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The Cactus Speaks: Our shiny new car – the majority Council
[EDITOR’S NOTE: This column by Earl Gipson is a view of SeaTac city government. It does not necessarily reflect the views of The SeaTac Blog nor its staff. We are seeking additional regular columnists to reflect different opinions and views of SeaTac residents. Those interested can e-mail us at [email protected].]
by Earl Gipson
Our shiny new car – the majority Council
The SeaTac Council meeting and Study Session on March 25 was such a let down I cannot find the right words (without cussing) for it so I will write a metaphorical story about our new car – the SeaTac Council Majority.
It was a cold night in January of 2015 when our 1990 Acura leaked so much oil and transmission fluid I knew it was on its last legs (previous City Council majority). So we saved and planned knowing that we would have to replace it with little money and a hope the next car we bought would not require as much maintenance, money, and sweat fixing all the little things that kept breaking.
We selected our new car (Council candidates) in June but paying for it was another thing so a lot more overtime and work had to be done (election campaign).
Finally in November we purchased our selected new car (General Election) and we were quite pleased for only the first 10 miles. All of sudden the car started veering sharply to the right and as we struggled to keep it in the center of the lane. We drove it back to the dealer and he said he couldn’t take it back outright but would replace the steering column for free (Forschler). Okay a glitch.
Got the car home after a few days and things still did not go well. It started making noises from under the hood and would die completely intermittently (Council meetings) and finally it just stopped. Some troubleshooting found the engine had seized (Interim City Manager Donny Payne) and is going to be in the shop for a couple of weeks (Personnel Investigation).
While we wait for our new car to be repaired our neighbors are quietly and loudly laughing at us (neighboring cities, Port, etc.) I realize we won’t be getting another new car any time soon (next election) and we may have to keep repairing this one under warranty.
We don’t get angry easily but we have had about enough. It may be time to find a new car dealership and get the heck away from our politely smug neighbors and make a new start. The damn car better work when it comes out of the shop.
Our City is hurt/sick and has been for some time. The question is if it is a persistent virus or terminal (play on words to the airport in our City’s midst) cancer?
Cactus music selection
I guess the part of the video I like is the end when he gets through the house into the open air.
Don’t Dream Its Over. Crowded House 1986:
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/crowdedhouse/dontdreamitsover.html
Posted by Scott Schaefer on Monday, March 28, 2016 at 8:22 am
Filed under Commentary, Entertainment, Headlines, Life, Opinion, Politics · Tagged with city council, city of seatac, commentary, editorial, News, Politics, Seatac, seatac city council
8 Responses to “The Cactus Speaks: Our shiny new car – the majority Council”
Doug Hill says:
What we are actually witnessing is the long term ineptitude and inefficiencies that are part of the culture that has been running rampant in city government and the push back from many who don’t like the exposure. So until the dead wood that sits in many of those offices is put on the bonfire pile, it might be a slow go. And now being a generation of instant gratification, how bout a little patience. Last I checked we are only 3 months into the big change.
martinmc says:
Mr. HIll is really saying that the disaster at city hall couldn’t possibly be the fault of the current city council majority. The same council members that he, his brother-in-law Mr. Beck, Mercer Island Cassans, and Mr. Tapio formed a PAC to elect. Because then it would mean that his investment was a poor one.
So, what to do? Blame the employees.
Yes. I’m sure it’s the fault of city employees that Council members Forschler and Kwan arrogantly went to the City of Des Moines and told them told them how to run their city.
Or, it’s the employee’s fault that the new council majority brought in radical right- wing politician from Spokane to convince the council not to take a Federal Block Grant (funded from federal taxes, which we all pay). Or, it has to be city employee’s fault that a Manager from Wendy’s was hired by the new majority to become the City Manager, with no public vetting whatsoever. Blame the employees. Accuse them of being inept and inefficient, because you can’t admit that those labels currently belong to your newly elected politicians, Mr. Hill. Blame the Police Officers, Firemen, Parks Maintenance Workers, Senior Services Managers, people sweeping the streets, people working behind the permit counter, people paying the bills, people now working with no manager, people desperately attempting to maintain their moral and dignity in that nutso environment over there that you, Mr. Hill, helped to elect.
seatac says:
martinmc, are you still hurting from the defeat of the julia patterson clan? do you realize they had not one, not two, but more than 10 different OUTSIDE PAC organizations supporting them, spending over $100,000.00 to get mia gregerson and the other patterson puppets into office?
compare that with the barely $9k spent by the local PAC trying to help seatac.
are you really complaining about the $9k spent by locals vs. over $100k spent by outside special interest PAC backing mia gregerson, hand-led by john wyble, who still ended up losing with less than 40% of the votes?
time for a reality check.
Seatac says: Interest groups fund politicians. It happens all the time, in every city, and at every level of government. That’s not my point, or the problem. The problem is when Mr. Hill, a major donor to the current successful council majority, decides to blame the employees for the mistakes of his chosen politicians. That’s not being honest or fair, and is demoralizing for the people trying to keep that place running over there, while the council majority tries to figure out which way is up.
Craig Baker says:
I like the analogy, although I am not sure it fits my perception of government (at any level). There is a key point that is missed here. The real changes can only happen when the council is made aware that we, the citizens, see a problem and expect it to be changed. After all, the council can only fix what they know is broken and they can’t be expected to be mind readers.
I for one, felt that the old council didn’t listen to anyone during the comment periods or through other methods. That is my perception, which made my reality! With our new council, we have to expect different behavior and we have to behave differently and maybe change our expectations. This means we need to communicate, in a professional manner, what we see and expect. Unfortunately, this is easier said than done, not many people can really remove emotion; especially when it’s something important to them.
As Doug Hill pointed out, there are still problems on the council and in the city. The first one that comes to mind is Professionalism. Government is a business and should hold itself accountable to the shareholders (citizens). All interactions should be professional and courteous. The shareholders (citizens) should be held to the same standard, professional and courteous to the business. Do we, the shareholders, want a Wal-Mart or a Nordstroms? Call, email or visit with the Council members and tell them, in a courteous and professional manner, what the expectations are and where you as an individual see problems. We all have different problems and expectations, so we have to allow for the council to identify the biggest issues/concerns and prioritize them accordingly.
Again, this is going to take some time to get things going in a better and brighter direction. We all need some patience, and I would like to see some thought-out and planned changes rather than fast and furious knee-jerk reactions.
Kathie Brave says:
I was concerned from the start with so many new people on the council. I knew it would take time for them to get up to speed. And it certainly has! But, as Doug says, it’s been so bad for so long that it will be awhile before we can get things straightened out. Lots of dead wood, too many haven’t been doing their job for so long they think they can still get by with it. WE have got to let them know we aren’t taking it anymore. As Craig says, let them know. Write, call, anything you can do to keep on top of what’s going on. I have been to city hall too many times not to realize there are way too many not doing their job or doing it poorly. Keep talking people! I am also at fault for not attending meetings lately but, in my defense, life is too short to listen to the same things being talked about over and over and over! Guess I’d best walk the talk here.
Mr. Ctac says:
People,people…its the hoodtac City I have grown up in for 40yr now. It will B the hoodtac City for 40+.
By changing the face of it,the people stay the same.
Janice Taylor says:
Simple Definition of bureaucracy
: a large group of people who are involved in running a government but who are not elected
: a system of government or business that has many complicated rules and ways of doing things
MW fails to note bureaucracies function in a way to keep members in jobs. They are not lean, mean, decision-making machines. Our new Council came in with an action plan, something voters wanted and directly clashing with typical bureaucratic modus operandi. Feathers have been ruffled and egos pricked because some actions have happened outside normal city operating procedure.
Change is tough in any organization. Patience, cooperation, professionalism and compromise are required on all sides.
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The Star - Musings - Let’s stop the ‘hatewave’ (26 Aug 2018)
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AROUND the world, climate change is causing heatwaves where people are unused to very warm weather. Back home, due to another type of climate change, we are experiencing a different kind of wave, which I call a hatewave.
There are people who are still unable to accept that the cliched “new dawn” has arrived in our beloved country. A new environment where inclusivity, indeed democracy itself, is the byword for all things from now on. People want to be listened to, want things to be done transparently, want wrongdoings to be punished and justice for everyone. They want the rule of law, which applies to everyone and not where some people are above and beyond the law. Most of all they want to be left in peace and to live in an atmosphere of goodwill and neighbourliness with everyone else.
But some people still have not gotten it into their heads that the reason they lost power was because they totally misread what people wanted. It could even be said that they were so cocooned that they didn’t really know what people wanted or simply refused to believe it.
And so despite it being a failed formula, they are still using the same one to try and gain popularity or if not, to make the current lot in power look bad.
Hence, we see endless hate campaigns on social media, this time not so much about race, but about religion. One can only shake one’s head at the amount of energy directed towards devising ever more ludicrous stories about the weakest people in the country, which, this time, happens to be the LGBT community.
I don’t want to repeat some of the shocking things being said about a community that is comprised of fellow human beings, citizens and let’s not forget, voters. But it takes zero amount of courage to pick on people who cannot really respond without endangering themselves, their friends or families. There are no bravery medals to be handed out for calling for the killing of fellow citizens using pseudonyms on social media. There is no honour in the name-calling of people, especially when hiding behind the cloak of religion.
To say that these are just words and cannot do any harm in real life is a mistake. Recently, a human being who happens to be transgender was set upon by eight (presumably non-transgender) men and beaten up so badly that she wound up in hospital. The photographs of her wounds should horrify any decent person. Apparently those men set upon her for the simple reason that they didn’t like transgender people. Now why would they suddenly get that idea?
The police are investigating the case and hopefully this time they will actually catch and charge the perpetrators. We are supposed to have the rule of law in this country and the law does not allow anyone to beat anybody up, regardless of their gender identity or sexual orientation. We should all be horrified when people openly defy the law. Once we allow this, where will it all end? In anarchy, where anyone can take the law into their own hands?
I really hope that the police do their duty without fear or favour. That’s what professionals do, regardless of what profession they might be in. (In the latest development, five people have been charged for the crime).
Imagine going for treatment by a doctor and the doctor openly states they don’t like your race/religion/gender/sexual orientation. Would you ever go to that doctor again?
People who spew hate often don’t realise that they can be victims themselves from the same sort of bile. Hate is always directed at the Other, the person whom you perceive as different, and often inferior. In one set of circumstances, you may be the dominant person. But change the circumstances and you become someone else’s Other.
Muslims in particular should be very aware of this. Immediately after Donald Trump was elected, there was a rise in the number of hate crimes towards people perceived as “the Other” – African-Americans, Muslims, Latinos, Jews, anyone who is not white. An analysis of FBI statistics showed that “hate crimes more than doubled the day after the 2016 election, with a 92% spike in average daily hate crimes in the two weeks following the election compared to the daily average from the beginning of the year. Crimes against Latinos increased by the greatest percentage, followed by Muslims and Arabs and African-Americans.”
This spike was because, through his words and actions, Trump seemingly gave permission to white supremacists to be bigots.
For the first time in several decades, people were proud to display their Ku Klux Klan affiliations openly such as in Charlottesville, Virginia, and the President refused to unequivocally condemn them.
As we saw with our own local supremacists in the past few years, if our leaders don’t condemn them unequivocally, they will only become emboldened.
The same thing occurred after the Brexit referendum in the UK.
The Leave campaign promoted the notion that by remaining in the European Union, they would be swamped by refugees, most of whom would be Muslim. The Independent reported that “police figures obtained through Freedom of Information (FOI) requests showed incidents surged by 23% – from 40,741 to 49,921 – in the 11 months after the EU referendum, compared with the same period the previous year, marking an unparalleled rise.”
Is it therefore any surprise that given the hate campaigns against sexual minorities, there has been even more violence against them, especially the more visible transgender population?
The thing for everyone to remember is this: hate comes from fear. And fear comes from ignorance. I have seen so many comments on social media that are fuelled only by hysteria and over-active imaginations. None of them are grounded in reality.
It makes me wonder about the mental health of these commenters, given the amount of time and energy they spend to whirl themselves into hurricanes of hate. Any professional psychologist would recommend meditation to calm them down, preferably five times a day.
The point is, if you can’t even walk outside without the fear of being beaten up just because of how you look, then we don’t have a civilised country. What more an Islamic country, which is supposed to be a peaceful and stable place, a haven for all of God’s creations. What sort of representation of faith is it that is expressed in anger, in slander, in insults and even lies?
There are many people who find it hard to refrain from judging others. That’s probably human. But there are consequences to voicing out those judgements.
Hopefully, you’re not the sort of person who can sleep well knowing what you’ve just said has, at minimum, caused hurt or in the worst of cases, caused that person to be killed. Consideration for the wellbeing of others is a central tenet of most religions, is it not?
Nobody is forced to accept people who they do not approve of.
But non-acceptance surely does not mean condoning violence against them. Non-acceptance surely does not mean letting criminals go scot-free. Non-acceptance cannot possibly mean denying anyone the right to live.
People who think of themselves as good people of faith cannot at the same time avert their eyes from violence against fellow human beings, especially in their own backyard.
There has been equally as much slander about those who defend the weak and marginalised. Apparently being kind and compassionate is also unacceptable. That is the kind of thinking that allowed us to be oppressed for 60 years. If we are to truly celebrate our second Merdeka this coming week, we have to free ourselves from the shackles of the old thinking – especially that we need to be cruel to others in order to be true followers of our faith.
There is a lovely authentic hadith (sayings of the Prophet Mohamad, peace be upon him), recorded by Muslim, which goes, “You will not enter Paradise until you believe. You will not believe until you love each other.” As far as I can tell, there are no conditions attached to this, that you should only love certain people.
Many people want to emulate the Prophet. The Quran describes him thus: “O Messenger of Allah! It is a great Mercy of God that you are gentle and kind towards them; for, had you been harsh and hard-hearted, they would all have broken away from you” (Quran 3:159). Yet, how many refrain from being harsh and hardhearted?
Last May we gave ourselves new freedom, based on the rule of law, on equality of all Malaysians and on justice.
Let’s not be selective about who that applies to.
Happy Merdeka! And Happy Malaysia Day in advance!
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by Tamara Bartlett | May 8, 2019 | Uncategorized
Ninjas, this is it: The Official Announcement that you didn’t know you’ve been waiting for.
This year at Orange Skies, we are going to set the Large Formation Head Up Colorado record and Female Large Formation Skydiving Colorado record. That’s right; we’re going to make our first year at Fort Morgan a year to remember and we’re going to set some records.
Oh now you’re listening? Good.
Ladies, we’re going to break the record with a 20+ woman formation this year. As part of our efforts to build up the belly community in Colorado, we’re going to focus on building up the skills of women belly flyers throughout the year to get ready for this event.
Now that you’re burning with curiosity and filled with questions, let’s dig in.
When is it? TBD. Suffice to say, later this year. More information will be coming soon.
How are we going to prep? We’re going to have a number of skills camps run by locals and experts brought in to help us prepare.
When are the skills camps? The first one is May 19th! Future skills camps are TBD.
What do I have to do to be in it? You have to prove that you’re up for the challenge. First step, reach out to Tamara Bartlett and tell her you’re interested!
How do I start training? Get in touch with Tamara! She’s always available for free tunnel coaching, as well as load organizing days! You can also reach out on the ninjas page to find others to train with on any days you’ll be skydiving at Orange Skies.
Will we get extra altitude? Heck yes!
How many planes? 2
Will there be oxygen? Most definitely!
So, who wants to fly in a formation load? Psht. Everyone does.
We are going to work hard to make sure that the time, energy, and money you put into this training is worth it; we are going to get the record. But we’re not stopping with just the Women’s Largest Formation in Colorado.
We are also going to set the Large Formation Head Up record. Oh, and we will most definitely send in the submission this time. We want to build of the skills of our head up flyers in Colorado and get a record in the process.
Again, your questions are probably abounding.
When is it? Also, TBD. In the meantime, let’s talk about preparing for such a radical event.
How are we going to prep? Again, we’re going to have skills camps run by the best. And just like for belly, you can also reach out on the ninjas page to get coaching from none other than Mike and Leland and company to train with on days you’ll be skydiving at Orange Skies.
When are the skills camps? The first one is a two-day camp (Saturday and Sunday) over Memorial Day weekend; sign up sheet will be available soon.
What do I have to do to be in it? You have to prove that you’re up for the challenge. Just like before, reach out to Tamara Bartlett and tell her you’re interested! She’ll make sure your information gets passed along.
What are the stats? Two planes, 20+ people, extra altitude, and oxygen!
Orange Skies prides ourselves in the skills and discipline of our jumpers. We can’t wait to showcase our talented community with two records this year. For those of you already ready to smash records, we can’t wait to get to it. For those of you still working towards being there, we’re so excited to help coach you to get there!
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Another Killer review
Writer Heath Lowrance reviews Killer over at his blog, Psycho-Noir:
"This is Dave Zeltserman’s final book in the so-called “Man Out of Prison” trilogy, and fans of Pariah and Small Crimes might be surprised by the strangely contemplative nature of the story. On the surface, Killer is about regret, loneliness, and that old inevitable mortality thing. But scratch a little deeper and even darker themes emerge… it all leads to a truly shocking climax that could be Zeltserman’s darkest yet-- and this is a writer who has made a fine art out of dark and shocking climaxes."
You can read the whole review here.
Howard County Times suggest that Killer is a cool thriller to beat the heat with:
"...In his latest novel about a man just out of prison, following "Small Crimes" and "Pariah," Dave Zeltserman displays a genius for capturing the brute facts of survival "on the outside." Leonard is disarmingly sympathetic, which makes the novel's surprise conclusion even more disturbing."
'Man Out of Prison' noir sampler
Small Crimes, Pariah and Killer all start twith a dangerous man being released from prison and then follows his journey. Small Crimes and Pariah were both picked by the Washington Post as best books of the year, with Small Crimes also picked by NPR as one of the five best crime and mystery novels of 2008. Publishers Weekly said of Killer (May 2010): "Spare prose and assured pacing place this above most other contemporary noirs."
To read sample chapters from each of these three books and a short essay explaining the origin of this trilogy click on the below link to download a free PDF:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/34537492/Man-Out-of-Prison-Sampler
Do you want to be a murder suspect? Maybe even a murderer?
...at least in fiction.
I'm finishing up my first Julius Katz novel, tentatively titled 'Julius Katz & Archie', and I'm going to run a contest to have one of the book's murder suspects (or possibly even the murderer) named after the winner. The cost to enter is free. All you have to do is read my award-winning novella, 'Julius Katz' and enter a comment (or scribble) up on scribd.com. If 100 or more comments are left by Aug. 12th, one of these will be picked at random, and the winner (if they choose to be) will have one of my murder suspects named after him or her.
About Scribd.com--it's free and easy to join. It took me all of one minute to sign up so I could put 'Julius Katz' up there as a free PDF. And why Aug. 12th? As a bizarre fluke, I've got two books being released that day--'The Caretaker of Lorne Field' is being published by Overlook Press in the US, and Outsourced by Serpent's Tail in the UK, so I figured that's as good a day as any.
So how do you read 'Julius Katz'? Simple, click on the below link to read online. And if you join Scribd, you can then download the PDF, and later after reading you can go back and leave a comment, or scribble as they call it.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/34465417/Julius-Katz
Get award-winning 'Julius Katz' free
I've made my award-winning novella, Julius Katz, available for the time being as a free PDF over at scribd.
The razor line between horror and crime
My short article up at Barnes & Noble.
As one of the posters pointed out, Poe is a great example of this. Which other contemporary writers other than the ones I mentioned move effortlessly between the two genres?
Killer in Ireland's Sunday Tribune
"Written in a spare, terse style, and with chapters alternating between past and present, we slowly learn more about March. But even then the closing chapters present a devastating twist and shocking conclusion."
It was a very nice surprise to see Killer included in the Sunday Tribune's Thriller Round-up.
I have a new horror story, King, over at the fine pulp web-zine, BEAT to a PULP. I hope folks enjoy it.
My five-part chat with Archie
My 5-part chat with Archie, probably most unusual detective to a grace a mystery story, is now complete and has Archie giving the lowdown on another famous Boston PI:
About Archie
Shooting the breeze with Archie
Chewing the fat with Archie
Flapping the gums with Archie
Chillin' with Archie
Shmoozing with Archie
About 'Julius Katz'. The novella was originally published in the Oct. 09 issue of Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, won a Reader's Choice Award from Ellery Queen's readers, a 2010 Derringer Award for best novelette, is available now for Kindle download for $0.99, and will be reprinted in later this year in 'By Hook or by Crook and 30 More of the Best Crime and Mystery Stories of the Year' edited by Ed Gorman and Martin Greenberg. The sequel to 'Julius Katz', 'Archie's Been Framed!' will appear later this year in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, and more stories and novels featuring Julius and Archie are planned! In fact, I just finished the first novel in the series which I've so far given the hyper-original title: Julius Katz & Archie
Over at Julius Katz & Archie, I'm chillin' with Archie during the 4th part of our interview, where among other things we talk about another famous Boston PI.
A Clean Sweep
The Library Journal on Caretaker:
"Crime writer Zeltserman (Killer; Pariah) has produced a nail-biter. Caretaker Jack Durkin is obsessively faithful to an ancient book and a contract that requires him daily to weed a huge expanse from dawn to dusk, else "Aukowies," fiends nine feet tall with multiple fangs, will appear out of the ground to destroy the world. Jack knows he's an authentic superhero, but he is gradually betrayed by family and friends, unbelievers in the reality of his contract. Townsfolk sneer, and Jack suffers a variety of agonies, despite which he continues his exhausting labors, until finally he has no defender left. The narrative is straightforward and gritty, reminiscent of works of Dashiell Hammett. Place and time seem to float, and this tends to dislocate the reader, who may also come to doubt Jack's sanity. Verdict Not literary or even stylish but gripping and actually "horrifying," this title is recommended for horror fans and readers who may relish unpleasant surprises.-Jonathan Pearce, California State Univ. at Stanislaus, Stockton"
This gives me a clean sweep with the prepub reviews, with PW in a starred review calling Caretaker superb, Booklist also calling it superb, Kirkus liking it ("Harrowing. Zeltserman colors it black with the best of them."), and Locus Magazine writing it a terrific review. The consensus for Caretaker: gripping, harrowing, page-turner, nail-biter.
In the past I've been compared favorably in reviews to James M. Cain, James Ellroy, Jim Thompson, and now Dasheill Hammett, all writers I greatly admire, but no more so than Hammett. Hell, I'll take it.
A tip of the cap to fellow writer, Rob Kitchin, for his kind words yesterday for Killer. And thanks, Naomi, for pointing this out.
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The Arc of the Covenant or Ark of the Covenant’s electrical ARC requires thinking out of the box
The Arc of the Covenant or Ark of the Covenant’s electrical nature requires thinking out of the box for a proper understanding.
The arc of the Covenant was apparently manufactured after “Moses called all Israel, and said unto them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn more, and keep, and do them.” The fifth chapter of Deuteronomy goes on to state that “the Lord talked with you [Moses] face to face in the mount out of the midst of the fire.” Wow! One would logically think that the Source of the creation would find a more comfortable spot in his infinite universe to reside in than in a blazing little fire on a dry, dusty mountain on this paltry planet. Or, he could find better company than shifty humans with whom to consult. However, ignorance and arrogance are still allowed to prevail in many minds today; and intelligence and reason, although revered and relied on for six days a week, blindly bows to those ludicrous words on the seventh.
Nevertheless, speaking further on the Hebrew god’s commandments, Moses went on to point out that “I stood between the Lord and you at that time, to shew you the word of the Lord, for ye were afraid by reason of the fire, and went not up unto the mount.” So, to solve this problem, he moved the fire god off the mountain down to the tribes, and he placed him between two cherubim on an oblong box with two carrying poles.
This arrangement, the so-called Ark of the Covenant, is illustrated above and below. However, the angelic images or cherubim on top of the chests are not accurate depictions. Why? The answer lies in the second of Moses’s Ten Commandments, which has been abbreviated and placed on popular plaques like the one above. Although the Hebrew fire god is said to have forbade the worshiping of graven images by uttering to Moses: “Thou shalt not …….
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Todd Paris, Photoshop blending artist. Britt Collins, Shekinah Glory painter & illustrator. Dewey Sevy, 3-D Studio rendering artist. Jon Kokko, website design.
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National & World Ag News Headlines
ADM Increases Ethanol Sales in Chicago Market
USAgNet - 09/14/2018
Archer Daniels Midland Co has sold unusually high volumes of ethanol into the Chicago market since late last year as export markets dried up, driving down prices in the U.S. Midwest and angering the company's rivals, according to traders and regulatory data. According to Reuters, the Illinois-based global commodities powerhouse, a major ethanol producer, accounted for roughly 61 percent of the 9.5 million barrels sold at the Chicago hub between November and August, according to the data reviewed by Reuters.
Previously, ADM had been a regular buyer: In September and October of last year, for example, ADM bought 810,000 barrels, 32 percent of the 2.495 million total trades in the Chicago hub during that stretch, according to the data.
ADM's shift came amid an upheaval in the domestic ethanol market as U.S. demand flatlined and export markets, including China and Brazil, were cut off due in part to the effects of President Donald Trump's widening trade disputes.
With growth in export markets slowing, U.S. ethanol inventories swelled to a record. Ethanol traders say ADM is saturating the domestic market, anchoring prices and bleeding out smaller producers less equipped to manage through the tough times.
ADM spokeswoman Jackie Anderson, when asked about the shift in the company's strategy, said ADM does not comment on the specifics of its commercial activity.
Ethanol futures prices traded on the Chicago Board of Trade late last month fell to $1.21 per gallon, lowest in over a decade. Ethanol in Chicago cash markets, meanwhile, were about $1.28 per gallon, just above a low of $1.24 from December, traders told Reuters.
The heavy selling by ADM has led traders who have lost money on the slumping ethanol market to complain to S&P Global Platts, which provides benchmark pricing for the physical ethanol contract at different U.S. delivery points including Chicago.
Other National Headlines
New Farmers.gov Feature Helps Find Loans to Fit Individual Operation
NCGA Elects Four Growers to Serve on National Corn Board
Corteva Agriscience to Close LeRoy, IL Grain Facility
Plant-Based Protein Foods Sales Rose to $4.5 Billion
Book Examines the Bible's Stance on Eating Meat from Animals
Farm Bureau Welcomes Progress on Water Rule Changes
Canadians Investing in Dairy Research Cluster
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Prince to sue Youtube, eBay over music use
NickDisk Reloaded Forum Index -> Music
Location: Mexico City, MX
Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 10:49 pm Post subject: Prince to sue Youtube, eBay over music use
Here we go again... For those of you too young to remember (lucky you!! ), Prince used to be a hit star back in the 1980s. I hadn't heard more from him for a while. Nevertheless, the guy jumps to the spotlight again, placing yet another legal action against Youtube. This is definitely a sign of our times, and we'll see more and more of this as traditional media feud against Internet-based companies over distribution rights and copyright.
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By Mike Collett-White
LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. pop star Prince plans to sue YouTube and other major Web sites for unauthorized use of his music in a bid to "reclaim his art on the Internet."
The man behind hit songs "Purple Rain," "1999" and "When Doves Cry" said on Thursday that YouTube could not argue that it had no control over which videos users posted on its site.
"YouTube ... are clearly able (to) filter porn and pedophile material but appear to choose not to filter out the unauthorized music and film content which is core to their business success," a statement released on his behalf said.
YouTube did not immediately reply to questions e-mailed to its press room.
In addition to YouTube, Prince also plans legal action against online auctioneer eBay and Pirate Bay, a site accused by Hollywood and the music industry as being a major source of music and film piracy.
The legal action is the latest bid by the music industry to wrest back control over content in an age where file sharing, mobile phones and video sites make enforcing copyright increasingly difficult.
But it is believed to be rare for an individual artist of Prince's stature to take on popular Web sites, while some up-and-coming performers actually encourage online file sharing to create a fan base and buzz around a record.
"Prince strongly believes artists as the creators and owners of their music need to reclaim their art," the statement added.
"These actions mark a historic moment for music artists in terms of the battle to regain control of their rights on the Internet."
British company Web Sheriff has been hired to help coordinate the action.
"In the last couple of weeks we have directly removed approximately 2,000 Prince videos from YouTube," said Web Sheriff managing director John Giacobbi.
"The problem is that one can reduce it to zero and then the next day there will be 100 or 500 or whatever. This carries on ad nauseam at Prince's expense," he told Reuters.
He said his company had also removed around 300 items from eBay, where whole lines of pirated goods trading on Prince's name had appeared, including clocks, socks, mugs and key rings.
Prince's latest initiative is likely to please record industry executives and music retailers, who have not always seen eye-to-eye with the 49-year-old.
He has referred to the record industry as "the speculation business" and gave away copies of his new album "Planet Earth" for free with a British Sunday newspaper.
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Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 12:40 am Post subject:
This from the guy who "included" his new CD with his concert ticket price so he could inflat his "album sales" by forcing anyone who liked his older stuff to "buy" his new crap. Screw Prince.
Who you rollin with??? Bob. Bob Saget.
Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 5:09 am Post subject:
never heard of him...
superyo
Location: France :-D
He sold his CD with his concert tickets ? That's the first time I heard that
Now youtube... what to say... Here a French guy supposed to be funny said youtube and dailymotion were the reason why he didn't sell any DVD...
bearbear
Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 3:10 pm Post subject:
Prince released his new album free with a newspaper over here.
klazziknick1
Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2008 1:41 am Post subject:
how have you never heard of Prince?
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No doubt its best service provider in the world
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Youtube is the best music & video provider.
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Youtube very good when everyone share video song.
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I think they have no right to sue Youtube.
Youtube rocks.
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Written by: Brian Wilson/Mike Love
Recording date: Oct 1967?
Master Number: #58034
Originally appeared on: Wild Honey
Subsequently appeared on: Summer Dreams; The Best of the Beach Boys; Good Vibrations
This energetic R&B-style song features theremin, but is otherwise sparsely produced and sets the tone for the album "Wild Honey"- a back-to-basic R&B album. Described by Carl as music for Brian to "chill-out" to, it was the first album in what many regard as the second great period of Beach Boys' music- the sequence of albums from "Wild Honey" to "Surf's Up."This simpler style of music may have influenced the Beatles 1968 work.
Great vocal from Carl, who apparently enjoyed recording this one.
Capitol 2028
A-side with: Wind Chimes
Released on: October 23, 1967
Charted on: November 4, 1967
Reached: #31
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Born in Coleraine, Northern Ireland in 1959, Tommy was educated at a local grammar school and, equipped with the requisite A levels, moved to Scotland to study medicine at Aberdeen University. He graduated with a degree in politics and sociology – the start of a lifelong interest in politics (see more below). He returned to Scotland in 1993 and established the Stand Comedy Club in 1995, which he started as a hobby and built into a successful business. Tommy lives in Newington with his partner Kate and cocker spaniel Henry.
Political Background
Tommy also has a longstanding, active political background. He held office in the National Union of Students, was formerly a councillor in London and moved back to Scotland having been appointed under leader John Smith, to be a full-time organiser for the Labour Party. Under Tony Blair, Tommy describes the Labour Party as having left him. In September 2014, after spending two years working on the Yes campaign he finally got round to joining the SNP.
In May 2015, Tommy Sheppard was elected as the Member of Parliament for Edinburgh East with a majority of 9,106 and 49.2% of the vote. Tommy was appointed as the SNP’s spokesperson on the Cabinet Office.
His particular political interests include human rights, Palestine, anti-poverty, austerity, equality issues.
Tommy’s constituency office is at 94 Portobello High Street. He also has an additional hub office in the heart of Craigmillar - 18 Niddrie Mains Road which is open Mon-Wed 1.30pm-4.30pm excluding bank holidays
In June 2017 there was a snap general election. Tommy was returned as the Member of Parliament for Edinburgh East. Tommy is the SNP Spokesperson for the House of Lords, Scotland and Cabinet Offices.
1959 Tommy born at the Mary Rankin hospital, Coleraine. Spends his first seven years living in an estate known locally as The Heights.
1966 Moves to Portstewart just four miles away.
1970 Passes the eleven plus and goes to the local grammar school in Coleraine.
1977 Equipped with requisite A levels, sets off to Aberdeen University to study medicine.
1982 Graduates with a degree in politics and sociology having spent rather more time on student politics than academia. Elected Vice-president of NUS and heads to London.
1984 Leaves NUS after two years full time and works in London’s East End campaigning against racism and police harassment.
1986 Gets elected to Hackney Council at age of 27 as member of the Labour Party. Convenes Police, Leisure and then Finance committees.
1990 Re-elected as councillor and become deputy leader of the authority.
1992 Stand for parliament in Bury St Edmunds. Loses and starts planning move back to Scotland.
1993 Arrives in Edinburgh to take up position as senior official with District Council.
1994 Appointed Assistant General Secretary of the Labour Party in Scotland under John Smith’s leadership.
1995 Starts The Stand Comedy Club as a hobby and run first shows during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
1996 Fails to win TV’s Masterchef
1997 Made redundant from Labour Party job over disagreements on whether Scottish party should control its own affairs. Starts working freelance and decides to turn The Stand into a business.
1998 The Stand opens as Scotland’s first full time comedy club in York Place – Tommy starts working as the company’s director.
2000 Second Stand club opens in Glasgow – job becomes full time.
2003 Tommy fails to renew membership as the Labour Party leaves him.
2007 Active in Scottish independence campaigns.
2011 Takes the business across the border to open The Stand in Newcastle.
2012 Work expands as company wins contract to run The Assembly Rooms as a major fringe venue. Meanwhile Tommy becomes local (south Edinburgh) organiser of the Yes Scotland campaign.
2014 Joined SNP after the referendum results in narrow vote against independence.
2015 Elected as the Member of Parliament for Edinburgh East with a majority of 9,106 and 49.2% of the vote
2015 Became SNP Spokesperson for the Cabinet Office
2015 Elected as Vice-Convener of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Palestine.
2016 Tommy stood for election as Depute Leader of the SNP and came second to Angus Robertson
2017 Re-elected as Member of Parliament for Edinburgh East with a majority of 3,425 and 42.5% of the vote.
2017 Appointed SNP Spokesperson for the House of Lords, Scotland and Cabinet Offices
Tommy Sheppard MP @TommySheppard
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En Route: Comments Needed On Flight Service Program Changes
By LeRoy Cook
Ever eager to cut costs and “eliminate redundancies and underutilized services”, the Federal Aviation Administration has announced coming changes in the way pilots interact with Flight Service. Comments are being taken prior to implementation. Quotes from the announcement and T&T editorial remarks follow:
“On October 1, 2015, the FAA will consolidate Flight Watch services into routine … inflight frequencies to eliminate unnecessary duplication of service and provide greater convenience for pilots. These services provide inflight weather information to pilots. After that date, these services will be available on the same frequencies that pilots use to open and close flight plans and to receive updates on NOTAMs or Temporary Flight Restrictions (TFRs). Dedicated Flight Watch frequencies will be decommissioned.”
This means pilots will have to hunt for an FSS frequency instead of just using the universal 122.00 or the high-altitude alternative. How is this “greater convenience?”
“The FAA is proposing to phase out legacy Remote Airport Advisory Service. Seven of the airports do not meet the Agency’s criteria for receiving advisory service. Flight Service is collaborating with our user groups on possible impacts and will be posting the proposed change in the Federal Register for public comment.”
While rare, the remote uncontrolled airports with FSS advisory service will see a decreased level of safety.
“The FAA is also proposing to implement flight plan filing for civil aircraft exclusively under the format used by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). Flight plans contain specific information relating to the proposed flight of an aircraft and controllers use them to provide air traffic services. Today pilots file flight plans in the U.S. under either the domestic or ICAO format. The use of one format will simplify the process and align U.S. flight plans within ICAO standards.”
How does it “simplify the process” to require the more-complex ICAO flight plan? Why does the nation with the most successful general aviation system constantly have to adopt ICAO’s confusing, restrictive ideas?
“General aviation pilots increasingly have turned to automation in recent years to file flight plans and receive pre-flight briefings. New technology such as ADS-B is providing more inflight options to pilots. Flight Service will incorporate the industry’s newest technologies and reduce or eliminate other functions to create efficiencies and value….”
Beware of allowing FAA to off-load TFR and NOTAM dissemination to non-official sources; when charged with violation of FAR 91.103 “Preflight Action”, pilots will be unable to prove the acquisition of information was from the FAA’s current posted data. Historically, the FAA has continually abandoned its services to non-government providers, increasing costs to users and severing its links to the industry it regulates.
To send FAA your comments, questions, and suggestions and share your thoughts and ideas, use this link:
www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/ato/service_units/systemops/fs/changes
LeRoy Cook
LeRoy Cook considers himself a "student of aviation" who continues learning daily, from the readership, fellow pilots and, as a flight instructor, his students. He caught the flying fever during the 50th Anniversary of powered flight in 1953 and determined to learn and share as much aviation possible. A pilot since 1960 and a journalist since 1970, he is Airline Transport rated for single and multi-engine airplanes and a commercial pilot for gliders and single-engine seaplanes. He has been a flight instructor since 1965, with four CFI ratings.
What Price Security? – Aviation Security
Upgrading to a New Citation Jet CJ4
The GWX 70 Garmin Aviation 21st Century Radar
From the Flight Deck: Hello Darkness (My old friend) – Flying at night
Twin Proficiency: They Both Need Fuel
En Route: Piper Aircraft Launches New M-Class Product, The Piper M600
En Route: Avidyne Extends ADS-B Product Portfolio With Addition Of MLX200 & MLX210 978MHZ Transceivers
On Final: A Little Rusty – Pilot Requirements
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Some people against Khaleda’s release: Oli
Dhaka, May 17 (UNB) – President of Liberal Democratic Party LDP Oli Ahmed on Friday alleged that some people do not want BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia to be freed from jail to gain their personal interests.
“Plots are on by various quarters about the BNP chairperson’s release. Some people don’t want Khaleda Zia’s release. Because, they’ll be in trouble if she walks out of jail,” he said.
Oli, a close associate of BNP founder Ziaur Rahman and former BNP minister, came up with the remarks at an Iftar party at the city's Ladies Club hosted by his party.
He also voiced frustration over the inaction of the BNP-led 20-party alliance to free Khaleda Zia and several thousand opposition leaders and activists.
“Will we sit idle when the country is in trouble? The 20-party partners are speaking against each other though Khaleda Zia is still in jail. Not only that, we’re not thinking about thousands of leaders and activists who’re staying in jail. The entire country has turned into a jail,” Oli bemoaned.
Under the circumstances, the LDP chief said, they have started mobilising public opinion to free Khaleda Zia and restore people’s voting and other rights.
“We’ll go to every part of the country to unite people in a peaceful manner, but we won’t indulge in anti-government activities. We’ll put in our best efforts to save people, not to harm them and the development,” he added.
Oli alleged that the incidents of repression on women have marked a sharp rise in the country due to slide in law and order.
He also said farmers are passing through very tough time as they are not getting fair prices of their produce.
The former minister also warned that the country’s economy may collapse in the coming days if the current situation continues.
Govt’s wrong policies depriving farmers of fair prices: Mosharraf
Dhaka, May 17 (UNB) – Senior BNP leader Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain on Friday claimed that wrong government policies are denying farmers fair prices of their products.
“Why is the government not procuring paddy directly from farmers with fair prices?” the BNP standing committee member asked at a reception programme arranged by BNP at its chairperson’s Gulshan office on the occasion of Buddha Purnima.
Mosharraf noted that the recent incident of a farmer setting fire to his crop because he is frustrated with falling prices is not a small matter.
Farmers are counting about Tk 300 loss per maund of rice in the current Boro season with the fall in prices.
“It’s an ominous sign for our country. But the government is sidetracking the issue,” he said. “Had the farmers gotten fair prices, they wouldn’t have had to set fire to their paddy fields.”
Mosharraf also accused the government of providing pro-ruling party businessmen opportunities to siphon off money abroad through rice import although the country has a huge stock of paddy.
Sheikh Hasina’s 39th Homecoming Day today
Dhaka, May 17 (UNB) - The 39th Homecoming Day of Awami League President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is being observed on Friday.
On May 17, 1981, Sheikh Hasina returned home from India after nearly six years in exile following the assassination of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh MujiburRahman and most of his family members by a cabal of army officers on August 15, 1975.
However, both the daughters of Bangabandhu - Sheikh Hasina and Sheikh Rehana - survived as they were in Germany at the time. Hasina was elected president of Awami League in her absence in the party's national council held on February 14-16, 1981.
Awami League and its associate bodies have chalked out various programmes, including milad, doamahfil and discussions, to mark the day.
President Abdul Hamid issued a message on the occasion.
Deprived BCL men for 'dope tests' on BCL central leaders
Dhaka, May 16 (UNB) – Post-deprived leaders of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) on Thursday demanded that newly elected central leaders, including president and general secretary, undergo dope tests.
They made the demand at a press conference at Madhur Canteen of Dhaka University (DU) around 2pm.
On behalf of those failed to find their names in the newly announced committee, former BCL programme and planning affairs secretary Rakib Hossain said they are sure that most of the leaders who got posts in the new committee are ‘drug addicts’. “That’s why, we demand conducting dope tests on the BCL central leadership.”
At the press conference, BCL former publicity and publication secretary Saif Babu read out a written statement.
In the statement, he expressed his gratitude to Prime Minister and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina for directing to reconstitute the BCL committee dropping the controversial ones.
He also said they were ready to give ‘befitting replies’ if Sheikh Hasina’s directive is ignored in the name of reconstitution.
Shahed Khan, general secretary of Kabi Jasimuddin Hall BCL unit, claimed that their demand for reconstituting the BCL committee is logical as the President and General Secretary were compelled to make a list of 17 controversial ones.
At the press conference, the post-deprived leaders also revealed the names of '99 controversial leaders’ who are either involved in different types of crimes like drug trading and question paper leakage or are non-students and married.
No need to die, just take to streets for Khaleda’s release: Nazrul
Dhaka, May 16 (UNB) – BNP senior leader Nazrul Islam Khan on Thursday urged their party leaders and activists to take to the streets with courage to have their chairperson Khaleda Zia freed from jail.
“We’re saying many things about the release of our chairperson Khaleda Zia, but we’re not doing what actually we need to do. Someone here said self-immolation is necessary to free her. Anyone can do it as no permission is necessary for sacrificing own life,” he told a discussion.
The BNP leader further said, “But we don’t want you to die as we only want to free Khaleda Zia from jail. No one deeds not die for her release. Just take to the streets with bravery to ensure her release.”
Jatiyatabadi Krishak Dal arranged the programme at the Jatiya Press Club, marking the Historic ‘Farakka Long March Day’.
On May 16 in 1976, Maulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhasani led a massive long march from Rajshahi towards India's Farakka Barrage, demanding demolition of the barrage constructed by the Indian government to divert the flow of Ganges water inside its territory.
Nazrul, a BNP standing committee member, said the government has kept Khaleda Zia in jail unfairly out of its political vengeance.
He warned the government that people are getting united to free Khaleda from jail with a strong street agitation.
The BNP leader said people in 1971 liberated the country for establishing democracy, but the current government obliterated democracy to hang onto power. “We must free Khaleda Zia first to restore democracy in the country.”
Nazrul said Maulana Bhasani had registered a massive protest against the construction of India's Farakka Barrage through the Long March in 1976 as he was a true patriotic leader.
He said India constructed the Farakka dam on an experimental basis, but it is regrettable that the experiment is not over yet.
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The Adventures of Capt. Cluck
A week ago, we returned to Whisper only to find that our lucky mascot "Captain Cluck"--a squeeking pirate rubber chicken--had been kidnapped! Based on their near total lack of integrity, we immediately suspected that we would find the culprits on S/V Someday Came. (For their version of the story check their blog linked on the sidebar.) We approached the youngest and most gullible member of the New Jersey crime family: Violet--age 2, a tough blonde with a killer smile that has fooled even the most skeptical detective. But after a brief interrogation she quickly spilled the beans: Captain Cluck was indeed on board!
Later in the day, Caroline, the 11 year old crime boss in training, delivered this ransom note:
"Who is this Pablito?" we asked ourselves. "And what does he want?"
It turned out that Pablito, (aka. Shannon, aka. Captain Morgan, aka Mr. Sexy Time, aka. Tillman Crime Boss) wanted two coconuts in exchange for Captain Cluck. There were several inappropriate threats issued over the radio suggesting that Capt. Cluck might be turned into Chicken Nuggets, Chicken a la King, Chicken Picata and BBQ chicken.
Undaunted we refused to negotiate with these kidnappers. When the Tillman Crime Syndicate next joined us in Salt Whistle Bay, we were ready. Tillman crime wife, Kathy, tried to appease us with yummy spaghetti and meatball dinner, but to no avail. Revenge was imminent. Unbeknownst to the crew sleeping on Someday Came we snuck up to their boat at 0300 in the morning and filled their dinghy to the brim with coconuts.
Ha! Victory at last!
The next morning we were given more ransom demands, which were ignored, and lo and behold Capt. Cluck was returned to Whisper before noon that day. He did, however, exhibit clear signs of physical and emotional abuse that he suffered at the hands of the Tillman Crime Syndicate: he now has a hole in his left leg, and he refuses to squeek as normal. We hope that a period of rest and recuperation will restore Capt. Cluck to his former glory. Meanwhile, the Tillman Crime Syndicate is retreating through the Panama Canal and across the Pacific Ocean to avoid the wrath of Whisper.
In the Grenadines
The last two weeks have been the reward for all the windward sailing we've been doing since we left Maryland in the fall of 2006. The Grenadines are as beautiful as everyone says: clear water, white sand beaches, palm trees, fantastic snorkeling, easy sailing and great friends to explore with. We had a tearful farewell this morning to Uliad and Someday Came, two boats we've been sailing with for the past month. They are headed to Panama, through the canal and around the world. We had to resist their multiple arguments for Whisper joining in their wakes, literally, since we'd be sailing at half their speed. Meeting friends while cruising is definitely bittersweet: it's wonderful to make such great friends, but at the same time, very hard to say goodbye. The friendships you make on the water solidify very quickly, more so than we've found on land. So we know we'll see each other again, but when? and where?!
From here we sail to Grenada and then Trinidad. Whisper gets hauled out on June 20 and we fly out to Sweden on June 23.
A vegetable stand at Mustique.
Kristen tries to emulate the rich and famous on the beach at Mustique.
One of the nicest anchorages we've found yet: Salt Whistle Bay on Mayreau. We were anchored in 8 feet of water and could swim to the beach in minutes.
We met up with a Brazilian boat, Paje, who helped us out with kite-surfing. It turns out we're not incompetent: our kite (or the lines) are not set up properly and therefore refuses to launch. A project to fix next season. This is Hans using Paula's kite.
We went for a sail on Someday Came. Wow! There is quite a difference between a 27' boat and a 54' boat!
Later in the day, Caroline from Someday Came joined us on Whisper for the 3 mile sail to the Tobago Cays. She was a great skipper. We tried to negotiate keeping her on board as our autopilot, but when we found out she doesn't do dishes we decided to keep looking.
Hans found "the ultimate hammock location" in the Tobago Cays. Doesn't his life look hard?
The Tobago Cays.
Kathleen and Steve hanging out on Someday Came.
Shannon, Kathy and Hans enjoy our farewell dinner last night on Someday Came.
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Publications July 18, 2019
TRANSPHORM Publications
List of publications (printed)
[1] A. Baklanov, A. Aloyan, A. Mahura, V. Arutyunyan, and P. Luzan. Evaluation of source receptor relationship for atmospheric pollutants using approaches of trajectory modelling, cluster probability fields analyses and adjoint equations. Atmos. Poll. Res., 2(4):400–408, 2011.
[2] T. Balk, J. Kukkonen, K. Karatzas, T. Bassoukos, and V. Epitropou. A european open access chemical weather forecasting portal. Atmos. Environ., 45(38):6917–6922, 2011.
[3] O. Hänninen, G. Hoek, E. Mallone, S., Chellini, C. Katsouyanni K., Gariazzo, G. Cattani, A. Marconi, P. Molnar, and T. Bellander. Seasonal patterns of outdoor pm infiltration into indoor environments: review and meta-analysis of available studies from different climatological zones in europe. Air Quality, Atmos. and Health, 4(3 – 4):221–233, 2011.
[4] J. P. Jalkanen, L. Johansson, J. Kukkonen, A. Brink, J. Kalli, and T. Stipa. Extension of an assessment model of ship traffic exhaust emissions for particulate matter and carbon monoxide. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 12:2641–2659, 2012.
[5] N. Janssen, G. Hoek, M. Simic-Lawson, P. Fischer, L. Bree, H. Ten-Brink, M. Keuken, R. Atkinson, H. Anderson, B. Brunekreef, and F. Cassee. Black carbon as an additional indicator of the adverse health effects of airborne parti- cles compared with pm10 and pm2.5. Environ. Health Per., 19(12):1691–1699, 2011.
[6] M. Kauhaniemi, J. Kukkonen, J. Härkönen, J. Nikmo, L. Kangas, G. Omstedt, M. Ketzel, A. Kousa, M. Haakana, and A. Karppinen. Evaluation of a road dust suspension model for predicting the concentrations of pm(10) in a street canyon. Atmos. Environ., 45(22):3646–3654, 2011.
[7] M.P. Keuken, J.S. Henzing, P. Zandveld, S. van den Elshout, M. Karl (2012). Dispersion of particle numbers and elemental carbon from road traffic, a harbor and an airstrip in the Netherlands. Atmospheric Environment 54, (2012) 320-327
[ 8] M.P. Keuken, M.G.M. Roemer, P. Zandveld, R.P. Verbeek, G.J.M. Velders (2012). Trends in primary NO2 and exhaust PM emissions from road traffic for the period 2000-2020 and implications for air quality and health in the Netherlands. Atmospheric Environment 54, 313-319
[9] M.P. Keuken, S. Jonkers, P. Zandveld, M. Voogt, S. van den Elshout (2012). Elemental carbon as an indicator for evaluating the impact of traffic measures on air quality and health. Atmospheric Environment 61, 1-8
[10] J. Kukkonen, T. Olsson, D. M. Schultz, A. Baklanov, T. Klein, A. I. Miranda, A. Monteiro, M. Hirtl, V. Tarvainen, M. Boy, V. H. Peuch, A. Poupkou, I. Kioutsioukis, S. Finardi, M. Sofiev, R. Sokhi, K. E. J. Lehtinen, K. Karatzas, R. San José, M. Astitha, G. Kallos, M. Schaap, E. Reimer, H. Jakobs, and K. Eben. A review of operational, regional-scale, chemical weather forecast- ing models in europe. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 12(1):1–87, 2012.
[11] J. Langner, M. Engardt, A. Baklanov, J. H. Christensen, M. Gauss, C Geels, G. B. Hedegaard, R Nuterman, D. Simpson, J. Soares, M Sofiev, P. Wind, and Zakey A. A multi-model study of impacts of climate change on surface ozone in europe. Atmos. Chem. Phys. 12, 10423-10440, 2012
[12] V. Penenko, A. Baklanov, E. Tsvetora, and A. Mahura. Direct and inverse problems in a variational concept of environmental modelling. Pure Appl. Geophys., 169:447–465, 2012.
[13] A. Vlachogianni, P. Kassomenos, Ari Karppinen, S. Karakitsios, and Jaakko Kukkonen. Evaluation of a multiple regression model for the forecasting of the concentrations of no(x) and pm(10) in athens and helsinki. Sci. Total Environ., 409(8):1559–1571, 2011.
[14] D. Voukantsis, K. Karatzas, J. Kukkonen, T. Räsänen, A. Karppinen, and M. Kolehmainen. Intercomparison of air quality data using principal component analysis, and forecasting of pm(10) and pm(2.5) concentrations using artificial neural networks, in thessaloniki and helsinki. Sci. Total Environ., 409(7):1266–1276, 2011.
[15] Vira, J., Sofiev, M., 2012. On variational data assimilation for estimating the model initial conditions and emission fluxes for short-term forecasting of SOx concentrations. Atmospheric Environment 46, 318–328.
[16] Jalkanen, Jukka-Pekka, Lasse Johansson, Jaakko Kukkonen, 2013. A Comprehensive Inventory of the Ship Traffic Exhaust Emissions in the Baltic Sea from 2006 to 2009. Ambio, DOI 10.1007/s13280-013-0389-3, http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13280-013-0389-3.
[17] Hänninen O, Sorjamaa R, Lipponen P, Cyrys J, Lanki T, Pekkanen J, 2013. Aerosol-based modelling of infiltration of ambient PM2.5 and evaluation against population-based measurements in homes in Helsinki, Finland. Journal of Aerosol Science 66:111-122. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaerosci.2013.08.004.
[18] Source contributions to PM2.5 and PM10 at an urban background and a street location M.P. Keuken a,*, M. Moerman a, M. Voogt a, M. Blom b, E.P. Weijers b, T. Röckmann c, U. Dusek c Atmospheric Environment 71 (2013) 26-35
[19] Righi, M., Hendricks, J., Sausen, R., 2013. The global impact of the transport sectors on atmospheric aerosol: Simulations for year 2000 emissions. Atmos. Chem. Phys. 13, 9939-9970.
20. Singh, Vikas, Ranjeet Sokhi and Jaakko Kukkonen, 2013. PM2.5 concentrations in London for 2008 - A modeling analysis of contributions from road traffic. Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association, Published online, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10962247.2013.848244.
21. Johansson, L., J.-P. Jalkanen, J. Kalli and J. Kukkonen, 2013. The evolution of shipping emissions and the costs of regulation changes in the northern EU area. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 13, 11375-11389, 2013. http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/13/11375/2013/acp-13-11375-2013.pdf
22. Impact of inland shipping emissions on elemental carbon concentrations near waterways in The Netherlands M.P. Keuken a, *, M. Moerman a, J. Jonkers a, J. Hulskotte a, H.A.C. Denier van der Gon a, G. Hoek b, R.S. Sokhi c. Atmospheric Environment 95 (2014) 1-9
23. Physical and chemical characterisation of PM emissions from two ships operating in European Emission Control Areas. J. Moldanová, E. Fridell, H.Winnes, S. Holmin-Fridell, J. Boman, A. Jedynska, V. Tishkova, B. Demirdjian, S. Joulie, H. Bladt, N. P. Ivleva, and R. Niessner. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques. Special issue Measurements of ship emissions, Vol. 6, 2013. pp. 3577-3596
24. Microscopic characterization of individual particles from multicomponent ship exhaust. O. Popovicheva, E. Kireeva, N. Persiantseva, M. Timofeev, H. Bladt, N.P. Ivleva, R. Niessner, J. Moldanová. Journal of Environmental Monitoring. Issue 12, 2012. 3101–3110
25 Meng Wang, Rob Beelen, Massimo Stafoggia, Ole Raaschou-Nielsen, Zorana Jovanovic Andersen, Barbara Hoffmann, Paul Fischer, Danny Houthuijs, Mark Nieuwenhuijsen, Gudrun Weinmayr, Paolo Vineis, Wei W. Xun, Konstantina Dimakopoulou, Evangelia Samoli, Tiina Laatikainen, Timo Lanki, Anu W Turunen, Bente Oftedal, Per Schwarze, Geir Aamodt, Johanna Penell, Ulf De Faire, Michal Korek, Karin Leander, Göran Pershagen, Nancy L. Pedersen, Claes-Göran Östenson, Laura Fratiglioni, Kirsten Thorup Eriksen, Mette Sørensen, Anne Tjønneland, Bas Bueno-de-Mesquita, Marloes Eeftens, Michiel L. Bots, Kees Meliefste, Ursula Krämer, Joachim Heinrich, Dorothea Sugiri, Timothy Key, Kees de Hoogh, Kathrin Wolf, Annette Peters, Josef Cyrys, Andrea Jaensch, Hans Concin, Gabriele Nagel, Ming-Yi Tsai, Harish Phuleria, Alex Ineichen, Nino Künzli, Nicole Probst-Hensch, Emmanuel Schaffner, Alice Vilier, Françoise Clavel-Chapelon, Christophe Declerq, Fulvio Ricceri, Carlotta Sacerdote, Alessandro Marcon, Claudia Galassi, Enrica Migliore, Andrea Ranzi, Giulia Cesaroni, Chiara Badaloni, Francesco Forastiere, Michail Katsoulis, Antonia Trichopoulou, Menno Keuken, Aleksandra Jedynska, Ingeborg M. Kooter, Jaakko Kukkonen, Ranjeet S Sokhi, Bert Brunekreef, Klea Katsouyanni, Gerard Hoek, 2014. Long-Term Exposure to Elemental Constituents of Particulate Matter and Cardiovascular Mortality in 19 European Cohorts: Results from the ESCAPE and TRANSPHORM Projects, Environmental International.
26 J. Soares, A. Kousa, J. Kukkonen, L. Matilainen, L. Kangas, M. Kauhaniemi, K. Riikonen, J-P. Jalkanen, T. Rasila, O. Hänninen, T. Koskentalo, M. Aarnio, C. Hendriks, and A. Karppinen, 2014. Refinement of a model for evaluating the population exposure in an urban area, submitted to Geoscientific Model Development (GMD), accepted for publication.
27 Kauhaniemi M., Stojiljkovic A., Pirjola L., Karppinen A., Härkönen J., Kupiainen K., Kangas L., Aarnio M.A., Omstedt G., Denby B.R., Kukkonen J., 2014. Comparison of the predictions of two road dust emission models with the measurements of a mobile van. ACP (accepted for publication). http://www.atmos-chem-phys-discuss.net/14/4263/2014/
TRANSPHORM- related presentations at the Air Quality Conference, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, 2014
GLOBAL MODEL SIMULATIONS OF THE IMPACT OF TRANSPORT SECTOR EMISSIONS ON ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOL AND CLIMATE
M. Righi (1), J. Hendricks (1), R. Sausen (1)
AN IMPROVED MODEL FOR EVALUATING THE URBAN POPULATION EXPOSURE
J. Soares(1), A. Kousa(1), J. Kukkonen(1), L. Matilainen(1), L. Kangas(1), M. Aarnio(1), M. Kauhaniemi(1), K. Riikonen(1), J.-P. Jalkanen(1), T. Rasila(1), O. Hänninen(3), T. Koskentalo(2) and A. Karppinen(1)
CAN THE PREDICTIONS OF ROAD DUST EMISSION MODELS BE DIRECTLY COMPARED WITH ON-SITE MOBILE MEASUREMENTS?
M. Kauhaniemi (1), A. Stojiljkovic (2), L. Pirjola (3), A. Karppinen (1), J. Härkönen (1), K. Kupiainen (2), L. Kangas (1), M.A. Aarnio (1), G. Omstedt (4), B.R. Denby (5), J. Kukkonen (1)
EVALUATION OF THE PRESENT AND FUTURE AIR QUALITY IN EUROPE BASED ON TRANSPHORM MULTI-MODEL ENSEMBLE
M.Prank (1), M.Sofiev (1), B.Amstrup (2), A.Baklanov (2), H.Denier van der Gon (3), C.Hendriks (3), X.Kong (4), A.Mažeikis (2), R.Nuterman (2), S.Tsyro (5), S.Valiyaveetil (5), X.Vazhappilly Francis (4), J.Kukkonen (1), R.Sokhi (4)
HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT OF LONG-TERM EXPOSURE TO PARTICULATE AIR
POLLUTION WITHIN TRANSPHORM.
B.G. Miller (1), J.F Hurley (1), R.S. Sokhi (2), M. Keuken (3) and B. Brunekreef (4)
EUROPEAN PARTICLE NUMBER EMISSIONS FOR 2005, 2020 AND 2030 WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON THE TRANSPORT SECTOR.
H.A.C. Denier van der Gon (1), A.J.H. Visschedijk (1), J. Kuenen (1), C. Schieberle (2), I. Vouitsis (3), Z. Samaras (3), J. Moldanova (4), A. Petzold (5)
INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT OF POLICIES FOR REDUCING HEALTH IMPACTS OF AIR POLLUTION CAUSED BY TRANSPORT IN EUROPE
R. Friedrich, J. Roos, C. Schieberle
A COMPREHENSIVE INVENTORY OF EMISSIONS FROM SHIP TRAFFIC IN EUROPE IN 2011
J.-P. Jalkanen, L. Johansson and J. Kukkonen
CHARACTERIZATION OF ULTRAFINE PARTICLE NUMBER CONCENTRATION AND NEW PARTICLE FORMATION IN AN URBAN ENVIRONMENT OF VILNIUS, LITHUANIA
V. Ulevicius, S. Byčenkienė, K. Plauškaitė, G. Mordas
THE SHIPPING EMISSIONS AND THE COSTS OF EMISSION REGULATIONS IN THE NORTHERN EUROPEAN EMISSION CONTROL AREA
L.O. Johansson(1), J-P. Jalkanen(1), J. Kalli(2) and J. Kukkonen(1)
CALCULATIONS OF PRESENT AND FUTURE EFFECTS OF DIFFERENT TRANSPORT MODES ON AIR QUALITY AND HUMAN HEALTH IN EUROPE
J.E.Jonson(1), R. Friedrich (2), S. Tsyro (1), J. Roos (2) and V.S. Semeena(1)
MODELLING OF PARTICULATE MATTER CONCENTRATIONS IN THE HELSINKI METROPOLITAN AREA IN 2008 AND 2010
M.A. Aarnio (1), L. Kangas (1), M. Kauhaniemi (1), A. Karppinen (1), A. Kousa (2), T. Petäjä (3), C. Hendriks (4), J. Kukkonen (1)
PM ATTRIBUTED MORTALITY AND MORBIDITY DUE TO BIOMASS USE IN THESSALONIKI – ESTIMATION OF SOCIOECONOMIC COST
D.A. Sarigiannis (1,2), S. Karakitsios (1,2), M. Kermenidou (1)
ENHANCING PM EPIDEMIOLOGICAL CONCENTRATION-RESPONSE FUNCTIONS
BY INCORPORATING LUNG DEPOSITION AND OXIDATIVE STRESS
D.A. Sarigiannis, S. Karakitsios, M. Kermenidou
MODELLING THE SOURCE CONTRIBUTION OF PARTICULATE MATTER IN OSLO: COMPARISON BETWEEN MODELS AND OBSERVATIONS
B.R. Denby and C. Hak
CARCINOGENIC RISK OF PAHS IN PARTICULATE MATTER FROM BIOMASS COMBUSTION
D.A. Sarigiannis (1,2), D. Zikopoulos (1), M. Kermenidou (1), S. Nicolaki (1,2), S. Karakitsios (1,2)
HEALTH BENEFITS FROM TRANSPORT RELATED GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSION POLICIES
D. S. Sarigiannis, P. Kontoroupis, S. Karakitsios, D. Chapizanis
MODELLING EXPOSURE AND LUNG DEPOSITION OF PARTICLE-BOUND POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS (PAHS)
O. Hänninen (1), P. Lipponen (1), R. Sorjamaa (1), M. Lamberti (2), C. Gariazzo (2)
UNCERTAINTIES IN HEALTH IMPACT ESTIMATES DUE TO EXPOSURE AND RESPIRATORY TRACT DEPOSITION PROCESSES
O. Hänninen (1), J. Roos (2), S. Karakitsios (3), P. Kontoroupis (3), D.A. Sarigiannis (3), B. Miller (4)
INTERCOMPARISON OF URBAN SCALE AIR QUALITY MODELS
S. Jonkers (1), E.W. Meijer (1), P.Y.J. Zandveld (1), B. Denby (2), I. Douros, (3), N. Moussiopoulos (3), V. Singh (4), R.S.
Sokhi (4), A. Karppinen (5), L. Kangas (5) and J. Kukkonen (5)
RESIDENTIAL LONG-TERM EXPOSURE TO PARTICULATE MATTER COMPONENTS AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE ENDPOINTS IN ADULTS
A. Peters (1), K. Wolf (1), R. Hampel (1), R. Beelen (2), F. Forastiere (3), I. Kooter (4), A. Jedynska (4), M. Keuken (4), B.
Hoffmann (5), N. Künzli (6), T. Lanki (7), on behalf of the members of the ESCAPE work package 5 and TRANSPHORM
LAND USE REGRESSION MODELLING FOR AIR QUALITY EXPOSURE: A STEP IN THE WRONG DIRECTION
B.R. Denby
CONTRIBUTION OF EMISSION SOURCES TO CONCENTRATIONS OF FINE PARTICULATE MATTER (PM2.5) IN EUROPE
X. Francis (1), R. S. Sokhi (1), C .Chemel (1) H. Denier van der Gon (2)
TRANSPORT RELATED EMISSION ASSESSMENT FOR PRAGUE
N. Benesova (1), M. Kazmukova (2), H. Kazmarova (3)
QUANTIFYING THE RESPONSES OF FUTURE AIR QUALITY OF EUROPE TO CHANGES IN CLIMATE AND EMISSIONS WITH WRF-CMAQ AND HADGEM
X. Kong (1), R.S. Sokhi (1), X. Francis (1), C. Chemel (1), G. Folberth (2) and B. Collins (3)
CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF PM2.5 AND PM10: IMPLICATIONS FOR SOURCE APPORTIONMENT STUDIES OVER EUROPE.
H. Price (1), K. Douglas (1), R.S. Sokhi (1), M. Keuken (2), M. Kermenidou (3), D. Sarigiannis (3)
URBAN AND TRAFFIC CONTRIBUTIONS TO PM2.5 IN LONDON
V. Singh (1), R. S. Sokhi (1) and J. Kukkonen (2)
AIRBORNE PARTICULATE MATTER AND ASSOCIATED HEALTH IMPACTS:
NEW DEVELOPMENTS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR EUROPE
R.S. Sokhi and TRANSPHORM Partners
Applicability of an integrated plume rise model for the dispersion from wild-land fires.
Kukkonen, J., J. Nikmo, M. Sofiev, K. Riikonen, T. Petäjä, A. Virkkula, J. Levula, S. Schobesberger and D.M. Webber, 2014.
Keuken M.P.*1, Moerman M1, Voogt M.1, Klok L.1, Elshout van den S.2, Amato F.3, Price H.4 and Sokhi R.S.4 Dispersion of traffic-related primary PM emissions from street canyons to the urban background
M. Righi, J. Hendricks, R. Sausen. The global impact of land transport and shipping on atmospheric aerosol in the Representative Concentration Pathways, to be submitted to Atmos. Chem. Phys.
M. Righi, J. Hendricks, R. Sausen. The global impact of aviation on atmospheric aerosol in the Representative Concentration Pathways, to be submitted to Atmos. Chem. Phys.
Lanki et al., Traffic micro-environmental measurements for urban commuters et al.
Aarnio, M.A., L. Kangas, M. Kauhaniemi, A. Karppinen, A. Kousa, T. Petäjä, C. Hendriks and J. Kukkonen, 2013. MODELLING OF PARTICULATE MATTER CONCENTRATIONS IN THE HELSINKI METROPOLITAN AREA IN 2008 AND 2010. Manuscript in preparation.
Kauhaniemi, M., A. Stojiljkovic, L. Pirjola, A. Karppinen, J. Härkönen, K. Kupiainen, L. Kangas, M.A. Aarnio, G. Omstedt, B.R. Denby, J. Kukkonen, 2013. COMPARISON OF THE PREDICTIONS OF TWO ROAD DUST EMISSION MODELS WITH THE MEASUREMENTS OF A MOBILE VAN. Manuscript submitted to ACP.
J. Soaresa, A. Kousab, J. Kukkonena, L. Matilainenb, L. Kangasa, M. Kauhaniemia, K. Riikonena, J.-P. Jalkanena, T. Rasilaa, O. Hänninenc, T. Koskentalob, M. Aarnio, C. Hendriksd and A. Karppinena, Refinement of a model for evaluating the population exposure in an urban area, Manuscript in preparation.
M.Prank (1), M.Sofiev (1), B.Amstrup (2), A.Baklanov (2), H.Denier van der Gon (3), C.Hendriks (3), X.Kong (4), A.Mažeikis (2), R.Nuterman (2), S.Tsyro (5), S.Valiyaveetil (5), X.Vazhappilly Francis (4), J.Kukkonen (1), R.Sokhi (4) Evaluation of the present and future air quality in europe based on TRANSPHORM multi-model ensemble Manuscript in preparation.
Kukkonen et al., PNC's in TRANSPHORM cities, manuscript planned.
E.W. Meijer (1), S. Jonkers (1), P.Y.J. Zandveld (1), B. Denby (2), I. Sundvor (2), F. Barmpas (3), I. Dourus, (3), N. Moussiopoulos (3), V. Singh (4), A. Karppinen (5), L. Kangas (5) and J. Kukkonen (5) Intercomparison of urban scale air quality models Manuscript in preparation.
Under preparation for Atmospheric Environment: Dispersion of primary PM traffic emissions from street canyons to the urban background Keuken M.P., Moerman M., Voogt M., Klok E.J., Elshout van den S., Amato F., Price H. and Sokhi R.S.
Under preparation for Atmospheric Environment and to be presented at Garmisch Partenkirchen 2014: Impact of black carbon emissions from inland shipping on air quality and health in The Netherlands Keuken, M.P., Moerman, M., Jonkers S., Hulskotte, J., Denier van der Gon, H.A.C. and Hoek, G.
Microenvironment particle measurements in Thessaloniki, Greece. Ilias Vouitsisa, Taimisto Pekkab, Apostolos Kelessisc Timo Lanki and Zissis Samarasa1, Submitted to Urban Climate.
Jukka-Pekka Jalkanen, Lasse Johansson, Jaakko Kukkonen, Shipping emissions from European sea areas, manuscript in preparation.
Model calculations of the effects of present and future emissions of air pollutants from shipping in the Baltic and North Seas, J.E.~Jonson, Jukka-Pekka Jalkanen, Lasse Johansson, Juha Kalli, Michael Gauss, H.A.C. Denier~van~der~Gon
Applicability of an integrated plume rise model for the dispersion from wild-land fires, Manuscript submitted to ACP. J. Kukkonen1, J. Nikmo1, M. Sofiev1, K. Riikonen1, T. Petäjä2, A. Virkkula1,2, J. Levula3, S. Schobesberger2, and D.M. Webber4
Moldanová, J., Haeger Eugensson, M., Tang, L., 2014. Contribution of shipping to PM concentrations in harbour cities – Effect of secondary PM. Manuscript for Urban Climate.
Anderson, M., Boman, J., Moldanova, J., Holmin Fridell, S., 2014, Size-resolved chemical composition of particulate matter emitted from marine engines. Manuscript for Atmospheric Environment.
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Transphorm publications list (pdf) 27/03/2012 36.72 KB
Keuken EC and traffic measures 06/11/2012 853.61 KB
Langner, J., Engardt, M., Baklanov, A., Christensen, J. H., Gauss, M., Geels, C., Hedegaard, G. B., Nuterman, R., Simpson, D., Soares, J., Sofiev, M., 27/11/2012 Unknown
M.P. Keuken, J.S. Henzing, P. Zandveld, S. van den Elshout, M. Karl (2012). Dispersion of particle numbers and elemental carbon from road traffic, a 06/11/2012 955.21 KB
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The Foreword
Archives & Resources
Upcoming events – talks and presentations
April 27 - 1.00 pm talk and book signing at Poppies Book shop New Plymouth
May 1 – 10.00am Friends of the Levin Library at the Levin library
May 2 - 10.00am NZ Society of Genealogists at ASB Stadium, Kilbirnie, Wellington
May 2 - 2.30pm Palmerston North Public Library
May 9 - 7.30pm NZ Society of Genealogists (Hutt Valley Branch) Petone Library
May 10 – 5.30pm Christchurch Irish Society
May 13 - Otago University (TBC)
June 3 - 6.00pm, Newman College, Melbourne (MISS)
Ireland's Ambassador to New Zealand, Peter Ryan, Peter Burke, and Damien O'Connor the Minister of Agriculture
Launched in Style
True To Ireland is now a reality. It was officially launched at the Thistle Inn – Wellington's oldest pub and a watering hole for the Sons of Eire by Irelands Ambassador to New Zealand, Peter Ryan and Damien O'Connor the Minister of Agriculture.
About 120 people with Irish links and friends of the author attended the launch and craic. Many were the sons and daughters of the 155 Irishmen who faced deportation because they would not fight for Britain. It was a grand night – live music provided by Kevin Ikin, Pat Higgins and Kevin McLoughlin – good food and drink and a great atmosphere... read more
Fr Eamon at the grave of his uncle Maurice at Opunake
The celebrations continued after the launch
As part of the celebrations of the publication of True to Ireland a number of events, apart from the launch, were held. These included a talk by myself, Fr Eamon, Geraldene O’Reilly and Lynette Wharfe at the National Library on Thursday 14 March. A total of 74 people attended this lunchtime talk and a further 20 joined me on a walking tour of the some of the places that were special to the Irishmen. This included Parliament Buildings, the Waterloo Hotel and the AMP building where their appeals were heard... read more
Beyond the launch
Since the major launch in March in Wellington there has been no lull in activities. True to Ireland is available at most retail book outlets in New Zealand and also on line. Sales are going well. The book has raised the awareness of people's Irish connections and I have had nearly 50 emails from New Zealand and overseas asking for more information or telling me that a relative of theirs appears in my book. This is great and I am more than happy to help people tell their stories about their family and friends. Maybe that will make a book in its own right.
Launching in Ireland
We hope to finalise details of launch events in Ireland soon. Keep September free! Expect events in Dublin and Moycullen and other towns and cities.
© 2019 Peter Burke - website by kolorato.com
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TRUFA leadership recommends members take the deal
Friedman: "It’s very unlikely that we would get a better deal, certainly not one through negotiation"
News Feb. 9, 2016 Jim Elliot
Following previous statements that mediation between TRU and the TRU Faculty Association (TRUFA) had failed on Friday, TRUFA’s leadership is now recommending that its members ratify the agreement recommended by mediator Mark Brown.
“This will be a vote to agree on the full mediator’s recommendations,” said TRUFA President Tom Friedman
“The actual vote will be conducted online starting tomorrow. I think after tonight’s meeting we should have a much better idea of the attitude of faculty,” said Friedman, when asked if he expected the membership to ratify the agreement.
The vote will remain open until Friday.
Friedman said that due to the TRU bargaining team’s proposals so far and the public sector bargaining mandate set out by the B.C. Government, the deal currently on the table is likely the best that TRUFA can hope for.
“The bargaining team is going to recommend that we ratify the mediator’s recommendations because it’s very unlikely that we would get a better deal, certainly not one through negotiation,” Friedman said.
Friedman would not speculate on the course of action the union would take if its members vote not to ratify the current deal.
Chief Commissioner calls for systematic change in final report
Canadian charity find great success with new SMS campaign
TRU officially welcomes new president
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Fahimeh Darki
Department of Neuroscience, Postdoctoral Researcher
Interaction between striatal volume and DAT1 polymorphism predicts working memory development during adolescence.
Federico Nemmi, Charlotte Nymberg, Fahimeh Darki, Tobias Banaschewski, Arun Bokde, Herta Flor, Hugh Garavan, et al.. Developmental cognitive neuroscience, 191-199, 30, 2018.
There is considerable inter-individual variability in the rate at which working memory (WM) develops during childhood and adolescence, but the neural and genetic basis for these differences are poorly understood. Dopamine-related genes, striatal activation and morphology have been associated with increased WM capacity after training. Here we tested the hypothesis that these factors would also explain some of the inter-individual differences in the rate of WM development. We measured WM performance in 487 healthy subjects twice: at age 14 and 19. At age 14 subjects underwent a structural MRI scan, and genotyping of five single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in or close to the dopamine genes DRD2, DAT-1 and COMT, which have previously been associated with gains in WM after WM training. We then analyzed which biological factors predicted the rate of increase in WM between ages 14 and 19. We found a significant interaction between putamen size and DAT1/SLC6A3 rs40184 polymorphism, such that TC heterozygotes with a larger putamen at age 14 showed greater WM improvement at age 19. The effect of the DAT1 polymorphism on WM development was exerted in interaction with striatal morphology. These results suggest that development of WM partially share neuro-physiological mechanism with training-induced plasticity.
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Video: YouTube Just Made Major Change To Crush Independent Media
Much of Independent media are people like you and me who started from nothing and worked our way up to where we are today. Musicians scratch and claw for any way to “make it” and use YouTube as a medium to be paid for their work. With YouTube’s new policy, you need 1000 subs and 4000 hrs of watched content to be a YouTube Partner. They just kicked emerging content creators in the heads with this one! Is Google just a big creepy Monopoly stealing people’s creative work?
How Google steals content, crushes small publishers
Natural News by: Mike Adams
If you don’t yet realize how Google has become the most EVIL corporation in the world, check out this article from TheWeek.com which reveals how Google steals content from small publishers, crushes their revenue, puts them out of business and monopolizes the internet.
The article, entitled, “Google is a monopoly — and it’s crushing the internet,” reveals how Google destroys small publishers by literally stealing their content and denying them revenues, putting them out of business:
The latest example of monopolist platform abuse comes from Adrianne Jeffries with the story of CelebrityNetWorth.com. This was a small business started by a man named Brian Warner, who found in 2008 that there was no good data on how much Larry David was worth. After some digging, he figured it out — and discovered that there was tremendous demand for information about celebrity wealth. He started a small media business, eventually hiring a staff of 12 to conduct detailed investigations — sometimes even corresponding with the celebrities themselves.
Then Google came up with an idea for “Featured Snippets,” which places answers to search queries at the top of the search page. Instead of having to click through to find the answer to a question, it will simply tell you a summary of the top search results.
Before rolling it out, Google asked Warner if they could scrape his data and credit him. Warner declined, but Google did it anyway. The algorithm they use for the snippets is notoriously error-prone — and worse, the celebrity net worth ones often failed to credit his site. Many would scrape other sites that had themselves aggregated CelebrityNetWorth.com. The overall result was devastating:
In February 2016, Google started displaying a Featured Snippet for each of the 25,000 celebrities in the CelebrityNetWorth database, Warner said. He knew this because he added a few fake listings for friends who were not celebrities to see if they would pop up as featured answers, and they did. “Our traffic immediately crumbled,” Warner said. “Comparing January 2016 (a full month where they had not yet scraped our content) to January 2017, our traffic is down 65 percent.” Warner said he had to lay off half his staff.
Google deliberately destroys businesses, in other words, while stealing their content to consolidate yet more power and profit for themselves. That’s how monopolies operate, of course: Consolidating power and influence while destroying anyone who might threaten their position of dominance.
Why it’s now urgent to break up the Google monopoly and save our Republic
The Google monopoly needs to be broken apart for the good of consumers, competition and freedom of information. If we allow Google to continue to monopolize search, videos, ad revenues and even advanced robotics, we are going to soon wake up in a world where Google is overthrowing governments and nations, running the world as a monopolist, fascist corporation.
As I describe in this article about Google evil:
If we don’t stop Google, it’s only a matter of time before Google’s robot division attains sufficient physical capabilities and A.I. prowess to be unleashed as Terminator-style Hunter-Killer robots to target human beings on the battlefield (or perhaps to even target political enemies). It’s not as far off as you might suppose. Before you know it, Google will be building massive armies of corporate-run robot soldiers, and Google will become a military might unto itself. What will Google do with all that power?
As Google itself has already demonstrated, it will wield power to silence its enemies, suppress the truth, enslave humanity and dominate everything in sight. It’s not difficult to see how, given another 25 years of such evil run amok, Google could overthrow entire nations and supplant the governments we know today with its own totalitarian corporate dictatorship. To envision how Google might operate in a future where it controls the most dangerous humanoid robots armed with weapons, just ask yourself how Google operates today. Does Google respect humanity or does it try to enslave it? Does Google tolerate competition and criticism, or does it try to silence those who speak out against it? Does Google protect the privacy of its users, or does it sell you out with back door access to the NSA that violates your Fourth Amendment privacy every second of every day?
The answer is abundantly clear: Google has become the world’s most evil — and dangerous — corporation. It has become a danger to human freedom, human knowledge and even human life. If we don’t stop Google’s march toward totalitarian dominance, the future of our world will look like a destitute dystopian society of enslaved humans, all kept ignorant and uninformed about reality (thanks to Google’s suppression of truth).
No criticism of the “accepted, fact-checked reality” will be allowed on YouTube, Google or much of the internet, as any person who dares contradict the Leftist totalitarian narratives will be immediately stripped of ad revenues, search engine visibility and public credibility.
Google — which should probably be renamed “OBEY” — will have achieved its ultimate goal of silencing all dissent, controlling all knowledge and overthrowing any governments that oppose it. In this future, Google will run all elections, and all winners of such elections will be little more than Google’s puppets, rubber stamping their legislative schemes that continue to grant more power to everything Google.
Freedom will die.
Dissent will become extinct.
Reason will be labeled “hate speech.”
Conformity will be mandatory.
And one day, half the human population will be declared “obsolete” and no longer needed by the globalists because Google’s advanced robots will replace human labor. At that point, the depopulation ovens will run 24/7, all powered by Google’s A.I. algorithms, of course, which will calculate the most efficient expenditure of energy to terminate a human life.
This is the future for humanity if Google is not stopped.
Source: PURE EVIL: How Google steals content, crushes small publishers and monopolizes the internet for profit – NaturalNews.com
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Cab drivers, passengers hurt selves over bad roads
April 17, 2018 /0 Comments/in Economy, Environment, Society /by Asonganyi Nester
The Bakweri Town stretch of road in Great Soppo, Buea, which has gained notoriety over the past two years for its disgraceful and dilapidating nature, is fast becoming a point of conflict between cab driver and their passengers.
While some opportunist cab drivers have taken the opportunity to tax passengers who pave the road very high, other considerate taxi drivers have a tug of war, with other passengers who get furious when the driver takes the direction of this very poor stretch of road.
What caught the attention of the public some days back was a conflict between a taxi driver and a nagging woman, who missed a deadly blow, from the furious cab driver, after the woman considered the cab driver’s charge of FCFA 200 from Check Point, Molyko to Bakweri Town as abominable. Thanks to the bad nature of the road, even the cab driver was barely steadying himself as he made to hit the quarrelsome passenger.
Just as the road has rendered even the popular “emergency engineers” helpless, as it has gone beyond man power, many taxi drivers are also promising to abandon the road completely. One them, popularly known by drivers as “mayor Sammy” said “it has become risky using the road, especially now during the rainy season, which the gullies are fast axing all of the road.’’
While many passengers frown at the long traffic experienced on the road, inhabitants around the pot-holed road neighborhood are frowning both at the council and the taxi drivers. While a lady selling fruits hard by thinks it is normal for the council to abandon a busy road like that one, Makole Charles and inhabitant of Bakweri Town rather blames the drivers outright. He says, “taxi drivers have a union and they ought to come out in their numbers, especially on ‘Keep Buea Clean’ days and try to repair the road to their best, while waiting on the council.”
“Sometimes when I think of the Campaign Street road which was only repaired because of the coming of the president, I fear the Bakweri Town road will continue to be scraped off and abandoned for many more years.”
The accelerating decline in the usability of the road is a call for concern. It is not only replete with deep and extensive potholes, but the current situation is aggravated by threats of its degeneration into a gorge. The heavy downpours have not helped matters as accompanying erosions have left gullies running in the middle of the road while most amateur drivers end up in the gutters even in the day time.
By Atembeh Ngewung Lordfred (Student Journalist)
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Delegate admits tardiness in attestations award
The Southwest Regional Delegate of the Economy, Planning and Regional Development, Buinda Godlove Nsakabo has conceded his Ministry’s tardiness in the award of attestations to participating youths two years after they participated in a training programme, blaming such insouciance on the unavailability of funds.
He made the declaration on Thursday, April 12, as some young tourism actors in the Region trained since 2016 on the security of tourists, reception techniques, hygiene and quality of service, especially for the last female AFCON received attestations at the Buea Council Chambers.
The attestations were given to trainees of 2016 batch under the auspices of the competitive value chain project. To him, the project is aimed at training some young Cameroonians in the domain of wood and tourism so that they can be competitively operational in the open market.
Questioned why the attestations took two years before being issued, Buinda blamed it on financial constraints. He added that the project falls under the ministry of Economy, Planning and Regional Development in synergy with the Ministry of Tourism and Forestry. He said that they train young Cameroonians in the domain of ecotourism, forestry and wood transformation because the state is moving from theoretical education to that which can be competitive in the world.
Acknowledging the lateness in handing over the attestations to the trainees, he noted: “Some of them had great opportunities, but because they never had the attestations at hand then, they had to miss such openings.”
Going by one of the participants, Enanga Lydia, the training in 2016 was enriching as they learned how to make a bed, place things at the restaurant, and attend to clients at the reception. They also learned basic culinary skills.
Bessiring Gilbert Bertrand, another trainee, has 18 years experience as a receptionist. He said say the training was one of the best he has had so far, because for five days they were groomed on both theory and practical hotel management.
By Relindise Ebune
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‘Three Corners’ Fiango PCC has new shepherd
April 17, 2018 /0 Comments/in Society /by Asonganyi Nester
The light of God has shined luminously on the Presbyterian Church in Cameroon, PCC, ‘Three Corners’ Fiango, Kumba, with the advent of a new shepherd, Rev Bah Pius Inobus, commissioned and inducted recently as Parish Pastor. His functions are multiple and include Chaplain for Presbyterian English Choirs Association PERCA and PCC youths Pastor for Southwest Region said Rev. Johnson Bisong, Secretary Committee of PCC.
While performing the induction rituals with inspiration from 1 Corinthians 15: 50-58, Rev. Johnson Bisong Tabe in a sermon titled ” there will be a change” reminded Christians that the resurrection of Christ is counseling to the many challenges Christians in the present dispensation are facing. He assured them that God was going to come, though no one knows the hour. He reminded them that in order to see Christ, they must change from sin and start living a holy life.
Rev Bisong tasked the newly inducted Rev Bah to build hope in God’s people. “PCC is giving you the task to go beyond ‘Three Corners’ Fiango, build young minds so that there will be a change, and help them build a paradise for themselves. It is expected of you to reorganize the spirituality of all the flock under you, so they will feel the warmth of Christ. Given that God’s coming will be unannounced you should go to work immediately,” Rev Bisong added.
As a sign of gratitude to God, the Rev Bah and family built a sanctuary, pulpit and offered half a million to help in completing the house of God where they have been worshiping for the past nine months while calling of other well-wishers for help. The visibly satisfied Pastor wished for more Grace to continue God’s work.
Rev. Bah Pius Inobus was born in Fiango Kumba. He holds a degree in theology and is presently a Masters student pending graduation at the Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Kumba. He is married to Lum Relindis and father of children.
By NGENDE ESTHER
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Repugnant dross
April 17, 2018 /0 Comments/in Columns, Cover, Opinion /by Asonganyi Nester
It played out like a typical scene in Columbia during that Latin American nation’s 50 year civil war. Cheerleaders, rented from Dschang, to perform a well choreographed theatre of the absurd for the attention of Biya the dispenser, were intercepted, taught how not to pander for a few grains of peanuts, ruffled and sent back with a clear message for their paymasters.
A similar scenario was acted out with Professor Ivo Leke Tambo, GCE Board Chairman. The old man was snatched to a hideout and subjected to indignities, including being blindfolded, stripped down to his dross and held for 48 hours. The experience was harrowing for the learned professor and others of high polish and refinement.
Tambo’s captors were predominantly carefree lads, probably unemployed and frustrated victims of the crass ineptitude and moral turpitude that has characterized governance in Cameroon over the past decades. They were youthful “Ambazonians,” ostensibly eager to tell the world, that they, like their parents before them have endured enough of criminal marginalization. They were out to prove, albeit “repugnantly,” that both their kidnapped victims and those whose bidding they do, evince revulsion, to say the very least.
Such revulsion could be traced to an incompetent, corrupt regime, manned by intractable individuals, who would rather see the nation die than forego power and the filthy lucre which they daily reap from the whirlwind of confusion and political scamming they have been sowing. The bubble had to burst, one day or the other. And even here, prudent social engineering would have meant handling the issue better than it was and is still being handled.
By protesting against a malfunctioning system, lawyers and teachers were, by no means reinventing the wheel. Pig-headed Laurent Esso and Fame Ndongo didn’t need to further fan smouldering embers of provocative marginalization. Mr. Biya didn’t need to resort to swearing, insulting, intimidating and promising Armageddon. He had to listen and empathize. But he overly resorted to employ the military in solving a socio-political problem, trusting to the fickle support (or promise thereof) of his minders.
Notwithstanding the cunning resort to unsubstantiated Tchiroma-designed propaganda, suppressing democratic protests by benevolent autocracy and legitimized cruelty, the Anglophone problem is gradually but steadily stalemating. It will likely elude a resolution for decades to come. Biya ought to beat a hasty retreat from negative imaging, belligerence, justifying and legitimizing military violence to dominate the narrative.
Biya acted in bad faith. He pretended to dialogue, while continuing to engage forces that have massacred villagers, burnt down their ancestral homes and wheeled the nation’s economy into the intensive care unit.
Instead of ranting at unarmed protesters and declaring war on a part of the country he is so eager [not] to see divided, Biya should eat this very humble pie being so generously served him by posterity … Mr. President should ask himself what, indeed, is responsible for the Anglophone disenchantment. He should halt the slaughter of some of the very [nice] people he claims voted, have been sending motions of support and keeping him in power for 36 years. He should, unconditionally, release every Anglophone detainee from prison and apologize to those compatriots that have lost limb and life in this senseless war of inflated egos. That’s what is expected of leaders worth the name.
Only the free can dialogue/negotiate (dixit Nelson Mandela). Let him check the intractable looting machine oiled by his cohorts and rampaging security operatives. The occasional charade of selectively keeping away “suspects” in Kondengui won’t help Cameroon. It would, at best, only briefly extend Biya’s tenancy at Etoudi.
Biya ought to acknowledge the prevailing moral confusion in the nation, conceive and openly define his options. Let him know that many of his appointed officials, especially local administrators are irresponsible; stealing openly from local peasants, taunting and calling them vulgar names. The slipshod intellectual design of his policy content has set the nation adrift. What is evident is an unspoken transfer of political responsibility to the military.
Cameroon is sick. Her so called leaders are living in denial. Somebody just has to give up! “Sparrow Hawk” and other political shooting of the breeze notwithstanding, the nation is running on the oxygen of corruption. Look here! Security is not only about threats in insipid, coughing guns and pellets. Radicalization is staring Cameroon in the face.
Last line…
There is a definite human angle to the question, and this, Mr. President, is glaring in the Tambo kidnap saga; a euphemism for what barely hides what is so repugnant about Cameroon’s corporate dross. To have a happy family, you must have a conversation…
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Proposal paper on the short and long term peace strategies: “Anglophone” crisis (V)
April 17, 2018 /0 Comments/in Columns, Opinion /by Asonganyi Nester
By Maxwell N. Achu, Diplomat,
(Peace Advocate, Conflict Transformation Researcher,
Academia, MA. International Relations) 2
• What are the drivers to ensure effective accomplishment of these short-term peace proposals?
The drivers that guarantee success in the implementation of these short-term peace proposals are collaboration, commitment and cooperation, which substantially legitimate its effect with time. The type of stress Cameroon is facing requires components that address political, economic or social inclusion. The case of Cameroon is internal divisions between social or geographical groups, which are the major factor in mobilization of violence.
Additionally, the type of problem facing the nation is somehow institutional. Cameroon has “fairly strong” capacity but inclusion is weak, reform action needs to draw marginalized “Anglophones” into decision-making and ensure they benefit from national growth, service delivery and welfare improvements
As highlighted above, commitment, coordination and cooperation are three core functions of institutional actors that are needed to ensure that peace accords and expected results are made possible.13
• Commitment: this enables the GoC and “Anglophones” to rely on the credibility of the dialogue resolutions so they can calibrate their behaviors accordingly. The case of Cameroon is most premised on commitment. The GoC with its people must reach credible agreements; first, to renounce violence and endow the state with the monopoly on the legitimate use of force – see the case of Somaliland wherein commitment was achieved by establishing institutional arrangements that provided sufficient incentives for all key actors to work within the rules. The bottom line is that, the commitment to deal between the GoC and the people must be credible, so that all parties stand to lose if any party reneges on those arrangements. When commitment to deal lacks integrity, contending sides (GoC and the “Anglophones”) walk away from the bargaining table and violence prevails.
• Coordination: beyond credible commitment is coordination. Independent credible watchdog institutions MUST regulate implementation commitments as well as coordinate the GoC decisions with the expectation of its people and other conflicting parties. This is very sensitive because coordination problems can occur at many levels of the peace process.
• Cooperation: herein lies the core to successful and effective peace plans; both at the long and short-term periods, as it requires the political will of the GoC and the “Anglophones” willingness to cooperate. The “Anglophones” must be willing to comply and cooperate. Cooperation is enhanced by credible commitments.
Enabling commitments, inducing coordination and enhancing cooperation are therefore essential institutional core functions for making peace policies effective. There must be an aggressive political will in the national arena. This is because; decision makers – elites-14 may have the right peace plan and objectives, such as this, and yet may still be unable to implement the right peace policies because doing so would challenge the existing equilibrium and the current balance of power. Thus, the balance of power in conflict and violent societies may condition the kinds of results that emerge from commitment, coordination and cooperation.
Ultimately, how peace resolutions through dialogue are effective depends not only on what resolutions are chosen, but also on how they are chosen and implemented. Peacemaking resolutions and peace agreement implementation both involve bargaining among different actors. The policy arena-the setting in which governance manifests itself, can be found at the local and national levels of Cameroon. Interested groups in Cameroon upheaval should be empowered to take part in the shaping of peace agreements – this would be a fundamental enabler to pacific agreements effectiveness. There should be an equal distribution of power in the bargaining process, as this power symmetry will definitely influence peace policy effectiveness. Power asymmetry is not necessary harmful, but negative manifestations are reflected in political clientelism as well as social and economic exclusions. Power 13
asymmetry excludes individuals and groups from the bargaining arena, and can be particularly important for peace and security, such as in Somalia. A cross country statistical analyses using the Ethnic Power Relations data set from 1945-2005 indicates that states that exclude portions of the population based on ethnic background are more likely to face armed rebellions.16/17
• Dialogue Procedure
Before nose-diving into this part of the proposed peace agenda, it is worthy to recall that violence is just a symptom reflective of discontentment. Just like unemployment, which is a symptom to a failed economy to grow enough to absorb all employable labour, violence as well, is a result of various economic pressures, rising job complexities, high levels of inequality, and even digital disruptions. Whether or not such discontentment are justifiable is usually immaterial, as long as lives are lost there is need for concern. Let Cameroonians remember that, the private sector, which is the engine of job creation, needs long-term view of the credible direction of the GoC’s peace and economic policies to be able make long-term investment decisions. Ultimately, any of such inconsistencies or impairments like violence only exacerbates economic downturn and lowers productivity. Consequently, it is a perfect breeding ground for protest from disgruntled citizens.
Most importantly, the “Anglophone” crisis is just as far-gone, because the discontentment of some frustrated “Francophones” can spark unrest, which tied with the present crisis, can plunge Cameroon into a full-blown civil war with unimaginable and maybe irrecoverable effects. During such circumstances, marginalization18, fragmentation19, and segmentation20 just to name a few, which the “Anglophones” condemn, might not be the same motives of the Francophones. Regime change, job creation, economic boom, equal distribution of political appointments, infrastructural development21, request for decentralization service provision, hassle-free border relations,22 other related Economic, Financial23 and Political risk might be at the forefront of such conflict-risk query. Such scenarios can easily be forecasted, especially as Cameroon’s growth experiences more volatility than the regional average. By this, this paper calls for the inevitable peace through dialogue between conflicting parties.
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Kamto, SDF coalition for 2018 presidential tottering
April 17, 2018 /0 Comments/in Politics /by Asonganyi Nester
The Chairman of the Cameroon Renaissance Movement was plebiscited as the party’s flag bearer for the 2018 Presidential elections as rumours continue to swell over a possible coalition with the Social Democratic Front.
Maurice Kamto was unanimously voted by delegates from all the 10 Regions of the country during the party’s convention that took place from April 13-15, at the Yaounde Conference Centre.
A convention that almost did not hold, after authorities of the Yaounde Conference Centre threatened to throw the party out of the venue for attempting to pull down pictures of the Head of State in the hall.
Delegates who had arrived on Friday morning found it abnormal for the picture of the Chairman of the Cameroon’s Peoples Democratic Movement to be lording over their convention.
Some even accused authorities of the Conference Centre of adding more pictures of the Head of State in the hall as a mark of provocation.
“We rented this hall and we want to use it without the pictures of people who are not part of us. This is not normal (for the pictures to be in this hall),” Barrister Emmanuel Simb, vice-president of the party argued.
His argument was however waved away by the Director General of the Conference Centre present on the scene.
“We are not in political considerations here. The Conference centre is a public building. These photos are those of the President of the Republic, Head of State, and not those of the President of the CPDM. We must make a difference. Either these photos stay, or they (Cameroon Renaissance Movement) are free to leave the place and hold their convention elsewhere,” Christophe Mien Zok said.
After being reminded of the “difference” between Biya the Head of State and the other Biya, Chairman of the CPDM, the delegates of the Cameroon Renaissance Movement had no other option but to reluctantly accept and proceed with the convention alongside the “Lion man in the hall.”
Most of the incidents occurred in the absence of the party’s Chairman Prof. Maurice Kamto who was seen opening the convention before later disappearing only to later resurface late in the night for the election of the executive members of the youth and women arms of the party.
What kept the party’s Chairman busy was the question all at the hall could not answer but we gathered that he was busy on the sidelines of the convention with a secret meeting with Joshua Osih, flag bearer of the Social Democratic Front, SDF, on a possible coalition for the upcoming election.
We equally gathered that Maurice Kamto had earlier in the week, met with a delegation from the SDF, led by the party’s Secretary General Jean Tsomelou still to discuss on a possible coalition.
These events follow a letter Maurice Kamto had earlier this year addressed to the Chairman of the SDF for a possible meeting to discuss a possible Presidential coalition.
However, some of the party’s supporters who were present at the convention voiced their concern as to the success of any coalition if not led by them. They believe their party has done a lot of work to be implanted in the 10 Regions of the country for the past five years and deserve to lead any possible coalition.
The Convention of the Cameroon Renaissance Movement was an opportunity for the party to elect members of the Women and youth wings as well as set up the various commissions of the party.
As such, Awasum Mispa from the Northwest Region was voted as the President of the Women’s wing of the party while Nestor Menwosela from the North Region was voted as the President of the Youth wing for a five-year mandate each.
By Francis Ajumane
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Reinstated Soppo market resurrects old risks
When Senator Charles Mbella Moki, the immediate past Mayor of Buea conceived the idea of moving the Great Soppo Market to a more convenient location in Bokwai, the explanation was that its previous location around Cameroon Opportunity Industrialization Centre, OIC, was a drag to free flow of traffic in the city of legendary hospitality. However, a new phenomenon that is materializing in an even more promising market has been inching its way into the physiognomy of the town directly opposite where the transferred market was located.
Soppo market was posing a lot of challenges like traffic congestion, risking the lives of market goers and pedestrians alike,as buying and selling in the market advanced almost to the centre of the main road. It was therefore in the spirit of curbing these threats that the market was transferred to a safer place dubbed the “Buea Central Market.” But today, despite the motive for that decision, another market opposite COIC, has been established with the same threatening features.
The market which started just with locally cultivated crops has now turned into a complete market or super market with many Buea inhabitants flooding in and out on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. The Rambler took interest in this worrisome phenomenon and decided to seek reasons why the current circumstance came into being.
According to Desmond Mua, a trader at the newly established market, it is related to land grabbing and not just congestion.
He added that many people prefer the current market in Soppo because it is in the centre of the town. Going by him, those from Buea Town and Molyko can easily access or visit the market, which is less costly and less stressfully but, that the present Buea Central Market is at the outskirts of the town. Here, he said, many face challenges just getting there to purchase one thing or the other.
Mua like his counterparts applauded the initiative of establishing another market that could replace the old Soppo market. He advised, “The market is even getting smaller and with time if nothing is done, some traders would place their business items at the centre of the main road just to sell. Already, we are experiencing little fights here and there on each market day just because of space to sell goods. I would advise the Buea Council that, if it is possible to demolish some private homes or residents around the market to create space, it would be better and would go a long way to solving the issue of space we now face.”
Though the market is gradually but surely posing a challenge of general chaos, traffic congestion besides being the ultimate death trap to denizens, it seems authorities have decided to be blinded over this issue. All attempts to talk to competent municipal authorities pertaining to this issue were futile.
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Murdered student laid to rest
April 17, 2018 /0 Comments/in Education, Society /by Asonganyi Nester
The mortal remains of Emmanuel Galega student of Saint Benedict Comprehensive College Widikum, SABEC, who was brutally assassinated in school on March 27, was recently laid to rest in his native village of Bali Nyonga. He was interred after a requiem Mass concelebrated by the Archbishop of Bamenda His Grace Cornelius Fontem Esua and 16 other Priests at Saint Francis Xavier’s Parish Church Bali.
The funeral was a moment of sorrow and grief for the students and staff of SABEC, family members and friends who could not hold back their tears. They were wailing for a young student and child who died as a result of the socio political stalemate in the two Anglophone Regions of Cameroon. But what exact circumstances led to the death of this student?
“This student was killed not because there was no security but he was killed by those who had come into the college and wanted to burn down the college and the students were running for safety but they continued to pursue them and one of those who wanted to burn down the college and who was pursuing the students was recognized by the late Emmanuel as a former student who has been a drop out. And they shot him,” Archbishop Esua narrated. In his homily during the Requiem Mass, he heralded the significance of education.
“I think the message should go home. If children are not educated, they would become like the one who killed. Therefore, we have to choose, we have to stand for the truth and justice. That is why we shall continue to do our best, to continue to educate the children in order to guarantee their future tomorrow and we ask our parents to collaborate with us. Violence does not solve any problem and we have to do everything to avoid violence. It doesn’t matter whether we are right or wrong.”
It was yet another moment for the Bishop to insist on the need for frank dialogue so that things could return to normal. “We want to seize this opportunity once more, to call for a genuine and inclusive dialogue with all the stakeholders. A dialogue which is frank and fair and we call for the respect of human life. Human life is sacred because man was created in the image of God. The divine injunction thou shall not kill, Exodus Chapter 20:13 remains valid even in our prevailing situation and it applies both to the forces of law and order and to civilians. I think the situation in which we are living now demands for each and every one of us a lot of reflection and prayers on getting our bearings right. Therefore, while we are trying to find solutions to our problems, we must make sure we continue to live and carry out the responsibilities we are supposed to carry out,” he ruled.
The late Emmanuel Galega was described by his Form Three mates and teachers as a jovial, lively and promising student. They spoke of him as one of the holy innocents and martyrs brutally murdered in the face of the ongoing crisis where people are being arrested, tortured, and kidnapped and the indiscriminate burning of villages and houses rendering its inhabitants refugees in and out of their country. In consoling words, the Proprietor of Catholic schools in the Archdiocese, enjoined the bereaved to accept the tragedy with faith in the Risen Lord and pray for the repose of Emmanuel’s soul.
Late Emmanuel Galega was born on the December 14, 2002, in Kumba, to the family of Ba Tita Mac Nelson Galega and Ma Rose Bekuna. He attended primary school at Chrub Bilingual Primary School Kumba where he obtained the FSLC. He went to GBSS Batibo and later to Saint Benedict Comprehensive College, Widikum.
By Mildred Ndum Wung Kum
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Lawyers buy time as death sentences dangle over Anglophone detainees
April 17, 2018 /0 Comments/in Cover, Politics, Society /by Asonganyi Nester
Lawyers defending Mancho Bibixy and seven others in the case between the State and the Anglophone activists opted for an adjournment in a day that could have proven crucial in their fate.
On Friday, April 13, the Yaounde military court had no option but to bow to the request from the defence counsel and adjourn the case to April 24 when the latter will have to plead their case before a judgment and probable sentence is passed.
“I hope you come prepared that day,” Abega Mbazoa epse Eko Eko, President of the Yaounde military court told the defence lawyer in strong, sarcastic tone.
She wasn’t taking any prisoners after opening the court session on Friday, April 13, in the heaviest way possible by slamming an 11 year 9 months- sentence On Joseph Ngalim, with a FCFA 250.000 fine after the court found him guilty of non possession of a National Identification Card, Secession and hostility to the fatherland. If he fails to pay the fine within three months, nine months will be added to his jail term.
This strong opening was warning enough for the Defence Counsel to anticipate a tough day ahead for the other eight Anglophone detainees who had to step next into the box, including Mancho Bibixy and Tsi Conrad.
It was normal, according to the lawyers, to adopt a cautious approach as they found it too risky to plead their case on grounds that a death sentence was hanging over the heads of Mancho Bibixy and Co. So they could not venture without adequate preparations.
“We asked for an adjournment because we think we are pleading for persons who risk a death sentence so it is important, if not a question of responsibility to better prepare our defence before engaging the court,” Barrister Claude Assira, one of the lawyers of the defence team said at the end of the session.
“We know that there are a lot of consequences on what we are going to say, that is why we cannot just jump into any defence without a proper review,” he added.
He also pointed out the fact that they want to prepare themselves “materially” in order to ensure a proper defence of the accused, given that most of them had different testimonies in court when given the opportunity to talk in previous sessions.
The defence team was, from all indications, equally playing the delay game, employed during the last session by the civil party who claimed not to be fully constituted to present their case.
However, they came this time around fully armed to the teeth as a team of close to 10 lawyers- three Anglophones included- for three-and-a-half hours tore into the Anglophone detainees with their various “evidences” to prove their case.
Prominent amongst them was Barrister Achu Julius who dismissed the notion of Anglophone or Francophone, stressing that “all are Cameroonians.” He buttressed his point from a history by tracing the Cameroons as far back as 1884 before telling the accused that they were ignorant of what they are fighting for.
“Most of you were not even born when the plebiscite took place (in 1961) apart from my learned colleague on the other side (Barrister Ben Muna, lead counsel of the defence team), so stop all this your Ambazonia nonsense,” he defiantly told the accused before warning them to leave politics to politicians.
“I hate to hear the word Anglophone or Francophone, this is not a historical nor political matter,” he said, while telling the detainees that a country is constructed by the will of the people and not the constitution.
Quoting section 237 of the Cameroon Penal code which provides a 10 to 20 years imprisonment for depredation by band, and which could even extend to a death sentence, Barrister Achu Julius prayed the court to apply the law because the facts, according to him are there for all to see.
Facts, which he took time to outline, pointing out that the accused have messed up themselves by inciting the crowd to revolt against the state. The Government Delegate of the Bamenda City Council would have been dead by now, if security forces did not intervene to rescue him from the crowd incited by Mancho Bibixy, Barrister Achu said.
On each count, he quoted the punishment set aside by the law, which he prayed the court to strictly apply so as to serve as a lesson to others.
He told the court to pass a judgment equal to the damage their acts have inflicted on the population of the two affected Regions adding that this can only be done by way of a heavy sentence.
His point was buttressed by Liliane Manka’a, another Anglophone lawyer who was a member of the Civil party who tasked the court to do justice to the suffering masses because many children are out of schools today, with some families displaced because of their (the accused) actions.
The heavy tone employed by the civil party flowed from that of the State Prosecutor at the Military Court Col. Engono Thadée, who pointed out the 2014 law on terrorism which provides for a death sentence if found guilty of causing death or destruction of property. “The Anglophone ‘terrorists’ are guilty of all these after causing the death of at least 20 security forces as well as the destruction of public and private property, Engono Thadée said.
The ball is now left in the hands of the defence as dark clouds hover over the heads of the accused, who, barring a miracle are most likely to get heavy jail terms.
That was the case with Penn Terence Khan who was slammed a 12-year prison sentence earlier on Tuesday, April 10 by the same court. The former Vice Principal of CCAST Bambili later delivered a long and emotional speech in court in which he described his trial as politically motivated, and stressed that only a political solution can be found to the problems plaguing the two-English speaking Regions of Cameroon.
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Kamto seeks SDF’s endorsement for presidential bid
April 17, 2018 /0 Comments/in Cover, Politics /by Asonganyi Nester
The Chairman of the Cameroon Renaissance Movement and the party’s flag bearer at the upcoming Presidential election has called on the Social Democratic Front, SDF, Presidential candidate, Joshua Nambangi Osih to join him in a presidential coalition.
He made the call at the weekend during the party’s Convention in Yaounde that brought together delegates from all 10 Regions of the country.
“To the SDF presidential candidate, Honorable Joshua OSIH, I reach out (to you for a coalition) after various considerations, but also in the name of the support I offered your party’s Ni John FRU NDI during the 1992 presidential election,” Kamto appealed, as he read out his acceptance speech to run as the party’s candidate for the 2018 Presidential election.
Justifying why the SDF should rally behind him for a coalition, Kamto said he had offered his support to the main opposition party in 1992 and thinks the time has come for the party to return the favour.
“Twenty-six years ago, when the country was caught in a historical political fever and most youths lined up behind the ruling party to avoid a political crackdown, I, for one at the time risked my career and safety to support the wind of change by backing the SDF Chairman, whom I did not personally know and who himself did not know me,” Kamto argued.
His call for a coalition did not come as a surprise to many, given that information had already filtered that Kamto was holding talks with Osih on the sidelines of the Convention.
“We started some talks and I am confident that by the end of the day, we will be able to come together to do something. I will not comment a lot on this, but I am hopeful that I will be able to convince Hon. Joshua Osih again,” Kamto told a press conference at the end of the Convention.
We also gathered that Kamto had earlier in the week, met with a delegation from the SDF, led by the party’s Secretary General Jean Tsomelou still to discuss on a possible coalition.
These events followed a letter Maurice Kamto had earlier this year addressed to the SDF Chairman, for a meeting to discuss a possible Presidential coalition.
The CRM candidate also made it clear that his coalition platform was open even to “patriotic members” of the ruling party who might be disappointed with the system but are unable to express themselves.
He also extended a hand of fellowship to other opposition political parties while regretting the fact that all attempts at getting the NUDP on board have so far been futile.
He also extended a hand of fellowship to members of the clergy as well as the civil society as he closed the party’s Convention that took place from April 13-15 at the Yaounde Conference Centre.
A convention that almost did not hold after authorities of the Yaounde Conference Centre threatened to throw the party out of the venue for attempting to pull down pictures of the Head of State in the hall.
Delegates who had arrived on Friday morning found it abnormal for the picture of the Chairman of the Cameroon’s People Democratic Movement, CPDM, to be lording over their convention.
His argument was however waved aside, by the Director General of the Conference centre present on the scene.
After being reminded of the “difference” between Paul Biya the Head of State and the other Biya, Chairman of the CPDM, the delegates of the Cameroon Renaissance Movement had no other option but to reluctantly accept and proceed with the “Lion man in the hall”.
As such, Awasum Mispa from the Northwest Region was voted President of the Women’s wing of the party while Nestor Menwosela from the North Region was voted President of the Youth wing for a five-year mandate each.
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Kim Kardashian's New Acting Role Is Going to Make You Cringe
Kiri Blakeley August 26, 2014 at 5:18 PM
Kim Kardashian will be guest starring on a sitcom, and it's probably the last one you'd expect. It's 2 Broke Girls, which is about two women who are as far from KK as you could possibly expect -- two financially challenged waitresses. As we know, Kim has never really been broke, and certainly not since KUWTK became a hit show. Now, she's about as far from broke as you could imagine. So I'm guessing she will NOT play one of their also-broke friends.
Believe it or not, this isn't the first time Kim has "acted." She's also guest-starred on Drop Dead Diva, CSI: NY, and Brothers. Dang, I would have loved to have seen that CSI episode. Too funny!
I'm pretty sure, however, that Kim isn't familiar with the Stanislavski method. Judging by her stiff "acting" and nasal voice in Temptation, Kim doesn't have an Oscar in her future. Or even an Emmy. Maybe a Raspberry.
Of course, some would say that Kim did some fine acting on KUWTK, when she married Kris Humphries and actually seemed like she was in love with him for a few seconds.
The episode will air October 27. Expect Twitter to be pretty hilarious during that time.
Here's a little taste of Kim's "acting":
Image via Kim Kardashian/Instagram
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Nagi Noda
Cool Japanese director, check out her commercials here, the "coke" spot is pretty good. link And she is also the creator of the han panda, a mutant panda cute thing.
Avenging Unicorn
Everyone wants an imaginary unicorn friend that they can call forth to smite their enemies. The Avenging Unicorn Play Set has everything you need to use the power of the unicorn to rid your life of irritations. Put the posable hard vinyl unicorn on a flat surface and then impale one of three soft vinyl figures included (businessman/boss, new age lady and mime). Click here to purchase.
Shaolin Reality-TV
China's ancient Shaolin Temple is entering the age of reality TV with a show of its own. "Chinese Kung Fu Star Search" will invite viewers to vote for their favourite martial arts masters by text messages or through the Internet after each episode. "Regardless of nationality, skin colour or style, anyone who practises Chinese kung fu is welcome to take part," Xinhua said. The eight-month contest is aiming to knock the "Inner Mongolian Cow Sour Yoghurt Supergirl" show from the top spot in China's ratings. full story.
Fruit Sculpture
Yes! Earlier this week we had a chewing gum artist, and now we have a fruit sculptor! It seems Italian food artist, Paolo Pachetti is the master of the art of fruit carving (that just sounds silly). Check out his site here and go to his gallery section. Oh, what an apple can become in the hands Paolo.
Arthur Mount
Vector works fans will like Arthur Mount's site. Here's a link, just click to the left on his "illustration" section, then select people, places or things. Looking at this stuff makes me want to see Scanner Darkly. Mr. Mount's link. via*drawn
All Men Are Brothers
These posters rock, link.
Gum Blondes
This is pretty wild (or sticky), Canadian artist Jason Kronenwald creates his work utilizing (chewed) chewing gum. He's got a cool site that shows his progression in the gum medium, be sure to check out no. 1 in the series. It's interesting to watch the development of his gum pieces. Here's what Jason writes about his work "Each Gum Blonde is 100% chewed bubblegum on a plywood backing. No paint or dye is used. The colour is inherent to the gum - the mixing of the colour takes place in the mouth during chewing using an endless variety of flavours made by an endless variety of companies." link via*drawn.
Pirate Songs, arrgh!
Yes, executive producer Johnny Depp, will release a tribute album of sorts to... Pirates! This sounds dumb and laughable, but the talent attached to the project is impressive, Tom Waits, Nick Cave, and Bono are among the vocal pirates. I don't think the disc will be an official tie-in to the movie, I think it's geared to the true pirate enthusiast. Click here to read more. And in related news, I found this "top look alike" site, that has images of a guy doing a "Johnny Depp". What do you think? See any resemblance? link!
Here's a strange flickr set of a doll taken in different "high fashion" poses as if she were a real model. link.
Seagal Update
Wow, where to start. Okay, first off, Steven Seagal has a band? I thought those pictures of him holding a guitar were just publicity shots. And secondly, he's the only white guy in his band... okay... and third, the title of his ablum is "Mojo Priest". I've got to stop, really, I'm going to pee my pants. But then there's this... as reported earlier on woospace, Seagal also has an energy drink, called Lighting Bolt! And get this, click here to read a band rider for Mr. Seagal's backstage requests, and the first request on the list is... Red Bull! See, you can't even get Steven Seagal to drink his own energy drink. Sheesh!
Sunny Buick
Here's some cool art from artist, Sunny Buick. Sunny has a great "tattoo" influenced style, and a great painting called "Godzilla Rock". Check it out here.
Embarrassing the Masses
Love this, many of you know, traffic laws both for vehicles and pedestrians are hardly observed in China. But with all those new cars, and the world's press preparing to descend on China in 08, it's time to encourage people to follow the rules. And if they don't, public embarrassment always works... "A volunteer in Shanghai's Yangpu District presents a carnation to a construction work as a token of appreciation for using a pedestrian crossing. Hundreds of volunteers in the city took part in the activity on Monday to promote awareness of traffic rules. Starting from that day, the traffic authorities said, they would shoot pictures of offenders caught jaywalking and post the photos at their work units or in select public places."
For Terra, Congrats!
Chinese Democracy?
Okay, I was never the biggest Guns N Roses fan, but come on, who doesn't like "Appetite"... Anyway, "Chinese Democracy", perhaps the world's worst titled album may finally be on it's way. Here's a theory, maybe Axl decided on the title "Chinese Democracy" because he knew he would take over a decade to put this thing out, and that Chinese democracy would still be a fictional concept. Anyhow, read here about the much touted Axl Rose/GnR comeback tour and "album" to follow. But, don't believe the hype.
I have seen "Art School Confidential" and while not a perfect movie, it is very funny with great performances. Check out this AICN interview with director, Terry Zwigoff. I saw the movie at the Arclight and Terry spoke afterward, actually, we were told that the Q and A would be used for the DVD. Anyhow, a lot of the ground he covered that night is in this interview. link
In China, people are ending their week long May Day vacations. But in a country with over a billion people, at some point you have to ask yourself, is it really a vacation or purgatory? Click this link for more images of Chinese "vacationers".
Love Slug
Whoa, a blast from the past coming to me from "down under". As some of you may know, in high school, I was in a punk band called "Love Slug". Now, some guy in Australia is selling our first and only vinyl recording on ebay. I hadn't seen the cover to that ep in so long. I think we were trying to go for a "classic" look with that cover, if I remember correctly the cover image was of a relief carving from Dante's Inferno, an odd choice for a bunch of seventeen year olds in a punk band in suburban Maryland. See the ebay listing for yourself. I still stand by those songs, they rock!
By the way, I know this happened last week, but can I just get a "Colbert for President!" Hells Yeah! Mr. Corbert rocks hard, balls of steel I tell ya. Be sure to check out his Onion Interview and visit his myspace profile here! Thank you Steven! Colbert 08.
Surreal Chocolate
Here's a link to a TV commercial Salvador Dali did for a chocolate bar, Dali link.
The Skeletor Show
I figured I'd stay on this cartoon thing and post one more, pretty funny "re-mixed" He-man cartoon called the "Skeletor Show" (a day in the life of the most evil man on the planet).... Check it out here. via*boing boing
Big Trouble in Little South Park
Ok, so researching my James Hong piece, I came across this great fan site for Big Trouble in Little China, and found these awesome fan-made "Big Trouble in Little South Park" episodes. They are great, and worth checking out. Click here!
Goldblum's "Pittsburgh"
Pittsburgh has been having a good run lately, what with the Steelers and now local hometown boy made good, Jeff Goldblum returning home to perform the role of Professor Harold Hill in a stage production of "The Music Man". While doing so he also made a "documentary" where Jeff plays himself, an eccentric actor who returns to his hometown to star in a local community theater production of "The Music Man". This film sounds weird and interesting to me, as Jeff is generally zany. Read more about it here
Have you seen the new Red Hot Chili Peppers video? If not, it's worth checking out. I haven't followed these guys in a while, but this video is great, as the Peppers spoof rock acts through the ages, including themselves. Also, I saw these guys last night on SNL and they rocked it. Check out the video here, Rock On!
CHSSC Banquet
Last night, as a guest of Chinese actor Jack Ong, I attended The Spring Banquet of The Chinese Historical Society of Southern California. The banquet paid tribute to Mr. Ong and his fellow Chinese American actors living in L.A. Jack and I met on the set of "Art School Confidential" during the filming of the cermaics room scene. I will never forget meeting Jack, and watching him get into character as the crusty Professor Okamura, a burned out art teacher. Jack is also in another recently released film, the highly acclaimed, "Akeelah and the Bee". In "Akeelah" Jack plays an encouraging "Korean" grocer.
Also at the banquet, I got the opportunity to meet Mr. James Hong, the baddest Chinese wizard ever to fight the Wing Kong in Big Trouble in Little China. Mr. Hong played the role of Lo Pan in John Carpenter's classic tale of an arrogant truckdriver who stumbles upon a dangerous and magical Chinese underground realm. I introduced myself to Mr. Hong, and got to talk to the "ten-foot tall roadblock" himself (although he was a bit preoccupied, in search of his "goody" bag). But he and the other honorees were well received all night and I had a real blast, thanks again Jack!
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playing with pianoteq play
I’ve mentioned Pianoteq in the past, and I’ve played with several demo versions over the years, but now I’ve finally taken the plunge and bought a copy. Pianoteq boasts great Linux support, and its new entry-level version — Pianoteq PLAY — is just 99€, but why is it worth buying when I could use (and indeed, certainly have used) the Salamander Grand Piano for free?
Competing with free
The Salamander exemplifies the traditional approach to making a quality virtual piano: take a real piano, and sample the hell out of it. LinuxSampler works beautifully with these massive sample libraries, and if the Yamaha C5 used in the Salamander doesn’t suit your style, there are affordable commercial pianos (and other instruments) in LinuxSampler-compatible GigaStudio format from the likes of SampleTekk.
The entry-level Pianoteq PLAY has limited configurability, but the same great sound
Pianoteq, however, takes a very different approach. Instead of using samples, it synthesises the sound, using a software model of the behaviour of a real piano. I’m not sure if it really sounds better than the Salamander, but it definitely feels better — it’s much more lively and dynamic, handling everything from soft and delicate to harsh and biting very convincingly. It really shines when you put the pedal down, thanks to the subtle sympathetic resonances that ring and shimmer in nearby strings each time you hit a note.
I’ve talked before about how a great synth can do more than just make sound — it can inspire you to play and create. Perhaps that’s the real difference between a sampled piano and Pianoteq: they both sound like a piano, but only Pianoteq feels inspirational to play. In other words, while the Salamander may be very good, Pianoteq is truly great.
The technicalities
Beyond the touchy-feely stuff, Pianoteq has some substantial technical advantages. With no need for gigabytes of samples, its installed size is tiny (around 20MB), so it loads quickly, uses little RAM, and is inherently laptop-friendly.
Within that 20MB, there are three grand pianos, each based on creating a particular sound and feel rather than copying a specific model. There’s the classical C3 (my favourite so far), the modern jazz/rock M3, and the general-purpose K1. Even greater variety is available in add-ons, both free (recreations of classic historic pianos, and a Yamaha CP80 electro-acoustic) and paid (electric piano, vibes, and “rock piano” — the same Yamaha C5 as the Salamander).
The other advantage of the modeled approach is configurability. While the entry-level Pianoteq PLAY limits you to a set of presets, the Standard edition lets you edit piano parameters (like body length and hammer hardness) and microphone placement. The high-end PRO edition allows per-note editing of piano parameters, which lets you create all sorts of piano-like instruments that would be impossible to build for real. Thankfully, you can buy in at the low-end and upgrade in future if needed.
Linux-friendly
It’s worth mentioning that the Linux port of Pianoteq is really quite good — if it wasn’t, I wouldn’t be writing this. As you’d hope, it supports JACK for audio — though it also supports ALSA, if you want to use it stand-alone — and it uses ALSA for MIDI, so it’s easy to hook in to your average Linux software setup. There are both 32-bit and 64-bit versions, and both have worked perfectly for me on my laptop and desktop systems. One thing lacking right now is plugin support; It’d be great to be able to load Pianoteq in to Qtractor as a DSSI plugin, or even a native VSTi, but it’s not a major issue.
One aspect worth mentioning is the copy protection, simply because it’s not something I’m accustomed to dealing with. Pianoteq uses a combination of a product key and a one-time online activation; it’s all quite simple, and you’re allowed to have three separate PCs activated at any time. You can remove those registrations through the Pianoteq website if required.
If you want a very playable virtual piano — and don’t have a problem with closed-source software — Pianoteq is definitely worth a try. The demo gives you time-limited access to the build-in grands, as well as the paid add-ons, so you can see if it’s for you without worrying about the cost.
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Edward Diehl on October 21, 2011 at 4:23 am said:
Pianoteq 3.6.7 has a LinuxVST which runs great in Ardour3 and Qtractor. By default it has 5 outputs and won’t work in Qtractor. However if you rename the plugin with “_2chan” added to the name (e.g. Pianoteq.so to Pianoteq_2chan.so), then the plugin will only output 2 channels.
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a week-and-a-half with GNOME 3
Posted on September 18, 2011 by lsd
I’m as surprised as anyone to admit it, but I’ve spent the last using GNOME 3, and it hasn’t been too painful — in fact, I’ve had no trouble remaining productive in it. I’ve definitely missed some of GNOME 2’s features, but it’s definitely been a more pleasant and productive experience than my time with Ubuntu’s Unity desktop after the 11.04 release.
A lot of people have reacted poorly to GNOME 3, and I can understand their frustrations. I’m not sure why I haven’t had the same experience, but perhaps my time with Mac OS X has something to do with it — I’m already used to using the Expose-style overview in the GNOME Shell, and to having Alt-Tab work on an application-level. There’s a new key combo for switching between the windows of an individual application; it defaults to Alt and whatever key sits above the Tab key in your locale (Alt-` in my case). It still took a bit of adjustment, but I was soon zipping between windows and launching applications without any dramas.
GNOME Shell's overview provides quick access to your applications and windows
The GNOME Shell cheat sheet covers a lot of the less obvious functionality built in to the Shell. I do find some of the hidden functionality a bit silly — having to hold Alt to reveal the “Power Off” menu item, for instance — but it still doesn’t take long to come up to speed.
I will add one caveat to my comments: I’ve been using GNOME 3 on my laptop, where (as I remarked a couple of posts back) I spend most of my time using Firefox, Chrome, Thunderbird, terminal windows, and a text editor. I haven’t used it with JACK and my regular assortment of music tools yet, so I’m still not sure how it’ll handle that workflow, or if its greater use of video hardware is going to cause any latency issues.
A quick reality check, nine years in the making
One thing I can’t help but feel in the release of GNOME 3.0 is a sense of history repeating; after all, it’s not the first major release of GNOME to slash away at the desktop’s feature set and remodel the remains based on design principles put together by a core team of developers.
Red Hat Linux 8, with the then-new GNOME 2.0. I'd forgotten how much like a browser Nautilus looked
GNOME 2.0 had substantially less functionality and configurability than the 1.4 release that preceded it, and it imposed a set of Human Interface Guidelines that described how user interfaces should be designed. I think you’d have a hard time finding someone today who’d claim that those changes weren’t for the best in the long run, but at the time, the streamlining was considered too extreme, and the HIG was controversial.
I think we forget just how much was missing in GNOME 2.0, partly because it’s been so long, but mostly because all of the really important features have found their way back in. To remind myself, I took a look back in time: I installed Red Hat Linux 8 in a VM and fired up its default GNOME 2.0 desktop.
The configuration dialogs in GNOME 2.0 did actually cover some options that are currently missing in GNOME 3, such as font and theme settings, and its panels had greater flexibility than the GNOME Shell’s single top panel, thanks to the bundled selection of applets. However, there were surprisingly few applets that provided functionality that hasn’t been incorporated in to GNOME 3 in some way.
Even this minimal window settings dialog from Red Hat 8 wasn't an official part of GNOME 2.0. A complete window settings dialog was added in the next release, GNOME 2.2
Leafing through the release notes for the subsequent GNOME 2 releases showed how quickly some of its missing functionality came back, and just how much the desktop has been polished over the years. While GNOME 3 throws away the visible desktop components, there’s a lot of GNOME 2 still in there, from the power, disk, sound, and networking management infrastructure through to its many tools and utilities.
GNOME 3.0 is a little different from GNOME 2.0 in that it changes the basics of navigating your desktop, and the developers have so far resisted requests to relax those changes. I’m still sure that it’s going to improve rapidly, though, and I do think that its developers will take the various criticisms on board. I don’t expect any dramatic design reversals, but I do expect improvements and refinements that will make GNOME 3 a viable option for many of the users that find it frustrating today.
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2011 macbook air linux update
As I mentioned previously, I’ve been playing with Ubuntu on my 2011 Macbook Air, and I’m happy to report that it’s now much more usable than when I first installed it. There’s a kernel module hack that fixes the display issues, allowing the Intel driver to run at the panel’s full 1440×900.
Having the Intel driver running instead of the fbdev driver means that OpenGL and visual effects (and Unity, if you’re in to that sort of thing) work, as does brightness adjustment, and I suspect it’s the reason that suspend and resume now work, too. Patching the kernel manually would be a pain, but the (updated) setup script from the Ubuntu forums now takes care of this for you, along with the keyboard and trackpad driver patches.
Ubuntu 11.04 on the Macbook Air, with all the important stuff working
I also had a chance to test the Ubuntu 11.10 beta. I haven’t tested it with the video fix above (though it is supposed to work), but I did notice that the my 5Ghz 802.11n network worked with it, so it seems like the 5Ghz issues I’m having with 11.04 have been fixed.
All of the important stuff is working, then, at least for my needs. There are some minor keyboard niggles — I haven’t been able to adjust the keyboard backlight brightness, and the volume keys are incorrectly mapped — but the biggest issue is with the trackpad. It works, including two-finger scrolling and two- and three-finger taps and clicks, but it doesn’t feel quite right, particularly when scrolling.
It seems like a minor thing, but the trackpad is central to the user experience, and when basics like button presses and scrolling rely to a degree on gesture recognition, it matters a lot that they’re detected reliably and respond appropriately. The multitouch driver is under active development, though, so I have no doubt it’ll improve.
I really enjoying benchmarking this thing, just to see how much power has been crammed in to it. Compiling Ardour 3 from SVN seemed like a good test of overall system performance: it managed it in 14 minutes and 50 seconds, just under two minutes faster than my 3Ghz Core 2 Duo desktop. It’s definitely no slouch!
Posted in Linux, Mac, Technical | Tagged ardour 3, macbook air, multitouch, natty, oneiric, ubuntu | 9 Replies
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SIHH 2013: IWC Ingenieur Constant-Force Tourbillon, IWC Ingenieur Perpetual Calendar Digital Date-Month
At the annual SIHH watch fair in 2013 the company introduced its new IWC collection Ingenieur, equipped with a variety of models. In watches Ingenieur 2013 embodied two design styles: it is powerful, the classic models in stainless steel sports watch, made with innovative materials from the arsenal of “Formula 1» TM.
Attention is paid to the original watches Ingenieur Constant-Force Tourbillon (Ref. 5900) with the case of platinum and ceramics. The new design of the mechanism preserves the amplitude balance and ensures the highest precision. Equipped with two wind-gauge drums.
The black dial is decorated in the central part of the pattern, is equipped with Arabic numerals and hour markers, two central hands with luminescent coating, as well as an indicator of the phase of the moon in the “13 Hours.” Delightful tourbillon placed with tags 9.
Leadership position is also new Ingenieur Perpetual Calendar Digital Date-Month (Ref. 3792) with the case of titanium aluminide, perpetual calendar and digital date display.
Modern racing cars “Formula 1» TM have a button instant acceleration, which is activated at the right time. Analogue of this device in the model with perpetual calendar and digital date display and the cycle of leap years is the high-speed switch.
Each day at midnight he accumulates energy released at the end of the month, and at the end of the year there is a simultaneous switching of all five discs pointers. With three semi-counters, on the night of the new year can observe the movement of all devices on the dial.
According to the creative director of the brand IWC, «The new design direction Ingenieur family features the materials such as carbon fiber, ceramic, titanium, who came to the watchmaking world of motorsport.
Individual parts of hours also remind some of the technical features of racing cars “Formula 1» TM. For example, a typical screws connecting housing with glass dial that successfully emphasizes sportsmanship hours. Thus, continuing the family tradition of IWC, because such a design was presented in the first hours Ingenieur SL, designed by the renowned Gerald Genty. The result of combining technical innovation and distinctive design – a massive, attracting top-class watches. ”
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LUC Lunar One watches the new face of Chopard
Ultrathin Emperador Coussin Tourbillon Automatic from Piaget
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UPDATE for 2012 cenla christmas day tornadoes
UPDATE for 2009: 63% of continental united states covered in an average of five inches [13 centimeters] of snow. [noaa.gov screen grab]
reposted 29 december 2012
originally posted 25 december 2008
rpso: sufficient probable cause established arrest in rigolette bridge & serial arsonist case
For Release to the Media
FM: Lt. T. Carnline RPSO
DTD: Fri, 28 Dec 2012 09:59
SUBJ:Arson Arrest in Rigolette Bridge Fire of Last Year
During the early morning hours of March 26th 2011, the Rapides Parish Sheriff’s Office received a complaint that the bridge spanning Rigolette Bayou located on Rigolette Road in Tioga was on fire.
Local fire personnel were able to put out the fire, but due to extensive damage it created, the bridge was closed for public safety.
R.P.S.O. Detectives in conjunction with investigators of the Louisiana State Fire Marshal’s Office immediately began an investigation into the incident as it was believed the fire was the result of an arsonist.
Various leads were followed up, but none led to an arrest up until now.
In November of this year, R.P.S.O. Detectives received information relating to multiple structure fires in the Tioga area, which included the Rigolette Bridge and two uninhabited residences located on Hollowdale Drive.
Detectives re-opened the original investigations and were able to establish sufficient probable cause that twenty-three year old Trenton Lloyd Malone was the main suspect in each of the fires.
As a result, warrants were granted for Malone’s arrest for Three Counts of Simple Arson Over $500.
On December 27th 2012, Deputies located Malone at a residence in the Alexandria area.
He was advised of the warrants and taken into custody without incident.
Trenton Lloyd Malone of 144 Hollowdale Drive, Tioga, LA, was booked into the Rapides Parish Jail, where he is currently being held in lieu of a $300,000.00 bond.
Detectives say their investigation is still ongoing and additional arrests may be forth coming.
If you or someone you know has any information relating to these fires please contact Detective Jonathan Treadway at the Rapides Parish Sheriff’s Office Tioga Sub Station (318) 640-6000, R.P.S.O. Main Office (318) 473-6700, or Crime Stoppers (318) 443-7867.
"Whenever a case goes cold, you always keep it in the back of your mind and then one day, one piece of evidence or information comes up and our detectives got right back on this case and solved it with an arrest" said Sheriff William Earl Hilton.
in light of the recent christmas day 2012 tornadoes which wrought much devastation to parts of central louisiana such as the garden district in alexandria and parts of tioga, ball & rigolette that after reading the press release a couple of questions came to mind.
is this bridge reopened?
what role if any did this bridge arson mischief play in hampering the responders getting to this neighborhood?
so we emailed lieutenant carnline to ask if the bridge was reopened (we figured he would know if the sheriff's office was able to patrol this area) and was he aware of any reports linking this 2011 mischief with hampering this storm's first responders and clean up crews?
he replied:
I checked with the Police Jury and the bridge was re-opened in the spring of this [2012] year. The only thing that hampered response to the devastation by the tornado’s were the trees in the roadway.
UPDATED kalb special report cenla christmas day 2012 severe weather
kalb, tom konvicka, special report cenla christmas day 2012 severe weather
ball, tioga & rigolette
UPDATE: kalb christmas day severe weather slideshow
kalb tioga area storm damage
gannett/the alexandria daily town talk: strong storms push through cenla, damaging homes, businesses
8 a.m. update: Some traffic lights out in Alexandria; 1,205 without power in Central La~ gannett/the alexandria daily town talk 26 december 2012
DATE: Wednesday 26 December 2012, 0956
Christmas Storm Update
Yesterday at approximately 12:05 pm, the Rapides Parish Sheriff’s Office received its first of over 20 calls for storm related incidents that occurred in the Parish.
The hardest hit areas, according to Sonya Wiley, Rapides Parish Director of Homeland Security, was in the Tioga area around Lafayette Lane, Aspen Court areas.
Overall, approximately 40 homes, 8 businesses, 2 churches and the roof of a school sustained damage in what was thought to be a tornado.
No injuries or fatalities were reported.
"We want to urge the citizens to exercise caution in the operation of chain saws, generators and any other equipment used to remove limbs or debris from the storm" Director Wiley said.
"The Sheriff's Office wants to remind the public to be cautious when dealing with people wanting to fix damage from the storm.
Use reputable people to do this and not someone who just drives up and says they can fix it" said Lt. Tommy Carnline, Public Information Officer.
"Be careful driving because there is still a lot of debris in the area."
Lt. Tommy Carnline
Rapides Parish Sheriff's Office
the story of the birth of christ
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As told through Luke and Matthew
Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and giuen him a Name which is aboue euery name:
That at the Name of Iesus euery knee should bow, of things in heauen, and things in earth, and things vnder the earth:
And that euery tongue should confesse, that Iesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Philippians 2:9-11 (King James Version 1611)
a very private miracle
audio page
a christmas themed production of the cbs radio mystery theater that originally aired 23 december 1978.
the story of how a young lass named jennifer soileau and the christmas miracle of regeneration she brought to the life of the curmudgeonly old capitalist, jasper crown (howard da silva) ... but will it last?
reposted 25 december 2012====
cbs radio mystery theater presents "a christmas carol"
there were 1399 cbs radio mystery theater programs and you can probably find them all for download online. the internet archive has quite a few.
It's ominous theme music and longtime host E.G. Marshall's invitation to "return next time for another adventure in the macabre" cast spells across the airwaves for loyal listeners - myself included. Those voices (usually in some form of distress or conflict) echoing through my ears were all too real.
CBSRMT programs, including commercials, were an hour long on the air. Most mp3 files have been edited to remove the commercials and the length is 40 to 45 minutes - although, some contain the entire program complete with commercials and a newscast at the end or whatever programming surrounded the program. This can be quite interesting listening as well and I consider that to be a bonus.
I am willing to share these programs free of charge and I ask for nothing in return. Feel free to ask for programs in the forum. ~ cbsrmt.info a fan site.
Starring host E.G.Marshall as Scrooge, aired every Christmas Eve except 1974 and 1982
Presented exactly as aired on WBBM, Chicago on Christmas Eve, 1978 complete with original commercials, news and even weather reports!
click here to download from google books a free copy of the 1908 edition of "a christmas carol" by charles dickens (1812-1870).
or click here to download our copy 121 page .pdf [3.22 mb]
"a very private miracle" the cbs radio mystery theater
lets hear it for the teamsters
happened across this sight yesterday at libuse and the dollar general store. apparently, the architect, engineer and the rapides area planning commission didnt take into account this retail establishment's need for large truck freight deliveries.
nontheless, this trucker who must have ice water for blood managed to back his truck and trailor to the store using a narrow lane.
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military bearing
observing the jarheads carrying on and as expected, carrying on quite smartly too, whilst capturing our marine one - air force one - potus video, we couldnt help but be carried back to ol' virginny [sic semper tyrannis] and the spit and polish navy.
there is a reason why the united states marine exemplifies superior military bearing compared to in this case the air force. notice how the marine makes even the scrambled egg who escorted the president between rides and his side-kick seem sloppy. the marine is standing at parade rest we dont know what the general and his aide are displaying.
anyway that reason may be found cast into the usmc official seal.
see also 11 general orders of a sentry usmc version
usn version
video: president obama arrives/departs andrews afb to connecticut
president obama arrives at andrews air force base on sunday 16 december 2012 on marine one to depart aboard air force one to connecticut to meet newtown massacre survivors and mourners
from 1459 est
credits for the cam are at the end of the vid - leave intact
us public domain: video content documents an official us government evolution
psychotropic and pharmaceutical drugs help facilitate random & mass shootings and violence
updated and edited 17 december 2012
UPDATED arrest made: remains of missing woman dorothy rosier found
Sheriff William Earl Hilton announced this morning that an arrest has been made in the Dorothy Eyvonne Rosier homicide case.
Last night, Sheriff’s Detectives arrested Paul Jackson, 61 of 1125-A Jim Meyer Dr, Alexandria. Jackson was taken into custody and booked into the Rapides Parish Detention Center for 2nd Degree Murder and Obstruction of Justice and is currently being held without bond.
The investigation is still ongoing.
"Finally the family will have a little more closure to this case. In a cold case, you go back to zero, start over and run down every lead and that’s what our Detectives did. They have put in a lot of man hours and worked long into the night last night to make this arrest.” said Sheriff Hilton.
"I would also like to thank Sheriff Scott Franklin and the LaSalle Parish Sheriff’s Office for their ongoing assistance in this case."
As the investigation is still ongoing, there is no further information at this time as to cause of death or motive.
Rapides Parish Sheriff William Earl Hilton announced today that Sheriff’s Office Investigators have positively identified the remains found in the woods in LaSalle Parish as that of Dorothy Eyvonne Rosier.
Ms. Rosier went missing almost 3 years ago on January 11, 2010.
Hunters, hunting near Trout, LA in LaSalle Parish, discovered the remains on November 21st.
While a presumptive identification was made based on dental records, preliminary results were leading investigators to believe that the remains may be the missing Rosier woman.
Positive identification was not received until last week with assistance of the Louisiana Repository for Unidentified and Missing People FACES Lab.
Based on these findings, investigators conclude that the remains are those of Ms. Rosier. Ms. Rosier was twenty five years old at the time of her disappearance.
The Rapides Parish Sheriff’s Office along with the LaSalle Parish Sheriff’s Office will continue their joint investigation into this homicide and how the remains got into the woods at that location, who might have put them there and the events surrounding the death of Ms. Rosier.
Sheriff Hilton would like to thank Sheriff Scott Franklin and his department for their assistance and continued cooperation in the ongoing investigation of this case.
At this time, Sheriff’s Detectives would not speculate on any suspects or cause of death as this might hinder their investigation.
"This family needs closure to what happened to their daughter, their sister, their mother. We have been working diligently on this case since we came into office and we are looking into other unsolved cold cases. This is the one we need help on now. Someone knows something and we want you to do the right thing and come forward so this family will not have to spend another Christmas knowing the suspect in Dorothy’s murder is still out there" said Sheriff Hilton.
Anyone having information on the disappearance of Dorothy Eyvonne Rosier in January of 2010 is urged to contact the Rapides Parish Sheriff’s Office or the LaSalle Parish Sheriff’s Office.
Rapides Parish Sheriff’s Office 318 473 6700
Criminal Investigations 318 473 6727
LaSalle Parish Sheriff’s Office 318 992 2151
Crime Stoppers 318 443 7867
www.rpso.org
Labels: 2012_necrology
faith ford; alexis crew productions announce 1st casting call for actors and extras
www.alexiscrewproductions.com
- Friday, December 7, 2012 at 3:00 P.M. - 8:00P.M.
- Saturday, December 8, 2012 at 10:00 A.M. - 6:00P.M.
Location: 1501-A Wimbledon Boulevard
please send your resume and head shot to the following:
ALEXIS CREW PRODUCTIONS
1501A WIMBLEDON BLVD
ALEXANDRIA LA 71301-3384
faith ford & alexis crew productions before the alexandria, la., city council
UPDATED possible film school to locate in alexandria's district 3
former alexandria, la. mayor carroll lanier dead
via: twitter @kalbtv5
former alexandria, louisiana mayor (1977-1982) carroll lanier has died reportedly from congestive heart failure. lanier was aged 86.
Carroll E. Lanier
(November 5, 1926 - December 4, 2012)
Services for Mr. Carroll E. Lanier will be held at 1:00 p.m., Friday, December 7, 2012 in the Chapel of Hixson Brothers, Alexandria with Reverend Clifton Stewart officiating. Burial will be in Forest Lawn Memorial Park.
The family requests that visitation be observed Thursday, December 6, 2012 at Hixson Brothers, Alexandria from 5:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m. and will continue on Friday from 8:00 a.m. until time of service.
Mr. Lanier, 86, of Alexandria passed away Tuesday, December 04, 2012 at Grace Home.
He was born in Hamburg, Arkansas and moved to Alexandria at the age of eleven.
He attended Bolton High School and before graduation he joined the U. S. Navy.
After his time in the Navy he worked as an electrician in Alexandria.
In June of 1969 until June of 1973 he was the Commissioner of Finance and Utilities.
After Mr. Lanier’s term was over he and his brother started Lanier Electric.
In 1977 Mr. Lanier became Mayor of Alexandria for a 5 year term. Then in 1988 he worked as Executive Director of the Housing Authority until his retirement in 2000.
He was preceded in death by his son, Brian Lanier; parents, M. B. and Effie Sivals Lanier; one brother and three sisters.
Those left to cherish his memory include his wife of 64 years, Winifred “ Wendy” Lanier; daughters, Kathy Lanier Miller and husband, Ronald, Theresa Lanier Massey; son, Steve Lanier and wife, Amber; grandchildren, Josh, Brian, Ryan, Shelby, Anthony, and Jody; seven great grandchildren.
In lieu of flowers donations may be made to Grace Home, 3330 Masonic Drive, Alexandria, LA 71301.
~ source: hixson brothers funeral home
attorney jimmy faircloth phones ksyl to "correct the record on what the [schools voucher] ruling really accomplishes"
link to audio download page
attorney jimmy faircloth phoned in to the ksyl talkback 970 preshow program this morning to clear up some misconceptions about the recent district court ruling that found the school voucher funding mechanism to be unconstitutional.
mr. faircloth said that the ruling is suspended pending the appeals process and that no one remembers a district court ruling anyway.
lee rubin "it was my turn" to be next alexandria, la., city councilman at-large
link to audio file download page
prescient? refreshingly candid? a freudian slip? -- "it was my turn" was the answer alexandria, la. city council at-large candidate, lee rubin chose to give to the question put to him by fred rosenfeld on why is he running for the alexandria city council at-large seat.
source: louisiana sec'y of state elections website
mr. rubin was in studio at ksyl am 970, friday, 30 november 2012, to appear on the talkback 970 preshow with fred and bob program. the primary was on 06 november. mr. rubin finished second with 32.12% of the vote out of a six man field.
the runoff is on saturday, 08 december 2012, when he will face the incumbent -- roosevelt johnson. councilman johnson received 39.94% of the primary vote.
here's the thing, we dont want either one of 'em. neither would have been our first choice in the primary.
councilman johnson wouldnt be so bad if he would grow a backbone and stop being a puppet. dude you're not crafty at plotting and deceit. so stop.
it's obvious that the mayor and the silk stocking gang have a lot at stake in this election. they've poured tons of money into mr. rubin's coffers in an effort to solidify the control by the mayor and his gang over the majority city council votes and by extension the public fisc and governmental power.
the results of their massive psyop arent all that impressive. although, at least one person as late as monday, 05 november 2012, election eve, was on ksyl radio predicting that councilman johnson wouldnt even make the runoff.
one glaring omission in this interview that we noticed which mostly speaks to the ethics and integrity or lack thereof of cenla broadcasting -- in that they didnt require the interviewer/show cohost fred rosenfeld to disclose that a local company he owns, the parc england boutique hotel, contribute to the lee rubin campaign.
that was an especially egregious oversight when seeing how it was reported by steve coco from his cenla news blog back on 07 october 2012.
anyway, this race has many fascinating dynamics -- one being how many of the non-johnson votes were more anti-roy than anti-johnson votes? mr. rubin was seen from the start of the race as being the mayor's boy; as far as we know the only one who could be considered outright pro-roy. the only other candidate might be milton gordon who probably looks at the mayor's plans favorably.
so even though mr. rubin was correct when he pointed out to the gannett/alexandria daily town talk that 60% of the electorate voted against the incumbent -- with this whole pro and anti-roy dynamic vibrating through the city the numbers still dont add up to an inevitable rubin victory.
one the other hand the mayor and the silk stocking gang did manage to finally get rid of myron lawson and that was an at-large election too. albeit a few years or in a political sense an eternity ago.
but -- around the same time, charles fredrick "droopy draws" smith was defeated for reelection to the city council despite the mayor and his gangs support.
wst... disclosure: as we pointed out here, we have a wager on the outcome of this race.
search this blog * roosevelt johnson
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Visiting the Moderna Museet in Stockholm - and Other Museums We Can't Stop Talking About
Book at the Moderna Museet Bookstore
Our spring trip to Europe was all about renewing our inspirations and dipping our brains and toes in some of the best art museums (according to us).
Our Journey began in Stockholm, Sweden, although it not the best place to acclimate to the 8 hour time change. The sun was rising around 3:30 A.M. and setting around 10 P.M. As we quickly learned, Stockholm had nearly 18 hours of daylight per day! Insert jet-lag nightmare here.
You may have heard of the Moderna Museet back in 1993 when eight works by Picasso and Georges Braque, the French cubist, valued at some $60 million, were stolen.
Responsible for housing one of Europe's finest collections of modern and contemporary art, the Moderna Museet was certainly one of the highlights of our trip to Europe this spring. They had over 35 pieces of Duchamp's alone in their permanent collection!
After Stockholm we spent some time in Amsterdam. There we visited several museums, amongst them the Van Gogh Museum, which merited almost an entire day. Lost in Van Gogh's brush strokes you're transported to another time. You are there in his studio witnessing his latest painting, dabbing the finishing touches with a stroke so famous and so unique. Tragically, like many creative geniuses, Van Gogh ended his own life, two gunshot wounds to the chest, taking his last breaths in his brother Theo's arms. One can bear witness to their strong relationships in the hundreds of letters they exchanged while they were apart, The letters chronicle Vincent's life like an autobiography. All art has the potential to be powerful and create strong and even unfamiliar reactions inside us, but in particular I think we had the strongest "aha' moments at the Van Gogh Museum.
To mix feelings up further, the temporary exhibit at the Van Gogh was 'Easy Virtue' depicting prostitution in French Art from 1850 to 1910. The exhibit examined how the theme of prostitution was dealt with by over 40 different artists. It included rare private and public collection works by Van Gogh himself, Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec and Picasso among others. A fitting and interesting introduction to Amsterdam and the Red Light District.
In Amsterdam we also visited the Stedelijk, and the Moco Museum (which was exclusively featuring works by Banksy and Warhol).
In Paris, we never miss the Louvre but this time we also visited the Georges Pompidou Center to see the Paul Klees exhibit as well as Espace Dali to see a great collection of Salvador Dali's work.
Finally, in London we went to the Tate Modern. Interestingly, a whole section of the Tate was being prepared for a major Georgia O'Keeffe exhibit. This was of course an interesting fact to us Santa Feans.
Francisco Benitez
Francisco is one of our newest client’s at Artotems Co. A talented artist, his speciality is the ancient greek method of encaustic painting.
Francisco Benitez considers himself an atemporal archaeologist who excavates lost and forgotten styles of painting long assigned to the shadows to reveal the ever-transient nature of the human psyche. Trained in a rigorous atelier program at the Art Student’s League in New York, he frequented museums and copied old master paintings in order to master their techniques and conceptual strategies. However, impelled by an emotional/psychological impulse, he initially embraced a Caravaggesque approach to his subjects, in which narratives were weaved about the subjects as light sculpted their forms out of shadow.
Always concerned with presenting the human psyche in all its complexity, Benitez later discovered the ancient Romans and Greeks, and in his desire to fuse the gravitas of history with the psychological narratives of his subjects, he embarked on a new series of works in encaustic, one of the most ancient painting techniques known to humanity, and one of the most difficult to master.
As the Fayum portraits of Ancient Egypt attest, wax not only served to embalm the dead but to resurrect and revivify the subjects represented. By using the ancient tools and restrained palette of the Greeks, Benitez has isolated the psyche and placed it on center stage, whereby the viewer brings his/her subjectivity to the work and in effect initiates a complicit relationship with memory, history, and the geological layering of the collective human experience through the represented individual.
Born in 1967 in Taos, New Mexico, into a family of performing and visual artists—Maria and Cecilio Benitez—he obtained his BFA from the University of New Mexico, after having studied in Granada, Spain, the Art Student’s League, and St. John’s College. Besides actively showing in the US, he has also lived and exhibited widely in Europe, especially in France and Italy, where he has participated in a number of museum and gallery shows.
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On Promoting Creativity
The New Art of Promotion
(Excerpt from a piece we did for the book “True Acting Tips” by Larry Silverberg)
If people don’t know about you, you won’t be found. If people can’t find you, you won’t be contacted. Simple truths. Let’s put you in that empty chair!
As most consumers know, a sea change has occurred in how we communicate and how we must promote what we do if we expect to succeed. While the phone and letters are still valid forms of communication, they require an extra effort that many busy recipients don’t have time for and relegate to the circular file. What they make time for is the web. Whether it’s email, search, or social media, that’s where contact now occurs. With this change, even traditional outlets of promotion using print ads struggled to adapt to digital consumption of what they have to say. They know they must evolve. Demographics for that consumption clearly show that if you want to be seen and heard by a very large part of potential audiences the place to start is online. Whether you are a company creating widgets or an actor performing drama, welcome to the new boat. We are all in it together.
As an artist you want your efforts to be seen. In the past others often controlled how you were seen. That, too, has changed. As a creative individual, you can now promote your own work in ways that are powerful and reach a worldwide audience. You can shape and control the presentation of your efforts. You can reach out and develop an audience. Chances are, if you create it, there is an audience out there for it. What does it take to do this? Time, effort, and access to basic computer technology are all that is necessary to begin.
Steve Muhs
Ah, time! If only we had more of it. Our good friend, the artist Steve Muhs has this to say about promoting his work: “I know I need to do it, but I don’t want to stop working to do it. If I don’t, though, then who am I making the art for? Who will see it?” His concern and his questions are valid. Like a lot of creative people, for him time is an issue. His work is demanding and requires a great deal of attention, and yet it still must be seen in order to be experienced and appreciated. He also adds that it “feels odd” to promote himself and his work. Our response is this: If you owned a company that produced a good product, would you be hesitant to promote it? Of course you wouldn’t. If you don’t do it who will? As an artist/actor you are essentially running your own business. It, like other businesses, must be marketed. And like other businesses, it has competition. However as an actor the products you produce are unique because they are creative expressions from within you. Martha Graham, the dancer, had this to say about creative expression: “There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.” Finding an outlet for others to see and hear your unique talent is essential, so the time and effort are worthwhile. Whether you do it yourself or find an individual or organization to help, the online resources are out there.
At Artotems Co. we think artistic endeavor is a vital part of our lives. We make it a point to promote the creative efforts of many. To learn more about what we do go here.
Works by Steve Muhs
True Acting Tips by Larry Silverberg
True Acting Tips leads stage and screen actors on a journey of passion, intimacy, and personal investment. This isn't to say that there will not be heavy demands and a high cost, but ultimately, this book is designed to offer the clarity and encouragement to become an actor who makes a difference in the lives of the audience members. "True Acting" is not a reproduction of anything that has come before and True Acting Tips is not a book concerned primarily with the technical demands of acting. Instead, it is an in-depth examination and invitation to see and experience acting as a momentous burst of creation new, surprising, and deeply human. It includes inspirational quotes, more than 200 acting tips, and images that reveal a powerful philosophy to assist in the most difficult moments.
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The Art of Systems Biology & Nanoscience
Animation Still from Drew Barry
Art and Science Collaboration
Artotems Co. in collaboration with SARC and a host of other organizations is working to promote and sponsor this annual event from the Spatio Temporal Modeling Center in New Mexico. The event will be held in Santa Fe (see event details below). Like Santa Fe itself, it is a mix of Art and Science uniquely presented and expressed in a way that’s only possible as the two fields have begun to re-engage in recent years.
The Spatio Temporal Modeling Center
The New Mexico Center for the Spatiotemporal Modeling of Cell Signaling (Spatiotemporal Modeling Center, STMC) is an interdisciplinary, inter-institutional program with two principal scientific goals: 1) to understand cell membrane spatial organization and dynamics; 2) to determine how the spatial proximity, dynamics, interactions and biochemical modifications of membrane receptors and signaling proteins together determine the outcome of complex, interacting cell signaling networks important in immune system diseases and cancer.
Image from Angela Wandinger-Ness
The 2013 event will feature talks by two widely recognized biomedical scientists, the neurobiologist, Mark Ellisman from the University of California in San Diego and the cell biologist, Angela Wandinger-Ness from the University of New Mexico. Dr. Ellisman founded and directs the National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research (NCMIR) at the University of California in San Diego. He is a world leader in the development of three-dimensional, light and electron microscopy and the application of advanced imaging technologies and computational resources to achieve greater understanding of cellular structure and function. Dr. Wandinger-Ness is a cell biologist who has made stunning use of advanced microscopy, in combination with biochemistry and flow cytometry, to understand how proteins traffic within cells. Her work has revealed abnormalities in intracellular trafficking that are associated with multiple human diseases including polycystic kidney disease (PKD), endometrial cancers, and Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease. These abnormalities provide new targets for drug discovery and therapies.
Image from Thomas Deerinck
The hung and digital art will feature the spectacular scientific illustrations and animations of 2013 artist in residence, Drew Berry from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne, Australia. Berry is renowned for his “Animations of Unseeable Biology”, visually beautiful and scientifically accurate animations to illustrate how the molecules in our cells and tissues move and interact. His achievements include being the recipient of a 2010 MacArthur “genius” award as well as the artist and producer of a a wildly popular music video for the singer Björk. His animations have exhibited at venues such as the Guggenheim Museum, Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Royal Institute of Great Britain and the University of Geneva.
His work will be complemented by other powerful images generated by noted photomicrographer (and Ellisman collaborator)Thomas Deerinck, also from UCSD. His award winning imagery has been featured on the cover of many top scientific journals as well as in popular periodicals such as The New York Times, National Geographic, Scientific American, Discover and Time magazine. As nature-inspired works of art, his images have been exhibited in galleries in New York, Paris, and London as well as in numerous museums throughout the world. Other images generated by UNM and LANL scientists through the use of contemporary microscopes, nanoengineering technologies and computational data visualization methods will also be displayed.
A “National Nanodays” program for kids from 10:00 AM to 2:30 PM on Saturday will be led by graduate students from the UNM Nanoscience and Microsystems degree program and will feature hands-on nanotechnology activities along with interactive visualization tools to share developments and discoveries in the materials and biomedical sciences.
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Making Your Mark
Tucked away in the El Castillo caves in Spain, first discovered in the 19th century, scientists recently re-tested the hand stencils painted in one of the caves. Much to their surprise they were far older than previously thought. They were so old in fact; at an estimated 40,800 years, Neanderthals may have created the stencils. Whoever created them and for whatever reason they proclaim, “We were here and if you find this we want you know it!”
Looking at the hand stencils one can’t help but marvel at the connections across time that these simple human intimate representations signal to us. The hand, our most unique physical way of making a mark becomes the mark they make to speak to us. Who doesn’t understand a signature as universal as that? The cave painter’s accomplishments in the caves don’t stop with hands but represent the world they lived in and what mattered to them. Like other archaic cave paintings discovered throughout the world these marks speak to us about their creator’s unique abilities and leave many of us with a deep appreciation of those who came from a time so long ago. We see their incredible skills at carefully rendering elements of a world whose difficulties we can’t really imagine. They took the time to create these and surely they knew others would find them.
Instagram - Our virtual cave wall.
We all in one-way or another want to make our mark. Whether personally, or within an organization or a team we want to leave a legacy that says, “I/We did this.” The ways to do this have vastly multiplied. Communication avenues have increased like never before. There has never been a better time to make your mark and have the ability to tell the world that you have done so. Each time we create a web site or post on Facebook we are making a declaration that says this is what matters and unlike the hidden cave paintings the potential audience is unlimited.
Each Flickr photo or Pinterest post makes a statement and reaches out to others and like the cave paintings visually proclaims, “I/We care about this and want you to know it!” It’s any ones guess how long these digital proclamations will last but there is no doubting the potential reach they have in the present. Like the cover photo we created in chalk for this blog post they may easily disappear but for that short time the audience is enormous. The cave paintings on the other hand have now lasted for tens of thousands of years and have the advantage of being presented to this much wider audience. Wow, we are impressed and are glad they are still there!
As we work with others throughout the world we are continually inspired by what our customers accomplish and what they create. We are honored to help them proclaim, “We did this and we want you to know it!”
The Cave of Forgotten Dreams by Werner Herzog
More on Cave PaintingsFrom National Geographic
World’s Oldest Cave Art Found—Made by Neanderthals?
From the Bradshaw Foundation
The Cave Art Paintings of the Chauvet Cave
Womack’s Santa Fe Totems
Note: Since this post was originally posted Jay passed away in December of 2015. RIP Jay, you will be missed by many! He was a big man with an even bigger heart.
Totem Discovery
We often run across great art in the Santa Fe, New Mexico area. New Mexico is not only the land of enchantment but also the land of Art, and yes with a capital “A”. Inspiring works of art can be found at every turn, from roadside creations to galleries, art is a big part of what makes the area tick culturally and economically.
One day in July, Mari ran across a fellow working in his yard on something we at Ar(totems) Co. of course have a great appreciation for, Totem Poles. Since then we know the creator of these Totems is Jay Womack and we have begun representing him online and elsewhere. See his new Facebook page here: Jay Womack – Artist
Jay Womack
Jay Working
Jay comes from a background of construction and fine woodworking. Like his totems he strikes a large imposing figure despite his amiable personality. After a couple of beers and a good conversation we realized his talent and his attitude fit well with our mission and representing him would be a pleasure. Jay’s great-grandmother was a Native American and while not all of his work is traditional much of it has the stunning impact a totem pole can have. Unlike many traditional artistic sculptures totem poles typically have specific meaning based on cultural and familial or group relationships. They are most closely associated with the cultures of the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America. The scholar Eddie Malin has proposed that totem poles progressed from house posts, funerary containers, and memorial markers into symbols of clan and family wealth and prestige.
A Bit About Totem Poles
“The meanings of the designs on totem poles are as varied as the cultures that make them. Totem poles may recount familiar legends, clan lineages, or notable events. Some poles celebrate cultural beliefs, but others are mostly artistic presentations. Certain types of totem poles are part of mortuary structures, and incorporate grave boxes with carved supporting poles, or recessed backs for grave boxes. Poles illustrate stories that commemorate historic persons, represent shamanic powers, or provide objects of public ridicule.” Wikipedia
We Need One
Given the work that Jay does and our appreciation of it we had to work a deal out with Jay to create a totem pole for us. It just makes sense, eh? When it’s done we’ll feature it here. In the meantime here are a few photos of his current projects. Also check back here to find his new website soon.
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August 26th-September 2nd
After an absence of a few years, we once again returned to the charming island of Grand Manan. It was once again a memorable experience. Wader migration was productive and in addition to the expected common species we enjoyed sightings of scarcer species such as Baird’s and Pectoral Sandpipers and all three phalarope species. Warbler migration was, as hoped, a major feature with 17 species recorded and unusually large numbers of Cape May and Bay-breasted Warbler being notable. In addition we saw three species of Empidonax Flycatcher, Philadelphia Vireo and many other interesting land birds. Numbers of large shearwaters were unusually low, but we still enjoyed some close encounters with Great Shearwater, whilst both Leach’s and Wilson’s Storm-petrels provided good views. Whale numbers were also down on my previous tour, but nevertheless we had excellent close views of five Humpback Whales during our pelagic and more distant views of a Fin Whale off Long Eddy Lighthouse. Finally did someone say something about a Burrowing Owl? A gallery of images taken on this tour can be found on our Facebook page here.
August 26th: London to Saint John.
Our small group met up at London's Heathrow airport for our flight to Toronto and then onward connection to the small city of Saint John in the province of New Brunswick. Our arrival at Saint John was right on schedule, and for a small provincial airport it was fairly busy. However, it was not long before we had secured the rental vehicle and had checked into our hotel for the the night, where some much needed rest after the long journey was in order.
August 27th: Saint John - Red Head Marsh & Hanover St. Travel to Blacks Harbour and ferry to Grand Manan.
Weather: Warm and sunny with a very light N breeze becoming SE by late afternoon. 21C.
Our first morning began with a good breakfast in our downtown hotel, before we made the short drive to Red Head Marsh, just outside town. Here we enjoyed an excellent introduction to North American shorebirds as we soon clocked up both Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs, Semipalmated Plover, White-rumped, Semipalmated and Least Sandpipers, and local notables such as Wilson's Phalarope, Baird's Sandpiper (4) and Pectoral Sandpiper (2). Ducks included Black, American Wigeon and Green-winged Teal. A Merlin whizzed past and a Belted Kingfisher was most welcome. Pleased with this start we visited nearby Hanover Street where a Marbled Godwit had been present. Unfortunately we were unable to find that, but more shorebirds included Short-billed Dowitcher, Spotted Sandpiper and Grey Plover.
We made a stop to buy provisions and then headed to Blacks Harbour, where we caught an early afternoon ferry to Grand Manan. An immature Bald Eagle flew over as we left the ferry terminal. The seas were flat calm and with almost no wind to disturb the water's surface we were treated to good numbers of Harbour Porpoise (at least 50) and distant brief views of whales that remained unidentified. Seabirds included our first Great Shearwaters (some very close to the ferry), a Sooty Shearwater, a scattering of Wilson's Petrels, a few Puffins, Gannet and some distant flocks of phalaropes. As we neared Grand Manan we noted Black Guillemot and an adult Bald Eagle.
We headed to our accommodation at Castalia and, once we'd checked in, had a wander in the local environs. Black-capped Chickadees were predictably the commonest species, but we also had good views of our first Red-breasted Nuthatches, Purple Finch, Yellow and Black-throated Green Warblers, Common Yellowthroat, Ruby-throated Hummingbird and Blue Jay.
August 28th: Grand Manan - Whistle Road including Long Eddy Lighthouse. The Anchorage, Long Pond. Castalia Marsh.
Weather: Warm and sunny with a very light N breeze. Clear skies. 21C.
Our first morning on Grand Manan was spent exploring the area along the Whistle Road and Long Eddy Lighthouse. As we got out of the car we were greeted by large groups of Cedar Waxwings in the trees and totaling in excess of 200 by the time we had finished our morning here. Warblers were a focus of our attentions and Yellow, Chestnut-sided, Bay-breasted, Black-throated Green and Myrtle all noted fairly readily. Alder Flycatchers were present in small numbers, whilst less tricky to identify was Eastern Kingbird and notable others included Red-eyed Vireo, Downy Woodpecker and a juvenile Brown-headed Cowbird, all of which showed nicely. An American Redstart was rather less accommodating.
After a stop for provisions and lunch we spent much of the afternoon at The Anchorage, and the vicinity of Long Pond. American Wigeon, Blue-winged Teal, Ring-necked Duck and Hooded Merganser were all on the pond. The adjacent woodland edge and trail provided some good birding with Cape May Warbler, Myrtle Warbler, Black-throated Green Warbler and all too brief American Redstart and Magnolia Warblers all being seen. On the nearby beach was a flock of Sanderling and offshore a drake White-winged Scoter. To end the afternoon we visited Castalia Marsh where it was impossible to miss the local celebrity - a Burrowing Owl. A rarity in New Brunswick and proving a popular attraction. Offshore there were rafts of Eider with Red-necked Grebe and a distant Red-throated Diver new. A return visit after dinner failed to find the hoped for Black-crowned Night-herons, but did add a distant Knot and a few insect bites.
Burrowing Owl
August 29th: Castalia, Whistle Road, Crabbe Road, Thoroughfare, Ingall's Head, Castalia Marsh.
Weather: Calm and sunny with clear skies in the morning, clouding over during the afternoon with a freshening SW breeze. 22C.
A brief spell of birding around our accommodation proved to be a worthwhile start to the day with Myrtle, Cape May and Magnolia Warbler plus Red-eyed Vireo all noted close to our cabins. A little belatedly we saw our first American Robins and then departed for the Whistle Road. Our first productive stop yielded a very brief Northern Flicker, smart Philadelphia Vireo, plus several Black-throated Green, a couple of Bay-breasted, plus Yellow, Magnolia and Myrtle Warblers. Downy Woodpecker showed very nicely, whilst an American Redstart continued the run of brief sightings of this species. At the Long Eddy Lighthouse a Black-and-White Warbler popped up briefly before slipping away prior to adequate views having been secured by all. Similarly brief, although at least seen by everyone was a Baltimore Oriole with further notables including a Chestnut-sided Warbler, a Bonaparte's Gull on the rocks and a tantalisingly distant Fin Whale.
Black-and-white Warbler
Chestnut-sided Warbler
With things quietening down we shifted location and ended up in the interior of the island. Initially quiet we eventually found a good mix of species along the Crabbe Road. As we got out of the vehicle a Bald Eagle and Broad-winged Hawk were noted. Good numbers of Black-throated Green Warblers were accompanied by several Bay-breasted Warblers and Red-eyed Vireos (including one still being fed by its parent), plus Magnolia and Yellow Warblers, and new species in the form of Blue-headed Vireo and Golden-crowned Kinglet. A leader-only Nashville Warbler did not linger.
After a lunch stop we changed tack and visited the Thoroughfare, with little success, then out to Ingall's Head where we enjoyed some nice views of Semipalmated Sandpipers and Semipalmated Plovers. A return visit to Castalia Marsh yielded a Common Loon (Great Northern Diver), Great Blue Heron, stunning views of adult Bald Eagle feeding on a young American Herring Gull, a smart juvenile Northern Harrier and a small flock of Savannah Sparrows. Out on the marsh a couple of White-rumped Sandpipers were unfortunately distant, but more satisfying were nice views of two Pectoral Sandpipers, four Short-billed Dowitchers and a small group of Lesser Yellowlegs plus a Greater.
August 30th: White Head Island, Red Point.
Weather: Overcast, mild with very light winds. 16C.
We spent most of the morning and early afternoon on White Head Island. We began with a ferry crossing from Ingall's Head, where Cape May Warbler and American Redstart were noted in the alders and pines close to the harbour. The crossing was fairly quiet with a few Black Guillemots and a Great Northern Diver the main birds of note. On the island we explored a small cove and adjacent woodland edge. This was pretty productive with obliging Great Northern Diver close inshore and flock of Black Scoter also present. The woodland edge hosted a couple of feeding flocks with Dark-eyed Junco, Black-and-white, Magnolia, Bay-breasted, several Cape May and Wilson's Warbler all seen nicely.
After a bit more effort we eventually found Boreal Chickadee as well. Gull Cove was the next stop, but this was quiet and even lacked more than a handful of gulls! Further exploration generated further encounters with warblers; Black-throated Green and Common Yellowthroat affording very nice views. We had lunch overlooking a small marsh where Great Blue Heron, Short-billed Dowitchers, Semipalmated and Grey Plovers and Savannah Sparrow were the main birds of note. Our post lunch explorations were largely unsuccessful, so we headed back to Grand Manan and then walked the trail at Red Point. This was excellent with the warbler list here including Yellow, Black-throated Green, Parula, Black-and-white and Cape May. A Red-eyed Vireo was also in attendance, whilst we heard a calling Brown Creeper. Golden-crowned Kinglets, Red-breasted Nuthatch and Red-necked Grebe were further nice sightings before we headed back to base.
August 31st: Castalia Marsh, Red Point, Pelagic out of Seal Cove.
Weather: Clear skies with sunshine becoming cloudier in the afternoon. Winds light then fresh SW during the afternoon veering NW by mid-evening. 18C.
We began with a morning visit to Castalia Marsh where a few Savannah Sparrows were in evidence, but not the hoped for Nelson's. Waders included both Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs and a bunch of Black Ducks were noted along with an adult Bald Eagle. Moving down the island a quiet walk at Red Point yielded a couple of Black-and-White and a single Cape May Warbler and Common Yellowthroat, but it was much quieter than the previous afternoon.
The main business of the day however was a trip out to sea in search of whales and seabirds. Although the numbers of seabirds were a little disappointing, we still had very nice views of Great Shearwaters, many Wilson's Petrels, a couple of Leach's Petrels, a nice flock of Grey Phalaropes, two Red-necked Phalaropes and an adult Pomarine Skua complete with 'spoons'. Stars of the show however were the Humpback Whales which performed very nicely for us, with a group of three and later two more. The latter showed nicely alongside a Ruby-throated Hummingbird - an amazing comparison! As we headed back to the island a bat flew over and further less exciting additions to the tour list were Lesser Black-backed Gull and Great Cormorant.
Wilson's Petrel
September 1st: Whistle Road, Swallowtail Lighthouse, Ferry to Blacks Harbour, Travel to Saint John.
Weather: Moderate NW wind overnight becoming W. Largely sunny but showers at Blacks Harbour.
Our final day on Grand Manan dawned with a brisk NW wind and sunny conditions. A promising setup for an arrival of migrants and we were not disappointed. We headed up to the Whistle Road where our first stop produced our first Tennessee and Blackpoll Warblers, along with the usual suspects in the form of Black-throated Green, Bay-breasted and Cape May Warblers plus Common Yellowthroat, Red-eyed Vireo and a juvenile Chipping Sparrow. At Long Eddy Lighthouse things were strangely quiet, but returning back along the road we enjoyed a wonderful couple of hours at a clearing where a nice variety of warblers moved through, with in addition to those already noted, we saw Chestnut-sided, Black-and-White, Magnolia, Nashville, American Redstart plus Philadelphia Vireo and a flyover Broad-winged Hawk. The nearby woodland trail added Ovenbird and disappointingly a leader only glimpsed Canada Warbler. By the car we added a juvenile Indigo Bunting before going in search of something to eat for lunch. After lunch we had a wander around the Swallowtail Lighthouse, but added nothing of note in the warm and windy conditions.
At 1530 we were in the ferry back to Blacks Harbour. The crossing was breezy with a few white caps on the sea. Although tricky to hold the bins still, we saw Great and Sooty Shearwaters, Arctic Skua, seven Arctic Terns, some Grey Phalaropes and a Puffin. The journey to Saint John took a little under an hour and we enjoyed a very pleasant final nights meal in the hotel.
September 2nd: Irving Nature Park. Saint John to Toronto and onwards to London.
Weather: Rather windy with a chilly NW wind. 12C.
We had a few hours before our flight home, so we visited the mixture of wooded and marshland habitats at Irving Nature Park. Our first stop was not too productive, although Common Yellowthroat, Yellow Warbler and Ruby-throated Hummingbird were all noted. Another couple of quite stops followed but walking into the edge of the woodland produced a nice flock with Black-and-White, Bay-breasted, Myrtle and Black-throated Green Warblers, Northern Parula, Downy Woodpecker and a Brown Creeper all performing nicely. A walk along the edge of the woodland and out on a boardwalk across the saltmarsh yielded nice sightings of Northern Harrier, Merlin, Least Sandpiper and Ring-billed Gull. Finally some water treatment ponds hosted a nice selection of ducks with list additions in the form of Shoveler, Mallard, Ruddy Duck and Lesser Scaup.
The trip back to the airport and onwards to Toronto passed off smoothly and we caught our onward flight to Heathrow with no issues, arriving on time early in the morning of 3rd September.
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One Stop Taco Shop
Local restaurateurs bring flavor to new taqueria
by Emily Patton / photos by Daniel Knight, Studio B
Dr. Mark Logan and Jayson Munoz opened City Taco, a gourmet taqueria, in June in Evansville.
Taquerias are among the fastest growing restaurant concepts in the U.S. Accomplished restaurateurs Jayson Munoz and Dr. Mark Logan are up to the task with bringing that experience to Evansville.
In 2012, Munoz, the owner of Kanpai Sushi & Asian Bistro, and Logan, an ear, nose, and throat physician in Evansville, formed a strong friendship from a shared passion of destination dining. In fall of 2012, Logan traveled to the Libertine Bar in Dallas, a relaxed gastropub known for its sophisticated bar setting, and it inspired their joint creation of Commonwealth Kitchen + Bar, which opened in January 2013 in Henderson, Kentucky.
The success of CKB spurred another idea from the partners in early 2014. Munoz consistently traveled to Nashville and Louisville tasting and trying local taquerias, which is a Spanish word for taco shop.
“We try to bring something to the community that isn’t already here,” says Logan. “When we opened CKB, there wasn’t a gastropub, there wasn’t a restaurant doing small plates, and along those same lines, we were trying to think of if we were going to expand, what would we offer to the community? There are a lot of places serving tacos, such as Taco Bell or Taco John’s, but those aren’t the places we’re driving to Nashville for. The taco is the vehicle.”
On June 18, Munoz and Logan opened City Taco, a gourmet taco restaurant, at 2403 Washington Ave., at the corner of Washington and Boeke, in the Ross Center.
“People walk through the door, and they ask if it’s a Mexican restaurant,” says Munoz. “We are trying to bring a unique experience to Evansville as a gourmet taco restaurant with delicious sides.”
“You wouldn’t call our Chicken Pesto Taco a Mexican dish, because it’s Mediterranean. No one was really doing gourmet tacos in Evansville. That really is what sets us apart,” says Logan.
While the concept of a gourmet taco shop is still relatively new, City Taco has been refining its menu to hammer home the idea to those who frequent it. The restaurant has recently introduced new tacos such as the Breakfast Taco, made with chorizo, scrambled egg, potatoes, Chihuahua cheese, and green onions, and the Marinated Steak Taco, which has pickled red onions, cilantro, lime juice, cotija cheese, and salsa on a flour tortilla.
In the five months, Munoz says he has learned what’s a hit and what to replace with new additions. The restaurant bid farewell to the Barbacoa Taco and introduced the taco that has become its No. 1 seller — the Pow Pow Shrimp Taco. The Pow Pow Shrimp has breaded shrimp, green onions, shredded cabbage, layered with pow pow sauce on a flour tortilla, which is the same recipe used at Kanpai Sushi & Asian Bistro.
City Taco also introduced new additions to the starters, sides, dips, and desserts; each we tried was to-die-for-delicious. Patrons can enjoy two gourmet tacos, normally marked at $3.50 each, and a side priced at $2.95 for $8.95. Sides range from the new Queso Mac & Cheese to the Chorizo Chili, which is a no-bean chili, but with all the traditional Mexican flavors.
A popular new dip, the owners say, is the Seven Layer Dip, a blend of queso, black beans, chorizo, guacamole, Pico de Gallo, and Chihuahua and cotija cheeses. Blink and your table will have devoured it too soon. The inspiration for this addition came from El Taco Loco, a restaurant in Brighton, Colorado, the state Munoz is a native of. The dip originally had five layers and Munoz tasted and said, “I can do this, too.” City Taco also offers the Plain Ol’ Taco for those less adventurous in their tastes.
Every Tuesday, City Taco offers $2 Plain Ol’ Tacos and $2 Mexican beer. With its proximity to the University of Evansville, Munoz and Logan feel the fast and casual restaurant concept and the affordable prices strongly appeal to students.
“When talking with University of Evansville students, they felt they didn’t have ‘that’ college bar or hangout. They felt like they have been missing that in Evansville, and we want to fill that void,” says Munoz.
City Taco has a covered patio, indoor/outdoor space, and a party room with stadium seating and televisions perfect for watching sports or birthday parties. Hanging on the walls is a collection of pop art ranging from Warhol and Lichtenstein to street art by Banksy.
“We are a taqueria, but we do not really consider ourselves truly Mexican and so we did not want to have Mexican décor. We wanted some bright, visual interest that was new and different to the Tri-State,” says Logan.
The restaurant’s covered patio is perfect for a late night wine or beer for those leaving the office on a Friday night and not quite ready to go home. City Taco has five house wines available by glass and an excellent reserve wine list. Many of the reserves also come in splits or half bottles, so guests can enjoy great wine buying a half bottle at a time. The restaurant offers regular bottles and splits of finer wines such as Cakebread Chardonnay, Duckhorn Sauvignon Blanc, Veuve Clicquot Champagne, Silver Oak Cabernet, and Clos du Val Cabernet.
“Even though we are a fast and casual restaurant, the wine list stands up against anyone in the Tri-State,” says Logan. “It is superb. We also would love to see people think of us on Friday and Saturday night as a place where they can sit on a patio and have a great bottle or half-bottle of wine.”
Location: 2403 Washington Ave.
Dining and Bar Hours: 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Mon.-Sat., 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sun.
Website: citytaco.com
Adult Beverages: Yes
Prices: $2-$10
Payment: All major credit cards accepted.
section: Local Flavor / Topic: Food and Drink
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Jazz Orchestra of the Concertgebouw @ Bimhuis – 30 Sept
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Martha became a certified Doula and since then has focused all of her attention on empowering women and assisting them and their families to navigate through the twists and turns that pregnancy and parenting can bring. Understanding that everyone is different, Martha is able to bring a unique approach to every individual and family that she encounters. By phone, email, text, individual and group sessions: Martha makes herself completely accessible to everyone she works with. Additionally, Martha teaches babywearing classes and several parenting workshops including Peaceful Parenting 101.
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Shah Rukh Khan is one such actor who aces everything he tries his hands at. The actor is a pro at wooing the audience with his quirky sense of humour, acting skills and awesome looks. Over the past years, SRK has been invited to several prestigious events abroad sometimes as a guest speaker and others times to receive honours.
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You Are Here: Home → 2015 → March → A STORM IN MY TEA CUP – Anuj Kapoor
A STORM IN MY TEA CUP – Anuj Kapoor
Author March 7, 2015
If you think having a nice cup of tea at the end of your day is a simple case of dropping a tea bag into a pot or brewing some leaves in a pan of boiling water, you might need to think again.
Having spent the last 12 months with teagrowers, auctioneers, distributors, tea sommeliers, retailers, restaurateurs and tea enthusiasts I learnt a little something that makes my cup a particularly exciting drink that is in some respects steeped in centuries of controversy. For me gone are the innocent days of sipping some branded blend out of a cup. That simple pleasure is now replaced with a somewhat cerebral experience. Let me infect you with my thoughts in telling this story of tea. This contagion might leave you enriched in small measure and perhaps enhance
your experience of this excellent beverage.
In this story there is mystery, intrigue, crime and glory. There is a soupçon of globalization and of history. There is the charm of glorious estates and tea gardens in the middle Himalayas and the fun and frolic of trading at auction houses in Kolkata. It carries the aromas and the buzz of tasting events where tea is served to some of the most discerning tongues across Europe, Asia & North America and the subtle genius of some near ‘illiterate’ farmers who smell the humidity in the air and feel the sunshine on their brow each day for weeks and months and deftly adjust their crop to the vagaries of nature.
If you happen to be an adventurer, I would recommend going on a tea tour of the world. It will take you to all these places and beyond. You will experience everything from modern technology and shipping to organic fertilizers and issues facing growers. It will take you from gardens in the east to high-rise rooftop restaurants in the west. You will visit old little rooms in European cities where tea has been sold for over 300 years and fill your lungs with the fragrance of First-Flush tea in warehouses in the hills. You will meet young entrepreneurs who see in tea an opportunity to make a fortune and meet old hands that can tell an Orange Pekoe from a regular Whole-Leaf by just looking at it for a few seconds. You will see multiple brands and infusions on the one hand and meet purists who drink from the same estates season after season, on the other.
You can experience these simple joys while developing a taste for one of the most outstanding flavors that humans have perhaps ever known. For me it has done all of the above and also made me question the history of the postmodern world. It has pushed me to reconcile facts with interpretations and ideas with realpolitik. It has woken me up to the world in ways I wouldn’t have imagined. But then what use is a cup of tea if it doesn’t wake you up and get your grey cells ticking?
The legendary history of tea
The story begins in China where tea was first discovered. The legend goes that nearly 4,800 years ago as Emperor Shen Nung sat under a tree, leaves from a nearby plant, Camellia sinensis (tea) blew in to some drinking water being boiled by a servant. The emperor, a keen herbalist loved its taste and the rest as they say, is history. While the veracity of this account is near impossible to ascertain, the origin of tea in China is undisputed. Tea remained a Chinese drink for at least a couple of thousand years with small amount of trade through the Silk Route with neighbouring countries, before Europeans and the rest of the world got the first whiff through traders from the east.
In the early 16th century as Portuguese ships touched the ports of Guandong in China, the first boxes of tea started finding their way by sea to Europe. Over time this exotic drink grew to become the foremost Chinese export. Tea spread gradually, to France (1638), England (1645) and Germany (1650) followed by North America by mid 17th century. It is believed that the wedding of Charles II to Portuguese princess Catherine of Braganza, a tea addict, in the mid 17th century made the drink fashionable in England. The country was to become one of the foremost champions of this exquisite drink. Tea grew in popularity on the British islands, but the taxes made it expensive for the average consumer to buy. This led to smuggling for tax avoidance and to gangs getting involved in its trade.
Some records suggest that what started as a small volume of smuggling grew into an organised crime network smuggling up-to 7 million pounds of tea a year by the late 18th century, far exceeding legal imports of around 5 million pounds per year. By the early 19th century (1838) the competition for shipping tea from China increased, forcing the East India Company (EIC) to establish its own Tea plantations. India being the hub of the EIC’s operation became a favoured place to grow tea, starting with Assam and spreading soon to Darjeeling and Kangra. Introduction of tea into India by the British proved to be a huge success. By 1890s Indian tea exceeded Chinese tea exports into England. This was the time of Tea clipper races on the high seas between importers from Europe and America to bring back the produce from the East to western markets quicker, to secure the highest prices.
I find that stories of such drama on high seas, the intrigue and crime in the history of tea add to its flavor. The politics of tea doesn’t end there however and continues in the postcolonial period and right up to today. A sense of ownership of this product is palpable among many cultures; the Chinese as the discoverers and earliest drinkers, the Europeans and among them the British as the main promoters not only of tea but also of the production of tea to the Indian subcontinent and other colonies and Indians as one the largest producers and among its biggest consumers. Such love and ownership has led to several tussles among players. Between the British and the Indians the shared history of the beverage while sometimes a complex issue, remains one of those deep and personal relationships that will keep them wedded to each other long into the future. Top selling blends like English Breakfast Tea and Afternoon tea for instance reflect a long tradition of exquisite blending expertise in the UK coupled with a great mix of Himalayan, Ceylon and Kenyan teas. Above all of this however and perhaps in no small measure on account of it, tea remains secure in its position as one of the foremost nourishments the human race has ever known.
Turning a new leaf: Understanding tea
As in the example of English Breakfast Tea above, the provenance of tea you drink can be extremely interesting. Every tea-growing region has its own soul and every nuance of growing,picking and readying the tea for market adds its own dimension. However, for ease tea is classified along two sets of parameters. The first being the season or the flush when the tea is picked; the First, Second or Third flush and the second is on the basis of the kind of leaf; Whole-Leaf, Broken, Fannings and Tea-Dust. The treatment of the leaves and the oxidation process after the leaves have been picked also determines whether the end product is a Green or Black tea.
No amount of reading can replace developing one’s own palate to decipher the flavours and nothing can replace experiencing a wide variety of teas to arrive at your preferred brew. Most people may not know, but the price of Tea can vary from as little as a few Pounds for a kilogram of Tea-Dust in tea bags to several hundred Pound Sterling for a few hundred grams of the more exquisite leaf. Some excellent teas that are reasonably priced are the Flowery Orange Pekoes of First-Flushes or White Teas from some plantations. Tea sommeliers evaluate the aromas, colours, liquor and after taste of tea in a manner similar to wine and whiskey. Sitting with connoisseurs you can learn lots just wafting through thebouquets. I discovered for instance that the act of drinking tea accompanied with the unsavoury sound of sucking air is not to do with manners or the hotness, but infact to fill ones entire mouth with the flavour, as some tones can only be felt in the nasal passage. The manner of drinking tea itself varies dramatically from one place to the other. Traditional Chinese drinkers like to brew strong green teas or herbs in small pots and reuse the leaves for several cups. The trend on the high street on the other hand is towards flavoured teas and infusions that are purely herbal drinks where dried flowers or fruits are steeped with no tea. I don’t mind a flavoured tea or a herbal infusion at times, though mostly I am partial to Flowery Orange Pekoes (top bud and few leaves from the top) and Whole-Leaf teas such as First-Flush Orthodox from Kangra, Second-Flush Single-Estate teas from Assam and White Teas (Flowery Orange Pekoe) from regions like Fujian province in China. These tend to develop a soft golden liquor and reflect the floral attributes of their region with distinctive flavours. Such in brief has been
my incredible journey through tea.
Increasingly a model similar to wines and whiskies is being deployed for producing, evaluating and marketing tea. Online stores that ship fresh teas straight from plantations and consumers that are more and more discerning are an encouraging trend. All these developments are increasing competition again and a new wave of innovations is coming into the industry. As it enters this new phase in its extraordinary journey, the story of tea reflects the ongoing evolution and change in society. Despite all the changes however, just as surely as night follows day, tea continues to energize and awaken humans each morning to push forward with renewed vigour.
The author is an essayist covering sociology
and economics. He was a
Resident Vice President at
the Citigroup Treasury in
London. He holds an MSc
in Media and Communications
from the LSE.
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Home » National News » Will Nirav Modi & Vijay Mallya share the same jail cell if extradited?: UK judge asks prosecutor
Will Nirav Modi & Vijay Mallya share the same jail cell if extradited?: UK judge asks prosecutor
News Agencies | Updated on: 30 March 2019, 14:43 IST
There was some light-hearted moments during the second bail plea hearing of Nirav Modi at the UK court when Judge Emma Arbuthnot asked the prosecution whether the fugitive diamond trader would be lodged in the same jail cell along with liquor baron Vijay Mallya if he is also extradited to India.
At the very start of the hearing on Friday, Westminster Magistrates Court Chief Magistrate Arbuthnot said she was getting a sense of "deja vu", in reference to her having ordered the extradition of Mallya in December last year. "Do we know which part of India he (Modi) is being sought in," the judge asked, to try and establish which jail Modi is likely to be held in.
She was told by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), arguing on behalf of the Indian government, that it would be an extradition to Mumbai and that he may in fact be held in the same Arthur Road Jail as that prepared for liquor tycoon Mallya, to which the judge said in a light-hearted vein that it could even be the same cell as we know "there is space" from the previous video submitted during the Mallya extradition trial.
India has informed the UK court that Mallya will be lodged in one of the high security barracks located in a two-storey building inside the Arthur Road prison complex in Mumbai.
Authorities at the Arthur Road prison in Mumbai have kept a high security cell ready for Mallya if he is extradited from UK in connection with loan default cases against him in India.
India has sought the extradition of Modi, 48, for alleged "high value and sophisticated" fraud and money laundering amounting to USD 2 billion. Mallya, wanted in India on charges of fraud and money laundering amounting to around Rs 9,000 crore, has filed his application in the UK High Court, seeking permission to appeal against an extradition order signed by the British Home Secretary.
If extradited, 62-year-old Mallya will be lodged in the prison complex, which also housed 26/11 Mumbai attack terrorist Mohammad Ajmal Kasab.
An official from the Ministry of Home Affairs earlier said Mumbai's Arthur Road Jail was one of the best in the country. His comments came after Judge Arbuthnot asked Indian authorities to submit a video of the Arthur Road Jail cell where they plan to keep Mallya following his extradition.
The official said adequate medical facilities were available to treat prisoners in Arthur Road Jail, where Mallya would get full security cover as an undertrial prisoner and it was highly secured in accordance with international standards.
The central government has already conducted an assessment of security cover given to prisoners in the Arthur Road Jail and its findings conveyed to the UK court. In another throwback to the Mallya trial, Modi's defence team, led by barrister Clare Montgomery raised the issue of the state of the paperwork submitted by the Indian authorities, claiming it "made her cry" at one stage.
The judge concurred with her and was very firm about proper indexing of all documents to be submitted to the court in relation to the case.
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Health is the Revolution: RECEPTORS Part 1
Jun 20, 2017 | CBDAlive Training Manual
A receptor is a protein molecule that receives messaging signals from outside a cell and passes it into the interior of the cell to initiate a cellular response. Cannabinoid receptors are in the family of G-protein coupled receptors.
Cannabinoid receptors function as subtle sensing devices, tiny vibrating scanners perpetually primed to pick up biochemical cues that flow through fluids surrounding each cell.
Think of the receptor as a gate sitting on the surface of the cell. It is a locked pathway from outside the cell to inside. A specific key will open it so a bio chemical message or some other stimulate can be sent to the interior of the cell. This initiates the cell into some type of action.
The concept of receptors traces itself back to the early 1900’s. The G-protein coupled receptor family represents the largest and most versatile group of cell surface receptors. Drugs active at these receptors have therapeutic actions across a wide range of human diseases.
We still do not understand everything about how they work. It was not until around the 1980 that the mechanism of how they functioned was understood. Since 1992 eight Nobel Prizes have been awarded about work with these receptors. Approximately 1/3 to 1/2 of all pharmaceutical drugs available, and two largest selling drugs world wide, all work through affecting G receptors.
The Cannabinoid receptors are in the shape of a helix. Imagine it as a corkscrew that opens outside the cell and transports messenger molecules to inside the cell. But it does not go vertically through the cell wall into the interior. Rather imagine looking at the lacing on a football. They weave in and out 6 times before opening up to the inside.
As a side, why in a helix form? And why so long a pathway for getting into the cell, the longest possible distance following the curving form of the helix? There are answers, though not in the science yet, but in the more imaginative realm of observing and listening to Nature.
When looking at a topological map of a river we always see the meandering pathway the river follows. Each unique, but always the same overall pattern. The same pattern we see when every water is flowing. What we are seeing is a two dimensional slice of a three dimensional helix form. Water always moves in this manner. It renews and enlivens itself in this sensitive chaos. Take the rhythm out, straighten the river, and it dies. Our receptors have taken the form most loved by Nature. The helix forms gives the greatest strength and allows the most encoding of information in the shortest length. Because of its circular path. This is why DNA is in this shape and the shape is continually repeated in our bodies. Following how the river flows. Following Nature’s wisdom.
Imagine the CB receptors as mountain creeks. Taking these little packets of information on the longest possible circular distance on their journey from outside the cell depositing them inside. Enlivening, charging the message with each turn of the helix and having more time to gain access to the most information.
What other “listening” part of our body is in this curved return on itself shape? The Cochlea in the ear. Though here it is more a vortex than a helix, both giving the most surface area to receive information in the least space. Both avenues of communication within the body. It only makes sense.
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India could gain $15 billion a year by implementing the Goods and Service Tax (GST) as it would boost exports, raise employment and spur growth, the head of a government panel said on Monday.
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee is expected to lay a roadmap for the launch of the ambitious tax reform in his budget speech next Monday. It is expected to be implemented across the country from April, 2010.
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Kelkar said implementation of GST had raised Canada's GDP by 1.4 percent and would help India redistribute the tax burden equitably between manufacturing and services.
"In India we can expect a similar kind of positive impact. This means gains of about $15 billion annually," he was quoted as saying in speech, a copy of which was made available by the finance ministry.
The panel, which has been set up to determine the devolution of federal taxes to states for five years, is expected to submit its report soon.
Referring to opposition to GST by some state governments, Kelkar said the panel could provide a compensation package to states and help speed up the implementation of a "flawless" GST.
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Horn Park resident Frances Walker met Tony and Cherie Blair at a reception at 10 Downing Street last Monday. Frances was invited to the reception by Eltham MP Clive Efford.
The reception was held to honour ordinary men and women who had worked hard to help improve their local communities. “When Downing Street asked me to invite someone who had made a real difference to their local area, I told them I could fill their reception with people from my constituency who are working hard to improve their local communities.”
“But Frances was an obvious choice. She chairs the Horn Park Forum which brings together local residents with the local community centre, the council’s young people’s services, housing, the local police, Charlton’s charitable trust and London and Quadrant Housing Association. The Forum has already overseen major improvements in the park, where a new ball park and swing park have already been installed. The Forum has also worked closely with Charlton Athletic who run a number of football training schemes in the park. The Forum has achieved a lot in its first year, but there is still a lot to do. I would have liked to take the whole group, but Frances’ invitation is a tribute to everyone involved with the forum.”
Frances said, “it was really special experience that I have been able to tell my grandchildren about. I will never forget it.”
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By Gerry Boyle '78 | Photography by Jeff Pouland
Zhicheng “Jacob” Zhang ’16 at work in the art studio. The Nanjing, China, resident chose Colby to pursue his interests in art and chemistry.
When Tianyang “Vera” Zhou ’16 told friends at home in Beijing that she had decided to go to Colby College in the United States, their reaction told her she had some explaining to do. “They were, like, ‘All right. You are going to a college that studies basketball?’ All they know is Kobe [Bryant] from the Lakers. I’m like, ‘No, not really. I don’t play basketball.’”
“It takes a lot of work to explain to them exactly what a liberal arts college is.”
But the word is spreading. And fast.
In China, where Harvard, Yale, and UCLA have long been the only household names of American education, Colby and other liberal arts colleges are making dramatic inroads as more and more Chinese students—and their parents—see the value of a liberal arts education.
Sidebar: From China, Parents Say Colby Is a Success for Their Children
The numbers, in fact, are skyrocketing. From a handful applying to Colby five years ago, there was a steady increase up until last year, when 149 students applied and 11 enrolled in the Class of 2016. This year 231 Chinese students applied, an increase of 55 percent in a general applicant pool that grew by 3 percent.
“It was an incredible bump,” said Hung Bui ’94, associate dean of admissions and financial aid.
It’s a bump being felt by Colby’s peers, but on Mayflower Hill the increased interest from Chinese applicants is nearly off the chart. Bui said an informal survey of selective liberal arts colleges, including several in NESCAC, showed that applications from China were up an average of 27 percent. At Colby, the number was up nearly 50 percent, Bui said.
Why? Chinese students at Colby point to Colby’s personal touch in recruiting trips to Chinese high schools (Bui has been to China twice in two years with a 12-college group; Steve Thomas, director of admissions and financial aid, makes regular recruiting trips to Asia). They also say there’s a growing awareness of the liberal arts as an alternative to big universities—spreading in large part on social media and websites. Chinese students at small liberal arts colleges in America are taking to the Internet to fill in high schoolers back home.
“At least my generation, when we’re applying we see this kind of stuff,” said Ronghan “Michelle” Wang ’16, a Presidential Scholar from Shenyang.
Xueqing “Quincy” Qiao ’16 during a rehearsal of the Colby Chorale. The math major and music minor explores a variety of academic interests.
The “stuff” includes reports from Chinese students who chose what is still seen by many in China as an unconventional path for their education—and are glad they did. Close relationships with professors, small classes, and opportunities to branch out academically and in extracurricular activities are being touted as alternatives to typical experiences at big-name universities.
“Different people have different needs,” said Zhicheng “Jacob” Zhang ’16. Zhang said he would definitely recommend Colby to Chinese students who “have a hard decision like mine.” For Zhang, from Nanjing, the decision was whether to pursue his interest in chemistry or art history. At a university he would have to pick one, but at Colby he is able to study both, he said, and he is considering a double major.
Other Chinese first-years are doing the same. Wang wants to major in psychology and French. Xueqing “Quincy” Qiao ’16, from Beijing, wants to major in mathematics with a music minor (she sings in the Colby Chorale and an a cappella group). Zhou came to Colby because of its strong Environmental Studies Program, but she wants to add a second major in women’s, gender, and sexuality studies. She will be an orientation leader for incoming first-years next semester.
Meng “Maggie” Zhao ’16, from Tianjin, is studying psychology but is also interested in theater and this semester was stage manager for a production of Henry IV. “Because I’m here, the most important thing I’ve learned is that I can think for myself,” Zhao said. “I learned how to challenge myself.”
All of these students are extremely well-prepared academically (Wang and Qiao are Presidential Scholars), according to Bui. But they chose the American liberal arts route over the Chinese university system, which they say is more rigid.
Qiao, the math major, said she had spoken to a friend studying math at prestigious Peking University. “He has five math classes a semester,” she said. “And I’m a math major and I have one or two.” She told her friend how much she enjoyed a philosophy course first semester and he said, “Philosophy? Why are you studying philosophy?” Qiao said. “I don’t want to do math my whole life. I really want to try different things.”
“Because I’m here, the most important thing I’ve learned is that I can think for myself. I learned how to challenge myself.”
—Meng “Maggie” Zhao ’16
But there were considerable obstacles to taking the liberal arts path, the students said.
The word “college” roughly translates to a word that means community college in China, so some think a college in America is the equivalent, they said. Also, high schools in China are measured by how many students they place in prestigious Chinese universities. “If they lose their best students to the U.S., they’re not getting the prestige for the school or the principal,” Bui said.
The biggest challenge for recruiters still is the lack of name recognition most American liberal arts colleges have in job-conscious China. Big-name American universities provide a better entrée to a job in China if Chinese students return home with only an undergraduate degree, they said. But in recent years, the Colby students said, students and parents have begun to realize that an undergraduate degree from a college like Colby can lead to a prestigious American graduate school, which translates easily back home.
For Chinese students, as for their American counterparts, the transition to a small liberal arts college isn’t always smooth. Zhang said he felt his English skills held him back at first. And some said they missed the Asian food and shopping malls they enjoyed back home. The long Maine winters, they said, are warmer than winters in parts of China.
Zhou said Chinese high school students admitted to begin next year had begun asking what they should bring to Colby. “Clothes,” she tells them, “but don’t bring the warm ones. Just get them in Maine. We have L.L. Bean.”
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Aujourd'hui : Vendredi, 19 juillet 2019
Ayse Gunalsu : "Hrant a été assassiné. Que tous les menteurs se taisent"
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Info Collectif VAN - www.collectifvan.org - Ayse Gunalsu, intellectuelle turque défenseur des Droits de l'Homme et qui a pris des positions très courageuses sur le génocide arménien, s'élève avec force contre toutes les récupérations scandaleuses de la classe politique turque, et contre tous les media qui véhiculent depuis des décennies la propagande haineuse de l'Etat turc et versent de soudaines et hypocrites larmes de crocodile.
HRANT IS KILLED, LET ALL LIARS SHUT-UP
Everyone who says that this was an attack on Turkey, everyone who talks about the sinister games played on Turkey, everyone who talks about the timing of this attack coinciding with foreign parliaments' making decisions on the "alleged" genocide, and thus trying to disguise the fact that Hrant Dink was being tried because he said "genocide" and was receiving threats because of this, and everyone who is protecting the real murderer, that is the ones who are allowing Union and Progress' covert operator, lyncher, rabid spirit to still live on, has a share of responsibility.
The Justice Minister Hikmet Sami Turk, who yelled from the podiums of the congress that the ones who were organizing the Armenian conference were stabbing the Turkish people in the back, President Ahmet Necdet Sezer who vetoed the law proposal dealing with minority foundations on the grounds that it would strengthen minorities, the district attorneys who turn a blind eye on thousands of cases of torture, convictions without trial, unknown culprits taken into custody and lost, but processed and tried the alleged "notices of guilt" that are devoid of the most elementary notions of universal law, the newspaper Hurriyet that in the days Hrant Dink declared he was going to look for justice in the European Human Rights Courts, made front page news with the head of the Greek foundations who said he wouldn't go to European Human Rights Courts as he trusted the Turkish Justice system, called him a true citizen, and therefore whomever tried to look for justice in the European H.R. Courts was shown as a target, branded as "so-called/pseudo" citizen, and, before Hrant's blood was even dry, the Turkish Television stations that for hours debated a litany of provocation by relating it to the law proposal pending in the United States Congress, are all a part of this murder, they have a responsibility.
Everybody who says that this was an attack on Turkey is lying. Because this attack was made possible by Turkey herself therefore, Turkey is responsible. This attack was made possible by the government that has implemented article 301, as protection against only the denigration of Turkishness, not of all identities, thus providing a legal basis for aggression, and it was made possible by an entire population of Turkey who didn't reject this article.
Everybody who, instead of feeling shame faced with the murder of Hrant Dink, instead of saying "we are all guilty", worried about Turkey's dignity, from the officials to the opinion leaders, they are all lying, they are trying to disguise their guilt. Let all the liars shut up.
And you shut up too please, democratic journalists like Altan Oymen. If you are not refusing to answer questions that link the murder of Hrant to the genocide recognition proposal in the US Congress, and do not see a problem replying to them, if you are not refusing to be disrespectful to the pain of the Armenian people by making such connections, if you are not rejecting to thus support the ones who are trying to fool people with conspiracy theories by foreign influences aimed at the Turkish people, just to exonerate our own murderers, shut up, all of you shut up.
LET ALL LIARS SHUT UP. HRANT'S WOUNDS ARE STILL BLEEDING.
Original source in Turkish
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Saint Mary’s Hoopster
Matthew Dellavedova talks about his experience in the Olympics.
By Peter Crooks
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For someone whose lifelong dream was to compete in the Olympics, Saint Mary’s College basketball star Matthew Dellavedova had quite the assignment when he got there: guarding NBA legend Kobe Bryant. Dellavedova, playing for his native Australia, didn’t flinch at the challenge.
“You don’t go out on the court and say, ‘Wow, it’s Kobe!’ ” says the 22-year-old senior. “You see him as an opponent, and you go out there and try to win.”
Dellavedova and his fellow Aussies hung in against the U.S. powerhouse, before getting blown out in the fourth quarter of the quarterfinal game. Which was enough to make residents of tiny Maryborough, Victoria—where basketball takes a backseat to cricket and Aussie rules football—plenty proud of Dellavedova, the first Olympian in his hometown’s history.
Hoops fans here in the East Bay also love “Delly.” The six-foot-four-inch point guard has been a key force during Saint Mary’s recent surge as a basketball power. In Dellavedova’s first year, the Gaels went to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA tournament; last year, they won the West Coast Conference title and returned to the “Big Dance.”
“It’s funny; you don’t remember the moments of winning a big game as much as you do all the practices and workouts and team meetings,” he says. “The team here has always been like a family, and I guess I look back on our successes, on what we went through to earn them.”
Dellavedova also has starred in the classroom: The psychology major is one of five first-team Academic All-Americans, joining players from Duke and North Carolina for that national honor. He hopes to go pro after his final year at Saint Mary’s, possibly in the European leagues. Until then, he’s thrilled to be playing ball in Moraga.
“This is such a beautiful place to live, and a great community,” says Dellavedova. “The people you see around town are the people you see at every game, supporting the team.”
For information about Gaels basketball, go to smcgaels.com.
Concord: Stronger Together Gala
For the past 18 years, Concord’s Monument Impact has been a force in the city, serving its vulnerable immigrant and refugee communities. Recently, the nonprofit center hosted its Stronger Together gala to celebrate the work that volunteers, local businesses, unions, and others have done to support immigrants in the East Bay. Among those honored for their contributions were volunteer English tutor (and onetime San Francisco Giant) Rob Andrews, former board member Margaret Hanlon-Gradie, and John Muir Health.
The Oakland Museum of California’s gardens overflowed with more than 250 guests during this yearly fundraising gala. Guest chefs Reem Assil and Barbara Llewellyn provided the scrumptious bites, while the auction offered bidders experiential packages. In keeping with the current Queer California: Untold Stories exhibit, the evening’s entertainment featured Oaklash, a drag and queer performance group.
In celebration of its six years of providing free transportation to cancer patients in Alameda County, Drivers for Survivors hosted its yearly ball in Pleasanton. The entertainment was top-notch, including Marcie Dodd (previously seen in Wicked on Broadway) and accomplished pianist Carol Weiss; the keynote address was given by Dr. Laura Esserman.
Sparkles and Spurs
Denizens of the East Bay headed to Round Hill Country Club in Alamo and kicked up their heels to support Hospice East Bay at the annual Celebration of Care Gala, raising around $200,000 to aid the nonprofit’s programs and services. This year’s theme, Sparkles and Spurs, meant that the more than 300 guests came dressed in their cowboy-best, sporting boots, Stetsons, and chunky belt buckles.
Ragin’ Cajun
The Sandra J. Wing Healing Therapies Foundation, which offers alternative treatments to patients with cancer, welcomed over 320 sponsors and supporters to its annual Ragin’ Cajun event. The Tri-Valley bash featured an African–inspired feast and music.
To celebrate its spring campaign The Art of Travel, Neiman Marcus hosted a fashion show at its Walnut Creek location. Entrepreneur Sheryl Grant and social media influencer Sydel Curry-Lee (whose famous family members in attendance included her brother Stephen Curry) spoke at the event, which featured sips, bites, and the opportunity to shop the latest trends with help from jet-setting fashion experts as well.
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Opportunity Junction furthered its mission of transforming the lives of low-income families in East Contra Costa with its 2019 fete, which featured gourmet food, drinks, both live and silent bidding, dancing, and inspirational entertainment.
Power of Kindness
Old Hollywood glam met giving back at this special event from Party In-Kindness. With the mission of raising funds for the Katie Nues Foundation for Katie’s Clinic at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland—which aids patients and their families affected by Rett Syndrome—guests heard from heartwarming speakers and danced to tunes from DJ Lance Callanta.
Fire and Light Soiree
The Crucible’s signature fundraiser returned for its 20th year, and the industrial arts center celebrated the occasion with the unveiling of a major piece of collaborative art that incorporated many locally sourced elements, including steel from an old span of the Bay Bridge. There were also cocktails, a catered dinner, and a live art auction.
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San Leandro’s Davis Street Family Resource Center raised more than $150,000 at this flamboyant, Cuban-themed evening of dinner and dancing; CEO Rose Padilla Johnson proudly announced that it was the organization’s highest-grossing event to date. The funds will help low-income families in the area improve their quality of life through both short- and long-term assistance.
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ABC7 San Francisco news anchor Dan Ashley returned to the Lesher Center for the Arts in Walnut Creek with his yearly fundraiser for Court Appointed Special Advocates, Friends of Camp Concord, and Big Brothers Big Sisters. Always a star-studded event (Cheap Trick and Melissa Etheridge have performed in the past), the 2019 extravaganza featured “Lady Marmalade” singer Patti LaBelle.
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Cinema is Forever!
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The First Third of a Long and Blessed Journey
Almost exactly a year ago, I had written a post celebrating my 250th movie from TSPDT's list of 1000 Greatest Movies of all time. A little while ago I finished watching 'Spartacus', my 334th movie from the list. I am glad to have finished one-third of this long and blessed journey of watching the greatest films.
'Spartacus' is also my twelfth and last Kubrick feature (not counting the 72-min long, least-seen 'Fear and Desire' that the director himself disowned later) and my 210th film this year (not counting the not-good ones).
Following are the last 10 movies that helped me reach the figure of 334. It features some of the biggest names, and thus looks good!
'Strangers on a Train' (1951) by Alfred Hitchcock
'El' (1952) by Luis Bunuel
'Kes' (1969) by Ken Loach
'The Last Temptation of Christ' (1988) by Martin Scorsese
'Jaws' (1975) by Steven Spielberg
'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre' (1948) by John Huston
'The Wrong Man' (1956) by Alfred Hitchcock
'The Bridge on the River Kwai' (1957) by David Lean
'Wild at Heart' (1990) by David Lynch
'Spartacus' (1960) by Stanley Kubrick
Looking forward to reaching the 400-mark. By this rate, it should happen about a year from now.
Posted by satyanshu singh at 1:33 AM
Labels: Celebrations
Umesh Bawa November 14, 2011 at 9:34 AM
Congrats sir...
satyanshu singh November 14, 2011 at 10:11 PM
Thanks Umesh!
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C257. The Fallen Idol
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D255. Mr. Hulot's Holiday
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252. Man on Wire
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169. Pataakha
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D166. Neighboring Sounds
165. Andhadhun
C164. Watchmen
163. Sui Dhaaga
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D160. In a Year with 13 Moons
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D158. Diva
C157. Scarlet Street
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90. The Bicycle Thief (Re)
A89. X-Men: Apocalypse
B88. Thelma
A87. Isle of Dogs
A86. Last Flag Flying
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A83. Ocean's Eight
C82. The Wolverine
81. Three Colors: Red (Re)
80. I Am Not Your Negro
79. Spielberg
78. Sanju
C77. X-Men: First Class
76. Three Colors: White (Re)
A75. Incredibles 2
C74. Marie Antoinette
C73. X-Men Origins: Wolverine
72. Three Colors: Blue (Re)
A71. Hereditary
C70. X-Men: The Last Stand
C69. Bubble
C68. The Incredibles
C67. X2
B66. Phoenix
65. On Body and Soul (Re)
B64. Faces Places
C63. X-Men
C62. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
C61. Munich
C60. War of the Worlds
A59. Moana
C58. Fantastic Mr. Fox
A57. Annihilation
D56. Tropical Malady
A55. You Were Never Really Here
D54. Good Bye, Dragon Inn
53. Piku (Re)
D52. Le Havre
D51. Platform (Zhantai)
A50. Deadpool 2
B49. Goodbye to Language
A48. Deadpool
A47. 20th Century Women
A46. Avengers: Infinity War
B45. Grave (Raw)
C44. Beginners
D43. 35 Shots of Rum
42. Raazi
A41. Black Panther
C40. Sleepless in Seattle
39. Kapoor and Sons (Re)
B38. On Body and Soul
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C36. Notting Hill
A35. Thor: Ragnarok
A34. Spider-Man: Homecoming
A33. Certain Women
A32. mother!
A31. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
A30. Captain America: Civil War
29. Nude
A28. Ant-Man
A27. Avengers: Age of Ultron
A26. Guardians of the Galaxy
A25. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
C24. Thor: The Dark World
C23. Iron Man 3
C22. The Avengers
C21. Captain America: The First Avenger
C19 Thor
C18 Iron Man 2
17. Rang De Basanti
A16. Ready Player One
C15. The Incredible Hulk
A14. A Quiet Place
C13. Iron Man
A12. The Florida Project
C11. Ocean's Eleven
A10. Mr. Roosevelt
C9. Tropic Thunder
B8. The Square
A7. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
A6. The Shape of Water
A5. Darkest Hour
A4. Phantom Thread
3. Mukkabaaz
A2. The Post
A1. Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi
A142. Blade Runner 2049 (2017/ USA) by Denis Villeneuve
141. Ajji (2017/ India) by Devashish Makhija
140 Newton (2017/ India) by Amit Masurkar
A139. It (2017/ USA) by Andy Muschietti
138. 12 Angry Men (Re) (1957/ USA) by Sidney Lumet
A137. Logan Lucky (2017/ USA) by Steven Soderbergh
A136. Nocturnal Animals (2016/ USA) by Tom Ford*
D135. Funny Games (1997/ Austria) by Michael Haneke
A134. Paterson (2016/ USA) by Jim Jarmusch
C133. eXistenZ (1999/ Canada) by David Cronenberg
C132. Wolf Creek (2005/ Australia) by Greg Mclean*
C131. Berberian Sound Studio (2012/ UK) by Peter Strickland
C130. Nine Lives (2005/ USA) by Rodrigo Garcia*
129. Lipstick Under My Burkha (2017/ India) by Alankrita Shrivastava*
D128. Lore (2012/ Australia-Germany) by Cate Shortland*
C127. Smoke (1995/ USA) by Wayne Wang and Paul Auster*
D126. Alpine Forest (1985/ Switzerland) by Fredi M. Murer*
C125. Fort Apache (1948/ USA) by John Ford
D124. Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East? (1989/ South Korea) by Bae Yong-kyun*
C123. Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988/ UK) by Terence Davies* 28/7
D122. Monsieur Lazhar (2011/ Canada) by Philippe Falardeau*
B121. The Tribe (Plemya) (2014/ Ukrain) by Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi*
C120. Point Blank (1967/ USA) by John Boorman
C119. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937/ USA)
C118. The Band Wagon (1953/ USA) by Vincente Minnelli
B117. Hard to Be a God (2013/ Russia) by Aleksei German* 15/5
C116. West Side Story (1961/ USA) by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins
D115. The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967/ France) by Jacques Demy
A114. Dunkirk (2017/ UK-USA) by Christopher Nolan
A113. War for the Planet of the Apes (2017/ USA) by Matt Reeves
C112. Everyone Says I Love You (1996/ USA) by Woody Allen
A111. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014/ USA) by Matt Reeves
C110. Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011/ USA) by Rupert Wyatt*
C109. Planet of the Apes (1968/ USA) by Franklin J. Schaffner
B108. The Summer of Sangaile (2015/ Lithuania) by Alante Kavaite*
B107. The Lure (2015/ Poland) by Agnieszka Smoczynska*
106. The Missing Picture (2013/ Cambodia-France) by Rithy Panh* 8/3
A105. Baby Driver (2017/ UK-USA) by Edgar Wright
B104. Taxi Tehran (2015/ Iran) by Jafar Panahi
B103. Things to Come (2016/ France) by Mia Hansen-Love* 3/3
B102. Embrace of the Serpent (2015/ Colombia) by Ciro Guerra*
B101. Rams (2015/ Iceland) by Grimur Hakonarson*
D100. Summer Hours (2008/ France) by Olivier Assayas
C99. A Scanner Darkly (2006/ USA) by Richard Linklater
A98. Okja (2017/ South Korea-USA) by Bong Joon-ho
D97. War Witch (2012/ Canada) by Kim Nguyen*
D96. The Illusionist (2010/ France-UK) by Sylvain Chomet* 12/3
C95. Erin Brockovich (2000/ USA) by Steven Soderbergh
94. Grizzly Man (2005/ USA) by Werner Herzog
D93. Lilja 4-ever (2002/ Sweden-Denmark) by Lukas Moodysson
C92. District 9 (2009/ New Zealand-USA-South Africa) by Neill Blomkamp*
91. The Gleaners & I (2000/ France) by Agnes Varda
A90. Wonder Woman (2017/ USA) by Patty Jenkins*
A89. Frozen (2013/ USA) by Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee*
D88. White Material (2009/ France) by Claire Denis
C87. Gladiator (2000/ UK-USA) by Ridley Scott
A86. The Lost City of Z (2016/ USA) by James Gray
D85. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005/ Romania) by Cristi Puiu* 12/4
C84. The Sugarland Express (1974/ USA) by Steven Spielberg
D83. Post Tenebras Lux (2012/ Mexico-France) by Carlos Reygadas
C82. Two Lovers (2008/ USA) by James Gray
C81. We Own the Night (2007/ USA) by James Gray* 4/3
C80. If.... (1968/ UK) by Lindsay Anderson* 40/7
A79. Get Out (2017/ USA) by Jordan Peele*
A78. Alien: Covenant (2017/ USA) by Ridley Scott
C77. Prometheus (2012/ USA) by Ridley Scott
D76. Fitzcarraldo (1982/ West Germany) by Werner Herzog
C75. Scarecrow (1973/ USA) by Jerry Schatzberg* 4/2
D74. Gate of Hell (1953/ Japan) by Teinosuke Kinugasa* 22/4
D73. Songs from the Second Floor (2000/ Sweden) by Roy Andersson
D72. Trouble Every Day (2001/ France) by Claire Denis
D71. Crimson Gold (Iran/ 2003) by Jafar Panahi
C70. Mysterious Skin (2004/ USA-Netherlands) by Gregg Araki* 4/2
C69. Birth (2004/ USA) by Jonathan Glazer
C68. Deep End (1970/ UK-West Germany) by Jerzy Skolimowski* 24/9
C67. Stardust Memories (1980/ USA) by Woody Allen
A66. Wiener-Dog (2016/ USA) by Todd Solondz
C65. Happiness (1998/ USA) by Todd Solondz
64. Baahubali II (2017/ India) by S.S. Rajamouli
63. Baahubali I (2015/ India) by S.S. Rajamouli*
A62. The Fits (2015/ USA) by Anna Rose Holmer*
C61. Gunga Din (1939/ USA) by George Stevens* 80/12
A60. Stoker (2013/ UK-USA) by Park Chan-wook
C59. Suspiria (1977/ Italy) by Dario Argento* 29/11
C58. Old Joy (2006/ USA) by Kelly Reichardt* 7/4
57. Mukti Bhawan (2017/ India) by Shubhashish Bhutiani*
A56. The Invitation (2015/ USA) by Karyn Kusama*
55. Angamaly Diaries (2017/ India) by Lijo Jose Pellissery*
D54. Inside (2007/ France) by Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo*
D53. The Host (2006/ South Korea) by Bong Joon-ho
A52. What We Do in the Shadows (2014/ New Zealand) by Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi
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C50. Scarface (1932/ USA) by Howard Hawks
C49. Nothing Sacred (1937/ USA) by William A. Wellman
A48. Kong: Skull Island (2017/ USA) by Jordan Vogt-Roberts*
C47. Wuthering Heights (1939/ USA) William Wyler
C46. To Have and Have Not (1944/ USA) by Howard Hawks
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B42. Toni Erdmann (2016/ Germany-Austria) by Maren Ade*
C41. Lola Versus (2012/ USA) by Daryl Wein*
C40. Misery (1990/ USA) by Rob Reiner
C39. Road to Perdition (2002/ USA) by Sam Mendes
C38. The Quiet Man (1952/ USA) by John Ford
A37. Patriots Day (2016/ USA) by Peter Berg*
C36. Black Narcissus (1947/ UK) by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
A35. Fences (2016/ USA) by Denzel Washington*
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A33. Jackie (2016/ USA-Chile) by Pablo Larrain
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A30. Silence (2016/ USA-Taiwan) by Martin Scorsese
A29. Hidden Figures (2016/ USA) by Theodore Melfi*
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A26. Moonlight (2016/ USA) by Barry Jenkins*
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A12. Hail, Caesar! (2016/ USA) by Joel and Ethan Coen
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C3. Don't Look Now (1973/ UK-Italy) by Nicolas Roeg
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What exactly is Artisan Bread?
What exactly is artisan bread? You probably hear or see the term in your local supermarket but the true definition is that it is made by someone with a craft or skill in producing this specific product. In regards to bread – it is a skilled and experienced baker in the craft of bread-making. Something made in small quantities and a far cry from prepackaged supermarket loaves.
Many people think artisan bread ultimately comes down to the texture and colour. It’s by these two features that attract #breadlovers to artisan bread but it doesn’t exactly make it #artisan.
Throughout the centuries, bread has taken on many guises, recipes and results. But artisan #realbread brings us all a gourmet experience which satisfies our hearts and stomachs (and also can bring up nostalgia!).
Made by a craftsperson using largely and predominately traditional techniques, the concentration is on on the core processes involved in producing the bread, including the ingredients, mixing, fermenting and baking processes.
Skill and knowledge are integral to making artisan bread. High quality ingredients has to be conjoined to a experienced and passionate baker who knows how to use them. Quality ingredients are mixed, slowly fermented, hand shaped and then baked in small batches.
Perfecting a craft like this is developed over time and is ultimately a life-long learning process which has been passed down generation to generation. Special attention is taken to each batch – returning to the process and fundamentals of the age-old bread making tradition.
The consumption of artisan breads continue to climb and with it so does our ever-expanding passion to provide the ultimate artisan experience with #realbread.
Provide your customers with the artisan experience – Are you a cafe, venue or restaurant looking for a local supplier of fresh baked ciabatta, sourdough and other artisan breads? Dolce Forno delivers freshly baked artisan breads and pastries within Hertfordshire, St Albans, Surrey, Berkshire, London and Buckinghamshire.
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Scandinavian Rye Bread: Hearty and Wholesome
As the traditional bread of Scandinavia with variants from region to region, Scandinavian rye bread is noted for it’s sweet and sour taste, dense texture and complex enticing flavours produced through its sourdough fermentation process. As a nation known for being big bread lovers, Scandinavian rye bread is distinguished as being healthier, darker and denser, containing more nutrients.
Rye was and still is a key ingredient to many traditional rye and pumpernickel breads. Dark rye bread was considered a staple through the Middle ages and many different types of rye grain have originated from central, eastern and western Europe. Historically, rye was common in the Nordic countries. Vikings were the first people to grow this type of grain and believed that rye provided them increased amount of strength and sustenance.
Scandinavians have been using rye flour for generations in making their signature wholesome hearty rye loaves. Dense, moist and flavorsome, rye is often combined with caraway seeds, oats and barley to create lighter rye bread.
Scandinavians invented Smørrebrød (pronounced shmur-brugh), a traditional Nordic open sandwich consisting of rye bread and topped with various fillings. The sourdough rye is usually buttered to stop the fillings soaking the bread. The choice of toppings are endless and can range from cold cut meats and cheeses, spreads and fresh herbs, vegetables and salad. Dating back to the 19th century, Scandinavian agricultural workers would have Smørrebrød for lunch using previous nights leftovers as fillings. Many note that the concept stemmed from the Middle ages when stale bread (called trencher) was service and used during meals to soak up juices and flavours of the accompanying food. Nowadays, open-faced sandwiches are eaten for breakfast, lunch and dinner and can be served as a starter, main or desert!
Authentic and #realbread rye bread can be identified by its chewy, dense, sour, nutty and very filling form. Artisan bakers perfect the bread-making process (including the fermentation) to ensure that each loaf is a unique artisan experience.
Here at Dolce Forno we provide various rye breads. Serve your customers and guests open-sandwiches with our range of rye breads. Are you a cafe, venue or restaurant looking for a local supplier of fresh baked pugliese, ciabatta, sourdough and other artisan breads? Dolce Forno delivers freshly baked artisan breads and pastries within Hertfordshire, St Albans, Surrey, Berkshire, London and Buckinghamshire.
Contact us today to arrange a FREE sample tray of our artisan breads or pastries. Call our team at Dolce Forno Breads on 01727 762 456 or alternatively email contact@dolceforno.co.uk to find out more.
Irish Soda Bread: From the Emerald Isle
From the Emerald Isle, Irish soda bread remains an international favourite with a strong sense of history. The recipe isn’t as old as others and its traditional recipe has not been around for thousands of years.
Soda bread wasn’t primarily invented in Ireland but the country has become the automatic country associated with it. As a key ingredient in Irish soda bread, bicarbonate of soda was first introduced to Ireland around the 1840s. The bread was originally produced using the most basic of ingredients: flour, baking soda (which is used as a leavening agent instead of yeast), soured milk and salt. During this era the key ingredients for making Irish soda bread were the most basic and cheap ingredients meaning that it was accessible to make by most Irish households.
It wasn’t popularity but necessity that lead to the adoption of soda bread becoming a household and daily staple. All around Ireland, various types of soda bread were created. The Northern Irish province of Ulster are known for their wholemeal version called wheaten bread, whereas the county of Fermanagh formed white flour soda bread known as fadge.
Irish soda bread is soft textured cake-like bread that rises due to the reaction of buttermilk and baking soda. With its filling, wholesome and satisfying taste and texture it can be eaten during any and every meal.
– The concept of using soda to leaven bread was started by Native Americans centuries ago using pearl-ash or wood ashes
– The cross seen on the top of the baked Irish soda bread was to ward off evil and protect the family and home
– Others argue the cross was made to easily divide the bread into 4 pieces
– Most families during this time had kitchens with only open hearths not ovens. Bread was baked on griddles or in cast-iron pots (a bastible) over turf fires.
– Traditionally Irish soda bread does not have sugar, fruit or seeds
Families and artisan bakers have carried the tradition of Irish soda bread down generation by generation. It’s features and distinctive aroma and taste is unique to the country and has become a beloved favorite internationally. Its characteristics include a tangy crunchy delightful crust and a tender, light and mouthwatering crumb.
Customers can enjoy Irish soda bread with citrus marmalades, a nice hot stew, a hearty sandwich or simply with butter. Ireland remains the heartland of soda bread and customers can enjoy this beloved bread at any time and any place.
Provide your customers and guests with the ultimate artisan experience. Dolce Forno deliver authentic Irish soda bread similar to ones you find in Ireland to cafes, venues and restaurants within Hertfordshire, St Albans, Surrey, Berkshire, London and Buckinghamshire.
Puglia – The Breadbasket of Italy
Italy’s answer to French Pain Rustique bread, Pugliese bread origins stem from the Puglia region of Italy, in the Southeastern “heel” or “boot” of the country.
Puglia is widely known for its whitewashed hill towns, centuries-old farmland and wide tranquil scape of Mediterranean coastline. Its attractions include the vibrant port Capital Bari and the historic city Lecce, being the ‘Florence of the South’ for inspiration baroque architecture. The small town of Alberobello is famous for it’s preserved and unique historical trulli buildings, which are small dwellings built from the local limestone with dry-stone walls and conical roof.
Puglia is also Italy’s top regional produced of olive oil with approximately 40% of total output with an estimated 60 million olive trees. Making it heavenly liquid gold within local recipes and dishes.
Puglia’s overall landscape and blissful settings is as memorable, satisfying and historically rich as their signature bread. It’s often noted as the breadbasket of Italy.
Puglia, or Apulia has a long tradition of bread making dating back to the Roman empire. Pugliese bread has small holes due to the dough being stretched and folded at intervals during the bread making process. This gives the final load a chewy heavenly texture. This artisan handmade bread often crafted with lots of extra virgin olive oil is produced through a slow fermentation process for a greater depth of flavour. From wet dough a pre-ferment is made (often known as a starter). Some of the finely milled flour is mixed with water and yeast and left overnight to develop flavour. The following day, the dough is mixed with the remaining ingredients. Pugliese bread is typically shaped as a batard (oval) or a round loaf with a dimpled top. It is then processed with long slow rises before being baked.
The recipe for Pugliese bread also requires a Biga, an important step within Italian baking. A type of pre-fermentation that adds complexity to the bread’s flavour and provides the light, open texture whilst helping to preserve the bread by making it less perishable.
Like all good things in life Pugliese bread requires dedication, skill, patience and time – and can never be rushed. Its flavour is enhanced by a long fermentation period making it a crucial step within its production. A remarkable and distinguishable flavour you can enjoy.
Its light, airy and moist and sometimes complimented with the flavours of basil or freshly hand-stripped rosemary to create a gourmet aroma and memorable taste. It’s soft porous and moist interior contrasts with a thin, light and crisp crust. Beautifully caramelised crust and chewy textured interior. The handcrafted bread is great with prosciutto, salami and similar fillings. Pugliese bread is great for making sandwiches or simply dipping into olive oil.
Are you a cafe, venue or restaurant looking for a local supplier of fresh baked pugliese, ciabatta, sourdough and other artisan breads? Dolce Forno delivers freshly baked artisan breads and pastries within Hertfordshire, St Albans, Surrey, Berkshire, London and Buckinghamshire.
The French Baguette
The ‘baguette’ is considered one of the iconic symbols of French culture. A traditional baguette is made with wheat flour, water, yeast and salt, and consists of a crisp crust filled with a soft, fluffy centre.
Like Italy, France has a strong history in bread. Long wide loaves of bread have been around since the time of Louis XIV, and thin ones since the mid-18th century. It’s increasing availability was due to the cheapness of wheat during the 19th century. This meant that white bread was no longer exclusively for the rich.
The first steam oven was brought to the city of Paris in the early 19th century by an Austrian office. This was also when the the croissant was introduced. With the use of deck and steam ovens, loaves could be baked to produce a crisp crust and white airy centre. Deck/steam ovens are a combination of a gas-fired traditional oven and brick oven, a thick ‘deck’ of stone or firebrick heated by natural gas instead of wood.
In 1920, a law passed that prevented french workers to start work from 4.00am. This made it impossible for bakers to get the bread cooked in time for customers’ breakfast. The solution was… to make bread into long thin forms, allowing them to cook faster – and just in time for breakfast!
Interesting Facts about the French Baguette
The baguette was not labelled the ‘baguette’ until the 1920s. Stemming from the latin word baculum which became baccheto (Italian) meaning staff or stick.
The average French man eats a half a baguette a day, compared with almost a whole baguette in 1970 and more than three in 1900.
National law dictates that ‘French’ bread should contain only flour, yeast, salt and water.
Baguettes are now widely eaten as sandwiches. Cut a baguette in half then slice each half along the middle. The bread is versatile enough to be sweet or savoury and can be eaten for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
March 21st is National French Bread Day.
According to a legend, it was Napoleon who asked for the baguette to have a long shape. This made it easier for his soldiers to carry their bread around down their pants while in the battlefield.
In 2013, a Parisian baker installed the first vending machine for baguettes, available 24/7!
There are ways of telling the difference between a artisan produced baguette and one from a supermarket… Many feel the loaf will smell much more strongly of bread, the crust tends to be darker and richer and the interior is usually a cream colour rather that pure white.
So while you enjoy the memorable taste, texture and sight of the beloved french baguette – take a bite and think about the long history this magic baton has created since its beginnings!
Are you a cafe, venue or restaurant looking for a local supplier of fresh baked ciabatta, sourdough and other artisan breads? Dolce Forno delivers freshly baked artisan breads and pastries within Hertfordshire, St Albans, Surrey, Berkshire, London and Buckinghamshire.
Sourdough Bread – Time and Tradition
What features make bread #realbread? Some argue it comes down to taste, but others note down it is a combination of the crust and texture inside the bread, smell and characteristics of taste.
Artisan bakers use passed down traditional processes to ensure that these features are embodied within each loaf. The fermentation of the dough during bread-making plays a pivotal role.
Bread such as sourdough requires a long fermentation process to achieve a good rise. But the process towards #real bread begins with the pre-ferment (also known as bread starter). Also referred to as the mother dough, it becomes the main foundation of the bread-making process. The combined water and flour (starter) requires wild yeast, which lives everywhere (in the air, in a bag of flour etc), which is then regularly fed with more fresh flour and water until the starter is bubbly and billowy. Due to this process, breads such as sourdough are distinctive to each bakery and no two bakeries as the same.
Yeast is the most commonly used leavener in bread making and fermentation is the key secret to making great #realbread. For fermentation to take place, yeast requires food, moisture and a controlled warm environment. The by-products are carbon dioxide, alcohol and other organic compounds – with gas acting as the rising agent and alcohol and compounds playing a significant role in flavouring and texture.
Yeast provides the enzyme zymase, which acts as a catalyst in fermentation – this largely begins after the dough is mixed. This creates the leavening effect, with gas bubbles created by carbon dioxide causing dough to rise. This then allows protein and water molecules to move about and form more gluten networks.
The fermentation process results in better-developed and more extensible dough. This also gives the bread a greater aroma, which is notable during the final steps to baking.
– Fermenting dough with wild yeasts for at least 12-15 hours improves the digestibility of the bread and lowers its glycaemic index.
– Ancient Greeks used wine in their bread making process
– Ancient Gauls and Iberians used the foam produced atop ale for dough fermentation
– Breads that have gone through a timely and proper fermentation process have a better shelf life than those that have not
One popular, well known artisan bread that utilises the long fermentation process is sourdough. Its notable features include a glossy, open crumb structure with large holes, a irresistible crackling but chewy crust and a complex, delicious and mouth-watering taste and aroma. Sourness is dependable on both the skill and choice of the baker ranging from barely noticeable to a robust tang.
Fermentation is considered a great art and artisan bakers work towards preserving tradition by offering a unique experience with each loaf of bread. Dolce Forno provides breads such as sourdough, which you can enjoy with a dip, in a sandwich or even enjoy by itself (toasted can accentuate certain flavours!).
Dolce Forno offers five delicious, hearty and wholesome sourdough breads with each loaf developed with a fermentation process that is more than twenty-four hours. We believe in keeping to traditional processes to provide the ultimate artisan bread experience with #realbread.
A Slice of History
Ever contemplated about the origins of how bread was invented?
We would have to go way back in time…
Historians note that humans processed and consumed wild cereal grains as far back as 23,000 years ago in the Upper Palaeolithic period (also called the Old Stone Period). Simple but effective stone mechanisms helped to smash and grind various cereals, removing the outer husks to leave just grains.
Our ancestors began to crack and grind grains, mixing it with water to create more options and variety of palatable food such as gruel (which didn’t need to be cooked) and thicker porridge. By experimenting with the heat of the sun and leaving it out, the paste dried created a bread like crust.
When wild yeast from the air combined with flour and water this created a fermentation process. It would be unpredictable in results and depended entirely on the flour texture, liquid, type of grain, wild yeast and highly influenced by the weather. A far cry from any oven!
You could think of this as a art form – as the skill of controlling various ingredients in addition to turning grain and water into edible bread required a ‘artisan’. Specific individuals within groups and communities were given high status and importance.
The trade of a baker is one of the oldest crafts in the world and was appreciated throughout history. One key example is that within Ancient Egypt, bread making was considered an important life skill. It’s importance is still to this date inscribed within tomb chamber walls.
Currency, Status and Art
Ancient Egyptians often paid their officials with good bread. They also noticed that they could take a piece of dough from a produced batch and save it for the next day. It is said that this is where the origin of sour-dough stemmed from. As valuable goods, bread was offered to Gods such as Isis and Osiris (protectors of grain and givers of bread). They also aimed to perfect the milling process to make grain refined, leading to the availability of baking whiter bread.
Empire Expansion
The skill of baking bread spread through travellers and soon flourished within the Roman Empire. It was in 168BC that the first Bakers Guild was formed. Within the space of 150 years, there were more than three hundred specialist pastry chefs in Rome.
The artisan craft was developed in a guild of bakers, “COLLEGIUM PISTORUM’ and has significant importance within the Roman empire. They enjoyed a variety of breads and often added milk, eggs and butter to make it richer. However, only the wealthy and privileged could often it.
Only a Slice
This is only a thin slice of the long history artisan bread-making. But it emphasises how for more than a thousand years the impact of bread, the baker and artisan bread has become part of human history.
Contact us today to arrange a FREE sample tray of our artisan breads or pastries. Call our team at Dolce Forno Breads on 01727 762 456 or alternatively email contact@dolceforno-breads.co.uk to find out more.
Cake for every occasion
Will there be cake at the event?
Everyone knows what cake is. A sweet dessert, typically baked with the main ingredients comprising of flour, sugar, eggs, butter, baking powder/soda or oil. Nowadays, cakes are made from various combinations – with thousands of recipes developed and passed down generation by generation.Served as a celebratory dish on big occasions such as someone’s birthday, wedding or anniversary, times have changed and we consume a sweet slice of cake whenever or whenever!
Cake has always been part of life…
According to food historians, the first culture to show evidence of baking and an interest in cake were the ancient Egyptians. However, their cakes were more bread-like and in substitute for sugar, honey was used.
The term “cake” has a long history, with it’s origins from the Old Norse word “kaka”.
In ancient times cakes were used as offerings to gods and spirits around the world
The Chinese celebration of the Harvest Moon Festival included moon cakes to honour the moon goddess
Russians have sun cakes called blini to pay their respects to a deity called Maslenitsa
Ancient Celtics rolled cakes down a hill during the Beltane festival
Medieval European bakers often produced fruitcakes and gingerbread which could last for months
However, the precursor of modern round cakes were first baked in Europe during the mid 17th century, due to the advances in technology such as more reliable ovens, availability and production of food holds and ingredients (such as refined sugar). It wasn’t until the middle of the 19th century that cakes were produced with extra refined white flour and baking powder instead of yeast.
People still consider cake to be the wow factor to every occasion whether it’s a meeting, corporate or launch event. Cakes have certainly kept their image as ‘treats’ which emphasises importance. We certainly believe cake is for every occasion!
For us at Dolce Forno, each cake is a work of art and we truly believe in the artisan and handcrafted experience. Each cake is created without machinery and solely just the skilled hands of bakers.
Let them eat brioche!
A light sweet yeast bread typically in the form of a small round roll.
It wasn’t cake that Marie Antoinette wanted to feed to the French. Her instructions were actually, “Let them eat brioche.” Brioche is certainly as rich and buttery as cake, but that’s where the similarities end.
It is more of a bread than it is a cake. Yeast-risen with a chewy, bread-like interior. Traditionally, brioche is formed into loaf-sized or smaller dinner roll-sized “brioche à tête” (“tête” translates as “head” – perhaps in homage to the unfortunate Marie Antoinette…).
Not exactly sweet and not exactly savoury – brioche is a fantastic bread for any meal of the day. Some prefer spreading their favourite jam or chocolate spread. Brioche burgers have become a major trend in the past few years with restaurants up and down the country taking advantage of the contrasting flavours and texture of the burger and bun. It’s also a great companion for a hot soup – especially as we approach the nippy Autumn evenings.
Let them eat brioche during your next breakfast meeting or corporate briefing! Dolce Forno delivers freshly baked artisan breads and pastries within Hertfordshire, St Albans, Surrey, Berkshire, North London or Buckinghamshire.
Call our team at Dolce Forno Breads on 01727 762 456 or alternatively email contact@dolceforno-breads.co.uk to find out more about our craft artisan bakery and breads.
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Genocide, 1971
Mashuqur Rahman | March 25th, 2008
They claim it never happened: one of the worst nightmares of human history. They claim monsters never existed: those who feasted on their own brother’s blood. Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed, Shah Abdul Hannan and their comrades in Oxford or the Bangladesh Election Commission have their agendas to propagate revisionist rubbish: “No genocide,” “No war,” “No war criminal” from 1971. Digging through archives, Mashuqur Rahman compiled a video presentation on Bangladesh, 1971: genocide, rapes, war crimes, war criminals. As Shada Kalo puts it, our agenda: “I will not forget. I will not let you forget.”
NBC News 1/7/1972: Dhaka University massacre. Video of Pakistani soldiers executing students, professors and workers at Dhaka University on March 26, 1971.
CBS News 2/2/1972: Evidence of mass graves and widespread killing in Khulna. Approximately 100,000 people were killed in Khulna.
NBC News 2/20/1972: Rape victims. Genocidal rapes of Bangladeshi women and girls during the Bangladesh Liberation War. The report interviews pregnant girls held at Pakistani army barracks and repeatedly raped. Some of the girls are as young as 13.
4 Responses to “Genocide, 1971”
While there are tons of documents of the collaboration of Jamaat and other Islamist outfits with the Pakistan army in looting, murder and rape of Bengalis, thirty-six years later we have to listen to an arrogant and blatant denial. The reason Jamaatis get their arrogance is because we are bunch of spineless, whimpering imbeciles (and the cool strategists of Jamaat are playing their game well in the shadow of the emergency).
Except for the flurry of documentation after the first few years after liberation, there has been zero activity other than sentimental posturing regarding authentic narratives of 1971. There has been no major literature (other than melodramatic pieces), no landmark film (the recent “Muktir Gaan” happens to be video footage of an American cinematographer), and no major memorial events (we have not yet been able to invite Ravi Shankar, Joan Baez to Dhaka for a tribute they richly deserve, and poor George Harrison is dead).
On the other hand, the blame game is on. Bhuyian saheb rests the blame on the party that came to power after liberation, and not claiming the fatal marriage he and his party signed with the reptilian Jamaat, not just by election partnering, but for the first time installing them as ministers of the republic.
I completely disagree to the forced equation of AL and BNP in restoring the Jamaat evil in our national polity. If AL went one step, BNP went ten-fold. One has not forgotten that the prime minister (Shah Azizur Rahman) of “muktijoddha” Ziaur Rahman was a noted collaborator. And it was Zia who legalized the politics of the then banned Jamaat. Also, to be clear, the amnesty given by Sheikh Mujib did not cover war criminals like the major Jamaati leaders. It does not matter if it is thirty six years after. It’s high time that they are booked once for ever.
IQO
Excellent work Mash!
Incidental Blogger
I guess the “comrade in Oxford” in your piece is Dr Sarmila Bose (Director, Reuters Institute, University of Oxford), the niece Netaji Subhas Bose should be proud of from beyond his grave. Some cheerleader for war criminals like Mujahid-Nizami! It is beyond me how with such a shoddy research background she managed to land this job in the first place.
Asadullah
Thanks to the collector of the vdo’s.
Can you tell me how can I download the clips to my pc?Please help me.
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Addressing behavioral health in Harrison County
Harrison County Behavioral Health Coalition to soon be absorbed by Healthy Harrison Coalition
In November 2016, a group of stakeholders gathered together to address behavioral health issues in Harrison County. Those people formed a group they eventually named the Harrison County Behavioral Health Coalition.
“We started in a partnership between the Mental Health and Substance Abuse Network and CHI Hospital Missouri Valley,” said Molly Brown, Southwest Iowa Region for Mental Health and Disability Services. “We identified goals and set priorities, then began working. At the end of year one, or the beginning of year two, things changed with the network, and we shifted to a partnership with Southwest Iowa Mental Health and Disabilities Region.”
After identifying the group as Harrison County Behavioral Health Coalition, they have since been working on three primary goals.
• To increase the overall awareness of existing and potential resources among community stakeholders through an established behavioral health community coalition.
• To break the generational cycle of addiction and dysfunction through preventative education of parents and youth through a partnership with the schools.
• To improve the community’s knowledge of behavioral health and the crisis response to individuals with behavioral health needs by supporting the work of the Southwest Iowa Mental Health and Disabilities Region.
The coalition launched a web-based, searchable, and printable resource directory that is mobile friendly in April 2018. This step addressed the coalition’s first goal.
To address the second goal, the coalition implemented Me360, a substance use prevention program, in five school districts in Harrison County. At least 375 students in grades seven through nine and 36 parents/guardians have been introduced to the program since its debut.
Additionally, the suicide prevention education, Coping Through the Teen Years, has been implemented in three districts for grades six through 12, reaching 418 students and 21 faculty members.
The coalition also offers Common Sense Parenting in two districts with two additional parenting cafes and two six-week classes, as well as grief support.
“We also have a combination, a unique program,” added Brown. “A couple of proactive individuals in the community were certified in either the Nurtured Heart Approach or Connections Matter. These three entities put together a four-week program where the Nurtured Heart Approach would be delivered in two separate evening, three hours each. Connections Matter was one two-hour session, and then the last day was a screening of the film ‘Resilience.’ The purpose of this was child abuse prevention education.”
The coalition sponsors two Mental Health First Aid trainers who have held nine classes and trained more than 200 individuals to detect mental health crisis. This addresses the coalition’s third goal, as do the Crisis Stabilization services available in Harrison County. Those services are Hope4Iowa Crisis Call Line, Mobile Crisis Response, and Turning Pointe CSRS.
Hope4Iowa Crisis Call Line (844-673-4469) is available to all residents of Harrison County. This connects individuals in a crisis to a helping hand and the resources to address and improve mental wellness.
Mobile Crisis Response is available to those in Woodbine, Logan, and Dunlap. According to the coalition’s data, 100 percent of the calls received resulted in diversion from hospitalization or emergency room visits.
“The Mobile Crisis Response is in a state of revolution here in Harrison County, and it requires a partnership with law enforcement,” Brown said. “When it is engaged, when it is used, and when those partnerships exist, it is very effective in steering people away from unnecessary ER and hospital visits.”
It also helps the hospital determine which individuals would benefit most from that level of care.
• Turning Pointe Crisis Stabilization Residential Service. This program, based in Clarinda, is available to Harrison County residents who are 18 years of age and older. The program’s purpose is to support individuals in a mental health crisis and allow them to remain within the community instead of being admitted into inpatient acute care hospitalization. Anyone, including friends, family, emergency departments, and providers have the ability to make a referral to Turning Pointe, 24 hours a day, by calling 712-303-7066.
“That is where we have been the past three years – on quite the journey at quite a fast pace, it feels like,” said Brown.
Though they have been busy, Brown said there is still work to be done.
At a meeting on May 14, the Behavioral Health Coalition announced that the Healthy Harrison Coalition will absorb the Behavioral Health Coalition soon due to grant funding that was not renewed.
According to Sherri Webb, Harrison County Home and Public Health Parent Educator, this change is “exciting, but challenging.”
Darcy Behrendt, Vice President Patient Care Services at CHI Hospital Missouri Valley, and Madelyn Brunow, HCHPH Public Health Nurse, are co-chairs of the Healthy Harrison Coalition.
“We try to be a network of networks to bring people together,” Brunow said. “We are hoping this relationship can continue, and we invite everyone to join us.”
Brunow added that they have been working on a sustainable plan to address and advance the behavioral health goals within Healthy Harrison Coalition.
While they are positioned to start off well, Brunow said they will continue to look for additional funding.
The 2019 Community Health Needs Assessment will be available at the end of June on the CHI website.
For help with a crisis, call the Hope4Iowa Crisis Call Line at 844-673-4469. If you or someone you know is in immediate danger, call 911.
Have a question? Email the Hope 4 Iowa Crisis Line at hope4iowa@boystown.orb.
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Ephrata Hospital CEO chairs Heart Walk
By Heather Stauffer on August 30, 2018
WellSpan Ephrata Community Hospital President Carrie Willetts is serving as the chairman of the 2018 Lancaster Heart Walk.
The 2018 Lancaster Heart Walk has been scheduled for Sept. 15 and Carrie Willetts named as the event chair, the American Heart Association announced this week.
The walk will be held at Clipper Magazine Stadium in downtown Lancaster, as it was last year, and has a fundraising goal of $400,000. More details and registration are available at heart.org/lancasterwalk.
Willetts joined WellSpan Health in January 2016 and is senior vice president of the system and president of WellSpan Ephrata Community Hospital.
“We often think of heart disease as a ‘man’s disease,’” Willetts said. “Stories, information and education sometimes does not differentiate the signs and symptoms of heart disease between men and women. AHA research has helped us to understand these differences so that women — and men — can protect themselves.”
The walk is the Association’s signature event and supports heart disease and stroke research, prevention and education.
Heather Stauffer covers the health care industry. She can be reached at HStauffer@lnpnews.com or 717-717-481-6022. You can also follow @HStaufferLNP on Twitter.
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Volume 16 No.14
Catastrophe on Australia's doorstep (photo essay)
Peter Cronau
This photo essay is by Peter Cronau, a producer on the ABC's 4 Corners program. For the accompaning text essay, click here, or on the link at the end of this page.
Papua New Guinea is a nation-state facing many of the problems of a developing nation. However, it is the spread of HIV/AIDS that may be the country's biggest test. The epidemic has the potential to kill thousands, and wreak havoc with the fragile economy.
In Port Moresby General Hospital's unofficial AIDS ward, nurse-in-charge Sister Elizabeth Waken works with dozens of dying patients a month. A nurse for 29 years, Sr Elizabeth struggles to keep up with the increasing numbers being admitted. The ward regularly runs out of bed-sheets, masks, diapers, and even soap and some penicillin medications—patients' families must provide food to their sick loved ones. Papua New Guinea’s health system can’t cope at current levels of the AIDS epidemic—and will be under greater strain as the epidemic relentlessly expands.
Ward 4B in Port Moresby’s General Hospital has become the hospital’s defacto AIDS ward. Many AIDS sufferers in Papua New Guinea become ill with opportunistic diseases such as tuberculosis. Each month the hospital sees 115 new HIV/AIDS cases. The National Health Plan states that if HIV/AIDS continues to rise at the current rate, “70 per cent of the hospital beds in the country would be occupied by AIDS patients in 2010."
Louis Paling spent 25 years in the army. But, admitted to hospital two weeks earlier, so far he hadn’t had a visitor from the services. As well as his illness, he suffers the stigma that many with HIV/AIDS face. On the day of this visit Louis said he was feeling marvellous. Much to the sadness of his family, Louis passed away last month.
Cross infection is a serious risk in the under-staffed and under-resourced Port Moresby General Hospital. Here, a mobile drugs cabinet shared by all presents a clear risk. The impact of this on patients with weak immune systems is obvious. Sister-in-charge of the ward, Sister Elizabeth Waken, says soap is in short supply in the hospital. "I don't have enough bed-sheets, I don't have enough masks. I don't even have enough drugs. Sometimes we run out of crystalline penicillin. Those main common medicines we are always running out."
The opposite ends of the debate—two posters in the AIDS ward, Port Moresby General Hospital. The attitude of some churches is slowing education efforts. The PNG Council of Churches strongly opposed a recent government proposal to decriminalise prostitution that had been intended to facilitate measures for preventing the spread of HIV. Instead the Council advocated giving training and education to women. All agree though that a combination of ABC—Abstinence, Be faithful (to one partner) and Condom use—is what is required; it’s finding the balance between these that has become so controversial.
Community education and grass roots networking has seen Maura Mea become a shining example to her community of Gorobe, a poor suburb in the outskirts of Port Moresby. Her “Hope for Living” HIV/AIDS project has brought the 3,000 residents of Gorobe information, resources and assistance in reducing violence, sexual assault, and unsafe sexual practices.
Maura decided to come out five years ago as an HIV-positive person, following the deaths of her two babies from the illness. She and her husband Max became the best-known faces of the epidemic in the country. Max died in June and Maura continues her battle, staying healthy with the aid of anti-retroviral medication, which is only now becoming slowly available in PNG.
Children of Gorobe, a poor suburb in Port Moresby, which is retaining hope in the face of the looming AIDS crisis.
"Mary" and "Angelique" ply their sexual trade along what has become known as "the AIDS highway". Stretching 700kms from Lae to deep in the resource-rich interior beyond Mt Hagen, the Highlands Highway provides a fast route for the virus to spread throughout the country. Prostitution along this road is a source of income for hundreds of young women seeking a living, as ties to traditional village life weaken. “I’m scared of the dangers of HIV... two of my colleagues have died of AIDS and that has scared me,” says Mary. “But this work is my lifeline.”
The Wagi Valley Transport company is the first trucking company in the Western Highlands to have an AIDS education program. With two of their 22 drivers already dying from the disease, and another presently ill, it’s fast becoming an economic necessity. Apollas Yimbak of the Western Highlands Provincial AIDS Council provides education about AIDS and distributes condoms to the drivers.
Some in traditional warrior dress, tribes-people prepare for a reconciliation ceremony near Mt Hagen. Social events like this bring many together and so are high risk settings for the transmission of the AIDS virus. The ceremony ran for a week and 180 pigs were exchanged in settlement of a 30-year conflict with a neighbouring tribe. A splendid time was had by all.
Faces in the crowd. Practice for the reconciliation "sing-sing" is almost as much fun as the real event.
Faces in the crowd.
Traditional life is changing rapidly, not least for men in the highlands. Polygamy is now not just the privilege of "big men". “In the early days it was just the people who were considered really big leaders would take a second or third wife,” says Sr Rose Bernard, an AIDS worker from nearby Banz. “But now it seems like many men, educated and even uneducated, are taking a second and third wife.”
On her long trips around the remote highlands region of Banz, Sister Rose Bernard, of the Sisters of Notre Dame, counsels individual patients and holds educational community discussions. Here she talks with AIDS sufferer Patrick in Banz in the Western Highlands.
This AIDS education sign on the Highlands “AIDS” Highway in Mt Hagen was funded by AusAID, and is the most visible of the efforts to stem the AIDS epidemic. But with more than 80 per cent of the rural population unable to read or write, such campaigns have not been effective. The Western Highlands province has the highest HIV infection rate by province of origin in the whole country.
Tessie Soi was one of the first AIDS activists in Papua New Guinea. As the senior social worker at Port Moresby’s General Hospital, Tessie saw a need for ongoing support for children orphaned by AIDS. She established the Friends Foundation, and runs groups supporting orphans and their adoptive families. Says Tessie, “If we don’t do anything about orphans of HIV/AIDS, this is going to be our next lot of rascals in Papua New Guinea.”
At Nine Mile Cemetery outside Port Moresby, the unclaimed bodies of 16 babies lie buried (front row) in a mass grave. Organised recently by Tessie’s Friends Foundation, these mass burials must await fundraising to cover the $70 cost of a coffin and $55 for the ground fee. Whilst not all are AIDS victims, the bodies are often left unclaimed at the city morgue, as families cannot raise the costs, or fear the stigma of claiming an AIDS victim.
Each stunted bougainvillea plant marks the grave of a baby buried in another large mass burial earlier this year at Port Moresby’s Nine Mile Cemetery. This mass burial was also organised by Friends Foundation to dispose of the bodies of 48 babies that had piled up unclaimed at the hospital morgue.
Downtown Port Moresby on the surface shows all the signs of modest economic growth, but the AIDS crisis is predicted to kill many thousands and to decimate the economy.
Click here to read the essay that accompanies this piece. All photos are © Peter Cronau 2006. The payment for this photo essay, and the accompanying article, will be donated to the people depicted in this piece working in Papua New Guinea with AIDS sufferers. The views expressed in this essay are those of Peter Cronau and not necessarily those of the ABC.
The AIDS Angels depicted in the photo essay can be contacted at:
Maura Mea
Hope For Living
Boroko, NCD
Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.
Tessie Soi
Friends Foundation
Elizabeth Waken
Sister in Charge, Ward B,
Port Moresby General Hospital
Sr Rose Bernard,
Sisters of Notre Dame, Banz
Mt Hagen
Western Highlands
Recent articles by Peter Cronau.
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Sadness is all I felt as I read and looked at the pictures in this article. What is the world coming to? Bodies of dead babies dying from the AIDS virus that's heartbreaking... but to find out further on that despite their innocence in this infliction there is a stigma associated with their suffering. Children are the purest form of humanity, they should not enter this world to suffer this way. Thank you Peter for bringing this tragedy to our attention - these are the issues that need to be brought to the attention of the press of the world at large. In you shines hope that justice may be served eventually.
Delphine Bosquet | 04 October 2006
I thought this was a brilliant piece. Truly moving. This tragedy on our doorstep is something that we, as a nation, have a moral obligation to do something about. Brilliant work Peter. Good to see such a long piece in
Eureka Street as well
Rodney Graves | 09 October 2006
Stunning photos. What a tragedy unfolding. Will Eureka Street be unlocking the essay attached to this article? I am not a subscriber and would very much like to read it.
andrew johnson | 09 October 2006
A harrowing piece.
Aurora Lowe | 09 October 2006
The second last picture of the stunted bouganville plants reminds me of a trip I took to sachsenhausen concentration camp, on the outskirts of berlin. Each stone, out in the great field of the camp, marked a bunkhouse where people had lived crammed together lives. It stunned me, as this photo essay has done.
Rosalie Martino | 10 October 2006
It's scandalous that a neighbour of a rich country like Australia should have its health system so poorly resourced. Australia could remedy these deficiencies (for East Timor too). It wouldn't be painless; it would be the sort of effort we'd make in wartime, but we should do it.
Gavan Breen | 10 October 2006
I love the faces in the crowd. So hard to believe there is so much sadness in the lives of the Papuans.
Michelle Atkins | 10 October 2006
Hi Peter, good on you, great work.
I think PNG should declare AIDS enemy of the state, DECLARE TRIBAL WAR ON AIDS Sore ol wantok blong me
Rex Rumakiek | 20 October 2006
Thank you, it still does not recover from the opening statements related to the leaders, failing state/economy or the interview with the raskals that set the secene for 4 corners.
Peter Barter | 06 November 2006
Caroline Morris | 16 December 2006
Not being Australian, but being a PNG-lover and long-time resident there as a researcher in the fields of HIV, AIDS, STDs and sexual health and behaviour, I can perhaps more openly state my dismay at once again Australians (journalists this time) misconstruing risk and playing right into the hands of conservative forces. Once again, you've fingered the wrong targets, invented terrorists where they don't exist, been misogynistic in your approach and failed to ask more fundamental questions, for example, the attitudes of church leaders toward healthy sexual praxis, specifically in the snippet with Sister Rose, who is a good and decent person, but who continues to foment sex-negativity. Implying, too, that condom usage in her area is at all open or at high levels is just wrong. Although there are brothels in the country, the Magila Club isn't one of them. Going after the Health Minister was way too easy a target, too, even though it made for captivating television, for no one expects expertise from such Ministers with portfolio. There were many good aspects to the piece, but overall, I'd have to say that it made things worse, not better.
Lawrence Hammar | 06 January 2007
hi, love the work you are doing in moresby, my father was Dr.g.j.Sarkozy
at your hospital in the late 70s
would love to hear from any one who worked with him regards mike sarkozy
mike sarkozy | 26 April 2007
Someone has to take some responsibility for failed policies on HIV-AIDS in PNG despite what Lawrence Hammar in his comment says about not expecting any expertise from the PNG Health Minister. It is as insulting to the minister, as it is ignorant of the facts. In the Westminster system of parliamentary democracy that PNG lives with, the buck DOES stop with the minister. If he turns out to be ill-informed, incompetent, out-witted by his departmental staff or outgunned by his parliamentary colleagues, then it is vital that the media does NOT just shut up and give him an easy time because he is a 'good bloke'. His department of health, through bureaucratic inefficiency most likely, has slowed the distribution of anti-retrovirals resulting in the unnecessary deaths of God knows how many innocents. With my own eyes I have seen people dying wretchedly in hospitals that could not obtain these drugs, which were sitting stacked on Port Moresby warehouse shelves. While the free drugs sat in the warehouse, only those patients with enough Kina could purchase anti-retrovirals privately.
I am only a journalist. I cannot but tell stories about injustices I see, and then ask those in power why they don't try harder to solve the problems. I am in a privileged position to demand answers on behalf of the voiceless, the poor, the powerless, the ill.
On the other criticisms of Lawrence's of Sister Rose, I'd suggest he take up the condom issue with the Pope, who has the power but is unwilling to free-up his servants in the field to more openly educate and distribute condoms. Within those constraints, it seems to me Sister Rose is doing what she can.
And of his suggestion that the club we visited was not a brothel, well, if Lawrence visits the club on their weekly 'Pacific Night' and he is lucky enough to win the night's prize, he might find the girl he wins may have a different view.
His criticisms of us “inventing terrorists where none exist” is more puzzling – perhaps he channel surfed on to CNN for a minute. However the accusation of misogyny must be addressed – perhaps Lawrence could contact some of the four women and their organisations listed above to see if he can find anyone who agrees with him.
To the poor reader who has persisted this far, I would commend to you the work of the four women listed above and suggest you choose one or two of them and provide some direct support to them in any way you see fit – as have many people who have seen our program and read this essay. Thank you.
Peter Cronau | 23 August 2007
This is truly a case of Cry the Beloved Country. How can one ignore Australia's closest neighbour? Home to myself and my family from 1968-1979 our hearts and minds are still a part of a stranglehold that the beauty and splendour of this amazing country has on any soul who lives there. Expatriates we were but our tears are real and our childhood memories are just of Papua New Guinea our homeland. I urge all expatriates who lived in PNG to actively contribute in some helpful way, use your imaginations, any resources available to you and channel funds to ease the desperation and urgency of a people who the west largely transformed from a stone age existence to a "modern" disease infected society now dying at their mercy. May the voice of your singing people be heard in the heavens and may God show his mercy to you all.
Linda Larsen (nee Johns) | 16 February 2008
We have an electronic treatment for HIV/AIDS which was effective in 70% of patients treated in Angola. Our results were confirmed by the Statistics Department at The University of Melbourne. We are interested in setting up research projects wherever we can get a feed back of CD4, CD8 & viral load levels. The treatment is extremely cost effective as a $300 machine can be shared by 100 people using a small amount of electricity. Please let me know if you are interested.
Sincerely, Noel Campbell.
Prof. Noel Campbell | 09 February 2009
June 2013 update: HIV/AIDS epidemic now beginning to be reigned in. ''It is good news. We now know that this is a concentrated epidemic, not a generalised epidemic. The disaster that was predicted hasn't happened,'' says Dr Geoff Clark, a former WHO official who is now the Australian Agency for International Development's program director for health and HIV in PNG. ''The surveillance data now is much better than we were working with a few years ago when there were fears this could spread to 5 per cent of the population or more.'' While the spread of the virus is being checked, its management still poses a formidable public health challenge. Almost 12,000 adults and children were undergoing treatment last year, compared with about 9500 in 2011. The national infection rate is estimated to have stabilised at about 0.83 per cent of the population, with higher rates in some highlands provinces and in Port Moresby's National Capital District. About 1.4 per cent of the ''sexually active'' population (aged 15-49) in the Western Highlands is HIV-positive. But in poverty-stricken PNG, your donations are still needed and welcomed. Please check the following if you wish to help the Sisters in Mt Hagen. http://www.toledosnd.org/papua-new-guinea/
Peter Cronau, Journalist, ABC | 27 October 2016
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Models for a good life and an honest death
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Historian Inga Clendinnen's reviews, childhood recollections, multi-coloured reminiscences of her working career, and informed discourse on simple events or complex ideas, are collected in a way that reveals a tempered tolerance seemingly inherited from her favourite essayist, Montaigne.
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Tourism in Egypt's Red Sea - File photo
Full board, plane tickets from Cairo to Moscow for $650
By: Rehab Ismail
Sat, Dec. 30, 2017
CAIRO – 30 December 2017: Egypt is preparing new plans to attract Russian tourists to Red Sea resorts. Especially after discussions between Russia and Egypt to possibly return charter flights between the two countries as early as next spring, according to Russian Transportation Minister Maxim Sokolov.
An Egyptian-Russian cooperation protocol for maintaining civil aviation security was signed on December 15 during a meeting between Egyptian Civil Aviation Minister Sherif Fathi and Sokolov in Moscow, Egypt’s Aviation Ministry said in a statement.
The protocol intends to resume flights between Cairo and Moscow for the first time since 2015, beginning in February 2018, the statement added.
Tourism in the Red Sea - File photo
Khalil said that a seven-day trip to Egyptian resorts, including full board accommodation at 4-star hotels and the plane tickets between Cairo and Moscow, will cost $650, Mostafa Khalil, Egyptian vice president of the Federation of Tourism Chambers, told the Russian Information Agency Novosti on Thursday.
Khalil added that direct flights between Cairo and Moscow will start again in February, and that direct flights could attract 300,000 tourists from Russia in 2018, not only to Red Sea resorts, but also to more cultural distinctions.
“About 100,000 Russian tourists visited Egypt in 2017, although there weren’t direct flights, as they do prefer Egyptian resorts, and Russian tourists are considered our best customers since the 1990s,” Khalil said
He also expects the tourism sector in Egypt to regain its strength starting next year. Rates of Russian tourists are expected to increase during winter 2019-2020.
Tourism in Egypt's Red Sea
Former Aviation Minister Wael El-Madawi told Egypt Today that tourism depends on charter flights, which will be discussed in a new round of negotiations in March and April 2018.
Madawi said that matters will gradually improve as Egyptian authorities work to provide assistance to tourists arriving from abroad. Russian tourists, as well as visitors from around the world, are expected to increase in the coming year; Madawi says this is something Egypt must be prepared for.
Russia's President Vladimir Putin (L) meets with Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi (R) in Cairo, Egypt December 11, 2017 - REUTERS
Russian President Vladimir Putin visited Egypt earlier this month, which was his second official visit to Egypt since President Sisi assumed power in 2014.
In a joint press conference held in Cairo, Putin said that he discussed speeding up the resumption of direct passenger flights, which were halted between both states since 2015.
He added that Russia is ready to resume direct passenger flights to Egypt. He further praised the “major steps” Egypt has taken to upgrade security measures at its airports.
EBRD investments in Egypt since 2012 hit $5B
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Medical cannabis treatment for endometriosis in clinical trial
Israeli researchers have already started pre-clinical studies to examine the impact of medical cannabis in the treatment of endometriosis, which affects one in 10 women of childbearing age.
The research is led by Gynica, a company licensed by the Israeli Health Ministry to develop cannabis-based products for women, in cooperation with Lumir Lab, a cannabis research facility in the Biotechnology Park, Hadassah Ein Karem Jerusalem.
Endometriosis affects some 176 million women worldwide. In women with endometriosis, the uterine lining grows outside the uterus, in the fallopian tubes, ovaries and other areas of the abdominal cavity and in the pelvis. These women suffer from severe pain before and during menstruation, bleeding and pain during and after intercourse, dyspepsia and frequent or painful urination.
Anecdotal evidence has shown that women who smoke cannabis find relief from their pain, said Dr. Sari Sagiv, VP of research and development at Gynica. The researchers set out to find out what compounds or combination of compounds of cannabis can potentially address the problem.
“Endometriosis is a complicated disease,” she said, as it has a number of factors working together that need to be addressed.
“I believe cannabis has enough compounds that can affect a number of factors” of the disease, she said, including reducing pain, inflammation and the risk of recurrence.
The researchers have already tested a variety of cannabis compounds of endometriosis cells in vitro to see how they react to the compounds.
“We are trying single or a combination of compounds on these cells” to find out if there is an impact and what it is, she explained. “We have already seen that there are different parts of the compounds that have a lot of impact.”
The researchers are now whittling the compounds down to a “lead candidate,” with which they will start clinical trials.
“We already have an indication of what can be a lead candidate to deal with a number of factors that can cure endometriosis, not just address the pain. But she declined to reveal additional details until a patent has been filed. We want to start clinical trials in the third quarter of the year,” Sagiv said.
In parallel with the research process being conducted at Lumir Lab, Gynica is collaborating with Canadian company Strainprint, a firm that specializes in data collection and analysis of the effects of cannabis on various diseases. The companies are working on setting up the world’s largest data collection platform to analyze the effects of cannabis on women.
Lumir Lab is run by Prof. Lumir Hanush, a leading cannabis researcher, who is responsible for some of the most important discoveries made in the field of cannabis active substances. Gynica is led by Prof. Moshe Hod, a gynecologist and president of the European Association of Obstetricians. The firm does R&D specializing in cannabinoids based in the field of gynecology.
Israel has one of the world’s most progressive regulatory frameworks for medical cannabis.
Source: https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-researchers-probe-how-cannabis-can-treat-endometriosis/
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Senator Jeff Brandes
District 22 consisted of parts of Hillsborough, Pinellas counties
Transportation, Chair
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Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development
Education Pre-K - 12
Joint Committee on Public Counsel Oversight
2016 Bills Introduced
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S 168 Traffic Infraction Detectors
Last Action: 3/11/2016 Died in Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development
S 170 Solar or Renewable Energy Source Device
Last Action: 3/9/2016 Laid on Table, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/HJR 193 (Passed), CS/HB 195 (Ch. 2016-118) -SJ 887
S 172 Special Election
Last Action: 3/8/2016 Laid on Table, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/HB 195 (Ch. 2016-118), CS/HJR 193 (Passed) -SJ 792
S 176 Cosmetic Product Registration
Last Action: 3/11/2016 Died in Appropriations
S 280 Transportation Facility Designations
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S 800 Independent Postsecondary Educational Institutions
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S 852 Medical Marijuana
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S 992 Department of Financial Services
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Last Action: 3/4/2016 Laid on Table, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/HB 1149 (Ch. 2016-100) -SJ 707
S 1298 Bad Faith Assertions of Patent Infringement
Last Action: 3/4/2016 Laid on Table, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/HB 1181 (Ch. 2016-101) -SJ 705
S 1356 Employment After Retirement of School District Personnel
Last Action: 3/11/2016 Died in Appropriations, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/HB 7029 (Ch. 2016-237)
S 1390 Issuance of Specialty License Plates
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Last Action: 3/10/2016 Laid on Table, companion bill(s) passed, see HB 7027 (Ch. 2016-181), CS/CS/HB 7061 (Ch. 2016-239) -SJ 967
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Last Action: 3/11/2016 Died on Calendar, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/HB 231 (Ch. 2016-77), HB 7027 (Ch. 2016-181), CS/CS/HB 7061 (Ch. 2016-239)
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S 1434 State Group Insurance Program
S 1506 Manatees
Last Action: 3/11/2016 Died in Environmental Preservation and Conservation
S 1648 Whistleblower’s Act
S 1650 Public Records/Informant Identities and Investigative Information
S 1714 Competency-based Innovation Pilot Program
Bills Co-Introduced
S 74 Equal Rights for Men and Women
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Last Action: 3/10/2016 Chapter No. 2016-36
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Last Action: 11/4/2015 Withdrawn prior to introduction -SJ 15
S 232 Guardianship
S 468 Computer Coding Instruction
Last Action: 3/11/2016 Died in Messages
S 966 Unclaimed Property
S 1002 Public School Recess
S 7010 Individuals with Disabilities
Last Action: 1/15/2016 Laid on Table, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/HB 7003 (Ch. 2016-3), CS/CS/HB 1083 (Ch. 2016-140), HB 5003 (Ch. 2016-62), HB 5101 (Ch. 2016-65) -SJ 214
S 7012 Death Benefits under the Florida Retirement System
S 240 Driver Licenses and Identification Cards
Last Action: 4/23/2015 Laid on Table, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/HB 27 (Ch. 2015-85) -SJ 597
S 242 Publicly Funded Retirement Plans
Last Action: 4/24/2015 Laid on Table, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/HB 1309 (Ch. 2015-157) -SJ 610
S 258 Property and Casualty Insurance
Last Action: 4/22/2015 Laid on Table, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/CS/HB 165 (Ch. 2015-135), CS/HB 273 (Ch. 2015-170) -SJ 494
S 290 Carrying a Concealed Weapon or a Concealed Firearm
S 394 Public Lodging Establishments
S 400 Renewable Energy Source Device/Taxation
Last Action: 5/1/2015 Died in Community Affairs
S 402 Renewable Energy Source Devices
S 522 Division of Bond Finance
S 528 Medical Use of Marijuana
Last Action: 5/1/2015 Died in Regulated Industries
Last Action: 5/1/2015 Died in Appropriations
Last Action: 5/1/2015 Died in Education Pre-K - 12
Last Action: 5/1/2015 Died in Commerce and Tourism
S 896 Location of Utilities
Last Action: 3/31/2015 Unfavorable by Community Affairs, laid on Table; YEAS 1 NAYS 6 -SJ 260
S 936 Citizens Property Insurance Corporation
Last Action: 5/1/2015 Died in Banking and Insurance
S 990 Regulatory Minimum Prices
S 1052 Experimental Treatments for Terminal Conditions
Last Action: 4/27/2015 Laid on Table, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/HB 269 (Ch. 2015-107) -SJ 670
S 1084 Patent Infringement
Last Action: 5/1/2015 Died in Appropriations Subcommittee on Criminal and Civil Justice, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/CS/HB 439 (Ch. 2015-92)
S 1088 Civil Remedies Against Insurers
S 1094 Peril of Flood
S 1118 Renewable Energy
Last Action: 5/1/2015 Died in Communications, Energy, and Public Utilities
S 1138 Unclaimed Property
Last Action: 4/24/2015 Laid on Table, companion bill(s) passed, see HB 887 (Ch. 2015-152) -SJ 612
Last Action: 5/1/2015 Died in Fiscal Policy, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/HB 7055 (Ch. 2015-163)
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S 1198 Patient Compensation System Trust Fund/State Treasury
Last Action: 5/1/2015 Died in Judiciary
S 1200 Compensation for Personal Injury or Wrongful Death Arising from a Medical Injury
S 1202 Voter Registration
Last Action: 5/1/2015 Died in Rules
S 1326 Transportation Network Companies
S 1486 Residential Master Building Permit Programs
Last Action: 4/24/2015 Laid on Table, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/HB 1151 (Ch. 2015-156) -SJ 613
S 1530 Personal Privacy
Last Action: 5/1/2015 Died in Criminal Justice
Last Action: 5/1/2015 Died on Calendar
Last Action: 5/1/2015 Died in Appropriations, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/HB 7055 (Ch. 2015-163)
S 1626 Public Records/Clearinghouse for Compassionate and Palliative Care Plans Information
Last Action: 5/1/2015 Died in Governmental Oversight and Accountability
S 1664 Taxpayer Independence Day
Last Action: 4/23/2015 Withdrawn from further consideration, companion bill(s) passed, see SR 1668 (Adopted) -SJ 600
Last Action: 4/28/2015 Adopted -SJ 686
S 2 Greyhound Racing Injuries
S 212 Department of Corrections
S 264 Traffic Enforcement Agencies and Traffic Citations
S 602 Students with Disabilities
Last Action: 4/29/2015 Died in returning Messages
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Young couple die in car crash one day after wedding
FaithAdama August 08, 2017 NEWS,
A young Kansas couple died in a car crash just a day after pledging to spend the rest of their lives with each other.
Austin Wesson and Rebekah Bouma, 19-year-olds who fell in love on a Christian mission trip to South Africa six months ago, were married on Friday, though their joy turned to tragedy only hours later.
The lovebirds’ Ford F-150 left a road south of Wichita and smashed into a tree on Saturday evening, the Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office told the Daily News.
Wesson was pronounced dead at the scene of the rural road, with Bouma surviving at a local hospital until Monday morning.
Sedgwick County’s Lt. Lin Dehning told The News that investigators are looking at reasons Wesson could have lost control of his pickup truck, including possible mechanical problems with the vehicle.
He said it is not known how long the pair had been on the side of the road before another driver found and reported the crash.
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Home > Books in Korean > Fiction > Foreign Fictional Works (Translated into Korean) > Titles Starting With D ~ G > Eleven Minutes: A Novel
Eleven Minutes: A Novel
Author: Paulo Coelho
Translator: Sang Hae Lee
Publisher: Mun-hak Dong-ne
Size: 196*137mm
Soft Cover: 352 pages
Date of Pub.: May 2004
A new, international bestseller by the author of The Alchemist tells the story of Maria, a young girl from a Brazilian village, whose first innocent brushes with love leave her heartbroken. At a tender age, she becomes convinced that she will never find true love, instead believing that "Love is a terrible thing that will make you suffer ..." A chance meeting in Rio takes her to Geneva, where she dreams of finding fame and fortune. Instead, she ends up working as a prostitute.
In Geneva, Maria drifts further and further away from love as she develops a fascination with sex. Eventually, Maria's despairing view of love is put to the test when she meets a handsome young painter. In this odyssey of self-discovery, Maria has to choose between pursuing a path of darkness, sexual pleasure for its own sake, or risking everything to find her own "inner light" and the possibility of sacred sex, sex in the context of love.
In this gripping and daring new novel, Paulo Coelho sensitively explores the sacred nature of sex and love and invites us to confront our own prejudices and demons and embrace our own "inner light."
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Evolution of gaming & how gamers react
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Valiant Hearts director leaves Ubisoft, citing ‘harsh reality’ of AAA
Joining what seems to be a persistent trend of developers burned out by the AAA game space, Yoan Fanise is the latest to depart, leaving Ubisoft after 14 years with the studio. Starting as a sound designer on 2003’s Beyond Good and Evil, Fanise went on to work on multiple games, including Assassin’s Creed III. What he is best known for however is for his role directing and co-writing last year’s emotional, critically praised Valiant Hearts.
Speaking with Gamasutra about his decision to leave, Fanise pointed to the great creative mood surrounding a small team, like what he experienced while working on Beyond Good and Evil. He went on to admit, “The more we grew, the more this mood diminished. 100, 250, 500 people…it was necessary due to the technical evolution and AAA requirements, but on the creative and human side something was missing.” It was actually his time with Assassin’s Creed III, a project where “your interactions [with other developers] are limited, and it is really difficult to have a global vision of the finished game,” that drove him to work on a game like Valiant Hearts in the first place.
Even with the small downloadable game’s success however, Fanise stated, “reality is sometimes harsh, and Valiant Hearts was like a gastronomic food truck on the parking [lot] of a giant restaurant… Business-wise, even if the game is a success, with over a million players and many awards, this is still small revenue compared to blockbusters.” Faced with the prospect of having to return to larger games, Fanise decided to take a different road.
After being labeled ‘fake indie’ during his two years of work on Valiant Hearts, Fanise joked, “Why not go real indie?”
We here at Gamespresso wish Fanise the best of luck in his future endeavors, whatever they might be. For anyone who hasn’t had a chance to check out Valiant Hearts yet, it’s currently free on PS4 for PS Plus members.
What do you think of developers leaving AAA to strike it out on their own? Let us know in the comments.
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Mayor appoints members to Downtown area zoning/permitting committees
In Development, Downcity, Government by Jef Nickerson May 20, 2011 15 Comments
Mayor Taveras has appointed 30+ people to committees that will work to streamline the zoning and permitting policies in the Downtown area, including the Jewelry District and the 195 Land. I am honored to be among the people appointed to the Advisory Committee.
The Advisory Committee is described thusly:
An Advisory Committee will provide feedback on broad development goals and policy issues that affect zoning in the target area.
The committees have not started meeting yet, so I’m not sure exactly how they will roll, but I am for sure open to hearing what you all have to say about it.
See below a press release from the Mayor’s Office outlining the goals of the Committees and listing the members:
Taveras Taps Civic and Business Leaders to Reform Regulations
Dual committees to expedite development and implementation of streamlined zoning and permitting process
PROVIDENCE, RI – The more than 30 civic, government and business leaders who have volunteered to accelerate Mayor Angel Taveras’ effort to implement streamlined planning and zoning regulations will hold their first meetings in the coming weeks. Mayor Taveras has convened the 30+ civic, government and business leaders to work with a federally funded consultant to create better integrated and streamlined planning and zoning regulations in Providence, with a special emphasis on the Jewelry District and new properties made available as part of the relocation of I-195.
The group, organized into two committees, will work with world-renowned design firm Perkins + Will to create a single, streamlined zoning and permitting process that makes it easier and faster to begin development projects and do business in the Jewelry District and downtown Providence. The project is being paid for with a grant from the US Small Business Administration.
The Mayor has asked the group to deliver their recommendations within three months.
Currently, building projects need the approval of as many as four independent boards in certain parts of the City, including the City Plan Commission, the Zoning Board of Review, the Downcity Design Review Committee and the Historic District Commission, all of which have overlapping oversight and often operate without sufficient coordination. The result is an approval process that requires developers to appear and reappear before the various boards numerous times and often takes months to complete.
An Advisory Committee will provide feedback on broad development goals and policy issues that affect zoning in the target area. A Technical Committee will review the finer details of the development options, including impacts to utilities, parking and transportation networks. Outputs from the committee work then inform a set of recommendations on how to create a single, streamlined zoning and permitting process.
At the conclusion of this process, the Taveras administration, in coordination with City Council leadership, will implement recommendations that will shorten the development cycle and ensure properties are developed in ways that best serve Providence and the City’s residents.
“The relocation of I-195 and new development downtown is an incredible opportunity for Providence to attract new businesses, open up new revenue-generating, taxable property, and build a stronger economy in Providence,” said Taveras. “Too often, the efforts of entrepreneurs, business owners and developers get caught up in bureaucratic red tape that has a chilling effect on growth and investment in the City. A direct and streamlined zoning and permitting process will offer efficiency and predictability to those who seek to grow and start their businesses here. I thank the committee members for agreeing to serve and look forward to receiving their recommendations.”
Council Majority Leader Seth Yurdin, who serves on the Advisory Committee, said the City Council looks forward to moving quickly with the Taveras administration to draft new planning and zoning regulations for the city.
“The downtown area represents a unique opportunity for economic development for our city and state. The City Council will work with the administration and all of the stakeholders to reduce red-tape and encourage economic activity while at the same time ensuring quality development projects that add to the fabric of downtown,” said Yurdin.
The Advisory Committee is chaired by Laurie White, president of the Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce. The other members of the committee are:
Councilman Yurdin
Kevin Flynn representing Governor Lincoln Chafee’s Office
Brown University Vice President Marisa Quinn
Johnson & Wales University President John Bowen
Lifespan Senior Public Affairs Director Stacy Paterno
Women & Infants Hospital President & CEO Constance Howes
Jewelry District Association Vice President Arthur Salisbury
Association of Independent Colleges and Universities of Rhode Island President Daniel Egan
EpiVax, Inc. CEO Dr. Annie DeGroot
Center for Advancement of Minorities in the Building Trades’ Leroy Belona
Rhode Island Building Trades Council President Michael Sabitoni
Executive Director of the Rhode Island Historical Preservation & Heritage Commission Edward F. Sanderson
Greater City Providence Publisher Jef Nickerson
Hayes & Sherry founder and partner Peter Hayes
CB Richard Ellis Executive Vice President Constance R. Pemmerl
Cornish Associates President and CEO Arnold “Buff” Chace
First Bristol Corporation President James M. Karam
Gilbane Inc. Chairman and CEO Robert Gilbane
Paolino Properties Manager Joseph R. Paolino, Jr.
Betaspring co-founder Allan Tear
“Creating direct and streamlined zoning and permitting in the capital city will lead to predictability for investors – large and small – and help to build a stronger economy in Providence and all of Rhode Island,” said White. “Furthermore, I am confident that this process will help us accelerate the full build-out of the Knowledge District and generate jobs along all points of the skills spectrum.”
The Technical Committee will be chaired by Gilbane Inc. Vice President John Sinnott. The committee’s other members are:
Rhode Island Department of Transportation Director Michael Lewis
Brown University Associate Vice President for Planning, Design & Construction Michael McCormick
Johnson & Wales University Vice President Barbara Bennett
Lifespan Director of Property Management Jody Bishop
National Grid President of Rhode Island Distribution Michael Ryan
Capital Properties Vice President Todd Turcotte
VHB engineer Renee Codega
Cornish Associates Principal Stephen Durkee
Planning consultant and former Providence Planning Director Samuel Shamoon
Latino Contractors Association President Luis Torrado
Procaccianti Group Vice President Michael Voccola
Vision 3 Architects Principal Keith Davignon
William Kite Architects Principal Christine West
Steere Engineering’s Susan Bacher
“Mayor Taveras has assembled a tremendous group of experts to advise the city on the technical aspects of drafting new planning and zoning regulations. We are members of the community who live and work in Providence, and we look forward to bringing our experience to bear on the creation of an improved path for future development in the city,” said Sinnott.
I could not think of a better representative.
Lewis Dana
Congratulations! You’ve worked hard and with clear vision to make Providence a better place to live, work and move aroound in on foot and bike, public transport and even, in some ways, cars. Now you’ve got an official voice, as well. GET TO WORK!
Peter Brassard
Jef, I also congratulate you on this appointment. It’s a genuine honor that reflects your longstanding intelligent and thoughtful assessments of the city.
There are several issues that these committees will face from finding a system that will encourage a complementary mix of uses, to developing an approvals system that won’t encumber the development process, to setting zoning standards that are fair that would eliminate or limit the need for special-use permits, multiple board reviews, and variances.
If the proposed September 2009 Redevelopment and Market Analysis (RMA) for the 195 land is adopted without significant modification, the basic underlying zoning for the new district could be inherently unfair and anti-development.
Besides reflecting a general wish list of institutional desires for future development, the RMA embraces the findings of previous reports and proposes a more conservative interpretation of land-use rules based on the current 1950s downtown zoning that rigidly adheres to height limits. The RMA would also penalize developers by adding further restrictions limiting the total number of stories for the proposed parcels. Urban design requirements such as special base heights or street standards don’t address the underlying structure of the 1950s regulations.
It is often said that Providence doesn’t regulate land-use by floor area, which is the fairest system that most cities in the world use in conjunction with other standards. Besides height limits Providence uses a maximum number of dwelling units and percentage of lot coverage to regulate land.
If each parcel in the 195-district were analyzed on equal basis (apples for apples) using either lot coverage or dwelling unit percentage, the RMA would create inequities from parcel to parcel. By using either measure the 195 parcels would be penalized with more restrictive standards for maximum permitted dwelling units or lot coverage than what’s permitted everywhere else within downtown zoning districts. The same would likely be true if floor area were to be used as a regulating standard.
The densest development is proposed along the 95 corridor. Why not instead along the riverfront or the proposed streetcar route? This is once in a lifetime opportunity to create a new 21st century economic district. Does this new district have to be constrained by using a dressed up version of mid-20th century zoning regulations?
NCG
Agreed completely with the above poster. “This is once in a lifetime opportunity to create a new 21st century economic district.” I would hate to see Providence miss this chance by under-developing these incredible parcels of land that have the opportunity to transform the city forever.
A new face for Kendall Square [Boston.com]
MIT looks to fix the decades old zoning mistake that is Kendall Square, but their housing plan may not be ambitious or modern enough. Thoughts for us as we rezone Downtown, the Jewelry District, and the Hospital District and look to attract “knowledge” sector businesses while creating a vibrant neighborhood.
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I wouldn’t mind actaluly seeing the entire newly opened space be turned into a series of linking parks with connecting bike path, similar to what has taken place in Boston in the area of the former I93 land vacated by the Big Dig, and current surrounding land (i.e. surface parking lots) developed into buildings instead. Such a connection of parks would act as a dedicated (and much needed) pedestrian/bicycle link from the South/West across a future Providence River Pedestrian Bridge and to the East Side.Adjacent land, most of which, currently exists as surface parking lots and would be developed into buildings. Though I am hopeful for the future of this land, its most likely going to take years if not the better part of a few decades to be fully developed (ex. Capital Center) and this seems to be a more plausible suggestion.
There’s not enough people downtown or in the immediate adjacent neighborhoods to use such an enormous area of park space. Except for the occasional walker, runner, or dog walker, many existing downtown parks are vacant most of the time. Examples: the park next to the train station is usually void of people, the State House grounds are pretty much always empty, the Roger Williams National Memorial looks more like highway median most of the day, and Waterplace Park particularly around the basin usually only has few people in it, not to mention the new parks on the east and west banks of the Providence River below Crawford Street are also mostly empty. Exceptions are Burnside Park and Waterplace Park near the court house and RISD, as well as the few evenings a month with the periodic Waterfire events during warmer weather when all the parks are jammed with people.
Perhaps a narrow linear park with paths and bikeways attached to small pocket parks or plazas flanked by high-density development would have a greater potential to be activated with people in the 195-land district. The existing studies and master plans that have been developed for the 195-land have been timid. In spite of seductive renderings illustrating park space overpopulated with people that look more like ants, there’s not enough development adjacent to any of the proposed park space for it to be activated except by a large-scale special event. Conservatively there would need to be at least 10,000 or 15,000 new residents and employees to energize even a linear park. This idea that cities need more and more park space is misguided. If you want endless open space, go to the suburbs. Highly successful cities have very basic elements: streets with walkable sidewalks, retail, buildings that create a mostly continuous streetwall, and high-density population.
Several years ago, many Fox Point residents made the point that leaving the space open would increase and maximize the values of the existing surrounding properties. Examples of the phenomenon include areas like Central Park in New York City, and presumably the Boston Gardens. I can’t recall the other areas around the country and the world that were offered. But apart from the obvious benefits of open spaces to livibility, the city could well make out better from a tax receipt perspective if the land were left as an open space.
Central Park serves a city with a population of 8 million +, the Boston Common and Public Gardens serve a city of 600k+. Providence has ~180k people and, as Peter pointed out, already existing large swathes of under-utilized ‘open space.’
Also, how would 20 acres of untaxed, publicly owned and maintained land help Providence from a tax perspective?
The Chicago lakefront, South Beach’s Lummus Park in Miami Beach, Prospect Park in Brooklyn, and Hyde Park in London, are open spaces that add value to adjacent neighborhoods. The difference is that the density in these cities is 5 to 20 times greater than most of Providence.
How would Providence do better from a tax perspective? Fox Point is essentially built out. There’s no open area for new development within the existing neighborhood. If the 195-land east of the river were left undeveloped, and assuming that the open space adds value to the neighborhood, does that mean property tax should be increased on existing residential and commercial Fox Point properties? Does India Point Park add value?
Central Park is surrounded by a solid wall of mostly 20- to 35-story residential towers and Boston Common has a mix of 5- to 20-story residential and commercial buildings, both of which has a much higher density than adjacent Fox Point, the Jewelry District, Upper South Providence or the Downcity surface parking lot district is to the 195-land. What would be the tax advantage of a 2-1/2 story 18th-century house or 3-story 19th-century commercial building as compared to 150-unit apartment building or 5-story laboratory?
I think the idea is that if you leave the space open, over the very long term the surrounding properties increase in value by far more than they would have if the space were developed. Fill the space with a development, and the surrounding properties appreciate less — and you lose the open space for open space activities and effects. Over the very long term that greater appreciation and resulting greater tax revenues from the surrounding properties could outweigh the totality of tax revenues from any development and the slower appreciation of and lower resulting tax revenues from the surrounding properties.
As for the density issue, if the space is left open, the surrounding properties become significantly more desirable, in part because there is no development; and increased density of the surrounding properties — carefully monitored — probably would follow.
I recognize that such really long term planning is out of favor in this area. Now, the city strives to earn the fast buck, often discounted, and then moves on.
But consider this: if we filled the space with some kind of development, what would be the odds that the city would in any event give away the long-term tax benefits to a private developer (by “tax stabilization”) or allow a tax exempt to put up, say, a laboratory or other educational structure that would not pay any taxes or would pay a discounted rate?
Bill, while I am happy that you are engaging in the conversation, the reality is that what you’re discussing just doesn’t work. Providence’s core is severely underpopulated to support existing open space, substantial commercial development, etc. If you want property values to go up in the long term you need the place you live to be more desirable. While an open park can contribute, there’s very little reason to believe with empty parks surrounding Fox Point that the best thing to do on margin for property values is more green space. More likely, an array of richer cultural events, greater access to retail and food services, greater walkability, access to additional jobs in walking distance from Fox Point are all far more likely to add to the desirability of that neighborhood. It’s not as though the parks are overflowing and there is a clear need for additional space like that at the margin.
Residents = more built structures that are taxed that have value, richer commercial activity (which has indirect benefits of improving value of commercial property), etc.
There’s no way that a park under any circumstance is better from a tax roll or neighborhood viability perspective than adding say, 5-10k residents would. The short term impact of additional housing supply might depress some values in the direct vicinity, but they would quickly recover and grow as Downcity, the Jewelry District, and Fox Point become far more desirable places to live.
I think these are issues about which people can reasonably disagree. Unlike you, I don’t think the issue is black and white and that there is one obvious solution. Very long-term planning in Providence, and in the state, is almost impossible given the very poor economic environment — in part the result of endemic economic mismanagement.
Avoiding mediocre or worse short-term solutions for a potentially far better much longer term solution is extremely difficult. Do we have the talent and political will for it? Almost certainly not. In fifty or sixty years, I would bet that many will look back at the inevitably crappy development that we will be put there now and wish we had been more thoughtful and imaginative.
No one is going to build high rises along the park there. You cannot compare Providence and a non-existent park to Boston and the common or New York and Central Park. And the last thing Providence needs is another huge underutilized and, more importantly, unmaintained park. We have plenty of those.
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American Bird Conservancy conservation birding initiative
Here’s a video about the American Bird Conservancy’s initiative to promote conservation through tourism in Latin America. I guess it’s like the BLSA birding route concept, but on a different scale.
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Fiji Petrel sighted at sea
The elusive Fiji Petrel (Pseudobulweria macgillivrayi) has finally been photographed at sea. This from Birdlife International:
Known from just one specimen collected in 1855 on Gau Island, Fiji, the Fiji Petrel was lost for the next 130 years. Since 1984 there have been a handful of reports of “grounded” birds that had crashed onto village roofs on Gau. Until now there had been no confirmed sightings of the seabird at sea. The search for the elusive petrel is described in a paper in the latest Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club. Up to eight individuals were seen over eleven days in an area around 25 nautical miles south of Gau. The species’ flight, behaviour and detailed comparison to other species are also described for the first time. The paper’s lead author, Hadoram Shirihai, said: “Finding this bird and capturing such images was a fantastic and exhilarating experience”. Fellow expedition member Tony Pym commented, “To see such a little-known bird at such close range was magical.”
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Critically endangered Northern Bald Ibis disturbed
With less than 500 individuals left in the wild, Northern Bald Ibis is in bad shape. It’s quite disturbing when one reads messages like the one below where birders are disregarding the needs of these birds. These are excerpts of a message from the RSPB‘s Chris Bowden:
“I want to thank the 95+% of birders and bird tour leaders who visit southern Morocco each year and respect the importance of the last colony of the Critically Endangered Northern Bald Ibis, by searching for the birds away from the main breeding colony at Tamri. I am very much aware how much all visiting birders want to see Northern Bald Ibis when visiting the area, and realise it can be frustrating if the birds are not in the feeding areas exactly when arriving at the site, especially as visitors itineraries are often tightly packed.
So it is very disturbing when a minority of irresponsible visitors such as a recent group in early May (who we know from wardens records that the leader has previously ignored the well known request among all birders to avoid the colony), continue to approach the colony itself. This is particularly disappointing and embarrassing to the responsible birding community. The wardens are locally appointed and trained (one key tangible benefit of the ibis to the village communities closest to the colonies and roosts, and one which indirectly links and informs the locals of the importance of the ibis), and their priority role is to keep all visitors away from the site as well as systematically monitoring the breeding birds. This recent birding party of birders from England refused to accept the wardens request to leave and became abusive before photographing the birds anyway. Through their attitude they appear to condone others in approaching and jeopardising the largest remaining colony of this species in the world.”
In contrast to these negative events, the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation has committed to supporting further research and conservation of the Northern Bald Ibis. This is an excerpt from the Birdlife International website:
One of the rarest birds in North Africa and the Middle East has received a conservation boost from the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation. Once revered by the Egyptian Pharaohs, Northern Bald Ibis Geronticus eremita has become extinct in the majority of its former range in North Africa, the European Alps and the Middle East, and is now listed as Critically Endangered the highest threat level of extinction. However, ongoing conservation efforts will now benefit from a three year grant from the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation. [more here]
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Video: The State of the Birds Report 2009
Take a look at this video from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, it’s superb!
[Note: if you’re watching this video in a bandwidth-deprived country, play the video, pause it immediately then allow it a few minutes to load. This will ensure the viewing is “stutter-free.”]
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Mount Mabu in Northern Mozambique to be protected
It’s fantastic that there are still areas that have not been explored by scientists. Mount Mabu in Northern Mozambique was one such area until a scientist from Kew Gardens located it using Google Earth. Expeditions to the massif have revealed several new species to science. It appears that Mozambique has agreed to protect the mountain because of these unique species and its relatively “untouched” status. Here’s some more information from The Guardian:
The unique lost rainforest of Mount Mabu is to be given protection from exploitation, following a new expedition to the remote area revealed a host of new species. The existence of the pristine forest in northern Mozambique was revealed by the Observer last year, and was originally discovered with the help of Google Earth. It is now thought to be the largest such forest in southern Africa. At a meeting this week in the capital Maputo, government ministers agreed to put conservation measures in place before any commercial logging occurs there after meeting representatives from the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, the Mulanje Mountain Conservation Trust (MMCT), and numerous other groups involved in the project. [more here]
Mount Mabu is not the only isolated massif in Northern Mozambique that harbours interesting species. Mount Namuli, the regions highest mountain, is home to Namuli Apalis (Apalis lynesi) which is Mozambique’s only endemic bird species. Read an interesting account here about how this species was only recorded for the second time in 1998.
Tags: expedition, Mount Mabu, Mount Namuli, Mozambique, Namuli Apalis, protect | Category: Conservation, News | One comment
Global bird news: 29 June 2009
Obama administration stalling on Sage Grouse decision
Federal officials are again delaying a decision on whether to list Sage Grouse in 11 Western states as threatened or endangered, leaving in limbo until at least 2010 a spate of industries that face sweeping restrictions if the bird is protected.The chicken-sized grouse ranges from Montana to Arizona and California to Colorado, living alongside livestock grazing, oil and gas drilling and an increasing number of wind power turbines. Its population has been in decline for decades, but how many remain is unknown. For the Obama administration, the decision on Sage Grouse could force an uncomfortable choice. On one side are environmental groups that supported him as a candidate and want the grouse protected. On the other is a renewable energy industry much touted by the president but lately emerging as a potential threat to the bird’s habitat. “The Fish and Wildlife Service is well aware of the significance of this decision, because of its potential impact on a broad area and many activities within that broad area,” said Michael Bean, a senior adviser to Assistant Secretary of Interior Tom Strickland. [more here]
Critically endangered Niceforo’s Wren given another chance
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ProAves together with World Land Trust-US, American Bird Conservancy and the Corporación Autónoma de Santander (CAS) have taken a significant step forward in their efforts to protect the Critically Endangered Niceforo’s Wren – restricted to the last remnants of dry forest in the Chicamocha Valley of the eastern Andes of Colombia. The purchase by ProAves of over 3,200 acres of vital remaining dry forest habitat – some of the highest quality remaining forest of this type in the entire region – will result in the creation of a new reserve to protect the Niceforo’s Wren. It constitutes the first protected area within the Chicamocha Valley for these and many endemic flora and fauna species. [more here]
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Black-tailed Godwits are already back in Africa!
Dutch scientists have placed satellite tracking devices into the abdomens of 15 Black-tailed Godwits (Limosa limosa) to find out where and when these birds move. Some interesting data has already been collected. One of the birds left Friesland (in Holland) on Saturday and was in Senegal (West Africa) just two days later! That’s over 4000 kilometres (Spain, Mediterranean and Sahara desert) in just 48 hours. Amazing! Here’s more from Science Daily:
Since last week, 15 black-tailed godwits in Fryslân (in the north of the Netherlands) have been flying around with tiny transmitters in their abdominal cavities. The transmitters were inserted during a minor operation by the American vet Daniel Mulcahy and his Dutch colleague David Tijssen. With the help of the transmitters, researchers will be able to track the birds for about a year in their breeding grounds in Fryslân as well as during their migration from and to Southern Europe and Africa. [more here]
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British conservationists concerned about Common Swift
Building design changes are reducing available nest sites for Common Swifts (Apus apus) in Britain. Is this really a cause for concern? Where did Common Swifts breed before there were buildings in Britain? This is an old debate, but it does beg the question of whether resources could be better utilized protecting more critically endangered species. As an aside, it’s not often that entire websites are dedicated to one species, but if you want to know more about Common Swift check out this site. Here’s more from the RSPB:
You know summer has arrived when you see swifts speeding through the air, screaming their heads off and swooping into crevices in buildings. But fewer and fewer of us are enjoying this spectacle as we have discovered that the swift is in serious trouble. Swift numbers have declined by 47% in the last ten years. And for the first time, the summer migrant has been added to the amber list meaning it is of serious conservation concern. A major cause of this decline is believed to be the loss of nest sites through building improvement or demolition. They nest almost exclusively on buildings, so they really need our help. [more here]
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Peruvian Amazon rainforests under threat
It seems the Peruvian government is trying to change laws to allow the development of large tracts of Amazon rain forest. The government does not appear to be consulting all stakeholders (indigenous people) effectively. Not cool. If you want to sign a petition against this click here.
This just through from AVAAZ.org:
“The Peruvian government has pushed through legislation that could allow extractive and large-scale farming companies to rapidly destroy their Amazon rainforest.
Indigenous peoples have peacefully protested for two months demanding their lawful say in decrees that will contribute to the devastation of the Amazon’s ecology and peoples, and be disastrous for the global climate. But last weekend President Garcia responded: sending in special forces to suppress protests in violent clashes, and labelling the protesters as terrorists.
These indigenous groups are on the frontline of the struggle to protect our earth — Let’s stand with them and call on President Alan Garcia (who is widely known to be sensitive to his international reputation) to immediately stop the violence and open up dialogue. Click below to sign the urgent global petition and a prominent and well-respected Latin-American politician will deliver it to the government on our behalf.
More than 70 per cent of the Peruvian Amazon is now up for grabs. Giant oil and gas companies, like the Anglo-French Perenco and the North Americans ConocoPhillips and Talisman Energy, have already pledged multi-billionaire investments in the region. These extractive industries have a very poor record of bringing benefits to local people and preserving the environment in developing countries – which is why indigenous groups are asking for internationally-recognized rights to consultation on the new laws.
For decades the world and indigenous peoples have watched as extractive industries devastated the rainforest that is home to some and a vital treasure to us all (some climate scientists call the Amazon the “lungs of the planet” – breathing in the carbon emissions that cause global warming and producing oxygen).
The protests in Peru are the biggest yet and the most desperate, we can’t afford to let them fail. Sign the petition, and encourage your friends and family to join us, so we can help bring justice to the indigenous peoples of Peru and prevent further acts of violence from all parties.”
Sign the petition here.
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Red Knot (Calidris canutus rufa) numbers could be on the rise
The North American subspecies of Red Knot (Calidris canutus rufa) is in trouble. Although Red Knot is globally a widespread species, this particular subspecies has declined dramatically because of past hunting activities and more recently competition for food in Delaware Bay.
Each year Red Knots stop over at Delaware Bay to feed on Horseshoe Crab eggs, but these birds competed directly for this food source with crab harvesters. This stop-off area is a critical point in their migration from South America to the Arctic where they breed. Birds arrive at Delaware Bay with almost no food reserves and after a few weeks of almost continuous feeding their fat levels are replenished and they’re ready to complete the final leg of the migration. Without sufficient reserves a lot of these departing birds perish en route to their breeding grounds.
Wiki provides a good overview of the various Red Knot subspecies, of which there are six.
Reports from researchers this year indicate that this subspecies may have turned the corner; their numbers appear to be on the rise. Here’s more from Philly.com:
Once numbering nearly 100,000 on the bay, the birds have declined to about 15,000. Biologists blame a reduction in the number of crabs, which were heavily harvested through the 1990s. Gradually, in what officials said was the first time a species not in trouble was regulated to help another that was, crab harvest restrictions have been enacted. Still, neither the crabs nor the birds have shown a comeback. Biologists fear the red knots could plummet into extinction with an event as simple as a summer snowstorm in the Arctic or an oil spill in South America. Advocates have repeatedly, but unsuccessfully, tried to get the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to designate the bird – a subspecies called Calidris canutus rufa – as federally threatened or endangered. Yesterday, the researchers packed up and headed home after spending a month on the bay capturing red knots with sophisticated netting devices. They logged biologic data and banded the birds before setting them free. Australian shorebird expert Clive Minton, who has joined Niles on the bay since 1997, called it “an exciting year. We think we’re really seeing the beginning of a possible turn-round in the fortunes of the crabs and the shorebirds.” [more here]
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Agility in Software Development
By Jim Highsmith
"Agile" Studies
Agile Software Development Ecosystems
In this excerpt from his book, Jim Highsmith looks at agility in software development and its success in other fields such as manufacturing; and explores the concept of Agile Software Development Ecosystems.
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Agility does not come in a can. One size does not fit all. There are no five common steps to achievement.
Rick Dove,
If turbulence and turmoil define the problem, then agility is key to the solution.
We software developers and high-tech managers often look at ourselves as being in the forefront of innovation. Agile approaches appear, from inside our profession, to be the cutting edge. But if we look across the aisle into the realm of manufacturing, we might be considered on the trailing edge rather than the cutting edge. Witness, for example, the rise of lean manufacturing practices ignited by the Japanese automobile manufacturers and well documented in The Machine That Changed the World: The Story of Lean Production (Womack, Jones, and Roos 1990).
Looking back nearly ten years, the foundation of what it means to be agile was described in Agile Competitors and Virtual Organizations, by Steven Goldman, Roger Nagel, and Kenneth Preisspublished in 1995! Even though this book addresses manufacturing (the foreword is written by former Chrysler chairman Lee Iacocca), the agility issues it addresses are the same today as they were then.
Bob Charette, originator of Lean Development, stresses that the original concepts behind lean production in Japan have been somewhat blurred in the North American and European implementations, which focus on streamlining and cost control. The Japanese origins of lean production stressed the human and philosophical aspects of the approach. The translation from the Japanese concept to the word "lean" tends to leave out this human-centric flavor, partially, Bob says, because the main driver in U.S. businesses has been cost reduction. The Japanese word is better translated as "humanware." Whereas lean production and other lean derivatives have focused on reducing staff, the original Japanese concept has more of the Agile concept of working effectively with people.
The definition of agility offered in Agile Competitors remains as valid today for software development as it was ten years ago for manufacturing: "Agility . . . is a comprehensive response to the business challenges of profit-ing from rapidly changing, continually fragmenting, global markets for high-quality, high-performance, customer-configured goods and services." Agile Competitors considers the pursuit of agility to be a strategic issue for survival in today's market. Look at the following list, compiled by the authors, of forces that threaten companies:
Market fragmentation
Production to order in arbitrary lot sizes
Information capacity to treat masses of customers as individuals
Shrinking product lifetimes
Convergence of physical products and services
Global production networks
Simultaneous intercompany cooperation and competition
Distribution infrastructures for mass customization
Corporate reorganization frenzy
Pressure to internalize prevailing social values (Goldman, Nagel, and Preiss 1995)
Would a list drawn up today differ? Not by much. The Information Age economy has increased the pressures on these issues, but they are still critical to business success. And according to Agile Competitors, agility is the critical characteristic, the overarching skill requiredof both corporations and individualsto address these issues. If software development organizationsinternal IT groups, systems integration consultants, and software product companiesare to fulfill their vision of helping business thrive in this Information Age, they must determine how to transform this vision of agility into reality.
To become Agile, most organizations will need to change their perspective. Peter Drucker, often characterized as the father of modern management theory, wrote an extensive article titled "Management's New Paradigms," which he introduces by saying:
Most of our assumptions about business, about technology and organizations are at least 50 years old. They have outlived their time. As a result, we are preaching, teaching, and practicing policies that are increasingly at odds with reality and therefore counterproductive (Drucker 1998).
Agility isn't a one-shot deal that can be checked off the organizational initiative list. Agility is a way of life, a constantly emerging and changing response to business turbulence. Critics may counter, "Agility is merely waiting for bad things to happen, then responding. It is a fancy name for lack of planning and ad hoc-ism." But Agile organizations still plan; they just understand the limits of planning. Although the defining issue of agility involves creating and responding to change, there are three other components that help define agility: nimbleness and improvisation, conformance to actual, and balancing flexibility and structure.
Creating and Responding to Change
Is agility merely a matter of reacting to stimuli, like an amoeba, or is it something more? My preferred definition of agility has two aspects:
Agility is the ability to both create and respond to change in order to profit in a turbulent business environment.
Agility is not merely reaction, but also action. First and foremost, Agile organizations create change, change that causes intense pressure on competitors. Creating change requires innovation, the ability to create new knowledge that provides business value. Second, Agile organizations have an ability to react, to respond quickly and effectively to both anticipated and unanticipated changes in the business environment.
Agility means being responsive or flexible within a defined context. Part of the innovative, or proactive, piece involves creating the right contextan adaptable business organization or an adaptable technology architecture, for example. Innovation is understanding that defined context and anticipating when it needs to be altered. The problem with many traditional software development and project management approaches is that they have too narrowly defined the context; that is, they've planned projects to a great level of task detail, leaving very little room for agility to actually happen.
"I think Agile is both being able to respond quickly (which means you have to know that you have to respond quicklynot an easy thing to do) as well as being able to anticipate when the rules or principles are changing or, more importantly, can be changed," says Bob. "Organizations that do this are often called "lucky"in the right place at the right time. Some undoubtedly are, while a few have created the necessary infrastructure to exploit the change." Part of the cost of agility is mistakes, which are caused by having to make decisions in an environment of uncertainty. If we could wait to make product development decisions, they might be better ones; however, the delay could well obviate the need for the decision at all, because aggressive competitors may get their product to market while we dither. "This fact leads to a sort of organizational uncertainty principle: The faster your decision-making cycle, the less assurance you can have that you're making the best possible decision," says David Freedman (2000).
Nimbleness and Improvisation
In our volatile economy, companies need to enhance their "exploration" skills at every level of the organization. Good explorers are Agile explorersthey know how to juggle and improvise. Indiana Jones was a good explorer, somehow living through every outlandish adventure. Agility means quickness, lightness, and nimblenessthe ability to act rapidly, the ability to do the minimum necessary to get a job done, and the ability to adapt to changing conditions. Agility also requires innovation and creativitythe ability to envision new products and new ways of doing business. In particular, IT organizations have not done an adequate job of balancing the needs of exploration and optimization.
The actors in the movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon display incredible agilityrunning lightly along the tiniest tree branches and showing extraordinary dexterity in sword fighting. Beginning martial arts students are clumsy, not Agile. They become skilled, and Agile, from long hours of training and effective mentoring. Sometimes their drills are repetitive and prescriptive, but only as part of learning.
Agility also requires discipline and skill. A skilled software designer can be more Agile than a beginner because he or she has a better sense of quality. Beginners, with little sense of what is good and what is not, can just revolve in circleslots of change but not much progress.
"I view the issue as one of almost 'disciplined messiness,'" remarked Bob in an email exchange. "You need to have a very good discipline in place to be able to respond in turbulent times, yet simultaneously know when to be 'undisciplined.' I view anticipation to be actively seeking situations where the generally accepted guiding rules or principles no longer apply, or where shortcuts are the least risky approach to take to gaining some objective. To be able to understand when the rules don't apply, you need to completely understand when they do." For example, Picasso had to become an accomplished fine arts painter to get to a point where he was able to move past that perception of "good art" and create abstract painting. He had to be skilled before he could be Agile.
Agile individuals can improvise, they know the rules and boundaries, but they also know when the problem at hand has moved into uncharted areas. They know how to extend their knowledge into unforeseen realms, to experiment, and to learn. When critical things need to get done, call on the great improvisers.
Improvisation makes great jazz bands. From a few key structural rules, jazz bands improvise extensively. Having a solid foundation enables their tremendous flexibility without allowing the music to degenerate into chaos. The proponents of business process reengineering and software engineering methodologies probably blanch at the thought that improvisation, rather than carefully articulated processes, is key to success. Yet in today's turbulent environment, staff members with good balancing, judging, and improvisational skills are truly invaluable.
Conformance to Actual
"OK," muse the critics, "but how do I control development projects in this environment?" There are two answers to this constant question. First, control focuses on boundaries and simple rules rather than prescriptive, detailed procedures and processes. The second aspect of control, though simple in concept, is completely foreign to many managers.
Agile projects are not controlled by conformance to plan but by conformance to business value.
"The major problem with planning," say Shona Brown and Kathleen Eisenhardt (1998), "is that plans are virtually always wrong." If we accept the notion of constant change and turbulence, then plans are still useful as guides, but not as control mechanisms. In high-change environments, plansand the traditional contracts that are derived from plansare worse than useless as control mechanisms because they tend to punish correct actions. If we deliver a working software product, with features our customers accept, at a high level of quality, within acceptable cost constraints, during the specified time-box, then we have delivered business value. Developers don't get to say, "This is valuable." Customers do. Every three to six weeks, customers tell developers that acceptable business value has been deliveredor not. If it hasn't, the project is cancelled or corrective action is taken. If it has, the project continues for another iterative cycle.
We may look at the plan and say, "Well, because we learned this and this and this during the iteration, we only got 23 of the 28 planned features done." That is useful information for planning our next iteration, but not for control. When we started the project three months ago, we only planned 18 features for this last cycle, and half the features we did deliver were different than the ones in the original plan. We accept that talented people, who are internally motivated, who must work in a volatile environment, who understand the product vision, will do the best they can do. If they don't conform to the plan, the plan was wrong. If they delivered business value, then whether the plan was "right" or not is immaterial. If they conformed to the plan and the customers aren't happy with the delivered business value, it doesn't matter that they conformed to the plan.
An entire generation of project managers has been taught, by leading project management authorities, to succeed at project management by conforming to carefully laid-out, detailed task plans. Conformance to plan means locking ourselves into a outdated, often irrelevant plan that some project manager cooked up in great haste (which, of course, precluded talking to developers) 18 months ago when the world was different. Conformance to plan may get a project manager brownie points with the tightly wound project management authorities, but it won't deliver business value in volatile, high-speed environments.
An exploration perspective contrasts with that of optimization. Take, for example, the use of schedule deadlines. While a schedule may appear to be a schedule, each perspective utilizes dates as a control mechanism in different ways. Optimization cultures use dates to predict and controlthey view schedule as achievable, along with the other objectives, and see deviations from the plan as poor performance. Exploration cultures, however, view dates much differently. They basically see dates as a vehicle for managing uncertainty and thereby helping to make necessary scope, schedule, and cost tradeoffs. Exploration cultures, to be sure, use dates as performance targets, but the primary focus is bounding the uncertainty, not predicting dates.
Balancing Flexibility and Structure
It would be very easy to either "plan everything" or "plan nothing," but the really interesting question is how to juggle the two, how to define the context narrowly enough to get something meaningful done, but not so narrowly that we fail to learn and adapt as we go along. The fundamental issue remains one's primary perspective: to anticipate or to depend on resilience and responsiveness. Aaron Wildavsky, a social scientist, writes about this issue and offers an example of the difference between Silicon Valley and Boston. Basically, he believes, the reason Silicon Valley is the primary technology center of the world is that it depends on its resilience to be able to respond to rapid change, whereas the Boston crowd leans more heavily toward anticipation (Postrel 1998). Does that mean no one in Boston ever responds to change and no one in Silicon Valley ever plans? It's not so much either/or as it is a fundamental, underlying philosophy within which situations are juggled accordingly.
Being Agile means trusting in one's ability to respond more than trusting in one's ability to plan. Good explorers both anticipate when the rules of the game have changed (or are about to change)that is, they define the contextand can also operate flexibly within a given rule set. Obviously, if the rule set itself is too prescriptive, it leaves no room for agility. Without some rule set, however, agility can become rudderless reaction.
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Sheilagh Crandall- Sheilagh returned to Caledon in 1988 after working most of the 80's in Kenya and South America. When not gardening, Sheilagh has done and continues to do a great deal of volunteer work... Humber Valley Heritage Trail, Oak Ridges Trail Association, Headwaters Hospital Silent Auction Committee, and an original member of the Landscape Committee for Bethell Hospice in Inglewood.
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Catherine Faint founded Catherine Faint Entertainment (CFE Inc.) in 1994. Her wealth of experience totals over 40 years in the Canadian music industry working as an agent, talent buyer, producer, immigration consultant and provider of labour and production services.
From booking artists coast to coast, bringing big names to Casino Rama, setting up stages and producing shows to mentoring new artists, Cathie has created CFE. Her company services multiple clients, employs over a hundred individuals and has worked with thousands of touring artists.
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Allari Naresh
Wallposters
Hero Nani ragging Allari Naresh
Allari Naresh’s current project ‘Kevvu Keka’ has finished all its schedules and is in post production activity and went for a audio launch event which happens to be the birthday of Allari Naresh.
The main highlight of the event is anchor Anasuya asking the young heroes about Naresh’s age . Even Hero Nani is ragging Allari Naresh asking secrets of Naresh and their Kevvu Keka moment was very Interesting and entertaining.
Sharmila Mandre is in the female lead,with main supporting roles played by M S Narayana, Ali, Krishna Bhagawan, Ashish Vidyarthi, Kiran Rathod, Jeeva and Geetha Singh.
Devi Prasad has directed the movie with the musical support of Chinni Charan.Boppana Chandrasekhar is the producer on Jahnavi Productions Banner.
Yamudiki Mogudu Movie Review
Allari Naresh betting big on Yamudiki Mogudu
Comedy King Allari Naresh is betting big on his upcoming socio fantasy entertainer ‘Yamudiki Mogudu’. Naresh is reportedly quite pleased with the way the movie has shaped up and he is expecting the film to add to the success of his last film ‘Sudigaadu’. The movie is a socio fantasy entertainer with a good dose of comedy and Naresh’s antics are expected to add to the entertainment quotient.
The film’s story is different from other ‘Yama’ films as Naresh will be seen romancing the daughter of Lord Yamadharma Raja. Richa Panai will be seen as Naresh’s love interest while Shayaji Shinde will be seen as Lord Yama.
The movie is gearing up to hit the screens this week and Koti has scored the music. Sattibabu is the director of this movie and Chanti Addala is the producer.
'Yamudiki Mogudu' release got preponed
Sudden Star Allar Naresh’s socio-fantasy and comedy film “Yamudiki Mogudu” which has a tagline Ee Nela Thakkuvodu ,has got preponed in its release date. Earlier it was announced that this movie will be released on 28th Dec, but with the latest developments it’s been preponed to get released on 27th Dec, 2012. This movie was submitted at censor board for certification and makers are expecting a clean “U” rating.
This film is set on Yamalokam backdrop and Sayaji Shinde will play the role of Yama while popular actress Ramya Krishna would be playing the role of Yama's wife. A new girl Richa Panai is making her debut into Telugu films as heroine opposite Naresh in this movie.
Makers of this film not only used Chiranjeevi’s film title but also remixed his popular song "Attho Atthamma Koothuro" from Alluda Majaka movie.Technical team of this film is filled with direction & screenplay by E. Satti Babu,music by Koti ,cinematography by Ravindra Babu ,editing by Gautham Raju and Chanti Addala has produced this movie under Friendly Movies banner.
Yamudiki Mogudu censor report
Allari Naresh starrer Yamudiki Mogudu is all set to release on December 28 has been censored today.
The film is awarded by ‘U/A’ with some cuts and mutes for double meaning dialogues. Richa Panai is playing the female lead in the movie touted to be a socio-fantasy entertainer. Ramya Krishna is playing as Naresh’s mother-on-law role while Shayaji Shinde will be seen as Lord Yama in the film. For the first time in Yama series movies, Naresh will reach the Yamalokam with his human body catching the tail of Yama’s Ox.
As reports say, the movie has enough stuff to entertain the audience and the box office depends on how audience will take it as the movie comes with predicted storyline. Directed by E Sattibabu, Chanti Addala is producing it. Music by Koti. The film has the remix track of Chiranjeevi’s super hit track ‘Attho Atthammakuthuro..’ which is a highlight.
Comedy Hero Ability To Satisfy Mega Fans
After scoring a super hit with 'Sudigadu', Allari Naresh became a Box Office thunder and his latest offering is 'Yamuduki Mogudu'. But, can he satisfy Mega fans through this movie regarding that negative talk we hear in Film Nagar?
Already Naresh took the title 'Yamudki Mogudu' from Chiru's movie and also 'Atho Athamma Kooturo' song from Alluda Majaaka. There is a talk that he has also taken 'Samaajika Nyayam' concept from Chiru and is using it vividly in the movie. The story revolves around Naresh's fighting in Yama Lokam in order to bring social justice to everyone. But Naresh will be doing that in funny tone and that is facing the ire of Mega Fans now. They feel that Naresh is going to make fun of that concept and it will look like a satire on Chiru rather praising his ideology.
Can Naresh do satisfy Mega fans by using that 'Samajika Nyayam' concept in an effective way? Otherwise he will be yielding the grudge of this largest fanbase for life. Let us see.
Naresh eyeing on Tamil remake
Sudden star Allari Naresh after super hit film Sudigadu which is a tamil remake is eyeing on another remake of a recent hit Tamil film titled Naduvala Konjam Pakkatha Kaanom .
This movie is about a guy who suffers memory loss few days before his marriage and the incidents take place are very hilarious . The film’s Tamil version was directed by newcomer Balaji Tharaneetharan and Vijay Sethupathi played the lead role.
Allari Naresh is busy shooting for Kevvu Keka and his Yamudiki Mogudu which is going for Censor today is getting ready soon.
Yamudiki Mogudu with 70 mins
Allari Naresh-starrer latest graphical entertainer Yamudiki Mogudu is scheduled for release on December 22.
The post-production works of the film are almost done and director E Sattibabu exudes confidence about the project. This comic film also has Chiranjeevi’s famous song ‘Atto Attamma Kutura’ remixed from the hit film Alluda Mazaka. The song was picturised on Naresh, Richa Panai and Ramya Krishna. It also has 70 minutes CG.
Produced by Chanti Addala on Friendly Movies banner, Sayaji Shinde will be seen in the role of Yama and Ramyakrishna will play his wife. Richa Panai played another important role.
Allari Naresh new film audio in Nov 2nd week
Sudden star Allari Naresh upcoming film Yamudiki Mogudu audio is going to be released in second week of Nov, 2012. Megastar Chiranjeevi garu is going to release the audio of this movie said this film maker Chanti Adala. Koti has scored the music and E Satthi Babu is directing this movie.
Naresh is paired with a new face Richa Panai as his heroine in this flick. Rest of the technical team is filled with editing by Gautham Raju, camera work by K Ravindra Babu and dialogues by Kranthi Reddy.
Allari Naresh becomes too pricey
Comedy star Allari Naresh might be following the adage 'may hay while the sun shines' after the stupendous success of Sudigadu, but his producers and the buyers weren't too happy with the sudden increase of his pay package.
Naresh who used to charge Rs 1.5 crore per film until recently has now been quoting Rs 2.5 crores for all his future films. Sudigadu was made with a budget of Rs 8 crores, which is touted to be highest in Naresh's career. The pre-release buzz, positive reviews and the word of mouth helped the film to collect at least double the investment.
Sudigadu success has increased the business range of Naresh. His next flick Yamudiki Mogudu has done a pre-release business of Rs 12 crores, shocking the trade pundits. The hype over the spoofs opened the doors for wide release and expanded the business of Naresh's film from Rs 10 lakhs to over Rs 50 lakhs in Overseas market, but will this repeat for all his films is a million dollar question. Allari Naresh has been like a gold mine for small producers till now, but the growing budgets may become a huge burden for the buyers and the recovery of investments will be a herculean task if his future films fails to get positive mouth talk. Testing time for SUDDEN STAR!
Rajinikanth praises Sudigadu
Sudden Star Allari Naresh’s ‘Sudigadu’ is still doing decent business at BO. Many Industry biggies appreciated the actor and the director Bheemineni for making such a hilarious movie. South Super Star Rajinikanth who got to know about the movie, requested the makers to arrange a special show for him. Who refuses, when it was Rajinikanth! The producers feel it as honor and organized a digital screening for the Super Star at his house using Qube Technology.
After watching the film, Rajinikanth reportedly liked the cinema and appreciated the actor and the makers. Rajini said that, Telugu version is much better than the original version ‘Thamizh Padam’. Bheemineni couldn’t believe this and expressed his happiness. Interestingly, Naresh even imitated Rajini as Robo. What more a hero or director needs other than appreciations from the legendary stars like Rajini.
Sudigadu like GabbarSingh and Dookudur
Comedy star Allari Naresh claims that his latest hit film Sudigadu is like the Dookudu and Gabbar Singh of small-budget movies.
“Those were big-budget hits, but mine is a big success among the small movies,” points out the actor, who believes that the hilarious entertainer received an overwhelming response.
“Our idea was just to evoke fun and it was nothing serious. It paid off and now I’d like to avoid doing spoofs for a while,” he adds.
The actor has also bounced back into the reckoning after duds such as Madathakhaja
‘Sudigadu’ approaching Rs 20 crores!!r
One of the recent releases is Sudigadu and from the time it was being made, the talk was quite positive. The film is now meeting the expectations and is getting some crazy collections at the box office. According to the recent information, the film is expected to touch Rs 20 crores which is crazy.
So far, Allari Naresh was considered the best hero for the B, C center audience but with Sudigadu’s new collections, he has also become the darling for the family audience and multiplex viewers also. Reports also say that the glamour of Monal Gajjar was another reason for crowd pulling in theatres.
The buyers and distributors are laughing their way to the bank to collect the fat bank balances. This is also the biggest collection ever for Allari Naresh in his career. The film is the remake of the Tamil movie Tamizh Padam and director Bheemaneni Sreenivasa Rao is now the hot property in Tollywood.
Sudigadu 1st week AP Collections Share
NIZAM – 3.30 Cr
CEDED – 1.52 Cr
NELLORE – 0.24 Cr
KRISHNA – 0.49 Cr
GUNTUR – 0.68 Cr
VIZAG – 0.86 Cr
EAST GODAVARI – 0.53 Cr
WEST GODAVARI – 0.48 Cr
Sudigadu (AP) 1st week collections Share – 8.10 crores
Sudigaadu – a landmark film for Sudden Star
‘Sudigaadu’ is a landmark film for Comedy King Allari Naresh, sorry, Sudden Star Allari Naresh in many ways. The movie has not only elevated his career and success graph, it has also opened new markets and new commercial possibilities for him.
This is the first Allari Naresh movie to do so well in overseas territories and in a few countries, this is the first ever Allari Naresh film to be screened. The movie’s phenomenal openings and good collections have also cemented Allari Naresh’s status as a minimum guarantee star.
One industry analyst remarked “If Allari Naresh sticks to making films in this budget, he will surely be a modern day replacement for Rajendra Prasad of the late 80's and 90's. People are starved for genuine humour and producers need a safe hero. Allari Naresh is slowly filling up that need”.
With such favourable responses coming his way, Naresh surely is one very happy and excited hero.
Sudigadu 3 days AP Collections share !!
Sudigadu (AP) 3 days SHARE – 5.26 crores
Sudigadu Big Satire on Mahesh Babu
One of the most high expectations movie Sudigadu finally released, The Suspense created through the terrific trailer comes to an end on this Friday. Sudigadu is the former film in Telugu film industry, making a movie with Spoofs which made a gigantic Risk by Director.
The Movie gets more Popularity with Emulating Tollywood Top Stars like Pawan Kalyan, Jr NTR, Ram Charan Mahesh and more. Coming to Movie Pawan Kalyan has three scenes imitating his dialogues in Gabbar Singh and a Scene in Tammudu Movie and Jr NTR got imitated with three dialogues of his movies Dammu Oosaravelli and Brundavanam.
But Mahesh got a lot Spoofs over all them when comparing. And Make a Big Comedy Over Mahesh Babu Scenes. The Stared with Pokiri Businessman and Dookudu. In the Movies Climax there was great fun with Mahesh Krishna Manohar Character and Naresh as Satya Manohar. In the directors also only Puri Got a Small Satire. And in Fighting Scenes also crooning with Dookudu Music. In the trailer also they made spoof on Mahesh babu’s dookudu movie collections and used the same font for representing collections of both the movies. After watching this is an undoubtedly satire from allari naresh and his director on Mahesh Babu. Finally Mahesh Babu Movies and His Dialouges Makes Fun a lot. After Watching the Movie People will have a Minute doubt on targeting Mahesh characters more than other Top Heroes.
Sudigadu Pre-Release Report
Comedy Hero Allari Naresh becomes the king of box office with his upcoming film ‘Sudigadu’. As per the inner sources, the film’s distribution rights have been sold for record price as the recent release trailer got viral response. The film went for censor certification yesterday and it received a U/A certificate and it is heard that the censor authorities have appreciated the makers for making such an entertaining movie.
Though Sudigadu is an official remake of Tamil super hit ‘Thamizh Padam’, director Bheemineni Srinivasa Rao made maximum changes to the script to suit the Telugu nativity. The film has been carrying positive talk in the Industry and as per the unit sources the film will sure to score a big hit like Tamil version. Doing parody of other films is common, but they spoofed nearly 100 Telugu hit films. We need not to worry about the entertainment. Sudigadu is all set to hit the screens on August 24th.
Sudigagu Overseas by Vedha Movies, Inc
Sudigadu (tag line ‘Oka ticket tho 100 cinemalu’) is an upcoming Telugu comedy film directed by Bhimaneni Srinivasa Rao and produced by Chandrasekhar D Reddy under Arundathi Movies. This film is a remake of Tamil super hit film Thamizh Padam. The film features Allari Naresh and Monal Gajjar in the lead roles. Allari Naresh plays double roles in this movie as father and son. All your favorite comedians Brahmanandam, Ali, MS Narayana, Chalapathi Rao, Dharmavarapu Subrahmanyam, Posani Krishnamurali, LB Sriram, Kondavalasa, Shayaji Shinde, Krishna Bhagavan, Venumadhav and Jeeva are in this movie. This a full family entertainer and a MUST watch movie.
Our sincere thanks to producer Chadra Sekhar Reddy for giving us this opportunity.
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Sudigadu surprise package of August?
Comedy King Allari Naresh’s ‘Sudigaadu’ could very well be the surprise successful package of August. The movie is said to be a hilarious spoof on the most successful Telugu cinemas of all time and none of the major heroes have been spared. All this has been done in good humour and in a positive way, therefore the buzz on the project is quite high.
August has a slew of big releases and while attention is focused more on those films, ‘Sudigaadu’ might end up upsetting the plans of the big budget releases if movie lovers connect to the concept. Bheemaneni Srinivasa Rao is the director of this movie and Chandrasekhar Reddy is producing this project. Music has been scored by Srivasanth.
Allari Naresh’s socio fantasy film completes schedule
Comedy King Allari Naresh’s new socio fantasy movie has completed a schedule and all the sequences involving a Yamalokam set have been wrapped up. Shooting will resume on August 10th in Palakollu and surrounding areas. Richa Panai is making her debut as a heroine in this movie and veteran actress Ramya Krishna will also be seen in the film.
Chanti Addala is the producer of this movie and E. Satti Babu is the director. Koti is scoring the tunes for this movie. Brahmanandam, Naresh, M.S.Narayana, Giri Babu and other senior artistes are essaying key roles in this movie.
Allari Naresh targets Balakrishna
Comedy star Allari Naresh's upcoming film 'Sudigadu - Oka Ticket Pi 100 Cinemalu' is already generating a huge buzz in the film circles as it's has got many spoofs of Tollywood big ticket films. One such hilarious spoof in the film is that of Balakrishna stopping a train with his finger in Palnati Brahmanaidu.
When quizzed about the spoof, Director Bheemaneni Srinivas Rao said that his intention is to a make a film which will be like a library for what shouldn't be there. "We have many films for reference to show how a film should be like. But, my film is intended to show how a film shouldn't be like. People are fed up with age-old ideas our filmmakers have been using even Today," he revealed.
Although the film unit has been claiming that they have avoided personal attacks, poking fun at their stars mayn't go well will the fans. How of the fans of Balayya will react to the spoof is the big question now. Will this Sudigadu remain as a clean entertainer or end up as controversial film to be known in coming days.
Allari Naresh’s Sudigaadu makes a big splash
Allari Naresh’s upcoming film Sudigaadu has caught the attention of a lot of people. Soon after the film’s first look was unveiled, people began discussing about the spoofs in the film and the response was unanimous that this is going to be a rocking entertainer. The film’s trailer took a dig at several hit films and dialogues. Already there’s lot of curiosity to see what else is in store in the film. Bheeemineni Srinivasa Rao has directed the film and it’s the remake of a Tamil titled Tamizh Padam. Allari Naresh and Monal Gajjar have played the lead roles. Sri Vasanth has composed the music. The film is expected to release in the third week of August.
Allari Naresh Socio Fantasy Film in RFC
Actor Allari Naresh's upcoming movie under the direction of E Satti Babu is being shot in Ramoji Film City currently. Director Satti Babu said that the film is a socio-fantasy entertainer and 11 special sets are being used for the movie to make sure that the visuals look grand. Sayaji Shinde is playing the Yama's role and Ramya Krishna will be seen as his wife. Senior actors Naresh, Giri Babu and comedians Raghu Babu, Krishna Bhagwan will be seen in important roles. Ravindra Babu is handling the cinematography and Koti is the music director.
Allari Naresh’s new movie is Dorakadu
‘Comedy King’ Allari Naresh’s new movie under the direction of G Nageshwar Reddy is titled “Dorakadu”. It is evident that Allari Naresh’s films have amusing titles, although it is unclear whether the actor chooses to act in films that have funny titles or that his films are given funny titles.
This time for “Dorakadu”, the actor is teaming up with G.Nageswara Reddy again to recreate the magic of Seema Sastry and Seema Tapakai. Ammi Raju, Allari Naresh’s manager, is producing the film under Siri Cinema Banner. Dorakadu is expected to commence shooting on the auspicious day of Vijaya Dasami in October. The search for the heroine is on.
Allari Naresh’s ‘Action’ at Pragathi Resorts
Comedy King Allari Naresh’s 3D film, ‘Action’, is currently being shot at Pragathi Resorts in Hyderabad. Shooting is going on at a brisk pace and Anil Sunkara, one of the producers of Superstar Mahesh Babu’s ‘Dookudu’, is making his debut as a director with this movie. The film is being shot with high technical values and some expensive new equipment has been imported for the project.
Apart from Allari Naresh, Kick Shyam, Vaibhav and Raju Sundaram are the other male leads in this action entertainer.Sneha Ullal and Kamna Jethmalani will be seen as the heroines and AK Entertainments banner is producing this big budget flick.Bappa Lahari, son of Bappi Lahari, is composing the music while background score will be rendered by Thaman.
Sudigaadu’s audio launch in June 2nd week
The audio of Allari Naresh, Monal Gajjar starrer Sudigaadu will be launched in the second week of June. Recently, an item number, which has lyrics like Gaji Biji Gatukula Roadlo, was shot on Allari Naresh and Rachna Maurya at a pub in Hyderabad. Most part of the film’s shooting has already been completed and the film’s post production is going on at a brisk pace. Bheemineni Srinivasa Rao is directing the film and D Chandrasekhara Reddy is producing it. The film is a remake of Tamizh Padam and it’s being touted as a complete laugh riot. Allari Naresh even crooned few lines for a song Zara Zara in this film. Sri Vasanth has composed the music. The film is expected to hit the screens in the last week of June.
Allari Naresh Sudigadu First Look
Allari Naresh Sudigadu First Look : The first look of Allari Naresh Sudigadu is here! 'Sudigadu' is a remake of Tamil movie 'Tamizh Padam'. Shooting part of the movie is already completed and Bheemaneni Srinivasa Rao is directing this movie. Monal Gajjar is paired opposite to Allari Naresh in this spoof comedy entertainer. Sri Vasanth is composing the music and D.Chandrasekhar Reddy is producing this movie. Producer is planning to release 'Sudigadu' in the month of June
Allari Naresh pins high hopes on Sudigadu
Comedy star Allari Naresh is all set to release his upcoming movie Sudigadu, which features Monal Gajjar alongside him. Directed by Bheemineni Srinivasa Rao, the film is a remake of the hit Tamil flick Thamizh Padam. The shooting of the movie is already finished and it is expected to hit the screens in June.
Talking about the film Sudigadu, Bheemineni Srinivasa Rao says that it is a parody mockumentary comedy film, which takes a comical dig at some of the clichés that a typical Telugu cinema hero would follow. He adds, “This film is going to be a hilarious one, right from the beginning to end.”
However, Sudigadu is produced by D Chandrasekhar and Sri Vasanth has composed music for it. Allari Naresh is playing youth named Sudigadu, who is destined for greatness and punishes criminals in secret. The actor has finished filming for his portions. Since he does not have any big hit in the recent past, he has pinned lots of hope on it.
Allari Naresh croons for Sudigadu
Allari Naresh now joins the elite club of actors turned singers in Tollywood like Chiranjeevi, Pawan Kalyan, NTR, Siddharth and others. He is singing for his upcoming movie, Sudigadu directed by Bheemineni Srinvas Rao. The movie is said to be a remake of Tamil movie, Padam.
The movie is said to have turned our hilarious with spoofs on several big heros. The movie will hit screens in the last week of May. Off late, Allari Naresh had suffered severe setbacks at the box office with several movies turning out to be duds. So, now he had pinned high hopes on this movie for success.
Ramanaidu at Allari Naresh New Movie
Tollywood star Allari Naresh' upcoming untitled Telugu flick was launched in Hyderabad recently by veteran film producer Ramanaidu and Dasari Narayana Rao. The launch which took place at the movie's sets had Allari Naresh, heroine Richa Panai, Dasari Narayana Rao, D Ramanaidu, Dil Raju and Achi Reddy.
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Treatment of enteric fever in children on the basis of current trends of antimicrobial susceptibility of Salmonella enterica serovar typhi and paratyphi A
V Manchanda1, P Bhalla2, M Sethi3, VK Sharma2
1 Department of Clinical Microbiology, Maulana Azad Medical College and Associated Chacha Nehru Children Hospital, Geeta Colony, New Delhi - 110 031, India
2 Department of Microbiology, Maulana Azad Medical College and Associated Chacha Nehru Children Hospital, Geeta Colony, New Delhi - 110 031, India
3 Department of Pediatrics, Maulana Azad Medical College and Associated Chacha Nehru Children Hospital, Geeta Colony, New Delhi - 110 031, India
V Manchanda
Department of Clinical Microbiology, Maulana Azad Medical College and Associated Chacha Nehru Children Hospital, Geeta Colony, New Delhi - 110 031
Purpose: Recent reports indicate decreased susceptibility of S. typhi to fluoroquinolones, especially ciprofloxacin. Chloramphenicol has been suggested as first line therapy of enteric fever in many studies. This is a prospective study that describes the trends of antimicrobial susceptibility of S. typhi and S. paratyphi A causing bacteraemia in children and reports therapeutic failure to ciprofloxacin and evaluates the possible use of chloramphenicol, ampicillin, ciprofloxacin and third generation cephalosporins as first line therapy in the treatment of enteric fever in children. Methods: The present study was conducted from April 2004 to March 2005 in a superspeciality children hospital at New Delhi. A total of 56 S. typhi and five S. paratyphi A isolates were obtained among the 673 blood cultures performed. Antimicrobial testing was done using disk diffusion technique (NCCLS method) for 13 antimicrobials and MICs were calculated for ampicillin, ciprofloxacin, chloramphenicol and cefotaxime. Analysis of data was done using WHONET software. Results: All 56 isolates of S. typhi were sensitive to amoxycillin+clavulanate, gentamicin, cefixime, cefotaxime and ceftazidime. Multidrug resistance (MDR, resistance to three drugs) was seen in 22 cases (39%) and resistance to five drugs was seen in 12 cases (21%). Only two isolates were resistant to chloramphenicol (3%). MIC 90 for ampicillin, chloramphenicol, ciprofloxacin and cefotaxime were 1.0 mg/ml, 4.0 mg/ml, 64 mg/ml and 0.125 mg/ml respectively. All S. paratyphi A isolates were sensitive to ampicillin and chloramphenicol and resistant to nalidixic acid.MIC distribution data for chloramphenicol revealed elevated MIC but still in susceptible range. Conclusions: There is an urgent need for further clinical studies to evaluate response to chloramphenicol in such cases. Antimicrobial susceptibility data and MIC distribution favour use of ampicillin as a drug of choice for the treatment of enteric fever. Third generation cephalosporins are also useful but their use should be restricted for complicated cases.
Keywords: Enteric fever, Salmonella, chloramphenicol, fluoroquinolones
Manchanda V, Bhalla P, Sethi M, Sharma V K. Treatment of enteric fever in children on the basis of current trends of antimicrobial susceptibility of Salmonella enterica serovar typhi and paratyphi A. Indian J Med Microbiol 2006;24:101-6
Manchanda V, Bhalla P, Sethi M, Sharma V K. Treatment of enteric fever in children on the basis of current trends of antimicrobial susceptibility of Salmonella enterica serovar typhi and paratyphi A. Indian J Med Microbiol [serial online] 2006 [cited 2019 Jul 18];24:101-6. Available from: http://www.ijmm.org/text.asp?2006/24/2/101/25182
Multidrug resistant (MDR) strains (resistant to chloramphenicol, ampicillin and cotrimoxazole) of Salmonella More Details enterica serovar Typhi ( S. typhi ) are increasingly being reported from India and worldwide.[1],[2],[3],[4] Third-generation cephalosporins and fluoroquinolones have been found effective in treatment of these cases.[5],[6] However, isolates of S. typhi with reduced susceptibility to fluoroquinolones (as indicated in the laboratory by resistance to nalidixic acid) have now appeared in the Indian subcontinent and other regions.[7],[8],[9],[10],[11],[12] These nalidixic acid resistant but ciprofloxacin sensitive strains have increased minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs) for ciprofloxacin, although they are still within the current NCCLS range for susceptibility (0.12-0.5 mg/ml).[13] Therapeutic failures to ciprofloxacin have been reported in these cases of typhoid fever.[13],[14],[15] Furthermore, an isolate of S. typhi from Bangladesh with high-level resistance to ceftriaxone has already been reported.[16] However, reemergence of chloramphenicol susceptible strains have also been reported during recent years.[17],[18]
A prospective study was planned to study the extended patterns of antimicrobial susceptibilities of S. typhi and S. paratyphi A isolated from the blood cultures at our hospital. Additionally, clinical therapeutic responses were observed for few of these cases to ciprofloxacin, ampicillin and cefixime. Also, the possible use of chloramphenicol, ampicillin, ciprofloxacin and third generation cephalosporins as first line therapy in the treatment of enteric fever in children was evaluated.
The study was conducted at Chacha Nehru Superspeciality Children Hospital, Delhi from May 2004 to April 2005. Blood samples of 673 children with suspected enteric fever were subjected to blood culture. Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi was isolated in 56 cases (8.3%) and Salmonella enterica serovar Paratyphi A in five (0.7%) cases. Antimicrobial susceptibility patterns were determined using following commercial antimicrobial disks (HiMedia, India): chloramphenicol (30 mg), nalidixic acid (30 mg), ampicillin (10 mg), azithromycin (15 mg), cotrimoxazole (1.25/23.75 mg), ofloxacin (5 mg), ciprofloxacin (5 mg), tetracycline (30 mg), cefixime (5 mg), cefotaxime (30 mg), ceftazidime (30 mg) amoxycillin + clavulanic acid (20/10 mg) and gentamicin (10 mg). Antimicrobial susceptibility testing was performed in accordance with the National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards (NCCLS) methodology.[19]
Minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs) for ciprofloxacin and cefotaxime were determined using E - test (AB Biodisk, Solana, Sweden). Broth microdilution testing was performed to determine MICs for chloramphenicol and ampicillin in accordance with the National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards (NCCLS).[20] The reagent powders were dissolved in Mueller-Hinton broth and distributed to the wells of microdilution trays. Each tray was inoculated with 5´10 4sub CFU per well to yield a final volume of 0.1 ml per well. Final dilutions ranged from 256 mg/mL - 0.25 mg/mL. The trays were incubated overnight at 35°C. Quality control was monitored by using Escherichia More Details coli ATCC 25922. The recorded MIC of each antibiotic was the lowest concentration that completely inhibited visible growth of the test strain. The MIC at which 50% of the isolates tested were inhibited (MIC50) and MIC90 were calculated in accordance with the current NCCLS methodology and using WHONET software ver 5.1.
All 56 isolates of S. typhi were found sensitive to amoxycillin + clavulanate combination, gentamicin, cefixime, cefotaxime and ceftazidime. Details of antimicrobial susceptibility patterns are shown in [Table - 1]. Seven S. typhi isolates were sensitive to all drugs tested. Two isolates showed resistance to chloramphenicol. Multi-drug resistance (MDR, resistant to ³ 3 drugs) was observed in 22 cases (39%) and resistance to ³ 5 drugs was seen in 12 cases (21%). All five S. paratyphi A isolates were sensitive to ampicillin and chloramphenicol and resistant to nalidixic acid.
Fourteen different types of antimicrobial profiles were observed for S . typhi . Nineteen isolates were resistant only to nalidixic acid (N), three each were additionally resistant to azithromycin (NZ) and tetracycline (NT). Eight isolates were found resistant to nalidixic acid, cotrimoxazole (Co), ofloxacin (O), ciprofloxacin (P) and tetracycline (T) (NCoOPT). Detailed antimicrobial resistance profiles are summarized in [Table - 2]. Five S. paratyphi A isolates had three different resistance profiles. Three isolates were resistant to nalidixic acid and azithromycin (NZ) and one isolate each was resistant to nalidixic acid alone (N) and to nalidixic acid and tetracycline (NT). Seven (13%) strains were sensitive to all drugs.
Minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs) range and their distribution among the isolates are shown in [Table - 1] and [Figure - 1]a-d.
Nalidixic acid resistant S. typhi (NARST) isolates were obtained in 48 cases and nalidixic acid sensitive isolates were found among eight cases of suspected typhoid fever. Among NARST, only 12 isolates met the criteria of current NCCLS break points for ciprofloxacin resistance and only two isolates had MIC < 0.12 mg/mL. The remaining 42 isolates had increased MICs between ³ 0.12 - <1 mg/mL [Figure - 2]a and b.
Scatter plot [Figure - 2]a compares nalidixic acid zone diameters and ciprofloxacin MICs. Large numbers of isolates were found in the area of nalidixic acid resistance with slightly increased MICs for ciprofloxacin (0.12 -1 mg/mL), but still below the current break point (<1 mg/mL). Another scatter plot [Figure - 2]b compares nalidixic acid zone diameters with that of ciprofloxacin zone diameters. In this figure, majority of the isolates fall in nalidixic acid resistant but ciprofloxacin sensitive area. Among S. paratyphi A isolates, MIC for ciprofloxacin ranged between 0.125-0.75 mg/mL and for chloramphenicol ranged between 0.5-8 mg/mL. MIC distribution for cefotaxime was between 0.064-0.094 mg/mL. All five isolates had MIC of 1.0 mg/ml for ampicillin.
Oral ciprofloxacin (10 mg/kg/day) was prescribed to the first five patients infected with nalidixic acid resistant but ciprofloxacin sensitive S. typhi (MIC > 0.64 mg/mL but < 1 mg/mL) and were reviewed after five days. Of these five patients, only one responded to the therapy. In the remaining four patients, higher doses of ciprofloxacin (20 mg/kg/day) were advised and they were reviewed after another three days. Only two of them responded by this time. Oral cefixime (16 mg/kg/day) was advised in the other two and an excellent response was observed. During the rest of the study none of the culture positive patients of typhoid fever were advised ciprofloxacin.
They were advised either oral amoxycillin (100 mg/kg/day) or cefixime (20 mg/kg/day) to which, they responded well. The follow up was uneventful.
In the preantibiotic era, typhoid fever case fatality rates approached 20%. Treatment with effective antimicrobial agents - ampicillin, chloramphenicol, cotrimoxazole and later ciprofloxacin - has reduced the case fatality rate to less than 1%.[21] The resistance pattern for S. typhi varies with geographical locations.
Many studies have suggested that patients in Indian subcontinent or with the history of travel to the Indian subcontinent should receive ciprofloxacin as first line therapy.[8],[22] However, S. typhi isolates resistant to ciprofloxacin and ceftriaxone (MIC, 64 mg/L) have been reported.[13],[16],[23],[24],[25],[26],[27] S. typhi strains with reduced susceptibility to fluoroquinolones have become a major problem in Asia and other parts of the world.[12] Although they were reported to be susceptible to fluoroquinolones, by disk testing with the use of recommended break points, these organisms were resistant to nalidixic acid and the MIC of fluoroquinolones for these strains was 10 times higher than that for fully susceptible strains. This reduction in susceptibility results in a poor clinical response to treatment. There is unpredictable response to treatment with ciprofloxacin in patients infected with these kinds of S. typhi strains. Selective pressure on the bacterial population by uncontrolled use of quinolones has likely led to emergence of resistance to this group of antimicrobials. This has been attributed to point mutation in quinolone resistance determining region (QRDR) of the topoisomerase gene gyr A, characteristically occurring at position 83 of the DNA gyrase enzyme (changing serine to phenylalanine) and position 87 (changing aspartate to tyrosine or glycine).[9] However, other mechanisms of resistance such as decreased permeability and active efflux of the antimicrobial agent may be involved. In other Enterobacteriaceae , higher levels of quinolone resistance have been associated with additional mutations in the gyr A gene, mutations in other topoisomerase genes, or alterations in fluoroquinolone uptake.[13] No such mutations have been reported yet in S. typhi , although there are sporadic reports of completely fluoroquinolone resistant isolates.
Because clinical response to fluoroquinolones in patients infected with nalidixic acid resistant strains is greatly inferior to the response in those infected with nalidixic acid-susceptible strains, the break points for the classification of S.typhi strains according to their susceptibility to fluoroquinolones should be reviewed. A practical approach would be to classify strains that are resistant to nalidixic acid but susceptible to fluoroquinolones according to current disk testing criteria as resistant to quinolones or non susceptible to fluoroquinolones as suggested by other authors as well.[12] All strains that have intermediate susceptibility or resistance to fluoroquinolones on disk testing (as defined by NCCLS guidelines) should be considered fluoroquinolone resistant. There are reports that show that treatment of patients infected with similar isolates is at potential risk of therapeutic failure.[13]
This study showed that resistance to nalidixic acid is generally associated with increased MICs of ciprofloxacin. Hence, nalidixic acid susceptibility testing must be included with ciprofloxacin susceptibility testing in routine microbiological laboratory. Treatment with ciprofloxacin must be avoided in nalidixic acid resistant isolates of S. typhi although higher doses may be helpful in a few cases.
Most of the isolates in this study were found susceptible to chloramphenicol and ampicillin. Percentage resistance, intermediate resistance and sensitive (%RIS) data in [Table - 1] show that ampicillin and chloramphenicol should be considered for the treatment of typhoid fever in children in Delhi, however, MIC distribution data projects different scenario. As discussed above, infection with isolates with raised MICs but still in susceptible range for ciprofloxacin [Figure - 1]a has a potential risk of therapeutic failure. MIC distribution of chloramphenicol closely resembles that of ciprofloxacin in raised MICs but still in susceptible range [Figure - 1]b. Hence, theoretically, treatment with chloramphenicol also has a potential risk of therapeutic failure. More studies are needed to evaluate reuse of chloramphenicol as the first choice for treatment of typhoid fever. Minimum inhibitory concentrations of ampicillin and cefixime on the other hand were well below the susceptible limits and hence may be used safely in the treatment of typhoid fever.
To conclude, MIC distribution for ciprofloxacin and chloramphenicol had striking similarity, i.e, raised MICs but still in susceptible range. However, MICs distribution of ampicillin and cefotaxime was well below the susceptible limits. Therapeutic failures for ciprofloxacin have been observed. Similar responses may be observed for chloramphenicol. Therapeutic choice for typhoid fever should be carefully selected. Ampicillin and probably not chloramphenicol may be reconsidered as first line of therapy in uncomplicated cases of typhoid fever in children.
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New blood: Last Orders
Posted: 11/08/2018 Tags: Features , Interviews | comments
Cold Hard Truth, Crippler LBU, Ironed Out, Proven... these are just some of the bands members of Last Orders had their dirty hands in. If you know anything about LBU scene you know it reads like who is who over there, meaning quality is guaranteed. Last Orders is more on the relaxed side of things, especially when it comes to subject matter that revolves around beer, fried chicken and telling hipsters to FUCK OFF... All acceptable topics for a hardcore song. Check out the interview with Ryan (guitar) and Louis (vocals).
First off, Last Orders - give us some overview of the band. How did you get started?
Ryan: Bunch of mates that talked about doing an old school sounding band for a while. Ended up all fitting together well with everyone being on the same page as to what they wanted this band to be....
Louis: Ry (Guitars) had an idea to start a new band but wanted to try something a little different. So he approached Louis (Vocals) who was looking to start another band but wanted to do vocals on his own. After that Ry spoke with Joe (Guitar), Louis chatted to Jake (Drums) and finally Joe asked Skel (Bass) who was up for doing something after taking a few years out from playing in a band.
There’s no money and no fame in playing hardcore, so why do it?
Ryan: We do it because we love it. The music, the message and the people we meet along the way.
Louis: For me I've always done it for two reasons. Firstly, as a release and secondly because in a world that is hard to get your voice heard without diluting your message, hardcore is a great platform to get whatever it is off your chest and spit your rage (so to speak). It's never, ever been about money or fame.
The demo is your first release. How long was it in the making?
Ryan: Some of the riffs have been around for a while but all came together when this band got in a room and played. Bits got switched up, ideas got flowing and it just worked. The recording itself was done over a couple of evenings at k town studios by our good friend Steve BDF.
Louis: Not too long. Whole process was done in within a couple of days by our good friend Steve BDF.
Are you happy with the final result?
Ryan: Steve did a blinding job of capturing where we were at that point of the band. We wanted something a bit more raw sounding than we had done in our previous or current other bands and he did just that for us.
Louis: Definitely, we didn't want a polished sound. A lot of new bands spend hundreds on doing a demo and we wanted the opposite of that.
Apart from dissing avocados, is there any type of message in your music that you want to send to the listeners?
Ryan: Hahaha. Overall we want this band to be about having a good time but Louis always writes lyrics that are true to him.
Louis: Haha, our overriding message is we will say what we want within reason of course. You don't have to like us or pretend to like us either. Having said that, we just want to have fun with our music and see how far we can progress with it. There are no deadlines or time limits. In a scene where most bands write about politics, animal rights etc we just wanna talk about trival dumb shit. We can't all change the world sadly.
What bands inspired the music on the demo?
Ryan: We all listen to loads of different music, but I would say Cro mags, knuckledust, wisdom in chains, sick of it all, skarhead. Just those old school anthemic hardcore bands that you can grab the mic and sing along and stage dive.
Louis: Fast, aggressive hc like Warzone, KD and our experience with playing in mostly metal influenced hc bands.
What’s the state of London hardcore nowadays?
Ryan: Stronger than ever. Rucktion Records are holding it down as per usual with their latest release (Ironed Out’s ep) and they are 20 years deep.... just look at that back catalogue to see how strong it is. There are load of Incredible shows and huge line ups being put on around the capital by people such as Ready Eye Collective. Who would have thought you would see a UK exclusive of Meruader playing Master Killer in full?! so huge thank you to the hard work of the Ready Eye dudes.
Louis: It's decent. We have some good people putting on shows like Ready Eye Collective, Moral Decay, United Voices HC formerly London HC collective and of course Rucktion Records who have been involved with the London scene for 20 plus years and still going strong. There is a little split but that's always been there for whatever reason.
The list of your ex and current other bands is long and some of them already left the mark on the UK hardcore. When you look back, what are some of your best memories being part of the scene?
Ryan: For me personally just being able to be a part of this scene is a privelage and part of me being who I am today. The people we meet along the way become family and the memories we share we hold strong.
Louis: Best memories are making all the friends and family I have now and being able to travel to places as close as Belgium and as far as Finland.
Top 3 UKHC albums of all time?
Ryan: Ok so these aren’t technically all albums but I have to go with:
Knuckledust: time won’t heal this
xCanaanx: Gehenna Made Flesh
50 Caliber: Internal bleeding
Honourable mentions for me go to:
Ninebar: urban legends
Awoken: take aim
BDF: First Family
Louis: Knuckledust - Unbreakable
Ninebar - Urban Legends
Blades of Unity - Backpack full of C4
London is a metropolis which comes with both positives and negatives. Are you born and raised there?
Ryan: Personally, no I’m from Canterbury in Kent originally. I have been in and around London my entire life though and it’s the city we love.
Louis: Louis is from East London and Jakes from South London. Ry is from the Garden of England, Kent. Skel and Joe are from Boston in Lincolnshire but Joe has been living in London for about two years now. Living in a city comes with its challenges but I think the hardest thing is paying bills because it's an expensive city to live in.
What’s your daily life like?
Ryan: We all work full time and some of us have families. We make time to do this because we want to make music together and it’s an escape from our everyday lives.
Louis: Work, eat, band practice, shows, booze, rant, booze, eat, sleep. Sometimes the order does change.
What does hardcore need more of?
Ryan: We need more of the younger generation to carry this on and keep it fresh and continue this thing.... we need more people to go to shows so people like Ready Eye Collective can continue to bring you the best bands possible.
Louis: People supporting shows by paying into the venue. Bands need to be paid at the very least petrol money.
What does it need less of?
Ryan: Rats. Shit talkers. Fakes.
Louis: Identity politics, cosplay poverty and new bands being placed above bands that are already established. A lot of young promoters are forced/bullied into putting new hype bands higher up a bill and I think it goes against the ethics of who and what we're about. Pay your fucking dues. End of story.
Band’s plans for the future?
Ryan: We are playing with Knuckledust and wisdom in chains this weekend, with our friends in Pints and Injury Time and have a few new tunes we are working on. We hope to have something new recorded by the end of the year.
Louis: Tour, write more music and just have as much fun with this as possible.
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Development of first aviation-compatible UHF RFID tag
Successful collaboration between HARTING, Lufthansa and Fraunhofer Institute.
The HARTING Technology Group, together with its project partners Lufthansa Technik Logistik, Lufthansa Systems and the Center for Intelligent Objects at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits, has developed the first UHF RFID tag to meet the rigorous requirements of maintenance operations in the aviation industry.
The transponder, which will be manufactured by HARTING AG Mitronics, a subsidiary of HARTING in Switzerland and a specialist in 3D-MID technology, is to be used for the permanent identification of aircraft components. This tag enables the identification of components located outside of the aircraft cabin for the first time. The technology deployed enables contactless radio identification of clear system data over a distance of several meters.
The transponder is attached to the components and then recognized by a reading device. This joint development excels thanks to its minimal size and weight, dependable operation on metal components and conformity with all common RFID standards. The transponder is also resistant to extreme mechanical, chemical and thermal stresses in aviation operation. It conforms to SAE Aerospace Standard 5678, RTCA Standard DO-160 and protection class IP 69K certification. It is also compatible with the RFID standards ISO 18000-6c and EPC Class1 Gen2 and enables coding which conforms to ATA Spec 2000 Chapter 9-5. The transponder, which is currently at the certification and authorization stage, can be obtained with the aviation certification EASA Form One.
This development represents significant progress in the deployment of RFID technology. The application opportunities extend across the entire aircraft component value-added chain, covering production, aircraft manufacturing and maintenance processes throughout the aircraft’s total lifespan. Lufthansa Technik AG plans to use the tag in its self-developed Cabin Management & Inflight Entertainmentsystem nice®.
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CHOIR STALLS AND CANOPIES AT ST MARY’S NANTWICH
Earlier this year we were commissioned (by architects Donald Insall Associates) to repair and conserve the medieval choir stalls and canopies at St Mary’s Church , Nantwich.
These are a national treasure; the fine towering canopies of Cathedral quality dating from the 1380’s and the stalls, with their famous misericords from the mid 1400’s. Both had suffered historic damage and neglect followed by phases of necessary but largely insensitive repairs. The woodwork was candle-blacked and filthy with decades of accumulated dust, many carved pinnacles were missing and areas of turrets were on the verge of collapse.
This was furniture restoration on a grand scale.
The slow and painstaking cleaning very soon revealed traces of paint within the canopies, mostly yellow with some red which which confirmed that they were originally brightly decorated and had been stripped after the Reformation and later stained almost black in places when Victorian work was added. No pigment was found on the lower stalls and misericords.
As the cleaning processed, anything discovered lying detached within the fabric of the canopies or was loose and incomplete was recorded and removed to be repaired in our workshops. This included all twenty misericords which had been vandalized during the Civil War when the Church held Royalist prisoners and later had been very crudely repaired and reinstated. It was our task to make them operate smoothly again with the minimum of disturbance to the original seat ends, but a small amount of newly carved oak was needed to accomplish this and all the oak dowels and end blocks of the seats were replaced with work to the quadrants on the stalls themselves.
Here at Nantwich, as with so much conservation woodwork generally, much of our time was spent dealing with earlier failed repairs, improving on them and covering our tracks.
Our final task was to restore the Victorian floor of the stalls and install highly effective and safe LED floor lighting.
For this sensitive work St Mary’s Nantwich has been given Highly Commended status in the 2015 Betjeman Award, and naturally St Mary’s Church, Conservation Archtects Donald Insall Ass. and ourselves are delighted to be runners up to St Martin of Tours, Bilborough near Nottingham where Evelyn Gibb’s murals of 1946 are now restored to their former glory after having been concealed and defaced in the 1970’s.
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Going Hard for 2019: Mickey Avalon at Gallagher’s Pub
FEATURED IMAGE: MAGGIE ST. THOMAS
Words and Photos by: Maggie St. Thomas
Rap star Yeshe Pearl better known around the globe as Mickey Avalon was made famous for lyrical themes about drug abuse, overdoses, glamorized bulimia, prostitution, suicide, and his dick on the notorious track “My Dick”. Mickey Avalon is half of pure Hollywood debauchery and half artistic genius. While one might try dismissing Mickey as a novelty act, his live shows are legendary, never predictable, and he always keeps it real. There is no in-between with Mickey, either you love him or you hate him, he speaks his mind with unflinching lyrical content and keeps his songs disturbingly poetic with catchy samples and beats.
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At Gallagher’s Pub on the coast of Surf City, USA, Mickey Avalon packed ’em in like sardines. Keeping with tradition, the evening’s set began with Toni Basil’s 1980’s hit “Hey Mickey” to start the show. Tapping into that deviant energy, Mickey Avalon strutted on stage with attitude, wearing tight blue jeans and a black t-shirt that read “I’m Mickey Blow Me”. His back up dancer Jillian Schmitz provided provocative and sultry moves with multiple costume changes including pom-poms for a cheerleader outfit in “Fuckin’ ‘Em All”, and a red militant hat, leather jacket, coke slut sunglasses, and prop-cigarette for “Waiting To Die”.
Mickey Avalon never once stopped the show even after forgetting the lyrics to “Sweet Surprise”. Holding the microphone with both hands and leaning into the speakers he studied the beat, found it, and got himself back on track. With his eyes in a haze he begins “I haven’t played that one for a while sorry. You guys still with me?” he asks. “I went to get my drink and it was water, alright keep it going” he motioned to his DJ and the notes to Mr. Brownstone began to kick in. Everyone was having a great time, the Holiday spirit was alive and kicking. Even Santa himself jumped onstage to wiggle and shake. Fans were dancing wildly and reciting his lyrics verbatim to “Jane Fonda”.
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I caught up with Mickey after the show and asked him for a few words. “It was awesome, a Merry Holiday show. I liked dancing with Santa,” he admitted. He begins talking about how he painted the covers of the singles he’s been releasing every couple of weeks. “Do you have Apple or iTunes?” He asked, “I just want to show you the cover.” I handed him my phone, he commented on my phone case, a cover with a photograph of the late Lux Interior of The Cramps, and shared a quick story about how he and Lux Interior were at the same record store in Hollywood buying records. Fans swarmed outside to get a glimpse of, a photograph with, or a t-shirt signed by Mickey. His security team came inside and told him that a fan outside wanted to give him a leather jacket. He tried it on and it fit perfectly. Shortly after, they posed together for a few photographs on her camera phone, another fan gave him a shirt to sign to which he happily obliged. Watch Mickey Avalon closely, he’s going to have a big year in 2019.
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Sharon Hendrix, Talented Back-Up Singer for Billy Cobham, Freddie Hubbard and George Duke, Steps to Center Stage with Her Solo Debut
(Published: May 20, 2015)
Los Angeles - After years of working just 20 feet from stardom Sharon "Muffy" Hendrix is stepping into the spotlight. Throughout her successful career Sharon has been singing backup on recording sessions and performing on stages across the world with top names including Billy Cobham, Freddie Hubbard, George Duke, Bob Dylan, Elton John, Tom Jones, Grace Slick & Starship, Olivia Newton-John, Dusty Springfield, Natalie Cole, Harry Chapin, Jermaine Stewart, Mac Davis, Michael White, Shirley Bassey and so many other notable musical talents.
Sharon Hendrix began her career as "Muffy" Hendrix singing in the church and school choirs and by the time she reached her teens she became part of The Young Americans, an international touring company of 30 singers from all across the country. Over the next two years Sharon toured the Far East twice, performed on the Ed Sullivan Show and the Kraft Music Hall and worked on various TV specials and commercials. Sharon earned a music scholarship to Chapman University and received her show business education on Las Vegas stages at the side of superstar entertainers including Debbie Reynolds and Sammy Davis, Jr.
Sharon formed a lifetime friendship and working relationship with Barry Manilow from the moment the beloved superstar called her to replace one of the singers in his back-up band. In 1985 Sharon recorded the popular, "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing" duet with Barry that appeared on his "Manilow" album as well as the Billboard charts. Currently Sharon is performing with Manilow on his worldwide "One Last Time!" farewell tour which brings us to now!
Sharon's completing her solo debut album which will be available in the fall from Voss Records and has just released the title track, "Nowhere Fast" as the lead single. Sharon co-wrote the song with her producer, Dan Voss Jr. and trumpet virtuoso Steve Madaio. Sharon's smooth vocal style sits over a contemporary urban Latin beat spiced with exciting percussion, a classic horn solo and an infectious rap by William "June Bug" Lee.
Between breaks in the Manilow tour the industrious Ms. Hendrix is finishing the new album as well as planning her solo career launch. Sharon's been tirelessly rehearsing with her band working out arrangements on old and new tunes. When the tour ends this summer the Sharon Hendrix Nowhere Fast show will hit the road running and Sharon will be front and center exactly where she's always been destined to be.
When she's not on the road Sharon lives in southern California and is the proud mother of three lovely daughters.
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MAKING UP LEGENDS IN THE ERA OF ZERO BUDGET SKATEBOARDING
April 9, 2013 / Kyle Beachy / ARTICLES
Skateboarding is about nothing if it is not about itself. We are the men on the street talking to ourselves without shame or remorse. Even when we are doing it we are watching it done – it is beneath our feet, the crew at the spot, the park strangers and unknowns we turn to see when we hear wheels in the distance. Every act is allusion and every trick is a reference, and we are ace students of our own history.
And when we talk about skateboarding, our goal is to name and connect distinct parts into some kind of whole. For example I say: isn’t it amazing, the way we can raise and lower our standards without any guidelines, depending only on circumstance? And you will know how this goes – the way you applaud a friend struggling to land a trick that for you is a warm-up. It is a strange and formless competition that is also total support, and we all know it; a ground floor joy at the mere fact of our activity’s existence.
So, in support I decided to drive through a mid-December haze from Chicago to St. Louis and attend the premiere of a local video called St. Losers. A couple of years back, a trailer claimed St. Losers would arrive “Summer 2011.” This was bullshit, of course, but the type of bullshit we forgave because the teaser was sharp and seemed to capture something about a city that is difficult to explain. The final product wouldn’t arrive until a rainy Friday night in mid-December, 2012, at a scummy and disheveled gallery space squatting dead-faced on the sort of street people in St. Louis watch closely with guarded optimism.
What do you know about skateboarding in St. Louis, Missouri? Do you know that there is a DIY spot called “Shitside” that you’re not supposed to call “Shitside” anymore, even though “Shitside” does everything that a good name should do? Do you know that in the summer the St. Louis air weighs on your body and soul like a great flaming guilt that you will never outrun? Watch St. Losers and you will see rust belt decay and wild, nameless plants growing through splayed blacktop in thick, bushy mounds. You’ll see spots that VX-1000 footage portrays as interesting and fun but have almost uniformly shitty-rough ground with oil slicks and deadly cracks and miserable, awkward run-ups.
What I am saying is that St. Losers satisfies the basic task of all skate videos in that it promotes a product. At heart, it’s all product; skateboarding lives and dies by product; its veins course with seasonal releases of constantly updated product. What’s refreshing about St. Losers and other videos like it is the way their only real product is the city itself. With Alex Kehoe’s opening kickflip to stair rumble in the Kiener Plaza fountain, St. Losers stands its city naked before you, knobby-kneed and gaunt and ready, for better or worse, to suffer your gaze.
The entire video exudes a kind of authorial gracefulness for which Gabe Kehoe, Alex’s older brother and video editor / filmer, deserves more praise than he’ll get. Gabe speaks of a simple aesthetic, “Not a lot of extra bullshit,” but that’s humility for you. Consider, for example, Gabe’s choice to follow his young upstart brother with a local legend of small stature and wizard feet named Joe Jackson. Like any local legend, Joe’s part cannot do him justice, but credit Gabe for coming close, and for recognizing the role context plays in a full-length video. History, after all, the oxygen without which skateboarding wilts into something lifeless and ugly, is only as compelling as the shapes formed when it’s set into relief with the present.
See also Gabe’s choice of the video’s ender, which goes not to Randy Ploesser or Drew Etzkorn but one Joe Herbert, an aging St. Louis mainstay who’s donated to skateboarding two tired knees and truckloads of salvaged materials that made the city skateable. Joe’s own ender, appropriately, is a switch hurricane across a ledge that did not exist before he found it and glued the angle iron onto it. Whether you enjoy St. Losers or not will hinge in a large part on your response to these two Joe-ass dudes from Missouri of whom you’ve never once heard. Welcome to our new era of zero-budget skateboarding.
”Welcome to our new era of zero-budget skateboarding.”
The next step is, of course, to debate whether any of this is good or bad. Because for years we’ve filled the discourse of our problems, or changes in general, in the most basic terms available. Shop decks and blanks were “bad” for skateboarding. Increased popularity and contest purses are “good” for skateboarding. Real-time scoring rubrics and fantasy leagues? “Good,” says Dyrdek. Tony hawking discount boards at Target and Wal-Mart? Good. Duh. Such arguments, of course, rely on a kind of Fisher Price ethics – meanwhile the actual world takes place in the vast gray desert stretched between these two imaginary poles.
But the other word here is every bit as problematic. We say “skateboarding” and nod, yes, because it’s obvious. This obviousness, though, is dangerous. Surely you’ve heard this refrain: Corporate Entity X should be embraced because it gives back to skateboarding. As if, that is to say, skateboarding needs anyone’s help. As if there was no skateboarding before the plazas and contest tour circuits. As if skateboarding were some emaciated street dog living on table scraps and spare change. Yet this is the way an industry speaks about itself, one that compromises the term “skateboarding,” splitting it at the seams. For any of this to work, “skateboarding” must mean a lifestyle. Fashion choices. A way of mind. And still the rest of us nod yes, fuck yeah, skateboarding.
So the word has been stretched like the industry it sometimes denotes. And with all growth comes conflict: one does not have to be Trotsky to see a growing class divide among the ranks of skateboarders. (Bomb the corporations, some holler, because they ain’t skateboarding. Burn the factory down and let God, who skates Indies, or Hensely, who is god, sort them out.) Indeed the rich are crazily rich, considering their profession. We’ve got a few we could call middle class – they have pro boards but not pro shoes, perhaps, or a pro truck with, like, Orion. Then we have a swelling, anonymous army of unpaid, unsupported kids who are always better, always improving, and making movies that are weird and innovative and sometimes just astoundingly good theater.
”One does not have to be Trotsky to see a growing class divide among the ranks of skateboarders.”
Whether what we’re seeing is something new or a renaissance of a simpler age, a pastiche or nostalgia film, we watch these zero-budget films and our expectations are loose. We are pleasantly surprised. It’s an altogether different experience than watching Pretty Sweet for the first time and worrying you won’t like it, or won’t be able to say why you don’t like it, or being confused and unsure and feeling like you’ve been chumped, somehow, though you’ve no idea by who. That somewhere, somebody is laughing. Here is what interests beyond skateboarding do to “skateboarding.”
Except, how could it not be good? We see them drinking champagne in Aspen. They show us their new cars on Instagram, and they are always grateful to skateboarding. And since I’m a skateboarder too it’s even sort of like they’re thanking me personally. And that feels good, sort of.
Randy Ploesser does not drink champagne, but he is very smart. “You get a stronger sense of who skateboarders are when you see them skating at home,” he told me. “Something about digging for your own spots in a place that you’ve skated for years; it appeals to me way more than seeing guys being carted around on tour to the best and brightest spots the world has to offer.”
Today you can click to see Randy’s part and others because this is the magic of the age: access free of charge to new products, endless products, every single day. You will not, though, know the feeling on that night in mid-December in St. Louis, when the gallery lights dimmed and the assembled crowd did explode with all hands and voices rising, the thunder of this city’s support like something to stand back and behold.
The three-and-half-minutes that Randy Ploesser filmed for his hometown’s non-boutique, strip mall shop is bookended by two ollies. The first, over grass, is large. The ender, over and across a small nation of cobblestone, is impossible. Tucked between these is a concise and convincing argument on behalf of the middle-class professional skateboarder. He wallies into feeble grind on a rail that bounces when he pops out. He torques a frontside tailslide into a switch five-o, and does a nollie front-bluntslide that makes less sense the more I watch it. But it’s the final ollie that’s the real story. He’s down on the riverfront, the bank of the mighty bitch herself, cold and muddy and choppy in the Autumn wind. We watch him from above, pushing hard in a jacket made by a company that no longer exists, and shoes that arrive only sporadically to his door. Gabe cuts to a side angle. You can’t really make out the nature of the bump of the weird drainage sluice, but Randy soars out of it and over a field of old cobblestones, and the board tilts beneath his feet as if it can’t quite believe how long the ollie is taking. Then we see it a second time, from above. Neither is describable in writing and neither can even remotely be scored. And if you’ve ever seen Randy skate, you know he can do all of this, no matter how little sense it makes, because this is the odd and bizarre and distinctly unmarketable beauty of skateboarding.
So here we are once more, discussing “skateboarding,” that 2.5 billion-dollar industry that, confusingly, shares a name with what some kid is doing right now in a vacant church parking lot in some deadland suburb. If there’s indeed a downside to modern skateboarding it’s that “skateboarding” no longer unites a group of like-minded individuals in a common pursuit. The doors to our community have been propped open; external interests can come and go as they please. And of course we or “we” were the ones who opened these doors. Recall Jamie Thomas defending his New Balance gambit: “You can’t fight a tank with a stick.” Which, aside from being wrong, is sort of an odd thing to say to the unsponsored kid on a beat up deck. And, wait, we’re at a war with whom, exactly? And is Fallen the stick? And if so, which of us gets to drive the tank?
The only real threat to the skateboarding community is not destruction, but growth. Everyone knows as much – so we cling to what once was, and cheer for reminders even when the voice hollering #respectthepast isn’t exactly, um, local. Nostalgia, a trait universal among citizens of the greater skateboard world, is also our vulnerability, the skeleton key into our hearts and wallets both. The beauty of these homegrown videos is the way they reveal the worlds inside the world, a rich landscape of sub-communities that define their own “skateboarding.” They remind us that we can recognize and respect Koston while also understanding that he no longer requires our support – he’s in other hands now, and they are soft, supple, and very rich indeed. But Ishod Wair does, and Malto too, regardless of their footwear. And Steve Nesser and Jake Johnson and Gilbert Crocket and the bucketful of other pros actively invested in the communities that made them.
”skateboarding no longer unites a group of like-minded individuals in a common pursuit. The doors to our community have been propped open; external interests can come and go as they please.”
Because there are exactly two ways that this life reminds us of our communities. The first is catastrophe. The seas rise up and the levees break and despair sets in and we mourn what’s been lost. Candles are lit, prayers muttered, and we appeal to that invisible framework for a return to blessed normalcy. The community, we’re told, will have to pull together and move on. And, miraculously, communities do.
The second type of event is celebration.
Here is the point. We get exactly one go on this boat float, friends. The river moves one way and, like it or not, there is no undoing what’s done. But look, a bunch of us are already here, and have been for years. They’ve stocked the coolers and huffed air into the rafts and are happy to share – someone brought meat and someone else brought plastic forks, charcoal, and the greatest part of all this is that you’re invited. Everyone is invited. Enjoy the scenery and be witness to the performance that is always new and always improved. It is the most fun thing in the world, the best, skateboarding is the single best thing. But be advised: to participate in this goodtime float trip you’ll have to chip in. People are going to capsize and will require help. You might be asked to stand guard while someone takes a shit in the woods. And damn right you’ll have to have to ante up for those beers.
So buy St. Losers. Buy Red and Yellow, Worship Friendship, Sabotage 3. Buy a shop deck and a Send Help board. Buy Brimley. Buy This Machine Kills Fascists and Hoephase and Videophile. And if you will not, at least spare us the self-congratulatory bluster for the moral smokescreen you’ve crafted to feel good about your choice, the faux-rebellion and righteousness. That you’ve numbed yourself to community does not make your hands any less bloody. We’re either in this thing together, fucker, or we’re tunneling for the core.
On the night of December 14, 2012, there were shots poured into little dentist cups and law-grade American beers served in stretched aluminum cans. We watched a rough draft of a video that you can purchase at any second by clicking the proper links and sharing basic financial data. You do not even have to stand up or put on pants. By now select parts can been seen online. These will likely breeze through the squinty purview of skateboard culture at large, disappearing quickly into the archive. Some will see the video and be part of the conversation. Most will not. But on this rainy night we heard the clatter of wheels over the deep, fatal cracks that run like nerves across our old and busted city. There were men and boys and girls and even few women; all told we packed four hundred bodies into an underfunded and poorly run gallery space, ranging from parents to scumbags to those rare heroes who are both.
Because this was Missouri, goddamn, and this was a night to look into a shattered bathroom mirror and believe in our defects, our gravel streets and chunked concrete, the overgrown lots and clearance aisle vacancies.
We celebrated in a way that was itself a thing to step back and behold. This is the reason Gabe documents his city, and why you do as well, why we all do. This is why I’ve bothered to write it down. All that we’re ever doing is making up legends.
For more info or to buy St. Losers, click here
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True words Beachy
Packy Fancher
Very awesome piece.
My one comment:
Skateboarding is only about one thing, having fun. If you can have more fun with a corporation giving you free money, then that’s all the better. You’re gonna go on that trip, hit that spot, drive to that state anyways, why not milk it and praise the guys milking it. They’ll still be here when the big companies don’t see a profit to make. It’s all gravy. Growth poses no threat to skateboarding, because if the growth adds people that aren’t genuinely obsessed with it, they’ll fade out anyways and were never truly part of a community, they were just temporarily observing and kinda participating. It all works itself out.
Definitely buy This Machine Kills Fascists
fixthemetal
the bit about the tank vs. the stick is great. fuck jamie thomas anyways.
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Title: Lucky
Characters/Pairings: Kitayama, Fujigaya, Totsuka, Kawai (you know, THAT unit)
Author’s Notes: In my secret dark moments, I think I would’ve maybe been okay with this happening.
1: Lucky
Kitayama had been skeptical, at first, when Takizawa explained that the four of them would be treated as a permanent unit instead of a temporary grouping. Skeptical, but not terribly surprised. They’d spend all summer separated from the others after all, then the winter plays, then the touring…Takizawa giving them the most retarded unit name on the planet pretty much sealed the deal.
He missed the others, but it wasn’t like he never saw them. Stretched across the couch with his head in Totsuka’s lap, Kawai and Fujigaya bickering over the flatiron as usual, Kitayama thought things could’ve been worse.
2: By Any Other Name
Others were more disturbed over the ramifications.
“What the hell?!” Nikaido demanded, most annoyed of all. “I’ll be the dot again! Fuck that!”
“We’ll still love you, dot-san,” Tamamori consoled him. Nikaido just glared. Not like Tama’s best friend had been poached by some grabby-handed, over-flexible senpai.
“Well, they have to do something,” Yokoo pointed out reasonably. “Without the Ki, S, or the F…”
“You totally engineered this somehow,” Nikaido accused Goseki.
Goseki only smiled benevolently, making Miyata edge closer to Tamamori. “We could re-order the letters? How do you feel about ‘Go MYNT?'”
Suddenly Kis-My-Ft5 seemed more appealing.
3: Grateful World
“Good work today, kiddo,” Yara said as they packed up their stuff.
Senga beamed, soaking up attention like his sweatband. “Really?” Yara ruffled Senga’s hair in passing.
“Pet,” Yamamoto complained, although it was good-natured. “Not fair! You didn’t even want to join, you threw a fit and everything.”
“Don’t be cruel,” Tsukada admonished, always the big brother, slinging his arm around Senga’s shoulders when Senga’s happy smile melted away. “Ken-chan just thought his last group was worth fighting for, right?”
Senga snuggled closer under Tsukada’s arm, sticking his tongue out at Yamamoto. The new one wasn’t so bad, so far.
4: Second Chance
“But I miss you, Nika,” Senga said. They still managed to leave together, sometimes.
“Yeah, well.” It soothed Nikaido’s temper to hear that, enough that he could pretend maturity. “Dance is best for you. Yaracchi’s a good teacher.”
“Uh-huh.” Senga pouted. “But I miss skating with you.”
“But now that we don’t work together,” Nikaido glanced left, right, “we can do other stuff.”
“Other…” Senga’s question got cut off by Nikaido’s mouth, his eyes were wide when Nikaido pulled away.
“Couldn’t risk it before, but now…” Nikaido trailed off, doubts dispelled by the blinding grin spreading across Senga’s face.
5: Make New Friends, But…
“YOU,” was all the explanation that they got, “need a K!”
When their K shows up for practice the next day, there’s a long moment of staring.
Yokoo’s late that day, just a few minutes, but enough that he’s preoccupied coming in the door and dropping his stuff without really looking. “Sorry, sorry, missed the train, had to stop at the conbini because Tama-chan used the last of my hairspray…”
“Wataru,” Miyata interrupts.
“Oh, right, new guy! Who…” Yokoo turns and chokes on his next word.
“Hi?” Kusano offers.
“You,” Yokoo’s voice only wavers for a split-second, “need a haircut.”
6: Natsukashii
“The hell!” Shige cursed at his phone as he scrolled down through the mail. “Kei, come look at this!”
“From Wataru?” Koyama asked as he scrunched close enough to Shige to read over his shoulder. “Wai, and Notti! Nostalgic~! Hey,” he adds thoughtfully, “and he’s with Nika-chan again too, just like the old show! Let’s call Massu!”
Masuda was equally delighted about Kusano’s return, but he couldn’t stay on the phone for long.
“Ooh, gotta go,” he said. “Tesshi and Kame-chan are having a catfight and Jin’s reeeeally hungover, so…”
“Geez,” Shige grimaced, “glad I’m not in THEIR unit.”
7: The More Things Change
Tamamori pouts at Miyata’s lack of understanding from his sprawl on the hotel bed until Miyata caves, as he inevitably must.
“What’s wrong, Tama-chan?” Miyata stretches out beside him, eyes big and interested.
“Everything’s weird!” Tamamori exclaims. “First Kitamitsu and Taipi, then Senga gets pulled, now we’ve got Kusano… and we have to back for Hasshi this spring? His whole unit’s younger than us! It’s like everything’s backwards.”
Tamamori trails off when Miyata gathers him close, arms and scent familiar. “I’m still here though?”
“Pfft, you,” Tamamori thumbs Miyata’s newly sharp cheekbone. “You’re the craziest change of all, idiot.”
8: It’s Big News
It’s just a coincidence that Kis-My-Ft5 is backing for them when they get the announcement. Fujigaya actually takes the call, during intermission of all things, and then he lets out a shriek that brings everyone running.
“What the HELL!” Nikaido snaps. “We thought you were getting murdered.”
Fujigaya shoves the phone in Kitayama’s face, past words, eyes bright with tears.
“It’s…” Kitayama struggles to speak. “It’s….debut?”
“Holy SHIT,” Kawai crows when Kitayama holds up the phone, and then it gets dropped and crushed in the melee when Totsuka grabs Kitayama by the shirt and kisses him full on the mouth.
9: 1 For the Money, 2 For the Show
The real celebration is postponed to their next off-day; tonight the only people able to go out because of either schedule or age turn out to be Kitayama, Fujigaya, and Yokoo. It’s a little awkward, bittersweet, but Yokoo knows the true meaning of friendship is buying the first round.
“Just be glad I won’t cry like Shige,” Yokoo warns, drowning the sting in cheap beer.
“Sorry, Watta,” Fujigaya says, even when Kitayama warns him not to. “If we would’ve stayed, or fought for you, or…”
“Don’t mind, don’t mind,” Yokoo soothes, grinning so his yaiba shows. “Third time’s the charm.”
Tags: JE - Kitayama/Totsuka, JE - Senga/Nikaido, JE - Tamamori/Miyata, JE100 Drabbles, Rating: PG *
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The Double Helix by James Watson
candour and humour describing a landmark event in history
book, describing events from the early 1950’s, could be expected to be a little
out of fashion. Our knowledge of DNA has moved on and commentators have focussed
on Watson’s commitment to print, in his autobiography Avoid Boring People, of
some of his previously controversial comments. These comments discuss the innate
intelligence of racial groups and the choice of a mother to abort a foetus with
homosexual tendencies 1. But The Double Helix is historic and less than 200 pages
so I picked it up.
brashness is immediately evident and his directness is cringe-worthy. That Sir
Lawrence Bragg offered a preface when not only his work but also his character
are lampooned is a credit to the maturity of Bragg and Watson’s other
collaborators from that time. But it also indicates how important Bragg and
others considered this book to be. The characterisations of players such as
“Rosy” Frank and Maurice Wilkins can be weighed up by the reader, but Watson’s
portrayal of the intellectual milieu within and between research establishments
is sharp and telling. His subtle references to the English establishment, the
ruminations within the Cambridge intelligencia which later emerged as spying
controversy, the liberal sexual revolution and former generations’ religious
precepts are precious. Watson’s self-effacing humour about the dilettante abuse
of the scholarship system and his rampant opportunism are wonderful insights
into this period. It provides a delightful background upon which to portray a
step by step triumph of hard work, guesses and the triumph of the scientific
method. Watson’s epilogue touching on more recent events are also helpful but
probably do not win him back any friends.
1 Frank, L (2011) My Beautiful Genome. Oneworld, Oxford (previously
published in Danish as Mit Smukke
Genome by Gyldendal, 2011).
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Rajinikanth files case againt 'Main Hoon Rajinikanth' makers
by Unknown, Kolly Insider - Thursday, September 18, 2014
Superstar Rajinikanth Wednesday petitioned the Madras High Court seeking a stay on the release of Hindi film "Ma...
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Superstar Rajinikanth Wednesday petitioned the Madras High Court seeking a stay on the release of Hindi film "Main Hoon Rajinikanth". He said the film might defame him and upset his large fan base.
In his petition, Rajinikanth said he has "never endorsed" any film or product using his name as it might "mislead his fans".
Justice S. Tamilvanan, before whom the case came up for hearing, issued interim stay on the release of the film with the title and content.
"Rajinikanth's acting, style and distinct personality have contributed to his mass popularity, which he has attained over the years through his larger-than-life appearances, signature dialogue delivery and age-defying stunts in his films," read the petition.
"Rajinikanth's popularity is likely to mislead his fans into believing that 'Main Hoon Rajinikanth' has been approved by him. It is to prevent such hysteria and confusion among public, he has always chosen to stay away from endorsing any film or product," said the petition.
Directed by Faisal Saif, "Main Hoon Rajinikanth" features southern actor Adithya Menon in the lead as a CBI officer-cum-contract killer Rajinikanth Rao.
The film, produced by Varsha Production House, also features Kavita Radheshyam, Smita Gondkar, Reema Lagoo, Sunil Pal, Ganesh Yadav and Shakti Kapoor in important roles.
Rajini also contended that a film based on his "name or image" is a violation of his "privacy" and accused the producer of cashing on his "super hero image".
The Tamil superstar also said that neither the film's producer nor director had approached him seeking "written" or "oral" permission to use his name in the film.
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Watch Canaan Smith Honor His Brother’s Memory With Heartfelt Performance of “Bronco” at New Orleans Show
Canaan Smith performed an intimate show at Three Keys in New Orleans on May 19.
The night’s most poignant moment came when Canaan sang “Bronco,” the title track to his 2015 debut album.
Canaan co-penned the touching tune about his older brother, Nathaniel, who died at the age of 16. The mournful meditation is about the freedom Canaan felt beside his brother in the song’s namesake vehicle and the burden of those forced to continue on without him.
“When I think about Nathaniel, I still remember all the great things he was,” Canaan told Nash Country Daily in 2016. “I remember his smile. I remember the fact that he gave away his favorite pair of shoes on a mission trip to Mexico to a kid who didn’t have any shoes. I remember those details. I remember how great of an athlete he was and he could build anything with his hands. He was really good at all that stuff. But what I see in my head is him standing beside his Ford Bronco, that blue and white Bronco truck he bought and fixed up and was so proud of.”
Watch Canaan’s touching performance below.
video by Mike Dylan
written by Jim Casey | @TheJimCasey | published May 23, 2017 9:54 am
category: NCD News | related posts: Bronco, canaan smith, New Orleans, Three Keys
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Home / Historic Dartmoor / Limsboro Cairn
Limsboro Cairn
Tim Sandles March 17, 2016 Historic Dartmoor Leave a comment 2,934 Views
Just south of Lynch Tor stands a chaotic pile of granite which consists of an outcrop studded and encircled by smaller rocks and boulders, this is Limsboro Cairn. What at first appears to be an insignificant scatter of granite has in fact millennia of history lying back in the annals of time. If you consult the folks from English Heritage they will tell you that this feature is classified as a ‘Tor Cairn‘, the definition being: ‘a circular bank of stones and turf, sometimes accompanied by a ditch, surrounding a natural outcrop of rock, usually a tor, or an earthfast boulder.’. Sadly, through lack of archaeological investigation very little is known about tor cairns but English Heritage suggest: ‘The function and purpose of tor cairns is not precisely known, although it may be concluded that some sort of significance or power was attached or attributed to the natural formations at the focus of each monument. Thus they may be considered as ceremonial sites which date to the early and middle Bronze Age.’, (English Heritage, 2009, on-line source). These features tend to be located on on or near a hilltop, on elevated ground, or on a local eminence Most tor cairns are isolated examples, although on Dartmoor there are a few pairs known, as at Cox Tor where the sites are about 300m apart.
Tor cairns can be considered as an archaeological feature that tends to mainly occur in south west England, there are other examples on Dartmoor (ie Cox Tor) as well as Bodmin Moor. It has been estimated that there are between 30 and 40 recognised examples of tor cairns in south west England so we are not really talking about a common archaeological feature. In the scheme of things Limsboro tor cairn can be considered to be one of the smaller examples of its kind when the whole of the south west is taken into consideration. In this case, it is thought that the natural outcrop stood at around 3.5m high and was then, in the Bronze Age, surrounded by stones giving the monument a diameter of roughly 22.5m. Various field investigations have reported that some kind of ‘restoration’ has occurred which has resulted in the height of the cairn reaching a further 1.7m above the natural outcrop. Today Limsboro Cairn is said to be 23.5m (north – south) by 22m with various additions of drystone shelters possibly constructed by military personnel. Both William Crossing (1900, p.170) and Eric Hemery (1983, p.1018) both make mention of a small shelter built close to the cairn, Crossing actually states that it was a herdsman’s shelter, it would be a fair bet to assume that the stones used to build this came from the cairn. However, that is not to say that Limsboro is not a prominent feature in the modern landscape, it can actually be seen from an altitude of 7.5 miles away.
So, after its construction Limsboro Cairn lies concealed in the realms of oblivion until a party of knights happened past in 1240 when they decided it would be an ideal bond for the bounds of the Forest of Dartmoor. In this perambulation the following was recorded: ‘et inde usque as Lullingesfote‘ or in other words ‘and thence to Lullingesfote‘, (Brewer, 2002, p.37). In 1608 another perambulation was carried out and in this one Limsboro was recorded as Luntesborowe which is taken to mean the ‘tumulus of a man named Lunt’, (Glover, et al. 1992, p.195). I can go along with the ‘tumulus‘ theory insomuch as on Dartmoor the word borough often refers to a barrow or tumulus, but the ‘man named Lunt‘ bit doesn’t seem to fit. For some reason the English Place Name Society note that the Lullingesfote of 1280 is applicable to Lynch Tor which stands some 300m north west of Limsboro. The toponym Lullingesfote is said to have derived from the name of a hill, that being Lulling and so why cannot the Lunt element from 1608 be a corruption of Lulling thus giving ‘Lulling Hill Tumulus’? Just to confuse things even more, you can also throw the place-names of Limesboro (Crossing, p.157) and Linsboro (Hemery, p.1018) into the pot for good measure when referring to Limsboro. The parish of Peter Tavy has also decided to use Limsboro Cairn as a point on their boundary for several hundred years, again probably due to its prominence.
As a landscape feature it is very possible that in times of poor visibility Limsboro was used as a guide by those following the ancient Lych Way across to Lydford. About 800m south west of the cairn is the point where the old track starts its descent to Bagga Tor so it would be a good guide-point to head for when coming across from Cocks Hill. Getting of the point slightly, in view of this fact is it not questionable that the etymology of Lynch Tor has been assigned on the false theory that it, not Limsboro, was the Forest Bound. Would it not be more plausible to suggest that Lynch Tor has derived from Lych Tor in view of the fact that the ‘Lych Way’ passes nearby?
Sadly, once again due its prominence, Limsboro Cairn has suffered at the hands of the military who considered its location to be an ideal spot to plant a flag pole, as can be seen from the photograph below:
Two days ago the old military road was closed because it was felt that vehicles using it were detracting from the tranquillity and dark night skies of the moor. This notion was put forward by the Duchy of Cornwall with agreement from the clowns at the Dartmoor National Park Authority along with The Dartmoor Society and The Dartmoor Preservation Society. Now, what looks more offensive, a car driving slowly along a track or the abomination of a flag pole planted next to an archaeological feature such as Limsboro Cairn, I know what my answer is! Talking of Dartmoor’s tranquillity, try sitting next to such a flag pole on a windy day and see how tranquil the sound of the flag rope is as it clanks against the metal pole, yeah right!
Brewer, D. 2002.Dartmoor Boundary Markers, Tiverton: Halsgrove Publishing.
Crossing, W. 1990 Crossing’s Guide to Dartmoor, Newton Abbot: Peninsula Press.
English Heritage. 2009. Tor Cairns – Definition, On-line Source – HERE
Gover, J. E. B., Mawer, A. & Stenton, F. M. 1992. The Place Names of Devon. Nottingham: English Place-Name Society.
Hemery, E. 1983. High Dartmoor, London Hale Publishing.
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Apr 21 Meet the team: Star Wars Rebels
tfraley, Entertainment
Star Wars Rebels takes place between Star Wars: Episode III and IV as the Empire tightens its grip on the galaxy and a rebellion begins to form. The series is scheduled to premiere in fall 2014 as a one-hour special telecast on Disney Channel and will be followed by a series on Disney XD.
Leave a comment below on which character your looking forward to seeing.
Meet Kanan, the Cowboy Jedi
Not every guardian of peace and justice was lost to the tragedy of Order 66. Introducing Kanan, a survivor of the Emperor's Jedi purge and one of the main characters of Star Wars Rebels.
Kanan, voiced by Freddie Prinze, Jr., is a less traditional Force-wielder than fans are used to seeing. He carries a blaster, is a little sarcastic, and keeps his past a secret. "I like to call Kanan 'the cowboy Jedi,'" says executive producer Dave Filoni. As shown in this video, his Jedi robes are long gone, replaced with armor and a holster, though a samurai-like ponytail hints at his Jedi Knight origins.
Meet Hera, the Pilot
Hera is the heart of the Ghost crew from Star Wars Rebels. The Twi'lek is an ace pilot, able fighter, and is revealed to fans in this behind-the-scenes video featuring creator interviews, character sketches, and animation previews. Hera is voiced by Vanessa Marshall, and is an especially gifted pilot.
Meet Sabine, the Explosive Artist
Sabine is a key member of the Ghost crew in Star Wars Rebels. As seen in this special video, featuring early design concepts, animation tests, and final art, Sabine is unlike any Star Warscharacter -- especially in her love for blowing things up and tagging her work with graffiti.
Meet Zeb, the Muscle
Every team needs a tough guy. Introducing Zeb, the (smart) muscle of the Ghost crew from Lucasfilm's upcoming animated series Star Wars Rebels. He is revealed for the first time in this video, featuring concept art, clay sculpts, and final renderings of the character, in addition to creator interviews.
Meet Ezra, the Street-Smart Hero
Growing up on his own in the age of the Empire, Ezra has had to rely on his wit and cunning to get by. As voice actor Taylor Gray explains, "He's very street-smart, he's a pickpocket, he's a little thief. But he's doing it all because he needs to survive."
Executive producer Dave Filoni adds that Ezra is not a bad kid. Although he may enjoy stealing from the Empire, his behavior has been influenced by the world around him - a world that is under Imperial control.
Grumpy Astromech Droid
He can be cranky, he takes his time, and he can sometimes have a bad attitude. But he's also incredibly loyal and heroic. Meet Chopper, astromech droid of the starship Ghost in the highly anticipated Star Wars Rebels animated series, revealed for the first time in this exclusive video.
starwars, star, wars, rebels, ezra
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Entrepreneurship Starts Early in Canada’s Most Entrepreneurial Region
6.19.2019 | Invest Kelowna
The Central Okanagan is known as Canada’s most entrepreneurial region and that spirit is alive and well in Central Okanagan Public Schools. The 22nd annual iGen Challenge (formerly the Young Entrepreneur Program) wrapped up on June 13th, with middle and high school students pitching their innovative social enterprises to a crowd of local entrepreneurs and supporters at the Kelowna Innovation Centre.
The iGen Challenge takes budding entrepreneurs through a multi-stage business building process from idea to market validation to fundraising to a series of video and live pitches, all while receiving mentorship from some of the Okanagan’s top entrepreneurs.
This years’ winner was Mission Roots, a student-run sustainable café at Okanagan Mission Secondary School featuring sustainable packaging, local products and plant-based foods. In the 2018/19 school year, the café has generated $6000 for charitable causes.
"We want each of our learners to graduate showing evidence of being innovators," says Kevin Kaardal, Superintendent of Schools/CEO. "The annual iGen Challenge showcases many of our young innovators, and the Mission Roots team exemplified that attribute while also making a significant contribution to the world around them."
The iGen Challenge, formerly known as the Young Entrepreneur Program, dates back to 1997 when the COEDC and Central Okanagan Public Schools recognized a need to foster an entrepreneurial and innovative spirit in the next generation of founders, innovators and leaders. The program has evolved and changed formats and names over the years, but the need to equip budding entrepreneurs with skills training and mentorship remains as important as ever.
For many of the participating students, iGen is more than just a school project. It is a chance to build a real business. Base Camp Cards, TBS Bike Parts, Operation TakeTwo, The Oyster Barrow and Mission Roots are a few examples of ongoing businesses incubated in the program. If these students are any indication, the region’s economic future is in good hands.
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sapphire glass
Sapphire: Strong Enough for Jewelry, But a Match Made in Heavy for Tech Products
When we think of sapphires, most of us think of the expensive gemstones used in jewelry, but many people do not know sapphires actually have had a wide variety of industrial applications for hundreds of years. Why would companies want to use such an expensive mineral in their technology products? First and foremost, sapphire is incredibly durable, behind only diamond as the second hardest mineral, scoring 9.0 out of 10 on the Mohs scale of mineral hardness. It is also a very chemically stable mineral. Sapphire’s durability and chemical stability has made it ideal for use in precision mechanics, timepieces, displays and more, across many different industries.
Real sapphire – which is a variety of the mineral corundum, an aluminum oxide – saw its first industrial application more than 300 years ago as jewel bearings in high-end mechanical timepieces. While this was costly, longevity and accuracy were worth the high price of these components. These types of timepieces were built to pass down from generation to generation.
The first man-made sapphire was produced as far back as 1902, using a process of grinding natural aluminum oxide into powder and then heating it to 3,761°F. While most sapphires used in jewelry are colored, this is actually due to impurities in the mineral. Without any impurities present, sapphire is a completely clear material. It has high strength, anti-abrasion and anti-corrosion characteristics, good light transmission, and can be processed into sheets, all of which are ideal for clear device displays, such as smartphones, watches, microwaves, projectors, as well as precision tools and other electronic components.
Kyocera has been producing and utilizing man-made single-crystal sapphire for electronic components for more than 40 years. Some of the uses for sapphire include watch lenses, inspection equipment parts, medical diagnostic equipment parts and chamber windows. More recently, Kyocera began developing pure sapphire displays for its leading portfolio of ruggedized smartphones. Perfectly suited for rugged devices, sapphire displays have proven to be incredibly resistant to scratches and damage that often blemish smartphones. Once reserved for luxury phones costing thousands of dollars, only in the past few years have smartphone manufacturers begun using sapphire displays in mass-market phones, and Kyocera was the first.
Kyocera’s Sapphire Shield Display technology is now used on multiple Kyocera smartphones, including the Kyocera DuraForce PRO at Verizon. Our Sapphire Shield helps protect devices by:
Resisting ongoing, minor scratches and micro-fractures. When you pay hundreds of dollars for a smartphone, you don’t want the touchscreen display to be degraded and ruined over time by ugly scratches and cracks. As phones sit in pockets and purses, however, that’s exactly what happens when they get scraped by keys, coins and other hard objects. At Kyocera, we like to show off the durability of our Sapphire Shield display by testing it with steel wool, knives, coins and other common display-killers.
Enhancing the long-term integrity of the display. Think of how glass is typically cut. Rather than actually cutting all the way through a sheet of glass, traditional glass cutters simply score the glass so it can be broken along that same score. Similarly, scratches and micro-fractures in a phone display weaken its integrity over time by preparing it to be more easily broken along those fault lines.
Sapphire displays cost more than typical hardened-glass displays, which explains why they were historically used only in high-end luxury phones. Kyocera, however, has gotten past that issue and used sapphire displays in devices costing far less than today’s most popular smartphones. It’s a win-win for everyone involved, but especially for the phones’ users, who can worry less about cosmetic blemishing and long-term failure (i.e., shattering) of their displays.
For more information about Kyocera’s Sapphire Shield Display technology, visit: https://www.kyoceramobile.com/sapphire-shield/ and for details on other applications of Kyocera sapphire technology, visit: http://global.kyocera.com/prdct/fc/list/material/sapphire/index.html
John Chier is director of corporate communications at Kyocera. He has worked on the Kyocera team shaping its communications strategy over the past 15 years – 13 of those years in-house and two with a Kyocera agency partner. John has always had a passion for writing and began his career as a newspaper reporter at the Whittier Daily News, part of a multi-paper syndicate in Los Angeles. When not working, he and his wife can usually be found coaching, shuttling, refereeing or cheering for his three sons and their numerous plays.
Posted in FeaturesTagged durable phones, heavy-duty phones, phone screens, rugged phones, sapphire, sapphire glass, sapphire screen, Sapphire Shield Display
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HORROR DIARY
MADEUPWORDS
Thomas Johnstone
Halloween Horror Diary: Pet Sematary (1989)
“We all float down here.”
Stephen King has a knack for short, unsettling lines of dialogue that bother your memory like a pebble in your shoe.
Horrorvember Diary #4: The Gate (1987)
Eleven-year-old me would have loved The Gate. But eleven-year-old me didn't watch horror movies.
The closest I got was the occasional illicit viewing of Tales from the Crypt on HBO, which certainly qualifies as horror and could be pretty great at times. But actual horror movies – the ones whose VHS boxes lined the shelves of the Horror section at Mr. Movies, the local video store – were not a part of my life.
Horror Diary, New Movies
Horrorvember Diary #3: Verónica (2017)
Verónica had its Midwest premiere at the Cinepocalypse genre film festival, held at the Music Box Theatre in Chicago. The film's director, Paco Plaza, is mostly known for the solid [REC] series. Unlike those films, Verónica does not use the found-footage conceit, though it’s apparently (and dubiously) based on a real-world case documented by police in 1990s Madrid, Spain.
Horrorvember Diary #2: Hagazussa: A Heathen's Curse (2017)
Not even the remote forests of the Austrian Alps could escape the Black Death.
A young goatherd, Albrun, attempts to care for her plague-stricken mother during a harsh mountain winter, as superstitious local clans accuse them of heathenry. Two female goat farmers, living alone in a cabin in the Alps? In the Middle Ages, maybe this alone was enough to arouse suspicion of witchcraft.
Horrorvember Diary #1: The Hitcher (1986)
I watched Robert Harmon’s The Hitcher by mistake. I saw something on TV when I was about 11 years old – a motorist spots a hitchhiker at the side of a rural highway at night. The hitchhiker, mostly hidden by shadow and rain, wears a trench coat and a hat, waving a briefcase over his head as if desperate for a ride. Not that you can really see his face, but as depicted, his features are sort of…absent.
Halloween Horror Diary #6: Night Gallery (1969)
Night Gallery was a Rod Serling TV series, a sort of horror-oriented spinoff of The Twilight Zone. This made-for-TV movie served as its pilot, and while I plan to watch more of the series, I watched this film mainly because it features the directorial debut of Steven Spielberg.
Classic, Horror Diary
Halloween Horror Diary #5: Black Sunday (1960)
1960 is an important year for horror. Four particular movies – Psycho, Peeping Tom, Eyes Without a Face, and Black Sunday – pushed boundaries into the modern age while also showing the legitimate artistic potential of horror. The other films tell contemporary stories, but Black Sunday enjoys a reputation as one of the greatest of all gothic vampire movies.
Halloween Horror Diary #4: Lifeforce (1985)
A sexy space vampire leaves her spaceship on Haley’s Comet to terrorize Earth and steal its…LIFE FORCE.
This movie is eight parts garbage, two parts good fun. Imagine a budding sci-fi nerd, let’s say middle school-aged, breathlessly dictating a movie script: “There’s a spaceship that’s like a hundred miles long, and...
Halloween Horror Diary #3: Stephen King's Cat's Eye (1985)
As anthology horror films go, Cat’s Eye is one of the more decent entries I’ve seen. None of the segments are fantastic, but unlike most anthologies, all offer something memorable and none can be called a dud. The stories (all penned by Stephen King) are connected by a wandering cat, which seems to have a strange, unexplained connection to a young girl played by Drew Barrymore – he sees her image in a department store mannequin, then in a TV commercial, beckoning him to find and help her. Barrymore is a sort of connecting thread herself, playing different roles in the first and last acts.
Halloween Horror Diary #2: House of Usher (1960)
As the story goes, famed director and producer Roger Corman was tired of making disposable films on a laughable budget. During the 1950s he’d typically produced two black and white films at a time, to be shown as a double feature at grindhouse theatres. But when approached by American International Pictures to make a horror film, Corman had a proposal: maybe this time, he’d make one film, not two, on a decent budget, and it would be shot in color. It would be a real film, he promised, respectable enough to show in mainstream theatres.
Halloween Horror Diary #1: The Funhouse (1981)
The Funhouse, a little-remembered follow-up to Tobe Hooper’s influential horror masterpiece The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, stars Elizabeth Berridge (the future Constanze Mozart of Amadeus) as Amy Harper. Amy attends a local carnival with her boorish blind date and a few friends, and after seeing plenty of unseemly sights and smoking a few joints, the group decide to spend the night inside the titular funhouse. After they accidentally witness something terrible, a masked freak begins stalking and picking them off one by one.
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Satisfying the 10 Cravings of a New Generation of Consumers (Part 1 of 2)
by Lisa Johnson, Cheri Hanson
Regardless of your career description or geography, it's a safe bet you've heard these headlines:
MySpace—the highly addictive online social networking venue dominated by teens and young adults—will soon give iTunes a run for its (considerable) money by selling digital songs from approximately 3 million independent bands.
The Chicago band OK Go ascended from relative anonymity to international fame at lighting speed and recently performed its song, "Here It Goes Again," at the MTV Video Music Awards. The group's funny, low-budget treadmill dance routine became one of the most popular videos on the YouTube Web site.
Women in dressing rooms nationwide are wriggling into skinny jeans this fall and asking themselves, "do these make my hips look big?" Previously the uniform of rockers and avant-garde artists, drainpipe denims have now hit suburban shopping malls from coast to coast.
It would be easy to dismiss these tidbits as random pieces of pop culture—merely passing trends, business moves, and marketing plans. But there's a very real code at work behind the headlines. There's a new group of renegade, passionate consumers who are changing the rules of the marketplace: Meet the Connected Generation.
A Brave New Market
Baby Boomers may still hold the purse strings, but these savvy 18-40-year-olds are changing the way all of us do business. It doesn't matter whether you're a rock band, a fashion designer, a nonprofit organization, or a sporting goods outlet, you and your team need to understand what makes the Connected Generation tick.
Why the Connected Generation? They're connected to technology and their social networks around the clock. They're all but immune to traditional advertising and will only pull in the products and services that they want. In fact, this group of primarily Gen X and Y consumers has 10 highly specific cravings that drive their behavior.
The news tidbits from the beginning of this story provide evidence of just a few of those cravings—underground information, brilliant design, loose community ties, and in-the-know editors and filters—at work in the marketplace. Below are the first five of the 10 cravings outlined in our new book, Mind Your X's and Y's: Satisfying the 10 Cravings of a New Generation of Consumers, from Simon & Schuster's Free Press. Watch for the next five in an upcoming article.
1. Shine the spotlight: Extreme personalization gives marketing a new face
The Connected Generation is clamoring for personal recognition. They're itching to stand out, stand up, and be celebrated with their names in lights (or print or pixels). Brands that tap into this powerful need with highly creative efforts will get not only great buzz, but a whole new level of loyalty and brand ownership to match.
Lisa Johnson (lisa@reachwomen.com) is the CEO of ReachWomen (www.reachwomen.com). She is also a coauthor of Don't Think Pink: What Really Makes Women Buy—And How to Increase Your Share of this Crucial Market (AMACOM, 2004).
Cheri Hanson is cofounder of the Reach Group (www.reachgroupconsulting.com), a boutique consultancy that provides fresh insights and clear thinking about the Connected Generation. With three divisions—ReachWomen, Reach X and Y, and Content Strategy—the Reach Group provide tools for engaging the modern marketplace.
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Key Market Guideposts & Investor Wealth Shelters Faux & Real into 2013
Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2012 Nov 21, 2012 - 02:56 AM GMT
By: DeepCaster_LLC
“Now, with the “fiscal cliff” looming at year-end, at least partially as a result of last-year’s failed deficit negotiations; and with the U.S. Treasury indicating that the next increase in the U.S. debt ceiling will be needed around year-end; deficit reduction issues (taxation and spending) will be coming to a head quickly, along with questions of renewed economic stimulus.
There is no reason to expect that renewed efforts at federal budget deficit reduction will result in anything more than the usual smoke and mirrors, further increasing, not reducing, long-term U.S. sovereign-solvency risk. In reality, the U.S. economy has not recovered, and no recovery is pending. Consumer liquidity remains severely impaired, and broad business activity continues to falter anew. As a result. the actual federal budget deficit going forward will be much worse than the relatively rosy numbers being used as the basis for government negotiations.
Accordingly, global market reaction—to a severely deteriorating outlook for U.S. fiscal conditions—increasingly should reflect massive flight from the U.S. dollar and movement into gold and the stronger Western currencies.”
“September Trade Balance, Presidential Election”
John Williams, Shadowstats.com, 11/08/2012
Insightful John Williams’ Key Insight is that, going forward we are likely to see an intensification of trends already developing, i.e. increasing stagflation. That is, we are seeing an increasing economic contraction coupled with increasing inflation (already at 9.6% in the U.S. e.g. per shadowstats). This inflation is now hidden from us in Bogus Official figures.
But the Prices for Essential Assets, such as Food, are harder to manipulate. Increasing Prices of Essential Food Commodities are now close to those which ignited Food Price Riots in 2008, which continued through the “Arab Spring” and are continuing today.
But key food stuff production is expected to fall from 2011 levels, by 5% for wheat for example. Yet 870 Million are malnourished worldwide, according to the UN FAO and world population is increasing by 80 Million per Year.
And Crude Oil Prices remain stubbornly above $85/bbl for WTI and over $100 for Brent; with the consequent Economic Dampening Effect.
No wonder that fewer than half the companies reporting earnings for Q3 beat their revenue estimates. The economic contraction is starting to bite. Yet understandably, the demands of the sorely pressed citizenry, especially via the Eurozone and the U.S., for Safety Net Subsidies is growing and is a growing Tax on Budgets.
“Everybody’s worried about the fiscal cliff. But there’s a much bigger cliff coming up, and it’s the “Entitlement Cliff.” In the four years since Obama took office, entitlement participants have grown exponentially.
“Medicaid has grown from 46 million to 56 million people.
“Disability beneficiaries have grown from 7.5 million to 8.8 million people.
“Food stamp recipients have grown from 32 million to 47 million.
“On top of the above, about 40 million Americans aged 65 or older on Social Security and Medicare are receiving benefits. Add the numerous smaller entitlement programs to the total and the expenses are mind-boggling. All together, half of the nation now receives entitlements. On top of the massive entitlements programs, we have the interest on the Federal debt, which is currently $220 billion.
“One danger will come from the “bond vigilantes.” As they survey the nation’s entitlement situation, they are going to want higher interest payments on Treasuries. This will skyrocket the interest cost on the Federal debt, and push Uncle Sam into a compounding pressure cooker. This, in turn, will put further pressure on the US’s credit rating.
“The implications of these statistics are frightening. Expenses of $2.2 trillion for 120 million entitlement receivers comes down to $18,000 per recipient! Talk about mind-boggling problems.”
“Richard’s Remarks”
Richard Russell, dowtheoryletters.com, 11/16/2012
Russell is right. The Bond Vigilantes will begin to ride again soon. And notwithstanding The Fed’s ongoing open-ended commitment to be buying (now over 70% of) U.S. Debt, which has temporarily suppressed rates, but cannot do so forever.
Central Banks have added $5 Trillion! to the monetary base since 2007. This cannot continue without dire consequences. And, as Bill Bonner notes, Consumer Prices would have to double from here (i.e. increase 10%/yr for 7 years) to keep up with monetary base increases.
The Fed has increased the Monetary base threefold in the last four years. But to dampen the increasing inflation it would have to sell those trillions of bonds back into the Market. But who wants to buy bonds in an inflating economy?
Daryl Robert Schoon’s brilliant analysis describes why Capitalism is suffering a Paradigm Shift.
“The bankers bet that sufficient credit can reverse an economic contract ion is no longer on the table. This does not mean central bank credit will tighten. Just the opposite will happen. Monetary easing will continue until the very end. Central bankers are trapped. The end game is now underway….
“The world has entered a paradigm shift of immense proportions; and the collapse of the bankers’ economic world is a part of that shift. The bankers’ credit fueled a 300-year global expansion which transformed the world. The bankers’ credit, however, has now become debt which increasingly cannot be repaid….
“Prior to capitalism, the underlying economic dynamic was supply and demand. However, in economies fueled by the bankers’ debt-based bank notes, the relationship between credit and debt becomes equally, if not more, important than supply and demand….
“After gold was removed from the global monetary system in 1971 and after initial inflationary concerns were addressed in 1980, embedded constraints on monetary and credit growth no longer existed. The attendant rise in debt is noteworthy – as will be the consequences.
“What central bankers did not anticipate from the explosive growth of credit was the resultant levels of massive debt. Fixated on growth, central bankers miscalculated the inevitable effects of the unrestrained increase in monetary and credit aggregates on their heretofore successful ponzi-scheme of credit and debt.
Credit is the zygote of debt; and since debts constantly compound in capitalist economies, unless controlled, credit will inevitably lead to fatal level of debt. This is not rocket science. This is common sense.”
“2012: The Tipping Point: The Results Are In: THE BANKERS LOST”
Daryl Robert Schoon, via LeMetropoleCafé, 11/20/2012
Observing how Central Banks, the Mega-Banks Cartel, and their Captive Government’s cope with ‘fatal levels of debt” is arguably the Key “Factor” to consider in Markets Performance going into 2013.
Complicating and worsening the scenario are the Manipulations of Key Mega-Banks, which seek ultra-profit maximization regardless of the wider destructive consequences. Consider:
“In the summer of 2011, I wrote a four-part series entitled “Economic Rape of Europe Nearly Complete”. In that extended piece; I detailed how the combination of three malevolent forces was decimating the economies of Europe one-by-one.
“Through the relentless fraud/manipulation in Euro debt markets, sadistic “austerity”, and so-called “bail-outs” which just bury these insolvent economies even deeper in debt; the Western banking cabal is systematically looting these nations.
“The manipulation of European debt markets was (is) accomplished through the fraudulent rigging of the credit default swap markets; combined with the complicity of the Big Three ratings agencies and the West’s media Oligarchs.
“The bankers manipulate credit default swap prices higher, simply by piling-on massive bets that a particular Euro-zone nation will default. The propaganda machine immediately shrieks that “risk” has now increased for this debt market, and then the accomplices in the ratings agencies comply with a ratings downgrade – immediately driving interest rates higher.
“With the massive debts being carried by these economies, any increase in interest rates automatically makes the economy significantly less solvent, turning this tag-team of fraud into a self-fulfilling prophesy. With the banksters literally capable of manipulating Euro zone interest rates to any number they desire, as a matter of simple arithmetic it is impossible to “bail out” any of these nations – by lending them more money.
“The moment more bail-out dollars are released, the banksters immediately drive interest rates even higher. Thus all the bail-out dollars are siphoned-out of the economy in the form of higher interest payments to the Bond Parasites, meaning all that each “bail out” accomplishes is to pointlessly pile on more debt.
“Meanwhile, as more and more of every revenue-dollar is sucked out of these economies by the debt-market fraud, Austerity is literally nothing less than economic suicide. In economies already starved for capital, Austerity is the precise equivalent of a doctor putting a severely anorexic patient on a diet.
“The empirical evidence is overwhelming. In every European economy which has inflicted Austerity on its population, the rate of economic contraction has accelerated, and the size of the budget deficits has grown larger instead of smaller. Since the entire raison d’etre of Austerity is to (supposedly) shrink these deficits, it is nothing less than deliberate suicide to continue this policy, and serves no purpose except to free-up more dollars to be paid out as interest payments to the Bond Parasites.
“This is the real impact of the new “unlimited bond-buying” announced by the European Central Bank, since (as the dust settles) we now see there are strings attached to yet more loans to these economies. Specifically, the ECB wants to strip these nations of what little economic sovereignty they still possess, and be able to mandate increasing levels of Austerity with each new round of suicidal bond-buying.”
“ECB Bond-Buying: The Rape of Europe Continues”
Jeff Nielson, via LeMetropoleCafe.com, 11/12/2012
Clearly, several Eurozone countries (and not just the PIIGS) have reached, or will reach Debt Saturation. (Indeed, the USA and Great Britain have arguably reached Debt Saturation as well.) That is, no reasonable level of economic growth will allow the Debts to be repaid, ever.
Three alternatives remain for the Debt Saturated Sovereigns – Partial or Total Debt Repudiation (a la Iceland), Voluntary Creditors’ Debt “Haircuts,” or Currency Debasement through Monetary Inflation, or some combination thereof.
Clearly the Central Banks have chosen the third alternative, but as we have demonstrated here and elsewhere, that inevitably leads to Price Inflation, which the Real Numbers (as opposed to Bogus Official Ones in China, the USA, and elsewhere) show is already occurring.
Rising Food, Energy, and Precious Metals Prices in recent years demonstrate this effect. This is why Deepcaster continues to recommend Investments in these Sectors – see Notes 1, 2, and 3 below – since these are Assets which serve both as Wealth Shelters and Profit Sources.
In conclusion, the long-term uptrend in these Sectors will continue. [But the Energy Sector will be especially volatile with month-long downtrends and uptrends. Yet over the long-term the Uptrends will dominate.] In sum, these three provide the best Wealth Protection and Profit Potential given that Price Inflation will surely continue.
Continue, that is, if and until the Central Banks’ Money Printing stops. Then … Massive Deflation.
And, by the way, one closing observation regarding Wealth Protection. There is increasing evidence that the Obama Administration will soon begin a push to de facto confiscate 401K’s and IRA’s by forcing their owners to buy U.S. Treasury Bonds and/or Government sponsored annuities. Whether or not this is true, we do think it advisable to consider the pros and cons of shifting assets from such “paper” stock accounts to physical Gold and Silver, as well as agriculture investments.
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Hands-free driving bill OK'd
Kaite Lannan, State House News Service
. Dan Gill/The New York Times This is a situation that Mass. legislators are trying to avoid. Using a phone while driving will be banned under a new bill.
BOSTON — State representatives invoked the memories of people killed in distracted driving crashes on Wednesday before voting 155-2 to pass a bill banning motorists from using handheld cellphones and electronic devices behind the wheel.
Parents of three victims -- Katie Brannelly, Merritt Levitan and Jordan Cibley -- were in the House chamber Wednesday afternoon while the bill was discussed.
Rep. John Rogers of Norwood said Brannelly studied child psychology and shortly before graduating college, "just three weeks prior to the promise of you going out and changing this world that needed your help," was struck by a distracted driver who didn't see her. That promise, Rogers said, was lost with Brannelly's life.
"Today, because of your memory, we have so much to gain," Rogers said.
Rep. John Barrett of North Adams said he wears a bracelet with the reminder to "text less, live more" in honor of Levitan, who was on a cross-country bike trip when she and other cyclists were hit by a driver who was texting.
Barrett said Levitan's parents forgave the driver and said their daughter would have forgiven him, too. "Those are the kind of people that are fighting to get this bill passed," he said.
Massachusetts in 2010 banned drivers from texting and emailing while driving, but stopped short of a full ban on hand-held use to make phone calls. Since 2010, many drivers have continued to text while driving or read emails or even surf the internet, leaving everyone vulnerable to preventable crashes.
In each of the last two sessions Senate has passed so-called hands-free device bills, and that branch plans to take up its own version of the bill on June 6. Senators have filed 28 amendments.
Rep. William Straus, a Mattapoisett Democrat who co-chairs the Transportation Committee, said that with widespread cellphone use, "a traffic hazard has exploded on the roads of the commonwealth and frankly around the country" over the last 10 to 15 years.
The bill prohibits the use of mobile electronic devices by drivers unless the device is being used in hands-free mode, with a single touch or swipe allowed to active hands-free operation. The restriction would not apply to public safety personnel or first responders performing their duties, and drivers could still use mobile electronic devices in certain emergency situations.
Violations would be punished by $100 for a first offense, $250 for a second offense, and $500 for third or later offenses.
The bill (H 3793) would take effect 90 days after becoming law, and Straus said between that date and the beginning of 2020, police officers would issue warnings instead of fines to anyone they pull over for violations.
The House bill would require annual analysis of racial and demographic identification of drivers issued citations during traffic stops. Such data is often already collected as part of a citation but not consistently studied, Straus said.
An amendment adopted by the House and sponsored by Rep. Chynah Tyler of Boston directs state public safety officials to investigate alternative methods for collection under a 2000 law, requiring officials to explore "the expansion of the data collection to include the race and gender of each individual subject to traffic stops, searches resulting from a traffic stop or frisks resulting from a traffic stop whether or not a Massachusetts Uniform Citation was issued." The amendment requires a report from the public safety secretary with investigation results and any recommended legislation, by Dec. 31, 2019.
Straus said some House lawmakers and members of the public have voiced concerns about the potential for racial profiling. He said the primary focus of the bill before the House Wednesday is making roads safer, but that the ways law enforcement officers interact with the public deserve a "wider conversation."
"There is, no doubt, a serious justice issue wider than just traffic stops, about the way in which uniformed officers or even plainclothes interact with the public," he said. "No one is ignoring that reality."
Rep. Norman Orrall of Lakeville said the bill's passage would save lives and mentioned concerns about the enforcement of seatbelts and child safety seat laws when those statutes were approved.
"Law enforcement doesn't want this bill to be abused," said Orrall, a former civil engineer who worked on traffic projects. "None of us want this bill to be abused. We must protect the freedoms and the safety of all of our citizens."
Reps. David DeCoste of Norwell and Shawn Dooley of Norfolk voted against the bill.
Michael P. Norton contributed reporting
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Folio Season #4: Lerner, Kingsnorth, Dunmore, Rahman and more
Introduction I’ve set myself the challenge of reading all 80 books nominated for the 2015 Folio Prize. Several I’d already read before the list was announced – which was what gave me the perhaps inaccurate idea that it would be possible, or a good idea, to read all of the remainder. Each week, I’ll update with the books I’ve been reading ‘new’, as it were, plus, while I catch up, some of those I read beforehand.
This week it’s the last five of those ‘pre-read’ books, with novels from Ali Smith, Joshua Ferris, Linda Grant and Tim Winton — but before them, Ben Lerner, whose work I revisited this week, plus debut novels from Zia Haider Rahman and the Booker-longlisted Paul Kingsnorth, and a new novel from the one of the best-established authors among the Folio nominees, Helen Dunmore.
10:04 – Ben Lerner (Granta)
Ben Lerner’s second novel takes its title from a moment in a film (Back to the Future) which is excerpted for Christian Marclay’s video artwork The Clock, a 24-hour piece made up of fragments of films in which time is referred to, so that it functions, alongside its entertainment value, as a kind of clock itself. I went to see The Clock when it was in London a few years ago, and had exactly the experience the novel’s narrator Ben describes: glancing at my watch to check the time, then realising that what I was watching was also a vastly scaled up and complexified version of the watch on my wrist. The pairing of the minimal with the vast, the détournement and refiguring of existing works, and the setting of the often bathetic subjective experience against the monolith of art, or history, or the world, this moment of simultaneous inward- and outward-looking — it all seems to be 10:04 in microcosm.
I actually read this late last year in its US edition from FSG (prettier by far than the uncharacteristically drab Granta edition, which ignores the text’s elaborate mention of the image that should be used for its cover). I wanted to hold off writing about it until I’d been to see Ben Lerner read at Foyles this week. He’s as rigorous and articulate as you’d hope from reading this novel, in which a character who shares some similarities with the author (his name, the fact he published a well-received first novel) ruthlessly interrogates his own feelings and statements, trying to get closer to a kind of truth, though highly aware, too, that in fiction ‘truthfulness’ remains a ruse, a technique. To bolster the illusion, partway into the book, a story the real Lerner published in the New Yorker is reprinted, and seems to be a fictionalised version of real events the fictive Ben has spend the preceding section of the book discussing. Seemingly aleatoric in structure, certainly more patterned than plotted, 10:04 takes in descriptions of literary, gastronomic, and social New York, a writer’s retreat to Marfa, Texas (which made me even keener to visit, despite the hilarious and horrific description of a party Ben attends there), the composition of poetry, the difficulty of going to the toilet while you’re the sole adult in charge of a small child in a public space, and the large and small indignities and rewards of (privileged) 21st-century life. This is a novel (is it a novel?) that’s smart and intelligent — not always the same thing — and funny, and moving. The party in Marfa, and a scene in a sperm donor clinic, are two of the most memorable moments in a book full of them. They seem the kind of things that will come to mind at odd junctures in the future, unmoored from the text they appear in, like the cutups in Marclay’s work.
The Wake – Paul Kingsnorth (Unbound)
Two notable facts about this book: it was ‘crowdfunded’ via online donations, and it’s written in a language that resembles Old English. It’s been a while since I tackled ‘Se yflan cnapan bindeth thone engel’ and so forth, and thankfully, depsite the initially forbidding look of the text, Kingsnorth’s ‘shadow tongue’ is significantly less dense. The syntax is – despite the unusual sentence structures, absent punctuation and incantatory repetition – close enough to contemporary English that, once you’ve acclimatised to the vocabulary (much of which, said aloud, sounds to me someone essaying a Dorset accent), it breezes along. In the wake of the invasion of England of 1066, displaced landowner Buccmaster seeks to fight back against the French invaders, with great visions of a vast uprising of Englishmen that ejects the invader. What’s interesting is that with Kingsnorth sticking to an Old English vocabulary, interiority and emotion has to be conveyed through means other than what we might be accustomed to in a novel: Shakespeare is still five hundred-odd years off, stream of consciousness and the vocabulary of psychoanalysis five hundred more. Restricted vocabulary – there’s a lot of ‘ire’ having to stand in for a subtler range of emotions, say – is compensated for by a quasi-mystical tone, in the actual visions Buccmaster sees, and in the book’s own beautiful rhythm and prose. ‘oh i can say these words’, Buccmaster reflects, as though aware of these limitations, ‘and try to tell what it was lic there but naht can gif to thu what was in my heorte as I seen all of this cuman in to place. sum folcs who is dumb thinks the world is only what can be seen and smelt and hierde but men who cnawan the world cnawan there is a sceat a sceat of light that is between this world and others and that sum times this sceat is thynne and can be seen through’ (p.240–1: ‘sceat’ is ‘sheet’, ‘heorte’, ‘heart’). What he sees through it – a warrior’s inspiration, a vision of the Old Gods of England (Norse myths refigured) – will guide him to his fate. If the book sometimes seems a little padded – it takes Buccmaster two years to get back to more or less exactly where he started – it’s a thoroughly enjoyable journey for the reader, and a truly impressive feat for the author. That this looks to be the first in a trilogy spanning two millennia is just a bonus. I can’t wait to see what Kingsnorth does next.
The Lie – Helen Dunmore (Windmill)
In a Cornish cottage, a dying old woman is watched over by a soldier recently returned from war. It’s 1920, and when Mary Pascoe dies, Daniel respects her wishes, buries her on her land – and doesn’t tell anyone what’s happened. Haunted by the death of his closest friend in the Trenches, Daniel has come home to try and make amends, and to rebegin his life – but Frederick’s ghost still appears to him every night. This is the first Helen Dunmore I’ve ever read, and it’s impressive, pairing the bucolic atmosphere of J.L. Carr’s A Month in the Country with a searing recreation of First World War horror. She’s particularly good on the smell of war: ‘that smell […] that you never know before the first time you go up the line. Raw mud, old gas, cordite, shit, rotting flesh’ (p.154); ‘Chloride of lime, cordite, raw mud, latrines, petrol-tainted water, rotting flesh.’ (p.244.) As Daniel seems to be healing, the lie that gives the book its title is almost forgotten about; it’s only three quarters of the way through that you start to glimpse the danger that he is in. I found the ending, in which his deception catches up with him, a little neat – its inevitability seems more pat than doomladen – but the sensitive depiction of the relationship between Daniel and Frederick, and then between Daniel and Frederick’s widowed sister Felicia, is this book’s triumph: war makes strange companions of them all, breaks them apart, reforges them out of shape, clinging together in the wake of such horror.
In the Light of What We Know – Zia Haider Rahman (Picador)
I read Zia Haider Rahman’s debut novel several thousand feet over the Atlantic, which seemed appropriate for a novel which travels between London and New York, spans at least two decades, and which seeks, as from a position of great height over the world, to encompass everything in it. The narrator’s long-lost friend Zafar – mischievous, opaque, charismatic – turns up one morning at his house, with a story to tell. But first, he needs to tell the narrator an awful lot of stuff. While the novel starts promisingly, with a great scene where Zafar outwits some skinheads, then gives the narrator pause to wonder if the whole thing has been a careful setup, it soon becomes a lengthy and often tedious didactic tract. In the middle stretch, before a plot finally starts to grind into gear two-thirds in, it seems as if the novel’s title could have been compacted to just its final three words, as the conversations that fill it seem to run to the formula ‘Do you know/have you read/heard of X?’ — ‘No.’ — ‘[Lengthy explanation of X]’, over and over. Pub bores would think twice about such constant showboating of arcane knowledge. The pedagogic tone becomes most irksome when the reader has heard of X, or read a book about X, and doesn’t necessarily want to read a short discursive essay barely dressed up as dialogue (no-one, not even charismatic raconteurs like Zafar, speaks in paragraphs like these) regarding X. It seems that even Rahman realises this could be problematic, though, intriguingly, not necessarily consciously:
Do you know what an axolotl is? Zafar asked.
At this point, I’m certain I merely rolled my eyes.
(p.311)
Me too. When exchanges of this sort occur — the narrator accuses Zafar of condescension, Zafar criticises the narrator for his didacticism — you sense Rahman in the background, flailing in the bloat. Earnestness goes some way, but a novel needs a bit more than earnest men telling one another stories about life, even when those stories are about war politics in post-invasion Afghanistan, or the financial crash of 2008, vast events in our lives that need talked about — just not necessarily by these two boffins (they’re not good on jokes, either, which would do a lot to leaven a heavygoing book: when a joke tentatively pokes its nose out, on p.497–8, it’s quickly battered into submission: “But what if she’d had cold feet? Or would have cold feet in the next few hours? Were there not signs that her feet were cooling? — if I may take the feet image a step further.” Yes. We get it. In addition, Rahman’s decision to swell an already long book by opening each chapter with lengthy epigrams from, mostly, giants of canonical literature (Eliot, Shakespeare, Roth, Greene, Mann, Tolstoy, Tagore…) bespeaks a vast failing of confidence more than anything, as if he feels that, as a debut novelist coming late to the game, he needs to surround himself with quotes that show he knows the territory. The text gives itself a get-out by suggesting these are all quotes from Zafar’s own notebook, making him the one lacking confidence, but that doesn’t help the reader much. Likewise the footnotes, purportedly the narrator’s gloss on certain elements of Zafar’s discourse, are distracting and pointless; invoking David Foster Wallace in one such seems particularly on-the-nose. This is largely a novel about education: the narrator, who works in finance, makes the point that the public doesn’t understand the first thing about the circumstances of the 2008 financial crash, nor, assuming it receives its pay packet and can afford its rent, does it much care; the light this book wants to shed is on that murkiness, and on the plots and counterplots of the American campaign in Afghanistan. Yet what In the Light of What We Know reminds us mostly is that, in defiance of the mathematical certainties that the narrator trusts in, less, sometimes, is more.
In brief: The last batch of books I’d read before the announcement of the 80 nominated titles. Upstairs at the Party by Linda Grant (Virago) just about redeems itself by the end, as its chronicling of the fates of a bunch of girls who met at college in the 1960s approaches the present day; the 60s sections – pretty much the first half of the book – recall a jolly-hockey-sticks tale of life in boarding school; the problem with devising deliberately naïve characters is that the reader may, as I did, swiftly tire of trite dialogue of the ‘Gosh, isn’t Communism jolly exciting!’ variety (‘Turn on the TV, there’s a crisis in the Suez Canal that’s sure to prove historically significant’) and sketchy characterisation. In Eyrie (Picador), Tim Winton trades the vast landscapes of interior Australia for the high-rise suburb of Fremantle, outside Perth, and finds as much majesty and misery there as in the desert. Once the somewhat offputting staccato style has relaxed a bit – it takes a while; this is a long novel which seems oddly lacking in confidence at the outset – this becomes a gripping psychological drama, a vehicle careering out of control, populated with damaged people who’ve seemingly decided that if they’re going to fall apart, they’re taking down everything around them too. Tragedy has already struck by the time Ali Smith’s How to be both (Hamish Hamilton) opens – or at least, it has in my copy; because here, Smith, who matches peerless psychological insight with a never-cloying whimsical streak and formal playfulness that’s never out of service to the narrative, has hit upon a playful formatting trick so simple it’s taken a genius like her to think of it: How to be both contains two stories, one a contemporary piece and the other set in the fifteenth century. In half the print run, the historical story appears first; in the other, the 21st-century story (both are called ‘Part One’). It bears some resemblance to the formal innovation of BS Johnson or Julio Cortazar and their strategies for imposing randomness on the text, but acknowledges the limitations that a hardback book (as opposed to an electronic text, say) faces. There’s clever intertwining of Smith’s themes in these two halves; I preferred the contemporary story, in which a teenager is mourning her mother’s death, to the story of the fifteenth-century artwork and its makers, but the great joy of this book is that, on reaching the end, you want to start again and see how the second story influences the first. A brilliant, brilliant book. And Joshua Ferris’s To Rise Again at a Decent Hour (Penguin) is a story of identity theft, the gulf between the personal and the public, and self-doubt, in which dentist Paul O’Rourke finds that someone has been posting religious polemics about a long-forgotten religious sect, the Ulms, giving his name as the author. Paul – fussy, bad with relationships, mildly obsessional, and a devout atheist – is perturbed, then infuriated, as his name appears in more and more websites, bringing the Ulms’ tragic story to ever-wider audiences. Some of the material about the origin and fate of the Ulms tested my patience – the problem with drawing inspiration from the more tedious of religious tracts is that the tedium comes along too – but this is a clever novel, not laugh-out-loud funny, but amusing at first and increasingly serious as the rather forced setup (he’s a dentist who wishes everyone would floss more!) gives way to Ferris’s actual concerns. The obvious – if unfair – comparison is to Philip Roth’s novel of Jewishness and identity theft, Operation Shylock, but this is a novel with a very different tone and spark.
Running total at 16th January: 27 read, 53 to read, 66 days to go… I’ll have to get a move on.
The eighty nominated titles — with the ones I’ve read struck through (and links to reviews, where applicable) — are:
10:04 – Ben Lerner
A God in Every Stone – Kamila Shamsie
Academy Street – Mary Costello
After Me Comes The Flood – Sarah Perry
All My Puny Sorrows – Miriam Toews
All Our Names – Dinaw Mengitsu
All The Days And Nights – Niven Goviden
All The Light We Cannot See – Anthony Doerr
All The Rage – A.L. Kennedy
Amnesia – Peter Carey
Annihilation – Jeff Vandermeer
Arctic Summer – Damon Galgut
Bald New World – Peter Tieryas Liu
Bark – Lorrie Moore
Be Safe I Love You – Cara Hoffman
Boy, Snow, Bird – Helen Oyeyemi
Can’t & Won’t – Lydia Davis
Dear Thief – Samantha Harvey
Dept. of Speculation – Jenny Offill
Dissident Gardens – Jonathan Lethem
Dust – Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
Em and the Big Hoom – Jerry Pinto
England and Other Stories – Graham Swift
Euphoria – Lily King
Everland – Rebecca Hunt
Eyrie – Tim Winton
Family Life – Akhil Sharma
Fourth of July Creek – Smith Henderson
How to be both – Ali Smith
In Search of Silence – Emily Mackie
In the Approaches – Nicola Barker
In the Light of What We Know – Zia Haider Rahman
J – Howard Jacobson
Kinder Than Solitude – Yiyun Li
Lila – Marilynne Robinson
Life Drawing – Robin Black
Lost For Words – Edward St Aubyn
Love and Treasure – Ayelet Waldman
Nora Webster – Colm Tóibín
On Such a Full Sea – Chang-Rae Lee
Orfeo – Richard Powers
Outline – Rachel Cusk
Perfidia – James Ellroy
Road Ends, Mary Lawson
Shark – Will Self
Some Luck – Jane Smiley
Stay Up With Me – Tom Barbash
Stone Mattress – Margaret Atwood
The Ballad of a Small Player – Lawrence Osborne
The Bone Clocks – David Mitchell
The Book Of Gold Leaves – Mirza Waheed
The Book Of Strange New Things – Michel Faber
The Country Of Icecream Star – Sandra Newman
The Dog – Joseph O’Neill
The Emerald Light in the Air – Donald Antrim
The Emperor Waltz – Philip Hensher
The Fever – Megan Abbott
The Heroes’ Welcome – Louisa Young
The Incarnations – Susan Barker
The Lie – Helen Dunmore
The Lives Of Others – Neel Mukherjee
The Narrow Road to the Deep North – Richard Flanagan
The Night Guest – Fiona McFarlane
The Paying Guests – Sarah Waters
The Tell-Tale Heart – Jill Dawson
The Temporary Gentleman – Sebastian Barry
The Wake – Paul Kingsnorth
The Zone Of Interest – Martin Amis
Their Lips Talk of Mischief – Alan Warner
Thunderstruck – Elizabeth McCracken
To Rise Again at a Decent Hour – Joshua Ferris
Travelling Sprinkler – Nicholson Baker
Upstairs at the Party – Linda Grant
Viper Wine – Hermione Eyre
Virginia Woolf in Manhattan – Maggie Gee
We Are Not Ourselves – Thomas Matthew
What You Want – Constantine Phipps
Wittgenstein Jr – Lars Iyer
Young Skins – Colin Barrett
Your Fathers, Where Are They? And The Prophets, Do They Live Forever? – Dave Eggers
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Pakistan Elections: Cricket legend Imran Khan claims victory
Pakistan’s all time cricket great and Chairman of Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaaf on Thursday held out olive branch to India, urging nuclear-armed neighbor to come to the negotiation table for the resolution of all the bilateral issues including Kashmir in the larger interest of the South Asian region.
“ Poverty is the main problem of the Sub-continent: Entire region has to join hands to make people prosperous,” Imran Khan, the would-be Prime Minister of Pakistan said while delivering a victory speech, laying out the future government’s policy on domestic and foreign affairs.
PTI Chairmn said that he was disappointed with the way Indian media portrayed him as a villain during the last few weeks.
He said that Kashmir remained the biggest bone of contention in Indo-Pakistan relations and urged India to end human rights violations in Kashmir, saying that people in Kashmir have suffered for the past 30 years.
About relations with China, Imran Khan said , “Beijing gives us lot of opportunities. CPEC is an opportunity that China has provided to Pakistan. We want to take inspiration from China to pull the poor out of their poverty, ” he added.
As far as the US is concerned, Imran said, “We want to work on a policy that is mutually beneficial. Not a one-way relationship as there needs to be balance.”
, “We want to improve our relations with Iran and Saudi Arabia both. We want to work as a reconciliation facilitator in the region. That country that works towards ending wars rather than being used for them.”
Regarding Afghanistan, Imran said, “We want to work in every possible way to ensure peace in Afghanistan. I would love an open border system like the EU with Afghanistan. Afghanistan is that neighbour of ours that has seen the most human misery and damage in the name of wars. The people of Afghanistan need peace, and Pakistan wants peace in Afghanistan.”
Outlining his plans to make Pakistani economically stable, PTI chairman stressed the need of austerity in every field of life.”I am ashamed of living inside Prime Minister’s House, it is made out of corrupted money. We will use all of Governor’s Houses for public use. Pakistan’s leaders would no longer live of the tax of the common people,”.
Nations are not recognised by how their elite live; rather these are recognised by how they treat and lift the poor. The example of China lifting 70 crore people out of poverty is in front of us, Imran Khan said.
“Accountability to start from me. We will set an example in terms of law and order. Improved governance system, investment and law and order to be our priorities,” said Khan.
Addressing the concerns of opposition parties regarding rigging in the July 25 polls which will see Imran come into power, the PTI chief assured, “These have been the cleanest elections in Pakistan’s history.”
“I will fully cooperate in scrutinising as many constituencies as opposition parties want,” he added.
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Linux, Windows, Windows CE and QNX drivers
Model 516 is a PC/104 frame grabber that captures and transfers full-frame (640 x 480) video at 30 frames per second. It overcomes the low bandwidth of the PC/104 bus by using hardware compression to produce encoded MPEG-2 and MPEG-1 data streams of 440 kbits to 10 Mbits per second. It also has two audio input channels that are synchronized to the MPEG data.
MPEG2 data reduces the amount of memory required to store full motion video. The compressed data requires a smaller transmission bandwidth. This makes it possible to transmit 30 frames/sec video and audio over the PC/104 bus or over a 10/100 Base-T Ethernet. The hardware compression circuit uses a motion estimation algorithm to produce smooth images from interlaced cameras. The length of MPEG2 video streams is not limited by the viewing software.
Encoded MPEG2 data can also be decompressed by the 516’s hardware to produce composite video and audio. The video output is available at a flat cable header. The audio output is available at an audio jack and the flat cable header.
The 516 has four multiplexed video channels that function as four separate composite channels or as two S-video inputs. Only one channel can be compressed at a time
Two bi-directional logic lines are under software control.
Text caption buffer
A 64 character buffer is available for adding text to each frame. The text is within a transparent box that may be positioned anywhere within the frame.
Self test
Digitized video and audio inputs can be looped back to the output circuits to allow camera and sound adjustments. The 516’s D/A can be programmed to generate color test bars. This is useful for testing the video output channel.
Lost video detection
The status of the camera’s vertical and horizontal sync signals may be used to detect the presence or absence of the camera signal. The included software allows reading these signals to detect a lost video signal.
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Farnsworth Chronicles, 14
Cue to cue for The Farnsworth Invention stretched into a third day as the production is proving to be a technical challenge on a scale seldom seen on the Keyano Theatre stage.
"Remember, you guys have been living with this show for a long time," said Claude Giroux, director of the last play in the Keyano Theatre TELUS Drama Series.
"To the technical team, this is all pretty new."
They are doing an incredible job of picking up the rhythm, energy and nuance of this fascinating play written by the talented (and revered) Aaron Sorkin. By the time we did a full dress last night, the lighting and sound operators, the stage manager, the assistant stage managers, dressers, and fly crew were humming.
Despite the enormous number of hours on stage - probably close to 20 since I left work on Friday - I was feeling energized as we moved from cue to cue into an actual full-energy, full-intention run. It is during this period when things really coalesce and I find it absolutely intoxicating.
That is not to say that everything went perfectly. I missed one important line, misspoke a couple of others, and was slightly late making an entrance after a quick change went askew. One actor screamed in frustration backstage as a series of unfortunate events led to an unsuccessful and critical costume change. Another player winced in pain as a piece of furniture being moved in the dark made contact with an area of his body that is particularly vulnerable.
We will continue to work through missed cues, scene changes not quite on mark, and quick costume changes that are the stuff of miracles.
At the end of the day, when this show previews on Thursday, the audience will enjoying an outstanding production, born out of thousands of hours of effort, talent and dedication.
As I stood in my spot, delivering my closing monologue, I felt the play move from my head to my heart. It was a powerful moment that I won't soon forget.
With Humberly Gonzalez who plays Mrs. Sarnoff
On this Alberta election day we are dark, which is to say we are not called for any rehearsals or performances. Tomorrow night we go the distance with full costumes and make-up in preparation for the media call which happens on Wednesday night. This is getting very real very quickly.
My Quotidian Mornings
Influence Shift
My TEDx Fort McMurray presentation
On the brink
Meeting Dame Judy
Future Voters
Return to Ideal
Springtime in Saskatchewan
Farnsworth Chronicles, 9
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How BIG is Currency?
With the advent of online payment systems and the rise of debit cards, physical currency may seem like a relic of a bygone era. But right now, there’s still a lot of it going around.
Let’s examine how the total amount of United States, Euro, Yen, and total worldwide currency actually looks. Spoiler alert: it’s big.
The Dollar
The Yen
The Euro
The United States dollar is the world's most traded currency, with 1.61 trillion dollars circulating in coinage and notes.1, 2
So, how big is a dollar?
Stacked together, the 39.8 billion notes currently in circulation would take up 1.8 million cubic feet of space.5, 6
That amount of currency would fill 20 Olympic-sized swimming pools...7
...and would overflow the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in the US Capital.7
Keep exploring! Click on another currency below to discover its true size.
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The euro is the second most popular traded currency in the world, and the most popular in Europe.8
There are 82.3 billion €50 notes in circulation.
So, how big is the Euro? At 16.5 square inches each, all the €50 notes could completely cover New York City...
or the city of Indianapolis...
...or blanket the entire landscape of Badlands National Park. 11-13
The Japanese yen is third most traded currency in the world, and the most popular in Asia.14
So, how big is the yen?
There are 12.4 million ¥1 coins in circulation. Stacked on top of each other, that many coins could line the Las Vegas strip two times... 17, 18
could climb Mt. Everest almost twice...18
...and that same stack of coins could run the Preakness Stakes race eight times. 18
Total Worldwide
There is a name for the total value of worldwide currency stuffed into pockets, lost in couch cushions, and stored in bank vaults. Economists call it "M0." 19
The M0 for the entire planet hovers around $5 trillion. Let's see what that looks like. 20
Turns out that $5 trillion, or M0, takes up a lot of space. But we have to do a bit of abstracting to properly visualize it.
Let's assume that $5 trillion comes to us in $100 bills.
That M0 stack of bills would weigh twice as much as the Statue of Liberty. 21
Spread out, those bills would cover the entire Grand Canyon... 22
...and laid end-to-end, that M0 measure of $100 bills would circle all of planet Earth 194 times. 23
Now that's a lot of dough.
Currency Exchange International Corp., 2018
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 2018
United States Mint, 2018
Wikipedia.org, 2018
Quara.com, 2018
Bluebulbprojects.com, The Measure of Things, 2018
Statista.com, 2018
Wikipedia.org, 2018. Badlands National Park is in South Dakota.
Bank of Japan, 2018
Marketplace.org, 2018
Business Insider Inc., 2018
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Round 1 of Ripcurl Pro @ Bells
Who do YOU think is gonna win? Enter the ML Fantasy Surfer comp and win BIG! Click the link on the right.
BELLS BEACH, Victoria/AUS (Friday, March 29, 2013) – The ASP Top 34 returned to battle today as the Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach presented by Ford completed Round 1 of competition in clean three-to-four foot (1 metre) waves at Bells Beach.
Stop No. 2 of 10 on the 2013 ASP World Championship Tour (WCT), the Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach recommences the hunt for this year’s world surfing crown and the perennial threats were in blistering form on opening day.
Kelly Slater (USA), 41, 11-time ASP World Champion, posted an emphatic victory over a lethal Adam Melling(AUS), 28, and wildcard Jacob Willcox (AUS), 15, in Round 1 of competition this afternoon. Slater’s commanding display at Rincon point netted him the day’s high heat total of an 18.07 out of a possible 20, including a near-perfect 9.70 on his final wave of the heat.
“I switched my equipment back to the Weirdo Ripper which I rode in the early rounds on the Gold Coast and it seemed to work really well in those slopey Rincon waves,” Slater said. “I drifted in towards the end of the heat and that wave (9.70) wasn’t very big, but it looked like it was going to run a bit better and it just allowed for a good amount of turns.”
Following a Runner-Up finish in 2012, Slater is back with a vengeance this season, collecting a win at the opening event on the Gold Coast and announcing his intentions for the year ahead.
“I’m committed to the tour this year,” Slater said. “I think in the past, I’ve been of two minds – wanting to compete but also wanting to chase swells around the world and that’s why I’ve been hesitant to commit before. This year though, I’m committed and focused on the tour. When I stop competing in a few years, I can chase the swells then.”
Joel Parkinson (AUS), 31, reigning ASP World Champion, has collected three Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach victories (2004, 2009, 2011) throughout his storied career and the stylish natural-footer continued his impressive run at the iconic break in Round 1 this morning.
“Bells is comfortable place for me,” Parkinson said. “It has so much history and I’ve been surfing the waves, Rincon and the Bowl and Winki, my whole life. I love coming back here to compete and feel very at home. Kelly (Slater) set the pace at the first stop on the Goldy, but there are a lot of crew right in the mix.”
Parkinson was joined by Gold Coast stablemate and two-time ASP World Champion (2007, 2009) Mick Fanning (AUS), 31, today as back-to-back Round 1 victors with Fanning slicing through the morning conditions and directly into Round 3.
Julian Wilson (AUS), 24, current ASP WCT No. 5, survived a hard-fought battle with Kai Otton (AUS), 33, and Patrick Gudauskas (USA), 27, to punctuate this morning’s action.
“Very happy to get through a heat out at Bells,” Wilson said. “I had a bit of success here in my junior career, but lost in Round 2 the last few years. So yeah, I’m into Round 3 and that’s already the best result of my professional career here.”
Long considered one of the premiere surfers on the planet, Wilson’s start to the 2013 season has positioned the young Sunshine Coaster in the hunt for the 2013 ASP World Title.
“A Top 5 finish this year would be great but the World Title is the goal,” Wilson said. “I had a pretty good start on the Gold Coast and hopefully I can back it up at Bells and keep the momentum up. The waves are pretty fun and I think today may be the smallest we get it through the window so hopefully we get to finish up in the Bells Bowl.”
While the top seeds dominated the opening day proceedings, rookies Nat Young (USA), 21, and Filipe Toledo (BRA), 17, collected dynamic Round 1 victories of their own with Young posting a dramatic last-minute win with his searing backhand surfing and Toledo flying across and over the rippable Rincon righthanders to advance directly into Round 3.
Kolohe Andino (USA), 19, ASP Dream Tour sophomore, punctuated the day’s affairs with a high-flying exhibition against Jordy Smith (ZAF), 25, andC.J. Hobgood (USA), 33. Andino opened up the heat with a full-rotation aerial for a 9.57 and took a commanding 17.14 heat total to finish out the day.
“It’s a weird dynamic on this tour as they’re all your favorite surfers and you want to beat them,” Andino said. “Jordy (Smith) is one of my favorite surfers and CJ (Hobgood) is so deadly. I’m having fun though. I feel like my surfing has improved a lot from last year. Hopefully we get good waves for the rest of the event.”
When men’s competition resumes, up first will be Taj Burrow (AUS), 34, up against Jacob Willcox (AUS), 15, in the opening heat of Round 2.
Event organizers will reconvene tomorrow at 7:30am to assess conditions for a possible 8am start.
The 2013 Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach will be webcast LIVE via www.live.ripcurl.com and broadcast live on Fuel TV in Australia and Portugal, ESPN in Brazil and MCS Extreme in France, Luxembourg, Belgium, Switzerland and Africa. You can also watch the event live via the Rip Curl Pro iPhone app, available free in the iTunes App Store.
CoastalWatch, official forecasters for the Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach, have called for: A mid period SW swell maintains three foot surf at Bells on Friday and eases into Saturday. A stronger increase in long period SW groundswell arrives over the Easter long weekend. This is likely to be followed by another strong SSW groundswell around Wednesday 4 April.
For more information, log onto www.aspworldtour.com
RIP CURL PRO BELLS BEACH ROUND 1 RESULTS:
Heat 1: Raoni Monteiro (BRA) 13.60, Matt Wilkinson (AUS) 13.33, Gabriel Medina (BRA) 11.17
Heat 2: Julian Wilson (AUS) 14.64, Kai Otton (AUS) 14.43, Patrick Gudauskas (USA) 12.83
Heat 3: Willian Cardoso (BRA) 15.06, Taj Burrow (AUS) 11.33, Kieren Perrow (AUS) 8.16
Heat 4: Mick Fanning (AUS) 14.83, Sebastian Zietz (HAW) 12.34, Oney Anwar (IDN) 7.60
Heat 5: Joel Parkinson (AUS) 16.20, Brett Simpson (USA) 10.20, Jack Perry (AUS) 8.87
Heat 6: Kelly Slater (USA) 18.03, Adam Melling (AUS) 15.50, Jacob Willcox (AUS) 10.17
Heat 7: Alejo Muniz (BRA) 16.33, Adriano de Souza (BRA) 13.60, Tiago Pires (PRT) 11.10
Heat 8: Josh Kerr (AUS) 15.06, Dusty Payne (HAW) 14.20, Damien Hobgood (USA) 13.87
Heat 9: Nat Young (USA) 16.43, Jeremy Flores (FRA) 15.90, Travis Logie (ZAF) 12.20
Heat 10: Filipe Toledo (BRA) 15.47, Michel Bourez (PYF) 13.67, Bede Durbidge (AUS) 12.23
Heat 11: Adrian Buchan (AUS) 17.26, Glenn Hall (IRL) 13.77, Owen Wright (AUS) 13.73
Heat 12: Kolohe Andino (USA) 17.14, C.J. Hobgood (USA) 13.90, Jordy Smith (ZAF) 12.76
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Yunomi, Tea Cup; Mashiko-yaki, Isamu Tagami Yunomi, Tea Cup; Mashiko
Directory: Artists: Ceramics: Pottery: Cups: Contemporary: Item # 1402697
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Yunomi, Tea Cup; by Isamu Tagami of Hinata Kiln, Mashiko. Kaki glaze with wax-resist pattern of bamboo leaves on snow. Nuka glaze interior. H.3.125"(8cm) x Dia.3"(7.5c.) Volume=7oz(210cc.) Tagami Isamu was born in 1947 in Mooka, a village neighboring to Mashiko. He married into the Sudo family and apprenticed under Sudo Takeo. He was originally trained as a Japanese chef and had his own restaurant before embarking on a career in pottery, giving him a unique perspective on functional wares. He is currently the 4th-generation head of Hinatagama, founded in Mashiko by Sudo Yujiro in the Meiji Period (1868-1912.) His work has won awards in Prefectural and National ceramic exhibitions as he continues his work in the use of traditional and local Mashiko clay and glazes, much in the same way that his father’s teacher, Hamada Shoji, did. Hinatagama (Hinata Kiln) was established in Mashiko by Sudo Yujiro during the Meiji Period (1868-1912.) Sudo Yujiro was a potter at the Jishoji-yaki kilns in Gumma Prefecture. Production at the Jishoji-yaki kilns had declined at the turn of the century and many potters relocated to Mashiko around 1905. In the kiln’s 2nd generation, under Sudo Yasutaro, there was considerable growth in Mashiko’s pottery industry and Hinatagama was a large kiln employing several craftsmen. This was also the period marked by the arrival of Hamada Shoji in Mashiko, who was to have a profound influence on this small folk pottery village, and Hinatagama itself. Folk wares, like Mashiko-yaki, were falling out of fashion technically and aesthetically, and the Mingei (Folk Craft) Movement; led by Yanagi Soetsu and potters like Hamada Shoji, Kawai Kanjiro, and Bernard Leach, ushered in a new era of individual studio artists who were inspired by folk craft, and who incorporated folk craft aesthetics into their work. Yasutaro’s son, Takeo, and Hamada’s 3rd son, Atsuya, were close friends who played together daily. Takeo eventually became an apprentice of Hamada Shoji, who by this time had been designated a National Living Treasure, and worked at the Hamada kiln. Afterwards, Hamada helped Takeo establish his own kiln directly in front of his own (the present-day site of the Hamada Sankokan Museum) and this is still the current site of Hinatagama today. Continuing as the 3rd generation of his family potting in Mashiko, Sudo Takeo (1931-1998) gained considerable recognition for his work as a Mashiko potter; representing Tochigi Prefecture abroad, having numerous exhibitions in Mashiko and Tokyo, training several future generations of Japanese and International potters, and having his vase featuring the traditional Mashiko kaki (persimmon) glaze presented to Crown Princess Masako in 1993. Hinatagama is currently operated by 4th and 5th generation potters, Tagami Isamu (Sudo Takeo’s son-in-law) and Tagami Munetoshi (grandson of Sudo Takeo,) who continue not only the pottery traditions of their family, but also the tradition of folk pottery in Mashiko.
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International School of Hydrocarbon Measurement Publications (2003)
Download collection of documents about ISHM 2003 including table of contents, event organizers, award winners, committee members, etc.
Basics Of High Pressure Measurement And Regulating Station Design
Author(s): E. D. Rusty Woomer, Jr.
There is more to the design of a measurement facility than the word measurement suggests. Generally, the measurement arena may include any or all of the following broad categories: Metering o:o Primary devices o:o Secondary devices o:o Tertiary devices Control o:o Pressure regulation o:o Flow control o:o Overpressure protection Gas Quality o:o Chromatography o:o Spot or composite sampling o:o Analytical instrumentation Other o:o Odorization o:o Filtration / Separation o:o Heating
Document ID: 05FC2902
Compressibility Of Natural Gas
Author(s): Jeffrey L. Savidge
The accurate measurement of natural gas and natural gas related fluids is difficult. It requires care, insight, and experience to achieve consistently accurate measurements. It is particularly difficult to measure complex fluid mixtures that are exposed to: (1) a range of operating conditions, (2) dynamic fluid properties, and (3) changing equipment conditions. Conservation equations for energy and mass flow provide the engineering foundation for flow measurement. They establish the theoretical flow rate. Correlations are used to complete the application of the conservation equations and improve the accuracy of the measurement to meet practical measurement requirements. Correlations bind the conservation equations to measured equilibrium and dynamic experimental data, e.g. PVT data and flow rate data. They provide necessary information on the thermodynamic and fluid flow condition. Measurement technologies that are concerned with measuring the volume or mass of product must use or determine the density.
Document ID: BA001A5B
Coping With Changing Flow Requiements At Existing Meter Stations
Author(s): James m. Doyle
Todays market is a challenge that Companies must meet. Deregulation, increasing share values, diversity and the ability to adapt are everyday terms that we must completely understand. Companies must be aggressive to survive customer demands. Revenues are made and lost everyday at our metering stations. If our products are not measured accurately, customer satisfaction will not be achieved and companies will lose revenues. In todays market, there are several factors that dictate what changes in flow requirements we must deal with. Some of these factors include equipment and technology, customer demand and a changing industrial market.
Document ID: D521959B
Design Of Distribution Metering And Regulating Stations
Author(s): Edgar Eddy Wallace Collins Jr.
The design of natural gas distribution metering and/or regulating stations is a mixture of science and art, or knowledge and judgment. The process requires four areas of knowledge: product, application, components, and communication. The goal in design is to use judgment to select and combine compatible components to create an effective, safe, and economical unit.
Document ID: 19AA1436
Effect And Control Of Pulsation In Pipeline Measurement
Author(s): Michael Royce Miller
Pulsations created by compressors, flow control valves, regulators, and some piping configurations are known to cause significant errors in gas flow measurement. In recent years the Pipeline and Compressor Research Council (PCRC) now known as (GMRC) Gas Machinery Research Council a subsidiary of the Southern Gas Association, commissioned and funded various pulsation research projects at Southwest Research Institute (SWRI) in San Antonio, Texas. This research culminated in the publication of several technical papers, including the April 1987 PCRC report 10.87-3 titled Pulsation and Transient-Induced Errors at Orifice Meter Installations and the most recent technical report An Assessment of Technology for Correcting Pulsation Induced Orifice Flow Measurement dated November, 1991.
Document ID: 48074ADA
Effects Of Abnormal Conditions On Accuracy Of Orifice Measurement
Author(s): Thomas B. Morrow
In 1971 E. J. Burgin of Florida Gas Transmission Company presented a paper at ISHM entitled Factors Affecting Accuracy of Orifice Measurement (Primary Element). Burgin noted that A.G.A. Report No. 3 (of that time) claimed that an orifice meter with flange taps and with a diameter ratio, 13, between 0.15 and 0.7, fabricated and operated in accordance with the specifications in the standard, would have a discharge coefficient value within + 0.5% of the value calculated from the orifice equation. The purpose of Burgins paper was to examine some of the specifications in the orifice meter standard and to review the effect upon measurement accuracy when the specifications are ignored.
Document ID: 331DDDEB
Liquid Allocation Measurement
Author(s): Raymond Gray
An allocation meter is one whose purpose is to determine which portion of the royalty meters volume is attributable to a particular lease, well, or measurement point. Some allocation points fall under federal guidelines, while others fall under other regulatory bodies. Individual contractual agreements must meet and will often exceed regulatory guidelines. Therefore, certain accuracy and procedural standards are set. These standards are intended to treat all producers uniformly, to be fair to the small producer as well as the larger ones. In September 1993, the American Petroleum Institute published MPMS Chapter 20, Section 1, entitled Allocation Measurement. Chapter 20 is a document outlining a set of recommended standards, to be used as a general guideline in all allocation applications.
Document ID: A49D747A
ANSI/API 2530 On Orifice Meter Primary Element
Author(s): Ray Kendrick
The April 2000 revision to the API 14.3 part 2 Standard includes the results of considerable test work over the past few years. Numerous changes are noted, some of which will have major effects on users of orifice measurement. The most significant impact will be in the upstream length and flow conditioner areas. This paper will discuss most of the changes and go into some detail on the more important ones. Items not mentioned essentially remain as stated in the previous issue of the Standard.
Document ID: AE99254F
Field Experience With Gas Turbine Meters
Author(s): Daniel J. Rudroff
Gas turbine meters (see fig. 1) were introduced in 1963, and since then have gained acceptance in the industry as an accurate, extremely repeatable, reliable device. The gas turbine meter is easy to understand and maintain in the field, and it interfaces with the new electronics available in the industry today.
Document ID: AECC2509
API Coriolis Standard For Mass Measurement Of Crude Oil
Author(s): Steve Whitman
More than a decade ago, meter manufacturers introduced technology utilizing the Coriolis force: an apparent force that results from earths rotation, deflecting moving objects or flowing streams to the right in the northern hemisphere and to the left in the southern hemisphere. The Coriolis force allows a meter to directly measure mass, dynamically.
Document ID: 1873116E
Fundamental Principles Of Diaphragm Displacement
Author(s): Robert Bennett
The first gas company in the U.S., The Gas Light Company of Baltimore, Maryland, founded in 1816, struggled for years with financial and technical problems while operating on a flat rate basis. Its growth was slow with the charge for gas service beyond the pocketbook of the majority. By comparison, the New York Gas Light Company, founded in 1823, prospered and expanded. They had built their system on the use of gas meters to measure the supply of gas to customers, and a large one to register the quantity made at the station before it is conveyed to the gasometers.
Document ID: D38161EE
Fundamentals Of Gas Measurement I
Author(s): Douglas E. Dodds
To truly understand gas measurement, a person must understand gas measurement fundamentals. This includes the units of measurement, the behavior of the gas molecule, the property of gases, the gas laws, and the methods and means of measuring gas. Since the quality of gas is often the responsibility of the gas measurement technician, it is important that they have an understanding of natural gas chemistry.
Document ID: A5D5A976
Fundamentals Of Gas Measurement II
Author(s): Jerry Paul Smith
A knowledge of the Fundamentals of Gas Measurement is essential for all technicians and engineers that are called upon to perform gas volume calculations. These same people should have at least a working knowledge of the fundamentals to perform their everyday jobs including equipment calibrations, specific gravity tests, collecting gas samples, etc. To understand the fundamentals, one must be familiar with the definitions of the terms that are used in day-today gas measurement operations. They also must know how to convert some values from one quantity as measured to another quantity that is called for in the various custody transfer agreements.
Document ID: 0AFEB2EF
Fundamentals Of Gas Measurement III
Author(s): James W. Keating
Gas measurement people are concerned with gas laws. To become proficient in all phases of gas measurement, one must fully understand what natural gas is and the theory of its properties. The theories about natural gas properties are the gas laws, and their application is essential to gas measurement. Quantities of natural gas for custody transfer are stated in terms of standard cubic feet. To arrive at standard cubic feet from actual flowing conditions requires application of correction factors that are defined by the gas laws.
Document ID: 8165D8BE
The majority of all gas measurement used in the world today is performed by two basic types of meters, positive displacement and inferential. Positive displacement meters, consisting mainly of diaphragm and rotary style devices, generally account for lower volume measurement. Orifice, ultrasonic and turbine meters are the three main inferential class meters used for large volume measurement today. Turbines are typically considered to be a repeatable device used for accurate measurement over large and varying pressures and flow rates. They are found in a wide array of elevated pressure applications ranging from atmospheric conditions to 1440 psig. Turbine meters have also become established as master or reference meters used in secondary calibration systems such as transfer provers. A significant number of both mechanical and electrical outputs and configurations have become available over the past 50 years of production.
Document ID: F79DE7EF
Fundamentals Of Orifice Meter Chart Recorders
Author(s): David E. Pulley
What is an orifice meter? The answer usually depends upon whom you are talking to. The term orifice meter is used to mean every thing from the orifice meter chart recorder to the entire meter station. American Gas Association defines the orifice meter as the complete measuring unit comprised of primary and secondary elements. The primary element consists of an orifice meter tube constructed to meet the minimum recommended specifications of the measurement authority contractually agreed upon by two or more parties. The secondary element consists of equipment that will receive values produced at the primary element. The values may be measured and recorded onto circular charts or received by electronic flow computers that calculate a volume onsite, to be retrieved as desired. In this paper I will address the Orifice Meter Chart Recorder and endeavor to explain its fundamental workings.
Document ID: D5619B58
Installation & Operation Errors In Gas Measurment
Author(s): Walt Seidl
Installation and operation errors may have an effect on measurement accuracy and therefore on company operations. This paper will present information for some types of installation/operation problems for common gas flow metering devices such as orifices, turbines, positive displacement meters, and multipath ultrasonic flowmeters.
Document ID: CEA6DBA7
Low Pressure Gas Measurement Using Ultrasonic Technology
Author(s): Gnter Maurer
The ultrasonic metering technology has reached a high degree of maturity and acceptance throughout the measurement industry. In order for this technology to reach the acceptance levels comparable to conventional metering technologies such as orifice meters and turbine meters the application range of ultrasonic meters needs to be expanded. In addition to the high volume flow metering sites in gas transmission pipelines there is a need to measure natural gas at low pressures downstream of transmission lines using new metering technologies. This paper describes an ultrasonic gas flow meter using cutting edge technology which allows gas flow metering down to ambient pressure. The meter is designed for use in traditional ultrasonic measuring sites as well as in sites, where ultrasonic meters are not applied today.
Document ID: F93A1687
Mass Meters For Gas Measurement
Author(s): Karl Stappert
Coriolis meters have gained worldwide acceptance in liquid applications since the early 1980s with an installed base or more than 350,000 units. Newer designs have shown greatly improved low-flow sensitivity, lower pressure drop, and immunity to noise factors which now enable their successful use in gas-phase fluid applications. With more than 20,000 units on gas around the world, groups including the AGA, API, Measurement Canada, German PTB, and Dutch NMi are all involved in writing standards for this emerging gas flow technology. An overview of theory, selection, installation & maintenance of Coriolis meters will be presented. Application details will be presented to illustrate both the range of natural gas applications, including production, fuel flow control to gas power turbines, master metering, city/industrial gate custody transfer, and third-party test data. Laboratories include the Colorado Engineering Experiment Station Inc. (CEESI), Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), and Pigsar (Germany).
Document ID: 913BAAD8
Measurement Station Inspection Program And Guide
Author(s): Robert J. Rau
Today, lets discuss an important phase of everyday planning for the Measurement personnel. A test and inspection guide is a corporations plan to meet government regulations. DOT requires pipelines to have a written operating and maintenance plan. This plan must meet the minimum federal standards and cover various phases of operations. A company may include items above the minimum federal standards but they must operate according to the plan they prepare. In plain words, what you write you must be ready to live and operate by whether they just meet the DOT minimums or exceed the DOT requirements and this becomes the company bible. The last item to remember is that as field personnel you must perform the required inspections, complete properly the administrative records to document and prove that required tests were made. This is an important item as it involves personal honor and your signature is your statement the work was done. Government penalties applied to companies can be very high if the required work is not done, or has not been properly documented. If the work is not done, admit an error was made. It helps with DOT inspections if an explanation is in the file as to why the specific test was not performed, such as veather prevented transportation offshore or station shut in because well is dead.
Document ID: 0996000D
Multipath Ultrasonic Flow Meters For Gas. Measurement
Author(s): Lars Farestvedt
Transit time UltraSonic Meters (USM) have been used in gas measurement for close to two decades now, though ultrasonic technology in general has been used in flow measurement for several decades. Ultrasonic technology is defined as utilizing sound waves at higher frequencies than what the human ear can hear, so higher than 20,000 Hz (or 20kHz). Most natural gas USMs use frequencies around 100- 200 kHz, while liquid USMs are in the 1 GHz range. There is in other words differences in the optimum frequency to be used depending of the medium that is to be measured.
Document ID: BF2AF8B6
On-Site Proving Off Gas. Turbine Meters
With the increased use of natural gas as a fuel, buyers and sellers of natural gas are putting more emphasis on ways to improve their gas measurement and reduce their unaccounted for gas volumes. An error in measurement of only one tenth of one percent (0.1%) on 100 million standard cubic feet of gas per day selling at 5.50 per thousand standard cubic feet of gas will cause an over or under billing of 200,750 in one year. This amount would easily pay for a meter proving system at most high-volume gas meter station sites. However, unlike with most liquid hydrocarbon meter stations, meter proving systems are not typically included in gas meter stations. Under measurement of gas volumes causes loss of revenue. Over measurement of gas volumes may result in a future correction that could cost a gas company millions of dollars. For these reasons, gas meter proving is important and necessary to ensure fair and equitable measurement for both the buyer and seller.
Document ID: 93BF48B7
Orifice Fittings And Meter Tubes
Author(s): Hugh Taylor
The orifice meter tube is the most widely used method of fluid measurement currently in use. Orifice fittings, developed to insert, retract, and hold the orifice plate in the meter tube, are also commonly used in current meter tube designs. Each of these components must meet specifications of industry standards such as American Gas Association (AGA) Report No. 3, and the American Petroleum Institute (API) Chapter 14 section 3 on Petroleum Measurements Standards to provide accurate, reliable measurement.
Document ID: 62ADEA32
Orifice Meter Gauge Line Distortions
Author(s): Ray G. Durke, Robert J. Mckee
In attempts to achieve more accurate gas flow measurements industry is placing more emphasis on defming and avoiding adverse unsteady flow conditions. Interactions of pulsation energy and piping acoustics are being considered. Industry has put a great deal of effort into replacing relatively long gauge line tubing with closecoupled, straight bore manifolds. This paper focuses on gauge line effects on gas flow measurement.
Document ID: FE5F22DF
Audit Of Electronic Gas Measurement
Author(s): Johnnie Jarred
You, as well as many others, are probably wondering, WVhat the heck happened to the audit trail on these blasted electronic meters? As time has passed and the migration to Electronic Gas Measurement Devices has begun to occur, the transition has been anything but smooth. The migration began arguably in the 1970s and, up until 1993, there was not even a Standard published that pulled together the information required for the audit trail. In the industry, all companies that wanted to be on the leading edge of technology were doing their own thing. This performance gave mixed results that make for interesting contractual language. In 1993, American Petroleum Institute (API) published Chapter 21 - Flow Measurement Using Electronic Metering Systems, Section 1 - Electronic Gas Measurement. This triggered the beginning of the discussions associated with the utilization and the development of the electronic devices of today.
Document ID: D1F02DFB
Orifice. Meters. Operation. And Maintenance
Author(s): Jeffrey L. Meredith
Accurate measurement is of utmost importance to all companies involved in. the purchase or sale. of natural gas.. Orifice meters act as. a cash register for the. industry. Proper operation and maintenance of the orifice meter is essential to ensure that both producers and. customers receive an accurate. account on every delivery. The orifice meter was developed in the early 1900s.. They have become the industry standard for measurement of large volumes of natural gas..
Auditing Gas Measurement And Accounting Systems
Author(s): Stephen T. Stark
Beginning sometime in the early 1980s, gas measurement and accounting system auditing became somewhat more complex as electronic gas measurement (EGM) and other computer-based technology arrived on the scene. Before that time, measurement auditing was often little more than verifying chart integration and wading through piles of field test slips looking for missed orifice plate changes, incorrect gas quality information, and unnoticed calibration adjustments. Today, gas measurement auditing is more complicated than ever before as gas companies rely on high-speed communication and computer networks to gather massive amounts of information required in todays fast-paced energy industry. Flow rates, total energy, pressures, temperatures, gas quality, flow factors, meter performance data, and a lot more is Included in this enormous information mix.
Document ID: 34F3C20F
Auditing Liquid Measurement
Author(s): Linda A. Larson
An effective audit of liquid hydrocarbon measurement is dependent upon a solid understanding of the measurement process combined with the application of sound internal auditing principles. The quality of liquid measurement activities is contingent upon (1) the reliability of the measurement equipment and instrumentation used (2) the specific procedures and practices followed in performing the measurement activities (3) the adequacy of training and proper performance of the measurement technician and (4) the proper documentation of transactions based on a measured value. All four components must be taken into consideration when auditing liquid measurement. In addition, to ensure the efficiency of the audit process, auditors must identify those areas which present the greatest risk to the organization to achieving its goals, and concentrate audit effort on those areas.
Document ID: 03201B29
Conversion From Volume To Energy Measurement
Author(s): Raddy S. Thakral
The purchase, transport,, and sale of natural gas as a commodity with a specific energy value per cubic foot has transformed the natural gas industry from one of a system based on volume, measurement to a system based on energy measurement. The following discussion will review the. evolution of natural gas industry from a system of volume, measurement to the present system, of energy measurement.
Document ID: 328D489A
Problems Unique In Offshore Gas Measurement
Author(s): Jackie R. Tims
Some major problems and unique solutions will be addressed with gas measurement on offshore platforms in the. Gulf of Mexico. This presentation will show the major roll safety, transportation, and. weather play in the technicians ability to verify the accuracy of the gas measurement facility. Proper operation, design, and installation will ensure accurate measurement.
Document ID: 54535DE6
Thermometry In Measurement
Author(s): Stephen T.. Stark
Temperature is one of several critical variables that must be correctly measured to determine reliable natural gas quantities. This is especially true in custody transfer (fiscal)applications where even relatively small temperature measurement errors can have a large impact on the bottom line. The technical aspects of thermometry in flow measurement can best be applied to practical situations by first understanding the relationship between temperature and the fundamental gas laws. Then, these basic concepts are applied to the calculation of flow as well as the design, installation, operation, and maintenance of measurement equipment.
Document ID: 03A3695F
Wet Gas. Measurement
Author(s): Thomas Kegel
When material flowing in a pipe is. made up. of a mixture, of fluid phases, the term multiphase is. used. to classify this type of flow. Multiphase flow comprises, a broad, range of applications in. different industries.. Some examples include gas. bubbles in flowing liquid,, solid particles carried, by a gas,. and the flow of two. immiscible liquids.. Often. a flowing stream of natural gas contains some level, of hydrocarbon liquid and/or water.. This. is a form of multiphase flow often, called wet gas. This paper is intended to. introduce, the reader to wet gas multiphase flow measurement. First, some. basic terms and flow features are presented.. Second, a. simple, analysis, of wet gas flow through an orifice. meter is. discussed. Finally,. the difficulty in. predicting. phase, behavior of gas/condensate systems, is described .
Document ID: AA3B8452
Overall Measurement Accuracy
Author(s): Paul J. Lanasa
This paper presents methods for determining the uncertainty of both differential and positive metering stations. It takes into account the type of meter, number of meters in parallel, type of secondary instruments, and the determination of physical properties. The paper then relates this information to potential influence on system balance
Document ID: E4BE989F
Applications Of Densitometers To Liquid Measurement
Author(s): Russell. Hall
Accurate liquid density measurement is. an. important parameter in the hydrocarbon, chemical, and. food industries. The chemical and. food markets, use. density measurement for concentration and. better quality control.. Applications in the. hydrocarbon market are custody transfer of fluids with volume flow, mass flow and interface, detection measurements. For over 20. years, the. predominate technology in these markets, have. been. vibrating tube or fork-style densitometers. This. article, will. discuss the operating principle of vibrating technology,, density terminology and factors that effect accurate, density measurement.
Document ID: 1E3B1E20
Application Of Turbine. Meters. In Liquid Measurement
Author(s): Don Sextro
Turbine meters, are. found, around, the world. measuring, crude oil,. intermediate and. finished products, and light hydrocarbons such. as. ethane,. propane,, butanes, and. natural, gas. liquids. (NGL) mixtures.. Their performance and. durability have enabled turbine meters to. be. used for custody transfer, check and operational, measurement in. the petroleum industry.. In custody transfer applications,. there are. a. number of industry standards to. guide a user in. the. design,, construction,, operation and maintenance, of the turbine meter and its associated. equipment. This paper presents, the issues, associated with. applying turbine meters in. liquid hydrocarbon. measurement from. the perspective, of a. user who needs to select and. install, a meter for custody transfer purposes. In. a non-custody transfer application, a user may consider following the. standards, and practices, applied, to custody transfer meters to achieve, accurate and reliable, results.
Document ID: C844ADB5
Overview Of API Copm()- Measurement Activities
Author(s): Jon Noxon
The American Petroleum Institute was founded in 1919 as an outgrowth of the National Petroleum War Committee. That committee was comprised of U.S. oil industry leaders who worked together with the federal government to meet the tremendous demand for petroleum fuel during the First World War. The experience demonstrated that oil industry representatives could work together on common problems affecting the industry and still compete with one another in the marketplace. This in an important concept because industry competitors could now work together toward mutual objectives, using API as the forum, without violating U.S. antitrust laws.
Document ID: 6F06B100
Automatic. Tank Gauging Of Liquid Hydrocarbon. Measurement
Author(s): Srini Sivaraman
The paper deals, with. automatic tank gauging. technologies (ATGs)from. the old float gauges, to. the most modern, systems. The. modern systems have achieved, such a level of maturity, system. reliability,, and capability that they not only meet but exceed custody application, criteria for liquid. hydrocarbon measurements.. All. that is needed is a shift in mind set, a fundamental, change, in operative. philosophy and courage to. apply ATGs for custody and. inventory applications.. It is time. for the industry. as. a whole, to replace, manual gauging, to. ATGs.
Document ID: DB2850CC
Calculation Of Liquid Petroleum Quantities By Dynamic Measurement
Author(s): Peter W Kosewicz
In. the. Petroleum. industry as. hydrocarbons, are. purchased,, sold. or transferred, there are two key elements that must be determined. These. elements are the quantity and quality of the. hydrocarbon in question.. This. paper will. address one of those elements, the. determination of the quantity of the hydrocarbon in the transaction..
Document ID: FE1BB180
Calibration Of Storage Tanks
The. paper deals with. an overview of various, tank calibration technologies, from the. old and conventional manual method to the most advanced electro optical methods.. All the. technologies presented herein have achieved standardization status under API (American Petroleum. Institute)and. ISO (International Standards. Organization).. The technologies presented, are. applicable, for vertical cylindrical storage, tanks.
Document ID: 848ACF49
Review Of Apiiansl 2530 (AGA #3)
Periodically, natural gas measurement standards are created or revised. In the period 1993 through 1999 Part 2 of ANSI 2530/API MPMS 14.3/AGA Report No 3 underwent revision. It is the intent of this paper to discuss the highlights of this revision.
Calibration Using Portable Digital Pressure Indicators
Author(s): Roger Thomas
Pressure calibration is as important today as it has been for a very long time, but the way calibration is done and the equipment used to do it has changed drastically. In the past it was a standard practice to use a primary standard for pressure calibration. That standard was normally a dead weight tester or a manometer. Today with more accurate secondary standards available there is a larger choice in what can be used for pressure calibration. What is used normally will depend on the requirements that have to be met and the equipment that is available. This paper discusses issues that should be taken into consideration when choosing a pressure calibrator from the many that are available today.
Document ID: 56CD1532
Crude Oil Blending
Author(s): Kevin B. Macdougall
There. are a number of applications, that require. blending of crude, oil. or other hydrocarbons and. they include transportation needs, pipeline capacity,. product value and. refining efficiency.. Crude oil blending is. accomplished by two methods: on-line blending, and. tank blending.
Development Of Orifice Meter Standard Past(, Present, And Future)
Author(s): Zaki Husain
A standard is something that is established by an authority, social practice, custom, or by general consent of a group of people to set an example or develop an acceptable model. Flow measurement standards are often established by regulatory agencies, users, manufacturers, and/or a group of knowledgeable people. Measurement Standards are established to provide a uniformity of installation, operation, and secondary instrumentation that will improve metering efficiency, measurement repeatability and accuracy, and ensure equity between all parties concerned, especially for custody transfer application. A flow measurement standard is developed to provide guidance to the users to achieve the best possible utilization of the metering device. It should also be the Best Practice for the users to obtain precise measurement with optimum long-term costof- ownership of the meter.
Document ID: 72789EBB
Dot Qualification- Measurement & Control Technicians
Author(s): Jay Shiflet
As a result of Congressional legislation, the Department of Transportation (DOT) Office of Pipeline Safety proposed the Pipeline Safety: Qualification of Pipeline Personnel - 49 CFR Parts 192 and 195 rule. The intent of this qualification rule (also referred to as the OQ rule or OpQual rule) is to ensure a qualified workforce and to reduce the probability and consequence of incidents caused by human error. The rule created new subparts in the gas and hazardous liquid pipeline safety regulations. These subparts established qualification requirements for individuals performing Covered Tasks, and amended certain training requirements in the hazardous liquid regulations.
Document ID: E3FEA82C
Effects Of Flow Conditioning On Gas Measurement
Author(s): Darin L. George, Edgar B. Bowles
There are many causes for natural gas flow rate measurement errors at field meter stations. Many of the sources for meter error are identified in the proceedings of this conference. For instance, errors can result from an improper installation configuration, calibration of a meter at conditions other than the actual operating conditions, or degradation of meter performance over time. Industry standards have been developed to help meter station designers and operators avoid situations that would produce gas metering errors. Typically, gas meter standards address meter design, construction, installation, operation, and maintenance. Most of the standards focus only on the flow meter and the piping immediately upstream and downstream of the meter.
Document ID: 5D3BAA95
Instrument Calibration Using Pneumatic Dead Weight Tester
One of the most difficult problems facing the instrument engineer is the accurate calibration of pressure or differential pressure measuring instruments. The deadweight tester or gauge is the economic answer to many of these problems. This paper describes methods to select deadweight testers and gauges. Also included are procedures for using pneumatic and hydraulic deadweight testers.
Document ID: 6B4D8F48
Crude Oil Gathering Metering- Versus Manual Gauging
Author(s): Charles R.. Myers
Measurements made for the custody transfer of crude oil at lease stock tanks are at present performed by manual gauging. API Chapter 18 describes the methods of obtaining quantitative and qualitative values for volumetric measurement of tank contents. The second edition, published in April 1997, specifically describes the process for taking measurement readings to determine the amount of merchantable oil transferred from the tank to the transporting truck. Delivery of the same transfer of product is more accurately measured by a metering system than by tank gauging. The factors affecting the volumetric measurements ob
Document ID: A0853358
Interface Detection In Liquid Pipelines
Author(s): Richard L. Barrett
Crude oil and product pipelines are often used to transport petroleum liquids with different physical properties. Each unique petroleum liquid in the pipeline is referred to as a batch and the process of transporting the liquids in series through a pipeline is referred to as batching.One way to protect the integrity of an individual liquid batch is to insert batching pigs between the batches. Although this reduces the liquid mixing of interface or transmix between the batches, it can be expensive and labor intensive.
Document ID: BC97155F
Design, Operation And Maintenance Of Lact Units
Author(s): Craig A. Francisco
The. Lease. Automatic Custody Transfer (LACT) unit is designed, for the automatic transfer of ownership, of crude or condensate between the buyer and seller. This can be on land or offshore, into pipelines, barges, and tanker loading and offloading operations. LACT units can range from small single run low pressure systems with portable proving connections designed for loading into trucks, to multiple run high pressure units with 100% backup and. mechanical displacement meter prover.
Document ID: 5841A850
Lpg Odorization With An Audit Trail
Author(s): David Beitel
The Compressed Gas Industry has a responsibility to provide an LPG-Propane product intended for domestic use that has been odorized to detectable levels. In addition to this responsibility, the industry is also responsible for insuring that the documentation proving correct odorization is accurate. More and more litigation is associated to the perceived lack of odorant in LPG-Propane. Operators are becoming more concerned not only with Odorization but also with providing an Audit Trail to prove that their odorization system is functional.
Document ID: C81F3577
Two Phase Flow Meter Utilizing A Slotted Plate
Author(s): Gerald L. Morrison
The purpose of a two phase flow meter is to provide the user values of the gas and liquid flow rates passing through a pipe. The classical technique to determine these flow rates is separation of the two phases and the individual measurement of the gas and liquid flow rates. This is accomplished using settling tanks, centrifugal separators, and other such devices. Three major problems associated with these devices are size, cost, and incomplete separation. Given enough space, time, and money, one can achieve complete separation. However, the resulting systems are frequently large, making their use a problem on off shore facilities and remote locations. A current development are the two phase flow meters which do not separate the gas and liquid but measure the flow rate of both as they flow together through the flow meter. Some use radiation devices to measure the density of the mixture while others have large positive displacement meters.
Document ID: 61D06237
Determination Of Proper Odorization Of Natural Gas
Author(s): Paul D. Wehnert
Proper odorant monitoring is. required to keep natural gas utilities, under compliance, with federal and. state regulations. These monitoring requirements are generally handled through, a. combination, of events including injection rate calculations, customer complaint calls, routine service personnel, tests,, odor concentration, tests and chromatographic analysis... In the world today it is critical, to have. appropriate documentation, to. support proof that proper odorization of natural gas. is. occurring. This. process, will ultimately protect the. public and. hopefully keep. us all. from litigation..
Document ID: CEDC47AA
Displacement Meters For Liquid Measurement
Author(s): James Henderson.
The petroleum measurement industry continues to demand a liquid flow meter that is accurate. That is, the meter must have a high degree of repeatability, linearity and stability. Meter repeatability is the ability of the meter to reproduce the same meter factor given the same conditions. Linearity is the ability of the meter to have a meter factor within a percentage deviation from maximum flow in comparison to minimum flow. Stability is the meters ability to reproduce the same meter factor time after time for some given length of time, given operating conditions are the same. The purpose of this paper is to examine the design, construction and accuracy theory of positive displacement (PD)meters for liquid measurement.
Document ID: FB5150A0
Evaporation Loss Measurement From Storage Tanks
Author(s): Warren A. Parr
In the. 1950s hydrocarbon evaporation loss from storage tanks was. studied to. develop emission estimating equations. At that time, the primary driver for knowing the evaporation rate was. system, loss. control. During the early 1990s, the. US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)began programs, for stricter record keeping and reduction of storage tank emission.
Document ID: E171352B
Fundamentals Of Liquid Measurement- Part 1
Author(s): Ralph S. Papesh
Accurate liquid measurement is an important aspect of the petroleum industry.. With regard to commerce, it is. the basis of custody transfer between producers,. pipelines, refineries, petrochemical plants, utility plants, products marketing and the transportation industry. As it pertains to process, control, it is needed to maintain specific flow rates, pressures. and levels to ensure, precise quality and environmental control.
Document ID: 39385927
Orifice Meter Tube Dimensional Tolerances
Author(s): Rod Dent
The orifice meter tube is the most widely used method of fluid measurement currently in use in the petroleum industry. Orifice fittings and orifice flanges developed to insert, retract, and hold the orifice plate in the meter tube in a dimensionally defined manner, are commonly used in meter tube assemblies. Each component of this meter tube assembly (normally welded and/or flanged together) must meet dimensional specifications of industry recommendations and standards (latest revisions) such as American Gas Association (AGA) Report No. 3-Part 2, the American Petroleum Institute (API) Chapter 14 section 3, ANSI, and ASME to name a few. This paper will discuss the manufacturing and fabrication dimensional tolerances involved in the design and construction of meter tubes.
Document ID: 3169AB69
Fundamentals Of Liquid Measurement II
Author(s): Doug Arrick
Measurements of liquid petroleum can be performed with the liquid in a static or dynamic state. Custody measurements are made in both states. Static measurements of petroleum liquids are made with the liquid in a tank. This paper will discuss the steps required to calibrate, gauge and sample tanks. These are the steps necessary to measure liquid petroleum in a static state.
Document ID: F545D63D
Fundamentals Of. Liquid Measurement III
Weve learned when measuring crude oil that liquids expand and contract with increases and decreases in temperature. The liquid volume also decreases when pressure is applied. All these effects are part of the physical properties of liquid petroleum fluids. We learned in Fundamentals of Liquid Measurement I how these physical properties effect the measurement of liquid hydrocarbons. The objective of either static measurement or dynamic measurements is to determine the quantity and quality of hydrocarbons transferred. However these measurements are rarely performed at the standard conditions discussed in Fundamentals I, therefore not only must temperature be measured, but also density, sediment and water, vapor pressure, pressure and viscosity must be measured. With these measurements correction factors such as Volume Correction Factors (VCF) can be determined to allow volumes determined at operating conditions to be expressed at standard reference conditions.
Document ID: AFCC8159
Fundamentals Of. Liquid. Turbine Meters
Author(s): Brad D.Lurie
Liquid turbine meter design has changed little from the original Potter design developed in the 1960s. Although originally designed for low - accuracy water flow measurement, its application into the aerospace industry called for higher accuracy and reliability as well as simplicity in design. At the same time petroleum and petrochemical industries adopted the meter. With the publication of API 2534 in March 1970, the liquid turbine meter became a recognized meter for use in custody transfer of refined products and pipeline systems as well as tanker and barge loading or unloading of crude oil.
Document ID: 5EEA75A4
Gauging, Testing And Running. Of Lease Tanks
Author(s): George. L. Lewis
Gauging is a measurement procedure, whereby the QUANTITY and. QUALITY of the. crude, oil are determined, at the point of sale by a company gauger or other designated representative, such. as. a Crude. Oil Truck Driver (COTD). Typically, we. think of lease, tanks as having volumes, of less than 1,000. barrels. The. gauger is. primarily responsible for rejecting nonmerchantable crude, oil and. buying accurate. volumes of merchantable, crude oil. that can. be. refined,, traded, or sold.. His company is. fully dependent upon his. competence and. sound judgment,, while his high public visibility requires, him to. be. conscientious, accurate, professional,, and courteous..
Document ID: 8FBFBA0B
Other Differential Pressure Meters
Throughout the oil and gas industry, orifice meters are arguably the best known and most widely used type of differential pressure meter. Orifice meters measure natural gas, hydrocarbon liquids, and many non-hydrocarbons including water, steam, air, hydrogen, helium, nitrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide, and many other fluids. Other types of differential pressure meters also exist, some having performance characteristics suitable in special measurement applications. New types of differential pressure meter arrive on the scene from time to time, but virtually all of them function fundamentally the same way. The purpose of this article is to examine differential pressure meters in general, and discuss many of their common attributes and limitations.
Document ID: C30FA4C6
Program For Training A Measurement Technician
Ongoing changes in the natural gas industry make the training of measurement technicians as important today as any time in our past. Employees are called on to do more than ever before as advances in measurement technology continue. The once common title of Measurement Technician seems to be rapidly disappearing from the gas industry. Todays Super Techs are responsible for not only measurement equipment but also communications, gas control, and a broad range of instrumentation and other equipment in this fastpaced environment. With the advent of new measurement technology, training is not quite as simple as it once was. For instance, no longer can a new employee be shown the basics of how to calibrate a chart recorder, change an orifice plate, and then turned loose to learn the ropes-with occasional help from the seasoned veterans.
Document ID: E47D952D
Helical Turbine Meters For Liquid Measurement
Author(s): Michael Snowden
Custody Transfer Measurement (CTM) of crude oil and refined products for more than 30 years has used positive displacement meters and conventional turbine meters. The development of new technologies such as dual bladed helical turbine, mass flow meters and ultra sonic meters are now also an option. The choice of meter to use depends on the product being measured, technical performance, total cost of ownership, accuracy and repeatability required. Conventional turbine meters have typically been used in low viscosity refined products, with limited use in moderate to high viscosity crude oil due to performance limitations. The capillary seal positive displacement meter has been the choice for custody transfer measurement of moderate to high viscosity crude oil, providing good measurement but at a high total cost of ownership.
Document ID: 819CD3FE
The Effects Of Additives On Metering In Liquid Pipelines
Author(s): Joseph T. Rasmussen
Todays refined fuels are formulated using a recipe of chemical blending and complex processing. Current blends that make-up fuel & chemicals introduce new problems that challenge product quality and performance. Refined products can be altered or degrade prior use by secondary forces such as environment and handling. A wide range of performance and handling problems are minimized or resolved by use of chemical additives. Additives to fuel products are often included in the refining processes that address these problems. Fuels may require additional blending of additives separate from the refining process. The effect these additives have on liquid metering is variable based on their composition and concentration. Pipeline and terminal metering systems must adjust to the varying properties the additives introduce to the liquid. This paper highlights the effects some common & not-so-common fuel additives have on liquid metering systems.
Document ID: 4A3674CE
Installation And. Operation Of Liquid Densitometers
Author(s): Stan P. Canfield
Density is defined as mass per unit volume. Typical units used in the United States are grams per cubic centimeter or pounds per gallon. Densitometers determine the density of a fluid at operating conditions. This density is used in determining the total mass, usually in pounds, for a particular period in time such as the ticket period.
Document ID: 7AD035B8
Liquid Measurement Field. Surveys
Author(s): Wesley G. Poynter
A review of measurement facilities and procedures is often called an audit. This can be confusing, though. The dictionary defines Audit as An official examination and verification of accounts and records, especially of financial accounts. In the oil patch, Audit if often used loosely to describe either or both aspects of a measurement review which includes:
Document ID: 1EB1BB08
Liquid. Measurement Station. Design
Author(s): Peter P. Jakubenas
Liquid Measurement Stations are necessitated by agreements between petroleum buyers, sellers and transporters along with appropriate customs and or governmental authorities. These agreements outline how the fluid is to be measured and how the results will be traceable to recognized standards. In the case of common carrier pipelines, the pipeline is entrusted with the transport of their customers fluid, thus loss control by use of accurate liquid measurement stations is essential. In addition to meeting the requirements for measurement, stations must meet numerous safety and construction codes and standards, as the fluids are normally hazardous. Operation of the measurement station must be relatively simple, and a user friendly operator interface is highly desirable. The task of the station or system designer is to transform these requirements into engineering specifications, drawings, and bills of materials for procurement, manufacture, test certification and delivery to the end user of a cadre of components specifically selected and assembled to work together to meet the requirements of the measurement agreement and applicable codes. This paper will discuss the various topics the designer must address and the methodology he must use to produce a satisfactory system.
Document ID: CC509629
The. Process Of Blending. Calibration Gas. Standards
Author(s): Randy Rhodes
Gas chromatographs are the industry standard for accurately measuring the components in a gas stream and therefore the energy content of a gas. Many variables are involved in the process of correctly using a GC. This paper addresses the Calibration Gas Standard and specifically the preparation of the Gas Standard. By understanding the variables involved in preparation of a Gas Standard, GC users may be able to specify a blend that will be optimally suited to their application.
Document ID: 57DCB674
Marine, Crude Oil. Terminal. Measurement Systems
Author(s): Jerry Upton
In this paper we will discuss the different types of measurement systems used at crude oil terminals, the requirements of these systems and why they are important.
Document ID: FFCA9212
Mass Measurement. Of Natural Gas Liquid. Mixtures
Author(s): Fred Van Orsdol
This paper is intended to provide an overview of metering systems used for the mass measurement of natural gas liquid mixtures. It includes information for turbine, P.D. and orifice metering systems as well as brief segments on Coriolis mass meters and scales. The basic equation and industry standards covering mass measurement will be addressed, as will some of the common operating, mechanical and procedural problems that often degrade the performance of these systems.
Document ID: 3AC3972C
Coriolis Meters. For Liquid Measurement
Author(s): Marsha Yon
A meter utilizing the Coriolis force to measure mass flow was first patented in 1978. Today, hundreds of thousands of Coriolis meters are in service in the hydrocarbon industry to measure both mass and volume of a wide variety of fluids. The American Petroleum Institute published Chapter 5.6 entitled Measurement of Liquid Hydrocarbons by Coriolis Meters in October 2002. This standard describes methods to achieve custody transfer levels of accuracy when a Coriolis meter is used to measure liquid hydrocarbons. This paper will review the technology and convey differences in Coriolis meters and mechanical meters in an attempt to clarify some of the issues surrounding the use of Coriolis meters especially for custody transfer in the petroleum industry.
Document ID: D704CEE4
Measurement Accuracy And. Sources Of Error In. Tank Gauging
Author(s): C. Stewart Ash
Tank gauging is the means used to determine the quantity of oil contained in a storage tank. How the volume is to be used often determines the degree of desired accuracy. If the volume is to be used to quantify a custody transfer movement and money will change hands based on the result, a high degree of accuracy is required but if the volume is to be used only as an operational tool (i.e., is the tank nearly full or nearly empty), a high degree of accuracy is usually not required. If the volume is to be used for inventory control and/or stock accounting, the desired accuracy would be less than for custody transfer but greater than for normal operations.
Document ID: 419F73A8
Measurement Losses By Shrinkage
Author(s): J. H. Harry James
Pipeline integrity balance and custody transfer accuracy have been the focus of measurement specialists since the industry began trading and transporting liquid hydrocarbons. Even with the best volumetric measurement equipment, unaccounted for discrepancies still were occurring. Temperature, pressure and meter factor corrections were not enough to explain these discrepancies. Mathematicians have been telling us for centuries that one plus one equals two. In an ideal world of Newtonian physics this is the case but in the world of volumetric hydrocarbon measurement one plus one is usually less than two. However it can, in rare circumstances be greater than two. As stated in the Dec. 1967 edition of API Publication 2509C regarding the result of blending two different hydrocarbons, If the nature of the molecules of the components differ appreciably, then deviation from ideal behavior may be expected. This deviation may either be positive or negative that is, the total volume may increase or decrease when components are blended. ..... Inasmuch as petroleum components contain molecules of various sizes and weights, solutions of two separate components are seldom ideal Consequently it is to be expected there may be a change in volume associated with the mixing or blending of petroleum components of varying gravities and molecular structure.
Document ID: 9E32568C
Measurement Methods. For Liquid Storage. Tanks
Author(s): Harold L. Gray
A brief discussion on Methods for Determining Volumes in Liquid Storage Tanks. This will include tank gauging methods and errors that can occurr. Tanks strapping methods and pitfalls associated. Methods for determining temperature of the liquid and tank shell temperature. Gravity determination. And fmally smapling methods for S&W content and quality of the liquid, for ticeting purposes.
Document ID: B61C1A2D
Measurement Of Petroleum On Board Marine Vessels
Author(s): John A. Jack Szallai
Marine measurements are, generally, used to confirm the validity of shore side custody transfer measurement from meters or gauging of shore tanks. Marine measurements can also be used for custody transfer if no other valid means are available or the shore side custody transfer system is not available. Measurement of petroleum on board marine vessels, ocean or inland, are generally based on the American Petroleum Institutes Manual of Petroleum Measurement Standards Chapter 17.
Document ID: 2DFFFEBC
New Ideas In Fluid Measurement
Author(s): Galen Cotton
Each year as. we. attend. ISHM,. we look forward, to. hearing, about advances in methodology and the experiences of other in the. industry portrayed in technical presentations.. This effort, by so many people, helps each. of us. to. expand our understanding of the. methodologies being employed. Perhaps, through them we gain some. insight into the. success, or failures, of those using them .... To some of us the course curriculum, sometimes seems to be as. constant as. the tides. In. fairness,, the. school, is. hardly to blame, for this circumstance... New subjects, are derived, from. industry practice, and industry usage is dependent on. the instrument manufacturers to a large degree..
Document ID: CE20279F
Operational. Experience. With Custody Transfer Liquid. Ultrasonic. Meters
Author(s): Warren A. Parr, Jr.
For years the petroleum industry has search for the perfect volumetric measurement instrument. The industry has progressed from using barrels to high speed mechanical devices for measuring petroleum. In the 1990s, several new technologies made their way in to the measurement arena. One of these technologies was the Ultrasonic Flow Meter (UFM). In order to determine the UFMs capabilities, durability, and performance, several companies were asked to perform tests in conjunction with a national standards writing organization. The goals were to collect data to determine if the UFMs could be used for custody transfer applications and to draft a standard for the petroleum industry. In this paper we will review,
Document ID: 5A92E70D
Orifice Meters For Liquid Measurement
Author(s): Zaki D. Husain
According to Webster dictionary, orifice is a mouth like aperture and meter is an instrument that measures. Therefore, orifice meter is a circular opening that measures. In early 1600s, Castelli and Tonicelli were first to state that the velocity through a hole in a tank varies as square root of water level above the hole. They also stated that the volume flow rate through the hole is proportional to the area of the opening. Almost another century later, in 1738, a Swiss physicist Daniel Bernoulli developed an equation defining relationship between the forces due to the line pressure, energy of the moving fluid, and the earths gravitational forces on the fluid. Bernoullis theorem has since been the basis for the flow equation of all head-type flow meters. In 1797, an Italian scientist, Giovanni Venturi, demonstrated that the differential pressure generated across an orifice plate due to flow, is a square root function of the flow rate through the pipe. This is the first known use of an orifice in measuring flow rate through a pipe. Prior accepted flow measurement method was by filling buckets of known volume. So, use of orifice plate as a continuous flow-measuring device has a history of over two hundred years.
Document ID: B5CF432B
Pvcnometer Installation, Operation And Calibration
The process of installing Pycnometers for the purpose of calibrating a density meter. The process of field verifying pycnometer calibrations. Experiences in verifying flow through the pycnometer and ways of achieving temperature equalization in both the density meter and the pycnometers.
Document ID: C6C85C2A
Resolving Liquid Measurement Differences
Author(s): Herbert H. Garland
What is a custody transfer? It is the volume of liquid moved multiplied by the tariff, which equates to ! It is the bottom line, which is the cash register. Is your companys cash register running over or short? What is the percentage it is off?.. To minimize liquid measurement problems clear lines of AUTHORITY and RESPONSIBILITY must be established and accepted. Established by management and accepted by the employee(s) assigned this role. To adequately perform loss/gain tracking and analysis you must be able to RECOGNIZE that a problem exists. More often than not we tend to think it is the other person or company that has the problem. It is a matter of admiring you may have the problem instead of the others. Check you equipment and procedures first. DETERMINE what is causing the problem. Is it an error in procedure, equipment failure, malfunction or a calibration problem? Or is it human error? When this has been determined, you can then CORRECT the problem.
Document ID: 81C536BA
Troubleshooting Liquid Pipeline Losses And Gains
Todays pipelines are multi-dimensional systems providing multiple services for many shippers and customers. Pipeline systems may connect multiple origins and destinations, and carry various products across long distances with changing profiles, pipe dimensions and directions. Monitoring pipeline gains and losses employs tools and analysis methods developed specifically to troubleshoot pipeline variances. Examination of pipeline gains and losses uses some basic statistical tools as well as intuitive and creative insight into what controls gains and losses.
Document ID: D88ACE0F
Ultrasonic Liquid Flow Measurement
Author(s): Jean-Luc Guizot
Turbine and Positive Displacement meters have been successfully used in the oil industry for many years. Both technologies provide accurate flow measurement for custody transfer applications in compliance with international recommendations such as API standards. Over the last ten years, significant improvements in electronics and acoustics gave access to high accuracy liquid flow measurements based on ultrasonic technology.
Document ID: 31722EE0
Viscosity And Its Application In Liquid Hydrocarbon Measurement
Author(s): Gary Rothrock
This paper will explore the role of viscosity in the hydrocarbon industry, its effects, why and where it is measured, and the methods of achieving those measurements online. The fact that laboratory measurement of viscosity is so prevalent in process control tells us two things: 1. Viscosity is a vital measurement. 2. There are no other parameters that can be used as indicators for viscosity.
Advanced Application Of Flow Computers And Telemetering Systems
Author(s): Ross Linnemann
For many years, now, flow computers have. been implemented, in. gas. measurement systems, to. utilize. technology to. improve measurement accuracy, provide for more efficient data acquisition and. provide better control resources for remote interface, through telemetry.. As. the. meters functionality has. increased, the meter technician has had. to. become more diverse, in. his or her knowledge of measurement,. control,, computers, and. electronics. By taking a closer look at the various, advanced applications, and reviewing the. basics, hopefully the technician will have. a better understanding of the. requirements of handling, installing and. working with. todays advanced flow computers.
Document ID: B5B8752C
Application Of Flow Computers For Gas Measurement And Control
Author(s): Mary Abens
Electronic flow computers (EFCs)are rapidly becoming the. standard, for real-time gas measurement.. As these devises, become more and more capable,, advanced control, strategies are becoming, common, place.. As more. and more. EFCs are commissioned,, customers sometimes learn hard lessons regarding. electronic gas. measurement... Many times, these. lessons, could, have been avoided, if proper consideration was. given, to. the selection of an EFC devise, and. the. applications, at hand.. This paper will discuss, in. general, gas. measurement and. control applied, through. EFCs. It will focus on the importance, of AGA EFC configuration,. API Chapter 21. historical archiving techniques, and the different control options available.
Document ID: E1EDCD5E
Applications Of Portable Computers. And Software
Author(s): Cameron R. Spitzer
Laptops,. handhelds, palmtops and PDAs are. becoming common in. the Natural Gas Industry to perform a variety of portable, computer functions... Applying these different technologies to fit a given task is. sometimes, not immediately apparent. Portable Computers do make. the field users job. easier to perform,, if time is taken to. assure, that they are. selected, to fit the application.. Emphasis in this paper will. be on. mobile computing as it relates to the Natural Gas Industry.
Document ID: F2875DBA
Basic Applications Of Telemetering Systems
Author(s): Stephen R. Cree
Telemetering,. or transporting information, has been. with. man. from the first days. of recorded, history, at first in. primitive, forms, such. as. grunts, and. smoke signals, more recently in the. past hundred years in. progressively sophisticated forms including radio and satellite systems.. Harnessing. electricity led. to. the magic of telephony. Telegraphs,. and. later telephones, employ a technology so fundamental as. to. be the. cornerstone, of the telemetry process.
Document ID: CF18C056
Basic Electronics For Field Measurement
Author(s): Dale Gary
This. paper is written with. the idea of presenting basic electronic principles and how to apply these to common applications in. the oil and gas industry.
Document ID: A43DB45F
Basic Scada Systems
Author(s): Rick Kroeker
A SCADA (Supervisory Control. and. Data Acquisition) system, is. typical, made up of many distributed, remote microprocessors that are communicated to (supervised). by a central computer system most commonly referred, to. as a. host.. Supervisory control implies that the remote unit performs the. local control, function, with the. host performing, the supervisory control, function, such as. writing the. setpoint to the controller.. Not only does the. host system send supervisory commands, to. the remote units, but also. it usually collects, data (data. acquisition) from the. units... Thisdata can. be. used. for many purposes, including feedback to. the system. operator,, trending,, alarming and accounting..
Document ID: 91A119B0
Communications Systems For Gas Measurement Data
Author(s): Darin Molone
Pipeline companies have long since discovered the need for real-time pipeline system automation. Before the first SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) systems appeared, companies depended on employees to open and close valves and manually set controls for gas flow. These operational needs spawned the first SCADA systems. Companies often installedan RTU (remote terminal unit) for operational control of the pipeline and, if needed, a second RTU or chart recorder for custody measurement. This two-RTU philosophy forged two separate telemetry infrastructures. The first infrastructure communicated with the real-time operational RTUs, while the second collected the electronic flow measurement data.
Document ID: B1F6FD42
Communication. To Measurement Equipment At Gas Distribution Locations.
Author(s): Chris Spriggs
Business changes demand changes in doing business. One of the last great holdouts has been gas measurement in a natural gas distribution company. Ever since the days before this generation, meter indexes were read and charts were changed for a measurement process to begin. This process has been going on for so long that nearly everyone recognizes the utility meter reader. But now, a business change is taking place that is causing us to do business differently. Over the last five years the sight of a familiar meter reader around a meter setting is slowly diminishing. Little antennas are popping up all around gas facilities. Meters are being read remotely. A new gas company icon may soon become the communication technician.
Document ID: D3961A5F
Economics. Of Electronic Gas Measurement
Author(s): Shawn Kriger
Electronic flow computers (EFM) or chart recorders? Old technology or new? These are two basic questions energy companies must answer when planning the short and long term goals for the measurement and control of their production, gathering or transmission systems. Many companies have already made the switch to electronics. They are using EFMs on every new field installation. They are also in the process of replacing existing charts that already exist in the field. Other companies have not made the switch. Chart recorders continue to be the main component of their gas measurement systems.
Document ID: DE7001D5
Ethernet For Scada Systems
Author(s): m. Atwood, E. Estrada
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the utilization and installation of Ethernet based communications for the purpose of gathering and distilling plant measurement data. Also discussed are the various pros and cons along with the pitfalls one can expect when installing such a system.
Document ID: A52574E8
Implemenatation Of A Scada System
Author(s): King Poon
Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) is a system that controls and gathers data from remote devices. A SCADA system typically consists of a master station (or host system), a communication system and remote stations. A central computer system is used as the master station to monitor and control the remote stations in real time through the communication system.
Document ID: 756F204D
Real Time Electronic Gas Measurement
Author(s): Scott Jackson
Methods of gas measurement have undergone tremendous change during the last couple of decades. Electronic measurement devices that are significantly more precise and contain manageable flow file databases are replacing mechanical dry-flow meters. This is commonly referred to as electronic flow measurement or EFM. In addition, these devices can communicate remotely utilizing radios, landline or cellular telephones, hard wire and/or satellite links.
Document ID: 5AC15231
Spread Spectrum Radio Systems In Efm And Scada
Author(s): King Peon
Communications is an important part of SCADA and EFM systems. Data generated by the RTUs (Remote Terminal Units) and flow computers must be transferred from the field back to the host computer so it can be distributed and used by different parties. Various types of communication equipment systems are used in SCADA and EFM systems. This equipment consists of modems that interface to dial up networks or leased lines, licensed radios, satellite and microwave. Licensed radios are data radios that use dedicated frequencies to transmit data back and forth. This type of radio requires an FCC license to operate. As these licenses for dedicated frequencies get more difficult to obtain in the United States, spread spectrum radios are becoming very popular in SCADA and EFM networks.
Document ID: E7F58F98
Testing, Maintenance And Operation Of Electronic Flow Computers
Author(s): Kenneth E. Smith
In todays rapidly changing business environment, fueled in part by an explosion of technological growth, the Electronic Flow Computer has become an integral part of a modern and comprehensive gas measurement solution. Indeed, the past twenty years have seen the EFM evolve from an expensive oddity to a mainstay in measurement applications. The popularity of these devices can be attributed to many factors, but reliability, ease of use, and economical feasibility could be considered the key features which have led to the deluge of EFMs that is seen today.
Document ID: BAECC5EF
Theory Of Ultrasonic Flow Measurement Gases- & Liquids
Author(s): Don Augenstein
Ultrasonic transit-time flow meter technology is now over 50 years old. Early versions of these meters were at times disappointing in accuracy and reliability. While the basic principle remains unchanged, the technology has evolved substantially. The major improvements have been in transducer design, signal processing and, even more importantly, in understanding the factors that influence the performance of these meters. Recent designs of multi-path transit time ultrasonic flow meters now routinely achieve an accuracy and reliability comparable to or better than older mechanical technologies (i.e., turbine, positive displacement meters and orifice plates).
Document ID: 47BECE45
Transient Lightning Protection For Electronic Measurement Devices
Author(s): Patrick S. Mccurdy
Technology advances in the world of semiconductors and microprocessors are increasing at a breathtaking pace. The density of transistor population on integrated circuits has increased at a rate unimaginable just a few years ago. The advantages are many: faster data acquisition, real time control, and fully automated factories, to name a few.
Document ID: 253D6A60
Calibration Of Liquid Provers
Author(s): William R. Young Jr.
A meter prover is used to calibrate custody transfer meters to establish a meter factor. The volume that passes through the meter is compared to the prover volume during the time taken for a sphere or piston to pass between two detector switches. The prover volume must be accurately determined by calibration procedure known as the Water Draw method.
Document ID: FCFA2FF3
Computers For Liquid Meter Proving
Author(s): Kenneth D. Elliott
Meter proving systems used in the petroleum industry range from fixed to mobile systems of varying sizes from conventional pipe provers and compact ballistic provers, to master-meter proving. Mastermeter proving systems use a reference turbine meter in lieu of a calibrated prover pipe volume. These systems are described in detail in API MPMS Chapter 4. To understand the role of flow computers within metering and proving systems it helps to understand basic theory and practices.
Document ID: 7E2CCC9D
Design, Calibration And Operation Of Field Standard Test Measures
Author(s): Michael J Yeandle
Atmospheric metal volumetric measures with a top neck and graduated scale, traceable to a recognized national calibration agency such as the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), are known as test measures. They are used for the purpose of calibrating liquid meter provers. NIST generally refers to hand held measures ( 10 gallons) which are drained overhead as test measures, and to stationary measures ( 10 gallons and 1500 gallons) which are drained by a bottom drain valve as provers. Since both these types of measures are used in the waterdraw calibration of liquid meter provers (volumetric tank and displacement types), the American Petroleum Institute (API) has adopted the convention of referring to both types of standards as field standard test measures. For brevity, field standard test measures will be referred to as test measures in this paper. Normal sensitivity test measures are those typically used for provers larger than 50 gallons displaced volume. High sensitivity measures are preferred for the calibration of provers smaller than or equal to 50 gallons. All test measures must be handled, transported and stored with care to prevent jeopardizing the integrity of their calibrations.
Document ID: 6362B108
Effective Use Of Deadweight Testers
Author(s): Myles J. Mcdonough
The Deadweight Gauge is the most accurate instrument available for the measurement of pressures. Repeatable readings with accuracies of 0.1% to 0.02% of measured pressure are obtainable. The device does not require recalibration unless the components have excessive wear or weights are replaced. It is easily transported and set up in the field, requires minimum maintenance, and is simple to operate. Tripod mounting is available for most instruments. With the addition of a pressure pump, valves, and pressure connections, the hydraulic Deadweight Gauge becomes a Deadweight Tester and be used to calibrate pressure transducers and other, less accurate dial faced type of pressure gauges. The pneumatic deadweight instruments are testers since they deliver air at an accurate pressure using an unregulated supply.
Document ID: 36FF6E96
Guide To Troubleshooting Problems. With Liquid Meters And. Provers,
Author(s): George. L. Lewis.
Buying or selling doesnt necessarily have. to involve meters, but realistically, its highly probable that every barrel of liquid our companies process, whether raw crude or refined, product, will pass. through a meter or a series of meters somewhere between the well and the marketplace. Metering continues to provide the most consistent and accurate method of measurement ..... With meters comes, the necessity of proving, and that by way of a certified meter prover.. With either of these measurement devices, problems arise that require, a sensible, systematic approach to a solution, driven by sound measurement principles.
Document ID: 9ED5DC7E
On-Site Gas Meter Proving
Author(s): Edgar B. Bowles
Natural gas flow rate measurement errors at field meter stations can result from the installation configuration, the calibration of the meter at conditions other than the actual operating conditions, or the degradation of meter performance over time. The best method for eliminating these or other sources of error is with in-situ (on-site) calibration of the meter. That is, the measurement accuracy of the field meter station should be verified under actual operating conditions by comparing to a master meter or prover. Field provers have been developed for operation at high line pressures and flow rates. For purposes of this discussion, a high gas flow rate is any flow greater than 3,000 actual cubic feet per hour or (85 m3/h) at pressures to 1,440 psig (10 MPa).
Document ID: FF01B4B3
Lact Unit Proving - The Role Of The Witness
Author(s): Art Casias, Terry Ridley
Witness, as defined by the New Websters Dictionary, 1 .n, a person who has observed a certain event, the unwilling witness of a quarrel II a person who testifies to this observation, esp. in a court of law, and esp. under oath II a person who testifies to the genuineness of a signature on a document by signing his own name to the document II an authentication of a fact, testimony II public affirmation of the truths of a religious faith II something taken as evidence, to bear witness to declare, on the strength of personal observation, that something is true II to give as evidence, to bear witness, knowledge, testimony. The role of the witness, in the proving of a LACT unit, requires you to understand the operations of both the LACT and ACT units and the device used in proving their accuracy.
Document ID: 5C5E5F95
Conventional Liquid Flow Provers
Author(s): Richard Keating
The purpose of a liquid flow prover is to provide a precise means for calibrating flow meters. Provers are most commonly used to calibrate turbine meters or positive displacement meters, although they may also be used with other types of meters. A prover provides a known standard for comparison to the meter output, and, in application, is used to establish factors for correction of the indicated volume of the meter being proved, thereby resulting in more precise measurement. The common types of provers include:
Document ID: 324EBB2B
Liquid Meter Proving Techniques
The first thing that we have to do is understand some terms. For instance, the term meter proving, what does it really mean? API defines it this way, The procedure required to determine the relationship between the true volume of liquid measured by a meter and the volume indicated by the meter. OK, thats good, but what does it mean? Well, it means that to prove a meter or to determine its accuracy, we must compare it to something that we know is accurate. The thing with that known accuracy is the meter prover. Its volume and accuracy is directly traceable to a National Metrology Institute (NMI). The NMI for the United States is the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
Document ID: 5D11ACF6
Operation & Problems. Associated With Prover Detector Switches
In many parts of the petroleum industry, sphere provers are used to dynamically calibrate volumetric meters. In order to accomplish this, sphere provers are required to be accurate and repeatable. This accuracy and repeatability is largely dependent on performance of the prover sphere detector. Any operational or design problems associated with the prover detector will affect the provers performance. This paper will review critical parts of a prover sphere detector that must be checked in order to obtain accuracy reliability and repeatability. The areas that will be covered are:
Document ID: A565C86C
Operational Experience With. Small Volume. Provers
Small Volume Provers (SVPs) were introduced several decades ago. There are numerous publications providing empirical data and outlining the technical operation of this equipment. However, the following document will focus on the authors experience, addressing common concerns and questions regarding SVPs.
Document ID: 77EA58F8
About Ishm 2003
Collection of documents about ISHM including table of contents, event organizers, award winners, committee members, exhibitor and sponsor information, etc.
Document ID: F828C5AE
Proving Coriolis Flowmeters
Author(s): Roger Thornton
Coriolis meters measure mass flow rate and density. The measurement of the Coriolis force exerted by the flowing fluid on a vibrating tube provides a measure of the mass flow rate. At the same time, the frequency of the tubes vibration is related to the density of the flowing fluid. The meter is capable of indicating volume rate by dividing the measured mass rate by the measured fluid density. Coriolis meters have no mechanical moving parts to wear. Therefore, theoretically the performance of a Coriolis meter should not change with time. If this is true, why should you prove a Coriolis meter? When or how often should you prove a Coriolis meter? And how do you prove a Coriolis meter?
Document ID: 4175FD01
Theory And Application Of Pulse Interpolation To Prover Systems
Author(s): Brad D. Lurie
Pulse interpolation, by definition, is the ability to estimate values of (a function) between two known values. Therefore, pulse interpolation enables pulse counts to be made to a fraction of a pulse, thus greatly reducing the rounding - off errors that occur when pulse counts are made to the nearest whole number which always happens in the absence of Pulse Interpolation
Document ID: 0E47F197
VERIFICATION/CERTIFICATION Of Devices Used In Liquid Measurement
Author(s): Anne Walker Brackett
In the past the standards from the American Petroleum Institute and the American Society for Testing and Standards provided specifications for instruments and equipment. Simple compliance with these standards is not enough. Therefore, a system of verification and/or certification of equipment used in the measurement of liquids is being instituted. These requirements are being written into the standards as they come up for review. An excellent example of such a standard is the newly issued Chapter 3.1A Standard Practice for the Manual Gauging of Petroleum and Petroleum Products (December 1994) of the APIs Manual of Petroleum Measurement. This standard calls for the field verification of working tapes against a National Institute of Standards and Technology traceable master tape when it is new and every year thereafter. This is an example of new requirements to ensure the instruments and equipment meets the specifications of each standard. The most important things to understand before going into each item are the definitions of tractability, verification, and certification.
Document ID: BB18D6B4
Witnessing. Orifice Meter Calibration. And Field. Testing
Author(s): Scott Smith
The natural gas industry has seen many changes lately. Producers and pipeline companies have seen, downsizing and reorganization through mergers and acquisitions, and the influx of electronic gas measurement, and real time data acquisition. These changes would lead one to believe that the need for witnessing and field-testing of natural gas measurement equipment would become a thing of the past. This is quite the contrary. The advances in technology in the last decade have put a computer and cellular phone at everyones fingertips literally and increased the need for electricity, thus the need for natural gas to generate this electricity. With this increased demand for natural gas, the logistics involved in acquiring it, and the profit differential between these two, the need for witnessing orifice meter calibration and field-testing is more important than ever.
Document ID: E6435E4E
Auditing Gas. Laboratories
Author(s): R. Mark Haefele
Most of the effort expended by measurement personnel is directed toward assuring that volume gas measurement equipment is in tip-top condition. This discussion will focus on a process that will assure that the gas quality information used both to calculate those volumes and to make the conversion to dekatherms is performing at the same high level expected of all volumetric measurement systems. Many of the laboratory facilities that determine gas quality have as much or more impact on revenue than even the largest individual volume exchange stations. There are few services an employee can provide to an employer that will deliver more bang for the buck than improving the performance of a gas analysis facility.
Document ID: AE28C9AA
Btu Analysis Using A Gas Chromatograph
Author(s): Steven G. Lakey
For custody transfer of natural gas, not only does one need to know the quantity of gas being sold, but also the quality. A small error in gas quality will translate into many dollars when multiplied over large volumes of natural gas. Currently, gas chromatography is the preferred method for determining the quality or heating value of natural gas. The analysis also provides critical data such as specific gravity and compressibility. This paper will cover the basic hardware in a gas chromatograph. The basic theory of chromatography will be discussed, as well as how the heating value is calculated from the analytical results.
Document ID: 1FB9406F
Determination Of Hydrogen Sulfide And Total Sulfur In Natural Gas
Author(s): David. Haydt
Hydrogen sulfide and other sulfur bearing. compounds, exist naturally in. many natural gas. fields. throughout the world.. It is. generally necessary to remove, these, sulfur bearing, compounds from. the. gas in order to. preserve, public safety,, reduce. corrosion, in pipelines, meet contractual agreements and to control, odor in the. gas. Thus. the determination, of hydrogen sulfide, and total sulfur in. natural gas. is critical to. the natural gas industry..
Determination. Of Water Vapor & Hydrocarbon. Dew Point In Gas
Author(s): Myles J.. Mcdonough
The. water vapor dew point temperature (moisture. content), and hydrocarbon, dew point temperature are. two. of many parameters, that must be. monitored, as. a part of controlling, the quality of the gas.. Other parameters, that are. monitored, include gas composition,, heating, value (BTU. content),, and. relative density (specific gravity).. The moisture content in. natural, gas. will vary for a variety of reasons... There. are. various methods, used to. control the moisture in the. gas and there are. also many different instrument types, available to. measure the. moisture, content.. In. this paper, we will discuss, the. measurement methods, and we. present general. guidelines, for the. use. of typical moisture measurement instruments..
Document ID: C5B97B4A
Devices For Water Vapor And Hc Dew Point Measurement In. Gas. Standards
The water vapor dew point temperature (moisture content) and. hydrocarbon, dew point temperature, are two. of many parameters, that must be monitored, as. a part of controlling, the quality of the. gas. Other parameters, that are. monitored include, gas composition,, heating value (BTU content), and relative density (specific gravity)... The. moisture content in natural, gas. will. vary for a variety of reasons.. There. are. various, methods used to control the moisture, in. the. gas. and. there are also many different instrument types, available, to measure the. moisture, content.. In. this. paper, we will. discuss, the measurement methods and we present general guidelines, for the. use of typical, moisture measurement instruments.
Document ID: B8827827
Devices For Water Vapor And Hydrocarbon Dew Point Determination In. Natural Gas
Author(s): Borys Mychajliw
Natural. gas. is. rapidly becoming, the. fuel of choice for everything, from home. heating, to power generation. The determination, of the water vapor content in. natural gas. is one. of several, key factors, in. determining, the ultimate, quality of the gas.. With economic conditions as they exist today, many companies have been. forced, to cut personnel in order to maintain, a. reasonable balance sheet. The loss. of experienced measurement technicians places a heavy burden on instrument manufacturers to. provide, an. accurate and. reliable means of determining, the. water vapor content of natural gas. This paper will review the. different sensor technologies in use. today and. also. address key issues, and proper procedures, in. assembling a sampling system, to. provide, a clean, representative. gas sample to the sensing, device..
Document ID: BF8A36FD
Devices For Water Vapor And. Hydrocarbon Dew-Point Measurement In. Gas.
Author(s): Daniel R. Potter, Georges D’, Eon Randy Hauer
The reasons for monitoring the dew-point of natural gas for custody transfer and transport are well understood.. High levels of water vapor in. a natural gas stream can lead to corrosion, hydrate formation,. and freezing (cryogenic processes). Elevated hydrocarbon (HC)dew-points in. a natural gas stream, can lead to. pooling of liquids at low points in the pipeline, variations in. the BTU. content of the gas, and hot spots on compressor-turbine blades. While. these effects are well known 1, there is confusion over many aspects of measuring dewpoints and relating these measurements to the component concentrations in a natural gas. sample. Specifically, the critical issues are the distinction between measuring water and HC dew-points, the relationship of the dew-point to concentration, the. validation of dew-point measuring instruments, and the pitfalls of sample systems. A fundamental understanding of the various detection principles, physical phenomena,, and influencing factors is essential to resolving the confusion over water and HC dew-point measurements..
Document ID: 62744D2B
Energy Measurement Using. Flow Computers. And. Chromatography
Author(s): Gunter Maurer, Paul. E. Kizer, Dave L. Nichols
The. means and methods, of transfer of quantities of natural, gas. between, buyers and. sellers, have. been changing for many years.. When coal gasification was used to fuel the. streetlights, in Atlanta, Ca. There. was no. reason, to. even measure, the commodity.. The municipality generated the gas,. transported it,. and burned, it. When Frank Phillips started purchasing gas. rights back in. the 1930s,. every, one. thought he. was more. than. odd. Natural. Gas. was. considered at that time. a messy by-product of oil. production that had to. be disposed of.. Even during the 1960s natural gas was. still. being, flared, at the. wellhead in Oklahoma. During the 1940s, it was said. that one. could. drive from. Kilgore, Texas. to Tyler, Texas at night without turning, on the. head light on your car due. to all. the gas flares.. In. this economic environment, measurement was not an issue, if you could sell. the gas. at all it was considered, a business coup. Even then,. a good. price was 2 cents an MCF...
Document ID: B801EC47
Energy Measurement Using Ultrasonic Flow Measurement And Chromatography
Author(s): Charles W. Derr
Ultrasonic gas flow meters combined with gas. chromatography are becoming the mainstay of metering stations for energy billing and offer numerous, advantages over many conventional metering schemes. This issues some. new challenges to the field, professional and opportunities to. save companies money, while adding the dimension of learning new interesting techniques. Technicians will dictate the success of any changing field technology that would survive and thrive in. the real pipeline environment. The system, and requirements will be examined from the field operators perspective.
Document ID: 41FCF365
Field And Laboratory Testing Of Sediment & Water In Crude Oil
Sediment and water (S&W) are components that occur naturally in crude oil. In. the AP! Manual of Petroleum Measurement Standards (MPMS) vocabulary section, sediment and water is defined as A material coexisting with, yet foreign to, petroleum liquid, that requires a separate. measurement for reasons that include sales accounting. This. foreign, material includes free water and sediment and emulsified or suspended material and sediment. The. quantity of suspended material present is determined by analytically testing a sample of petroleum liquid (see free water).
Document ID: E4C4064B
Light Hydrocarbon Liquid Sampling
Author(s): Garrett Lalli
Identifying the individual hydrocarbons in a light liquid hydrocarbon stream is essential in the determination of the dollar value of the product being purchased or sold. It is also very crucial to the process of auditing plant performance and system balance. To satisfy these business needs, light liquid hydrocarbon sampling systems and proper sampling techniques are fundamentally required. A typical sampling system, application is one that is used on a mass measurement station. The primary instruments, of a station include a turbine meter, temperature probe, pressure transducer, and a densitometer to determine the volume and. density of the product. By measuring these variables, we. determine, mass (volume x density mass).. While the station is calculating mass per metered volume, a sampling system is taking small samples of the flowing stream, and storing them in an accumulator. The liquid phase composite sample retrieved is injected, into a chromatograph and each. component, along with its molecular weight fraction, is identified..
Document ID: FF672AA5
Measurement Of Liquefied Petroleum Gases Lpgs()
Author(s): Henry A. James
Liquidified Petroleum Gas (LPG)is defined, as Butane, Propane, and other light ends separated from natural gas. or crude oil by fractionation or other processes. At atmospheric pressure, LPGs revert to the gaseous state. This paper is intended to provide an overview of metering systems used for the volumetric measurement of LPGs. Operational experiences with measurement systems will be addressed that often, degrades the performance of these systems.. It includes information for turbine and positive displacement meter used in volumetric measurement systems. The basic calculations and industry standards covering volumetric measurement will also. be. covered.
Document ID: ACF2413E
Natural Gas Sampling Uncertainties And Economics
Author(s): David. Wofford
The. precise, measurement of natural, gas is a subject of continuing study and discussion.. The impact of the. precise measurement of gas. quality and. composition is. often considered to. only effect the thermal value of the measured quantity, of gas. This idea, however, is far from. accurate.. The. precise, measurement of natural gas flow rates (quantity) is dependent upon the precise measurement of the composition. of the natural gas product stream. (quality)... These. measurements, of quantities, and. thermal values are considered in terms, of acceptable levels, of measurement uncertainty. In other words, a level of variance exists around. the point of absolute, accuracy which is considered acceptable. to. those, who are. party to. the transfer of the. product from the custody. of one to another... Thus, the term custody transfer. quality measurement implies that the. determined, quantity and. total energy content of the. product exchanged between parties are within these, levels of acceptable, variance, or uncertainty, from the. absolute point of accuracy, or zero. uncertainty.
Document ID: 99E6A66C
On-Line Water Measurement Of Liquid Petroleum
Author(s): Kim Mohajer
Traditionally a sample, of liquid petroleum has. been taken either manually or automatically and analyzed. for water in accordance, to the industry standards. On-line water measurement of liquid, petroleum will provide, real time. knowledge of the. water content of the. liquid, petroleum, and. will afford, the. user the luxury of total, automated measurement.
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Product Quality Assurance For Pipeline Transportation
Author(s): Keith m. Penn
The. movement of liquid, petroleum, products through. pipelines, has. occurred for over 100. years.. Todays liquid petroleum, pipeline, systems are. generally grouped, into. two. categories,, refined, products, and crude, oil. The following paper focuses on refined products, pipelines only.. An overview of product types,, special handling, issues for each type,, and general, pipeline operations, is discussed, to provide background information, needed to understand the. basics, of a pipeline quality oversight program.
Proving Tests For Acceptance Of Automatic Liquid Sampling Systems
Author(s): James m. Strawn, Jr.
This paper will discuss the testing and proving of automatic sampling systems in crude oil service in accordance with the American Petroleum. Institute (API) Manual of Petroleum Measurement Standards (MPMS), Chapter 8, Section 2, Appendix A and the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) D-4177. An automatic sampling system can be tested to verify the equipment and installation produce a representative sample of shipments or batches. This test is called a sampling system proving test. The test(s)validate all of the components of the sampling system, as installed, including the analysis method(s). Once the sampling system, has been tested, and the test results meet the acceptance criteria in the API 8.2, the user of that system can have a certain level of confidence that the sampling system will produce representative samples.
Document ID: 5BD924B8
Sampling And Conditioning Of Natural Gas Containing Entrained Liquids
Author(s): Donald P. Mayeaux
The analysis of natural gas plays an important role in determining its monetary value. Natural gas is bought and sold based on its energy content and volume. The energy content or heating value is computed directly from the analysis. Physical constants of the gas, which are necessary to accurately determine its volume, are also computed from the analysis. Therefore the correct assessment of the monetary value of natural gas is dependant to a large extent on overall analytical accuracy.
Document ID: 541B1EC7
Sample Conditioning. And Contaminant Removal For Water Vapor Content Determination In Natural. Gas
Author(s): Brad. Massey
The Natural Gas Industry experiences numerous operational problems associated with high water vapor content in the natural gas stream. As a result several problems are experienced such as, equipment freezes, dilution of physical properties reducing heating value, volume measurement interference, and pipeline corrosion. Contracts and Tariffs usually limit the amount of water vapor content allowed at the custody transfer point. For these and other reasons, accurate Water Vapor Dewpoint measurements are critical measurements for all companies involved in natural gas production, gathering, transmission and delivery ....
Document ID: 28246CC6
Shipboard. Sampling. For Accountability In. Custody Transfer
Author(s): Daniel. m. Comstock
New technology continually gives opportunities for achieving higher confidence in measurement of hydrocarbons. It is now possible to detect water concentrations on-line in real time.. This can. be especially beneficial if any intervention, is desired. whenever there, is a short term. limit of allowable water.. Short term limits can. sometimes be imposed by the receiving pipeline... To prevent damage to a refinery process unit, short term limits are. also sometimes required (e.g. during periods of low inventories causing the. need for tight-line receipts... However,. automatic in-line samplers are most often used for custody transfer purposes whenever metering systems are used. Large pipeline systems, except in the rare absence of flow meters, use automatic in-line samplers almost exclusively. The value of using automatic in-line samplers for custody transfer is widely accepted. However, manual sampling is also extensively used in certain instances. In marginal production leases where oil changes custody by tank measurement only is an example of this practice. A more dramatic example of this practice involves the movement of crude oil from producing load ports to discharge ports by marine tanker vessels. Although many load ports and disports (discharge ports) are now using in-line automatic samplers, there still remain many locations that do not. This paper will discuss the merits of using portable in-line automatic samplers on-board marine tanker vessels.
Document ID: 1B46C1FC
Techniques. Of Gas. Composite Sampling
Author(s): Kris Kimmel
Since a gas sampling, system, can be referred, to. as a cash. register, it is very important that the. correct sampling method be. selected, and. the appropriate industry standard be followed.. Methods. reviewed, by this. paper will. include spot sampling,, composite sampling,, and. on-line chromatography.. In addition,. Gas Processors. Association. (GPA)2166-86 and American Petroleum Institute (API) 14.1 will be. described.
Document ID: F8F81426
Causes. And Cures. Of Regulator Instability
Author(s): William. H. Earney
This. paper will. address the gas pressure, reducing regulator installation and. the. issue, of erratic control of the. downstream, pressure.. A gas pressure reducing regulators, job is to. manipulate flow in order to control pressure.. When. the downstream, pressure is not properly controlled, the term unstable, control is applied.. Figure 1. is a list of other terms, used for various forms of downstream pressure instability.. This. paper will. not address the mathematical methods, of describing the automatic control system of the pressure reducing, station, but will. deal with more of the components and their affect on the system stability..
Document ID: EFC7D99B
Controlling Surges In Liquid Pipelines
Author(s): Ron Kennedy
Numerous technical papers have been written on unsteady state surge flow or water hammer. This paper, unlike many of its predecessors, will present a view adapted to the engineer/technician who, for one reason or another, only needs a basic understanding of why surge occurs and how to control it.
Document ID: 710329BA
Fundamental Principles Of Pilot-Operated Regulators
Author(s): Steve. Berry
A pressure-reducing regulator must supply a quantity of flow that matches a downstream, usage, demand. If the required flow rate is small, the regulator plug or disk should approach its seat and restrict the flow. If the demand increases, the plug or disk should move away to create a larger opening. Ideally, a regulator should provide a constant downstream pressure while delivering the required flow. Therefore, regulators automatically adjust the flow rate to meet the downstream demand.
Document ID: 01DE295D
Fundamental Principles. Of Self-Operated Regulators.
Author(s): Steve Berry
Gas pressure regulators, have. become, very familiar items over the. years, and. nearly everyone, has. grown. accustomed, to. seeing, them in. factories, public buildings,, by the. roadside, and even. in their own homes.. As is frequently the. case. with. many such. familiar items,, we. all have. a tendency to. take them for granted. It is. only when. a problem, develops or when we. are. selecting a regulator for a new application, that we need. to look more deeply into the fundamental, of the regulators, operation..
Document ID: 676D520C
Gas. Service Regulators. Installation,. Selection. And. Operation.
Author(s): William. L. Hobson
Gas pressure, regulators, have become very familiar items over the years, and. nearly everyone, has. grown. accustomed, to. seeing, them. on. homes,, factories,. commercial buildings, by the roadside, and even in their own homes. A closer look at these regulators and their operation will. allow insight on how they work ..
Document ID: 3BC97067
High Pressure Regulators
Author(s): John. m. Kruse
A gas pressure, regulator is. an automatic device which controls, the media flow and maintains, a desired media pressure while reducing the media supply pressure. The basic regulator could bean. operator at a control valve watching a pressure gauge. The valve is manually opened to allow the line pressure to achieve, the desired gauge setting.. The operator then visually monitors the gauge and either opens the valve, or closes it to maintain the. desired pressure. The problem with this system is it would. require full time operators for daily operation and continuous monitoring of the. gauge.. The. regulator products on the market do. not monitor the gauge. However,. via monitoring the outlet pressure, they do automatically open and/or close, the. valve to control the outlet pressure at an established value.
Document ID: DCEF511D
Operation & Maintenance Of Regulators
Author(s): Allen N. Chandler
Regulators. mechanically introduce a restriction into a gas piping system.. By matching the flow of gas into. the. downstream system with the load demand of the system, regulators minimize fluctuations in downstream, pressure. This results in protecting the pipeline and influencing quality gas measurement.
Document ID: 7F1A0A3A
Over Pressure Protection Methods
Author(s): William L. Hobson
Over-pressure protective devices are of vital concern to the gas industry. Safety codes and current laws require their installation each time a pressure reducing station is installed that supplies gas from any system to another system with a lower maximum allowable operating pressure. The purpose of this article is to provide a systematic review of the various methods of providing the overpressure protection. Advantages and disadvantages of each method are evaluated and engineering guidelines are provided.
Document ID: 99C1182C
Prevention Of Freezing In Measurement And Regulating Stations
Consistent and continuous pipeline operations are. key and critical factors in. todays, natural gas pipeline industry... The competitive, nature of the business, together with the strict rules and regulations of natural gas supply, mandate that companies stay on top of all operational parameters, that could cause. interruption or complete shut-down of the. natural gas supply to. customers. Identifying what may ultimately cause problems, is a first step to controlling and eliminating those problems for the supplier.
Document ID: BAB8A231
Selection,. Sizing, And. Operation. Of Control Valves. For Gases. And Liquids.
Author(s): Greg Hoffpauir
Proper control valve, sizing, and. selection in. todays industrial, world is. essential, to operating at a costeffective, and highly efficient level. A properly selected and. utilized control valve will not only last longer than a control, valve that is improperly sized,. but will also. provide quantifiable, savings in the form of reduced maintenance costs, reduced process variability, and increased process, availability. An undersized valve will not pass. the required, flow, while a valve, that is. oversized, will. be more. costly and can. cause, instability throughout the. entire control. loop.
Document ID: A208DD29
Turbulence And. Its Effect In. Measurement And. Regulator Stations
Author(s): Tracy D. Peebles
The effect of turbulence on measurement and. regulator stations can cause, erroneous. measurement as well. as pipe fatigue, noise levels that are not healthy for the human ear,. and a host of other undesirable elements.
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Tesla, others help Puerto Ricans go solar amid power turmoil
Danica Coto | The Associated Press
Julio Rosario, left, instals a solar energy system with the founder of the nonprofit environmental group Casa Pueblo Alexis Masol, in Adjuntas, Puerto Rico on Tuesday. The nonprofit environmental group Casa Pueblo has installed solar systems at two hardware stores, one barber shop and several corner stores that activists hope will serve as a power oasis where people can charge their phones and store medications during a storm if needed.
DENNIS M. RIVERA PICHARDO / AP
ADJUNTAS, Puerto Rico — Ten months after Hurricane Maria, Adjuntas still loses power any time a heavy rain or wind pounds the rickety power lines feeding this town high in the central mountains of Puerto Rico.
That leaves its 20,000 people once again in the dark, without light, fresh water or air conditioning — except for a handful of homes and businesses glowing in the night thanks to solar energy.
The people of Adjuntas call those places “cucubanos,” an indigenous Puerto Rican firefly. They’re part of a small but growing movement to provide the U.S. territory with sustainable, renewable energy independent of the decrepit power grid.
A scattering of hardware stores, barbershops and corner stores across the island are embracing solar energy, trying to wean themselves off a state-owned power company that remains heavily dependent on imported petroleum. The numbers remain small — a few dozen or hundreds out of millions of power users — but power industry officials and environmentalists are closely watching this as a test of whether Puerto Rico can make a large-scale switch to renewable, off-grid energy.
Currently, renewables represent 4 percent of generation at Puerto Rico’s power company, against a U.S. national average of 15 percent, so it likely will be years before solar could account for a significant share of Puerto Rico power.
Even so, “Puerto Rico can be an experimental workshop for solar and wind,” Rep. Darren Soto, a Florida Democrat, said at a congressional hearing Wednesday.
While Adjuntas is dotted with solar-powered islands, a community of 12 homes in the mountain town of Las Piedras still lacks central power and is operating exclusively on solar energy provided by Tesla, the high-tech maker of electric cars and other power products. It installed 160 solar panels on a plot of land owned by resident Jose Santana.
Santana, an electronics technician, said he loves the smartphone app that lets him monitor the solar-charged Tesla batteries. He said the government should consider going solar and dumping the current “archaic” power grid.
“This can pull us out of the mess we’re in,” he said. “There’s nothing wrong with having a vision of the future. It’s time to start making changes.”
As in Las Piedras, some solar users are relying on corporations and nonprofit groups to donate the expensive equipment. Others have become so exasperated with continuing outages that they are taking it upon themselves to install their own systems.
“I’m a musician. I have a salsa orchestra. I know nothing about electricity,” said Felix Torres, who recently installed nine solar panels on the roof of his home, perched on a mountain in the eastern city of Caguas. “I was afraid of getting electrocuted and damaging equipment worth thousands of dollars. ... But we should not depend so much on the government. They already have their hands full.”
Torres recently joined nearly two dozen other people at a three-day workshop to learn about the costs and lifespans of solar systems, the equipment required and precautions they need to consider. The clip-clop of horses interrupted their chatter as the sun set on hills where electricity returned several months ago.
Many at the workshop pulled out their power bills along with pens and notebooks as they made comparisons and shared their frustrations. Among them was Jose Barreto, who set up a makeshift solar system at his house in the mountain town of Guavate.
“It hasn’t collapsed because God is merciful,” he said, grumbling that his wife insists on washing and ironing at night, sucking up precious battery life. “I tell her, look, this is a lifestyle that runs on daytime hours.”
A few hundred Puerto Ricans still haven’t recovered electricity service since Hurricane Maria hit Sept. 20, and millions suffer periodic outages. Crews are trying to fortify the unstable grid in the middle of this year’s hurricane season. When the remnants of Tropical Storm Beryl passed through in early July, up to 47,000 customers were left without lights, although most of the power was restored the same day.
In Las Piedras, Blanca Martinez, a retired school bus driver who is married to Santana, started to weep as she described the happiness of having a solar-powered home.
“It’s sometimes hard to explain,” she said. “When you’re a person who is in need, who is suffering, this comes along and you have light without having to worry whether a wire fell.”
Another corporation, German-based sonnen, helped donate and install at least 15 solar microgrids across the island to help power laundromats, schools, community centers and medical clinics.
Adam Gentner, the company’s director of business development and Latin American expansion, said the aim is to create a resilient system that can operate regardless of weather conditions.
This week, Siemens published a report in which it envisions the construction of 10 mini-grids across Puerto Rico that would depend on renewable energy. Unlike microgrids, officials said, mini-grids are bigger and can use the current distribution infrastructure.
In Adjuntas, the nonprofit environmental group Casa Pueblo has installed solar systems at two hardware stores, a barber shop and several small stores that activists hope will serve as power oases where people can charge their phones and store medications during a storm if needed. In upcoming months, some 30 homes also will be fitted with the system.
Wilfredo Perez said he can now open his barbershop 11 hours a day, six days a week thanks to the new system.
“Since it was installed, it hasn’t failed me,” he said, adding that he hasn’t had to switch over to the power company’s system. “The electricity in Puerto Rico doesn’t work.”
Federal officials are growing more worried about the turmoil at Puerto Rico’s Electric Power Authority, which has seen five directors since Hurricane Maria. A U.S. House committee held a hearing Wednesday on the company’s troubles.
Officials have stressed the need to depoliticize the company, create an independent regulator and resolve its $9 billion public debt as it prepares to privatize power generation and award concession for transmission and distribution.
None of this worries Arturo Massol, associate director of Casa Pueblo in Adjuntas.
“Let them do what they want over there,” he said. “We’re taking control of our energy destiny.”
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Gakken SX-150 - a gift!
May 01, 2008 / Oli Freke
Well, it's not everyday you receive a mystery gift through post, but today was officially mystery-gift-receiving-thru-the-post day!
It wasn't 100% unexpected as I had an email from a Japanese fan called Tsuyoshi saying that he wanted to send me a toy synth - and it turned out he wasn't joking!
Only a few days later I took delivery of a large parcel covered in Japanese Kanji writing bearing a Kyoto mail address, and this is what I found within:
Inside the box!
'Synthesizer Chronicle' & The Gakken SX-150
Attached to the box is a lovely full colour glossy synth magazine with lots of exciting pictures of classic synths from the MiniMoog to the Roland SH101, and 100's more. There's even a pic of Graham Massey (808 State) playing a Moog Prodigy, same as wot I got.
There's also the circuit diagram for the SX-150, plus instructions on it's assembly and some example patches.
Lots of articles to read, but unfortunately (for me) it's all in Japanese so I can't understand a word of it!
The Thing!
Carefully removing the magazine reveals the box of circuitry and bits that comprise the Gakken SX-150 synthesizer.
To my surprise, it really is a proper (albeit amazingly tiny) synthesizer with the controls one would expect to find on any synth worthy of the name: LFO (sine or square), Filter Cut-off & Resonance, a Pitch Envelope and Attack/Decay.
Even more intriguingly, it has a stylophone type continuous pitch controller. (Can I call it a pitch ribbon? Yeah, why not!)
However, there are important differences between a stylophone and the SX-150. The stylophone (invented in 1967) has a stylus operated keyboard so you can play actual melodies and offers no sound altering possibilities. The SX-150 is the exact opposite - the pitch controller is continuous (making picking out notes quite tricky!), but is able to make a much wider range of sounds with the LFO, filter and pitch envelope all working to make quite a surprising array of sounds and effects for such a 'simple' device.
Particularly good fun is setting a high pitch envelope and sweeping the LFO rate up and down for some serious pitch modulation!
Not only that, but it has proper sockets for output and you can even feed an external audio signal in (not tried that yet, but I will).
As soon as I get a moment I'll record some bits and pieces with it and post them here, but in the meantime you can check out what it sounds like on these links:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XNESJBvPrs&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--tJr_fwknM&feature=related (first 25 secs is good!)
I'd just like to say a really big thanks to Tsuyohsi for being so generous in sending me this gift - and I hereby publically promise to use it on the next Cassette Electrik song as a little gesture of thanks for his kindness!
Tsuyoshi is also in a band, in Kyoto, called Flicks, and you should have a listen to his electro/experimental works influenced by everyone from The Slits to Debussy:
myspace.com/flicksjapan
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Eleague Boston: An Experience
February 02, 2018 / Christian Hausaman
In three years of going to esports events I finally found an event that could rival a Combo Breaker Grand Finals..and I didn't even get to see the Grand Finals.
Eleague hosted a Counter Strike Major event that put the best teams in the world against another in a series of matches and qualifiers that began months ago. Last weekend was finals weekend and was truly a sight to behold.
The venue was perfect for the scale. Tucked away near the Boston University, the Agganis Arena didn't have the gravitas of the Garden but was perfect for the event and it was obvious that the staff made sure the stage layout was both functional and appropriate for spectators.
In between matches, there were your standard sports "in between" content. Replays, mini games and there was even a Jackbox.tv game setup for the early birds.
Typically I am apprehensive about comparing esports events to traditional sports events but Eleague truly nailed the production level and atmosphere that, I feel, rivals traditional sports.
All of the ingredients are there. World class competition, fans from around the globe and a killer production team.
There were chants for everything and everything. From the standard "FNATIC", the quintessential "USA", and even custom to the event "We can't hear you!". The atmosphere was electric, although I would be remiss not to point out the crowds fatigue during the SK v. FNATIC match that lasted nearly four hours, and there was a lack of artificial hype from the production and I'm glad for it. The crowd and player cams were more than enough to keep the crowd invested and excited for the events on screen. Oftentimes the crowd was so loud that the casters couldn't be heard!
The giant screens showing off the action in a resolution CS:GO rarely sees captured the action perfectly. Between the crowd and jumbo-trons, the fan experience was fantastic.
Only one thing stuck out to me as a flaw in the programming. The "fan experience" area was incredibly underwhelming. It served mostly vendor space with a 1v1 setup and while I definitely am not against additional retail space...calling it the "fan experience" area is a little bit of a let down
The experience of attending Eleague was really something I will carry with myself for the rest of my life. I look forward to the next Major!
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Home Innovations White Paper
Choosing a CompactRIO Synchronization Technology
Choosing synchronization technologies depends on distance between nodes, synchronization accuracy requirements, platform support, technology availability, and more. This article describes synchronization recommendations for CompactRIO and details the breadth of options available on CompactRIO.
Signal-Based vs. Time-Based Synchronization
Timing Considerations Specific to CompactRIO
Time-Based Synchronization Methods
Signal-Based Synchronization Methods
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The following table provides a comparison of the synchronization technologies available on CompactRIO, listing the maximum distance allowed between nodes, typical synchronization accuracy, time server requirements, cabling requirements, timestamp support, recommended hardware, and the subsystem that they will synchronize. This table is intended only as a general guideline, and all technologies will be explained in more detail below.
Physical Distance Between Nodes
Accuracy1
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Signal-Based5
<100 m
Varies (Refer to the manual)
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System Clock
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10's of ms
GPS5
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IRIG-B5
1This is an accuracy estimate for a typical system. Accuracy varies depending on the system.
2There are a variety of NTP time servers publicly available on the web. A time server is required for (S)NTP synchronization.
3DSA sync only available with NI-9469
4The synchronization of the NI-DAQmx subsystem is only available on CompactRIO with NI-DAQmx controllers
5For cRIO-904x controllers, there must be at least one instance of an NI-TimeSync IEEE 1588 or IEEE 802.1AS time reference running in order for NI-DAQmx tasks to start for NI-DAQmx versions 18.1 and later. This may prevent the use of a 3rd party time reference if NI-DAQmx functions are required.
In time-based synchronization, all system components have a common reference to time. Often there are no additional cables required between the systems. It also scales easily as more targets are added to the system. The data from the new target can be correlated with other targets on the system once the system is synchronized to a time source. However, depending on your application, you may not have access to a given time source. For example, GPS is not accessible underground.
A) IEEE 1588
IEEE 1588, also known as the Precision Time Protocol (PTP), is an Ethernet-based synchronization method designed for cabled, local networks. The benefit of IEEE 1588 is that it allows you to synchronize your targets over a standard network. It works by determining a master clock automatically from the network and having all other clocks slave to this master clock*. IEEE 1588 is also a relatively fault tolerant synchronization option. If the master clock is disconnected from the network, a new master is dynamically determined. For a detailed description of the protocol, please see the White Paper, Introduction to Distributed Clock Synchronization and the IEEE 1588 Precision Time Protocol.
IEEE 1588 has many different profiles, each of which use different features. Because the profiles are not interoperable with each other, make sure you are aware of which profiles your device supports. Some profiles are supported in software only, but others require hardware support to achieve higher levels of time synchronization.
1588 with hardware support (IEEE 802.1AS profile and default profile)
Devices and networks with hardware support for IEEE 1588 can provide high accuracy simple synchronization of systems. TSN-enabled CompactRIO controllers provide hardware support for IEEE 1588 and support both the default profile and the IEEE 802.1AS profile. IEEE 802.1AS was selected for time synchronization within Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) infrastructure. TSN is a series of additions and updates to the IEEE 802.1 standard, which is a local area networking standard for bridges. One of the aspects of TSN is defining a common sense of time between network components within the TSN subnet. This profile provides a set of optimizations to assure high reliability and high accuracy in PTP networks. It is the recommended profile for CompactRIO controllers. However, the controllers can also support the IEEE 1588 default profile (layer 3, end to end). To synchronize multiple CompactRIO controllers, you need to connect them using a switch that supports the necessary PTP profile.
The typical accuracy of this type of synchronization between controllers is less than 1 μs, but this can be greatly reduced to the 100s of nanosecond range, depending on the configuration of the system. The controllers that support TSN will automatically servo the Operating System Clock and FPGA clock to the network time. CompactRIO controllers supporting NI-DAQmx will also servo the NI-DAQmx task and DSA modules to network time. You can read the current time in RT and through an I/O node if LabVIEW FPGA allowing you to precisely time stamp events and define start triggers for when an acquisition or task will start, and the NI-DAQmx driver will allow you to configure certain triggers and timestamps to be specified in terms of time of day.
Software-Based IEEE 1588v2
All CompactRIO controllers support a software implementation of IEEE 1588. Once the driver is installed from MAX, multiple CompactRIO controllers can be connected over any standard Ethernet network, and they will automatically synchronize their system clocks. The typical accuracy of this type of synchronization between controllers is about 1ms. While there is no specific network hardware (Ethernet switches) required to support IEEE 1588, an IEEE 1588-enabled switch is recommended to obtain the best synchronization performance. These switches mitigate the impact of network loading that can adversely affect synchronization on standard switches.
Synchronizing to other 1588 devices
In addition to synchronizing a network of CompactRIO controllers, you can also synchronize CompactRIO controllers with other devices that support IEEE 1588. If you are trying to synchronize your CompactRIO controllers with third party products, you will need to ensure that they use the same PTP profile (IEEE 802.1AS or default L3 E-E).
To enable IEEE 1588 synchronization on your CompactRIO system, you will need to install NI-TimeSync on each CompactRIO. This can be done through the software installation process in NI MAX. IEEE 1588 settings can then be configured through NI MAX for PharLap and VxWorks targets. For NI Linux RT targets, you will need to configure these settings through file modifications. For details on configuring and monitoring the IEEE 1588 synchronization status on Linux RT, please see Using NI-TimeSync to Configure IEEE 1588 and 802.1AS Time References for more information.
*ARM-Based Linux RT targets are currently not supported as IEEE 1588 grandmasters.
B) Global Positioning System (GPS)
Global positioning systems (GPS) determine locations on earth by receiving precisely time-stamped signals from geostationary satellites, determining distance from each satellite, and then triangulating to determine position. Because the GPS satellites provide precise timing information and are accessible anywhere on or near Earth where there is an unobstructed line of sight to four or more GPS satellites, this infrastructure can be used to create largely distributed synchronized systems. GPS is supported on CompactRIO using the NI-9467 module. The module has an SMA antenna connection that can be connected to a GPS antenna placed with a clear view of the sky. The module has a typical synchronization accuracy of 100 nanoseconds.
The NI-9467 I/O and GPS information is only available on the FPGA, and must be passed to the real-time host to synchronize the real-time clock to GPS. The GPS timestamp can be accessed via property nodes which return a timestamp in TIA format. Using these same property nodes, additional parameters about the quality of the synchronization, such as number of satellites and status information, can be obtained. The following image shows a screenshot from the Getting Started example for the NI-9467, which can be found in the Example Finder of LabVIEW.
The NI-9467 GPS Module is typically used with the FPGA Timekeeper API to synchronize the FPGA clock with GPS.
FPGA Timekeeper API
The FPGA Timekeeper API is a set of VIs that allows a developer to synchronize the absolute time of the FPGA target to a time reference. It has the capability to correlate absolute time with system events at an accuracy of ~100 ns. It is commonly used for timestamping I/O, scheduling I/O according to a future time, and getting and sharing accurate time. The FPGA Timekeeper API is available on the Sync Labs NI Community Page.
C) (S)NTP* – (Simple) Network Time Protocol
(S)NTP is a time synchronization method for clocks located on the Internet. The current time is obtained from public NTP servers. It uses a distributed network of NTP servers and synchronizes clocks within the network to national time standards via Ethernet. Many industries, such as government and oil, prefer (S)NTP because it is a mature and well-tested standard that only requires a network connection. The major tradeoff with (S)NTP is that it is less accurate than the other time-based technologies described in this article. It has typical accuracy on the order of tens of milliseconds. (S)NTP is not officially supported on LabVIEW Real-Time targets, but there are methods to enable it, as described below.
On Linux RT targets, NTP can be enabled through the use of an open source Linux NTP daemon. There is community documentation available on the NI Developer Community that details how to install this daemon to a Linux RT target. One important thing to note is that you should not install NI-TimeSync to your target if you choose to use this daemon. Both NI-TimeSync and this daemon adjust system time, and your systems may not synchronize properly if both NI-TimeSync and the NTP daemon are attempting to modify time on the target.
Because NI-Timesync should not run at the same time as an (S)NTP daemon, and because a IEEE 1588 or IEEE 802.1AS reference is required for NI-DAQmx tasks to start on cRIO-904x controllers using DAQmx 18.1 and later, (S)NTP and other 3rd party time references should not be run on these targets if NI-DAQmx tasks need to be executed.
*NTP and SNTP are indistinguishable from each other on the network level. SNTP has a smaller footprint in terms of memory and CPU usage while still being good enough to achieve system clock synchronization for typical desktop usage.
D) IRIG-B
IRIG-B is a common time format whereby time of day information is encoded as a serial formatted time code.
IRIG-B dates back to the 1950s and is commonly seen in military applications. The CompactRIO platform does not have a dedicated hardware solution for IRIG-B decoding. To use IRIG-B on CompactRIO, one needs to use a digital C Series Module such as the 9402 to decode the IRIG-B signal. There is an example of an IRIG-B 000 variant implementation in LabVIEW FPGA, which can be used in its entirety, or as a starting point. This code can be combined with the FPGA Timekeeper to provide time on the FPGA.
IRIG-B is supported on the PXI Platform using the PXI-6683(H) module.
In signal-based synchronization, devices are wired directly together, and a master device exports timing signals to slave devices. In this paradigm, all systems acquire together, but one does not necessarily know the data point’s time. Typically, either trigger signals or sample clocks are shared. The following is a list of signal-based synchronization options for CompactRIO.
A) NI-9469 Synchronization Module
The NI-9469 is a C Series Module specifically designed for sharing clocks and triggers between chassis. It has a software-configurable multi-port interface that enables distribution of triggers and clocks from a host chassis, and it has an onboard DDS and PLL for clock generation and synchronization capabilities.
For sharing the triggers and clocks, the NI-9469 has three RJ45 connectors on the front panel, which use standard CAT 5e cabling to pass DIO signals to other NI-9469 modules. Although this is standard Ethernet cabling, these modules only pass timing signals and cannot provide general communication. Each port is software-configurable and can drive or receive four differential signals through the cable. Each port can carry either four triggers/FPGA derived clocks, or three triggers/FPGA derived clocks and one oversample clock.
The NI-9469 was also designed to synchronize modules with simultaneous delta-sigma ADCs for high-channel-count systems that require more than one chassis. Delta-sigma modules require a separate oversample clock to operate. Delta-sigma modules are also referred to as DSA devices, and include accelerometer and microphone data. Each delta-sigma module has an onboard clock for normal operation that is physically routed through the CompactRIO chassis to synchronize all delta-sigma modules within a single chassis. For multi-chassis systems, the NI-9469 generates the required oversample clock for delta-sigma modules and routes it to both the local CompactRIO chassis and any other CompactRIO chassis connected by an NI-9469. In addition to delta-sigma synchronization, you can program the input and output lines (four per port) of the NI-9469 for custom trigger schemes.
The NI-9469 module allows for a flexible network topology. See the NI-9469 Operating Instruction and Specifications for more information on the possible network topologies. The NI-9469 is supported on both CompactRIO and CompactDAQ platforms. However, it is not designed to interface the NI-9469 with the PXI platform. For example, the Ethernet port on the PXI-6683H timing module will not interface with the NI-9469.
B) Custom Programming with Digital I/O
It is possible to configure custom triggering and sample clocks using manual FPGA programming. For example, one could use a clock input to a C Series digital input module to trigger an acquisition. This is the equivalent to providing an external sample clock in NI-DAQmx. Below is a simple example where a digital input is checked periodically. In NI-DAQmx, this concept is the same as using a start trigger. Once a rising edge is detected, the first loop exits, and acquisition starts.
LabVIEW Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) community post
C Series Synchronization Module product page
Contact National Instruments if you have further questions about the technology required for your application.
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Andrew Mitchell / Times Colonist
Dunsmuir Lodge, situated on Mount Newton on the Saanich Peninsula, borders on John Dean Provincial Park and the Pauquachin First Nation reserve. The 40-hectare forest and lodge was a gift to the University of Victoria in 1985. The University operated the lodge as a conference and educational centre until 2009.
When the university ceased to operate the lodge in 2009, there was considerable public interest in the future of the property. In 2010, the university gave the Pauquachin First Nation an exclusive option to purchase the property until May 2011. The University of Victoria has not sold the property.
It is time to renew public debate on the Dunsmuir Lodge property. The land and lodge were a gift to a public institution. The University of Victoria needs the approval of the minister of Advanced Education under Section 50 of the B.C. University Act to sell the property. The property is already within the public domain.
It is perhaps a little ironic that the University of Victoria chose to name the property after the Dunsmuir family. While the Dunsmuir family is remembered for the construction of castles in Victoria, another part of the family legacy has a bearing on the disposition of the lands on Mount Newton.
Enclosure, a term usually associated with European history, refers to the conveyance of land from the common or public interest into private ownership. Robert Dunsmuir pulled off a spectacular feat of enclosure on Vancouver Island.
He got the Canadian government to pay him to construct the Esquimalt to Nanaimo Railway, and as a bonus got the E&N land grant, involving a huge chunk of eastern Vancouver Island, from British Columbia. The land grant took up a sizable portion of the coastal Douglas fir zone on Vancouver Island. Since most of the zone was privatized, there have been limited opportunities to establish parks or protected areas.
The Dunsmuir Lodge lands on Mount Newton could make an important addition to parks or protected areas in the coastal Douglas fir zone. The adjacent John Dean Provincial Park is home to the only piece of coastal old growth on the Saanich Peninsula.
The area of old growth lies on a north-facing, moist site where it has been protected from fires for hundreds of years. The Dunsmuir Lodge lands are also north-facing, and its forest is maturing and will regain old-growth characteristics in a few decades.
If the Dunsmuir Lodge lands were added to John Dean Provincial Park, it would make an important addition to the protected areas in the coastal Douglas fir zone. The land will remain in natural condition for the enjoyment of the public and also the Pauquachin First Nation.
Mount Newton or Lauwelnew, meaning place of refuge, will be respected.
Andrew Mitchell is a retired professional forester who lives in North Saanich.
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Paying it forward to the RNC8: Zombie 7 fights state terrorism
These Zombies rock!
----------from the Freedom Archives' Political Prisoner News--------
Minnesota 'zombies' give $4,000 to 'targets of state repression'
Minneapolis - One of the seven people who put on a zombie street performance in downtown Minneapolis in 2006 to protest mindless consumption announced Thursday he is donating a portion of his settlement to other anarchists who are fighting legal charges.
Infoshop News reported on a video announcement made by Raphi Rechitsky Thursday, when Rechitsky said he and the others who make up the group now known as 'the Zombie 7', would donate at least $4,000 of the $165,000 they will receive from the City of Minneapolis to other anarchists fighting legal charges.
The Zombie 7 have decided to donate the money to eight people known as 'the RNC8' and a separate activist, Scott DeMuth. Rechitsky explained the decision in his video release, saying
"... We wanted to hold the city accountable for suppressing political action. And this week we were awarded a 165,000 dollar settlement from the City of Minneapolis. In my opinion, this money doesn't just belong to me, but all those who work for a better world. For that reason, I'm asking winners of political settlements to pay it forward and donate to targets of state repression."
Rechitsky said he personally was giving $1,500 to the RNC 8 and Scott DeMuth. "Repression is not isolated," Rechitsky explained. "Neither is resistance." Playing on the zombie reference, Rechitsky concluded,
"Use your brains. Pay it forward and defend all targets of state repression."
A press release accompanied the video announcement posted at Vimeo, explaining the Zombie 7 had donated a minimum of $4,000 towards the RNC8 and Scott DeMuth. In the release, Rechitsky said the Zombie 7 were motivated to donate a portion of their settlement because
"The Zombie 7 were not slapped with criminal charges after being absurdly arrested for 'simulating weapons of mass destruction. But countless others are prosecuted for their artistic and political expression, views, and associations, much like the RNC 8 and Scott DeMuth. They face not only jail time and exhausting legal proceedings, but also costly legal defense. My fellow zombies and I have come to understand that with a flip of a coin, we could have been the ones to face criminal charges on outrageous accusations of 'violence.'"
The donation answers some of the questions asked by the public since the Zombie 7 settlement was announced earlier this week. The group also said it will split the $165,000 award with their lawyer.
The RNC 8 are a group of eight anarchist activists who were arrested pre-emptively for their organizing efforts. The group was preparing to launch political protests at the Republican National Convention, which took place in Minneapolis in the spring of 2008. Police zeroed in on the eight after they posted a video promoting protests at the convention in 2007 they called."We're Getting ready! RNC Welcoming Committee trailer ."
According to the website, Defend the RNC8, the eight face serious charges.
"... The “RNC 8 were originally charged with conspiracy to riot in the 2nd degree in furtherance of terrorism, a felony which was the first ever use of Minnesota’s PATRIOT Act.
In December 2008, Ramsey County Attorney Susan Gaertner (who is also running for Governor of Minnesota as a Democrat) added three more felony charges: 2nd degree conspiracy to riot (without the terrorism enhancement), 1st degree conspiracy to commit criminal damage to property in furtherance of terrorism, and 1st degree conspiracy to commit criminal damage to property (without the terrorism enhancement). Then, in April 2009, Gaertner dropped the two “in furtherance of terrorism” charges due to political pressure from RNC 8 supporters. The other two conspiracy charges still remain, and the RNC 8 still potentially face several years of prison time."
The eight charged, Luce Guillen-Givins, Max Specktor, Nathanael Secor, Eryn Trimmer, Monica Bicking, Erik Oseland, Robert Czernik and Garrett Fitzgerald, say their arrests are an attempt to 'criminalize activism.' In a press release issued in June, the group maintains they were arrested without probable cause.
Just prior to the 2008 Republican National Convention, St. Paul police arrested over 200 people. Common Dreams reported that 27 of those arrested filed a class action lawsuit against the city. In May this year, Democracy Now and journalist Amy Goodman also launched a lawsuit against Minneapolis for arresting Democracy Now journalists while they were covering the protests at the 2008 Convention.
In spite of the preemptive arrests, protests still took place. Attempts by police to control protesters resulted in at least one lawsuit filed against police for police brutality.
22 year old Scott DeMuth was arrested under the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act in Iowa. He was arrested and charged with conspiracy after he refused to testify "... before a federal grand jury in Davenport that was investigating an Animal Liberation Front (ALF) raid at the University of Iowa in 2004." DeMuth is alleged to have participated in the 2004 raid of the University of Iowa.
During that raid, activists removed 401 animals from the University of Iowa, while vandalizing research labs and offices; destroying research. The Animal Liberation Front (ALF) claimed responsibility saying
"... If not for the brave efforts of these compassionate activists, these animals would have been forced to continue to face horrific treatment at the hands of the university’s researchers, having holes drilled into their head, being forced to suffer through severe dehydration, electrocution, and extreme cold, as well as the forced ingestion of cocaine, methamphetamine and PCP."
Those who support DeMuth say the charges against him are 'politically motivated.' A press release posted to Davenport Grand Jury explained
"... the prosecutor, Cliff Cronk, has repeatedly stated in court that DeMuth is a “domestic terrorist” because of his alleged political beliefs and associations."
The ALF alleges the investigation is fraudulent.
Preemptive arrests prior to major events have become a preferred way to police protests around the world. Denmark gave police power to arrest people preemptively just before the December 2009 UN climate change negotiations that took place in that country. The Guardian reported the new law meant police could arrest people solely on the suspicion that those arrested might commit a crime in the near future. Police were also allowed to detain people for 12 hours without charges.
The latest examples of preemptive arrests took place in Toronto, Canada during the G20 summit meeting. Toronto Star columnist Thomas Walkom summed up the issue as being a case where
"... those in charge of the police found civil liberties inconvenient."
Walkom concluded his article by saying preemptive arrests are "... the totalitarian’s recipe for public order."
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Heritage Foundation VP Blamed Boston Bombings on ‘Multiculturalism and Diversity’ in Schools
By Miranda Blue | May 10, 2013 10:06 am
Mike Gonzalez, the Heritage Foundation’s vice president of communications, has had a rough week. He was tasked with defending a Heritage report about the economic impact of immigration reform that was statistically faulty, co-authored by a white supremacist and bashed by other conservatives.
The controversy over the report, however, has overshadowed an op-ed that Gonzalez wrote for the Denver Post last week that pins at least some of the blame for the Boston Marathon bombings on what he sees as a new trend in American schools of teaching “multiculturalism and diversity” rather than “love of country.”
But we know one thing for sure: He wasn’t taught that assimilation into American society was desirable. As I’m finding while researching a book on Hispanics — indeed, what I experienced as a young Cuban coming to this country in the early 1970s — we no longer teach patriotic assimilation. By that I mean love of country, not just its creature comforts.
We teach the opposite, in fact — that we’re all groups living cheek by jowl with one another, all with different advantages and legal class protection statuses, but not really all part of the same national fabric. In other words, we teach multiculturalism and diversity, and are officially making assimilation very hard to achieve.
If Dzhokhar and his brother Tamarlan are guilty of the acts of terrorism they are accused of because they succumbed to Islamist radicalism, then they are monsters who are personally responsible for turning against the land that welcomed them. Tamarlan has paid with his life, and Dzhokhar will be dealt judgment.
But as we grapple now with the thorny question of immigration, how to handle the millions of people who started to arrive at mid-century in a massive immigration wave, we could do worse than look at the affairs in Boston for a clue on whether our current approach works.
Over the past few days, many people pondering the question of how the Tsarnaevs could have acted the way they did have discounted that lack of assimilation could be the case, emphasizing that the brothers Tsarnaev lived in Cambridge, “one of the most diverse and inclusive places in America.”
The problem is indeed with an “inclusive” approach that considers it wrong to teach love of a country so generous that it takes in two foreigners from a far-away land, gives them refuge, welcomes them in and gives them a free education. To have done so might have precluded the radical brain washing that led to the bombing.
This absurd argument is basically the one put forward last week by Center for Immigration Studies executive director Mark Krikorian.
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