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YMCA of Greater Houston announces equity-focused innovation center backed by Reliant
The Equity Innovation Center Powered by Reliant will have online resources as well as an interactive learning lab at Tellepsen Family Downtown YMCA. Photo courtesy of Urban Land Institute Houston
Houston is the most diverse city in the nation, and the YMCA of Greater Houston is looking to do its part to promote equity innovation by opening a new center.
The Equity Innovation Center Powered by Reliant will be the first of its kind in the region, and it will operate as a space for Houstonians to gather and collaborate.
"The YMCA of Greater Houston vows to stand with our brothers and sisters who are made to feel less safe by the many recent incidents – fighting for health equity in the face of the inequities being laid bare by the COVID-19 pandemic and unjust killings," says Stephen Ives, president and CEO, YMCA of Greater Houston, in a press release. "The Y will continue expanding and strengthening its commitment to combat racism, bias, prejudice and inequalities while fighting for justice."
The center will provide resources and activities so that visitors and collaborators can "walk away with a solid learning or unlearning" of social justice issues that are prominent in both Houston and nationally.
Rolling out in three phases, the project's first step is to foster conversations, consulting, and online trainings regarding systemic racial inequities. The next two phases will include setting up an interactive learning lab at Tellepsen Family Downtown YMCA, which would come to fruition by early next year.
The project is made possible by Reliant, a partner of the YMCA of Greater Houston.
"At Reliant, we respect, recognize and celebrate that our differences shape us, and that diversity and inclusion make us stronger. We're committed to powering change and supporting progress in the places where we live and work," says Elizabeth Killinger, president at Reliant, in the release. "By powering the Equity Innovation Center, we hope to further strengthen Houston so we can harness our full potential and make lasting change for future generations."
Reliant has donated $100,000 to the project, which will be distributed in $50,000 commitments over two years. The sum is a part of Reliant and NRG's "Powering Change" initiative, which has committed $1 million to go to organizations that combat racial inequities, injustice, and related violence, according to the release.
"We are grateful Reliant is joining our efforts to implement lasting and meaningful change within our community and beyond. We know that when we work as one, we move people and communities forward," Ives says.
Stephen Ives (left) is the president and CEO of YMCA of Greater Houston, and Elizabeth Killinger is president of Reiliant. Images courtesy
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How this Houston innovator's tech is gearing up to impact EV charging, energy transition
Ben Jawdat, CEO and founder of Revterra, joins the Houston Innovators Podcast. Photo via LinkedIn
With more and more electric vehicles on the road, existing electrical grid infrastructure needs to be able to keep up. Houston-based Revterra has the technology to help.
"One of the challenges with electric vehicle adoption is we're going to need a lot of charging stations to quickly charge electric cars," Ben Jawdat, CEO and founder of Revterra, says on the Houston Innovators Podcast. "People are familiar with filling their gas tank in a few minutes, so an experience similar to that is what people are looking for."
To charge an EV in ten minutes is about 350 kilowatts of power, and, as Jawdat explains, if several of these charges are happening at the same time, it puts a tremendous strain on the electric grid. Building the infrastructure needed to support this type of charging would be a huge project, but Jawdat says he thought of a more turnkey solution.
Revterra created a kinetic energy storage system that enables rapid EV charging. The technology pulls from the grid, but at a slower, more manageable pace. Revterra's battery acts as an intermediary to store that energy until the consumer is ready to charge.
"It's an energy accumulator and a high-power energy discharger," Jawdat says, explaining that compared to an electrical chemical battery, which could be used to store energy for EVs, kinetic energy can be used more frequently and for faster charging.
Jawdat, who is a trained physicist with a PhD from the University of Houston and worked as a researcher at Rice University, says some of his challenges were receiving early funding and identifying customers willing to deploy his technology.
Last year, Revterra raised $6 million in a series A funding round. Norway’s Equinor Ventures led the round, with participation from Houston-based SCF Ventures. Previously, Revterra raised nearly $500,000 through a combination of angel investments and a National Science Foundation grant.
The funding has gone toward growing Revterra's team, including onboarding three new engineers with some jobs still open, Jawdat says. Additionally, Revterra is building out its new lab space and launching new pilot programs.
Ultimately, Revterra, an inaugural member of Greentown Houston, hopes to be a major player within the energy transition.
"We really want to be an enabling technology in the renewable energy transition," Jawdat says. "One part of that is facilitating the development of large-scale, high-power, fast-charging networks. But, beyond that, we see this technology as a potential solution in other areas related to the clean energy transition."
He shares more about what's next for Revterra on the podcast. Listen to the interview below — or wherever you stream your podcasts — and subscribe for weekly episodes.
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Why You Should Watch Anime
In 70s, all-natural fiction style started to remove anime, such as Uchu Senkan Yamato, Uchu Kaizoku Captain Harlock, and also MS Gundam. The skilled animator, Hayao Miyazaki, started to outdrawn via Future Young boy Conan (1978) and also Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro (1979 ).
Abound with easy, yet significant tunes these Disney motion pictures can subject the kid to feelings, precepts as well as means of the globe while informing a tale. At the same time, อ่านการ์ตูนฟรี some of the most charming personalities that Disney films have actually developed are Vagrant in The Girl and also the Vagrant as well as the Monster in Elegance and also the Monster.
Anime (Japan computer animation) is just one of one-of-a-kind sensations in background of globe flick growth. Today, anime is just one of the most significant show business in Japan as well as could be the just one that can take on computer animation movies made in America. Anime provides the unique type and also design with the creative imagination degree and also dream element that you can not locate in computer animation films made in America.
Some following years, 2 huge workshops were constructed in Japan to be able to complete with computer animation flicks made in America. These 2 workshops concentrated on the manufacturing of computer animation flicks for cinema as well as tv.
Although Disney has actually created myriad motion pictures, it is a lot more preferred for its computer animated ones. After beginning the computer animated trip with Snow White and also the 7 Dwarfs in the winter season of 1937, Disney motion pictures have actually not recalled. One can acquire a checklist of greater than 150 computer animated Disney motion pictures that have actually been created as well as dispersed to include in the happiness of kids throughout the globe.
In spite of the high degrees of endearment that the Disney films appreciate amongst the majority of individuals, there are reports galore concerning exactly how there are numerous covert recommendations to perverted points in the computer animated flicks. The most recognized referrals are made to the tower on the cover of The Little Mermaid that appears like the male genitalia, the obvious erection of the clergyman in the wedding celebration scene of the exact same motion picture and also the dirt taking the type of the word ‘sex’ in The Lion King.
The most significant film was Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1986 ). Various other films were Laputa: Castle in the Skies (1986 ), My Next-door Neighbor Totoro (1988 ), Kiki’s Distribution Solution (1989 ), Tomb of the Fireflies (1987 ), as well as Akira (1989 ).
This custom began due to the reality that Walt Disney did not appoint appropriate credit reports to the imaginative animators. The offered circumstances appears feasible, the incorporation of debauchery in the computer animated Disney films is arguable as well as it stays a concern as to whether it is a reality or the Rorschach impact.
In this instance, the advancement of anime is connected to the advancement of manga (Japan comics) that has actually been preferred considering that very early 20s. Begun with 1914, Japan comic artists started to be interested as well as attempted to explore movie.
The very first brief computer animation flick that was kept in mind effective was Momotaro (1918 ). His job was affected by anime symbols of Disney as well as Max Fleicher in 30s whose attribute was having a rounded head as well as large eye.
To the unaware, it might be a shock that each Disney flick comes accompanied with a Disney motion picture publication. These publications are released under the ‘Computer mouse Functions’ banner as well as consist of a basic variation of the tale. This can aid in motivating kids to not just see the Disney flicks yet additionally to review publications, which ideally will encompass various other kinds of analysis at time.
The wonderful point concerning these films, which has actually possibly led to the substantial appeal of the Disney flicks, is the truth that they appeal to youngsters as well as grownups alike. A mommy does not mind resting with a Disney motion picture with her youngster yet an episode of Tellytubbies can be wearisome.
A few of the Disney motion pictures that have actually come to be perpetuity faves of many children are The Lion King, Plaything Tale, Aladdin, Charm as well as the Monster, The Forest Publication, The little Mermaid, Resting Appeal, Girl as well as the Vagrant, Cinderella as well as obviously Snow White and also the 7 Dwarfs. Several of the much less well-known however just as tempting Disney motion pictures are the follows up to the Lion King, Dumbo, Lilo as well as Stitch, Pooh as well as Kim Feasible collection.
90s age kept in mind a debatable movie like Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995) that started fad of huge robotic anime with difficult story. One more preferred collection were Seafarer Moon, Dragon Round, and also Pokemon. Hayao Miyazaki brought anime right into greater degree via dream motion pictures like Princess Mononoke (1997 ), Perky Away (2002 ), and also Wail’s Relocating Castle (2004 ).
Also though Disney has actually created myriad flicks, it is much more prominent for its computer animated ones. One can acquire a checklist of even more than 150 computer animated Disney motion pictures that have actually been created and also dispersed to include to the pleasure of youngsters throughout the globe.
Up until today, anime sector is kept in mind as one of the most innovative and also effective computer animation market on the planet. It likewise affects several western films like Animatrix, Eliminate Costs Vol.1, Rate Racer, and also Character.
The terrific point concerning these films, which has actually possibly led to the massive appeal of the Disney films, is the truth that they appeal to kids and also grownups alike. To the inexperienced, it might be a shock that each Disney motion picture comes accompanied with a Disney motion picture publication. In spite of the high degrees of endearment that the Disney films delight in amongst a lot of individuals, there are reports galore regarding just how there are numerous concealed referrals to perverted points in the computer animated flicks.
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All Our Selves In One Basket
chrisaldrich 10 Feb 2021
And that's what happened to teenage Roxie's favorite arcade. The existing community was kicked out, replaced by something designed with absolutely no input from the community. It wasn't even the community's choice to kick the arcade out. There was no vote, there was no decision, there were no surveys. The people who control the neighborhood aren't the people who live there, the people who hang out and enjoy its offerings, but instead some higher-ups with money, making secret deals on golf courses miles away, only concerned about moving numbers around. Gentrification, really, is the loss of ownership, the loss of community, in the places where you spend your time. Gentrification is the sense that you're no longer welcome as anything more than a cog in the machine.
This idea is underlined in Robert Caro's book The Power Broker.
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And really, this stems from the fact that buildings aren't designed by the community that uses them anymore. The community barely factors into the design, even. Buildings were designed to serve a specific purpose, dictated by the higher-ups with the money to purchase the land and fund the development of the building. Again, quoting the article, Unless they are an uber-wealthy client, users of buildings rarely have much input into the design process. Students do not get to say what kind of school they would like, office workers do not get to say whether they would prefer to work in a glass tower or in a leafy complex of wifi-enabled wooden pagodas. ... But that rupture means that architecture becomes something imposed upon people. It isn’t participatory, and it doesn’t adapt in response to their needs. It’s prefabricated, assembled beforehand off-site and then dumped on the unwitting populace. We are not meant to live in modern buildings; they are made for people who do not poop.
This is very reminiscent of how some people use the internet as well. I can think of personal examples where Goolge apps and services were forced upon workers at companies who didn't want them and weren't comfortable with them.
Similarly we went from the creativity of MySpace to the corporate strictures of Facebook and Twitter that didn't give users any flexibility or identity. The connective value was apparently worth just a bit more than the identity, so we went there, but why not have it all?
I'll have to find the reference, but I saw an article with a book reference in the last year about the life of buildings and that well designed ones could stand the test of centuries in their ability to be redesigned and repurposed from the inside out if necessary.
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ktaylor4 27 Nov 2018
Her interview with a realtor confirmed her belief that bike infrastructure (like the Midtown Greenway) causes the value of nearby properties to rise. She also talked to the board of Twin Cities Greenways, and consulted the work of Melissa Checker, who studies the appropriation of eco-friendly language by high-end developers.
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Black Lives Matter protesters march through Lloyd Center mall; Black Friday shoppers join in
paulallison 09 Feb 2017
northeast Portland
Here's a history of this the process of gentrification that Linda Christensen uses in here gentrification curriculum: BLEEDING ALBINA: A HISTORY OF COMMUNITY DISINVESTMENT, 1940–2000
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"Thank God for gentrification," one of the men yelled into a megaphone. "Someone had to clean up the neighborhood."
The three men yelling this at Black Lives Matter demonstrators must not have learned their lessons in Linda Christensen's English class at Jefferson High School http://www.ncte.org/library/NCTEFiles/Resources/Journals/EJ/1052-nov2015/EJ1052Focus.pdf
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econcentration effortsare geared towards either dispersing poor people to less-poor communities or attractinghigher-income residents to low-income neighborhoods.
This descriptions of efforts by cities to diminish poverty is the same as gentrification, which has both positive and negative impacts on lower-income individuals and families. As presented by Max in class, the introduction of Krog Street Market to a certain community increased the cost of living in that neighborhood, driving out this populace.
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Gentrification in America Report
mk7159a 03 Nov 2016
For this report, an initial test determined a tract was eligible to gentrify if its median household income and median home value were both in the bottom 40th percentile of all tracts within a metro area at the beginning of the decade. To assess gentrification, growth rates were computed for eligible tracts’ inflation-adjusted median home values and percentage of adults with bachelors’ degrees.
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The District is home to some of the county’s fastest-gentrifying communities.
It is amazing to see the areas of gentrification in the 1990s compared to now on this map.
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Neighborhoods gentrifying since 2000 recorded population increases and became whiter, with the share of non-Hispanic white residents increasing an average of 4.3 percentage points. Meanwhile, lower-income neighborhoods that failed to gentrify experienced slight population losses and saw the concentration of minorities increase
Racial impact on gentrification.
In the District of Columbia, for example, 54 neighborhoods were found to have gentrified since 2000. Back in the 1990s, just five neighborhoods had gentrified in a decade when the city was dubbed the nation’s “murder capital.”
Distinction between the 1990s and now. It had been known as the "murder capital" or dodge city, yet know it is on its way to being completely gentrified.
Portland, OR 58.1% 36 26 80 142 Washington, DC 51.9% 54 50 75 179 Minneapolis, MN 50.6% 39 38 39 116
Fascinating to look at the different statistics for gentrification across the US.
Compared to lower-income areas that failed to gentrify, gentrifying Census tracts recorded increases in the non-Hispanic white population and declines in the poverty rate.
Not beneficial to minorities or poor... Not very surprising.
Gentrification greatly accelerated in several cities. Nearly 20 percent of neighborhoods with lower incomes and home values have experienced gentrification since 2000, compared to only 9 percent during the 1990s.
Gentrification still remains rare nationally, with only 8 percent of all neighborhoods reviewed experiencing gentrification since the 2000 Census.
Surprising that it is not more common. You always here about how cities are being gentrified, yet it only occurs in 8% of neighborhoods.
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Choosing a School for My Daughter in a Segregated City
paulallison 15 Jun 2016
I didn’t know any of our middle-class neighbors, black or white, who sent their children to one of these schools. They had managed to secure seats in the more diverse and economically advantaged magnet schools or gifted-and-talented programs outside our area, or opted to pay hefty tuition to progressive but largely white private institutions
This makes me want to take the time to figure out the argument that I heard explained on the Brian Lehrer Show about six months ago http://www.wnyc.org/story/neighborhoods-are-integrated-while-schools-stay-segregated/ Here's the study they are talking about http://www.centernyc.org/segregatedschools and the basic thesis is that even while neighborhoods are integrated (or -- as this author says about Bedford-Stuyvesant "rapidly gentrifying"), schools remain segregrated. I'm assuming that it's because middle class (and White?) parents who might be moving into segregated neighborhoods are still not sending their children to schools in those neighborhoods.
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paulallison 18 May 2016
news articles on neighbor-hood displacements over the years to get students thinking further about underlying issues that affected them.
Gentrification -- or housing patterns -- is a great topic to explore with youth, precisely because it is both in the news and the stories represent historical patterns that can be studied deeply. Similarly, this is a teaching moment that can be about what is happening in the lives of youth in our classes and built on the strategies of placed-based education and writing. I started to pull some of this together around Renee Watson's Youth Adult novel Close To Home and Linda Christensen's work with the Oregon Writing Project and beyond with the Roots of Gentrification. See http://youthvoices.net/home1 I'd love to finish some of this curriculum development -- but only when teaching the material with students, not in the abastract.
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Every Every Every Generation Has Been the Me Me Me Generation
Enkerli 11 May 2016
what people they know in the gentrified parts of cities like New York and Los Angeles were talking about at brunch last weekend
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10 Years After Katrina
paulallison 05 Nov 2015
Four-fifths of the city lay submerged as residents frantically signaled for help from their rooftops and thousands were stranded at the Superdome, a congregation of the desperate and poor.
It's hard to remember how much of New Orleans was devastated and for how long.
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paulallison 26 Aug 2015
As of 2013, there were nearly 100,000 fewer black residents than in 2000, their absences falling equally across income levels. The white population decreased by about 11,000, but it is wealthier.
Perhaps New Orleans is a global symbol of what Naomi Klein has called Disaster Apartheid
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American dysfunction and government negligence
"Bush doesn't care about Black people," made clear the neglect that we felt immediately, but it was only later the I became aware of the years of incompetence and broken systems that led to the storm surge doing so much damage. Immediately -- and for me to this day -- New Orleans was a symbol of carbon corporate power. Where is BP in this sentence in the Times?
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Gentrification Is a Myth
tilgovi 18 Jan 2015
Yet policymakers all too often fail to fit remedies to the circumstances. Rust Belt cities require set-asides just like San Francisco, while Bay Area institutions such as Stanford hand out generous housing subsidies to new faculty, a measure that only serves to drive housing prices up, instead of searching for ways to increase supply.
Yet the Bay Area rhetoric most often heard is that supply-side solutions will not succeed.
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Expressing concern about “gentrification” in those cities may simply be another way of expressing concern about rising housing prices.
Those worried about gentrification may not actually be concerned about the lowest-income residents. They are concerned about themselves.
I need a word for this: "the endless hand-wringing about bullshit problems which hinders discussion of real problems".
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One of the first people to explore this question in a sophisticated way was University of Washington economist Jacob Vigdor. In 2002, Vigdor examined what had happened in Boston between 1974 and 1997, a period of supposedly intense gentrification. But Vigdor found no evidence that poor people moved out of gentrifying neighborhoods at a higher than normal rate. In fact, rates of departure from gentrifying neighborhoods were actually lower.
Lower!
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Nigerian bishops demand sex education classes in schools
Prelates 'embarrassed' by clerical sex abuse scandals, molestation of students
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By La Croix International staff | Nigeria
Nigeria must introduce sex education classes to combat sexual molestation at schools by clerics, secular teachers and students, say Catholic bishops in the country.
They described recent cases of clerical sex abuse as an embarrassment to the Church, a threat to children, and something that needs to be immediately stamped out, africafeeds.com reports.
It is the duty of all priests and those who serve in Catholic institutions in Nigeria to protect children and other vulnerable groups, they said in a statement on Oct. 16.
This includes arming them with the knowledge to realize when they are being manipulated for the purposes of sexual exploitation — hence the need for sex education classes.
"Within our family of faith and our human families, the sins and crimes of sexual abuse of children must no longer be held in a secret band of shame," the bishops said in a statement quoted by PUNCH media.
"We, bishops, all priests, consecrated men and women and all those who work in Catholic institutions in Nigeria must ensure that there is a safe environment for every child and vulnerable adults," the statement read.
Africa Feeds cites cited global statistics indicating that 70 percent of children suffer abuse, including sexual abuse.
Pope Francis and other clergy have acknowledged the Church's failings in recent months in the wake of a series of clerical sex abuse cases dating back decades from Germany to Chile to the United States.
The pope during a recent trip to Dublin to attend the World Meeting Families expressed concern at the avalanche of allegations of sex abuse and Church-sanctioned cover-ups.
In September, he scheduled a global meeting of heads of Catholic bishops' conferences for February to discuss ways of preventing sex abuse.
The pope has a prayer network of his own
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Posted on October 3, 2018 by jward18
Disabled and Bored: A Reflection on Disabilities in the Modern Era and in “Foe”
Club Nova is an organization housed in downtown Carrboro that gives job and internship opportunities to disabled people who may struggle to find work at other companies, or who find themselves with a lot of spare time and not many disability-accessible ways to fill it. They are one of many organizations in the modern day who see how damaging it is for disabled people to feel unable to communicate, live, eat, move, and prosper the way their non-disabled peers can. Club Nova, one might say, gives voice to individuals who have had their voices stolen by our culture’s unwitting dismissal of disabled people as valuable contributors to society. And as we see in Coetzee’s Foe, it is this lack of voice that can be so traumatic, so devastating, that a disabled person may lose themselves in the silence.
Friday is a highly controversial character, particularly because he is a person of color and seems to have been written by Daniel DaFoe, a white man, as willingly and eagerly submissive to white supremacy. Coetzee, a South African writer, tries to spin this narrative on its head; Friday, controversial as he is, is suddenly at the forefront of the story’s narrative, despite the fact that in Foe he is unable to speak because his tongue was cut out. Susan Barton, the protagonist of Foe, appears tantalized by the mystery that is Friday’s tongue: Who cut it out? Was it Cruso? Slave-traders? Or someone else? And her search for truth — truth in Cruso’s story, truth in her own story, the truth about her daughter, the truth about Friday’s life and his speechlessness — begins.
But it isn’t Susan’s journey that is so enticing, but the silence and seeming numbness of Friday, who goes on to be her main companion until the confusing and open-ended finale in Part 4.
On the island, Friday was Cruso’s main workhorse: he caught fish, he helped build tools and refurnish their hut, he restocked the fire, and he tilled the soil so that crops might grow. But when Cruso, Susan, and himself were rescued, and Susan embarked on a journey to find a Mr. Foe, an author who might consider writing the story of her and Cruso and publishing it, Friday was suddenly useless. He slept when Susan slept, he ate what Susan put in front of him, and occasionally played the flute or danced. The routine of the island was gone, and it quickly seemed that when Cruso passed away, in a way, so did Friday: the part of Friday that thrived on routines and capabilities and habits. Friday becomes distant, numb, and unexpressive.
Susan is desperate to learn of Friday’s stories, and his disability is morbidly tantalizing to her. But she seems to have a selfish investment in Friday that only goes as far as her search for the truth.
Her terrible curiosity belittles Friday to that of an object: something to be picked up and studied, tossed and turned in an attempt to unravel what it is at its core. This selfish and vain curiosity is something not uncommon for disabled people, who receive many unwanted comments, ignorant or sincere, about their disability.
What Friday needs, one might argue, is precisely what Club Nova offers: the ability to be treated like a human being and not a disability. The ability to be seen and recognized for one’s work and accomplishments, and to be given a purpose. This is the life Friday had on the island, regardless of whatever fault we may find in an easily-dislikable character like Cruso. And this is the life Friday left behind when Cruso died and Susan and himself were saved.
But Foe ends with Friday:
“I tug his woolly hair, finger the chain about his throat. ‘Friday,’ I say, I try to say, kneeling over him, sinking hands and knees into the ooze, ‘what is this ship?’
But this is not a place of words. Each syllable, as it comes out, is caught and filled with water and diffused. This is a place where bodies are their own signs. It is the home of Friday.”
Friday’s “home,” the place where bodies are words, is the perfect description of what disabled people have always wanted. To be seen as human: flesh and blood and bones. As bodies. Without judgement. Without explanation or justification. To be seen as just as human as non-disabled people. We are all just blood and bones. Bodies. Lungs.
This is why organizations like Club Nova are important, because when everyone gets the same opportunities, and when everyone is treated like they matter, — and not out of guilt or curiosity or embarrassment — then we as a society give voice to the voiceless. And we are stronger for it.
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January 25th Big Ten Power Rankings
By StaffPosted on January 25, 2019 April 13, 2019 0
The government might be shut down, but the Big Ten grind keeps rolling on this January. Remarkably, not a single team in the 14-team league ranks outside the top-110 in the KenPom ratings, which means there is not an easy game to be had. #2 Michigan saw its unbeaten run end in Madison, Nebraska lost as an eight-point favorite at Rutgers, and just when you thought you had seen it all, Aaron Falzon came off the bench and stunningly hit six threes to help Northwestern defeat IU. The Hoosiers have lost five in a row, while MSU and Purdue are trending up. How did the rest of the conference do? Let’s dive into the rankings.
Big Ten Power Rankings: January 24th, 2019
18-2 (9-0)
Last: 2 You can never count out any Tom Izzo team. Since a pair of non-conference losses to Kansas on opening day and to Louisville in the Yum Center, the Spartans have been on a tear since. They remain the lone undefeated Big Ten team, and they are playing as well as any team in the nation, let alone the Big Ten.
Win against #13 Maryland 69-55
Win at #19 Iowa 82-67
Last: 1 The Wolverines are looking more and more vulnerable after their first loss of the season. They required a buzzer beater in order to defeat an upward-trending Minnesota team. The Wolverines open up this upcoming week with a visit to Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall, where Indiana fans typically pack the house for highly-ranked opponents.
Loss at Wisconsin 64-54
Win against Minnesota 59-57
Last: 3 Three of Maryland’s four losses look really good. They lost to Virginia, Purdue, Seton Hall, and Michigan State. Even though losing to MSU on the road was slightly disappointing, they cannot lose sight of their next two games, which are at home against Illinois and Northwestern. Anthony Cowan Jr. shot 3-12 against MSU, so he is definitely looking to bounce back.
Win at Ohio State 75-61
Loss at #6 Michigan State 55-69
Last: 5 What a week for the Boilermakers, registering two impressive double-digit wins. Interestingly, Matt Painter’s crew leads the Big Ten in three point rate (not 3PT%); a startling 46.3% of their field goal attempts are threes. In fact, in their win at OSU on Wednesday, they shot 24 twos (made 11) and 24 threes (made 12!). Purdue currently ranks 8th in the country per KenPom.
Win against #25 Indiana 70-55
Win at Ohio St. 79-67
Last: 7 The Badgers’ win over #2 Michigan easily took honors as the conference’s most impressive win of the last week. Senior superstar Ethan Happ became the first Big Ten player since IU Hall of Famer Alan Henderson in 1995 to record 1,900 career points and 1,000 career rebounds. Wisconsin’s matchup at Nebraska on Tuesday should be one to watch.
Win against #2 Michigan 64-54
Win at Illinois 72-60
Last: 4 It seems like Iowa wins and loses the games they are supposed to win and lose. However, they still only have 4 losses. Three of them were against ranked opponents, and the other one was at Purdue, who should be ranked in the top 25 once again. Iowa’s next three games are at Minnesota, home vs Michigan, and at Indiana. If they take 2 of the next 3, they will definitely be in good shape.
Loss against #6 Michigan State 67-82
Last: 6 Nebraska has been up and down and continues to reside in the lower-middle of the Big Ten without much deviation. Their loss to Rutgers just recently was interesting, as the Huskers had some momentum after the win at Indiana. The combination of James Palmer Jr. and Isaiah Roby, while possibly not the most talented or most efficient, is certainly one of the most effective pairs in the Big Ten.
Loss at Rutgers 76-69
Last: 10 The Golden Gophers’ loss to Illinois last week, which was not close, gave Brad Underwood’s team their only win in the Big Ten. But with four players averaging double figure scoring, Minnesota was able to rebound from that performance to achieve a single point victory over Penn State and just a single possession loss at Michigan.
Win against Penn State 65-64
Loss at #5 Michigan 57-59
Last: 11 Chris Collins got revenge on Archie Miller and the Hoosiers with a big home win against Indiana. The Wildcats have a ceiling higher than most anticipate, but they have yet to have the entire team hit on all cylinders at the same time. Ryan Taylor, Vic Law, and Aaron Falzon have proven to be tremendous deep threats on the right night.
Win at Rutgers 65-57
Win against Indiana 73-66
Last: 9 Ohio State and Indiana are in a side-bet situation to see which team can race to the bottom the quickest. Chris Holtmann has not yet been able to find a formula that works for the Buckeyes, who are now on a 5-game losing streak.
Loss against #19 Maryland 61-75
Loss against Purdue 67-79
9-9 (2-6)
Last: 12 Over the last couple weeks, coach Steve Pikiell and his team have turned the Rutgers Athletic Center (RAC) into a tough place to play. Emerging forward Eugene Omoruyi fought through a knee injury to record eight points and six rebounds, inspiring his team in a win over Nebraska on Monday. The Hoosiers visit the RAC on Wednesday night.
Loss against Northwestern 57-65
Win against Nebraska 76-69
Last: 8 The Big Ten is rough. It is always hard to win on the road in this conference. During this 5-game losing streak, 4 of the games were on the road in Michigan, Maryland, Purdue, and Northwestern. The first three are really good (Kenpom has Purdue 8th, but they’re unranked, no idea why), and Northwestern is no joke. The Hoosiers finally get to go back home. Michigan has looked somewhat vulnerable recently, so if IU’s offense can make some well-needed adjustments, this team may get its mojo back.
Loss against Nebraska 51-66
Loss at Purdue 55-70
5-14 (1-7)
Last: 13 After a stunning victory against the Gophers, the Illini could not keep the winning going. They were blown out by Iowa and failed to hold on against Wisconsin. Freshman Ayo Dosunmu has made 10 of his last 31 shot attempts.
Loss at Iowa 95-71
Last: 14 If anyone needed additional evidence that the Big Ten is loaded this season, how about this? A victory at winless-in-the-conference Penn State (#74 in the country) still qualifies as a Quad 1 win per the NCAA NET rankings. PSU will try to get off the schneid in conference play with a home game vs. Rutgers on Saturday.
Loss at Minnesota 64-65
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Czechs beat handicapped Serbia,retain Cup
The Czech Republic retained their Davis Cup title after Radek Stepanek ruthlessly exploited the inexperience of Dusan Lajovic.
Belgrade | November 19, 2013 04:28 IST
The Czech Republic retained their Davis Cup title after Radek Stepanek ruthlessly exploited the inexperience of Dusan Lajovic in the decisive rubber to seal a 3-2 final victory over Novak Djokovics Serbia on Sunday. The Czechs,who became the first nation to retain the Davis Cup since Spain in 2009,lifted the trophy after Stepaneks 6-3 6-1 6-1 victory amid wild cheers by several hundred visiting fans in the imposing Kombank Arena.
Djokovic ensured the final went to the wire by beating Tomas Berdych 6-4 7-6(5) 6-2 to level the tie at 2-2 but there was to be no repeat of Serbias epic 3-2 final victory over France three years ago. The world number two did not have the right support cast this time round with Janko Tipsarevic sidelined due to a foot injury and Viktor Troicki banned for missing a blood test in April.
The 117th-ranked Lajovic was thrown into the fray and had 17,000 noisy Serbian fans on their feet after he broke Stepanek,a former top-10 player now ranked 44th,in the opening game. But that turned out to be the high point for the 23-year-old as his opponent highlighted the gulf in class between the two players.
The match was the same (as last years final),under the biggest possible pressure that can be, Stepanek,who beat Spains Nicolas Almagro in the decisive rubber 12 months ago,said in a courtside interview.
I knew that I would want to use the experience from last years final. I controlled the match apart from the first game and I think I played in my best form ever this weekend.
Of course,it is more difficult to defend the title,but I think we used the experience from last year and we earned it.
Despairing bench
Stepanek combined his baseline and volleying skills to good effect,running Lajovic ragged with stinging forehands to carve out easy net points as the despairing Serbian bench watched on helplessly.
Earlier in the day,Djokovic came out on top against world number seven Berdych after a titanic tussle in the opening two sets. He converted his 10th break point in the final game of the first,clinched a rollercoaster tiebreak in the second and wrapped up the third for the loss of only two games.
Djokovic blew kisses to the crowd and asked them to stay and support Lajovics effort to punch above his weight,but it all ended in tears for Serbia as the stadium started to empty long before the 34-year-old Stepanek sealed victory with a searing smash down the line.
The result focused attention on the decision to leave Djokovic out of Saturdays doubles,which the Czechs won in straight sets,as well as naming Lajovic for the final singles instead of the more experienced and hard-hitting Ilija Bozoljac.
We only had so many fit and eligible players to choose from and although I must take responsibility for the outcome as the decision maker,I have no regrets about the team selection in any of the rubbers, Serbia captain Bogdan Obradovic told a news conference.
Missing two second-choice players was too big a blow and we just couldnt do more although we tried to cope with the tough situation as best we could. The positive thing is that we have expanded our Davis Cup team and we will keep the faith in our new arrivals.
They left Ferrari in the garage
BELGRADE: Serbias decision to leave Novak Djokovic out of the doubles rubber of their Davis Cup final against Czech Republic was like leaving a Ferrari in the garage,victorious opponent Radek Stepanek said on Sunday.
The match was hinged on the outcome of the doubles with Djokovic winning both his singles ties and Stepanek,along with stand-in captain Vladimir Safarik,said they were surprised the world number two was rested.
We expected him to play but that was their decision and we just focused on beating whoever was on the other side of the net, Safarik told a news conference.
In Djokovics absence,Tomas Berdych and Radek Stepanek romped to a 6-2 6-4 7-6(4) win over Nenad Zimonjic and Ilija Bozoljac to take a 2-1 lead heading into the final day. Serbia were already weakened after losing Janko Tipsarevic to a foot injury and Viktor Troicki who was banned for missing a blood test in April.
We only had so many fit and eligible players to choose from and although I must take responsibility for the outcome as the decision maker,I have no regrets about the team selection in any of the rubbers, Serbia captain Bogdan Obradovic said.
Missing two second-choice players was too big a blow and we just couldnt do more although we tried to cope with the tough situation as best we could. The positive thing is that we have expanded our Davis Cup team and we will keep faith in our new arrivals.
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Actor Sidharth Shukla Died At Age 40 Year – (2 September) Heart Attacks – Sidharth Shukla passed away at 40 years old. He was the victor of Bigg Boss 13 and had shown up in various well-known shows like Balika Vadhu and Dil Se Dil Tak. Television entertainer Actor Sidharth Shukla Died at 40 years old.
Dr. R Sukhdeve of Cooper emergency clinic has affirmed to indianexpress.com that entertainer Siddharth Shukla was carried dead to the medical clinic. The posthumous assessment has not started as the police methodology is as yet going on. “He was achieved to the clinic 30 minutes prior. A posthumous will be led,” he said. While reports guaranteed that Sidharth passed on after a gigantic cardiovascular failure, an affirmation is anticipated. Actor Sidharth Shukla Died
His Bigg Boss companion Vindu Dara Singh posted on Twitter, “Gone too soon brother @sidharth_shukla your shine will be with us always and your misfortune is simply indispensable!! There was no champ like you in #Biggboss and there never will be another,lagta hai Buri Nazar standard abdominal muscle hamesha vishvas karna padega ! #RipSidharthShukla.”Actor Sidharth Shukla Died
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Actor Sidharth Shukla Died won both Khatron Ke Khiladi 7 and Bigg Boss 13.
The passing has left media outlets stunned. Sidharth’s companions and associates from the business paid their sympathies via online media. Kapil Sharma tweeted, “Goodness god, it’s truly stunning n appalling, my sympathies to the family n supplications for the left soul Om Shanti.” Actor Manoj Bajpayee expressed, “OMG!!! This is So Shocking!!! Words will neglect to depict the shock and feeling of loss of his precious ones !!! May he rest in harmony !!! No yaar !!!!” Actor Sidharth Shukla Died
Sidharth Shukla made his acting introduction with the Hindi TV show Babul Ka Aangann Chootey Na in 2008. This was trailed by appearances in shows like Aahat, Love U Zindagi, and CID. Nonetheless, Sidharth accomplished his significant forward leap with the well-known sequential Balika Vadhu, wherein he played the primary lead. Following this, Shukla showed up truly shows, for example, Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa Season 6, India’s Got Talent, Khatron Ke Khiladi 7, Bigg Boss 13, just as Bigg Boss.
Aside from fiddling with TV shows of different organizations, Sidharth Shukla was additionally found in the Alia Bhatt and Varun Dhawan-starrer Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania. Sidharth highlighted in a few music recordings with his dear companion and previous Bigg Boss hopeful Shehnaaz Gill, including tracks like “Bhula Dunga” and “Shona.” The entertainer was most recently seen as a unique visitor on Bigg Boss OTT and Dance Deewane 3. He additionally showed up as the male lead in the web series Broken But Beautiful 3 this year.
Sidharth Shukla began his career in showbiz as a model and made his acting debut with a lead role in the television show ‘Babul Ka Aangann Chootey Na’. He later appeared on shows such as ‘Jaane Pehchaane Se… Ye Ajnabbi,’ ‘Love U Zindagi’ but became a household name with ‘Balika Vadhu’. He also participated in reality shows, including ‘Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 6,’ ‘Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi 7’ and ‘Bigg Boss 13’.
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New (2023) Modern Warfare 2 Update Today | Patch Notes
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Regular updates to Modern Warfare 2 Update Today fix issues and balance weapons, among other things. They frequently downgrade overused items and enhance unpopular ones because they don’t want any weapon to be too powerful for too long.
When will Modern Warfare 2 Receive Updates?
First-season weaponry of Modern Warfare 2 2023
First-season new Operators of Modern Warfare 2 2023
Event for Modern Warfare FC
Playlist for Modern Warfare 2 Season 1 CDL Moshpit
New Spec Ops missions from Modern Warfare 2 Season 1
A small update for Modern Warfare 2 will normally be released on Tuesdays at 10:00 PT (13:00 ET / 18:00 GMT / 19:00 CET), besides a pre-download starting between 12 and 6 hours beforehand. Update for Vanguard & BOCW were scheduled for that day and hour, and it now looks to be part of CoD’s routine. Tuesdays are the precise day and time that they release multiplayer updates.
Three of the four new weapons will be accessible when the first season of Modern Warfare 2 launches, with the other two coming later.
The Imperatorium Platform uses the Victus MXR sniper rifle (Launch, Battle Pass)
The Bruen Ops Platform (BAS-P SMG) (Launch, Battle Pass)
Assault rifle, Chimera, from the Bruen Ops Platform (Mid-Season)
Bruen Ops Platform M13B Assault Rifle (Launch, DMZ challenge)
The first season of Modern Warfare 2 will also feature six new Operators, three of which are “football-themed Operators” Neymar, Messi, and Pogba. Here are the three brand-new soldier Operators appearing in Modern Warfare 2 Season 1 and instructions on how to get them:
Klaus (Bundle, Launch)
Klaus (Bundle, Mid-Season) (Bundle, Mid-Season)
Gaz (Bundle, Mid-Season) (Bundle, Mid-Season)
The first season of Modern Warfare 2 includes the Hardcore mode and Combat Record. Hardcore (now called Tier 1) was supposed to be a launch feature for Modern Warfare 2, but it never materialized. However, the developers now say it will be included in the Season 1 update.
The HUD is constrained, player health is decreased, and friendly fire is enabled in Tier 1 Playlists, which are nearly identical to Hardcore. It should be the ideal location to obtain the Mastery Camos whenever it arrives. In addition, players may now view their in-game statistics thanks to Season 1’s addition of the Combat Record.
Additionally, the Modern Warfare FC event will return for the upcoming season, allowing players to “add three of the world’s finest athletes to your Operator team by picking up special, restricted Bundles: Neymar Jr., who will make his debut on November 21 Paul Pogba, who is scheduled to make his debut of November 25; & Leo Messi, who might accomplish the Operator hat trick of November 29.”
The Call of Duty League begins in December, and Season 1 introduces a new CDL Moshpit playlist that enables users to play like the pros — simply without a rank to grind — to keep fans content until Treyarch’s Organized Play arrives in 2023. The blog states that all three of the CDL’s official game modes—Hardpoint, Discover & Destroy, and Control—will follow the playlist’s usual limits, rules, and map rotation. However, Treyarch has acknowledged that a problem has caused the mode to be postponed until later in the season.
Modern Warfare 2 included the Spec Ops mode right away, and the developers want to keep maintaining it indefinitely. When Season 1 launches, a special mission named “High Ground” and the first Raid will both be included. The Modern Warfare 2 Raids are billed as “the ultimate test for Trios with a combination of stealth, all-out battle, and puzzle-solving tasks” and will continue the tale of Modern Warfare 2’s Campaign.
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Urogenital organs of the frog: web-footed amphibian which lives near lakes and ponds. Moves by swimming and jumping.
Flatty dobies: adipose tissue.
Vena cava: blood vessel that carries the blood to the heart.
Testicle: male sex organ which produces spermatozoa.
Spermatic canal: tube that carries sperm.
Adrenal gland: small gland on top of the kidney.
Kidney: blood-purifying organ.
Small intestine: part of the digestive tract between the stomach and the large intestine.
Dorsal aorta: dorsal blood vessel that carries the blood from the heart to other organs.
Large intestine: part of the digestive tract between the small intestine and the cloaca.
Ereter: tube that carries the urine from the kidneys to the bladder.
Bladder: pocket in which urine collects.
Cloaca: orifice shared by the urinary, genital and intestinal tracts of a frog.
Uterus: female genital organ that holds the fertilized egg during its development.
Oviduct: passage through which the egg leaves the body of the frog.
Ovary: reproductive gland that produces ova.
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ES : Dendrobate azul
Dying poison arrow frog is a type of poison dart frog found in South America, specifically in the Sipaliwini District in Suriname. Dendrobates azureus is widely known as the Blue Poison Dart Frog or by its Tirio Indian name, Okopipi. The frog has blue skin and black patches, which serve as a warning to would-be predators that the skin contains poisonous alkaloids. It grows between 3 and 4.5 cm in length and has a typical lifespan of 4-6 years in the wild.
Within its native range, Dendrobates azureus is found in dark moist areas, especially under rocks near streams. Unlike most frogs, it lays its eggs on land, usually under a rock in a mossy area. Although poison dart frogs are known for their skin toxin, used on the tips of arrows or darts of natives, in reality only the species of the Phyllobates genus are used in this manner, although all poison dart frogs have some level of toxicity. The paralytic neurotoxins are not produced by the frog itself, but taken from many of its insect prey in the wild and deposited in the skin. As a result, frogs raised in captivity (often for the pet market) lack defensive poison. When these frogs are tadpoles, they also lack defensive poison.
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Lemons of Sorrento, the yellow gold of Campania
The lemons of Sorrento represent an absolute specificity – for cultivation methods and organoleptic properties – that also differs from the lemons of the more than nearby Amalfi Coast. They are in fact distinguished by a Protected Geographical Indication, linked to a production area strictly limited to the Sorrento Peninsula, between Massa Lubrense, Meta di Sorrento, Sant’Agnello, Sorrento and Vico Equense, up to touch the island of Capri. Commonly, this type of lemon is called “femminello sorrentino” or, also, “oval of Sorrento”, and is distinguished by a straw-yellow pulp and a decidedly acidic juice.
Fonte: la Cucina Italiana
The lemon of Sorrento is cultivated thanks to the positioning of the plants under the so-called “pagliarelle“, that is straw mats that are placed on special support poles in order to cover and protect the tops of the trees from the cold and, in this way, to prolong the ripening phase. This specific cultivation is also the largest in the Campania region, making up 40% of the total product.
Lemon orchard in the south of Italy
The lemon of Sorrento has an ancient history, since its cultivation is evidenced by historical documents dating back to 1500, although its presence in the area would date back at least to theRoman era: appears in fact depicted – with the specific characteristics that still distinguish it today – in numerous frescoes and mosaics found in the ancient cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. To the ‘600, however, numerous documents and works of art that document the cultivation and use in various uses, especially in reference to the territory between Sorrento and Massalubrense, to be mentioned in the works of writers such as the Sorrentine Torquato Tasso, and Giovanni Pontano and Giambattista della Porta.
Fonte: Il giornale del cibo
All the properties of the lemon of Sorrento
The lemon juice of the Sorrento Peninsula is particularly sour and sour, and is naturally rich in vitamin C (38 gr. every 100 gr. of product), as well as mineral salts such as calcium, phosphorus, iron, sodium, potassium , and manganese. To this is added a significant detoxifying and antioxidant properties, ensured by the rich intake of flavonoids. In addition, it is effective in counteracting the effects of nausea and strengthening the circulatory system. Its skin is particularly rich in essential oils, which guarantee its unmistakable fragrance.
Fonte: galano Raffaele
Sorrentine lemons in the kitchen
Its specific qualitative characteristics make the limone sorrentino an absolute agri-food excellence, which feeds not only the fresh lemon market, but also the production of the famous “Limoncello“the exquisite infusion of lemon peel in pure alcohol, which has become a product appreciated and consumed all over the world. The lemons of Sorrento, moreover, find wide use in the kitchen, where they are used to season and flavor various specialties characteristic of the Sorrento Peninsula, including appetizers, pasta dishes, main courses and side dishes, and of course desserts. Among the latter, the exquisite version of baba with lemon and “delights with lemon” stand out.
Fonte: Chef e Ricette
Spaghetti with Sorrento lemons and chili
A first course of great interest, which involves the use of this delicious citrus are the spaghetti with lemons of Sorrento and chili. The preparation is not particularly complex.
Scald the rind of a lemon in boiling water for a few minutes, then cut it into thin strips
After cleaning and cutting lemongrass strips, chop the chilli
Separately, boil 100 grams of lemon juice of Sorrento with 25 grams of sugar for 10 minutes, until you get a reduction
After cooking the spaghetti, heat the oil in a pan with the addition of a knob of butter, and then add the lemon rind, lemongrass, chili and a bunch of chopped parsley
Fonte: Melarossa
Sorrento is a small town situated in an enchanting and elevated position, with a splendid view on the Gulf of Naples, in the northern part of the Sorrento Peninsula, , between the sea and a lush hinterland. The old town, built on the original route of the Roman Surrentum, still partly surrounded by walls dating back to the ‘500, contains the Duomo of the fifteenth century, the church of San Francesco with the small cloister in Arabic style and the Museo Correale di Terranova – housed in the Villa alla Rota – with the collection of Greek and Roman finds, and a picture gallery of the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries.
Fonte: Dove e quando andare
Near it you can see the ruins of the two Roman villas: that of Pollio Felice and that of Agrippa Postumo, to which are added villas less ancient but equally fascinating, as Villa Silvana, residence in art nouveau style with a beautiful terrace overlooking the gulf, and the famous Villa Tritone. Among the many destinations to visit, a mention should also be made to the Baths of Queen Joan, and the beautiful Grotto of the Sirens.
Fonte: Si Viaggia
What to do in Sorrento in spring
The city of Sorrento is an ideal destination in the spring period. The summer, in fact, is one of the best times to appreciate all the numerous attractions thanks to a particularly sweet and pleasant climate: from the delicious tranquility to its natural beauty, from the historical attractions-to the extraordinary gastronomic attractions. The beaches make it a paradise for those who want to enjoy the sun and the beneficial influences of the sea, while its beautiful old town makes it an excellent opportunity for artistic and cultural discovery. Not to mention the countless culinary specialties that include fish dishes and other genuine ingredients, such as mozzarella, tomatoes, oil, basil, including the famous “gnocchi alla sorrentina”. In addition, starting from Marina Piccola, you can embark on a hydrofoil for an excursion on the beautiful island of Capri, but also in the direction of other centers along the Gulf of Naples and the Cilento coast.
Fonte: You know boat
The Sorrento coast
The term Sorrento Coast indicates the stretch of coast overlooking the Gulf of Naples and between Sant’Agata sui due Golfi, in Massalunbrense, and Vico Equense. The coast is renowned for its extraordinary natural beauty, which includes thenatural marine protected area of the Bay of Leranto, at Punta Campanella. But also for its extraordinary gastronomic tradition, of which the limoncello is perhaps the most internationally recognized product, together with the provolone of the Monaco DOP, to the mozzarella di bufala campana and to the lemons of Sorrento, and to the pasta of Gragnano. A tradition that also has a great success from the point of view of catering: there are about twenty starred restaurants active in the territory of the Coast.
Fonte: Napoli Turistica
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Waking Mathilda (Book Review)
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[This wonderfully rendered book review is reprinted here by permission of the review author, Celeste McGovern. It originally appeared under the title (“Vaccine Nightmare”) on Ghost Ship Media. Here I include text supplied by Celeste not published where she suggests a genetic screen for risk of narcolepsy to an author of a study, who, assuming the claim that people can develop narcolepsy from Swine flu infection as well, dismissed the idea out of hand as impractical. Given the building momentum for vaccine safety screening biomarkers, this position is worth reconsidering. I add two recent references on the origin of the problem in the Swine flu in Europe for the reader’s convenience. They are eye-opening. – JLW]
“Vaccine Nightmare”
The ordeal and triumph of a family struck by GSK’s narcolepsy-inducing Pandemrix
By Celeste McGovern
Claire Crisp watched her three-year-old daughter bump down the stairs in her PJs dotted with blue Easter bunnies. Little Mathilda stood unsteadily on the kitchen tiles, the sun streaming in the window behind her, her lids heavy on her blue eyes, her blonde hair matted from sleep though it was mid-day. She reached her hands out and pleaded softly, “Mu-uh-Ma,” then crumpled to the floor.
Claire shouted and rushed to her daughter. She could see she was breathing but she was unresponsive and as limp as a rag doll. It didn’t look like a seizure but she couldn’t tell if her littlest child was conscious.
Tilda’s sudden bizarre collapses were becoming more frequent and they were just one of a growing list of terrifying symptoms that had begun in recent weeks. She used to sleep soundly but now she had night terrors and woke inconsolable, sometimes 30 or more times each night. She used to be so bubbly and engaging but now she slept for hours of the day, but she never woke refreshed. So exhausted, the little girl who had been bright and polite was grouchy and prone to tantrums. She complained of excruciating pain in her joints. There were disturbing neurological symptoms too; muscle weakness and head-bobbing so she sometimes looked like a dashboard doll. She had begun rolling her tongue around inside her bottom lip compulsively. Worst of all, little Mathilda, pale and dishevelled, was becoming increasingly remote and withdrawn so Claire felt her daughter was vanishing before her eyes.
The ordeal is recounted in the award-winning non-fiction book, Waking Mathilda: A Memoir of Childhood Narcolepsy. It is really a memoir of a mother struggling within a seriously flawed medical system to find out what is wrong with her daughter, to help her, to hold her family together through the onset of life-changing chronic illness and to keep her faith, and her sanity.
Her daughter, she eventually discovers through heroic perseverance, is the youngest known patient in the world to have developed the devastating sleep disorder. Once extremely rare, narcolepsy suddenly spiked in the wake of the over-hyped 2009/2010 swine flu epidemic that failed to materialize. Mathilda was one of at least 1,500 people, mostly children, in whom GlaxoSmithKline’s Pandemrix vaccine triggered an autoimmune assault on a hub of neurons that control sleep and wakefulness. It left her peculiarly brain-damaged by an ongoing immune inflammation.
Epidemiological studies confirmed the uptick of cases and the Pandemrix vaccine was linked to a 13-fold higher risk of the sleep disorder which was also found in multiple countries where it was distributed. Pandemrix was pulled from the market then but the damage was already done and the greatest profits had been reaped.
Author Claire Crisp couldn’t understand the nightmare world her daughter had entered
For Mathilda and her family, the symptoms began within a few weeks of the shot but it was months and repeated visits to the Bristol Children’s hospital desperately seeking answers and the chance encounter with a diligent visiting doctor from India that got her diagnosis.
On the way, Claire discovered the gaps – or rather, the yawning chasms – in the medical system. Tilly’s slurred speech, her wobbly gait and sudden incontinent and sleepiness, for example, saw her quickly admitted to hospital because doctors suspected a cerebellar tumour. But when the scan came back clear, Mathilda was discharged. Their one theory shot down, the doctors sent the neurologically-impaired girl and her exhausted, worried mother home, with all the same symptoms they’d deemed urgent just hours before, without answers or further investigation.
The book is not a flattering snapshot of the UK’s publicly funded National Health Service: neurologists are unable to find a reflex hammer anywhere in a children’s hospital. Irritable nurses rig the little girl up uncomfortably to a black box for a round of sleep tests one night, but the box and its data disappear into the vortex of public health indifference and lost patient information.
Mathilda Crisp suffers from narcolepsy, cataplexy and terrifying hallucinations as a result of GSK’s Pandemrix vaccine, untested for use in children before they were mass vaccinated
Claire may portray these weaknesses as a unique feature of British public health, but any American parent that has watched their baby regress into autism or their teenager damaged by the HPV vaccine may describe similar problems with their system. Current medicine has a gigantic blind spot for damage to a hyper-stimulated immune system.
Mathilda’s story exposes the arrogance of medical practice, too. Claire learns that “there is a fine line between being a caring, responsible parent and an intense, overanxious one” and she has to tread carefully and measure her words to not set egos flaring and preserve her daughter’s care.
Like popular teenagers that turn bully when their hollowness or inadequacies are exposed, doctors can get mean. When the team of neurologists can’t diagnose Mathilda’s trouble, they send a preppy young intern to coldly announce that Tilly has a behavior problem and Claire herself is referred with her daughter for psychiatric examination. The horror of this settles on Claire who realizes that her daughter, “with a label she would probably never shake off, would sink in the quicksand of medication for the mentally ill.”
This happens to the child of two highly educated people (Claire was a physiotherapist and Mathilda’s father, Oliver, is a theology professor) who are fighting hard for their child. Reading this book, you have to wonder how many other narcolepsy patients have slipped through the nets, undiagnosed, and are languishing in drug comas in the psychiatric wards of the world. And there is the unspoken question of the reason for all the packed children’s hospital wards in the book. Another mother of a seriously neurologically ill child presents a horrifying statistic to Claire on one of her first visits to the hospital: 40 percent of pediatric neurology cases are undiagnosed. How often do these illnesses get investigated by immunologists and how infrequently do they even ask the vaccine question?
By curious acts of providence, Mathilda’s diagnosis is eventually given and the vaccine cause of her injury is found. Rather than being remorseful and eager to rectify the public health injury, however, the system and the doctors seem completely indifferent and oblivious to the horror of this torment on the family. To the fact that a three-year-old girl has been struck by a condition that has literally robbed her of joy (She falls into a paralytic cataplexy every time she feels the emotion of happiness.) This child suffers the grotesque hallucinations of sleep paralysis because she was given a vaccine that was never tested on children. For a ‘false pandemic’ that did not happen.
Claire recounts the scene at the prestigious Oxford University hospital where the top sleep expert in the UK refused the most promising treatment available, a drug called Xyrem that allows patients to sleep and instead admonishes the couple to learn better parenting techniques and behavioral control of their immunologically and brain injured daughter.
The book doesn’t wade into the vaccine debate or discuss the larger significance of the swine-flu vaccine/ narcolepsy connection or the fact that Pandemrix was also epidemiologically linked to autoimmune or Juvenile Type 1 diabetes.
Readers should be able to see the blindness of doctors and a public system which fails to recognize that if a single vaccine can cause this unexpected, profound and sustained type of immune and brain assault in some genetically susceptible people, then it is not so inconceivable that a string of vaccines could induce autism. Or that other proteins in other vaccines could induce other types of autoimmunity in people with different genetics.
Claire doesn’t discuss other narcolepsy vaccine cases. There are hundreds who experience what Katie Clack could not cope with. She was the 23-year-old pediatric nurse forced to get the vaccine in 2009 whose consequent narcolepsy led to 19-hour sleep marathons and severe depression that caused her to jump from a shopping centre car park roof to her death in 2014.
The book does not discuss the ongoing battle with the UK government; that Mathilda Crisp is one of 80 or so patients jointly suing the Department for Works and Pensions which has fought tooth and nail against offering even the meagre compensation pay-out to the vaccine-damaged children. Narcolepsy is not disabling enough a condition to qualify, the agency has argued, which makes you wonder what level of Hell they think is sufficiently torturous for children to deserve the paltry compensation. And what sort of government is this stingy towards injured children yet willing to dole billions to the pharmaceutical companies who made the injuring drugs?
The book is not about vaccines at all really, although there would be no tragedy to tell without the one Mathilda received. Every mother of a vaccine-injured child will relate to Claire’s depression borne of grief and guilt. “Many times I have imagined myself ripping the kitchen clock off the wall and turning back the hands of time, taking her to the candy store, the park, anywhere but to the clinic that would ruin her life,” she writes. “She trusted me, and I in turn foolishly trusted in a system that was supposed to keep her safe.”
Thousands of parents who have struggled with any chronically ill child, who have felt that hand Claire Crisp describes, reaching into their chest to physically rip their heart while they watch their child suffer and they can do nothing to stop it, will draw something from this narrative.
Waking Mathilda should be required reading for pro-vaxxers who think vaccine-induced brain injury is a fiction, and for doctors; those steeped in the decaying current paradigm as well as those in the emerging integrative and functional systems which are just as much in danger of losing touch with where their patients are coming from and the causes of the epidemics they are treating. [1]
Mathilda Crisp can sleep again but only in short blocks and with the use of powerful drugs
Waking Mathilda is mostly the personal story of a very likeable woman, a resilient child and an endearing family and how they cope with a tragedy foisted on their world by a beast of a machine. “For the British government and GSK, it was another pharmacological headache. For hundreds of children and families, it became a personal tragedy,” Claire writes.
Ultimately, it is a story of triumph, of a family that has come out the other side of tragedy. They defied the system and moved across the world to California’s sunshine to give their daughter treatments the UK would not provide. With medication, Mathilda is able to sleep in three-hour blocks and to stay awake and is learning and active. Her “new normal” is not what Claire would ever have chosen but she is transformed by her journey and has profound insights to offer readers. Best of all, she offers the possibility of what she and her family seem to have found again: hope and joy.
Waking Mathilda by Claire Crisp is available on Amazon.com
[1] Celeste relayed this to me: 15% of the population may be at risk of narcolepsy due to either the flu vaccine, or the flu infection:
It was not until 2015 that researchers from Novartis Vaccines and Stanford University published their study which virtually clinched the mechanism for the vaccine-induced disease. They identified a flu protein in the vaccine that looked very much like the receptor for hypocretin which is a neurotransmitter in that part of the brain that acts as a sleep/wake command centre. The Pandemrix vaccine contained higher levels of that particular flu protein than other flu vaccines. This provoked the immune system to “cross-react” – to direct its attack on the brain cells that looked like the flu protein as well as the flu protein. Some people, those who were carriers of a genetic variant called HLA-DBQ1 were particularly vulnerable.
I spoke with Sohail Ahmed, then with Novartis, the lead researcher when he was presenting those findings at the Autoimmunity Congress in Leipzig, Germany in 2016. Every H1N1 vaccine, which means every seasonal flu vaccine, carries a small risk of narcolepsy for an unfortunate few and no one knows in advance who they will be, he confirmed, but the Pandemrix caused it in a very noticeable way. “We know it’s a really difficult thing for those who get the disease but we still think the benefits of flu vaccines outweigh the risks,” he said.
“The risk of narcolepsy outweighs the risk of flu?” I asked.
You could get narcolepsy from the flu itself, he replied, which is why it is better to get the vaccine in his view. It didn’t explain why narcolepsy was so rare before when flu was not. Or why the incidence of narcolepsy like so many autoimmune diseases is mysteriously increasing. When I asked Ahmed if people should be warned of the risk or tested for the genetic susceptibility, the HLA –DBQ1 which affects 15 percent of the general public, he rolled his eyes and said that would “not be practical.”
Ahmed, S and L. Steinman. 2017. Narcolepsy and influenza vaccination-induced autoimmunity. Ann Transl Med. 2017 Jan; 5(1): 25. doi: 10.21037/atm.2016.12.63
“The antigens used in the Pandemrix vaccine were generated using the Dresden protocol, which involves treating the virus with detergent prior to diafiltration and inactivation using deoxycholate and formaldehyde. In contrast, the antigens used in the Arepanrix vaccine were prepared using the Quebec protocol, which involves inactivating virus by ultraviolet irradiation followed by formaldehyde, then purification by centrifugation, and disruption with deoxycholate.
The differences in these protocols almost certainly led to differences in antigen cross-linking and the exposure of internal epitopes. By treating the virus with detergent first, the protocol used to make the Pandemrix vaccine likely released the NP proteins from inside the virus, thereby exposing their epitopes to the immune system. In contrast, by first fixing the virus with formaldehyde, the protocol used to make the Arepanrix vaccine likely cross-linked the NP proteins inside intact virions, where they would not be exposed to the immune system. Thus, despite having similar amounts of NP, Pandemrix and Arepanrix would likely trigger different repertoires of B cells, with Pandemrix triggering more NP-specific B cells.” Nellore and Randall, 2017.
Nellore, A and TD Randall. 2016. Narcolepsy and influenza vaccination—the inappropriate awakening of immunity. Ann Transl Med. 4(Suppl 1): S29. doi: 10.21037/atm.2016.10.60
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Rep. Bobby Kaufmann, R-Wilton, speaks while four other state legislators who represent Johnson County, in eastern Iowa, listen during a legislative public forum in Iowa City, IA, on Dec. 5, 2018. From left to right are: Sen. Joe Bolkcom, D-Iowa City; Rep. Dave Jacoby, D-Coralville; Kaufmann; Rep. Mary Mascher, D-Iowa City; and Rep. Amy Nielsen, D-North Liberty. The county they represent is home of the University of Iowa and Iowa Medical and Classification Center. The forum was co-hosted by The Daily Iowan newspaper's Ethics & Politics Initiative and IowaWatch.
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Republicans have no plans to change the Iowa Public Employees’ Retirement System, including reductions in benefits from the system that handles the pension plan for 350,000 state employees, the incoming chair of the House State Government Committee said Wednesday night.
“IPERS is not going to be touched. It’s the most solvent retirement system in the country,” state Rep. Bobby Kaufmann, R-Wilton, said at a legislative forum in Iowa City co-hosted by IowaWatch and The Daily Iowan, referring to the program by its better-known acronym.
Democrats have raised concerns that changes could be in the offing, especially after state Sen. Brad Zaun, R-Urbandale, introduced a bill two years ago to place public employees hired after July 1, 2019, in a program requiring increased personal contributions. The bill failed to gain traction.
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IPERS, the state’s largest pension program, had a Trust Fund balance of $32.26 billion on June 30, IPERS documents show. Investment earnings cover about 70 percent of the benefits paid to retired state employees, the documents show. About 117,000 plan members are retired.
Gov. Kim Reynolds has said she would not favor cutting IPERS benefits. As chair of the State Government Committee next session, Kaufmann will have a lot of say in what legislation advances.
“What I said is concrete, absoluteness,” he said at the forum. “The thought that there ever was a big movement is fabricated. And I will stand behind that unequivocally.”
The legislative public forum was at the Iowa Public Library on Dec. 5, 2018.
Kaufmann said he has spoken to all 53 members of the incoming House Republican caucus about IPERS. “Zero. Not one, not two, not five. Zero, zilch, nada, none have any appetite for this whatsoever,” he said about making changes.
“As the son of the chair of the Republican Party, the chair of the State Government Committee, and as one of the more connected Republicans in this state, I have heard zero people talk ever about it ever talk about it, period, ever in private. It just doesn’t happen.”
Kaufmann’s father is state GOP chairman Jeff Kaufmann.
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Isfahan Public Transportation System
Isfahan is located in central Iran, about 435 kilometers from the city of Tehran. Isfahan is one of the most beautiful cities in Iran that attracts many domestic and foreign tourists to Iran. Millions of tourists visit Isfahan annually, most of whom travel to Iran in spring and especially during the New Year holiday.
To get more information about Nowruz (Iranian New Year) and other occasions in Iran read article “Iran Public Holidays“.
Isfahan, having an airport, train stations and bus terminals, provides efficient inter-city transport service for passengers to travel easily between Isfahan and other cities in Iran. There is also good public transport system within the city, like taxis, buses, BRT and metro.
In this article, Iranviva Group has tried to discuss separately Isfahan facilities for intra-city transport, inter-city transport, cost-effective means of transportation, public transport schedules and routes, costs of public transportation, how to buy tickets, train stations, airports and bus terminals, how to access the stations, time and distance between different routes, public transport vehicle departure intervals, and how convenient different means of transportation are. If you are among those tourists who have chosen Iran and its historic cities like Isfahan as their journey destination, keep reading this article.
1. Intra-city Transportation
The most used means of public transportation in Isfahan are buses, BRT, metro and taxis. Tourists can use these vehicles to access their tourist destinations easily. In this section, Iranviva Group introduces different means of public transportation in Isfahan, cost of using, routes, departure intervals, distance, stations, how to buy tickets, and how convenient different means of transportation are.
You can also visit the following website to check the traffic of the city online and see the tourist sites and the location of public transport stations.
Online traffic map of Isfahan: http://isfahantraffic.ir/
1.1 BRT
Due to the heavy traffic around the city, using private cars is difficult, particularly in the city center. Hence, BRT buses play a great role in transporting passengers around the city.
Isfahan Bus Rapid Transit system or BRT, with 3 active lines, has gender-segregated buses that are not usually crowded except during the rush hours.
The BRT buses are running from 5:45 am to 23 pm transferring passengers around the city.
BRT tickets in Isfahan cost about 1,000 tomans (about 0.07 euros).
The fare for BRT buses is paid electronically by ticket cards and cash payment is not accepted. (In case of emergency, you can request the passengers at the station to let you use their ticket cards and then you pay it to them in cash).
You can also use your BRT ticket card to ride metro.
Active BRT Lines in Isfahan
Line 1: from Baghoushkhaneh terminal to Qods square and vice versa
Line 2: from Baghoushkhaneh terminal to Jomhouri square and vice versa
Line 3: from Ahmadabad square to Arqavani terminal and vice versa
2.1 Intra-city Bus Service
The intra-city bus service in Isfahan provides a vast network of about 176 active bus lines to access different parts and tourist spots of the city. All buses running in the city are equipped with electronic payment systems.
Bus fares can be paid in two ways:
In cash about 0.04 euros
Electronically by ticket cards about 0.07 euros
These buses are running from 6 am to 21 pm and transport passengers around the city.
To see bus routes in Isfahan, you can visit the following website:
https://b2n.ir/842799
This type of transportation is actually hard-to-use.
3.1 Metro
Isfahan Metro is a newly established metro in Iran that is going to have 3 lines but, only one line (the red line) is being used currently. This line starts from the north of Isfahan and after about 20. 2 km it reaches “Soffeh” Terminal in south of Isfahan. There are 20 stations on this line.
Isfahan Metro starts at 6:30 am and ends at 21:30 pm and it is closed on Fridays and other holidays. It takes about 33 minutes to go from Quds station (Shahrak-e Quds in East Baharestan Street) to Azadi Station (Azadi Square or Darvazeh Shiraz) by metro. It also takes around 50 minutes to go from Isfahan University of Technology Station to Soffeh Station.
On average, a train runs every 15 minutes to each metro station. It takes about 2 minutes to go from one station to the next.
The Metro tickets in Isfahan cost about 0.11 euros.
The fare for Metro is only paid electronically by ticket cards, and cash payment is not accepted.
Metro ticket cards are sold at ticket booths at the stations, and they are rechargeable for different times. Ticket cards should be paid in Iranian rials.
You’d better use a single ticket if you plan to ride the Metro only once in a route.
The ticket cards you’ve got at Metro stations can also be used in BRT lines.
Isfahan Metro logo is as follows:
This logo is usually found above the entrance to the buildings of most of metro stations in Isfahan. These signs around the city represent metro stations. Metro stations are located underground and you can use escalators to go up and down stairs easily in the station buildings.
Isfahan Matro Stations
Station Address Station Address
Quds (Ashegh Abad) Shahrak-e Quds, Imam Khomeini Street Shohada Takhti Crossroad
Baharestan Malek Shahr, Baharestan Street Imam Hossein Imam Hossein Square (Darvazeh Dowlat)
Golestan Malek Shahr, Baharestan Street Enghelab Enghelab Square
Shahid Mofateh Baharestan Street, corner of Shahid Mofateh St. Si O Se Pol First of Chahar Bagh Street
Shahid Alikhani Shahid Alikhani Square Dr. Shariati Chahar Bagh Street, across from Shariati Hospital
Jaber At the corner of Jaber street and Shahbazi street Azadi Azadi Square (Darvazeh Shiraz)
Kaveh Kaveh street, next to Kaveh terminal Daneshgah (University) Hezar Jerib Avenue, across from the east entrance of Isfahan University
Shahid Chamran Kaveh street, before Chamran highway, corner of Shams Abad St. Kargar Hezar Jerib Avenue, across from Kargar street
Shahid Bahonar Kaveh street, corner of 25 Aban street Kuy-e Emam (Dormitory) Hezar Jerib Avenue, across from Mohajer Technical University
Takhti Shohada Square Defa’-e Moqaddas (Soffeh Terminal) Defa’-e Moqaddas Square, next to Soffeh Terminal
This type of transport is medium-difficulty-to-use.
4.1 Taxi
Public Taxi
Public taxis in Isfahan are among the most popular and most widely used means of transport in comparison with Metro and BRT. The cost of using taxis is at least 6 times (about 0.6 euros) more than using BRT and metro but it has its own advantages, including its ease of use. Taxi stations are located in squares and main streets of Isfahan, and taxi fares depend on the distance between the source and destination.
To catch a taxi in Isfahan, you need to just wait beside the street, raise your hand (as shown in image below) for an oncoming taxi, and then tell the driver your destination.
Taxis in Isfahan are often yellow and have yellow number plates with black letters, but sometimes private cars also carry passengers to their destinations that is generally so common in Iran. However, you’d better use the yellow taxis with yellow plates that are widely used in Isfahan.
Up to 4 passengers can usually ride together in a taxi (3 passengers on the rear seat and one passenger on the front seat), but you can take a private taxi with no other passengers and pay a higher fare.
To hire a private car with its driver, you can use the term “Darbasti”.
As stated above, among different means of transport, taxi is an easy-to-use one.
The public taxi fare in Isfahan is usually paid in cash, but as an intelligent system is provided for most of the taxis in Isfahan, you can also pay the fare online using your bank card. All the payments should be done in Iranian rials.
To see the list of Isfahan taxi lines and fares visit this website:
This is a convenient type of Transportation.
Private Taxis
Private taxis are of two kinds: One group are those travelling around the city and carrying passengers, and the other are those managed by big transport companies and meet the demands of passengers using their applications exclusively dedicated to taxi services.
As above mentioned, the first group are not recommended because they are not usually under an organized company; but the second category provides a convenient way to carry passengers from place to place.
To use the latter type of taxi service, you can download the taxi booking apps and request for a taxi online (for the convenience of tourists who have chosen Iran as their travel destination, the links to download a few of these apps are provided below). You can access the available taxis nearby and travel around the city easily.
Using these applications is not difficult at all and you just need to choose your location and destination on the map. The ride price will be shown up and you will confirm your request. Your request will be accepted by drivers nearby within a very short time.
The car model, number and its location are shown on the application. When the car arrives at your location, you will receive a message.
Given that you are the only passenger in the taxi, the fare will usually be 3 to 4 times more than the regular taxis’.
You can visit the following websites to install the online taxi order applications:
SNAPP website to download the application: https://snapp.ir/
TAPSI website to download the application: https://tapsi.ir/
This type of transportation is absolutely convenient to use.
5.1 Car Rental for Tourists
Another way of traveling for tourists who have traveled to Iran is renting a car. Tourists in Iran will be able to rent a car with or without an experienced driver. Iranviva Group suggests you rent a car with a driver, so there will be no concerns or problems about finding directions and car parks around tourist sites, or traffic regulations, and you will easily access to all the city landmarks and tourist sites.
As you know, there are some car rental conditions and qualifications required that are brought here as a list by Iranviva Group for tourists who travel to Iran.
Car Rental Requirements, Terms and Conditions
Age-related Requirements: A minimum age of 20 years
Driving license: A driver’s license valid for a minimum of 6 months
You can drive in Iran for 6 months from the time you enter Iran, with a valid driver’s license from your home country.
ID Requirements:
A copy of passport
Paying the rent and cash deposit
Paying an amount of money as deposit that will be paid back to the client when the vehicle is returned.
For your convenience, some websites offering car rental for tourists have been brought here.
You can visit the following websites and book your desired vehicle for your required date:
https://hamirent.com/en/car-rental-terms/
https://www.saadatrent.com/english/required-documents
This type of transportation is absolutely convenient, too.
2. Inter-city Transportation
Isfahan is one of the major tourist destinations in Iran, so it always hosts a large number of passengers from different parts of the country. Transport to Isfahan is mostly by roads, rail and air. Regarding the inter-city transport facilities provided in the city of Isfahan, you can travel easily between Isfahan and other cities of Iran.
Isfahan inter-city transportation system is described in the following part of the article, including routes, schedules, cost, how to buy tickets online, airports, terminals and train stations, how to access the stations, travel time and distance and also the most economical means of transportation.
1.2 Train
Isfahan railway station is located in the most southern part of the city. This railway station is one of the busiest stations in Iran. It takes at least 20 minutes to get from this station to the city center of Isfahan. After taking this distance you will reach the beautiful city of Isfahan and in a short time you will easily get anywhere in the city that you like.
If you plan to use Isfahan railway, make sure to visit Raja website and other websites for booking tickets, and check train schedules, and, if necessary, book your ticket before traveling to Iran. Iranviva Group recommends you choose your train carefully and check different trains’ services and amenities to enjoy your trip to the fullest.
Trains in Iran are of two types: Open coaches, and (first class and second class) corridor coaches (trains).
First class corridor trains: On these trains, each car is divided into several compartments, with 4 or 6 seats that can be converted to beds and some amenities.
Second class corridor trains: On these trains, each car is divided into several compartments, with 6 seats that cannot be converted to beds.
Corridor Trains are also called ‘coupe’.
Open coaches: These kinds of train do not have compartments or other divisions and the seats are arranged in one or more open plan areas with a center aisle, similar to the bus seats.
Open coaches are also called ‘salon train’.
Iranviva Group suggests tourists use 4-seat first class corridor trains. Although these trains are more expensive than other trains, they are better options for traveling because they offer more amenities.
This type of transportation can be very convenient, convenient or medium-difficult to use, depending on the type of train.
Isfahan Train Ticket Booking
To book train tickets in Iran, you need to have an account on the train ticket booking sites. Once you have logged in, you can select the source and destination of your journey, time, number of passengers, type of train (ordinary, for women, etc.), and transportation companies, then you will have a list of options available from which you can choose and enjoy an affordable and convenient journey.
For entering personal information and booking ticket you need to choose the option of foreign nationals or purchasing by passport. The required information for foreign nationals to buy tickets includes first name, last name, date of birth, and passport number. It should be noted that the cost of train tickets for children between 2 to 12 years of age will be given a half-price discount. Moreover, you need to be at the station about 45 minutes before the departure time to do the necessary paperwork.
Examples of active train ticket booking sites:
https://www.raja.ir/home
https://ghasedak24.com/train-ticket
https://www.alibaba.ir/train-ticket
Isfahan Railway Station Information and Trains Schedule
For trains’ schedules, you can visit the website of Islamic Republic of Iran Railway Company mentioned below. There is a lot of information provided in this site regarding trains and train stations.
Islamic Republic of Iran Railways Official site:
http://www.rai.ir/Index.aspx?tempname=EngMain2&lang=2&sub=0&epageId=543
https://www.aftabir.com/portal/trains/
To get information about ticket cancellation and refund, you can visit the following website:
Address and Access Routes to Isfahan Railway Station
There are different routes to get to Isfahan railway station. The best and most economical way is using public transport like bus service. To do so, you can use Isfahan intra-city bus, line 37, with the starting point of Azadi station and destination of railway station that takes about 35 minutes. You can also use public and private taxis and get to the railway station easily and in less time.
Isfahan railway station address: Isfahan, Azadi Square, Hezar Jerib Avenue, 5 km to Shiraz Road, opposite Sepahan Shahr, Isfahan railway station
Phone number: 031-36542026
Isfahan Trains Ticket Price
Undoubtedly, it differs which Railway Transport Company you buy your ticket from, but you should know that any company you choose to buy your ticket from offers affordable tickets regarding the facilities they provide and convenience you would experience on your trip.
Onboard Train Features & Amenities:
facilities Air Conditioner audio/video capacity Coupe/
Railway company Train
Ok Ok 4 Coupe Raja Ghazal
Ok Ok 4 Coupe Raja Khalij Fars
Ok Ok 4 Coupe Raja Polour sabz
Ok Ok Salon Raja Pardis
Ok Ok Salon Raja Saba
Ok Ok 4 Coupe Raja Tous
Ok Ok 4 Coupe Raja Sabz
Ok Ok 4 Coupe Raja Simourgh
Ok Ok 6 Coupe Raja Milad
1- Passengers can order food
2- Passengers can order soda pop
3- Passengers can order books
4- Passengers can choose film and music
5- Passengers can set the light
Ok Ok 4 Coupe Raja Zendegi
Ok Ok 4 Coupe Raja Alborz
Ok Ok 4 Coupe Nour Nour
Ok Ok 4 Coupe Transportation
Parastoo
2- Passengers can set the temperature
4- GPS
5- Wi-Fi
Ok Ok 4 Coupe Railpardaz Noafarin Fadak
Isfahan Trains Schedule:
Distance Duration Destination-Source
503 km About 7 to 9 hours depending on the train Tehran – Isfahan
Isfahan – Tehran
Stations along the route: Firuzabad , Kashan, Sorkh Gol Badroud, Espidan, Garm Ab, Chariseh and Sistan
352 km About 5 hours Isfahan – Shiraz
Shiraz- Isfahan
Stations along the route: Marvdasht, Sivand, Pasargadae, Qaderabad, Safashahr, Khorrambid, Eqlid, Abadeh, Izad Khast, Aminabad, Shahreza, Mahyar and Seyed Abad
465 km About 8 to 9 hours depending on the train Kerman- Isfahan
Isfahan- Kerman
774 km About 10.5 to 12 hours depending on the train Isfahan-Tabriz
Tabriz- Isfahan
Stations along the route: Abbasi, Ajabshir, Mianeh, Khorasanak, Zanjan, Bonab, Soltanieh, Qazvin, Abyek, Karaj, Qom, Firuzabad, Kashan, Badroud, Varton, Sistan and Firuzabad
550 km About 7 to 9 hours depending on the train Rasht-Isfahan
Isfahan- Rasht
267 km About 3.5 to 4.5 hours depending on the train Yazd- Isfahan
Isfahan- Yazd
Stations along the route: Nazarabad, Shamsi, Meybod, Arjang, Aqda, Sasan, Homa, Shabnam, Shirazkuh, Varzaneh, Harand, Sistan and Firuzabad
2.2. Airplane
Isfahan International Airport (Shahid Beheshti airport), located 18 km northeast of the city of Isfahan, has 2 separate terminals for international and domestic flights. This airport is also equipped with ILS and VOR systems.
This airport has facilities including bank branches, mom & baby room, currency exchange, café restaurant, gift shop, and other amenities and services.
This airport has domestic flights to different cities of Iran including Kish, Mashhad, Tehran, Tabriz, Shiraz, Ahvaz, Bandar Abbas, Bushehr, Kerman, Kermanshah, Rasht, Zahedan, Mahshahr, Abadan, Dezful, Asaluyeh, Qeshm, etc. and international flights to some foreign cities like Dubai, Tbilisi, Baku, Istanbul, Antalya, Kuwait, Najaf, Baghdad, Vienna and Jeddah.
How to Access Isfahan Airport
Using intra-city bus service is a way to access Isfahan Shahid Beheshti airport. These buses carry passengers from the airport to Kaveh bus terminal and vice versa. You can see the bus departure times in the table below:
Departure time from the airport to terminal Kaveh.
Private car:
Depending on where you are, there are different routes to go to Shahid Beheshti International Airport. You need to get to Chamran Expressway and drive along the expressway to reach the Airport Highway and then the airport.
Another way to get to Isfahan Shahid Beheshti airport is using taxis. You have two ways to use taxis: the first way is using taxi applications that, as mentioned above, you just need to choose your location and destination (here Shahid Beheshti airport) on the map and confirm your request. Your request will be accepted by drivers nearby within a very short time. The other way is using the yellow taxis around the city.
Shahid Beheshti airport flight information:
From Isfahan: 199
From other cities: 031-35275200
How to Buy Flight Tickets
To buy a plane ticket, you can visit the following sites and choose your desired flight regarding the flight time and amenities it offers, by entering information such as source and destination, date and number of passengers, flights that on that date there are to see and fly your desired with regard clock and amenities. It should be noted that, you must first choose the option of foreign nationals or purchasing by passport and enter your passport number and other requested information session.
Passengers will be checked in up to 45 minutes before departure in international flights and up to 30 minutes before departure in domestic ones. So you need to arrive at the airport at least 3 hours before your scheduled departure time for international flights. For domestic flights this time is between 1 to 1.5 hours.
https://www.alibaba.ir/
To check flight status and ticket inquiries, visit the following website:
https://ebooking.iranair.com/Booking
To check flight daily schedule, visit the following websites:
https://fids.airport.ir/
http://iranscanner.com/
To get information about ticket buying regulations, and ticket cancellation and refund, you can visit the following websites:
https://ebooking.iranair.com/Rules/Ticket
https://ebooking.iranair.com/Rules/Change
This type of transportation is really convenient to use.
Domestic flight ticket price is typically dynamic and it differs based on the departure dates. It is more expensive to travel during peak times (like Nowruz), when everybody else also wants to go on holiday, than during the low season, when children are at school and employees at work.
It also depends on your destination. Airfares are usually higher for flights to some of tourist cities in Iran such as Isfahan, Shiraz, Mashhad, Tehran, Yazd, Tabriz, Kerman, etc.
Generally, flight ticket prices depend on different things such as airlines, flight class and travel date.
Example of Flight Ticket prices from Isfahan:
Isfahan to Price (tomans) Price (euros)
Tehran 230600 to 497800 16.5 to 35.5
Shiraz 230600 to 410800 16.5 to 29.3
Bandar Abbas 453200 to 591000 32.4 to 24.2
Tabriz 380000 to 814700 27.1 to 58.2
Kerman 373000 to 411800 26.7 to 29.5
Ahvaz 173500 to 270000 12.4 to 19.3
Qeshm Island 376000 26.8
3.2 Inter-city Bus Service
One of the easiest and cheapest ways to travel in Iran has always been using the buses. In this section, you will be familiar with this type of transportation in Isfahan.
The large city of Isfahan has four bus terminals in each part of the city, including Kaveh terminal in the north, terminal J. in the north east, Soffeh terminal in the south, and Zayandeh Rud terminal in the south west of the city. It depends on the source or destination which terminal you will leave or arrive at.
These four bus terminals have facilities such as car park, souvenir shops, restaurant and canteens and prayer rooms. You can also ask for information about the historical and religious attractions as well as access routes to the city center at the information booths in the terminal stations.
Tourists who have traveled to Iran or plan to travel to Iran, just need to visit websites (mentioned below) to book bus tickets, selecting the source, destination and date of travel and choosing the best bus from the list of available buses with the services and amenities offered.
Since Isfahan has four active bus terminals, it is essential for you to check the terminal name before purchasing tickets. You also need to be at the terminal about half an hour before the departure time.
https://www.alibaba.ir/bus-ticket
https://ghasedak24.com/bus-ticket
You can see the ticket cancel and refund conditions in the websites mentioned above too.
Isfahan Bus Terminals
Kaveh Terminal
Kaveh terminal is the largest terminal in Isfahan that makes it possible for passengers to travel to all the cities of the country. This terminal is easily accessible using public and private taxis in the city. You can also access this terminal using the intra-city bus service, line 27 (Jomhouri Square – Kaveh terminal, and vice versa) and line 83 (Kaveh terminal – Parvin, Pardis Square, and vice versa) at a lower price.
Address: Shahid Kaveh Street, after Chamran Bridge
Soffeh Terminal
The main destinations of the buses from this terminal are cities in Isfahan Province as well as most of the cities of Iran especially the cities in north and northeast of the country.
This terminal is easily accessible using public and private taxis in the city. You can also access this terminal using the intra-city bus service, line 91 (Malek Shahr – Soffeh terminal, and vice versa) at a lower price.
Address: Isfahan, Shiraz Road exit, Dastgerdi Highway
Terminal J.
Transportation companies in this terminal provide transport services to the eastern cities of Isfahan Province and also the city of Yazd.
This terminal is easily accessible using public and private taxis in the city. You can also access this terminal using the intra-city bus service, line 48 (Terminal J.- Baraan-e Shomali, and vice versa) and line 73 (Terminal J.- Gavart, and vice versa) at a lower price.
Address: Ahmadabad Square, first of Hamadani Street
Zayandeh Rud Terminal
Passengers can travel by buses from this terminal to the western cities of Isfahan Province and also Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province.
This terminal is easily accessible using public and private taxis in the city. You can also access this terminal using the intra-city bus service, line 16 (Malek shahr- Zayandeh Rud Terminal, and vice versa) and line 31 (Zayandeh Rud Terminal – Amusement park, and vice versa) at a lower price.
Address: Vahid Bridge., Mirza Kuchakkhan Jangali Boulevard
Types of Buses in Bus Lines
Ordinary Buses
These buses, mostly Volvo model, have 38 to 50 seats. Obviously, the more the number of seats are, the less comfortable the passengers will be on the bus.
You will only be able to recline the seats on the bus a little, so these buses are not convenient enough and they are not recommended.
This type of transportation is medium-difficult to use.
VIP Buses
VIP bus series, manufactured by companies like Scania, Volvo, Mercedes Benz, Buggy and MAN, provide passengers with better services than regular buses. There are at least 20 seats on these buses that make them more spacious and certainly more comfortable for passengers.
VIP buses are among the convenient types of transportation.
Cost of Bus Tickets from Isfahan to Other Major Cities:
Isfahan to Price (euros)
Tehran 3.23 to 4.1
Shiraz 3.4 to 4.5
Yazd 1.8 to 3.2
Bandar Abbas 4.9 to 7.4
Qazvin 2.6 to 4.2
Sari 3 to 6.8
Rasht 3.8 to 6.6
Ardabil 7.7
Kermanshah 4.5 to 5.8
Tabriz 6.3 to 8.1
Kerman 3.4 to 6
Hamedan 2.58 to 4.9
Ahvaz 5.1 to 6.7
Khorramabad 2.7 to 4.1
Bandar Anzali 6.7
Kashan 1.7
Ramsar 7.4
Qeshm Island 8.3 to 9.6
In this article, we have tried to give you, as tourists to Iran, more details of how to travel in Isfahan or out of Isfahan, so you will enjoy your trip in Iran.
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Hellyeah Officially ‘On Hiatus,’ Drummer Roy Mayorga Confirms
Philip Trapp Published: May 11, 2021
Photo by William Felch
Hellyeah are formally "on hiatus" for the time being, as drummer Roy Mayorga explained in a recent interview. The confirmation comes as no surprise — lead vocalist Chad Gray is returning to a reunited Mudvayne, and guitarist Tom Maxwell previously expressed doubt about another Hellyeah album.
Mayorga, also a Stone Sour member, stepped in for late Hellyeah drummer and Pantera icon Vinnie Paul after the heavy metal supergroup released its first album following Paul's death, 2019's Welcome Home. On Sunday (May 9), Mayorga (who's also played in Soulfly, Ministry and more) appeared on a podcast about New York City hardcore punk to talk about the area's underground music history and his performing career.
During the interview, the drummer was asked if Hellyeah is still a functioning band, as Blabbermouth reported.
"Not right now," Mayorga responded, "'cause Chad is on his way to go do [the] Mudvayne [reunion]. So those guys are on hiatus for right now."
When broaching the topic last year, Gray, who also has solo music in the works, didn't rule out future Hellyeah but was honest about a lack of material: "Everybody's just in a holding pattern right now," the singer said. "I don't have any new music. I've been telling Tom to get me some riffs so I can write because right now is a great time to fucking write. So we'll just have to see."
Mayorga, who also confirmed over the weekend that he would be returning to Ministry for their touring this fall, cut his teeth with Northeastern punk rockers Nausea starting in the 1980s. The drummer's talent eventually led him to occupy the kit for acts such as Amebix, Black President, Channel Zero, Thorn and more, in addition to his later memberships in Hellyeah and Stone Sour.
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United States: One-year-old baby receives heart transplant
One-year-old Easton Sinnamon was born with a congenital heart defect and required three surgeries. However, everything changed when he received a new heart. The surgery was performed at Duke University Hospital, in the city of Asheboro, North Carolina (USA). The information comes from the R7 portal.
The baby’s mother, Kaitlyn Sinnamon, said she discovered Easton’s heart condition during an ultrasound when she was 20 weeks old. And there was the aggravating factor that a heart valve was damaged. This type of condition is rare, affecting only 1% of newborns in the United States.
In addition to the heart transplant, Easton also received thymus tissue, which serves for the body’s defense and helps reduce the number of drugs used to prevent transplant rejection.
Pediatrician Joseph W. Turek said, “It was a big step in the right direction. I hope that one day in the near future we will no longer need to use such high doses of immunosuppression with this technique (thymic tissue).
After the operation, Easton was able to return home and eventually met his older sister, 4-year-old Ivy.
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Kendrick Lamar [Santiago Bluguermann/Getty Images]; Metallica at the O2 [Wikipedia Commons]
The only rapper to ever win a Pulitzer released another good (maybe not great) album this week, so for two weeks in a row a Kendrick Lamar track is my favorite of the week.
A lot of other great hip-hop unexpectedly came out this week too, with singles from a handful of big names:
To start off, Chicago’s favorite weeb Lupe Fiasco is back with “AUTOBOTO”. Yes the hook is built around a Transformers metaphor. Yeah that’s kinda corny. No it’s not obnoxious enough to ruin the song, especially with Lupe finding the perfect pocket for the slick beat.
Staying in Chicago, “Wraith” is a new collab between Chance the Rapper & Vic Mensa (isn’t it amazing how beef got squashed as soon as they fell off?). Things have been hit-or-miss for both of them for years now – they both hit on this track.
We got the first taste of the collaboration album from Black Thought & Danger Mouse with “No Gold Teeth”. It’s a straightforward track – bars after bars after bars, classic Black Thought over a murky beat from Danger Mouse. Excited to hear more.
On the other side of the musical spectrum, Angel Olsen released “Through the Fires” a dramatic piano ballad, that reminds me of tracks like “Endgame” & “Tonight” from 2019’s “All Mirrors”. I haven’t mentioned the previous two singles from the upcoming “Big Time” because, I’ll be real – I hate them. Hopefully the full record sounds closer to this than those tracks.
Google might know me a little too well. I would’ve guessed Mary Halvorson was an elementary school teacher a week ago (just has one of those names), but thanks to a Guardian article I now know she’s a kickass guitarist and composer that released a great new record this week. “Amaryllis” is 6 tracks of subgenre bending jazz, morphing from cool to contemporary to experimental. The title track is my favorite, but seriously, listen to this one in-sequence.
After dropping a couple singles that sounded a lot more danceable than most of their discography, and announcing “Dance Fever” as their new album’s title, I thought Florence + the Machine’s latest LP was going to be a major stylistic shift. I was wrong – for better or worse. The rest of the album is the kind of material we’ve come to expect from the band, with Welch’s songwriting arguably as intimate and vulnerable as ever. “My Love” & “Free” – those bouncy singles – aren’t bad, but they are the lowlights of another strong record from Florence. That being said, the one dance influenced deep cut “Choreomania” is my favorite track on the album. Missed opportunity?
Favorite New Track of the Week: “Mr. Morale” by Kendrick Lamar featuring Tanna Leone
“Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers” is…messy.
It’s a lot closer to “DAMN.” than it is “To Pimp A Butterfly” both in terms of quality (almost great, nowhere near a classic) and sound.
I’m enjoying Kendrick’s newest record more than “DAMN.” because this album is basically just Kendrick swinging for the fences over and over and over.
“Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers” was not made to ride a wave or be a masterpiece. It was made for Kendrick. He’s doing whatever he wants, and even though every swing isn’t a home run, the misses and doubles are almost just as entertaining.
There’s a lot going on on this record though and there are definitely misses.
The biggest being the well-intentioned, but disappointingly problematic “Auntie Diaries”. Far more intelligent people have been pointing out everything that’s wrong with this track all week, so I’ll just say it really brought down my first listen and it’s been skipped on every one that followed.
Kodak Black is here too. Big miss.
On the other hand, “Auntie Diaries” is immediately followed by “Mr. Morale”, my favorite track of the week, the song that, lyrically at least, best consolidates all of the album’s themes. “United in Grief” is a bombastic opener.
“We Cry Together” is big swing that could’ve been a disaster – Taylour Paige’s incredible performance makes the hyper confrontational track work. “Father Time” is a highlight, always great to hear Sampha.
“Savior” & its interlude have made me a Baby Keem fan, his verse on the latter is the best thing he’s ever recorded. “Mother I Sober” is hard to listen to, in the best way.
Even though the good tracks heavily outnumber the bad, this album pulls itself in too many different directions. Several tracks here, especially on the 2nd disc, are amongst Kendrick’s most vulnerable and while that often makes for good individual songs, the album as a whole is overindulgent. The through line becomes more and more muddled the longer you listen.
I really enjoyed “Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers”. Deciding on my favorite track this week was just a matter of picking my favorite of the album’s best tracks.
But there’s a more concise, more focused version of this album somewhere here. It really could’ve used a Rick Rubin type to pare things back.
Still, Kendrick Lamar throwing everything at the wall, seeing what sticks, and even keeping what doesn’t makes for better music than most artists are capable of.
Favorite Old Track of the Week: “One” by Metallica
I did grow up on Metallica, but I don’t have a nostalgic story, critical hill to die on, or dramatic point to make this week. “One” slaps. That’s all.
It’s a bit slow to get going – call me uncultured, but I’m not here for the World War I soldier narrative, I’m here for the insane guitar work.
The breakneck second half of the song (which comes in at a whopping 7:27 in its entirety) wouldn’t land nearly as well without the measured build-up. The first couple verses are some of the tamest moments in Metallica’s early discography, punctuated by the heavier ‘hold my breath as I wish for death’ (much more on brand) refrains.
4 minutes in, the track begins to transition with some pounding kick drums and thrashier guitar lines. I think the soldier ends up in hell or something, I dunno. Again, not what we’re here for.
The main event kicks off hot and fast, picking up the tempo and dropping into an amazing tap-heavy solo from Kirk Hammett. The guitars get heavier and heavier, eventually getting to a distortion level mimicking artillery (metaphors, very hardcore), 3 minutes of the band just going off.
Metallica’s influence on modern rock is huge, and there’s plenty of material to wax poetic about in their discography.
I don’t have that for you today. Guitars are cool. Dismissed.
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Top Ways To Save Money At Disney World This Year According To One Of Their Executives
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If you’ve been planning a visit to Disney World, Orlando this yr, considered one of Disney World’s executives has simply shared a few of the greatest suggestions for saving cash for the upcoming spring and summer season seasons.
For the previous 15 months, Disney World has been celebrating its 50th anniversary, with lots of its festivities persevering with up till March 31, 2023. With lower than 3 months left of its celebration plans, the attraction has introduced an inventory of financial savings to entice guests to its many resorts after the official celebrations conclude.
2023 continues to be an necessary yr for Walt Disney, because the leisure firm might be marking its one centesimal anniversary since being based in 1923. The celebrations might be mainly focused at Disneyland Resort, however will finally transfer to Disney World later within the yr.
There are loads of causes so as to add Disney World to your 2023 vacation spot record, from its newest attraction Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind to fashionable favorites like Remy’s Ratatouille Adventure, Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, and the revived Fantasmic!
Highlights coming to Disney World in 2023 can even embrace Tron Lightcycle Run, one of many quickest new rides, and a brand new family-style barbecue restaurant known as Woody’s Roundup Rodeo BBQ in Toy Story Land.
Keep in thoughts that the associated fee to go to Disney World will differ primarily based on which of the 4 parks you need to go to. Animal Kingdom is the lowest-priced park costing between $109 and $159, whereas Magic Kingdom is the costliest park, costing between $124 and $189, and it’s greatest to reserve your tickets as quickly as potential.
Lesley Harris, Communications Manager at Walt Disney World Resort has supplied some of the best ways to save this yr (and likewise don’t neglect to take a look at our different suggestions for saving cash here):
Save Up To 25% On Rooms At Select Disney Resort Hotels
If you need your magical keep to increase into the night and past, a keep at considered one of Disney’s Resort inns provides you with the identical pleasant service and storytelling as its theme parks. Disney is providing the next reductions throughout choose time intervals on a restricted variety of its rooms.
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Resorts embrace: Boulder Ridge Villas at Disney’s Wilderness Lodge, Copper Creek Villas & Cabins at Disney’s Wilderness Lodge, Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge, Disney’s Beach Club Resort, Disney’s BoardWalk Inn, Disney’s BoardWalk Villas, Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort & Spa, Disney’s Old Key West Resort, Disney’s Polynesian Village Resort, Disney’s Riviera Resort, Disney’s Saratoga Springs Resort & Spa, Disney’s Wilderness Lodge, Disney’s Yacht Club Resort
Additional reductions additionally apply to different Disney Resort inns throughout sure dates. You can see the total record of resorts and financial savings here.
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Guests visiting Disney World who guide a non-discounted 5-night, 4-day trip bundle at both a Disney Deluxe Resort or a Disney Deluxe Villa Resort with a theme park ticket will obtain as much as a $750 Dining promo card ($150 Per Room, Per Night).
The eating card will be redeemed throughout the resorts, from the Be Our Guest Restaurant in Magic Kingdom Park to Satu’li Canteen, a fast-casual restaurant at Pandora – The World of Avatar. The gifted greenback worth depends on which Disney Resort resort that you simply keep at, and ranges from $50 to $150 per room, per night time, for a most of 5 nights.
The supply is simply out there for visitors reserving between the next dates:
July 1 to July 10, 2023
August 1 to September 14, 2023.
You can see the total record of resorts that the eating promo card applies to here.
Spend Extra Time In Parks With Disney Resort Hotel Stays
Guests who keep at a Disney Resort resort additionally obtain particular perks and extra time within the parks, comparable to a 30-minute early entry forward of the general public, whereas Disney Deluxe or Deluxe Villa Resort visitors get to take pleasure in prolonged night hours on particular evenings throughout choose parks.
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‘The Batman’ for The Birthday
jmunney Cinema, Movie Reviews Andy Serkis, Batman, Colin Farrell, Jeffrey Wright, John Turturro, Paul Dano, Peter Sarsgaard, Robert Pattinson, The Batman, Zoë Kravitz 1 Comment
The Batman (CREDIT: Warner Bros. Pictures/Screenshot)
Starring: Robert Pattinson, Zoë Kravitz, Paul Dano, Jeffrey Wright, John Turturro, Peter Sarsgaard, Andy Serkis, Colin Farrell
Director: Matt Reeves
Release Date: March 4, 2022 (Theaters)
The Batman was my Cinematic Birthday Viewing of 2022. So I got a little festive and chowed down a little more than usual. The star of the lineup was a matcha chocolate milkshake garnished with a sesame seed cookie and boozed up with some ginger liqueur (though I hardly noticed the booze), while I also dabbled in some popcorn, loaded fries, and even pizza. (Not to mention I had an Impossible burger for dinner beforehand.) So now you know what state of mind (and state of stomach) I was in.
Anyway, as plenty of moviegoers have already noticed, this is a version of the Dark Knight that really emphasized the detective aspect. That made for a lot of Pattinson-Batman and Geoffrey Wright-Commissioner Gordon looking all confused at all those dang riddles! And when they realized that they might have made a major mistake with their deciphering, you could really tell how much they felt like chumps. I appreciated that vulnerability!
I also appreciated that Colin Farrell was both unrecognizable and indelible, and that Peter Sarsgaard was very recognizable (even though I spent the whole time thinking he was Corey Stoll).
In conclusion, would I ever like to be The Batman myself? Hardly! But I’m pretty sure I’ve now fully realized the value of having new versions always waiting for me as the world turns.
Grade: Gimme All Your Cyphers
‘The Lighthouse’ is a Terrifying Portrayal of Isolation That May Just Be Too Much to Bear
jmunney Cinema, Movie Reviews Robert Eggers, Robert Pattinson, The Lighthouse, Willem Dafoe 1 Comment
CREDIT: A24
Starring: Robert Pattinson, Willem Dafoe
Director: Robert Eggers
Rating: R for Sexual Content and Violence Covered in Mud and Seawater, and Uniquely Accented Profanity
Release Date: October 18, 2019 (Limited)
Very scary quite contrary. Ooey gooey muddy yucky.
Movies like The Lighthouse make me wonder if it should be standard practice to hand out programs to filmgoers as they enter the theater. While there is no shortage of assets in 2019 to consult to help with any cinematic confusion, there’s a big difference between visiting Wikipedia or Reddit afterwards and actually having a booklet in hand while watching. (It might be too dark to read during the actual show, but there’s something to be said for the security blanket quality of its mere presence.) Director Robert Eggers’ last film, The Witch, had the very helpful tone-setting subtitle “A New England Folktale,” which calibrated my filmgoing faculties exactly where they needed to be. Meanwhile, The Lighthouse, featuring Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe as a couple of lighthouse keepers struggling with isolation and their growing antagonism twoards each other, is a much more throw-you-over-the-edge-without-a-life-preserver affair.
That’s not to say that I need, or even want, my hand held throughout The Lighthouse. It’s fine, and probably better, that certain things remain a mystery. Like the mermaid that Pattinson gets it on with that’s probably just a vision, though it’s hard to tell for sure in this landscape. Also, why is that seagull so angry? These are discussions I’m happy to have after watching a sensorially pummeling movie like this one! But while watching, I’d prefer it if I wasn’t constantly asking myself, “Where am I?” If Eggers had just given us one little crumb, like a subtitle along the lines of, for example, “A Sea Shanty,” I think I would have been able to digest this one a little more properly.
But despite this major reservation, I cannot dismiss The Lighthouse entirely. I will always encourage visionary cinema, even if I’m not a fan of the particular vision. And this black-and-white freakout about the horrors of isolation, presented in a claustrophobic 4:3 boxy aspect ratio, certainly qualifies as a vision. So I’ll remain open-minded to re-evaluating this ish in the future, but for now it feels like a silly slosh through the mud and an overindulgent assault on our senses.
The Lighthouse is Recommended If You Like: You Were Never Really Here, Mandy, The Witch
Grade: 2.5 out of 5 Seagulls
‘The King’ is a Slog Through Shakespearean Henriad History
jmunney Cinema, Movie Reviews Ben Mendelsohn, David Michôd, Joel Edgerton, Lily-Rose Depp, Robert Pattinson, Sean Harris, The King, Timothée Chalamet, Tom Glynn-Carney Leave a comment
CREDIT: Netflix
Starring: Timothée Chalamet, Joel Edgerton, Robert Pattinson, Ben Mendelsohn, Sean Harris, Lily-Rose Depp, Tom Glynn-Carney
Director: David Michôd
Rating: R for Messy War Combat
Release Date: October 11, 2019 (Limited Theatrically)/November 1, 2019 (Streaming on Netflix)
Once more unto the breach, dear friends? It’s awfully muddy in that breach. That seems to be the big advantage of turning Shakespeare’s Henry IV (Parts 1 and 2!) and Henry V into a movie in 2019: you can make it as muddy as you need it to be! And director David Michôd sure wanted that breach to be muddy. And Falstaff (Joel Edgerton, who co-wrote the script with Michôd) won’t let us forget it. Not that we would have been able to miss it anyway.
I majored in English literature in my undergraduate days, so watching The King is like revisiting old friends for me, but excessively grim versions. I know right from the get-go that wary-of-the-crown Prince Hal will soon enough become King Henry V, Beloved War Hero. But even if I’d never read one verse of Shakespeare, I would have been able to figure that out easily enough. That’s how these narratives tend to play out after all, and also Timothée Chalamet is so hot right now. But that predictability is not necessarily a problem. Shakespeare did not establish his reputation on twisty plots, but rather on wonderfully poetic language. Alas, The King does not have the wit to match. I of course do not demand nor expect that every new Shakespeare adaptation feature iambic pentameter, but if there is going to be as much dialogue as there is in The King, it would be nice if it were at least somewhat exciting. But alas, it seems that war is not only hell, it’s also boring.
As we make our way through the muck into the Battle of Agincourt, The King eventually comes alive somewhat in the form of Robert Pattinson as the Dauphin, the French side’s secret weapon, at least in terms of charisma. He seems to have been warped by the warring status quo between France and England into some sort of almost inhuman, devious little sprite. He is less interested in victory or survival than he is into sucking out the life force of his rivals. I haven’t seen any of those Twilight movies, so for me, this feels like the first time Pattinson has ever played a vampire on screen. If only the other combatants had the verve to match.
The King is Recommended If You Like: Shakespeare minus the poetry
Grade: 2 out of 5 Chainmail Suits
Super-Duper Movie Review: High Life
jmunney Cinema, Movie Reviews Andre Benjamin, Claire Denis, High Life, Juliette Binoche, Mia Goth, Robert Pattinson Leave a comment
© 2013 ALCATRAZ FILMS/WILD BUNCH/ARTE FRANCE CINEMA/PANDORA PRODUKTION
At the beginning of High Life, I was inspired to be wonderstruck by the cosmos, asking the eternal questions like, “How vast is the vastness of space?” and “What existed before existence?” These queries are terrifying in their unanswerability, but also comforting in how they remind us that the construct of the universe is so much bigger than everything we know. But then the rest of High Life is just about living and getting on. And that’s all well and good, and it’s worth exploring that routine in outer space, whether or not it’s populated by convicted criminals. It’s an unstructured viewing experience, and you’ll struggle to care if you’re not especially tuned in to director Claire Denis’ wavelength, though you might occasionally be thrilled by the daring approach. I appreciate High Life for staking out a unique place in cinema, but I don’t particularly ever want to experience it again (at least not most of it).
I give High Life A Medium Lack of Gravity.
This Is a Movie Review: ‘Damsel’ is a Gonzo Western With an Important Message on Its Mind
jmunney Cinema, Movie Reviews Damsel, David Zellner, Joseph Billingiere, Mia Wasikowska, Nathan Zellner, Robert Forster, Robert Pattinson Leave a comment
CREDIT: Magnolia Pictures
This review was originally posted on News Cult in June 2018.
Starring: Robert Pattinson, Mia Wasikowska, David Zellner, Nathan Zellner, Joseph Billingiere, Robert Forster
Directors: David Zellner and Nathan Zellner
Rating: R for Sharpshooting Violence and Occasional Graphic Nudity, Often Mixed Together
Release Date: June 22, 2018 (Limited)
I would call Damsel a revisionist Western, except that the Western genre is not really popular enough anymore to really need revising. Nevertheless, co-directing brothers David and Nathan Zellner have plenty of revising on their minds, though their ideas do not apply exclusively to frontier America. Ultimately, I don’t how else to classify it, so let’s stick with “revisionist Western” and maybe throw in a “wacky” and “iconoclastic” in there for good measure.
Robert Pattinson strolls merrily into town as Samuel Alabaster, a man out of place and out of time. His stomach does not agree with the saloon he walks into (or any saloon really), his spirit is more poetic than cowboy, and his vocabulary is a bit too 21st Century, though it does not really fit in any era. Actually, none of the characters particularly speak they are from any recognizable time in American history. The Zellners have crafted a fantasy world that might be too bizarre for some audiences, but it is just delightful to my tastes, and Pattinson subsumes himself into this environment unforgettably.
There is one way that Samuel fits into the Wild West mold, and that is his instinct to rescue the damsel in distress. His beloved Penelope (Mia Wasikowska) has been kidnapped, and he is on his way to free her and make her his wife. But eventually it becomes clear that Samuel may not have the most trustworthy of perspectives and that Damsel is actually an indictment of a certain strain of toxic, entitled masculinity that is insidious in today’s society. It makes me wonder if willful misinterpretation regarding attempted romantic coercion was just as much of a problem hundreds of years ago as it is today. It certainly seems possible, as miscommunication has been causing conflicts throughout human history. Those struggles are not always as strange as the one portrayed in Damsel, but the stranger the example, the more memorable the movie.
Damsel is Recommended If You Like: Irreverent Westerns like Django Unchained, but with a defiantly feminist twist
Grade: 4 out of 5 Outhouse Explosions
This Is a Movie Review: Robert Pattinson is a Low-Level Bank Robber and Devoted Brother in the Grainy, Queens-Set ‘Good Time’
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This review was originally posted on News Cult in August 2017.
Starring: Robert Pattinson, Ben Safdie, Buddy Duress, Taliah Webster, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Barkhad Abdi
Director: Ben and Josh Safdie
Rating: R for the Vices of a Night in the City
Release Date: August 11, 2017 (Limited)
How far would you go for a better life for yourself and your brother? If said brother is mentally handicapped and you are the lead character in a crime-on-the-streets movie, then chances are the answer is “pretty far.” Ergo, there is no surprise about the general forces that pushes Good Time along, but the details are quite unpredictable.
The majority of the plot follows Connie Nikas (Robert Pattinson) in a desperate night through Queens as he attempts to correct his mistakes and bust his brother Nick (co-director Ben Safdie) out of jail following a botched bank robbery. He first attempts to cover the bail money by turning to a friend/lover (Jennifer Jason Leigh) who is way too old for him and for her own lack of emotional maturity. But another snag pops up when it is revealed that Nick is under police supervision in the hospital. Connie plows forward with his improvisation, but it becomes more and more obvious that he is not going to pull off his scheme, what with law enforcement always nearby and the caprices of fate constantly messing with him. It all adds up to a night of drugs, mistaken identity, and an empty amusement park in a land where cliché need not apply.
The joys of Good Time – and its biggest weakness – are aesthetic. The Safdie brothers exclusively favor extreme close-ups for conversations and kinetic camera movement when characters go from here to there. The shot selection, combined with the grainy digital cinematography and bass-heavy synth score, create a sensorially overwhelming experience that too few films attempt. The photography does get into a bit of trouble whenever the action moves into especially dark corners, rendering it nearly impossible to make out anything that is happening. That is possibly intentional, but it is not advisable. But in a film with this much clarity and consistency of vision, that is only a minor quibble.
Good Time is Recommended If You Like: Robert Pattinson’s auteur collaborations, Miami Vice, The economic desperation of Don’t Breathe
Grade: 3.5 out of 5 Dye Packs
This Is a Movie Review: The Lost City of Z
jmunney Cinema, Movie Reviews Charlie Hunnam, Ian McDiarmid, James Gray, Robert Pattinson, Sienna Miller, The Lost City of Z, Tom Holland Leave a comment
This review was originally published on News Cult in April 2017.
Starring: Charlie Hunnam, Sienna Miller, Robert Pattinson, Tom Holland
Director: James Gray
Rating: PG-13 for Bow and Arrow Violence, and Occasional Gunfire
Release Date: April 14, 2017 (Limited)
The Lost City of Z tells the story of a liberal-minded man’s dilemma. During Percival Fawcett’s (Charlie Hunnam) early 20th century explorations to South America, he becomes convinced of the existence of a mythical city deep within the jungles of the Amazon. His patrons back in England scoff at the idea, both because it is unrealistic but also because they are European white men who believe that their way of doing civilization is the only right way. Fawcett positions himself as an open-minded paragon who recognizes that the native peoples are not savages but in fact have plenty of value to offer the rest of the world. This is not posture. He genuinely believes all that he says – and Hunnam imbues every declaration with the urgency of the end of days – but idealizing a foreign culture introduces its own problems.
Fawcett does not fetishize the Amazonian peoples, but his single-mindedness can be blinding. The film’s structure is partly like that of a Möbius strip, with the end of each South American expedition only serving as a prologue to the next one. Supplies are depleted and conflicts break out within his crew, and then re-stocking and reconciling takes years. And you feel that passage of time, but Fawcett simply must get back. The strain is borne most acutely by his family, especially his wife Nina (Sienna Miller), who pleads to join one of the expeditions. The Fawcetts pride themselves on their equality, but here Percival marks a limit: they are intellectual, but not physical, equals.
Ultimately, this film is a detailed and heavy examination of the dangers of obsession. It turns out (spoiler alert) that Fawcett’s instincts are right, but that vindication is saved for an epilogue. The climax involves Fawcett and his eldest son (Tom Holland) entering the most nightmarish of the expeditions. For the most part, The Lost City of Z avoids mysticism in favor of realism. The cinematography generally focuses on weary faces instead of natural wonders. Thus, this journey is not transcendent until it starts becoming hellish.
The Lost City of Z is Recommended If You Like: Lawrence of Arabia, Apocalypse Now, Impassioned Speeches to Fusty Government Types
Grade: 3.5 out of 5 Men Overboard
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Keith Duncan is an Edinburgh-based musician, vocalist, sound engineer and sound designer who runs a thriving sound studio in Edinburgh’s foremost creative hub Summerhall. Keith designs sound for live action, animation, music promos and documentary, in both short and long form. His work has screened at events and platforms across the world as diverse as the Scottish Parliament, New Chitose Airport Animation Festival and Sundance.
Keith has worked with economist, author and Oxford University Senior Visiting Research Associate Kate Raworth on a series of animations about Doughnut Economics, in conjunction with Ainslie Henderson. He has also completed a short film by Peter Marsden of Luckyme Records Not Required Back and Anne Milne’s feature documentary The World In One City a celebration of the Edinburgh International Festival and British Council Season of ’47, currently screening at EIF at The Studio and The Usher Hall.
Keith’s previous work includes BAFTA-winning The Making Of Longbird, working with composer Atzi and director Will Anderson. Have Heart also directed by Will Anderson which screened at this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival, live action shorts V Day by Lucas Kao and Ecstatic Glymphatic by Sahra Bhimji, Scottish BAFTA-winning Isabella by Ross Hogg and Duncan Cowles, and Scottish BAFTA-winning Hart’s Desire by Gavin Robinson, as well as around 20 short documentaries produced by the Scottish Documentary Institute.
Keith has also been working with Martin Green from the band Lau, he just finished sound mixing for the Scottish Government “Hate Crime” Advert and is worked with Producer Chris Young and Animator Ainslie Henderson on an animation for CBBC called Archie.
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Acta Crystallographica Section D
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Volume 57| Part 12
Cover illustration: The molecular surface of lysozyme with a CPK representation of bound N-acetylglucosamine. The protein surface is colored according to the electrostatic potential, where blue is positive and red negative (p. 1837).
Acta Cryst. (2001). D57, 1755-1762
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Maximum-likelihood density modification using pattern recognition of structural motifs
T. C. Terwilliger
A likelihood-based density-modification method is extended to include pattern recognition of structural motifs.
Map-likelihood phasing
A map-likelihood function is described that can yield phase probabilities with very low model bias.
Multiple isomorphous replacement on merohedral twins: structure determination of deacetoxycephalosporin C synthase
A. C. Terwisscha van Scheltinga, K. Valegård, S. Ramaswamy, J. Hajdu and I. Andersson
The structure of DAOCS was determined by isomorphous replacement from crystals twinned by merohedry.
The first structure of pectate lyase belonging to polysaccharide lyase family 3
M. Akita, A. Suzuki, T. Kobayashi, S. Ito and T. Yamane
The structure of a low molecular-weight pectate lyase was determined at 1.5 Å resolution. The structure is a β-helix domain motif.
PDB reference: pectate lyase, 1ee6
Regulation of catalytic function by molecular association: structure of phospholipase A2 from Daboia russelli pulchella (DPLA2) at 1.9 Å resolution
V. Chandra, P. Kaur, J. Jasti, Ch. Betzel and T. P. Singh
The high-resolution X-ray analysis of phospholipase A2 from D. russelli pulchella clearly brings out the differences between the two crystallographically independent molecules in the structure. The structure presents a unique case in which molecular association leads to blocking of the active site in one molecule while retaining the open geometry of the site in the other.
PDB reference: phospholipase A2, 1fb2
Spherical plant viruses: interactions in solution, phase diagrams and crystallization of brome mosaic virus
M. Casselyn, J. Perez, A. Tardieu, P. Vachette, J. Witz and H. Delacroix
Variations of interactions of brome mosaic viruses in solution and the immediate formation of microcrystals were characterized by small-angle X-ray scattering.
Crystallographic analysis of family 11 endo-β-1,4-xylanase Xyl1 from Streptomyces sp. S38
J. Wouters, J. Georis, D. Engher, J. Vandenhaute, J. Dusart, J. M. Frere, E. Depiereux and P. Charlier
Family 11 endo-β-1,4-xylanases degrade xylan, the main constituent of plant hemicelluloses. The structure of a family 11 endo-xylanase from Streptomyces sp. S38 at 2.0 Å is reported.
PDB reference: Xyl1, 1hix
Conditional optimization: a new formalism for protein structure refinement
S. H. W. Scheres and P. Gros
An N-particle approach, combining loose-atom refinement with extensive application of geometrical restraints, allows optimization of a simple polyalanine test structure starting from random atom distributions.
A twinned monoclinic crystal form of human peroxiredoxin 5 with eight molecules in the asymmetric unit
J.-P. Declercq and C. Evrard
The monoclinic crystal form of human peroxiredoxin 5 has been determined by the SIR method after detwinning. The presence of eight molecules in the asymmetric unit allows an analysis of the mobility.
PDB reference: Peroxiredoxin 5, 1h4o
Binding of N-acetylglucosamine to chicken egg lysozyme: a powder diffraction study
R. B. Von Dreele
The binding of N-acetylglucosamine to chicken egg lysozyme was investigated by high-resolution X-ray powder diffraction.
PDB references: Lysozyme, buffer pH 5.0, 1ja2; NAG–lysozyme, buffer pH 5.0, 1ja4; Lysozyme, buffer pH 6.0, 1ja6; NAG–lysozyme, buffer pH 6.0, 1ja7
Structure of Ca2+-loaded human grancalcin
J. Jia, N. Borregaard, K. Lollike and M. Cygler
The structure of full-length grancalcin, a cytosolic Ca2+-binding protein, has been determined in the apo form and with one EF-hand motif within the dimer occupied by a Ca2+ ion.
PDB references: des(1–52)grancalcin, 1k95; Ca2+-bound des(1–52)grancalcin, 1k94
The structure of greylag goose oxy haemoglobin: the roles of four mutations compared with bar-headed goose haemoglobin
Y.-H. Liang, X.-Z. Liu, S.-H. Liu and G.-Y. Lu
The structure of the greylag goose oxy haemoglobin shows quaternary structural differences compared with that of its highland relative bar-headed goose. The four differing residues between the two species may be responsible for the differences in their oxygen affinity and quaternary structure.
PDB reference: greylag goose oxy haemoglobin, 1faw
Matrix methods for solving protein substructures of chlorine and sulfur from anomalous data
R. A. G. de Graaff, M. Hilge, J. L. van der Plas and J. P. Abrahams
Using Karle–Hauptman matrices as the basis of an algebraic procedure of phase determination is proposed. The method allows the determination of the sulfur/chlorine substructure of lysozyme based on the anomalous signal obtained from in-house measurements.
doi: 10.1107/S090744490101825X
The X-ray structure of a recombinant major urinary protein at 1.75 Å resolution. A comparative study of X-ray and NMR-derived structures
P. R. Kuser, L. Franzoni, E. Ferrari, A. Spisni and I. Polikarpov
The structure of a recombinant major urinary protein has been determined at 1.75 Å resolution. The crystal structure is compared with the NMR-derived structure.
PDB reference: mouse major urinary protein, 1jv4
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Crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction analysis of shikimate kinase from Mycobacterium tuberculosis in complex with MgADP
Y. Gu, L. Reshetnikova, Y. Li, H. Yan, S. V. Singh and X. Ji
Shikimate kinase from M. tuberculosis has been overexpressed and purified to homogeneity. Crystals of the enzyme in complex with MgADP diffract to 2.2 Å resolution.
Crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction analysis of two homologous antigen-binding fragments in complex with different carbohydrate antigens
H. P. Nguyen, N. O. L. Seto, L. Brade, P. Kosma, H. Brade and S. V. Evans
The crystallization of antigen-binding fragments from two homologous monoclonal antibodies in the presence and absence of different carbohydrate haptens offers an opportunity to determine the sequence–structural basis of carbohydrate specificity.
Expression and preliminary X-ray diffraction studies of cytosolic Cu,Zn superoxide dismutase from Schistosoma mansoni
R. M. F. Cardoso, C. H. T. P. da Silva, A. P. U. de Araújo, T. Tanaka, M. Tanaka and R. C. Garratt
Cytosolic Cu,Zn superoxide dismutase from S. mansoni has been crystallized in both orthorhombic and monoclinic space groups and data have been collected to 2.2 and 1.55 Å, respectively. Molecular-replacement solutions show that slight distortions to the crystal lattice relate one form to the other.
Crystallization and preliminary X-ray study of the edema factor exotoxin adenylyl cyclase domain from Bacillus anthracis in the presence of its activator, calmodulin
C. L. Drum, Y. Shen, P. A. Rice, A. Bohm and W.-J. Tang
A complex of human calmodulin and adenylyl cyclase domain of edema factor, a pathogenic factor secreted by Bacillus anthrax, was crystallized in space groups I222, P3121 and P212121. The initial phases were obtained by selenomethionyl MAD using direct methods and improved by combining with two heavy-metal derivatives.
Crystallization and preliminary X-ray analysis of W120K mutant of streptavidin
Y. Pazy, O. H. Laitinen, B. Ravoy, M. S. Kulomaa, M. Wilchek, E. A. Bayer and O. Livnah
Crystallization and data collection are reported of a streptavidin crucial tryptophan mutation (Savm-W120K) that results in decreased affinity towards biotin and the dissociation of the tetramer into stable dimers.
Crystallization and preliminary X-ray analysis of glucose dehydrogenase from Haloferax mediterranei
J. Ferrer, M. Fisher, J. Burke, S. E. Sedelnikova, P. J. Baker, D. J. Gilmour, M. J. Bonete, C. Pire, J. Esclapez and D. W. Rice
Recombinant glucose dehydrogenase from the halophilic archaea H. mediterranei has been refolded, purified and crystallized. Two crystal forms have been obtained, one of which diffracts to greater than 2.0 Å resolution.
Crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction analysis of human transcobalamin, a vitamin B12-transporting protein
G. Garau, S. N. Fedosov, T. E. Petersen, S. Geremia and L. Randaccio
Transcobalamin is a cobalamin-binding protein present in mammalian plasma that facilitates the cellular uptake of vitamin B12. Crystals of human transcobalamin have been obtained and diffraction data have been collected to 3.2 Å resolution.
Preliminary crystallographic studies of the double-stranded DNA-binding protein Sso10b from Sulfolobus solfataricus
B. N. Wardleworth, R. J. M. Russell, M. F. White and G. L. Taylor
Crystals of Sso10b, an abundant non-specific double-stranded DNA-binding protein, from the hyperthermophilic archaeon S. solfataricus have been grown and preliminary X-ray data are reported.
Crystallization and preliminary crystallographic data of the PAS domain of the NifL protein from Azotobacter vinelandii
M. Hefti, J. Hendle, C. Enroth, J. Vervoort and P. A. Tucker
The PAS domain of the NifL protein from A. vinelandii has been crystallized and X-ray diffraction data have been collected to 3.0 Å using synchrotron radiation. The native crystals belong to space group R32, with unit-cell parameters a = 65.0, c = 157.3 Å.
Crystallization and preliminary X-ray analysis of neural haemoglobin from the nemertean worm Cerebratulus lacteus
A. Pesce, M. Nardini, S. Dewilde, P. Ascenzi, A. F. Riggs, K. Yamauchi, E. Geuens, L. Moens and M. Bolognesi
A haemoglobin-related protein composed of 109 residues (i.e. 30% shorter than conventional vertebrate haemoglobins) has been isolated from a nemertean worm neural tissue. Crystals of the recombinant protein allow location of the haem Fe atom in anomalous difference Patterson maps.
Crystallization and preliminary X-ray analysis of the periplasmic nitrate reductase (NapA–NapB complex) from Rhodobacter sphaeroides f. sp. denitrificans
D. Pignol, J.-M. Adriano, J.-C. Fontecilla-Camps and M. Sabaty
The heterodynamic periplasmic nitrate reductase from R. sphaeroides has been cloned, purified and crystallized. X-ray diffraction data have been collected to 3.1 Å resolution.
Crystallization and preliminary X-ray study of two liver basic fatty acid-binding proteins
S. M. Di Pietro, M. Perduca, J. A. Santomé and H. L. Monaco
Two different liver basic fatty acid-binding proteins have been crystallized in forms suitable for X-ray diffraction studies. The crystals diffract to 2.0 and 2.5 Å resolution.
Purification, crystallization and preliminary X-ray analysis of an acetylxylan esterase from Bacillus pumilus
S. Benini, G. Degrassi, I. Krastanova, D. Lamba and V. Venturi
Crystals of the acetylxylan esterase from B. pumilus have been obtained by the hanging-drop method. The crystals diffract to 2.0 Å resolution and belong to space group R32.
Purification, crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction of a complex between IL-10 and soluble IL-10R1
K. Josephson, D. T. McPherson and M. R. Walter
Crystals of interleukin-10 in complex with the extracellular cytokine-binding domain of its high-affinity receptor have been obtained. A complete low-temperature native data set to 2.9 Å has been collected using synchrotron radiation.
Crystallization and preliminary X-ray study of OXA-1, a class D β-lactamase
T. Sun, M. Nukaga, K. Mayama, G. V. Crichlow, A. P. Kuzin and J. R. Knox
The OXA-1 oxacillinase from E. coli has been crystallized from PEG at pH 7.5 in P1. Crystals diffract to 1.5 Å resolution and contain two monomers related by a pseudo twofold screw axis.
Crystallization and preliminary X-ray analysis of maltose O-acetyltransferase
L. Lo Leggio, F. Dal Degan, P. Poulsen, S. O. Sørensen, K. Harlow, P. Harris and S. Larsen
Maltose O-acetyltransferase has been crystallized in four crystal forms, including a trimethyl lead acetate cocrystal suitable for structure determination.
Preparation and X-ray crystallographic analysis of recombinant obelin crystals diffracting to beyond 1.1 Å
E. S. Vysotski, Z.-J. Liu, J. Rose, B. C. Wang and J. Lee
Crystallization conditions are described that allow recombinant obelin from O. longissima to form relatively large single light yellow crystals with excellent diffraction properties. A 1.1 Å data set has been collected and analysis is in progress.
Crystallization and preliminary X-ray analysis of Citrobacter amalonaticus methylaspartate ammonia lyase
C. W. Levy, P. A. Buckley, P. J. Baker, S. Sedelnikova, F. Rodgers, Y. F. Li, Y. Kato, Y. Asano and D. W. Rice
The purification and crystallization of C. amalonaticus (2S,3S)-3-methylaspartic acid ammonia lyase is reported. Diffraction data have been collected to 2.1 and 1.5 Å, respectively, from two different crystal forms.
Crystallization and preliminary crystallographic analysis of the proline dehydrogenase domain of the multifunctional PutA flavoprotein from Escherichia coli
S. Nadaraia, Y.-H. Lee, D. F. Becker and J. J. Tanner
Crystals of a peptide corresponding to the first 669 residues of a 1320-residue multifunctional flavoprotein have been obtained and X-ray data have been collected to 2.15 Å resolution.
Crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction analysis of the 10 kDa C-terminal subdomain of 70 kDa heat-shock cognate protein
C.-C. Chou, C. Wang, Y.-J. Sun, H.-L. Shr and C.-D. Hsiao
The C-terminal subdomain of rat 70 kDa heat-shock cognate protein has been cloned and expressed in E. coli. Preliminary crystallographic investigations have been carried out.
Crystallization and preliminary crystallographic studies of antibacterial polypeptide LCI expressed in Escherichia coli
J.-P. Zhu, B.-Z. Chen, W.-B. Gong, Y.-H. Liang, H.-C. Wang, Q. Xu, Z.-L. Chen and G.-Y. Lu
LCI, type of novel antibacterial polypeptide secreted by a Bacillus subtilis strain, has been expressed in E. coli DH5α with recombinant plasmid pBVAB16 and crystallized using PEG 4000 as a precipitant.
Cloning, expression, purification and preliminary X-ray crystallographic studies of Escherichia coli Hsp100 ClpB N-terminal domain
J. Li and B. Sha
The N-terminal domain of E. coli Hsp100 ClpB has been crystallized. The crystal diffracted X-rays to 1.95 Å.
Crystallization and preliminary crystallographic analysis of human alanine:glyoxylate aminotransferase and its polymorphic variants
X. Zhang, S. M. Roe, L. H. Pearl and C. J. Danpure
Crystallization and preliminary crystallographic analysis has been carried out on the most common polymorphic variants of the human intermediary metabolic enzyme alanine:glyoxylate aminotransferase, a deficiency of which causes the autosomal recessive disease primary hyperoxaluria type 1.
Crystallization of the Bacillus thuringiensis toxin Cry1Ac and its complex with the receptor ligand N-acetyl-D-galactosamine
D. J. Derbyshire, D. J. Ellar and J. Li
Aggregation of a membrane toxin was overcome by the use of the diamine buffer 1,3-diaminopropane. Glycerol inhibition of complex formation between protein and carbohydrate was shown to be insignificant in competitive binding assays conducted in the presence of glycerol prior to crystallization.
Crystallization and rhenium MAD phasing of the acyl-homoserinelactone synthase EsaI
W. T. Watson, F. V. Murphy IV, T. A. Gould, P. Jambeck, D. L. Val, J. E. Cronan Jr, S. Beck von Bodman and M. E. A. Churchill
The acyl-homoserinelactone synthase EsaI has been crystallized in the space group P43, with unit-cell parameters a = b = 66.40, c = 47.33 Å. Multiple-wavelength anomalous diffraction using rhenium, a novel MAD atom, provided phases; the perrhenate-binding sites were identified in the model at 2.5 Å.
PDB reference: acyl-homoserinelactone synthase EsaI–rhenate complex, 1k4j
Structure of Haemophilus influenzae HslV protein at 1.9 Å resolution, revealing a cation-binding site near the catalytic site
M. C. Sousa and D. B. McKay
Anomalous scattering measurements reveal a K+ ion bound in proximity to the active site of the H. influenzae HslV protease.
PDB references: HslV (Na+), 1g3k; HslV (K+), 1jjw
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We need a revolution in political education – Richard Burgon exclusive #TonyBennSchoolofPoliticalEducation
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“We need a revolution in political education in the Labour Party – one that empowers Labour members to be armed up with the ideas to win people over to radical alternatives to our broken economic model that is destroying lives, communities & the planet.”
By Richard Burgon MP
This week, it was confirmed that austerity is literally shortening people’s lives. Resistance not only to Tory austerity, but to the Government’s inaction on the climate catastrophe and its dangerous foreign policy is needed now more than ever.
As a Labour Party, we know all too well that this resistance cannot be limited to fighting the Tories in Parliament. And over the coming years with a large Tory majority, the victories in parliament are going to be few and far between and the key battlegrounds elsewhere.
That makes grassroots organising more important than ever and, as Deputy Leader, I will be a Campaigner and Organiser in Chief, with the aim of winning over millions more people to our causes and policies.
But to do that we also need to be building widespread support for alternative ideas. So we need a revolution in political education in the Labour Party – one that empowers Labour members to be armed up with the ideas to win people over to radical alternatives to our broken economic model that is destroying lives, communities and the planet.
This is why I’m pleased to announce that as Deputy Leader, I would launch the Tony Benn School of Political Education. This would provide free online courses to Labour members in progressive history – such as feminist, anti-racist and anti-colonial struggles, on the fight for democracy and the formation of the labour movement – but also on alternative economics and on climate and international justice. The School would provide online materials including access to podcasts, video talks, reading materials and guest lecturers.
This would be part of a wider transformation of Political Education in Labour. The party under Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership has done a fantastic job of expanding the membership and in mobilising members but what is now needed for members is a forum for the kind of discussions that don’t necessarily have the space to breathe in local Labour Party meetings or campaigning sessions.
My five-point plan to overhaul Labour’s Political Education also includes:
● Global Justice Education: with Labour’s Annual Conference choosing a global issue each year on which 100 CLPs would twin with communities to show solidarity. This could be CLPs twinning with communities in Colombia where trade unionists are killed, with towns in Occupied Palestine or Kashmir, or with areas hit by consequences of the climate catastrophe.
● Strikers’ Solidarity Tour: The Labour Party nationally would coordinate for hundreds of CLPs to hear from speakers involved in nationwide strike actions such as the current University and Colleges Union action. That would be about educating members as well as building practical solidarity.
● Promoting Trade Unionism: A huge push about why every Labour member should become a member of a trade union.
● Cultural Events that promote political education. This could include a Labour Book Club where members would host reading groups on key texts such as Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism and Aneurin Bevan’s In Place of Fear. It would involve a Labour Cinema Club working with local independent cinemas to host public screenings and Q+A discussions with political films such as I, Daniel Blake or John Pilger’s film The Dirty War on the NHS or the Academy-nominated Petra Costa’s film The Edge of Democracy about Brazil’s far-right government. And we can learn from, as well as work with, campaigns like Love Music Hate Racism to organise music events with a political message to raise funds on behalf of key social justice campaigns such as the McStrikers’ demand for a proper living wage.
This transformation of political education is just one of the plans I have for the Labour Party if elected as Deputy Leader next month alongside a huge push to turn us into a million-member party. My three key pledges to members are to extend party democracy through Open Selection, to hardwire public ownership with a new Clause IV and to defend anti-war internationalism with a Labour Party Peace Pledge.
Knowledge is power and so I hope you’ll back my idea for transforming our party’s political education, my wider pledges – and my candidacy to be Labour’s next Deputy Leader!
For more info on my campaign, visit richard4deputy.com
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The campaign will take place in leisure areas and spaces for the youth in every island, and has as a goal reaching 11.500 youngsters.
“There is a general thought that the youngest sector of the society is the one following the less recommendations from the health authorities, mainly due to the low incidence of the disease between kids and teenagers. However, it is very important to inform and make them aware that they can highly transmit the virus. That is what we desire: raise awareness, before punishing. We do not wish to tell them off, we want them to comprehend the message”, said the Councillor for Social Rights, Equality, Diversity and Youth, Noemi Santana, during the launch ceremony of the ‘Tapando bocas’ campaign which took place in Las Arenas shopping centre, in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, with the attendance of the Youth Director-General, Laura Fuentes.
According to the data, Canarias registers 2.574 positive cases, mostly between the young population being asymptomatic or having mild symptoms. In fact, “65% of the current cases in Canarias are of people under 40 years of age”, clarified Santana.
How is the campaign going to develop?
A team of promoters formed by 18 men and women will go all over the island during the month of August to talk face to face to the youth. These promoters are between 20 and 30 years old, they have socio-cultural animation or sanitary education and have excellent communication skills.
The teams will work in pairs in places with a high concentration of people between 15 and 30 years old (example: Las Arenas in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, shopping areas of Santa Cruz, Valle Gran Rey and San Sebastian of La Gomera, Los Llanos and Santa Cruz, La Restinga and Frontera or Las Rotondas and Puerto del Rosario, Charco de San Ginés or Biosfera en Lanzarote).
“Our goal is to reach 11.500 people”, pointed out the Youth Director-General, Laura Fuentes, who insisted that “the information that the youth receives nowadays is crucial to raise awareness and get satisfactory results for the sake of everyone’s health, moreover, if we keep in mind that Canarias is at the head of the autonomous communities with the highest proportion of young people, with a 17% of the population being between 15 and 29 years old”.
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For the ‘Tapando bocas’ campaign, the Youth Department has ordered for its distribution 5.000 masks that will be distributed among the people who contacts them. It was specified that the masks were ordered to Guayarmina Textil company, a company from the Canary Islands with more than 40 years of history which belongs to the ‘Consume Canario’ program, and is together with a Special Employment Centre, where more than 75% of the personnel have a recognised disability of at least 33% and a high percentage are women.
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Man Stabbed To Death In East Hollywood
By Jean Trinh
Published Jun 7, 2015 11:00 PM
Caution tape (Photo by Peggy Archer via LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr)
A man died after getting stabbed in East Hollywood early this morning.
The victim was stabbed in the 1300 block of North Vermont Avenue at 4:35 a.m., LAPD officer Drake Madison tells LAist. He drove himself to a nearby hospital where he died from his wounds. LAPD Northeast Division Capt. Jeff Bert told the Eastsider that the victim was an Armenian man.
Madison says it's unclear at this point if the stabbing was gang-related.
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Circling Approaches and Their Conduct During Instrument Proficiency Checks
by Michael W. Brown, Reprinted with permission from FAA Aviation News
As part of an ongoing effort to improve regulatory compliance, clarity, and safety, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) occasionally finds it necessary to implement changes to existing policies and guidance. While such changes are typically very effective in achieving their desired safety goals, clarity (and with it compliance) may not always fare as well. This recently became evident when the FAA published the new Instrument Rating Practical Test Standards (PTS), FAAS- 8081-4D. Effective October 1, 2004, version 'Delta' has raised questions concerning the requirement to conduct circling approaches as part of the instrument proficiency check (IPC).
Specifically, this latest version of the PTS includes a new paragraph (page 16, following the Rating Task Table) that states in relevant part, 'The person giving the check shall use the standards and procedures contained in this PTS when administering the check.' Some viewed this language as mandating tasks that were voluntary under the previous PTS, version 'Charlie.' While version 'Charlie' lacked the explicit text cited above, the FAA always intended for the table to be used in the conduct of IPCs. Of course 'intent' lacks the precision to which the FAA aspires, so version 'Delta' was modified to clarify existing Flight Standards policy. In short, the FAA always expected instructors to conform to the task table when conducting IPCs, and version 'Delta' now makes that clear.
Since the publication of the new PTS, some instructors have expressed concern that clarification of established policy impinges upon the discretion afforded flight instructors under 14 Code of Federal Regulations section 61.57(d). However, section 61.57(d) outlines the requirements for an IPC, stating in relevant part that pilots must pass ''an instrument proficiency check consisting of a representative number of tasks required by the instrument rating practical test.' Those tasks are outlined in the rating task table of the PTS, thus section 61.57(d) provides a clear regulatory basis for this requirement. Although instructor discretion is not mentioned anywhere within this section, instructors do have considerable latitude in the conduct of an IPC. The difficulty comes from the fact that many within the flight training community have come to view the PTS as a flight-training guide, which was never its intent.
As its name implies, the PTS merely outlines the standards to which an applicant must perform. There are an infinite number of approaches (no pun intended) available to instructors in testing or preparing their applicant. A quality flight instructor will find innovative techniques for integrating the necessary items into a comprehensive IPC.
This brings us to the main point of contention mentioned earlier. Similar to its predecessor (issued in 1999), version 'Delta' of the Instrument PTS contains a task table that includes a column for the IPC. While some of these tasks vary between versions 'Delta' and 'Charlie,' both specify circling approaches under Area of Operation VI. However, because some flight training institutions consider circling approaches to be a new requirement, they are concerned they may no longer exclusively use FAA-approved Flight Training Devices (FTDs) to conduct IPCs.
Again, the PTS change poses no additional burdens on flight schools, instructors, or pilots. The FAA never envisioned, nor has FAA policy ever allowed for, the use of FTDs and other similar devices for a complete instrument proficiency check. Flight training devices need not contain a visual system, and those that do lack the visual cues necessary to replicate a circle to- land procedure (circling approach). As a result, it is inappropriate to credit a complete IPC in such a device absent supplemental flights in an actual aircraft. As a practical matter, it is difficult to imagine that any ground based training aid, short of a full level qualified flight simulator approved for circling approaches, could substitute for instruction received during actual flight operations. That is not to say FTDs have no place in the pantheon of instrument flight instruction, or for that matter IPCs. In fact, many of these devices serve as excellent procedure trainers and are a proven means of evaluating certain piloting skills. However, as with all such resources, it is important they be used in a manner consistent with their design and limitations.
For more information regarding the areas of operation for which a FTD or simulator may be used, one need only check Appendix 1-2 of the PTS. Notice that no flight simulation device, short of a full level-qualified simulator, is approved for circling procedures. This too has not changed, further emphasizing the benefit to both training institutions and students alike of familiarization with the equipment (and its limitations) to be used in their recurrent training program.
Some instructors have also expressed concern that requiring their clients to conduct circling approaches as part of an IPC may deprive them of an opportunity to complete an IPC in instrument meteorological conditions that preclude a circling procedure. This situation is analogous to any other flight-testing situation that does not allow for a complete evaluation of the applicant. The task that cannot be completed must still be tested, and that sometimes requires an additional flight. This is no different than if an applicant undertook a flight in IMC, only to find the requisite instrument landing system (ILS) was out of service. Again, the fact that the applicant managed the flight with great proficiency does not absolve him or her from the obligation to complete this required item.
And finally, for those who say circling approaches are too dangerous and shouldn't be emphasized, consider these facts. Currently there are over 1,100 instrument approach procedures with only circle-to-land minima. Combine this with literally thousands of other approaches with published circling minima, and it's clear that an instrument pilot needs to possess such skills to be a complete aviator. Moreover, the skills needed to transition from instrument to visual flight while maintaining precise aircraft control are critical'at least as critical as those required to execute a hold or recover from an unusual flight attitude. Again, circling approaches provide for the maintenance of these skills. Also, it should be noted that most accidents involving circling approaches were attributed to poor piloting technique and failure to maintain the requisite visibility and cloud clearances for a given procedure. This fact alone provides a clear and compelling incentive to make circling approaches a part of any instrument training and proficiency regiment, thus the FAA's rationale for their inclusion as part of a comprehensive IPC.
Michael W. Brown is an Aviation Safety Analyst in Flight Standards Service's General Aviation and Commercial Division.
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7th Circ. Revives Challenge To Ill. Wine Distribution Law (Additional Coverage)
NewsBy ILBA November 30, 2018
Source: Law360 By Dave Simpson November 29, 2018 The Seventh Circuit on Wednesday revived a wine store owner’s suit claiming Illinois’ alcohol distribution law that bans out-of-state wine retailers from shipping directly to consumers in the state is unconstitutional, finding that questions remain about the justification of the law. In a unanimous decision written by…
Tobacco 21 bill short on override votes in Illinois
By Greg Bishop | Illinois News Network Nov 26, 2018 Jonathan Weiss | Shutterstock.com The Senate was able to get enough votes to pass a bill to ban anyone under 21 from getting tobacco and vaping products, but there might not be enough votes in the House to get the bill passed over the governor’s…
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By Benjamin Yount | Illinois News Network Nov 26, 2018 Andrea Delbo | Shutterstock.com Video poker machines are more prevalent and profitable than ever before, according to a new state report. That has some lawmakers and local leaders looking to do something about them. The video gambling report comes as lawmakers consider the largest expansion…
Fourteen Briefs Filed in Support of Tennessee Wine and Spirits Retailers Association’s Appeal to the Supreme Court
Source: http://alcohollawreview.com/ November 21, 2018 Petitioner side briefing is complete in support of the Tennessee Wine and Spirits Retailers (Tennessee Retailers) Association’s appeal before the Supreme Court of the United States. The primary brief was filed by the Jones Day law firm on behalf of the Tennessee Retailers. This legal brief highlights the errors made…
ABL Files Amicus Brief with U.S. Supreme Court in Tennessee Wine & Spirits Retailers Association v. Byrd
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ABL Files Amicus Brief with U.S. Supreme Court in Tennessee Wine & Spirits Retailers Association v. Byrd BETHESDA, MD – NOVEMBER 20, 2018 – American Beverage Licensees (ABL) submitted an amicus brief today with the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of Tennessee Wine and Spirits Retailers Association v. Byrd. As the petitioner in…
Video gambling equivalent of 24 new casinos
By Jake Griffin November 13, 2018 6:15 am The addition of video gambling in Illinois is now the equivalent of having more than 24 casinos. That’s according to details from the recently released “Wagering in Illinois” annual report issued by the state legislature’s Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability. The report tracks gambling revenue the state received during…
FDA Seeks Ban On Menthol Cigarettes To Fight Teen Smoking
Source: https://www.npr.org/ November 15, 2018 The Food and Drug Administration announced Thursday that it will seek a ban on the sale of menthol-flavored cigarettes. The announcement came as the agency officially released a detailed plan to also restrict the sale of flavored electronic cigarettes. It also wants to ban flavored cigars. In a statement, FDA…
News From TTB – Offer In Compromise
Source: TTB November 16, 2018 For briefing offers in compromise of liabilities and/or violations incurred under sections 4181 and 4182 and Chapters 51 and 52 of the Internal Revenue Code and/or liabilities and/or violations incurred under the Federal Alcohol Administration Act. OFFER SUBMITTED BY (Name and address) OFFER IN COMPROMISE Elgin Beverage Co. 300 Miles…
TOPICAL ‘Little baby casinos’: Huge growth in video gambling boosts Illinois gaming revenue to record levels, but at what cost?
Full meals used to be on the menu at La Cabana Mexican Restaurant in Melrose Park, but now the small storefront sells only steak tacos. These days, many people come not to eat, but to gamble. Customers will typically spend two to four hours at a time at one of the video poker or slot…
Labor Department abandons Obama-era ’80/20 rule’
The U.S. Department of Labor on Thursday rescinded prior guidance known as the “80/20 rule” that has long prohibited employers from using the subminimum wage for non-tipped side work. The department updated a 2009 opinion from then-acting wage-and-hour division administrator Alexander Passantino that sought to clarify the field operations handbook that explains the wage-and-hour regulations…
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Faculty Guide -- Library Media Accessibility
About Accessible Media
Locating Library DVDs with CC
Library Streaming Media Databases
Other Online Video Sites
How to make a media captioning request
What are Closed-Captioned (CC) Videos?
Captioned videos provide access to people who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DHOH). Captions are the text displayed on the screen to represent what is being said as well as important sound cues. Spoken words in the video are captioned verbatim.
Why should you use CC videos in the classroom?
Captioned videos allow equal access to the content for students who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DHOH). In order to ensure access for all students, all media must be captioned when being shown in classes in which a DHOH student(s) have requested an accommodation.
Which items must be captioned?
According to the Chancellor's Office captioning prioritization guidelines, the following items have a high priority for captions:
Multimedia items where an accommodation is requested from a student, staff member, or another person who requires captioning.
Multimedia items that will be shared multiple times and/or over an extended period of time.
Multimedia items that are reused in new courses and newly revised segments of existing courses.
Multimedia items that are used in a course for more than one semester.
Multimedia items that are on a public-facing web page (e.g., commencements or other public-facing streamed or recorded events, news, and marketing videos).
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Offshore wind developer hopeful for LI project
By: John Callegari February 3, 2012 Comments Off on Offshore wind developer hopeful for LI project
A Massachusetts developer of offshore wind projects wants to build a 250-square mile wind farm off Long Island.
Bill Moore, the CEO of Deepwater Wind, appeared before Long Island Metro Business Action Friday morning to discuss the wind farm proposal his company submitted to LIPA.
Moore said he’s gotten many questions from LIPA about the proposal, which he takes to be a good sign.
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“I think we kind of surprised them with this type of proposal,” he said. “There’s nothing else out there like this, so we’re hopeful. It’s clean energy and it’s cheaper than what’s out there. We’ve also been encouraged by the amount of support we’ve gotten here from local groups.”
LIPA has received several dozen such proposals for ways to increase the grid. Deepwater Wind’s proposal would provide an additional 600 megawatts of power to LIPA, about 10 to 15 percent of LIPA’s total load.
“LIPA needs to increase its load and they want to do at least part of it with clean energy,” Moore said. “Our proposal would offer a price pretty close to the first year price of natural gas, along with the benefit of being clean, renewable energy.”
The site for the new wind farm, about 25 to 30 miles east of Montauk, would encompass a roughly 250-square-mile section of the Atlantic Ocean that would connect a gas-fire plant in Massachusetts to the Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant via an underwater cable.
During periods of lower winds, the 600 megawatt load will be supplied from the Massachusetts plant. The ocean site was chosen due to it receiving some of the strongest winds in the Northeast.
“When you go closer to shore, the wind isn’t as good,” Moore said. “We’ve been monitoring this site for several years and it appears to be the best one.”
The turbines, which would produce about 6 megawatts each, would be spaced roughly one mile apart in the water and include blades about 250 meters long in diameter. As a result, Moore said the turbines would only occupy about one-tenth of 1 percent of the ocean floor of the 250 square-mile area.
Moore said the wind farm would also aid fishermen who would be able to tie their boats up to the turbines. In addition, the wind farm would create a reef, attracting mollusks and other shellfish that larger fish feed on.
LIPA entertained ideas of a wind farm off Jones Beach a few years ago, but ultimately scrapped the plan due to local opposition. Moore said his proposal would be built far enough offshore that residents wouldn’t be able to see it. With better technology than what was available a few years ago, the wind farm would create more favorable energy pricing levels.
LIPA Spokesman Mark Gross said the public utility is still evaluating all of the proposals it received and will begin discussing the ones it feels offers the best overall value to its customers in the second or third quarter of this year. If selected by LIPA, construction on the wind farm project wouldn’t begin until 2016, Moore said.
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Commercial solar blooms despite tariffs, uncertainty
Tariffs up to 30 percent and new reimbursement rules for solar power in New York State create uncertainty.
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Why Nigeria’s rating by Transparency International is low ― FG
Lai Mohammed
By Johnbosco Agbakwuru – Abuja
The Federal Government has said that Nigeria’s low rating by the transparency International (TI) corruption perception index was a result of the country’s opaqueness in doing business.
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, stated this while fielding questions from State House correspondents at the end of the Federal Executive Council, FEC, meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Council Chamber, presidential villa Abuja.
But he noted that the present administration has initiated reforms to make it easier and more transparent to do business, especially in the port sector.
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He said the issue of TI low corruption perception of the country was not necessarily about stealing of public funds, even as he contended that the group’s rating of Nigerian has not correctly reflected the government’s effort to curb corruption in the country.
Alhaji Mohammed said that the inconsistencies in scoring by TI over the years could be due to inadequate data, saying that the government is taking necessary measures to communicate relevant data on all sectors.
He, however, said that by the time the reform put in place by the government begin to yield result, the country’s corruption perception will improve.
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Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness
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The Future of Nationality in the Pacific
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Peter McMullin Centre joins Taskforce for Global Alliance to End Statelessness
The Gambia v Myanmar: Can the ICJ Shy Away from the Nationality Question?
Andrea Marilyn Pragashini Immanuel is a PhD Candidate at the Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne and an Assistant Professor of Legal Practice (on leave) at Jindal Global Law School, India.
Stateless Children Legal Clinic
The newly-established Stateless Children Legal Clinic is the first stateless legal clinic of its kind in Australia, and the third of its kind globally.
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Melbourne Law School’s Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness was established in 2018 with the objective of undertaking research, teaching and engagement activities aimed at reducing statelessness and protecting the rights of stateless people in Australia, the Asia Pacific region, and as appropriate more broadly.
The focus of the Centre is to develop teaching, research and engagement projects with three major aims:
To properly understand the scope, scale and reasons for statelessness in order to develop targeted and effective responses to it;
To work towards reducing and, over time, eliminating statelessness; and
Until statelessness is eliminated, working to protect the human rights of stateless people within the countries in which they reside.
The Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness offers opportunities for collaboration, debate and information sharing through conferences, round tables and visiting fellowships. The Centre also supports the work of the University of Melbourne’s Hallmark Statelessness Research Initiative.
The Centre has been established by a very generous philanthropic gift over 10 years from Peter and Ruth McMullin, and has strong support from the University of Melbourne, including in particular the Melbourne School of Government, in recognition of the inter-disciplinary nature of the issues.
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Centre on Statelessness members publish research in books, book chapters, journal articles and reports.
The Statelessness Hallmark Research Initiative runs a Seed Funding Scheme annually, fostering interdisciplinary research collaboration.
In 2021, the McMullin Centre, in partnership with the Refugee Advice Casework Service (RACS) and the Melbourne Law School (MLS) Clinics, is proud to launch the Stateless Children Legal Clinic (SCLC).
Global PhDs on Statelessness
Global PhDs on Statelessness (GPS) is a network of PhD students and Doctoral researchers engaged on issues of citizenship and statelessness around the world
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The Stateless Children Australia Network is an independent, not-for-profit network aimed at developing knowledge regarding stateless children in Australia, and increasing pathways to legal assistance for stateless children entitled to Australian citizenship.
Statelessness Intensive Course
Offered annually in February. This live and interactive course is multi-disciplinary and employs a blend of theoretical and practical components.
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View articles and commentary written by, or featuring, members of the Centre team, as well as news relevant to the Centre.
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Women's murder club
The series Women's murder club represents a set of related resources, especially of a specified kind, found in Salisbury Public Library.
The Resource Women's murder club
Patterson, James, 1947-
17 Items in the Series Women's murder club
10th anniversary, James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
10th anniversary, by James Patterson, Maxine Paetro
11th hour, James Patterson & Maxine Paetro
11th hour, James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
12th of never, James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
14th deadly sin, James Patterson & Maxine Paetro
14th deadly sin, James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
16th seduction, James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
21st birthday, James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
22 seconds, James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
The 20th Victim, James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
The 8th confession, James Patterson [and Maxine Paetro]
The 8th confession, James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
The medical examiner, James Patterson with Maxine Paetro
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The medical examiner
12th of never
14th deadly sin
16th seduction
The 20th Victim
The 8th confession
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Business Transformation Glossary
by Edwin S Lopez October 16, 2020
This Glossary is intended to assist amateur and professional IT consultants to better understand the concepts all related to Business Transformation. The definitions represent the meanings understood and shared by the majority of the Business Process, Enterprise Architecture and Digital Transformation community.
ADM: Architecture Development Method forms the core of TOGAF. It is a reliable, proven method for developing an IT architecture that meets the business needs of an organization, utilizing the other elements of TOGAF described in this document, and other architectural assets available to the organization.
Architecture: The fundamental concepts or properties of a system in its environment embodied in its elements, relationships, and in the principles of its design and evolution.
Architecture Change Management Phase Goal: Capacity to ensure that the architecture achieves its original target business value.
Architecture Content Framework: Informs on what content to produce at what phase of the ADM cycle and gives a model to structure those Architecture Deliverables.
Architecture Framework: A conceptual structure used to plan, develop, implement, govern, and sustain an architecture.
Architecture Model: A visual representation of a subject of interest.
Banking Industry Architecture Network: BIAN is an architectural framework for banking interoperability issues with the goal to define operability and semantic definitions for IT services in the banking industry.
Baseline Architecture: Is the “As-Is” or “current” architecture; includes architecture assets from all architecture domains.
Big Data: Field that treats ways to analyze, systematically extract information from, or otherwise deal with data sets that are too large or complex to be dealt with by traditional data-processing application software.
Building block: A component of enterprise capability that can be combined with other building blocks to deliver architectures and solutions.
Business Actor: Is a business entity that can performe a behavior.
Business Architecture Phase Goal: Is to develop the Target Business Architecture.
Business Function: Collection of business behavior based on a chosen set of criteria.
Business Process: Sequence of business behaviors that achieves a specific outcome.
Business Role: Is the responsibility for performing specific behavior, to which an actor can be assigned.
Business Services: Is an explicitly defined exposed business behavior.
Business Transformation: Refers to the execution of a plan aimed at converging and mobilizing Business Processes, people through Organizational Culture and Technology through Information Processes.
Cloud Computing: On-demand availability of computer system resources, especially data storage and computing power, without direct active management by the user. The term is generally used to describe data centers available to many users over the Internet.
Deliverable: A work product that is contractually specified and formally reviewed, agreed, and signed off by the stakeholders.
Disruptive Technology: Refers to a new technology that surprisingly displaces an already established one.
Enterprise Architecture Framework: Describes a set of architectural views that allow us to display the flow of information or materials graphically and textually through an organization. We commonly call to this set of views as “an Architecture”.
Enterprise Continuum: View of the repository of all the architecture assets.
Enterprise: The highest level (typically) of description of an organization and typically covers all missions and functions. An enterprise will often span multiple organizations.
Implementation Governance Phase: Is about bringing together all the information for successful management of the various implementation projects.
Industry 4.0: Represents the fourth industrial revolution on the way to an Internet of Things, Data and Services.
Information Systems Architecture Phase Goal: Develop the Target Information Systems (Data and Application) Architecture.
Information Technology (IT): The lifecycle management of information and related technology used by an organization.
Internet of Things (IoT): Is the extension of Internet connectivity into physical devices and everyday objects. Embedded with electronics, Internet connectivity, and other forms of hardware (such as sensors), these devices can communicate and interact with others over the Internet, and they can be remotely monitored and controlled.
Modelling: A technique through construction of models which enables a subject to be represented in a form that enables reasoning, insight, and clarity concerning the essence of the subject matter.
Opportunities & Solutions Phase: Is about generating the initial complete version of the Architecture Roadmap, based upon the gap analysis and candidate Architecture Roadmap components from Phases B, C, and D.
Preliminary Phase: Is about defining “where, what, why, who, and how we do architecture” in the enterprise concerned.
TAFIM: Technical Architecture Framework for Information Management a reference model for enterprise architecture by and for the United States Department of Defense.
Target Architecture: It is the “To-Be” or “must be” architecture; it includes the redesigned, optimized and automated assets of the architecture of the process(es) that make it up.
Technology Architecture Phase: Is about developing the Target Data Architecture that enables the Business Architecture and the Architecture Vision, while addressing the Request for Architecture Work and stakeholder concerns.
TOGAF Enterprise Architecture Framework: The Open Group Architecture Framework based in a development tool for step-by-step architecture implementation. Focuses on Enterprise Continuum with Architecture Development Method (ADM).
Zachman Enterprise Architecture Framework: Is a comprehensive document that describes everything an organization does in exhaustive detail, based in a table with a set of rules in a matrix with 36 cells where the rows represent different “player perspectives” and the columns represent “technical perspectives”.
Some definitions where extracted from Wikipedia
The TOGAF Standard, Version 9.2 Overview from https://www.opengroup.org/TOGAF
Some definitions where extracted from MEGA International
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Hi Everyone, FYI ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Mervat Salman <msalman-ctr(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 6:00 PM Subject: [All-affiliates] BoT Election - Affiliates: Identify voters in your membership To: <all-affiliates(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Dear Affiliate, I am reaching out to you today about the community voting period for the 2022 Board of Trustees election <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022>. The community will select two of the six candidates <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022/Candida…> still in the running. The affiliate organizations voted to select the six candidates in July. Members of affiliates might be eligible to vote even if they do not meet other criteria. Please review the voter eligibility criteria <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022/Voter_e…> and share this information with your membership. Your membership can also verify their individual eligibility using the Account Eligibility Tool <https://meta.toolforge.org/accounteligibility/63>. Please reply to this email with the list of usernames who should be eligible to vote by August 14 at 11:59 pm UTC <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1660521638>. There is no need to include people who are eligible under the other voter eligibility criteria. The Elections Committee will review the list and then add the voters to the list of eligible voters. Best, *Mervat Salman (She/Her)* Movement Strategy and Governance Facilitator wikimediafoundation.org _______________________________________________ All-affiliates mailing list -- all-affiliates(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe send an email to all-affiliates-leave(a)lists.wikimedia.org -- *Regards* *Justice Okai-Allotey* *Acting Program Manager Wikimedia Ghana User Group <https://wmgh.org/>* *Freelance Photographer* *Freelance Digital Marketer* Mobile: +233 (054) 039 4970 Skype: okai_allotey |Avenger - Urithi Labs <https://www.facebook.com/urithimedia/>| |Linkedin: Justice Okai-Allotey <https://www.linkedin.com/in/justice-okai-allotey-306b6354?trk=hp-identity-n…> | Facebook: Justice Okai-Allotey <https://www.facebook.com/wyzzlewany> | Twitter: @Owula_Kpakpo <https://twitter.com/Owula_Kpakpo> | |Website: *https://about.me/okai-allotey <https://about.me/okai-allotey>*| |Schedule A Meeting:meet with Justice Okai-Allotey <https://calendly.com/owulakpakpo/meet-with-justice-okai-allotey>| *"Our lives begin to the end the day we become silent about things that matter" - Unknown.*
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Jeanne Benameur, the fourth child of an Italian mother and a Tunisian father, was born in Algeria in 1952 and grew up in the French coastal town of La Rochelle. Benameur began writing at the age of seven. After studies in Poitiers and a few years of teaching, her debut novel for adolescents “Samira des Quatre-Routes” was published in 1992. She was awarded the Grand Prix des Jeunes Lecteurs for the book in 1993. Since then she has published numerous books for young adults, of which two have also been translated into German.
“Quitte ta mére” (1998) is a touching tale about the adventure of growing up. Jeanne Benameur writes about thirteen year-old Bastien’s decision to leave his single mother when, during his holidays, he notices that his aging grandfather needs him more urgently. With the inner eye, she examines his current situation, which also changes because of Anne, whom he meets during his vacation. In a simple yet non-sentimental way, she documents the maturing pr ocess of her young pr otagonist and makes his thoughts, feelings, insecurities and fears transparent.
In the award-winning “Si même les arbres meurent” from 2000, the author dares to tackle a topic that is difficult not only for young people: the loss of a loved one. “With crystal clear, memorable sentences and deeply intense images Jeanne Benameur portrays the harmonious psycho-transference of the two siblings, who have become half-orphaned” (“Bulletin für Jugend & Literatur”). She sketches Mathieu and Celine’s slow and painful parting from their father, who lays in a coma after an accident in the mountains. Cautiously the author concedes insight into the secret dream world to which the two children flee and where their father is the unconquerable Native-American chief Big Eagle. The author inter pr ets the existential experience of illness and death as full of magic. Her text breathes with metaphors and creates space to make one’s own associations. “Si même les arbres meurent” was awarded the Prix Jeunes Lecteurs de Brives 2001, amongst others.
In recent years, Jeanne Benameur has also dedicated herself to adult literature. Her novel “Les Demeurées” was published in 2000 and was awarded the Prix UNICEF (2001). However, the author does not plan on making a choice between adult and young people’s literature. Jeanne Benameur, who also writes poems and plays, does not distinguish between genres. Her objective is to write “real” texts for readers of different ages. Her most recently published book, “Le Ramadan de la parole”, tells in three lively stories the headstrong opposition of young women to the moral codes that ensure their sup pr ession. Jeanne Benameur has settled in Paris as a freelance writer.
Samira des Quatre-Routes
Edouard et Julie c’est pour la vie
T. Magnier
Le petit être
Le Demeurées
Paris, 200
Un jour mes princes sont venus
La boutique jaune
Hinter dem Hafen das Meer
Düsseldorf, 2002
[Ü: Rosemarie Griebel-Kruip]
Großer Adler schläft nur
Düssldorf, 2002
Comme on respire
Une heure, une vie
Les mains libres
Prince de naissance, attentif de nature
[Ill. Katy Couprie]
Les reliques
Présent?
Le Ramadan de la parole
Arles, 2007
Ça t’apprendra à vivre
Pourquoi pas moi?
Übersetzerin: Rosemarie Griebel-Kruip
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LVMAC Tidbits — Talk DBQ (Not English) to Your Doctor
VA Expands Medical Forms Program to Support Faster Claims Processing
Previously, we have reported upon the importance of asking the doctor examining you during a compensation claim if he has reviewed the medical information found in your claims file (c-file) before he starts examining you and follow-on steps to be taken if he/she has not.
On the heels of it, the Department of Veterans Affairs has announced the adding of sixty-eight, new forms to help speed the processing of disability compensation and pension claims. This now brings the total number of these documents known as Disability Benefits Questionnaires (or DBQs for short) to 71. The purpose of the initiative is to better guide physicians in properly completing their reports of medical findings to ensure the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA — the Regional Office located in Philadelphia in our case) has exactly the medical information needed to make a prompt decision. Each questionnaire addresses a specific set of conditions and associated symptoms for diagnosis.
The forms are for the use of both VA and private physicians. Among its other claims system problems, we have heard getting doctors to do correct, complete medical examinations has been a constant bain for the VBA; and has undoubtedly contributed to maintenance of the backlog it has experienced for decades. Hopefully, such a proactive step will help in overcoming the problem.
Veterans who choose to have their private physicians complete the medical examination can now give their physicians the same form a VA provider would use . It should be noted it is very important physicians provide complete responses to all questions on the DBQs. For the record, the VA cannot pay for a private physician to complete DBQs or for any costs associated with examination or testing (unless that physician is working for the VA at its request).
For more details and to find the DBQ’s for download, click here. The newly released DBQs follow the initial release of three for Agent Orange-related conditions.
Consequently, we recommend that now in addition to asking about whether the doctor has properly prepared by examining your medical information in your c-file, you also ask if he is using a DBQ. The answer should be “Yes.”
VBA. <http://www.va.gov/opa/pressrel/pressrelease.cfm?id=2280> Accessed 4 April 2012.
VBA. <http://benefits.va.gov/TRANSFORMATION/disabilityexams/> Accessed 4 April 2012.
As of 18 April 2012
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He studied law at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main (on a scholarship from the Deutschlandstipendium) with a focus on the internationalisation and Europeanisation of law.
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Platform Councils as Tools to Democratize Hybrid Online Orders
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Platform Governance in the Super Election Year 2021
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Rau, Jan; Kero, Sandra; Hofmann, Vincent; Dinar, Christina; Heldt, Amélie Pia (2022): Rechtsextreme Online-Kommunikation in Krisenzeiten. Herausforderungen und Interventionsmöglichkeiten aus Sicht der Rechtsextremismus- und Platform-Governance-Forschung [Online-Communication of the Extre...
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LEIF OVE CURATES AT THE BERGEN FESTIVAL
Theartsdesk.com reports from the Bergen Festival:
“If this were only the kind of international festival you might get elsewhere – and it’s still a big “only” where Bergen’s flagship fortnight of theatre, dance, art and music is concerned – your correspondent would have little of idiosyncratic cultural value to offer in exchange for swanning off to one of the most beautifully situated cities in the world. What drew me in the programme, though, were two unique and probably unrepeatable concerts put together by local boy made more than good Leif Ove Andsnes, a pianist who keeps being showered with international awards but who now, with three young children to think of, wants to concertise less, spend more time in his home town and impart his experience to a new generation of musicians.
“The first of the core events devised by Andsnes in collaboration with the festival’s ambitious, progressive Danish director Anders Beyer was a very novel way of celebrating the 150th birthday year of Sibelius, featuring melodramas – the singular fusion of spoken voice with instruments – by that surprisingly prolific composer I haven’t heard live before nor am likely to again in the near future. In the second Andsnes “and friends” played Kurtág and Liszt on, among other instruments, the Steinway presented to Edvard Grieg in 1892 and still lodged in the summer villa just outside Bergen where Norway’s greatest composer spent so much time with his beloved singer wife Nina in the last 22 years of his life …”
Read the full review online at www.theartsdesk.com
Author: http://www.theartsdesk.com/classical-music/theartsdesk-bergen-2-leif-ove-andsnes-curates
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Life » Culture
Fiz 10.19.05
Brian Boucheron
Ghastlies, ghosts, ghouls, and gators
Be afraid! Be very, very afraid! Ghastlies, ghosts, and ghouls are the order of the season. All right, maybe not.
Let's face it: Scaring people isn't so easy anymore. If nothing else, we've become acclimated to fear. Natural disasters abound and horrific stories grace our television screens all day long. Alternatively, scary stories have been told since someone first wanted a little nookie by the fire. Halloween demands something a bit different.
You should know this: I have a stuffed baby alligator. Currently, it's perched on a wall. The poor, dead beast passed down in my family from brother to brother like a bad reputation in middle school.
A long time ago, when I was still green, in the Berkshires, when everything was brown, I ran a weird old mansion at the end of a weird old street. I was cook, janitor, and houseboy. One October night I was called upon to provide some entertainment for some young'uns out by the campfire. I hid the gator carcass under my jacket. I spun some yarn, mixing equal parts urban myth and ancient specter. I don't remember the details of the tale rightly, but the conclusion allowed me to whip out my mummified reptile and wave it spookily at the audience. I seem to recall that one of the youths puked.
There's nothing like a good scary story. And you don't need to make it up yourself. People who scare people, it turns out, like to do so in print as well as around the campfire.
Poe and King, Straub and Koontz are reasonably accessible, but let's surprise the kids this year. Independent houses are publishing some of the best spooky stories in small runs (usually less than 1000 books --- sometimes much less). This often makes the books expensive, but they also come with all sorts of frightening bonuses, like slipcases, author signatures, artist sketches, and vials of blood.... Horror authors are a different breed.
Ash-Tree Press (www.ash-tree.bc.ca) started in 1994 in Wales with 150 copies of a quintet of frightening stories. Three years later, the operation moved to Canada. Hundreds of macabre stories later, the press is going strong, with paperback and hardback editions. Ash-Tree took its name from a tale by the man who dragged the ghost story away from the campfire and into the modern era, M.R. James. An English don who developed a reputation for telling spooky tales, James gave in to the clamor and published his first collection a century ago. These eerie narratives remain the standard against which all ghost stories must be measured. Classic ghost story collections often have one or two.
Almost 15 years ago, the owner of a Cleveland bookshop offered me free copies of Cemetery DanceMagazine (www.cemeterydance.com) and Zippy Comics. Apparently they had been shipped to him as a promotion in the hope that he could inspire some interest among his clientele. No one else was interested. I took both, acting pleased, but I was a little put off by the Cemetery Dance cover. For weeks, the scary little magazine sat on the table, mocking my fear. When I cracked the cover, I was addicted. Then, they started publishing books. Over the years, all the big names have cropped up in Cemetery Dance Publications, because they do fancy books with all the geegaws: limited editions, slip-cased, signed, black gold, in Beverly Hills. Children's stories to splatterpunk have all been treated with the care usually reserved for Easton Press pablum.
Arkham House (www.arkhamhouse.com) is the granddaddy of the creepy small presses. Started in 1939, Arkham had the primary intent of keeping the freaked-out oeuvre of H.P. Lovecraft in print. The wonderful story, Pickman's Model, alone, was worth the effort. Near the end of World War II, Arkham expanded its mandate to include books about Lovecraft, or his characters... or his friends... or the publisher's friends. In recent years, the mandate faded away and science fiction books tended to dominate the Arkham catalog, but the world would have had a few less cold shivers and willies without their efforts.
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Eileen Ruby Butler (nee Gauthier)
Eileen Ruby Butler (nee Gauthier) passed away at the age of 75 in her sleep after a short but courageous battle with cancer (battle she did!) on Tuesday September 13, 2022.
Born on March 8, 1947 in Buckingham to the late Palma Gauthier and Evelyn Bigelow.
She leaves behind her beloved husband, Mervin Butler, they were married in a gorgeous ceremony July 1, 1967 (55 years). Her three much loved children, Connie (Michel Payette), Tammy (Blake McClelland) and Curtis. Nanny to seven adoring grandchildren, Laura McClelland, Rebecca McClelland (Curtis Taylor), Mikayla Payette, Marshall Payette, Julia McClelland (Jacques Raymond), Karina Butler and Kyle Butler. We can’t leave out her three cute great-grandsons, Jaxson and Maddox O’Brecht and Ethan Taylor.
Predeceased by her sister, Doreen McMahon and her brother Roy Gauthier. She will be remembered by many nephews, nieces, and friends.
Mervin will especially miss his dancing partner. For those of us who were lucky enough to witness Eileen & Mervin’s dancing, will recall their gracefulness and poise as they swept along the dance floor, and never missed an occasion to do so.
Eileen lived life to the fullest; she was always helping others, whether it was taking care of seniors, helping family members, sewing for charity, teaching others about quilting and the list goes on. We also have to mention her passion and love for genealogy research.
Eileen and family were very appreciative and thankful for all the support, prayers, messages and words of encouragement they received during her battle.
Family, friends and others whose lives Eileen touched are invited to the celebration of life on Saturday, October 1, 2022 from 9:30-11 a.m. for condolences followed by a funeral mass at 11 a.m at Our Lady of Victory Church, 490 Charles Street, Gatineau, QC.
Please join us afterwards at Erablière St-Germain, 562 Doherty Road, l’Ange-Guardien, QC to reminisce, grieve, support each other and of course just to chat.
In lieu of flowers, and for support of one of Eileen’s causes that she supported by sewing many beautiful dresses, adorable shorts and tops for little children in third world countries, donations could be made to www.justequipping.org, or to a charity of your choice.
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Darlene September 19, 2022 at 7:00 pm - Reply
Condolences from Dan and I.
I will miss her giggles, her smiles and the many contacts I had with her over the years
I will certainly miss the visits with her for sure
May you all get through this hard time with the many memories you all have of her.
May she Rest In Peace.
Vicki McDermid & Joanne Houle September 19, 2022 at 7:25 pm - Reply
Our deepest condolences to the family. She was a great lady with a great sense of humour. I always enjoyed our conversations. She will be missed.
Bigelow Christine September 19, 2022 at 7:35 pm - Reply
My condolences and prayers Mervin and to all of the family
She will be missed by so many, including me. 😢
.May you rest in Peace Eileen.
Christine.(Tina), Glen
Thomas and Ella-.Ann Smallian
Joan Carriere Dornan September 19, 2022 at 7:44 pm - Reply
I am so sorry to hear this news! I knew Eileen solely through Facebook but sure enjoyed her comments immensely. She also taught many things I never knew about mother’s family and ancestors!
Arnold and Helen Beaudoin September 19, 2022 at 7:54 pm - Reply
Our Deepest Sympathy to Mervin and all his Family! We have wonderful memories of your beautiful Mother Eileen and your Dad coming up to visit us on the farm in Sudbury On. We will keep you in our thoughts and prayers! ❤️❤️🙏
Margaret C. Carey September 19, 2022 at 7:56 pm - Reply
I am so sorry to hear the news that Eileen passed away. She was a great person and Mervin and her square-dancing partners for many years. They were good together. I will miss you, Eileen. RIP – you will be missed by a lot of people, friends and family.
Gordon Martin September 26, 2022 at 2:56 pm - Reply
My deepest sympathy to the Butler family .at this sad time .I have good memories of the school years together. I know Mervin will miss his beloved wife .May Eileen rest in peace
Lyoness Woodstock September 19, 2022 at 7:59 pm - Reply
I am in total shock….Eileen was such a huge supporter of myself, Judy and our musical events. It was such a delight to watch her and Mervin dance to our music like they were floating on air. I will surely miss our conversations. Always ready to help out in any way she could.
My deepest sympathies to Mervin and all her family.
Now in the arms of Jesus, rest easy.
Chris and Rachel Archer September 19, 2022 at 8:00 pm - Reply
Our deepest condolences to Mervin and Family
Chris and Rachel Archer
Grant and Marie Hogg September 19, 2022 at 8:03 pm - Reply
Our deepest and most heartfelt condolences go to the Butler family .
Theo and Pierrette Bouwman September 19, 2022 at 8:22 pm - Reply
Our deepest condolences to Mervin and family.
Beverly September 19, 2022 at 8:53 pm - Reply
On behalf of Billy and myself, we give our condolences to the Butler and Gauthier family. She always had such a beautiful smile and loved to dance.
Wayne Butler and Cindy Burke September 19, 2022 at 8:59 pm - Reply
Eileen was a wonderful person, we have fond memories of her sewing at our kitchen table and all her beautiful smiles and laughter. She touched the heart of all that had the privilege to know her.
sylvie September 19, 2022 at 9:09 pm - Reply
My deepest condolences to the family she will be miss
Peter&Sylvie
Shelly McGarry September 19, 2022 at 9:17 pm - Reply
My deepest sympathies to all the family.
Freida Hebert September 19, 2022 at 9:20 pm - Reply
My deepest condolences to Uncle Mervin, Connie, Tammy and Curtis as well as the rest of your entire families on your loss.
Elaine Howes September 19, 2022 at 9:25 pm - Reply
My deepest sympathies to her family. We met while researching the Smith & Bigelow families and she was always generous with her assistance a lovely lady.
Marlene Roy & Bob Daoust September 19, 2022 at 10:05 pm - Reply
Sending our sincerest sympathies to Mervin and the family. She will be missed by many.
Daniel Daoust September 19, 2022 at 10:34 pm - Reply
Mes sincères condoléances à vous tous et mes pensées et prières vous accompagnent. 🙏😇
Heather Potter September 19, 2022 at 11:26 pm - Reply
My deepest sympathies, sending prayers and strength.
Pryam Bann September 19, 2022 at 11:31 pm - Reply
As Eileen continues her journey from this physical existence into the non-physical realm, I bid her a peaceful transition. To the loved ones left to pick up the pieces of broken hearts I send you the healing energy of love.💚
Colette Gagnon and Andrew Nitschkie September 19, 2022 at 11:49 pm - Reply
Our most sincere condolences to you Mervin and to the whole family, she will be missed by all who knew her !
Rita Woodstock September 19, 2022 at 11:59 pm - Reply
My sincere sympathy to Mervin and all the family. She was such a wonderful person. We shared many laughs together I will miss her dearly. RIP Eileen.
James - Line Chenier September 20, 2022 at 12:46 am - Reply
Our deepest condolences Mervin and family
Sheila Lanthier September 20, 2022 at 1:37 am - Reply
Our deepest sympathies to the family, RIP
Joan McDonnell September 20, 2022 at 2:26 am - Reply
My sincere condolences to Mervin And all the family.
Kelly Maloney September 20, 2022 at 6:27 am - Reply
My deepest sympathies to you all what a beautiful classy lady to be proud of. A special soul, lucky to have on the next missions to come. Sad news god bless xoxo
Pat and Peggy Borbey September 20, 2022 at 12:51 pm - Reply
Our deepest condolences to Merv and all the family for such a profound loss.
Lisa Theriault September 20, 2022 at 1:49 pm - Reply
Our deepest sympathies to Connie and family
My deepest sympathy to the Butler family .at this sad time .I have good memories of the school years together. I know Mervin will miss his beloved wife .May Eileen rest in peace .
Tracy September 20, 2022 at 2:33 pm - Reply
Our thoughts and prayers are with you all. What fun to grow up with such great neighbours. Will always remember your mom helping me navigate the sewing machine, it was because of her I got my sewing Girl Guide badge !! Take good care of one another in this time of grief.
Tracy, Mark and Vaughn
Fran Butler and Peter Rae September 20, 2022 at 3:59 pm - Reply
Our thoughts and prayers are with you all.
Jeff September 20, 2022 at 5:13 pm - Reply
Our deepest condolences to the whole family.
Anita, Melvin, France, and Jeff Berndt
William Chenier & Gisele Angrignon September 20, 2022 at 6:14 pm - Reply
Our Condolences to Marvin & Family!
Jacqueline La Salle September 20, 2022 at 9:52 pm - Reply
My deepest condolences to Mervin and the family.
Sandra Maloney September 21, 2022 at 12:37 am - Reply
My deepest sympathy to you Mervin and to the whole family.
Ruth Cobb Flynn September 21, 2022 at 4:22 pm - Reply
Remember the great times you all shared together as a beautiful family. Deepest condolences to you all. RIP Eileen.
Lyne Desjardins September 21, 2022 at 5:58 pm - Reply
Mes sincères condoléances à toute la famille.
Bon voyage Eileen XOXO
Lavell Viau September 21, 2022 at 11:08 pm - Reply
Our sincere sympathy to you Mervin and your family.
Laurie Ann Lavell Viau and John Viau
Kirsten, Matthew & Camden September 22, 2022 at 1:01 am - Reply
Our condolences to the entire family. Eileen was always so nice to me as a kid; I’m sure she will be greatly missed. Sending prayers for you all in this difficult time.
Judy Allard September 22, 2022 at 11:13 pm - Reply
To Eileen’s family and loved ones: We were deeply saddened to hear of Eileen’s death, but rejoice in her full life. She and her sewing team were a great blessing to countless mothers and babies in the Great Lakes Region of Africa, especially to the child-care center in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, where dozens of little ones are dressed and taken care of while their mothers learn literacy, sewing and hygiene, and also the toddlers living with their mothers in the Rwanda Musanze Women’s Prison..
Please accept our deepest appreciation for this wonderful legacy. May she rest in peace.
May God’s presence comfort you.
Judy and Pierre Allard, the Board of Directors, Just.Equipping
Gauthier Francine September 23, 2022 at 1:14 pm - Reply
Mes sympathies à toutes la famille
Gloria Green September 24, 2022 at 7:56 pm - Reply
Our condolences to Mervin and family. Sending prayers and lots of love
Diane and Marcel Lemay September 25, 2022 at 7:16 pm - Reply
So sorry to hear about Eileen, she was much loved. Our deepest condolences to Mervin and the family.
Ann Pinkos September 28, 2022 at 4:33 pm - Reply
Our deepest sympathy to the family – our thoughts and prayers are with you. Ann & Ernest
Philip Butler September 29, 2022 at 7:25 pm - Reply
Our thoughts and prayers are with you and your family Uncle Mervin.
We will treasure the many memories of sharing time with Aunt Eileen and your family.
Dennis, Ruby, Philip, Teina, Gary and Family
Chesley Ladouceur September 30, 2022 at 5:58 pm - Reply
Mervin,
I offer my Sincere Condolences on the loss of your dear wife. I hope the fond memories of your life together will provide solace to you and your family!🌹
Simon Parcher September 30, 2022 at 7:40 pm - Reply
I am shocked and saddened at Eileen’s sudden illness and passing. I offer my sincere condolences to Mervin and all the family.
I’ve known Eileen since childhood and we were neighbors in Glen Almond where we grew up. She babysat me when I was a preschooler, we rode the school bus together to BHS for a number of years and I spent many summers working on her family’s farm. It was great fun spending time with her, Roy, Doreen and their parents, Palma and Evelyn. They all had such a delightful sense of humor! I remember when Eileen and Mervin started dating and you could tell right from the start that they were a great match and a solid couple.
I will greatly miss Eileen, our discussions about our ancestors and genealogy, our occasional visits, and seeing her at various events where we crossed paths. Her beautiful family is a wonderful legacy and one that will carry on forever.
Mary Marlene Teske October 1, 2022 at 1:27 am - Reply
My prayers are with You and your Family
Line Bastrash October 2, 2022 at 2:01 pm - Reply
Mes sincères condoléances à Mervin, à Curtis et aux autres membres de sa famille. Mes pensées vous accompagnent dans cette épreuve. Line Bastrash
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After doom and gloom, China’s propaganda shifts gears on COVID
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“The Chinese Communist Party ‘recognizes that the zero-COVID policy has put on the line a fundamental pillar of its legitimacy…’”
By Jing Xuan Teng
Once dominated by doom and gloom coverage of the dangers of the virus and scenes of pandemic chaos abroad, China’s tightly controlled media has dramatically shifted tone as the country tentatively moves away from zero-COVID.
Long anchored to a hardline strategy of mass lockdowns, forced quarantine in centralized facilities and mass testing for millions, Beijing is dialling down curbs in the wake of nationwide protests calling for an end to lockdowns and greater political freedoms.
That policy shift has been accompanied by rapid changes in pandemic messaging in both state media and official statements—which now downplay the risk from the virus and blame local officials for over-zealous implementation of COVID lockdowns.
The prevalent Omicron strain is “not at all like last year’s Delta variant”, Guangzhou-based medicine professor Chong Yutian said in an article published by the Communist Party-run China Youth Daily.
“After infection with the Omicron variant, the vast majority will have no or light symptoms, and very few will go on to have severe symptoms, this is already widely known,” he assured readers.
“Don’t be overly terrified, but also take some precautions” against the virus, a story in the Beijing Youth Daily quoted recovered COVID patients telling readers.
And an analysis Friday by state-run newspaper People’s Daily quoted health experts supporting local government moves to allow patients to quarantine at home, which would be a marked departure from current rules.
“This is a kind of official propaganda preparing the people for more relaxation and giving the government some possibility to step down (from zero-COVID),” Hong Kong-based Chinese politics expert Willy Lam told AFP.
‘There will be punishment’
Experts say Beijing is laying the groundwork for a loosening of COVID rules —as well as putting in place convenient scapegoats to blame for the restrictions going too far.
The country’s top virus response body has already pointed to over-zealous local officials who had gone overboard with their virus measures, urging in a Q&A with the People’s Daily on Saturday that these people be “strictly held accountable.”
“There will be punishment of a lot of local officials,” Lam told AFP.
In one case announced by authorities on Saturday, a sub-district security official in Hunan province was expelled from the Communist Party and removed from his post for assaulting a local resident during a lockdown-related dispute.
COVID-testing companies are also emerging as a scapegoat, with state media in recent days publishing exposes of alleged violations by testing organizations.
“Nucleic acid companies will be the first to be sacrificed by the government,” Chinese political blogger Jing Zhao wrote on Twitter, under his pen name Michael Anti.
“Catching the bosses of these companies can solve two problems: the people wanting to find scapegoats, and (the fact that) abandoning nucleic acid tests and switching to less sensitive antigen tests is more in line with Omicron’s rules and can reduce some pressure on pandemic control,” he said.
‘Carrots and sticks’
And the state propaganda apparatus has already begun to portray pivots away from the zero-COVID policy as evidence of the Chinese government’s care for its people.
Local governments across the country said earlier this week that they would not require all people to take part in mass testing campaigns, allowing groups including the elderly and those who never leave their homes to skip testing — a minor step back from existing policy, but one repeatedly highlighted in state media headlines.
Xinhua news agency described the changes as proof “the government responds to what the people call for.”
The Chinese Communist Party “recognizes that the zero-COVID policy has put on the line a fundamental pillar of its legitimacy: its promise to provide a basic living standard for citizens”, Diana Fu, associate professor of political science at the University of Toronto, told AFP.
She said the softening tone on COVID was part of the party’s traditional strategy of responding to protests “through a combination of carrots and sticks”.
“While the security apparatus has swung into motion in repressing protestors, local governments are also giving concessions in terms of easing COVID restrictions to let the pressure valve release.”
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12/17/2015: Implementation of updated mariner credentialing program forms
The National Maritime Center, or NMC, posted a notice about the use of the new CG-719 forms…
As of October 1, 2015, the United States Coast Guard has implemented the use of the new CG-719 series of forms (B, C, K, K/E, P and S) that will replace the forms displaying a June 30, 2012, expiration date.
The Coast Guard will not stock the CG-719 series of forms in paper format. These forms may be obtained electronically in a PDF fillable format on the NMC website. Additional updates to the NMC website will occur as quickly as possible to reflect the new forms.
The Coast Guard encourages providers and applicants to purge the old forms from inventory and to begin using the new forms as soon as possible. In order to avoid penalizing mariners who have already completed their forms, the NMC will continue to accept the old forms for a period of time.
With the exception of forms K and K/E, the Coast Guard will no longer accept outdated CG-719 forms after April 1, 2016.
For the K and K/E, forms signed by a physician after December 31, 2015, must be the new form version. In accordance with 46CFR10.304(d), the K or K/E must be submitted within 12 months of the date signed by a licensed medical professional, therefore, the Coast Guard will no longer accept outdated K or K/E forms after December 31, 2016.
Mariners and other providers should contact the NMC Contact Center using our chat function, by e-mailing IASKNMC@uscg.mil, or by calling 1-888-IASKNMC (427-5662) with any questions regarding these forms.
You can view the notice here.
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Letter from the Superintendent: Recognizing Our Own Bias
By Opinion | June 3, 2020
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Michelle Hutchins, Mendocino County superintendent of schools
The following is a column submitted by Mendocino County Superintendent of Schools Michelle Hutchins, published here as a letter-to-the-editor:
MENDOCINO Co., 6/3/20 — Since late March, our county has come together to focus on health and safety issues related to pandemic guidelines and interventions. However, the troubling events surrounding the death of George Floyd also demand our attention and thoughtful response as a community. State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond responded to the death of Mr. Floyd by calling on communities across the state and nation to take action to dismantle institutional racism and inequities in public schools.
We each have a role to play to combat police brutality and the responses to it that lead to more violence and tragedy, like those in Minnesota and Georgia. This is a call to action to educate friends, neighbors, colleagues, and children, to voice our outrage regarding injustice and to demand respect for every human being, regardless of race, ethnicity, or economic status.
In Mendocino County, those of us in education and law enforcement participate in ongoing cultural competency trainings to identify and understand the structures that support racial profiling and to hold ourselves to a higher standard through anti-bias training to promote respectful, inclusive, and equitable practices. Thousands of individuals in Mendocino County have been trained to recognize bias in themselves and in others, and to work toward eliminating bias with their voices. It is time for us to use these tools to act.
Now is the time for us all to join together to do our part. Peaceful protests showing solidarity in our commitment to “be the change” are critical. There is no room for the violent and destructive behavior currently occurring across the United States.
The first step we can take is to educate our children and to raise our voices on their behalf. As adults, we are horrified to see the violent and unnecessary media footage. Imagine how the children are feeling. It is our job to model a unified America and to teach our children to embrace the task of making equity a human right.
Here are some concrete ways to curtail racism and injustice. For links to specific resources, visit www.mcoe.us and click on About MCOE. Then click on the Superintendent’s Blog.
Talk to your children with compassion about the pent-up frustration of the protesters so they can better understand that the actions they are witnessing are a direct result of historical injustices. Visit www.tolerance.org/topics/race-ethnicity for resources to have a good conversation.
Read books together as a family to support conversations on race, racism, and resistance. Visit www.todaysparent.com and search for the April 18, 2020 post titled, “27 Books to help you talk to your kids about racism.”
Speak up when you witness an injustice or some form of racism. Silence only serves to support and promote deplorable acts.
Volunteer in diverse settings. This can help build a cultural competency and a more inclusive society. Consider local opportunities that can build relationships and support people in need.
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5 thoughts on “Letter from the Superintendent: Recognizing Our Own Bias”
KA in FB on June 3, 2020 at 8:42 PM said:
Valuable, thank you superintendent.
J.C. Tokalenko on June 5, 2020 at 2:09 PM said:
“Valuable” in what way?
Looks like race-baiting propaganda. And an apology for insurrection.
Charlene Smith on June 3, 2020 at 10:14 PM said:
By demanding respect for everyone “regardless of race, ethnicity or economic status,” it looks like we’re back to “all lives matter.” Good, because all lives DO matter including those killed in the womb.
The extreme left agitators tell us we are “racists” if we see color. Then, when we follow King’s “content of character” principle, we are “racist” if we DON’T see color. “You’re blind to the ‘experiences’ of ‘people of color’.”
Many of us are DONE with this crap. You get a color blind society, or you get war.
This spew is an example of why America’s children will be LESS ignorant after publik skools lose massive amounts of funding due to the leftist self-inflicted wound from Flatten the Economy. Hopefully we’ll be seeing the closure of thousands of “schools” and defunding for so many of the propaganda projects re-“educators” flush public monies on. Publik skools ARE “institutional racism” – against Whites and, sometimes, Asians, as well. Take the money away.
So-called “education” in America does not teach how to think, but WHAT to think.
King’s “content of character” has been replaced with race is paramount.
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navigating modern complexities
Is race really an issue again (or still)?
by Sheila Liaugminas Oct 15, 2008 May 1, 2020 / 3 mins /
Though we didn’t hear much about race in the presidential campaign
for a while, it has re-emerged in recent days. Who’s raising it?
The media, for one. Like this cover of Time.
What’s the point of this story
at this time? That in spite of Sen. Barack Obama’s amazing ascendancy
and lead in the polls, positioning him as the likely next
president…..people are hiding their racism and really don’t support him
as much as they would a “generic” Democratic candidate in a
hypothetical poll?
That’s what it says.
Some attribute it to something less distasteful: Obama’s
unfamiliarity, his “exotic” background, his comparatively recent
emergence on the political stage. The doubters–they would call
themselves realists–often assert that these are just euphemisms for
prejudice, a way of camouflaging what lies beneath.
So Time looks at the role race is playing in this election…
No one can say for certain what is in people’s hearts.
But what we found is a very American answer: people are pragmatic and
seem willing to evaluate the candidates on the merits of their
character and ideas. And, yes, Obama is still unfamiliar to plenty of
voters–but what we also discovered is that anxieties about the economy
are trumping anxieties that some people have about Barack Obama.
So…..is Time injecting racial prejudice in this, when the American
people are willing to evaluate the candidates on the merits of their
character and ideas?
And, does it occur to the Time editors that some anxieties that some
people have about Barack Obama are not race-related, but experience and
leadership and idea-related?
Time sent out an editor-at-large to investigate the heartland.
David found a good number of blue collar white voters
who said they plan to vote for Obama because of the economy, and some
who say they plan to vote against him because they disagree with his
policies. But he found little evidence that race will be a determining
factor either way.
So why the cover?
It may be media coverage like this that prompted this Acton Institute commentary on racial politics.
With only a few weeks to Election Day, racial politics
has reared its pathetic head as pundits attempt to decipher poll
numbers and audience comments at political rallies.
But who’s raising it? Pundits, mainly. But now that it’s raised, we’re in the thick of it again.
While using race as an ultimate criterion for supporting
or rejecting a candidate is equally unjustifiable and shallow, the
possibility of doing exactly that is one of the trade-offs of being
free. Positively, freedom permits us to choose a candidate according to
important issues such as his or her positions on abortion, the role of
government in meeting the needs of the poor, foreign policy, and
education. I am happy to live in a country with this type of liberty
rather than a regime where I have no role in choosing leaders to
represent me.
The question, Bradley says, is not whether racism still exists, but why did anyone ever think it would go away?
When I hear African Americans, Latinos, and Asians
lament, “It’s 2008 and racism still exist in America,” I want to shout,
“What fairy tail were you reading that said racism would ever cease?”
One of the historic tenets of Judeo-Christianity, along with many other
religions, is that evil exists in the world. As long as people lack the
moral formation to escape it, there will always be racism.
Bradley is a bit harsh on the public here, and I don’t agree with
some of this assessment of voters’ civic values, but note it’s prefaced
with ”the media’s recent displays of racial politics”. So again, look
at how the media are forming public opinion by saying they’re reflecting public opinion.
Here’s the issue at heart…
What Americans must embrace is their responsibility as
virtuous citizens concerned about the common good. This means that we
put non-essential issues like race aside, to choose a candidate with
the character and competence necessary to offer leadership on the
pressing issues of our times.
For example, which candidate has the wisdom to understand that
championing economic liberty in the market has historically proven to
be the best way to create wealth and lift people out of poverty? Which
candidate champions justice embedded in a rule of law that keeps
corruption, power, and greed in check?
Which candidate has the humility to know that neither he, nor any
other small group of central planners, has enough knowledge or
expertise to use government to manage the lives of 300 million people?
Which candidate has the courage to fight for human life? Which
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mereditheobrien in Writing January 7, 2019 January 7, 2019 309 Words
after you’re diagnosed with an illness: you suddenly notice it everywhere
Way back in the late 1990s, when my husband and I were in fertility treatments, it seemed as though pregnant women were everywhere. In stores. On city streets. On TV and in movies. In my friend groups. At family gatherings.
When I was so craving a child — and failing to conceive one — seeing so many gestating women felt like grains of salt in an open wound. I distinctly remember trying to escape all things maternal on Mother’s Day 1997 when the angst of my infertility felt especially potent. I opted to watch NBA games. Certainly I could seek refuge from babies and all things maternal there. Wrong. Pre-recorded segments of athletes thanking their moms for all their support over the years were featured during breaks. Until I eventually became pregnant with twins, reminders of my infertility seemed painfully omnipresent.
I was reminded of those days after I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2014 and suddenly started paying close attention to every reference to the disease, whereas in the past, they’d whisk past me like the wind. The MS references I saw in pop culture in those early months after my diagnosis, were almost always dire and sent urgent pangs of fear about my future through my heart.
The National MS Society recently published my piece, “Fever Fatale” about this subject on its MS Connection. Here’s an excerpt:
“A fever could be life threatening.”
That single line from an old episode of “The West Wing” prompted me to immediately Google whether, in fact, a fever is fatal to someone with relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis, something with which I was diagnosed in the summer of 2014. Fresh from learning I had MS, this mere suggestion plunged me into a panic. A search of “fever and multiple sclerosis” yielded over 590,000 results.
Read the rest of the piece here.
Image credit: MS Connection.
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Siemens Partner OnePLM Acquired By European Consortium for Digital Transformation
September 6, 2022 September 6, 2022 Keith Mills Publishing Editor
Holland Capital, the main shareholder of the European Digital Transformation consortium, has acquired OnePLM, to complement Magnus Digital, Dimensys, Cards PLM Solutions and Appronto. The acquisition immediately creates the largest software and service provider of its kind in Europe and enables international customers to benefit from a range of best-in-class expert services.
OnePLM is the market leader for Siemens Digital Industries Software delivering PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) solutions including maintenance, technical support and consultancy. This joining of forces contributes to the vision of playing an important role in the Digital Transformation of the manufacturing industry known as ‘Industry 4.0’, using Siemens, SAP, Mendix and Boomi technologies. Furthermore, the collaboration offers employees opportunities to further develop within the wide range of services, technologies and the countries in which the consortium is active.
Growth Through Buy-and-Build
The acquisition of OnePLM is the next step in the buy-and-build strategy pursued with the support of Holland Capital. Together, these five companies employ almost 500 people. The group focuses on product lifecycle & asset management, IT architecture, low-code applications, system integrations and process optimization for digital transformation strategies. The companies assist organizations in various sectors, such as the manufacturing industry, (online) retail, logistics, construction, infrastructure, financial services and education. This move is further evidence of the consortiums’ aspirations to become the market leader for Digital Transformation in Western Europe.
Allan Blackwell, CEO of OnePLM states “Over the last 25 years OnePLM has evolved to become one of the largest and most successful Siemens PLM solution providers in the world. In meeting the demands of our customers and market, and despite unprecedented recent challenges, our business has trebled in size over the last three years. The next phase is to expand further the software and services we are able to offer our clients to support a comprehensive Digital Transformation strategy. I am therefore delighted that we have joined the consortium which will significantly increase our capabilities and coverage and which will benefit our customers, staff and Siemens equally”
Mark Parry, Managing Director of OnePLM commented “After successful acquisitions and mergers in the UK utilising UK funding mechanisms, OnePLM’s strategy was to build the most comprehensive Siemens Digital Industries Software partner in the world. With a focus on core PLM products and services, to all Design and Make customers in the UK and Ireland, irrespective of size – from new start-ups to multinational OEM’s. Our exciting new chapter is part of the same strategy for EMEA, utilising European funding options. Our UK and Ireland customers will now also benefit from the groups Low code and SAP capabilities, building a new European discrete industry strength in totally integrated systems across PLM (Develop), ERP (Plan) and MES (Produce).”
Peter-Jan Simons, CEO of the consortium says “OnePLM is part of the strategic expansion of our group with high-level expertise of digital transformation in modern industry. I am very excited about this addition, because together with OnePLM, our customers in the UK, Ireland and the Benelux countries will be better served. In addition our consultants will gain increased international career opportunities. The Siemens PLM expertise of OnePLM boosts our Siemens operations in Europe, and takes the partnership with Siemens to the next level.”
“After the joining of forces of several of our portfolio companies into the Digital Transformation consortium in February this year, the acquisition of OnePLM is a great next step in our buy-and-build strategy. This further strengthens the group’s leading position within Digital Transformation” commented Ewout Prins, Managing Partner Holland Capital.
For more information: www.oneplm.com
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Interview with Rick Goldschmidt
Rick Goldschmidt is the current Rankin/Bass Historian and Biographer. He is a lifetime for an Rankin/Bass’ work. He has published three books to date about their work including his latest called “Mad Monster Party”, which focuses solely on that film. Rick is also a musician and has worked with members of the band Gin Blossoms. Media Mikes had a chance to chat with Rick about Rankin/Bass and also his book.
Mike Gencarelli: What was the first Rankin/Bass production that made you a lifetime fan and their current historian and biographer?
Rick Goldschmidt: I think it would probably be “Rudolph”. That is still probably my favorite of the bunch. I like the simplicity of it especially the design work by Tony Peters. I really think it’s their crowning achievement. “Mad Monster Party” runs a close second as I am a big Jack Davis fan. I like the classic monsters.
MG: What was your most challenging part making your first book “The Enchanted World of Rankin/Bass”?
RG: Rounding up as many images as I was able to get was probably the hardest part. Rankin/Bass really didn’t save much. A lot of their stuff went into dumpsters. Years later I found out from some friends that the Rifkin/Bass office used to be above I think the TV museum in New York. I actually got a Jack Davis painting from a friend of a friend who stated he garbage picked it. They really didn’t hang on to a lot of their artifacts. I had to go out and search conventions and toy shows.
MG: The book is currently out of print, any idea when another printing will be released?
RG: I still do a print on demand type of thing. They are still available but on a very limited basis. I think going into Christmas of this year we may go in and update the book and do more of a mass printing. It will probably be similar to what we did with the “Mad Monster Party” book. I am going to try and do an Easter book and cover “Here Comes Peter Cotton Tail”. Vincent Price was a big part of that as Evil Iron Tail. I think that had a big influence on Tim Burton. That was a very gothic type character.
MG: Tell us about your latest book “Mad Monster Party”?
RG: I have been collecting a lot of stuff related to “Mad Monster Party” and “Rudolph” especially as they are my favorites. The Jack Davis aspect was a big part for me. That’s sort of how I found Rankin/Bass by talking about “Mad Monster Party”. Jack was still doing odds and end for them and in fact he even did a newer version of “Mad Monster Party” with Arthur Rankin not that long ago. They tried to do something with CGI however I never got to see it because Arthur is pretty protective about things that don’t see the light of day. I am always trying to find out more about the classic holiday specials because I really enjoyed those works the most.
MG: What do you like most about stop-action animation compared to CG which is commonly used today?
RG: I think the stop motion stuff has a completely different feel. Arthur Rankin describes it as a warmer style of animation. The CGI stuff comes across colder. 85-90% of what’s being done in CGI these days is not looking unique. There is a lot of it out there that doesn’t have any particular style or finesse. Even thought they were CGI assisted I prefer Tim Burton’s work on things such as ”The Nightmare Before Christmas” and “The Corpse Bride” over a lot of the CGI films that are out. I did like Pixar quite a bit because they focused on the story over the CGI however, when I saw “Cars 2” the story went completely out the window. I think Disney’s involvement with the company has hurt it more than helped it.
MG: Do you still keep in touch with Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass today?
RG: Yes. Jules is not as open to doing discussions about Rankin/Bass and his previous work. He is not very involved in that kind of thing but Arthur still talks about that stuff and I talk to him on occasion. Arthur has sort of always been the voice of Rankin/Bass. Jules was more involved with the voice actors and songs. He has moved on and written books for children. He recently had one of his novels “Monte Carlo” adapted into a movie. I was surprised that that film finally got made as I had heard some time back that Nicole Kidman had bought the script and that she was going to star in it with some other big name actresses. I have heard before that “Mad Monster Party” was going to be made into a motion picture also but I don’t know how you would do something like that. The charm of that movie is the puppets.
MG: What is next for you and Miser Bros. Press?
RG: I am definitely going to do the Easter book and have it ready to come out on Easter. I have some cool things that I want to put in it. I want it to look very Easter candy basket. Their specials for Easter make the holiday for me as they really capture the spirit of the holiday. We will probably also being doing some updates to the first two books and release them in mass printing form.
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5 Ways Businesses Can Ramp Up AI
It’s still tough for many organizations to get beyond pilots to create scalable, revenue-generating AI capabilities
By Paula Klein
As more organizations race to embrace AI and make serious financial and resource investments, why are some seeing more value than others?
That’s one of the overarching questions Accenture’s research group set out to answer in a large-scale study conducted over the last year. Seeking to determine what they call “AI maturity,” the consulting firm rolled out a multi-faceted research project that included a survey of 1,615 global executives at 1,176 companies, interviews with 25 C-level executives, and 40 case studies. In addition, the researchers created machine learning models to identify key AI capabilities, and used a natural language processing tool to measure the speed of AI transformation compared with the speed of digital transformation.
The results? In a report, “The Art of AI Maturity: Advancing from Practice to Performance, published in June, Accenture found that while many more companies are moving beyond the pilot project phase, only 12% can be categorized as “AI Achievers.” According to Praveen Tanguturi, Principal Director and Global Research Lead of Applied Intelligence at Accenture, those with average capabilities are AI Experimenters (63%). Pre-pandemic (in 2019), Achievers already enjoyed 1.5 times greater revenue growth, on average, versus their peers, he said.
It’s common for AI projects to be stuck in the pilot stages – where the perfection of a product or tool delays scaling of the technology, Accenture said. Many industries with legacy technologies fall into this category and struggle to transform their digital core and turn pilots into production. But things are beginning to change.
Bigger Budgets, Bigger Expectations
Accenture sees tremendous opportunity to advance AI maturity across industry sectors like, automotive, aerospace and defense, life sciences, banking, and healthcare — not just in high tech.
The research shows that nearly half (49%) of all of the surveyed companies expect to devote more than 30% of their technology budgets to AI over the next two years — a positive sign of what’s to come, Accenture said.
“When AI is implemented at scale it results in better decision making, automation, product and service innovation, and revenue growth,” said Philippe Roussiere, who leads Innovation and AI at Accenture Research. All of those are huge incentives to ramp up efforts, he said. Tanguturi and Roussiere presented their findings at a recent MIT IDE seminar. Accenture is a partner and founding member of the IDE.
Accenture sees AI as far more than a tactical play for businesses today compared to three years ago: it’s now a strategic, revenue-generation tool. Firms want to boost customer experience and new product development via AI processes and technologies, too. With investments come expectations:
Business leaders told Accenture they expect the share of corporate revenue “influenced by AI developments” to triple by 2024 — another positive indicator that AI is top of mind.
A Multi-tiered Approach
To reach the next level and measure success, Tanguturi prescribes a five-pronged strategy that includes: AI strategy and sponsorship from the top of the organization; development of AI talent and corporate culture that sparks and maintains interest; widespread implementation of enterprise-wide data and core AI management practices; a keen awareness of responsible AI, and prioritizing both short and long-term investments.
Taken together, these strategies will create true competitive advantage for the organization and will accelerate AI and the resulting benefits. Accenture offers an assessment tool and questions for CEOs and the C-Suite to help them nudge the process along at their organizations.
Tools alone won’t yield results, however. All of the strategies need to be used in concert, Tanguturi said.
“You can’t be a fast-follower.” Innovators need to focus on practical use cases as well as small experiments. And AI builders can’t ignore strategic goals and be out of sync with others.
There’s also growing awareness about designing responsible AI, but it is still an emerging discipline, Tanguturi said. Only a small fraction of global companies surveyed (6%) had implemented responsible AI practices — which include diversity, accuracy, and recognition of privacy concerns. Accenture is working with MIT Sloan professor Renee Gosline to help leaders understand the importance of models with these goals baked in from the start. Responsibility goes far beyond compliance, he said, and “there is much more to be done. We need to do better.
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Home / Lenses / SIGMA 35MM F1.4 DG DN ART FOR L MOUNT
AED3,285 AED2,950
Model No 35mm F1.4 L Mount
The evolution of a classic
The 35mm F1.4 Art is reborn
Superb optical performance and usability
power up the most popular focal length.
An “Art F1.4 35mm” reborn for mirrorless and empowered through SIGMA’s technology to date.
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The existing 35mm F1.4 DG HSM | Art was SIGMA’s first GLOBAL VISION lens. Released in 2012, it set the standard for all of SIGMA’s subsequent Art-line lenses, and thanks to its exceptional image quality it is still the 35mm prime lens of choice for many professional photographers. Nine years on, the 35mm F1.4 has been redesigned from the ground up specifically for mirrorless cameras and is the culmination of much of the optical design expertise and advanced production techniques gained over the past decade of GLOBAL VISION lens development. As with all of SIGMA’s lenses, the 35mm F1.4 DG DN L MOUNT| Art is built entirely at its sole factory in Aizu in Japan, where the standard of craftsmanship is of the highest level.
As is true with all SIGMA lenses, class-leading optics are right at the heart of the design concept of this new 35mm F1.4 DG DN | Art. Despite being significantly smaller and lighter than the existing 35mm F1.4, it displays an outstanding level of sharpness right to the edges of the frame at all apertures, as well as exceptionally smooth and attractive bokeh and remarkably well-controlled optical aberrations.
Designed exclusively for use with mirrorless cameras, the 35mm F1.4 DG DN | Art is light enough to feel perfectly balanced on a compact mirrorless camera, yet is packed with an array of professional features including ultra-fast AF, a de-clickable and lockable aperture ring, and a customizable AFL button. This gives the lens operability and portability without compromise, making it as ideal for professional projects as it is for casual outings, and as well-suited to video as it is stilled.
SIGMA is delighted to introduce you to the new gold standard in wide-aperture 35mm primes.
Exceptional optical performance
Central to the design of the 35mm F1.4 DG DN | Art is its sophisticated optical performance, which is consistent with the development of all Art line lenses. The lens incorporates 15 elements in 11 groups. With two Special Low Dispersion (SLD) elements, an Extraordinary Low Dispersion (ELD) element, an ‘F’ Low Dispersion (FLD) element, and two aspherical elements, and as well as other high-performance glass, the lens’ advanced optical construction utilizes SIGMA’s state-of-the-art optical design technology, minimizing all types of aberration including axial chromatic aberration, which cannot be corrected in-camera.
In spite of having a very wide aperture of F1.4, the lens is able to control sagittal coma flare extremely well even wide open, stopping bright points of light from flaring out near the edges of the frame. This will be particularly appealing to night sky photographers.
Owing to its 11 rounded diaphragm blades, the lens displays smooth, round bokeh so that out-of-focus areas are not distracting. This makes the 35mm F1.4 DG DN | Art well-suited to portraits, supported by its ultra-sharp image quality and minimal color bleeding. It also performs very well in backlit conditions thanks to SIGMA’s anti-ghosting and anti-flare technology that it has cultivated through countless simulations and real-life testing in our many years of lens development. This keeps shots high contrast and free of excessive flare even when working in difficult light.
Fast and quiet AF in a compact body
The focusing mechanism in the SIGMA 35mm F1.4 DG DN | Art features a stepping motor. This motor controls a focusing lens group composed of a single, lightweight element, which means AF is responsive and quiet and is able to keep track of moving objects very effectively. Manual focusing is smooth and precise, but with the right amount of resistance for filmmakers. Certainly, this lens has a focus mode switch on the body.
The SIGMA 35mm F1.4 DG DN | Art wholly embraces the Art line concept, which is “designed with a focus on sophisticated optical performance”. This—paired with its advanced autofocus performance and the convenience of compact size—makes for a lens that raises the standards.
Professional feature-set
On the body of the SIGMA 35mm F1.4 DG DN | Art is an aperture ring that allows the aperture to be controlled via the lens, or when set to Auto, using the camera. An aperture lock switch on the lens body allows the aperture ring to be locked in Auto so that it is not accidentally knocked during shooting. A big plus for filmmakers, the aperture ring can be de-clicked, allowing users to seamlessly adjust exposure. Also on the lens barrel is a focus mode switch and an AFL button, which can be customized to the desired function from within the camera menu (depending on the model). The switch is ergonomically positioned to be controlled by the thumb during use.
A petal-type lens hood is included in the box, which helps reduce flare and offers the lens added protection if dropped. The hood has a lock mechanism that keeps it attached securely to the lens, and its rubberized grip makes it quick and easy to attach and remove.
On top of this impressive array of features and elegant exterior, the body of the 35mm F1.4 DG DN | Art offers an exceptional level of durability that helps it withstand long-term professional use as well as individual operating parts that give a good fit to the hand. The dust and splash-proof structure provide sealing on buttons and along joins between constituent parts, and there is a rubber gasket around the mount. There is also a water and oil repellent coating applied to the front element ensures that photographers can rely on it in any conditions.
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9 things from Mobile World Congress you should be excited about
It's going to be a huge year for mobile.
By Raymond Wong & Stan Schroeder on March 1, 2017
The new BlackBerry KEYone's keyboard doubles as a touchpad. Credit: raymond wong/mashable
Yes, there was no Samsung Galaxy S8 and yes, its absence was felt. But even without it, Mobile World Congress -- the largest mobile show of the year -- was anything but boring.
This year, everyone's crazy for retro phones. LG slapped competitors in the face with a surprisingly solid flagship. A futuristic-looking, hyperconnected car debuted at MWC instead of at the Geneva Motor Show. And there were just enough weird gadgets for us to geek out over while we sped through the Fira Gran Via's sprawling convention center halls.
SEE ALSO: It's embarrassing how much I suck at playing 'Snake' on the new Nokia 3310
We'll spare you the boring laptops and mid-range Android phones, regular security updates and huge batteries be damned -- here's just the fun stuff.
Credit: Manuel Blondeau/Mashable
The star of the show, without any doubt, was Nokia's reboot of the legendary, near-unbreakable Nokia 3310 feature phone. The new model is still a simple affair, feature-wise, and it still has tons of battery life. It's been modernized with a larger color screen and comes with a great price tag of 49 euros ($52).
Is it really going to sell as the hype suggests? We have no idea. Some folks might want it for the nostalgia factor, some might want it for the price, and in some markets, it simply might be what it is: a cheap, solid feature phone. But even if it tanks, we'll still have this crazy moment when everyone obsessed over a Nokia dumbphone in 2017.
Credit: raymond wong/mashable
Still refusing to accept defeat by Android and iPhone, BlackBerry -- well, technically, TCT -- launched a new QWERTY-equipped BlackBerry called the KEYone.
With a metal body, classic BB features like the Convenience button, 52 programmable physical keys, a solid 4.5-inch screen, cameras that aren't total garbage, and Android 7.0 Nougat, the KEYone already looks like it's the best BlackBerry in years. It might even be better than the generally well-reviewed Priv.
Android and iPhone users probably won't ditch their beloved phones for the KEYone unless they really want the physical keyboard, but one thing's for sure: Kim Kardashian would absolutely love this phone.
Credit: Lili Sams/Mashable
With the Galaxy S8 a no-show, LG got its big chance to spread its wings, and the company delivered with a surprisingly solid flagship. Gone is the G5's flimsy modular design and in is the LG G6 and its big 5.7-inch screen (with an lengthy 18:9 aspect ratio), beautiful metal design, solid set of specs, and some great improvements over its predecessor.
Its glass back could be prone to cracks, and the phone only has a 5-megapixel selfie camera, so not everything is perfect. Still, LG has set the bar pretty high and it'll be interesting to see what features and designs other phone giants like Samsung and Apple counter with.
Peugeot Instinct concept car
It's nowhere near production. It's just a lot of buzzwords. The self-driving tech is 10 years away. All of the above might be true, but it was still very cool of Peugeot to unveil its Instinct concept car in Barcelona, which is mobile-centric event.
Peugeot has envisioned a car that drives you, all by itself, while playing music matched to your current mood. And because it's so connected, it could also remind you if you've left your stove on.
Such a reality is closer than a lot of people realize since most of the pieces of the puzzle, including autonomous driving, already exist -- the hard part is getting the different technologies to work together harmoniously.
For anything like the Instinct to actually hit to market, there are still a number of regulatory and security-related hurdles that need to be overcome. For a brief moment as I sat in the car, I imagined listening to Brahms and reading a book -- while being driven around by AI -- and it felt strangely relaxing.
Huawei launched its flagship P10 phone at MWC, but it didn't exactly wow us at first glance. On the other hand (no pun intended), the company's sports-oriented smartwatch, the Huawei Watch 2, left quite a first impression.
It's one of the lightest and comfiest 4G-equipped smartwatches we've ever tried. With 4G, a built-in speaker, GPS, a heart-rate monitor, IP68 dust and water resistance, the Huawei Watch 2 easily competes with other 4G smartwatches like the LG Watch Sport.
On the software side, it's rocking Google's new Android Wear 2.0 and the Google Assistant. And while none of the Huawei Watch 2's features are revolutionary, they're a nice combo that makes us feel good about Android smartwatches again.
Credit: Stan Schroeder/Mashable
You're damn right we included a decades-old game on our list. Not only did Nokia resurrect the game on the newly-relaunched 3310, but the company also launched a slightly updated version of the original game on Facebook Messenger.
To play, start a Messenger conversation with someone, click the little controller button in the lower right corner, find "Snake" and click on it.
Also, we know it's not a gadget. Shut up.
Samsung Galaxy Tab S3/Galaxy Book
Galaxy Tab S3 Credit: manuel blondeau/mashable
With no flagship phone to show off, Samsung turned to beefing up its tablets. The Korean electronics giant announced the Android-powered Galaxy Tab S3 and the Windows 10-powered Galaxy Book.
Though we still don't know pricing and release details, both tablets offer a lot in terms of design and features. Samsung says it brought the best of what made its Galaxy phones so great to the two tablets, and we're inclined to agree.
Both are sleek, powerful devices that are clearly aimed at the iPad Pro and Surface Pro 4. Both support detachable keyboards and improved S Pen functionalities (like the awesome GIF maker), longer-lasting batteries, Super AMOLED displays, improved sound, expandable storage and LTE.
If you're in the market for a new tablet, these should be on your list for consideration.
LG and BlackBerry weren't the only phone makers that got to shine at MWC thanks to the Galaxy S8's absence. Sony's flagship Xperia XZ Premium wowed us with its 5.5-inch screen -- the world's first and only phone with 4K resolution and High Dynamic Range (HDR) support (the LG G6 supports HDR, but the screen isn't 4K).
In addition to the spectacular display, the XZ Premium is the world's first phone with super slow-motion video capture at 960 frames per second.
The grease-attracting design leaves a little to be desired, and the disabled fingerprint sensor in the U.S. version (it'll be activated for international models) is ridiculous, but if you can overlook those shortcomings, it's an excellent phone. It doesn't hurt that it packs the latest Snapdragon 835 processor, allows for expandable storage and has impressive audio capabilities.
Samsung Staedtler Noris digital S Pen
You can hate on styluses all you want, but we're really digging Samsung's Staedtler Noris Digital S Pen.
Designed to look and feel exactly like the German company's iconic pencil, the Noris Digital is one of the best looking and most comfortable styluses we've ever used. It also works almost exactly like the Tab S3 and Galaxy Book's improved S Pen, meaning it supports up to 4,096 levels of pressure and the 0.7mm tip is super precise.
The Noris Digital's only downside is its missing function button. Without a button it can't be used to turn on the Galaxy Tab S3's useful "Screen-off memo" feature that lets you write directly on the screen without turning the entire display on.
We could live with the missing button, but we're praying the Noris Digital won't cost as much as an Apple Pencil.
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Raymond Wong
Raymond Wong is Mashable's Senior Tech Correspondent. He reviews gadgets and tech toys and analyzes the tech industry. Raymond's also a bit of a camera geek, gamer, and fine chocolate lover. Before arriving at Mashable, he was the Deputy Editor of NBC Universal's tech publication DVICE. His writing has appeared on G4TV, BGR, Yahoo and Ubergizmo, to name a few. You can follow Raymond on Twitter @raywongy(Opens in a new tab) or Instagram @sourlemons.(Opens in a new tab)
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Backpack Travel, England, Featured, Norway, Places
July 24, 2015 Meagan Brogan 1 Comment
The time has come to return to Honolulu on the final leg of our most recent epic travel adventure.
For the past three weeks, James and I have had the most incredible series of adventures with some of the best travel companions and friends we could wish for. Our trip kicked off with a one day adventure in NYC with one of my earliest and best childhood friends, Matthew. We explored the #highline and reveled in the gorgeous summer weather. Next stop was London, where we were welcomed to stay at the lovely flat of our favorite British blogger and proverbial “hostess with the mostest” Carla (check out her cool blog Zoubisou). After a truly amazing five day stay in the UK (which will be recapped in an upcoming post), we were off again to Bergen, Norway to rendezvous with our intrepid traveling companions Emily and Pat and received the warmest of welcomes by our favorite Norwegian, Mari. Not only did she open her home to the four of us, but she took on the roles of tour guide, translator, navigator and entertainer! (In traditional Norweigan national attire no less- but that’s a story for another day.) Bergen is a beautiful city and I look forward to sharing our adventures there after I have a chance to process some photos at home to illustrate the stories.
After Bergen, our party of four headed north, flying first to Bødo and then boarding the Hurtigruten MS Løfoten to the magical islands of Løfoten, north of the arctic circle. The awesomeness of our experiences here under the midnight sun are hard to put into words, so I will wait to share more details when the photos can lend some visual punch to my experiences of awe and joy.
After what seemed like the blink of an eye, we were all back in Oslo for our final night before parting ways. James, Pat, Emily and I stayed together sharing laughter, wine and the History Channel’s #vikings until the last possible minute (James and I grabbed the last train of the night from Oslo back to our airport hotel).
A flight from Oslo to Newark and a long overnight layover allowed for one more night with Matthew and his wonderful husband Bobby. We managed a nap and got to sit in on a Mathieu Blue rehearsal for an upcoming performance of his on Monday! It was surreal and wonderful to be a part of the behind-the-scenes with an awesome band and creative team as they launch my best friend’s lifelong dream of performing his original songs (and some rocking covers too) live in New York City. The night wasn’t complete until we grabbed our NYC slices to go and hopped in a cab back to Harlem.
Fast forward to the current moment, and James and I are side by side aboard our #united flight back to Honolulu. I reflect on the past few weeks with a heart full of friends and adventures and can’t wipe the grin off my face. What a trip it’s been. The sharing has just begun my friends, there are stories and memories galore to explore. But first, two more episodes of Vikings, a blanket and a nap are necessary to top it all off.
#summerinnorway was #epic
-Meagz
Atop Reinebringen Photo credit: James Brogan
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Caribbean, St. Lucia, Wedding
Palpable Magic
December 6, 2012 Meagan Brogan 6 Comments
My previous post covered how fun the wedding was, and I’m still aghast that it lasted less than an hour. What powerful emotion can emanate from such a blip in our lifetime! Now I’ve had time to process the events that came after the ceremony, it’s time to try to put into words what happened next. We had a little interlude between the ceremony and the reception, some rum punch and steel drums to fill the ‘tween time. Lots of pictures and hugs from our guests, James and I took a turn on the steel drums and Max told me (after some confidence nudging from his mom) that I “looked pretty.” My feet floating on air had been touch and go until this moment. I was now positively airborne. What followed next was really nothing short of the best party ever.
The path to the beach reception was lit with luminaries and the guests made their way to the site while James and I hung back for our grand introduction. It was even more exciting because we hadn’t seen the set up and Nadia had been hinting about all kinds of surprises in store for us. The wedding party was introduced and James and I snuck around the back end of the beach where an awesome set of stone steps afforded us a secret entrance to take all the guests by surprise when we were announced as Mr. and Mrs. Brogan. Awaiting our debut, this was the first moment when it was just the two of us for more than a day and words can’t express the wonder with which we stood and stared at each other for a solid three minutes of silent expression. We were speechless as we beheld this beautiful beach that held the most incredible group of people, all of whom came together for us. The silent electricity passing between us grew as we stood there on the bluff hand-in-hand, already aware this night was the best of our lives to date, and reeling from the knowledge that it was just about to get better. That moment hangs suspended in time for us, and then the snowball began to gather speed. Next thing we knew we were arm in arm down the steps, surprising the guests, hugging everyone, dancing to the full steel drum band and then whoa, it was time for dinner!
The food was incredibly good, all full of caribbean flavor like I hoped it would be. I ate until I was beyond stuffed, but the genius of the corset dress worked its magic. Shortly following dinner it was time for speeches, and to cut the cake. Truthfully, the night was such a blur the order of events is slightly fuzzy. At least I think we did the speeches first, so as to let our Best Man get his over with. Unbeknownst to me, our Kyle (always the life of the party) is deathly afraid of speaking in public, and hadn’t been eating for the two days leading up to the wedding. Good heavens. We’d only asked him to say a few things and make a toast, but facing his fear like a true hero, he went above and beyond and shared wonderful words of friendship that brought laughter and smiles and a thunderous round of applause. My sister Laura was genuine and loving and the tears were welling up before she finished her first sentence. Then Matthew and Laura sang a duet for all of us and the well of tears overflowed. Years of adoration and love tumbled out of our eyes as we all realized this was a moment we’d talked about since we were young and green. “Someday we’ll sing at your wedding” they used to say, and this was it. My wedding!
I was as full as I could possibly be, both in my soul and my stomach. Time to cut the cake. It’s a god thing I have a dessert shelf, because that cake was magnificent. So beautiful to behold, even more incredible to indulge. James behaved himself and didn’t cover me in cake, so I followed suit, if only to make sure no bit of that deliciousness was wasted. Hit fast forward again because my next fragmented memory is Matthew calling us to the dance floor for our first dance. This was a particular delight for me, as James had been alluding for months how much he was dreading it. The first dance song we managed to keep a secret from all but each other and I wish I’d looked around to see everyone’s reaction to our choice, but when I heard Jason Mraz’s voice begin our anthem I Won’t Give Up, all I saw was James.
The song seemed to last forever and yet I feared not blink to miss it. It wasn’t until after our dance that I discovered how many of our dear friends were brought to happy tears watching us share that moment. Then James and his wonderful mother Ada danced to Rascal Flatt’s My Wish and my father and I had a medley of songs special to us ending with John Hiatt’s Have a Little Faith. The moments were so special and kept bringing us higher and higher. The dance floor opened up to some fierce dancing, and many drinks imbibed. Matthew and I devised the signature drink for the evening: a blue curaco, coconut rum and pineapple masterpiece Matthew dubbed: “I’m Ruined.” It was a huge hit and cups of blue surrounded us all evening.
A particular favorite dance floor moment was James and my dedication to all the couples there for the evening, our unusual rendition of (of all choices) Katy Perry’s Teenage Dream, performed quite romatically by Boyce Avenue. I have snapshots in my memory of our three honeymoon couples Jenny & Trevor and Matt & Callie and Laura &Gary holding each other close and all of us singing aloud with the utmost joy. Oh what a night it was!
The excitement continued with great music, fun dance antics, more drinks and plenty of cake. But the night still hadn’t reach a pinnacle until it was time for the favors to be released. James and I first released floating wish lanterns in Thailand and we found the experience so moving and romantic, we knew we wanted a part of our day. We managed to find 100% biodegradable white lanterns and had them shipped to St. Lucia. They’d already traveled the world before they made their way to our beach, having bounced around cargo bays throughout the US before heading south to Central and South America, then Turks and Caicos and finally St. Lucia. Just in time for us to send them on their final voyage.
We knew they’d be beautiful, but we could never have predicted just how much all of our guests loved the releasing of the lanterns. There is no word in any language that can capture the joy in each of the faces as they watched their lantern soar and join the others in the night. Decades fell off of faces, as each was filled with delight and rapture. The magic of these moments was palpable, we held real magic in our hands and then sent it aloft. We were a swirl of carefree believers, a community of dreamers that just watched dreams we didn’t even know we had take flight. Very few words were exchanged between the exclamations of happiness but I know this experience made the greatest impact of the evening for all. Epic joy, true love and real magic are the three ingredients for our greatest adventure yet.
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‘Now is the winter of our discount tents …’
A sign in a New Zealand outdoor gear shop. From which, if you want to stretttchh, it might be inferred that in New Zealand:
they do a very fine line in ‘outdoors’. Beech forest, glaciers, green hills, alpine peaks, braided rivers, volcanoes, etc. Modestly illustrated below.
they do a very fine line in outdoor gear. Because of long practice New Zealanders understand weather. As alliterative evidence: Wellington on a wet and windy winter weekend.
they, not uncommonly, have a very fine sense of humour. It may be that, like me, all your favourite Australian comedians — John Clarke, Tony Martin, Alan Brough — are Kiwis. Fearless, wry, clever. Add Rhys Darby and the Conchords and you also get innocent, fatalistic, delighting in life’s absurdities without feeling any need to pass judgment, and ignoring even the possibility that Jack might not be as good as his master. For that matter, what’s a master?
they can be well educated.
Australians often think that New Zealand is like an extension of Australia, just across some water. The language, apart from the fascinating and much remarked vowel shift, is the same. You can manage the money with a bit of help. The food and wine are easily recognisable (and often great).
Same. But it isn’t.
Our favourite television show in NZ used to be the sheep dog trials. Why they took them off I’ll never know. Since then we have discovered ‘The Crowd Goes Wild’, and when some meat and drink is offered to it like the rugby world cup it gets jaw-droppingly engaging. It’s sports news, but the teeter-totter of not being quite sure whether the presenters are serious or not provides one of the central attractions of the program.
Andrew Mulligan (on the left) has a peerless way with pursing of lips. Mark Richardson — 38 tests for the Black Caps (cricket is the game for those elsewhere), test average 43.43, dour left-hand opener — is one of the world’s all time great dags. (Dagg happens to be a not uncommon NZ name.)
Hayley Holt is a case study in Kiwi multi-dimensionality: champion ballroom dancer, snow board rider, boxer, intelligent. (The boxing: it’s a pretty standard NZ way of raising money for good causes. Two ‘amateur’ people fight each other. Other people come and watch. That harks back to different roots, and some latent shift in direction. It might be why Sir Colin ‘Pinetree’ Meads who once wrenched Aussie opponent Ken Catchpole’s leg so violently that he tore the hamstring off the bone is widely revered as the greatest ever All Black.)
After ten years the Crowd Goes Wild folk ought to be getting a bit tired, but their continued freshness stems from their complete lack of artifice. Not art; artifice. The amiable dag is a familiar figure in sports shows, but this is different. While you get their plain unvarnished selves, what arrives is fearless, startlingly direct and incomprehensibly open, qualities underpinned by a keen sense of irony honed with the whetstone of competitiveness.
And I think that these are distinguishing national characteristics more broadly. An unusual degree of physicality — that crowd in Wellington looks stronger, straighter and fitter than an equivalent crowd in Melbourne — genial openness, inventiveness, adaptability, resilience and just a taste of insensitive hardness.
I’ve thought along these lines since we climbed Temple Basin near Arthur’s Pass on a visit years ago. It was a very stiff track, broken rock and drifts of scree as well as being badly rutted with erosion. It might have been two hours before we got to what seemed like a staging point. To get any further was going to be a pain. But right there was a manually-operated tow. After you’d carried your skiing gear up this high, up that track, you could scramble up another several hundred metres and then haul it up after you to ski. That’s an afternoon’s entertainment.
I don’t think it’s an accident that bungee-jumping began in New Zealand. (‘Hey bro I’ve got this wicked idea…’) I’ve seen the scree slope at Avalanche Peak down which you are supposed to run, part of a race (running, climbing, kayaking, bike riding) from one side of the South Island to the other. I guess it’s what you get used to, the impact of your environment, the impact of how other people spend their time in this slice of heaven. That fearlessness … fatalism qualified by indomitability. It’s not nothing.
It might be a product of size: 4.5 million people parked in 268,000 square kilometres (a bit bigger than Britain), 1.4 million of them in Auckland. That means you can get a go at a lot of things, and that you might be expected to: like the undertaker in a small country town who is also the butcher, the post officer and the town clerk. Multiskilled multidimensionality. I had a Scottish friend who described this phenomenon as being a ‘lad o’ pairts’, someone who could, and was willing, to turn their hand to most things. And in NZ that applies to lassies as well lads.
It might be a product of a particular sort of isolation: extra-murally a step further even than Australia from what used to be ‘home’; intra-murally because of the population’s wide distribution in small pockets of settlement. ‘Southern Man’ is the caricature of these attributes, hunters who get choppered into the Southland with a slab of beer and a gun and emerge somewhere near the Cardrona Pub well and cheerful three months later with a range of venison products. The Southland does provide ample opportunity to be isolated. But so do parts of the North Island.
It might be the product of unusual and relatively successful biculturalism. At a session of the NZ Film Festival we went to, two of the six directors introduced their short films speaking Maori: without pretension, embarrassment, show or surprise by either speaker or audience. There’s a lot to say about this including the fact that the Maori and Pasifica sections of the New Zealand population have in recent decades been left behind economically in a way that the Anglo-Celts haven’t. But New Zealand still provides one of the best examples anywhere of indigenous and introduced human species living happily together. While Australia is a big dry unresolved and complex lump, New Zealand is most definitely three Pacific Islands.
These sorts of generalisations have boundaries and might be faintly ridiculous. They are also replete with stereotypes and cliché. However, I never doubt that stereotypes have a foundation, and without cliché we wouldn’t be able to communicate.
Whatever. It’s another world that I particularly enjoy visiting and thinking about.
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The first time we went to New Zealand was because I wanted to look at kauri trees. I had bought a hundred or so lineal metres of unusual 200 x 50 tongue and groove which had been used as flooring in a chook shed. The surfaces were in pretty rocky shape but when I cut into it beautiful golden wood emerged. It was kauri and I had no idea what I had or how precious it was. I only knew how wonderful it was to work.
Kauri (‘bark’ at left, double click for a better look) is a big story. It deserves an entire blog in itself. (If you’re keen, read on here, or better still visit the Kauri Museum at Matakohe. )
The trees look like giant cylindrical vases with a rather unkempt bunch of flowers jammed in their tops. They are squat rather than sky scraping, the Pacific Islanders of the tree world. Paying no respect to how long they take to grow, whole forests were slaughtered and now some of the best kauri comes out of marshland or from under metres of dirt where fallen trunks have been buried. But in the Waipoua Forest in the north of the North Island some remarkable specimens remain.
Animated by Maori lore, this is Tane Mahuta, ‘The Lord of the Forest’. Bigger ones have been measured in the past but at present this is the country’s largest kauri tree, approximately 2,000 years old and still growing, nearly 22 metres to the first branch and 15.4 metres in girth. The human subject was just someone who happened to be there and we got chatting. She fitted like a glove.
Just for context. The grey mouth of the Grey. West coast South Island. Not far from the Pike River coal mine where 36 people died in 2010.
There aren’t that many reasons to visit Greymouth which is one reason why we like it. Like many smallish NZ cities and towns, its art gallery usually has something of considerable interest to offer. But like the rest of the town it was closed on the Sunday afternoon when we last were there. But on the levee along the southern bank is this.
You mightn’t be able to read the plaque. In its completely unadorned and secular way, it says ‘To those who help others’.
The implication of the sou-wester and the gum boots might be ‘at sea’. But I don’t think so, and it doesn’t mean the government either.
You might get that elsewhere, but I think it unlikely.
These photos are about the turn of the New Zealand plane, the extraordinary shadows you get in the late afternoon describing the ridges in these geologically very young mountains and hills.
I don’t know if I have the colour right in these photos. It’s a deep purple even darker and redder than in Rita Angus’s ‘Cass’, a much loved painting. At left, Rita as she at one time painted herself and, at right, the Cass siding from a less interesting perspective.
I stopped here, parked and got out. Hang the consequences.
It’s some distance along the Forgotten World Highway which runs between Taumaranui and Stratford, west of the North Island and perhaps obviously not much visited. We’d been rebuffed by ice on the Tongariro Crossing and were on our way from Whakapapa to see if Mt Taranaki was going to make itself available for viewing and of course it wasn’t. But to return to the original theme, anywhere where parking is less likely to be a problem is hard to imagine. We may have seen another car in motion during those 150 k.s but I can’t remember one.
The only town of any consequence between one end and the other is Whangamomona, notable for the fact that it has seceded from New Zealand to establish its own republic. An exquisite drive.
We were walking around Dunedin following a self-published walking guide that a resident thought others might enjoy, poking our noses hither and thither. The street was in the guide; the house was not. We were staring up the drive at the garden when the owners came home. They’d just been to church where the sermon had been on welcoming strangers, so we got invited in for a cup of tea and some scones.
I did know their names but have lost them. He turned out to be an academic working at the University of Otago and what was keeping him off the streets at this time was something he and his team had just invented, a ‘fabric’ or material through which it was possible to control the flow of material so that single atoms could be passed through at a given time. That struck me as extraordinary. This apparently has very wide application in some fields such as medicine. How did he come to this idea? By thinking about the fabric of which collapsible canoes (also invented in NZ) were made.
He was at the time in process of negotiating patent and development issues with a German company. If matters worked out as he thought they would $10-15 million, as an initial payment, would pass in the direction of his team. They were lovely people.
This is the real reason for the blog.
Mt Isobel, 1ooom. above some houses at Hanmer Springs, a resort town in the north of the Canterbury Plain, South Island.
The first half included steep zig-zags mostly with a layer of snow over ice. The third quarter was steeper and straighter with some hand climbing and very icy. Semi-controlled bum sliding on the way down. The last quarter was a ridge walk on gravel, scree and snow beds accompanied by a very sharp wind. A steep pitch up to the peak.
We older people made it.
This was the view.
And then a bath in the springs.
We arrived not late but after nightfall. Several hundred people were there, enjoying themselves. Probably a very good date destination. Enough skin but natural and unobtrusive in context, perfectly kosher. You’d just lie there chatting. And then you could, say, go off for a drink.
The air temperature was hovering above and below zero Celsius. The pools ranged from 33-42 degrees. Getting between them was a thrill a minute. But no one seemed to notice.
I must make mention of the bathers dryer in the changing rooms, which I think Australians would either ignore or treat with suspicion. Modelled on a spin dryer, you put your togs in, hold the lid down for 5-8 seconds and then lift them out dry. It’s free. Such a good idea — daggy and wonderful at the same time, so practical — and very popular. New Zealand-ish or what?
The full name of Te Papa, ‘Our Place’, is Te Papa Tongarewa ‘Where we keep our treasures’.
In the blog on earthquakes I mentioned that the Christchurch art gallery was going to have base isolators installed. Wellington, where Te Papa is located, is just as subject to earthquakes as Christchurch. The treasures are protected by this entire building resting on base isolators, a New Zealand invention. They look like this.
A big block of rubber with cylinders of lead inserted in them. The rubber accommodates lateral movement and shaking; the lead helps to absorb motion and heat energy. How smart is that!
The treasure includes one floor of art and it’s not nearly adequate for what could be on display. This might be the lowest ratio of ‘shown’ to ‘stored’ pieces of any respectable national gallery. But what was there on our last visit was great. We particularly liked this.
It’s called ‘Dromorne Rd – Putiki Street’. What do you think? Marble? Terrazzo?
The tag says: ‘Andrew Barber created this work from the drop sheets he used in his 12-year career as a house painter. The squares were stitched together by sail-makers on industrial machines.’ Dromorne Rd was where he did his first painting job.
Does that change how you feel about it?
Or how you feel about a country that devotes a major exhibition space in its precious national gallery to its display?
Without pretension. Without artifice. What’s a master? Far north in Northland, North Island. But it could be anywhere.
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3 thoughts on “‘Now is the winter of our discount tents …’”
Andrew Webster
While you were at the Republic of Whangamomona you could have taken a golf cart ride along an abandoned railway. Apparently it’s a great ride through wonderful scenery. Next time I’m in NZ I’m going to do it, but then I would. I’m glad the oldies made it to the top of Mt.Isobel and enjoyed the view. I’ll do that too.
I love your photos. Makes me keen to explore more of NZ.
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[modestly] better news
For Bax and Deirdre. (and Myrna took a lot of the photos.)
Charles Conder, A Holiday at Mentone 1888 Melbourne. Oil on canvas. Held by the Art Gallery of South Australia. Look at it again. What IS he doing? Two lots of John Cleese in the one picture. But summer. Yes. Definitely Summer.
No one in my vicinity needs to be told it’s been a dud summer: a tragic summer, a horrible terrible summer. Coronavirus is making the running just now, but it was the bushfires that did the lasting damage. At one stage there was a report, now seared into my memory, that four percent of Australia was on fire.
This was the official estimate of areas prone to bushfire in August last year.
That is a pretty good description of exactly where they happened. Were we prepared? No WE weren’t. Scomo wasn’t. The Federal Government wasn’t. But the fire chiefs and emergency services were.
Not perhaps for the scale of what occurred, nor its intensity and the massive damage to the biota. Over 18 million hectares burned as of mid-January. Two billion animals are estimated to have been killed.
This occurred mostly in forested mountainous terrain. Just over twenty per cent of Australia’s forests burnt this summer.
This is a disaster of this type unprecedented at any other time or in any other place. Biodiversity is concentrated in forests: they are home to more than 80 per cent of all terrestrial species of animals, plants and insects. So, when forests burn, the biodiversity on which humans depend for their long-term survival also disappears.
For some reason, that seems to be a hard idea to get across. It’s not because animals are cute that there is cause for concern. Nor should we be grateful for the relative absence of insects. And, if you should need one, it is actually a VERY good reason to cancel the duck-hunting season.
But this is intended to be a [modestly] better news story.
We’d been spoiled by a very successful trip to Warrnambool but we still needed some eucalyptal air in our lungs. Nothing arduous, nothing too far away: just a taste of the Alps. So we decided to do the Baw Baw plateau walk or bits of it: Mt St Gwinear car park along ski trails to the top of St Gwinear, down through some boggy flats up to join the Alps walking trail, a climb to Mt St Phillack, lunch at Freeman’s Flat, then another kilometre or two to The Tors, and back to where we came from. On a most beautiful day.
The cairn marking the top of Mt St Gwinear, 1505m ASL from memory. St Phillack 1585.
Saint Gwinear? Celtic martyr, possibly apocryphal, probably named Fingar. Saint Phillack then? Irish (or British) martyr, not well enough established even to be apocryphal. Could have been named Felec or Felicitas. File naming process under ‘Mysteries’.
So, a climb up to the ridge in the background and following it for eight or so km. That’s the story. (But look at the form of the mountain ash in the foreground. Premier League material.)
I wasn’t sure whether or not we might run into large burnt patches. I had a vague recollection that Erica, close at hand, had been evacuated in a fire emergency.
But look what we could see on this lovely day.
In this photo the horizon would be 80-100km away and it was thickly forested all that way. The fires had been further east and north and, tragic though they had been, there are still mountain forests left in Victoria and we were in the middle of one at its very best, with plenty of radiant heat in the atmosphere and water under foot to sustain and encourage more growth.
We had begun the day at Peterson’s Lookout leaning over a pulpit of grey conglomerate to peer down at the Tyers River which looked like it had plenty of water in it. Hoorah.
It wasn’t Early early, but as the shadow indicates, about the time you might expect bird song. But the cacophony of bird noise as soon as we got out of the car was an encouraging surprise. They were all there. Kookas announced our presence and soon they were all joining in: yellow-tailed black cockatoos creaking away, magpies chortling and gurgling, Major Mitchells and Sulphur-crested cockies squarking, a lyre bird or two chiming in with copies and a chain saw on the other bank, flights of crimson rosellas careening through the undergrowth, tree creepers creeping on trees, finches foraging, grey shrike-thrushes just being their modestly glamorous selves. The point is that they were all there, all correct and in glorious disorder. They might have been migrants from the carnage elsewhere. But at least they were there.
As well as the remarkable fungus, this photo has got a fly and an ant in it. The March flies were tiresome, as they can be, but after I got into stride I couldn’t begrudge them their place and their role in it and if they were going to survive by nipping at my legs, then … just get on with it I guess.
Over St Gwinear (which has its own Facebook page!) you come to Gwinear Flat. It mightn’t look like it, but this is a wonderland of vegetation. You might be looking at 50 or 60 different species of vegetation.
Myrna is bending over looking at these: snowy white mountain gentians.
They are snow gums in the background, and these ones, so eminently photogenic, haven’t been burnt. (Scoparia after flowering in the foreground.)
They are ‘young’ (maybe 60-70 yo) and briskly healthy. Muscular in fact.
And this is one of these precious places that I have written about a number of times: an alpine mossy bog.
This one is full of all sorts of bits and pieces: mint bush, members of the Bossiaea family (pea bushes), Scoparia, sedges, heaths, but under all that there will be mosses and bogs holding water and allowing it to ooze into trickles which become creeklets constantly aggregating to find their way eventually into a river. What you are looking at is an example of the source of 30 per cent of all the water that flows into the Murray. And exposure to serial fires will kill them. But not this one. It seemed luxuriously healthy.
The flowers were not at their peak but they were out: trigger plants (below), Billy Buttons, alpine daisys, Everlastings in several colours.
But perhaps the best news. Regularly along the track, as usual almost always on some prominent feature, a protruding rock or root, a firmly embedded branch, we would come across these — fresh wombat scats.
All is well in parts of the world.
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7 thoughts on “[modestly] better news”
Robert Bluer
David, that’s you!
Er hem … quite.
Sounds right to me!! x
Tom Fanning
I love the muscular reference too. Shit that must be a healthy wombat!
Andrew J Webster
This is a great walk but we don’t have to be worried about the fires; Bobo in Canberra has assured us that all is normal and that his lord will protect us. Much the same in Indonesia where there is no coronavirus as the people have flattened it with prayer.
connor hornibrook
i loved it, could you swim in the pools on the grass.
Hi Connor. Great to hear from you! I think you could sit in them, and sitting flat the water might be up over your waist. But it would be pretty cold and it might get a bit murky. But if you don’t stir it up, where it’s running you can drink it. In fact it’s lovely water. Say hello to mum and dad and the other boys for me.
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The number of homes available for sale is finally improving, providing some hope for buyers burned out by an extremely competitive market.
During the week ending May 21, the inventory of homes for sale was 9% higher compared to the same week last year, according to new data from Realtor.com. That’s the largest year-over-year increase the listing site has recorded since it started tracking inventory in 2017. Encouragingly, it was also the second straight week of supply growth.
The inventory improvement is due in part to new listings, as well as to a fewer home sales.
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The number of homes to hit the market was 6.6% higher last week than during the same period a year ago, according to Realtor.com’s data. Meanwhile, about 6% fewer existing homes sold last month than in April 2021, according to the National Association of Realtors. That means more inventory is still available.
“The real estate refresh continues, building on the past two weeks of momentum with active listings’ biggest year-over-year jump in our data history. And as the number of new sellers also keeps rising, last week’s data suggests that more increases may be ahead,” said Danielle Hale, Realtor.com’s chief economist, in a statement.
Before adding, “Recent inventory improvements are expected to eventually tip market conditions in a more buyer-friendly direction, and one we expect to provide relief from surging asking prices later in the year.”
There is still a lot of room for improvement
While the recent increase in housing supply is good news, it will take a long time for the market to dig out of the inventory crisis that has been brewing since the housing crash and has been made worse by the pandemic.
Low mortgage rates, the desire for social distancing and the move toward remote work, led to a surge in housing demand starting in 2020 that is still going strong today. At the same time, many homeowners were able to refinance at low rates and were nervous about becoming buyers, keeping them from selling.
There is a long way to go before there is enough supply to satisfy buyer demand. A healthy housing market is one where there is a 6-month supply of homes for sale. NAR estimates there is currently a 2.2 month supply of existing homes at the current pace of sales — better than a year or so ago but still pretty low.
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In a recent survey of real estate agents, a whopping 71% said low inventory was the main obstacle to homeownership today. More than 50% of the agents surveyed by real estate tech company OJO Labs estimated their clients had to submit an average of 2 to 5 offers before having one accepted, with most of the rest saying their clients had to make five or more offers.
Low housing supply also affects home prices and pace of sales, and the prolonged drought in inventory has led to one of the most competitive housing markets in years. Asking prices have been 10% or more above the previous year’s for the past 23 weeks, while homes are selling six days faster compared last year, according to Realtor.com.
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Looking for the Confederate War
Historian Michael C. Hardy's quest to understand Confederate history, from the boots up.
The top secessionist.
There has been a recent trend in Academia to downplay the role of Unionism of western North Carolina. For decades , the academic party line was that the region was entirely pro-Union. Now, finally, scholars are beginning to take a more balanced approach. Unfortunately, it takes a long time for that trend to be come to fruition. I could not tell you how many times that I’ve given lectures, and during the question time, the ideas of a Unionist western North Carolina come out. I’ll say it again: western North Carolina was strongly pro-Confederate, with a few pockets of Unionism, and, as the war progressed, a lot of disinterest in the war, and both of the sides fighting it.
I was looking through Sitterson’s The Secession Movement in North Carolina a few days ago, and came across an interesting little side note. On pages 182-183, Sitterson gives a list of leading Unionists and Secessionists in the state House and Senate. Those who were Unionist in the House were as follows: D. D. Ferbee of Camden County; P. T. Henry of Bertie County; A. K. Simerton of Iredell County; and J. D. Wilkerson of Person. In the state senate, we have Bedford Brown of Caswell County; Josiah Turner of Orange County; John M. Morehead of Guilford County; David Outlaw of Bertie County; and J. D. Ramsey of Rowan County. Those considered the leading secessionists in the House were: John F. Hoke of Lincoln County; Samuel J. Person of New Hanover County; and Robert R. Bridgers of Edgecombe County. And in the state Senate, we have W. W. Avery of Burke County; Marcus Erwin of Buncombe County; Eli W. Hall of New Hanover County; and, V. C. Barringer of Cabarrus County.
What is interesting to note is that there were no leading Unionists in this list who were from western North Carolina, while leading Secessionists include Hoke of Lincoln County, Avery of Burke, and Erwin of Buncombe.
Posted by Michael C. Hardy at 8:47 AM
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Michael, thanks for keeping in the forefront the facts regarding the western North Carolina sentiment and first-hand accounts of the War Between the States.
Here is an example of how history becomes so very skewed. Here is a quote from a recent NPR interview with James McPherson (who I am not a great fan):
"Well, history says, and I would say probably 98 percent of historians would say, that the basic and most deep-rooted cause of the war was slavery..."
(For entire article, see http://www.npr.org and type in James McPherson)
One must only imagine how Mr. McPherson derived "probably 98%", since he has no source, neither will he ever have one.
McPherson shows and declares quite clearly his pro-Northern bias.
Did Mr. McPherson conduct a poll? Is he even referring to a poll? Did he include you? Who really was included?
When making such a wild and broad assumption, please use facts and sources next time, Mr. McPherson.
Regards, Matt Parker
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LeBron James, Bugs Bunny and Xbox Invite Fans to Create an Original Space Jam: A New Legacy Arcade-Style Video Game
Microsoft and Space Jam: A New Legacy are coming together for an epic partnership in the leadup to the film’s release in 2021. In celebration of the new movie, Xbox, Bugs Bunny and LeBron James are teaming up to help YOU create an original arcade-style video game inspired by the new movie.
Just announced on Instagram, we’re on the hunt for the best fan-submitted video game ideas—the loonier, the better! Starting December 14 through December 30, fans ages 14 and up will be able to submit the game ideas they think will be a slam dunk at the official contest website. All you have to do is review the Official Rules, select the gaming genre of your choosing using a key image and describe your game idea in less than 500 words.
Two lucky winners will have their ideas brought to life in the official Space Jam: A New Legacy arcade-style video game, available as the newest Perk for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate members in 2021. Winners will also receive the following prizes: their names featured in the game credits; an exclusive winner’s bundle with signed and authenticated LeBron James memorabilia, Space Jam: A New Legacy merchandise and Nike VIP packs, and a personalized Xbox Series S console; a private friends and family screening of the film; and a virtual Microsoft coding workshop for their local community.
To help coders of all ages jump-start their creativity, Microsoft Stores are hosting free, one-of-a-kind Space Jam: A New Legacy-themed virtual workshops on video game creation. Students will build a playable prototype of a video game using block-based coding on the MakeCode Arcade platform, all while learning about the professional skills and STEAM careers that are involved in game design.
The themed coding workshops are available online at aka.ms/SJANLcoding. You can also find additional resources and other free workshops that teach new skills and keep kids entertained this holiday season, on the microsoft.com virtual student workshop page.
Additionally, there are two Microsoft Learn lessons targeting more experienced coders, older teens, high school and college-aged students, and adults that focus on how to use player stats to help a coach make real-time decisions in the middle of a game. In the first lesson, you can predict efficiency ratings with machine learning and Visual Studio Code, using data from human and Tune Squad basketball players. The second lesson includes building a web app that uses additional machine learning models in real time to help a coach decide who needs a water break and who should be put in the game to yield the highest likelihood of winning. Think you have what it takes to lead a dream team?
LeBron James and co-stars Don Cheadle and Cedric Joe will help introduce the Microsoft Store and Learn lessons with short videos focusing on the power of computer science and coding. In the film, Joe plays James’s son Dom, who dreams of being a video game developer.
We’re so excited to join forces with Space Jam: A New Legacy to support computer science education. Our video game contest along with the coding workshops and lessons align with Microsoft’s greater skilling initiative, which aims at helping 25 million people—including those from under-represented populations—acquire new digital skills and apply them to their passions.
Microsoft and Warner Bros. have more exciting news to share in the coming months ahead of the official release of Space Jam: A New Legacy movie and video game coming 2021.
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A new era for Pigeon Hill: Muskegon brewery moves into Shoreline Drive production facility, will debut taproom, kitchen & more
April 22, 2019 April 22, 2019 Anna Gustafson 1 Comment
Pigeon Hill Brewing Company owners Michael Brower, left, Joel Kamp, and Chad Doane inside their new production facility. Photo by Anna Gustafson
When Pigeon Hill Brewing Company owners Michael Brower, Joel Kamp and Chad Doane look out at their brewery’s expansive new production facility into which they’re moving this week, there is, of course, a sense of anticipation and excitement. But there’s another word that seems to surface time and again when they think of their new home in downtown Muskegon: surreal.
“We just wanted to brew beer, and now people will stop us and want to get their pictures taken with us,” Kamp says Monday afternoon. “It’s totally surreal.”
That sense of surrealness is understandable: after all, it was just five years ago that Kamp, Brower and Doane opened Pigeon Hill in downtown Muskegon, and, now the brewery is celebrating the debut of its $2 million, 15,000-square-foot production facility at 895 Fourth Street. On Monday, April 22, the brewery began moving equipment from its former 7,000-square-foot production facility at 441 W. Western Ave. into the Fourth Street venue, and it’s set to begin brewing in the facility as of May 2. The city sold the 77,000-square-foot Fourth Street property to Pigeon Hill for $98,400.
The new venue, situated along the shores of Muskegon Lake and across the street from the L.C. Walker Arena, will soon offer a taproom in addition to brewing space, and it will also include a kitchen. It too houses Pigeon Hill’s offices and storage space. Until the brewery opens the Fourth Street taproom, it will continue operating its current taproom at 500 W. Western Avenue.
“For business growth, we had to make a move,” Kamp says of the inspiration behind the new facility, which they broke ground on this past August. “We’ll have room to add more tanks, more production, more packaging here.”
The Fourth Street facility is at first expected to annually make about 5,000 to 6,000 barrels of beer, as well as ready-to-drink cocktails. Pigeon Hill and McClure’s Pickles, which is based in Detroit and Brooklyn, just announced the launch of a major partnership between the two companies: they will produce a ready-to-drink bloody Mary cocktail. Currently, Pigeon Hill offers a ready-to-drink rum cocktail.
Plus, Brower noted in a previous interview, the added space will allow them to continue to be adventurous with their brews, such as growing their sour beer offerings.
And, with about 60,000 square feet of property surrounding Pigeon Hill’s new facility, as well its cavernous indoors space, Brower and Kamp said they expect to be able to host numerous events. To kick things off, Catholic Charities West Michigan will be holding its Holy Smokes BBQ competition—which raises money for the nonprofit—at the new Pigeon Hill location on May 11.
“Once that’s a success, I think other entities will see that and brainstorm what they can do with Pigeon Hill,” Kamp says.
Emblematic of Pigeon Hill’s own growth—the brewery not only sells its beer and cocktails at its downtown Muskegon taproom but in about 1,150 locations throughout Michigan—the company’s new home too is representative of a growing Muskegon. It’s this Fourth Street venue that was one of six local initiatives that landed Muskegon County on Site Selection Magazine’s list of the country’s top 10 metro areas with the most economic development projects.
“It’s completely surreal,” Brower said in a recent interview of the growth that has happened for both Pigeon Hill and downtown Muskegon over the past five years. “It was slow that first year [that Pigeon Hill was open]. Maybe that first summer, it went from pockets of people being at Unruly, at Pigeon Hill, at Racquets to people walking up and down the streets and parking in places that hadn’t been used in a decade. All of a sudden, I’m having trouble keeping up with what’s happening downtown. Every time I turn around, it seems like there’s a new project being announced.”
All of this: the growth and the new partnerships and the Pigeon Hill fans asking the owners for photos—it’s rooted in a place of hometown pride, and of an often emotional understanding of what it has meant to struggle, and, now, to see once empty streets and storefronts filled with people and businesses.
“It affects a lot of people’s lives in a lot of positive ways,” Kamp says of the brewery’s, and city’s, growth.
Brower too emphasizes this.
“We don’t just get to do what we love, we get to have a positive impact on the community,” he says.
Story and photos by Anna Gustafson, the publisher and editor of Muskegon Times. You can connect with Anna by emailing MuskegonTimes@gmail.com or on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
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Lynda Beam Morse
I will definitely be visiting Pigeon Hill Brewery on my next trip home from Texas!! I’ve been a big fan since the inception!
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Monday Elsa Update For Tampa Bay and Sandbag Locations
Rachel Pitts July 5th, 2021
The Monday Elsa update for Tampa Bay is still a waiting game. The National Hurricane Center’s 8am update says Elsa is about 55 miles east-southeast of Cayo Largo, Cuba. Maximum sustained winds are 65 mph. and is moving northwest at 14 mph.
According to our media partner ABC Action News, “We are watching closely as Tropical Storm Elsa approaches Cuba. What happens there will determine how the storm could impact the Tampa Bay area later.”
TROPICAL STORM ELSA | We are watching closely as Tropical Storm Elsa approaches Cuba. What happens there will determine how the storm could impact the Tampa Bay area later. https://t.co/4A2VpumcU0
— ABC Action News (@abcactionnews) July 5, 2021
ELSA | The biggest threat overall from the storm for our area may be heavy rain and fresh water flooding. There is a potential for 4-6" of rain which could be too much for some as we've already seen quite a bit a rain over the last several days. #flwx #GMTB pic.twitter.com/E6giHeuqcC
— Greg Dee (@GregDeeWeather) July 5, 2021
ABC Action News Meteorologist Greg Dee says the biggest threat from Elsa for the Tampa Bay area may be heavy rain and fresh water flooding. With that, sandbag locations are open for residents.
Hillsborough County is making sandbags available to the public starting today, (7/5). Hillsborough County residents are eligible for a maximum of 10 sandbags per family. Residents must show ID verifying they live in the County; a driver’s license or utility bill will serve as proper identification. Residents can call (813) 272-5900 to request additional information or visit HCFLGov.net/StaySafe.
Sandbags are available daily at the following locations from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Edward Medard Conservation Park, 6140 Turkey Creek Road, Plant City
E.G. Simmons Conservation Park, 2401 19th Ave. NW, Ruskin
Ed Radice Park, 14720 Ed Radice Drive, Tampa
In addition, the City of Tampa is offering sandbags beginning Monday at the following locations from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Al Barnes Park South, 2902 N. 32nd St.
Himes Avenue Complex, 4501 S. Himes Ave.
MacFarlane Park, 1700 North MacDill Avenue
The City of Pinellas Park has opened multiple self-service sandbag sites for residents only. Residents can get up to 10 sandbags each. Residents must show a water bill and/or valid driver’s license indicating they are a resident of Pinellas Park in order to receive their sandbags. It will begin Saturday, July 3, 2021 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm, Sunday, July 4, 2021 8:00 am – 5:00 pm. Pick up locations are below:
Helen Howarth Park: 6301 94th Ave N. Pinellas Park, FL
Pinebrook Park: 7202 118th Ave N. Pinellas Park, FL
Broderick Park: 6101 66th Ave N. Pinellas Park, FL
The City of Gulfport self-service sandbag location at the 49th Street Neighborhood Center, 1617 49th Street South will remain open on Monday, July 5 from 8:00AM to 5:00PM. There is 10-bag limit and proof of residency may be required.
Sandbag locations in Pasco County are open 24/7. While sandbags are provided, you must bring your own shovels to fill the bags. Please note, crews will restock sand piles between the hours of 8 a.m. and 5 p.m.
W.H. Jack Mitchell, Jr., Park: 4825 Little Road, New Port Richey
Veterans Memorial Park: 14333 Hicks Road, Hudson
Magnolia Valley Golf Course: 7223 Massachusetts Avenue, New Port Richey
Pasco County Public Works (C-Barn): 30908 Warder Road, San Antonio
For Manatee County, sandbags will be available to city residents at the Public Works Annex in Bradenton on Monday from 9:00am-5:00pm. Residents are instructed to use 13th Ave. W to enter into the area behind the Annex, which is located at 1411 9th St. W.
ABC Action News has listed all sandbag locations that are open – Read more on that here.
8 Musts For Florida Hurricane Preparedness
When the power goes out, you're going to be fiddling with your cell phone even more. Car cell phone chargers will be a lifesaver if there's no juice coming from your usual wall charger.
Not just traditional batteries, but grab a portable battery to recharge your cell phone.
I know we're biased, but stations like ours that are still live and local will be a vital source of information during the storm, especially when the power goes out and you have no updates coming from those weather guys on TV.
Be sure you have all you'll need to get through a long stay at home if the roads get too tough to travel.
If the power goes out, the ATM may not work and some businesses may not be able to process credit card payments.
Full tank of gas
Lines might get long as folks not only fill up their car gas tanks but they'll need gas for those power generators too. Fill up before the weather gets nasty.
Living in Florida, you can always tell if the weather's going to get rough when bottled water disappears from the shelves. Stock up now while you're thinking of it and it's easy to find!
Try to find canned food that can be opened without a can opener. Those can be a pain to find in the dark during a power outage.
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Supply Lists – please note revisions for 20-21
The following supply lists are a basic list for each grade level for our school. For all students, please add a 12″-13″ laptop sleeve or similar for student computers and please prioritize purchasing at least one 4 function calculator for your student in order to limit sharing of supplies.
6th Grade Supply List
It would also be a good idea to make sure all of your student’s belongings (binders, jackets, backpacks, lunch totes, shoes, calculators, laptop sleeves, etc.) have their name or initials someplace visible and readable in case they are left somewhere or lost. They can be returned quickly.
Pre-enrollment encouraged for 2020-2021
THIS INFORMATION WAS PUBLISHED JULY 2020. FOR CURRENT INFORMATION REGARDING REGISTRATION, PLEASE CONTACT YOUR CHILD’S ZONED/ENROLLED SCHOOL OR THE ENROLLMENT CENTER AT 931-542-5078.
Yesterday evening, all kindergarten through 9th-grade students who are new to CMCSS for the 2020-21 school year whose parents/guardians had already pre-enrolled on enroll.cmcss.net were automatically moved into CMCSS’ student information system (PowerSchool). This transition allows families to begin receiving phone, email, and text notifications from the district. Additionally, this move allows parents/guardians of new-to-CMCSS kindergarten through 9th-grade students to begin receiving the electronic form to choose between traditional (in-person) classes and CMCSS K-12 Virtual for each of their children, beginning this Wednesday. Due to TN Ready Graduate requirements, parents/guardians of new-to-CMCSS students in grades 10-12 will need to turn in all necessary registration documents and the district will need to receive student records from the child’s previous school in order to complete the registration process (see below for more information).
For parents/guardians pre-enrolling K-9th grade students after Wednesday, please allow up to 48 hours for the electronic form to arrive after completing the process at enroll.cmcss.net. We encourage all parents/guardians of incoming kindergarteners and students who are new to CMCSS for the 2020-21 school year to please complete pre-enrollment at enroll.cmcss.net ASAP.
Families should review all of the information on cmcss.net/reopening before making decisions between traditional and CMCSS K-12 Virtual.
Typically, the district does not move students from the pre-enrollment system into PowerSchool until all necessary registration paperwork is submitted. However, it is important for new families to receive timely updates and make their choices for returning to school during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Parents/guardians still will need to turn in all necessary registration documents to the CMCSS Enrollment Center or their child’s enrolled school before or soon after the first day of school on Aug. 31. The Enrollment Center at Greenwood will be open to the public by appointment only Tuesday through Thursday from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. To schedule an appointment, please call 931-542-5078 or email [email protected]. The front offices at schools will begin accepting these documents on July 23 and will be open M-F from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Visitors are required to wear masks.
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Click here for a list of middle schools and contact information.
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Copy of CMCSS Reopening Update July 14, 2020
Tonight, the district is providing more information on the CMCSS K-12 Virtual option and the safety and health protocols for the traditional model.
Click here for an overview of the CMCSS K-12 Virtual option, including an FAQ.
Click here for a brief video developed by the district’s Technology Integration Coaches to share more information about the SchoolsPLP learning management system that will be utilized for CMCSS K-12 Virtual.
Click here for additional information on the district’s health and safety protocols for reopening schools in the traditional model.
Beginning tomorrow, Wed., July 15, the district will send to parents/guardians an electronic form (email/text) to make the choice between traditional or CMCSS K-12 Virtual. Families will have the ability to select different options for each of the children in their household.
Parents choosing the traditional option will also be asked to confirm if their child(ren) will be riding CMCSS bus transportation. The American Academy of Pediatrics encourages alternative modes of transportation for students who have other options.
At this time, the district will be asking families to complete the form by Sun., July 19 to give the district time to balance staffing, develop bus routes, and make other important operational decisions.
We thank families for their continued patience and understanding. The district has received hundreds of questions from families. District leaders are working diligently to address those questions via FAQs and updates. Questions that are specific to an individual student’s needs are being routed to the appropriate CMCSS personnel and will be answered as soon as possible.
CMCSS Traditional Model Safety and Health Overview
Continuum of Learning – Moving from Traditional to Remote
At any point during the academic year, CMCSS may need to switch the entire district, or individual schools, into or out of traditional (in-school) and remote (out-of-school) models based on the current conditions surrounding the pandemic. Due to the ever-changing circumstances of the pandemic, parents and guardians should make preparations throughout the year in the event that school buildings are closed and remote learning must take place.
The CMCSS Communicable Disease Team in conjunction with the Montgomery County Health Department (MCHD) will continuously review the local spread of COVID-19 to make district-wide decisions related to the Continuum of Learning options. Although some districts are selecting one metric to determine in-person vs. remote learning, there is not a general consensus at this point on which metric is best for making school closure decisions. Therefore, CMCSS and MCHD are taking a more holistic approach and are, on a daily basis, reviewing the following metrics in Montgomery County:
Total positive cases out of total tested
Number of new positives out of the number of new tests
New active cases per population (per 100,000 and per 50,000)
Percent of COVID-19 spread in the community following the Tennessee Department of Health guidance for Low Spread, Medium Spread, and High Spread and a common scale of interpretation:
Normal Operations: 0 positive COVID-19 cases in Montgomery County
Low Spread: less than 0.5% positive COVID-19 active cases in Montgomery County
Medium Spread: 0.5% to 1% positive COVID-19 active cases in Montgomery County
High Spread: Greater than 1% positive COVID-19 active cases in Montgomery County
CMCSS and MCHD will continue reviewing multiple metrics and will be adding metrics over time such as employee and student absentee rates.
Click here for the current COVID-19 local data that is reviewed by CMCSS and MCHD on a daily basis. This data is provided by the Tennessee Department of Health.
COVID-19 Exposure Response Plan
The CMCSS Safety and Health Department will investigate any potential exposure cases in the school system in collaboration with the Montgomery County Health Department. Procedures and protocols are continuing to be developed as new guidance is released.
Click here for the current CMCSS Return to Work/School Flowchart developed by the CMCSS Safety and Health Department in collaboration with the Montgomery County Health Department.
Any school closures will be decided in conjunction with the CMCSS Communicable Disease Team and the Montgomery County Health Department. Transitioning from traditional to remote (rolling closures) for individual schools will be affected by the time frame required for receipt of test results and the length of time it takes to conduct contact tracing.
In collaboration with the Safety and Health Department, Communicable Disease Team and the Montgomery County Health Department, the CMCSS Communications Department will support schools in promptly communicating any school-level closures to stakeholders via phone, text, email, school and district websites, and other communications channels as needed.
CMCSS will implement the new Standard Response Protocol that includes the addition of the “HOLD” response. The new response will be used to ensure building occupants are not moving throughout the building during an investigation of a suspected COVID-19 positive case currently in the building.
Cafeteria/Child Nutrition
Students will eat in the school cafeteria unless otherwise configured by the school. By state law, teachers receive a duty-free lunch period, and in the majority of instances there is not enough school-based staff to monitor meals in the classroom. The district will space students as best it can, but parents should not expect that students would be provided with six feet of separation from other students while eating breakfast and/or lunch in the school cafeteria. The following are additional protocols that the Child Nutrition Department will follow:
All Operations/Child Nutrition employees will self-screen and have temperatures taken before each shift.
Staff are required to wear masks in addition to all standard safety protocols.
Additional training for all Child Nutrition employees (focus on cleaning, disinfecting, specific protocols, and social actions.)
Students sharing meal items or placing extra items they do not consume, on what are commonly referred to as “share tables”, will be prohibited.
Choices will be further limited and served by staff only.
Meals and utensils will be handed to students to reduce contact.
Child Nutrition staff will key in the student IDs to reduce contact with the keypad.
All CMCSS families who wish to use the cafeteria this year are encouraged to pre-pay their student’s cafeteria account via SchoolCafé. The safe and convenient online system allows parents to make payments, track meal balances and purchases, and monitor their student’s account.
Families with students in CMCSS K-12 Virtual will be able to pick up meals for children at schools. Details for this pick-up service will be provided in the coming weeks. Parents/guardians who feel their household may be eligible for free or reduced meal benefits should apply online at SchoolCafé. The online application allows for a contact-free, secure application environment. Free and reduced meals are available for eligible students choosing either traditional or CMCSS K-12 Virtual.
Should individual schools or the entire district need to transition from traditional to remote, the district will communicate details on the plan to provide meals for remote learning.
Cleaning/Sanitizing/Facility Operations
The Operations Department is continuing to make modifications to custodial procedures to reduce the spread of communicable diseases. For more information from the CDC on how COVID-19 spreads, click here. The following are some of the modifications that will currently be in place:
Custodial schedules will be adjusted to allow more custodians in the building during the school day.
The maintenance department will handle all groundskeeping so the custodial staff can focus on cleaning inside the school building.
Disinfecting stations will be established at select entrances and throughout the school building.
The District will provide sanitizing products in all active classrooms.
There will be an increased focus on two-step cleaning throughout the day and a decreased focus on window cleanings, floor buffing, etc. In classrooms, students’ desks will be oriented in the same direction.
All desks, students and teachers, will be cleared at the end of the school day to allow for proper disinfecting by custodians.
Deep cleaning with pressurized spraying of disinfectants will take place after school each evening by custodians.
If there is a known outbreak in a room, the room will be closed and extensively deep cleaned to include increased air filtration.
All buses will be disinfected by the Vehicle Maintenance Department after the morning runs and again after the afternoon runs using “HDQ” and following a pressurized spray, wait, and wipe method.
An enhanced two-step restroom-cleaning schedule will be in place during the school day with restrooms accessed through main hallways being cleaned every two hours by custodians. At the end of the day and during the teachers’ planning period, K-2 restrooms in classrooms will be cleaned by custodians.
The following disinfectant has been purchased and will be used by CMCSS: Super HDQ
The District will increase indoor air filtration from MERV 9 to MERV 13 filters whenever possible.
Mechanical systems (HVAC) will run 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Increased outdoor air ventilation up to 100% as indoor and outdoor conditions permit.
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), Monitoring Equipment & Personal Hygiene Supplies
CMCSS face mask requirements are based on local, state, and national guidance, including the American Academy of Pediatrics and the CDC, as well as feedback from families and employees.
All students utilizing CMCSS transportation are required to wear masks while on the bus.
All students (general education and special populations in elementary, middle, and high school) are required to wear masks in all common areas in the school building (hallways, restrooms, front offices, counseling or administrative offices, etc.) and when physical distancing cannot be maintained anywhere in the building (including, if applicable, in classrooms).
There will be special considerations and exemptions made as needed regarding mask requirements. The district understands that some students may have health concerns or physical and emotional limitations that make masks difficult to wear. Parents/guardians will be required to provide medical documentation to the school beginning Mon., Aug. 10 as to why their child cannot wear a mask.
All employees are required to wear masks in all common areas in the school building (hallways, restrooms, front offices, counseling or administrative offices, etc.) and when physical distancing cannot be maintained anywhere in the building (including, if applicable, in classrooms).
CMCSS will review an employee’s concerns regarding wearing a mask if they have a documented medical condition. Employees with these concerns may contact Jeanine Johnson, CHRO.
Students and employees are urged to bring their own masks. However, the district will have masks available for any students or employees who do not have their own. Cloth face masks should be washed after each use. Face masks must adhere to the Student Dress Code in the Student Code of Conduct: obscene, profane, provocative, violent, or inflammatory words or pictures on body/skin, clothing or jewelry, or clothing advertising alcoholic beverages, drugs, drug paraphernalia or tobacco products are prohibited and students are prohibited from wearing, while on school property or at any school-sponsored activity, any type of clothing, apparel, or accessory, which denotes such students’ membership in or affiliation with any gang (T.C.A. § 49-6-4215). For more information from the CDC on the use of cloth face coverings to help slow the spread of COVID-19, click here.
According to the CDC, it is not known if face shields provide any benefit as source control to protect others from the spray of respiratory particles. The CDC does not recommend use of face shields for normal everyday activities or as a substitute for cloth face coverings.
CMCSS will continue to purchase PPE and will continue to monitor supply levels and order supplies as needed as funding allows.
The State is providing no-cost PPE, including face masks for any school stakeholder who wants or needs one, thermometers for every school, and face shields for every staff member. This includes 298,000 cloth reusable masks for teachers, and 27 million disposable masks for students distributed by the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency.
Every classroom teacher will have a full-year classroom disinfecting kit to use so no teacher pays for these materials out of their own pockets. The kits include hand sanitizer, disinfecting wipes, gloves and masks.
School nurses will be provided with surgical masks, gloves, protective gowns, and face shields.
As recommended by the CDC, washing hands with soap and water for 20 seconds is the best way to get rid of germs in most situations. Students and staff will be required to wash hands throughout the day. When soap and water are not available, hand sanitizer with 60% alcohol is an acceptable substitute. Hand sanitizing stations will be placed throughout school buildings and in cafeterias.
In addition to the hand sanitizer the district already has in stock, the Operations Department has ordered over 700 half-gallon bottles of hand sanitizer as well as 5-gallon refills. Old Glory Distilling Co. will be donating 4oz bottles of hand sanitizer to all staff.
Sneeze guards will be installed in all front offices.
Gov. Lee’s Safe Reopening Plan for Tennessee Schools, July 28, 2020
TN Governor’s Website
As described by the American Academy of Pediatrics, physical distancing, sometimes referred to as social distancing, is simply the act of keeping people separated with the goal of limiting the spread of contagion between individuals. There is a conflict between optimal academic and social/emotional learning in schools and strict adherence to current physical distancing guidelines. Each school will develop guidelines to promote physical distancing that are developmentally appropriate and feasible.
School buses are mass transit vehicles and CMCSS school buildings, classrooms, and cafeterias are designed and equipped to serve large numbers of students at the same time. District vehicles and facilities are not capable of providing the six feet of individual spacing that is currently recommended by the CDC to reduce or prevent the spread of COVID. Parents and guardians selecting a traditional return to school for their children should not expect that their child(ren) would remain six feet from their classmates during their ride to and from school or at all times while they are in district buildings.
Students will be required to remain seated in classrooms with assigned seats, and when feasible, will remain with cohorts to minimize cross-over with other students and staff.
Safety and Health Department Trainings
The CMCSS Safety and Health Department, in conjunction with the CMCSS Professional Learning Team, will develop online COVID-19 training for students, staff, parents, and visitors before the start of the 2020-2021 school year. The training will consist of the following items:
School Safety teams
Training on symptoms of COVID-19, prevention techniques, and CMCSS procedures relevant to the individual to prevent and minimize exposure
Personal sanitation guidelines such as handwashing, hand sanitizer vs. soap and water, cleaning of personal and high touch areas by students and staff, etc.
Temperature and symptom screening of students and staff
At-home screening measures prior to riding CMCSS transportation or arriving at school
Universal precautions when in contact with bodily fluids
Physical Distancing/closure of meeting areas
Health screening room spaces and removal protocols to use when suspicions of COVID-19 arise and the role of the School Nurse
Immediate notification of CMCSS Safety & Health Department in the event of a suspected or identified case of COVID-19 among students or staff
What to do when a COVID-19 exposure occurs (exposure rubric)
Building expectations including when in-depth cleaning protocols are necessary
Bus seating and sanitization measures
Training of visitor guidelines and measures CMCSS will use to minimize additional community entry into schools to prevent crowding (i.e. parent drop off without building entry)
Self Screening/Attendance
Employees will be expected to self-screen, including temperature checks, before entering school premises.
Self-screening protocols for students and visitors will be implemented as needed. However, families are strongly encouraged to engage in self-screening at home prior to each school day. If students or employees are sick or someone in their home is exhibiting symptoms of COVID-19, they should not come to school. Click here for updated guidance from the CDC regarding screening K-12 students for symptoms of COVID-19.
Modifications will be made to the student attendance policy for the 2020-2021 school year to the extent allowable by law. If students or employees are sick or someone in their home is exhibiting symptoms of COVID-19, they should not come to school. CMCSS is awaiting a COVID-19 specific code from the Tennessee Department of Education for attendance purposes. Students who need to be out for an extended period due to illness will be excused, and there will not be a gap in their education as the district will have the ability to provide remote learning for that student.
For employee-specific attendance questions, please click here for the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) policy. Employees with concerns should email [email protected].
Self-Screening Protocol
Have you had any of the below symptoms as a new-onset in the past 72 hours? (This does not include chronic conditions)
fever of 100 degrees or greater
new onset of a cough
new onset of shortness of breath
new onset of sore throat
new onset of body aches
new onset of headache
new onset of loss of taste or smell
If “yes”, please consult your personal health care provider before returning to any CMCSS locations.
School-Based Mitigation Measures
Each school building will utilize its School Safety team to ensure proper hygiene measures are in place throughout the school year. The School Safety team will attempt to maintain minimization of the risk of transmission of COVID-19 in the following areas:
Identify specific handwashing times for each class
Implement hand sanitizer stations in the front office areas and throughout the building
Procure and use disinfecting and personal hygiene supplies
No mass gatherings such as assemblies and pep rallies unless appropriate physical distancing can be maintained
No field trips for at least the first semester; encourage virtual field trips, where feasible.
Procurement and use of signage to communicate policies and procedures to staff, students and families
Identify Health Screening Rooms and protocols for immediate removal of symptomatic individuals
Spot check for physical distancing, continued closure of meeting rooms/assembly areas, handwashing, etc.
Develop school-specific plans for how people enter and exit the building and who may be allowed in different parts of the building to reduce traffic and congestion.
When feasible, limit class exchanges, have teachers rotate between classes, and cohort students as much as possible.
Students will be required to have assigned seats, and when feasible, will remain with cohorts to minimize cross-over with other students and staff.
Ensure that employees and students that are on quarantine are not entering the school building.
The role and responsibilities of the school nurse are essential healthcare workers as we face the COVID-19 pandemic in our community and schools. The following are some of the specific responsibilities of the school nurse during the pandemic:
The Safety & Health Department will take the lead on the COVID-19 Exposure Response Plan. The school nurse will ensure school staff and families know how to contact the Safety & Health Department.
School nurses will assess and evaluate students exhibiting any COVID-19 symptoms.
Evaluate the current school nurse designated space and determine if there is an adjacent space for health screenings.
Each school is required to have a Health Screening Room for anyone displaying COVID-19 symptoms.
Each school will have a system in place for the nurse to triage sick students so that students receiving well services aren’t exposed to sick children.
Use standard transmission-based precautions when caring for sick people.
Update school-based communicable disease policies as guidance changes.
Inventory and request supplies for school clinics (sanitizer, soap, tissues, paper towels, trash cans for the Health Screening Room that are no touch or without lids, cleaners/disinfectants, PPE, etc.)
Closely monitor school health data.
Educate students and families on when they should stay home and when they may return to school in conjunction with their medical provider/Montgomery County Health Department.
Identify the number of students with underlying health considerations.
According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, parents are encouraged to consider alternative methods of transportation to and from school because passengers on school buses will not always be afforded a minimum six-foot distance from other students. Parents and guardians selecting a traditional return to school for their children and who opt-in to transportation should not expect that their child(ren) would remain six feet from their classmates during their ride to and from school. The following protocols will be in place on CMCSS transportation:
All employees must self-screen and have their temperatures taken before each shift.
Bus Drivers, Bus Aides, Bus Monitors, and students are required to wear masks the entire time while on the bus.
Students must bring their own masks, but extra masks will be available on every bus.
Buses will be disinfected every day by the Vehicle Maintenance Department after morning and afternoon runs.
Hand sanitizer will be available on all buses.
Seats will be assigned and passenger attendance sheets will be completed every day by the driver. (Assigned seating is imperative to allow for contact tracing.)
If a student, driver, monitor, or aide tests positive, the bus will be placed out of service for 24 hours and disinfected.
Additional bus stops will be added to reduce the number of students at each bus stop.
Bus windows and roof vents will be open when possible. (Windows will be cracked and roof vents open during inclement weather routes.)
Since March 12, 2020, CMCSS has restricted school- and district-sponsored travel. Until further notice:
All school- or district-sponsored out-of-state travel for employees and students is prohibited.
All school- or district-sponsored in-state travel via CMCSS transportation will continue to be reviewed on a case-by-case basis for approval.
All school- or district-sponsored travel on for-hire transportation (charter bus, planes, etc.) for students and employees is prohibited.
CMCSS will limit nonessential visitors from the school environment to prevent crowding, and access to the building will be limited for all visitors. Lunchtime visitors will not be permitted. Essential visitors should conduct a self-screening of symptoms before entering the building and will be required to wear a face mask while on campus. Building administrators will approve any essential visitors throughout the day. Parents/guardians should call or email their child’s teacher or the front office of the school to set up an appointment before arriving.
Water fountains will be taped off, placed out of order, and unavailable until further notice. Students should bring bottled water to school each day. Touchless water bottle filling stations can still be utilized. However, these stations are not available at all school locations and it is not feasible for providing water for an entire school. The district will continue to explore options for hydration.
As of July 24, 2020; subject to change. (PPE section updated Aug. 20, 2020)
Enrollment Information 2020-2021
District Offices Reopening
Central Services Gracey is open to the public by appointment only Monday through Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. To schedule an appointment, please review the list of topics below and email or call the respective point of contact. *District and school offices are closed to the public on Friday, Aug. 28.*
Topic Email Phone
Accounting [email protected] 931-920-7859, 931-920-7860, 931-920-7848, or 931-920-7816
Benefits [email protected] 931-920-7810
Business Affairs (Other Inquiries) [email protected] 931-920-7848
Certified Applications/Years Worked Verifications [email protected] 931-920-7960
Certified Employee Concerns [email protected] 931-920-7913
Certified Licensure [email protected] 931-920-7919
Classified Applications [email protected] 931-920-7962
Classified Employee Concerns [email protected] 931-920-7423
Employee Loan Verifications [email protected] 931-920-7814
Enrollment Center [email protected] 931-542-5078
Fingerprinting [email protected] 731-920-7914
OJI/Safety [email protected] 931-920-7836
Payroll https://employees.cmcss.net/Misc/ViewDocs?filename=payrollcontacts.pdf
Purchasing [email protected] 931-920-7852
Retirement [email protected] 931-920-7966
Student Records [email protected] 931-542-5051
Student Services [email protected] 931-542-5069
Sub Applications [email protected] 931-920-7424
If you are unable to find a topic relevant to your needs, please call 931-648-5600 between 7:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday – Friday or email [email protected]
On the day of an appointment, visitors will need to wait in their vehicles or outside of the building, call the number provided at the time the appointment was confirmed, and await further instructions for entering the building. Visitors will be required to wear face masks or cloth face coverings, and these will not be provided by CMCSS. It is important for visitors to check their temperatures before they arrive, cancel appointments if they or someone in their home are symptomatic (fever over 100 degrees Fahrenheit, cough or shortness of breath, sore throat, body aches, diarrhea, headache, or the loss of taste or smell), or if they have been exposed to anyone in the past 14 days who is positive for COVID-19 or is being tested.
Although the Enrollment Center will begin taking a limited number of registration appointments for students who are new to CMCSS or who have left the district and are returning, parents and guardians may begin the process online by visiting enroll.cmcss.net. For most parents and guardians, after the process is started online, the only thing left to do is turn in required documents, such as proofs of residence, immunization records, and birth certificates. These documents can be turned in to the school or enrollment center when offices fully reopen.
Central Services South, the Operations Complex, and individual school buildings will remain closed to the public until further notice.
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How Does an Incumbency Certificate Work?
What is the Importance of an Incumbency Certificate?
What Information is Included in an Incumbency Certificate?
Format of Incumbency Certificate
Example of Incumbency Certificate
How to Get an Incumbency Certificate?
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What Is Incumbency Certificate – Its Importance, Format and How To Get One
An incumbency certificate is an official document that contains crucial details, such as names of board members, company directors and other primary management members. It validates the identities of business owners and specifies positions held by each member. This document’s primary purpose is to confirm a firm’s signing officers. It decides who has the legal authority to make decisions on behalf of a company.
This blog is a detailed guide to an incumbency certificate, how it works, its importance, the information included in it, its format, how to get an incumbency certificate and much more. Read on to get all the details.
An incumbency certificate provides official recognition to the managerial officers present in a company. For instance, the incumbency certificate format mentions details about a business’s CEO, president, secretary, treasurer, etc. This document also mentions details pertaining to other board members and corporate officers.
Aside from the names, this certificate also mentions the job positions of each member. It can help understand some crucial details about a company, such as who the CEO is, were they appointed or elected, what their primary role is, etc.
The individuals mentioned in the documents form the team of members legally representing the company. Subsequently, these members are appointed to ensure legal compliance. That said, if there is malpractice in the firm, these individuals will be the first to face questions.
The certificate of incumbency form is an integral part of a business. Here’s why this document is extremely important:
The document is necessary for all officials who take part in forming legal decisions for a company.
It signifies the names and positions of all members present in an organisation.
The corporate secretary is responsible for maintaining company records. Further, he/she has to issue this certificate, mentioning the details of all members.
A bank or financial institution asks for this document if a company wants to open a new account or for a new transaction.
This certificate is also required during a merger when the executive board’s restructuring is in order.
It may also come in handy when a company wants to make any financial or legal transaction.
If you are inquisitive about which members are mentioned in an incumbency certificate, you can take help from a legal counsellor. However, most companies mention the names of the following individuals in this document:
President of the company
Company CEO, COO and CFO
Shareholders, in some cases
In simple terms, those who need to be in this certificate are the people who will legally represent a company. These individuals are generally at the top of the hierarchy, as they take part in the most crucial decisions pertaining to their firm.
Typically, the company secretary files this certificate. For added security, this document bears the company seal. Some local laws might also want this certificate to be notarised. The content of the certificate follows this format:
It starts with an introduction of the firm and its status of registration. It also mentions the date of issue, region and the relevant company’s information.
After that comes the names of individuals who legally represent the firm, the position they hold and their signatures.
It might also mention whether these members were elected or appointed.
Towards the end, this document mentions details on the individual or firm who filed this certificate, his/her qualifications and signature.
The certificate of incumbency sample format might differ from one company to another. However, a typical certificate looks like this:
The undersigned, Secretary/Assistant Secretary _______, a _______ corporation, hereby certified the following:
He/she is duly elected for the position of Secretary/Assistant Secretary of the corporation and is charged with record maintenance, minutes and the corporation’s seal.
I further certify that the following persons have been elected to the office set as per their respective names. The signatures below are authentic and original signatures of those individuals:
NAME, SIGNATURE and TITLE
_______ _________ ________
That pursuant to the corporation’s By Laws, as amended, and specific resolutions undertaken by the organisation’s Board of Directors, the persons designated for the above-mentioned roles were provided with enough authority to act on behalf of the corporation.
That pursuant to the corporation’s By Laws, as amended, the undersigned has authority to execute this document on behalf of the corporation, and that he/she has executed this certificate with the company seal at this _____ day of ____.
Signature: ____
Name: ____
Title: ____
[Company seal]
Obtaining an incumbency certificate is easy. You simply need to follow these steps:
Step 1: Draft the certificate. Note that some laws might require this document to be notarised. Please note that only the corporate secretary can issue this certificate.
Step 2: After this, file this document with the State Secretary’s Office.
Step 3: Create a minute book and file the certificate there as well. A minute book is a company file that includes copies of all essential legal documents related to the organisation.
An incumbency certificate is a crucial document pertaining to the legal status of an organisation. It helps verify the existence of company members and assists in the day-to-day performance of a company. Limited liability companies or corporations must issue this document to list the people in their organisation who have the authority to take financial and legal decisions.
Q1. What is a minute book?
Ans: Minute books store vital company information in one single file. This can help you access all documents in case of a legal proceeding. A minute book contains crucial information about documents, such as corporate bylaws, annual reports, EIN filings and more.
Q2. Who signs the incumbency certificate?
Ans: A certificate of incumbency mentions details of all company members. These members are individuals who can enter legal agreements on behalf of the business. Thus, several parties have to sign this document to ensure its validity, such as the CEO, CFO, COO, president, shareholders and more.
Q3. What can I do with an incumbency certificate?
Ans: This certificate can be of use during several circumstances. For example, your bank might ask for this document if you want to seek financial services. An incumbency certificate also comes to play during acquisitions or mergers.
Q4. Who files the incumbency certificate?
Ans: Typically, a company secretary is responsible for drafting this document. He/she is accountable for maintaining corporate records within a company. Furthermore, a company secretary’s role is to get all members’ signatures through legal means and put the company seal at the end of this document.
Q5. How long is an incumbency certificate valid for?
Ans: There is usually no validity period for this certificate. However, a company secretary should make necessary changes in this document whenever a minute change occurs in the firm. This will help ensure that all information stays up-to-date.
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Prioritize Boundaries: Learn how to say no or not right now. It is OK to take time off.
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How to Support First Responders and Their Mental Health
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Observe - If you observe the first responder acting erratically or not eating/sleeping well. Gently address your concerns to the first responder.
Listen - Provide an opportunity for them to talk about what happened at work and share their feelings. If you suspect they don’t want answers to the problem, just listen.
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Having a conversation with someone who likely has some level of firearm training can be challenging, and they may not be receptive to talking about gun storage and security. It can be helpful to suggest the following steps to keep themselves and their family safe:
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Store ammunition separately from firearms and out of reach of unauthorized persons.
During periods of increased stress and emotional crisis, reassess steps to ensure the safe storage and use of firearms.
Mental Health and Wellness Resources for First Responders
First Responder Crisis Text Line: 24/7 support for first responders in a mental health crisis. Text “BADGE” to 741741.
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National Crisis & Suicide Prevention Lifeline: A network of crisis centers that provide emotional 24/7 support to anyone experiencing emotional distress or in a suicidal crisis. Text or call 988.
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Home > News & Events > NDRI News > Alcohol screening and brief intervention project wins award for promotion of preventative health
Alcohol screening and brief intervention project wins award for promotion of preventative health
A project to investigate the feasibility of delivering routine alcohol screening and brief intervention in a hospital emergency setting was the winner, in the preventative health category, of the Western Australian (WA) Health Excellence Awards 2018. The Health Excellence Awards, presented by the WA Government Department of Health, recognise innovation and excellence in service delivery across eight project categories.
The project was a collaboration between the WA South Metropolitan Health Service (Fiona Stanley Hospital) and the National Drug Research Institute at Curtin University. It was funded by the WA Primary Health Alliance with additional in-kind support provided by the WA South Metropolitan Health Service. The project was unique in its approach as it involved the referral of some patients, identified as moderate or high risk drinkers, to their nominated GP, presenting an opportunity for the issue of alcohol use to be raised and discussed.
The project team developed, implemented and evaluated an alcohol screening and brief intervention (ASBI) program at Fiona Stanley Hospital Emergency Short Stay Unit. A randomised controlled design was used to compare ASBI (usual care) with ASBI plus referral to their general practitioner (Intervention) (ASBI+GP). There was also a third (non-randomised) group who did not have a GP (‘no GP’).
The study recruited people who were aged 18 years or older and who screened as moderate- or high-risk on the three-item alcohol use disorders identification test (AUDIT-C). All participants received a brief intervention, with those screening at ‘high-risk’ also getting a referral to the specialist alcohol and other drug team. Those randomised to the ASBI+GP group had a discharge summary sent to their nominated GP.
453 participants were recruited, with 200 randomised to the intervention group, 189 to usual care, and 64 in the ‘no GP’ group. Forty-three percent were in the ‘high-risk’ category on the AUDIT-C and the overall median weekly alcohol consumption was 20 standard drinks.
Re-interviews with 247 (55%) people were conducted by telephone at three months and, from their AUDIT-C scores, 77 (31%) were low, 111 (45%) moderate and 57 (23%) high-risk drinkers and median alcohol use had declined to 10 drinks/week. More than 70% of the randomised participants had visited a GP by three months; surprisingly, 48% of those in the ‘no GP’ group had also seen one.
At six months, the number of hospital presentations for the six months before and after-recruitment were evaluated using the hospital’s electronic records. These showed that those in the no-GP group had a significantly greater increase in alcohol-related hospital presentations than the ASBI+GP group.
In summary, alcohol use was reduced, with some evidence of reduced alcohol-related hospital presentations. There was extensive use of GP services by this cohort, including by those who did not have a regular GP. This highlights the potential for close collaboration between hospital EDs and GPs in addressing harmful alcohol use by patients.
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Why haven't any of you doll fuckers started a Game of Thrones topic?
Thread starter Castor Troy
Poonman
macebronian
His death was consequential, not intentional. I get that.
I only labelled it as "payoff" on account of my own emotional investments, not Martins writing style.
Maybe I'm using the term incorrectly?
Remembers The North,
Poonman said:
It's completely understandable that you may get invested in a narrative arc and then not be entirely thrilled with the resolution. You're good.
I wasn't specificallhy trying to point-counterpoint. It was more that you said something and it made me think about it: was the event satisfactory? Did I feel a cathartic payoff? I can't say I did, because I would have preferred a much more bloody and violent payoff than that. But that's the beautiful thing about historical fiction or fantasy written as pseudo-historical fiction. 'Better than they deserve' deaths happened in history all the time, and a lot of it had a karmic element when viewed in retrospect.
Sort of like King Henry V dying of dysentery, the bane of armies and the ender of wars up to the 20th century. I believe that the true cause of his death may be in question now, but for a long time that was the commonly attributed cause. Dude is a highly romanticized king, but he did some prety heinous shit while being labeled a' great monarch.' A miserable death was probably not as satisfying to those he slighted, but I'm sure they saw it as some form of divine retribution or providence.
I guess the initial shock and fear of some caustic poison painfully shutting down your body (on your wedding day) is pretty badass when compared to say....Augusto Pinochet dying quick and painlessly at the age of 91 (without ever seeing the inside of a prison).
evil wasabi
The Jongmaster
I am kind of bummed that the HBO people decided to completely dump Strong Belwas, and give his story over to Daario. In the books, that scene in Meereen where Daenerys picks a champion to face off against the lancer from Meereen was supposed to be with Belwas. It was a fantastic moment in the book. In the show, forgettable. And that is almost the tone for this season.
Forgettable.
I am not hating the season, but it's like the writers emasculating the source material with full conscious effort. I feel bad for the people who didn't read the books.
I find myself frustrated with them building scenes and dialogue where they aren't necessary while Jon Snow, a character that needs more screen time, continues to get the shaft.
That entire sequence with Sam and Gilly last night was completely unnecessary. It was, what, nearly ten minutes of screen time? And for what?
I will admit that Jon Snow is my favorite character in the books. and that may make my complaint seem subjective. But the reason he is my favorite character in the books is because Martin does all the right things to show his growth both in wisdom and skill. Also, Jon really takes charge of every situation he's in and he becomes 'the man' in so many instances.
In the TV show, he continues to be a bystander in his own story. I don't understand why the showrunners are doing this with Jon. I can't even hate on Harrington for his performance: the script and plotting just haven't given him any opportunity to grow into the leading man he is in the books. Do these fuckers even remember that he has an albino dire wolf watching his back at every turn? Where is Ghost? He had so much more of a presence in the books and he really lent Jon an air of importance and uniqueness. In the TV show, he's just another young member of the Night's Watch taking abuse from the idiots in charge.
In all other respects, I'm still enjoying it. When I watch, the show, I never realize where the time goes. I guess that's a good sign.
RE: Strong Belwas being replaced by Daario for that fight
To this day, I still don't understand why some version of Strong Belwas can't be in the TV show. What are the showrunners so afraid of? Showing a large black man that used to be a gladiator slave as a free man who indulges in food and drink and has a lust for life? Is this show really afraid of being labeled racist by some ignorant minority, given all the other ways in which it efforts to portray everyone as equals in terms of human worth, and that injustices are the fault of fictional characters and not cultural flaws of the plotting/writing?
Taiso said:
I am getting the idea that whoever is in charge of GoT doesn't know what she's doing, or she's purposefully using the source material to make something more palatable for the masses who can't read good, but want to do other stuff good too.
Castor Troy
The Esfinter that theMot Chupame's
Glad I haven't read the books. Seems the book readers online hate the way the show is going.
I'm enjoying the season so far, but not like before.
My only complain so far is with Dany's storyline. I'm seriously bored with the whole "travel to the new city and free the slaves" plot. Unless something major happens, I don't see why any of this can't be condensed to a simple 10 second dialog explaining what is happening.
Castor Troy said:
Why would other book readers that 'hate' the TV show make you glad you haven't reading the books? What a strange thing to say.
BTW, the scenes with Dany freeing slaves are important because they are ultimately building towards the kind of person and leader she is going to be. You haven't seen the parts of the story where her every action wisens her up and hardens her to the harsh realities of being a ruler. This is all actually pretty important, even though it may seem like it's not and even though some will inevitably say 'it still wasn't that important to show all that.' These people aren't interested in storytelling, world building and character development. They're just interested in plot, which is a terrible way to consume a story IMO.
I understand her importance in freeing slaves are concerned, and I do hope the tv show does a better representation of her motives, but this storyline (as a non book-reader), has dragged for much too long.
Right now (as a non book reader), I'm more interested in what's happening with Tyrion, Bran, Sansa, and Arya.
I think you mean Bron.
Regarding Dany's arc, there is a kind of payoff to all of this, but it's not at all what you'll be expecting. Or maybe you will, but I have a strong feeling most viewers will not see it coming. Right now, she's still thinking about becoming queen of Westeros and reclaiming her birthright and being very idealistic. What comes next is yet another example of how the world works from Martin's pen. It's cool, but I'm fairly certain a lot of Dany fans will either be let down or confused. All of my coworkers are all eager to see her get across the Narrow Sea.
I just chuckle at them.
Do you not read books in general or do you not want to read these books specifically because you'd rather watch the TV show first?
LoneSage
A Broken Man
taiso i'mma slice your throat unless you tell me what happens to dany in the books. spoiler tag, do anything, but i wanna know, bro.
LoneSage said:
She meets Jon Snow and they have sex. Jon Snow then finds out she is his aunt. He prefers the time he knew nothing.
Xander Crews said:
Then he realizes that he's half Targaryan and incest is part of the family business so he decides he'd rather tap that sweet aunt Dany ass than honor his vows. They have dragon wolf babies and they legalize incest. People in Westeros suddenly realize how depraved they really are and everybody starts fucking everyone else, regardless of relation, race or sex as spring sets in at long last. The people are unified in unsavory love after ages of separation. The end.
'sage, if you're being serious (long read):
Dany realizes she's taken on more than she understood in freeing all these slaves. She frees them but they have been uneducated slaves all their lives and have depended on the cruel mercies of their masters just to survive. Having no one to turn to to provide for them and not knowing how to do it on their own, they beg her to help them. She grows a conscience about the whole thing and realizes that these people are likely going to die and kill each other if she abandons them to go west and claim her throne. So she decides to stop, or at least delay, her plans of conquest in order to rule the people she's now responsible for. There are some romantic intrigues with Daario, some heartbreaking dismissials of long standing allies and friends and consipriacies mount against her as people swoop to fill in the power vacuums left by her actions in Essos. She's generally overwhelmed and forced to compromise when she doesn't want to because she understands she doesn't know enough about the administration of a kingdom to do it herself, but to get the support of people that CAN do the job, she has to make concessions. The last thing that happened was that one of her dragons went nuts during a public event and in an attempt to calm him down she jumped on him and he flew away with her. He was badly wounded in the fighting leading up to his escape, and she is out in the desert with the dragon, all alone and no one knows where she is, and she's contemplating whether or not to even go back to all the complications she's just been carried away from, when a Dothraki horde led by one of Khal Drogo's men that refused to be loyal to her rolls up on her position, effectively surrounding her and her dragon. That's where her story sits at present until Martin decides to get off his ass and finish the next book.
EDIT: The fact that Castor Troy isn't intersted in Jon Snow's arc shows you how badly the TV show fucked his story up. In the books, he's consistently doing some of the most interesting stuff in the entire series.
Most people are more interested in Bron turning into a wolf, but they are going to be pissed when he turns into a tree.
Comrade Porn King Mikhail
TЗh ЯussiaИs Дre CФm
Ok, I'm glad you guys have explained a few of the confusing bits. I kept wondering what happened to Ghost. I thought that maybe he's somewhere just chewing on a deer and chilling out. This Belwas character also sounds better written than Daario. Speaking of which, anyone else frustrated that the repacement Daario looks nothing like the one from Season 3? I had to explain this to my fiancee's family and they just got even more confused. I was vetoed when I tried to draw a small map explaining the location of the slave cities.
Question for Was or Taiso: without spoiling much, do the books do a better job of explaining what happens to the slave cities once they're freed by Dany? I realize the show is glossing over a lot of the smaller bits, but I felt that they needed to address how exactly all the slaves are traveling with Dany and getting fed/housed/etc, as well as how cities like Quarth and Yunkai are able to continue to survive after having their populations uprooted and hegemony disrupted.
Finally starting the second book this week. Just don't want to get ahead of the show. But I'll likely catch up at the point where he releases the latest book. Otherwise spoilers may become very mainstream similar to what happened to the TWD TV viewers when Issue 100 came out.
Comrade Mikhail said:
In the books, the freeing of the cities is a complete mess. The books explain this through the perspective of Dany and her thoughts about what's going on. As a television audience, you are denied this insight.
RE: Ghost off doing 'his own thing'-Even in the books, he is off doing his own thing, but the narrative always has him present at important moments to remind you that he's still around and is an eerie force in Jon's life. After Robb's death, the narrative goes out of its way to remind you that it's only when the wolves are near their adopted brothers and sisters that they are safe:
Look what happened to Sansa w/out Lady. Or look what Arya's going through without Nymeria. Bran and Rickon don't have it much better but at least they are relatively safe, comparatively speaking, and in the company of friends. As long as Ghost is with Jon, he is as safe as he can be in that situation. And he's protected. In the TV show, it almost feels like Ghost has done more for Sam than he has for Jon, and there is something wrong with that. Even the way Ghost has been portrayed as sort of aloof as it concerns Jon is just bad writing. Wolves are pack animals and they are strongest when closest to their kin. The books make sure the reader remembers that, and it's a fundamental element of the Stark children's storyline.
RE: Dany freeing all the slaves and the logistics of their caravan-I have a feeling this will all be given greater examination in the TV show after all the fighting's done. In order to highlight the next challenge Dany faces, they'll have to at least mention it in some detail to further illustrate the coming dilemmas.
RE: Strong Belwas as a more interesting character than Daario-I wouldn't necessarily say he's a more interesting character. Daario is very closely tied with Dany's narrative, whereas Strong Belwas is just a big dude that likes to laugh and get drunk and just so happens to be a battle hardened warrior. Removing him from the storyline doesn't really damage the narrative flow in any significant way, but his presence was fun and everything he said put a smile on my face. He was a colorful cnaracter, and I hope they find a way to bring him back into the mix.
RE: Recasting Daario-I'm glad they did it before they got too saddled with that poor man's Fabio. The new guy has a much better chemistry with Emilia Clarke than the previous guy did. That guy was just far too pretty and not dangerous looking enough. Daario is a dangerous person for Dany to be involved with, and they needed to cast someone that could pull off the complexity of their relationship better. Plus, he looks the way Daario is supposed to look. Not every character has to look identical to their book versions. Ser Jorrah Mormont, for example, looks vastly different in the TV show. In the book, he's a middle aged balding dude with some weight on him. In this show, he's more distinguished and handsome looking in a rugged way. If the actor is good enough and enough of the character dynamic can be retained, it's cool. But that guy they cast as Daario in season three wasa train wreck waiting to happen. Could have been a really bad jump the shark moment (sorry to use that old phrase). Glad they got rid of him, personally.
none of them have a blue tipped triple goatee though.
All About Shooters Mod., If you fuck with me, I'll
Nope. For the most part I'm kind of disappointed with the way characters look in the show
Nickrb
Angel's Love Slave
Count the cuts and you will know how many Strong Belwas has slain.
Emilia Clarke’s acting is also very meh. Very shallow subplot in the show.
They could've at least made this accurate.
Emily Clark's acting is a direct result of the directing and producing of the show; they're going all Jon Snow on us, knowing jack shit nothing about how to make the show right.
They might as well just get on with it and introduce the vampires wearing skinny jeans and hip glasses, and make Danaerys turn her attention to growing and selling milk of the poppy in order to raise money to feed her peoples.
They need to make a spinoff show about Bran escaping from King's Landing and becoming a sheriff in rural Pennsylvania, fighting the local crazy Amish and other criminals.
A simple man who simply loves gaming.
LTTP
I only began watching the series these past couple weeks. So far I've watched all of season three and what has been released of season four. I'll get around to seasons one and two eventually although my friends have spoiled most of what happened in them. At first I just ignored the series...believing it was nothing more than HBO's attempt to pull a piece of the attention from Starz's Sparticus series.
I'm completely flabbergasted by your post, Mags.
You are waaaaaaaaaaay too smart a person to display this degree of media ignorance.
Nintendo damaged you, I think. Hopefully not beyond repair.
BladeDancer314
Windjammers Wonder
first of all I've not read thru this entire thread so if it's already discussed get over it lol
anyways, about the white walker that just took the baby, the one riding the horse.
didn't he take a knife (dragon glass) to the back and shatter into a million pieces last season??????
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Can Facebook give free Internet access to the world?
Source: BestComputerScienceDegrees.com
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Dating: Is the Web getting in the way of love?
"Is technology ruining your relationships?" asked Jess Carbino in HuffingtonPost.com. "Honestly? Yes," I thought. Apparently a study by my favorite research group, the Pew Research Center, has found that gadgets have “a pronounced effect” on dating and relationships. "Surprise, surprise" I thought. Here's the latest as seen in my favorite magazine The Week.
Almost one fifth of young people say they have argued with partners about how much time they spend online, compared with just 8 percent of older adults. Yet many young adults also find that technology provides “a forum to resolve conflicts.” Having “grown up revealing more about themselves in an online forum,” Millennials feel more at home with the medium.
But even some grown-up couples say tech can improve their relationships, said Sharon Gaudin in ComputerWorld.com. Overall, about 27 percent of the people surveyed said technology had an impact on their relationships, with most rating the impact as positive. “It gives people the ability to communicate in more and different ways,” said Dan Olds, an analyst with the Gabriel Consulting Group. “Text messages make it easy to toss out those quick ‘I’m thinking about you’’’ or “‘I’m still mad about last night’ messages.’’ One out of four couples said they felt closer to their partner because of texts or online messages, and 9 percent have resolved disputes online or by text message when they were having trouble discussing it in person.
Certainly, “hyperconnectivity is a double-edged sword,” said Eliana Dockterman in Time.com. “Young couples are operating in a competitive, geographically diffuse job market” that can separate them by continents. At first glance, that might make our connectedness seem like a good thing. But researchers have found that “the positive aspects of long-distance all seem to be based on how little couples see one another.” All that Skyping could just be “sabotaging your long-term relationship.” So as socializing online becomes easier, “consider the value of space.”
For singles, though, the web has been a real boon, said Julia Wood in CNBC.com. “With so many fish in the sea, more singles are heading online to find their soul mate.” A survey by Match.com found that 31 percent of respondents said they met their last date online, compared with 33 percent who met dates through friends and or at work. That doesn’t mean online dating is without its own challenges: There are now so many dating sites and apps that “choosing one is almost as difficult as finding someone who matches your standards.”
SIY: The mainstreaming of mindfulness
Stressed-out Americans from war veterans to Google workers are embracing meditation. Does it really work? My answer is YES. Thank goodness mindfulness is going mainstream. Here's a fabulous update from The Week.
Why is mindfulness so popular?
It appeals to people seeking an antidote to life in work-obsessed, tech-saturated, frantically busy Western culture. There is growing scientific evidence that mindfulness meditation has genuine health benefits—and can even alter the structure of the brain, so the technique is drawing some unlikely devotees. Pentagon leaders are experimenting with mindfulness to make soldiers more resilient, while General Mills has installed a meditation room in every building of its Minneapolis campus. Even tech-obsessed Silicon Valley entrepreneurs are using it as a way to unplug from their hyperconnected lives. “Meditation always had bad branding for this culture,” says Evan Williams, co-founder of Twitter. “But to me, it’s a way to think more clearly and to not feel so swept up.”
What is mindfulness, exactly?
It’s a meditation practice central to the Buddha’s teachings, which has now been adapted by Western teachers into a secular self-help technique. One of the pioneers in the field is Jon Kabat-Zinn, an MIT-educated molecular biologist who began teaching mindfulness in the 1970s to people suffering from chronic pain and disease. The core of mindfulness is quieting the mind’s constant chattering—thoughts, anxieties, and regrets. Practitioners are taught to keep their attention focused on whatever they’re doing at the present moment, whether it’s eating, exercising, or even working. The most basic mindfulness practice is sitting meditation: You sit in a comfortable position, close your eyes, and focus your awareness on your breath and other bodily sensations. When thoughts come, you gently let them go without judgment and return to the focus on the breath. Over time, this practice helps people connect with a deeper, calmer part of themselves, and retrain their brains not to get stuck in pointless, neurotic ruminations about the past and future that leave them constantly stressed, anxious, or depressed.
Scientific research has shown that mindfulness appears to make people both happier and healthier. Regular meditation can lower a person’s blood pressure and their levels of cortisol, a stress hormone produced by the adrenal gland and closely associated with anxiety. Meditation can also increase the body’s immune response, improve a person’s emotional stability and sleep quality, and even enhance creativity. When combining mindfulness with traditional forms of cognitive behavioral therapy, patients in one study saw a 10 to 20 percent improvement in the mild symptoms of their depression—the same progress produced by antidepressants. Other studies have found that up to 80 percent of trauma survivors and veterans with PTSD see a significant reduction in troubling symptoms. Walter Reed National Military Medical Center is also teaching mindfulness as a form of treatment for patients with substance abuse problems.
Why does it work?
MRI scans have shown that mindfulness can alter meditators’ brain waves—and even cause lasting changes to the physical structure of their brains (see below). Meditation reduces electrical activity and blood flow in the amygdala, a brain structure involved in strong, primal emotions such as fear and anxiety, while boosting activity regions responsible for planning, decision-making, and empathy. These findings have helped attract the more skeptical-minded. “There is a swath of our culture who is not going to listen to someone in monk’s robes,” says Richard J. Davidson, founder of the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds, “but they are paying attention to scientific evidence.”
Who are these converted skeptics?
Ironically enough, Silicon Valley’s tech geeks are leading the way. “It seems counterintuitive, since technology is perhaps the biggest driver of mindlessness and distraction,” says Ann Mack, a director at marketing communications brand JWT Worldwide. Google now has an in-house mindfulness program called SIY “Search Inside Yourself,” and the company has even installed a labyrinth at its Mountain View complex so employees can practice walking meditation. Tech leaders flock annually to the Wisdom 2.0 conference, and there are now countless smartphone apps devoted to the subject. But these developments have led to a growing concern that mindfulness is being co-opted and corrupted.
Long-term adherents of mindfulness worry that what is fundamentally a spiritual practice is being appropriated by new age entrepreneurs seeking to profit off it. Others are concerned that Fortune 500 executives are pushing meditation so that overworked employees can be even more productive without melting down. But Westerners clearly need some sort of strategy to cope with a world now filled with the inescapable distractions of technology. The average American now consumes 63 gigabytes of content, or more than 150,000 words, over 13.6 hours of media use every single day—and all indications are that those numbers will keep climbing. For Janice Marturano, founder of the Institute for Mindful Leadership, mindfulness is not just a way of coping with the deluge of input; it’s a way of confronting the modern world head-on. “There is no life-work balance,” says Marturano. “We have one life. What’s most important is that you be awake for it.”
Rewiring the brain
Until recently, neurologists believed that a person’s brain stopped physically developing when they were 25 to 35 years old. From that point onward, the hardware was set. But a growing body of research points to the possibility of lifelong “neuroplasticity”—the ability of the brain to adapt to new input—and a 2011 Massachusetts General Hospital study found that those who meditate regularly for as little as eight weeks changed the very structure of their brains. MRI scans showed that by meditating daily for an average of 27 minutes, participants increased the density of the gray matter (which holds most of our brain cells) in an area that is essential for focus, memory, and compassion. Previous research had already shown that monks who had spent more than 10,000 hours in meditation had extraordinary growth and activity in this part of the brain. But it’s now clear that even relative beginners at mindfulness can quickly rewire their brains in a positive way.
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Don't Be Fooled: 2014's Top April Fools' Day Tech Jokes
As reported by Stephanie Mlot of PC Magazine, from Google and Hulu to HTC and Uber, check out the roundup of some of the day's best practical jokes.
The tech industry often produces what seem like farcical products, but turn out to be the next big thing. But on April 1, even the most enlightened must take the news with a grain of salt.
Don't be fooled this year. Google kicked things off early with a search for a Pokémon Master to officially join the company. That wasn't the only joke from the search giant. Check out a few more below, as well as PCMag's favorite April Fools' pranks from the past.
Selfiebot: Stop digging in your purse for your phone when the perfect selfie opportunity arises. Instead, reserve a Selfiebot—a photo-taking drone that follows you around, "always watching … for life's most precious moment."
Gmail Shelfies: Celebrate Gmail's 10th anniversary with custom selfie themes. Ditch the typical landscapes, starry skies, and close-up flower shots for a selfie of you and your pet hedgehog. Even better: Your family, friends, and that guy you've been stalking can also set your Shelfie (SHareable sELFIE) as their Gmail theme, reading and writing emails while staring at your face in the background.
Google's "The Magic Hand": Google Japan has developed a mechanical hand that makes operating touch-screen devices more accurate and convenient—via an arcade-game joystick.
YouTube viral video trends: YouTube unveils its plans for 2014's viral video trends, including Clocking, Butter Fails, the Glub Glub water dance, and baby shaming. Later this year, the video sharing site will roll out cake bumping, wolf-mask tee-ball, and the Harlem Shake—again. If you think you've got a great YouTube meme idea, tweet it now with the hashtag #newtrends.
Google+ Auto Awesome: Visiting the Grand Canyon on a nice family vacation when, what's that? David Hasselhoff photobombs you! Perk up any photo with Google+'s new celebrity photobomb feature, rolling out initially with support from The Hoff.
Emojify the Web: Can a word smile? Can it roll its eyes? That's the aim of Google Translate support for emoji. Using algorithms, the app can interpret the content and tone of words, and boils them down to a single, meaningful symbol.
Total Temperature Control by Nest: Virgin Group founder Richard Branson and Nest CEO Tony Fadell team up to allow airline passengers to control their own climate. Want the warmth of a tropical paradise on your flight to Boston? Select "Cancun Afternoon," and don't forget the sunscreen. Or try "Chicago Polar Vortex" for that freezing-wind-in-your-face feeling.
SwiftKey Flow Hard: SwiftKey is expanding its easy-flow typing techniques from your touch-screen phone to your traditional PC keyboard. Flow Hard brings SwiftKey's predictive technology to your physical keyboard.
Hulu Spin-Off Season: TV streaming site Hulu is launching Spin-Off Season, which brings some of your favorite goofy sidekicks and ensemble characters to the forefront. Original content includes Brooklyn Nine-Nine's Sergeant Terry Jeffords back on the streets, a cooking show with Dr. Hannibal Lecter, and childrens' Spanish lessons with Community's Señor Chang.
WazeDates: Having no luck with online dating sites? Try traffic crowdsourcing app Waze's new feature, WazeDates. Just turn on the mobile setting, fill out your preferences, and wait for mobile alerts when single Wazers are driving nearby.
HouzzPrintz 3D Printer: Forget the hassle of shipping costs and wait times. HouzzPrintz 3D printer allows you to reproduce anything you see on the site with your own printer—about the size of a small airstream trailer.
HTC Gluuv: Accessorize your new HTC One (M8) with the all-in-one HTC Gluuv, a silver-and-black mitt that works seamlessly with the smartphone to "unleash your imagination and communicate in ways you've always wanted." Give a physical thumbs-up to "like" a Facebook post or pound your fist to capture a beautiful sunset with the Gluuv's 87.2-megapixel camera.
Toshiba DiGit: The first all-in-one wearable, Toshiba's DiGit gloves offer the functionality of a smartphone, DSLR camera, media streaming box, gaming console, home theater system, MP3 player, and ultrasound machine. The pair also comes fully loaded with 64GB of storage and 1TB cloud storage, plus 4G wireless, and 12 hours of battery life.
Uber Second Avenue Subway: New York City commuters can hop on the "U line" today, riding the length of Second Avenue for only $2.50. (The April Fools' Day promotion actually allows riders to catch a cab up and down Second Avenue, between 128th and Houston streets, for a discounted price.)
Apple Acquires iFixit: The industry leader in repair guides, iFixit, has been acquired by Apple for an undisclosed amount that iFixit CEO Kyle Wiens said "we couldn't refuse." As part of the deal, Cupertino will produce the most replaceable electronic devices on the market.
FreshDirect Eagle-Caught Salmon: It's biked in daily from the banks of the Salmon River in Pulaski, NY. And 41 percent off!
For videos and more, check out this article on PC Magazine!
NetLingo was voted as a "Top 100 Web Site" two years in a row by PC Magazine. They said NetLingo is "One of the 100 Best Web Sites, it is a living dictionary devoted to the often cryptic and comedic vocabulary of the Internet, which is evolving at record speed." -
And BTW they missed this one at ONTRAPORT: The fusion of software and wine ;-)
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The recent attacks on critical race theory make one fact very clear: the lack of Black voices in public discourse creates distortion and exploitation. This inaugural Black Scholars Book, the first of its kind published annually, is not about defining or justifying critical race theory—as some scholars in this book would not deem themselves to be critical race theorists. Instead, it is about righting the wrongs that enable the weaponization of scholarship by and about Black people. The goal of the W&L Law Review is to hold space for scholarship of historically marginalized and silenced voices. This inaugural book contains …
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Ipse Dixit, the podcast on legal scholarship, provides a valuable service to the legal community and particularly to the legal academy. The podcast’s hosts skillfully interview guests about their legal and law-related scholarship, helping those guests communicate their ideas clearly and concisely. In this review essay, I argue that Ipse Dixit has made a major contribution to legal scholarship by demonstrating in its interview episodes that law review articles are neither the only nor the best way of communicating scholarly ideas. This contribution should be considered “scholarship,” because one of the primary goals of scholarship is to communicate new ideas.
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Newport Comic Book Store Thrives With Social Media
Continuation of June 5 interview with Wayne Quackenbush from Newport’s Annex Comics, see part 1 here
NIM: As a marketer of a narrow-niche store, it must be challenging to get new customers. How has Facebook helped?
WQ: People visit the shop, visit my website, or E-bay store just to meet the eccentric person behind the Facebook page.
NIM: Tell us what they’ll find if they make an appearance in your store.
WQ: A mess. Stacks and walls of comics and product, the aforementioned local artwork, masks, clown dolls, and DVDs everywhere.
NIM: What’s the misconception about comics?
WQ: Some Americans have the opinion that comics are for kids or for the unintelligent, or they think the store will provide a rarified atmosphere of hipster elitist geekdom. Comics used to be for everybody and, in many countries of the world, they still are. They are unique artwork by a single creator or small group of creators telling an immersing and synergistic story in a way that is not possible in any other medium.
NIM: You’re a little in love with the industry, and I think that authenticity translates on your Facebook and web pages. Describe graphic love, the comic-book kind.
WQ: Comics allow an imaginative freedom in way that isn’t seen in films or in video games. There is an aesthetic pleasure in the pictures that isn’t present when reading fiction. With comics, the reader has to imagine the sounds, smells, and motion that are implied by the language and vision portrayed.
NIM: Everything has changed so much in the past 10 or 15 years. How have comic books changed?
WQ: That would take an essay. Simply, the 32-page full-color slim pamphlet remains the same but with more sophisticated coloring and better paper. But other forms of presentation of the art form have come into being from graphic novels, which are a thick collection of individual and previously published stories.
NIM: What’s popular with the Kids now? Zombies seem to be a big theme. I don’t get it.
WQ: Zombies are best used as a metaphor in fiction … they can symbolize the horror of “the other,” rampant consumerism, the pervasive anti-intellectualism of American society, the infantile and lizard brain hunger that lives in everyone, the hive mind … And everyone has a lingering fear of being bitten really hard.
NIM: Yes, it makes sense. Hey, do you have any plans for cyber-expansion?
WQ: I’m running four different Facebook accounts: my personal account, the store account, the store small business account, and the Annex Art Society page, so I really haven’t had time. Luckily, I have a Webmaster in charge of the store website.
NIM: I know it’s not polite to talk about religion or politics, but in business, it’s always polite to talk about money! Has social media helped your business financially?
WQ: Yes.
NIM: See? That’s sort of the point that gets lost because social media is so much fun. I know you’re not a fan of hash tags, but #NIMRI is one hashtag you should “follow” on Twitter. You’ll learn so much about even more social media opportunities to promote your brand.
WQ: I found out about NIM from friends. The acronym reminds me a little of Nine Inch Nails. I would attend those meetings.
NIM: Hashtag NIN! That’s funny. Well, NIM can help you learn search optimization, to spread the word effortlessly and worldwide about the Annex, so we look forward to seeing you at the next meeting.
NIM: ListenWayne, it was a pleasure talking to you about the Annex. I’m really happy that you have taken the social media bull by the horns, and it’s wonderful to learn you’re also helping kids tap their creativity. #socialmedia
To learn more about Annex Comics, or immerse yourself in zombie-lit, please FB friend Wayne on Facebook or visit his website at annexcomics.com.
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Annex Comics Taps Social Media to Boost its Base
Around since the 80s, Annex Comics flourishes in 2012, due in large part to the way in which owner Wayne Quackenbush took the social media bull by the horns to promote the fine (and funny) art of comic books.
Here’s Part I of our two-part interview.
NIM: Wayne Quackenbush, I can’t think of a better name to stick onto a Web domain than Quackenbush, but you’re Annex Comics. How long has the Annex been around?
WQ: I started working at the Annex in 1994, and bought it from the owner in 1998. I had an extensive background in retail, having managed several photo-processing and video stores in NYC.
NIM: What’s photo processing? Just kidding. So you’re a savvy retailer who likes new media. Are you a wave-rider in your business, or does the Annex rely on your fan base/repeat customers for its success?
WQ: We’ve ridden through fads over the years, made a lot of changes and experimented with product as much as possible. I introduced video sales and rentals, for instance. The Annex was the first store in the state to go all DVD, and now we have dinosaur status because we’re the last store in Rhode Island to offer DVD rentals.
NIM: That’s very cool, Wayne. I miss the excitement of going to a place and renting something. Speaking of dinosaurs, a few businesses still have yet to embrace social media as a genius marketing tool. But you have. Tell us how you market Annex these days, and how that’s different from before.
WQ: I used to run occasional ads in the local papers, I put up flyers for events and got interviewed in local magazines and on public access TV. Word-of-mouth was and is most effective.
NIM: And what’s faster at getting words out of mouths than Facebook? Your store has quite the presence there. You have a Facebook page for your store, and a Web page for Annex Art Society.
NIM: Before I started following (stalking?!!) you on Facebook, I thought of your clientele as the hipster/nerd/geek squad. Am I on- or off-base?
WQ: My customer base fits the categories named but there’s more. A general description would be male, college educated, mostly in their 20s and 30s.
NIM: How to you market to the Kids who know everything and think everything’s “whatever”?
WQ: I always try to shock and amaze. The store markets a sense of wonder.
NIM: What’s shocking or amazing at the Annex these days?
WQ: I think people would be surprised at the inroads we’ve achieved in promoting local artists via Facebook through our daily artistic challenges, where artists all over the world participate, and our efforts to encourage creativity, especially in young people.
NIM: How do you reach the young’uns?
WQ: The Annex showcases at least 30 artists a year in our galleries. I work with local high schools in artistic intern programs and I teach a drawing class in the store every Saturday morning.
NIM: Well it must be fun, if people are getting anyone under 80 out of bed Saturday mornings! I think that’s great.
NIM: It takes a lot of effort to man those contests because they are so popular! And social media gives people lots of access to your wall. Why has the response to these contests been so great and how do you keep up with them?
WQ: Personally, the daily Art Challenge is a kind of creative calisthenics, an exercise to keep my brain hopping. I know a few others feel the same way. Plus, humans are social creatures, and it’s extremely gratifying to connect in this way and share images and ideas.
NIM: Isn’t that the beauty of social media? It allows you to actually have fun while you promote your business and grow your numbers. And, it gets people in your door who might otherwise just have walked by, had they not seen the quality of the art that’s being posted on your timeline.
Installment II: Facebook, Zombies, hashtags, and more!
Visit Annex Comics in real life at 314 Broadway in Newport, or go to https://www.facebook.com/annex.comics
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MAY LONG WEEKEND PUBLIC HEALTH ORDERS EXTENDED TO PROTECT MANITOBANS AND THE HEALTH-CARE SYSTEM
We Need Manitobans to do Two Things - Get Your Vaccine as Soon as Possible and Follow Public Health Orders: Premier
The current public health orders that were put in place for the May long weekend to keep Manitobans close to home and reduce transmission rates, will remain in effect for the remainder of the week to help protect the health-care system and to give officials additional time to monitor case and patient numbers, Premier Brian Pallister and Dr. Brent Roussin, chief provincial public health officer, announced today.
“Manitoba has implemented some of the strictest public health and enforcement measures in the country for months now in order to protect Manitobans’ lives and livelihoods. But these orders only work if all of us get on ‘Team Manitoba’ and follow the rules for our loved ones, our friends, our neighbours and our community,” said Pallister. “We need the full participation of all Manitobans in order for these strict public health measures to work so we can bend our COVID curve back down and protect our health-care system. We need Manitobans to do two things – get your vaccine as soon as possible and follow the public health orders.”
Additionally, all current public health orders will remain in effect until Saturday, May 29 at 12:01 a.m. and include:
• indoor public gatherings are not permitted and visitors are not permitted on private property, except in certain circumstances;
• outdoor gatherings with anyone from outside a household are not allowed and this applies to all recreation spaces including playgrounds, golf courses, parks and sports fields;
• retail businesses may only operate at 10 per cent capacity or 100 customers, whichever is fewer, and only one person per household will be allowed to enter a business, with some exceptions, such as a single parent with children or someone who requires a caregiver; and
• many businesses and organizations will remain closed for in person service including gyms and fitness clubs, restaurants and bars, personal service businesses, museums, galleries and libraries.
For a full listing of the current health orders, all of which will remain in effect, visit https://manitoba.ca/covid19/prs/index.html.
“Our health-care system is facing critical pressures, our health-care workers are strained and our public health orders provide clear direction on how to prevent further spread of this deadly virus,” said Roussin. “Even if we see case numbers decrease, the hospitalization and ICU numbers are expected to climb in the coming days and weeks which is concerning for all of us. It is crucial that Manitobans continue to follow the public orders and significantly limit their close contacts so we can protect our health-care system and the Manitobans that are depending on it.”
Roussin and the premier noted that vaccination plays a significant role in reducing transmission of the virus but also the toll on the health-care system. More than 70 per cent of current hospitalized patients are unvaccinated.
“For all Manitobans over the age of 12, I urge to book your vaccine appointment right now and your second-dose appointment if you are eligible,” said Roussin. “Getting vaccinated and following the public health orders are necessary in order to bend our COVID curve back down and eventually get back to doing some of the activities that Manitobans miss right now."
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Jacksonville’s Historic Durkeeville Baseball Field, Museum Getting $500,000 Upgrades
WJCT News | By Lindsey Kilbride
J. P. Small Memorial Stadium will be getting some big upgrades, thanks to $500,00 of state grant money.
Lindsey Kilbride / WJCT News
President of the Durkeeville Historical Society Lloyd Washington said he's looking forward to expanding a J. P. Small Memorial Stadium museum.
A historic Jacksonville baseball stadium in the Durkeeville neighborhood will be getting some big upgrades, thanks to half-a-million dollars of state money.
The J. P. Small Memorial Stadium on Myrtle Avenue has been around for more than 100 years and has the history to show for it. Today, Edward Waters College uses it as its home field.
Credit Lindsey Kilbride / WJCT News
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J. P. Small Memorial Stadium on Myrtle Avenue is getting renovations thanks to a $500,000 state grant.
On Friday, Durkeeville Historical Society President Lloyd Washington was looking out over the baseball field, a place he said he’s been visiting since he was kid.
“My vision of this place is to eventually have a major league ball game here,” Washington said.
That’s a long way from when it was nearly demolished back in the 1970’s, Washington said.
“It had really fallen into disarray,” he said.
Over the years, City Council members including Sallye B. Mathis and Gwen Yates, introduced legislation to keep the ball park renovated. And last year, Washington said, state Rep.Tracie Davis (D-Jacksonville) and Sen. Audrey Gibson (D-Jacksonville) helped secure the grant to fund new field lighting, drainage and a community weight room. The Jacksonville City Council officially appropriated the grant money this week.
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But being a historian, Washington said he’s most excited about using some of the dollars to expand the small museum attached to the stadium.
J. P. Small Memorial Stadium's museum will be expanded with the help of a state grant.
“It’s a big story to tell,” he said.
The field was built in the early 1900s and rebuilt after a fire in the 1930s. It’s gone by the names Barr’s field, Durkee Field and Myrtle Avenue Ballpark before its current name, J. P. Small Memorial Stadium, after a former Stanton High teacher who served as band director, athletic director and coach.
In the 1930s the stadium was the home field of all-black Jacksonville baseball team the Red Caps. Lots of other teams in what was called the Negro League also played on the field. And some of the sport’s heaviest hitters ran the bases there too.
“You had players from Babe Ruth and Hank Aaron play in this place,” Washington said. “That history alone is amazing.”
Aaron was playing for the Atlanta Braves when he hit his 715th home run in 1974, breaking Babe Ruth’s record
Before that, Washington said, Aaron lived a few blocks from Durkee Field in the 1950s and walked to the stadium to play for the minor league Jacksonville Braves.
A lot of that history is told in the current exhibit, but he said there’s more for people to learn.
For instance, James Weldon Johnson and his brother John Rosamond Johnson, known for writing what’s referred to as the Black American National Anthem, "Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing,” played ball at the stadium.
Washington said he wants this field to become a tourist destination and hopes the grant will help that become a reality. The renovations will take place over the summer.
Reporter Lindsey Kilbride can be reached at lkilbride@wjct.org, 904-358-6359 or on Twitter at @lindskilbride.
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Kanye ‘Ye’ West Asked Donald Trump to Be His Presidential Running Mate And It Did Not Go Well (Video)
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On Thursday, Kanye “Ye” West declared he is running for president again in 2024, and later revealed he also asked Donald Trump to join him on the ticket as his Veep. Unsurprisingly, Trump, who announced he is also vying for the presidency in 2024, turned him down.
In a “Mar-a-Lago debrief” video, the rapper said, “I think the thing that Trump was most perturbed about, me asking him to be my vice president. I think that was like lower on the list of things that caught him off-guard.”
West added, “He basically gave me this would-be mob-esque kind of story,” explaining that the twice impeached president insulted ex-wife Kim Kardashian with an expletive phrase that was bleeped in the video. “That’s the mother of my children,” he said.
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He then said that Trump yelled at him, “You’re going to lose.”
Trump confirmed that Ye showed up for Thanksgiving, but said the meeting, although “unexpected,” was “quick and uneventful.”
In a brief statement on Truth Social, Trump wrote, “This past week, Kanye West called me to have dinner at Mar-a-Lago. Shortly thereafter, he unexpectedly showed up with three of his friends, whom I knew nothing about. We had dinner on Tuesday evening with many members present on the back patio. The dinner was quick and uneventful. They then left for the airport.”
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Kanye ‘Ye’ West Launches 2024 Presidential Run With Campaign Ad Featuring Tucker Carlson (Video)
In the video, West appears to be talking to Nick Fuentes, a far-right white supremacist political commentator whose YouTube channel was shut down for violating the platform’s hate speech policies
West is back on Twitter thanks to Elon Musk, who unbanned him along with far-right conservative Jordan Peterson. Musk declined to reinstate Fuentes’ Twitter account, however. Trump has also been unbanned, but said he is sticking with Truth Social.
Trump is still under investigation for taking scores of classified documents to Mar-a-Lago and for his actions during the Jan. 6 Capitol Hill attack. Adidas, who ditched Ye after a number of antisemitic statements, is investigating claims that he played pornography at work and showed intimate photos of his ex-wife Kim to staffers.
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Robinhood Approval for Hundred Million Dollars of SBF Shares
Sources: Deutsche Bank Plans to Invest in Two Cryptocurrency Companies
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Buy These 4 Altcoins In February! – Cryptokoin.com
After one of the worst years in the history of the cryptocurrency industry, when the overall market capitalization fell by 65%, the market started to rise in 2023. It has increased its market capitalization to over $255 billion, and for the first time since the beginning of November, it has again increased its market capitalization to over $1 trillion. In the midst of this bullish mood, experts are examining Bitcoin and 4 altcoin projects for February.
Bitcoin still offers a good investment opportunity
Bitcoin (BTC) briefly rallied above $23,000 in January from $16,500 on Jan. At the time of writing, the leading cryptocurrency was trading at $22,882, up 9.78% from last week.
BTC YTD chart
According to many leading crypto traders, Bitcoin still offers a good investment opportunity. In fact, BTC has risen 30% since crypto-skeptical Peter Schiff advised ‘HOLDers’ to sell on Jan. cryptocoin.comAs you follow, Schiff claimed that with Bitcoin at over $18,000 at the time, this was “an excellent opportunity for HOLDers to sell”. A few industry experts think that with the prospect of an uptrend in the first half, it won’t stay that cheap for long, and as some analysts say, February could be one of the last opportunities to buy it at a ‘good bargain’.
Shanghai Upgrade could be effective for leading altcoin
Ethereum is off to a solid start to 2023 after starting the year at $1,197. The leading altcoin is now trading in the green above $1,600.
ETH YTD chart
Shanghai Upgrade, the next expected Ethereum Blockchain upgrade, will take place in March 2023. Many expect the price of Ethereum to climb before that, similar to the ‘buy the rumors, sell the news’ event that took place before the Ethereum Merge in September 2022.
Alchemy, a blockchain software development company, detailed Web3 progress in the fourth quarter of 2022 in a report published Jan. The research shows a 300% increase in the number of smart contracts deployed on Ethereum’s mainnet in 2022. Given the increase, additional decentralized applications (dApps) may be available soon. This could indicate that the increase in smart contracts is a factor driving the price of ETH.
Shibarium is an important catalyst for the Shiba Inu (SHIB)
The Shiba Inu (SHIB) is another name that gets off to a solid start to 2023. According to January 20 data, the Shiba Inu is among the most impaired assets based on short- and long-term returns.
SHIB YTD chart
An optimistic crypto market and positive developments in its ecosystem may have helped Shiba Inu’s growth. For example, the SHIB team is laying out key concepts such as the long-awaited layer 2 Blockchain Shibarium making it one of the tokens to watch in February. Currently, the Shiba Inu is trading at $0.00001207, up 0.53% in the last 24 hours and up 16.86% from the previous week.
Altcoin surviving the FTX wreckage: Solana (LEFT)
Solana (SOL) was one of the hardest hit by FTX’s collapse as its market cap dropped by 70%. Network health remained consistent though. Solana DeFi is now going through non-FTX related integrations to further strengthen it to better support and meet growing demand. Moreover, Solana’s NFT scene continues to expand rapidly. Also, innovations like GameFi are coming to fruition. Solana’s price was just under $10 at the beginning of January, up 7% last week to trade above $24 as of January 23.
LEFT weekly chart
Updates have been made to the Web3 interoperability platform Polkadot (DOT). Polkadot creator Gavin Wood said in a statement on Twitter that Polkadot XCM version 3 was released after 15 months of work. As a result, bridges, cross-chain locking, exchanges, NFTs, conditional statements and context monitoring will be possible. In addition, Polkadot aims to improve interoperability between different Blockchains, smart contracts and NFTs. Additionally, according to a report, Polkadot has had its full-time developers increase at a much higher rate than any other blockchain at a similar stage of its development. The number of full-time developers on Polkadot has grown rapidly since January 2018. The network now owns 16 times more than it did five years ago.
DOT weekly chart
Currently, DOT is changing hands at $6.50 last week, up 13.95%. It also deserves to be on the list of altcoin projects to watch in February with increasing developments in the network.
Meanwhile, according to experts, the fact that these cryptocurrencies have held their value despite tough market conditions characterizes them as one of the most promising digital assets to invest in during January 2023.
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Home/NFT News/Join Infinite Arcade’s Innovative P2E Gaming Platform by becoming whitelisted.
Join Infinite Arcade’s Innovative P2E Gaming Platform by becoming whitelisted.
Join Infinite Arcade's Innovative P2E Gaming Platform by becoming whitelisted.
What if you could access hundreds of peer-to-peer blockchain games on a single platform? Infinite Arcade is a cutting-edge concept that aims to provide this incredible experience.
This platform is centred on NFTs, from its sophisticated tokenomics to the user-friendly mobile app. There will be over 200 games allowing users to acquire and trade collectibles by the end of the year.
Who is Infinite Arcade, and what does it do?
Infinite Arcade is a Metaverse game platform that offers unique gaming experiences. In essence, the Web3 platform’s revolutionary website seeks to transform P2E mobile games.
Infinite Arcade has 15 live games available on its website just one month after its launch. NFT holders are already earning $TIC – the platform’s native currency – thanks to its P2E dynamics.
In the end, the platform will contain more than 200 NFT-powered games, all of which will be priced the same.
The team’s inaugural Genesis Gamer NFTs were quickly sold out. Their third (and final) NFT batch, however, will be released on April 10th at 9 a.m. PDT! In a nutshell, this is your last chance to participate in a fun P2E experience for only 0.074 ETH each item.
How do you become a member of the whitelist?
There are 6,666 digital assets in the 3rd Gamer NFT collection. On May 10th, only whitelisted members will be able to participate in the presale.
By visiting the Infinite Arcade website, you can quickly join the whitelist. All you have to do now is enter your Discord username, email address, and wallet address into the platform. Remember that the whitelist will be active until May 9th, so act fast!
Each NFT is compatible with all Infinite Arcade games. However, not everyone has the financial means to partake in this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
The Infinite Arcade scholarships kick in at this point.
What is the procedure for applying for a scholarship?
Every gamer can start earning with Infinite Arcade thanks to the digital scholarship. In fact, you can think of it as a loan application. The team will provide you with a free NFT. You can use your NFT to create income by playing games on the platform. Then all you have to do is pay the NFT owner a commission.
Infinite Arcade has already partnered with a number of guilds to provide scholarships. Their most significant partnership, for example, is with Nexxt Gaming Guild. Thousands of crypto scholarships have been distributed by the well-known project to help collectors and players all across the world.
This option is available right here on the NGG Discord channel.
What about the Infinite Arcade development schedule?
Infinite Arcade will have 50 live blockchain games available for all NFT holders by the end of Q2! Meanwhile, the pre-sale of its $ARC token will be underway.
Upgrades will be made to each NFT throughout the third quarter. After that, a whopping 50 new titles will be released on the platform. The dedicated marketplace will be available during Q4. By the end of 2022, the project’s administrators will have made 200 games available on the platform.
On May 10th, mint your own NFT on the official website if you’re ready to join the exclusive Infinite Arcade P2E gaming experience. Meanwhile, stay up to current with the project by following them on Twitter and joining their Discord channel for news, reveals, and more!
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Vol. LXVIII, No. 24
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NIA director Dr. Richard Hodes was recently honored with the President’s Council on Fitness award. It was presented recently by Dr. Wanda Jones (l), senior advisor, offices of the assistant secretary for preparedness and response and assistant secretary for health at HHS, and JoHannah Torkelson, Oakridge Institute of Science and Education fellow at the President’s Council.
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NIA director Dr. Richard Hodes was recently honored with the President’s Council on Fitness, Sports & Nutrition’s 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award. He was one of five recipients of this year’s award, which recognizes individuals whose careers have greatly contributed to the advancement or promotion of physical activity, fitness, sports and nutrition-related programs nationwide.
The award was presented recently by Dr. Wanda Jones, senior advisor, offices of the assistant secretary for preparedness and response and assistant secretary for health at HHS, and JoHannah Torkelson, Oakridge Institute of Science and Education fellow at the President’s Council.
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Top 10 career tracks for Black women in tech 2021
Career and Industry InsightBy Bena Jones September 23, 2021
Diversity is the standard in a world where “data is the new oil.” As technology evolves, there will be more opportunities for people of all races to profit from its security. Although a gender gap exists in all sectors, black and minority women are significantly underrepresented in the technology sector. According to statistics,…
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Who runs the world? Girls. Who runs the tech space? Not women. Women face significant and well-documented obstacles when it comes to breaking into and dominating the tech industry. Some of the various challenges affecting women’s participation range from restricted mentorship to outdated bigotry. More women are breaking through workplace barriers and making…
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Women have carved out a spot for themselves in the tech industry today. The percentage of women succeeding in the business is increasing. The numbers, however, are still uneven. Women’s under representation in the tech industry is not new; nonetheless, it appears that all discussions about diversity are merely gospels with no substance. …
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Nollywood actor, Joseph Benjamin appears on Greenleaf movie series.
Joseph Benjamin
Nigeria actor, voice over Artist and television presenter, Joseph Benjamin popularly known for co-hosting MTN’s Project Fame, a talent reality show, and starring in the movies Tango With Me, Mr. and Mrs and Murder at Prime Suites has appeared on American television drama series, Greenleaf, created by Craig Wright, and executive produced by Oprah Winfrey and Lionsgate television. The Tv series is currently showing on Opray Winfrey Network Tv. Joseph Benjamin won the African Actor of the Year award at the 2012 African Film Awards.
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Cincinnati Bengals at Pittsburgh Steelers NFL 9-25
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Both the Cincinnati Bengals and the Pittsburgh Steelers will try to rebound from a dose of reality last Sunday when they meet up as part of the NFL week 3 slate. The Bengals and the Steelers pulled off upsets in their season openers but tripped up in their NFL week 2 games. Oddsmakers like the Steelers to bounce back better, making them -4.5 favorites.
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Burrow Confidence in Question?
QB Joe Burrow’s biggest strengths are his pinpoint accuracy and solid decision-making. Burrow completed 76% of his passes his senior year at LSU and had 13 TD to just 5 INT in 10 games in his rookie season but threw picks on consecutive plays in the loss to Chicago last week.
All of a sudden, Burrow is facing some questions. He hit 20 of 27 for 261 and 2 TD in the opener vs. the Vikings but was 19 of 30 with 3 INTs vs. the Bears. Burrow was 21/40 in his only meeting with the Steelers last season, a 36-10 Bengals loss at Heinz Field.
Of course, the Bengals are more than just Burrow. For all the flack he caught in the preseason, Ja’Marr Chase has a 50 and a 42 yard TD catch in his first two NFL games. The Steelers were torched for 373 yards through the air by Las Vegas last week, so the opportunities in the passing game will be there.
Steelers are an Enigma
It’s possible that the 2-0 Raiders are going to be a really good team this year, but how does Pittsburgh look so good in the 23-16 win at Buffalo as +6.5 underdogs then lose 26-17 as -5.5 favorites to Las Vegas at home. Last week was a charged-up game at Heinz Field, too, with 63,000+ fans in attendance, the first time at full capacity since 2019.
Regardless of how the first two weeks have played out, Pittsburgh needs to get things going on Sunday. The Steelers are the worst team in the league in rushing with just 57.0 yards/game, but it’s hard to see that getting any better with two rookies starting on the offensive line, a rookie RB and a rookie TE. The Bengals also held Dalvin Cook and David Montgomery each to 61 yards rushing on 20 carries, so their defensive line is stout.
There should be some opportunities in the air for the Steelers’ offense in this contest. Kirk Cousins threw for 351 for the Vikings in week 1, and Andy Dalton had been tearing up the Bengals secondary going 9/11 with a TD before injuring his knee last week. It’s time for WRs Chase Claypool and Juju Smith-Schuster to break out for Pittsburgh.
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Burrow should have a nice bounce-back after throwing 3 INTs last week, up against a Pittsburgh secondary that allowed Derek Carr to have a 28/37, 382-yard game last Sunday. There should be opportunities for the Steelers through the air too, but Pittsburgh doesn’t fare well when they are too one-dimensional, and there’s been no run game at all in the Steel City so far this season.
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Transplant Information
COVID-19 NYS Transplant Recipient Data Report
Following the March 11, 2020 WHO Declaration of COVID-19 as a pandemic the New York Cardiothoracic Transplant Consortium, in collaboration with the NYCLT and NYKidney, have been collecting data related to COVID-19 in NYS transplant recipients. Click here to view the most current data.
DCD Heart Feasibility Study
The organ gap in NYS and the nation continues to grow, as does the number of donation after circulatory death (DCD) donors. However, hearts procured from DCD donors are not used due to the ischemic injury the heart sustains during reperfusion. On the one hand, CMS has encouraged the organ donation community to pursue all DCD opportunities yet the performance measures for transplant centers make the use of innovative transplant techniques difficult to implement.
Over the past several years, the use of DCD hearts in Australia and the UK and the overall good outcomes being reported, has caught the interest of the US heart transplant community and is a way to increase the number of available hearts for transplant in NYS. NYCTC conducted a feasibility study to review best practices from international heart transplant centers where they have successfully used DCD donor hearts in transplantation. A literature review was conducted and available data indicated a sufficient number of DCD donors to significantly increase the number of transplants.
A feasibility study was conducted and approved by the NYCTC Board of Directors in December 2017 and shared with DOH in early 2018. The membership pointed out the main obstacle to the pursuit of DCD transplantation is delays in federal approval for the preservation device, although approval was anticipated to occur in 2018 it is still currently pending.
Click here if you are interested in obtaining a copy of the full report.
QAPI (Quality Assurance & Performance Improvement)
Currently, there is little non-clinical data available to transplant programs for use in tracking quality assurance and performance improvement (QAPI) metrics nationally, and a regional benchmark would allow programs to pool volumes and allow for more meaningful data in analysis. In 2017 the NYCTC developed a list of five performance measures to track, with all programs to share data, and summaries to be presented quarterly. The QAPI Initiative project was approved by the NYCTC Board of Directors at the December 2017 meeting.
MASS staff collected retrospective data from the 5 pre-existing NYS heart transplant programs in early 2018. Data is collected quarterly from all seven heart transplant programs and presented in aggregate to the Heart Policy and Operations Committee on an ongoing basis. Review of this data helps centers provide the best possible care to the patients of New York:
Metric #1: Episodes of Mechanical Circulatory Support (MCS) within 48 hours of transplant
Metric #2: Rate of dialysis before index hospital discharge
Metric #3: Rate of stroke before index hospital discharge
Metric #4: Percentage of in-patient evaluations vs. outpatient
Metric #5: Time from patient referral to first appointment
OPO Education Days
Without the tireless efforts of the staff at the organ procurement organizations, patients would not receive the life-saving transplants they need. As such the NYCTC joined with the New York State (NYS) transplant programs to host events thanking them for their hard work and dedication. Each program has hosted half-day events to recognize OPO staff and their contributions to the transplant process. The events included educational opportunities and a chance to make connections with transplant center staff with whom they had frequent contact.
Heart Allocation for Sensitized Patients
Transplant programs in NY are sharing their sensitized patient protocols in an unprecedented effort to ensure some of the sickest patients in NY receive heart transplants. The NYCTC Policy and Operations Committee (POC) looked at issues relating to out-of-sequence heart allocation for sensitized patients. The Committee reviewed UNOS policy (3.7.1.1) which revealed a provision allowing the creation a region-wide policy to help formalize the process. NYCTC worked with the New England Organ Bank (NEOB) to obtain a copy of the New England Center for Heart Transplantation’s (NECHT) policy. In discussing the possibility of adapting the protocol for use in Region 9, the members shared their desensitization protocols as well as data from their centers on the number of cases, and determined that a region-wide policy was not warranted at this time.
Retrospective Data Review
This study was performed to determine if organ selection practices for heart utilization by Region 9 transplant programs were optimal, and to identify opportunities to increase local organ recovery. A retrospective review of de-identified region-wide donor data 1/1/10-12/31/13 was performed. Over the study period 537 heart donors were identified, of which 321 (60%) were transplanted. 216 consented hearts were not used; 190 of these were not recovered, and 26 were recovered but not transplanted. 245/321 (76%) hearts were transplanted at one of 5 regional programs, 15 (5%) were transplanted out of region as primary offers, and 61 (19%) were turned down in region and exported. Of the 61 exported hearts, 43 were turned down in region for donor-related “quality” codes (UNOS 830, 833-37) by at least 1 program, the remaining 18 hearts were turned down for non-“quality” reasons, primarily histocompatibility and size. Only 5/43 exported were turned down for “quality” reasons by all regional programs offered the organ. A review of consented, not recovered donor offers suggested an additional 28 organs were possibly appropriate for transplant. Our review of regional turn-downs suggests transplant centers could potentially identify additional usable organs without compromising short term outcomes.
Click here to view full article.
Quarterly Data Review
Members and OPOs share data on a quarterly basis. Data collected from the centers is listed by those patients on ventricular assist devices (VADs) and those not on VADs. Data which includes the number of deaths on the waiting list, and the numbers of adult and pediatric heart transplants performed (heart-only and heart-multi-organ) is further broken down to show status on the waiting list. Additional data points report imported organs vs. locally recovered, as well as re-transplants. The 4 NYS OPOs provide data that includes detailed information on the allocation of the local organs consented, noting turndowns, discards and organs used for research. Data collected will serve to enhance the quality of heart and lung transplant services in NYS.
Cardiologist Call Schedule
At the request of the OPOs, each heart program submitted personal cell phone and other relevant contact information to be included in a call rotation of cardiologists whom the OPOs can reach out to, prior to organ placement, for real time consults in donor cases, particularly to help with requesting tests and/or procedures when working with donor hospital intensivists. Every month, the NYCTC distributes the call schedule to the NYS OPOs.
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UFT Executive Board Takeaway, March 26, 2018
I'm hard-pressed to discuss what goes on at the Executive Board. Its primary function is to rubber stamp whatever. There is no virtually debate or discussion, ever, unless you pretend things whose conclusions are pre-ordained are not so. Nonetheless, our presence there means UFT leadership has to publicly discuss things like class size and reasonable representation of ATR members. Our inclusion of a few groups has managed to help as well.
I remain flabbergasted at their inability to formulate credible arguments. I'm no genius, but every time I hear the things they say I think I could argue the other side better. I don't mean once in a while, but rather each and every time. In fact, I spoke to one former ATR teacher the day we proposed representation for them, and she made arguments that did not cross a single Unity mind. She made me consider withdrawing our resolution, but most ATR teachers I know favored it. I'm not going to write the argument here. Unity will have to figure it out themselves.
We heard several ATR teachers speak. You won't see their comments in the official meeting minutes because guest speaker comments are not recorded. Nor are questions. I have no idea why this is. I have no idea why the UFT president doesn't engage in these meetings. The only conclusion I can reach is that meetings are intended to be pro forma and of no actual significance. We're not supposed to discuss the upcoming contract, for example, because there's a committee of 300 400 talking about it.
Mulgrew stressed the importance of teams at schools encouraging union. I agree on that. If we don't have a union, we pretty much have nothing to discuss, and principals have carte blanche to do any damn thing they feel like. Of course many already do that, with the support of the Bloomberg holdovers in "legal," but we are still able to fight back. Teachers without unions are teachers without contracts. If you want to know how that goes, try working in a charter school.
I have personal struggles with this, because even as we fight for the union, Unity publicly paints us as traitors and liars. They decline to work with us at all, even as they publicly declare otherwise. I was unable to get anyone in leadership to discuss class size with an eye toward writing a resolution, even though they publicly and privately offered to do so. Instead, they simply cut out all references to actual class size changes and placed a line in that indicated they are already working on class size. I'd argue that when you work on something for 50 years and fail to improve it, it's time to reconsider your approach.
Last year Unity unilaterally decided they needed advance notice of resolutions. I presume this was so they'd have time to develop better arguments to reject our requests. Let's examine some of the arguments they came up with on March 26th, in opposition to our resolution ATR teachers elect leaders who'd actually represent them.
The first argument was that this came up three years ago. I suppose this suggests either that nothing can change over three years, or that any decision the Executive Board made based on loyalty oath could never be wrong. I'd agree that little has changed over three years. Still, UFT Leadership did not just come down from Mount Sinai carrying the Ten Commandments, and they are more fallible than they acknowledge.
As for the second argument, that the Chapter Leader represents ATR teachers in schools, that's true, at least theoretically. I have represented ATR teachers in my building. I have also heard horror stories from ATRs who did not get anything like adequate representation, and who have been told to put up with things they should not. However, that's not even the point. The point is these ATR teachers do not get to vote for anyone who actually represents them. This point was ignored in every single Unity argument.
The next person said that this would be a big mistake because it would be saying we want to have the ATR forever. That's what you call a strawman. First of all, no one who signed this resolution wants to have the ATR at all. In fact, the ATR was the single most egregious thing in the awful 2005 Contract, and is largely what turned me to have the beliefs I now hold. In case that's not enough, our resolution specifically asked that the chapter exist only until the ATR was eliminated.
The most interesting argument was the last one, where a member got up and said that he was an ATR when he first started in 2003. This was particularly curious because the ATR was not even established until 2005. Even if you accept the premise that this person was an ATR two years before the ATR existed, how does someone get hired as an ATR? Most ATRs have either left closing schools or been placed after disciplinary hearings. Why would the DOE actually hire someone for whom they had no position? I don't imagine even Klein doing something like that.
I was also put off by the notion that ATRs left a school feeling like they were part of the family. A lot of ATRs I know leave feeling like they've been booted from the family. This was the same person who argued he'd met two ATRs delighted by the severance package. Oddly, my school is much larger than his, I speak with ATRs from all over the city, and what I mostly heard was outrage.
I was glad that KJ Ahluwalia got up and spoke reason. He came from a closing school and while he landed on his feet, many of his colleagues didn't. I have no idea how so many Unity people can stand up and say to ATR teachers that they don't merit a vote in who represents them. That's unconscionable.
As usual, Unity is behind the curve. In America today, the trend is depriving people of their vote altogether. Unity has merely allowed ATRs to vote for someone who, once elected, will not actually represent them.
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E4E Sets Agenda at UFT Delegate Assembly--Screw Class Size, Ignore Poverty, and Hope for the Best
There are few things that upset me more than the pernicious influence of Bill Gates. Gates is why we have junk science as a regular part of our evaluation. Gates is why we moved toward small schools, which even he now admits was a bad idea. Gates is why the entire evaluation system was scrapped and why it's repainted and refurbished every year or two.
Of course leadership doesn't see this quite so clearly, and that's how Gates became a keynote speaker at an AFT Convention. Randi Weingarten seemed to embolden the troops as they ridiculed teachers who protested him. The Gates offshoot in the UFT is called Educators 4 Excellence, and it's run by a couple of newbies who gave up teaching almost immediately after forming it to do whatever it is they do on the Gates dime. If you want to know more about them, read Chalkbeat. E4E is their go to for quotes from teachers, or in the case of their leadership, ex-teachers.
Leadership got together with an E4E member and whipped up a resolution about incorporating innovative reactions to discipline as opposed to suspension. You see, a lot of people of color are suspended. A lot of homeless students are suspended. And in typical Gates fashion, we turn away from the root cause of of school issues, poverty. Gates deems it too complicated to bother with, and focuses on school issues instead. Last night, we followed his lead and did the same. The fact that Gates has never done anything that actually worked is neither here nor there.
I'm all for using whatever works to solve issues. But the resolution we passed last night continues our longstanding policy of ignoring the issues and playing along with the reformies. This policy is precisely why teacher morale is so very abysmal. You don't really see that if you're spending all your time sitting around 52 Broadway.
I'm not E4E, and I wouldn't be in a million years. I'm merely one of half a dozen people elected by the high schools to represent them. Leadership's attitude toward the high schools, essentially, is go screw yourselves. I'm not particularly sure how they expect that to win members come Janus. For example, an issue near and dear to my heart is class size. While we alone can't address poverty, we could improve learning conditions for those who suffer from it. In stark contrast with the outlandish ideas Bill Gates pulls out of his wealthy ass, we know that more attention from teachers can actually help children.
I brought this up months ago. Howard Schoor said they'd be happy to meet with us. Despite reaching out multiple times, they were never happy enough to actually do it. A few weeks ago, at the Executive Board, we decided the hell with it and put up our resolution. We proposed that we push to follow the C4E law mandating smaller classes, as opposed to placing numbers in the contract.
UFT Unity chose to strike down the clauses in our class size resolution that focused on class size. The guy they sent up to propose the changes didn't appear to even understand what he was reading. They then voted, lockstep as always, as per loyalty oath, to remove those clauses. Why bother with voting your conscience, if you have one, or repping the members, as though they matter, when there are gigs to be had and conventions to attend?
Mulgrew was in a huge hurry to get through 7 resolutions in 20 minutes, and that's probably why he didn't even give me enough time to stand up when he was looking to debate the anti-suspension resolution. After I walked, they may have done the class size resolution. This one was last on the list, I believe. I'm not sure whether or not they considered it the least important, but I certainly did. Toothless as it was, it made no difference whatsoever. Maybe I'm going about things the wrong way. My approach was to run in a David and Goliath election for a seat I thought we had a shot at winning. When we won, I thought we'd be able to make a change.
One thing we do is stick member issues in their faces a few times each month. It's quite clear to me that Unity would sit around and do nothing but rubber stamp the leadership if we weren't there. Nonetheless, maybe running in democratic elections isn't the way to go if you want to influence leadership. Maybe, instead of fighting for rank and file teachers, we should just join E4E. Evidently, that's who leadership listens to these days.
Labels: Bill Gates, E4E, UFT Unity loyalty oath
UFT Delegate Assembly March 28, 2018--E4E Member Introduces Revised Resolution at Last Minute and No One Speaks Against
President’s Report—Michael Mulgrew
Second snow day is the last to which we’re entitled. Next year there is only one snow day. We have the most recognized holidays in the US. Some districts are having classes on Saturday this year.
National—Gun control story phenomenal. Students taking lead and shaming adults. Walkouts, march last Saturday very successful. Great issue but will be a long haul. Students recognize when elected officials do nothing and call them on it. Thanks all who made sure students were safe when they used their political voice.
Spending—DeVos targeted funding for high poverty children, special education, community learning schools, and PD. Wanted to put it into “school choice.” Work done in spending package phenomenal. DeVos got no cuts and we got 6% increase, as did all her targeted areas. Thank Senator Schumer. This helps us this year. We won’t have to backfill from state and city. This is about coordinating activity, and that’s what Janus targets.
DeVos thinks she can change work rules for unionized employees, but cannot. She tried to unilaterally issue a “collective bargaining agreement.” This was stopped.
Lobby Day—over 1100 people, NAACP, had great feedback.
W. Virginia and Oklahoma—Believe Oklahoma will settle this week. These and other “right to work” states have no collective bargaining rights. Teachers in these states have nothing to lose. Haven’t gotten raises in years, benefits taken away more and more. Didn’t care about consequences, were ready to leave state. These are AFT states but wildcat strikes.
Janus wants us all in same position, so we have nothing left and nothing matters anymore. We will not let them do that to us. These won’t be last two states. Oklahoma recognized they had to do something.
State—Budget still going on. Our lobbying and strategy should work, especially with feds. Nothing in policy we are fighting against. We need to deal with moratorium sunset next year. GOP Senate will give money to charters while Assembly will give to teacher learning centers. Movement to stop Yeshivas from being audited to give proper education by Simkah Felder. Some Yeshivas opposed, saying they teach appropriate material already.
If education aid is done correctly, we have to look at tax code. If we don’t change it, we will have huge hole in state budget next year. We will pay for services in states that don’t tax.
New chancellor comes in on Monday, Richard Carranza. Will try to meet with him. Priorities are—we like policies, each other, but people in between not so much. If they aren’t here to help school, we don’t need them. Too many lawyers. We win because lawyers are morons.
There’s also money. We lobby. DOE doesn’t stand with us. Mayor goes. It’s sad, when we’ve had close to 4 billion increase. We don’t see it in our schools. How much longer can we count on DeVos making mistakes? Chancellor needs to know work force doesn’t feel respected by DOE, and we have all this money that doesn’t get to schools.
We believe teacher evaluation is the way to have people stay in this profession and understand how tough the work we do every day is. We don’t think DOE understands.
Congratulates schools that have fought off closures. Still, many schools have fewer than 100 kids, remnant from Bloomberg.
Negotiations—congratulates nurses and NYU Brooklyn, New Visions charters, and providers.
Our negotiations—April 16 next meeting. Negotiating committee directing where we go. 400 people on committee. Every chapter represented. Surveys helpful. We have a clear understanding of what people think is important.
After break, we will push for incident reporting. You have a right to report incidents. Can do it on UFT website. When you have discipline issues school culture not in right place. Safety and discipline is an issue. Principal said he got in trouble for reporting incidents, but now has fewer. Has a positive learning collaborative, swears by our program.
Did anyone get a letter saying you had no incidents in your school? We can’t have hundreds of schools that haven’t had an incident. If that’s the case no one is in your school. We have to call BS and report incidents.
Door knocking over 21K. We have 8,000 activists participating in membership teams.
SBO season here. Don’t do SBOs if you complained about principal all year. This is our process.
CL elections will take place in May and June. Asking that you do them as early as possible. Would like that settled and done with before Janus. If you are running, you may not be on election committee.
Janus—Doing research now. Clear that attacks have already started. People have tried to hack our communications systems, set up Twitter in my name. In NYC, NY State, NJ, we had 17 incursions from people who posed as members and secretly taped union members and officials. Project Veritas is a group that does this. They smear unions and try to get teachers to drop union. We are taking legal action because they use false names. Illegal in NY.
Freedom foundation most successful model for union busting. These are front groups. They FOIL and try to get union member info. They mail and knock doors, do paid media, social medial attacks. Funded by Koch, Broad, etc. We’ve been planning for two years. Manhattan Institute has a little money, but Empire Center has over 6 million from Kochs. Stated goal disrupt, destabilize, weaken UFT and NYSUT.
Membership teams will ramp up. Educational campaign on Janus. We have tighter communication among members. They want 20% drop in UFT membership. We won’t let it happen. We are at lowest # of agency fee payers in history of union. Could be everyone has to sign a card. We would have to use all summer to do that work.
We assume we will have to get to each and every new teacher. Usually we take our time. We usually get 1500 last week of August and take time with thousands more. That will be gone. We will have to get to every one of them, at minimum. Working with DOE to try to get info in June. Fewer agency fee payers each and every week.
We will have to deal with people saying give yourself a raise, quit union. Before next DA, every union member will get a card. Expiration dates short. Only sending to union members, not agency fee payers. We will also have a mobile app. Will have discounts on things. Building them. Stores coming to us, food chains, other things. Will go live at next DA.
We know our people will be lied to. This is a part, but you cannot substitute for face to face conversation. People now thank me for home visits instead of calling the cops. Right to work people are coming to lie to you, as they’ve done in state after state.
As for chancellor, we wanted an outsider. After getting rid of Bloomberg we got more bureaucracy. DOE can’t explain positions because they make no sense.
Thanks us, wishes us great break and holiday. Says we have to have each other’s backs.
LeRoy Barr—mentions March for Our Lives and our participation. Sent buses to DC. Student walkout. Had education forum, functional CL training. Sunday HERstory month celebration first annual. 4/11 wants us to wear blue, show solidarity for students with autism. 4/21, social studies teacher conference. Prom event great success last year. Doing it again all five boroughs. Next DA 4/18, wishes good holidays.
Mulgrew—working with city council, will have to amp up family leave campaign. Hopes city council does hearing.
CL CS 42—Thanks for support for CS 42. Has UFT considered contractual provision so CLs wouldn’t have to ask principals about Lobby Day or NYSUT?
Mulgrew—Every year we have issues with AFT conference. NYSUT problems, let us know if you are elected. Some don’t want to go during testing. In Principal’s Weekly it said CLs released for Lobby Day. Would be up to negotiating committee.
Q—Discrepancy between amount of work teachers in different schools do. Some places teachers seem like they are on vacation.
A—Teachers need to work in environment they think best suits them. I taught AP classes. Was okay, kids were great, but not for me. Spent last 12 years working with average children in Brooklyn. We cannot look at other people and think they aren’t working at same level we are. I used to think little kids were easy, as HS teacher. Spent a day in elementary school, in first grade classroom, would never, ever do that. I can’t do it. Never seen anything like that. HS gives us breaks between class. Elementary exhausting. No idea how you do it. If someone doesn’t like setting they should transfer. We need to recognize we work differently. Need hazard pay depending on principal.
Q—Bennett Fisher—Confused over family vs. parental leave. I see it mention in lit as parental. Are we fighting for family or only newborn children?
A—I want both. No way to cost it so city wants crazy amount of money. State doesn’t qualify us for programs automatically. We need agreement of municipality. We don’t know where it’s going yet. Soon we will have data on what it costs. Doing parental, not giving up on family. Mayor could agree we have right to go into state program. You don’t stop, you keep trying. Their issue is they don’t want to cover classes. Moral question of whether you believe this or not. Governor agrees, believe it or not.
Q—One objection to signing electronically if problem. Door knockers should have cards.
Q—In order for us and functional chapter members to keep licenses we have to take courses. Some therapists have been denied use of these funds.
A—Bring that to us. Admin sometimes automatically say no. Depends on situation. Probably problematic administrator. Need to show us why they do it.
Q—Principal in our school says custodial budget cut. Will radically affect school. Said they may not have enough toilet paper for year. Principal will try to get CSA involved. Can UFT be involved.
A—Heard of this this week. Part of our budget process, and frustration with DOE. Head counts of employees grow and we don’t have toilet paper.
Place item for next meeting—Whereas DA is for elected reps to discuss, want 50% for motions questions and discussion.
Have been attending for two years. Excited to hear reports. This is democratic body. We need more time to discuss and debate.
On agenda.
Resolution to oppose, not endorse IDC. IDC prevents progressive legislation, Dream Act, Universal health care, more. Gives majority to GOP.
Against—Paul Egan—Opposes because GOP is in power because of Simka Felder. IDC has been stopgap to having GOP run roughshod, has worked with us. This is internal Democratic Party fight. Need to flip Senate. Waste of time and money to fight now. Already a deal that if Dems get extra seat IDC will come back.
Resolution #1
On Safe Schools, criticizing suspension and encouraging alternates,
Mike Loeb—Points out substitute resolution. Moves to amend and substitute resolution.
Mulgrew—Not now.
Loeb—Motion for sub.
Mulgrew—will vote.
Loeb—disproportionately suspends homeless, students of color. Resolution calls to expand pilots to all districts. Asks for educator voice in programs. Arm us with resources.
Passes. I am not called on to speak against. No one speaks against this resolution, which was introduced by an E4E member.
Janella Hinds—Speaks of MLK. Assassinated in Memphis. Supporting strike. 49 of those workers made whole only this week.
Mel Aaronson—Speaks of UFT birthday. Says we have several people here who were here 58 years ago. Has them stand.
passes.
At this point I walk out disgusted I was not able to address the resolution introduced by E4E members.
Here is what I did not get to say. However, the resolution would certainly have passed anyway as Carmen Alvarez supported it:
I’m a great believer in unintended consequences. Of course I believe in safe and secure schools, but I question whether this will move us that way. In fact, I think it will have the effect of giving us fewer, rather than more options. Teaching is a demanding job, and we don’t make it any better by removing options from the teacher toolbox.
We all know that principals don’t see things the way we do. They think the contract is a list of suggestions, they don’t understand the difference between three months or three years, and they have to call legal to have it explained to them. This would not be so bad if legal knew the difference, but of course they do not.
Sometimes the city tells principals to report everything, Principals then go out of their way to report every time someone breaks a pencil, and pivotal community schools, like Jamaica, are closed. Then principals see schools closed, decide to report nothing, and chaos ensues. This, in fact, is mentioned in the resolution, and for all I know the reduction in reported incidents cited is a result of changes cited in the discipline code.
I don’t see how this resolution helps make principals report more freely. Having fewer options will more likely push them toward reporting even less.
Of course students should receive the most appropriate responses to whatever their actions may be, and if suspension isn’t called for, they shouldn’t receive it. However, when students offer to murder entire classes, I don’t want to be tied to an option of sending them to talk it out and have them return the next day to my class.
Let’s move, if we need move at all, to place judgment in the hands of teachers. I’m sure we can all agree that teachers, in contrast to principals, tend not to be insane.I don’t know what they teach at principal schools but it most certainly isn’t logic. That’s our province, so let’s move options in our direction and keep them in our hands.
Working teachers want and need more, not fewer options.
Fort that reason, I urge you to vote no on this resolution.
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Bashful Bob and Janus
I was in college, but I was also looking for my big break. I was actually strumming a guitar and singing in some hellhole upstate when I met Bashful Bob the fiddler. As soon as I was on a break, he came up to me.
"How much are they paying you here?" he asked.
I decided to impress him. "Fifty bucks," I said.
"I happen to know they're only paying you twenty," he answered. "But I have a band, and if it works out, we can pay you forty."
Maybe I had finally made the big time, I thought. Someone had noticed me, and my career was on the upswing. We played together for years after that, in various bands. Sometimes we got really fancy and played electric. We also had some really bad moments. Once, I took second place in a college fiddle contest, while he and another guy I knew tied for third. He really hated that. After all, he was the fiddler in the band and I was just the guitar player.
If you want things to run smothly, and you work in a small company, you have to know your place. He never let me hear the end of that.
He had some nasty habits. He didn't believe in tipping and when groups of us went out, we'd ask for separate checks, one of him and another for the rest of us. He liked to meet strange women in bars, sometimes very strange women, and let them run up tabs that counted against our already low pay. They would pay us back, he'd say, but we'd never see them again.
We fell out when he failed to show up to a gig. He used to call square dances and I took this gig thinking he would do it. But someone offered him more money to play somewhere, and he took it. He told me it was a "grand opening," but I was unimpressed. In fact, I got stuck calling the square dance. This was challenging because I have no idea how to even dance a square dance. But I got a book somewhere and did my best.
I'm thinking of him lately because of Janus. I talk to a lot of people about what to do with non-duespayers. It's a tough call, but basically I think they're scabs. How will I treat people who make me shoulder the financial demands of union, shirk it themselves, but expect me to represent them anyway?
Bashful Bob and I used to play a little dive bar in Hoboken every Tuesday night. I think the bar would throw us a few bucks and we'd pass a hat for the rest. I was always polite, simply nodding when people declined to contribute. Bob had a different approach. He'd look at the person who failed to contribute, and sharply say, "Thank you. Hope you enjoyed the music.
I noticed that the next time he came around, people tended to contribute. I started using his technique when it was my turn, and it seemed to work.
Now our case is a little different, and we aren't exactly passing a hat. But I really wonder exactly how I will handle people who need assistance when they don't support us. A UFT official told me, "No, you have to represent them the same way you'd represent anyone else." I don't know, though. Would I be inclined to spend extra time researching charges against a person like that? Should I bother to investigate why this person is in trouble before going to a meeting about it?
There's the other side of the argument. The person will say, "See? Look, the union is useless. I needed help and the guy told me to put a letter in his box. Then I never heard from him."
On the other hand, that's the same guy who willfully freeloaded on my back. Whey shouldn't he get what he pays for? I don't know about winning over freeloaders. It would be kind of like asking Bashful Bob to leave a tip.
UFT Executive Board March 26, 2018--ATR Teachers Don't Need to Choose Representation
6:02 PM—Secretary Howard Schoor welcomes us.
Teacher—PS 433—Educator 24 years, never thought she’d be subject to humiliation and career damage caused by ATR. 3 different schools this year, hadn’t been supported. Had one supportive one but was removed. Was targeted, told I was their teacher in six weeks. Need time to build trust with children. Asked for support, names of deans or counselors, was told to move kids.
Was very tough to educate children without support. ATRs afraid to speak out. Each new school is starting again. DR warned me against principal. 5 resignations this year to date. Many afraid to speak out. I shouldn’t be in ATR. Sad that people with less experience go to Leadership Academy and become admin.
Need more meetings to improve this.
Peter Zucker—ATR for three years, district 7. Had issues, Mike Sill, Amy Arundell have helped. Only so much they can do. Crapshoot what kind of CL I will get. We need a functional chapter. In lieu of that, we need more than just one meeting a year. Great Mike Sill comes to borough offices in October, but we should have monthly meetings. Why not see what could be done in borough offices. We could have a liaison in each office, or have ATR organize in each borough. Wants EB to support resolution.
Would like ATRs fully represented. Shouldn’t have to vote for CL in school I’m in one week.
Anne Locer—HS teacher 14 years, was CL at Lehman. Landed in place I feel comfortable. Some systems DOE has in place are not good. Was contract survey—do we need to strengthen language on safety and students—-yes. Hope we can increase investment in social workers and guidance. We need counselor caps. We need comp time positions and PD. AT Lehman I defended potential ATRs. Being in closing school draining.
Police routinely walked through buildings with weapons. Had no school ID, police gave summons for trespassing in own school. Court date was for his Regents exam. If we can increase counselors we can do right by people. Should get cops out of schools.
Untenured teacher—Teaching for 4 years. Teachers have so many responsibilities we are held strictly accountable for. School cut tutoring. Our SESIS hours are illegally cut. Teachers with extra curricular activities get paid for only half time they actually spend. Directive to have courageous conversations, I support but we are being held accountable for things about which we get no support. Upsets me to get developing for not having conversation without training or adequate time. Many of my colleagues were afraid to come.
Schoor—Please come. We want to hear from you. Have sent out surveys, compiling info. EB members are on committee.
Eric Mears had a statement about Danielson. Emailed him. Many concerns about 4D and 4F, not used in NYC. As for 4E—teacher listens but isn’t sure recommendations apply—This is possible but poor example. It’s about teacher openness to feedback. Have not seen this interpreted this way.
4E based only on what is observed. We would file APPR complaint for this.
Mulgrew is here—6:19
Minutes—approved.
First time in few years, state budget will be on time, perhaps tonight will be printed. Looks like it will be simple. Trying to get to billion for education increase. Policy doesn’t look like problem. Assembly works with us. Senate works with charters. Remember when election time comes why we do what we do.
Last week headlines about Pres. veto of bill he signed. Schumer pulled off miracle with education. Com learning, PD, Special ed got increased. Thanked him yesterday. Invited him to spring conference. Bad few weeks for Betsy, 60 Minutes and budget failures. Didn’t know she couldn’t change work rules for unionized employees. Called it collective bargaining, but was her by herself in a room. Was no agreement.
Thanks everyone for training, political activity, marches. Great to see so many from NY, thanks Janella for leading in Central Park. Great functional chapter weekend.
Don’t want to be in defensive posture because of Janus. Thanks borough reps, membership teams, says training and communication going on. Will be new UFT app and card. Model enemies want to use is freedom foundation, successful union busting operation Canvass, door knock, mailings, paid media. In NY will be Empire Center funded by Koch Bros. Plans on how to hurt us, advertise to get money from foundations.
Important our members know about these groups. We have to get them to understand first. We have to continue our work. New chancellor coming April 2. What is he walking into? Will be interesting transition. Happy he isn’t from DOE/ Frankenstein’s Castle. Things tense between us. We have to make sure he treats us respectfully and cleans out the DOE.
We will analyze and send out budget things. Wishes us great last break of year. Only one snow day in next year’s calendar. Up to us to beat Janus advocates.
LeRoy Barr—Had walk last weekend, here and in DC, thanks Janella. Functional CL weekend, and Men in Education forum. Women’s HERstory last Sunday, celebrated UFT women. 4/13 HS Awards 5:30 5/5 5K run.
Mike Schirtzer—MORE—Update on parental leave?
Schoor—No movement yet worth discussing.
Schirtzer—PBA asked for health care givebacks. Should we be concerned.
Schoor—Yes. City workers have same health plans. City looking for savings. There are committees looking at it. All unions negotiate as one for health care. Vote weighted. DC37 and UFT are largest. City spends 6 billion a year for health. Hopes police go first.
KJ Ahluwalia—New Action--Food step in right direction. People talking about it, smelling it. Let’s try different every time. Today’s open mike focuses on ATRs Current number? Keys addressed? Is there a mechanism in case new meetings are necessary.
Schoor—We will take it under advisement.
Mike Sill—Don’t have update, will ask. Spoke to DOE about keys. Looking at many aspects of safety. Definitely want ATR and keys to be part of it. Problem is different key schemes. Some have one master, some are all different keys. Problem is logistics.
Schoor—Safely important, we can talk on contract committee.
Report from Districts
Mike Schirtzer—MORE—Thanks to Brooklyn office for letting me into maternity workshop. Fiancee expecting. Very helpful, pushed parental leave and pins.
Rashad Brown—Wed. DA accepting prom donations.
Stering Roberson—March 13-18 Bonnie Sepulveda represented us in DR for lead free children. Feedback was great.
Deborah Penney—Pension dept. busy. Queens 400 people attended pension clinic, had to do second to accommodate. Had BURRS meeting, will be in every borough.
Janella Hinds—HERstory—thanks students from Queens Vocational HS. Provided spa services. Thanks all who attended. Women are 80% of this union.
Rich Mantel—May 5, 5K for Cinco de Mayo. MCU Park. Raise money for disaster relief. Wed, at DA collecting for disaster relief. We will have middle school anti-bullying conference, May 10.
George Altomare—Social studies conference, April 21. Urges attendance.
Tammy Muller—Thanks Mulgrew, Barr, Goldman, attorneys for securing family child care provider contract.
Paul Egan—No soccer from Chelsea. Ireland lost to Turkey. Lost to Afghanistan in Cricket.
Moment of silence for colleague, Judy Hall. Thanks everyone for last week in Albany, over 1,000 people.
NYU update—Anne Goldman—ontime contract at NYU Brooklyn. Next step is having members move forward. Can be intimidating to new grads in hospital. Have given strong and clear message. Enforcement important. 91 grievances in two months. If we don’t have framework, patients suffer. Movement not as quick as we would like. Multiple staff being added, and we have won many positions. Will give courage to those we represent.
Now a felony to attack or hurt a nurse. Patient tried to hang nurse on IV pole. Was saved by other nurses. After 25 court dates, sentencing May 4th. We will be there in support.
Resolution on Puerto Rico Education
Carmen Alvarez—In PR, still serious issues. Unions have helped with generators and water, but social fabric under attack. We still have over 300 schools that face closure. Impacts all positions. Many have gone to Florida or Houston. Supporting AMPR on and off island. Charters want to take over public schools. We will advance our shared values. Urges passage.
Passes unanimously.
Arthur Goldstein—MORE—It’s pretty tough to be in the Absent Teacher Reserve. You have to go from school to school and you’re unable to make long term connections with either students or colleagues. We’re now telling them they can vote for chapter leaders and delegates who will, in all likelihood, not represent them in September.
That’s absurd. I understand the rationale that the ATR is a temporary thing, and I have been hearing that since 2005. I certainly hope it’s temporary, and bearing that in mind, this resolution suggests we eliminate the chapter as soon as we eliminate the ATR. It is, therefore, a win-win. I urge you to vote for this resolution and empower our brothers and sisters in the Absent Teacher Reserve.
Dolores Sozopony—Been on for years. If I recall, we brought this issue up several times. Was brought up three years ago. I understand and feel it but they have representation from the CL of whatever school they are in. Ask vote against.
Eliu Lara—To create functional chapter is too agree we want ATR forever. Idea is to reduce that. No doubt that any ATR who needs representation will have it, at least in the Bronx. We don’t need this functional chapter because they are represented.
Stuart Kaplan—Opposes. When I first started in 2003, I was an ATR. First person I met was CL, who was my CL. Taught me I should treat ATRs same way I would treat any other member. Should think of training CLs to have respect for ATRs that they deserve. I’ve had an ATR In my school for three months. Always left feeling like they were part of the family.
KJ Ahluwalia—New Action--People presume I was an ATR. I wasn’t. I was in a closing school. Supposed to be temporary, but around for 13 years. It’s ideal we treat all members with same respect, but it’s not happening. Why not ask 800-900 ATRs what they need. If they think they need it they should have right.
Fails on party lines.
We are adjourned.
I'm a rule follower--I once heard an incoming assistant principal make this declaration. I'm not sure what it was meant to clarify or express. Oddly, the person who said it had no regard whatsoever for rules. She would sit in front of my face and declare there was no way she could give this teacher the class on the preference sheet.
Then, when I moved one Delaney card into another box, this person declared, "Well, it's no good for the children if we change teachers this far into the semester. Actually it was fewer than 48 hours into the semester. At the hearing, in front of the principal, she declared I offered no ideas as to how she could accommodate the grievance.
Back when this person was a lowly teacher, I got her department's personal email list from someone in her department. When I sent out my first email, she approached me and said, "I feel like I've been raped." Oh my gosh, I said, I'm so sorry. I certainly intended nothing like that. I'll take you off the list immediately. "No," she said. "It's OK. You can keep sending me email. And that, my friends, is the sort of passive aggressive unstable personality that may be deciding where you fit on the Danielson Rubric.
Only bad teachers need the union--I'd argue that bad teachers need something more than the union. Kids can be brutal, and you see them each and every day before you face administration. But everyone needs the union. It's always there for when you get in trouble. We are a collective and we support one another. It's like health insurance. Only sick people need it, but you could become sick at any time.
Also, if you have a supervisor like the one above, you serve at the whim of a lunatic. And honestly, you need not be in the eye of a complete lunatic to have problems. Some supervisors are perfectly lucid 50-98% of the time, but suffer from blind spots. If you happen to be in one of those blind spots, you'll be targeted for nonsense that would be ignored 95-98% of the time, and ought to be ignored 100% of the time. If you're in that situation, you really need someone who will enforce the Collective Bargaining Agreement. Make no mistake, any change of supervisors could place you in this position.
My first invocation of the contract was transferring away from a school in which I'd been punished for doing my job. Specifically, I'd just bought a house, and my supervisor told me I'd either have to teach all Spanish or stay late and lose the second job I needed to pay my mortgage. She did this because her Spanish 1 teacher threw kids out of the class and I didn't. She'd have fewer disruptions by forcing me to teach a class I was not inclined to teach nor particularly good at.
Legal told me it was OK--Legal thinks anything any principal does is OK. They're ethics-challenged lawyers who appear either not to have ever read the Collective Bargaining Agreement or to think it applies only to one side. They're a bunch of overpaid holdovers from Bloomberg who think they're in the Wild West and anything goes. It's their job to tell the principal that things written in black and white were actually written in invisible ink. I've been to half a dozen Step Two hearings this year testing the druthers of legal, and I've got another one this Tuesday. The problem with Step Two hearings is that they're heard by the chancellor. Sadly, Chancellor Fariña has proven to be not much different from Chancellor Klein and most Step Two rulings go against us.
That's why we have arbitrators, who are less likely to interpret things that are not open to interpretation. Alas, arbitrators don't rule with the surety of a King Solomon, so you sometimes get bad decisions from them as well. I'll have to see. In my first eight years as chapter leader, I attended only one Step Two hearing. But hey, if legal wants to test whether day is night, I'll show up each and every time to express otherwise.
You don't need it in writing. I've heard that from DOE. Make sure you send each and every thing to them return receipt requested, because there's a 100% possibility it will get lost otherwise. If you choose to personally hand something to them, be sure you get a receipt for it. I am fortunate that I appear to have sent them all the papers that need sending, but you never know. I was once on one floor at Court Street and they asked me for my college transcripts.
"You already have them," I said.
"Yes, but they're on the seventh floor."
Well, you don't expect people who work in the DOE to walk up and down stairs, do you? You don't think they should take their valuable time and use an elevator? Maybe they should computerize things so we don't have these issues. Maybe they have by now. Who knows? But doubtless they've invented new hoops for hapless new teachers to jump through.
Children First, Always. Give me a break. This from the people who fight me twice a year so they can get away with violating class size regulations that already allow for the highest class sizes in New York State. And yes, that's one more service that "legal" provides.
What famous last words have you heard? Please share them in the comments.
Gmail Turns its Back on Me
I spent a great deal of the week in an email crisis. It's very hard for me to conduct union meetings, because we're all on staggered schedules. To be available to all staff I'd probably have to be around for four periods. My best way of regular communication with staff is via email. For nine years I've been sending out a weekly, and gmail has been pretty good about it.
That changed last week. I started to get every single one of 400-plus emails sent back with a little red-light icon. Cute though it was, after seeing it thirty or forty times it grew tiresome. Deleting hundreds of messages so I could be closer to recent ones was no fun either. I tried Gmail's paid service called G Suite. You get a two-week trial and then it's five bucks a month. Also you have to buy a domain, so I now own francislewisuft.com.
G Suite worked exactly once, and then it started bouncing back again. The first person from Google told me that gmail wasn't made for mass emailing, and that I should use Google Groups. That didn't sound very good to me. Many people who write me don't really want every single person on staff to know their issues. I was pretty sure someone would write to the whole group not realizing it wasn't private. I decided to check it out anyway but I couldn't even reach the site on DOE wifi. Maybe it's blocked. Who knows? Anyway, that wasn't gonna work.
The second person from G Suite spent an hour on the phone trying to diagnose the situation. He decided my domain purchase hadn't gone through. When I checked, we got disconnected. I thought he was wrong because I was able to send out one email successfully. It turned out he was. I spent a good 45 minutes trying to figure out how to cancel G Suite and save my five bucks a month for other things.
I went through various web searches looking for a good solution. Finally I found an outfit called Mailchimp that offered me a free service, and a pretty good one too. It would let me send up to 2,000 emails on a list more times than I ever would, and I didn't have to pay unless I went over. It also tells me how many people actually read the email. It lets me know how many people click the links. So far most people read but don't click. I had no idea about that.
I had a hell of a time finding a format, but there was a plain text option. Most of their emails are for glitzy stuff like you'd get from a company. I spent hours looking for something ordinary. Then it took me forever to get rid of the message, "Start writing your email." I'm still not sure how I did that, and I'm pretty sure I'll have the same issue next time.
So now my email looks a little fancier. It has a Mailchimp icon on the bottom, a physical return address, and an option to opt out of the list. The problem is that if people opt out, in September when I get a bunch of new members and renew the list from gmail, they'll be opted in again. I guess I'll cross that bridge later on.
I inquired to UFT for help, but was fortunate enough to figure it out within 24 hours. If I were UFT leadership, I'd give UFT emails to chapter leaders. I'm actually happier controlling my own email, but I'm always getting requests from UFT to share my lists, which I never do. After all, no one helped me write in each and every one of those 458 members. No one handed the list to me, and no one sorted it by department and function.
But had they started that way, they'd have access to all that work. You'd think that would be a desirable thing, particularly in these times. I'm not at all sure I'd take advantage of that service, but it would be smart of them to make it available.
Time for Democrats to Move on (and Maybe UFT Should Too)
A pair of columns about Democrats, one about what black voters lost by hitching their star to them, and another about the price Democrats paid for letting unions die, cried out to me. It's very much something that's been freaking me out, particularly since Trump took the White House. A lot of this began with Bill Clinton and his New Democrat nonsense.
Clinton was sorely wounded after his failed effort to nationalize health care. He stood strong and said that he was going to achieve it or strike down any alternative. ( popular joke at the time--What was the difference between Elvis and Bill Clinton? Elvis was alive.) While it was the right thing to do in many ways, his failure to achieve it meant he turned down something very similar to what became Obamacare, actually proposed by the GOP. Who knows where we might've been by now had that become law?
Clinton pivoted in the other direction, giving us the Republican Lite that failed to focus on helping the groups with whom Democrats were supposed to identify. When Obama ran, I was troubled by his educational positions. I had no idea he'd give GW Bush an extra term in education, and I had no notion he'd nationalize junk science to rate teachers. Nonetheless, he looked pretty reformy to me.
He ended up a lot worse than I'd expected. One thing that made me vote for him was his promise to enable card check. The possibility of enabling more union for working people seemed worth pursuing. Alas, he didn't bother. Obama also promised to find a pair of comfortable shoes and march with labor, but when Scott Walker shot labor in the back, Obama sat at his desk, presumably wearing heavy Oxfords that didn't encourage walking.
Hillary ran an uninspiring campaign, and the best thing people like me could say about her was, "Well, at least she isn't Donald Trump." Of course, because we don't actually run a national election, votes like mine in New York are relatively meaningless. While voting against Trump was a moral imperative, our fundamental lack of democracy left him President.
And this brings us to union leadership, which endorsed Obama despite his miserable record, and jumped at the starting gate to endorse Hillary. The idea was to be ahead of the curve. An early endorsement could, perhaps, strengthen your negotiating position. After all, AFT had endorsed Hillary against Obama, and that may have emboldened Obama to take all that reformy money and stab us in the back. Who knows?
So this time, the idea was to get with a winner way in the beginning. Or maybe it was about a preexisting preference for Hillary. I remember being part of an AFT phone call, supposedly to help pick a candidate. The first person to speak, supposedly from the crowd, was a hack for NY State Unity who ran an ad hominem blog on me. He called me a part time teacher and a part time unionist. Randi Weingarten tweeted it out and praised it, but retracted it when I pointed out his baseless attack applied not only to me, but also to every single working UFT chapter leader.
It looked to me like the Hillary endorsement was in the bag. I was not persuaded by talk of a "scientific survey" because there was no talk of how respondents were chosen and we were never shown the questions asked. It could have been a push poll, and one thing I'm certain of is no one I know actually took the survey. Also, I saw no evidence that AFT had made any demands of Hillary. Some people speculated that there was a job for Randi in a Hillary administration, but I don't believe that. I don't think Hillary would ever have risked the press reaction to a union leader as Education Secretary.
The main problem, though, was none of the above. The main problem, as we now know, was that Hillary was a loser. Why? Well, there's Russian interference. There are a whole lot of electoral irregularities, like the GOP crosscheck that actively discourages potential Democratic voters. But even after we acknowledge all that nonsense, there's the fact that Hillary failed to inspire voters to get off their asses and go to the polls. Had she managed that, she'd have won the Presidency just as Barack Obama had.
And why didn't Hillary inspire? Because she offered nothing other than more of the same. Universal health care? After having failed spectacularly to get that for Bill, she wasn't gonna try that again. Affordable college? She argued that we'd be financing Donald Trump's children, as though Trump would even dream of allowing his kids to go to SUNY or anyplace remotely similar. A living wage for all Americans? Hey, let's not get carried away. In fact, I don't recall her even bothering to pay the lip service to card check and/ or union that got me to vote for Barack Obama, once.
The point is that this corporate crap is not only unproductive, but also unappealing. Obama had enough charisma to overcome the stigma of some of his awful policies, but they hang in the air as having enabled Trump, and voters have had enough. We need to dump the "New Democrats" and find someone who supports working people.
And if UFT leadership can't find and support politicians with pro-labor, pro-teacher policies, they need to find someone who can, or make way for someone who can. We're in crisis and sleepy mediocrity simply won't cut it anymore.
Labels: Barack Obama, faux Democrats, Hillary Clinton, UFT
The Police Officer and the Community
A year ago or thereabouts, Mayor Bill de Blasio started a community policing program. The idea, I guess, was to get police on the street like the beat cops of yore. Where would these cops come from? It appears the mayor pulled them from the public schools. After all, cops don't suddenly appear from magical fairy dust, and hiring more cops would entail paying their salaries and stuff.
In our school, we had a resident police officer for thirteen years. Some people have large issues with police in schools. I had smaller ones. Our officer, Raul Espinet, tended to talk a lot at security meetings. This upset me, because our AP Security runs the best meetings I've ever attended in my life. He would have three agenda items, would burn through them in five minutes, and we would all leave. Espinet always had comments.
In fairness, how many teachers ask questions at meetings, thus making them longer? And while I'd like to chide the newer teachers for not knowing better, they frequently turn out to be vets. Sometimes they are me, in fact.
On the other hand, our deans loved him. He would give them heads up about gang activity and drugs in our area. He would preclude issues that may have entered our school otherwise. So ultimately, the information he provided was of more value than my desire to leave absolutely every meeting at the earliest possible minute. I mean, you think you go to a lot of meetings, but chapter leaders go to a lot of meetings.
Anyway, I started getting a whole lot of complaints that Espinet was leaving. The timing was particularly troubling, right after the Florida shootings. A lot of people were on edge. I contacted Susan Edelman from the Post, who was very interested. She sent a colleague to our school on parent-teacher day, and it turned out our PTA was passing around a petition to get our "armed officer" back. I didn't like the emphasis on "armed" so I didn't sign it. But a thousand other people did.
Edelman's story generated a lot of interest. NBC 4 picked it up, and within days our PTA President and one of our students were on Fox and Friends, of all places. I was able to tell some of my right-leaning friends that I was indirectly responsible for a story on their favorite network. Who would've thunk it?
Someone relented, eventually and there was soon another story saying that police would return to three very large schools in our area, Lewis, Bayside and Cardozo. My sources tell me the DOE did not want this to happen, but bowed to pressure.
This was a moment when union, community and the press came together and we made something happen. It was an energy that moved from person to person and culminated in our getting something. This is kind of how things are supposed to work. I look forward to being part of more things like this one.
On Blogging and BLM
I started a shitstorm (not my first) when I posted about the January UFT Delegate Assembly. This was the one when Dermot Myrie got up to propose a resolution to support Black Lives Matter and it was voted down by Unity. When I write about meetings, I mostly write whatever I see or hear without editorial content. I generally add a snarky headline, and the one I chose that night was "Black Lives May or May Not Matter."
This was then picked up by Lindsey Christ at NY1 and a few other outlets. It upset the hell out of the Unity Caucus, who wrote some particularly vicious things about the "not so loyal" opposition. I always read the nasty crap they write about us and think I could do it more effectively. On the other hand, I don't really do personal attack much anymore. I used to do it more frequently when I started the blog, but I use it less and less over time. It's not as effective as actual argument, which is my personal go-to.
One of the primary things that's reduced my use of ad hominem was doing real union work. Being chapter leader of the largest school in Queens, the most overcrowded school in the city, is insane. Sometimes I tell people my job is insane and they think I'm complaining. Surprisingly, I'm not. I thrive on having an insane job. I wonder whether teaching is an insane job, if I have an insane approach to it, or both. It doesn't much matter. I love what I do, and when I say how crazy it is, I'm fine with it. (That doesn't mean I don't like time off now and then.)
But it's easy to sit on the sidelines and bitch about the union. That's what I was doing before I got involved, though I didn't really know it at the time. I was particularly tough on Leo Casey, because he was the designated mouthpiece over at Edwize (UFT had a blog back in the day.), and frankly, he was pretty nasty to us too. As soon as I became chapter leader, I went on a mission to try to reverse our school's overcrowding. Leo Casey came to our school and set up a meeting at DOE. At this meeting we were able to come to an agreement that worked well for a few years.
So what can you think when a person you've said the most awful things about for months and months comes out and helps you? It's pretty awkward. You can't really just say that everyone in leadership sucks unreservedly, even though you've been saying that for years. It's a lot easier to talk like that if you're far away and play no part in union issues.
I have legitimate criticisms of leadership, though. There's class size, which was placed in the contract over a half-century ago. You'd hope we'd have moved forward since then. There are the excessive observations. There's the junk science. There's our wildly undemocratic process. There's the ATR, which was and still is a huge error that needs fixing.
My Executive Board buddy Mike Schirtzer wrote this a while back, and I guess it's time I say it too--I don't remotely suspect Unity Caucus of racism, bigotry, or anything of the sort. I think they made an error not endorsing Black Lives Matter, but I certainly don't believe they feel black lives don't matter either.
They called it a splinter issue. They're right that by endorsing BLM you're liable to lose the Trump/ racist contingent (assuming that isn't already a done deal). Make no mistake, there is that contingent in UFT. I saw it very much on display on UFT's Facebook page preceding the Staten Island march protesting the Garner shooting. I had not planned to attend that march, but I was so thoroughly disgusted by remarks from my fellow union members that I changed my plans.
More recently, it appears to me Hillary lost the election (among other reasons) because she failed to stand up. Hillary didn't support universal health care, a living wage, or affordable college. The guy who ran her campaign was no friend of ours. Like Obama, who proved to be a terrible education president, we endorsed Hillary unconditionally. I'm not privy to high-level negotiations, but why on earth are we giving our support to people who lecture us about "public charter schools," whatever they may be, at the AFT Convention, of all places? It was easy for me to vote for Hillary against Trump, but she didn't look good alone (or compared to Sanders, who I believe would've defeated the Donald).
To my mind, this is the same thought process that kept us from endorsing BLM. I know Trump voters who are just not going to pay union dues. Why should they? People like me will pay. Trump wouldn't pay. He'd make us do it, and indeed we pay millions for all his golf junkets and military parades and whatnot. I don't think Trump voters are the ones who will save our union. Trump voters would ruin the union just as eagerly as they're ruining these United States.
MORE isn't perfect either. MORE"s handling of the Garner march was embarrassing. I understand there was a meeting in which they tried to retroactively support it, which was even more ridiculous. Hey, you were there, or you were not there. I've been at more than one meeting in which a bunch of white people sat around and pondered how to attract more educators of color. I wondered, why are you asking me?
Off the top of my head, I'd say that educators of all colors and sizes want to be treated with respect. They want better pay, less stupid paperwork, fewer pointless mandates and fewer lunatic administrators. They want better, not worse working conditions. They want to work with confidence, not live in fear. One thing MORE has right is that our working conditions are student learning conditions.
Maybe we should all get together and improve those conditions. I'm ready. Alternatively, we can all run around and insinuate nasty shit about one another.
Labels: Black Lives Matter, UFT Delegate Assembly, UFT Unity
Co-teaching, Part 154, This World, and the World of Theory
I'm still at NYSABE. There is a lot of good stuff going on. Everyone here supports ELLs. UFT VP Evelyn de Jesus, speaking this morning, quoted a Czech proverb, You live a new life for every language you speak, and expressed support for tweaking Part 154 so that we could give ELLs the language instruction they need.
Alas, until that happens, we have to deal with what's in front of our faces. That's why I chose to attend a presentation about co-teaching. The presentation was certainly thoughtful. In an ideal world, everyone would follow the practices the presenter espoused. The problem is we're not quite in an ideal world. I made the egregious error of answering two questions before I realized I was thinking about a universe that was not precisely relevant to the topic at hand.
The first question was, "What is co-teaching?" My answer was co-teaching is when the principal says, "You, and you, go teach together." This was not well-received by my group. They said co-teaching is a relationship. It's a marriage. It's a negotiation. They weren't wrong. But I wasn't wrong either.
The presenters weren't totally out of the loop on what goes on. For example, the presenter acknowledged that the ESL teacher often appears to be an educational assistant. The young woman next to me said she often felt that way. In fact, she said, two of the teachers with whom she co-teaches don't even acknowledge her presence in the room.
So think about that. If co-teaching is a marriage, this young woman is conducting at least three marriages concurrently. I don't know about you, but that's a high bar for me. If we really wish these things to work, why are we setting such impossible standards? The presenter said when you have issues with your co-teacher, the best thing to do is go out for a drink or something. Don't go to the principal and complain. As the person who's often in the room with the principal and the co-teachers who've complained, I couldn't agree more. Alas, it's always too late.
The second time I opened my mouth I made yet another faux pas. What's the main issue with co-teaching? The main issue, I said, was that the English language was not regarded as sufficiently important under Part 154 to be regarded as a subject. Another attendee took exception to that. "Did you try telling your co-teacher about specific English errors, as opposed to simply labeling them "awkward?"
Now she isn't wrong about that. Were I paired up with the science teacher I might be able to offer specific suggestions on how to more effectively improve composition skills. She thought I was expressing some sort of feeling of inferiority or envy, as though I weren't being appreciated. That's not the case at all. I have multiple certifications, and I don't actually need to co-teach.
What I'm talking about is the fact that these co-taught ESL classes come at the expense of direct English instruction, something my kids direly need. There is simply no substitute for it. How would you like to go to China and be placed in a Chinese history class taught entirely in Chinese? Would it help you if I gave you five vocabulary words every day? Would it help you if I had a Chinese as a second language teacher wandering around the room to give you tips on what the hell the other teacher was talking about? Maybe a little, but probably not remotely enough for you to learn Chinese history.
Under CR Part 154, what really happens when you plant the ESL teacher in the science class? As someone who struggled with science in my native language, I don't really see how I could be expected to learn not only science, but also a new language, especially in the same time native speakers learned only science. No matter how many good ideas you have about co-teaching, that's an insurmountable obstacle right there. Furthermore, it's made worse by the fact that the ESL teacher likely has several other co-teachers and little or no time to consult with any of them.
The presenter said two heads are better than one. That's potentially true. Last year I was in a great co-teaching situation. After having mediated between bitter pairs of teachers for years, I told my boss I never wanted to co-teach. Unfortunately, I'd also told her how quick-witted and smart I found one of our new teachers. My AP, to prove me wrong yet again, paired me up with her and we got along very well. Our only issue was how fast we did things. I make decisions very quickly, and she always wanted to think about things. "We have no time for that!" I'd tell her, but she persisted. Nonetheless, whenever I got called out to some stupid meeting somewhere, I had absolute confidence my students were well-cared for.
Co-teaching would be great if we were actually adding something. Under Part 154, we add a co-teacher, but we take away a fundamental element of language learning, to wit, time. You don't acquire a language simply by wishful thinking and good intentions. Adding a co-teacher to one period does not mitigate the fact that you've subtracted another period of direct English instruction. Not only have you failed to compensate for that, but you've also taken time away from the core subject by adding language instruction to it.
Hey, it's great for co-teachers to get along. And it's great to add extra classroom support. But in New York State, they're attacking the problem backwards. If you couldn't climb a mountain in one day, I'd suggest you take two or three days to do it. New York State says do it in half a day, but here, bring someone with you.
How stupid is that?
Posted by NYC Educator at 12:00 PM View Comments
Labels: co-teaching, NYSABE, part 154
Speak American
I'm at the NY State Association for Bilingual Education Conference, a guest of UFT Education VP Evelyn de Jesus. For some reason Evelyn thinks it's a good idea to send me to conferences that center around the kids I serve, and this is the second year she's sent me here.
I'm not at all sure how this story got past me, but a teacher saw fit to tell a Spanish-speaking student that she needed to "speak American" and actually got caught on video.
“Men and women are fighting. They are not fighting for your right to speak Spanish,” the teacher said in the Oct. 12 video. “They are fighting for your right to speak American.”
Well, I'm glad I didn't have to represent that teacher. There's not a whole lot you can say or do to mitigate that kind of speech. I won't mention the name of the young woman who was the recipient of those comments, but today we saw and heard her. It's horrifying that anyone would speak to a student like that. I'm a little upset it was an English teacher, because in a galaxy long ago and far away I was one too.
In New York City hate speech like that would be a violation of Chancellor's Regulation A-421, verbal abuse. A-421 is pretty broadly written, perhaps too much so. Anything that would make a student feel belittled or abused is a violation. If you say, "Good morning," and the student doesn't like it, and the principal doesn't like you, you're likely up on charges.
You kind of expect an English teacher to be well read. To me, at least, that would imply a rudimentary understanding of culture. If you are telling people to speak American, culture's not the first thing I'd be accusing you of. I have little to no tolerance for racism, bigotry, or even garden-variety stupidity. These are especially egregious in adults. To my mind, none of these qualities are desirable in teachers.
It's different with kids. They often don't know better, and one of the things about this job is you get chances to be proactive. You can help kids to grow up and never say things like, "speak American." I'm pretty shocked when I see bigotry in my ELLs, but I do. Sadly, I'm less shocked by homophobia, which many of them deem acceptable. They're pretty surprised when I don't wink and nod with them. I let them know that it's no different from making fun of their country, religion, color, sex, or any number of things.
The students today gave me the impression this speech was not that unusual. The only thing that really changed was that this time it was captured on video. I don't think this teacher would have fared as well in NYC. I know someone who did something I'd consider less egregious, got caught on video, and got fired. Of course you never know on any given day what some zany madcap arbitrator might decide.
Again, I am so glad I didn't have to represent the teacher who said this odious thing.
Exec. Board Takeaway March 12th--The Good, the Bad, and the Worse
I was walking to the meeting with KJ from New Action, and the first thing he said to me was, "I can smell the food." I told him that had never happened before and it seemed like a good sign. Maybe they had finally abandoned those awful sandwiches. We got there and there was all sorts of food. I tried a piece of the eggplant and it was pretty good. We hoped maybe a better fed meeting would be a more productive meeting but alas, that was not to be the case.
Eric Mears started the meeting with a great analysis of Danielson. He picked out parts that suggest teachers should essentially work without compensation if they wished to have good ratings and asked how that was even legal. He pinpointed lines that said we should, if we were truly effective, rat out our brothers and sisters. Thank you, Charlotte Danielson. You're an example for us all.
It was great that Eric was able to plod through all that nonsense to find this stuff. It's kind of remarkable that no one else did before. I often lack the patience to go through tedious crap with a fine tooth comb but I really appreciate that he was able to do it. Let's see what leadership has to say about this. Maybe they'll actually look at whatever he gave them. Stranger things have happened.
We got to hear further about the massive abuse in Adult Ed. I'm really surprised that a sitting cesspool like that has yet to be drained. It seems to be affecting some of the most vulnerable people in the city, and I'm not talking about the teachers. This superintendent appears to be getting away with murder.
ATRs are given an opportunity to vote in UFT elections for a chapter leader who will almost certainly not be their chapter leader come September. It hardly seems worth it, if you ask me. Why should I be worried about a leader who won't be my leader? This distinction, alas, appears to escape leadership, who didn't even wish to discuss it. My understanding is that they contend the ATR to be a temporary aberration. The fact that they enabled it via the 2005 contract, as well as the fact that it's endured for twelve years appears not to register.
When I asked whether we could reach out to help ATRs I was told that this wasn't a question. Howard Schoor said I knew how to write a resolution and indeed I do. I can certainly provide one for the next meeting, but given the dismissiveness of that remark I'm not confident we'll prevail. It's kind of disturbing to think that, at the same time we're urging people to remain in the union, we're telling a whole group of people stuck in a purgatory created by leadership that they don't get a meaningful vote. It wouldn't be my preferred approach.
Amy Arundell spoke about saving two Queens schools, which was a very positive achievement. It is sorely disappointing to see Bill de Blasio, for whom I worked, to whom I contributed, whose first inauguration I attended, closing schools a la Mike Bloomberg.Worse, it appears he fired the PEP member who enabled it, in direct violation of a campaign promise.
Now I rejoice as much as anyone when we avert closings. Sadly, I'm not sure I can agree that this is the result of union power. Union power is certainly desirable, and I'm sure it didn't hurt. But you also have to factor in the dumb luck of getting someone on the fake school board to vote with you. The likelihood of it happening again after this firing hovers around nil. I remember going to many raucous and passionate hearings for Jamaica, and the PEP shut it anyway.
Then we come to a class size resolution. I've been trying to negotiate with Unity for months. I don't recall offhand when Howard Schoor said they'd be happy to meet about this, but the fact is I reached out immediately after that meeting. I got one response saying it was a good idea to do things this way rather than just hitting them with resolutions, but no one answered my repeated requests for a meeting. I followed up, but by last Monday I'd had it.
I sent our resolution in during the school day. Unity, months ago, passed a resolution demanding they get to see any resolution at least an hour before the meeting. Ironically, they themselves need not show us anything and can bring whatever they feel like with no notice whatsoever. In any case, on Monday I learned exactly why they need to do this stuff.
In response to our resolution, Unity put up two guys to respond. The first guy got up and read from a piece of paper about what he wanted stricken from the resolution. I stood up and was going to ask why he wanted to do that. As it happened, Unity put up a second guy with an explanation for their rationale. He explained that asking for any particular number in class size reduction would cost us money in the contract negotiations.
Now it was odd that he said that, because the resolution specifically said that this was unrelated to contract negotiations. Yet he and at least one other speaker said that any specific request for class size reduction would come with a price in negotiations. The Unity Caucus therefore voted to remove all references to specific class size from the class size resolution.
Evidently, since our resolution now made no specific class size demands, there would be no specific price paid during negotiations. In case the implication of that is not obvious. I'll point out that this means we specifically demand nothing whatsoever in the way of lowering class size. Certainly the city won't be charging us for that, and the clause saying we ought not to pay during contract negotiations remains.
I was really struck by what the guy who appeared not to understand why he was asking what he was asking when he added
Resolved that UFT will continue to fight to get C4E monies dispersed to NYC.
Note the implication here. UFT is already doing something, evidently, and will continue doing whatever that may be. As someone who grieves class sizes twice a year, I'm thoroughly unimpressed with our fight. Thus far, for over half a century and counting, it's yielded precisely nothing that's reduced class sizes. The notion of continuing whatever it is we're doing appeals to me not at all. The notion that UFT has been carrying the torch for lower class sizes is preposterous beyond belief.
That's why I voted against my own resolution, and that's why I'll vote against it again if it comes up in the DA. I know a meaningless, toothless nothing when I see one.
Labels: class size, UFT Executive Board
Your Door Knockers at Work
There's an interesting piece in The Chief ($) about reaching out "in building unity," and judging from this photo, it's pretty easy to see why. Note that the young woman in the photo is wearing a Unity Caucus t-shirt and appears to be in a UFT hall.
Now I'm not a fashion consultant, but I have to say that it's pretty inappropriate for anyone to knock on doors wearing a shirt like that. I'm not remotely sure that was the case, but she is clearly sending a message to Chief readers.
It is, however, a pretty good representation of union leadership, whether she intended it or not. The UFT is run by the Unity Caucus and has been since its inception. It's actually not something they widely broadcast. I barely knew it existed until 2005, when I started taking a much closer look at UFT politics. Until then they existed only as a name on a ballot that turned up every two or three years.
Unity Caucus is an elite, invitation-only caucus, a veritable gravy train of perks and gigs for those who sign up. As I write frequently, it requires its members to sign a loyalty oath. It basically says you may disagree within the caucus, but in public you must fall in line with all caucus positions. This can be frustrating, especially if you sit on the Executive Board every two weeks determined to speak what you see, as opposed to what you're told. There are seven of us in the opposition. You can recognize us because we're the ones asking questions. We're the ones bringing resolutions demanding things like, oh, following the C4E law to reduce class sizes, or giving ATR members a meaningful vote.
At the Executive Board, I watch dozens of people sit around, saying and doing nothing until and unless they're instructed otherwise. These are the people, hand-picked by leadership to represent your interests. The only problem is they aren't actually permitted to do that. In fact, they've signed a specific document pretty much promising to tow the line whether or not it serves your interests. Make no mistake, this holds us back.
Sometimes I feel the only thing I really own is my voice. I can't and won't sign an oath to give it up. That this is the price of what they call activism speaks volumes as to what our problem is. I'd actually love to work with and support the union. Sometimes I get called to do that, but not all that frequently. It's too bad we can't work that out. It kind of breaks my heart to see people whose only redeeming quality to the union is the ability to sit down and shut up. This is about the least useful quality an activist can have. But if you want to entertain working for UFT, it's the only one that matters.
We're now facing an existential threat. The reaction of leadership is the same as it ever was. Pay flunkies to work around the office, doing something or other, and continue to erect brick walls to keep the activists the hell out. That's an ass-backward approach. You are either a leader or a follower. UFT policy is to actively discourage leadership. That's bad organization, and it's also bad teaching.
I go to work each and every day and try to draw out the voices of my students. Given that they don't speak much or any English, that's not precisely a walk in the park. Sometimes I have to pry it out of them. Sometimes I feel like I'm a dentist with a pair of pliers trying to extract a recalcitrant tooth. Sometimes I feel like I'm holding them by their knees and shaking them up and down until something falls out. I never stop trying though.
UFT Unity seems to go about things differently. It's like they are emulating Michelle Rhee and taping their student's mouths shut. After all, if they're open, who knows what could come out of those things? Sadly, come Janus, listening to rank and file will become essential if we are to survive. Sadder still, leadership has almost no experience doing this, and as far as I can tell, little to no inclination to start.
It's gonna be a long and interesting year.
Labels: Janus, UFT Unity loyalty oath
UFT Executive Board--We Pass a Class Size Resolution but Remove All Mention of Class Sizes
6:00 Secretary Howard Schoor welcomes us.
Speakers—Eric Mears—Health Opportunities High School—(delivered me his speech, which I present verbatim)
I speak today to address the shocking sample comments of the Charlotte Danielson rubric; particularly the “Professional Responsibilities” section.
One can infer from these comments that teachers who are unwilling to do free labor or commit treachery against their colleagues may be rated Developing or worse. Teachers' opinions may also be used as reasons for low ratings under Danielson.
Here are four egregious examples of sample comments:
1. "The teacher listens to his principal's feedback after a lesson, but isn't sure that the recommendations really apply in his situation." (Developing; Component 4.E. - Growing and Developing Professionally)
- Here, the teacher is to be penalized for being skeptical about his principal’s feedback; in other words, for his opinion. Indeed, even if the teacher carries out all of his principal’s suggestions conscientiously, he shall be punished for his lack of faith in them. The Developing rating is to be assigned, in short, because a teacher has committed a thought crime.
2. "The teacher says, 'I have always known my grade partner to be truthful. If she called in sick, then I believe her.' " (Developing; Component 4.f. – Showing Professionalism)
- Here again, the teacher is to be evaluated based on his opinion of his colleague. This is already absurd. But worse, a teacher can only show that he distrusts his grade partner by investigating her, quarreling with her, gossiping about her, or performing some other treacherous act. And the Danielson rubric would reward him for doing so.
3. "The teacher considers staying late to help some of her students in after-school daycare but then realizes it would conflict with her health club class and so decides against it.” (Developing; Component 4.f. Showing Professionalism.).
- Here, a teacher is to be punished for failing to provide extra and perhaps free labor in her school. This fact alone would seem to make the Danielson rubric illegal and inadmissible as a document through which to evaluate teachers. At minimum, it is contemptuous of teachers’ dignity and time.
4. "The principal says, 'I wish I didn't have to ask the teacher to 'volunteer' every time we need someone to chaperone the dance." (Developing; Component 4.d. – Participating in the Professional Community)
- Here, a teacher spends his free time chaperoning every school dance that occurs in a given school year. But because his principal asked him to volunteer, he is perversely punished with a Developing rating. This comment is not only anti-labor (and probably illegal) like the others. It is also poorly written and not thought through.
Nothing can ameliorate a rubric that is tainted by these sample comments that encourage the violation of labor law. It is immoral, illegal, and unacceptable to evaluate teachers in the way that Danielson prescribes.
So, what should be done? I recommend two actions and a contingency:
Action #1: Demand that the DOE rescind all Developing or Ineffective ratings that were given during the Danielson era - - - or at least rescind those ratings in categories where Danielson encourages labor law violations.
Action #2: Demand that the DOE replace Danielson with an alternative that is devised and agreed upon by NYC teachers and principals. The consultant class does not deserve a say in any new system; not after five years of crudely encouraging labor violations under Danielson.
Contingency: If the DOE does not agree to these two demands, file a class action lawsuit on behalf of all teachers who have been harmed by Danielson. This should be a winnable lawsuit – since the document blatantly encourages administrators to violate labor law.
A school system that uses Danielson does not respect its educators, or basic labor law, for that matter. And a union that allows Danielson is not serving its members. Please act, now, UFT leaders, to repair the harm that Danielson has done, and would continue to do, to UFT teachers.
Schoor—Are these examples?
Mear—They’re sample comments.
Schoor—Send them to me.
Roberta Pixar—fired from Adult Ed.—Asks union to help with budget. All other teachers have access to school budgets. As public agency budget is public, but Rosemary Mills has denied access as we watch program eliminated.
Told we could no longer teach low level students due to funding. Program being dismembered. We want to see budget.
One third classes closed despite over 50 million budget. Career and tech training disappearing.
Mills bought kindergarten and college books with no levels in between. They are useless, no money left to buy appropriate ones. Mills hired managers rather than buy books. More and more of our teachers and support staff are fired and handed out. Strictly per session program with no benefits lately.
Barr has budget but has not released to chapter. What is the secret? We are now being denied access by our own union.
We need to see where money has gone year by year, we need income sources and detailed expenditures. We suspect mismanagement, at least. We want our program back, alive, not moribund.
Asks that UFT stops withholding budget from members. Want to see it and five previous budgets. Will you do that?
Schoor—We have it, we are analyzing it. Parts of it are public, but not all of it. CLs entitled to part of it. There are different views of budget. We will give it to CL with our analysis.
Mulgrew not here—says if you haven’t seen DeVos interview you should get it. This is what you get for 200 million in donations.
LeRoy Barr—middle school conference, great event, thanks Richard Mantel, guidance conference and para luncheon, went well. Letter from DOE about 17 minute walkout, March 14, encourage schools to have plans. Make sure students are safe, volunteer. UFT Anniversary March 16. Saturday elementary conference. March 21 DA, EB March 26. March against gun violence March 24.
Janella Hinds—UFT will support March for Our Lives in Central Park. March 24th
Schoor—As we get info on marches we share
Vince G—praises menu change. Thanks LeRoy Barr.
Arthur Goldstein—MORE—It appears our brothers and sisters in the Absent Teacher Reserve will be eligible to vote in chapter leader and delegate elections. That’s positive. Less positive is the fact that many or most of them will not be in the same schools come September. I speak to a lot of ATRs, and they feel about this just as many of us felt about the Electoral College when Trump won.
I understand leadership’s position that the ATR is temporary, and like everyone here, I’d like it as temporary as possible. I understand that as an objection to a permanent chapter. I’d therefore propose we establish a temporary chapter, to be dissolved as soon as the ATR is. Like all of you I’m concerned about Janus, and I think our brothers and sisters in the ATR require and deserve a unique voice to express their unique interests.
Can we work together to make that happen this year?
Schoor—You can make a proposal. Question period not proper time. Made this decision three years ago. This board voted. Some people filed a complaint at US Labor Dept.
Goldstein—With all due respect, I’m speaking for teachers here, I'm trying to help them regardless of what US Labor Dept may have said.
KJ Ahluwalia--New Action--I deal with ATRs as well, was in phased out school. What about security? Often have no keys. Have to scramble for someone to lock door. How do we protect them and make them feel like citizens instead of pariahs?
Schoor—We should ask DOE to come up with plan. Thank you for question.
Mike Sill—Appreciate that question. Wrote to Randy Asher about this issue. DOE sometimes lacks uniform policies. Some schools have universal keys, some are individual. DOE agrees. It’s something our safety division is taking up as well. Need to work to make it happen.
Ashraya Gupta—MORE—We have folks here who are labor lawyers. Could we get a response on that? Is it in violation of labor law?
Schoor—Agree. That’s why I asked for questions.
Marcus McArthur—MORE—People concerned about Janus. In my school we’ve assembled committee. Members want to know what’s next. What can we do now?
Schoor—Have a program, door knockers. We don’t know yet what decision will say. Could say you don’t need new cards. Might say we have to have different language and have to resign everyone. May have to do it each year. Many possible variations. We are reaching out. Soon there will be a new UFT app. Will introduce at DA on 21st. We think we do a great job now but we have to do more.
?—Professional conciliation—What if DOE gives us curriculum but it isn’t good? How can we address it?
Schoor—Article 24.
Debbie Poulos—Anyone interested in this, we created a form for assistance. Sometimes it can also be paperwork. Fill out form or email me.
Shelvy Abrams—Want to respond to Marcus—Talk to members. Those of you who heard about Wisconsin, it can happen here. This is what we can lose, bargaining, health. This is do or die situation.
Schoor—Our contract controls many things in your life. That’s what we’ve fought for since March 16, 1960. Everything is in the book and everything is at stake.
Tom Murphy RTC—We are on the road, visit 4K retirees. Janus concerns us. Trying to make PR like NOLA. Evelyn de Jesus asked us to help. We are coordinating 146 people.
Anne Goldman—Thanks from nurses who ratified a contract. We don’t assume that we will successfully bargain without power in political arena and bargaining table. Striking issue for us is they often want our pension. We’re part of a giant ruthless system, but they invested 80 million in it, result of our fight. We work with staffing similar to class size. Quite pricey to achieve. Have struck twice, but achieved our success because of all of you. We’re in it together, part of attack on each of us. Overwhelmingly ratified. Thank you.
Shelvy Abrams—Para luncheon Saturday, 1000 members. Thanks all who came, Ellie Engler and Teacher Center, did great job. Hardest working people in schools, so next time I want more than 1000 and want to see members.
Janella Hinds—March 1, we held Future in Focus, hosted 36 colleges, 30 labor unions who presented to 600 HS students, exposed to college and career, especially unionized.
Events—Triangle Shirtwaist Fire commemoration—sweatshop fire, women 16-20 died horribly, every year they remember them, March 23rd at noon.
Herstory—brunch and celebration to honor women in labor movement March 25th.
Academic HS Awards, Friday April 13th, fourth annual.
Amy Arundell—PEP meeting last week—Several schools were voted on, two of which in Queens, 42 and 53, HS in Manhattan, and others. Raucous meeting, reminiscent of Bloomberg era, ended 2:30 AM. 42, 53 and Health Careers were kept open. Denied mayor these closings. Left at 12:30 feeling sad, and someone texted me to say they didn’t pass. Isn’t that amazing?
Happened because 3 school communities fought tooth and nail for schools. Packed meetings.
Members expressed feelings with help of our reps. Much political work going on, provided financial support. Bused communities in. Testament to work not just of union but also to community partners. Great day and lesson. All of us will save all of us.
Thanks union and all resources, school communities, parents and activists. Unionism looks bright to me now.
Paul Egan—Big week for Chelsea playing Barcelona. Won on weekend. Next week is Lobby Day. Over 1100 people. Packed. Opportunity to make our presence felt. Please attend. Door knocking is ongoing. Four trainings, fifth going on in April. Asks if you know or can recommend someone please reach out.
2018 chapter election guide—
LeRoy Barr—Rises to motivate—same as what we did in 2015. Made sure that everyone repped by UFT could nominate, vote and run. Asks you adopt this guide and by laws.
Seconded. Passed.
Gender Neutral Restroom Resolution
Rashad Brown—Requests UFT provide gender neutral restrooms in offices. UFT has been in center of many fights to help LGBT and other communities. Good also for children. AFT does it at assemblies, so does NEA. DOE has it in place for students. Urges yes vote.
Class sizes
Arthur Goldstein—MORE—Since our last class size resolution, we’ve given a lot of thought to the idea that all contractual negotiation was the province of the 300 member committee. We acknowledge and understand that position, which is why this resolution makes no mention of the Collective Bargaining Agreement and proposes nothing related to it.
Instead, we’re focusing on an existing mandate. This gives us a golden opportunity to support our students and members without touching upon confidential negotiations. It’s been a long time since we’ve taken concrete steps to help the class size situation. In actual fact, it’s been over half a century.
Here’s a way for us to address not only class size, but also the problematic nature of enforcement. Instead of giving teachers a day off from tutoring, let’s offer those who violate the law consequences worthy of lawbreakers. Let’s make recalcitrant principals and DOE lawyers subject to actual law and its consequences. Let’s decisively end the practice of making teachers and students pay when administrators and lawyers who claim to place, “Children First, Always” practice contempt for the law. We can do that right here and right now.
Let’s take this opportunity to show communities and members that we will zealously press for the enforcement of regulations designed to help and support them. Let’s show our colleagues, at this crucial juncture, that union is there to support them. Let’s show city parents that we, the people who wake up every day to work with their children, are the people who really put children first.
And let’s tell politicians who cavalierly ignore the law that we won’t allow them to do it anymore.
Stuart Kaplan—amendment—Strike second to last “Whereas” and first Resolved. Adds Resolved that UFT will continue to fight to get C4E monies dispersed to NYC.
Gregg Lundahl—Asks to strike second to last Whereas (same one) Says there is a difference between C4E and CFE, C4E doesn’t have specific numbers, but there is a great deal of money withheld since 2015. Don’t wish to pay for it in contract negotiations. These are specific numbers. Much more comfortable with our substitute resolution. If we fight to do this for the contract money will have to come from somewhere. Let’s get money from state.
Kiera—Point person for class sizes. Speaks in support of the amendment. Looks at it from negotiation standpoint. Doesn’t want to make class size negotiation public policy.
First strike next to last whereas—Vote.
Passes on party lines.
First resolved—dropped
Additional resolved.
Resolution as amended passes on party lines.
RESOLUTION TO REDUCE CLASS SIZES TO C4E LAW LEVELS (actual class size language now stricken)
Whereas, reducing class size has proven to be one of the best ways to improve student learning, lower teacher attrition rates and disciplinary problems, and narrow achievement and opportunity gaps between racial and economic groups; and
Whereas, NYC schools continue to have the largest average class sizes in the state, and NY’s highest court said that our class sizes were too large in our schools to provide students with their constitutional right to a sound basic education; and
Whereas, UFT contractual class size limits continue to be ignored by the DOE; and
Whereas, the DOE uses outlandish “action plans” to address these limits; and
Whereas, the NYC DOE recently reported class sizes have continued to increase this year; and
Whereas, Article 8L in the 2005 Contract called in part for a labor-management committee to discuss lowering class size if Campaign for Fiscal Equity Settlement funding was available; and
Whereas, the 2007 Contracts for Excellence (C4E) law, which settled the CFE case, required NYC to reduce class size in all grades; and
Whereas, the goals for class size in the city’s original C4E plan, approved by the state in the fall of 2007, are for an average of no more than 20 students per class in K-3, 23 in grades 4-8 and 25 in high school core classes; and
Whereas, the Department of Education has flouted this law flagrantly since 2007; and
Whereas, the DOE gets C4E funding that is often not used to reduce class size; be it therefore
Resolved, that the UFT will make lowering class sizes to the C4E limits of 20 students in a class K-3, 23 in Grades 4-8 and 25 in high school core classes a major goal; and be it further
Resolved, that funding for this class size reduction should not in any way affect monies for contractual raises for UFT members as the DOE is already receiving C4E money to reduce class sizes from the state.
Added: Resolved that UFT will continue to fight to get C4E monies dispersed to NYC.
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Home Technology Apple blocks Clearview AI”s iPhone app for violation of rules
Apple blocks Clearview AI”s iPhone app for violation of rules
Nikhil Linga
(IANS) Apple has blocked the iOS application of controversial facial recognition start-up Clearview AI which claims its technology has helped law enforcement track down hundreds of at-large criminals, including paedophiles, terrorists, and sex traffickers.
The iPhone maker decided to disable the iOS app of the New York-based start-up after BuzzFeed News reported that Clearview AI had been violating the iPhone maker’s rules around app distribution.
The report earlier this week said that in distributing its app for Apple devices, Clearview “has been sidestepping the Apple App Store, encouraging those who want to use the software to download its app through a programme reserved exclusively for developers.”
Following this, Apple conducted an investigation and found that the Clearview AI”s iOS app violated the terms of its Developer Enterprise Program which is meant to be used to distribute apps within a company.
Apple has give Clearview 14 days to respond, the report said on Friday.
“We are in contact with Apple and working on complying with their terms and conditions,” Clearview AI CEO Hoan Ton-That was quoted as saying in a statement.
“The app can not be used without a valid Clearview account. A user can download the app, but not perform any searches without proper authorisation and credentials,” Ton-That said.
Earlier, several tech companies including Facebook LinkedIn, Twitter and YouTube demanded that Clearview AI must stop collecting images from their platforms.
The controversial app uses over three billion images to find a match. These images have been sourced from various social media sites including Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.
“Scraping people”s information violates our policies which is why we”ve demanded that Clearview stop accessing or using information from Facebook or Instagram,” a company spokesperson was quoted as saying in a CBS News report earlier this month.
LinkedIn said it was sending a cease-and-desist letter to Clearview AI.
Besides law enforcement agencies, the technology offered by Clearview AI has been used by several other entities including Walmart and the NBA, according to BuzzFeed News.
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Home » Health » Scientists Create Artificial Muscle That’s Stronger Than Human Muscle
Scientists Create Artificial Muscle That’s Stronger Than Human Muscle
July 14, 2022 – Scientists from UCLA and nonprofit SRI International are experimenting with a strong, stretchy polymer to create an artificial muscle they describe as stronger and more flexible than human muscle.
Polymers are natural or synthetic substances made up of large molecules and are building blocks of many minerals and human-made materials. In this case, researchers used electroactive polymers, which are polymers that change shape or size when stimulated with electricity. They’ve become darlings of the engineering world and are now being used in technology ranging from robot fish to dust wipers.
UCLA researchers developed the muscle material out of dielectric elastomers, a type of electroactive polymer, and introduced a new process for building fake muscle that they hope will one day be applied in soft robotics, and even human implants.
“We’re really excited about this new material,” says Qibing Pei, PhD, an author of the study and a UCLA professor of materials science and engineering. “At its maximum performance, this artificial muscle is way more powerful than a human muscle.”
The team’s findings were published this month in Science.
Creating Super-Muscles
Upon testing, the researchers showed that the material not only could expand and contract like a human diaphragm during breathing, but it could also toss a pea-sized ball 20 times heavier than itself. And synthetic muscles fitted with the material were 3 to 10 times more flexible than natural muscles, according to a news release about the findings.
To create this superhuman, muscly fabric, the researchers took a common but inflexible acrylic-based material and used a UV light curing process to produce a higher-performing material. The result is a 35-micrometer film, as thin and light as a piece of human hair, which is then layered up to 50 times to create the artificial muscle sheet, the authors explain.
The artificial muscle consumes electrical energy, unlike human muscles, which use chemical energy from food to operate.
“This has a lot of advantages,” Pei says. “It is easier to control, and we can activate and deactivate the material at higher frequency. For human muscles, we generally have low performance at a high frequency.”
Hybrid Humans
The researchers see a future for the technology in medical implants and soft robotics. Notably, the material can add a “sense of touch” to wearable biomedical technologies and may help those who can’t smile or blink due to health conditions, Pei explained to UPI.
“I think there is a lot of potential,” he said. “It is this new material, and I think that the implication is getting closer to reality.”
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And now, it's time for this week's synopsis critique! The author of ELEGY FOR THE LIVING, a 75,000-word Adult Suspense novel, submitted this synopsis. My in-line comments are [blue and in brackets], and I'll include a summary at the end. Feel free to comment below!
It’s 1945. [Where? A lot of things were going on in 1945, so adding the location will help situate the reader quickly] Celia Turner is content working as a nurse and living with her mother, Pamela. [How old is Celia?] She dislikes the seedy town and the small-minded people who have labeled her a ‘spinster.’
Celia and her mother share a secret - Pamela is really Celia’s grandmother. [I'd add ', her Nana' here if you want to refer to her as Nana throughout the rest of the synopsis] Because Celia was born out-of-wedlock, Pamela moved the two of them to Manchester hoping to start a new life free from gossip and rejection. Pamela is Celia’s Nana. [You can delete this sentence, because you told us Pamela is Celia's grandmother in the first sentence] Celia has a secret of her own. She grieves for the father she will never have. [What happened to her mother?] [Also, Celia's grief for her unknown father never recurs in the synopsis. Either delete that sentence or describe how it impacts her actions and/or decision-making throughout the rest of the novel]
When she reluctantly (at first) becomes involved with David - a physician completing his residency – her world is flipped upside-down. [What specifically happens to cause her world to flip? Because she's fallen in love with him? Because he's not who he says he is? Add a little detail here] After a hasty wedding, they plan to move to his home-town of Elegy, a place no one has ever heard of. But when Nana falls [Pick either Pamela or Nana to refer to her consistently throughout the synopsis], breaking an ankle, he reluctantly agrees to take her with them - temporarily.
The mountain-locked village seems perfect – at first. After David discovers she’s [Celia's] pregnant, [I'd change this so the focus remains on Celia: 'After Celia tells David she's pregnant...'] he grows distant and uncommunicative - as do the people of Elegy. The residents are harboring a strange secret and Celia and Nana set out to learn what it is.
As Celia’s pregnancy advances, her marriage deteriorates regardless of [despite] her efforts to salvage it. And when she unearths the deadly secret, she is torn with indecision. The residents believe that the surrounding mountains form a magnetic vortex where the souls of the deceased remain until reincarnated at birth. [Is there any evidence that this is actually occurring? In other words, is it accurate to label this novel as magical realism, or are the townspeople's beliefs about the vortex false, and Celia's goal is to discredit them and/or protect herself (rather than utilizing magic in some way)?] To maintain the fragile ecological balance, with each birth, the eldest person must die. [Do the mountains somehow cause the deaths or do the townspeople actively kill the elderly?] Celia’s dream of raising her child in a clean, safe community with a loving father has become a nightmare. Initially heart-broken, her sadness turns to anger. [What does she do to manifest that anger?]
The residents, fearing Nana will reveal the secret to the rest of the world, make it clear that she cannot leave. [Why are the residents concerned about Nana, as opposed to Celia? And if Celia left and gave birth elsewhere, wouldn't that protect Nana?] Nana’s name is entered on the list of those next to die – the second from the top.
Winter is coming. There is only one other pregnant woman in town so Nana and Celia devise a plan for Nana to escape in the spring. But when Celia discovers she is carrying twins, the date must be moved up. [Again, why doesn't Celia just leave? Is she still loyal to her husband, who has tricked her into coming to this town and doesn't seem to speak to her anymore? If she is still loyal, why?] A sudden blizzard approaches and the only road out will be blocked for months. Celia and Nana have no choice. They must leave tonight. After dark.
On the way down the mountain, the car slides into a snowbank. Nana is injured. Labor begins but Celia manages to walk back into town where she discovers that the woman she thought was her friend intends to let her die and take the babies. And the woman she thought was her enemy, comes to her rescue. [Who are these women? Consider introducing them earlier in the synopsis, because then the role-reversal described here will have more of an impact] [How specifically does her enemy come to her rescue?]
Spring. The ground thaws and Celia stands at the grave of the only mother she’s ever known [So Nana dies? We definitely need more detail about how and when that happened] holding twins that bear no resemblance to either her or David. [So... there is a magical element here? Or did someone switch the babies? If Celia knows what's going on by the end, so should the reader]
This is a short, tight, well-written synopsis for what seems to be a truly creepy, suspenseful plot! Most of my critiques involve needing more in terms of character motivations, ensuring consistency throughout the main plot-line, and adding more detail to certain plot points to fill in the blanks for the reader.
Also, I'm not sure based on the synopsis whether the plot contains a fantasy or magical aspect, or whether it's purely psychological suspense/horror. If the former, you should emphasize that in the synopsis and make sure you note it in the query so agents will know what kind of book you've written (a suspense novel with a magical realism or fantastical element would be marketed differently from a realistic suspense novel).
If you want to stick with a one-page synopsis, then you can combine the first two paragraphs (as they're all set-up) and delete some of the content there. That'll leave you with some room to address some of my questions (about Celia's friends, about why Celia doesn't try to leave Elegy earlier, and especially, what happens at the end), should you choose to do so.
It sounds like an exciting book! Best of luck to you.
Labels: adult, critique, Jaime Olin, suspense, synopsis
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Home Top News Pakistan disappointed at EU resolution on blasphemy laws
Pakistan disappointed at EU resolution on blasphemy laws
Pakistan on Friday said it was disappointed at the adoption of a resolution at the European Parliament on blasphemy laws in the country.
“The discourse in the European Parliament reflects a lack of understanding in the context of blasphemy laws and associated religious sensitivities in Pakistan – and in the wider Muslim world,” Foreign Office Spokesperson Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri stated in response to queries.
“The unwarranted commentary about Pakistan’s judicial system and domestic laws are regrettable,” he added.
The Spokesperson said that Pakistan being a parliamentary democracy with a vibrant civil society, free media and independent judiciary, remained fully committed to the promotion and protection of human rights for all its citizens without discrimination.
“We are proud of our minorities who enjoy equal rights and complete protection of fundamental freedoms as enshrined in the Constitution.
Judicial and administrative mechanisms and remedies are in place to guard against any human rights violations,” he added.
The Spokesperson mentioned that Pakistan had played an active role in promoting freedom of religion or belief, tolerance and inter-faith harmony.
At a time of rising Islamophobia and populism, the international community must exhibit a common resolve to fight xenophobia, intolerance and incitement to violence based on religion or belief and work together to strengthen peaceful co-existence, he stressed.
The Spokesperson further said that Pakistan and the EU had multiple mechanisms in place to discuss entire spectrum of bilateral relations, including a dedicated Dialogue on Democracy, Rule of Law, Governance and Human Rights.
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Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic gets $800m boost from space flight
SIR Richard Branson’s successful maiden voyage to the boundary of outer space has lifted the value of his space tourism enterprise by more than $800million.
Shares in Virgin Galactic Holdings jumped as much as 22% in premarket trading on Wall Street, surpassing an all-time peak reached in February.
The boost added around $841 million to the market value of the firm based in Las Cruces, New Mexico
The stock has rocketed by 217% in the past two months and is up more than double year-on-year.
Branson, the 70-year-old billionaire, and five employees completed the long-awaited test flight aboard the company’s VSS Unity spaceplane last night, reaching an altitude of more than 50 miles above the desert during the hour-long journey before gliding back to Earth.
The success of the mission bolsters the company’s plan to debut tourism trips next year.
Tourists will pay $250,000 US dollars (£180,000) for a spaceflight on Virgin Galactic, which includes four minutes of zero gravity.
“Welcome to the dawn of a new space age,” Branson told guests at the Spaceport America complex after touching down.
Branson’s test flight came nine days ahead of Jeff Bezos’s first flight aboard a rocket from his private space company, Blue Origin.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is also planning a number of SpaceX missions, taking passengers on longer trips, with the first scheduled for September.
Meanwhile back on UK soil, the booming space industry is no longer just the preserve of billionaires after investors seized on a chance to explore a new frontier.
Seraphim Space Investment Trust today said that a £180 million fundraising had been oversubscribed amid support from both City institutions and retail investors.
It plans to acquire stakes in four space tech businesses before the end of this year as it looks to back the next generation of space entrepreneurs.
The fundraising and Wednesday’s start of unconditional trading on London’s main market couldn’t be better timed after Branson’s trip to the edge of space on board a Virgin Galactic rocket plane yesterday brought space tourism a step closer.
Will Whitehorn used to be president of Virgin Galactic and is now chairman at Seraphim. He said the fund’s London listing would give investors unparalleled early access to companies that will shape a “new economic revolution”.
The old economy, meanwhile, continues to struggle as further jitters over the global economic rebound and spread of the Delta variant left the FTSE 100 index 41.25 points lower at 7081.03.
The latest sell-off was led by British Airways owner IAG and Rolls-Royce as the pair fell 4.7p to 180.2p and 2.6p to 98.4p respectively. Cyclical sectors including mining and banking were also under pressure after Anglo American gave up 62p to 2,929p and Barclays fell 3.4p to 169.9p.
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Anti-infection roles of miR-155-5p packaged in exosomes secreted by dendritic cells infected with Toxoplasma gondii
Dan Jiang1,
Shuizhen Wu1,
Liqing Xu1,
Guantai Xie1,
Dongliang Li1 &
Hongjuan Peng1
Parasites & Vectors volume 15, Article number: 3 (2022) Cite this article
Toxoplasma gondii is a zoonotic intracellular protozoon that is estimated to infect about 30% of the world’s population, resulting in toxoplasmosis in immunocompromised patients and adverse outcomes in cases of primary infection during pregnancy. Exosomes are tubular vesicles secreted by cells, and function in intercellular communication. It has been reported that the exosomes secreted by T. gondii-infected immune cells transmit infection signals to the uninfected cells. However, the mechanism and effect of the exosome transmission are still vague. We therefore investigated the function of the exosomes transmitted from DC2.4 cells infected with the T. gondii RH strain (Tg-DC-Exo) to the uninfected cells, as well as their roles in anti-infection.
We conducted exosome isolation and identification with ultracentrifugation, transmission electron microscopy (TEM), nanoparticle tracking analysis (NTA), and western blot (WB) analysis. Exosome uptake by recipient cells was identified by PKH67 assay. The signal transmission and the abundance of miR-155-5p were determined using transwell assay and qRT-PCR. For detection of immune responses, cytokine secretion was evaluated. The T. gondii B1 gene was determined to evaluate tachyzoite proliferation.
We observed that Toxoplasma infection upregulated miR-155-5p expression in DC2.4 cell-secreted exosomes, and those exosomes could be ingested by murine macrophage RAW264.7 cells. Tg-DC-Exo and miR-155-5p stimulated host proinflammatory immune responses including increased production of proinflammatory cytokines IL-6 and TNF-α, and proinflammatory marker-inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS). The NF-κB pathway was activated by downregulation of SOCS1, leading to inhibition of T. gondii tachyzoite proliferation in RAW264.7 cells.
Our findings provide a novel mechanism for how infected cells transmit infection signals to the uninfected cells through exosome secretion after T. gondii infection, followed by inflammatory responses and anti-infection reactions, which may help us develop a new strategy for toxoplasmosis prevention, especially in immunocompromised patients.
Toxoplasma gondii is an obligate intracellular protozoon that infects almost one third of the world’s population [1]. The infection is usually asymptomatic, but poses a lifelong threat to immunocompetent populations; however, it may result in severe toxoplasmosis and even death in immunocompromised patients, and primary infection during pregnancy may result in adverse pregnancy outcomes [1]. Host immune responses mediate the effects of T. gondii infection [2]. For example, interferon-gamma (IFN-γ), interleukin-12 (IL-12), and IL-1α have been reported to promote protective immunity against T. gondii infection [3,4,5]. Macrophages are important components of the innate immune system; they scavenge pathogens by activating innate immunity or promoting adaptive immunity through antigen presentation [6]. Many T. gondii secretions, including ROP16, GRA12, GRA15, and GRA2, have been reported to regulate the host immune response [7,8,9].
Exosomes are 30–200 nm extracellular vesicles enriched in proteins, nucleic acids, glycoconjugates, lipids, and other biological substances, which are powerful tools for intercellular communication that mediate biological, physiological, and pathological states related to immune responses [10, 11]. Most cells and pathogens can secrete exosomes containing unique surface molecules and contents including proteins, microRNAs (miRNAs), and messenger RNAs (mRNAs), which participate in host pathogenesis [12, 13]. It has been reported that T. gondii exosomes can trigger humoral and cellular immune responses and promote the secretion of proinflammatory cytokines by macrophages [14, 15]. Toxoplasma gondii exosome immunization was found to be capable of inducing immune protection to prolong mice survival [16, 17]. Nematode exosomes can inhibit the innate type 2 response [18]. Schistosoma mansoni exosomes contain schistosome-derived miRNAs and proteins involved in host–parasite interactions [19]. It has been shown that exosomes have potential for use in vaccine development and therapeutic innovation [20, 21].
Small non-coding RNAs, or microRNAs (miRNAs), inhibit the transcription and translation of the target genes, mainly by binding to the 3′-UTR regions. Exosomes released by immune cells can carry miRNAs from donor cells to recipient cells to regulate biological processes [22]. Rather than regulating their own cells, exosomal miRNAs can regulate proximal and distal target cells through exosome transportation or other means. However, how exosomal miRNA works has not been fully characterized. Several highly expressed miRNAs have been identified from the extracellular vesicles of Schistosoma japonicum and have been found to be able to suppress target gene expression in RAW264.7 cells [23].
The activation of CD8+ T cells is essential for inhibition of T. gondii infection [24]. Dendritic cells and macrophages are important antigen-presenting cells for T cells, which play important roles in anti-infection [25, 26]. The communication between these immune cells is particularly important. However, the exact mechanism by which the exosomes secreted by dendritic cells transmit the anti-infection signals to macrophages is not totally established. This study was conducted to answer this question.
Parasites and cell lines
Murine dendritic cell line DC2.4, human foreskin fibroblast (HFF) cell line, and murine macrophage cell line RAW264.7 were purchased from the American Type Culture Collection (ATCC, Manassas, VA, USA) and preserved in our laboratory. The DC2.4 cells were cultured in RPMI-1640 (Roswell Park Memorial Institute-1640; Gibco/Invitrogen, Waltham, MA, USA); HFF and RAW264.7 cells were cultured in Dulbecco’s modified Eagle’s medium (DMEM) (Gibco/Invitrogen). Both of the culture mediums were supplemented with 10% fetal bovine serum (FBS) (Gibco/Invitrogen) and 1% gentamicin (10 mg/ml, Invitrogen, USA). The cells were cultured with 5% CO2 at 37 °C. The Toxoplasma gondii RH strain was propagated in HFF cells in our laboratory.
DC2.4 cells were cultured with RPMI-1640 complete medium supplemented with 10% exosome-free FBS (Gibco) in eight 75 cm2 cell culture flasks to 90–100% confluence; four flasks were infected with RH tachyzoites at a multiplicity of infection (MOI) of 3 for 0.5 h, and the unrecruited tachyzoites were washed off three times with PBS. After that, the eight flasks were cultured with the exosome-free RPMI-1640 complete medium for 28 h. The supernatants were centrifuged at 2000×g at 4 °C for 30 min to remove cells and cell debris, followed by centrifugation at 10,000×g at 4 °C for 45 min to remove insoluble particles, and then ultracentrifugation at 100,000×g at 4 °C for 120 min to harvest the exosomes. Ultracentrifugation was repeated once, and the supernatant was carefully aspirated. The precipitates were resuspended in 200 µl PBS and stored at −80 °C for use [27].
Exosome identification
Isolated exosomes were examined using transmission electron microscopy (TEM) (Hitachi, Tokyo, Japan) at a voltage of 80 kV. Exosomal proteins were detected with western blotting (WB) [27], and the exosome size was determined using a ZetaView® nanoparticle tracker (Particle Metrix, Germany) as described previously [28]. The ZetaView combines classic microelectrophoresis techniques with Brownian motion to provide information about particle size, zeta potential, and particle concentration. Briefly, the ZetaView sample cubicle was washed with distilled water and slowly injected with exosome diluent samples. The size of the exosomes was measured. Exosomal total protein concentration was determined using a Pierce BCA Protein Assay Kit (Thermo Fisher Scientific, MA, USA) according to the manufacturer’s instructions.
The isolated exosomes and the transfected cells were collected and lysed using lysis buffer (Beyotime Biotechnology, Shanghai, China), total proteins were loaded for sodium dodecyl sulphate–polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE), and WB was performed as described previously [29]. The following primary antibodies were used: CD9 rabbit monoclonal antibody (mAb; 1:1000), TSG101 rabbit mAb (1:1000), HSP70 rabbit mAb (1:1000), iNOS rabbit mAb (1:1000), p65 rabbit mAb (1:1000), and SOCS1 rabbit mAb (1:1000) purchased from Abcam (MA, USA); GAPDH mouse mAb (1:1000), phosphorylated IκB alpha (Ser32/Ser36) mouse mAb (1:1000), and phosphorylated NF-κB p65 (S536) mouse mAb (1:1000) purchased from Affinity Biosciences (OH, USA); and IKBα rabbit mAb (1:1000) purchased from GeneTex (Santa Cruz, CA, USA). The secondary antibodies used for WB were horseradish peroxidase (HRP)-conjugated goat anti-mouse immunoglobulin G (IgG; 1:5000) and HRP goat anti-rabbit IgG (1:5000) purchased from ABclonal (Wuhan, China).
Detection of uptake of Tg-DC-exo and DC-exo by RAW264.7 cells
RAW264.7 cells were seeded on coverslips in a 12-well plate, at approximately 1.1 × 106 cells per well, and were cultured with DMEM supplemented with 10% exosome-free FBS for 12 h. Exosomes extracted from the supernatants of T. gondii-infected DC2.4 cells (Tg-DC-Exo) and DC2.4 cells (DC-Exo) were labeled with green fluorescence using a PKH67 Green Fluorescent Cell Linker Mini Kit (Sigma-Aldrich, USA) according to the experimental procedures described by Lin et al. [30]. Briefly, Tg-DC-Exo and DC-Exo (5 µg for each) were respectively mixed in 40 µl of PBS with 50 µl Diluent C and 0.25 µl PKH67 dye, mixed gently for 5 min at room temperature, and 1% bovine serum albumin (BSA) was added to terminate the dying process. PKH67-stained Tg-DC-Exo and DC-Exo were recollected at 100,000×g for 2 h at 4 °C and resuspended in PBS. PKH67-stained exosomes or the same volume of the PKH67-PBS control were separately added to the RAW264.7 cells and incubated for 6 h. The cells were washed three times with PBS times and fixed in 4% paraformaldehyde for 10 min (Dingguo, China). The coverslips were taken out, rinsed with double-distilled water, and air-dried. The coverslips were mounted with DAPI Fluoromount® (Southern Biotech, USA) and then observed under a fluorescence microscope (Nikon, Tokyo, Japan) with a green fluorescence protein (GFP) filter, and images were captured at ×1000 magnification.
RNA and DNA isolation and Quantitative Reverse Transcription-Polymerase Chain Reaction (qRT-PCR)
The total RNA of exosomes was extracted with an exoRNeasy Serum/Plasma Midi Kit (QIAGEN, Duesseldorf, Germany) according to the manufacturer’s protocol. The total RNA of cells was extracted with TRIzol reagent (Thermo Fisher Scientific, Waltham, MA, USA) according to the manufacturer’s protocol. Genomic DNA was removed with a One-Step gDNA Removal Kit (Trans Gen Biotech, Beijing, China). For miRNA analysis, exosomal RNA was reverse-transcribed using SuperScript™ II reverse transcriptase (Thermo Fisher Scientific, Wilmington, DE, USA), and cell RNA was reverse-transcribed using EasyScript® All-in-One First-Strand cDNA Synthesis SuperMix. To evaluate the relative amount of T. gondii tachyzoites, the total DNA of infected cells was extracted with a DNeasy Blood and Tissue Kit, and Proteinase K (QIAGEN, Duesseldorf, Germany) was used according to the manufacturer’s protocol. Detection of the T. gondii B1 gene was carried out following previously reported procedures [31]. Real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was performed using the Hieff® qPCR SYBR® Green Master Mix (Yeasen, Shanghai, China) and the QuantStudio™ real-time PCR system (Thermo Fisher Scientific, Wilmington, DE, USA). The primers for quantitative PCR (qPCR) are shown in Additional file 1: Table S1. The relative mRNA level was measured using the 2−ΔΔCt method.
Detection of macrophage polarization after treatment of RAW264.7 cells with Tg-DC-exo and DC-exo
RAW264.7 cells were cultured with DMEM supplemented with 10% exosome-free FBS in 24-well plates to 60–80% confluence, and Tg-DC-Exo or DC-Exo were added to a final concentration of 120 µg/ml. The cells were cultured for 24 h for total RNA isolation, and 48 h for total protein extraction. The total RNA isolation, complementary (cDNA) preparation, and qPCR were performed as described above. With the total protein, the proinflammatory marker (iNOS) was detected with WB.
Transwell experiment
DC2.4 cells were seeded in the upper chambers of 24-well transwell inserts (Corning, NY, USA) and cultured with DMEM supplemented with 10% exosome-free FBS and 1% gentamicin to 100% confluence. The cells were divided into four groups: two groups were left uninfected, and two groups were infected with the T. gondii RH strain at MOI of 3. After infection for 30 min, the culture medium was aspirated, and the DC2.4 cells in the upper chambers were washed three times with PBS to remove the unrecruited T. gondii tachyzoites. Meanwhile, RAW264.7 cells were seeded in the lower chambers. The four groups of DC2.4 cells (two infected with T. gondii and two uninfected) in the upper chambers and the RAW264.7 cells in the lower chambers were co-cultured in DMEM supplemented with 10% exosome-free FBS and 1% gentamicin, with or without 100 µl of 10 µm GW4869 (inhibitor of exosome secretion, MedChemExpress, USA) for 52 h. These groups were labeled as normal, DC2.4 + GW4869, DC2.4 + RH, and DC2.4 + RH + GW4869. Next, the RAW264.7 cells were harvested and lysed with lysis buffer (Beyotime Biotechnology, China). The total RNAs were extracted for detection of miR-155-5p abundance via quantitative real-time PCR (qRT-PCR). Each group was prepared in triplicate, and the experiment was carried out three times for statistical analysis.
Cell transfection with synthesized miRNA or siRNA and treatment with exosomes
RAW264.7 cells were seeded in 6-well plates to 60–80% confluence and divided into four groups. Two groups were transfected with 10 µl of 20 nm miR-155-5p mimics and mimic-normal control (miRNA mimic-NC), and miR-155-5p inhibitors and miRNA inhibitor-normal control (miRNA inhibitor-NC) (Gene Pharma, Suzhou, China), respectively. The other two groups were transfected with 10 µl of 20 nm si-socs1 (siRNA targeting socs1) and si-NC (siRNA-NC) (RiboBio, Guangzhou, China), respectively. The transfection was performed using Lipofectamine 3000 (Thermo Fisher Scientific) according to the protocol provided by the manufacturer. The exosomes extracted from the cell culture supernatant of the DC2.4 (DC-Exo) and the DC2.4 infected with T. gondii (Tg-DC-Exo) were added to the 60–80% confluent RAW264.7 cells at 120 µg/well, respectively.
Cell activity, proliferation, and polarization detection
The RAW264.7 cells were incubated with exosomes or transfected with miRNA/siRNA. At 24 h post-treatment, the transcription of the related cytokines was detected via qRT-PCR and WB, and a CCK8 kit (Cell Counting Kit-8, TransGen Biotech, Beijing, China) was used to detect the cell viability and proliferation according to the instructions. Similarly, cell proliferation activity was evaluated by detecting cell absorbance after treatment for 0, 24, 48, 72, and 96 h. Each group was prepared in triplicate, and the experiment was carried out three times for statistical analysis.
The differences between two or three groups were analyzed with Prism (GraphPad Software) using the Student’s t-test and one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA). SPSS software (version 20) was used to analyze multiple comparisons (Tukey’s test), and P < 0.05 indicated that the difference was statistically significant.
Characterization of the exosomes derived from DC2.4 Cells infected or uninfected with T. gondii RH strain
The exosomes extracted from the DC2.4 cells infected or uninfected with T. gondii presented a specific saucer structure when observed by transmission electron microscopy (TEM) (Fig. 1a). The nanoparticle tracking analysis showed that the particles had a diameter of 30–200 nm, and also revealed particle concentrations of Tg-DC-Exo (5.9 × 107 particles/ml) and DC-Exo (3.3 × 107 particles/ml) (Fig. 1b, c). Several specific exosome marker proteins, including TSG101, CD9, CD81, and HSP70, were detected in the same volume of exosome extracts with WB (Fig. 1d).
Identification of the extracted exosomes. Exosomes were extracted from dendritic cells infected with T. gondii (RH strain) for 28 h or uninfected cells. a Transmission electron microscopy was used to analyze the morphological structure of the exosomes obtained from the infected (Tg-DC-Exo) or uninfected dendritic cells (DC-Exo). Particle size and concentration of Tg-DC-Exo (b) and DC-Exo (c) were detected with nanoparticle tracking analysis (NTA). d Exosome-specific proteins TSG101, CD9, and CD81 and heat-shock protein HSP70 were detected in DC-Exo (1) or Tg-DC-Exo (2) using western blot
Macrophage (RAW264.7) uptake of exosomes secreted by DC2.4 cells
To determine whether immune cells can communicate with each other through exosome transmission, we labeled exosomes with PKH67 and incubated them with RAW264.7 for 6 h in vitro. As the confocal microscope results show (Fig. 2), the RAW264.7 cells successfully engulfed the exosomes (including Tg-DC-Exo and DC-Exo) extracted from DC2.4 cells; however, this uptake phenomenon was not observed in the PKH67-PBS and PBS groups.
Detecting the uptake of Tg-DC-Exo and DC-Exo by RAW264.7 cells. Tg-DC-Exo, DC-Exo, and PBS were labeled using the PKH67 Green Fluorescent Cell Linker Mini Kit and added to RAW264.7 cells for 6 h incubation; PKH67-PBS and PBS were set as negative control. Green fluorescence indicates the labeled Tg-DC-Exo and DC-Exo. The nuclei were stained blue by DAPI. The pictures were taken at ×1000 magnification under a fluorescence microscope (Nikon, Japan)
Tg-DC-exo results in polarization of macrophages toward M1 and promotion of inflammation progress
Based on the observation that RAW264.7 cells ingested exosomes secreted by DC2.4 cells, we proposed that exosomes were involved in the intercellular communication between different types of immune cells. To test this hypothesis, we treated RAW264.7 cells with Tg-DC-Exo or DC-Exo for 24 h, and then investigated the transcription levels of the proinflammatory cytokines (TNF-α, IL-6) and proinflammatory marker iNOS relative to which of the housekeeping gene-glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) were detected with real-time PCR. The results showed that the transcription levels of IL-6 (F(2,6) = 4043, P < 0.0001), iNOS (F(2,6) = 113.5, P < 0.0001), and TNF-α (F(2,6) = 53.91, P < 0.0001) were increased in the RAW264.7 cells treated with Tg-DC-Exo compared with those of the cells treated with DC-Exo (Fig. 3a). Consistent with the RT-PCR results, in our WB detection, Tg-DC-Exo promoted iNOS translation compared with DC-Exo treatment and nontreatment (Fig. 3b)(F(2,6) = 83.47, P < 0.0001). Taken together, these results indicated that Tg-DC-Exo could induce RAW264.7 M1 macrophage polarization in vitro.
Observation of the different macrophage polarization stimulated by Tg-DC-Exo and DC-Exo. a The relative transcription levels of IL-6, iNOS, and TNF-α in the RAW264.7 cells were quantified with qRT-PCR after treatment with 120 µg/ml Tg-DC-Exo or DC-Exo for 24 h, which are represented as the fold change relative to the glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) level (set to 1). b The proinflammatory marker (iNOS) was detected by western blot. Each band densitometric quantitation in b was applied using ImageJ software. Each experiment was carried out three times for statistical analysis. The differences between two or three groups were analyzed with GraphPad Prism (GraphPad Software) or SPSS (version 20) using one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA); Tukey’s multiple-group test was used for multiple-group comparisons (***P < 0.001)
MiR-155-5p is abundantly packed in Tg-DC-exo and delivered to recipient cells via exosomes
To examine the potential regulatory roles of dendritic cell exosomes taken up by recipient cells, we identified 19 differentially enriched exosomal miRNAs from the DC2.4 cells infected with T. gondii RH tachyzoites using RNA-seq [27]. To gain further insight into the potential regulatory roles of Tg-DC-Exo miRNA cargo in recipient cells, we selected the abundant miR-155-5p for further analysis. We first confirmed the transcriptome sequencing result of the upregulated miR-155-5p expression in the Tg-DC-Exo group compared with that in the DC-Exo group with qRT-PCR (Fig. 4a)(F = (2,6) 777 (2,6) = 113.5, P < 0.0001) = t(3) = 6.733, P = 0.0067). To determine whether miR-155-5p could be transported to the recipient cells through the exosomes secreted by the DC 2.4 cells infected with T. gondii, RAW264.7 cells were cocultured with Tg-DC-Exo or DC-Exo for 24 h, and the abundance of miR-155-5p was detected with qRT-PCR. The level of miR-155-5p relative to U6 increased by several times in Tg-DC-Exo-treated RAW264.7 cells compared with that in DC-Exo-treated RAW264.7 cells (Fig. 4b) (F(2,6) = 46.06, P = 0.0002).
Evidence of miR-155-5p being enriched in Tg-DC-Exo and delivered to recipient cells via exosomes. a qRT-PCR confirmation of the abundance of miR-155-5p in Tg-DC-Exo and DC-Exo. b After RAW264.7 cells were treated with 120 µg/ml Tg-DC-Exo or DC-Exo for 24 h, the miR-155-5p transcription levels were quantified with qRT-PCR and represented as the fold change relative to the U6 level (set to 1); normal cells were set as the negative control. c DC2.4 cells were pre-cultured in upper transwell chambers overnight. As indicated, the DC2.4 cells were pretreated with GW4869 or not treated, followed by infection with RH tachyzoites for 30 min or non-infection, and then the unrecruited tachyzoites were washed off. Synchronously, RAW264.7 cells were cultured in the lower chambers together with the infected DC2.4 cells in the upper chambers, in the same well for 28 h. The miR-155-5p transcription levels in each lower chamber were detected with qRT-PCR, and represented as the fold change relative to the U6 level (set to 1); normal cells were set as the negative control. Data are presented as mean ± standard deviation (SD). Student’s t-test and one-way ANOVA were used for the significance analysis, and Tukey’s multiple-group test was used for multiple-group comparisons. Each experiment was carried out three times for statistical analysis. (** P < 0.01 and ***P < 0.001)
In our transwell experiment, DC2.4 cells infected with T. gondii and uninfected DC2.4 cells were pretreated with GW4869 (an inhibitor of exosome secretion) for 24 h to prevent the production of exosomes, or were left untreated with GW4869 as a control. Next, RAW264.7 cells were cultured in the lower chambers for 28 h and then harvested for detection of miR-155-5p transcription with qRT-PCR. We found that the relative transcription level of miR-155-5p in the RAW264.7 cells was significantly reduced in the DC2.4 + RH + GW4869 treatment group compared with that in the DC + RH treatment group (Fig. 4c)(F(3,16) = 47.01, P < 0.0001). All these data indicated that the miR-155-5p enriched in the exosomes derived from DC2.4 cells infected with T. gondii was transported to and absorbed in the RAW264.7 cells.
The miR-155-5p packed in the exosomes secreted by DC2.4 cells infected with T. gondii (Tg-DC-exo) modulates macrophage polarization
In this study, we found that miR-155-5p was highly enriched in Tg-DC-Exo (t(3) = 6.733, P = 0.0067) and Tg-DC-Exo-induced RAW264.7 M1 polarization (P < 0.0001). We therefore hypothesized that miR-155-5p could be a key factor that plays an important role in Tg-DC-Exo-induced M1 polarization of RAW264.7. We first transfected miR-155-5p mimics and miR-155-5p inhibitors into RAW264.7 cells and miR-155-5p inhibitors into DC2.4 cells, and consistent levels of miR-155-5p were detected in the transfected RAW264.7 cells with qRT-PCR (Additional file 2: Figure S1a)(P = 0.011). Proliferation of these RAW264.7 cells was detected with a CCK8 kit at different times post-transfection. However, no significant differences were found in cell proliferation and viability at different time points among these transfected or un-transfected RAW264.7 cells (Additional file 2: Figure S1b)(F(2,6) = 28.4, P = 0.0001). We further speculated that miR-155-5p modulated the polarization direction of macrophages. We found in our experiments that miR-155-5p mimics led to significant upregulated transcription levels of proinflammatory cytokines IL-6 (F(3,8) = 533.4, P = 0.0246) and TNF-α (F(3,8) = 61.5, P = 0.0022) and proinflammatory marker (iNOS)(F(3,8) = 49.2, P = 0.0002) in RAW264.7 cells compared to that in miRNA mimic-NC and mock treatment cells (Fig. 5a). To further verify the role of miR-155-5p in macrophages, we transfected a miR-155-5p inhibitor to DC2.4 and then extracted the exosomes (miR-155-5p inhibitor-DC-Exo). The miR-155-5p inhibitor-DC-Exo and the exosomes extracted from the normal DC2.4 cells (negative control-Exo) were added to RAW264.7 cells and incubated for 24 h, after which the cytokines in the culture medium were detected. However, no significant differences in cytokine levels were found between these groups (Additional file 3: Figure S2). Considering the low background level of miR-155-5p [32] and loss of exosomes in extraction, the inhibition effect of the miR-155-5p in exosomes may be unobservable. Therefore, we further transfected a miR-155-5p inhibitor to RAW264.7 cells and found it significantly inhibited the transcription of IL-6, iNOS, and TNF-α in RAW264.7 cells compared to that in miRNA-NC inhibitor (miRNA normal control inhibitor) treatment and mock treatment groups (Fig. 5b)(P = 0.001). WB showed a result consistent with that of the qRT-PCR: miR-155-5p mimics significantly upregulated iNOS expression in RAW264.7 cells compared to miRNA mimic-NC and mock treatments (Fig. 5c)(F(3,8) = 14.14, P = 0.0015). All of the evidence illustrated that Tg-DC-Exo-derived miR-155-5p contributed to M1 macrophage polarization.
Tg-DC-Exo-enriched miR-155-5p promotes macrophage M1 polarization. After the indicated treatment, the levels of mRNAs in RAW264.7 cells were quantified with qRT-PCR and are represented as the fold change relative to U6 (set to 1) for miR-155-5p or relative to GAPDH (set to 1) for IL-6, iNOS, and TNF-α. The relative transcription levels of IL-6, iNOS, and TNF-α in the miR-155-5p mimic-transfected RAW264.7 cells at 18 h post-transfection (a) and in the miR-155-5p inhibitor-transfected cells at 24 h post-transfection (b). Western blot assay for iNOS expression in the miR-155-5p mimic transfection group and the other groups as control at 48 h post-transfection (c, left). Densitometric quantitation of each band in c-left was applied using ImageJ software (c, right). The mimics control transfection, and mock cells were set as negative controls, and the lipopolysaccharide (LPS) treatment was set as the positive control. SPSS software was used for statistical analysis. One-way ANOVA was used for between-group comparisons, and Tukey’s multiple-group test was used for multiple-group comparisons. Each experiment was carried out three times (*P < 0.05, **P < 0.01 and ***P < 0.001)
The miR-155-5p packed in Tg-DC-exo inhibits the multiplication of T. gondii RH tachyzoites
Since increased production of proinflammatory factors inhibited T. gondii multiplication, and since we had identified that Tg-DC-Exo-derived miR-155-5p upregulated the transcription of some proinflammatory cytokines (Figs. 3 and 5), we wondered whether the Tg-DC-Exo-derived miR-155-5p inhibited T. gondii multiplication or not. We found that Tg-DC-Exo treatment on RAW264.7 cells resulted in the inhibition of T. gondii replication in the RAW264.7 cells compared to that in DC-Exo treatment and nontreatment groups (Fig. 6a)(F(2,6) = 14.74, P = 0.028). We therefore assumed that the Tg-DC-Exo significantly enriched with miR-155-5p also had the same effect on T. gondii replication. To test this hypothesis, firstly, a CCK8 kit was used to examine the cell activity affected by miR-155-5p mimics or miR-155-5p inhibitors, and no significant differences were found between the RAW264.7 cell groups which were transfected or un-transfected with these miRNAs (Additional file 4: Figure S3). Secondly, the T. gondii B1 gene copies (indicating the number of T. gondii tachyzoites) in the cells transfected with miR-155-5p mimics or miR-155-5p inhibitors were evaluated with qRT-PCR. The results showed us that the B1 gene copies were significantly lower in the RAW264.7 cells transfected with the miR-155-5p mimic than in the cells transfected with the miRNA mimic-NC and in the mock cells (Fig. 6b)(F(2,6) = 620.8, P = 0.0004). On the contrary, the B1 gene copies were significantly higher in the RAW264.7 cells transfected with miR-155-5p inhibitors than in the cells transfected with the miRNA-NC inhibitor and the mock cells (Fig. 6c)(F(2,6) = 15.22, P = 0.009). In brief, these results indicated that Tg-DC-Exo treatment and the high level of miR-155-5p in RAW264.7 cells significantly inhibited the multiplication of T. gondii in these cells.
Inhibited proliferation of T. gondii in the Tg-DC-Exo treatment and miR-155-5p transfection groups. The T. gondii B1 gene copies were quantified with qPCR. a The RAW264.7 cells were treated with 120 µg/ml Tg-DC-Exo or DC-Exo for 24 h and then infected with T. gondii for 24 h. The RAW264.7 cells were transfected with miR-155-5p mimics (b) or miR-155-5p inhibitors (c) for 24 h and then infected with T. gondii for 24 h; the mimic control transfection and mock cells were set as negative controls. SPSS software was used for statistical analysis. One-way ANOVA was used for between-group comparisons, and Tukey’s multiple-group test was used for multiple-group comparisons. Each experiment was carried out three times (*P < 0.05, ***P < 0.001)
Tg-DC-exo-derived miR-155-5p targets socs1 to activate the NF-κB signaling pathway in macrophages
To identify the target genes of miR-155-5p in RAW264.7, online bioinformatics tools (TargetScan and miRWalk) were used to predict the potential target genes. Among the potential targets, the suppressor of cytokine signaling (socs1), which is involved in both immune modulation and cell cycle regulation, has been reported to be a negative feedback regulator of cytokines and to be involved in multiple signaling pathways [33]. Hence, we assumed that socs1 was targeted by miR-155-5p and acted to promote macrophage M1 polarization. We found that the transcription and translation of socs1 were significantly inhibited by miR-155-5p mimics compared to that in miRNA mimic-NC transfection and non-transfection groups (Fig. 7a(F(2,6) = 54.77, P = 0.0004), b(F(2,6) = 9.041, P = 0.0136). Considering the fact that the activation of NF-κB plays a crucial role in M1 macrophage polarization and inhibition of T. gondii proliferation [34], we speculated that the miR-155-5p packed in Tg-DC-Exo was transported to RAW264.7 cells and then targeted socs1 to activate the NF-κB signaling pathway. To test our hypothesis, socs1 was knocked down in RAW264.7 cells using small interfering RNAs targeting socs1 (si-socs1) (Fig. 7c(F(2,6) = 153.2, P = 0.001), d(F(2,6) = 31.26, P = 0.005). We further found that miR-155-5p mimics and si-socs1 transfection promoted the phosphorylation of IKBα and p65 in RAW264.7 cells compared with the si-NC transfection and un-transfected groups (Fig. 7e, f)(P < 0.0001). IKBα and p65 phosphorylation represent the activation of NF-κB signaling; as a result, macrophage M1 polarization was subsequently induced. We also found that si-socs1 transfection to RAW264.7 cells did not affect the cell proliferation or viability (Additional file 5: Figure S4). Next, we investigated the role of SOCS1 in T. gondii RH proliferation in RAW264.7 cells by detecting T. gondii B1 gene copies in si-socs1 or si-NC transfected groups with qRT-PCR. No significant differences in T. gondii RH proliferation were found between the groups (Additional file 5: Figure S4c). Furthermore, when pretreated with IFN-γ, si-socs1 played a synergistic role in the inhibition of T. gondii proliferation (Fig. 7g)(F(3,8) = 105.2, P < 0.0001). Collectively, these results demonstrated that miR-155-5p targeted the socs1 gene to activate the NF-κB signaling pathway and inhibited the proliferation of T. gondii in RAW264.7 cells.
Tg-DC-Exo miR-155-5p targeting socs1 to promote the inhibitory effect of interferon-γ (IFN-γ) on T. gondii proliferation through the NF-κB pathway. Detection of socs1 transcription with qRT-PCR at 24 h post-transfection and translation with western blot at 48 h post-transfection in RAW264.7 cells. a, b Transfection with miR-155-5p mimics or normal control miRNA (mimic-NC). c, d Transfection with the siRNA targeting socs1 (si-socs1) and the normal control siRNA (si-NC). e, f Detection of the phosphorylation levels of p65 and IKBα in the NF-κB pathway in the RAW264.7 cells transfected with miR-155-5p mimics, normal control siRNA (mir-NC), si-socs1, or si-NC for 36 h. g Detection of the T. gondii B1 gene copies in the RAW264.7 cells transfected with si-socs1 or si-NC for 24 h, and stimulated with IFN-γ for 24 h, then infected with T. gondii for 24 h. Densitometric quantitation of each band in b, d, and e was applied using ImageJ software. One-way ANOVA was used for between-group comparisons, and Tukey’s multiple-group test was used for multiple-group comparisons. Each experiment was carried out three times (**P < 0.01, ***P < 0.001)
Host immune sensors recognize T. gondii infection and activate immune cells to produce proinflammatory cytokines against infection [35,36,37]. Here, we found that exosomes derived from dendritic cells could be ingested by RAW264.7 cells, and miR-155-5p was highly enriched in exosomes derived from dendritic cells infected with T. gondii (Tg-DC-Exo), but not in the exosomes from normal dendritic cells (DC-Exo). MiR-155-5p was found to target the socs1 gene to activate the NF-κB pathway, and subsequently inhibited T. gondii proliferation in RAW264.7 cells.
Exosomes, which are released by most cell types and pathogens and are involved in cell-to-cell communication, have been extensively studied in parasitic infection and disease progression [38]. It has been shown that abnormal cells produce more extracellular vesicles (EVs) than normal cells [39, 40]. In our study, the exosomes derived from T. gondii-infected DC2.4 cells (Tg-DC-Exo) were found with higher particle concentration than those derived from normal DC2.4 cells (DC-Exo) (Fig. 1d), which is similar to the report by Wowk et al. [13].
During the phase of acute infection, the anti-Toxoplasma effect is mainly mediated by macrophage activation by IFN-γ and cytotoxicity mediated by CD8+ T cells, which are attributed to the production of IFN-γ and other inflammatory factors [41,42,43]. On the other hand, perforin was found to mediate cytotoxic activity of CD8+ T cells in the clearance of T. gondii cysts during chronic infection [44]. The RAW264.7 cell line has been used as a model for observing the intercellular transmission of infection signals between different types of immune cells in many reports [45,46,47]. In our study, we found that the intercellular communication between dendritic cells and macrophages could be realized through exosome transmission (Fig. 2). This could be a mechanism by which infection signals from infected cells are transmitted to uninfected cells.
Toxoplasma gondii infection altered the miRNA profiles of exosomes secreted from DC2.4 cells; for example, miR-146a, let7k, and miR-155-5p were upregulated in DC2.4 cells after T. gondii infection [27]. It has been reported that miR-155 is sensitive to pathogen stimulation, abnormally expressed in activated dendritic cells, macrophages, T cells, and B cells, and induces a robust proinflammatory response in macrophages [32, 48]. In our research, we found that RAW264.7 cells absorbed exosomes secreted by DC2.4 cells, and miR-155-5p was abundantly enriched in Tg-DC-Exo and delivered to RAW264.7 cells via exosomes to activate the immune signaling pathways. Given the unique functions of miR-155 in the immune system, such as controlling inflammatory responses, regulating immune memory, and so on [49, 50], the regulation of immune responses by miR-155-5p in RAW 264.7 cells was further investigated.
We found that Tg-DC-Exo and miR-155-5p mimics boosted the transcription levels of IL-6, iNOS, and TNF-α, which are macrophage M1-associated markers (Figs. 3 and 5). In T. gondii (RH) infection, dendritic cells transmitted immune signals to macrophages by secreting exosomes enriched with miR-155-5p. As a result, the macrophages were driven to M1 polarization and participated in the positive immune responses after receiving miR-155-5p. However, it has been reported that T. gondii (types I and III) direct infection drives the polarization of macrophages towards M2 [51]. It is possible that T. gondii (types I and III) ROP16 activates M2 macrophages by activating STAT6, which reduces the secretion of proinflammatory factors such as IL12 in the early infection stage, thus helping to reduce the host responses.
It is generally believed that M1 macrophages exert positive immunomodulatory effects and inhibit T. gondii multiplication by secreting proinflammatory cytokines TNF-α and IL-6 and proinflammatory marker iNOS [43, 52]. Therefore, the inhibited proliferation of T. gondii was verified in the RAW264.7 cells transfected with miR-155-5p mimics (Fig. 6). We previously reported that the target genes of the significantly enriched miRNAs in Tg-DC-Exo were mainly related to immunity and aggregated in NF-κB, MAPK, P13K–AKT, and the calcium signaling pathway [27]. It has also been reported that the immune functions of miR-155 fall mainly into the regulation of the socs1 gene [53]. We further verified that socs1 was the target gene of miR-155-5p through an experiment with miR-155-5p mimic transfection (Fig. 7a, b), and this result was consistent with that of the previous report by Ye et al. [54]. It has been shown that, as a negative feedback cytokine regulator, SOCS1 is involved in multiple immune-related signaling pathways [55,56,57,58]; on the other hand, as the NF-κB signaling pathway is crucial for inflammatory response regulation, it can be activated by a variety of proinflammatory factors [59]. In our studies, we found that the NF-κB signaling pathway was significantly activated after miR-155-5p mimics were transfected into RAW264.7 cells (Fig. 7e). However, the modulation of socs1 by miR-155-5p may also affect cellular pathways other than the NF-κB pathway. Therefore, the function of the Tg-DC-Exo-enriched miR-155-5p in anti-T. gondii infection remains to be further investigated.
Host IFN-γ plays a crucial role in the control of T. gondii infection [60, 61]. We found in our research that SOCS1, an effective inhibitor of the IFN-γ pathway, showed an effect on the proliferation of T. gondii in RAW264.7 cells; when the RAW264.7 cells were treated with IFN-γ, the proliferation of T. gondii in the socs1 knockdown group was significantly more inhibited than in the normal control siRNA (si-NC) transfected cells and the normal control cells (both stimulated or not stimulated by IFN-γ) (Fig. 7g). This result implied an inhibitory role of SOCS1 in IFN-γ anti-infection, which is consistent with the report that T. gondii induces host cell socs1 expression to block IFN-γ signaling for immune evasion [62].
The exosomes secreted by DC2.4 cells infected with T. gondii (Tg-DC-Exo) transmitted T. gondii infection signals to RAW264.7 cells through the latter’s exosome uptake. The enriched miR-155-5p in Tg-DC-Exo targeted the socs1 gene to activate the NF-κB pathway and then to promote the transcription of inflammatory factors including TNF-α, IL-6, and iNOS. As a result, T. gondii proliferation was inhibited in these RAW264.7 cells. This finding may provide new insight into intercellular communication for the transmission of infection signals between host cells, and may have implications for the role of exosomal miR-155-5p in anti-T. gondii infection.
T. gondii :
Exo:
miRNA:
HFF:
Human foreskin fibroblast
RAW264.7:
Leukemia cells in mouse macrophage
FBS:
TSG101 :
Tumor susceptibility gene 101
CD9 molecule
HSP70:
Heat shock protein 70
CD81:
CD81 molecule
Lipopolysaccharide
NF-κB:
Nuclear factor kappa B
CCK8:
Cell Counting Kit-8
iNOS:
TNF-α:
Tumor necrosis factor alpha
IL-6:
SOCS1:
Suppressor of cytokine signaling 1
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The authors are grateful to the participants in this study and the anonymous reviewers and editors for their comments and valuable inputs.
This research was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (81971954, 81772217), Science and Technology Planning Project of Guangdong Province (2018A050506038), Key project of Guangzhou science research (201904020011), and the Basic Research Project of Key Laboratory of Guangzhou (202102100001) to HJP.
Department of Pathogen Biology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Research, School of Public Health, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, 510515, Guangdong Province, China
Dan Jiang, Shuizhen Wu, Liqing Xu, Guantai Xie, Dongliang Li & Hongjuan Peng
Dan Jiang
Shuizhen Wu
Liqing Xu
Guantai Xie
Hongjuan Peng
Conceptualization, data analysis, and validation: DJ, HJP. Funding acquisition: HJP. Investigation: DJ, SW, DL. Methodology: DJ, LX, GX. Project administration, resources and supervision: HP. Writing: DJ (original draft, and revision), HP (review, editing, and revision). All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Correspondence to Hongjuan Peng.
The authors declare no conflict of interest. The funders had no role in the design of the study; in the collection, analyses, or interpretation of data; in the writing of the manuscript; or in the decision to publish the results.
Primers and siRNA, inhibitors, mimics sequences list.
Additional file 2: Figure S1.
Detection of miR-155-5p level and the cell proliferation in differently treated immune cells. a Detection of the miR-155-5p level in the indicated cells at 24 h post-transfection. Left: RAW264.7 cells of normal, miR-155-5p mimics transfected, miRNA-mimic-NC transfected, miR-155-5p inhibitor transfected, miRNA-inhibitor-NC transfected, and mock. Right: DC2.4 cells of normal, miR-155-5p inhibitor transfected, and miRNA-inhibitor-NC transfected. b RAW264.7 cell proliferation was detected after transfection with miR-155-5p mimics or miR-155-5p inhibitors for 12, 24, 48, 72, and 96 h, as indicated. The mimic control, inhibitor control, and normal cells were used as negative controls. One-way ANOVA was used for between-group comparisons, and Tukey’s multiple-group test was used for multiple-group comparisons. Each experiment was carried out three times (*P < 0.05, ****P < 0.0001)
Detection of IL-6, iNOS, and TNF-α transcription level in the RAW 264.7 cells treated with differently derived exosomes. The relative transcription levels of IL-6, iNOS, and TNF-α were detected in the RAW264.7 cells treated with the exosomes derived from the DC2.4 cells transfected with miR-155-5p inhibitor (miR-155-5p inhibitor-Exo) or miRNA inhibitor NC (miRNA inhibitor NC-Exo) at 24 h post-transfection.
The cell viability detection of the RAW264.7 cells transfected with miR-155-5p mimics or inhibitors at 24 h post-transfection.
Detection of the cell proliferation and viability of the RAW264.7 cells after different treatment. a RAW264.7 cell proliferation was detected after transfection with si-socs1, and si-NC for 12, 24, 48, 72, and 96 h. b The cell viability detection of the RAW264.7 cells transfected with si-socs1, and si-NC for 24 h. c Detection of the T. gondii B1 gene copies in the RAW267.4 cells transfected with si-socs1 or si-NC for 24 h, then infected with T. gondii for 24 h.
Jiang, D., Wu, S., Xu, L. et al. Anti-infection roles of miR-155-5p packaged in exosomes secreted by dendritic cells infected with Toxoplasma gondii. Parasites Vectors 15, 3 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-021-05003-x
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PSP Amateur Player of the Year: Emily Sands
Posted by Ryan Rose on December 21, 2018 at 9:45 am
This is a basketball hypothetical you hear in debates about the greatest player of all time:
“There are ten seconds on the clock. Your team is down by two points. Who do you want with the ball in his hands?”
Usually you’ll hear answers like Michael Jordan or Kobe Bryant. It’s a scenario often used to give weight to players who come through when their team needs it the most. It’s a scenario designed to define a clutch player. So how does PSP define a clutch player?
”Emily Sands.”
The University of Pennsylvania women’s soccer team tied with Princeton for first in the Ivy League this season. They dominated the way all fans hope their team dominates: shut the other team out and score a lot. Penn led the Ivy League in goals scored, and Emily Sands led the team with eight goals, good enough for third in the Ivy League behind only Brown’s Abby Carchio with 10 and Princeton’s standout forward Mimi Asom with 12.
Here’s the thing: Sands, the junior forward from West Chester, Pa. scored seven game winners. That’s right, seven of her eight goals brought Penn to victory. Not even Asom netted that many game-winning goals. Penn tied Princeton for the Ivy League title with an exact matching record of 5-1-1. That means if Sands wasn’t on the team, they likely wouldn’t have claimed the title.
Call it MVP material. Call it clutch. Call it whatever you like.
We call it good enough to be PSP’s Amateur Player of the Year.
Author: Ryan Rose Ryan Rose is a freelance filmmaker and writer in the Greater Philadelphia Area and one of the daily editors for PSP. A graduate of Hofstra University, Ryan returned home to Philly in 2014 - mainly for the sports if he's being honest with himself.
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Great article, Ryan. Thanks for sharing and congrats to Emily.
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June 2020 Community Board
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AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS (AFT) and the AFL-CIO are offering free helpful lessons and tools for kids in pre-K through 12th grade who are now learning at home and coping with the COVID-19 pandemic. (these resources are intended to supplement what your child’s teacher or school has already provided.) You can go to sharemylesson.com/coronavirus/parents to access lessons, online tools, resources and more.
INTERNET HOTSPOTS: Cleveland Public Libraries are all internet hotspots. To access go to their parking lot or sit just outside the building.
CLEVELAND METROPOLITAN SCHOOL DISTRICT: Visit the website for educational resources and updates at https://www.clevelandmetroschools.org/Coronavirus
CHARTER OFFERS FREE SPECTRUM INTERNET ASSIST AND SPECTRUM BROADBAND including in-home Wi-Fi to new subscriber households with K-12 and or college students as well as teachers for 60 days. Free self-installation kits will be offered to new subscriber households. To enroll call 1-844-488-8395.
CHARTER has opened WiFi hotspots across their footprint for public use. A map of the Charter hotspots is available at: http://www.spectrum.com/wifi-hotspots.
CLEVELAND METROPARKS OFFERS FREE VIRTUAL CLASSROOM ON FACEBOOK LIVE: Mondays through Fridays at 11 a.m. visit Cleveland Metroparks Zoo’s Facebook Page to join our biologists who are working to secure a future for wildlife at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo. Check-in with your favorite Zoo animals and learn about what it takes to care for some of the most endangered species in the world. Then, at 1 p.m., visit Cleveland Metroparks Facebook Page to join our park naturalists as we explore the Emerald Necklace and look for early signs of spring, learn about the forest floor, birds and more.
OHIO PUBLIC TELEVISION STATIONS are now offering Pre-K to 12 education programing on TV or online at pbslearningmedia.com. For more information visit coronavirus.ohio.gov/learnathome.
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY offers programming and educational materials in its new digital series “CMNH@HOME”. The programs are available at cmnh.org or facebook.com/goCMNH/ New episodes will be available on Mondays (Museum Mondays), Wednesdays (Wildlife Wednesdays) and Saturdays (Scientist Saturdays) at noon.
CLEVELAND METROPOLITAN SCHOOL DISTRICT’s 22 meal sites will remain open without interruption (M-F: 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m.) throughout the summer, providing grab-and-go breakfast and lunch bags, and also making summer reading and enrichment materials available. The sites in the Plain Press service area are: Buhrer Dual Language, 1600 Buhrer Ave.; Clark, 5550 Clark Ave.; Denison, 3799 W. 33rd St.; Garfield, 3800 W. 140th; and Louisa May Alcott, 10308 Baltic Road.
AUGUSTINE CHURCH HUNGER CENTER offers home delivery of meals to those in need. To sign up call 216-781-5530.
MAY DUGAN CENTER, 4115 Bridge Ave., will host drive through food distribution on the fourth Wednesday of the month from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
FIRST CALL FOR HELP: For days, times and locations for free food distribution call 211.
GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK: Call 216-738-7239, or visit GreaterClevelandFoodBank.org for food assistance. Apply for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) if you are under sixty (limits are higher for persons age 60 or older or persons receiving disability assistance) and your monthly family income is $1,316 or less for a one-person household; $1,784 or less for a two person household; $2,252 or less for a three person household; $2,720 or less for a four person household. Add $453 for each additional household member. For information about Food Stamps (SNAP) applications, food pantries, free produce, and hot meals text FOOD to 63566.
VIRTUAL SUPPORT AND RECOVERY groups are available and listed on the ADAMHS Board website homepage at: adamhscc.org.
MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES AND HOTLINES: The Alcohol, Drug Addiction and Mental Health Services (ADAMHS) Board of Cuyahoga County mental health resources and hotlines: To reach Cuyahoga County’s 24-Hour Warmline, call 440-886-5950 to talk with a peer, or text “4hope” to 741741. To reach the 24-hour Suicide Prevention, Mental Health/Addiction Crisis, Information and Referral Hotline, call: 216-623-6888.
EMOTIONAL SUPPORT: call the COVID-19 Careline hosted by Ohio Mental Health and Addiction Services at 1-800-720-9616.
SUPPORT AND INFORMATION ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH: live chat is available at NAMI Greater Cleveland Helpline. Live chat messages back and forth with NAMI Greater Cleveland Helpline staff at namigreatercleveland.org.
WANT TO STOP SMOKING: Information on how to stop and where to get help can be found at: www.healthycle.org/ditchtobacco.
NATIONAL SUICIDE PREVENTION LIFELINE: Call 1-800-273-TALK (8255) or visit suicidepreventionlifeline.org. The Lifeline is FREE, confidential and always available.
IMMIGRATION DETAINEES IN NORTHEAST OHIO: If you need legal assistance with an immigration matter and cannot afford an attorney, Legal Aid may be able to help. Call the Legal Aid’s Detention Project at 888-817-3777.
CLEVELAND ANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE offers help if you are struggling to feed your pet due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Contact free pet food delivery is available to Cleveland residents living in isolation during the pandemic. For more information visit clevelandapl.org or call 216-771-4616.
CLEVELAND METROPARKS: The Metroparks are open. Some parking lots and roads have been closed to vehicles but are open to pedestrians and bicycles. Areas where it is difficult to keep proper physical distance such as the Edgewater Pier and the Fort Hill Stairs in Rocky River Reservation have been closed. For more information on areas that are closed visit: clevelandmetroparks.com.
YMCA OFFERS FREE VIRTUAL VIDEO WORKOUTS: On-demand videos are now available on their website at www.clevelandymca.org. The videos are for people of all ages and can be accessed at no charge and can be done in the home with no special equipment.
BASEBALL HERITAGE MUSEUM @baseballheritagemuseumcleve is using Facebook and Instagram to post homeschooling help, baseball instruction tips, fun activities and links to other resources that will help keep you connected to the museum, baseball and each other.
THE 1960 CLASS OF SAINT STANISLAUS HIGH SCHOOL will hold a reunion at the end of July 2020. For more information contact Reie Dix of the Alumni Committee at 216-357-2674.
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER’S LATINA PROJECT offers culturally sensitive services that take into consideration the realities of the Latino life. Services provided in Spanish and free of charge include information about legal rights &Justice System Advocacy, personal assistance & escort, counseling services, weekly Spanish-speaking Support Group/childcare and more. For more information call 216-229-2420 or visit www.dvcac.org.
CUYAHOGA COUNTY SOCIAL MEDIA CAMPAIGN aims to show how residents are “Spreading Joy” during COVID-19 Pandemic by using the hashtag #SpreadingJoyNEO share ideas and joy and inspire others to do things that feel good for them.
NATIONAL ALIANCE FOR THE MENTALLY ILL (NAMI) GREATER CLEVELAND VIRTUAL SUPPORT GROUPS: Please call the support group numbers below 5 or 10 minutes beforehand in case you run into any difficulty.
NAMI FAMILY GROUP (for family member, friend or caregiver of an adult with mental illness) Tuesdays from 7-8:30 p.m. Join by calling 216-452-6841. You will be prompted to enter the following code: 391 639 233, then push pound (#) to continue.
NAMI FAMILY GROUP- DUAL DIAGNOSIS (for family member, friend or caregiver of persons with mental illness and substance use disorder). Tuesdays, 7-8:30 p.m. Join by calling 216-452-6841. You will be prompted to enter the following code: 391 639 233, then push pound (#) to continue.
NAMI PEER GROUP (for adults 18 & older living with mental illness). Thursdays from 3-4:30 p.m. Join by calling 216-307-8224. You will be prompted to enter the following code: 829 554 282, then push pound (#) to continue.
NAMI PEER GROUP (for adults 18 & older living with mental illness). Mondays from 6:30 – 8 p.m. Join by calling 216-352-6137. You will be prompted to enter the following code: 504 127 492, then push pound (#) to continue.
FREE TAX FILING is available again! Schedule an appointment with the Cuyahoga EITC Coalition today. Using virtual and telephone options, our IRS-certified volunteers can help you prepare and e-file your taxes today. Visit refundohio.org or call 211 to schedule your appointment. The extended tax deadline is July 15.
INCOME TAX FILING DATES have been extended for both Federal and State income tax filings until July 15th. You may file your taxes for free at myfreetaxes.com. Updates on in-person tax prep will be at refundohio.org.
CASA of Cuyahoga County, a program of Child and Family Advocates of Cuyahoga County, needs volunteers to advocate for children who have been neglected and abused. CASAs are everyday citizens who are appointed by the Court to advocate for the safety and well-being of children and represent the children’s best interests. CASAs are trained to investigate, facilitate, advocate, and monitor one or two cases at a time to help the Court make the best decision for a safe, caring, and permanent home for children involved in the juvenile justice and child welfare systems. Those interested in becoming a CASA, please visit cfadvocates.org or call 216.443.3377 for more information.
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Money Train by: Joe Gator aka Mr. Northside
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One World Media and Sheffield Marketing Group to spend $19.4B in Entertainment Industry for Job Creation
ATLANTA, Jan. 21, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- In 1948 during the signing of the U.N. Charter, a World Media Council was planned that eventually became a Media Conglomerate, and a World Media Distribution plan was born in the interest of the unification of world media to enhance the distribution of media and television projects.
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One World Media entered into a 157 movie deal worth 19.46 Billion dollars with Sheffield Marketing Group, the silent partner behind some of the largest marketing projects in the world. The two companies are coming together in the interest of Global Economic Recovery to meet what was thought to be an unrealistic goal of 98% employment in the Entertainment Industry.
One World Media and Sheffield Marketing Group are in meetings to determine which companies will be the recipients of project funds. Some of the companies being considered include:
DreamWorks SKG
Overture Films
Screen Media Films
Pacific International Enterprises
Vision One Media
Hannover House
Spiderwood Productions
Vivendi Entertainment
Tyler Perry Studios
20th Century Fox Animation
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Animation
Orion Pictures Corporation
American International Pictures
Filmways
Rogue Pictures
Paramount Vantage
Screen Gems
Destination Films
Castle Rock Entertainment
Artisan Entertainment
The Weinstein Company
Troma Entertainment
Elevating Entertainment Motion Pictures
Gener8Xion Entertainment
Promenade Pictures
PolyGram Filmed Entertainment
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Uncommon Productions
American Technologies
Friendware
One World Media and Sheffield Marketing Group also plan to hold the 1st Annual Global Media Awards with categories such as
Largest Sponsor
Best overall concept
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Most Humanitarian and Historical value
Quality of Special Effects
We are told the award show will be a two day event because of the vast variety of talent to recognize and the total amount of awards to be given.
One World Media is currently holding a Worldwide Talent Search looking for Models, Actors and Actresses, Comedians, Dancers, Writers, Rappers, Singers, etc. for a host of Action Movies, Comedies, Sitcoms, and all things Entertainment. 2014 is going to be an exciting year!
All participants will need to register to receive placement in major upcoming projects funded by the two powerhouses. Registration also includes vouchers for aspiring artists to use on Photo shoots (to include hair and makeup), Complete EPK'S, Bio's, etc.
Investors and Program Sponsors are also encouraged to register to become eligible for The Global Media Awards Ceremony.
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To book appointments for an audition send an email with your press kit (8x10 Head Shot, Autobiography, Demo Reel or links to YouTube, oneworldmediaatlanta@gmail.com
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One World Media: The One World Media website is currently under reconstruction. We will issue a press release prior to its unveiling. It will be an unforgettable experience.
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HIP HOP AINT DEAD!
People always say Hip Hop is DEAD. What a oxymoron statement… My opinion is this: Hip Hop is most def alive. The problem is poor management from the bottom to the top. Poor choice of A&R reps with no experience, egotistical, hungry for power and dumb asses. Some are BDS chasing A&R's with no ear for music or brain for business. Some A&R's only have love for the money and not love for the craft and can care less about Hip Hop. If you love Hip Hop the craft of music 1st the money will follow in that order. Artist and A&R's needs to be carefully reviewed if executives want Hip Hop to continue to grow and stay alive. Executives that is in position needs to regroup and get it together. I can go on and on and elaborate on all the errors especially with our youth dieing away all for the love of HIP HOP. They have a misconception of Hip Hop and not being taught the TRUTH in how to position themselves as legends and young entrepreneurs. It goes back to MANAGEMENT. Some advisers or managers focus on the women, ego, clothes, cars and how they should sell out and keep up with paid for advertisement in which is a TRAP for our youth. SMH!! It's fucked up and now our youth thinks that's HIP HOP. Then they say HIP HOP is dead. It's not HIP HOP it's WE THE PEOPLE in the wrong position of teaching.
Labels: Artist, Executives, Hip Hop, Hip Hop aint dead, Producers
Location: Atlanta Mile-Wide, Tulsa, OK, USA, Africa
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Mixed infections and insect-pathogen interactions
Matthew B. Thomas, Emma L. Watson, Pablo Valverde-Garcia
Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics
Most studies of insect-pathogen interactions consider the direct interaction between one disease agent and one species of host. However, given that hosts are subject to challenge from many pathogen/parasite species, mixed infections are probably common. In this study, using the desert locust and two species of fungal entomopathogen, we show how mixed infection with a largely avirulent pathogen can alter the virulence and reproduction of a second, highly virulent pathogen. We find that two strains of the avirulent pathogen vary in their interaction with the virulent pathogen, depending on the order of infection and environmental conditions. We propose that avirulent pathogens, which have largely been overlooked to date, could play a significant role in host-pathogen dynamics, with implications for biological control and evolution of virulence.
Dive into the research topics of 'Mixed infections and insect-pathogen interactions'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.
entomopathogens Agriculture & Biology 100%
mixed infection Agriculture & Biology 85%
insect Earth & Environmental Sciences 74%
infection Earth & Environmental Sciences 74%
pathogen Earth & Environmental Sciences 74%
pathogens Agriculture & Biology 47%
virulence Agriculture & Biology 18%
desert locust Earth & Environmental Sciences 16%
Thomas, M. B., Watson, E. L., & Valverde-Garcia, P. (2003). Mixed infections and insect-pathogen interactions. Ecology Letters, 6(3), 183-188. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1461-0248.2003.00414.x
Thomas, Matthew B. ; Watson, Emma L. ; Valverde-Garcia, Pablo. / Mixed infections and insect-pathogen interactions. In: Ecology Letters. 2003 ; Vol. 6, No. 3. pp. 183-188.
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Martin Stephan
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German-American clergyman
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A.K.A. Martin Stephan
Was Pastor Cleric
From United States of America
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Birth 13 August 1777, Štramberk, Nový Jičín District, Moravská Ostrava District, Czech Republic
Death 21 September 1846, Perry County, Illinois, USA (aged 69 years)
Star sign Leo
University of Halle-Wittenberg
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Martin Stephan (1777–1846) was pastor of St. John Lutheran Church in Dresden, Germany during the early 19th century. He organized the Saxon emigration to the United States in the early 19th century.
Martin Stephan was born August 13, 1777 in Stramberg, Moravia, presently the Czech Republic, of Austrian, German, and Czech parents. Martin attended St. Elizabeth's Gymnasium in Breslau, sponsored by local pietist and pastor Johann Ephraim Scheibel, rector of the Gymnasium and father of Johann Gottfried Scheibel, a professor at the University of Breslau. He attended the University of Halle and the University of Leipzig from 1804-1809.
Stephan became pastor in Haber, Bohemia in 1809. In 1810, Martin became the pastor of St. John's in Dresden, a specially chartered church that had its origins in those who had fled from Moravia and Bohemia in 1650. Stephan preached in Czech and German. For the next 30 years Martin was known for his teaching, preaching, and compassionate counseling. He led the protest of oppressive practices by the Saxon State Consistory in the state-governed Evangelical Lutheran State Church of Saxony. He came under attack by the rationalist pastors for his confessional and orthodox stand. Pastor Stephan continued to uphold biblical and sacramental practices in his church.
In 1824, Martin Stephan began to consider America as a place to practice the faith without harassment. Martin and ten other men formed a "Gesellschaft" or Society for emigration from Dresden to St. Louis, Missouri. He organized the emigration of 665 people in November 1838 from Bremen to New Orleans on 5 ships. When four of the five the ships landed at the Port of New Orleans, Martin Stephan was elected Bishop of this small band of Lutherans, according to the travel regulations of the Emigration Society. Forster indicates that Stephan was made Bishop initially only by the passengers and clergy on board the Olbers. This occurred around the time this ship entered the waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Forster states, "On January 14, 1839...they made Stephan their bishop and endowed him with a liberal grant of power to carry out the functions of his office." Only four of the five immigrant ships arrived safely in New Orleans (the Amalia never arrived) and the ships arrived at varying times over the course of a couple of weeks. Of note, after his appointment, it was Stephan who originated the practice of kissing the bishop's hand.
After two months, the Saxon immigrants purchased land in Perry County, Missouri at the confluence of the Brazeau and Mississippi Rivers. Here they built homes, towns, schools, and churches. The organization of the community was disrupted when Martin was accused of sexual misconduct (as he had previously, in Germany). Pastors G. H. Loeber and C. F. W. Walther told lay leaders of this confession. Walther made two trips to Perry County to prepare the Bishop’s deposition.
Stephan soon became embroiled in additional allegations. On May 30, 1839, Bishop Martin Stephan was deposed and excommunicated from the community on the grounds of sexual misconduct and embezzlement, leaving C. F. W. Walther as the senior clergyman. He was put across the river to wilderness near Kaskaskia, Illinois, followed by one of the women with whom he had been accused of consorting, and who stayed with him until his death.
Stephan continued to hold worship in the county court house in Kaskaskia every two weeks. He taught German and guest-preached in other Protestant churches until called in 1845 as a pastor to Trinity Lutheran Church in Horse Prairie, a rural church a few miles east of Red Bud, Illinois. Stephan was pastor there for four months until his death on February 26, 1846 in Prairie, Randolph County, Illinois. According to the custom Pastor Stephan's coffin was carried around the church three times before he was interred in Trinity's cemetery. A fence was placed around the grave and a wooden 10-foot cross was erected. A memorial marker was erected by the congregation in 1988.
Forster, W.O. Zion on the Mississippi. (St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1953)
Meyer, Carl S. (ed). Moving Frontiers: Readings in the History of the Lutheran Church -- Missouri Synod. (St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1964)
Rast, Lawrence R. Jr. Demagoguery or Democracy? The Saxon Emigration and American Culture [online] (Concordia Theological Quarterly) 63.4 (1999), 247-268. Available from <http://www.ctsfw.net/media/pdfs/rastdemagogueryordemocracy.pdf>
Schönfuß-Krause, Renate: Ein Sachse wurde zum "Luther Amerikas" - Auswanderung von 665 sächsischen Lutheranern aus Dresden nach Nordamerika (in German). In: "die Radeberger" Nr.43 vom 27. Oktober 2017; Archiv "die Radeberger", Ausg. 43/2017 (PDF) Retrieved January 27, 2018.
Stephan, Martin. The Christian Faith. (Dresden: The Royal Printers, 1825)
Todd, Mary. Authority Vested. (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2000)
Stephan, Philip G. In Pursuit of Religious Freedom: Bishop Martin Stephan's Journey. (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2008)
Schönfuß-Krause, Renate: Kreuzessucht ward Kreuzesfluch(t). Die Auswanderung sächsischer Altlutheraner - zwischen Utopie und Realität. Teil I. In: Altenburger Geschichts- und Hauskalender 2018. E. Reinhold Verlag, Altenburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-95755-033-0. In German.
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Princeton School Board Issues School Calendar FAQ and Answers
ByKrystal Knapp February 11, 2014 February 11, 2014 Updated February 11, 2014
The Princeton Public Schools Board of Education issued the following Q&A regarding the school calendar this afternoon.
By the Princeton Board of Education
In light of the weather-related interruptions to our school year, the board has received many questions from parents and guardians regarding changes to the school calendar. Here are our best answers at this time. Please Note: Some of these answers are subject to change as even more winter weather encroaches on the school year.
Q. How was the original calendar decided upon?
A. Typically the board approves the school calendar one to two years in advance. The board approved the 2013-2014 school year calendar in the spring of 2012. Included in the original calendar were five proposed days to be added to the year if school days were lost to weather emergencies. These five planned make-up days involved extending the school year by three days at the end of June, then reducing the number of Spring Break days. Subtracting days from Spring Break to make up for emergency days is a common practice in many districts.
Q. Why did the administration decide this week to repurpose Feb. 14 and Feb. 17 as school days, and reinstate March 20 and 21 as vacation days during Spring Break?
A. Superintendent Steve Cochrane, in consultation with district staff, determined that making up lost snow days earlier in the school year would be in the best educational interests of the students. Thanks to the hard work of our administrative team and the collegiality of the leaders of our associations, we were able to change Feb. 14 and Feb. 17 into days for instruction. Turning former closed dates into school days requires not only the cooperation of our professional staff, but the resolution of a variety of other logistical challenges, including transportation and food service. The decision was made as soon as was possible.
Q. Will the YM/YWCA provide after school programs on Feb. 14 and Feb. 17?
A. Yes. We thank the Y’s for their efforts.
Q. If we have an additional snow day, what other days could become school days?
A. The administration is considering two dates in June as additional instructional day if we have more emergency closings.
Q. If we have more than two additional snow days, would you consider Memorial Day as a school day?
A. Yes, pending agreements with our associations and the resolution of other logistical issues.
Q. Why not simply continue to add days to the end of the school year?
A. There are many reasons, including the fact that some of our schools lack air conditioning. We also know that lengthening the school year limits summer opportunities for students who have already signed up for camps and pre-college learning experiences. It also limits vacation options for families.
Q. Is there a day after which classes cannot be held?
A. Yes. It is Monday, June 30.
Q. Can the state waive the 180-day requirement for school districts?
A. The short answer is yes, but this has never happened in the experience of anyone on our administrative team. The board believes that if the Department of Education did not shorten the school year after Superstorm Sandy, we cannot expect a waiver to the 180-day requirement based on a similar amount of days missed due to winter weather.
Q. I made travel plans based on the calendar that was in effect at the beginning of the school year. These travel plans cannot be changed. If my student does not attend school on a day when school is in session due to calendar changes, will these count as excused absences?
A. If you provide you school principal with documentation that travel and other activities were planned prior to changes to the school calendar, the day will be marked as an excused absence.
Q. Is it true that two-thirds (or one-half) of students enrolled in a school must be present for a day to count as an official school day?
Q. What happens if I send my child to school on a day that turns out not to be an official day due to the percentage of students absent?
A. Based on our understanding of state attendance regulations, which calculate averages over time, a day such as the one you envision (with reduced numbers of students in attendance) would be considered an official school day.
Q. What happens if my child does not attend school on days that were holidays in the former calendar, then he or she has an extended absence due to illness later in the year?
A. If your student is at Princeton High School, please note that students and parents may appeal absences that exceed the number outlined in the Student Handbook. A special committee hears appeals and considers a variety of factors in determining if astudent has met the attendance requirement. For parents of elementary and middle school students, the key factor to consider regarding absences is whether a student has caught up on all the work they will miss while being absent.
Q. Will kindergarten registration be rescheduled or more days added?
A. Yes. Please check princetonk12.org or call your neighborhood elementary school for more information.
Q. Are college visits deemed “excused” absences for high schoolers?
A. Yes. Princeton High School students may be excused for up to three days per year to visit colleges or to audition for college programs. Please refer to the PHS Handbook for details.
Q. What are the new dates of elementary school Moving On ceremonies, the JW Eighth Grade Promotion Ceremony and PHS Graduation? Will these change if we have more snow days?
A. The dates of Moving On ceremonies in the elementary schools will change due to changes to the school calendar. School principals will decide on these dates. The JW Promotion Ceremony will take place as scheduled on Thursday, June 12 in Richardson Auditorium of Alexander Hall at Princeton University. PHS Graduation will be on the last day of school.
Q. Will a reworked calendar affect the dates of testing (NJASK, HSPA, AP)?
A. No. All standardized tests will go on as scheduled.
Q. Why not just have the teachers do all of their professional development days at the end of the school year?
A. The board believes that professional learning is crucial to providing exceptional instruction. Professional development days are held throughout the year in order for teachers to apply what they have learned, so it will have a meaningful impact on student learning. The benefits of professional development would be lessened, or possibly lost, if all in-service days were confined to a period at the end of the academic year.
— Compiled by the External Affairs Committee of the Princeton Board of Education, February 11, 2014
Krystal Knapp
Krystal Knapp is the founding editor of Planet Princeton. Follow her on Twitter @krystalknapp. She can be reached via email at editor AT planetprinceton.com. Send all letters to the editor and press releases to that email address.
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Pokémon Legends Arceus was the most pre-ordered game ever on the UK’s Currys store
Pokémon Legends: Arceus was the most pre-ordered game ever on the UK store Currys. In addition, the new installment of the saga was also #1 in sales in many Amazon divisions.
The UK store, Curryshas revealed that Pokémon Legends: Arceus It has been the game that has been reserved the most in its entire history if we compare them with any other game they have sold.
How do you pick up in nintendo life (via VGC) Currys – who has been selling games for decades – has confirmed by twitter. And this means that the next information about games sold in UK they will be very high for Arceus.
“Attention: Pokémon Legends: Arceus on Nintendo Switch is officially the most pre-ordered game ever at Currys“, is he exact message they gave by RRSS.
Among the store’s predictions, they estimate that they were going to sell around 25,000 copies on opening day. Right now, the game for Switch is still like the best seller of Amazon Spain in video games.
Earlier this week, the Twitter handle So_Ethereal He commented that in a few Amazon divisions, it was still the best-selling title.
Specifically, these were Amazon US, Japan, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Canada and Australia. It is clear that Pokemon Legends: Arceus You will have very strong initial sales.
In Currys, according to Nintendo Life, a similar thing has happened to other stores around the world. The London chain offered a reserve price of £38.24 (little more now) that to change are about € 45.95.
For this new game in the saga, Game Freak has changed the style of Pokémon to give something different. Pokemon Legends: Arceus it transports us to an environment where humans are afraid of Pokémon and there are no gym leaders.
As we left analyzed several days ago, we titled it as the game we’ve been waiting for years. “Pokémon Legends: Arceus is the first game since Red and Blue where we feel like the formula has truly changed, and for the better.
There is room for improvement (especially in relation to the graphic section), but we are convinced that this is the way to go in future deliveries“.
Pokemon Legends: Arceus put aside everything that has characterized the saga to focus on another goal. This time we will have to help the study and relationship of the Pokémon to complete Hisui’s first Pokédex.
If you are thinking of playing it, here we leave you all the Pokémon that are not in Arceus Pokémon Legends and 10 things that I would have liked to know before starting to play.
Pokémon GO also celebrates the release of Arceus Pokémon Legends with new outfits. Tell us, which initial have you chosen in your new adventure for Hisui?
Arceus, Currys, game, Legends, Pokémon, preordered, Store, UKs
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