstone, A. B., Wang, H., Farry, J., D'Amato, G., Paulsen, M. J., Eskandari, A., Hironaka, C. E., Phansalkar, R., Sharma, B., Rhee, S., Shamskhou, E. A., Agalliu, D., de Jesus Perez, V., Woo, Y. J., Red-Horse, K. 2019
Collateral arteries are an uncommon vessel subtype that can provide alternate blood flow to preserve tissue following vascular occlusion. Some patients with heart disease develop collateral coronary arteries, and this correlates with increased survival. However, it is not known how these collaterals develop or how to stimulate them. We demonstrate that neonatal mouse hearts use a novel mechanism to build collateral arteries in response to injury. Arterial endothelial cells (ECs) migrated away from arteries along existing capillaries and reassembled into collateral arteries, which we termed "artery reassembly". Artery ECs expressed CXCR4, and following injury, capillary ECs induced its ligand, CXCL12. CXCL12 or CXCR4 deletion impaired collateral artery formation and neonatal heart regeneration. Artery reassembly was nearly absent in adults but was induced by exogenous CXCL12. Thus, understanding neonatal regenerative mechanisms can identify pathways that restore these processes in adults and identify potentially translatable therapeutic strategies for ischemic heart disease.
Bioengineered analog of stromal cell-derived factor 1α preserves the biaxial mechanical properties of native myocardium after infarction. Journal of the mechanical behavior of biomedical materials Wang, H., Wisneski, A., Paulsen, M. J., Imbrie-Moore, A., Wang, Z., Xuan, Y., Hernandez, H. L., Lucian, H. J., Eskandari, A., Thakore, A. D., Farry, J. M., Hironaka, C. E., von Bornstaedt, D., Steele, A. N., Stapleton, L. M., Williams, K. M., Wu, M. A., MacArthur, J. W., Woo, Y. J. 2019; 96: 165–71
Adverse remodeling of the left ventricle (LV) after myocardial infarction (MI) results in abnormal tissue biomechanics and impaired cardiac function, often leading to heart failure. We hypothesized that intramyocardial delivery of engineered stromal cell-derived factor 1α analog (ESA), our previously-developed supra-efficient pro-angiogenic chemokine, preserves biaxial LV mechanical properties after MI. Male Wistar rats (n = 45) underwent sham surgery (n = 15) or permanent left anterior descending coronary artery ligation. Rats sustaining MI were randomized for intramyocardial injections of either saline (100 μL, n = 15) or ESA (6 μg/kg, n = 15), delivered at four standardized borderzone sites. After 4 weeks, echocardiography was performed, and the hearts were explanted. Tensile testing of the anterolateral LV wall was performed using a displacement-controlled biaxial load frame, and modulus was determined after constitutive modeling. At 4 weeks post-MI, compared to saline controls, ESA-treated hearts had greater wall thickness (1.68 ± 0.05 mm vs 1.42 ± 0.08 mm, p = 0.008), smaller end-diastolic LV internal dimension (6.88 ± 0.29 mm vs 7.69 ± 0.22 mm, p = 0.044), and improved ejection fraction (62.8 ± 3.0% vs 49.4 ± 4.5%, p = 0.014). Histologic analysis revealed significantly reduced infarct size for ESA-treated hearts compared to saline controls (29.4 ± 2.9% vs 41.6 ± 3.1%, p = 0.021). Infarcted hearts treated with ESA exhibited decreased modulus compared to those treated with saline in both the circumferential (211.5 ± 6.9 kPa vs 264.3 ± 12.5 kPa, p = 0.001) and longitudinal axes (194.5 ± 6.5 kPa vs 258.1 ± 14.4 kPa, p < 0.001). In both principal directions, ESA-treated infarcted hearts possessed similar tissue compliance as sham non-infarcted hearts. Overall, intramyocardial ESA therapy improves post-MI ventricular remodeling and function, reduces infarct size, and preserves native LV biaxial mechanical properties.
Development and ex vivo validation of novel force-sensing neochordae for measuring chordae tendineae tension in the mitral valve apparatus using optical fibers with embedded Bragg gratings. Journal of biomechanical engineering Paulsen, M. J., Bae, J. H., Imbrie-Moore, A., Wang, H., Hironaka, C., Farry, J. M., Lucian, H., Thakore, A., Cutkosky, M. R., Woo, Y. J. 2019
Few technologies exist that can provide quantitative data on forces within the mitral valve apparatus. Marker-based strain measurements can be performed, but chordal geometry and restricted optical access are limitations. Foil-based strain sensors have been described and work well, but the sensor footprint limits the number of chordae that can be measured. We instead utilized Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) sensors-optical strain gauges made of 125µm diameter silica fibers- to overcome some limitations of previous methods of measuring chordae tendineae forces. Using FBG sensors, we created a force-sensing neochord that mimics the natural shape and movement of native chordae. FBG sensors reflect a specific wavelength of light depending on the spatial period of gratings. When force is applied, the gratings move relative to one another, shifting the wavelength of reflected light. This shift is directly proportional to force applied. The FBG sensors were housed in a protective sheath fashioned from a 0.025" flat coil, and attached to the chordae using polytetrafluoroethylene suture. The function of the force-sensing neochordae was validated in a 3D-printed left heart simulator, which demonstrated that FBG sensors provide highly sensitive force measurements of mitral valve chordae at a temporal resolution of 1000 Hz. As ventricular pressures increased, such as in hypertension, chordae forces also increased. Overall, FBG sensors are a viable, durable, and high-fidelity sensing technology that can be effectively used to measure mitral valve chordae forces and overcome some limitations of other such technologies.
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Modeling conduit choice for valve-sparing aortic root replacement on biomechanics with a 3-dimensional-printed heart simulator. The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery Paulsen, M. J., Kasinpila, P., Imbrie-Moore, A. M., Wang, H., Hironaka, C. E., Koyano, T. K., Fong, R., Chiu, P., Goldstone, A. B., Steele, A. N., Stapleton, L. M., Ma, M., Woo, Y. J. 2018
OBJECTIVE: The optimal conduit for valve-sparing aortic root replacement is still debated, with several conduit variations available, ranging from straight tubular grafts to Valsalva grafts. Benefits of neosinus reconstruction include enhanced flow profiles and improved hemodynamics. Curiously, however, some clinical data suggest that straight grafts may have greater long-term durability. In this study, we hypothesized that straight tubular grafts may help maintain the native cylindrical position of the aortic valve commissures radially, resulting in preserved leaflet coaptation, reduced stresses, and potentially improved valve performance.METHODS: Using 3D printing, a left heart simulator with a valve-sparing root replacement model and a physiologic coronary circulation was constructed. Aortic valves were dissected from fresh porcine hearts and reimplanted into either straight tubular grafts (n=6) or Valsalva grafts (n=6). Conduits were mounted into the heart simulator and hemodynamic, echocardiographic, and high-speed videometric data were collected.RESULTS: Hemodynamic parameters and coronary blood flow were similar between straight and Valsalva grafts, although the former were associated with lower regurgitant fractions, less peak intercommissural radial separation, preserved leaflet coaptation, decreased leaflet velocities, and lower relative leaflet forces compared with Valsalva grafts.CONCLUSIONS: Valsalva grafts and straight grafts perform equally well in terms of gross hemodyanics and coronary blood flow. Interestingly, however, the biomechanics of these 2 conduits differ considerably, with straight grafts providing increased radial commissural stability and leaflet coaptation. Further investigation into how these parameters influence clinical outcomes is warranted.
Rapid Self-Assembly of Bioengineered Cardiovascular Bypass Grafts From Scaffold-Stabilized, Tubular Bilevel Cell Sheets CIRCULATION von Bornstadt, D., Wang, H., Paulsen, M. J., Goldstone, A. B., Eskandari, A., Thakore, A., Stapleton, L., Steele, A. N., Truong, V. N., Jaatinen, K., Hironaka, C., Woo, Y. 2018; 138 (19): 2130–44
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Angiogenesis precedes cardiomyocyte migration in regenerating mammalian hearts JOURNAL OF THORACIC AND CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY Ingason, A. B., Goldstone, A. B., Paulsen, M. J., Thakore, A. D., Truong, V. N., Edwards, B. B., Eskandari, A., Bollig, T., Steele, A. N., Woo, Y. 2018; 155 (3): 1118-+
Although the mammalian heart's ability to fully regenerate is debated, its potential to extensively repair itself is gaining support. We hypothesized that heart regeneration relies on rapid angiogenesis to support myocardial regrowth and sought to characterize the timeline for angiogenesis and cell proliferation in regeneration.One-day-old CD-1 mice (P1, N = 60) underwent apical resection or sham surgery. Hearts were explanted at serial time points from 0 to 30 days postresection and analyzed with immunohistochemistry to visualize vessel ingrowth and cardiomyocyte migration into the resected region. Proliferating cells were labeled with 5-ethynyl-2'-deoxyuridine injections 12 hours before explant. 5-Ethynyl-2'-deoxyuridine-positive cells were counted in both the apex and remote areas of the heart. Masson's trichrome was used to assess fibrosis.By 30 days postresection, hearts regenerated with minimal fibrosis. Compared with sham surgery, apical resection stimulated a significant increase in proliferation of preexisting cardiomyocytes between 3 and 11 days after injury. Capillary migration into the apical thrombus was detected as early as 2 days postresection, with development of mature arteries by 5 days postresection. New vessels became perfused by 5 days postresection as evidenced by lectin injection. Vessel density and diameter significantly increased within the resected area over 21 days, and vessel ingrowth always preceded cardiomyocyte migration, with coalignment of most migrating cardiomyocytes with ingrowing vessels.Endothelial cells migrate into the apical thrombus early after resection, develop into functional arteries, and precede cardiomyocyte ingrowth during mammalian heart regeneration. This endogenous neonatal response emphasizes the importance of expeditious angiogenesis required for neomyogenesis.
SDF 1-alpha Attenuates Myocardial Injury Without Altering the Direct Contribution of Circulating Cells. Journal of cardiovascular translational research Goldstone, A. B., Burnett, C. E., Cohen, J. E., Paulsen, M. J., Eskandari, A., Edwards, B. E., Ingason, A. B., Steele, A. N., Patel, J. B., MacArthur, J. W., Shizuru, J. A., Woo, Y. J. 2018
Stromal cell-derived factor 1-alpha (SDF) is a potent bone marrow chemokine capable of recruiting circulating progenitor populations to injured tissue. SDF has known angiogenic capabilities, but bone marrow-derived cellular contributions to tissue regeneration remain controversial. Bone marrow from DsRed-transgenic donors was transplanted into recipients to lineage-trace circulating cells after myocardial infarction (MI). SDF was delivered post-MI, and hearts were evaluated for recruitment and plasticity of bone marrow-derived populations. SDF treatment improved ventricular function, border zone vessel density, and CD31+ cell frequency post-MI. Bone marrow-derived endothelial cells were observed; these cells arose through both cell fusion and transdifferentiation. Circulating cells also adopted cardiomyocyte fates, but such events were exceedingly rare and almost exclusively resulted from cell fusion. SDF did not significantly alter the proportion of circulating cells that adopted non-hematopoietic fates. Mechanistic insight into the governance of circulating cells is essential to realizing the full potential of cytokine therapies.
Rapid Self-Assembly of Bioengineered Cardiovascular Bypass Grafts From Scaffold-Stabilized, Tubular Bilevel Cell Sheets. Circulation von Bornstädt, D., Wang, H., Paulsen, M. J., Goldstone, A. B., Eskandari, A., Thakore, A., Stapleton, L., Steele, A. N., Truong, V. N., Jaatinen, K., Hironaka, C., Woo, Y. J. 2018; 138 (19): 2130–44
Cardiovascular bypass grafting is an essential treatment for complex cases of atherosclerotic disease. Because the availability of autologous arterial and venous conduits is patient-limited, self-assembled cell-only grafts have been developed to serve as functional conduits with off-the-shelf availability. The unacceptably long production time required to generate these conduits, however, currently limits their clinical utility. Here, we introduce a novel technique to significantly accelerate the production process of self-assembled engineered vascular conduits.Human aortic smooth muscle cells and skin fibroblasts were used to construct bilevel cell sheets. Cell sheets were wrapped around a 22.5-gauge Angiocath needle to form tubular vessel constructs. A thin, flexible membrane of clinically approved biodegradable tissue glue (Dermabond Advanced) served as a temporary, external scaffold, allowing immediate perfusion and endothelialization of the vessel construct in a bioreactor. Subsequently, the matured vascular conduits were used as femoral artery interposition grafts in rats (n=20). Burst pressure, vasoreactivity, flow dynamics, perfusion, graft patency, and histological structure were assessed.Compared with engineered vascular conduits formed without external stabilization, glue membrane-stabilized conduits reached maturity in the bioreactor in one-fifth the time. After only 2 weeks of perfusion, the matured conduits exhibited flow dynamics similar to that of control arteries, as well as physiological responses to vasoconstricting and vasodilating drugs. The matured conduits had burst pressures exceeding 500 mm Hg and had sufficient mechanical stability for surgical anastomoses. The patency rate of implanted conduits at 8 weeks was 100%, with flow rate and hind-limb perfusion similar to those of sham controls. Grafts explanted after 8 weeks showed a histological structure resembling that of typical arteries, including intima, media, adventitia, and internal and external elastic membrane layers.Our technique reduces the production time of self-assembled, cell sheet-derived engineered vascular conduits to 2 weeks, thereby permitting their use as bypass grafts within the clinical time window for elective cardiovascular surgery. Furthermore, our method uses only clinically approved materials and can be adapted to various cell sources, simplifying the path toward future clinical translation.
An innovative biologic system for photon-powered myocardium in the ischemic heart. Science advances Cohen, J. E., Goldstone, A. B., Paulsen, M. J., Shudo, Y., Steele, A. N., Edwards, B. B., Patel, J. B., MacArthur, J. W., Hopkins, M. S., Burnett, C. E., Jaatinen, K. J., Thakore, A. D., Farry, J. M., Truong, V. N., Bourdillon, A. T., Stapleton, L. M., Eskandari, A., Fairman, A. S., Hiesinger, W., Esipova, T. V., Patrick, W. L., Ji, K., Shizuru, J. A., Woo, Y. J. 2017; 3 (6): e1603078
Coronary artery disease is one of the most common causes of death and disability, afflicting more than 15 million Americans. Although pharmacological advances and revascularization techniques have decreased mortality, many survivors will eventually succumb to heart failure secondary to the residual microvascular perfusion deficit that remains after revascularization. We present a novel system that rescues the myocardium from acute ischemia, using photosynthesis through intramyocardial delivery of the cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus. By using light rather than blood flow as a source of energy, photosynthetic therapy increases tissue oxygenation, maintains myocardial metabolism, and yields durable improvements in cardiac function during and after induction of ischemia. By circumventing blood flow entirely to provide tissue with oxygen and nutrients, this system has the potential to create a paradigm shift in the way ischemic heart disease is treated.
Tissue-engineered smooth muscle cell and endothelial progenitor cell bi-level cell sheets prevent progression of cardiac dysfunction, microvascular dysfunction, and interstitial fibrosis in a rodent model of type 1 diabetes-induced cardiomyopathy. Cardiovascular diabetology Kawamura, M., Paulsen, M. J., Goldstone, A. B., Shudo, Y., Wang, H., Steele, A. N., Stapleton, L. M., Edwards, B. B., Eskandari, A., Truong, V. N., Jaatinen, K. J., Ingason, A. B., Miyagawa, S., Sawa, Y., Woo, Y. J. 2017; 16 (1): 142
Diabetes mellitus is a risk factor for coronary artery disease and diabetic cardiomyopathy, and adversely impacts outcomes following coronary artery bypass grafting. Current treatments focus on macro-revascularization and neglect the microvascular disease typical of diabetes mellitus-induced cardiomyopathy (DMCM). We hypothesized that engineered smooth muscle cell (SMC)-endothelial progenitor cell (EPC) bi-level cell sheets could improve ventricular dysfunction in DMCM.Primary mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) and EPCs were isolated from the bone marrow of Wistar rats, and MSCs were differentiated into SMCs by culturing on a fibronectin-coated dish. SMCs topped with EPCs were detached from a temperature-responsive culture dish to create an SMC-EPC bi-level cell sheet. A DMCM model was induced by intraperitoneal streptozotocin injection. Four weeks after induction, rats were randomized into 3 groups: control (no DMCM induction), untreated DMCM, and treated DMCM (cell sheet transplant covering the anterior surface of the left ventricle).SMC-EPC cell sheet therapy preserved cardiac function and halted adverse ventricular remodeling, as demonstrated by echocardiography and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging at 8 weeks after DMCM induction. Myocardial contrast echocardiography demonstrated that myocardial perfusion and microvascular function were preserved in the treatment group compared with untreated animals. Histological analysis demonstrated decreased interstitial fibrosis and increased microvascular density in the SMC-EPC cell sheet-treated group.Treatment of DMCM with tissue-engineered SMC-EPC bi-level cell sheets prevented cardiac dysfunction and microvascular disease associated with DMCM. This multi-lineage cellular therapy is a novel, translatable approach to improve microvascular disease and prevent heart failure in diabetic patients.
A Simple, Standard Method to Characterize Pressure/Flow Performance of Vascular Access Cannulas ASAIO JOURNAL Paulsen, M. J., Orizondo, R., Le, D., Rojas-Pena, A., Bartlett, R. H. 2013; 59 (1): 24-29
Vascular access cannulas for extracorporeal life support are characterized by French (Fr) size alone, which affords limited information on pressure (P) and flow (Q) performance, making their selection difficult. Previously, we developed an accurate metric of cannula performance, the M number, but its complexity and the need of a nomogram hindered its utility. We propose adoption of an easier and clinically useful metric to assess cannula performance: Q at 100 mm Hg P, the updated M number, or the "UM number." A circuit was created using a centrifugal pump, Tygon tubing, and a reservoir. A total of 74 cannulas (arterial, venous, and double lumen) ranging from 6 to 50 Fr size were studied. Glycerol solution with a viscosity of 3 cP was used to mimic blood. A Biopac system and ultrasonic flow probe was used to collect P/Q data across a cannula's performance range. The UM number describes the pressure-flow characteristics of any given cannula. It can be used to select access cannulas based on performance and to determine if flow matches expected flow during use.
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Empirical Hospital and Professional Charges for Patient Care Associated with Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest Before and After Implementation of Therapeutic Hypothermia for Comatose Survivors RESUSCITATION Paulsen, M. J., Haddock, A. J., Silbergleit, R., Meurer, W. J., Macy, M. L., Haukoos, J. S., Sasson, C. 2012; 83 (10): 1265-1270
The objectives of this study are to characterize the total hospital and professional charges for patients with out of hospital cardiac arrest both with and without therapeutic hypothermia treatment.Retrospective cohort study of all adult patients with non-traumatic out of hospital cardiac arrest brought to the ED of a single tertiary care hospital over 20 months preceding and 20 months following implementation of therapeutic hypothermia for comatose survivors. Billing and clinical data were obtained from administrative databases and the electronic medical record using explicit audited abstraction. Demographic, payer characteristics, median charges and reimbursements with interquartile ranges are described before and after implementation, stratified by patient outcome.Two hundred and twenty-three patients met study criteria. The median charge was $3,112 among the 135 patients (60.5%) that did not survive to admission and $94,916 among the 88 (39.5%) that did. Median charges before and after implementation of therapeutic hypothermia were $6,324 and $15,537 respectively. Medicare was the most frequent payer. Good neurological outcome occurred in 11/115 patients (9.6%) prior to implementation and 22/108 patients (20.4%) after. Among 23 patients treated with hypothermia, good neurological outcome occurred in 11 patients (47.8%). Good neurological outcome and treatment with hypothermia were associated with increased procedure utilization and higher charges.Empirical patient level data confirm that charges for patients with out of hospital cardiac arrest are substantial, even among patients that do not survive to hospital admission. Treatment with therapeutic hypothermia is associated with better outcomes, more procedures, and higher charges.
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Hospitalist Time Usage and Cyclicality: Opportunities to Improve Efficiency JOURNAL OF HOSPITAL MEDICINE Kim, C. S., Lovejoy, W., Paulsen, M., Chang, R., Flanders, S. A. 2010; 5 (6): 329-334
Academic medical centers (AMCs) have a constrained resident work force. Many AMCs have increased the use of nonresident service hospitalists to manage continued growth in clinical volume. To optimize their time in the hospital, it is important to understand hospitalists' work flow.We performed a time-motion study of hospitalists carrying the admission pager throughout the 3 types of shifts we have at our hospital (day shift, swing shift, and night shift).Tertiary academic medical center in the Midwest.Hospitalists spend about 15% of their time on direct patient care, and two-thirds of their time on indirect patient care. Of the indirect activities, communication and documentation dominate. Travel demands make up over 7% of a hospitalists' time. There are spikes in indirect patient care, followed closely by spikes in direct patient care, at shift changes.At our AMC, indirect patient care activities accounted for the majority of the admitting hospitalists' time spent in the hospital, with documentation and communication dominating this time. Travel takes a significant fraction of hospitalists' time. There is also a cyclical nature to activities performed throughout the day, which can cause patient delays and impose variability on support services. There is a need for both service-specific and systemic improvements for AMCs to efficiently manage further growth in their inpatient volume.
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The Megapixie blog covers recent sessions and photography tutorials focused on families, children, newborns, and high school seniors in the Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill area.
Adria & Colin | Maternity Portraits in Downtown Durham
When Adria first contacted me about maternity portraits, we set up a time to talk on the phone, but instead of telling me what she and her husband Colin were looking for while we were chatting, Adria kept circling back to what they were NOT looking for. "I didn't even think I wanted maternity portraits," she kept saying, "they can be so cheesy." But there she was, on the phone with a photographer, trying to find a way to verbalize what she DID want. She DID want to capture the finite experience of pregnancy, and - for once - to get Colin (whose place is normally behind the camera) in the photos with her. She DID want to record the final days of their time as a family of two. She DID NOT want chalkboard signs or baby shoes or terrible reach-around poses.
"So no train tracks?" I asked.
She laughed - hard - and we booked the session.
And it was super-fun and totally laid back... just like Colin & Adria. Baby Cash is in for a fun ride!
Chelsey & Justin | A Maternity Portrait Session at the King's Daughters Inn
I would've happily shared these maternity portraits ages ago, but the night before I was scheduled to show them to Chelsey and Justin, I got a text saying that Chelsey was in labor and wouldn't, therefore, be available for our meeting the next morning. As it turned out, by the time that meeting would've taken place, they already had baby Eason in their arms, and although I love these photos to pieces, there's no way they can compete with a squishy newborn.
(Photos of said squishy newborn to come!)
P.S. For those of you who like to geek out on these things, this post marks the debut of film on my blog, specifically the first and last images, made on Ektar 100 with my new-to-me Hasselblad. Let me know what you think!
Allie | Family & Maternity Portraits in Atlanta, GA
I wanted to share some of the images I made last fall for this sweet family in Atlanta... they were so much fun to work with and it was such a spectacular fall afternoon. Note that these were among their last photos as a family of three... by now they've got a fourth in the mix! Steve & Jennifer, thanks again for letting me capture your lovely trio - I hope all four of you are doing well!
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HTC’s next flagship revealed in biggest leak yet
April 17, 2017 Loknath Das HTC 0
HTC released its U Ultra and U Play earlier this year, but we’ve known for some time the company still had something big in the works.
And while there’s been quite a few leaks and rumours about the upcoming flagship phone, known under the name ‘HTC U Ocean’ or HTC 11, we’re yet to see anything revelatory.
Until now, that is, Prolific tipster Evan Blass, otherwise known as @evleaks, has posted a photo which he claims shows the new HTC flagship in all its glory.
Related: HTC 11
Yes, it seems the HTC 11 will be known as the HTC U, according to Blass, who also tweeted a photo of the new phone:
The image reveals what looks to be glass on the front and back, but without the screen being switched on, it’s hard to tell exactly where the display begins and ends.
That said, it does seem as though there will be significant bezels on the phone, unlike recent flagship offerings from Samsung and LG.
It also looks like there’ll be a physical home button on the front of the device – so no rear fingerprint scanner as with the Galaxy S8, then.
Blass links to a previous article which lists some specs for the phone, seemingly confirming those specs as accurate – though there’s been no official word from HTC at this point.
Among the rumoured specs are a 5.5-inch 2560 x 1440 display, a Snapdragon 835 chipset, 4GB RAM, and a 12-megapixel rear camera.
HTC is also said to have included pressure-sensitive edges which allow for extra control, such as taking a photo, and scrolling.
Blass is generally one of the most reliable leakers, so while there’s no way to confirm the picture and specs as accurate, we’re fairly sure Blass is on the money here – but use the usual caution as this is still an unconfirmed leak.
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Nanimarquina Jie Rug
Nani Marquina Jie Rug
Starting at: $3,430.00 USD
Neri & Hu takes inspiration from the tile patterns of Shanghai streets, a place where life literally happens. The name of the collection corresponds to Jie, the Chinese character that embodies the essence of a city: the constant movement, dynamism and frenetic MORE INFO
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Neri & Hu takes inspiration from the tile patterns of Shanghai streets, a place where life literally happens.
The name of the collection corresponds to Jie, the Chinese character that embodies the essence of a city: the constant movement, dynamism and frenetic activity.
“The character “Jie” is made up of a radical and a phonetic character. The ancient ideograms of the Chinese Jie character depicts on one side the street as an intersection, evoking “life” at the crossroads, while the center portion of the character is made up of two “earth” characters whose ideogram shows a clay on potter’s wheel... a connection to the ceramic colors used by Neri&Hu in the series.”, according to Neri & Hu.
The result is an eclectic hand-tufted rug presenting different pile heights and finishes, made of 100% New wool.
100% New wool
170 x 240 cm / 5 feet 7 inches x 7 feet 10 inches
300 x 400 cm / 9 feet 10 inches x 13 feet 1 inches (special request)
Dry cleaning not recommended
Please contact us to order extra large size
Nanimarquina is a textile design company based in Barcelona with manufacturing in India, Morocco, Pakistan and Spain. Primarily focused on floor coverings, Nanimarquina's desire to "make, live and offer design" is executed with a strong emphasis on fair trade and labour, sustainable development and contemporising traditional craftmanship. Focusing on area rugs, Nanimarquina has become a leader in the market - both by design standards and ethical business practices.
Nanimarquina's core values include: observation, innovation, emotion and communication. Drawing inspiration from raw materials and traditional techniques, owner/designer Nani Marquina has developed an impressive collection comprised of her own creations and those of internationally acclaimed designers. Ron Arad (Do-Lo-Rez), Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec (Losanges), Ana Mir & Emili Padros (Flying Carpet), and Tord Boontje (Little Field of Flowers) are just a few samples of talent working with Marquina. Ranging from the rustic and simplistic to modern and even politically charged, Nanimarquina truly offers something for every home and interest.
Nanimarquina has been recognized by several prestigious design and business excellence awards since its origins in 1987 including Spain's National Design Award, ICFF Editor's Awards and La Millor Botiga Del Mon (best 2010 business initiative, Barcelona) among many others. Nani Marquina herself has also received the Women’s Entrepreneurial Challenge Award from the Manhattan Chamber of Commerce and the 2007 FIDEM Award for Entrepreneurial Woman of the Year. Nanimarquina is also an avid member of Care and Fair - an organization of companies committed to eradicating child labour in the carpet industry and support health and education opportunities in India, Nepal and Pakistan. Nanimarquina allocates 1% of the value of their carpet imports to Care and Fair.
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Neri & Hu , 2006
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Lyndon Neri - Philippines, 1965 / Rossana Hu - Taiwan, 1968
Founded in 2004 by partners Lyndon Neri and Rossana Hu, Neri & Hu Design and Research Office is an inter-disciplinary architectural design practice based in Shanghai, China with an additional office in London, UK. Neri & Hu works internationally providing architecture, interior, master planning, graphic, and product design services.
Currently working on projects in many countries, Neri & Hu is composed of multi-cultural staff who speak over 30 different languages. The diversity of the team reinforces a core vision for the practice: to respond to a global worldview incorporating overlapping design disciplines for a new paradigm in architecture.
Neri & Hu believes strongly in research as a design tool, as each project bears its unique set of contextual issues. A critical probing into the specificities of program, site, function, and history is essential to the creation of rigorous design work. Based on research, Neri & Hu desires to anchor its work on the dynamic interaction of experience, detail, material, form, and light rather than conforming to a formulaic style. The ultimate significance behind each project comes from how the built forms create meaning through their physical representations.
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Peter Capaldi lied to his family about Doctor Who
Metro TV ReporterMonday 5 Aug 2013 1:37 pm
Capaldi’s first official photograph as the twelfth Doctor
(Picture: BBC)
New Doctor Who Peter Capaldi has admitted that he had to lie to close family members before it was revealed that he had got the role.
It was announced yesterday that Capaldi had been cast as the twelfth Doctor in a special live programme on BBC1 and it appears the news being out in the open will come as a relief to the actor.
‘It’s so wonderful not to keep the secret any longer,’ he told Zoe Ball on the programme.
‘For a while I couldn’t tell my daughter and she was looking at people linked to the show and was getting rather upset that nobody was mentioning me. I just had to say, “Rise above it, darling”.’
Capaldi also spoke about finding out he’d got the role, revealing: ‘It was my dear agent, I returned the call and she said “Hello Doctor” and I just laughed. And I haven’t stopped laughing since.’
Matt Smith is the outgoing Doctor Who (Picture: BBC)
And as for suggestions that he’ll be bringing any traits from the character for whom he is best known – The Thick Of It’s Malcolm Tucker – Capaldi was clear.
‘Malcolm has been banished from the mirror by my new doctor, who will certainly not put up with any of Malcolm’s language or attitude,’ he said.
‘I’m surprised to see Doctor Who looking back [in the mirror]. You look in the mirror and suddenly strangely, he’s looking back. He’s not me yet, but’s he’s reaching out.’
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Early reviews slam Terminator Genisys as ‘dull’ and ‘awfully futile’
Cassam LoochSaturday 27 Jun 2015 11:11 am
He promised he would be back, but it seems like critics wish Arnold Schwarzenegger had just stayed at home.
Returning to the role that made him a household name across America, Arnie has been on a media blitz recently to promote Terminator Genisys. As well as the regular talk show circuit, the 67-year-old even went as far as riding a Boris Bike around London when he visited the capital last week. He then went on to troll fans in Madame Tussaud’s by pretending to be a Terminator waxwork.
It looks like the charm-offensive hasn’t worked on critics though, who have savaged his latest film as ‘dull’ and ‘redundant’.
The Wrap even began by calling the whole franchise ‘interminable’ as it limps into a fifth installment.
‘The least inspiring thing about Terminator Genisys is how it’s a fifth film that doesn’t improve or expand on the prior four so much as it’s meant to clearly set up Part Six, Part Seven and possibly even more’ is the implied threat James Rocchi makes in his scathing take-down.
Arnold Schwarzenegger is back – and people aren’t impressed (Picture: Paramount)
Things aren’t much better for The Austrian Oak over at Forbes, where Scott Mendelson found the whole thing ‘relentlessly dull’.
‘This limp and discombobulated reboot/sequel/side-quel clings to the memory of the first film, slavishly recreating the narrative of the first film and then the structure of the second, offering little-to-nothing that we haven’t seen before and presenting it in a visually drab and emotionally vacant fashion.’
Justin Chang offers up some (faint) praise for Schwarzenegger’s performance as the T-800 who has been sent from the future in a reworked timeline from the original film, which was released 31 years ago. Chang’s Variety review highlight the ‘straining’ Arnie puts in to find some moments of humour. However, that’s as good as it gets for the movie,as the summary ends by confirming the worst fears some fans already had:
‘You can’t quite call it obsolete, perhaps, but damned if it doesn’t feel awfully futile.’
Emilia Clarke loads up as Sarah Connor. (Picture: Melinda Sue Gordon/Paramount Pictures via AP)
This Terminator sequel is directed by Game of Thrones veteran Alan Taylor, who has also drafted in Daenerys ‘Queen of Dragons’ Targaryen to join him. Emilia Clarke takes on the role of Sarah Connor with Jai Courtney, Jason Clarke and Matt Smith also added to the cast.
Todd McCarthy, however, has seen more than enough of this series. Writing for The Hollywood Reporter he says:
‘Arnold Schwarzenegger once again declares, “I’ll be back,” in this fifth installment of the Terminator franchise, but enough already.’
Terminator Genysis will be released nationwide on July 2nd.
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Events for June 2, 2019 › Exhibitions
Charles Blackman, Untitled (Reclining girl with flowers) [detail], 1976, pastel on paper on canvas, 156 x 185.5cm, Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program, 2012.
Charles Blackman | from the Maitland Regional Art Gallery Collection
February 23 — August 11
Maitland Regional Art Gallery, 230 High Street
Charles Blackman was one of Australia’s iconic artists, forging a significant career from his very first solo exhibition in 1952. Blackman was also a strong supporter of Maitland Regional Art Gallery (MRAG) and, since 2005, had donated more than 280 works on paper and paintings to the MRAG Collection. Many of the works in this...
Lucas Davidson, Casual Forces, 2019, Mixed media, installation detail.
Lucas Davidson | Casual Forces
March 30 — June 23
Lucas Davidson has created the site specific exhibition Casual Forces for the two levels of the Art Factory exhibition space. Using mirrored surfaces, geometric shapes, repetition and scale Casual Forces aims to challenge viewer perception, questioning the identification and interpretation of the work and the surrounding environment. Casual Forces invites a slower kind of looking...
David Griggs, Zoloft Nation (self portrait) [detail], 2009, acrylic on canvas, 282 x 232cm. Germanos Collection, Sydney. Image courtesy the artist.
David Griggs | Between Nature & Sin*
May 4 — July 21
David Griggs explores the darker undercurrents of human existence. His work, predominately portraiture, focuses on the human condition; drawing on political imagery, underground media, local histories and personal experience. Famous for his bold anarchistic approach, Griggs takes the everyday and flips it to expose the cracks, exhuming the raw undercurrent of a society. He documents...
Alysha Fewster, Am My Place series, 2017
Alysha Fewster | Cubby House
May 18 — July 21
The building of a cubby in the bush is easily overlooked as childish and insignificant. However the interaction between a person and their environment is far from trivial. By being in and interacting with the ecosystems around them, a child is given the opportunity to take on a knowledge of the natural world and develop...
Cutler Footway, My north, 2016–17, acrylic on canvas, 150 × 150cm
Cutler Footway | My North
May 25 — August 18
In 2003 and at the height of his career, Australian art critic and broadcaster, Bruce James, left Sydney and returned to his home town of Ayr in the Burdekin delta in Queensland and became the painter Cutler Footway. My North features both the expansive landscapes of the artist’s home and still life studies in a...
Samuel Liddicoat, Pup in the City (detail), 2018, Goolgowi PS, Year 2
Operation Art
June 1 — August 11
Operation Art is an exhibition of 50 selected artworks by students from schools across New South Wales who have been invited to create uplifting works for other children. The exhibition is an initiative of The Children’s Hospital at Westmead in association with the NSW Department of Education and will include artworks by students from Hunter...
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Microsoft Releases Power BI Desktop Update, Includes BI360 Connector
LOS ANGELES, CA. — April 15, 2019 — Solver, the global leader in cloud and web-based Corporate Performance Management (CPM) for mid-market ERP systems, today announced the launch of its BI360 Power BI Connector for the latest April release of Microsoft’s Power BI Desktop application. As an Azure cloud-based data warehouse, budgeting and reporting solution, the BI360 Power BI Connector seamlessly integrates with Power BI desktop, enabling managers and executives to easily gain insights from the organization’s data. The Power BI Connector’s swift deployment combined with BI360’s advanced input and reporting functionality will enable Power BI users to deploy their dashboards faster and easier, and the combined BI360/Power BI solution offers a best-of-breed tool for planners and decision-makers. Overall, the release of the connector marks an important milestone in BI360’s value proposition to Microsoft-centric organizations that have deployed or are planning to deploy Power BI.
In a matter of clicks, the connector combines the data from the BI360 cloud-based data warehouse and displays it in the Power BI dashboard. As for entering data, BI360 provides cloud-based input forms for budgets, forecasts, key performance indicators and any other data a user needs displayed in the Power BI dashboard. In addition to its ease and flexibility, the BI360 Power BI Connector gives customers a “single version of the truth” by enabling BI360 reporting and budgeting and now Power BI dashboards to connect to the same BI360 data warehouse, ultimately providing an environment that supports faster and better decisions.
“Power BI has become one of the world's leading dashboard solutions and we are very excited about the release and Microsoft-approval of BI360’s Power BI connector,” says, Mike Applegate, CTO at Solver. “Our customers and partners have asked for this and now we have delivered.”
Solver’s release of the BI360 Power BI Connector signals its commitment to developing the most accessible tools for Microsoft users to make important financial and operational decisions in their organizations. Additionally, Solver believes the ease with which the BI360 Power BI Connector delivers information to the Power BI dashboard will encourage more Microsoft customers to consider the benefits of the industry-growing use of cloud technology.
To learn more about the BI360 connector and Power BI dashboards, click to see the brochure.
About Solver
With a quickly growing community of more than 2,700 global customers and hundreds of partners worldwide, Solver provides BI360, the leading cloud Corporate Performance Management suite for Microsoft Dynamics, Acumatica, SAP Business One, SAP ByDesign, Sage Intacct, Sage 100, Sage 300, Sage 500, Sage X3, NetSuite and other ERPs. BI360 is ranked in the leader quadrant in the Corporate Performance Management (CPM) Software Grid on G2 Crowd, and as a Microsoft Gold ISV Partner, Solver has won countless awards, including the Microsoft BI Partner of Year Award, recognition on the Gartner Group CPM Magic Quadrant, and Best Places to Work for a workplace culture that celebrates customer service, integrity, and innovation. BI360 is sold through its 12 global offices and a worldwide network of partners. For any questions, visit www.solverglobal.com or contact Solver at info@solverglobal.com.
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Lady Tigers Split with Wabash Valley in Home DH
Marion, AL. - After a dismal performance in game one of Monday's home doubleheader against Wabash Valley College (L, 0-11), the MMI Lady Tigers regrouped to take a 2-1 victory in game two.
Freshman Lexi McCray started on the mound in game two and worked a complete seven innings. The game remained scoreless until Marion scored a run in the bottom half of the fourth inning. Braedyn Ward singled in Morgan Gaither. The Lady Warriors from Wabash scored one run in the fifth inning on a bases loaded walk.
The bottom of the seventh inning saw freshman Whitney Edgecomb double off the left field fence with one out. Yasmin Cottingham walked after fouling off multiple pitches. Alex Reed flew out to left field and starting pitcher McCray stepped to the plate with two outs. A double off her bat allowed Edgecomb to score the winning run and give the Lady Tigers their eighth win of the season.
Marion travels to East Central CC Tuesday for a doubleheader. First pitch is scheduled for 2:00 p.m.
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Games, Pages with section stubs, GameCube games,
Mario Party 5 is a party video game published by Nintendo and developed by Hudson Soft.
Mario Party 5 is the fifth installment in the Mario Party video game series, which began with Mario Party in 2009 (2010 in North America). The game's story concerns Mario and his friends trying to restore peace to the Dream Depot which is being invaded by Bowser.
The Star Spirits from Paper Mario invite Mario and friends to Dream Depot. Then, however after, Bowser comes and ruins Dream Depot. Due to this, Mario and his friends must fight him in order to restore Dream Depot.
This section is a stub. You can help MarioWiki by expanding it.
Mario Party 5's Title Screen
Mario Party 5 drastically improves the gameplay from the previous game with new innovations to the series. Mario Party 5 keeps the same modes from the previous games. The player will have a choice to choose between Party Mode, Story Mode, and Mini-game Mode. The rules for Party Mode remain unchanged for the most part. The player will have the choice to play up to four players on the board, with computer players filling in the role for human players that are absent. They will be able to customize the rules that they would like for the board maps, which includes the number of turns and types of mini-games that are played on the board. At the beginning of the game, the characters will hit a Dice Block to determine the turn order for the board. Once the turns are determined, the players will travel around the board and collect coins from spaces and events that lie around the board. The general idea is for the player to collect enough coins to purchase a star, that is randomly placed around the board. At the end of each turn, a special type of mini-game is played, where the players engage in a small game with the opportunity to win more coins.
One new change that was introduced in this game was the size of the board maps. In the past Mario Party games, the boards were flat and levelled evenly. Mario Party 5 breaks this tradition by making the boards into "3D". The board are now no longer flat and contain a number of elevated pathways that are reached by climbing ladders and steps. This makes the board look bigger, and allows for different events to be incorporated at different sections of the board, without them being jumbled up. Like past Mario Party games, the board maps in this game follow a dream theme. Each board contains its own theme, which contains props and events that relate to this theme. For example, the board map Toy Dream is filled with toys scattered around the boards, and events that deal with the many toys on the board.
A capsule that is thrown on the board by a player.
One new major feature to Mario Party 5 is the introduction of the Capsule System. The capsule system was designed to replace the old item system from the previous Mario Party games. The players can receive a capsule by collecting them from the Capsule Machines that are scattered around the board. The Capsule Machine will dispense the capsules for free. The player has a chance to get four different capsules which are based on color. A green capsule will affect the player's movement, a yellow capsule will affect the player's coin count, a red capsule will affect the player's capsules, and a blue capsule contains a variety of events. Each of the capsules represents a different Mario character. Once a player collects a capsule, they have the option of either using it on themselves or throwing it on the board and create a "trap" space. If a player decides to use a capsule on themselves, then they will be forced to pay a certain fee and receive the effects of the capsule. The player can also throw the capsule up to ten spaces in front of them on the board, creating a trap space for other players to land on. When a capsule is thrown on the board, the Blue Space or Red Space that it's thrown on will receive a symbol to indicate that a capsule is thrown on the board. Any player can land on any of the capsule spaces on the board. This could be an advantage or disadvantage to the characters.
Story Mode
Story Mode was drastically changed from the previous Mario Party games. In Mario Party 5, the gameplay for Story Mode is sped up to make the game go faster. The general gameplay for Story Mode has changed also. In past Mario Party games, the player would have to compete with three other characters to win a board map similar to the Party Mode rules. However, the player will be dueling the Koopa Kids on the board maps to determine the winner. The main objective is for the player to deplete all the coins from each one of the three Koopa Kids to eliminate them from the game. They will have to do this in 15 turns or less. The board maps that the characters will play on is a much smaller version than the normal size of the board maps. The player will still be able to collect capsules, although some capsules effects change, while other capsules don't exist in this mode. The main way to get the Koopa Kids to lose their coins is by dueling them. Every time a Koopa Kid places the player, they will be forced to participate in a duel. The loser of the duel will lose coins. When a character doesn't have any coins remaining, then they will be eliminated from the game. The player is ranked at the end of each board depending on the number of turns it takes to eliminate all 3 Koopa Kids.
Super Duel Mode
Main article: Super Duel Mode
Somewhere beyond human stars lies a dream world known as the Dream Depot, where all of the dreams made on Earth merge into one. On one particular night, the guardians of this world, the Star Spirits (who last appeared in Paper Mario), decided to allow certain particularly powerful dreamers into the Dream Depot for a chance to visit. In the end, they invite Mario and his closest allies into their world, as they are the biggest dreamers on Earth. However, Bowser, Mario's nemesis, has somehow snuck his way into the Dream Depot and is now threatening to replace everyone's dreams with his own megalomaniacal delusions. The Star Spirits now look to their guests to play their minigames and stop Bowser's evil plot.
Mario Party 5 is the first game to introduce new characters to the series since Mario Party 3. The three new characters include Boo, Toad, and Koopa Kid. In addition to these three characters, Donkey Kong was removed from the playable character line-up. He becomes a host of the new DK Space that appears on the boards, which acts opposite of the Bowser Space. Mario Party 5 also introduces a new set of hosts, the Star Spirits. The Star Spirits are responsible for hosting each of the modes and events in this game.
Princess Peach
Princess Daisy
New Playable Characters
Koopa Kid
Star Spirits - The Star Spirits are responsible for hosting the different modes in Mario Party 5. Each Star Spirit hosts a different mode and will instruct the character in that specific mode.
Donkey Kong - For the first time in the Mario Party series, Donkey Kong appears as a non-playable character DK now owns his own space on the board map called the DK Space. When a player lands on the DK space, they will participate in an event that could net them coins or a star. DK also appears sometimes to help the player out when they land on the Bowser Space.
Bowser - Bowser appears as the antagonist in Mario Party 5. He invades the Dream Depot and wrecks the dreams that exist within the Depot. Bowser hosts his own space like in past games. When a player lands on Bowser's space, they will usually engage in an event that will affect their coins, capsules, or stars. He is also the final boss that is fought at the end of Story Mode.
Capsule Machines - These dispensers are scattered throughout the board. When a player approaches a Capsule Machine, the player will be asked if they would like a free capsule, which is then dispensed by the machine.
Koopa Kid Gang - These Koopa Kids appear in Story Mode, and fight team up against the main player in order to prevent them from winning the board. These Koopa Kids are classified by their colors: blue, green, and red
Capsules are Items in Mario Party 5 that can be obtained by passing a capsule machine.
This is the list of the capsules.
Bubble Capsule
Cursed Mushroom Capsule
Klepto Capsule
Mushroom Capsule
Super Mushroom Capsule
Warp Pipe Capsule
Wiggler Capsule
Bob-omb Capsule
Bullet Bill Capsule
Coin Block Capsule
Goomba Capsule
Hammer Bro. Capsule
Koopa Bank Capsule
Paratroopa Capsule
Piranha Plant Capsule
Spiny Capsule
Kamek Capsule
Lakitu Capsule
Magikoopa Capsule
Mr. Blizzard Capsule
Ukiki Capsule
Bone Capsule
Chain Chomp Capsule
Chance Capsule
Duel Capsule
Miracle Capsule
Tweester Capsule
Bowser Capsule
Toy Dream
Future Dream
Rainbow Dream
Undersea Dream
Pirate Dream
Bowser Nightmare
Arcade version
Super Mario Fushigi no Korokoro Party (translated as Super Mario: The Mysterious Rolling Party) is an arcade version of Mario Party 5 released exclusively in Japan in 2004. It was developed by Capcom instead of Hudson Soft.
Up to six players could play, unlike Mario Party 5 which only allowed four players that can battle each other.
This is the first Mario Party game to not have Donkey Kong as a playable character.
However, he is still playable only in Super Duel Mode if you build his machine together.
This is also the first game that makes former supporting/host characters Koopa Kid, Toad, and Boo as playable characters.
This is the first Mario Party game not to include any Battle Spaces. Instead, Battle mini-games randomly appear whenever a 4-player mini-game was going to be played.
This is also the first Mario Party game to have Wario wears his short sleeved shirt.
Daisy's voice in this game is actually a higher pitched version of her voice in the previous game, similar to how her voice in Mario Party 3 was.
The capsule depicting a Toady is incorrectly labeled as "Magikoopa Capsule." Later Mario Party games correctly labeled it as "Toady Orb."
This is the last Mario game where Jen Taylor voices Daisy. For Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour onward, she is replaced by Deanna Mustard.
This is also the last Mario Party game to feature Bowser's sound effects from the first four Mario Party games.
Several voice clips are reused from Mario Party 4.
Mario • Luigi • Princess Peach • Yoshi • Wario • Princess Daisy • Waluigi • Toad • Boo • Koopa Kid
Bowser • Star Spirits • Donkey Kong • Capsule Machine • Koopa Kid Gang
Toy Dream • Sweet Dream • Future Dream • Rainbow Dream • Undersea Dream • Pirate Dream • Bowser Nightmare
Chimp Chase • Chomp Romp • Coin Cache • Coney Island • Dinger Derby • Dodge Bomb • Fish Sticks • Fish Upon A Star • Flower Shower • Frozen Frenzy • Ground Pound Down • Hotel Goomba • Hydrostars • Later Skater • Leaf Leap • Mazed & Confused • Night Light Fright • Pop-Star Piranhas • Pushy Penguins • Rumble Fumble • Triple Jump • Vicious Vending • Will Flower
1 vs. 3
Beam Team • Big Top Drop • Curvy Curbs • Fight Cards • Flatiator • Heat Stroke • Mario Mechs • Mathletes • Quilt for Speed • Revolving Fire • Squared Away • Tube It or Lose It
Banking Coins • Berry Basket • Bus Buffer • Clock Stoppers • Defuse or Lose • Handy Hoppers • ID UFO • Manic Mallets • Mario Can-Can • Panic Pinball • Rumble Ready • Submarathon
Cage-in Cookin' • Rain of Fire • Scaldin' Cauldron
Blown Away • Bound of Music • Button Mashers • Countdown Pound • Get a Rope • Head Waiter • Merry Poppings • Piece Out • Pound Peril • Pump 'n' Jump • Shock Absorbers • Shy Guy Showdown • Sky Survivor • Whomp Maze • Wind Wavers
Astro-Logical • Bill Blasters • Lucky Lineup • Random Ride • Tug-o-Dorrie • Twist 'n' Out
Banana Punch • Da Vine Climb • Mass-A-Peel
Frightmare
? Space • Bank Space • Bowser Space • Capsule Space • Chance Space • Duel Space • DK Space • Green Space (Card Party only) • Minus Space • Mushroom Space • Plus Space • Star Space
List of minigames in Mario Party 5
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European Shipowners’ President Niels Smedegaard hands over the Presidency to Panagiotis Laskaridis
Maritime Cyprus admin / December 15, 2017
(http://www.MaritimeCyprus.com) ECSA, European Community Shipowners’ Associations held its Board of Directors’ meeting today and Niels Smedegaard of Danish Shipping and CEO of DFDS handed over ECSA Presidency to Mr. Panagiotis Laskaridis, Member of the Board of the Union of Greek Shipowners and CEO of Laskaridis Shipping Co. Ltd. and CEO of Lavinia Corp. Mr. Laskaridis will start his two-year term as ECSA’s new President from January 2018. Mr. Smedegaard will remain Board Member representing Danish Shipping.
“I am very pleased of this trust, and committed to focus the European shipping agenda on shipowning matters, work with stakeholders for an efficient, competitive and future oriented European shipowning community’’, Laskaridis said.
Mr. Martin Dorsman Secretary General of ECSA said: “We look forward to working closely with Mr. Laskaridis and welcome his profound expertise and experience of the global shipping sector”.
Mr. Claes Berglund of the Swedish Shipowners and Director Public Affairs and Sustainability, from Stena AB will start as ECSA’s Vice-President in January. “I feel honoured of this appointment and look forward to supporting ECSA’s work. Shipping is dependent on a strong EU with a clear focus and we need to ensure an open market and free trade”, he commented.
Mr. Dorsman thanked on behalf of the Board and ECSA staff Niels Smedegaard for steering ECSA the last two years through intense discussions and reaching unanimous positions. “The excellent chairmanship of Niels Smedegaard stands out even more taken into account the very challenging circumstances for shipowners the last years”, he said.
“Combining environmental improvements with maintaining the competitive position of EU shipowners is a real achievement. I’m really pleased that Mr. Smedegaard will continue to contribute to the ECSA Board discussions the coming years”, Martin Dorsman concluded.
Source: ECSA
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Low Interest Rates, Economic Kill or Cure?
Interest-Rates / Inflation Feb 23, 2012 - 01:21 AM GMT
By: Adrian_Ash
Hold still! This might sting a little...
"TREATING serious medical conditions often has unwanted side effects," said Charles Bean, deputy governor of the Bank of England and a doctor of economics, in a speech in Glasgow on Tuesday.
"But, unpleasant as those side effects sometimes are, treatment is invariably better than the alternative. So it is with the economic medicine of low interest rates and quantitative easing."
The sometime economics professor was specifically addressing the impact of sub-zero real interest rates on savers and pensioners. That's when retained capital loses real purchasing power, because the interest or yield that it earns lags the rate of inflation.
"[Savers] have every right to feel aggrieved at losing out," said Dr.Bean. "After all, they did nothing to cause the financial crisis. But neither did most of those in work, who have also seen a substantial squeeze in their real incomes."
Right! And since neither workers nor savers are to blame for this crisis, they can both pay – and pay dearly – by being fed another dose of kill-or-cure medicine which has yet to work in 3 years of treatment...
Attempting to defend quantitative easing and near-zero rates, as Bean did in Glasgow on Tuesday, is a thankless task. Not only because it's done nothing to lift the depression to date. But because it's actually adding to the gloom – as his boss, the Bank's governor, Mervyn King, 'fessed up last autumn. In a very roundabout way.
"I would certainly accept that what is happening in the economy now is a very large squeeze on household incomes," Dr.King told the UK's Treasury Select Committee. "Real take-home pay has fallen by more in the past two years than any time in living memory."
You can see the squeeze on real wages above. Gross pay has risen much less quickly than inflation, which has raced ahead at almost twice the pace of the Bank of England's official 2.0% annual target. By February 2012, and three years after it started, the avowed aim of quantitative easing – of boosting inflation, to insure against the fat chance of it ever falling below target – had cost the average wage-earner £1410 in spending power.
That's the cumulative gap between what wage-earners actually made, adjusted for inflation, and what they would have made if the Bank had indeed hit its 2.0% target. Call it the cost of quantitative easing: £1410 in real spending power. Now add the real loss imposed on bank savings too, and that cost today runs – on average – to £3,241 for every household where one person works. Families with two or more workers are worse off again.
Feeling any better? Didn't think so. But here's how Dr.King, with his best bed-side manner, explained the treatment to Parliament:
"Now, that [loss in real pay] is not the result of inflation being high. Inflation is the symptom."
With it so far? The doctor went on regardless:
"The causes of that squeeze on living standards are real causes. They are a change in world prices of energy, and the utility prices of gas and electricity. They are the consequences of higher value-added tax, higher food prices, and a consequence of a fall in the real exchange rate, which was necessary for us to be able to rebalance our economy in the way that was vital after a prolonged period of a relatively over-valued exchange rate."
To put Dr.King's prognosis in layman's terms:
#1. The Pound's exchange rate fell, pushing up prices;
#2. Food and energy prices were rising anyway;
#3. The rise in VAT sales tax (from 17.5% to 20%) made things worse.
Number 3 was of course a fiscal decision, made by the Treasury, not the Bank. But "real causes" 1 and 2...? How did those boils break out?
"Countries with faster growth rates of money experience higher inflation," said a younger, less care-worn Dr.King back when he was deputy, rather than running the clinic. And "it is clear...that the correlation between money growth and inflation is greater the longer is the time horizon over which both are measured."
Quantitative easing appeals to just the same mechanism today. More money means more inflation. Meaning that injections of money are sure to raise the cost of living. They're also sure to depress the currency's exchange rate, especially if the injection goes unsterilized – a disaster in medicine, of course, but very necessary in monetary policy apparently. Because "sterilization" would mean withdrawing the same quantity of money as you inject, by selling bonds to the very same value, thus negating its impact entirely.
Nurse! Spit on this needle for me would you?
Reading today's notes from the consultants' latest meeting, we guess the Bank of England believe that inflation means recovery will follow. Because inflation rarely exists without economic growth. Hyperinflationary depressions aside of course (see Weimar Germany, post-war Austria and Hungary, Argentina time and again, Zimbabwe a decade ago...). More money must mean more spending, right? And if it doesn't, then just keep injecting the patient until he starts spending on something...anything!
"Interest rate less than the inflation rate boosts gambling businesses, on gold and foreign exchange markets," said governor of the Central Bank of Iran, Mahmoud Bahmani, last week. His colleagues in London, Washington and Frankfurt have seen the very same results come back from the lab. Because people buy gold when they fear or lose out to inflation. Others trade currencies, and still more find themselves basing all financial decisions – from buying a house, to taking a job or lending to business – on a wild speculation about what the next wild move from the central bank might be.
Unlike Bahmani, the US, UK and Euro authorities refuse to raise rates, but for now the Iranian doctor's got much further to go. Tehran's base rate now stands at 6%. Inflation is running above 21% per year – making for the kind of negative real rate not suffered by Western workers and savers outside mid-1970s Britain. Gold has again helped ease the pain of zero-rate money printing since 2009. Every fresh dose of unsterilized money is likely to indicate a greater dose of gold buying, too.
Back in the doctor's surgery, meantime, and let's not forget that the Bank of England's collective PhD brains are savers and workers as well. We are all in this together, remember.
Yet in medicine, "Doctors administer so much care that they wouldn't want for themselves," admits one physician, now widely quoted and breaking a taboo within the profession. "They know enough about modern medicine to know its limits. And they know enough about death to...want to be sure, when the time comes, that no heroic measures will happen – that they will never experience, during their last moments on earth, someone breaking their ribs in an attempt to resuscitate them with CPR (that’s what happens if CPR is done right)."
No one's ribs get broken if quantitative easing is done, right or wrong. But better to be safe than sorry perhaps. Dr.King's own pension pot got a £1.4 million boost ($2.1m) just as his team began prescribing ever-lower rates of interest on savers and retirees. The trustees of the Bank's staff pension scheme then switched the entire fund out of government gilts and into inflation-linked government bonds – the best-peforming income-bearing asset under the UK's stagflation – in the 12 months immediately preceding the start of QE in March 2009.
Now hold still – this might sting a little.
By Adrian Ash
BullionVault.com
Gold price chart, no delay | Buy gold online at live prices
Formerly City correspondent for The Daily Reckoning in London and a regular contributor to MoneyWeek magazine, Adrian Ash is the editor of Gold News and head of research at www.BullionVault.com , giving you direct access to investment gold, vaulted in Zurich , on $3 spreads and 0.8% dealing fees.
(c) BullionVault 2012
Please Note: This article is to inform your thinking, not lead it. Only you can decide the best place for your money, and any decision you make will put your money at risk. Information or data included here may have already been overtaken by events – and must be verified elsewhere – should you choose to act on it.
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70 songs to celebrate Eric Clapton's 70th birthday
Eric Clapton performs in support of his "Clapton" release at Power Balance Pavilion in Sacramento, California on March 3, 2011.
Image: Tim Mosenfelder/Corbis
By Connor Finnegan 2015-03-31 00:47:05 UTC
It's hard to believe, but rock legend Eric Clapton turns 70 on Monday.
To celebrate his impressive career, we put together a Music Monday playlist full of his greatest hits — one for every year of his amazing life so far.
See also: How an Electric Guitar Actually Works
Rock on, Mr. Clapton.
Have something to add to our playlist? Share it with us in the comments, below, or on Spotify, and we'll add it in.
How to share your song with us
1. To follow Mashable on Spotify, click here. If a popup window asks you to launch an external application, accept. This just means the browser will open up Spotify.
2. Follow Mashable, or send us music by clicking "Send Music."
3. To send music while browsing tracks within Spotify, follow the MashableHQ account. Then right-click (ctrl + click) on the song you want to send, and click the "Share" option.
4. By default, Spotify pulls up the "Post to Feed" option. Instead, select the "Send to Friend" tab, type in "MashableHQ" and hit the blue "Send" button.
If "MashableHQ" doesn't show up when you're trying to send a track, make sure you're following the account. If you're still having problems sending a song after that, let us know in the comments, below, and we'll help you fix the problem.
Topics: Entertainment, Music
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Satisfy your Olympics withdrawals with Nike's latest app
Image: Nike
By David Yi 2016-08-23 13:00:00 UTC
Following in the footsteps of last year's successful launch of Nike's Tech Book is back in its second iteration, coming to an app store near you.
SEE ALSO: Iconic and innovative, the Air Jordan XXXI continues the Nike legacy
Like 2015's version, the Tech Book is a live lookbook where users can touch, play and swipe across Nike's fall goods in a unique digital shopping experience. Items highlighted include the brand's upcoming Tech Fleece and popular SneakerBoot products.
The biggest draw perhaps, is Nike's Olympics stars who users can interact with. These include: Neymar Jr., Rafael Nadal, Kevin Durant, Allyson Felix, Dina Asher-Smith, among others. With the app, users will be able to simply tap on their favorite Olympic star and immediately receive behind-the-scenes photography, athlete insights, stories, motion experiences and more.
Olympic sprinter Allyson Felix
The best part of it all is that all of the items from the live lookbook are completely shoppable. We already said this was extremely dangerous when we wrote about the Tech Book last year. This is no different. The live 3D views of the products and the ability to receive beautiful experiences with apparel items while also interacting with athletes makes this a compelling shopping experience
To download the app, head to the iTunes or Google Play store Thursday, August 25.
Topics: apparel, Entertainment, Fashion, Nike, techbook
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Notre Dame hosts Career Fair July 16
by Marissa Gebhard
The University of Notre Dame will host a career fair from 3 to 7 p.m. Tuesday (July 16) in the Monogram Room at the Joyce Center at Notre Dame. Hiring managers will interview candidates for more than 50 full-time, part-time and temporary service industry positions and will make hiring decisions immediately.
A wide variety of positions are available in Campus Dining, Custodial Services, the Morris Inn, Parking Services and St. Michael’s Laundry. A complete list of job titles and job descriptions are available online. Positions include the following as well as many others:
Baker at the Center for Culinary Excellence — full-time
Cook at South Dining Hall — full-time
Cook at Legends — part-time
Cook at the Morris Inn — full-time, part-time and on-call
Custodian — full-time, temporary/on-call
Dining room server at the Morris Inn — full-time, part-time and on-call
Guest room attendant at the Morris Inn — full-time, part-time and on-call
Kitchen associate at Au Bon Pain, Catering — part-time
Laundry attendant at St. Michael’s Laundry — temporary
Parking attendant — temporary or on-call
Retail associates at Campus Dining — part-time
Server/bartender at Legends — part-time
All candidates who attend the fair should be prepared for interviews. Employment benefits for full-time employees of the University include job stability, growth opportunities, a generous retirement package, more than 30 days of paid vacation, sick and holiday time, medical and dental insurance, free Transpo bus transportation with a Notre Dame ID card, access to the Notre Dame Wellness Center and tuition assistance.
Free parking is available south of the Joyce Center for those attending the fair.
Contact: Matthew Blazejewski, director of talent acquisition, 574-631-7507
Originally published by Marissa Gebhard at news.nd.edu on July 09, 2019.
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Assessing Cybersecurity? Think (Business) Risk!
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Christian youth leader in Mizoram apprehensive of BJP’s policy
SANGZUALA HMAR
AIZAWL , March 6, 2018 5:24 pm
General conference of Kristian Thalai Pawl held at West Phaileng in Mamit district was attended by over 20,000 members on March 4, 2018. Photo; S Hmar
Rev. Zothansanga, the outgoing leader of Kristian Thalai Pawl, Mizoram’s largest congregation of youth Christians has appealed to its members not to fall prey to the Bharatiya Janata Party’s politics of money on March 4.
Rev. Zothansanga who held a term of two years as the leader of KTP, at the biennial has expressed his apprehension over the BJP policy and doling out money in context of development to woo voters across the region.
“Church leaders from neighbouring states regretted their late involvement in their area of influence, now that the saffronisation has crept into what can be called Christians states of Meghalaya and Nagaland,” Rev. Zothansanga said.
The recent success of the BJP and its electoral allies has given political thinkers in Mizoram to reassess their premonition of the political scenario of the state. The political trend in the region especially in the Christian dominated states of Nagaland and Meghalaya has shaken the confidence the decade long Congress rule in Mizoram.
“The BJP’s attempt to create a Hindu state of India has swept the entire country, even the traditional northeast stronghold of secular parties are now charmed by the saffron spell, Christians in Mizoram should not fall for the saffron movement,” Rev. Zothansanga said.
The Kristian Thalai Pawl is the largest youth Christian fellowship in Mizoram having 1,47,665 members and 860 branches in Mizoram and neighbouring states of Assam, Meghalaya, Manipur and Tripura.
The recently concluded general conference held at West Phaileng in Mamit district was attended by over 20,000 members.
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Venice must be put on U.N. danger list, ban cruise ships: conservationists
By Philip Pullella
FILE PHOTO: The cruise ship MSC Opera loses control and crashes against a smaller tourist boat at the San Basilio dock in Venice
ROME (Reuters) - Venice should be put on the United Nations' list of endangered cities and cruise ships should be banned from its fragile lagoon to prevent an ecological disaster, Italy's main conservation group said on Monday.
The call came less than a month after a towering cruise ship collided with a dock and a tourist boat in Venice, injuring four people and rekindling a heated debate in Italy about how to protect the historic city, which draws some 30 million tourists a year.
"Venice is unique and we cannot allow it to be destroyed even more than it has been already," said Mariarita Signorini, national president of Italia Nostra (Our Italy), whose stated mission is to defend Italy's cultural and natural heritage.
"Venice is one of the most endangered cities in the world," she told a news conference announcing the decision to ask the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) to put the city on its List of World Heritage in Danger.
Venice and its lagoon are already on UNESCO's list of World Heritage Sites but Italia Nostra says unbridled tourism, a steady exodus of longtime residents and environmental decay pose a huge threat to the city's survival.
According to UNESCO's website, the danger list is meant to "encourage corrective action".
While being put on the danger list would have no immediate consequences, Italia Nostra argues that this would compel national authorities to enact more safeguards.
It was not immediately clear what Venice's prospects were for being included on the list, which currently has 54 sites worldwide, some of them but by no means all in conflict zones.
"NOT JUST BUILDINGS"
The June 2 collision between MSC Cruises' massive 2,679-passenger Opera and the moored "River Countess", which had 110 people on board, re-ignited calls for banning giant ships.
The accident conjured up memories of the 2012 accident involving the Costa Concordia, which overturned after hitting rocks near the island of Giglio, killing 32 people.
"If something like that happened in the lagoon, it would be the end of the ecosystem," said Lidia Fersuoch, head of Italia Nostra in Venice. "Venice is not just buildings. The lagoon is a living thing."
Cruise ships enter the lagoon via one of the three "mouths" that connect it to the Adriatic Sea, pass near St. Marks Square and go through the Giudecca Canal to reach a passenger terminal.
Italia Nostra says they cause waves that damage historic buildings. The group wants a port for big ships built at one of the mouths where the Adriatic meets the lagoon.
(Reporting By Philip Pullella; Editing by Gareth Jones)
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Emirates to Resume Flights to Khartoum
DUBAI, U.A.E. 4 July, 2019 – Emirates has announced that it will resume flights to Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, from 08 July, 2019.
The daily service between Dubai and Khartoum, will once again provide both business and leisure travellers in Sudan, global connectivity through the airline’s network, particularly to destinations in the Middle East, West Asia, United States and the Far East, with one convenient flight connection at its Dubai hub. Key destinations for travellers from Sudan include Dubai and the GCC, Malaysia, China, United Kingdom and United States.
“After closely monitoring the situation in Sudan and conducting an exhaustive review of all operational factors, we have decided to resume our services to Khartoum. This will help support local business and increase access to international markets, as well as benefit passengers connecting to our global network,” said Orhan Abbas, Emirates’ Senior Vice President Commercial Operations, Africa.
Operating daily, EK733 departs Dubai at 1435hrs and arrives in Khartoum at 1640hrs. The return flight, EK734, departs Khartoum at 18:10hrs and arrives in Dubai at 00:20hrs the next morning. Emirates currently operates a Boeing 777ER on the route, offering customers a choice of cabins with 8 luxurious private suites in First Class, 42 lie-flat seats in Business Class and plenty of room to relax in Economy Class with 304 seats.
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Bitly Said To Have Blocked 200 Contacts From Andreas Antonopoulos’ ‘Mastering Ethereum’
Bitly has of late received a lot of criticism from social media users. The platform is a URL shortening service and manages links.
This condemnation came shortly after one of the twitter users disclosed that the platform had blocked all the digital money associate links from his manuscript. The information was revealed to Andreas Antonopoulos on November 3rd.
Antonopoulos Questions Bitly’s Actions
Antonopoulos, a famous writer on the subject of Bitcoin, questioned Bitly on Twitter about the decision. Additionally, it affects more than 200 links to his tome Mastering Ethereum. Some of them anticipate publishing their content after the duration of one month.
He pressed them as to why crypto links were receiving such unfair treatment without any justification.
Additionally, he disclosed that soon he will print his fourth edition which will have 200 bitly links in it. All of the 200 links will be removed and replaced with a rival if these links will be blocked.
However, Bitly had not replied prior to press time on November 5th. Many social media users defended Antonopoulos by describing the move as unfair. Most people called for decentralized link shorteners.
Other social commentators gave diverse opinions on the issue. One of the Tweets warned Antonopoulos not to depend on bitly or any other url shortening service. The observer further revealed that such a move can result in failure. Therefore, in the future it is advisable to avoid such costly mistakes.
There is a need for tolerance in the industry because blocking links can lead to bad blood between parties.
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Wendell Chavous
Premium Motorsports will cease Truck Series operation after 2018, auction equipment
By Daniel McFadinOct 18, 2018, 12:50 PM EDT
Five days after it earned its first top five in the series, Premium Motorsports announced Thursday it will not compete in the Camping World Truck Series next season.
The team, which has fielded entries in the series in 112 starts since 2015, is making the move “to be able to focus solely on their Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series racing program in 2019.”
Premium will finish the season with its No. 49 Chevrolet, which is sponsored by Sobriety Nation. Wendell Chavous drove it for the first 19 races of the season. He retired from competition after last weekend’s Talladega race, where he earned his first career top five.
Nine other drivers have competed for the team throughout the season.
The team will auction off most of the its assets at the end of this month.
It has retained Gavel Auction Company NCAL6177 in Mooresville, North Carolina, for an auction to be held at 10 a.m. ET on Oct. 30.
Tags: camping world truck series, nascar, premium motorsports, Wendell Chavous, Wendell Chavous
Truck results, point standings after Talladega
Photo by Brian Lawdermilk/Getty Images
By Dan BeaverOct 13, 2018, 4:28 PM EDT
The Round of 8 came to a close at Talladega with several playoff contenders involved in accidents. In the end, it was part-time driver Timothy Peters who survived the carnage to score his third Truck victory at Talladega and 11th of his career.
Last-lap contact with Noah Gragson opened the door for Peters to win and caused the Fr8Auctions 250 to end under caution with Myatt Snider second and David Gilliland third.
Fourth-place Justin Haley was the only playoff contender in the top five. Wendell Chavous rounded finished fifth to score his first Tuck top 10.
Click here for complete results
Johnny Sauter scored enough stage points to advance in the playoffs. He enters the Round of 6 with the lead and 42 bonus points.
Brett Moffitt is seeded second with 27 bonus points and is followed by Noah Gragson (25), Grant Enfinger (18) and Justin Haley (14). Matt Crafton is seeded in the sixth and final position with three bonus points.
Ben Rhodes and Stewart Friesen failed to advance.
Click here for the complete points
Tags: Ben Rhodes, Brett Moffitt, David Gilliland, Fr8auctions 250, Grant Enfinger, Johnny Sauter, justin haley, Matt Crafton, Myatt Snider, Noah Gragson, Stewart Friesen, Timothy Peters, Wendell Chavous, Ben Rhodes, Brett Moffitt, David Gilliland, Grant Enfinger, Johnny Sauter, Justin Haley, Matt Crafton, Myatt Snider, Noah Gragson, Stewart Friesen, Timothy Peters, Wendell Chavous
Timothy Peters wins Truck race at Talladega after last-lap contact
Photo by Matt Sullivan/Getty Images
Contact on the final lap of the Fr8auctions 250 at Talladega Superspeedway between Timothy Peters and Noah Gragson sent one driver spinning and the other to victory lane.
Peters made contact with Gragson’s right rear quarter panel while battling for the lead, sending Gragson’s truck into the wall. Peters was ahead of the field as the caution waved to freeze the field to score the win.
“My spotter said clear coming down to the tri-oval and I just didn’t get cleared enough,” Peters said. “I had my teammate coming on the outside and had a good push … to the outside and it was just formed up quicker, better trucks, coming off of Turn 2. We’re coming down to the checkered flag and we’re trying to make the best of it. Noah is going for it, too. Was it a block? At that point it didn’t matter, I wasn’t going to lift. I hated the outcome that it was but it feels good to cross that finish line knowing we won that race.”
Myatt Snider finished second with David Gilliland third. Justin Haley, who was already locked into the Round of 6 with his win at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park, finished fourth. Wendell Chavous placed a career-best fifth in what he said would be his last series race.
Ben Rhodes and Stewart Friesen were eliminated from title contention.
Stage 1 and Stage 2 went caution-free with a few close calls. It boiled over in the final stage. On lap 59, Chris Fontaine changed lanes from the high side and came across the nose of Haley. Fontaine spun into Johnny Sauter and then shot back up the track. When the smoke cleared, 10 trucks were heavily damaged, including those of points contenders Matt Crafton and Ben Rhodes. Also involved were Parker Kligerman, Spencer Gallagher, John Hunter Nemechek, Bo LeMastus and Justin Fontaine. The accident brought out a red flag that lasted 11 minutes, 42 seconds.
Here's a look at how the Big One happened at @TalladegaSuperS. @Matt_Crafton, @benrhodes and others collected. #NASCARPlayoffs pic.twitter.com/eMQBwc3R7S
— NASCAR Trucks (@NASCAR_Trucks) October 13, 2018
Gragson tweeted after the race that there were no hard feelings toward Peters.
Just hard racing in my opinion. 25 did nothing wrong. We all have a race to go win! Just part of it. I still had fun👍🏼
— Noah Gragson (@NoahGragson) October 13, 2018
STAGE 1 WINNER: Grant Enfinger
STAGE 2 WINNER: Todd Gilliland
MORE: Click here for complete results
MORE: Click here for the complete points
WHO HAD A GOOD RACE: Wendell Chavous finished fifth to earn his first top 10 in 50 Truck races. … Bryan Dauzat (8th) scored his first top-10 finish in his fourth career start. … In his third career Truck race, Max Tullman scored his first top 10 (10th). His previous best was a 23rd at Chicagoland earlier this year.
WHO HAD A BAD RACE: Tanner Thorson (31st) got turned out of the draft with three laps remaining in Stage 2, collecting Brett Moffitt. Early in the final stage, he cut a tire and spun in a single-truck incident. … Making his fourth start of the season, Parker Kligerman (28th) pinballed his way through the Lap 59 accident and made heavy contact with the inside wall. … Coming off Turn 4, Todd Gilliland (20th) made contact with Enfinger with 11 laps remaining while battling for the lead. Gilliland made heavy contact with the inside wall.
QUOTE OF THE RACE: “That’s Talladega. That’s what we race here for: wild wrecks and crazy finishes. … We had a great first two segments and then got hooked in the right rear in that one,” Crafton said on Fox after being involved in a Lap 59 accident.
WHAT’S NEXT: Texas Roadhouse 200 at 1 p.m. ET on Oct. 27 on Fox Sports 1.
Tags: Ben Rhodes, Bo LeMastus, Bryan Dauzat, Chris Fontaine, Fr8auctions 250, John Hunter Nemechek, Johnny Sauter, Justin Fontaine, justin haley, Matt Crafton, Noah Gragson, Spencer Gallagher, Timothy Peters, Wendell Chavous, Ben Rhodes, Bo LeMastus, Brett Moffitt, Bryan Dauzat, Chris Fontaine, David Gilliland, Grant Enfinger, John Hunter Nemechek, Johnny Sauter, Justin Fontaine, Justin Haley, Matt Crafton, Max Tullman, Myatt Snider, Noah Gragson, Parker Kligerman, Spencer Gallagher, Stewart Friesen, Tanner Thorson, Timothy Peters, Todd Gilliland, Wendell Chavous
Wendell Chavous stepping away from NASCAR after Talladega Truck race
By Daniel McFadinOct 8, 2018, 1:01 PM EDT
Camping World Truck Series driver Wendell Chavous announced Monday via Twitter that he will step away from NASCAR indefinitely following this weekend’s Camping World Truck Series race at Talladega.
Chavous has 49 career starts in the series since 2014. He’s competing full-time this year for Premium Motorsports. He best result through 18 races is 12th twice.
“It took me a long time to fully embrace and feel good about making this choice,” Chavous said. “I truly know in my heart it is the right thing to do for me and for my family as well.”
Chavous, 33, cited the “very demanding” NASCAR schedule in his decision as well as a desire to be more involved in his own company and his family.
“I have a 4-year-old son who is growing up very fast and I’ve missed important times in his life because of my racing career,” Chavous said. “I am a father first and I want to be there for him to guide him and watch him grow up.”
Chavous’ announcement comes after Truck Series rookie Justin Fontaine announced Sept. 17 that he would step away from the sport at season’s end due to the stress of his career on his family and a lack of sponsorship.
After much thought & consideration I have decided to step away from NASCAR competition after the #Fr8Auctions250 at @TalladegaSuperS. I'll miss my racing family but I'm excited for my future. Thank you @premiummotrspts, @SobrietyNation & especially my fans for the opportunity. pic.twitter.com/7Pk5PwfvjP
— @wendellchavous (@wendellchavous) October 8, 2018
Tags: camping world truck series, Justin Fontaine, premium motorsports, Wendell Chavous, Justin Fontaine, Wendell Chavous
Ben Rhodes fastest qualifier at Eldora
By Dan BeaverJul 18, 2018, 5:47 PM EDT
Ben Rhodes recorded the fastest time in qualification for the Eldora Dirt Derby with a lap of 86.801 mph, but he will have to wait until after his qualification race to know if he will lead the field to green. With his fastest lap, Rhodes will be credited with winning the pole.
Qualification sets the grid for five heat races with the fastest qualifier starting on the pole in race one. The second fastest qualifier will lead the field to green for the second heat race, and so on.
The top five in each qualification race will advance to the A Main with the winner of race one leading the field to green. The winner of the second heat will start alongside him on the front row.
Rhodes beat dirt midget racer Logan Seavey (86.747 mph) by .013 seconds. Seavey is making his Camping World Truck Series debut.
Tyler Dippel (86.368), Grant Enfinger (86.146) and Stewart Friesen (85.997) round out the top five.
Wendell Chavous (81.919) and Cody Coughlin (86.264) hit the wall during their qualification runs. Chavous qualified 33rd. Coughlin qualified 24th.
Points leader Johnny Sauter posted a time of 81.908 mph and was 34th among the 39 trucks that took time.
Second in points, Noah Gragson qualified 13th.
Click here for complete results.
Tags: Ben Rhodes, camping world truck series, Cody Coughlin, Eldora Dirt Derby, Grant Enfinger, Johnny Sauter, Logan Seavey, Noah Gragson, Stewart Friesen, Tyler Dippel, Wendell Chavous, Ben Rhodes, Cody Coughlin, Grant Enfinger, Johnny Sauter, Noah Gragson, Stewart Friesen, Tyler Dippel, Wendell Chavous
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Posts Tagged Riverdance
The Undercover Soundtrack – Melissa McPhail
Posted by Roz Morris @Roz_Morris in Undercover Soundtrack on January 23, 2013
‘The driving energy of violent battle scenes and tragic misadventures’
Once a week I host a writer who uses music as part of their creative process – perhaps to open a secret channel to understand a character, populate a mysterious place, or explore the depths in a pivotal moment. This week my guest is award-winning fantasy author (and classically trained pianist) Melissa McPhail@MelissaGMcPhail
Soundtrack by Riverdance
Music and writing have ever been mated in my soul. As a child, I began writing fiction in the same year I took my first piano lesson, and as an adolescent, I reached to express the inexpressible with my first musical composition only weeks before the computer started calling my name at odd hours of the night. One creative effort cannot be wakened without drawing upon the other. They are soulmates, and I am mated to them equally.
Music as muse
In me, they support each other as soulmates should. When the creative juices of one endeavor begin to run dry, turning to the other will rejuvenate that lacklustre flesh. Oddly enough, time spent trilling fingers across a keyboard that produces music is not so different from the cathartic rhythms of one that forms letters on a screen. They both seem to reach into the same place in my soul and draw forth that spark of inspiration that results in bountiful self-expression.
Frank Zappa said: ‘Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.’ I believe this is true not merely of performance but of music overall — when music plays, something is created. We cannot see it in the air, yet music forms images in our minds, emotions in our hearts. It invokes memories and stirs the creative spirit into action. That sculpture is pushed forth, formless until it is collected by the imagination of the listener and channeled into something new.
Because I spent an eternity writing my epic fantasy, Cephrael’s Hand (in my mind, over a million words spent in pursuit of a single novel qualifies as an eternity), a number of songs have sculpted the series, but one album did more to fuel this effort than any other – Bill Whelan’s Riverdance.
Battles, mystery, enchantment
This album seemed to contain all of the driving, pulsing energy of violent battle scenes and tragic misadventures mixed among the mystery of enchanted forests and the thrumming chill of icy, windswept passes. It speaks a story of uncertain heroes, of unrequited love, of tears shed for ages lost and of the wistful echo of loved ones vanished or vanquished. Cephrael’s Hand travels to all of these lands and spaces of the heart. It’s a tale of two brothers who find themselves on opposite sides of a great battle, neither knowing the other is alive. It’s the story of a traitor who works in exile to save the race he’s sworn to protect, and of a blessed race facing extinction – along with the realm itself. It’s the story of nations battling for the ideals they believe in, and of individuals striving to find an ideal to shape themselves around.
From song to scene
More than once, a particular song inspired a scene. Marta’s Dance/The Russian Dervish played heavily into the twisting, spinning fighting style of my Whisper Lords, with their daggered gloves and slashed cloaks, and Cloudsong/Riverdance, especially the instrumental section with its melody both wistful and joyous, somehow encapsulates the feeling of the relationship between the Healer Alyneri and her childhood love, Prince Ean.
The Countess Cathleen still brings to mind a particular dance I envisioned between two characters. Sadly, their paths never crossed in the final version of the story, but the lovely motions they made still dazzle in the realm of my imagination any time I hear the song. Who knows? Someday, in some future book, they may actually join in this dance together.
That is the beauty of music. Its ephemeral sculptures make an indelible imprint on our consciousness. Even if this imprint is never fashioned into something corporeal, still, it remains in the vast repository of inspiration, just waiting for its time to shine.
Melissa McPhail is the author of the award-winning epic fantasy Cephrael’s Hand and The Dagger of Adendigaeth , the newly released second book in her series published by Outskirts Press, A Pattern of Shadow and Light. In addition to her writing, Melissa is a classically trained pianist, violinist and composer, a vinyasa yoga instructor, and an avid fantasy reader. A long-time student of philosophy, she is passionate about the fantasy genre because of its inherent philosophical explorations, and she seeks with her novels to explore the facets of good and evil, nobility, honor, courage and self-sacrifice in all their many shades. Find her on her website and on Twitter as @melissagmcphail
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Warning: Triggers for victims child sexual abuse.
Betsy was overweight,unkempt, and shunned by the other kids. “Everybody” knew she “did” it with Jimmy in his barn whenever he wanted to. She didn’t deny it, even though he called her a pig. When the home-economics teacher stepped out of class one day, Betsy told us her step-daddy got in bed with her whenever her parents had a fight. We were all repulsed, thinking she was “talking dirty.” He was known to be an alcoholic, frequently drunk in public. She told us he beat the whole family. She frequently bore bruises. None of us reported it to anybody. I was disgusted, avoiding her like the plague. Wild horses couldn’t have dragged that story out of me. Becky’s step-father despised her for her illegitimacy. The couple had two younger girls and a boy together. ,Who knows if they suffered the same abuse as Becky did
Life went on. I heard Betsy married and had children. Years later, she did prison time for molesting boys in her neighborhood. Who knows how many children were hurt? By the time she came out of prison, she was in very poor health, living out her life with her mother and a different step-father. What a shame no one was there for this sad child early on, including me.
June 9, 2015 lbeth1950 Child Abuse, memoir, sexual abuse, social disaster, Storytelling
32 thoughts on “Hear No Evil”
edwinasepisodes says:
Poor Betsy, how very sad.
Beyond the picket fence says:
Brutal! You were only a child though. Don’t we see things differently as adults and shame on them for doing nothing. They are party to her future abuse.
The adults that is. X
A child is likely suffering today.
As a parent, this was a tough one for me to read.
I feel bad knowing I didn’t reach out.
hilarycustancegreen says:
Brave story. Thank you.
I was not a friend.
That’s really sad although she was even talking about it. It is admirable that you confess your feelings so honest. But you were children too and did not know what to make out of it.
Ino one reached out to her.
Hope she finds a way to live in peace with the past. Did you ever talk to her later? I don’t know but perhaps it would help her to know, that it wasn’t forgotten. You even posted about it.
She died not long after getting after prison. I never saw her again.
So sorry about that!
It’s very difficult to separate fact from fiction when children are that age. Perhaps we should give them the benefit of the doubt a little more often.
This girl’s behavior was way out of line. She wasn’t hiding any shame.
cote8050 says:
yes, very sad, and there are so many like her….
So much pain and shame.
This is a really sad situation, but really and unfortunately, a very common one… scared about what the repercussions for us would be, we shy away from stepping in somewhere, and possibly making that one bit of difference that was needed…
I certainly did nothing.
wildero64 says:
I appreciate that although you did nothing, you are able and courageous enough to acknowledge it openly even though you regret it and perhaps feel ashamed. It’s a good lesson for everybody. I hope you can accept your mistake, we all make them. Thanks for sharing.
I do feel badly for not reaching out.
But you weren’t to know… No one was…
Poor Betsy. And there are so many like her.
This is true.
Heartbreaking the way people listened and did nothing. Didn’t even check it out. The times have changed, but are still not perfect. ❤ ❤
At least reporting is mandated now.
At least. No-one wanted to get involved in the old days.
So very sad. I guess we have to remember to help in these situations, stop the problems in their tracks for those mistreated and those who will eventually be affected secondarily by that mistreatment.
This was so wrong.
Martie says:
This is is why it is now the law to report child abuse. For so many years it was swept under the rug, and victims were treated as villains. I’m so glad light has been cast on this, and I hope awareness has been spread enough to change it forever.
Thank God for that!
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Subject: Flood Insurance
To: Chief Executive Officers of All National Banks and Federal Savings Associations, Federal Branches and Agencies, Department and Division Heads, All Examining Personnel, and Other Interested Parties
Description: Notice of Proposed Rulemaking
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Board), Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), Farm Credit Administration (FCA), and National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) have issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that would amend regulations regarding loans in areas having special flood hazards to implement certain provisions of the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012 (Biggert-Waters Act or Act). Specifically, the proposal would establish requirements with respect to the escrow of flood insurance payments, the acceptance of private flood insurance policies, and the force-placement of flood insurance. Furthermore, the OCC is proposing to integrate its flood insurance regulations for national banks and federal savings associations (collectively, banks), currently set forth at 12 CFR 22 and 12 CFR 172. The proposed rule has a 60-day comment period, ending on December 10, 2013.
Escrow of Flood Insurance Payments
Pursuant to section 100209 of the Biggert-Waters Act, the proposal generally would require banks, or servicers acting on their behalf, to escrow premiums and fees for flood insurance for residential improved real estate or a mobile home securing any residential mortgage loan outstanding or entered into on or after July 6, 2014, unless the bank qualifies for the statutory exception.
For loans requiring flood insurance that are made on or after July 6, 2014, banks would be required to begin escrowing upon loan consummation. For loans that are outstanding on July 6, 2014, banks would be required to begin escrowing with the first loan payment after the first renewal date of the borrower’s flood insurance policy on or after July 6, 2014. This timing for outstanding loans is intended to alleviate the potential burden of the new requirement on lenders and borrowers.
The proposal would require banks to mail or deliver a written notice informing borrowers of the escrow requirement. For loans outstanding on July 6, 2014, banks must provide this notice at least 90 days before they must begin escrowing. For loans made on or after July 6, 2014, banks must provide this notice at the time they provide the general notice of the flood insurance requirement. The proposal includes sample forms of this notice.
Except as may be required under applicable state law, a bank is not required to escrow if it has total assets of less than $1 billion and, as of July 6, 2012, was not required by federal or state law to escrow taxes or insurance for the term of the loan and did not have a policy to require escrow of taxes and insurance.
Private Flood Insurance
Under current law, banks may accept private flood insurance in satisfaction of National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) requirements if certain conditions are met. Pursuant to section 100239 of the Biggert-Waters Act, the proposal would require that banks accept “private flood insurance” as defined in the Act. To assist banks in complying with this requirement, the proposal includes a safe harbor under which a flood insurance policy is deemed to meet the definition of “private flood insurance” if a state insurance regulator makes a determination in writing that the policy meets this definition.
The preamble to the proposed rule explains that the agencies also are considering including in the final rule a provision expressly permitting the discretionary acceptance of private policies that do not meet the statutory definition of “private flood insurance” if the policies meet certain standards and requirements.
Force Placement
Pursuant to section 100244 of the Biggert-Waters Act, the proposal would amend the current rule’s force-placement of flood insurance provision to clarify that a bank or its servicer has the authority to charge a borrower for the cost of flood insurance coverage commencing on the date on which such coverage lapsed or on which the coverage became insufficient.
The proposal also would stipulate the circumstances under which a lender or its servicer must terminate force-placed flood insurance coverage and refund payments to a borrower.
The proposal sets forth the documentary evidence a lender must accept to confirm that a borrower has obtained an appropriate amount of flood insurance coverage.
Note for Community Banks
The amendments proposed by this rulemaking would apply to all banks, including community banks. The escrow requirement for flood insurance premiums does not, however, apply to banks with total assets of less than $1 billion and that, as of July 6, 2012, were not required by federal or state law to escrow taxes or insurance for the term of the loan and did not have a policy to require escrow of taxes and insurance. With respect to private insurance, the proposed safe harbor provision would assist community banks in determining whether they are required to accept a particular policy as satisfaction of the mandatory flood insurance requirement.
The National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 and the Flood Disaster Protection Act, as amended, govern the NFIP. Among other things, these statutes require the purchase of flood insurance on certain properties and make available federally subsidized flood insurance to owners of improved real estate or mobile homes located in special flood hazard areas if the community where the improved real estate or mobile home is located participates in the NFIP.1 The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) administers the NFIP.2 OCC, Board, FDIC, NCUA, and FCA regulations implement these statutes for the lending institutions they supervise.
The Biggert-Waters Act significantly amends the NFIP requirements. Among other things, the Act (1) requires regulated lending institutions to escrow premiums and fees for flood insurance on residential improved real estate, unless the regulated lending institution meets the statutory small institution exception;3 (2) directs regulated lending institutions to accept private flood insurance, as defined by the Act, and to notify borrowers of the availability of private flood insurance; and (3) clarifies that the cost of premiums and fees incurred for force-placed insurance may include costs for coverage beginning on the date on which the flood insurance coverage lapsed or did not provide sufficient coverage, and establishes procedures for terminating force-placed insurance.
Please contact Rhonda L. Daniels, Compliance Specialist, Compliance Policy Division, (202) 649-5405; Margaret C. Hesse, Senior Counsel, Community and Consumer Law Division, (202) 649-6350, or Heidi M. Thomas, Special Counsel, Legislative and Regulatory Activities Division, (202) 649-5490 or (202) 649-6360.
Amy S. Friend
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Loans in Areas Having Special Flood Hazards (PDF)
1 A special flood hazard area is an area within a floodplain having a 1 percent or greater chance of flood occurrence in any given year. 44 CFR 59.1.
2 FEMA regulations implementing the NFIP appear at 44 CFR 59-77.
3 Subsequent to the enactment of the Biggert-Waters Act, Congress clarified that the flood insurance escrow requirement applies only to residential loans secured by residential improved real estate. See Public Law No. 112-281 (January 14, 2013).
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Malawi Reviews Witchcraft Laws Amid Increasing Accusations
written by Ajadi
The Malawi Law Commission has started the review of the Witchcraft Act after receiving submissions from individuals and organisations over its shortcoming.
The review seeks to address the gaps in the law that have resulted in the failure to protect Malawians from witchcraft and suspects of witchcraft from unfair prosecution.
The special commission constituted to conduct the review has raised some issues to be addressed including witchcraft, satanism, witchcraft and the rule of law, the role of traditional healers and leaders and religious leaders in connection to witchcraft as well as vulnerable groups and victim management.
Currently, the Witchcraft Act of Malawi prohibits trial by ordeal, in which suspects are subjected to painful and unpleasant experience to prove their innocence. It also outlaws the hiring of witchfinders and pretending to be a witch or practising witchcraft.
“Any person who employs or solicits any other person to name or indicate by the use of any non-natural means any person as the perpetrator of any alleged crime or other act complained of shall be liable to a fine of £25 and to imprisonment for five years.”
According to the Act, people should report any act of witchcraft to the court, the police, the chief or other people in authority. However, this has not always been the case as individuals and groups take it upon themselves to punish suspects, usually to damage of property, injury and even death.
Some vulnerable groups such as people living with albinism have also been targets of witch doctors, who use their body parts in rituals as they are considered good luck charms. Children and women have also not been spared, with elderly women being victimised for allegedly teaching children these practices. Usually, they are subjected to different forms violence including physical and sexual violence.
Malawi has addressed such issues in various ways including the establishment of Victim Support Units in police stations to not only protect the victims but also sensitise communities on witchcraft and the law. However, lack of resources has impeded their duties.
The process is ongoing, with the commission encouraging Malawians to contribute.
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For the week ending 25 February 2006 / 27 Shevat 5766
Parshat Mishpatim
The Jewish People receive a series of laws concerning social justice. Topics include: Proper treatment of Jewish servants; a husband's obligations to his wife; penalties for hitting people and for cursing parents, judges and leaders; financial responsibilities for damaging people or their property, either by oneself or by one's animate or inanimate property, or by pitfalls that one created; payments for theft; not returning an object that one accepted responsibility to guard; the right to self-defense of a person being robbed.
Other topics include: Prohibitions against seduction; witchcraft, bestiality and sacrifices to idols. The Torah warns us to treat the convert, widow and orphan with dignity, and to avoid lying. Usury is forbidden and the rights over collateral are limited. Payment of obligations to the Temple should not be delayed, and the Jewish People must be Holy, even concerning food. The Torah teaches the proper conduct for judges in court proceedings. The commandments of Shabbat and the Sabbatical year are outlined. Three times a year — Pesach, Shavuot and Succot — we are to come to the Temple. The Torah concludes this listing of laws with a law of kashrut — not to mix milk and meat.
G-d promises that He will lead the Jewish People to the Land of Israel, helping them conquer its inhabitants, and tells them that by fulfilling His commandments they will bring blessings to their nation. The people promise to do and listen to everything that G-d says. Moshe writes the Book of the Covenant, and reads it to the people. Moshe ascends the mountain to remain there for 40 days in order to receive the two Tablets of the Covenant.
Public MisSpeaking
“Distance yourself from a false word…” (23:7)
I will never forget one of the great lines of political doublethink uttered by a famous Hollywood ‘B’-film actor and sometime United States President. When challenged over the truthfulness of a statement he had made, he replied without batting an eyelid, “I misspoke.” Lithe as a lounge-lizard, he had managed to finesse a bald lie into an innocent slip of the tongue. I was duly impressed.
Politics has always been truth’s slippery slope. Advertising fares no better. And even though standards of truthfulness are mandated for advertising, it’s amazing how much can be infiltrated between the lines to distort and misrepresent without falling foul of the law.
“Distance yourself from a false word…”
The Torah is uncompromising in its ban on lying. However, there are circumstances where this prohibition can conflict with other prohibitions. What does one do in those situations?
The brother of the Vilna Gaon, Rabbi Zalmele, together with another rabbi, once went to visit a friend of Rabbi Zalmele. They found the friend seated at his meal. He sprang to his feet and begged them to join him. Rabbi Zalmele knew that this man was extremely poor and the meal that he was eating was inadequate for one person, let alone three. Rabbi Zalmele thus excused himself from joining him, protesting that the doctor had prohibited him from the kind of food that his friend was eating.
After they left, the other rabbi turned to Rabbi Zalmele and said, “Is it true that you are ill?” Replied Rabbi Zalmele, “No.” Most surprised, the other said to him, “You, who are so careful not to let a false word escape your lips, how can you, of all people, tell a direct lie?” Rabbi Zalmele replied, “The Rambam (Maimonides) was a doctor. He writes that it is prohibited to share the food of someone who does not have enough for himself.”
Source: Iturei Torah
Parshat Mishpatim 5763
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For the week ending 18 August 2007 / 4 Elul 5767
Parshat Shoftim
Moshe tells Bnei Yisrael to appoint judges and officers in their cities. A bribe of even an insignificant sum is forbidden. Trees are not to be planted near Hashem's altar, as was the way of idolaters. Blemishes in animals designated for offerings and other points of disqualification are listed. The Great Sanhedrin is to make binding decisions on new situations according to Torah criteria to prevent the fragmentation of the Torah. A very learned scholar who refuses to accept the Halachic decisions of the Sanhedrin incurs the death penalty. A Jewish king may only have possessions and symbols of power commensurate with the honor of his office, but not for self-aggrandizement. He is to write for himself two sifrei Torah, one to be kept with him wherever he goes, so that he doesn't become haughty. Neither the kohanim nor the levi'im are to inherit land in the Land of Israel, rather they are to be supported by the community by a system of tithes. All divination is prohibited. Hashem promises the Jewish People that He will send them prophets to guide them, and Moshe explains how a genuine prophet may be distinguished from a false one. Cities of refuge are to be provided an accidental killer to escape the blood-avenger from the deceased's family. However, someone who kills with malice is to be handed over to the blood-avenger. Moshe cautions Bnei Yisrael not to move boundary markers to increase their property. Two witnesses who conspire to "frame" a third party are to be punished with the very same punishment that they conspired to bring upon the innocent party. A kohen is to be anointed specifically for when Israel goes to war, to instill trust in Hashem. Among those disqualified from going to war is anyone who has built a new house but not lived in it yet, or anyone who is fearful or fainthearted. An enemy must be given the chance to make peace, but if they refuse, all the males are to be killed. Fruit trees are to be preserved and not cut down during the siege. If a corpse is found between cities, the elders of the nearest city must take a heifer, slaughter it, and wash their hands over it, saying that they are not guilty of the death.
“Judges and officers shall you appoint in all the gates of your cities…” (16:18)
The Bar Mitzvah boy sat behind the head table, his face shining beneath the brim of his new Borsalino, beaming with the excitement of the big day.
His proud father asked his Rabbi if he would like to hear the derasha (exegesis on a Torah theme) that his son had prepared.
“Does he know it well?” asked the Rabbi.
“Yes.” Replied the proud father.
“I don’t mean does he know it parrot-fashion, I mean does he understand it.”
“Yes, he does.” Replied the even prouder father.
“Okay” said the Rabbi.
The father led his Rabbi to sit with his son at the top table and left his son to expound the intricate piece of halachic logic that he had so carefully prepared.
After the bar mitzvah was over, the father asked his son what his Rabbi had said to him.
“After I finished the derasha, he asked me a few questions and then he said that if I learn, I will be a Gadol (great Torah scholar).”
“And what did you say to that?” asked the father.
“I said, ‘Amen!’ Then he said to me, ‘It’s not a beracha’ — it’s a metziut (reality)’.”
The gap between potential and actuality is called hard work.
Many of us are born with gifts, talents and abilities that are given to but a few. Fewer of us, however, develop those talents into real achievement.
“Judges and officers shall you appoint in all the gates of your cities…”
Rashi explains that the judges dictate correct behavior, while the officers ensure that their dictates are obeyed.
In any construction project, there are two stages. First, the architect sets pen to paper, then the contractor takes that blueprint and makes of it a reality. Similarly, a composer sets notes on a stave and the musician takes those hieroglyphics and fills the air with music.
If the Torah is the blueprint of life, its practical application is ethical behavior.
Halacha tells us how to do the mitzvot of the Torah, whereas mussar (active character refinement) teaches us how to become the kind of person that the Torah demands us to be.
The Rambam (Shemone Perakim) writes that a complete person must constantly review his character, weigh his actions, and examine who he is every day. The work of becoming a great person is achieved in minuscule increments. The grand gesture leaves no imprint, however the constant learning and application of ethics changes our character for the better even without our being aware of it, just like the stone that Rabbi Akiva saw where tiny drops of water had carved a large trough over time.
There is no substitute for, nor is anything as powerful as constancy.
Parshat Shoftim 5762
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OKC Thunder: Wild night leaves Portland coach Terry Stotts with a problem
by Berry Tramel
Published: Thu, April 11, 2019 8:10 AM Updated: Thu, April 11, 2019 9:51 AM
Leave it to the Van Gundy brothers to talk frankly about the NBA.
The Thunder will play Portland in the first round of the Western Conference playoffs, but the Blazers did their best to avoid OKC. Portland coach Terry Stotts rested all his starters Wednesday night against Sacramento, the Kings took a 28-point lead and Stotts ended up using just six players total.
And still Portland won, 136-131 with a crazy comeback.
The Blazers, who would have fallen to the fourth seed with a loss, clearly were trying to set up a first-round series with the Utah Jazz. Which makes no sense. Why want the Jazz instead of the Thunder?
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ESPN analyst Jeff Van Gundy asked the same thing on the Clippers-Jazz broadcast Wednesday night.
“For the life of me, I can’t figure out why anyone would” intentionally try to draw Utah in the playoffs, Van Gundy said.
The Jazz are defensive monsters with 7-foot-3 Rudy Gobert, Utah has a great homecourt atmosphere and Donovan Mitchell is turning into a star, with some playoff chops already, having taken down the Thunder in a first-round series last year.
But Portland clearly wanted to play Utah instead of the Thunder. And that brings us to another problem.
On NBATV early Thursday morning, Van Gundy’s brother, Stan, talked about the issue now facing Stotts. Stan Van Gundy said the Blazers clearly made the point that the organization feared the Thunder more than the Jazz. Now Stotts must face his team and reverse field, telling the Blazers there is nothing to fear. It’s a mess.
Such were the dramatics on Wednesday night, when it seemed the Thunder was destined to play the Rockets, and then the Nuggets, and finally drew the Blazers.
If you think it’s hard to get from Oklahoma to Oregon on short notice, think about how difficult the path for a Thunder-Blazers series to develop.
Paul George had to sink a game-winning 3-pointer Tuesday night, not long before Mo Harkless – Mo Harkless! – did the same for the Blazers in Los Angeles against the Lakers.
Then Wednesday night, after the George-less Thunder beat the Giannis Antetokounmpo-less Bucks, two more crazy finishes had to occur.
The Nuggets, playing at home needing a victory for the No. 2 seed, inexplicably trailed Minnesota for most of the game. A Denver loss would have listed Houston to the No. 2 seed. But the Nuggets scored the final 15 points of the game to beat the Timberwolves 99-95.
Meanwhile, Portland trailed by 28 to Sacramento, which is not surprising since Damian Lillard, C.J. McCollum, Harkless, Al-Farouq Aminu, Rodney Hood, Evan Turner, Seth Curry and Enes Kanter didn’t play.
The Blazers used a lineup of Skal Labissiere, Jake Layman, Meyers Leonard, Gary Trent, Jr. and Anfernee Simons. Trent, Simons and Labissiere were making their first starts of the season. Layman, Trent and Simons each played 48 minutes. That is not a misprint. Zach Collins’ 13 minutes were the only bench contribution.
The Blazers were playing to lose. But the Kings didn’t cooperate. With an 87-62 halftime lead, Sacramento coach Dave Joerger benched his starters in the second half, and Portland made a crazy comeback. After three quarters, the Kings still led by 15, but the Blazers went on a 22-2 run to take the lead and held on.
Simons, an American rookie who went the Terrance Ferguson route and didn’t go to college, scored a career high 37 points. Crazy.
The lesson seems clear. Rest players who need rest. But don’t try to gerrymander the playoff pairings. Don’t try to tell NBA players they should lose. It can come back to bite you. Now Stotts must look his players in the eye and tell them how they can beat the Thunder, when it was clear the organization went to great extremes to avoid OKC.
Portland Trail Blazers guard Gary Trent Jr. shoots over Sacramento Kings forward Troy Williams during the second half of an NBA basketball game in Portland, Ore., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. (AP Photo/Craig Mitchelldyer)
Oklahoma City Thunder's Raymond Felton, right, drives to the basket against Milwaukee Bucks' Tim Frazier during the first half of an NBA basketball game Wednesday, April 10, 2019, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Aaron Gash)
Oklahoma City Thunder's Abdel Nader shoots against Milwaukee Bucks' D.J. Wilson during the first half of an NBA basketball game Wednesday, April 10, 2019, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Aaron Gash)
Oklahoma City Thunder's Steven Adams, left, is fouled by Milwaukee Bucks' Tim Frazier during the first half of an NBA basketball game Wednesday, April 10, 2019, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Aaron Gash)
Oklahoma City Thunder's Russell Westbrook drives to the basket against Milwaukee Bucks' Sterling Brown during the first half of an NBA basketball game Wednesday, April 10, 2019, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Aaron Gash)
Oklahoma City Thunder's Jerami Grant (9) drives to the basket against Milwaukee Bucks' Bonzie Colson during the first half of an NBA basketball game Wednesday, April 10, 2019, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Aaron Gash)
Oklahoma City Thunder's Dennis Schroder shoots against Milwaukee Bucks' Bonzie Colson during the first half of an NBA basketball game Wednesday, April 10, 2019, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Aaron Gash)
Oklahoma City Thunder's Dennis Schroder is fouled on a drive to the basket by Milwaukee Bucks' D.J. Wilson during the first half of an NBA basketball game Wednesday, April 10, 2019, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Aaron Gash)
Oklahoma City Thunder's Jerami Grant dunks during the first half of an NBA basketball game against the Milwaukee Bucks Wednesday, April 10, 2019, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Aaron Gash)
Oklahoma City Thunder guard Terrance Ferguson, left, collides with Houston Rockets guard James Harden (13) during the second half of the team's NBA basketball game Tuesday, April 9, 2019, in Oklahoma City. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
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IAG CEO Explains 737 MAX Order
In mid-June at the Paris Air Show, IAG (the parent company of British Airways, Iberia, Aer Lingus, and Vueling) expressed interest in a surprising aircraft. The company signed a letter of intent to acquire 200 Boeing 737 MAXs, valued at $24 billion at…
Filed Under: Aer Lingus, British Airways
Buy Iberia Avios With A 50% Bonus (1.35 Cents Each)
Often buying points can represent a great value, especially for first and business class award redemptions, where redeeming miles represents a disproportionately good value. So for those who like to buy miles, another airline has just rolled out a promotion…
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IAG’s Massive, Eyebrow-Raising, 737 MAX Order
The Paris Air Show is going on right now, which has led to quite a few aircraft orders. However, this year it's Airbus with the edge over Boeing -- Airbus unveiled the A321XLR, while Boeing hasn't done a whole lot of anything, given their 737 MAX challenges.…
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Aer Lingus & Iberia Order A321XLR
Yesterday Airbus formally launched the A321XLR, which is the new longest range single aisle plane in the world, and which I think will be immensely popular with airlines. The A321XLR will launch in 2023 and will have a range of 5,400 miles, giving it…
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Amazing Iberia Business Class Fares From Spain To Mexico
May 22, 2019 by Ben (Lucky) 1
Amazingly this fare has been around for a couple of days, and is still available. Iberia has sub-1,000EUR business class fares for travel from various points in Spain to various points in Mexico. This fare is pretty readily available, though you'll find…
25% Off Iberia Awards To Spain
Iberia Plus has just launched a great promotion for US-based members. Specifically, Iberia Plus members can save 25% on transatlantic awards. This is valid for flights booked through March 27, 2019, and for travel between September 1 and December 14…
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Iberia Plus Offering 50% Off Award Redemptions
January 30, 2019 by Ben (Lucky) 24
Okay, the highlight of the Iberia Plus program was certainly last year when they offered a promotion for 90,000 Avios after booking 10 tickets. For those who still have Iberia Plus Avios (or have access to them through other means, as I'll discuss below),…
I Have A Negative Iberia Plus Avios Balance!
December 1, 2018 by Ben (Lucky) 37
Over the summer Iberia Plus had a generous promotion, where they were offering 9,000 bonus Avios for every flight booked during that period, for a total of up to 90,000 Avios for booking 10 flights. The best part was that they didn’t actually require…
Last Chance: Hours Remaining To Redeem Up To 90,000 Iberia Avios
November 30, 2018 by Ben (Lucky) 105
Over the summer Iberia Plus had a ridiculously generous promotion where they were offering 9,000 bonus Avios for every flight booked during that period, for a total of up to 90,000 Avios for booking 10 flights. The best part was that they didn't actually…
Filed Under: Iberia
Last Day: 40% Bonus On Amex Transfers To Avios
November 15, 2018 by Ben (Lucky) 38
This is super exciting. The US Amex Membership Rewards program is offering a 40% bonus when you transfer points to British Airways Executive Club or Iberia Plus by November 15, 2018. It's pretty awesome that this promotion is valid for a full two months.…
Iberia Launching A350 Flights To Chicago In 2019
October 26, 2018 by Ben (Lucky) 10
Iberia is one of the latest airlines to take delivery of the Airbus A350-900, which they're using to replace their A340s. The airline began by flying the A350 to New York JFK, with that service launching in August. Iberia's next A350 routes will be to…
Wide Open: Iberia Transatlantic Business Class Awards!
September 12, 2018 by Ben (Lucky) 27
I think it goes without saying that there are a lot of people with a lot of Iberia Avios, given the recent promotion for up to 90,000 Iberia Avios. The Avios expire on December 1, 2018, so you potentially only have a few months left to redeem them. It's…
Video: Iberia A340 Has Scary Aborted Landing In Quito
August 14, 2018 by Ben (Lucky) 18
The Aviation Herald has the story of what looks like quite a scary go around that happened at Quito Airport on Saturday, August 11, 2018: "An Iberia Airbus A340-600, registration EC-LEU performing flight IB-6453 from Madrid,SP (Spain) to Quito (Ecuador),…
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The drama of the 90,000 Avios promotion continues... Like many other people, I was thrilled to hear the news earlier this week that the 90,000 Iberia Plus Avios from the recent promotion can actually be transferred to British Airways Executive Club accounts.…
Promotional Iberia Avios Can Now Be Transferred To British Airways
Just over a month ago Iberia ran a promotion offering 9,000 bonus Avios for every ticket booked, up to 90,000 bonus Avios. Even cheap domestic tickets qualified, so many of us booked 10 one-way tickets from Malaga to Madrid for under $300, in hopes of…
SUCCESS: Bonus Iberia Avios Finally Post For New Account!
Just under a month ago Iberia ran a promotion offering 9,000 bonus Avios for every ticket booked, up to 90,000 bonus Avios. Even cheap domestic tickets qualified, so many of us booked 10 one-way tickets from Malaga to Madrid for under $300, in hopes…
No, Iberia Plus Members Aren’t To Blame For Iberia’s Botched Promotion
July 8, 2018 by Ben (Lucky) 110
I think at this point we're all familiar with the ridiculously generous promotion that Iberia offered, where you could earn 9,000 bonus Avios for every flight you booked on Iberia, up to 90,000 bonus Avios. Many of us took advantage of this promotion,…
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A couple of weeks ago Iberia ran what I considered to be the promotion of the year, as they offered 9,000 bonus Avios for every booked ticket. Even a cheap sub-$30 one-way ticket within Spain qualified. So I booked 10 one-way tickets from Malaga to Madrid…
What To Do If Your New Iberia Plus Account Is Locked
July 4, 2018 by James 27
It's been a big week here at OMAAT already! After posting earlier this week about not panicking if you could not access your Iberia Plus account that you opened to take advantage of the 'promo of the year,' then came the excellent news that the bonus…
My 90,000 Avios Finally Posted (And A Restriction I Wasn’t Aware Of)
I've been flying during US business hours on Monday and Tuesday without wifi, so as much as I would have loved to track the minute-by-minute of the Iberia Avios situation, I wasn't able to. Perhaps that's a blessing, because I would have probably spent…
YAY! Promotional Iberia Avios Now Posting!
July 3, 2018 by Tiffany 92
Many of us can enjoy a collective sigh of relief -- it looks like the 90,000 Avios from the recent Iberia promotion are starting to hit accounts. With some caveats, of course. My account is registered in the U.S., and I used Iberia.com to purchase my…
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The NM Political Report (https://nmpoliticalreport.com/2016/12/09/overloaded-public-defenders-office-was-years-in-the-making/)
Overloaded public defender’s office was years in the making
By Andy Lyman | December 9, 2016
Decades worth of warnings about the danger of underfunding public defenders finally came to a climax last month, when a district court judge held Chief Public Defender Bennett Baur in contempt of court after Baur, the agency head, said he could not ethically take a handful of cases in rural New Mexico.
New Mexico’s continued weak budget suggests that the state’s Law Offices of the Public Defender is unlikely to receive more resources any time soon. But according to leading criminal defense attorneys, public defenders were never a priority in the state budget even during better economic times.
The recent flashpoint was when Baur showed up to the 5th Judicial District Court in Lovington to represent Michelle Sosa. Sosa was on probation for a previous aggravated battery conviction and tested positive for methamphetamines. But instead of representing Sosa, Baur filed a notice of unavailability, essentially saying his office could not adequately represent the client. In return, Fifth Judicial District Attorney Dianna Luce filed an emergency petition with the New Mexico Supreme Court to force Baur and his office to take Sosa’s case.
The Supreme Court denied Luce’s petition Thursday, with three of the five justices agreeing the issue was “not ripe for review.”
Now, Luce said her office will wait and see how a district court judge will rule on another case that Baur also withdrew from.
According to Luce’s petition, Baur and his office refused to take more than 200 cases this year.
Luce told NM Political Report she filed her petition earlier this month because a judge hadn’t yet ruled on Sosa’s case in district court. She also cite the constitutional right of a defendant to receive legal representation when unable to afford an attorney.
“My dispute is with [the public defender’s] statutory duty,” Luce told NM Political Report in a phone interview. “They have a statutory duty to represent someone.”
Both Baur and Luce cite the same provision of the U.S. Constitution to argue their respective cases.
In his motion to turn down the probation violation case, Baur said an overworked and underpaid public defender office could not provide adequate representation. Doing so would violate the constitutional rights of the defendant, he argued.
“The current workload of the Lea County Public Defender’s Office is either so excessive or at capacity that if the lawyers continue to take accept new appointments, they will not be able to provide for effective representation to their existing clients and to the newly appointed clients in accordance with constitutional and professional standards,” Baur wrote.
Historically underfunded
Money will be a major topic during the upcoming 2017 legislative session as legislators deal with another bad budget situation. The legal back and forth in Lovington will likely be part of the conversation.
District attorneys from around the state, the public defender’s office and the state’s judicial branch typically tell legislators they are short on cash.
Luce told the Carlsbad Current-Argus earlier this year that her office was facing possible staffing cuts. New Mexico’s Supreme Court Chief Justice also announced internal cost-cutting measures earlier this year.
For public defenders, Baur said, “funding has always been an issue.”
An underfunded public defender’s office shouldn’t come as a surprise given recent initiatives by Gov. Susana Martinez and the Republican-led House to increase penalties for certain crimes.
During the 2016 special session, which was prompted by a need to balance the state’s budget, a group of three prosecutors served as expert witnesses for a bill to bring back the death penalty. During testimony, the prosecutors often lamented that all parts of the judicial system, not just the public defender, are underfunded. Rep. Monica Youngblood, R-Albuquerque, the bill’s sponsor, and her expert witnesses said that the death penalty would not cost the state more money. But she did not address the possible costs the state would incur defending those cases.
The funding disparity between prosecutors and defenders goes back at least until 2003. In then-Gov. Bill Richardson’s first year in office, district attorney’s offices received about 26 percent more funding than the public defender’s office. Thirteen years later, in 2016, that ratio remained the same, even through budget increases for both groups. In the seven years worth of state budgets that NM Political Report reviewed, the difference in appropriations for the two groups hovered around 26 percent, regardless of whether the governor’s seat or the legislature was held by Democrats or Republicans.
Rep. Antonio “Moe” Maestas, D-Albuquerque, has served as both a prosecutor and a defense attorney. Maestas said the public defender’s office won’t ever be funded equally, dollar for dollar, with the district attorneys.
State Rep. Antonio “Moe” Maestas, D-Albuquerque.
“If the government wants to prosecute somebody they should pay for it,” Maestas said.
But, he said, the state is still responsible for ensuring indigent defendants receive an adequate defense.
Maestas blamed Republican lawmakers and their constant attempts to increase criminal penalties for contributing to an inaccurate public perception of lawyers who defend people charged with crimes.
“They think that the criminal defense attorney is a conspirator to the crime,” Maestas said of the general public.
Leading up to last month’s election, Super PAC Advance New Mexico Now ran a flurry of negative ads and social media attacks against outgoing Senate Majority Leader Michael Sanchez, D-Belen. Several of the attacks referenced his role as a criminal defense attorney. Sen. Lisa Torraco, R-Albuquerque, often publicly raised concerns about the perception of her day job as a defense attorney.
Both lost their reelection bids in November.
Maestas said tough-on-crime campaigns tend to ignore the cost of defending indigent clients.
“Nobody campaigns on fully funding the public defender’s office,” Maestas said.
‘Who wants to defend child molestors?’
Tom Clark has made a name for himself in the legal community for his defense in high-profile criminal cases. Currently, the Santa Fe attorney represents one of the defendants alleged to have killed 10-year-old Victoria Martens. He’s doing that through a contract with the Public Defender’s office. Since Clark is representing Fabian Gonzales on behalf of the public defender, Gonzales will not pay Clark’s usual $300 per hour rate.
Clark cites media coverage of crimes and the overall perception of criminal defense as a reason people like Gonzales deserve a chance in court with adequate representation.
“The best lawyers are necessary for the most hated among us,” Clark said.
Without a robust defense for indigent clients, Clark argued, the whole justice system breaks down.
“If we start picking and choosing who gets a lawyer, we have a caste system,” he said.
Clark also thinks that the public’s negative perception of criminal defense hinders constitutional rights. That perception, Clark said, bleeds into funding conversations in the legislature.
“Who wants to give money to defend child molestors?” Clark said.
Clark’s contract with the public defender covers murder cases and he said he’s never had a problem with getting support from the public defender’s office.
“I’ve never run up on a situation where the public defender denied me resources,” he said.
Still, cases involving lesser crimes don’t pay as well as high-profile murder cases.
“I couldn’t afford just a general felony contract and still thrive,” Clark said.
While district attorneys like Luce often acknowledge both defenders’ and prosecutors’ budgetary constraints, conversations with the Legislature often lead to who does more work and who should be afforded more money.
The public defender’s office, Luce argued, is not based in any one area of the state and should be able to move resources around to accommodate areas in need.
“[The public defender’s office] is not limited to how many attorneys they can put in any given county,” Luce told NM Political Report.
Maestas disagrees.
“It’s not an amorphous agency,” Maestas said. “They don’t have 50 lawyers that live out of a suitcase.”
Still, Luce is quick to point out that public defenders only work with indigent clients and therefore don’t need equal funding as district attorneys.
History of defense for all
The country’s story of publicly-offered defense dates back to before the Revolutionary War.
Six years before the Declaration of Independence was drafted and signed, John Adams, who would later serve as the second President of the United States, defended British soldiers after the infamous Boston Massacre. Adams, borrowing language from a British judge, said justice should favor the innocent before convicting the guilty, a concept that remains a pillar of the United States justice system to this day.
The Sixth Amendment guarantees the right to representation, but it wasn’t until nearly two centuries later that a U.S Supreme Court case set the precedent for mandated indigent defense.
In the 1963 Gideon v. Wainwright ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court said Clarence Earl Gideon was denied his constitutional right to representation when he couldn’t afford a lawyer.
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That precedent is exactly why Gary Mitchell, a prominent defense attorney based in Ruidoso, said the state should better fund the public defender’s office.
“They’ve never been Gideon compliant,” Mitchell said of New Mexico.
Mitchell defended death penalty cases in New Mexico before lawmakers repealed the death penalty law in 2009. He said the public defender’s office has a duty to adequately represent clients and the state has an obligation to fully fund the public defender.
“The bottom line is, the attorney has to perform up to a certain standard,” Mitchell said.
New Mexico is not alone in its struggle to balance the proverbial three-legged legal stool that’s comprised of the courts, prosecution and defense.
More money or fewer cases
Given New Mexico’s current budget crisis, more money for any agency is unlikely.
What could happen, according to Mitchell, is intervention from the state’s high court or even a federal judge.
“District judges can only make so many rulings,” Mitchell said.
In the state of Washington, its supreme court issued specific guidelines on how many cases the public defender’s office can have at any one time.
In 2012, the Washington State Supreme Court issued new standards dictating lawyers in the public defender’s office should not have caseloads of more than 150 felonies. Misdemeanor caseloads, per the ruling, must stay between 300 to 400 depending on specific jurisdictions.
If similar restrictions were used in New Mexico, Baur and his staff would be in violation.
In October, Baur filed a notice of non-availability and cited the workload of both staff and contract attorneys.
Of the four staff attorneys at the Hobbs public defender’s office, Baur wrote that three of them had more than 140 open felony cases–and that the two contract attorneys there had at least 120 open felony cases each.
In New Mexico, the balancing act between Supreme Court mandates and district attorney jurisdictions proved troublesome. Last year, New Mexico justices issued a rule for Bernalillo County that required arraignments within 10 days of an indictment, arrest or filing of criminal information.
The rule came in reaction to a backlog of felony cases in Bernalillo County District Attorney Kari Brandenburg’s office. Brandenburg later criticized the rule and said it resulted in judges dismissing important cases. Brandenburg also told the justices that the mandate created a need for more staff in order to retry dismissed cases.
One long-term solution, according to Baur, is reforming laws to lessen penalties for nonviolent drug offenses and offering treatment for behavioral health issues instead of jail time.
“We can especially look at the things we consider crimes,” Baur said.
In the short-term, Baur said he can only advocate for his clients, who expect legal representation.
“I have an obligation to raise this issue on behalf of the clients we have now,” Baur said.
Dianna Luce
Law Offices of the Public Defender
Moe Maestas
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Sleuth Home - Message Boards - Role Playing Stage
Revive the Stage Contest
Huglover
Ladies and gentlemen! I am proud to present to you a new contest!
This contest will reward you for benefiting the role-playing stage. How is that going to happen, you may ask? Well, let me tell you! First, be active in posting. Second, post with good grammar. Finally, post an interesting storyline.
At the end of each month (first time at Feb-20-2009), a one-month gift subscription to Sleuth Noir will be rewarded to the player that has contributed the most. The winner will be decided by the votes of six judges: Brietkat, David Adams, Makensie Brewer, Violet Parr, Clift Garrett and Acemaster. (Special thanks to Violet Parr for judge suggestions in November-2008!)
Each week, each of the judges will pick the one player whom they think have benefited the stage the most that week. At the 20.th in the month, the votes will be counted, revealing a winner.
The judges will send their picks to a detective named "Gossip Center", who will also display current standings for each week. Check in to see how you are doing! ;-)
There are some limitations, though. What is a contest without rules, right? ;-)
*Neither the judges nor judges second characters can be voted for.
......(This also includes me, as I am taking care of finances.)
*If you have won, you cannot win again until three more characters have won.
*If you have not won before, you will automatically receive 3 votes as a bonus.
We can't check every detail, but we hope to have an honor system. For instance, if you have won, please tell us you second characters to make it fair for other characters. If someone is caught "cheating", a proper penalty will be placed.
This is part of the Revive the Stage program. We do hope you enjoy it, and congratulations to all the winners! ;-)
(Thanks to Acemaster for helping me with proof reading. The day is chosen in remembrance of his birthday. The contest is planned to last 1 year, unless it's so successful it will be extended.)
Joey "Bulldog" Bane
Washed Up Punter
Feb-22-2009 15:49
*Bane takes out his notebook and writes a few words under the 'Things to Fix' section: "Braindead. Need sleep. Not sure it's going to work though."*
Makensie Brewer
Super Steeper
In my opinion, The Stage, as Ive said numerous times, was doing just fine before this contest came along. It was dead for a very long until a few people brought it back to life....so what, it wasnt the stories some wanted to see? There wasnt enough people roleplaying for some??? Does it really matter how many people are roleplaying? YOu either like it or you dont....for those who truly enjoyed it, were doing it...and people were joining in as they wanted to. No contest was needed for that. It happened on its own.
To tell someone not to read the boards, etc etc etc because they dont like a title, or whatever is plain ridiculous. No I did NOT like the title.....it was a slap in the face to those of us made this board alive again. It was the most active of all City Hall boards.....until some felt it wasnt what THEY liked. THEN it was dead. For awhile....until the poor taste in scouting over to Shades,to bring them here to roleplay.
Here was a great idea.....for those who didnt like the storylines that were there, a new thread could've been started for the storyline they liked. What it feels like to me is this....the stage was fine, a few people felt it wasnt to THEIR liking, shot it down, only to want to rebuild it to their liking. Who owns the boards? Not one person. Remember The Stage, as all of the message boards here belong to the COMMUNITY.
Its not that tough to think of a new title, and I dont feel any dictionary is needed to figure it out......but, now, it really doesnt matter to me...since I no longer am participating here. Revive was a poor choice of word though...an there is no excuse for that happening. That is my opinion, and my right to express it, and feel it. It angered me very much in the beginning, and what I think is sad...the people who were having fun here once, dont even roleplay here now. It took the spirit of it OUT.
*more*
Now,before words are put in my mouth, or any assumptions are made, I think it is great that Huglover is doing this. Not taking anything away from that at all.
I just feel that sometimes things should just be left alone. The Stage wasnt "broke", so it didnt need fixing. I guess some felt it had to be broke down and rebuilt though. Maybe that would've been a good title. "The Stage has been remodeled, and need new, more exciting Roleplayers"
I will always read the stories here, noone will tell me not to.....I am a paying subscriber, just as everyone else is, who is subbed. Noone is any higher than the other, and unless you are on the Sleuth payroll....noone has the right to order anyone in anyway.
I will say it again...The Stage belongs to the COMMUNITY. ...not to one or two particular people. (people in general)
This isnt meant to cause hard feelings but as long as everyone is being blunt, I thought I would be too, with how I feel about it.
Opinions are like a....well, nevermind :)
Happy Roleplaying!
Eurika! My brain works again! I'm telling you: it-is-a-live!...hehehehe
"Big Breaths", said the Doctor to his young patient.
"Yeth", she lisped back, "And I'm only thixteen..."
It's great to see a bit of passion still alive in Sleuth. Passion for the same thing - even better.
Keep that in mind.
You're all pro-RP.
Go with that.
Ms Helen
Ok it's really not like me to get, for want of a better word 'involved' in an RP thread but here goes.
Those of you who know anything about me know I am not an RPer and probably will never be so this is coming from an 'outsider' so to speak. The whole point of this contest was to bring more people in. Even those who don't agree with the contest, I'm sure, would like to have new people take part, the more the merrier. I'm assuming there's no argument there?
So why when you're all so passionate about something, the same thing, are you putting people off? There's so much animosity being thrown around at the moment any new player who might like to try their hand at roleplaying, maybe for the first time, is going to be thinking 'hmm if I say or do or write something will people think I'm taking sides, or will I get shouted at or told I'm wrong.' If I was new to the game and wanted to try my hand at something new I sure as hell wouldn't want to try it here because I would be thinking too much about whether I would be criticised for it.
Everyone has said what they need to say whether it be polite or not so polite, but now that everyone's had their say and made their opinions clear, why not try and work together to get people involved. Whether it be so an unsubbed can get a free sub or to get someone to try their hand at something new or even to get fresh characters involved and new storylines made. None of them are bad reasons and everyone can benefit from them.
Yes, there was it sounds several misunderstandings from various different angles but they've been brought out into the open now and discussed. Really what else can be achieved by going over the same thing over and over....and over again? :)
Now I've said my bit you may all feel free to gang up on me and tell me to mind my own bloody buisness and bugger off :)
Totally agree with u Ms Helen....even though I have expressed my feelings a bit here and there, that was the first I FULLY expressed it, and have no intentions of 'beating a dead horse', so to speak.
Although I stand behind my opinions, and feelings 110%, I do want The Stage to do well....as all do here, and I think we all agree there. Thats all that matters :)
Its great to see some new ones here, and its great to see the old.
No need to gang up on you or tell u to mind your own business....you have just as much right as anyone else to state your opinions , and I agree with you :)
Acemaster
Okay, Mak, if it makes you feel better, I'm sorry I thought up this title. I do wonder, though, why the H-E-double hockeysticks does it matter so much??? You PM'd me about it, you fought over it here, you fought over it in Shades, you did everything you possibly could to tell the world that the name was misplaced and, just like Ms. Helen said, it turned others away.
As for putting words in your mouth, it sure looks like you wanted it to fail. So sorry if I misinterpreted your "good intentions" or something... maybe that's what you did with the title?
I also never said the stage was dead, nor have I shown any indication that I don't know what the word "revive" means. Both misconceptions were created by you, Makensie, so I'm not the only one putting words in other peoples mouths.
The stage had five active posters. Did it have any before I came along? Yes, three. THREE. Bane joined in after I did. So, it had THREE. I'd hardly call that an economic boom. So, while the stage was not completely dead, it was close. And much closer than it had been last November.
So, maybe a better title would've been "rejuvinating the stage"? Or "rebuilding the stage"? Or maybe even "helping the stage". So, so sorry that I picked a word almost exactly like them.
re·vive (r-vv)
v. re·vived, re·viv·ing, re·vives
1. To bring back to life or consciousness; resuscitate.
2. To impart new health, vigor, or spirit to.
3. To restore to use, currency, activity, or notice.
4. To restore the validity or effectiveness of.
5. To renew in the mind; recall.
6. To present (an old play, for example) again.
The word "revive" is used to indicate definition numbers 2, 4, and 5. So, the word "revive" was a very good pick, and did not insinuate that the stage was dead unless you look at def. number 1.
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Did I miss the calling of the winner? It should have been here two or three days ago...
Unfortunately, only Huglover has the password to get into Gossip Center to tally up the score... uh, Huggy? ;-)
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Nonprofit to Texas: Fix Your Roads
Mike Keefe-Feldman
October 2, 2012; Source: Dallas Morning News
The Washington, D.C.-based National Transportation Research Group, otherwise known as TRIP, has released a new report with an infrastructure message to Texas that may be applicable elsewhere in the U.S., too: you cannot afford not to fix your infrastructure. According to the TRIP report, “an inadequate transportation system costs Texas residents a total of $23.2 billion every year in the form of traffic crashes, additional vehicle operating costs (VOC) and congestion-related delays.”
The report notes that an increasing population has added to the burden on Texas roads but the state’s transportation funding has not kept pace. As the report points out, there are a whole host of reasons to solve this problem: fewer traffic fatalities, less congestion, safer bridges, and the overall health of the state’s economy, which the report argues is “increasingly reliant on an efficient and reliable transportation system to move products and services.”
Part of the problem is that the gas tax that helps fund such projects is reportedly not generating as much money as it once did. Dallas Morning News Transportation Blog cites Texas Department of Transportation (DOT) spokesman Mark Pettit, who says, “We all know an increase in fuel efficiency in vehicles and the population base has whittled away the impact of the gas tax…The [l]egislature has struggled with creating new and innovative ways to bring the infrastructure up to par.” The Morning News reports that the state DOT is turning to the state legislature for the necessary funding, which might require a hike to the state’s gas tax or to vehicle registration fees.
While the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 has likely helped, it’s clear that significant infrastructure issues remain in many U.S. states, not just Texas. Earlier this year, the Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure (ISI) worked with the Harvard Graduate School Design on a rating system, Envision, that was established to “help policy makers evaluate the sustainability of infrastructure, set realistic national priorities, and conduct a national discourse on infrastructure investment.”
While nonprofits like TRIP and ISI can lead the legislative horse to water, however, they cannot make them take corrective action, which, in many cases, would require raising taxes. Such a course of action is, of course, anathema to many state legislators, though we wonder just how bad roadways would need to get before even the most ardent Grover Norquist devotees might consider heeding the warnings of nonprofits like TRIP and raising some revenue for infrastructure. –Mike Keefe-Feldman
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Home conversatorio La USFQ invita a las Conferencias Chancellor's Lectures con la participación de Robert J. Zimmer Presidente de la Universidad de Chicago.
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La USFQ invita a las Conferencias Chancellor's Lectures con la participación de Robert J. Zimmer Presidente de la Universidad de Chicago.
By Gabbyk At jueves, septiembre 03, 2015 0
La Universidad San Francisco de Quito te invita a las Conferencias Chancellor's Lectures
Conferencia por Presidente Robert J. Zimmer
“Educating for leadership in a globalizing world”
Abstract: The increase in global interactions of many types are evident and likely to expand. We discuss ideas about the implications for the nature of the education
universities around the world should be providing.
Lugar: USFQ, Teatro Calderón de la Barca
Fecha: Martes 08 de septiembre
Hora: 2:30pm to 4:00pm.
Conversatorio con Dr. Shadi Barstch-Zimmer
"What the knowledge of antiquity can teach us about things we take for granted
and about the limited range of what we call “knowledge.”"
Lugar: USFQ, Salón Azul
Hora: 4:00pm a 5:00pm
Las conferencias serán dictadas en inglés.
Para información llamar a: Nancy Orellana 297-1804 o Nicole Baden 297-1839
ROBERT J. ZIMMER
On July 1, 2006, Robert J. Zimmer became the 13th President of the University of Chicago. Prior to his appointment as President, Zimmer was a University of Chicago faculty member and administrator for more than two decades specializing in the mathematical fields of geometry, particularly ergodic theory, Lie groups, and differential geometry.
As President of the University, he serves as Chair of the Board of Governors of Argonne National Laboratory and Chair of the Board of Directors of Fermi Research Alliance LLC, the operator of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. Zimmer held the title of Max Mason Distinguished Service Professor of Mathematics at Chicago before leaving for Brown, where he was the Ford Foundation Professor of Mathematics in addition to being Provost.
President Zimmer is the author of two books, Ergodic Theory and Semisimple Groups (1984) and Essential Results of Functional Analysis (1990), and more than 80 mathematical research articles. He has served in the faculty of the U.S. Naval Academy from 1975 to 1977 and has held visiting positions at Harvard University and at institutions in Israel, France, Australia, Switzerland, and Italy.
SHADI BARTSCH_ZIMMER
B.A. from Princeton University, M.A. and Ph.D. from University of California-Berkeley in Latin and classics, respectively. She was awarded the Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching in the College in 2000 and the Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching in 2006 at the University of Chicago. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2007. Bartsch also served as Chair of the Faculty Board of the University of Chicago Press from 2006-2008[7] and Editor-in-Chief of Classical Philology from 2000-2004 and 2014 onwards. She has been appointed the Inaugural Director of the Stevanovich Institute on the Formation of Knowledge.
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AXON 2015 is a Bi-Annual meeting of communication department of the North Philippine Union Conference (NPUC) for communication leaders and media enthusiast.
February 27 - March 1, 2015 | Graceland Estates & Country Club
“AXON 2015” the sequel of “Synapse 2012” was held February 27, 2015-March 1, 2015 at Graceland Estates and Country Club, Tayabas, Quezon. The seminar was divided with three major media tracks: “News Gathering and Field Reporting” for all media enthusiasts, aspiring field reporters and camera man, “Building Church and Community Relations” for the pastors, elders, communications and community service leaders, “Church Audio Management” for the operators of church audio systems.
February 27, 2015, first day of the session, delegates had an opportunity to talk about Media Track #1: “News Gathering and Field Reporting” with two resource persons namely Arjay Arellano who shared his knowledge about “News Gathering: Words and Images”. He had shared how Technology changes but crucial reporting, writing and editing skills remain the same. He also taught how Images have always told stories in powerful ways, and digital tools expand that storytelling. He also taught about about still photography and video. And Ms. Janet Tolete who tackled about “TV Evangelism and Religion” where delegates learned about Critical examination of how religion traditionally has been covered in the Philippines and guidelines for developing individual thinking and reporting on religious, moral, gender, and cultural issues.
Media Track #2: was about “Building Church and Community Relations” with pastor Jose Orbe Jr. who shared about “Why Community Services?” and Mr. Leo Batulayan, who talked about “Organizing and Sustaining your Church Community Service Program (Part 1)”
February 28, 2015, delegates entered their second day with Media Track #3: “Church Audio Management” with Mr. Erwin Balangue, who contributed his knowledge about “The Ministry of Sound.” A talk about the sound technician’s ministry, what we do and the role we play in church and what it takes to be behind the console in a worship service, functions of the Sound Technician,T he Heart of the Mixing Console The Physics of Sound Which helped the delegates understand the Physics of Sound and the understanding of its basic characteristics and the measures of good sound.
The afternoon gathering sets up the stage for the second session of the seminar, under Media tract #1 Ms. Tolete talked about “News Production” Basic television news gathering skills, including shooting and editing videotape, planning and executing visual storytelling, and writing and producing news packages. Students assist in the production of a television news program. Mr. Arellano, shared about “The Field Reporter” which taught the participants Knowing who and what a field correspondent should be capable of in accomplishing the work of bringing the message into the airwaves. Under Media tract#3 Mr. Batulayan continued to share about “Organizing and Sustaining your Church Community Service Program (Part 2).”
March 1, 2015 under Media Track #1 “News Gathering and Field Reporting” , Ms. Rose Olarte shared “Field Reporting 101” which tackled Basic News Gathering, reporting, and delivery. It also included workshop and rehearsal on how to deliver news reports. Under Media Track #2 “Building Church and Community Relations” Mr. Dennison Grellman shared about Partnering with ADRA.
Media Track #3: “Church Audio Management”, Mr. Balangue talked about “Feedback”, A discussion about the causes of feedback and keys on how to avoid them in a live setting, Feedback, Causes of, and Keys How to Avoid Feedback , “The Signal Chain” A review of the basic component of a sound system and their applications in live sound. The Microphone, The Mixer, Outboard Gears, Cables, Loudspeakers, “Sound Check 1, 2”, A demonstration of the steps of doing a proper sound check procedure and what speakers, singers, and band members should look for in the monitor mix, Sound check, Proper Sound check Procedure, The Monitor Mix, What to look for in the Monitor Mix, Monitor Wedges and IEMs, All About Personal Monitor Mixers (PMM) and 3D Sound. And pastor Jose Orbe Jr. who shared about “Church Music Guidelines”.
Through what they have learned and with the claim that Jesus Christ is the center and source of all communication, these communication practitioners are all set up and equipped on sharing the gospel NEWS to the cities and beyond.
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Manufacturing Students from Harper College Visit OSG
“Dirty floors and oily machines?” “That’s my grandpa’s age,” said Yuchieh Lou, a student from Harper College. Manufacturing students from Harper College in Palatine, Illinois received first-hand exposure to today’s manufacturing as a high tech field and hopefully, are considering manufacturing as a viable career option. On Wednesday, April 6th, 14 students who are enrolled in the Manufacturing Technology Program at Harper College visited OSG’s carbide tooling factory in Bensenville for a field trip. This was conducted as part of OSG’s ongoing Manufacturing Day programs to inspire and support the next generation of manufacturing personnel.
Students started the day hearing presentations about OSG and available career paths. Our HR Generalist, Paul Wilhelm, explained to the students that the retirement of baby boomers is opening up positions for the younger generations in manufacturing. However, it is also creating a skills gap between the skills manufacturers are losing but require and the skills younger people have. Today’s manufacturers require new personnel to have more expertise in manufacturing such as STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematic) skills at an earlier stage of their career to close this gap.
The students also learned about OSG products through tooling demonstrations in our R&D center. Lukasz Gaca, Machining Applications Engineer at OSG, showed various OSG tools in action. Students also tried hand tapping in a block of aluminum to provide them with some hands on experience with tapping tools.
“One of the exciting things about manufacturing is to create something from raw material,” said Dan Jack Combs, a Harper College student.
After the tooling demonstrations, the students were taken on a plant tour. They were able to see OSG’s manufacturing floor in action with more than 60 CNC machines and in-house coating vessels for patented OSG CVD Diamond and AlTiN/TiAlN coating.
“From this visit, I realized that modern manufacturing does require higher technical skills,” said Billy Tsiveriotis, a Harper College student.
Harper College’s manufacturing department focuses on career readiness using a combination of classroom theory and hands on training with state-of-the-art machines that students will likely to encounter in the industry.
“Our goal in the manufacturing program at Harper College is to improve the caliber of students coming out of the program and getting hired by manufactures,” said Aaron Kolb, an instructor of the Manufacturing Technology Program at Harper College. “Manufacturing has become a high-tech career path with many options, and we work hard to make sure our curriculum matches the needs of manufacturers.”
OSG’s production team is hopeful and excited about the future of manufacturing as they interacted with the student and experienced their motivation and interest in manufacturing.
“Some of the students asked me what constitutes the best employees,” said Chuck Abate, Plant Manager of the OSG Bensenville factory. “I stressed teamwork, integrity and ability to continually learn in addition to technical skills.”
In order to help students get additional experiences and prepare for their manufacturing career, OSG offers an internship program at the Bensenville factory.
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Composites Application Corner- it's all about protection!
1. Composites helmets
A new helmet made of composites, Half Cap, was introduced to Major League Baseball (MLB) for its 2016 Spring Training. Boombang, a company based out of Los Angeles, developed the Half Cap which is constructed with fiber composite, an advanced energy-absorbing impact layer, a foam liner and a breathable moisture-wicking cover. About 20 pitchers are trying out the new helmet during training camp.
Photo Credit: Composites Manufacturing
2. Storm proof house with composites
Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ won the 2015 Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon by designing and constructing “SURE HOUSE” to prevent damage from hurricanes. They incorporated shutters made of composites for “SURE HOUSE” which was the biggest challenge for them. Not only did the shutter have to be lightweight, but also easy to pull down and lock in case of a storm. Utilizing composite materials was their solution as they provide high strength while being lightweight.
3. Composites could detect bombs
A new type of fiber composite was developed by the engineers at the University of Utah to make a portable scanner for detecting alkane vapor (an ingredient of gasoline, airplane fuel and a homemade bomb). According to them, the only thing available currently for detecting alkane is a large heavy device in a lab. In order to make the portable scanner, they developed a new type of fiber composite with two nanofibers that transfers electrons from one to the other, but when there is alkane, alkane adheres to the materials and prevents electrons to transfer between the materials. The newly developed composite materials will be utilized in the sensor array of the portable scanner.
http://compositesmanufacturingmagazine.com/2016/03/major-league-baseball-players-could-benefit-from-protective-composites/?utm_source=Real%20Magnet&utm_medium=Publication&utm_term=Industry%20Digest%20-%203/7/16&utm_content=Major%20League%20Baseball%20players%20use%20composites%20at%20Spring%20Training%202016!&utm_campaign=Industry%20Digest
http://compositesmanufacturingmagazine.com/2016/02/building-a-storm-proof-house-with-composites/
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How OSG's EXOPRO® AERO-BNC router will change the game in roughing composites
Ever dream of machining composites without delamination and tool life issues? Composites are constructed with layers of material that are prone to delamination. They are also known to be abrasive and could easily wear your tool down. If your tool loses its sharpness, the material gets pushed away instead of cut, producing uncut fibers. OSG’s EXOPRO® AERO-BNC router overcomes these problems and even provides high feed roughing and a superior finish.
Reduced Delamination and Cutting Forces
The AERO-BNC router features OSG’s patented nick design and a high helix that breaks up the cutting edges. By breaking up composites with many cutting edges, instead of one long cutting edge, the nicked router can significantly reduce cutting forces. The lower the cutting forces, the less chance there is for delaminations and uncut fibers.
Longer Tool Life
The AERO-BNC also features OSG’s patented diamond coating which has a maximum diamond grain size diameter of 2μm. This ensures our coating is super smooth. Unlike our competition, we manufacture all diamond products in-house using our grinding technique on our special carbide substrate. This patented diamond coating coupled with the AERO-BNC router’s thick core diameter and multiple flutes extends tool life significantly. Improved part finish and sharper cutting edges are also the end results of the diamond coating.
The AERO-BNC is extremely versatile and can be applied in both thick and thin laminates. It is versatile enough to handle trimming, slotting and shoulder milling applications! It also can engage parts by plunging, ramping or helical entry and is available in various end cuts to enable you to find the right tool for your job.
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Where Did the Night Fall
Surrender All
by Ian Cohen
Incredibly now going into its third decade, James Lavelle's resilient project reinvents itself as a workmanlike, electronically informed rock band.
Used to be that I greeted every UNKLE album that came after the infamous Psyence Fiction with, "hey, they're still at it." But now with Where Did the Night Fall hitting stores in the year 2010, there has been an UNKLE LP released in three consecutive decades-- it's going to be more of a surprise when James Lavelle stops making music.
While the resiliency of the UNKLE project is admirable, it was still a bummer that the artistic adventurousness of Lavelle had previously moved in lockstep with the ever-declining stakes. Granted, DJ Shadow may have taken whatever hip-hop influence/cred the project had with him before the turn of the century, but by 2008's quasi-soundtrack End Titles, Lavelle appeared to resign himself to a mishmash of soupy guitar instrumentals and charmless, cavernous Brit-rock.
But whether it's having their most solidified core in years (Lavelle is joined by Pablo Clements and touring bassist James Griffith of Big in Japan), Night is not only the strongest UNKLE album since Psyence Fiction, but also the first where a premium was placed on cohesion. The cover art is still a good indication of what hues Lavelle likes to work in-- silvery guitar lines, drums cloaked with shadowy reverb-- but UNKLE reinvent themselves as a workmanlike, electronically informed rock band favoring metronomic grooves. At the outset, UNKLE work surprisingly well hooking their jumper cables to psych rockers like Sleepy Sun and Black Angels and churning out major-key, bass-driven vigor. It's the rhythmic streamlining that ends up being the distinguishing sonic addition to Night, to the point where the most UNKLE-y track ("Joy Factory", featuring L.A. shoegazers Autolux) stands as an anomaly for having something akin to a breakbeat.
But-- perhaps inevitable considering the rotating cast-- Night is ultimately hamstrung by a personality vacuum. It's easy enough to enjoy Night while it's playing, but even after so many listens, it's hard to care about it. After an auspicious beginning, an assembly line of well-manicured but lyrically undistinguished songs about mental stress and relationships fail to make themselves stand out. Celebration's Katrina Ford and Mark Lanegan have enough vocal character to predictably dominate serviceable everydudes like South's Joel Cadbury and Clayhill's Gavin Clark, but by playing entirely to type (the walloping soul number, the dustbowl blues), their contributions feel more like character acting than songs that could be compelling in a vacuum.
So sure, this is UNKLE going "legit," making an album that feels like the word of a woodshedding, touring band that happens to have a revolving cast of talented vocalists (think a waaaaaay lower-risk, lower-reward Broken Social Scene). But then again, as risible as some parts of Psyence Fiction were, would When Did the Night Fall be on anyone's radar if it simply came from the band responsible for War Stories and not, say, "Lonely Soul"? They might strive for simple pleasures of yeoman's work, but you know, UNKLE continuing in this vein ultimately brings to mind Damon Dash's pledge to resurrect Roc-A-Fella Records: sketchy legacy or not, striving for an average future under the same banner kinda tarnishes the whole thing.
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Rebecca Cook
May 13, 2012 Cook Rebecca
He is not an engine that could. Busted up, broken and backward, call him “fucked-up,”
call him “brother,” unrecognizable lump, clawed his way out and into a chuf chuf
chuffing up the hill, inching his way along, a worm between your fingers, feelers in the
air. Can I go this way, that way? No way. See how his eyes are akimbo? Now hold them
trembling above the pot of water. They only said two hundred and twelve, but we
watched, and waited, how we waited, blue flames licking upward and then, that crash
in the living room, that falling through, what Daddy always said about funerals, that
they couldn’t fit all those people in the house and even now he remembers his hands
curling around the wadded Kleenex. Oh sure, she’s dead and that should have been the
end to his demons, but it never stops there because he is not a present participle, his feet
are backwards, glued on after the thought. She told me he was born without eyebrows,
without fingernails, pink, seven-and-a-half pound baby, fist in his mouth, eyes sealed
shut like a whelp, a slick pup pulled too soon from the water, not enough steam, what
Daddy always said–If only that boy could get a full head of steam, finally chug up the
hill. But that was the wrong night, the wrong way through the woods. It was ten o’clock
in the morning when we found him, half-assed and hung from a tree, and just look
what trying gets you.
Author: Rebecca Cook
Rebecca Cook’s new manuscript, I Will Not Give Over was a finalist for the Alice James Books’ Beatrice Hawley Award for 2012. Her chapbook of poems, The Terrible Baby, is available from Dancing Girl Press, and her novel, Click, is forthcoming from Kitsune Books in 2013.
He Was Amazed
By Dobyns Stephen in Poems, Issue #11 May 2012
By Meena Alexander in Poems, Issue #11 May 2012
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Sprint confirms Marshmallow for the LG G3, but still wont give an ETA
Andrew Myrick Apr 29th, 2016
It’s not always the case, but most carriers and manufacturers try to make their customers happy by providing timely software updates. There are those times when some users are stuck wondering if their device will ever see a new Android version, while other (sometimes the same) device on other networks receives said update. It’s not a good feeling, we know.
Owners of the LG G3 on Sprint — the ones who’ve been waiting for Android 6.0 Marshmallow — can finally breathe a tiny sigh of relief. Earlier today on Twitter, a Sprint representative replied to a customer’s request for an update on the Marshmallow rollout to which Sprint Care was able to confirm that Marshmallow is still planned for the device, but no timing on release. Here’s the tweet:
Again, there’s no ETA as to when the update will actually arrive, but at least there’s still some hope that it could be sometime soon. In the meantime be sure to cross your fingers, toes, or any other appendages in hope that it’s sooner rather than later. We wont be holding our breath.
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Emerson & Thoreau: Figures of Friendship
Scott F. Parker gets friendly with Emerson & Thoreau.
Emerson and Thoreau are lumped together in the American cultural memory for their leading roles in American transcendentalism, and also for their personal relationship. Emerson & Thoreau: Figures of Friendship, edited by John T. Lysaker and William Rossi, offers compelling biographical background on their famous friendship, as well as insightful scholarship on their main writings about friendship: Emerson’s essay ‘Friendship’, and the ‘Wednesday’ section of Thoreau’s A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849).
The book’s bold aspiration is to be that rare hybrid: an academic work urgent enough to change the reader’s life. Following Emerson and Thoreau’s “at once… literary-philosophical and… existential concern” with friendship, in their introduction, Lysaker and Rossi write that “the present collection’s real concern is with friendship itself… Thus we would expect this book to enrich our readers’ collective sense of what friendship involves, what it requires, and how we might fare better on our paths.” (p.8.) If this ambition isn’t unfounded, it’s due as much to the breadth and importance of the subject, friendship, as it is to the transcendental inspiration of the sources. From Aristotle to the Romantics, a consideration of friendship has featured prominently in views of how to live, and as Lysaker and Rossi write, “like few folds in mortal life, friendship seems a necessary part of the good.” (p.1.) In an era when friends are publically counted in the hundreds, and made anew with the click of a Facebook button, we might pause at the ‘necessary.’ Or does discerning a distinction between quantity and quality just highlight the necessity of sincere friendship?
“With the increased commercialization of every sphere of life, a certain degree of calculation infects even the most innocuous activities, eg, what we wear, how we ‘spend’ our free time, and with whom. What may be missing is thus less company than meaningful company,” they say on p.2.
In both Emerson’s and Thoreau’s thinking, friendship is indispensable in bringing about our better selves: our flourishing cannot occur without the challenges and opportunities for growth our friends provide us. In Thoreau’s words: “friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.”
On the terms I think Lysaker and Rossi want to be taken, their book would have to treat the reader like a Thoreauvian or Emersonian friend, and rather than simply harmonize with the views they already hold, hit notes of resonance that lead the reader to a richer self. This is a noble and generous goal, but ultimately the book’s register leads it to fall somewhat short of this ideal, for at its core Emerson & Thoreau remains an academic book. This is no knock against it – at least, not a very hard knock – and it’s not to imply that ‘human interests’ don’t lie within; but it is to say that the scholarship is front and center, and the author-reader relationship is left in the margins. The detached scholarly tone, especially in contrast to Emerson’s and Thoreau’s more personable prose, often left me feeling less a witness to events or a participant in experiences than a recipient of intellectual reportage, wondering, “Is this how you talk to your friends?” Yet even if the authors do not cultivate a meaningful friendship with their readers, the book’s scholarship nevertheless makes it worth reading.
Lawrence Buell addresses the intersection of theory and practice for Emerson and Thoreau, who “notoriously [define] friendship in such exalted terms as to threaten to make it inoperable,” (p.17.) Buell demonstrates how their respective dispositions shaped both their thinking about friendship, and the rocky friendship they shared. His essay, along with Barbara Packer’s treatment of gift-giving, provide helpful biographical and intellectual context for reading ‘Friendship’ or ‘Wednesday.’
The book’s second and third sections are devoted to Emerson’s and Thoreau’s major writings on friendship. Beginning these sections, I desired a refresher from the source materials, and regretted that neither was included. Both ‘Friendship’ and A Week are in the public domain, and neither text is terribly long – they would have made nice appendices. But the texts aren’t necessary. The exegesis is so thorough that a clear sense of them emerges. Russell B. Goodman offers a paragraph by paragraph reading of Emerson’s ‘Friendship’; and a similar if less detailed picture of Thoreau’s ‘Wednesday’ comes into focus in essays by Rossi and Alan D. Hodder.
Among the scholarship, there are moments of inspiration throughout. Consider this from David M. Robinson’s essay, ‘In the Golden Hour of Friendship’:
“What Emerson seems to discover – and the essay ‘Friendship’ is the narrative of this discovery – is that friendships “are not glass threads and frostwork, but the solidest things we know.” However true it might be that two souls can never completely merge, this [knowledge of incompatibility] is useless information – the stuff of idle curiosity, of ‘wine and dreams’… such insights are corrosive of desire itself, starving the spirit and undermining the richness and depth of our experience.” (p.62.)
And besides inspiration, there is real advice. Here’s Lysaker, reading Emerson, borrowing from Aristotle, echoing Thoreau: “Unlike those of pleasure and use, ethical friendships set terms that do not admit of compartmentalization. Instead, they claim us at every point along the circumference of our being” (p.90); or “Ethical friendship, in seeking another self, should seek enlargement and not agreement.” (p.91.) These implorations to self-cultivation, the book suggests, are the essence of Emerson’s and Thoreau’s notions of friendship.
Following Emerson’s famous statement, “I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them,” Goodman writes, “we must take our leave of friends, we must take our leave of books” (p.73); or, in Naoko Saito’s words, “Ultimately, Thoreau must leave the reader too, and the reader must move on from Walden and whatever light it has conferred. But through the act of leaving, the other does not simply leave us behind: he leaves us with the act of pursuing our own light.” (p.182.) For Emerson and Thoreau, and Emerson & Thoreau, books, like friends, are always in the service of our self-cultivation, always leading us on to our future selves, and always reminding us to have a life independent of them.
© Scott F. Parker 2010
Scott’s book Coffee: Grounds for Debate, co-edited with Mike W. Austin, is forthcoming from Wiley-Blackwell's ‘Philosophy for Everyone’ series. He has contributed chapters to Golf and Philosophy, Football and Philosophy, and Alice in Wonderland and Philosophy.
• Emerson & Thoreau: Figures of Friendship, edited by John T. Lysaker and William Rossi, Indiana University Press, 2009, 222pps, $22.95 pb, ISBN: 978-0253221438.
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Rapid melting of the world's largest ice shelf linked to solar heat in the ocean
by University of Cambridge
The Ross Polynya where solar heat is absorbed by the ocean. The vertical wall of the ice front stretches a distance of 600 km. Credit: Poul Christoffersen
An international team of scientists has found part of the world's largest ice shelf is melting 10 times faster than expected due to solar heating of the surrounding ocean.
In a study of Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf, which covers an area roughly the size of France, the scientists spent several years building up a record of how the north-west sector of this vast ice shelf interacts with the ocean beneath it. Their results, reported in the journal Nature Geoscience, show that the ice is melting much more rapidly than previously thought due to inflowing warm water.
"The stability of ice shelves is generally thought to be related to their exposure to warm deep ocean water, but we've found that solar heated surface water also plays a crucial role in melting ice shelves," said first author Dr. Craig Stewart from the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) in New Zealand, who conducted the work while a Ph.D. student at the University of Cambridge.
Although the interactions between ice and ocean occurring hundreds of metres below the surface of ice shelves seem remote, they have a direct impact on long-term sea level. The Ross Ice Shelf stabilises the West Antarctic ice sheet by blocking the ice which flows into it from some of the world's largest glaciers.
"Previous studies have shown that when ice shelves collapse, the feeding glaciers can speed up by a factor or two or three," said co-author Dr. Poul Christoffersen from Cambridge's Scott Polar Research Institute. "The difference here is the sheer size of Ross Ice Shelf, which over one hundred times larger than the ice shelves we've already seen disappear."
The team collected four years of data from an oceanographic mooring installed under the Ross Ice Shelf by collaborators at NIWA. Using instruments deployed through a 260 metre-deep borehole, the team measured temperature, salinity, melt rates and ocean currents in the cavity under the ice.
The team also used an extremely precise custom-made radar system to survey the changing thickness of the ice shelf. Supported by Antarctica New Zealand and the Rutherford Foundation's Scott Centenary Scholarship at the Scott Polar Research Institute, Dr. Stewart and Dr. Christoffersen travelled more than 1000 km by snowmobile in order to measure ice thicknesses and map basal melt rates.
Cambridge and NIWA scientists traverse 1,000 km on the Ross Ice Shelf. Credit: Poul Christoffersen
Data from the instruments deployed on the mooring showed that solar heated surface water flows into the cavity under the ice shelf near Ross Island, causing melt rates to nearly triple during the summer months.
The melting is affected by a large area of open ocean in front of the ice shelf that is empty of sea ice due to strong offshore winds. This area, known as the Ross Sea Polynya, absorbs solar heat quickly in summer and this solar heat source is clearly influencing melting in the ice shelf cavity.
The findings suggest that conditions in the ice shelf cavity are more closely coupled with the surface ocean and atmosphere than previously assumed, implying that melt rates near the ice front will respond quickly to changes in the uppermost layer of the ocean.
"Climate change is likely to result in less sea ice, and higher surface ocean temperatures in the Ross Sea, suggesting that melt rates in this region will increase in the future," said Stewart.
The potential for increasing melt rates in this region has implications for ice shelf stability due to the shape of the ice shelf. Rapid melting identified by the study happens beneath a thin and structurally important part of the ice shelf, where the ice pushes against Ross Island. Pressure from the island, transmitted through this region, slows the flow of the entire ice shelf.
"The observations we made at the front of the ice shelf have direct implications for many large glaciers that flow into the ice shelf, some as far as 900 km away," said Christoffersen.
While the Ross Ice Shelf is considered to be releatively stable, the new findings show that it may be more vulnerable than thought so far. The point of vulnerability lies in the fact that that solar heated surface water flows into the cavity near a stabilising pinning point, which could be undermined if basal melting intensifies further.
The researchers point out that melting measured by the study does not imply that the ice shelf is currently unstable. The ice shelf has evolved over time and ice lost by melting due to inflow of warm water is roughly balanced by the inputs of ice from feeding glaciers and snow accumulation. This balance is, however, depending on the stability provided by the Ross Island pinning point, which the new study identifies as a point of future vulnerability.
Warm winds in autumn could strain Antarctica's Larsen C ice shelf
More information: Basal melting of Ross Ice Shelf from solar heat absorption in an ice-front polynya, Nature Geoscience (2019). DOI: 10.1038/s41561-019-0356-0 , https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-019-0356-0
Journal information: Nature Geoscience
Provided by University of Cambridge
Citation: Rapid melting of the world's largest ice shelf linked to solar heat in the ocean (2019, April 29) retrieved 18 July 2019 from https://phys.org/news/2019-04-rapid-world-largest-ice-shelf.html
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Climate change accelerating rise in sea levels
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Ammonia from agriculture influences cloud formation over Asia
snoosebaum
so now there is 'spot ' heating caused by 'global' warming .
i'm going to switch to light bulbs above to boil my water
fight the power , fight the fake news , enemy of the people
https://advances....093.full
HeloMenelo
The fake man himself trying to talk about "fake news" funny indeed ;) The enemy of the people is the enemy of the environment, and that would purely be Fossil Fuels !
"We do not hypothesize that elevated heat flux below the WAIS explains the instability of the ice sheet, nor that heat flux measured at SLW is regionally representative; however, locally elevated basal heat flux may help researchers to understand why parts of some ice sheets have been so sensitive to recent changes in climate and oceanic conditions"
fight the power , fight the fake news , enemy of the people, it fits but not the way you intended.
antigoracle
You (not the Chicken Littles) have to wonder, why research into intense geothermal activity would seek to mention climate? Well, the response from the Chicken Little above answers that. It's purely to fool the ignorant. A check of their reference reveals, no relevance to climate.
AGW Cult "science", it does NOT fit, and is exactly the way they intended. Blatant lies for their hungry Chicken Littles.
rrwillsj
well, now we have our scheduled propaganda from auntieoral.
agitpropping from it's circuit-board at one of the russuan & saudi axis Dark Web sites.
saila
Russia seems to have software that creates false accounts and post pre-preprared messages to different blogs across the world to try to influence public opinion and create a debate around global warming on information sites. I wish there would be an investigation on those Steves and snoosebaum and similar accounts. They should be false accounts and not genuine persons behing them, and should be manipulated by an organization spreading false news.
I think that this is what we are facing, Europe should pursue this investigation.
да товарищи трудящиеся мира объединяются !!
Then why did you reference it here?
Fire below, ice above: volcanoes, glaciers and sea level rise
https://climate.n...el-rise/
https://phys.org/...ies.html
I wish there would be an investigation on those Steves and snoosebaum and similar accounts. They should be false accounts and not genuine persons behing them, and should be manipulated by an organization spreading false news.
If you believe this you have to admit that the Russians play a long game, I've been posting on this site since August 29, 2008.
ahh, snoozebum, still whoring for pimp putin's KGB canal.
What? The saudis won't pay you more?
Well, they do know how to price a traitor.
Plenty of other denier's offering themselves for sale to the highest bidder.
Go back and look at the links I posted in that other phyorg thread. They are all about research into how intense geothermal activity is affecting the icecaps in Antarctica and/or Greenland. Yet, they chose to make unsubstantiated claims about climate change, providing no data, irrelevant references or none at all. Why? Because the AGW Cult knows that their ignorant flock will be satisfied with just words..er..excuse me..lies and not bother to seek validation.
So you think it's all a big conspiracy. How unoriginal.
May I ask why you posted the links, what were you trying to prove?
@antigoracle.
geothermal activity is affecting the icecaps in Antarctica and/or Greenland. Yet, they chose to make unsubstantiated claims about climate change, providing no data, irrelevant references or none at all. Why?
All Russian/GOP/Fossil troll-factory 'spiels' were refuted long ago, mate. Either you're a bot-posting troll-stooge, or you're deliberately 'forgetting' what I have been pointing out for years now re ice-covered volcanic hot-spots:
1) such volcanic heat inputs have always been a part of the dynamics;
2) AGW-related warming/thinning of ice-cover creates less pressure; and hence allow more volcanic upwellings to bring more heat to underside of the ice cover.
3) Feedback between warming/melting and lessening-pressure on volcanic hot-spots, is increasing during transition from previous to evolving temp/pressure balances in such regions.
4) When this (and oceanic/other) 'heat/CO2 buffering' is exhausted, a 'Tipping Point' will bring disastrous dynamics.
well auntieoral,
your reliance on your ouiijabored for collecting anti-science fraudulent- flatulence is a real snoozefistula.
Your programmer & Dark Web operators been sucking down liters of potato-shine?
Why did you cherry-pick every irrelevant and unsubstantiated reference to climate, in those links?
Surveillance_Egg_Unit
golly gee, Stewie. Who would've thunk that "solar heated surface water also plays a crucial role in melting ice shelves,". This is wondrous news!!
says antigoracle
That 's a good, informative link from NASA. Mostly concerning the 'hot spots' under the ice that melt the glaciers for sea rise. But the link also has to mention AGW to give 'lip service' to those who don't believe that Nature is at fault. It must be humans causing the melting or else.
Meanwhile in real life the seas are rising 3 or so mm/yr!!! This figure has not changed much in 100s of years. Before that they rose at a much grater rate due to the end of an ice age.
But corrupted science continues to scare the children with pure propaganda and those who have the belief system of a child.
Da Schneib
https://www.youtu...Gl96Rt4o
I think the most amusing thing is that deniers deny both heat and cold.
says MR166
I would like to know with what they are measuring this increase in height of sea rise. Do they implant a piece of wood or metal into a concrete form and stick it in the sand or seashore somewhere? Do they account for waves sploshing onto the wood or metal far above the 3 mm height? You know, ocean waves have this bad habit of constantly moving up, down, up, down and getting everything wet. Even the most accurate measurement can't be very accurate when measuring wave action. It would be nice if the sea would just inch up gradually on the measuring stick without rising and falling, wouldn't it? How lovely that would be.
I'd say the cesspools the deniers said were safe for hundreds of years overflowing onto their front lawns would tell them everything they need to know.
LOL What is it with Da Schitts fascination/fixation on butts, arses and cesspools? Is he gay?
Hey, you're the one told them it would never happen.
And it's in the newspapers. Maybe you forgot. Bet they don't.
Some of those boys are meaner than cat piss.
And they all know how to use a rope.
Just so you don't forget: https://phys.org/...nks.html
A billion dollars.
Spend and spend Republicans. How much of that billion dollars worth of property damage you think those folks will get back?
I quoted extracts from your links to show that none of them supported your argument as none of them show that geothermal activity has increased and is causing the accelerated ice loss. Claiming that only those parts that you agree with can be true and the rest is a deliberate lie is a good example of a self-sealing argument and strong indicator of conspiracist ideation.
https://www.logic...Argument
Ken_Fabian
This is the sort of science that is supported because our science agencies know that global warming is real and serious. Whilst it gives us yet more real world confirmation of global warming it is being done to gain a better understanding of how warming impacts at the interface of ice and ocean will play out in a region of great significance.
Da it trying to claim that sea level rise is ruining septic systems in Miami\Dade Florida. Why should I feel sorry for someone who built their home in what was once wetlands. If your home is destroyed by 3mm/year sea level rise you made the mistake not me.
https://tidesandc...=8723170
I will look for a new chart that goes past 1980. Perhaps another town nearby.
Cedar Key Fla. 2mm/year
As our society loses it's moral compass lying, cheating and stealing become commonplace. To prove my point just leave your college dorm room unlocked for a few hours and see what happens. These are the very same people that are writing government funded papers proving AGW.
oh deer. I'd hoped that ms666 had been warned off about peeking into the windows at school dorms.
It is proof that the Earth is not warming up because ms666 wears that overcoat everywhere he/she/it skulks.
Huh? Whatta yah mean the air temperature is not why it wears that overcoat?
Ohhh...gross!
Yup RR we live in a valueless society. All people care about is free sh*t, access to bathrooms of the opposite sex and their precious marijuana.
https://volcanoho...w-kzYDJU
fossil fuel was once life, release it and the earth will make it live again
https://www.natur...mate3004
@snoosebaum.
You posted that silly troll-factory meme more than once before in other threads, mate. I now yet again remind you of what I said to you then:
The sort of life way back then was not the sort of life now.
See? Dinosaurs and other non-hominids were adapted for such conditions as prevailed back then; but if such conditions returned, then you, your family/descendants would find it 'less than tolerable'; ie, downright deadly, in fact. Do you have a 'death wish' for yourself and your progeny, @snoosebaum? Sounds like it. Or else you're just yet another of Putin's/Trump's 'weaponised stupids' which they have been playing for suckers/stooges. Either way, not good, mate. Rethinkit.
Snooseloose antigoracle sockpuppet and the rest of his sockies overworking that pea to prove himself dumbest baboon of the year... guess what... at this pace, you will outperform your competition, ...well what competition... lol
cleanearth2
No Dimwit, AGW is proven not written denier propaganda. On the other hand you have sucked your sore thumb dry putting up baseless and utterly idiotic comments along with your sockpuppets, but keep at it the world continues to watch..great fun.. :)
@MR166.
As our society loses it's moral compass lying, cheating and stealing become commonplace.
You just described in a 'nutshell' the modus operandi by which Trump, Putin, the big multinational corporations/banks accumulated their riches, mate! They are the ones who hide their ill-gotten gains in secretive tax-havens; where big money (acquired by cheating, lying and stealing from those who actually worked to create the wealth by honest toil) goes to hide from retribution. Being shafted by the global criminal mafias, and the crooked politicians they buy/blackmail into helping make laws/redistributions which keep those criminals/politicians in power/wealth dominance is not conducive to 'trust' in authority/institutions being corrupted like Trump/Putin have done. Little wonder young people have lost all respect for those (like you) who berate them while giving a 'free pass' to the likes of Putin/Trump etc who steal the fruits of others' labor! Bad.
Wake up, mate. :)
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Иноческие имена на Руси
С. 191-203.
Успенский Б. А.
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Keywords: имямонашествопостригалфавитДревняя РусьВизантия
In book
Znaczenie, tekst, kultura. Prace ofiarowane Profesor Elżbiecie Janus
Edited by: A. Kozłowska, A. Świątek. Warsz.: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego, 2014.
Андрей Первозванный. Опыт небиографическогог жизнеописания
Виноградов А. Ю., Грищенко А. И. Вып. 1641. М.: Молодая гвардия, 2013.
INTERNATIONAL POSITION OF CHRISTIAN ALANIA IN THE 10TH CENTURY
Виноградов А. Ю. Basic research program. WP BRP. National Research University Higher School of Economics, 2016
The article is dedicated to the international position of Christian Alania in the 10th century, including defeat by the Khazars after 932 and expulsion of the clergy, and re-Cristianization about 950. Narrative, sigillographic, epigraphic and archaeological sources are used. As result the international position of Christian Alania in the 10th century is reconstructed.
Birchbark Literacy and the Rise of Written Communication in Early Rus’
Gippius A. In bk.: Epigraphic Literacy and Christian Identity: Modes of Written Discourse in the Newly Christian European North. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2012. P. 225-251.
The paper discusses the origin of pragmatic writing in Early Rus’ and its relationship to the Church Slavonic tradition. The emergence of birchbark literacy in Novgorod at about 1030 is treated as a by-product of the spread of church education under the reign of Jaroslav the Wise. The intermingling of lay and ecclesiastic affairs in the life of Lyudin konec of Novgorod is shown to have produded the breeding ground for the proliferation of birchbark writing in this part of the city.
Храм i люди. Збiрка статей до 90-рiччя з дня народження С. О. Висоцького
Edited by: Е. И. Архипова, Г. Ю. Ивакин К.: Agrar Media Group, 2013.
Added: Jun 9, 2013
Жизнь и мученичество святых мучеников Галактиона и Эпистимы. Вступительная статья, перевод с древнегреческого, комментарий, критическое издание греческого текста и исследование «Галактион и Эпистима: Роман-Житие-Passio» Анонима Миусского (в соавторстве, под коллективным псевдонимом)
Миусский А., Брагинская Н. В., Шмаина-Великанова А. И. и др. Вестник древней истории. 2009. № 4. С. 269-291.
The Mysterious Seal Of Alexios Komnenos From Tamatarch
Chkhaidze V., Denis K., Vinogradov D. A. Humanities. HUM. Basic Research Programme, 2014. No. WP BRP 57/HUM/2014.
This research concerns the unique seal of a Byzantine aristocrat named Alexios Komnenos found in Tamatarcha (modern Taman’), which has only one parallel from Trebizond. The authors explain the meaning of images on the seal (the resurrection on its obverse and St George leading a warrior by the hand on its reverse) as an ideological program of the restoration of Byzantine power over Jerusalem. The warrior representing Alexios Komnenos is identified not as Alexios I Great Komenos of Trebizond (as usual), but as Alexios, son of the Emperor John II Komnenos, and the seal is re-dated from 13th to 12th century. Its find on the Taman’ peninsula corresponds with Byzantine political activity in this region.
Русское летописание в свете типологических параллелей
Гимон Т. В., Гиппиус А. А. В кн.: Жанры и формы в письменной культуре Средневековья. М.: ИМЛИ РАН, 2005. С. 174-200.
Абхазский католикосат. Его возникновение и ранняя история (VIII–X вв.)
Виноградов А. Ю., Гугушвили Ш. Исторические исследования. WP19. Высшая школа экономики, 2013
The present work is dedicated to the circumstances of emergence and to the early history of the Catholicosate of Abkhazia. Due to creation of an independent Kingdom of Abkhazia on its territory, in 787 theByzantine Metropolis of Phasis ceases its existence. Its place is taken by a new ecclesiastic body, the predecessor of the Catholicosate of Abkhazia. This new Church was independent of both the Patriarchateof Constantinople and the Catholicosate of Mtskheta, but had a Georgian (“Kartian”) character. At the same time, the Greek hierarchy continued its existence in the northern part of Abkhazia. Theboundaries of the “Catholicosate of Abkhazia” approximately coincided with those of the Kingdom of Abkhazia. Its center was probably originally located in Phasis (Poti) and was later moved to Kutaisi.
К вопросу о византийском влиянии на архитектуру Кавказа (IX-X вв.)
Виноградов А. Ю., Белецкий Д. В. Византийский временник. 2013. Т. 72. С. 203-216.
The article is dedicated to the elements of Byzantine influence in the Caucasian architectural monuments of 9th–10th c. Its greatest extent shows from the end of 9th c. Abkhazia and Alania, where a local version of the provincial (Pontic) Byzantine architecture was created. In Kakheti several groups of Byzantine master-builders participated in the 10th c. in construction of churches in Vachnadziani, Sanagire, Bodbe etc., and also brought here the tradition of brick architecture. In Klarjeti and Tao the Byzantine builders, who used opus mixtum technique, were involved in different way in the 950-960’s in the construction of the churches in Opiza, Doliskhana, Dört-Kilise, Sinkoti and Ezbeki. Finally, in Armenia Byzantine influence was manifested from the middle of 10th c. in the brick architecture of Vaspurakan.
О дани в «трибутарном» государстве Руси в X в.
Стефанович П. С. В кн.: Древняя Русь и средневековая Европа: возникновение государств. Материалы конференции. М.: Институт всеобщей истории РАН, 2012. С. 260-267.
Early polities are often called as tributary (from Latin tributum). It is a question of great importance but also of great difficulty which tributes (taxes) the Rus’ collected from the subjugated population in the 9-11th centuries. The oldest Rus’ian chronicle texts contain several references about an extraction of some taxes in favor of the Rus’, but these references are difficult to understand. The author interprets the chronicle reports with these references taking two approaches: 1) it is taken for granted that the chronicle preceding to “The Tale of Bygone Years” is preserved in the so-called Novgorod First Chronicle of Younger Redaction, and 2) the chronicle reports are compared with the evidence of non-Rus’ian origin (the treaties by Constantine Porphyrogentis, the Arabian geographers’ accounts from the 9-11th centuries etc.). The most important conclusions drawn by the author are: 1) the tribute rate matched to the “standards” common in Eastern Europe in the 9-11th centuries, and this was in fact a fur skin which corresponded in prize to 4-7 g silver, 2) the Rus’ian ruling class collected the tribute (dan’) during the yearly circuit around the subjugated territory, extracting also some naturalia for feeding as “gifts”; both the circuits and the naturalia were called as poliud’e, 3) the evidence on both the tribute rate and methods of extracting the tribute comes from different regions of Old Rus’ – from Novgorod to Kiev. This fact shows that the basic principles of tax system which the Rus’ applied to the subjugated territories were the same anywhere. These principles laid a foundation for the “tributary” dominance of the Rus’ in the 9-11th centuries.
Восприятие половцев в летописании XI–XIII вв.
Добровольский Д. А. Диалог со временем. 2012. № 39. С. 286-294.
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Issue 20, 2017
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
Crystal chemistry of Mg substitution in NaMnPO4 olivine: concentration limit and cation distribution
T. Boyadzhieva,a V. Koleva*a and R. Stoyanovaa
a Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Acad. G. Bonchev Str., Bldg. 11., 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria
E-mail: vkoleva@svr.igic.bas.bg
Metal ion substitution in phospho-olivines is an effective way to improve their performance as electrode materials in lithium ion and alternative sodium ion batteries. In this contribution, we examine in detail the crystal structure of Mg-substituted NaMnPO4. The preferential occupancy of the alkaline M1 position by Mg2+ ions has been found for the first time – a phenomenon which appears to be opposite to the case of Mg-substituted LiMnPO4, where Mg2+ and Mn2+ reside in the M2 position. Mg solubility in NaMnPO4 is limited in the range of 0.10 < Mg/(Mg + Mn) < 0.15 mole part. Mg-substituted NaMnPO4 is prepared at 200 °C by ionic exchange reactions involving the participation of mixed dittmarite salts, KMn1−xMgxPO4·H2O. The structural aspects of Mg substitution in NaMnPO4 are studied by combination of powder X-ray diffraction using the Rietveld analysis with IR and electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy. The morphologies of precursors and target olivines are examined by means of SEM and EDS. In order to understand the crystal chemistry of Mg-substituted NaMnPO4, we use solid solutions between LiMnPO4 and LiMgPO4 as references. The reference compositions of LiMn1−xMgxPO4 are prepared using the same KMn1−xMgxPO4·H2O precursors as in the case of Mg-substituted NaMnPO4.
This article is part of the themed collection: 2017 PCCP HOT Articles
The article was received on 27 Mar 2017, accepted on 27 Apr 2017 and first published on 02 May 2017
Article type: Paper
DOI: 10.1039/C7CP01947E
Download Citation: Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2017,19, 12730-12739
T. Boyadzhieva, V. Koleva and R. Stoyanova, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2017, 19, 12730
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In this modern setting for the Shakespeare classic, two small-town boys head to the big city looking for adventure and romance. But when they both fall for the same girl, friends become rivals.
Director: Katherine Stewart
Actors: Amber R. Nichols, Andrew DeCarlo, Dave Edmunds, Elizabeth Grace, Fred Gerle, Janis Webb, Jay Brigham, Josh Hunt, Katherine Stewart, Tess Timblin, Toby Ambrose
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Mona, a past student in child psychology, is keen to put her knowledge into practice. She attends an interview and is selected to become a full-time private tutor to two…
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An emotional goodbye between longtime best friends begins an unexpected love affair, putting two marriages and many friendships at stake.
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Documentary chronicling the extraordinary life and tragic death of Mary Millington – Britain’s most famous pornographic actress of the 1970s.
When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.
One man’s struggle to contain the curse he hides within… and his last-ditch attempt to free himself with the love of family. But when it looks as if he is…
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Godzilla, King of the Monsters!
A 400-foot (122-meter) dinosaur-like beast, awoken from undersea hibernation off the Japanese coast by atomic-bomb testing, attacks Tokyo.
Seasons of Gray
Drama – Hated and betrayed by his brothers, Brady Gray is forced off of the family ranch and must start a new life in Dallas. With a good job and…
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The Demon of Eagle Rock
A demon is unleashed into the world after a failed ritual.
Director: Joe U. Brown
Actors: Andrew Forner, Brendan J. Lounsbery, Christian A. Salinas, Cole Hoover, Dylan Wexler, Ellis David Perry, Joe U. Brown, Lena Kane, Michael Werckle, Qussai Sultan, Scott Karahadian
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A meteor lands in Jamestown California in 1849 during the gold rush. It is found by miners who release it’s spoors which turn the population into blood thirsty mutants.
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A Blood Story
Three strangers find themselves at a villa, each with the same goal of discovering the Fountain of Youth, rumored to be nearby. One by one they succumb to the carnal…
Jonah Lives
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Evil-skepticism is not as broad. That is, he will will the Eternal Recurrence of the Same. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you. This event has occurred by the time Rome ceases to be a republic and falls under the Empire.
Motivation-based accounts contend that evil-making properties are certain sorts of motivations—evil desires. The Will to Power A. Beyond Good and Evil. Some tactics used by self-deceivers to evade acknowledging some truth, including 1 avoiding thinking about the truth, 2 distracting themselves with rationalizations that are contrary to the truth, 3 systematically failing to make inquiries that would lead to evidence of the truth and 4 ignoring available evidence of the truth or distracting their attention from this evidence Jones For all joy wants eternity.
To take this talk at face value would be to remain blind to the esoteric meaning Nietzsche is actually trying to convey to the careful reader. The Free Spirit 25 Take care, philosophers and friends of knowledge, beware of martyrdom!
If we came across a child drowning in a shallow pond, the need to rescue the child would be so morally important that it would metaphysically silence the desire to keep our clothes clean as a reason for acting or not acting. One must appeal to immense opposing forces to thwart the natural, all-too-natural, evolution toward the similar, the ordinary, the average- to the ignoble!
God and the Prince of Darkness. As a result, our task as human beings is to pursue and approximate the Form of the Good, and this task is essentially what all morality is based upon. See also Card,21 for a similar view. Philosophers who reject the internalist thesis, i. The book consists of aphorisms, ranging in length from a few sentences to a few pages.
Is there not ground for suspecting that all dogmatic philosophers, just as they have failed to understand women, have failed to woo truth? By an intolerable harm, Card means a harm that makes life not worth living from the point of view of the person whose life it is. If the favoured, the "good," were powerful, it was said that the meek would inherit the earth.
But from where do I get the concept of thing? I shall summarize how they proceed in articulating these two main points and then raise some worries about their reading.
While this account of evil allows for a wide range of motivations, it does specify that evildoers must foresee the harm they produce and lack a moral justification for producing the harm. In the Atrocity Paradigm, Claudia Card makes a point of defining evil without reference to perpetrator motives.
In particular, Plato is far from being a dogmatist in many senses, though many persistently try to read him as such. But the real "interests" of the scholar lie usually somewhere else, say, in his family, in making money, or in politics.
The malancholia of finished things! When it comes to discovering certain parts of truth, there is no doubt that the wicked and the unhappy fare better.
They lack spirituality, and in both senses they lack music. Now keep your door open to new friends! She psychologically silences considerations that are so morally weighty that they metaphysically silence the very considerations which move her to act Garrard We are from the very heart and from the very first accustomed to lying.
He speaks out strongly against the morality of the "herd" that encourages a dull mediocrity in all. Finally, a happy state of things results; there are perhaps no more enemies, and the means of life are abundant.
For example, on this view, it would be evil to attempt to detonate a bomb in a room full of innocent people, even if the attempt is thwarted by the police See Kramer—; Russell 52— Plato also posits the Form of the Good as being the highest of all Forms, that which is the ultimate ground for all reality.
Affect-based accounts contend that evil-making properties are certain sorts of feelings—evil feelings.1. Evil-Skepticism Versus Evil-Revivalism. Evil-skeptics believe we should abandon the concept of evil. On this view we can more accurately, and less perniciously, understand and describe morally despicable actions, characters, and events using more pedestrian moral concepts such as badness and wrongdoing.
The Confliction of Good and Evil In Boethius’s book, The Consolation of Philosophy, Boethius talks to Lady Philosophy about the pursuit of happiness, fate and free will, good, God, and evil, and fortune. Lecture on Nietzsche's Mature Philosophy by Dr. Jan Garrett BGE = Beyond Good and Evil EH = Ecce Homo GM = Genealogy of Morals GS = Gay Science PN = The Portable Nietzsche All translations are by Walter Kaufmann.
I. The Will to Power A. To Nietzsche, all life is will to power. Nietzsche’s Beyond Good And Evil is, without, doubtone of the landmark works of modern philosophy.
First published in it contained the author’s mature thinking on such topicsas truth, God, morality and the Will to Power, and unleashed aradical new philosophical sensibility which was to have an enormousimpact on the intellectual and Reviews: 4.
The Paradox of Philosophical Education: Nietzsche's New Nobility and the Eternal Recurrence in Beyond Good and Evil is the first coherent interpretation of Nietzsche's mature indianmotorcycleofmelbournefl.com: Friedrich Nietzsche (–) was a German philosopher and cultural critic who published intensively in the s and s.
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A Crowd Flowed Over London Bridge
Filed under: Anecdote, Literature, Self indulgence — duncan @ 4:57 pm
I’ve been feeling in need of a wealthy, dissolute patron, lately. Somebody whose character I can assassinate in London taverns at three am, amid a crowd of literary winos, before writing grovelling letters of apology in the grisly-faced morning. Instead I have to work for a living – and it’s a bit of a struggle. You try mastering the fundamentals of economics while holding down a bank job; it’s fun, but it’s neither cake nor ale. So my conscious mind has recently shrunk to a single infinitesimal point, with just enough agency to move limbs and bowels, but without the wherewithal to talk or operate machinery.
Which is to say, I’ve been shirking my duties, and reading Macaulay on Johnson.
“Johnson grown old, Johnson in the fullness of his fame and in the enjoyment of a competent fortune, is better known to us than any other man in history. Every thing about him, his coat, his wig, his figure, his face, his scrofula, his St Vitus’s dance, his rolling walk, his blinking eye, the outward signs which too clearly marked his approbation of his dinner, his insatiable appetite for fish-sauce and veal-pie with plum, his inexhaustible thirst for tea, his trick of touching the posts as he walked, his mysterious practice of treasuring up scraps of orange peel, his morning slumbers, his midnight disputations, his contortions, his mutterings, his gruntings, his puffings, his vigorous, acute, and ready eloquence, his sarcastic wit, his vehemence, his insolence, his fits of tempestuous rage, his queer inmates, old Mr Levett and blind Mrs Williams, the cat Hodge and the negro Frank, all are as familiar to us as the objects by which we have been surrounded from childhood. But we have no minute information respecting those years of Johnson’s life during which his character and his manners became immutably fixed.”
And in case Macaulay seems a bit too Victorian, a bit too complacently outgoing, let me balance the scales with Beckett’s take on Cham.
“It isn’t Boswell’s wit and wisdom machine that means anything to me, but the miseries he never talked of, being unwilling or unable to do so. The horror of annihilation, the horror of madness, the horrified love of Mrs Thrale, the whole mental monster ridden swamp that after hours of silence could only give some ghastly bubble like ‘Lord have mercy upon us’, the background of the ‘Prayers and Meditations’, the opium eating, dreading-to-go to bed, prayers-for-the dead, past living, terrified of dying, terrified of deadness, panting on to 75 bag of water, with a hydracele on his right testis. How jolly.”
A crowd flowed over London Bridge. It flowed into the station, and through the stationers. Three years ago I worked there, selling cigarettes and chocolate to the crowd, before it flowed, millipedal, onto the trains and out into the suburbs, down towards Croydon. Now I work in a bank – offering loans and credit cards to people struggling to repay mortgage debts.
Q: Why is ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ Eliot’s best poem?
A: ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ is Eliot’s best poem because he’s candid there about the repressions, evasions and weaknesses that provide the foundation for his later ethereal art.
We summon an ocean of liquidity, with rites and dances. Then human voices wake us, and we find there is no water, but only dry sterile thunder without rain.
Proper posts to follow, hopefully.
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Bauer v. DeVos and CAPPS v. DeVos
Who is involved in this case?
The Project on Predatory Student Lending and Public Citizen represent Meaghan Bauer and Stephano Del Rose, former students of New England Institute of Art, a predatory for-profit college owned by Education Management Corporation (EDMC). Ms. Bauer and Mr. Del Rose moved to intervene in a lawsuit filed by the for-profit college industry group CAPPS against the Department of Education. Ms. Bauer and Mr. Del Rose subsequently filed a separate case against the Department of Education.
What is this case about?
The Education Department finalized a Borrower Defense Rule in 2016 prohibiting schools that receive federal funds from relying on forced arbitration agreements with their students. Forced arbitration agreements require students to submit any dispute that might later arise between the students and the institution to binding arbitration instead of a court of law. Binding arbitration is a private process with little right to appeal. Students typically cannot band together to bring joint claims in arbitration, and they often are forbidden from publicly discussing the arbitration process.
CAPPS sued the Education Department to try to block the 2016 rule. Shortly after the lawsuit was filed, the Department of Education announced it would delay key parts of the rule until the litigation is over and begin a new rulemaking session to reconsider the rule entirely. The Project brought this case to court to stop the illegal delay and enact the 2016 borrower defense rule.
Where is this case filed?
This case was filed in federal court in the District of Columbia.
When was case filed?
On June 15, 2017, Meaghan Bauer and Stephano Del Rose moved to intervene in the CAPPS lawsuit. On July 6, 2017, Bauer and Del Rose filed their own lawsuit against the Department of Education.
“This turned out to be a lie,” said Del Rose, who graduated from NEIA in 2014. “The equipment was outdated, the career services office wasn’t helpful, and I ended up working at Walgreens, just like I did before graduation.”
“While students should have protections from predatory practices, schools and taxpayers should also be treated fairly as well. Under the previous rules, all one had to do was raise his or her hands to be entitled to so-called free money.”
Why this Case?
For-profit colleges use forced arbitration agreements to strip students of their legal rights. Without access to the courts, students are not able to hold schools accountable for their illegal activity. By refusing to implement this rule, the Department of Education prevents students from taking the measures necessary to protect themselves against predatory institutions.
Case Outcome
In a victory for student borrowers, and another massive rebuke to Betsy DeVos, a court ruled in September 2018 that the Department of Education’s delays in implementing the 2016 Borrower Defense Rule were illegal. The ruling establishes that all three of the actions the Department took to thwart the 2016 borrower defense rule were illegal, and that the Department failed to weigh the harm that its delay imposed on student borrowers. The court also found that Department offered a plainly inadequate justification for changing its mind just months after it concluded in 2016 that the use of forced arbitration by schools was a risk to the integrity of the federal student loan program and unfair to borrowers.
Case Updates
Update | LSC’s Project on Predatory Student Lending and Public Citizen Sue to Stop Education Department’s Illegal Regulatory Delay
The U.S. Department of Education broke the law when it announced a delay of a rule designed to protect students defrauded by predatory for-profit colleges and career training programs, two borrowers said in a lawsuit filed today in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
Update | Judge Rules for Project’s Clients; Strikes Down Department of Education Illegal Delay of 2016 Borrower Defense Rule
In another major rebuke to DeVos, the Project wins Bauer v. DeVos case Judge rules that the Department of Education’s delays in implementing 2016 borrower defense rule were illegal and caused serious harm to borrowers In a victory for student borrowers, and another massive rebuke to Betsy DeVos, a court this week ruled that…
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CASE DOCUMENTS
Memorandum Opinion and Order
On September 12, 2018, the court granted the Plaintiffs' motion for summary judgment and ordered all parties appear for a status conference on September 14, 2018.
States Amicus Brief
On October 02, 2018, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, California, Iowa, New York, Oregon, Washington, Illinois, Maryland, and the District of Columbia filed a brief of Amici opposing the renewed motion for preliminary injunction.
Memorandum and Opinion
On October 16, 2018, the court denied CAPPS' motion for a preliminary injunction.
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School re-opening
by marycarron | Aug 16, 2018 | News
We hope everyone had a lovely summer break. School re-opens for all pupils at 8.50 am on Friday, August 31st. The school day will finish at 12.10 pm for Junior Infants until September 7th. Junior Infants will finish school at 1.30 pm from September 10th.
Creative Schools Award
by marycarron | Jun 14, 2018 | News
We are delighted to announce that Rathfarnham Educate Together is one of 150 schools nationwide to have been awarded the opportunity to engage with Scoileanna Ildánacha/Creative Schools initiative, an initiative which aims to ‘put the arts and creativity at the heart of children and young people’s lives’.
Creative Schools is a flagship initiative of the Creative Ireland Programme to enable the creative potential of every child. Creative Schools is led by the Arts Council in partnership with the Department of Education and Skills and the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht. Creative Schools, formerly Arts Rich Schools/Arís, draws on the commitments set out in the Arts in Education Charter.
This pilot initiative will understand, develop and celebrate the arts and creativity in schools. It will establish a range of collaborative opportunities for schools and will develop and strengthen the relationships between schools and the broader cultural and community infrastructure within which they operate. The long term aim is for every school to be supported to fully embrace the arts and creativity, ensuring a positive experience and strong outcomes for children and young people.
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The Arts Council received applications from close to 400 schools from across the country to participate in Creative Schools from September 2018. We are delighted to announce that RETNS was one of the successful applicants and participation in this exciting initiative will be a whole school community endeavour.
Well done to our members of staff who devoted their considerable expertise and a lot of time into preparing the proposal for application. The success of the application brings with it €2,000 to spend on arts education in the school. Beginning in September, the school will be assigned a ‘creative associate’ who will work with staff in progressing ideas and bringing the project together. We all look forward to exciting times ahead in this initiative!
Minister Katherine Zappone TD tweets her congratulations below:
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Art is already a major part of our school curriculum, both as a stand-alone subject and as part of cross-curricular work. Children and staff will enjoy developing this area as part of the Creative Schools initiative.
Green Schools Action Day
by marycarron | Jun 8, 2018 | News
Today we held our Green Schools Action Day which included the raising of the Green Flag, opening of our new Community Veg Garden, launch of our Active Schools Walkway and of course our Mad Hatters Picnic lunch. Here are some images of our day.
We are all excited about our Green Schools Action Day which takes place tomorrow. This is our celebration of our work towards, and achievement of, our sixth Green Flag for Global Citizenship – Litter and Waste. We would love if as many parents, guardians, grandparents as possible could join us for the official part of the day which begins at 9.15 am with the Flag Raising Ceremony. When the Green Flag has been carefully unfolded and raised by the Green Team we will proceed to the new Community Veg Garden at the side of the school. This garden has been planned for some time and has now (literally!) come to fruition. Its secret is its simplicity. All members of the school community were invited to take part in creating the garden and we had lots of volunteer parents, grandparents, staff, staff family members and children, who each played their part in creating a beautiful space which will hopefully be used in lots of creative ways for many years to come. At the moment all classes have had an opportunity to plant various vegetables and fruit and we look forward to a bumper harvest!
For the children we will have our Mad Hatter’s Picnic at lunchtime and we will also launch our new Active Schools Walkway, which is a new walkway marked out around the school which will be used for numerous activities in the future. Thanks to Dennis for putting up the active walkway signs and for his lesson in flag folding, a skill which he is delighted to impart to the children.
by marycarron | May 31, 2018 | News
Garden update
Great work has been done on the veg garden over the last two weeks and the children have been able to start planting. Last weekend we had a kind volunteer who did the paving, and this has given the whole garden a new look. The children have painted beautiful signs showing the class names on each bed and have been choosing vegetables and fruit for planting. Thanks to all staff, parents, grandparents and children who have worked so hard to build such a lovely community garden, and to all who made donations of time, equipment and plants, which were all much appreciated. The veg garden will be officially opened on Friday June 8th on our Green Schools Action Day.
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Maybe It's Time, Part 3 - How Enbridge's Mainline Shift May Boost U.S. Crude Exports
Have It All, Part 10 - EnLink's Crude Gathering Systems in the Midland and Delaware Basins
Tuesday, 06/25/2019Published by: Housley Carr
A key to success for midstream companies developing crude oil gathering systems in the Permian is establishing strong, trusting relationships with the producers driving the region’s growth. Hitch your wagon to one or more producers with top-notch rock and aggressive expansion plans, develop gathering systems that meet their needs for flow assurance and destination optionality, and life will be good. Many of the midstreamers whose Permian gathering systems we’ve been discussing in our ongoing series have done just that. Today, we review the existing and planned systems of EnLink Midstream, another company whose growth is founded in large part on the relationships it has developed with major Permian producers.
This is the 10th episode in our series on Permian crude oil gathering systems. In Part 1, we examined the Beta Crude Connector, a 100-mile-plus, 150-Mb/d system that a joint venture of Concho Resources and Frontier Energy Services is developing in the Midland Basin to serve Concho and other producers. Part 2 looked at another Midland-area system: Reliance Gathering’s 185-Mb/d pipeline network, which was originally developed to serve the affiliated producer Reliance Energy, but which has since undergone a number of expansions to serve other producers too. Part 3 considered San Mateo Midstream’s crude gathering systems in the Delaware Basin — one in Eddy County, NM, and the other in Loving County, TX — and the company’s plans for two new systems on the New Mexico side of the state line. In Part 4, we turned to Medallion Midstream’s fast-growing, 1,000-mile crude oil gathering/header system in the Midland (which provides access to firm shippers serving 20 producers) and its 116-mile Delaware Express gathering/shuttle system in the southern Delaware. Part 5 focused on the 200-mile gathering system that refiner Delek US has been developing — also in the Midland — to deliver locally produced crude to Delek’s Big Spring, TX, refinery and others. In Part 6, we looked at the crude gathering system that a joint venture of WPX Energy and Howard Energy Partners (HEP) has been developing in the Delaware Basin’s Stateline area; that system currently includes more than 50 miles of pipe, with another 20-plus miles under construction. Part 7 reviewed the 860-mile Oryx Trans-Permian gathering and regional transport system, which Oryx Midstream Services has taken from initial concept to 23 producers and nearly 1 million dedicated acres in only five years’ time. In Part 8, we discussed 3 Bear Energy’s Hat Mesa Oil Gathering System, which over the past couple of years has grown to become a network of 200 miles of gathering lines and small trunk lines serving nine shippers in the northern Delaware Basin. And in Part 9, we reviewed the Permian gathering system owned by Andeavor Logistics, a master limited partnership (MLP) — currently owned by Marathon Petroleum Corp. (MPC, with a ~64% share) and investors (~36%), and soon to be acquired by MPLX. One more thing: In our Happy Together blog earlier this week, we looked at Salt Creek Midstream’s ongoing buildout of extensive gathering assets in the Permian — not just for crude, but for natural gas, NGLs and produced water.
EnLink Midstream was established in 2014 through the combination of Devon Energy’s midstream assets with Crosstex Energy. It started out as two publicly traded entities, with EnLink Midstream LLC (ENLC) serving as the general partner and EnLink Midstream Partners LP (ENLK) as the master limited partnership (MLP). As we said in a 2017 “Spotlight” report on EnLink with our friends at East Daley, EnLink’s initial core positions were in the Barnett Shale in North Texas, the Arkoma-Woodford Shale in southeastern Oklahoma, and natural gas and NGL infrastructure in southern Louisiana. Subsequently, EnLink added a major position in the STACK play in central Oklahoma, and developed new gas gathering and processing infrastructure — as well as new crude gathering infrastructure — in the Permian’s Midland and Delaware basins. In July 2018, Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) purchased Devon’s stakes in ENLC and ENLK for $3.125 billion, giving GIP an approximately 41% ownership interest in EnLink. In January 2019, ENLC simplified its corporate structure by acquiring all outstanding common units of ENLK not already owned by ENLC in a unit-for-unit exchange transaction. With that deal, common equity in the MLP is no longer publicly traded. GIP continues to hold a ~41% stake in EnLink Midstream; the balance of EnLink’s units are publicly traded.
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Changing of the Guards- EnLink Builds Out STACK, Permian Infrastructure to Offset Barnett Declines
Have It All, Part 11- NuStar Energy's Crude Gathering System in the Permian's Midland Basin
Have It All, Part 4- Medallion's Midland Crude Oil Header System and Delaware Express Shuttle
Hot Legs- Crude Oil Shuttle Pipelines and Gathering Systems in the Permian, Part 5
Have It All, Part 7- Oryx Midstream's Permian Crude Gathering and Regional Transport System
Have It All, Part 8- 3 Bear Energy's Crude Gathering System in the Northern Delaware
Have It All, Part 6- WPX and Howard Energy Partners' Permian Crude Gathering System
Have It All, Part 3- San Mateo Midstream's Delaware Basin Gathering Systems
Have It All, Part 9- Marathon Petroleum/Andeavor Logistics’ Permian Crude Gathering System
Have It All- Beta Crude Gathering System to Help Permian's Midland Basin Grow
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Aditya Roy Kapur And Shraddha Kapoor Sizzle With Their On-Screen Chemistry In Ok Jaanu
Ok Jaanu is getting mix reactions from the audience. The movie is a remake of Mani Ratnam’s romantic love story O Kadhal Kanmani.
By Sumaiya Sheikh
After giving movies like Raavan and Kill Dil, Shaad Ali is again back with his romantic drama Ok Jaanu, which released to mix reactions from the audience today. Ok Jaanu is a remake of Mani Ratnam’s romantic love story O Kadhal Kanmani. We can say the movie is exact copy of its Tamil virgin. The movie is based on young love, live-in relationship and fear of commitment.
The whole story revolves around Aadi (Aditya Roy Kapur) and Tara (Shraddha Kapoor) who decide to live in, and as the story goes on it shows how their approach towards life changes, as they start dealing with the real situations as an unmarried couple. The movie also features veteran actor Naseeruddin Shah.
Source: bollywoodreads
While giving its review, The Indian Express said, "This Aditya Roy Kapur, Shraddha Kapoor film proves Bollywood needs to get more adept at depicting young love. Why do our lovers, so much quicker off the mark when it comes to locking lips, sound so juvenile?
Source: ndtv
A.R Rahman’s music is already a creating a great buzz with songs like Humma Humma and Enna Sona.
The Indian Express gave it 2.5/5, while Times Entertainment gave it four and a half stars.
Title Image: bollywoodpataka
Sumaiya Sheikh (WRITER)
Sumaiya believes in expressing her thoughts with the sword of words. This management lover handled 30 and 100 volunteers for All India Interschool Personality Contest in 2013 & 2016 respectively, by Oxford Speakers’ Academy. A chatterbox, she also hosted three shows at All India Radio. This compotator represented KKSU in the inter-university debate competition - Indradhanushya.
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Athlete of the Month – Bailey Church
This February, Chris McGovern, Sports Performance Director at our Arrowhead location, chose Bailey Church as our Athlete of the Month.
Bailey has been competing in track and field for the past three years. “I like pushing myself and knowing it’s only me who can get better and I don’t have anyone else to blame for my mistakes,” Bailey said.
She has been training with Chris for the past four months and her strength and speed have improved tremendously.
“Bailey has put a lot of hard work in over the last 5 months and is an exemplary athlete at the Arrowhead facility,” Chris said. “Her improvements show other athletes what is possible if you put in the work and stay consistent. She will have a successful track season this year if she puts in the effort at practice that she has put in while training with me.”
Bailey’s favorite event is pole vault and her dream is to compete for ASU or NAU.
In her free time, Bailey likes to spend time with her family and volunteer at the hospital. She would like to work in the medical field when she gets older.
Her favorite thing about track and field is the success you see at the end. Her least favorite thing is having the seniors leave because she looks up to them and they inspire her.
Her favorite track and field athlete is her friend Maram because she pushes her.
Some of the awards she’s won include MVP, most dedicated athlete, and an academic sports award.
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