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brass crescent awards 2008
An unsolicited "plug" from Marqas at The Manrilla Blog:
Having just come off attending the 2nd Annual MANA Conference here in Philadelphia, it came as a pleasant surprise that the Manrilla Blog has been put in the running for Best Design in the 2008 Brass Crescent Awards, a joint project of altmuslim.com. The awards are meant to honor blogs that represent the best in Muslim blogging, with yours truly up for, “…[a] blog that has the most aesthetically pleasing site design, appealing to the eye, evoking Islamic themes, and/or facilitating debate and discussion.” My thanks to those who felt this blog worthy of nomination. Feel free to cast your vote here.
you can't please all the people all the time...
So Nader thinks Obama is an Uncle Tom and Al-Zawahiri thinks Obama is a House Negro (see obama, malcolm x, al-zawahiri and house negroes). Sean Hannity and Sarah Palin, of course think that Obama is a Black-Liberation-theology-believing, socialist Muslim (as if that were a bad thing).
If you want to see what some progressive African-American Muslims have to say about Obama you should definitely check out Imam Zaid Shakir's response to a well-meaning brother along with the blog entry/story African-American Muslim leaders denounce al Qaeda's slur toward Obama
Labels: al-zawahiri, imam zaid shakir, islam, malcolm x, obama, race
response to a well-meaning brother
Imam Zaid Shakir's Response to a Well-Meaning Brother lays out in a nuance way, through an exchange of letters between Imam Zaid and another brother only identified as Hamza, both the shortcomings and the bright spots implied by Barack Hussein Obama's electoral victory.
Go Forth Romantic Warrior!
By Imam Zaid on 28 October 2008
Go forth romantic warrior,
to slay the beast of self.
Go forth into the field of life,
and relish in the wealth.
transcend the chains of time.
Go forth beyond this world of strife,
to learn of life sublime.
no more shall your heart bleed.
Go forth to find your love so rife,
intention is your deed.
If the road endures for one more bend,
or twist, before we reach the end.
If our hope endures for one more day,
then surely we will find our way.
If we can fly where only eagles dare,
our hearts will find Him waiting there.
if our weary feet can onward trod,
our journey’s end will be to God.
Labels: imam zaid shakir
obama, malcolm x, al-zawahiri and house negroes
Following up on the simple-minded attempt of Al-Zawahiri to manipulate Blackamerican opinion by calling Obama a "house negro" who is the opposite of Malcolm X:
From a Singular Voice:
It Finally Happened; Al Qaida Hijacks Malcolm X
Imam Talib Abdur-Rashid and New York Imams Do the Right Thing. UPDATE: Johari Abdul-Malik joins in
Malcolm’s Troubled Legacy in the Age of Obama, My University Lecture Notes
Malcolm’s Troubled Legacy Part II
African-American Muslim leaders denounce al Qaeda's slur toward Obama
NEW YORK (CNN) -- Spiritual leaders of New York's African-American Muslim communities lashed out Friday at a purported al Qaeda message attacking President-elect Barack Obama and, using racist language, comparing him unfavorably to the late Malcolm X.
Ayman al-Zawahiri said Obama was the "direct opposite of honorable black Americans" like Malcolm X.
The imams called the recorded comments from al Qaeda second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahiri "an insult" from people who have "historically been disconnected from the African-American community generally and Muslim African-Americans in particular."
"We find it insulting when anyone speaks for our community instead of giving us the dignity and the honor of speaking for ourselves," they said in a statement read during a news conference at the Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial, Educational and Cultural Center.
The al Qaeda statement, an 11-minute, 23-second audio message in Arabic with subtitles in English, appeared on the Internet on Wednesday. Its authenticity has not been confirmed.
The message said Obama represents the "direct opposite of honorable black Americans" like Malcolm X. Video Watch al Qaeda official criticize Obama »
The speaker also said Obama, former and current Secretaries of State Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice and "your likes" fit Malcolm X's description of "house slaves."
On Friday, Imam Al-Hajj Talib 'Abdur-Rashid, recalling Malcolm X's legacy, said that he "stood for human rights and the principle of self defense ... international law. He would have rejected, and we who are Muslim African-Americans leaders reject, acts of political extremism."
Here are Al-Zahawiri's comments in context:
After Obama Win, Black Muslim Teen Beaten With Bat on Staten Island
17-year-old Ali Kamara, a black Muslim, was walking home on Staten Island Tuesday night after it was announced that Barack Obama was elected president when he was brutally assaulted by four white men. Kamara tells the Daily News: "I see the car coming. They looked at me and said, 'Obama!' They were not happy. They had hoodies on. They started hitting me with bats and my body started vibrating." Luckily, Kamara was able to break away and hide until the thugs left; his mother, who moved with Ali to Staten Island from Liberia in 2000, showed the News a bloody towel she used to staunch his wounds. An NYPD spokesman says the department's Hate Crime Task Force is investigating the incident as a bias crime. And Kamara says he heard his assailants scream the word "Obama!" but not any other racial or religious slurs, so it could be the bullies just mistook Kamara for the new President-Elect.
(original story)
kemi seba: france's "malcolm x"
From Mark Sedgewick's Traditionalists' blog: Guenon and "France's Malcolm X"
I wish I knew French so I could read the Saphir interview...
Guénon has found a new fan in France: Kémi Séba, a somewhat notorious African-nationalist activist, who recently converted to Islam and is being referred to by some as "France's Malcolm X." His following, however, seems considerably smaller than that of America's Malcolm X.
Séba read Guénon in a French jail in early 2008, while serving the most recent of a series of short sentences for inciting racial hatred. In an August 2008 interview with Saphir News, a French Muslim on-line newspaper, he referred to several of Guénon's works, and said that although Guénon was not the only reason for his conversion to Islam, it was Guénon who had shown him that Islam was more than the religion of the Arabs.
michael jackson converts to islam
From UPI.com
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- Pop star Michael Jackson has converted to Islam at a ceremony in Los Angeles attended by Yousef Islam, the singer formerly known as Cat Stevens, sources say.
Jackson, whose once-amazing career has been eclipsed in recent years by reports of bizarre behavior, as well as legal and financial troubles, is said to have changed his name to Mikaeel and taken the shahada -- or made a declaration of belief -- as part of his conversion to Islam, Al-Arabiya said Friday.
The religious ceremony reportedly took place at the Hollywood Hills home of Toto keyboardist Steve Porcaro, who composed music for Jackson's iconic "Thriller" album.
Jackson's lawyer said the singer has agreed to testify in person next week at a $7 million breach-of-contract lawsuit brought against him in London's High Court by the king of Bahrain's son, Sheik Abdulla bin Hamad bin Isa Al-Khalifa.
The sheikh is suing Jackson for allegedly backing out of a business venture that was to produce an album, including songs the royal wrote for and planned to record with Jackson, as well as an autobiography and a stage play.
However, Jackson contends he never signed an official agreement and insists the payments he received from the sheik were "gifts," claiming the royal's case is based on "mistake, misrepresentation and undue influence."
michael jackson: off the wall
britney spears may convert to islam
Labels: islam, michael jackson
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HomeBuildingsThe Problem with Air Rights
Buying empty space
Air rights refer to the coveted empty space above buildings, and for the past fifty-six years New York City has developed a system for exchanging these rights between buildings. The city originally conceived of air rights to prevent building congestion and contain new development, hoping to keep construction to already under-built streets. But even a cursory look at New York shatters this idea. A hundred years ago, city planners probably couldn’t conceive of a 90-story building.
East Side Overdevelopment Forum 2017
“I am constantly shocked when I visit a neighborhood I haven’t seen for months to find it totally unrecognizable.” Judith Pearlman wrote in a letter to the editor of this site. “Development has happened at such a truly inhuman scale,” she lamented. Building higher allows developers to charge top dollar for their units, and there are always those willing to pay for better views and better light – at least for them.
Air and profits
Developers have a long history of exploiting air rights to maximize profits. Consider the history behind the notorious tower at 432 Park Avenue. The scheme to buy air rights for the site began in 2004, and it took only two years for the developer to acquire an additional 115,000 square feet. Developers finally finished the building in 2015, and it claimed the mantle of tallest residential building no one asked for.
Unlike pictures at an exhibition, we cannot take these buildings down. They are up for a lifetime.”
In his old-life, Donald J. Trump used the same tricks. He built Trump World Tower, the 72-story black glass tower at 845 United Nations Plaza, by grabbing air rights from at least seven low-rise properties. He poured all of this into his megatower and maxed out the block’s height density, creating what was at the time the tallest residential tower.
Trading air rights is more prevalent than it has ever been, and is behind much of the development plaguing the city. But New Yorkers are still willing to fight an uphill battle to preserve their neighborhoods.
The Upper East Side has the highest measurable density as a residential neighborhood. It is no wonder that community groups are fighting back against plans for more unwanted megatowers. “Hills and valleys are fine, Mount Everest is not,” said a representative from Community Board 8. She was speaking at the East Side’s Overdevelopment Forum back in June. The forum brought together community members with preservationists, public officials, and urban planners on the other side of this fight.
“Billionaires cannot buy buildings and leave the rest of us in shadow,” said Councilman Ben Kallos, who hosted the forum. Populist ring aside, Kallos paints a spot-on picture of what is at stake. Development issues are about things you can touch and breathe and see. Losing the fight against overdevelopment means losing generations of what makes a neighborhood unique. “This isn’t about zoning,” said Lisa D’Mercurio from the East River 50s Alliance. “This is where we live.”
Air and light
Transferable air rights, and new building technologies have paved the way for megatowers that would have been inconceivable a half century ago. Before 1916, air and light were not inalienable rights for all New Yorkers. And even though zoning has protected these rights since then, the drive of development has outpaced the law. As Councilman Mark Levine once said, today’s loopholes “effectively render previous zoning laws impotent.”
Speaker at the Overdevelopment Forum
Air rights are not even the only tool in the developer arsenal. Today’s megatowers have floors of empty space within the building, known as stilts, which raise the building height to raise the property value.“We cannot accept the loopholes used by developers,” said Rachel Levy, Executive Director at Friends of the Upper East Side. But the city does, and it is sobering to realize that most of the development in our city is legal.
Hills and valleys are fine. Mt. Everest is not”
“Unlike pictures at an exhibition, we cannot take these buildings down,” said Elinor Fine, another New Yorker at the forum. “They are up for a lifetime.” That’s why we should pay attention. Air and light beyond question are worth fighting for. Once that’s gone, it can’t come back.
John Aurelio
Freelance writer, actual New Yorker, and Associate Editor at This East Side
Latest posts by John Aurelio (see all)
Will the New York City Council close the stilts loophole? - June 1, 2019
The Proud Boys and their patricians - November 30, 2018
Lenox Hill building will soar on stilts.And the city approves! - October 8, 2018
Manhattan's future lurking in shadows?
Lenox Hill building will soar on stilts. And the city approves!
Will building workers go on strike?
Willa Cather, Nebraska Icon, Lived on the East Side
The Upper East Side Sees ‘Spring’
The Grolier Club. . . where is it these days?
Breuer’s Whitney to Met’s Breuer
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The Tony Drake Story
The remarkable story of Tony Drake.
Meet Tony
Site currently under construction
Please contact Gordon Drake for booking information at 931-267-3968.
Visit Tony on Facebook
He's blind. He's autistic. This site is not to gain sympathy for Tony, but rather to inform the world about this talented musician. This is the discovery of a slick guitarist and soulful singer that you must not ignore. This blues musician has been performing around the country and has quickly gained a following.
Vocally, it's hard to believe he's young. Unlike all those other blues prodigies, Tony Drake has arrived full grown musically. Take a listen to the track, "What Should I Do?", from his "Touched By An Angel" album. It reflects the timing and phrasing that only comes from soul (and a lot of experience).
The moving "Anniebell" instrumental gives Tony a chance to show off those fast guitar fingers as he plays his instrument with it lying on its back like a piano! Tony has amazing musical capabilities with an interesting twist. Blues legend and award-winning record producer, Roy Roberts, said "I saw him play and knew instantly I wanted to record him."
Come discover this amazing artist and see why he is gaining so much support everywhere he goes.
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Uttar Pradesh Now
This blog deals in all kinds of developments specially political in the biggest state of India. The content is produced by Dilip Awasthi, one of the senior most journalists of Uttar Pradesh. He has worked for some of the premier publications and television channels of India.
Is this end of the road for MAYAWATI ?
By Dilip Awasthi
By resigning her Rajya Sabha seat in a dramatic huff, Daulat Queen Mayawati could well have driven the final nail in BSP's coffin. Though only nine months remained in her term with no chances of her reelection, a politician always wants to make each day count, especially after an electoral holocaust.
Resignations often reveal the acceptance of failure from within. Mayawati anyway was never known to be a crafty, stubborn or calculating politician like so many of her contemporaries. She was thriving for more than two decades on the legacy which Kanshi Ram took decades to build or on circumstances. Each term at the Chief Minister's office only added to her megalomania which bordered dictatorship.
In 2007 Mayawati, rose to power on her own mainly because of the utter failure of Mulayam Singh Raj of 2002. Add to it circumstances in which upper castes mainly Brahmins felt alienated and had nowhere to go. Pushed to the wall, the upper castes led by Brahmins backed the BSP and a Dalit-UpperCates-Muslim combine gave Mayawati an unbelievable majority.
But her five-year rule proved a huge let down for all those who brought her to power. Forget the Dalit, Upper Castes or Muslims supporters, who initially did bask in her reflected glory, even her senior ministers would need to take prior appointments to meet her. Industrialists withdrew from Uttar Pradesh and all development work came to a standstill. There were no interactions, no interviews with the media. Like any autocrat, she was scared for her life that her house and office were turned into a fortress. In fact, she rarely attended her office in the secretariat.She stopped touring the state and also avoided making public appearances.
Probably the only visible achievement of her regime was the huge Roman structures all over Lucknow and some other select towns. Though beautiful and imposing to look at, these structures even today have no practical use. A good Rs 50,000 crores were spent on these unproductive monuments and huge kickbacks were pocketed in the process. Dalits did admire these grand structures initially as they attended BSP's rallies in Lucknow but they soon realised that stones don't have a heart. The buildings may massage their ego but cannot give them food and jobs.
Corruption and nepotism ruled the roost in her five-year suffocating rule. As a result, even a disgraced Samajwadi Party, this time under the leadership of Akhilesh Yadav reaped a rich harvest in 2012. Despite predictions that Mayawati would return yet again, BSP was reduced to just 80 seats in 2012 from 206 seats. In 2014 Lok Sabha elections it could not even get a single seat.
Now came the annihilation of 2017 assembly elections. The party was plagued with the exodus of senior party leaders, a process which continued even much after the election results came in. Mayawati this time attempted to play the Muslim card as she curtailed fielding Upper Caste candidates. The BSP won merely 19 seats with 22.2% vote share. It faced a loss of 61 seats over 2012. The party came to a full circle as this became its lowest score since 1991, its budding stage, when it won 12 seats.
Reviving the BSP from here would once again need a Kanshi Ram. It is simply beyond an autocrat like Mayawati who treats everybody around her as scum. Even the part of Dalits - the chamars and Jatavs, who used to swear by her, have deserted. The Muslims have clearly signalled that they do not consider BSP as an alternative to BJP. Of the 100 Muslim candidates fielded by BSP, only two could win. Upper Castes have lost whatever little faith they had in Mayawati. The ride from here on seems going nowhere.
With most of the BSP stalwarts like RK Chowdhry, Swami Prasad Maurya, Naseemuddin Siddiqui gone, Mayawati sits all alone to preside over the end of Kanshi Ram's cherished dream - the BSP.
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पहले नेताजी का रिटायरमेंट हो
दिलीप अवस्थी
चलिए इस बहस को एक नए तरीके से समझा, देखा जाये I आखिर हम क्यों रिटायर हों? गए वक्त की बात है जब अपने समय के विख्यात बल्लेबाज़ विजय मर्चेंट में अपने जीवन का सर्वेश्रेष्ठ शतक लगाने के तुरंत बाद १९५१ में क्रिकेट से सन्यास लेने की घोषणा कर दी I पूरा देश स्तब्ध था और जानना चाहता था की मर्चेंट ने ऐसा किन परिस्थितियों में किया I जब पत्रकारों ने उनके निर्णय की वजह पूछी तो मर्चेंट बाले, "सन्यास तो तभी लेना चाहिए जब लोग पूछें अभी क्यों नाकि तब जब लोग कहने लगें अब कब?"
लेकिन मर्चेंट तो व्यावसायिक खिलाड़ी थे I उनके जैसे न जाने कितने और प्रोफेशनल व्यक्तियों ने ऐसी ही नजीरें रखी हैं I काफी किस्से हम सब जानते हैं और ऐसे लोगों को याद भी करते हैं पर बात बस यहीं पर ख़त्म हो जाती है I हम तो सिर्फ अपने नेताओं का अनुकरण करना चाहते हैं जब बात हमारे अपने रिटायरमेंट की आती है I सदियों से हमारे नेता को हमने अजर और अमर बने हुए देखा है जब तक वे पांच तत्व में विलीन नहीं हो जाते हैं I अरसे से हम ऐसे नेताओं को देखते चले आ रहे हैं जो बच्चों की तरह डगमगाते हुए मंच तक पहुँचते हैं और कई बार वहां बैठकर सो भी जाते हैं I लेकिन वे पद छोड़ने को तब तैयार होतें हैं जब घरवाले ठठरी का सामान जुटाने लगते हैं I कुछ बिरले ही नेता ऐसे हुए हैं जिन्हें देख कर देश का हौसला बढ़ा हो I
अब एक सवाल और उठाकर देखा जाये I ये नेता आखिर देश के लिए करते क्या हैं? अगर एक आम हिंदुस्तानी नेता का मानसिक चित्र खींचें तो हम एक धूर्त, शातिर और मोटी चमड़ी वाले व्यक्ति की चित्र ही सजीव करेंगे I एक ऐसा व्यक्ति जिसके पास न कोई डिग्री हैं न डिप्लोमा फिर भी अपने समर्थकों से लेकर पूरे देश को बेवकूफ बनाता रहता है I उसके पास न कोई हुनर है न ट्रेनिंग फिर भी वह चुनाव की राजनीति का मर्मज्ञ है I आमतौर पर उसे कोई वेतन नहीं मिलता है लेकिन उसकी तिजोरी हमेशा बड़े सेठों से भी ज्यादा लबालब रहती I उसे आप घपले करते रंगेहाथ पकड़ भी लीजिये लेकिन वह अपने गुनाह दूसरों पर थोप कर कानूनी पंजे से फिसल जाता है I हम सब उसकी कलाकारी जानते हैं लेकिन मज़ा देखिये वह देश की राजनीति का अहम् किरदार बना ही रहता है जब तक भगवान के घर से न्योता न आ जाये I
शायद हम अपने नेताओं को अंदर से बहुत चाहते हैं और उनसे शिक्षा भी लेते हैं I तभी तो यह रिटायरमेंट जैसे मुद्दे हमेशा उन लोगों के बीच से उठते हैं जिन्हे बिना कुछ ज्यादा किये मालपानी की आदत हो जाती है I ऐसे लोग चाहे वे नौकरी देने वाले हों या करने वाले, अपनी बनाई आरामतलबी की दुनिया में ही लीन रहना चाहते हैं I अपने खोल से बहार निकल कर अपने काम , हुनर पर यक़ीन करने या किसी नए आसमान की ऊंचाईयों को परखने की उनमे हिम्मत ही नहीं होती I
आज देश भर की सरकारें रिटायरमेंट की उम्र बढ़ाने या कर्मचारियों की संख्या बल कम करने के फैसले के बीच झूलती नज़र आ रही हैं I जैसे ही वित्त विभाग चेतावनी देता है की उसके पास बढ़ते वेतन, भत्ते या पेंशन देने के लिए रोकड़ा नहीं है, कर्मचारियों को जबरन रिटायर करने का फैसला ले लिया जाता है I जब कर्मचारी संगठनों की चलती है तो रिटायरमेंट की उम्र बढ़ने की बात होने लगती है I लेकिन अभी भी सरकारेंअधिकारियों -कर्मचारियों की उपियोगिता या उनकी उत्पादकता पर प्रश्नचिन्ह लगाने से कतरा रही हैं I
हमारी सरकारों के कर्णधार यह क्यों नहीं देख पा रहे हैं की हमारे सरकारी तंत्र में काम करने वाले काम और उनकी मैनेजरी करने वाले लोगों की भरमार है I चाहे काम कितना भी संजीदा हो, सरकारी फाइल का रचयिता आज भी एक क्लर्क या हेड क्लर्क होता है I इसी तरह कितना ही जघन्य अपराध हो, उसकी विवेचना आज भी एक इंस्पेक्टर यासब -इंस्पेक्टर ही करता है I मोटी तनख्वाहों वाले अधिकारी चाहे वे आईएएस हों या आईपीएस सिर्फ सुपरवाइजरी ही करते हैं I अपने अड़तीस वर्ष के पत्रकारिता जीवन में मैंने किसी वरिष्ठ अधिकारी को न तो फाइल बनाते देखा न विवेचना करते I ये लोग सिर्फ दस्तखत पर दस्तखत बनाना जानते हैं I
मोटी बुद्धि कहती है कि जितने वरिष्ठ आप होते जाते हैं आपको उतने ही संजीदा मामलों से खुद निपटना चाहिए और कनिष्ठ अधिकारीयों का प्रेरणास्रोत बनानाचाहिए I क्रिकेट टीम में अगर धोनी, विराट कोहली और युवराज सिंह आराम से बैठें और दारोमदार नए खिलाड़ियों पर छोड़ दे तो कैसे रहे ? वर्षों बाद भी आप आमिर खान की फिल्म उसकी शानदार एक्टिंग देखने के लिए ही जाते हैं I किसी भी धंधे का मूलमंत्र उसमे कार्यरत व्यक्तियों की उपियोगिता, उत्पादकता और जवाबदेही ही है I सरकारें रिटायरमेंट आयु पर चर्चा करें अच्छा है लेकिन देश को नेताओं की रिटायरमेंट उम्र पर भी गहन चिंतन करना चाहिए I वरना ये ख़ादीधारी अगर आजीवन देश का दोहन कर सकते हैं तो फिर हम सब क्यों नहीं?
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Politicians should retire first
Let's start the argument all over again from the other side - why should you RETIRE? Cricket fans were stunned when Vijay Merchant, one of the greatest Indian openers announced his retirement after scoring his highest Test score In 1951. When journalists asked him the reason, he simply said,"You should hang your boots at a stage when people ask WHY rather than WHEN."
But then Merchant was a professional sportsman. So many professionals in different fields have set such examples. We admire them but it ends there. We religiously keep following our leaders when it comes to our own retirement. For ages, our politicians have had this 'never-say-die' spirit when it has come to bowing out. We have been represented by ageing, tottering politicians of all caste and creed. Even in international forums, we have seen our 'netas' managing to reach the podium with infant-like wobbly demeanour or speaking as if it is going to be their last speech. We have seen ministers sleeping in meetings and on the stage. There have been only a paltry few whose public presence has made us proud.
What do the khadi-clad tribe of this country do? If you make a mental sketch of an Indian 'neta', you would only come across a crafty living being. He does not have a worthwhile degree but he thrives on conning his followers and people at large by making false promises. He does not have any skills but he has mastered the art of manipulating elections for himself and his party. He does not get a salary in most cases but is an expert in filling his coffers through mostly unfair means. Catch him red-handed but he can wriggle out by blaming everything on his rivals. In most cases, it will impossible to add any positive attributes especially linked to productivity in that sketch. Still, he has the last laugh as he keeps coming in and out of power till he lives.
We believe and follow our leaders. The haggling for retirement age often comes from quarters of average performers, who want to fill their bucket till the last drop trickles. In most such cases such an attitude stems from our zest to stick to our comfort zones whether you are an employee or an employer. The will to take new challenges and explore new horizons safely rests in the cocoon we build around our respective lives in the name of security.
Today governments everywhere in the country stay torn in choosing between increasing retirement age and retrenchment. When the Finance department raises alarm over the staggering salary bills and also the ever-increasing perks and pension, the idea of chopping off the deadwood through compulsory retirement starts looking good. But it is high time that we first figure out the usefulness of the so-called administrative system we have made.
We just have supervisors in the bureaucratic services and no executors. Howsoever important the issue may be, the government file is created by clerks and section head clerks. Bureaucrats only sign and counter-sign these files. Similarly, an FIR is even now investigated by an inspector or sub-inspector of police. The rest of the paraphernalia including SPs, IGs and DGs just supervise. In my 38 years of journalism, I have yet not come across a senior official who has himself constructed a file or a senior IPS official has solved a case of crime.
Common sense would suggest the senior you become more is expected out of you. Can you expect a Virat Koli or Yuvraj Singh to sit back and leave the onus of performance on the younger players? You see an Amir Khan film even after so many years squarely for his performance. Linking jobs with performance and productivity can only keep you in business. While governments discuss retirement age of its employees, the country needs to decide the retirement age of its politicians. If they can work till they die, so can everybody else.
When should on RETIRE?
When should one retire? Answering this question is almost like projecting an appropriate age to die. In fact, one line of thought is that a salaried person dies twice - once when he retires and the last time when he actually does.
In this country of not only multi-cultures, races, languages, cuisines, we also have a fair sprinkling of a multiplicity of rules and regulations. In fact in many cases, we do have two sets of rules as well - one for the mighty and powerful and the other for the lesser children of God. Even after 70 years of Independence, we have not been able to thrash out weeds and worms ailing our systems.
But forget philosophy and emotions, let's stick to the brass tacks. New U.P.chief secretary Rajiv Kumar on July 6 ordered all departments to screen out officers and employees who have attained an age of 50 tears or more and who are "not fit" to perform their duties. Such screening should be complete by July 31 after which these employees will be "compulsorily" retired by giving them a three-month notice.
On the same day, the Vice-chancellors of the state university held a meeting to recommend raising the retirement age for teachers from 62 to 65 years. The retirement age for doctors has already been raised to65 years. In certain institutes of excellence like the Sanjay Gandhi PGI, the age for retirement of Professor of Eminence has been made 75 years. Now the wait begins for some more ambitious government officials to grant themselves jobs till they die. The clause would read: "posted as ...... until death."
A confused government is unable to decide whether to back experience or new talent. And how do you decide whether a person - a professional or a clerk, is unfit to work unless he has been declared so by the doctors on health grounds? This would lead to pick and choose and personal likes and dislikes will come into play.
Instead, why can't we have firm rule fixing the retirement age so that the productivity of the employee remains the main criteria. This has been quite successfully practised in the private sector by the companies and also by professionals who know when to hang their boots. Who told Kapil Dev, Sachin Tendulkar, Narayan Moorthy (Infosys) or Rusi Modi and Cyrus Mistry (Tata) to resign.
But then either the system or the individual has to be goal-driven. Unfortunately, in government frequent political changes keep uprooting and shifting the goal-post every now and then. Productivity is possibly the last of the priorities in a government official's serving tenure. Who has ever fixed the productivity of an IAS, IPS official or for that matter that of a clerk or a peon?
Dilip Awasthi
Has been a journalist working in Uttar Pradesh for the last 38 years. He has worked with top publications including India Today, The Times of India, Dainik Jagran. He has had the opportunity to work with some of the top editors of the country like Aroon Purie, Girilal Jain, Inder Malhotra, Suman Dubey, T.N. Ninan, Inderjit Badhwar, SN Ghosh to name a few. He has covered the top politicians of the country including Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, VP Singh, Chandrashekhar, Atal Behari Vajpai, Narayan Datt Tiwari, Mulayam Singh Yadav, Kanshi Ram, Mayawati, Kalyan Singh. He has reported the Ayodhya tangle since it started in 1984 and covered the demolition of the Babri mosque in 1992 for India Today magazine. He has also covered journalistic assignments in the United States, United Kingdom, Japan, Belgium, Turkey, Mauritius, China, Sri Lanka and Nepal. He has two books under my belt - one on journalism titled "The Special Correspondent", and a collection of satires in Hindi called "Kyunki Ye Dil Hai Hindustani".
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Free Nationals' New Song Includes a Posthumous Mac Miller Verse
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Kelly Sheridan
How to Build a Cloud Security Model
Security experts point to seven crucial steps companies should be taking as they move data and processes to cloud environments.
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One of these drivers is digital transformation. "There is a driving force, regardless of industry, to act faster, respond to customers quicker, improve internal and external user experience, and differentiate yourself from the competition," LaMagna-Reiter says. Flexibility is the biggest factor, he adds, as employees and consumers want access to robust solutions that can be updated quickly.
Economic and financial drivers also play a role, with organizations moving to subscription models and shifting from capital to operational expenditures. However, many view the cloud as a means to cut costs – one of many misconceptions that should be clarified, says Yaron Levi, CISO at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City and research fellow at the Cloud Security Alliance.
"Now you have a big chunk of companies that are moving to the cloud and not necessarily for the right reasons," he says, adding that in addition to saving money, some feel they won't have to worry about security in the cloud. "It's not always cheaper. Not all clouds are created equal."
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People often think about security in the sense of, "I put in AWS, so we're secure," he adds. This isn't the case: Amazon Web Services provides the fabric, which users should ensure is secure.
Most companies don't understand cloud posture, let alone cloud security, LaMagna-Reiter says. You also have to think about threats that could potentially affect in-house systems and mitigations to put in place. Gary Marsden, senior director of data protection services at Thales Group, points to shadow IT as an example. He describes a bank that had 2,000 cloud accounts with multiple vendors. They didn't know about most of them. Six months later, they had detected 5,000 additional cloud accounts, bringing the total to 7,000 cloud accounts – most of which were not IT-approved.
"That's a dynamic we're going to see more and more of going forward," he says.
Threat planning is just one step businesses should be taking as they move operations to the cloud. Here, cloud security experts outline crucial steps to include in building a cloud security model, and what should be kept in mind before and after deployment. Any tips you'd add to the list? Feel free to add them in the Comments.
Kelly Sheridan is the Staff Editor at Dark Reading, where she focuses on cybersecurity news and analysis. She is a business technology journalist who previously reported for InformationWeek, where she covered Microsoft, and Insurance & Technology, where she covered financial ... View Full Bio
mroberts1161,
6/3/2019 | 7:15:52 AM
I would have to agree this is not a model. I would say 3 useful points noted 1. control of encyption keys. 2. determining where the line is drawn betweent client and provider. 3. understanding if your a consumer, provider or both.
vblinn112,
Hardly a model
Enumerating someone's concerns and suggesting possible resolution can hardly be qualified as modeling, whether conceptual or operational. Not worth logging in time.
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Home » Need (category) » Need information » Charles Holmes Thrall - the spy
Charles Holmes Thrall - the spy
Charles Holmes Thrall was a member of the Rockville High School, and then entered Yale until the great blizzard of 1888. At the height of the blizzard, he was helping his father, Julius, with his livery business, located in the center of Rockville. He was driving a sleigh and became unconscious and was not found for some tune. Some eye damage resulted and after living in darkened rooms for several months, at the suggestion of a doctor, he left for the warmer climate of Florida in 1889.
He worked as an electrician for a year or two in Florida and then was convinced by friends of the opportunities in Havana. Upon his arrival, he went to work for the electric company, where he became chief electrician after a short time. Two or three years later, his American friends set him up in business, the Charles H. Thrall Electric Company. As this company prospered, he purchased a stone quarry across the bay at Jesus Des Monte. Both operations prospered and Charles made many important friends.
He had dinner with some of these friends aboard the battleship USS Maine one evening, and as he was being rowed back to shore by one of his supervisors, the Maine was blown up and the Spanish American War had begun. Sixteen years later, when the Maine was raised. The Charles H. Thrall Electric Company, supplied the electric power on the job.
Leaving directly for Florida, he was enlisted by the Navy to serve as a spy. He was listed as correspondent by the New York Daily Telegram and worked from the flagship which lead the blockade off Havana. He was put ashore on four occasions, his primary mission was to evaluate gun placements.
The first mission went smoothly. On the second mission, he rescued a woman news correspondent serving as a spy who had become suspect. As a result; he became suspect, and a reward for his capture dead or alive was set at 2,000 pesos.
The third mission took him to Cabanas fortress directly behind Morro Castle. He successfully entered the fort as a peddler with a push cart full of fruit and candies. He obtained the required information and left, but he was realised almost immediately afterward and a full scale search began. Charles managed the 7 kilometers to the rendezvous, however, he could not make contact because of the search. He stood in a coral swamp for sixteen hours which caused severe lacerations and infection to his legs.
On his fourth mission, he was captured with Haydon Jones, a newspaper correspondent and chained to the floor of a four foot high cell, in the dungeons of Cabana's fortress. The date of his capture was 18 May 1898. They was held several weeks, expecting execution at any moment. However, President McKinley had been informed of his capture and negotiations were underway to trade prisoners. Eventually, the brother-in-law of General Weyler, head of the Spanish forces, another Spanish officer and two two servants, who had been captured on board the prize steamer "Argonauta," by the U.S. fleet, were traded for Charles' life. At least one newspaper carried an illustration of President McKinely and Charles shaking hands, with Charles thanking the President. A full account of which was printed in the New York World of May 22, 1898.
After the war Charles returned to Havana, reclaimed his quarry and reorganized the electric company. Both prospered for many years (25-30) He also built the first modern sugar mills in Cuba. There were several other interesting business ventures, including sugar beets in Texas power stations on the Rio Grande, and real estate.
In spite of the tremendous abilities of this man of old five feet two inches, his personal life was a series of unhappy developments. His first wife, Ida, spent most of their married life in semi-seclusion in a beautiful home in West Hartford. In the late 1930's, he discovered he had cancer of the tongue and throat. A great deal of money went for treatment and operations, not to mention years of pain and suffering. His daughter, Corrinne, who was extremely frail and delicate, committed suicide in her mid-twenties. His second wife, Florence, seemed to bring him the only personal happiness he knew.
For years, Charles spent hundreds of hours each summer in the Historical Library in Hartford and among the State archives, writing up the history of the Thrall family. He arranged his findings in an orderly fashion and made it possible for many of the Thrall clan who left Connecticut, to trace their ancestry. The handwritten records of his findings are preserved for posterity in the Historical Library in Hartford, Connecticut.
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US Thrall family
‹ Obituary of Edith Flint Thrall 1845-1898 up Usher and Thrall bank ›
Paula Mansel (not verified)
Veracity of the information
My name is Andrea Mansel, I am from Germany and I am writing my thesis about an American author who got involved in the Spanish-American War. My inquiry is: How truthful is the information posted here? It seems like this site is run by the descendants of the Thrall family. In the books that I have researched, there is some information about Charles H. Thrall, but they say he worked for the New York World and not for the New York Daily Telegram. Is the Daily Telegram some sort of office of the World? Were those two different papers? I would appreciate an answer.
Paula Mansel
Before I started citing my sources
I am very pleased to hear about your interest. I am sorry I do not recall the source of this information. I obtained this in my early days of my interest in the history of my Thrall cousins in the States, and at that time was less diligent about citing the sources of information. Sorry.
If you do discover any more, I'd be very grateful if you could share this with us here. Good luck.
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Stephen Crane and Charles H Thrall
You may be interested to know that Stephen Crane, the renowned author of The Red Badge of Courage, wrote about Charles H. Thrall for the New York World, May 8, 1898. Crane interviewed him on a warship off the coast of Cuba.
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Ph.D.(1987) McGill University, Institute of Islamic Studies
M.A. (1980) McGill University, Institute of Islamic Studies
B.A. (1976) University of British Columbia, English Literature
CURRENT POSITIONS:
Associate Professor, University of Toronto, Dept. of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations
Cross appointed at the Centre for religious Studies at UofT
Cross appointed at the Centre for Jewish Studies UofT
Faculty Lecturer, McGill University, Institute of Islamic Studies (1995-1998)
Assistant Professor, Islamic Studies, University of Toronto, Department of Middle East and Islamic Studies (1988-1994)
AREA OF SPECIALIZATION:
Mystical Quranic Exegesis, Islamic Thought, Shi’ism, Sufism
TEACHING (General Subject Areas):
Islamic Thought
Shi'i Islam
Modern Developments in Islam Quranic Commentary
Islamic Mystical Tradition Islamic History
Courses Graduate (current)
Islamic Religious Thought (NMC2052Y)
Images of the Prophet Muhammad in Literature (NMC 2053Y)
Undergraduate (current)
Introduction to Islam (NMC185Y)
The Qur’an (NMC285Y)
Shi’i Islam (NMC386HF)
Islamic Mystical Tradition (NMC387HS)
Graduate (previously taught)
Islamic Philosophy: Intellect
Major Themes of Islamic Religious Expression
Islam: Origin and Early Developments
Islam: Later Developments A Survey of the Development of Islamic Thought
Undergraduate (previously taught)
Jesus in the Qur’an
please see the publications page.
INVITED LECTURES (most recent):
University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies and the Center for Islamic Studies: "Qur'an as Epic" Biennial Conference, sponsored by the Centre of Islamic Studies, SOAS, 12-14: "The Qur'an: Text, History & Culture," November 2009, major paper, 30 minute lecture
University of Göttingen: "Transcendence and Immanence in the Qur'an: a critique of categories" for Gott und Welt. Transzendenz und Immanenz im Altertum Internationales Symposion des Graduiertenkollegs Götterbilder-Gottesbilder-Weltbilder Polytheismus und Monotheismus in der Welt der Antike Georg-August-Universität Göttingen: 29.-30. Oktober 2009. Major paper and 1 hour lecture
Institute of Ismaili Studies: October 2009 Conference on Tafsir (continued, see recent AAR panel below), panel on esoteric commentaries: "How to understand the notion of ‘spiritual' in Islamic thought: "Joseph and His Shirt"
University of Göttingen: May 27-29, 2008. Roads to Paradise (an international conference) organized by Profs. Günther and Lawson. "Paradise in the Qur'an as Apocalyptic Motif."
University of Chicago: Center for Middle Eastern Studies, February 13, 2009. Friday Lecture Series. "The Myth of the False Qur'an from the Safavids to the Qajars."
Orient Institut Beirut: (Prof. Stefan Leder, director), December 12-13, 2008. Conference on Cultural and Linguistic Aspects of Bible Translations, "The Book of Revelation and the Qur'an: A Structural, Terminological and Thematic Comparison"
University of Zanjan: November 4-7, 2008: Tehran, Qom, Kashan: International conference on Feyz e Kashani (invitation declined), paper offered for translation: "Fayz Kashani and the Hidden Words"
University of Göttingen: November 6-7, 2008: Internationales Symposium des GraKo: Weltkonstruktionen. Topographie und Konstellationen von Chaos und Kosmos "Coherent Chaos and Chaotic Cosmos: The Quran and Its Apocalyptic Substrate"
University of Göttingen: November 5, 2008: Göttinger Orient-Symposium "The Crucifixion and the Quran"
AAR pre conference special panel, Chicago, October 31, 2008: The Origins of Exegesis – Contexts and Sources, AAR pre conference special day-long seminar. Panel: The Esoteric and the Exoteric: Methods and Taxonomies. Sponsored by Institute of Ismaili Studies and AAR Qur'an Group: "Time and Typology: In Search of the Spiritual"
Baha'i Summer School Morrisville, Ont: August 3-4, 2008: "History and Prayer according to the Islamic Intellectual Tradition"
Irfan Colloquium Acuto, Italy: July 6-9, 2008: "The Salat Kabīr in Bahai Texts"
Musim Student Association: Islam Awareness Week, University of Toronto, March 26, 2008: "The Qur'ān as World Literature"
American University of Beirut: Anis Makdisi Program in Literature, February 20, 2008: "On the Poetics of Opposition in the Qur'an: The Apocalypstic Substrate"
Centre for Islamic Studies, Damascus: February 18, 2008:, 8-10pm: "The Study of Islam and the Life of the Mind in Canada" Filmed for a 1 hour program on al-Jazeera (Arabic channel, broadcast next day)
Shaykh Ahmad Kuftaru Centre, Abu Nour Mosque, Damascus: February 18, 2008, 12:00-4:00 pm: "Islam and Multiculturalism"
University of London: SOAS: The Poetics of Duality: The Apocalyptic Substrate of the Qur'an, 7-9 November, 2007
Iranian Institute of Philosophy, Tehran, Tabriz & Khoy: Corbin's Rumi, 2-5 November, 2007 (withdrawn)
Freiburg Universität, Orientalische Seminar: Duality and Opposition in the Qur'an: The Apocalyptic Substrate, May 2006
Strasbourg, Marc Bloch Université: Iranian Humanism: The Theology of Humanism, May 2006
Northern Command Headquarters: Islam and the life of the Mind, January 2006
Universite Marc Bloch, Strasbourg, International Colloquium “Dialogue, Culture et Mondialisation” 22-24 November 2005: Shi’ism and Globalization
Department of Near Eastern Languages, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana: Akhbari Tafsir Revisited.
Sorbonne, 6-8 November 2003: H. Corbin et le Coran [Colloque Henry Corbin (1903 – 1978): Philosophies et Sagesses des Religions du Livre]
McGill University, 2-6 June 2003: The Rhetoric of Good and Evil in the Qur'an [Evil in International Affairs, Carnegie Foundation]
University of Toronto, 26-27 May, 2002: Nicholas of Cusa and Islam [Yvonne Y. Haddad Plenary and Symposium, CSSR]
Isfahan, April 27-29, 2002: The Imaginal World East and West [Cordoba & Isfahan: Two Schools of Islamic Philosophy, Society for the appreciation of Cultural Works, et alii]
University of Toronto, 1 February 2002: The Poetics of Duality in the Qur'an [Department for the Study of Religion]
University of Copenhagen, 22-24 August, 2001: From the Parochial to the Universal: the Transformation of Shi’ism into the Bahai Faith
Bristol University, 5 September 2000: Ahmad Ahsa’i’s Critique of Fayz Kashani on the Problem of God’s Knowledge
Concordia University, 27 April, 2000: Islam and the "Lower Senses": The Story of Joseph. Uncommon Senses: An Interdisciplinary Conference on the Senses in Art and Culture April 27-29, Montreal
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (most recent):
San Francisco, 21-24 November 2004: Suluk according to Ahmad Ahsa’i and Kazim Rashti [Middle East Studies Association]
San Diego, 22-24 March 2004: A ‘New’ Book by Rajab Bursi [American Oriental Society] Ravenna, 6-11 October 2003: Philosophy and Fundamentalism [Fifth European Conference of Iranian Studies]
Bamberg, 3-6 July 2003: Tafsir, Qajar and Safavid [Fourth Safavid Round Table]
Concordia University: 27 April, 2000: Islam and the "Lower Senses": The Story of Joseph. Uncommon Senses: An Interdisciplinary Conference on the Senses in Art and Culture April 27-29, Montreal
Edinburgh University, August 19, 1998: A 'New Testament' for the Safavids: 17th Century Iranian Quran Commentary Third International Round Table on Safavid Persia, 19-22 August 1998 The Edinburgh Institute for the Advanced Study of Islam and the Middle East, Edinburgh
UNIVERSITY & PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
Full Member, School of Graduate Studies, University of Toronto, (current)
Visiting Fellow, Australian National University, Canberra, Autumn, 1998.
Graduate Studies Council, McGill University, 1995-96
Faculty of Graduate Studies, McGill University, 1995-1998
Associate Member, School of Graduate Studies, University of Toronto (1991-1994)
Scholarship Committee, Inst. Islamic Studies, McGill (1995-1998)
Secretary/Treasurer, Oriental Club of Toronto, University of Toronto (1992-1994)
Departmental liaison for the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, University of Toronto (1988-94)
SCIENTIFIC ORGANIZATIONS:
American Oriental Society
British Institute of Persian Studies
Canadian Society for the Study of Religion
Middle East Studies Association
Societas Iranologica Europaea
copyright 2005-2019 Todd Lawson.
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Vincent Giampietro
Institute of Psychiatry, Senior Lecturer
A Multi-Cohort Study of ApoE ɛ4 and Amyloid-β Effects on the Hippocampus in Alzheimer’s Disease.
Wasim Khan, Vincent Giampietro, Tobias Banaschewski, Gareth Barker, Hugh Garavan, et al.. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, 1159-1174, 56, 2017.
The apolipoprotein E (APOE) gene has been consistently shown to modulate the risk of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Here, using an AD and normal aging dataset primarily consisting of three AD multi-center studies (n = 1,781), we compared the effect of APOE and amyloid-β (Aβ) on baseline hippocampal volumes in AD patients, mild cognitive impairment (MCI) subjects, and healthy controls. A large sample of healthy adolescents (n = 1,387) was also used to compare hippocampal volumes between APOE groups. Subjects had undergone a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan and APOE genotyping. Hippocampal volumes were processed using FreeSurfer. In the AD and normal aging dataset, hippocampal comparisons were performed in each APOE group and in ɛ4 carriers with positron emission tomography (PET) Aβ who were dichotomized (Aβ+/Aβ–) using previous cut-offs. We found a linear reduction in hippocampal volumes with ɛ4 carriers possessing the smallest volumes, ɛ3 carriers possessing intermediate volumes, and ɛ2 carriers possessing the largest volumes. Moreover, AD and MCI ɛ4 carriers possessed the smallest hippocampal volumes and control ɛ2 carriers possessed the largest hippocampal volumes. Subjects with both APOE ɛ4 and Aβ positivity had the lowest hippocampal volumes when compared to Aβ- ɛ4 carriers, suggesting a synergistic relationship between APOE ɛ4 and Aβ. However, we found no hippocampal volume differences between APOE groups in healthy 14-year-old adolescents. Our findings suggest that the strongest neuroanatomic effect of APOE ɛ4 on the hippocampus is observed in AD and groups most at risk of developing the disease, whereas hippocampi of old and young healthy individuals remain unaffected.
Tract Based Spatial Statistic Reveals No Differences in White Matter Microstructural Organization between Carriers and Non-Carriers of the APOE ɛ4 and ɛ2 Alleles....
Flavio Dell'Acqua, Wasim Khan, Natalie Gottlieb, Vincent Giampietro, Hugh Garavan, et al.. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, 977-984, 47, 2015.
The apolipoprotein E (APOE) ɛ4 allele is the best established genetic risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and has been previously associated with alterations in structural gray matter and changes in functional brain activity in healthy middle-aged individuals and older non-demented subjects. In order to determine the neural mechanism by which APOE polymorphisms affect white matter (WM) structure, we investigated the diffusion characteristics of WM tracts in carriers and non-carriers of the APOE ɛ4 and ɛ2 alleles using an unbiased whole brain analysis technique (Tract Based Spatial Statistics) in a healthy young adolescent (14 years) cohort. A large sample of healthy young adolescents (n = 575) were selected from the European neuroimaging-genetics IMAGEN study with available APOE status and accompanying diffusion imaging data. MR Diffusion data was acquired on 3T systems using 32 diffusion-weighted (DW) directions and 4 non-DW volumes (b-value = 1,300 s/mm2 and isotropic resolution of 2.4×2.4×2.4 mm). No significant differences in WM structure were found in diffusion indices between carriers and non-carriers of the APOE ɛ4 and ɛ2 alleles, and dose-dependent effects of these variants were not established, suggesting that differences in WM structure are not modulated by the APOE polymorphism. In conclusion, our results suggest that microstructural properties of WM structure are not associated with the APOE ɛ4 and ɛ2 alleles in young adolescence, suggesting that the neural effects of these variants are not evident in 14-year-olds and may only develop later in life.
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Emily DiDonato is an American model.is a woman who has made herself identifiable through her efforts and hard work of years and years. Carrying her work as a part of her life, Foster has sketched herself with in erasable ink in the pages of history of her occupation. She is really a qualitative woman with great attitude and super fine personality. She simply has every fine qualities required to be a model and this is evidenced by her phenomenal work. The people and critics all around the world have appreciated her works. She has made a fine place for herself in the vast and complicated world of model and. She is an intelligent personality with vision, determination and courage. She believes that dedication and hard work and define impossible unrealistic. She is one of the most successful women in America.
Dedicated from her very early days she has kissed the horizon of success through her strength of will. Her sensational work is responsible to earn the social and economic status she holds today. Challenging her own abilities and skills she has stood as a perfect definition of excellence and success. Carrying on her work with all the efforts she has, Emily DiDonate has really has proven that impossible can be defined unrealistic if anyone has determination to reach and dedication to own. She is dedicated and fervent towards her work. She is a very gorgeous woman. Beautiful, famous, successful, hardworking, kind hearted and much great word, is only one lady, Emily DiDonato. She was born on 24 February in 1991. At present her age is 24 and still she is young enough to show her ability to world. Her nationality is American. She got height of 5 ft. 10 in or 1.78 m. Her measurements of 34-25-35 (US) and dress size is 4 (US).
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Don’t suffer in silence
Harassed at work? Unite can help
Hajera Blagg, Thursday, November 9th, 2017
It all started with what at first glance might appear as an innocent comment here and there. But then the boss persisted.
Although Unite member and Woolwich Ferry worker Colleen* had told him repeatedly his advances were not welcome, they continued for years, and like so many women who are harassed by their superiors in the workplace, she suffered in silence out of fear.
“It made me seriously uncomfortable – it frightened me,” she explained.
But as recent widely reported accounts have shown, Colleen is far from being alone.
Following the allegations made against Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, people from around the globe came forward with their own stories on social media and elsewhere, showing the world that sexual harassment is in fact a reality for virtually all women and many men too.
This is especially true for workers who face the power imbalance inherent in employee and employer relationships.
A TUC report last year found that more than half of women have experienced some form of sexual harassment at work, with an even larger majority of young women – two in three – reporting the same.
A third of those polled have been subject to unwanted sexual comments at work and one in five having experienced unwanted sexual advances.
In most cases, the perpetrator was a male colleague, with one in five saying they were victims of a boss or manager.
And sexual harassment, the report found, is even more rampant when workers are on zero hours contracts.
It’s easy to understand why – if you don’t comply or you speak out when you’re harassed, you can effectively be ‘fired’ by having your hours reduced to zero, and you’ve got little recourse to the law.
In such an environment, coming forward is frightening – especially when your livelihood is on the line.
That’s why perhaps it is far from surprising that, as the TUC report found, four out of five women do not report sexual harassment to their employer.
But strong unions, Colleen would find out earlier this year, can make a big difference.
“It was so hard because all these people are above me,” she said when the harassment became unbearable.
“But it got to the point where it was seriously making me ill,” she said. “So I finally decided to speak out.”
Encouraged by a workplace rep, Colleen filed a grievance, but management failed to address the issue. And then something remarkable happened.
Colleen’s colleagues – the vast majority of them men – said enough was enough. In the spirit of solidarity, they downed tools in support of their colleague so she could get the justice she deserved.
In total, the union’s ferry workers planned 12 days of strike action. After two days of strikes, management came to the negotiating table and was forced to listen.
In the end, the manager who had harassed Colleen for years was dismissed, as was his manager – and the issue was dealt with in what she felt was a satisfactory manner.
Unite regional officer Onay Kasab said that Colleen’s story showed the power that unions and workplace solidarity can have in tackling a problem as endemic as sexual harassment.
“In far too many cases, women who are the victims of sexual harassment at work either suffer in silence or if they speak out, they’re moved to another part of the business; they’re ignored or they themselves become a target – they’re viciously ostracised and further abused. I’m proud to say that in this instance it wasn’t the victim who suffered the detriment of speaking out – it was the perpetrator.
“In achieving this aim, we decided not to rely on the law or internal grievance procedures – we took collective action and got it out in the open.
“The openness and solidarity from colleagues across the Ferry meant that management couldn’t do what it would under normal circumstances – it couldn’t hide or start rumours and isolate the victim. We showed when people get together and stand up against what’s wrong, solidarity wins.”
*Name changed to protect member
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AFC Cup 2013 Quarter-Final: East Bengal face Semen Padang in Indonesia
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AFC Quarter Finals 2nd Leg
Semend Padang(Indonesia) vs Kingfisher East Bengal(India)
Venue: Haji Agus Salim Stadium
Kick Off time: 1:30 PM IST
Live and Exclusive on ESPN
The whole of India would be praying for Kingfisher East Bengal as they take on the Indonesian Champions in Indonesia, in the second leg of AFC Cup 2013 on Tuesday, 24th September 2013, after playing a fine game of football at their home in Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Stadium, Kolkata on 17th September, 2013 where they won the first leg by a 1-0 scoreline thanks to a lone goal by new recruit Ryuji Sueoka. East Bengal would be hoping to repeat their dominance in the crucial second leg with only a draw being sufficient for the Red and Golds to gain a place in the semi-finals of the continental cup thus repeating Dempo SC's heroics in the AFC Cup 2008.
Kingfisher East Bengal team at the Agus Salim Stadium, Indonesia, Picture Courtesy: ebrp.in
Losing a midfielder of the stature of Penn Orji reflected on the East Bengal's gameplay as they were largely using long balls to feed their power striking duo of Chidi Edeh and James Moga, with the latter not in greatest of form while also lacking match fitness. The brightest point of East Bengal's game was the number of chances they created in the first leg, and East Bengal fans would be hoping that they do the same this time around but with a better efficiency. Sueoka's inclusion in the second half almost gave a new dimension to the East Bengal team while Gurpreet in between the sticks looked a far better option than Abhijit Mondal. Marcos Falopa is aware of Semen Padang's cent percent home record, and have mentioned the Indonesian team favorites at their home but he also claimed that his side were ready to take the challenge.
Semen Padang on the other hand would be getting back the services of their Argentine midfielder Esteban. Their main force upfront Edward Junior Wilson would be hoping to get his name on the scoresheet against the Red and Golds to help his side to progress.
East Bengal and Indian Football fans would hope for an early goal for Kingfisher East Bengal which would make them favorites to go ahead as they would have the away goal advantage, which would mean a daunting task for Semen Padang to get back to the game.
The Match would be telecast LIVE and EXCLUSIVE on ESPN India from 1:30 PM IST Onward. We would also try to bring you the live streaming if possible on our website.
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Worthington Nationals Travel Baseball
What is “Travel” baseball?
Worthington “Travel” baseball is a program for young people who demonstrate the skills and commitment to develop as players in a competitive setting. “Travel” baseball requires a significant time, energy and financial expense from players, parents, and coaches. Typically, this includes a year-round commitment to team and practice.
When are tryouts for the 2020 season?
AGE DATE TIME LOCATION
8U 18-Jul 2019 6:30-8pm Perry 3
9U 16-Jul 2019 6:30-8pm Snouffer 2
10U 22-Jul 2019 6:30-8pm Perry 3
11U 22-Jul 2019 6:30-8pm Snouffer 1
*Players can attend all 3 tryouts but will be considered for a roster spot even if they only attend 1 tryout. Attendance at all 3 tryouts is NOT necessary.
*In case of rain - please contact the Worthington Parks & Rec weather line, (614)786-7366. If the diamonds are closed or open to coaches/umpire discretion, the tryout is cancelled and will NOT be made up.
TRYOUT REGISTRATION: All participants must register online before attending tryouts. Registration is only required once, even if a player attends more than one tryout. Click on the orange REGISTER NOW button on the WYB baseball home page to register. Registration is FREE.
What age should my player tryout for?
The player’s age on April 30th determines the player’s eligible age division for the current season. For example: my child is 10 on April 30th so he is eligible for play in the 10 & under division.
“Playing up” It is a misconception that players should “play up” at their grade level. The Worthington Select Baseball charter strongly encourages players to play on age appropriate teams, not grade appropriate teams. Generally, a player will be permitted to “play up” only when he will be playing with his classmates and, even then, only upon approval of the director.
How many teams are in the Worthington Program?
Each age group, 8U through 14U, will have a first team called the Nationals Red. This team will compete at the highest possible level commensurate with the talent and experience of the players on that team. When appropriate, based on the number and quality of eligible players at tryouts, WYB will field a second team, which will be called the Nationals Blue.
How many games are played?
Schedules vary by team; however, most Worthington teams play a 25 – 35 game schedule including tournaments. As the name implies, the schedule includes travel in and around the greater Columbus area, often during weekday late afternoon and evenings. Weekends may include tournaments and double-headers.
When are games played?
Game schedules largely are influenced by our parent organizations, Nations Baseball and COYBL. Most of these organizations require that games be played between April 1 – July 31. Typically, Worthington teams begin game play after the first week of April and end game play in early July. Practices can be scheduled year-round.
Where do Indoor Practices take place?
The Worthington Travel Baseball Program is very fortunate to have continuous access to a dedicated indoor facility called the "Bat House." The Bat House features 2 cages and gives Nationals teams a chance to do some work indoors. It is located in a unit in the Buckeye Heating & Cooling building on Worthington Galena Rd. The program is very thankful and fortunate to have this practice facility.
How much does “Travel” baseball cost?
Travel fees vary by team. Fees are determined by the number of games, tournaments, and outside events that each coach schedules. Typically, most team fees range from $350 - $500. This includes a non-refundable $150 deposit.
It is important to note that uniforms are not included with this fee. Typically, uniforms are an additional $150 - $200 depending on choice.
Additionally, personal player equipment such as bats, glove, and cleats are not provided. Some teams may provide bat bags and helmets as part of their initial fee; however, this is not mandated by the program.
What are the League Rules
Worthington Travel Baseball rules are governed by their parent organizations. In most cases, this is COYBL or Nations Baseball. Please refer to the COYBL or Nations Baseball website for updated rule information.
Out of district players
It is important to note that Worthington Select Baseball is a community program, utilizing local resources. It is not a regional or “elite” program. Generally, only Worthington School residents are eligible for the Worthington Select Baseball program. In rare instances, the charter allows for up to two out of district players with Travel Director approval. Approving players from outside the district is rare, particularly, if it results in cutting players from Worthington.
“Grandfather Clause”
Any player currently on a Worthington Select Baseball team roster that successfully completes the tryout process and is offered a roster spot for their returning team, may return to that team regardless if he is out of district or “playing up.”
7th/8th Grade baseball and 13U/14U
The 13U and 14U travel baseball season formally will begin after the conclusion of the middle school 7th/8th grade baseball season. This schedule provides the option for players to participate in both programs if they choose. If the teams scheduled games during the same calendar period, players would not be eligible to be active participants on both rosters simultaneously (7thor 8th grade and 13U or 14U).
Under the current structure in Worthington, players will have the following options:
Players may participate in both middle school baseball and 13U or 14U travel baseball teams, if they wish.
Players do NOT have to participate in both middle school baseball and 13U or 14U travel baseball. They may choose to participate in one baseball program, or neither, or both.
Similarly, 13U and 14U travel baseball players have the option to participate in other spring sports (middle school or otherwise) such as lacrosse, track, and club soccer.
7th Grade baseball and 12U
Under the current structure, players who are age appropriate for 2019 12U travel baseball and grade appropriate 2019 7th grade baseball are not eligible to be active players on both rosters (7th grade and 12U).
These players may choose to participate in both middle school baseball and choose to “play up” with their grade appropriate 13U travel baseball teams, if they wish.
Or, these players have the option to participate in other spring sports (middle school or otherwise) such as lacrosse, track, and club soccer and may choose to “play up” with their grade appropriate 13U travel baseball teams, if they wish.
Or, these players may choose to play 12U travel baseball. In this case, these players are not eligible to play middle school baseball.
The travel director must approve any other option on a case-by-case basis.
For any further questions, please contact Corey Sterling, Worthington Travel Baseball Director -
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Global and blowup solutions for general Lotka-Volterra systems
Shaohua Chen 1, , Runzhang Xu 2, and Hongtao Yang 2,
School of Science and Technology, Cape Breton University, Sydney, NS, Canada, B1P 6L2, Canada
College of Science, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin 150001, China, China
Received September 2015 Revised March 2016 Published July 2016
This paper deals with global and blowup solutions of the degenerate parabolic system $u_t=\alpha(v)\nabla\cdot(u^{p}\nabla u)+f(u,v)$ and $v_t=\beta(u)\nabla\cdot(v^{q}\nabla v)+g(u,v)$ with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions. We will give sufficient conditions such that the solutions either exist globally or blow up in a finite time. In special cases, a necessary and sufficient condition for the global existence is given.
Keywords: degenerate parabolic systems, Global and blowup solutions, Lotka-Volterra model..
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35K10, 35K55; Secondary: 35C5.
Citation: Shaohua Chen, Runzhang Xu, Hongtao Yang. Global and blowup solutions for general Lotka-Volterra systems. Communications on Pure & Applied Analysis, 2016, 15 (5) : 1757-1768. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2016012
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It is only fair to say that the places that stir all your senses and that creep under your skin are extremely rare. These are the places that pluck your heartstrings, yet whose secrets you can’t unlock completely. Bruges happens to be such a unique place. Cultural and artistic, cosmopolitan, unashamedly Burgundian, mysteriously medieval, and a Unesco World Heritage site to boot. Strolling along Bruges’ alleys, picturesque canals and verdant ramparts you cannot but fall hopelessly in love with her elegant mysteriousness.
Population: On 1 January 2019, there were 19,675 inhabitants registered as living in the inner city of Bruges. The total population of Greater Bruges on the same date was 118,176.
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Some places are so special, so breathtaking or so unique that you simply have to see them. Bruges is filled to the brim with wonderful witnesses of a prosperous past, whether they be peaceful and picturesque, spiritual or, on the contrary, extremely entertaining.
Groeninge Museum
The Groeninge Museum provides a varied overview of the history of Belgian visual art, with as highlight the world-renowned Flemish primitives. In this museum you can see, amongst other masterpieces, The Virgin and Child with Canon Van der Paele by Jan van Eyck and the Moreel Triptych by Hans Memling. You will also marvel at the top 18th and 19th-century neoclassical pieces, masterpieces of Flemish Expressionism and post-war modern art.
Saint John´s Hospital
Saint John’s Hospital has an eight hundred-year-old history of caring for pilgrims, travellers, the poor and the sick. Visit the medieval wards where the nuns and monks performed their work of mercy, as well as the church and the chapel, and marvel at the impressive collection of archives, art works, medical instruments and six paintings by Hans Memling. Also worth a visit: the Diksmuide attic, the old dormitory, the adjoining custodian’s room and the pharmacy.
Gruuthuse Museum
The city palace of the lords of Gruuthuse is now an absolute highlight after a thorough restoration. Gruuthusemuseum takes you to three crucial periods in the rich history of Bruges. There is the time of Burgundian prosperity, the less well known 17th and 18th centuries, and the historical ‘reinvention’ of Bruges in the 19th century. These three periods come to life in over 600 collection items which all tell their own story. The highlight is the authentic late 15th century oratory which connects the palace and the Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekerk (Church of our Lady) with a view of the Gothic chancel of the church.
Belfry
The most important of Bruges’ towers stands 83 metres tall. It houses, amongst other things, a carillon. In the reception area, visitors can discover all kinds of interesting information about the history and working of this unique world-heritage protected belfry. Those who take on the challenge of climbing the tower can pause for a breather on the way up in the old treasury and also at the level of the impressive clock or in the carillonneur’s chamber. Finally, after a tiring 366 steps, your efforts will be rewarded with a breathtaking and unforgettable panoramic view of Bruges and its surroundings.
Bruges’ City Hall (1376) is one of the oldest in the Low Countries. It is from here that the city has been governed for more than 600 years. An absolute masterpiece is the Gothic Hall, with its late 19th-century murals and polychrome vault. In the historic chamber next door original documents and artefacts are used to evoke the history of the city’s administration through the centuries. On the ground floor, the structural development of the Burg square and the City Hall is illustrated.
The 115.5 metres high brick tower of the Church of Our Lady is a perfect illustration of the craftsmanship of Bruges’ artisans. The church displays a valuable art collection: Michelangelo’s world-famous Madonna and Child, countless paintings, 13th-century painted sepulchres and the tombs of Mary of Burgundy and Charles the Bold. The choir was renovated in 2015 and the remarkable church interior can now once again be admired in all its splendour.
Beguinage
The ‘Princely Beguinage Ten Wijngaarde’ with its white-coloured house fronts and tranquil convent garden was founded in 1245. This little piece of world heritage was once the home of the beguines, emancipated lay-women who nevertheless led a pious and celibate life. Today the beguinage is inhabited by nuns of the Order of St. Benedict and several Bruges women who have decided to remain unmarried. In the Beguine’s house, you can still get a good idea of what day-to-day life was like in the 17th century.
Saint Saviour’s Cathedral
Bruges’ oldest parish church (12th-15th century) has amongst its treasures a rood loft with an organ, medieval tombs, Brussels tapestries and a rich collection of Flemish paintings (14th-18th century). The treasure-chamber displays, amongst others, paintings by Dieric Bouts, Hugo van der Goes and other Flemish primitives. Useful to know: restoration work is currently being carried out in the cathedral. This can influence the opening hours of the treasure-chamber.
Basilica of the Holy Blood
The double church, dedicated to Our Lady and Saint Basil in the 12th century and a basilica since 1923, consists of a lower church that has maintained its Romanesque character and a neo-Gothic upper church, in which the relic of the Holy Blood is preserved. The renovated treasury, with numerous valuable works of art, is also worth a visit.
St. Magdalene’s Church
The St. Magdalene’s Church, built in the mid-19th century, was one of the earliest neo-Gothic churches on the European mainland. This style of architecture, first made popular in England, was brought to Bruges by British immigrants. That is how the neo-Gothic appeared in the streets of Bruges quite early. Inside the church you can make your acquaintance with YOT, an organization that explores the meaning of the Christian tradition in modern society.
St. Anne’s Church
This simple Gothic single-nave church, built in the 17th century, surprises with the opulence of its rich Baroque interior – the result of donations by wealthy local patrons. Admire the intricacy of the marble rood-screen, the rich wooden panelling with inset confessional booths, the canvases of Jan Garemijn and the largest single painting in all Bruges.
St. Giles’s Church
In this church, the only one in the city centre with a tower clock, many of the great Bruges artists have been buried. These include Hans Memling, Lanceloot Blondeel and Pieter Pourbus. The church originally dates from the 13th century, but was extensively rebuilt in the 15th century. The exterior is a fine example of the robust Brick Gothic style, while the interior has a more refined 19th-century Neo-Gothic look.
St. James’s Church
In the second quarter of the 13th century, the modest St. James’s Chapel was elevated to the status of a parish church. During the 15th century, this simple house of prayer was extended to its current size. The church is now famous for its rich collection of art treasures, donated by wealthy local people living nearby, and for its fine examples of funerary art.
St. Walburga's Church
In 1619, a Bruges lay brother, Pieter Huyssens, was commissioned to build a prestigious church that expressed the values and beliefs of the Jesuits. The result was the St. Walburga’s Church, which is the most richly decorated church in pure Baroque style in Bruges. Admire its dynamic facade, its many interior architectural details and the elaborately decorated church furniture.
Concertgebouw Circuit (Concert Hall)
An original experience trail takes you on an expedition through the modern Concert Hall. Learn how the concert hall works, be impressed by its famous acoustics, thrill to its contemporary art collection or perhaps even get started with a little sound art yourself! The icing on the cake is the rooftop terrace on the seventh floor, rewarding you with a breathtaking panoramic view over the city.
Adornes estate – Jerusalem Chapel
The Adornes domain consists of the mansion of the rich Adornes family of merchants, the 15th-century Jerusalem Chapel (built by this family) and a series of adjacent almshouses. In the multimedia museum, you step back in time to explore the life of Anselm Adornes and the Burgundian world in which he lived.
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Home » CURRENT NEWS » President Buhari set to return after 10-day medical trip
President Buhari set to return after 10-day medical trip
If all goes well as planned President Buhari is expected back in the country on Thursday (today) from London, after having had commenced a 10-day holiday penultimate Monday.
President Buhari is to return to Nigeria today, June 16, after his 10-day medical trip to London.
The Presidency had, in a statement, indicated that the President would during the visit to the United Kingdom, see an Ear, Nose and Throat specialist for a persistent ear infection.
The 10-day holiday ended on Wednesday and the President is expected to return to Abuja today, June 16.
A source in the Presidency, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said on Wednesday, June 15, that arrangements had been put in place to receive the President, who is due back in the country on Thursday.
“He is expected back on Thursday (today). We are in touch with him. As of today (Wednesday), we have not been told that there is any change in arrangement,” the source said.
The Presidency had, on Monday, June 13, released photographs of the visit of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Most Revd, Justin Welby, to Buhari in London.
Welby, who presented a souvenir to the President, was in company with Nigeria-born Secretary-General of Anglican Communion Worldwide, Most Revd Idowu Fearon.
Buhari had so far embarked on holiday twice this year. The President had earlier embarked on a six-day holiday between February 5 and 10, 2016.
Like the case of the second visit, Buhari remained in London throughout the first holiday. He had earlier granted an interview where he said the doctors he had been consulting since the 1970s were based in London.
Buhari had, before leaving the country, written to the National Assembly to inform the federal lawmakers of his medical trip.
He had indicated in the letter that Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo would perform the duties of the President while he would be away.
Meanwhile, the Presidency on Wednesday, June 15, commended the House of Representatives for giving prompt action to two executive bills that scaled through second reading.
This was contained in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja by the Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (House of Reps), Alhaji Suleiman Kawu.
“We wish to thank the House of Representatives, under the leadership of Speaker Yakubu Dogara, for passing two of our bills today, June 15, 2016,” Kawu said in the statement.
“One is a Bill for an Act to Provide for the Domestication and Enforcement in Nigeria of the Avoidance of Double Taxation Agreement between the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the Kingdom of Spain.
“The other is a Bill for an Act to Provide for the Domestication and Enforcement in Nigeria of the Avoidance of Double Taxation Agreement between the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the Republic of South Korea and for Other Related Matters.”
According to the statement, the action has shown that the House is solidly behind the executive on its numerous policies aimed at making Nigeria better.
“We hope you will also pass our other bills that are currently before the House with the same zeal that you passed these two,” the Presidency stated.
President Buhari has assured Nigerians that his administration will soon put smiles on their faces by rehabilitating the economy and creating more jobs.
The President said this in his address delivered at the swearing-in ceremony of the 2016 Batch ‘A’ stream II at the National Youth Service Corps permanent orientation camp, Ede in Osun state on Wednesday.
Punch reports that the address was read by the state deputy governor, Mrs Titi Laoye-Tomori.
He said the collapse of industries had worsened the unemployment rate because millions of unemployed youths were now struggling to get very limited government jobs.
Buhari, who lamented the poor state of the economy inherited by his administration, said he was bent on recovering the nation’s stolen wealth and used them to rebuild the economy.
He said: “The collapse of industries and the eventual overbearing pressure to grab public jobs has put the nation in a sorry economic state of unemployment. Thousands of graduates from the higher institutions of learning get frustrated daily, as they search for non-existing jobs.
“That is why this administration is anxious to recover illicit wealth to channel them into enduring economic rehabilitation. Very soon, the gloomy situation would be reversed to put smiles on the faces of young people.”
The President advised the youths to shun kidnapping, drug peddling and other criminal activities which could jeopardise their future.
The Coordinator of the NYSC in Osun state, Mrs Regina Iluebbey, said the scheme had adjusted its cooking arrangements to cater for Muslim corpers, during the Ramadan.
She said the scheme would start preparing saur and Iftar for Muslim corps members for them to participate in the Ramadan.
She said: “The camp kitchen would double its efforts in ensuring that the corps members participating in the ongoing Ramadan are served at saur (midnight) and Iftar (evening) time throughout their stay in camp.”
She added that the NYSC reduced the usual 21 days orientation camp to 17 days due to the large number of students who graduate annually, adding that the cut in days was important in order to cover the salient orientation camp exercises.
Iluebbey added that the camp registered 1,416 male corps members and 799 female corpers from the 36 of the federation, including the Federal Capital Territory.
Also, the Niger State Governor, Abubakar Bello, on Wednesday said there was no wisdom in scrapping the NYSC since the primary objective of the programme was still relevant in the nation.
Bello, who said that the NYSC was still relevant as a vehicle for national unity, asked the Federal Government to reinvigorate the scheme rather than scrap it.
The governor said this at the formal opening ceremony of the 2016 Batch ‘A’ (Stream Two) orientation course and swearing-in ceremony of 2,001 corps members deployed in the state.
The governor, however, said in the NYSC implementation processes, “we need to be more innovative and we need to reinvigorate the programme by giving the youths the opportunity to learn higher ideals and prepare them for the reality of life after death.”
Earlier, the NYSC Niger State Coordinator, Mrs. Bolade Loto, said that a total of 2,001 corps members were registered in the Stream B, adding that they had so far exhibited high level of discipline, commitment and loyalty since they arrived the camp.
In Owerri, the Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, advised corps members posted to the state to ensure active participation in the empowerment programme so as to enable them to stand on their own as entrepreneurs instead of job seekers after the completion of their service year.
Okorocha gave the advice while declaring open, the 2016 Batch “A” (Stream 11) 1,800 corps members posted to the state after the State Chief Judge, Justice Paschal Nnadi represented by Justice Kenneth O. Ojiako of the state judiciary administered the oath on the corpers.
He said: “The NYSC orientation programme provides a veritable platform for you to be trained mentally and physically and this is done to enable you to face the rigours and challenges of the service year as well as the post-service year.”
Okorocha, who was represented by his deputy, Prince Eze Madumere, restated his determination to make the NYSC Permanent Orientation camp at Eziama Obaire, the best in the country.
He also announced the immediate restoration of regular supply of water, electricity and functional vehicles in the orientation camp for the comfort of the corps members and enhancement of the operation of the NYSC officials in the state.
The state Coordinator of the NYSC, Mr. Fasanu Isaac, had earlier commended Okorocha for his sustained support to the scheme as well as his resolution to make the orientation camp second to none in the country.
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Home > BLOG > Others > Model representations of kerogen structures: An insight from density functional theory calculations and spectroscopic measurements
by Emanuel Martin - October 27, 2017 May 29, 2018 1
Molecular structures of kerogen control hydrocarbon production in unconventional reservoirs. Significant progress has been made in developing model representations of various kerogen structures. These models have been widely used for the prediction of gas adsorption and migration in shale matrix. However, using density functional perturbation theory (DFPT) calculations and vibrational spectroscopic measurements, we here show that a large gap may still remain between the existing model representations and actual kerogen structures, therefore calling for new model development. Using DFPT, we calculated Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectra for six most widely used kerogen structure models.
Philippe F. Weck1, Eunja Kim2, Yifeng Wang1, Jessica N. Kruichak1, Melissa M. Mills1, Edward N. Matteo1 & Roland J.-M. Pellenq3,4,5
1Sandia National Laboratories, P. O. Box 5800, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. 2Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nevada Las Vegas, NV, USA. 3MultiScale Materials Science for Energy and Environment (MSE2), The Joint CNRS-MIT Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. 4Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. 5CINaM-Aix Marseille Universite-CNRS, Campus de Luminy, France.
Received: 22 February 2017, Accepted: 26 June 2017, Published online: 01 August 2017.
© The Author(s) 2017
Limited agreement between the model predictions and the measurements highlights that the existing kerogen models may still miss some key features in structural representation. A combination of DFPT calculations with spectroscopic measurements may provide a useful diagnostic tool for assessing the adequacy of a proposed structural model as well as for future model development. This approach may eventually help develop comprehensive infrared (IR)-fingerprints for tracing kerogen evolution.
Kerogen is a high-molecular weight, carbonaceous polymer material resulting from the condensation of organic residues in sedimentary rocks; such organic constituent is insoluble either in aqueous solvents or in common organic solvents1. In addition to its carbon skeleton, kerogen is also predominantly made of hydrogen and oxygen, as well as residual nitrogen and sulfur. Although kerogen plays a central role in hydrocarbon (i.e., crude oil and natural gas) production from source rocks in geologic environments2, the crucial interplay between its complex nanoscale structure and its properties has only been revealed in recent years3,4,5,6,7.
A detailed understanding of the various kerogen structures associated with different oil- or gas-prone kerogen types and maturity is particularly important to understanding nanofluidic processes underlying crude oil and natural gas extraction7. During its diagenesis, catagenesis, and metagenesis maturation stages, kerogen undergoes successive transformations concomitant with a gradual increase in sp2/sp3 carbon hybridization ratio3,5 before eventually reaching full condensation of its polynuclear aromatic units to form sp2-hybridized graphitic structures as components of a complex network of carbon nanopores.
Existing model structures of kerogen were generally constrained from elemental analyses and functional group data obtained from X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and 13C nuclear magnetic resonance analyses (NMR)4. Recently, Bousige et al. developed kerogen structure models using a molecular dynamics-hybrid reverse Monte-Carlo (MD-HRMC) method, which minimizes the configurational energy while constraining possible molecular configurations from the pair distribution function obtained from inelastic neutron scattering measurements5.
Direct comparison between vibrational properties measured by neutron, Raman or infrared spectroscopies and spectra simulated from classical or quantum mechanical methods has proven to be a powerful tool for model validation5, 8. In this study, infrared signatures for a variety of generic kerogen models proposed recently4, 5 were calculated within the framework of density functional perturbation theory (DFPT) and compared to Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectra collected from kerogen samples with different types and maturity. Computed infrared (IR) signatures were also compared to generalized phonon densities of states (GDOS) obtained from recent inelastic neutron scattering experiments for various kerogen samples5. An attempt is made in this study to critically assess the adequacy of existing model representations of kerogen structures, using characteristic IR signatures as a diagnostic tool. We will show that a combination of DFPT calculations with vibrational spectroscopic measurements, especially FTIR measurements, can be a useful tool for developing more realistic models for kerogen structure representation. This approach may eventually lead to the development of a comprehensive IR-fingerprints for tracing kerogen evolution. Note that IR spectroscopy was successfully used in previous investigations to differentiate crude oil from residual fuel oil samples9, 10.
The 3D-periodic kerogen structures initially considered in this study were based on generic molecular fragments proposed by Ungerer et al.4 to represent kerogen structures with lacustrine (type I) and marine (type II) depositional origin.
Type I kerogen oil shales are typically the most promising deposits for conventional oil retorting and type II kerogen is found in numerous oil shale deposits. For that reason, the focus of this study will be mainly on type-I and -II kerogen. The models utilized (cf. Fig. 1) contained 118 atoms (type-I) and 89 atoms (type-II) per simulation cell. In terms of oxygen-to-carbon (O/C) and hydrogen-to-carbon (H/C) atomic ratios, these type I (H/C = 1.29; O/C = 0.06) and type II (H/C = 0.57; O/C = 0.06) models correspond to kerogen in upper- and lower-left quadrants of the van Krevelen diagram, mapping H/C as a function of O/C to represent the chemical evolution of kerogen11, 12.
Figure 1 Structures of 3D-periodic type-I (left) and type-II (right) kerogen models used in DFT/DFPT calculations at the GGA/PBE level of theory. The simulation cells are indicated by solid lines. Color legend: grey, C; white, H; purple, N; red, O; yellow, S.
Kerogen maturation over geologic times is accompanied by a decrease of H/C and O/C atomic ratios. In terms of vitrinite reflectance R0, another common maturity indicator, these type I and II models correspond to ~0.6 and ~1.5%R0, respectively; higher values of %R0 indicate higher maturity of the samples.
Typical bands of interest for spectral signatures of kerogen include mainly the aliphatic band (2800–3000 cm−1), aromatic bands (700–900 cm−1, ~1600 cm−1, and 3000–3100 cm−1) and carbonyl and carboxyl absorption band (~1700 cm−1). Results from DFPT linear response and Born effective charge (BEC) calculations carried out at the generalized gradient approximation (GGA) level of theory with the parameterization of Perdew, Burke, and Ernzerhof (PBE) for those type-I and type-II models are shown in Fig. 2, along with FTIR spectra collected for Woodford, Marcellus, and Mancos kerogen samples.
The Mancos sample is a gas-prone, type-III kerogen (humic origin), with a vitrinite reflectance of 0.65%R0. The Marcellus sample is composed of mainly Type-II kerogen, with an estimated vitrinite reflectance value of 2.51%R0. While the simulated frequencies and intensities vary in general from experimental values, agreement between DFPT results and experimental data is generally slightly better using the type-I model than with its type-II counterpart. In particular, compared to all experimentally characterized samples, the type-II model tends to overestimate IR absorbance in the 1200–1400 cm−1 and 1700–2200 cm−1 ranges, while the type-I model simulations feature intensity ratios more in line with experiments.
Therefore, details of the present vibrational analysis given below will focus on the type-I model, although results for the type-II model will also be discussed.
Figure 2 Infrared spectra simulated from density functional perturbation theory (DFPT) at the GGA/PBE level for the type-I and type-II models shown in Fig. 1 and Fourier transform infrared spectra collected for Mancos, Marcellus and Woodford kerogen samples.
In the 2600–2800 cm−1 range, both type-I and type-II models display a similar double-peak structure characteristic of C–H stretch, with the asymmetric and symmetric C–H stretches corresponding mainly to the highest and lowest-frequency peaks, respectively; C–H stretches from carbon rings are also in this frequency domain. The simulated frequencies are redshifted compared to measured symmetric and asymmetric C–H stretches centered around ~2850 and ~2920 cm−1, respectively, for the Woodford and Mancos samples.
This can be ascribed in part to the inability of standard DFT/DFPT to describe accurately long-range van der Waals interactions resulting from dynamical correlations between fluctuating charge distributions and to the fact that the type-I and type-II models used in this study might be more representative of isolated molecular fragments than confined, entangled molecular structures forming kerogen bulk; in the latter case, a blueshift of the simulated C–H stretch frequencies with respect to the present simulations would be expected. It is also worth noting that the type-II model used here still has significant IR absorbance in the 2600–2800 cm−1 range, suggesting that the number of C–H bonds in the model might not be representative of very mature samples with high level of carbon condensation such as Marcellus.
For the type-I model, the highest-frequency mode for ring C–C bond stretching is at 1743 cm−1 (2174 cm−1 in the type-II model), followed by an intense series of peaks below ~1595 cm−1 originating from combinations of ring C–C bond vibration and C–H twisting. Series of H–C–H scissoring and/or rocking modes are predicted around 1430–1495 cm−1. These ring C–C bond vibration/C–H twisting and H–C–H scissoring and/or rocking modes are most likely responsible for the FTIR peaks centered at ~1600 and 1450 cm−1, respectively. The fact that the peak around ~1600 cm−1 subsists for all levels of maturity of the samples, while it becomes sharper and experiences a slight redshift with kerogen maturity, confirms that it is due to ring C–C bond vibration (and becomes more pronounced and more uniform with carbon condensation into larger, regular 2D carbon structures). Since the peak centered around ~1450 cm−1 for Woodford and Mancos samples tends to fade away in the Marcellus sample, this also indicates that significant H–C–H scissoring and/or rocking modes have been suppressed as a result of dehydrogenation and condensation in the most mature samples. A smaller peak observed around ~1370 cm−1 for Woodford and Mancos samples and absent for the Marcellus sample is assigned, based on our type-I calculations, to combinations of CH3 “umbrella” modes and H–C–H wagging modes. Vibrational modes dominating in the ~960–1250 cm−1 range are complex combinations of H–C–H twisting, wagging and rocking, C–H and CH3 wagging, and ring C–C stretch. In particular, calculations suggest that the double-peak structure around ~1030 and ~1090 cm−1 for the Mancos sample (and to some extent the Woodford sample featuring a broad peak centered around ~1070 cm−1) stems predominantly from C–C stretching in hydrocarbon chains and C–C stretching in carbon rings; this would explain why the former peak fades away as hydrocarbon chains disappear in the mature Marcellus sample, while the latter peak subsists in mature samples, although narrower and slightly redshifted as a result of kerogen condensation.
The sharp peaks in the vicinity of ~780 and ~800 cm−1 are assigned to C–C–C ring bending modes and C–O stretching modes in chains and rings, respectively, and the peak near ~740 cm−1 in the Mancos sample is assigned to ring C–N/C–C vibrations. The peak near ~695 cm−1 in both Woodford and Mancos samples is also assigned to C–O stretching modes in chains; this peak tends to disappear in more mature samples. At lower frequencies, a number of complex combinations of carbon skeletal modes from rings and chains contribute to the IR absorbance.
The peak observed at ~520 cm−1 in both Woodford and Mancos samples (as well as in the Marcellus sample to some extent) originates from C–S stretching. The modes below this frequency are due essentially to complex, collective ring vibrational modes.
In addition to the type-I and -II models proposed by Ungerer et al.4, complex kerogen structures based on the sophisticated EFK, MEK, MarK and PY02 models (cf. Fig. 3) recently proposed by Bousige and co-workers5 were also used to simulate IR spectra. These four molecular models with a density of 1.2 g/cm3 were built to represent an immature type-II kerogen from the carbonate-rich Eagle Ford Play (EFK; H/C = 1.19; O/C = 0.10; 0.65%R0), an immature sulphur-rich type-II kerogen from the Middle East (MEK; H/C = 1.45; O/C = 0.08; 0.55%R0), a mature type II kerogen from the clay-rich Marcellus Play (MarK; H/C = 0.46; O/C = 0.11; 2.20%R0), and a shungite from Russia (PY02; H/C = 0.09; O/C = 0.01) sharing many features with excessively mature kerogen5.
Figure 3 Structures of the EFK, MEK, MarK and PY02 models (Top; cubic box size of 50 × 50 × 50 Å3); representative 3D-periodic portions of EFK, MEK, MarK and PY02 models used in the present DFT/DFPT calculations at the GGA/PBE level (Bottom); simulations cells are indicated by solid lines). Color legend: grey, C; white, H; red, O.
The 3D-periodic portions of EFK, MEK, MarK and PY02 models used in the present DFT/DFPT calculations are also displayed. These smaller models have somewhat different H/C and O/C ratios (see Fig. 4) and lower densities than the samples characterized experimentally (i.e., EFK: H/C = 1.45, O/C = 0.03, ρ = 0.7 g/cm3; MEK: H/C = 1.55, O/C = 0.06, ρ = 0.8 g/cm3; MarK: H/C = 0.54, O/C = 0.04, ρ = 0.6 g/cm3; PY02: H/C = 0.13, O/C = 0.01, ρ = 0.5 g/cm3).
The models used in DFT/DFPT calculations (cf. Fig. 3) contained 174 (EFK), 165 (MEK) and 119 (MarK and PY02) atoms per simulation cell. Experimental characteristics of the EFK, MEK and MarK kerogen samples and of the Mancos, Woodford and Marcellus kerogen samples discussed above are summarized in Table 1.
Table 1: Experimental characteristics of the Mancos, Woodford, Marcellus, EFK, MEK and MarK kerogen samples(1).
Figure 5 shows the infrared spectra simulated using DFPT for the representative 3D-periodic portions of the EFK, MEK, MarK and PY02 models depicted in Fig. 3, along with the FTIR spectra of the Mancos, Marcellus and Woodford kerogen samples.
Figure 4van Krevelen diagram displaying H/C versus O/C ratios for kerogen structures of the sophisticated EFK, MEK, MarK and PY02 models from Bousige et al. (ref. 5) and their simplified variants used in the present DFPT calculations, as well as the type-I and -II structures proposed by Ungerer et al. (ref. 4). Isovalue contour lines of the vitrinite reflectance R0, another common maturity indicator, are also represented, along with typical domains (cyan) for kerogen samples with different depositional origins (types I to IV). Maturation increases with decreasing H/C and O/C ratios.
A detailed analysis of the generalized phonon densities of states was carried out for the EFK, MEK, MarK and PY02 samples by Bousige et al. using force-field molecular dynamics simulations and inelastic neutron scattering measurements5. All vibrational eigenmodes are accessible by neutron spectroscopy, unlike in IR spectroscopy where selections rules apply. Therefore, the complex vibrational characteristics of these models will be only discussed succinctly hereafter. Nevertheless, as shown in ref. 5, the GDOS measured by neutron spectroscopy (cf. Fig. 6) are dominated by vibrational modes of hydrogen atoms forming bonds with carbon by s-sp2 or s-sp3 overlap.
While such neutron spectroscopy measurements probing C–H bonding are useful to estimate maturation in terms of sp2/sp3 or H/C ratios, IR spectroscopy can also provide valuable information in terms of C–O, C– S, C–N, C–C and complex carbon-backbone vibrational modes, as discussed above for the analysis of type-I and -II models of Ungerer et al.4. Such information is crucial for constraining functional group distributions and their chemical bonding environments in kerogen.
Figure 5 Infrared spectra simulated from density functional perturbation theory (DFPT) at the GGA/PBE level for representative portions of the EFK, MEK, MarK and PY02 models displayed in Fig. 3 and Fourier transform infrared spectra collected for Mancos, Marcellus and Woodford kerogen samples.
Note that models used in this study cover a wide range of parameter space in the van Krevelen diagram (Fig. 4). We would expect that the three kerogen samples we studied should be reasonably represented by some of these models. However, the comparison of the calculated with the measured FTIR spectra (Figs 2 and 5) shows only a limited agreement between model predictions and experimental measurements, thus highlighting a possible deficiency of the existing models in the representation of actual kerogen structures, especially for functional group distributions in the material.
Previous work shows that nanometer-scale pore structures and pore surface functional groups are the two most important attributes controlling hydrocarbon sorption and release7, 13 As shown in Fig. 6, existing models appear to have a reasonable representation of hydrogen pairing distribution as well as pore size distribution5 but have difficulty in capturing some key characteristics of the measured FTIR spectra, especially related to C–O, C–S, C–N, C–C vibrational modes. The work on other natural carbon materials indicates a critical role of surface functional groups in chemical sorption and desorption. For example, metal sorption on activated carbon has been found to highly depend on surface functional groups14. Surface functional groups can also modify the surface wettability of carbon materials15.
Figure 6 Generalized phonon densities of states (GDOS) of the EFK, MEK, MarK and PY02 samples from inelastic neutron scattering experiments (ref. 5). Error bars are computed from the square root of the neutron count.
It is anticipated that functional groups on kerogen pore surface may directly control hydrocarbon disposition and release in unconventional reservoirs. A similar mechanism may also play a critical role in regulating metal release from shale matrix in unconventional oil/gas production, an issue of a great environmental concern16. Therefore, development of new structural representation models that can better capture both nanoscale pore structures and surface functional groups of actual kerogen is highly desirable. Our work shows that a combination of DFPT calculations with spectroscopic measurements may provide a useful tool for future model development.
We acknowledge that the comparison made above between model predictions and experimental data is relatively rough. Kerogen is known for its structural heterogeneities1. A possible improvement to the existing comparison could perform DFPT simulations for different possible model structures and then use an averaged FTIR spectrum for comparison. It is expected that a large set of different kerogen model structures would be required to obtain a realistic and statistically-meaningful ensemble of kerogen properties to represent samples characterized experimentally. In this sense, it would be helpful to develop a limited number of end-member model structures such that an actual kerogen structure can represented by a combination of those end-member model structures.
The existing classification of kerogen using the van Krevelen diagram focuses mainly on the origin of the carbon materials and their compositional evolution during thermal cracking, with less attention on an associated structural change (in particular, a change in surface functional group distribution). Given the structural heterogeneities, it would be very difficult, if not impossible, to represent actual kerogen structures with one or a definite set of “representative” model structures. The proposed end-member structure concept will help circumvent this difficulty, in which an actual kerogen structure will be described with a probabilistic distribution of the end members.
This approach may also lead us to develop a comprehensive library of infrared fingerprints for tracing kerogen structural evolution.
First-principles total energy calculations were carried out using DFT, as implemented in the Vienna ab initio simulation package17 (VASP). The exchange-correlation energy was calculated using GGA with the PBE parameterization18 (PBE). Such standard functionals were found in previous studies to correctly describe the geometric parameters and vibrational properties of a variety of carbonaceous structures6, 19,20,21. The interaction between valence electrons and ionic cores was described by the projector augmented wave (PAW) method22, 23. The C(2 s2,2p2), N(2 s2,2p3), O(2 s2,2p4) and S(3 s2,3p4) electrons were treated explicitly as valence electrons in the Kohn-Sham (KS) equations and the remaining core electrons together with the nuclei were represented by PAW pseudopotentials. The KS equation was solved using the blocked Davidson iterative matrix diagonalization scheme24. The plane-wave cutoff energy for the electronic wavefunctions was set to 500 eV, ensuring the total energy of the system to be converged to within 1 meV/atom. Electronic relaxation was performed with the residual minimization method direct inversion in the iterative subspace (RMM-DIIS), preconditioned with residuum-minimization. A periodic unit cell approach was used in the calculations. Kerogen models based on the structures reported recently by Ungerer et al.4 and Bousige et al.5 with different depositional origins and maturity levels were used in the calculations. Integrations in the Brillouin zone were carried out at the Γ point. Using these structures, DFPT linear response calculations were carried out at the GGA/PBE level of theory with VASP to determine the vibrational frequencies and associated intensities. The latter were computed based on the Born effective charges tensor, which corresponds to the change in atoms polarizabilities with respect to an external electric field. Compared to simple finite-displacement approaches typically used in DFT methods to describe vibrational properties of many-particle systems, DFPT-based methods can be regarded as considerably more effective since additional physical properties can be derived from the total energy with respect to perturbations25. We extensively tested the accuracy of DFPT approaches, with and without long-range corrections for van der Waals interaction, in previous studies8, 26,27,28,29,30,31.
Benchmark test calculations were carried out using VASP DFPT for simple molecules in the gas phase. For the linear CO2 molecule (D4h group), the IR-active C–O bending (Eu) and asymmetric stretch modes (A2u) were predicted to be at 631 and 2362 cm−1, respectively, i.e., in fair agreement with the measured values of 670 and 2350 cm−1 32.
The computed IR-active C–H modes for the CH4 molecule (Td group) were 1353 and 2851 cm−1 for the bending (T2) and asymmetric stretch modes (T2), respectively. These results are comparable to the experimental values of 1306 and 3019 cm−1 for gaseous CH432. Some of the discrepancies between DFPT and experimental FTIR results might stem in part from the fact that DFPT/DFT methods do not accurately predict the long-range van der Waals interactions.
Functional groups were identified and analyzed using FTIR spectroscopy on kerogen extracted from shale samples of the Mancos (Utha, USA), Woodford (Oklahoma, USA) and Marcellus (Pennsylvania, USA) formations obtained from TerraTek Inc (Schlumberger). The kerogens were lightly crushed using a mortar and pestle, then analyzed. Powdered samples were placed directly on the attenuated total reflection (ATR) attachment-Smart Orbit Diamond (3000–200 cm−1 band) for analysis. Spectra were collected using a Thermo Nicolet 380 FTIR spectrometer and OMNIC software suite. Scans were done on each sample at a resolution of 4 cm−1, with absorbance spectra ranging from 4000 to 400 cm−1. Blank readings were used between every samples.
Sandia National Laboratories is a multi-program laboratory managed and operated by Sandia Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lockheed Martin Corporation, for the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration under contract DE-AC04–94AL85000. This work was supported by the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) and by Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) funding (both to Y. Wang) from Sandia National Laboratories. This work was supported by the X-Shale project enabled through MIT’s Energy Initiative in collaboration with Shell and Schlumberger. Additional support was provided by the ICoME2 Labex (ANR-11-LABX-0053) and the A*MIDEX projects (ANR-11-IDEX-0001-02) co-funded by the French programme Investissements d’Avenir managed by ANR, the French National Research Agency. We thank Tuan Anh Ho and Louise J. Criscenti (Sandia National Laboratories) for useful discussions, and Benoit Coasne (CNRS and University Grenoble Alpes) and Colin Bousige (MIT-CNRS) for providing structural information regarding the EFK, MEK, MarK and PY02 models.
P.F.W. and E.K. carried out the density functional perturbation theory calculations and analyzed the infrared spectra. Y.W., J.N.K., M.M.M. and E.N.M. collected and analyzed the experimental infrared data for the Mancos, Woodford and Marcellus kerogen samples. R.J.-M.P. provided the data and structures of the E.F.K., M.E.K., MarK and PY02 models used as input for density functional perturbation theory calculations. P.F.W. wrote the first draft of the manuscript, with the help of E.K., Y.W. and E.N.M. All the authors discussed the results and commented on the manuscript.
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Double Full by Kindle Alexander
Up and coming football hero, Colton Michaels, makes a Hail Mary pass one night in the college locker room that results in the hottest, sexiest five days of his young life. However, interference after the play has him hiding his past and burying his future in the bottom of a bottle. While Colt seems to have it all, looks can be deceiving, especially when you’re trapped so far in a closet that you can’t see your way out. When ten years of living his expected fast-lane lifestyle lands him engaged to his manipulative Russian supermodel girlfriend, he decides it’s time to call a new play.
Jace Montgomery single-handily built the largest all-star cheerleading gym in the world, driven by a need to forget a life-altering encounter with a handsome quarterback a decade ago. His reputation as an excellent coach, hard-nosed business man, and savvy entrepreneur earned him respect in the sometimes catty world of competitive cheerleading. When Jace learns of his ex-lover’s plans to marry, his heart executes a barrel roll and his carefully-placed resolve tumbles down without a mat to absorb the shock. Can his island escape help him to finally let go of the past and move his life forward?
Review by Brittany
Colton Michaels is the quarterback for his college’s football team. He’s one of the guys that’s a big deal. Every girl wants a piece of him… but here’s the thing… he doesn’t bat for that team.
Jace Montgomery is out of the closet. He’s a male cheerleader for his college. He’s at all the football games, lifting up his stunt partner, cheering on his team.
One day, Colton corners Jace in the locker room and they have some pretty hot sex. And from that moment on, both are smitten, but they don’t realize it yet.
Colton begs Jace to go to Hawaii with him during their spring break. Hesitantly, he agrees. And thank God he did, because this amazing book wouldn’t have happened had he not said yes.
The two spend five glorious, sex-filled days on the coast of Hawaii. They talk about how their relationship is going to work when they get back, but Colt isn’t ready to come out yet. But he decides that he doesn’t want to hide Jace. So as soon as he gets back, he goes to tell his agent…
What happens in that room forever changes Colt and Jace’s relationship.
OH. MY. GOD.
THERE ARE NO WORDS.
I AM IN LOVE WITH KINDLE AND IN LOVE WITH COLT AND JACE AND I JUST WISH THIS WAS ALL REAL SO I COULD JUST CRAWL INSIDE AND MAKE A BRITTANY SANDWICH.
*breathes deep* Okay, sorry about that.
This book… so much emotion. I could not put it down. I would rush in after class and jump into bed, telling my roommate I was spending more time with Colt and Jace.
Colt and Jace. *sigh* I love these two. They have that love that everyone wants. It’s just so special… and when they’re not together, I was screaming at my kindle. All I wanted was for them to always be in each other’s arms…
This book keeps you in suspense, that’s for darn sure. There is a huge thing that happens and you’re just like “FIX IT. MAKE IT BETTER!” And it does, but it takes a while.
In this book we are also introduced to Mitch Knox, who is the main character in Full Disclosure, the book after this. Both Double Full and Full Disclosure can be read as standalones. I actually read Full Disclosure first and was not confused at all!
I just loved this book. I love Kindle Alexander. Her books are all M/M romances, but they’re all different and they all have you feeling something, which is great.
I wish I could give more than five stars. Because I so would. Like a lot. Thousands. Maybe infinity. Kindle, you have a true fan in me. Thank you.
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Broken Frontier Staff Picks for June 18, 2014: The Wicked and the Divine, Iron Man, Escapo, Thomas Alsop & More
by Frederik Hautain
It’s almost Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store or digital storefront, BF is here to lead you through the woods. These are the books that need to be on your pull list this week.
Comic of the Week
The Wicked and the Divine #1
The latest collaboration from Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie (Young Avengers, Phonogram) – aka “the Brubaker and Phillips you can dance to” – has enjoyed no small amount of breathless hype since its announcement. The set-up: every century, 12 gods find themselves reincarnated as humans. They live fast and die young; as the tag line goes, “Just because you’re immortal doesn’t mean you’re going to live forever.”
As the cycle begins anew for the 21st century, the returning gods become the ultimate pop stars. With a pleasing whiff of The Invisibles about it, this opening issue finds a young woman from South London pulled into a world of beautiful people, dangerous powers and supernatural struggles. This looks set to be a stylish examination of power, faith, identity, celebrity and mortality.
Kieron Gillen (W), Jamie McKelvie (A) • Image Comics, $3.50
– Tom Murphy
This week marks the finale of Kieron Gillen’s incredible “Rings of the Mandarin” arc. Tony Stark and his allies make their final assault on the remaining Mandarin rings, but can his ragtag team of heroes be trusted? And with Pepper Pott’s life hanging in the balance, how far will Tony go to put down the rings’ threat once and for all?
“Rings of the Mandarin” has been such a wild journey, pitting Iron Man against Malekith and the Dark Elves, to combating the sentient rings of his deceased arch-nemesis, embracing the grandiose and cosmic scale of the old Silver Age Invincible Iron Man stories that got me into comics in the first place.
Perhaps most importantly, the issue marks the end of Gillen’s run on Iron Man. He has done some incredible work, especially through the past few issues, to expand and explore Tony Stark’s corner of the Marvel universe. The fantasy adventure style of narrative has thrust the character well beyond his depth, and without Gillen’s guiding hand this could easily have been a story that lost its way.
Kieron Gillen’s writing has shown the best of what Iron Man can be thus far – a cosmic, rollicking adventure story – and I expect nothing less from the conclusion to his run on the title.
Kieron Gillen (W), Joe Bennett (A) • Marvel Comics, $3.99
– Reid Vanier
Escapo HC
Three time Eisner Award-winner Paul Pope re-releases his classic graphic novel Escapo with a new full-color hardcover edition through Z2 comics. A meditation of life, love and mortality, Escapo tells the tale of a circus escape artist extraordinaire, who can escape from any situation – even from Death himself! However, there is one force even more powerful than the Reaper which Escapo must face.
This new editions is redesigned in the wider French BD format and besides featuring a new, fully-colored interior, it contains more than fifty pages of bonus content. Included among the extra material is a rare two-page alternate ending previously only seen in the French editions as well as a new ten-page story and added pin-ups and sketchbook content by Paul Pope.
Paul Pope (W/A) • Z2 Comics, $24.99
– Tyler Chin-Tanner
Glory HC
The complete saga of Joe Keatinge and Ross Campbell’s relaunch of the Rob Liefeld property, Glory, gets collected in it’s entirety for the first time in a deluxe hardcover edition. The bonus material includes never-before-seen sketchbook material, original scripts, page layouts, black & white versions of some of the interior pages, creator commentary, interviews, and pinups of industry professionals.
Despite widespread success and critical acclaim, the two creators, Joe and Ross, decided to do what they was best for the series and bring it to a natural close after twelve issues, leaving behind a perfectly crafted tale that can be read and enjoyed in one single volume. Don’t miss out this apocalyptic war saga of one warrior and her family torn apart by a millennia-old intergalactic war.
Joe Keatinge (W), Ross Campbell (A) • Image Comics, $34.99
Thomas Alsop #1
If John Constantine, Doctor Strange or whatever the bloke’s called in Ten Grand aren’t really doing it for you any more, there’s a new urban warlock on the block in this eight-parter from BOOM! Studios. As the ‘Hand of the Island’, the eponymous hero is the latest in his family line to take on the hereditary mantle of Manhattan’s magical caretaker.
However, in a world of social media, it’s hard to keep in the shadows. When one of Thomas’s supernatural encounters ends up on YouTube and goes viral, it’s not long before the rock-and-roll mage has a reality TV crew following him round as he deals with the city’s occult threats.
Brooklyn-based writer Chris Miskiewicz and Danish artist Palle Schmidt are both new names to me, but this looks like confident work. Schmidt’s artwork in particular has an expressive, textured feel to it, slightly reminiscent at first glance of the Ba twins. He’s also a stylish colourist, using a subdued palette to create a strong noirish atmosphere.
Chris Miskiewicz (W), Palle Schmidt (A) • BOOM! Studios, $3.99
Eye of Newt #1
A delightful, marvellous and of course perilously dangerous adventure fantasy, Eye of Newt tells the story of a daring young wizard apprentice embarking on a mystical quest. Along this odyssey he will encounter marvellous creatures of all shapes and sizes – and come across a dark, long-hidden secret that could change his entire destiny.
Michael Hague’s new series will appeal to fans of the Hobbit – their a childlike innocence and playful approach to the epic fantasy tale, gorgeously brought to life by Hague’s intricate oddly classical styled illustrations, complete with spindly borders, gorgeous landscapes and archaic looking script. It’s a charming, exciting and imagination drenched series that stands out for the care and attention put into the detail of its artwork.
Michael Hague (W/A) • Dark Horse, $3.99
– Conori Bell-Bhuiyan
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— Frederik Hautain
Frederik is Broken Frontier's founder and the site's former Creative Director. Hailing from Belgium, he learned English through US comics before hitting puberty. He also grew up wanting to fly like Superman, but now he's happy being more like Clark Kent.
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The Fuse #1- Antony Johnston and Justin Greenwood’s Sci-Fi/Cop Show Mash-Up Gets Safely off the Ground
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Church of Santa Maria della Croce
Madonna della Campana Church
Mother Church of the Annunciation
Palazzo Capozza
Palazzo D’Aquino
Palazzo D’Elia
Palazzo De Judicibus
Dating to the seventeenth century, the palazzo was built to celebrate the prestige of the dukes from the noble Neapolitan D’Aquino family
Dating to the seventeenth century, the palazzo was built to celebrate the prestige of the dukes from the noble Neapolitan D’Aquino family. Emanuele was the sixth and last duke D’Aquino born in Casarano, after which the family returned to Naples. The palazzo is currently owned by the De Lorenzis family.
The imposing construction, also know as a “castle,” is Casarano’s largest building in terms of the breadth of its façade (120 metres). The frontage, designed by the architect Germano De Santis, is bipartite, with a long row of 52 figured brackets that were to hold up a balcony that was never built; in fact, the baronial palazzo is unfinished, as shown by the right-hand side of the building and the numerous broken or walled-up windows on the piano nobile. Here, windows open with a triangular tympanum, or with moulding.
The smooth façade contrasts with the rusticated decoration of the corner pilaster (the other was never built) and of the area around the portal.
Upon the property’s purchase by the De Lorenzis family in the late nineteenth century, renovation and decoration works were carried out, involving above all the building’s upper storeys. The salon is one of the most precious environments, for the decorations of the vault and for the beautiful floor mosaic.
After Unification in 1860, De Lorenzis, a follower of Garabaldi, had the great man’s endeavours depicted on the vault walls, thus bearing witness to his own political temperament. The brothers Peluso left their mark, producing a noteworthy floor mosaic with geometric motifs and animal figures. Inside, the small church dedicated to Saint Anne may be seen.
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Sonos Android Wear Support
Sonos support coming to Android Wear soon
With an already increasing number of apps and devices gaining support for Android Wear devices, it seems that Sonos is also working on a way to bring Android Wear support for its products via a new Android Wear Sonos remote application that is currently in beta testing.
Control Sonos from your Smartwatch
According to a post on the company’s forum, the beta version of the Sonos Android Wear app is running on a Moto 360 that enables users to control wireless connected Sonos speakers from the smartwatch. Apparently, the beta version offers basic track manipulation functions, such as playing and pausing tracks, and skipping back and forth among tracks, though there is no volume control yet.
Currently, you can find Sonos remote controls app for Android mobile devices, which means that you can navigate your tracks, control the volume, and perform other functions from there in the meantime. That said, adding an Android Wear app will allow you to control your music hands-free, even when your phone is across the room.
Future Compatibility
While the app is still being tested by beta users, other people can also sign up for the beta program to test its functionality before the official launch. Sonos claims that the app has been designed to work with all current Android Wear devices, so it should be compatible with not only the available devices, but also future devices, such as the Asus Zen Watch and the Sony Smartwatch 3.
An Individual Experience
Android Wear is renowned for delivering a bespoke experience in a smart watch, so that you only install what you need to use, making every watch fundamentally different from the next. Sonos is set to add value to Android devices, which is important considering that there is a highly-awaited Apple Watch expected to hit the market in early spring 2015.
If you own any Sonos products and also use an Android Wear smartwatch, you may want to check out the beta version.
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The Major Challenges of Opposition Parties in Ethiopia and the Case of Leenco Lata’s ODF
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By Kiya Tesfaye
Since the adoption of the new Constitution in 1995, Ethiopia has organized 4 elections carried out regularly ever 5 years (in 1995, 2000, 2005 and 2010); the ruling party, TPLF, claimed victories in all of these elections. Unfortunately, post-election reports always show that none of the elections in Ethiopia has so far been free, fair and democratic.
Through intimidation by local cadres, or by withholding basic government rations from rural and urban poor households, people had been forced to vote for TPLF. Through such controversial elections, TPLF had claimed victories over the majority of the votes. In some places, where the TPLF had been unable to win, stealing the ballot cards had been the case. Election frauds, reactions of the opposition parties to the unfair elections, and anger of the public had been the main reasons to see instabilities, chaos, mass arrests, deaths, harassment and disorders in the aftermaths of election periods. Therefore, due to the undemocratic nature of these elections, dissenting political parties had been unable to win over the dictatorial TPLF regime – which indirectly means that people can’t change their leaders through the ballot box in Ethiopia.
In absence of free and fair election, the election itself can’t be a means to justify the legitimacy of a given government. Thus, the 2015 election will not be different from the past. According to the National Electoral Board, nearly 35 million people had registered to vote, and 60 opposition parties had registered to run for parliamentary polls dated for May 24, 2015.
Having seen the previous elections in Ethiopia, what will we expect from the upcoming 2015 election? I have a firm belief that the upcoming election will not be any different from the previous ones unless otherwise the opposition parties can make miracles helped through the divine power. Given the totalitarian nature of TPLF, no one in Ethiopia votes for the opposition parties to win the election and form a government, but instead people vote for dissenting parties only to have some seats in the TPLF-dominated Parliament.
In meantime, it is important to remind that it is not due to lack of alternative policies that opposition parties fail to win an election in Ethiopia. The major reasons why opposition parties are unable to win elections in Ethiopia are due to the fact that they are mired in multiple challenges, unlike the ruling party. I will briefly discuss these challenges below.
Major Challenges of Opposition Parties in Ethiopia
1. ABSENCE OF FREEDOM OF MEDIA
In the absence of independent media outlets, it is almost impossible to hold free and fair elections. Unfortunately, Ethiopia, under the TPLF government, is not a friendly home for independent media. The government in Ethiopia is best known for its systematic repression of the very few independent media outlets. Especially after the Anti-Terrorist Proclamation of 2009, independent media have been subjected to intimidation, harassment, and in most cases, exile. You can hardly find a single independent, non-state affiliated media outlet in Ethiopia today. The majority of newspapers, and radio and television stations are state controlled or state affiliated. The very few pseudo-independent media, which in some cases are accused of being state-affiliated behind the screen, are also subject to strict procedures of state censorship. The main radio and television stations, which are run by the state, are usually seen broadcasting the propaganda of the TPLF regime and promote government policies; and in contrary, they have no room to broadcast the human rights violations and corruptions of the dictatorial administration of the ruling party.
Since more than 85% of the population in Ethiopia resides in rural areas, radio is the only medium of news, and hence, this gives the ruling party a significant advantage in promoting its policies and preserving itself as the irreplaceable political party by controlling the radio access to the rural population. Journalists of local media outlets, which deviate from state censorship of the government, usually face arrests, harassment, shutdowns and/or exile.
The only media opportunities available for the local opposition parties are Diaspora-based media. Usually, most of these websites are blocked and cannot be accessed in Ethiopia while popular stations like OMN [Oromia Media Network] are jammed by the government in Ethiopia. It is clear that media can have huge impacts to the mind of a society. Due to the fear of the power of media, TPLF has been denying media access to opposition parties, and at the same time, restricting the blossoming of independent media in the country – forcing opposition parties to rely on Diaspora-based media outlets.
The case for Oromo media is even worst. Being the largest nation, Oromo lacks access to media in Afan Oromo, which is the largest language spoken in the Horn of Africa; it is safe to to say that there is no single Afan Oromo media outlet in Ethiopia. Due to the fear of the government for independent Oromo media, Oromo political organizations suffer from the absence of freedom of media, more than others.
2. ABSENCE OF A NEUTRAL ELECTORAL BOARD
The National Electoral Board of Ethiopia, which is theoretically supposed to be an autonomous and independent body, has been accused of being the mouthpiece of the ruling party. The Election Board, which consists of nine individuals strategically nominated by the late Prime Minister, has been the major reason for the lack of fair and free elections in Ethiopia.
Dr. Merga Bekana (Chairman) and Dr. Addisu Gebre-Egziabher (Deputy Chairman) are key figures in the Board that is accused of working for the interest of TPLF. The latter, Dr. Addisu, who is currently working as a Head of a Department in the Ministry of Federal Affairs and a close friend for members of the TPLF Central Committee, is purposely assigned in the Board to protect the interest of TPLF. The Election Board has also been accused of interfering in the internal affairs of opposition parties, and putting complicated procedures and criteria for opposition parties with the goal of expelling them from election runs when found not abiding with these complicated election procedures and criteria.
3. The NON-NEUTRALITY OF THE MILITARY
What has enabled the TPLF regime to brutally rule the country for more than two decades is not its ability to create a robust and democratic political, social and economic environment. The strength of TPLF is its military. The military, which is almost dominated by one nation, the Tigreans, from which the TPLF ruling party officials also come, has been the backbone to the dictatorial regime of TPLF. Basically, a military is responsible to maintain peace, uphold constitutional orders and protect the territorial sovereignty of the country. But, in the case in Ethiopia, the TPLF government has been usually criticized for using the military for spying, intimidating and arresting opposition party individuals. It is not uncommon to hear accusations from dissenting political parties about being spied upon and about their everyday activities being tracked by the military intelligence services, and in some cases, about physical obstacles put on their ways during election campaigns.
THE CASE OF LEENCO LATA’S ODF
Having seen the three major challenges of opposition parties in Ethiopia, ODF [Oromo Democratic Front] will never be an exception to not be mired in these aforementioned challenges, had its move to Ethiopia turned long lasting. ODF’s 24-hour stay in the country, after all, is a witness to what this article wants to address. Members of ODF are prominent politicians with ample experiences in Oromo and Ethiopian politics, and had been pioneers of the Oromo struggle for freedom, and hence, they can have the possibility to make positive impacts on the political atmosphere in Ethiopia. However, that is not what the government in Ethiopia wants at all. Although the government claims to have established a multiparty system to convince donor countries, that remains true only in books; especially, chasing away exiled politicians who had come back home for a peaceful political struggle, has proven the multiparty system in Ethiopia fake and nonexistent.
The above challenges of opposition parties deliver one clear message to outsiders who observe politics in Ethiopia. That is, the totalitarian nature of the TPLF regime. Despite holding regular elections every 5 years – visually appealing rituals for the international community, the TPLF regime wants to rule the country eternally and brutally by using brute-force. Period.
Kiya Tesfaye is an Oromo activist and lives in Norway; he can be reached at kiyaa28@gmail.com
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A different kind of couples swap coming to Comedy Corner Underground this weekend
Friday, August 31, 2018 by Patrick Strait in Arts & Leisure
Becky Gonzalez and Robert Baril go 'Freaky Friday' at Comedy Corner Underground. Image courtesy the standup
The first time Becky Gonzalez met her now-fiance Robert Baril, it was watching him do jokes at House of Comedy on a brutally-light Wednesday night.
“We met on Tinder and had been talking, so I invited her to come out to the Wednesday show,” Baril recalls of the first quasi-date. “I figured if she came back after that, she must be the real deal.”
What Baril hadn’t planned on was that two-and-a-half years later, he’d be watching Gonzalez perform those very same jokes onstage.
This Friday and Saturday, Comedy Corner Underground is reviving its Take My Wife…Instead show. A kind of a comedy roleplay, the show features the significant others of some of the area’s best local comedians performing their material -- a real Freaky Friday vibe, if you will.
Gonzalez will perform both shows alongside the romantic partners of other established comedians, including Courtney Baka and Philip Kolas. The show will also include headliner sets from Elle Hino and Casey Nelson, providing a palate cleanser of non-relationship destroying comedy.
Since they began dating, Gonzalez says she’s seen her boo perform roughly 200 times. Needless to say, she knows the material.
“I’m kind of a cynical person, and I don’t have a good poker face, so if he was bad I figured I wasn’t going to be able to hide it,” she says. “But I actually thought he was really funny, and very gentleman like.”
It wasn’t long after they first started dating that Baril started incorporating material about his girlfriend on stage, especially the fact that she’s a grandmother.
“I just started doing it,” he laughs.
“That’s not true,” Gonzalez interrupts. “He asked me about it first and I said it was fine. I just didn’t want it to be degrading. Sometimes comedians who talk about their families or spouses just come off as mean and I didn’t want that, but his stuff isn’t like that at all.”
Now Gonzalez has the opportunity to put her own spin on jokes about herself. “I want to do some of the grandma material, but I’ll also probably do some of his sports jokes and some of the lightly political stuff,” she says about her planned five-minute set.
While it might seem like seeing your partner mimic your best – or worst – material right to your face would be a nerve-wracking experience, Baril is fully rooting for his bride-to-be -- to an extent.
“If she does too good I’m not going to speak to her, and if it goes really well she’s definitely never opening for me,” Baril jokes.
Whether or not this weekend turns out to be the launch of a new comedy super-couple remains to be seen, but if you ask Gonzalez, she’s not taking the performance lightly.
“Robert and I are both competitive by nature,” she says. “I’m not saying we’re trying to be the best, but if we are the best couple of the night we’ll be cool with it.”
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Your time at the Wayside Inn has been fruitful: You've earned the favor of Torm, helped a were-beast find true love, and saved countless villagers from an undead invasion. Now it's time to head south to the grand city of Waterdeep, where you were supposed to meet a certain drow ranger months ago...
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I didn't think I'd be able to attend much of the 2009 Earshot Jazz Festival as I've been completely tied up with The Drowsy Chaperone at The 5th Avenue, but with my Monday night free, and my brother in the band, I decided to check out Wayne Horvitz and NY Composers Orchestra West at The Triple Door. While I did bring my camera, I sadly didn't bring anything for note taking, so I missed getting the titles, but to be honest, it's not important. What was important about this concert was the music of composer and keyboardist Wayne Horvitz. I used to go see his band Zony Mash at the OK Hotel and revelled in the groove, but always remembered seeing a similar incarnation of tonight's band around ten years ago. My tastes have certainly broadened since then, and with a focus on Wayne's writing this time, I was even more taken with it. It truly was an all-star band:
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Cameron Awkward-Rich
Leila Chatti
Franny Choi
William Evans
Camonghne Felix
Lynn Melnick
José Olivarez
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Alison C. Rollins
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Library of Small Catastrophes is something like an actual library full of definitions, news articles, Paraguayan folklore, T.S. Eliot’s papers, Gilgamesh's kaleidoscope, and anything else this brilliant poet can imagine. Yes, these poems are lit and enlightened, but Alison C. Rollins' lively charms are always rooted to a notion that "only things kept in the dark know the true weight of light." The small and large darknesses catalogued here make this a book of remarkable depth. This is an electrifying debut.
— Terrance Hayes, MacArthur Fellow
The range of Rollins’ poetic skill is remarkable. The result is a collection of poetry which is magnificently crafted, readable, and crucially important.
— Annette Lapointe, New York Journal of Books
Alison C. Rollins holds a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Howard University & a Master of Library & Information Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Born & raised in St. Louis city, she currently works as a Librarian for the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in American Poetry Review, New England Review, Poetry, The Poetry Review, & elsewhere.
A Cave Canem & Callaloo Fellow, she is also a 2016 recipient of the Poetry Foundation’s Ruth Lilly & Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship. Rollins has most recently been awarded support from the National Endowment for the Arts & the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference & is a recipient of a 2018 Rona Jaffe Writers' Award.
Her debut poetry collection Library of Small Catastrophes is forthcoming with Copper Canyon Press in Spring 2019.
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Drawing from Jorge Luis Borges’ fascination with the library, Rollins uses the concept of the archive to offer a lyric history of the ways in which we process loss. “Memory is about the future, not the past,” she writes, and rather than shying away from the anger, anxiety, and mourning of her narrators, Rollins’ poetry seeks to challenge the status quo, engaging in a diverse, boundary-defying dialogue with an ever-present reminder of the ways race, sexuality, spirituality, violence, and American culture collide.
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There are many grounds on which you may challenge a will. These include fraud, undue influence, forgery and instances in which an individual lacked the mental capacity to make a will but did so anyway.
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This is separate from undue influence, which occurs when a person somehow influences the will-maker by pressuring or forcing them to include certain facts and figures in the will.
Another reason a will might be disputed is if a person or persons who should have been provided for in the will - usually dependants, such as spouses and de facto partners, children, grandchildren and (sometimes) ex-spouses - are not bequeathed an adequate portion of the deceased's estate or, indeed, anything at all.
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The Tremendous and famous attraction in Penang
11 Aug 2018 admin
There must be something exceptional about Georgia Penang. Among of the most remarkable places to visit in this golden state is the fascinating small town known as Georgetown Penang. Recently, it became the most fashionable and trendy place to visit. Here are various reasons why most people prefer to live in this wonderful place:
Lorong-Baru-Hawker Lane
LorongBaru which has always been referred to as the center or instead a hawker street is Penang famous attraction that includes a small stall selling varieties of street food. The foods sold on these streets converge every day after3 pm. Many other stalls lined up along the roadside and some ready for business at nearly 4 pm.
Several national and international famous events are normally held in Auburn annually. Besides holding popular events, it also highly recognized as the key place where most people refer to when it comes to seeking various opportunities such as shopping, working and touring.
Cheong FattTze Mansion
Cheong Fatt is also Penang famous attractions which is a majestic 1880s ancient mansion that was erected for a purpose of its definite expressive blue-indigo façade. It is traditional Hakka-Teochew design, which was rescued from distraction back in the 1990s and transfigured into a heritage boutique hotel. It is also a conservation project went to more achievements of architectural awards.
Kek-Lok-Si Temple
KekLok is the largest building in Malaysia and consists of plenty of monasteries, temple, prayer halls and astonishing landscaped garden. The building also comprises the incredible national icon which was build up in 1890 and 10-acre site which is divided into 3 zones. A lower level of a complex includes a hill entrance, food, souvenir and the stalls for drinks including a pond for liberated turtles.
Fort Cornwallis old town
Penang, Malaysia is also a perfect place to live for those individuals who love to dwell in a beautifully preserved historic town. For instance, Fort Cornwallis town consists of an old historical district that spans a period of 1786 to 1790 and 174 to 1779.
It is situated next to Penang clock tower and Esplanade named after Marquis Cornwallis. However, ti was meant for a Royal artillery military and troops. It was used to serve the administrative function instead of the defensive activities.
And much more to enjoy is preserved in this area, for instance, several numbers of museums, restaurants, shops and art galleries. The fascinating old town is the main interior part of Penang town that attracts lots of people.
Komtar Interior and external Attractions
Penang, Malaysia continues to justify a hype that encloses everybody who is interested to explore interior part of it. The indoor part of Penang consists of the art of Komtar landmark for travelers who come to explore Georgetown. One of the main attractions is this Old-Town is the collection of the atmospheric local boutiques.
The Old-Town-Komtar also includes the features such as best bargain-hunting fashions including the electronic stores where visitors can have their electronics such as phones, and laptop fixed. Penang town boasts the impressive quantity city of its size. It also comprises a Gold-Country-Museum that offer a detailed life of Malaysia’s gold rush mine.
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ED PICKELL OFFERS ENGINE Ed Pickell was another San Diegan who wanted to fly his own airplane. He approached the project by investing in an engine first, a four cylinder 20 cycle Elbridge Aeroplane Motor. Of course it took all his money for this and left nothing with which to build the airplane. In the latter part of July 1910, he offered Walsh the use of the engine at a "nominal monthly rental fee." The engine fit the plane's mount and propeller very well and the deal was made. Ed was going to get some of his money back and Charlie was going to obtain a great improvement in performance. The first two test flights with the 40 hp Elgridge in August, showed the engine produced excessive vibration. Charlies experimented around and finally installed a larger propeller. This made the engine run exceptionally smooth and steady. No longer was it necessary to run down hill first or to be shoved to start. The new powerplant enabled him to takeoff in about 150 feet and soar to 50 foot altitudes. At last an engine powerful and reliable enough to enable Walsh to start thinking seriously about making flying a livelihood.
The Motordrome near Playa del Rey, Calif.
Motordrome between Culver City and Playa de Rey. Charlie Walsh flew aeroplane here in 1910. Won $500 & 4 cups.
I believe this post card is only one. Showing the Motordrome . It was on N. side of the tracks, near Playa del Rey. Oct. 22nd, 1910
Collection of Ernie Sansome
PLAYA DEL REY MOTORDROME MEET, 1910 In September 1910, the Los Angeles Examiner announced a flying meet would be held at the Playa Del Rey Motordrome on October 22, and 23rd, which would be open to Novice California Aviators only. Major prizes would be awarded including cash in four categories, distance, height, duration, and circles. The only conditions wre that all contestants be amateur, have their own airplane, and a ten dollar entrance fee. "Wow this is just what I've been waiting for." cried Charlie. He felt certain of his ability and his airplane. The only thing lacking was the expense of shipping the plane to Los Angeles. Prodded by Alice, he finally decided to ask his father for the necessary expenses. Throughout the long summer on the beach his father had not once paid them a visit. He had never seen his son fly and continued to discourage any of Charlie's flying "jim-cracks."
Irish tempers were near the boiling point as Charlie stood toe-to-toe with his father and unloaded with both barrels. "Dad, I need $1,000 to enter my plane in the Los Angeles Aeroplane Contest...you can take it out of my inheritance," His dad's eyes welled up, his face flushed red, "I'm not interested, that's all the money I have saved up for you and Robert." "It's not going to be squandered on a crazy flying machine." "I don't care about your plans," "I need the money now." Charlie argued. "I'm not interested son. If it was for any purpose other than that, that dammed contraption you have down on the beach, I'd give it to you. You'll have better need of that money later on anyway."
"I doubt that!" Charlie replied as he stomped out of the house. That evening his mother came to her oldest son and whispered. "Your father relented I'll have the money for you tomorrow." Again Charlie was exuberantly thrust upon Cloud 9. He had learned the trade watching Hamilton pack his Curtiss earlier that year. Now Walsh was dismantling his plane and crating it for his first public exhibition. Already he was working in a professional manner. The camp was broken at Imperial Beach and Charles Walsh went north to Los Angeles.
On September 3rd, the crated plane arrived at Playa del Rey and for nearly a week, Charlie worked like a circus roustabout setting up the machine and carefully tuning the engine in preparation for the big performance. The Motordrome was built more for motorcycle racing than anything else. It was completely enclosed by grandstands, bleachers and high fencing. The infield was fairly level, but so confined that it was inadequate for flying. Promoters of the novice contest had no idea of the area needed for "aereoplaning." On September 10, Charlie made a straight away flight of about 1,000 feet across the infield. This was about as far as anyone could fly within the enclosure. He moved the plane outside the park where there was open space for extended flights and attempts at turns.
CHARLIE HELPS GLENN L. MARTIN While Walsh was having great success, another novice in Santa Ana, California was having difficulty getting his airplane into the air, he had made numerous attempts, wrecked the pusher several times but valiantly continued to try and unlock the secret orf flight. He too wanted to enter the amateur contest at the Motordrome. Hearing of the Walsh flight, he asked Charlie to come to his aid. He arrived to find the fellow plagued with troubles very similar to those he had experienced earlier. The plane was basically of sound design but was under-powered with the Ford Model T automobile engine and out of balance. With some work and tinkering, including added wing tip surfaces, the plane was made flyable. Charlie made several short hops and pronounced it was all he could do until a more reliable engine could be obtained. On the last flight, Walsh took his immaculately dressed friend for a flight, the first time he had been up over 20 feet. The bespeckled fellow politely thanked Charlie and promised to meet him at the contest. The appreciative genleman in the bright celluloid collar wa Glenn L. Martin.
On October 22, the Novice Aviator Meet got underway. Several would be famous flyers were present: Glenn Martin, The Eaton Bros., Jack Cannon, Charles Walsh, and an unknown fellow with a Santos-Dumont Demoiselle. The directors decided to hold the event outside the Motordrome if the entrants so wished. Charlie was pleased with this new freedom and made several straight away flights, one of 4 1/2 minute duration on his first attempt. Call it what you will, courage, over enthusiasm, thoughtlessness, or showmanship, but,. neglecting to heed what Hamilton had warned him about turns Charlie banked right on this first turn right into the propeller torque. The plane made a violent dip, skidded and then shakily returned to normal. One could see Charlie trembling at the controls but his Irish luck stayed with him. He had learned a lesson, however. Undaunted he proceeded to make three circuits in both right and left turns around the field.
On the second day Walsh led the way again by rising to nearly 80 feet in altitude and flying to nearby Redondo Beach and return. The crowd gave him a standing ovation for Charlie Walsh had saved the day and the gala affair from financial disaster. The other contestants failed to do anything significant. The Eaton Boys cracked up their machine and the Demoiselle could only make short jumps. Glenn Martin was plagued with mechanical troubles and never really participated.
With his daring showmanship, Charlie Walsh won all the prizes consisting of four large silver loving cups and $500 in cash. Awarded were: The Examiner Trophy for duration 14 minutes; The San Diego Cup for the highest flight, 80 feet; The Whitley Trophy for endurance; and The Leonard-Smith Cup for circular flights. The first thing Charlie did with the money was to reclaim Alice's wedding rings from the jewelers.
HARRY HARKNESS FINANCES CHARLIE The family was at the meet and not coincidentally met a wealthy New York businessman/sportsman, Harry Harkness. Harkness had interests in California, and had recently formed the Aero Club of San Diego and was sponsoring an aviation venture on the Spreckles North Island flatlands along with Glenn Curtiss. He planned to build hangars and workshops to build and repair aeroplanes and turn the unwanted island into a permanent airfield for all those interested in aviation. Harkness had already purchased two Antoinette monoplanes and wanted a lightweight biplane to try out a new and unusual rotary engine. He had kept tabs on Walsh's ability and offered him $5,000 to build the airplane.
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The home of the Walsh's on West 23rd Street in Los Angeles was immediately turned into an aeroplane factory. The new plane was larger in all respects but patterned closely after his previous pusher. The main change came with the installation of the Macomber Model A 7 cylinder, air-cooled rotary engine. This engine developed 50/60 hp at 800 to 1,400 rpm, weighed 250 lbs complete and had no wiring for the ignitions system. It was basically a four cycle cam sleeve engine with a 4 1/2 "bore" and 1 1/4 "stroke." It was only 34 inches in overall length and 19 inches in diameter. The most unusual feature was in having the cylinders lay parallel to the axis. It was produced by the Godsmark, Curtiss & Co., on Aliso Street in Los Angeles carrying a price tag of $2,000
There was no trouble installing the engine or fitting a proper propeller. Just before the plane was completed, Charlie put Silver Dust into the unbleached muslin flying surfaces. This was done for appearances sake only and provided a name-The Walsh Silver Dart. The plane was taken to Playa del Rey for tests in May 1911, and everything proved successful. A number of flights were made including a family airplane ride. Charlie surprised Alice one day by taking her up for a view of the world from 50 feet up and at 40 mph. Without hesitating; she climbed onto a small seat Charlie had provided along side his, she pulled Kenneth up to sit behind her and Little Juanita she held on her lap. All held on to whatever appeared fixed and sturdy. The Macomber engine wheezed and whirled as the Silver Dart lifted the crew to dizzy heights and then eased them gently to earth. The flying family outing was a straight away flight and for only about 1000 feet, but the newspapers hailed it as the first family to ever fly together.
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If you like your nightlife chilled out or prefer to start with a few quiet drinks to get you warmed up, take a look at this selection of cosy pubs, speakeasies, intimate hangouts and even a beach bar for good measure.
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The innovator for Hong Kong’s ‘hidden bar’ trend, 001 is possibly the worst kept secret in the city, with everyone and their mother knowing about its charms. Take a late-night stroll near the Graham Street Market, find its unassuming black door and ring the bell, before gaining entrance into its vintage speakeasy bar.
Address: 97 Wellington Street, Central, Hong Kong Island
How to Get There: MTR Sheung Wan Station, Exit E2
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From its inception Bibo was designed as a space dedicated to serving patrons the best food and drinks in the most stylish surrounds. Its decor features a collection of outstanding contemporary art that grabs the eye, even as you sip a drink served in anything from a tin tankard to a light bulb.
Address: 163 Hollywood Rd, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong Island
Website: www.bibo.hk
How to Get There: MTR Sheung Wan Station, Exit A2
Captain’s Bar
The Mandarin Oriental is a Hong Kong institution, a city landmark, and while the hotel has seen a number of changes over the decades, one thing has stayed the same: the Captain’s Bar, a 50-plus-year old pub that’s become a regular post-work watering hole for Central’s suited types. Beers are famously served in silver tankards, including a craft beer made exclusively for the bar, and cocktails are perfectly mixed by bow-tied bartenders. On weekends, drop in to catch a crooning live jazz lounge act.
Address: G/F, Mandarin Oriental Hotel, 5 Connaught Road Central, Hong Kong Island
Website: www.mandarinoriental.com
How to Get There: MTR Central Station, Exit F
‘Vertical crawls’ are a popular Causeway Bay weekend pastime, a way of hitting as many of the area’s many upstairs bars as possible. One of the best for a longer stop-in is Flat 61, a cool little spot located high above a busy junction. Great views of the bustle below, warm booths coupled with cool cocktails, and a free pool table, all combine to create the ideal Causeway getaway.
Address: 13/F, Ying Kong Mansion, 2-6 Yee Wo Street, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong Island
How to Get There: MTR Causeway Bay Station, Exit F1
If you’re looking for live music, suave drinks and exclusivity that runs three rooms deep, Foxglove is your place. One of Hong Kong’s classiest speakeasies — hidden behind an umbrella shopfront — the establishment hosts highbrow jazz artists and the occasional film screening.
Address: 2/F, Printing Hse, 6 Duddell St, Central, Hong Kong Island
Website: www.foxglovehk.com
How to Get There: MTR Central Station, Exit D1
Down the street from Central, Sense 99 is a serene slice of hipster cool in an old colonial building. Everything about this two-floor bar has a bit of artistic charm: furniture is a second-hand mishmash, surreal artwork is dotted all around the walls, and the toilet is full of graffiti. Rub shoulders over bargain drinks on its airy terraces, and then head up to its jam spot, where anyone with a bit of musical skill can join the band for the night.
Address: 2/F, 99F Wellington Street, Central, Hong Kong Island
Website: www.facebook.com/sense99f
Hidden in plain sight, behind a nondescript door, Stockton is a veritable time machine. Once inside, the bar’s antique stylings and elegant selection of signature cocktails, such as the gin-based Hawtrey, throw back to a bygone era when quality was number one.
Address: 32 Wyndham St, Central, Hong Kong Island
Website: stockton.com.hk
T:ME
An old standby for Hong Kong’s LGBT community, T:ME is hidden on a back alley behind Central’s bustling Hollywood Road. It’s a relaxed affair compared to other gay-friendly bars, with its industrial-chic look matched by chilled-out tunes and a narrow bar-top practically made for rubbing shoulders. Nightly promotions bring in the crowds, including free vodka on Tuesdays and a late-night happy hour on Fridays.
Address: Rear Block, 65 Hollywood Road, Central, Hong Kong Island
Website: time-bar.com
Tai Lung Fung
Tai Lung Fung is a nostalgic dream of Hong Kong, a place where neon signs and vintage posters place you into a scene straight out of a Wong Kar-wai movie. It’s the kind of cocktail bar you’d only find in our city, made all the better by local twists on classic drinks, including lemongrass martinis and plum wine cocktails. Its location is perfect, just round the corner from The Blue House, a 1920s Wan Chai tenement building.
Address: 5 Hing Wan Street, Wan Chai, Hong Kong Island
How to Get There: MTR Wan Chai Station, Exit A3
For almost 20 years, Virus has been embracing the city’s lesbian community. Its location has changed over the decades, but the cosy atmosphere has stayed the same: a warm, vintage aesthetic that feels like a home away from home. Settle into a couch with a drink, or have a go on its karaoke machine, before digging into one of their famed late-night snacks.
Address: 21/F, Chung Wai Commercial Building, 447-449 Lockhart Road, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong Island
How to Get There: MTR Causeway Bay Station, Exit D2
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Gene blocking lettuce germination also regulates flowering time
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Kent Bradford, left, and Alfred Huo, seen here with a flowering lettuce plant, found that lettuce could be prevented from flowering by increasing the expression of a specific microRNA in the plants. The high levels of this microRNA prevent the plant from transitioning to adulthood and flowering, and the plant continues to make numerous baby leaves rather than forming a compact head of lettuce. Credit: Gregory Urquiaga/UC Davis
Like most annuals, lettuce plants live out their lives in quiet, three-act dramas that follow the seasons. Seed dormancy gives way to germination; the young plant emerges and grows; and finally in the climax of flowering, a new generation of seeds is produced. It’s remarkably predictable, but the genetics that coordinates these changes with environmental cues has not been well understood.
In a recent study of lettuce and the model plant Arabidopsis, researchers at the UC Davis Seed Biotechnology Center and in China show for the first time that a gene known to direct the depth of seed dormancy and the timing of germination also influences flowering. The study further suggests that the gene does this by influencing production of certain microRNAs—tiny snippets of genetic material that govern transition from one phase of the plant’s life cycle to another.
The findings, which have important implications for the $1.9 billion annual U.S. lettuce crop, will be reported during the week of March 28 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
«It appears that the ‘Delay of Germination 1,’ or DOG1, gene is an environmental sensor, detecting environmental changes and enabling the plant to not only keep the seed dormant but to also delay flowering,» said study co-author Kent Bradford, a plant scientist and director of the Seed Biotechnology Center.
«This gene could be a particularly valuable tool as climate change shifts our growing seasons and we are forced to develop plants that can adapt to those environmental changes,» Bradford said.
Germination and flowering:
Annual flowering plants match their life cycles—especially seed germination and flowering—to the appropriate season. If a flowering plant germinates too early, the seedling might appear before temperatures are warm enough for the plant to survive.
Such coordination of life cycles and environmental conditions is equally important for cultivated crops. An entire lettuce crop can be lost if the plants respond to early warm temperatures and «bolt,» producing flowers and seeds before marketable heads of lettuce have formed.
In the new study, the researchers found that suppressing the DOG1 gene in lettuce or Arabidopsis decreased the levels of one microRNA and increased levels of another. As a result, seeds germinated at higher temperatures, and the plants flowered earlier than normal.
«This provides evidence of a molecular genetic mechanism that is at work, coordinating adaptation of seed dormancy and flowering traits in the plants to accommodate environmental conditions,» said study co-author Heqiang «Alfred» Huo, a postdoctoral researcher in the Bradford lab.
«Our results also suggest that the period between seed dormancy and seed germination is a distinct phase in the plant’s lifecycle and that this phase appears to be influenced by the same microRNA systems that govern the plant’s maturation and flowering stages,» Huo said.
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Port reception facilities for ship waste: Collecting waste from ships in ports
Marine litter and pollution put the marine environment at risk. While a great proportion of marine litter originates from land-based sources, limiting waste discharges from ships also plays an essential role in efforts to preserve marine and coastal ecosystems. Based on international law, EU legislation requires vessels to bring the waste they generate on voyages to waste-reception facilities in port, and obliges EU ports to provide such facilities to ships using the port. Despite these developments ...
Marine litter and pollution put the marine environment at risk. While a great proportion of marine litter originates from land-based sources, limiting waste discharges from ships also plays an essential role in efforts to preserve marine and coastal ecosystems. Based on international law, EU legislation requires vessels to bring the waste they generate on voyages to waste-reception facilities in port, and obliges EU ports to provide such facilities to ships using the port. Despite these developments, discharges at sea continue. In January 2018, the European Commission put forward a new legislative proposal seeking to improve the collection of ship waste while ensuring efficient maritime transport operations in ports. Interinstitutional negotiations concluded on 13 December 2018. The final text was adopted by the Parliament on 13 March 2019 and then by the Council on 29 March. The Directive was then signed on 17 April by the presidents of the two institutions and will be published in the Official Journal shortly.
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European maritime single window: Harmonised digital reporting for ships
Every time a ship calls at a port, its maritime transport operator has to submit a set of pre-arrival information to a range of entities and agencies. Currently, the reporting process is not harmonised across EU ports. In addition, the information provided by ships is not efficiently shared among the actors concerned. The resulting multiple reporting places an excessive administrative burden on shipping operators, with negative impacts rippling down the logistics chain. Within broader efforts to ...
Every time a ship calls at a port, its maritime transport operator has to submit a set of pre-arrival information to a range of entities and agencies. Currently, the reporting process is not harmonised across EU ports. In addition, the information provided by ships is not efficiently shared among the actors concerned. The resulting multiple reporting places an excessive administrative burden on shipping operators, with negative impacts rippling down the logistics chain. Within broader efforts to modernise EU transport, the European Commission is proposing to bring all the reporting linked to a port call together into one digital space – the 'European Maritime Single Window', to harmonise reporting procedures for shipping operators and to ensure data can be shared and reused efficiently. Interinstitutional negotiations (trilogues) concluded on 7 February 2019. The agreement is scheduled for a vote at the April II Parliament plenary and would need then to be formally approved by the Council.
Connecting Europe Facility 2021-2027: Financing key EU infrastructure networks
The EU supports the development of high-performing, sustainable and interconnected trans-European networks in the areas of transport, energy and digital infrastructure. The trans-European networks policy was consolidated in 2013, and the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) set up as a dedicated financing instrument to channel EU funding into the development of infrastructure networks, help eliminate market failures and attract further investment from the public and private sectors. Following a mid-term ...
The EU supports the development of high-performing, sustainable and interconnected trans-European networks in the areas of transport, energy and digital infrastructure. The trans-European networks policy was consolidated in 2013, and the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) set up as a dedicated financing instrument to channel EU funding into the development of infrastructure networks, help eliminate market failures and attract further investment from the public and private sectors. Following a mid-term evaluation, which confirmed the CEF programme's capacity to bring significant EU added value, the European Commission proposed to renew the programme under the next long term EU budget. The Transport Council of 3 December 2018 agreed a partial general approach on the proposal, excluding financial and horizontal issues, which are still under discussion as part of the EU budget for 2021-2027. The European Parliament adopted its negotiating position on 12 December 2018. Interinstitutional negotiations (trilogues) concluded on 8 March with a partial provisional agreement on the architecture of the future programme. Having been endorsed by Coreper and jointly by the Parliament's TRAN and ITRE committees, the agreement is due to be voted at first reading by Parliament in April. The remaining issues will have to be agreed at second reading. Third edition. The 'EU Legislation in Progress' briefings are updated at key stages throughout the legislative procedure.
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EU-forslag
Road infrastructure safety management
On 17 May 2018, the Commission adopted the proposal for a directive amending Directive 2008/96/EC on road infrastructure safety management. The revision was presented together with another legislative proposal on vehicle and pedestrian safety, and with non-legislative initiatives to promote safe mobility. The general objective of the proposal, which seeks to address the shortcomings of the existing legislation, is to reduce both road fatalities and serious injuries by improving the safety performance ...
On 17 May 2018, the Commission adopted the proposal for a directive amending Directive 2008/96/EC on road infrastructure safety management. The revision was presented together with another legislative proposal on vehicle and pedestrian safety, and with non-legislative initiatives to promote safe mobility. The general objective of the proposal, which seeks to address the shortcomings of the existing legislation, is to reduce both road fatalities and serious injuries by improving the safety performance of road infrastructure. It proposes key changes to strengthen road infrastructure safety management procedures and extends the scope of the directive beyond the trans-European transport network (TEN-T). Interinstitutional negogiations (trilogues) concluded on 21 February 2019. The agreed text, endorsed by Coreper and by the Parliament’s TRAN committee, is scheduled for a vote in Parliament’s plenary during April. Second edition. The 'EU Legislation in Progress' briefings are updated at key stages throughout the legislative procedure.
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Combined transport directive review: Getting more goods off EU roads
The European Union's efforts to reduce the negative impacts of transport include promoting a shift from road freight transport to lower-emission transport modes. This also includes combined transport operations, which consist of at least one road leg for initial or final haulage and one non road leg, on rail or water. The 1992 Combined Transport Directive set out measures that were meant to increase the competitiveness of combined transport against road-only transport. In 2017, the Commission proposed ...
The European Union's efforts to reduce the negative impacts of transport include promoting a shift from road freight transport to lower-emission transport modes. This also includes combined transport operations, which consist of at least one road leg for initial or final haulage and one non road leg, on rail or water. The 1992 Combined Transport Directive set out measures that were meant to increase the competitiveness of combined transport against road-only transport. In 2017, the Commission proposed to simplify the existing rules and make combined transport more attractive by means of economic incentives. The European Parliament's Committee on Transport and Tourism adopted its report in July 2018, and the Transport Council meeting of 3 December 2018 agreed a general approach. However, as trilogue neogitations have not made progress on reaching a compromise, Parliament has decided to close the file at first reading, with a plenary vote scheduled for March 2019. Third edition. The 'EU Legislation in Progress' briefings are updated at key stages throughout the legislative procedure.
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Discontinuing seasonal changes of time
To end the biannual change of clocks that currently takes place in every Member State at the end of March and the end of October, on 12 September 2018 the European Commission adopted a proposal to discontinue the seasonal changes of time in the Union. The President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, presented the initiative in his State of the Union address as an issue of subsidiarity, underlining that 'Member States should themselves decide whether their citizens live in summer or ...
To end the biannual change of clocks that currently takes place in every Member State at the end of March and the end of October, on 12 September 2018 the European Commission adopted a proposal to discontinue the seasonal changes of time in the Union. The President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, presented the initiative in his State of the Union address as an issue of subsidiarity, underlining that 'Member States should themselves decide whether their citizens live in summer or winter time'. The initiative, which would repeal existing provisions governed by Directive 2000/84/EC, proposes a timetable to end seasonal clock-changing arrangements in a coordinated way, in order to safeguard the proper functioning of the internal market and avoid the disruptions that this may cause, for instance, to the transport or communications sectors. As the Council has decided that a proper impact assessment should be conducted before it can reach a political agreement, the file is due to be closed at first reading, with a vote in Parliament’s plenary in March 2019 on the TRAN committee’s report. Second edition. The 'EU Legislation in Progress' briefings are updated at key stages throughout the legislative procedure.
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Measures to advance the realisation of the trans-European transport network: Integrated and faster project procedures
With the trans-European transport network (TEN-T) policy, the European Commission seeks to develop a modern, efficient and climate-friendly network covering all transport modes. Despite the TEN-T's importance for the economy and society, and despite the binding timelines and targeted financial support, it risks not being completed as planned. This is partly due to complex administrative procedures linked to permit-granting for cross-border projects as well as broader regulatory uncertainty, often ...
With the trans-European transport network (TEN-T) policy, the European Commission seeks to develop a modern, efficient and climate-friendly network covering all transport modes. Despite the TEN-T's importance for the economy and society, and despite the binding timelines and targeted financial support, it risks not being completed as planned. This is partly due to complex administrative procedures linked to permit-granting for cross-border projects as well as broader regulatory uncertainty, often resulting in delays and increased cost. To speed up the network's completion, the Commission has proposed measures to integrate and shorten permit-granting for projects, and facilitate public consultations and the involvement of private investors. On 3 December 2018, the Transport Council stated that much remains to be resolved before an agreement on the proposal becomes possible. The European Parliament’s Committee on Transport and Tourism adopted its report on 10 January. The Parliament adopted its first-reading position in plenary on 13 February 2019. Trilogue negotiations with a view to an early second-reading agreement could thus take place in the new term once Council has agreed its position.
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Use of vehicles hired without drivers
The European Commission has proposed to further liberalise EU rules on the hire of vehicles without drivers for the carriage of goods by road. The European Parliament adopted its negotiating position in June 2018. Member States, however, concerned with the possible erosion of tax revenues from vehicle registration and enforcement issues, could not agree a common approach. As negotiations cannot start without progress on the Council's side, the file has been put on the January plenary agenda with ...
The European Commission has proposed to further liberalise EU rules on the hire of vehicles without drivers for the carriage of goods by road. The European Parliament adopted its negotiating position in June 2018. Member States, however, concerned with the possible erosion of tax revenues from vehicle registration and enforcement issues, could not agree a common approach. As negotiations cannot start without progress on the Council's side, the file has been put on the January plenary agenda with the intention to close the first reading in Parliament.
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World Bank support for investment in EU and Western Balkan transport
Over the six decades during which the World Bank has been active in Europe, its engagement has evolved hand in hand with the development of the continent. Initially supporting reconstruction efforts after World War II, it later shifted the focus of its action to development support. In the past, as today, it has provided financing, knowledge and assistance to countries seeking to join the European Union. As a starting point in providing a deeper insight into how the World Bank contributes to the ...
Over the six decades during which the World Bank has been active in Europe, its engagement has evolved hand in hand with the development of the continent. Initially supporting reconstruction efforts after World War II, it later shifted the focus of its action to development support. In the past, as today, it has provided financing, knowledge and assistance to countries seeking to join the European Union. As a starting point in providing a deeper insight into how the World Bank contributes to the development of European countries today, this briefing first looks at the Bank's complex structure, the functioning of its different parts and the types of investment and assistance it offers its clients. Then, leaving aside the many other areas of the Bank's activity, the focus narrows to its support for transport in the EU and its Western Balkan partners. As the World Bank is one of several international institutions that are active in the Western Balkans, the briefing also looks into how the Bank links with the development-support efforts of the European Commission and the financial landscape of the Western Balkans Investment Framework.
Finansielle Spørgsmål og Bankanliggender
Den Internationale Finansieringsinstitution
internationalt lån
Den Europæiske Investeringsbank
Den Europæiske Investeringsfond
Europa-Kommissionen
Vestbalkan
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Den Internationale Udviklingssammenslutning
international investering
Det Multilaterale Investeringsgarantiorgan
Den Internationale Bank for Genopbygning og Økonomisk Udvikling
Det Internationale Center til Bilæggelse af Investeringstvister
Goods vehicles hired without drivers
EU rules on the use of goods vehicles hired without drivers have been in operation for over 25 years without change and need to be reviewed to correspond to current and future needs in the transport sector. As part of the 2017 road transport mobility package, the European Commission proposed to soften the existing restrictions on using hired vehicles in international transport and establish a uniform regulatory framework, which would give transport operators across the EU equal access to the market ...
EU rules on the use of goods vehicles hired without drivers have been in operation for over 25 years without change and need to be reviewed to correspond to current and future needs in the transport sector. As part of the 2017 road transport mobility package, the European Commission proposed to soften the existing restrictions on using hired vehicles in international transport and establish a uniform regulatory framework, which would give transport operators across the EU equal access to the market for hired goods vehicles. The Council, concerned with the possible erosion of tax revenues from vehicle registration and enforcement issues, could not endorse a general approach under a recent proposal made by the Bulgarian Presidency. The Parliament’s Committee on Transport and Tourism voted its report, but the mandate to start trilogues is due to be voted during the June plenary. Second edition. The ‘EU Legislation in Progress’ briefings are updated at key stages throughout the legislative procedure.
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Perla Aguilar
Aguilar at her work station.
Perla Aguilar ’19 is a mechanical engineering major who worked on analyzing satellite data taken from various organizations like NASA and the European Space Agency to study oceanic heat transport for her Xerox Fellowship Project. The swirling structures she studied, called eddies, typically 100 km in size, are the strongest structures in the ocean, but little is known about how they affect heat flow from the equator to the poles.
Along with learning about eddies, Aguilar also worked to reach out to local high school students, getting them interested in research. She is hoping to format her data to be projected onto the Science on a Sphere at the Rochester Museum and Science Center (RMSC).
Aguilar took two core courses in mechanical engineering in her junior year – Fluid Dynamics and Heat and Mass Transfer. Intrigued by the material, she “wanted to use the information I learned in class somewhere outside of class.” Aguilar reached out to Assistant Professor Hussein Aluie and applied to the Xerox program, and she says the coursework played a big role in understanding the work she is doing now.
In the lab, she compiled daily observations taken from the satellite over the course of a year. Using Python, a common programming language, she formatted the data into video files to observe motion of ocean currents and heat flows. Aguilar actually learned to use Python during this Xerox project.
Aguilar hopes that this experience will help her decide whether or not she wants to go into graduate school, and if she’d enjoy working in industry. She wants to become an expert in her field, and working in this lab, she sees that expertise comes from hard work for a long time in a specific area.
She has learned not only a new programming language, but the importance of visualization to understand data. She also has learned the importance of sharing her work with confidence and getting others to engage in it.
Perla updating Aluie on her work.
As with many other Xerox Fellows, this was Aguilar’s first time being involved in research here at Rochester. Her advisor, Aluie, says that he has been appreciating more and more the importance of involving newer generations in research. He sees his role as an advisor as demystifying research, and he says that “a little bit of effort leads to a big impact.”
Most importantly, Aguilar says, while she was overwhelmed at first, she started out step by step with Aluie. She visited the RMSC to explore the Science on the Sphere exhibit, and just learned about how hurricanes and earthquakes look in simulations and in data. Now, she knows that “as long as you’re determined to learn something, you can do it.”
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Aishwarya Krishnamoorthy
a.krishnamoorthy@rochester.edu
Aguilar and her advisor Professor Hussein Aluie at the Rochester Museum and Science Center.
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Hamsterwatch Updates > Big Brother Canada 6 cast and house
Big Brother Canada 6 cast and house Bios, photos, interviews, assorted links
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Hometown: Toronto, ON
Occupation: Small Business Owner
Charming, charismatic, and witty.
There are many sides to Big Brother. Let’s pretend you’re him! What kind of Big Brother would you be?
I would be pretty messed up, but it would be fun. I would challenge people and see what they are made of and make it interesting TV. I would throw some twists and set up people for cool game plays as well.
Do you have a strategy to win Big Brother Canada?
My strategy for the game, just like in life, is to be myself. I’m trying to align with people who are interesting, witty, and weird just like myself. I hope we can have a nice little alliance, but I am confident enough in my own game play, my athletic ability, and my social game, which I think is my strongest point, so I think I will be all right.
I’m known for talking trash. My buddies will tell you that I’m very competitive and the energy and trash talk keeps me going, it burns my own fire. I think some people will definitely enjoy it, but I think everything within reason. I don’t want to push too many buttons too soon. It’s all fun and games though. I think keep it light and fluffy.
What part of the Big Brother Canada experience do you think will be hardest for you?
Just being away from my wife, and being away from good Jamaican oxtail, rice, and peas! Other than that, I’m pretty adaptable.
Who is your Big Brother Canada idol and why?
Sarah Hanlon, she’s pretty cool. She has a good social game, adaptable; she’s got jokes too – she can put a good roast together.
What do people from Toronto have that gives them an edge to win Big Brother Canada?
Toronto people are cynical. We don’t believe much, so we aren’t really naïve. Everything that people tell us we take with a grain of salt. So I think my third eye will be watching and I’ll be ready to dissect people’s strategy and game plan.
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Gut instinct or pure intellect?
Gotta go with the gut.
Showmance or Nomance?
Come on now, I’m about the money.
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Submit to HollyShorts Film Festival | Recently named an Academy Awards® Qualifying Festival
In the Spotlight today is the 13th Annual HollyShorts Film Festival (HSFF), recently named an Academy-qualifying festival and named by MovieMaker Magazine as one of the "Top 25 Festivals Worth the Entry Fee" for its solid track record of presenting the best upcoming short filmmakers and dynamic programming. In addition to short film, HSFF also welcomes music videos, websiodes, commercials, TV shows, Virtual Reality and more. With competitive screenings unfolding at Hollywood's famed TCL Chinese Theatres, HSFF is an ideal place for indie filmmakers to rub elbows with industry players, right in their own backyard.
This year's HSFF will include screenings, daily networking events, panels, and seminars every single day for 10 days. HSFF has featured over 2,000 projects showcasing stars and filmmakers including Luke Wilson, Eli Roth, Sofia Loren, Bill Plympton, Anthony and Joe Russo, Issa Rae, Felicia Day, Jennifer Morrison, JT Mollner, and C. Robert Cargill (writer Doctor Strange). The 2016 HSFF awarded the Kodak Best Short prize to Black Canaries, which also took home Best Cinematography. Best Director went to Madaran and the Company 3 Grand Jury winner went to Catching Fireflies . Company 3 awarded all three winning films a total of $60,000 USD in post production services. The Panavision Future Filmmaker award went to Out Of The Village which included $10,000 in Panavision equipment rental.
In addition to festival programming, HollyShorts also hosts the Film Conference & Market during the August event. This event features additional speaking engagements, seminars, and workshops tackling the most important issues facing the entertainment industry. The gathering features the major studios, networks, agencies and influential speakers. Previous participants included such companies as Fox, Lionsgate, Shorts HD, Electus, Machinima, Route 1 Films, Gersh, Cartoon Network, Film LA, Dailymotion, and Vuguru, to name a few.
April 7, 2017 - Regular Deadline
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MISSION AND OBJECTIVE
HollyShorts Film Festival is an annual short film festival showcasing the best and brightest short films from around the globe.
MORE ABOUT THE FESTIVAL
Select HSFF award-winning projects will receive distribution through festival partner BITPIX and have the opportunity to screen at monthly events hosted by HSFF in major cities. Additionally, HSFF will host a theatrical run for winners in Los Angeles for Academy consideration. All invited filmmakers will enjoy an all access pass to the screenings, panels, filmmaker lounge (which includes sponsored cocktails), filmmaker networking happy hour receptions each night after panels, and the opening night red carpet and awards ceremony.
HSFF is now considering projects under 40 minutes - qualify your work today!
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Tye Sheridan and Nikola Todorovic Headline 2017 Hollyshorts VR Jury (EXCLUSIVE)
Hollywood March 6, 2017--Writer/Producers Tye Sheridan and Nikola Todorovic co-founders of VR production company Aether are teaming up with the HollyShorts Film Festival to launch a VR Experience at this year's HollyShorts. Sheridan and Todorovic will head up the HollyShorts 2017 VRJury and help curate the experience and VR conversations which will take place at the TCL Chinese Theater and Roosevelt Hotel August 10-19, 2017.
HollyShorts is now accepting submissions in their new VR category starting today. The announcement comes on the heels of HollyShorts being announced as an Academy Awards® qualifying festival. Sheridan and Todorovic have recently teamed up with Jaunt on a scripted VR experience called The Enlightened Ones.
Commented fest organizer Daniel Sol: "We are excited to have Tye and Nikola head up the Virtual Reality jury for this year's HollyShorts. It's an exciting time for Storytelling and VR, filmmakers worldwide have been creating high quality groundbreaking immersive experiences and we can't wait to share them at this year's festival."
"We at Aether are extremely honored to be a part of the festival this year," commented Sheridan and Todorovic. "HollyShorts is one of our favorite festivals as it truly encourages artists to express their voice. It’s really thrilling to help bring the new VR category to the festival, especially now that VR storytelling is growing at such a rapid pace and opportunities for VR filmmakers to showcase their work are still limited."
Filmmakers are encouraged to submit their VR Shorts today via http://www.hollyshorts.com/festivalsubmissions/. Early Bird Deadline is Friday.
About Aether
Aether, Inc. is an American entertainment company based in Los Angeles, California primarily focused on the production of Film, Television and Virtual Reality content. The company was started by Tye Sheridan and Nikola Todorovic. The name Aether derives from early philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle. It was later revitalized by the 20th century inventor, Nikola Tesla. Tesla believed the invisible substance, Aether, to be the elusive fifth element.
About HollyShorts
HollyShorts Film Festival is an annual short film festival showcasing the best short films from around the globe. An official Academy Awards qualifying festival for the Short Film Awards®, HollyShorts is devoted to the advacement of filmmakers through a various screenings, film labs, conferences and networking events. The HollyShorts Film Festival showcases the top short films produced 40 minutes or less. Categories include Short Live Action, Short Animation, Short Documentary, Music Video, Webisode, and Youth Film.
Nikola Todorovic
Tagged: VR, Jury, Oscars, Exclusive
HOLLYSHORTS NAMED AN ACADEMY AWARDS® QUALIFYING FILM FESTIVAL
Hollywood January 20, 2017--- The HollyShorts Film Festival is now an official Academy Awards® qualifying festival for the Short Film Awards.
Recipients of the HollyShorts Film Festival Best Short Film Grand Prize will be eligible for consideration in the Live Action Short Film category of the Academy Awards® without the standard theatrical run, provided the film otherwise complies with the Academy Rules.
This year's 13th annual HollyShorts Film Festival takes place August 10-19, 2017 at the TCL Chinese 6 Theatres, Roosevelt Hotel and other top venues in Hollywood, CA. The festival is now accepting early bird submissions for consideration, early bird deadline is February 3, to submit please visit: http://www.hollyshorts. com/festivalsubmissions.
Commented HollyShorts Film Festival co-founders Daniel Sol and Theo Dumont on the announcement: "We are thrilled and honored to be approved as an official Academy qualifying festival, it's truly a tremendous opportunity for our filmmakers and future Best Short Film Grand Prize winners!" HollyShorts is organized by SolMont Events and Nicole Castro.
HollyShorts Film Festival is an annual short film festival showcasing the best and brightest short films from around the globe. HollyShorts is devoted to the advancement of filmmakers through a various screenings, film labs, conferences and networking events. The HollyShorts Film festival showcases the top short films produced 40 minutes or less. Categories include Short Animation, Short Live Action, Short Documentary, Music Video, Webisode, Commercials, Youth Film and Digital Microbudget.
Edith Torres (edith@dumontmarketing.com)
Tagged: Academy, Submission
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Friend pays $530 bill after 10 walk out of Warren Japanese Steakhouse
WARREN, Mich. (FOX 2) - Saturday, the manager of Sagano Japanese Steak House & Bistro contacted Fox 2 to say that a friend of 10 people seen leaving without paying, took care of the group’s $530 bill. The payment came after Fox 2 ran a story Friday, depicting the group walking out of the restaurant before their tab was settled.
Below is the original story:
Party of 10 orders food. Party of 10 eats food. Party of 10 leaves.
Another dine and dash in metro Detroit has left a Japanese steakhouse and bistro out more than $500 after a large group decided they weren't interested in paying for their food on Mother's Day. And make no mistake, this was no accident.
That's what a Warren police corporal said while assessing the surveillance footage of the group eating. The owner of the steakhouse agrees.
"They know they didn't pay," said manager Yukio Oki.
Oki runs the Sagano Japanese Steak House & Bistro, located on Dequindre Street. He said party came in around 8 p.m. and included three small kids and a baby. Despite the connotation of a "Dine and Dash," the video surveillance is anything but.
The group is casual about their exit, meandering around their seats as they begin to leave. As kids twirl around, a couple even hugs. The group had asked the $530 bill be split among five tabs. The waitress never had a chance to deliver those bills though as the family had already walked out.
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"It's Mother's Day, it sets a bad example," said Oki.
Police aren't just leaning on intuition in their suspicion that the group never intended to pay. They didn't make a reservation or call in - so police have little information to go off of. Which is why they're asking the public to review the video. If they recognize anyone, they're asked to call John Gajewski, the detective working the case at (586) 574-4793.
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Deputy mistakes ashes of man's late daughter for drugs during traffic stop
By Elizabeth Matthews
Posted Mar 14 2018 09:41PM CDT
Video Posted Mar 14 2018 10:08PM CDT
Updated Mar 15 2018 06:20AM CDT
A suburban father says his late daughter's ashes were mishandled by a sheriff's deputy who mistook the ashes for drugs.
The deputy chief says his officer used "extreme caution" when handling a vial filled with human remains.
But the owner says after it spilled in his car, he now feels lost.
“Losing my daughter once was enough to kill most people. Losing my daughter twice…uncalled for,” said Anthony Butler.
Butler's daughter, Mariah, was 11 days old when she died in 2014 from congenital heart defect.
All he has left of her is a photo album and a vial of her ashes that he wears every day. Butler says it was filled, until Sunday after a run-in with a Will County sheriff's deputy.
The Romeoville man had just bought an SUV when he was pulled over Sunday night by a deputy near 143rd and South Bell in Homer Glen.
“It started off as a normal traffic stop, no front plate, I will accept ticket,” he said.
Then, the deputy asked to search the car and Butler said yes.
He says he was handcuffed and placed in the back of a patrol car when the officer found a vial containing a white powdery substance, which according to police looked similar to narcotics.
“He asked me if it was okay to test a small amount,” he said.
The field test came back negative and Butler was free to go.
He found the vial in his vehicle, but he says with the inner cap missing and the outer cap not secured.
“When I picked up the remains, the bottom half just fell to the bottom of the console,” Butler said.
His daughter's ashes scattered everywhere.
"Just the worst feeling in the world came over me, like, this isn't happening," Butler said.
The deputy chief says they've never had any complaints about the officer involved and in this case he did not act maliciously.
The chief told FOX 32 while they cannot release it, body camera video shows the deputy apologizing for the mix-up.
By Natalie Bomke
It's time to say goodbye. The Humboldt Park alligator is leaving Chicago Thursday and heading to Florida.
The alligator known to some as "Chance the Snapper" is set to live out the rest of his life at the St. Augustine Alligator Farm, which is known for its animal conservation work.
It is also the business headquarters for Frank Robb, the man also known as "Gator Robb" who caught the reptile Tuesday in the Humboldt Park lagoon.
By Mike Flannery
Chicago's longest-serving alderman is already under indictment on federal corruption charges.
However, Ed Burke may soon be forced to choose between his city council seat and his multi-million dollar, outside law practice.
A city council committee late Wednesday approved ethics reforms that would ban Burke, and any other alderman, from making money by cutting taxes for the rich.
NAPERVILLE, Ill. (Sun-Times Media Wire) -- A video posted to social media shows a suburban gas station clerk telling a customer to “go back to their country” and threatening that immigration officials will come for them.
The Facebook video posted Tuesday is less than a minute long and apparently shows a verbal confrontation at a Bucky’s Gas Station at 1576 S. Washington St. in Naperville.
The video shows a clerk behind a counter commenting on undocumented immigrants to a woman.
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Pop In for a Drink at the Best Creole Restaurants
Galatoire’s Restaurant by rulenumberone2
By: Ian McNulty
No one should leave New Orleans without experiencing its distinctive Creole restaurants, but whittling down the city’s long list of outstanding establishments to fit your budget and time constraints can be a real challenge. After all, there are only so many meals one can cram into a vacation.
Happily, there is an easy and tempting way to get the feel and flavor of several different classic New Orleans establishments each day without making reservations or taking out a loan. Simply saddle up to the bar.
Many of the Crescent City’s most celebrated dining establishments feature lavish bars or lounges where guests can soak up the old New Orleans atmosphere, enjoy a cocktail or glass of wine or even peruse the menu for a light bite without committing to a full meal. Just plan out a schedule and splurge a little.
Lunch — the quintessential meal at Galatoire’s Restaurant (209 Bourbon St., 504-525-2021) — can last literally all day. But guests can still manage a quick visit here thanks to a 1999 renovation that added a bar and lounge area to the second floor. For the better part of a century, drinks were served only from a service bar to diners already seated, but the new upstairs bar offers a different way to experience Galatoire’s, if only for a cocktail. While the jackets-required dress code is not as strictly enforced at the bar, it’s a good idea to dress the part anyway if you plan to imbibe in this fine environment.
The storied history of Arnaud’s Restaurant (813 Bienville St., 504-230-8892) holds that its labyrinthine network of private dining rooms, corridors and secluded chambers effectively concealed illicit drinking during the dark days of Prohibition. In fact, requesting coffee at the start of lunch was in many cases a password for ordering a cocktail. Such measures aren’t necessary today, of course, but the rambling old building retains much of the same mystique. The restaurant’s French 75 Bar — named for a specialty drink of brandy and champagne — serves both as a lounge for diners before and after a meal and also as a destination in its own right to bask in Arnaud’s ambiance.
Tujague’s Restaurant (823 Decatur St., 504-525-8676) didn’t start its long career as an upscale restaurant, but rather as a place for workers from the nearby docks and merchants from the even closer French Market to catch a workday meal. Flash forward more than 150 years and the unique Creole repasts served up in the dining room have established Tujague’s as a New Orleans dining destination. But it’s in the establishment’s front barroom that its original rakish spirit truly lives on. There are no stools along the long, beautiful cypress bar and in fact the only real eye-catching décor in the place is an ancient and massive mirror behind the bar said to have been imported from Paris in the 19th century. Ducking in from bustling Decatur Street’s sidewalks, a drink in the high-ceiling room can seem like a time-warp.
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Napoleon House (500 Chartres St., 504-524-9752) is named for the French emperor and offered to him as refuge after he was driven from power. Napoleon never took up the offer, but today plenty of locals and visitors avail themselves of the bar and café housed in the 18th century building. The bistro in the rear is an upscale establishment with a Creole menu to match, but it’s the casual front dining room and bar that are the most atmospheric. Plaster walls show a patina of age and the subdued, old world décor is accented by the omnipresent classical music broadcast through the room. The specialty drink here is the Pimm’s Cup, which is the color of iced tea and nearly as refreshing, though fortified with alcohol and garnished, oddly, with a slice of cucumber. If it gets too crowded and the weather is fine, try to score a table in the small, lush courtyard at the center of the old building.
New Orleans gave culinary superstar Emeril Lagasse his start, and it is still the seat of his empire. You can take a seat at the bar of his French Quarter restaurant NOLA (534 St. Louis St., 504-522-5562), where the Creole townhouse exterior masks the high energy ambiance and contemporary design inside. The bar is typically jammed with diners waiting for a table, and waiters passing with plates of smoked duck pizza, cedar plank roasted redfish and spicy New Orleans barbecue shrimp en route to those already seated provide ample evidence that the wait is worth it. But squeeze in to the cement-topped bar anyway, order a fancy cocktail, keep your eyes peeled for celebrities (maybe the chef himself) and consider making a reservation for next time.
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East Bengal withdraw it’s offer to Gambo Muhammad
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KOLKATA: East Bengal on Wednesday announced the withdrawal of it’s offer to Nigerian striker Gambo Muhammad, due to prolonged delay in the issuance of his Professional Employment VISA as per procedures of the Indian Embassy in Nigeria.
A club statement read: “This decision has been taken keeping the best interests of East Bengal FC fans and supporters in mind.”
Earlier this week, the 30-year-old Gambo was signed by East Bengal for the 2018-19 football season. However, the delay in issuance of his Professional Employment VISA will result in violation of FIFA international player registration norms.
East Bengal is mindful of the fact that this delay has the potential to affect the professional football career of the concerned player and the formation of the East Bengal entity itself for the current football season. Hence, it has taken the decision to withdraw the offer to the player.
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Point of sale tobacco advertisements in India
S Chaudhry1, S Chaudhry2, K Chaudhry3
1 Department of Mathematics, California State University, Northridge, USA
2 Newark Memorial High School (Student), Newark, California, USA
3 Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi, India
K Chaudhry
Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi
Background : The effect of any legislation depends on its implementation. Limited studies indicate that tobacco companies may tend to use such provision for surrogate advertising. The point of sale advertisement provision has been placed in the Indian Tobacco Control legislation. The study was undertaken to assess the Indian scenario in this regard. Objective : To assess if there are any violations related to provision of point of tobacco sale advertisements under India's comprehensive tobacco Control legislation in different parts of India. Materials and Methods : Boards over various shops showing advertisements of tobacco products were observed in the cities of Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Trivandrum and Jaipur, between September 2005 and March 2006. Results : The point of sale advertisements mushroomed after the implementation of 2004 tobacco Control legislation. Tobacco advertisement boards fully satisfying the point of sale provision were practically non-existent. The most common violation of point of sale advertisements was the larger size of the board but with tobacco advertisement equal to the size indicated in the legislation and remaining area often showing a picture. Invariably two boards were placed together to provide the impression of a large single repetitive advertisement. More than two boards was not common. Tobacco advertisement boards were also observed on closed shops/ warehouses, shops not selling tobacco products and on several adjacent shops. Conclusion : The purpose of the point of sale advertisements seem to be surrogate advertisement of tobacco products, mainly cigarettes.
Keywords: Legislation, point of sale advertisements, tobacco
Chaudhry S, Chaudhry S, Chaudhry K. Point of sale tobacco advertisements in India. Indian J Cancer 2007;44:131-6
Chaudhry S, Chaudhry S, Chaudhry K. Point of sale tobacco advertisements in India. Indian J Cancer [serial online] 2007 [cited 2019 Jul 18];44:131-6. Available from: http://www.indianjcancer.com/text.asp?2007/44/4/131/39374
As per the World Health Organization, tobacco use causes about five million global deaths each year. [1] If current smoking patterns continue, it will cause some 10 million deaths each year by 2020 and half of the current smokers (about 650 million people) will eventually be killed by tobacco.
The WHO initiated the process of Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), in view of the globalization of the tobacco epidemic, the spread being facilitated through complex factors with cross-border effects (including trade liberalization and direct foreign investment), global marketing, transnational tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship and the international movement of contraband and counterfeit cigarettes. [2] FCTC addresses a range of legislative and other measures to be addressed by the parties to the FCTC. However, as WHO's Director General, believes, "The success of the WHO FCTC as a tool for public health will depend on the energy and political commitment that we devote to implementing it in countries in the coming years". [3]
Government of India, in view of several suggestions of World Health Assembly, brought out a comprehensive legislation for control of tobacco use in 2003, which addresses issues related to, (i) ban on direct as well as indirect advertisements of tobacco products, (ii) ban on smoking in public places, (iii) ban on sale of tobacco products to persons below 18 years of age, (iv) ban on sale of tobacco products within 100 meters of educational institutions, (v) legible and prominent warnings on all tobacco products and (vi) maximum limits on levels of tar and nicotine. [4] The rules related to the first three provisions were implemented from 1 st May 2004, whereas some provisions on ban on advertisement have been modified from 1 st April 2006. The rules related to ban on advertisements, permit advertisements on (a) packages containing cigarettes or any other tobacco products; and (b) at the entrance or inside a warehouse or a shop where cigarettes and any other tobacco products are offered for distribution or sale.
The provisions under the 2004 notification (in effect from 1 st May 2004) permit, a maximum of two boards not exceeding ninety centimeter by sixty centimeter in dimensions, displayed at the entrance or inside a warehouse or a shop where cigarettes and any such tobacco products are offered for distribution or sale. Each board has to contain in the Indian language as applicable, one of the two specified warnings (Tobacco Causes Cancer or Tobacco Kills) in the top 25% area of the board. The board could have only the brand name or picture of the tobacco product and no other promotional message and picture were permitted. [4] However, in the further modifications of rules in 2006 (to be implemented), the board number has been reduced to one with a size of maximum of sixty centimeters by forty-five centimeters. The warning size has also been reduced to twenty centimeters by fifteen centimeters. Thus, the warning would occupy about 11% of the area, in comparison with 25% of the area in the earlier provisions. The board can only list the type of tobacco products available and now cannot show any brand name or picture of tobacco products. The display board cannot be backlit or illuminated in any manner. The new rules also indicate that the owner or manager or in-charge of the affairs of a shop cannot display tobacco products (in order to prevent easy access to tobacco products to persons below the age of eighteen years).
Before the implementation of the current Tobacco Control legislation in 2004, the advertisements of tobacco products were very common all over the country, except in Delhi, where the billboard advertisements were banned due to the provisions of Delhi government's Tobacco Control law of 1997. Pertaining to pre-legislative times in Mumbai, Bansal et al. , [5] reported that cigarette advertising was ubiquitous in the environment, present in news and in film magazines, but not in women's magazines or the newspapers. Advertisements and product placements was at low heights and next to candies at point of sale which were easily accessible by children. However, the authors had observed that during pre-legislation period, Delhi newspapers as well as non-film magazines carried advertisements of tobacco products, including cigarettes. Point-of-sale advertisements did exist at a limited level but had not specifically been reported in scientific literature perhaps because direct advertisements were in abundance. Point-of-sale advertisements have increased all over the country after the implementation of the Tobacco Control rules of 2004. Similar increase in point of sale advertisements and promotions have been reported from the US after tax increase, as a strategy to undermine the effects of state Tobacco Control programmes. [6]
It may be pertinent to note that advertisements of products on the boards of shops, is not a new phenomenon in India. Many products have been advertised on the boards of shops and these have been prepared and erected by the company manufacturing or distributing the concerned product. Similarly, the display of products or advertisements inside many shops is also done on regular payment basis. This has been a well known modality of brand advertising. Similar strategies which increase the visibility of tobacco products and provide incentives to store owners has also been described from the US [7],[8],[9] and the UK. [10]
Storefront tobacco advertising (point-of-sale) has been observed to be far more prevalent in predominantly minority, low income communities than in non-minority, higher income communities in the US. [11] Tobacco companies obtain this advertising at little cost. In view of the negative impact of point-of-sale advertising, New Zealand has acted on phasing out of such advertisements. [12]
The current study relates to observations on the violations made by the tobacco companies/ shop owners, regarding the point-of-sale advertisements at tobacco shops between September 2005 and March 2006, i.e. before the notification of modified rules on ban on tobacco advertisements.
To assess if there are any violations related to provision of point of tobacco sale advertisements under India's comprehensive Tobacco Control legislation in different parts of India.
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The authors observed the boards over various shops showing advertisements of tobacco products in the cities of Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Trivandrum and Jaipur, between September 2005 and March 2006. As the intention was merely to observe violations of the rules, no specific sampling procedure or visit to any specific area of the city was considered necessary. Different areas of the cities were visited to observe tobacco advertisements on the shops.
The provisions under the 2004 notification permit a maximum of two boards not exceeding ninety centimeter by sixty centimeter in dimensions, displayed at the entrance or inside a shop. Billboards with tobacco advertisements were a common site in India before this legislation, with the exception of the state of Delhi where these bills had been banned in 1997 under a state government act. The point of sale advertisements were a rare sight before the implementation of 2004 Tobacco Control legislation. The number of such advertisements have been increasing since the implementation of the legislation. It is interesting to note that not all the shops have point of sale advertisements.
During late 2004 and early 2005, when the point of sale advertisements started in a big way, two boards were generally placed together to provide an illusion of a bigger advertisement. However, soon these boards were replaced by a single board of bigger size than was prescribed by the rules. Thus, the correct point of sale advertisement as given in the rules was not seen. The single board in most cases has two advertisements of the size as indicated in the rules. Some of these advertisements possibly looked slightly bigger than permitted, but the boards were not measured under the study. The provision of a warning on top 25% area, did seem to be followed in practically all cases, on each of the advertisement on the board. The advertisements do contain only picture(s) of tobacco product(s) or pack(s). Many boards are backlit and some of them were observed to remain lit throughout the night, even when the shops were closed.
The commonest violation of point of sale advertisements was the size of the board. Even if the board had only one advertisement, the size of the board was invariably larger to fit the front of the shop and the remaining area was either blank or had a picture which had nothing to do with the tobacco product but it gave the impression of overall advertisement being very large [Figure - 1]. In a substantial number of advertisements, two advertisements were placed together on one board, giving the impression of a larger single repetitive advertisement [Figure - 2]. Only in few situations, the author could observe two separate boards placed together. In a small number of cases, the shop had more than two boards [Figure - 3].
Point of sale tobacco advertisements were observed not only on shops selling tobacco products but also on shops generally not selling tobacco products. There seems to be a strong possibility that many a general stores have started keeping tobacco products only to place tobacco advertisements on their shops. However, in some cases the authors observed that tobacco advertisements had been placed on shops which were closed or used as warehouse or were not selling tobacco products at all [Figure - 4]. In two such instances, the shop displaying a tobacco advertisement were a sweet shop or a juice shop, which generally would not be considered esthetically correct to sell tobacco products [Figure - 5].
Another strategy adopted was to place tobacco advertisements on two or more adjacent shops, sometimes providing illusion of bigger advertisement [Figure - 6]. In one case, it was observed that one board was covering two shops (one of them - a sweet shop) with four repetitive advertisements on it [Figure - 7].
The Government of India on 18 th May 2003, published the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertisement and Regulation of Trade and Commerce, Production, Supply and Distribution) Act, 2003, replacing the Cigarette Act of 1975. [4] While, advertisements of tobacco products were banned under this legislation, a provision for point of tobacco sale advertisement was introduced. The reason for this provision has not been indicated in any of the notifications. One may like to assume that this possibly was for the purpose of informing tobacco users about the availability of tobacco products. But, experience suggests that a large number of shops (may be in 50% or more cases) the shops especially in cities are open roadside stalls with their goods visible from a distance [Figure - 8]. These shops carry all kind of tobacco products and there are no exclusive shops for any specific type of tobacco product. Thus, the utility and purpose of the provision for advertisement at point of sale is not clear. Historical considerations indicate that point of sale advertisements were not common in India before the implementation of the 2003 Tobacco Control legislation (implemented from May 2004), although such practices for non-tobacco products were very common. In the light of recent mushrooming of point of sale tobacco advertisements in India, one is forced to think, why there was no need for informing people about the shops which sell tobacco products before the implementation of Tobacco Control legislation. The fact that the point of sale advertisements (for all products) are paid by the manufacturers and that these advertisements are located at busy market places or on important road sides (and not on all shops), definitely suggest that these are more for sales promotion and not merely for information about availability of products.
The state of Delhi presents a special case. Delhi had banned billboard advertisements of tobacco products in 1997. The ban on billboard advertisements was quite effective, but the tobacco companies still had avenues of advertisements through print and other media. The provision of point of sale advertisement provision from 2004, seems to have provided an outlet for advertisements of tobacco products all over the country. These advertisements were initiated by cigarette companies and by and large these still remain cigarette advertisements.
A substantial number of Indian population uses tobacco in smokeless form as well. The Tobacco Control act bans the advertisements of all tobacco products, including smokeless tobacco products. One popular smokeless tobacco product which had been advertised in the past, is gutka or pan masala with tobacco. Most of the companies with gutka or pan masala with tobacco, also manufacture plain pan masala also under the same brand name. The advertisements of plain pan masala are still common on mass media, including electronic mass media. One of the authors has shown that these advertisements are a surrogate for the smokeless tobacco products bearing the same trade name. [13] Interestingly, point of tobacco sale advertisements for these products (which are being heavily advertised through mass media) are practically non-existent. In the light of the above, it would be logical to conclude that this provision is being used by the tobacco manufacturers, as an avenue for direct advertising.
It was observed that many of the point of tobacco sale advertisements were lit and the lights were left on by the manufacturers throughout night, even if the shops were closed providing a source of 24 hour advertising. The proposed modification in the act have tried to address the issue by banning backlighting, but the rules have not been implemented as yet.
A major violation of the act relates to interpretation of the size of the board to size of the advertisement. The size of the board invariably has been equal to the frontal width of the shop, with the each advertisement equaling the prescribed size and rest of the board being blank or bearing a picture. This enhances the impression of the tobacco advertisements. This advertising technique has been utilized by non-tobacco products also. The approach of modified interpretation of the size (switching board with advertisement size) cannot be considered as legal and these advertisements should be considered equal to the size of the board.
Similar feeling of larger advertisement has been created by joining two boards together or by painting two advertisements on a single board. Similar impression of mega advertisements has been created by tobacco manufacturers by placing tobacco advertisements on adjacent shops, sometimes by keeping two boards side by side and occasionally by even providing single board over two shops. In this process, some non-tobacco shops have started selling tobacco products (at whatever scale), while some shops have not even tried to put a facade of tobacco sales. This account suggests that the provision of point of tobacco sale provision in India's comprehensive Tobacco Control act has been distorted and has mainly been used as a means of advertisement. This advertising scenario and historical facts suggest that there is no need for this provision in the Tobacco Control act and this should be repealed.
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Poetry Drawer: Rook by Kezia Cole
Posted on 11th June 2019 by Deborah Edgeley
i liked the way my arms bent
around the weight of a world not mine
i liked the angles of my wrist bones
moulded for consistency
there was nothing sharp
in my mountain shapes
we made monoliths of the present
to carry into what might become.
we built a castle on the sea
an impenetrable hull
of stone that wouldn’t sink
or bend to the tug of the waves.
strong straight lines
and five year plans
knowing where you want to be
is fine if an eye on the horizon
brings it close
but curvature doesn’t
take account of the storms.
still i liked the simplicity
in that predictable back and forth
my bones could take
the heavy salt
laid in your tracks
and our waters
always had that heady
quayside scent
that’s born of decay;
sulphide lungs
bleached wood
and bladderwrack hair
made bodies on the sand
i rose from the wreckage
when the castle sank
and spread like grit
to the wind
no more built on froth-rimed swell
nor shackled to the same tide
no more a tower
doomed to spoil
nor fall beneath the waves.
This poem is taken from Kezia’s first full length collection, solipsist: poems for breaking bonds, (Moonshade Publishing), a volume of free verse themed around personal experiences with abuse, trauma, depression/anxiety, and progressing through healing from toxic and unhealthy relationships.
Kezia Cole is an author, poet, artist, and freelance editor, mostly found dividing time between the wilds of southwest England and the mountains of northeast Pennsylvania. Scribbler of words, dauber of paint, and fighter against chronic illness, Kezia is also a passionate animal welfare advocate, and fosters rescue dogs. Work has been featured in prose anthologies, mixed media exhibitions, and on national radio. She is also an Open University alum 🙂
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Flash In The Pantry: The End by Lauren Foster
‘Apocalypse Now?’
‘His favourite film.’
‘Really? But it’s so damn long.’ A strangled laugh escapes from his lips. ‘Fasten your seatbelt,’ he says.
‘Ok.’
He looks at her. ‘Oh shit.’ It’s all he can think of to say.
‘He was pissed. As usual.’
He stares down at his hands, then runs them grasping through his hair. He thinks of her hands, how they move over his yielding flesh, then earlier – before he got there… He covers his open mouth with his hand and mutters through it: ‘Jesus. I never meant it to be taken seriously. I never thought… not for one moment, you know?’
‘I can’t. She…’
‘Yes?’
‘You don’t understand. ‘
‘Oh, I do. Perfectly.’
He grips the steering wheel with both hands until his knuckles turn white. In silence he watches a petite tortoiseshell cat trot across the road, mouse in its jaws. It leaps onto a wall and over, into a garden.
‘Will you forgive me?’ he says.
‘Not yet.’
‘Are you going to say anything with more than a few syllables?’
‘Are you going to keep to your side of the bargain?’
‘Well?’
‘I’m really, truly sorry.’ he says.
‘At least I get an apology. I suppose one should be grateful for small mercies.’ She gives a little shake of her head and leans into the passenger door, long unkempt hair silhouetted against the sunrise. The glow forms a halo and he can’t take his eyes of her. It’s been this way since first they met.
‘I couldn’t take it anymore,’ she says.
‘I know.’
‘They’ll be looking for me.’
‘Take it off.’
He obeys.
‘Drive.’
He turns the key and the engine complains into life. They set off slow through the old town, content to be still, for a while. She rests her face on the glass, appreciative of the smooth cold against her skin.
‘We can never win,’ she says, the words barely audible.
‘But we will never lose.’ His left hand reaches out to her right, clasps it tight. She doesn’t resist his touch, or respond to it. Marks of history etched into his ring finger. He wonders if she can feel them, mirror to her own.
‘I’ve got nothing to prove anymore,’ she says.
Lauren Foster is a writer and musician based in Charnwood, and a recent graduate of the MA in Creative Writing at the University of Leicester.
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Poetry Drawer: CAPITALIST ADVENT – PRELUDE TO HELL by Perry McDaid
The stink of tradesmen soils our air.
Square eyes yield to cynical “cheer”,
while Mary’s flight in Joseph’s care
is fast eclipsed by wine and beer
and the only type of spirit shared.
The poor dig ever-deeper holes:
gathering debt for children’s smiles.
Rather than nurturing their souls
they blithe succumb to market’s guile
and smother crucial Birthday goal.
Irish writer, Perry McDaid, lives in Derry under the brooding brows of Donegal hills which he occasionally hikes in search of druidic inspiration. His writing appears internationally in the Bookends Review, Red Fez, 13 o’clock Press, Curiosity Quills, Aurora Wolf Literary Magazine, Amsterdam Quarterly, SWAMP and many others.
Inky Exclusive: Mike Garry and his tribute to 40 years of the Manchester Arndale
Mike Garry: The Arndale was an important place for me growing up in Manchester. It was the closest thing to an American mall we had. It was glamour for the kids of Manchester, from Moss Side to Fallowfield, and Moston to Miles Platting. You’d socialise there with your mates, pass the time with a pasty and checkout the latest knits.
I also worked at Stolen from Ivor selling burgundy jeans, but it wasn’t like going to work, it was like hanging with your mates. And these days, the centre is better than it ever was.
Mike’s other well-known verses include ode to north Manchester, God is a Manc, and St Anthony, which is dedicated to the former Factory Records boss and TV presenter Tony Wilson. Mike has now turned his attention to another famous Mancunian with his piece commissioned ahead of The Arndale’s anniversary.
David Allinson, Centre Director at Manchester Arndale: Manchester Arndale has been one of the UK’s most popular and exciting shopping destinations over the years – welcoming 40 million people through its doors every year.
The opening of the northern extension in 2008 led to the arrival of the country’s largest Next store and attracted international brands such as Apple, Monki, Victoria’s Secret and Pink to Manchester for the first time.
The centre remains as popular as ever today, highlighted by Japanese fashion brand Uniqlo’s decision to open its flagship store for the north at Manchester Arndale last month. Our position as one of the UK’s leading fashion hubs has also been boosted by AllSaints’ decision to sign up for a further 10 years at the centre, and the arrival of Quiz, alongside the centre’s more established fashion retailers such as Superdry, JD Sports and many more.
Manchester Arndale continues to attract new shops, restaurants, and leisure brands, and we expect to announce more exciting signings in the coming months.
Special thanks to Suzanne Armfield, PR & Social Media Manager @ Manchester Arndale
Books From The Pantry: The Green Man Awakes: Legends Past, Present and Future edited by Rose Drew: Reviewed by Claire Faulkner
Posted on 3rd June 2019 by Deborah Edgeley
The ancient story of The Green Man has always fascinated me. Whenever I visit a new church or woodland, I always look for his face. When I recently found him in Manchester, on the cover of a poetry book in the middle of a stall at a publisher’s fair, I knew I wouldn’t be leaving him behind.
The Green Man Awakes: Legends Past, Present and Future is a wonderful collection of verse published by Stairwell Books. Edited by Rose Drew, the collection covers the myth, symbols and stories associated with the ancient pagan forest deity.
There are some beautiful poems in this anthology. I enjoyed how each poet expressed their own vision and interpretation on the myth. Some investigate old Norse rituals or ancient belief; some offer a more recent interpretation. The Green Man by Andy Humphrey is one of my favourites in the collection. A present-day setting for the ancient god.
Each evening, his labours at an end,
catches the number ten bus
and makes his silent way
through the glistening, lamplit streets.
I like how this poem sets the Green Man living in the now, and I love how the poet describes looking at him.
…I sneak a glance
when he’s not looking, try to make out
stray twigs poking
from under the cap, the stubble-fuzz of lichen
on his jowls, the weatherbeaten
crags of brows.
Some poems relate to a darker, deeper presence. Green Man by Pauline Kirk, describes the still powerful god trapped, not only in stone, but also in our collective memory.
You barely glance upwards
but your ancestors knew me,
changed me to new faith, and into stone…
Kirk encourages the reader to keep searching for the lost in order to rediscover forgotten knowledge.
…Look up! towards arch
and ceiling boss. Find me,
and I will show you what lingers still,
deep in the groves of your mind.
Another of my favourites in this collection is The Green Man by Dave Gough. In it the god speaks directly to us. And he’s waiting. His world was cleared for stone buildings. ‘Let them come,’ he says, because he knows the power he holds over people, and that one day he will return.
I moved the hand that carved my face…
..The great forest will return
with the seasons and the stars
the sun and moon and rain.
Poems about superstition and forgotten history also weave through this collection. Midsummers Eve, 1840 by Tanya Nightingale is a magical poem, with beautiful descriptions of friendship and youth.
It describes two young girls walking through a graveyard to perform a ritual to help them find husbands.
Suddenly they are both circling, spinning,
Throwing fern and hempseed
And saying words
They don’t believe in and have always heard.
Boxing Day by John Gilham examines how we perceive and remember ancient earthworks. Although we can never truly understand the true meaning of such monuments, Gilham concludes that we should accept
…that the gift of God is the land and the people
and the voices whispering through the last leaves.
If you enjoy reading about myth and legends, and have a passion for poetry, then this collection is definitely for you.
The Green Man Awakes. Legends, Past, Present and Future is published by Stairwell Books.
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Poetry Drawer: Cabin Crew by Kathy Hoyle
Posted on 26th May 2019 by Deborah Edgeley
To you, I am a lipstick-slicked smile.
A branded automaton.
A stocking-topped fantasy.
A bring me, serve me, filthy joke.
To you, I am there for the calling.
Push the corporate button,
Watch her dance.
The strings are invisible.
To you, I am a peripheral bauble.
A wanton waitress.
A pocket for a business card.
A bringer of brandy.
You cannot imagine
What I’ve seen.
What is required.
A head for heights, and hearts.
The hands I’ve held, the tears I’ve wiped.
Gentle comfort to a stranger,
A colleague, a child,
When fear or pain or death takes flight.
To you, I am a lipstick- slicked smile.
A clouded view.
I hope I never witness your descent.
Kathy Hoyle was a former Creative Writing student at the OU, graduating last year, and is now completing her MA at The University of Leicester.
Inky Interview Special: Poet and Editor Isabelle Kenyon
You have several published poetry collections including, This is not a Spectacle, The Trees Whispered (Origami Poetry Press) and Digging Holes To Another Continent (Clare Songbirds Publishing House). Would you share with us a couple of your poems and walk us through the ideas behind them?
Yes of course! This is not a Spectacle (second edition) was published in February of this year and is very much the story of why I started sharing my writing- the book opens with a car crash, an event which took place the day before I left for university in 2017, and which lost me my grandma:
fear tastes like rust. blood and metal.
waiting for you, university bags.
smells like animal saliva, like curdled sweat.
After the phone call I started running,
blindly seeking hospital bed,
weeping on the nurse I had just met.
underwater pressure bubble
impenetrable
apologetic words caressed my head
broke like a wave
swept me out to sea:
Head trauma.
No specialist unit.
fear is inflating
Tried to forget the sound
fluid rising and choking lungs,
Tried to forget tears and last words:
Pain. Pain.
I have tried to be strong.
The book explores where private grief meets public spectacle, but also stands as a tribute to everything about my character which I can tribute to my grandma, such as my strength and my feminist values.
With Digging Holes To Another Continent, (published by Clare Songbirds New York) I was exploring a Christmas spent in New Zealand, a completely new experience for me but at the time when the whole family needed to heal – it was a very Shakespearean celebration because we had travelled for the wedding of my uncle ( the first love of his life so a massive deal to all of us), but after the death of Grandma Maureen, who had suffered with Alzheimer’s and dementia for 12 years -although I don’t touch on that experience in the collection overtly, it very much underpins the collection, a feeling of grief but also relief. I was able to explore the landscape and the wild nature of New Zealand was healing in itself:
Nature Reversal
A few years from now
maybe months
maybe weeks,
a huge wind will claim back the carefully sculpted scoops of road
and the branches that wilt lazily like dog’s tongues will
fall into the sea
on a suicide mission
and take up new roots in the sea bed
(a feast for fish)
and nature will claw back the cities
demolition to terracotta rubble
and the only sound left will be frantic insect feet
on crisping leaves.
Congratulations on your forthcoming poetry collection, published by Knives, Forks and Spoons. What themes have you explored in this new collection? When will it be available?
Thank you! This is the collection I am most proud of to date. It explores the with state of becoming an adult but feeling ill-equipped to deal with the loneliness that comes with that, and also my experience of the aftermath of sexual assault, while being very far away from friends and family. It very much looks at the value of a woman’s body in today’s society. It is due to be released in August 2020.
You are editor of the wonderful Fly On The Wall Press. Can you give us a glimpse into your working day? What are the best and worst parts of being an editor?
I think all publishers will tell you that they both love their job and that they find it exhausting! I love that I create a season, finding gaps in the market I believe need to be addressed. I believe that words have the power to change opinion and that’s what I am aiming to do especially with my anthologies, but also with my chapbooks, representing voices which I believe are not currently at the forefront of society. The worst part as of course when writers cannot separate themselves from their own writing-rejection is never personal, it’s simply about what you have written and the style of it.
As well as offering author services, you also give talks and run workshops in schools. How do you structure your workshops? What subjects have you engaged in with the pupils?
I’m enjoying giving talks in schools currently, but as a publisher it is fairly new to me- I used to be a drama practitioner, however, so I am used to giving workshops creatively! I like to challenge young people by setting the standard of my workshop high, and I am often surprised by the result. I like to give examples of poets whom I admire, but I also like to give an example of where I myself have done the exercise as with students, I wouldn’t like them to do anything which I would not be able to do myself. Primarily, I am engaging the pupils in creative writing about global warming, themed around the Planet in Peril anthology, although I really enjoy answering questions on getting into publishing as an industry.
Please Hear What I’m Not Saying is a fundraising, mental health themed anthology which was runner up in the Saboteur Awards 2018. Tell us more.
Yes! Very much how I started getting the publishing bug and continuing on. The book features 116 writers globally writing on a wide range of mental health experiences-it was really important that I featured as many poems as I fell in love with because there really is no universal experience, and readers will connect with different poems. The book’s profits go to UK mental health charity, Mind, and so far we have raised just under £600. The anthology is available from Fly On The Wall Poetry
Tell us about your experience in taking part in the ‘Sex Tapes’ at the Leeds International Festival.
I think we can all agree that there is little to no money in the arts and that it needs to be funded more, so I was very excited to find a callout for the festival, which paid! The festival opened with ‘Sex Tapes’ and I was scheduled to go on first – very much before the audience and had enough alcohol to process poems on the female orgasm… but that was what I had been paid to write about, so there you go! It was a lot of fun, and there was absolutely no shame in the event- it was very much a positive experience, with the profits going to a charity in Leeds which helps sexual violence survivors. So although the evening was light-hearted and comedic, the message was heartfelt and performers like the lovely Roz Weaver were not afraid to touch on the darker side of their experiences. Thank you to Eleanor Snare for organising such an important evening.
What are you reading at the moment?
I’m reading Songs for the Unsung by Grey Hen Press. I met the editor, Joy, recently, and we agreed that the anthology was a sister book to Fly on the Wall Press’ Persona Non Grata, so I’m enjoying reading her choices and the exploration of social exclusion.
Tell us a random fact about yourself.
I used to compete for Ballroom and Latin with my university- but before university I barely even danced! I thought I had two left feet and now I love it.
What’s next for you? What plans have you got?
I have an exciting performance scheduled in July, for which I will be performing poetry on the subject of women in space. I am hoping to put a book together about these amazing women working for NASA. For Fly On The Wall, 2020 will see a ‘shorts’ season – a short story published in A6 bound form, every 2 months, on subscription to your door!
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Flash In The Pantry: A Blemished Slate by Dr. Susie Gharib
Posted on 21st May 2019 by Deborah Edgeley
She was ushered by her uncle into the only room that was close to the front door of her grandparents’ spacious but very old house. He mumbled something in utter disapproval at her newly shaven head, which looked as a scraped potato in her grandmother’s pot. Clare felt utterly embarrassed though she had done nothing wrong. She thought that she must have looked too ugly to be isolated in her uncle’s private room. She stared at the open window behind which many butterflies roamed. She examined every inch of the wall, stared at nothing then inspected the pictures of a single man’s world, and although she could not then spell the dignified word, its letters loomed large on the ceiling and walls:
F grew gigantic and looked like a lamp-stand with no gold.
O was a circle that had no exit or door.
R restlessly roamed tripping on obstacles on the floor.
L heavily lagged looking lame and forlorn.
N knelt to pray for hair to quickly grow.
F,O,R,L,O and N must have come into the room the moment her uncle turned the knob. Time grew wingless and seconds and minutes crept on the floor. It was a tradition with some parents to have the heads of children shaven to strengthen their hair-roots, but she who recommended the hair chopping did not supply Clare with a cap or hood with which to hide her furless globe. Why was she not at home? Was a shaven head a stigma in any household?
Clare waited for her grandmother who with a hug would calm the heaving and scattered limbs of forlorn. She would ease Clare’s bewilderment and shame with a single kiss on her forehead, fastening a bouquet of violets to the sleek hair, behind the very tiny ear, regaling her nostrils with the soap-scented hand as she, with a snow-white towel dipped in lukewarm water, blotted every mark on an easily blemished slate, a child’s face.
Dr. Susie Gharib is a graduate of the University of
Strathclyde. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in Peeking Cat
Poetry, The Curlew, Plum Tree Tavern, The Ink Pantry, A New Ulster,
Down in the Dirt, the Pennsylvania Literary Journal, Mad Swirl, Leaves
of Ink, the Avalon Literary Review, The Opiate, Miller’s Pond Poetry
Magazine, WestWard Quarterly, Adelaide Literary Magazine, Grey Sparrow
Journal, The Blotter, Foliate Oak Literary Magazine, Crossways, The
Moon Magazine, the Mojave River Review, Dodging the Rain, River Poets
Journal, and Coldnoon.
Poetry Drawer: A BOWL OF JESUS CHRIST RICE by Hunter Boone
Today at breakfast
Sister Mary has pulled out from her cupboard
A blue box filled with crispy crosses –
edible rice bran
the colour of amethyst Trix.
She pours the milk over
her wholesome “t’s” and watches them float
miniature crosses buoyant on a purple sea,
the envy of all Carmelites.
Sister bows her head and prays over
her tiny morsels, each
infinitesimal snap, crackle and pop,
giving thanks for some rangy white-haired Diva
back in Rome whom they’ve named
Product Manager.
Hunter Boone was published in Sappho Magazine under the pen name of J. Hunter O’Shea, has a BA in Creative Writing, studied with Stuart Dybek, Eve Shelnutt, Herb Scott and Jaimy Gordon whilst completing a MA of Fine Arts at Western Michigan University, and plays a Fender Stratocaster.
Flash In The Pantry: Taciturn by Dr. Susie Gharib
I sift through a treasure of photos that my Dad’s death has unearthed and pore over one of an acquaintance who had a fleeting presence in my childhood. I have a vivid memory that conjures every single detail, colour, smell and sound from recollections that would evade any other child.
I sat in the taxi next to the driver, a proper but tiny barrier between him and two young women, a relative and a dark-haired university student in her twenties, visiting home. The driver, a typical womanizer, divided his attention between the tortuous road to the student’s summerhouse and her very short-cut blouse. She had a beautiful bosom and the most captivating smile. He bombarded her ears with compliments and sometimes he crossed the line. I viewed her with my mesmerized eyes but she never returned a glance. She sedately ignored the driver’s remarks with a meaningful but inscrutable smile. I wondered what was making her so happy – I was sure it was not that silly clown. Though her face was fixed on the road, she was looking inwardly at something that fascinated her lustrous eyes. She was so taciturn that I cannot now recall her voice. I had an excuse to constantly examine her face to see how she responded to sexual praise of the unremitting type, but her politeness remained all along intact. When she left the car, I felt a terrible sense of loss. That nymph had me under her spell. She never doted on me as strangers usually do on children during a short drive, but she took away with her a piece that she chiseled off my mind. My sun and my moon orbited in her constellation – she had allowed them in without a sign.
More than forty years have elapsed and at the counsel of my retentive memory I could have been three, four or five. That was my only meeting with my mother, now I realize long after her demise. She had departed from the world without saying goodbye. I wish she had sealed that short meeting with a hug, a kiss, or a keepsake gift. My only inheritance is a box of haunting smiles and a long history of malignant lies.
Dr. Susie Gharib is a graduate of the University of Strathclyde.
Her poetry and fiction have appeared in The Curlew, A New Ulster,
Straylight Magazine, Down in the Dirt, The Ink Pantry, The
Pennsylvania Literary Journal, Mad Swirl, Leaves of Ink, The Avalon
Literary Review, The Opiate, Miller’s Pond Poetry Magazine, WestWard
Quarterly, Adelaide Literary Magazine, Grey Sparrow Journal, The
Blotter, Foliate Oak Literary Magazine, Crossways, The Moon Magazine,
the Mojave River Review, Always Dodging the Rain, and Coldnoon.
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Fade in, fade out – the scene changes. Todays frenzy is tomorrow’s flop. This year’s rave may well become next year’s yawn. But though shows may fold, great showmen go on and on… And Jack Hylton was one of the greatest showmen of them all. He loved the footlights and the people who sang, danced and clowned in front of them. This was his world and he vastly enriched it by his shrewd judgement, his dour courage and his rare gift for creating stars. But there is also this to say about Jack. He was generous to those at the bottom of the bill and to those who could no longer make it. And for this we thank him – and salute him.
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Modi uses more harsh words for Pakistan on Uri attack, Congress calls it repetitive
Likening the anger in the country over Uri attack to that witnessed in the 1965 war, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today maintained that those responsible for the terror strike will surely be punished as he asserted that the army does not speak but displays bravery.
He also sent out a message to the people of Kashmir, which has been witnessing unrest for over two months, saying that “peace, unity and harmony” are the ways to resolve problems and expressed confidence that all issues can be addressed through discussions.
In his monthly radio programme ‘Mann Ki Baat’ which he began by paying tributes to the 18 soldiers who died in the Uri attack on September 18, Modi said, “this cowardly act was enough to shake the entire country. There is mourning as well as anger in the country.”
He said, “This is a loss not only for those families which lost their sons, brothers, husbands. This loss is for the entire country. That is why, today I will say only this much, which I said on that day (of the incident) also and I will repeat it today, that the guilty will surely be punished.”
Reposing faith in the Indian army, the Prime Minister said it will foil all such designs through its bravery.
“They (Indian armymen) are the people who take bravery to its pinnacle so that 125 crore people can live a peaceful life,” he said.
“We are proud of our army. People and politicians get opportunities to speak and that’s what they do. But the army does not speak. The army displays its bravery,” Modi said.
He read out a message of an 11th standard student who had expressed anger over the Uri incident and had the desire to do something over it. After lot of thinking, he had resolved to give extra 3 hours to studies every day as his contribution to the country.
Appreciating the child’s “constructive thinking”, the Prime Minister said, “there is a lot of value to the anger that people of the country have. This is a symbol of the country’s awakening. This anger is of the kind of ‘do something’… When 1965 war (with Pakistan) broke out and Lal Bahadur Shastri was leading the country, similar was the feeling, anger in the country. There was fever of nationalism.
Everybody was keen to do something.
“At that time, Lal Bahadur Shastri ji attempted to represent this feeling in an excellent manner to the world and he gave the slogan of ‘Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan’ to inspire common people to work for the country.”
This is the second public speech by Modi in as many days after he urged Pakistani people to wage a war against poverty and malnutrition. He made these comments in Kozhikode while attending a BJP national meet.
His comments had evoked sarcastic reactions from social media users, who identified his bravado and projection of himself as a strong leader before becoming prime minister in 2014.
Reacting to Modi’s Mann Ki Baat, opposition Congress dared him to turn his words into action and bring justice to the sacrifice of the 18 soldiers who were killed in the Uri terror strike.
Speaking to ANI, Congress leader Meem Afzal said that the Prime Minister’s attacking stance against Pakistan was quite similar to his words after the Pathankot attack, adding that he appreciated his words, which even though repetitive, have come at the right time.
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Jewish World Review August 28, 2013/ 22 Elul, 5773
Trains to Nowhere
http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | When Democrats and Republicans agree, I get nervous. It often means that they agree to grab my wallet.
Both parties now agree that we don't have extra budget money lying around, but both say government does need to spend more on "infrastructure."
Even conservatives want more spent on roads and mass transit.
The reason, advocates claim, is that infrastructure, unlike most government spending, has a "multiplier effect" — it creates new wealth by doing things like speeding up travel.
Well, it might.
Advocates also point out something that seems obvious to them: Infrastructure is a job that must be done by government. Who else would launch big projects like the New York City subway system? Subways are what Big Government supporters call a "public good."
They are important to many people, but there's no way that business would build subways or run them, they argue. Subways lose billions of dollars. Entrepreneurs would never invest in subway cars or dig subway tunnels — there's no profit in that.
But often what we "obviously know" ... is not so.
Most of New York's subways were actually built by private companies. Few New Yorkers even know that. Private companies dug the first tunnels and ran the trains for about 40 years. But when they wanted to raise the fare to a dime, the politicians said they had to "protect" the public. Government took over the system, saying only "public ownership" could guarantee affordable fares.
But government doesn't do anything well. Under government management, profit disappeared and the fare rose well beyond the inflation-adjusted equivalent of what the private companies had wanted to charge.
Now, politicians want you to buy them new trains. Who wouldn't like a shiny new train? The Obama administration gave your money to California politicians who want to build a 200-m.p.h. train to take people from Los Angeles to San Francisco. Somehow, in the tradition of political boondoggles everywhere, the train that politicians actually approved doesn't yet come close to either city. It starts, and ends, "in the boondocks," says Reason magazine's Adrian Moore.
"I live in a little mountain town called Tehachapi," he says. "It's in the middle of nowhere, 50 miles to the nearest Walmart ... the high-speed rail line in California comes right through my town. This thing is like the boondoggle of boondoggles."
When I confronted train advocate Dennis Lytton about that, he said, "They're starting high-speed rail in the middle of the state because that's where you can build it fast."
He also said, "Private investors will be part of the mix." But when I asked if any have invested so far, he said, "Not at this time."
People who spend their own money know better.
Lytton also claimed that California's Amtrak trains are "packed." So we investigated that claim. It turns out to be far from the truth. On average, California's Amtrak trains are one third full.
Government planning leads to transit systems that lose money on every passenger, airports where there are few passengers or planes and bridges to nowhere.
America does need mass transit. Three hundred million people need to go places. Roads are congested. Who will provide it when government drives transit entrepreneurs out of the business?
Well, instead of building giant rail projects in the boondocks, how about letting people ride buses?
Buses, privately owned buses, are now the fastest growing mass transit in America. Buses are much cheaper than trains. Amtrak charges about $150 to ride from New York to D.C. Buses charge less than $20. And buses don't require new land seizure through eminent domain. Buses aren't locked into straight-line routes. They go where people go. And when people move, buses, unlike trains, change routes.
Let services be paid for by the people who use them and built by people who put potential profits on the line. Otherwise, politicians will take us for a ride.
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Girls Soccer: Batavia's Holcombe, St. Charles North's Wahlberg sign with Indiana State
By CHRIS WALKER - sports@kendallcountynow.com
Anna Holcombe is an impact player at Batavia.
Those type of players don’t like to keep benches warm, and Holcombe doesn’t expect to be sitting on one often when she moves on to Indiana State.
“Our coach is kind of newer so we’re her first class with only her recruits so she’s looking for us to come in and make a big impact,” Holcombe said. “So I’m a little nervous about that because she expects big things from us, so that’s a lot of pressure, but I’m excited for it.”
The senior signed her national letter of intent during a midday ceremony at Batavia on Wednesday while surrounded by her friends, countless teammates and classmates, a cousin, her parents and her coach Mark Gianfrancesco.
"Indiana State is definitely getting a very determined player,” Gianfrancesco said. “She has a lot of high goals that are attainable but they are high, but she pushes herself to a high level.
Offensively, she’s a one-on-one goal scorer and fitness and quickness are big things for her. I think they’re getting the kind of player who can step in right away and make an impact.”
Holcombe, who scored seven goals and had seven assists last season, is a part of a huge 10-recruit class at the Terra Haute, Ind. Missouri Valley Conference school. She anticipates she’ll play center mid like she does in club. At Batavia she’s thrived in more of a forward, outside midfielder role.
“We will be young next year but each of our signees is poised to come in and compete for playing time right away,” Indiana State coach Julie Hanley said in a statement. “I am excited about the nucleus of youthful talent we will have on board in 2019."
A great opportunity is there for the taking.
“It’s kind of a new wave of recruits coming in there,” Gianfrancesco said. “Anna can be on the ground floor of that which can be awesome. Not everyone has that opportunity when they’re looking to play at the next level.”
Holcombe will have some local company at Indiana State. Her Campton United teammate CeCe Wahlberg, a senior at St.Charles North, signed Wednesday evening during a ceremony at North.
“We both have the will to win,” Wahlberg said. “So we always want to win and we push each other playing in the middle together so we have each other’s back. We’ve never really hung out outside of soccer, but with travel soccer you’re like with each other 24/7 anyway.”
Wahlberg, who had two goals and four assists last year, is following her older sisters Elli (Wisconsin-Whitewater) and Gia (Michigan State) in taking her game to the next level.
“I saw them go through the process and now I’ve gone through it and had to put in that effort myself,” she said. “And it’s a major relief for me to know where I’m going to be playing soccer for the next four years.”
Hanley’s honesty was one of the things that attracted Wahlberg to Indiana State.
“She was very welcoming and straight forward and said she wouldn’t guarantee a spot, I’d have to earn it,” Wahlberg said. “I liked that, and I liked the environment and everyone there likes to compete and it’s like a family there.”
Playing Division I soccer is a dream come true for Holcombe.
“Every since I was really little, I wanted to play at the D1 level so when Indiana State came across I visited and instantly liked it,” she said. “I love the atmosphere there and the competitiveness level of D1. I really like the coaches. They’re a big part of why I decided to go there and I really like some of the girls on the team.”
Not being too far from home – Indiana State is about a four-hour drive from the Tri-Cities depending on who’s driving – also was appealing.
“I didn’t want to go away too far, and my parents want to come to all my games and stuff,” Holcombe said. “I’m excited for the future, but I’m not going to get ahead of myself. I’m going to enjoy the rest of my time here at Batavia.”
Others around the area who signed, by school:
Tyler Isenhart, golf, Baylor
Alyssa Davidson, lacrosse, Lewis
Jenna Dominguez, soccer, St. Cloud State
Eli Ford, volleyball, North Alabama
Alyssa Kramer, softball, Western Michigan
Sydney Erdmann, softball, Concordia
Marmion
Jonathon Reid, basketball, St. Norbert College
Eric Lundell, baseball, Concordia University, St. Paul
Charlie Gambs, football, Augustana
Trevor Chumbley, wrestling, Northwestern
Michael Jaffe, wrestling, Harvard
Peter Ferraro, wrestling, Harvard
Kathryn Mueller, swimming, Purdue
Annika Pickard, volleyball, Stonehill
Samantha Rankin, swimming, California Polytechnic State
Anne Tavierne, swimming, South Carolina
Sydney Van Overmeiren, swimming, Florida State
Athena Ye, swimming, Harvard
St. Charles East
Paige Ligocki, softball, Grand Valley State
Maddy Stout, softball, University of Indianapolis
Alex Wooten, softball, University of Wisconsin -Parkside
Krista Sbarra, softball, University of Wisconsin -Whitewater Mckenna Slavik, volleyball, Clemson
Calli Gentry, volleyball, UW Green Bay
Kaitlin Cramer, swimming, Concordia College at Moorhead
Brianna Muzi, soccer, University of Dubuque
St. Charles North
Grace Sobieski, Saint Leo University
Baseball: Jonah Hays, Will Tucholski combined shutout carry Geneva to regional title
Baseball: Ex-Kaneland star Casey Crosby back in the game, pitching with Chicago Dogs
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Posterscope USA, Lamar Advertising Debut Vehicle Recognition Technology in Customized Outdoor Campaign for Chevy Malibu
Cameras identify oncoming vehicles and serve personalized messages to drivers of competitive brands
New York, NY – April 7, 2016 – Posterscope USA, a leading Out-of-Home communications specialist, together with Lamar Advertising Company (Nasdaq: LAMR) has unveiled a new outdoor campaign for the 2016 Chevrolet Malibu launch using vehicle recognition technology that can identify certain types of vehicles and generate dynamic, customized messages to drivers of those vehicles on digital billboards.
Developed in conjunction with Carat and Commonwealth, the campaign is now live in Chicago, Dallas and the New Jersey area and is designed to raise awareness of the Malibu’s distinguishing features, including safety and fuel efficiency.
“The Malibu Vehicle Recognition Campaign is a first-of-its-kind in the U.S. and truly takes dynamic real-time media to the next level,” said Helma Larkin, CEO of Posterscope. “By integrating vehicle recognition technology into this campaign, we are able to deliver personalized content to drivers of competitive vehicles, increasing the likelihood that messages will be noticed and remembered. It’s the first time this type of technology is being used in the U.S., but only the latest example of how we are leveraging technology to deliver impactful results through OOH campaigns.”
The vehicle recognition technology is embedded within a pole-mounted camera alongside the highway. As a vehicle approaches, the camera hones in on the grille and is able to identify the make and model of the vehicle. If it is a competitor to the Malibu, the driver of that car sees a customized message generated just for them on a digital billboard about 1,000 feet down the road. The camera does not collect license plate information or driver imagery, and all data is deleted as soon as the customized message is delivered on the billboard.
“As a media owner, we are constantly looking for innovative new ways to utilize technology and out-of-home, helping advertisers talk to consumers with relevant creative,” said Ian Dallimore, Director of Digital Innovation & Sales Strategy for Lamar Advertising Company. “Using Lamar’s digital network and vehicle recognition technology, we were able to help Posterscope deliver a personalized one-to-one message to Chevrolet’s target audience.”
The vehicle recognition campaign, currently running in the three markets through the end of April, is part of a larger out-of-home initiative spearheaded by Posterscope USA to raise awareness and drives sales of the new 2016 Chevrolet Malibu.
About Posterscope
Posterscope is a full service out of home communications specialist with 700 people in 48 offices across 27 countries. US offices include New York, Los Angeles and Detroit. Posterscope is at the vanguard of cutting edge developments in OOH such as digital, programmatic, and OOH interactivity. Clients include: General Motors, Mastercard, Disney, The Home Depot, Red Bull, Adidas among others.
About Lamar Advertising Company
Founded in 1902, Lamar Advertising Company (Nasdaq: LAMR) is one of the largest outdoor advertising companies in North America, with more than 325,000 displays across the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico. Lamar offers advertisers a variety of billboard, interstate logo and transit advertising formats, helping both local businesses and national brands reach broad audiences every day. In addition to its more traditional out-of-home inventory, Lamar is proud to offer its customers the largest network of digital billboards in the United States with over 2,400 displays. Please contact us at pr@lamar.com or visit our website www.lamar.com for additional information.
Greg Kalish
GK Communications for Posterscope USA
gkalish@gkcomms.com
Allie McAlpin
Lamar Advertising Company
amcalpin@lamar.com
Technology Fuels Renaissance in Out-of-Home Advertising
There is a billboard along a highway west of Chicago that is just as smart as any online ad, if not smarter. Motorists behind the wheels of a Toyota Camry, Nissan Altima, Hyundai Sonata or Ford Fusion might even get the feeling that they are being watched. They'd be right.
Lamar Advertising and RAREFORM Unveil Second Installment of Art Lives Billboard Campaign with Renowned Artist Tyler Ramsey
Lamar Advertising and RAREFORM have partnered with renowned artist Tyler Ramsey to launch the second installment of Art Lives. Lamar is displaying Ramsey’s original artwork on one of its iconic billboard locations on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles. The billboard campaign will run through the end of April, and then RAREFORM will give the artwork a second life as repurposed bags and accessories.
© 2019 Lamar Advertising Company
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“Great sights upon the water…”: unexplained phenomena in early Boston
By Daniel Tobias Hinchen, Reader Services
I hear you haue great sights upon the water seene betweene the Castle and the Towne: men walking on the water in the night euer since the shippe was blowen vp or fire in the shape of men. There are verie few do beleeue it yet here is a greate report of it, brought from thence the last day of the weeke.*
The above excerpt is from the letter shown, dated 29 January 1643/4, written from John Endecott in Salem to Governor John Winthrop in Boston. In the weeks preceding this letter, a series of strange occurrences took place in Boston, and Winthrop recorded the events in his journal. It seems that the entries were written after the fact since Winthrop relates a couple of happenings in the same entry. The first event, though, was said to have taken place on January 18th of that year.
About midnight, three men, coming in a boat to Boston, saw two lights arise out of the water near the north point of the town cove, in form like a man, and went at a small distance to the town, and so to the south point, and there vanished away. They saw them about a quarter of an hour, being between the town and governour’s garden. The like was seen by many, a week after, arising about Castle Island and in one fifth of an hour came to John Gallop’s point.
Winthrop continues his entry recording matters pertaining to maintenance of Castle Island and defense of the town of Boston. But after just a paragraph, he returns to the topic of strange sights in the sky.
The 18th of this month two lights were seen near Boston, (as is before mentioned,) and a week after the like was seen again. A light like the moon arose about the N.E. point in Boston, and met the former at Nottles Island, and there they closed in one, and the parted, and closed and parted divers times, and so went over the hill in the island and vanished. Sometimes they shot out flames and sometimes sparkles. This was about eight of the clock in the evening, and was seen by many. About the same time a voice was heard upon the water between Boston and Dorchester, calling out in a most dreadful manner, boy, boy, come away, come away: and it suddenly shifted from one place to another a great distance, about twenty times. It was heard by divers godly persons. About 14 days after, the same voice in the same dreadful manner was heard by others on the other side of the town towards Nottles Island.
Writing after the facts, Winthrop made very little attempt at providing explanations for these occurrences. In the immediate journal entries there was only one bit that gave anything in the way of reasoning for what people saw:
These prodigies having some reference to the place where Captain Chaddock’s pinnace was blown up a little before, gave occasion of speech of that man who was the cause of it, who professed himself to have skill in necromancy, and to hav done some strange things in his way from Virginia hither, and was suspected to have murdered his master there; but the magistrates here had no notice of him till after he was blown up. This is to be observed that his fellows were all found, and others who were blown up in the former ship were also found, and others also who have miscarried by drowning, etc., have usually been found, but this man was never found.
Interested in finding out more? Consider visiting the MHS Library to work with the sources cited, or see the suggestions below for further reading.
*The transcriptions of the documents in this post appear as they do in the published volumes cited below, typically with original spelling and punctuation intact.
Endicott family papers, Massachusetts Historical Society.
Winthrop, John, The journal of John Winthrop, 1630-1649, Cambridge, Mass.: the Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1996.
Winthrop papers, vol. IV, Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1944.
Hall, David D., “A World of Wonders: The Mentality of the Supernatural in Seventeenth-Century New England,” Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Vol. 63 (1984), pp.239-274.
McKeown, Adam N., “Light Apparitions and the Shaping of Community in Winthrop’s ‘History of New England’,” Early American Literature, Vol. 47, No. 2, BETWEEN LITERATURE AND HISTORY (2012), pp.293-319.
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Travelling to understand time and place
New Zealand plant fossils
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Miocene Swamp Forests of St Bathans, New Zealand
The white sands and muds surrounding Blue and ‘Grey’ Lakes at St Bathans were laid down in a braided river (Manuherikia Group; Douglas 1986). About twenty million years ago, in the Miocene period, It was flowing from the New Zealand hinterland in the west to the east coast. Braided rivers are constantly changing their channels, forming new ones, abandoning old ones. The lenses of grey mud in between the sand probably formed in abandoned channels. Floods washed the mud in, along with a good deal of leaves and wood, which are now preserved as fossils.
Miocene braided river sediments at Grey Lake, near St Bathans, New Zealand.
However, one part of this Miocene braided river complex is rather different. It seems to have started off as a small floodbasin lake. Over time, trees became established, and what one was open water, became a dense swamp forest. Instead of mud, an almost solid layer of plant fossils accumulated in situ. Today, as this material dries, the mummified leaf fossils separate like layers of paper.
Miocene fossil Retrophyllum shoots from near St Bathans, New Zealand. The shoots are flaking off a block of plant hash which accumulated in a swamp forest marginal to a braided river. These fossil shoots can be floated out of this matrix and mounted between clear plastic.
The most prominent plant in this Miocene fossil hash is a conifer called Retrophyllum . It has remarkable shoots where the leaves are in pairs, and twisted so that leaves on one side of the shoot have their bottom side up (Hill and Pole 1992). This helps to make it an easy plant fossil to identify. With a bit of skill and more luck, intact shoots of the Retophyllum fossils can be floated out of the hash, and mounted between sheets of plastic (see featured image). Retrophyllum is extinct in New Zealand today, but species of this plant still grow in New Caledonia, South America, and various islands in the Pacific. I visited one specimen in a forest in Fiji.
Retrophyllum tree growing in Fiji (it’s the fine leaved tree in the background)
Detail of a Fijian Retrophyllum showing the opposite leaves on the shoot.
When New Zealanders think of ‘swamp forest’ today, kahikatea (Dacrycarpus) most likely comes to mind. However, at least in St Bathan’s Miocene braided river ecosystem, Retrophyllum, seems to have dominated the swamp forests (Pole, 1992, 1997, 2007). Kahikatea was there too, but the kahikatea-dominated forests that appear in so many of New Zealand’s calendars and posters (see one of Craig Potton’s images in the Otago Daily Times here), may be the result of Retrophylllum’s demise.
Links will take you to a site to download pdfs of the papers.
Douglas, B. J. 1986. Lignite resources of Central Otago. New Zealand Energy Research and Development Committee Publication P104: Volume one, Volume 2.
Hill, R.S. and Pole, M.S. (1992) Leaf and shoot morphology of extant Afrocarpus, Nageia and Retrophyllum (Podocarpaceae) species, and species with similar leaf arrangement, from Tertiary sediments in Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 5: 337 – 358.
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Raul Alhazredo, author of The Nachonomicon
July 15, 2014 Derek Sotak
15th century woodcut of “The Mad Monk” Raul Alhazredo having The Nachonomicon dictated to him by a mysterious stranger.
While little is known about The Nachonomicon, the unspeakable book of all nacho knowledge that man was not meant to know, other than of its unseemly reputation, even less is known about its author, “The Mad Monk” Raul Alhazredo.
Alhazredo was said to have been a missionary who came over from Europe during the Spanish conquest of Mexico in the 1500’s with the singular goal of converting the heathens of the New World to Christianity. He immediately set out to spread the word of The Lord to the darkest corners of Mexico, ignoring the warnings of the natives as pagan superstition, only to find himself slowly slipping into insanity as his faith in both religion and humankind was rocked by encounters with the otherworldly things which dwelt there. His final expedition of conversion was to find the fabled city of Aztlán which was rumored to be located somewhere in the vast Chihuahuan Desert, but it was a journey he would return from barely alive, his mind reeling.
No one knew if he managed to find Aztlán, or what happened to him there if he did, as his ramblings as he stumbled back into town were barely intelligible at best, and questioning-man’s-place-in-the-universe terrifying at worst. There were mutterings of him encountering the Tlazolteotl Bruja Cults, consulting with pus and stabbing demons, and all around acting very unmonklike. He retreated from the church in town where he had previously slept and took up in an abandoned shack deep in the Sierra Madres.
Infrequently he would return to town to buy strange herbs and spices and was rumored to be compiling a book of unspeakable cooking methods with hints of a legendary food that would reshape the face of the world. Local chefs would refuse to sell to him and children would avoid the area of his shack after sundown. Townsfolk claimed they could hear strange chanting and noises coming from its direction on nights of the full moon, as well as long, strange, footprints originating from nowhere and heading in its general direction.
The story of his death, torn apart by invisible creatures in the middle of a restaurant in town, is an obvious exaggeration and most likely a cover for his murder at the hands of the fed up and superstitious locals, what is fact is that his remains were deep fried in oil and left out in the desert for the beasts to consume. Afterwards a few brave townsfolk went up to his shack in the mountains only to find pages upon pages of a manuscript labeled as El Libro De Sabrosos Nachos (The Book of Delicious Nachos) and a large hole in the floor of it leading down into an inky black cave system. a few of the most foolish men climbed down into it and found the cavern crawling with gigantic mezcal worms, and a slimy hole dropping down into utter blackness from which no bottom could be determined. After a torch was dropped down and disappeared a maniacal laughter could be heard issuing from it and they quickly fled the scene. They used black powder to destroy the entrance of the cavern and burnt the house to the ground. Finally clear of “The Mad Monk”, the town celebrated with a gigantic fiesta in the town square, which was quickly silenced as a massive sinkhole swallowed it whole.
But the cleansing fire did not destroy all as at least one copy of the blasphemous El Libro De Sabrosos Nachos survived the blaze and made its way to Europe to be translated by numerous practitioners of the Dark Culinary Arts and renamed The Nachonomicon. While it can not be confirmed, Hákral, Balut, and Tacos de Nana are all recipes rumored to have sprung from the madness of the foul tome. Most disturbing though, while not explicitly mentioned, the fingerprints of nachos are all over the pages of the grimoire, detectable not in their presence, but instead in their absence. While most of the recipes seem to be secreted away, foodstuffs such as the Turducken and KFC’s The Double Down are proof that some of its content is still slipping out. Woe to the chef that tries to make some of its most advanced recipes, and god help us if someone like Guy Fieri gets his hands on a copy...
The Jean Paul Baptiste D’Ys de Gevaudan translation of The Nachonomicon on display in the dangerous books section in the Library of Congress.
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Let’s say that every Tuesday for the past 50 years you had visited the same restaurant and gotten an order of nachos. One order of nachos a week, 52 weeks a year, 50 years, that’s 2600 orders of nachos. Pretty impressive when it’s put like that. But what would happen if the restaurant decided to change their menu, and that change involved removing nachos from it entirely? Would you switch to ordering something else? Would you start going to a different restaurant that sold nachos? Or would you, like this certain group of Austinites, band together into the Nacho Liberation Forces and try to get them returned to the menu? You can guess what a group worthy of the “Heroes of Nachos” title would choose.
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In addition to the sensors on the penetrator, MUPUS also has two heat sensors mounted on the harpoons that did not fire. Finally, an infrared sensor known as the thermal mapper (TM), mounted on the Philae lander itself, could measure heat emitted from the surface of the comet over a small area.
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BJP wins Jasdan bypoll; reaches three-figure mark in Gujarat Assembly
The by-election was necessitated after Bavaliya, who had won the seat on a Congress ticket in 2017, resigned from the party and also the assembly, and joined the BJP.
Published: 23rd December 2018 11:25 AM | Last Updated: 23rd December 2018 01:13 PM | A+A A-
BJP's Kunvarji Bavaliya (Photo | ANI/Twitter)
The ruling BJP comfortably won the bypoll from Jasdan Assembly seat in Gujarat Sunday, taking its tally in the House to 100.
BJP candidate Kunvarji Bavaliya defeated his nearest rival, Congress nominee Avsar Nakiya, by a margin of 19,979 votes, officials said.
Bavaliya retained the Assembly seat in Rajkot which he had won as Congress candidate in 2017.
With this, the BJP now has 100 MLAs in the 182-member Gujarat Legislative Assembly, while the Congress tally has come down to 76.
The saffron outfit had won 99 seats in the 2017 assembly polls and the Congress 77.
At the end of the counting of votes, Bavaliya secured a total 90,262 votes as against Nakiya's 70,283, the officials said.
A total 2,146 votes were cast as NOTA, they said.
Polling for the Jasdan Assembly seat was held on December 20 and a voter turnout of 71.
27 per cent was recorded.
The by-poll became a battle of prestige between the ruling BJP and the opposition Congress in the wake of the latter winning the just held assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh.
The by-election was necessitated after Bavaliya, an influential Koli community leader who had won the seat on a Congress ticket in 2017, resigned from the party and also the assembly, and joined the BJP.
Bavaliya, who quit as an assembly member on July 2, was made a Cabinet minister in the BJP government the same day.
As the Congress candidate in 2017, Bavaliya had won over BJP's Bharat Boghara by a margin of 9,277 votes.
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North American Skater - Mississauga, OHL
Final Rank: 13 Midterm Rank: 6
Position: Center Shoots: Right
Height: 6' 2" Weight: 188
Born: February 3, 1998 Hometown: Mississauga, Ont.
Born in: Mississauga, ON, CAN
Drafted: 2016: NJD (1st Round / 12th Overall)
• In 2015-16, McLeod skated for his hometown Mississauga Steelheads of the Ontario Hockey League, finishing second in team scoring with 61 points (21-40— 61) in 57 games behind linemate and No. 3-ranked North American skater Alexander Nylander (28-47—75).
• McLeod added 3-6—9 in seven postseason contests – including a pair of three-point outings – before the Steelheads were eliminated in the first round by Barrie.
• In 2013-14, McLeod registered 21-36—57 in 33 games for the Toronto Marlboros of the Greater Toronto Hockey League, coached by Hockey Hall of Fame defenseman Paul Coffey. At the 2014 OHL Cup, he produced 7-4—11 in seven games to lead the Marlboros to the OHL Cup championship and was named Most Valuable Player of the tournament.
• Internationally, McLeod was part of Canada’s gold medal entry at the 2015 Ivan Hlinka Memorial and skated for his country at the 2016 Under-18 World Championship.
• McLeod is part of a hockey family: his older brother, Matthew, played for Canisius College in 2015-16 and his younger brother, Ryan, played alongside Michael as a teammate on the Steelheads.
• He wears No. 9 in honor of hockey legend Gordie Howe, his mother's favorite player.
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My go-to karaoke song is: 'Sweet Caroline' by Neil Diamond
Last TV show I binge-watched is: Vampire Diaries
The celebrity that always makes me laugh is: Will Ferrell
I do a great impression of: LeBron James
The app I spend way too much time on is: Vine
At an all-you-can-eat buffet I go straight for the: Wings
The coolest person I've ever met is: Justin Bieber
The athlete I admire most is: LeBron James
If I could be one person for a day it would be: Justin Bieber
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The irregular at magic high school THE MOVIE - The Girl Who Summons the Stars - Blu-ray
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At their industry panel at Sakura-Con (Seattle, Washington), Aniplex of America confirmed that they will be releasing the feature film,The irregular at magic high school THE MOVIE -The Girl Who Summons the Stars-, on Blu-ray in July. Belonging to one of the most prolific franchises within the anime community, The irregular at magic high school THE MOVIE -The Girl Who Summons the Stars- comes three years after the television series premiered with an all new story by author Tsutomu Sato. Following the U.S. premiere at Anime Expo 2017 in Los Angeles, the film was released nationwide in select theaters by Aniplex of America and Azoland Pictures. The Blu-ray will come with box illustrations by Kana Ishida (Original illustrations, Character Designer and Chief Animation Director for the film) along with subtitled trailers, and commercials, as well as collectible illustrations cards. The irregular at magic high school THE MOVIE -The Girl Who Summons the Stars- Blu-ray will be available July 10th and is currently taking pre-orders at RightStufAnime.com.
Known simply as Mahouka by its most dedicated and enthusiastic fan base, The irregular at magic high school was adapted from a light novel series, which continues to be one of the top selling light novels in Japan with over 7.7 million copies sold. The staff members of the film include Director Risako Yoshida and the above mentioned Kana Ishida, who also served as the Chief Animation Director for the Oreimo series, as the film’s Character Designer and Chief Animation Director. The music was provided by Taku Iwasaki, who is well-respected for his iconic work on many hit shows including Gurren Lagann and Black Butler, along with a theme song by GARNiDELiA (Fate/Apocrypha, KILL la KILL). Cast members include Yuichi Nakamura (Oreimo, WWW.WAGNARIA!!) as Tatsuya Shiba, Saori Hayami (anohana –The Flower We Saw That Day-, Sword Art Online) as Miyuki Shiba, Yumi Uchiyama (The Asterisk War, NISEKOI) as Erika Chiba and Sora Amamiya (ALDNOAH.ZERO, Plastic Memories) as Honoka Mitsui.
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Patent application title: Modified darc stack for resist patterning
Inventors: Michael Chan (Mountain View, CA, US) Michael Chan (Mountain View, CA, US) Usha Raghuram (San Jose, CA, US)
IPC8 Class: AH01L21311FI
Class name: Semiconductor device manufacturing: process chemical etching combined with coating step
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A method of making a device includes forming a device layer, forming an organic hard mask layer over the device layer, forming a first oxide hard mask layer over the organic hard mask layer, forming a DARC layer over the first oxide hard mask layer, forming a photoresist layer over the DARC layer, patterning the photoresist layer to form a photoresist pattern, and transferring the photoresist pattern to the device layer using the DARC layer, the first oxide hard mask layer and the organic hard mask layer.
1. A method of making a device, comprising:forming a device layer;forming an organic hard mask layer over the device layer;forming a first oxide hard mask layer over the organic hard mask layer;forming a DARC layer having a thickness of less than 60 nm over the first oxide hard mask layer;forming a photoresist layer over the DARC layer;patterning the photoresist layer to form a photoresist pattern; andtransferring the photoresist pattern to the device layer using the DARC layer, the first oxide hard mask layer and the organic hard mask layer.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein the DARC layer comprises a silicon oxynitride layer.
3. The method of claim 2, wherein the step of transferring the photoresist pattern to the device layer comprises:patterning the DARC layer and the first oxide hard mask layer using the patterned photoresist layer as a mask;patterning the organic hard mask layer using the patterned DARC and the first oxide hard mask layers as a mask; andpatterning the device layer using at least the organic hard mask layer as a mask.
4. The method of claim 3, wherein the step of transferring the photoresist pattern to the device layer occurs in a single pass.
5. A method of claim 3, wherein the organic hard mask layer comprises amorphous carbon and the step of patterning the device layer forms conductive rails.
6. A method of claim 1, further comprising forming a second oxide layer between the DARC layer and the photoresist layer.
7. A method of claim 6, wherein the first oxide hard mask layer and the second oxide layer comprise silicon oxide layers and the second oxide layer has a thickness of about 3 nm to about 10 nm.
8. A method of claim 1, further comprising forming a BARC layer between the DARC layer and the photoresist layer.
9. A method of claim 8, further comprising forming a second oxide layer between the DARC layer and the BARC layer.
10. A method of claim 1, wherein the DARC layer has a thickness ranging from 20 nm to 45 nm.
12. A method of claim 1, wherein the DARC layer has a refractive index with a real part (n) ranging from 1.5 to 2 and an imaginary part (k) ranging from 0.05 to 0.35.
13. A method of making a device, comprising:forming a device layer;forming an organic hard mask layer over the device layer;forming a first oxide hard mask layer over the organic hard mask layer;forming a DARC layer over the first oxide hard mask layer;forming a photoresist layer over the DARC layer;patterning the photoresist layer to form a photoresist pattern; andtransferring the photoresist pattern to the device layer using the DARC layer, the first oxide hard mask layer and the organic hard mask layer.
14. A method of claim 13, further comprising forming a second oxide layer between the DARC layer and the photoresist layer.
15. A method of claims 14, wherein the first oxide hard mask layer and the second oxide layer comprise silicon oxide layers and the second oxide layer has a thickness of about 3 nm to about 10 nm.
16. A method of claim 13, further comprising forming a BARC layer between the DARC layer and the photoresist layer.
17. A method of claim 16, further comprising forming a second oxide layer between the DARC layer and the BARC layer.
18. A method of claim 13, wherein the DARC layer has a refractive index with a real part (n) of less than 2.0 and an imaginary part (k) of less than 0.45.
19. A method of claim 13, wherein the step of patterning the photoresist layer is performed by immersion photolithography.
20. The method of claim 13, wherein the DARC layer comprises a silicon oxynitride layer.
21. The method of claim 20, wherein the step of transferring the photoresist pattern to the device layer comprisespatterning the DARC layer and the first oxide hard mask layer using the patterned photoresist layer as a mask;patterning the organic hard mask layer using the patterned DARC and the first oxide hard mask layers as a mask; andpatterning the device layer using at least the organic hard mask layer as a mask.
22. The method of claim 21, wherein the step of transferring the photoresist pattern to the device layer occurs in a single pass.
23. A method of claim 21, wherein:the device layer comprises at lease one semiconductor layer;the step of patterning the device layer forms an array of semiconductor pillars; andthe DARC layer has a refractive index with the real part (n) of less than 1.85 and the imaginary part (k) of less than 0.5.
24. A method of claim 23, wherein the DARC layer has a refractive index with the imaginary part (k) of less than 0.3.
25. A method of claim 24, wherein the DARC layer has a refractive index with the imaginary part (k) ranging from 0.05 to 0.2.
26. A method of claim 23, wherein each pillar in the array of pillars comprises a diode.
27. A method of claim 26, wherein the diode is a steering element of a memory cell and wherein the memory cell further comprises a storage element.
28. A method of claim 27, wherein:the memory cell type is selected from at least one of antifuse, fuse, polysilicon memory effect cell, metal oxide memory, switchable complex metal oxide, carbon nanotube memory, graphene or polycrystalline carbon switchable resistance material, phase change material memory, conductive bridge element, or switchable polymer memory;the storage element comprises a resistivity switching element;the memory cell is a read/write memory cell or a rewritable memory cell; andthe memory cell is located in a monolithic three dimensional array of memory cells.
29. A method of claim 13, wherein the step of transferring the photoresist pattern to the device layer comprises forming at least one of pillar, rail, or via in the device layer.
30. A method of claim 13, wherein the step of transferring the photoresist pattern to the device layer comprises forming at least one of a memory cell, a capacitor, a gate electrode, a conducting contact, a conducting line, or an isolation feature in the device layer.
[0001]The invention relates generally to a photolithography method for making a semiconductor device, for example, a diode containing nonvolatile memory array.
[0002]In order to fabricate 45 nm and 80 nm features, one prior art process uses a hard mask stack shown in FIG. 1. The stack consists of a layer of organic hard mask 103, also called advanced patterning film (APF), a layer of Dielectric Anti-Reflective Coating (DARC) 106, such as silicon oxynitride, on top of organic hard mask 103, and a Bottom Anti-Refection Coating (BARC) 109 layer, such as an organic BARC layer, on top of DARC layer 106. A photoresist 111 is located above the BARC layer.
[0003]A combination of the DARC 106 and the BARC 109 layers are used to ensure proper suppression of wafer reflectivity. Resist patterns 111 are first used to define the BARC 109 and the DARC 106 that in return is used to define the organic hard mask 103, followed by patterning a device layer 101. The thickness of the DARC 106 layer generally ranges from 60 to 80 nm, primarily driven by the need of providing sufficient masking for patterning the organic hard mask 103. For example, as shown in FIG. 1, DARC layer 106 may be 60 nm thick and have a refractive index of real part (n) of 1.82 and imaginary part (k) of 0.175.
[0004]One embodiment of the invention provides a method of making a device comprising forming a device layer, forming an organic hard mask layer over the device layer, forming a first oxide hard mask layer over the organic hard mask layer, forming a silicon oxynitride DARC layer over the first oxide hard mask layer, forming a photoresist layer over the DARC layer, patterning the photoresist layer to form a photoresist pattern, and transferring the photoresist pattern to the device layer using the DARC layer, the first oxide hard mask layer and the organic hard mask layer.
[0005]FIG. 1 is a side cross-sectional view illustrating a prior art hard mask configuration.
[0006]FIG. 2 is a side cross-sectional view illustrating a hard mask configuration of a first embodiment of the invention.
[0007]FIG. 3 is a side cross-sectional view illustrating a hard mask configuration of a second embodiment of the invention.
[0008]FIG. 4 is a side cross-sectional view illustrating a hard mask configuration of a third embodiment of the invention.
[0009]FIG. 5 is a side cross-sectional view illustrating a hard mask configuration of a fourth embodiment of the invention.
[0010]FIGS. 6A and 6B are simulation results showing substrate reflectivity as a function of DARC layer thickness. A rail-shape module is used for simulations in FIG. 6A, and a pillar-shape module is used for simulations in FIG. 6B.
[0011]FIGS. 7A and 7B are simulation results showing substrate reflectivity as a function of thickness, real refractive index (n), and imaginary refractive index (k) of the DARC layer. A rail-shape module is used for simulations in FIG. 7A, and a pillar-shape module is used for simulations in FIG. 7B.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE EMBODIMENTS
[0012]In the prior art configuration, the thick DARC layer 106 serving as a hard mask in etching steps is used together with the organic BARC layer 109 to provide satisfactory anti-reflection properties required for photolithography. However, the addition of a BARC layer generally requires thicker resists, and ultimately leads to increased aspect ratio of lithographic features. This is believed to be the main cause of defects including pattern collapse, sloped resist profiles, critical diameter variations, and other abnormalities.
[0013]One embodiment of this invention provides a method of making a device in which an oxide hard mask layer is used below a thin DARC layer. This allows the BARC layer to be omitted. The method comprises forming a device layer, forming an organic hard mask layer over the device layer, forming a first oxide hard mask layer over the organic hard mask layer, forming DARC layer, such as a silicon oxynitride DARC layer or any other suitable DARC material layer, having a thickness of less than 60 nm over the first oxide hard mask layer, forming a photoresist layer over the DARC layer to form a photoresist pattern, and transferring the photoresist pattern to the device layer using the DARC layer, the first oxide hard mask layer and the organic hard mask layer. Preferably, the DARC layer comprises silicon oxynitride and the organic hard mask layer comprises amorphous carbon. However, other materials may also be used, such as a nitrogen free DARC. In some embodiments, the device layer can be electrically conductive, insulating, semiconductor, or a multilayer thereof. The desired pattern of device layer can have a rail, pillar, contact hole or any other shape. Preferably, but not necessarily, the step of transferring the photoresist pattern to the device layer using the DARC layer, the first oxide hard mask layer and the organic hard mask layer occurs in a single pass using different etch chemistry for etching different layers. For example, the DARC layer, the first oxide hard mask layer and the organic hard mask layer can be etched sequentially without breaking vacuum. The etching may be conducted in a single pass through multiple chambers of a multi-chamber cluster tool or in the same chamber of an etching apparatus. In one embodiment, the process includes patterning the photoresist layer, patterning the DARC layer and the first oxide hard mask layer using the patterned photoresist layer as a mask, patterning the organic hard mask layer using the patterned DARC and the first oxide hard mask layers as a mask, and patterning the device layer using at least the organic hard mask layer as a mask. The patterned photoresist layer is consumed during the organic hard mask etch and the DARC and oxide hard mask layers are consumed during the device layer etch. Different etching gases may be used for etching different layers. Other etching methods may also be used.
[0014]In one embodiment, the device layer comprises a conductive material, such as a metal or metal alloy, which is patterned into rail shaped electrodes. Alternatively, the device layer may comprise an insulating layer which is patterned into a desired shape or where openings or vias (such as contact holes) are etched in the insulating layer. In general, any suitable shapes or features may be formed, such as nonvolatile or volatile memory cells, capacitors features, gate electrodes, conducting contacts, conducting lines (such as word lines or bit lines), or isolation features. In another embodiment, the device layer comprises at least one semiconductor layer, the step of patterning the device layer forms an array of semiconductor pillars, and each pillar in the array of pillars comprises a diode. The diode may be a steering element of a memory cell which also includes a storage element. In some embodiments, the storage element comprises a resistivity switching element. The resistivity switching element can be a metal oxide, silicon oxide or silicon nitride antifuse dielectric layer or another switching element, and the diode and the metal oxide antifuse dielectric layer can be arranged in series. The memory cell can be further located in a monolithic three dimensional array of memory cells. The memory cell can be a read/write memory cell or a rewritable memory cell. The memory cell type can be selected from at least one of antifuse, fuse, polysilicon memory effect cell, metal oxide memory, switchable complex metal oxide, carbon nanotube memory, graphene or polycrystalline carbon switchable resistance material, phase change material memory, conductive bridge element, or switchable polymer memory. U.S. application Ser. Nos. 11/864,532 and 11/819,595, U.S. Published Application Numbers US 2007/0164309 A1 and US 2007/0072360 A1, and U.S. Pat. Nos. 6,946,719, 6,952,030, 6,853,049, disclosing memory cells and methods of making and/or using thereof, are hereby incorporated by reference in their entirety.
[0015]A stack of the first embodiment is shown in FIG. 2. The stack includes an oxide hard mask 205 and a thin DARC layer 207 to replace layers 106 and 109 in prior art stack of FIG. 1. The BARC layer is omitted. Optionally, in a second embodiment, an additional BARC layer 309 can be added on top of the thin DARC layer 307 and the oxide hard mask 305, as shown in FIG. 3. The thin DARC layer (207 or 307) comprises silicon oxynitride and has a thickness less than 60 nm, preferably ranging from 25 nm to 50 nm, such as from 20 nm to 45 nm, for example from 25 nm to 40 nm or from 30 nm to 35 nm. The DARC layer may be less than 25 nm thick. The oxide hard mask layer (205, 305) may comprise silicon oxide. The thickness of the oxide hard mask layer (205, 305) can vary and generally be determined by the requirements of etching steps in a particular process. In one embodiment, the organic hard mask layer (203, 303) comprises amorphous carbon, such as an APF film. The device layer (201, 301) is described above.
[0016]In a third embodiment, shown in FIG. 4, a second thin oxide layer 408 can be added on top of the stack, allowing the resist (411) to be stripped and reworked without compromising the integrity of DARC layer (407) and the first oxide hard mask (405) below. Optionally, a BARC layer 509 can also be added on top of the second thin oxide layer (508), as shown in FIG. 5. The first oxide hard mask layer (405, 505) and the second oxide layer (408, 508) may comprise silicon oxide layers. The second oxide layer (408, 508) has a thickness of about 3 nm to about 10 nm. The thickness of the first oxide hard mask layer (405, 505) can vary and generally be determined by the requirements of etching steps in a particular process.
[0017]In another embodiment, a DARC layer having an optimized refractive index (n, k) is used to further reduce the reflection. In the prior art stack shown in FIG. 1, the real part n of refractive index of DARC layer is 1.82, and the imaginary part k of same layer is 0.175. However, when a 60 nm thickness of the prior art DARC layer (106) is used, the resulting reflectivity is about 0.014 for rail-shape module (i.e., when an electrode is patterned), or 0.011 for pillar-shape module (i.e., when a pillar diode is patterned), respectively. The reflectivity can be significantly reduced by using DARC layers with optimized n and k values. The detailed results of simulations are demonstrated in FIGS. 6 and 7, as will be described below.
[0018]More specifically, in one embodiment, the DARC layer (207, 307, 407, 507) has a refractive index with a real part (n) of less than 2.0 and an imaginary part (k) of less than 0.45, preferably with a real part (n) of less than 1.85 and an imaginary part (k) of less than 0.5, preferably with a real part (n) ranging from 1.5 to 2 and an imaginary part (k) ranging from 0.05 to 0.35. In another embodiment, the DARC layer (207, 307, 407, 507) has a refractive index with the imaginary part (k) of less than 0.3, and preferably with the imaginary part (k) ranging from 0.05 to 0.2. The patterned device layer can have a rail shape or a pillar shape, or a mixture thereof. The optimum refractive index of DARC layer in a particular case can be affected by the numerical aperture of the scanner, the type and size of the patterns and the mask, etc.
[0019]FIGS. 6A and 6B are simulations demonstrating the dependence of reflectivity on the DARC layer thickness while refractive index (n, k) of the DARC is held constant at 1.82, 0.175, respectively. FIG. 6A refers to the rail shape module, and FIG. 6B refers to the pillar shape module.
[0020]As shown in FIG. 6A, when a rail-shape module is used, simulations show that a minimum reflectivity, as small as around 0.0055, can be achieved by using a thin DARC layer. Such small reflectivity provided by a thin DARC layer can be sufficient for enhanced photo resist performance in immersion lithography. However, the thin DARC layer may lose the desired etch resistance when used as a hard mask. In embodiments of this invention, an underlying oxide hard mask is combined with the thin DARC layer in order to achieve desired etch resistance in the pattern transfer process. In contrast, when a pillar module is used, the minimum reflectivity is obtained when a thicker DARC layer (60 nm or above) is used, as shown in FIG. 6B. However, the minimum reflectivity is still as high as 0.011 which is higher than desired for enhanced photo resist performance.
[0021]Further simulations shown in FIGS. 7A and 7B demonstrate that in addition to tuning thickness, the reflectivity can be significantly improved by tuning the refractive index of a DARC layer. In regard to the rail-shape module, a minimum reflectivity of 0.0016 can be achieved by using a refractive index of n, k of around (1.6, 0.02) even for a relative thick DARC layer having a thickness of around 60 nm, as shown in FIG. 7A. In regard to the pillar-shape module, a minimum reflectivity of 0.0024 can be achieved by similar DARC thickness and refractive index values of n, k of (1.6, 0.012). A desired refractive index and thickness can be tuned according to a particular process and/or system. For example, in order to achieve low reflectivity for enhanced photoresist performance, different resists may require a DARC having different thickness and reflective index.
[0022]DARC materials and oxides can be deposited in same chamber, minimizing turnaround time of processing. They can be prepared by conventional chemical vapor deposition, or via spin-on methods (such as spin-on-glass materials).
[0023]Furthermore, since the DARC layer and oxide hard mask are both dielectrics, no major undertaking is needed for etch development. The same etch recipe can be used for DARC (207, 307, 407, 507) and oxide hard mask (205, 305, 405, 505, and optionally for oxide layer (408, 508). Any suitable etching gas or liquid can be used, especially those generally used to etch oxide, nitride, and oxynitride layers, such as CF4/CHF3 based chemistries. All types of etchers can be used. In some embodiments, CF4/HBr chemistry or a mixture of Cl2/BCl3 based reactants in poly or metal etchers can also be used. Moreover, gas additives such as O2, N2, He, and Ar can be introduced into the chamber to control critical dimension bias and improve etch uniformity. The chemistry of choice for this step is typically not very selective between DARC and oxide, especially when a thin layer of sacrificial oxide (408, 508) is deposited on top of the DARC, reducing possibility of resist poisoning.
[0024]The first oxide hard mask (205, 305, 405, 505), the optional the second oxide mask (408, 508), and DARC layer (207, 307, 407, 507) work in concert to serve as a mask in step of patterning organic hard mask (203, 303, 403, 503), allowing a thick organic hard mask (203, 303, 403, 503) to be patterned in order to further serve as a mask for patterning the device layer (201, 301, 401, 501). The thickness of oxide hard mask can be tuned to fulfill the requirement on mask for patterning organic hard mask (203, 303, 403, 503) with a particular thickness, so that the thickness of DARC layer (207, 307, 407, 507) can be tuned independently to achieve a surface reflectivity providing optimum resist imaging.
[0025]One or more photosensitive layers (211, 311, 411, 511) can be formed and patterned over the stack described above. For example, photosensitive layers used in 45 nm type lithography may be used, for example, 193 nm radiation sensitive photoresist. Other photosensitive layer or layers may also be used. Immersion lithography (i.e., a lithography which utilizes a liquid at the interface) may be used to expose the photoresist. A topcoat may be used on top of the photoresist to prevent diffusion of chemical by-products into water and lens during exposure. Alternatively, a top-coat free photoresist may be used. Other lithography methods, including but not limited to regular UV or X-ray methods, may also be used.
[0026]The foregoing detailed description has described only a few of the many forms that this invention can take. For this reason, this detailed description is intended by way of illustration, and not by way of limitation. It is only the following claims, including all equivalents, which are intended to define the scope of this invention.
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NPP Gave John Mahama the Content to Go Boot-for-Boot
James Kofi Annan
I am drawing the inspiration for this article from the Gospel according to John Chapter 18, verse number 10, “Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, drew it and struck the high priest’s servant, cutting off his right ear”.
Judas the betrayal of Jesus Christ had led a detachment of soldiers, chief priests, and the Pharisees to arrest Jesus, after betraying him. Peter had been angered by Judas’ actions, and elected to defend his master. Peter, known amongst the Disciples to be self-motivated, and enthusiastic, wanted Jesus Christ to know how loyal he was to him, and that is why he drew that instant sword, to please the man who had come to save the world.
Enough has been written about the conduct of the Police and the masked National Security commandos involved in the just ended Ayawaso by-election. I sympathize with Sam George, and all those victims, for the slaps visited on their faces. It has been condemned, and I do same too, that it was needless, and nowhere in our governance life should we allow such abrasive behavior to occur.
And those of you my friends in the NPP who are celebrating the violence, please, stop it. Today it is Sam George, tomorrow Sam George could be in power, and it might be you. That is when you will realize the pain of the palm.
But I am glad, that, that unfortunately needless slap was visited on no other person than someone who has been in power before, and who, perhaps, might have been a perpetrator of smuggling unqualified persons into the security services, and who himself might have been a perpetrator in the past. If while in government he had ensured that no unqualified Police person was employed, he would have had qualified professional police persons who would have protected him against those masked men.
I was told of a story that happened last Sunday, of a woman who caused her pastor to make an announcement for his son MP, that there are opportunities for individuals to be recruited into the army, Police, Immigration, and all the security services, and her son has said that anyone in his constituency who was interested in joining any of those security forces should contact him for immediate enlistment. The announcement added that the MP said that there is no need for any interested persons to have any qualifications, and that even if the person has never been to school, he, the MP, would ensure successful enlistment for those interested illiterates.
Do you see how the seeds of Ayawaso are sown? If you populate the security services with unqualified unprepared and politically motivated persons, then you reduce them to ordinary unwilling clueless persons who are wearing the uniforms for the sake of drawing their salaries, and who are unable to defend even the chickens in their own homes.
My biggest disappointment has to do with the damage the vandalism has caused the government. I want to believe, that, regardless of how the NPP saw the acts, they know that it is a damaging communication. It must be admitted that the acts and its attendant publicity did not add any vote to the NPP’s 2020 agenda.
What we have to remember is that modern communication is both science and art. I have seen some really interesting content in recent times, in Winneba, and sometimes I wonder what they were thinking when they were generating the content. Communication is no longer what you say, and how you say what you say. It is no longer the availability of platforms. Communication has moved beyond putting information out there, whether truth or lies. The effectiveness of modern communication is an action-based content building art that dovetail itself into predictive elements.
I am unwilling to go into details, for the sake of the something something that I am involved in. But let me remind you that nearly all those who have lost power in Africa, have lost their power at their peak of their wealth, and also at the peak of their violent reprisal attacks, and at the peak of the unlimited power itself. The will of the people braze itself, and at the risk of their lives, surge forward to face the bullet. When people are determined for change, the bullet means nothing to them. And for bullets to mean nothing to the people, the leadership of the insurrection feed themselves on both the content generated by incumbent, and their own generations of hope, building villain and portraying heroes.
I know you will dispute this, but trust me, whatever happened never added a single vote to the NPP, and whoever sanctioned the actions of the strong men might have done that to show power, but brought the party down. The candidacy of the woman, Lydia Alhassan, was simply a gold mine, and could simply have been used, on her own circumstantial merit, to prosecute the campaign to victory. No need for built men.
Remember constituencies in Accra are mainly compact, similar to the Effutu constituency. Information flow is quick and nearly manifest in the form of floods. If you take a constituency like Asikuma-Odoben-Brakwa, it has several remote towns and villages, with some hardly hooked on the internet. So you could localize situations and avoid the consequences filtering to other towns. But Ayawaso is similar to a compound house where rumors take seconds to consummate. If your opponent knows the arts and science of communication, he could blow you off with a spike!
And I believe Jesus Christ knew of this incumbency communication disadvantage, and that is why he rebuked Peter, for cutting off the ears of the Pharisee. If Jesus had allowed him, Peter would have even made an attempt on Judas’ ears. But Christ knew that all things are permissible, but not all things are desirable.
The irony is that the NDC can afford to generate negative content, and it will still be to their advantage. That is why the all-die-be-die mantra was planted, and it worked. That is why the Afoko/Kobena Agyapong Tsunami did nothing to affect the NPP’s victory. That is why the NPP was able to turn a common kalypo drink into a fortune for its party. And that is why ex President John Mahama has emerged with boot-for-boot.
So as I condemn the violence in the just ended by-election, I regret that we did not think through to know that this constituency is sitting on a rumor-fertile landscape, and a media saturated environment. Those built men were definitely determine to merit their pay, but the Jesus amongst you could have ordered them to draw away their sword.
Still, the battle is the Lord’s!
Source: James Kofi Annan
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As a comic reader and pop culture maven it made sense that I would start watching Arrow when it debuted in October of 2012. I had viewed all ten seasons of Smallville with the fervent hope that Chloe would one day step to the fore. She didn't, unfortunately, but she did snag herself Green Arrow and then slowly (but not surely) extricated herself from the mess that that show became.
But Arrow isn't Smallville. Thank god.
And Justin Hartley isn't playing Oliver Queen. Stephen Amell is. Both actors have done a fantastic job in making their variations of the character spring to life.
But when Arrow aired. I wasn't sure. It was shot beautifully, the actors were good but something was missing. It wasn't until the third episode that I, and pretty much every other person watching the show, realised that the thing that was missing was a moment of levity. The second that Oliver Queen almost smiled was the moment the show started to breathe.
Arrow started off as a relentlessly grim exploration of a man seeking retribution for his father as the expense of everything, even himself. The show took Oliver's lead, becoming a cold, dark and terse spiral into bloody sacrifice. And it was done well. But to appreciate the dark, you need a breath, time to sit back on your heels. The breath came in the form of a blonde, ponytailed rambler with a talent for computers.
Felicity Smoak.
the nearly smile.
But let's be honest, it wasn't Felicity Smoak we responded to. It was Emily Bett Rickards playing Felicity Smoak that made Oliver (and Stephen Amell) nearly smile. We needed her desperately and the show craftily reconfigured, locked her down and steadily increased her screen time until she was a season regular in season two. For any other actress this might have been a two scene guest role that didn't make an impact, but Rickards did. Credit to her for doing so because she's a large component of the upswing of engagement, and momentum from that, that increased the show's ratings. We liked everyone more for being in a scene with her and Oliver kept almost smiling.
The Rickards tale has been often told, none better than by Amell.
Almost immediately the Olicity (Oliver + Felicity for shipping novices) took off and running. Almost immediately after that people began to dismiss the Felicity character as one half of a sad ship-crazed fandom. Yes, they liked the character but they didn't really see her with Oliver in a relationship way...more of a partner or sibling way. Regardless, the barrage of Olicity became loud and prevalent.
But the problem with Felicity Smoak...is that the Olicity factor is much more about her than it is a couple. Our whole experience of the character was primarily through interactions with Oliver. Every time Rickards was on screen she was in a scene with Amell.* Sometimes Diggle (the lovely David Ramsey) was loitering around with a line. Sometimes she shared a scene with Walter...but that was really to slingshot her into the Foundry. Sometimes...wait, that's pretty much it until mid-season two. Her sole purpose on the show is to be Oliver's Girl Wednesday. Her only storyline was Oliver. Felicity is a supremely likable character (something the producers haven't been able to replicate other characters, specifically the divisive Laurel and Roy) and her key interaction is with the lead...who's a dude...who the character, and the actress, have great reciprocal chemistry with. Viewers want more of the supporting character of Felicity and the most obvious avenue for that was for her to be in a relationship with him.
*This happens for Diggle as well. Laurel and Tommy have each other to play off, as do Moira and Thea.
Of course there are other ways for there to be more Felicity screen time. She could train with Diggle. She could befriend Laurel (who desperately needs to be in a scene with someone she's not related to, or has boinked.) Sara and Felicity could become friends, train together and build off their nice scene together earlier in the season. She could enter in a relationship with Barry Allen, aka The Flash. Felicity could move her way towards becoming Oracle. Until the most recent episode, we knew almost nothing about the character. The most prevalent information we had was that she lusted after Oliver, lacked a filter, wore short skirts, was loyal and lovable, a genius at IT, and has a tendency to get kidnapped by the bad guy (though not on Laurel-like levels.) If you distill the previous sentence into the most often evidences character traits were the lust and the tech. That's it. Both serviced the main character.
There were options available. And the fans were excited for any of them. But then the kiss happened, and anger that erupted from that one scene that concluded the most recent episode. I maintain that that rage was much more to do with Felicity than the Olicity situation. Felicity was going to feel betrayed, and/or marginalised, and that meant our sunshine was going to fade. Fade as a result of her unselfish choice to be honest (and the repercussion of that honesty for Oliver). We like to believe that such self-sacrifice has a positive pay off...but instead of a scene post-revelation, we had a kissing scene that makes another female a larger component of Team Arrow.
Which means that Felicity will probably get less screen time as long as Sara's in the picture. (Yes, I realise tomorrow's 2x14 is Felicity-centric....but lets see how 'centric' it really is.) What could have been, and could still be, a relationship between two women fighting as part of a team looks less likely. Sara's presence also removes the claim that Felicity knows the true Oliver better than anyone. Sara knew the old Ollie, the shipwrecked ragamuffin, and the Arrow, not only does she know him better than anyone but she's shared many of those experiences. Sara, in effect, has minimalised Diggle and Felicity. It's the one-two punch of ouch.**
**Everyone love Diggle. Diggle needs more screentime.
The Sara/Oliver hook up also has greater impact as the viewers did (yes, past tense) really like Sara. And yet, in betraying her sister (again) and hooking up with Oliver she has fallen in many viewer's eyes. Though not to Laurel depths - depending on who you talk to. Many Felicity fans had envisioned Sara as a friend to Felicity, a means of developing both of these characters outside of their relationship with Oliver, and yet in one fell swoop this opportunity seems to have disappeared. Not only that but it had dire consequences for Laurel and the potential for a relationship with someone who wasn't her dad, Oliver or (RIP) Tommy. It's an Arrow cataclysm of female character dominos. Yes, all these hopes can be eventuated still. But we're about to hit episode 37 and not one of the secondary female characters (sans Queen ladies) have passed the Bechdel Test in a scene together. To have all this potential female friendship material get pushed out (if ever) because a female character boinked the lead is heartbreaking.
It's not about Olicity so much as our love for Felicity and our need to have her be more, do more and have more screen time. Regardless of Oliver, we want more Felicity. We would love for her to have more scenes with Moira because look what happened when you let them unleash! Why don't Thea and Felicity have a relationship? Why isn't Laurel brought into the social group, as opposed to the Team? Why do we know more about Roy than Felicity? (I am seguing, sorry, but really the females get a rough go in this show sometimes.)
Yes, we would like to see some pay off for the crackling sexual tension between Felicity and Oliver but really, viewers want Felicity to get what she wants. And if that means Oliver - awesome. If that means Barry - awesome. If that means leaving the Team, rerouting her career path back to IT (don't get me started on the EA position) and starting her own girl team - more awesome.
Felicity Smoak isn't just one half of a potential couple - she's a whole person. We want Felicity to be her own self. Outside of Oliver. And hopefully in a sweaty and hot predicament with Oliver too.
That's not too much to ask, right?
First of all: yay for getting this post out there!
Second: how freakin' old is Larry King? Jesus.
Lastly: yes to all. 'Arrow' is starting to have a woman-problem, as we've discussed, because they insist on segregating all the female characters (except Moira & Thea. But they're related, soooo....) Laurel, Sara and Felicity have effectively been made to hate one another, and in some cases for no good reason. You know what I hope the show has in store for Felicity (down to my totally random pairing for her with _____. You know) but I do think something needs to happen with those 3 women to bring them together and stop hating on one another.
Seriously - beyond not liking her short skirts, what's Laurel's problem with Felicity?
Lisa Rivera Contino said...
Here's the thing. They have been made to hate each other. But, in the case of Felicity and Sara... it doesn't seem they actually do. Sara, obviously, realizes Felicity has feelings for Oliver and Felicity seems to know she knows. But she's not rude or mean or combative towards Sara. She has a few moments but, for the most part, she's herself. Just Felicity.
Felicity is a nice character. She's just... NICE. There's not really a mean or conniving bone in her body and that seems to show in her interactions with Sara. I think those two could, indeed, find a friendship. I'm hoping the minor training we saw extends outward through the season. Felicity and Sara teaming up to be badass would be awesome. I think we'll be hearing more about Felicity's backstory as this season progresses.
Emily took her character and turned her into something everyone loves. They're bound and destined to expand on her history and I'm looking forward to that.
As for Sara being the one who knows Oliver the best... well, this might be true but Oliver has slept with every female character he's been put against. EXCEPT Felicity. That, to me, is very, very interesting.
I freaking adore this post. I'm a Felicity fan that is also an Olicity fan and I agree with every single word in this article.
I was really looking forward to a friendship between Felicity and Sara. I longed for it. But the show made a serious miscalculation by writing Sara's return in a way that made me feel as if her very presence marginalized someone whom I already loved. That is never a good way to endear a new character to the fans. And it grates that some automatically brush it off as anger over a character blocking my ship. No. My ship is secondary to my love of Felicity Smoak. In the end, the show must strike a balance with fans. If the showrunners can't find a way to incorporate comic canon while meeting the needs of other viewers of the show, they'll never achieve the ratings potential it's capable of achieving.
Now, instead of liking Sara and looking forward to that highly anticipated friendship, I just want her far removed from my fave. I long for my heart heavy original Team Arrow dynamic. I mourn the loss of those Oliver & Diggle missions and conversations that helped to strike a balance in Oliver Queen. And because of the fickle way that they've shown Oliver's character with women: Shado, Laurel, Sara, etc...it makes me question if he's all that awesome himself anymore. Seriously, what was season one al about if it's Sara whom he desired. I'm confused. Was his Laurel love full of lies? Was it ok to go back to her sister because he thought Sara was dead? I'm lost.
It's all just so jumbled right now. I've stopped watching live. I'm relegated to clips of Felicity scenes now. How did a show I waited for with baited breath on a weekly basis sink so low, so fast in my eyes?
I just want to enjoy my fave, if that means I can only have that outside of my Olicity hopes, at this point, I'll take it. I just need a change to occur. How can a character like Felicity Smoak be so popular among the fans and still not have the writing? Where does she live? Can we sacrifice one scene of Laurel's house shooting up the place to actually see Felicity's home? I'm convinced she was raised by wolves and sleeps on park bench. Forget the Oracle talk, she'll just be a homeless paraplegic without handicap accessible facilitates at this point. /rant
shallowgal said...
I too was terribly disappointed with the 3 (or were they 2?) episodes following the "lunge" scene; it came out of nowhere.
As you mentioned, Felicity was marginalized thereafter. Thankfully/hopefully, it will not last.
The issue I have with Sara/Oliver is the writers did not set them up first (i.e. Shado, McKenna, Helena - I don't/didn't have a problem with them hooking up with Oliver), even though they had a past. I thought it would stay in the past.
Bloggen Das said...
Wow, what you just said.
I just discovered Arrow last week and am on season 2. I love Felicity. If they break her heart I'll be pissed. I don't need her and Oliver to get together, and I definitely don't want them to hook up. Oliver is still in playboy mode. He isn't ready for a Felicity just yet. And yes, let her inner bada** shine brightly.
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Posted by PJ under aging, aliens, crone, crows, earthquake, food, history, musings, news, paranormal, spirits, the path, tv, venice
TV Show pitch: This Old Crone
Like the PBS seres, This Old House (the original remodeling show), but featuring the transformation of an old crone rather than an old home. It should be hosted by the person who really knows how to do the work rather than the half-assed dilettante hosebag. In this series, instead of covering up the flaws in the crone, we shine a bright spotlight on them so that anyone, including the crone, can learn from them. And the eccentricities of construction will be celebrated rather than trying to turn them into something sleek and modern. Repair work will be done, of course, but with the knowledge that decrepitude is inevitable and the only sure and certain principle ruling the Universe is entropy. Rather than mourning this, the show will encourage us to accept it with as much grace and dignity as possible and learn from it, as well. But we must also remember that if entropy rules the Universe, irony is its only begotten daughter.
Everyone’s path is their own. No path is superior. Everyone has to find their own way. The path of quiet contemplation is as valid as the full-throated war cry. Anyone who judges your path isn’t as secure in their own as they think they are. One person has trouble crossing a room without pain; another climbs mountains. In the end, it doesn’t matter. All that matters is the flame in your heart. If it dies, you’ve failed. If it’s still burning, you’re still burning, and you’re where you need to be.
One of my ancestors is named Mary Polly Armor and I always want to read that as Mary Polyamory. #BecauseThatsJustTheSortOfBrainIHave
What’s the first major news event you remember in your lifetime? I was going to say the assassination of JFK but it’s really the Cuban Missile Crisis. I remember those drills, our young teacher herding us little bitty kids into the cloakroom to shelter. I remember her crying each time and I didn’t figure out until later that it was because she never knew if we were hiding out because it was real and the bombs were on the way or if it was just another drill. I was terrified and didn’t really know why.
I’ve been thinking a lot about the notion that paranormal activity is caused by places being built on Indian burial grounds. It’s quite prevalent in paranormal research and I’ve also fallen prey to the thought of vengeful native spirits. Lately, I’ve reconsidered this. It’s as essentially racist as the Ancient Aliens/Van Daniken notion that primitive (read “people of color”) societies could not possibly have invented the wonders they did—it had to be gifted to them from Space Overlords. The Indian burial ground notion has even pervaded popular horror movie culture. The one exception to this that I can think of in popular culture (rather than supposedly legit research) is the movie Poltergeist. The dead folks in that movie were just vengeful dead folks, not vengeful natives. I can’t think of such an exception in paranormal research. It makes me feel guilty that I even considered the Indian burial ground scenario. Although I’m not sure my white guilt is any more helpful than white appropriation or white nullification of culture. Mostly I realize it’s not about me except for when I can work for positive change.
Here near LAX we got a gentle rolling from the July 5th 7.1 earthquake (downgraded to only 6.9), but it did go on for a very long time. Sometimes they are gentle at first then the big whammy hits, so until things stop there’s always the fear it will get bigger. One of my neighbors was standing out in her front yard screaming, however, which I thought kind of extreme but it takes everybody different. I did feel seasick afterwards, though.
The only thing I know is that whatever negative thing you are when you’re young, you will still be that negative thing when you’re old, only more so. Unless you do a s*** ton of work on yourself between youth and age, if you’re a young rage monkey he’ll be in old age monkey; if you’re a judgmental young twat you’ll be a judgmental old twat. The good news is, if you’re a thoughtful, considerate person when you’re young you’ll most likely still be a thoughtful, considerate old person. The seeds of who our selves are planted at the moment of our birth.
I think the dictation on my Word program must be Scottish. It never wants to capitalize the name Ken.
I lived a block from the Sidewalk Cafe in the 80s. We often ate there in the day time, but knew to stay off the Boardwalk at night: too wild & dangerous for girls on their own. It sounds like things have changed—and not changed: https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/05/08/a-night-with-a-bouncer/#.XRlOldiNsgk.twitter
I have to confess that as much as I loathe Ancient Aliens, it’s a good show to have on for background noise when I’m not feeling very well. I can read Twitter while it’s playing and look up every once in a while to yell very rude things at the screen. #NeverSaidIWasntWeird
I don’t feed the crows every day. But every time I do feed them, the day after one of them will perch on the rail near my open front door and yell at me to feed them again. #LoveThemCrows
The Detectorists – a lovely, gentle, funny show. One of my favorites.
I have a terrible confession to make. I hope you’ll still be my friends once you hear it: I like the lumps in cream of wheat.
Posted by PJ under baby, birds, folklife, folklore, goddesses, gods, mom, movies, musings, nature, paranormal, spirits, spirituality, tv, weird stuff
Last night I re-watched My Dinner with Andre for the first time in a very long time. At least 20 years, maybe longer. I’ve seen it many times. There was a time when my friend and I would go to see it every time it played at the Nuart cinema in West L.A., an “art house” theater which still exists (though it’s part of the Landmark chain now). Every time I saw Andre I felt as if the conversation had somehow magically changed, that new things, new concepts had been added. My sympathy would swing back and forth between the two people talking, I’d laugh at one and then the other, cry with one and then the other. The ending always made me appreciate the mystery and the wonder of life, from the ordinary details of a cold cup of coffee, to the mystical wonders of Findhorn, to living life consciously, and living life in a dream. And it still works. It still works.
In some ways it works better in today’s society than it did in 1981. The themes of living consciously rather than floating along; the themes of how distracted we all are and how difficult that makes it to live meaningfully.
“A baby holds your hand and then suddenly there’s this huge man lifting you off the ground. And then he’s gone. Where’s that son?”
And speaking of watching, I just finished season 3 of The Detectorists. What a lovely, lovely show. Low key, gentle humor, sweet spirit. One of my very favorites.
God noise musicians are so hot pic.twitter.com/NIiUFtVjqM
— Patrick Steadman (@ptsteadman) October 4, 2018
Mom and her starling, Baby:
A Mom and Her Starling. pic.twitter.com/cM7opjoc5i
— PJ I Can't Even Thompson (@pj_thompson) June 8, 2019
Butterflies are such beautiful creatures. Which is why I can’t understand the urge to collect them, kill them, and use them as art objects, preventing them from living out their life cycle and reproducing so that we will continue to have beautiful butterflies.
My mother grew up right in the middle of Uintah Co., UT, a place well known in paranormal circles and home to the infamous Skinwalker Ranch. It was a little farming community called Willow Creek, not to be confused with the current day town of Willow Creek which is some ways northwest of where Mom grew up. Mom’s community doesn’t exist any more, as it became part of the Ute reservation. I had to locate the Creek it was named after to get an approximate location on Google maps (below).
I’ve often wondered if Mom’s nervousness regarding “weird shit,” as she called it, was because she grew up in a place where it was common.
Having said that, one of the shows she really liked to watch in the last years of her life was Finding Bigfoot. It was one of the few “weird” shows she could tolerate. Every time we’d watch she’d be fascinated and almost every single time she’d say afterwards, “There has to be something to this.” Not sure why she found it so convincing. But maybe Uintah County had something to do with it.
Speaking of weird (as I do so love to), I was reading a thread on Twitter about the superstitions of health care workers. One of the most frequently mentioned was that health care workers would open a door or a window when someone died so the soul could find its way outside. (This is a very old folkloric belief.) While reading this I remembered that when my mother, who was in hospice here at home, passed away, the very lovely hospice nurse (a lady from Africa—and I’m sorry, sweet nurse, I no longer remember which country you said) took care of business and then went to open the front door.
I don’t think I even asked her why (I was in grief shock) but there must have been something in my expression because she hurried to say, “That’s so the funeral home knows what house it is.” I accepted it at the time but in retrospect, that makes no sense at all. It makes more sense after reading that thread on Twitter.
It’s so difficult to overcome the “I want I want I want” mentality so many of us have been raised with in this society and replace it with the “We are we are we are” mentality. But necessary deprogramming.
I’m a rather half-assed pagan. I do witchy things but I respect and honor witches too much to call myself one unless I feel I’ve earned it. I think I’m on a parallel but different path, anyway. I have a kind of spiritual practice that I’m getting back in touch with after many years of distraction and tamping it down to deal with this world. Any spiritual practice that’s worth its salt, I think, has to deal with both the mystical and the mundane or it’s just escapism. (Yes, I know, some would say all spiritual practice is escapism, but that’s their problem. I have no patience with them.)
In recent times, I have meditated and put out calls of—how to phrase it? Belonging? Certain deities respond and when they do I honor them on my mantelpiece. Others are just “the spirit of the rock” or “the spirit of the tree.” I am sure there is a spirit of the house, this house, but it’s unnamed. My mother, as I’ve mentioned, was not comfortable with discussion of anything spiritual. But I think she had some talents. She said the first time she walked into this house it opened its arms to her and said welcome. And I still feel that.
Everyone on the mantelpiece seems okay with everyone else, but I always ask before I place a representation there if everyone welcomes the addition. On rare occasions they say no and I honor that, but most times they’re accepting. And not just spiritual things go on the mantle. It’s a kind of cornucopia of silly and sacred and artwork, but it seems to work for everybody.
What’s something about myself that I once wanted to change to fit in but am now happy with? My weirdness. I never saw things the way most people did. I now realize that’s not my affliction but my treasure.
“It’s not a swastika it’s some kind of Tibetan symbol,” said the guy in the Nazi war helmet when asked why he put a concrete swastika in his front yard. “I don’t think he’s a Neo-Nazi,” said his neighbor, adding sheepishly, “But he may be racist.” #TalesFromTheLocalNews
Spiritu
Posted by PJ under quote of the day, spirits, that which abides
“Some spirits are indeed figments of the human imagination, yet there are others who have been around much longer than human beings. Among spirits there is a vast hierarchy, from simple energy forms and nature spirits to angelic and higher forms of divine and galactic intelligence. These may be terrestrial or celestial, intimately associated with human life or not, but all are aspects of the one Universal Being, conceived of as the totality, inner and outer, or as its creator.”
—Rab Wilkie, “Spirited Imagination: Ways of approaching the shaman’s world,” in Being Changed by Cross-Cultural Encounters, eds. David Young and Jean-Guy Goulet
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Orville and Wilbur, Katy Perry, or the Avengers. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.
Down Portalville Way – Shady Groves
Posted by PJ under folklore, graveyards, play, portalville, spirits
Let me thread you a story… (1-16)
Sam Hotchkiss is the caretaker down to Shady Groves Cemetery. Sam says as how he likes his job, walking through the quiet and peace,
making sure the residents are happy. Most enjoy the peace as much as Sam. Any that don’t tend not to stay in Shady Groves.
They get up and wander ‘round town and sometimes have to be dealt with by Madame Nimby and her son Rupert.
Others just wander the streets taking in the sights, seeing what old friends and family are up to.
Wanderin’ gets old after awhile—and takes a passel of energy. When they dissipate enough of that restless mojo they go back
to Shady Groves and their sod beds, wrap their grass blankets back around themselves, and rest eternal.
Sam takes particular care of the children there. He feels bad they got cut off so young and didn’t have a chance to live long and prosper.
He likes to leave marbles by their graves so they can have a game now and then. Used to leave stuffed animals, too,
but they tended to get soggy when it rained and the kids didn’t care for ‘em much after that.
Electronic games don’t work for similar reasons. ‘Sides, it’s difficult for the kids to maintain corporeal fingers long enough to swipe and tap.
They do enjoy a nice game of hide n’ seek, sometimes with Sam, sometimes with each other.
Ain’t rightly fair when they play with Sam, though. If he gets too close to finding them, they can just go invisible.
That trick don’t work with each other—spirits can always see other spirits—but Sam is a mere mortal, after all.
Them kids laugh and laugh when Sam seeks and seeks and never finds. “Play fair, you kids!” he’ll call out to them.
But mostly he’s laughing when he says it. Can’t blame kids for having a good time.
This tale can also be found on Twitter @downportalville.
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Down Portalville Way – Spirits
Posted by PJ under folklore, ghost hunting, magic, portalville, protection, spells, spirits, storytelling
1. Let me Thread you a story…(1-16)
2. We got us some spooky properties here in town, left over from the days of the Great Spirit Invasion of ’07.
3. Spirits poured into town from all over through a rip in the Space-Time Continuum, taking up residence in homes and businesses.
4. Madame Nimby, town exorcist, & her son Rupert sewed up the rip with existential thread and that kept new ghosts from coming through.
5. But they were so busy exorcising the ones already here they couldn’t keep up. It took a deal of time for things to settle down.
6. Most ghosts was just lost souls sucked through the rip by accident and easily persuaded to move on to a higher place.
7. Some, though, were stubborn & not inclined to persuasion. Folks who had those spirits in their homes & businesses had a tough choice.
8. Either move out or learn to live with haints. Some businesses made deals with the ghosts to stay quiet during business hours.
9. Likewise, some residents made similar deals, asking that the hauntings stop after everyone had gone to bed.
10. Still others just couldn’t live with the ruckus, or the spirits refused to cooperate. But we take care of our own.
11. The town banded together to build new homes & businesses for those forced out. That left about a dozen spooky abandoned buildings.
12. Madame & Rupert laid down salt & warding spells ‘round those places. Kept the bad spirits from wandering.
13. Nowadays our biggest problem is out-of-towner ghost hunters pestering us to do investigations (cuz we got us a ghosty reputation).
14. Some of these are sincere folks just wanting to understand the nature of the universe & we towners got no problem with them.
15. Others seem to see ghost hunting as entertainment. I don’t hold with people who use the lost souls of the dead that way.
16. But ain’t no spells for exorcising dilettantes. More’s the pity.
This story can also be found on Twitter @downportalville.
Creatures of the air
Posted by PJ under angels, quote of the day, spirits
“The microscope shows you the creatures on the leaf; no mechanical tube is yet invented to discover the nobler and more gifted things that hover in the illimitable air. Yet between these last and man is a mysterious and terrible affinity…”
—Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Zanoni
The Night Marchers of Kaua’i
Posted by PJ under developers, fairies, folklore, hauntings, spirits, taboo
The purpose of this post is mostly to call attention to this fascinating and readable academic article by Katharine Luomala from Pacific Studies, 1983. Ms. Luomala does a thorough—and nonjudgmental—investigation of the widely perceived phenomena of Night Marchers, torch-bearing spirit processions which are still being perceived today in the Hawaiian islands. These processions seem to share similarities with the trooping fairies of Ireland, as well as other marching “beings.” There may also be something of the Wild Hunt in this mythology, as well.
The Night Marchers, however, are distinctly Hawaiian, incorporating in their processions the ritual of taboo, where it was on pain of death that ordinary people looked upon the being of sacred chiefs.
As Ms. Luomala explains:
The most sacred chiefs and chiefesses were carried in litters because their feet would taboo the ground. They seldom went out except at night, thus preventing the disruption of daily labor and the chance of a polluting shadow falling on anything or anybody. A taboo-breaker might be killed or seized for a sacrifice at a high chief’s heiau (place of worship). Sometimes the penalty was extended to the violator’s entire family group.
Even in spiritual form, it is widely believed, if you look upon the Night March, you will die—or be kidnapped and forced to march with them for eternity. Whenever you see a line of torches flickering in the distance and dark, folk of the islands say it is best to run as fast in the opposite direction as you can. If flight isn’t possible, hide—but by all means, do not do any curious peeking from your hiding place or you are doomed. If even hiding is not possible, prostrate yourself on your face on the ground and do not look up until you have heard the sound of marching feet pass you by and disappear in the distance.
Here’s the testimony of a limpet picker from 1970:
Suddenly I heard the sound of a conch shell blowing in the distance. Keoki heard it too. I thought it was the wind. Then a little while later we heard it again. This time it was a little louder. It was spooky because we didn’t see anything. Then we heard it again. We looked toward Ka-wai-hae side and then we saw it. It looked like a procession. At first we saw a line of torches in the distance. The procession was moving along the coastline. The conch shell blew again.
I took out my knife and Keoki got the rifle. We went seaward and laid down on the lava rock. We knew about night marchers from other fishermen. We knew you aren’t supposed to look upon the marchers and to lay on the ground face down. We did this. The marchers passed about fifty yards in front of us on the sand path. As they passed we could hear the sound of a drum pounding beat by beat. We didn’t look up until they were farther down the coast. All we could see now was the line of torches, and all we could hear was the far away sound of the conch shell. We didn’t know if they were going to come back that night, but we didn’t want to stick around and see.
Ms. Luomala recounts many such reports—from native islanders, tourists, European explorers—and places them within the context of Hawaiian belief. Like I said, a fascinating article.
I shouldn’t confess this, but I have a terrible addiction to junk TV. I saw a recent episode of Ghost Asylum, one of the stupider ghost hunter shows on the air. They did an investigation of the abandoned Coco Palms resort, reportedly built over one of the well-known pathways of the Night Marchers of Kaua’i. Many locals believe the resort was cursed from the start and is badly haunted. They won’t go there after dark, and say Night Marches are common on the property. It was destroyed by Hurrican Iniki in 1992 and never rebuilt. Some locals say this was a curse visited on them for the sacrilege of building on sacred land. But…developers are currently planning to tear down the Coco Palms and rebuild a new, grander resort. This would bring much needed jobs to the island, but local sentiment is mixed. It’s not for me to say whether development on a sacred site is a wise plan or just more developer hubris, but the investors have pledged to respect the land. They also brought in a shaman to do a blessing, just in case.
Posted by PJ under drugs, folklore, goddesses, gods, plantlore, shamanism, spirits
When I was reading Graham Hancock’s book, Supernatural: Meetings With the Ancient Teachers of Mankind, he talked about the hallucinogenic vine called ayahuasca. The name means “Vine of the Soul” or “Vine of the Dead,” and shamans in Amazonia have been using it since way the hell back in order to make contact with the ancestors. The drug derived from this plant is illegal in the U.S. and Britain, but in Amazonian countries it is protected under the laws of religious freedom as it is integral to the religious practice in many indigenous cultures.
Hallucinogenic plants are used for similar purposes in all cultures around the world, but what I found so fascinating about ayahuasca is that the leaves of the plant are rich in a chemical—Dimethyltryptamine (DMT)—that the human brain secretes naturally in minute quantities. Normally, substances which contain DMT are blocked from absorption into the body by a naturally-occurring enzyme in the human stomach. The vine part of the ayahuasca contains a chemical inhibitor for this enzyme, thus the shamans must cook both leaves and vine together in order for the hallucinogenic effect to happen. This is a fairly arduous process of cooking and layering and recooking that goes on for hours. Anthony Bourdain’s No Reservations episode on Peru features a segment on this process, if you happen to catch it some time. (Good episode—well, except for the guinea pig segment.)
I’m left wondering, first, how the shamans discovered the particular chemical interaction going on here; and, second—as I always wonder in the cases of non-technical societies discovering complex processes for making Thing A become Thing B—how the hell they figured it out in the first place. The shamans say that the plants themselves told them how to do this and what effects would happen. Similar explanations occur in other parts of the world: the gods told us how to do this; the plants did; the spirits whispered in our ear.
Take, for instance, the olive. It takes an ungodly amount of complex processing to take the hard, bitter, inedible nut of the olive tree and soften it so that it is not only deliciously digestible but, more importantly, pliable enough to crush and extract the olive oil. Greek legend maintains that Athena came down from Olympus to clue mortals into this process. Western scientists prefer to say that it must have come about through trial and error.
Even so, that’s pretty mind-boggling. Who was the first person who said, “Gee, I bet this thing that looks, feels, and tastes like a rock would yield a delicious condiment and extremely useful cooking oil if only we put it through a series of brine baths for days on end to soften it up”? Who was the first shaman who said, “Wow, I bet if we take this incredibly foul-tasting vine and pound it for hours until it’s fibrous, then boil it with its leaves and layers of other stuff for hours more that at the end we’ll get one of the foulest-tasting liquids known to human taste buds but a kickass vision of the Otherworld”?
The skeptics would say it occurred because of a series of accidents and was more cause-and-effect than messages from the spirit world. But human ingenuity is still a wondrous thing, is it not, whether or not you prefer the mundane explanation or the talking plant explanation?
Helpful fairies: handle with care
Posted by PJ under fairies, folklore, hauntings, help, household spirits, spirits, tricksters, work
Illustration by Jean-Baptiste Monge
There’s always one in every crowd. You know, you’ve got a good thing going and that one guy or gal pushes things too far and ruins it for everyone. This is no less true when dealing with fairies.
I was reading R. Macdonald Robertson’s Selected Highland Folktales and he told the story of “The Fairies of Pennygown.” If any of the townsfolk of Pennygown needed help with a task, they brought the work of an evening to a certain nearby sithean, a lovely green fairy hill. By morning, the task would be nicely completed: spinning, weaving, repair, mending, you name it. One villager, though, kept leaving more and more difficult things, pushing it.
One night he left by their hillock a piece of driftwood which he had picked up on the sea-shore, with instructions that it was to be made into a ship’s mast. When the villagers came next morning to collect the property left overnight, they found none of the tasks executed. This last request had angered the fairies so much that they had left their hillock, in disgust, for good.
Any reasonable being would be put out by such oafish behavior, it’s true. But it’s also true that helpful fairies are a tricky lot. They can have goodwill towards humans, but it can also turn on a dime. If they’re insulted, they can get mischievous and mean. Some say poltergeists are fairies who’ve become insulted by a householder and take it out in spite.
They also have sometimes exacting standards of what constitutes insult. Brownies and hobs, for instance, will gladly help out with the housework, usually at night like the Pennygown folk. However, they don’t want to be seen, and don’t want payment, or even expressions of gratitude. They will, though, accept gifts, mostly in the form of food, especially porridge and honey. If a householder starts taking them for granted, openly thanks them, or considers the food “payment”—or if they try to get a glimpse of them—the brownies will forthwith abandon the house, never to be seen again or lend their help.
There are other European versions of such beings: tomte in Scandanavia, domovoi in Slavic countries, Heinzelmännchen in Germany, Haltija in Finland, many others. Some have even made the trip over the Atlantic to the Americas. But in my (admittedly limited) investigation of helpful fairy folk, I’ve only found one non-European example of work-helpful fairies, the koro-pok-guru of the Ainu people of the Northern Japanese islands.
These beings would hunt and fish for the Ainu in exchange for little gifts, leaving the goods overnight. Like the brownies, they hated being seen. Of course, one Ainu loser couldn’t leave well enough alone and blew the gig for everyone. The young man in question waited by the place where the gifts were left, determined to see a koro-pok-guru, and laid hands on the first one to appear. It was a beautiful koro-pok-guru maiden, but she and her people were so angered at this affrontery that they disappeared, never to help the Ainu or be seen again.
Very strong parallels with the European myths, but that isn’t entirely surprising. Ainu are racially distinct from the Japanese. Recent research suggests Okhotsk origins and there is still a small population of Ainu in Russia. They share that pan-European ancestry, so they share those ancient pan-European stories.
But as I said, I haven’t found anything else like it around the world. Good and bad spirits aplenty, but none who will pitch in to do the work for humans in exchange for small gifts. I am far from an expert on this, so if anyone knows of such a tradition in a non-European context, I would love to hear about it.
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New Musée d’Ethnographie de Genève Opens — 31 October
The new Musée d’Ethnographie de Genève (MEG) in Switzerland is opening at the end of this month. The old cramped museum closed its doors in September 2010. The new building (shown above), will be inaugurated on October 31, 2014. 1.000 objects from the MEG’s permanent collection are on display.
Its first exhibitions, free to the public, begin 1 November 2014, and include not only the above-noted display entitled “The Archives of Human Diversity” but also “The Mochica Kings: Divinity and Power in Ancient Peru” running from 1 November 2014 – 15 May 2015.
The MEG has one of Switzerland’s two biggest ethnographic collections: some 80,000 objects and 300,000 books and documents including images, photographs, audiovisual and sound recordings. Collected over several centuries, these holdings are divided into five departments according to the objects’ geographical provenance (Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe and Oceania). The museum’s ethnomusicology department is of worldwide scope and boasts a specialized library.
The displays have seven main sections: a historical introduction, a separate section for each continent, and one devoted to ethnomusicology.
The Autumn edition of Tribal Art Magazine features an interesting overview of the museum’s holdings by Boris Wastiau, the museum’s director (73: 76-85). You can read about all planned festivities here.
This entry was posted in Poro Art, Tribal Art Exhibitions, Shows, Sales & Lectures and tagged African Art, African Mask, African Sculpture, African Traditional Religion, Angbai, Art Primitif, Art Primitivo, Ashanti Babanki Bamana Bamun Banyambo Baule Benin Boa Dan Djenne Dogon Ekoi Fang Field-photo Fon Gaanda Guro Hemba Hungana Igbo Kanyok Keaka Kongo Koro Kuba Lega Lobi Luba Luluwa Lwena Mangbetu Mbole , Bassa, Baule, Belle, Bété, Bullom, Bundo, Bush school, Bush Spirit, circumcision, Côte d'Ivoire, Dan, Deh, Dewoin, Diomande, Ebola, excision, FMG, Gbandi, Geh, Gio, Gola, Grebo, Guéré, Guerzé, Guinea, Guinea Art, Horizontal Mask, Initiation, Ivory Coast Art, Kissi, Kono, Koranko, Kpelle, Kran, Kru, Liberia, Liberian Art, Limba, Loma, Malinke, Mandingo, Mano, Mende, Nyabwa, Poro, Primitive Art, Sacred Forest, Sacred Grove, Sande, Sapo, Secret Society, Senufo, Sierra Leone Art, Temne, Toma, Touba, Toura, Tribal art, Vai, West Africa, West African Art, Wobé, Yacouba on October 20, 2014 by admin.
Ebola Update: All Poro Groups Now Involved in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea
Ebola virus (shown spewing from an infected cell) does not recognize ethnic or political borders.
Ebola Update
Neil Carey
All Poro ethnic groups in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea have now had cases of Ebola.
• In Liberia, the rural district of Gbarpolu, has reported its first two confirmed cases. This is home to some Gola, Kpelle, Belle, Gbandi and Mende people (Map 3).
• As of 7 October, all ethnic groups in Liberia have become involved, although SE Grand Bassa County (Bassa) and Maryland County (Grebo) have not had any active cases reported in the 3 weeks prior (according to WHO). The case in Grand Gedeh (Kran) that was reported on 19 September was not included on the map below.
• NE Sierra Leone and much of northern Guinea have also not reported any new cases during the 3-week incubation period prior to 19 September.
• There is still no significant headway being made in the fight against Ebola. A total of 8399 confirmed, probable, and suspected cases of Ebola virus disease have been reported in seven affected countries (Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Spain, and the United States of America) up to the end of 8 October. There have been 4033 deaths (WHO UPDATE).
• Medical infrastructure strain and social unrest continues, particularly in Liberia and Sierra Leone. These factors inhibit containment efforts.
• When American healthcare workers (HCW) Dr. Kent Brantley and Nancy Writebol became ill, there were difficulties in securing medivac from Liberia. This highlighted the dual problems of inadequate training of HCW and inadequate infrastructure to support aid workers. These problems continue, and have many negative side-effects on recruitment capacity, medical infrastructure resilience, and translocation risk. Local containment efforts will continue to be inhibited until these problems are addressed.
• For some unknown reason, Côte d”Ivoire has yet to report a case. Many people wonder if this is not due to a failure to report. Although there have been no new cases of Ebola reported in Grand Gedeh County (Kran territory) since an infected man from Ganta (Mano land) became ill in Zwedru, active and new cases have occurred along the Ivorian border with N’Zerekoré, Guinea, and Nimba, River Gee and Grand Kru Counties, Liberia.The risk of movement of infected individuals to Cote d’Ivoire is increasing.
• These problems contribute to the growing global scale of the problem. It is almost certain that there will be new global infections involving HCW treating aid workers (such as those reported in Spain) and in the United States, for as long as foreign HCW working in West Africa are unable to obtain local treatment, and West African borders remain porous (which they will).
• The potential remains for re-emergence in countries making progress towards containment. This ‘twin peaks’ nature of distribution has historically been observed around Ebola outbreaks, and has already occurred in Guinea and as we’ve noted in Foya, Liberia.
• There seems to be a general mistrust of the data, and there remains concerns about information suppression and incomplete public health data.
Figure 1 shows the location of cases throughout the countries with widespread and intense transmission. In Liberia, the rural district of Gbarpolu, has reported its first two confirmed cases (WHO).
Advice for African Art Dealers, Collectors, Travelers:
Although we’ve briefly discussed the issue of decontamination of objects and the wisdom of avoiding possible exposure to newly arrived travelers from West Africa, the following advice meant for physicians is useful:
• When asking a travel history, TRUST BUT VERIFY and err on the side of caution.
• Significant lack of data and active information suppression in West Africa is inhibiting accurate assessments. This is a poor indicator. Epidemic curves now falsely show a “peaking out” of cases. This is not the reality. Things remain very much completely out of control.
• Several African nations have resumed flights to Liberia. This is an exceedingly poor decision according to infectious disease experts.
• As noted above, there are new cases popping up along the NW border of Côte d’Ivoire. We are waiting for a declaration of Ebola involvement in this country, coming by water from across the Cavally River or from newly re-established flight connections.
• There are reports of West Africans who have successfully fled by airplane to Colombia, and reported intercepts at the southern border of the US. Some of this information requires verification, but if true, it is obviously a point of concern for the involved states, and this is no longer just an East Coast problem.
This entry was posted in Ebola and Poro, Poro Art and tagged African Art, Art of the Dan, Bassa, Belle, Decontamination, Ebola, Epidemic, Gbandi, Gola, Grebo, Guerzé, Kono, Koranko, Kpelle, Kran, Loma, Mano, Mende, Poro, Sapo, secret societies, Temne, Toma, Tribal art on October 12, 2014 by admin.
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Issues in Nollywood – Suggestions for Unity and Moving the Industry Forward
(Being Part 2 of “Sustaining the Integrity of Nollywood and African Entertainment...”)
All players in Nollywood and the African Entertainment Industry in Diaspora whether organizers, promoters, producers, artists or crew have a responsibility to maintain a level of integrity and genuineness that will invite and encourage the growth of the industry.
Public Confidence:
If the public loses its confidence in Nollywood the African entertainment industry, it will eventually affect their willingness to participate or support ventures and content from the African entertainment industry. If members of the public are treated to much less than what they have paid to attend an African entertainment event such as a movie premiere, stage performance, fashion show, beauty pageant, or an award show, they are unlikely to return the next time such organizers put up a show. Incidentally, the stigma could dampen the enthusiasm of the public and reduce their confidence in the industry which would in turn systematically hamper turn out and support for other industry activities and content.
Our Invitation to Other Industries like Hollywood:
Since most outsiders such as producers from Hollywood and other industries interested in the African entertainment industry may not be familiar with the relevant players and achievers within the African entertainment industry, they may be faced with the option of considering and relying on such factors as recognition-lists, award-recipients, and industry-compilations of leading artists and personalities within the industry. Recognizing or giving awards to the best in the industry based on merit and achievement means that such outsiders will obtain the services of the best the industry offers, which means that the industry would be well represented, which in turn ensures that the industry’s integrity is maintained and the growth of the industry is encouraged.
Division and infighting:
Every growing industry has its challenges and there are bound to be disagreements and differences in opinion and the manner of going about things. It is okay to speak up or write about it when issues come up which affect the rudiments of the industry. Yet, we must draw some lines and observe some limits in our expressions so that we do not end up taking away from the unity and focus needed to nudge the industry forward. I need not repeat the known axiom about “united we stand” but I have to reiterate that quite a lot can be achieved in an industry like the African entertainment Industry in Diaspora if the players work together. This is more so as we are still in the formative years of the industry. All hands must be on deck to ensure that a strong foundation is laid for the industry so it does not crumble too soon.
Disagreements could be quite healthy for growth so long as participants are open minded to suggestions and friendly in the manner they voice their objections. There is no need for name bashing or character assassination. However, where a player in the industry has been cautioned in private to amend his or her approach towards a project that affects the integrity and image of the industry as a whole, such player has to listen and make such amends or else it would be difficult to stop others from crying out in public.
Enough to Go Round:
Industry players have to understand that the reach and audience of the industry is so vast that no single artist, producer, or other player can prevent the other from reaching an avowed audience. If the work is good the public will consume it, and by that, the public remains the final judge of the performance of any artist, producer, or promoter. So why fight each other? Let us concentrate on our works and let our works speak for us. Rather than begrudging others, let us wish them well, or humble ourselves to ask them how they made it or how we can join them to make it together.
What is Our Footprints in the Sand of Time?
If we do not have the wisdom and humility to ask for guidance from those who have traveled the path before us, then the loss is ours. And if we are ahead but do not have the humility to share our opportunities with those coming along, then we have learned very little and may therefore soon find ourselves in the rear so that life may teach us better. The entertainment industry is one sure place where everyone has to pay his or her dues to move forward. There is no escaping it. Detractors may reign for a while, but the industry has a way of weaning itself off of bad elements and bad influence. It is usually a question of time before the true worth and intention of every player becomes known. We can not all be at the top at the same time – people come and people go. That is the nature of life. At each point in time some people have to be the focus of the limelight and then with time the status quo changes, for change is constant and inevitable. Our concern should be - what footprints do we leave behind after we have traveled the path and our time is gone?
Need For Regional Unifying Associations (and Guilds):
It cannot be overemphasized that Nollywood and African Entertainment Industries in Diaspora across the globe need unifying associations that would help in coordinating and maintaining entertainment standards and discipline that would augur well for all players. Such associations would set standards to be met by players wishing to engage in certain activities that affect the general members of the industry in the region. In line with this, the need for guilds such as Actors Guild, Director’s Guild, Writer’s Guild and Producer’s Guild becomes relevant. It would be reasonable to start with a unifying association that would help set the standard for the guilds. Where such is not feasible, players in different departments of the industry, may start with relevant guilds and then work towards uniting all guilds under one broader association of entertainers.
To avoid certain problems that could hinder the successful formation of any such guild or association, all players already in the game have to be invited to be aboard from the start while room is made for upcoming ones to join once they meet the criteria for such guild or association. The initial members or the founders of such an association should not hijack the leadership and direction of the association. On the other hand, the fear of some players or sub-organizations that such a guild or association may eclipse what they already have, should be an issue for discussion rather than one reserved in the pocket of fear and dichotomy. There is enough room for all to thrive and exist side by side if all intentions are for the good of the industry and the objectives are clearly delineated. At the same time, we have to avoid duplication of associations which could end up causing associations to work against each other or lead to many feeble associations running all over the place and distracting from the unified effort and management needed to have formidable overall guilds or associations.
Remembering Who We Are and Protecting Our Heritage through Our Works:
For some of us, African creativity whether through films, stage-theater, music, song, dance, etc goes beyond entertainment. It is a cultural brand that signifies a people and their background, their origin and who they are, as well as the rudiments to sustain their future generations. The artist should be encouraged and compensated rather than exploited whether directly or indirectly. Direct exploitation includes pirating of artistic works, or using artistic works without permission or compensation to the artist. Indirect exploitation includes – buying or consuming pirated works, patronizing the consumption of artistic works that are not paid for such as free unauthorized streaming of African films or songs online, and using artistic works or Artist presence to procure money from the public without providing a worthy and valuable return to either the public (for money paid) or the artist (for content used).
Having Our Priorities Right:
African Diaspora Entertainment Industries are reeling with exploitation issues such as bootleg and copyright violation issues. Consequently, filmmakers and other artists like musicians are not getting valuable returns from their content once released on DVD or CD. The African film (and song) audience is gradually switching over to African movies being streamed for free online although some are gradually cultivating the habit to attend African film screenings and cinemas. To cause any sort of public disaffection that would give the audience reason not to attend our live shows, events, or film screenings is something that has to be avoided if we must salvage the industry from annihilation. Piracy (whether by unauthorized DVD duplication or unauthorized streaming online) remains the biggest threat to the industry followed by lack of viable funding and sponsors to invest the needed fund that would help bring about bigger and higher quality productions. Such are the more important issues facing Nollywood. We should put our houses in order to enable us devote more time on how to deal with the more important issues. That is having our priorities right.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Oliver O. Mbamara is an Admin. Judge of New York State. He is also a filmmaker and a published writer, poet, and playwright. For more on Oliver Mbamara, please visit www.OliverMbamara.com
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U12 Age Group Added to State Cup
Smalled Sided Games
At the Region 1 Tournament in Virginia Beach this year, the Under 12 age group teams will have the option of participating in an 8 v 8 competition. The maximum roster size for this is 14. Due to the reduced roster size, the entry fee for this age group will be $275.00.
This is the first year Region 1 has offered small-sided competition for the U12s at Regionals, so in response to the inquiry sent out by NY West earlier this month, the age group has been added as 8 v 8 play at State Cup this year with the winners advancing to the Region 1 Tournament.
Please see the State Cup webpage for details on how to apply for this new 8 v 8 competition opportunity.
Any questions, you may respond by phone: (800-789-4806), fax: (607-962-0525) or Email: (office@nyswysa.org)
Mike Radecke, State Cup Chairman
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Read 04-05_utleywaterview.pdf text version
When Utley met Waterview... the untold story, Part 1
October 2005 |Investigative Report
by Aidan Skoyles
As promised in the September story about the $280,000 that came from Waterview renters and went into the Starbucks' pot, I have delved further into the legalistic quagmire that surrounds the Waterview Park complex. Mr. Finocchiaro has told me he does not feel that spending "time and energy on areas that have already been reviewed [by the Waterview Commission are not] in the best interest of the residents, the University and all other concerned parties." I might agree with the third of that list. I'm guessing that one concerned party might be a certain Bob Utley, Chairman of the First Worthing Corporation, the friendly family company that receives 5% of your rent from all phases to manage the complex and will probably do so for the next 30 years unless things go horribly sour. Steven Utley (Bob's bro?) is the President and CEO of First Worthing and interestingly, his wife Ann Utley is the president of the Utley Foundation, a benevolent, philanthropic-sounding entity set up in October 2003 to perform a bit of real estate wizardry that may have netted his family a significant chunk of change in the form of tax free investments and guaranteed Waterview's business to his apartment company for decades. He uttered the famous quote (though he eventually apologized) in the Dallas Observer earlier this year: "Because a lot of the foreign students cook fish and curry, it's embedded in the walls. We have to rip the carpet out at turnover." (I shared a delightful meal of fish yesterday evening with my Vietnamese roommate and his evacuated friends from U of H at Clearlake. I dare say not a bit of fish ended up embedded in any walls.) I don't know why people are worried
These documents, obtained through Federal open records show the tax-free status of the Utley Foundation which owns Phases I-IV. The document lists president Ann Utley wife of First Wothing's chairman, and treasurer, Bob Lovitt, former UTD VP for Business Affairs.
abUTD administration officials have told me that my name has come up in the administration-wing hallways. People in suits are talking about this story, and they wish I'd go away. I met with Dr. Larry Terry, the interim vice president for business affairs. He replaces Bob Lovitt a balding, bulging, golfing businessman in all respects who ended his 19-year tenure as Business Affairs VP this summer and is now VP for finance and administration at Texas A&M Corpus Christi. Dr. Terry initially professed full cooperation and openness with me. Yes, I'm willing to help in any way I can, he told
me. But after his associate turned over a few initial contracts, his office has decided to require Freedom of Information Act requests for further documents. For a public entity, all their documents are publicly accessible so they have to get them for me, but this is just another attempt to try and kill the story. To make my investigations difficult. To make me go away. There are strange forces at work here. There are multiple questions that have come up with regard to Waterview. The Starbucks question why did we pay so much for it?, the Utley Foundation question who are they, what do they do, and
how many potential dollars has it funneled from the university to the Utleys?, and the larger overriding question as to whether or not UTD is receiving the equity it deserves to receive from the land assets which were given to the state in the initial 600 acre endowment that created the University of Texas at Dallas back in the `60s. Consider the following. According to figures provided by Dr. Terry's office (see table on facing page), UTD receives only one tenth of the dollars from Phases I-IV (~$370k), the phases the Utley Foundation owns, that it does from Phases V-IX ($3.6 million), which it owns. That comes
from our rents, and most of the Phase IIV revenue goes into the debt service from a $55,405,000 bond issue from the Anson Educational Facilities Corporation. Which brings us to the next interesting point the bond issue. In the beginning, a private group of investors (The Utley Group?) built the first few phases of Waterview. They had loans from the bank and were paying them back. But then, in 2002, they managed to transfer the ownership from the private group to the non-profit Utley Foundation. According to the details of the bond, the Anson Educational Facilities Corporation issued $55,405,000 in revenue bonds to Waterview Park Apartments LLC who would on or before October 1, 2003 transfer the bonds to "the Utley Foundation, a non profit corporation organized ... for the benefit of, but not controlled by, the University." According to its IRS tax filings, the Foundation, of which Ann Utley is director, exists for the "exclusive" benefit of the university, but Utley & co likely get something out of it too. Bob Lovitt, former UTD vice-president is (was?) also the Utley Foundation's Treasurer. For starters, these bonds are tax-free. They are issued under the purview of the Texas Education Code, Chapter 53, Section 34 (trust me, I read it). The exist for to "enable the borrower to acquire, construct, enlarge, extend, repair, renovate, or otherwise improve an educational facility or housing facility or any facility incidental, subordinate, or related to or appropriate in connection with an educational facility or housing facility." And all this is legal thanks to a mightily convenient change in the law (none of this appears to be illegal, or new news for that matter). These revenue bonds became effective on June 20, 2003. By October the Foundation was created, the issue made, and everyone went home happy. Phew. But these bonds also enabled the holder of current bonds to transfer a presumably weighty tax load to one that is tax-free. According to Chapter 53, Section 47: "Because the property owned by authority will be held for educational purposes only and will be devoted exclusively to the use and benefit of the students, faculty, and staff members of an accredited institution of higher education, it is exempt from taxation of every character." Cha-ching ($$$). But consider what happened. The older phases were up for bid, and Utley sold
(Fiscal Year 2005)
Investigative Report | October 2005
Waterview Revenues to UTD Incoming Revenue Phases I-IV $370,067 Phases V-IX $3,683,083 Total $4,053,150 Allocation of Revenue Scholarships $2,434,010 Reserves $225,408 Debt service $1,393,732 Total $4,053,150 Utley Foundation Revenues
(Estimated from Anson bond issuance, 2005)
Incoming Revenue Phases I-IV $5,589,228 Expenses Operating Senior Mngmt Other Owner Fee Debt Service Ground lease, to UTD Mngmt fee Contributions to Ground lease payment reserve Net, to UTD
Men behind the Mystery
$1,515,088 $146,481 $6,000 $32,310 $3,521,858 $379,346 $146,481 $129,384
Bob Lovitt Former UTD VP
Formerly UTD's vice president for business affairs and treasurer of the Utley Foundation, Mr. Lovitt is now enjoying his proximity to the coast (and distance from Waterview?) as VP at Texas A&M Corpus Christi.
them to his wife. Why didn't UTD jump in and snag the old phases, thereby garnering access to more revenue from its rightful land assets? Because the UT System shot it down. Was this because the price was too high? Or thanks to rumors that a satisfied Bob Utley might make a donation to an underfunded (and under-construction) School of Management. The UT System tasked UTD with raising $8 million to complete the project, and as the opportunity for a Phase I-IV went out to the System, there could have been other forces at work. The System lets Utley take the old phases, the school gets its SoM named, and everyone walks home happy. Utley got his contract. UTD never got a named SoM, though the building has been finished, and the $8 million deficit has been largely swept under the rug, UTD officials told me. Bob Utley, called a "slum lord" by at least one UTD administrator, is an elusive character. Finochiaro won't talk to me anymore, althogh he hasn't answered my questions. There's more to this. I had another chat
Robert K. Utley III Chairman
Mr. Utley is responsible for leading the Student Housing divison of First Worthing. He is also a former chairman of the Higher Education Legislative Political Action Committee.
with Mayor Isbell and will speak next week with Ann Levy, the Houston attorney representing the town of Anson. I also plan to call in some serious journalistic help (Lord knows I need it), from the friendly folks at Southern Methodist University. Professor Fluorny is interested. He helped the class with the Observer story earlier this year.
Steven R. Utley President and CEO
Mr. Utley oversees the operation of FirstWorthing, and has also headed a privately held real estate investment company. Mr. Utley received his bachelor's degree from Southern Methodist University.
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Spain’s continuing export boom
William Chislett. Expert Comment 16/2018 - 21/2/2018
Hanjin Spain freighter in Cuxhaven (Germany). Photo: Bernhard Fuchs (CC BY 2.0)
Spain’s exporting prowess continued in 2017 when sales of goods abroad increased for the eighth straight year and notched up a new record of €277.1 billion, close to one-quarter of GDP (see Figure 1).
Figure 1. Merchandise exports’ value, as a percentage of GDP and coverage, 2007-17 (€ billion and %)
Exports (€ bn)
% of GDP
Coverage (%) (1)
2007 185.0 17.6 64.7
(1) Exports as a percentage of imports.
Source: Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness.
Exporting was a path to survival for many companies after the country went into a prolonged recession following the bursting of a massive property bubble in 2008 and the global financial crisis. Faced with plummeting demand from consumers, companies and the government, some companies, particularly small and medium-sized ones, had no alternative but to seek out markets abroad or face going to the wall. For those that have been successful, exporting has become a way of life even though the domestic market has picked up. The €88 billion rise in exports since 2008 is a striking achievement.
The total number of exporters rose from 137,528 in 2012 to 161,454 in 2017, and regular ones (more than four years continuously) from 38,373 to 50,562 (see Figure 2). Growth in regular exporters (+24.1%) was almost three times more than that in total exporters (+9.2%). This a significant structural improvement, particularly given the fixed costs companies incur when they enter foreign markets, and is a hopeful sign that Spain will keep on improving its export performance, although there is always the temptation to stop when the domestic market is booming again.
Figure 2. Total and regular exporters, 2012-17
Total 137,528 151,160 147,845 147,334 148,558 151,454
Regular 38,373 41,168 45,842 47,768 49,767 50,562
Source: ICEX.
More broadly, external demand has been largely responsible for Spain’s recovery, which gathered pace in the last two years (GDP growth of 3% a year) and indicated an increasingly competitive and internationalised economy. Thanks to the export boom, the trade deficit shrank from €94.1 billion in 2008 to €24.7 billion last year. The deficit, however, was 32% higher than in 2016, reflecting the upturn in domestic demand and companies’ need to import components in order to increase their exports.
Exports covered 91.8% of imports in 2017 (only 66.8% in 2008). This, coupled with record tourism (82 million visitors last year), helped Spain move from a current account deficit that reached a nerve-wracking 9.3% of GDP in 2008 to a small surplus in the last five years.
Spain’s global market share of exports (latest figures 2016) has increased since 2015 and could have risen again in 2017 (see Figure 3).
Figure 3. Ranking by global market share of merchandise exports (%), 2012-16
1. China 11.2 12.3 13.8 13.2
2. US 8.4 8.5 9.1 9.1
3. Germany 8.3 7.9 8.1 8.4
7. France 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.1
9. Italy 2.7 2.8 2.8 2.9
10. UK 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.6
16. Spain 1.6 1.7 1.7 1.8
(1) Ranked by position in 2016.
Source: World Trade Organisation.
The largest contribution to the growth in exports came from energy products (2.5 pp), capital goods (1.9 pp), chemical products (1.1 pp) and food, drinks and tobacco (1.1 pp). The leading export sectors were capital goods (20.3% of the total and up 9.2%), food, drinks and tobacco (16.5% and 6.3%, respectively) and the motor industry (16.3% and 0.1%).
The increased geographical diversification of exports has helped to boost sales abroad. Exports to the EU (65.7% of the total) rose 8%, mainly because of those to France, but those to relatively new markets such as China and Turkey also grew significantly (+24.4% and +10.6%, respectively) though from a smaller base.
A very small number of exporters still account for a big share of exports (see Figure 4). The 10 largest exporters accounted for 15.5% of total exports last year, albeit a slightly lower share than in 2016 (15.8%).
Figure 4. Percentage share of the value of Spain’s exports by main exporters
Main exporters
% of total exports
Top 10 14.9 15.5
Top 100 38.0 38.9
Top 1,0000 66.6 67.5
Top 5,000 87.8 87.8
Source: ICEX with customs data.
The export concentration is due to the high atomisation in Spanish companies: their average size is a fraction compared to that of many other developed economies. This limits export capacity as it is widely accepted that firm size is the largest single determinant for companies to start exporting. Larger firms tend to have higher productivity growth, so their unit labour costs typically rise less than for smaller and less productive firms.
In an otherwise bright picture, exports to the UK, which leaves the EU in 2019, were down 1.1% at €18.9 billion and imports from there were up 2.3% at €11.4 billion. With two-way trade at €30 billion, both countries have a vested interest in achieving a post-Brexit trade deal that maintains as far as possible their respective market positions.
With this in mind, UK Chancellor Philip Hammond included Madrid in a visit to EU capitals this month in a Brexit charm offensive. Whether Spain’s exports to the UK are hit by the new trade arrangements after Brexit remains to be seen. Whatever happens, Spain needs to keep up the export pace.
William Chislett
Associate Analyst at the Elcano Royal Institute | @WilliamChislet3
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Strengthening the EU as a global actor: the EEAS and the Europeanisation of national diplomacies
Ignacio Molina and Alicia Sorroza. EGS 6/2013 - 27/5/2013
Download PDF to read the full paper
This policy paper, one of the several contributions to the EGS project, focuses on the European External Action Service, aiming to describe and analyse some of the most important issues regarding one of the main instruments through which the EU can exercise its global leadership.
Country cases
France by Vivien Pertusot, Head of Office in Brussels for the French Institute of International Relations (Ifri).
United Kingdom by Edward Burke, Associate fellow at FRIDE. During this project he was a research fellow on EU foreign policy and defence at the Centre for European Reform (CER), London.
Germany by Almut Möller, Head of the Alfred von Oppenheim Centre for European Policy Studies at the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) in Berlin; and Julian Rappold, Research Assistant of the Alfred von Oppenheim Centre for European Policy Studies at the German Council on Foreign Relations, Berlin.
Spain by Ignacio Molina, Senior Analyst on European issues at Elcano Royal Institute, Spain; and Alicia Sorroza, Analyst on Foreign Policy and Security in Europe at Elcano Royal Institute, Spain.
Sweden by Fredrik Langdal, Researcher in political Science, Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies.
Netherlands by Louise Van Schaik, Senior Research Fellow Netherlands Institute of International Relations ‘Clingendael’, and Associate Research Fellow Centre for European Policy Studies.
Romania by Paul Ivan, EU affairs researcher affiliated with the Romanian Centre for European Policies. During this project he worked for the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) where he focused on EU political and institutional issues and the European External Action Service (EEAS).
Portugal by Maria João Seabra, Foreign Policy Expert, CEA-ISCTE-IUL, Portugal.
Estonia by Elina Viilup, Research Fellow at CIDOB – The Barcelona Centre for International Affairs, and a Research Affiliate for the Estonian Foreign Policy Institute.
Download the full policy paper (PDF - 475KB).
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Bret Scholl, CPA
Accounting, Scams & Theft, IRS, Audits
Better Call Saul!
On January 20, 2008, AMC debuted a promising new drama called Breaking Bad. The series chronicled the highs and lows of high-school chemistry teacher Walter White, who was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer and put his knowledge to work opening a meth lab to secure his family's financial future. Millions of viewers became addicted to White's exploits as he plunged deeper and deeper into a life of crime, breathlessly watching him juggle relationships with his DEA-agent brother-in-law, arms dealers, cartel soldiers, and crooked strip-mall lawyer Saul Goodman. All fun to watch, sure . . . but there's a reason the announcer always says, "Kids . . . don't try this at home."
Jack Vitayanon is a 41-year-old, Ivy League-educated attorney in the IRS Office of Professional Responsibility, where he investigates crooked accountants, attorneys, and IRS agents. He even taught a class called "Tax Lawyering and Professional Responsibility in Tax Practice" at Georgetown Law School. But apparently he needed to crank out some adventure in his life. And while we may never know if he drew his ambition from AMC's antihero, it's crystal clear that he decided to join the methamphetamine trade.
Source: better_call_saul_bad_tax_advice
Audits, Business Taxes, Personal Taxes
Fall into a Fortune
G etting an audit notice is never anyone's idea of fun. But getting audited isn't always the disaster it might seem. In fact, for fiscal 2012, 107,820 lucky winners got refunds after their audits. Granted, that's still shy of seven percent of everyone audited that year. But it proves you can walk away from the IRS a winner.
Here's a clever strategy one taxpayer used to walk away from the IRS with a windfall. But you might want to be careful before you try it yourself!
Audits, Banking & Loans, Cash Flow, Investments, Scams & Theft
A Little Bit of Tax
It seems like every day brings new questions about the digital currency called bitcoin, which first appeared in 2009. Who is the shadowy "Satoshi Nakamoto" who created the currency's protocol and software? Who stole $450 million worth of bitcoin from the Tokyo-based Mt. Gox exchange? Who was the mystery buyer who used bitcoin to snag a $500,000 house on the Indonesian island of Bali?
Last week, the IRS solved a mystery by ruling on how bitcoin would be taxed, at least here in the United States. And their answer to that question may shoot a hole in bitcoin's hope to become more widely accepted.
Audits, Capital Gains, IRS, Investments, Tax Legislation, Tax Rates
The verdict is in... Bitcoin will be taxed as property, not as currency
We have had more than a few clients this past year ask about Bitcoin and trading in Bitcoins from an income tax perspective. There has been a lot of urban legends out there that claim, since the IRS has not given any formal guidance, that income taxes don't apply. Like most urban legends, that is simply wrong and making that assumption can land you in some real tax trouble.
When we delivered that news it was sometimes not what our client, or prospective client, wanted to hear. We've had to remind everyone that the primary premise of the U.S. Tax Code, Section 61, is pretty simple. It says that "gross income means all income from whatever source derived." So, unless there is a specific exclusion from taxability for the income source, you're on the hook for taxes.
Audits, Deductions, Scams & Theft
Fast Track to the Presidency
Last week, we talked about the IRS Criminal Investigation unit's Fiscal 2013 annual report. We told you about four of the 2,812 offenders who drew prison sentences for their efforts: the drag racer who applied for $83 million in fraudulent gas tax refunds, the surgeon who "operated" on his tax bill using foreign trusts and shell companies, the Japanese restaurant owner who hid receipts in boxes marked "seasoned octopus," and the prisoner who filed false tax returns for his fellow inmates and sent the refund checks to his mother. But the IRS report detailed over 100 such stories — so, at the risk of beating a dead horse, we couldn't resist sharing just a few more:
They say everything is bigger in Texas. Apparently that includes public corruption, which is an IRS priority. Abel Limas was a former police officer and state judge in Brownsville who discovered he could supplement his government salary by turning his office into "a criminal enterprise to enrich himself and others through extortion." In 2008, Limas issued a series of pretrial rulings in a case involving a helicopter crash. Later that year, he joined a law firm working on behalf of victims in that same crash. It turns out the law firm had promised him a cool hundred grand, plus a share of their fees, in exchange for those rulings. Now Limas is spending six years in a federal prison camp.
Audits, IRS, Scams & Theft
Seasoned Octopus
Most of the Internal Revenue Service's 90,000 employees are financial bureaucrats, working to collect the taxes that finance our government. But the Criminal Investigations unit, or IRS-CI, is an elite division of 3,700 financial crime fighters dedicated to protecting those taxes. Last month, they released their Fiscal 2013 annual report. And business sure is booming! In 2013, IRS special agents initiated 5,314 investigations (up 3.7% from 5,125 in 2012) and recommended 4,364 prosecutions (up 17.9% from 3,710 in 2012). There were 3,865 indictments and 3,311 convictions (the IRS doesn't take someone to criminal court unless they're pretty sure they can win). And 2,812 miscreants won themselves the proverbial "three hots and a cot" for terms averaging 25 months.
Most of IRS-CI's targets are plain old crooks. But some of them are just so awkwardly entertaining, we had to share their stories:
Topics from which to choose
Audits 41
Banking & Loans 5
Bankruptcy 2
Business Matters 9
Business Planning 45
Business Taxes 47
Capital Gains 8
Cash Flow 15
Deductions 22
Estate Matters 2
Finance Matters 22
Financial Statements 11
IRS 16
Internal Controls 9
Investments 21
Payroll Taxes 7
Personal Taxes 66
Sales & Marketing 13
Scams & Theft 18
Tax Credits 11
Tax Legislation 42
Tax Planning 65
Tax Rates 40
Working Capital 12
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Ted Soqui
Sarah, 2011
Lambda print
40 x 27.5 inches
Archival digital pigment print
Archival digital pigment print; Edition of 25; 13 x 19 inches
Lambda print; Edition of 10; 23.75 x 35.75 inches
Los Angeles native Ted Soqui is a photojournalist whose work regularly appears in the LA Weekly along with national and international media outlets from Glendale High School's The Explosion to The New York Times, Newsweek and Time.
This past year Ted joined award-winning photographers Jonathan Alcorn and Andrew Lichtenstein to launch JTA Photo Agency. The Los Angeles firm is "an independent non-corporate-owned photo agency dedicated to high-quality photojournalism with a global reach." Its mission: To provide the best and most truthful images in today's world.
"We believe in the sanctity of the image fixed in time," says Ted. "JTA photos will honor authenticity."
Ted Soqui began his freelance career in 1983. His first client was the Pasadena Weekly, the local newspaper and a neighbor to Pasadena Community College, where he attended, but soon abandoned, classes. The newspaper was the first to feature the personal and sometimes gritty images of urban life that have become Ted's signature. His debut feature presented beaming b-boys and b-girls defying gravity in a new style of street dance called break dancing.
Soon after that, the eager photographer wangled a press credential and pushed his way though the scrum of photographers at LAX. He was feet from President Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan, holding hands and waving above his head to the distant crowd. Ted sold the photo to the LA Weekly. His taste for news and his chase of news began in earnest there.
"I've covered pretty much every major news event in Los Angeles and the Southland ever since," he says. Fire storms and wind storms. Riots and rages. Airplane crashes and super jumbo jet landings. Politicians and pop stars - alive or dead. Celebrities and criminals - separate or the same.
"I chased OJ on the 405. I sold those pictures to the National Enquirer," he says.
"I was covering Lindsay Lohan at court , when Time revealed its Person of the Year cover on Good Morning America and my phone exploded with calls from friends who recognized my photo from my blog," he says. "I was shocked that so many of my friends watched GMA."
During the riots, Ted says, " I was all over town. I was working for the LA Weekly." Ten years later, his photos ran as a retrospective in The Explosion, published by Glendale High School. "That's my smallest client, but it was very professional and very impressive. I always mention it when people ask where they might have seen my work."
When the news pauses, Ted creates his own. In 2009, his powerful photo essay of Lancaster Prison earned first place honors for a single topic photo essay at the Los Angeles Press Club's 52nd Annual Southern California Journalism Award. The montage appeared in Los Angeles Magazine. Ted competed against himself for the award. His essay on wild fires won the second place award.
The Daily Beast 4.26.12 /
TED SOQUI PHOTOS: LA Riots, Then & Now
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THEN & NOW, IMAGES FROM THE SAME SPOT AS THE LA RIOTS, 20 YEARS LATER
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Symmetrical Standing Seam Roofing System Installed Without Interrupting Operations
May 28, 2019 by RoofingAdmin Leave a Comment
Northwest Distributors was able to keep operations running without interruption while a new seam roofing system installed was installed a re-cover application. Photos: McElroy Metal
The versatility of a symmetrical standing seam metal roofing system has given birth to a new way of dealing with damaged metal roofing.
Northwest Distributors in Hays, Kansas, is a busy warehouse, dealing with auto parts and supplies. The R-panel roofing on the original building and an addition both sustained damage in several hailstorms over the years. After a 2017 hailstorm, the insurance company for Northwest Distributors agreed a new roof was needed and it would cover the damage.
The tried and true method of replacement involves complete roofing tear-off and replacement. Obviously, this would expose the valuable contents of the facility to the elements. Roofmasters Roofing & Sheet Metal of Hays proposed the patented 238T tall clip re-cover using the 238T symmetrical standing seam roofing system from McElroy Metal.
The roof re-cover would not require the removal of any existing roofing panels and therefore, would not interrupt any activity inside. It would be business-as-usual at Northwest Distributors during the install.
The owners at Northwest Distributors decided to go with the re-cover. Project manager Andrew Bizzell and project superintendent Andy Littrel headed up the assignment for Roofmasters.
“The tall clip re-cover cost is about the same as a removal, but the benefit comes from the contents of the building not being exposed to potential damage from rain or wind or hail,” says Bizzell. “Plus, they were able to keep working without interruption. That saved Northwest money as well.”
To eliminate the problem of standing water behind curbs above the skylights, transverse panels were installed above the skylights using floating purlins that lift the transverse panels and skylights above the field of the new roof. Photos: McElroy Metal
Panels for the 58,000-sqaure-foot re-cover were produced onsite and stacked on the roof. Roofmasters owns its own roll former that produces the 238T symmetrical standing seam panel. The 24-gauge panels are 24 inches wide with striations in PVDF Regal White. Panels were approximately 64 feet long.
“It really was a straightforward job,” Bizzell says. “We have installed several re-covers with the 238T. We like the ease of installation. It provides a great benefit to the building owner because if a panel is damaged, a single panel can be removed and replaced anywhere on the roof. If a panel is damaged with another type of standing seam system, you have to start on an end and remove all of the panels up to and including the damaged panel. Obviously, that is a much greater expense.”
Bizzell says not all insurance policies cover cosmetic damage sustained in weather events like hailstorms. The symmetrical standing seam system allows for the replacement of a single panel or only damaged panels the owner feels the need to replace, reducing his financial hit.
Roofmasters installed 3 1/2 inches of batt insulation between the original roof and the new panels to eliminate the possibility of condensation forming between the two metal systems. It also provided the owner with an added R-value of R-12, which will help reduce heating and cooling costs.
Photos: McElroy Metal
It should be noted the Northwest Distributors warehouse roof includes 36 skylights, a feature the owner wanted to keep. To eliminate the problem of standing water behind curbs above the skylights, Roofmasters installed transverse panels from the top of the skylight to the ridge. Transverse panels are installed perpendicular to the slope using floating purlins that lift the transverse panels and skylights above the field of the new roof. This system lifts the leak-prone skylights out of the water plane. None of the exposed fasteners used for this detail penetrate the roof.
Beneath the center of the transverse panels, a center support was installed. In addition to support, it adds a little pitch to the transverse panels to aid water flow.
Roofmasters installed a polycarbonate skylight panel from MWI Components over the original skylight hole.
“We use transverse panels with skylights and other roof penetrations,” Bizzell says. “We also use the traditional curb. Installed correctly, they both do what they’re supposed to do.”
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McElroy Metal Publishing Blogs to Help Contractors, Consumers, Homeowners
December 5, 2018 by RoofingAdmin Leave a Comment
McElroy Metal has developed three blogs to help educate contractors, consumers and homeowners on the benefits and frequently asked questions regarding metal roofing and wall products.
McElroy Metal’s Commercial Building blog features some of the many successful commercial projects completed with the company’s products. McElroy Metal’s Homeowner blog speaks to anyone looking for design inspiration and information about installing metal roofing on their home. It also offers information about the benefits of metal roofing. McElroy Metal’s News blog showcases the company’s new products as well as projects featuring McElroy products, including several award-winning projects.
“Our goal is to help our customers and consumers learn about metal roofing and walls,” said Ken Gieseke, Vice President of Marketing at McElroy Metal. “The three blogs contain information useful to contractors, consumers and homeowners, information that helps promote the use of metal roofing and walls and explains the benefits to consumers.”
All three blogs can be accessed from the Blog drop-down menu on the company’s home page, www.mcelroymetal.com.
Filed Under: Manufacturer News Tagged With: blog, McElroy, mcelroy metal, McElroy Metal Inc., metal roof and wall
McElroy Metal Publishes E-Book on Economic Benefits of Roof Recover With Metal
October 23, 2018 by RoofingAdmin Leave a Comment
When a roof has to be replaced, McElroy Metal is poised to help building owners make the best decision with the company’s new E-book. This valuable reference identifies the many long-term and cost-effective benefits of installing a metal roof. The title of the E-book is Need a New Roof? How Building Owners Reduce Cost with a Metal Roof. McElroy Metal, a family-owned manufacturer of metal roofing and wall panels for a variety of markets, has developed two symmetrical standing seam metal roofing systems that are installed more quickly and provide a long-term, high-performance solution.
The E-book was developed to help building owners understand re-roofing options and present the features and benefits of Metal-Over-Metal and Metal-Over-Shingle Recover Systems. These two symmetrical standing seam metal roofing systems represent the optimal solutions with regard to both long-term performance and cost.
McElroy Metal’s E-book, Need a New Roof? How Building Owners Reduce Cost with A Metal Roof, can be downloaded at this link: https://info.mcelroymetal.com/building-owners-reduce-cost-with-a-metal-roof.
For more information, visit https://www.mcelroymetal.com.
Filed Under: Manufacturer News Tagged With: e-book, mcelroy metal, McElroy Metal Inc., metal roof recover, metal roofing
Synthetic and Peel-and-Stick Underlayments for Metal Roofing
HydraShell MAX and HydraShell Supreme SA are McElroy Metal’s new underlayments. HydraShell MAX is the standard synthetic underlayment and HydraShell Supreme SA is a peel-and-stick underlayment. HydraShell MAX has a four-layer construction and can be used under all types of finished roofing materials, including steel roofing and is suitable for roof pitches as low as ½:12. HydraShell MAX requires significantly fewer fasteners than competitive products and provides a durable deck cover. HydraShell Supreme SA is the best choice in high-temperature, self-adhering applications. The SBS modified asphalt provides excellent pliability and the cool gray surface reduces heat build-up.
For more information, visit www.mcelroymetal.com.
Filed Under: Latest Products, Products, Underlayments Tagged With: HydraShell MAX, HydraShell Supreme SA, mcelroy metal, metal roofing, underlayment
Meticulous Preparation Sets Up Restoration Project for Success
September 24, 2018 by Chris King Leave a Comment
Photos: Debby Amador, Roma Police Department
Officials at Roma High School in Roma, Texas, knew they needed a new roof. The tile roof on the main complex was more than 25 years old, and some components were clearly failing. They didn’t realize that many of the leaks and resulting wall deterioration were caused by other problems as well. Luckily, they reached out to design and construction professionals who did their homework, diagnosed all of the key problems, and developed a plan to fix them. The crowning touch of the building envelope restoration plan was a beautiful standing seam metal roof, and the success of the project is proof that hard work pays off not only in the classroom, but on top of it.
As its building envelope consultant, Roma Independent School District chose Amtech Solutions Inc., headquartered in Dallas, Texas. The full-service architectural, engineering, and building envelope consulting firm has been in business since 1982. Working out of the company’s Rio Grand Valley (RGV) office located in Pharr, Texas, Amtech Solutions inspected and evaluated the entire site and reviewed legacy documents to identify the underlying issues.
They found quite a few, notes Michael Hovar, AIA, RRO, LEED AP, a senior architect and the general manager of the company’s RGV office. “They thought all they had was a roofing problem,” he notes. “But we saw right away that not properly managing water off the roof was the cause of wall deterioration, which then became leaks into the building. Our experience with the entire envelope and all facets of design and construction really helped us on this one.”
Roma High School in Roma, Texas, underwent a three-phase building envelope restoration plan in 2016-2017. After the walls were repaired and restored, the roof and mechanical equipemt were replaced. Photos: Debby Amador, Roma Police Department
Amtech Solutions put together a presentation for the school board to detail what they discovered and the plan they proposed to remedy the situation. The company also worked with the school district to help develop a budget.
The restoration plan was split up into three phases. The first phase focused on restoring the walls and windows. The second phase encompassed roof replacement and installing new mechanical equipment. The third phase involved improving drainage, grading and other site repairs.
Amtech Solutions decided not to bid the project out to a general contractor, but rather to bid each phase separately. “We decided to split it up into stages and do it logically, starting with the walls first,” Hovar says. “For the walls, we got restoration contractors who specialize in wall restoration work.”
Restoration Services Inc. (RSI) of Houston, Texas handled the first phase in the summer, as the wall repairs would be louder and more disruptive to students. The roof replacement project was scheduled for the fall. “Once all of the stuff on the ground was done, that allowed us to do the re-roofing work throughout the school year, which also helped the price,” notes Hovar. “Our experience has always been that if we have good cooperation with the contractors and the school staff, at the end of the job they end up being best friends. And that’s exactly what happened. At the end of the job, they were sad to see the roofers go.”
Amtech Solutions convinced the school district the plan would work. “It took some coordination, communication and cooperation, and it took a motivated owner that was willing to do this and trust us,” Hovar says. “They looked to us for guidance, and we said, ‘We do this all the time. We do roofing projects throughout the year, occupied and unoccupied, and we do it in a way that respects what the occupant’s needs are.’”
When it came time to specify the roof system, school board members were divided; one faction wanted to install a new tile roof, and the other wanted to go with metal. “The interesting thing is, for the historical architecture of the area, both of those roofs are appropriate, so from the standpoint of historical significance, either one works,” Hovar says. “In the end, it was quite a bit more expensive to utilize tile than it was to utilize a metal roof.”
The Roof Systems
The decision was made to go with a standing seam metal roof from McElroy Metal on the vast majority of the complex, including the main roof, the gymnasium, and two freestanding structures — the art and industrial arts buildings — that had been added over the years. The main tile roof was removed and replaced with McElroy’s 138T Panel, a 16-inch-wide, 24-gauge panel in Brite Red. McElroy’s 238T Panel, a 24-inch-wide, 24-gauge panel, was specified for the gym, as well as the art and industrial arts buildings. In a cost-saving measure, the color on the gym roof was changes to Galvalume Plus. In all, more than 233,000 square feet of metal roofing was installed.
“The reason we picked this roof system is we’ve had a lot of great experience with it,” Hovar says. “We love that panel because they can actually bring the roll former to the jobsite. That gives the roofing contractor a lot more options on how he can load the roof and sequence the job. The other beauty of this panel is that it has unlimited movement. The panels itself slides back and forth over a fixed clip. It also flashes like a dream.”
Low-slope roof areas adjacent to the gym were replaced with a two-ply modified bitumen system from Siplast. CPI Daylighting manufactured a new skylight for the atrium.
As part of the roofing phase, gutters and downspouts were added. “There was nothing controlling the water before on this project,” Hovar says. “We designed a gutter system with expansion joints as per SMACNA guidelines. The contractor made absolutely beautiful shop-welded aluminum downspout boots.”
The most crucial detail was a custom-made saddle that solved the problem of water infiltration at the transition between the roof and walls on the wings. “This ultimately simple solution addressed one of the major design flaws that plagued the facility from the first days of occupancy,” Hovar notes. “We modeled the three-dimensional design of those saddles, and the contractor welded them in his shop. He fabricated them out of .080 aluminum and they were seamless. The restoration contractor had already installed all of the through-wall flashing, so all the roofer had to do was put counterflashing in and do his work around it. He was able to fly without being slowed down by a mason on the job.”
The Roofing Contractor
The roofing phase of the project was handled by Rio Roofing, headquartered in Harlingen, Texas. The company primarily installs low-slope and metal roofs, and its focus is on large commercial and institutional projects. ““We do nearly 90 percent public bonded work,” notes Hedley Hichens, vice president of Rio Roofing. “We found out that whether it’s a small job or a big job, the paperwork is still the same, so we try to make it worthwhile.”
The company worked on the Roma High School project for about a year, wrapping up the roofing phase of the project in November 2017.
After the structure’s main roof was removed, the tile was replaced with a standing seam metal roof featuring McElroy’s 138T Panel in Brite Red. Photos: Debby Amador, Roma Police Department
The decision was made to tackle the wings on the main roof first. “During the pre-con meetings, we met with the principal and the superintendent and asked, ‘Which wings are the worst?’” Hichens notes. “There was one wing that was the most problematic, so we started with that area first.”
Rio Roofing began by tearing off the existing tile roof. “There were about 1,925 squares of concrete tile we had to remove,” Hichens notes. “We had crews on the roof tearing off tile, crews on the ground palletizing the tile and storing it in the parking lot.”
As crew members removed the old tile and felt, others followed behind and installed polyisocyanurate insulation and Polystick MTS, a waterproofing underlayment designed for high-temperature applications. “We did 40 or 50 squares a day, moving down the wing,” Hichens says. “We dried in the whole school. Then we came back with the 138 panel.”
On top of the gym and other buildings that received the 238T panel, the existing metal roofs were left in place. “We put flute fill on top of the old panels. Then we screwed down 3/8-inch Securock, primed it and put the Polyglass underlayment down on top of that,” Hichens explains. “That 24-inch panel is a great panel to work with because every time you put one down, you’re 2 feet closer to finishing.”
Installing the New Roofs
The school’s main roof covers a central hub with eight wings coming off of its octagonal skylight. Where the wings tie together, access was limited.
“It was a tight squeeze,” Hichens says. “Getting in there and getting out was difficult. I think our fork lift only cleared one of the walkways by 2 or 3 inches. It’s a big campus, but the layout was difficult at the school.”
Once the wings were dried in, sheet metal crews installed the edge metal and 4,000 linear feet of gutters. They also started forming the panels.
Typically, Rio Roofing lifts the roll former to the roof edge, but it was difficult to get a large lift next to the building, so in this case the roll former was left on the ground. It was moved from wing to wing as the job progressed. “We used a New Tech roll former on this project,” Hichens says, “We would put the roll former parallel to each wing and store the panels on the ground in each area.”
Panels were hemmed and notched using a Swenson Snap Table Pro and lifted to the roof with a fork lift and a special cradle. Crews used a hand seamer to set temporary seams and followed up with a robotic seamer from D.I. Roof Seamers. “The panels are easy to install,” Hichens says. “You get about four guys 10 feet apart to engage the panels and clips and you just keep going. At the end of the day crews put the seam caps on.”
On the low-slope areas, Rio Roofing installed approximately 47,000 square feet of the Siplast two-ply SBS modified system, which was torched down over new lightweight concrete. “For their size, the low-slope areas had a ton of mechanical equipment and ductwork up there,” notes Hichens. “There were a lot of key details.”
Rio Roofing custom-manufactured numerous curbs and details, including the saddles over problem areas at the walls. “We have a full welding shop,” Hichens notes. “We have a full machine shop. We make all of our own curbs here, so there is no lead time for ordering curbs, and we are sure they’ll fit.”
Work on the project has now moved on to a fourth phase: installing translucent panels over the swimming pool. Hovar believes teamwork was the key to the project’s success. “We had such a good contracting team, we did good field work to begin with, and we had an understanding owner,” he says. “Designing it wasn’t easy, but thankfully our experience helped. We just had a really good team to execute it, all the way around. That’s what makes for a great, project, right? When everybody is invested in a good outcome, they always support everybody else.”
Communication was also essential, and Building Information Modeling (BIM) helped keep everyone on the same page. “We modeled the project on our BIM software, and it helped everyone understand the scope and challenges. The BIM model allowed the owner see exactly what the project would look like, and it helped the contractor understand the staging and logistical challenges before the project was bid,” Hovar says. “There were no surprises.”
Architect and Consultant: Amtech Solutions Inc., Pharr, Texas, www.amtechsls.com
Roofing Contractor: Rio Roofing, Harlingen Texas
Wall Restoration Contractor: RSI-Restoration Services Inc., Houston, Texas, www.rsi-restorationservices.com
Metal Roof System
Metal Panels: 138T panel (16 inches wide, 24 gauge) and 238T Panel (24 inches wide, 24 gauge), McElroy Metal, www.mcelroymetal.com
Underlayment: Polystick MTS, Polyglass, www.polyglass.us
Skylight: CPI Daylighting, www.cpidaylighting.com
Low-Slope Roof System
Modified Bitumen Membrane: Paradiene SBS, Siplast, www.siplast.com
Filed Under: Education, Projects Tagged With: 138T panel, Amtech Solutions Inc., CPI Daylighting, mcelroy metal, metal panels, Paradiene SBS, polyglass, Polystick MTS, Rio Roofing, RSI-Restoration Services Inc, Securock, siplast, skylight, USG
McElroy Metal Opens New Manufacturing Facility in Missouri
To meet the needs of a growing customer base, McElroy Metal opened its 13th U.S. manufacturing facility in Diamond, Missouri, this summer. “I look forward to servicing customers from here,” said Billy Howell, operations manager at the new Diamond manufacturing facility. “McElroy Metal has had a service center in this location for more than a decade. We’ve cultivated an excellent customer base, so building a manufacturing facility was just a natural step to meeting the needs of that customer base.”
Diamond is located in the southwest corner of Missouri, near the borders of Oklahoma, Arkansas and Kansas, serving the four-state area. The new manufacturing facility provides products for the post-frame industry as well as the architectural and commercial construction markets. “Now we can better serve our customers with the capability to locally produce the quality products they’ve come to expect,” said Brian Eudy, McElroy manager at Diamond.
Filed Under: Manufacturer News Tagged With: mcelroy metal, McElroy Metal Inc.
McElroy Metal Offers Online AIA Course on Metal Roof Design
McElroy Metal is offering a continuing education course in metal roof design for architects at AECdaily.com. The course, “Metal Roof Design: Top 10 Problems and How to Solve Them,” is based on an article and seminar conducted for the Roof Consultants Institute by metal roofing industry experts Brian Gardner and Charlie Smith. The article can be accessed by members via this link.
Metal roofing is gaining in popularity in both commercial and residential markets due to its durability, low operational cost and sustainability. Owner expectations for this product family have increased as well and now include heightened aesthetics and long-term performance. While metal roofing systems are certainly up to these challenges, when they fail due to improper installation, the results are costly. Consequently, it’s imperative designers have full knowledge of metal roof design and detailing. The course covers 10 problems metal roof designers face and describes how these problems can be prevented through proper design.
For more information, visit http://www.mcelroymetal.com.
Filed Under: Manufacturer News Tagged With: AIA course, mcelroy metal, McElroy Metal Inc., online course
New Construction Project Tests Contractor’s Mettle
October 3, 2017 by Chris King Leave a Comment
Photos: Lynn Cromer Photography, Ferris, Texas
Independence High School in Frisco, Texas, was conceived as an impressive new construction project on a tight schedule. The standing seam metal roof of the building was a key component in the architectural planning, as it was designed to provide aesthetic appeal for the massive structure while minimizing the view of mechanical equipment for passers-by on the ground.
The roof also was comprised of several low-slope sections, which were covered with a modified bitumen system. Both the metal and modified systems contributed to the building’s energy efficiency, helping the project achieve LEED Silver status.
The roof systems were installed by the Duncanville, Texas, branch of Progressive Roofing Services. Randy Dickhaut, the company’s general manager, indicated the project was completed in approximately one year—an ambitious schedule for a job of this size. “It was a challenging new construction job,” he says. “There were a lot of logistics involved, but in general, the job went very well.
A Tale of Two Roofs
The first goal of the project was drying in the metal decking. A two-ply, hot–mopped modified bitumen system manufactured by Johns Manville was installed on 24 decks totaling approximately 195,000 square feet of low-slope roof area. The system was applied over two layers of 2 1/2-inch polyiso insulation and 1/2-inch JM Securock cover board. The system was topped with an Energy-Star rated cap sheet, DynaGlas FR CR.
In the nine sections where the 88,000 square feet of metal roofing was installed, two layers of 2 1/2-inch polyiso insulation were attached, along with plywood decking and self-adhering TAMKO TW Tile and Metal underlayment. The standing seam metal roof system was manufactured by McElroy Metal, and the company provided the manpower and equipment to roll form the panels on the job site. Roof panels were the company’s 22-gauge Maxima 216 panels in Weathered Galvalume. These panels were complemented by 24-gauge Flush panels on walls and soffits.
The roll former was mounted on a scissor-lift truck. The eaves of the building were approximately 36 feet off of the ground, so a sacrificial panel was used to create a bridging effect to help guide panels to the roof. “Basically, the roll former went right along with us,” Dickhaut recalls. “We would pull 30 or 40 squares of panels, then drop the machine and move to the next spot. We were able to roll the panels right off the machine and lay them in almost the exact spot they would be installed.”
The length of some of the panels posed a challenge, and as many as 12 crew members were needed to guide them into place for installation. In the steep-slope sections, crew members had to be tied off 100 percent of the time, so retractable lanyards were used to help keep safety lines out of the way.
The roof was mechanically seamed using a self-propelled industrial roof seamer manufactured by D.I. Roof Seamers. “We call it walking the dog,” notes Dickhaut. “One man can operate the equipment, and he just walks it every inch of every seam.”
The metal roof was designed to hide the mechanical equipment for the building, and Progressive Roofing completed work on two deep mechanical wells before the HVAC equipment was installed. “In the wells, we used McElroy’s Flush panels for the vertical surfaces and transitioned to the metal roofing,” notes Dickhaut. “In the bottom of the mechanical wells, we installed the Johns Manville modified roof and flashed the curbs.”
Dickhaut points to a few challenges on the job, including the length of the panels and the weather. “Overall, the job went really well,” he says. “The architects did a great job on the design, and McElroy has really good details. It was a pretty straightforward process. There was a lot of wind and rain we had to cope with. When you have a 100-foot panel that you can’t kink or scratch, it can get kind of tricky. You just have to be very careful.”
The Texas weather made the schedule unpredictable. “We were on that job over a year, so we caught all four seasons,” he says. “Weather had a huge impact. We dealt with extreme heat, humidity, snow, ice, mud, monsoon-type rains. Texas throws anything and everything at you.”
Whatever the conditions, Progressive Roofing was ready. “We show up locked and loaded,” Dickhaut says. “We attack it. We have seasoned veteran roofers that lead the pack. On that particular project, we had an architect, roofing consultants, an owner’s rep, and a general contractor. We would also bring in the McElroy and JM reps periodically for consultation. It’s really a team effort.”
Architect: Corgan Associates Inc., Dallas
General Contractor: Lee Lewis Construction Inc., Dallas
Roofing Contractor: Progressive Roofing Services Inc., Duncanville, Texas
Filed Under: Education, Projects Tagged With: Johns manville, low-slope, mcelroy metal, McElroy Metal Inc., metal roof, modified bitumen, Progressive Roofing, standing seam metal roof, TAMKO
Project Profiles: Hospitality & Entertainment
January 25, 2017 by RoofingAdmin2 Leave a Comment
B.O.B., Grand Rapids, Mich.
The double-sided green wall surrounds guests with nature and provides fresh ingredients for the food they enjoy.
The B.O.B.’s 900-square-foot Sky Patio was completed in August 2015 when its signature green wall was installed. The distinctive double-sided green wall surrounds guests with nature and provides fresh ingredients for the food they enjoy.
“Our living wall on the Sky Patio is a vivid symbol of our commitment to sustainability and support of the local environments where our restaurants are located,” says Alice Jasper, director of sustainability, the Gilmore Collection. “It greens up the exterior and interior of the rooftop patio, contributing to the beautification of downtown, making the patio more inviting from the street below and enhancing the dining experience of our guests.”
The two-sided green wall totals 608 square feet. Three exterior sections (48 inches in height) are attached to the outside of the fencing that surrounds the patio. Facing out to the street, these sections frame the Sky Patio on three sides with flowering annuals and perennials. There are five interior sections (45 1/2 inches in height), three on the inside of the perimeter fence, two on the back wall of the building. In addition to flowers, the interior sections include vegetables and herbs used in the kitchen.
The two-sided green wall totals 608 square feet.
“Local sourcing of ingredients is one of our main sustainable hospitality practices,” says Barbie Smith, the Gilmore Collection’s gardener. “With the green wall at the B.O.B., we grow ingredients right near the tables where our guests dine. You cannot get more local than that.”
“What chef wouldn’t want a garden with fresh herbs and produce right in their restaurant? A green wall makes it practical,” adds Mick Rickerd, chef at Bobarino’s. “We utilize the herbs in all our everyday dishes and the vegetables, like Swiss chard and rainbow carrots, in daily features. Our mixology team incorporates fresh basil, mint, lemongrass and thyme into special summer cocktails.”
Green Wall Manufacturer: LiveWall
The B.O.B. is the Gilmore Collection’s most ambitious project, and it exemplifies the company’s commitment to sustainability. The B.O.B. is an acronym for Big Old Building; the 70,000-square-foot, 4-story, red brick building was constructed in 1903 as a grocery warehouse. It stood vacant for decades before the Gilmore Collection saved it from demolition and began its transformation into a landmark hospitality destination in downtown Grand Rapids. The B.O.B. offers multiple venues, including bars, restaurants, comedy and nightclubs, as well as the rooftop Sky Patio, which is accessible through Bobarino’s restaurant on the second floor.
Photos: LiveWall
Filed Under: Entertainment, Projects Tagged With: 238T Plank and Pencil Rib, columbia roofing & sheet metal, EcoStar, Empire Shake Hip and Ridge, EnBase, Everguard TPO, fire rated, GAF, Gary W. Madjedi, Glacier Guard, green wall, livewall, mcelroy metal, metal roof, North Star Construction and Engineering Inc., reroofing, roof insulation, Rua and Son Mechanical, sky patio, Star Consultants Inc. Architects and Engineers, sustainability, synthetic tile, underlayment, Versa Shield, Wolfrum Roofing and Exteriors
Roof and Cladding Panels Look Like Rusted Metal
November 21, 2016 by RoofingAdmin2 Leave a Comment
Cor-Ten AZP Raw offers the look of aged or weathered roofing and cladding.
McElroy Metal has made available Cor-Ten AZP Raw, which offers the look of aged or weathered roofing and cladding. Cor-Ten AZP Raw is a fluoropolymer coating system that uses cool pigment technology McElroy Metal applies over Galvalume-coated steel sheet. It’s available in a variety of McElroy Metal standing-seam and through-fastened panel profiles.
Filed Under: Latest Products, Steep slope Tagged With: cladding, Cor-Ten AZP Raw, fluoropolymer coatings, galvalume-coated metal, mcelroy metal, roofing, standing seam, through-fastened panels
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BUILDING AND CONSERVING QUEENSLAND'S HISTORY
Stone Construction
Specialised Cleaning
What is heritage conservation?
Heritage conservation is the maintenance and management of changes to a heritage asset such as a building or memorial. This can be for significant enhancement of the asset such as a structural addition or, general maintenance and cleaning to preserve the assets structural integrity and appearance.
Have a heritage building?
Finding the right company to conserve your heritage building can be quite a tough task. Queensland Heritage Masonry can undertake any heritage conservation project and treat every asset with the utmost care.
Purpose of heritage conservation
Maintaining and enhancing heritage assets has a big impact and benefit to the economy and the assets local community. From tourism to jobs, education to recreation. Heritage conservation ensures the quality of life within its neighbourhood is improved. There are many policies and legislation regarding the protection of heritage assets.
When it comes to the economic benefits associated with heritage conservation, these can include:
Businesses can benefit from having their offices within a heritage building or near it a heritage asset as it can be used in directions.
There can be an increase in tourism to the heritage asset which can bring more funds to the local community.
There is no secret that restoring is more often cheaper than construction from new.
Requires less energy than a potential new construction.
Due to the asset already being constructed, there is less wastage than a new construction.
Cost of heritage conservation
The cost of conservation to a heritage asset can vary quite dramatically. Unfortunately, there cannot be a set or flat price as there are a number of factors that determine how much the conservation will ultimately cost. Some of these factors include:
Level of Decay
If the asset has been preserved and conservation carried out regularly the level of decay will vary. The age of the asset and how often it is exposed to the elements will also affect the level of decay.
What the asset is currently made of and how hard it is to source the same material as well as the state that the current material is in will factor into the costs.
There are many different ways to carve a stone, just like there are many different ways to lay them. Depending on the type of construction used during the asset creation this will also be a cost factor.
Due to the level of decay, construction material and construction type will determine the number of man-hours needed in order to complete the conservation.
Example: The corner of a carved stone wall is decayed past the point of repair, a replacement of the stone will be required. The stone used at the time of construction was quite common but is now rare and hard to source. Once a replacement stone is found it then needs to have the same carving from the original replicated onto it so it flows with the rest of the wall. It isn't possible to CNC the stone due to its shape resulting in it taking 36 hours for the carving to be completed by hand.
(This is an extreme example but shows how impossible it would be to give a flat fee).
Conservation showcase
Our remaining masonry buildings are a reflection of the past. These buildings were built by stonemasons using traditional techniques. In order to conserve these historic buildings traditional stonemasonry skills are again required.
Stone Mason carving a stone monument
Queensland Heritage Masonry has stonemasons trained to protect and conserve Queensland’s built heritage for future generations to enjoy. Safety audits are carried out on buildings to ensure safety for passing pedestrians below and to ensure good asset management.
All Saints Church Restoration
Monuments and Structures
Queensland’s monuments and structures remind us of important historical events or people. As time passes and they deteriorate, we can risk losing their significance, conserving these pieces of history are important. Queensland Heritage Masonry has the expertise to ensure future generations will continue to enjoy their beauty and cultural significance.
Walter Hill Fountain Restoration
Take a look at some of our heritage stone conservation projects - Heritage Conservation Gallery
Your local stone specialists
Finding a company you can trust to conserve your heritage building can be quite a tough task. Queensland Heritage Masonry is licenced under the Queensland Building and Construction Commission. We can undertake any heritage conservation project, large and small, and treat every asset with the utmost care.
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RAINFOR
Amazon Forest Inventory Network
About Rainfor
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After the field
The impact of forest plots research is of ‘outstanding reach and significance’
In 2014 the regular assessment of the quality of research at UK universities - the Research Assessment Exercise, or REF -evaluated for the first time the impact of research on policy and society. In Leeds we wrote a case study that described the many ways in which the work of RAINFOR, AfriTRON and ForestPlots.net has had helped to shape international climate policy. Our work is supporting governments to map carbon stocks, and training individuals and organisations to monitor tropical forests effectively.
The case study described how research based on these networks of forest plots and people has been cited in IPCC reports, and used in influential policy briefs such as by the InterAcademies panel of national science academies, to support informed and strong international agreements on climate change. We described how governments in tropical forest nations have used the approaches and tools that we have created to understand how much carbon is stored in their countries. We explained how our training courses, often subsequently replicated, have enabled organisations and individuals to participate in national and regional carbon mapping.
Our impact statement was evaluated by the REF panel as being of ‘outstanding reach and significance’. This makes it one of the best in the country. Everyone involved in RAINFOR, AfriTRON, and ForestPlots can be proud of that assessment. It reflects the tremendous efforts of all the institutions and collaborators that have built and maintain the networks that exist today.
The REF was a UK exercise that affects the level of funding that universities obtain from the government. But, in a much wider sense, it gives us a chance to reflect on how our concerted collaborative efforts, which stretch across more than 30 nations, are generating important impacts at many different levels of society. Together we are providing robust scientific information that is essential to manage sustainably the world’s tropical forests.
Tim Baker (RAINFOR/University of Leeds)
New article led by Edgar VICUÑA MIÑANO of the Peruvian National Park Service (SERNANP)
Amazon forests failing to keep up with climate change
Capacity building to support management
Integrating forest monitoring in protected area management in Perú
New article led by Edgar VICUÑA MIÑANO of the Peruvian National Park Service (SERNANP) January, 2019
Amazon forests failing to keep up with climate change November, 2018
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Stem Cell Treatment and Osteoarthritis at SIRM
What is Osteoarthritis ?
Symptoms may include joint pain, tenderness, stiffness, locking, and sometimes an effusion. A variety of causes include hereditary, developmental, metabolic, and mechanical. OA may initiate processes leading to the loss of cartilage.
When bone surfaces become less well protected by cartilage, bone may be exposed and damaged. As a result of decreased movement secondary to pain, regional muscles may atrophy, and ligaments may become more lax.
Human mesenchymal stem cells inhibit osteoclastogenesis through osteoprotegerin production.
Arthritis Rheum. 2011 Jun;63(6):1658-67
Authors: Oshita K, Yamaoka K, Udagawa N, Fukuyo S, Sonomoto K, Maeshima K, Kurihara R, Nakano K, Saito K, Okada Y, Chiba K, Tanaka Y
Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) have been proposed to be a useful tool for treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), not only because of their multipotency but also because of their immunosuppressive effect on lymphocytes, dendritic cells, and other proinflammatory cells.
Since bone destruction caused by activated osteoclasts occurs in RA, we undertook the present study to investigate the effect of MSCs on osteoclast function and differentiation in order to evaluate their potential use in RA therapy.
Autologous bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells implantation for cartilage defects: two cases report.
J Med Assoc Thai. 2011 Mar;94(3):395-400
Authors: Kasemkijwattana C, Hongeng S, Kesprayura S, Rungsinaporn V, Chaipinyo K, Chansiri K
The authors reported the results of autologous bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (BM-MSCs) implantation in two patients with large traumatic cartilage defects of the knee.
Stem Cell Injections for Osteoarthritis
Prospects of stem cell therapy in osteoarthritis.
Regen Med. 2011 May;6(3):351-66
Authors: Roberts S, Genever P, McCaskie A, Bari CD
Osteoarthritis is a common disorder in which there is not only extensive degeneration but also an aberrant attempt at repair in joints.
Stem cell therapy could provide a permanent, biological solution, with all sources of stem cells (embryonic, fetal and adult) showing some degree of potential.
Mesenchymal stromal/stem cells, however, appear to be the leading candidates because of their ability to be sourced from many or all joint tissues. They may also modulate the immune response of individuals, in a manner influenced by local factors.
This biological behavior of stem cells renders the application of regulatory standardizations challenging in comparison to pharmaceutical therapies. However, this would not be an issue if endogenous stem cells were activated to effect repair of an arthritic joint.
Mesenchymal stem cell therapy for knee osteoarthritis. Preliminary report of four patients.
Int J Rheum Dis. 2011 May;14(2):211-5
Authors: Davatchi F, Abdollahi BS, Mohyeddin M, Shahram F, Nikbin B
Background: Osteoarthritis (OA) is a cartilage degenerative process, involving the immune system, producing local inflammatory reactions, with production of pro-inflammatory cytokines and metalloproteinases. No treatment is still available to improve or reverse the process. Stem cell therapy opened new horizons for treatment of many incurable diseases.
Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) due to their multi-lineage potential, immunosuppressive activities, limited immunogenicity and relative ease of growth in culture, have attracted attentions for clinical use. Aim: The aim of this study was to examine whether MSC transplantation could reverse the OA process in the knee joint.
The project was approved by the Tehran University of Medical Sciences Research Committee and Ethical Committee. Patients and Methods: Four patients with knee osteoarthritis were selected for the study. They were aged 55, 57, 65 and 54 years, and had moderate to severe knee OA. After their signed written consent, 30 mL of bone marrow were taken and cultured for MSC growth.
After having enough MSCs in culture (4-5 weeks) and taking in consideration all safety measures, cells were injected in one knee of each patient. Results: The walking time for the pain to appear improved for three patients and remained unchanged for one. The number of stairs they could climb and the pain on visual analog scale improved for all of them. On physical examination, the improvement was mainly for crepitus.
It was minor for the improvement of the range of motion. Conclusion: Results were encouraging, but not excellent. Improvement of the technique may improve the results.
Telomere length, telomerase activity and osteogenic differentiation are maintained in adipose-derived stromal cells from senile osteoporotic SAMP6 mice.
J Tissue Eng Regen Med. 2011 Jun 28;
Authors: Mirsaidi A, Kleinhans KN, Rimann M, Tiaden AN, Stauber M, Rudolph KL, Richards PJ
Adipose tissue provides for a rich and easily accessible source of multipotent stromal cells and thus offers the potential for autologous cell-based therapy for a number of degenerative diseases. Senile osteoporosis is characterized by a reduction in bone quality, which is associated with inadequacies in bone marrow stromal cell (BMSC) differentiation. In the present study, we have characterized adipose-derived stromal cells (ASCs) isolated from aged osteoporotic mice and evaluated their suitability as a source of osteogenic precursor cells.
Significant reductions in both tibia bone quality and telomere length in liver tissue were observed in the senescence-accelerated mouse prone 6 strain (SAMP6), as compared to the control age-matched senescence-accelerated mouse resistant 1 strain (SAMR1), thus confirming osteoporosis and accelerated ageing traits in this model.
ASCs isolated from inguinal fat expressed mesenchymal surface markers and were capable of differentiating along the osteoblast, adipocyte and chondrocyte lineages. Telomere length was not compromised in ASCs from SAMP6 mice but was actually found to be significantly increased as compared to control SAMR1 mice.
Furthermore, ASCs from both strains were comparable in terms of telomerase activity, p21 mRNA expression, SA-β-gal activity and proliferative capacity. The overall osteogenic and adipogenic potential of ASCs was comparable between SAMP6 and SAMR1 strains, as determined by quantitative molecular, biochemical and histological analyses.
In conclusion, adipose tissue may represent a promising autologous cell source for the development of novel bone regenerative therapeutic strategies in the treatment of age-related osteoporosis. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Stem Cell Treatments for Osteoarthritis Streaming NIH research:
The efficacy of different sources of mesenchymal stem cells for the treatment of knee osteoarthritis.
The efficacy of different sources of mesenchymal stem cells for the treatment of knee osteoarthritis. Cell Tissue Res. 2019 Jul 15;: Authors: Maryam S, Jianing S, Wilson SL Abstract Osteoarthritis (OA) is a common cause of chronic pain and disability. Regenerative therapies using mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) provide an option for OA treatment as it could potentially regenerate the damaged cartilage. Bone marrow, adipose tissue and synovium are common MSC sources. The aim is to compare the therapeutic effect of MSCs from bone marrow, adipose tissue and synovium; combining its differentiation potential and accessibility, to decide the optimal source of MSCs for the treatment of knee OA. A comparison of preclinical and clinical studies using MSCs has been made with regard to treatment outcomes, isolation procedure and differentiation potential. All types of MSCs are effective at improving the clinical and structural condition of OA patients, but the longevity of the treatment, i.e. an effect that is maintained for at least 2 years, cannot be guaranteed. This review highlighted great variations in selection criteria and culture expansion conditions of MSCs between the literature and clinical trials. It also emphasised a substantial diversity and lack of consistency in the assessment mythology of clinical outcome after completion of MSC therapies procedures. A more cohesive methodology is required to evaluate the outcome of MSC treatments using quantitative and standardised frameworks in order to be able to directly compare results. Larger population of patients are recommended to assess the quality of MSC when designing studies and clinical trials to reaffirm the efficacy of MSC treatment prior to and within the clinical trials and follow up studies. PMID: 31309317 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Additional Use of Synovial Mesenchymal Stem Cell Transplantation Following Surgical Repair of a Complex Degenerative Tear of the Medial Meniscus of the Knee: A Case Report.
Additional Use of Synovial Mesenchymal Stem Cell Transplantation Following Surgical Repair of a Complex Degenerative Tear of the Medial Meniscus of the Knee: A Case Report. Cell Transplant. 2019 Jul 17;:963689719863793 Authors: Sekiya I, Koga H, Otabe K, Nakagawa Y, Katano H, Ozeki N, Mizuno M, Horie M, Kohno Y, Katagiri K, Watanabe N, Muneta T Abstract Complex degenerative tears of the medial meniscus in the knee are usually treated using meniscectomy. However, this procedure increases the risk of osteoarthritis, while other treatments aimed at meniscal repair remain challenging due to the high possibility of failure. The use of synovial mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) is an attractive additional approach for meniscal repair, as these cells have high proliferative and chondrogenic potential. In this case report, we surgically repaired a complex degenerative tear of the medial meniscus and then transplanted autologous synovial MSCs. We evaluated clinical outcomes at 2 years and assessed adverse events. We enrolled patients with clinical symptoms that included a feeling of instability in addition to pain caused by their complex degenerative tears of the medial meniscus. Two weeks after surgical repair of the torn meniscus, autologous synovial MSCs were transplanted onto the menisci of five patients. The total Lysholm knee score, the Knee Injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Scale scores for "pain," "daily living," "sports activities," and the Numerical Rating Scale were significantly increased after 2 years. Three adverse events, an increase in c-reactive protein, joint effusion, and localized warmth of the knee were recorded, although these could have been due to the meniscal repair surgery. This first-in-human study confirmed that the combination of surgical repair and synovial MSC transplantation improved the clinical symptoms in patients with a complex degenerative tear of the medial meniscus. No adverse events occurred that necessitated treatment discontinuation. These findings will serve as pilot data for a future prospective study. PMID: 31313604 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
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An arguably unconstitutional tax hike races toward Jindal’s desk
In Human Interest, Important Articles, Main, Politics, Safety
Earlier this month I told you about the ill-conceived plan racing its way through Baton Rouge to impose a new tax on tourists visiting New Orleans and to use the money not to address the burning problems in our neighborhoods — high crime and lack of code enforcement — but on an amorphous tourism slush fund. Although our arguments have gained some traction, so far common sense has not been enough to derail this overstuffed freight train headed for the desk of Gov. Bobby Jindal. Senate Bill 242 has now won approval in the Senate and is likely to be taken up by the state House later today. If it wins approval there, the bill poses a serious test for Jindal and his 2016 presidential aspirations. Will he really be able to hike levies on visitors to the Crescent City — where the lack of basic government services is palpable — from states such as Iowa and New Hampshire, and then go to these early primary states and declare himself an anti-tax warrior?
To quickly recap, SB 242 imposes a 1.75 percent stealth tax on hotel guests in New Orleans and its immediate suburbs — a levy that lodging owners are not even required to break out on guests’ bill. The income will create a $12-to-18-million fund that would be controlled by the New Orleans Convention and Visitors Bureau, a quasi-public entity that has fought tooth-and-nail against disclosure of its expenditures.
The plan comes at a time when the Big Easy seems to have staked its fragile economic recovery on attracting a young, rowdy, alcohol fueled brand of free-spending tourists — and when shocking crimes like the recent shooting of 20 bystanders at a Mother’s Day parade make national headlines. Its goal is to shoehorn even more tourists into New Orleans’ historic splendors like the French Quarter rather than fixing local problems — even though a study showed only 16 percent of visitors now plan to come back a second time. I am working with a coalition of neighborhood groups that is vehemently opposed to the creation of this fund.
In recent days, as we have delved deeper into this proposal, we have uncovered two other serious problems with SB 242 — problems that cry out for Gov. Jindal to veto this measure if it does indeed reach his desk:
1) In recent weeks, a staffer in my law office, Justin Winch, has been relentless pursuing a legal fight to get the tourism bureau (known by the acronym NOCVB) to open up its books, and late last week he finally was able to open NOCVB’s previously sealed records and examine its current spending practices. What he found was alarming:
The New Orleans Convention and Visitors Bureau spends up to $4.5 million in taxpayer dollars – half the amount allocated by the citizens of this state to the organization already for “tourism marketing” – on salaries for its CEO and multiple Vice-Presidents and other executives. There is no guarantee that the tax money generated by this bill would actually go to “tourism marketing”, for which the tax payers are already providing millions of dollars.
2) A white paper prepared by my law firm, SmithStag LLC, explains how the measure appears to be in direct conflict with Louisiana’s constitutional protections of the French Quarter. Here’s an excerpt:
The Citizens of the State of Louisiana found that the French Quarter was so precious to them, that it deserved a Constitutional Amendment to provide for its preservation…
Nevertheless, Senate Bill 242 – The “New Orleans Visitor Tax” – ignores the Citizens of the State, who voted to require the French Quarter be safeguarded; the effects of Senate Bill 242 actually conflict with the Constitution of this State and furthermore attempts to add insult to crippling injuries that the Tourism Industry has already identified.
Please read the whole thing — and listen to what a community leader has to say about this ill-advised scheme:
“The state has a constitutional duty to preserve the French Quarter,” said Meg Lousteau, Executive Director of the Vieux Carre Property Owners, Residents and Associates, Inc.. “Just last week the ceiling fell in on the lower Pontalba. The city is already failing to fulfill its constitutional obligation, and now they’re going to dedicate more money to drive up tourism in the Quarter which will only catalyze historic structures’ decline into disrepair. This is irresponsible, unconstitutional, and unacceptable.”
It’s truly remarkable that this scheme has come so far, so fast. This is why we are making this urgent appeal to Gov. Jindal, if the measure does indeed reach his desk, to do the responsible thing. The choice may come down to him. Does the governor want to present Louisiana — and himself — to the rest of America as a place that indiscriminately hikes taxes to reward the politically connected while its crown jewel of New Orleans continues to be plagued by rampant crime and inadequate services? Or does he want to prove his fiscal responsibility.
It wasn’t that long ago that Jindal refused to sign off on a reasonable plan to pay for telecommunication services for the deaf because his Washington-based tax guru Grover Norquist called it a tax increase. Supporters have spread rumors that Norquist is OK with this and that it’s not really a tax but “a voluntary assessment.” That’s a bunch of malarky! The plan is constructed so that hotel owners can’t easily opt out. It walks like a tax and smells like a tax because it is a tax.
The entire nation may soon learn whether or not Bobby Jindal is a tax hiker.
For more detailed information about convention center spending and other problems with SB 242, please read: http://www.brylskicompany.com/1/post/2013/05/cvb-ignoredpublic-records-law-spends-millions-of-taxpayer-dollars-on-salaries.html
The SmithStag white paper on the constitutionality of the pending tourism tax (PDF file) is here: http://www.brylskicompany.com/uploads/1/7/4/0/17400267/130528_supplemental_white_paper_tourist_tax.pdf
Check out my May 15 blog post first asking whether Gov. Jindal will endorse this stealth tax hike: http://www.stuarthsmith.com/jindal-to-embrace-stealth-tax-hike/
To read my May 10 post about this bass-ackwards scheme for New Orleans tourism, please read: http://www.stuarthsmith.com/stop-the-bass-ackwards-plan-for-new-orleans-tourism/
Check out the BGR report (PDF file) at http://www.bgr.org/files/reports/BGR-Now_Hotel_5-14-13.pdf
code enforcement crime Gov. Bobby Jindal Louisiana legislature New Orleans noise pollution taxation tourism
Bonnie Jones says:
How much longer do we have to endure this incompetent Governor who doesn’t give one damn about Louisiana. His least concern is for education. It’s debatable what falls next on his top ten list of what else he plans to demolish before he leaves office. It is embarrassing to be an educator in Louisiana. Bobby Jindal is a disgrace.
Peggy Wilson says:
Please Veto this tax! And it is a tax and there is precious little accountability in this town. We don’t need more monoey with less responsibility.
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Keystone XL and an ‘outrageous abuse of the law’: My interview with Tavis Smiley
In BP Spill, Commentary, Feature Video, Fracking, Human Interest, Important Articles, Main, Regulation, Safety
Last week, it was my honor to fly to Los Angeles to sit down for an interview with PBS’ Tavis Smiley for his nationwide late night show, to discuss my new book Crude Justice: How I Fought Big Oil and Won, and What You Should Know About the New Environmental Attack on America. It was a fast-moving conversation that touched a lot of ground, including my early cases over radioactive oil...
Crude Justice — the story of a lifetime fighting Big Oil, and winning
In Commentary, Human Interest, Important Articles, Legal, Main, Oil Spill Facts
The story of my new book — Crude Justice: How I Fought Big Oil and Won, and What You Should Know About the New Environmental Attack on America — begins with a phone call. Sometimes one call can change your life – maybe even change the world a little bit. In 1989, I was a young lawyer just a few years out of Loyola Law School. I’d already left one button-down law firm to work as a...
The salty, radioactive gunk that Big Fracking doesn’t want you to know about
In Fracking, Important Articles, Main, Radiation, Research, Safety
The big oil companies love to portray the rise of fracking as a great American success story — using 21st Century technology and know-how to locate and extract pockets of cheap energy that were thought to be unreachable, reducing America’s dependence on foreign oil and lowering your energy cost. But Big Oil doesn’t want you to know the sausage-making, as it were, that goes into...
Japan’s nuclear whack-a-mole alarms the world
In Main, Nuclear disaster, Ocean Life, Politics, Regulation
I just wanted to offer a quick update on the latest news out of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan, where the aftermath of the earthquake, tsunami and ensuing atomic accident just keeps getting worse and worse. It’s taken more than two years to get to the bottom of how bad things are: The Japanese government has lost patience with the efforts of the Tokyo Electric Power Company...
New Orleans memo: You can still have great music without noise pollution
In Commentary, Important Articles, Main, Regulation
Sometimes a name can tell you a lot. In the past, I’ve told you about my enthusiastic support for a New Orleans group, active on Facebook and the Internet, that’s called “Hear the Music, Stop the Noise.” The title makes a powerful point: That it’s possible for a great American city like my hometown to continue having a spectacular and vibrant music scene without...
The sinkhole keeps getting bigger, and so do the lies of Texas Brine Co.
In Causes, Main, Regulation, Response, Safety
The crisis involving the Bayou Corne sinkhole in Louisiana just doesn’t stop. In what’s becoming an almost daily headline, the sinkhole grew again, swallowing up more trees and even part of an access road: A 1,500 square-foot section caved in from the edge of a sinkhole in Assumption Parish Tuesday night and pulled down several trees and part of an access road, parish officials said...
Torn on the bayou: Sinkhole keeps getting bigger, more dangerous
In Main, Regulation, Response, Safety
A lot has happened over the last few weeks. In the political world, the presidential race between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney sees a new kerfuffle every few hours. Down here in Louisiana, we’ve been whacked by Hurricane Isaac, and on the environmental front we’re still trying to get BP to pay its fair share for all the havoc it’s wreaked in the Gulf. But there’s one thing...
News Round-Up: September 21, 2012
In Main, News Round-Up, Uncategorized
A selection of today’s headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking and the BP oil spill to Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster:
Faculty Fights Fracking
Sampling Continues at Bayou Corne as Sinkhole Expands
Red Tea Ceremony Raises Awareness for Fukushima
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TRICHOCEREUS: THE SAN PEDRO GROUP - Crowdfunding Sales Thread
Evil Genius posted a topic in Cacti & Succulents
TRICHOCEREUS: THE SAN PEDRO GROUP - Printed edition Hi guys, it´s my pleasure to announce that I spent the year doing nothing but writing and I am about to release my book TRICHOCEREUS: THE SAN PEDRO GROUP in April or May! The book will have 200+ pages and contains 300-400 photos from habitats and collections worldwide, all the original descriptions (English & Latin) as well as new information and comments about every single species. I dug out hundreds of old cactus books and literature to offer a complete overview about the history of this amazing group of plants. I was lucky enough to get loads and loads of cool pictures. This book will be ALL COLOR! I spent so much time writing and preparing for this book and it´s like a dream come through that I am able to release it now. A lot my SAB friends here helped to get it done. Either by offering photos or by keeping me motivated and I am extremely thankful for everyone who made this possible. There will be a very affordable digital edition and I am also working on a few deals to get it printed. It´s possible that I will send a part of the hard copies to Torsten and SAB to make it easier for the Australian members to get their book fast and without having to import it themselves. The printed edition will be extremely limited and it´s possible that it will sell out very fast. I assume there will probably be around 500 - 1000 books at max. I started a crowdfunding campaign in order to pay for the costs of the printing. The campaign already reached half of its goal within two days and there only is a limited number of books available. If you want to get a copy of my book, you can get it through my campaign on Indiegogo here: Book: Trichocereus: The San Pedro Group
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Looking for Trichocereus Fruit Pics for my book!
Hi Guys, I am currently looking for fruits because I want to make a comparison in my SAN PEDRO book and my THE GENUS TRICHOCEREUS. All Trichocereus fruits welcome. In particular I am looking for fruit pics of Tr. huanucoensis, TJG, Tr. santaensis, Tr. validus, Tr. taquimbalensis, Tr. terscheckii, Tr. uyupampensis, Tr. cuzcoensis, Tr. bridgesii, Tr. glaucus etc. I just realized I am looking for all. :-P So please let me know if you have pics that might look awesome in the printed books. Thanks. bye EG
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Book for sale: Woody Plants of Ghana - With reference to their uses
Evil Genius posted a topic in Seed & Plant Sales
Book for sale: Woody Plants of Ghana - With reference to their uses Beautiful book by the Oxford University Press! Rare and certainly out of print! Huge hardcover book with approximately 900 pages and with special reference to the uses of the plants, e.g. toxic, ethnobotanic, etc. With mane rare plant descriptions and beautiful drawings. I love this book and I hate to see it go. But times change and this book needs a new owner. If you like Ethnobotanic books, this is the one for you. Mitragyna, Acacia, and all the interesting plants. Price: 60 Euros + Shipping costs (Probably 20 Euros)
Book for sale: Useful trees and shrubs for Ethiopia Rare!
Book for sale: Useful trees and shrubs for Ethiopia Rare! Really rare and beautiful field book from Ethipia! Contains information all the trees and shrubs that can be found, with additional informations on Usage, consumption, etc. With plants like Acacia Senegal, Catha Edulis, Justicia, Strychnos, etc. 474 pages, from a small independant publisher from Kenya. In english, softcover with high quality drawings for every plant. Price: 50 Euros + Shipping Costs. Not sure how much the shipping will be but I´ll try to ship the cheapest way if insured/registered shipping is not requested. Beautiful book and one of my favorites!
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Snu Voogelbreinder - Garden of Eden
Lichen+ posted a topic in Chill Space
Greetings all, I'm trying to track down a used or secondhand copy of Snu Vooglebreinder's mammoth reference tome that maybe someone here lucky enough to have a copy would be willing to sell. It's entirely out of print, and not for sale secondhand anywhere as far as I can find - I didn't even realise this books existence until only recently, which I think was compounded by the confusing lack of presence, references or discussion about the book online. I have been in correspondence with Snu, and he is not aware of any used copies for sale and that there are no plans of a reprint at this stage. Also, he has given me his consent to photocopy if I find someone who would be willing to lend. I understand that this book is prized possession for many - and understandably so considering its rarity - but if anyone is considering a sell, or a lend, please let me know. Edit: wow, is this really my first post? I spend far too much time here to be such a non participant (shame-face).
(SOLD)FOR SALE - Garden Of Eden by Snu Voogelbreinder(SOLD)
Slybacon posted a topic in Chill Space
Hello, Here is a rare chance to own an original copy of Snu Voogelbreinder's "Garden of Eden". I Need to raise funds for a project Im working on and unfortunately the book has to go. I'm hoping it will go to someone who will appreciate it for the work of art that it is. I have barely used the book and it has not been opened or read to much. Sadly there is a small dent on the Hard Cover from when it was originally posted to me. Other then that the book is in perfect condition, its binding is all still in perfect condition and the pages sit flush. Most of you know how rare and amazing this book is and opportunities like this don't come around often. I will be listing the Item on Ebay for 10 days but to be honest I would rather sell it to someone on here where it will benefit the local community. The BUY NOW price on EBay is $450 please contact me if you are interested. I am open to negotiation and trades.
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Book Exerpt/Notes re: Narcotics/Aphrodisiacs - Wild Medicine in Australia (A.B & J.W Cribb)
hava posted a topic in Ethnobotany
Found "Wild Medicine in Australia" by A.B & J.W Cribb in a local second hand bookstore recently. First published '81, I have the '88 reprint. My apologies for any spelling errors or 'politically incorrect' names, this is hand typed from the book. Let me know if you would like me to expand on any of the text. Chapter list: 1. Plants in Medicine 2. The Aboriginal Pharmacopoeia 3. Bush Remedies of the Pioneers 4. The European Tradition - Herbal Cures & Nostrums 5. Contributions from Other Cultures 6. Purely for Pleasure - Narcotics and Aphrodisiacs 7. Australian Plants in Modern Medicine 8. Animal, Vegetable, Mineral - Medicines and Treatments from Natural Sources Here is a condensed list of native plants and usage/notes in the chapter titled "Purely for Pleasure - Narcotics and Aphrodisiacs" Adriana glabrata BITTER BUSH Leaves dried as tobacco by aboriginals. Stock poison? Regarded as useful forage plant by some? Qld, NSW, Vic, WA, NT Amorphophallus STINKING ARUM 19th century Daly River missionary recorded dried leaves were smoked giving an anaesthetic effect, similiar to ether or chloroform in effect. 'A short smoke makes one sleepy; if he smoke too long he will not awaken. While so sleeping he is, they say, unconscious of pain.' Unknown which species, A. galbra and A. variabilis occur in the NT. Qld, NT. Callicarpa longifolia CHUKIN Japanese along the Johnstone River in North Qld used the bark as a substitute for Piper betle leaf for chewing with areca. Plant contains toxic principle, reputed fish poison. Medicinal use in Malaysia, poultice for fevers, treating mouth and throat infections, gargle/mouthwash from leaves or bark. Qld Dodonaea WILD HOPS, HOP-BUSH Resembles true hops, not related. Used by early pioneer brewers to use as substitute, actually turned out pretty good... nice and bitter. D. angustissima, the slender hop-bush, gets a special mention. D. viscosa leaves chewed in Peru like coca leaves... hop bush leaves have been used to adulterate/cut coca. Leaves and bark contain an alkaloid. D. angustissima: All mainland states D. viscosa: Qld, NSW, Vic, Tas., SA, NT Duboisia hopwoodii PITURI The usual information. Of interest was possibly this paragraph: "Preparation of the material for use was by roasting, moistening perhaps by chewing, and rolling with ashes into a quid about 5 cm long, a little more than 1 cm thich. Sometimes fibrous material was mixed in, either kangaroo hairs or threads from Psoralea, a pea flowered shrub. The ash used for preference was that of Acacia salicina, a wattle with a high content of calcium sulphate; it is thought this allowed the slow release of the alkaloid. When not being chewed or sucked, the roll was carried behind the ear, in much the way children of Western civilizations 'park' their chewing gum.' and 'D. hopwoodii is a poisonous plant, and has a reputation of causing fatalities to stock. One of its common names in the inland is camel poison. It was widely used by the aborigines as an aid in catching emus. Twigs or leaves of the plant were put in small waterholes where the emus were known to drink. The birds became stupified and walked in circles, 'Him drunk, all same white fellow', and were easily caught. This practice was widespread where the plant grew, even in araes where it was not used as a narcotic; it was so common that a writer in 1874 advised that 'people travelling would be wise to avoid using water from these drinking places, or any small hole of surface water, as the blacks often put in some preparation to stupify the emu.' Qld, NSW, SA, WA, NT Eucalyptus GUM TREE A 'blend of dried leaves' were used to make 'a quite smokable cigarette tobacco with a soft, bush fragrance flavour'. The cigarettes were marketed with the advertising slogan 'Take a whiff of the gum forests into your home' and thought by some to give relief from bronchitis and asthma. No specific species. Eucalyptus gunnii CIDER GUM, RIBBONY GUM Tasmanian gum with high sugar content, can be tapped like a sugar maple. Holes were bored in the trunk and the treacle-tasting sweet liquor was collected in a hole at the base. The hole was kept covered with flat stones for protection from animals. Natural fermentation from wild yeasts occurred after a time and intoxicating liquor resulted. Popular among everyone. Evolvulus alsinoides var. sericeus SKY CONVOLVULUS Pituri substitute. Unknown alkaloid content. Early reputation as cure for dysentery, used as a tonic, febrifuge and vermifuge in India. Qld, NSW, SA, WA, NT Galbulimima belgraveana ARGARA New Guinea the bark as waken as a hallucinogen; warriors chewed it before tribal fights, and also rubbed it on their legs. It produces violent intoxication and hallucinations followed by extreme drowsiness. 28 different alkaloids isolated from the bark, including himandrine and himbacine. Qld Heteropogon contortus BUNCH SPEAR GRASS Masticatory narcotic 'chewed like tobacco' in Broome area. Dedoction as cough medicine. Indian medicine uses root as stimulant and diuretic, also for rheumatism. Qld, NSW, WA, NT Isotoma petraea ROCK BLUEBELL, EURO FINGERS Used as pituri chewed with ash or drunk for narcotic effect. Alkaloids similar to nicotine, and was regarded as 'strong chew', reportedly described by one group of aborigines as 'cheeky bugger'. Used as painkilled amongst tribes of the Kalgoorlie area; plant was dried over a fire, powdered and mixed with ash of mulga bark; a little of the mixture, when swallowed, was said to produce a 'burning and deadening sensation in the stomach'. In some other areas dry sticks of the plant were chewed. Intensely bitter milky sap, suspected stock poison. Lysiphyllum carronii BAUHINIA Tribes in an area to the NW of Birdsville in far WQld. '...flowers of bauhinia were pounded in a wooden dish, the liquid was drained into a another vessel and mixed with sugary contents of the honey ant, Melophorus. (Honey ants have the abdomen swollen to a centimetre or more and filled with stored sugary solution.) The mixture was allowed to ferment for eight to ten days, giving a liquor described as semi-fermented. Probably it would be no worse than many other home brews.' Nicotiana INGULBA, NATIVE TOBACCO 'Although the pituri, Duboisia hopwoodii, is certainly the best known chewing narcotic used by the Aborigines, it seems from studies by anthropologists and comments from explorers, missionaries and settlers, that is was not the plant used over in the greater part of central Australia. In some cases it was reported that the chewing wad of dried leaves was wrapped, somewhat in the fashion of a cigar, in the leaf of the same species; this would not be possible with D. hopwoodii which as very narrow, stiff leaves. It has been shown that the commonly used narcotic plants of Central Australia were two or more species of Nicotiana. This is the genus to which tobacco belongs, and it is interesting that the aborigines should have founf such closely related plants to use for a similar purpose to chewing tobacco. The method of use is similar to that described above for pituri: leaves could be chewed fresh but were often dried by heat, kneaded into small balls with the teeth, then dried in a thumb-sized lump to keep for later use. As with pituri ash was generally added before mastication; the ash was usually of an Acacia or Cassia or Ventilago; the wad was used by sucking or rolling in the mouth. In a friendly custom, the plug might be passed from one to another for a chew, and the owner would then replace it behind his ear, or perhaps in his armband, to save for later. Men only used the chewing plug, but women were permitted to chew fresh leaves. A report by J. M. Black, the eminent South Australian botanist, states: 'Natives value the plant much, and when the camels approached it they became very excited and pulled up the plants and placed them up on the rocks out of reach of the dreaded animals.' The principal species seemed to have been: N. excelsior SA, NT N. gossei Qld, SA, NT N. rosulata subsp. ingulba NSW, SA, WA, NT Papaver somniferum OPIUM POPPY The usual information; 'occurring as a weed of cultivation in scattered areas' Qld, NSW, Vic., Tas., SA Amanita muscaria FLY AGARIC Vic. Copelandia cyanescens BLUE MEANIES 'This fungus has been reported to contain psilocybin, and is one of the species producing hallucinations. Before such an effect became desirable in some circles, there were cases of inexperienced mushroom gatherers being accidentally poisoned by eating it.' Qld Psilocybe cubensis GOLD TOP, HYSTERIA TOADSTOOL The following would be talking about '61 or earlier. 'Twenty years or so ago we heard fairly regularly on the radio about cases or toadstool poisoning, where the victimes either suffered frightening visions or felt extraordinary hilarity; warnings were broadcast about this 'hysterical mushroom', describing its yellow peaked cap, long stalk, dark gills, and habit of growing on dung. When the source of the poisoning was identified as Psilocybe cubensis, it was realized that the active principal was similar to that used to produce hallucinations and religious experiences in Central and South America and Mexico. The cult which built up at about that time in the United States spread to this country, and deliberate use of the drug has spread, despite its illegality. There are in Australia two other species of Psilocybe, P. semilanceata and P. subaeruginosa, which have been found to contain the same sort of active principle. The drug is one of the psychomimetic, or mind-bending, toxins, and may have varying effects on different individuals, or even on the same individual at different times. Qld, NSW Native Aphrodisiacs Archidendron grandiflorum (Pithecellobium grandiflorum) FAIRY PAINTBRUSH, GIN'S LIPS Abarema grandiflora Denhamia obscura Psychotria fitzalani Balanophora fungosa DRUMSTICKS Lycopodium phlegmaria COMMON TASSEL FERN Phallus rubicundus A STINKHORN Pittosporum venulosum Viscum articulatum LEAFLESS MISTLETOE Contraceptive Plants (inc. emmenagogues) Calamus australis LAWYER CANE leaves, stem Capsella bursapastoris SHEPHERD'S PURSE leaves Cassytha filiformis BUSH DODDER stems Casuarina equisetifolia COASTAL SHEOAK leaves, bark, stem Chenopodium album FAT-HEN leaves Commersonia fraseri BLACKFELLOWS' HEMP leaves Cymbidium madidum ARROWROOT ORCHID fruit Dicranopteris linearis CORAL FERN leaves Dioscorea bulbifera AERIAL YAM roots Entada phaseoliodes MATCHBOX BEAN fruits Euodia alata leaves Flagellaria indica SUPPLEJACK leaves Heritiera littoralis LOOKING-GLASS TREE leaves Hibiscus tiliaceus COTTON TREE leaves Hernandia peltata LANTERN TREE leaves, bark, stem Ipomoea pes-caprae subsp. brasiliensis GOAT'S-FOOT CONVOLVULUS leaves, stem Lygodium microphyllum CLIMBING MAIDENHAIR FERN leaves Macaranga tanarius TUMKULLUM leaves Morinda citrifolia MORINDA fruits M. reticulara (Morinda?) leaves Murdannia graminea SLUG HERB leaves Polygonum hydropiper WATER PEPPER leaves Pongamia pinnata INDIAN BEECH roots Rubus moluccanus NATIVE RASPBERRY stems Terminalia catappa INDIAN ALMOND leaves Urena lobata PINK BURR leaves, bark
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July 18, 2019 This Day in Rock
Celtic Thunder: The Very Best of Celtic Thunder Tour
Balboa Theatre - San Diego, CA, USA - February 26, 2015
Concert review by Cynthia Duke
Irish singing group, Celtic Thunder, hit San Diego's Balboa Theater Thursday night.
The original group was formed in 2007 and have released 11 albums, 10 live DVDs and have had 9 public television shows since then. For a nostalgic touch this tour, they used their original stage set used in their first performance in Dublin. A backdrop of lightning and stormy clouds with a center cut abstract square (wider on the left and smaller on the right). This square was used for the video background during the show.
Often scene in PBS concert specials it was a wonderful chance to hear and see them live on stage and many took full advantage of that as this was a sold out two act show.
The Celtic Thunder Band are the first to come out and take their seats on the left side of the stage with Seana Davey on harp and squeeze box, Nicole Hudson on violin, Laura Durrant on cello and Berry Kerr, in a black kilt, on a collection of wind instruments including the bag pipes, guitar (12 string) and a bodhrán (a hand held frame drum of Irish origin).
On the right side of the stage was the full drum set played by Decian O'Donoghue, Dave Bakey, also in a black kilt, on guitar and bass and David Munro-MD on piano/keys.
This tour's line up has Damian McGinty (former Celtic Thunder and Glee star) as Guest Artist and Colm Keegan, Keith Harkin, Ryan Kelly, Neil Byrne and Emmett O'Hanlon.
All of the group come out in black raincoats as the lighting and sound effects are of thunder and lightning and open with "Heartland." The audience cheers and screams as their favorite singers come on. Especially for Damian McGinty and Keith Harkin.
Keith kicks off the first solo song with his guitar on "Mountains of Mourne." The show is interweaved with solo spots, duos, trios and all six singing.
A few songs in they bring out a set of three tom toms and there is a humorous drum off between those, the bodhrán and the full drum set with Decian desperate to win.
Colm sang on "Black Velvet Band" and encourage the audience to sing along on the chorus of, "Her eyes they shine like diamonds/I thought her the Queen of the land/And her hair hung over her shoulders/Tied up with a black velvet band."
"Danny Boy" was then sung by Emmett to a pleased crowd.
Another funny one and crowd favorite was, "A Place in the Choir" with all singing and doing some toe tapping and cajoling.
A few songs later was the hilarious, "Seven Drunken Nights" sung by all with Neil playing an out of control drunk and cracking up some of his song mates as they held him back from fighting. This ended act one.
Coming off a fresh 20 minute intermission, act two starts. Four songs in, they cover U2's, "Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For." A beautiful rendition.
Other highlights include "Hallelujah" sung by Neil, Keith and Ryan, the moving tribute to deceased group member, George Donaldson, Damian singing the old classic, "Breaking up is Hard to Do' and let's not forget the operatic, "That's a Woman" with Ryan and Emmett.
The last song of the night was, "Irelands Call" which, as their site says, "never fails to bring the audience to their feet" and it did. All six came out in their black kilts.
They're also coming out with a new CD in March 2015, "The Very Best of Celtic Thunder" with the songs from this tour.
If you want to learn more about Celtic Thunder visit their webpage and check them out on their YouTube channel, "Thunder Tube."
Celtic Thunder
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You plan to deploy a DHCP server that will support four subnets.
The subnets will be configured as shown in the following table.
You need to identify which network ID you should use for each subnet.
What should you identify? To answer, drag the appropriate network ID to the each subnet in the answer area.
Your network contains an Active Directory domain named adatum.com.
The domain contains a file server named Server2 that runs Windows Server 2012 R2. Server2 contains a shared folder named Home. Home contains the home folder of each user.
All users have the necessary permissions to access only their home folder.
A user named User1 opens the Home share as shown in the exhibit. (Click the Exhibit button.)
You need to ensure that all users see only their own home folder when they access Home.
What should you do from Server2?
A. From Windows Explorer, modify the properties of Home.
B. From Server Manager, modify the properties of the volume that contains Home.
C. From Windows Explorer, modify the properties of the volume that contains Home.
D. From Server Manager, modify the properties of Home.
Access-based Enumeration is a new feature included with Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1. This feature based file servers to list only the files and folders to which they have allows users of Windows Server 2003
access when browsing content on the file server. This eliminates user confusion that can be caused when users connect to a file server and encounter a large number of files and folders that they cannot access.
Access-based Enumeration filters the list of available files and folders on a server to include only those that the requesting user has access to. This change is important because this allows users to see only those files and directories that they have access to and nothing else. This mitigates the scenario where unauthorized users might otherwise be able to see the contents of a directory even though they don't have access to it.
Access-Based Enumeration (ABE) can be enabled at the Share properties through Server Manager.
After implementation instead of seeing all folder including the ones the user does not have access to:
User will have access just to the folder where has rights to:
If a user with full access browses the same folder it will show all 5230 folders.
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You have a server named Server1 that runs a Server Core Installation of Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter.
You have a WIM file that contains the four images of Windows Server 2012 R2 as shown in the Images exhibit. (Click the Exhibit button.)
You review the installed features on Server1 as shown in the Features exhibit. (Click the Exhibit button.)
You need to install the Server Graphical Shell feature on Server1.
Which two possible sources can you use to achieve this goal? (Each correct answer presents a complete solution. Choose two.)
A. Index 1
B. Index 2
C. Index 3
D. Index 4
When you install Windows Server 2012 R2 you can choose between Server Core Installation and Server with a GUI. The "Server with a GUI" option is the Windows Server 2012 R2 equivalent of the Full installation option available in Windows Server 2008 R2. The "Server Core Installation" option reduces the space required on disk, the potential attack surface, and especially the servicing requirements, so we recommend that you choose the Server Core installation unless you have a particular need for the additional user interface elements and graphical management tools that are included in the "Server with a GUI" option. For this reason, the Server Core installation is now the default. Because you can freely switch between these options at any time later, one approach might be to initially install the Server with a GUI option, use the graphical tools to configure the server, and then later switch to the Server Core Installation option. Reference: Windows Server Installation Options
Your network contains two subnets. The subnets are configured as shown in the following table.
You have a server named Server1 that runs Windows Server 2012 R2.
Server1 is connected to LAN1.
You run the route print command as shown in the exhibit. (Click the Exhibit button.)
You need to ensure that Server1 can communicate with the client computers on LAN2.
A. Change the default gateway address.
B. Set the state of the Teredo interface to disable.
C. Change the metric of the 10.10.1.0 route.
D. Set the state of the Microsoft ISATAP Adapter #2 interface to disable.
In general, the first and last addresses in a subnet are used as the network identifier and broadcast address,respectively. All other addresses in the subnet can be assigned to hosts on that subnet. For example, IP addresses of networks with subnet masks of at least 24 bits ending in .0 or .255 can never beassigned to hosts. Such "last" addresses of a subnet are considered "broadcast" addresses and all hosts onthe corresponding subnet will respond to it. Theoretically, there could be situations where you can assign an address ending in .0: for example, if you havea subnet like 192.168.0.0/255.255.0.0, you are allowed to assign a host the address 192.168.1.0. It couldcreate confusion though, so it's not a very common practice. Example10.6.43.0 with subnet 255.255.252.0 (22 bit subnet mask) means subnet ID 10.6.40.0, a host address range from 10.6.40.1 to 10.6.43.254 and a broadcast address10.6.43.255. So in theory, your example 10.6.43.0 would be allowed as a valid host address. The default gateway address should not end in .0 with the /24 address http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4632 4
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Your network contains an Active Directory domain named contoso.com. All servers run Windows Server 2012 R2. The domain contains a member server named Server1.
Server1 has the File Server server role installed.
On Server1, you create a share named Documents. The Documents share will contain the files and folders of all users.
You need to ensure that when the users connect to Documents, they only see the files to which they have access.
A. Modify the NTFS permissions.
B. Modify the Share permissions.
C. Enable access-based enumeration.
D. Configure Dynamic Access Control.
Access-based Enumeration is a new feature included with Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1. This featureallows users of Windows Server 2003-Based file servers to list only the files and folders to which they haveaccess when browsing content on the file server. This eliminates user confusion that can be caused whenusers connect to a file server and encounter a large number of files and folders that they cannot access.Access-based Enumeration filters the list of available files and folders on a server to include only those that therequesting user has access to. This change is important because this allows users to see only those files and directories that they haveaccess to and nothing else. This mitigates the scenario where unauthorized users might otherwise be able tosee the contents of a directory even though they don't have access to it. Access-Based Enumeration (ABE) can be enabled at the Share properties through Server Manager.
If a user with full access browses the same folder - it will show all 5230 folders.
You have a starter Group Policy object (GPO) named GPO1 that contains more than 100 settings.
You need to create a new starter GPO based on the settings in GPO1.
You must achieve this goal by using the minimum amount of administrative effort.
A. Run the New-GPStarterGPO cmdlet and the Copy-GPO cmdlet.
B. Create a new starter GPO and manually configure the policy settings of the starter GPO.
C. Right-click GPO1, and then click Back Up.
Create a new starter GPO.
Right-click the new GPO, and then click Restore from Backup.
D. Right-click GPO1, and then click Copy.
Right-click Starter GPOs, and then click Paste.
The New-GPStarterGPO cmdlet creates a Starter GPO with the specified name. If the Starter GPOs folder does not exist in the SYSVOL when the New-GPStarterGPO cmdlet is called, it is created and populated with the eight Starter GPOs that ship with Group Policy.
The Copy-GPO cmdlet creates a (destination) GPO and copies the settings from the source GPO to the new GPO. The cmdlet can be used to copy a GPO from one domain to another domain within the same forest.
You can specify a migration table to map security principals and paths when copying across domains.
You can also specify whether to copy the access control list (ACL) from the source GPO to the destination GPO.
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The domain contains a member server named Server1.
Server1 runs Windows Server 2012 R2 and has the DHCP Server server role installed.
You create two IPv4 scopes on Server1. The scopes are configured as shown in the following table.
The DHCP clients in Subnet1 can connect to the client computers in Subnet2 by using an IP address or a FQDN.
You discover that the DHCP clients in Subnet2 can connect to client computers in Subnet1 by using an IP address only.
You need to ensure that the DHCP clients in both subnets can connect to any other DHCP client by using a FQDN.
What should you add?
A. The 006 DNS Servers option to Subnet2
B. The 015 DNS Domain Name option to Subnet1
C. The 006 DNS Servers option to Subnet1
D. The 015 DNS Domain Name option to Subnet2
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The domain contains two servers named Server1 and Server2.
Server1 runs Windows Server 2012 R2. Server2 runs Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1) and has the DHCP Server server role installed.
You need to manage DHCP on Server2 by using the DHCP console on Server1.
A. From Windows PowerShell on Server2, run Enable-PSRemoting cmdlet.
B. From Windows PowerShell on Server1, run Install-WindowsFeature.
C. From Windows Firewall with Advanced Security on Server2, create an inbound rule.
D. From Internet Explorer on Server2, download and install Windows Management Framework 3.0.
Original answer is A.
When the DHCP role is installed, it appears that the firewall rules are automatically added. This means you only need to add the DHCP Manager MMC snap-in which is a Role Administration Tool feature.
So the correct answer must be B.
Your network contains two servers named Server1 and Server2 that run Windows Server 2012 R2. Server1 is a DHCP server that is configured to have a scope named Scope1.
Server2 is configured to obtain an IP address automatically.
In Scope1, you create a reservation named Res_Server2 for Server2.
A technician replaces the network adapter on Server2.
You need to ensure that Server2 can obtain the same IP address.
What should you modify on Server1?
A. The Advanced settings of Res_Server2
B. The MAC address of Res Server2
C. The Network Access Protection Settings of Scope1
D. The Name Protection settings of Scope1
For clients that require a constant IP address, you can either manually configure a static IP address, or assigna reservation on the DHCP server. Reservations are permanent lease assignments that are used to ensure that a specified client on a subnet canalways use the same IP address.
You can use DHCP reservations for hosts that require a consistent IP address, but do not need to be staticallyconfigured. DHCP reservations provide a mechanism by which IP addresses may be permanently assigned to aspecific client based on the MAC address of that client. The MAC address of a Windows client can be found running the ipconfig /all command. For Linux systems thecorresponding command is ifconfig -a.
Once the MAC address has been identified, the reservation may be configured using either the DHCP consoleor at the command prompt using the netsh tool.
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An organizational unit (OU) named OU1 contains the user accounts and the computer accounts for laptops and desktop computers. A Group Policy object (GPO) named GP1 is linked to OU1.
You need to ensure that the configuration settings in GP1 are applied only to the laptops in OU1. The solution must ensure that GP1 is applied automatically to new laptops that are added to OU1. What should you do?
A. Modify the GPO Status of GP1.
B. Configure the WMI Filter of GP1.
C. Modify the security settings of GP1.
D. Modify the security settings of OU1.
WMI filtering
Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) filters allow you to dynamically determine the scope of GroupPolicy objects (GPOs) based on attributes of the target computer. When a GPO that is linked to a WMI filter isApplied on the target computer, the filter is evaluated on the target computer. If the WMI filter evaluates tofalse, the GPO is not Applied (except if the client computer is running Windows Server, in which case the filteris ignored and the GPO is always Applied). If the WMI filter evaluates to true, the GPO is Applied.
Reference: WMI filtering using GPMC
Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) filters allow you to dynamically determine the scope of GroupPolicy objects (GPOs) based on attributes of the target computer. When a GPO that is linked to a WMI filter isApplied on the target computer, the filter is evaluated on the target computer. If the WMI filter evaluates to false, the GPO is not Applied (except if the client computer is running WindowsServer, in which case the filter is ignored and the GPO is always Applied). If the WMI filter evaluates to true, theGPO is Applied. WMI filters, like GPOs, are stored on a per-domain basis.
A WMI filter and the GPO it is linkedto must be in the same domain.
Select * from Win32_PhysicalMemory where FormFactor = 12
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All client computer accounts are in an organizational unit (OU) named AllComputers.
Client computers run either Windows 7 or Windows 8.
You create a Group Policy object (GPO) named GP1.
You link GP1 to the AllComputers OU.
You need to ensure that GP1 applies only to computers that have more than 8 GB of memory.
A. The Security settings of AllComputers
B. The Security settings of GP1
C. The WMI filter for GP1
D. The Block Inheritance option for AllComputers
Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) filters allow you to dynamically determine the scope of Group Policy objects (GPOs) based on attributes of the target computer.
When a GPO that is linked to a WMI filter is applied on the target computer, the filter is evaluated on the target computer. If the WMI filter evaluates to false, the GPO is not applied (except if the client computer is running Windows Server, in which case the filter is ignored and the GPO is always applied). If the WMI filter evaluates to true, the GPO is applied. WMI filters, like GPOs, are stored on a per-domain basis. A WMI filter and the GPO it is linked to must be in the same domain.
SELECT Total Physical Memory FROM Win32_ComputerSystem WHERE
TotalPhysicalMemory >= 8000000000
A. From Windows Firewall with Advanced Security on Server2, create an inbound rule.
B. From Internet Explorer on Server2, download and install Windows Management Framework 3.0.
C. From Server Manager on Server1, install a feature.
D. From Windows PowerShell on Server2, run Enable PSRemoting.
Your network contains an Active Directory domain named contoso.com. The domain contains a member server named HVServer1. HVServer1 runs Windows Server 2012 and has the Hyper-V server role installed. HVServer1 hosts 10 virtual machines. All of the virtual machines connect to a virtual switch named Switch1. Switch1 is configured as a private network. All of the virtual machines have the DHCP guard and the router guard settings enabled.
You install the DHCP server role on a virtual machine named Server 1.
You authorize Server1 as a DHCP server in contoso.com.
You create an IP scope.
You discover that the virtual machines connected to Switch1 do not receive IP settings from Server1.
You need to ensure that the virtual machines can use Server1 as a DHCP server.
A. Enable MAC address spoofing on Server1.
B. Disable the DHCP guard on all of the virtual machines that are DHCP clients.
C. Disable the DHCP guard on Server1.
D. Enable single-root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV) on Server1.
Private virtual networks are used where you want to allow communications between virtual machine to virtual machine on the same physical server In a block diagram, a private network is an internal network without a virtual NIC in the parentpartition. A private network would commonly be used where you need complete isolation of virtual machines from external and parent partition traffic. DMZ workloads running on a leg of a tri-homed firewall, or an isolated test domain are examples where this type of network may be useful.
DHCP Guard is a feature that you can use (as the owner of the hypervisor) to prevent VMs that you do not authorize from acting as DHCP Servers. Unauthorized and Authorized is a procedural / process phrase. It is not a technical phrase or any setting
that can be applied. It is the business decision to call machine authorized or not. DHCP Guard is specific to the port / vNIC of a VM. And the setting moves with the VM / vNIC.
DHCPGuard allows you to specify whether DHCP server messages coming from a VM should be dropped. For VMs that are running an authorized instance of the DHCP server role, you can turn DHCPGuard off by using the following cmdlet:
Set-VMNetworkAdapter - VMName MyDhcpServer1 - DhcpGuard Off
For all other VMs that are not authorized DHCP servers, you can prevent them from becoming a rogue
DHCP server by turning DHCPGuard on, using the following cmdlet.
Set-VMNetworkAdapter - VMName CustomerVM - DhcpGuard On
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You create an account for a temporary employee named User1.
You need to ensure that User1 can log on to the domain only between 08:00 and 18:00 from a client computer named Computer1.
From which tab should you perform the configuration? To answer, select the appropriate tab in the answer area.
To set logon hours
1. Open Active Directory Users and Computers.
2. In the console tree, click Users.
Active Directory Users and Computers/domain
node/Users Or, click the folder that contains the user account.
3. Right-click the user account, and then click Properties.
4. On the Account tab, click Logon Hours, and then set the permitted or denied logon hours for the user.
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You work as a senior administrator at L2P.com. The L2P.com network consists of a single domain named L2P.com. All servers on the L2P.com network have Windows Server 2012 R2 installed.
You are running a training exercise for junior administrators.
You are currently discussing the new VHD format called VHDX.
Which of the following is TRUE with regards to VHDX? (Choose all that apply.)
A. It supports virtual hard disk storage capacity of up to 64 GB.
B. It supports virtual hard disk storage capacity of up to 64 TB.
C. It does not provide protection against data corruption during power failures.
D. It has the ability to store custom metadata about the file that the user might want to record.
The main new features of the VHDX format are:
Support for virtual hard disk storage capacity of up to 64 TB.
Protection against data corruption during power failures by logging updates to the VHDX metadata structures. Improved alignment of the virtual hard disk format to work well on large sector disks.
The VHDX format also provides the following features:
Larger block sizes for dynamic and differencing disks, which allows these disks to attune to the needs of the workload.
A 4-KB logical sector virtual disk that allows for increased performance when used by applications and workloads that are designed for 4-KB sectors.
The ability to store custom metadata about the file that the user might want to record, such as operating system version or patches applied.
Efficiency in representing data (also known as "trim"), which results in smaller file size and allows the underlying physical storage device to reclaim unused space. (Trim requires physical disks directly attached to a virtual machine or SCSI disks, and trim-compatible hardware.)
VHDX Format - Features and Benefits
VHDX format features provide features at the virtual hard disk as well as virtual hard disk file layers and is optimized to work well with modern storage hardware configurations and capabilities. At the virtual hard disk layer, benefits include the ability to represent a large virtual disk size up to 64 TB, support larger logical sector sizes for a virtual disk up to 4 KB that facilitates the conversion of 4 KB sector physical disks to virtual disks, and support large block sizes for a virtual disk up to 256 MB that enables tuning block size to match the IO patterns of the application or system for optimal performance. At the virtual hard disk file layer, the benefits include the use of a log to ensure resiliency of the VHDX file to corruptions from system power failure events and a mechanism that allows for small pieces of user generated data to be transported along with the VHDX file. On modern storage platforms, the benefits include optimal performance on host disks that have physical sector sizes larger than 512 bytes through improved data alignment and capability to use the information from the UNMAP command, sent by the application or system using the virtual hard disk, to optimize the size of the VHDX file. The format is designed so that additional features could be introduced in the future by Microsoft or extended by other parser implementations. The format provides parsers the ability to detect features in a VHDX file that a parser does not understand.
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You have a server named Server1 that runs a Server Core Installation of Windows Server 2012 R2. You attach a 4-TB disk to Server1. The disk is configured as an MBR disk.
You need to ensure that you can create a 4-TB volume on the disk.
Which Diskpart command should you use?
A. Automount
B. Convert
C. Expand
D. Attach
You can use Diskpart to convert a basic disk to a dynamic disk. The basic disk can either be empty or containeither primary partitions or logical drives. The basic disk can be a data disk or system or boot drive. A MBR file structure is only capable of 2TB maximum. The disk will have to be converted to a GPT filestructure. GPT is capable of 18 exabytes volumes. Convert gpt - Converts an empty basic disk with the master boot record (MBR) partition style into a basic diskwith the GUID partition table (GPT) partition style. The disk may be a basic or a dynamic disk but it must not contain any valid data partitions or volumes.
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The domain contains a server named Server1. Server1 runs Windows Server 2012 R2.
You need to create 3-TB virtual hard disk (VHD) on Server1.
A. Server Manager
C. New-StoragePool
D. New-VirtualDisk
New-VirtualDisk - Creates a new virtual disk in the specified storage pool.
Although the new Server Manager UI in Windows Server 2012 R2 provides a very convenient and intuitive workflow to provision and manage Storage, interaction with PowerShell is required to access many of the advanced features.
If I then create a simple 200GB Virtual Disk via the UI named VDiskSimpleUI, the resulting Virtual Disk leverages 8 columns and maintains 1 copy of the data. But when creating the Virtual Disk via PowerShell,
I can force the tripping across all nine of the disks and optimize performance.
New-VirtualDisk -StoragePoolFriendlyName Pool01 - ResiliencySettingName Simple - Size 200GB - FriendlyName VDiskSimplePS - ProvisioningType Fixed - NumberOfDataCopies 1
- NumberOfColumns 9
And creating a mirrored 200GB Virtual Disk via the UI named VDiskMirrorUI produces a Virtual Disk with 4 columns and 2 data copies. But with PowerShell, I can create a slightly different configuration, increasing the data protection (and also the disk footprint):
New-VirtualDisk -StoragePoolFriendlyName Pool01 -ResiliencySettingName Mirror -Size 200GB -
FriendlyName VDiskMirrorPS -ProvisioningType Fixed -NumberOfDataCopies
3 -NumberOfColumns 3
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You create and enforce the default AppLocker executable rules.
Users report that they can no longer execute a legacy application installed in the root of drive C.
You need to ensure that the users can execute the legacy application.
A. Modify the action of the existing rules.
B. Create a new rule.
C. Add an exception to the existing rules.
D. Delete an existing rule.
AppLocker is a feature that advances the functionality of the Software Restriction Policies feature. AppLocker contains new capabilities and extensions that reduce administrative overhead and help administrators control how users can access and use files, such as executable files, scripts, Windows Installer files, and DLLs. By using AppLocker, you can:
Define rules based on file attributes that persist across application updates, such as the publisher name (derived from the digital signature), product name, file name, and file version. You can also create rules based on the file path and hash.
Assign a rule to a security group or an individual user.
Create exceptions to rules. For example, you can create a rule that allows all users to run all Windows binaries except the Registry Editor (Regedit.exe).
Use audit-only mode to deploy the policy and understand its impact before enforcing it. . Create rules on a staging server, test them, export them to your production environment, and then import them into a Group Policy Object.
Simplify creating and managing AppLocker rules by using Windows PowerShell cmdlets for AppLocker.
AppLocker default rules
AppLocker allows you to generate default rules for each of the rule types.
Executable default rule types:
Allow members of the local Administrators group to run all applications. Allow members of the Everyone group to run applications that are located in the Windows folder. Allow members of the Everyone group to run applications that are located in the Program Filesfolder. Windows Installer default rule types:
Allow members of the local Administrators group to run all Windows Installer files. Allow members of the Everyone group to run digitally signed Windows Installer files. Allow members of the Everyone group to run all Windows Installer files located in the WindowsInstaller folder. Script default rule types:
Allow members of the local Administrators group to run all scripts. Allow members of the Everyone group to run scripts located in the Program Files folder. Allow members of the Everyone group to run scripts located in the Windows folder. DLL default rule types:( this on can affect system performance ) Allow members of the local Administrators group to run all DLLs. Allow members of the Everyone group to run DLLs located in the Program Files folder. Allow members of the Everyone group to run DLLs located in the Windows folder. You can apply AppLocker rules to individual users or to a group of users. If you apply a rule to a group of users, all users in that group are affected by that rule. If you need to allow a subset of a user group to use an application, you can create a special rule for that subset. For example, the rule "Allow Everyone to run Windows except Registry Editor" allows everyone in the organization to run the Windows operating system, but it does not allow anyone to run Registry Editor.
The effect of this rule would prevent users such as Help Desk personnel from running a program that is necessary for their support tasks. To resolve this problem, create a second rule that applies to the Help Desk user group: "Allow Help Desk to run Registry Editor." If you create a deny rule that does not allow any users to run Registry Editor, the deny rule will override the second rule that allows the Help Desk user group to run Registry Editor.
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You have two servers named Server! and Server2. Both servers run Windows Server 2012 R2.
The servers are configured as shown in the following table.
The routing table for Server1 is shown in the Routing Table exhibit. (Click the Exhibit button.)
From Server1, you attempt to ping Server2, but you receive an error message as shown in the Error exhibit. (Click the Exhibit button.)
You need to ensure that you can successfully ping Server2 from Server1.
What should you do on Server1?
A. Disable Windows Firewall.
B. Modify the default gateway settings.
C. Modify the DNS settings.
D. Modify the subnet mask.
Route is used to view and modify the IP routing table.
Route Print displays a list of current routes that the host knows. Default gateways are important to make IP routing work efficiently. TCP/IP hosts rely on default gateways for most of their communication needs with hosts on remote networksegments. In this way, individual hosts are freed of the burden of having to maintain extensive andcontinuously updated knowledge about individual remote IP network segments. Only the router that acts as thedefault gateway needs to maintain this level of routing knowledge to reach other remote network segments inthe larger internetwork. In order for Host A on Network 1 to communicate with Host B on Network 2, Host A first checks its routing tableto see if a specific route to Host B exists. If there is no specific route to Host B, Host A forwards its TCP/IPtraffic for Host B to its own default gateway, IP Router 1.
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Your network contains an Active Directory domain named contoso.com. The domain contains a server named Server1 that runs Windows Server 2012 R2. Server1 has the Hyper-V server role installed. The domain contains a virtual machine named VM1.
A developer wants to attach a debugger to VM1.
You need to ensure that the developer can connect to VM1 by using a named pipe.
Which virtual machine setting should you configure?
A. Network Adapter
B. BIOS
C. Processor
D. COM 1
Named pipe. This option connects the virtual serial port to a Windows named pipe on the host operatingsystem or a computer on the network. A named pipe is a portion of memory that can be used by one processto pass information to another process, so that the output of one is the input of the other. The second processcan be local (on the same computer as the first) or remote (on a networked computer). For example, a localnamed pipe path could be \.pipemypipename. Named pipes can be used to create a virtual null modem cable between two virtual machines, or between avirtual machine and a debugging program on the host operating system that supports the use of named pipes.
By connecting two virtual serial ports to the same named pipe, you can create a virtual null modem cableconnection. Named pipes are useful for debugging or for any program that requires a null modem connection.
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WildClaw Theatre stages WORLD PREMIERE Horror Play NIGHT IN ALACHUA COUNTY
“This trifecta of designers shows us exactly what technical expertise can do and how vital it is in creating the world of the play. There’s no denying the script’s claim that ‘All the monsters come outta here.'” - PerformINK
WildClaw Theatre Company proudly presents the world premiere production of NIGHT IN ALACHUA COUNTY running through October 7th at The Den Theatre, 1333 N. Milwaukee Ave.WildClaw, Chicago’s only horror theater, continues their 2017 season with a disturbing new work by Chicago playwright Jennifer Rumberger. After staying away for 17 years, Violet returns home to a back-woods part of Florida to face the mother and sister she left behind, and the disturbing secrets they share… and also some necromancy and an eyeless demon creature. Tickets are on sale now at www.wildclawtheatre.com. Tickets are $30 General Admission & $20 for students & industry professionals.
NIGHT IN ALACHUA COUNTY WILL FEATURE: Kathryn Acosta, Kevin Alves, Moira Begale*, Allison Cain, Krista D’Agostino*, and Mandy Walsh*.
PRODUCTION TEAM: Sound Design by Sarah D. Espinoza*; Lighting by David Goodman-Edberg; Costumes by Rachel Sypniewski; Set Design by John Ross Wilson**; Violence Direction by Gaby Labotka and FX Makeup/Creature Design by Heather Jones. Morgan Gire will serve as Stage Manager, Shandee Vaughan* as Production Manager, and Kim Boler as Assistant Director.
*denotes WildClaw Company Member
**denotes WildClaw Artistic Associate
Jennifer Rumberger (Playwright) is a Chicago-based playwright and performer. Recent productions include Open Blue Sky at Stella Adler/Tisch School of the Arts and The Bride with the Living Room Playmakers and Chicago Fringe Festival. Jennifer’s work has been developed or presented by The Lark Playwrights Center, id Theatre Company, The Gift Theatre Company, Black Box Acting Studio, The Living Room Playmakers, Commission Theatre Company, Wordsmyth Theatre Company, White Rose Miami, Northwestern University, The Seven Devils Playwrights Conference and Chicago Dramatists. She recently performed her nonfiction prose as a part of Hybridsalon3 with the Genesis Ensemble and as a part of TEN 2017 at the Gift Theatre Company. She was a 2015 nominee for the PoNY Fellowship and a 2015 semifinalist for the P73 Playwriting Fellowship, and a 2016 finalist for the Ingram New Works Playwrights Lab. She is a founding member and associate playwright with the Living Room Playmakers in Chicago. MFA: Northwestern University.
Christopher M. Walsh (Director) has been a company member and literary manager of WildClaw Theatre since 2015. He was a two-time Deathscribe finalist, winning the coveted Bloody Axe in 2014, and contributed to WildClaw's 2015 live horror anthology Motel 666. He is also a member of Lifeline Theatre, where he directed the 2016 production of Midnight Cowboy, and wrote the scripts for Miss Holmes (2017 Non-Equity Jeff Award nominee: Best Production - Play), Soon I Will Be Invincible, A Tale of Two Cities (2015 Non-Equity Jeff Award nominee: Best New Adaptation), The City and The City, and The Count of Monte Cristo. He has also appeared onstage in such memorable productions as the House Theatre's Season on the Line (2015 Equity Jeff Award nominee: Best Ensemble), and Lifeline's Monstrous Regiment (2015 Non-Equity Jeff Award nominee: Best Production - Play). He is a member of SAG-AFTRA and the Dramatists Guild. christophermwalsh.com
For more info on WildClaw Theatre please visit us at www.wildclawtheatre.com.
View an image gallery of show art here:
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WildClaw Theatre brings the world of horror to the stage. We attract an audience craving strange journeys of dread, suspense, terror and wonder: Horror Theatre. The name “WildClaw” pays homage to the late, great Chicago actor, writer, and raconteur – the much loved and missed Ray Wild, otherwise known as “The Claw”.
If you have any further questions concerning NIGHT IN ALACHUA COUNTY or WildClaw Theatre, please contact Moira Begale at moira.begale@wildclawtheatre.com.
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All About 'Obra ni Juan'
After Obra ni Juan introduced their newest endorser who is the hunk actor Rafael Rosell, time now to learn more about this authentic men's clothing line.
Obra ni Juan is a unique line of men’s apparel that is truly Filipino. It is a fusion of traditional Filipino design and global fashion personifying the Filipino ingenuity at its best.
Obra ni Juan started out in 1997, having a small patahian in the owners’ family house. It is a family-owned business which primarily focused on the tourist market. The first outlets were lobby shops of five star hotels, duty free shops, and the famous Amanpulo Resort in Palawan.
Due to the influx of domestic buyers, the brand eventually progressed and opened branches in department stores nationwide. From a workforce of ten employees, the company now has at least a hundred employees.
Obra ni Juan is made of special woven fabrics which show exquisite craftsmanship. In fact, some authentic collections are handcrafted and dyed manually to offer the best quality.
Obra ni Juan has big things planned in the near future. With the advent of foreign brands dominating the local market, we at Obra ni Juan, will continue to be innovative to be at par with the world’s best.
To promote Bayanihan in our workplace for increased productivity, in order to create more products that are truly Filipino, to contribute to the economy of our country.
To develop a world-class brand of men’s apparel and to promote a sense of nationalism.
Obra ni Juan is owned and managed by the Agapito siblings – Delzinda Agapito- Francescon, Charito Agapito, Susan Agapito, Agnes Agapito-Hizon, Rodel Agapito, and Ranel Agapito. Growing up in a family of six children, they were taught to always take good care of each other, to share their blessings with others, to give their best in everything they do, and to be content with and thankful for what they have.
The Agapitos hail from Roxas City, Capiz which is known to be the country’s seafood capital. Del-z, the eldest, was a commerce graduate major in accounting; however, prior to her college diploma, she took up dressmaking and tailoring and also had her fashion design course with Cora Doloroso. Del-z also studied Marketing in Georg Simon Ohm Hochschule in Nurnberg, Germany for a semester.
Big things come from small beginnings.
In its early years, the size of the “patahian” was only 40 square meters, located in Antipolo City, with more or less ten employees. Back in the 90’s, they experienced doing everything needed for the business to work – from conceptualizing the designs to personally delivering the products to hotel lobby shops which cater to the tourist market (local and foreign). Obra ni Juan was then given the opportunity to tap Amanpulo Resort in Palawan. It proved to be the big break for the brand back then.
Setting Up (The Clothing business)
The Agapito siblings have always shared a common interest – their love for art. Every single one of them has a talent in drawing. It has in fact, been an outlet to express their feelings and emotions. This was one factor that pushed them to put up the clothing business.
In 1997, the Philippine economy was regressing because of the Asian crisis. However, tourism was still picking up on sales despite the hard times. Since Del-z was very much into fashion design, she saw this as an opportunity to put up a clothing business which will particularly cater to local and foreign tourists.
Del-z also saw the need to establish a fashion label for men that is distinctly Filipino. She wanted to come up with a quality-made, native inspired line that the working Juan dela Cruz would be proud to wear in the office, meetings, or even casual events. Del-z, Charito, and Rodel then started the business; eventually, the rest of the siblings (Susan, Agnes, and Ranel) joined as well.
Obra ni Juan
“Obra” in Filipino is “masterpiece” and this is the same discipline that they envisioned to go with every design, coupled with Filipino creativity and ingenuity. On the other hand, “Juan” is to personify the authentic Filipino male image – Juan dela Cruz.
Thus, “Obra ni Juan” was born.
Their late father, Ruperto Agapito, was an honest public servant. He was a city auditor who had an eye for art; he was their great mentor.
Back in Roxas, they lived a simple life. As they were growing up, they were taught to appreciate nature. They would go to the beach every summer, they would go hiking every once in a while. Their being close to nature is one of their major inspirations which is why they usually pattern their designs to the beauty of flora and fauna.
Community life is also a big influence. Living in Roxas, they’ve seen fishermen with their first catch, farmers and their carabaos plowing the field, vendors from the mountains who sell exotic fruits to students in various schools. All of these happy childhood memories have inspired them to create something unique and nationalistic at the same time.
PRESENT ENDEAVORS
From a workforce of 10, it has now grown to 100, making it a medium-scale business. From hotel lobby shops, Obra ni Juan has now expanded to various department stores nationwide (Robinsons Department Stores, Crossings Department Store, Sta. Lucia Department Store, and Landmark Trinoma). It has also started its entry to SM via Kultura Filipino.
Obra ni Juan owes its continued growth and success to 1) the hands-on owners and workers who work like family and; 2) the innovative designs which are very much patronized by locals and foreigners.
Family Passion
Del-z has taken a back seat on the Obra business to pursue her new hobby of entertaining guests with her “Date and Dine,” a modern bed and breakfast concept also in Antipolo.
But since 1997, brothers Rodel and Ranel have been very active in conceptualizing the designs. Sister Susan helps pick the fabrics and other materials and initiates the sales negotiations. Another sister, Agnes, does the Marketing.
But more often than not, everybody gets into all the aspects of the business just to help each one out.
The Obra ni Juan Factor
Obra ni Juan has its own niche. Its designs are a combination of old world Filipino charm and modern fashion. Some styles are even handmade and dyed to perfection; making no two clothes of the same design identical.
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Training With Louisville Rowing on Our Club's First Trip
Novice men replace an 8 in the LRC boathouse.
In early November of 1996, MSU Crew made its first trip to row on waters far from our beloved Kentucky Lake. The destination was Louisville and our host was the Louisville Rowing Club. Members of their organization played an important role in consulting Murray State at the very early stages of our club's inception. The purpose of the trip--as I reflect in retrospect--was to demonstrate gratitude for their guidance. To show that their good advice had indeed been heeded.
In the month leading up to the trip, the inaugural team had winnowed down from 170 to about 4 vans worth of novice rowers (two boats for the men and two boats for the women, plus extras--low hanging fruit that neither Steve nor Dan could shake from the tree). Although the ultimate spirit of the trip was one of goodwill, some of us had convinced ourselves that this trip would culminate in a contest to rival the Royal Henley Regatta in its scope and importance. Coaches Steve and Dan didn't do much to tamp down the hyper-competitive spirit among our ranks by their appearance at the club's Halloween party the week before--disguised respectively as a grotesquely overweight Louisville Club rower and his ugly girlfriend [photo unavailable].
The idea that we were on the road to race--AND WIN--was taken to a ridiculous extreme, during a dinner gathering among the guys at Mr. Gatti's. One of our less promising, but most enthusiastic novices gave a stirring, impromptu lecture on the importance of carb-loading that was filled with sound and fury, and earnest urgings of, "eat up, boys. We're going to need these nutrients on race day" (said as pizza grease dribbled down his face, staining his residential college t-shirt).
Realistically, our prospects for winning any contest at that point were pretty slim as most of us had only a few days worth of time on the water. And with only two boats and ALOT of prospective novices, a lot of that precious water time was spent rotating people from the coach's launch. No, this was not an outing for us to bring much braggadocio or hope to beat even the most modestly prepared novice squad. This was a time for MSU Crew to be humble and see with greater clarity, the road that lay ahead.
But it was a fun trip. On the road to Louisville, Lavit had us playing a game were we were yelling "poo poo" when we saw blue cars. I distinctly remember one of our men's team coxswains playing this game with particular enthusiasm.
When we got within range of the cool Louisville radio stations, there was much rejoicing. Murray radio stations weren't exactly on the cutting edge of pop culture (have they ever been?). A stream of 90s alternative hits came on the radio that prompted us to raise our voices in song. I most vividly remember the group's enthusiasm peaking when The Cranberries's "Zombie" came on the air.
When we arrived at our hotel, we divided up the team to occupy a block of hotel rooms. At this point, not everyone trusted each other. Some roommates were less desirable than others. Little Matt and I were especially worried about one of the guys who was supposed to room with us...however with Louisville bars staying open until 4am, we didn't really have to worry about sharing a bed with him....Although there was a brief moment of panic in the very early hours of the morning when I could hear Big Matt open his door in the adjoining room, proclaiming this guy's name after a heartily spoken, "holy shit!"
Seemed as though our teammate had one too many rounds at the bar--through the wall, I heard him say "sex on the beach" at least a dozen times. At some point he found a place to crash--fortunately in a spot where Little Matt and I weren't bothered. This guy was a real piece of work...as Year 1 progressed, he demonstrated time and time again that his heart was usually in the right place...but he always managed to leave a niggling shred of doubt; that he could snap at any minute and murder us in our sleep.
The next morning, we went to the Louisville Crew boathouse. One of their club's senior members presented a beautiful introduction to the sport of rowing, placing it within the broader context of human invention. He showed us many depictions of rowing's prominence in ancient Egyptian, Roman, and Viking cultures. And he showed us examples of how the modern sport evolved (including a clip from a silent era film staring Buster Keaton playing a college boy who sought to win the love of his sweetheart by being his school's coxswain and steering his team's boat to victory).
Then he took us outside to show us how to erg. He provided a lot of individualized attention. This took longer than anyone had planned...there were far more of us at this event than I think anyone had thought there would be at this point, perhaps a testimony to the appeal of our sport and the quality of our people. But at this point in the trip, a lot of us did a lot of standing around. This was a problem. The weather was growing cold.
On the night before, Big Matt had--in his very influential and big-brotherly way-- encouraged the guys to show up "in uniform."
"Guys," I think he said, "we've got to look legit!"
Trouble was, however, we had not yet gotten our team Henleys (or jackets). The money for those didn't come until the spring. So we had to agree to wear outfits that were as close in appearance as possible. Our options severely limited. The best we could do was to show up in dark shorts and white t-shirts. Not the best gear to have on a cold day in Louisville in November.
Then it got colder. There were snow furies. Some of us were miserable.
After the erg clinic, it was time to put boats in the water. I recall Coach Steve telling us before the trip that he had hoped that we could put MSU rowers in 4s and have them do some short-distance racing against each other. But in terms of keeping a boat set, and rowing on the feather, and following a stroke, we were not up to this.
Even still, we got to end the fall season with some quality time on the water. We rowed. Through a chill brought by a greying sky, we rowed in mixed 8s alongside Louisville club squads. Certainly not racing...more like baby ducks following mama. Oh we were so precious in those early days!
I think Steve video recorded us as we were rowing. I recall afterwards looking at film with him later on....having all kinds of bad habits pointed out to me. Some of which I think I have since unlearned; others I worry that I'm still taking into our alumni races.
Before we left Louisville, we stopped at a team member's parent's house. Their family made a huge pot of chili for the whole team. It was a welcome respite from the cold. And with our bellies full and the color restored to our frost bitten faces, we reloaded the team vans and made our way back to Murray. Less boisterous than on the drive out, certainly wiser, and with another 6 months ahead of us to learn the sport before our novice debut at SIRA.
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CUHK head orders indy banners removed immediately
Local | 15 Sep 2017 5:10 pm
Chinese University president Joseph Sung Jao-yiu, (pictured, left), said today he has asked the student union to remove materials advocating independence in Hong Kong, reiterating that the institution is against the notion. Freedom of speech is a cornerstone of the university, but it cannot violate the law, Sung said, adding that the Basic Law stipulated that Hong Kong is an inalienable part of ...
Chinese University president Joseph Sung Jao-yiu, (pictured, left), said today he has asked the student union to remove materials advocating independence in Hong Kong, reiterating that the institution is against the notion.
Freedom of speech is a cornerstone of the university, but it cannot violate the law, Sung said, adding that the Basic Law stipulated that Hong Kong is an inalienable part of China.
"We do not want our campus to turn into a place for different political groups to spread their propaganda, this will only ruin the peaceful environment in which our teachers and students pursue knowledge.”
Sung also apologized on behalf of the university after students made what he called "malicious personal attacks against other people in abusive language.''
"Their affiliated college will handle the investigation in accordance with the university standard procedure,” he said.
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The Vampire: Revenge of the Sadist
Aubrey Holmwood is young, naive and completely inexperienced at life. He’s also rich. Suddenly thrust into the maelstrom of upper class social competition, he is easily swept up under he influence of a mysterious and strange man who has caught everyone’s attention. His name is Lord Ruthven and he has a secret. When Lord Ruthven wishes to depart England for the continent, Aubrey follows, eager to learn all he can from this handsome and seductively charming individual.
But all is not as it seems. Lord Ruthven’s beahviour is not the ideal Aubrey thought it would be. Parting ways with Ruthven, Aubrey falls madly in love with a wonderful young woman, Ianthe, in Athens. She tells him of a terrifying creature: the vampire. But he does not heed her warning, and that is his undoing.
The sadistic vampire storms into Aubrey’s life, bringing death and torture, delighting in causing the utmost pain and humilation. Can Aubrey survive such depredations? Can he bring himself to save those he loves? Or will the vampire destroy them all?
Inspired by John William Polidori’s The Vampyre, one of the most influential vampire stories of the 19th century.
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Little Miss Daisy
Posted by Gingyflame on July 2, 2015 · 4 Comments
I’ve finally got it! Here it is yall, the Churchill VII story I started way back at the beginning of June. I tried to put in a good bit of dialogue but please don’t expect it to sound like Sherlock Holmes I didn’t add in that much; I’ve never been to Britain. Forget the jibber jabber and explanations and here we go:
Rodney walked around the junkyard exploring his new job. Taking a summer job in between semester classes gave him something to do as well as make some money. He paraded around looking at all the old shelves, chairs, bed frames, sinks, tubs, bowl, then transitioning into the old bicycles, motors, cars, trucks, busses and such. He loved in history and was on his way to a major in historical science. He looked around gawking at it all, spitting out dates and eras, when his eyes fell on one of the most famous tanks of his country: the Churchill VII. It was very badly maintained if it was at all, the tracks were rusted and one was lying on the return roller cover, the whole thing was rusting but the cover and skirts were rusting to the point it was holing. The gun was mostly intact except for the muzzle and the machine gun mount, the turret still had a spare track link on it here and there but most of them slipped off and were lying on the hull. Its base green coat was still visible but faded and chipping; it looked like a crocodile covered in fire ants. Rodney frowned, nothing this legendary should sit like this, he moved closer and explored it, opening up some hatches with great trouble, he thought this old thing needs some tender love and care and it’ll look good as new! He peeked in and saw an almost pristine interior with a few rust covered leak points, but overall pristine. He moved to the engine; very few remained this intact and pretty with an engine, and after more trouble the Churchill was confirmed fully intact. Rodney reeled back.
“Bligh me! It’s all there! What is it doing in a junk heap out here? Well old timer I’ll see to your restoration.” His job was really just to be there, it was over populated with employees and many had nothing to do but sit on their hands and kick the dirt, no one would care he’d be working in the back on the tank. He got an overall list of problems: rust, rotten seats, new paint, new gas lines, new transmission gears, new hatch handles, new hydraulic gears, new gaskets, a complete tread overhaul and realignment was a start, who knows about the batteries, lights, wiring, and driveshaft. He began by gathering up loose pieces and sorting them out, then finding a rust cleaning kit from the shed and working on the hull. He noticed it was surprisingly warm, not blistering hot, but warm to the touch and when he started scraping and rubbing off the rust the metal it molded and responded to his hand giving him a sort of buzz. Clouds rolled over at around lunchtime, and so he moved inside the turret to eat his sandwich, beans, scone and drink some coffee, as he sat in the gunner’s seat he noticed some dust on the side wall. Rubbing it off he read ‘Little Miss Daisy’ and a tally of three marks under it. “Little Miss Daisy, I wouldn’t think little quite fits the Churchill.” The tank seemed to shift side to side, followed by the loudest yawn Rodney has ever heard.
“Yeeawwhhmm, mmm, oh my. So, I assume you’re the one to be massaging my sides?” Rodney felt great.
“Why yes I’m the one, a great pleasure to meet you Miss Daisy.” He wasn’t shocked at all, one of his friends in school was a humorph, and he had the coolest father; a Centurion Mk III, and a humorph mother that was pretty cool as well.
“Well I’m very great full of your deed, mister-”
“Rodney, please, just Rodney.”
“Well then thank you Rodney.” He shifted, even against the rain pattering on the roof her voice was beautiful, and her complement made him blush.
“Oh it’s nothing, really. It makes me cringe to see such legendary history rot away like this.”
“Why does it trouble you? Many have walked past without your type of reaction.”
“I love history, while culture is my primary I like the whole veil of things. I don’t know much about Churchills, but I know their basic principles.” They talked as he ate, he learned much of her history, role, and her kills (a Marder II, a half track, and a Panzer IV), and he told her of his growing interest in history, his major, his past, and soon after the rain cleared and he went back to scrubbing away. He got the whole left side of her hull cleaned of rust and paint leaving her bare gray. He came back the next day and had brought in paint per her colour request; a base tan-brown color, for a barrier against the weather. He applied the paint with her help, and finished painting in a couple of hours. After that he started getting the rust off her other side, and reminiscing the heightened enjoyment Daisy showed towards her rear getting rubbed. He finished that in the day and devised a plan to clean the tracks and spare ones. At the end of the week all her rust was gone from her outer hull and her base paint applied, her seventeen pounder gun muzzle was removed and her hatch handles were left there because of her sensitivity there, the seats were out and discarded. Rodney asked if her belly was clean, knowing it was her private region, and she assured him it was spotless. He worked the best he could on her, and did a good job, too, but he struggled with her engine and transmission assembly along with her tracks.
One day as Rodney was checking her suspension he asked her why she was in such a place. “I chose this; I saw no more reason for my existence. New and better tanks were on the field, new anti-tank guns were afoot, pin point missiles took the skies, and infantry zipped around the battlefield. I had no purpose anymore. I went into depression and got myself here.” Rodney nodded; he didn’t want her to die like this, not to just rot again in a scrap heap.
“Why don’t you come out with me? Get into Bovington? The tank museum.” She sort of shrugged her covers. He went to her engine and started scrubbing it of rust, she was quiet. She was pondering going with him, only him, he was sweet and gentle, fertile and promising, and actually cared. She turned her turret around and watched him crawl in with the hatch leaning on his back as he looked and scrubbed. His scrubbing made her feel good inside, she welcomed the old feeling of pleasure and love, she’d never felt intense pleasure but knew it got her going good on low days. He has done so much for her engine and she knew all he could have done was done but her engine would still be a mule to get on. Usually what she’d do is secretly rub herself tenderly until it turned over, but mostly she’d do it for fun. Rodney got all the rust he could out and popped out excited.
“Alright try it Daisy!” His excitement sparked hers and she tried to start it when a burning feeling in her gut ceased her.
“I can’t! It bloody hurts!” Rodney just realized his oversight.
“No fuel.” She realized as well.
“Oh well, not like I’d go anywhere anyways, the treads are locked up.” The treads were lined up in front of her near a huge vat awaiting treatment. Rodney had ordered antirust in a huge gallon and expected it to be waiting when he got home.
“Well, the antirust should have arrived by now.., I could try to get it.” Daisy smiled. “I’ll go get it, then.” He went off and was let out, the overseer felt it was too crowded anyway, and Rodney went home to grab the huge gallon packages of it, and drove back in time to fill the vat and use her help to submerge the treads.
“I’m so eager, Rodney! I never thought I’d do this again!” She was bouncing around on her many many suspension mounts, so many in fact the nickname of armored centipede came around for a brief time. He felt a sort of attraction to her; she was interesting, comfortable in character, helpful and motivating. Seeing her this excited and happy made him feel warm and gooey inside, he loved the feeling. They discussed how they’d get the tracks back on her for the remainder of his extended shift then he left; the tracks would be done in the morning or so. When they parted both felt painful and sorrow, learning to hate parting.
That night Rodney got home with his gut burning, it started when he left Little Miss Daisy and got progressively worse the further he got. He went to the bathroom and sat on the john waiting for that burning feeling to dump out but after ten minutes he quit and went to the bed. On his nightstand sat a condom package, something made him feel the need to take it tomorrow. Compelled by weird new feelings strong going and faithful, he put the condom in his wallet, changed clothes, and slept once his head hit the pillow. In the morning he had the fiercest morning wood after a dream of driving around with Daisy, it didn’t subside after his piss, shower, or breakfast, it frightened him, but he felt it was partly due to his reoccurring thoughts of Daisy. He let it subside as he drove to his junk job with great perks. He stopped and got gas, was compelled to get another condom and female performance enhancers, and then went to the yard. He knew nothing was really going to happen and the need of the enhancers wouldn’t be needed for Daisy, even if she was over seventy years old, metal beings would stay as energetic as a human in their mid-twenties, as long as they are physically maintained or healthy, making him think about Daisy’s state being her bad condition. Her voice really gave nothing to her energy but instead her reactions during the actual intercourse, otherwise there’s nothing. He got an idea and stopped by another store before he went to the junkyard. He marched up to Daisy’s point and was met by a very eager temptress of a tank.
“Rodney! They’re finished! Fill me up while I track myself.” She had her spares on her turret and was sitting on her treads, rolling them onto her rollers. He smiled and obeyed her order and filled her up with the noise and thoughts of her engine working getting him hard, Daisy noticed this as he accidentally leaned against her pouring in the last milliliters of the gas tank, and smiled hopefully. She got the tracks on and felt as the last drops of fuel from the gas tanks slipped down the neck. She was ready, she wanted to run again, she wanted to move, she wanted Rodney to do it, she wanted him to enjoy his work, and her body was ready. They tried the engine, it failed to catch every time, even when she wanted it too and tried her damn best.
“Bloody hell, was it something I did?”
“No, it’s always done that.” She sighed just before a dirty smile formed on her face. “Usually I give it a.., jumpstart..,”
“Okay.., so do it.”
“I think that maybe this time, I could get some help.” She was looking at him seducingly, he met her gaze and it didn’t say no. He started to untuck his clothes; she licked her lips as her mouth watered. She took his hand and led him up onto her skirt and had him kneel down.
“A little cleaning first?” He asked.
“A taste test for me and a scrubbing for you.” She could hold back no more as he shoved himself into her lips. She let nothing stand between them as she reeled him in, instantly starting to suck and blow on him, and looked up at him with her green eyes giving a little enjoyment cue. He let his head slip back a little, moaning as he held her turret away while slowly thrusting into her. He was on his knees and strained to get his meat low enough into her mouth while still mobile, but they made it work with a little stretching on both ends. His left hand was on her turret roof and he moved his right to grab her gun barrel, and she had relaxed her skirt on her treads and tried to lift her suspension. He looked down at her, she was looking at his cock sliding into her mouth for her to taste, suck, blow, rub, and toy with but would occasionally glance up to him then close her eyes to savor him.
“Oh yeah Daisy, oh yeah.” He moaned out, Daisy giggled and felt him start to thrust sporadically and his cock start to tense and quiver. She accelerated his countdown by sucking more and quickly rubbing his cock in a cupped tongue, until he came into her mouth. He pulled out just enough where most went into her but some landed on her faceplate. She closed her eyes and felt the tingle on her tongue and the warm comfort on her face, and then she looked into his eyes as she swallowed and moaned in delight.
“All clean now, again?” She asked hopefully, she’d never had sex before but she knew that sucking cock was her favorite. He reached into his pants around his ankles and removed a small square package.
“Maybe later, now let’s get you going.” She looked a little depressed but it was a marginal let down, all she cared then was she was going to get pounded, and pounded by a man she would grind again and again and again. He slipped down and went to her rear but she stopped him halfway.
“Woa there, not down there..,” she took his hand and led him to her bow, “it’s over here.” She slid a panel under her bow. Rodney knelt down and saw a small dripping slit on the underslope, one of her manipulators was slowly rubbing a little gray ball at the top.
“I have an idea, wait one moment.” He hobbled off picking up his pants, Daisy closed her eyes and thought of his thick, long, hard dick way deep in her little pussy and this alone mad her pussy hotter, wetter, and squirm around an imaginary cock. She opened her eyes as Rodney drug around an ataman, she got the reason. When he got close enough she yanked down his trousers and laid him on the ataman and pulled it under her where she could see his face. She lifted up as he slid on the condom and fit it right, and then she let herself drip hot silver vaginal coolant onto his lap. He tried to get himself in but she held him there, slowly she bent his cock up and came to rest with her slit on his cock parallel to it. She slowly rolled up and down him, watching his face melt into bliss, her own face and body relaxed to her movements, too, and he saw her face show she enjoyed it just as much as he did. Once his whole length was wet and slick she lifted up and held his cock in her hand as she lowered back onto him, for her first penetration. She gripped him tight as she felt him break her lips apart, then he stopped her as she placed him against a sensitive barrier.
“What? Don’t you back out on me!”
“No I won’t, but, this isn’t supposed to be here is it?” He knew a bit about machine anatomy, although varied they all share a common standard.
“No, it’s not. It’s what you’d call a virgin wall. It will hurt, which is why it is still there.” Rodney shifted.
“I don’t want to hurt you.” He paused. “I could just eat you until the engine runs then we can get that cut out-”
“I don’t want someone I don’t know cut it, I want someone I like to pierce it, I’ll be fine, please, we need this Rodney.” Their eyes met, she wasn’t bluffing or showing and signs of doubt. He nodded. She lowered a bit more, the pain made her halt but she forced herself not to let up, she knew she couldn’t push herself any further. “Rodney! Do it! Just do it! Bloody Christ’s sake!” He acted to her face of pain and crying voice. He first pulled back to ease her pain but knew she didn’t want that, so he thrusted up with all his might.
“Daisy!”
“Rodney!” She screamed as her virgin wall tore open and she fell to her ‘knees’ on Rodney, pushing the ataman feet into the dirt a little. Rodney was sent into bliss as his whole dick sat and cooked in her tight glorious pussy, he moaned as she shifted around making sure the entire virgin wall was open. He looked in her eyes and saw a veil of pain but beneath it was a message of joy, desire, love, and the things that made her pain worth it to her. She lifted up and moaned as his size and presence was eagerly welcomed. Rodney looked down and saw not just the silver vagina coolant but a more brownish silver fluid, thick and hot; her blood.
“Daisy, you’re bleeding!” He didn’t know what to do, it was rare that a machine would actively bleed, except in childbirth for some cases, but mostly it took extreme damage to a very vital ‘organ’ in the system.
“I’m fine, I’m fine. I in fact feel better now.” She stroked his hair eyes closed and face looking bliss again. She moaned as he pushed his whole member back into her, maybe even to stop her bleeding he hoped. She felt the condom on him, it’s subtle and defying presence wasn’t tolerated by Daisy, so she decided to try to shred it off him.
“Oh Daisy, fuck.” He moaned out as Daisy massaged his cock inside her. Her internal muscles were contracting on him in patterns and movements like corkscrew, milking, twist, wave, and such, tearing off his condom. She tore bit by bit off until she got it all off and then ejected it out behind his shaft unbeknownst to him. Meanwhile Rodney lacked any drive to all out fuck her, he wanted to do that, yes, but sitting here with his cock being groped by this great gal was real good; he’d need more from her. He saw her clit bulb and smiled, engine vibrations and noise was all he needed. He reached down with his right hand and cupped the clit bulb, then he rubbed it around in between his middle and ring fingers before one of her hands shot to his. She moaned loudly, encouraging him to keep going and herself holding his hand and going faster, Rodney watched as her eyes rolled in her turret. Not long into it her pussy began to spasm out, gripping his cock hard for a second then back to the tight hold, this gave Rodney a great amount of pleasure and Daisy a spike of mass adrenaline.
“Oh yes Rodney! Oh yes Rodney! Don’t stop! Don’t stop! Don’t stop no matter what! Don’t stop!” Suddenly her engine started to kick and turn, then it erupted in a loud roar and was idling at full RPMs; Rodney wanted her so much more then. He resisted the urge to stop and pound her pussy in but he was one who kept his word, he rubbed harder and harder, pushing in on her softer region. Her grip on him squeezed, his cock felt like it was growing in reference to her pussy, it felt huge, then her loud moans reached a scream as her orgasm hit her hard. She squirted out on his lap and the ataman, warming his core up nice and making him feel accomplished. “Rodney don’t st-”
“I’ll make you spray, baby!” He pushed her up then he dropped down and started pounding her. They fucked for two hours, just constant pounding, he came many loads into her thinking he still had the condom on. He wouldn’t pull out for anything because one, she didn’t want him to, and two she felt way too great to try it. She came not as much as he did but she had her share. She would even start humping back when he slowed, but it was the vibration of her engine, it’s noises, her cries of joy, and her attractiveness that powered Rodney to keep going. During the time Daisy thought he was too good to be true many times, but with how long he was going and the intensity to her plea corrected her thoughts; he wasn’t leaving her. She wanted to bear his child badly and easily could have; her vagina was lined with his seamen, but didn’t know if he could support one. At the end of the second hour Rodney noticed that her suspension was shaking and her wheels were pointing inward, he saw it as her knees buckling. He knew if she fell it wouldn’t be far and either the ataman world break, or it would sink into the dirt, or probably both. He reached down again and stroked her clit, she grew louder and very soon after came for the last of the session. Her suspension gave and she fell right onto him and pushed the ataman into the dirt. They sat in quiet catching their breath as Daisy used her pussy to jerk off him one last time.
“Oh Rodney, that was spectacular. You did make me spray, again and again.”
“Oh I fucking love you, Daisy. I fucking love you so much.” She smiled and completely settled down on him. They interlocked hands and looked at each other.
“Rodney, I don’t like condoms. They don’t feel right.”
“Next time I won’t wear one then, or any time after now.” She giggled.
“You weren’t wearing one this time.” She winked. He was confused. “I ripped it off you and got it out.”
“So I-”
“Yes babe, and I couldn’t be happier.” Her eyes told Rodney she was lying.
“I’m sorry next time I’ll pull-”
“Well I could be happier, I would be as happy as could be a mother.” She looked at him beggingly, she was nervous of his answer almost dreading it. He was quiet as he thought, Daisy tried to sway his answer by gripping his cock more, stroking his hair, hugging him tight against her, and using a begging face.
He shook his head no.
“I can’t. I can’t right now.” Daisy stopped, she teared up. “I am sorry, I’d love to father by you, but, I’ve got things to focus on before that.” She nodded. He leaned up and hugged her tenderly.
“Look baby, I’ll start up a family when I get a better job, I don’t want to risk failing a baby because we can’t feed it.” She hugged back. “Mark my words, once I’m done with college and settled in we’ll have one.” She perked up a little. “And I’ve kept my word haven’t I?” She felt better, better about their future, their relationship, better about everything. They rested there, after she finished him off for the session, and napped. They woke after a half hour and he dressed, she didn’t want him to leave and that sparked a thought from him.
“I got you a gift!” He handed her the bag he brought. The first thing she pulled out was the female performance boost.
“A little late for this, isn’t it babe?” He laughed.
“No baby not that, the other thing.” She looked again and pulled out a smartphone.
“What the bloody hell is this?”
“It’s like a radio, really small and it can send typed words, too. It’s called texting.” He proceeded to show her how to use it, what it all did, how she could ghetto charge it with her injector needle’s electric power output, and finally he gave her his number to talk to him.
“Nice, so.., anytime I want you, I text you and you answer?”
“Yes or call me.”
“Any time and for anything?” She wondered if they could ‘change oils’ anytime they wanted.
“Probably, yes.” They kissed goodbye and Rodney left for some olive drab paints to paint her with the next day. He was at the store when she texted him.
You could pant me white
Pant?
Thy dnt hve wite
Oh you don’t know txt talk.
No how did you get the punctuation
Press the 123 button in the bottom left.
Thanks! Now come paint me white tonight!
No white paint. Ran out.
Not with paint.
Sperm is white. <3 I made a heart.
-_- Really?
Yes! I want you so bad!
I want you inside me at every good hole! My mouth mostly, but also in my vagina and even my exhaust pipes! I want to eat you and then I want you’re massive size in my bow and my arse! Please babe!
You like the ! don’t you?
No. I mean it.
Well… okay I’ll see you soon.
<3<3 () c==8
8=====D () mines bigger.
They started sending each other longer dick messages before she ended it with a vagina picture tagged with ‘its waiting.’ He wanted to fulfill her fantasy but knew physically he couldn’t, he could die from a popped blood vessel. Other than time he knew only one other option. “Baby I need you to penetrate me.” Her face was bewildered. “You need to convert me.” She frowned; she really didn’t want to hurt him.
“Babe I don’t want you to be hurt.”
“I hurt you for our love, now I want you to hurt me. Please baby, please.” He knelt down. Closing her eyes, she did it. When it was done he was trembling by her side. She scooped him up and cuddled him against her face, kissing his belly. She noticed something probing her below his belly. “I’ve got a thank you gift, baby.” She smiled and unzipped his pants and instantly began sucking him off. For an hour he let her enjoy his candy, then he went to her pussy sand hit that for any other hour, then to each of her two exhaust pipes and banged each for an hour per pipe. Then she begged to taste him again and that was the finale. At around four AM she spat him out.
“Bloody Christ. Rodney I want so much more but I’m full, my tanks and my belly are full.” She looked him in the eyes, desire still filled them. “I liked the pipe, fuck me there, again.” He got on his knees and crawled to her rear. Her turret face followed. “And Rodney, could we slow down this time? He nodded.
“We should wrap up for bed.” Her face lit up.
“Let’s spoon after this!” He lined up with her pipe hole, still oozing from his previous visit, and slid himself into her constricting hole. She winced with a smile as he pushed through. Normally the pipes reached water boiling temperatures but because of coolants flowing through everything Daisy was only hot, not burning, and this felt very relaxing for Rodney. He laid down on her engine roof as she threw a rain tarp over herself, cutting her engine off. He started to fall asleep to her gentle throbs in her pipe when he changed his mind.
“Baby, why the arse? Why not the vagina?”
“I don’t want you on that filthy ground! It’s vile and disgusting. Stay here, babe, I like this.” She wrapped her arms around him; he shrugged and went to sleep in her pipe.
As the summer progressed he applied the green splotches of paint on her but then their progress of refitting slowed and changed focus to loving and being together. Rodney had decided to move out of his apartment and move in to a garage big enough for Daisy and him, it would be tight but they’d manage. One day he topped off her fuel and told her the plan, she was excited but looked nauseous. They slowly started moving down the narrow paths; Daisy was complaining the whole way.
“Oh this is so dirty! Eww eww eww eewww! Gross!”
“It’s just some dirt, dust and mud, it’s not bad here.”
“Oh it is way worse than when I came here! Euhg this is disgusting! Can we clean it up, or something? Go another way? This is grooss! Eww I’m sinking in it! Ewg it’s touching me! Ahhg get it off Rodney!” She squirmed around in it, it wasn’t bad at all. She complained every meter, going on and on about the filth. “It’s getting everywhere! It’s just as bad as France!”
“Now I know why you’re Little Miss Daisy, could you chin up from here on to the garage? A crying tank won’t be very good for public view.”
“Promise to clean me first thing in the garage! Promise and I’ll shut up.”
“I’ll make you squeaky clean, baby.” She quieted down.
“You know, babe, the dirt gets everywhere. It may take a while to-” mud splashed onto her bow and chin, “pleh, ah, it will take a while to clean all the nooks and crannies. You better clear out the rest of the night.” He patted her turret to say yes. They got up to the front gates and none of the other guys knew that there was a tank in the back, let alone a living one. They treated her like a wrongfully convicted prisoner and let her out hastily; apologizing for things they had no clue of. Rodney got off and got into his car, it was a little 1976 red Volkswagen Beetle. He tied a rope between his car and Daisy so they wouldn’t separate and then they left. They weren’t stopped at all, only looked at funny by the one officer they passed, but they say on the side of the road until they arrived. It wasn’t too shabby yet wasn’t exquisite, it was cozy, and there was an adjoining garage with a guy who really loved his green and black Maserati, that he never drove, and would constantly be working on something that probably exceeded his mechanical affinity and needed no attention. He’d be blasting his music and standing in the open door in an oily tank top, baggy shorts, tube socks, a beanie cap over his shoulder length curly hair, and slide on Airwalks calling to any chick walking by. Rodney felt some sympathy for the guy and walked up to him, he was staring blankly and in disbelief at Daisy, he didn’t know she was alive but that his new garage neighbor has a tank.
“Hey buddy, how’s it goin?” The guy nodded. “Listen, I recommend going on home for the night. It’s ah, going to get a lot louder than your music can go.” He nodded again and went back into his garage to close it up. Rodney then turned Daisy around and backed her into their new home.
“Lovely, a very lovely place here. Your stuffs not to cramping or crowding and makes this feel homely.” She looked around, he’d barely brought much; just a refrigerator, oven, microwave, bed, bookshelf, and a nightstand, the bathroom latrines were part of the garage. “Oh look a drain, too.” There was a drain in about the middle of the garage. Rodney rolled up his sleeves and got some cleaning things.
“Where can’t I go yet, baby?”
“Nowhere, you’re my man and with that you can go anywhere and everywhere on me.., or in me.” She winked and smiled. With that he washed her down, it wasn’t much on her, and it simply washed off without any soap, which gave them more time to make love. They talked some more about the time for a baby, Rodney wanted to have it when his job was set and Daisy wanted to have it asap, like that night asap, and her main point was college is free and he had a good job now. His rebuttal was he’d earn less pay with his slackened hours and would be focusing more on school.
“Well you’re not changing my standpoint point, Rodney; you can kiss my arse on that.” He did, he planted a kiss right square in the middle of her ass. She jumped, his warm lips felt strange there, but were always welcomed there again. “On that note, choose your first poison, babe.” He decided to try something new that night. He went to her bow and crawled under.
“You love eating me so much; I think I’ll give it a go myself.” With that he closed his eyes and drug his tongue up her slit, drawing approving moans from Daisy. She quivered as each of his heavenly licks went deeper and deeper into her vagina; she looked down and saw his waist nude and his cock hard, erect, and tasty. She wanted to eat him even more then but it wasn’t possible, or was it?
“Babe, hold on!” He didn’t stop, he planted his open mouth on her pussy lips and sucked good as his tongue searched deep inside her. He did this until her clit bulb pushed against his lips strong then he moved his lips to it and sucked on that real good and played around with it using his tongue. She knew she could not stop him so she took his long thick shaft in her hand and started a hand job. She worked his shaft fast, and thought of a way to get it in her mouth as soon as possible. She focused on her own joy, getting off as soon as she could, she stroked herself, let him ram his fingers into her tight pussy, fondled her nozzles and exhaust pipes, and braced for the strongest orgasm she’d ever felt. Her whole body quivered as she held it in, she would make it at least count, and went faster until she exploded on his face and went limp. Then she started her plan.
“Babe, you rocked me so hard, I need to piss.” She was close enough to a oil change, a week or two ahead wouldn’t hurt. He groaned as he got up and got a tray for her to release in. As her boiling hot oil streamed out under her force he got harder, visualizing the black oil as her silver cum and wanting to make her cum more and more, that’s when a large tendril snaked into his vision. It had a long vertical slit and a bulb at the top, it was dripping silver coolant; her secondary.
“Shall we 69 it?” He smiled as he climbed on and let her move him against her face, he grabbed her tendril and plastered it to his mouth like it was an oxygen mask. They did this all night, although Rodney had to sleep for work in the morning, but Daisy sucked his candy all night long, enjoying every second of it. They went through the summer living comfortably there, to save on money Daisy insisted that she not have any fuel. After much pressure by her he agreed and while the sex could be a little painful at times she rather felt safer without constant fuel in her tank. Soon before they knew it classes started up again, and Rodney’s pay lowered along with his hours, the time he wanted to be with Daisy was still there except he spent most awake time studying or working. One day he went out early to get Daisy a birthday gift and ran into his humorph school friend.
“You know Rodney, the car goes in the garage, right?” They laughed and hugged.
“Bloody hell it’s been years, Carson!”
“Three years, three years.” He looked back to the beetle car. “Still that old clunker scrap?”
“Yes, yes, still my little Beanie Butt runs better but not as good as my girl in there.” He pointed to the garage.
“Yeah I was about to ask who changed you, so tell me who the lucky lady is?”
“Her names Daisy and she’s a Churchill seven.” Carson was pleasantly surprised.
“Wow, she’s mighty beautiful then, you know if my pop hears she’s around the two will never stop talking.” They laughed some more knowing it’s true. “Ah well call me later, I’m late for a meeting as it is.” They parted, and they went about their ways. School was always easy for Rodney, and college was easy alone and even easier with Daisy, who can give first hand radio accounts of certain subjects and someone to relieve stress with. He wanted to thank her in so many ways and as much as he could but she never asked for much or anything extraordinary, just oil and some cleaning, and of course sexual favors happily fulfilled. Time flew by and before the two knew it the term was over, he graduated at the top of his class and that landed him the job he wanted oh so badly. That first weekend off from his job he knew he could make up the entire wait his wife Daisy had, and it’d be on the one year anniversary almost, too. He came to her Friday night with the proposal.
“Yes! Yes! Yes! Finally, yes!” She was very excited, after so long they were finally having a child. They had long worked out the names and that it’d be a humorph so they got right to it, she didn’t try to go for any of her enjoyment, she quickly got him to cum deep inside her where she opened for him and felt great, terrific, extraordinary as she became impregnated by her husband. After that they had some real fun for the rest of the night all the way into the morning sun. They repregnated regularly, and after a long ten months, a month longer than expected, Daisy gave birth to fraternal twins, a boy Churchill VII and a girl humorph. They were pleasantly surprised.
“Just our luck, we hoped for one and got two.” Rodney said holding his daughter Rebecca in his arms.
“I know isn’t it a miracle! Just simply marvelous, splendid! Oh isn’t life astonishing?” She was tired and holding her son Gregory on her engine roof cleaning him off.
“It’s interesting,”
“How Rebecca got all my influence, Gregory got none.”
“I think they’re two separate eggs.” She kissed his lips. “And that you need to call grandmum, proud daddy. Give me my baby girl, mum wants to hold her babies.” He carefully gave her Rebecca and went to the phone. He picked up the phone and looked at his family; Gregory was about a sixth of his mother’s size and his sister Rebecca was clinging to his side as their mom threw over a blanket on the shivering infants. Her bright green eyes combed over the children looking for any signs of need. She breast fed Gregory and bottle fed Rebecca. “Can we turn up the heater? Our babies are cold.” As the phone rang Rodney turned the heater up a notch and heard his mother on the other end.
“Hey grandmum-” she hung up after that. He tried again and again but only got the answering machine. Soon Daisy fell asleep and about twenty minutes later there was a knock at the door. Rodney answered and a slumping, shrewd looking old woman with white hair and a mahogany cane looked up at him and smiled wide.
“There’s my boy! Where’s my daughter? And why the bloody hell did you call me grandmum? Do I have grand babies yet?”
“You know mum its two-eleven in the morning. Didn’t you think Daisy would need some rest afterword?”
“I know how exhausting it is! That’s why I’m trying my best not to yell.”
“You’d be a perfect New Yorker, mum.” He said as she pushed her way inside. She waved it off and hobbled over to Daisy’s side quietly and looked at her grand babies.
“Ooh, they’re adorable! Oh Roody they look so beautiful!” She whispered to him, she may look like a ruthless hag but she wasn’t that bad of one, she was kind and respectable but would get her way if she felt like it. “They’re twins! What are they?”
“That’s Gregory, and that’s Rebecca.” He pointed to them, respectfully.
“They’ll grow to be big and strong before your eye, Roody. Mark every moment.” They talked quietly until grandmum went home after an hour and Rodney climbed up with Daisy and went to sleep. She hugged him tight as he snuggled up with his kids.
“We made the best things in the world, babe, the best things.” Rodney thought back on his life accomplishments, none of them even came close to this one. If he added up all the worth of the previous milestones they wouldn’t still come close to this one. He remembered one of the last things his mother told him that morning; they’ll never cease to amaze you, Roody, never.
The next morning they were woken by a screaming Rebecca, Gregory started crying because of Rebecca but calmed down way ahead of his sister. They knew he’d be more the quiet type right then but out of curiosity Daisy started talking to him.
“Can you say mumma? Say mumma, c’mon little Greg-Greg say mumma? Dadda? How about dadda?” Rodney was going to say he’s only twelve hours old when Gregory said mumma.
Fin LMD
That little bit at the end is to show that the machine infant grows exponentially faster than a human at every level. Gregory will be equivalent to a twenty year old adult by the time he’s twelve and fully developed at thirteen. Rebecca is slightly faster in growing mentally mature compared to a standard human baby. She will take the same amount of time to physically grow, however.
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Chapter 2 – Narrative review of the literature to contextualise the rationale for the introduction of dietary fat recommendations in 1977 (US) and 1983 (UK)
The diet-heart hypothesis
The review of the literature examines the origin of the hypothesis of relationships between dietary cholesterol, dietary fat (total), dietary fat (saturated), serum cholesterol and coronary heart disease (CHD). The review starts with the first use of the term arteriosclerosis [50] and ends with the first statement of the diet-heart hypothesis, which related to total fat: "The results of this survey support the hypothesis that the dietary intake of fat influences the level of the serum cholesterol, and in turn may be one of the major factors influencing the pathogenesis of coronary heart-disease" (p.1107) [5].
The focus on total fat provided the context for The Seven Countries Study, which started in 1956 [19]. The expression of the diet-heart hypothesis, as presented in The Seven Countries Study, referred to saturated, not total, dietary fat [51]. The verbatim findings of The Seven Countries Study were:
- “The incidence rate of CHD tends to be directly related to the distributions of serum cholesterol values.”
- “The average serum cholesterol values of the cohorts tended to be directly related to the average proportion of calories provided by saturated fats in the diet.”
- “The CHD incidence rates of the cohorts are just as closely related to the dietary saturated fatty acids as to the serum cholesterol level”(p.I-194) [51].
The diet-heart hypothesis became the tripartite association of saturated fat, serum cholesterol levels and CHD, although the impact of dietary cholesterol and total dietary fat were also investigated.
The review of the literature examines:
- The origin of the hypothesis of cholesterol (dietary and/or serum) as a risk factor for CHD;
- The exploration of serum cholesterol as a factor in CHD;
- The examination of dietary cholesterol as a factor in serum cholesterol;
- The exploration of dietary fat as a factor in serum cholesterol;
- The exploration of dietary fat as a factor in CHD;
- The examination of associations between dietary fat, serum cholesterol and CHD.
References are made in earlier literature to dietary fat generally. As research progressed, animal and vegetable fats became the more common terminology. Saturated and unsaturated fats were a later distinction and often used interchangeably with animal and vegetable fats, which is incorrect. All foods that contain fat, whether of animal or vegetable origin, contain saturated and unsaturated fat [52]. The transition from dietary fat to saturated fat, as the nutrient of concern, is documented.
Although not core to the diet-heart hypothesis, the origin of the hypothesis that unsaturated fat could be a potential protector is noted.
The origin of the hypothesis of cholesterol (dietary and/or serum) as a risk factor for CHD
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Thesis Chapters
Chapter 3 – A systematic review and meta-analysis of the randomised controlled trial evidence available at the time of the introduction of dietary fat recommendations
Chapter 4 – A systematic review and meta-analysis of the randomised controlled trial evidence currently available to evaluate if the introduced dietary fat guidelines have been supported in retrospect
Chapter 5 – A systematic review of the epidemiological evidence available at the time of the introduction of dietary fat recommendations
Chapter 6 – A systematic review and meta-analysis of the epidemiological evidence currently available to evaluate if the introduced dietary fat guidelines have been supported in retrospect
Chapter 7 – An examination of the randomised controlled trial and epidemiological evidence for the introduction of dietary fat recommendations in 1977 and 1983: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Appendix 1 (Chapter 2) – Associations between GDP per capita, fat intake and deaths from heart disease
Appendix 2 (Chapter 5) – Number of men sampled in The Seven Countries Study
Appendix 3 (Chapter 5) – Correlations with CHD deaths using Keys’ data
Appendix 4 (Chapter 5) – Correlation with latitude and CHD deaths
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Chiefs gather at Dakota Tipi First Nation to show solidarity with Standing Rock
‘They are our brothers. They are our sisters. We are from the same blood,’ Chief Keith Pashe says
People gathered at the Dakota Tipi First Nation in Manitoba on Saturday to show solidarity with Standing Rock.
First Nations leaders organized a protest near the First Nation, located along Highway 1, about 90 kilometres west of Winnipeg. The gathering was to show support for the Standing Rock Sioux and the tribe's allies who have been protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline, a 1,900-kilometre, four-state pipeline.
"They are our brothers. They are our sisters. We are from the same blood. We are all Dakota, Lakota people," said Dakota Tipi First Nations Chief Keith Pashe.
"We are from the United States, but we never put the border crossing there. It was all one open space. We lived together, we worked together, we helped one another, we trapped together, we fought in wars together, we battled together — all Lakota, Dakota people."
Joe McArthur drove four hours from Saskatchewan to join in the demonstration.
"It just seems so wrong, the force that is being used by defenseless people down there, unarmed people," he said.
"There was something at the core of my being that I had to show some sort of support personally to what is going on down in North Dakota. I just had to be here."
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May 2016 Board of Directors Meeting
Vienna Historical Society
Board of Directors Meeting Minutes
Present: Christine Novicky, Pamela Klinger, Jill Pegg, Pamela Clower, Phil Pegg, Michele Garman, Dylan Anders
Absent: Shirley Wajda, Norma Brink
President’s Report: Christine Novicky informed Board members that there are currently forty-four members of the society.
Christine informed the Board that she, Michele Garman, and Dave Cover of Fowler went to Baker Elementary Schools on May 3, 2016. Christine talked to three groups of third grade students during library time about Vienna’s coal mines, clock factories, gun factories, and Soldiers and Sailors Monument. In addition, they showed the students old photographs of daily life in Vienna.The librarian at Baker Elementary, Mrs. Lee Sena, gave yearbooks to Christine from 1990, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2004. As a result of the Society’s visit to the school, an article was written by Bob Coupland and appeared in the Warren Tribune Chronicle on May 9, 2016.
As a courtesy from Mathews High School and facilitated through Mrs. Hintemyer, Christine informed the Board that two 2016 yearbooks will be donated to the Society free of charge. One yearbook will be for the Society and the other will be for the Warren-Trumbull County Public Library. Mrs. Hintemyer also gave Christine copies of the 2014 and 2015 yearbooks.
Rena Cesta says that she has old journals and books to donate to the Society that pertain to the Vienna-Mathews Alumni Association.
Patty Zydyk was contacted about a framed Vienna High School photograph. She claimed that the picture she had deteriorated in her attic. She was not sure what year she had.
She also updated the Society on the student artwork under the direction of Mrs. Matola. This artwork is being created at Mathews High School by the students as a final art project. Mrs. Matola will share the artwork with the Society upon completion.
Christine reported that the Abel Bartholomew Obelisk fell in the main cemetery, which was reported to the trustees on 4/2/2016. In addition, Christine has received concerns of stones down in Dunlap Cemetery from a Society member.
Vice President’s Report: Pamela Clower reported that she received photographs from Caroline Pennell (Class of 1935) at the Vienna-Mathews Alumni Association Banquet, which were sent by her son Paul (Class of 1956). In addition, she reported that the Society received a large framed class photograph of the Vienna High School Class of 1942 from Barb Scott at the banquet. The Society also received yearbooks from 1951, 1952, 1955, 1958, and 1959 from Barb Scott.
Secretary’s Report: Dylan Anders informed the Board members that thank-you letters were sent to Linda McCullough for her class announcement donation, Helen Clower for her donation of the 1936 yearbook and tintype, Caroline Pennell for photo donations, and Meghan Reed for her April program. Thank-you letters were also sent to Dallas Woodall, Jim Clark, and Gary Clower for donations in addition to yearly dues.
The Board also approved minutes from March 2016. Minutes were approved as corrected by the Board.
Motion: Pamela Klinger
Second: Phil Pegg
The Board also approved minutes from April 2016. Minutes were approved as corrected by the Board.
Motion: Michele Garman
Second: Jill Pegg
Treasurer’s Report: Pamela Klinger updated the Board on the current financial status of the Society and asked for any receipt reimbursements.
The Board members approved the current fiscal report (1/1/16-5/15/2016) in the total amount of $4,121.32.
Motion: Phil Pegg
Second: Norma Brink
Historian’s Report: Viennapedia only needs 11 more years of graduate names for the electronic volume to be complete.
Unfinished Business: Records still need to be picked up and retrieved from the road department garage.
The trophy case idea proposed by Dallas Woodall has been clarified. The Society would be the owner of the case to house trophies abandoned by the school or dropped off by residents. In addition, Dallas Woodall reports that Bob Gribling has trophies that he is storing in his barn.
The Board discussed upcoming program ideas including Liz Clark for the May program. In addition, the Board discussed the continuation of the archives project this summer.
The Board discussed the possibility of a Christmas tree ornament fundraiser for the fall, which the Board decided to discuss further in future sessions.
The Board discussed the wine taste fundraiser and alternative locations were discussed.
Letters were sent to the school principals regarding donations; word was received from Jim Parry, Librarian, that Vienna and Mathews high schools yearbooks from 1949 and up were available for viewing.
A yearly scholarship to a student from the Society was discussed. Michele and Dylan were going to research the particulars.
The Vienna Summer Concert Series committee asked if the Society wanted to sell baked goods at a few of the concerts. The Board decided not to participate at this time due to conflicting schedules of the Board members.
New Business: The Board discussed the oral history project and its importance to the society’s records.
The Annual Memorial Day Observation is to be held on Monday, May 30th at the Mathews High School Gymnasium at 12:30 PM. Christine will email the membership for volunteers to pass out programs and walk in the procession to the Soldiers & Sailors Monument.
The Board also discussed purchasing a new banner, but no decisions were made.
Gifts: Gifts were accepted from Barb Scott (Donated: 4/30/16), Helen Clower (Donated: 3/18/16 & 2/24/16 & 5/15/16), and Caroline Pennell (Donated: 4/30/16).
Adjourn: Motion: Pamela Klinger, Second: Phil Pegg
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